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The Supreme Court onFriday asked the Central
Vigilance Commission (CVC)to complete its probe againstCentral Bureau of Investigation(CBI) Director Alok Verma,who has been divested ofpower and sent on leave by theGovernment, and appointedJustice (retd) AK Patnaik tomonitor the enquiry by theanti-corruption watchdog.
“The enquiry in respect ofthe allegations made in thenote/letter of the CabinetSecretary dated August 24,2018 as regards Verma shall becompleted by the CVC withina period of two weeks fromtoday,” the Bench noted in itsorder.
The SC also barred theinterim CBI DirectorNageshwar Rao from takingany “policy” or “any majordecision” even as it fixedNovember 12 as the next dateof hearing.
The Bench headed byChief Justice Ranjan Gogoialso said all the decisions takenby Rao from October 23 tillOctober 26, including on trans-fer of investigations and changeof investigating officers, beplaced before it in a sealedcover by the next date of hear-ing. The court also observed itdid not want the CBI issuebefore the court to linger on.
“This is not in the interest
of the country,” it said. Theinternal crisis in the CBI isunprecedented in the 55-yearhistory of the country’s premierprobe agency.
The court made it clear thesupervision of the probe by aformer SC judge was a “one-time exception” given the“peculiar facts” of the case anddoes not cast reflection on anyauthority of the Government.
“We make it clear thatentrustment of supervision ofon-going enquiry by the CVCto a former judge of this courtis a one-time exception whichhas been felt necessary by thiscourt in the peculiar facts ofthis case and should not beunderstood to be casting anyreflection on any authority ofthe Government of India,” saidthe Bench, also comprisingJustices SK Kaul and KMJoseph.
The CVC has the authori-ty of superintendence over theCBI in cases relating to thePrevention of Corruption case.
Rao was given interimcharge of looking after theduties of the CBI Director afterboth Verma and Asthana weresent on leave and barred fromcarrying out any supervisoryrole of the agency on the mid-night of October 23.
Shortly after taking chargeon the intervening night ofTuesday and Wednesday earli-er this week, Rao transferred 13officers with most of them
being considered close toVerma.
Also, Rao constituted anew three-member team toprobe the FIR against Asthanain order to be impartial.
The court made it clearthat from now on Rao, who isa Joint Director of CBI, wouldonly perform the routine tasksthat are essential to keep theCBI functional.
During the hearing, thecourt at first remarked thatdecisions taken by Rao sinceOctober 23 are not to be imple-mented but later it ordered thatit would decide on that aspectonly after perusing the deci-
sions taken by him.The Bench sought
responses from the Centre andthe CVC on the plea of Verma,who has also sought a stay onthe Centre’s order giving inter-im charge of his post to Rao.However, this prayer was notraised during the hearing.
Meanwhile, Asthana alsomoved the Supreme Courtwith a separate petition in thematter challenging theGovernment order to sendhim on leave and divesting himof his functions.
Solicitor General TusharMehta, appearing for the CVC,said the commission was under
the process of conductingenquiry and keeping in viewthe large number of docu-ments involved, 10 days timewould not be sufficient to com-plete the inquiry.
Senior advocate Fali SNariman, appearing for Verma,said the CBI Director wasappointed for a two-year tenurewith the approval of a selectionpanel comprising the PrimeMinister, the Leader ofOpposition and the ChiefJustice of India.
The question is whetherthe tenure could be breached atany time?,” Nariman askedfrom the court.
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In a bid to save the ailingpower companies, the State
Bank of India (SBI) hasapproached the Supreme Courtlooking into the implementa-tion of recommendation of acommittee which suggestedfor tariff increase or waiver ofa portion of the loan owed tothe bank by these companies.As per the SBI’s affidavit thethree power companies belongto Adani, Tata and EssarGroups. They are operating inGujarat and owe more than Rs35,000 crores to it.
The Supreme Court inApril 2017 had disallowed thepower generating firms fromincreasing their tariff andordered them to stick topromised tariff in the agree-ment with the StateGovernment. The SBI wasroped in to save the loss ofpower companies, which werebarred by the SC in increasingtariff.
The companies haddemanded permission to hike
tariff citing problems andchange of rule in Indonesia andclaiming that the coal importhad become costly and this sce-nario must be treated as anunforeseen. Rejecting all thesearguments, the apex court saidthe companies must supplypower in the tariff specified intheir agreements with theStates.
After the SC order, theGujarat Government formed aStudy Committee headed byretired Judge Justice RKAgrawal to look into the crisisin power sector. In September,after consulting all stakehold-
ers and the bankers, the com-mittee recommended that theailing power firms can be savedeither by increasing the tariff orby asking the banks to take‘haircut’ on the loan given bythem to these firms.
Sources said that theAgrawal Committee has notedthat the bankers were “willingto take a haircut” consideringthe existing scenario in thepower sector.
It is interesting to notethat at present the SBI is facingmore than �2.3 lakh crore baddebts. In its affidavit to theSupreme Court, the SBI saidAdani Power in Mundra owesthem �19,127 crore and EssarPower Gujarat Ltd owes �4,214crore and Tata Group’s CostalGujarat Power Ltd owes�10,159 crore to them.
“It is relevant to point outthat the entire net worth of thethree power producers hasalmost eroded. The monieslent and advanced by the SBIand other banks are at seriousand imminent risk. So far asEssar Power Gujarat Ltd is
concerned, it is already NPA.The other two companies(Adani & Tata) are servicingtheir debt but have beenaddressing letters that theywould be constrained to stopoperation since they cannotcontinue to run the plants atloss,” said SBI in its affidavit toSC.
“That these issues withregard to the tariff have beenpending for a long time andbanks have reached a stage thatthey are facing huge risk of thepublic monies advanced to thepower projects,” said the SBI.
This move of SBI is seen astrial balloons to know themood of apex court. If the apexcourt agrees to the SBI’s prayer,many PSU banks mightapproach the court with simi-lar petitions to favour thepower firms across India.
The SBI in its affidavits saidthey have got clearance fromFinance Ministry in a meetingchaired by Finance MinisterArun Jaitley with all stake-holders and other lenderbankers also.
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At least eight people werekilled and three others
seriously injured on Friday inan explosion at a firecrackerfactory in Badaun, police said.
Around 4 pm, there wasan explosion in a licensedf irecracker factor y inRasulpur village under theCivil Lines police station,Badaun SeniorSuperintendent of Police(SSP) Ashok Kumar said.
“Three injured have beenadmitted to the district hos-pital. Their condition is seri-ous," he said.
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Three soldiers and two ultraswere killed in three separate
terror related incidents inKashmir Valley, officials said.One of the soldiers died due tofatal injury in a stone-peltingincident in south Kashmir.
Sources said that uniden-tified terrorists attacked anArmy formation near Lorgamvillage in south Kashmir’s Tralsub-district late on Thursdayevening. In the heavy exchangeof fire, two soldiers of 42Rashtriya were injured. Theysaid both the injured wereshifted to Army’s 92 BaseHospital at XV Corps head-quarters for treatment.However, one among the
injured soldiers succumbed tohis injuries.
Army officials said SepoyNgamsiamliana from Mizoramwas killed in an attack on anArmy camp in south Kashmir’sLurgam village in Tral. Theysaid another Armyman injuredin the attack is under treatmentat Military Hospital.
Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Muhammad claimed respon-sibility for the attack and theysaid it was to avenge thekilling of seven civilians andthree ultras at Laroo Kulgamarea in south Kashmir last Sunday.
Army official said SepoyRajendra Singh fromUttarakhand was fatally injuredduring stone-pelting in Arwaniarea of Anantnag on Thursdayevening. He succumbed to hisinjury on Friday in MilitaryHospital. Four local terroristswere killed in the Thursdayencounter.
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BJP president Amit Shah onFriday announced that the
BJP and the JD(U) will contestequal number of seats in Biharin the Lok Sabha elections anddistribution of seats amongfour NDA partners will be formally announced in two-three days.
At the same time, Shah alsoannounced here in the presenceof Bihar Chief Minister NitishKumar that all partners willhave lesser number of seatsthan they had last time.
The announcement wasmade after reports this weeksaid that as per seat-sharingformula the BJP had agreed tocontest 17 of the 40 LokSabha seats in Bihar, theJD(U) 16, the LJP five and theRLSP two seats. Sources in the
JD(U) had, however, deniedthat it would contest a seatless than that allotted to theBJP insisting that equal num-ber of seats would be sharedby both the parties.
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National Capital’s deterio-rating air quality on Friday
surpassed all its records of thecurrent season as concentrationof Suspended ParticulateMatters (SPMs) was measured“abnormally high” on the AirQuality Index (AQI) of CentralPollution Control Board(CPCB).
One month pollution dataof the CPCB reveals that valuesof both pollutants have beenrecorded three to four timeshigher for both PM 10, PM 2.5.Significantly, value of PM 2.5was recorded at 46 Micro CubicPer Gram (μgm-3) onSeptember 16 of this year,while on Friday it shot to206.2. Environmentalists havewarned that denizens of Delhiare inhaling poison.
PM 10 value has escalatedabove the danger mark, oscil-lating between 139.6 and 140(μgm-3) in mid-September,and 400 on Friday.
SAFAR, a unit of Ministry
of Earth Sciences (MoES), hasalso recorded values at fourfolds the prescribed standard ofboth PM 10 and PM 2.5.
Meanwhile, the Aam
Aadmi Party (AAP)Government has initiatedcoordinated action to combatair pollution. EnvironmentMinister Imran Hussain on
Friday conducted surpriseinspection and found thatdust control norms were beingviolated blatantly at thePragati Maidan redevelop-ment site. Delhi PollutionControl Board (DPCC) servednotice on the contractor andthe builder for violatingEnvironmental Clearance(EC) conditions.
Since construction dust isalso a major contributor in pol-luting air, Hussian directedofficers of civic agency torelease an order to cover allconstruction sites.
“No construction siteshould be left uncovered inDelhi,” said Hussain to officerswhile inspecting the site. TheMinister has decided to regu-larly inspect all areas in Delhito oversee the implementationof Graded Response ActionPlan (GRAP) and visit thesites where there is likelihoodof high air pollution. The DelhiGovernment has also consti-tuted joint departmentalinspection teams.
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Defence Ministry (MoD)official spokesperson
Swaranshree Rajashekhar wassent on indefinite leave onFriday hours after she posted atweet criticising the allegedmisuse of privileges by militaryofficials leading to an outcryamongst the veterans. She laterdeleted the tweet saying “it wasinadvertently done and thesame is deeply regretted.”
The Ministry later in theday said Army Public RelationsOfficer (PRO) Colonel AmanAnand will be actingspokesperson as the “MoDspokesperson proceeds onleave.
The twitter controversy
began after she responded to acomment by former NavyChief Admiral Arun Prakash.He had re-tweeted a photo-graph showing a military flagon the bonnet of an official carof the Internal FinancialAdviser to the WesternCommand of the Army inChandimandir in Haryana’sPanchkula district. The officeris a civilian and is not allowedto use flags on their vehicles, aright reserved for armed forcesofficers.
“Even if misuse of an ArmyCommand’s insignia by a civil-ian is not a cognisable offence,the person needs to be repri-manded by the GOC in Cwhose ‘Financial Adviser’ he is,”Prakash tweeted.
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The wheelchair-bound veter-an politician Ajit Jogi is the
most busiest man than any of hiscompetitors while campaigningin poll-bound Chhattisgarh tocreate a hung Assembly tobecome the HD Kumaraswamyof the mineral-rich State.
Swelling crowd at State’sfirst Chief Minister’s publicmeetings in his native sprawl-ing Bilaspur region which has24 out of State’s total 90 seats,has become a big headache forBJP’s war room strategists.
The State goes to polls for18 seats in the first phase onNovember 12 while theremaining 72 seats on the sec-ond and final phase onNovember 20.
“The main rival of the BJPis Congress but in over twodozen seats Jogi-led alliance isa formidable force, you cannever underestimate his (Jogi)political sharpness’’ said RamanSingh, the BJP’s longest servingChief Minister.
The bureaucrat-turned 72-year old politician Jogi hasemerged a potential challengerto State’s two major parties, thegrand old Congress and theBJP which is ruling the State
since 2003 when Jogi-ledCongress regime wasvoted out of power.Jogi’s new political outfit
Janta Congress Chhattisgarh(J) has forged an alliance withBahujan Samaj Party (BSP)and the new combine is con-testing on all 90 seats but itscore influence lies in State’smost populated Bilaspur region.
Political analysts say thatJogi draws massive crowd at hisall rallies and the State couldsee hung assembly if crowdback up him with votes.
A top Jogi’s aide claimed,“if we get 8-10 seats which arevery much on the cards, thenAjit Jogi will be the king not theking-maker,’’. He claimed thatthough Jogi has better person-al relationship with RamanSingh and pathological hatredfrom Congress but in case ofhung assembly he would pre-fer to ally with Congress if thenational party agrees to installJogi as the Chief Minister, sim-ilar to the case of Karnataka.
Amit Jogi, lone son of AjitJogi and de facto head of theJanta Congress Chhattisgarh(J), said, “the election result willproduce a shocker for the BJPand the Congress, people arewith Ajit Jogi because we arefighting for the larger welfareof Chhattisgarhia (local peopleof Chhattisgarh). He stated
that his party would reserveroughly 90-100 per cent jobsonly for the youths ofChhattisgarh in Government ifvoted to power.
A key face in BJP’s electionwar room in Chhatisgarh,remarked, “Jogi-led alliancehas killing instinct inScheduled Caste dominatedseats, it will be interesting towatch out how the front con-vert its popularity in selectedareas into actual results,’’.
Analysts predict that in bestcase scenario, Jogi-led alliancecould win 6-9 seats with rough-ly seven to nine percent votespolled which would be deadlyfor the BJP and the Congress asthe vote difference between thetwo national parties was just 0.72per cent in 2013 election.
The overall votes differencebetween the two national partieswere just 92,000 in entire 90 seatsin 2013. The BJP had bagged 49seats, the Congress 39 seats, theBSP one seat with overall fourper cent votes polled and whileIndependent one seat.
There are total 10 seatsreserved for the SC category can-didates in the State and the BJPhad won nine SC seats in lastelection in 2013. Data shows thatin 53 seats the SC populationexceeds more than 10 per centwhile in remaining 37 seats theyare in single digit population.
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ASpecial Court in Delhi onFriday issued notices to the
Sterling Biotech promoters fol-lowing an EnforcementDirectorate's plea to declarethem fugitive economic offend-ers in connection with a�8,100-crore bank fraud case.Additional Sessions JudgeSatish Kumar Arora issued thenotices to the owners of theGujarat-based pharmaceuticalfirm — Nitin Sandesara,Chetan Sandesara, DiptiSandesara, Hitesh Patel.
The plea has been filed bythe agency under various sec-tions of the Fugitive EconomicOffenders Act, 2018 for decla-
ration of the accused as offend-ers and for confiscation ofproperties which are either intheir names or they have inter-est in the properties as benefi-cial owners. ED's special pub-lic prosecutor Nitesh Rana saidthe total amount involved inmoney laundering, which "isnothing but proceeds of crime"in the matter has been quanti-
fied as �8,100 crore approxi-mately from the investigationconducted so far.
The ED told the court thatthe accused persons have leftthe country under suspiciouscircumstances and evaded theprocess of law to face criminalprosecution. "Despite theinstant developments beingwell in their knowledge, theyhave chosen to deliberatelynot to return to the countryand submit to the jurisdictionof the court. They are shiftingcountries to escape the clutch-es of the law," it said.
The agency also told thecourt that it is suspected thatthe accused at present may beresiding in Nigeria, United
States or United Arab Emiratesbecause they have extensivebusiness interests in thesecountries. "Even though theaccused no 1 to 4 (Nitin,Chetan, Dipti and Hitesh) hadsufficient funds and resourcesto avoid declaration of bankloans as frauds subsequent toNon-Performing Assets, they,in active connivance with eachother and other persons laun-dered the funds for their per-sonal advantage and usethrough a complex web ofshell/benami companies con-trolled and managed by themthrough dummy/paper direc-tors who were their employeesand bought certain properties.
"The said highlights the
fact that though funds wereavailable to pay off bank loans,the same were diverted andsiphoned off, cheating thebanks," the agency said. It saidthe investigation has revealedthat 249 companies have beenincorporated in the country bypromoters of Sterling Biotechout of which 200 firms werefound to be 'benami' entitiesused to siphon off loan fundsobtained from various banks.
On October 23, the ED hadfiled a supplementary chargesheet against seven persons inthe court in the money laun-dering case. So far, the agencyhas charge sheeted 191 accused,including seven individualsand 184 companies.
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Benchmarking the standardsof facilities and services pro-
vided by motels, on the sides ofhighways, to cater to motorists,the Centre has decided to grantapproval to only those newmotels or those seeking freshapprovals that have facilities fordigital payments, have safetymechanisms and are disabledand environment-friendlyamong others. The UnionTourism Ministry recentlyissued new guidelines in thisregard.
"At a time when theGovernment is focusing on dig-ital transactions, these estab-lishments must migrate fromcash to cashless payments.Customers too are happy tomake payment by digital wallets,and credit and debit cards.Also, they need to be inclusiveand disabled-friendly to cater alltype of customers.
"The aim is to promotesafe, secure and better hospi-tality facilities at highways fortravelers and provide the Motelswith enough cafes, rest rooms,toilet facilities and other facili-
ties," said a senior official fromthe Ministry.
He said motels have beenclassified as per the facilitiesbeing provided by them.
"The guidelines have beenframed after intense delibera-tions with the tourism and hos-pitality industry along with thestakeholders. The Motel isexpected to maintain requiredstandards at all times. The newguidelines treat Motels sepa-
rately from the Hotel classifica-tions," he explained.
According to the guide-lines, motels which are animportant segment of the hos-pitality sector, providing abudget accommodation is clas-sified as a Hotel designed pri-marily for motorists, havingtheir main entrance on aNational Highway or a StateHighway or on a Service Laneof a National / State Highway.
"Motels cater to the hospi-tality requirements of road trav-elers through the facilities andservices offered by them, withthe rooms usually arranged inlow blocks with parking direct-ly outside," says the guidelines.
The new motel or thoseseeking re-approval will have topass test from the Hotel &Restaurant Approval andClassification Committee(HRACC) comprising
Chairperson, Secretary(Tourism) of the concernedState Govt. or AdditionalSecretary.
Other members include(Tourism) or Director (Tourism)or Additional Director (Tourism)of the concerned State besidesrepresentative from theFederation of Hotel andRestaurants Association of India(FHRAI), Hotel Association ofIndia (HAI), Indian Associationof Tour Operators (IATO) andTravel Agents Association ofIndia (TAAI).
Approval will be given validfor three years. "Applicationswill not be considered asreceived till such time they arefree from all deficiencies. TheHRACC may inspect a motel atany time without previousnotice," said the official.
The Motel must be able toconvince the committee thatthey are taking sufficient stepsto conserve energy and harvestwater, garbage segregation, anddisposal/ recycling as perPollution Control Board (PCB)norms and following other eco-friendly measures, pointed outthe official.
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As many as 199 sitting MLAsand seven MPs have not
declared their PermanentAccount Number (PAN)details. The highest number ofMLAs, who have not declaredPAN details, are 51 from theCongress, followed by 42 MLAsfrom the BJP and 25 MLAsfrom the CPI(M).
Interestingly, the highestnumbers of 33 MLAs whohave not declared the PANdetails are from Kerala, fol-lowed by 28 MLAs fromMizoram and 19 MLAs fromMadhya Pradesh. Two MPseach from Odisha and TamilNadu, and one MP eachAssam, Mizoram andLakshadweep have not declaredtheir PAN details.
Association for DemocraticReforms (ADR) and NationalElection Watch (NEW) haveanalysed the PAN details of 542sitting Lok Sabha MPs and 4086MLAs. Of which 11 re-electedMPs and 35 re-elected MLAshave dissimilarities in the PANdetails submitted by them intheir affidavits. The discrepan-cy also found in the PAN detailsof several re-elected MLAs.
"The PAN comprises 4alphabets, 4 numerical and analphabet at the end, e.g:ABCD4321F. Discrepancynoticed in the PAN card is thatone number/alphabet ischanged. Four re-elected MPsfrom BJD, 2 re-elected MPs
each from BJP and Congress,and one re-elected MP eachNCP, JD(S) and SHS have thediscrepancy in their declaredPAN details. When it comesState wise re-elected MLAswith the discrepancy in PANdetails, Madhya Pradesh hasthe highest number of re-elect-ed MLAs i.e. 8 followed byMaharashtra with 7 re-electedMLAs who have the discrep-ancy in declared PAN details,"the report said.
The highest number of re-elected MLAs who have dis-crepancy in declared PANdetails are 18, from BJP, fol-lowed by 9 MLAs from INCand 3 MLAs from JD(U).
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Sowing of winter (rabi) cropshas begun and the coverage
of oilseeds has gone up 70 percent to 14.61 lakh hectare so farover the year-ago period.Wheat has been sown in 18,000hectare so far in the rabi sea-son of the 2018-19 crop year(July-June) as against 2,000hectare in the year-ago period.Sowing of rabi crops beginfrom October and harvestingfrom March. Wheat is themain rabi crop.
"Wheat sowing will pick up
pace in the coming weeks.Right now, the planting isreported in parts of UttarPradesh, Madhya Pradesh andJammu & Kashmir," a seniorAgriculture Ministry officialsaid. Among winter crops,planting of oilseeds has beengood as farmers have covered14.61 lakh hectare so far, andmuch of it is rapeseed and mus-tard seed, owing to better sup-port price.
In the year-ago period,oilseeds were sown in 8.60lakh hectare. In case of pulses,area was lagging behind at
7.30 lakh hectare so far this rabiseason as against 24.17 lakhhectare in the same period lastyear.
Coarse cereals area wascovered in just 5 lakh hectareas against 9.47 lakh hectare inthe year-ago period. Rice wassown in 3.13 lakh hectare asagainst 4.22 lakh hectare in thesaid period, the AgricultureMinistry data showed. Theofficial said delayed departureof southwest monsoon hasimproved soil moisture thatwill boost sowing of rabi cropsin many States.
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New Delhi: Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Fridaydescribed India and Japan a"winning combination" andsaid the island nation is NewDelhi's most trusted partners inits economic and technologicalmodernisation.
In a statement before heleaves for Japan on Saturday toattend the Annual Summit onOctober 28 and 29, Modi saidIndia's partnership with Japanis of great substance and pur-pose.
"We have a special strategicand global partnership. Our tieswith Japan, both economicand strategic, stand complete-ly transformed in recent years.It is today a partnership of greatsubstance and purpose. It restson the strong pillars of India'sAct East Policy, and our sharedvision and commitment to afree, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific," he said.
Modi said it will be his 12thmeeting with Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe since he first touredJapan as Prime Minister inSeptember 2014.
He said, as democracies,the two countries have sharedvalues and they seek peaceand prosperity for all.
"Our complementaritiesmake India and Japan a win-ning combination. Japan todayis one of the most trustedpartners in India's economicand technological modernisa-tions and one of the topinvestors in India," he pointedout.
The PM said that projectssuch as Mumbai-AhmedabadHigh Speed Rail and DedicatedFreight Corridors reflect thehigh level and "strength of oureconomic engagement".
"Japan is also at the fore-front of engaging in our nation-al initiatives, such as 'Make inIndia', 'Skill India', 'DigitalIndia', 'Start UpIndia'...Japanese investors havefaith in India's economic future,
which is marked with myriadopportunities," Modi said.
He said India values Japan'sglobal leadership in innovation,technologies and best prac-tices and during his visit, hewill have a chance to see someof Japan's high-tech capabilitiesin robotics.
"I will have wide-rangingtalks with Prime MinisterShinzo Abe and interact withbusiness leaders and captainsof industry from both coun-tries. I will also address theIndian community. Theseinteractions will help to furtherstrengthen our trade andinvestment ties, and coopera-tion in new areas such ashealthcare, digital technologies,agriculture and food process-ing, disaster risk reductionand disaster resilient infra-structure," he said.
He recalled that last year,he had hosted Prime MinisterAbe and his wife Akie Abe inhis home State of Gujarat. PTI
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New Delhi: Russia and Indiaare working on an agreement to"jointly produce" films to boostpeople-to-people ties, theRussian envoy said on Fridayand asserted that the two coun-tries have an age-old history ofcultural collaboration.
Russian Ambassador toIndia Nikolay Kudashev said thisat the embassy here afterannouncing the grand culturalevent — Days of Russian Culturein India — that will bring someof the most iconic musical andart forms to the country over thenext two months.
"The two nations have aspecial affection towards eachother, with a history of cultur-al collaboration that goes longback. Some of the illustriousnames are RabindranathTagore and Leo Tolstoy, andmany other distinguished sonsand daughters of both thecountries, representing our
ties," he said. The envoy saidthe event once again will reflectthe unique cultural tiesbetween the two sides.
"It will open this Sundaywith a breathtaking performance'Reverse' by the Moscow MusicalTheater. It will blur the bound-aries between dramatic and clas-sic, and the circus performances,"Kudashev told reporters.
The 75-minute productionhas been created by youngRussian directors AndreyKoltsov and Irina Drozhzhina,with participation of DebraBrown, the Emmy Award-win-ning Canadian choreographer,officials at the embassy said.
"It will be a silent show,with motion and emotionsintertwined in a breathtakingacrobatic performance by thetroupe, and will have a part ofIndia in its mix too. I say, it willblow away the senses of theaudience," said Koltsov. PTI
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New Delhi: Supreme Court judge MadanB Lokur on Friday said besides constructionand maintenance of washrooms in over16,000 court rooms, a mechanism needs tobe devised to deal with garbage and also toweed out old case files.
He was speaking at a pre-launch func-tion of 'Swachh Nyayalaya project, whichwould be inaugurated on the occasion ofLaw Day on November 26 by Chief Justiceof India Ranjan Gogoi.
The project, which is ostensibly on thelines of the Centre's flagship scheme SwachhBharat Abhiyan, would be undertaken byNITI Aayog and the Union Ministry ofDrinking Water and Sanitation along withthe Department of Justice and wouldinclude construction of new toilets in courtcomplexes in the country, besides main-taining existing ones.
"So really the idea behind this SwachhNyayalaya is to have those general clean upin terms of maintenance, in terms of housekeeping issues, of course, providing toilets,washrooms and all that is one of theaspects of housekeeping and maintenancebut equally important are issues of garbagedisposal," Justice Lokur said.
He stressed the need to take up the pro-ject in "broad perspective" and said it
should not remain confined to toilets andwashrooms only.
"You see we have a process of weedingout of files, so when a case gets disposed of,it is not that it is going to be there forever.Of course, there are certain categories ofcases which needs to be there forever, whichare of historical importance, and so on butif you are in a position to weed out the fileson a regular basis, there is a lot of space thatcan be generated," Justice Lokur said.
He then gave the example of the apexcourt and said that by weeding out old andunnecessary files, a large bar room has beenmade here.
Justice Lokur did not agree with thedeadline of 2020 fixed by Government agen-cies to complete the Swachh Nyayalaya pro-ject and said that it can be completed with-in a span of six months and asked the agen-cies to include PWD also with the project.
The function, in which a presentationwas made about the project, was attendedby the CJI and justices Kurian Joseph andA K Sikri. Niti Ayog head Amitabh Kant alsoaddressed the gathering.
The ambitious project would cover allthe Supreme Court, all the high courts and3,388 subordinate courts and would incura cost of �500 crore. PTI
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New Delhi: India and Myanmar haveagreed to fight insurgent groups operat-ing along the border between the twocountries and check smuggling of wildlifeand narcotic drugs.
It was agreed upon at the 22nd home-land security meeting between India andMyanmar held on Thursday and Friday.
During the meeting, both the sidesagreed to take action against insurgentgroups operating within their territories,a Home Ministry statement said.
The two countries agreed on provid-ing security cooperation and facilitatemovement of people and trade across theInternational Border.
It was also agreed to cooperate in pre-venting smuggling of wildlife and narcoticdrugs and to strengthen cooperation onthe international border management,including construction of subsidiary pil-lars to better demarcate the border, thestatement said.
The Indian delegation was led byUnion Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba andthe Myanmar delegation by Major GeneralAung Thu, Deputy Minister, Ministry ofHome Affairs, Myanmar. PTI
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Kerala would need �31,000 crore forrebuilding, a UN report said.
The post disaster needs assess-ment report prepared by a UN teamwas submitted to Chief MinisterPinarayi Vijayan on Friday by UnitedNations Resident Coordinator YuriAfanasiev.
During the meeting, he informedVijayan that the UN would assist theState in getting international leveltechnical know how for rebuildingKerala, which had witnessed wide-spread destruction when floods rav-aged the State in August this year.
The UN body has also promisedassistance in getting resources fromglobal institutions for rebuilding thestate, an official press release here said.
According to the report, funds forrebuilding various sectors, includehousing (�5443 crore), transportinfrastructure (�10,046 crore), agri-culture and dairy farming (�4498crore) and other infrastructure �2246crore. During the south west mon-soon over 400 people had lost theirlives and several houses destroyed inthe unprecedented deluge in theState. PTI
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Fridaydeclined to hear on priority a petition filedby an advocate against the practice ofpolygamy among Muslims, saying he shouldfirst deposit a fine that was due.
When the petition filed by Asok Pandecame up for hearing, a bench headed byJustice Madan B Lokur reminded the advo-cate that he was imposed a cost of �25,000by the apex court recently for filing a pleaand until he deposits that amount with theSupreme Court Legal Services Committee,his matter would not be heard.
A bench of the apex court had onOctober 22 dismissed a public interest liti-gation (PIL) filed by Pande and had imposedthe cost on him for seeking a direction thatlegal marriageable age for men should bebrought down from 21 to 18 years.
"Have you paid the cost," the bench, alsocomprising justices S A Nazeer and DeepakGupta, asked the lawyer who said he woulddo it soon. The bench then said, "We willhear you only after you deposit the costimposed on you." It also directed the apexcourt registry not to entertain any other peti-tion filed by Pande until he pays the costimposed by the October 22 order.
".... This court had imposed costs of�25,000 on the petitioner by an orderdated October 22, 2018. List this petitiononly after the costs are deposited. The reg-istry is directed not to entertain any otherpetition until there is a proof of payment ofcosts," the bench said in its order.
In his fresh petition, Pande had allegedthat permitting only the Muslims to performpolygamy was discrimination on the groundof religion. The PIL has sought a directionto the Centre either to declare polygamy byany citizen of India as "void" and make it apunishable offence under section 494 of theIndian Penal Code (IPC) or permit all cit-izens to perform polygamy as per their wish.
Section 494 of the IPC deals with theoffence of marrying again during lifetime ofhusband or wife and entails a punishmentof up to seven years in jail and fine. PTI
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The Congress party finallysucceeded in pacifying its
disgruntled leader — the for-mer Zila Panchayat president,Chabindra Karma to withdrawhis nomination in favour of hismother and Congress candi-date from Dantewada, DevtiKarma.
Chabindra withdrew hiscandidature on the last date forwithdrawal of nominationpapers on Friday.
Senior party leaders hadtried to convince Chabindraafter he raised his rebellion atti-tude and continued hisadamancy to contest polls as anIndependent candidate.
Chhattisgarh PradeshCongress Committee(CGPCC) President BhupeshBaghel and Deputy Leader ofOpposition Kawasi Lakhmahad carried out efforts to paci-fy him through talks.
Chabindra Karma had filedhis nomination papers asIndependent candidate and
was declared Samajwadi Party(SP) candidate fromDantewada but he refused to go
with the party later.Chabindra had revolted
seeking Congress party ticket
even before the Congressdeclared the party ticket andhad filed the nominationpapers as an Independent can-didate while thinking that partywould give him the ticket butinstead sitting MLA Devti wasrepeated as candidate.
But Devti Karma was con-fident and was saying rightfrom the beginning that shewould convince her son that hewould not fight the electionagainst her. Finally, it did hap-pen and the Congress partyheaved a sigh of relief at last.
Commenting on the devel-opment, senior Congress leaderSatyanarayan Sharma said“when blood calls, the bloodwould return”.
He said that in the firstphase of polls at two con-stituencies there was resent-ment where damage controlhas been done. In first phase,Congress will be leading in allthe 18 state assembly con-stituencies, he claimed.
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Chief Minister Raman Singhwould commence poll
campaign for the first phase inBastar region from Saturday(October 27).
He would address fourpublic meetings in three assem-bly constituencies of Konta,Dantewada and Bastar on dayone.
As per party sources, hewould leave Raipur at 10.15 amand reach Dornapal in KontaAssembly constituency at 11.30am. on Saturday.
Singh would then addressa public meeting at Geedam inDantewada Assembly con-stituency. Thereafter, he willproceed to Baghmohlai foraddressing a public meeting.The last public meeting for theday will be at Mandalapal ofBastar after which he willreturn to Raipur.
Singh said, “My target is toreach maximum number ofstate assembly constituencypersonally. The first tour will bethe campaign for Bastar, afterwhich it would progress con-tinuously.”
He added that Prime
Minister, Narendra Modi, BJPNational President, Amit Shahwould be campaigning in theregion and their programmeswould be officially announcedsoon.
Union ministers would alsobe arriving for poll campaignsin Chhattisgarh, Singh said.
He added that as per theparty’s work plan, the areaswhere there is dominance ofcertain communities likewisethe star campaigner wouldapproach the electors.
Uttar Pradesh ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath
would also be conducting pollcampaign. The party sourcessaid that he would be cam-paigning in the second phase ofpolling for which the pro-gramme would be finalized.
The election vehicle forthe BJP has arrived fromMumbai .It has LED screen,stage and other facilities.
The vehicle was flagged offon Thursday by the ChiefMinister from the BJP office inRaipur.
A stage has been preparedin the vehicle on which folkartists would be performing.
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In what could be termed as asigh of relief to the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) and its offi-cial candidate and MinisterMahesh Gagda, rebel candidateRajaram Todem withdrew hisnomination papers fromBijapur assembly constituencyon last day of withdrawal ofnomination papers on Friday.
Former MLA and triballeader Rajaram Todem hadfiled the nomination papers byrevolting against the Bijapur sit-ting MLA and Forest MinisterMahesh Gagda.
Todem is an influentialleader of Bijapur region andcould have hampered the inter-est of BJP by bifurcating its tra-
ditional votes.On Thursday, Todem was
reinstated in BJP after hisexpulsion which was ended bythe State BJP PresidentDharamlal Kaushik.
The disgruntled leader waspacified by the senior BJPleaders not to fight the electionsas an Independent candidateand after which he withdrewhis nomination papers.
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Under ‘Sanjha Vikas’ pro-gramme, the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) on Fridayhad a discussion with mediapersons of the capital at StateBJP Office ‘Ekatma Parisar’and took their views for prepar-ing the ‘Sankalpa Patra’(Election Manifesto) for theAssembly polls.
Speaking on the occasion,BJP National General Secretaryand Chhattisgarh In-charge DrAnil Kumar Jain said the sug-gestions of journalists andother intellectuals would bevaluable for the party.
Apart from other citizens,the journalists too could sug-gest important suggestions asthey know the actual mindsetof the people because of beingin the field. Media is the fourthpillar of democracy and theirsuggestions are important for
solidarity of democracy, Jainsaid.
The Convenor of BJP elec-tion Manifesto CommitteeMinister for Agriculture andWater Resources, BrijmohanAgrawal said that the party hadgiven the manifesto the nameof ‘ Sankalpa’ as it has pledgedto do more development workin coming five years after form-ing the government for thefourth consecutive time.
“We have done honestattempt of fulfilling the 99 percent promises made in previouselection’s manifesto and areonce again promising in sucha way that it could be fulfilledand not turned to be ‘hollow’”,he said.
Agrawal further apprisedthat the party has received5000 suggestions to be includ-ed in the manifesto and it iscommitted to fulfill what it willpromise.
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Following directives of AllIndia Congress
Committee (AICC),Chhatt isgarh PradeshCongress Committee(CGPCC) office-bearers andworkers staged a protestbefore State office of CentralBureau of Investigation (CBI)here demanding reinstating
the CBI Director Alok Vermain national capital who wassent on long leave.
The activists of party ledby former Union MinisterCharandas Mahant and for-mer Minister SatyanarayanSharma also staged sit-in andwhen the district administra-tion denied permission forprotest, the senior leaderswhile lodging a token protest
returned .The district administra-
tion had denied permissionciting the reason that Section144 was imposed in the state.
Later Youth Congressactivists led by their WorkingPresidents Koko Padhi andMahendra Gangotri staged agherao of the CBI office andwere court arrested by thepolice.
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The star campaign-ers of Aam Aadmi
Party (AAP) wouldbe holding publicmeetings in districtof Dantewada, Bastar,Bhanupratappur andRajnandgaon fromSaturday ( October27).
Member of DelhiLegislative Assembly,Vice President ofAAP, Delhi State,Sanjeev Jha will hold
meetings atDantewada, Memberof Delhi LegislativeAssembly ManojKumar atBhanupratappur andAntagarh, MLA ofDelhi Bandana Kumariin Bastar and AkhileshPati Tripathi, alsoMember of DelhiLegislative Assemblywill hold atRajnandgaon. All thestar campaigners wouldhold minimum fivepublic meetings, partysources informed.
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Congress party leaderVishram Gawade who
rebelled against the party’s offi-cial candidate and filed hisnomination papers as anIndependent candidate fromAntagarh assembly con-stituency withdrew his nomi-
nation papers in favour ofAnup Nag, the official candi-date of Congress party.
Gawade on Friday reachedthe nomination office withsupporters.
Member of Parliamentfrom Kanker, Vikram Usendi,is the BJP candidate from theAntagarh assembly segment.
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Ajoint squad of Police,Raipur Municipal
Corporation and revenue offi-cials would be formed for fivecities of the State to stopbursting of crackers by citizensbeyond 10 pm as per thedirectives of the SupremeCourt.
Official sources inChhattisgarh EnvironmentConservation Board (CECB)informed that a joint meetingof officials of district admin-istration, police department,Petroleum and ExplosiveSecurity Organization andCECB was held on Fridaywhich discussed in detailabout strictly abiding by theSupreme Court directives onuse of crackers.
Station House In-charge ofrespective police station areasalong with revenue officials
and off icials of RaipurMunicipal Corporation wouldcarry out patrolling in theirrespective areas after thescheduled period of burstingof crackers i.e. after 10 p.m.
The monitoring workwould be done from sevendays prior to festival of Diwaliin all the major cities of thestate namely Raipur, Bhilai,
Bilaspur, Raigarh and Korba.Teams would also inspect
the dealers of crackers to checkthat they are not storing crack-ers beyond the prescribed deci-bels.
In between November 1 to7 , police department andCECB would also measurethe pollution level, sourcessaid.
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Subject: Directions in pursuance to the Hon'ble Supreme Court'sjudgment regarding people with criminal antecedents contestingelections.Hon'ble Supreme Court in Writ Petition (Civil No. 536 of 2011), has given following directions on 25.09.2018:(i) Each contesting candidate shall fill up the form as provided by
the Election Commission and the form must contain all theparticulars as required therein.
(ii) lt shall state, in bold letters, with regard to the criminal casespending against the candidate.
(iii) If a candidate is contesting an election on the ticket of aparticular party, he/she is required to inform the party about thecriminal cases Pending against him/her.(iv) The concerned political party shall be obligated to put up onits website the aforesaid information pertaining to candidateshaving criminal antecedents.
(v) The candidate as well as the concerned political party shall issue adeclaration in the widely circulated newspapers in the locality aboutthe antecedents of the candidate and also give wide publicity in theelectionic media. When we say wide publicity, we mean that the sameshall be done at least thrice after filing of the nomination papers.
Accordingly, the Commission on 10.10.2018 has directedthat candidates at elections to the Houses of Parliament/StateLegislatures, who have criminal cases against them, and the politicalparties that set up such candidates, shall publish the declaration in thefollowing manner:(A) Such candidates shall publish the declaration in Format C-l-
giving information about all criminal cases against them.(B) Political parties, who set up such candidates, shall publish the
declaration in Format C-2 giving’information about criminalcases against their candidates.
(C) The declaration shall be published at least on three different datesfrom the day following the last date for withdrawal of candidatureand up to two days before the date of poll.
(D) The declaration shall be published in widely circulated newspa-pers and in the TV in constituency area concerned.
(E) Such political parties shall also put up the declaration in FormatC-2on its website.
(Details of Format C-l and C-2 and related instructions are availableat https://www.eci.nic.in/ and can also be obtained from concernedReturning Officer.)
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Following the recentSupreme Court order for
sale and use of only greenfirecrackers within a stipulatedtimeframe, the State police aregearing up to implement theapex court’s directions.
DGP Dr RP Sharma in aPress meet on Friday said thatalready a circular has beenissued to all police stationsacross the State to ensure thatcrackers are used within thestipulated time between 8 pmand 10 pm on Diwali as direct-ed by the apex court.
Strict instructions havebeen issued to all
Superintendents of Police,Inspectors-in-Charge (IICs) ofpolice stations, PoliceCommissioners and DCPs oftwin cities of Cuttack andBhubaneswar to ensure a com-plete ban on manufacture, saleand use of firecrackers of theparticular chemical composi-tions which has been bannedby the court. Only improvisedcrackers or ‘green crackers’will be allowed so as to protectthe environment, minimisehealth hazards and ensure safe-ty. As per the police circular,only licensed traders will beallowed to store and sell crack-ers while action will be takenin case of violation as per the
prescribed norms.“We have asked all senior
police officials to explore thepossibility of identifying a par-ticular space, land so that peo-ple can assemble at one placein their respective jurisdictionand burst crackers on Diwali,”said DGP Sharma. He furtherinformed that concerned IICswould be held responsible ifthere is any deviation in sale ofbanned firecrackers in theirrespective areas.
“We are also planning toconduct intensive public aware-ness regarding the SupremeCourt order on firecrackersacross the State,” Sharmaadded.
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Normal life was disrupted inKonark as the BJP’s Mahila
Morcha launched 12-hourbandh across the town protest-ing prostitution in the area anda recent incident of gangrape ofa woman belonging to WestBengal.
Shops remained shut andvehicles were off the roadscausing inconvenience to localsand tourists flocking the SunTemple.
The woman’s wing of thesaffron party called for a dawn-to-dusk bandh demandingimmediate arrest of the accusedin the gangrape case.
“We demand the Arkaplace ‘Konark’ to be declared aprostitution-free region for thesafety of women and arrest ofthe kingpin,” said BJP MahilaMorcha State president Pravati
Parida.She accused the police of
not taking action against thekingpins and other accused inthe case under pressure fromthe ruling BJD.
“If prostitution will con-tinues in Konark, the smalltraders, who are dependingon the tourists, will be hugelyaffected as one day the touristswill stop visiting the place,” shesaid.
Notably, thewoman hailingfrom West Bengalwas gangrapedafter being heldcaptive by a youthfor 10 days inKonark earlier thismonth. The victimwas rescued by thepolice and localsfrom a closed roomat a market com-
plex on October 17 in criticalcondition. The victim told theKonark police that she waslured to Odisha on a pretext ofbeing given a job one year ago,but later she was raped by morethan 10 to 12 men and forcedinto prostitution.
Meanwhile, police havearrested at least six persons inconnection with the allegedgangrape.
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ABiju Janata Dal (BJD) del-egation of the Jharsuguda
unit on Friday met party supre-mo and Chief Minister NaveenPatnaik at his residence hereover non-operation of UDANflights at the recently-inaugu-rated Veer Surendra Sai Airportin the district.
The team led by party dis-trict president and WesternOdisha Development Council(WODC) Chairman KishoreMohanty discussed with theCM about the apathetic attitudeof the BJP-led NDAGovernment at the Centretowards proper functioning ofthe airport. The party leaderslater submitted a memoran-dum to the CM in this regard.Patnaik assured them that hewould soon take appropriatesteps in this regard.
“We don’t believe in pub-licity; rather, we are committedto welfare of the people ofOdisha. The Naveen Patnaik-led BJD Government has con-tributed wholeheartedly torevive the airport inJharsuguda,” said a member ofthe delegation.
The airport was inaugu-rated by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi under theUDAN (Udega Desh Ka AamNagrik) scheme on September22.
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Chief Minister NaveenPatnaik inaugurated the
official website of the OdishaVirtual Academy,www.ova.gov.in, at the StateSecretariat here on Friday.
In the initial phase, asmany as 160 popular Odiabooks relating to literaturehave been digitised and placedin the website with an aimmaking those reach the loversof the language and Odia liter-ature, not only in the State butalso across the globe.
A total of three MoUs weresigned with the University ofChicago Library, C-DAC andCentre for Internet and Society,Bangalore to expedite digitisa-tion of Odia literature anddevelopment of Odia software.
The objective of the web-site is digitising approximate-
ly 2,000 rare and copyright-freeOdia books, various Odia dic-tionaries, establishing a freedigital library, promoting Odiaunicode font faces throughstandardisation of typing key-boards and others.
The academy’s purpose isto digitise and preserve rareOdia books, lexicon, ancientmagazines-journals, tradition-al music, ancient documents,literature on science and his-tory, folk culture, tribal lan-guage and literature, history-oriented essays, folk culture,speech of great personalities,Shree Jagannath culture, tem-ple and architectures.
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In an effort that would checkpollution of water bodies
and drainage problems in theState, Chief Minister NaveenPatnaik inaugurated six SeptageTreatment Plants (STPs) onFriday.
On the sidelines of theNational Workshop on FaecalSludge and SeptageManagement held here, theCM inaugurated the facilities insix cities, Bhubaneswar,Brahmapur, Rourkela,Sambalpur, Dhenkanal ad Purithrough a videoconference.
Patnaik said the STPs con-structed on behalf of theHousing and UrbanDevelopment Departmentwere launched in the first
phase. Eleven more such facil-ities would come up in the Statesoon.
The treatment plantswould help prevent pollution ofrivers and other water bodies inthe State. The project wouldalso ensure a healthy environ-ment for more than 60 per centpopulation residing in urbanareas.
The workshop would con-clude on Saturday.
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The State Congress on Fridayheld a demonstration in
front of the Central Bureau ofInvestigation’s (CBI) office hereas part of the party’s country-wide agitation against theCentre’s interference in the
affairs of the nation’s premierinvestigating agency.
Party workers led byOdisha Pradesh CongressCommittee (OPCC) presidentNiranjan Patnaik took out arally and congregated beforethe CBI office in the State cap-ital wearing black shirts as amark of protest against theNarendra Modi-led CentralGovernment for its unduemeddling in the CBI affairs.
The members of the partyraised slogans demanding rein-
statement of Alok Verma asCBI Director and also soughtan apology from PM Modi fortarnishing the image of theprobe agency.
“Without taking approvalfrom the Chief Justice of India(CJI) and Opposition leaders,the Modi Government hasunethically removed Vermafrom the post of CBI Director.Not only that, the Centre hasalso diluted the powers of theEnforcement Directorate andthe RBI. The move is a con-
spiracy by Modi to establish anautocratic form ofGovernment,” Patnaik said.
In Odisha too, the investi-gations into the chit fund scamswhich were under the ambit ofthe CBI Deputy DirectorRakesh Asthana, who wasappointed as replacement ofAlok Verma, could not becompleted, thus suggesting thatit was all stage-managedbetween the ruling-BJD, the Centre and the CBI, headded.
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Haryana Roadwaysemployees continued
their strike on Friday for theeleventh consecutive day, withhundreds of employees fromvarious government depart-ments going on mass causalleave to express solidarity withthem.
The employees affiliated toSarv Karamchari Sangh inHaryana and other tradeunions went on a mass casualleave on Friday in support ofongoing strike by roadwaysemployees.
Defying the EssentialServices Maintenance Act(ESMA) being in force, theemployees went on strike onOctober 16 and have extend-ed their strike four times,announcing to continue it tillOctober 29 against the StateGovernment’s decision to hire700 private buses in the state.
“Lakhs of employees wenton mass casual leave as aresult of which work in vari-ous government departmentswas badly hit. Among thedepartments where work wasaffected included the SchoolEducation Department, thePower Department, munici-palities, the PWD (B&R), thePublic Health Department andthe Rural Development andPanchayats Department,”claimed the roadways union.
Roadways union leadersclaimed that these employeesalso joined the transport work-ers at dharna at various placesacross the state.
As per the attendance sta-tus in Elementary EducationDepartment, an overall atten-dance of only 19.75 percentwas recorded. Out of 2079DEE/DEEOs/BEEOs in theEducation Department, 719were present in the office onFriday, as per government’srecord. Subhash Lamba, gen-eral secretary of the SarvKaramchari Sangh, Haryana,said that a large number ofemployees from the TourismDepartment, besides Boardsand Corporations also went onmass casual leave.
However, the emergencyand essential services wereattended by the employees
who were on casual leave, hesaid.
“The State Governmentshould immediately rollbackits decision to run 700 privatebuses, take back cases regis-tered against the strikingtransport workers under theEssential ServicesMaintenance Act or else wewill be forced to take some bigstep,” he added.
Meanwhile, the StateGovernment claimed that2165 buses plied on Haryanaroads on Friday. The govern-ment has ordered recruitmentof 905 conductors under thepart II of its outsourcing pol-icy.
The Haryana Roadwaysemployees had on Thursdayannounced to extend theirongoing strike till October 29as their fresh round of talkswith the State Governmenthad failed to make any head-way on Wednesday.
A day before, ChiefMinister Manohar Lal hadsaid that the work of employ-ees unions should be to raisethe issues and concerns per-taining to the welfare ofemployees. The policy deci-sion are not under theirpurview and should be left tothe government, he had said.
Manohar Lal had alsomade it clear that 700 privatebuses will be hired by the gov-ernment as per a previouscabinet decision.
In a meeting with agitatingemployees, the StateGovernment had offered toreconsider its on 190 privatebuses as the tenders for thesame were yet to be finalised,but remained firm on 510buses, saying it cannot bereworked as the Cabinet hadalready decided on this matterand signed an agreement tothis effect.
The employees' union,however, has remainedadamant on their demand thatthe tenders issued until now becancelled under the kilometrescheme.
There are about 19,000employees in the HaryanaRoadways. The roadways, hav-ing a fleet of 4,100 buses,cater to about 12 lakh passen-gers daily.
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Punjab, Haryana andChandigarh units of the
Congress on Friday held aprotest near the CBI officehere against the Centre's moveto send agency director AlokVerma on leave after divestinghim of powers and demandedan apology from PrimeMinister Narendra Modi.
Police said roads leading tothe investigative agency's officein Sector 30 were barricadedand the traffic was suspendedfor over an hour in view of theprotest.
The police used watercanons on the protestors butthey continued to raise slogansagainst Modi and his govern-ment and later they dispersedfrom the site, they said.
Punjab Congress presidentSunil Jakhar was leading thegroup of protesters whichincluded several prominentparty leaders, including min-isters in the Amarinder Singh-led government.
Haryana CLP leader KiranChoudhary and former rail-ways minister Pawan KumarBansal were among the leadersfrom Haryana and Chandigarhparticipating in the agitation.Senior Congress leaders AshaKumari and Harish Chaudharyalso took part. Several minis-ters from Punjab were presenton the occasion, includingVijay Inder Singla, SukhjinderSingh Randhawa, Sadhu SinghDharamsot, Sham SunderArora, besides Rana GurjitSingh, Pargat Singh, Raj KumarVerka, Vikram Chowdhary andPradeep Chabbra.
The Congress leadersdemanded an apology from theprime minister and alleged
that the "illegal, unconstitu-tional and illegitimate" removalof the CBI director had shamedIndia and its premier inves-tigative agency.
The protesters carriedplacards attacking the centralgovernment and the primeminister. Some of the signs said"stop interfering in CBI's func-tioning" and "respect theConstitution".
Jakhar alleged that theModi government's actionsshowed its autocratic behaviour.
Pawan Kumar Bansal, aformer MP from Chandigarh,claimed, "The Modi govern-ment did not seem happy whenthe CBI director worked as perhis own independence andasserted himself."
"The Congress demandsthe government should acceptits folly and act of malfeasancein removing the CBI directorand refer the matter to thecommittee set up for the pur-pose in which the leader ofopposition is a member,"Bansal said.
Punjab Minister VijayInder Singla said Modi shouldapologise to the nation for the"unceremonial" removal of theCBI chief as it was constitu-tionally incorrect for the primeminister to remove him.
He said the agency direc-tor was appointed by a com-mittee of chief justice of India,the leader of opposition and thePM.
"But the government tookan unconstitutional and unde-mocratic step in removing him.When an inquiry regarding theRafale deal was about to start,the PM removed the CBI direc-tor in the middle of night,which raises eyebrows," hesaid.
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CIA chief Gina Haspel hasbriefed President Donald
Trump on the outcome of hervisit to Turkey this week overthe murder of Saudi dissidentjournalist Jamal Khashoggi,who was brutally killed insideSaudi Arabia’s consulate inIstanbul, the White House said.
There are no details ofwhat was discussed, and therehas not been any reaction fromthe president.
“The President received abriefing from director Haspelthis morning following herreturn from Turkey. She briefedthe president on their findingsand her discussions,” WhiteHouse Press Secretary SarahSanders said Thursday.
In Turkey, she met withofficials involved in the inves-tigations of the murder of 60-year-old Khashoggi. Turkishofficials say they have audio ofthe proof of the murder.
In a news report, TheWashington Post said thatHaspel listened to the audiotape which Turkey claims cap-
ture the murder. A personfamiliar with the audio said itwas “compelling” and could putmore pressure on the US tohold the kingdom account-able for the death of Khashoggi,the daily reported.
Turkish officials haveleaked details of an allegedrecording of Khashoggi thatapparently proves he was mur-dered and dismembered.
Up until now, both USand Turkish officials have saidthe alleged recording had notbeen shared by Turkey. Theexistence of such a recordinghas not yet proven. Khashoggiwas a contributing columnist
for The Washington Post.“This puts the ball firmly in
Washington’s court,” BruceRiedel, a former CIA officialand scholar at the BrookingsInstitution, told the Post.
“Not only will there bemore pressure now from themedia but Congress will say,‘Gina, we would love to haveyou come visit and you can tellus exactly what you heard’,” hetold the daily.
Haspel’s briefing to Trumpcomes amidst latest change inSaudi stance in which itacknowledge that Khashoggiwas murdered by its officials ina “premeditated” operation.
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Saudi Arabia’s chief prosecu-tor will visit Istanbul on
Sunday to speak with Turkishauthorities as part of the inves-tigation into the murder ofjournalist Jamal Khashoggi,Turkey’s president said onFriday.
“They (the Saudis) aresending the chief prosecutor onSunday to Turkey,” PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdogan said,adding that Ankara had moreevidence on the killing.
The 59-year-oldKhashoggi, a Washington Postcontributor and a critic ofRiyadh, was killed on October2 while visiting the Saudi con-sulate in Istanbul to obtainpaperwork for his marriage toa Turkish woman.
Riyadh acknowledged onThursday that the murderappeared to have been pre-meditated, on the basis of evi-dence supplied by Turkey.Turkish media have publisheda series of grisly revelationsabout the murder.
Erdogan, who has so far
stopped short of directly blam-ing the Saudi government, saidTurkey had already shared evi-dence with countries includingSaudi Arabia and added it hadeven more.
“It is not that we don’t haveany other information or doc-uments. We do. Tomorrow isanother day,” he said.
The Turkish leader hadmocked Saudi Arabia’s initialexplanation of Khashoggi’s dis-appearance — that he left theconsulate alive — as “childish”and “far from state seriousness”.
He pressed Riyadh toreveal who ordered the killingand the whereabouts of thebody.
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The son of slain journalistJamal Khashoggi has left
Saudi Arabia after the kingdomrevoked a travel ban, allowinghim to come to the UnitedStates — the latest in the sagaof the Saudi writer and dissi-dent whose macabre killingearlier this month at the SaudiConsulate in Istanbul shockedthe world.
State Departmentspokesman Robert Palladinosaid Washington welcomes thedecision to have SalahKhashoggi and his family leave
Saudi Arabia. His US destina-tion was not immediatelyknown but his late father livedin the Washington area.
Palladino said on Thursdaythat US Secretary of State MikePompeo had discussed JamalKhashoggi’s son during hisrecent visit to Riyadh and“made it clear” to Saudi lead-
ers that Washington wantedhim free to leave the kingdom.
“We are pleased that he isnow able to do so,” Palladinosaid. Saudi media had showedKhashoggi’s son meetingTuesday with the crown prince,who reportedly expressed hiscondolences. Palladino alsosaid Pompeo attended a brief-
ing on the former WashingtonPost writer’s death by CIADirector Gina Haspel, follow-ing her return from Turkey.The White House did notrelease any details of theirmeeting.
The developments cameafter the kingdom on Thursdaycited evidence showingKhashoggi’s killing was pre-meditated, changing its storyagain to try to ease interna-tional outrage over the slayingof a prominent critic of CrownPrince Mohammed binSalman.
The announcement con-tradicted an earlier Saudi asser-tion that rogue officials from thekingdom had killed Khashoggiby mistake in a brawl insidetheir Istanbul consulate.
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Washington: US PresidentDonald Trump has said allsanctions against Iran lifted bythe 2015 nuclear deal will beback in “full force” fromNovember 5 and promisedmore in the future to preventTehran from developing theworld’s deadliest weapons.
In May, the Trump admin-istration withdrew the US fromthe Iranian nuclear deal andreimposed a series of toughsanctions on Iran, citing theIslamic nation’s ‘malign activ-ities’.
While the first phase ofsanctions is already in place,the sanctions would come intofull force on November 4 andthe US expects all countries,including India, to bring downtheir import of Iranian oil tozero by then or face secondarysanctions. PTI
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to “active-ly partici-pate” inC h i n a’sambitiousBelt andR o a dInitiative(BRI) asthe twonations on Friday shedtheir bitterness over terri-torial disputes and vowedto promote economiccooperation during talksheld between the leaders ofAsia’s two biggesteconomies on improvingties amid their trade fric-tion with the US.
Japanese PrimeMinister Shinzo Abe, whois on a rare visit to Beijing,held talks with his Chinesecounterpart Li Keqiangand called on President XiJinping.
Colombo: In a dramatic political devel-opment in Sri Lanka, former strongmanMahinda Rajapaksa was on Friday swornin as the new Prime Minister by PresidentMaithripala Sirisena after his partyabruptly quit the ruling coalition.
Visuals of the former PresidentRajapaksa taking oath as the premier werereleased to media and was shown on TVchannels.
The sudden development came after Sirisena’s broaderpolitical front United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA)announced that it has decided to quit the current unity gov-ernment with prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’sUnited National Party (UNP).
Mahinda Amaraweera, agriculture minister and the gen-eral secretary of the UPFA, told reporters that the UPFA deci-sion has been conveyed to Parliament.
The unity government was formed in 2015 when Sirisenawas elected President with Wickremesinghe’s support, end-ing a nearly decade-long rule by Rajapaksa.
Sirisena, who was Rajapaksa’s minister of health, brokeaway from him to contest the presidential elections. PTI
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“We noted the difficultiesfaced by Pakistan in its finan-cial situation...We supportPakistan in taking pro-activemeasures to deal with this.Actually, we also provide ouroutmost efforts and assistanceto Pakistan,” Chinese ForeignMinistry spokesperson HuaChunying told a media briefinghere Friday.
“We believe Pakistan hasthe capability to ensure steadyeconomic development,” Huasaid. PTI
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Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation(FIF) are no longer on the listof banned outfits in Pakistan as the ordinancethat proscribed them under aUN resolution has lapsed andthe new Imran Khan-led Government didnot extend it, a media reportsaid on Friday.
In February this year,former president MamnoonHussain promulgated an ordinance amending the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 todeclare JuD and FIF as pro-scribed groups.
During a hearing onThursday of a petition filed bySaeed, his counsel informedthe Islamabad High Court(IHC) that the presidentialordinance had lapsed and ithad never been extended,Dawn newspaper reported.
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It is
easy
to r
un d
own
the
elec
tions
toA
fgha
nist
an’s
250-
mem
ber W
oles
i Jir
ga,
the
low
er H
ouse
of
its b
icam
eral
Nat
iona
l Ass
embl
y, on
Oct
ober
20
and
21. T
here
wer
e te
chni
cal a
nd a
dmin
is-tr
ativ
e glit
ches
. Man
y po
lling
cent
res o
pene
dla
te o
n O
ctob
er 2
0. C
onse
quen
tly,
the
Inde
pend
ent E
lect
ion
Com
miss
ion,
hol
ding
the
elec
tions
, de
clar
ed t
hat
thes
e w
ould
rem
ain
open
unt
il 8
p.m
. aga
inst
the o
rigin
alde
adlin
e of
4 p
.m. T
hose
that
did
not
ope
nun
til 1
p.m
. wou
ld re
mai
n op
en o
n O
ctob
er21
as w
ell.
Besid
es, w
hile
the
depl
oym
ent o
fov
er 7
0,00
0 se
curit
y pe
rson
nel e
nsur
ed th
atse
curit
y w
as, o
n th
e w
hole
, rea
sona
bly
good
in K
abul
and
the c
ities
, vio
lent
atta
cks b
y th
eTa
liban
eith
er d
isrup
ted
or p
reve
nted
pol
ling
in o
utly
ing
dist
ricts
like
Rog
hist
an an
d Im
amSa
heb
in B
adak
hsha
n an
d Ku
nduz
Pro
vinc
esre
spec
tivel
y. Tr
oubl
e ha
s also
bee
n re
port
ed
from
dist
ricts
in th
e M
aida
n W
arda
k, L
ogar
,Pa
ktia
and
Tag
harP
rovi
nces
.It
rem
ains
to b
e see
n ho
w th
e ele
ctio
ns in
Kand
ahar
Pro
vinc
e, po
stpon
ed to
Oct
ober
27,
are h
eld. N
o da
te h
as b
een
anno
unce
d fo
r elec
-tio
ns in
Gha
zni P
rovi
nce w
hich
hav
e also
bee
npo
stpo
ned.
As o
ffici
ally
indi
cate
d, it
will
not
be h
eld
this
year
. Art
icle
104
of A
fgha
nist
an’s
elec
tora
l law
lays
dow
n, “W
hen
secu
rity
sit-
uatio
ns, n
atur
al d
isast
ers
and
othe
r sim
ilar
cond
ition
s” m
ake “
the p
rincip
le of
gene
ral a
ndfa
ir re
pres
enta
tion”
impo
ssib
le to
uph
old
“and
unde
rmin
e th
e cr
edib
ility
of
the
elec
tora
lpr
oces
s,” t
he l
atte
r sh
ould
be
post
pone
dfr
om th
e sp
ecifi
ed d
ate
for a
per
iod
of u
p to
four
mon
ths.
It ad
ds, “
The p
ostp
onem
ent o
rsu
spen
sion
is pr
opos
ed b
y th
e IE
C a
ndap
prov
ed b
y a
com
mitt
ee,
whi
ch s
houl
dco
mpr
ise h
ead
and
mem
bers
of t
he N
atio
nal
Secu
rity C
ounc
il, sp
eake
rs o
f the
two
Hou
ses
of th
e Par
liam
ent,
Chi
ef Ju
stic
e, a
nd ch
air o
fth
e Ind
epen
dent
Com
miss
ion
of O
vers
ight
of
Impl
emen
tatio
n of
the
Con
stitu
tion
ofA
fgha
nist
an.”
It fu
rthe
r st
ates
, “If
the
situa
-tio
n m
entio
ned
abov
e whi
ch le
d to
pos
tpon
e-m
ent o
r sus
pens
ion
of th
e ele
ctio
ns d
oes n
otim
prov
e with
in th
e per
iod
of fo
ur m
onth
s, th
eco
mm
ittee
may
exte
nd th
e pos
tpon
emen
t or
susp
ensio
n of
elec
tions
for a
per
iod
of an
oth-
er fo
ur m
onth
s.”Th
e fa
ct, h
owev
er, i
s tha
t ele
ctio
ns h
ave
been
hel
d in
32
of A
fgha
nist
an’s
34 P
rovi
nces
and
four
mill
ion
out o
f the
8.8
mill
ion
regi
s-te
red
vote
rs h
ave v
oted
. Des
pite
the k
illin
g of
10 c
andi
date
s in
the
viol
ence
pre
cedi
ng th
eel
ectio
ns, t
he r
est
of t
he 2
,500
can
dida
tes,
incl
udin
g 40
0 w
omen
, rem
aine
d in
the f
ield
.A
nd a
ll th
is de
spite
the f
act t
hat,
stat
ing
that
the
elec
tions
wer
e a
proj
ect o
f the
inva
ding
Am
eric
ans,
the
Talib
an h
ad d
ecla
red
that
resi
stin
g th
ese
was
a r
elig
ious
dut
y.A
nnou
ncin
g th
at th
ey w
ould
do
ever
ythi
ngpo
ssib
le t
o pr
even
t th
e el
ectio
ns, t
hey
had
aske
d ca
ndid
ates
to w
ithdr
aw an
d ha
d w
arne
dpe
ople
aga
inst
ven
turin
g ou
t on
the
polli
ngda
y as
they
wou
ld th
en r
isk b
eing
kill
ed o
r
hurt
. Not
onl
y th
at, t
heir
viol
ent a
ttack
s had
kille
d hu
ndre
ds in
the w
eeks
prio
r to
the e
lec-
tions
. Sign
ifica
ntly,
the
pos
tpon
emen
t of
the
elec
tions
in
both
Kan
daha
r an
d G
hazn
iPr
ovin
ces w
ere d
ue to
vio
lenc
e unl
eash
ed b
yth
e Tal
iban
. The
latte
r has
clai
med
resp
onsi-
bilit
y fo
r the
terr
orist
atta
ck in
Kan
daha
r on
Oct
ober
18,
that
kill
ed G
ener
al A
bdul
Raz
iq,
the
polic
e ch
ief
of K
anda
har
and
one
ofA
fgha
nist
an’s
mos
t pow
erfu
l and
impo
rtan
tse
curit
y of
ficia
ls, t
he p
rovi
ncia
l G
over
nor,
Zalm
ay W
esa,
and
inte
llige
nce
chie
f, A
bdul
Moh
min
and
two
polic
emen
. The
Tal
iban
fur-
ther
cla
imed
that
the
targ
ets o
f the
atta
ck —
shoo
ting
by o
ne o
f Raz
iq’s
own
elite
gua
rds
— w
ere
Gen
eral
Raz
iq a
s wel
l as N
ATO
-led
Reso
lute
Sup
port
Mis
sion
Com
man
der
Gen
eral
Aus
tin S
cott
Mill
er.
The
elec
tions
in
Gha
zni
have
bee
n po
stpo
ned
beca
use
of tw
o re
ason
s. Th
e fir
stis
a vo
latil
e se
curit
y sit
uatio
n. T
he T
alib
an
occu
pied
the p
rovi
ncia
l cap
ital o
f Gha
zni o
nAu
gust
10
and
wer
e ou
sted
, af
ter
fierc
e fig
htin
g, o
n Au
gust
15-
16 b
y te
ams o
f Uni
ted
Stat
es S
peci
al F
orce
s ope
ratin
g w
ith A
fgha
n co
mm
ando
s, a
nd m
ilita
ry a
nd p
olic
e pe
rson
nel,
and
with
air
sup
port
. Th
ey,
how
ever
, ha
ve c
ontin
ued
to b
e st
rong
lyen
tren
ched
in
the
coun
trys
ide
whi
ch h
as,
acco
rdin
g to
the a
utho
ritie
s, re
mai
ned
too
dis-
turb
ed to
hol
d el
ectio
ns.
The
othe
r fa
ctor
beh
ind
the
deci
sion
topo
stpon
e the
elec
tions
was
a di
sput
e ove
r eth
-ni
c rep
rese
ntat
ion
amon
g H
azar
as, P
asht
uns,
Tajik
s and
Say
yeds
. The
Pas
htun
s, pa
rtic
ular
-ly,
dem
ande
d th
e div
ision
of t
he P
rovi
nce i
nto
smal
ler u
nits
to e
nsur
e ba
lanc
ed e
thni
c re
p-re
sent
atio
n. O
n Ju
ne 2
5, 2
018,
the I
EC d
ecid
-ed
to s
plit
the
Prov
ince
into
thr
ee s
epar
ate
elec
tora
l con
stitu
enci
es fo
r the
par
liam
enta
ryel
ectio
ns. T
ensio
ns, h
owev
er, c
ontin
ue as
the
feel
ing
pers
ists a
mon
g se
ctio
ns th
at th
e spl
it-tin
g ha
s not
bee
n fa
ir to
all t
he et
hnic
gro
ups.
The
atta
cks i
n th
ese
two
Prov
ince
s are
apa
rt o
f the
roll
of v
iole
nce
unle
ashe
d by
the
Talib
an o
ver t
he ye
ars f
rom
thei
r san
ctua
ries
in P
akist
an’s
trib
al te
rrito
ries.
The
situa
tion
had
been
mad
e wor
se b
y com
petit
ive v
iole
nce
by th
e Isla
mic
Sta
te w
hich
soug
ht to
esta
blish
a bas
e in
the c
ount
ry. T
he co
mbi
natio
n of
the
two
larg
ely
acco
unte
d fo
r the
surg
e of i
nsur
-ge
nt/te
rror
ist a
ttack
s in
the
coun
try
durin
gFe
brua
ry-M
arch
this
year
. The
Isla
mic
Sta
te’s
chal
lenge
seem
s to
have
rece
ded,
but
Pak
istan
-ba
cked
Tal
iban
vio
lenc
e ha
s co
ntin
ued
toes
cala
te,
Uni
ted
Stat
es’
Pres
iden
t D
onal
dTr
ump’s
rep
eate
d w
arni
ngs
to I
slam
abad
notw
ithst
andi
ng.
In th
is co
ntex
t, th
e ta
rget
ing
of G
ener
alM
iller
in th
e Kan
daha
r atta
ck w
as si
gnifi
cant
.M
etap
horic
ally,
it
wou
ld h
ave
been
tan
ta-
mou
nt to
sla
ppin
g Pr
esid
ent T
rum
p on
the
face
had
it s
ucce
eded
. Ind
eed,
the
very
fact
that
it
was
not
onl
y un
dert
aken
but
anno
unce
d w
as cl
early
mea
nt to
deli
ver t
o hi
man
d th
e U
S th
e m
essa
ge t
hat
the
Talib
anth
ough
t no
thin
g of
try
ing
to a
dmin
ister
hum
iliat
ing
blow
s to
thei
r res
pect
ive f
aces
inpu
blic
. Sin
ce th
e Tal
iban
coul
d no
t hav
e don
eth
is w
ithou
t at l
east
Pak
istan
’s ap
prov
al —
ifno
t at i
ts b
ehes
t — th
e en
tire
atta
ck re
flect
-ed
the I
mra
n K
han
Gov
ernm
ent’s
mes
sage
toW
ashi
ngto
n, D
C,
that
it
wou
ld t
each
the
Trum
p A
dmin
istra
tion
a le
sson
for e
ffect
ing
the a
id cu
ts it
had
impo
sed
on Is
lam
abad
for
not
doin
g en
ough
to
com
bat
the
terr
orist
grou
ps o
pera
ting
from
its s
oil.
It re
mai
ns t
o be
see
n ho
w t
he T
rum
pAd
min
istra
tion
sort
s thi
s out
or i
f it c
an at
all
do so
. Mea
nwhi
le, t
he es
cala
ting
leve
l of v
io-
lenc
e, w
hich
pre
vent
ed th
e el
ectio
ns to
the
Wol
esi J
irga
, due
in 2
015,
from
bei
ng h
eld
till
now,
cont
inue
s. Th
e ver
y fa
ct th
at v
otin
g ha
sta
ken
plac
e, m
any o
f the
cand
idat
es h
ave b
een
youn
g m
en a
nd w
omen
, and
a la
rge
num
ber
of w
omen
que
ued
up to
vot
e, is
sig
nific
ant.
It cl
early
show
s tha
t Afg
hans
wan
t dem
ocra
-cy
and
not t
he re
trog
rade
, med
ieva
l the
ocra
-cy
of
Paki
stan
-bac
ked
Talib
an t
hat
wou
ldre
duce
wom
en to
, at b
est,
dom
estic
slav
ery.
(The
w
rite
r is
C
onsu
ltan
t E
dito
r,
The
Pio
nee
r, a
nd
an
au
thor
)
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r — T
his r
efer
s to
the e
dito
rial, “
Run
mac
hine
” (O
ctob
er 2
6). V
irat
Kohl
iha
s be
com
e th
e fa
stes
t ba
tsm
an i
nIn
dian
cric
ket h
istor
y as
he a
chie
ved
a mile
stone
of 1
0,00
0 ru
ns in
One
Day
Inte
rnat
iona
l (O
DI)
. One
mig
ht b
ete
mpt
ed at
this
stag
e to
take
a lo
ok at
som
e of t
he le
gend
ary I
ndia
n ba
tsmen
who
hav
e do
ne o
utst
andi
ngly
wel
ldu
ring
thei
r car
eer.
In fa
ct, I
ndia
has
a hi
stor
y of p
ro-
duci
ng p
rolif
ic r
un m
aker
s an
dac
com
plis
hed
bats
men
. Su
nil
Gav
aska
r was
one
of t
he fi
nest
ope
n-
ing
bats
man
the
wor
ld c
ould
hav
ese
en in
his
prim
e y
ears
. The
n ca
me
Sach
in T
endu
lkar
who
inf
used
life
into
a t
eam
tha
t co
uld
othe
rwise
have
bec
ome
dull
in h
is ab
senc
e.Te
ndul
kar’s
per
form
ance
dur
ing
his
gold
en y
ears
was
out
stan
ding
. Now
,Vi
rat K
ohli
look
s to
be in
mid
st o
f ago
lden
run
. He
scor
es r
uns
both
on
fore
ign
shor
es a
s wel
l as b
ack
hom
e.Ko
hli l
ooks
muc
h m
ore
sure
of
his
tech
niqu
e, a
nd a
s a
resu
lt, h
e sc
ores
runs
effo
rtle
ssly.
Th
e fac
t tha
t he i
s the
faste
st b
ats-
man
to
achi
eve
the
mile
ston
e of
10,0
00 r
uns
in O
DIs
is
perh
aps
an
indi
catio
n th
at h
e is
likel
y to
end
up
with
reco
rds t
hat w
ould
be d
iffic
ult t
oem
ulat
e.D
even
dra
Khu
rana
Bhop
al�
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— T
his
refe
rs t
o th
e ed
itoria
l,“U
ncag
e the
par
rot”
(Oct
ober
26)
. The
Cen
tral
Bur
eau
of In
vest
igat
ion
(CBI
)is
one
of t
he p
rem
ier
pres
tigio
usin
vest
igat
ing
agen
cies
of t
he n
atio
n.O
f lat
e, th
e w
orki
ng o
f the
CBI
has
been
far
from
sat
isfac
tory
. It l
ost i
tscr
edib
ility
for i
t fai
led
to p
rove
man
ypo
litic
ally
impo
rtan
t cas
es, l
ike t
he 2
G
scam
, coa
l sca
m et
al.
Ther
e ar
e al
so m
any
impo
rtan
tly
ing
befo
re it
, whi
ch it
is p
roce
edin
gat
a s
low
spa
ce. T
his
will
ulti
mat
ely
prov
ide m
ore s
pace
to th
e cor
rupt
and
crim
inal
s. Th
e ver
y fun
ctio
ning
of t
heC
BI se
ems t
o be
in a
disa
rray
. N
R R
amac
hand
ran
Che
nnai
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r —
Thi
s re
fers
to
the
edito
rial,
“Unc
age
the
parr
ot”
(Oct
ober
26)
. It
is un
belie
vabl
e th
at th
e G
over
nmen
tw
as u
naw
are
abou
t th
e ha
ppen
ings
wit
hin
the
Cen
tral
Bur
eau
of
Inve
stig
atio
n (C
BI)
all
this
whi
le.
Then
, giv
en th
e alle
gatio
ns o
f cor
rup-
tion
agai
nst
the
coun
try’s
pre
miu
min
vest
igat
ive
body
, how
can
the
peo-
ple
repo
se fa
ith o
n it?
The
CBI
is,
perh
aps,
the
last
orga
nisa
tion,
on
whi
ch p
eopl
e rep
ose
faith
tha
t th
e tr
uth
will
fin
ally
be
know
n. In
stea
d, th
e C
BI h
as b
ecom
ea t
ool f
or th
e Opp
ositi
on as
well
as th
eru
ling
disp
ensa
tion.
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itVi
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ector
was
remo
ved b
ecau
sethe
agen
cy w
as ra
ising
ques
tions
over
the
Rafal
e dea
l. This
is ill
egal.
—Co
nges
s pre
siden
tRA
HUL G
ANDH
I
Cong
ress
is un
nece
ssar
ily ra
ising
its v
oice
again
st the
Cen
tre in
the f
alse a
ssum
ption
that t
he G
over
nmen
t is t
inker
ing w
ith C
BI.—
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ster
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Wit
h ex
pone
ntia
lte
chno
logi
es ev
olv-
ing
at b
reak
neck
spee
d,
exis
ting
com
pete
ncie
s in
the
area
of e
duca
tion,
skill
ing
and
work
plac
e cal
ibre
are c
oncu
rren
tlych
allen
ged.
As
with
the
adv
ance
-m
ents
that
took
plac
e with
thre
e ear
-lie
r ind
ustri
al re
volu
tions
, with
the
adve
nt o
f In
dustr
y 4.
0, l
ies
huge
oppo
rtuni
ties f
or su
perio
r job
cre-
atio
n, em
bedd
ed w
ith si
mul
tane
ous
risks
of j
ob d
ispla
cem
ent.
Why
is
ther
e an
inc
reas
edur
genc
y for
a pl
anni
ng fo
resig
ht o
nth
e fu
ture
of
jobs
, ed
ucat
iona
lqu
alific
atio
ns an
d sk
ills m
atch
ed to
new
prod
ucts
and
evol
ving
empl
oy-
men
t mod
els?
Bec
ause
Indi
a do
esno
t hav
e the
luxu
ry o
f tim
e. It
has
only
a tw
o to
thre
e-ye
ar w
indo
w to
play
cat
ch-u
p w
ith th
e al
tere
d jo
ban
d sk
ills
scen
ario
. Ind
ia’s
labo
urpr
oduc
tivity
, gau
ged
by e
cono
mic
outp
ut p
er h
our o
f wor
k, is
belo
w15
per
cent
of U
S lev
els. F
allin
g pro
-du
ctiv
ity w
ill b
ring d
own
the c
om-
petit
ive e
dge o
f goo
ds an
d se
rvic
esif
we
don’t
rap
idly
ada
pt t
o te
chin
nova
tions
.By
202
2, o
ut o
f the
org
anise
dse
ctor
wor
kfor
ce m
ix, t
hat a
ccou
nts
for 1
5 per
cent
of t
he to
tal e
mpl
oy-
men
t, ni
ne p
er ce
nt w
orke
rs w
ill b
ede
ploy
ed i
n ne
w jo
bs t
hat
neve
rex
isted
bef
ore;
37 p
er c
ent w
ill b
ew
orki
ng in
jobs
requ
iring
radi
cal-
ly ch
ange
d sk
ill se
ts; an
d 54
per
cent
will
fall
unde
r the
unc
hang
ed st
a-tu
s qu
o ca
tego
ry, a
ccor
ding
to a
nan
alys
is by
Ern
st &
You
ng.
Her
ein, w
e are
only
cons
ider
ing
risk
miti
gatio
n an
d up
grad
atio
n of
the p
oten
tial f
or th
e org
anise
d se
c-to
r w
ho a
re e
duca
ted
and
skill
edwh
ite-c
ollar
empl
oyee
s. M
uch
mor
epr
ovisi
onin
g w
ill b
e re
quire
d on
how
to
abso
rb a
nd u
pski
ll th
eun
orga
nise
d se
ctor
that
com
prise
sth
e rem
aini
ng 85
per
cent
of I
ndia’
swo
rkfo
rce,
out o
f whi
ch 50
per
cent
are
still
depe
nden
t on
agric
ultu
re,
seek
ing m
igra
tion
to u
rban
jobs
soas
to a
chie
ve h
ighe
r ear
nabi
lity.
With
cor
pora
tes,
scal
ing
upef
ficien
cies t
o m
atch
up
to In
dustr
y4.
0, th
e G
over
nmen
t has
a c
ruci
alst
abili
ser r
ole t
o pl
ay in
calib
ratin
g
the p
ace o
f cha
nge t
o in
dustr
y’s le
vel
of p
repa
redn
ess b
ecau
se th
ere
are
unvi
rtuo
us e
ffect
s of
rev
ersa
l of
glob
alisa
tion,
whi
ch h
ave
so f
arbe
en th
e la
rges
t job
ena
bler
in th
eem
ergi
ng m
arke
ts. D
e-gl
obali
satio
nha
s im
pact
ed th
e ove
rsea
s job
mar
-ke
t for
Indi
ans d
ue to
pro
tect
ion-
ist p
olic
ies o
f the
Wes
t. It
has a
lsoaf
fect
ed e
xpor
t-dr
iven
em
ploy
-m
ent,
loca
lly, n
eedi
ng a
‘buf
fer p
eri-
od’
for
tran
sitio
n, w
hich
mos
tlyon
ly th
e G
over
nmen
t and
the
old
econ
omy
sect
ors c
an fi
ll in
. By
just
asse
ssin
g the
‘dec
linin
gem
ploy
men
t co
effic
ient
’ in
the
expo
rt se
ctor
, whi
ch p
rovi
des 2
0 per
cent
of j
obs
so v
ital f
or a
labo
ur-
abun
dant
coun
try, in
terim
stop
- gap
mea
sure
s and
pol
icy
reca
libra
tion
are r
equi
red
by th
e Gov
ernm
ent t
ofin
d so
lutio
ns f
or d
ispla
cem
ents.
Prot
ectio
nist
polic
ies of
the W
est a
reaf
fect
ing t
he fl
ow o
f cap
ital, l
abou
ran
d go
ods,
all o
f whi
ch ar
e dep
ress
-in
g wag
es, i
mpa
ctin
g con
sum
ptio
nan
d st
agna
ting
per c
apita
inco
me.
Polic
y th
rusts
tow
ards
Sm
art
Citie
s and
Mak
e in
Indi
a offe
r per
-fe
ct so
lutio
ns fo
r tra
nsiti
on b
ecau
seth
ey p
rovi
de co
ntin
ual s
uppo
rt fo
rla
bour
-inte
nsiv
e in
dust
ries
that
driv
e jo
b cr
eatio
n by
sup
port
ing
infr
astr
uctu
re a
nd c
onst
ruct
ion
driv
en i
nves
tmen
ts. B
y bo
ostin
gpr
ojec
ts in
hig
hway
s, ur
ban
tran
s-po
rtat
ion,
affo
rdab
le h
ousin
g, ai
r-po
rts a
nd in
dustr
ial c
orrid
ors,
the
Gov
ernm
ent h
as b
een
pro-
activ
e in
perp
etua
ting
gain
ful
oppo
rtun
i-tie
s fo
r la
bour
s in
con
trac
t mod
ean
d fo
cusin
g on
sec
tors
whi
chha
ve ‘h
ighe
r em
ploy
men
t ela
stici
-ty
’. Th
is is
vita
l in
the
perio
d of
empl
oym
ent
flux,
giv
ing
the
job
mar
ket t
he ti
me
to a
djus
t to
new
real
ities
.In
dia’s
poo
r in
fras
truc
ture
restr
icts
gros
s do
mes
tic p
rodu
ct(G
DP)
grow
th. T
here
fore
, incr
ease
dou
tlays
in in
fras
truc
ture
dev
elop-
men
t and
acc
eler
atin
g pr
ojec
ts of
100
smar
t ci
ties
will
buf
fer
the
empl
oym
ent
mar
ket
by a
t le
ast
part
ly re
tain
ing
the o
lder
empl
oy-
men
t mod
el o
f abs
orbi
ng m
anua
lla
bour
to c
reat
e w
orld
-cla
ss h
igh-
way
s, po
rts a
nd a
irpor
ts.
To g
ive
an u
nder
stan
ding
of
how
this
play
s out
, Sm
art C
ity m
is-sio
ns w
ould
use
hyb
rid o
pera
-tio
nal m
odel
s by a
bsor
bing
man
u-al
lab
our,
para
llel
with
sup
erio
rem
ploy
ee sk
ills n
eede
d to
har
ness
adva
nced
leve
ragi
ng o
f clo
ud co
m-
putin
g, R
obot
ic a
pplic
atio
ns a
ndBu
ildin
g In
form
atio
n M
odel
ling
(BIM
) to
impr
ove o
n-sit
e mon
itor-
ing
of la
bour
and
pro
duct
ivity
.A
noth
er in
terim
win
dow
that
exist
s for
yet a
noth
er fi
ve ye
ars f
orIn
dia e
xists
in th
e van
tage
of l
abou
rar
bitra
ge. A
bund
ance
of l
ow c
ost
labo
ur in
Indi
a w
ould
help
mai
n-ta
in it
s ed
ge in
bei
ng a
fav
oure
dm
anuf
actu
ring
offsh
orin
g hu
b til
lin
dustr
ial w
ages
beg
in to
rise
on p
arw
ith th
e de
velo
ped
econ
omie
s. In
dia
mus
t se
ize
the
spac
eCh
ina
has c
eded
in co
ntra
ct m
an-
ufac
turin
g be
fore
nat
iona
l m
ini-
mum
wag
es b
egin
to
incr
ease
indu
e tim
e, an
d fa
ctor
ies r
eloca
te to
leas
t de
velo
ped
coun
trie
s (L
DC)
whe
re e
lect
ricity
and
labo
ur c
ost
less
, an
d w
hich
offe
r du
ty f
ree
acce
ss to
top
cons
umin
g m
arke
ts,lik
e th
e U
S an
d th
e Eu
rope
anU
nion
(EU
).To
com
bat w
orkp
lace
obs
oles
-ce
nce,
the
wor
kfor
ce h
as t
o be
futu
re-re
ady a
s the
Indi
an ed
ucati
onsy
stem
is la
ggin
g be
hind
Indu
stry
4.0’s
qua
lifica
tion
need
s. Th
is fa
ct is
valid
ated
in
the
lates
t In
dia
Skill
Repo
rt w
hich
ind
icat
es t
hat
only
abou
t 47
per c
ent o
f Ind
ian
grad
u-at
es c
omin
g ou
t of
edu
catio
nal
insti
tutio
ns ar
e dire
ctly
empl
oyab
le.M
ore
than
50,
000
jobs
in d
ata
sci-
ence
and
mac
hine
lea
rnin
g ar
ely
ing
vaca
nt d
ue to
a h
uge
talen
t
defic
it, a
ccor
ding
to
a stu
dy b
yon
line
educ
atio
n co
mpa
ny, G
reat
Lear
ning
. The
refo
re, p
olic
y-m
aker
sne
ed t
o fa
ctor
in f
utur
e-pr
oofin
gca
reer
s w
ith n
ew c
ompe
tenc
ies
with
in th
is th
ree-
year
win
dow
avail
-ab
le. Advi
sory
firm
, Gar
tner
, pro
jects
that
out
of 1
0 la
kh re
giste
red
com
-pa
nies
in I
ndia
, 75
per
cent
hav
epl
ans
to i
nves
t in
dat
a sc
ienc
e.W
ith th
e G
over
nmen
t’s p
riorit
isa-
tion
on A
rtifi
cial
Inte
llige
nce,
Big
Dat
a and
Rob
otic
s and
thei
r app
li-ca
tion
in th
e dig
ital e
cono
my,
care
erop
portu
nitie
s ar
e se
t to
rise
in
thes
e sph
eres
with
in th
e nex
t thr
eeye
ars.
Skill
def
icit
is no
t ju
st an
Indi
a-ce
ntric
pro
blem
but
a gl
obal
phen
omen
on,
acco
rdin
g to
McK
inse
y, w
hich
lea
ds t
o a
dem
and-
supp
ly m
ismatc
h in
the t
al-en
t poo
l, if
not s
caled
up
by 2
020.
All
of th
is m
ay so
und
futu
ris-
tic, b
ut th
e fut
ure h
as ar
rived
faste
rth
an w
e ha
ve b
een
prep
ared
for
.In
deed
, the
rate
of o
bsol
esce
nce
isso
swift
that
ear
lier p
resu
mpt
ions
,th
at on
e fin
ished
lear
ning
by th
e age
of 2
5 ye
ars,
are
no l
onge
r va
lid.
Stay
ing
in th
e sa
me
job
till r
etire
-m
ent i
s ano
ther
out
date
d co
ncep
t,as
this
is th
e age
of f
aste
r job
por
ta-
bilit
y an
d, c
onse
quen
tly,
high
er
attri
tion,
as se
en w
ith th
e rise
of th
egi
g ec
onom
y. As
the
fut
ure
com
posit
ion
ofwo
rkfo
rce
alter
s du
e to
cha
ngin
gbu
sine
ss m
odel
s, p
erm
anen
tem
ploy
ees
bein
g re
tain
ed w
ill b
eth
ose w
ith co
re sk
ills;
whi
le fo
r spe
-ci
alise
d sk
ills,
com
pani
es w
ould
rath
er o
utso
urce
tal
ent
from
the
onlin
e lab
our e
cono
my,
know
n as
the ‘
gig-
mar
ket’.
The n
ew an
d ev
olvi
ng m
odel
ofth
e gig
econ
omy i
s an
envi
ronm
ent
in w
hich
fre
elanc
e po
sitio
ns a
reco
mm
on, a
s org
anisa
tions
cont
ract
with
skill
ed w
orke
rs fo
r sho
rt du
ra-
tion
enga
gem
ents.
In
the
‘gig
mar
ketp
lace
’, bus
i-ne
sses
sav
e re
sour
ces
by w
ay o
fof
fice s
pace
and
train
ing.
Whi
le on
-de
man
d fo
r em
ploy
ees l
ower
s cos
ts,it
also
crea
tes m
ore c
ompe
titio
n fo
rto
p ta
lent a
s mor
e tra
ditio
nal c
aree
rsar
e pha
sed
out a
nd ar
e rep
laced
with
tem
pora
ry p
ositi
ons.
As m
illen
ni-
als
turn
to
entre
preu
nara
l se
lf-em
ploy
men
t, w
hich
offe
rs f
lexi-
work
tim
ing,
the
rise
of
‘shar
ing
econ
omy’
with
bus
ines
s m
odel
slik
e O
la, U
ber,
OYO
et a
l, an
d th
egi
g eco
nom
y will
hav
e far
-rea
chin
gef
fect
s on
cor
pora
te e
mpl
oym
ent
mod
els.
The
natio
nal c
halle
nge
is no
tju
st ta
king
a lo
ng-te
rm an
d in
terim
term
vie
w o
f up
skill
ing
of t
heor
gani
sed
sect
or t
o m
atch
up
toex
pone
ntial
tech
nolo
gies
and
newe
rbu
sines
s mod
els th
at ac
coun
ts fo
r 15
per c
ent o
f wor
kfor
ce. P
olic
y-m
ak-
ers a
lso n
eed
to p
rovi
sion
for s
upe-
rior j
ob op
portu
nitie
s for
85 p
er ce
ntun
orga
nise
d se
ctor
and
how
to
upgr
ade
them
into
the
org
anise
dse
ctor
, whi
ch p
rovi
des
bette
r jo
bse
curit
y an
d fo
rmal
ben
efits
.To
unl
ock
the p
oten
tial o
f cut
-tin
g ed
ge t
echn
olog
ies
that
will
trans
form
socie
ty at
a pa
ce d
eman
d-ed
for
tec
hnol
ogic
al c
hang
e, th
eC
entre
for
the
Fou
rth
Indu
stria
lRe
volu
tion
(CFI
R), s
et u
p by
the
Wor
ld E
cono
mic
For
um, s
eem
s to
be th
e id
eal h
ub to
han
dhol
d w
ithlo
cal
Gov
ernm
ents
thr
ough
the
perio
d of
tran
sitio
n. T
o m
ake I
ndia
Indu
stry 4
.0 co
mpl
iant,
NIT
I Aay
ogas
the
noda
l age
ncy
coor
dina
ting
with
bus
ines
s, ac
adem
ia, s
tart
-ups
and
CFIR
, is t
he p
erfe
ct m
odul
e to
facil
itate
cros
s-se
ctor
coop
erat
ion
tohe
rald
Fou
rth In
dustr
ial R
evol
utio
ngo
vern
ance
.(T
he w
rite
r is
aut
hor,
colu
mni
stan
d
Ch
airp
erso
n
for
Nat
ion
al
Com
mit
tee
on F
inan
cial
Inc
lusi
onan
d Li
tera
cy fo
r W
omen
con
stit
uted
at N
ITI
Aay
og)
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The In
solve
ncy
and
Bank
rupt
cy C
ode
(IBC)
of 20
16, t
hat r
ebala
nces
righ
ts of
prom
oter
s, ba
nks,
vend
ors a
nd em
ploy
-ee
s, is
unar
guab
ly o
ne o
f the
stell
ar ac
hiev
e-m
ents
of th
e Nar
endr
a Mod
i disp
ensa
tion.
Itse
eks t
o tac
kle t
he m
ount
ain of
over
�10 l
akh
cror
e of n
on-p
erfo
rmin
g ass
ets (
NPA
s) in
the
bank
ing
syste
m t
hrou
gh a
res
olut
ion
that
inclu
des l
iqui
datio
n an
d ch
ange
in m
anag
e-m
ent/o
wner
ship
. Tha
t com
pani
es ca
nnot
stall
reco
very
act
ion
has o
nly
adde
d te
eth
to th
eIB
C, en
surin
g no
t onl
y qu
icker
turn
arou
ndof
bank
rupt
firm
s in
less t
han
a yea
r, bu
t also
impr
ovin
g the
asse
t qua
lity o
f ban
ks in
a tim
e-bo
und
man
ner.
On
May
18, 2
018,
Tata
Stee
l Ltd
acqu
ired
72.65
per
cent
stak
e in
Bhus
han
Stee
l Ltd
, one
of th
e 12
larg
e wi
lful d
efau
lters
for �
35,2
00cr
ore i
n a h
istor
ic m
ove,
with
lend
ers g
ettin
gba
ck n
early
two-
third
of t
he m
oney
owed
toth
em b
y Bhu
shan
Stee
l, th
ereb
y sho
wcas
ing
that
the s
treng
th o
f IBC
lies
in th
e fac
t tha
tre
solu
tion
can
be a
chie
ved
with
out
any
maj
or h
airc
ut t
o ba
nks.
The
desp
erat
eat
tem
pt b
y N
eera
j Sin
ghal,
Bhu
shan
Ste
el's
erstw
hile
prom
oter
, to
pre
vent
the
sai
dta
keov
er w
as d
ismiss
ed b
y th
e N
atio
nal
Com
pany
Law
Trib
unal
(NCL
T) a
nd t
heSi
ngha
ls we
re si
mpl
y re
class
ified
as “
publ
icca
tego
ry sh
areh
olde
rs” fr
om b
eing
prom
ot-
ers p
ost t
he d
eal.
Apar
t fro
m th
e Bhu
shan
Ste
el ta
keov
er,
the l
itmus
test
in a
man
ner o
f spe
akin
g ha
sbe
en p
asse
d, g
iven
that
as m
uch
as 2
70 p
erce
nt o
f th
e ‘li
quid
atio
n va
lue’
has
been
rece
ived
in th
e 32 s
igni
fican
t cas
es th
at w
ere
reso
lved
unde
r the
aegi
s of t
he IB
C in
the l
ast
two y
ears
. The
fact
that
IBC
max
imise
s valu
efo
r all s
take
hold
ers,
inclu
ding
empl
oyee
s, ca
nbe
bes
t gua
ged
by th
e sta
y gi
ven
in A
ugus
t20
18 by
the N
ation
al Co
mpa
ny L
aw A
ppell
ateTr
ibun
al (N
CLAT
), in
resp
onse
to a
petit
ion
filed
by ov
er 80
0 em
ploy
ees o
f Jyo
ti St
ructu
res,
a de
faul
ting
Mum
bai-b
ased
eng
inee
ring,
proc
urem
ent a
nd co
nstru
ctio
n (E
PC) c
om-
pany
. As p
er Se
ction
33 (1
) of I
BC, in
the e
vent
a re
solu
tion
plan
is
not
appr
oved
by
Com
mitt
ee of
Cre
dito
rs (C
oC) a
nd p
rese
nt-
ed to
the a
djud
icatin
g aut
horit
y for
appr
oval
unde
r Se
ctio
n 31
with
in t
he C
orpo
rate
Inso
lvenc
y Res
olut
ion
Proc
ess (
CIRP
) per
i-od
of 2
70 d
ays,
the a
djud
icatin
g aut
horit
y is
man
dated
to pa
ss an
orde
r liq
uida
ting t
he co
r-po
rate
deb
tor.
Sinc
e a
buye
r co
uld
not b
efin
alise
d fo
r Jyo
ti wi
thin
the m
anda
tory
270
days
, it w
as h
eadi
ng fo
r liq
uida
tion,
as m
an-
date
d un
der t
he IB
C Ac
t.H
owev
er,
disa
llowi
ng t
he l
iqui
datio
npr
ocee
ding
s te
mpo
raril
y an
d gi
ving
the
Inte
rim R
esol
utio
n Pr
ofes
siona
l (IR
P) a
lit-
tle m
ore t
ime,
keep
ing i
n m
ind
the i
nter
ests
of th
e em
ploy
ees,
is a c
lassic
case
of h
ow IB
Cse
eks t
o mar
ry th
e int
eres
ts of
bot
h fin
ancia
lcr
edito
rs/le
nder
s, wi
th t
hat
of o
pera
tiona
lcr
edito
rs/em
ploy
ees.
The J
yoti
Stru
cture
s’ cas
eals
o es
tabl
ishes
that
the
ultim
ate
auth
ority
vests
with
the
NCL
AT a
nd t
hat
is ho
w it
shou
ld b
e so
as to
ensu
re th
ere i
s no
conf
u-sio
n in
the a
djud
icatio
n pr
oces
s.Ag
ain, in
the E
ra In
fra E
ngin
eerin
g cas
e,th
e N
CLT
adm
itted
ins
olve
ncy
plea
by
Unio
n Ba
nk ag
ainst
Era,
desp
ite se
vera
l win
d-in
g up
pet
ition
s pen
ding
aga
inst
it in
oth
erco
urts,
rulin
g tha
t unl
ess a
win
ding
up
orde
rha
d be
en p
asse
d by
ano
ther
cou
rt, E
ra w
illha
ve to
face
inso
lvenc
y pr
ocee
ding
s und
erIB
C. B
asica
lly, w
ilful
def
aulte
rs ca
n no
long
erta
ke re
fuge
, giv
ing
the
lame
excu
se o
f mul
-tip
le lit
igat
ions
in m
ultip
le co
urts,
som
ethi
ngth
at th
e Vija
y Mall
yas a
nd Ja
tin M
ehta
s of t
hewo
rld d
id w
anto
nly.
Furth
er u
phol
ding
the
inte
grity
of I
BCan
d N
CLT
is th
e Chi
tra Sh
arm
a jud
gem
ent,
wher
e the
Supr
eme C
ourt
ruled
that
the C
IRP
is a
mar
ket-d
riven
pro
cess
tha
t re
quire
s“e
xper
t det
erm
inat
ion”
and,
ther
efore
, cou
rtsm
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Rajinikanth, the south Indiansuperstar who had declared
his political intentions on thenew year eve encountered thefirst major obstacle to hisdreams on Friday. The DMK,the major Opposition party inTamil Nadu made it knownthat the party does not wel-come Rajinikanth’s move tolaunch a political outfit.
The DMK, which had kept
its fingers crossed hitherto overthe move by Rajinikanth toenter politics, came out onFriday through an unsignedarticle in Murasoli, the partymouthpiece lambasting andlampooning Rajinikanth’s polit-ical dreams. Interestingly, theKarunanidhi clan controllingthe daily had invited Rajinikanth
for its platinum jubilee celebra-tions last year and the super starhad attended the function.
Though no reasons havebeen given by the DMK for theattack on Rajinikanth, it is clearfrom the article that party chiefMK Stalin does not like the ideaof facing the super star’s politi-cal party. Political commentator
S Gurumurthy is of the viewthat Rajinikanth has the poten-tial to emerge as the rallyingpoint for all anti-DMK votes.
Rajinikanth in a releaseon Thursday had told his fansand followers that those whoare after power and wealth donot have any place in hisscheme of things. The Murasoliarticle asks how is it possible forRajinikanth to expect his fol-lowers to work tirelessly formaking him the Chief Ministerwhile they themselves shouldnot aspire for anything.
In a recent crack downRajinikanth had removed someof the office bearers of his fansassociation from their positionsfor violating the guidelines ofthe association. “What is thelogic behind removing thosewho allegedly violated guide-lines when there are no guide-lines?” asked the article. Since
the article has appeared inMurasoli, it is certain that thepublication has been done atthe instance of Stalin.
The Murasoli or the DMKleadership has not responded toKamal Haasan’s comments to aTV channel that his party wouldhave alliance with the Congressonly if the Grand Old Party dis-sociates itself from the DMK.This is further proof of theDMK clan’s soft corner forKamal Haasan and an indica-tion of a possible alliancebetween the DMK and theMNM, the political outfitlaunched by Haasan.
With the Murasoli article,Stalin has given enough indi-cations that Rajinikanthwould be an untouchable vis-à-vis the DMK. The papermade it known through acartoon that Rajinikanth is thecreation of the BJP.
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ambitious 'Ro Ro ferry' services
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Due to the fairy servicesdistance between Ghogha nearBhavnagar in Saurashtra inthe west and Dahej in SouthGujarat will be decrease byalmost 300 kms. By road dis-tance between the two desti-nation is neat 360 km and ittakes more than 10 hours totravel. However the fairy willreach Dahej within one hourby completing just 32 kmsacross the Gulf.
For the completion andfunctioning of the projectGujarat Maritime Board(GMB) has formed an SPV(special purpose vehicle) androped in Indigo SeawaysPrivate Limited on a publicprivate partnerships (PPP) mode.
The group has investedaround �140 crore for the pro-ject and bought a south Koreanvessel 'Voyage Symphony'. Thevessel is a double-ended ferrythat will sail at an averagespeed of 15-17 knots with atransit time of one hourbetween the two shores.Boarding and unboarding thevehicles, passengers off thevessel will take another hour.
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no BJP).” That is going to bethe Trinamool Congress’ slo-gan in the run-up to the 2019general elections for whichpreparations will begin onNovember 16 when BengalChief Minister MamataBanerjee will address a meet-ing of party functionariesincluding elected representa-tives down to the block level,TMC general secretary ParthoChatterjee on Friday said.
November 16 meeting willin fact focus on the grand rallyscheduled to be held at theBrigade Parade Ground onJanuary 19. The Brigade rallyhas been called by Mamatawhere all the Opposition outfitsbarring the BJP will be invited.
Among the invitees wouldbe Congress president RahulGandhi, Sonia Gandhi, NCPchief Sharad Pawar, BSPsupremo Mayawati, SP chief
Akhilesh Yadav, RJD presi-dent Lalu Prasad. “Even theCPI(M) leadership includingKerala Chief Minister Vijayanwill be invited in the rally,” theChief Minister was quoted as saying.
But before the grand rallywhich will apparently be orga-nized as a show of strength tocounter BJP’s rising stature inBengal the TMC will hold apreparator y meeting onNovember 16 where “all MPs,MLAs, councilors, panchayatsamiti heads, district andblock presidents have beenasked to come,” Chatterjeesaid adding the meeting willbe held to prepare the work-ers so that they can startpreparations from now.
“Mamata Banerjee hasalready said that ‘duihazaar
unish, BJP finish’. This means we will haveto work towards oustingthe BJP not only fromBengal but the entirecountry,” Chatterjee said.The November 16 meet-ing will be held at theNetaji Indoor Stadium. Though the rally is goodthree months away partieslike the RJD have alreadyconfirmed their atten-dance, sources saidadding Andhra PradeshChief MinisterChandrababu Naidu hasbeen in constant touch
with Banerjee.According TMC sources
the Bengal Chief Ministercould also attend the TeluguDesam Party sponsored grandrally sometime in December:this apparently in order toensure a return visit by the TDP president.
“Though all oppositionparties have no doubt thatthey will have to come togeth-er in 2019 to ensure the ousterof the BJP some regionalissues still keep them sepa-rated. Our leader MamataBanerjee can play an impor-tant role in bringing these par-ties together or ensuring acompromise region-basedcompromise formula so thatthe opposition vote is notdivided,” said a seniorTrinamool leader and a Minister.
Banerjee had earlier putforward the Bengal formula toensure “one-against-one can-didate.”
The TMC had “tried thisformula in 2009 and 2011 andensured a landslide winagainst the mighty Left Front.If we could defeat the Leftthere is no reason why we can-not defeat the BJP,” said theMinister adding the January2019 Brigade rally will be agrand success.
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The exchange of firetook place between sus-pected terrorists of theKuki National Army(KNA) and United KukiLiberation Front (UNLF)near Moreh town whichis close to the Indo-Myanmar border, theofficer said.
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Lucknow: Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Fridayexpressed confidence that farm-ers would pave the way forimbibing of new technologyand hoped that better opportu-nities would be created in theagriculture sector.
Inaugurating Krishi Kumbh2018, a mega conclave of farm-ers and agricultural experts, inLucknow through video confer-encing from Delhi on Friday, thePrime Minister lauded the effortsof the Uttar PradeshGovernment and Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath for the devel-opment of agriculture and wel-fare of the farmers with the aimof enhancing their income.
“The Government is com-mitted to doubling the income offarmers by 2022, the year whenIndia completes 75 years ofindependence. The Governmentis creating a strong infrastructurefrom ‘beej to bazaar’ (seed tomarket) for enhancing theincome of farmers.,” he said.
Modi expressed the hopethat there would be record pro-duction of foodgrains during theKharif season. He reiterated theGovernment’s commitment todouble the farmers’ income byhelping the nation’s food pro-ducers at every stage, from sow-ing to selling.
The PM said that farmers,the country’s ‘annadata’, werebecoming power generator of thecountry with the help of newtechnologies. He said the solar
technology had changed thelives of the farmers in Gujaratwhere they were generating solarpower and after meeting theirelectricity needs, were selling thesurplus electricity and earningadditional income.
Modi said events like KrishiKumbh would greatly benefitfarmers and it was a commend-able achievement of the UPGovernment as it would opennew avenues for farmers incoming days. The PM expressedconfidence that the farmerswould pave the way for newtechnology to be imbibed andbetter opportunities to be creat-ed in the agriculture sector.
He said this time the farm-ers would get increased price fortheir crops as the MinimumSupport Price of 21 Rabi andKharif crops had been increased.
The PM appreciated the UPGovernment for its efforts inaugmenting substantially theprocurement of foodgrains. Heasserted that the farmers werethe ones who took the countryforward. Modi mentioned theseries of steps that theGovernment was pursuing toreduce input costs and raiseprofits to double farmers’income. He said a large numberof solar pumps would beinstalled in farms across thecountry in the near future.
Modi said the Governmentwas working to deliver the ben-efits of science to agriculture andthe Rice Research Centre being
set up in Varanasi was is a stepin this direction.
The PM also spoke aboutthe importance of value additionin farming and mentioned thesteps being taken in the foodprocessing sector. He said thatafter the Green Revolution, theemphasis now was on milk andhoney production and also onpoultry and fisheries.
Modi called for discussionon judicious use of waterresources, better technology forstorage and use of latest tech-nology in farming in the sessionsof the Krishi Kumbh. He empha-sised the need to evolve newtechnologies and ways thatwould help eliminate the needfor farmers to burn crop stubble.
Chief Minister YogiAdityanath said that Modi isthe first Prime Minister afterindependence who has farm-ers and agriculture at the topof his agenda. He said the soilhealth card scheme for farm-ers had immensely contributedin agricultural productivity asfarmers, instead of recklessuse of fertilisers and insecti-cides, were now judiciouslyusing the agriculture inputsand this had boosted agricul-tural productivity.
The CM said UP had hugeuntapped potential in the fieldsof agriculture and horticulture.He said UP was already numberone in the country in sugarcane,sugar and milk production andthe same could be achieved inthe field of horticulture.
Yogi said the previousGovernment had ignored agri-culture and there were only 69Krishi Vikas Kendra (KVKs) inthe state. He said after the BJPcame to power in UP in March2017, the Centre had sanctioned20 new KVKs in the State andthey were now linked with thefour State agriculture universitiesfor ensuring easy availability ofnew technology to the farmers.Israel and Japan are official part-ners of Krishi Kumbh 2018which will continue for threedays. PNS
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Within hours after a Punespecial court on Friday
rejected their bail applications,the Pune police on Fridayevening arrested civic rightsactivists Vernon Gonsalves andArun Ferreira, while the inves-tigators are likely to arrestanother activist SudhaBharadwaj from her Faridabadresidence for her alleged linkswith the CPI (Maoists).
Gonsalves, Ferriera andBhardwaj who were amongthe five activists arrested onAugust 28 for their allegedlinks with the CPI (Maoists)and their association with theElaagar Parishad held in Puneahead of the January 1, 2018Bhima-Koregaon riots.
While Gonsalves wasarrested from his Mumbai res-idence, Ferreira was taken into
custody by the police from hisThane residence.
Gonsalves and Ferreira willbe produced in the Pune UAPAcourt on Saturday.
Meanwhile, a police teamis leaving for Faridabad whereBhardwaj is likely to be arrest-ed from her home on Saturday.
Earlier in the afternoon,Additional sessions judge K.D.Vadane had rejected the bailapplications of the threeactivists.
"At this stage, from mater-ial collected by investigatingofficer, prima facie, it reveals theinvolvement of the present appli-cants/accused. Moreover, inves-tigation is at very crucial stage,therefore, in my view, the presentaccused are not entitled to bereleased on bail. Hence applica-tions devoid of merit, liable to berejected," Special Judge Vadanestated in his order.
While under house arrest,the three activists had movedthe Pune sessions court seek-ing an extension of their housearrest by a week.
While opposing the bailapplications, the Prosecutionhad argued that it have “cor-roborative evidence” against the
accused to prove their allegedrole in Maoist activities likesmobilising cadres, recruitingstudents from eminent institu-tions and sending them to thehinterland areas to become “pro-fessional revolutionaries”, raisefunds and procure weapons.
Since the house arrestperiod ended on Friday,Gonsalves’ lawyer RahulDeshmukh said that the threeactivists would move theBombay High Court onagainst the Pune court’s order.
Apart from Bharadwaj,Ferreira and Gonsalves,activists Varavara Rao andGautam Navlakha had beenarrested on August 28.
Earlier this week, theHyderabad High Court hadextended Rao’s house arrestperiod by three weeks whileNavlakha’s arrest was quashedby the Delhi High Court. Later,the Supreme Court rejected theMaharashtra Government'sspecial leave petition againstthe Delhi High Court order.
The rejection of bail pleas ofthree activists, includingBhardwaj and Gonsalves comestwo days after the Bombay HighCourt quashed a special courts
order granting an extension of90 days to the police to file acharge-sheet against five personsarrested on June 6 in connectionwith their alleged Maoist linksand their role in the January 1,2018 Bhima-Koregaon riots.
However, upon a plea bythe Prosecution that it wantedto test legality of the the highcourt’s order in the SupremeCourt, a single-judge HCbench of Justice MridulaBhatkar stayed till November 12018 the implementation of herorder quashing the Pune spe-cial court’s order to facilitate theMaharashtra Government tochallenge the HC order in theapex court.
While quashing the PuneSpecial court’s order, the highcourt took cognisance of thefact that there was no compli-ance of section 43-D of the ofthe Unlawful Activities(Prevention) Act, 1967 whichmandates the Public Prosecutorto submit a report justifying theextension of time for filing thecharge-sheet in the case.
“This shows that theInvestigating Officer has nav-igated the application for exten-sion of period by further 90
days, which is not contemplat-ed under the provison to sec-tion 43-D of the Act. It is to beremembered that theInvestigating Officer is alwaysinterested in the success or theconviction in the case.However, it is the duty of thePublic Prosecutor to assist theCourt in the process of admin-istration of justice by uphold-ing the law,” Justice Bhatkarnoted.
Quoting the judgment inthe case Hitendra VishnuThakur vs. State ofMaharashtra (supra) case, thejudge noted: “....The request ofan investigating officer forextension of time is no substi-tute for the report of the pub-lic prosecutor. ….”On September 2, a SpecialUnlawful Activit ies(Prevention) Act (UAPA)court had granted an exten-sion of 90 days to the police tofile a charge-sheet against fivepersons with alleged Maoistlinks who were arrested inJune this year in connectionwith the Elgaar Parishad heldin Pune and the subsequentJanuary 1, 2018 Bhima-Koregaon caste riots.
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The 11 Base Repair Depot(BRD), the only fighter air-
craft repair depot of the IndianAir Force, on Friday handedover the indigenously over-hauled Su-30 MKI aircraft to theSouth Western Air Commandat an impressive ceremony heldat Ojhar in Nashik district innorth Maharashtra.
In a formal ceremony, AirMarshal Hemant Sharma AtiVishisht Seva Medal, VishishtSeva Medal Air OfficerCommanding-in-Chief ofMaintenance Command gavepossession of the indigenouslyoverhauled Su 30 MKI aircraft
to Air Marshal HS Arora AtiVishisht Seva Medal Air OfficerCommanding-in-Chief ofSouth Western Air Commandat an impressive ceremony heldat Air Force Station at Ojhar.
The 11 BRD is the onlyfighter aircraft repair depot ofthe Indian Air Force andundertakes repair and overhaulof frontline fighters such asMIG-29 and Sukhoi 30 MKI.
Established on 29 Apr 1974and subsequently renamed as 11Base Repair Depot on 01 Jan1975, the BRD progressivelybuilt and improved the techni-cal expertise and infrastructureover the years and by 1983 it hadoverhauled 100 Su-7 aircraft.
From 1983 to 1988, thedepot also undertook overhaulof MIG-21 and 28 aircraft wereproduced. Later, overhaul facil-ity for MIG-23 aircraft was setup in 1986 and 248 aircraft wereoverhauled till May 2015.Overhaul of MIG-29 aircraftcommenced in the year 1996.
Currently, the “Up gradationof MIG-29” and Repair &Overhaul (ROH) at Su-30 MKIaircraft is being undertaken at thedepot. In addition, the 11 BRDis the only agency to undertakeoverhaul of ejection seats and roleequipment of Su-30 MKI aircraft,both for IAF and HindustanAeronatic Limited (HAL).Earlier, the first Su-30 MKIoverhauled by this Depot suc-cessfully took off on 24 Apr2018 and has been flight testedfor its airworthiness, beforeinducting it for operationaltasks at a flying squadron.
Among those present onthe occasion were a largenumber of senior AirForce dignitaries formAir Head Quarters NewDelhi, Head QuartersMaintenance Command,Nagpur, South WesternAir Command,Gandhinagar, Gujarat,Senior officers of HAL(Nasik Division), DRDO
and DGAQA.During the function, the
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief ofMaintenanceC ommandand SouthWestern AirC ommandapplaudedr e l e n t l e s sefforts put inby personnelof Air ForceS t a t i o nOjhar. Air Cmde
Samir V Borade Vishisht SevaMedal Air OfficerCommanding, Air ForceStation Ojhar, thanked all theair warriors and personnel ofHAL (Nasik Division) for theiractive involvement and supportin achieving this importantmilestone for the depot andIndian Air Force.
Borade said that with thiscapability, 11 Base Repair Depothad exhibited what the unit wascapable of and was ever readyfor meeting the new challenges.
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The rupee depreciated by 20paise to close at 73.47
against the US dollar on Fridayamid a strengthening green-back and sustained foreigncapital outflows.
At the Interbank ForeignExchange, the rupee opened ona weak note at 73.44 and fur-ther slipped to hit an intra-daylow of 73.47 against the US cur-rency.
The local unit gained someground to reach 73.28 duringthe day. However, it finallysettled at 73.47, showing a lossof 20 paise over the previousclose.
On Thursday, the rupee fell
11 paise to close at 73.27.The dollar rose to a 10-
week high Friday ahead of USGDP data.
Oil prices fell over fears ofpossible drop in oil demandamid a rout in global markets.Brent crude was trading at$76.20 per barrel.
The BSE Sensex crashedmore than 1 per cent for thesecond straight session onFriday to close at a fresh seven-month low of 33,349.31, whilethe broader NSE Nifty slipped94.90 points to 10,030.00.
Foreign funds pulled out�1,356.66 crore from the cap-ital markets on a net basis,while domestic institutionalinvestors bought shares worth�1,875.89 crore on Thursday,provisional data showed.
The Financial BenchmarkIndia Private Ltd (FBIL) set thereference rate for therupee/dollar at 73.3740 and forrupee/euro at 83.4077. Thereference rate for rupee/Britishpound was fixed at 94.0503 andfor rupee/100 Japanese yen at65.41.
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Petrol price has been cut bynearly �2 per litre and diesel
by �1 a litre in the last eightdays on the back of softerinternational rates, an officialstatement said on Friday.
Petrol price has beenreduced by �1.98 per litre anddiesel by �0.96 a litre during thelast eight days.
In Delhi, petrol now costs�80.85 per litre and diesel ispriced at �74.73 a litre, it said.
The rates are off theirrecord high of �84 per litre forpetrol and �75.45 a litre fordiesel touched on October 4.
On that day, theGovernment decided to cutexcise duty on petrol and dieselby �1.50 per litre each and
asked state-owned fuel retailersto subsidise by another �1 alitre by reducing their margins.
Subsequent to this, thepetrol price came down to�81.50 per litre and diesel at�72.95 a litre on October 5, thestatement said.
“As the international oilprices continued to rise, priceof petrol and diesel in Delhiincreased to �82.83 per litreand �75.69 per litre. (But)since last eight days, interna-tional oil prices have beenfalling and rupee has alsoappreciated,” the statementsaid.
The twin factors havebrought down fuel prices to asix-week low.
“As per the assessment, theretail prices of petrol and dieselmay reign easy in the next fewdays,” it said.
The retail selling price ofpetrol and diesel is dependenton the international prices ofbenchmark fuel and the rupee-US dollar exchange rate. “Thisis because a large proportion ofcountry’s requirement is metthrough imports,” the state-ment added.
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Indian public sector compa-nies have already placed
orders with Iran for crude oilsupply during November, asenior Government officialsaid here on Friday.
“Our public sector com-panies have already placedorders for the month ofNovember with Iran,” saidSunjay Sudhir, joint secretaryfor international cooperation atthe Ministry of Petroleum &Natural Gas.
“Iran, historically, has beena key supplier of crude forIndia,” he stressed after pre-senting investment opportuni-ties in the Indian StrategicPetroleum Reserve programmePhase II (ISPR) to Singapore-based investors.
“In India, we are guided byour consideration for energysecurity,” Sudhir said.
He also said Indian officialswere in talks with the US onwaivers relating toWashington’s sanctions ondealing with Iran.
Sixty-five per cent of India’scrude supply comes from theMiddle East from Iraq, SaudiArabia and Iran. The other twomain suppliers are Venezuela
and Nigeria.Crude oil supply from the
US has been choked due topipeline and terminal infra-structure at the supply points.“The constraints are on the USinfrastructure side,” he said.
India’s has imported about30 million barrels of US crudeover the last year, startingOctober, 2017. India importsover 80 per cent of its crude oilneeds.
Touching on the ISPR IIprogramme, Sudhir said “weare exploring the Public PrivatePartnership (PPP) model”.
The final investmentmodel will depend on investors’participation, he said. TheIndian Government’s partici-pation will depend on how the
investors respond to ISPR II.Investors are being sought
for the $1.6 billion cavern-typefacilities at Chandikhol inOdisha and Padur in Karnatakafor storing 6.5 million metrictons of crude oil.
The ISPR I, in partnershipwith ADNOC of Abu Dhabi, isfor holding 5.33 million met-ric tons of crude oil, on a seven-year contract basis.
National security is servedby the fact that there is alwaysthe minimum threshold, withthe Government having thefirst right of refusal, said Sudhir.
ISPR II would be a con-tractual obligation based on aseven-year
contract as is the case forISPR I with ADNOC.
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Airports Authority of India’sWomen Welfare
Association (AAIWWA) inassociation with AAIAF (AAIArtist’s Forum), FIPA (Forumof India Photographers andArtists) and AAIOI (AirportsAuthority of India Officer’s
Institute) is organizing an ArtExhibition at the IndianAviation Academy, VasantKunjfrom 24th October, 2018to 10th November, 2018. TheArt Exhibition is showcasingthe paintings that were pre-pared by the participants of theArt Camp organized in April,2018.
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Non-banking finance com-pany Capital First Friday
reported a 246 per cent jumpin its profit at �104.6 crore inthe quarter ended September,helped by strong loan growth.
The company’s profit aftertax stood at �30.2 crore in theyear-ago period.
“We are happy to continuethe steady growth in the loanassets and net profit for thecompany,” it’s chairman, VVaidyanathan, said.
The company’s asset undermanagement (AUM) stood at�32,622 crore as on September30, 2018, with its retail loanportfolio contributing to 91 percent of its overall AUM.
Its retail loan book grew 38per cent to �29,625 crore in thereporting quarter, up from�21,429 crore in the same peri-od last year.
Core income, whichincludes net interest income andfee income of the company, rose49 per cent to �695.2 crore, from�467.2 crore last year.
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Union minister of state forhousing and urban affairs
Hardeep Singh Puri on Fridaysaid he wants fly-by-nightoperators (developers) to becompletely eliminated.
Speaking at the 25thIndian Plumbing Conferencehere, Puri said the policydecisions taken by hisGovernment includingdemonetisation, the Goodsand Services Tax regime andthe RERA have disrupted themarket in a big way.
“The policy decisions likedemonetisation, GST andRERA have brought a disrup-tion in the market. But I haveno sympathy towards them. Iwant the fly-by-night operatorsto be completely eliminated,”Puri said.
He further said that it isnecessary to solve issues ofthose (developers, buyer andpromoters) who have genuineproblems, but not at the cost ofthousands of home buyers whoput their life savings into theprojects.
“The period of the offer-
ings of 40:60 or 50:50 or 80:20have gone now. Now every pro-ject has to be registered includ-ing ongoing projects. Even theagents who deal in the sectorhave to register. There is, there-fore, a lot of hue and cry and alot of blood shed,” the ministersaid.
In todays day and age withzero tolerance for corruption ifone thinks they can take some-body’s money and invest itelsewhere, they are mistaken,he said.
The minister further notedthat unsold inventory is declin-
ing and new projects are start-ing, which is an indicationthat the construction industryhas streamlined.
“We are going to be a $5trillion economy by 2025 and$10 trillion by 2030. If thereone sector I would bet on formedium to long term, then itis construction. But we have toclean the mess just now,” Puriadded.
He also urged the plumb-ing industry to adopt the bestglobal practices as it accountsnearly 12-13 per cent of thetotal cost of construction.
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Handed a reality check afterWest Indies salvaged amorale-boosting tie in the
second game, India will be hop-ing to put up an improved bowl-ing show with their frontline pac-ers Bhuvneshwar Kumar andJasprit Bumrah back in action forthe third ODI here on Saturday.
A well-oiled India hammeredthe Windies in the lung opener inGuwahati by eight wickets, but thegritty visitors indeed, made astatement of sorts inVisakhapatnam, by denying thehosts a victory and a chance to go2-0 ahead in the five-match rub-
ber.However the absence of
Bhuvneshwar and Bumrah sawIndian bowling unit being clob-bered for 320 plus runs in bothgames.
With more variations in theirrepertoire in white ball cricketcompared to the profilgate UmeshYadav and an inconsistentMohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwarand Bumrah are expected to makea significant difference, especial-ly in the first Powerplay and thedeath overs.
India also have issues to pon-der over with only 16 games areleft before the World Cup inEngland next year — the fragile
middle-orderand lack of con-sistency fromthe lower-mid-
dle order batsmen — when they take fieldat the MCA International stadium. SkipperVirat Kohli, who surpassed iconic SachinTendulkar to score fastest 10,000 runs, hasalways been the backbone of the team. Hisback to back hundreds (140 and 157 notout) is just a testimony to it. The skipper,who has scored 297 runs so far in the series,will be aiming for a big knock again.
Ambati Rayadu, whose 73 consolidat-ed his claim for No 4 spot and a good showon Saturday, will only help him make theposition his own.
But questions remain on a stable num-bers 5, 6 and 7.
Veteran Mahendra Singh Dhoni (20)again looked out of sorts in the second ODIand with his ability to finish innings on thewane, the stumper will be under immensepressure to perform.
A big score is expected from youngRishabh Pant, who has got the ability to goall guns blazing. The team management isexpected to persist with him for his game-changing ability.
The dew is a big factor during day-nightmatches in India, something that willworry Kohli since both his wrist spinnersKuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahalwere finding it difficult to grip the wet ball.
Senior spinner Ravindra Jadeja willhave to pull up his socks and can't affordto be inconsistent with only a few places upfor grabs going into the World Cup.
For the visitors, their biggest asset isyoung Shimron Hetmyer, who scored ascintillating 94 in the last game after anattractive 106 in the opening encounter.
The 21-year-old southpaw would beraring to go at the Indian bowlers onceagain.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Shai Hope withhis hundred in Visakhapatnam has provedthat there is more to his game than theattractive 30's.
But apart from these two, West Indieswould be hoping that the others likeKieron Powell, Chanderpaul Hemraj andRovman Powell step up and deliver.
Their senior pros like experiencedMarlon Samuels (13 runs) and skipper JasonHolder (50 runs) haven't really played totheir potential. The duo will look to makeamends.
The bowling attack will be spearhead-ed by Kemar Roach but he has been leak-ing runs along with their spinners DevendraBishoo and Ashley Nurse.
The trio, along with the others includ-ing Holder and Oshane Thomas will needto come up with something special torestrict a ruthless Indian skipper and theothers, who can hammer any bowlingattack.
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West Indies coach Stuart Law is happy thathis batsmen have been able to "manu-
facture" changes in the Indian bowling line-upwith their premier pacers Bhuvneshwar Kumarand Jasprit Bumrah set to play the final threeODIs.
The Indian bowlers have conceded 320 plusscores on both ODIs in batting friendly con-ditions with both Umesh Yadav andMohammed Shami failing to impress.
While Bhuvneshwar and Bumrah's come-back during the second phase was always onthe cards, Law feels that it's batsmen who haveforced the hosts to ring in changes.
"Yeah I would like to think so (on theircomeback). That's probably the reason whythey've (India) called back their two most expe-rienced one-day bowlers. To our credit, wehaven't shied away from it," Law said on theeve of the third ODI.
He is happy that Indians are asking them-selves a few questions.
"So yeah, hopefully we are getting theIndians to ask questions to themselves. Theyare giving us plenty of questions to ask our-selves but at this stage, we are coming up withpretty good answers," added Law.
Virat Kohli's brilliance has overshadowedeverything in this series but Law is expectingthe Indian captain to falter.
"How do you get Virat out? He gave uschance at 40. He is a wonderful player. I justlove the way he goes about compiling aninnings. Looks like he is working very hard buthe's doing it very easy. So we do have plans tohim.
"At the moment, he is coming up a lot ofgood answers, so we have to just keep askingquestions about his technique and his abilities.In the end, he is only human. But when we getan opportunity, we have got to grab hold of it."
The coach also heaped praise on Shimron
Hetmyer, who has been bulldozing the Indianbowlers, especially the spinners.
"Hetmyer has been outstanding. (Shai)Hope got a hundred in the second game, all inall for an inexperienced side, that we have, theycan hold their heads very high," said Law.
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Former champions ATKdefeated tit le holders
Chennayin FC 2-1 in a keenly-contested Indian Super Leaguematch to register their firsthome win of the season here onFriday.
Nigerian striker Kalu Uche(3rd minute) and John Johnson(13th) put Steve Coppell's side 2-0 up before Carlos Salom (17th)pulled one back for the defend-ing champions.
ATK, however, managed tomaintain their slender lead tohand Chennaiyin FC theirfourth defeat of the season andclimbed to the fourth spot on thetable.
Chennaiyin FC got off to theworst possible start as a defen-sive mix-up saw them concedeas early as in the third minute.
Chennaiyin goalkeeperKaranjit Singh's goal-kick washeaded back by Gerson Vieira.It fell to Uche who found him-self clear of both the centre-backs and slotted a calm finishpast the custodian.
ATK assumed control of thematch thereafter as ManuelLanzarote started to show hisquality on the ball. He threadeda delicious ball for Uche in the11th minute but the Nigerian'sshot straight at the goalkeeper.
Two minutes later, Johnsonmet his wonderful free-kick intothe box and headed into the farcorner to double ATK's lead.
The setback forced thereigning champions into actionand they pulled a goal back with-
in five minutes through Salom.Francisco Fernandes' accuratecross from the right wing wasglanced into the net expertly bythe Palestinian striker as coachJohn Gregory heaved a sigh ofrelief.
Chennaiyin FC pressed foran equaliser and created sever-al chances in the first half butfailed to convert them.
In an attempt to attack, theywere leaving spaces behind forthe likes of Lanzarote to exploit.However, ATK also could notcapitalise on the offerings.
ATK looked a bit more com-pact at the start of the secondhalf and Chennaiyin had to waituntil the 56th minute to fashiona proper opportunity whenSalom managed to dart into thebox, only to see his rasping shotfrom close-range go well wide ofArindam Bhattacharya's goal.
The stor y of spurnedchances continued forChennaiyin FC as AndreaOrlandi saw a brilliant ballacross the box just miss the out-stretched legs of Salom andIssac Vanmalsawma.
At the other end, Lanzarotecontinued to threaten theChennaiyin defence with hisset-piece deliveries. One sucheffort saw Everton Santos senda header just over the bar.
Second-half substituteGregory Nelson could have res-cued a point for the MarinaMachans when Thoi Singhfound him at the far post witha cross. But his header was par-ried away by an alertBhattacharya.
�������Defending champions Patna Pirates started their home legwith a bang as they beat Jaipur Pink Panthers 41-30 in the InterZone Challenge Week of Pro Kabaddi season six here on Friday.
Pardeep Narwal's raiding performance laid the foundations of Patna'svictory with 11 points and was ably supported by Manjeet who got 10points.
Jaideep and Vikas Kale combined to score 10 tackle points for Patna.Narwal achieved a landmark with his super 10 as he is now the leaderof super 10s in the history of Pro Kabaddi League.
Anup Kumar also reached a milestone as he hit the 500 raid pointmark in Pro Kabaddi League but his eight-point effort could not helphis team from avoiding a defeat.
Both teams' defence got into the scoring act early in the game asJaipur Pink Panthers led 2-1 after three minutes. With Patna trailing2-3 in the 3rd minute, Pardeep Narwal's super raid got the lead.
Anup Kumar reached the milestone of 500 raid points in PKL witha successful raid in the fourth minute.
Jaipur came back in the next three minutes as they got 5 points tolead 8-6 in the 8th minute. But Pardeep Narwal had other ideas as inthe 9th minute he got another super raid to give Patna Pirates 11-8 lead.
Deepak Niwas Hooda scored two quick raid points as Jaipur PinkPanthers trailed 14-20 after 16 minutes.
At the end of the first half, Patna Pirates led 22-15 with PardeepNarwal scoring nine points.
The second half saw Jaipur Pink Panthers start impressively as theyforced a super tackle to trail 17-23. Two more points saw Jaipur cut thelead to just three as they trailed 20-23 after 24 minutes. Patna Piratesdefence tightened their hold on the match to lead 29-21 after 29 min-utes. In the 30th minute, Patna Pirates inflicted another all out to lead33-21. Anup Kumar tried to revive Jaipur Pink Panthers with a superraid as they reduced the deficit to nine points.
Patna Pirates although were in no mood to relinquish their win-ning position. Manjeet got a couple of raid points as with less than fiveminutes to go Patna Pirates led 38-26. Patna Pirates rounded off thematch with an 11-point victory. PTI
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Mumbai City FC would want to forget their humiliating defeatagainst FC Goa and look to bounce back with a victory against
a winless Delhi Dynamos in their Indian Super League footballmatch here on Saturday.
Mumbai lost 0-5 to Goa earlier this week and will now seekto redeem themselves with a positive result against the Delhi sideat the Mumbai Football Arena.
The Jorge Costa-coached side started well againstGoa and had chances to turn the match on its head.However, they were woeful in front of goal and Goacapitalised to inflict a painful defeat.
That defeat hurt Costa a lot, not just the resultbut also the manner in which they surrenderedtowards the end.
"The first half (against Goa)was very good. The players didalmost everything that I asked. Inthe second half, it wasnot bad in the first 20minutes. Then, we gaveup. That is why I amsad. Not because welost 5-0 but because inthe last 15 minutes wesaw a team waiting forthe game to finish," saidCosta.
The Portuguesecoach said he wants his team to fight from start to finish, what-ever the score line.
"We must respect our job. Second, we must respect the work.Third, we must also respect the fans and we cannot give up. Whathappened in the last 15-20 minutes, I was ashamed because theygave up. As a professional football player, you cannot give up," hesaid.
The Portuguese tactician is likely to ring in some changes onSaturday as he seeks to turn around the glum mood in the camp.
Captain Lucian Goian will have to take ownership and ensurethe leaks in the defence are plugged and spirits in the dressing roomare raised. They will have to fight without goalkeeper AmrinderSingh who was injured against Goa.
Delhi Dynamos have their own woes to address as they seektheir first win of the campaign. Delhi have drawn three games whilelosing one so far and cannot take Mumbai City for granted.
"That loss was not on Mumbai City. It totally was on FC Goa.All the goals were good. Mumbai City got chances but they didnot convert. Tomorrow is a new match, a new day. I think that resultwill not affect the performance of Mumbai City," said Delhi's assis-tant coach Mridul Banerjee.
Delhi have largely flattered to deceive in their games. They havecreated chances in most of their games but abysmal finishing havecome back to bite them. The three goals in four games does notreflect the number of chances they have had. "We are playing verywell and we have created so many goal scoring chances but we havefailed to convert. We are working on that though and I think with-in one or two matches, we will sort it out," said Banerjee.
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The Indian women's foot-ball team slumped to a 0-
2 defeat at the hands of Nepalin the AFC U-19Championships qualifiers hereon Friday.
Striker Rekha scored boththe goals for Nepal in the 59thand 88th minutes to give herside three points from thematch.
The result put a dent inIndia's chances of qualifyingfor the next round, as they arenow level on three pointswith Nepal and Thailand.
Indians slowly clawedtheir way into the game, andgot their first real chancewhen Renu broke away fromthe defence and found herselfone-on-one with the keeper.However, her first touch waspoor and Nepal goalkeeperAnjana came out to collect it.
India had another great
chance in the 30-minutemark, when Jabamani playedout a short free kick from theright flank towards Roja at thenear post, but the winger mis-cued her shot and the Nepaldefence was able to clear it.
Nepal came out with greatguns in the second half andconstantly posed threat onthe Indian goal. In the end, itwas a clearance from the half-line by the Nepalese defencethat found Rekha, who beatthe Indian offside trap,unmarked and she slotted itpast the keeper.
India tried frantically toget back on level terms, butsome dogged defending byNepal kept them at bay. Nepalstriker Rekha then made theresult beyond India's reachwith just two minutes left, asshe broke away from the Indiadefence again, dodged past thegoalkeeper to score her secondgoal.
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Jadon Sancho will be look-ing to maintain his perfect
record for rampant BorussiaDortmund on Saturday whenthe in-form Bundesliga lead-ers host top-six rivals HerthaBerlin.
After Wednesday's 4-0thrashing of Atletico Madrid,Dortmund have now won sixgames in a row, and Sanchohas chalked up either a goalor an assist in each of thosewins.
Dortmund are threepoints clear at the top of theleague, and fourpoints ahead offourth-placed BayernMunich.
The championsare still searching fortheir best form, withMats Hummels com-plaining of "fundamentalproblems" in midweek.
Elsewhere, BorussiaMoenchengladbach strikerAlassane Plea will be seekingto write himself into therecord books againstFreiburg on Friday, whileSchalke and BayerLeverkusen remain mired inthe early-season blues.
Here are five things tolook out for in theBundesliga this weekend:
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Dortmund are in suchsuperb shape that some arealready casting them as titlefavourites ahead ofSaturday's tough clash withHertha Berlin. Lucien Favre'steam have drawn compar-isons with the Jurgen Klopp-era Dortmund, and it is easyto see why after six thump-
ing wins in a row.D o r t m u n d
have scored 26goals in their lastsix games, withsuper-subs Sanchoand Paco Alcacer
doing much of the damage."Lucien Favre gives you
the feeling that you belong,even when you don't makethe team," explained mid-fielder Thomas Delaney thisweek. "He really gets theright balance." Both Alcacerand Delaney are doubts forSaturday's game.
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that Bayern Munich still have"fundamental" problems todeal with, as the championslook to continue their mini-recovery away to Mainz onSaturday.
Bayern had failed to winfour games in a row beforelast weekend, and despitevictories over Wolfsburg andAEK Athens since then,Hummels insisted they arenot out of the woods yet.
"We keep giving the ball
away too easily in defence orplaying unnecessary longballs," said Hummels.
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equal a Bundesliga record ifhe gets on the scoresheetduring BorussiaMoenchengladbach's trip toFreiburg.
With Bayern languishingin fourth, high-f lyingGladbach are the ones keep-ing the heat on Dortmund insecond, and much of that isdown to the French striker.
Plea has scored eightgoals in nine games this sea-son, and could become onlythe third player to score agoal in each of his first fiveBundesliga away games ifhe scores on Friday, follow-ing Steffen Baumgart andSerge Gnabry.
"I've had a very goodstart," Plea told Bild. "As astriker, it is always good to bescoring goals."
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their crippling goal droughtaway to big-hitters RBLeipzig on Sunday.
Domenico Tedesco's sidehave scored just five goals in
eight league games this sea-son, and failed to take any oftheir 17 chances in a 0-0draw with Galatasaray onWednesday.
Their poor conversionrate sees last year's runners-up stuck in the relegationplay-off place, just a point offthe bottom of the table.
"We need a result if weare going to start climbing upthe table," said Tedesco onWednesday. "This phase can'tgo on forever."
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another big Bundesliga clubin trouble, as coach HeikoHerrlich fights to save hisjob. Leverkusen have onlytwo wins from their firsteight games, and rumoursthat Herrlich is heading forthe chop were exacerbatedthis week when Kickerreported that the club hadbeen in contact with formerRB Leipzig coach RalphHasenhuettl.
Herrlich and his teamface a tough task on Sunday,coming off the back of aEuropa League tie to face aconfident Werder Bremenside who are punching abovetheir weight in third place.
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India's Greco Roman wrestlers continuedto struggle at the World Championship
with only Manish managing to clearqualification round on Friday.
Manish, competing in the 67kg, is theonly Indian Greco Roman grappler to havewon a bout thus far. He won his qualifi-cation bout 3-1 against Aleksandrs ofLatvia before losing the 1/16 round 0-9 toJapan's Tsuchika Shimoyamada.
Both Gyanender (60kg) and Manjeet(87kg) could not clear the qualificationround, losing by technical superiority.While Gyanender was knocked out byLithuania's Justas Petravicius, Manjeet lostto Estonia's Eerik Aps.
Whether these three get a repechageround will be determined after the eveningsession.
On the opening day also, none of thefour Greco Roman wrestlers could win amatch. Vijay (55kg), Gaurav Shar (63kg),Kuldeep Malik (72kg) and Harpreet Singh(82kg) had all crashed out after losing theirqualification rounds.
Sandeep Tulsi Yadav remained thelone Greco Roman wrestler from India towin a medal at the Worlds. He had wona Bronze in the 2013 edition.
India have won two medals so far inthe ongoing Championship with BajrangPunia winning a Silver in men's freestyle
65kg event and Pooja Dhanda grabbing aBronze in the women's 57kg category.
Earlier on Thursday night, PoojaDhanda joined the elite Indian companyof women grapplers to take the bronzemedal at the Worls Championships hereon Thursday.
Pooja defeated Grace Bullen of
Norway 10-7 in the 57kg Freestyle cate-gory to secure the Bronze medal at thePapp Lszlo Sportarena here.
Before Pooja, only three Indianwomen grapplers Alka Tomar in 2006,Geeta Phogat and Babita Phogat in 2012had won a Bronze medal each at theWorlds Championships.
Pooja, who led 6-1 in the first period,had to go through some harrowingmoments in the second period when theNorwegian launched an all-out attackwhich the Indian managed to stave off,despite giving away some passivity pointsand step-out points.
In fact, what clinched the bronze play-off bout in Pooja's favour was the four-pointer which zoomed her to an unas-sailable lead after the Indian got to Grace'sleg and rolled her for the vital clincher.
Earlier, Pooja had defeated AlyonaKolesnil of Azerbaijan 8-4 to reach theBronze medal bout.
Meanwhile, in the 50kg freestylebronze medal play-off, India's Ritu Phogatbegan with a promise only to fade awayagainst the tight defence of Ukraine'sOksana Livach.
The Ukrainian eventually bagged thebronze with a 10-5 win.
However, Sakshi Malik failed to pastthe repechage round, losing 2-3, includ-ing a challenge point to HungarianMarianna Sastin to bow out of contest.
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Roger Federer won his 17th consecutivematch at the Swiss Indoors on Thursday,
dispatching Jan-Lennard Struff 6-3, 7-5 toreach the quarter-finals.
The top seed, unbeaten in Basel since 2013,is an eight-timewinner of his homeevent and will nextplay FrenchmanGilles Simon, whodefeated Latvia'sErnests Gulbis 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (7/0).
Federer admitted he was not satisfied withhis slow start, going down a break in the thirdgame.
"I didn't really get into the game. It's beena long time since I've played a match a matchwithout being broken. I have to improve in thenext round."
"It was a lot of rocky start, I had to cleanup my game, I'm happy about that," Federersaid.
Fourth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas dominatedPeter Gojowczyk 6-3, 6-1 to line up a quarter-final with one of his toughest NextGen rivals.
The Greek will face Russian DaniilMedvedev, who defeated Italy's Andreas Seppi7-6 (7/5), 6-2 in their second-round encounter.
Medvedev owns three titles this seasonfrom Sydney, Winston-Salem and last monthin Tokyo. He has also defeated last week'sStockholm champion Tsitsipas in two meetingsthis season, in Miami and the US Open.
Tsitsipas made his trophy breakthrough atthe weekend in Sweden with his first careertitle.
"I'm playing well," said 16th-rankedTsitsipas. "I think the rivalry between theyoung guys right now may be even strongerthan that of the big names.
Tsitsipas, 20, is the youngest player in theATP Top 20, and the first Greek to win an ATPtitle. He also reached his first Masters final inToronto in August before losing to RafaelNadal.
Second seed Alexander Zverev ended therun of 174th-ranked Australian teenage qual-ifier Alexei Popyrin with a 6-4, 6-4 win. TheGerman next plays Spanish eighth seedRoberto Bautista Agut who continued his quietprogress through the draw, beating SerbDusan Lajovic 6-7 (6/8), 6-3, 6-3.
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Aconfident Sloane Stephensstormed into a semi slot at theWTA Finals with a convincing
straight sets victory against top seedAngelique Kerber Friday, joining fellowdebutant Kiki Bertens in the knockoutstage.
The former US Open champion con-tinued her unbeaten run in Singaporewith a 6-3, 6-3 triumph in 101 minutes,her fifth straight-sets victory in a row overKerber.
After topping Red Group, Stephenswill play Czech Karolina Pliskova in thesemi-finals.
For the first time since 2003, none ofthe top four seeds advanced to thesemi-finals of the WTAFinals.
The match started tense-ly, with Kerber unable toconvert seven break points inStephens' first three service games, andthe missed opportunities proved costly.
An energetic Stephens made her payby converting all three of her break pointsto draw first blood.
The American impressively coun-terattacked and pinpointed the lines tofrustrate Kerber, who survived an injuryscare when she landed awkwardly mid-way through the first set.
Kerber was immediately under pres-sure in the second set and saved sevenbreak points in the fourth game beforecracking under the pressure.
There was still fight left in theGerman, who broke straight back butcontinued to struggle on serve.
On her fifth break point, Stephensclaimed the decisive break in the eighthgame and then served it out to knockoutthe Wimbledon champion.
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Svitolina after a hamstring injuryforced Naomi Osaka's retirementearlier Friday.
She won the first set 6-3 in 47minutes before US Open champion
Osaka, who wiped away tears, forfeitedthe match.
It was a bitterly disappointing end forthe 21-year-old, who came into Singaporeas the form player but lost three-setmatches to Stephens and Kerber.
Osaka has had a whirlwind timesince her stunning win over SerenaWilliams in a controversial US Openfinal.
The triumph cemented her standingon hard court but Osaka has had limit-ed success on clay and grass, where sheis yet to make it past the third round atWimbledon and the French Open.
She struggled on the SingaporeIndoor Stadium's hard court, whichplayed slower than expected.
"For me, Ishouldn't justbe doing wellon hardcourts. I thinkI should bedoing well onall surfaces,"she toldreporters. "I
think I'm capable of doing that. So def-initely I want to try to focus on that nextyear."
But it was enough for Bertens to seala final four spot having defeated Kerberearlier in the round-robin phase.
Bertens only qualified for the WTAFinals just days before the tournamentafter world number one Simona Halepwithdrew due to injury.
"It's never easy or never nice to wina match like this, but it is what it is,"Bertens said.
"To be at the last four, last tournamentof the year, it's unbelievable."
Osaka had started the match bright-ly, rolling through her service gamesbefore being broken in the eighth game.
With her upper leg heavily strapped,Osaka called a medical timeout after theeighth game and required treatment inthe locker room. She came back on courtbut dropped her serve to love, culmi-nating in a double fault which turned outto be her last action at the WTA Finals.
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Defending champions Indiawill look to assert their
continental supremacy onceagain when they take on reigning AsianGames Gold-medallists Japan in thesemi-final of the Asian ChampionsTrophy (ACT) hockey tournament hereon Saturday.
Having spanked Japan 9-0 in theround-robin stage, India will start overwhelming favouritesagainst the Asian Games champion side.
India are the only side in the tournament that remainedunbeaten in the round-robin stage, having won all theirmatches except for a close goal-less draw against old neme-sis Malaysia.
India qualified as the top team with 13 points from fivegames. Arch-rivals Pakistan finished second on 10 pointsahead of Malaysia on account of a better goal difference, whileJapan were fourth with seven points.
The ongoing Asian Champions Trophy being the lasttournament before the season-ending World Cup inBhubaneswar, the Indians would be desperate to prove their
critics wrong with another strong performance on Saturday.Going by performance, the Indians looked the dominant
side in the tournament with convincing wins except for thestalemate against Malaysia.
Harendra Singh's men defeated Oman 11-0, Pakistan 3-1, Japan 9-0 and South Korea 4-1.
And come Saturday, India would be eager to prove thatthe disappointing Bronze at the Asian Games was just an aber-ration with another big morale-boosting win over Japan.
India's chief coach Harendra Singh said Saturday will bea completely new game for his side.
"I would like my boys to play aggressive hockey with con-trol over their emotions. The semi-final will be a differentball game. The result or score-line of our last encounter withJapan in the preliminary league will have no significance whenthe semi-final gets underway on Saturday," Harendra saidon the eve of the match.
Japan, on the other hand, have fielded six youngsters inthe squad after their Gold medal at the Jakarta Asian Gamesin their bid to focus on a long-term team-building exercise.
Japan are the only team among the semi-finalists herenot to have qualified for the World Cup.
Japan, however, will play for pride and find a way to bluntthe Indian attack. Their recent habit of turning the form-book on its head will cause some unease for their rivals.
In the other semi-final of the day, Pakistan will lock hornsagainst Malaysia. The final of the tournament will be playedon Sunday.
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Ruben Loftus-Cheek capitalisedon a rare start for Chelsea by
scoring a hat-trick in Thursday's 3-1 Europa League victory overBATE of Belarus, while Arsenalextended their winning run to 11games away to Sporting Lisbon.
Loftus-Cheek, part of England'sWorld Cup squad in Russia, start-ed for just the second time this sea-son under Maurizio Sarri andstruck twice inside the openingeight minutes as Chelsea domi-nated at Stamford Bridge.
The 22-year-old midfielderdrilled in a low Davide Zappacostacross as the Blues led after two min-utes, and Loftus-Cheek doubled histally when he hooked in from a cor-ner.
He completed his hat-trickwith a side-footed effort from theedge of the area on 54 minutes,although BATE left with a conso-lation goal after an unmarkedAleksei Rios turned in from a latefree-kick.
"It feels really good," LoftusCheek told BT Sport after hebecame the first Chelsea player toscore a hat-trick in Europe sinceDidier Drogba 12 years ago. "It's upthere, it's my first hat-trick in awhile, even since playing for theyouth team. It feels nice.
"Any player will tell you it's niceto score a hat-trick and it feels good,
I'll get the ball signed and put in aglass box. Hopefully there aremany more to come."
Three wins from three inGroup L have Chelsea poised toreach the last 32 of the competition,with Unai Emery's Arsenal set tojoin them following a 1-0 victoryin Portugal.
Danny Welbeck pounced on adefensive lapse by former Liverpooldefender Sebastian Coates on 78minutes to keep Arsenal on max-imum points in Group E and pro-long the club's best run since 2007.
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pions AC Milan crashed to a 2-1home defeat by Real Betis asGennaro Gattuso's team dropped
their first points in Group F.Goals from Antonio Sanabria
and Giovani Lo Celso, on loan fromParis Saint-Germain, earned groupleaders Betis a memorable win atthe San Siro.
Patrick Cutrone grabbed aconsolation for Milan who finishedthe game with 10 men after SamuelCastillejo saw red for the hosts ininjury time.
Olympiakos beat Dudelange ofLuxembourg 2-0 in the group'sother fixture, while there was more
misery for Brendan Rodgers andScottish champions Celtic inGermany.
Brazilian striker MatheusCunha and Portugalwinger Bruma, whoscored againstScotland in a friend-ly this month, wereboth on target in thefirst half as RBLeipzig won 2-0.
Salzburg picked up a thirdsuccessive victory to stay top ofGroup B as Munas Dabbur nettedtwice in a 3-0 defeat of bottom sideRosenborg. Steven Gerrard'sRangers remain unbeaten in GroupG but were left frustrated after a 0-0 draw against an understrengthSpartak Moscow, who left a num-ber of first-choice players behind inRussia.
"We are making huge stridesfrom where we were," said Gerrard.
"We came close but it wasn't tobe. It could be a valuable point atthe end of the day. It shows just howfar we've come when we are dis-appointed to take a point off aChampions League team."
Rangers are level on five pointswith Villarreal at the top after theSpaniards hammered Rapid Vienna5-0. Last season's runners-upMarseille are in danger of an earlyexit after losing 3-1 at home toLazio, while five-time championsSevilla thrashed Akhisar 6-0.
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World number one Tai beatsSaina Nehwal in straight sets
to enter French Open semifinal onFriday. This was the second meet-ing of both these decorated play-ers of world Badminton within aweek and like the past one Taipeiplayer comes out better of herIndian opponent by 22-20, 21-11.
Earlier on Thursday night,India ace P V Sindhu advanced to
the quarterfinals with a straight-game win over Japan's Sayaka Satobut B Sai Praneeth crashed out.
Sindhu dished out a compactgame to outwit Sayaka 21-17, 21-16 in a second round match onThursday to set up a clash with sev-enth seeded Chinese He Bingjiao.
However, Praneeth was nomatch for Asian Games championJonatan Christie of Indonesia,going down 16-21, 14-21 in amen's singles match.
The men's doubles pairs ofSatwiksairaj Rankireddy andChirag Shetty and Manu Attri andB Sumeeth Reddy too put up agood show, progressing to thequarterfinals with straight gamewins. While Satwik and Chiragdefeated China's He Jiting and TanQiang 21-13, 21-19, Manu andSumeeth stunned third seededChinese combination of Liu Chengand Zhang Nan 21-14, 21-16 inanother match.
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Lewis Hamilton said Thursdaythat another Formula One
championship would be oneearned by him and Mercedes -not one thrown away by Ferrari.
Sebastian Vettel won the firsttwo races of 2018 to set up whatpromised to be a dramatic chasefor a fifth career championshipbetween him and Hamilton. NowHamilton's dominant second halfof the season, helped by a rash ofmistakes by Vettel and Ferrari,has the Mercedes driver set towin the crown even if he finish-
es as low as seventh Sunday."I see a lot of people write a
lot of stories saying things havebeen 'handed'" to Mercedes thisseason, Hamilton said.
"That naturally takes awayfrom the job the team and I havedone."
Vettel has taken criticismover Ferrari's season of miscues.That includes last week at the USGrand Prix, won by his Ferrariteammate Kimi Raikkonen whileVettel missed the podium.
Vettel said the driver with themost points at the end of the sea-son deservedly wins the title.Saying another driver lost itwouldn't be fair, he said.
"For the words to come froma four-time world champion,that's positive to hear," Hamilton
said in advance of this weekend'sMexican Grand Prix.
"He's been a great competi-tor this year. It's been so hot forboth of us. I look forward tomany more years of us racingtogether right at the top."
Ferrari's blunders certainlymade Hamilton's season easier.There have been crashes, pitstop and tire mistakes, and prac-tice penalties that cost Ferrariwins and race position.
Vettel's last victory came inBelgium six races ago and he'smissed the podium three times inthe last five.
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