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Two women make it to Sabarimala
■ Bindu, Kanakadurga ■ One killed as protests ■ Chief priest performs ■ Dawntodusk strike
are in their early 40s erupt against Kerala govt. rites of ‘purifi cation’ called for today
AAP to announce LS
Special Correspondent
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
Supreme Court verdict of
September 28.
Women kept in
candidates by Feb. 15
NEW DELHI
Two young women entered
the Sabarimala Ayyappa
Protesters owing alle
giance to the Sangh Parivar
‘safe custody’
With the aim of getting
temple in Kerala under pol and the BJP took to the After they entered the
voters in Delhi and Haryana
ice cover in the early hours streets, blocked roads, threw Sabarimala temple on
out on polling day, the Aam
of Wednesday, triggering an stones and clashed with the Wednesday, the two young
Aadmi Party will be
appointing lakhs of workers
tigovernment protests police, leading to tense situa women were escorted by
— one for every 10 across the State. tions at several places. the police downhill to
households in Haryana and Chandran Unnithan, 55, a The SKS has called a State Pampa, and from there to
Delhi — for the week leading BJP worker, was killed when wide dawntodusk hartal on Angamaly. Then they were
up to the Lok Sabha election, a protest march taken out by Thursday. taken to an undisclosed
senior party leader Gopal Rai the Sabarimala Karma Sa In the stonepelting in location. The whole
said on Wednesday. The party mithi (SKS) in the palace Pandalam, besides Mr. Un operation was closely
would contest Lok Sabha
seats in Delhi, Punjab,
Haryana, Goa and
Chandigarh, a total of 33
town of Pandalam was pelt
ed with stones by mis
creants. He suff ered a head
nithan, 10 were injured,
three of them seriously.
Mr. Unnithan belongs to
guarded. Bindu and
Kanakadurga reached the
Sannidhanam around 3 a.m.
Rahul, Jaitley
injury and died later in Kurampala near Pandalam. and were escorted by the
seats, he said. The candidates
would be announced by
February 15.
hospital.
The women who were in
their early 40s — Bindu from
According to reports re
ceived in Pathanamthitta,
certain miscreants threw
police to the temple
premises in the next 50
minutes. Skirting the 18 holy
spar over Rafale
DELHI METRO A PAGE 1
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Kozhikode and Kanakadurga stones, bricks, and concrete steps, they entered the Congress chief dares PM to a debate
from Malappuram — reached blocks at the SKS march from temple through the front
Celebratory fi ring: the foothills around 1.30 the rooftop of the building door. A PAGE 7 SANDEEP PHUKAN ₹ 58,000 crore, had already
former MLA detained
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NEW DELHI indicated their price. “If you
NEW DELHI
they were escorted to the in the town. On the fi rst working day of divide ₹ 58,000 crore by 36
The Delhi police on
Wednesday detained former
temple by plainclothes poli
cemen.
Both the Congressled Un
ited Democratic Front and
Purifi cation 2019, the Lok Sabha on
Wednesday witnessed an in
planes, you get ₹ 1,600 crore
[₹ 1611.11 crore],” he said.
Bihar MLA Raju Singh and his
drivercumbodyguard Hari
CM confi rms darshan
the BJP came out against the
government, accusing it of
violates ruling tense battle between Con
gress president Rahul Gand
The BJP ally, Shiv Sena, em
barrassed the government,
Singh from Uttar Pradesh’s
Gorakhpur in connection with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vi “masterminding” the opera The closure of the sanctum hi and Finance Minister joining the Opposition ranks
the celebratory fi ring that jayan later confi rmed the tion and “hurting” the reli sanctorum to perform Arun Jaitley over the Rafale in demanding a JPC.
left a 42yearold architect temple entry of Bindu and gious sentiments of devo purifi cation rites after two fi ghter jet deal.
battling for life. The victim, Kanakadurga. “Yes, they tees. women of menstruating age Mr. Gandhi accused ‘Peddling lies’
Archana Gupta, who received have had darshan.” Alleging that the govern entered the temple may Prime Minister Narendra Rejecting the demand, the
a bullet injury in the head, has The temple chief priest, ment was behind the “viola amount to using the concept Modi of “hiding in his room Finance Minister accused
been declared braindead, Kandararu Rajeevararu, tion of the temple tradi of impurity and pollution to as he doesn’t have the guts Mr. Gandhi of “peddling re
police said. closed the sanctum sancto tions,” the BJP announced violate the women’s right to confront questions” and peated lies” and claimed
DELHI METRO A PAGE 1 rum at 10.35 a.m. to perform that it would support the against untouchability. repeated his party’s de that the Congress chief
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‘purifi cation’ rites after it hartal on Thursday. Though the temple priest mand for a Joint Parliamen didn’t understand the basics
was confi rmed the two The Kerala Pradesh Con said his action should not be tary Committee ( JPC) to of a combat aircraft. He qu
young women had off ered gress Committee too will ob treated as “any probe the deal. oted the Supreme Court
worship. The temple reo serve a ‘black day’ on Thurs discrimination against At a press conference la judgment to argue that even
pened after the hourlong day, protesting against the women,” the Supreme Court ter, Mr. Gandhi dared Mr. though the “conscience” of
rites. government for allegedly #563688
said in its September 28 Modi to a oneonone de the court was satisfi ed, it did
This is the fi rst time that violating the ritualistic prac verdict that any form of bate on the facts of the deal not satisfy the Congress’s
women in the 1050 age tices at Sabarimala. Mission and aftermath: (From top) A video grab of Bindu and exclusion based on “purity and claimed that the Fi election necessity.
group have managed to en Kanakadurga visiting the Ayyappa temple; and the chief priest and pollution” amounted to nance Minister, by stating
DELHI METRO A 6 PAGES ter the temple following the HEATED DEBATE A PAGE 7 during the ‘purifi cation’ rituals. PTI, SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT *
untouchability, A PAGE 7 the size of the deal to be HIGH DRAMA A PAGE 11
New panel
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Timings
A fresh spell of snowfall on
Wednesday ended the chilly Punjab Cabinet nod for
wave, triggered by the sub
zero temperature in the past
two weeks, in Kashmir Val
smartphones to youth
ley.
However, the snowfall SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
CHANDIGARH
forced the closure of the Sri
nagarJammu National High The Punjab Cabinet on
way and cut off many areas Wednesday approved mo
from the towns in north and dalities for the distribution
south Kashmir. of smartphones to the
“Snowfall left many youth, with the graduating
stretches on the Srinagar students of government
Jammu highway slippery schools, colleges and tech
and was not fi t for vehicular nical institutions to be co
traffi c,” said an offi cial of the vered in the fi rst phase of
traffi c department. Children playing out in the snow on the outskirts of Srinagar on Wednesday. *
NISSAR AHMAD the scheme. The decision, Capt. Amarinder Singh
The fresh spell saw heavy #563688 taken at a meeting held un *
FILE PHOTO
snowfall in upper reaches of 0.4 degree Celsius com nuary 4,” said the offi cial. missioners of Kashmir der the chairmanship of
the Pir Panjal mountain pared to around minus 2.8 Meanwhile, on the inputs Division, including Leh and Chief Minister Amarinder statement.
range and moderate snow degree C recorded the pre received from the Indian Kargil, have been asked to Singh, is a bid to fulfi l the The State government
fall in tourist hotspots like vious night. “The day tem Meteorological Centre in advise people not to venture Congress party’s promise had announced ‘Mobile
Gulmarg and Pahalgam. perature hovered around Srinagar, Divisional Com in avalancheprone areas made during the 2017 State Phone to the Youth’ in its
6.5 degree Celsius,” said a missioner, Kashmir, Baseer during this period,” said Mr. Assembly election budget for fi nancial year
Mild rainfall met offi cial. Ahmad Khan issued a Khan. The Deputy Commis campaign. 201718 with the objective of
Srinagar city also witnessed The department predict weather advisory on Wed sioners were directed to ac “The students would be providing digital access to
a mild rainfall. According to ed a fresh spell of light nesday. This new weather tivate their control rooms required to submit selfcer youth.
the meteorological depart snowfall in next two days. system may lead to disrup and ensure that the snow tifi cation stating that they The Cabinet also ap
ment, the minimum tem “Snowfall may be moderate tion of surface and air tran clearance equipment is do not already possess a proved onetime settlement
perature improved to minus to heavy but isolated on Ja sportation. “Deputy Com placed at proper places. smartphone. The scheme, of noncompoundable vio
which will give an impetus lations in the case of un
to the State government’s authorised constructions
Minister fl ayed for caste remark digital empowerment agen
da, will provide for distribu
that have come up in the
State up to June 30, 2018.
Press Trust of India narrowmindedness of the tion of mobile phones with The Cabinet also gave its
Jaipur Congress. “What Mamata various smart features. In nod for the new online
The Rajasthan BJP has con Bhupesh has said refl ects addition, onetime bundled transfer policy of the School
demned a State Minister for the thought of the Congress. 12 GB data and 600 local mi Education Department,
her remark that her fi rst Works are not done on the nutes talk time (voice) with thus ensuring equal oppor
priority was to work for her lines of caste in the govern oneyear validity would also tunity for all employees us
caste and then the larger so ment,” BJP State president be provided under the ing online mode for seeking
ciety, saying it refl ected the Madan Lal Saini said. scheme,” said an offi cial transfers.
NGT seeks
response on
sand mining
in Yamuna
Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI
The National Green Tribu
nal has sought response
from the Divisional Com
missioner, Allahabad, after
a committee headed by the
offi cer failed to submit a re
port on the alleged illegal
sand mining in the area.
A Bench, headed by
NGT Chairperson Justice
Adarsh Kumar Goel, said,
“The committee was to fur
nish a report which has not
been furnished. Issue not
ice to the Divisional Com
missioner, Allahabad, as to
why penal action be not ta
ken for noncompliance of
orders of this Tribunal.”
The offi cer has been di
rected to be present before
the Tribunal on January 22.
In September last year,
the green panel had direct
ed constitution of a com
mittee to be headed by the
offi cer and sought a report
on the allegations of illegal
mining. Petitioner Atul
Singh Chauhan had chal
lenged the ongoing sand
mining in the Yamuna ri
verbed in Allahabad with
out the requisite environ
mental clearance.
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Plan to have specifi c names
on Arunachal ST list cleared
Cabinet approves MHA’s proposal to do away with generic term ‘any Naga tribes’
Special Correspondent Union Law and Justice Mi
New Delhi nister Ravi Shankar Prasad
The Union Cabinet on Wed said the Constitution (Sche
nesday approved the Home duled Tribes) Order (Amend
Ministry’s proposal to re ment) Bill, 2018, for revision
place the generic term ‘any of the list of Scheduled
Naga tribes’ with the specifi c Tribes of Arunachal Pra
names of the tribes that desh, was cleared, and the
would qualify for recogni names of some communities
tion as Scheduled Tribes in would be deleted.
Arunachal Pradesh. An offi cial statement said
The decision taken ahead ‘Khampti’ would be replaced
of the 2019 general election, The Central government’s decision is likely to have a bearing on with ‘Tai Khamti’ in the list.
on a proposal from the Aru the peace talks with the NSCN(IM). FILE PHOTO * ‘Abor’ would be deleted and
nachal Pradesh government, ‘MishmiKaman, Idu and Ta
is likely to have a bearing on and Myanmar. Tribal Aff airs Ministry and raon’ would be included.
the peace talks with the Na the RegistrarGeneral of ‘Monpa, Memba, Sartang,
tional Socialist Council of Proposal cleared in 2018 India. Sajolong’ would be included
NagalandIsak Muivah The decision was taken at a “As for replacing ‘any Na in lieu of ‘Momba’ in the ST
(NSCNIM). meeting chaired by Prime ga tribes’ with the specifi c list of Arunachal Pradesh.
The NSCNIM and other Minister Narendra Modi. In names of Tutsa, Wancho, The Home Ministry will
Naga groups have been cam October last year, Union Nocte and Tangsa, it has have to move the Bill in Par
paigning for a Greater Naga Home Minister Rajnath been cleared by the Tribal liament before the winter
lim or a contiguous land for Singh had cleared the propo Aff airs Ministry fi rst. The Ca session concludes on Janu
the Nagas across Nagaland, sal, which was examined binet has endorsed it,” said a ary 8 for the changes to
Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and recommended by the senior offi cial. come into eff ect.
Bengal to pay entire amount CBI books 5
Army offi cers
of crop insurance for farmers for graft
Won’t allow Centre to take credit by paying only 20%: Mamata Press Trust of India
New Delhi
Press Trust of India “We have 72 lakh farmer The CBI has booked fi ve Ar
Bolpur (W.B.) families in the State — the my personnel for allegedly
West Bengal Chief Minister highest in India as West Ben receiving bribes worth ₹ 18
Mamata Banerjee said on gal has smaller land hold lakh from a supplier of ra
Wednesday that her govern ings. We are devising a me tions for troops posted in
ment won’t allow the BJPled chanism by which a farmer’s Assam and Arunachal Pra
Centre to tag its name with family will get the money 15 desh between 2015 and
crop insurance for farmers days after his death,” the 2017, offi cials said on
in the State by bearing only Chief Minister said. Wednesday.
20% of the cost. This is the second case
The State would hence Financial assistance in the recent past when the
forth pay the entire amount, Mamata Banerjee Ms. Banerjee further said a Central Bureau of Investi
she said while addressing an farmer will get ₹ 5,000 as fi gation has registered an
administrative meeting in foots 80% of the crop insu nancial assistance for each FIR against Army offi cers
West Bengal’s Birbhum rance amount and we will acre of his land in a year for for corruption in supplies.
district. pay the entire amount in fu growing a single crop. Under In the latest case, the
Ms. Banerjee said as of ture,” she said. the scheme, farmers will get CBI has registered an FIR
now 49% of farmers in West “West Bengal pays the ₹ 2,500 twice a year for against Colonel Raman
Bengal are covered under major portion of the premi growing a single crop per Dahda, Lieutenant Colonel #563688
Flurry of political events Woman, daughter kill
in Odisha ahead of polls abusive husband, held
CM to address event on PM's rally day Duo set body afi re in Malkangiri forest
Special Correspondent Durgapur LPG pipeline pro Staff Reporter that the deceased had a his
BHUBANESWAR ject on January 5 at Baripa BERHAMPUR tory of torturing his spouse.
With Lok Sabha and As da, the Chief Minister will A 50yearold woman alleg His fi rst wife and their son
sembly elections a few address a Statelevel meet edly murdered her husband had left him for this reason.
months away, the political ing of the women selfhelp with the help of their
situation in Odisha is hot groups in Puri that day. At daughter in Malkangiri dis Second wife
ting up with Prime Minister the function, Mr. Patnaik trict of Odisha. According to police sources,
Narerndra Modi’s backto will launch distribution of The woman, Mude Mad Padia Madkami continued
back visits to the State to in ₹ 15,000 each to the newly kami, and her daughter An to illtreat his second wife,
augurate projects and ad formed SHGs in the State. jali Madkami, 18, of Balakati Ms. Mude, and their daught
dress BJP rallies. A senior BJD leader told village were arrested on er, Ms. Anjali. When his tor
Chief Minister and BJD journalists on Wednesday Wednesday. According to ture became unbearable,
president Naveen Patnaik that Mr. Modi’s frequent vi the police, the duo killed Pa Ms. Mude and Ms. Anjali de
had raised a series of issues sits to Odisha will not have dia Madkami, a migrant la cided to kill the deceased.
and demanded fi nancial au any impact on the State’s bourer and an alcoholic, to On December 7, the
tonomy for Odisha two days political scene. escape his torture and mother and daughter asked
after Mr. Modi visited Bhu Further, Mr. Modi is sche abuse. Padia to accompany them to
baneswar on December 24 duled to visit western Od On December 31, 2018, the house of Ms. Mude's sis
to inaugurate projects and isha town of Balangir on Ja decomposed remnants of a ter. On the way, the victim
address a party rally. nuary 16, his third visit to halfburnt body were found got drunk and started abus
the State in less than a in a bushy forest near Gora ing and assaulting his wife.
Funds for SHGs month. The Prime Minister hunta under Malkangiri pol Both women then attacked
Mr. Patnaik is not taking any will address the BJP workers ice station limits. Postmor him and hit his head with a
chances this time. When Mr. and public at a mega rally in tem and inquiry revealed stone. The man died on the
Modi will dedicate Indian the town. The BJD has not that the body was of Padia spot. The duo then collect
Oil Corporation Limited’s announced any programme Madkami and he had been ed some dry straw and set
BalasoreHaldiaDurgapur to counter the saff ron par killed on December 7. his body on fi re inside the
section of ParadipHaldia ty’s Balangir rally so far. Investigation suggested forest, police sources said.
School timings
in Tripura may
not change
SYED SAJJAD ALI
AGARTALA
The Tripura government is
unlikely to give nod to a
proposal to change school
timings and make one shift
in place of two shifts in pu
blic schools. The proposal
remained pending as most
schools were facing space
constraints, sources said.
The government earlier
had directed the education
department to examine
feasibility to fi x new timings
for schools from April 1.
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IN BRIEF
SC dismisses plea to defer
bifurcation of Hyderabad HC
Speed up Kaleshwaram
Supreme Court observes that A.P. and Telangana HCs are already functioning
project work, says KCR
PEDDAPALLI
Chief Minister K.
Legal Correspondent
New Delhi
The Supreme Court on Wed
Telangana HC opens completed. The High Court
will function from tempor
ary premises till the con
Chandrasekhar Rao has
instructed officials to speed
up work for completion of
nesday refused to entertain a
petition fi led by the Andhra with 1.87 lakh cases struction work is completed.
Exotic trees eating up
‘Fame was the motive Courts. opening balance of 1,87,000 The judges heard various building complex that would
behind attack on Jagan’
A Bench of Justices A.K. pending cases. Momentum, matters in their respective house the High Court till a
VISAKHAPATNAM
Sikri and S. Abdul Nazeer discipline and equilibrium courts later. permanent building was
Giving clarity on the ongoing
said there would be “initial constructed.
Western Ghat’s grasslands
investigation into the knife
attack on Leader of the hiccups” and the High Senior advocate Fali Nari
Opposition in the Andhra Courts “have already started asking the government to go January 1. The petition had man for Andhra Pradesh had
Pradesh Assembly Y.S. Jagan functioning.” ahead with it. The associa urged that the bifurcation be also made a statement that
Mohan Reddy, the police said Justice Sikri observed tion’s plea was dismissed as delayed until the new pre the government would be
the attacker J. Srinivasa Rao, orally that the court had con withdrawn. mises for the Andhra Pra providing villas to take care But shola forests have remained ‘relatively unchanged’
had done it only to gain sidered every aspect of the The two separate High desh High Court in the capi of the residential needs of
publicity. matter of bifurcation before Courts are functioning from tal city of Amaravati was the judges at Amaravati. Aathira Perinchery across the Ghats – from the so visited 840 locations
Kochi Baba Budan Hills in Karnata across the Ghats to confi rm
The new year heralds bad ka to Tamil Nadu's Ashambu these changes. Despite this,
The Muslim Students Fed
Special Correspondent fety of passengers, especial eration, the students’ wing
Bengaluru ly women, and help reduce of the Indian Union Muslim
The Transport Department accidents as vehicles can be League, has sought action
has said that owners of pu monitored for rash driving against a private television
blic service vehicles such as and other off ences. channel, which recently te
buses and cabs will be given Transport Commissioner lecast visuals of festivities
a “reasonable amount of V.P. Ikkeri told The Hindu on a college campus in Thi
time” to comply with the that the time frame for in ruvananthapuram portray
mandatory installation of stallation of vehicle tracking ing them as activities of ter
vehicle tracking system and system and panic button ror outfi t AlQaeda.
panic button. would be decided depend MSF State president Mis
After being directed by ing the age of the vehicles. hab Keezhariyur and gen
the Union government, the “We will give a reasonable eral secretary M.P. Navas
department made the dev time for the owners to install told the media on Wednes
ice installation mandatory the device mandated by the day that the news report
for newly registered vehicles Union government. There was part of the “Sangh Pa
with eff ect from January 1. are talks of imposing a ban rivar agenda to perpetuate
On Wednesday, Karnata A technician installing a on vehicles older than 15 communalism”.
ka Transport Minister D.C. tracking system in a years from plying on the The students had at
Thammanna, who inaugu vehicle. SUDHAKARA JAIN
* road. We have to consider tended the festivities wear
rated the initiative at Yesh this issue as well while im ing black dress. The chan
wantpur RTO, said the dev the State government would plementing the new rules. nel reported that the
ice would be mandatory in approach the Centre to re The department will come campus was in the grip of
the coming days for vehicles duce the cost if the vehicle up with a plan on the time Islamic terrorism and the
already registered in the owners fi nd the device too frame and action that needs students were being drawn
State. The device, developed expensive. to be taken on vehicle own to the AlQaeda.
by BSNL, will cost ₹ 10,000 Department offi cials said ers who fail to follow the di Pathetic state: The main entrance of the historic Katora Houz, which was the swimming pool of the Quli Qutub Shahi Kings, A police inquiry dis
to ₹ 12,000. The Minster said the device would ensure sa rections,” he said. stands as a perfect example of apathy towards historic monuments in Hyderabad. NAGARA GOPAL * proved the claims later.
Vehicle buyers taken for a ride
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Olive ridleys perishing off A.P. coast Fraudsters from Rajasthan dupe Hyderabadis on online classifi ed platform
Absence of Turtle Excluder Device in fi shing operations killing the breeding animals show buyers the photos and Commissioner of Police Avi
<
> While purchasing
Abhinay Deshpande
Hyderabad registration documents on something, people nash Mohanty said OLX
T. Appala Naidu absence of the ‘Turtle Hundreds of Hyderabadis line, and ask them for ad should verify the frauds had increased in Hyd
MACHILIPATNAM Excluder Device’ in fi shing are being duped by gangs vance payment via Paytm or details of the seller erabad and the police were
Many of the fi rst batch of operations. The Wildlife from Rajasthan in the name Google Pay. Once they re conducting awareness
before transferring
olive ridley turtles that authorities have identifi ed 12 of selling secondhand two ceive the entire money, they campaigns.
chose the Andhra Pradesh locations to set up rookeries wheelers, wellmaintained switch off their mobile money “While purchasing so
coast for the annual between the Krishna and cars or electronics for thro phones and go untraced, the Avinash Mohanty mething, people should veri
breeding season have died the Koringa wildlife waway prices on OLX, an on investigator said. Deputy Commissioner of Police fy the details of the seller be
before they reached the sanctuaries, which witness a line classifi ed platform. Recently, an instructor at fore transferring the
destination, after being huge turnout of turtles. Lack of support tached to the Army training money,” he said.
trapped in fi shing nets. 10 complaints The Hyderabad police’s ear centre at Golconda, who was Mr. Mohanty said most of
The coast, considered a Rookeries coming up In the fi rst two days of the lier eff orts to nab the culprits planning to buy a Royal En the cybercrime fraudsters
safe breeding zone, is now “Seven rookeries will come new year alone, the cyber at Bharatpur went in vain, as fi eld bike, was duped by the were from other States and
witnessing deaths among up in the East Godavari crime police have reportedly the fraudsters escaped alleg same gang for ₹ 80,000. they pose themselves as Ar
the migrating turtles in district and fi ve in the received nearly 10 com edly on a tipoff by the local “He [culprit] informed us my offi cers or staff of any
recent years. The average Krishna sanctuary alone,” plaints. Last year, around police, the offi cer said. In that he is a CISF offi cer at other uniform service. They
lifespan of the turtle is 50. Divisional Forest Offi cer 130 such cases were fi led, all December last, a team of ov Shamshabad airport and usually post ads on OLX with
The conservation status Journey ends: The carcass of an olive ridley turtle at the fi sh (WildlifeEluru) Ananth with the same modus er 25 police personnel led by asked to pick up the bike photographs of the vehicles
of the animal is ‘vulnerable’ landing point at Manginapudi, Krishna district. T. APPALA NAIDU * Shankar said. operandi. four inspectorrank offi cers from the airport parking to be sold at throwaway pric
and their population faces Offi cial teams at the “Bharatpur gang is looting had gone to Bharatpur to area on December 31 morn es and provide contact num
various threats according to conservation authorities our nets. In many cases, rookeries are sent to save people across the country on nab the fraudsters. However, ing. I waited for him till sun bers. “When a prospective
the International Union for prepare the ground for the they are dead by the time them from stray dogs and the pretext of selling used due to a lack of support from set and returned home,” said buyer contacts them, they
Conservation of Nature season until midsummer. we notice them,” a conserve the eggs. The automobiles and electronic the local police in the unfa the Army instructor, who ask them to transfer the mo
(IUCN). The breeding season “We try our best to fi sherman told The Hindu. hatchlings will be released items,” said a senior cyber miliar area, they had to re was at the police station on ney saying that the vehicle
normally commences in release the turtles back into The prime reason for the into the sea in a phased crime police offi cer. turn emptyhanded to Wednesday afternoon. will be delivered soon and
January and the the sea if they are trapped in rise in the deaths is the manner. He said the miscreants Hyderabad. When contacted, Deputy dupe them,” the offi cer said.
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seats, claims
party leader
Press trust of india
Eminent witer Patna
Manoj Das honoured
BERHAMPUR
The opposition Grand Al
Eminent English and Odia liance in Bihar has agreed
writer Manoj Das on to give as many as four
Wednesday received the Kabi seats to former Union Mi
Samrat Upendra Bhanja nister Upendra Kushwa
National Award for Lifetime ha’s Rashtriya Lok Samata
Achievement in Literature, Party in the upcoming Lok
instituted by the Berhampur Sabha polls, double the
University. During the 53rd number it was off ered by
foundation day ceremony, the BJPled NDA, a senior
the university also honoured party leader claimed on
noted folk dance guru Wednesday.
Nabaghana Parida with The RLSP leader, who
Dakshin Odisha Loksanakruti requested anonymity, said
Samman. the deal was fi nalised after Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs)
Five-day Manali carnival Mr. Kushwaha’s recent
meeting with RJD supre Forecast for Thursday: Cold wave conditions likely at isolated
begins in Kullu
mo Lalu Prasad in Ranchi pockets over east Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh
SHIMLA
followed by negotiations city rain max min city rain max min
The five-day Manali Winter Agartala................. —.... 28.0.... 10.2 Kozhikode ............... —.... 32.4.... 21.8
Carnival in Kullu district with the Congress, both of Ahmedabad............ —.... 29.3...... 8.0 Kurnool ................... —.... 32.0.... 14.6
began on Wednesday. which are major consti Aizwal ................... —.... 25.2.... 11.5 Lucknow.................. —.... 22.8...... 6.6
Allahabad .............. —.... 25.6...... 6.6 Madurai................... —.... 30.6.... 18.9
Himachal Pradesh Chief tuents of the Grand Bengaluru .............. —.... 27.4.... 12.4 Mangaluru............... —.... 35.6.... 17.0
Minister Jai Ram Thakur Alliance. Bhopal................... —.... 27.8...... 8.8 Mumbai................... —.... 31.4.... 13.6
flagged off the carnival Cricket fever: A roadside vendor arranges bats in Bhopal on Wednesday. *
A. M. FARUQUI The opposition coali Bhubaneswar ......... —.... 27.6...... 9.8 Mysuru.................... —.... 27.8.... 10.4
parade from the circuit house. Chandigarh ............ —.... 21.5...... 9.4 New Delhi ............... —.... 23.4...... 6.5
tion in Bihar also compris Chennai ................. —.... 29.1.... 20.2 Patna ...................... —.... 22.6...... 7.9
PTI
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Fury and fi re: As the Sangh Parivar and other groups staged protests across Kerala over the entry of two young women into Sabarimala temple, police resorted to lathicharge to quell the agitators. *
PTI, THULASI KAKKAT, K.K.MUSTAFAH, S.K. MOHAN
Chief priest’s action violates Supreme Court verdict pa temple premises in the
next 50 minutes.
Skirting the 18 holy steps,
the next 45 minutes and
from there to Angamaly,
‘neutral’ stand
UDUPI/HASSAN
Vishwesha Tirtha Swami of
they entered the temple which is over 113 km away. Pejawar Mutt said on
Any form of exclusion based on concepts of ‘impurity and pollution’ amounts to untouchability through the front door, Later they were shifted to an Wednesday that his stand on
where a few policemen undisclosed location. the issue of women’s entry
Krishnadas Rajagopal women”, the Supreme The court made it clear jeevaru, against the verdict garding menstruation as were deployed to check the into Sabarimala temple was
NEW DELHI Court has clearly laid down that untouchability was not which struck down the ban polluting or impure, and entry of pilgrims. Video Previous bid neutral and the ‘shastras’ per
Closure of the Sabarimala in its September 28 verdict – confi ned to practices relat on the entry of women of worse still, imposing exclu footage showed them enter Ms. Bindu and Ms. Kanaka se did not ban it. Speaking to
temple’s sanctum sancto- which is not yet stayed and ing to lower castes. menstrual age into the sionary disabilities on the ing through the staff gate on durga had tried to visit the The Hindu over telephone,
rum on Wednesday to per is fully operational — that Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, temple. basis of menstrual status, is the Pejawar seer said, “In
the northern side of the temple on December 24
form ‘purifi cation rites’ af any form of exclusion based in his opinion, expanded “Prejudice against wo against the dignity of wo Sabarimala, there is no entry
temple at 3.48 a.m. and be during the ‘Mandalam’ pil
for women in the temple. But
ter two women of on concepts of “purity and untouchability to any prac men based on notions of im men which is guaranteed by ing escorted out by plain grimage season, but failed
women are given entry in
menstruating age managed pollution” amounts to un tice which amounts to “sys purity and pollution asso the Constitution.” clothes police through the amidst massive protests by other temples [in the
to enter may amount to us touchability, a practice abol temic humiliation, exclusion ciated with menstruation is The main opinion, writ barricade in front of the ho Sangh Parivar activists and a country]. However, there is
ing the concept of impurity ished under Article 17 of the and subjugation faced by a symbol of exclusion. The ten by then Chief Justice of ly steps at 3.50 a.m. section of the devotees. Sa nothing in the ‘shastras’ that
and pollution to violate the Constitution. women.” social exclusion of women, India Dipak Misra, said it The policemen on duty at barimala witnessed no prot bars or restricts the entry of
women’s right against Notions of “purity and based on menstrual status, #563688
was “an essential part of the the temple were reportedly est on Wednesday, as news women into temples. So I do
untouchability. pollution”, which stigmatise Review petitions is but a form of untouchabil Hindu religion to allow Hin told by plainclothesmen about the entry of the duo not know what I should say
Though temple priest individuals, can have no A fi vejudge Bench led by ity which is anathema to du women to enter into a that the women were ‘rela was aired only after they left about the Sabarimala issue.
Kandararu Rajeevaru ex place in a constitutional re Chief Justice of India Ranjan constitutional values,” Jus temple as devotees and fol tives’ of an Inspector Gener Pampa. Ms. Bindu herself Hence, I am neutral on this
plained that his action gime, the Supreme Court Gogoi is scheduled to hear tice Chandrachud observed lowers of Hindu religion and al of Police. sent a video to a private TV issue.” He said that women
should not be treated as had held in its Sabarimala on January 22 the review pe in his opinion. off er their prayers to the dei Police escorted the wo channel. The police too con had been entering temples
“any discrimination towards judgment. titions, including one by Ra The court held that “re ty.” men downhill to Pampa in fi rmed it later. for so many centuries.
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Minor among two lynched in Bihar Train 18 may run this month
Special Correspondent Train 18, touted as the during trial run. However,
They were suspected to have been involved in the killing of an RJD leader NEW DELHI successor to the Shatabdi se once it is launched, it is ex
The indigenouslybuilt, semi ries, can run at a speed of pected to run at 130 kmph
Special Correspondent trict was killed on Tuesday said. The RJD leader’s killing suspects Raj Kumar Malakar, highspeed train, dubbed between 160 and 200 speed.
PATNA night. triggered a massive outrage 40 and Ranjan Kumar, 15, Train 18, is likely to start op kmph. Manufactured by the The offi cial said the train
Two persons, including a mi among locals and his sup and beat them up. Ranjan erations this month, with Integral Coach Factory, would cover the distance
nor, were lynched by a mob ‘Heated argument’ porters, who staged a prot Kumar died on the spot, the fi rst run being between Chennai, at a cost of ₹ 100 between Delhi and Varanasi
on Wednesday in Nalanda “Indal Paswan had a shop est at the district headquar while Raj Kumar Malakar Delhi and Varanasi, a senior crore, Train 18 touched a in eight hours, compared to
Manju Verma’s bail district of Bihar on suspicion selling construction material ters Biharsharief and alias Santu Malakar, suc railway offi cial said. high speed of over 180 kmph over 11 hours at present.
petition rejected of being involved in the kill and he had a heated argu shouted slogan against the cumbed to his injuries on
PATNA ing of a local Rashtriya Jana ment with someone on Tues Nitish Kumar government. the way to Patna Medical
Former Bihar Social Welfare ta Dal leader. day evening... he was shot Nalanda is the home dis College and Hospital.
Minister Manju Verma’s bail A member of RJD’s SC/ST dead when he was returning trict of Chief Minister Nitish The mob also set houses
petition was rejected by a cell Indal Paswan of Maghra home from a funeral,” Deep Kumar. of two more suspects, Na
local court in Begusarai on village under Deep Nagar Nagar Police station in Later, the protesting mob resh Choudhury and Chunni
Wednesday. Ms. Verma, police station of Nalanda dis charge Dharmendra Kumar attacked the house of two Lal Paswan, on fi re.
lodged in Begusarai jail, was
arrested in an Arms Act case
related to Muzaffarpur
shelter home case in which
34 minor girls were allegedly
Gujarat BJP leaders fi ght
sexually abused.
over location of AIIMS
Smoke forces flight to
make priority landing Centre yet to make announcement
AHMEDABAD
Special Correspondent development regarding the
An IndiGo flight from New
AHMEDABAD AIIMS in Rajkot,” Mr. Patel
Delhi made a priority landing
The Union government is reportedly said.
here on Tuesday after smoke
was detected mid-air in the
yet to announce the setting
cockpit and cabin, a source up of a worldclass All India Legislators meet CM
said on Wednesday. An IndiGo Institute of Medical Sciences Subsequently, a group of
spokesperson said the pilot (AIIMS) in Prime Minister eight legislators from the Va
issued a Pan-Pan call, one Narendra Modi’s home State dodara district called on
issued in a less urgent Gujarat, but some State Bha Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay
situation that still requires ratiya Janata Party leaders Rupani in an attempt to per
attention from ATC. are already fi ghting over its suade him to select Vadoda
location. ra as the venue for the insti
Chhattisgarh gets new Gujarat BJP leaders and tute. “We want an AIIMS in
Chief Secretary legislators from Rajkot and Vadodara as was promised
RAIPUR Vadodara have been fi ghting earlier. Now, they cannot
In a sudden move, the newly- over the venue of the facili change the location and
elected Congress government ty, which is likely to be set pick Rajkot,” said the party’s
in Chhattisgarh replaced the up in the State. Recently, veteran legislator Yogesh Pa
State’s Chief Secretary, Ajay Gujarat State BJP president tel, who led the delegation
Singh, with Sunil Kujur, a Jitu Vaghani said in Rajkot of legislators from central
1986-batch IAS officer, on that the AIIMS would be set Gujarat to the Chief
Wednesday night. Mr. Singh up in Rajkot to cater to the Minister.
has been made the Bilaspur
healthcare needs of the peo According to Mr. Patel,
Revenue Board chairman.
ple of the Saurashtra region. there are tribal pockets like
Mr. Vaghani said this Chhota Udepur, Narmada,
Stalin not to contest while campaigning for the Godhara and Dahod near
Tiruvarur bypoll recently held byelection for Vadodara, so a world class
CHENNAI
the Jasdan Assembly consti medical institute can cater
DMK leader M.K. Stalin, who
tuency in Rajkot district. to them, too, besides Vadod
was under pressure from
Mr. Vaghani’s impromptu ara city. Another legislator
senior party leaders to
contest the Tiruvarur
announcement caught even who was part of the delega
byelection, has opted out of State Ministers off guard. tion said that the Chief Mi
the race. Party sources said Deputy Chief Minister and nister himself was not sure
he had decided against Health Minister Nitin Patel whether Rajkot was being
contesting in Tiruvarur as it feigned ignorance over an picked as the location for
would trigger a bypoll in his AIIMS in Rajkot. the AIIMS, as was suggested
constituency, Kolathur. “I am not aware of any by the State party chief.
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8 EDITORIAL NOIDA/DELHI
Religion vs religious nationalism
The starting point for antiHindutva politics must be the distinction between Hinduism and Hindutva. Else, it’s doomed
Hindutva. In a classic essay writ hesh)” was the Bahujan Samaj Par duism and Hindutva, conversely,
ten in the 1990s, at the peak of the ty’s 2005 slogan referencing its is taken to mean that any criticism
R
evenue collections from the Goods and Services
‘Hinduism’, an attempt to codify image of Ram, that a majority of logical premise of likening Hin
Tax (GST) are going too far off the mark for com
A
ny rigid secular approach, the cultural and religious practic the faithful do not relate to,” said duism to Hindutva. To take anoth
fort. Infl ows declined for the second consecutive unrestrained by considera es, and then to Hindutva. Swami V. Sivadasan, CPI(M) State commit er example, the Hindu American
P.K. BADIGER
month in December to ₹ 94,726 crore from ₹ 97,637 tions of electoral politics, Vivekananda was the seer of the tee member, who was closely asso Foundation claimed recently that
crore in November and ₹ 1,00,710 crore in the month be could only lead to disapproval of fi rst shift. “Of the Swami’s address ciated with the programme. “Gi even the questioning of ‘Brahmin
fore. Between April and December, GST collections Congress president Rahul Gand before the Parliament of Religions, ven this context, it is the duty of ical patriarchy’ is a an act of Hin
have averaged about ₹ 96,800 crore, and have not even hi’s demonstration of his religious it may be said that when he began The vertical rise and the hori the secularists to come in support duphobia.
once met the monthly target of ₹ 1,06,300 crore, going faith and his characterisation of to speak it was of the religious zontal spread of Hindutva chal of the believers who understand
the Congress as a “party of Hin ideas of the Hindus but when he lenge its opponents to devise new Ram diff erent from the way the To Hindutva’s advantage?
by the Union Budget math for 201819. Now in order to
duism”. His approach has been ended, Hinduism had been creat political idioms. A puritan view is RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak And most consequentially, any po
achieve the yearend target, GST collections over the widely termed “soft Hindutva”, ed,” wrote Sister Nivedita, the Swa that Hindutva can be challenged Sangh) tries to make him. All secu lemical negation of the wall bet
next three months will have to reach an average of and as an attempt to compete with mi’s closest disciple. Three de only with an unyielding secular lar people have this responsibility ween Hinduism and Hindutva
₹ 1,34,900 crore. But given the spate of tax rate cuts an the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in cades later Veer Savarkar, who paradigm, devoid of Hindu sym to help protect the plurality of makes the transition from the fi rst
nounced by the GST Council in December that kick in its game. Those who deride Hin invented Hindutva, did not merely bols. Those leaders and parties faith that exists among religious to the second easier. It could even
this month and Prime Minister Narendra Modi hinting dutva and those who swear by it seek to unify Hindus, but tried to that are directly involved in electo people.” encourage believers to consider
at further rationalisation of rates for construction mate both consider Mr. Gandhi a poor achieve it by imagining the other ral politics are more confl icted on Whether or not these attempts Hindutva their natural political
imitator of it. Centrist politics by as those who do not consider India these questions than those who add up to a robust and credible abode, if they sense hostility in the
rials soon, the pressure on revenues is likely to persist.
defi nition is vulnerable to criti their sacred land. While secular have the convenience of a quaran challenge to Hindutva is an open antiHindutva camp. If nonHin
Separately, as the government looks to woo traders and cism from radical perspectives of nationalism’s adversarial image tined approach. In the early question. However, the notion of dutva platforms expect temple
small businesses back to its electoral fold, the Council is diff erent hues — for instance, Mar was imperialism, the edge in Sa 2000s, when critics began to use ‘soft Hindutva’ is detrimental to goers to explain their conduct,
considering a relaxation in the GST norms for micro, xist M.N. Roy, Dalit leader B.R. varkar’s Hindutva was against the neologism saff ronisation to de antiHindutva polemics and mo that is not an enticing recruitment
small and medium enterprises by raising the annual Ambedkar and Hindutva propo Muslims and Christians. Viveka scribe the A.B. Vajpayee govern bilisation. pitch. The fact is that there are
sales threshold for compulsory GST registration from nent, and later his assassin, Nathu nanda’s Hinduism had no enemy ment’s policies that advanced Hin For one, it ignores the tactical numerous people who visit tem
₹ 20 lakh to over ₹ 50 lakh. Such a relaxation, along with ram Godse, were all critical of Ma fi gure. dutva, within the Congress there components of electoral politics, ples and even believe in vastu, as
hatma Gandhi’s ideas of The political rise of Hindutva was a debate on the wisdom of it. which the moralist might dismiss trology, tantra, etc. while still be
regulatory steps like greater forbearance for small busi
Hinduism. What is worth a closer has been directly proportionate to A.K. Antony and Digvijay Singh as opportunism, for good reasons. ing secular in a political and public
ness loans, will boost sentiment among such fi rms, but analysis in the current context is the success of its proponents’ at vehemently opposed the expres What is more critical is that the no context.
it will further dent the tax kitty. Other revenue heads, the suggestion that the invocation tempts to equate itself with sion, arguing that it amounted to tion of expressive faith as ‘soft Hin The only politics that benefi ts
including direct tax or disinvestment receipts (even via of Hindu symbols for electoral Hinduism. legitimising the Hindutva agenda dutva’ is an inadvertent endorse from associating Hinduism to Hin
innovatively structured intrapublicsector deals), are gains is Hindutva, albeit a softer given the cultural association of ment of the Hindutva claim that it dutva is Hindutva. The practice of
unlikely to be adequate to plug the GST shortfall. version. The Gandhi-Nehru way the colour saff ron with sacrifi ce is equivalent to Hinduism. The Hinduism, even when it is exhibi
This poses a challenge for the Centre at a time when For Gandhi, Hinduism was the es and renunciation. The Congress proponents of Hindutva also ack tionist and for political ends, is not
A clear trajectory sence of his existence, but even discontinued use of the word. nowledge the existence of ‘hard’ Hindutva — soft or hard. Hindutva
it would have been hoping to announce some populist
Mainstream Indian nationalism the avowedly secular Jawaharlal Other parties too have used and ‘fringe’ elements within its stands out for its conceptual clari
measures ahead of elections, while retaining its macro and Hindu nationalism shared a Nehru was not dismissive of faith Hindu symbolism and terminolo fold. Categories of soft and hard, ty, leaving little scope for a spec
economic management credentials. States’ revenue col range of symbols and personalities and tradition. The Discovery of In- gy. Rashtriya Janata Dal leader La being relative terms, trick moder trum within it. A manifesto for any
lections under the GST regime have been uneven and a during their formative decades, dia draws from sacred texts and lu Prasad, whose mastery of elec ates and off er an alibi to opportu durable antiHindutva politics is
GST Council panel is examining interState variations. and distinguishing one from the beliefs; “though I have discarded toral politics broke the Hindutva nists to side with the softer ver still a long way away, but its singu
But the Centre is bound to compensate States for reve other can appear a challenging much of past tradition and cus momentum in Bihar, connects his sions — Vajpayee against L.K. lar starting point is an assertion of
nue shortfalls for the fi rst fi ve years of the GST regime. task often. Consolidation of the tom… yet I do not wish to cut my community to Lord Krishna. Advani, Mr. Advani against Naren the distinction between Hinduism
Unless the Centre decides to drop its fi scal defi cit goals, Hindu society was a preoccupa self off from that past completely,” “Haathi nahin Ganesh hai, Brahma dra Modi, and who knows, per and Hindutva. Anything else is
tion of several reformists and lead he wrote in his will, asking for Vishnu Mahesh hai (this is not haps Mr. Modi against Yogi Aditya doomed.
a squeeze on spending, including planned capital ex
ers of the struggle for indepen some of his ashes to be immersed merely an elephant, but is Lord nath in the future?
penditure, may be the only option. There is a more pro dence, who were not linked to in the Ganga. Ganesh; and Brahma Vishnu Ma Any equivalence between Hin varghese.g@thehindu.co.in
blematic aspect to the dip in GST collections, based on
economic activity and compliance trends in November.
The total number of returns fi led that month hit a high
of 72 lakh from 55 lakh at the beginning of the fi scal, yet
revenues fell. November also marked the onset of In
Powering South Asian integration
dia’s festive season, with a late Deepavali. Yet, the high The new electricity guidelines are a fi rst step towards creating a true regional market
er compliance and the festive fervour translated into turn to a trajectory of incremental, ate control over such trade. prosperity is tied to the sustaina
collections lower than the average monthly receipts for hardearned progress developed After two years of protests from ble use of vast hydropower re
over the decades. Ideas of tying neighbours, the new guidelines re serves.
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the year till date. Though India’s growth fell to 7.1% in
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the second quarter of this fi scal, an uptick in private in South Asian Association for Re solve all these issues and restore The new guidelines are a tenta
vestment over the same period was considered a sign of gional Cooperation (SAARC) coun the governance of electricity trade tive fi rst step towards the creation
tries together with crossborder to a less restrictive tone. Earlier of a true regional market in which
revival. But if consumers are not confi dent enough to
Aditya Valiathan Pillai energy fl ows — that punctuated concerns that India was enabling generators across the subconti
spend, a consumptionled investment revival to take the early 2000s — began to gain the incursion of foreign infl uence nent compete to deliver lowcost,
the economy to an 8% growth path seems elusive again. steam with substantial power into neighbouring power sectors green energy to consumers. Since
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n December 18, the Union trade agreements between India seem to have been replaced by an this would soften the hard borders
Ministry of Power issued a and Bhutan (2006) and Bangla reaction to perceptions of in understanding that India’s buyer’s of South Asia, it is essentially a pol
Caught in a crossfi re? seemingly anodyne memo
that set the rules for the fl ow of
desh (2010). These were driven by
India’s need for aff ordable power
creased Chinese investment and
infl uence in the energy sectors of
monopoly in the region actually
give it ultimate leverage. More
itical vision. The new guidelines
are a signifi cant step in this direc
Spats over detention of Canadians in China electricity across South Asian bor to fuel quickened growth in a re South Asian neighbours. broadly, India seems to have ack tion because, for the fi rst time,
refl ect the scale of the U.S.China trade war ders. Evaluated against the turbu cently liberalised economy. nowledged that the sinews of eco they allow tripartite trading arran
lent politics around the issue, the The apotheosis came in 2014 Some irritants nomic interdependency created gements, where power generated
T
he diplomatic row between Beijing and Ottawa new guidelines are a startling de with the signing of the SAARC Fra The guidelines prevented anyone by such arrangements have the in a country is routed over the ter
over the detention and treatment of Canadian na parture from India’s previous mework Agreement for Energy other than Indian generators in political benefi t of positioning In ritory of a neighbour to be con
tionals in China continues to escalate, to the de stance. In an atmosphere of re Cooperation and the IndiaNepal the neighbouring country, or gen dia as a stable development partn sumed in a third. This is a crucial
gional intrigue and mistrust, it is a Power Trade Agreement in quick erators owned by that country’s er rather than one inclined to de move towards the evolution of
triment of bilateral relations. But more serious could be
rare and recent example of politi succession. The new government government, from selling power to fensive realpolitik. complex, multicountry market ar
the implications of the standoff for the ongoing trade cal pragmatism. It is important not in New Delhi was keen on regional India. Excluded were scores of rangements. Such markets require
war between China and the U.S. The spat goes back to only because it leads South Asian cooperation, and these agree privately held companies, particu Tool for a greener grid the construction of regional insti
the detention on December 1 of a top Chinese telecom electricity trade in progressive di ments imposed few restrictions on larly in Nepal, that had hoped to A liberal trading regime is in In tutions that absorb the politics and
executive in Vancouver, who has since been released on rections but is also a concession to trade. Instead, they laid the con trade with India. In restricting ac dia’s national interest. As India manage the technicalities of elec
bail, in response to a U.S. request. Washington wanted India’s neighbours in an area of tours of an institutional structure cess to the vast Indian market, the transitions to a power grid domi tricity trade.
custody of Meng Wanzhou, the chief fi nancial offi cer of political and economic impor that would allow private sector economic rationale for Nepali hy nated by renewables, regional At present, this function is man
tance. participation and facilitate market dropower built for export was lost. trade could prove useful in main aged by the Indian state because of
Huawei and the daughter of the company’s founder.
rationality in electricity com Bhutan was worried about a clause taining grid stability. Major com its geographic centrality and the
Her arrest was part of the U.S. Justice Department’s on A course correction merce. At the Fifth SAARC Energy that required the exporting gener mitments to renewables, which ready availability of institutions
going criminal probe into the company’s sale of tele The revision is a response to two Ministers’ meeting that year, Pow ation companies to be majority could amount to half of India’s in that manage its domestic power
communications equipment to Iran, a potential breach years of intense backroom pres er Minister Piyush Goyal said he owned by an Indian entity. This stalled power within a decade, sector. As volumes increase and
of sanctions against Tehran. But the arrest is also seen sure from neighbours, particularly dreamt of ‘a seamless SAARC pow created friction in joint ventures have prompted justifi able con experience in regional trade
in the context of the caution in much of the West against Bhutan and Nepal, to drop trade er grid within the next few years’ between India and Bhutan. Bhu cerns about stabilising the grid grows, South Asian nations might
Huawei’s potentially winning bids as 5G communica barriers put up in 2016. The new and off shore wind projects ‘set up tan also fretted about limited ac when the sun goes down or in sea feel the need to build joint, inde
guidelines meet most of their de in Sri Lanka’s coastal borders to cess to India’s main electricity sons when renewables are less po pendent regional institutions that
tion networks are adopted, on grounds of a security
mands, that were timed to coin power Pakistan or Nepal’. Yet, two spot markets, where it would have tent. Harnessing a wider pool of proff er clear and stable rules of
threat. The military background of the Huawei founder cide with the recent visit of Bhu years later, the Union Ministry of been well placed to profi t from generation sources, particularly the road. The political vision to
has only raised speculation about the fi rm’s connection tan’s new Prime Minister. India Power released guidelines that im evening peaks in demand. Bangla hydropower from the Himalayas create this — felt in the new guide
to the Chinese defence and intelligence services. Con has thus signalled that it is serious posed a slew of major restrictions desh had sensed an opportunity to that ramps up instantly as India lines — must be maintained.
versely, the U.S. has invoked a rare national security about working with neighbours on on who could engage in crossbor partially address its power crisis turns on its lights and appliances
provision under domestic law to impose punitive tariff s the issues that should undergird der electricity trade. with imports from Bhutan and Ne after sunset, could be an impor Aditya Valiathan Pillai is Senior
on global steel and aluminium imports. A similar inves 21st century South Asian regional There was a strong undercur pal routed through Indian territo tant instrument in achieving a Researcher at the Initiative on Climate,
tigation is under way specifi cally to determine the risk ism, such as electricity trade. rent of defensiveness in the guide ry but the guidelines complicated greener grid. Nepal and Bhutan Energy and Environment, Centre for
This course correction is a re lines of 2016. They seemed to be a this by giving India disproportion have long recognised that their Policy Research
to domestic security from alleged Chinese intellectual
property abuses. In addition, Beijing’s “Made in China
2025” industrial policy has aroused deep suspicion in LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to letters@thehindu.co.in must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials.
the U.S. about the persistence of state subsidies to prop
up indigenous fi rms. It is therefore speculated that Peace overture neighbours seems to have make an earnest eff ort to available institutional credit ■ Ever since the results of the reasons and seasons”
Washington has its lens trained on Huawei, which has Amid escalating India paid off to some extent. It fi nd out the fate, in Pakistan, to farmers and educating fi ve State elections, there has (‘Sport’ page, January 2), is a
emerged as the world’s largest telecommunications Pakistan hostilities, it cannot be refuted that of Indian prisoners of war of them on this aspect is the been a palpable change in reaffi rmation of the reality
equipment maker, surpassing Sweden’s Ericsson. comes as a whiff of fresh air many of the prisoners are 1971 — nearly 60 personnel. way forward. The Congress’s the attitude of Mr. Modi. that the managers of the
that as a followup to the innocent fi shermen who Much has been written about reaction to the interview is Many of his answers, such as Indian team need to think
Meanwhile, there is concern that Canadian residents
release of India’s Hamid have unwittingly strayed them but little is known on expected lines as the going soft on the temple carefully whenever they pick
in China may face retribution for Ms. Meng’s detention. Ansari and Pakistan’s Imran into enemy territory. about their wellbeing. Their party always speaks in issue, the poll pitch that it and choose the playing
A Chinese court last week ruled as too lenient the 15 Warsi, in December 2018, Nalini Vijayaraghavan, families need to know what negative terms against Mr. will be people versus a eleven. Virat Kohli is
year sentence against a Canadian convicted of drugre the estranged South Asian Thiruvananthapuram happened. Modi (“Full of ‘I’s and lies”: coalition, the stance on triple defi nitely realising that
lated off ences. A former diplomat who was arrested has neighbours have decided to Darius Khambata, Congress, January 2). talaq and Sabarimala and on Pujara is the most consistent
apparently been denied legal representation, although herald in 2019 with a ■ India’s longforgotten Mumbai C.G. Kuriakose, RBI Governor Urjit Patel’s Test player in the team and
goodwill gesture of “Neighbourhood fi rst” policy Kothamangalam, Kerala resignation, all point towards needs to be there for the long
Canadian embassy offi cials were permitted to visit him.
exchanging lists of now gets a push when seen Modi interview only one objective — to haul. Too much tinkering
Another Canadian was detained for alleged transgres
prisoners (Page 1, “‘India, together with positive Prime Minister Narendra ■ The entire discussion, with somehow retain power. with the team composition
sions of national security. Given the climate of mistrust Pak. move towards release developments in India Modi’s clarifi cation that any easy and noncontroversial G.B. Sivanandam, could play havoc with the
between the U.S. and China, it is hard to dispel the per of civilian prisoners”, Maldives and India decision on an ordinance on questions, enabled the Prime Coimbatore careers of talented players.
ception that Canada has got caught in the crossfi re. In January 2). However small Bangladesh ties as well. We the construction of a Ram Minister to fi eld replies with Saurabh Sinha,
or fragile the olive branch The Indian XI Bhilai, Chhattisgarh
fact, the Canadian Foreign Minister has suggested that need to keep the spirits high temple at Ayodhya will be absolute ease. The
President Donald Trump should desist from using the extended to each other by and not just solely focus on after the judicial process is interviewer very carefully The report, “Cheteshwar
more letters online:
episode as a bargaining chip in trade disputes with Chi India and Pakistan might larger and distant nations. completed must have avoided controversial Pujara — the man for all www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/
be, the thaw in bilateral Anjali Bhavana, answered concerns and questions. It sounds
na. But it is conceivable that Chinese trade concessions Thiruvanthanthapuram corrections & clarifications:
relations, that have been queries (Page 1, “Modi rules reasonable that
to deescalate tensions could pave the way for a resolu mutually destructive, needs out ordinance on Ram spokespersons of the
>>A story titled “Parliamentary committee irked by States’ in
sensitivity to Western Ghats” ( Jan. 2, 2019) inadvertently referred
tion of the standoff over Huawei. That would likely sa to be welcomed. The ■ Now that there is temple for now”, January 2). Congress party have reason to over 56,000 kilometres of ecologically sensitive areas in the
tisfy the hawks in Washington who fear that the U.S. is relentless eff orts of peace signifi cant development on He is right in saying that farm to be critical. Western Ghats. It should have been over 56,000 square kilometres.
ceding its technological dominance to China. activists to usher in some the exchange of information loan waivers do not benefi t Tharcius S. Fernando, The Readers’ Editor’s office can be contacted by Telephone: +91-44-28418297/28576300;
peace between the warring on prisoners, India must farmers; hence making Chennai E-mail:readerseditor@thehindu.co.in
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Deterrence or danger? Lessons from Kerala
Its experience could help achieve the objectives of
India does not gain anything by escalating the nuclear arms race in the region with INS Arihant the Astana Declaration on primary care
commitment to substantially increase the al
location of funds. It is sobering to remember
that most successful primary care interven
tions allocate not more than 2,500 benefi ci
aries per team.
Chinmaya R. Gharekhan Providing the entire set of services, even if
Rajeev Sadanandan limited to diagnosis and referral, is beyond
the capacity of medical and nursing grad
The indigenous nuclear submarine, uates without specialised training. Practi
INS Arihant, is a great achievement Last year, in October at Astana, Kazakhstan, tioners in most good primary care systems
for India. The Indian Navy, its engi world leaders declared their commitment to are specialists, often with postgraduate
neers and scientists have done us im ‘Primary Care’. They were reaffi rming what training. The Post Graduate Course in Family
mensely proud. But it might not be their predecessors had done in Alma Ata in Medicine, which is the nearest India has to
inappropriate to ask: Will Arihant 1978. The Alma Ata Declaration, as it was such a course, is available in very few institu
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nerable districts could help. Further, regulatory attention zones are relaxed. With from the high tide line, low tide line and 12 nautical local business, but without Watch: In a fi rst, two women of menstruating age enter the
must focus on traffi cking rings and sectors. this objective, a decision compared to the 200 miles seaward. The strong environmental Sabarimala temple
has been taken to permit metres that was earmarked modifi cations also include safeguards, these could
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Hindus cannot wait puts indicate that Pakistan
based terrorist groups con
tinue to train their cadres
giving inprinciple approval
for Karnataka to prepare a
detailed project report, the
ha, told The Hindu. DMK MP
Tiruchi Siva too said the only
way to arrive at a truce was
leader Derek O’ Brien met
Mr. Naidu urging him not to
insist on further action
bers chiming in response
“Needhi [ Justice] vendum.”
Despite the Chair’s ruling,
han, K. Parasuraman, Dr. K.
Kamaraj, P. Kumar, M. Va
santi, C. Mahendran, K. Ma
till eternity, says VHP for underwater strike capa
bilities in a bid to infi ltrate
fi rst step towards construc
tion of the dam. He said the
to withdraw the CWC order.
Those who were told to
against the named MPs.
The two parties have been
the members continued to
shout slogans, resulting in
ragatham and P. Nagarajan.
The AIADMK has 37
them into India by sea/wa commission was just follow leave were Mr. Navaneethak protesting in the Upper two breaks before the House members in Lok Sabha.
Mr. Kumar said the VHP had The government also terways,” Mr. Ahir said. ing procedure. rishnan, S. Muthukaruppan, House since the start of the was adjourned till Thursday. (With PTI inputs)
by now contacted 350 mem faced fi re from its ally, Shiv
bers of Parliament, but was Sena, with party MP Sanjay
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IN BRIEF
Taiwan’s unifi cation with China building ‘advanced’
warships for Pak.: report
China is inevitable, says Xi It is a version of its most advanced guided missile frigate
Brexit won’t aff ect ‘We will not renounce the option of using military force to bring it into the fold’
Britain’s global role: Hunt Press Trust of India stability and the balance of
SINGAPORE Agence France-Presse ranged in response to Mr. Beijing power in the Indian Ocean
Britain can still punch above Beijing Xi’s speech. She accused China is building the fi rst of region,” the report said.
its weight globally even after Taiwan’s unifi cation with the Beijing of provocations that four “most advanced” naval It will also support the Pa
it exits the European Union, mainland is “inevitable”, strained people’s “emotional warships for Pakistan as part kistan Navy’s initiative of se
Foreign Secretary Jeremy President Xi Jinping said on connection” to the mainland of a major bilateral arms curing sea lanes for interna
Hunt said on Wednesday. Wednesday, warning against such as “buying off ” Tai deal to ensure among other tional shipping by patrolling
Although Britain is neither a any eff orts to promote the is wan’s few diplomatic allies things “balance of power” in Type 054A is the best frigate distant waters, the daily qu
superpower nor in possession
land’s independence and and increased military drills the strategic Indian Ocean, in service with the PLA oted CSSC as saying.
of an empire, the country still Navy. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
saying China would not re near the island. the state media reported. *
The report said Type
has the military might,
nounce the option of using Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry Equipped with modern 054A is the best frigate in
economic muscle and
diplomatic connections to
military force to bring it into released a terser response. detection and weapon sys facturing the JFThunder, a service with the PLA Navy.
play a major role in world the fold. “If the Chinese government tems, it will be capable of an single engine multirole Military sources said the
affairs, Mr. Hunt said in Mr. Xi’s comments pro cannot treat its own people tiship, antisubmarine and combat aircraft. ship has a fully loaded dis
Singapore. AFP voked a swift rebuke from Strong stance: President Xi speaking at an event at the Great kindly, cannot guarantee hu airdefence operations, Chi- The ship’s class is report placement of about 4,000
Taipei, where President Tsai Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday. AFP *
man rights and will not let its na Daily quoted state ed to be Type 054AP, which metric tonnes and is
‘Kurdish fighters have Ingwen said Taiwan’s peo own people vote... then Tai owned defence contractor means it is based on the equipped with advanced ra
withdrawn from Manbij’ ple would never willingly in 1979, in which Beijing Taiwan considers itself a wanese will look at China’s China State Shipbuilding Type 054A of the People’s dars and missiles. About 30
DAMASCUS give up the kind of demo called for unifi cation. sovereign state, with its own intent with suspicion,” it Corporation (CSSC) as Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, Type 054As are in service
The Syrian regime on cratic freedoms unseen on currency, political and judi said. saying. the report quoted the Pakis with the PLA Navy.
Wednesday said hundreds of the mainland. ‘One country, 2 systems’ cial systems, but has never Though Mr. Xi’s speech The underconstruction tani Navy as saying. An insider in China’s ship
Kurdish fighters had China still sees democrat “We make no promise to give declared formal indepen takes a strong stance against ship is a version of the Chi The Pakistani Navy pre building sector with know
withdrawn from Manbij near
ic Taiwan as part of its terri up the use of military force dence from the mainland. Taiwanese separatists, it is nese Navy’s most advanced viously said four such ships ledge of the Type 054AP
the border with Turkey, days
tory to be reunifi ed, despite and reserve the option of aimed mostly at domestic guided missile frigate, it had been ordered, accord programme told the Daily
after the Kurds appealed to
the two sides being ruled taking all necessary means” Democratic values audiences, analysts say. “It’s said. ing to the report. that the ship is the largest
Damascus for support against
a threatened Turkish
separately since the end of a against Taiwanese separatist Relations have been strained rather empty and doesn’t CSSC did not specify the and most powerful combat
offensive. “A convoy of units civil war in 1949. activities and “outside forc since the 2016 election of have any new points except ship’s type but said it is be ‘Balance of power’ vessel China has ever ex
of Kurdish fighters comprised “China must and will be es” that interfere with reuni President Tsai, who has re that crossstrait unifi cation ing constructed at its Hu Once constructed, the war ported.
of more than 30 vehicles left united... which is an inevita fi cation, he said. fused to acknowledge Beij would not aff ect the interests dongZhonghua shipyard in ship “will be one of the lar “Based on pictures circu
Manbij, heading towards the ble requirement for the great Mr. Xi described unifi ca ing’s stance that the island is of other countries,” said Fan Shanghai. gest and technologically ad lating on the Internet, the
eastern bank of the Euphrates rejuvenation of the Chinese tion under a “one country, part of “one China”. “Demo Shihping, political analyst at China, an “allweather al vanced platforms of the ship will have vertical
river,” the Defence ministry people in the new era,” Mr. two systems” approach that cratic values are cherished National Taiwan Normal Un ly” of Islamabad, is the lar Pakistani Navy and streng launch cells that can fi re Chi
said online. “Nearly 400 Xi said in a speech commem would “safeguard the inter by the Taiwanese people, it’s iversity, adding that Mr. Xi’s gest supplier of weapon sys then the country’s capability nese HQ16 airdefence mis
Kurdish fighters have left orating the 40th anniversary ests and wellbeing of Taiwa their way of life,” Ms. Tsai words may also be intended tem to Pakistan. Both to respond to future chal siles and other kinds of mis
Manbij so far.” AFP of a message sent to Taiwan nese compatriots”. said in a press conference ar for the U.S. countries also jointly manu lenges, maintain peace and siles,” he said.
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Got ‘great’
Fatal crash
letter from Netfl ix pulls satire episode in Saudi
Kim: Trump The show by Hasan Minhaj criticised the kingdom over the killing of Khashoggi
Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse tistic freedom worldwide vacy, through the informa
Washington Washington and removed this episode tion network or computers”
U.S. President Donald Netfl ix has removed an epi only in Saudi Arabia after we is a crime punishable by up
Trump said on Wednesday sode of a satirical comedy had received a valid legal re to fi ve years in prison and a
he had received a “great show from its service in Sau quest — and to comply with fi ne not exceeding 3 million
letter” from North Korean di Arabia over its criticism of local law,” a Netfl ix spokes Saudi riyals ($8, 00,000).
leader Kim Jongun. the kingdom, following a le woman said in a statement The episode can still be
“I just got a great letter gal request by offi cials in on Tuesday. seen in other parts of the
from Kim Jongun,” Mr. Riyadh. world — and in Saudi Arabia
Trump told a Cabinet The move was widely de Cybercrime law on YouTube.
meeting, reiterating that he nounced by rights groups, Hasan Minhaj. *
AFP The streaming giant added “Saudi Arabia’s censor
still expected to hold a se including Amnesty Interna that it had received a take ship of Netfl ix... is further
cond summit with Mr. Kim, #563688
tional, which said it risks fa Washington Post columnist down request citing an arti proof of a relentless crack
after the pair signed a cilitating a crackdown on Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi cle of the kingdom’s cyber down on freedom of expres
pledge on denuclearisation freedom of expression in consulate in Istanbul. He crime law as the reason. sion in the kingdom,” said
of the Korean peninsula in Saudi Arabia. specifi cally criticised Crown Article 6 of the law states Samah Hadid, Amnesty’s
Singapore last June. In the episode of ‘Patriot Prince Mohammed bin Sal that “production, prepara Middle East campaigns di
“We really established a Act with Hasan Minhaj’, the man, and was also critical of tion, transmission, or stor rector. The Saudi Informa
Blown off : Rescue workers at the site of a train accident on the Great Belt Bridge in Nyborg, very good relationship,” he Americanborn Muslim the Saudiled military cam age of material impinging on tion Ministry did not imme
Denmark, on Wednesday. At least six people died and 16 were injured when the train hit a said. “We’ll probably have lashed out at the kingdom af paign in Yemen. public order, religious va diately respond to requests
falling cargo from a passing freight train as it crossed the bridge. AP * another meeting.” ter the October killing of The “We strongly support ar lues, public morals, and pri for comment.
U.S. granted access to Trump has not risen to
citizen held in Moscow mantle of offi ce: Romney
Paul Whelan was arrested for ‘spying’
Associated Press The incumbent’s shortfall has been glaring: U.S. Senator
Washington
The Russian government Agence France-Presse many other things where he
said on Wednesday it has al Washington can be helpful. I won big,
lowed an American citizen Incoming Senator Mitt Rom and he didn’t. He should be
held on espionage charges ney has written a scathing happy for all Republicans.
to have access to U.S. offi oped targeting U.S. Presi Be a TEAM player & WIN.”
cials seeking answers about dent Donald Trump, saying It is the latest twist in a re
his arrest. he “has not risen to the man lationship that has run hot
U.S. consular offi cials Paul Whelan. *
AP tle of the offi ce”. and cold for years. Mr. Rom
were granted access to Mi The barbed remarks from ney called presidential can
chigan resident Paul Whe that “if the detention is not the 2012 Republican presi didate Mr. Trump a fraud
lan for the fi rst time since appropriate, we will de dential candidate came as Mitt Romney. *
AP and a phony in 2016. But last
his arrest during a visit to mand his immediate re he and other lawmakers pre year, he thanked Mr. Trump
the country, according to a turn.” He added that the pare to take up their seats in “dismay around the world” for his endorsement as Mr.
Russian Foreign Ministry Trump administration had the new Congress. and alienated traditional al Romney ran for a senate seat
spokeswoman quoted by “made clear to the Russians lies in Europe. from Utah.
the state news agency Tass. our expectation that we will ‘Alienated allies’ His comments seemed to In the oped piece, Mr.
Mr. Whelan, head of glo learn more about the charg “With the nation so divided, suggest that Mr. Romney is Romney said he was initially
bal security for a Michigan es and come to understand resentful and angry, presi positioning himself to take encouraged when Mr.
based auto parts supplier, what it is he’s been accused dential leadership in quali over the role of Jeff Flake, a Trump brought into his Ca
was arrested on Friday. An of.” ties of character is indispen departing Senator who was a binet steadyhand fi gures
nouncing the arrest three Mr. Whelan, 48, a former sable,” Mr. Romney wrote in vocal critic of Mr. Trump. like James Mattis as Defense
days later, the Russian Fed Marine, was in Moscow to the oped piece in The Wash- The U.S. leader respond Secretary and John Kelly as
eral Security Service said attend a wedding when he ington Post on Tuesday. ed in a relatively restrained Chief of Staff . “But, on ba
Mr. Whelan was caught disappeared, his brother, “And it is in this province tweet. “Here we go with Mitt lance, his conduct over the
“during an espionage opera David Whelan, said on Tues where the incumbent’s Romney, but so fast! Ques past two years, particularly
tion,” but gave no details. day. “We are deeply con shortfall has been most tion will be, is he a Flake? I his actions this month, is evi
Secretary of State Mike cerned for his safety and glaring.” hope not,” he wrote. “Would dence that the President has
Pompeo said earlier on wellbeing,” his family said He added that Mr. much prefer that Mitt focus not risen to the mantle of the
Wednesday, while in Brazil, in a statement. Trump’s actions had caused on Border Security and so offi ce,” Mr. Romney wrote.
Manchester stabbings suspect
held under Mental Health Act
Associated Press that killed 22 people at objective of the investi
London a pop concert. gation, which is being
The police said the sole The Greater Man headed by the counter
suspect in the stabbing chester Police said, in a terrorism police. The
of three people in Man statement, that the 25 police searched the
chester on New Year’s yearold man was as suspect’s home in Man
Eve has been detained sessed by medical staff chester for evidence.
under Britain’s Mental before the decision was Two of the victims, a
Health Act. reached. The suspect man and a woman, are
The attack, which the has not been identifi ed still hospitalised with
police are treating as a and the police have not serious injuries but
terrorist incident, took explained a possible authorities say they are
place at the Victoria train motive for the attack. not lifethreatening. A
station. The station is Offi cials said verify policeman who was
next to the Manchester ing that the suspect act stabbed in the shoulder
Arena, the site of a May ed alone without a sup has been released from
2017 suicide bombing port network is a key the hospital.
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SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT contraction in the manufac concerns of a global slow
NIFTY 50
PRICE CHANGE
MUMBAI turing activity — the fi rst in 19 down. Both the BSE Metal
Adani Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381.30. . . . . . . . -7.70 A weak trend in the global months — in China. Inciden and BSE Auto indices were
Asian Paints. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1383.30. . . . . . . 11.75 equity markets on the back tally, data showed that facto the worst hit among sectoral
Axis Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620.05. . . . . . . . -7.25
Bajaj Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2692.00. . . . . . -34.65
of disappointing economic ry activity has shrunk in oth indices, shedding over 3%
Bajaj Finserv. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 6384.00. . . -137.95 data from China led to the In er Asian economies such as each.
Bajaj Finance . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 2614.05. . . . . . -42.80 dian benchmarks shedding Malaysia, Taiwan and South
Bharti Airtel . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 312.65. . . . . . . . -6.85 Losing steam: New orders, an indicator of future activity, fell
BPCL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357.95. . . . . . . . -9.25 1% on Wednesday as inves Korea, too. Weak GST collections
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na and the U.S., while dom
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while pushing forward trade
talks with the U.S.
in 18% GST
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Jet Airways misses payments to banks
Airline says temporary cashfl ow mismatch led to default, ICRA downgrades rating to ‘default’ status
Special Correspondent rental payments to the air on a sustained basis, the
Mumbai craft lessors. Furthermore, debt levels are expected to
Jet Airways India Ltd. has the company has large debt continue to remain high,”
missed payment to lenders, repayments due over De the ratings agency said.
prompting ratings agency cember 2018 to March 2019 The company has repay
ICRA to downgrade the rat (₹ 1,700 crore), FY2020 ments of ₹ 1,700 crore due ov
Equitas SFB revises ing to ‘D’ or default grade (₹ 2,444.5 crore) and FY2021 er December 2018 to March
interest rates upwards Helping hand: The Reserve Bank has also formed a panel to
due to the default and the in (₹ 2,167.9 crore), it added. 2019, ₹ 2,444.5 crore in
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Abhimanyu stars in Bengal’s sizzling chase RANJI TROPHY SCORES, DAY FOUR
Elite
Group A
(22), Delhi 0 (13).
Group C
Guides the side to crucial win over Delhi At Bengaluru: Karnataka 418
& 219 for seven decl. in 49.3
At Porvorim: Goa 244 & 295
in 69.1 overs (Sagun Kamat
Y.B. Sarangi However, Abhimanyu bat overs (Manish Pandey 102 96, Amit Verma 118, T.M. Ul
KOLKATA ted responsibly to forge an n.o., Pankaj Rao four for 67) Haq four for 87, Rahul Chahar
bt Chhattisgarh 283 & 156 in fi ve for 81) lost to Rajasthan
Opener Abhimanyu Easwa unbroken stand of 186 runs
57 overs (Avnish Singh 61, Ro 513 for eight decl. & 27 for no
ran scored a magnifi cent un with experienced hand Anus
nit More four for 35, Shreyas loss in fi ve overs. Rajasthan 7
beaten century to lead Ben tup Majumder (69 not out off Gopal four for 44). Points: (44), Goa 0 (6).
gal to a muchneeded 122, 8x4) to thwart Delhi. Karnataka 6 (27), At Ranchi: Tripura 253
sevenwicket victory over Abhimanyu exploited the Chhattisgarh 0 (6). for nine & 308 in 108.3
Delhi on the concluding day Delhi bowlers’ lack of disci At Pune: Maharashtra overs (Bishal Ghosh
of their Ranji Trophy Group B pline to cut, pull and drive 230 & 185 in 55.5 ov 61, Udiyan Bose 91,
match at the Eden Gardens confi dently on both sides. ers (Naushad Shaikh Neelambuj Vats 55
Apart from 23 boundaries, he 40, Anupam Sanklecha n.o.) drew with Jhark
here on Wednesday.
hit two lovely sixes in his 40 n.o.) lost to Gujarat hand 409 & 144 for
Chasing 322 for win, Ben 545 for eight decl. Guj seven in 21.5 overs.
gal resumed at 18 for no loss ninth hundred and second of
arat 7 (26), Maharash Jharkhand 3 (33), Trip
and gained massively from the season.
tra 0 (8). ura 1 (11).
Abhimanyu’s 211ball 183 not Majumder executed some Group B At Delhi: Odisha 177 & 256 for
out, during which he contri goodlooking shots while as At Vizianagaram: Hyderabad fi ve in 110 overs (Debasish Sa
buted in two key hundred sisting Abhimanyu. Their ef 271 & 251 for fi ve in 85 overs mantray 102, Anurag Sarangi
plus partnerships, to make a fort reminded one of a 175 (Akshath Reddy 65, B. San 46 n.o.) drew with Services
fi ne comeback and record its run partnership between the deep 45, Himalay Agarwal 60 417 for eight decl. Services 3
highest ever run chase. two in Jaipur, where Bengal n.o.) drew with Andhra 502 (19), Odisha 1 (20).
knocked out Ranji champion for seven decl. Andhra 3 (11), Plate
Bengal, which collected
Gujarat in the quarterfi nals Hyderabad 1 (17). At Bhubaneswar: Sikkim 219 &
six points to aggregate 22 and
last season. At Kolkata: Delhi 240 & 301 304 for four in 108 overs (Ni
be seventh, remains in the lost to Bengal 220 & 323 for lesh Lamichaney 70, Ashish
hunt for a quarterfi nal place. Khejroliya’s freak injury in
three in 70.2 overs (Abhishek Thapa 43, Milind 127 n.o.)
It will host Punjab in its last the postlunch session Raman 52, Abhimanyu Eas drew with Meghalaya 826 for
group match. helped Bengal. waran 183 n.o., Anustup Ma seven decl. Meghalaya 3 (29),
Openers Abhimanyu and Abhimanyu, who achieved jumdar 69 n.o.). Bengal 6 Sikkim 1 (20).
Abhishek Raman began the 3000 runs and hit the win
day with positive intent. The ning boundary, was satisfi ed
with his knock. “Keeping the
duo did not let the good de
liveries and halfchances af
fect their focus. They rotated
wickets was the key. We
played every ball on merit,”
Divyansh’s big strike
the strike and hit the loose
deliveries to the ropes to
said the 23yearold.
The scores: Delhi — 1st innings:
240.
raises hopes
score at a fast pace and put
Bengal — 1st innings: 220.
pressure on Delhi’s fi elders.
Abhishek (52 off 73, 7x4),
Delhi — 2nd innings: 301. I have focused on the basics and
Bengal — 2nd innings: Abhishek
who got a ‘life’ on 22, played Raman c Sudan b Rana 52, Abhi technique, says Lakshya Cup winner
some fl uent drives to the manyu Easwaran (not out) 183,
fence to get his fourth half Sudip Chatterjee lbw b Khejroli Special Correspondent phase as well, with scores of
century of the season. The ya 2, Manoj Tiwary c Chandela b NEW DELHI 630.3 in Mumbai, apart
121run opening stand ended Khejroliya 5, Anustup Majumder Divyansh Singh Panwar has from 630.4 and 628.8 in the
when Abhishek threw away (not out) 69; Extras (b10, lb2): been on a big scoring spree two trials.
his wicket, caught at deep ex 12; Total (for three wickets in in air rife and it was no sur “I have not done anything
tracover. 70.2 overs): 323. prise that he overtook the diff erent recently. I have fo
Fall of wickets: 1121, 2127,
Sudip Chatterjee and Ma World record in winning the cused on the basics and
3137.
noj Tiwary departed cheaply Delhi bowling: Khejroliya 160 Lakshya Cup in Mumbai. technique,” said Divyansh
because of Kulwant Khejroli 682, Bhati 152660, Sudan The 11th standard student when contacted.
ya’s superb bowling as Ben 80450, Shivam 8.20330, from Jaipur, who has been
gal lost three wickets quickly Vashisth 151770, Rana 80 shooting phenomenally well Good chance
before lunch. 221. In full fl ow: Abhimanyu Easwaran exploited Delhi bowlers’ lack of discipline to cut, pull and drive confi dently on both sides. *
PTI in the National selection Right behind the two stal
trials asserting his domi warts Deepak Kumar and
nance across the men’s, ju Ravi Kumar who have been
Pankaj breaches the 400-mark FD in rough weather niors’ and youth category,
has done the ground work to
earn a call in the National
consistently representing
the country in recent times,
Divyansh believes that there
Special Correspondent cussions or agenda on fi nan squad for the World Cup to is a good chance to win the
For a fast bowler to achieve it is a special thing, says the Puducherry speedster NEW DELHI cial matters.” be staged at the Dr. Karni Olympic quota.
Delhi Soccer Association Hem Chand, in his reply, Singh Range, Tughlakabad, “It is possible. I am not
S. Dipak Ragav step on a fi eld. More impor #563688
(DSA), now known as Foot accused FD of “tarnishing” in February. thinking about it much. At
Chennai tantly, I want to leave on a ball Delhi (FD), has run into his image. “This letter cer To put things in perspec the moment, I am thinking
There has not been a more high playing at my best, and rough weather with the tainly violates the basic tive, Divyansh’s score of about the exams next
consistent fast bowler in In as long as I feel I can do well, newly elected body order principles of natural justice 252.3 in the fi nal in Mumbai month,” said Divyansh.
dian domestic circuit over I will play.” ing a fresh audit into the and the very foundation of was better than the world re Shooting will take priority
the last decade than Pankaj Pankaj’s debut in South working of the former trea our legal system and hence cord of 251.2 set by Alexan for the young man who has
Singh. The former Rajasthan ampton was a forgetful one surer Hem Chand. is condemnable and off en der Dryagin of Russia in the been guided well by coach
pacer has, yearonyear, deli as he returned wicketless In a communication to sive.” Even as FD insisted it Changwon World Cup in Deepak Dubey in Delhi and
vered the goods for his side. but things could have been Hem Chand, the FD secre was following a democratic April 2018. the former Asian champion,
For the current, the senior diff erent had Ravindra Jadeja tary, Edmund Jones, re process, Hem Chand stood Interestingly, the wo Olympic fi nalist and world
pro moved out of Rajasthan held on to a catch of Alastair frained him from “dealing his ground and claimed the men’s world record of 252.4 record holder Suma Shirur
to join new entrant Pudu Cook or a close lbw shout with any fi nancial matters of accounts had been pre in air rifl e is better, and is during the national camps.
cherry and, on Sunday, fi n against Ian Bell had gone his DSA and abstain from dis viously audited properly. with Zhao Ruozhu of China “Suma madam has taught
ished with another eight way. who shot the score in the me a lot, and made me tech
wicket haul as his side post It is something the pacer same World Cup in Chang nically strong. Deepak sir
ed an easy 10wicket win
over Manipur in the Ranji
Trophy.
agrees could have had a dif
ferent outcome for his na
tional career, but added, “I
Punjab teams for won last year.
More importantly, Di
vyansh has been highly con
helps me physically, mental
ly and technically whenever
I train in Delhi,” said Di
But more importantly,
when he picked his fi rst
have no regrets because I ful
ly believe in the fact that you National basketball sistent in the qualifi cation vyansh.
wicket in Manipur’s second cause, for a fast bowler to two Ranjiwinning cam can’t change the past and if
innings, the 33yearold achieve it is a special thing.” paigns with Rajasthan, said, you are thinking about it you Special Correspondent wal, Saurav Patwal, Amritpal
crossed yet another land Pankaj Singh, who played he did not want to block the can’t focus on the present NEW DELHI Siingh jr., Suhdeeppal Singh,
mark in domestic cricket be in two Tests for India against chance of a youngster as one and future.” Jagdeep Singh Bains and An Rajbir Singh, Arshpreet Singh
coming the fi rst fastbowler England in 2014 added, of the reasons behind his Speaking about his cur molpreet Kaur will lead Bhullar, Prabhnoor Singh, Gur
winder Singh. Coaches: Rajin
and 10th overall to pick 400 “When I started playing, I move to Puducherry. rent team Puducherry, Pan Punjab’s men’s and wo
der Singh, Gurkirpal Singh.
wickets in the National never thought I would be “More importantly, mov kaj Sigh added, “We have a men’s teams in the 69th Na
championship. able to do this. But in the last ing here gives me a chance to very good professional set tional basketball champion Women: Harjit Kaur, Harmin
two years, I was aware this mentor some young fast up here, thanks to former ship to be played in der Kaur, Jagroop Kaur, Kul
winder, Anmolpreet Kaur (cap
Feels great record was a possibility and I bowlers and bring up a CAP secretary P. Damoda Bhavnagar, Gujarat, from Ja
tain), Kirandeep Kaur, Smriti,
Speaking to The Hindu on am fortunate to get to this team.” ren’s eff orts. If we continue nuary 5 to 12. Gagandeep Kaur, Komalpreet
Wednesday, Pankaj Singh mark.” When asked what keeps to go in the right way, in The teams: Men: Amritpal Kaur, Komalpreet Kaur jr., Raj
said, “It feels great to go past With chances of a India him going, the pacer said, “I three to fi ve years, Pudu Singh, Jagdeep Singh Bains deep Kaur, Shalu Bala. Coach
400 wickets in Ranji Trophy. comeback slim, the 33year just love playing cricket and I cherry can compete with es (captain), Princepal Singh, An es: Devinder Singh, Indu Se Special talent: Consistency has been Lakshya Cup winner
It is quite a big landmark be old pacer, who was part of want to be the best when I tablished teams.” moldeep Singh, Gaurav Pat hag. Divyansh Singh Panwar’s forte. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
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Australia vs India: 4th Test,
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Anderson survives a Djere scare Srikanth downs
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Gulbis puts paid to Chung’s aspirations; Simon wards off Ivashka’s challenge Sugiarto
NBA: Sony Ten 1 (SD & HD), TATA OPEN Bengaluru Raptors beat Delhi Dashers
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The timing of the Tata Open
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South Africa vs Pakistan: Maharashtra, just after the G. Viswanath jump smash and other craf
2nd Test, day one, Sony ESPN off season, is ideal to make Ahmedabad ty shots winning them
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Tata Open Maharashtra: SS
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PBL: Star Sports 1 (SD & HD), Wednesday, the tourna that Bengaluru Raptors beat his game up a notch to take
6.30 p.m. ment’s top three seeds found Delhi Dashers 21 after they the third game and the
that out fi rsthand. split the opening two match to put his team ahead
IN BRIEF Second seed Hyeon Trump matches in the Voda in the tie.
Chung bit the dust, going fone PBL at ‘The Arena by Srikanth blended his po
down 76(2), 62 to Latvian SE TransStadia’ here on werful smash and soft hand
Ernests Gulbis, before top Wednesday. skills to convert the 84 lead
ranked Kevin Anderson, and Over the last four years at the break into a decisive
then the defending cham India’s Srikanth and Indone winning score at 1510. Sri
pion Gilles Simon, had to sia’s Tommy Sugiarto have kanth won a short rally with
mine every bit of their re engaged in pulsating con a smash to bring an end to
serve to come through. tests. Their intense rivalry the contest.
Anderson required two once again came to the fore The results: Bengaluru Rap
Leonard fuels
tiebreaks to despatch Serb in the second men’s singles tors bt Delhi Dashers 21: B.
Raptors’ win
LOS ANGELES
Laslo Djere 76(3), 76(6) and match. After a tussle the Sai Praneeth bt H.S. Prannoy
Simon, three sets to ward off Raptors captain, Srikanth (T) 153, 1415, 1513; Marcus
Kawhi Leonard poured in a
Belarus’ Ilya Ivashka 67(3), came through in three Ellis and Lauren Smith (T) lost
careerhigh 45 points to lead
62, 61. games. to Maneepong Jongjit and Ev
Toronto Raptors to a 122116
geniya Kosetskaya 315, 915;
NBA victory over Utah Jazz It was Anderson’s match Both Srikanth and Sugiar
K. Srikanth bt Tommy Sugiarto
on Tuesday. With the win which caused maximum to are top 10 ranked players,
156, 1215, 1510; Vu Thi
Raptors improved to 2811, angst for the fans. In Djere, and as the fi rst two well con Thrang bt Chia Hsin Lee 1215,
keeping the pressure on the the 6’8” South African had Perseverance pays: Emests Gulbis’ patience came to the fore against Hyeon Chung. *
R. RAGU tested games indicated, 153, 158; Mohammad Ahsan
Milwaukee Bucks. With the an opponent who would nev there was not much of a and Hendra Setiawan lost to
win the Raptors improved to er consider defeat. There ahead 300 when Anderson 52, at 54 and 65 — but apart plete breakdown of the points and squandered a 30 qualitative diff erence in Biao Chai and Maneepong
2811, keeping the pressure were four breaks of serve in was serving at 56, and even from that initial phase, he Chung backhand in the se lead in the tiebreak. their display of style or skill. Jongjit 715, 1511, 1415.
on Milwaukee Bucks who the fi rst eight games and reached a set point, only to seldom looked in control. cond set brought down the The results (second round):
boosted their leagueleading with neither player ready to meet the same fate. Gulbis’ ranking of 95 is de curtains. Singles: Ernests Gulbis (Lat) bt
record in terms of winning blink, it took a tiebreak to The match, inevitably, ceptive at best, and he dis Hyeon Chung (Kor) 76(2), 62;
percentage to 2610 with a settle matters. At 43, howev slipped into another tie played all the tact worthy of One-set all Kevin Anderson (RSA) bt Laslo
12198 victory over Detroit. er Anderson hit two aces be break, and was decided by a former top10 player, who Ramkumar Ramanathan and Djere (Srb) 76(3), 76(6); Gilles
Other results: Denver Simon (Fra) bt Ilya Ivashka (Blr)
fore a botched forehand vol the narrowest of margins. At counts amongst his best fourth seed Malek Jaziri were
Nuggets 115 bt New York 67(3), 62, 61; Ivo Karlovic
Knicks 108; Portland
ley from Djere handed him 66, Djere’s sliced backhand achievements a win over tied at one set apiece in their
(Cro) bt Evgeny Donskoy (Rus)
Trailblazers 113 bt the set. travelled only as far as the Roger Federer at Roland Gar second round match at the
64, 75; Benoit Paire (Fra) bt
Sacremento Kings 108 (OT); Even in the second, the net and on matchpoint ros in 2014. time of going to press. Jiri Vesely (Cze) 64, 62;
Philadelphia76ers 119 bt Los two were neck and neck till another backhand sailed For a consummate shot While Ramkumar took the Jaume Munar (Esp) bt Simone
Angeles Clippers 113. AFP 33. It was then that Ander long. maker, he showed remarka fi rst set 76(3), the World No. Bolelli (Ita) 75, 60; Steve Dar
son loosened up slightly and The ChungGulbis contest ble patience and his defence 45 restored parity by win cis (Bel) bt Michael Mmoh
made the play. He went up was relatively more straight stood out. But he was clinical ning the second 76(5). The (USA) 46, 76(4), 62.
4015 on the Djere serve, but forward. The South Korean when it mattered, taking the Indian in fact had multiple Doubles: Luke Bambridge &
couldn’t land the break. did race to a 40 lead and fi rst set tiebreak for the loss opportunities to force the is Jonny O'Mara (GBR) bt Sriram Keenly contested: K. Srikanth and Tommy Sugiarto’s intense
Djere responded, surging serve for the set thrice — at of just two points. A com sue, but fl uff ed four break Balaji & Arjun Kadhe 76(5), 61. rivalry was on view once again. FILE PHOTO *
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Spurs stay in title contention Tamil Nadu posts easy win over Punjab
from Dortmund
LONDON Kane equals New Year’s Day goalscoring record Delay in start hurts both the teams
American international
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one of the hottest properties PREMIER LEAGUE SENIOR NATL. thanks to blocker G.R. Vaish
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Sport on Wednesday. “I am championships here on nals): 48kg: K. Bina Devi bt Salman Butt has claimed
constantly in touch with Wednesday. Khushboo Tokas 50, Anchu that Shahid Afridi blocked
Corinna, and I totally agree Both of them posted Sabu w/o Ravina, Sanju bt Ta his return to the Pakistan
with their decision. It’s identical 50 verdicts in the nushree Bengle 50. team for the 2016 World
completely understandable 51kg: Pinki Jangra bt Pratibha
57kg and 64kg respectively. T20 despite him serving
that Corinna has wanted to (RSC, 3rd round), Nikhat Za
It also turned out to be a the fi veyear ban following
maintain the same approach, reen bt Likhitha Battini 50.
fruitful day in offi ce for 54kg: Manisha Moun bt Riya the 2010 spotfi xing scan
even after the tragic event,
Commonwealth Games Tokas 50. 57kg: Sonia Lather dal. Butt said he was close
and it’s a decision we must all
bronze medal winners Pinki bt Saloni Singh 50. to being selected for the
respect,” said Brawn, who is
Jangra and Manisha Moun. 60kg: D. Bhavya bt A. Prasan World T20 in India after he
one of the few people known
to have visited Schumacher.
Pinki defeated Pratibha in na Laxmi 41; 64kg: Simranjit had resumed playing dom
AFP the 51kg class when the refe Kaur bt Sandhya 50. estic cricket.
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Film hunts for beauty in trash Pink Test to raise funds for
IRS offi cer engaged his wedding photographers to make a satire on wastefulness breast cancer awareness
Rahul Karmakar found littered streets and with drones, the search
Guwahati beautiful. for a good narrator took me Eff ort driven by McGrath Foundation and Cricket Australia
Indian Revenue Service offi c The idea turned into a to a freelancing website to
Migratory starlings put er Satyakam Dutta found script 18 months ago. He which I paid $26.25 for the Special Correspondent
on spectacular show ‘beauty’ in trash to make a found in Partha Bhuyan and voiceover by a man who Sydney
NEGEV DESERT mockumentary — a satirical Chandan Kakoty who volun identifi ed himself as jovial The fourth Test between
Starlings wintering in Israel documentary — that struck teered to execute the idea on duality,” Mr. Dutta said. Australia and India is expect
have been putting on a gold at an international short fi lm. The audio fi le delivered by ed to raise a recordbreaking
spectacular aerial dance fi lm festival last month. “They were assigned to the website was mixed dur $2,100,000 to support 15
display over the Negev
What gave his fi lm the photograph my wedding in ing the editing of the video. nurses specialising in breast
desert every morning for the
edge were a couple of pho October 2016. They off ered The fi nal product turned care services for a year.
past two weeks. The birds,
tographers who wanted to work without any fee be out to be much better than A joint initiative by the
which have come from Russia
and eastern Europe, form
some “adventure” beyond cause they wanted a break Mr. Dutta had imagined. McGrath Foundation and
dark, shifting shapes known wedding assignments. Find- Satyakam Dutta from the monotony and “I decided to send it for Cricket Australia, the cam
as murmurations as they swirl ing Beauty in Garbage, with hoped to earn some name,” short fi lm festivals around paign wants to promote
through the skies of southern a running time of seven mi twohour drive from his Mr. Dutta, 35, told The Hin- the world, and won the gold breast cancer awareness.
Israel. REUTERS nutes and 19 seconds, was home in Dhemaji via the Bo du on Wednesday. medal in the very fi rst — the The foundation’s cofoun
released on YouTube on gibeel Bridge across river South East Asia Short Film der and president, bowling Mark of support: The Australian cricket team posing with
Tuesday. Brahmaputra. On a budget Festival in Cambodia – I par legend Glenn McGrath, pre former player, Glenn McGrath, in Sydney on Wednesday. *
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Filmmaking was far from But random garbage Mr. Dutta and the photogra ticipated in,” he said. The sented the Australian men’s
Mr. Dutta’s mind when he dumps across the town, the pher duo took time off their IRS offi cer is undecided Test team with their pink come a national phenome with breast cancer every
was transferred three years administrative and commer routine work to document about making another fi lm. caps for the offi cial team non and is the largest sport day, there is critical and con
ago from Nagpur as the De cial hub during British rule the everexpanding dump “I hope it would be a docu photo at the Sydney Cricket ing fundraising initiative in tinuing need for more
puty Director of Income Tax and a major Second World sites. They shot with SLR mentary, not a mockumen Ground on Wednesday. Australia. McGrath Breast Care Nurses
(Investigation) in eastern As War military base, made him cameras and mobile phones. tary, on fi nding the charm of Over the last decade, the Mr. McGrath said: “With to support families through
sam’s Dibrugarh, about a wonder whether people “After shooting physically Dibrugarh,” he said. Sydney Pink Test has be 50 Australians diagnosed breast cancer.”
Facebook testing ‘dark
mode’ for Messenger
SAN FRANCISCO
Karachi’s public buses
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After experimenting to bring Morocco
changes to the user interface Tawny two
(UI) of Messenger, Facebook ranks high in
is testing a dark mode for the
messaging app in some
to run on biogas climate action
countries. Dark mode uses
less power and saves battery 3,200 tonnes of dung to be used
life. It changes the overall Indo-Asian News Service
colour theme of an operating Reuters rolled out over four years, Rabat
system (OS) or applications to Islamabad will have a fl eet of 200 hy Morocco has been named
the colour black. IANS In a bid to freshen its air and brid buses that will run on the second best perform
cut planetwarming emis biomethane produced ing country after Sweden
sions, the Pakistani port city from manure excreted by in the Climate Change Per
of Karachi will introduce Karachi’s 4,00,000 milk formance Index (CCPI).
buses that run on biogas. producing water buff aloes. The North African coun
With funding from the in try signifi cantly increased
ternational Green Climate Energy and fertilizer the share of renewables ov
Fund, Karachi will launch a The project will prevent er the past fi ve years and
zeroemission Green Bus about 3,200 tonnes of cow increased new renewable
Rapid Transit (BRT) net manure going to waste. The energy capacity.
Juno captures volcanic work, with 200 buses cow dung will be converted Sweden is in top posi
plumes on Jupiter moon fuelled by biomethane. into energy and fertilizer at tion, followed by Morocco
WASHINGTON
Malik Amin Aslam, advis a biogas plant, Mr. Aslam and Lithuania in the CCPI
NASA’s solar-powered Juno
er on climate change to Pa said. 2019. The bottom fi ve in
spacecraft has beamed back
kistan Prime Minister Imran Ali Tauqeer Sheikh, CEO the list are Saudi Arabia,
new images of volcanic
plumes on Jupiter’s moon Io,
Khan, said the BRT system of Leadership for Environ U.S., Iran, South Korea and
captured during the mission’s was the fi rst transport pro ment and Development Taiwan. With the connec
17th flyby of the gas giant. On ject the Green Climate Fund (LEAD) Pakistan, a policy tion of the world’s largest
December 21, four of Juno’s had approved, and would thinktank, said calculating solar plant to the grid, Mo
cameras captured images of bring “multiple environ the overall impact on the en rocco is on track for achiev
the Jovian moon Io, the most mental and economic vironment was complex, as ing its target of 42% in
volcanic body in the solar benefi ts”. the buses would be intro #563688
stalled renewable energy
system. PTI The BRT system, to be duced in stages. Warm corner: Five-month-old lion cubs bask in the sun at the Sepahijala Zoological Park near Agartala. *
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