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the reason behind it and directed immediate pruning of weak and diseased trees
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Centre clears
IN BRIEF
Teacher shot dead as Kashmir ₹86,912 crore
of GST dues
sees 7th targeted killing in May Special Correspondent
New Delhi
Both sides move court Militants fired at Caste (SC) quota five years
ago and was posted in
The Centre on Tuesday
paid the entire amount of
over Gyanvapi video leak
NEW DELHI
her outside school Kashmir. Goods and Services Tax
In the ongoing Gyanvapi near Kulgam town Last October, a teacher
from Jammu, recruited un
(GST) compensation due to
States up to May 31 by re
Mosque-Kashi Vishwanath
Temple dispute, both the
Peerzada Ashiq der the SC category, was shot leasing an amount of
Srinagar
Hindu and the Muslim parties dead inside a school in Srina ₹86,912 crore. The pay
on Tuesday approached the
district court in Varanasi
seeking a probe into how the
A Hindu teacher from Jam
mu’s Samba district, posted
in Kashmir Valley’s Kulgam,
gar. “The government
should do something about
targeted killings. We want
Q4 GDP growth ment included a contribu
tion from its own coffers
beyond the ₹25,000 crore
was shot dead outside the justice. My sisterinlaw was balance in the GST Com
decelerates to 4.1%
contents of the video survey
of the mosque premises school by militants on Tues here (Samba) two months pensation Fund.
were leaked to the media. day morning. Targeted kill ago. She never complained The Finance Ministry
NEWS A PAGE 12 ings have thus left seven civi of any threat, though she did said this was being done to
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lians dead in the month of Seeking protection: Kashmiri Pandits during a protest against talk about lurking fear of Economy expanded 8.7% in 202122 assist States in managing
May in the Valley. the killing of the school teacher in Srinagar. NISSAR AHMAD * late,” a kin of Ms. Bala said. their resources and ensur
Hardik Patel set to Officials said militants Two JaisheMuhammad Vikas Dhoot nomic recovery’ as real GDP ing that their programmes,
join BJP on June 2 fired from a close range at when militants intercepted la in her head,” the officials men were shot dead in an New Delhi in 202122 exceeded the pre especially entailing capital
AHMEDABAD
Rajni Bala, 36, around 10 Ms. Bala outside the school, said. antimilitancy operation in India’s gross domestic pro pandemic levels of 201920. expenditure, could be im
The poster boy of the 2015 a.m. on Tuesday. The staff which is located at a seclud The police said Ms. Bala Pulwama, taking the militant duct (GDP) growth slowed On a quartertoquarter ba plemented successfully
Patidar quota agitation,
and students of the Govern ed place with orchards was shifted to a hospital in death toll to 27 this month. to a fourquarter low of 4.1% sis, it argued real GDP during the financial year.
Hardik Patel, who had
ment High School, Gopalpo around, eight km from Kul critical condition but died of during the JanuaryMarch growth was 6.7% in the
challenged the BJP
ra in Kulgam, were about to gam town. her injuries. She was recruit CONTINUED ON A PAGE 12 period, from 5.4% in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2021 June compensation
government in the run-up to
the last Assembly elections in
finish the morning assembly “The gunmen shot Ms. Ba ed under the Scheduled FEAR AMONG HINDUS A PAGE 12 preceding quarter, as manu 22, reflecting a ‘sustained As a result, the States were
Gujarat, is set to join the party facturing output shrank, growth momentum’ enter now only owed GST com
on June 2, ahead of the next provisional national income ing the current fiscal year. pensation for one month —
State polls scheduled to be
held in December this year.
STATES A PAGE 5
Satyendar Jain sent to ED custody till June 9 estimates released on Tues
day show. As a result, full
year growth came in at 8.7%
The contactdependent
and employmentintensive
trade, hotels, transport,
June 2022, the Ministry
noted. States had been
guaranteed a certain level
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— a tad lower than the 8.9% communication & services of revenue for the first five
Staff Reporter sought his custody for 14 being laundered. We need to gued that the offences al pace projected in February. related to broadcasting sec years of the GST regime,
Cong. not to use symbol New Delhi days. find out whether this is the leged by the ED pertain to a Gross ValueAdded (GVA) tor continued to languish which was introduced in
in Haryana civic polls A Special CBI court on Tues The agency argued that only money trail or if there period — 2011 and 2012 — in the economy is estimated below prepandemic levels, 2017.
GURUGRAM
day remanded Delhi Home Mr. Jain has so far been eva are more. There might be “much before” the duration to have grown 8.1% in 2021 ending FY22 still 11.3% lower “This decision has been
The Congress in Haryana has
Minister Satyendar Jain in En sive in his replies and there other potential beneficiaries mentioned in CBI’s FIR — Fe 22, slightly lower than the than 201920 GVA levels. taken despite the fact that
decided not to contest the
forcement Directorate (ED) are voluminous evidentiary of the money laundering.” bruary 2015 and May 2017— 8.3% projected by the Na Overall GVA growth only about ₹25,000 crore is
upcoming municipal
custody till June 9, a day after materials that he needs to be The Minister’s lawyers, ho based on which the ED in tional Statistical Office slowed to 3.9% in the Janu available in the GST Com
elections on the party
symbol, keeping with its
his arrest in a moneylaun confronted with. wever, told the court that oth itiated its case. (NSO) earlier. The GDP had aryMarch 2022 quarter, pensation Fund. The ba
tradition. Elections to 28 dering case related to the Appearing for the agency er than “bold allegations”, A prayer to allow interro shrunk 6.6% in 202021, from 4.7% in the preceding lance is being released by
municipal committees and 18 CBI’s disproportionate assets on Tuesday, SolicitorGeneral the agency does not have any gation in the presence of while the GVA had contract period. Worryingly, manu the Centre from its own re
municipal councils in the FIR against him registered in Tushar Mehta said, “There is evidence against Mr. Jain. counsel was denied and so ed 4.8% in the wake of the facturing sector output sources pending collection
State are slated for June 19. 2017. a chequered trail of money. While opposing the agen was a prayer to visit a Jain COVID19 lockdowns. shrank 0.2% from a year of cess,” the Ministry said
STATES A PAGE 4
The ED produced Mr. Jain We do not know whether his cy’s remand application, se temple once a day. The Finance Ministry said earlier. in a statement.
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD before Special CBI Judge Gee money was being laundered nior advocate N. Hariharan, the latest national income
OPPORTUNITIES A PAGE 7 tanjali Goel on Tuesday and or someone else’s money was appearing for Mr. Jain, ar FAKE CASE, SAYS CM A PAGE 2 estimates ‘establish full eco CONTINUED ON A PAGE 12 CONTINUED ON A PAGE 12
Thousands join Moosewala’s last journey JuneSept.
rainfall likely
Lingayat, Dalit communities
Punjabi singer cremated at family’s farm in Moosa; one arrested in murder case to be 103%: IMD take objection to new textbooks
Special Correspondent Jacob Koshy Jayanth R. by Rohith Chakrathirtha, the book has edited out Basavan
MOOSA (Punjab) New Delhi Bengaluru chairperson of the textbook na’s criticism of caste hierar
Tens of thousands of people The monsoon rainfall from The way lessons on Basavan review committee. chy and that he started the
bid a teary adieu to singer June to September is likely na and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar The State government Lingayat religion. Pandita
Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, to be more than that fore have been edited in the new had constituted the commit radhya Shivacharya Swami of
known as Sidhu Moosewala, cast by the India Meteoro textbooks in Karnataka has tee some years ago. The Sanehalli Mutt has written an
who was cremated at Moosa logical Department (IMD) drawn the ire of the Lingayat changes, made on the re open letter to Chief Minister
village in Punjab’s Mansa dis in April, with the agency and the Dalit communities, commendations of Mr. Chak Basavaraj Bommai, warning
trict on Tuesday, two days af on Tuesday upping its esti respectively. Members of rathirtha, have drawn allega of a Statewide agitation if the
ter his murder at the nearby mate from 99% to 103% of both communities have tions of “saffronisation of edited text is not corrected.
Jahawarke village. the Long Period Average threatened Statewide prot education” from the Opposi In another lesson “Gandhi
The Punjab police, mean (LPA). ests if the “misinformation” tion. A host of writers have Yuga Mattu Rashtreeya Hora
while, made the first arrest The monsoon rainfall is not removed. resigned from government ta”, text on Ambedkar ac
in the murder case. Man over the four broad regions This comes close on the panels in protest. cepting Buddha Dharma has
preet Singh, who allegedly — central India, southern heels of members of the Vok The “Bharatada Mata Pra been edited. Dalit organisa
supplied vehicles to the as peninsula, northeast India kaliga community taking se vartakaru” chapter in revised tions have come down heavi
sailants, was produced be and northwest India — for rious objection to statements Class IX social science text ly on this edit.
fore a court on Tuesday, which the IMD provides a
which sent him to police cus forecast, are also likely to
tody for five days. be plentiful. Central India
Blistering May heat did and the southern peninsu
not stop people from arriv la are expected to get 106%
ing in huge numbers to Moo of their historical average.
sa to get a last sight of the Rainfall is likely to be
popular singer. Moosewala ‘normal’ over northeast In
was cremated on a family dia and northwest India.
owned farm, close to their Local residents and fans of singer Sidhu Moosewala gather outside his house in Punjab’s Moosa
house, amid tight security. village to pay him last respects on Tuesday. R.V. MOORTHY
*
CONTINUED ON A PAGE 12
Rajya Sabha elections set to be a thriller
Eyeing dissonance in Congress, BJP fields more candidates than it is certain to win in the polls
Nistula Hebbar Dal(S) for the fourth seat. On Monday, senior leader didates. With four berths at
Sandeep Phukan Kuldeep Bishnoi skipped a stake, each candidate re
NEW DELHI
In Rajasthan meeting of party MLAs in quires 45 votes to win. The
The disquiet within the Con In Rajasthan, where the Con Chandigarh as he is upset at BJP, with 119 MLAs, can get
gress over fielding “outsid gress has fielded Randeep being ignored for the post of two MPs elected easily — Fi
ers” for the Rajya Sabha elec Surjewala, Mukul Wasnik Pradesh Congress Commit nance Minister Nirmala Sith
tions has made the BJP field and Pramod Tiwari, electing tee chief and the Gandhis araman and actor Jaggesh
more candidates than what it the third candidate will now giving a free hand to former with 29 votes surplus.
is certain to send to the Up be a tricky affair with Mr. Chief Minister Bhupinder The Congress, with
per House. As many as 57 Chandra’s entry. Mr. Tiwari Singh Hooda. around 69 MLAs, can get one
seats across 15 States are be needs the vote of all 11 Inde “If the BJP manages to candidate elected easily —
ing filled in this round of pendent MLAs backing the Subhash Chandra take away two Congress Jairam Ramesh. The Janata
elections. Ashok Gehlot government. MLAs’ votes, then Ajay and Dal (S) which has, on paper
The BJP has fielded addi But one of them, Sanyam Rashtriya Loktantrik Party Kartikeya will have almost at least, 31 MLAs (five have
tional candidates Dhananjay Lodha, has asked the Con MLAs, and needs to get eight equal number of first prefe been declaring off record
Mahadik in Maharashtra and gress why it has not fielded votes together to win. rence votes and then the se that they will defy the party
Lahar Singh in Karnataka, anyone from Rajasthan. cond preference will come whip) floated a candidate,
while backing two Indepen The number of first prefe Haryana into play. In that scenario, Kupendra Reddy, thinking
dents, media barons Subhash rence votes required for win In Haryana, factionalism cast Kartikeya will have an advan that it could persuade the
Chandra in Rajasthan and ning is 41. The Congress, in a shadow on Congress leader tage,” a senior Haryana Con other two parties not to put
Kartikeya Sharma, in Harya its current position, can easi Ajay Maken’s prospects, as gress leader said. up a candidate and help get
na. In the latter two cases at ly get two of its three candi the Congress, with 31 MLAs, their candidate elected.
least, the going will be tough dates elected. has just enough strength to Karnataka In Maharashtra, allies Shiv
for the Congress. The most Mr. Chandra, with the see him through. But again Karnataka will see a different Sena and NCP are said to be
interesting battle is in Karna BJP’s support, already has Mr. Kartikeya Sharma has kind of chaos over the polls, unhappy over the Congress’s
taka where both parties are the 30 extra votes of the BJP been fielded as an additional with the Congress and the choice of Imran Pratapgarhi,
trying to corner the Janata and the support of the three candidate. BJP both fielding “extra” can who is from Uttar Pradesh.
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THE HINDU
Fake case against Jain, will be acquitted soon: CM Delhi police get Bishnoi’s
custody, to interrogate him
Kejriwal says his party believes in the principles of Bhagat Singh, AAP workers not afraid of jail; BJP protests outside CM house
Gangster moves Delhi HC seeking security
Delhi BJP chief demands
Staff Reporter
added.
New Delhi
Staff Reporter
Calling the case against Del ‘Matter of Pride’ New Delhi
hi’s Health Minister Satyen

dar Jain “completely fake”,
“In the end, Satyendar Jain
will also be acquitted by the
Health Minister’s dismissal Two days after popular sin
ger Sidhu Moosewala was
Delhi Chief Minister and court. Our party believes in shot dead in Punjab’s Mansa
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) the principles of Bhagat Accuses CM of trying to ‘save’ colleague district, the Delhi Police
chief Arvind Kejriwal ex Singh, who laid down his life Special Cell has obtained
pressed his solidarity with for the country. To go to jail Staff Reporter He added that AAP’s go threeday police custody of
his Cabinet colleague for the country and society is
New Delhi vernment in Delhi should gangster Lawrence Bishnoi
through a video statement is not a disgrace, but a matter Delhi BJP Chief Adesh Gup dismiss its Health Minister in connection with a sepa
sued on Tuesday. of pride. Every AAP worker ta, along with the Leader of accused of graft just as its rate case and will also be in
Mr. Jain, who was arrested knows that to be in the party, the Opposition (LOP) in the government had done in terrogating him for Moose
on Monday in connection you should be always ready Delhi Assembly Ramvir Punjab. wala’s murder. Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi
with a money laundering to go to jail,” the AAP chief Singh Bidhuri, held a de A senior police officer *
SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
case, was remanded in En ‘ We consider corruption the highest form of treason,’ Mr. said. monstration outside the AAP irrelevant in HP from the Delhi Police Spe
forcement Directorate custo Kejriwal said on Tuesday. PTI *
In his video statement, house of Chief Minister Ar Mr. Bidhuri also dismissed cial Cell said, “We have ob al Chopra, said he appre
dy till June 9 by a special CBI Mr. Kejriwal also expressed vind Kejriwal demanding the allegations about Mr. tained his (Bishnoi’s) police hended his “fake encounter
court on Monday. Kejriwal said. was known outside the par sympathy for Mr. Jain’s the dismissal of Health Mi Jain being targetted for be custody in connection with by the Punjab police due to
In his statement, the AAP To buttress his claims ty, however, AAP chose to family. nister Satyender Jain a day ing AAP’s poll incharge of a case of April where three the political mileage bet
chief said Mr. Jain was a about his party’s aversion to publicly disclose these “I can understand what after his arrest. Himachal Pradesh, which is sharpshooters of the Jiten ween two political parties”.
“staunch patriot” and an corruption, Mr. Kejriwal cit cases. his wife and children must Mr. Gupta said the enqui due for assembly polls later dra Gogi gang were arrested Bishnoi’s plea has sought
honest person. “Such things ed two instances where AAP Talking about ED’s case be going through. I want to ry by the Enforcement Di this year. for being involved in several a direction to the Delhi pol
will only strengthen him,” had expelled a sitting Minis against Mr. Jain, the Delhi CM tell them that he is a man of rectorate (ED) against Mr. “Since when has AAP be cases of murders and extor ice and Tihar Jail authority
Mr. Kejriwal said, adding ter accused of graft. said, “If there was 1% truth in great valour. The Lord is Jain had made it “crystal come relevant in Himachal tion. He will also be interro to ensure that necessary sa
that his party believed in the He said that earlier this the case, then I would have watching and I am certain clear” that the Health Minis Pradesh? They have no pre gated in connection with feguards, including videog
principles of Bhagat Singh, month, the AAP government myself taken action against that he is on our side. We ter was involved in corrup sence in the state. If AAP felt Moosewala’s death”. raphy, are taken for his safe
who laid down his life for the in Punjab had sent its Minis him. They’ve filed several have full faith in the judici tion. He also accused the that the charges against Mr. ty before giving his custody
country. ter Vijay Singla to jail. “No such cases against the major ary. He [Mr. Jain] will certain Chief Minister of trying to Jain is part of a political ven Bishnoi seeks protection to any other state police, in
one knew about his case. ity of our MLAs. All those ly walk scotfree from the “save” his cabinet detta, then they should have Bishnoi moved the Delhi cluding the Punjab Police.
‘Corruption is treason’ Nor media neither the oppo MLAs were acquitted from court of law,” he added. colleague. approached the court,” said High Court on Tuesday His plea also sought that
“I have seen all the papers sition. We could have sup the court of law.” The ED produced Mr. Jain “The matter regarding Mr. Bidhuri. seeking a direction to en whenever any production
related to his case. It is fake. pressed the matter, but we AAP chief said he himself before Special CBI Judge Mr. Jain has been going on Meanwhile, the Delhi sure his security if his custo warrant against him was is
We are completely honest did not,” he said. had been a victim of such Geetanjali Goel on Tuesday for eight years, so why did Congress also demanded dy was handed over to the sued by any court, the inves
and patriotic people. We The AAP chief said that in cases with several Central and sought his custody for 14 AAP not approach the court the dismissal of Mr. Jain. Punjab police in connection tigating officer be directed
consider corruption the 2015 also he had dismissed a government agencies having days. The agency argued for an anticipatory bail or to The Delhi Congress Presi with singer Sidhu Moosewa to bring him handcuffed be
highest form of treason. We sitting Minister, Asim Ahmed subjected him to raids multi that Mr. Jain had been eva quash the FIR? Mr. Kejriwal dent Anil Kumar said “many la’s murder case. The court cause he apprehended that
will lay down our lives if Khan, and handed him over ple times. sive in his replies and that he has previously served in the other” AAP ministers would is scheduled to hear the plea on the way to the court or
need be but never engage in to the CBI for alleged corrup However, those agencies needs to be confronted with Income Tax department. He go to jail if impartial investi on Wednesday. any other place, the police
corruption. We can never tion. He reiterated that these could never frame him in voluminous evidentiary ma should have known better,” gations are conducted Bishnoi, in his petition might kill him in a fake
betray our Bharat Mata,” Mr. were cases about which little any case, Mr. Kejriwal terials. said Mr. Bidhuri. against them. filed through advocate Vish encounter.
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DELHI
CITY 3
HC asks Delhi govt. to fill vacant
EWS seats in private schools
Some private schools have not been admitting EWS students for a decade: govt.
<
> In instances where
Staff Reporter government lands, is filled
New Delhi
schools have not up in the next five years in a
The Delhi High Court has or complied with the phased manner with 20% of
dered the city government to requirements of the vacancies each year, in
ensure that the backlog of admission of EWS addition to the mandated an
unfilled seats in the Econom nual 25% intake.
category students,
ically Weaker Section (EWS) The court further directed
the State has to
category in private schools, the Delhi government to en
both in private and govern step in to the aid of sure that 25% seats in the
ment lands, is filled up with the latter and EWS category should be
in the next five years in a exercise its duty as filled up on the basis of de
phased manner. a Welfare State. clared sanctioned strength
A Bench of Justice Najmi Justice Najmi Waziri, Justice Vikas at the entry level — pre
Mahajan
Waziri and Justice Vikas Ma Delhi High Court Bench
school/nursery/preprimary/
hajan hearing the case gave KG and Class 1 — irrespective
the direction after the Delhi dents in the EWS category, with the strict requirements of the actual number of stu
government stated that 132 for which the repayment of of admission of EWS catego dents admitted in the gener
private schools were prima fees is done on the basis of ry students, the State has to al category.
facie found to be violating expenses incurred for a stu step in to the aid of the latter
the government’s direction dent of a government and exercise its duty as a 50,000 vacant seats
on admission of students in school. Welfare State,” the High The High Court’s direction
the EWS category. Private schools on govern Court said. came while hearing a peti
ment land too have to admit “No beneficiary of govern tion filed by NGO Justice For
‘Defaulting for a decade’ 25% EWS category students ment land can overlook or All through advocate Kha
The Delhi government said at the entry level. However, avoid its obligation under gesh B. Jha, which stated that
the EWS category seats reimbursement by the go the allotment,” the Bench 50,000 seats are to be filled
should be filled up to the ful vernment is done for only added. in the EWS category in priv
lest at the “entry level” but 5% students of this category. ate schools here.
some of the private schools Education expenses of the Make ‘every endeavour’ The Delhi government
have not been admitting remaining 20% EWS candi The Bench directed the Del had stated that about 38,000
EWS students for the last de dates is borne by the private hi government to make “ev EWS seats are ordinarily va
cade or so. schools as they are built on ery endeavour” possible to cant each academic year.
According to the rule, government land. ensure that the backlog of The High Court has post
private schools on private “In instances where unfilled seats in private ed the case for further hear
land have to admit 25% stu schools have not complied schools, both on private and ing on August 4.
‘Will provide free power to Kashmiri Pandits’ shops’
Sisodia asks officials to carry out inspection at INA and finish work within a month
Press Trust of India work will be completed with lated after eight members of ty connections within a
New Delhi
in a month, he said. BJP’s youth wing were arrest month.
The Delhi government will “Kejriwal government is ed for vandalising Chief Mi Earlier, a delegation of
provide free electricity con determined to work towards nister Arvind Kejriwal’s resi Kashmiri Pandits had ap
nections to shops run by upliftment of Kashmiri Pan dence in April. prised the Chief Minister
Kashmiri Pandits in INA mar dits in Delhi instead of politi On Tuesday, Mr. Sisodia about the issue of power
ket here, Deputy Chief Mi cising their issues,” said Mr. held a meeting with senior connections in the market.
nister Manish Sisodia said on Sisodia. officials of the departments The delegation had in
Tuesday. Earlier this year, the BJP concerned, including BSES formed the CM that there
All expenses, from instal had held demonstrations and Public Works Depart were more than 100 shops of
lation of transformers to against Mr. Kejriwal over ment, and directed them to Kashmiri Pandits in INA mar
electricity connections, will comments he made on the immediately inspect the ear ket that had been shifted sev
be borne by the Kejriwal go movie The Kashmir Files. marked place to install trans eral times because of various
vernment and the entire The political tussle had esca formers and ensure electrici construction activities.
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Timings
DELHI
WEDNESDAY, JUN. 01
Haryana Cong. not to contest civic polls on party symbol
RISE 05:24 SET 19:15
RISE 06:30 SET 21:06 Polls to 28 municipal committees, 18 municipal councils on June 19; BJP, JJP contesting separately
THURSDAY, JUN. 02
RISE 05:24 SET 19:15 Special Correspondent dent Udai Bhan said the par strength. He said all sections move decided to go it alone. the JJP’s core vote bank
RISE 07:20 SET 21:56
GURUGRAM ty had never contested the of society were distraught Party national president Ajay among rural population had
FRIDAY, JUN. 03 The Congress in Haryana has municipal elections on the with the policies of the BJP Singh Chautala said his party drifted away from it due to
RISE 05:24 SET 19:16 decided not to contest the party symbol and would JJP government and wanted was following the “coalition the farmers’ agitation. The
RISE 08:13 SET 22:41 upcoming municipal elec continue with the tradition to get rid of it. dharma” and every political JJP sees it as an opportunity
tions on the party symbol this time as well. He, howev party was free to take a deci to widen its base to prepare
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STATES 5
BJP eyes community dividend with Patel poster boy’s induction

Jury still out on Hardik as a swing factor as erstwhile supporters question Patidar quota agitation leader’s politics ahead of shift to the ruling party in Gujarat on June 2
<
> He [ Hardik Patel]
Mahesh Langa had said that the party’s lea sive in number and can de Ever since he resigned and social activist Naresh Pa
Ahmedabad
dership was “highly commu will be exposing termine the poll outcome. from the Congress party on tel into the Congress, and
The poster boy and face of nal, antiHindu and antiGuj his true face for the May 19, Mr. Hardik Patel’s countering it with Mr. Hardik
the 2015 Patidar quota agita arati”, in a clear indication second time when ‘Fickle politics’ former aides have been se Patel’s entry into the BJP.
tion, Hardik Patel, who had that the BJP would be his he joins the BJP on Whether Mr. Hardik Patel verely criticising their former “You know the fact that the
challenged the Bharatiya Ja next destination. He spent June 2. He did it will swing any section of the colleague for “playing politics announcement of his joining
nata Party (BJP) government nearly nine months in jail as community in favour of the in the name of community”. the party has been made
earlier when he
in the runup to the last As the State’s BJP government BJP remains unclear as he “He has realised that he from Gandhinagar and not
joined the
sembly elections in Gujarat, had filed two sedition cases faces questions from erst does not have any scope to from Delhi. Secondly, no Cen
is set to join the party ahead against him and his aides fol Congress in 2019 while supporters who are rise in Congress, so he is now tral leader would remain pre
of the next State polls sche lowing the Patidar agitation Lalji Patel critical of his fickle politics. joining the BJP to fulfil his pol sent during his induction,” a
A Patidar community leader
duled to be held in Decem in 2015. from north Gujarat “He will be exposing his itical ambition,” Manoj Pana BJP leader said, suggesting
ber this year. true face for the second time ra, an important agitation that Mr. Hardik Patel would
Mr. Patel will be inducted Patidar outreach community, which forms the when he joins the BJP on leader from Morbi district, not be accorded undue im
into the BJP on June 2 by His joining the BJP in Gujarat backbone of the BJP’s base in June 2. He did it earlier when said. portance in the party setup.
Chief Minister Bhupendra ahead of the Assembly polls the State. he joined the Congress in Moreover, a number of Pa
Patel and the party’s State brings Mr. Hardik Patel and In Gujarat, Patidars consti 2019,” said Lalji Patel, a Pati Low-key entry tidar leaders from the party
unit chief C.R. Paatil, Gujarat the politics around the quota tute less than 15% of the total dar community leader from In the BJP, there seems to be a are privately murmuring that
BJP spokesperson Yagnesh agitation to a full circle as, population but wield dispro north Gujarat. Mr. Lalji Patel calculated move to bring him there was no need for the par
Dave said. from 2015 onwards, he was Loyalty switch: Hardik Patel resigned from the Congress, where portionate hold over the runs the Sardar Patel Group into the party fold and use ty to bring him as he does not
The 28yearold leader re seen as one of the key faces he was working president of the Gujarat unit for a year. PTI *
State’s politics and political (SPG), a local outfit which him to target the Congress bring any value addition to
signed from the Congress, to take on the BJP in its stron economy thanks to their grip had played a key role in the and its top leadership. Ho the party.
where he was working presi gest bastion, Gujarat, while ed the then Chief Minister Vi Since March this year, over businesses, the cooper 2015 quota agitation, apart wever, whether the ruling Former Gujarat Minister
dent of the State unit for a the agitation was one of the jay Rupani and his entire Ca Prime Minister Narendra Mo ative sector, small and medi from the Patidar Anamat An party will offer him any im and chairman of IFFCO Dilip
year. He had joined the Op toughest challenges for the binet and installed political di has attended halfadozen um enterprises, private edu dolan Samiti (PAAS). portant role in the runup to Sanghani has said, “The party
position party in the runup ruling party in the State. novice Mr. Bhupendra Patel events of the Patidar com cation, and the construction According to Mr. Lalji Pa the polls remains to be seen. should not invite people like
to the 2019 parliamentary With his entry, the ruling as CM, feels that the com munity in person and via vi and realty sectors. tel, the agitation was not a Another factor that seems Hardik, who had tried their
polls. party, which has been woo munity will consolidate be deoconferencing as part of In close to 60 out of the platform for people like Mr. to weigh on the BJP leader best to defame and challenge
While resigning from the ing Patidars since September hind it in the 2022 State the party’s outreach towards 182 Assembly seats in the Hardik Patel to launch their ship is the putative entry of the BJP through a violent agi
Congress, Mr. Hardik Patel 2021, when it abruptly shunt polls. the State’s most influential State, the Patidars are deci political careers. Patidar community leader tation.”
Playback singer KK
passes away in Kolkata
The 53-year-old took ill after a concert
Shiv Sahay Singh
Kolkata
Popular Hindi playback sin
ger Krishnakumar Kunnath
aka KK died in Kolkata on
Tuesday. The 53yearold
singer was in Kolkata for a
performance at Nazrul Man
cha in the city.
Soon after the pro
gramme, the singer com Krishnakumar Kunnath
plained of feeling unwell
when he was returning to a the city hospital, which also
hotel around 10.30 p.m. He received a stream of visitors
was declared dead on arrival who flocked to it after hear
at a city hospital. ing about KK’s death.
West Bengal Sports and The postmortem exami
Youth Affairs Minister Aroop nation will be performed on
Biswas said the family mem Wednesday.
bers of the singer have been A versatile singer, KK re
informed about his demise corded songs not only for
and they are likely to arrive Hindi films but also for Ta
in the city on Wednesday. mil, Telugu, Kannada, Ma
Singer Anupam Roy and layalam, Marathi and Benga
music director Jeet Ganguly li cinema. He also sang a
accompanied Mr. Biswas to number of ad jingles.
Law for population

control soon: Minister
Prahlad Patel highlights Modi govt.’s feat
Press Trust of India “The State government
Raipur has been able to achieve only
Union Minister Prahlad 23 per cent work under Jal
Singh Patel on Tuesday said Jeevan Mission while the na
a law for population control tional average of target
will be brought soon. achievement under it is 50%.
The Union Minister for There is no problem with
food processing industries water sources in the State
was in Raipur to attend ‘Ga but the problem is manage
rib Kalyan Sammelan’ at ment. Similarly, the State
ICARNational Institute of could not complete the tar
Biotic Stress Management, get under the PM Awas
Baronda. When asked about Scheme..,” he said.
a law on population control, Earlier, interacting with
Mr. Patel said, “It will be beneficiaries of various Cen
brought soon, don’t worry. tral schemes during Gariba
When such strong and big Kalyan Sammelan, Mr. Patel
decisions have been taken highlighted various achieve
then the rest too [will be ta ments of the Narendra Modi
ken].” He also attacked the government in the last eight
ruling Congress in Chhattis years and said ‘service, good
garh claiming it has failed to governance and welfare of
achieve targets under some poor’ is the basic mantra of
Central schemes. the Central government.
Kerala High Court allows

lesbians to live together
Bench allows habeas corpus petition
Special Correspondent Muslims and their parents
KOCHI took objection to their rela
A Division Bench of the Kera tionship. In fact, they were
la High Court on Tuesday al family friends. While the pe
lowed a woman to go along titioner was studying in Class
with her lesbian friend and XII, she met Ms. Noora and
live together after they ex both fell in love with each
pressed their willingness to other.
live together. When the mother of Ms.
The Bench passed the or Noora came to know about
der while allowing a habeas the relationship, many res
corpus petition filed by Adila trictions were imposed on
Nazerin of Aluva alleging the petitioner and her lover.
that her lover Fathima Noora She had to face a lot of phys
of Kozhikode had been ille ical and verbal abuse. Both
gally detained by her pa parents tried their best way
rents. In her plea, Ms. Naze to separate the couples. The
rin pointed out that she was petitioners’ father pressured
a lesbian by choice. In fact, the petitioner to get her mar
she was in a relationship ried and he started looking
with 23yearold Ms. Noora. for prospective grooms, the
Both of them were Orthodox petitioner said.
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6 DELHI

THE HINDU
CM M ND-NDE
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DELHI
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2022 7

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
‘Make workplace wellness a key result area for leaders’
A recent study from India explores the impact leadership styles have on employees’ mental health A measure to increase women’s
participation in the workforce
T
he role of corporate who take accountability for popularity of organisational
leaders in promoting the wellbeing of the team support through leadership
mental health forms would ensure an atmosph training. To impact female workforce and also facilitate a safe and
the crux of a research exer ere that organically pro 1. Automobile sector (34%) participation, Quess Corp hygienic work environment
cise titled ‘All in the Mind: motes mental health. 2. FMCG (33% ) has partnered with Sustaina for all gendered employees
The Leadership Factor 2022’ 2. Delegation: 65% em 3. ECommerce (29% ) ble Menstruation Coalition, and their families, says a
commissioned by Gi Group ployees and 55% leaders Wellness budgets a global coalition that seeks press release.
Holding, India. agree apportioning work by Sectors that loosen their to eradicate period poverty. The partnership would
Seeking the views of leaders matching tasks with skill purse strings re To become a “Period Vic extend to schools and educa
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Policy support
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ty: 70% of The study notes that inhe mental health. on a par with each other on Sector watch support along Around 500 employees Four decades later, Mas
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8 EDITORIAL DELHI THE HINDU

A judicial course that calls for introspection
On a constitutional plane, the verdict in ‘Perarivalan’ deserves a relook or review as it stands on wobbly foundations
ty of the same. Article 161 con the circumstances of the case the final arbiter of the Constitution
sciously provides a ‘discretion’ to when the Constitution conferred (Article 245) could not have
Caution first the Governor in taking a final call,
even if it was not wide enough to
express power on the Governor
alone, for grant of pardon, remis
trumped Article 161 with Article
142, which is constitutionally jar
overrule the advice, but it certain sion, etc., under Article 161. In the ring. It is usurpation of power of
The UIDAI should not downplay the possibility ly provides latitude to send back case on hand, the Bench found another pillar of democracy. With
of leaked Aadhaar numbers being misused V. Parthiban any resolution for reconsidera fault with the Governor not having utmost respect, the constitutional
tion, if, in his opinion, the resolu taken a decision on the recom course, if at all, may have been to
I
n a bizarre reversal on Sunday, the Union govern
ment withdrew a notification from a Unique Identifi tion conflicted with constitutional mendation of remission by the put it back in the lap of the Gover
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he recent decision of the Su ends. In M.P. Special Police Esta- State Cabinet for a long time. The nor with a nudge and a wink to ‘de
cation Authority of India (UIDAI) office cautioning
preme Court of India in the blishment (2004 (8) SCC P.788) a fault of the Governor became cide’ within a reasonable timeline.
people against sharing photocopies of their Aadhaar case of A.G. Perarivalan and Constitution Bench had held that more intense in the opinion of the
card, just two days after the advisory was issued, claim the Rajiv Gandhi assassination the “Concept of Governor acting Bench, when the Governor even Forgotten sentiments
ing that it would be “misinterpreted”. The May 27 not case has stirred up a hornet’s nest in his discretion or exercising in mission in respect of the offences tually referred the matter to the The Tamil Nadu State Assembly re
ification that was issued by the Bengaluru Regional Of for its constitutional righteousness dependent judgment is not alien committed by the convicts under President of India for his decision, solution dated September 9, 2018
fice of the UIDAI urged people to use the masked and establishing its supremacy as to the constitution”. the Arms Act, 1959, the Explosive after sitting over the recommenda and the consequent Cabinet re
Aadhaar number facility — that can be downloaded the final arbiter of enforcing con Substances Act, 1908, the Pass tion for more than two years. commendation was to ‘respect Ta
stitutional discipline. The decision Implication of ‘consultation’ ports Act, 1967, the Foreigners Act, mil sentiments’. What of the senti
from the UIDAI website — and which displays only the
has been hailed by some major In the other Constitution Bench 1946, etc., besides Section 302, is Deeper examination needed ments of the victims of the crime?
last four digits of the Aadhaar number. This was a sen political parties as a blow for judgment in Sriharan’s case (2016 in wobbly terrain. The entire investigation of the An oft forgotten genre, as Justice
sible advisory. The masked Aadhaar facility has been in federalism. (7) SCC P.1), arising out of the core According to the decision, it is a crime was by the Central Bureau V.R. Krishna Iyer pithily put it in
place since 2018 and this came about following a report of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination simple murder attracting Section of Investigation alone. In the teeth his purple prose, “It is a weakness
by the Centre for Internet and Society that publicly Court’s extraordinary route itself, one of the references placed 302 of the IPC and therefore the of the specific ruling in Sriharan, of our jurisprudence that the vic
available datasets had sensitive details such as full Aad The Court has treaded the extraor for consideration was whether the Governor’s decision to forward with reference to the invocation of tims of crime and the distress of
haar number details and also included bank account dinary constitutional route under term ‘consultation’ stipulated in the recommendation to the Presi power by the State government in the dependents of the prisoners
Article 142. The power to do ‘com Section 435 Cr.P.C. implies ‘con dent is against the letter and spirit terms of Sections 432 and 433 of do not attract the attention of law”
details of individuals. The dangers of providing the full
plete justice’, for grant of remis currence’. It was held that the of Article 161 — meaning it is Cr.P.C, the power exercisable by (1980 (SCR)(1) P.846). The Bench
Aadhaar number to several agencies — the use of the sion and consequent premature word ‘consultation’ means ‘con against the spirit of federalism en the Governor under Article 161 in has regretfully bid farewell to such
Aadhaar card and the number for various purposes to release. The Bench decided to ex currence’ of the Central govern visaged in the Constitution. Such respect of the subject matter is not humane inputs.
day has only multiplied exponentially — are evident in ercise the power of grant of par ment. The Constitution Bench reasoning, with respect, amount so clear and obvious as ruled by To portray the remission as to
the way these numbers have been used by fraudsters don, remission et al., exclusively highlighted that there are situa ed to reductionism, oversimplifi the Bench. Whether what the State what it was not in the State is a sad
for criminal purposes such as identity theft, Know Your conferred on the President of In tions where consideration of re cation of the commission of hei government could not achieve di fallout the lawlords on the pulpit
Customer (KYC)related fraud among others in recent dia and State Governors under Ar mission would have transborder nous offence against the Indian rectly by invoking Sections 432 may not have bargained for. And
ticles 72 and 161. In the teeth of ramifications and wherever a cen state by the convict as coconspira and 433 of Cr.P.C, without concur on the constitutional plane, this
years, and which have been documented in news re
foundational bedrock and corner tral agency was involved, the opi tor, viewing it as an ordinary crime rence of Centre could be allowed verdict deserves a relook, even a
ports. The UIDAI has itself registered far more potential stone of separation of powers viz. nion of the Central government clothing the executive of the state to take a contrived route vide Arti review, as it stands on wobbly
fraud cases related to the issue highlighted above in re Parliament/Legislature, Executive must prevail. with the power of pardon, remis cle 161 and achieve its objectives is foundations built with creaky
cent years compared to the past. Other scams that are and Judiciary, whether the course Basing its conclusion on the le sion regardless of its transborder a pertinent issue. This aspect re credence.
of a higher order have also been revealed recently, re adopted by the Bench to do expe gal position that the subject matter repercussions and the integrity/se quires deeper judicial examina In 2016 (1) SCC P.463 (Rajbala vs
lated to biometrics theft that have allowed scamsters to dient justice is constitutional calls (Section 302 in the Indian Penal curity of the country. Surprisingly, tion for the sake of constitutional State of Haryana), the top court
steal welfare benefits at the expense of genuine benefi for introspection. Code) murder, falls within Lists II nothing has been said on this vital clarity. presciently wrote, “A judge should
ciaries. The Internet is rife with leaked data and this The predominant purpose of and III (State and Concurrent lists) aspect in the order. The second aspect is the delay always bear in mind that errone
this article is not Perarivalancen of the Seventh Schedule to the in taking a decision by the Gover ous and fallacious exercise of dis
poses a major threat to user privacy.
tric, as a convict, or whether the Constitution, the learned judges Article and issues nor in the matter. The Constitu cretion is perceived by a visible
The UIDAI has, however, been ambivalent about the cry of an agonising mother de concluded that the State was fully Having unprecedentedly conclud tion does not lay down any time collective.” — the visible collective
inherent dangers in the indiscriminate use of the Aad served relief or not. The focus is empowered to take a call and re ed that the executive of the state is frame for the Governor to act on being We The People.
haar number or the Aadhaar card by citizens, as evi only to evaluate the constitutional commend remission in this case. competent to decide, the Bench the advice of the Council of The evolving principle of consti
denced in its series of flipflops on the issue even before ity of the decision in the context of If it is a simple case of being a invoked Article 142 of the Constitu Ministers. tutional moralism and justice dis
this latest withdrawal notice. There seems to be a con Article 142. Section 302 crime, the reason for tion to usurp the power of the Go In a case like the present one, a pensation by the constitutional
tradiction of views within the authority on the issue of The power under Article 161 is finding fault with the Governor’s vernor of the State under Article long consultative process was im courts may as well heed the dis
exercisable in relation to matters decision to forward the recom 161. There are momentous issues perative due to several litigations tressed cries of the real and imper
potential misuse of the Aadhaar number. On the one
to which the executive power of mendation to the President may that are flagged on the exercise of repeatedly being pursued at the ceptible victims before showering
hand, in statements advising caution and user discre the state extends. While the Gover be constitutionally correct. But the power of remission under Arti instance of the convicts, under their grace on the perceptible
tion in revealing one’s Aadhaar number, it is seeking to nor is bound by the advice of the the larger controversy as to wheth cle 142, by the Supreme Court in one legal pretext or the other. offenders.
treat these as sensitive information just like the biomet Council of Ministers (Article 163), er the Governor in his exercise of the present factual context. In any event, even if the delay
rics provided by citizens to the authority. Yet, on the the binding nature of such advice power under Article 161 is compe The first is whether Article 142 was constitutionally inexcusable Justice V. Parthiban is a retired judge of
other, it has sought to universalise the open use of the will depend on the constitutionali tent at all, to grant pardon or re could be invoked by the Court in or was vulnerable to challenge, the Madras High Court
Aadhaar as an identity document with missionary zeal
and has downplayed the risks of doing so. This ambiva
lence does not help at all. The UIDAI must popularise
the use of the masked Aadhaar facility as a start and
rethink ways to tighten the scrutiny over how Aadhaar
Shining a light on Germany’s stand in the Ukraine war
numbers are issued and utilised even as law enforce
Deciding on a course of action could mean modification of several decades of its mainly noninterventionist policy
ment agencies crack down on data leaks and websites conservatives, then in alliance for weapons of all kinds to defend liament, Rolf Mützenich, who built
with the Social Democrats, had re itself, Germany has hardly anyth his career in the belief of a world
carrying unmasked Aadhaarrelated information.
tained the hope that Russian Presi ing to offer except tanks that had without arms. Apart from the crit
dent Vladimir Putin might be de been decommissioned a decade icism in the media and among the
terred if offered concessions ago and for which there is no am public, the views of dignitaries
Women at the top without any penalties. Even after munition available. such as Mr. Mützenich make the
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Amit Das Gupta & Moscow, for the first time since current Chancellor, Olaf Scholz,
For civil service to be truly representative, Krishnan Srinivasan 1990, had created a new border in Near taboo subjects appear indecisive, because he can
Europe in 2014 with the annexa Apart from such practicalities, not rule in favour of arms deliver
women must rise up at all bureaucracy levels tion of Crimea, a major pipeline mental reservations stand in the ies to Ukraine due to massive resis
T T
aking another step towards equity, three women, he Russian invasion of Uk project, Nord Stream 2, between way of steering a different course, tance within his own party.
Shruti Sharma, Ankita Agarwal and Gamini Sin raine has sent shockwaves Russia and Germany, was ap which can be observed through The Green Party is prone to fac
gla, secured the first, second and third ranks, res through the world, especial proved and almost operational out German society. After Hitler, ing a similar dilemma; its Ministers
pectively, in the 2021 Civil Services examinations con ly in Europe, being the region ised. In regard to the warnings Germans struggled hard to be in the cabinet are the most outspo
most immediately affected. The about possible Russian intentions, category falls under the term come likeable in the world, and to ken in supporting Ukraine by wha
ducted by the Union Public Service Commission
countries close to the Russian bor the German government believed ‘peacedividend’, after overcom be regarded as democratic, paci tever means available, but there is
(UPSC). Considered one of the toughest examinations der, namely the Baltic states and that it understood Russia better ing the Cold War and Germany’s fist, cooperative, understanding growing discontent among its pac
to crack, the girls emerged successfully at the top in Poland, had long warned against than the rest of the world, which partition, surrounded by friends and helpful. As a result, military ifistminded supporters, who do
their second attempt, and in the case of the second such a possibility, which they con eventually turned out to be wish without any hostile neighbours. force, power politics and national not support the argument that the
ranker, in her third try. All three women agreed that it sidered the next step after the an ful thinking. And the second was the German interest have become almost ta victims of an invasion require to
was a long, difficult and challenging journey. With 10 of nexation of Crimea in 2014 and the Gandhian dream of a world with boo subjects, and declining to be be supported. Germany is an im
the top 25 rankholders being women, there is a lot to monthlong Russian military An over and underestimation out any arms, an especially attrac involved in conflict has become portant member of the European
buildup along the border. The The lack of realistic thinking in fo tive concept for a people who had the national mantra. Defending Union and the North Atlantic Trea
celebrate — and ponder over. According to the latest All
Germans, the strongest European reign affairs in a country holding initiated, and suffered most from, the national interest, such as the ty Organization, but is extremely
India Survey on Higher Education report, published by economy and the key nation for archrealist Otto von Bismarck in the destruction of Europe in two protection of export opportunities conflicted on how deeply it should
the Ministry of Education for 20192020, the gross en the European Union, however re high esteem might appear absurd world wars in the 20th century. which are the basis of German be involved in supporting Ukraine.
rolment ratio in higher education for the female popu mained indifferent, regarding for an India struggling with two The consequences of these pac wealth, by sending the navy to Deciding on such a course of ac
lation is 27.3%, compared to 26.9% for males. In this such warnings as exaggerated powerful neighbours with nuclear ific views have now become more protect certain shipping routes tion will mean a further modifica
backdrop, women comprised only 26% — or 177 — of the alarmism. weapons as a fact of life in this cen visible. Despite being one of the was approved by the Parliament, tion of several decades of a mainly
total of 685 candidates recommended by the UPSC for This attitude was not only the tury. While the Germans, based on richest countries, Germany but condemned as a relapse into noninterventionist policy.
fault of the current Federal Go a particular mindset, have overes starved its armed forces financial military adventurism in large sec
appointment to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS),
vernment, formed by the Social timated their influence on the ly. The Army has a highly dimin tions of the media. Amit Das Gupta is a scholar in the Federal
Indian Foreign Service (IFS), Indian Police Service (IPS) Democrats, the Green Party and Kremlin and underestimated Mr. ished number of serviceable heli This same attitude is found even Army University Munich.
and Central Services, Group A and B. This skewed sta Liberals. Former Chancellor Ange Putin’s security obsessions over copters, submarines or artillery. among leading Social Democrats Krishnan Srinivasan is a former Indian
tistic must change because public service offers a un la Merkel’s Christian Democrat the past three decades. The first As a result, while Ukraine pleads such as their chairman in the Par Foreign Secretary
ique opportunity to bring about social change, and wo
men can drive this, especially in a country where girls
often have to drop out of school for a variety of reasons,
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Ms. Sharma hails from Bijnor (Uttar Pradesh), Ms. UPSC examination determination of women to the future of our society. the administrative reforms, country. Interfaith relations online, scan the QR code
It is women’s power to the walk the extra mile and Women have been found to one cannot accept that the have come under great strain

Agarwal from Kolkata and Ms. Singla from Sunam (Pun
fore with Shruti Sharma, achieve success. For be not only less corrupt but requirement of personnel is now. The country becomes ■ The award has created
jab), and each of their stories is that of struggle and per Ankita Agarwal and Gamini decades, the allIndia civil also better administrators — coming down by the year. the loser when the Prime interest in the Indian
sistence. It has been a hardfought battle for women to Singla topping the 2021 Civil services has remained a male at least from the ordinary Are vacancies being Minister is on the wrong side languages. It is a fact that
come this far in the IAS, and sometimes a trickier road Services examination (Page bastion. Women are proving citizen’s point of view. underreported, thereby of the ideological battle. As there are many gifted writers
awaits them once inside the steel framework of the ad 1, May 31).It is also themselves to be equally Another notable aspect is enabling the Government for ‘the fast track of but who write in other
ministrative setup. If three women are at the top today, heartening that more efficient administrators. that more women could have (and probably State development’ Mr. Modi has Indian languages. They are
they have a lot to thank trailblazers such as Anna Rajam women are breaking the There is no doubt that the begun looking for a career in governments also) to cut spoken of, its benefits have not known because their
glass ceiling and bagging success stories will propel the civil services. One can expenditure without it being not tangibly percolated to stories are not translated into
Malhotra (née George), the first woman to join the In
key positions in the many to dream big and only hope that this healthy noticed? the impoverished millions to English. Hence, there is a
dian Administrative Service in 1951, or C.B. Muthamma, corporate world as well. achieve their goals. trend would continue and P. Mangalachandran, improve their quality of life. need for translators who can
the first woman to join the IFS in 1948 who fought a N.J. Ravi Chander, M. Jeyaram, more and more women join West Ponniam, Kannur, Kerala The ‘Suffering India’ still popularise the works of
landmark case in the Supreme Court of India when she Bengaluru Sholavandan, Tamil Nadu the civil services. awaits the much promised these authors. The Tamil
was looked over for a promotion for Ambassador, or Kosaraju Chandramouli, Eight-year rule Acche din. Nadu government should
It is heartening to note that This time, women Hyderabad What is it that has translate the works of Tamil
even Anita Kaul who worked tirelessly to champion the ■ ■ G. David Milton,
Right to Education Act 2009 which made education a the top ranks have been aspirants have raised the bar. distinguished the eightyear Maruthancode, Tamil Nadu writers to English and

secured by women. Women According to media reports ■ It is a delight that women rule of Narendra Modi from popularise Tamil literature.
fundamental right for every child. The early part of a ci
holding positions of many of them pursued their have done well in the Union that preceding it? It has Booker prize K.S. Sundaram,
vil servant’s career is usually spent in rural or semiur leadership augurs well for goals despite problems such Public Service Commission’s made Hindutva central to The Booker Prize this year Coimbatore
ban India, giving her a vantage point over issues includ our country. What is even as additional responsibilities. Civil Services Examination. Indian politics. No other going to Ms. Geethajali Shree
ing women’s health, literacy, economic independence, more gratifying is the fact Their success stories will But, at the same time, it period since Independence for her Hindi novel is a bit of IPL 2022
caste and gender disparities that are in need of reforms that young brilliant minds inspire young minds to chase appears that the number of has seen India’s retreat from surprise as she was a dark Like the previous editions,
or policy intervention but are often overlooked due to still find the civil services to their dreams come what candidates succeeding is secularism as a result of the horse till the end. Also the the 15th edition of the
lack of a proper understanding. To achieve this, educa be a huge draw. Well done, may. dwindling by the year — 685 implementation of the prize is a first for Hindi. The cashrich IPL league has
women. Well done, UPSC. Dr. D.V.G. Sankararao, candidates in the published Hindutva agenda as Mr. translator deserves equal produced some gems. The
tion is the key. Also, if civil service has to represent all Nellimarla, Andhra Pradesh
Balasubramaniam Pavani, results. What is happening? I Modi’s tenure as Prime praise for the translation. IPL continues to better itself
sections of the population, of which half are women, Secunderabad remember that during the Minister. The situation is so There is no doubt that the and provides a wonderful
their representation in the services too must increase at ■ It is a measure of the extent late 1970s and 1980s, i.e. worrisome now that hate award has renewed interest avenue for emerging players
all levels of the bureaucracy, starting with the highest ■ That women have done of awareness, advancement during my days as a young speeches and targeted in Indian literature. to learn with the veterans.
rung. well is heartening for it is and progress of Indian aspirant, it used to be around attacks are considered as a A.V. Narayanan, Satish Reddy Kanaganti,
testimony to the grit and the women and augurs well for 800 on average. Whatever be measure of one’s love for the Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu Tipparthy, Nalgonda, Telangana
CM M ND-NDE
YK
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India’s EV ambition rides on three wheels Engaging academic lawyers

The EV policies put in place by some States as part of FAME-II have been instrumental in driving this growth Both the judiciary and the executive have rarely employed
the expertise of Indian law professors
essentially associated with personal
use, consumers are justifiably appre the Supreme Court. But no law professor has
hensive in adopting such vehicles gi ever been appointed as a Supreme Court
ven the host of issues which come judge. Compare this with countries like the
with it. The recent incidents of fires U.S. where several law professors have
in escooters have added to the ap served as judges of the Supreme Court.
Soumyadeep Kundu prehension. Reliable manufacturers Second, India has rarely nominated a law
& Soumya Roy with proven track records in the two Prabhash Ranjan professor to international judicial and legal
wheeler and fourwheeler EV space bodies like the ICJ and the Appellate Body of
SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR
in India are hard to come by. This In a case involving the interpretation of the the World Trade Organization. India has pre
India’s push for electric vehicles further adds to the supply side Copyright Act of 1957, Justice Prathiba M. ferred to send retired judges, government la
(EVs) was renewed when phaseII of crunch and there are very few affor Singh of the Delhi High Court has appointed wyers, or superannuated bureaucrats to
the Faster Adoption and Manufactur dable offerings for the consumer. Arul George Scaria, a law professor, as an these bodies compared to other liberal de
ing of (Hybrid and) Electric (FAME) expert to assist the court. Prof. Scaria’s ap mocracies which routinely nominate law
Vehicles scheme in India, with an Issues to be addressed pointment is an opportunity to assess the professors to these organisations. This is
outlay of ₹10,000 crore, was ap The current policies in place at the role of law professors in society. The core oc despite India producing iconic international
proved in 2019. This was significant vehicles in India. At the current rate, emption of 100% and on registration State level, which are focused on ac cupation of a law professor is to teach and law professors like B.S. Chimni, R.P. Anand
since phaseI, launched in 2015, was ethreewheelers are expected to fees. Assam, Delhi and West Bengal celerating adoption of EVs among push the frontiers of knowledge through re and V.S. Mani, whose work is cited globally.
approved with an outlay of ₹895 breach the 5lakh target by 2023. Gi have linked incentives to the battery consumers, have spurred an ethree search and scholarly engagements. But they Third, the Modi government has been
crore. India was doubling down on ven the success of ethreewheelers, size (in kWh) with additional benefits wheeler dominance. However, this have much more to offer provided the sys heard championing the lateral entry of ex
its EV ambitions, focusing on cultiv it is worth taking a closer look at their on interest rate on loans and scrap has come at some costs. A major one tem gives them the right opportunities. Do perts in the government to replace generalist
ating demand for EVs at home while dominant position, how they got page incentives in some cases. U.P. is adequate passenger safety. Subse India’s judiciary and the executive employ bureaucrats for work that requires a high le
also developing its own indigenous here, and what India’s EV policy can has gone a different way with its sub quent EV policies must therefore pay the expertise of law professors? vel of domain expertise. But there is rarely
EV manufacturing industry which do to sustain their success and ex sidies, offering 100% interestfree special attention to this issue. Local The examples of their doing so are spo an example of a law professor being induct
could cater to this demand. tend it to the other categories. loans to State government em manufacturing enterprises often lack radic. Shamnad Basheer, a celebrated aca ed as a fulltime expert in any of the minis
Initially envisioned for three The EV registrations data show ployees for purchasing EVs in the the necessary resources or the motiv demic in the field of intellectual property tries. Fourth, India’s constitutional courts
years, FAMEII got a twoyear exten that Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Uttar Pra State and 30% subsidy on the road ation to invest in design develop law, who died at 43, assisted the Supreme seldom appoint academics to serve as ami-
sion in June 2021 owing to a number desh and West Bengal account for price of EVs to families with a single ments focusing on safety. Lack of Court as an ‘academic intervenor’ in Novar- cus curiae or as experts to assist the courts in
of factors including the pandemic. It close to 80% of all ethreewheeler girl child. To promote sales of EVs proper oversight from regulatory bo tis v. Union of India (2012). Aparna Chandra comprehending difficult questions of law.
aims to support 10 lakh etwowheel registrations, with U.P. accounting manufactured within the State, U.P. dies over these manufacturers add to and Mrinal Satish served as amicus curiae Contrary to the practice of courts in other
ers, 5 lakh ethreewheelers, 55,000 for close to 40% of all registrations. exempts SGST on all such vehicles. It the woes. Future policies must there before the Delhi High Court. Legendary aca liberal democracies, Indian courts largely re
efourwheeler passenger cars and Of these five States, Assam, Delhi, has outlined incentives to promote fore incorporate appropriate design demics such as Upendra Baxi and Lotika Sar ly on the expertise of the Indian Bar.
7,000 ebuses. Three years into U.P., and West Bengal have formal EV manufacturing in the State. Bi and passenger safety standards. kar have voluntarily intervened in matters of
FAMEII, the numbers have been lag ised EV policies while Bihar has a har’s draft EV policy too has been While the current Statelevel policies importance, compelling courts to take them Why partner with academics?
ging far behind the original three draft policy with a final policy due to drafted along similar lines: it focuses have been instrumental in increasing up. On select occasions, the Supreme Court Often, constitutional courts grapple with
year target. As a part of FAMEII, the be introduced later in 2022. Inciden on adoption and manufacturing. local ethreewheeler manufactur has appointed law professors such as Mool challenging legal questions. Answering these
government has made a push for in tally, these five States are character These States have performed excep ing, they have led to an increasingly Chand Sharma as Joint Registrar (Research) requires a certain ability to theorise and con
digenous manufacturing with a num ised by high population density and tionally well in the FAMEII scheme fragmented manufacturing industry and Anup Surendranath and Daniel Mathew ceputalise, which practicing lawyers lack.
ber of automakers answering the shortage of affordable public tran and are on their way to achieve the with nonuniform standards akin to as Deputy Registrars (Research). V.S. Mani Law professors are academically trained to
call. Legacy auto manufacturers such sport. Indigenously designed and target of 5 lakh ethreewheelers. the formative years of motor vehicles was part of the team that represented India theorise. Unlike practitioners who are gener
as Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahin produced, ethreewheelers like e The success India has experienced in the early 20th century. This frag before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ally wedded to the ‘black letter’ approach,
dra, Hero Electric, and TVS unveiled rickshaws have become a common in the ethreewheeler space has mentation has led to legacy automak in the 1999 aerial incident case involving In law professors study the law critically, often
their EV offerings. New EV players al sight in these States. Costing bet come from developing both the de ers struggling to compete with the dia and Pakistan. The Law Commission has employing empirical, interdisciplinary, and
so emerged on the scene with the ween ₹1 lakh and ₹1.5 lakh, these veh mand and supply sides. Subsidies, large number of manufacturers in ev employed the services of law professors to comparative approaches. This skill set has
likes of Ola and Bounce entering the icles are produced by scores of local tax exemptions, and interestfree ery State. EV policies must address draft reports batting for law reforms. In the potential of raising the bar of legal rea
etwowheeler segment. While e workshops and small enterprises loans have successfully rallied de this issue so that legacy automakers some instances, parliamentary committees soning by several notches. Basheer’s iconic
twowheelers and efourwheelers and have come to dominate the e mand for these vehicles. These vehi are not demotivated from competing have invited law professors to depose as exp intervention in Novartis is a case in point.
receive significant coverage, a three threewheeler market. With financial cles provide for inexpensive means in the ethreewheeler space. Their ert witnesses in important matters. The ex Appointing academics as judges of consti
wheeled underdog has been quietly assistance from FAMEII, local manu of transport for millions, are easy to resources are necessary for design ecutive has also appointed law professors to tutional courts or involving them to assist
dominating the Indian EV space. facturers have built a truly Indian EV maintain, and have relatively low op ing and manufacturing more ad serve in different committees. courts in tackling complex legal issues can
with its unique design catering to In erating costs, making them immen vanced and safer ethreewheelers. bring in a refreshing perspective. It will also
The dominance of e-3-wheelers dian commuter needs. Legacy auto sely popular among operators. The Future EV policies must therefore Neglect of academics foster institutional diversity in our judicial
Threewheeler EVs like eautos and e makers with their own ethree indigenous design allows for easy lo take into account the existing and But these examples are the outcomes of indi process. Decisionmakers occupying the
rickshaws account for close to 65% of wheeler offerings have been strug cal manufacturing in workshops and emerging stakeholders on the de vidual initiatives by judges, bureaucrats or high echelons in the judiciary and the execu
all EVs registered in India. In con gling to compete with these local small enterprises and makes them mand and supply sides for effective politicians reposing faith in law professors; tive should recognise that by not making the
trast, twowheeler EVs come at a dis producers. The EV policies put in relatively easy to charge and main implementation. With the prevailing they are not a consequence of a system that fullest use of the expertise of academic la
tant second with over 30% of regis place by these States as part of tain compared to their twowheeler trajectory of EVs, India must take les values the expertise of academic lawyers and wyers, they are doing a disfavour to our so
trations and passenger fourwheeler FAMEII have been instrumental in and fourwheeler counterparts. This sons from its ethreewheeler success is desirous of using their skills. Both the jud ciety. The onus is on them to develop robust
EVs at a meagre 2.5%. Under the tar driving this growth. success in the ethreewheeler space story to sustain its EV ambitions. iciary and the executive have largely over institutionalised mechanisms to engage aca
gets for FAMEII, ethreewheelers The focus of the EV policies of has been difficult to replicate in the looked India’s academic lawyers. The follow demic lawyers in the service of the nation.
have crossed over 4 lakh vehicles of these five States is on accelerating etwowheeler and efourwheeler Soumyadeep Kundu is a Doctoral student ing examples elucidate this point. First,
the 5lakh target since 2019. The adoption of EVs among consumers space, which have problems both on and Soumya Roy is Associate Professor, Article 124(3)(c) of the Constitution provides Prabhash Ranjan is Professor and Vice Dean, Jindal
Quantitative Methods and Operations Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University.
numbers are expected to be higher and promoting local manufacturing. the demand and supply side. Since that a ‘distinguished jurist’ i.e. an illustrious
Management Area, Indian Institute of Views are personal
given the prevalence of unregistered All five States provide road tax ex twowheelers and fourwheelers are Management-Kozhikode law professor, can be appointed as a judge of
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DATA POINT
Preventive action against rape FROM THE ARCHIVES
FIFTY YEARS AGO JUNE 1, 1972
Not just fast investigations and trials, but measures to Press freedom: Council report
ensure safety of women are required in Tamil Nadu
New Delhi, May 31: The Press Council of In
D. Suresh Kumar tracked and monitored to fetch maxi dia has said that its findings have had a salu
mum punishment for the accused. tary effect in safeguarding the freedom of
Four gang rapes in under three He vowed that the investigation the press and in ensuring that this freedom
months, with the latest victim being would not be (slow and shoddy) like is not regarded as a licence by newspapers.
murdered, have turned the spotlight the Pollachi case. He transferred the In its annual report for 1971 laid on the table
on the need for enhancing safety for case to the Crime BranchCID, which of the Lok Sabha today, the Council said
women and strengthening law and fasttracked the investigation and that by and large the press served the cause
order in Tamil Nadu. Of greater con filed a voluminous charge sheet of the public with a few exceptions where a
cern is that the accused targeted the against the accused. The accused few papers had chosen to indulge in “black
three survivors, who were with their persons in the doctor’s case too were mail, cheap sensationalism, scandalmon
male companions, in public spaces. arrested within days of the crime. gering, scurrilous and communal writings or
In another case, a youth stalked a wo However, the administration’s obscene publications.” Such journals, it said,
man, forced his way into her home quick ac tions did not prevent si did not generally command a large circula
and allegedly raped her at knifepoint milar crimes from un tion. The Council was doing all it could to
in the heart of Chennai. folding in Cuddalore, restrain them from abusing their journalistic
The gang rapes in Vellore, Namakkal and Rames role and violating ethical standards. During
Cuddalore, Namakkal and waram. In the last inci the year under review, the Press Council
Rameswaram were pre dent, a woman out on considered 28 complaints. In respect of
ceded by a horrific inci work at a prawn unit was complaints upheld, five editors were cen
dent of a woman in Vi robbed, raped and mur sured and four warned while the Council ex
rudhunagar being dered by two migrant pressed displeasure against one. In nine
blackmailed and raped by workers from Odisha, trig complaints the Council, apart from express
four men and three juveniles gering massive protests. The ing its opinion about objectionable writings,
over a period of seven rapists in all cases have been refrained from taking further action because
months. In Vellore, a woman arrested. But it also had a dif the editors concerned admitted improprie
doctor from Bihar and a ferent fallout in Rameswaram with ty.
male colleague were hood the Municipal authorities seeking to
winked into taking a ride at night in a profile details of guest workers sell A HUNDRED YEARS AGO JUNE 1, 1922
share autorickshaw, with the accused ing pani puri and working in restau
pretending to be copassengers. The rants and construction sites, ostensi A bank fraud
two were robbed, the man beaten up bly linking crime with migrants.
and the doctor raped. The trauma Sexual crimes have evoked strong Secunderabad, May 31: A very ingenious
tised woman left for Bihar and filed reactions from Tamil Nadu’s politi fraud has been perpetrated on the Imperial
an online complaint with the police. cians in the past. Against the back Bank of India Ltd. Secunderabad. A Hindu
While the modus operandi in the Vel drop of the ‘Nirbhaya’ case, then calling himself S. Rajarao — tall, dark, stout
lore case had traces of the ‘Nirbhaya’ Chief Minister Jayalalithaa had called and wearing a white coat and trousers and a
case, the Virudhunagar incident for amending central laws to provide red cap, aged about 35 years, with a scar on
brought back memories of the 2019 for punishments such as the death the right side of his forehead, during the bu
Pollachi case in which young women penalty and chemical castration for siest part of the morning presented a forged
had been blackmailed and abused sexual offenders. After the Hathras voucher claiming interest on Government
and which the DMK had made a cam rape, Mr. Stalin had promised to set promisory notes amounting to Rs. 1925. The
paign issue then. up special courts to hear cases relat voucher appeared to be quite in order in
The two cases, which surfaced ed to violence against women when usual Government form. At the bottom it
when the Legislative Assembly was in his party is voted to power. The State was passed for payment and signed “A.P.
session in March, caused great em already has Mahila Courts. Emmer, Treasury officer” and initialled by
barrassment to Chief Minister M.K. To the government’s credit, there forging the initials of the Asst Accountant
Stalin. Not long ago, as the Leader of was no attempt to cover up the rape Mr. Hun and an Indian accountant. The
the Opposition, he had questioned cases. Mr. Stalin has made it a point Bank clerk taking the signature and the in
the Union government for adjudging to make surprise inspections at pol itials to be authentic passed the voucher for
Tamil Nadu, then ruled by the BJP’s ice stations whenever possible — so payment and the shroff paid the amount in
ally AIADMK, the leading State in the mething his predecessors had not Rs. 5 and Rs. 10 notes but the receiver signed
Good Governance Index. He had done in decades. But what is needed “T. Ananta Rao” in the shroff ’s books and
asked how the Centre could rank Ta is preventive action, strengthening when the document was sent to the Imperial
mil Nadu first in ‘public security’ security for women and a special fo Bank, Hyderabad Branch, it was checked in
when there were incidents such as cus on ‘visible policing’ with senior the ordinary course and returned with a slip
the Pollachi serial sexual abuse case. police officers playing a proactive to say that the amount of the claim written in
Therefore, he lost no time in declar role. words should also be initialled. It was then
ing that the investigation and trial in discovered that the whole document was a
the Virudhunagar case would be fast sureshkumar.d@thehindu.co.in clever forgery.
CM M ND-NDE
YK
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GDP expansion Fuel for Sri Lanka EU bans Russian oil Italy opens its borders Core sector growth

In percentage, the growth in In metric The percentage of Russian The number of migrants In percentage, the rise in
4.1 India's economy in the
fourth quarter of 202122.
This was a drop from the
5.4% expansion seen in the
OctoberDecember quarter of 202122.
The growth in the JanuaryMarch
quarter pushed the annual growth rate
40,000 tonnes, the
amount of
diesel India
sent to Sri
Lanka, which is facing acute fuel
shortage in the midst of its worst
economic crisis. Last month, India sent
90 oil imports the European
Union leaders agreed to ban
by the end of 2022. This is
the latest sanction the bloc
is imposing on Moscow, spurred by the
ongoing war in Ukraine. The embargo
covers Russian oil brought in by sea,
294 who entered Italy, after
authorities opened a port
in Sicily to those rescued
over the last 10 days in
the central Mediterranean. The
operations, which began on May 19 off
the coast of Libya, rescued 49 children,
8.4 production growth of
eight infrastructure
sectors in April on the
back of better
performance by coal, refinery products
and electricity segments, according to
official data. The output of the sectors
up to 8.7%. The gross domestic an additional $500 million credit line allowing a temporary exemption for some of whom were as young as three of coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery
product (GDP) had expanded by 2.5% to Sri Lanka, to help pay for fuel and imports delivered by pipeline, a move years old. Italy has seen a surge in products, fertilizer, steel, cement and
in the corresponding JanuaryMarch other imports. In keeping with India’s that was crucial to bring landlocked migrant arrivals recently. The Interior electricity had expanded by 4.9% in
period of 202021, according to data ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy, New Hungary on board as the decision Ministry said 18,841 migrants have March 2022 while it was higher at
released by the National Statistical Delhi has extended, this year alone, aid required consensus between all arrived in Italy by sea so far this year, 62.6% in March 2021 due to low base
Office (NSO). The NSO, in its second worth over $3.5 billion to Sri Lanka. members. The EU had already imposed up by 31% over last year. This is an effect. The output growth in April is
advance estimate, had projected GDP With long lines for fuel, the public has five previous rounds of sanctions on increase of almost onethird over last the highest since October 2021 when
growth at 8.9% during 202122. PTI been suffering for months. PTI Russia over its war with Ukraine. AP year’s migrant arrivals. AP the core sector grew by 8.7%. PTI
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Questioning the safety of Aadhaar

Can Aadhaar be the onestop solution for all identification requirements? Does it safeguard the privacy of its various beneficiaries?
THE GIST
Saptaparno Ghosh bank accounts, acquiring a new SIM or Aadhaar. In 2017, researchers at the Centre
school admissions. for Internet and Society (CIS) acquired
The story so far: Two days after issuing an The requesting entity would have to information of various beneficiaries of such
advisory asking people to refrain from obtain the consent of the individual before social security and employment
sharing photocopies of their Aadhaar Card, collecting his/her identity and ensure that schemes such as their Aadhaar numbers,
B The Aadhaar (Targeted the Unique Identification Development the information is only used for bank account details, job card status, mobile
Delivery of Financial and Authority of India (UIDAI) opted to withdraw authentication purposes on the Central number etc. The same year, the UIDAI in
Other Subsidies Benefits and the notification. It stated that the action was Identities Data Repository (CIDR). This response to an RTI stated that more than
Services) Act, 2016 states
to avert any possibility of ‘misinterpretation’ centralised database contains all Aadhaar 200 central and State government websites
that Aadhaar authentication
is necessary for availing of the (withdrawn) press release, asking numbers and holder’s corresponding publicly displayed details of some Aadhaar
subsidies and services that people to exercise “normal prudence” in demographic and biometric information. beneficiaries such as their names and
are financed from the using/sharing their Aadhaar numbers. UIDAI responds to authentication queries addresses. Both were made possible by the
Consolidated Fund of India. with a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. In some cases, basic KYC lack of robust encryption. This data could be
However, confidentiality What did the UIDAI advisory say? details (as name, address, photograph etc) potentially used to fraudulently link the
needs to be maintained and The withdrawn notice had suggested accompany the verification answer ‘Yes’. rightful beneficiary’s Aadhaar with a distinct
the authenticated holders use a masked Aadhaar card instead The regulator does not receive or collect the bank account, embezzling the beneficiary by
information cannot be used
of the conventional photocopy, adding that holder’s bank, investment or insurance impersonation, made possible by the
for anything other than the
specified purpose. the document must not be downloaded from details. Additionally, the Aadhaar Act forbids sizeable identity documents available.
a cybercafé or public computer and if done sharing Core Biometric Information (such as The UIDAI maintains that merely knowing
for some reason, must be permanently finger print, iris scan, among other the bank account number would not be
B The NPCI’s Aadhaar
deleted from the system. ‘Masked Aadhaar’ biometric attributes) for any purpose other enough to withdraw money from the bank, agencies to access details only on a Varied benefits: Women
Payments Bridge (APB) and show their Aadhaar cards
veils the first eight digits of the twelvedigit than Aadhaar number generation and stating that the individual’s fingerprint, iris needtoknow basis. Comptroller and
the Aadhaar Enabled
ID with ‘XXXX’ characters. The notice authentication. data or OTP to a registered mobile number Auditor General of India’s (CAG) latest report before casting their vote at
Payment System (AEPS)
informed that only entities possessing a The Act makes it clear that confidentiality would be required. CIS states that brokers stipulated that UIDAI neither specified any a polling centre. FILE PHOTO
*
facilitate direct benefit
transfer (DBT) and allow ‘User Licence’ are permitted to seek Aadhaar needs to be maintained and the are known to buy tonnes of Aadhaar encryption algorithm (as of October 2020) to
individuals to use Aadhaar for authentication purposes. Private entities authenticated information cannot be used documents from mobile shops and other secure the same nor a mechanism to
for payments. This requires like hotels or film halls cannot collect or for anything other than the specified places where the identification document is illustrate that the entities were adhering to
bank accounts to be linked keep copies of the identification document. purpose. More importantly, no Aadhaar shared. Additionally, there have been appropriate procedures. It relied solely on
to Aadhaar. In July 2018, Telecom Regulatory of India’s number (or enclosed personal information) instances where employees of service audit reports provided to them by the
Chairman R.S. Sharma tweeted his Aadhaar collected from the holder can be published, providers were caught stealing biometric entities themselves. Further, UIDAI’s
B But more than 200 number challenging users to “cause him any displayed or posted publicly. Identity information collected solely for Aadhaar unstable record with biometric
central and State harm”. In response, users dug up his mobile information or authentication records would authentication. A farstretch means for authentication has not helped it with
government websites number, PAN number, photographs, only be liable to be produced pursuant to an acquiring biometrics would involve deduplication efforts, the process that
publicly displayed details of
residential address and date of birth. It could order of the High Court or Supreme Court, collecting fingerprints from varied places ensures that each Aadhaar Number
some Aadhaar beneficiaries
such as their names and
not be ascertained if the PAN number was or by someone of the Secretary rank or that an individual might touch unknowingly generated is unique. The CAG’s reported
addresses. This means that actually correct. UIDAI dismissed assertions above in the interest of national security. in a certain space (such as a railing of a stated that apart from the issue of multiple
this data could be of any data leak, arguing that most of the staircase) with iris data being acquired from Aadhaars to the same resident, there have
potentially used to data was publicly available. It did however Is identity theft via Aadhaar possible? highresolution cameras. been instances of the same biometric data
fraudulently link the rightful caution users from publicly sharing their As per the National Payment Corporation of As for mobile verification, phone users in being accorded to multiple residents.As per
beneficiary’s Aadhaar with a Aadhaar numbers. India’s (NCPI) data, ₹6.48 crore worth of India are known to carry two or more phone UIDAI’s Tech Centre, nearly 4.75 lakh
distinct bank account, financial frauds through 8,739 transactions numbers at one time. There could be a duplicate Aadhaar numbers were cancelled
embezzling the beneficiary What does the law say? involving 2,391 unique users took place in FY possibility that the number linked to the as of November 2019. The regulator relies on
by impersonation.
The Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial 202122. Aadhaar is not prominently used. Fraudsters Automated Biometric Identification Systems
and Other Subsidies Benefits and Services) Since the inception of the UID project, could use this as an opportunity to link their for taking corrective actions. The
Act, 2016 makes it clear that Aadhaar institutions and organisations have endowed phone numbers instead, update it in the CAG concluded it was “not effective enough”
authentication is necessary for availing greater focus on linking their databases with bank using the available information (of the in detecting the leakages and plugging them.
subsidies, benefits and services that are Aadhaar numbers, including for bank individual) and deprive them of benefits or Biometric authentications can be a cause of
financed from the Consolidated Fund of accounts especially in light of the embezzle funds. worry, especially for disabled and senior
India. In the absence of Aadhaar, the compulsory linkage for direct benefit citizens with both the iris and fingerprints
individual is to be offered an alternate and transfer schemes. The NPCI’s Aadhaar What are some of the structural dilapidating. Though the UIDAI has assured
Text & Context articles viable means of identification to ensure Payments Bridge (APB) and the Aadhaar problems that the UIDAI faces? that no one would be deprived of any
can be read at she/he is not deprived of the same. Enabled Payment System (AEPS) facilitate The Aadhaar Data Vault is where all benefits due to biometric authentication
epaper.thehindu.com and Separately, Aadhaar has been described direct benefit transfer (DBT) and allow numbers collected by authentication failures, the absence of an efficient
https://www.thehindu.com/ as a preferred KYC (Know Your Customer) individuals to use Aadhaar for payments. agencies are centrally stored. Its objective is technology could serve as poignant premise
topic/textandcontext/ document but not mandatory for opening This requires bank accounts to be linked to to provide a dedicated facility for the for frauds to make use of their ‘databases’.
EXPLAINER
Looking at the UN report on the Taliban regime

Which are the foreign terrorist groups flourishing on Afghan soil? What are the internal dynamics within the Taliban post its ascension to power?
The report also says that the alQaeda ideological approach to securing Taliban What about other terrorist groups?
THE GIST
Sampath G.
in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has interests. According to the report, under TehreekeTaliban Pakistan (TTP)
The story so far: A new report from the 180400 fighters in Afghanistan. “Fighters the command of Hibatullah, various constitutes the largest component of
Analytical Support and Sanctions included nationals from Bangladesh, Taliban factions are manoeuvring for foreign terrorist fighters in Afghanistan,
Monitoring Team of the United Nations India, Myanmar and Pakistan,” says the advantage, with the Haqqani Network with their numbers estimated at
Security Council (UNSC) says that foreign report. While AQIS capabilities were cornering most of the influential posts in 3,0004,000, and mostly located along B A new report from the
terrorist organisations continue to enjoy “assessed as still weakened from losses as the administration. the east and southeast Analytical Support and
safe haven under the new Taliban a result of the October 2015 joint United AfghanistanPakistan border areas. Sanctions Monitoring Team
regime. The report adds that due to StatesAfghan raid in Kandahar’s How are ethnic dynamics in the Among all the foreign extremist groups in of the UNSC says that
AP foreign terrorist
financial constraints, and possibly under *
Shorabak district”, the outfit has also administration? Afghanistan, it is the TTP that has
organisations continue to
political pressure not to embarrass the team relied on consultations with UN been forced to adopt a “less aggressive The report believes the Kandahari benefited the most from the Taliban enjoy safe haven under the
Taliban internationally at this juncture, member states, international and posture” due to financial constraints. The (Durrani) Taliban to be in the ascendancy takeover. The report also notes that the Taliban regime. It adds that
the terrorist groups are currently in regional organisations, private sector report notes that the name change of the among the Taliban leadership, with Kabul airport attack of August 26 has the terrorist groups are not
consolidation mode and not likely to financial institutions, and the work of AQIS magazine from ‘NawaiAfghan Pashtuns getting precedence over elevated the Islamic State in Iraq and the likely to launch major
launch major attacks outside Afghanistan bodies such as the United Nations Jihad’ to ‘NawaeGazwaheHind’ nonPashtuns. Several key Tajik and LevantKhorasan (ISILK) to be the most attacks outside Afghanistan
before 2023. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. suggests a “refocussing of AQIS from Uzbek commanders in the north have prominent Daesh affiliate in the region. before 2023.
Afghanistan to Kashmir”. been replaced with Pashtuns from the While its activity declined towards the
What is the mandate of the What does the report say about south, and these decisions have come end of 2021, the group has grown in B Two Indiafocussed
monitoring team and how did it terrorist organisations that pose a What about internal tensions? against the backdrop of an “organised strength through prison releases and new terrorist groups,
collect data? threat to India? The foremost internal division in the campaign by Pashtuns to dislodge ethnic recruitments. Meanwhile, alQaeda JaishiMohammed (JiM)
The monitoring team assists the UNSC Two Indiafocussed terrorist groups, Taliban is between the moderate and Tajik, Turkmen and Uzbek communities continues to enjoy a close relationship and LashkareTaiba (LeT),
sanctions committee. Its report, JaishiMohammed ( JiM) and hardline blocs. While the moderate bloc) from rich agricultural land in the north”. with the Taliban, celebrating the latter’s are reported to have
training camps in
circulated among committee members, LashkareTaiba (LeT), are reported to wants working relationships with foreign Internal cohesion within the Taliban success by “renewing its pledge of
Afghanistan.
informs the formulation of UN strategy in have training camps in Afghanistan. partners and integration with the was easier to maintain during the allegiance to Hibatullah”. Noting that
Afghanistan. India is currently the chair While the JiM “maintains eight training international system, the hardliners insurgency period, when there was a neither ISILK nor the alQaeda are
of the sanctions committee, which camps in Nangarhar, three of which are (consisting of senior Taliban leaders “compelling common cause to expel “believed to be capable of mounting B TehreekeTaliban
Pakistan (TTP) constitutes
comprises all the 15 UNSC members. This directly under Taliban control,” the LeT centralised around Hibatullah foreign forces from Afghanistan”, the international attacks before 2023 at the
the largest component of
report — the 13th overall — is the first was “said to maintain three camps in Akhundzada) have a more ideological report notes. But now that they are in earliest,” the report concludes that their foreign terrorist fighters in
since the Taliban returned to power in Kunar and Nangarhar”. Both the groups stance, with little interest in international power, “the Taliban’s core identity of a presence, along with the presence of Afghanistan, with their
August 2021. The UN team could not visit enjoy close links with the Taliban relations. Independent of both these Pashtun nationalist cause dominated by other terrorist groups on Afghan soil, numbers estimated at
Afghanistan for evidencegathering. This leadership, with the LeT having a history blocs is the Haqqani Network which, southern Taliban has again come to the remain a matter of grave concern for 3,0004,000.
is the first of its reports not informed by of providing finance and training while more aligned with the hardliners, is fore, generating tension and conflict with neighbouring countries and the wider
official Afghan briefings. Instead, the expertise to Taliban operations. inclined towards a pragmatic rather than other ethnic groups.” international community.
CM M ND-NDE
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
All the world needs now is love FROM THE ARCHIVES
When the going gets tough, simply sink into the pages of some literary love stories to temporarily
Know your
forget the strife-ridden world around you
Soma Basu turn the pages of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in others, she shows how life can fall into a beautiful
English
the Time of Cholera. The Nobel Prize winning symmetry despite bickering.
The world always needs love. In troubled times author weaves a lingering teenage passion of two Released on valentine’s day in 1970, Eric Segal’s “Good morning, sir”.
even more. Two years on from the start of the young lovers, Florentino and Fermina who are Love Story is about two college students from “Good morning.”
COVID19 pandemic, there has been so much compelled to part because the girl’s father different worlds brought together in the “Sir, is there a difference between ‘Ask him
suffering and uncertainty that it is time we shed disapproves of their relationship. The two live unlikeliest of ways. Their deep love and respect whether he can come tomorrow’ and ‘Ask
negativity and immerse into the most relatable separate lives till they meet again in old age — that for each other enables them to overcome the him if he can come tomorrow?’”
thoughts about the beauty of life and falling in is, after the girl marries an accomplished doctor adversities they encounter in life: from severing “ ‘Ask him whether he can come tomor
love. committed to the eradication of cholera, and is ties with parents, finding jobs, completing row’ means ‘Ask him whether he can come
For those who followed the music of the sixties, later widowed. The master of magical realism that education, fighting disease and finally death that tomorrow or not’. There is a choice in this.
lyricist Hal David’s uplifting song, “What the Marquez is, he explores what it means to be breaks the illusion that all love stories have the You use whether when there are alternatives.
world needs now is love; It’s the only thing that faithful in the 1985 novel. ‘lived happily thereafter’ kind of ending. It is the In the sentence with ‘whether’, you are inter
there’s just too little of…No, not just for some but Though Florentino whiles away the years of strength of their love that helps to accept and ested in finding out the convenience of the
for everyone”, couldn’t sound truer six decades separation in multiple affairs, he reserves his acknowledge love as a beautiful understanding of other person. You may change the day if ‘to
on. heart for his teenage love. He purposefully attends a different level — where no action is meant to morrow’ is not suitable to him. The second
the funeral of his lover’s husband and after 59 hurt and no apology is needed. sentence with ‘if ’ implies that tomorrow is
The universal language of love years, nine months and four days, once again what is convenient to you. The emphasis here
There are songs, movies, poems on the theme of proclaims his love for her. Both give each other a Through the ups and downs is on your convenience. It almost amounts to
love that make the world go round. But nothing second chance. John Green’s The Fault In Our Stars recognises saying ‘Tomorrow is convenient to me. Please
can remind us better of love’s universal appeal, CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
the simple pleasures in life and asks us to make come tomorrow’. You use ‘whether’ when
inherent strength and an innate strangeness than the best of the days available and not let you are prepared for any answer. You are not
literature. Each love story written is different and Each love story written is different and is unfairness strip us of our desires. It helps us to emphasising your point of view. You leave it
is not necessarily always about romance. It can be not necessarily always about romance. It realise that we all get a chance to lead a good life if to the person concerned. You use if when you
as much about our feelings and concern for can be as much about our feelings and we allow it for ourselves. show a preference for a particular answer.
friends, family, pets, environment, strangers and concern for friends, family, pets, Olive Kitterbridge by Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Find out whether he approves of this.
even our own self. Revelations and betrayals in environment, strangers and even our own Strout is about a cantankerous woman, often Find out if he approves of this.
relationships of love aren’t trivial either but help self given to bouts of bad temper towards her Find out whether he is at home.
to make this special emotion a combination of longsuffering pharmacist husband. But his love Find out if he is at home”.
thoughtfulness, appreciation and selflessness. It is not without reason why Jane Austen’s Pride for her — and, also her’s for him, however “Sir, what is a ‘moot’ point?”
Books from yore to present are perfect examples. and Prejudice spawns more than 200 years of strangely it is expressed — is never in doubt, and “A moot point is a debatable point. It is so
From Shakespeare’s Romeo Juliet to Charlotte adaptations. The 1813 novel examines the idea and forms the fulcrum point of their life. Each time mething that has not been settled or decided.
Bronte’s Jane Eyre or Leo Tolstoy’s Anna the reality of love as the novel’s protagonists find you read it, you find something new to admire It is a point or a question over which there is
Karenina that we have grown up reading are some it hard to get into a contented relationship. about their love. disagreement. Whether nationalisation of in
of literature’s epic stories that teach and celebrate Through a comedy of folly, Austen beautifully Every writers’ perspective on love takes a dustries is really good is a moot point”.
love in all its forms. captures what people eternally long for in a different hue, but what remains at the core is love “It has been very hot this year, sir. We need
What with rising complaints of marital discord relationship — to be truly valued by someone. Her as an endearment that shines through to be the some rains”.
and digital infidelity collapsing family ties in passages communicate the importance of love in rule and not an exception — especially when you “We certainly need rain. When ‘rain’ is
present times, it would be a wonderful idea to peoples’ lives. With faults of some and virtues of are engulfed in crises. used in the plural it refers to the rainy season.
The rains came.
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‘we are expecting rains’. We are expecting
THE DAILY QUIZ rain means we are expecting some showers.
We are expecting rains, means we are looking
Since 2001, June 1 has been observed as World Milk Day to recognise its importance as a global food. A quiz on forward to the monsoon”.
all things milk “What is the meaning of ‘He is being led by
the nose’, sir?”
“ ‘To lead someone by the nose’ means ‘to
F In which major sporting event is there a tradition of the champion
1 In Greek mythology,
whose milk was said to
have created the milky way?
5 The Russians had a way of
keeping milk from going
consuming milk after claiming the title? The latest one happened on May 29.
*
USA TODAY SPORTS
make one submit to your wishes completely’.
If X is led by the nose by Y, then Y has com
sour by dropping which animal plete control over X. One is led by the nose
into the liquid?
when he is weakwilled. Some animals like
2 What is the term used
for the disaccharide that Please send in your answers to the dailyquiz@thehindu.co.in asses are led by their noses.
makes up around 2–8% of
milk (by weight) and gets its
6 In the history of milk, what
is the contribution of Gail
Borden Jr.? Questions (abridged) and Answers to the previous day’s daily quiz: 1. This is
Shakespeare in Othello (Act I, Scene iii)
says:
name from the Latin for
the first WHO Treaty adopted under article 19 of the WHO constitution. Ans: The Moor is of a free
milk?
7 Made from ewe's milk,
name the cheese named
The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
2. The R in MPOWER, a policy package intended to assist in the countrylevel
and open nature
That thinks men honest
3 Name the historic
largest dairy
development programme
after a town in France.
implementation of effective interventions to reduce the demand for tobacco, that but seems to be so,
launched in January 1970
that transformed India from
8 Fill in the blank: _______ is
the first form of milk
produced by mammals
stands for this. Ans: Raise taxes on tobacco
3. The expansion of TNCO. Ans: Tar, Nicotine and Carbon monoxide
And will as tenderly
be led by the nose
a milk deficient nation into (including humans)
4. In 2010, this tobacco company filed a complaint against Uruguay because of As asses are......’
the world's largest milk immediately following the its antismoking legislation. Ans: Philip Morris International “Well, let’s stop here. Goodbye”.
producer. delivery of the newborn. 5. This country was the first to introduce plain tobacco packaging. Ans: “Thank you, sir. Goodbye”.
Australia
4 Name the landmark
1976 Shyam Benegal
film inspired by the milk
9 What are the two major
types of protein in milk?
6. The collective name of the six largest tobacco companies. Ans: Big Tobacco
7. This country is planning to ban the sale of tobacco to its next generation. Ans:
cooperative movement New Zealand
that was entirely Visual: This type of cigarette and the term that is associated with smoking these For feedback and suggestions for
crowdfunded by nearly cigarettes. Ans: Electronic cigarette, vaping Text & Context, please write to
5,00,000 dairy farmers.
letters@thehindu.co.in with the
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FROM PAGE ONE
Teacher shot dead in

Both sides move court over video leak IN BRIEF
Plaintiffs return envelopes ‘without breaking the seal’; masjid panel yet to receive copy of video survey
J&K in targeted killing Abhinay Lakshman Following this, Jitendra to the court. Based on these
New Delhi Singh, plaintiff Rakhi Singh’s leaks, the Hindu side had
Earlier this month, militants in Baramulla was also In the Gyanvapi Mosque uncle, filed an application claimed the discovery of a
killed six civilians, including busted. 2024 polls will be ‘no
Kashi Vishwanath Temple before the court, claiming Shivling, while the Muslim
a Kashmiri Pandit em Two local JeM militants entry’ for BJP: Mamata
dispute, the Hindu and Mus that “antinational ele side had said the structure in KOLKATA
ployee, a woman artist, a were killed in an overnight lim parties on Tuesday ap ments” were behind the leak question was part of the Calling for defeating the BJP
wine shop employee and gunfight in Pulwama’s Raj proached the District Court and thus sought a probe by fountain inside the mosque’s in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls,
three policemen, in six sep pora village. “The killed mil in Varanasi seeking an inves the Central Bureau of Investi wuzu khana. West Bengal Chief Minister
arate targeted attacks in the itants were identified as Sha tigation into how the con gation in the matter. After this first leak, the Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday
Valley. hid Rather of Tral and Umar tents of the video survey of Senior advocate Mumtaz masjid committee had ap said that “2024 will be no
The killing of policeman Yousuf of Shopian. Besides the mosque premises were Ahmed, representing the proached the Supreme entry for the BJP”. Ms.
Saifullah Qadri outside his other terror crimes, Shahid leaked to the media and in masjid committee, said they Court, which had trans Banerjee targeted the BJP
house on May 24 in Srina was involved in the killing of the public domain. too had filed an application ferred the suit to a district government on the economic
gar’s Soura saw the security a woman, Shakeela of Ari This comes a day after Dis seeking a thorough investiga court in Varanasi. The dis front, saying “The BJPled
forces stepping up opera pal, and government em trict and Sessions Judge A.K. Murky waters: Hindu plaintiffs accompanied by their tion of the leak, saying it was trict court is currently hear government at the Centre is
tions against militants. Six ployee Javid Ahmed of Lur Vishvesha accepted an un advocates on their way to court in Varanasi on Monday. *
PTI a blatant violation of the ing a suit filed by five Hindu adulterated. It has destroyed
teen militants have been gam Tral,” Inspector dertaking from both sides court’s orders. women, seeking the right to the country’s economy
killed since then in the Val General of Police Vijay Ku that they will not copy or Masjid Committee is yet to plaintiffs on Monday. “But Significantly, this is not pray at a Hindu shrine be through disastrous decisions
ley. The police claimed that mar said. leak the contents of the sur receive a copy of the video before we could open it, we the first time that the con hind the Gyanvapi mosque’s like demonetisation.”
among the slain militants in A total of around 27 mili vey upon receiving it from survey, its lawyers said. already started seeing on tents of the video survey western wall all yearround.
cluded those behind four tants were killed in Kashmir the court. Under these con Ranjana Agnihotri, one of news channels that it had have been leaked. Earlier, Meanwhile, Nikhil Upad Adityanath compares
target killings, including the this month, taking their ditions, the court had on the lawyers for the Hindu been leaked. So, on Tuesday when a civil court in Varana hyay, son of BJP leader Ash Akhilesh to Rahul Gandhi
cases of Kashmiri Pandit death toll to around 90 for Monday handed over copies plaintiffs in the dispute, said we returned the envelopes si had ordered the survey, wini Kumar Upadhyay, has
LUCKNOW
employee Rahul Bhat, artist this year, as militancy shows Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister

of the survey to the Hindu the sealed envelopes with to the court just as we re parts of the video survey filed an application before
Amreen Bhat and two poli no letup despite stringent Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday
plaintiffs. discs of the video survey ceived them — without were leaked even before the the district court seeking to while taunting Samajwadi
cemen. Besides, the module security measures and anti The Anjuman Intezamia were handed over to the breaking the seal.” survey report was submitted be arrayed as a plaintiff. Party president Akhilesh
behind the wine shop attack militancy operations.
Yadav compared him to
Congress leader Rahul
‘JuneSept. rainfall likely ‘Indus water talks Chhattisgarh J&K leader Bhim Gandhi. The only difference

between them was that while
Cong. to hold Mr. Gandhi spoke ill of the
to be 103% of the average’ held on ‘cordial’ terms’ two-day camp Singh passes away

country while he was abroad
Mr. Yadav spoke ill of Uttar
Pradesh when he was outside
The southwest monsoon vourable for the monsoon. the State, said the Chief
seasonal rainfall over the “Other factors are expected Both sides to resolve issues. says MEA Shubhomoy Sikdar Minister.
monsoon core zone, which to compensate and that’s Raipur/Bhopal Leaders across spectrum mourn him
consists of most of the rain why we expect the mon Suhasini Haidar The Chhattisgarh Congress CPWD engineers protest
ed agriculture regions, is al soon rains to be within the NEW DELHI will hold a twoday Nav San- Special Correspondent against senior officer
so most likely to be ‘above normal range of 96104% of SRINAGAR
Indian and Pakistani nego kalp Shivir in Raipur from NEW DELHI
normal’ or more than 106% the LPA,” he added. tiators ended another round Wednesday to implement Bhim Singh, 81, founder of A joint forum of Central
of its historical average. The most important of talks as part of the Indus the decisions taken for the the Jammu and Kashmir Na Public Works Department
M. Mohapatra, Director monsoon months, for agri (CPWD) engineers’
Water Treaty on “cordial” party’s organisational over tional Panthers Party, died
General, IMD, told The Hin- culture, are July and August associations on Tuesday held
terms, said the Ministry of haul at the Udaipur Chintan on Tuesday morning.
protests across the country to
du that the expectation of though the IMD is expected External Affairs (MEA), de Shivir held nearly a fort Mr. Singh, a lawyer by
demand action against a
increased rains was largely to announce the forecast for scribing the 118th meeting of night ago. profession, has been unwell senior officer, who allegedly
premised on La Nina condi July only by the end of June. the Permanent Indus Com But the controversy over for some time and was ad had two CPWD engineers
tions prevailing through the Were monsoon rains to be mission that took place in denial of Rajya Sabha tickets mitted to the Government detained during an inspection
monsoon month. In April, it normal this season, it would Delhi on May 30 and 31. to local candidates has led to Medical College, Jammu. in Jammu and Kashmir last
was expected that the ongo be the fourth consecutive The MEA did not give any The Indus seen on its course some resentment among Prime Minister Narendra week. The forum also
ing La Nina conditions year of ‘normal’ or ‘above details on the issues that from Leh to ladakh. workers and that could cast Modi said in a tweet, “Prof. Bhim Singh submitted a memorandum to
would transition to neutral normal’ rainfall. were on the agenda for dis *
SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT a shadow on the event. Bhim Singh Ji will be re Housing and Urban Affairs
conditions. La Nina is the The ‘normal’ monsoon cussion, including Pakis Chief Minister Bhupesh membered as a grassroots sections of society in and Minister Hardeep Puri calling
converse phenomenon of rains don’t imply that all tan’s request for floodflow sides to interact frequently Baghel downplayed the is leader who devoted his life outside the State legislature. for “appropriate disciplinary
the El Nino and is character months would see well dis data sharing and objections and resolve issues through sue as he accompanied the for the welfare of Jammu At a time when polarisation action” against Shri
ised by a cooler than normal tributed rains. In 2021, for to hydropower projects bilateral discussions under party nominees — Ranjeet and Kashmir. He was very and divisiveness has domi Amarnathji Shrine Board CEO
sea surface temperatures in instance, August stared at a planned on “western rivers” the Indus Water Treaty,” the Ranjan and Rajeev Shukla— well read and scholarly. I nated the political arena, he Nitishwar Kumar.
the central Pacific. 24% deficit but September, in Jammu & Kashmir. MEA said after the meetings to file their nominations on will always recall my inte stood for communal harmo
“An influential factor usually the month that sees However, it said that the between sixmember dele Tuesday. ractions with him. Sad ny and fought tooth and nail Defence Ministry signs
called the Indian Ocean Di the least rainfall, saw excess annual report of the Com gations on either side led by Hitting back at the BJP dened by his demise. Con against the forces who are ₹2,971 cr. missile deal
pole is expected to be nega rains, similar to what was mission for the previous the new Indian Commis which had made the issue of dolences to his family and hell bent upon dividing the NEW DELHI
tive and is considered not fa observed in 2019 and 2020. year had been finalised and sioner for Indus Waters A.K. “outsider” for the Rajya Sab supporters. Om Shanti.” people and regions on the The Defence Ministry on
signed, indicating some Pal, and Syed Muhammad ha elections, Mr. Baghel Jammu and Kashmir par communal lines,” Commu Tuesday signed a contract
with defence public sector
Q4 GDP growth consensus on the way for
ward on a number of issues
that come up each year. A
Mehar Ali Shah, the Pakis
tan Commissioner for Indus
Waters, adding that they
pointed out the BJP’s “dou
ble standards” by stating
that it had fielded outsiders
ties also expressed their
condolences on the demise
of Professor Singh, who
nist Party of India (Marxist)
leader M.Y. Tarigami said.
“A man of many parts.
undertaking Bharat Dynamics
Ltd. (BDL) for supply of the
indigenously developed Astra
decelerates to 4.1% statement from Pakistan’s
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
had agreed to hold the next
meeting in Pakistan.
in U.P. There will be other
challenges also as the Udai
emerged as a major political
face to represent the aspira
Timeless, selfless and a cru
sader. He was my father’s
MkI Beyond Visual Range
(BVR) airtoair missiles at a
also added that India had The MEA’s statement pur Declaration talks of re tions of the people of the colleague and friend. From cost of ₹2,971 Crore. Air to Air
This was the first contrac that the growth rate was promised a response to its comes in contrast to pre forms such as adopting the Jammu region. riding across the Sahara on missile with BVR capability
tion in factories’ output lower than anticipated ear objections. vious, more acrimonious ‘one family, one ticket’ rule , “Professor Singh was a a motorcycle to Palestine to provides large stand off
since the massive 31.5% fall lier. For the full year, GVA “The meeting was held in statements issued by both ‘one person, one post’ leader committed to secular Iraq — Bhim Singh Ji had ranges to fighter aircraft
in the first quarter of 2020 from agriculture and the fi a cordial manner. The Com India and Pakistan, which norm. There is also the de values who fought relent friends all across,” Peoples which can neutralise the
21 amid the strict national nancial, real estate & profes mission appreciated the had detailed areas of dis claration on 50% posts to pe lessly for the rights of down Conference chief Sajad Lone adversary aircraft without
lockdowns. sional services sectors, the commitment of the two pute between the two sides. ople below 50 years of age. trodden and marginalised said. exposing itself.
Economists pointed out only two sectors that grew
that real GDP was only ‘a in 202021, rose by 3% and
Fewest Civil Service

subdued’ 1.5% higher than 4.2% in 202122, compared
preCOVID levels and
ascribed the lower than pro
jected fullyear growth to
with 3.3% and 2.2% in the
previous year, respectively.
The Finance Ministry
Fresh wave of fear hits Kashmir
the effects of the Omicron
variant of COVID19, high
commodity prices and infla
highlighted that the invest
ment rate in the economy
rose to 33.6% in Q4, the
Pandits demand relocation from the Valley till terrorism is totally wiped out recruits since 2012
tion as well as data correc
tions for the first half of the
highest since Q3 of 201920.
Moreover, though manufac
PEERZADA ASHIQ
Srinagar
demanded justice. salaries if we leave the sta recent attacks directed at un UPSC recommends 685 candidates
“We met the LG a few tion. They are forcing us to armed civilians. Words of
year. turing sector shrank from a The woman teacher’s killing days ago and demanded our rejoin offices in the Valley. condemnation and condo Vijaita Singh
A downward revision in year earlier, it grew sequen New Delhi
in Kulgam on Tuesday has relocation from the Kashmir We should not be sacrificed lence ring hollow as do the
growth rates for the first two tially at 14.2% during Q4, it sparked a fresh wave of fear Valley. Even the Inspector so cheaply,” another Pandit assurances of the govern The number of Civil Service
quarters of 202122 also af pointed out. among migrant Kashmiri General of Police said on re protester said. ment that they will not rest Examination candidates
fected the full year’s growth The recovery in invest Pandit employees recruited cord it will take two or three LieutenantGovernor Ma till the situation normalises.” shortlisted for recruitment
rate visàvis the last esti ment demand was a bright under the Prime Minister’s years to wipe out terrorism noj Sinha and top leaders of Peoples Democratic Party this year is the lowest since
mates released on February spot, said EY India’s chief special rehabilitation pack in Kashmir. The LG adminis parties in unison con president Mehbooba Mufti 2012. The reduced intake
28. The 20.3% GDP growth policy adviser and econo age, and Hindu employees tration should shift us till demned the schoolteacher’s said, “Despite GoI’s [Govern comes at a time when the
estimated earlier for Q1 was mist D.K. Srivastava. Howev from Jammu recruited under then,” a Pandit, who partici killing. Mr. Sinha said the ter ment of India’s] fake claims Centre is facing an acute
pared to 20.1%, while the er, the contribution of net the Scheduled Caste quota. pated in a protest at Shivpora rorists and their sympathis about Kashmir being normal shortage of All India Servic
same number was revised to exports to real GDP growth Hundreds of Kashmiri in Srinagar, said. ers would be given an unfor it is obvious that targeted ci es (AIS) officers who are will Office of the UPSC in New
8.4% from 8.5% for Q2. was negative at ()2.9%. and Pandits blocked highways in Scores of Pandits threa gettable response for the vilian killings are on the rise ing, or available, to serve in Delhi. R.V. MOORTHY
*
Chief Economic Adviser although private final con Kulgam and Srinagar to tened to go on a mass migra dastardly attack. and a deep cause of concern. Union government.
V. Anantha Nageswaran said sumption expenditure grew press the demand for reloca tion if the government failed National Conference vice Condemn this act of cowar The Union Public Service ment’s policy of
the real GDP numbers were 7.9% in 202122, its magni tion from the Valley. They to transfer them. president Omar Abdullah dice which sadly plays into Commission (UPSC) recom “rightsizing” human
pretty much in line with ear tude was only ₹1.2 lakh shouted slogans against the “The administration is said, “This is yet another tar the vicious antiMuslim nar mended only 685 from resources.
lier estimates, so it was diffi crore higher than 201920, LieutenantGovernor and threatening us to hold our geted killing in a long list of rative spun by the BJP.” among the candidates who Of the nearly five lakh
cult to make the argument he pointed out. took the examination in candidates who took the
2021 for appointment to the preliminary examination in
Centre clears ₹86,912 Webinar on mechanical engineering held Indian Administrative Ser

vice (IAS), the Indian Fo
reign Service (IFS), the In
October 2021, 9,214 qualified
to sit for the main examina
tion. A total of 1,824 later ap
crore of GST dues The lines separating it with other disciplines are blurring fast, says a speaker
dian Police Service (IPS) and
Group A and B of the Central
peared for the personality
test. Nearly 10 lakh candi
Services. dates had registered for the
In April, the Ministry had 14% compounded growth Special Correspondent Dayananda Sagar College of vernment departments, exam.
pegged the outstanding GST whereas the Cess collection CHENNAI Engineering. He further research organisations and Gradual decrease Earlier this year, the De
compensation dues for did not increase in the same The webinar on ‘Mechanical spoke about the inclusion of companies that require me In 2014, 1,236 candidates partment of Personnel and
202122 at ₹78,704 crore, proportion, [and] COVID19 engineering in the digital interdisciplinary courses chanical engineering talent. were recommended, and in Training (DoPT) had pro
equivalent to four months of further increased the gap era’ organised by Dayananda and how handson engineer He reiterated that the oppor 2012, 998. In 2013, 2015, posed amendments to the
such accruals. So dues had between protected revenue Sagar institutions and The ing experience is the best tunities for meaningful engi 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and Indian Administrative Ser
been remitted to States for and the actual revenue re Hindu held recently, had ex way to equip students for the neering work are plentiful, 2020, the number stood at vice (Cadre) Rules, 1954 re
the AprilNovember eight ceipt including reduction in perts discuss and encourage marketplace. and that almost every indus 1,122, 1,078, 1,099, 990, 759, lating to the Central deputa
month period. cess collection,” the Minis the audience to look at me try requires a mechanical 829 and 761, respectively. tion of IAS officers.
Citing an inadequate ba try said. chanical engineering from a Job opportunities engineering backbone. “You The number of candi Through the amend
lance in the GST Compensa The Telangana govern different perspective. The mostasked question just have to know where to dates selected has fallen ments, IAS, IPS and Indian
tion Cess account, the Mi ment is, however, contest “The industry has grown from the audience, who look”, he added. sharply and posts advertised Forest Service officers could
nistry had said the pending ing the Centre’s calculation to be interdisciplinary. The tuned into the webinar, was The panelists further for recruitment has declined be deputed to the Union go
amount would be released of dues to the State. “There boundaries separating me about the job opportunities quelled concerns and fears gradually. vernment and Ministries
“as and when amount from is something wrong with chanical engineering and through what mechanical available at present for me that mechanical engineering For 2021, the government without necessarily taking
cess accrues in the compen GOI calculations,” Chief Se other types of engineering engineering looks like in to chanical engineering jobs were disappearing. reported 749 vacancies. In the State government’s nod.
sation fund”. The Compen cretary Somesh Kumar said. such as electrical, civil and day’s world. graduates. They spoke about how in the 2020, as against 836 vacan The DoPT has said that
sation Cess is levied over Telangana, which has re biomedical are blurring A fastchanging industry Anand Badiger, Assistant age of automation, artificial cies, only 761 were selected. the State governments have
and above the peak 28% rate ceived ₹296 crore, has de fast,” said Dinakaran, Head, calls for innovations in the Professor, Mechanical Engi intelligence (AI) and electric In 2019, there were 927 va not been sponsoring adeq
on luxury or ‘sin’ goods, in cided to write to the Centre, Department of Mechatron way the subject is taught to neering, Dayananda Sagar vehicles (EV), mechanical cancies and 829 selections. uate number of officers for
cluding cars. Mr. Kumar added. ics, Hindustan Institute of students, said M.R. Hasee College of Engineering ad engineering skills remain co A senior government offi Central deputation to meet
“The States’ protected re (With inputs from Tech and Science while buddin, Associate Professor, dressed this with a compre veted in all kinds of compa cial said the reduction in in the requirements of the Go
venue has been growing at M. Rajeev, Hyderabad) walking the audience Mechanical Engineering, hensive walkthrough of go nies. take followed the govern vernment of India.
CM M ND-NDE
YK
THE HINDU
DELHI
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India, China to hold next round of talks

Disengagement at Patrolling Point 15 in the Hot Springs had become a contentious topic last time
Ananth Krishnan Tuesday said both had He said China was “not
Hong Kong
agreed to “resolve the re that interested in the chang
India and China on Tuesday maining issues in the West es of the ranking in trade vol
agreed to hold the next ern Section of the border in ume” referring to the U.S. re
round of talks between se accordance with the princi placing China as India’s
nior military commanders to ple of mutual and equal se biggest trading partner ac
continue the slowmoving curity.” Asked about the im cording to India’s Ministry of
disengagement process pact of the border issue on Commerce data for the fi
along the Line of Actual Con trade and investment, Fo nancial year 202122. He said
trol (LAC). reign Ministry spokesperson according to China’s statis
Officials from the two Zhao Lijian said China “al tics for the calendar year Brigadier Ashok Abbey (retd.) releasing the book by J. Ramanan (second from left) and Vrinda
sides, during the 24th meet ways believes that the boun 2021 “China remains India’s Ramanan (left), in the presence of N. Ravi (centre), Chairman, Kasturi and Sons Ltd., and
ing of the Working Mechan dary question doesn’t repre largest trading partner” and Malini Parthasarathy, (right), Chairperson, THG Publishing, on Tuesday. JOTHI RAMALINGAM B. *
ism for Consultation and sent the whole of “the disparity in trade fi
Coordination (WMCC) on
border affairs held virtually,
reviewed the LAC situation
Call for consensus: Officials agreed to continue discussions to
resolve the remaining issues along the LAC. FILE PHOTO *
ChinaIndia relations and we
should put it in an appro
priate position in bilateral
gures published by China
and India is a result of diffe
rent statistical measurement
‘Promote Indian Himalayan
and agreed to “continue the manders meeting at an early viously suggested they ex relations.” scales”.
discussions through diplo
matic and military channels
to resolve the remaining is
date to achieve the objective
of complete disengagement
from all friction points along
pected resolution at PP15 at
an early date, but differences
in Demchok and Depsang,
On ongoing probes of
Chinese telecom majors in
India, including Xiaomi, ZTE
“What we care about is
whether the Indian side has
the will and takes real ac
range for mountaineering’
sues along the LAC at the ear the LAC in the Western Sec the two other remaining and Vivo, Mr. Zhao said Beij tions to create a fair, transpa
liest so as to create condi tor,” the MEA added. areas, were more ing “is closely following the rent and sound environment ExArmy officer releases book brought out by The Hindu
tions for restoration of Both sides failed to pronounced. situation” and that “the In for bilateral trade and invest
normalcy in bilateral rela achieve a breakthrough in The two sides discussed dian side should act in accor ment, further expand mu Staff Reporter Chairman, Kasturi and Sons Indians and those of other
CHENNAI
tions,” the Ministry of Exter the 15th round of talks held the LAC during Chinese Fo dance with laws and regula tuallybeneficial cooperation Ltd., and Malini Parthasa nationalities spent huge
nal Affairs said. on March 11, when they dis reign Minister Wang Yi’s tions and provide a fair, just between the two sides and There is a need to promote rathy, Chairperson, THG Pu sums of money for mountai
“In this context, they cussed disengagement at Pa March 25 visit to New Delhi. and nondiscriminatory bu deliver tangible benefits to the Himalayan range in India blishing Pvt. Ltd., at a func neering in Nepal, he said. In
agreed to hold the next (16th) trolling Point 15 in the Hot The Chinese Foreign Mi siness environment for Chi the two countries and two as a mountaineering desti tion organised at the office dia could also benefit greatly
round of the Senior Com Springs area. Officials pre nistry in a statement on nese companies.” peoples,” he said. nation, just as Nepal is doing of The Hindu. if there was an adequate im
in the case of the mountains There was a mispercep petus to promote mountai
within its borders, Brigadier tion that the Himalayas are neering in the Indian Hima
BJP steps in to end bickering in W.B. unit

Ashok Abbey (retd.), who synonymous with Nepal, layan region.
had served as the president and India has only a part of The former Army officer
of the Indian Mountaineer them. While some of the said the coffee table book,
ing Foundation (IMF), said in highest mountains, includ with photographs by J. Ra
Chennai on Tuesday. ing Mount Everest, were manan and commentary by
Party censures former State president Dilip Ghosh, asks him to ‘not go to media or any other fora’ Releasing Mountains of there in Nepal, India, on the Vrinda Ramanan, both
our destiny, The Himalayas other hand, had diversity trained mountaineers, could
Shiv Sahay Singh “While your commitment Bengal, where the BJP won the bypolls since May 2021 — an expedition to the In- from Arunachal Pradesh till contribute greatly towards
KOLKATA to the party has been abso 18 Lok Sabha seats in 2019 but two of its MPs Babul Su dian range brought out by Ladakh. this, as it comprehensively
The BJP national leadership lute, there have been some from only two in 2014. priyo in September 2021 and the special publications divi “Mount Everest is not the covered the Indian Hima
has weighed in to stop the avoidable instances when Arjun Singh in May 2022 sion of The Hindu, he said beall and endall of moun layan range unlike most oth
ongoing bickering and pu some of your statements or Public spat have joined the TMC. Almost the book had come at the taineering… There are er books on the topic.
blic spat in party’s West Ben outbursts have anguished Sukanta Majumdar, relative half a dozen of MLAs elected right time when adventure mountains that are more He said a copy of the book
gal unit by censuring former the state party leaders and ly a newcomer in politics was on BJP’s ticket have also de tour operators in India were challenging and difficult,” should be present in the of
State president and national have also caused embarrass Mr. Ghosh’s choice for his re cided to switch sides and looking for Indians and fo Brigadier Abbey said. fices of the Ministry of Tou
vicepresident Dilip Ghosh. ment to the central leader placement. However, soon a join the State’s ruling party. reigners to carry out expedi Nepal promoted the Hi rism, the IMF, all the moun
Party national general se ship of the BJP. These were public spat ensued between Critics of Dilip Ghosh both tions in the Indian Hima malayas zealously as reve taineering clubs and Indian
cretary Arun Singh has writ pointed out to you on several him and Mr. Ghosh as the in the BJP and in Opposition layas post COVID19. nue from mountaineering diplomatic missions abroad
ten a strongly worded letter occasions by the party lea Medinipur MP went on tar parties accuse him of making The book was released in contributed significantly to to showcase the mountai
to Mr. Ghosh advising him dership in the fond hope that geting him. Mr. Ghosh has unwarranted statements just the presence of N. Ravi, its Gross Domestic Product. neering potential in India.
“to refrain from going to the you will take note given your Dilip Ghosh is credited for the said that Mr. Majumdar was to generate headlines and re
media or any public fora, standing and stature are ex BJP’s rise in West Bengal. *
“relatively inexperienced” in main relevant. However, a
about your own colleagues
either in West Bengal or
anywhere else”.
pected to inspire, lead, di
rect and hold together your and conduct, is unaccepta
own party colleagues at all ble.,” the communication
politics and will learn in due
course of time. Mr. Ghosh
had also objected to certain
section of BJP leaders in
West Bengal says that Mr.
Ghosh is the only BJP presi
BJP to have no Muslim face in House
Mr. Singh added that the levels,” stated the letter dat added. suspension in the State unit dent that has increased par Special Correspondent Muslim member in either Syed Zafar Islam and journal
communication was at the ed May 30. Mr. Ghosh had held the that was carried out by Mr. ty’s vote share to 40 % in NEW DELHI House of Parliament as the istturnedpolitician M.J. Ak
instructions of party’s na “Statements coming from post of party president in Majumdar. 2019 Lok Sabha polls and es The absence of the name of current round of Upper bar — are all completing their
tional president J.P. Nadda a person of your stature, a West Bengal for five years till Ever since the party’s de tablished BJP as the principal Union Minister for Minority House polls conclude. tenures by July and unless re
and it said that the party ex national vicepresident, may September 2021, till he was feat at the hands of Trina Opposition party in the Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Till the Budget Session, nominated, will end up with
pressed “deep anguish and create deep disaffection, un replaced by party’s Balurgh mool Congress in 2021 As State. When contacted, Mr. from the list of BJP nominees the BJP had three Muslim BJP having no Muslim face in
concern at the issuance of rest and alienation among at MP Sukanta Majumdar. sembly polls, BJP’s prospects Ghosh said that he is yet to to the Rajya Sabha, as his MPs; all, however, in the Ra Parliament. Mr. Islam is retir
such statements” by Mr. party ranks, which given the Mr. Ghosh is largely credited in the State are on a decline. receive the communication own term ends, will mean jya Sabha. These MPs — Mr. ing on July 4 and Mr. Akbar
Ghosh. norms of political behaviour for the party’s rise in West Not only has the BJP lost all from the BJP leadership. that the party will have no Naqvi, BJP spokesperson on June 29.
Special CBI court in Delhi
summons D.K. Shivakumar
Judge takes cognisance of charges
Staff Reporter
New Delhi
A Special CBI court in Delhi
on Tuesday took cognisance
of a chargesheet filed by the
Enforcement Directorate
(ED) against Congress lead
er D.K. Shivakumar in a mo
ney laundering case that
originated from a prosecu
tion complaint filed by the
Income Tax authorities in
2018 on allegations of tax D.K. Shivakumar
evasion and facilitating ha
wala transactions. case was triggered by the
Special CBI judge Vikas chargesheet filed by the In
Dhull took cognisance of come Tax authorities in
charges under Section 3 of 2018. The probe agency has
the Prevention of Money alleged that a large amount
Laundering Act, Special Pu of Mr. Shivakumar’s wealth
blic Prosecutor Nitesh Rana was created between 2014
said, adding that Mr. Shiva and 2018 during his tenure
kumar had also been sum as the Power Minister of the
moned by the court in this Karnataka government and
case on July 1. contracts granted during
The ED had filed this this time are under the
chargesheet before a Delhi agency’s scanner. Moreover,
court last week. The probe the ED has said that con
agency had also arrested Mr. tracts granted to companies
Shivakumar in this case in while Mr. Shivakumar was
September 2019, following the Urban Development Mi
which the Congress leader nister between 1999 and
was granted bail. 2004 are also under their
Significantly, the ED’s scanner.
‘They will
keep troubling
us till polls’
Special Correspondent
SRINAGAR
Former Jammu & Kashmir

CM and National Confe
rence (NC) president Fa
rooq Abdullah, who ap
peared before the
Enforcement Directorate in
Srinagar on Tuesday, said
such summons “will keep
troubling us till elections
are held”. “I don’t want to
say anything . Till the elec
tions are held, they will
keep troubling us,” Dr. Ab
dullah said.
CM M ND-NDE
YK
14 NEWS DELHI

THE HINDU
‘Working to build new Sri Lankan flights make refuelling halts

India, not vote bank’ Due to fuel shortages in the island nation, they stop at Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, say sources
Murali N. Krishnaswamy
Chennai
A330300s. The govern
mentowned carrier started
large Indian airport from Sri
Lanka, an air distance of 357
mander who flies Airbus air
craft, while the fuel uplift for
PM Modi releases 11th instalment of PMKisan scheme Sri Lankan Airlines has be the first of these approxi km. Some other flights that a 10hour flight on the Airbus
gun “technical halts” at mately 40minute transit replenished their fuel re A330 would be about 60
A.M. Jigeesh Chennai and Thiruvanan halts recently with UL454 serves in Kerala were UL553 tonnes, there would have to
New Delhi thapuram for some of its (ColomboTokyo Narita) (ColomboFrankfurt), on be additional fuel to meet
Prime Minister Narendra longhaul international landing in Chennai on May May 27, and UL606, to Syd the mandatory regulatory
Modi released the 11th instal flights which, an aviation 23. ney. The aviation source ad requirements for contingen
ment of the Pradhan Mantri source told The Hindu, were ded that another overseas cies, possible diversions and
Kisan Samman Nidhi (PMKi essentially refuelling stops Refill stops fuel stop was Dubai, for the as reserves.
san) scheme in Shimla on due to a shortage of jet fuel The 6,897km nonstop route These approximately 40 Paris flights. The aviation source also
Tuesday. Under the scheme, at the island nation’s Banda is usually covered in a little minute halts began recently, said that some international
₹6,000 is given in three ranaike International Air over eight hours. The source say sources. Official confirmation airlines operating to Sri Lan
equal instalments to all land port. said that there is a fuel refill An airline official confirmed ka could have been advised
holding farmer families. These are sectors operat on the return sector (UL455) Chennai, but this flight has a the development but no to tanker their flights to
The Centre said it would ed with the airline’s largest too. On May 27, UL604, to stopover at Thiruvananthap further details were given. avoid refuelling issues at Co
distribute ₹21,000 crore Warm welcome: Prime Minister Narendra Modi waving at the aircraft, the 297seat Airbus Melbourne, was refuelled at uram now as it is the closest According to a senior com lombo.
among more than 10 crore crowd at a roadshow in Shimla on Tuesday. PTI *
beneficiary farmer families.
Each beneficiary would get
₹2,000 each in this instal Aid too low, say farm unions YouTube Sharad bids goodbye to Lutyens’ Delhi
ment.
Addressing the beneficiar Special Correspondent Dhawale said the prices of blocked over a
ies, the Prime Minister New Delhi fertilizers have increased by
million videos ‘I am only nister V.P. Singh’s govern ed from the Rajya Sabha too.
thanked the people for giv The farmers’ organisations ₹600 to ₹700 per bag and ment to implement the Man Despite the suspension, he
ing him the opportunity to are not amused by the seeds are being sold in the moving house, dal Commission in August stayed on at 7 Tughlaq Road
serve them. He said the pre release of the 11th instalment black market. “Farmers SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT not my politics’ 1990 upended Indian polit due to a court order.
vious government consi of the PMKisan scheme. cannot afford farming.” The NEW DELHI ics. Mr. Yadav said that it was There was speculation
dered corruption as an es They argue that the coordinator of BKU Pavel Video sharing platform Sobhana K. Nair he who forced V.P. Singh’s that the Rashtriya Janata Dal
sential part of the system. amount is very less when Kussa said the decrease in YouTube blocked over a New Delhi hand. And, it was his de will offer a Rajya Sabha
He alleged that instead of compared to the losses the production of wheat million videos in India dur Socialist leader Sharad Ya mand for a castebased quo berth. He did not want his fa
fighting corruption, the then suffered by farmers in the due to early summer and ing the first three months dav has bid goodbye to Lu ta within the women’s reser rewell from the Lutyens’
government succumbed to it recent past. All India Kisan heatwave is not yet of this year – more than any tyens’ Delhi after nearly four vation Bill that necessitated Zone to be tinted with re
and the money meant for Sabha president Ashok calculated. other country in the world, decades. He vacated his 7 the second UPA government gret. “All candidates for the
needy people did not reach DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD according to its Communi Tughlaq Road residence of to hold back on the law. Rajya Sabha elections have
them. ty Guidelines Enforcement 22 years on Tuesday, ending Sharad Yadav In 2011, he says, it was on already been announced so
Mr. Modi said the trinity poor have the dignity of toi a lot of damage to the coun report released on a rollercoaster career in Del his initiative that the Con why speak of it now,” he
of Jan DhanAadhaar and lets. Earlier there was help try. “We are working to build Tuesday. hi and also bringing close to Raj Rao has to shout out the gressled government start said.
mobile ensured that money lessness to raise money for a new India, not a vote As per the data shared, an era of socialist politics. questions to him. The hear ed the caste census, which As he shifts to the margins
was reaching the beneficiar treatment, today every poor bank,” he stressed. “100% YouTube removed “I am only changing hous ing challenge though does led to the SocioEconomic of Delhi to his daughter’s
ies directly in their accounts. has the support of Ayush empowerment means end 11,75,859 videos in India for es, not my politics,” were his not come in the way of clari Caste Census He came to home in Chhattarpur, his
“Earlier there was a com man Bharat. Earlier there ing discrimination, eliminat violating its Community parting words. Moments be ty of thought. In his own as Delhi 48 years ago after win wife, Rekha Yadav, says that
pulsion to suffer smoke in was a fear of triple talaq, ing recommendations, and Guidelines during January fore the trucks carrying the sessment, he will be remem ning the Jabalpur Lok Sabha it is not a final adieu to Lu
the kitchen, today there is a now there is the courage to ending appeasement. 100% March 2022 quarter. You family’s belongings trundled bered for three things: seat in Madhya Pradesh at tyens Delhi. “We will make a
facility to get LPG cylinders fight for one’s rights,” he empowerment means that Tube has Community Gui out of the house, he paused, Mandal, caste census, and, the age of 27 years in the 1974 strong comeback,” she said,
from the Ujjwala scheme. claimed. every poor gets full benefits delines that set the rules of to speak to presspersons, re ironically, stalling the wo general elections. He was ex pinning her hopes on her
Earlier there was the shame Mr. Modi maintained that from government schemes,” the road for what is not al minding them of his legacy. men’s reservation Bill. pelled from the JD(U) in daughter Ms. Rao and son
of open defecation; now the vote bank politics had done he stated. lowed on the platform. His daughter Subashini The decision by Prime Mi 2017. He was soon suspend Shantanu.
Centre to
monitor cable
Ministry brings out guidelines Second line
of lawyers
President Kovind gives New judges
for Delhi,
operators’ feed to manage monkey pox cases missing: SC away gallantry awards Calcutta HCs
Special Correspondent Press Trust of India
Late J&K Police constable honoured Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI Surveillance and rapid identification of cases suggested New Delhi Special Correspondent NEW DELHI
The Information and The Supreme Court on New Delhi The Law Ministry on Tues

Broadcasting (I&B) Minis Special correspondent body ache and profound Tuesday observed that a Jammu and Kashmir Police day elevated nine addition
try is getting devices in NEW DELHI weakness. As per the guide second line of lawyers is constable Altaf Hussain al judges of the Madras
stalled on the headend of India needs to be prepared lines, contacts should be missing in the top court Bhat and Group Captain Va High Court as permanent
cable operators across the to tackle cases of monkey monitored at least daily for and every senior advocate run Singh of the India Air judges, extended the term
country to monitor their pox in view of the increasing the onset of signs/symptoms having over 20 years of ex Force (IAF) were posthu of one additional judge by
output feed. reports of cases in nonen for a period of 21 days from perience must guide at mously awarded the Kirti one more year and ap
The headend receives demic countries, the Union the last contact during the least 15 junior lawyers. Chakra and the Shaurya pointed new judges to the
TV signals from satellites Health Ministry said on infectious period. A Vacation Bench said Chakra posthumously by Delhi and Calcutta High
and processes them for dis Tuesday while issuing “Gui The guidelines stress sur that senior advocates of President Ram Nath Kovind Courts.
tribution to the cable net delines on management of veillance and rapid identifi the Supreme Court can de on Tuesday. Sharing the list of ap
works and households. monkey pox disease”. cation of new cases as key vise some modalities to The second phase of the President Kovind presenting pointments, Law Minister
“The devices are being The Ministery confirmed It is a viral zoonotic disease public health measures for train the junior lawyers in Defence Investiture Cere Kirti Chakra to kin of late Kiren Rijiju said, “I extend
installed to monitor if the that there are no reported with symptoms similar to outbreak containment, courtcraft and etiquette. mony at the Rashtrapati Altaf Hussain Bhat. best wishes to all of them!”
channels are being broad cases of the infection in smallpox. mandating need to reduce The observations came Bhavan was attended by Advocate Anish Dayal
cast properly,” an official India. the risk of humantohuman during the hearing of a Prime Minister Narendra tober 6, 2020, the protected has been appointed a judge
said. “The monitoring dev “We are maintaining a be naturally susceptible to transmission. matter in which the Bench Modi and Union Defence Mi person visited his family at in the Delhi High Court
ices are to be installed on close watch on the situation. the virus. The incubation pe said, “The second line of la nister Rajnath Singh. Nunner and was about to while advocate Amit Shar
the headend of the cable Monkey pox (MPX) is a viral riod of monkey pox is usual Products to avoid wyers is missing. We want Several gallantry awards proceed to his safe accom ma had been made an ad
operators, under the provi zoonotic disease with symp ly from six to 13 days, but Products derived from wild the young generation of le were given posthumously to modation when he was tar ditional judge in the same
sion of SubSection 4 of toms similar to smallpox, can range from five to 21 animals from Africa should gal profession to be personnel of the Cobra unit geted by terrorists, who in Court. Additional judges of
Section 10A of the Cable although with less clinical days, and the period of com be avoided, the Ministry groomed and by the time of the CRPF, the J&K police, discriminately fired upon the Madras HC who have
Television Networks (Regu severity,” a Health Ministry municability a day or two said. It said travellers should the older generation is old the Odisha police and per him. Mr Bhat retaliated and been elevated are Justices
lation) Act, 1995,” the advi official said. before the rash until all the refrain from close contact and wants to quit, the sonnel from the Army, Navy despite his injuries, he Govindarajulu Chandra
sory said. The cable opera scabs fall off or subside. with sick people, including young generation is ready. and the IAF. chased them and killed one sekharan, Veerasamy Si
tors have been requested Natural reservoir Suspected cases will in those with skin or genital le At present there is a gap in Mr. Bhat was awarded the terrorist on the spot. vagnanam, Ganesan llan
to cooperate with the Stating that the natural re clude a person of any age sions, contact with dead or this. Every senior lawyer Kirti Chakra posthumously Group Captain Singh was govan, Ananthi
Broadcast Engineering servoir of the virus is yet un having a history of travel to live wild animals such as who has more than 20 for his raw courage and su awarded the Shaurya Chak Subramanian, Kannammal
Consultants India Limited known, the Ministry has said affected countries within the small mammals including years of experience in the preme sacrifice for the na ra for successfully ma Shanmuga Sundaram,
officials visiting their pre that certain rodents (includ last 21 days presenting with rodents (rats, squirrels) and bar must undertake to tion. The J&K police consta noeuvring and landing the Sathi Kumar Sukumara Ku
mises for the installation of ing rope squirrels, tree an unexplained acute rash nonhuman primates (mon train and guide at least 15 ble was deputed to ensure Light Combat Aircraft at the rup, Murali Shankar Kup
devices. Noncooperation squirrels, Gambianpouched and one or more of symp keys, apes) and also eating junior lawyers of which five the safety and security of Hindon airbase on October puraju, Manjula Ramaraju
will be viewed as a viola rats, dormice) and nonhu toms, including swollen or preparing meat from wild will at least come up to the protected functionaries in 12, 2020, despite it develop Nalliah and Thamilselvi T.
tion, it said. man primates are known to lymph nodes, fever, head/ game (bushmeat). mark.” Ganderbal district. On Oc ing a major technical snag. Valayapalayam.
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@ https://qrgo.page.link/jjpTn Parasara Bhatta wins debate
18 Fellow scientist had standing, I dropped out as he became a Parasara Bhatta, a great scholar and Vaishnavite Acharya,
monster (12) brought a Vedantic scholar into the Sri Vaishnava fold, said
21 One more graduate, right away begins simple life (6) Thenthirupperai Aravindalochanan in a discourse. When
Bhatta was worshipping Lord Ranganatha at the Srirangam
22 Advice to promote mediocrity — shun a drink (8)
temple, the Lord told him to win over a Vedantin called
24 It's not even innate pride that makes one fearless (8) Madhavachari to Visishtadvaitic thought. Madhavachari
25 Biased press has only questions (6) lived at Melkote in Karnataka. One day some pilgrims visited
26 Knockabout in Australia — it's hard and many go from east to west Melkote, and Madhavachari asked them if they knew anyone
(8) equal to him in scholarship. They replied that Parasara Bhat
ta was the only one equal to him. When the pilgrims
27 Cut it, indeed disorganised (6)
reached Srirangam, Parasara Bhatta told them, “Next time,
■ DOWN tell him that I am a better scholar than he is.”
1 With a rub can produce a natural wax (8)
On their next visit to Melkote, the pilgrims told Madhava
chari that Bhatta was superior to him. Madhavachari felt
2 Used to protect those who resist change (3,5) that in that case he should never engage in debate with Bhat
3 Loot is there for all to see (8,7) ta. Lord Ranganatha then asked Bhatta to go to Melkote to
5 Cover point brought in — one wasn't truthful (4) meet Madhavachari, and to take with him all the temple offi
cials, and to travel in His palanquin. Only one priest and
6 Calibration does go wrong for a performance enhancer (8,7)
cook were to be left behind to attend to daily duties in the
7 Exposed previous state (6) Solution to puzzle 13570 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku temple. When the procession reached Melkote, another
8 Big man shows interest in a painter (6) Vaishnavite Acharya called Anantazhvan met Bhatta, and
11 Plea for help by girl behind those in the middle (7) said such a grand procession would keep him off from de
■ ACROSS bating directly with Madhavachari.
14 Old woman brought in and welcomed (7)
1 Country sides are noisy inside and overcast outside (6) As advised by Anantazhvan, Bhatta left behind the Lord's
16 Nowadays in modest surroundings but dissolute overall (8) palanquin and wearing simple clothes, he met Madhavacha
4 Club King discarded, go away! (5,3)
9 Watched the Queen return by the night flight (6) 17 Crazy end since one was mad (8) ri where food was being served to scholars. Bhatta told Mad
10 Leader shot right at the back — sign of impending trouble (3,5) 19 Michael Jordan is, however, part European (6) havachari that he had come for a debate with him. Bhatta
12 Plant or a wild lion? Harbouring a doubt (8) won the debate. Madhavachari became a Visishtadvaitin,
20 Maybe later pick up some dumplings (3,3)
13 It's a short launch — has got some capital (6) and took the name Nanjeeyar. When Lord Ranganatha
15 One's altogether in it, perhaps (8,4) 23 Climate inland is capital (4) asked Bhatta how he had won the debate, Bhatta said he had
quoted Thirumangai Azhvar’s Tirunedunthandakam.
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The Rajapaksa sheen fades in stronghold Hambantota

we can manage to an extent. paksa, and Mr. Mahinda’s mory, just above a small un
Faced with shortages and power cuts, citizens have taken But that takes care of just son Namal Rajapaksa also derground museum, lay
to the streets, primarily targeting the Rajapaksa clan our own family, that too stepped down from Cabinet broken, their corners shat
temporarily,” says Mr. Chan positions. They all resigned tered into pieces. Armed sol
Meera Srinivasan “I used to pay 2,000 [Sri made the essential farming drasiri. “If we can’t grow on May 9, after their suppor diers guard the area. A few
Weeraketiya, Hambantota Lankan] rupees for a bottle ingredient exorbitant in the food, the country will go ters brutally attacked peace metres down the road are
Paddy farmer S.D. Weera of weedicide. Now, a bottle market. hungry.” ful protesters in Colombo, Chamal Rajapaksa Primary
wansa has made a livelihood costs 22,000. Even if chemi “Everyone is talking The anger that farmers setting off violent retaliatory School, named after the el
decision and a political cal fertilizers are available about a food crisis and star expressed last year is now attacks by incensed dest Rajapaksa brother, and
pledge in recent weeks — he now, we just cannot afford vation. It is unfair to expect widely shared by citizens, as citizens. the adjacent D.A. Rajapaksa
will not sow in the coming them,” he explains, seated farmers to fix food shortages seen in heightening public Maha Vidyalaya, named af
season, and he will never at the red cementfloored now,” says Mr. Weerawansa. protests in recent months. Citizens’ fury ter their father. It is hard to
back a Rajapaksa again. verandah of his small home When paddy farmers de Grappled with acute shor The citizens’ fury manifest miss the Rajapaksa imprint
They aren’t unrelated. in Weeraketiya in the south cide not to sow this season, Growing anger: The destroyed memorial of the Rajapaksas’ tages of milk powder, other ed starkly in Weeraketiya, a in this Sinhalamajority,
His crop has fallen by 50% ern Hambantota district, seed farmers such as W.W.P. parents in Weeraketiya. MEERA SRINIVASAN * essential food items, fuel, Rajapaksa stronghold. Arso southern belt where Mr. Ma
this harvest, a consequence known for its bigticket, Chi Chandrasiri are directly af and LPG gas, in addition to nists destroyed a memorial hinda was, until recently re
of Sri Lankan President Go nabacked mega projects fected. “How can I expect dent’s rash policy shift is im to ensure adequate fertilizer power cuts all day until re for the Rajapaksa brothers’ vered like a king, and even a
tabaya Rajapaksa’s ban on that critics have termed farmers to buy the seeds at a pacting the country’s food supply. President Gotabaya, cent rains, citizens have ta parents built here, allege deity.
chemical fertilizers last year. “white elephants”. time like this?” he asks, re ecosystem. who in April admitted that ken to the streets in Colom dly using public funds. Mr. Not anymore. “You see
The ban was revoked signed to his imminent loss It is proving especially the fertilizer ban was a “mis bo and many other districts, Mahinda’s ancestral home how they have attacked the
months later, following Rise in production cost es. The seeds can’t be stored costly at a time when Sri take”, has now asked offi demanding that President in nearby Medamulana was Rajapaksa memorial,” says
farmers’ protests and wide The Rajapaksa government, past their stipulated time of Lanka, reeling under a crip cials to formulate a National Gotabaya resign. The public attacked, as was Carlton Mr. Weerawansa, who had
criticism from experts, but in its May 2021 ban and sub nine months following pling economic crisis, has Fertilizer Policy “expedi outrage is directed at the en House, the family home in voted for Mr. Gotabaya in
that did not save the crop. sequent reversal, effectively which farmers have no run out of dollars to import tiously”. tire government and ruling Tangalle, some 15 km south, 2019, to “give him a
The annual yield of paddy cut fertilizer subsidy earlier choice but to convert the essentials, including food. “People in the capital and establishment but is prima where their father’s statue chance”. “He was new to
and tea, crucial for Sri Lan provided to farmers, result seeds to rice grains. “A kilo Colombo is coping with ex major cities say that those of rily against the Rajapaksa was also destroyed. politics and promised to
ka’s food security and fo ing in a 10fold increase in of seed paddy is sold at 150 ternal help. Flagging im us living in villages are still clan. It forced Mahinda Raja At the top of the road work for the country, but he
reign exchange, has production cost for farmers. rupees, but when it is con pending food shortages re better off during this crisis, paksa, President Gotabaya’s leading to Mr. Mahinda’s has let us all down. Now, pe
dropped by half, according That, coupled with record verted to rice, it fetches only cently, Prime Minister Ranil we can grow something in older brother, to resign as Weeraketiya home, two con ople have shown that they
to farmers and crop inflation during the current 100 rupees,” he says, reveal Wickremesinghe said the our backyards and put to Prime Minister. Other broth ical, crystallike structures will not tolerate any Raja
scientists. economic meltdown, has ing how a powerful Presi country needs $600 million gether a meal. That is true, ers Chamal and Basil Raja installed in his parents’ me paksa – no brother, no son!”
EU bans majority of Russian oil imports ‘NATO bid backing only if

Nordics meet demands’
Cash-strapped
Sri Lanka
Embargo a big hikes taxes
step forward, says
‘City being destroyed ruthlessly’ They must alter laws if needed: Turkey Agence France-Presse
Belgian PM Associated Press said. “The city is essentially Reuters halted arm exports to Tur Colombo
SLOVIANSK being destroyed ruthlessly Ankara/Helsinki key in 2019. The Nordic Cashstrapped Sri Lanka
Associated Press Russian forces in a “frenzied block by block,” Oleksandr Finland and Sweden should states applied to join NATO on Tuesday announced
Brussels push” have seized half of the Striuk said. He said heavy change their laws if needed after Russia’s invasion of Uk steep, acrosstheboard tax
In the most significant effort eastern Ukrainian city of street fighting continues and to meet Turkey’s demands raine. All 30 NATO mem hikes to shore up revenue
yet to punish Russia for its Sievierodonetsk that is key artillery bombardments and win its backing for their bers must approve any en as the country suffers its
war in Ukraine, the Euro to Moscow’s efforts to threaten the lives of nearly bid to join NATO, the Tur largement plans. worst economic downturn
pean Union agreed to ban complete the capture of the 13,000 civilians still shelter kish Foreign Minister said Mevlut Cavusoglu said and seeks an IMF bailout.
the overwhelming majority Major market: The European Union relies on Russia for 25% Donbas region, the Mayor ing in the ruined city. on Tuesday, doubling down Turkey, a NATO member for The valueadded tax
of Russian oil imports after of its oil and 40% of its natural gas. AFP *
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on a threat to veto an histor seven decades, would not (VAT) applied on almost all
tense negotiations that test ic enlargement of the lift its veto unless its de goods and services was
ed how far the bloc is willing since the bloc relies on the Alexander De Croo called energy could only come harder for Moscow to fund alliance. mands were met, echoing raised from 8% to 12% with
to go to ostracise Moscow. country for 25% of its oil and the embargo a “big step for slowly, if at all. social programmes. In a move that shocked its recent comments by Presi immediate effect, while
From the moment Russia 40% of its natural gas. ward” on Tuesday morning “They hate us all! The ba allies, Turkey on May 13 ob dent Tayyip Erdogan. corporate taxes were also
invaded on February 24, the In a move unthinkable just and Irish Prime Minister Mi ‘Hatred for Russians’ sis for these decisions is jected to Finland and Swe Ankara has said Sweden increased from 24% to
West has sought to make months ago, EU leaders cheal Martin hailed it as “a The deputy head of Russia’s hatred for Russia, for Rus den joining NATO on the and Finland must halt their 30%.
Moscow pay economically agreed late on Monday to cut watershed moment”. But Security Council said on sians and for all its inhabi grounds that they harbour support for the PKK and The personal income
for its war. But targeting the around 90% of all Russian oil both leaders cautioned that Tuesday that energy sanc tants,” Dmitry Medvedev, people linked to groups it other groups and bar them tax exemption threshold
lucrative energy sector was imports over the next six Europe would need time to tions against the country who is also a former Presi deems terrorists, including from organising any events was lowered from 3 million
seen as a last resort in Eu months. adjust to the impact — and were intended to hurt ordin dent and Prime Minister, the Kurdistan Workers Party on their territory, among rupees ($8,330) a year to
rope and has proved hardest Belgian Prime Minister any further bans on Russian ary Russians by making it wrote on the Telegram app. (PKK), and because they other demands. 1.8 million rupees.
Israel signs UAE free trade As China ups threat, U.S.

deal, its first in Arab world Senator visits Taiwan
Duty to be scrapped on 96% of products Duckworth reiterates support for island
Agence France-Presse Associated Press put forward promoting
Dubai Taipei cooperation between Tai
Israel signed a free trade U.S. Senator Tammy Duck wan’s armed forces and the
deal with the United Arab worth on Tuesday reiterated National Guard.
Emirates on Tuesday, its America’s support for Tai “I do want to say that it is
first with an Arab country, wan on her second visit in a more than just about mili
building on their U.S.bro year to the selfgoverning is tary. It’s also about the eco
kered normalisation of di land claimed by China. nomy,” the Illinois Demo
plomatic relations in 2020. Ms. Duckworth met Tai crat told Ms. Tsai.
Israel’s Ambassador to The Ministers of Israel and wan President Tsai Ingwen Ms. Tsai thanked the U.S.
the oilrich UAE, Amir the UAE signing the pact on and emphasised the close government and the Con
Hayek, tweeted mabruk — Tuesday. AFP *
economic, political and se gress “for the importance
congratulations in Arabic — curity relations between they place on peace and sta
with a photo of Emirati and tariffs as our nations work Taipei and Washington. bility across the Taiwan
Israeli officials holding doc together to increase trade, China sent 30 military air Strait,” as well as Ms. Duck
uments at a signing ceremo create jobs, promote new craft toward the island on worth herself for “keeping a
ny in Dubai. skills and deepen coopera Monday in an ongoing cam close watch on Taiwan relat
The Emirati envoy to Is tion,” Mr. Khaja tweeted. paign of regular flights. Tai ed security issues.”
rael, Mohamed Al Khaja, The 2020 deal was part of wan’s Defence Ministry said China said it strongly de
hailed as an “unprecedent the U.S.brokered Abraham it responded by scrambling plored Ms. Duckworth’s vi
ed achievement” the deal Accords that also saw Israel jets, putting air defence mis sit.
that, according to the Israeli establish diplomatic ties sile systems on alert and is “Taiwan is a province of
side, scraps customs duties with Bahrain and Morocco. suing radio warnings. China, and there is no so
on 96% of all products Twoway trade between Ms. Duckworth said she called President,” Foreign
traded. Israel and the UAE last year wanted to “emphasise our Ministry spokesperson Zhao
“Businesses in both coun totalled some $900 million support for Taiwan securi Lijian said. He urged the
tries will benefit from faster dollars, according to Israeli ty”. She cited strong biparti U.S. to end all official con
access to markets and lower figures. san backing for a Bill she has tacts with Taiwan.
Bodies of all
victims taken
Australia PM names Assistant
to Kathmandu Minister for the Republic
Press Trust of India
Kathmandu A symbolic step toward ouster of Queen as head of state
The bodies of 22 people,
including four Indians, Agence France-Presse paigns for an Australian
killed in the plane crash in Sydney head of state. “WE ARE ON
Nepal’s mountainous Mus Australia’s centreleft Prime OUR WAY!” tweeted promi
tang district on Sunday, Minister Anthony Albanese nent Republican and author
have been brought to Kath named his Cabinet on Tues Peter FitzSimons.
mandu where the mortal day, including an “Assistant “Let the record show, for
remains would be handed Minister for the Republic”, the first time in the history
over to their families after despite the country being a of the Commonwealth, Aus
the postmortem, officials constitutional monarchy. tralia has a member of the
said on Tuesday. As the United Kingdom’s Govt singularly devoted to
All the bodies have been 96yearold Queen Elizabeth removing the Crown, and
sent to the Tribhuvan Un II prepares to celebrate her Anthony Albanese helping Australia become a
iversity Teaching Hospital platinum jubilee, her recent Republic,” he added.
for postmortem examina ly elected government in have promised a referen In 1999, Australians nar
tions. The bodies will be Australia took a symbolic dum on removing the Queen rowly voted against becom
handed to the families of step toward her ouster. as Australia’s head of state, ing a Republic, following dis
the victims after the post Mr. Albanese announced but Mr. Albanese — a long agreement over the
mortem, an official said. that Sydney MP Matt This time Republican — did not proposal that the Queen’s re
The black box of the tlethwaite would be Assis make the promise a feature placement would be chosen
plane was also retrieved by tant Minister for the Repu of his election campaign. by members of parliament,
a team of mountain guides blic, in addition to other The move was welcomed not the public.
from the crash site on duties. by the Australian Republic Almost 55% of voters op
Tuesday. Previous Labour leaders Movement, which cam posed the move.
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ban most Russian crude
Brent oil dddddddddddddddddd 123.42 ddddddddddddddd2.16 Higher tax mop up helps; official estimates released in February had pegged deficit at 6.9% of GDP
Press Trust of India year earlier. The government sional data indicated that the
Brent rises for ninth straight session
NIFTY 50
PRICE CHANGE New Delhi said it expected the fiscal fiscal deficit of the Centre Reuters
Adani Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 739.85. . . . . . . . . 5.15
Apollo Hosp . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 3979.30. . . . . . . 87.35
Fiscal deficit improved to deficit for the current finan was contained marginally LONDON <
> EU leaders agreed
in principle to cut
Asian Paints. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 2859.65. . . . . . . 15.65 6.71% of the FY22 GDP over cial year at 6.4% of GDP, or below the FY22 revised esti Oil prices extended a bull
Axis Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 685.20. . . . . . . . -8.45 the revised budget estimate ₹16.61 lakh crore. mate, benefitting from the run on Tuesday after the EU 90% of oil imports
Bajaj Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 3864.10. . . . . . . . . 7.40
of 6.9% mainly on account of In April 2022, there was a higher tax and nontax reve agreed to a partial ban on from Russia by the
Bajaj Finserv. . . . . . . . . . .. 12934.00. . . . . . . . . 9.95
Bajaj Finance . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 6082.15. . . . . . -29.05 higher tax realisation. revenue surplus of ₹591 nue receipts and lower capi Russian oil and China decid end of 2022
Bharti Airtel . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 700.20. . . . . . . . . 1.15 Unveiling the revenueex crore. Government meets its tal spending, which ab ed to lift some COVID curbs
BPCL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 326.20. . . . . . . . -2.95
Britannia Ind . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 3647.80. . . . . . . 71.55
penditure data of the Union fiscal deficit from market sorbed the deficit in amid rising demand ahead vasion of Ukraine three
Cipla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 992.95. . . . . . . . . 6.15 government, the Controller borrowings. nondebt capital receipts of peak U.S. and European months ago.
Coal India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 192.90. . . . . . . . . 5.70 General of Accounts (CGA) Revenue collections were and higher revenue summer driving season. The embargo exempts pi
Divis Lab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 3591.30. . . . . . . 24.80
Dr Reddys Lab . . . . . . . .. . . . 4369.65. . . . . . . . -0.65
said that the fiscal deficit in about ₹27 lakh crore, almost expenditure. Brent crude for July, peline oil from Russia as a
Eicher Motors. . . . . . . . .. . . . 2780.75. . . . . . . 22.30 absolute terms was ₹5 lakh crore above the bud which expires on Tuesday, concession to Hungary.
Grasim Ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1428.60. . . . . . -12.40 ₹15,86,537 crore (provision get estimates, said Vivek Ja ‘Risks to FY23 target’ rose $2.31, or 1.9%, to “As twothird of the Rus
HCL Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1040.75. . . . . . . . . 0.85
HDFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 2306.75. . . . . . -60.50
al). The Finance Ministry lan, Partner, Tax Connect On the outlook for FY23, Ms. $123.98 a barrel by 0823 sian crude oil exports are
HDFC Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1388.95. . . . . . -12.60 had in February estimated Advisory. Nayar said there were several GMT, after earlier rising to seaborne around 1.5 million
HDFC Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 598.95. . . . . . . . -9.95 the deficit at ₹15,91,089 crore risks to the fiscal deficit tar $124.10 — its highest since barrels per day (bpd) of oil
Hero MotoCorp . . . . . .. . . . 2773.90. . . . . . . . . 3.35
Hindalco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 422.55. . . . . . . . . 5.80
or 6.9% of GDP. Glide path: The government estimates fiscal deficit for FY23 at ‘Analytics aids revenue’ get of ₹16.6 lakh crore, ema March 9. The more active will need to be replaced by
Hind Unilever . . . . . . . . .. . . . 2353.25. . . . . . . . . 4.30 Tax receipts during the fis 6.4% of GDP, or ₹16.6 lakh crore. NAGARA GOPAL
* “The spurt in tax revenues, nating from the revenue loss August contract rose $2.44 the EU,” PVM analyst Tamas
ICICI Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 752.85. . . . . . . . . 4.35 cal were at ₹18.2 lakh crore especially GST collection, to the Centre on account of to $120.04. Varga said.
IndusInd Bank . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 930.85. . . . . . . . -5.35
Infosys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1503.60. . . . . . -23.20 as against the revised esti crore presented to Parlia In another set of data, the was mainly a result of the excise duty cut, lower European Union leaders “This volume is actually
ITC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 270.65. . . . . . . . . 1.60 mates (RE) of ₹17.65 lakh ment on February 1, 2021. CGA said the fiscal deficit DGARM, which is the Data thanbudgeted transfer of agreed in principle to cut closer to 2.12.2 million bpd
JSW Steel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 551.25. . . . . . . 12.40 crore, the data showed. The CGA further said the re during the first month of Analytics wing of the GST the RBI’s surplus, and the 90% of oil imports from as both Poland and Germa
Kotak Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1846.85. . . . . . -56.35
L&T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1654.50. . . . . . . . -6.35 Total expenditure too was venue deficit at the end of FY23 was 4.5% of the Budget Council,” Mr. Jalan said. need for additional spending Russia by the end of 2022, ny are planning to phase out
M&M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1034.35. . . . . . . 36.00 higher at ₹37.94 lakh crore the fiscal was 4.37% for fiscal Estimate for the current fis Aditi Nayar, chief econo on food, fertilizer and LPG the bloc’s toughest sanction pipeline purchases by the
Maruti Suzuki . . . . . . . . .. . . . 7966.35. . . . . . -47.55 against the RE of ₹37.7 lakh year 202122. cal. The deficit was 5.2% a mist, ICRA, said the provi subsidies through the year. yet on Moscow since the in end of the year.”
Nestle India Ltd. . . . .. 17691.50. . . . . . -15.40
NTPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 156.00. . . . . . . . . 5.10
ONGC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 151.25. . . . . . . . . 7.20
Core sector production grew China unveils stimulus policies
PowerGrid Corp . . . . .. . . . . . 232.90. . . . . . . . . 4.65
Reliance Ind . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 2632.65. . . . . . -32.15
SBI Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1174.15. . . . . . . 25.75
LIC shares dip
State Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 468.10. . . . . . . . -6.50
Shree Cement . . . . . . . .. 22116.30. . . -344.10 3% after Q4
Sun Pharma . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 860.60. . . . . . -27.70
Tata Consumer
Products Ltd. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 759.75. . . . . . . . . 9.60
Tata Motors . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 443.55. . . . . . . . . 1.15
8.4% yearonyear in April profit slips 17% to support virushit economy
Tata Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1055.65. . . . . . . . . 8.20
TCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 3364.35. . . . . . -10.90 PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
Tech Mahindra . . . . . . .. . . . 1180.25. . . . . . . 16.25 Output for all sectors barring electricity shrank from March NEW DELHI State Council vows to reduce real borrowing costs
Titan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 2216.00. . . . . . -39.90
UltraTech Cement . .. . . . 6082.60. . . . . . -20.05
Shares of LIC on Tuesday
UPL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 779.60. . . . . . . . -2.95 Special Correspondent contracted 13.6% from declined by more than 3% Reuters In terms of monetary and
Wipro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 478.05. . . . . . . . . 1.80 New Delhi March 2022 levels. Similarly, after the company posted a BEIJING financial policies, China will
India’s core sector output ex fertilisers and refinery pro 17% drop in consolidated China’s Cabinet unveiled a boost financing efficiency
panded 8.4% in April, the ducts were up 8.7% and 9.2% net profit for the fourth package of 33 measures co via capital markets, by sup
EXCHANGE RATES
Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit
fastest pace in six months, yearonyear, respectively, quarter ended March. vering fiscal, financial, in porting domestic firms to list
except yen at 4 p.m. on May 31 with crude oil and steel the but fell 10.9% and 5.5% from The stock declined vestment and industrial pol in Hong Kong, and promote
CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL only sectors among the eight March. 3.05% to settle at ₹811.50 icies on Tuesday to revive a offshore listings by qualified
US Dollar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 77.44. . . . . . . 77.76 infrastructure industries “The IIP growth in April on the BSE. During the day, pandemicravaged econo platform companies. The
Euro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 82.85. . . . . . . 83.20
British Pound . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 97.44. . . . . . . 97.88 comprising the index to re can also be expected to be in it tanked 3.23% to ₹810. my, saying it will inspect State Council also vowed to
Japanese Yen (100) . .. . 60.45. . . . . . . 60.70 cord a marginal decline in the higher single digit range At the NSE, it fell by how provincial governments further reduce real borrow
Chinese Yuan . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 11.62. . . . . . . 11.67 production from the year of 6% to 8%, based on these 3.21% to end at ₹810.85. implement them. ing costs, and strengthen fi
Swiss Franc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 80.63. . . . . . . 80.97
Singapore Dollar . . . . . . .. . 56.45. . . . . . . 56.69 earlier period. numbers,” said Madan Sab In volume terms, 2.22 The stimulus package, promote healthy develop nancial support for infras
Canadian Dollar . . . . . . . . .. . 61.08. . . . . . . 61.36 However, on a sequential navis, chief economist at lakh shares were traded at which was flagged by Chi ment of platform compa tructure and major projects.
Malaysian Ringitt . . . . . .. . 17.69. . . . . . . 17.79
basis, the Index of Eight to record a sequential in Bank of Baroda. the BSE and over 43.73 na’s State Council in a rou nies, which are expected to Meanwhile, the Ministry
Australian Dollar . . . . . . .. . 55.58. . . . . . . 55.82
Core Industries (ICI), which crease as well, rising 0.8% Mr. Sabnavis added that lakh shares at the NSE. tine meeting last week, un play a role in stabilising jobs, of Finance said purchase tax
Source:Indian Bank
constitutes about 40% of the from March. Coal output, some of the numbers like LIC on Monday posted a derscores Beijing’s shift according to the measures. for smallengine cars would
Index for Industrial Produc which was 28.8% higher coal’s 28.8% jump and pow 17% decline in consolidated toward growth, after draco China will also expand be halved. The government
tion (IIP), declined 9.5% last than in April 2021, shrank er’s 10.7% growth, while im net profit to ₹2,409 crore nian COVID19 control mea private investment, acceler would cut the tax for cars
IN BRIEF month compared with 25.6% from the preceding pressive, were “difficult to for the fourth quarter end sures pounded the economy ate infrastructure construc priced at no more than
March 2022 levels. month’s levels. reconcile with the power cri ed March. The insurer had and threatens Beijing’s 5.5% tion and stimulate purchases 3,00,000 yuan and with 2
Electricity generation, Cement output grew 8%, sis that was there in April earned a profit of ₹2,917 growth target for the year. of cars and home appliances litre or smaller engines to 5%
which grew 10.7% yearon even as steel declined 0.7% with shortage of coal and crore in the same quarter a To revive investment and to stabilise investments, ac of the sticker price, down
year, was the only industry from a year ago, but both power being reported”. year earlier. consumption, China will cording to the measures. from 10% earlier.
Sixairbag rule Nippon Paint India to ONGC sees oil India to oppose WTO Private telcos

Attero to spend $1 bn to
to hit small car output rising to raise tariffs
expand as EVs take off
NEW DELHI
India’s largest electronics sales: Maruti open 600 retail outlets 11% by FY25 freeze on ecom duties in H2: Crisil
recycling firm Attero
Recycling will spend $1 PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
Firm focussing on Karnataka: Titus Press Trust of India
‘Need policy space for digital progress’ PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
billion in the next 5 years and NEW DELHI N. Anand Nadu. The market size of the New Delhi Press Trust of India MUMBAI
add plants in Poland, Ohio Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) CHENNAI Indian paint industry, which ONGC said its crude oil New Delhi The country’s top three
and Indonesia starting this wants the government to The decorative division of was about ₹50,000 crore production would rise 11% India will strongly oppose private telecom operators
year, CEO Nitin Gupta said as
reconsider the proposal to Nippon Paint India plans to prior to COVID, had shrunk. and natural gas output continuation of moratorium will resort to another
the firm aims to tap into a
make six airbags mandato open 600 retail outlets over The decorative segment had would jump 25% after new on customs duties on e round of tariff increases in
global boom for EVs. REUTERS
ry in passenger vehicles, the next seven months in accounted for 70% of it. er discoveries offshore commerce trade at the the second half of the cur
saying the norm will adver Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, In 2022, Nippon Paint re start producing. WTO’s meeting in Geneva rent fiscal and close FY23
Beauty firm SUGAR
sely hit the already shrink said a senior official. vised prices twice following Oil and Natural Gas next month as it was adver with revenue growth of 20
Cosmetics raises $50 mn
ing small car market and “We would like to be rising fuel prices, the Rus Corp. (ONGC) said crude sely impacting developing 25%, according to a report.
CHENNAI
Omnichannel beauty firm
may even impact jobs in more aggressive in Karnata siaUkraine war and logis oil output would rise from countries, an official said. After a slow 5% growth
SUGAR Cosmetics has closed the auto sector. ka than in Tamil Nadu, as we tics issues. “Price rise is in 19.545 million tonnes (MT) The official said allowing in average revenue per us
$50million Series D The firm noted the rule are already in the second evitable,” Mr. Titus said. in FY22 to 19.88 MT this the moratorium to lapse er in FY22, the number is
fundraising round led by the would largely impact the position in Tamil Nadu,” “While others are plan year and 21.588 MT in was important for develop toms duties on electronic set to grow 1520% in FY23
Asia fund of L Catterton, a costsensitive entrylevel said Mark Titus, Director ning to raise the prices in FY23. The output would ing nations to preserve poli transmissions since 1998 as the full impact of the in
private equity firm. The round car segment — which has Marketing, Nippon Paint In June, we have not yet taken climb to 21.701 MT in FY25. cy space for their digital ad and the moratorium had creases carried out in the
saw strong interest from been facing headwinds and dia (decorative division). a decision, as we can’t pass Gas output would rise from vancement, to regulate been periodically extended previous fiscal plays out,
private equity (PE) funds with witnessing dwindling sales Nippon Paint proposes to on the cost to the custom 20.907 billion cubic meters imports and generate reve at successive ministerial and also on the back of the
continued participation from over the last three years — open 300 400 independent ers,” he added. in FY22 to 21.097 bcm this nue via customs duties. conferences (MC), which is newer increases expected
existing investors – A91 making it even more diffi retail points in Karnataka. “It would take at least six year and 24.387 bcm in the The World Trade Organi the highest decision making in the second half of the
Partners, Elevation Capital cult for twowheeler users The rest of the new outlets months for the industry to next. In FY25, output sation (WTO) members had body of the 164member year, Crisil’s research wing
and India Quotient. to upgrade to small cars. would be opened in Tamil come back to normalcy.” would reach 26.124 bcm. agreed not to impose cus organisation. said in a report.
SPORT
Umran Malik and Rashid Khan have more in common than at first apparent Pakistan shifts
WI ODIs to
In T20 cricket, winning is everything; elegance, style, artistry — elements on which the sport prides itself — are secondary if they exist at all Multan
ASSOCIATED PRESS
a large number of matches in a man Gill, a cover drive by Rohit with fast bowlers than with fellow er would have been proud to set style is the enemy of effectiveness; ISLAMABAD
short span of time, so the appa Sharma, an ondrive by K.L. Rahul spinners. Think Shane Warne, Bedi in motion — a mechanism teams prefer a crude boundary to The Pakistan Cricket Board
rently memorable quickly slips in all remind us that cricket is a game Bhagwat Chandrasekhar or Abdul finely balanced, cogs rolling silent a graceful single. No player has has shifted next month’s
to the commonplace, making re of great possibilities, and equally, Qadir — the sheer energy of their ly and hands sweeping in smooth been picked for his elegance alone ODI series against the West
call difficult. When you see 1062 that these possibilities are not al performances, the physical strain arcs across the face.” — beauty without cruelty makes Indies from Rawalpindi to
sixes packed together in a tourna ways profitable to a team setting a they put on their bodies and the Writers struggled to capture the no sense in competitive sport. Multan in the wake of ex
BETWEEN WICKETS ment (as happened this year), the
effort can lose some of its allure.
target or chasing one.
It is true that the crude can also
shock on the faces of beaten bat
smen are straight out of the fast
elegant mix of gentleness and
power in Vishwanath’s square cut.
Still, the same results can be ar
rived at with greater elegance.
pected protest rallies
planned by opposition pol
suresh menon To borrow from what the musi be artistic, and beauty in any case bowler’s book of dreams. He — and others like him — epito iticians.
cian T.M. Krishna said in another is in the eye of the beholder. Still, mised what RobertsonGlasgow Oldfashioned concept
Former Prime Minister
I n general, sport values utility
above artistry, and efficiency ov
er creativity so we ought not to be
context, T20 with its emphasis on
continuous excitement lacks a pe
riod of necessary inactivity to both
there is something about a Sourav
Ganguly cover drive or the overall
batting of a David Gower that ele
Grace and effectiveness
Like artists who instinctively know
which colours work best in combi
said of England’s Frank Woolley:
“easy to watch, difficult to bowl to
and impossible to write about”.
Perhaps artistry is an oldfash
ioned concept. Maybe the artists
in cricket have been the excep
Imran Khan is planning ral
lies in Islamabad, which is
adjacent to Rawalpindi, in
asking if the age of the artist has understand and appreciate the vates sport from mere competi nation, artistic players combine When batsmen move around tions in every generation, giving
the coming days
ended in cricket. sport. tion to something artistic in most grace and effectiveness without too much at the crease, overba writers an easy path towards ro
The IPL raised that question Batsmen move their front foot people’s minds, and there is no strain. Two of the best India have lance or fall over, they have opted manticising the game. “Look The series was post
afresh, a question that is its own away from the line of the ball and reason why sport should not as produced are Bishan Bedi and for the crude over the elegant. where your feet are,” a coach once poned last year after West
answer (if you have to ask…). swing for the rafters, then repeat pire to that state. Gundappa Vishwanath. This is understandable — no coach berated a batsman for getting it Indies played the three
There was a cookiecutter quality themselves. Repetition is the Umran Malik made one sit up I have always loved this descrip will tell someone who has just hit a wrong. “Yes, but look where the Twenty20s but was forced
to the batting, a sameness to the death of variety. T20 cricket rear with his pace. The realisation that tion of Bedi in action by the form boundary, “That was not an ele ball has gone,” was the reply. Per to go back home due to a
bowling (the differences being on ranges a fundamental notion of he has some way to go still is a er England captain Tony Lewis: gant shot. Next time, focus on haps that has always been the COVID19 outbreak in their
ly in degree) that threatens sport the game: here, winning is eve frightening thought for batsmen “When you have seen Bishan Bedi style even if you don’t score any philosophy. camp. However, there will
with its greatest enemy: rything. around the world. Watching Rash twirl down his spinners after 60 runs.” Can players train to be elegant? be no biosecure bubble
homogeneity. Elegance, style, artistry — ele id Khan outwit batsmen match af overs with the same gentle rhythm There was a time when being It’s a thought, even if the modern for the ODI series.
This is not unique to the IPL, ments on which the sport prides ter match was thrilling too and a as he settled into at the start of the known as a stylish batsman was a aesthetic tends towards ugliness if The schedule ( June 8, 10
but the format does encourage a itself — are secondary if they exist reminder that leg spinners have spell, you understand why his is a compliment; now it is close to a you go by some of our art, archi and 12), however, remains
depressing uniformity. You watch at all. The odd pull shot by Shubh psychologically more in common great bowling action. A clockmak putdown. The implication is that tecture, music or films. unchanged.
CM M ND-NDE
YK
THE HINDU
DELHI
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Trevisan passes the Fernandez test, enters maiden Slam semifinal
She will take on teenage star Gauff, who beat Stephens in straight sets to make the last four; Zverev halts Alcaraz; Cilic proves too good for secondseeded Medvedev
FRENCH OPEN
Agence France-Presse
THE RESULTS
Quarterfinals: Women: Trevi
SaniaHradecka duo
Paris
Italy's Martina Trevisan
san (Ita) bt 17Fernandez (Can)
62, 67(3), 63; 18Gauff (USA)
bt Stephens (USA) 75, 62.
loses in third round
reached her first Grand Slam
semifinal on Tuesday with Men: 3Zverev (Ger) bt 6Alca PRESS TRUST OF INDIA The 10thseeded Indo
victory over Canada's Leylah raz (Esp) 64, 64, 46, 76(7). PARIS Czech combination fell be
Women’s doubles (third
Fernandez at RolandGarros. Sania Mirza and her Czech hind early in the first set and
round): 8Pegula & Gauff (USA)
World No. 59 Trevisan bt 10Sania (Ind) & Hradecka partner Lucie Hradecka lost though it fought back, Pegu
downed the 17th seeded Ca (Cze) 64, 63. to the American pair of Jes la and Gauff held their nerve
nadian, a fellow lefthander, Monday’s result: Men (fourth sica Pegula and Coco Gauff to win the set. It was almost
62, 67(3), 63. round): 20Cilic (Cro) bt 2 46, 36 in the third round of a similar script in the se
Trevisan was a shock quar Medvedev 62, 63, 62. women’s doubles at Roland cond as the Americans pre
terfinalist at Roland Garros as Garros on Tuesday. vailed.
a qualifier in 2020. firstever Grand Slam win ov
Despite her low ranking er a top10 player.
this year, she returned to the World No. 2 Daniil Medve
tournament with a maiden dev was knocked out by Ma
WTA title under her belt in rin Cilic in the last 16 on Mon
Rabat and went into Tues day in straight sets.
day's tie on a ninematch win Former US Open cham
ning streak. pion Cilic eased to a 62, 63,
She made that 10 when she Make that 10! Trevisan arrived at RolandGarros with a maiden WTA title under her belt, and went into Tuesday's tie on a 62 win in just 1hr 45 min on
claimed victory on a second ninematch winning streak. AFP *
Court Philippe Chatrier.
match point having wasted Medvedev followed fourth
one in the second set with Open were her influences. Open on Tuesday. world, avenged her defeat to set clash. The German third ranked Stefanos Tsitsipas out
Fernandez left to rue her 44 "They are happy for me. I Gauff, who burst onto the Stephens at the 2021 US Open seed claimed a 64, 64, 46, 7 of the tournament after the
unforced errors. saw them yesterday as they scene as a 15yearold history and helped erase the memo 6(7) victory over Spanish 2021 runnerup was defeated
Trevisan, now guaranteed are in Paris playing the le maker at Wimbledon three ry of her quarterfinal defeat teenage sensation Alcaraz af by Danish teenager Holger
a place in the top 30 at least, gends event. They are my big years ago, defeated fellow last year to eventual cham ter three hours and 18 Rune earlier in the day.
said Grand Slam titles by fel gest inspirations." American Sloane Stephens pion Barbora Krejcikova in minutes. Cilic, ranked 23, will face
low Italians Francesca Schia Teenage star Coco Gauff al 75, 62. Paris. Zverev moved into his se Russia's Andrey Rublev in his
vone in Paris in 2010 and Fla so reached her maiden Grand Victory for Gauff, 18 years Alexander Zverev beat Car cond straight lastfour match third career Roland Garros
via Pennetta at the 2015 US Slam semifinals at the French old and ranked 23 in the los Alcaraz in a dramatic four at Roland Garros after his quarterfinal.
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The women’s team, com *
FILE PHOTOS: RITU RAJ KONWAR India, Malaysia and Korea nesday, while India will play series.
prising Sreeja Akula, Reeth finished on five points each Japan in the thirdplace The other venues are
Rishya, Manika and Archana four. The selection commit tion committee feels that this (Croatia), Ototec (Slovakia) in the Super 4 stage, but the match. Cuttack ( June 12), Visakha
Kamath, with Diya Chitale as tee is convinced that the ex is a case worthy of consider and Budapest (Hungary) in patnam ( June 14), Rajkot
Perez signs twoyear the standby, is a provisional isting guidelines are flawed, ation by SAI.” June and July. ( June 17) and Bengaluru
deal with Red Bull one, subject to concurrence and has moved to make ne The men’s team consists ( June 19).
Gita Mittal, the CoA chair
PARIS
from the Sports Authority of cessary coursecorrection, of Sanil Shetty, Sharath, person, announced a five “The Indian team will
Red Bull on Tuesday
India. with new guidelines effective Sathiyan and Harmeet Desai. year plan that envisages set assemble here on June 5
announced it has rewarded
Explaining the reasons be from October 1, 2022. Manush Shah will be the ting up a national academy, while the South Africans
Sergio Perez with a fresh
hind seeking concurrence “However, in this transi standby. The players were with regional academies in land in Delhi on June 2,”
twoyear deal until 2024 with
the Mexican signing in Monaco
from SAI, S.D. Mudgil, CoA tion phase, with an eye on a part of a weeklong National four other cities. said DDCA joint secretary
last weekend. “For us, holding representative and chairper rich medal haul in Birming camp for 15 paddlers at the The squads: Rajan Manchanda.
onto his pace, race craft and son of the selection commit ham, we have included the PadukoneDravid Centre for Men: Sanil Shetty, Sharath Ka K.L. Rahul will lead the
experience was a nobrainer tee, said at a press confe said player in the team. She Sports Excellence here. mal, G. Sathiyan and Harmeet Indian team in the absence
and we are delighted that rence here on Tuesday, is one half of the pair that is Mudgil stated that all the Desai; Standby: Manush Shah. of regular skipper Rohit
Checo will continue to race for “Under the existing selec ranked No. 4 in the world 15 players (eight men and se Women: Sreeja Akula, Reeth Sharma, who has been
the team until 2024,” said tion criteria, one of the and which will be the top ven women) at the camp will Rishya, Manika Batra and Ar rested for the series along
team boss Christian Horner in members of the women’s seeds at the Commonwealth be fielded at the World Table chana Kamath; Standby: Diya So near yet so far: The Indians put their best foot forward, side Virat Kohli and Jasprit
a statement. AFP team falls outside the top Games. Therefore, the selec Tennis Tour events in Zagreb Chitale. but bowed out of the title race on goal difference. Bumrah.
Anand
humbles
Indian women’s air rifle ‘Women deserve own IPL’ Argentina to take on Italy
Carlsen team clinches gold Shubhangi feels women’s cricket has come a long way The continental champions meet in
the Finalissima at Wembley today
CRICKET to spare, Italy astonishingly
P.K. Ajith Kumar FOOTBALL missed out after losing to
PUNE Agence France-Presse minnow North Macedonia
Opposite the tennis court at Buenos Aires in a playoff.
the famed Deccan Gymkha Real Madrid’s France star “What happened with
na Club in Pune is a shop Karim Benezema deserves Italy is crazy, having won
that sells things exclusively to win the Ballon d’Or, ac the Euros and not being at
cricket. At the cash counter cording to seventime lau the World Cup, given Italy’s
you will find a middleaged reate Lionel Messi. history at the World Cup,”
woman with cropped, salt “There’s no doubt, it’s ve he said.
andpepper hair. ry clear that Benzema has “If Italy had been at the
had a spectacular year and World Cup they would have
Anand. *
FILE PHOTO Lowprofile has ended it by winning the been one of the favorites.
She will help you choose the Champions League,” Messi They were unlucky. No one
Sports Bureau
right bat or glove. Some
C ontinuing his fine run

in the shorter timefor
mat, Viswanathan Anand
times, her suggestions are
met with arched eyebrows.
Shubhangi Kulkarni, howev
stunned Magnus Carlsen er, does not let on that she is
on way to the tied third well qualified to advise. She Raising the decibel level: Players from all over the world
spot in the 10th Norway does not let on that she is a made their presence felt at the T20 Challenge. SPORTZPICS/IPL *
Chess 2022 Blitz at Stavan Golden run: Ramita, Shreya and Elavenil, who finished former India captain who

ger on Monday. on top of the podium. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
*
played 19 Tests and 27 ODIs. never he is in Pune.” Test, at Bengaluru. After a
Wesley So won the event Most of the visitors to her Gavaskar was the biggest five for 48 in the first innings
scoring 6.5 points from Sports Bureau nush Srikanth and Paarth shop may not know that she icon of Indian cricket when with her legspin, she took
nine rounds. Carlsen was Makhija, started well, but bowled the Indian women’s Shubhangi began playing the two more wickets in the se
second on 5.5 followed by
Anish Giri, Anand and
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
T he Indian women’s air ri
fle team of Shreya Agra
wal, Elavenil Valarivan and
lost its way and eventually
got beaten in the bronze me
dal match by Croatia 1016.
team to its firstever Test vic
tory, or that she was a suc
cessful administrator who
game.
How it all started
cond. In the fourth Test of
the sixmatch series, she
took seven wickets to help
tied on 5 points. Ramita outplayed Denmark In a packed calendar for played a key role in the BCCI “When I was still at school, India post its first Test win.
Anand’s 43move victo 175 for gold in the shooting the season, the Indian team taking women’s cricket un my mother came to know of told TyC Sports. would have wanted to play
ry over Carlsen was his first World Cup in Baku, Azerbai had planned to pace itself der its wing. a camp conducted by the Able administrator Messi was speaking them.”
since 2017. jan, on Tuesday. judiciously and had opted to Not that she minds! Maharashtra Cricket Associa After hanging up her boots, ahead of a friendly with Italy Meanwhile, Angel Di Ma
The fivetime World The Indian team started field only 12 rifle shooters in She is happy just to spend tion and she took me there,” she became an administra at Wembley stadium in Lon ria will retire from interna
champion started with a well by topping qualification the current World Cup. time at Sunny’s Sports Bou she recalls. “Then I also at tor. It was while she was the don, between two continen tional football after this
win over Norway’s Aryan in the first stage. It wavered The results: Air rifle: Men: 1. tique, which she established tended a camp by Lala Amar secretary of the Women’s tal champions. year’s World Cup.
Tari, drew with So and de a bit in the second stage, to Korea 16 (627.3) 936.3; 2. Aus some four decades ago in nath in Lucknow, in 197576.” Cricket Association of India, The match between the
feated Veselin Topalov, be 0.6 point behind Den tralia 8 (626.6) 933.4; 3. Croa partnership with former Ba After playing an invitation in 2006, that the BCCI took South American Copa It will be time: Di Maria
drew with Temour Radja mark, but ensured its berth tia (Josip Sikavica, Miran Maric roda cricketer Jairaj Mehta tournament at Nainital, she over. America holders and the “After this World Cup it will
bov, lost to Anish, drew in the gold match. ic, Andrija Mikuljan) 16 (624.2) and Sunil Gavaskar. played in her first National That was one big step for European champions, be time, there are a lot of
with Wang Hao, then came The first medal helped In 940.0; 4. India (Rudrankksh Inside the shop, you will tournament at Kolkata in ward for women’s cricket. where many Argentines lads who are at international
Patil, Dhanush Srikanth, Paarth
the big win over Carlsen, dia climb to the joint fifth find posters of the batting le 197475. A good show for the “Sharad Pawar had shown trace their roots, is known level, who are getting better
Makhija) 10 (624.9) 940.4.
drew with Mamedyarov spot in the medals table gend. “Sunil’s parents lived Combined Universities team interest even before he took as the “Finalissima”. and little by little they are
Women: 1. India (Shreya Agra
and Maxime with Czech Republic, Fin in Pune and he used to have against the touring New Zea over as BCCI president,” says going to show that they are
wal, Elavenil Valarivan, Ramita)
VachierLagrave. land, Greece and Iran, be 17 (628.6) 944.4; 2. Denmark training sessions with the land paved the way for her Shubhangi. “Our women Study in contrast at this standard,” Di Maria
This event was the pre hind the leaders Korea, Ser (Anna Nielsen, Emma Koch, widely respected coach Ka Test team entry. cricketers have benefited im But while Argentina said.
lude to the classical time bia, Poland and France. Rikke Ibsen) 5 (629.2) 942.8; 3. mal Bhandarkar,” Shubhangi Against the West Indies in mensely because of that. stormed to qualification for Di Maria, 34, played 121
format event comprising The men’s air rifle team Poland 16 (626.6) 944.1; 4. Ko tells The Hindu. 1976, she made a stunning Now they deserve their own the Qatar World Cup later times for the national side
the same players. of Rudrankksh Patil, Dha rea 10 (626.5) 944.2. “He visits the shop whe debut in India’s first official IPL.” this year with several games and scored 24 goals.
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Kiran quietly pulls off a quartermile stunner
Her recent 51.84s makes the 21-year-old the second fastest Asian this year behind Aishwarya
March this year.
ATHLETICS Incidentally, the Railway
Stan Rayan meet came very close to the
KOCHI Federation Cup and she mis
While everything seems to sed the Malappuram event.
be quiet at the Indian quar
termilers’ camp in Antalya, Ready for Chennai
Turkey, there is a lot of fast But she is ready for Chennai
paced action happening and hopes to get back to the
back home. National camp.
A month after Aishwarya “I was in the National
Mishra’s stunning 51.18s at camp in 2019 and 2020. If I
the Malappuram Federation get a call, I’ll join immediate
Cup in April and the vanish ly,” said the 21yearold
ing trick after that, another whose last competition was
quartermiler Kiran Pahal has the 400m trials last year to
come up with an impressive pick the Indian mixed relay
time. team for the Tokyo
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clocked 51.84s for the Harya Leading the pack: Kiran Pahal (in yellow jersey) claimed the Haryana State title in the 400m race. *
FILE PHOTO Meanwhile, chief national
na State title at Karnal a few coach Radhakrishnan Nair
days ago, a time that took her and was invited to the na team for the World cham World championship qualify have improved. That’s the revealed that Kiran could be Bhavishy scalps seven two crucial wickets while
to the second spot in this tional relay camp. pionships and Common ing mark, that’s my target,” reason for the good time.” considered for the camp if Bhavishy Rattan’s seven for Tejas Dahiya and Hiten
year’s Asian 400m list, be But she had a very quiet wealth Games — in Chennai Kiran told The Hindu on Kiran joined the Railways she does well in Chennai. 25 saw Universal CC beat Dalal scored halfcenturies
hind Aishwarya. life after that, clocking a best coming up ( June 1014), she Tuesday evening. as a junior clerk in Patiala “She did not take part in Roop Nagar CC by 85 runs as LB Shastri Club beat DC
Kiran hit the headlines of 54.48s in 2021. has managed to improve her “I had a hamstring injury last year and finished third any of the AFI competitions in the DDCA under16 Bal Bhawan by five wickets
with her 52.73s (improving But now, with the inter time magically. last year during training and (55.68s), behind Soniya this year. We will decide after League. In another match, in the 45th Lala Raghubir
from 55.18 in 2018) at the State Nationals — the main “I hope to clock 51.35s at missed three months. Now, Baishya and Loganayaki, in seeing her performance in a fivefor by Lakshay Gupta Singh Hot Weather
2019 Ranchi National Open trials to select the Indian the interState...that’s the my workouts are good, they the interRailway meet in the interState,” he said. helped Young Cricketer tournament.
beat United India by nine The scores: DCBB 220/9 in 40
wickets. overs (Yash Dhull 75, Arpit
Zeel battles Stimac backs India to make Asian Cup Maaya ousts Niyati The scores: Universal CC 224
in 47 overs (Samarth Bhardwaj
Rana 37) lost to LBSC 221/5 in
23.5 overs (Tejas Dahiya 52
past Dharya Vedant gets the better of Dhruv
63, Lakshay Negi 48) bt Roop
Nagar CC 139 in 33 overs
n.o., Hiten Dalal 50, Nitin
Tanwar 45 n.o., Mayank Rawat
Says team has prepared well despite injuries, cancelled friendly (Akash Gupta 48, Bhavishy 4/67).
Sports Bureau sin bt Dhruv Sachdeva 64,
FOOTBALL
pox. TENNIS 46, 63; Arjun Rathi bt Parth
Rattan 7/25); United India 56
in 14 overs (Lakshay Gupta
Jai stars for RPC Academy
Looking back at the Jor
Z eel Desai beat Dharya
Shauha 67(5), 76(5), 7
6(3) in the first round in the
Y.B. Sarangi
KOLKATA
dan match, Stimac said, “We
went into it with a great
Sports Bureau
Deorukhkar 64, 26, 75.
Tejas Ahuja bt Vishnu Bala
5/17, Arnav Kumar 2/03) lost
to Young Cricketer 57/1 in 13
Jai Nayak’s bowling figures
of 3/14 saw RPC Academy
beat ASM Academy by nine
$25,000 ITF women’s ten
nis tournament in Georgia
Despite all odds, Indian foot
ball team head coach Igor
mindset, thinking how to
win. Most of all, for me, is
M aaya Rajeshwaran of
Tamil Nadu knocked
out top seed Niyati Kukreti
chandar 63, 63; Aarjun Pan
dit bt Abhiram Nilakhe 36,
64, 75; Mayank Sharma bt
overs; Pioneer Club 131/5 in 38
overs (Krishnath Awana 59, wicket in the RV Sports
Under15 tournament.
Stimac is backing his side to the quality of performance.” Aryan 39, Prince Mishra 3/27)
on Tuesday. of Uttarakhand 76(6), 63 in Avaneesh Chafle 64, 75.
lost to LMC 132/2 in 22 overs The scores: ASMA 49 in 11.4
Other results:
qualify for the AFC Asian Entering the final week of Priyansh Barthwal bt Smit
the girls’ second round of (Ronak Modi 72 n.o.). overs (Jai Nayak 3/14) lost to
Cup. Even as the team has preparation, Stimac said the Patel 76(2), 46, 76(5); Reth
Doubles (prequarterfinals): the Ramesh Desai memorial RPCA 50/1 in 6 overs.
been troubled by injuries Igor Stimac. primary goal would be to in Pranav bt Aarav Verma 61, Varun and Chetan shine
Suraj Prabodh & Muthu Aadh *
REUTERS National u16 tennis cham
and cancellation of a friend qualify for the Asian Cup. 61. Varun Sood (four for 11) DIS Academy lifts title
itiya Senthilkumar bt Tu Le pionship at the KDLTA Com
ly against Zambia, Stimac push players to the limit,” “We have to make sure India Girls: Maaya Rajeshwaran bt Chetan Bisht (56) helped A quickfire 107ball 172 by
Khanh Duy & Ha Minh Duc Vu plex in Kolhapur on
(Vie) 64, 75; Minh Tuam was satisfied with the overall said Stimac at a roundtable gets the points to qualify. We Niyati Kukreti 76(6), 63; Bank of Baroda beat Roop Dev Jangid, 65 by Sagar
Tuesday.
Pham & Linh Giang Trinh (Vie) preparation for the Asian interaction on Tuesday, are here, ready and we will Amodini Naik bt Saumitra Ver Nagar CC by eight wickets Chamoli and four wickets
Cup final qualifying round, hours after the team landed In the boys’ section, Ve ma 76(3), 16, 61; Asmi Adkar
bt Patrick Fitzgerald (Aus) & do it with the help of in the DDCA Hot Weather by Lakshay helped DIS
starting here from June 8. here after playing its friendly dant Bhasin of Maharashtra bt Siya Prasade 63, 61.
Nishant Dabas 62, 61. supporters.” tournament. Academy beat Bimla Devi
against Jordan in Doha. beat fifth seed Dhruv Sach Sreemanya Anugonda bt
$15,000 ITF men, Monastir, “The camp was planned Stimac said Afghanistan, The scores: Roop Nagar 154 in Crickt Academy by 110 runs
deva of Haryana 64, 46, Nainika Bendram 61, 62; Aa
Tunisia: Singles (first round): carefully. Our main worry “Only bad thing was Zam which has allowed its players 35 overs (Shubham Bhatt 56, to win the 1st Dobhal
63. rushi Raval bt Kumkum Kumari
Rishab Agarwal bt Dusan Rso was fitness. The Ballari bia cancelling the match.” to play in foreign leagues, Saksham 37, Varun Sood 4/11) tournament.
vac (Aus) 26, 63, 60; Aziz The results (second round): 62, 64; Aakruti Sonkusare bt
(camp) was a good decision. and Hong Kong, which has lost to BoB 158/2 in 16 overs The scores: DISA 328/5 in 35
Ouakaa (Tun) bt Abhinav San Boys: Kriish Tyagi bt Aaradhya Mahika Khanna 61, 63.
It had good facilities for fit Tangri to replace Ritwik changed rules to allow fo (Chetan Bisht 56, Sanjay overs (Dev Jangid 172, Sagar
jeev Shanmugam 64, 76(6). Dwivedi 60, 62; Venkat Bat Rishita Basireddy bt Saily
ness conditioning. Coming Stimac said that centreback reigners, will be tough sides Sharma 46). Chamoli 65) bt BDCA 218/9 in
Doubles (prequarterfinals): lanki bt Ashwin Narsinghani Thakkar 62, 60; Suhani Gaur
Ray Ho (Tpe) & Tao Mu (Chn) to Kolkata was a good Deepak Tangri would re in Group D. He expected 64, 60. bt Shagun Kumari 63, 63; Easy for LB Shastri Club 35 overs (Kumar Krishnav 110,
bt Maik Steiner (Ger) & Karu choice. It’s a football city. place Ritwik Das as the latter Cambodia to play counterat Vansh Nandal bt Namish Manognya Madasu bt Sejal Nitin Tanwar scored an Paras Kumar 39, Lakshay
nuday Singh 64, 63. You get that extra needed to was ruled out due to chicken tacking football. Sharma 61, 62; Vedant Bha Bhutada 75, 61. unbeaten 45 and picked up 4/46).
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