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Opposition hits out at govt. over Rafale Naidu’s fast turns
Rahul leads Congress attack in the light of The Hindu’s report; CPI(M) wants the SC to revisit its ruling show of strength
Gujjar stir hits life
Special Correspondent
New Delhi ‘Waived in All major Opposition parties attend
for fourth day
JAIPUR
The Congress led the Opposi
tion parties in attacking the other pacts’ Sobhana K Nair
As the Gujjar agitation for 5% Narendra Modi government Air Marshal S.B.P. Sinha New Delhi
reservation in government
over the Rafale fi ghter air (retired), who led India’s All the major Opposition
jobs and education entered
craft deal both in Parliament negotiating team on the parties on Monday con
its fourth day on Monday,
and outside following Mon Rafale deal, said there was verged at Andhra Bhawan,
protesters blocked the
Jaipur-Agra National
day’s report in The Hindu no anticorruption clause where Chief Minister Chan
Highway at Sikandra in that crucial anticorruption even in the Inter drababu Naidu along with
Rajasthan’s Dausa district. safeguards were dropped Governmental Agreements all his legislators, MPs and
from the fi nal agreement. with Russia and the U.S. Ministers observed a 12
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Rahul Gandhi said the go helicopters fell through as it the Narendra Modi govern
Bhupen Hazarika’s
vernment had waived anti declined to give an integrity ment’s failure to deliver the
Bharat Ratna tied to Bill
corruption clauses to open pact. All the Foreign Military promised special category
GUWAHATI
Tez Hazarika, the U.S.-based
the door for Anil Ambani to Sales procurements with the state status to Andhra Pra Leaders of Opposition
son of Bhupen Hazarika, has “steal” ₹ 30,000 crore, form U.S. do not have an integrity desh. This was the second parties with Chandrababu
said that accepting or er Union Finance Minister P. pact,” he said. A page 10 time the Opposition got to Naidu in New Delhi. PTI*
rejecting the Bharat Ratna, Chidambaram said the deal DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD gether in a month.
bestowed posthumously on was “unravelling faster than The last such gathering du said Prime Minister Na
his father, depends on “how the government thought.” been in place, the Prime Mi the exchequer, adding that rantees. All this to facilitate to decide what to do with the was at a rally by West Bengal rendra Modi did not follow
the Centre moves” on the In Parliament, senior Con nister would have been num the Supreme Court should the loot of the Indian exche “Chowkidar and his so Chief Minister Mamata Ba “raj dharma.” “Atal Bihari
citizenship Bill. gress leader Veerappa Moily ber one accused.” revisit its ruling dismissing quer by the Prime Minister’s called honesty.” nerjee in Kolkata protesting Vajpayee said ‘raj dharma’
NEWS A PAGE 11 led the charge and said that if In an apparent reference calls for an investigation. crony capitalist friend,” the In a tweet tagging The against the CBI’s alleged was not followed in Gujarat
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anybody had to be held guil to Mr. Modi’s comments “The PMO was conducting party’s Polit Bureau said in a Hindu’s report, Mr. Gandhi misconduct. [during the 2002 riots].
ty in the deal, “it is the PM about his “56inch chest,” parallel negotiations keeping statement. said, “NoMo anticorruption Now, raj dharma is not be
and PM alone.” Mr. Moily said, “When the the offi cial negotiating team BSP president Mayawati, a clause. The Chowkidar him Left parties skip event ing followed in the case of
bullet of corruption is hit, his in the dark. The PMO refused recent entrant to Twitter, self opened the door to allow The CPI and the CPI (M) Andhra Pradesh. We have
Fit case for Lokpal broad shoulders cannot bear the suggestion of an escrow tweeted: “Corruption & cor Anil Ambani to steal 30,000 skipped the event since they been denied what was right
During a discussion on the it.” account. Not only was there rupt defence deal, No pro Cr. from the IAF.” are part of the Pawan Ka fully ours,” he said.
interim Budget, Mr. Moily The CPI(M) said that The no sovereign guarantee from blem! Chowkidar is impor lyanled front against the
said, “Now it is crystal clear Hindu report showed that the French government but tant for the BJP/RSS, not his CONTINUED ON A PAGE 10 TDP in Andhra Pradesh. CONTINUED ON A PAGE 10
why the Lokpal [law] is not the Prime Minister’s Offi ce it now appears that the PMO honesty?” She then said, CAG REPORT TO BE TABLED IN Opening the daylong NAIDU’S POLITICAL FORTUNES
DELHI METRO A 4 PAGES being implemented. If it had was facilitating the loot of also batted for no bank gua “People of the country have LOK SABHA TODAY A PAGE 10 protest for justice, Mr. Nai DECLINING: AMIT SHAH A PAGE 10
Pak. cleric’s Ahead of poll, T.N. govt. dishes
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the Bar Associations of the mock bombs to disperse the woman vendoractivist, said mention that it will not ap The Supreme Court on
Special Correspondent Monday declined the plea
State, including that of the protesters. The injured wo their shutdown will continue ply in the Northeastern BHUBANESWAR
Orissa High Court, stayed men were taken to Regional till 5 p.m. on Tuesday. Some States. of the West Bengal BJP
away from court proceed Institute of Medical Sciences women vendors alleged that Offi cials said security Odisha Chief Minister Na seeking to overturn a 2013
ings and joined the two for treatment. those who turned up on measures have been tight veen Patnaik on Monday ban enforced by the Mama
day nationwide demon Criticising the use of “ex Monday morning to sell fi sh ened in all valley districts wrote a letter to Prime Mi ta Banerjee government on
strations in response to a cessive force” on the protes and vegetables were inter where people have been agi nister Narendra Modi re the use of loudspeakers in
call given by the Bar Coun ters, Y. Dillipkumar, conven cepted and their items were tating. questing him to consider the the State between February
cil of India. er of Manipur People thrown away on the roads. (With inputs from PTI) inclusion of landless labour and March due to Class X
ers, sharecroppers and vul and XII Board
nerable households under examinations.
the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi A Bench headed by Chief
Scheme. Justice Ranjan Gogoi ques
0 Welcoming the announ Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Odisha Chief Minister tioned the move to chal
DISCLAIMER: Readers are requested to
verify and make appropriate enquiries to cement of the new Central Naveen Patnaik in Bhubaneswar. FILE PHOTO *
lenge the order.
satisfy themselves about the veracity of
an advertisement before responding to scheme for augmenting the Senior advocate Mukul
any published in this newspaper. THG
PUBLISHING PVT LTD., the Publisher & income of farmers by pro covers 92% of the cultiva cultivation or the livelihood Rohatgi, appearing for the
Owner of this newspaper, does not vouch
for the authenticity of any advertisement viding support, Mr. Patnaik tors, sharecroppers (actual activities due to various BJP, said that the ban was
or advertiser or for any of the advertiser’s
products and/or services. In no event can said that the inclusion of cultivators) and landless reasons. applied every year. He ad
the Owner, Publisher, Printer, Editor, Dir-
ector/s, Employees of this newspaper/ landless labourers, share agricultural labourers in the The scheme, rolled out in ded that the apex court had
company be held responsible/liable in
any manner whatsoever for any claims croppers and vulnerable State. January, has created huge in recently allowed the party
and/or damages for advertisements in
this newspaper. households will make the “It (KALIA) recognises terest and response amongst to move the State govern
scheme more inclusive. that livestock and fi shery the farming community of ment afresh to seek permis
In his letter, the Chief Mi based activities are key driv the State, said Mr. Patnaik. sion to hold ‘rath yatra’ but
nister brought to Mr. Modi’s ers of economic growth in “It shall be our endeavour to without the loudspeakers,
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vernment has rolled out the landless households as the iciaries are assisted under counsel said the freedom of
Krushak Assistance for Live income from wage labour the scheme, so that no one speech and expression of
lihood and Income Augmen alone is not suffi cient,” said who is eligible is left out,” he the party was also an im
tation (KALIA) to further ac Mr. Patnaik. added. portant issue and use of
celerate agricultural Reacting to the announce loudspeakers was
prosperity and reduce po Financial assistance ment of the PM scheme, Mr. necessary.
verty in the State. The Chief Minister further Patnaik had said that it When the Bench said
“The KALIA scheme is said that the Odisha scheme would have benefi ted the children are writing their
progressive and inclusive,” also provides for fi nancial farmers more if the quan examinations and hinted at
he said. assistance to vulnerable tum of assistance was equal dismissing the plea, the
Mr. Patnaik informed Mr. agricultural households who or more than the KALIA counsel off ered to with
Modi that the KALIA scheme may not be able to take up scheme which is ₹ 10,000 pa. draw it, which was allowed.
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IN BRIEF
Uproar in U.P. Assembly Rajasthan to scrap education criterion
For contesting panchayat and civic polls; Bills passed in Assembly in this regard
over hooch deaths Press trust of india
Jaipur
troduced education crite
rion in 2015 which required
Pilot said that the present go
vernment is committed for
terion should fi rst be intro
duced for contesting As
The Rajasthan Assembly on a candidate to pass Class X development of every sec sembly and parliamentary
Chautala hits out at Opposition members demand CM Adityanath’s resignation Monday passed two Bills for contesting zila parishad, tion of the society. elections.
NDA government which seek to end the mini panchayat samiti and muni Local Self Government
KURUKSHETRA
Former Haryana CM Om
Press trust of india
Lucknow Cong. blasts mum education criterion for
panchayat and civic poll
cipal elections.
For contesting elections
‘Against Constitution’
“Sarpanches awarded by
Minister Shanti Kumar Dha
riwal presented the Rajas
Prakash Chautala on Monday
hit out at the BJP-led NDA
Alleging that laxity on the
part of the Uttar Pradesh go
Uttarakhand candidates.
The House passed by
for sarpanch of a panchayat
in scheduled and nonsche
President, Vice President
were declared ineligible due
than Municipality (Amend
ment) Bill, 2019.
government claiming that the
condition of farmers has
vernment led to a large num
ber of deaths after consump
government voice vote the Rajasthan
Panchayati Raj (Amend
duled areas, it was mandato
ry to pass Class V and VIII,
to the provisions in the pre
vious Act. The Act was
In reply to the debate on
the Bill, Mr. Dhariwal said
become worse under its tion of spurious liquor, ment) Bill, 2019 and the Ra respectively. against the basics of the Con the Congress in its election
tenure. Chautala was Opposition members on Press trust of india
jasthan Municipality Replying to the debate on stitution. Society cannot be manifesto had promised to
Dehradun
released on furlough last Monday created chaos in the (Amendment) Bill, 2019. the Rajasthan Panchayati Raj divided on the basis of edu scrap education criterion for
week. PTI Assembly which led to ad The Opposition Congress The previous Vasundhara Amendment Bill, 2019, Pan cation,” Mr. Pilot said. contesting municipality
journment of the entire in Uttarakhand on Monday Rajeled government had in chayati Raj Minister Sachin He said that education cri elections.
Morphine powder seized demanded the dismissal of
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IN BRIEF
Clip row: Karnataka CM for SIT probe Sabarimala temple
Kumaraswamy agrees to a suggestion by Speaker; BJP demands judicial inquiry or House panel probe to open today
Special Correspondent Speaker said in the House. “I and it was contempt of the Police step up security arrangements
Bengaluru have spent the last two House.
Karnataka Chief Minister nights in distress and I am in “We have elected you un Special Correspondent
2 killed, 15 injured as bus
H.D. Kumaraswamy on Mon pain... My apprehension is animously. We are pained by PATHANAMTHITTA
rams truck in Telangana
KATTANGUR
day agreed to a suggestion by that someone who is a mem the comments made against The Kerala police have
Two persons on a Staterun Speaker K.R. Ramesh Kumar ber of this House is in the au you [Speaker].... Caesar’s made elaborate security ar
bus were killed and 15 to constitute a Special Inves dio clip casting aspersions wife should be above suspi rangements at Sabarimala
passengers injured when the tigation Team (SIT) to probe on me.” cion,” Mr. Byre Gowda told and along the ElavumkalNi
vehicle rammed a cement the controversial audio clip the Speaker. lackalPampa route in view
mixer truck in Kattangur in purportedly of a BJP leader Breach of privilege Appealing to the Speaker of the opening of the Ayyap
Telangana’s Nalgonda district saying that the Speaker had While the Chief Minister not to take the matter se pa temple on Tuesday after
early on Monday, the police been “booked” for ₹ 50 crore agreed to the suggestion riously, J.C. Madhuswamy noon for the fi veday
said. One of the deceased for accepting the resigna Attack mode: Women MLAs shouting slogans against the BJP made by the Speaker, BJP (BJP) said since the allega monthly rituals in the Ma
was a passenger, tions of dissident legislators. in the Assembly on Monday. V. SREENIVASA MURTHY *
members continued to op tions were made against him layalam month of Kumb A fi le photo of pilgrims at
Appayamma, 47, while the This came amidst the de pose it, saying they were not outside the House it would hom. District police chief T. the Sabarimala temple.
other was conductor K. mand by the BJP for a judi party in the issue. to woo the son of a JD(S) MLA confi dent that the SIT probe not amount to breach of pri Narayanan said 700 offi cers * H. VIBHU
Ramakrishna, 37. Police said cial inquiry or a House panel Meanwhile, the function promising him money and would be impartial. At the vilege of members or con would be deployed at Saba
the accident occurred when probe. ing of the House was aff ected Ministry for allegedly top end of the day, when the BJP tempt of the House. Inter rimala, Pampa, Nilackal, be permitted to proceed to
the bus driver tried to While all members of the as the day was marked by ex pling the government. members did not relent, he vening in the debate, the and Elavumkal. Pampa from Nilackal from
overtake the truck. The Assembly demanded a change of words between said: “I cannot reverse or Speaker said: “You are de February 12 to 17.
Hyderabadbound bus was
probe, the suggestion by the the ruling and Opposition An emotional Speaker modify the decision.” fending a weak case.” Curbs on vehicles Pilgrims have to park
carrying 40 passengers.
Speaker for a SIT probe did benches. “This is not a direction. I am Minister Krishna Byre S. Suresh Kumar, Jagadish Three Superintendents of their vehicles at the Nilackal
not go down well with the On Friday last, Mr. Kuma suggesting the Chief Minister Gowda initiated the debate. Shettar, K.G. Bopaiah, K.S. Police would be in charge of base camp and proceed to
CPI(M) leaders charged
BJP, which expressed appre raswamy released the audio to form an SIT and ascertain He said the statement on Eshwarappa, (all BJP) want the force to be deployed at Pampa and return from
with criminal conspiracy
hension over an impartial recording purportedly show the truth in the content of bribing the Speaker amount ed the Speaker to conduct Nilackal, Pampa, and Saba there to Nilackal in the chain
KANNUR
CPI(M) district secretary P.
probe by the SIT since Mr. ing Leader of the Opposition the tape. The truth would ed to breach of privilege of the probe to end “loose rimala. services operated by the
Jayarajan and party MLA T.V. Kumaraswamy was also a B.S. Yeddyurappa’s attempt give me relief,” an emotional all members of the House talk.” No private vehicles would KSRTC.
Rajesh have been charged
with criminal conspiracy in
the case of murder of Abdul
Shukkoor of Ariyil, near
Taliparamba, probed by the
CBI. Shukkoor, 21, an activist
In his third year as CM, Pinarayi in a twin-mission mode
of the Muslim Students Kerala initiates cend 2019, a conference to
encourage entrepreneurship
unions regarding this, and
they all agree that both these
made 27 changes across se
ven Acts. Other changes
offi cials. E.P. Jayarajan, the
Chief Minister’s confi dant
was being planned in Kan
nur, with land being ac
Federation, the students’
wing of the Indian Union measures to in Kerala, Mr. Vijayan said his practices need to end. And were made in rules, and reg and Minister for Industries, quired at market rates. While
Muslim League, was hacked
to death on February 20,
woo investors government was taking
proactive measures to opti
hence we have ended them,”
he said.
ulations at the local bodies’
level. Starting Monday, all li
said the new online portal,
KSWIFT, would process 20
the government was procur
ing land through its own
2012 here. Varghese K. George mise the favourable factors cence applications in the services across 14 depart agencies, it was also incenti
Kochi in the State that must be en All-party meet on hartal State can be tracked real ments with one application vising private parties to con
Women’s panel opens Into his third year as Chief ticing for investors anywhere On a third issue of hartals, time, will be deemed to be and within the stipulated 30 solidate land for industrial
probe against Kerala MLA Minister of Kerala, Pinarayi in the world. the Chief Minister said in res granted if the offi cials do not day window. purposes.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Vijayan is in a twinmission “I have personally sought ponse to a question: “We do process them in 30 days. Mr. Vijayan said the go Mr. Vijayan said the go
Kerala Women’s Commission mode, to preserve one repu to understand from those not want to curb people’s Most supporting documents vernment’s attempts to woo vernment would look for
(KWC) on Monday began an tation of the State and alter who have invested in Kerala right to protest, but hartal is will be selfcertifi ed, which investors factor in the scarci more projects on the ‘CIAL
investigation on its own another. Pinarayi Vijayan and run enterprises here. an extreme form of protest will make the whole climate ty of land. “We cannot be ex model’ — CIAL stands for the
against S. Rajendran, MLA, on Mr. Vijayan has turned the While they are happy and and should be used only very trustbased, said Tom Jose, travagant in off ering land to Cochin International Airport
the charge of having publicly
question of women’s entry at showcase his government’s have not reported any pro sparingly. We are talking to Chief Secretary. entrepreneurs,” he said. Limited — the country’s fi rst
insulted Devikulam
the Sabarimala shrine to a new reform initiatives. blem, we have identifi ed two all parties to evolve an agree “When someone comes to Mr. Jose said the govern PPP airport. “…where the go
Subcollector, Renu Raj, for
campaign to uphold Kerala’s “Which other place is as specifi c issues that crop up ment on this. We will call a set up a unit in your area, ment was encouraging verti vernment remains an active
her attempt to stop an
allegedly illegal construction
heritage of social reforms; peaceful, with people as lit during the setting up of a meeting of all parties soon.” treat them as someone who cal expansion, and less land partner, and manages while
by the panchayat in Munnar in and he is simultaneously erate, skilled and cultured as new unit — one is the ‘nokku More than 100 reforms is trying to help you. If some demanding industries, most welcoming and encouraging
Idukki district. KWC campaigning to amend the here,” Mr. Vijayan said. “Law koolie’, (literally looking had been done by Kerala of you don’t have that mind ly knowledge and capital from the private sec
chairperson M.C. Josephine perception that the State has and order is excellent, peo wages, or the money levied with the unanimous support set, change now. We are tourismbased. Parallel to tor.”
told The Hindu that the an unfriendly investment cli ple from outside are wel by organised workers who of all political parties, said K. starting with 30 days’ dea that, a slew of heavy infras “That is our own PPP mo
registration of the case was mate. comed, and we have four in are not employed by the pro Ellangovan, Principal Secre dline for licences, but soon it tructure projects such as the del,” the CPI(M) Chief Minis
the Commission’s standard “That is an unfounded ternational airports. ject) and the other is an or tary, Department of Indus will be reduced to 15 days,” Vizhinjam Port and the GAIL ter said, referring to the pro
response to issues involving perception,” he said during Connectivity within the State ganised attempt to force tries. The offi cial pointed out the Chief Minister told the pipeline were also taking ject pioneered by former
alleged denigration of an interaction with journal is rapidly increasing,” he companies to employ peo that in an omnibus piece of delegates that included a shape. A greenfi eld indus Congress Chief Minister K.
women. ists ahead of a conference to said. On the sidelines of As ple. We have spoken to trade legislation last year, Kerala large number of government trial cluster of 5,000 acres Karunakaran.
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Top Maoist
leader
for ignoring caste while voting surrendered?
MARRI RAMU
Elders penalise those who did not vote for their community HYDERABAD
Top leader of the Commu
K.M. Dayashankar and were not talking to them vote for community candi nist Party of India (Maoist)
KARIMNAGAR for not supporting their dates was against the demo Sudhakar alias Kiran has
Some villagers have been os community leader in the cratic rights of the people. reportedly surrendered to
tracised by their community elections. the police.
leaders for not casting votes In another incident, Do Action sought He, along with his wife
in favour of contestants hail nakonda Tirupati, a resident He urged the authorities Madhavi alias Neelima, is
ing from their own commun of Lothupur village of Golla concerned to take stern ac being questioned at an un
ity in the recentlyheld gram palli mandal in Jagtial dis tion against the people in disclosed location, senior
panchayat elections in va trict, on Sunday complained volved in such regressive Telangana police offi cials,
rious parts of integrated Ka that he was expelled from acts . unwilling to be named,
rimnagar district of Telanga the village by his community When contacted, a senior confi rmed. The arrest of
na. leaders for not voting in fa police offi cial confi rmed that Sudhakar, perceived as a
The fi rst such incident vour of a community leader. some villagers had lodged big blow to the Maoist
took place in Narayanapur In Raghavapatnam village of complaints about their ex movement in Jharkhand
village of Sultanabad mandal same Gollapalli mandal, E. pulsion from villages. “We where he had been operat
in Peddapalli district. It Laxmirajam had also lodged had decided to take deter ing for the past several
came to light only on Friday a similar complaint. rent action and register a years, is likely to be formal
when one Chandraiah and Expressing concern over case. However, the com ly announced in a couple
others approached the Sul the incidents, Lok Satta munity leaders rushed to the of days in Hyderabad.
tanabad police lodging a Udyama Samstha Karimna police stations and appealed Carrying a reward of ov
complaint that leaders of his gar district president N. Sri not to register any case and er ₹ 25 lakh on his head,
community (Boya) had ex nivas said that ostracisation assured us that they will sort The Attukal Bhagavathy temple illuminated ahead of the annual festival beginning on Tuesday. During the festival, women will Sudhakar is a CPI (Maoist)
pelled him from the village of the people for not casting out the diff erences,” he said. prepare ‘Pongala’, a mix of rice, jaggery and scraped coconut, on either side of the roads around the shrine S. MAHINSHA *
LDF may contest the al Board of the party and
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was instrumental in crea
A proud memory of World War II yet to see the light of the day same number of seats
tion of the Bihar Jharkhand
Special Area Committee.
Hailing from Sarangpur of
Nirmal district (erstwhile
On this day 75 years ago, Japanese submarine RO110 was sunk off the coast of Visakhapatnam Final picture likely after March 2 Adilabad district), he had
initially worked with Peo
Sumit Bhattacharjee HMIS Jumna of the British Gazetteer in The British N.J.Nair sharing Kollam. Front sourc ple’s War Group (PWG) of
VISAKHAPATNAM Indian Navy. About 25 km Library in London, said Mr. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM es told The Hindu that the Naxalites in Adilabad. He
The people of off the coast of Paul. The Left Democratic Front current situation did not quickly rose to the position
Visakhapatnam in particular Visakhapatnam, Japanese Immediately on receiving is likely to maintain status warrant gruelling seatshar of PWG’s Adilabad District
and the nation in general submarine RO110, which a signal from the naval quo in terms of the number ing discussions and the pro Committee Secretary.
are aware of the sinking of was lying in wait in ships, a couple of Motor of seats the Communist Par cess would be much easier Later, he got elevated in
PNS Ghazi, a Tenchclass submerged position, Torpedo Boats (MTBs) and a ty of India (Marxist) and its than the last election. the party and eventually
dieselelectric attack released a torpedo that hit tug were despatched from allies are set to contest in Winnability being the became one of the key per
submarine of Pakistan navy, merchant ship Asphalion the HMIS Circars, now INS the Lok Sabha election. sole criterion, the front has sons in taking forward the
by the Navy destroyer INS crippling it, said Edward Circars, the headquarters of As in the previous elec to weigh all options for CPI (Maoist) in other parts
Rajput off the coast of Paul, who had done the Eastern Naval tions, the CPI(M) may con wresting Kottayam from the of the country, especially
Visakhapatnam on considerable research on Command. The crew of the test 15 seats, leaving four to UDF. Since the UDF had reit Jharkhand. Sudhakar is
December 4, 1971, during HMAS Launceston of Royal Australian Navy that sank Japanese the history of damaged ship, including a the Communist Party of In erated that it would only known for his strong mili
the IndoPak war. The submarine RO110 about 25 miles off the coast of Vizag. Visakhapatnam. critically injured fourth dia (CPI). One seat for which have a Kerala Congress(M) tary tactics.
incident that changed the Realising the presence of engineer, were transferred the front will have to take a nominee for the seat, the “Even Maoist leaders
course of the war and the Imperial Navy RO110, a the Japanese submarines an enemy submarine, both to the MTBs and the injured fi nal call is Kottayam, where LDF too may explore the like Takkalapally Vasudeva
Navy was also depicted in RO100 class submarine, and ships in the Indian HMIS Jumna and HMAS shifted to the HMIS Indus it had fi elded Janata Dal (S) possibility of fi elding a lead Rao alias Ashanna who
the recent Bollywood fl ick was sunk about 40 km south Ocean and the Bay of Launceston launched a for medical care. leader and former Water Re er such as K. Francis were behind Maoists’ sen
The Ghazi Attack. of the Visakhapatnam Bengal. A convoy of four Depth Charge operation and SS Asphalion was towed sources Minister Mathew T. George. sational attacks, including
There was, however, one Harbour (Coordinates: merchant ships, SS one of the charges from the back to the Visakhapatnam Thomas in 2014. The front has com the one at Alipiri in Tirupa
more incident that occurred 17°25′ N 83°21′ E), by ships of Asphalion and SS Melampus Australian Naval ship hit harbour, where it But the CPI(M) leadership menced talks and a fi nal pic ti on Andhra Pradesh Chief
exactly 75 years ago, which the Eastern Fleet of the and two other ships, was on RO110 and it sank to the underwent minor repairs had clarifi ed in due course ture will emerge after March Minister N. Chandrababu
has sunk into obscurity with Allied forces. It was during its way from Colombo (Sri depths in a few minutes for three months, before that it was a unique situa 2 when it offi cially kick Naidu, were said to have
time. But the proof lies in the peak of the World War Lanka) to Calcutta (now with its crew and remaining being towed to Calcutta for tion that prompted such an starts the campaign, when learnt the tactics and stra
the ocean fl oor at a depth of II, and all ships carrying Kolkata) with supplies for armament of seven major refi t. HMIS Jumna adjustment following the the rallies led by CPI(M) tegy from him,” said a pol
75 to 100m off the coast of supplies to the Allied forces the Allied forces. They were torpedoes and two anti was renamed INS Jamuna Revolutionary Socialist Par State secretary Kodiyeri Ba ice offi cial.
Visakhapatnam. on the Eastern Hemisphere being escorted by HMAS aircraft guns. and inducted into the Indian ty’s decision to shift to the lakrishnan and CPI State se He was wanted in sever
On February 12, 1944, a were given escort in view of Launceston from the The incident is Navy in 1950, post United Democratic Front in cretary Kanam Rajendran al cases by the police of dif
submarine of the Japanese the signifi cant presence of Australian Navy and the documented in the Independence. the face of diff erences over converge in Thrissur. ferent States.
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IN BRIEF
NSCN(I-M) appoints Weather Watch
Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday
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60% children adopted in India between 2015 and 2018 are girls
Data from the Ministry of Women and Child Development show that of the 11,649 children adopted, 6,962 were girls and 4,687 boys
Shiv Sahay Singh year 201617, as many as the Ministry of Women and issue of more girls getting
Kolkata 3,210 children were placed Child Development in the adopted needs to be looked
India may have a skewed under incountry adoptions Lok Sabha on February 8, in into with research.
Facebook expands
gender ratio, but the female and of them 1,915 were fe response to a question by
fact-checking network
NEW DELHI
child happens to be the fi rst males. The fi gures for 2017 members Tej Pratap Sigh Ya More girls for adoption?
Facebook on Monday said it choice when it comes to 18 and 201819 (till Decem dav, L.R. Shivarame Gowda Sindhu Naik, member,
has expanded its fact- adoption. The number of fe ber 2018) were 3,276 and and Anju Bala. Adoption Scrutiny Commit
checking programme in India, male children placed for in 2,152, of which the numbers Prajakta Kulkarni, a mem tee, State Council of Child
adding names like India country adoptions and inter of girl children were 1943 ber of the Central Adoption Welfare (Karnataka), said
Today Group, Factly and Fact country adoptions between and 1249 respectively. Resource Authority (CARA), that one has to also look
Crescendo to the roster, as 2015 and 2018 are relatively All the fi gures put togeth said there was little doubt whether more girls were
the social networking giant higher than male children. er, female children comprise that more girls were being coming for adoption. Ms.
looks to combat the spread During this period, about almost 60% of all incountry adopted and it refl ected that Naik said that the urban
of fake news ahead of the 11,649 children were put up adoptions. When it came to gender bias and the attitude middle class people were
general elections. It added for incountry adoptions; of intercountry adoptions, the of people against the girl preferring female children
that this will be done for them 6,962 were girls and number of female children child are changing across because they are concerned
content in languages, 4,687 were boys. Of the 3,011 was even higher: 69%. Of the the country. Ms. Kulkarni, and aware of the situation of
including English, Hindi, children that were placed 2,310 children placed under who represents the NGO the girl child. The situation
Bengali, Telugu, Malayalam for incountry adoption in adoption between the same run Specialised Adoption may not be the same for vil
and Marathi. PTI 201516, as many as 1,855 period, 1,594 were females. Agency in the CARA steering lages and small towns, she
Kiran Bedi counsels were female children. In the The data was tabled by committee, said the whole said.
two-wheeler riders
PUDUCHERRY
Puducherry Lieutenant
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How Hobbs found a way to fi ght bad cholesterol 2 teens electrocuted, one injured
Geneticist and her team discovered a rare mutation that protects against heart disease
Special COrrespondent for a gene that protected rapid example of drug deve
while clicking selfi e atop trains
Hyderabad against LDL and promoted lopment. The average time Press Trust of India selfi e as reported by wit Md. Faisal, 14, and his
The discovery of cholesterol health. To do this, the team between the discovery of a JHABUA/ Jamshedpur nesses. He came in contact friend Naved Akhtar, 12,
lowering mutations in a hu set up the Dallas Heart Stu drug target to commerciali A teenager on Monday was with a hightension over climbed atop the stationary
man gene called PCSK9 led dy, a cohort of around 3,500 sation is typically 15 years. electrocuted after he head wire and was electro oil tanker on Sunday even
to the development of the people, comprising blacks, Today, Ms. Hobbs has climbed atop a wagon of a cuted,” said Bamania Rail ing, while it was waiting at a
most promising new drugs hispanics and whites. The turned her attention to fatty goods train reportedly to way Protection Force offi cer signal near Salgajhuri on the
against heart disease since idea was that more racial di liver disease. click a selfi e and came in Uday Pratap Singh. outskirts of the steel city
statins. versity would make it more Here, too, her eff orts led contact with the overhead Meanwhile, in Jamshed here. The two accidentally
At the Hyderabad edition likely to fi nd rare variants. to the identifi cation of two wire, a railway security offi pur, a 14yearold boy was came in contact with the live
of the TNQ’s Distinguished gene mutations which pro cial said. killed and another sustained wire, Railway Protection
Lectures in Life Sciences, ge PCSK-9 gene mutation mote the disease through dif The incident happened severe burns when they Force Inspector M.K. Singh
neticist Helen Hobbs told an The cue for which gene to fo ferent pathways. Both muta near the Bherugarh railway came in contact with a high said.
audience of scientists and lay cus on in the Dallas Heart tions increase triglycerides station in Jhabua in Madhya tension wire while trying to While Faisal was killed in
persons the story of this dis Study came from a French in blood through diff erent Pradesh. “Pankaj, 16, click a selfi e from the top of a stantly, his friend was
covery. Ms. Hobbs and her study which found that peo mechanisms, while also climbed on top of the wagon rail oil tanker, offi cials said rushed to Tata Main Hospital
colleague at Dallas’ UT Geneticist Helen Hobbs speaking at the TNQ’s Distinguished ple with familial hyperchol making people susceptible in the afternoon to click a on Monday with severe burns.
Southwestern Medical Cen Lectures in Life Sciences in Hyderabad on Monday. K.V.S. GIRI *
esteremia – a genetic disor to liver cirrhosis and cancer.
ter, geneticist Jonathan Co der leading to high LDL — This fi nding shows that a
hen, found that when people tegy among researchers ly into treatments, she said. tended to have a mutation in condition called hepatic
had a mutation in PCSK9, looking for the genetic basis The question Ms. Hobbs the PCSK9 gene. Could a steatosis, in which fat builds
they ended up with lower le of disease was to search for and Mr. Cohen wanted to mutation with the opposite up in the liver is not as be
vels of lowdensity lipopro common gene variants (pre answer was how necessary eff ect protect people against nign as clinicians currently
tein (LDL) or bad choleste sent in around 5% of the pop high LDL was to causing co CAD then? To answer this, think, according to Ms.
rol. Through this ulation). However, this stra ronary artery disease (CAD). Ms. Hobbs et al. sequenced Hobbs. When hepatic steato
mechanism, the mutation tegy hasn’t gone very far in From Mendelian, or single the genes of people at both sis is not accompanied by in
protected people against understanding complex ill gene disorders, the research extremes of the Dallas Heart fl ammation, clinicians call it
heart disease, seemingly nesses like heart disease; ers already knew that elevat Study – those with the high “bland” and believe it has a
without side eff ects. In 2016, most common variants only ed LDL made people sick. est LDL levels and lowest. good prognosis. Ms. Hobbs’
Ms. Hobbs was awarded the have small eff ects on traits People with Mendelian heart Sure enough, they found a research shows that such fat
Breakthrough Prize in Life like cholesterol. Ms. Hobbs disease often have no other mutation that protected buildup, which results from
Sciences for her work. reasoned that it would be risk factor, such as obesity or against LDL, the opposite of high triglycerides, can lead
Ms. Hobbs’ research jour more fruitful to look for rare smoking. LDL seems suffi the French study. The fi nd to cirrhosis and cancer with
ney was unusual in many gene variants with large im cient to make them ill. ings led to the development out help from any other fac
ways. When she began work pacts. Large impacts would Ms. Hobbs wanted to test of the PCSK9 inhibitors Ali tors. “I question whether
ing on cholesterol in the ear also mean such fi ndings if the opposite was true. In rocumab and Evolocumab [steatosis] really is bland,”
ly 2000s, the prevailing stra would translate more quick other words, she was looking within 10 years, an unusually she said.
House panel summons College event
with Mevani as
Twitter head on Feb. 25 guest called off
Press Trust of India
New Delhi Special Correspondent
The Parliamentary panel on AHMEDABAD
Information Technology has A college in Ahmedabad
summoned Twitter head has cancelled its Annual
Jack Dorsey to appear be Day event in which inde
fore it on February 25 and pendent legislator and pro
refused to meet “junior offi minent Dalit activist Jig
cials” of the microblogging nesh Mevani was invited as
site during its meeting on Jack Dorsey the chief guest after the
Monday. management received
After the meeting on ‘Sa should make himself availa numerous protest calls.
feguarding citizens rights on ble to show the “company’s On Monday, Prof. He
social/ online news media seriousness in safeguarding mant Shah, principal of the
platforms’ here, the com rights of Indian citizens on H.K. Arts College in Ahme
mittee’s chairman and BJP line”, sources said. dabad where Mr. Mevani is
MP Anurag Thakur said the As per the resolution, the an alumnus, resigned in
Twitter head and senior offi panel would hear only the protest, claiming that the
cials have been “sum CEO or a senior member of Brahmchari Vadi Trust,
moned” to appear before it the fi rm’s global team “who which runs the college,
on February 25. The panel has decision making author “compromised on freedom
passed an unanimous reso ity regarding Twitter’s oper of expression” by calling
lution that Mr. Dorsey ations in India,” they added. off the event.
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8 EDITORIAL DELHI
Everyone is afraid of data
There needs to be robust infrastructure for offi cial statistics so that governments do not suppress inconvenient truths
NSS’s EmploymentUnemploy bare bones reporting contained in pendent crosssectional samples
ment surveys (not conducted typical government reports. The for each subround, the PLFS in
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The transfer of the Muzaff arpur shelter home the data from the Employees’ Pro half the population is out of labour quarter. Since it would be easier to
trial to Delhi is a major step towards justice Sonalde Desai vident Fund Organisation (EPFO). force; however, the statistics they fi nd unemployed individuals than
These episodes are likely to recur, present show that the trend is employed individuals for inter
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he Supreme Court’s order transferring the trial in
and hence, we need a more com dominated by women and the ru view, attrition adjustment is neces
the Muzaff arpur shelter home case from Bihar to
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ver the past two weeks, prehensive strategy for dealing ral population. If the full report sary before drawing any conclu
a court in Delhi is a welcome intervention to en headlines have focussed on with them. were available, I think it would be sions. Without access to the full
sure justice for the children who were sexually exploit declining employment bet Second, the fear of having sta rural women who would drive the report, it is diffi cult to tell whether
ed. The Central Bureau of Investigation had argued that ween 201112 and 201617; loss of tistical reports misquoted is legiti must have fared poorly on reduc employment story. This is very attrition adjustment was underta
the trial would not be fair if it was held in Muzaff arpur. jobs under the National Democrat mate. We live in a world where ap ing malnutrition. It stated that Bi much a continuation of the trend ken.
In shifting it to a court notifi ed under the Protection of ic Alliance government, particular petite for news is incessant and the har had made much greater pro between 20045 and 201112 docu So how do we get out of this vi
ly postdemonetisation; and the news cycle is very short. Statistics gress since the proportion of mented by the NSS, under a diff e cious cycle where fear of misinter
Children from Sexual Off ences Act at Saket in Delhi, the
government’s refusal to release a that don’t always lend themselves children who go hungry had been rent government. pretation leads to suppression of
apex court has once again demonstrated its lack of con report using the Periodic Labour to rapid unpacking into sound cut from 56% to 37% between Between 20045 and 201112, data, which in turn fuels specula
fi dence in the Bihar government. It had transferred the Force Survey (PLFS) documenting bites and headlines are easily mis 20056 and 201213, while the de work participation rates for rural tion and suspicion and ultimately
investigation from the State police to the CBI. Later, it this decline, leading to resigna interpreted. When Census 2001 cline was much smaller in Gujarat, women of working ages (2564) fell results in our inability to design
asked the agency to take over the probe in respect of 16 tions of two members of the Na results on religion were released, from 44.6% to 33.5%. from 57% to 43%. However, much and evaluate good policies? The
other shelter homes for children, destitute women and tional Statistical Commission. In a in September 2004, a newspaper Fourth, sometimes leaked re of this decline was in women only solution is to recognise that
senior citizens. These interventions had become neces preelection, politically charged led with a story that although the sults create speculation that is far working on family farms and in fa we need more openness about da
environment, it makes for eye Hindu growth rate between 1981 worse than full disclosure would mily businesses, from 42% to 27%; ta coupled with deeper analysis,
sary, given the apparent apathy of the authorities in Bi
catching headlines. 1991 and 19912001 had declined warrant. The Economist cherryp decline in wage work was much allowing us to draw informed and
har even after horrifi c instances of physical and sexual from 25.1% to 20.3%, that for Mus icked its comparisons. Nutritional smaller, from 24% to 21%. If lower balanced conclusions. The onus
exploitation came to light last year. The Bihar govern Five trends lims had gone up from 34.5% to status is measured by weightfor engagement of women with fami for this squarely lies with the go
ment asked the Tata Institute of Social Sciences to audit Let us step back from this episode 36%. Media reports paid little at age (underweight) and heightfor lybased activities such as farming, vernment. Simply placing basic re
the shortstay and shelter homes, run by nongovern and recall similar controversies ov tention to the actual report that age (stunting). The fi nal report rearing livestock or engaging in ports in the public domain is not
mental organisations but funded by the government. er offi cial data in the past. Past ex highlighted that the 1991 Census showed that about 41.6% of chil petty businesses drives the decline suffi cient, particularly in a news
Last year, TISS came up with a damning report on the periences tell us fi ve things. was not conducted in Jammu and dren in Gujarat were stunted (had in employment, we may need to cycle where many journalists are
First, suppression of results Kashmir and that after adjusting low height for their age), This is look at declining farm sizes and in in a hurry to fi le their stories and
unsafe conditions in which children were staying in ma
seems to be a problem common to for it, growth rates for both Hindus higher than the nationwide aver creasing mechanisation as the cherrypick results to create hea
ny shelter homes. The Muzaff arpur home was among all political parties. Census 2011 and Muslims had declined. When age of 38.7%. However, improve drivers of this decline. One can dlines.
the worst: many girls reported physical and sexual vio data on religious distribution of the mistake was discovered, it was ment in stunting in Gujarat bet blame the government for not
lence. More than 30 girls below 17 have been sexually the population was not released blamed on the then Registrar Gen ween 20056 and 201314 was of creating more salaried jobs for wo Spread the net wider
assaulted. until 2015. It is widely believed eral and Census Commissioner, similar and slightly higher magni men pushed out of farming and re Understaff ed and underfunded
However, the subsequent response of the State go that these data were ready before J.K. Banthia, a highly competent tude as that for the nation as a lated activities, but it would be statistical services cannot possibly
vernment has not inspired much confi dence. Apart the 2014 election, but the United demographer. He was sent into whole: 10.1 versus 9.7 percentage hard to blame it for eliminating have suffi cient domain expertise
from some offi cials being suspended, and some of those Progressive Alliance government bureaucratic exile while the news points. Moreover, stunting decline jobs. to undertake substantively in
was worried about inciting pas media moved on to a new story. in Gujarat was greater than that in If the full report and unit level formed analyses in all the areas for
involved arrested, the State government did not have
sions around diff erential popula Third, it is impossible to bottle Bihar, 10.1 percentage points as data for the PLFS were available, it which statistical data are required.
much to show as stringent action. Its response came un tion growth between Hindus and up the genie once data are collect opposed to 6 percentage points. is possible that we will fi nd a con A better way of building a robust
der adverse scrutiny. A Bench of the Supreme Court Muslims and chose not to release ed and reports prepared. In a Usually statistics on underweight tinuation of the trend that started data infrastructure may be to en
found that 11 FIRs mentioned only minor off ences, that the tables. Similarly, the UNICEF world dominated by WikiLeaks, and stunting should provide a si in 20045. This is not to say that sure that each major data collec
is, “the least serious” of the off ences involved. In the conducted the Rapid Survey on suppressing reports seem to milar picture; when they do not, demonetisation may not have had tion activity is augmented by an
Muzaff arpur case, the court took note of the clout of Children (RSOC) 201314 on behalf create an even bigger problem, greater care is required in inter a negative impact, particularly in analytical component led by do
Brajesh Thakur, whose NGO ran the shelter home con of the Ministry of Women and since it allows individuals with ex pretation. This was not possible urban India, where Business Stan- main experts, recruited from di
Child Development but the report clusive access to act as the in because only The Economist dard reports that employment fell verse sources, including acade
cerned. The girls in the shelter identifi ed Chandrasek
was held up by the new govern terpreters for others. In the in seemed to have access to the re from 49.3% to 47.6%, but this is a mia.
har Verma, the husband of former Social Welfare Minis ment, allegedly due to the fear stance of the RSOC mentioned port and led the headlines. much smaller decline. It is also im
ter Manju Verma, as a frequent visitor. The Verma that it showed Gujarat in poor above, suppression of the report, portant to note that the urban Sonalde Desai is Professor of Sociology at
couple later surrendered to the authorities. It is dis light. Sometimes these concerns coupled with leaked data encour The employment picture comparison between the NSS and University of Maryland, and Professor
quieting and signifi cant that the court had to order Tha lead to lack of investment in data aged speculation by The Economist Fifth, statistics often deal with the PLFS requires caution, partic and Centre Director, NCAER-National
kur’s transfer to a prison in Patiala to prevent him from collection itself, as is the case with ( July 2015) that the data were be complicated reality and require ularly for unemployment fi gures. Data Innovation Centre. The views
exerting his infl uence on the authorities in Bihar. The the National Sample Survey, or the ing suppressed because Gujarat thoughtful analysis instead of the Whereas the NSS contains inde expressed are personal
court is also separately monitoring the functioning of
child care homes in Bihar. Meanwhile, it is high time
that States bestowed suffi cient attention to such institu
tions. A recent Central government committee report
Time to raise the bar
The judiciary needs a mechanism to regulate postretirement government appointments
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highlighted the shocking inadequacies in the facilities
available at most child care institutions and homes.
signments, Justice Chagla violated v. South Indian Bank Ltd. — which ty, if not exclusively, of retired
There is a strong case for a systematic scrutiny to be ta
the very same principle he had is currently going into the issue of judges to make appointments of
ken up on an urgent basis to address the problem. supported. tribunalisation of the judiciary competent retired judges to tribu
After retirement, he accepted a and its challenges to the indepen nals and judicial bodies.
government appointment to serve dence of the judiciary — senior It is true that judges cannot le
A curious bid as Indian Ambassador to the U.S. counsel Arvind P. Datar, amicus, gislate. However, where a void is
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ustice A.K. Sikri, a wellregard to be minister for education in should not result in decisions be to emerge immediately, the Su
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he rather unusual move by a member of Thai ed judge of the Supreme Court Nehru’s cabinet, which he again ing infl uenced if the Government preme Court is empowered to pro
land’s royal family to announce a bid for the of of India, found himself in the accepted. He served as Education itself is a litigant and appointment vide an interim solution till legisla
fi ce of Prime Minister has ignited greater interest eye of a storm arising from accept Minister (196366) and then as Mi authority at the same time.” Mr. tion is passed to address the
in the country’s general election. Ubolratana Rajaka ing a post off ered by the govern nister for External A ff airs Datar has expressed the senti hiatus. This process the top court
nya, King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s sister, subsequently ment, last year, while being a (196667). held could he be accused of having ments of many of us at the Bar. has followed, to cite an instance
judge of the court. By later turning All this incensed his good friend acted as a sidekick to the govern (there are others), in the Vishaka
had her nomination withdrawn — but the fact that the
down the off er after the controver M.C. Setalvad no end. In his book, ment. On the other hand, by de Striking a balance case, where it laid down guide
prospect drew a public disapproval from the King is an sy erupted, he substantially re My Life: Law and Other Things, he claring in 1965 that the Aligarh At the same time, it is also true lines to deal with sexual harass
indication of how closely the palace is tracking the con deemed the judiciary’s and his did not mince words in comment Muslim University could not claim that the valuable experience and ment in workplaces till a law was
test. The larger question concerning the March 24 poll own honour. However, this is an is ing on this serious lapse. He ob minority status conferred under insights that competent and hon passed by Parliament. It is desira
is the prospect of Thailand’s credible return to civilian sue that recurs frequently. Even ti served: “The Law Commission Article 30(1) of the Constitution, est judges acquire during their pe ble the Supreme Court invokes
rule, after the 2014 military coup that deposed the go tans in the legal fi eld have had to had, after careful consideration, he even earned the collective ire of riod of service cannot be wasted that methodology now and puts in
vernment of Yingluck Shinawatra. The military general face stinging rebuke from respect expressed the unanimous view his cabinet members. However, after retirement. Unlike abroad, a place a process to regulate postre
ed members of the fraternity for si that the practice of a judge looking the shrill denunciations of the Law judge of the higher judiciary in In tirement appointments for judges.
turnedPrime Minister, Prayuth Chanocha, is contest
milar lapses. forward to accepting employment Commission on judges accepting dia retires at a comparatively Such a process must suffi ciently in
ing as the candidate of the Palang Pracharat party, under the government after retire postretirement posts and Setal young age and is capable of many sulate the judiciary from the
known for its promilitary and propalace leanings. The The case of M.C. Chagla ment was undesirable as it could vad’s repeated calls to honour the more years of productive work. charge of being a recipient of go
constitution drafted by his ruling National Council for For example, take the case of the aff ect the independence of the principle merit acceptance even However, governmentsponsored vernment largesse.
Peace and Order, and ratifi ed in a 2016 popular referen late Justice M.C. Chagla. Both he judiciary... He was so keen to get today. postretirement appointments will In these times, the attacks on
dum, introduced a voting system that provides for a and the former Attorney General into politics that soon after the re In a study, the Vidhi Centre for continue to raise a cloud of suspi the fabric of independence of the
wholly nominated Upper House of Parliament and al of India, M.C. Setalvad, were mem port was signed by him he re Legal Policy pointed out that as cion over the judgments the best judiciary will not be through en
bers of the First Law Commission. signed his offi ce to become India’s many as 70 out of 100 Supreme judges delivered while in service. gulfi ng fl ames but through small
lotment of seats to army offi cers. King Vajiralongkorn
Speaking as members of the Law Ambassador to the United States. Court retired judges have taken up Though cliched, it is true that in corrosive doses. Therefore, it is in
had granted approval for its promulgation only after Commission they had categorical His action was characteristic of the assignments in the National Hu law justice must not only be done the judiciary’s own interests to re
withholding some other controversial provisions. The ly denounced the proclivity of selfseeking attitude of many of man Rights Commission of India, but also be seen to be done. There solve this issue as expeditiously as
March general election has been long overdue, as Gen judges accepting postretirement our leading men.” National Consumer Disputes Re fore, the viable option is to expedi it can.
eral Prayuth repeatedly deferred the dates since seizing jobs sponsored by governments These harsh words are possibly dressal Commission, Armed Forc tiously establish, through a pro
power in 2014. Moreover, investigations into social me and called for an end to it. Unfor unfair to a person of the calibre of es Tribunal, and the Law Commis perly enacted statute, a N.L. Rajah is Senior Advocate, Madras
dia content from the new Future Forward party have tunately, in his postretirement as Chagla. In none of the posts he sion of India, etc. In Rojer Mathew commission made up of a majori High Court
added to worries about the junta silencing Opposition
voices. While the bid to hand over power to an elected LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to letters@thehindu.co.in must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials.
government may seem wellintended, the power given
to the military in the legislature remains a concern. Rafale, Part 3 clauses were waived, there the recent past but have while choosing to not even as we move towards a new invitation’) and found the
Ms. Ubolratana had entered the fray with the Thai The Hindu has once again is no clinching evidence of been pleasantly surprised whisper about Congress India. The initiative to sessions to be cerebral. But
Raksa Chart party, which is linked to exiled former lived up to its reputation of the involvement of with the ‘Rafale revelation governments that have been organise an event such as in line with the newspaper’s
Prime Ministers, the telecommunications tycoon Thak being the daily that is middlemen or illegal series’. The deal is dodgy: corruptiontainted and this is welcome especially as stated position and in the
sin Shinawatra and his sister Yingluck. The Shinawatras committed to social causes gratifi cation. The supposed from escalating prices, ruining India. The daily does it has become essential to be shadow of the Rafale exposé,
are perceived to be a challenge to the Bangkok elite, in and public values in irregularities appear to be anticorruption clauses being not seem to have the able to air one’s suggestions there was an antiBJP thread
keeping with the highest procedural rather than waived, sovereign guarantee magnanimity to appreciate and sort out one’s in most sessions.
cluding the palace and the military. But despite being
norms of journalistic ethics fi nancial. being bypassed, parallel the wellmeaning diff erences on various The session, “Reviving the
evicted from power in coups, they still hold sway (Page 1, ‘Exclusive’, B. Suresh Kumar, negotiations taking place, programmes of the present subjects and issues. It is Congress”, was not even a
among the predominantly rural electorate. Till now, the “Government waived anti Coimbatore Parliament and the Supreme government. In contrast, the interesting ideas that debate but an occasion to be
military had struggled to dent their chances suffi cient corruption clauses in Rafale Court being misled, a private Indian National Congress contribute to making our an election platform for a
ly, and Mr. Shinawatra or his proxies won every election deal”, February 11). The ■ There is a popular saying, fi rm being favoured over a party has done precious little country more vibrant, and specifi c political party. It
since the early 2000s. The new constitution ensures criticism by a section of “Three things cannot be public sector giant, to, despite decades of rule. The The Hindu’s ‘The Huddle’ would have been less blatant
that the military will be a crucial determinant in a de readers — who are hidden for long: the sun, the fi nally, demands for a JPC fact is that the Rafale defence event should continue to be had it been on “How to build
questioning the credibility moon, and the truth.” The being evaded. It’s a pity that deal is certainly not Bofors. one such space for this. a credible Opposition” to
mocratic transition. King Vajiralongkorn’s public res
of the daily in exposing new disclosures (February 11) there are some who are The paper is only playing Pushpendra Singh, achieve a similar objective.
ponse to his sister’s decision to contest the election may irregularities in the Rafale make it crystal clear that either ignorant or keen on into the hands of the Sonepat, Haryana Sunil Kolangara,
also aff ect the chances of Mr. Shinawatra’s party. Ms. deal — has been harsh and there is some hidden agenda showing implicit Opposition, which is bent on Bengaluru
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Getting India’s history right FIFTY YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 12, 1969
of the extreme violence that accompanied Jinnah’s ‘Direct to settle scores with some secret note of the Income foolproof. years since I stepped into CONCEPTUAL
Action Day,’ a year before. Then why couldn’t independence colleagues. Even before I Tax department to the Ta It appeared to be me that the police headquarters
have been delayed to ensure a less cataclysmic separation? could dispel his suspicion, mil Nadu Chief Secretary. the investigators were fo and the Commissionerate. Assassination market
This is rarely discussed anywhere, and never in our schools, he confi rmed what I feared The note contained details cussing more on the in My sources had no mo Economics
where most Indians have their last brush with history, rein the most by saying, “I know of offi cials or politicians former than the inputs. It tive in passing on the pap
you spoke to him a day be who allegedly took huge had perhaps become a ers except to bring out the This refers to a prediction market where participants with
forcing lifelong prejudices. money can place bets on the likely date of death of a given in
It is time we stopped raising generations on a diet of vic fore writing the story.” bribes from the manufac standard operating proce truth. Sources are always
He was right. I did call turer of the MDM brand of dure to stalk the writer and the unsung heroes of every dividual. Assassination markets thus refl ect the probability, as
timhood while at the same time hoping to make peace with predicted by the people betting their money in the market
those of our neighbours we feel most threatened by. With and meet the person con gutkha to facilitate the stor his/her sources. I had a scoop. It is the duty of all
cerned, and wanted his age, transportation and tough time writing the fol journalists to thoroughly place, of the death of a certain person at various points in the
the evidence now available, we should accept that, far from future. While bettors usually try only to predict the likely date
being victims, we share historical responsibility for our diffi reaction since he held a key sale of the banned sub lowup stories — while a research the information
post when the scam took stance in Chennai. couple of sources refused they receive and go to print of death of important personalities, some critics of assassina
cult relations with Pakistan and our border dispute with Chi tion markets have feared that these markets could actually in
na. As the largest country in the subcontinent, and its prin shape. But the offi cer in Though a copy of the to meet me fearing surveil only when there is indis
question politely declined document was made avail lance and would occasion putable material evidence duce large bettors to plot the killing of the people they bet on
cipal economic driver, India has a great stake in getting its in order to win huge sums of money. Assassination markets
history right, for lasting peace to follow. to comment and was just able to The Hindu, the ally pick up only Internet to corroborate it.
one among the dozens I State government main enabled voice calls, a few The series of stories in are thus deemed to be illegal in many countries.
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served, “A nation whose citizens have no knowledge of his story. But how would any existed on record. I had to Some friends, including a till the logical conclusion.
tory is asking to be led by quacks, charlatans and jingos.” body know who I spoke to keep writing stories to ex few in the police, kept a Fresh inputs and informers MORE ON THE WEB
How true of today’s India! or met a day before writing pose the multicrore scam safe distance. I quit Face will emerge as the case de
the story? This was not all. despite constant monitor book, limited conversa velops. And the promise to ICC adds cricketing spin to Lennon’s “Imagine”
The writer has taught public policy and contemporary history at the Many people who called ing by vested interests. tions to personal meetings, protect the identity of
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru me to express shock at the With pressure mounting and used mobile phones as sources will be kept always. http://bit.ly/ICCPoem
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10 NEWS DELHI
Kashmir redfl agged
Mr. Qadri said in a video
message posted on January
message on Kashmir.
“We had no problem with
Nageswara Rao Karnataka row fi nds an echo in LS
2 that he was coming to In
dia at the request of Home
Minister Rajnath Singh, and
his visit, but on February 6
his statement on Kashmir
surfaced where he said that
apologises to SC Congress members led by Sonia Gandhi walk out alleging horsetrading by BJP
the invitation was extended 70,000 Kashmiris have lost Special Correspondent Sadananda Gowda said there
to him through the Luck their lives yet they are un Admits shifting Sharma was a mistake NEW DELHI was already infi ghting bet
nowbased Shia cleric Kalbe able to get independence. In
The raging controversy in ween the Congress and the
Jawad. the wake of this, the visa Press Trust of India Karnataka, over ‘horse trad JD(S) in Karnataka, and that
Mr. Jawad could not be clearance didn’t come New Delhi
ing’ allegations levelled by both parties were involved in
reached for comments. through,” said the offi cial.
M. Nageswara Rao on Mon Chief Minister H. D. Kuma “fake activities”.
Mr. Qadri says he has re The Indian High Commis
day admitted that as interim raswamy against the Bharati Mr. Gowda claimed that
ceived Mr. Singh’s paigaam sion in Islamabad could pro
chief of the CBI he commit ya Janata Party (BJP) echoed the two parties were making
(message) and dawatnama cess the visa only after the
ted a “mistake” in transfer in the Lok Sabha, forcing an the allegations just to save
(dinner request) through Intelligence Bureau (IB) and #1078122
Naidu’s fast turns
show of strength Goyal defends Rajya Sabha
proceedings
Referring to Mr. Modi’s
charge in Guntur on Sunday
that he was promoting his
tire State and not of a partic
ular party. Similarly, when
one becomes the PM, then
bigticket proposals washed out
son at the cost of the State, he is the PM of the entire Lok Sabha clears Budget amid protest Special Correspondent
he warned that he would be country, not just one party. NEW DELHI
IN BRIEF
Let us together start a new brand of politics: Priyanka
New Congress all be participants. And the Vadra urges people to
voice of all, my young ensure Priyanka’s safety
general secretary friends, my sisters and the NEW DELHI
colleague Jyotiraditya Scin Lined along the path of Congress leader Priyanka
Afzal Guru’s remains
dia and other senior leaders, the 15km roadshow were Gandhi Vadra on Monday
SRINAGAR
joined Twitter and got a
The PDP on Monday joined who launched a fresh verbal hoardings comparing Ms. Va
massive response, attracting
the separatists’ demand for attack on the BJP govern dra to an aandhi (typhoon)
over one lakh followers.
the return of the mortal ment, while outlining the and likening her to her
“Given that Priyanka Gandhi
remains of Parliament attack need to strengthen his party Crowd favourites: Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Jyotiraditya Scindia in Lucknow on Monday. *
RAJEEV BHATT grandmother Indira Gandhi. has had only 12 hours on
convict Afzal Guru as Kashmir in U.P. Some went to the extent of Twitter (so far) and she has
witnessed a shutdown on the started from the airport and 2019 election, but more im and Mayawati, but reiterated the public on Monday, but calling her an avatar of God got one lakh followers she
35th death anniversary of Rahul’s plea passed through major land portantly to form the govern that the Congress would she had released an audio dess Durga. seems to be on course to rival
JKLF founder Maqbool Bhat. “Congress started in U.P., so marks of the State’s capital. ment in the State in the 2022 fi ght with all its strength to message on the eve of her vi All along the route, she Rajinikanth. Looks like a new
PDP MP Mohammad Fayaz it cannot stay weak here,” Mr. Gandhi said he had as Assembly polls. change U.P., and would not sit, in which she hoped they waved to supporters who superstar on social media is
Mir wrote to Prime Minister
Mr. Gandhi said at the UPCC signed Ms. Vadra and Mr. On the SPBSP alliance, be on the back foot in any could all together start a new had gathered on the roads born,” said Shashi Tharoor,
Narendra Modi: “Today, on
headquarters at the end of a Scindia the task of securing a Mr. Gandhi said he respected State. brand of politics. and rooftops to catch a one of the first Congress
February 11, I request you to
daylong roadshow that better performance in the their leaders Akhilesh Yadav Ms. Vadra did not speak to “Politics in which you will glimpse of her. leaders to joinTwitter. PTI
consider returning his mortal
remains.”
Eight suspected
Rohingya arrested
GUWAHATI
The police in southern
NRC verifi cation to Bhupen’s Bharat Ratna tied to Bill EPFO likely to
retain interest
Assam’s Cachar district have
arrested eight suspected
Rohingya, including six
begin on Thursday Son says accepting or rejecting it depends on Citizenship Act amendment rate at 8.55%
women, some of whom SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT “I have not received any Press Trust of India
allegedly possess Aadhaar 36 lakh people’s papers to be checked GUWAHATI invitation so far (so) there is New Delhi
issued in adjoining Tripura. Tez Hazarika, the U.S.based nothing to reject, and how Retirement fund body the
Police officials said the eight SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT son of music maestro Bhu the Centre moves on this Employees’ Provident
people were arrested on GUWAHATI pen Hazarika, has said that matter (Bill) far outweighs in Fund Organisation (EPFO)
Sunday from the house of one The process of verifying the accepting or rejecting the importance the awarding is likely to retain the inter
Shergul Barbhuiya, an oil documents of some 36 lakh Bharat Ratna, India’s highest and receiving of such nation est rate on the employees’
tanker driver from Krishnapur
applicants who were ex civilian award bestowed pos al recognition — a display of provident fund at the
in Cachar district. “They
cluded from the published thumously on his father, de shortlived cheap thrills,” he 8.55% rate for the 201819
claimed they were living in
list of the National Register pends on “how the Centre said. fi scal for its over 6 crore
Tripura for 15 years, but were
unable to speak Bengali,” a
of Citizens (NRC) would be moves” on the issue of the subscribers, a highly
police officer said. gin on Thursday. Citizenship (Amendment) name and words are being indigenous populations of Padma Shri returned placed source said.
Nearly 40.07 lakh of the Bill, 2016. invoked and celebrated pu India, he would never have A few days ago, Manipur “The proposal for pro
Ex-IPS officer moves SC 3.29 crore applicants were A man with documents to Assam and the other blicly while plans are afoot endorsed what appears, based fi lmmaker and music viding interest rate for the
for protection from cops left out of the complete draft check NRC draft. northeastern States are op to pass a painfully unpopu quite transparently, to be an composer Aribam Shyam current fi scal would come
#1078122
NEW DELHI
of NRC published on July 30 posed to the Bill that seeks to lar Bill regarding citizenship underhanded way of push Sharma decided to return up in the meeting of the
Former IPS officer Bharati last year. whose papers are found va fasttrack the process of that is actually undermining ing a law against the will and his 2006 Padma Shri award trustees of Employees’ Pro
Ghosh, who joined the BJP
An offi cial at the NRC lid, would be called to his or granting citizenship to non his documented position. It benefi t of the majority in a in protest against the Bhara vident Fund Organisation
last week, has moved the
Coordinator’s offi ce in Gu her nearest NRC Seva Ken Muslims who took refuge in would, in reality, be in direct manner that also seems to be tiya Janata Partyled NDA’s on February 21,” the source
Supreme Court seeking
wahati, declining to be quot dra for hearing and further India after fl eeing religious opposition to what Bupenda grossly unconstitutional, un bid to have the Bill passed in said. “The interest rate
protection from any coercive
action by the West Bengal
ed, said a 15day deadline verifi cation. The NRC auth persecution in Afghanistan, believed in his heart of democratic and unIndian,” Parliament. would be retained at 8.55%
police in new corruption cases had been set for some 3,500 orities want the entire pro Bangladesh, and Pakistan up hearts,” Mr. Haziraka said in he said. Before him, a majority of for the current fi scal as
registered against her. Ms. examiners engaged to com cess to be completed by to December 31, 2014. a statement, a copy of which survivors of the martyrs of provided in 201718 in view
Ghosh, once considered close plete the verifi cation of the June 15 as the Supreme The Bill was passed in the was received by The Hindu. Big question the Assam Agitation (1979 of forthcoming Lok Sabha
to Chief Minister Mamata fresh documents submitted Court, which had been Lok Sabha in January and “For his fans — a vast ma He said many have been ask 85) had returned the me election. The EPFO’s in
Banerjee, claimed the police by the 36 lakh people who monitoring the exercise, awaits its fate in the Rajya jority of people of the North ing whether or not he would mentos awarded by the BJP come projections for the
have registered seven FIRs had reapplied for inclusion had directed them to pu Sabha. east — and India’s great di accept the Bharat Ratna for led coalition government in current fi scal would be ta
against her. PTI in the list. An applicant, blish the NRC by July 31. “I believe that my father’s versity including all his father. the State in 2016. bled in the meeting.”
New immigration checkpoint
for Kartarpur Sahib corridor
Centre designates Dera Baba Nanak check post in Gurdaspur
Special Correspondent vernments to build a pilgrim cor
New Delhi ridor over the border from Dera
The Home Ministry has designat Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur to Kar
ed the Dera Baba Nanak land tarpur in the Narowal province
check post in Gurdaspur district, of Pakistani Punjab. The plan is
the exit and entry point in Pun to complete the project by No
jab for visiting the Kartarpur Sa vember 23, the 550th birth anni
hib Gurdwara in Pakistan, as an versary of Guru Nanak.
authorised immigration check On November 26 last year,
point. In a notifi cation, the Mi VicePresident M. Venkaiah Nai
nistry said on Monday that du laid the foundation stone of
anyone with valid travel docu the Dera Baba NanakKartarpur
ments could exit or enter Sahib Corridor (up to the Inter
through the check post. The Kartarpur Gurdwara Sahib. national Border) at an event at
“In pursuance of subrule (b) Mann village in Gurdaspur dis
of rule 3 of the Passport (Entry ised Immigration Check Post for trict. On November 28, Pakistani
into India) Rules, 1950, the cen entry into/exit from India with Prime Minister Imran Khan laid
tral government hereby desig valid travel documents for all the foundation stone of the 4km
nates Dera Baba Nanak Land classes of passengers,” the notifi corridor on the Pakistan side,
Check Post of District Gurdas cation said. Sikh bodies have which is expected to be complet
pur, Punjab State as an author been petitioning both the go ed by 2019.
12 WORLD DELHI
ELSEWHERE
H1B holders from India rally for reform Bahraini player released,
heads for Australia
200300 people protest outside the White House, seeking changes to green cardlinked rules
Sriram Lakshman and children whose green Manama drops extradition request
Washington <
> Being on H4 means
that if I don’t cards, when granted, also
A group of mostly Indians on obtain a green card count against the overall cap. Agence France-Presse
H1B visas held a rally out In 2017, H.R. 392, a Bill in Bangkok
Pakistan is very close to by the age of 21, I
side the White House on troduced in the 115th Con Refugee footballer Hakeem
securing IMF bailout can be kicked out
Sunday afternoon, demand gress sought to end the per alAraibi left Thailand on
ISLAMABAD Akshita
ing immigration law reforms High school student
country cap. Several groups, Tuesday after Bangkok
Pakistan is likely to secure an
to benefi t those in the coun including the American Hos dropped extradition pro
International Monetary Fund
(IMF) bailout soon to stave
try legally. The rally, organ or a misfi t, in a country that I pital Association, National ceedings against him at Bah
off a balance of payment ised by the Republican Hin grew up in for my whole life Iranian American Council rain’s request, ending a two
crisis and help shore up its du Coalition (RHC), involved [sic],” Akshita, a highschool and Canadian Bar Associa month detention ordeal that
economy, Finance Minister some 200300 people. student, told the assembled tion, had raised objections to stirred global outcry.
Asad Umar said on Monday. Among the demands of crowd over a megaphone. this, concerned that it would Mr. Araibi, 25, a former
The country’s foreign the group was that the green The third demand of crowd out applications from Bahraini national youth
reserves have dwindled to card backlog be cleared with those rallying was to remove other countries. team player, was granted re
around $8 billion, just a waiting period of 15 years. the country caps for green Nevertheless, similar Bills fugee status in Australia af
enough for about two The wait time, at present, card allotments. Currently, have been introduced in the ter fl eeing charges in the oil Bahraini footballer
months of imports. Reuters can run into decades for em no country may be allocated 116th Congress this year. De rich kingdom connected to Hakeem alAraibi. AFP *
found.
Researchers at the IWH
institute in Halle, eastern
‘We don’t know where
Germany, examined what
would happen if U.K. im
ports from the remaining
Khashoggi’s body is’
Still on alert: Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan, EU fell 25% after Brexit.
centre, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday. AP * They reckoned that some Saudi offi cial says probe is still going on
1,03,000 jobs would be un
Agence France-Presse gional stability.” He said it der threat in Europe’s lar Agence France-Presse
Kabul was crucial that Kabul, gest economy Germany Washington
Acting Pentagon chief Pa whose representatives were and 50,000 in France. Riyadh does not know the
trick Shanahan made an un not at the talks in Qatar, was A “hard” departure location of dissident Jamal
announced visit to Afghanis involved in discussions over without a deal would see Khashoggi’s body, despite
tan on Monday, where he the future of Afghanistan. tariff s imposed at the bor having detained the Saudi
met with President Ashraf der, “tangling up global team that murdered him, a
Ghani as the U.S. leads a ‘The Afghans decide’ supply chains”, study co highranking foreign aff airs
push for peace talks with “The Afghans have to de author Oliver Holtemoeller offi cial said in an interview
the Taliban. cide what Afghanistan looks said in a statement. broadcast on Sunday.
The visit comes after like in the future. It’s not The economists fo Khashoggi was dismem A poster of Jamal Khashoggi
Washington held major about the U.S., it’s about Af cussed only on trade in bered after his murder on in Istanbul. REUTERS
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market watch
11-02-2019
Sensex dddddddddddddddddddddd 36,395 ddddddddddddd -0.41
US Dollar dddddddddddddddddddd 71.18 ddddddddddddddd0.18
% CHANGE Buybacks gain speed amid volatile market ADNOC keen
Gold ddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 34,225 ddddddddddddd -0.16
Brent oil ddddddddddddddddddddd 61.06 ddddddddddddd -1.22
Current fi nancial year has already seen a cumulative off er size of over ₹ 38,000 crore to invest in
same time, promoters can ders,” he added.
downstream sector
ASHISH RUKHAIYAR
NIFTY 50 MUMBAI increase their stake in the Meanwhile, January alone
PRICE CHANGE Companies are using the cur company as the tendered saw eight buyback off ers to
Adani Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328.80. . . . . . . . -2.70
Asian Paints. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1437.10. . . . . . -11.70
rent market volatility and the shares are extinguished. talling almost ₹ 9,700 crore.
Axis Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710.85. . . . . . . . -8.55 recent price correction as an Currently, buyback off ers ‘Ready to off er more oil to India’
Bajaj Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2853.60. . . . . . . . . 2.20 opportunity to buy back Rewarding investors are underway for companies
Bajaj Finserv. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 6096.25. . . . . . -86.45
Bajaj Finance . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 2657.20. . . . . . -49.95
their shares with as many as “Many companies are using such as Bosch, Natco Phar TCA Sharad Raghavan
Bharti Airtel . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 312.20. . . . . . . . -1.05 a dozen such buyback off ers their surplus cash to reward ma, NMDC, Tata Investment NEW DELHI
BPCL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333.60. . . . . . . . -3.80 currently underway. their shareholders in the Corporation, Baba Arts, Oil Abu Dhabi National Oil
Cipla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543.30. . . . . . . . . 9.05
Coal India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218.80. . . . . . . . . 0.15
While the current fi nan form of a buyback off er,” India and Persistent Company (ADNOC) is “ve
Dr Reddys Lab . . . . . . . .. . . . 2615.35. . . -154.35 cial year had already seen 44 said Uday Patil, director, in Systems. ry keen” to expand its in
Eicher Motors. . . . . . . . .. 20753.15. . . . . . -94.25 buyback off ers with a cumu vestment banking, Keynote vestment portfolio in In
GAIL (India). . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 328.40. . . . . . . . -7.95 lative off er size of more than Corporate Services, which L&T off er dia, especially in the
Grasim Ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716.65. . . . . . . . -1.30
HCL Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1079.35. . . . . . . 10.90 ₹ 38,000 crore, there are al managed three buyback off Interestingly, the cumulative downstream oil and gas
HDFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1948.20. . . . . . . . . 3.55 most 20 more companies in ers in the recent past. amount of buyback off ers in sector, Minister of State in
HDFC Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2139.65. . . . . . . 17.00 the pipeline that have alrea “Some of the midcaps the current fi scal would have the UAE Cabinet and CEO
Hero MotoCorp . . . . . .. . . . 2889.05. . . . . . -49.80
Hindalco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199.45. . . . . . . . -6.45 dy taken board approval for have seen their share prices been still higher if the Secur of ADNOC Sultan Al Jaber
HPCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231.60. . . . . . . . . 1.25 buyback and will be launch fall signifi cantly when com ities and Exchange Board of said in an interview.
Hind Unilever . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1804.80. . . . . . -12.50 ing the off ers in the near fu Coal India, Indian Energy Ex panies, especially midcaps, pared to their recent highs. India (SEBI) had not rejected “India is a very impor Sultan Al Jaber
Indiabulls HFL . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 598.05. . . . . . -15.85
ICICI Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350.05. . . . . . . . -5.05
ture. change, Infosys, Kwality, trading well below their “This is a good opportuni the ₹ 9,000 crore buyback of tant market for us from a
IndusInd Bank . . . . . . . .. . . . 1511.00. . . . . . . 11.95 Data from Prime Database NTPC, Monte Carlo Fashions highs, entities are looking at ty for companies to buy back engineering major Larsen & political, strategic, and of deepen the bilateral rela
Bharti Infratel . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 323.50. . . . . . . . -2.55 shows, the year 201718 saw a and Shanthi Gears, among buying back the shares at an and even support the share Toubro (L&T). course from an economic tionship even further, par
Infosys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762.80. . . . . . . . . 1.90
Indian OilCorp . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 135.85. . . . . . . . . 2.05
cumulative off er size of others, are scheduled to attractive premium to the price by creating a bench The regulator found the and commercial point of ticularly in the oil, gas and
ITC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277.10. . . . . . . . . 1.60 ₹ 53,307 crore, the highest so launch their buyback off ers market price. mark for the share price. off er size noncompliant view,” Mr. Al Jaber said on petrochemical sectors
JSW Steel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261.60. . . . . . . . -1.25 far. For the current fi nancial in the near future. This, they say, would help “Buyback is the most effi with the Companies Act as the sidelines of Petrotech where we believe there are
Kotak Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1301.55. . . . . . . . . 2.15 year, data shows that compa Market participants are of the companies reward their cient way of returning sur well as with the SEBI regula 2019, India’s fl agship oil mutually benefi cial part
L&T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1246.50. . . . . . -15.25
M&M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647.55. . . . . . -34.55 nies such as Ajanta Pharma, the view that with most com shareholders while, at the plus cash to the equity hol tions. and gas conference. “India nership and coinvest
Maurti Suzuki . . . . . . . . .. . . . 7177.90. . . . . . . 43.65 continues to be a very im ment opportunities,” Mr.
NTPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130.35. . . . . . . . -1.70 portant destination for Al Jaber added.
ONGC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138.20. . . . . . . . -5.95
PowerGrid Corp . . . . .. . . . . . 182.35. . . . . . . . . 1.35
Reliance Ind . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1253.25. . . . . . -24.45
State Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280.50. . . . . . . . -5.50
Sun Pharma . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 428.55. . . . . . . . -2.50
PM pitches for responsible oil pricing Andhra Bank’s
loss widens
our business.”
Longterm partner
Regarding the U.S. go
vernment’s decision to im
pose sanctions on coun
Tata Motors . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 152.65. . . . . . . . . 1.95
“But now, we are of the be tries trading in oil with
Tata Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480.70. . . . . . . 11.95 ‘We need to move towards transparent and fl exible markets for both oil and gas’ to ₹ 578.59 cr. lief that we have to trans Iran, Mr. Al Jaber said that
TCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2065.90. . . . . . . . . 4.50 form our relationship with the UAE was ready to pro
Tech Mahindra . . . . . . .. . . . . . 809.40. . . . . . . . . 3.85 Special Correspondent competitive. They are India from only being an vide additional supplies to
Titan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1056.40. . . . . . . . . 3.15
UltraTech Cement . .. . . . 3449.40. . . -108.40
New Delhi emerging as sustainable sub Special Correspondent energy supplier to being a India if and when they are
UPL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805.85. . . . . . . . -6.35 The world must move to a stitutes for traditional ener HYDERABAD strategic longterm partn needed.
Vedanta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152.15. . . . . . . . -2.00 more responsible pricing gy forms. Natural Gas is fast Andhra Bank’s net loss wi er when it comes to the “As a member of OPEC,
Wipro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373.05. . . . . . . . . 0.35
YES Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173.25. . . . . . . . -1.85
mechanism for oil that ba becoming one of the largest dened to ₹ 578.59 crore energy sector,” Mr. Al Jab the UAE also abides by the
Zee Entertainment . . . . . . 401.70. . . . . . . . . 2.90 lances the needs of the pro fuels in the global energy during the quarter ended er added. “We are very organisation’s decisions
ducers as well as the con mix.” December. much keen and interested on output levels,” he said.
sumers, Prime Minister Mr. Modi also highlighted The loss in the yearear in expanding our portfolio “India is an important, va
EXCHANGE RATES Narendra Modi said on Mon India’s role in the global eco lier period was ₹ 532.02 of investments in India in lued customer and strateg
Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit
except yen at 4 p.m. on February 11 day while inaugurating Pe nomy and the energy mar crore. the downstream sector.” ic partner to the UAE and
CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL trotech 2019, the govern ket, saying that even interna In a regulatory fi ling, the He said that Abu Dhabi as such we stand ready to
US Dollar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 70.97. . . . . . . 71.29 ment’s fl agship oil and gas tional agencies such as the bank said the provisions is going to work hard with off er additional supplies,
Euro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 80.31. . . . . . . 80.70 global conference. World Bank and the IMF had for nonperforming assets India to attract Indian within existing OPEC
British Pound . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 91.73. . . . . . . 92.15
Japanese Yen (100) . .. . 64.43. . . . . . . 64.73 “For too long, the world Clarion call: For too long, the world has seen crude prices on a recognised its position. (NPAs) stood at ₹ 1,790.17 companies to invest in agreements, whenever
Chinese Yuan . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 10.45. . . . . . . 10.50 has seen crude prices on a roller-coaster, says Narendra Modi. ABHISEK SAHA
* “Currently, India is the crore. This is an increase of Abu Dhabi in the up they may be needed.”
Swiss Franc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 70.75. . . . . . . 71.10 rollercoaster,” Mr. Modi fastest growing large econo 2.58% from the ₹ 1,744.99 stream as well as the On the volatility in oil
Singapore Dollar . . . . . . .. . 52.26. . . . . . . 52.50
Canadian Dollar . . . . . . . . .. . 53.48. . . . . . . 53.72 said. “We need to move to humanity in an optimal “There is a shift in energy my in the world,” he said. “ crore made in the corres downstream space. prices, Mr. Al Jaber de
Malaysian Ringitt . . . . . .. . 17.42. . . . . . . 17.51 responsible pricing, which manner,” he added. consumption from West to IMF and World Bank project ponding quarter of the pre “Beyond oil, India is clined to estimate price le
Source:Indian Bank balances the interests of East,” Mr. Modi said. “The the same trend to continue vious fi scal. one of the UAE’s top trad vels during 2019, but ad
both the producer and con Shift in energy sector United States has become in the coming years. In an Total income increased ing partners, with $53 bil ded that the UAE is
sumer. We also need to move The Prime Minister also the world’s largest oil and uncertain global economic 4.49% to ₹ 5,322.33 crore lion in bilateral trade bet committed to working
BULLION RATES CHENNAI towards transparent and highlighted an ongoing shift gas producer after the shale environment, India has (₹ 5,093.43 crore). ween our countries in with OPEC and its partn
February 11 rates in rupees with pre- fl exible markets for both oil in the energy sector, both ge revolution. Solar energy and shown tremendous resi The gross NPAs of the 2017, and the UAE’s leader ers to achieve a “balanced
vious rates in parentheses
and gas. Only then, can we ographically and also in the other renewable sources of lience as an anchor of the Stateowned bank in ship wishes to expand and oil market.
Retail Silver (1g) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.2. . . . . . . (43.1)
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Aurobindo
closes Apotex
NCLAT allows 22 IL&FS fi rms to pay debt SEBI proposes circuit fi lters for
Europe units’ Tribunal approves former SC judge, Justice D.K. Jain, for resolution process derivative stocks in cash segment
acquisition PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
NEW DELHI
continue to meet their pay
ment obligation.
During the hearing, Solici
tor General of India Tushar Move follows recent abnormal intraday price movements
The National Company Law The companies which Mehta, appearing for the Mi
Special Correspondent Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) cannot meet their obliga nistry of Corporate Aff airs, Special Correspondent price bands/ circuit fi lters alignment between the price
HYDERABAD
on Monday allowed 22 com tions but can meet only op submitted a list of 302 subsi Mumbai are applicable on them,” of the underlying shares in
Aurobindo Pharma said it panies of crisishit IL&FS erational payment obliga diaries of IL&FS, which are As part of its attempts to as stated the discussion paper. the cash segment and the
had completed the acquisi Group, which were classifi ed tions to senior secured jointly controlled entities, suage investor concerns “In view of recent abnor price of the derivative pro
tion of Canadian generic in green category based on fi nancial creditors are classi group companies and asso emanating from huge single mal intraday price move ducts. “While the price
pharma fi rm Apotex’s com their fi nancial health, to ser fi ed under the amber ciates forming part of IL&FS day swings in many stocks, ments, suggestions are being movement of the underlying
mercial operations and vice their debt obligations. category. group companies. the Securities and Exchange made to review the rules to scrip in cash segment would
certain supporting infras Besides, a twomember And in the red category He further informed the Board of India (SEBI) has prevent such extraordinary be bound with the price
tructure in fi ve European bench headed by Justice S. J. are those entities which can NCLAT that out of 169 dom proposed introducing cir price movements,” it added. band/ circuit fi lter, the price
countries. Mukhopadhaya approved not meet their payment obli estic companies, classifi ca cuit fi lters in the cash seg As per one of the propo movement of the derivative
The drug maker had, in the appointment of former gations towards even senior tion process under green, ment on stocks that are part sals in the discussion paper, products may go much
July last year, announced Supreme Court judge Justice secured fi nancial creditors. amber and red categories of the derivatives market. all stocks, including those on beyond,” it said.
the signing of a defi nitive D. K. Jain to supervise resolu vice debt obligations as per In an affi davit fi led before has been completed for 69 The regulator released a which derivatives contracts Incidentally, a SEBI analy
agreement with Apotex in tion process of the crisishit schedule,” said NCLAT. the NCLAT, the government fi rms as on February 9, 2019. discussion paper on Monday are available, would have a sis showed that 40 stocks
a €74 million transaction. IL&FS and its group The NCLAT’s direction informed that former Su He sought permission seeking market feedback on 20% circuit fi lter. witnessed an intraday move
The pact was for acquir companies. came during the hearing ov preme Court judge, Justice from the appellate tribunal the proposals regarding in “Imposing price bands/ ment of more than 20% in
ing fi ve of Apotex’s Euro er government’s plan for the D. K. Jain, has agreed to su to allow the ‘green entities’ troduction of either hard cir circuit fi lters on scrips on the last six months. Of these
pean businesses, including Lifts moratorium resolution of IL&FS Group pervise the resolution pro to service their debt obliga cuit limits or a combination which derivatives products 40 stocks, 29 witnessed an
infrastructure, personnel, The appellate tribunal also companies. cess of the IL&FS group com tions as per scheduled re of dynamic and hard limits are available may arrest ab intraday movement bet
products, certain esta lifted moratorium and al IL&FS Group companies panies. As per the terms and payment, to which the on such stocks. normal movement of the ween 20% and 30% while
blished trademarks, mar lowed 133 IL&FS fi rms incor are classifi ed into three agreement, Justice Jain will NCLAT agreed. “Concerns have been price of the scrip beyond a fi ve stocks witnessed intra
keting authorisations and porated outside India to con groups — green, amber and get a monthly remuneration However, over amber and raised that investors’ wealth certain limit,” SEBI said. day movement of between
dossier licence rights in Po tinue with the resolution red — based on their respec of ₹ 10 lakh per month and red category, the NLCAT said is getting wiped out in a sin 30% and 40%.
land, the Czech Republic, process. “We allow the tive fi nancial positions. ₹ 2.5 lakh per sitting, besides it would pass any order after gle day by recent falls in Misalignment of price Six stocks even witnessed
the Netherlands, Spain and boards (of the green compa The companies falling un other expenses, which hearing them in next hear stocks on which derivative It, however, added that this intraday movement of more
Belgium. nies) to permit them to ser der green categories will would be paid by IL&FS. ing on March 12. products are available, as no move could lead to mis than 40%.
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IN BRIEF
India Cements’ Q3 profi t slides SpiceJet profi t plunges 77% on
Rise in input cost, lower realisation impact the company’s performance oil hike, rupee depreciation
K.T. Jagannathan tion of ICL stood at about The lowcost carrier’s yields, however, increased by 8%
CHENNAI 76%.
The India Cements Ltd. (ICL) Mr. Srinivasan said that Special Correspondent
has reported a net profi t of poor pricing forced ICL to New Delhi
₹ 3.13 crore for the quarter pull out of certain markets Lowcost carrier SpiceJet re
S&P affi rms IOB’s rating, ended December 2018, and focus on its primary ported a 77% plunge in net
keeps outlook stable down about 80% from ₹ 15.24 markets i.e. south and Maha profi t to ₹ 55.1 crore in the
MUMBAI crore in the yearearlier rashtra. third quarter ended Decem
International rating agency period. To a question, he said that ber 31, 2018 against ₹ 240
S&P Global on Monday Total income increased to rise in variable cost had crore in the yearearlier
affi rmed the credit rating of ₹ 1,320.57 crore from shaved off nearly ₹ 200 a period.
staterun Indian Overseas ₹ 1,216.75 crore. Volume tonne (close to ₹ 57 crore) for An increase of 34% in Future perfect: The airline will continue to invest in creating
Bank (IOB) at ‘BB’ and ‘B’ on wise, sales had risen 8% to ICL. The variable cost had crude oil prices and 11% de capacity, says Ajay Singh. M.SAMRAJ *
expectation of government’s 29.38 lakh tonnes from 27.26 gone up by nearly 9% on a preciation of the rupee
capital infusion. The lender’s
lakh tonnes. With a clinker yearonyear basis. Follow against the dollar led to a earlier period. For the com aggressively in creating ca
outlook has also been kept
sale of 0.2 lakh tonnes, the ing an increase in volume rise in cost by ₹ 329 crore but parative periods, expendi pacity in line with our fore
stable. The bank’s capital
overall sales volume is up at during the quarter under re the airline said it was able to ture stood at ₹ 2,475.8 crore casts,”said Ajay Singh, chair
position improved in Q4 of
FY19 through an employee
29.58 lakh tonnes. The lower vicechairman and manag in the past week or so on the view, ICL managed to cut off set some of this by an 8% against ₹ 1,856.1 crore. man and managing director,
stock purchase scheme profi t is primarily attributed ing director, termed the eve of busy season ( January this loss (due to rise in varia increase in yield or revenue The airline had incurred a SpiceJet.
(ESPS) and sale of noncore to a combination of drop in third quarter a “diffi cult September), he said that the ble cost) to ₹ 27 crore. per passenger per mile. loss of ₹ 38 crore and ₹ 389 The airline added nine
assets for which it has net plant realisation and rise one.” However, he said, “the trend would sustain in the Pointing to a number of The carrier had reported crore in the fi rst and second Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft
received initial payment. PTI in input costs. worst is over, I think.” He coming days with a pickup visible demandinducing fac two straight quarterly quarters, respectively. and three Q400s between
said the operations would in demand. tors Mr. Srinivasan said, “the losses. “With sector headwinds October and December and
Exatron Servers plans to Better times ahead turn for the better going “This will boost capacity fourth quarter will be sub Total income stood at having subsided, we are bul would add seven more Max
invest ₹ 360 cr. in unit Addressing the media here forward. utilisation,” he added. Cur stantially better than the ₹ 2,530.8 crore against lish on our future prospects aircraft and one Boeing 737
NEW DELHI on Monday, N. Srinivasan, Pointing to price fi rmness rently, the capacity utilisa third quarter.” ₹ 2,096.1 crore in the year and will continue to invest freighter this fi scal.
Exatron Servers said it was
setting up a manufacturing
and assembly plant at
Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh,
and planning to invest ₹ 360
Exim Bank on track to ‘Thyssenkrupp, Tata Steel to SEBI to look into sale
crore over the next fi ve years
to scale up its operations.
The facility, located at the
hit ₹ 140cr. profi t target get EU warning on JV’ of pledged shares
Industrial Park Electronic
MFG Cluster — II in Tirupati, It has ₹ 480 cr. exposure to IL&FS units Issue related to three Reliance fi rms
is spread over 2 lakh sq. feet
and will be the assembling
Special Correspondent The bank had an exposure Companies may have to off er concessions: sources Press Trust of India the allegations and have
and manufacturing centre for
CHENNAI of about ₹ 480 crore to roads New Delhi counteralleged that Re
highend servers and storage Export Import Bank of India projects of overseas subsidi Reuters of objections has arrived, we Markets regulator Securities liance Group failed to make
products, the company said (Exim Bank) is hopeful of re aries of the crisishit IL&FS Brussels will thoroughly examine the and Exchange Board of In timely payments, which,
in a statement. PTI covering over ₹ 640 crore in Ethiopia, Botswana and Germany’s Thyssenkrupp Commission’s arguments,” a dia (SEBI) is looking into al they said, necessitated the
from two big accounts that Spain, he said. and Tata Steel will be spokesman for Thyssenk legations and counteralle sale of pledged shares.
KKR buys 60% stake in have gone to National Com “If IL&FS sells its stake in warned this week that Euro rupp said, adding the group gations related to the sale of Offi cials said the regula
Ramky for $510 million pany Law Tribunal during the road project companies, pean Union (EU) antitrust continued to be confi dent pledged shares of the Anil tor had asked the exchanges
MUMBAI the current quarter, said a then Exim Bank’s exposure regulators could veto their that the transaction could be Ambaniled Reliance to look into the trade details
Global investment fi rm KKR top offi cial. in the form of guarantee will planned European steel closed in early 2019. Group’s three listed fi rms by and seek clarifi cations from
has completed the “We are hopeful of reco come down,” he said. joint venture ( JV) unless The JV, announced in two lenders, senior offi cials the entities concerned re
acquisition of 60% stake in vering ₹ 240 crore from Queried on the capital in they off er concessions, peo June last year, is the biggest said on Monday. garding open market sale of
Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd. Bhushan Power and Steel fusion of ₹ 6,000 crore by ple familiar with the matter shakeup in Europe’s steel Reliance Group has ac shares to ascertain whether
(REEL), a provider of and ₹ 400 crore from Essar the Centre in two tranches, said. blocked. industry in more than a de cused L&T Finance and any norms were breached in
environmental services and Steel this quarter,” said Da he said the bank was hope The European Commis Thyssenkrupp said it was cade. To be named Thys Edelweiss Group entities of the process.
solutions, for $510 million
vid Rasquinha, managing di ful of getting ₹ 4,500 crore sion is expected to send a the group’s understanding senkrupp Tata Steel, the en “illegal” and “motivated” The regulator would sub
via a combination of primary
rector, Exim Bank. “Apart during 201819 by way of re charge sheet, known as a that such a statement would tity will have around 48,000 actions in invoking the sequently examine whether
and secondary investments.
from these two accounts, capitalisation bonds and statement of objections, to be sent by the European workers and about €17 bil pledged shares of Anil Am there was any violation of
M. Goutham Reddy, MD and
CEO, REEL said ”KKR’s
there are several fi rms ow ₹ 1,500 crore during the companies, the people Commission in the course of lion ($19.2 billion) in sales. bani group fi rms and selling regulations relating to insid
expertise in environmental ing us money. But they are 201920. said. Such documents set the week, adding this was The Commission did not them in open market caus er trading and disclosure
issue management makes it small.” According to him, the out serious competition con previously expected and immediately respond to a re ing a steep fall in share norms, the offi cials said.
an ideal partner to help us Recently, Exim Bank was bank is on track to hit the cerns which companies have would serve as the basis for quest for comment. Tata values. Reliance Power has alrea
keep pace with the successful in recovering its net profi t target of ₹ 140 to address with specifi c con further talks. Steel was not immediately L&T Finance and Edel dy written to SEBI to investi
environmental challenges.” dues from Binani Cement. crore this fi scal. cessions or see their deal “As soon as the statement available for comment. weiss Group have refuted gate the matter.
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India set to rotate World Cup Kuldeep vaults to careerbest No. 2
Krunal’s eff orts see him climb 39 spots
certainties during Australia ODIs IANS
Dubai
Downtime: India’s pacemen are also likely to be given breaks to avoid fi tness issues. *
FILE PHOTO
Amol Karhadkar rest or rotate some of the key It will be interesting to see be presented with as much months ahead.
MUMBAI members of the squad dur if Kohli, who was rested for gametime as possible so While the selectors’ dis
Next month’s ODI series at ing the fi ve ODIs to be played the last two ODIs and the they are ready for the chal cussion with Shastri after the
home against Australia may from March 2 to 13, and the three T20Is in New Zealand, lenge should the need arise. team’s return is going to be
well be billed as a dress re preceding two T20Is. plays all fi ve ODIs since the pivotal, the selectors just
hearsal for the World Cup, The Hindu understands selectors may be tempted to IPL challenge cannot ignore the fact that
since it will be India’s last 50 that the selectors will try and try out a few backup op The pace triumvirate of Jas the rigorous Indian Premier
over test before the mega strike a balance of resting se tions. The selection panel prit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar League is to be played just
event that starts on May 30 nior batsmen, rotating pac headed by M.S.K. Prasad, in Kumar and Mohammed Sha before the World Cup. The
in England. However, that ers and trying out the back consultation with Kohli and mi is also likely to be rotated IPL franchises have made it
doesn’t mean India will fi eld up options for the World head coach Ravi Shastri, is in order to help them recov clear that they cannot rest
its fi rstchoice World Cup Cup. Rohit Sharma, who lead likely to test fringe batsmen er. It will be interesting to see key India players at least in
squad against a struggling the team in Virat Kohli’s ab like opener K.L. Rahul and if wristspin duo of Yuzven the fi rst half of the
Australian outfi t. sence, is likely to be rested — Test vicecaptain Ajinkya dra Chahal and Kuldeep Ya tournament.
In fact, the India team at least partially — from the Rahane. dav are also given a break at As a result, the selectors
management and the nation Australia series to spend The other backup op some point during the se will have to give key players a
al selectors are understood some time with his newborn tions, Dinesh Karthik and ries, to help them rejuvenate break to avoid fi tness issues
to be mulling over how to daughter. Rishabh Pant, are also set to for the challenging four during the marquee event.
Ranji champion Vidarbha chasing history Wood’s
fi vefor stifl es
Juventus consolidates top spot
Rest of India’s strong batting will be a tough test for Umesh & Co. West Indies Ronaldo scored after 70 jured defenders Leonardo
EURO LEAGUES minutes as Sami Khedira Bonucci and Giorgio Chielli
found the net fi rst in Modena ni. Juventus broke through
IRANI CUP Reuters Agence France-Presse
with fellow German Emre after Sassuolo goalkeeper
Milan
Gros Islet Can slotting in the third four Andrea Consigli rushed out
M.R. Praveen Chandran
Nagpur
Mark Wood picked up his Cristiano Ronaldo headed in minutes from time. to parry a Ronaldo shot leav
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fi rst fi vewicket haul to his 18th league goal this sea Juventus had started slow ing the way clear for Khedira
After scaling another peak, bowl England into a com son as Juventus soared to an ly with goalkeeper Wojciech to turn in the rebound after
by retaining the Ranji Tro manding position on the 11point lead in Serie A on Szczesny saving twice in the 23 minutes.
phy a few days ago, Vidarbha second day of the third Sunday with a 30 win at opening minutes as the It was the German inter
will have to hit prime form Test against West Indies on Sassuolo. champion was without in national’s second league goal
against a strong Rest of India Sunday. Wood scooped fi ve of his injuryhit campaign,
(ROI) side as it chases history for 41 as the visitors bowled after scoring the opening
in the Z.R. Irani Cup which out West Indies for 154, giv goal of the Serie A season
begins at the VCA stadium ing them a 123run fi rst in against Chievo on August 18.
on Tuesday. nings lead. Consigli denied Federico
Unlike the previous sea Moeen took four for 36, Bernardeschi just before the
son, this year’s Ranji tri while Broad chipped in break with a Khedira header
umph for Vidarbha came af with a wicket, as well as a fl ying wide.
ter a battle of attrition with magnifi cent onehanded But Ronaldo jumped high
Saurashtra. The Vidarbha catch at longoff . est after 70 minutes to meet
players will have to be back England was 108 for two Pjanic’s corner for his fourth
at their best against ROI for Talking heads: Vidarbha skipper Faiz Fazal, left, and Rest of India captain Ajinkya Rahane at lunch on the third day goal in his last three league
doing an encore in the Irani exchange notes on the eve of the Irani Cup match on Monday. S. SUDARSHAN *
with Joe Denly (45) and Joe games to bring his tally to 20
Cup and become only the Root (18) at the crease. goals for Juventus in all
third team to do so. and Aditya Sarwate’s magi the backbone of Saurashtra’s after a fi ne show against En competitions.
They don’t have to look cal spells. The duo will again campaign in Ranji Trophy, gland Lions, and off spinner SCOREBOARD Lionel Messi was short of
far ahead for motivation as hold the key. and Kerala mediumpacer K. Gowtham will also have fi tness and Barcelona lacked
the 41yearold Wasim Jaff er The ROI team, led by In Sandeep Warrier have strong cases for their inclu England — 1st innings: 277.
West Indies — 1st innings: K.
spark as a goalless draw away
is all keyed up to do well and dia’s Test vicecaptain Ajin earned their places in the sion in playing XI. to Athletic Bilbao off ered
is chasing some personal re kya Rahane, has a formida squad. The teams: Brathwaite c Anderson b
Moeen 12, J. Campbell lbw b fresh hope to rivals.
cords as well. ble batting lineup with a Rest of India: Ajinkya Rahane
Moeen 41, S. Hope c Burns b A thigh injury had limited
Though Vidarbha has the mix of Indian players and (capt.), Mayank Agarwal, An
Wood 1, D. Bravo c Root b Messi against Real Madrid on
obvious advantage of playing consistent performers in molpreet Singh, Hanuma Viha
Wood 6, R. Chase c Burns b
ri, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan, K. Wednesday. Messi was not at
the fi nal at the VCA stadium Ranji Trophy this season. Wood 0, S. Hetmyer c Root b
Gowtham, Dharmendrasinh Ja his best and neither was Bar
— which has of late become a Internationals Mayank Wood 8, S. Dowrich lbw b
deja, Rahul Chahar, Ankit Raj celona, which would even
fortress for the home side — Agarwal, Hanuma Vihari, Broad 38, K. Paul st Bairstow
poot, Tanveer Ul Haq, Ronit have lost had it not been for
the depth and quality of Shreyas Iyer alongwith wick b Moeen 9, K. Roach (not out)
More, Sandeep Warrier, Rinku Marc Andre ter Stegen’s stun
ROI’s batting will be a tough etkeeperbatsman Ishan Singh and Snell Patel.
16, A. Joseph c Broad b
Moeen 2, S. Gabriel b Wood 4; ning late save to deny Inaki
test for its bowling spear Kishan, who looked in fi ne Vidarbha: Faiz Fazal (capt.), R. Extras (lb4, nb3, w10): 17. Williams.
headed by Umesh Yadav. touch in the A series against Fast bowlers Ankit Raj
Sanjay, Atharva Taide, Wasim Total (in 47.2 overs): 154. The results: Serie A: Sassuolo
Rajneesh Gurbani, whose England Lions, and promis poot, Ronit More and Tan Jaff er, Ganesh Satish, Mohit Fall of wickets: 157, 257, 3 0 lost to Juventus 3 (Khedira
swing bowling was instru ing Punjab opener Anmol veer Ul Haq, who all had a Kale, Akshay Wadkar, Siddhesh 23, Ronaldo 70, Can 86); AC
59, 459, 574, 679, 7104,
mental in Vidarbha’s twin preet Singh will be more good Ranji season, are sure Wath, Aditya Sarwate, Akshay 8145, 9148. Milan 3 (Ceppitelli 12og, Pa
triumph last year, has not than a handful for the Vi to give selection headaches Karneware, Akshay Wakhare, England bowling: Anderson queta 22, Piatek 62) bt Cagliari
been the same force this sea darbha bowlers. to Rahane. Umesh Yadav, Rajneesh Gurba 93310, Broad 154421, 0.
son. But his ineff ectiveness Dharmendrasinh Jadeja Legspinner Rahul Cha ni, Yash Thakur and Suniket Bin Moeen 154364, Wood 8.2 La Liga: Athletic Bilbao 0 drew
was camoufl aged by Umesh and Snell Patel, who were har, coming into the match gewar. 2415. with Barcelona 0.
years, Indian hockey will with his smashes upsetting point but Rudy, with his Reaping rewards of his con
Stan Rayan
defi nitely improve a lot, said the Blue Spikers’ rhythm. awesome crosscourt spik sistent performance, Praj
KOCHI
M.M. Somaya, appreciating But he injured his leg in the ing, helped the Spartans nesh Gunneswaran on Mon
the sea change the game has Down by fi rst two sets, Kochi next set and lost much of his draw level at nine. day broke into the men’s
seen in the country in the Blue Spikers authored a bril sting. Teammate Naveen Ra A smash by Praveen on a singles top100 for the fi rst
last few years. Games, the Indians excelled liant comeback to defeat ja Jacob was good in the se super point took Blue Spik time in his career with a
A member of the Indian in many disciplines. There Chennai Spartans 32 and cond set but he looked off ers to 1310. That virtually jump of six places that took
hockey team that won gold was a wide variety to choose enter the semifi nals of the colour for a major part after broke Spartans’ back. him to 97.
at the 1980 Moscow Olympic from and the committee had RuPay Pro Volleyball League that. The two teams were le The result: Kochi Blue Spikers Prajnesh is only third In
Games, he is happy to see a broad outlook,” he said. on Monday. vel at four in the third set but bt Chennai Spartans 1215, 10 dian player to break into the
more and more youngsters Somaya said hockey ad Blue Spikers completed the Blue Spikers broke away 15, 1511, 1513, 1510. top100 barrier in the past
taking up hockey seriously. M.M. Somaya. ministration has improved their league engagements decade after Somdev Dev
India’s youth brigade im considerably over the past with four wins. For Spar varman and Yuki Bhambri. Prajnesh Gunneswaran.
pressed him with its deter with Sunil Gavaskar, who fi ve to 10 years. tans, it was their second loss The gritty lefthander, * K.V. SRINIVASAN
mination at the hockey heads the panel, N. Ram, “It augurs well that an In from three encounters. who had a brilliant 2018 sea
World Cup in Bhubaneswar. The Hindu Publishing Group dian (Narinder Batra) is at Spartans’ star spiker, Ca son, reached the semifi nals those. It’s a good start to the
“These days there are chairman, and Olympians the helm of FIH. We had two nadian Rudy Verhoeff , was of the ATP Chennai Challen year, could have been better
more opportunities. A struc Anjali Bhagwat and Anju World Cups and other big in awesome form but the ger last week to ensure his but I will take this,” Prajnesh
ture is in place in most of the Bobby George. tournaments in India. We al Blue Spikers had a strong entry into the coveted told PTI.
sporting disciplines and so had the HIL, though it bench and this helped. bracket. “I need to work on many
young talent is encouraged. Wide variety wasn’t as successful as other Though Manu Joseph ap “It’s a good milestone for things. I need to work on my
They should grab this with “In the last couple of years, sports. I am certain they will peared a bit jaded, K. Pra me. I have worked very hard fi tness. I need to hit my fore
both hands. They should fo India has excelled in various restart in a diff erent format.” veen Kumar rose to the occa to get here — hopefully it be hands better with greater
cus on sports,” said Somaya, disciplines, and not just The Sportstar Aces awards sion and was among the fi rst of many (targets) this consistency. I will be priori
a member of the jury of the cricket. In the last Asian ceremony will be held in home team’s top scorers season. I have set a lot of tising certain things,” he
Sportstar Aces awards, along Games and Commonwealth Mumbai on February 14. along with S. Prabagaran. Driving force: Lee fi res one past Spartans’ defence. *
H. VIBHU goals and would like to get added.
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16 SPORT DELHI
TV PICKS
NBA: Sony ESPN (SD & HD),
7.30 a.m.
Spectacular rally by Neroca to hold Chennai City FC
Irani Cup: Vidarbha vs Rest
of India: Star Sports 2 (SD & Hits back after trailing 30; Pedro Manzi’s fi rsthalf hattrick for the visitor goes in vain
HD), 9.30 a.m.
Pro Volleyball League:
Sony Six (SD & HD), 7 p.m. I-LEAGUE
Seven minutes later Nero
ca’s Liberian defender Var
A painful reversal
West Indies vs England: ney Kallon gifted Manzi an
3rd Test, Sony ESPN (SD & Amitabha Das Sharma Special Correspondent the drawing board and
HD), 7.30 p.m. IMPHAL opportunity with a misspass IMPHAL analyse what went wrong
Champions League: Sony Manipur giant Neroca FC and the Spaniard did not and prepare for the next
The Chennai City FC
Ten 1 & 2 (SD & HD), 1.30 a.m. made a spectacular come make any mistake. match (against Shillong
camp looked a broken
(Wednesday) back overcoming a three Manzi completed his hat Lajong FC at Shillong),”
side.
goal defi cit to hold titleaspi trick in injurytime, working Nawas added.
Hattrick man Pedro
IN BRIEF rant Chennai City FC 33 in a on an assist from Edwin Van
Manzi was inconsolable With the fans back
riveting contest of the Hero I spaul to secure a big cushion home feeling the pain,
and it required a lot of
League at the Khuman Lam for Chennai City. Nawas sought to protect
persuasion from team
pak Stadium here on offi cials and tournament his boys.
Monday. All out attack “Most of my squad, I
organisers to get him to
The few hundred fans who Just before fi nding the three receive the Manofthe mean the local players,
braved a general strike to goal lead, Chennai City lost Match award. are young and
support the home side were its experienced goalkeeper inexperienced and
“I am terribly upset.
treated to some fantastic Nauzet Garcia to injury. This developed nerves in the
We should have taken
Joel Embiid propels action. seemed to go the host’s way face of the attack. As a
three points from this
76ers past Lakers as Neroca doubled its off ense club we are in the
match,” Manzi, said.
LOS ANGELES
Plan backfi res with a couple of changes af process of development.
Joel Embiid scored 37 points ter the break. This overtly ag “Our philoshophy has Please don’t ask us
Pedro Manzi’s hattrick, his Upstaged: Pedro Manzi, second right, came up with a fi ne hattrick but found himself pushed to
and grabbed 14 rebounds to the background by Neroca’s spectacular comeback. COURTSEY AIFF MEDIA * gressive approach seemed to been quite simple. We anything about the title
power Philadelphia 76ers fourth in the tournament, always go for a win and or how the loss of two
unnerve Chennai City, which
over visiting Los Angeles went in vain as Chennai Ci through and Aryn Glen Wil wins its next two matches. chance to draw level. there are no draws or points will aff ect our
lost its composure in the face
Lakers 143120 on Sunday in ty’s defensive plan backfi red liams fetched the equaliser Chennai City stayed on Riding a fi ne show in the losses in mind. A draw chances.
of the blitzkrieg and
a matchup of highprofile in the second half. three minutes from time. top of the standings with 34 last 10 minutes of the open means we have lost, so “We are playing to a
surrendered.
NBA clubs. Neroca reduced the mar The result opened up the points from 16 matches, but ing half, Chennai City there is huge style and trying to take
Other results: Dallas The result: Neroca FC 3 (Felix
gin through substitute Felix title race, putting Chennai Ci its position is fragile as East opened the account in the disappointment,” head the standard of football
Mavericks 102 bt Portland Chidi 52, Chencho Gyeltshen
Chidi soon after resumption ty under the threat of losing Bengal, currently at the 35th minute, Manzi fi nishing 68, Aryn Glen Williams 87) coach Akbar Nawas said. to a diff erent level,” he
Trailblazers 101; Sacramento
Kings 117 bt Phoenix Suns
before Chencho Gyeltshen its twopoint advantage if fourth spot with 28 points a fi ne layin from Nestor drew with Chennai City FC 3 “We have to go back to said.
104; Orlando Magic 124 bt struck the second midway Kolkata giant East Bengal from 14 matches, has the Jesus. (Pedro Manzi 35, 42, 45+1).
Atlanta Hawks 108; Golden
State Warriors 120 bt Miami
Heat 118. AFP
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14 The day before, allow a day
3 New entrances, creating new
life (9) Seek the virtuous
stall (5) 5 Main extract from the Vedanta Desika, in his Subhasita Nivi, gives the assurance
pinnacle, in short (6,8) that even if a person is not intrinsically virtuous, yet the
15 Against American involvement
mere darshan of great men will wipe out his sins and purify
in fi ghting — leave (8)
6 It's beginning to rise a bit in him. Even a passing contact with such men will endow a
18 Ministerial work related to United States now (5) man with good qualities and make him fi t to be an Acharya
animal husbandry (8) himself, elaborated M.K.Srinivasan in a discourse. Desika
7 Set volume, not even having further says that contact with great men also gives a person
20 A ruler rejected those who soothing effect (7) jnana. Once a man gets acquainted with men of virtue, he is
follow a cult (5) no longer tempted by money or beauty. Gradually, his pride
8 Letter takes a dance form (6) is vanquished and he no longer confuses the body with the
23 Fatter I become while holding
back an arm (7)
atma. He stops taking pride in his appearance.
9 Vital to include a part of Association with a jnani brings innumerable spiritual be
25 Train me to tailor a dress (7) speech, it's set for you, the nefi ts. Viswamitra attained a high and respected state be
solver (14) cause of contact with sage Vasistha. A man may have many
26 Some wonderful narrative faults, but if he receives instruction from a jnani, he be
about a bone (5) comes capable of attracting the attention of others through
16 Rolls it at random and eats it
27 Movement on decline, results (9) his good conduct. The moon has no light of its own, but only
in inertia (9) refl ects the light of the Sun. Likewise, even if a man may not
17 It's conventional, not for on his own be able to draw the attention of people, his asso
Solution to puzzle 12546 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku ciation with a jnani makes people look up to him. A cotton
28 Model at a place of worship doctor to misuse (8)
■ ACROSS outside (8) thread is not a valuable object, but it can be used to string
19 Moan and cry about GST, together valuable gems. The thread, by being in contact
1 "Nothing much mate, go later" 29 Sixth sense — writing on it perhaps (7) with precious gems, attains an esteemed status. The foot
(6) creates liveliness (6) wear of an ordinary person will receive no respect, but
4 Let popes change a rule for 21 Pilot assumes the navy is more when worn by a great man, the sandals come to be revered.
giving evidence (8) ■ DOWN rigid (7) A blade of grass, when it transforms into the Brahmastra,
10 Grand line crossing city (9) 1 Makes fi fty one copies for
through recitation of relevant mantras, becomes a much
programmes (8) 22 Snatch and rest can be feared and respected weapon.
11 Group shot in two parts (5) subtracted (6) Muddy water is purifi ed when it joins the Ganges. Kavyas
12 General assumption about 2 It's some plant, a native of and stories are purifi ed if they are about God. A man is pur
girl — one of the best (7) North America, mostly (7) 24 A meaty role, in 'The Alps' (5) ifi ed when he gets atma jnana.
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Dinda, who donned Kamesh Srinivasan were more partners. I had to switch job with sincerity.” selectors.” Cricketers are not respected sacked the entire selection
India colours in 13 NEW DELHI positive, had more sides with Prarthana (Thom Sharma said the DDCA Bishan Singh Bedi, a le in Delhi. You can't provide committee for selecting a
onedayers and nine Ankita Raina asserted her belief and fought bare) as her strength is ad would support Bhandari. gend of the game, said, “Ab protection always, but a nondeserving player.
T20 matches, received new found confi dence, but well as a team court. But, we as a team
a minor head injury the Indian women’s team played our heart out,” Anki
good match against Zarina
Kohli is hungry for runs, like Lara: Such
while trying to fi eld off came short of its target after ta said.
his own bowling. strongly believing that it was Diyas. We were more posi
well prepared to qualify tive, had more belief and Missing Rutuja, Pranjala
Defl ection from the AsiaOceania fought well as a team,” said India did miss Rutuja Bho
A straight drive by group1 Fed Cup tennis com Ankita. sale and Pranjala Yadlapalli P.K. Ajith Kumar dressing room to see what his hunger for runs. He is
KRISHNAGIRI (WAYANAD) happened. That truly was an greedy – I am using that
Vivek Singh was petition in Astana, India had fought hard in owing to injury.
defl ected from his hand Kazakhstan. both the singles and doubles “We not only missed Ru It was not just the ball that unbelievable ball.” word in a good sense — even.
to his temple, forcing The key to those aspira the earlier day to clinch a tuja and Pranjala, but also Peter Such turned on his Spin bowling has changed He reminds me of Brian La
the bowler to leave the tions lay squarely on the nervewracking victory Sania (Mirza). I have played Test debut. a lot since those days, when ra, who too was hungry for
fi eld. strong shoulders of Ankita, against an unfancied Thai with her and we all know The England off spinner Warne, Muttiah Muralitha runs.”
Arun Lal and batting especially in the key contest land, while Kazakhstan had what her presence can do. turned heads as well, claim ran and Anil Kumble reigned Such had played against
consultant V.V.S. against world No. 47 Yulia a rest day. Mahak and Riya were ready ing six for 67 against a classy supreme. “But, there are Lara quite a bit on the coun
Laxman oversaw the Putintseva of Kazakhstan. “We are used to playing for the task. Now, you can Australian batting line up at fi ne spinners today, too,” ty circuit. “But, I rarely
fi rst day's practice. Ankita had defeated Yu three sets in singles and dou see we have sixseven Old Traff ord in 1993. But, said Such, England’s lead na could bowl against Sachin
"We practised from lia, a twotime French Open bles in one day, and play players including Zeel Desai, that match is more remem tional spin bowling coach Tendulkar, as I never played
morning till evening, quarterfi nalist in the Fed again the next day. So, I who can play any role in the bered for the most famous who has come with the Lions against India,” he says. “I
but the intensity did Cup last year, and was confi don’t think that can be an ex team. I am sure all of us will turn of a cricket ball in histo team. “R. Ashwin and Nath would have loved to play
not drop during the dent of a repeat. But the Ka cuse,” Ankita conceded. perform well ry — Shane Warne’s ball of an Lyon are top class bow more Tests for England.”
whole day. zakhs were better prepared Karman was injured and internationally.” the century, the legbreak lers; they are easily the He played only 11, from
“They also played in this time. could not play the tie against After Ankita’s bronze in that cleanbowled Mike world’s best off spinners. which he took 37 wickets.
simulated match “Lately, Yulia has been Korea for the third place. An the Asian Games and the Gatting. Ashwin has amazing Peter Such. *
P.K. AJITH KUMAR His best fi gures came in his
situations where targets playing well, with good re kita won her singles but after doubles WTA title with Kar “Yes, my debut was over variety.” maiden innings.
were constantly sults on the WTA Tour. But, I Mahak Jain’s threeset loss in man Kaur Thandi, Indian shadowed by Warne’s ball, Such’s compatriot Moeen success against India, whose “I am proud of that per
changed. went into the match thinking the fi rst singles, India went women’s tennis does look but I couldn’t have done Ali may not be in the same batsmen are good players of formance, as it was a quality
“This kept both the I would win. Somehow, I was down in the decisive quite robust. anything about it,” Such told class, but he feels he is a spin.” Australian batting side that I
batting and bowling not able to maintain the doubles. “All of us are working The Hindu. “I was sitting at much better bowler than he Among those batsmen he bowled to,” he said. “My fa
units on their toes," length in my strokes in the “We were unlucky that hard to perform at the WTA the pavilion when it hap is given credit for. “He is has the highest regard for Vi vourite dismissal was clean
said Arun Lal. fi rst set. I got better in the se Karman got injured. Mahak level. Once we start doing it, pened, but those days you vastly underrated as a bow rat Kohli. “He is without bowling Steve Waugh. It felt
cond, but few points in the fought hard. Lately, in dou mark my words, India will would only get a squareon ler, and he is a very good bat doubt the best batsman in nice picking up the wickets
Bengal to meet tiebreak cost the match. bles, I have played adcourt be in the World Group in the #1078122
view from where the players sman too, which helps,” he the world,” he says. “What of greats like Mark Taylor
Mizoram “Karman also played a with Karman and other near future,” said Ankita. were, so I had to pop into the says. “He has enjoyed a lot of separates him from others is and Allan Border, too.”
Bengal will meet
Mizoram in its opening
Group D match at the
Barabati Stadium in
AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
PSPB retains
Cuttack on February 21.
Minerva Punjab chess titles
Ramkumar takes on Saipa FC Press Trust of India
Kolkata
First win for UP
Uttar Pradesh posted its
fi rst win, defeating Hockey
HIM 42 in Pool C while
Jharkhand registered its
third consecutive win,
beating Punjab 21. Driving snow! The Gokulam and Real Kashmir players in action during a match. *
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18 LIFE DELHI
IN BRIEF
Women, rap artists take Bingewatching robot spots dementia
centre stage at Grammys Robbie can recognise signs of depression and aggressive behaviour
Press Trust of India
London
can be costly from a care
perspective, researchers
Childish Gambino and Kacey Musgraves notched four wins each A team led by an Indianori said.
Marvel’s superheroes for gin researcher has trained a Another way is to use
Hulu streaming service ASSociated Press robot to spot the signs of de wearable biosensing devic
LOS ANGELES Los Angeles mentia by watching popular es, they said.
Marvel Studio will produce Rap artists and women have British soap opera, Emmer “Monitoring and recogni
four new adultoriented felt shunned by the Grammy dale, with the hope to help tion is still very much in its
animated series for the Hulu Awards in recent years. But people living with the neuro infancy and we believe Rob
streaming service, Hulu said
this year, they both took degenerative condition. bie is the fi rst robot to use vi
in a statement. The four
centre stage. Robbie, developed by re sionbased recognition to re
series will centre around the
Childish Gambino’s This searchers at Edge Hill Un cognise four behaviours;
characters M.O.D.O.K., Hit
Monkey, Tigra & Dazzler and
is America, a disturbing look iversity in the U.K., watched aggressive, depressive, hap
Howard The Duck, it said. The at race relations, won Re over 13 episodes of Emmer py and neutral,” Mr. Behera
series will culminate with The cord and Song of the Year, dale, featuring the storyline Seeing is learning: Robbie after watching the episodes of said.
Offenders, in which the becoming the fi rst rapbased of dementia suff erer Ashley Emmerdale. WWW.EDGEHILL.AC.UK
*
The team chose the Em-
characters team up to save track to win both the Thomas. merdale episodes as the Alz
the world. REUTERS awards. He also took home The robot can now spot and this is set to rise to 115.4 ing symptoms for those clos heimer’s Society described
the Best Music Video and signs of depression and ag million in 2050,” said Ard est to the person living with them as a ‘realistic portrayal’
Best Rap/Sung Performance gressive behaviour in the hendu Behera, senior lectur the condition,” Mr. Behera of the condition, researchers
awards. hope that robots like him er at the university, who led said. said. They broke the 35mi
The Album of The Year will be able to help people the project with three Currently, the only ways nutelong episodes featuring
went to Kacey Musgraves for living with the condition, re students. to monitor and manage de Ashley into 65,082 images,
Golden Hour. Ms. Musgraves searchers said. “Depression and aggres mentia is by direct observa teaching Robbie to recognise
matched Childish Gambino “There are 46.8 million sive behaviour are often the tion — which is labour inten facial expressions and body
with four wins. people living with dementia most upsetting and challeng sive, time consuming and language.
British pop singer Dua Li
Exercise may protect pa was named Best New
against Alzheimer’s
Netfl ix’s Roma
Dog DNA testing takes off
Artist.
NEW YORK
Exercise produces a harmone
that may improve memory
and protect against
Surprise of the show
Lady Gaga and Brandi Car basks in
Alzheimer’s disease,
according to a study. The
lile won three Grammys
apiece, and former fi rst lady
Historic wins: (Clockwise from top) Cardi B and Kacey
Musgraves at the Grammys; a fi le photo of Childish Bafta glory Stirs debate about standards, interpretation and limitations
study, published in the Michelle Obama was a sur Gambino, the stage name of Donald Glover. AFP/REUTERS/AP *
journal Nature Medicine, prise guest at the top of the Agence France-Presse Associated Press reined in,” a Boston veteri
found that the harmone, show on CBS. Goransson said. Ms. Lipa was one of a hand London New York narian and two other scien
irisin, may promote neuronal Childish Gambino, the Popular rapper Cardi B ful of winners who paid spe Netfl ix production Roma, a As people peer into DNA for tists wrote.
growth in the brain’s stage name of actor Donald won her fi rst Grammy, tak cial tribute to fellow artists. cinematic love letter to di clues to health and heritage, Their commentary
hippocampus, a region critical Glover, and another promi ing home the Best Rap Al Another was Drake, rector Alfonso Cuaron’s man’s best friend is under opened with a troubling sto
for learning and memory. PTI nent rap nominee, Kendrick bum for Invasion of Privacy. whose appearance to accept childhood in Mexico City, the microscope, too. ry — a pug being euthanized
Lamar, both declined invita The 26yearold rap the Grammy for God’s Plan, triumphed at the Bafta fi lm Genetic testing for dogs because her owners inter
tions to perform or attend queen’s rendition of Money which won Best Rap Song, awards on Sunday, boost has surged in recent years, preted DNA results to mean
the show. Some rap artists was among the night’s per was a surprise because he’s ing its Oscar hopes. fuelled by companies that she had a rare, degenerative
feel the Grammys have been formance highlights. not usually seen on award Roma won best fi lm and echo popular athome tests Schmutzy. A test confi rmed neurological disorder, when
slow to recognise how the shows. best director, sharing the for humans, off ering a deep Ms. Topol’s guess that her in fact her ailment might
genre now dominates popu Stepping up “You’ve already won if glory with British black co dive into a pet’s genes with highoctane pets are more have been something more
lar music. When she accepted her best you have people who are medy The Favourite, the swab of a canine cheek. Australian cattle dog than treatable.
Ludwig Goransson, a new artist award, Ms. Lipa singing your songs word for which picked up best ac More than a million dogs anything else. “The risk for overinter
songwriter and producer on pointedly said, “I guess this word, if you’re a hero in tress for Olivia Colman as have been tested in little ov Canine DNA testing for pretation is great,” but DNA
German prize for peace
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stage that he was surprised That was a reference to there are people who have porting actress for Rachel The tests’ rise has stirred poses goes back over two de with other tools, said veteri
Kim Phuc, known as the the victories were so histor outgoing Recording Acade regular jobs who are coming Weisz playing her confi debate about standards, in cades, but the industry took narian Dr. Diane Brown.
‘Napalm Girl’ in an iconic 1972 ic. Just listening to the radio, my CEO Neil Portnow, who out in the rain and the snow, dante and lover. terpretation and limitations. off after scientists mapped a Test companies say their
Vietnam War photo, is watching the culture and said women needed to “step spending their hardearned “I’m seriously touched But to many dog owners, full set of dog genes and pu work can help researchers
receiving a €10,000 award in seeing how many rap songs up” when he was asked money to buy tickets to this fi lm has been received DNA is a way to get to know blished the results in 2005. address the unknowns and
Germany for her work for are downloaded is evidence about the lack of women in come to your shows, you the way it’s been received,” their companions better. “It But qualms about the dog provides immediate useful
peace. Organisers of the of rap’s impact. top categories in 2018. He la don’t need this right here. I said Cuaron. put some pieces of the puz DNA boom spilled into the information, such as wheth
Dresden Prize say she is being “It’s about time someth ter acknowledged it was a promise you. You already Roma is also nominated zle together,” said Lisa To prestigious science journal er a dog’s genes suggest bad
honoured for her support of ing like this happened with poor choice of words. won,” he said at the Staples #1078122
for best picture at the Os pol, who recently tested her Nature last year. reactions to certain medica
children wounded in war. AP the Grammys as well,” Mr. When she was onstage, Center in Los Angeles. cars later this month. mixedbreed dogs Plop and “Pet genetics must be tions.
AI to the aid of child traffi cking victims
It sifts through a database of hotel room pictures to match with online ads
Reuters “Here’s what a headboard load their app, Traffi ckCam,
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looks like if it’s from this ho and take hundreds of thou
Scientists are hoping artifi tel. Here’s what a lamp looks sands of pictures, it is easier
cial intelligence can help like in that hotel.” to get the same view that a
identify and rescue child vic traffi cking victim’s selfi e ta
tims of sex traffi cking via an Signs of trouble ken for an ad is likely to
app and more than a million The initiative comes as ho have.
crowdsourced pictures of tels around the world are Once Hotels50K was rea
hotel rooms. making eff orts to stop sexual dy for testing about eight
Researchers launched an slavery, teaching employees months ago, the scientists
app in 2016 to collect photo signs to look for, including shared it with the National
graphs of 50,000 hotels frequent sheet changes and Center for Missing and Ex
around the world that could There are 4.5 million people “do not disturb” signs that ploited Children (NCMEC), a
be matched up with online in sexual slavery worldwide. are never removed. U.S. nonprofi t involved in
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GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO There are 4.5 million peo the fi ght against child sex
traffi ckers, who often use ple in sexual slavery around traffi cking.
selfi es taken by their victims AI in Hawaii. the world, according to the It is unclear whether
in hotel rooms. A huge number of pic International Labor anyone has been saved di
Hotels50K can be used to tures are put through an ar Organization. rectly because of Ho
identify where traffi cking tifi cial intelligence engine The idea is to be able to tels50K. “We’ve had a cou
victims are being held — and called a deep convolutional pick out the specifi c hotel ple (of ads) that have given
ultimately to rescue them, neural network. room and use the informa us leads and information,”
according to a paper written The engine “learns a set of tion to attempt a rescue. Staca Shehan, executive di
by a group of scientists and fi lters,” said Abby Stylianou, By getting 150,000 people rector of the case analysis di
presented at a conference on coauthor of the paper. all over the world to down vision at NCMEC, said.
Japanese women ditch Valentine’s
Day tradition of ‘obligation chocolate’
The practice, called ‘giri choco’, dictates that they give sweets to male coworkers
Indo-Asian News Service “Before the ban, we had
Tokyo to worry about things like
Japanese women have how much is appropriate to
ditched a workplace tradi spend on each chocolate and
tion that dictates they must where we draw the line in
give chocolates to male col who we give the chocolates
leagues on Valentines Day, to, so it’s good that we no
with growing anger at the longer have this culture of
practice of “forced giving”, forced giving,” one of the
the media reported on surveyed offi ce workers said.
Monday.
The tradition is called “gi ‘Chocolate water’
ri choco” which literally Giving chocolate as Valen
means “obligation choco tine’s Day gifts took off com
lates”, The Guardian mercially in Japan in the
reported. mid1950s, growing into a
A survey found that over 60% of women will instead buy multimilliondollar market.
Banning the practice chocolates as a personal treat. GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO
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Japan Airlines will hand
Some companies were now out chocolates to passengers
banning the practice, which personal treat on February Only 35% said they — male and female — on all of
is seen by many workers as a 14. planned to hand out choco its domestic and internation
form of abuse of power and More than 56% said they lates to men at their work al fl ights on February 14,
harassment. would give chocolates to fa place, according to the sur while a hot spring resort
A survey found that more mily members, while 36% vey conducted by a near Tokyo has unveiled a
than 60% of women will in would make the same ges Tokyobased department bath fi lled with steaming
stead buy chocolates as a ture towards their partners. store. “chocolate water”.
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