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CITY EDITION Regd. DL(ND)-11/6110/2006-07-08
22 Pages ₹ 12.00 RNI No. UPENG/2012/49940
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DELHI
CITY EDITION Regd. DL(ND)-11/6110/2006-07-08
22 Pages ₹ 12.00 RNI No. UPENG/2012/49940
Printed at » Chennai » Coimbatore » Bengaluru » Hyderabad » Madurai » Noida » Visakhapatnam » Thiruvananthapuram » Kochi » Vijayawada » Mangaluru » Tiruchirapalli » Kolkata » Hubballi » Mohali » Malappuram » Mumbai » Tirupati » Lucknow » Cuttack » Patna
construction
lookout circular issued in PoK valley SC on Bengal’s suit
Karnataka govt. asks PM to cancel MP’s diplomatic passport, appeals to victims to come forward; Dinakar Peri
NEW DELHI Krishnadas Rajagopal
his father, also named in harassment and kidnap cases, skips SIT summons, seeks anticipatory bail
India has registered its
NEW DELHI
The Hindu wins
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The Hindu Bureau plaint against Mr. Prajwal. protest with Beijing against The Supreme Court on top awards at
BENGALURU/KALABURGI/ The Minister also appealed China’s “illegal attempts” Thursday categorically design contest
NEW DELHI to other victims, especially to “alter facts on the said law and order is a
those who were allegedly ground” in the Shaksgam State subject, after West CHENNAI
he Karnataka Pol- featured in explicit videos valley of Pakistan-occu- Bengal complained that
EC: cease
registering
voters under
the ‘guise of
surveys’
The Hindu Bureau
NEW DELHI
BJP complaint
The advisory comes fol-
lowing a complaint by the
BJP that said the Congress’s
“Ghar Ghar Guarantee”
outreach to people was a
“corrupt practice amount-
ing to bribery” and urged
the EC to put a stop to it.
Under this initiative, the
BJP claimed that the Con-
gress and its workers are
distributing “guarantee
cards” to households and
presenting them with ap-
plication papers for access-
ing the party’s promised
benefits.
In its advisory, the EC
cited five instances that
“obscure the distinction
between legitimate surveys
and biased attempts to en-
rol people in programmes
for political gain”.
These included new-
spaper ads seeking to regis-
ter voters for benefits by
giving missed calls on a
mobile or calling on a tele-
phone number, distribu-
tion of guarantee cards giv-
ing details of schemes
along with an attached
form asking for details of
voters, and distribution of
forms seeking details and
seeking online registration.
CM M ND-NDE
YK
THE HINDU
2 Friday, May 3, 2024
City Delhi
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On Wednesday morn- played at both ends of the mission to have been creat- Swati Maliwal. She said ma- former chairperson, Swati ‘Direct impact’ ing the trial is to ensure
ing, students were evacuat- school corridors. Every ed illegally, was sent to ny of the terminated em- Maliwal. Ms. Maliwal claimed that that he faces trial, does not
ed from 131 schools in Delhi child is aware of which Lieutenant-Governor V.K. ployees were survivors of the termination of so many abscond, and, if found guil-
and seven in Noida even as staircase to take to reach Saxena for approval. various crimes, including 2017 report employees would affect the ty, is available to serve his
fire tenders, bomb disposal the playground in case of a “The order to terminate acid attacks, domestic vio- A senior WCD official said functioning of the DCW and sentence. The purpose is
squads and sniffer dogs threat situation like yester- the services was issued af- lence, and rape. The com- the commission had “ille- lead to the closure of multi- not to punish the accused,”
were rushed to the premis- day,” she added. ter the L-G gave a nod to the mission, after Ms. Maliwal’s gally” created 223 posts in ple DCW programmes, in- Justice Navin Chawla said.
es to search for explosives. proposal,” a senior official resignation in January this 2016. cluding the Rape Crisis Cell The court, however, de-
No suspicious object was Fake news said. year, remains without a The official added that a and Mahila Panchayat. nied bail to the fourth ac-
found in the searches and In the wake of the incident, Several Aam Aadmi Par- chairperson. committee, founded in Fe- “The L-G’s move aims to cused, Nazim, saying that
the emails were found to be the Delhi police took cogni- ty (AAP) leaders held the The BJP attacked Ms. Ma- bruary 2017 by the then render the DCW as ineffec- there was a likelihood of
a hoax. sance of fake news circulat- L-G responsible for the liwal and alleged that she Delhi L-G Anil Baijal to in- tive as other women’s com- him influencing important
A senior police officer ing on WhatsApp. DCP sackings and termed the was responsible for the ter- vestigate complaints of ille- missions in the country,” public witnesses that are
said the intention behind (PRO) Suman Nalwa said, WCD order “arbitrary”. minations. gally created posts in the she said. yet to be examined by the
the emails was to create “We have received messag- “The L-G in his Tughlaqi Delhi BJP president Vi- commission, had stated in Senior AAP leaders and prosecution.
mass panic and disturb pu- es that many parents were farman [arbitrary order] rendra Sachdeva said the its report that “the actions Delhi Ministers Saurabh According to the com-
blic order. having conversations on has directed the removal of DCW employees were taken by the DCW are Bharadwaj and Atishi hit plainant, Ravinder Kumar,
WhatsApp groups regard- all contractual staff of the sacked due to the unconsti- beyond its delegated power out at the L-G, accusing him the four accused were part
Mock drills ing a suspicious object commission,” said former tutional and anarchic func- and in violation of the DCW of “rendering thousands of of a “violent mob” that
Jyoti Arora, principal of found inside a school. DCW chairperson and tioning of the AAP govern- Act”. people unemployed in the killed his son during the
Mount Abu Public School Whenever you get such AAP’s Rajya Sabha member ment, especially DCW’s The commission had al- last year and a half”. communal violence.
in Rohini, said there was a messages, you should first
10-15% drop in attendance identify its source, and
across classes. She said, then forward it. Fake news
“We revisited the frame-
work to deal with such inci-
dents and discussed prepa-
spreads like wildfire.”
She also added that
strict action would be ta-
LS poll: BJP’s Sehrawat files nomination from West Delhi
redness. We also informed ken against those who
new teachers and students spread fake news. The Hindu Bureau Bhajan Lal Sharma, Union party workers and voters
NEW DELHI Minister Hardeep Singh Pu- participated in the road-
ri, and several senior party show showed that eve-
Over 72 candidates, includ- leaders. ryone’s blessings and sup-
ing BJP’s West Delhi candi- Many supporters turned port are with Prime
date Kamaljeet Sehrawat, up to cheer Ms. Sehrawat, Minister Narendra Modiji’s
filed their nomination pap- who led the roadshow from soldier Kamaljeet Sehra-
ers on Thursday, the fourth her Vikaspuri office to the wat,” she said.
day of the nomination pro- office of the returning offic- Ms. Sehrawat declared
cess for the Lok Sabha elec- er in Rajouri Garden. movable assets worth ₹1.30
tion scheduled to be held The BJP nominee, who is crore and immovable assets
on May 25 in Delhi. pitted against INDIA bloc worth ₹27.60 lakh in her
Before filing her papers, candidate Mahabal Mishra poll affidavit.
Ms. Sehrawat held a road- (AAP), said her supporters’ She has done a Master’s
show, which was attended enthusiasm had boosted in Commerce from Hima- Kamaljeet Sehrawat at a roadshow ahead of filing her nomination
by Rajasthan Chief Minister her confidence. “The way chal Pradesh University. for the Lok Sabha poll on Thursday. SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR
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power, what happened to He alleged that Mr. Mo- achieve the target of “400- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, BJP’s Saran candidate Rajiv Pratap rupt] Jungleraj Daldal
his party? Now the NCP is di’s frequent remark that if plus” seats in the Lok Sab- Rudy, and party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad in Saran on Thursday. ANI [swamp]”. “Modiji wants
with us... I feel Mr. Modi is voted to power, the INDIA ha election, Mr. Nadda to put corrupt people in register of voters misplaced
definitely a challenge be- bloc would bring reserva- said Prime Minister Naren- kind of support we are get- countries of the Arab jail but the Indian National
fore him. But the country tion based on religion, was dra Modi is working to put ting, I believe we will easi- world, Modi has been con- Developmental, Inclusive Repolling was held at a booth at Nandsi village in
loves Mr. Modi, and people an attempt to create social “corrupt leaders in jail”. ly achieve the target of ferred with the highest ho- Alliance wants to protect Rajasthan’s Ajmer Lok Sabha constituency on
will respond to this criti- tension. “We have never Mr. Singh was cam- 400-plus seats,” the De- nour. And they [the Oppo- them,” he said. Thursday following the Election Commission’s
cism through votes,” Mr. said this. This is Mr. Modi’s paigning for BJP’s Saran fence Minister said in sition] have the temerity Later in the day, Mr. declaration of the April 26 polling as void. The
Fadnavis said. creation,” Mr. Pawar said. candidate Rajiv Pratap Ru- Saran. to charge us with [creating Nadda addressed another repolling was ordered at a booth in Nandsi’s
Mr. Modi has also been dy while Mr. Nadda held a He rejected the Opposi- divisions] between Hindus rally in Muzaffarpur in Government Senior Secondary School because
‘PM’s culture’ speaking about redistribu- rally in support of Pradeep tion’s charge that the BJP and Muslims,” Mr. Singh support of BJP candidate the presiding officer had misplaced the 17-A
The BJP leader also said tion of wealth and inheri- Kumar Singh, the BJP’s was creating a Hindu-Mus- said. Raj Bhushan Nishad. Mr. register of voters. The voter turnout during the
the PM used to call up Udd- tance tax, which does not Araria seat nominee. lim divide, highlighting Singh addressed a second repolling was recorded at 68.66%, with 517 of the
hav Thackeray’s wife, have any mention in the “I have already ad- the goodwill enjoyed by ‘Corrupt Cong. regimes’ rally in support of Dilesh- 753 registered voters turning up to cast their
Rashmi, to enquire about Congress manifesto, he dressed several rallies in Mr. Modi in several Islamic The Defence Minister war Kamat, the JD(U) can- ballots. CEO Praveen Gupta said the repolling
the Shiv Sena (UBT) chief’s pointed out. the country and seeing the countries. “In at least five blamed the Congress and didate for the Supaul seat. was conducted amid tight security.
Timings
DELHI
BJP workers resign over Thane
FRIDAY, MAY. 03 Lok Sabha seat going to Sena
RISE 05:39 SET 18:58
RISE 02:27 SET 13:52 Some BJP workers from Navi Mumbai and
SATURDAY, MAY. 04 Mira-Bhayander have resigned over the nomination of
RISE 05:39 SET 18:59 Naresh Mhaske of the Shiv Sena as the Mahayuti
RISE 03:03 SET 14:58 candidate for the Thane Lok Sabha seat. Chief Minister
SUNDAY, MAY. 05 Eknath Shinde had announced the nomination, causing
RISE 05:38 SET 18:59 dissatisfaction among the BJP members, who felt former
RISE 03:36 SET 16:04
MP Sanjeev Naik was a ‘better candidate’.
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YK
THE HINDU
4 Friday, May 3, 2024
States Delhi
INBRIEF
쑽 Modi says Pakistan eager BJP fields Brij
to see Rahul Gandhi as PM Bhushan’s son
At four back-to-back rallies in his home State ahead of the May 7 election in Gujarat, Modi claims
from Kaiserganj
‘Congress was dying and Pakistan was crying’, takes a dig at ‘vote jihad’ remark by SP leader The Hindu Bureau
LUCKNOW
The Hindu Bureau deceased), the CM of the
AHMEDABAD State. The Bharatiya Janata Party
Cong. wants Karnataka quota rime Minister Na-
In Junagadh, the PM said
if Sardar Patel was not pre-
(BJP) on Thursday an-
nounced the candidature
model for the country: Dhami
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami
P rendra Modi on
Thursday said Pa-
kistan was eager to see Con-
sent, Junagadh would have
gone to Pakistan, bringing
up the issue of the then Ju-
of Karan Bhushan Singh,
son of six-term MP Brij
Bhushan Sharan Singh,
on Thursday accused the Congress of aiming to gress leader Rahul Gandhi nagadh Nawab’s assertion from Kaiserganj Lok Sabha
replicate the Karnataka reservation model become the Prime Minister to make it a part of Pakistan seat and U.P. Minister Di- Karan Bhushan Singh
nationwide and claimed that a specific of India. “The enemies of during Independence. nesh Pratap Singh from
community in the southern State was added to the nation, including Pakis- Mr. Modi also took a dig Rae Bareli. The move drew choice, accusing the ruling
the OBC list overnight. Addressing an election tan, want a weak govern- at the “vote jihad” remark criticism from Opposition party of rewarding Mr. Brij
rally in ranchi in support of BJP nominee for the ment in India. They want a Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an election rally in Gujarat’s by Congress leader Salman parties. Bhushan. “Just when we
seat, Mr. Dhami urged people to vote for the BJP corrupt government which Surendranagar on Thursday. VIJAY SONEJI Khurshid’s niece and Sa- While the ruling party thought that the Prajwal
to protect the country from corruption, was there before 2014. Mo- majwadi Party leader Maria denied the ticket to Mr. Brij Revanna scandal [in Karna-
appeasement and dynastic politics. “At a time di’s strong government ised sections”. “When Con- In central Gujarat’s Alam during a recent rally Bhushan, the former Wres- taka] had exposed the
when the country is moving towards the Uniform does not bow down to gress released its manifes- Anand, the Prime Minister in Uttar Pradesh. He said tling Federation of India depths of the BJP’s deprav-
Civil Code, the Congress says it will implement anyone,” Mr. Modi said in to, I alerted the country... I said the Congress was “dy- that the country had heard chief accused of sexually ity, they show that there
Muslim Personal Law,” he said. PTI Gujarat, where voting will could see the image of the ing and Pakistan was cry- of “love jihad” but now a harassing women wres- are always new lows for
take place on May 7. Muslim League in their ma- ing”. “You all might have Congress leader has talked tlers, sources said he was them to fall to,” Congress
The Prime Minister’s nifesto,” he said in his ad- known by now that Pakista- about “vote jihad” to defeat consulted about his leader Jairam Ramesh
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statement came a day after dress in Jamnagar. ni leaders are praying for Lord Ram. replacement. posted on X.
Farmers under SKM banner former Pakistan Minister
Ch. Fawad Hussain shared a
The Congress’s manifes-
to for the Lok Sabha poll
the Congress’s victory... to
make the Shehzada [refer- Kshatriya anger
Mr. Karan Bhushan’s el-
der brother Prateek Bhush-
“The BJP’s slogans of
Nari Shakti, Nari Samman
at odds with Kangana Ranaut video featuring Mr. Gandhi does not talk about reli- ring to Rahul Gandhi] of In Jamnagar, the PM called an Singh is a BJP MLA. His and Beti Bachao are all hol-
on X (formerly Twitter) gion-based reservations for Congress the PM of India.” on the former royal family mother Ketki Devi Singh is low, shallow, meaningless
Groups of farmers and horticulturists in with the caption, “Rahul any community. Mr. Modi, who has also member Shatrusalyasinhji a former MP from Gonda. and bogus,” said Trina-
Himachal Pradesh are up in arms against Gandhi on fire”. References to Pakistan in served as the Chief Minister Jadeja. The meeting was The family is influential in mool Rajya Sabha MP Saga-
actor-turned-politician Kangana Ranaut, who is Addressing election ral- the poll campaign and eq- of the State for 13 years, had seen as a bid to pacify the Gonda and nearby dis- rika Ghose.
contesting the Lok Sabha election from Mandi as lies in four different Lok uating the Opposition party in past elections as well eq- Kshatriya community, tricts. The BJP’s pick will Mr. Dinesh Pratap, a lo-
a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate. The Sabha seats — Anand, Su- with the neighbouring uated the Opposition party which is on the warpath contest against Narendra cal Rajput leader who con-
Samyukt Kisan Manch (SKM), an amalgamation rendranagar, Junagadh and country was reminiscent of with the neighbouring with the ruling party over Pandey of the Bahujan Sa- tested unsuccessfully
of over two dozen farmers’ and horticulturists’ Jamnagar — in his home the campaign during the country and accused it of the controversial remarks maj Party; the Samajwadi against Congress leader So-
outfits of the State, has asked Ms. Ranaut to be State, the Prime Minister run-up to the 2017 Assemb- doing “appeasement polit- by the BJP’s Rajkot candi- Party is yet to declare its nia Gandhi in the 2019 par-
ready to face farmers’ ire or apologise for her reiterated his claim that the ly poll in Gujarat, when Mr. ics”. In 2012 and 2017 As- date and Union Minister candidate for Kaiserganj. liamentary polls, was re-
alleged derogatory remarks during their Congress intends to create Modi had accused former sembly polls, Mr. Modi had Parshottam Rupala about The Congress, Trina- peated again by the BJP
year-long protests against the now-repealed farm reservations for Muslims in PM Manmohan Singh of said that if voted to power, former princely families mool Congress and Shiv even as the Opposition par-
laws. “We will oppose BJP candidate Kangana government jobs and edu- “holding a secret meeting the Congress would make and their alliances with the Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb ty is yet to announce its
Ranaut from Mandi, Sanjay Chauhan, cation “by snatching away with diplomats of Pakistan Ahmed Patel, its veteran British during colonial Thackeray) criticised the candidate for Rae Bareli.
co-coordinator of SKM, said on Thursday. the rights of the marginal- to conspire” against him. leader from Gujarat (now times. BJP for its Kaiserganj (With inputs from PTI)
Man arrested
for ‘sharing’
Priyanka promises reforms for tribals in Illegal mining in the PDP candidate
reaches out
fake video of biodiversity-rich areas of Chhattisgarh Aravali range must to families
Adityanath The Hindu Bureau elephant attacks [man-ani- hi did not inherit wealth
stop: Supreme Court with kin in jail
RAIPUR/BHOPAL mal conflict] have been but the sense of martyr-
The Hindu Bureau more frequent. Your envi- dom from his mother and The Hindu Bureau part of the range. Justice Peerzada Ashiq
LUCKNOW Making a pitch for tribal ronment is being des- ex-PM Indira Gandhi. “Mo- NEW DELHI Oka said the classification SRINAGAR
votes in Chhattisgarh, se- troyed. Which ever big in- diji cannot understand the was “very problematic”.
The Special Task Force nior Congress leader Pri- dustrialist is coming here is sense of martyrdom,” she The Supreme Court on “Aravali is the only geo- Peoples Democratic Party
(STF) of Uttar Pradesh pol- yanka Gandhi Vadra on getting whatever he needs, said as she refuted the Thursday said illegal min- graphical feature that stops (PDP) candidate Waheed
ice on Thursday arrested a Thursday alleged that at- be it land or mines, but you Prime Minister’s allega- ing in the Aravali range in dry winds from coming to ur Rehman Parra, contest-
person for allegedly post- tempts were being made to do not get it,” she added. tions that Rajiv Gandhi had Rajasthan must stop. “Ille- the Gangetic Plains — dry ing from the Srinagar Lok
ing an Artificial Intelli- muzzle the anti-mining In her speech, Ms. Vadra axed the inheritance law gal mining in Aravali has to winds that come from Af- Sabha seat, on Thursday
gence-generated “deep- movement in the Hasdeo also highlighted the Con- when he became PM to stop. What action have you ghanistan and Pakistan. reached out to families that
fake” of U.P. Chief Minister Aranya region, even as she gress “guarantees” for the avoid paying tax. taken against illegal mining Aravali is a natural barrier. have relatives in jails and
Yogi Adityanath. promised reforms for tri- welfare and empowerment Morena is part of the and officials who are per- If we lose the Aravali, we pledged to fight for a “jail-
The Additional Director bals if her party returned Cong. leader Priyanka Gandhi of the tribal communities. Gwalior-Chambal region in mitting this activity?” Jus- invite the arid, dry climate free and cases-free”
General of Police and head to power at the Centre. Vadra in Chhattisgarh’s Korba “We want to implement M.P. that sees many youth tice B.R. Gavai, heading a to enter from Afghanistan Kashmir.
of U.P. STF Amitabh Yash Mining and related de- on Thursday. PAWAN KUMAR the Forest Rights Act, this joining the forces. Special Bench with Justice and Pakistan,” Mr. Para- “I understand the plight
said the fake video was forestation has been a con- is our guarantee. There “How do I explain (to A.S. Oka, told Solicitor meshwar said. of the incarcerated youth
used to spread misleading tentious issue in the biodi- dustrialists in Hasdeo but will be a specific budget myself ) when Modiji calls General Tushar Mehta, ap- The lawyer said the in Kashmir. There is a need
facts and strengthening an- versity-rich areas in the tribals were getting and plan setting aside mo- my father a traitor, when pearing for Rajasthan. court in November 2023 to make their pain heard at
ti-national elements. tribal-dominant Chhattis- nothing. ney for work that can be Modiji says that my father The court’s amicus cu- had taken note of palaeo- the national level,” Mr. Par-
“On May 1, an AI-gener- garh. Resumption of min- “Today, your protest site done for you. The amend- changed some law to get riae, advocate K. Para- lithic findings in the Aravali ra said while canvassing in
ated deepfake video of the ing in recent months have is being burnt,” she said, ments that these people the inheritance from his meshwar, urged the court and directed the Archaeo- once militant-dominated
U.P. Chief Minster went vi- resulted in protests, and referring to a recent case of have made in the land ac- mother? Modiji will not un- to order a stop to fresh logical Survey of India to pockets of Pulwama and
ral after it was posted on X triggered a political blame arson in which unidenti- quisition law, which are derstand that my father mining leases. protect the site, which Budgam.
from a handle. The video game between the ruling fied individuals allegedly mostly weakening you, we did not get money and He said the Rajasthan could even be part of na- Mr. Parra faced jail for 19
was used to spread mis- Bharatiya Janata Party and set ablaze the protest site will remove those amend- wealth but shahadat ki government was trying to tional heritage. months under Sections of
leading facts,” Mr. Yash the Congress. of the Hasdeo Aranya Jun- ments,” she said. bhavna (feeling of martyr- pull wool over the eyes of Justice Oka pointed to the Unlawful Activities Pre-
added. Speaking at a rally in the gle Bachao Andolan in dom) as inheritance. You the court by considering apprehensions over cli- vention Act, and was re-
The accused, Shyam mining town of Chirmiri, Surguja. Rally in M.P.’s Morena can understand this as you only those mountains mate change. leased on bail by the J&K
Kishor Gupta, was arrested part of the Korba Lok Sab- “Your trees are being Later addressing a rally in have sent your sons to the which were 100 metres or Mr. Mehta said a meet- High Court in 2022. He
and further legal action is ha constituency, Ms. Vadra cut, more than 15,000 Morena, Madhya Pradesh, border and they attain more in height as part of ing had been scheduled on promised to fight for “ge-
being initiated according to alleged that resources were trees have been cut. Be- Ms. Vadra said her father martyrdom for this coun- the Aravali Range; it did May 7 and May 8 to review nuine aspirations” and
the law, Mr. Yash said. being handed over to in- cause trees are being cut, and former PM Rajiv Gand- try,” Ms. Vadra said. not treat shorter hills as the situation. “seek amnesty”.
‘Strong desire for change in Odisha, lack of performance has fuelled discontentment’
BJD run by group of bureaucrats, heavily dependent on imports from Congress, lacks strong leadership and grassroots support, says the Union Minister and BJP candidate for the Sambalpur LS seat
campaigning in Sambal- the reins of Odisha. Be- migrations of labour in the seats. We are going to form Assembly constituency re- lack of strong leadership
INTERVIEW pur, he spoke about how coming a people’s repre- country. This is also a mat- the next government. presented by the CM, has and grassroots support.
the BJD is putting Odia cul- sentative is altogether a dif- ter of Odia Asmita. become the focal point of The party seems to be rely-
Dharmendra ture in jeopardy, the lack of ferent issue. Today, who is Where does this distress migration. Indivi- ing heavily on imports
basic facilities in villages, the No. 1 star campaigner The BJP is facing confidence stem from? duals from Ganjam, the from the Congress, with
Pradhan and rising unemployment of the BJD? A non-Odia. criticism for not home district of Mr. Pat- few remnants of the iconic
levels causing large-scale Whose photographs figure mentioning Odia pride Our interactions with peo- naik, can be seen across Biju Patnaik era within its
Satyasundar Barik migration from the State. in all its campaign posters? and refraining from ple across the State re- various industrial areas in ranks. The BJD is run by a
Edited excerpts: That of a non-Odia. criticising the BJD vealed a strong desire for the country, often under- group of bureaucrats and
nion Education Mi- during alliance talks. change. Despite being in taking low-paying jobs. there is massive resent-
CM M ND-NDE
YK
THE HINDU
Friday, May 3, 2024 5
Delhi
States
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The meeting instructed forces, National Cadet Kozhikode districts, Mr. Vi- ‘warm night’ forecast duals succumbed to heat grees Celsius and 25 de- in a statement. rist outfit. “Several youths
schoolchildren to avoid ho- Corps, Student Police Ca- jayan urged residents to along with a heatwave al- stroke in the State earlier. grees Celsius, respectively. The police investigation have been saved from join-
suggested that the arrested ing terrorism,” the state-
youth “was a part of many ment added.
WhatsApp and Telegram The J&K Police urged
Railways deletes reference to loco pilots watching cricket groups, associated with
terrorist outfits”.
“Further investigation is
the parents “to keep an eye
on the activities of their
children using social
on to identify other mem- media”.
S. Vijay Kumar accident “happened be- After The Hindu pu- the use of Bluetooth devic- risk,” the circular said. bers of such groups to take
CHENNAI cause both the loco pilot blished the report “Loco es of headphones. “This But with no evidence further legal actions Property attached
and co-pilot were distract- pilots were not watching blatant disregard for safety forthcoming later in the against them,” the police Meanwhile, the police in
The Railway Ministry has ed by the cricket match cricket at time of crash” protocols is utterly unac- mobile data usage analysis said. Baramulla attached the
deleted the reference which was going on.” based on the final inquiry ceptable and places count- to substantiate the allega- The police said they had property, including six ka-
made to loco pilots “en- He was referring to the report of the Commission- less loves at grave risk,” it tion that the loco pilots received an input that ter- nals and 10 marlas land, of
grossed in watching a rear-end collision between er of Railway Safety (CRS) said in a circular. were watching cricket and rorist outfit Ansar Gazwat- an alleged terror handler
cricket match on their mo- Train No. 08504 Visakha- on Saturday, the Minister In a similar circular the the final investigation re- Ul-Hind, an offshoot of IS/ based in Pakistan.
bile phones” in the Vizia- patnam-Rayagada Passen- clarified that the findings South East Central Railway port of the Commissioner ISKP, was trying to re-esta- The police identified
nagaram train accident in ger with Train No. 08532 of the CRS would be final. said, “Disturbingly, it was of Railway Safety not mak- blish its base and revive its him as Adrees Ahmad Mir,
safety circulars issued later Visakhapatnam-Palasa Pas- There was tentative initial The spot of the rail accident in revealed that the crew ing any mention about the cadres in Kashmir. a resident of Singtung Go-
which banned the crew senger between Kantaka- possibility that the loco pi- A.P.’s Kantakapalli. members were distracted same, the Railways have “One Pakistan-based whallan Uri, Baramul-
from using Bluetooth palle and Alamanda rail- lots may have been dis- by watching a cricket recalled the safety circu- terror handler of AuGH, la. “In the first four months
headsets, official sources way stations in Waltair tracted at the time of the on duty. In a circular, the match on their mobile lars, the sources said. identified as Hamzah alias of the current year, the pol-
said on Wednesday. Division of East Coast Rail- accident, he said. Southern Railway ex- phones, facilitated by the The railways have with- Gazi, has been brainwash- ice in Baramulla have at-
The issue pertains to way in Andhra Pradesh on Soon after Mr. Vaish- pressed shock that the use of Bluetooth devices or drawn the circular and is- ing and radicalising Kash- tached 46 kanals of land
Union Railway Minister October 29, 2023, which naw’s statement, the Rail- crew members were en- headphones. This egre- sued a fresh circular after miri youth to join terrorist belonging to 11 terror han-
Ashwini Vaishnaw’s state- left 17 people, including ways issued circulars ban- grossed in watching a gious disregard for safety deleting the portions refer- ranks,” the police said. dlers who are currently op-
ment made in New Delhi the loco pilot and his assis- ning the crew from using cricket match on their mo- protocols is unacceptable ring to the loco pilots According to the police, erating from Pakistan,” a
on March 3, 2024, that the tant, dead and 34 injured. Bluetooth headsets while bile phones, facilitated by and puts countless lives at watching cricket. the AuGH has “brain- police statement noted.
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‘mass rapist’: Rahul
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The rancid stench of leather hides hangs hea- makes a profit of ₹50,000 to a lakh a month.
vy. The loose limbs and tails of cattle jut out from In an adjoining godown, cattle horns are piling
corners of trucks in an otherwise carefully co- up. “There are no takers for a few months now,”
vered stock hidden under blue tarpaulin. Every says Hirabhai Chavda, 68, Jitubhai’s father. Jitub-
part of a dead animal is useful: the hide is sold off hai says he wants both his sons to take up ‘respec-
to traders who send them by road to Kanpur, table’ jobs in cities and earn a stable income. A
Chennai, and Kolkata; the bones, used for gela- few hundred metres from Jitubhai’s bone mill, an
tine in the food and medical industries, go to international school campus has come up. He is
bone mills dotted across Gujarat in Chalara, Juna- scared they’ll shut him down.
gadh, Bhavnagar, and Vadodara, among others.
Cow horns are transported to Sambhal in Uttar Plastic, the real killer
Pradesh to make toys and buttons. Bashir points at a wobbly sack next to a carcass,
The meat from the dead cattle is sold cheap in the cow’s stomach. He holds up shredded plastic,
the grey market, at ₹50 per kilo. “We don’t saying it had found its way into the cow’s tummy
slaughter cows. After they die, we skin them and when she was alive, grazing near the dumping
remove the dead cattle’s meat, which has been ground. Inside the Wadhwan village, a huge
traditionally consumed in poor Dalit households. dump of rubbish lies by the roadside, with a do-
It is a cheap alternative to chicken and mutton, zen cows lounging around.
which sell between ₹300 and ₹1,700 per kilo,” Natubhai Parmar, 47, has installed a statue of a
says Ramesh Parmar, Manju’s neighbour, also cow at a road crossing, and put up an exhibit of
from the same community. 60 kilos of plastic bags, which he says was reco-
In what once was a bustling hub of old ware- vered from dead cows’ stomachs in the nearby
houses stocking piles of cattle hides, there is now skinning fields. “Villagers dispose of leftover food
a pall of gloom. There were 10 godowns within a in plastic bags. Cows in search of food lick plastic
radius of a kilometre in Chamadia Para, better bags and end up consuming them too,” says Na-
known as Rohidaspra, but only four of them now tubhai, who works as an activist with Ahmeda-
operate under a shroud of secrecy; six have shut. bad-based non-profit Navsarjan on Dalit issues. It
is worse when cows get pregnant, and have con-
The decay of the cattle skinning trade sumed mounds of plastic. “They die in pain as
Until last year the cattle skinners would use their the plastic blocks their pregnancy. Even their
pick-up trucks to drive out to a farm when a cow calves don’t survive,” he says.
died. “We have a close association with herders In 2017, Natubhai remembers that the entire
and those that run gaushalas or panjrapole (plac- Dalit community gathered plastic from dead
es where old cows that no longer yield milk and cows’ stomachs and filled bits in glass jars la-
young abandoned male calves are taken care belled “This bottle contains plastic extracted
of ),” says Suresh Rathod, 41, whose family has from a dead cow’s stomach; this is the sin of the
been involved in the trade for three generations. Jitubhai Chavda, a resident of Wadhwan village, Surendranagar, at his cattle bone mill. VIJAY SONEJI Gujarat State Assembly.” They presented a bottle
Over the past year, Rathod has given up skinning each to 182 MLAs. Their demands included mak-
and now ferries passengers and transports goods moned to the Taluka police station in Rajkot, and ing adequate grazing land available to cattle, so
in his vehicles to earn a living. later hauled into Rajkot central jail, where he was they didn’t turn to garbage dumps for food.
Traditionally, the District Magistrate allots a lodged for three months in an allegedly false case
piece of land to cattle skinners known as Charm We don’t that named him as an accomplice for illegally A history of fear
Kund in each district, where people, usually Da- slaughter selling cow meat. “My bail application was reject- In 2016, in Mota Samadhiyala village of Una dis-
lits, skin dead cattle, goats, and sheep, and carry cows. After ed five times, thrice in the sessions court, and trict in Diu, five Dalits who skinned dead cows for
out allied activities like scooping out the meat, twice in the Gujarat High Court. I spent nearly ₹2 a living were lynched by 40 gau rakshaks. The in-
they die, we
dismembering the hooves and horns, separating lakh on bail,” Haresh says. cident was a turning point for the community,
the bones, and drying the skin, to send them skin them Every 15 days, he presents himself at the pol- which gave up skinning after the scare in and
down the supply chain. and remove ice station. He cannot leave town and has to around Diu. That year in Rajkot, urban cow skin-
With rapid urbanisation, the 30 km stretch the dead show up at monthly court hearings. “We are be- ners like Rathod and Ramesh had, in protest,
along NH27, the Rajkot-Ahmedabad highway, cattle’s meat, ing punished for doing our jobs,” he says. If con- dumped cow carcasses in front of the District Ma-
now engulfs Sokhada and beyond, leading to a which has victed, Haresh stares at a sentence of up to 10 gistrate’s office, because of the terrible condi-
swanky new international airport for Rajkot, in- been years in jail. tions at the Sokhada dumping ground.
augurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Ironically, Rajkot’s BJP candidate Parshottam A few months after the protests, they resumed
traditionally
July 2023. The government boasts of construct- Rupala, who is also the Union Minister for Fisher- work, but last year they too stopped skinning.
ing a six-lane highway and an All India Institute of consumed ies, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, finds him- “Before last year, we would easily get five or six
Medical Sciences (AIIMS) hospital in the town. in poor Dalit self in the eye of a storm for riling up the senti- dead cattle from across the district for skinning.
As a part of the Lok Sabha 2024 poll promises households. ments of Kshatriyas when he said that while the This would get us an income of ₹50,000 to
for infrastructural development, the stretches It is a cheap upper caste community had been in close collu- ₹60,000 a month from selling skin and bones.
adjoining the airport are seeing an escalation of alternative sion with the British, the Dalits had not. Rupala Now, we survive hand to mouth,” says Ramesh,
property rates. The price for this is being paid by to chicken referred to Rukhi Samaj (a Dalit community) as who picks up dead animals and deposits them in
the Dalit skinners, who are no longer allowed to the most oppressed and said he “respected” and pits dug by the municipal corporation.
and mutton
skin cattle at the Sokhada dumping ground. “honoured” them. Rajkot Lok Sabha constituen- Sidharth Parmar, who is a Rajkot-based former
“In what we once used as Charm Kund, the RAMESH cy has nearly 22 lakh voters, with Scheduled Natubhai Parmar, an activist with non-profit Navsarjan, MLA, says that atrocities against Dalits and
PARMAR
Rajkot Municipal Corporation has erected con- Former cattle Castes making up a low 6.9% of the electorate. shows the mound of plastic extracted from cows’ snatching away their right to work primarily stem
crete boundary walls. Gau rakshaks in the city skinner “Dalit flattery is limited to garnering votes. On stomachs. VIJAY SONEJI from the need to control land. “Our long-time de-
hover around the area armed with steel rods dis- ground the reality is starkly different. We have mand for recognising the Dalit right to Charm
couraging any skinning activity. They say it hurts been fighting for over a decade for sheltered fa- Kund land has gone unheard in Rajkot. There are
their sentiments,” says Haresh Parmar, who used cilities at Sokhada dumping ground so that we some Dalits in neighbouring villages who have
to be a skinner until a year ago. can go about skinning cattle hygienically, but become prosperous because of earnings from the
“On the opposite side of the Sokhada dumping both the ruling party and the administration Villagers dispose of leftover food in plastic bone mill businesses, but there have been in-
ground, local leaders affiliated with the ruling have turned a deaf ear to our demands,” says bags. Cows in search of food lick plastic bags stances of them being dragged out of their bunga-
party are developing plots for parties,” says a lo- Rathod. and end up consuming them too lows and beaten up by upper caste people who
cal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker. Haresh NATUBHAI PARMAR can’t stand to see them prosper,” Sidharth says.
says they say the stink is repulsive and unaccep- The crumbling cow economy Activist, Navsarjan NGO During his five-year term (2002-2007), he re-
table, so animals should be buried whole. There Gujarat is among India’s top five milk-producing collects having raised the issue of a budget cut of
is a luxury car showroom adjacent to the plots. States, with a share of 7.49% of milk production nearly ₹100 crore in the SC category with Guja-
Last year, after Haresh had returned home of 230.58 million tonnes during 2022-23, accord- Cruss Bonds’ hang conspicuously on a wall in Ji- rat’s former Chief Minister and current PM Na-
from work at the Sokhada ground, he was sum- ing to Basic Animal Husbandry Statistics 2023 re- tubhai’s godown, where he employs nearly 50 rendra Modi. “With increasing instances of injus-
leased by Rupala. From a population of over 2 people to process cattle carcasses. tice against Dalits in Saurashtra and no visible
crore cows, ox, and male as well as female buffa- Motihari resident Bashir, 30, who has travelled difference on ground, I got disillusioned by the
loes, only half are milk-producing. 2,000 kilometres from Bihar to work in Jitubhai’s ruling government and tendered my resigna-
“A cow lives for 25 years,” says Haresh Chavda, skinning field, is one of them. In 40-degree-Celsi- tion,” he says.
manager of Wadhwan Taluka panjrapole in Su- us heat, Bashir makes neat cuts on a dead cow’s Despite a 2017 notification by the Department
rendranagar district, nearly 115 kilometres away hide, deftly skins the carcass, and hangs it to dry, of Social Justice and Empowerment to allocate
from Rajkot city. It gives milk for 15 years, after within half an hour. “I earn ₹15,000 to ₹20,000 identification cards to those involved in skinning
which it is deemed redundant. Cattle breeders each month through this job. There is no employ- of cattle, Haresh says that he was refused an ID.
find it difficult to maintain non-milch cattle and ment for us back home,” says Bashir. He smirks at “The department said I may misuse it,” he says.
leave it at the panjrapole for care, Chavda adds. the suggestion of going back home to vote in the A senior police officer in Rajkot says the police
Wadhwan’s panjrapole has 4,289 animals in- ongoing Lok Sabha 2024 elections. “Who will are compelled to register FIRs and investigate com-
cluding cows, calves, oxen, and buffaloes. Up to earn money then?” he says, sniggering. plaints of gau rakshaks. Between 2019 and 2024,
20 of them are lodged in a separate hospice, suf- A few metres away from the skinning area, Ji- nine FIRs related to cow slaughter and ferrying of
fering at the end of life. On most days, there is at tubhai has 2,000 to 3,000 pieces of cattle hide in cows have been registered in the district. The mo-
least one death here and Chavda dials Jitubhai, neat stacks. They are regularly sprinkled with bile van of the Department of Forensics seizes sam-
who picks up and disposes of carcasses. For Ji- sacks full of coarse salt to preserve them. But the ples of meat to investigate their origin. The officer
tubhai, who has been allotted 2 acres of land on market for cattle hide has slumped, he rues. “In explains that it is up to the court to decide the out-
the outskirts of Wadhwan by the District Magis- 2016-17, we used to get anywhere between ₹400 come. “In my career, I have witnessed actual cases
trate under the Charm Kund category, this is and ₹500 for one hide; now we sell one at ₹100,” where cows were being transported with the inten-
business. he says. Many traders in Rajkot and Surendrana- tion of slaughter. But Dalits who have been tradi-
Tax registration certificates and licences un- gar confirmed the slump in the leather trade. tionally involved in cattle skinning should be al-
A worker processing livestock skin in Rajkot, Gujarat. VIJAY SONEJI der the name ‘Saurashtra Hide Charm Udhyog Jitubhai points to a corner of the warehouse lowed to do their jobs,” he says.
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Delhi
metroPLUS
In her swansong, the late Diving into
writer, curator and artist
Alka Raghuvanshi delved abstractionism
into various jewellery A sense of minimalism rides through
traditions to offer an easy the Ores of Trance exhibition in Delhi
read; the book was
released on her 63rd birth
anniversary recently
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National Museum Bespoke ornaments The
Shailaja Tripathi Jewellery Collection and kundan kalgi for the Rajput
underlines her innate love turban and the jadau choker
lka Raghuvanshi, the for jewellery. from Awadh region; the book
“T
he power of Rashmi who uses only
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Three years after Alka’s into why a certain piece of fascinating nuggets of history. zero in an recyclable material in her
demise, Manisha jewellery is worn in a When the collection was artwork should art works.
Gawade, her sister, certain way. What offered for sale to the never be underestimated,” Akhilesh employs the
who is also a are the religious Government of India in 1972, it says art curator TK non-restrictive nature of
in the
designer, and and marital caused a stir. Harindran, underlining the presentation in Black is
artist, released connotations of “For it was for the first time imperative value of silence Missing, imparting his own
the last book a piece of in the history of India that the in the work of forms of aesthetic
Alka wrote, A jewellery? She jewellery collection of any Cholamandal artist, S expression of the
crown
Rendezvous with explains the principality was offered for Bhagwan Chavan. He Bhimbetka cave paintings
Traditional socio-economic sale to the Government. After points to the artwork in the Raisen district, of
Indian Jewellery, levels at which nearly 23 years of protracted Shadows of the Palm Trees Madhya Pradesh.
published by jewellery plays an negotiations and prolonged that combines warmth and “There is nothing and
Shubhi Publications. important part in drama, the jewels, assumed to darkness, using bright then suddenly something
The book, launched on India,” says Manisha who be only a fraction of the acrylic colours. “There is happens. One must not
Alka’s 63rd birth anniversary curated the book. original treasure, were finally so much happening and underestimate the power
last month, has a lavish acquired in 1995.” yet nothing,” he says about of nothing,” says Shobha
sprinkle of photographs by From every angle Alka started working on the attention to ornaments like the Jacob Diamond, the fifth the duality of chaos and Broota referring to her
seasoned photographer The book is divided into book in 2016 and by 2021, she sarpech — a turban ornament biggest polished diamond in relief presented in the artwork. She uses
Avinash Pasricha. different categories: Taking a had finished writing the text. often sported by grooms. She the world used by the last artwork. geometrical representation
“The first time I saw the leaf out of Nature, ritual After her death in 2021, describes it saying, “a sarpech Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan as The painting is part of in warm colours such as
Kohinoor in the Tower of jewellery, jadau jewels from Manisha had to bring it all usually consists of two or three a paperweight and sarpech the exhibition, Ores of red and green that
London, tears trickled down Avadh, jewels fit for kings, together, write the synopsis, pieces: one is the sir-patti or Kalan Zamrrud Wa Kanval Ba Trance by eight converge into unique
my face. It was our heritage Nizam’s jewellery, South Indian introduction and the author forehead band, the other is the Awaiza-i-Zamarrud with contemporary artists, who expressions to highlight the
that was on display and the jewellery, the National profile, as well as match and plume and the third is the jigha emerald drops that alone have unravelled the subdued mind.
entry fee pinched in more Museum Collection, silver place relevant pictures with or central piece. Three tassels weigh 300 carats are some of meaning of existence The definitive shape of
ways than one,” is how Alka accessories and reconditioning the text. are provided to tie the sarpech the other pieces discussed with through non-figurative and this artwork is a contrast to
introduces the chapter on the jewellery. In the book, Alka draws to the turban and while a delight by Alka in the book. abstract art. The 15 Jatra by Shridhar Iyer,
paintings, curated by which has sparkles of
Harindran, give an colours flowing like waves
opportunity to abstract across the canvas. The
artists, especially
Set in a relaxed leafy neighbourhood, Cafe Monique offers home-style crepes, pastry and quiches Cholamandal artists, to
showcase their work in The Ores of Trance
Delhi. signifies a poetic
summer what works best are Another Cholamandal fusion where inner
France in Delhi
It is impossible to not depth to themes like
trance
indulge your sweet tooth at freedom, cultural memory,
Café Monique: we try the and mundanity. Refraining
L’Aubéry, an entremet that from representing the theme of agitation is
celebrates seasonal mango and physicality of the obvious, furthered through the work
Anubhuti Krishna passion fruit. It maybe hard to his works are an aesthetic of Yusuf whose paintings
imagine how mango, passion presentation led by his life show a form of dystopic
s someone who enjoys fruit and chocolate can come experiences. “It is like a struggle through a
STEPOUT
쑺 Celebrating Earth Day 쑺 Thematic portraits 쑺 Habitat film 쑺 Celestial journey
Artist Paramjit Figurative artist Kamal Devanatha festival In his exhibition, The
Singh joins five has exhibited his latest art piece The 16th edition of the Divine Elements,
emerging talents at his 15th solo exhibition Beyond Habitat Film Festival artist Divyaman
from Kerala, KP the Frames. Drawing inspiration features an impressive Singh blends the
Prasad, Shaji from Nature and the rhythms of curation of 40 feature enigmatic
Appukuttan, life, there are 55 artworks in films, 10 documentaries, wonders of the
Sumesh Kumballur, acrylic and oil colours on display. 쑺 Dance fest three short film packages cosmos with the
KP Pradeep Kumar and Sanam Narayan, to In his signature style, the artist Parikrama, Karna and Meera are three along with a series of tangible and etheral aspects of
present Paradise Regained, an exhibition as an has infused his canvases with different dance performances workshops, film making human existence. The show is a
ode to our planet Earth. The artworks feature vibrant colours and fluid strokes choreographed by Shashidharan Nair master classes, film book discussions, a captivating odyssey transporting
meticulously painted and detailed landscapes to draw delicate feminine figures and directed by Shobha Deepak Singh, retrospective segment with films by Kumar viewers into realms where astronomy,
that create a conversation between form and resonating with joy and to be staged over the weekend. Shahani and an engaging exhibition showcasing earthly elements and spirituality
content, all cradled in the crucible of earth happiness. At Kamani auditorium, Copernicus iconic Hindi film posters and memorabilia from converge in harmony.
studies and as envisioned by the artists At Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Marg; May 3 to 5; 7pm; For passes call blockbuster films from the 1970s. At Rang Mirage Art Gallery, A-58
At Palette Art Gallery 14 Golf Links; Till June 1; Centre, Lodhi Road, Lodhi Estate; 011-43503333/ 23386428/29 At IHC, Lodhi Colony; May 3 to 12; Entry free. Log Central Avenue, Gate No.1, Sainik
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Editorial Delhi
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evenues from the Goods and Services
Tax (GST) crossed the ₹2 lakh crore mark phones. So far, the issues of regulating SEPs have is the co-author of The Indian response to the issue has been crores of rupees, before trial, are unprecedented
for the first time in April. The month of been left to the judiciary, which, as an institution, ‘Create, Copy, Disrupt: characterised by both judicial lethargy and in the history of commercial law for the simple
April has usually delivered the highest GST kitty has mostly missed the ball. India’s Intellectual judicial activism at the Delhi High Court. This reason that there is no provision in the law
as it involves taxes paid for activity undertaken in To begin with, it is important to understand Property Dilemmas’ may seem contradictory but a few facts will help granting judges such powers. In addition to being
March, when taxpayers close their books for the the importance of SEPs. These are patents that (2017) explain how India landed in this situation. unprecedented, these orders are also unfair to
year, scurry to meet tax filing deadlines, and cover technologies which are adopted by the In 2013, the Competition Commission of India defendants because they deprive them of
make adjustments to square off dues sought by industry as “standards”. For example, (CCI), acting on a complaint by Micromax began working capital (which is very expensive in India)
the revenue department owing to oversights or technologies such as CDMA, GSM, LTE are all an investigation under the Competition Act into for the entire duration of the trial (which can take
interpretation differences. With slightly over ₹2.1 industry standards in the telecom sector. Such the issue of whether Ericsson abused its up to eight years).
lakh crore of gross revenues, last month’s GST technological standards are especially important dominant position by demanding extortionate Yet, such judicial activism has been justified by
collection was 12.4% higher than the April 2023 to ensure interoperability of different brands of royalties for its SEPs. Ericsson challenged the the Delhi High Court by invoking its “inherent
tally of ₹1.87 lakh crore, which marked the high- cellular phones manufactured by different power of the CCI to do so, before the Delhi High powers to do justice”. Such similar logic has been
est monthly intake prior to the latest data set. Mi- companies. For example, once GSM was adopted Court, on the grounds that the Patents Act vested used in the past by the judiciary to justify activist
nus the year-end effect, revenues in subsequent as a standard, all manufacturers had to ensure the power to remedy an abuse of patents only measures such as “public interest litigation”. That
months will moderate so the ₹2 lakh crore figure that the handsets that they manufactured were with the Patent Office. the same argument has been used to justify
may not be the new normal for monthly GST col- compatible with GSM. Otherwise there would be The first round of litigation was resolved in activism in the name of the oppressed and also in
lections just yet. However, assuming the present no demand for their phones. favour of the CCI by a single judge on March 30, the name of multinational corporations
momentum of the economy continues and GST 2016. Ericsson then challenged this decision demonstrates how specious an argument it was in
revenue growth persists in last year’s 11%-12% Opaque model before the Division Bench of the Delhi High the first place.
range, last April’s high of ₹1.87 lakh crore could The process of setting standards in the Court, where it remained pending for an This judicial activism combined with judicial
well be this year’s monthly average. Bear in mind technology sector is largely privatised and astounding seven years until a judgment was delays will have a negative impact on the
dominated by “standard setting organisations” delivered against the CCI on July 13, 2023. The government’s attempt to attract more investment
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that the average monthly revenues last year were
₹1.68 lakh crore, and before the year began, the (SSOs) run largely by private technology CCI has appealed against this decision to the in the manufacturing sector. These measures, by
highest monthly collection was seen in April companies. Countries such as India with little Supreme Court of India, where the matter government, have included payouts to
2022, at ₹1,67,540 crore. innovation in the telecom sector, have very little remains pending. As a result, India is the only manufacturers under the “production linked
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has influence over how standards are set or how SEPs major economy to not yet investigate the incentives” scheme for manufacturing in India. It
termed last month’s ₹2 lakh crore-plus GST reve- are licensed. potentially abusive licensing practices of is worth questioning the rationale of putting
nues a “landmark”, attributing them to a strong Theoretically, the companies which own the technology companies that own SEPs. money in the pockets of manufacturers, while
economy and efficient collections. This should SEPs, gain enormously because every While the competition law issues remained turning a Nelson’s eye to the manner and the
put to rest the Centre’s concerns from a few years manufacturer of cellular phones has to licence mired in litigation, the Delhi High Court amount of money that is being removed from the
ago that returns from the GST regime, now 82 the technological standards in question in order proceeded to hear lawsuits filed by Ericsson and same pockets by the owners of SEPs. More
months old, had been underwhelming. No to survive in the market. The lack of alternatives other SEPs owners against manufacturers of pertinently, unlike manufacturers who are
doubt, sustained action against frauds, such as also means that owners of SEPs can demand cellular phones on the question of whether the investing in India to create jobs, the owners of
fake invoicing, and stricter compliance norms extortionary royalties or licensing terms from The latter were infringing SEPs owned by the former SEPs are only taking their money out of the
have helped shore up revenues. With central GST manufacturers that block competition. In government and whether damages were payable. Ideally the country.
revenues overshooting last year’s targets, meet- economics, this is called the “patent holdup” infringement lawsuits should have been stayed
must put in
ing the goals set in the interim Budget for 2024-25 problem. In theory, the SSOs are supposed to until the competition law issues were resolved. The case of Europe
prevent such a scenario by requiring the owners place measures The ordinary course of such litigation in most It is time for the Indian government to intervene
now requires less than 10% revenue growth. For
of SEPs to licence their technologies at a fair, to regulate countries is for the courts to conduct a trial on and put in place measures to regulate SEPs before
the next government, the easy part would be to
upgrade revenue targets in the full Budget. The reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) rate. standard the validity of the patents, whether there has the judiciary causes further damage to India’s
more critical imperative is to plan and execute In practice, this model of self-regulation by the essential been infringement and, if so, the damages manufacturing dreams. India will not be an
the expansion of the GST net, and expedite the technology industry has been marked with patents before payable. These trials are complex and can take outlier if it intervenes. The European Parliament
long-awaited reboot of its complex rate structure opacity and has failed rather spectacularly, as the judiciary time. For example, one of the early lawsuits filed has already enacted one such set of measures to
to make it a truly simple tax for consumers and evidenced by the record fines that some of these by Ericsson against Lava International took eight regulate SEPs. India, arguably, has a much
causes further
investors, now that revenue worries are relatively SEP owners have had to cough up across the years to be decided in a remarkable judgment, stronger case to push for similar, if not stronger
world for engaging in anti-competitive practices. damage to running into 500 pages, and delivered by Justice regulatory measures, since it has no say in how
muted. Incidentally, the BJP’s election manifesto,
The largest of these SEP owners, Qualcomm, has India’s Amit Bansal of the Delhi High Court, recently. SEPs are selected by SSOs, while also being
which takes credit for ringing in GST, only pro-
mises to make its portal simpler for small busi- been fined $975 million by China (2015), $873 manufacturing The problem, however, is the manner in which compelled by international agreements to enforce
nesses to use. The Congress has assured a switch million by South Korea (2017), $774 million by dreams Delhi High Court has granted “interim” remedies patents of foreign technology companies.
to a single, moderate tax rate with few excep-
tions, no levies on farm inputs, and sharing of re-
venues with panchayats and municipalities.
Smart GST reforms, informed by stakeholder
consultations, need to be at the forefront of the
Recognise ‘this leave’ as a woman’s right
agenda of whoever comes into office, to correct
anomalies that hold consumption back and set
S
ometimes, elections throw up an Tharoor, Congress MP from Kerala, introducing a legislation. For instance, Japan introduced
the foundations for the next virtuous cycle of in-
acceptance of and solutions to deeply similar Bill named The Women’s Sexual, menstrual leave in 1947, Indonesia in 1948, and
vestment and growth.
institutionalised gender biases and Reproductive and Menstrual Rights Bill, 2018. South Korea. Taiwan and Vietnam have also
discrimination against women. In the run-up to Hibi Eden, Congress MP from Kerala, also implemented paid leave. In relation to the Asian
Eastern front the general election 2024, the election manifesto
of the ruling political party in Tamil Nadu, the
introduced a private member Bill titled The Right
to Women to Menstrual Leave and Free Access to
countries, the progress made by the western
world, except in Sweden and Spain, is still
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), has made a Rehnamol Menstrual Health Products Bill, 2022. abysmal. Several international organisations have
Polarisation of votes in West Bengal is Raveendran
promise (under the topic “Women’s welfare”) The Supreme Court of India, early in 2023, promoted menstrual leave as a women’s right.
edging out the Left and the Congress that the “DMK will insist that the Union refused to entertain a public interest litigation in For instance, an International Labour
teaches political
government enact a law providing menstrual Shailendra Mani Tripathi vs Union of India which Organisation report, in 2003, asked nations to
T
he Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nurtures science at the
high hopes in West Bengal, where it won leave to women, emphasizing the journey University of sought direction to the state on menstrual leave; recognise menstrual leave. The World Health
18 of the 42 seats, and 40% vote share in towards gender equality.” This promise has been Allahabad it was of the opinion that it is in the policy Organization recognised a non-governmental
2019. This dramatic rise from two seats in 2014 made after a debate in the 17th Lok Sabha, in domain of the government. By December 2023, organisation driven World Menstrual Hygiene Day
gave the party the confidence to present itself as December 2023, on menstrual leave, but with no the central government refused to agree on such on May 28 from 2014. However, India’s new code
the principal opposition in the 2021 Assembly outcome. a policy, and the Bharatiya Janata Party manifesto on Social Security, 2020, passed by Parliament,
polls, but the Mamata Banerjee-led All India Tri- for the general election 2024, the ‘Sankalp Patra which consolidated existing labour laws (yet to be
namool Congress (TMC) stormed back to power Legislators and Bills 2024’, has made no mention of it. The Congress notified), has not included the aspect of
for a third term. With 77 of the 294 Assembly In December 2021, S. Jothimani, Congress party’s manifesto for the general election 2024, menstrual leave in its code.
seats, and a 38.1% vote share, the BJP came a dis- Member of Parliament (MP) from Tamil Nadu, the ‘Nyaya Patra’ has also not mentioned Women labourers in the sugarcane fields of
tant second. This year, the polling in the State is had introduced a Private Member Bill named, menstrual leave, but under the subject of Maharashtra and agricultural labourers in
spread across all seven phases of the general elec- ‘Right to Menstrual Hygiene and Paid Leave Bill, “Health” has promised that “all employers shall Telangana have been documented to have
tion, and the BJP is pulling out all stops in the 2019’, which sought to bring menstrual leave into mandatorily grant paid maternity leave for their hysterectomies as menstrual-related absences
hope it could improve its tally which could also the ambit of the rights of a woman, and a refusal employees”. could endanger their livelihoods. It is time the
compensate for any electoral loss elsewhere. The of such leave into the domain of The Sexual Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment
BJP is keeping the TMC on the defensive with alle- Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Progressive Indian States, Asian nations Guarantee Act and laws governing industrial
gations of corruption, the land grab and sexual Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013. It also History shows us that some States were ahead of labour and other establishments recognise
assault at Sandeshkhali, and the school recruit- sought to impose a penalty for refusal. the times. For instance, the Kerala Sahitya menstrual leave like the way progressive gig
ment scam. The Calcutta High Court terminated The Bill that envisaged menstrual rights for Academy published work, Kerala in 19th Century, worker platforms such as Swiggy and Zomato
about 25,000 teacher appointments which is a women stipulates that every woman shall be mentions that Kerala was the first (in then Cochin have.
shot in the arm for the BJP. The TMC’s campaign entitled to the right to self-perception of her State) to recognise the need for “ period leave”
against the BJP is centred on New Delhi’s stop- menstruation, including but not limited to for students and allowed it during examinations Greater gender sensitivity needed
page of funds to the State under central schemes menarche (first menstruation), menopause, in 1912. In a recent progressive attempt, Kerala Policy solutions to gender inequalities that are
and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. It is also menstrual cycle, primary or secondary has encouraged the use of other menstrual defined by differentiated gender experiences of
banking on its cash transfer schemes such as dysmenorrhea (menstrual pain). The Bill sought hygiene products and made them available for women owing to socio-cultural and biological
remedies in the form of: rights, including paid A more students. Bihar, in 1992, allowed government reasons will not only ensure equity but also bring
Lakshmir Bhandar for women. Highlighting the
issue of women’s safety, the BJP has fielded a wo- leave for three days; right to leave or absence for pronounced employees two-day menstrual leave. Kerala, in new social change. The instrumentality of public
man from Sandeshkhali, the constituency that three days for students above class eight; right to stand by January 2023, introduced menstrual and policy and discussions on menstruation also lies
saw reports of assault on women. 30 minutes rest twice a day during the menstrual political parties maternity leave to all students above the age of in shattering taboos and creating a
The BJP hopes to perform better in the dis- period for employees/workers, and right to on the issue of 18. Other States must be reminded that the gender-sensitive world that is open to issues
tricts of north Bengal, where it had won seven menstrual hygiene management facilities and existing laws are not a hindrance for State which are hitherto considered to be clandestine
menstrual leave
out of eight seats in 2019, while the Trinamool’s equity for all women. governments to go ahead and notify the right to by conservative-gendered social standards. In the
Ninong Ering, who was a Congress MP from will boost menstrual leave. political domain, recognition of the issue by
focus is more in the southern districts with a high
Arunachal Pradesh, introduced a private member women’s rights On the other hand, many other Asian political parties this election season will be a
proportion of Muslim voters. For this, the TMC is
also battling the Left-Congress coalition. The al- Bill on menstrual leave in 2017 (the Menstruation and gender countries have ended the prejudices and major step to promote women’s rights and
liance may turn out to be a factor in certain seats Benefit Bill, 2017). This was followed by Shashi equality stereotypes around menstruation using gender equality.
in the minority-dominated districts of Malda and
Murshidabad, and the decision of the Indian Sec-
ular Front to walk out of the alliance is likely to LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
work to the advantage of the TMC. The BJP is
bringing up Ram Mandir, violence during Ram Hill stations, summer rush could board and alight at many of the reservoirs in Local people will be put to her popular singer husband melodies ever. Once while
Navami processions and the illegal movement of There is no doubt that their will after ensuring that the Nilgiris are cause for hardship if curbs are A.V. Ramanan, and star at a bus stop opposite a tea
people across the India-Bangladesh border. Po- many of the hill stations in these buses operate to all worry. The district has had imposed on vehicular composer Ilaiyaraja, which kiosk, her song, “Aagaya
larisation of voters on religious lines had helped India, especially in the tourist locations every five cloudless blue skies for movement. This must be catapulted her to Vennilavae”, began to play
the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha election and the South, are facing grave minutes. All private cars long. It is also a fact that thought of in any move to nationwide stardom. Her on the radio in the shop. It
Trinamool in the 2021 Assembly polls, edging out environmental pressures should be left in specific the residents of the Nilgiris impose a cap on the unique voice earned her a was one time when I wished
the Left and Congress from the field. The Trina- caused by the massive parking spaces and not will be thought of last when number of vehicles into the special place in the hearts that the bus would reach
mool is also harping on the Bengali identity by influx of tourists. In allowed to operate to these it comes to the rationing of district. of music lovers. It is late as I wanted to listen to
presenting itself as its custodian and portraying connection with the e-pass points. Chaotic parking of water as the priority is to N.R. Ramachandran, unfortunate that her great the song in full. Her songs
the BJP as an interloper and being insensitive to plans for Kodaikanal and vehicles is a very common meet the needs of Udhagamandalam, The Nilgiris potential was not utilised by will live forever.
the interests of the State. For the BJP, West Bengal the Nilgiris, having issue in the hills. The hills commercial establishments. many music composers. T.S. Karthik,
is not merely about winning more seats but is al- battery-operated mini buses deserve better. J.W. Prabakar, Uma Ramanan R. Sivakumar, Chennai
so about expanding its foothold into a region that to all the important tourist T. Murali, Udhagamandalam, The Nilgiris The passing of playback Chennai Letters emailed to
claims exceptionalism. Some of the earliest argu- spots in these hill stations, Madurai singer Uma Ramanan is letters@thehindu.co.in
ments for a Hindu polity had originated in Ben- and at a fixed charge, can The peak summer season in deeply saddening (May 2). It Uma Ramanan sang some must carry the full postal
gal, and this gives the BJP hope. be thought of. Tourists The water storage levels in the Nilgiris is only in May. was her collaboration with of the most soul-stirring address and the full name.
CM M ND-NDE
YK
THE HINDU
Friday, May 3, 2024 9
Delhi
Opinion
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yushman Bharat, the government’s To deliver PMJAY will be difficult until the trying to provide some form of universal
flagship programme to achieve public sector is strengthened. This is because healthcare. India is ranked 67th out of 189
universal health coverage (UHC), was patients will choose to go to an already countries in terms of out-of-pocket expenditure.
Nachiket launched in 2018. The scheme has Also, the Union government is meant to allocate
Mor overburdened private player.
two inter-related components: health and 60% of PMJAY funds, but the amount [it is]
wellness centres and the Pradhan Mantri Jan AVANI KAPUR actually spending is less than this. In some ways,
is Visiting
Scientist, Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) that aims to provide a PMJAY was designed to take care of [healthcare
Banyan health cover of ₹5 lakh per family per year for cost] shocks, as inpatient treatments can cost a
Academy of secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation to coverage, some have been quite low compared lot relative to outpatient treatments. But we
Leadership in over 12 crore families that form the bottom 40% to others, and even within States, the dispersion need to think about it in its entirety rather than
Mental Health of the population. PM-JAY has issued 34.27 crore of hospitals is skewed. Governance processes looking at it as bits and pieces.
cards. About 6.5 crore have received treatment make a big difference. In terms of claim
and there are over 30,000 empanelled payments, some States saw a delay of more than The government said this was a step towards
hospitals. However, over the past year, hospitals 45 days, while others paid the claims faster. providing UHC. Would you argue that the
in some States have reported they are owed What is also interesting is that there is a insurance model is not correct for India’s
hundreds of crores in dues, and some are concentration of claims in Andhra Pradesh, path towards achieving UHC? Has any other
reportedly turning away or taking in fewer Arunachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, country been able to achieve it through an
PMJAY patients. Does PMJAY need a design Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu. More research is insurance model?
change? Avani Kapur and Nachiket Mor discuss The Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Chest Diseases in Bengaluru. THE HINDU needed to understand why this is the case.
Avani Kapur the question in a conversation moderated by NM: The insurance model, if defined narrowly
Zubeda Hamid. Edited excerpts: while 43% are private, the rest are government. NM: The issue of delays [in payments] should as separating the money from the provider, and
is Senior There is a belief that a private hospital delivers not have anything to do with poor or rich States; not giving budget-based allocations but saying to
Visiting Fellow,
Does PMJAY’s design need to be changed to better services and so people choose to go to a these are technology-enabled platforms. The the provider that if you perform, then you get
Centre for
Policy Research make the scheme more sustainable? private hospital even when they have a public fact is, in Shravasti district in U.P., for example, paid — in India, my own belief is that the
and Founder- hospital close to them. It’s possible that this is there isn’t enough hospital capacity. This is the insurance model, if restricted exclusively to the
Director, Nachiket Mor: PMJAY was required as there was not just an assumption: in most places, the driver of these differences. In most jurisdictions public sector, could have a big impact on its
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Foundation for a belief that while the public sector exists and is chances of getting better quality care in a private around the world, there is an obligation for the performance, particularly in the poorer States.
Responsive supposed to offer universal healthcare for free, hospital could be higher than in a public insurer to have network adequacy. This means It’s almost become the only way many countries
Governance there were deficiencies in what it could do. hospital. We have not done enough to increase you can’t offer an insurance scheme unless you have delivered UHC, such as Thailand, Turkey,
Therefore, there was a need to allow patients to belief in the public health system. have hospitals nearby. That restriction is not Vietnam, and Uruguay. India’s current model is
access the private sector. I don’t think this Why would the private sector turn away there in India, so you can offer a card to no longer the dominant model. That is what is
scheme was ever designed to deal with patients? One, capacity. In many States, the somebody even though there is no way for him exciting to me about the NHA/SHA — we have
comprehensive universal health coverage or number of people per empanelled healthcare to go and claim it. And that is a key deficiency in the capacity to implement something like this.
comprehensive healthcare costs — it is currently provider (EHCP) is really high. In Bihar, it was much of the northern and north-eastern States. But it wouldn’t be in the way you’re thinking
at under 2.5% of total health expenditure. Our over 10,000 families per EHCP. So, you don’t And that’s where we need to pay attention. The about insurance perhaps, which is indemnity: I
research suggests that if you pool government necessarily have an adequate number of beds private sector is unlikely to go to Bastar and file a claim, I get refunded. Those approaches
departmental expenditure with PM-JAY and facilities to be able to cater to that demand. build a hospital. It would have to be led by the are a pathway to bad outcomes. This is the error
expenditure in many States, government health Two, the delays in claim payments despite the public sector for the foreseeable future. Medicare/Medicaid made in the U.S. in 1965 – it
expenditure may be enough to offer universal guidelines being clear about turnaround time. led to massive inflation in healthcare prices. But
health coverage, including drugs and Three, there are claim rejections too, which India’s out-of-pocket expenditure for health with the purchaser-provider split, I would say it
diagnostics. The reason we see high means a hospital takes in a patient, does the has decreased, but it still hovers around the is the only idea that can take us forward, but if
out-of-pocket expenditure in Kerala, for surgery, and then the insurance company rejects 47-50% mark, which is much higher than we restrict it only to the public sector and bring
example, is that the public sector, despite being that claim because of documentation errors or a global average. Do we need to look at a all the multiple pools of money together.
well funded, is unable to deliver universal technicality. Four, the Union government has system where outpatient care, diagnostics
healthcare. Its primary care is underutilised and put a cap on the amount you can charge for and drugs can also be covered? AK: I agree. I don’t think in its current design,
there is enormous waste and inefficiency. I different treatments. That doesn’t always work insurance is going to yield what we want it to
worry that if schemes are layered on top of a well for private providers. NM: We are making an error in equating PMJAY yield, which is not just reducing out-of-pocket
hospital-centric design, it exacerbates To deliver PMJAY will be difficult until the and health and wellness centres with expenditure, but also ensuring quality care. A
misallocation of government resources. In fact, public sector is strengthened. This is because government efforts on the healthcare side. The recent paper on low- and middle-income
there are distortions now: even a government patients will choose to go to an already largest component of healthcare expenditures countries and health insurance said the issue is
hospital that is supposed to give you free care is overburdened private player. Of course, private are government expenditures through the State not just whether government subsidy should be
now checking whether you’re authorised to hospitals charge more and may do unnecessary and Centre and they are multiples higher than channelled through health insurance or direct
receive PMJAY. Why? Have we created a barrier procedures, but what is often not spoken about what these two schemes are doing. These are subsidies to public facilities, but how do you
now? Because, while a high-income family can enough is that there is a burden on them supposed to include outpatient (OP) care: in reach a system where you have specific payment
handle a claim rejection or delay, a low-income because the public sector either isn’t performing fact, the bulk of the expenditure is on drugs and structures and non price mechanisms that can
family cannot. How can you deliver better or people don’t trust the sector to perform. OP care. Are there governments (in the world) actually change both provider behaviour and
healthcare to people to eliminate out-of-pocket that have a separate government-financed public also patient choice? In its current form, I don’t
expenditure? Where can the National Health How wide is the performance disparity sector and then added an insurance layer on top think PM-JAY is going to get us there unless we
Authority (NHA) and the State Health Authority among States under PMJAY? of it? I have not seen [this] because it adds to the focus a lot more on the public health system.
(SHA), with their ability to purchase care in an fragmentation of the overall health landscape.
organised, high quality manner, help you? I AK: Not only do hospitals not exist [in many And that is something we need to address to
think that’s the question we should pursue. parts], but even empanelled hospitals haven’t solve the problem of out-of-pocket expenditure.
been active. In Uttar Pradesh, for instance, 39% To listen to the full interview
Avani Kapur: Nachiket spoke about the supply have been inactive since empanellment, and AK: In the current design and given the fiscal Scan the code or go to the link
side, and I wanted to bring in the demand side. only 50% have been active in the last six cost, it may be too much to expect the current www.thehindu.com
It’s interesting that of empanelled hospitals, months. The States’ [performances] vary. In model of PMJAY to cover everything. But there
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very time I have travelled to rural that his party had its ear to the ground or
areas in India during elections, I whether he was merely amplifying pro-
have run into astute voters who paganda that had already been running.
are aware of every aspect of the candi- This election, in Churu, Rajasthan, I
dates in the fray, including how many found that people feared that reservation
times they have switched parties, and would be scrapped. This time, I asked for
well-versed with the caste equations of the source. Why did they think reserva-
the constituency. This hyper awareness is tion would go? Pat came the reply: they
helpful for a reporter. It makes our lives had heard an election speech of BJP can-
easier when we meet a respondent who didate Jyoti Mirdha, who was contesting
is knowledgeable, eager to engage, and from the Naguar Lok Sabha seat, on
does not need to be persuaded to speak. WhatsApp. Building a case for voting the
However, the penetration of the Inter- BJP and its allies to at least 400 seats, she
net and mobile phone has also meant a spoke of “tough decisions” that needed
surge in disinformation. The challenge to be taken in the “country’s interest”
then is to separate the voter’s own perso- and that needed constitutional amend-
nal experience or opinion from propa- ments. However, neither her speech nor
ganda. Establishing this distinction is es- the reactions to it from the Opposition,
sential to understanding the impact of which has run a consistent campaign
various election campaigns and what against the BJP saying the “Constitution is
may influence voter choices. in danger”, mentioned any scrapping of
In the run-up to the 2017 Uttar Pradesh reservation. I was puzzled.
elections, while touring the western part Then, miles away in Chhattisgarh, I
of the State, I heard a common complaint heard people voicing this fear again. It
among people belonging to upper castes was clearly not Ms. Mirdha’s words that
and non-Yadav backward communities had prompted this reaction in Chhattis- X
against the incumbent government led by garh. When I probed further, the voters Women draw water from a well on a hot day in Kasara, a town in Thane district in Maharashtra. Maharashtra has registered 25 deaths from heat stroke since late March, the
Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party. said they had been hearing about reser- highest toll in the past five years. Scientists have linked the early onset of an intense summer to climate change. REUTERS
They lamented that the government had vation for the last three or four months.
been building boundary walls for gra- One of them mentioned Mr. Modi saying
veyards, even as it took away land from in a speech in November 2023 that
cremation grounds. Nearly a week later, among all the “caste groups”, he consi- FR OM THE ARCH IVES A HUNDRED YEARS AGO MAY 3, 1924
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at an dered four the biggest — “the poor, the
election rally, “If you create a kabristaan youth, women, and farmers.” Mr. Modi’s FIFTY YEARS AGO MAY 3, 1974 adjournment motion to censure the Plaintiff in the box
(graveyard) in a village, then a shamshaan remarks were a counter to the Congress’s Government on the arrest of Mr. George
(cremation ground) should also be creat- demand for a caste census. But the voters Fernandes and other important Railway London, May 2: Sir Michael O’ Dwyer was in the
ed. If electricity is given uninterrupted in believed, not without a nudge from the Talks if Ry. strike notice is labour leaders early this morning after a box all Thursday. In cross-examination he
Ramzan, then it should be given in Diwali principal Opposition party, the Congress, stormy debate. Mr. L.N. Mishra, Railway denied he had been guilty of tyranny, but was
without a break.” In hindsight, I feel I that if the reality of caste is ignored, then withdrawn: Mishra Minister, vigorously defended the action of the attacked for his opinions by the members of the
should have asked the people whether so will reservation. Government and said this was done because would-be oligarchy. Sir Sankaran Nair’s book
their opinion was based on their own ex- New Delhi, May 2: By an overwhelming Mr. Fernandes was working for a strike even as was translated and circulated in the vernacular
periences or whether they had heard this sobhanak.nair@thehindu.co.in majority, the Lok Sabha to-day rejected an negotiations were going on. by most provincial Governments.
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Why have countries such as Singapore, Hong Kong and the U.S. announced an investigation into possible contamination of spice mixes sold by MDH and
Everest? How has the Spices Board of India responded? What has the U.S. FDA said?
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t least five countries — checks of curry powders and spices to (Madras curry powder,
including Singapore, Hong detect and control the use of EtO in food Sambhar masala and Curry
Kong and the U.S. — have products and ensure proper powder masala) and Everest
announced an investigation implementation of regulatory norms. A Fish curry masala.
into possible contamination of spice recent CUTS report also recommended
mixes sold by Indian brands, MDH and updating food safety standards to align 쑽
Everest. The complaints cite the presence with global practices, and improving MDH and Everest’s spice mixes
of ethylene oxide (EtO), a toxic chemical information flow to food industries so that allegedly contain high levels of
used as a food stabiliser, beyond they better comply with regulations. EtO, a prohibited pesticide. EtO
permissible limits. The Spices Board of is a colourless, flammable gas
India in response has initiated mandatory Is food safety in India lacking? that was originally intended for
testing of products shipped abroad and is Simi T.B., who works with CUTS sterilising medical devices.
reportedly working with exporters to International, a global advocacy group for 쑽
identify the root cause of contamination. consumer welfare told The Hindu,
notwithstanding stringent food laws in GTRI assessed that if regulators
Which countries have flagged safety place, that the recent controversies in China follow their peers in
Hong Kong, Indian exports
of Indian spices? “collectively underscore the persistent
could see a “dramatic
The domino first shook on April 5, when nature of food safety challenges across
downturn”. This could affect
Hong Kong’s Centre for Food Safety various sectors of the food industry”. exports valued at $2.17 billion
suspended the sale of three MDH spice One challenge is operational — India’s — about 51.1% of the country’s
blends (Madras curry powder, Sambhar diverse food landscape, the lack of global spice exports.
masala and Curry powder masala) and standardised record-keeping and
Everest Fish curry masala. The spice intentional food fraud may prevent
mixes had high levels of ethylene oxide, manufacturers from tracing ingredients
the regulator said, and advised and assessing potential risks which
consumers against purchasing these compromise the safety of the entire food
products. Days later, Singapore ordered a supply chain. Traceability is particularly
recall of the Everest spice mix, stating that challenging for small and medium sized
it is unfit for human consumption. businesses with limited resources.
MDH has called allegations over EtO Some are logistic barriers. At least 10
contamination “baseless and States/Union Territories lack government
unsubstantiated”. “We reassure our or private notified food testing labs, as
buyers and consumers that we do not use mandated under the Food Safety and
ethylene oxide at any stage of storing, Standards Act 2006. These labs are
processing, or packing our spices,” the distributed unevenly across regions; have
company said in a statement. It added insufficient number of food safety
that neither the Spices Board nor the officers; and were found to operate
Food Safety and Standards Authority of ineffectively due to resource constraints,
India (FSSAI) have received showed the FSSAI Annual Report of
communication or test reports from 2021-22. FSSAI’s operations often lack
Singapore or Hong Kong authorities. transparency, which “hinders efforts to
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration meet safety standards”, build
(FDA), which had previously rejected food accountability and trust, adds Ms. Simi.
and spice imports from India, told Reuters
that it is “aware of the reports and is What next?
gathering additional information about Delhi-based think tank Global Trade
the situation”. Regulatory bodies in Research Initiative (GTRI) in a recent note
Maldives, New Zealand, Bangladesh and held, “With nearly $700 million worth of
Australia have announced similar plans. exports to critical markets at stake, and
potential losses soaring to over half of
What are the health concerns? India’s total spice exports due to
MDH and Everest’s spice mixes allegedly cascading regulatory actions in many
contain high levels of EtO, a prohibited countries, the integrity and future of
pesticide. EtO is a colourless, flammable India’s spice trade hang in delicate
gas that was originally intended for balance.” According to the think tank, the
sterilising medical devices. It is used as a issue demands urgent attention to uphold
chemical in industrial settings, the reputation of the entire ecosystem.
agriculture, and as a sterilising agent in Vijoo Krishnan, General Secretary of
food products, including spices, dried ISTOCKPHOTO the All-India Kisan Sabha explained that
vegetables and other commodities. The the chain of events could put other small
chemical lends life to the spice industry — food-borne illness. Other than this, there pathogen-related violations. With 5,115 companies or co-operatives’ exports
it reduces microbial contamination, and have been at least 11 counts of products refusals — the figure represented 22.9% of under a cloud of suspicion. Importantly,
in turn, extends products’ shelf life. being rejected because of misbranding, overall import refusals for pathogen/toxin Mr Krishnan explained that in the event
However, this process is not always adulteration, artificial colouring or related violations. of potential losses, farmers of such crops
airtight. The improper and excessive use incorrect labelling. The two causes have too could find themselves at the receiving
of EtO may leave behind residues, causing existed in combination as well. The report How has India responded? end. “We have instances where
toxic and even carcinogenic compounds tabulates Ramdev Food Products to have On April 25, the Spice Board in India companies have not paid appropriate
to form, thus contaminating the product. had the maximum rejections in 2023 announced a slew of corrective measures prices to farmers even when they were
One such compound is ethylene glycol, an (about 30), followed by MDH (about 19), including initiating mandatory testing of making profits,” he stated, adding,
ingredient which was found in MTR (7), Everest (5), makers of Catch: DS consignments shipped to Singapore and “Should the companies make losses now,
Indian-made cough syrups that were Group (2) and Badshah (1). Hong Kong and gathering technical details it could be used as a pretext to reduce
linked to the deaths of more than 300 In fact, in September 2019, a recall of and analytical reports from the relevant prices, thus, burdening the farmer.”
children in Cameroon, Gambia, Indonesia MDH’s Sambhar Masala was initiated in food and drug agencies. It also sought to GTRI also assessed that if regulators in
and Uzbekistan. Long-term exposure to the U.S. after FDA discovered the product propose corrective measures to the China follow their peers in Hong Kong,
ethylene oxide is associated with cancers was contaminated with salmonella. The concerned exporters and initiate and ASEAN based on that by Singapore,
including lymphoma and leukaemia, recall terminated in December 2021. inspections to ensure adherence to Indian exports could see a “dramatic
some evidence shows. Another such recall involved Everest’s relevant standards. A circular dated April downturn”. This could affect exports
Garam Masala and Sambhar Masala, and 30 contains guidelines to exporters on valued at $2.17 billion — about 51.1% of the
Is there a history of rejections in U.S.? Maggi’s Masala-ae-Magic in June last year. preventing EtO contamination. The country’s global spice exports. The
A scrutiny of FDA’s import refusal report, The U.S. Dept of Agriculture had in guidelines prescribe norms for testing at paradigm could further worsen if the EU,
for the calendar year 2023, cites at least February 2022 stated that India and raw and final stages, storage of EtO which it states, “regularly rejects Indian
30 instances wherein entry was refused Mexico were the top sources of treated products and use of alternate spice consignments over quality issues”,
because the products appeared to contain pathogen-based food import refusals. methods curtailing the use of the follows suit. The impact could be an
salmonella. These are agents known to Their study, from 2002-19, held Indian chemical compounds. The Spices Board additional $2.5 billion, bringing potential
cause salmonellosis — a common bacterial imports had the maximum number of issued a similar advisory in September losses to 58.8% of India’s global exports.
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the Longitude Act in 1714. It day’s daily quiz: 1. This British football
X promised rewards for anyone who legend was the runner up for the Ballon
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The English astronomer X is famous a ship’s longitude while at sea. Name 2. The party to which Tony Blair belonged
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onset of the eclipse with an accuracy X Prime Minister for three terms
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X eclipse to within four minutes, he’d Earth by Pearl. S. Buck
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News Delhi
proached for “political clearance”; nor did the Mi- Rae Bareli seats in Uttar Hare Street police station
nistry issue any clearance for enabling foreign tra-
vel by Mr. Prajwal. “No political clearance was
Pradesh that go to the polls
on May 20, sources said
in Kolkata.
The allegation came
The Hindu wins top
either sought from or issued by the MEA in res-
pect of the travel of the said MP to Germany. Ob-
Congress president Malli-
karjun Kharge had a meet-
hours before Prime Minis-
ter Narendra Modi was awards at international
viously, no visa note was issued either. No visa is
required for diplomatic passport holders to travel
to Germany,” he said.
ing with senior leader Ra-
hul Gandhi at Shivamogga
in Karnataka, where the
Awaiting decisions: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, with AICC chief
Mallikarjun Kharge, at an election campaign in Karnataka. ANI
scheduled to arrive at the
Raj Bhavan for a night stay.
He is scheduled to address
design competition
The Hassan MP has now been suspended by two addressed an election three election rallies in
the Janata Dal (Secular). He is seeking re-election rally. shift to Rae Bareli, which is hi. In 1977, Janata Party West Bengal on Friday. The Hindu Bureau cellence in the ‘Best of
from the Hassan Lok Sabha constituency where There was no informa- deemed to be a “safer leader Raj Narain famously Reacting to the allega- Double Spread’ category.
he is pitted against Congress nominee Shreyas tion on the outcome of the seat”. His mother and defeated Indira Gandhi tions, Mr. Bose said he The Hindu’s explainer page The judges noted that the
Patel. meeting. There is intense former Congress president here. would not be cowed down on Neeraj Chopra’s craft “standout sports page of
speculation that Mr. Gand- Sonia Gandhi represented Congress general secre- by engineered narratives. and success, “The science the competition was
hi may return to Amethi, a the seat from 2004. She tary Priyanka Gandhi Va- “... If anybody wants some behind Neeraj’s skills”, pu- layered with information
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seat he lost in 2019 to Un- opted out of the Lok Sabha dra’s name has also been election benefits by ma- blished on September 3, organised on a simple grid
India protests Chinese ion Minister and BJP leader
Smriti Irani.
election race this year,
choosing to enter Parlia-
doing the rounds for one of
the two seats. On Friday,
ligning me, God bless
them. But they cannot stop
2023, has won three
awards at the 6th Interna-
around world-class illustra-
tions” and every part of
road work in PoK valley Mr. Gandhi had won the
seat in 2004, 2009, and
ment through the Rajya
Sabha instead.
Ms. Vadra is scheduled to
address a roadshow in Fa-
my fight against corruption
and violence in Bengal,”
tional Newspaper Design
Competition organised by
this page informs and en-
gages readers. They went
2014. In 2019, he contested The Congress has tehpur Sikri, some 500 km the Raj Bhavan said in a newspaperdesign.in. on to add that the pages
“We have registered our protest with the Chinese from Wayanad in addition won Rae Bareli 17 times away from both Amethi statement, quoting the were a “great balance of
side against illegal attempts to alter facts on the to Amethi. This time too, since the first general elec- and Rae Bareli. Governor. ‘Standout sports page’ strong visuals, detailed ex-
ground. We further reserve the right to take ne- he is in the fray from tion. The seat was first re- Sources, however, The ruling Trinamool The Hindu won the ‘Best of plainers and well-edited
cessary measures to safeguard our interests,” Mr. Wayanad. presented by Feroze Gand- claimed that she remains Congress said the “sanctity show’ award; ‘Gold’ in the narrative text that com-
Jaiswal added. There is also specula- hi and later on three reluctant to make her elec- of Raj Bhavan has been ‘Best of Sports Page’ cate- bined to deliver a medal-
The Shaksgam Valley is part of Pakistan-occu- tion that Mr. Gandhi could occasions by Indira Gand- toral debut. tarnished”. gory; and an award of ex- winning experience”.
pied Kashmir, and was ceded by Pakistan to China
in 1963, a year after the India-China war. Recent
satellite pictures indicate that China is building a
‘Instead of
road into the lower Shaksgam valley. This has also
been confirmed by official sources.
The Siachen glacier is a piece of Indian territo-
Gaming body warns BJP expelled Mahua from hate speeches,
ry wedged between China and Pakistan. The 2020
standoff between Indian and Chinese troops in
eastern Ladakh has made the control of Siachen
of action against ads Parliament as she cannot seek votes on
even more critical for India. China has underta-
ken a massive build-up and deployment along the
on online gambling be cowered down: Mamata
performance’
Line of Actual Control, especially in eastern La-
dakh, threatening Indian positions in Depsang The Hindu Bureau
and Daulat Beg Oldie. The Hindu Bureau others. Violators are liable NEW DELHI
CHENNAI for imprisonment that may Shiv Sahay Singh
extend to 3 months or a KOLKATA Prime Minister Narendra
The Tamil Nadu Online fine of up to ₹5,000 or Modi will be remembered
Gaming Authority (TNO- both. “...The Act prohibits The BJP cannot stand Ma- as someone who “indulged
Law and order is a GA) on Thursday said it financial institutions/pay- hua Moitra because she in divisive and communal
speeches filled with lies to
State subject, says SC had “proposed to take
stringent action” against
ment gateways from engag-
ing in transactions towards
cannot be cowered down,
West Bengal Chief Minister avoid an inevitable de-
those who advertise online online gambling or online Mamata Banerjee said on feat”, Congress President
The ED had approached the top court claiming gambling and online game of chance,” the re- Thursday while campaign- Mallikarjun Kharge said in
the case be transferred to it as Mr. Tiwari was a games of chance and bet- lease said. ing for the party’s Lok Sab- a letter to Mr. Modi. He also
Central government employee. The hearing be- ting, among others, to pro- The advertisement of ha candidate for the Krish- rebutted the various charg-
fore Justice Gavai’s Bench was based on an origi- mote their website/appli- online gambling services nanagar constituency. es levelled by the Bharatiya
nal suit filed by West Bengal under Article 131 of cations in the State. and online games of “You had elected Mahua Janata Party (BJP) in the
the Constitution against the Union government. Those who wish to chance are prohibited un- Moitra to Parliament. Did Mamata Banerjee with Mahua Moitra, the TMC candidate for the ongoing election
The State alleged that CBI was probing several cas- share information about der the Act. No person BJP have any right to expel Krishnanagar constituency, during a rally in Nadia on Thursday. ANI campaign.
es and registering FIRs within its jurisdiction with- online gambling or betting shall make or cause to her?” the Chief Minister The letter has been
out taking prior consent from the West Bengal go- activities, or offer sugges- make any advertisement in said at a rally in Nadia. “They [BJP] cannot raised the issue of suspen- framed as a response to
vernment. Mr. Sibal said the State had withdrawn tions to regulate online any media, including elec- Ms. Moitra was expelled stand Mahua Moitra be- sion of 150 MPs from Par- Mr. Modi’s missive to the
prior consent under Section 6 of the Delhi Police games could do so at tronic means of communi- from Parliament in January cause she replies on their liament and said majority BJP candidates asking
Special Establishment Act to CBI investigations https://tnonlinegamin- cation, in Tamil Nadu that after the Ethics Committee face and cannot be co- does not mean using brute them to spread awareness
within its territory on November 16, 2018. gauthority.tn.gov.in/ or promotes or induces any had found her guilty of wered down,” Ms. Baner- force. Ms. Banerjee ac- among voters of the Con-
“It is not our case that there should be no inves- email tnoga@tn.gov.in, the person to indulge in online “unethical conduct” and jee said. She added that on cused the Centre of at- gress’s intention to snatch
tigation in these cases. But you cannot claim I TNOGA chairperson said in gambling with money or contempt of the House by Friday BJP leaders will visit tempting to marginalise “reservation from SC, ST,
have a unilateral right to investigate them by giv- a release. other stakes, the Act states. sharing her Lok Sabha the constituency and “tell SCs, STs, and OBCs. and OBC communities and
ing the Code of Criminal Procedure a go-by. You The Tamil Nadu Prohibi- It also provides for a penal- member portal credentials lies”. Prime Minister Na- The Chief Minister also give it away to their vote
cannot say that the offences relating to Central go- tion of Online Gambling ty of imprisonment, which with unauthorised per- rendra Modi is expected to addressed the Matua com- bank”. He urged Mr. Modi
vernment employees will be investigated only by a and Regulation of Online may extend to one year or sons. Soon after the expul- address a public meeting at munity and said that the to seek votes on the perfor-
Central agency,” Mr. Sibal submitted. Solicitor- Games Act, 2022, provides a fine extending up to ₹5 sion, the Trinamool had Tehatta in Nadia district on BJP is going to implement mance of his government
General Tushar Mehta, for the Union government, for prohibiting online gam- lakh or both for the per- announced that Ms. Moitra Friday in favour of the BJP Uniform Civil Code. Krish- over the last 10 years in-
said the original suit of the State was not maintain- bling and online games of sons/company indulging in will contest the election candidate. nanagar has a significant stead of indulging in “hate
able and should be dismissed by the court. chance, betting, among such advertisements. from Krishnanagar. The Chief Minister also Matua population. speeches”.
ELECTIONS 2024
Naveen Patnaik, closer to three Lok Sabha Baramulla fight simple choice on May 20. Congress fields
seats — Balangir, Kalahandi Whether they want to vote for
Pradhan file and Bargarh — which are BJP is against Delhi’s a local representative in Tsering Namgyal
nominations strongholds. might, RSS: NC Parliament or send a Delhi’s from Ladakh
The day saw heavyweights representative to Parliament.
쑽 filing nomination for the Lok 쑽 We have a direct contest with 쑽
Sabha poll. Union Minister Delhi’s might and Nagpur’s
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Dharmendra Pradhan and National Conference RSS. They have fielded their J.P. Nadda has The Congress on Thursday A majority of
on Thursday filed nomination former Minister Jual Oram vice-president Omar Abdullah, men against the NC and the become Jhooth fielded Tsering Namgyal from the leaders of
for the Kantabanji Assembly filed papers from Sambalpur who filed his nomination INDIA bloc candidates on all the Ladakh Lok Sabha seat.
Prachar Nadda... He said the INDIA bloc, including
seat in Balangir district, the and Sundargarh, respectively. papers from the Baramulla seats in Kashmir,” Mr. The Congress’s central
Cong.’s thinking on election committee has those of the Congress
second seat after his BJP spokesperson Aparajita seat on Thursday, said he was Abdullah said. “We will fight
traditional Hinjili constituency Sarangi filed papers from “up against Delhi’s might and for the snatched rights. I will economic inequalities is approved the name of Tsering and RJD, are either in jail
for the Odisha Assembly Bhubaneswar while BJD the Rashtriya Swayamsevak ensure I take the struggle to Maoist in nature. There Namgyal as the candidate to or out on bail. RJD
election. His selection of leader and former Mumbai Naveen Patnaik filing papers Sangh (RSS)”. Parliament and work hard, cannot be a bigger lie contest the poll from Ladakh, means corruption
Kantabanji as the second seat Police Commissioner Arup for the Kantabanji seat on “Voters in the Baramulla even though the opponent is JAIRAM RAMESH an official communication J.P. NADDA
assumes significance as it is Patnaik filed papers from Puri. Thursday. BISWARANJAN ROUT constituency have to make a very shrewd,” he said. Congress leader from the party said. PTI BJP president
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Hindutva ideology believes that India’s growth is because of nationalism and not in spite of it; under the ideology, the Ram
temple is not seen as a distraction from, or barrier to, India’s development, but as an essential foundation and catalyst for it
News Delhi
INBRIEF
쑽 Manipur violence: a year Year since conflict,
kin of missing Meiteis
on, number of FIRs brought in Delhi seek closure
down from 11,000 to 3,000 Abhinay Lakshman
NEW DELHI
#Justice4MissingMeeteis”.
In the one year of the
conflict between the val-
The number of cases had shot up owing to overlap, several duplicate FIRs for the same incident Nearly six months after her ley-based Meitei people
19-year-old son Anthony and the hills-based Kuki-Zo
and thousands of zero FIRs, says official; Biren Singh appeals to people to surrender weapons
ED gets custody of Haryana went missing upon cross-
ing the buffer zone, Prem-
tribals, over 220 people
have been killed, thou-
Congress MLA’s son till May 6 lata Ningthoujam keeps a sands of others have been
Vijaita Singh violence stood at 150, plate out for him even to- injured, and tens of thou-
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has taken the NEW DELHI while subsequently 71 had day while they eat their sands of people have been
custody of Sikandar Singh Chhoker, son of been killed, bringing the daily meals. A tradition in internally displaced. Amid
Congress MLA Dharam Singh Chhoker, in the year after ethnic death toll to 221. As many Meitei communities, the this, while the Meitei com-
case of Sai Aaina Farms Private Limited and
others for allegedly siphoning off hundreds of
crores of homebuyers’ money related to multiple
A violence erupted in
Manipur, the clean-
up of records has brought
as 15 members of the Kuki-
Zo community and 32
members of the Meitei
practice is something fami-
lies follow in the hopes that
their loved ones will re-
munity has said that there
was no news of 31 of their
people still missing, the
projects in Gurugram, the agency said on down the total number of community have been mis- turn. “Every time we clear Kuki-Zo people have said 15
Thursday. It is alleged that Mr. Sikandar had been violence-related first infor- sing for a year. the untouched plate, our of theirs were still unac-
absconding for the past four months and was mation reports (FIRs) from Mr. Singh said in a post hearts break all over counted for.
traced to Haridwar in Uttarakhand on April 30. A over 11,000 to around on X that the first phase of again,” Ms. Ningthoujam
court had issued non-bailable arrest warrants 3,000, a government deportation of “illegal im- said. Ex-journalist missing
against him. After arresting him, the probe source told The Hindu. migrants” from Myanmar She was among dozens In the national capital for
agency produced him before a special court, The number of cases was completed on Thurs- of people who arrived in the gathering, 47-year-old
which sent him to ED custody till May 6. had shot up owing to over- day as 38 immigrants left Delhi on Thursday in a bid Kabita Atom said: “I last
lap, several duplicate FIRs The first phase of deportation of “illegal immigrants” from Myanmar Manipur for Myanmar to make an appeal to find saw my husband on May 6
for the same incident and has been completed, the Manipur government said. @NBIRENSINGH/X through the Moreh border their loved ones — people last year. That afternoon,
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thousands of zero FIRs, the check post. “Without any who were reported to have he was visiting a friend and
SC advocates’ association official said. Zero FIRs are
filed irrespective of juris-
ice armouries after ethnic
violence erupted in the
place in a village, several
FIRs were registered for
discrimination, we have
completed the first phase
gone missing in the course
of the ethnic conflict in Ma-
he told me on the phone
that he would be back
elects new office-bearers diction and are later trans- State on May 3, 2023. Till the same crime, a team of deportation of illegal im- nipur, which began one soon. We never saw him af-
ferred to the police station now, around 1,800 wea- was constituted that migrants from Myanmar year ago on May 3, 2023. ter that.” A former journal-
The powerful Supreme Court Advocate-on where the crime took pons have been recovered cleaned up the records,” with 38 more immigrants A group of Meitei civil ist, Atom Samarendra,
-Record Association (SCAORA), which place. or surrendered by the civi- said the source. leaving Manipur today society organisations had along with his friend Y. Ki-
spearheaded the case against the National Chief Minister N. Biren lians. The conflict is bet- According to a status re- through Moreh. A total of brought the families to- ran Kumar, had gone mis-
Judicial Appointments Commission, elected a Singh said that the people ween the tribal Kuki-Zo pe- port filed by the State go- 77 illegal immigrants have gether for a press meet at sing that day.
change of guard in polls held recently. Advocate should be united and there ople and the majority vernment on August 1 last been deported in the first the Press Club of India in “If he is alive, then we
Vipin Nair was elected president of SCAORA in should be no attempts to Meitei community. year, 4,766 regular FIRs phase. One Indian national New Delhi, stating that request that he be released
the election held on April 29. Mr. Nair, a former divide society. “Those who The government source were registered till July 30 was also brought back there was still no news of 31 and if not, at least his re-
secretary of SCAORA, has been a part of several have committed the crimes said that thousands were the same year. Out of 11,414 from Myanmar during the people from the communi- mains should be sent back
public interest litigation pleas, including those in should be prosecuted le- displaced and due to the zero FIRs, as many as 6,621 handover ceremony. The ty who had gone missing to us for the last rites,” she
the NJAC and the right to privacy writ involving gally. I appeal to the people prevailing law and order FIRs were converted to reg- State government is conti- during the conflict. As the said, adding that while the
Aadhaar. Advocate Amit Sharma, who represents from both sides to surren- situation, they registered ular FIRs, the report said, nuing the identification of families addressed the Manipur police registered
the Election Commission in the top court, was der weapons,” Mr. Singh FIRs at places convenient adding that “there is an illegal immigrants and at press, a poster behind a First Information Report
also elected vice-president. Advocates Nikhil Jain told The Hindu. to them, which also includ- overlap of offences”. the same time biometric them had pictures of those that very day, they had not
and Aljo Joseph were elected secretary and More than 4,500 wea- ed neighbouring States. The death toll in the in- data are being recorded,” missing, with the phrase: got in touch with them
treasurer, respectively. pons were looted from pol- “If an arson has taken itial three months of the he said. “Let them Rest in Peace, since about the probe.
INBRIEF
쑽 April PMI signals second-best gain in MARKETS
쑽
MARKET WATCH
New orders increased at the second-fastest pace in almost 40 months with domestic demand outpacing export orders, the
PMI survey showed; manufacturers ramped up hiring at a moderate pace, which was still the quickest since last September NIFTY 50
PRICE CHANGE
Adani Enter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 3039.60. . . . . . . . -15.10
Vikas Dhoot employees at a moderate- nium, paper, plastics and Adani Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1338.80. . . . . . . . . . 13.90
Apollo Hosp. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 5958.55. . . . . . . . . . 11.45
NEW DELHI pace, which was still the steel, and producers last Asian Paints. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 2975.40. . . . . . . . . . 99.50
quickest since September. month raised selling prices Axis Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1149.85. . . . . . . . -16.05
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Bajaj Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 9110.65. . . . . . . . 207.00
NPCI’s global arm to develop ndia’s manufacturing
activity eased in April
However, pressure on ca-
pacities remained mild.
at the fastest pace in three
months, noting that labour
Bajaj Finserv . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1615.45. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.45
Bajaj Finance . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 6882.70. . . . . . . . -40.85
UPI-like system for Namibia but still signalled the Even though input costs costs had also gone up. Bharti Airtel . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1304.05. . . . . . . . -18.25
BPCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 634.65. . . . . . . . . . 27.30
second-best improvement rose, producers took input “Higher costs of raw ma- Britannia Ind . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 4759.65. . . . . . . . -16.30
NPCI International Payments Ltd. (NIPL), the in three-and-a-half years, purchases to the highest le- terials and labour led to a Cipla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1420.05. . . . . . . . . . 20.05
Coal India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 453.90. . . . . . . . . . -0.40
international arm of the National Payments as per the seasonally ad- vel since June, and expan- modest uptick in input Divis Lab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 3964.65. . . . . . . . -37.75
Corporation of India (NPCI), has signed an justed HSBC India Manu- sion of stock inventories costs, but inflation remains Dr Reddys Lab . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 6287.50. . . . . . . . . . 83.20
agreement with the Bank of Namibia to support facturing Purchasing Man- was the third-strongest below the historical aver- Eicher Motors . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 4602.40. . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00
Grasim Ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 2437.35. . . . . . . . . . 25.70
the institution in developing an instant payment agers’ Index (PMI), which since early 2005, when the age.” said HSBC’s chief In- HCL Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1360.70. . . . . . . . . . -5.90
system like the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) slid to 58.8 from March’s PMI data collection began. dia economist Pranjul HDFC Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1532.25. . . . . . . . . . 12.15
HDFC Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 576.35. . . . . . . . . . -7.30
for Namibia. “By leveraging technology and 16-year high of 59.1. Expectations that demand Bhandari. “However, firms Hero MotoCorp . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 4561.50. . . . . . . . . . 18.45
experiences from India’s UPI, the partnership New orders rose at the conditions will remain con- passed these increases on- Hindalco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 641.45. . . . . . . . . . -2.95
Hind Unilever . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 2226.30. . . . . . . . . . -4.15
seeks to help Namibia modernise its financial second-strongest pace in Output growth slowed but demand, manufacturers ducive to growth support- to consumers through ICICI Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1139.45. . . . . . . . -10.95
ecosystem,” NIPL said in a statement. almost 40 months, with was still the second-fastest reported higher confi- ed inventory-building in- higher output charges, as IndusInd Bank. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1505.20. . . . . . . . -10.50
domestic demand rising in 42 months. dence levels with expecta- itiatives, HSBC said. demand remained resi- Infosys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1414.45. . . . . . . . . . -6.10
ITC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 439.00. . . . . . . . . . . . 3.35
faster than export orders, Bolstered by current tions of higher output a Price gains were report- lient, resulting in improved JSW Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 890.35. . . . . . . . . . . . 8.15
the PMI survey suggested. and anticipated upticks in year ahead. Firms added ed for materials like alumi- margins,” she added. Kotak Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1575.65. . . . . . . . -48.30
L&T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 3599.50. . . . . . . . . . . . 5.20
Aadhar Housing Finance LTIMindtree Ltd. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 4692.70. . . . . . . . -13.70
M&M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 2185.15. . . . . . . . . . 28.80
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NestleIndia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 2512.30. . . . . . . . . . . . 4.90
million contract with FORVIA, a French global come (NII) grew 15% to The company, viewed as High volumes the area and therefore we freight rates were boosted CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL
automotive supplier, to offer engineering ₹2,195.11 crore. a barometer of world “The container volumes can see that not only by a pandemic-related US Dollar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 83.27. . . . . . . . . . 83.59
Euro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 89.11. . . . . . . . . . 89.46
development services to the latter’s Clean The Board recommend- trade, said that shipping we see today are quite high Maersk but all shipping boost to demand. British Pound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 104.20. . . . . . . . 104.60
Mobility division. As part of the five-year ed a dividend of ₹1.2 per disruptions caused by compared to GDP growth lines have adjusted their Still, Maersk posted a Japanese Yen (100) . . . . . . .. . . . . 53.63. . . . . . . . . . 53.84
Chinese Yuan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 11.50. . . . . . . . . . 11.54
partnership, about 300 engineers from FORVIA’s equity share with a face va- Houthi militants’ attacks in the world economy,” networks more or less per- third straight quarterly loss Swiss Franc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 91.28. . . . . . . . . . 91.63
Augsburg and Bengaluru sites had been lue of ₹2 for FY24. on vessels in the Red Sea said CEO Vincent Clerc. “At manently,” Mr. Clerc said. in its ocean container ship- Singapore Dollar . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 61.23. . . . . . . . . . 61.48
Canadian Dollar . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 60.67. . . . . . . . . . 60.91
transferred to LTTS. This represents a 95% In FY24, the bank’s total were expected to last at one point or another, we Maersk now expects ping division, mainly ow- Malaysian Ringitt . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 17.51. . . . . . . . . . 17.58
transfer success rate in securing the skills of business grew 19.1% YoY to least until the end of the will see a normalisation of full-year underlying EBIT- ing to higher costs related Australian Dollar . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 54.32. . . . . . . . . . 54.53
these teams, the company said in a statement. ₹4,61,937.36 crore. year, adding that growth in volumes,” he added. DA between $4 billion and to the Red Sea disruptions. Source:Indian Bank
Adani Enterprises Q4 Outlook for venture capital, private NMDC output slid 1%,
net profit slides 37% equity has improved: TVS Capital sales rose 3% in April
Press Trust of India The Hindu Bureau
NEW DELHI Mini Tejaswi ing,” she added. economic uncertainty. HYDERABAD
BENGALURU “However, India by itself
Adani Enterprises Ltd., the ‘Return to normalcy’ is an attractive market, and State-owned NMDC report-
flagship incubator of billio- The outlook for India’s Ms. Ramachandran ob- we do attract capital in the ed iron-ore production for
naire Gautam Adani’s con- private equity and venture served a lot of ‘normalisa- early stage investments. April slid almost 1% while
glomerate, on Thursday re- capital market appears tion’ had happened among But in terms of return on sales increased almost 3%.
ported a 37% drop in positive this year, com- investors and entrepre- capital, our funding mar- Production stood at 3.48
March quarter net profit, pared with last year, as neurs and conversations kets are yet to gain maturi- million tonne (mt) (3.51 mt)
bogged down by one-time ‘normalcy’ has returned in were now getting better ty,” she observed. and sales 3.53 mt (3.43 mt),
past airport dues and com- the lives of investors, said with realistic expectations NMDC said in a filing on Amitava Mukherjee
mercial-mining losses. While incubating busi- Anuradha Ramachandran, from both sides. ‘Credit averse’ the provisional numbers.
Consolidated net profit nesses like new energy and Managing Partner, TVS Anuradha Ramachandran “This scenario will On lending to women, she India’s largest iron-ore dia’s iron-ore output and
of ₹450.58 crore in the airports showed strong Capital Funds. boost the growth of the said, women were credit producer has been report- demand,” CMD (additional
fourth quarter of FY24 momentum, it suffered a they required digital edu- domestic funding market. averse and were very res- ing a year-on-year decline charge) Amitava Mukher-
compares with a net profit loss of ₹201.83 crore in ‘Excess funding’ cation, while consumer We hope, from now on, ponsible, yet opportunities in output since February. jee said in a statement.
of ₹722.48 crore in the commercial mining, while Ms. Ramachandran said, goods had to be mostly things are going to be ea- available for them could be In March, production and
same period last year and pre-tax earnings from the there had been excess bought online and there- sier for both parties,” she fewer, and that could also sales fell. For the year end- ‘Promising start’
₹1,888.45 crore earnings in road business plummeted funding during 2020 and fore B2C ventures did well. commented. be one of the reasons why ed March, it had reported a “All our mining complexes
the preceding quarter, ac- 84% to ₹222.03 crore. 2021 as both investors and “Now, the question is Funding winter, set in a a lesser number of women 10% increase in production have delivered a promising
cording to a filing. Also, its unit Mumbai In- business owners had got how do you sustain growth couple of years ago after became entrepreneurs. to a record 45.1 mt and 16% start and are geared up to
The firm reported an 8% ternational Airport Ltd. carried away. The pandem- when structural disadvan- many global funds dialed However, “it is encou- higher sales at 44.48 mt. harmonise with the new
decline in EBITDA (earn- (MIAL) recognised a one- ic had brought about struc- tages no longer exist. That down their investments in raging to see some start- “We are targeting north mining technologies, navi-
ings before interest, taxes, time exceptional expense tural changes. Edtech is the conundrum both in- India because of a lack of ups having women co- of 10% growth in our vol- gate sectoral challenges
depreciation, and amorti- of ₹627 crore to make up boomed because students vestors and businesses al- private fund availability, founders,” Ms. Ramachan- umes in FY25 attuned to and achieve 50 million
sation) at ₹3,646 crore. for past payments. could not go to school and ways faced and are still fac- coupled with the global dran added. the growth trajectory of In- tonne,” he added.
‘Shriram Finance to focus on ‘April palm-oil imports Reliance starts trading U.S. oil
small-ticket loans, used vehicles’ swell to 3-month high’ setting Brent oil benchmark
N. Anand FY25 as the government Reuters Reuters line last month, trade
CHENNAI machinery was involved in MUMBAI LONDON sources said.
the elections during April More players have be-
Shriram Finance Ltd. (SFL) and May. India’s palm-oil imports India’s Reliance has made come involved in trading
will focus on building its “There is likely to be jumped by 41% in April its first foray into trading a crude that can set the
bottom line in a granular some slowdown in the ca- from the previous month type of U.S. crude oil that Brent price in the Platts
manner by offering small- pex activity of the govern- to reach the highest level in underpins the global Brent window since Platts added
ticket loans and high-yield- ment and infrastructure three months, as easing benchmark in a process WTI to the benchmark last
ing products during the projects,” he said. prices prompted refiners run by oil-index publisher year.
current fiscal year, said ex- Mr. Revankar said to increase purchases, five S&P Global Commodity In- U.S. WTI Midland is one
ecutive vice chairman though the growth may be dealers told Reuters. sights, the publisher said. of six crude-oil grades as-
Umesh G. Revankar. Umesh G. Revankar a little slow in Q1, SFL ex- Higher palm-oil pur- rection that eliminated its RIL, operator of the sessed by Platts that can set
“We will be focusing on pects good demand from chases by India, the premium over soybean world’s biggest refining ters request for comment. the value of dated Brent,
our niche area of small- emphasis would be to raise rural areas in Q2 with the world’s biggest importer of and sunflower oil, said Ra- complex, on Wednesday India, the world’s third- part of the wider Brent
ticket lending and used efficiency and profitability, IMD’s prediction on the vegetable oils, could sup- jesh Patel, managing partn- offered a cargo of WTI Mi- biggest oil importer and complex used to price
vehicle portfolio, where and not unduly focus on monsoon being a positive. port the benchmark Malay- er at GGN Research. dland in the Platts Market consumer, is looking to di- more than three-quarters
high-yielding assets will be the top line growth. Talking about the FY25 sian palm oil futures that Crude palm-oil imports on Close process, known versify its oil supplies as of the world’s traded oil.
given a little higher weight- In FY24, SFL’s standa- guidance for return on are trading near their low- are offered at about $920 a as the Platts window. fresh U.S. sanctions on The price of dated Brent
age,” Mr. Revankar said lone net profit rose 20% equity, he said: “We are al- est level in three months. metric tonne, including It was Reliance’s first Moscow threaten to dent is set by the cheapest of the
during an interaction. YoY to ₹7,190 crore, while ready at 16.4% and we Palm oil imports in April cost, insurance and time offering WTI in the Russian oil sales to India, six crudes and Midland, by
Asserting that the com- total income increased by should be able to cross jumped to 6,82,000 metric freight, in India for June window, Platts spokesper- the biggest buyer of Rus- far the largest of the six
pany’s growth would be ca- 17% to ₹34,998 crore. 17%. By FY26, we will be at tonne, dealers estimate. delivery, while soyoil and son Kathleen Tanzy told sian seaborne crude. crude streams, often plays
librated and SFL would be According to him, the 18%”. “Assets under man- Palm oil has become sunflower oil are offered at Reuters. A Reliance spo- Reliance made its first a role in setting its value.
focusing on improving the industry might expect agement will grow at 15% more attractive to buyers about $920 and $945 a kesperson did not imme- oil purchase from Canada’s The other five are North
bottom line, he said the slower growth in Q1 of for FY25,” he added. due to a recent price cor- tonne, respectively. diately respond to a Reu- new Trans Mountain pipe- Sea crudes.
CM M ND-NDE
YK
THE HINDU
16 Friday, May 3, 2024
World Delhi
Police make arrests at UCLA Sri Lanka political parties use May
after clashes with protesters Day to put forward poll aspirations
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrested from college campuses across the U.S. overnight; police Meera Srinivasan Leader of Opposition Sajith
crackdown echoed actions decades ago against a much larger movement protesting Vietnam War COLOMBO Premadasa, pledged to im-
plement the 13th Amend-
With a presidential elec- ment to the Sri Lankan
Associated Press nationwide. The ensuing tion expected later this constitution, which pro-
LOS ANGELES police crackdowns echoed year, the May Day rallies of mises a measure of power
actions decades ago all main political parties in devolution to the provinc-
T
he police arrested against a much larger prot- Sri Lanka seemed a pre- es. Further, he proposed a
pro-Palestinian est movement protesting lude to their poll cam- “national wealth fund” to
protesters on col- the Vietnam War. paigns. Leaders of various ensure prosperity of future
lege campuses across the Yale University police political camps made a di- generations.
country overnight, notably arrested four persons on rect pitch to the people in The JVP-led National Pe-
at the University of Califor- Wednesday night after their respective public ople’s Power coalition put
nia, Los Angeles, where around 200 demonstrators events, seeking their sup- up a big show in capital Co-
chaotic scenes played out marched to the school pre- port in what would be the Show of strength: The May Day rally held by the centre-left lombo, with scores of
early on Thursday as offic- sident’s home and to the first election since the is- Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna in Colombo. MEERA SRINIVASAN members and supporters
ers in riot gear surged campus police depart- land nation’s debilitating marching across the city,
against a crowd of demon- ment. economic crisis in 2022. gress in Kotagala in the lombo rally organised by chanting “we want a go-
strators and made arrests. Reining in: Protesters being detained by the police at the University In Oregon, the police A year into the Interna- Central Province, where his United National Party vernment”. The party and
The police removed bar- of California, Los Angeles, on Thursday. REUTERS have started working to tional Monetary Fund’s many Malaiyaha Tamils, in- (UNP), Mr. Wickremes- its now-popular leader An-
ricades and began disman- clear demonstrators out of programme, that brought cluding estate workers re- inghe said his government ura Kumara Dissanayake
tling demonstrators’ forti- tening arrests over loud- night, when counterprot- a library at Portland State with it tough austerity side and work, announced took “difficult decisions” told supporters gathered
fied encampment at UCLA speakers if people did not esters attacked the en- University. measures, many Sri Lan- an increase in the daily for economic recovery near Colombo’s Town Hall:
after hundreds of protes- disperse. A crowd of more campment and the UCLA The protests at UCLA kans are reeling under the wage of plantation sector while challenging the main “We should create Sri Lan-
ters defied orders to leave, than 1,000 had gathered administration and cam- appeared to be getting the impact of steep tax hikes, workers, to LKR 1700 Opposition party Samagi ka’s biggest people’s move-
some of them forming hu- on campus, both inside a pus police took hours to most attention. Iranian and higher fuel and energy (roughly ₹ 477). Underscor- Jana Balawegaya (SJB or ment, in order to bring in a
man chains as police fired barricaded tent encamp- respond. state television carried live prices, amid high living ing his government’s “dili- United People’s Force) and new era.”
flash-bangs to break up the ment and outside it, in sup- Tent encampments of images of the police action, costs. gent efforts” to stabilise the the centre-left Janatha Vi- Tamil parties from the
crowds. port. Protesters and the protesters calling on un- as did Qatar’s pan-Arab Al country’s economy, he mukthi Peramuna ( JVP or island’s north and east
Numerous protesters police shoved and scuffled. iversities to stop doing bu- Jazeera satellite network. Increase in daily wage further pledged to convert People’s Liberation Front) held May Day events high-
were arrested, their hands Protesters chanted, siness with Israel or com- Live images of Los Angeles President Ranil Wickre- workers’ colonial-era line on what their response had lighting pending concerns
bound with zip ties. “Where were you last panies they say support also played across Israeli mesinghe, who participat- room accommodation to been. over accountability, power
The action came after night?” at the officers, in the war in Gaza have television networks, as ed at the May Day event of “villages”. Addressing the SJB’s devolution, and ongoing
officers spent hours threa- reference to Tuesday spread across campuses well. the Ceylon Workers’ Con- Speaking later at a Co- May Day rally in Colombo, land grabs in the region.
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Bhuvneshwar bowls a brilliant final over to complement his first; Jaiswal and Parag’s fantastic stand to no avail; Nitish sizzles for the host
SCOREBOARD
쑽
SUNRISERS HYDERABAD Bhuvneshwar 27 (15b, 3x4, 1x6),
Travis Head b Avesh 58 (44b, 6x4, Dhruv Jurel c Abhishek b Cummins
3x6), Abhishek Sharma c Jurel b 1 (3b), R. Ashwin (not out) 2 (2b);
Avesh 12 (10b, 1x6), Anmolpreet Extras (nb-2, w-11): 13; Total (for
Singh c Jaiswal b Sandeep 5 (5b, seven wkts. in 20 overs): 200.
1x4), Nitish Reddy (not out) 76 FALL OF WICKETS
(42b, 3x4, 8x6), Heinrich Klaasen 1-1 (Buttler, 0.2), 2-1 (Samson,
(not out) 42 (19b, 3x4, 3x6); Extras Engrossing: Salt’s pyrotechnics have lit up this edition.
0.5), 3-135 (Jaiswal, 13.3), 4-159
(w-8): 8; Total (for three wkts. in 20 EMMANUAL YOGINI
(Parag, 15.5), 5-181 (Hetmyer,
overs): 201. 17.4), 6-182 (Jurel, 18.1), 7-200
FALL OF WICKETS (Powell, 19.6). Amol Karhadkar
1-25 (Abhishek, 4.1 overs), 2-35 SUNRISERS BOWLING MUMBAI
(Anmolpreet, 5.1), 3-131 (Head, Bhuvneshwar 4-0-41-3, Jansen
14.4). 4-0-44-0, Cummins 4-0-34-2, For long, facing Kolkata
ROYALS BOWLING Natarajan 4-0-35-2, Unadkat Knight Riders used to be
Boult 4-0-33-0, Ashwin 4-0-36-0, (Impact Player in place of like a walk in the park for
Avesh 4-0-39-2, Sandeep 4-0-31-1, Anmolpreet) 2-0-23-0, Nitish
Chahal 4-0-62-0. Mumbai Indians, and its
1-0-12-0, Shahbaz 1-0-11-0.
RAJASTHAN ROYALS Toss: SRH; PoM: Bhuvneshwar.
batting mainstay Rohit
Yashasvi Jaiswal b Natarajan 67 SRH won by one run. Sharma.
(40b, 7x4, 2x6), Jos Buttler But even the bogey team
(Impact Player in place of has turned the reputation
Chahal) c Jansen b Bhuvneshwar around in the last few
0 (1b), Sanju Samson b years.
Bhuvneshwar 0 (3b), Riyan Parag c Add to it the form this
Jansen b Cummins 77 (49b, 8x4, season and it puts the
4x6), Shimron Hetmyer c Jansen b
home under severe pres-
Natarajan 13 (9b, 1x4, 1x6),
Rovman Powell lbw b sure come Friday night at
the Wankhede Stadium.
Another loss will put Mum- With the Knight Riders’
bai Indians’ – placed at the bowling unit having fal-
ninth place in a table of 10 – tered at home, the Mumbai
Home heroes: Nitish put on attacking masterclass, while the wily Bhuvneshwar struck when it mattered most. B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM mathematical hopes of Indians batters will be hop-
making the Indian Premier ing to make merry, for a
came down to two runs off put on 134 off 82 balls by attack. Travis Head, who League Playoffs up in the change. The onus will be
IPL-17 the last ball. He trapped treating the bowlers with scored 18 runs off 17 balls in air. on veteran Rohit Sharma
the big-hitting Rovman Po- contempt and playing the first six overs, was The Knight Riders – on to set the tone against
V.V. Subrahmanyam well leg-before to trigger strokes all over the park. lucky to survive when a the other hand – will look Mitchell Starc.
HYDERABAD celebrations in the stands SRH skipper Pat Cum- slash off the first ball of the to solidify its position as a Despite Starc succumb-
and in the team’s dug out. mins’ third and fourth ov- innings from Trent Boult clear second-placed team ing to the price-tag pres-
Bhuvneshwar Kumar Earlier, Bhuvneshwar ers, during which he just flew past Parag at back- with its seventh win of the sure, Rohit’s woes against
turned out to be the hero, produced a dream first ov- picked up the wickets of ward point. season. left-arm pace have come to
striking the big blows er, sending back Impact Parag and Dhruv Jurel Soon the left-hander The only solace that the fore repeatedly this
when it mattered most, to Player Jos Buttler and San- without being expensive, switched gears, and in the Hardik Pandya and Co. will season.
help Sunrisers Hyderabad ju Samson for ducks to put the home team back in company of the free-strok- have is the Knight Riders’ Rohit and Ishan Kishan
pull off a sensational one- make an early dent to the hunt. ing Nitish Kumar Reddy (76 poor record while bowling will have to come out all
run win over table-topper Royals’ hopes, who were Earlier, the in-form not out, 42b, 3x4, 8x6), at its den. The conditions guns blazing to match the
Rajasthan Royals, in an IPL chasing 202 for a win. opener Abhishek Sharma pulled and lofted leggie then one over extra-cover for the third wicket and an at the Wankhede and Eden onslaught of their Knight
match at the Rajiv Gandhi But the visitors stayed in and Anmolpreet Singh fell Yuzvendra Chahal for two off pacer Sandeep Sharma unbeaten 70 with Heinrich Gardens are quite similar, Riders counterparts – Sunil
Stadium here on Thursday. the hunt when the young cheaply as the home team sixes in the ninth over. to show his class. Klaasen (42 not out, 19b, with flat decks, short boun- Narine and Phil Salt – who
With 13 runs needed off guns Yashasvi Jaiswal (67, scored just 37 for two in Later, Nitish hit two Nitish’s two crucial 3x4, 3x6) — saw Sunrisers daries and dew making life have been taking virtually
the last over bowled by 40b, 7x4, 2x6) and Riyan the PowerPlay against a huge sixes and a four in stands — 96 (57 balls) with come back strongly and miserable for bowlers with every opposition attack to
Bhuvneshwar, the match Parag (77, 49b, 8x4, 4x6) disciplined Royals bowling Chahal’s third over and Head (58, 44b, 6x4, 3x6) breach the 200-run mark. every passing over. pieces.
We were muddled and inaccurate Super Kings, blowing hot and cold,
with bat and ball, says Fleming face a steep climb to the playoffs
S. Dipak Ragav batting order reflected the
CHENNAI confused thinking. After
losing Shivam Dube in the
At the core of Chennai Sup- ninth over, the team pro-
er Kings’ metronomic con- moted Ravindra Jadeja to
sistency in the IPL has been four despite having Moeen
its ability to have a clear Ali, who can be aggressive
game-plan and stick to it, against pace and spin. Jade-
even in the face of adversi- ja also struggled at number
ty, and not be reactive. But four in the home match
the team’s journey in 2024 against LSG, coming ahead
has been anything but that. of Dube. The all-rounder
CSK has blown hot and has often been more effec-
cold, unable to string to- In hot water: CSK has deviated from its philosophy and struggled. tive when coming lower
gether a series of good re- S.R. RAGHUNATHAN down toward the final
sults. When it wins, it dom- phase of the innings. Mitch-
inates the tie from start to er to qualifying when they dited for reviving Shivam ell, who finally found form
finish. But at the same had three successive Dube’s career by providing at number three in the pre-
Dube. S.R. RAGHUNATHAN time, it has meekly surren- matches at home. Howev- clarity on his role, the same vious game, was shunted
dered in defeats and ap- er, the five-time winner lost cannot be said for some down.
Sankar Narayanan E.H. Punjab Kings. turn the ball.” much over. We have an as- peared to be behind the the plot with two defeats others this year. It has The team has also unde-
CHENNAI “They got good pur- He also backed Ajinkya sessment period which we eight-ball throughout, and will need to get its act struggled to get its combi- rutilised Moeen, wasting an
chase and we just got sti- Rahane’s timid approach want those two (openers) showing it has been out- together in the remaining nation right, from bench- overseas slot on a player
Chennai Super Kings fled through the middle in the PowerPlay. to do. So, we’re fine with played. After its fifth defeat four fixtures. ing Rachin Ravindra after a who is not getting a chance
coach Stephen Fleming overs… we were muddled “I thought he was good. the role Rahane plays,” of the campaign — and the For a team famed for its few quiet outings to persist- to make a mark with bat or
said the pitch getting ea- and inaccurate with bat He was probably too ag- Fleming added. fifth straight reverse philosophy of consistency ing with an underperform- ball. Going forward, CSK
sier to bat in the second in- and ball,” Fleming said on gressive in terms of what PBKS batter Rilee Ros- against Punjab Kings — on in selection and playing to ing Ajinkya Rahane. can ill-afford to waste re-
nings and the rival spin- Wednesday. he was trying to do. We souw lauded skipper Sam Wednesday, the defending its strengths, it has deviat- The outfit has also been sources and need to quick-
ners winning the “Every match we played have to pause to see what a Curran’s brave call to give champion faces a steep ed from this philosophy unable to identify the right ly identify its core group if
middle-overs battle in the has been wet. Our spin- good score is. the penultimate over to climb to make the playoffs. and struggled to nail its slots for Daryl Mitchell and it hopes to get its title de-
first essay proved crucial ners have had no impact “If you’re three for 30 leg-spinner Rahul Chahar Super Kings had a gol- combination. Moeen Ali. fence campaign back on
in his side’s heavy loss to because they could not then the game is pretty with M.S. Dhoni on strike. den chance of getting clos- While CSK has been cre- Against PBKS, the team’s track.
CM M ND-NDE
YK
THE HINDU
18 Friday, May 3, 2024
Sport Delhi
Good, but...Though proving his worth as a ‘designated’ finisher, T20 WORLD CUP
Rinku does not find a place in the World Cup squad. FILE PHOTO India captain Rohit Shar-
Amol Karhadkar ma has revealed that
MUMBAI Washington Sundar and R.
O
the last slot of a fourth
fining aspects of spinner before zeroing in
nothing wrong’ India’s squad for
the T20 World Cup is the
inclusion of four spinners
on Axar Patel’s all-round
skills.
“We discussed it a lot,
Amol Karhadkar est thing that we had to dis- and just three specialist whether to have an off-
MUMBAI cuss, frankly. He has done pacers. India captain Rohit spinner or not. Unfortu- Samson. PTI
nothing wrong, nor has Sharma has owned up to nately Washi hasn’t played
His family was ready to Shubman Gill, for that mat- the change in strategy, a lot of cricket lately, thanks to his consistent
burst firecrackers. But, it ter. It’s the combinations. stressing that he sought hasn’t been getting an op- outing in the IPL.
was not to be. We are not quite sure what four spinners to the selec- portunity and it was then Chief selector Ajit Agar-
Instead of celebrating conditions we’ll get, so we tors, anticipating slower between Ash and Axar,” kar has explained the ra-
their son’s selection for the wanted to try and have conditions in the West In- Rohit said here on tionale behind preferring
T20 World Cup, Rinku enough options,” Agarkar dies and the USA. Thursday. Samson as the second
Singh’s parents were sur- said here on Thursday. “I definitely wanted four wicketkeeper in place of
prised at his omission from “There are a couple of spinners. We have played a Axar bowling well K.L. Rahul. According to
India’s provisional squad. spinners (Chahal and Kul- lot of cricket there. We “Ashwin hasn’t played the
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Agarkar, Rahul’s prefe-
Since his debut for India deep) that were included in know what the conditions format (T20Is) lately as rence to bat as an opener
in the shortest format in the squad to give Rohit are like. The match starts Inside view: Rohit and Agarkar reveal the thinking behind selecting the squad for the marquee event. well for a long time. Axar went against him.
August last year, Rinku, a more options. It’s just un- at probably 10-10.30 in the EMMANUAL YOGINI was in real good form “KL is a terrific player.
‘designated finisher’, has fortunate. I don’t think it’s morning, so there is a little since 50-over World Cup We were looking at some-
been dismissed only four anything to do with Rinku bit of technical aspect in- can bat — Axar (Patel) and the T20Is since India’s was a bit of challenge to when he played that five- one who bats in the mid-
times in the 11 innings he Singh.” volved in this. I wanted Jaddu (Ravindra Jadeja) — semifinal exit from the not get swayed by indivi- match series against Aus- dle. At the moment, he is
has batted in the National “It’s not his fault that he four spinners for sure, and and then the two attacking 2022 edition, the think- dual performances in the tralia. He was the player of batting at the top,” Agar-
blues. Despite emerging as has missed out. It’s the 15 — three seamers and Hardik spinners, Kuldeep (Yadav) tank preferred to include IPL while finalising the the series, so he has been kar said.
a reliable finisher, Rinku with two keepers who are (Pandya) being the fourth and (Yuzvendra) Chahal, three specialist pacers in combination. bowling well.
has been overlooked with both terrific batters and an one,” Rohit said, with chief give you a little bit of ba- the XI. “We had a fair idea of “He has been bowling Batting down the order
the selectors preferring to extra batter sitting out, selector Ajit Agarkar seat- lance in your spin depart- “Based on the opposi- what we were looking for. well in the format and has “Sanju, we like to believe,
add all-rounders Axar Patel whoever doesn’t play — that ed next to him, in a media ment as well.” tion composition and con- In IPL, you keep track of done well for India. We has the ability to come
and Shivam Dube. As a re- gives us the best balance. interaction at the BCCI Ever since the ploy of ditions, we can decide who fitness levels of players, considered all of it and down the order, if need
sult, the left-hander has to We thought another bow- headquarters here on going in with four spinners to play. There is a good but if you start getting that left-handed option, if be. Rishabh (Pant) is bat-
be content as a travelling ling option might be handy Thursday. failed miserably during the chance Kuldeep and Cha- swayed by three-four we have to send someone ting down the order for
reserve. going forward in the tour- T20 World Cup in 2021, In- hal can play together. weeks of cricket, there is in the middle to do so- Delhi Capitals.
Ajit Agarkar, the chair- nament. He is still one of Getting the balance dia has relied on playing There is a good chance something wrong in your mething different.” It’s about the slots we
man of the national selec- the travelling subs. That’s “You get that balance of three specialist pacers both left-arm spinners can thinking. Besides Axar’s addition needed. We felt these two
tion panel, admitted it was how close he was. It’s a lit- seamers as well, and then, along with Hardik, the all- play along with Kuldeep or “All performances are as the fourth spin-bowling are better and have spent
a harsh call without the tle bit tough on him, but at you know, the spinners as rounder, in a majority of Chahal, so all sorts of noticed and it will help us option, the selectors final- more time down the order
player’s fault. the end of the day, you can well. Obviously, two spin- T20Is. Even when Hardik things are possible.” in the future anyway,” ly gave Sanju Samson the which might be needed at
“It’s probably the tough- only pick 15.” Agarkar said. ners being all-rounders was the captain for most of Agarkar admitted that it Agarkar said. nod for a World event, the World Cup.”
A fit Hardik gives the balance the team needs: Agarkar South Africa women
Sports Bureau he gives the team. I don’t rience. Earlier in my life as
to tour India
MUMBAI think there is a replace- well, I have played under a Lavanya L South Africa’s third ever.
ment for the things that he lot of captains. It’s nothing CHENNAI The T20Is are likely to be
Hardik Pandya’s indiffe- “It’s part of life. Not can do as a cricketer at the new to me. You go by wha- staged on July 5, 7 and 9.
rent form in the Indian Pre- everything will go your moment, especially when tever is required from you The Indian women’s team
mier League has not led to it comes to the way he as a player,” Rohit said. An official confirmation
way. It’s been a good will host the Laura Wol- of the tour is awaited from
the national selection pa- experience. Earlier in my bowls. It really gives ba- Stressing that Virat Koh- vaardt-led South African
nel and the India team lance. li’s strike rate has never the Board of Control for
life as well, I have played team in a multi-format se- Cricket in India (BCCI).
management changing its “He will give Rohit op- been discussed by the se- ries in June-July 2024.
approach towards the all- under a lot of captains. tions to play different com- lection committee, Agar-
It’s nothing new to me.”— The ODI leg of the se- Second women’s Test
rounder. Not only has binations, so his fitness for kar added that Rohit taking
Rohit Sharma ries will be held in Benga- Chennai will be hosting a
Hardik been appointed us is critical. So far, fortu- over the India captaincy
luru at the M. Chinnaswa- women’s Test for the se-
as Rohit Sharma’s deputy nately, he has gone okay in from Hardik will not be a
have got another month my Stadium while cond time after November
for India’s T20 World Cup this IPL.” bone of contention.
and a little bit till we play Chennai’s M.A. Chidamba- 1976 when India took on
sojourn but Ajit Agarkar, Captain Rohit Sharma “As selectors, you want
our first game, so we know ram Stadium will be the the West Indies. The
the chief selector, has played down the fact that a leader. Rohit has been a
he is doing that and the venue for the one-off Test match ended in a draw.
stressed there is no re- he will lead Hardik days af- terrific leader. I know Har-
hope is that he keeps build- and three T20Is.
placement for him. ter playing under his cap- dik had been leading in a After the South Africa
“He has come after a ing on that form,” Agarkar taincy in the Indian Pre- few series before (the ODI The Test has reportedly series, India will head to
longish lay-off. The good said here on Thursday. mier League. World Cup). Rohit’s form been scheduled from June the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka
part that we have looked at “So as long as he stays “It’s part of life. Not eve- in the World Cup... Rohit’s 28. and the T20 World Cup in
Complete backing: Agarkar and skipper Rohit are confident Hardik is he has gotten through all fit, we know what he rything will go your way. a great player. It’s not as if It will be India’s third Bangladesh in September-
can things turn around at the T20 WC. EMMANUAL YOGINI the games so far and we brings, how much balance It’s been a good expe- it’s forced on us,” he said. Test in six months and October.
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All-rounder Saad Bin Zafar to
lead Canada in T20 World Cup
Press Trust of India mostly of Indian and Pakis- (capt.), Aaron Johnson, Dilon
TORONTO tan origin players, is in Heyliger, Dilpreet Bajwa, Harsh
Group A alongside co-hosts Thaker, Jeremy Gordon, Junaid
Canada will make its mai- USA, India, Pakistan and Siddiqui, Kaleem Sana, Kanwarpal
Tathgur (wk), Navneet Dhaliwal,
den appearance in the T20 Ireland.
Nicholas Kirton, Pargat Singh,
World Cup with all-roun- Canada will play its first Ravinderpal Singh, Rayyankhan
der Saad Bin Zafar, a player match against USA in Dal- Pathan, Shreyas Movva (wk).
of Pakistan origin, set to las on June 1. Reserves: Tajinder Singh, Aaditya
Alcaraz loses to Rublev, lead the side.
The team, comprising The squad: Saad Bin Zafar
Varadharajan, Ammar Khalid,
Jatinder Matharu, Parveen Kumar.
Sabalenka breezes through
Carlos Alcaraz's bid to win a third straight Madrid
Open title ended with a three-set loss to Andrey
Rublev in the quarterfinals. The second-seeded NEW DELHI ROUND-UP
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outplayed by the seventh-seeded Rublev, losing Quick-fire century by 158 runs in the Late Shri Sports Gold Cup T20
4-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday. Defending champion Nikhil Ratan Singh memorial tournament.
Aryna Sabalenka defeated 17-year-old Mirra
Andreeva 6-1, 6-4 win in Wednesday's
quarterfinals. Sabalenka will next play
fourth-seeded Elena Rybakina, who saved two
Feisty Dortmund Nikhil Chandel’s 62-ball
100 and Pratham’s 58 saw
Rajinder Nagar Colts beat
Kishan Ganj Colts by six
tournament.
The scores:
Ravi Brothers 328/6 in 40 overs
(Yugal Saini 180 n.o., Pranav
The scores:
Khurrat XI 86 in 13 overs (Harish
Dagar 5/10, Keshav Dua 3/13) lost
to DCH 87/2 in 10 overs (Harish
outmuscles PSG
match points en route to a 4-6, 7-6(4), 7-5 win wickets in the DDCA Rajvanshi 67, Karan Sharma 3/78)
Dagar 39).
over Yulia Putintseva. bt GNCC Seniors 170 in 32 overs.
League.
The scores:
Delhi Challenger in Sanat shines
Kishan Ganj Colts 250 in 39 overs
(Lakshay Rawat 105, Karan semifinals Sanat Sangwan top-scored
The win ensures that the Bundesliga will have five teams next season; Pangeni 3/36) lost to Rajinder Half-centuries by Tarun with 92 and Neelmani
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Mbappe & Hakimi hit the post while Dembele blazes over 38 as Bhawani Youth
team in T20 World Cup (Nikhil Chandel 100, Pratham 58).
Delhi Police Club 304/8 in 40
Bhagmender Lather and
three wickets each by Academy (BYA) beat 22
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Indian dairy giant Amul will sponsor the USA row advantage before the ly in the second half, when Sharma 60 n.o., Harsh 4/31) lost
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Delhi Challenger Club beat wickets in the DDA Saket
cricket team in the T20 World Cup in June, the teams play again in the se- Mbappe hit the right post to Golden Hawks 307/5 in 37
Victory Club by two tournament.
country’s cricket Board announced on Thursday. cond leg in Paris next Tues- before Achraf Hakimi overs (Ankit Kumar 110, Keshav
USA will make its tournament debut as co-host of Associated Press day, when the French struck the left post. Dabas 79 n.o., Kunal Sharma 56
wickets to enter the The scores:
the tournament beginning on June 1. Part of the DORTMUND champion will need to n.o.). semifinals of the 39th 22 Yard Academy 172/9 in 20
Gregor Kobel saved
tournament, including the semifinals and finals, overturn the result if it’s Ajmal Khan Club 350/5 in 40 all-India Laxman Das overs (Shaurya Verma 37,
Mbappe’s next effort and
will take place in the Caribbean. Amul was iclas Fullkrug going to capture Europe’s overs (Aman Tyagi 128) lost to Chabra tournament. Neelmani Kumar 4/38, C.K. Yadav
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Dortmund survived the
named the Lead Arm sponsor of the USA scored and Borus- biggest prize before Kylian Pelican 351/4 in 37 overs (Bhavya The scores: 3/19) lost to BYA 176/8 in 19 overs
pressure.
Mbappe leaves the club. Tiwari 102, Gautam Kohar 80 n.o., Victory 300/8 in 40 overs (Gaurav (Sanat Sangwan 92, Shivam 30).
national team at an event in New York. sia Dortmund Fullkrug went on to Parv Singh 65, Pragan Sharma Coacher 105, Tanuj Pawar 49,
earned a 1-0 win over Paris PSG is under pressure to miss further good chances 54). Arun Legha 48, Ayachi 3/45, Tarun Krishankant makes 112
Saint-Germain in the first finally win to the Cham- for the German team, Yadav 3/60) lost to Delhi
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쑽 Salima to lead as Hockey India names
24-member squad for FIH Pro League
Indian women to play 10 games in Belgium and England; coach Harendra is yet to make an official statement since his appointment last month
ya, Monika and Neha matches. India is also the Coach Harendra is yet
FIH PRO LEAGUE Goyal are part of the only team in the fray to to make an official state-
squad, clearly indicating not qualify for the Paris ment or comment since
Momota bows out of Uthra Ganesan
NEW DELHI
that Hockey India (HI) and
coach Harendra Singh are
Olympics. his appointment last
month while HI too hasn’t
international competition looking forward to long- Big responsibility made any formal announ-
he passing of baton term leadership while re- “I am happy that I have cement of the same so far.
Two-time World champion Kento Momota bowed
out of international badminton on Thursday
without hitting a shuttlecock, after his Japan side
T in the Indian wo-
men’s hockey team
seems officially on course
taining experience in the
ranks.
India will play Argenti-
been appointed to lead the
team. It is a big responsi-
bility and I am looking for-
The squad: Goalkeepers:
Savita, Bichu Devi Kharibam.
Defenders: Nikki Pradhan, Udita,
lost to Malaysia in the Thomas Cup quarterfinals. with youngster Salima na, Belgium, Spain, Great ward to this new role. We
Ishika Chaudhary, Monika, Jyoti
The Japanese, who was badly injured after a Tete handed captaincy for Britain and Germany have a strong squad and
Chhatri, Mahima Chaudhary.
horrific car accident in 2020, returned after a the upcoming European twice each across Belgium it’s a mix of experienced
Midfielders: Salima Tete (capt.),
year but suffered double vision. He failed to leg of the FIH Pro League and England, starting May and young players.
Vaishnavi Vitthal Phalke, Navneet
regain his form although he did win two more 2023-24 and Navneet Kaur 22 and ending on June 9. “In the upcoming Belgi- Kaur, Neha, Jyoti, Baljeet Kaur,
titles. Now ranked 52 and having missed out on a named her deputy as the um and England legs of Manisha Chauhan, Lalremsiami.
place at the Paris Olympics, he said last month he 24-member squad was an- Sixth in standings the FIH Hockey Pro Forwards: Mumtaz Khan,
would retire after playing at Thomas Cup. nounced on Thursday. The Indian women are League 2023-2024, we Sangita Kumari, Deepika,
Interestingly, long-serv- currently sixth in the nine- look to put our strong foot Sharmila Devi, Preeti Dubey,
ing captain Savita and se- team competition with forward,” the 22-year old Vandana Katariya, Sunelita
niors like Vandana Katari- eight points from eight Salima said. Toppo, Deepika Soreng. At the helm: Salima Tete. FILE PHOTO
Parma returns to Serie A after
three-year absence
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Parma made sure of promotion to Italy’s Serie A
on Wednesday after three years in the second
Three Indians make Prarthana and Arianne enter Woods targets
playing three
division following a 1-1 draw with Bari. With two
games still to play, Parma has 74 points, seven
more than Venezia in third place. Parma is likely
the semifinals Gifu ITF quarterfinals Majors in next
to be joined in the top flight by second-placed
Como. kush (71kg) won their res- Challenger, Cagliari, Italy: bt Vaishnavi & Camilla Bossi 0-6,
three months
BOXING pective bouts with RSC de- TENNIS Doubles: Pre-quarterfinals: 6-4, [10-8].
cisions against Mongolia’s Sriram Balaji & Andre Begemann Aaddi Gupta & Sara Lanca w/o Agence France-Presse
bt Luciano Darderi & Thiago Lamis Aziz & Patricija Paukstyte.
Sports Bureau Damdindorj P. and Korea’s Sports Bureau NEW YORK
Tirante 4-6, 6-3, [10-4]; Yuki $100,000 ITF women, Bonita
Premier League misses out on Mandengbam Jadumani
Lee Ju Sang respectively.
Ashish, however, went Prarthana Thombare and
Bhambri & Francisco Cabral bt Springs, USA: First round:
Tiger Woods still hopes to
Niccolo Dessi & Alberto Sanna Fanny Stollar bt Sahaja
fifth Champions League spot Singh, Nikhil, Ajay Kumar down 2-3 to Oyun Erdene Arianne Hartono saved 7-5, 6-0. Yamalapalli 6-3, 6-0. play one tournament a
and Ankush registered im- E of Mongolia in the 54kg two match points to beat $82,000 Challenger, $100,000 ITF women, Gifu, month for the rest of the
The Premier League has missed out on a fifth pressive victories to move category. Ma YeXin and Mananchana Guangzhou: Doubles: Japan: Doubles: year, despite his physical
Champions League spot for next season to the into the men’s under-22 On Wednesday night, Sawangkaew in the dou- Quarterfinals: Calum Puttergill Pre-quarterfinals: Rutuja limitations in the wake of a
Bundesliga after the poor performance of English semifinals at the ASBC Aryan (92kg), Nisha bles pre-quarterfinals of & Reese Stadler bt Ray Ho & Bhosale & Sarah Grey bt Natsumi 2021 car crash.
clubs in Europe. One club from each of the two Asian Under-22 & Youth (52kg), Akansha Phalaswal the $100,000 ITF women’s Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4, 6-3. Kawaguchi & Park Sohyun 5-7, “I have the next three
countries who collectively perform best in Boxing Championships (70kg) and Rudrika (75kg) tennis in Gifu, Japan, on $15,000 ITF, Monastir: Men: 6-0, [10-6]. months — three Majors —
European club competition this season is granted 2024 in Astana on won their respective quar- Thursday. Pre-quarterfinals: Karan Singh Arianne Hartono & Prarthana and hopefully that works
bt Kacper Szymkowiak 6-2, 4-2 Thombare bt Ma YeXin &
an additional place in the new-look 36-team Thursday. terfinals in the youth cate- Rutuja Bhosale and Sa- out,” Woods said in an in-
(retired). Mananchaya Sawangkaew 6-7(1),
league phase being introduced for the 2024/25 Jadumani won 5-0 gory. rah Grey also advances in terview on NBC’s “Today”
Women: Pre-quarterfinals: 6-4, [13-11].
season. No matter what Aston Villa does in the against Bhutan’s Phuntsho Twenty-two Indians the same tournament Vaishnavi Adkar bt Zeel Desai 6-4,
show on Wednesday.
$25,000 ITF women,
Europa Conference League, England cannot Kinley in the 51kg while will be vying for a place in when they got the better of 6-0. Hammamet, Tunisia: Doubles: Woods indicated he was
secure an extra berth. Villa must now hold on to Nikhil (57kg) won 4-0 the finals of their respec- Natsumi Kawaguchi and Doubles: Quarterfinals: Quarterfinals: Jasmijn looking forward to tackling
fourth spot in the Premier League to qualify for against Uzbekistan’s Bak- tive weight categories in Park Sohyun. Dayeon Back & Zeel Desai bt Ahn Gimbrere & Zhibek Kulambayeva the PGA Championship at
the Champions League. They are seven points htiyorov Ayubkhon. the youth section on Fri- Yujin & Lee Gyeong Seo 6-3, 6-1; bt Diva Bhatia & Sophia Valhalla on May 16, and the
ahead of Tottenham. Ajay (63.5kg) and An- day. The results: €205,000 Hiromi Abe & Natsuho Arakawa Ksandinov 6-0, 6-0. US Open in June.
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It so happens that an unsolved problem in visuals of adults spewing white smoke
computer science, simply called the P from their mouth and nose. What the
versus NP problem, could hold the key to child said was garbled but it was soon
these modern-day conundra. While it may apparent the child had consumed a food
sound like a cryptic puzzle reserved for item infused with liquid nitrogen.
computer science mavens, its Television channels and online media
implications stretch beyond algorithms took up the issue. The Tamil Nadu
and data structures, rippling through government issued an advisory banning
diverse fields including healthcare. But the use of liquid nitrogen in food and
what exactly is this puzzle, and how could warned of stringent action against
its resolution unlock a new era in medical violators.
science? In 1991, The Hindu reported that a
Let’s start with a simple arithmetic London-based company developed a
example. Say you’re asked to multiply 17 system to improve the quality and shelf
with 19. With some time, you’d arrive at life of food by introducing droplets of
the answer: 323. This is a ‘P’ problem: you liquid nitrogen in the packaging. When
can solve it reasonably quickly. (‘P’ stands nitrogen evaporates, it displaces oxygen
for polynomial time.) Suppose you’re in the food pack, preventing microbial
presented with 323 and asked to identify action and preserving freshness.
the two prime numbers multiplied to get Healthcare is filled with complex issues like assigning doctors and nurses to shifts, booking operating theatres for surgeries, and organising patient The technique was useful in packing
this. In this case, you will have to take the appointments. GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO coffee, potato crisps, peanuts and peanut
trial and error route until you arrive at 17 butter, milk products, cheese, and dried
and 19. This is an ‘NP’ problem: it takes emerging diseases. Of course, patients’ and algorithms rely on problems that are potatoes, the article said.
longer to solve, but once you have the adherence will still matter. currently hard to solve, believed to be in As with every novelty, some chefs also
solution, you can verify it quickly. (‘NP’ Cancer is a complex disease with the set of ‘NP’, not ‘P’ problems. That is, experimented with liquid nitrogen to
here is nondeterministic polynomial myriad mutations. Deciding the best If P equals NP, we may have a way to these schemes protect secrets by hiding make food more interesting. In 2016, a
time.) treatment plan is an NP problem because quickly analyse bacterial genomes and them behind a problem that is very hard few upmarket restaurants and eateries in
Healthcare is filled with complex it involves considering all possible predict their resistance patterns, to solve but easy to verify. If P equals NP, Chennai and elsewhere used it to entice
issues. Consider scheduling in a hospital: combinations of drugs and therapies. If P these problems will become easy to solve, customers.
helping doctors prescribe the most
assigning doctors and nurses to shifts, equals NP, we may have an opportunity to rendering these encryption schemes But in August 2017, the then Union
booking operating theatres for surgeries, swiftly identify the optimal treatment for effective antibiotics. This would vulnerable to attacks and compromising Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan said
and organising patient appointments. It is each individual cancer patient and improve patient outcomes and combat digital security. in Rajya Sabha the government would
an intricate puzzle that requires potentially save many lives. The catch antibiotic resistance This said, healthcare isn’t the sole investigate the addition of liquid nitrogen
considering various factors — staff here is that we will still need a large beneficiary of this problem-solving. The
availability, urgency of medical cases, etc. volume of data. barrier that the P vs NP problem stands The Tamil Nadu Food Safety
— and potential changes such as Insurance companies grapple with NP of which they have unearthed for encompasses every field where the Department has issued a circular
emergency cases and cancellations. problems when they have to determine improvements to algorithms and new solution to a problem is blocked by the on the use of liquid nitrogen
The P vs NP question is this: could premiums and packages based on approaches to dealing with complex availability of significant computational
saying the substance can only be
there be a shortcut to solve ‘NP’ problems considering numerous variables like age, problems. resources. So these fields include
as quickly as ‘P’ problems? Because the health status, lifestyle, and medical Throughout history, there have been logistics, finance, and even climate used to preserve packaged food
implication is that if P equals NP, we could history. Having a shortcut to crack the P many instances of seemingly modelling, all of which could experience
quickly find the optimal solution to these vs NP problem could help these insurmountable problems being paradigm shifts if the P vs NP problem is in food and drinks served in some
scheduling problems, thus significantly companies optimise their overcome with innovative thinking. solved in favour of the P = NP outcome. restaurants.
improving patient care. decision-making and pave the way to Before the discovery of electricity, for The Clay Mathematics Institute in Six months ago, in Tiruchirappalli, a
The implications of resolving this fairer and more accurate premiums and example, candlemakers lit our world. Yet Colorado continues to offer a million vendor’s shop was sealed after authorities
question are profound and wide-reaching, conditions. Further, government most of them may never have foreseen dollars to anyone who can definitively found liquid nitrogen in food, the city’s
including for healthcare. spending on healthcare can also be the revolutionary consequences of solve the P vs NP problem. But for anyone designated food safety officer said.
utilised with minimal leakage while Thomas Edison’s incandescent bulb, who does, a million dollars will pale in “Liquid nitrogen, an inert, colourless,
Implications for healthcare programmes like Ayushman Bharat can which brought light to more people and comparison to the rewards they stand to odourless cryogenic fluid has traditionally
The P vs NP question is a problem in contribute more effectively to achieving for longer hours. collect by revolutionising various human been used in the management of many
mathematics and computer science, but universal health coverage. Similarly, following the invention of enterprises, potentially driving human benign pre-cancers and cancers since the
that does not mean it will be confined By solving these complex problems calculus and expanding the binomial progress in unimaginable ways. 1960s,” Arvind Krishnamurthy, professor
there. If an existing problem can be given more efficiently, we could potentially theorem to negative integers and As we look to the future, let us and head of surgical oncology at the
a faithful mathematical representation dramatically reduce resource constraints fractions, Isaac Newton considerably remember that problems that seem Adyar Cancer Institute, said. “This form
and is found to be an ‘NP’ problem, the and improve health outcomes. improved our understanding of the insurmountable today might not be so of treatment is generally used to manage
shortcut in question could help by irrational number pi. Why, the technology tomorrow. As with the candlemakers, the cancers wherein conventional surgery is
turning it into a ‘P’ problem. Surprising sources of progress giant Apple has been transforming our watchmakers, and even Anton van not possible or can be used as an adjunct
For example, antibiotic resistance is a While the P vs NP problem is a topic of expectations of what a watch can be Leeuwenhoek, the solution often comes to conventional surgery.”
significant global health concern. If P ongoing study in computer science, the expected to do in ways that Swiss from where we least expect it. Today’s The procedure involves using the
equals NP, we may have a way to quickly consensus among most experts is that P watchmakers may never have anticipated. brightest minds grappling with the P vs element at a frosty -196 degrees C to
analyse bacterial genomes and predict probably does not equal NP, implying that NP problem may be on the brink of a freeze and destroy cancer cells. “The
their resistance patterns, helping doctors some problems will remain very difficult Not all will be winners breakthrough that could redefine treatment is scientifically described as
prescribe the most effective antibiotics. to crack, even if a solution — once it is This said, one potential drawback of P healthcare as we know it. cryotherapy. It can also be used to obtain
This would improve patient outcomes found — will be easier to verify. But this being equal to NP, if ever that outcome (Dr C. Aravinda is a public health biopsies from cancer tissues for further
and help combat antibiotic resistance, has not deterred researchers from comes to pass, lies in the realm of physician and student at IIT Madras molecular analysis. Another application is
including new antibiotics discoveries for exploring this question, and in the pursuit cryptography. Many encryption schemes pursuing a BS degree in data science.) to use it as cryo-adhesion to remove
foreign bodies,” he explained.
Cryotherapy has been attempted to
treat many cancers, including those of
skin, bone, breast, cervical, eye, kidney,
Please send in your answers to liver, lung, and prostate.
THE SCIENCE QUIZ science@thehindu.co.in “Liquid nitrogen should be handled by
trained professionals with proper
protective gear, preferably in a controlled
lab or industry, as improper handling or
Revisiting malaria and its unique challenges consumption of liquid nitrogen can cause
severe damage to the skin, mucous
membranes, and internal organs,” the
Saumya Kalia speed up malaria Answers to May 1 quiz: surgeon said.
transmission. Identify the 1. Line beyond which human A day after the viral video, the Tamil
X cheapest and most-used activity is astronautic – Ans: Nadu Food Safety Department cited the
QUESTION 1 antimalarial drug to which Karman line Food Safety and Standards Regulations,
Malaria is caused by parasites mosquitoes have become 2. Line above which exposed and the Drug Administration department
transmitted through the bite resistant over time. water boils away – Ans: issued a circular on the use of liquid
of this category of emale X Armstrong line nitrogen saying the substance can only be
mosquito, discovered in 1897 QUESTION 4 3. Conditions in which water used to preserve packaged food.
by a British doctor. Name the vapour bubbles accumulate The department also warned of
This country made history in
mosquito and the doctor. in body’s fluids – Ans: stringent action, including fines and legal
2024 by launching the world’s
X
Ebullism proceedings, if it is used for other
first malaria vaccine as part
QUESTION 2 purposes.
of its immunisation 4. Entity of which around 1%
Which country contributes to (sujatha.r@thehindu.co.in)
programme. Name the is lost in every month in
more than half of the malaria
country and the vaccine. space – Ans: Bone
cases in the World Health
Organisation’s administrative X 5. Terrestrial counterpart of
Southeast Asia region? QUESTION 5 space adaptation syndrome –
X Which vaccine manufacturer Ans: Motion sickness For feedback and suggestions
QUESTION 3 has currently established Visual: Gemini 11 for ‘Science’, please write to
Global warming, population production capacity for the First contact: Vijayram X science@thehindu.co.in with the
displacement, and insecticide second malaria vaccine, Ganasala | ViswanadhaRao Visual: This chemist in 1939 identified the insecticidal properties of DDT, an achievement subject ‘Daily page’
resistance are expected to called R21/Matrix M? Batchu | Shiva Nigam that later won him a Nobel Prize. Name him. PUBLIC DOMAIN
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