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Cabinet clears
plan to fail kids
in classes V, VIII
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Union Ca-
binet approved the scrap-
ping of the no-detention po-
licy in schools till Class VIII
on Wednesday. It also appro-
ved the HRD ministry’s plan
to create 20 world-class insti-
tutions in the country.
An enabling provision
will be made in the Right of
Children for Free and Com-
pulsory Education amend-
ment Bill to allow states to
hold back students in Class
V and Class VIII if they fail
in the year-end exam. But
they will get a chance to take
another exam and pass. The
bill will now be placed in
Parliament for approval.
Under the present provision
of RTE Act, students are
promoted automatically to
higher classes till class VIII.
This is one of the key com-
ponent of RTE Act which ca-
me into force on April 1, 2010.
Nod for 20 varsities, P 8
Former minister
S M Dev dead
V eteran Congress leader
and former Union mini-
ster Santosh Mohan Dev di-
ed at a private nursing ho-
me in Silchar at about 6am
on Wednesday. He was 83.
Hospital sources said Dev
died of multiple organ fai-
lure. Sushmita, his young-
est daughter, is the sitting
MP from Silchar. P 9
`17k cr fine for
illegal mining
I n a major setback to mi-
ning companies which ha-
ve been illegally extracting
iron and manganese ore in
Odisha since 2001, the Su-
preme Court cracked the
whip on Wednesday and di-
rected them to pay compen-
sation of about Rs 17,576
crore, reports Amit Anand
Choudhary. P 8
‘Don’t keep tolls
inside cities’
A parliamentary panel
has recommended to
NHAI to locate toll plazas
away from cities and other
densely populated areas to
avoid congestion and pollu-
tion, reports Dipak Dash.
It also urged NHAI to install
CCTV cameras at all toll
plazas and vulnerable loca-
tions on highways. P 8
‘MSN’ is history as Neymar
goes to PSG in ¤222m deal
WORLD-RECORD MOVE
N
eymar’s Barcelona days
are over and the feared
trio of MSN (Messi, Sua-
€222m €550,000
rez, Neymar) will be history
now. Barcelona said in an offi-
cial release they are ready to
say goodbye to Neymar ahead
of his 222 million euro (£198m)
world record move to Paris Sa-
int-Germain after he missed
training on Wednesday.
Neymar was given permis-
sion directly by manager Er-
nesto Valverde to skip training
in order to say his goodbyes
and leave the club, with plans
in Paris already being put into
place to announce his arrival.
“Neymar informed those
present of his wish to leave the
club and was given permission
to miss training and resolve
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his future. The club has infor-
med them the buyout clause
in his contract is 222 million
euros and must be paid in
full,” a statement said. The fee
would smash the current re-
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I-T raids on Cong K’taka mantri Loans set to be cheaper as
RBI
trigger political war with govt Repo Now At
Sparks Fly In SHIVAKUMAR KEPT GUJ FLOCK INTACT BJP, too, opposes
Parl, Cong MPs ➤ I-T raids Karnataka energy minister
D K Shivakumar, who is managing the Gujarat
Walk Out Of LS
Congress MLAs holed up at a Bengaluru resort
➤ Shivakumar is the second-richest minister
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi/Bengaluru: In-
come tax searches on Karna-
taka minister D K Shivaku-
mar on Wednesday morning
sparked a fierce political row
with the Congress accusing
the Centre of using state
agencies to harass opponents
FULL COVERAGE: P 12
and the government hitting
back, saying tax evaders co-
uld not claim immunity.
I-T sources said as many
as 60 locations were searched
and Rs 10 crore in cash recove-
red — Rs 7.5 crore from Shiva-
kumar’s residence in Delhi’s
Safdarjung Enclave and Rs 2.5
SC for 3-tier right to privacy:
Intimate, private and public
Dhananjay.Mahapatra
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: The Supreme Co-
urt on Wednesday outlined a
three-tier, graded approach to
the question whether privacy
is a fundamental right by ex-
amining the issue through its
intimate, private and public
aspects even as it reserved its
verdict in the case.
Prior to completion of the
two-week-long hearing that
attracted arguments for and
against conferring funda-
mental right status to privacy
but which saw all parties ac-
Rare gift: Man donates
liver to save old friend
DurgeshNandan.Jha
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Puja Bhatnagar
perhaps never imagined that
friendship would save her li-
fe. After suffering chronic li-
ver disease for 17 years, the 44-
year-old woman was told by
doctors in May that medici-
nes were no longer enough.
Only a transplant would
save her. The family tried to
find a donor among relatives,
but found no one suitable. It
was then that Prasanna Gopi-
nath stepped up.
Finding a plea for help on
Bhatnagar’s Facebook page,
Gopinath flew to Delhi from
Chennai, ready to donate a
part of his liver to save her li-
fe. Crowd-funding helped col-
lect the funds and the trans-
plant was carried out on July
21 at Max Hospital in Saket.
Doctors said both the donor
and recipient are doing well
post-surgery.
The Transplant Act is
strict about non-related or-
gan donors, and the ethical
Transfer fees
6 years
Length of deal
€484m
Cost of the PSG
first XI
OTHER TOP TRANSFERS
€105m Paul Pogba (Juve to M Utd), 2016
€101m Gareth Bale (Spurs to Real), ’13
€94m C Ronaldo (M Utd to Real), ’09
€90m G Higuaín (Napoli to Juve), ’16
€84m R Lukaku (Everton to M Utd), ’17
cord 105.2 million euros Man-
chester United had paid for
Paul Pogba last year.
Neymar has formed one of
the deadliest strike partners-
hips in history with Messi and
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softens
stand, cuts rate
NOTA in Guj RS poll
E ven as BJP and Congress
have locked horns on
various fronts, the two
in the country with assets worth 251 crore
➤ 60 locations searched, 10cr cash
recovered: 7.5cr in Delhi & 2.5cr in B’luru
➤ Cong accuses Centre of using state
agencies to harass opponents. Jaitley says
raids were against the minister, not Guj MLAs
BJP is on an unprecedented witch-hunt just to
win one Rajya Sabha seat
D K SHIVAKUMAR: CONGRESS’ GO-TO MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, P 12
crore from Bengaluru — whi-
le the sleuths are going thro-
ugh documents recovered.
The government denied
initial reports that the raid
was aimed at Eagleton Resort
near Bengaluru where Cong-
ress MLAs from Gujarat have
been lodged to prevent them
THE THREE ZONES
1 Intimate: Concerns marriage,
sexuality, relation with family
No intrusion except in
extraordinary circumstances
2
Private: Involves parting
of personal data by use of
credit card, social network
platforms, I-T declarations
The data collected can be used
cepting its intrinsic impor-
tance for an individual, a ni-
ne-judge bench headed by
Chief Justice J S Khehar said
privacy could be configured
into three zones.
Prasanna Gopinath donated part
of his liver to Puja Bhatnagar (R)
committee at Max scrutini-
sed the details minutely. “The
authorities considered the
strong bond of friendship bet-
ween patient and donor and
allowed the liver donation,”
disclosed Dr Subhash Gupta,
chief liver transplant surge-
on at Max Hospital.
‘Couldn’t let her die’, P 2
Salary per week
€36m
Fees PSG paying
Neymar’s dad
(he is also his agent)
Suarez over the past three sea-
sons. Together, they have won
two La Liga titles and a Cham-
pions League. Neymar has sco-
red 105 goals and provided 80
assists in 186 games. AGENCIES
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—Ahmed Patel, Cong
from switching loyalties ahe-
ad of a Rajya Sabha election
which Ahmed Patel, political
secretary to Congress chief
Sonia Gandhi, is contesting.
Six Congress MLAs have alre-
ady resigned, making Patel’s
election somewhat difficult.
Responding to Congress
only for the purpose for
which it is shared
3
Public: Requires minimal
regulation, but the right to
privacy is not surrendered
This means, even if a security
officer suspects a person is
carrying a gun, he cannot be
strip-searched in public
Justice D Y Chandrachud
set out the tentative thought
process and drew support
from Justice R F Nariman.
Service sector, P 13
Delhi records
cleanest July
in 3 years
D elhi’s air quality has im-
proved this summer
and monsoon compared to
2015 and 2016. For the first ti-
me in three years, Delhi re-
corded two “good air days”
this July, according to Air
Quality Index (AQI) data.
There were 17 days in the
“satisfactory” range and no
“poor”, “very poor” or “se-
vere days in July, according
to CPCB data. “We are expe-
riencing a good monsoon
this time and the winds are
favouring dispersion of pol-
lutants,” said Dipankar Sa-
ha of CPCB. P 3
IITs to coach
school kids to
get more girls
T he ministry of human re-
source development has
come up with a four-pronged
formula to increase the ratio
of girl students in IITs from
the current 8% to 20% by
2020-2021, reports Somdatta
Basu. The plans include get-
ting IITs to identify merito-
rious girls from Class VIII in
their respective catchment
areas and coaching and co-
unselling them as well as the-
ir parents. The ministry also
wants IITs to invite some of
these girls to take a tour of
their campuses . P 8
Man kills self
in city police
station toilet
A 32-year-old man, who
was free to leave after be-
ing questioned by police at
Jahangirpuri police sta-
tion, allegedly entered a toi-
let there and hanged him-
self on Tuesday night. Raj
Kumar had been summoned
in a case related to a missing
woman. Police said Kumar,
after the completion of the
interrogation around 10pm
on Tuesday, went to the
washroom in the staff quar-
ters and used a gamchha to
hang himself from the iron
bars on the window. P 2
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TRUMP SIGNS SANCTIONS
AGAINST RUSSIA INTO LAW,
arch-rivals are on the same
page on one issue — opposing
the “none of the above (NOTA)”
option in the August 8 Rajya
Sabha poll in Gujarat, reports
Akhilesh Singh. A BJP
delegation urged the Election
Commission to withdraw the
order for the use of NOTA. P 12
leader Anand Sharma’s char-
ge that Shivakumar had been
raided as he was hosting the
MLAs, finance minister
Arun Jaitley said the I-T ac-
tion was against the minister
and not the legislators.
‘Destroying docus’, P 12
Teen pregnancy
rate goes up
in capital
T he percentage of teenage
pregnancies has gone up
in Delhi: from 2.75 in 2015 to
3.1% in 2016, reports Dur-
gesh Nandan Jha. A shade
over three out of every 100
women who delivered kids
in 2016 were less than 19 years
old, according to govern-
ment data on births and de-
aths. Lack of education and
poor knowledge about the
use of contraceptive met-
hods were the main causes of
the increase in teenage preg-
nancies, a doctor said. The
infant mortality rate has re-
duced, but maternal morta-
lity rate has gone up. P 7
6%, Reduced
By 25 Basis Pts
Mayur.Shetty@timesgroup.com
Mumbai: Home loans and
other borrowings are set to
get cheaper with the Reserve
Bank of India’s monetary po-
licy committee (MPC) bring-
ing down its policy rate by 25
basis points on Wednesday.
Following the announce-
ment, the policy repo rate —
the rate at which RBI lends to
banks — stands reduced to
6.0% from 6.25%, the lowest
since November 2010. Conse-
quently, the reverse repo rate
— the rate at which RBI bor-
rows from banks — stands
adjusted to 5.75%.
“Recognising that infla-
tion is expected to rise from
the current lows (1.54% in Ju-
ne) over the rest of the year,
China says India out of
Doklam, govt denies
Saibal Dasgupta & Rajat Pandit
Beijing/New Delhi: India
has not pulled back troops
from the Doklam face-off
with the People’s Liberation
Army, sources said, flatly re-
jecting China’s claim that the
number of Indian soldiers at
the actual confrontation site
had gone down from 400 to
just over 40 by July-end.
The Chinese foreign mini-
stry, through a 15-page state-
ment with maps, photogra-
phs and documents on Wed-
nesday, seemed to give the im-
pression that the Doklam
crisis in Bhutanese territory,
RATE CUTS IN THE
LAST 3 YEARS
By RBI: 8%
to 6% = 2 %age
point
On home loans:
10% to 8.35% = 1.65
On loans
to industry:
10% to 9% =
1 cut” and it could have been as
the MPC persevered with the
neutral stance,” RBI gover-
nor Urjit Patel said, adding,
“Government and RBI are
working in close coordination
to resolve large stressed cor-
porate borrowers and recapi-
talise PSBs within the fiscal
deficit target.” Lowering of
the repo rate is a signal to len-
ders to bring down their rates.
‘RBI to be vigilant’, P 18
near the Sikkim-Bhutan-Ti-
bet trijunction, had finally be-
gun to de-escalate with India
backing down from the con-
frontation after 45 long days.
The statement, which ca-
me after NSA Ajit Doval re-
cently held talks with his co-
unterpart, Yang Jiechi, also
sought to drive a clear wedge
between India and Bhutan. It
said the “illegal action” by
“trespassing” Indian soldiers
“not only violated China’s
territorial sovereignty but
challenged Bhutan’s sovere-
ignty and independence”.
‘Had notified India’, P 10
Govt disappointed,
wanted deeper cut
T he finance ministry
welcomed the rate cut on
Wednesday, but there was a
sense of disappointment
within the government over
the central bank’s move to opt
for a “small cut”. Sections
with the government said with
inflation at a historic low,
there was room for a “drastic
much as 100 basis points. P 17
Re gains 38p, hits
2-year high of 63.70
T he rupee staged its best
performance in 2017, gaining
38 paise to breach the 64-level,
closing at a two-year high of
63.70 — up from Tuesday’s close
of 64.08 against the US dollar.
Dealers said that the RBI’s
observations were positive for
the currency market. P 17
Ex-Noida CEO
gets 4-year jail
in 2 land cases
T he Supreme Court up-
held on Wednesday the
conviction of former UP
chief secretary Neera Ya-
dav in the 1994 land alloca-
tion scam for illegally allo-
cating plots to herself and
her two daughters during
her tenure as chairperson
and CEO of Noida, reports
Amit Anand Choudhary.
Yadav was convicted in two
cases of illegal allotment of
plots and awarded two ye-
ars’ jail in each. The bench
said the sentences would
run consecutively, which
means Yadav has to spend
four years behind bars. P 4
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Smoke in Metro
train causes panic
K aushambi station witnessed
scenes of panic after smoke
was reportedly seen coming out
of a train. The incident occurred
on Wednesday evening when a
train coming from Dwarka
stopped at the Kaushambi
station. According to a DMRC
official, the smoke was a result
of a technical issue with the
braking system. After inspection,
the train continued its journey
towards Vaishali. TNN
STAT & THE CITY
8,607
Men above the age of 18 were
reported missing in 2015
Delhi Economic Survey
Minor fire at
Dikshit’s home
A minor fire broke out in the
basement of former CM Sheila
Dikshit’s residence in east
Nizamuddin. No damage was
reported, said a fire official adding
that the fire was reported from an
electric meter in the basement. A
call was received at the Delhi Fire
Services control room around
9.38am and two fire tenders were
rushed to the spot but the blaze
had already been extinguished,
the official added. PTI
Let off by cops,
man hangs self in
police station loo
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: A 32-year-old man,
who was free to leave after be-
ing questioned by police at Ja-
hangirpuri police station, alle-
gedly entered a toilet there in-
stead and hanged himself on
Tuesday night. Raj Kumar had
been summoned in a case
related to a missing woman.
Police said on Wednesday
that it appeared Kumar, after
the completion of the interro-
gation in the presence of a ma-
gistrate around 10pm on Tues-
day,went to the washroom in
the staff quarters and used a
gamchha to hang himself from
the iron bars on the window.
He did not leave behind a suici-
de note, so the cops have
initiated a magisterial enquiry
into the death.
Family members accused
the policemen present of ha-
ving driven a panicked Kumar
to end his life. Relatives of the
deceased said that Kumar had
come to Delhi with his nephew
Ankit from his village in Eta-
wah in UP on Tuesday after be-
ing summoned by a police te-
am. The investigating officer
met him at the Jahangirpuri
police station and took him in-
side for interrogation while
Ankit remained outside.
Kumar’s family received a
phone call early on Wednesday
morning from the cops saying
that he had been admitted to ho-
spital. However, when they rea-
ched the hospital, they realised
he was already dead, with the
cops informing them of his
apparent suicide.
“The judicial magistrate
and SDM were called to the site
and we have requested post-
mortem by a board of doctors.
All mandatory actions are be-
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We have asked the
cops to find out why my
uncle went back to the
police station or landed
up in the second-floor
washroom when he
was supposed to leave
ANKIT
Nephew of Raj Kumar (in pic)
ing taken,” said a police officer.
Ankit, however, had some
questions. “We have asked the
cops to find out why my uncle
went back to the police station
or landed up in the second-floor
washroom when he was suppo-
sed to leave. No one lingers on at
a police station when free to
go,” said Ankit.
Kumar used to work as a se-
curity guard in a school in Ro-
hini but had quit and gone back
to his village. While in Delhi,
he was acquainted with a wo-
man colleague, who had subse-
quently gone missing. The wo-
man’s husband had approa-
ched the court demanding Ku-
mar’s appearance before the
investigating officer.
There was no case registe-
red against Kumar, and relati-
ves denied he was in anyway in-
volved in the disappearance of
the woman. The family has app-
roached the National Human
Rights Commission for redress.
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Why rush at Metro stations may
come down despite more riders
18 New Link How Ph-III will change things
Stations To Average footfall at
Take Load Off existing interchange
stations
Existing Ones 5,00,0001. Rajiv Chowk
2. Kashmere Gate 3,22,000
Sidhartha.Roy@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Travelling in
3. Central Secretariat 2,00,000
Delhi Metro promises to be- 4.Kirti Nagar 1,68,000
come a more pleasant and 5. Mandi House 1,53,000
rush-free affair from next
1,10,000
March. The completion of
6. Inderlok
Phase III in 2018 will not only 7. Ashok Park 49,000
add 130km to the network
but also increase the num- 8.Yamuna Bank 45,000
ber of interchange stations
from nine to 27, easing the
*Approximate figures
pressure on the existing link RUSH HOUR: How Rajiv Chowk station looks like on any given day
stations such as Rajiv
Chowk and Kashmere Gate.
With an average footfall
of five lakh per day, Rajiv
Chowk is the busiest Metro
station and the network’s
nerve centre. Serving as the
interchange point for two of
the busiest corridors — Yel-
low Line (Samaypur Badli-
HUDA City Centre) and Blue
Line (Dwarka Sector 21-Noi-
da City Centre/Vaishali) —
Rajiv Chowk handles thou-
sands of passengers every
hour. The station gets parti-
cularly choked with pas-
sengers during the morning
and evening peak hours.
Kashmere Gate and Cen-
tral Secretariat are the next
two busiest stations with the
average daily footfall of mo-
re than three lakh and two
lakh, respectively.
This rush is going to get Thanks to the 18 new inter-
distributed among many change stations — such as
more interchange stations INA, Hauz Khas, Kalkaji
once Phase III becomes fully Mandir, Janakpuri West,
operational. This will also Rajouri Garden, Welcome
help commuters save time. and Karkarduma, commu-
Cross Dhaula Kuan at
23.6m above ground
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: A Metro train
passed through Delhi Met-
ro’s highest point at Dhaula
Kuan on Wednesday for the
first time as part of the pre-
parations for the commence-
ment of trial runs between
Mayapuri and South Cam-
pus on the upcoming Pink
Line (Majlis Park - Shiv Vi-
har) corridor.
“The Metro train crossed
Dhaula Kuan at a height of
23.6 metres (as high as a se-
ven-storey building) to reach
South Campus from Maya-
puri, covering a distance of
6.8km. The full-fledged trials
on this section will commen-
ce in a few days,” said a
DMRC spokesperson.
“During the journey, va-
rious functional aspects of
the new rolling stock (trains)
were tested prior to the be-
ginning of the signalling tri-
als. Trial runs on a 6.5km
stretch between Shakurpur
and Mayapuri are already in
progress on the Pink Line
since last month,” he added.
The height of the viaduct
How could I have let her die, says
man who donated part of his liver
Continued from P1
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ecalling the friendship
that began in 2007, Gopi-
nath told TOI, “I used
to share a flat with Puja and
her husband while studying
at the University of Glamor-
gan in Wales 10 years ago. She
was like family to me. How
could I have let her die for
want of a donor?”
The 34-year-old, who
works as dog trainer in Chen-
nai, came back to India in
2009 after completing his
studies but remained in
touch with the Bhatnagars,
who settled in Gurgaon after
their return from the UK.
The hospital staff was
impressed. “In many cases,
even family members back
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ters won’t be required to
make long detours.
Instead of being forced to
travel to central areas such
as Rajiv Chowk, Central Se-
cretariat and Kashmere Ga-
TRIAL RUN
at Dhaula Kuan is 23.6mtrs
and it is the highest point of
Delhi Metro so far, surpas-
sing Karkarduma where the
Metro passes at a height of 19
metres above the ground.
“The construction of this
section was a major enginee-
ring challenge since the via-
duct had to pass above the
airport line viaduct as well
as flyovers at the Dhaula
Kuan intersection,” the spo-
kesperson said.
DMRC said that the laun-
ching operation above the
Airport Line was done only
during non-operating hours
FRIEND IN NEED... Prasanna Gopinath (right) donated a part of his
liver to Puja Bhatnagar (second from right)
out when it comes to dona-
ting organs, so it was a pleas-
ant surprise to see a friend
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Projected footfall at
major upcoming
interchange stations
72,411
1. Azadpur
2. Janakpuri West 53,741
3. Hauz Khas 1,69,414
4.Kalkaji Mandir 77,334
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11
5. Botanical Garden 97,780
6. Netaji Subhash Place
8
10
5 7. Rajouri Garden 1,56,871
1,29,881
9. Lajpat Nagar 54,454
10. Mayur Vihar Ph-I
1,13,653
11. Anand Vihar 15,959
12. Welcome 98,022
te to change trains for their
desired station, the inter-
change stations on Phase III
will give commuters the fre-
edom to choose the most con-
venient route. For instance,
between 12.30am and 4am
to avoid any disruption to
the traffic on the Airport Li-
ne. “The launching work be-
gan only after getting all
clearances from Operation
& Maintenances (O&M) de-
partment of the Airport Li-
ne. A diversion road also
was constructed so that the-
re was no inconvenience
to the road users during
erection,” he said.
After commissioning,
the line will emerge as one of
Delhi Metro’s lifelines with
10 interchange stations, the
spokesperson added.
stepping forward to help,”
said Dr Gupta.
Even after Gopinath read-
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2017
a commuter coming from
Gurgaon to Noida has now
no option but to travel till Ra-
jiv Chowk for taking a train
to Noida. However, when
Hauz Khas station on the up-
coming Magenta Line (Ja-
nakpuri West-Botanical
Garden) becomes operatio-
nal, commuters can change
trains there and take a train
for Botanical Garden station
in Noida directly.
Similarly, a commuter
going from north Delhi to
Rohini would be able to
change train at Azadpur —
an interchange station on
the Pink Line (Majlis Park-
Shiv Vihar) — instead of at
Kashmere Gate.
While the existing Metro
corridors are in the shape of
straight lines criss-crossing
the city, the Pink and Magen-
ta lines are circular and will
connect the existing lines at
many points, creating such a
large number of inter-
change stations.
Delhi Metro Rail Corpo-
ration (DMRC) believes that
the new interchange sta-
tions will change the way
commuters travel. Though
DMRC has not carried out
any study on the exact im-
pact of more interchange
stations on the existing
ones that see heavy footfall,
it believes that there will be
distribution of commuter
pressure across the network
after Phase III is completed.
“Phase III will redistribu-
te the crowding patterns at
the interchange stations. As a
result, the existing traffic pat-
tern will change at the cur-
rent interchange stations, ea-
sing the pressure at these lo-
cations,” said Anuj Dayal, ex-
ecutive director of corporate
communications at DMRC.
Sr citizen
loses `3.5L
to card fraud
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Crooks posing as
bank officials withdrew Rs 3.5
lakh in multiple transactions
from the account of a senior ci-
tizen living in central Delhi.
The conmen had called the vic-
tim claiming that her card had
been blocked and sought her
card details, including the CCV
and the pin, to unblock it. From
July 24, the conmen began with-
drawing money. Cops are track-
ing the transaction trail and ha-
ve filed an FIR in this regard.
In his complaint, Jeet
Singh Sandhu, a retired go-
vernment official, told the po-
lice that the fraudsters had
called his wife asking for
the details of her SBI card, sa-
ying that her card had been
blocked accidentally.
Sandhu did not check the
bank account until he recei-
ved a call from the bank infor-
ming about unusual transac-
tions from his account. He
then approached the Tughlaq
Road Police station and regis-
tered a complaint after which
a case under section 420 IPC
(cheating) and 419 IPC (imper-
sonation) was registered.
ily agreed to be a donor, the
Bhatnagars had to find the
money for the Rs 25 lakh
procedure. Anurag Bhatna-
gar revealed to TOI, “We
didn’t have enough money
left after her treatment to af-
ford the transplant.”
The patient’s students in
Gurgaon, friends and family
members helped spread the
word about the need for
funds, and 363 people from
across the globe sent in
money through Impact Guru,
an online fundraising plat-
form, to make the life-saving
transplant possible.
“The donor has been dis-
charged already, and Puja is
likely to be discharged in a
day or two,” said a doctor at
Max on Wednesday.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2017 TIMES CITY 3

CLEANEST JULY IN 3 YEARS

Data with CPCB show that Delhi, for the first time in
three years, recorded two “good” air days this July.
It also had as many as 17 days in the “satisfactory”
Failure to segregate waste
range and no “poor”, “very poor” or “severe” days.
The Air Quality Index (AQI) data indicate Delhi’s air
quality improved this summer-monsoon compared to the last two
years. “I think it’s a reflection of various actions taken to control
poor air quality. We also have a good monsoon this time and
at home may cost you
the winds are favouring dispersion (of particulate matter),” said
Dipankar Saha, additional director and head of air laboratory, CPCB. HC-Appointed Panel Wants Bylaws Changed To Curb Littering
Union environment minister Harsh Vardhan recently responded to File photo
questions in the Rajya Sabha, saying air quality in Delhi improved in TIMES NEWS NETWORK an up the city without crea-
2017 compared to last year. “Moderate days have gone up from 29 ting awareness among the
days in 2016 to 56 days in 2017. Very poor days have reduced from New Delhi: A panel of ex- people and their active parti-
52 in 2016 to 36 during 2017,” he said, replying to questions. Experts, perts set up by Delhi high co- cipation, a view which was
however, warned it was too early to arrive at any trends. urt to look into the problem of echoed by a court appointed
solid waste management in expert committee.
MONTH GOOD SATIS- MODERATE POOR VERY SEVERE the city has recommended The court told the civic
FACTORY POOR change in the bylaws to inclu- authorities that while they
May 2015 1 5 18 6 de heavy fines for littering were making timely schedu-
and compulsory segregation les for dropping off and col-
Jun 2015 3 13 8 1
of waste in every household. lecting garbage, introducing
July 2015 11 17 2 1 In a proposal submitted in solid waste compactors and
HC on Wednesday, the com- putting up online informa-
May 2016
Jun 2016
7
15
19
12
5
2
mittee comprising environ-
mentalist Sunita Narain, M C
Mehta, Almitra Patel and Is-
tion about its cleaning staff,
they should also simultaneo-
usly educate the citizens as
DJB contractor shot
in Rohini office
July 2016 6 15 4
her Judge Ahluwalia among THAT STINKING FEELING: The court also ticked off commissioners suggested by the panel.
May 2017 7 17 7 others have advocated penal- of the civic bodies for seeking exemption from the hearing As regards the corpora-
ty for households that fail to tions’ request for more land
Jun 2017 1 19 10
segregate waste into wet, dry step to be taken would be to On Wednesday the court to put in waste processing sy- TIMES NEWS NETWORK mall told the police that the
July 2017 2 17 12 and hazardous wastes. frame bylaws in accordance also ticked off the three com- stems, the bench told the ci- accused approached him for
The grim status of garba- with the Solid Waste Mana- missioners of the civic bodi- vic bodies to first look at the New Delhi: A 46-year-old cont- Yadav’s address. They retur-
ge dump sites which have ex- gement Rules of 2016 and sa- es who have been appearing expert panel’s plan for ractor with Delhi Jal Board ned after 10 minutes, thanked
ceeded their capacity years id a draft of the same would on every hearing as per court garbage disposal before as- (DJB) was shot dead inside his him and left, he added. The
ago, inadequate waste pro- be placed before the bench orders. When one of the co- king for more land which office in Rohini Sector 16 while murder was discovered when
cessing and lack of compli- before the next date of hea- unsels tried to seek exemp- was in limited quantity and he was applying for an online Yadav’s son reached the office
ance and enforcement capa- ring on September 19. tion for the senior bureau- “cannot be grown”. The co- tender on Tuesday night. after a few minutes.
city were the other challeng- A bench of Acting Chief crats, HC said it has summo- urt has been monitoring the Two youths entered the of- DCP (Rohini) Rishipal sa-
es that the panel red flagged Justice Gita Mittal and Justi- ned them with great reluc- issue of garbage removal fice at a mall around 11pm and id the CCTV footage showed
for the authorities. ce C Hari Shankar then as- tance but “they need to see and disposal from the city af- shot Babu Lal Yadav, who had the men entering the office.
Apart from enforcing ked all authorities including the ground reality and there ter it was told that lack of cle- just returned from a DJB site Yadav’s mobile phone and so-
segregation at source, like Delhi government and the will be no exemption.” anliness leads to spread of and was waiting for his son, on me documents are being scan-

More showers likely today households and societies,

the panel suggested streng-
thening the waste collection
New Delhi: Overcast skies prevailed in the national capital and processing systems,
with the mercury settling at a comfortable 31degrees even as treating garbage as a
high humidity caused inconvenience to Delhiites. resource and imposing pe-
The maximum temperature was recorded at 31.6 degrees nalties for littering as well as
Celsius, three notches below the season’s average while the min- introducing user fees and
imum temperature settled at 27 degrees, normal for this time of landfill taxes.
the year, said a MeT department official. The humidity oscillat- It said that dumping of
ed between 91% and 72%. The MeT office has forecast cloudy waste should be disincenti-
skies along with the liklihood of drizzle for Thursday. PTI vised. The panel said the first
three corporations to study
the proposals and submit a
report to the committee so
that solid waste manage-
ment rules could be incorpo-
rated into the bylaws.
HC is hearing a clutch of
PILs on rise of cases of vec-
tor borne diseases where it
has formed the committee to
reduce accumulation of was-
te in the open.
It pointed out that if the
bench can set aside a large
part of its day for hearing this
matter, “they can be here to as-
sist us. We ensure you get pro-
per seats and you are seated
while we speak to you. Nobo-
dy should have any grievance
against appearing in court.”
During the proceedings,
it told the municipal corpo-
rations that they cannot cle-
vector-borne diseases like
dengue and chikungunya.
The issue of vector-borne
diseases was raised before
the court in two PILs filed by
lawyers Arpit Bhargava and
Gauri Grover who sought di-
rections from the municipal
bodies and other authorities
to take steps to prevent spre-
ad of dengue, chikungunya
and malaria.
the temple. The police are su-
specting that a property dispu-
te might be the reason behind
the murder. The victim’s fami-
ly members have named two
people who allegedly run
gambling dens in Mukherjee
Nagar and Rohini as suspects.
A gardener working at the
ned to identify the killers.
Initial investigations re-
veal that Yadav was involved
in gambling earlier but his fa-
mily had convinced him to le-
ave it. His relatives said the
gamblers had been threate-
ning to harm him if he did not
pay certain dues.

Cops clueless
on kid’s death
Another hair chopping 9kg hashish seized from
truck, two arrested
New Delhi: The Delhi Police
seized 9 kg of fine quality

at Gzb school
Ayaskant Das
@timesgroup.com
Ghaziabad: A day after a nine-
year-old boy died after he slip-
ped and fell in the corridor of a
school, the police have failed to
make any substantial progress
in the investigations. However,
a forensic team visited the scho-
ol on Wednesday to examine the
spot at which Armaan Sehgal
had allegedly fell while rushing
to his class for a unit test.
Armaan had died from inju-
ries sustained from a fall on a
corridor in the building of GD
Goenka Public School in Shakti
Khand III of Indirapuram on
Tuesday. A post-mortem report
had cited head injuries as the
cause for Armaan’s death. “We
are still investigating. Any ac-
tion against the school princi-
pal and its manager, who have
been named as accused in the
FIR, will be taken only if we find
them guilty in our investiga-
tions. The boy died of internal
head injuries. He had fallen face
down on the corridor. The au-
topsy report has found a minor
injury on his nasal region from
the fall. There were no injury
marks on the back of his head,”
said Sunil Kumar Dubey, SHO,
Indirapuram police station.
case, now in outer Delhi
Pankhuri.Yadav
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Three days on,
incidents of women’s hair
being chopped off doesn’t
seem to come to an end. On
Tuesday, another incident
was reported from outer
Delhi’s Ranhola where a 45-
year-old woman fell uncons-
cious inside her washroom
and woke up to find her bra-
ids cut off.
The police were reported
about the incident around
TAKING NO CHANCES: The incidents have prompted people to
try tried and tested measures of warding off ‘evil spirits’
11pm after which they took
the woman to a hospital for
medical check-up. The wo-
man and her family members
have also been counselled.
The woman’s family said
that after playing with her
grandson, she put him to sle-
ep and retired to her room
for the day. She sat down
with her husband and they
started discussing the gro-
wing incidents of mysterio-
us hair chopping. The wo-
man then went to the wash-
room and fell unconscious.
File photo
hashish from a truck on the
Delhi-Haryana border on
Tuesday evening and
arrested Mashiar Rahaman
When she didn’t come Mondal (53) a resident of
out for some time, her hus- Nadia, and Mohammad Arif
band started calling out to (26) from Poonch for
her but got no response. allegedly transporting the
When she gained conscious- consignment from Kashmir to
ness, she noticed her chop- West Bengal. PTI
ped braids kept next to her.
She informed her husband
and he called the cops. Con-
firming the incident, senior
officers said that they will
lodge a case once they get a
complaint from the wo-
man’s family.
“We have consulted ex-
perts from IBHAS who have
been counselling the six wo-
men who have been victimi-
sed,” said DCP (southwest)
Surender Kumar.
Police have also asked co-
unsellors to meet the women
of the villages where these
incidents have been repor-
ted. They are also trying to
ascertain if family members
of the victims have any role
to play in the incidents.
Superstitions are also on
the rise after the incidents.
“Women are now stepping
out of their houses with the-
ir heads covered or after ty-
ing their hair in a bun,” said
a resident of Chhawla’s
Kanganhera village.

Teen stabbed to Builder pays `300cr more

death on Gzb to YEIDA for sports city
railway tracks Vandana.Keelor@timesgroup.com executive officer, YEIDA, the develo-
Ayaskant.Das@timesgroup.com per has been defaulting on its instal-
Greater Noida: The Yamuna Ex- ments for land allotted in the past five
Ghaziabad: A 16-year-old boy, walking along pressway Industrial Development years. “The land in question was allot-
the railway tracks in Sahibabad with his fe- Authority on Wednesday said Jai- ted to the developer in the YEIDA area
male friend, was allegedly stabbed to death prakash Associates (Jaypee) had pa- for constructing residential units un-
by a few men on Tuesday. The girl, who was id them Rs 300 crore as second instal- der the special development zone
also injured in the attack, is currently out of ment for the Rs 1,000 hectare land on (SDZ) category,” he said. “This totals
danger. The duo was allegedly attacked on which the company had developed a nearly 1,000 hectares and is located in
the tracks behind the Central Electronics Li- sports city in YEIDA area. The deve- three pockets including Sector 25 and
mited (CEL) complex in the afternoon. loper had already paid YEIDA Rs 110 Jaypee Sports City,” he said.
According to police, the two were walking crore in May this year. The total out- Singh told TOI that they would so-
towards Kadkad Model colony, where they li- standing amount towards this pro- on start development in their area.
ve with their respective families in rented ac- ject is Rs 600 crore. When TOI contacted Jaypee Infra-
commodations, when they were attacked. According to Arunvir Singh, chief tech, they confirmed the deposit.
The boy has been identified by police as Ra-
hul, a school dropout.
The attackers had allegedly ambushed
them and attempted to slit the throat of the
girl. Police said she managed to free herself
when they were stabbing Rahul. She ran to-
wards a group of people at a distance. They
tied a stole around her neck to stop the blee-
ding, and informed the police.
The girl is a Class IX student in a govern-
ment school near Sahibabad railway station.
Rahul’s family told TOI that he had gone to
fetch the girl from school on Tuesday. “The girl
lives in our neighbourhood. She and Rahul we-
re friends. On Tuesday, Rahul received a call on
his mobile phone, after which he went to fetch
the girl from school. It seems they were attack-
ed while walking home along the railway
tracks,” Rahul’s brother, Brijesh (18), said.
Rahul had dropped out of Class IX from a
school in Vivek Vihar, Delhi, two years ago.
Along with his brother Brijesh, he began sel-
ling vegetables in a market in Kadkad Model
after their father, Parmeshwar (42), suffered a
paralytic attack two months ago. “Rahul was
there with me in the market on Tuesday. He left
after he received a call on his mobile phone,”
said Brijesh. On the basis of a complaint lod-
ged by Brijesh, an FIR was registered against
unidentified persons under sections 302
(murder) and 307 (attempt to murder) of IPC
at Link Road police station.
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4-yr jail in 2 land cases for Neera Yadav

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Mumbai
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SC Upholds Conviction Of Former UP Chief Secy In 1994 Case
AmitAnand.Choudhary Neera Yadav is currently chairman-cum-CEO of Noi-
Corruption must be dealt
Chennai

Kolkata
90
@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: The Supreme

Court on Wednesday upheld
139 the conviction of former Ut-
tar Pradesh chief secretary
Good Moderate Hazardous Neera Yadav in the 1994 land
allocation scam for illegally
Source: CPCB allocating plots to herself
and her two daughters du-
AQI LEVELS IN NCR ring her tenure as chairper-
son and CEO of Noida.
ITO A bench of Justices Kuri-
91 an Joseph and R Banumathi
NSIT Dwarka convicted her in two cases of
94 illegal allotment of plots and
Punjabi Bagh awarded two years’ imprison-
ment in each case. In a rare de-
78
Anand Vihar cision, the bench said that the
282 sentences would run conse-
RK Puram cutively which means that Ya-
74 dav has to spend four years be-
Shadipur hind bars. She is currently
88 lodged in jail and has already
undergone around 17-months
Mandir Marg
of imprisonment after the tri-
108
al court and Allahabad high
Siri Fort
court held her guilty.
44 The HC had awarded her
Noida three years jail in both cases
108 in February last year.
Gurgaon The court also convicted
57 former IAS officer Rajiv Ku-
mar for illegally getting a
Readings taken at 6:30pm | plot allotted to him while he
Source: SAFAR was working as deputy CEO
of NOIDA, and him two ye-
ars’ imprisonment.
The bench held that Ya-
dav had acted in flagrant vio-
lation of the rules to promote
her individual interests to
get the plots for herself and
her daughters in posh Sec-
tor-14A of Noida on the Delhi
border. The court said the
conduct of the former bu-
reaucrat was reprehensible
and she must pay the price
for indulging in corruption.
It said corruption and nepo-
tism in bureaucracy must be
dealt with iron hand.
“The fact that she acted in
flagrant violation of the ru-
les, by giving a complete go-
by to public interest to pro-
mote her individual interest,
shows that she abused her
position to gain undue ad-
vantage to herself and cause
loss to Noida. This misuse of
position erodes collective fa-
ith of the people in the sy-
lodged in jail and has
already undergone
around 17 months of
imprisonment after
the trial court and
Allahabad high court
held her guilty
stem. Corruption paralyses
the functioning of the key
areas of the state admini-
stration,” said Justice Banu-
mathi who wrote the judg-
ment for the bench.
The court held that Yadav
not only gained pecuniary
advantage for herself and
her family by manipulating
the rules but also caused gra-
ve loss to Noida authority. It
held that her daughters were
not even eligible to get plots
and it was she and her hus-
band who had paid the mo-
ney on their behalf.
“The prosecution has
successfully proved that Ya-
dav abused her position as a
public servant to benefit her-
self and her kith and kin. She
not only made a mockery of
rules and regulations of Noi-
da, but also misused her posi-
tion by completely neglec-
ting her duties. Being the
da, she was expected to ensu-
re that the allotment of plots
are effected in strict compli-
ance with the rules and regu-
lations of Noida. However,
the appellant herself bypas-
sed the rules and regula-
tions,” the court said.
The court passed the ver-
dict on petitions filed by Ya-
dav challenging the trial co-
urt and Allahabad High Co-
urt orders holding her guilty
in the corruption cases. De-
fending the charges of cor-
ruption, she had contended
that she was not involved in
allocation of plots to her
daughters who had indepen-
dently applied for land and
the authority took decision
after following due process.
The bench, however, refu-
sed to give credence to her
statements and said that do-
cuments furnished by CBI
proved that she went out of
way to favour her daughters
in getting plots for them.
FIR was lodged against Ya-
dav and others on the direc-
tion of SC which on January
20, 1998 directed CBI to con-
duct probe against her for abu-
sing her position in allotment
and conversion of plots in her
and her daughters’ name.
with iron hand, says SC
AmitAnand.Choudhary
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Terming corrup-
tion and nepotism as enemy
to economic growth and good
governance, the Supreme Co-
urt on Wednesday asked go-
vernments to deal with it
firmly by taking unrelenting
and uncompromising steps
to check the growing malaise.
While convicting former
Uttar Pradesh chief secreta-
ry Neera Yadav in Noida land
allotment scam, a bench of
Justices Kurian Joseph and R
Bhanumathi said that time
had come for the government
to root out corruption by ta-
king multi-pronged steps.
“Tackling corruption is
going to be a priority task for
the government. The govern-
ment has been making cons-
tant efforts to deal with the
problem of corruption. Ho-
wever, the constant legislati-
ve reforms and strict judicial
actions have still not been ab-
le to completely uproot the
deeply rooted evil of corrup-
tion. This is the area where
Tackling
corruption is going to be
a priority task for the
government. The
legislative reforms and
strict judicial actions
have still not been able
to completely uproot
this deeply rooted evil
SUPREME COURT
the government needs to be
seen taking unrelenting,
stern and uncompromising
steps. Leaders should think
of introducing good and ef-
fective leadership at the helm
of affairs; only then benefits
of liberalisation and various
programmes, welfare sche-
mes and programmes would
reach the masses,” said Justi-
ce Banumathi, who wrote the
judgment.
“Lack of awareness and su-
pine attitude of the public has
all along been found to be to the
advantage of the corrupt. Due
to the uncontrolled spread of
consumerism and fall in moral
values, corruption has taken
deep roots in the society. What
is needed is a re-awakening
and recommitment to the ba-
sic values of tradition rooted
in ancient and external wis-
dom. Unless people rise aga-
inst bribery and corruption,
society can never be rid of this
disease ,” she said.
The apex court held that it
was a harsh reality that cor-
ruption has become all-per-
vasive in the present system
of bureaucracy.
The court said that rich
and powerful always tried to
stall the trial and the present
case of Neera Yadav in which
she had been convicted was
an exception.
“A particular kind of cor-
ruption that has become mo-
re rampant of late is nepo-
tism to promote the interests
of those near and dear to
them. The practice of promo-
ting the interest of few indi-
viduals to the detriment of
many others is wholly repre-
hensible and deserves to be
condemned,” it said.

Yamuna breaches
YAMUNA RESCUE MISSION CAUGHT ON TOI CAMERA
warning level
T he Yamuna breached the
warning level of 204 metre in
Gym to pay for 4.07pm: Singh jumps into river 4.17pm: Is brought safely to banks
Sanjeev Rastogi
Sisodia to
move Centre
Delhi on Wednesday and is
expected to touch 204.55 metres
between 11am and 1pm on
Thursday. Central Water
setting limit on for heritage
Commission said there was no
indication of the water level
going near the danger mark of
204.83 and was likely to start
treadmill use tag to city
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falling after 1pm. Discharge of
water from the Hathnikund
Barrage also touched a high of
19,240 cusec during Wednesday
afternoon. “All sector officers in
north, northeast, Shahdara,
central, east and southeast zones
were told to issue warnings,”
said a government official. TNN
JNU allots 700
hostel seats online
Aamir.Khan2@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: The Delhi State
Consumer Disputes Redres-
sal Commission has found a
popular fitness chain defici-
ent in service for setting a ti-
me limit on the usage of tread-
mill for its members. The com-
mission, as a result, dismissed
its appeal against an order of
the district forum directing
the chain to pay Rs 2 lakh each
to the two complainants as pu-
membership through a notice
dated May 1, 2010, the court sa-
id. They were also refunded
the balance of their members-
hip fee.
On inquiry, the complai-
nants were reportedly told
that their membership was
terminated for raising issues
over timing and quality. The
two members then moved the
district forum with their
complaints seeking restora-
tion of their membership and
New Delhi: Delhi tourism mi-
nister Manish Sisodia will be
writing to Union culture mini-
ster Mahesh Sharma next we-
ek, asking him to reconsider
Delhi’s nomination for the
UNESCO world heritage site.
Delhi’s nomination was
submitted to UNESCO in 2014
4.10pm: Divers put on life jacket but on May 15, 2015, just days be-
fore UNESCO was to make its fi-
nal announcement, Centre
withdrew the nomination wit-
hout giving any reason. This ye-

S ome 773 students have been

granted hostel rooms at
Jawaharlal Nehru University
(JNU) out of the 1,080
applications received online in a
first ever initiative, an official
said on Wednesday. “Nearly 1,080
students from the first list have
applied for the online hostel
initiated for the first time in JNU
through the Office of Dean of
Students, of which 773 students
(non-Delhi-NCT residents) have
been given on-spot
hostel/dormitory allotment,”
tweeted Dean of Students
Umesh Ashok Kadam.
nitive damages.
“The said limit clearly de-
teriorated the quality and it
was a case of ‘deficiency in
service’. The gym had 3,000
members in its branch at Con-
naught Place. It fixed the time
limit to accommodate more
and more people and earn
maximum profits. Gagging
the complainants for raising
the issue is totally against the
principles of Consumer Pro-
IANS
tection Act 1986,” said the com-
mission.
The complainants, one of
whom is a lawyer, were mem-
damages.
The forum observed that
the right asserted by the club
ar, Ahmedabad became the first
world heritage city from India.
“When AAP formed govern-
to terminate the membership ment in 2014, the then LG and
for raising issues of “deficien- the government both endorsed
cy” was not only against pub- the nomination. When the no-
mination was withdrawn, the
In February 2010, tourism minister and chief se-
the club introduced JUST IN TME: Rahul Singh, a resident of Balia in Uttar Pradesh, cretary wrote to the union mini-
jumped off ITO bridge. He, however, panicked and yelled for help.
a policy wherein A team of divers managed to save him from drowning
stry but we were never given a
response. The government has
members were decided to take up the issue aga-
asked to use the in,” said a government source.
treadmill for not
more than 25 mins
lic policy, but also in violation
Panel set up by NGT says STPs not The dossier, named ‘The im-
perial capital cities of Delhi’, se-
eks a heritage tag for the Walled
City and Lutyens’ Delhi. Sour-

Lie test for witness

in 1984 riots case
bers of the fitness club. In Fe-
bruary 2010, the club introdu-
ced a policy for the branch
wherein members were asked
to use the treadmill for not mo-
of complainants’ right under
Advocates Act as well as Con-
sumer Protection Act, 1986.
“Your membership was
needed; DJB calls report flawed ces said that ministry of urban
development had reportedly ex-
pressed concerns about the
restrictions a heritage tag wo-
terminated in accordance Neha.Lalchandani@timesgroup.com the issues mentioned in the report with garh catchment may take long time (30- uld place on infrastructural de-

A Delhi court on Wednesday

asked the CBI to conduct lie
detection test on controversial
arms dealer Abhishek Verma, a
witness in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots
case, at a government-run
forensic science laboratory in
Rohini. The court’s order came
after the CBI’s investigating
officer (IO) informed it about the
places where the test facilities
were available. Additional chief
metropolitan magistrate Shivali
Sharma directed the CBI to give
a written notice to Verma three
days prior to the date fixed for
the test and asked his counsel
not to change the date
repeatedly. PTI
re than 25 minutes. It was cali-
brated and stopped automati-
cally after 25 minutes, which
was done ostensibly to control
overcrowding and excessive
demand of that machine, no-
ted the commission in its judg-
ment.
Also, restrictions were im-
posed on facilities like steam
and sauna rooms. Moreover,
there were frequent break-
downs of various machines
leaving the members dissatis-
fied with the services.
The two complainants had
adiscussion between themsel-
ves and then talked to club of-
ficials, but failed to arrive at
an amicable settlement. As a
result, a legal notice was shot
with the rights vested in our
client and its freedom to do bu-
siness with only those people
whom it desires to do with. In
your case the membership
was terminated for the simple
reason that you were raising
issues about timing and quali-
ty and it was thought best by
our client not to continue the
business relationship with
you,” was the reasoning given
by the club in its termination
letter.
“The complainants joined
the club on the assurance that
there won’t be any time limit
for using machines, including
the treadmill. Initially, the
club had not prescribed any ti-
me limit for the use of any ma-
New Delhi: Delhi Assembly’s Estimate
Committee — probing alleged irregula-
rities of Rs 776.7 crore in the construc-
tion of 14 sewage treatment plants by
Delhi Jal Board — has come across a re-
port by an expert committee constituted
by the National Green Tribunal accor-
ding to which the STPs were not even re-
quired in the first place.
The expert committee, formed in Fe-
bruary 2016, comprised the member se-
cretary of CPCB, member secretary of
Delhi Pollution Control Board, chief
engineer of DJB, chief engineer of DDA
and professor Kosa from IIT Delhi. The
mandate of the committee was to “study
the actual discharge from each major
drain that joins river Yamuna, measure
the load of sewage at the point of STPs
and the point where STPs are sought to
the court though sources within DJB
claim that the report submitted by the
committee was “junked” as it had not
fulfilled its mandate and had not been
signed by the DJB engineer.
TOI could not independently verify
DJB sources said the project
had been monitored by
NGT at every step and it was
aware of each decision taken
with respect to it
either of the claims.
Sources said the report was submit-
ted to the committee, which had started
off by looking at the funding pattern of
the 14 STPs, on Tuesday. “The report cle-
arly says that the existing sewage treat-
40 years) and then may be possibility for
construction/operation of treatment fa-
cility. The first and foremost task of DJB,
or any concerned stakeholder, may be to
optimise the operation of existing STPs
up to the level of meeting the desired
standards and to plan for how to reuse
treated sewage…Drains intercepted
from Najafgarh drain can be linked with
existing STPs for optimum operation,
rather than building new 14 STPs at
this stage.”
DJB sources said the project had be-
en monitored by NGT at every step and it
was aware of each decision taken with
respect to it. “The report had various
flaws, which included its failure to mea-
sure sewage flow. If there are discrepan-
cies in the work, the government can ea-
sily approach the court and have the pro-
ject cancelled. Why is that not being do-
velopment in the area.
“However, such restrictions
are already in place for both pla-
ces mentioned in the dossier.
Had Delhi’s nomination gone
through, it would also put the ci-
ty on the world tourism map,”
said the government official.
India National Trust for Art
and Cultural Heritage (Intach),
which prepared the dossier for
Delhi, says the dossier would
only need to be updated and wo-
uld not require any significant
changes before submission.
“For instance, there are some
changes in the building by-laws
for Lutyens’ Delhi which will
need to be inserted in the dossi-
er. The harder task will be to
convince UNESCO that these

5WORST TRAFFIC
STRETCHES
off by the lawyer on February
20, 2010. The legal notices were
followed up by reminders. Ho-
chine. Problem arose only
when the club fixed a time li-
mit of 25 minutes for the use of
be constructed under the phase I, i.e., Na-
jafgarh drain and Delhi Gate drain”.
The court had directed DJB to proce-
ment infrastructure in the area where
these STPs were planned were underut-
ilised,” said sources. Quoting from the
ne?” DJB sources asked.
Sources said that the assembly com-
mittee would present its report to the go-
bylaws will not change the appe-
arance of the area. If the Centre
agrees, the dossier can be sub-
I Laxmi Nagar -
Karkari Mod at 8pm
wever, they were informed
about the termination of their
treadmill,” observed the com-
mission.
ed with the construction of the STPs. So-
urces say that DJB had failed to flag off
report, they said: “Development of the
proposed sites of 14 STPs/SPSs in Najaf-
vernment after which the latter could
decide its course of action.
mitted latest by September 30 ,”
said an official.

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IDPL Township to Fun n
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LEDs make dhabas’ power bill lighter, business brighter
Paras.Singh@timesgroup.com incandescent bulbs with LED take the load of illuminating
Delhi Gurgaon Road at 8.30pm
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to be on road 6.30pm
List is drawn from 42 worst
traffic spots in Delhi,
Gurgaon, Noida and
Ghaziabad that are tracked
for congestion between 7am
and 9pm on Google Maps.
Traffic jams outside these 42
spots aren’t captured
New Delhi: They may not be
the showy buildings of Las Ve-
gas, but the dhabas that line
9 the Delhi-Chandigarh high-
way catch the eye with their
brightly illuminated strings of
fairy lights and incandescent
bulbs and tubelights that ma-
ke geometric patterns. The
dhabas know people are temp-
ted by the food they offer, but
the illumination is the acces-
sory that brings diners to the
tables. So the eateries spare no
IV V expenses on lighting.
“We used to pay Rs 45,000
on electricity,” said Devdutt
Sharma, co-owner of A1 Dha-
ba on the stretch of the high-
way that passes through Sone-
pat in Haryana. He referred to
the expense in the past tense
because the dhaba’s bill has
come down to Rs 15,000 in the
six months since replacing the
multitude of tubelights and
realised, like A1 did, that at-
tracting people need not come
at a huge cost.
There are approximately
30 dhabas on the highway that
have all replaced conventional
lighting on their premises
with LED bulbs distributed by
Energy Efficiency Services
Ltd (EESL), a joint venture of
PSUs. Under the UJALA pro-
gramme, EESL has provided
around 4,800 9-watt LED bulbs
to the eateries on this stretch.
Additionally, over 10,000 bulbs
have been distributed among
dhabas across the rest of Na-
tional Highway 1.
The first to opt for LED
bulbs was Food Garage, a fun-
ky garage-themed restaurant
owned by Manish Khanija. Af-
ter replacing around 250 bulbs
at his dhaba, Khanija happily
reported, “Business has some-
what increased after we put up
the new lights. These lights
are brighter and people feel sa-
fer. Our restaurant can also be
sighted from a distance and
this gives us an edge over the
competition.”
Down the road at Dinesh
Kumar’s 79 Milestone Dhaba,
the new lighting has resulted
in 50% savings in energy bills.
Kumar chuckled that his place
was so brightly illuminated
now that “even if a needle falls
on the ground, you can find it
easily”. Keen on saving money
at home too, Kumar went from
conventional bulbs to LED in
his house.
“Lighting helps a dhaba
distinguish itself from anot-
her,” explained an EESL spo-
kesperson on why the compa-
ny was keen to help the roadsi-
de eateries. “Lighting also en-
hances the safety of the
place.” As co-owner of A1Dha-
ba Vijay Rana pointed out, “If
the dhaba is ill-lit or dark, peo-
ple will not risk stopping to eat
there.”
Rana and his partner Shar-
ma are not only happy about
the slashed power bill, but ha-
ve also overcome the problem
of a stalling generator. Their
25kVa generator wasn't able to
ended up regularly paying pe-
nalties to the government for
overloading their power lines.
After the switch to LEDs, the
total load has come down to a
mere 5kWh that the generator
handles easily handles.
The dhabas are happy eno-
ugh to have a bit more in the
till. They leave it to ESSL to
provide the macro numbers,
which confirms that these 30
dhabas alone use approxima-
tely 623.4 MWh less energy
now, which in financial terms
is a saving of Rs 25 lakh annu-
ally. This has also led to a re-
duction of 500 tonnes of CO2
annually. “We have distribu-
ted LED bulbs also to homes
throughout Sonepat district,”
added an EESL spokesperson.
“This will result in consumers
saving 34.2 crore every year
while reducing CO2 emission
by 70,000 tonne.”
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Oberoi Hotel 2.0 back in Jan, to have air filters
Saurabh.Sinha
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: The capital’s ico-
nic Oberoi Hotel will reopen
next January after an ex-
haustive makeover that is be-
ing completed ahead of its
schedule. The hotel, situated
in the heart of Delhi, had be-
en closed since April 1, 2016,
with the renovation expected
to take two years.
Its reopening will also be
a commentary on how Delhi
has changed from the time
the property was built in
1965. Back then, Delhi had
clean air especially at the ho-
tel’s site with the lush green
Golf Club next door. Now, the
property is getting the most
advanced air purifiers so that
guests inside are spared Del-
hi’s notoriously toxic air.
“The Oberoi, New Delhi
was originally scheduled to
reopen in early April 2018, but
is now likely to open doors in
January 2018 itself. The hotel
is expected to retain its iconic
position in the capital which
it has enjoyed since it first
opened in the year 1965,” said
P R S Oberoi, executive chair-
man of East India Hotels
(EIH), the parent company of
Oberoi Hotels.
While the building struc-
ture is the same, built origi-
nally in 1965, the interiors are
being completely revamped.
Some other iconic hotels that
have been restored in recent
past — getting brand new in-
teriors while retaining their
facade and structure — inclu-
de Delhi’s Imperial which
Set up in
1965
was built in 1936 and got its
current glitzy form in 2001.
The Taj Mahal Palace in
Mumbai, which was attacked
on November 26, 2008, reope-
File Photo
signer Adam Tihany, who,
the group says, took inspira-
tion from Edwin Lutyen for
this project. It will boast of
“the first of its kind” rooftop
bar in the city that will offer a
360 degree view of Delhi’s
skyline, said an official.
“To compensate for the
quality of air in the capital,
The Oberoi, New Delhi will
Closed Likely provide the cleanest air in
reopening
April the city. High efficiency ad-
Jan 2018
2016 vanced air filters have been
installed to provide clean air
at par with global stan-
dards,” said an official.
“External areas will have
beautiful cobblestone path-
ned on October 15, 2010, after ways, patterned courtyards
being restored at a cost of Rs and water bodies merging se-
180 crore. amlessly with mature gar-
Oberoi’s renovation has dens that has been carefully
been designed by interior de- preserved,” she added.
The hotel’s “tree of life”
has been retained at its origi-
nal location. “A contempora-
ry screen has been added in
metal and semi-precious sto-
nes in the lobby … The ac-
commodation will comprise
of 218 guest rooms, including
32 suites. The rooms will be
bigger…” the official said.
The 3,600 square feet pre-
sidential suite will offer vi-
ews of Humayun’s Tomb on
one side and the golf course
on the other. The renovated
property is laying special
emphasis on its restaurants.
The Delhi property was
the first to be built by late M S
Oberoi, who founded the gro-
up in 1934. The Oberoi, Delhi,
is a vital revenue contributor
to the group and has a net
worth of over Rs 135 crore.

TRADERS, COMPANIES MOVE AGAINST STRICT RULES TO SAVE BUSINESS

Court seeks
It’s a losing battle against plastic report on
Govt Yet To Enforce Ban As Cases On Plastic Bags & Crockery Pending In NGT illegal hotels
TIMES NEWS NETWORK at Hauz Khas management rules 2016 alrea-

New Delhi: National Green

Delhi’s tryst with banning plastic
Tribunal (NGT) may have rap-
ped the Delhi government re-
cently for not implementing
the ban on plastic crockery, but
the issue of plastic waste is
anything but new and is unlik-
ely to get resolved till a long-
pending case is decided.
While the Delhi govern-
dy prohibit carry bags that are
less than 50 microns in thick- TIMES NEWS NETWORK
ness. “These are national rules
2009 Delhi bans 15,89,418 MT and the government can at le- New Delhi: The Delhi high
use and storage of
per annum ast implement them,” said Pri- court on Wednesday asked
plastic bags
plastic waste ti Mahesh, senior programme south corporation to furnish
2012 generation in coordinator at Toxics Link. A deatils on width of road insi-
October Govt issues India, according 2014 study showed that very de Hauz Khas Village.
to CPCB thin plastic bags were being The court was examining
notification, banning even their
(Latest figures for used in bulk in the market. how the eateries operating in
local manufacturing
Delhi unavailable) “The problem is alternatives the area got licences and
November Plastic

ment has not promoted or sub-
sidised alternative jute or
cloth bags that could have bro-
ught a shift in consumer beha-
viour, officials say plastic ma-
nufacturers’ plea against a ban
on sale, storage and use of both
‘thin’ plastic bags and use-and-
throw crockery have been pen-
ding in NGT itself.
According to a government
notification in 2012, “no per-
son, including a shopkeeper,
vendor, a wholesaler or a retai-
ler, trader, hawker or a rehri-
wala shall sell, store and use
plastic carry bags for supply of
any goods”. It also banned ma-
nufacture, storage, import, sell
or transport of “any kind of
plastic carry bags (including
polyproplyne, non-woven fab-
ric ones)”. But two manufactu-
rers soon moved the Delhi high
manufacturers approached
HC, which puts the notification
on hold
2015
Delhi govt files application,
appealing for a speedy disposal
of the matter, case drags on
2016 CPCB directed the
closure of all unauthorised
plastic manufacturing units
and prohibited manufacturing
of substandard (less than 40
micron thickness) carry bags
HC transfers matter to
NGT in December
court and got a stay on the noti-
fication. Last year, the high co-
urt sent the case to NGT.
While this case is still pen-
ding, on December 2, 2016, NGT
directed that the use of dispo-
2017 In a separate matter,
NGT bans use of disposable
plastic in Delhi/NCR from
January 1
➤ Applications of two
manufacturers against use
and storage of plastic bags
is still pending with NGT
sable plastic or plastic crockery
be banned from January 1, 2017.
But, in February, Plastic Waste
Manufacturers and Traders As-
sociation, Delhi filed a review
petition in NGT. “I don’t think
THE CASE AGAINST
PLASTIC
➤ Bad for wildlife and plants
➤ Costly to clear up
➤ Plastic bags consume
resources, including oil, in their
creation
➤ Take years to decompose
the government can implement
these bans unless NGT directs
either way,” said a lawyer repre-
senting Delhi Pollution Control
Committee before the tribunal.
However, the plastic waste
like jute or cloth or paper bags
were not even promoted by the
government,” she added.
Even the mixed-spun plastic
bags being used extensively in
shops are not biodegradable, but
thin plastic bags are a bigger pro-
blem, said Mahesh. “These tend
to choke drains and waterbodies
or are just dumped with garba-
ge. Even ragpickers don’t find
value in collecting them. The
best alternative is for consumers
to carry their own bags.” But
thin bags are still in circulation
as they are dirt cheap, costing
about 10 paise each compared to
Rs 8-10 for every jute bag.
Although awareness dri-
ves are being carried out, fines
cannot be levied until the new
solid waste management by-
laws come into force, said a cor-
poration official.
other clearances from corpo-
ration, police and fire depart-
ments, on two PILs claiming
these restaurants were ope-
rating illegally.
The petitions also under-
line lack of enough entry or
exit roads for emergency ve-
hicles.
HC also asked SDMC to fi-
le a detailed status report ex-
plaining under what cir-
cumstances it gave permis-
sion to eateries to construct
third floor or even higher
without examining the buil-
ding sanction plans.
It had earlier ordered po-
lice and the chief fire engine-
er to inspect Hauz Khas Villa-
The high court had
asked the authorities
to carry out a survey
Unemployed painter
hangs self in S Delhi
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: A 49-year-old
man allegedly committed
suicide by hanging himself
from a tree in south
Delhi’s Vasant Kunj on Sun-
day morning.
A morning walker infor-
med the police after seeing
the man’s body hanging
from the tree with a plastic
rope. Cops took the body to a
hospital where doctors pro-
nounced him dead. The
man, later identified as
Safekul, was a resident of a
village in the area. His house
was barely a few metres
A morning walker
informed the police
after seeing the man’s
body hanging from the
tree with a plastic rope
nearby localities. His family
members said that he was
under depression for some
time as he had not been get-
ting work. He had been
behaving in a very abnormal
fashion for the past one
week, but they never tho-
ught that he would take this
extreme step.

Why e-waste will continue to flow into city
Jayashree.Nandi
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: With the Centre
planning to reconsider tar-
gets given to companies
for collecting e-waste from
consumers and recycling
them, tonnes of e-waste may
continue to pollute waterbo-
dies, groundwater and soil in
informal recycling hubs
like Moradabad, Saharan-
pur, Delhi and other smaller
towns.
The targets for collection
and recycling — as specified in
the e-waste rules 2016 — were
to be implemented from May.
Central Pollution Control
Board (CPCB) officials told
TOI that industry bodies met
environment ministry offici-
als and the revision of e-was-
te collection targets was be-
ing considered by the mini-
stry. At present, CPCB has be-
en implementing the e-waste
rules for companies authori-
sed by the board.
The environment mini-
stry held a meeting with re-
cycling companies during
which relaxing e-waste col-
lection targets and supply
chain of e-waste was discus-
sed. “The same brands that
have submitted that they
cannot meet the targets in In-
dia are implementing exten-
ded producer responsibility
and find the exact
number of restaurants
operating in the village
away from where he was fo-
und hanging.
Safekul lived with his fa-
mily in a rented house and
His body has been shifted
to the AIIMS mortuary. “In-
quest proceedings have been
initiated in the case,” said
illegally and without worked as a painter in the DCP (south) Ishwar Singh.
INDIA AMONG TOP 3 E-WASTE GENERATORS IN ASIA prior approval by the
GLOBAL PICTURE south corporation
India generates
2 million metric In 2012, In 2014, six China is second In 2014, 15.5% of ge to find out if the emergen-
tonnes of e-waste developing countries only to the global e-waste was cy service vehicles could en-
annually countries’ generated US (4.4kg per formally collected ter the lanes in case of an
total domestic nearly half capita in 2014 and treated eventuality.
10% of it recycled compared to
e-waste overtook of all global through national The court had asked the
in formal recycling
developed ones — e-waste — US, 22kg per capita programmes authorities to ensure strict
sector, rest by in US). At 1.3kg
the West produced China, Japan, (mostly in Europe, enforcement of law in the
informal sector
23.5 MT and all Germany, India per capita, India North America, All area and also asked officials
India, according others 25.4 MT and UK stands fifth China and Japan) to carry out a survey and find
to a 2014 report, E-WASTE
TROUBLING POINTS More than 20 states COLLECTION the exact number of restau-
is among the rants operating in the village
CENTRES
top three Asian
countries in
generating e-waste.
1 Emissions of dioxins/heavy
metals — lead, cadmium,
mercury — in the environment
3 Spent fluids/chemicals getting
soaked into soil
More than 15
RUN BY
COMPANIES
illegally and without prior
approval from the south cor-
The others are
China (6 MT) and 2 Release of other contaminants
like brominated flame
4 Contamination of
groundwater
More than 10
IN STATES
poration.
Hauz Khas Village — a
hub of restaurants, pubs, art
5 Risk of leachate from non- None
Japan (2.2 MT) retardants (BFRs) recyclables diverted to landfills galleries and fashion studios
—came under high court
(EPR) abroad ,” said P Part- only 40,000 tonnes get recy- me e-waste in 2017, and mobi- director at Toxics Link, said, scanner after PILs filed by
hasarathy, managing direc- cled by formal recycling com- le manufacturers are manda- “My true concerns are that one Pankaj Sharma and ad-
tor of E-Parisara, one of the panies. This hasn’t increased ted to collect 30% of that. these rules were drafted after vocate Anuja Kapur said that
first formal e-waste recyc- even after the e-waste rules However, industry bodies comprehensive consultation a number of restaurants we-
ling companies that has a re- 2016 came into force last Octo- such as Manufacturers’ Asso- with all stakeholders. Any re running illegally, bars we-
cycling unit in Gurgaon. ber. The rules specify that ciation of Information Techno- further dilution or delay will re serving liquor without li-
Parthasarathy added, firms collect 30% of the e- logy (MAIT), Indian Cellular cause serious environmental cences and no safety norms
“Some of the Japanese and waste generated by them in Association (ICA) and others pollution and will push for were being followed.
Korean companies have an the first two years of imple- had recently met the environ- recycling in the unauthori- There is a gross violation
elaborate collection system mentation of the rules. ment ministry to demand a re- sed sector. Moving to formal of emergency exit, according
abroad. In China, the govern- The rules state the avera- laxation in these targets. recycling would have cataly- to the pleas. In all, 120 restau-
ment provides incentives to ge age of various electronic “We are not sure of the as- sed job creation.” rants and pubs have come up
recyclers by collecting mo- equipment. For example, for surances given to us unless NGT had last month di- in the area in the past 10 years
ney from producers to fund a smart phones it’s 5 years, for changes in targets are notified rected that anyone found without any building plan
part of the recycling process. printers and cartridges it’s 10 —30% is an impractical target dumping e-waste on the approval from SDMC.
But, there are no such incen- years, for refrigerators 10 ye- and can’t be achieved for banks of river Ramganga in The bench has already is-
tives in India.” ars, and so on. So all the now,” said Anwar Shirpurwa- Moradabad would pay Rs 1 sued notice to the Centre, the
Currently, of the 2 million smart phones, which were la, executive director, MAIT. lakh as environment com- Delhi government, Delhi Poli-
tonnes of e-waste generated sold in 2012, technically beco- Satish Sinha, associate pensation charge. ce and SDMC and sought their
responses on the issue by July
24. The pleas sought a comple-

S corp cracks whip on 2.6k food vendors

te ban on pubs and bars run-
ning illegally in the village.

AlokKNMishra@timesgroup.com why nobody wants to invest money in buying more

New Delhi: Delhi may be known for its delectable stre-
et food, but what we don’t know is whether such food is
fit for consumption or not. The south corporation has
been closely monitoring the street food stalls in the past
seven months and taken action against 2,623 vendors for
littering and “unauthorised vending”.
Most vendors in Delhi are found to be flouting food
hygiene codes—they store the food in an unhygienic con-
dition and the water they use in cooking is often impure.
The sites where they operate are infested with insects
and pests and they rarely use pest control measures.
Besides, littering by roadside stalls is a major pro-
blem as this causes diseases like cholera and diarrhoea
to spread quickly during the monsoon. “The action was
taken against unauthorised vendors under the Delhi
Municipal Corporation Act, 1957. Unauthorsied parking
is a major issue since customers who flock to these ven-
dors park their vehicles on the roadside and litter the
area,” said municipal health officer B K Hazarika.
According to National Association of Street Ven-
dors of India (NASVI), there are around 40,000 ven-
dors in the Delhi. But the real problem is: most of
them operate illegally, thus posing a health hazard to
customers. “You cannot expect a street food vendor to
follow the blue book of hygiene when you have not gi-
ven him a vendor’s licence. The corporation has re-
moved thousands of street food vendors in south Del-
hi and seized their belongings,” said Arvind Singh,
TASTE YES, BUT HEALTH? Most vendors in Delhi are
found to be flouting food hygiene norms
national coordinator of NASVI.
Fear is a constant companion for a majority of
these vendors. “The civic staff conduct surprise in-
spections and take away their belongings. This is
utensils and containers,” Singh added.
“My utensils were seized by municipal inspec-
tors last month. I want to start a proper shop, but they
are not giving us a licence. I can ensure quality when I
get better infrastructure,” said Mohan Lal, who sells
snacks in east Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar.
The vendors are governed by two laws—Food Safety
Act, 2011 and Street Vending Act, 2014—but, none of
them are being implemented properly. “No vendor has
been given licence in Delhi in the past 20 years. The food
safety department has started a training programme
for them since last year. Though the process to award li-
cence has started, the majority are operating without
this key document,” said a NASVI official.
It is also alleged that the food safety department
does not carry out raids to monitor the quality of
food on a regular basis. “The corporations should in-
form us before launching a drive against them so
that we can take samples. But that’s rarely done,” sa-
id Mrinalini Darswal, commissioner, department of
food safety.
The department also lacks proper infrastructure
and adequate manpower. An official said it had only
five inspectors against the requirement of 31. “There
is a huge shortage of chemists as well. The proposal
to get the tests done in private laboratories is pending
for approval,” the official added. Meanwhile, NASVI
members will stage a demonstration at Civic Centre
on Thursday over the issue of licence.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2017

Car spare part How do you

assess threat It’s been weeks
that this filth and
debris has not
Monsoon offer
from SDMC

sparks panic at IGI perception: HC SANGAM VIHAR

Cargo Terminal Cordoned Off For An Hour
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Panic gripped the
cargo terminal at IGI airport
on Wednesday morning after a
suspected improvised explosi-
ve device (IED) was detected
there during screening.
Security personnel said
they had noticed a “suspicio-
us” object in one of the pack-
ages, booked for Goa, at the
cargo terminal around
7.15am. The device looked
like an IED. Authorities im-
mediately cordoned off the
area and called in the
bomb detection and disposal
squad (BDDS) of CISF.
Personnel from Bureau of
Civil Aviation Security were
also roped in.
However, the object was
declared negative after a tho-
rough examination was car-
ried out. The cargo terminal
remained cordoned off for
over an hour. It turned out to
be a motor spare part later.
“The bomb disposal team re-
ached on time and the threat
was declared negative aro-
und 9.03am. It was nothing
but a car spare part with wi-
res connected to it.
Initially, it appeared to be a
modified explosive device,
which created panic. The
consignment was handed
over to the airline concer-
ned,” said a CISF officer.
Airport officials said the
entire cargo was then thoro-
ughly scanned and security
personnel were asked to keep
a close eye on each item arri-
ving at the airport. IB, Delhi
Police and DIAL officials we-
re present at the location af-
ter the area was cordoned off.
I-DAY ALARM: X-Ray machine
spotted a suspicious
object in one of the
packages headed for Goa
This is the second such
incident at the airport in a
week. Last week, a chemical
leak was noticed from one of
the consignments, which
had arrived from Brussels.
The substance was later de-
clared non-hazardous. Qu-
ick reaction team (QRT) and
the aircraft rescue and fire-
fighting (ARFF) personnel
were also called in to check
the paint-like substance.
“Security has been be-
efed up ahead of Indepen-
dence Day and each item is
being checked and scanned
thoroughly,” the CISF
officer added.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Delhi high co-
urt on Wednesday asked the
Centre and Delhi Police to in-
form it about the system
adopted in assessing threat per-
ception of an individual see-
king security.
A bench of Acting Chief
Justice Gita Mittal and Justice
C Hari Shankar sought to know
about the procedure while hea-
ring a plea by Aam Aadmi
Party leader and former jour-
nalist Ashish Khetan alleging
death threat from right-wing or-
ganisations.
In his petition, Khetan has
also sought framing of guideli-
nes to be adopted by probe
agencies for dealing with such
complaints.
Taking note of the submis-
sion, the bench asked the coun-
sel for the Centre and the police
if there are any existing guideli-
nes in this regard and directed
the authorities to file a report.
The court asked the authorities
to ensure that the report appri-
ses it of the way police assess
threat perception of an indivi-
dual and provides security.
Khetan had first approa-
ched the SC which refused to in-
terfere in the matter and trans-
ferred the plea to the Delhi HC.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal,
appearing for Khetan, said
this was not a matter related to
an individual and sought fram-
ing of guidelines.
been cleared from
this residential
area of JJ Camp
Tigri, Jawahar
Park, Sangam
Vihar. SDMC must
act immediately.
Citizen Reporter
Dilip Saini
‘Holistic’ cleansing,
thanks to DJB
NARELA
Dark underbelly
of NDMC There’s a high level of chlorine in the
drinking water supplied by the Delhi
GOLE MARKET
Jal Board in village Kushak Hiranki of
Narela. Multiple complaints and
follow-ups to DJB have only resulted
in an internal blame game between
departments of the board. The
residents, meanwhile, suffer.
Citizen Reporter Gaurav Saini
The NDMC complex at Shaheed
Bhagat Singh Place, Gole Market, is
the hall of shame of a civic agency
which boasts of the cleanest areas in
the capital, even topping a
government survey. This is NDMC’s
main office — with bottomless
dustbins, dirty and stinking
washrooms — and the civic

Plea against Jamia Hamdard to offer

employees are forced to work in this
unhygienic environment.

Kejriwal to be Citizen Reporter Pragun Narang

heard in Sept 2-yr MBA in insurance

New Delhi: A Delhi court on
Wednesday said it would hear
in September a criminal defa-
mation plea filed against chief
minister Arvind Kejriwal by a
BJP youth-wing leader for alle-
gedly projecting him as the per-
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Jamia Hamdard
is planning to start a two-ye-
ar MBA course in insurance
from this academic year. The
ned professionals, but will
allow for research in this sec-
tor, create awareness and,
thus, a market for all kinds
of insurances.
The course is being rolled
MAT scores. An applicant
should have 50% aggregate in
Authorities repair open ditch in Hauz Khas
graduation to be eligible for AFTER New Delhi: After TOI
the PG course. On being BEFORE published Citizen
shortlisted, the applicant will Reporter Neeraj Gupta’s
have to appear for group dis-
T
photograph on July 28

son who reportedly assaulted
former minister Kapil Mishra.
Metropolitan magistrate
Gajender Singh Nagar, who
had earlier partly heard the ar-
guments, fixed September 1 for
further hearing on considera-
tion of the complaint which
was also filed against AAP spo-
kesperson Sanjay Singh.
The plea filed by Ankit
Bhardwaj, a state executive
member of Bharatiya Janta Yu-
va Morcha , has sought prosecu-
tion of the two AAP leaders for
the offence of defamation clai-
ming that it was his namesake
who had allegedly assaulted
Mishra. Advocate Yogesh Swaro-
op, appearing for Bhardwaj, said
his name was “wrongly taken”
in the media by describing him
as a BJYM member who had as-
saulted Mishra on May 10. PTI
course, comprising four se-
mesters, will be run under
School of Management and
Business Studies. Officials
said this course is important
for students to explore the in-
surance sector, which has be-
en largely underdeveloped
in the country.
The varsity’s vice-chan-
cellor Seyed Hasnain said In-
dia contributes only 1.5% to
the world’s total insurance
premium. “This is despite
the country being one of the
fastest growing economies.
We are emerging as a world
superpower, but have very
few people getting themsel-
ves insured. The country is
lagging behind in the insu-
rance sector,” he added.
Hasnain said the course
will not only help create trai-
out in association with Ase-
an Institute of Insurance
and Risk Management (AI-
IRM), an organisation invol-
ved in insurance education
JOB-ORIENTED
and training. Officials said
that involvement of AIIRM
will put the course in-sync
with the industry, thereby
making graduates employ-
able and industry-ready.
The university is plan-
ning to admit 60 students
per batch with fees of Rs 1
lakh per semester. The cour-
se has been approved by Uni-
versity Grants Commission.
Plans are afoot to apply for
AICTE approval.
Candidates will be selec-
ted for the course on CAT/
cussion and personal intervi-
ew. The weightage of perso-
nal interview will be 15%.
The curriculum will have
a heavy practical component
interspaced with training
and research programmes.
Officials said the 50% theory
component of the curricu-
lum will be taught by profes-
sors of the management
school, while the specialised
component will be taught by
industry professionals.
The VC has assured 100%
placement after completion
of the course as there is a high
demand and supply disparity
in the industry. An industry
expert said there are current-
ly vacancies for 36,000 trained
professionals, while there are
just 260 graduates in the insu-
rance sector.
2,300 CPWD buildings
unsafe: Around 2,297
residential buildings under Illegal structures:
the CPWD have been
N corp transfers
identified as “unsafe”, Lok
Sabha was informed on
Wednesday. The unsafe
buildings under the New
3 for failing to act
Delhi Municipal Council
stands at 124, Union MoS
for home affairs Hansraj G
Ahir said. PTI
Paras.Singh@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: The north corpo-
ration seems to be braving
many odds in its fight against
unauthorised construction in
areas under its jurisdiction. In
the past financial year, the civ-
ic body has taken action ag-
ainst almost 4,600 illegal units,
but the results are not as desir-
ed given the lengthy complicat-
ed process, lack of ground staff
and multiplicity of agencies.
Earlier, the high court had
reprimanded the three corpo-
rations over their laxity and
said that removal of road-
blocks is necessary for getting
rid of encroachments.
Acting on TOI’s report on
Wednesday that highlighted
the failure of the e-complaints
website, north corporation
commissioner P K Gupta or-
dered transfer of three engi-
neers from zones where the
complaints were not being ad-
dressed speedily.
“Since April 2016, over
3,000 buildings have been
booked for violating norms.
Out of the 4,600 cases, 380
buildings were sealed and
demolition orders were passed
for 1,563 sites. Demolition was
carried out at 1,593 sites with
ongoing construction and 982
buildings where the unauthor-
ised structure was already in
place,” Gupta said while pre-
senting the action taken re-
port on such illegal structures.
After receiving a complaint
of an unbarricaded
ditch near the Hauz
Khas Metro station,
which had been left open for many days, the
authorities swung into action and repaired the
manhole and covered it the same day. The ditch
was especially dangerous as it was at a corner
and put pedestrians’ lives at risk. TNN
regarding unauthorised con-
struction, a building department
team and junior engineer of the
area visits the site for inspection
where maps and FAR allocations
are verified.
“We are facing acute staff
crunch at the very first level.
Almost 160 out of 300 sanc-
tioned JE posts are lying va-
cant since trifurcation. A
requisition was sent to
Delhi Subordinate Services
Selection Board (DSSSB),
which is the recruiting agen-
cy, but no recruitment has
taken place in the past five
years,” Gupta said.
TIMES IMPACT
With the current staff
strength, the civic body can on-
ly handle 7-8 cases per zone ev-
ery month even though the vi-
olations are increasing expo-
nentially, said an official.
After conducting an in-
spection, a report is submitted
to the building department
headquarters. If the violation
is proved, then the offender is
booked. A notice is issued after
which building owners can ap-
proach the appellate tribunal
and the courts.
If the illegal construction
charge is proven, then demoli-
tion is carried out by the corpo-
ration and charges levied on
the offender. “In the last finan-
cial year, north corporation le-
vied Rs 27.4 lakh as demolition
charges. ,” Gupta added.
I M PAC
DCW to meet
UGC on Hindu
hostel fee row
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Delhi Commis-
sion of Women is planning to ar-
range a meeting with the MHRD
minister and the University
Grants Commission chairman
over the disparity in disbursal of
funds to the Hindu College for bo-
ys and girls hostel.
The meeting has been plan-
ned after a response by the prin-
cipal to DCW explaining the re-
ason behind the fee variations
of both the hostels.
In the reply, principal Anju
Srivastava explained that the
boys’ hostel was built with UGC
funding in the 1950s and has sin-
ce been getting an annual main-
tenance grant of Rs 60,00,000.
While the girls’ hostel has been
built independently without
any external assistance. So the
hostel fee for girls has been fix-
ed at Rs 61,000 including Rs 4,000
refundable security.
In the reply to DCW, Srivas-
tava insists that the difference
in the fee was “due to non-avai-
lability of annual maintenance
grant from UGC or government
agency for the girls’ hostel”.
After receiving the college
reply, DCW chief Swati
Maliwal has sought an appoint-
ment with MHRD minister Pra-
kash Javadekarto discuss the
disparity. She has also assured
that a solution to the issue
would be worked out with the
UGC chairman.
The students of the college,
however, are planning to hold a
protest on Thursday on the
college campus over the issues
of transparency of informa-
tion regarding the hostel and
fee disparity.

‘Uphaar accused won’t apologise’

TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The two employees of
Ansal brothers who had been
asked to tender proper apologies to
the chairperson of Association of
Victims of Uphaar Tragedy (AVUT),
Neelam Krishnamoorthy, have
refused to get the apology published
in newspapers.
The two accused, P S Sharma and
Deepak Kathpalia, are facing
prosecution for allegedly threate-
ning Krishnamoorthy on the court
premises in 2007. On May 27,
they had tendered “unconditional
apologies” to her.
Speaking to TOI, Krishnamoort-
hy said, “The apologies they had ten-
dered were vague so the court direc-
ted them to tender a proper apology
and then get it published in two new-
spapers. However, their lawyer made
a statement that they are not going to
get it published.”
Krishnamoorthy has claimed
that she and her husband were ha-
rassed by the accused on the court
premises on the evening of May 10,
2007 when they were coming out of
the courtroom. They had threatened
her, clicking her photos and passed
lewd remarks, she has alleged. The
court will now hear the matter rela-
ted to the framing of charges against
the accused on August 11.
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3 out of 100 mothers 19 yrs or below Save Yamuna: Flower waste

Ironically, Number Of Children Dying Before Turning One Shows A Decline
DurgeshNandan.Jha
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Maternal morta-
lity rates in Delhi have increa-
sed marginally—from 0.37 per
1,000 live births in 2015 to 0.41
in 2016. In another worrying
trend, the percentage of tee-
nage pregnancies has gone up
significantly. According to go-
vernment data, three out of
every 100 women (3.10%), who
delivered kids in Delhi in 2016,
were 19 years and below.
The percentage of women
from this age group delive-
ring kids stood at 2.75, 1.93,
2.03 and 2.21 in 2015, 2014, 2013
and 2012, respectively.
Dr Alka Kriplani, professor
and head of obstetrics and gy-
naecology division at AIIMS,
said lack of education and poor
knowledge about the use of
contraceptive methods is the
main reason behind the increa-
se in teenage pregnancy.
“Younger women are at a
higher risk of developing anae-
mia and hypertension if they
get pregnant. It increases the
risk of mortality too,” she said.
Another gynaecologist said
WORRYING TREND
% DISTRIBUTION
OF BIRTHS BY AGE
OF MOTHER
Rise in teenage
mothers is in contrast
to increase in women
having kids later in life
Teenage mother %
(19 or under)
2007
2.0
3.1
2016
that teenagers from sound eco-
nomic background are able to
get abortion done for unwan-
ted pregnancy, but those from
poor families often have to car-
MATERNAL
MORTALITY RATE
(per thousand live births)
MMR rising despite increasing
hospital deliveries: Does that
indicate poor quality of maternal
sevices? Is a higher number of
under-19 mothers a factor?
MMR
(per thousand live births)
1.5
0.41
0.26 0.37
0 2016
2007 2010 2011 2012 2015 2016
ry through the motherhood ris-
king their own life.
“Some girls do not know
how to avoid getting pregnant:
sex education is lacking. They
HOSPITAL BIRTH
AS % OF TOTAL
BIRTHS
Steady increase in
institutional births.
Interestingly, 67.2% of
institutional births happened
in government facilities
Institutional births
(In %)
2007
74.57
86.74
may feel inhibited or ashamed
to seek contraception servi-
ces,” states the World Health
Organisation (WHO). It adds
that reducing marriage before
the age of 18 and creating un-
derstanding and support to re-
duce pregnancy before the age
of 20 can help prevent teenage
pregnancy.
On the brighter side, the
Delhi government’s birth and
death registration data shows
significant reduction in in-
fant mortality rate (IMR),
children who die before tur-
ning a year old. IMR in Delhi
has gone down from 23.25 per
1,000 live births in 2015 to 21.35
in 2016. It is the lowest since
2009s when IMR was recorded
at 18.96, officials said.
Deputy chief minister Ma-
nish Sisodia, while releasing
the data on Wednesday, said
3,79,161 births were registered
in Delhi in 2016 compared with
3,74,012 in 2015 and 3,73,693 a ye-
ar ago. Sisodia said institutio-
nal births increased from
84.41% in 2015 to 86.74% in 2016.
Age-group of the mother at the
time of delivery reveals that in
maximum (43.58%) cases, it
was 20-24 years followed by
36.52% cases in 25-29 age-group
and in 16.8% cases, the age of
mother was more than 30 ye-
ars, the deputy CM said.
turned into items for havan
Jasjeev.Gandhiok@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: In a bid to keep the Yamuna cle-
an, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation
got a waste-processing machine installed at
Nigambodh Ghat, which is now preventing
up to 5 tonnes of flower waste from entering
the river every day.
Funded by the MPLAD funds of science
and technology minister Dr Harsh Vard-
han, the machine was installed by Clean In-
The green waste reprocessor prevents up to 5
dia Ventures, a private company, in April.
tonnes of flower waste from entering Yamuna daily
Officials said it has already prevented near-
ly 50 tonnes of flower waste from entering Gupta said that the machine is expected
the river. They said they have plans to in- to save upto 200 tonnes on an annual basis
stall more such machines in future. and can even be used to process organic
The machine, which is called green was- waste in the area, providing an easier way to
te reprocessor, turns the flower waste into make compost for RWAs and hotels as well.
compost which is currently be-
ing used as ‘havan saamagri’ at
the crematorium. “It has been
now more than three months
since we installed the machine
at Nigambodh Ghat and so far
we have reprocessed more than
50-60 tonnes of flower waste and
converted it into compost,
which otherwise, would have
been thrown into the Yamuna.
We aim to use this installation
as a model project so that we can
replicate it and install it at other
places on the sides of the river,”
said Alok Gupta, director of Cle-
an India Ventures.

1 held for southeast Youth found dead in Narela: The body of a 28-year-old man was found near a
drain in outer Delhi’s Narela on Wednesday morning. Police said that the man
was later identified as Manish Tanwar. A passerby called the police control room
Delhi murder after noticing the man. The victim, who had stab wounds, was taken to a hospital
where the doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. TNN
New Delhi: A day after a man was shot dead
and his sister critically injured in Ambedkar
Nagar of southeast Delhi, the leader of the gro-
up that attacked them has been arrested. The
arrested youth has been identified as Mantosh.
Probe reveals that an argument had broken
out over a lewd comment at the victim’s sister
for protesting against gambling outside their
house. A police picket has been put up in the
area fearing a brawl between the two families.
The situation got out of control when the
woman spotted their neighbours gambling
outside their house and threatened to report it
to the police. The men then allegedly passed so-
me lewd comments at her and tried to grab her
hand. She managed to get away and alert her
siblings. A fight broke out and six people were
injured in the incident.
“A molestation charge has been added to the
existing FIR. Statements of other family mem-
bers have been recorded to establish the sequ-
ence of events,” said DCP (southeast) Romil
Baaniya. Mantosh and his associates had alle-
gedly fought with the deceased and his friends
earlier and held a grudge against him. On Tu-
esday, he shot at his sister but missed and hit
the youth. The four others injured during the
incident were discharged from hospital on
Wednesday. TNN
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Growth in coal use falls in last Take issue of

10 yrs as India eyes Paris goal
Boom In the YR-WISE DATA ON CONSUMPTION
Renewable India coal
consumption
Sector: Report growth
Vishwa.Mohan
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Coal will conti-
nue to have a prime place in
India’s total energy mix for
the next many years but data
shows that the country’s coal
boom may have been over a co-
uple of years ago, much earli-
er than expected.
Over the past two years,
the country’s coal use has in-
creased by an average of just
2.2%, a sharp fall from the pre-
vious 10 years when average
annual growth was over 6%.
The findings, published by
Greenpeace’s Energydesk on
Wednesday, are significant be-
cause India, the world’s third
largest CO2 emitter after Chi-
na and the US, is seen as the
next big coal frontier. Though
the country’s per capita car-
bon emission is much less
than these top two emitters,
the decline in overall use of
simultaneous
Congress veteran
Santosh Dev dead
Jogi: Sack CM
Raman Singh
polls to people,
Modi tells MPs
BB Goswami TNN and will be kept there from
8.30am to 11am so that people
Silchar: Congress veteran can pay homage.
over Panama
papers case
coal will help India achieve its
goal under Paris climate ac- Akhilesh.Singh@timesgroup.com
and former Union minister Congress vice-president
Santosh Mohan Dev died at a Rahul Gandhi will attend New Delhi: Breakaway Cong-
cord. India has committed to nursing home in Silchar at Dev’s cremation and said the ress member Ajit Jogi deman-
0 8 produce 40% of its electricity
from non-fossil sources of
New Delhi: PM Narendra Mo-
di again stressed on holding
about 6am on Wednesday. He former minister was a peo-
was 83. ple’s leader. Party sources
ded Chhattisgarh CM Raman
Singh be sacked and investiga-
5.3 1991-96
energy by 2030 under the deal. Lok Sabha and assembly polls Hospital sources said said a number of dignitari- ted along with his son and Lok
5.1
(Avg annual %)
1996-2000 It, therefore, has planned to in states simultaneously and Dev died of multiple organ es, including APCC presi- Sabha MP Abhishek Singh in
2000-2005 4.1 scale up targets for renewable asked BJP MPs on Wednesday failure. He is survived by his dent Ripun Bora and AICC the Panama papers case.
energy capacity from 30GW to create an environment for a wife, former MLA Bithika general secretary CP Joshi, Jogi said Raman Singh and
2005-2010 7.7 by 2016-17 to 175 GW by 2021-22. public discourse on the issue. Dev, and four daughters. will be present on the occa- his son had parked billions “lo-
2010-2015 6.7 The report shows that the “Political leaders should Sushmita, his yo- sion. The state go- oted through corruption” in
2015-2017 2.2 renewable sector is certainly discuss with people the issue of ungest daughter, is vernment will be re- bogus firms abroad. He said a
booming in India due to incre- simultaneous elections of Lok the MP from Silchar. presented by PWD Chhattisgarh industrialist,
asingly cost-competitiveness Sabha and state legislative as- Dev, a seven-time minister Parimal Kamal Kishore Sarda, was lin-
Coal use in Before that, India of solar and wind energy in- semblies as frequent polls lead MP and five-time Shuklabaidya. ked to Singh and his company
India grew was witnessing stallations. “India’s demand to huge wastage of time and Union minister, was President Ram mentioned in Panama papers
by an average
+ 1.5% + 2.8% massive for the carbon-heavy fuel is money,” the PM told the MPs on admitted to Valley Nath Kovind twee- shared the same address as the
in FY2016 in FY2017
of 2.2% over annual growth not sky-rocketing and the co- Wednesday. This time, Modi in- Hospital and Rese- ted that Dev’s demi- CM’s. He warned that if action
(14m (24m
the last rates of up to untry’s energy needs will do teracted with MPs of eastern arch Centre on July Santosh Dev se was a loss for As- was not taken by October 2, he
tonnes) tonnes)
two financial 12% (notable nothing to arrest coal’s global states, including Bihar, Jhark- 26 after he suffered a sam and India. “My would sit on a dharna.
years exception: 2011) decline,” said Ashish Fernan- hand, Odisha and West Bengal. heart attack. The govern- thoughts are with the family He also urged that former
des of Greenpeace energy. Even Niti Aayog has sug- ment will perform Dev’s last and supporters of Shri San- finance minister P Chidamba-
* Coal growth for the first couple of years at the turn of the century was similarly The Greenpeace, however, gested a synchronised two-pha- rites with full state honours, tosh Mohan Dev in this hour ram’s son Karti be probed for
low to what India is experiencing at the moment
said there were a number of se LS and assembly polls from chief minister Sarbananda of grief,” PM Modi tweeted. his alleged role in securing Fo-
(But, the 2.4% growth in FY2001 and FY2002 was just marginally higher)
new coal-based power plants 2024 to ensure minimum “cam- Sonowal tweeted. He also de- Congress president So- reign Investment Promotion
in the pipeline. It said the coal paign-mode” disruption to go- clared August 3 as a local ho- nia Gandhi said Dev’s cont- Board’s nod for a media firm
RENEWABLE Renewables are Renewables also industry has experienced tro- vernance. The think tank had liday in the Barak Valley as ribution to build the party in owned by BJD MP Baijayant
ENERGY booming, with India accounted for about ubles, with many plants run- asked the Election Commis- mark of respect to Dev. the northeast would always Panda, named Oriental Com-
SCENE installing more 26% or over 1/4th of ning less than half the time sion to look into the suggestion Silchar district Congress be remembered. West Beng- munications. He said Panda
wind, solar and all new generation in due to an over-capacity and recommended setting up of publicity secretary Partha al CM Mamata Banerjee said should be probed for his links
other renewables the April ’16-March crunch. It also noted that the a working group of stakehol- Ranjan Chakrabartee said she was deeply saddened by with the Chidambarams as the
(12 GW) than coal ’17 period as slowdown in coal consump- ders for deciding a road-map. A Dev’s body had been preser- the Congress leader’s death. fomer FM’s wife Nalini was a
(8 GW) between compared to the tion growth was largely due to report in this regard needs to ved at the hospital. On “I knew him for many, many shareholder in Panda’s compa-
April-March 2017 previous year the cement, iron and industri- be finalised within six months Thursday, it will be taken to years. My deepest condolen- ny IMFA that got a loan waiver
al power generation sectors and the final blue-print will be Dev’s ancestral house in the ces to his family, friends and from the Vajpayee government
(Source: Greenpeace Energydesk) burning less. ready by next March, it said. Tarapur locality of Silchar supporters.” between 1998 and 2003. TNN

No plan to use
collegium system
to pick CEC: Govt
New Delhi: There is no proposal
to consult political parties or intro-
duce a collegium system to appoint
chief election commissioners
(CEC) and election commissio-
ners, a recommendation made by
the Law Commission in 2015, mini-
ster of state for law P P Chaudhary
told Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
In its 2015 report, the Law Com-
mission recommended that the ap-
pointment of all election commis-
sioners should be made by the Pre-
sident in consultation with a three-
member collegium or selection
committee, consisting of the PM,
the leader of opposition in Lok Sab-
ha and the Chief Justice of India.
The recommendation was sup-
ported by the election commission.
Then CEC Nasim Zaidi had favou-
red a collegium too. The BJP had
supported the idea when L K Adva-
ni had written to then PM Manmo-
han Singh in 2012. Currently, the
president appoints the CEC after
the law ministry initiates the file
for their appointment. TNN

Manipur univ
VC, BJP MLA to
get CRPF cover
Neeraj.Chauhan@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: The home ministry as-

ked the CRPF on Wednesday to pro-
vide security cover to BJP MLA
from UP’s Meerapur constituency
Avtar Singh Bhadana, vice-chan-
cellor of Manipur University Aa-
dya Prasad Pandey and RSS office-
bearer in Kerala, Sasidharan V,
among three others.
Sources said Bhadana, a for-
mer Congress MP from Faridabad,
faced threats from unknown gro-
ups and would have Y-category se-
curity whenever he was in Delhi,
Haryana, UP, J&K and Rajasthan.
Aadya Prasad Pandey, who faces
threat to his life from north-east ba-
sed insurgent groups, will also get
Y category security.
The ministry provided lower X
category security cover, which in-
cludes two guards, to Sasidharan V.
Several RSS activists have faced at-
tacks from CPM members and In-
telligence Bureau assessment sug-
gested that may be attacked.

`10L reward for

info on Pansare
murder accused
Vivek.Waghmode@timesgroup.com

Kolhapur: The Maharashtra go-

vernment has announced a Rs 10
lakh reward for information on Sa-
rang Akolkar and Vinay Pawar, the
main accused in the murder of ra-
tionalist Govind Pansare.
The SIT probing the Pansare ca-
se has already arrested two other
accused — Sameer Gaikwad and
Virendrasinh Tawade. Four
months ago, the CBI had also anno-
unced Rs 5 lakh reward for infor-
mation about Akolkar and Pawar
in connection with the murder of
rationalist Narendra Dabholkar.
Vishwas Nangre-Patil, special
inspector general, Kolhapur
Range, said, “The SIT has already
filed a chargesheet in the Pansare
murder case. We procured a non-
bailable warrant from the sessions
court on July 13 this year against
Akolkar and Pawar under section
73 of the CrPC.” Pansare and his
wife Uma were shot near their resi-
dence in 2015.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2017

‘Lalu’s freight policy ‘India’s silence on Had ‘notified’ India about

led to losses in crores’ Maldivian issue Doklam road project: China
BJP MP Seeks Probe Into Graft Allegations
will worsen crisis’ Continued from P 1 Hollongi, not Tawang, to get Arunachal airport

B A
ut brushing all this aside, mid deteriorating Sino-Indian ties, this is one news that may
Indian sources stressed soothe frayed nerves. The Arunachal Pradesh government and
Sachin.Parashar cratic Party (MDP) and others China had unilaterally Union aviation ministry have zeroed in on Hollongi as the site for a
TIMES NEWS NETWORK @timesgroup.com have often sought to play on In- broken the status quo by try- greenfield airport. Earlier the government was examining Tawang
Miffed with Nitish over JD(U)-BJP alliance dia’s fear of growing Chinese in- ing to construct a motorable —very close to Tibet (China) — as a possible site for the new airport
New Delhi: Levelling fresh
allegations of graft against
in Bihar, Sharad may float new party New Delhi: With the army tak- fluence in Maldives. “Yameen no
ing control of the Maldives’ par- longer even pretends to respect
road in the Doklam area,
which was physically blocked
but due to paucity of land needed for the project, Hollongi has been
selected. “The state government of Arunachal and a panel of
RJD chief Lalu Prasad du-
ring his tenure as railway
M iffed over Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s decision to rejoin the
NDA, former JDU president Sharad Yadav may float a
new party and participate in a convention of
liament, the sound of India’s si- the law or the Constitution. He
lence is becoming increasingly turns a blind eye to Islamic radi-
by Indian troops on June 18.
They said this violated the
aviation ministry has chosen Hollongi as the site for a new
Greenfield airportAAI chairman Guruprsdad Mohapatra told TOI.
minister, BJP MP Nishi- unbearable for the unified Mal- calism and entertains partner- 2012 pact between their two “Tawang was a very hilly site. Clearing a site for an airport there
opposition parties in New Delhi ahead of the JDU’s
kant Dubey demanded in divian opposition. In an exclu- ships that undermine Indian special representatives that would have meant cutting-and-filling hills which would have had a
national executive meet in Patna on August 19.
the Lok Sabha on Wednes- sive interaction with TOI, for- Ocean stability,” said Nasheed. the trijunction boundary high cost,” said an official. Saurabh Sinha TNN
Sources said the veteran politician’s participation
day that the dual freight po- mer president Mohamed Nash- The joint opposition is wor- points would be finalised in
in the opposition convention would reiterate his
licy adopted during his te- eed and top leader of the four- ried that India’s reaction until consultation with Bhutan. Apart from the over 6,000 Bhutan, still less the right to
displeasure against Nitish. “Sharadji is also
nure be probed as it had re- party joint opposition said that now has been limited to what it The lengthy Chinese state- soldiers already deployed un- make territorial claims on
contemplating to launch a new party for which he is in talks with
sulted in a loss of thou- the silence of regional powers sees as a wishy-washy response ment seemed to be an attempt der two formations (63 and 112 Bhutan's behalf,” it said.
friends and supporters,” the Rajya Sabha MP’s close aide Vijay
sands of crores to the will allow the chaos in the archi- to a query on Maldives in a rou- to assuage hawkish senti- Brigades) in east and north- China took the rare step
Verma told reporters in Madhepura on Wednesday. He also
exchequer. pelago to worsen, throwing the tine ministry of external affairs ments at home and prepare east Sikkim, the Indian Army of using a non-paper (a dis-
ruled out the possibility of Sharad joining the Union cabinet.
Raising the issue during region into disarray. briefing. “Maldives is very the ground for what will even- has also moved up another cussion paper, not a formal
Soon after Nitish’s realignment with the NDA last
zero hour, Dubey said rail- “It is worrying that, important neighbour of tually be a mutual troop with- 2,500 soldiers from the 164 Bri- agreement) of the May 2006
Wednesday, Sharad met opposition leaders, including CPM’s
ways had adopted the dual even when red lines are ours. It is part of SAARC. drawal, while also trying to gade to Zuluk and Nathang India-China boundary talks
Sitaram Yechury, CPI’s D Raja, Congress veteran Ghulam Nabi
freight policy under which crossed, regional powers We attach the highest im- sell to the international com- Valley in the state as rein- as proof that the two coun-
Azad and RLD’s Ajit Singh. Sharad said that the 2015 Bihar
rates were different for remain silent and inactive portance to our relations munity that India was the real forcements, as was first re- tries had already agreed to a
mandate was not in favour of Nitish’s alliance with the NDA.
transporting goods meant because that can allow the with Maldives. India wish- aggressor in the Doklam dis- ported by TOI. border alignment in the Sik-
He termed the disintegration of the Grand Alliance as
for domestic and internatio- chaos and conflict to spi- es to see a stable, prosper- pute. “India, in fact, came to The Chinese foreign min- kim region. In doing so, said
“unpleasant and unfortunate”. JDU secretary general K C
nal purposes. But iron ore ral out of control,” Nash- ous and peaceful Maldives Bhutan’s aid to prevent China istry, on its part, claimed Beij- sources, Beijing may have vi-
Tyagi, however, claimed that Sharad was unlikely to float a Nasheed
transported for domestic eed told TOI. “The Mal- in which aspirations of from bullying the tiny coun- ing had “notified India in ad- olated the principle of secre-
political party. “We are aware of his dissent. He had
purposes was allegedly ex- dives is in full blown political cri- people of Maldives are fulfilled,” try,” said a source. vance in full reflection of Chi- cy by making public a sensi-
differences with Nitish Kumar in the past as well, including on
ported later, mostly to Chi- sis. President Yameen’s troops the spokesperson had said in re- Around 300-350 Indian na’s goodwill” before it start- tive issue pertaining to the
the issue of demonetisation,” Tyagi said. Sharad remains the
na, which hosted the 2008 continue to occupy parliament, sponse to a media query. troops, with two bulldozers, ed the road building activity boundary negotiations
founder-president of the JDU and commands respect in the
Beijing Olympics, he said. forcibly evicting opposition MPs In stark contrast to India’s si- continue to maintain their on June 16. But Beijing also among special representa-
party, he said. “We have invited him to the party’s national
During his speech, Du- and preventing the legislature lence, countries like US and UK “non-aggressive” vigil at the seemed to be changing tack by tives of the two countries.
executive meet in Patna on August 19,” Tyagi added. RJD chief
bey said a CAG report on from functioning,” he added. have spoken out against the at- actual face-off site in the Dok- saying the dispute was be- The Chinese ministry
Lalu Prasad, too, is trying to woo Sharad.
the subject had pegged the Constrained by strategic ob- tempts to impede the functioning lam area, which is located at tween China and Bhutan, and said, “The fact of the matter is
Piyush Tripathi TNN
resultant losses at Rs 30,000 jectives, not least the presence of parliament in the country. an altitude of over 11,000 feet. India had nothing to do with that it is India which has at-
crore. Dubey al- of China which is now said to Maldives remains the only coun- “There has been no troop re- it. It had earlier projected the tempted time and again to
so alleged that TMC mem- ordered a CBI probe into account for 70% of the Mal- try in India’s neighbourhood duction by India on the Doklam issue as an India-Chi- change the status quo of the
subsequent rail- ber Dinesh Tri- the matter. Trivedi said, dives’ external debt, India has which is yet to see a visit by PM ground. Around the same na tussle to avoid being ac- China-India boundary in the
way ministers, vedi, who ser- “This is a serious subject found it difficult to sound exces- Modi. The present crisis in the number of PLA troops are cused of grabbing territory Sikkim sector, which poses a
including Tri- ved as railway and the railways was chea- sively critical of Yameen whose Maldives was brought about by present at the face-off site. from a small country. grave security threat to Chi-
namool Cong- minister, de- ted. The loss cited is much government stands accused of Yameen’s decision to deploy Both sides have pitched tents “The China-Bhutan bou- na.” The action by Indian
ress chief Ma- fended Baner- more. I had asked for a CBI subverting democratic institu- troops in parliament, People’s at a distance of 120-150 meters ndary issue is one between troops to block the road con-
mata Banerjee, jee for her ho- inquiry, but the the probe is tions in the country Majlis, in an attempt to deny the from each other across the China and Bhutan. It has noth- struction in an area where
did not take any nesty and told going slow. I urge the go- Ironically, in their attempts to opposition a no-confidence mo- Torsa Nala. But there is no ing to do with India. As a third there is “a clear and delimited
action against the House that vernment to fast-track the get India to ensure free and fair tion it had sought against the gun-pointing or animosity be- party, India has no right to in- boundary” is “fundamentally
the alleged ir- as railway mi- case so that it is taken to its elections, which are due next Speaker, who is described by the tween the rival troops,” the terfere in or impede the bound- different from past frictions,”
regularity. Lalu Prasad nister, he had logical conclusion.” year, Nasheed’s Maldivian Demo- MDP as a Yameen crony. source said. ary talks between China and said the statement.
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Appoint a full-time
sherpa for G20 meet:
Panagariya to PM
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Niti Aayog vice-
chairman Arvind Panagari-
ya, who announced his deci-
sion to step down from his
post on Tuesday, has suggest-
ed to the government that the
role of the sherpa for G20
meetings be separated from
the government think tank. In
a letter to PM Narendra Modi,
where he sought his permis-
sion to go back to his Colum-
bia University teaching job,
Panagariya said to ensure
that the work of the Aayog and
G20 engagements received
due attention, it would be
worth considering separating
the roles in the future.
“A full-time G20 sherpa
would in any case be a necessi-
ty if India were to host the G20
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Headmistress in dock over massage from pupil
Sambalpur: The headmistress of Sikirdi Project Upper Primary
School under Dhankauda block in the district was suspended after
a video of her getting a head massage from a student went viral
on Tuesday. Though the teacher admitted of receiving a massage
from the student, she claimed that it happened two years ago. TNN
summit in the future,” he said
in his letter to the PM.
He said the recent G20
summit in Hamburg had
shown India’s growing statu-
re on the world stage and the
attention that the PM re-
ceived. This, he said, showed
that the work of the G20 sher-
pa would expand in future.
When the NDA government
took office, railway minister
Suresh Prabhu was the sher-
pa for a short period. Once Pa-
nagariya assumed office he
was given the responsibility of
being the sherpa for the G20
meetings. Sherpa’s are senior
policymakers who do the
groundwork for their leaders
and play a key role in framing
the communique of the G20
summit as well as giving di-
rection to the summit.
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TIMES NATION | I-T Crackdown
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2017
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Tax Raids On Karnataka MLA Rock Parliament K S Sridhar

Ahmed Patel: Minister was

Cong says govt BJP is on
‘abusing power’, witch-hunt for destroying papers
just 1 RS seat
stages walkout TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Congress said inco-

TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The income tax ra-
ids in Karnataka dominated
both Houses of Parliament on
Wednesday with Congress alle-
ging that the NDA government
was “misusing” the I-T depart-
ment to “terrorise” its MLAs
from Gujarat. While the Cong-
ress staged a walkout in Lok
Sabha, disruptions in Rajya
Sabha led to the House being
adjourned repeatedly.
Leader of Congress in Lok
Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge ac-
EC seeks report
from fin secy on
Cong complaint
T he EC on Wednesday evening
sought a “factual report”
from the finance secretary on
Congress’ allegation that its
MLAs from Gujarat were
intimidated by central forces in a
Karnataka resort during an
income tax raid, a senior poll
panel functionary said. The
me tax raids on a Karnataka mi-
nister with the
help of parami-
litary forces
had made it cle-
ar that the Modi
government
had declared a
war on the lead opposition par-
ty even as it said the entire ac-
tion was being carried out just
to influence the Rajya Sabha
elections in Gujarat.
Ahmed Patel, political se-
cretary to Congress chief Sonia
Gandhi, is the party candidate
when raided: FM
Continued from P 1
DK: Congress’ go-to
man for all seasons
J
aitley said the I-T team had
gone to Eagleton Resort as
Shivakumar was present
there and was destroying
documents crucial for the
K arnataka’s energy minister
DK Shivakumar, who was
raided by the Income Tax
probe and, therefore, had to be
brought to his Bengaluru resi-
dence for questioning. He de-
department on Wednesday,
wears several hats. For the
Congress high command, he is
nied that the timing was dic- the muscle man, crowd puller
tated by political events, say- and mobiliser, and above all, a
ing, “A particular individual dependable trouble-shooter in
was to be searched... He had times of crisis.
Karnataka energy minister DK Shivakumar outside his house during the I-T raids in Bengaluru on Wednesday gone and parked himself in But Kumar’s asset value is
that resort.” probably the highest as the

BJP unites with Cong, wants

cused the government of rui-
ning “the ethos of democracy”
and demanded that the Centre
explain why Congress MLAs
were being subject to a witch
hunt and vendetta politics. He
said, “The political vendetta
unleashed by the government
using central investigation
agencies against opposition
party leaders, particularly in
Karnataka, for their political
gain points to a dangerous ten-
dency in the country, which
will ruin the very ethos of de-
mocracy, and warrants a clari-
fication.” Even as Congress
MPs stormed into the well and
raised slogans questioning the
government on Panama papers
and the GSPC scam, Congress
leaders in Lok Sabha alleged
the timing of the raids was su-
spect and that BJP was trying
to use the opportunity to score
politically in the impending Ra-
jya Sabha polls in Gujarat.
Denying any raids on the
Gujarat MLAs holed up in the
Eagleton Resort in Bengaluru,
finance minister Arun Jaitley
clarified that the raids were
conducted following corrup-
tion cases against the Karnata-
ka minister and his aides. Jait-
functionary, who refused to be
quoted, said the finance
secretary has been asked to
send a “factual report by Friday
evening”. Earlier, a Congress
delegation met EC and sought its
intervention in ensuring that no
coercive steps were taken
against its MLAs to “force” them
to switch sides. PTI
ley also said the I-T raids should
be seen in the context of cor-
ruption cases against them,
and not in the light of RS polls.
He said, “The person aga-
inst whom the search was be-
ing conducted had chosen to go
and stay in the resort. To reach
him, the I-T team had to visit
the resort. They only went the-
re to collect his statement.”
The SP, TMC and CPM, me-
anwhile, remained present but
silent in LS when Congress
MPs stormed the well of the
House and raised slogans aga-
inst the government.
In Rajya Sabha, where the
opposition is present in bigger
numbers, the response remai-
ned muted and no leaders from
CPM, BSP, SP or CPI stood up in
support of Congress despite re-
peated disruptions.
from Gujarat. Congress leader
in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun
Kharge told reporters that I-T
raids were motivated because
the raiding party went with pa-
ramilitary forces to the resort
where Gujarat MLAs are stay-
ing. The resort is owned by Kar-
nataka minister D K Shivaku-
mar who was the target of
the raids.
He questioned the govern-
ment’s claim that raids were
about action against corrup-
tion, saying the I-T raids could
have happened at Shivaku-
mar’s Bengaluru or Kanakpura
homes or a fortnight earlier or
later. Party MP Jairam Ramesh
said it was BJP’s war on Cong-
ress and not “tanashahi” (dicta-
torship) but “Amitshahi”, alle-
ging the BJP chief ’s hand be-
hind the raids. “This action on
the part of the prime minister
and the BJP president is a big
threat to our democracy…” Jai-
ram said.
Patel tweeted, “BJP is on an
unprecedented witch-hunt just
to win one Rajya Sabha seat. Af-
ter using the state machinery
and every other agency, these
I-T raids show their utter despe-
ration and frustration.”
EC to drop NOTA for RS polls
Akhilesh.Singh@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: In the season of
acrimony when BJP and Cong-
ress have locked horns on va-
rious fronts, the two arch-rivals
are on the same page — oppo-
sing use of None Of The Above
(NOTA) option in the August 8
Rajya Sabha polls in Gujarat.
Echoing views identical to
that of Congress, a delegation
of BJP comprising union mini-
ster Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and
BJP national general secretary
Bhupendra Yadav urged the
Election Commission for im-
mediate withdrawal of the or-
der for use of NOTA option in
the Rajya Sabha polls in Guja-
rat. Even before the BJP delega-
tion gave the petition, finance
minister Arun Jaitley had hin-
ted in the Rajya Sabha that the
ruling party is ready to sit
across and sort out the confu-
sion about the use of NOTA as
Sharma insisted that it had party’s ‘money bag’. According
become a trend to “brazenly to a survey done by the
abuse” state power and that Association for Democratic
the timing was important as Reforms in 2016 on ‘crorepati
Shivakumar was coordinat-
ing the safety and stay of the
MLAs. Leader of the opposi-
tion Ghulam Nabi Azad
ministers’, Kumar is the
country’s second-richest
minister with assets worth Rs 251
crore. Popularly known as ‘DK’ in
political circles, Kumar has as
Cong moves SC to get NOTA option removed chipped in to say that the Rajya
Sabha election had been vitiat- many enemies as supporters. His
R attled by defections and unsure about the loyalty of its MLAs
herded to Bengaluru, Gujarat Congress on Wednesday moved the
Supreme Court and sought a direction to abolish ‘none
ed by fear and would not be
fair. Congress leaders raised
the issue in a similar manner
detractors are mostly the seniors
in the party, which was one of the
reasons for him to lose the race
of the above’ (NOTA) option for MLAs in Rajya Sabha elections in in the Lok Sabha as well. for the KPCC president’s post. He
the state. The tax officials also con- was instead made the Congress
Congress’s state chief whip Shailesh Manubhai Parmar filed the ducted 25 surveys on firms and campaign committee chairman
petition in the SC with the basic purpose of keeping intact the already associates of the minister. for the 2018 assembly polls. “He
dented vote value of its MLAs, six of whom have defected to BJP. “The searches were planned is brash, does not respect the
Congress took the constitutional route to seek a direction from the SC much in advance and recover- seniors and shoves his ideas on
to stop the EC from offering NOTA choice to MLAs in Gujarat, even ies of huge cash were based on all,” a party functionary said. An
though the same option was available to MLAs in the recently specific information and ambitious, self-made man,
concluded Rajya Sabha polls in West Bengal. Congress’s claim of would not have been possible if Kumar has hauled himself up the
constitutional embargo against NOTA drew support from BJP, which delayed,” a top income tax offi- rungs of the political ladder. He
made a similar request to the EC on Wednesday. TNN cial said, refuting claims that unabashedly admits to being an
the raids smacked of political aspirant for the chief minister’s
the opposition had been protes- Balwantsingh Rajput, is BJP’s vendetta. Officials also said 39 post while claiming in the same
ting against the EC move. third candidate whose presen- locations could not be raided breath that he will bide his time
Gujarat RS polls have tur- ce has posed a threat to Patel. in a hurry and required and let his seniors complete their
ned into high-stakes battle with After six legislators quit the months of preparations. I-T turns at the top spot. TNN
BJP president Amit Shah, party, Congress has herded its department officials in Benga-
union minister Smriti Irani MLAs at a Bangalore resort. luru said 60 locations across the “diarygate” scandal where
and Cong chief Sonia Gandhi’s “The direction for using NOTA Karnataka, New Delhi and a diary seized from Karnataka
political secretary Ahmed Pa- in Gujarat RS polls be with- Chennai were raided from MLC K Govindraju mentioned
tel vying for three vacant seats drawn with immediate effect,” 7am on Wednesday. Shivakumar’s name under the
in the state. Congress defector, BJP said in the memorandum. The raids were based on abbreviation of “DKS”.

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Roorkee: Two girls, students of
class VI in a private secondary
school at Landaura, 8km from
Roorkee, were stripped by their
teacher in class as punishment
after they scored low marks in
the English test paper. After par-
ents of the students protested,
police registered a case against
the woman teacher under section
509 (word, gesture or act intended
to insult the modesty of a wom-
an) of IPC.
The incident that occurred on
Tuesday has prompted the edu-
cation department to ask schools
in district to introduce training
courses for teachers on “appro-
priate conduct”. Giving details
about the incident, superintend-
ent of police (rural) Manikant
Mishra said “Parents of both
girls alleged the teacher first rep-
rimanded their daughters.” PTI
VP poll: Venkaiah writes
to MPs to seek support
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: NDA vice-presidential no-
minee Venkaiah Naidu has written
to MPs seeking their
support for the elec-
tion to the constitutio-
nal post that is schedu-
led for Saturday, assu-
ring that he will up-
hold
the national values, constitutional
principles and the dignity of office.
Naidu wrote to all MPs — the two
Houses of Parliament comprise the
electoral college — pointing to his long
career in public life and in legislature.
His opponent is opposition candidate
Gopalkrishna Gandhi, seen as a non-
political figure and who has been mee-
ting various parties seeking support
for his candidature.
Naidu has given an account of his
years of public life spanning over four
decades since college and being twice
member of Andhra Pradesh assembly
and the four terms he has had in Rajya
Sabha since 1998.
Referring to his efforts to introdu-
ce change whenever opportunity ca-
me, Naidu spoke of the hard work and
passion with which he brought about
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
plays down his lineage
T wo days ahead of the
vice-presidential poll, former West
Bengal governor and opposition
nominee Gopalkrishna Gandhi said
‘what’ a VP nominee stood for mattered
more than who his parents were. A
former bureaucrat, Gandhi sought to
underplay his antecedents as the
grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and C
Rajagopalachari. He said, “The
honourable MPs comprising the
electorate for the vice-president are not
impervious to the ‘who is who’ of the
candidates, but they are mature enough
to see the ‘what is what’ in the
candidates’ record also. The time is long
past when parentage determined
political choices.”
Gandhi, who has received the
backing of TMC, BJD, AAP and the JD(U),
among others, told TOI, “I am meeting
my constituents in addition to writing to
them. MPs from the parties that invited
me to contest and MPs from parties that
have subsequently indicated their
support have been wholehearted in their
warm and enthusiastic endorsement.”
“They know as I do that the arithmetic of
BJP asks Didi to come clean
or quit over graft allegation
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Terming it an “open
and shut”case of quid pro quo in-
volving TMC chief Mamata Ba-
nerjee, BJP demanded on Wed-
nesday that the West Bengal chief
minister either come clean or quit
over corruption charges against
her nephew and TMC MP Abhis-
hek Banerjee.
“She (Mamata) has lost her
moral right to rule and she has to
give convincing answers, other-
wise she has to resign,” HRD mi-
nister Prakash Javadekar told a
press conference.
Javadekar said Mamata is fol-
lowing ‘Vadra-Tejashwi’ model of
corruption as he referred to cases
against Congress chief Sonia
Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra
and RJD's Tejashwi Yadav in Bi-
har. Javadekar alleged that Abhis-
hek Banerjee had received Rs 1.15
crore when he was director in the
firm, Leaps and Bounds Pvt Ltd,
from realtor Raj Kishore Modi,
CORNERED? Prakash Javadekar has
accused Mamata of following the
‘Vadra-Tejashwi’ model of corruption
who is accused of land grabbing.
Ironically, Mamata had staged a
protest in 2009 demanding the ar-
rest of Raj Kishore and accused
him of grabbing land for develop-
ment of IT city in Kolkata.
“The real shocker is that Ma-
mata, who had opposed the per-
mission given to the realtor, did
not withdraw the permission gi-
ven by the previous CPIM govern-
ment and allowed the project,” sa-
id Javadekar. He said the tenure
of the West Bengal CM has wit-
nessed a number of scams like
Sharada and Lotus Valley with
the IT City scam the latest in
which Banerjee herself is alle-
gedly involved.
The minister alleged that the
address at which Abhishek and
his wife, who was also a director
in the company, were shown to be
staying is the chief minister's re-
sidence at 30B, Harish Chatterjee
Road in Kolkata. He said docu-
ments revealed that fund was
transferred to Abhishek, whose INDIA DIGEST
address is that of her aunt Mama-
ta Banerjee.
Asked as if Centre will initiate CVC takes over
action against Banerjee’s nep-
hew, Javadekar clarified that it is NHAI bribe case
for the agencies to take a call but
there should be a probe and action
should follow if someone is guilty T he central Vigilance Commis-
sion (CVC) has taken over the
investigation of alleged bribe paid
of corruption. “We have evidence,
which shows corruption at hig- to the National Highways Authority
hest level...there must be a probe,” of India officials by Boston-based
the minister said. engineering consultancy firm CDM
Smith. The central watchdog has
formed a panel, including a tech-
nical examiner from CVC and chief

‘GST rates could be rationalised’

changes as a central minister in the ar-
chitecture of new schemes and pro-
grammes, processes and systems of
decision making and implementation
to ensure involvement of the states.
electoral numbers is adverse for the vigilance officer of BHEL. NHAI has
opposition. But they also know as I do identified that the company had
that there is something beyond bagged contracts for 16 projects
arithmetic in an election like this.” TNN between 2011 and 2015.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK House by a voice vote. nancy Act to such minor victims.

New Delhi: The government on
Wednesday indicated that there
could be scope for rationalisation
of rates under the goods and ser-
vices tax (GST) as its implementa-
tion progressed. The indication
came from finance minister Arun
Jaitley in Lok Sabha while reply-
ing to a debate on the Central
Goods and Services Tax (Exten-
sion to Jammu and Kashmir) Bill,
2017 and the Integrated Goods and
Services Tax (Extension to Jam-
mu and Kashmir) Bill, 2017. Both
bills, were later passed in the
Members seek early passage
of amendment to MTP Act:
The recent Supreme Court order
rejecting a 10-year-old rape survi-
vor’s plea for abortion caught the
IN PARLIAMENT
attention of members in the Ra-
jya Sabha on Wednesday with Raj-
ni Patil and Ambika Soni, both of
Congress, demanding early
amendments to the 36-year-old
Medical Termination of Preg-
DeMo had impact on theatres 4 held for carrying gun,
of violence, says Centre: The ammo to Tirumala: A gun with
14 rounds found in a car during a
government informed Parlia-
routine security check by the
ment on Wednesday that demon-
police at the Alipiri check post, the
etisation of old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000
entrance to the famous Tirupati
notes had a “significant positive
Venkateswara temple in Andhra
impact” on most “theatres of vio-
lence” in the country, including
Pradesh, created a flutter on
Wednesday. Police held four for
stone-pelting incidents in Jammu
probe. Two women and a man
and Kashmir. Minister of state for
from Maharashtra were travelling
home Hansraj Gangaram Ahir
in an SUV when police stopped
said in RS that since illegally held
them for vehicle check. Initially,
cash forms a major chunk of ter-
they objected to it, saying they
ror-funding, most of the cash held
were family members of a Pune
by terrorists turned worthless.
assistant commissioner of police.

New Isro facility to boost launch capability TOI

Launch To Replace le to assemble parallelly launch ve-

Faulty Navigation
Sat By Month-End
Surendra.Singh@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Indian Space Rese-
arch Organisation’s satellite
launch capability will soon get a
boost as the country’s solitary
launchpad centre at Sriharikota
(Satish Dhawan Space Centre) will
get a second vehicle assembly buil-
ding by the end of this year.
Talking to TOI, Isro chairman
AS Kiran Kumar said, “Because of
just one assembly building, final
assembling of components (stages
The new rocket assembly building at
Sriharikota will be ready by year-end
of rockets) was a bottleneck. The
work on the second vehicle assem-
bly building is nearly complete
and by the end of this year, it will
become operational. We will be ab-
hicles and bring them to the exis-
ting two launchpads.”
On planning to build a third
launchpad at Sriharikota High Al-
titude Range, a spindle-shaped is-
land on the east coast of Andhra,
Kumar said, “We have not reached
the limit of two launchpads. Once
we are able to assemble more rock-
ets but not able to launch them
even by reducing launch timings,
then we will start work on the third
launchpad. We first need approval.
So, we are working to eliminate all
bottlenecks to increase frequency
of launches.” With the new facility,
Isro can launch 12 rockets in a year
from the current seven.
On missions planned in the se-
cond half of this year, Kumar said,
“We are trying for 3 to 4 launches
by year-end. The replacement for
the first navigational satellite
IRNSS-1A will be launched by
month-end.” The need for repla-
cing IRNSS-1A, one of the seven sa-
tellites in India’s navigation sy-
stem, was felt after three atomic
clocks (meant to provide precise
locational data) of the satellite
stopped working.
On big missions next year, Ku-
mar said, “The launch of the
Chandrayaan-2 mission and the
second developmental flight of
GSLV Mk III D2 is due.” With Rs230
crore earned through foreign sa-
tellite launches in 2015-16, Isro’s
share is just 0.6% of the global
launch services market worth
Rs38,000 crore.
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THE TIMES OF INDIA, NEW DELHI
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2017
Young lawyers outgun veterans, 116 terrorists killed
impress SC bench in privacy debate
Dhananjay.Mahapatra
@timesgroup.com ‘Keep service
New Delhi: The apex court on
Wednesday raised a toast to
two young legal guns, who op-
posed giving constitutional
status to right to privacy thro-
ugh lucid articulation of facts,
case laws and illuminating de-
ductions based on judgments
of the US Supreme Court.
Two weeks ago, the Supre-
me Court started a debate on
whether privacy is a funda-
mental right with a six-hour ti-
me limit but the complexity of
the issue stretched the argu-
ments, with legal stalwarts
consuming most of the time to
wage a bitter legal battle for
and against privacy getting
constitutional status.
Those who argued against
privacy being inserted as a
fundamental right in the
Constitution were attorney
general K K Venugopal, senior
advocates C A Sundaram and
Rakesh Dwivedi and additio-
nal solicitor general Tushar
Mehta. They were opposing
those advocating privacy as a
fundamental right — Gopal
Subramanium, Kapil Sibal,
Soli J Sorabjee, Shyam Divan,
Sajan Poovayya, Anand Gro-
‘Public consultation needed
for draft data protection bill’
Kim.Arora@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Data protection
is closely connected to priva-
cy and the process to formula-
te a bill on the subject must in-
volve a public consultation,
experts say.
Raman Jit Singh Chima of
the Internet Freedom Founda-
tion, points to the lack of pub-
lic consultation on drafting
the bill, and the paucity of ti-
me given to the newly-formed
nine-member Srikrishna com-
mittee. “There seems to be no
public consultation on the is-
sue. The notification states the
committee has eight weeks.
Rushing through the task like
this doesn’t bode well. One has
to talk to experts, including
critics, as part of this pro-
cess,” says Chima.
Mishi Choudhary, legal
Reluctance in declaring brain ‘Momentum has certainly picked
death hurting organ donation up
Tina Ambani
Problem More
Severe In
Public Hosps
Team TOI
E
very brain-dead per-
son is a potential or-
gan donor who beco-
mes an actual giver
only after the family
has consented for retrieval of
organs. Experts point out that
despite growing awareness, the
conversion from recognition of
brain death to organ donation
is abysmally low in India.
The estimated national con-
version rate is 15-20%, though a
few states have outdone the na-
tional average. Kerala, for in-
stance, has the best conversion
rate at 90%, while Tamil Nadu
and Maharashtra’s rates are
67% and 57% respectively. Ma-
ny of these states have passed
strictures making it mandato-
ry to report brain deaths, yet in
2016, only 807 brain deaths were
reported from the country’s 301
transplant centres. Hospitals,
particularly public, have been
faltering in identifying and de-
claring brain deaths. The con-
version rates at public hospi-
tals, even in states with success-
ful programmes, is less than
their private counterparts.
While refusal from families
is often cited as the key reason,
it certainly isn’t the sole cause.
Hesitancy of doctors in decla-
ring brain death, lack of know-
ledge about the procedure and
absence of counsellors at ho-
spitals are equally hurting the
conversion rates. Dr Noble Gra-
cious, nodal officer of Kerala
Network for Organ Sharing, sa-
id majority of the cadaver do-
nations in the state is initiated
by the donor family.
Data from the Maharash-
tra’s public health department
shows that of 584 people who
were identified as brain dead
since 2012, families of 335 con-
sented to donate their organs.
The 57% conversion rate resul-
ted in 1,064 lives being saved. It
contributed to 483 kidney, 257 li-
ver and 65 heart transplants.
“Over 90% of brain deaths oc-
in J&K this year
SC heard the duo with rapt attention
ver and Meenakshi Arora.
Appearing after these tall
lawyers, advocates Arghya
Sengupta and Gopal Sankara-
narayanan argued to oppose
the crowded pro-privacy gro-
up of senior advocates. Given
their lightweight status, both
were given 15 minutes each.
But such was their finesse
in analysing the cross-conti-
nental constitutional posi-
tion, especially in the US, of
right to privacy and the out of
box thinking in projecting the
undefinable nature of priva-
cy that the bench heard them
in rapt attention. The outspo-
ken ones among the nine jud-
ges — Justices Chelameswar,
Bobde, Nariman and Chand-
rachud — lost their speech.
When the two finished
their quota of time which had
stretched to more than an ho-
director, Software Freedom
Law Center (SFLC) has a si-
milar view. “The committee
already has enough material
to start with. It should hold a
public consultation so that
the voice of the stakeholders
has a representation in the
language that the committee
recommends,” she says.
EXPERTS’ OPINION
The committee, formed on
July 31, is headed by former
Supreme Court judge Justice
BN Srikrishna. The commit-
tee is to suggest a draft bill on
data protection. It comprises
senior government officials
and those from industry bodi-
es including department of
telecom secretary Aruna
Sundararajan, CEO of the
Unique Identification Autho-
but this is only tip of the iceberg’
IRREPARABLE DAMAGE
Any individual
whose brain stem—
lower part of the
brain that’s
connected
to the spinal
cord and is
responsible
for breath-
ing, blood
pressure,
heartbeat— is
irreparably damaged is
declared brain dead
Brain death results from a
severe brain injury, usually
following a road acci-
dent or a bleed due
to stroke ORGANS THAT
CAN BE RETRIEVED FROM
The brain A BRAIN-DEAD PERSON
swells up after
Solid organs | Kidneys,
an injury but
it cannot ex- liver, lungs, heart,
pand much intestine, pancreas
as it’s con-
tained within
Tissues | Corneas, skin,
heart valves, cartilage,
the skull made
bones, vessels
of tough bone
When the pressure in
the brain becomes greater
than the pressure of the heart,
the latter is unable to pump
blood to the brain
This lack of blood flow
deprives the brain of oxygen
leading to its irreversible death
cur in public hospitals as most
accident patients are rushed
there. Public hospitals may
think they don’t run transplant
programmes, why worry about
donations,” said Dr Gustad Da-
ver, president of Mumbai’s Zo-
nal Transplant Coordination
Committee. He said public ho-
spital participation can double
the donor pool in a year.
Country’s youngest state
Telengana that has a conver-
sion rate of 40% is also grapp-
ling with a below par participa-
tion from state-run hospitals.
Through the years, state-run
centres such as Nizam’s Institu-
te of Medical Sciences and
Osmania General Hospital ha-
ve cumulatively recorded 20 do-
nations, while Gandhi Hospital
TIMES NATION | Politics & Policy
ur, Justice Nariman
said the two had excelled be-
yond expectations.
As Subramanium got up to
commence reply on behalf of
the pro-privacy group, Justice
Nariman said, “Mr Subrama-
nium, you must congratulate
these two young lawyers.”
Sankaranarayanan said if
privacy was given the cloak of
a fundamental right, then all
social networking sites wo-
uld be prohibited from see-
king personal information
from users under the guise of
a private contract between
the platform and user.
Sengupta said, “At its core,
privacy is nothing but liberty
to do or not to do something. In
an advanced country like the
US where right to privacy has
got constitutional status, the
US Supreme Court has not
used right to privacy as a tool to
test the validity of privacy rela-
ted laws for abortion or LGBT
rights. If the US SC conscious-
ly chose not to take privacy as a
fundamental right, despite be-
ing enshrined in the Constitu-
tion, to test the validity of a le-
gislation, the Indian Supreme
Court must remain conscious
of the pitfalls in defining an un-
definable right like privacy.”
rity of India (UIDAI) Ajay
Bhushan Pandey, and Vidhi
Centre for Legal Policy’s Arg-
hya Sengupta among others.
This development comes at
a time when a nine-judge
bench in the Supreme Court is
mulling if privacy is a funda-
mental right. Chief among the
issues being discussed is the ci-
tizen data collection under
Aadhaar.
The government has ta-
ken an unequivocal stand on
the right to privacy. Additio-
nal solicitor general Tushar
Mehta submitted in the Su-
preme Court: “’Privacy’ is in-
herently a vague and subjec-
tive concept – A vague con-
cept which is incapable of any
precise definition/contours
cannot be conferred with a
status of Constitutional fun-
damental right.”
It is a
legal form
of death
as much as
death by car-
diac arrest
In order to keep
the organs alive,
a ventilator continues
to blow air into lungs, while
the heart continues to receive
oxygenated blood
The heart beats for some
time—this does not mean the
person is alive, or there is
chance of recovery
has not done any. On the contra-
ry, privately-run Apollo Hospi-
tals and Krishna Institute of
Medical Sciences managed 80
and 64 donations respectively.
“Few families take an active
stand against organ donation,
yet many refuse consent when
the rare opportunity arises,”
said Aniruddha Kulkarni,
transplant coordinator at Jupi-
ter Hospital in Mumbai. Dr Su-
nil Shroff of Chennai-based
Mohan Foundation added that
a well-trained grief counsellor
can achieve a conversion rate of
up to 90%. Tamil Nadu has an
overall conversion rate of 67%.
In Karnataka, however, the
conversion rate is below 10%.
Dr Kishore Phadke, program-
me convenor of Jeevasartha-
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sector in mind
while defining
privacy rights’
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J
ustice Chandrachud said,
“The first zone could be the
most intimate zone of priva-
cy concerning marriage, sex-
uality, relations with family
and the law should frown upon
any intrusion. The state could
still intrude into this intimate
zone in extraordinary circum-
stances provided it met strin-
gent norms.
“The second zone would be
the private zone, which in-
volved parting of personal data
by use of credit card, social net-
working platforms, income tax
declarations. In this sphere,
sharing of personal data by an
individual will be used only for
the purpose for which it is
shared by an individual.
“The third is the public zone
where privacy protection re-
quires minimal regulation.
Here, the personal data shared
will not mean the right to priva-
cy is surrendered. The individ-
ual will retain his privacy to
body and mind.” The formula-
tion suggests right to privacy
may not be unfettered. The
bench, also comprising Justices
J Chelameswar, S A Bobde, R K
Agrawal, A M Sapre, Sanjay
Kishan Kaul and S Abdul Na-
zeer, realised the difficulty in a
straitjacket interpretation of
constitutional status of right to
privacy, it being linked to liber-
ty which has visible footprints
on several fundamental rights.
The fledgling service sector,
which is growing at a faster
pace than the industrial sector,
provided food for thought. Jus-
tice Chandrachud said, “We are
dealing with an issue that has
an impact on what constituted
India as a powerhouse for
growth of service sector. The
analysis of choices and person-
al preferences of 1.4 billion and
the analysis of this generates
demand in the service sector. In
defining the right to privacy, we
must keep in mind this critical
sector which depends on per-
sonal data of Indians using a
particular service.”
HOW IS BRAIN STEM
DEATH DECLARED?
Every hosp has a brain
death committee, involving
team of four doctors to de-
clare a person brain-dead
The team has to
perform apnea tests to
check if the patient
can breathe without
aid, has any pupil re-
sponse to light and
responds to pain
Tests are repeat-
ed twice in six hours
Brain death can
happen only in an ICU
TIMEFRAME FOR ORGAN
TRANSPLANTATION
Heart
4-6 hours
Lungs Intestine
4-6 6-10
hours hours
Liver Kidneys
12-15 24-48
hours hours
12-14 hours
Pancreas
kathe (state organ transplant
authority) said, “A majority of
hospitals in rural areas don’t
have the resources to maintain
brain dead patients.” Dr CN
Manjunath, director at the go-
vernment-run Sri Jayadeva In-
stitute of Cardiology, said,
“Over 70% of patients visiting
public hospitals are from rural
areas. Often families lack the
decision-making ability.”
Experts believe expediting
police nods and post mortem
will help improve the count. Ac-
cidents, falls, and other inci-
dents where head injury is
common, often leave patients
brain dead. Dr Vimal Bhanda-
ri, director of NOTTO said mi-
sconceptions, cultural beliefs
and ignorance too are a hurdle.
Bharti.Jain@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Lashkar terro-
rists Abu Dujana and Arif
Lilhaari were the 115th and
116th terrorists to be killed in
Jammu & Kashmir this year.
As per official figures shared
by top sources in the security
establishment, 114 terrorists
were eliminated in the state
till July 31, as against 92 in the
corresponding period of 2016.
Interestingly, 22 terrorists
were killed in July 2017 alone.
The figure of 116 terro-
rists killed till August 1 way
exceeds the 72 and 67 terro-
rists eliminated in J&K in
all of 2012 and 2013 respecti-
vely, when UPA was in po-
wer. The numbers picked up
during NDA's tenure, tou-
ching 110 in 2014, 108 in 2015
and 150 in 2016.
“Terrorists killed so far
this year have already sur-
passed the figure for 2014 and
2015. Given the security es-
tablishment’s resolve to keep
up the heat on J&K terrorists
in the days and months to co-
me, all with due political
India, Pakistan to discuss
Indus water treaty in Sept
TNN & AGENCIES
New Delhi/Washington:
After the latest round of
talks between India and Pa-
kistan on technical issues
related to Indus Waters
Treaty (IWT), the World
Bank announced that the
two countries will again
meet in September to carry
forward the dialogue. It said
the talks in Washington
took place in a spirit of
goodwill and cooperation.
“The parties have agreed
to continue discussions and
reconvene in September,” it
said in a statement.
The Bank also issued a
fact sheet comprising its
stated position on the IWT
under which India is al-
lowed to construct hydro-
electric facilities on shared
Indo-Pak rivers. As per the
IWT provisions, India does
not require any approval or
Backs Drive
To Generate
Awareness
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: When you sign up as
an organ donor, you make your
life count. This is the pithy mes-
sage that Tina Ambani, who he-
ads Kokilaben Dhirubhai Am-
bani Hospital (KDAH) in Andhe-
ri, would like every Indian to im-
bibe during the ongoing Times
Organ Donation Drive.
In fact, to ensure that the
message reaches the maxi-
mum number of people, the
partnership between KDAH
and The Times of India has, in
its fourth year, made an impor-
tant addition: Awareness dri-
ves and events will be organi-
sed throughout the year.
The burden of disease
is certainly increasing
in our country—there is a
tremendous rise in the num-
ber of lifestyle diseases lea-
ding to end-stage organ failu-
res. Thus, the trans-
plant waiting list is
getting longer
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HEAD, KOKILABEN
DHIRUBHAI AMBANI
HOSPITAL
“From a once-a-year activity,
we will work round the year
with six state-specific drives
and a special drive at corpora-
te houses and colleges to build
sensitivity and drive the mes-
sage home,” said Ambani.
She said the ongoing cam-
paign’s purpose could be sum-
med up in one word: Aware-
ness. “Organ donation gives
purpose to our lives. It is a tes-
tament that we do not just live
for ourselves,” said Ambani.
The campaign will also serve
another important function:
Dispelling myths about organ
donation. “We need to dispel
myths about organ donations
and sensitise people. We hope
this campaign touches Indi-
ans from across the country,
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backing, the figure for 2017 is
expected to cross the 150 ter-
rorists killed last year,” a ho-
me ministry official said.
The killing of Abu Duja-
na on Tuesday, described as
one of the biggest successes
for counter-terror forces in
J&K, is in keeping with the
Centre’s overall policy to go
all out against terrorists with
intelligence-based opera-
tions that must be taken to
their logical end even if they
face local resistance.
“The government’s app-
roach on J&K is a three-pro-
nged one — concerted action
against terrorists leading to
their elimination where
‘Smart fence along Pak border by March’
B order Security Force (BSF) director general K K Sharma on
Wednesday said sealing the frontier with Pakistan was an
immediate priority and a smart technology-aided fence would
be in place along the Jammu sector by March next year. “My
priority is Pakistan, as anything happens here (along the
border), it has grave consequences. We are working to ensure
complete sealing of this border and make it more fortified,” the
BSF chief said on the sidelines of an event in Delhi. “We are
implementing a comprehensive integrated border management
(CIBM) plan and are running a pilot project to make our
international border along Pakistan secure,” he said. TNN
clearance from any third
party for constructing pro-
jects such as Kishenganga
on the western rivers.
In the fact sheet, the glob-
al lender said Pakistan op-
posed construction of the
Kishanganga (330 mw) and
Ratle (850 mw) hydroelectric
power plants being built by
India in Jammu & Kashmir.
Noting that the two
countries disagreed over
whether the technical de-
and all walks of life,” she said.
Although organ donation
rates across India are abysmal
in comparison to countries
such as Spain and the US, there
has been a great improvement
AFP
they refuse to surrender,
notwithstanding local pro-
tests around encounter si-
tes; parallel crackdown on
Hurriyat separatists linked
to terror funding; and a sof-
ter attitude towards local ci-
vilians so that they don’t feel
alienated or victimised,” the
ministry official said.
Sources in the govern-
ment said the pressure on
terrorists would be stepped
up further, with plans to eli-
minate others like LeT’s Abu
Ismail, who is likely to take
Dujana's place in south
Kashmir, and former Hizbul
leader and now Al Qaida-lin-
ked Zakir Musa.
sign features of the two hy-
droelectric plants contra-
vened the treaty, the World
Bank said the IWT designat-
ed these two rivers as well as
the Indus as the “western
rivers” to which Pakistan
had unrestricted use.
On the other hand, India
had asked for appointment of
a neutral expert to look into
the issues, contending the
concerns Pakistan raised
were “technical” ones.
in the last five years. “People are
slowly becoming aware and our
team has done a tremendous job
in spreading the word. The mo-
mentum has certainly picked
up and this is only the tip of the
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Whose flag is
taller? A race
at the border
Yudhvir.Rana@timesgroup.com
Amritsar: Who’s national flag
is taller — India or Pakistan?
The officials of the two coun-
tries seem to be playing this
game at the Attari-Wagah bor-
der in Amritsar ahead of the In-
dependence Day celebrations.
The Amritsar Improvement
Trust had started this game of
one-upmanship by hoisting the
Tricolour at 360 feet in March,
but the attempt failed as strong
winds tore up the flag. Now, Pa-
kistan has said that it would
hoist its flag at 400 feet on its In-
dependence Day on August 14.
Sources said the work is in full
swing across the border.
India had hoisted the Tri-
colour of monumental pro-
portions on March 5 at Attari,
but without conducting any
study, at a height of 360 feet.
Strong winds damaged the
flag within a couple of days of
its installation.
The Pakistani media re-
ports, meanwhile, said a 120
feet wide national flag would
be hoisted on a 400 feet
tall flagpole.
15 Somali
pirates get
7 yrs in jail
Rebecca.Samerve
l@timesgroup.com
Mumbai: In the first such
conviction in the country, a
special court on Wednesday
convicted 15 Somali pirates of
attempt to murder and kid-
napping and sentenced them
to seven years in jail.
Special judge Jayendra C
Jagdale said the accused, who
have spent six-and-a-half
years in jail since being
nabbed in 2011, are to be de-
ported to Somalia after re-
lease from prison. Besides,
they were also convicted un-
der the Unlawful Activities
Prevention Act (UAPA) for
threatening the country’s se-
curity and sovereignty.
This is one among the four
cases being conducted by spe-
cial public prosecutor Ranjeet
Sangle. The verdicts against
103 other accused in three oth-
er cases are likely to be pro-
nounced by next week.
iceberg,” added Ambani.
The main problem in India
is the galloping organ failure
rates due to lifestyle reasons. It
is estimated that two lakh new
kidney failure patients are ad-
ded every year to India’s pati-
ent pool. “The burden of disea-
se is certainly increasing in
our country—there is a tre-
mendous rise in the number of
lifestyle diseases leading to
end-stage organ failures.
Thus, the transplant waiting
list is getting longer,” said Am-
bani. The need of the hour,
hence, is to have retrieval and
transplant centres.
On the positive side, the
Maharashtra government and
the Union government have
taken a lot of initiatives in re-
cent times, said Ambani. “To-
day, the National Organ & Tis-
sue Transplant Organisation
(NOTTO) and the Regional Or-
gan and Tissue Transplant Or-
ganizations (ROTTO) are play-
ing a crucial role to facilitate
the process of organ donation-
—we see less red tape, organs
moving across states, and gre-
ater sensitisation among go-
vernment agencies and the po-
lice. In fact, we now see the
first signs of a national organ
donation network taking sha-
pe, as seen in the US and Euro-
pe. This is a heartening sign
and we owe a debt of gratitude
to everyone involved in the
process,” she said.
Moreover, the phobia asso-
ciated with transplants, especi-
ally heart, is slowly but surely
disappearing. “There was a
perception that heart trans-
plants were not successful. Ho-
wever, in the past four to five ye-
ars, cardiologists and trans-
plant coordinators have been
able to impress upon both do-
nors and recipients that the
outcomes are excellent: One-ye-
ar survival at 97% and five-year
survival at 70%,” said Ambani.
She said such campaigns
could ensure that cadaver do-
nations increase and the de-
pendence on live donations de-
creases. “In an ideal world,
that would be the case and I ho-
pe that we will get there, at le-
ast in our lifetime. Realistical-
ly speaking though, I at least
hope the gap will narrow so-
mewhat, as it has happened in
other developed countries.”
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2017

A thought for today

Civilisation is the progress toward a society of
privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public
AYN RAND
Free Children From Chains
India and the world need a multi-dimensional strategy to stop human trafficking
Kailash Satyarthi was raped repeatedly by drivers.

False Choice Ideas have legs. So do

human beings. When
ideas are chained, we
Malvika is lucky that she was rescued
and is back with her family. Hundreds of
thousands of victims like her have not
been as lucky. What can we do in India to
It’s wrong to pose a dichotomy between desecrate the very fun- stop the barbarity against young girls
food security and the right to privacy damentals of freedom.
When human beings
like Malvika?
For starters, we need a strong law

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n the Supreme Court nine-judge bench hearing on the constitu- are chained, we desecrate the funda- against trafficking. Despite endless
tional status of right to privacy, senior advocate CA Sundaram mentals of humanity. debates and repeated pleas by civil society
appearing for the Maharashtra government asserted that privacy One of the monumental milestones groups, stringent anti-trafficking laws
would always take a back seat to securing basic needs of people. He for mankind is the abolition of slavery. have not been passed by Parliament. Nor
But while we have won many decisive have state governments taken meaningful
even posed the question: “What is better, two square meals or right wars against slavery and bondage, measures to stop this atrocity. It took
to privacy?” In response, the learned judges of the court rightly we haven’t succeeded in completely almost 19 years for India to ratify the ILO
argued that people’s economic rights could never be a ground to vanquishing this degrading and conventions that prohibit the worst
undermine fundamental rights. dehumanising practice. What is ironic forms of child labour. Let us not drive
In real life the choice between food security and supposedly ‘higher is that the world today has the largest hundreds of thousands of innocent
order’ rights pertaining to freedom and privacy is a false one, often number of slaves at any point of time in children into cruel and miserable
history, even medieval or colonial. lives of slavery by indulging in such
used by Marxist regimes to justify authoritarian administration. As Let us remind ourselves of some unforgivable delays.
the work of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has demonstrated, famines sobering and deeply disturbing facts. We as citizens too need to play a
are less widespread in a democratic regime, as a guaranteed right to More than 21 million people across the more proactive role by refusing to
free expression also means that reports world are victims of trafficking. They keep our eyes and ears closed. We must

Uday Deb
of famine cannot be suppressed. In are de facto 21st century slaves. protest and report cases of suspected
the present case under consideration, While sexual slavery and forced trafficking victims in our neighbour-
labour remain the major drivers behind hoods. That is a moral imperative. Equally
Sundaram’s argument represents an trafficking, shocking new trends have important is the need to target the
developed countries as well as global
unnecessarily cavalier attitude to emerged. At least 10 nations have bodies tasked to check trafficking economic roots behind trafficking. It is
privacy on the part of the government. reported that trafficking has been need much more coordination and When incomes of poor families states like Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand,
As far as privacy is concerned, it’s related directly with organ harvesting. cooperation. Moreover, the international improve, their children go to Assam and Odisha that still witness
true that government initiatives like This is now a $32 billion a year business community – by incorporating abolition extreme poverty that report the most
according to the UN. of trafficking and all other forms of school instead of seeking work. cases of trafficking.
JAM – the trinity of Jan Dhan, Aadhaar
and mobile governance – require
But humanitarian agencies reckon modern slavery in a time bound manner When children go to school, Apart from vastly improved aware-
that it has surpassed drugs and arms as in UN Sustainable Development Goals – ness and law enforcement, what India
authorities to collect citizens’ data for the largest criminal business in the world has agreed this crime has wider negative
their chances of being needs to deal with trafficking and slavery
facilitating welfare benefits and direct transfers. However, such with an annual revenue of $150 billion. implications on economic growth and trafficked and sold into slavery is economic opportunities. When poor
data needs strong protection safeguards to prevent misuse. It’s Women and children constitute 71% of the development. Realisation of these goals diminish dramatically families earn enough to feed themselves,
wrong to posit one against the other; if the government wishes to victims. How can any civilisation allow requires will, resources and action at they become less vulnerable to criminal
promote Digital India it must also institute robust data protection this atrocity to continue and flourish? national and international levels. dies. But a historic Supreme Court judg- gangs. When incomes of poor families
Another alarming trend is that the India has not been immune to this ment of 2013 based on a petition by our improve, their children go to school
for citizens. To this end the Supreme Court should uphold a basic line between migration, refugee crisis instead of seeking work. When children
global scourge. Official data indicates movement Bachpan Bachao Andolan has
right to privacy. Moreover, it’s also in the government’s interest to and trafficking is becoming very thin. that close to 20,000 women and children directed the state to act promptly and go to school, their chances of being
come up with a strong law protecting data privacy. It has been consistently noticed that were trafficked in India in 2016 but the effectively. Yet, trafficking and slavery trafficked and sold into slavery diminish
Such a law would mandate the consent of an individual for the geographical paths and routes of real numbers could be far higher. More continue to flourish in India. dramatically.
collecting and processing her personal data, with “exceptions” trafficking bear striking resemblance than 1,00,000 children go missing every And the stories are tragic. We had For 70 years or so, India has not ensured
against this right being closely and narrowly defined. Further, with those of migration. The increasing year. Almost half of them are never traced. rescued 13-year-old Malvika (name economic security to a large number of its
scale of both natural and man-made Most of the untraced children become changed) from Gurgaon. She was traffick- citizens. Of what help is India becoming an
there needs to be strict accountability in case of data breaches, with disasters, particularly armed conflicts economic superpower if hundreds of mill-
victims of human trafficking, slavery, ed from a village in West Bengal with
procedures and punishments laid down. India has signed on to and civil wars, is creating a whole begging and prostitution rackets. promises of good wages. Her life was hell ions remain in poverty with their children
international treaties guaranteeing the right to privacy. Many new generation of refugees who are Since most victims of trafficking after that. In two consecutive homes where vulnerable to predatory traffickers?
countries have already enacted privacy legislation. Moreover, BJD becoming victims of trafficking gangs. belong to poor and marginalised families, she worked as a domestic help, Malvika The writer is 2014 Nobel peace laureate
MP Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda recently tabled a private member’s bill – Syria is a stark reminder of this trend. hardly anyone, including police personnel, was treated like a slave with the employers and founder of Kailash Satyarthi Children’s
Data (Privacy and Protection) Bill, 2017 – in Parliament outlining Clearly, law enforcement agencies in paid much attention to these family trage- routinely beating her. In both houses, she Foundation
useful provisions for protecting citizens’ data in India. These are
templates that can be utilised to enact privacy legislation, and it’s
not a prospect that government should resist.
By refusing to buckle under China’s threats on
Trending Down Doklam, India has called the bully’s bluff
Brahma Chellaney road through Doklam that allows tegral to its psywar, are also part
A cut in RBI policy rate is welcome but China to bring main battle tanks of a negotiating ploy to secure a
more must be done to boost the economy Standing
the Himalayan
on to the tri-border and implement,
in the event of a war, its military
compromise on largely its terms.
There is no reason, however,

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eserve Bank of India’s monetary policy committee (MPC) crest with plan to decapitate India. In such a why India should let China off the
yesterday lowered its policy interest rate by a quarter of a well-developed corridor-bisecting scenario, while hook easily. With Xi looking ahead
percentage point, the first change in 10 months. The current infrastructure, China gobbles up Arunachal to this autumn’s Communist Par-
China is in a Pradesh, the other northeast ty congress to cement his status
rate, 6%, has now been brought down to the level that existed over militarily advantageous position as China’s most powerful leader
Indian states, as a Chinese state
six years ago. The change signals two things. One, MPC is now more along much of the border with mouthpiece warned recently, since Mao Zedong, India should
sanguine about the trajectory of inflation. Two, the reduction in India. The tri-border overlooking could become “independent”. play psychological hardball
interest rate has come amidst signs that industrial performance the Chinese-held Chumbi valley Today, thanks to its miscal- because Chinese incursions have
remains lacklustre. Given this context, MPC’s decision is welcome is one of the few areas where culation, China finds itself in an become increasingly recurrent.
but it is unlikely to make a meaningful difference to the economy. India still holds a distinct unenviable position: It must India should allow the Doklam
advantage, with Chinese forces extricate itself from a militarily military stalemate to drag on
Interest rates have been trending down for a while. In the backdrop within Indian observation cum psychological warfare (“psywar”) warmongering, has defiantly until the arrival of the harsh
wretched situation in Doklam,
of slowing growth of bank credit, deposit rates artillery range. If China were to where its intruding soldiers are and disinformation operations stood up to China and refused to winter forces the rival troops to
have been constantly lowered. Recently, State capture Bhutan’s high-altitude caught in a pincer movement. If failing to yield continuing gains, budge. By calling the bully’s retreat, thus restoring the status
Bank of India lowered even savings rates for Doklam plateau, it would not after the success in initially bluff, India has set an example quo ante, including frustrating
most of its deposit holders. On the other side, only mitigate that vulnerability dominating the narrative. If for other Asian states to emulate. China’s road-building plan. If
interest rates for borrowers have not declined but also hold a knife to India’s anything, its psychological Beijing’s story that Indian an earlier negotiated mutual
jugular vein – the Siliguri Corri- India should allow the operations (“psy-ops”) and mani- troops “trespassed” into Chinese retreat from Doklam becomes
proportionately on account of the bad
loans plaguing banks. But there has been
dor, through which Bhutan’s Doklam stalemate to pulation of legal arguments territory was designed to disguise possible, it should be based on
communications and transpor- (“lawfare”), as by selectively its intrusion into tiny Bhutan. an unequivocal assurance that
more activity from non-banking financial tation arteries also pass.
drag on until the arrival quoting an 1890 colonial-era But this tale, along with China henceforth will refrain
intermediaries and India’s top companies have been able to benefit While existential stakes drove of the harsh winter accord, offer India important President Xi Jinping’s vow not to from unilaterally disturbing the
from the current environment. It is the smaller companies, the ones India to halt China’s construction forces the rival troops to lessons. It is standard Chinese permit the loss of “any piece” of territorial status quo anywhere
most dependent on banks, which have missed out. of a strategic highway through strategy to play the victim in Chinese land, deepens China’s in the Himalayan borderlands.
Doklam, Beijing made a serious retreat, thus restoring any conflict or dispute, as China discomfiture by undermining Implicitly, if not explicitly,
The benign environment for borrowers has not translated into a strategic miscalculation by the status quo ante brazenly did even in 1962. the image it has sought to project China must come out a signifi-
revival of investment demand. MPC’s statement pointed out intruding there: It anticipated Mounting frustration has at home and abroad – Asia’s cant loser in order to help rein in
that the number of new investment announcements fell to a 12-year Bhutan’s diplomatic protest but China were to initiate hostilities sharpened Beijing’s war rhetoric. pre-eminent power that no its creeping, covert encroach-
low in April-June quarter. Part of the problem can be traced to the not India’s swift, stealthy military at the tri-border, it will likely be To compound matters, the stand- neighbour will mess with. ments. There should be no more
collapse in global trade following the financial crisis, but there intervention. The Indian army left, as in 1967, with a bloodied off is imposing reputational In sum China, if it is to save Depsangs, Chumars and Doklams
are levers the government can use to improve the situation. The had long geared up to respond to nose, given the Indian army’s costs on a power that supposedly face, needs India’s help to or the quiet chipping away at
such a contingency. terrain and tactical advantages. brooks no challenge and is ever extricate itself from a mess of its Indian and Bhutanese lands.
immediate need is to carry through with the resolution process of No Indian government can willing to wreak punishment. own making. Beijing’s coarse
Politically Beijing has boxed The writer is a geostrategist
bad loans following the promulgation of an ordinance in May. This countenance the construction of a itself in a corner, with its intense India, in the face of vitriolic statements and threats, while in- and author
must be supplemented with measures to ease doing business, which
would substantially improve the investment climate. dilbert Sacredspace
Tree Of Life
Mourning cuppa We are all but recent leaves
on the same old tree of life
If its tea goes downhill, can bracing and if this life has adapted
Darjeeling be far behind? itself to new functions
Bachi Karkaria
and conditions, it uses
the same old basic principles
My cup fell to the ground in dismay and shattered like our over and over again.
current relationship with China. Or to pluck a leaf from Keats,
‘My heart ached and a dreary numbness pained/ My sense as
though of Assam I had drunk.’ What occasioned this sinking Albert Szent-Györgyi
heart and rising dread? The news that the auctions and private
sale of Darjeeling tea may cease from the second week of

Dream On, But Sleep Is Very Important, Too

August; by September, retail shelves will be empty. An indefinite strike led by
the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has shut down since early June the terraced
gardens around the hill station of my childhood. Soon, the last fragrant, long-
leaved lots will be put on the block. My heady joy will be there too. It’s all due to
the provocations of that kulhar-chai-quaffing La Belle Dame Sans Mamata. Anil K Rajvanshi sleep, neural pathways have free run. creating long-term memory. But it is the dreaming process.
Yes, i’m aware of the impact on, and of, suddenly jobless tea-garden Thus, day-long experiences or existing dreams we remember that make life During sleep, neural pathways are

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workers. Unlike Mumbai’s millhands thrown to the wolves by Datta Samant’s verybody dreams. Some remember memories are the driving force for interesting. We still don’t know why we active without ego, so circuit production is
fatal strike of 1982, the Gorkhas will not go sheepishly to their fate. A rebellious their dreams; others don’t. The brain internal dreams. When there is sanyam dream. A possible answer may lie in how quite random. But only those pathways
kettle is already on the boil; it will speed to a gallop with the infusion of hundreds never sleeps; neural pathways are or tremendous thinking activity on a synapses behave during sleep. produce circuits in which neural connec-
with time – and kukris – on their hands. But my concern is more selfish always active, whether mediated by ego particular thought during waking time, Synapses are connections between two tions are still strong. Thus “loosened”
since my morning doesn’t become electric without my two, during waking state or without it, as it leads sometimes to solution-dreams. neurons; they allow the transfer of synapses or those with increased synaptic
single-estate cups brewed to perfection. Tea-bags? Eeuw! happens during sleep. Activation of neural Several great inventions and information through passage of neuroche- cleft might not take part in the information
erratica This woman’s home is her Castleton, a brand which i can’t pathways produces dreams. discoveries have come through micals across the synaptic cleft, transfer and hence, in the dreaming pro-
find in Mumbai, and so must depend on the kindness of friends to During sleep, we go through four to five such dreaming process. the distance (about 0.02 micron) cess. So dreams could be random in nature.
ferry supplies from Kolkata. The obliging Sanjay Kapur from Delhi offers me his cycles of deep sleep and dreaming Externality of dreams comes between neuron and synapse Besides, this loosening of neural pathways
finest first flush, but i blush to say i prefer my tin, black like its contents. At a pinch episodes, each of roughly 90 minutes because brain is both receiver that exchanges neurochemicals. may also explain the removal of some
i will drink his jasmine. No other Chinese green. No black oolong-shoolong or lap- duration. Electro-encephalography (EEG) and transmitter of human Scientists have found that during memories of day-long experiences. Sleep is
sang souchong either. Forget their health benefits; call me an ‘anti-Occident’ like studies done on the human brain during thought. Hence during sleep, deep sleep, the synaptic cleft therefore necessary to remove clutter or
their emperors of yore. Closer home, a ‘free radical’ has become an oxymoron. sleep, show that deep sleep is characterised memories or signals from widens by about 20%. Perhaps it irrelevant information from the brain.
Of all legal stimulants, tea takes the cake, and i will go to any lengths for my by production of low frequency (1-4 Hz) knowledge-space impinge on the helps in allowing the cerebro- Too often, we have dreams connected
Darjeeling, though i might draw the line at flying all the way to Boston for a tea Delta waves, known to help produce life brain and may modify neural spinal fluid to flow through it and with our suppressed desires; most are
party. They probably serve some atrocious concoction, pretentiously called and mood-enhancing chemicals. At this pathways. This can give rise to the to remove toxins from the brain. based on unfulfilled emotional needs and
‘chai’. Which reminds me of a name that Bengalis once gave their daughters:
‘China’, which was actually ‘Chai na’, ‘don’t want’.
stage, we are totally unaware of our
surroundings. But, dreaming episodes
strange dreams of events and
places never visited or interacted speaking The more we dream during
the night, the less restful is the
psychological knots based on strong
memories that do not get loosened during
*** characterised by rapid eye movement with. This is also the mechanism tree sleep. A really restful sleep is sleep and cause recurring dreams.
Alec Smart said: “With all this cow-chauvinism, will foreign breeds (REM), are of light sleep kind, from which of getting prophetic dreams of which there deep sleep without dreams. This helps in Resolution of these knots through wisdom
get ‘desimated’?” one can be woken up quite easily. are many instances. flushing out toxic material from major part allows the loosening of strong memories
bachi.karkaria@timesgroup.com Dreams are both internal and external. Why don’t we remember dreams? of the brain. Besides this, the increase of and helps in brain detoxification,
http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/erratica Since ego, the director, is absent during Brain scientists say part of it is to do with synaptic cleft may also help in explaining producing dreamless sleep.
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Why bald men have a business advantage
US Data Scientist Says Shaved-And-Dominant Link Comes From Cultural Associations
TOI

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mazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
Goldman Sachs head
Lloyd Blankfein. Net-
scape founder Marc Andrees-
sen. FUBU founder and
“Shark Tank” investor Day-
mond John. Lots of heavy hit-
ters in business are bald guys.
And not just balding, but
completely bare up there.
You could argue that it’s
symptomatic of male privile-
ge. But according to research
by University of Pennsylva-
nia, there’s something power-
ful about having a smooth do-
und that “men with shaved
heads were rated as more do-
minant”, “men whose hair
me. In three experiments, re-
searcher Albert Mannes fo-
was digitally removed were
perceived as more dominant,
SHORT CUTS
New app to help you take
perfect selfies developed
taller, and stronger than their
authentic selves” and “men
experiencing natural hair loss
may improve their interperso-
nal standing by shaving”.
Mannes, a data scientist
for the US government, said
the shaved-and-dominant link
came from cultural associa-
tions, in the same way that be-
ing tall and having a deep voice
BARE REALITY: Jeff Bezos signal dominance. “In US soci-
ety... shaved heads are often fo-
und on men in traditionally
masculine professions,” he sa-
id, “so dominance may emerge
through stereotypical associa-
tions with these figures”.
Chimps may suffer
from Alzheimer’s too
C
himpanzees may suffer from Alzheim-
er’s disease, just as humans do.
When guys decide to shave
off their hair, they’re tapping
into a cultural history of close-
cropped dominance, from Mi-
chael Jordan imposing his will
on the basketball court to Bru-
ce Willis saving the day on the
silver screen.
In fact, Mannes said that
he was inspired to do the rese-
arch when people were more
deferential to him after he
shaved his head. Mannes also
discovered that while men
with shaved heads were seen
as more dominant, they were
also perceived as looking four
years older than guys with
PEDALLING UNDERWATER
hair. Not only that, but the
bald dudes were found to be
less attractive.
To get to those conclusions,
Mannes did a number of expe-
riments. In the first experi-
ment, participants were
shown photos of men with ha-
ir and men with shaved heads
and asked to rate their levels
of dominance and agreeabili-
ty. In the second, participants
were shown photos of the
same men with hair and with
hair digitally removed, so they
looked shaved. In the third,
participants read identical
descriptions of men — except
for whether they had thick ha-
ir, thinning hair, or shaved he-
ads — and rated them on diffe-
rent aspects of personality,
from dominance to agreeabili-
ty to attractiveness.
The takeaways are practi-
cal: Shaving it off is probably
a better bet for your well-be-
ing than watching it thin
away. “Instead of spending
billions each year trying to re-
verse or cure their hair loss,”
he said, “the counterintuitive
prescription of this research
to men experiencing male
Hyperloop pod hits
pattern baldness is to shave
their heads”. BUSINESS INSIDER 310 kmph in first test
Reuters
New York: High-speed trans-
portation system Hyperloop
One, passengers and cargo
are loaded into a pod, and ac-
One has successfully tested celerate gradually via elec-
its prototype passenger pod,
reaching a speed of up to 310
tric propulsion through a
low-pressure tube. The pod
km per hour. “This is the be- then lifts above the track us-
ginning and the dawn of a ing magnetic levitation and

S cientists have developed a new app that

would help people to learn the art of taking
perfect selfies. The app is integrated with an
algorithm that directs the user where to position
the camera, allowing them to take the best shot
possible. “Unlike other apps that enhance a photo
after you take it, this system gives direction,
meaning the user is learning why their photo will
be better,” said Dan Vogel, a professor at Uni-
versity of Waterloo in Canada. In developing the
algorithm, Vogel and Qifan Li, a student, used 3D
digital scans of “average” looking people.
Tutankhamun’s furniture inspired
modern folding beds: A foldable bed belong-
ing to King Tutankhamun — who ruled Egypt 3,300
years ago — may have inspired modern camping
beds. UK archaeologist Howard Carter had discov-
ered the three-fold bed made of lightweight
hardwood when he entered Tutankhamun’s tomb
in 1922. The bed was smaller and sat lower to the
ground. An ingenious mechanism allows the bed
to be folded up into a Z shape, the study showed.
Scientists studying the brains of 20
elderly chimpanzees found certain plaques
new era of transportation,”
said Shervin Pishevar, execu-
glides at airline speeds for
long distances due to ultra-
and other abnormalities that indicate they tive chairman and co-founder low aerodynamic drag.
experience Alzheimer’s. The finding was of Hyperloop One, in a state- “We’ve proven that our
published in Neurobiology of Ageing. In peo- ment on Wednesday. The star- technology works, and we’re
ple suffering from Alzheimer’s, clusters of tup tested its first-generation now ready to enter into dis-
proteins called beta-amyloid build up be- ‘XP-1’ passenger pod and trav- cussions with partners, cus-
tween nerve cells. The clumps may block cells elled for 300 metres as it levi- tomers and governments
signalling to each other or activate immune tated off the track. around the world about the
system cells, triggering inflammation. “We’ve reached historic full commercialisation of our
Melissa Edler, of Northeast Medical Uni- speeds of 310 km an hour and Hyperloop technology,” said
versity, and her team studied four areas of the we’re excited to finally show Rob Lloyd, Hyperloop One
chimps’ neocortex and hippocampus — re- the world the ‘XP-1’ going into CEO. Last month, Hyperloop
gions of the human brain known to be affect- the Hyperloop One tube. One had announced the suc-
ed by Alzheimer's. She found plaques and oth- When you hear the sound of cessful completion of the
er abnormalities associated with the condi- the Hyperloop One, you hear world’s first full systems Hy-
tion in 12 of the 20 chimpanzees they studied. the sound of the future,” Pish- perloop test in a vacuum envi-
But Mary Ann Raghanti, of Kent State evar added. With Hyperloop ronment. IANS
University, whose lab ran the tests, said they
could not know whether the primates suf-
fered from the same cognitive deterioration
humans did. THE INDEPENDENT
These smart undies
A woman rides a bike in Underwater Park in Pula, Croatia, on Wednesday

Women with attractive spouses more likely to diet can reduce back pain
AFP

Washington: Scientists ha- sturdy straps across the

Sarah Young eat healthily or lose weight. To reach this conclusion, the part on their desire to have a thin ve developed a smart under- middle back, with natural
Startlingly, it also revealed team examined 113 newlywed cou- body, including options like “I feel garment that can help reduce rubber pieces at the lower

Motorists cover their faces as ashes blanket Tiga
Pancur village in Karo, Sumatra, on Wednesday after
Mount Sinabung volcano erupted. Sinabung roared
back to life in 2010 for the first time in 400 years
W
omen with attractive
partners are more likely
to suffer from poor self-es-
teem and develop eating disor-
ders, according to a new study.
Published in Body Image jour-
nal earlier this month, the re-
search found that in hetero-sexual
relationships, women who are
deemed less attractive than their
partners are more likely to diet,
while those who are better looking
than their partners felt no need to
that men are very rarely motiva-
ted to do the same regardless of
how attractive their wives are con-
sidered to be. While the findings
EATING DISORDERS
might sound like a load of sexist
nonsense, the researchers from
Florida State University insist
that it is key to improving re-
sources for women who suffer eat-
ing disorders.
ples who had been married less
than four months and in their
twenties by rating them on attrac-
tiveness and asking question’s
about their motivations to eat
healthily. A full-body photograph
was taken of every participant
and rated on a scale of one to 10
with one focusing on facial attrac-
tiveness while the other looked at
body attractiveness.
Each person also completed a
lengthy questionnaire focusing in
extremely guilty after eating,” “I
like my stomach to be empty,” and
“I’m terrified of gaining weight.”
Andrea Meltzer, assistant
professor of psychology at Flor-
ida State University and co-au-
thor of the study, said in a press
release, “The results reveal that
having a physically attractive
husband may have negative con-
sequences for wives, especially if
those wives are not particularly
attractive.” THE INDEPENDENT
stress and pain on the lower
back muscles. Engineers at
Vanderbilt University in the
US combined biomechanics
and advances in wearable
technology to create the un-
dergarment.
The wearable device con-
sists of two fabric sections,
made of nylon canvas, Lycra,
polyester and other materi-
als, for the chest and legs. The
sections are connected by
back and glutes. The device
can be controlled by an app.
Eight subjects tested the
device leaning forward and
lifting weights while holding
their position at 30, 60 and 90
degrees. Using motion captu-
re, force plates and electromy-
ography, researchers showed
that the device reduced acti-
vity in the lower back exten-
sor muscles by an average of
15 to 45% for each task. PTI
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THERE IS NOTHING WORSE
THAN A SHARP IMAGE OF A
FUZZY CONCEPT
— ANSEL ADAMS

KANYE WEST SUES INSURER FOR $10M, ALLEGES CARRIE FISHER’S CHARACTER PRINCESS LEIA TO
NON-PAYMENT OVER CANCELLED TOUR LIVE ON IN ‘LAST JEDI’, SAYS ACTOR JOHN BOYEGA

Trump signs Russian sanctions into law In a first, experts

Calls Bill Flawed, Says Signing This For Sake Of National Unity As It Represents Will Of Americans
Washington: President Do-
nald Trump signed legisla-
tion on Wednesday imposing
sanctions on Russia and limi-
ting his own authority to lift
them, but asserted that the
measure included “a number
of clearly unconstitutional
provisions” and left open the
possibility that he might cho-
ose not to enforce them as
lawmakers intended.
The legislation, which al-
so includes sanctions on Iran
and North Korea, represen-
ted the first time that Cong-
ress had forced Trump to sign
a bill over his objections with
bipartisan, veto-proof majo-
rities. Even before he signed
it, the Russian government
retaliated by seizing two
American diplomatic proper-
ties and ordering the United
States to reduce its overall
staff in Russia by 755 people.
But a signing statement
released by the president rai-
sed questions about how he
would observe the require-
ments in the measure.
In particular, he objected
AFP
‘edit’ faulty gene in
Trump administration likely to open
inquiry into China’s trade practices
blems,” he added, “I am sig-
ning this bill for the sake of
national unity. It represents
the will of the American peo-
human embryos
U S President Donald Trump is close to a decision on how to
respond to what he considers China’s unfair trade practices, a
senior Trump administration official said on Tuesday. Trump is
ple to see Russia take steps to
improve relations with the
US. We hope there will be coo- U
S scientists, for the first
time, have succeeded
in altering the genes of
Use of gene editing
technology in
considering encouraging US trade representative Robert Lighthizer peration between our two co- a human embryo to correct a human embryos,
to initiate an investigation of Chinese trade practices under the 1974 untries on major global issu- disease-causing mutation, has often raised
Trade Act’s section 301, the official said. An announcement could es so that these sanctions will making it possible to prevent
come as early as this week, the official said. Section 301of the Trade no longer be necessary.” the defect from being passed
concerns it could
Act of 1974 allows the president to unilaterally impose tariffs or other Reacting to the develop- on to future generations. The be used to create
trade restrictions to protect US industries from “unfair trade prac- ment, Kremlin spokesman milestone, published this we- ‘designer babies’
tices” of foreign countries, such as trade agreement violations, or Dmitry Peskov said the new ek in the journal Nature, was
“discriminatory” actions that burden US commerce. The US has a sanctions against Russia does confirmed last week by Ore- vitro fertilization process.
long list of grievances about China on trade, including accusations of not change anything “de fac- gon Health and Science Uni- They found that the embryo
steel dumping and theft of US intellectual property. China has said to”. In response to a question versity (OHSU), which colla- used the available healthy
PLANES BUILT FOR RUSSIAN AIRLINE MAY BE NEXT AIR FORCE ONE that trade between China and the US benefits both sides. The US has from reporters about what borated with the Salk Institu- copy of the gene to repair
Facing pressure from President Trump to cut the cost of new Air Force One pressed China to exert more pressure on North Korea to help rein in steps Russia could take to re- te and Korea’s Institute for the mutated part.
aircraft, the US air force is negotiating with Boeing to purchase two 747-8 its nuclear and missile programmes. Susan Thornton, acting taliate, Peskov said: “What re- Basic Science to use a techni- The Salk/OHSU team al-
jetliners that were built for a Russian airline that went bankrupt before assistant secretary of state for East Asia, told a congressional taliatory measures? There is que known as CRISPR-Cas9 so found that its gene correc-
they were delivered. Trump rattled Boeing before taking office by tweet- hearing that new US sanctions aimed at curbing North’s weapons nothing new. Retaliatory mea- to correct a genetic mutation tion did not cause any detec-
ing: ‘Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presi- programmes, including measures aimed at Chinese financial sures were already taken.” for a heart condition. table mutations in other
dents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!’ institutions, could be expected “fairly soon.” REUTERS Meanwhile, Jean-Claude CRISPR-Cas9 works as a parts of the genome — a ma-
Juncker, European Union’s type of molecular scissors jor concern for gene editing.
to Congress interfering with governments, including their executive branch’s authority ve’s flexibility, this bill makes chief executive, said the US that can selectively trim Still, the technology was
the president’s power to set fo- territorial boundaries, clear- to negotiate,” Trump said in a it harder for the United States had taken into account some away unwanted parts of the not 100% successful — it in-
reign policy by imposing wai- ly a reference to Russia’s sei- separate statement to repor- to strike good deals for the of the bloc’s concerns over genome, and replace it with creased the number of repa-
ting periods before he can su- zure of Crimea from Ukraine. ters. “Congress could not American people and will dri- new sanctions on Russia but new stretches of DNA. ired embryos from 50%,
spend or remove sanctions “This bill remains serio- even negotiate a healthcare ve China, Russia and North that it was ready to retaliate if “We have demonstrated which would have occurred
and by effectively subverting usly flawed — particularly bill after seven years of tal- Korea much closer together. the measures hurt EU econo- the possibility to correct naturally, to 74%.
his right to recognize foreign because it encroaches on the king. By limiting the executi- “Yet despite its pro- mic interests. NYT & AGENCIES mutations in a human em- Washington’s National
bryo in a safe way and with a Academy of Sciences earlier
certain degree of efficien- this year softened its opposi-

Lawmakers ask Trump calls White House a dump

cy,” said Juan Carlos Izpisua
Belmonte, a professor in
Salk’s Gene Expression La-
boratory and a co-author of
the study.
tion to the use of gene editing
technology in human embry-
os, which has raised concerns
it could be used to create “de-
signer” babies — blonde hair,

Trump to stop
Getty Images/iStockphoto
Chidanand.Rajghatta To increase the success athleticism, perhaps even in-
@timesgroup.com rate, his team introduced telligence. There is also a fear
the genome editing compo- of introducing unintended

H-1B visa abuse B

ill Clinton thought the White nents along with sperm mutations into the “germli-
House is either the “finest public from a male with the targe- ne,” meaning cells that beco-
housing in America or the crown ted gene defect during the in me eggs or sperm. REUTERS
jewel of the American penal system.”
AFP Donald Trump has a simpler descrip-

Washington: A bipartisan
group of influential lawma-
kers has urged US President
Donald Trump to stop the abu-
se of H-1B and L-1 visas by out-
sourcing firms to replace Ame-
rican workers with cheap fore-
ign labour.
In a letter dated July 27,
which was released on Tues-
day, the group said a legislation
introduced by them close these
loopholes and overhaul these
visa programmes to protect
American workers and crack
down on outsourcing compa-
nies which deprive qualified
Americans of high-skill jobs.
“We write because, for far
too long, the H-1B visa has been
abused as a way to displace
American workers with cheap
foreign labour. We urge you to
use your authority as presi-
dent to the greatest extent pos-
sible to stop H-1B abuses,” the
lawmakers said in the letter to
the president. “This biparti-
san bill will restore the H-1B vi-
sa programme to its original
intent, protect American wor-
kers, and preserve the limited
H-1B visas,” the letter said.
Led by Congressman Bill
Pascrell, the letter was signed
by Senator Richard Durbin,
The Trump administration is
reviewing the H-1B visa policy
Congressmen Dave Brat, Ro
Khanna and Paul A Gosar
among others. The lawmakers
said their legislation provides
protections for American wor-
kers and visa holders as it calls
for more transparency in the
recruitment of foreign wor-
kers. The bill, they said, add-
resses gaps in the current law
by requiring that the employ-
ers make a good faith effort to
recruit and hire American
workers first.
In addition, the bill also
asks for prohibiting employ-
ers from replacing American
workers or giving preference
to visa holders. It also propo-
ses to modify existing H-1B wa-
ge requirements to ensure
employers pay foreigners com-
parable wages in the area of
employment. PTI
tion for it: A dump.
America’s 45th President has caused
consternation among political elites by
disparaging the White House, an execu-
tive mansion he often flees from, raising
renewed questions about whether he re-
ally respects the office that some com-
mentators believe he lucked into acci-
dentally. Trump is said to have made the
comments to some of his patrons at his
club in Bedminster, New Jersey, before a
recent round of golf, according to an ar-
ticle by Golf Magazine published this
week. He reportedly told members he
makes such frequent appearances at the
property in Bedminster because “that
White House is a real dump”.
The White House did not explain or
elaborate on Trump’s comments and it is
not clear if he meant it to be taken serio-
usly or was just shooting his mouth to a
captive audience. The White House has
had to frequently clarify that some of
Trump’s off-the-cuff remarks were jokes
not meant to be taken seriously.
Early in his presidency, Trump ex-
pressed awe at some of the White House
trappings, gushing about its telephones
(“These are the most beautiful phones
I’ve ever used in my life. The world’s most
secure system. The words just explode in
the air!”) and recounting how people who
visit stare at things for a long time.
“It’s a beautiful residence, it’s very
elegant. There’s something very special
when you know that Abraham Lincoln
A magazine reported Trump as telling his New Jersey golf club patrons that he makes frequent
appearances at the property because ‘that White House is a real dump’. By one account, Trump
has spent 58 of his 193 days in office away from the White House at his own properties
slept there,” he said in one interview.
But the New Yorker president has
spent nearly every weekend of his presi-
dency visiting various properties he
owns and leases, mostly going to Mar-a-
Lago in Florida, and Bedminster in New
Jersey. By one account, he has spent 58 of
his 193 days in office away from the Whi-
te House at his own properties.
The put-down did not go well with at-
least one former White House resident,
who also saw it as an insult to the per-
manent White House staff, who Trump
does not seem to care much for.
“Thank you to all the White House
ushers, butlers, maids, chefs, florists,
gardeners, plumbers, engineers & cura-
tors for all you do every day,” Chelsea
Clinton tweeted shortly after the com-
ments were reported.
The White House is a rather modest
building compared to Rashtrapati Bha-
van, the Indian President’s residence-
‘Venezuela poll
turnout figures
were manipulated’
London: Turnout figures in
Venezuela’s Constitutional
Assembly election were ma-
cum-office, which boasts of 355 rooms nipulated up by least 1 mil-
spread over 200,000 square feet set in so- lion votes, Smartmatic, a
me 330 acres. In contrast, the White Ho- company which has worked
use had a mere 132 rooms and 35 bathro- with Venezuela since 2004 on
oms spanning 55,000 square feet and set its voting system, said on
in 18 cramped acres, a little more than Wednesday.
Rashtrapati Bhavan’s Mughal Gardens. “We know, without any
It looks even smaller because it tapers doubt, that the turnout of the Venezuelan President Maduro
to the sides and several floors are under- recent election for a National
ground, including the famed “Situation Constituent Assembly was rence between the actual
Room” and infamous “secret undisclo- manipulated,” Smartmatic participation and the one an-
sed locations”. It also has a movie theatre, CEO Antonio Mugica said at nounced by authorities is at
a bowling alley, a jogging track, and a put- a news briefing in London. least 1million votes,” he said.
ting green, among other frills. Mugica said Smartma- Mugica declined to di-
Evidently, that’s not enough to im- tic, which has provided elec- rectly answer whether the
press President Trump, who is known tronic voting technology for manipulated turnout num-
for preferring gauzy, glitzy properties elections around the world, bers changed the result of
and shows little or no sense of history. was able to detect the the election, in which autho-
Incidentally, Trump hosted China’s overstated officially anno- rities said 8.1 million people
President Xi JinPing and Japan’s Prime unced turnout because of voted. The election of the le-
Minister Shinzo Abe at Mar-a-Lago. In- Venezuela’s automated elec- gislative super-body has be-
dia’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi tion system. en decried by critics as ille-
was received in the “dump”. “We estimate the diffe- gitimate. REUTERS

New Pak PM Teen jumps out

consults Sharif
on cabinet pick
Islamabad: Pakistan’s new
PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi be-
gan his first full day in office on
Wednesday by meeting his ous-
ted former boss Nawaz Sharif,
a signal the ex-premier would
continue to wield influence.
Television broadcasts sho-
Graft probe against Abbasi
was closed in Dec: Pakistan’s
anti-corruption watchdog closed
a probe in December against PM
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi for his
alleged role in awarding a Rs 220
billion contract for the import
and distribution of liquefied
natural gas in 2013, the Dawn
reported on Wednesday. PTI
wed images of Abbasi’s mo-
torcade at Muree, where Sha-
rif is staying. A new cabinet
was due to be sworn in later,
with media saying Abbasi wo-
uld make the decision in con-
sultation with Sharif and re-
tain most of the former PM’s
loyalists. REUTERS
Lawmaker: Imran sends vulgar
texts to women party workers
Omer Farooq Khan TNN
Islamabad: Pakistan Teh-
reek-i-Insaf (PTI) issued a
legal notice on its woman
lawmaker for levelling alle-
gations of harassment aga-
inst party chief Imran Khan
on Wednesday, asking her to
submit an apology and re-
sign from her National As-
sembly seat.
Ayesha Gulalai, a PTI
lawmaker from South Wazi-
ristan tribal region, has alle-
ged that Khan was an “im-
moral and characterless per-
son” who had sent her and
other women in party vulgar
text messages. She did not
reveal any other details to
support her allegations.
“Khan would forward in-
appropriate and explicit
text messages to party wo-
men. I received the first
such message in October
2013,” she claimed at a press
AFP
Imran Khan’s party issued a legal
notice to lawmaker Ayesha Gulalai
and asked her to apologise
conference on Tuesday, a
day after meeting PML-N of-
ficials from NWFP in Pesha-
war. There was speculation
that she was quitting PTI af-
ter the party had asked her
to explain why she had skip-
ped party meetings and na-
tional assembly sessions.
“I was staying away from
party meetings because
they were held at Khan’s Ba-
nigala residence. I was up-
of taxiing plane’s
emergency door
set and could not bear to be
part of that corrupt cultu-
re,” she said, accusing the
cricketer-turned politician
of introducing western cul-
ture in Pakistan. “He wants
to corrupt us, to corrupt Is-
lamic culture and Pashtun
culture,” she said.
Gulalai alleged that PTI
leaders were corrupt. She
said that Khan’s kitchen
was run on illegal money.
Imran has not yet com-
mented on the allegations
but female workers of his
party were quick to jump to
his defence, with many of
them posting videos on
Twitter to counter attack.
While serving her a legal
notice, PTI spokesperson
Fawad Chaudhry said that
since Gulalai has accused
the party and its chief of mo-
ral and financial corrup-
tion, she should resign from
her National Assembly seat.
San Francisco: A 17-year-old
boy opened the emergency do-
or of a plane minutes after it
landed in San Francisco, slid
down the wing and jumped on-
to a tarmac, authorities said.
The teen, a US citizen, was
flying by himself from Panama
City to San Francisco and appe-
ared to be in emotional distress
during the flight, said San
Francisco airport spokesman
Doug Yakel. An airfield const-
ruction crew confronted the
boy and held him until police
arrived and arrested him. He
was not injured. Passengers sa-
id the teen seemed anxious
throughout the flight that he
acted so quickly, no one had a
chance to stop him.
The airline said that a crew
her plans for parenthood “I do,” as they plummeted 20
member on Copa Airlines
Flight 208 closed the door and
Sexism: NZ oppn before they decided whether stories on a roller coaster.
the plane then taxied to the ga- leader asked or not to vote for her as PM. “It
is totally unacceptable in 2017
Ashley Schiller and Thom
Marchetti, of North Kingstown,
te. But a passenger said there
was no door to close and a about baby plans to say that women should have were married on a Superman-
flight attendant blocked the to answer that question in the themed roller coaster at
gap with her body. AP
N ew Zealand’s freshly
installed opposition leader
Jacinda Ardern was drawn into
workplace,” she said.

Chinese man pays $10,000

Six Flags New England
in Agawam.

a sexism row on Wednesday for whisky shot: A young Welsh priests walk into bar,

Now, Pakistan Taliban launches women’s magazine after being asked if having a
baby would affect her chances
of becoming PM. Just one day
into her new job with the
Chinese man paid 9,999 Swiss
francs ($10,000) at a Swiss
hotel for a glass of whisky
mistaken for stag party:
Seven Roman Catholic priests
were refused service in a
made in 1878 by the Scotch Welsh pub after staff mistook

T
he Pakistani Taliban on
Tuesday released the
first edition of a magazi-
ne for women, apparently ai-
ming to convince its target rea-
dership to join the militant
group and take up jihad.
The first edition of “Sun-
nat E Khaula” — which trans-
lates as ‘The Way of Khaula’,
referring to an early female fol-
lower of the Prophet Muham-
mad — published by the Tehre-
ek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
features a picture of a women
veiled from head to toe on its
front cover. Inside is an inter-
view with the TTP’s leader’s
wife, who is not named, in
which she talks about being
married to the head of the mi-
litant group, Fazlullah Khora-
sani, at the age of 14.
“I ask you why now every-
where there is hue and cry abo-
ut underage marriages... We
have to understand that matu-
re boys and girls if left unmar-
ried for too long can become a
source of moral destruction of
the society,” the militant lea-
JIHADI GLAMOUR
der’s wife tells the interviewer.
“We want to provoke women of
Islam to come forward and jo-
in the ranks of mujahideen e
(holy warriors of) Islam,” re-
ads the opening editorial of
the magazine, which includes
an advice column for would-be
lady jihadis. “Organise secret
gatherings at home and invite
like-minded jihadi sisters,”
the column suggests. “Distri-
bute literature reflecting on
the obligation of jihad, arran-
ge physical training classes
for sisters. Learn how to ope-
rate simple weapons. Learn
the use of grenades.”
The English-language ma-
gazine also includes an article
written by a Pakistani female
doctor describing her decision
to shun her western education
and embrace Islam, titled “My
journey from ignorance to gui-
dance”. At the height of the Ta-
liban’s influence in Pakistan,
the militant group regularly
put out publications in Urdu
and English, hoping to attract
recruits to its ranks. AFP
centre-left Labour Party,
Ardern had already been asked
twice in separate interviews
about whether she intended to
become a parent. Ardern
responded graciously to the
initial line of questioning,
saying it was a dilemma lots of
career women faced. But she
took exception when told on
the same network that New
Zealanders had a right to know
maker Macallan, the 20Min-
uten website said. The report
was confirmed by an employee
of the Waldhaus Hotel in St
Moritz, northeast Switzerland.
Newlyweds in US take the
plunge on roller coaster: A
thrill-seeking Rhode Island
couple has taken the
plunge at a Massachusetts
amusement park, screaming,
them for a stag party in
fancy dress. After realising a
mistake had been made,
Cardiff’s City Arms offered the
clergymen a round of free
drinks to apologise, the
Archdiocese of Cardiff said
in a blog post on Tuesday.
Arriving at the pub, the priests
were told by a bartender that
the City Arms did not serve
large groups in fancy dress.
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Govt disappointed with RBI plans

to set up
NSEL scam: Sebi Essar Steel
to face SBI’s
small cut in interest rates public credit indicts ex-FTIL, bankruptcy

Feels Historic Low Inflation Gave Room For 100Bps Reduction

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New Delhi: The official state-
ment from the finance mini-
stry welcomed RBI’s rate cut
by 25 basis points (100bps = 1
percentage point) on Wednes-
day, but overall there was a sen-
se of disappointment within
the government over the cen-
tral bank’s move to opt for a
“small cut”.
Sections within the go-
vernment said with inflation
at historic lows, there was eno-
ugh room for a “drastic cut”
and it could have been as much
as 100 basis points. “It seems
that RBI feels that pushing
growth is the duty of the go-
vernment alone and that RBI
should only be concerned with
fighting inflation,” said a sour-
ce, giving the reasons why the
central bank should have gone
in for a substantial reduction.
Subhash Chandra Garg, se-
cretary, economic affairs, issu-
ed a statement welcoming the
rate decision, articulating the
official stand of the finance mi-
nistry. “We have taken note of
statement of MPC (monetary
policy committee) and its as-
sessment of the inflation and
growth outlook. We welcome
the 25bps cut in repo rate as an
important step necessary to
Mumbai: The creation of a pa- Orders 13 Entities To Deposit Mumbai: A bankruptcy court
Fall in inflation may have ...but banks haven’t passed ...or borrowers from nel to consider creation of a on Wednesday admitted proce-
demanded a deeper rate on full rate cut to either industry SBI base rate (%) Public Credit Registry (PCR) `126Cr Made Via Insider Trading edings against Essar Steel and
cut by RBI... household borrowers... 10 operated by the re- approved the interim insolven-
8 10 SBI home loan rate (%)* 9 gulator is one of TIMES NEWS NETWORK res of MCX and FTIL. cy resolution professional cho-
(Repo rate %) the development Sebi has directed these sen by SBI to run the beleague-
8.35
initiatives anno- Mumbai: Sebi on Wednes- people to open an escrow ac- red steel company. Lenders led
unced by the Re- day ordered 13 former offici- count and transfer about by SBI are proceeding against
6 serve Bank of India (RBI). The als with Multi Commodity Rs 126 crore into that. Of the the company to recover debts of
(%age (%age (%age
point change) point change) point change) central bank has also asked for Exchange (MCX) and Finan- total, about Rs 80 crore is the around Rs 45,000 crore.
2 1.65 1 credit bureaus to provide more
comprehensive reports and ta-
cial Technologies (now 63
Moons Technologies) to
loss averted by these entiti-
es, while the balance, Rs 41
Essar Steel is likely to go in
for appeal as the appointment of
ke further steps to develop the deposit Rs 126 crore, which crore, is the interest on the a resolution professional would
corporate debt market. Anno- was made through insider losses avoided. Sebi has also result in the board of directors
28 4 5 2 1 3 9 7 3 1
Apr Oct May Nov Oct Jul uncing this in the monetary po- trading in the shares of the directed these entities not to being dissolved. On Wednesday
Jan Mar Apr Aug
’14 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’14 ’15 ’17 ’13 ’15 ’17 licy press conference, RBI de- two entities. dispose of or alienate any of evening, company officials refu-
* Rates on Rs 50 lakh home loan where there is at least one woman borrower; New loans to industry are at
puty governor Viral Acharya Sebi said these 13 entities their assets, properties, se- sed to comment on whether the-
marginal cost of lending rate; MCLR has fallen 115 bps to 8% since launch in May 16
said that the registry will be ne- had advance information curities, till they transfer re would be an appeal stating
ar real-time and will aid credit about the National Spot Ex- their individual amounts to that they are still studying the or-
assessment not just by lenders change (NSEL) case and had the escrow account. der. Essar Steel is among the 12
RBI panel to find ways to push banks into passing lower rates but of the lenders themselves. sold the stocks of MCX and companies recommended by the
Mumbai: The RBI on Wednesday reiterated an old grouse that banks were not passing on rate cuts The PCR will be an extensi- FTIL after the government NSEL SCAM RBI for initiating insolvency
and has set up another panel to find ways to force banks to do so. “The experience with the Marginal ve database of credit informa- sent a show-cause notice to proceedings.
Sebi indicts 13 people in
Cost of Funds Based Lending Rate (MCLR) system introduced in April 2016 for improving the tion for India that is accessible the spot exchange for viola-
MCX, FTIL insider trading case
monetary transmission has not been entirely satisfactory, even though it has been an advance over to all stakeholders. The idea ting trading laws. However, Essar Steel is likely
These ex-directors &
the Base Rate system,” the RBI said in a statement. Speaking to newspersons after the monetary is to capture all relevant infor- these entities did not inform
relatives of promoters had
to go in for appeal
policy committee decision, RBI governor Urjit Patel said that interest rate cuts have been passed on the exchanges about the go-
sold MCX, FTIL shares as the appointment
in segments where there is strong competition like home loans and less in other. Also pricing of loans NEAR REAL-TIME vernment’s show-cause no-
before the NSEL scam of a resolution
linked to the older benchmark — the base rate — have been slow to respond to rate cuts. TNN tice since they had anticipa-
was out in the open
mation in one large database ted a sharp fall in the stocks professional would
converge towards the appropri- the government. Some policy- Differences between the on the borrower and, in of these companies. They had info about govt
notice to NSEL for rule violations
result in the board
ate real monetary conditions makers said they appreciated RBI and the government over particular, the borrower’s FTIL was the main pro-
for sustained growth, consis- the disappointment that mar- the extent of an interest rate cut entire set of borrowing cont- moter of NSEL as well as Sebi has asked these entities being dissolved
tent with India’s potential and kets have displayed. In the run- have come out in the open in the racts and outcomes. MCX and hence the infor- to transfer about Rs 126cr in an In an interim order, the Ah-
for stable, moderate inflation,” up to rate decision, a wide sec- past few months with the chief In India, as of date, there ex- mation about the show cau- escrow account medabad bench of the National
he said. tion within the government economic adviser in the finance ist four credit bureaus — CI- se notice was a price-sensiti- Company Law Tribunal (NCLT)
But there was huge disappo- was expecting at least a 50bps re- ministry, Arvind Subramani- BIL, Equifax, Experian and ve information. Following a Those named in the Sebi appointed Satish Kumar Gupta
intment across a wide section of duction to help spur growth. an, expressing disappointment. CRIF Highmark. Within the major payment crisis at the orders include MCX CEO of Alvarez & Marsal as interim
RBI, there is a Central Reposi- bourse, on July 31, 2013, Shreekant Javalgekar and insolvency resolution professio-

Re gains 38p, hits 2-yr high of 63.70

TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: The rupee staged its
best performance in 2017, gai-
ning 38 paise on Wednesday to
breach the psychological barri-
er 64-level to close at a two-year
high of 63.70 — up from Tuesda-
y’s close of 64.08 against the US
dollar . The rupee gained after
the RBI cut its repo rate by 25 ba-
sis points (100 bps = 1percentage
point), citing a positive macro
environment in terms of infla-
tion, monsoon and smooth GST
transition. Dealers said that the
RBI’s observations were positi-
ve for the currency market.
“Until yesterday, the RBI
was intervening. Today mor-
ning, when they realised that
BOUNCING BACK
The Indian currency is gaining
from record-high forex reserves, 64
strong macro fundamentals
It's also getting support from
huge FPI inflows, mainly in debt
But all exporters — mainly IT,
67
pharma & jewellery — will be hit
in rupee-denominated revenue 68
The good news is that all
imports will be cheaper
Foreign tours or studying abroad will be cheaper in rupee terms
local corporates have started
selling, they appear to have
stepped back,” said Ashish Va-
idya, head of trading and as-
set-liability management at
63
Rs vs $ (inverse scale) Sensex dips 98pts
64.14 63.70 Mumbai: The 25-bps rate cut
July 31, ’15
Aug 2, ’17 by the RBI disappointed Dalal
Street that was expecting a
65 50-basis-point cut in rates to
boost the stagnating
66 economic growth. At close
sensex was down 98 points at
32,477, with rate sensitive
stocks as well as IT leading the
slide. While banking stocks fell
after less-than-expected rate
69
cut, software stocks lost as the
rupee strengthened. TNN
DBS. According to Vaidya, the selling dollars in the hope that
current strengthening was not the rupee would weaken, deci-
an inter-bank play but selling ded to cut their losses and sell
by corporates. Exporters who dollars. Such selling sprees
had been holding back from usually last a couple of days.
tory of Information on Large
Credits (CRILC), which has be-
en created to cater to superviso-
ry needs by tracking large ex-
posures. The RBI also has a
comprehensive Basic Statisti-
cal Return (BSR-1) database
with granular account level in-
formation on credit.
A PCR can potentially help
banks in credit assessment and
pricing of credit as well as in
making risk-based, dynamic
and counter-cyclical provisio-
ning. The PCR can also help the
RBI in understanding if trans-
mission of monetary policy is
working, and if not, where are
the bottlenecks.
NSEL had to suspend tra-
ding. Subsequently, Sebi,
Mumbai city police’s econo-
mic offences wing (EOW)
and regulatory agencies had
started their probes into the
scam that was estimated at
about Rs 5,600 crore.
In two separate orders
passed by Sebi whole-time
member S Raman, the regu-
lator found that these 13 peo-
ple had traded in these
stocks when in possession of
‘unpublished price sensiti-
ve information’. The orders
said that these people were
able to avoid any potential
loss in the holdings of sha-
his wife Asha, Manish Shah,
Prakash Shah, three FTIL
employees Hariharan Vai-
dyalingam, Mehmood Vaid,
V Arvindkumar Iyengar
and his wife Dhanashri,
Bharat Kanaiyalal Sheth
(brother of FTIL director
Ravi Sheth), former MCX
chief Joseph Massey, ex-di-
rector at MCX Paras Ajme-
ra, former NSEL CEO Anja-
ni Sinha, and former FTIL
director Tejal Shah.
Sebi has also asked these
13 people as to why these
amounts should not be dis-
gorged for violating its insi-
der trading laws.
nal. The court also ordered
SBI to make a public announce-
ment of the commencement of
the insolvency process and call
for all creditors to submit claims
under Section 15 of the Bank-
ruptcy Code.
As part of the process, the
court also declared a moratori-
um prohibiting the institution
of suits or continuation of su-
its against the corporate deb-
tor, including execution of any
judgment, decree or order in
any court of law, tribunal, ar-
bitration panel or other autho-
rity. There is also a ban on Es-
sar Steel disposing or dealing
with any asset.

$1.3bn Fosun-Gland Pharma deal was

kept in abeyance for almost a year
Rupali.Mukherjee
@timesgroup.com
Mumbai: There’s more to the
government’s stalling of Chi-
nese conglomerate Fosun’s
$1.3-billion bid to buy Hydera-
bad-based Gland Pharma than
meets the eye. Sources told
TOI the twin ministries of he-
alth and pharmaceuticals had
reservations about the deal as
it did not offer much, and was a
mere “transfer of ownership”,
while a section of the industry
feels the rejection was mostly
due to geo-political reasons
and not because Gland Phar-
ma owns “proprietary and ni-
che technology”.
Initially, Gland was a key
manufacturer of a critical drug
heparin, also its flagship pro-
duct used in major surgeries.
But industry experts say its sha-
re has now reduced to 20-25% of
the heparin market, with seve-
ral players having come up, in-
cluding Biological Evans, Sam-
arth Lifesciences and Swiss Pa-
renterals. China, which cont-
rols a major supply of key raw
materials and intermediates
for manufacturing drugs, wo-
uld have also accessed “key
technology” and become a ma-
by the Chinese. TOI could not,
‘Govt’s dilly-dallying very distressing’ however, confirm this, as he-
alth and pharma ministry offi-
T he promoter of the Rs 1,500-crore Gland Pharma, Ravi
Penmetsa, told TOI, “The government’s dilly-dallying on the
deal for over a year is very distressing.” He added that there is no
cials were not available for com-
ments, and calls made by TOI
were not returned.
clarity (on which way it will go). The company had provided all
A standard evaluation for
answers to CCI’s concerns raised last year, after which
what an FDI proposal brings
the proposal was vetted by the home affairs ministry,
in terms of foreign invest-
and then by the FIPB. Brushing aside speculation that
ment, employment and tech-
Fosun was keen to access niche technology for
nology, has to be done before gi-
manufacturing major injectables like
ving any approval. “In this ca-
EXCLUSIVE heparin (through his company), he said
se, the ministries felt there
China was already a major supplier
was none,” with these con-
globally of the raw material (API) for heparin, and commands a
cerns somehow getting lost
major share in the global market along with the US. This is Fosun’s
with the FIPB being wound up,
22nd acquisition of a pharma company, mainly to allow the Chinese
the person aware of the deve-
conglomerate to utilise established US FDA-approved facilities,
lopment added.
which would give it access to lucrative markets like the US, he said.
The government could ha-
He added that the company has 200 filings in the US, with 100
ve become “edgy” with India
approvals of key products. — Rupali Mukherjee
losing control over a critical
injectable, a CEO with a lea-
jor competitor (for India) in for- ter acquired generic injectab- ding player said, adding, it’s
mulations, the person quoted in les business of Claris Lifesci- better to keep a “hostile count-
the first case said. ences for $625 million. ry” away. The border tensions
TOI studied a clutch of The deal faced issues from between the two countries
pharma deals over the recent the start and was kept in abey- may have added “fuel to fire”,
years and found — though de- ance for almost a year, mainly an industry expert said.
lays (in approvals) are pretty because the government was A majority of industry pla-
routine (Mylan’s takeover of using it as a “negotiating tool” yers whom TOI contacted said
Strides Agila unit) — this ca- in their scheme of “give and ta- on condition of anonymity
se does seem a bit unusual ke”, two people familiar with that they do not consider the
and could have been kept in the deal said. India, for long, has Hyderabad-based company “a
abeyance due to “complexiti- been trying to establish a drug flag-bearer of intellectual pro-
es” at play. In a similar acqui- regulatory office in China — a perty, or of any niche, hard-to-
sition recently, US-based Bax- request which has been ignored access technology”.

Very bullish on India: Apple CEO

Anand.J@timesgroup.com
Bengaluru: The India mar-
ket is where the China market
was several years ago, Apple
CEO Tim Cook said, adding
that he was very bullish about
the country. The company saw
its emerging markets’ unit sa-
les outside of China reaching
 Apple powers Dow past
22,000 mark, P 18
a record growth of 18% year-
on-year during the second qu-
arter of the year. Cook, who
was speaking to investors du-
ring the quarterly earnings
call, said Apple would conti-
nue to invest in India.
3RD COUNTRY TO ASSEMBLE iPHONES
Revenue up by 6% to $45.4bn
India became third
country to assemble iPhones
Profits rise 12% to $8.7bn
CHINA SALES INDIA SALES
2.1 million units
2.65
in the last quarter million
of 2011
units in
46.5 million units full year
in full year 2016 2016
During the quarter, India
became only the third count-
ry to assemble iPhones, un-
derscoring how important
the country has become for
one of the world’s most valu-
ed companies. Cook said that
We began to produce the
iPhone SE there (in India)
during the quarter, and
we’re really happy with
how that’s going...
we’re bringing all our
energies there. I see
a lot of similarities to
where China was
several years ago
Tim Cook | CEO, APPLE
Apple was happy with the In-
dian unit’s functioning.
“We are investing in India.
We have already launched an
app accelerator centre. That’s
on top of working with the
channel and looking at expan-
ding our go-to-market in gene-
ral. And we began to produce
the iPhone SE there during
the quarter, and we’re really
happy with how that’s going.
And so we’re bringing all of
our energies to bear there. I
see a lot of similarities to whe-
re China was several years
ago. And so I’m very, very bul-
lish and very, very optimistic
about India,” Cook said.
Apple saw its revenue gro-
wing by 6% and profits 12% ye-
ar-on-year. It reported over $45
billion in revenue and $8.7 bil-
lion in profit for the second qu-
arter. Slowing sales in the US
and China is forcing Apple,
and its investors, to look to In-
dia as the next big sales engine.
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Radio Mirchi
Q1 revenue RBI to be vigilant on India moved from slow follower
falls 5.8%
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inflation, says Patel to a fast innovator: Chambers
Mumbai: Entertainment
Network (India) Ltd, the ope-
Asks States To Facilitate Affordable Housing Sidhartha &
Surojit Gupta TNN
There are hundreds of are-
as that this business group co-
uld focus on. Not do everything
ment, startups, win-win for
everyone.
How would you sum up
further and how we do it at a
larger scale.
How do you see the impact
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C
rator of India’s No. 1 FM radio window clearance by state isco chairman John like peanut butter but focus on
channel Radio Mirchi, anno- governments of this very im- Chambers is in India to where we can make the diffe- performance in the last three cularly when India needs to
years? create jobs?

unced on Wednesday its result
for the quarter ended June 30,
2017 (Q1FY18).
The company posted a deg-
rowth of 5.8% in total revenu-
es at Rs 104.4 crore as compa-
red to Rs 110.8 crore in Q1FY17.
The company reported opera-
ting an ebitda of nearly Rs 17
crore and a profit after tax
(PAT) of Rs 4.4 crore for the qu-
arter ended June 30, 2017.
Commenting on the re-
sults, ENIL MD & CEO Pras-
hant Panday said, “Q1 was a
forgettable quarter. All the top
advertising categories on ra-
dio recorded degrowth. The
biggest advertiser — the Cen-
tral government — cut its ad-
vertising by nearly 35% com-
pared to last year. In large
part, the poor results of the
quarter can be attributed to
the lingering effects of demo-
netisation, the rollout of RE-
RA (Real Estate Regulation
Act) and run-up to GST in Ju-
ne. We believe this is a tempo-
rary slowdown and business
should return to normal from
September, when the festive
season sets in. On the positive
side, our new stations and our
non-radio verticals have done
well during the quarter.”
Sanjaya Baru
I
ndia’s inflation has under- portant initiative which has unveil the recently set up rence and it has to be inclusive.
gone a structural shift, the potential for growth,” sa- US-India Strategic Partners- The Indian companies A+. India has moved in This is where I think every
with the emergence of id Patel. hip Forum. In an interview to concerns are over visas. three years from a slow follo- country has to set their prece-
‘new normal’ at lower levels. In the policy statement on TOI, Chambers said a strategic How would you approach wer to a fast innovator. India is dents. Technology will likely
This reinforces my view of Wednesday, the Reserve partnership between the Uni- this issue? no more the place where most help your family like you never
room for incremental rate Bank of India said that some ted States and India isn’t about dreamed of. It will allow you to
cuts to the tune of 50-75 bps in RBI governor Urjit Patel of the upside risks to infla- business or trade, it’s about ON TECH MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO CREATE JOBS be entertained differently and
coming months,” said Rana tion have either reduced or transforming society, it’s about if done right, it will allow you to
Kapoor, managing director & While government not materialised. In fact, the a whole new opportunity bet- I think it actually makes it easier. make more income. There will
CEO, Yes Bank. (100 basis po- nominee Ravindra path of inflation was below ween two countries. He also sa- So, let’s just use the example of be job displacements. Yes, but
ints = 1 percentage point) H Dholakia voted the projection made in June. id he would give A+ to the Na- farming. If you can make it dramatically also job creation.
The Monetary Panel Also the rollout of GST has rendra Modi government for more productive, if your farmer, he or she Does technology make it
Committee’s (MPC’s) 5:1 vote for 50 basis points been smooth and the monso- the pace of reforms. Excerpts: difficult for countries like
cut, RBI member can get the produce to the market and get
in favour of a rate cut by the on normal. “Consequently, India to create jobs?
better price because of technology. If they
MPC marks a dramatic tur- Michael Debabrata some space has opened up for What was the need for this
can move into new segments and markets
I think it actually makes it
naround from the panel’s
Patra voted for monetary policy accommo- new forum? easier. So, let’s just use the ex-
stance in June when it voted dation, given the dynamics of It’s a whole different con- in ways they couldn’t do before, I ample of farming. If you can
5:1to keep rates on hold. Whi- status quo the output gap. Accordingly, cept. If you watch this organi- think it changes everything make it dramatically more pro-
le government nominee Ra- caused by temporary factors the MPC decided to reduce zation, it is focussed entirely on —JOHN CHAMBERS | CHAIRMAN, CISCO ductive, if your farmer, he or
vindra H Dholakia voted for or a structural change. He al- the policy repo rate by a strategic partnership betwe- she can get the produce to the
a policy rate reduction of 50 so warned that it would con- 25bps,” the Reserve Bank of en the United States and India. You know my views on im- foreign direct investment market and get better price be-
basis points, Reserve Bank of tinue to be vigilant in respect India said in the statement. It’s a mission that reflects the migration. We will prioritise had lost confidence in. You cause of technology, if they can
India member Michael Deba- of inflation which was likely RBI however warned that inflexion points between our the issues and say how do we watch Prime Minister Modi move into new segments and
brata Patra voted for status to rise from present levels. the trajectory of inflation two countries, the inflexion po- work through in a way which with 20 CEOs and he went aro- markets in ways they couldn’t
quo. The rate cut is the first The governor also made a in the baseline projection int of technology, and the in- works for everyone. und to each 20 and asked for do before. I think it changes
by the RBI since a similar cut strong pitch to states to ease is expected to rise from flexion point of businesses You said this group is not our views and thoughts — everything.
in October 2016. bottlenecks to facilitate af- its current low and the working together in way they going to be a lobby group? what we wanted to see India do One of the criticisms of this
However, Patel said that it fordable housing which wo- central bank would be focu- have never done before. It’s not It’s not going to be a lobby differently and all 20 of these government is that it is not
was not yet clear whether the uld boost growth. “I think we sed on keeping inflation at alobbying group. It was needed group at all. It is going to be all companies are going to bet on very ‘tolerant’. How do fore-
reduction in inflation was need a time-bound single close to 4%. for the future. about action and outcomes. India. The progress has been ign investors view this?
The USIBC could not do Not asking governments to do tremendous. I have tremendous confi-
The 25 bps reduction in the repo rate takes into account The RBI decision to cut the job? anything but businesses part- What are the three things dence in the inclusiveness
the success of the past RBI policies to rein in overall repo rate was a No. Not at the same level nering with citizens and go- you want Modi to do diffe- of this government. Every
welcome move and will perk and scale. It was focussed on vernment and other busines- rently and faster? conversation that I have had
price pressures and govt policies in containing food trade and so we decided at the ses to lead for outcomes. Every country in the world with the prime minister and
inflation. The RBI’s approach to segregate the up market sentiments. The executive committee to break So you will set targets for has to move faster. It’s about his team it is about the 1.3
structural and transitory factors impacting inflation policy commentary was away. companies? speed. If we look at 3-5 years, billion people. Period. I have
is prudent and reinforces the data dependency nuanced and balanced, What are the areas that you We will set targets for outco- looking at how we keep the not seen any divisiveness at the
indicating upside risks to
of the MPC
CHANDA KOCHHAR | MD & CEO, ICICI BANK inflation have waned, whereas
would focus on? mes. GDP growth, employ- startup engine accelerated very top.

growth impulses in industry

new secy RBI cut the repo rate, and left a window open
and services are weakening.
This measure should enable a
Apple powers India among top 10 focus mkts: Mars
gen of Ficci to further cuts in the future. The govt has also
undertaken many measures to boost economic
gradual recovery in
credit cycle with a
Dow past 22k John.Sarkar@timesgroup.com are becoming more deman- M&M’s falls, from1% currently
ding of the right brands and the to around 35%.” Globally, the
growth, which are likely to prove beneficial to

New Delhi: Sanjaya Baru, who
was media advisor to former PM
Manmohan Singh,
has been named
new secretary gen-
eral of the Federa-
tion of Indian
Chambers of Com-
merce and Industry. Baru will
assume the charge from Septem-
ber 1, Ficci President Pankaj Pa-
tel said. He will replace A Didar
Singh. The Ficci committee
“has decided to appoint the re-
nowned economist and journal-
ist Sanjaya Baru at the helm of
Ficci as its Secretary General,”
the chamber said. AGENCIES
revival of demand
segments like affordable housing and provide a
ARUNDHATI
boost to the construction industry
BHATTACHARYA
SHIKHA SHARMA | MD & CEO, AXIS BANK | CHAIRMAN, SBI
RBI’s repo rate cut does not bring While the RBI has maintained a neutral
down cost of funds for banks. That is stance, continuation of current
dependent on cost of deposits. The inflationary trends, we hope, will
policy statement shows the RBI is provide room for further cuts later
concerned about inflation. If in the year. We welcome the study
inflation trajectory changes from to explore linking of bank rates to
here it is quite likely that this rate market determined benchmarks
cut might be the last
PRAMIT JHAVERI |
KEKI MISTRY | VC & CEO, HDFC CEO, CITI INDIA
A
pple Inc’s surprising-
ly strong quarterly re-
sults and forecast pus-
hed the iPhone maker’s sha-
res to a record high, helping
the Dow Jones Industrial
Average breach the 22,000
mark for the first time ever.
The stock rose as much
as 6.4% at $160 in early tra-
ding, boosting market capi-
talisation of world’s most
valuable company by about
$50 billion to $832 billion.
“The Appleverse is expan-
ding with all segments gro-
wing,” UBS analyst Steven
Milunovich said. AGENCIES
New Delhi: Indian consumers
are becoming choosy when it
comes to buying chocolates
and this is enabling foreign
chocolate makers to bring in
their billion-dollar brands into
the country. A current example
is M&M’s, the iconic colourful
button-shaped chocolates,
from the US-based candy pro-
ducer Mars, the maker of
Snickers, Twix and Wrigley
and its namesake chocolate.
“The chocolate category is
getting sophisticated in India,”
said Andrew Leaky, GM, In-
dia & Indian subcontinent of
Mars Chocolate. “Consumers
right marketplace. They want
to see somet-
hing new and
fresh.”
Mars ente-
red India in
2004 and cur-
rently sells con-
fectionery brands such as
Twix, Bounty, Mars and Ga-
laxy here. India contributes
around 5% to Mars’ revenues
globally, according to industry
estimates.
“India is one of our top ten
focus markets,” said Leaky.
“We want to grow the bite-sized
chocolate segment, in which
Rs 7,000 crore Indian chocolate
market is one of the few that is
witnessing growth. Consump-
tion in the US, the world’s lar-
gest chocolate market, declined
3% on an average over the past
decade, according to UBS.
“The chocolate market in
India is growing at around
6-7%,” said Leaky. “We will be
introducing more brands from
the Mars portfolio.” India con-
sumed around 2.2 lakh tonnes
worth of chocolates in 2016, ac-
cording to London-based firm
Mintel, and along with Poland,
was among the only two mar-
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Neymar Move
To PSG: An tells Barca
A GIANT
AT BARCELONA
Era-Defining
Transfer Deal 186 he is leaving

LEAP
Ed Malyon Madrid: Neymar’s record-breaking 222
GAMES million euros ($263 million) transfer to

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f you do not feel the earth French side Paris Saint-Germain moved

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move beneath your feet then a step closer on Wednesday when Barce-
you are simply not paying at- lona said he had informed them of his
tention. intention to leave.
Neymar’s move to Paris “The player Neymar Jr, accompanied
Saint-Germain is an era-defin- by his father and agent, has informed FC
ing transfer, a deal that most, includ- GOALS Barcelona this morning of his decision to
ing much of the Barcelona hierarchy, leave the club in a meeting held at the
never thought would happen and now club’s offices,” Barcelona said in a state-

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a clear signpost in the history of mod- ment. “The club refer to the buy-out clause
ern football. We are already well along of his existing contract which as of 1 July
the path to financial absurdity. totals 222 million euros.”
PSG can be excited about where Earlier the 25-year-old arrived at the
they are. They drained Serie A of some
of its prime talent but fell flat, they
ASSISTS club’s training ground to tell team mates
he was moving to Paris, Catalan radio
signed veteran superstars, but got no- RAC1 reported. The Brazilian striker left

1
where. Now they are signing a super- the training area minutes later, it said,
star in his prime for a world-record fee with the club confirming on Twitter that
— 222m euros to be precise. They have he had been given permission not to train.
arrived, for sure, but where? In October, the player signed a Barce-
PSG will now reassert their dom- lona contract until 2021 in which his buy-
inance in Ligue 1 after last year’s slip,
€550,000 A WEEK? TREBLE out clause was raised to more than double
dutifully aided by those clubs that the biggest transfer fee in soccer history.

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have so readily circled the wagons to edia sources across Europe reported that However, UEFA said on Wednesday

keep the Parisians out of the conti-
nental elite. Manchester City, Chel-
sea, Real Madrid and others have
picked off Monaco’s young up-and-
comers, priming PSG for a waltz to
8
Neymar will now head to Paris to continue that no complaint had been received, add-
negotiations on a potential six-year deal worth ing that European football’s governing
more than 550,000 euros a week. The striker body would not block any potential deal
only arrived back in Spain on Tuesday after in advance. “UEFA will look into the de-
trips to China and the West Asia. TROPHIES tails of this transfer in due course to en-

€222m
Neymar has been active on social media, sure PSG are compliant with FFP require-
ments,” the UEFA statement said.
sharing an excerpt from the New Testament
Under the fair play rules - which
(Philippians 4:11) on Instagram which said “I
Andrea Traverso, Uefa’s FFP project
am not saying this because I am in need, for I leader, was last week quoted by Italian
have learned to be content whatever the
Neymar
newspaper Gazetta dello Sport as saying
circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, PSG were currently following — club’s
and I know what it is to have plenty. I have wage bill must not exceed 70 percent of
learned the secret of being content ...whether its revenue.
living in plenty or in want.”
A PSG spokesman declined to comment. WHAT WILL PSG’s 2015/16 revenue came to 521
million euros, according to Deloitte’s
TAKING LEAVE: Neymar arrives for REUTERS BARCELONA Football Money League report issued
training in Barcelona on Wednesday in January.
BE MISSING?
the French title and installing them €150m
as a sort of Bayern-on-Seine. Their Neymar is one third THE MSN AXIS
financial might and playing squad of Barcelona's 'MSN' La Liga assists for each other
should now be far too good for their RECORD Bale Pogba strikeforce, which also MESSI NEYMAR SUAREZ
rivals and the domestic trophies a €100m Ronaldo includes Lionel Messi
formality. Europe is where they will TRANSFER and Luis Suarez. In the
measure themselves.
There is something poetic too that
FEES SINCE Zidane past three seasons, they
have scored 250 goals
this is Barcelona who are getting one 1992 Figo
between them in 299
in the eye. PSG were humiliated at the Vieri appearances. But they
hands of the Azulgrana in European €50m Crespo
do more than just score... 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17
football’s greatest-ever comeback last Denilson
season. Barca then tried to take their Shearer
best player away from them in the Ronaldo HOW PRODUCTIVE ARE MSN
shape of Marco Verratti. PSG have Papin Vialli Lentini Ronaldo It was an enormous Chances For
not only stood up to that challenge,
pleasure to have shared WHAT NEYMAR 7 created for
Others 12
others
they’ve fought back and they have CREATES each other in
taken an axe to the legs of their Cata- all these years with you Assists for Barca Suarez
past three La
lan adversaries who, for their part,
should have seen it coming. Neymar. I wish you luck in this teammates in last 11 Liga seasons
Messi
PSG’s Qatari owners have always
had an in-built insecurity about how
new stage of your life —LIONEL MESSI three La Liga seasons
MESSI NEYMAR SUAREZ
they were perceived by the biggest Courtesy: Sky Sports Courtesy: BBC

clubs in Europe and they are stub-

born — and rich — enough to hold
firm. When it came to Verratti, the
response was always more likely to
be nuclear and, for Barcelona, this
does feel like they simply didn’t see
the Parisians coming.
THE POLITICS OF IT ALL
Pupstarts within the European game and determined
SG’s owners, Qatari Sports Investment (QSI), are the
to disrupt the old order. QSI is an arm of Qatar’s
sovereign wealth fund — so PSG’s ambitions are backed
Uefa’s Financial Fair Play regulations have
certainly tempered PSG’s elaborate spending in La Liga to denounce
recent seasons, and Neymar’s arrival would
represent a serious challenge to the club in
‘state-backed teams’
this respect — but there’s confidence within
PSG’s boardroom that it will not be a

For Barca, it means another season
where Real Madrid have strengthened
and they have got weaker. Not only are
Real getting stronger but they’re get-
ting younger. The strategy is clear and
Real want to buy up all of Europe’s best
young players. They can afford to do so
because their present is so secure. With
Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, Karim
Benzema, Luka Modric, Toni Kroos
and company, it is only natural to spend
your time recruiting for the future and
simply enjoy the present.
The Nou Camp club is wracked by
internal politics and Pep Segura has
a lot to do in his new, senior role. The
pipeline from La Masia to the first
team is blocked as Madrid’s academy
flourishes, Barca have bought poorly
and, simply put, Barcelona have less
money to spend. Perhaps the forgot-
ten man here, in the centre of this
whirlwind of money, revenge and
J
avier Tebas, the president of La Liga, told Diario
by the enormous natural gas wealth of the Gulf state. significant issue. AS they will present a complaint to UEFA in light
Qatar is locked in a bitter dispute with its Arab Ultimately this deal will not be of PSG’s pursuit of the Brazilian, and Tebas con-
neighbours — so this transfer has a distinct political judged in Doha nor on a firmed that the organisation he heads will not accept
overtone as it seeks to show it will not be diminished or spreadsheet. Instead, success the 222m euros for Neymar’s release clause, if PSG pay.
cowed by an ongoing trade blockade and a diplomatic must be delivered through PSG “The complaint is ready and will be presented to
war of words. Having secured the World Cup in 2022, capturing arguably the club Uefa, the European Union, and the Swiss Courts,
Doha sees PSG as one of the ways through which the game’s greatest trophy, the those are the tribunals that have power. Basically,
state can achieve its ambitions. Champions League. La Liga will denounce the unfairness of competing
against state-backed clubs; the teams that receive
economic investment from countries that gift play-
empire-building, is Neymar, who will seasons, Neymar has been the best ers to their fans at the cost of taking them from
be the face and heart of his new team. player on the planet, outperforming other clubs,” Tebas told AS.
While it has always seemed he was his teammate Messi and outperform- “In terms of PSG, it is a clear case of ‘financial
learning well in Messi’s shadow and ing Cristiano Ronaldo. In a vacuum, doping’, with the club and the state. PSG’s accounts
that he would one day step out of it, potentially the best player on the show that they have a larger commercial income than
this decision appears to be recogni- planet becoming the most expensive Real Madrid and Manchester United, which is to say
tion that with the Argentinean’s new player in football makes all the sense. that the value of their brand is greater than those
deal, that might never happen at Bar- But it’s just about the only thing clubs. Well, that is impossible. If Uefa don’t react, we
celona. It also appears to be motivated in this whole saga that it is easy to will present the claim immediately. We haven’t done
by truckloads of money. make sense of. A transfer that will it yet because we thought that UEFA were going to
But the most important part of it cause seismic shifts and change the take measures to ensure that Financial Fair Play (FFP)
all is this: for stretches of the last two European game. THE INDEPENDENT is respected, and this ‘financial doping’ is avoided.”

Barca turn to youthful duo Spain federation prez Te quiero mucho: Messi bids
leaves prison on bail farewell to Neymar with love
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arcelona are looking at
Borussia Dortmund’s
Ousmane Dembele and
Juventus’ Paulo Dybala as
potential replacements for
Paris Saint-Germain-bound
Neymar.
Senior Camp Nou offi-
cials and players grew in-
creasingly irritated by the
stance taken by the Brazi-
lian’s entourage. There was
been a distinctive shift in the
mood at the club over the past
few days, with those at the top
getting fed up with what was
seen as little more than greed
from the 25-year-old’s entour-
age. As one figure close to the
situation said, the question
now is “what is his problem
with Barca?”
While figures like Ney-
mar’s prospective PSG team-
mate Dani Alves have made
justifiable complaints about
how they have been treated by
the Camp Nou board in the
past, there is still a feeling that
they have generally bent over
backwards for Neymar, and
REPLACEMENT KILLERS? Juventus’ Paulo Dybala (L) has a close
relationship with Messi because of the Argentina connection but
Dortmund’s Ousmane Dembele is likely to be cheaper
that this entire episode re-
mains about finance rather
than any actual sporting de-
sire to go to Paris. Even senior
teammates became aggravat-
ed by the situation, and saw no
great harm in him leaving.
Barca have turned to the
alternatives now. They have
already started the process of
trying to prise Philippe Cou-
tinho from Liverpool, but he
is not seen as a direct replace-
ment for Neymar as they
would then have the money to
buy another elite striker.
Dybala has a close relation-
ship with Lionel Messi, who he
texts and plays computer
games with regularly, but 20-
year-old Dembele is currently
seen as much easier to pur-
chase, and likely cheaper at
around £70m. © THE INDEPENDENT
Madrid: The suspended presi-
dent of the Spanish football fe-
deration and his son have left a
Madrid prison a day after being
granted bail.
Angel Maria Villar and his
son Gorka Villar left the Soto de
Real prison on Tuesday. They
had spent 12 days in custody
since a court sent them to pri-
son while investigators conti-
nued their probe into alleged
corruption.
Angel Maria Villar told jo-
urnalists that he wanted “to
thank all those who had pri-
vately and publicly believed
in me, in Mr. Juan Padron,
and my son.’’
My brilliance bothers
people: Cristiano
Lisbon: Real Madrid forward
Cristiano Ronaldo said Tues-
day his “brilliance” annoys pe-
ople, a day after he was quizzed
by a Spanish judge investiga-
ting whether he evaded paying
millions of euros in taxes.
“What bothers people is my
brilliance, insects only attack
lamps that shine!!!!” the Portu-
guese wrote in an Instagram
message that received over a
million likes within an hour of
being posted. “I am only here
because my name is Cristiano
Ronaldo,” Ronaldo told the jud-
ge, according to the newspaper.
Sturridge suffers thigh injury
as Reds beat Bayern
London: Liverpool striker Da-
niel Sturridge was substituted
with a thigh injury as the Pre-
mier League club beat Bayern
Munich 3-0 in a pre-season
match in Germany on Tuesday.
‘Kane put Morata off Spurs’
London: New Chelsea striker
Alvaro Morata turned down a
move to Tottenham Hotspur
because he feared the competi-
tion from striker Harry Kane,
Spurs manager Mauricio Poc-
hettino has claimed. “Two ye-
ars ago, ee said to me: ‘Why do
you want me if you have Harry
Kane?” AGENCIES
Barcelona: Lionel Messi
bid farewell to Neymar on
Instagram Wednesday after
the Brazilian striker told
him and other Barcelona
teammates he was leaving,
saying it was a “huge plea-
sure” to have played with
him.
The Catalan club con-
firmed Wednesday that
Neymar wanted to leave af-
ter weeks of intense specu-
lation, taking the 25-year-
old closer to a potential
world record move to Paris
Saint-Germain. “It was a
huge pleasure having
shared all those years with
you, my friend @neymarjr,"
Messi wrote on Instagram
next to a montage of pic-
tures of both football stars
high-fiving, embracing or
laughing.
“I wish you lots of luck in
this new stage in your life.
See you soon tkm,” he add-
ed. “Tkm” stands for “te
quiero mucho” (I love you prepared to fly out of the
loads). Catalan capital to an as yet
"Thanks brother. I will unconfirmed destination.
miss you man," Neymar re- Earlier on Wednesday,
plied on Instagram. Barca publicly confirmed
Speculation over Ney- for the first time after weeks
mar's future has dominated of speculation that Neymar
the first few weeks of new wants to leave the Spanish
Barca boss Ernesto Val- giants. However, they insist-
verde's reign. ed that his buyout clause be
Neymar's world record met rather than enter into
222 million euro ($260 mil- negotiations with PSG.
lion) transfer from Barcelo- “Neymar Jr, accompanied
na to Paris Saint-Germain by his father and represen-
could be completed by the tative, communicated to FC
end of the week, the player's Barcelona this morning his
advisor Wagner Ribeiro decision to leave the club,”
said on Wednesday. Barca said in a statement.
Ribeiro told reporters at “The club have informed
Barcelona's El Prat airport them that the buyout clause
that PSG would pay Ney- in his contract that from Ju-
mar's buyout clause "in the ly 1 is 222 million euros must
coming hours" and that the be paid in full.”
25-year-old could be pre- Such a fee would smash
sented in Paris "this week- the current record £89.3 mil-
end." lion ($111 million, 105.2 mil-
Neymar was joined by lion euros) Manchester
his father, Ribeiro and the United paid for Paul Pogba
rest of his entourage as they last year.
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Bengaluru: In the middle of a
brilliant run after having en-
ded his winless streak at the
Yeangder Heritage in Chine-
se Taipei in April, the in-form
Shiv Kapur was in two minds
whether to enter the $300,000
TAKE Solutions Masters at
the KGA or not. He got the go-
ahead from his wife. The 35-
year-old spoke to the media af-
ter the Pro-Am on Wednesday.
Excerpts:
The win after a 11-year wait
must have felt like a huge
weight off your shoulders?
A big load! I have been clo-
se so many times. When you
are not been able to win you
start questioning yourself.
Going into Taiwan I was de-
jected after having missed the
cut in Japan a week before
and I thought do I really want
to continue playing golf like
this. Then a win and suddenly
there is a new spark of life.
You nearly won the next
tournament as well?
That was the toughest week
because the expectations are
high and suddenly from being
an underdog you are going in
as a favourite. After the Tai-
wan victory, I found it hard to
concentrate as I felt drained
out but it proved that (win)
wasn’t just a flash in the pan.
How did you overcome the
doubts?
The win! Everyone can sit
there and tell you about magic
formulas and I did this and I
did yoga and all that. I have be-
en doing the same things for 11
years. There was no differen-
ce but it takes the results to
get that validation. If you
don’t do well you get frustra-
ted on the course, that’s when
you get second guesses.
How was the British Open
experience?
It was wonderful. I was un-
fortunate to miss the cut by a
shot. Anirban (Lahiri) and I
both probably got the worst of
the conditions but that’s the
luck of the draw and that’s the
Open Championship. Given
the conditions, I played quite
well. It gave me this belief
that when I play well.
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Bengaluru: It’s been nearly
four since years since an in-
ternational golfer lorded
over the field on Indian soil.
The home talents have enjoy-
ed a sweep of the seven
events since Md. Siddikur
Rahman’s Indian Open tri-
umph in 2013.
The strong Indian pre-
sence of 81 pros, including 15
winners on the Asian Tour,
would hope to keep it that
ASIAN TOUR
way when the inaugural
$300,000 TAKE Solutions
Masters gets under way at
the par-71 KGA course here
on Thursday. Leading the
charge of the Indians will be
SSP Chawrasia, the reigning
two-time Indian Open cham-
pion, and the red-hot Shiv
Kapur, who ended an 11-year
and four months drought on
the continent’s premier Tour
at the Yeangder Heritage in
Chinese Taipei in April.
Chawrasia has won three
of the seven titles in the last
four years. The six-time Asi-
an Tour winner may not have
a great record at the KGA,
but played a huge role in po-
wering his team, Take Chen-
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Shiv Kapur during a practice round at KGA in Bangalore
nai, to victory in the LP Cup a
little over a year ago here.
Ranked second on the
Asian Tour Order of Merit,
Chawrasia is coming off two
missed cuts on the European
Tour. For the record, he came
off three straight missed
cuts on the Asian Tour before
winning the Indian Open in
2016. The diminutive pro has
the added incentive of win-
ning his sponsor’s event.
“Playing in front of the
home fans is always a thrill
and we know the layouts here
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well. These days Indians are
good enough to win anywhe-
re in Asia,” Chawrasia said
after the Pro-Am on Wednes-
day. “Besides being my spon-
sor event, I have a chance to
top the Order of Merit if I do
well here.”
Known for his short-ga-
me prowess, Chawrasia wo-
uld look to make it count at a
course where putting will be
the key. With the roughs up,
premium will be on accuracy
at the spruced up course.
Kapur, meanwhile, has
new-found confidence after
ending his drought in Taipei.
“It's not a golf course you can
overpower,” the Delhi pro sa-
id. “It takes a lot of careful
planning and execution. It's
the kind of course I like be-
cause I don’t overpower any
golf course.”
Having had two top-5s on
the Asian Tour this season,
Kapur, who missed the Bri-
tish Open cut by a stroke, will
look to add a second title of
the season. “You come to any
tournament in the hope of
winning. I’m in this bubble
right now and the game is go-
od,” the 35-year-old said.
Take Solutions, who ca-
me on board to sponsor the
event, will hope to make it a
family affair this week. Besi-
des Chawrasia, they have fo-
ur youngsters — S Chikka-
rangappa, Khalin Joshi,
Shubhankar Sharma and
Chiragh Kumar – capable of
emerging on top.
And local boys Chikka
and Khalin know the course
better than most pros. Altho-
ugh Chikka hasn’t had a gre-
at year in Asia, he has always
done well at home. Winner of
the Take Open on the PGTI
Tour last year, the 23-year-old
will hope to land his maiden
Asian Tour title.
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Prannoy, Kashyap
enter last 16
Auckland: HS Prannoy and
Parupalli Kashyap reached
the pre-quarterfinals in men’s
singles of the New Zealand
Grand Prix Gold in Auckland
on Wednesday. Prannoy beat
Indonesia’s Firman Abdul
Kholik 23-21, 21-18. Kashyap
defeated New Zealand's
Oscar Guo 21-9, 21-8. Sourabh,
seeded 7th, posted a 21-16,
21-16 win over Indonesia's
Henrikho Kho Wibowo, while
16th seeded Siril Verma beat
another Indonesian Saputra
Vicky Angga 21-14, 21-16.
Gulia wins bronze in
Junior World Wrestling:
Veer Dev Gulia bagged a
bronze on the opening day of
the Junior World Wrestling
championships in Tampere,
Finland. However, Ravinder,
who also made it to the
bronze medal round in men's
60kg freestyle, lost to Japan's
Hiromu Sakaki 6-9. Deepak
Punia (84kg) entered the
bronze medal play-off round
after losing his semifinal bout
to Zahid Valencia of USA 0-11.
Joshna-Dipika duo in
quarters: Joshna Chinappa
and Dipika Pallikal advanced
to the the women's doubles
quarterfinals at the WSF
World Doubles Squash Cham-
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2017
pionship in Manchester on
Wednesday. The number two
seeds topped the three-team
Group B by beating Tesni
Evans and Deon Saffery of
Wales.
Harikrishna beats
Ponomariov: Grandmaster
Pentala Harikrishna registe-
red a victory over former FIDE
World Chess champion Ruslan
Ponomariov of Ukraine in the
eighth round to consolidate
his position at the top of the
table in the 50th Biel Chess
Festival in Switzerland.
Concern in RS over
non-inclusion of Chitra
Non-inclusion of PU Chitra in
the Indian squad for World
Athletic Championship figu-
red in the Rajya Sabha on
Wednesday, with several
members demanding govern-
ment’s intervention in the
working of Athletic Federation
of India. Deputy Chairman P J
Kurien too said that the
government should enquire
into the activities and func-
tioning of the sports federa-
tion “because P U Chitra
stood first and secured a gold
medal in the Bhubaneswar
Sports Meet, but she was
excluded.” K Somaprasad
(CPM) said, “Questions were
raised that the selection
process was not transparent.
It is believed that the office-
bearers of Indian Athletic
Federation have made some
foul play in the selection of
the team.” AGENCIES
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IAF chief felicitates cricketer
Shikha Pandey: Chief of Indian
Air Force Air Chief Marshal Biren-
der Singh Dhanoa has felicitated
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Flt Lt Shikha Pandey, a member of nesday at Air Headquarters in the
Indian women’s cricket team who national capital. Shikha took three
finished as the runner-ups in the wickets against SA and two wick-
ICC Women’s World Cup, on Wed- ets against England. ANI

That’s How Bolt Wants To Retire From Sprinting

London: As his long, illustrious
career reaches its end, Usain
Bolt is confident he will not be
overwhelmed by emotion at the
World Athletic Championships
in London on Saturday and has
his sights set firmly on signing
off with victory. In a career span-
ning over 13 years, Bolt has
amassed 11 world titles and eight
Olympic gold medals along with
the world records for the
100 and 200 metres, beco-
ming one of the most fa-
mous athletes in the
world in the process.
On the eve of his final
two races - the 100m and
the 4x100m relay - the 30-
year-old told Reuters TV
that he would be as focu-
sed on the finish line as always.
“I can’t approach it any diffe-
rent. It’s just a championship, I
have to come out here and look
at it and deal with it like a cham-
pionship so I’m just really focu-
READY FOR THE SWANSONG: Usain Bolt prepares to sed, I’ve been training hard and
run in a training session in London on Wednesday I’m ready to go,” Bolt said in an
interview.
“For me, I’m always confi-
dent. I go there to win at all ti-
mes. I’m always ready to go, I’m
looking forward to the competi-
tion so for me that’s it. I’m just
going out there to win this Satur-
day.”
Bolt’s final season has been
marked by tragedy, with the Ja-
maican having to come to terms
with the death of his fri-
end, former Britain high
jumper Germaine Ma-
son, who died in a motor
crash in April. “I deal
with situations one step
at a time, so I didn’t real-
ly think that but it has
been tough, a really up
and down season. It has
been rough but for me, I just try
to look at the positives,” he said.
On Tuesday night, Bolt said
at a press conference, “Usain
Bolt has retired unbeaten in an
individual event, unbeatable,
unstoppable -- for me that would
be the best headline!”
Gatlin gunning for
Usain one last time
London: Justin Gatlin has beco-
me increasingly irritated at being
labelled the dope cheat contras-
ting with Usain Bolt’s superhero
image in the sprinting world, but
he can set that aside by spoiling
the latter’s farewell at the world
athletics championships.
It will be asking a lot of Gatlin
— who served a four-year ban re-
duced from eight for doping from
2006-2010 — to achieve that having
only beaten Bolt once in nine pre-
vious meetings over the shorter
sprint distance, and that was four
years ago in Rome. “I personally
think he’s a great athlete,” said
Bolt after Rio. “He shows up and
pushes you to run fast and be at
your best at all times.”
Gatlin too is gushing about
Bolt, whose crowd-pleasing an-
tics have gilded his image as the
good guy whilst the American
has often been cast as a pantomi-
me villain. “I have the utmost re-
spect for Usain.” AGENCIES

Chopra ready for the big stage PTI

Young Javelin Star nipat. “As a kid I used to play wrest-

Hopes To Make A Mark
At His Maiden Worlds
Biju.BabuCyriac@timesgroup.com
Bengaluru: Haryana’s Rewari is known
for its soldiers who have contributed to the
might of Indian Army. Now, it has recrui-
ted one more soldier who is billed to conqu-
er new frontiers for India in athletics.
The world got to know the prowess of
Neeraj Chopra when he set a junior world
record at the IAAF World U-20 Cham-
pionships in Poland last July. A year later,
the 19-year-old Haryana lad is set to im-
press in the big league as he competes in
the World Championships beginning in
London on Friday.
Chopra is the best hope of the 24-mem-
ber Indian squad – the selection of which
saw the Athletics Federation of India (AFI)
getting pulled by the Kerala High Court – to
get past the preliminary round. With a sea-
son’s best of 85.63m, the Indian flag bearer
is 11th in the world list headed by German
Johanes Veter with a clearance of 94.44m.
“I’m aware that the competition is very
tough. But I promise that I will try my best.
I’ll go all out to make my country proud,”
Chopra told TOI from London after finis-
hing his day’s training. “This will be my
first World Championship and my target
will be to get my season best. If that results
in a medal, I’ll be doubly happy. It is true
that it will be tough to win a medal even
with an effort of 87m. You can’t predict the
day as sometimes the quality of the compe-
tition goes up and down.”
TIME TO SHINE: Neeraj Chopra
Chopra, who honed his skills with Aus-
sie coach Garry Calvert, said competing in
the Diamond League last month was a gre-
at learning curve. “It was a great experien-
ce to compete in the Diamond League as I
got to compete with most of the throwers
who are competing in London. The more I
play in such competitions my standard
will improve and give me the confidence to
take on the best in the world.”
BATTLE AT PANIPAT
Chopra recalled how he won the mind ga-
mes after watching his seniors train in Pa-
ling, kabbadi and volleyball like
most kids in Haryana. Then in 2011, I
got hooked to javelin throw. I had go-
ne to Panipat ground to do some fit-
ness workouts and there I met my se-
nior Jaiveer Singh. I saw him hur-
ling the javelin and I was impressed.
I then tried my hand and the javelin
flew quite a distance. Soon I got hoo-
ked and began training with Jaiveer
based on his feedback that I could do
well in the sport.”
Chopra, who passed his BA from
DAV College, Chandigarh, laughed
when asked out his family’s sporting back-
ground. “Not just my family, nobody has
done well in sports in Rewari village. It was
abit tough in the beginning to convince my
family and friends but in the end my hard
work paid off. And now due to achieve-
ments in sports I can help my family a bit,”
he said.
Chopra said the stint with Aussie coach
Calverthelped a lot. “Yes it was a great lear-
ning experience. Though he has left, I have
continued my training. The federation has
also promised to get me a new coach and
that will help as I prepare for next year’s
Asian and Commonwealth Games.”
India’s finalists in World
Championships: Bronze: Anju Bobby Geor-
ge (long jump) Paris 2003; 4th: Anju Bobby Geor-
ge (long jump) Helsinki 2005; 7th: Vikas Gowda
(discus throw) Daegu 2011& Moscow 2013; 8th:
Mayookha Johny (long jump) Daegu 2011 & Lali-
ta Babar (steeplechase) Beijing 2015; 9th: Anju
Bobby George (long jump), Osaka 2007 & Vikas
Gowda (discus throw) Beijing 2015; 11th: Inder-
jeet Singh (shot put) Beijing 2015;12th: Neelam J
Singh (discus) Paris 2003
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TIMES IN
SRI LANKA
Gaurav.Gupta @timesgroup.com
Colombo: How much interest this
series has generated after getting off
to an hopelessly but expectedly one-
sided start can be gauged by the short
length (eight minutes) of Virat Koh-
li’s press conference ahead of the se-
cond Test against Sri Lanka at the
Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) ground
here.
There wasn’t much to ask the In-
dia skipper, who didn’t have much to
tell either. Having dominated a lack-
lustre, below-par Lankan team,
which is far inferior to the side that
the islanders possessed till a few ye-
ars back, in the first Test at Galle, his
team will now look to close out what
could turn out to be one of the most
boring India-Sri Lanka series ever.
The present scenario is in comp-
lete contrast to the time when India
last played here, in 2015. With India
having just squared the series 1-1 at
way forward for India 1 7
up a wicket. HEAD TO HEAD
Left in tatters after the heavy defe- Sourav Ganguly down in due course. It will be
at at Galle and the finger injury
which ruled out in-form Asela Guna-
ratne from the series itself, Sri Lanka
would be boosted by the return of
skipper Chandimal, after the bats-
T
he first Test against Sri
Lanka was a perfect ga-
me for India. When a te-
am scores 600 runs batting
hard to ignore Murali Vijay
and KL Rahul simply because
of the sheer number of runs
they have scored in tough con-
ditions.
17 7 GROUND
man missed the first match because first, it allows you to domina- Cheteshwar Pujara also
of pneumonia, and the recovery te the match and India did needs a special mention: he do- SSC is a good cricket
shown by veteran left-arm spinner just that. esn’t play all formats, but he is pitch. Helps seamers
Rangana Herath after suffering a Shikhar Dhawan has to be never behind when it comes to and has good bounce.
finger injury while fielding at Galle. congratulated for his magni- making the best of the oppor-
Chandimal’s match-turning 162 ficent batting. It was not so tunities he gets in Tests. For In- WEATHER
against India at Galle in 2015, and his much about the runs he sco- dia, the balance of attack with
similarly decisive hundred against Showers are predicted right
red; it is the situation in five bowlers is the right way
Australia after the Lankans were re- which he scored them that forward in all conditions. The through the Test
duced to 26 for five on Day One at this stands out. It is never easy second Test is in Colombo, and match, but then
very ground last year, will give the when you are not picked in India will go into the match fa- showers were forecast
hosts some heart ahead of what sho- the first team. Despite that, cing conditions which are lot in Galle too and the
uld be another big test against the he went on to play such a blis- different than they were in Test was completed well
world’s No.1side. tering knock. It is a tremendo- Galle, conditions that will assi- inside four days.
The Lankan captain hinted that us illustration of his state of st fast bowlers.
the hosts may play even two left-arm mind. His performance in the Sri Lanka, however, will
spinners in their bad to save the seri- recently concluded Cham- have to find a way to play diffe- ODDS: INDIA 7/10;
es, even though traditionally, the SSC pions Trophy is one of the re- rently, not just in the second SL 9/1; DRAW 7/4
has always been kind to batsmen and asons he is playing so well. Test, but also in the rest of the
assisted the seamers well too. That
means uncapped spinner Malinda
What this has done is crea-
te competition for places for
series as they need assistance
from the pitch to get 20 wick- NUMBERS
Pushpakumara, who’s taken as ma-
ny as 558 first-class wickets @ 19.85,
the openers’ spots. It will settle ets. GAMEPLAN GAME

the P Sara Oval, the SSC hosted the
‘decider,’ which went deep into the
fifth day before Virat Kohli & Co eked
out a hard-fought win by 117 runs.
The hero with the bat for India was
Cheteshwar Pujara, who slammed
an unbeaten 145, carrying his bat
through in India’s first innings as an
opener to script a memorable come-
back for him. It’s a happy co-inciden-
ce then that the unassuming Sau-
rashtra batsman will play his 50th
could finally make his debut and
partner the experienced Herath.
“Most probably, Malinda will co-
me into the side. Dhananjaya (de Sil-
va) may replace Asela (Gunaratne).
We’ll have to see the surface,” said
Chandimal.
The captain knows that with the
Lankan bowling lacking firepower,
it’s the batsmen who’ll need to score
big to put pressure on India. “We just
want to improve as a batting unit.
4
Number of hundreds
scored by Sachin
Tendulkar in five Tests
at SSC, Colombo —
the most by a visiting
batsman in Tests at this
BACK IN FRONT: KL Rahul during a nets session at the SSC Ground in Colombo on Wednesday venue. His tally of 698 runs
at an average of 99.71 is also
the highest by a visiting
Skipper Kohli nursing Pandya the bowler batsman here.

Test at the same venue which resu-
scitated his Test career back then.
There could be, however, a couple
of changes to the XI for this game in
8
Everyone has scored 50-60 runs, but Number of Tests
they couldn’t make big scores, and played between the
that’s what we’ve been discussing. Sunil Gavaskar try getting wickets. Dhawan took vid was at the crease and like Dra- ar that Kohli is nursing him as a
the game away from the Lankans vid, Pujara will never get the credit bowler, bringing him on only when
two countries at this
We’ve been doing all the tough work
venue. Both

the Indian XI. While Kohli confirmed
that the fit-again KL Rahul would re-
place Abhinav Mukund, who did rea-
sonably well as a batsman and fielder
in the Galle Test in the opening slot,
the bald nature of the surface here
(Kohli felt that there was a lot of
grass on it, whereas his Sri Lankan
counterpart Dinesh Chandimal ter-
med it as a dry surface, where the ball
may turn after Day Two) means that
chinaman Kuldeep Yadav may repla-
ce seam bowling all-rounder Hardik
Pandya. The youngster made an im-
pressive Test debut in the first game,
hammering a quick fifty and picking
(at the nets) like preparing for tur-
ning pitches, and playing reverse
sweeps and sweeps,” explained
Chandimal.
Responding to suggestions that
India may effect a clean sweep in the
series, Chandimal retorted: “Who is
saying that? They are a very talented
team, but we aren’t going to lose 0-3.
We want to go and win. We are loo-
king to give our best and win this ga-
me, level the series and then go to the
third match.”
Hopefully, the Lankans will show
some resilience in standing up to In-
dia’s heavy arsenal.
I
ndia hold all the aces as they pre-
pare to take on Lanka in the se-
cond Test match. They have ple-
asant selection headaches, like
who should KL Rahul replace for
the opening batting slot, and whet-
her they should go in with an extra
bowler or go with the same combi-
nation that won them the first Test
inside four days.
Mukund will unfortunately ha-
ve to make way, for he got runs in
the easier second innings when the
Lankans were simply trying to pre-
vent the flow of runs rather than
on the first day with his splendid
attacking batting, especially after
lunch when he toyed with the Lan-
kan bowlers.
Cheteshwar Pujara has been
the bulwark of the Indian batting
for the last couple of
years. It is his solidity
that gives the stroke
players the confidence
to go for their shots,
knowing that one end
is secure while Pujara
is there. It’s much the
same when Rahul Dra-
that he deserves.
Hardik Pandya had a terrific
debut batting in his usual aggressi-
ve manner, taking full advantage of
a by then demoralised attack. He
also picked up a wicket but it’s cle-
the top batsmen are back in the pa-
vilion. The point is, if he is going to
bat at number eight then he needs
to bowl a lot more else it’s a better
idea to get a regular bowler in the
team be it a spinner or a seamer.
Be that as it may,
these are minor
aches compared to
what the home team
has. If anything, they
need huge surgery if
they are going to
challenge this Indian
team. PMG
teams have won two Tests
each while the remaining
four could not produce
results. India recorded their
wins — by 235 runs in 1993 &
by 117 runs in 2015 while
both their defeats were by
an innings margins — by an
innings and 77 runs in 2001
& by an innings and 239 runs
in 2008.
—Rajesh Kumar

CoA asks states to

give members’ names
Chandimal & Rahul: Time to Former official blames SLC for mess
Indranil.Basu@timesgroup.com grow beyond the ‘promise’ Reuters
Gaurav.Gupta@timesgroup.com

Colombo: If cricket in Sri Lanka is

New Delhi: In a decision which could
help in ensuring transparency and also
curb the malpractice of proxy voting,
the Committee of Administrators (CoA)
has sent a email to all state affiliated
units of the Board of Control for Cricket
in India (BCCI) to upload the names of
all general body members of the associa-
tions and also hand over the lists to CoA
chairman Vinod Rai by August 8. Sour-
ces in BCCI said that this decision was
taken by the CoA to ensure that those sta-
te associations, which have less than 50
members, are not able to form a coterie
and run the association with their dum-
Gaurav.Gupta@timesgroup.com
Colombo: A few days back, both KL Rahul and
Dinesh Chandimal were busy gulping medici-
nes while watching India hammer Sri Lanka in
the first Test in Galle. While ‘KL’ was suffering
from fever, Chandimal was struck by pneumo-
nia. In fact, if not for the International Cricket
Council (ICC) giving him a “special permis-
sion” to use an inhaler, the Sri Lankan captain
would have struggled to breathe properly.
Both can be excused for being anxious about
their recovery. In Rahul’s absence, India’s repla-
cement openers Shikhar Dhawan and Abhinav
Mukund made their opportunity count, while
in trouble today, then much of it has
to do with the way the game is being
run by the Thilanga Sumathipala-
headed Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) ad-
ministration, feels Carlton Bernar-
dus, who was the general manager
of cricket operations in the Lankan
board till December last year.
Bernardus now takes care of the
SSC School of Cricket, a cricket aca-
demy with impressive indoor facili-
ty at the Sinhalese Sports Club
(SSC), which will host the second
Dinesh Chandimal prepares for nets
Test between India and Sri Lanka
from Thursday.
“People call me outspoken, but
the truth can’t be hidden. There’s
plenty of talent here, but our admi-
nistrators are making many blun-
ders in running the game here. The
SLC has halved the national team’s
salary recently, while reducing the
salaries of the local players by
75%, citing lack of money. This
will make the players prone to cor-
ruption at all levels, and the do-
mestic players may even quit the
game,” Bernardus, who’s coached
left-arm pace great Chaminda Va-
as, and the Lankan Under-19 team
in the past, tells TOI.
Ridiculing the decision to appo-
int former South African batsman
Nic Pothas as the coach of the Sri
Lankan team, Bernardus says: “Af-
ter a few eyebrows were raised
when he was named as the fielding
coach of the Lankan team initially,
he was shifted to our Under-19 team.
However, he was again promoted to
the senior team. And suddenly,
when Graham Ford quit as the co-
ach recently, he was made the head
coach the team, when he clearly
isn’t good enough for the job.”

BCCI brings back captains’

my candidates.
States like Saurashtra, Himachal
Pradesh and Andhra are run by small
groups of persons, while associations
like Delhi are run by proxies. Even the
Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA)
is plagued with the issue of people ow-
ning multiple clubs and thereby crea-
ting a lobby which dictates terms.
GALLERY
Federer to play in
Montreal after 6 years
Montreal: World No. 3 Roger Federer,
who captured his record 19th Grand
Slam singles crown last month at Wim-
bledon, said he will play in next week’s
ATP event at Montreal.
The Rogers Cup event marks the 35-
year-old Swiss star’s first tuneup event
for the US Open, which starts August 28,
and will be his first visit to Montreal
since 2011.
The Canadian hardcourt event alterna-
tes between Montreal and Toronto with
a WTA event every year.
Harmanpreet meets Punjab CM
Amarinder, gets Rs 5 lakh
Chandigarh: Fresh from her successful
performances in the recently concluded
Women’s World Cup, cricketer Harma-
preet Kaur was on Wednesday handed
over a cheque of Rs five lakh by Punjab
Chief Minister Amarinder Singh here.
The Punjab chief minister directed
Director General of Police (DGP) Suresh
Arora to complete the necessary forma-
lities for Harmanpreet’s appointment as
a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP)
in the state police. Amarinder said her
police training could be completed later
and she could concentrate on her crick-
eting career. TNN & AGENCIES
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Lanka crashed without much fight and missed
their captain’s solidity. en hard for him, because he was batting so well
The careers of both these talented batsmen and then he was out because of this (illness).
have run parallel to each other, even though “It’s very important to make him feel secure
Chandimal bats at No. 4, has played 20 Tests mo-
re than Rahul, and has begun leading the Lan-
kan Test team after Angelo Mathews quit capta-
incy following the ODI series loss to Zimbabwe.
and he deserves it because he has given us those
big performances when the team has required
them. He is a guy that needs to be backed and we
as a team, as management and me as captain all
report to curb umpiring howlers
Both started promisingly: After falling for back him 100%,” Kohli said about Rahul. Arani.Basu@timesgroup.com It was earlier believed that the in between the Ranji Trophy and Vi-
single-digit scores in his debut Test in Melbour- Chandimal, on the other hand, fell so much captains’ reports were driven by bi- jay Hazare Trophy over the past two
ne against Australia in Dec 2014, Rahul slam- off the radar that he even lost his place. Howe- New Delhi: The Indian cricket bo- as and didn’t reflect the exact scena- seasons. “Teams end up playing five
med 110 in Sydney to show his mettle. Chandi- ver, he’s shown glimpses of his class in recent ti- ard (BCCI) is in course correction rio. “There was a point that it see- back-to-back matches. Players have
mal began by scoring fifties in both innings aga- mes. There was that magnificent 162 he hit aga- mode as far as its domestic cricket med that the losing captain would raised objections and it has been no-
inst South Africa in Durban in the 2011. inst India in Galle in 2015 which swung the first structure is concerned. After the give an extremely negative report. ted. This time the tournament will
However, both have struggled to sustain mo- Test in Lanka’s favour before Rangana Herath idea of neutral venues failed to take The aggrieved cricketers struggled be planned accordingly,” a top BCCI
mentum and have dazzled sporadically. spun India out. “There was a lot of turn on that off and the board reverted to home- to write a balanced report,” the offi- office-bearer informed.
When he last toured here, Rahul was a ‘fami-
ne or feast’ batsman, as his scores (7, 5, 108, 2, 2, 2)
pitch. We were about 150 runs behind. I wanted
to attack quickly and wipe out that deficit. I took
and-away format, it has also decided
to go back to having captain’s report
cial said.
Over the past two seasons, tho- Ranji venues to have neutral
suggest. In both innings of the SSC Test, he was arisk as I thought if I tried to just stay, I would al- on umpiring and playing conditions ugh, players voiced their displeasu- curators from same zone
out leaving deliveries which hit the stumps. For so get out,” he recalled. after every match. re over the standard of umpiring. While the board has decided to
the past year, though, he’s become more consis- His other classy effort was the 132 and the 211- The board had done away with With big matches and IPL being tele- abolish playing at neutral venues, it
tent. He slammed six 50s in seven innings in a to- run partnership he shared with the other centu- the system a couple of seasons ago vised, the frequent glaring mistakes is likely to have neutral curators
ugh series against Australia at home, before rion Dhananjaya de Silva, against Australia he- but the spurt in the number of comp- have come to light. “The umpiring operating in the same zone. “Cura-
hamstring and shoulder injuries happened. re at the SSC last year, which came after the Lan- laints against the quality of umpi- committee will look into the details. tors will be shortlisted. Working in
It’s a delicate phase for the 25-year-old, but kans were reduced to 26 for five on Day One by a ring forced the administrators to ha- This is only the first step in rectify- the same zone will help the curators
he’s lucky that Kohli backs him to the hilt. “He rampaging Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon. “I ve a rethink. ing the system,” the BCCI official understand the nature of the soil
played the practice game and he looked solid. He thought that if I can keep Australia in the heat “It is assumed that the umpires stated. and climate and adjust accordingly.
has batted really well in the last couple of sea- for (at least) one day, I would be able to score runs started to take things lightly as they If a Ranji Trophy match is played in
sons for us. It’s important for us to make him feel in the third session,” he recollected. knew no player was authorized to fi- Mushtaq Ali ties need breathers Haryana, the curator from Hima-
that this is his spot. And it won’t be changed be- It’s time Chandimal churned out those spe- le an official complaint. It had to be The board is also concerned abo- chal Pradesh can come and oversee
cause of unfortunate events that happen outsi- cials more regularly. It’ll be interesting to see in checked,” a BCCI functionary close ut the scheduling of the Syed Mush- the pitch preparation rather than so-
de of the playing field or injuries that you can’t which direction the careers of both these talen- to the development told TOI on Wed- taq Ali T20 matches — a domestic to- meone coming from Kolkata,” BCCI
control. He has stuck it out in that phase. It’s be- ted batsmen go from here. nesday. urnament which has been squeezed acting president CK Khanna said.
Sridhar in trouble over ACB cases, HCA connections PKL: Haryana force
Solomon S Kumar
& Indranil Basu TNN
complete disclosure and had left
out two important facts — that he
was an accused in the Anti-Corrup-
However, sources insisted that
there were two ACB cases pending
against Sridhar and he has been
Sridhar also has a stake in six
clubs – he is the president of them –
even though it is learnt that he now
a tie with Gujarat
Hyderabad/New Delhi: Is MV tion Bureau (ACB) cases involving named as an accused alongwith a claims that he has nothing to do Hyderabad: Having lost their trailing 26-27, should thank
Sridhar, GM, cricket operations of the HCA and that he controled mul- few other HCA officials. Besides, with any club in the HCA. debut match against U Mum- Mahendra Ganesh Rajput (5
the BCCI, guilty of deliberately hi- tiple clubs in the state association. acording to sources, Sridhar has However, the bank statements ba by just one point, Haryana points) for the successful raid
ding facts relating to his associa- Sridhar was the joint secretary of not yet given his reply to the notice (copies of which are in the posses- Steelers on Wednesday sho- with hardly a minute left on
tion with the Hyderabad Cricket the HCA from 2000-06, vice-presi- even though there seems to be a de- sion of ToI) reveal that Sridhar wed they indeed have nerves the clock that helped them
Association (HCA)? The former se- dent from 2010-12 and secretary adline to do so. has been operating the accounts of of steel as they come-from-be- draw parity.
cretary of the HCA seems to be hea- from 2012-14. To make matters worse for Srid- the following clubs: Vijaynagar hind to tie the game (27-27) “We played well for almost
ding for big trouble because of his BCCI CEO Rahul Johri had issu- har, former office-bearers of the Cricket Club, Safilguda Cricket against another first time te- 30 minutes of the game and
‘active role’ in the affairs of the sta- ed Sridhar a notice asking for expla- HCA, led by president Arshad Ay- Club, Deccan Colts Cricket Club, am, Gujarat Fortunegiants, in had a nine point lead but failed
te association. Sources in the BCCI nation regarding the omissions. ub, have dashed off a letter to the Consult Colts Cricket Club, Nata- the Pro Kabaddi League here. to keep the momentum going.
said thsat Sridhar has a conflict of “It is an old case and there is not Committee of Administrators and raj Cricket Club and Satyam Colts This was incidentally the first We made a few mistakes in the
interest issue and it could have se- much substance in the allegations. BCCI officials about Sridhar’s ‘in- Cricket Club. tied match of Season 5. last 10 minutes and that cost
rious repercussions on his position I am not directly involved in the volvement in HCA affairs.’ They al- The latest statement (June 30, The Giants, fresh from the- us. But it is a consolation to
in the board. ACB case and have sought a dis- lege that Sridhar is controlling the 2017) of the bank accounts of the ir 26-20 win over Dabang Delhi escape with a draw,” said Gi-
Earlier this year, the BCCI had charge from it," Sridhar had told apex council of the HCA from be- clubs show Sridhar as the presi- on Tuesday, dominated the ants skipper Sukesh Hegde.
asked all its employees to submit a ToI a couple of days ago, adding that hind the scenes. dent of all the six clubs. Ironically, proceedings for most of the Hosts Telugu Titans yet
disclosure form to eliminate con- he had replied to the notice. "I have Interestingly, some of those who all the accounts are in the same game but it was the Steelers again bit the dust – this time
flict-of-interest issues. It is learnt explained my stance to the board have signed the letter too are accu- branch of Syndicate Bank, Banja- who stole the thunder in the surrendering meekly to Beng-
that Sridhar had failed to make a and the matter is settled." sed in the same cases. ra Hills. dying moments. The Giants, al Warriors 24-30. TNN