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LG hits back at
Kejri on traffic
C iting dates of meetings
attended by the PWD mi-
nister, LG Anil Baijal has
written to CM Kejriwal co-
untering the latters claim
that the government was not
kept in the loop on work done
on traffic bottlenecks. P 5
Amazon set for
food retail entry
T he Centre has approved
Amazons $500-million
investment proposal for fo-
od retail in India. The FIPB
has also approved similar
proposals by online grocers
BigBasket and Grofers. P 19
Glitch hits NSE,
but Nifty rallies
A n unexplained techni-
cal glitch led to trading
in the NSE being stopped
from 9.55am to 12.30pm on
Monday before the Nifty
surged over 1% to close at an
all-time high of 9,771. P 19
SC: Khetan cant
get police cover
T he Supreme Court tur-
ned down on Monday
AAP leader Ashish Khe-
tans plea for police protec-
tion following alleged death
threats from right-wing ex-
tremist organisations. P 5
Nadal out of
Wimbledon
F rench Open champion Ra-
fael Nadals hopes of a
third Wimbledon title were
crushed by Luxembourgs
Gilles Muller as the Spani-
ard lost 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 15-13 in
the fourth round on Monday.
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KERALA ACTOR DILEEP HELD
FOR ALLEGEDLY PLOTTING
ACTRESS ABDUCTION, RAPE 8
7 Amarnath yatris from Guj Rahul meets China envoy,
killed in J&K terror strike Party Initially Denies Huddle, Forced To Confirm Later
Army, Police 6 OF THE VICTIMS WOMEN
Camps Were Vehicle wasnt registered with
shrine board; was travelling after J&K
Just 500m Away Didnt have adequate security
permitted hours
Saleem Pandit & Bharti Jain
Srinagar/New Delhi: Seven
Amarnath yatris from Guja-
rat, six of them women, were
killed and 15 others injured
when terrorists opened fire
on a bus just 500 metres
away from an Army camp
and another of Kashmir Poli-
ces Special Operation Group
near Batengoo in J&Ks
Anantnag district, about
50km from Srinagar, on Mon-
day. Survivors said the attack-
ers kept firing till the bus rea-
ched the Army camp.
US firm paid
NHAI officials
$1.2m bribe
A Boston-based consultan-
cy firm has admitted to
the US justice department
that its officials paid bribes
of $1.18 million (approxima-
tely Rs 7.6 crore today) to
NHAI officials between 2011
and 2015, prompting the high-
ways authority to launch a
probe into the payments, re-
ports Dipak Dash. CDM
Smith has agreed to pay the
US treasury $4,037,138 (app-
roximately Rs 25 crore)
which it earned as profit
from illegally obtained
works for highway construc-
tion supervision and design
contracts and a water project
contract in Goa. The com-
pany will pay the fine in four
instalments. P 9
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lands Cong in tight
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Six of the victims were
women, 15 others injured
Pained beyond words... The attack
deserves strongest condemnation.
India will never get bogged down
by such cowardly attacks & the
evil designs of hate PM Modi
Initial reports said the bus
was not registered with the
Amarnath shrine board and
was travelling after permit-
ted hours without adequate
security. The attack, coming
on the first day of shravan
associated with Lord Shiva,
8am-8pm is new city
rush hour: CSE study
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The traffic rush
hour extends from 8am to
8pm on arterial roads of Del-
hi, with average speeds not
exceeding 30 kmph 92% of the
time, reveals a Centre for Sci-
ence and Environment study
that analysed Google Maps
data for last month.
Surprisingly, the study al-
so found that traffic conges-
tion was higher during wee-
kends when average peak spe-
ed dropped to 25 kmph.
On weekdays, the average
speed was 26 kmph, which
was 50 to 60% lower than traf-
fic regulator UTTIPECs stre-
et design standard speed, and
35 to 48% lower than the regu-
lated speed of 40-50 kmph.
INCLUSIVE OF DELHI TIMES | TIMESOFINDIA.COM
FUGITIVE ZAKIR NAIKS
PASSPORT MAY BE
REVOKED IN 10 DAYS 11
spot
Baltal
Amarnath
Srinagar
Pahalgam
NH
-4
4
BATENGOO SITE OF
ATTACK
Anantnag
who is central to the pilgrima-
ge, added to the sense of out-
rage. The bus had come from
Baltal and the pilgrims were
on their way home after offe-
ring puja at the cave shrine.
Bus not registered, P 14
WEEKENDS WORSE
Average trafc speeds on
13 arterial roads (in kmph)
25 | Weekends
26 | Weekdays
28 | Morning peak hours
25 | Evening peak hours
27 | Off-peak hours
44 | Peak hours in Lutyens
zone
8 | Peak hours on
Aurobindo Marg
The study, which has implica-
tions for pollution control,
analysed hourly and daily tra-
vel speeds on 13 arterial stret-
ches taken from Google Maps
through the month of June.
Evening traffic, P 3
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Hindu LeT terrorist
from UP held in J&K
A Hindu man from UP was
hired by Lashkar-e-Taiba to
rob banks and ATMs, snatch
weapons and kill cops in
Kashmir, police said on
Monday. Sandeep Sharma and
his aide Muneeb Shah were
arrested in south Kashmir. P 9
Human shield given
`10L compensation
T he Jammu & Kashmir Human
Rights Commission told the
state government on Monday to
award Rs 10 lakh as compensa-
tion to Farooq Ahmad Dar, a
civilian used as a human shield
by the Army in April. P 8
Reliance Jio
customer data
feared hacked
P rivate data of millions of
Reliance Jio customers
may have been compromi-
sed through a large-scale
hacking attack. Informa-
tion, such as a subscribers
name, mobile number, email
and SIM activation details
may have been revealed.
Jio dubbed reports of
the breach unverified and
Minor fire doused on
Antilias ninth floor, P 8
unsubstantiated, but ad-
ded it had informed the
Centre about the incident.
On Sunday, a website, fonea-
rena.com, said it had been
able to get private details of
Jio customers on the websi-
te magicapk.com. P19
REAL ESTATE REGULATORY
BODIES TO BE FUNCTIONAL
BY JULY 31, SAYS NAIDU 9
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Congress found
itself tied in knots after first
vehemently denying and
then acknowledging that
party vice-president Rahul
Gandhi had met Chinese am-
bassador Luo Zhaohui amid
the continuing stand-off bet-
ween Indian and Chinese
troops near the Sikkim-Ti-
bet-Bhutan tri-junction.
The controversy gained
traction on social media over
reports that the Chinese em-
bassy first reported the mee-
ting, saying it was to ex-
change views on the current
bilateral relations, but later
deleted the post.
The post seemed to have
embarrassed Congress,
which initially denounced it
as fake news. But with the
controversy refusing to die
down and reports of the mee-
Virat must know how
coaches work: Sourav
K.ShriniwasRao
@timesgroup.com
Mumbai: The Indian cricket
board (BCCI) on Monday once
again found itself surroun-
ded by plenty of drama and
controversy when its high-
profile Cricket Advisory Com-
mittee (CAC) withheld the ap-
pointment of Indias next se-
nior mens team coach, saying
they needed a few days mo-
re to make the decision.
While announcing the
postponement, Cricket Advi-
sory Committee (CAC) mem-
ber Sourav Ganguly said Vi-
rat Kohlis inputs were nee-
ITS MY JOB TO BE INFORMED: CONG VP
Chinese embassy reports If govt is so concerned
meet on Sino-Indian ties,
then deletes post
about me meeting an
envoy, they should explain why
Cong terms it fake news, 3 ministers are availing Chinese
but after controversy gains hospitality... And for the record,
traction, conrms meeting Im not the guy sitting
Rahul defends huddle, on the swing
while a thousand
tweets it is my job to be
informed on critical issues; Chinese troops
says he also met ex-NSA had entered India
Menon & Bhutan envoy RAHUL GANDHI
2,500 more soldiers sent to border
T he Army has moved another 2,500 soldiers from their peace-
time deployments in Sikkim to further reinforce its proactive
stance in the ongoing troop face-off with China on the Doklam pl-
ateau. China also has apparently sent more troops to areas near
its Chumbi Valley, which juts in between Sikkim and Bhutan. P 14
ting and the deletion by the struck a defiant stance in the
Chinese embassy gaining face of sharp criticism by BJP.
traction, Congress finally con-
firmed the meeting. It then Chinese hospitality, P 14
Veg-only meal
in AI domestic
economy class
I n a move aimed at cutting
costs, loss-laden Air India
has stopped serving non-ve-
getarian meals to economy
class passengers of its do-
mestic flights. However, all
flyers on the national carri-
Virat Kohli (L) & Sourav Ganguly ers international flights
and business class travel-
ded to make the decision and
that the captain needs to un-
lers on its domestic ones
will continue to get a non-
derstand how coaches work.
The fresh delay in the ap-
pointment of a coach comes
vegetarian option.
The move is expected to
save AI Rs 7-8 crore annually.
47 days after the BCCI invi- The airline says veg meals
ted applications for the role. are more in demand and ha-
ving only-veg in economy
No hurry, P 21 class will avoid mix-ups. P 8
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TUESDAY, JULY 11, 2017
Woman found dead in south Delhi
park identified after eight months
Origin Traced To Haridwar; Tattoo On Her Hand Was Sole Clue For Cops
Rajshekhar.Jha
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Eight months
on, the murder mystery of a
woman with a tattoo on her
hand reported from DDA
park adjacent to Siri Fort in
south Delhi continues to
flummox investigators. Whi-
le police have identified the
woman, and perhaps the kil-
ler, missing links have made
the case complex.
The woman has been
identified as 25-year-old Riz-
wana alias Salma from Ha-
ridwar. Strangely, the tattoo
on her left hand read Ajay
Vijay Jyoti Annu I love you.
Her family is unable to expla-
in this. Salmas friend Ravi
and an unidentified godman
are the prime suspects, sour-
ces said. Both have been ab-
sconding since the murder.
On October 20, 2016, poli-
ce found the womans body
in a pink salwar and a bell,
vermilion and other articles
used in puja/yajna were fo-
und at the crime scene. Hu-
man sacrifice due to supers-
tition has been the line of
probe since the start.
The victim was identifi-
ed through an extensive veri-
Evening traffic on weekends If Prez House on
worse than most week days hill, why cant we
Continued from P1
D
ebunking the myth of a
sharp dip in vehicle
numbers during off-
peak hours, particularly be-
tween noon to 4pm, the study
found there was negligible
variation in average speed
through the 12-hour period.
The average morning and eve-
ning peak speeds were 28 and
25 kmph, respectively, while
the off-peak speed was found
to be 27 kmph.
Even this dropped to 8
kmph on Sri Aurobindo Marg
and 9 kmph on Mehrauli-Ba-
darpur road during peak
hours. Evening peaks were
worse during weekends,
when speeds dipped to 21-23
kmph from 25-27 kmph on
working days. This could be
due to a higher use of person-
al vehicles over weekends.
The study says average
peak-hour speeds in the Lu-
tyens zone were far higher at
44 kmph. The average off-peak
speed in the zone was 52
kmph, almost double com-
pared to other arterial roads.
Several chronically con-
gested stretches were identi-
fied in the study. For instance,
on the Ambedkar Nagar to
Lajpat Nagar stretch on Lal
Bahadur Shastri Marg, the av-
erage morning and evening
peak speeds were 16 and 17
kmph, respectively. The aver-
age speed on Sri Aurobindo
Marg (from Lado Sarai to Kid-
wai Nagar West) was found to
be only 19 kmph.
Delhi will run to a stand-
still. This is an inevitable con-
sequence of explosive and un-
restrained vehicle numbers
that crossed 10 million in
Expect 3-day
rain respite
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The capital con-
tinued to witness sultry we-
ather on Monday with the
mercury touching 38 Celsi-
us, two notches above nor-
mal for the season with
sticky conditions due to
the high humidity.
Delhiites, however, will
see some respite once again
from Tuesday as met offici-
als have said that the south-
west monsoon is likely to
bring a fresh spell of sho-
wers from July 11 to July 13
with peak weather activity
likely to occur on Wednesday.
Delhis humidity, which
was hovering between 50 to
90 percent over the last two
days, oscillated between 44
to 73 percent on Monday
with people venturing out of
their homes to yet another
sunny day. Delhis Safdar-
jung station recorded a max-
imum of 38 Celsius, while
the minimum was recorded
at 30 Celsius, three degrees
above normal for the season.
Similar temperatures
were recorded across the ca-
pital, with Delhis Palam sta-
tion the hottest, recording a
maximum temperature of
TIMES CITY 3
3 who robbed
delivery boy in
IAF man falls off
Metro feeder bus
Dwarka held
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
in S Delhi, dies
New Delhi: Three men, who
had robbed an e-commerce
websites delivery boy of mo- TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Illustration: Arya Praharaj bile phones and cash, were
nabbed by the police on Sun- New Delhi: A 40-year-old
day. The incident was repor- contractual employee with
ted from southwest Delhis the Air Force Station, Tughla-
Dwarka on Friday. qabad, died after falling off a
The prime accused was Metro feeder bus on Mehrau-
an employee of the same e- li-Badarpur Road on Sunday.
commerce website and knew Police said as soon as the
that the delivery boy would driver slammed the brakes
have collected a huge sum of to avoid hitting a pedestrian,
money by the evening, when the victim, Ajay Gaurav-
they planned to strike. who was standing on the fo-
The victim, Sanjeev Ku- otboard of the crowded bus-
mar, was in an Omni car with lost his balance and fell
Doctors told family
the driver when the robbers, from the vehicle. members that Gaurav
1 Eight months ago, cops found the body of
a woman at a DDA park near Siri Fort 2 Tattooed on her arm were four names.
Cops posted her details on ZIPNET 3 A relative of the woman told the cops
that she was Rizwana from Haridwar
later identified as Shubham
Sharma (website employee),
Police said that the inci-
dent happened around 1pm
suffered an haemorrhage
due to the fall. He used to
Ashish Sharma and Dinesh, when Gaurav was travelling
work at the IAF station in
fication process, including When Salmas body and had adopted the alias of had then told TOI. struck them near Dwarkas in the bus, along with his wife,
browsing data of missing pe- Bhairavi. Her family and ex- The body was found lying Sector 4 on Friday. father-in-law and his four-ye- Tughlaqabad
ople across India on zonal in-
was found last year, husband had cut ties with her. in a shrub by a man who was The trio intercepted the ar-old daughter. They had bo-
tegrated police network cops found her face When Salmas body was visiting the DDA park. Cri- car and asked the two occu- arded the bus from Tughlaqa- not note down the number of
(ZIPNET) and door-to-door completely crushed found last year, cops found me and forensic teams then pants to hand over the cash. bad. According to his father- the bus, said Shaw. The bus
inquiries. The description with rocks. They her face completely crushed visited the spot and evidence When Kumar tried to resist, in-law Munna Shaw, Gaurav driver has been absconding
of the woman was uploaded with rocks and burnt. Her like fingerprints and foot- Ashish held a gun against had asked him to take the since the incident took place.
by the south district police assumed the tattoo height was measured at five prints were lifted. The homi- Kumars temple and threate- child and his wife inside whi- Gaurav was rushed to AI-
on ZIPNET and hue-and-cry on her hand to be feet and she had a wheatish cide team had said that the ned to shoot him if he did not le he stood on the footboard IMS where he died during tre-
noticed were circulated. the names of her complexion. The police had murder was probably com- handover his belongings. to pay the fare. atment. A case has been re-
Three teams were formed to assumed that the tattoo co- mitted 2-3 days ago as the bo- Scared that he might be shot However, there was an argu- gistered against the driver for
crack the case.
children or siblings uld be the names of her dy was decomposed. An FIR at, Kumar gave him the cash. ment between Gaurav and the causing death due to negli-
The breakthrough came met her family. They also met siblings or children, which was registered at Hauz Khas Cops scanned the CCTV conductor after the latter de- gence and for rash and negli-
when one of Salmas relati- her former husband, Samir, would help them crack the police station. footage and saw a Duster car manded change for a Rs-100 no- gent driving , said DCP (sout-
ves living in Nathupura con- with whom she had a child. case. A bell, some utensils DCP (south) Ishwar fleeing from the spot. They te and asked him to get off the heast) Romil Baaniya.
tacted the cops and gave her Cops found that Salma had and a photo of goddess Dur- Singh confirmed to TOI that then narrowed down on the bus. When he tried to turn and Doctors told the family
details. He also gave them her been living with a man named ga found near the body indi- the woman has been identifi- vehicle and arrested the rob- grab the handle rod, the driver members that Guarav had
address in Hardiwar after Ravi in Delhi. She also frequ- cated that a puja was held ed. Teams are trying to tra- bers who, on interrogation, suddenly slammed the brakes suffered an internal hae-
which cops went there and ented temples with a godman at the crime scene, a source ce Ravi, he said. confessed to the crime. to avoid hitting a jaywalker. morrhage due to the fall. He
Gaurav fell backward used to work as a lower divi-
and hit his head on the road, sion clerk at the IAF station
which has been under repair in Tughlaqabad.
for some time. He fell uncons- According to the police,
cious after the fall. We forced road repair work often leads
the driver to stop the vehicle to accidents on the stretch
and got off. However, we could on a daily basis.
How non-peak hours are as bad as peak hours
build on Aravali?
Dipak.Dash@timesgroup.com
35
Congestion is increasing;
non-peak hours are as bad
Minister takes up
Average speed
during day
New Delhi: At a review mee- tree felling case
Daily Average Speed (in Kmph)
30
ting on different schemes of
25
housing and urban affairs mi-
nistry in Chandigarh on Satur-
day, a Haryana government of-
D elhi environment minister
Imran Hussain on Monday
held another meeting with
ficial pushing for opening up activists over the felling of
more areas in the Aravali for trees in Aurobindo Marg, along
20
construction activities came with senior officials from the
up with startling logic. If Rash- forest department, PWD and
15 trapati Bhawan could come up Traffic Police to find a solution
Morning Peak (9am-12noon) Off-Peak (12noon-4pm) Evening Peak (12noon-9pm) on the Raisina Hills, how can to decongest the area without
development be stopped in the removal of trees.
June 1- June 30 June 1- June 30 June 1- June 30 other hill areas, he is learnt to Led by activist Padmavati
Lutyens zone without arterial roads has less have told the meeting. Dwivedi, the locals from the area
Weekend trafc worse than week days Sources confirmed that Ra- were assured that the trees
congestion and improved speed and also
(12-hour average speeds in weekdays (Mon-Fri) jesh Khullar, principal secreta- would not be cut, and all
distinct non-peak hours
and weekends (Sat-Sun) ry to chief minister Manohar departments were asked to come
Average speed on Lutyens roads
Average speed in weekday (Mon-Fri)
Average speed on other roads
Lal, made this statement when up with solutions to decongest
Average speed in weekens (Sat-Sun) Lutyens Union minister Rao Inderjit the area without the removal or
60 speed is
Lutyens 52 Singh was holding the review felling of such trees. TNN
30
26 26 27 26 50 44 speed is 50% meeting where the Aravali is-
Average Speed (in Kmph)
23
Average Speed (in Kmph)
25 22 21 23 40% higher higher sue prominently figured. al records have recognised that
40
20 We were stumped to hear the hills in Faridabad, Rewari
15
30 26 27 such an argument considering and Narnaul are part this
10 20 the fact that the Presidential range, one of the oldest in the
Estate came up during the Bri- country.
5 10
tish Rule. The logic simply sho- Earlier the Bhupinder
0
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 0 wed how officials in Haryana Singh Hooda government had
Peak-Hour Speed Non-peak Hour are hell-bent to ensure const- unsuccessfully tried to allow
Source: CSE analysis based on google maps (in kmph) (in kmph)
ruction is allowed in Aravali. more construction in Aravali.
Its strange that they are pus- As per the Regional Plan 2021,
2017, said Anumita Roy tion and reverse this trend via NH9 was 27 km/hr. hing this demand even when construction and that too only
Chowdhury, executive direc- arent implemented, it will CSE researchers said the- they have enough undeveloped for recreational activities is
tor at CSE. become increasingly more re is a clear link between high- land in the NCR, said a Cen- allowed only up to 0.5% since
The traffic numbers are difficult to reduce toxic expo- er nitrogen dioxide (NO2) lev- tral government official, who Aravali is treated as Natural
further inflated by daily in- sure to air pollution, Roy els and dropping traffic did not wish to be identified. Conservation Zone.
flux of vehicles from outside Chowdhury said. speeds. CPCBs real time mon- Khullar did not respond to Though after taking charge
Delhi. With a further drop in Arterial roads to NCR ci- itoring data for NO2 from repeated calls, SMSes and of the state, Manohar Lal had
car prices under GST, the con- ties are more congested. For Anand Vihar, R K Puram, Ma- Whats App messages as TOI vowed to protect and conserve
gestion will only grow, she example, Sri Aurobindo Marg ndir Marg and Punjabi Bagh tried to contact him. Aravali, the officials revived
said. Currently, congestion on connecting Gurgaon via NH 8 shows that when the average This is not the first time the proposal to allow more
Delhi roads is growing at the has an average speed of 24 morning peak speed of 28 when Haryana officials offe- construction in the environ-
rate of 7% annually. About kmph which often dropped to kmph drops to 25 in the eve- red such an argument. Earlier, mentally sensitive zone. This
537 cars and 1,158 two-wheel- 7 kmph during evening peak ning, NO2 levels increase they had claimed that Aravali has created a face-off like situ-
ers are added every day. If hours. The average speed on from 68 micrograms per cubic is confined to Gurgaon district ation between the Centre and
strategies to curb motorisa- Outer Ring Road- Ghaziabad metre to 94 a rise of 38%. only despite the fact that offici- Haryana government.
Nothing done to keep Diesel fire
engines are
Mangar Bani promise Sanjay Chauhan
okay: NGT
New Delhi: National Green
39 Celsius on Monday along Shilpy.Arora@timesgroup.com Tribunal has allowed regi-
with minimum of 30.8. stration of 20 new diesel ve-
According to officials Gurgaon: More than a year hicles of the Delhi fire de-
from the Regional Weather has passed since the Haryana partment which conform to
Forecasting Centre in Delhi, government made a commit- BS-IV emission norms.
strong showers are likely oc- ment to protect Mangar Bani The green panel granted
cur over the next three days by officially demarcating it as the relief to the fire depart-
in the NCR, starting from a forest. Yet, according to an ment after it was informed
the afternoon of July 11. RTI reply from the states that it does not have any vehi-
The southwest monso- principal chief conservator of cle which were more than
on will bring more rain over forests on July 6, the govern- 10-years-old.
the coming days with thun- ment has no plan to do so. We permit 20 vehicles of
dershower likely to occur No such proposal to de- the fire department to be regis-
across NCR during the pe- clare any area of village tered by the RTO Delhi which
riod from Tuesday afterno- Mangar in district Faridabad are conforming to BS-IV
on to Thursday with peak ra- as forest is under considera- norms. These vehicles should
infall activity likely to occur tion as on date, states the re- LIFELINE: Mangar Bani is critical to the ecosystem of the Aravalis be used only for the purpose of
ply to the RTI query filed by fire tending and not any other
HEATS ON activist Asseem Takyar. context of the Aravalis. That State forest minister Rao Nar- purpose, the bench said.
Mangar Bani is critical to decision is yet to be taken by bir Singh told TOI, The state NGTs order came after Del-
on Wednesday. These rains the ecosystem of the Aravalis the MoEFC (ministry of envi- declared a 500m radius aro- hi government informed the
will bring down the maxi- and environmentalists have ronment, forest and climate und Mangar Bani as a no- bench that the fire department
mum temperatures, howe- waged a long battle for the gro- change) on which rests the re- construction zone. However, has bought diesel vehicles
ver humidity is likely to re- ve to be granted protected sta- sponsibility of finalising the more needs to be done to pro- which were BS-IV compliant.
main high during the pe- tus. They received a shot in definition and submitting it to tect Mangar Bani as a forest.
riod, said a RWFC official. the arm last year when CM the Supreme Court. MD Sinha, conservator of
Tuesdays forecast pre- Manohar Lal Khattar appro- According to the Haryana forest, Gurgaon circle, said,
dicts cloudy skies with pos- ved a 500-metre no-construc- government, the total area Mangar bani definitely ne-
sibility of rain and thun- tion zone around Mangar Ba- under Mangar Bani is 653.45 eds to be declared a protected
dershower in the afternoon ni. Yet, a notification that gi- acres and the area in the 500- forest. Some three years ago,
and evening. Overnight sho- ves the grove a legal shield metre no-construction belt we had submitted a proposal
wers are also expected, met from any attempt at infringe- is 979.13 acres. to notify Mangar Bani under
officials said. The maximum ment has not been issued. Government representati- Section 4&5 of Punjab Land
temperature on Tuesday is There is, though, a paral- ves unanimously agreed Preservation Act, under
likely to be around 36 Celsi- lel development that has a di- Mangar Bani needed to be which vast tracts of Aravalis
us, while the minimum will rect bearing on this the defi- protected but did not have an are notified. However, it is pen-
be around 28 Celsius. nition of what a forest is in the answer on the way forward. ding with the authorities.
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II Laxmi Nagar - Karkari
Mod at 8pm
III Hauz Khas - Savitri
Cinema at 8pm
IV NH34
at 1pm
V Delhi Gate - ITO
at 8.30pm
SPEED (Km per hour)
9 9
8
6 shopkeepers to vacate the
I II III IV
Worst time
to be on road 6.30pm
List is drawn from 42 worst
traffic spots in Delhi,
Gurgaon, Noida and
Ghaziabad that are tracked
for congestion between 7am
and 9pm on Google Maps.
Traffic jams outside these 42
spots arent captured
1984 riots: Judge
recuses himself
A plea by a special
investigation team relating
to anti Sikh riot cases couldn't
be heard on Monday after the
judge hearing the case recused
himself in the Delhi high court.
The plea by SIT seeks
cancellation of anticipatory bail
granted by the trial court to
Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in
a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. TNN
CISF constable
hit by truck
A CISF woman constable was
hit by a mini truck while she
was walking towards Rajiv
Gandhi Bhawan in south Delhi on
Monday. Vandana Kumari was
crossing a road at 4.30am when
the truck hit her and went over
her leg, police said. The driver
fled the spot after the incident.
Kumari is undergoing treatment
at AIIMS Trauma Centre. PTI
Has NDMC all but abandoned Gole Market?
Revamp Planned 11 Yrs Ago; Council Yet To Float Tender Despite Winning SC Battle In 2013
Mayank.Manohar
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: A plan to rede-
velop the iconic Gole Mar-
ket was conceived in 2006
and the work was to be over
by this March. However, in
reality, New Delhi Munici-
pal Council (NDMC) is yet to
start the project.
The heritage building
9
was declared dangerous in
2007, and NDMC asked the
premises. But 28 shopkee-
pers went to the high court
against the eviction and the
case dragged on till 2013
when the Supreme Court ru-
led in favour of NDMC.
V
Although NDMC had
appointed a consultant to
prepare a detailed plan, a
tender is yet to be floated
and the deadline has been
shifted again.
The council plans to de-
velop a museum, which will
have artefacts and vintage
photographs to showcase
Delhis history along with
31km road stretch to go smart
Mayank.Manohar
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: The roads under
the jurisdiction of the New
Delhi Municipal Council
will soon be developed as
smart roads under the
Smart City project of the
Union government. NDMC
has already started prepara-
tions for work on a pilot
stretch of 31 km.
The plan was first propo-
sed by Union minister Ven-
kaiah Naidu in January 2017,
during which it was also pro-
posed to make Connaught
Place a vehicle-free zone. Ho-
wever, the Connaught Place
plan didnt take off after
objections from the New
Delhi Traders Association
and lack of preparation on
the NDMCs end.
Chairman of NDMC Na-
resh Kumar said that all roads
in its jurisdiction will be deve-
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Why the iconic market is in a shambles
2006 Plan to redevelop
Gole Market conceived;
deadline 2017
2007 The heritage
building declared
dangerous; NDMC
asks shopkeepers to
vacate premises but
28 of them move HC
2007-13 Matter
stuck in court
2013 Court rules in
NDMC favour, orders
eviction of shops
2017 March
deadline expires, NO
NEW DEADLINE SET
WHERE
ITS STUCK
NDMCs apex body
tasked with submitting
cost estimate, no
tender floated yet
The smart roads will
have special features
like landscaping,
vertical gardens, cycle
tracks, eateries and
3D zebra crossings
loped into smart roads and
special features including
landscaping, vertical gar-
dens, cycle tracks, street fur-
nitures, plazas/eateries, peli-
can crossing and 3D zebra
crossings will also be added.
We have developed
frames at intersections and
will gradually develop them
into vertical gardens. It is a
new concept and will make
NDMC areas greener and
brighter, said Kumar.
The project will also see
replacement of street lights
with LED lights with the
smart pole having Wi-Fi faci-
Vistara and
DMRC tie up
for check-in
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: After Air India
and Jet Airways, Vistara
will now provide check-in
facilities at the New Delhi
metro station of Delhi Met-
ros Airport Express Line.
Delhi Metro Rail Cor-
poration and Vistara will
launch the city check-in
facility at the New Delhi
metro station on Tuesday.
DMRC would also be cele-
brating the check-in of
two lakh passengers on
the Airport Express Line
till date, in association
with the airlines and the
private airport operator of
IGI Airport, Delhi Inter-
national Airport Ltd.
User: affanul.haque
WHAT THE MARKET WOULD HAVE LOOKED LIKE
As per the plan, it would house a museum with artefacts and
vintage photographs to showcase Delhis history
Periphery of market beautified with gardens and artwork
Pelican crossings a crossing with traffic lights operated by
pedestrians
lity. The tender has been floa-
ted for the same.
We have appointed the
consultant for the project
and work has already been
initiated for 3D zebra cros-
sing at many roads. The cont-
ract for developing modern
street furniture has been
awarded to SAIL. The work
for developing the pelican
crossing will be done in con-
sultation with the Delhi
Traffic Police, said a senior
NDMC official.
The smart roads will also
have sensor-based smart
parking systems. People
can book the slot using
NDMCs 311 mobile app at
any desired location in ad-
vance and pay through e-
wallet or net banking.
NDMC has procured 55
smart poles, which will have
facilities like Wi-Fi, CCTV
camera, environment sen-
sors and LED lighting.
SDMC to map areas to manage waste
AlokKNMishra
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: The south corpo-
ration has decided to conduct
geo-mapping of areas under
its jurisdiction for effective
collection of waste. The exer-
cise is meant to visualise data
from different geographical
locations and study the cha-
racteristics of inhabitants.
The study will help the ci-
vic body ascertain how many
people live in different blocks
of various colonies, apart-
ments and unauthorised co-
lonies. It (the exercise) is ne-
cessary to effectively plan
waste collection and dispo-
sal. We want to use our man-
power in the most effective
way, SDMC mayor Kamalje-
et Sehrawat said. She said the
corporation could streamli-
ne its efforts better if it had
an exact idea of the number
of hotels, hospitals, restau-
rants, residential areas and
commercial centres where
waste was generated.
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nish it on priority but even
en no maintenance and the
Along with smart poles, the-
se roads will have digital in-
teractive information pa-
nels. People can use theses
panel for registering any
complaints with NDMC and
can avail services online. It
will take a couple of months
to complete the work at the
pilot stretch and the same
will be replicated across
the remaining ones, added
the official.
He further said that po-
int-of-delivery kiosks will be
installed at all stretches un-
der NDMC, through which
people can avail services at
doorsteps. These kiosks will
also have video conferencing
facility with NDMC officials.
It will help NDMC connect
with the people. Using this
facility, people can directly
speak to NDMC officials and
apprise them about the issu-
es in their respective area,
said the senior official.
DIRTY PICTURE: SDMC areas generate 3,000 tonne of garbage daily
corporation is that it gets
waste collected from doors-
teps and dhalaos some of
the garbage is segregated,
compressed and recycled,
whereas what is left is dum-
ped at landfills. The reality,
however, was different, clai-
med residents. Vivek Ton-
don, joint secretary of Va-
sant Vihar RWA, said: It is
common to find garbage spil-
ling out of the dhalao at the
Vasant Vihar club. Despite
repeated complaints, not-
an art gallery and a cafete-
ria. The periphery of the
market will be beautified
with gardens and artwork
while the nearby shops will
undergo renovation.
NDMC also plans to in-
troduce pelican crossings
a crossing with traffic lights
operated by pedestrians
because due to the old archi-
tectural pattern of area,
subways are not a viable op-
tion. However, everything
has remained on paper.
Shopkeepers claim that
the octagonal building now
wears a deserted look. The
plasters are flaking off and
a few branches of a peepal
tree and shrubs have grown
on its walls.
There was a legal dispu-
te that went in favour of
NDMC. We were hoping that
NDMC would initiate the re-
development work and fi-
years later the condition is
still the same. There has be-
building, which was a major
STREAMING NOW, AT CP
BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL: Digital display screens will soon grace various parts of the capital under NDMCs
Smart City project. To begin with, two screens have come up at Connaught Place. Many more are likely to
be installed at Khan Market, Gol Dak Khana and India Gate
File photo
hing has changed. He added:
The situation at the E Block
market in Vasant Vihar is qu-
ite the same.
Other RWAs, too, compla-
in of poor sanitation servi-
ces. Residents in Badar-
pur, Tughlakabad and Sang-
am Vihar have similar
complaints.
Sehrawat said despite
best efforts, sometimes sani-
tation services couldnt meet
expectations due to a variety
of reasons. After geo-map-
tourist attraction in central
Delhi, has lost its charm.
Shopkeepers have also lost
their customers, said Na-
rayan Shamnani, president
of Gole Market Merchants
Association.
Several civic issues ha-
ve cropped up due to lack of
maintenance mounds of
garbage and malba are dum-
ped on the premises, the dra-
inage system is in bad
shape and NDMC does not-
hing to keep the area clean,
he added. If NDMC is plan-
ning to build a museum, it
also needs to develop a dedi-
cated parking spot as the
traffic is heavy in the area,
Shamnani said.
According to NDMC offi-
cials, once cost estimation is
approved by the Council,
NDMCs apex body, a tender
will be floated. The plans
are ready and have been
approved. However, the ten-
der will take some more ti-
me as no decision has been
reached on the project cost
yet, said a senior official.
ping, we expect to improve
the services provided to resi-
dents as it would help us de-
ploy our manpower better.
The areas that generate more
garbage than others will see
deployment of more manpo-
wer and vehicles, she said.
South corporation areas
generate around 3,000 tonne
of garbage daily and the civic
body has around 20,000 sani-
tation workers on its rolls.
Work is allocated to these wor-
kers on the basis of a rough
estimate of the requirements
of various areas. The task has
been made more difficult by
the mushrooming of residen-
tial societies and apartments.
Also, the civic body is wor-
king on the basis of a popula-
tion census that was conduc-
ted over six years ago.
The number of inhabi-
tants in each apartment and
society will be studied to find
out how much waste is gene-
rated. A private agency will
be hired for the purpose, for
which a tender will be floated
soon, said mayor.
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TUESDAY, JULY 11, 2017
Pvt players
to maintain
N corp parks
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The north corpo-
ration, which is short of labour
in its horticulture department,
is planning to maintain its
parks through public-private
partnership.
The corporation tasked
with the maintenance of six
thousand parks aims to
ease the work load with this
partnership. Under the sche-
me, over 500 parks are maintai-
ned by NGos, RWAs and
private companies.
The corporation has signed
MoUs with small companies
for maintaining 54 parks cove-
ring 22 acres. More than 440
parks, spread across 107 acres,
are being maintained for a fee
of Rs 8,000 per acre that is paid
to the RWA and NGO.
We give them a monthly
fee to maintain a park and they
get to decide the kind of manpo-
wer they need, said corpora-
tions director horticulture,
Ranbir Singh. Almost 47 RWAs
are currently working with the
corporation under the system.
Anindya Chattopadhyay
Court takes
lenient view
on rash driver
New Delhi: A mans act of ta-
king two injured persons to a
doctor has earned him the le-
niency of a Delhi court which
set aside the two-month jail
term awarded to him for en-
dangering the life of others
by rash driving.
The court, while releasing
Gramin Sewa driver Pradeep
Tanwar (47) on probation for
one year, said he deserved
an opportunity to reform
himself as the judicial system
is based upon reformative
method.
The convict himself had
taken the injured persons to a
nearby dispensary and also
considering the fact that our
judicial system is based upon
reformative method and in or-
der to afford an opportunity to
the convict to reform himself,
ends of justice would be met if
he is released on probation for
a period of one year, Special
Judge Savita Rao said. PTI
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Govt kept in loop on traffic plan: LG

Baijal Writes To CM, Says Jain Was Part Of Meetings On Removing Bottlenecks
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Lieutenant go-
vernor Anil Baijal has shot
off a letter to chief minister
Arvind Kerjiwal, countering
the latters claim that the elec-
ted government was not kept
in the loop over work done on
removing traffic bottlenecks.
The LG, while appreciating
the full cooperation offered
by the CM to solve the pro-
blem, cites dates of meetings
attended by PWD and urban
development minister Saty-
endar Jain to drive home the
point that the AAP govern-
ment was not only kept infor-
med but was also part of
the process.
This statement about the
elected government being
Baijal expressed
surprise that the CM
and his ministers
did not have any
knowledge of the issue,
despite so much work
having been done in the
last six months
kept in dark does not appear (PWD and UD) attending mee-
to be borne out as per facts, a tings or being informed from
statement from the LGs offi- time to time, and the issue
ce said. The LG expressed itself getting so much of me-
surprise that the CM and his dia coverage.
ministers did not have any Last Thursday, chief mini-
knowledge of the issue, despi- ster Kejriwal had written to
te so much work having been Baijal, saying that he was enti-
done in the last six months rely unaware that the latter
and that too with the minister had taken up the matter of traf-
fic congestion in Delhi and was
working with bureaucrats to
address the situation.
On Monday, the LGs office
issued a statement to inform
that the LG had responded to
the CMs letter. Last week,
the LG taking cognisance of
the media reports on July 5
that the CM had sought infor-
mation on traffic bottlenecks
from the chief secretary by
August 15, had suo motu infor-
med steps taken so far thro-
ugh a letter dated July 5, along
with the list of 28 category-A
priority corridors, the state-
ment from LGs office read.
The LG has informed the
CM that the minutes of the
very first meeting he chaired
to review the submissions of
the six task forces on March
28 were endorsed to the secre-
tary to minister (transport).
The statement further said
the chief secretary had con-
vened a meeting on May 3
wherein five pilot corridors
were identified and an action
plan was laid out for each
of these.
Subsequent to this, the
LG chaired another meeting
on May 16 focusing especially
on just two pilot corridor-
scorridor no. 1 Aurobindo
Marg (Aurobindo Marg to
Andheria More) and corridor
no. 3 Savitri Flyover (Chirag
Dilli Crossing to Savitri Flyo-
ver). The minister (UD/PWD)
not only attended this mee-
ting but also gave useful
suggestions, the LG has
informed.

Info in public domain will plug HC rap for 2

corruption: CM at portal launch
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Invoking former
associates Anna Hazare and
Aruna Roy, with whom he
had worked during the early
years of India Against Cor-
ruption and the struggle for
right to information (RTI),
chief minister Arvind Kejri-
wal launched the Delhi go-
vernments online RTI portal
on Monday.
The portal, which had re-
ceived 32 applications till
5pm, will allow citizens to file
RTI applications and first ap-
peal in case of further grie-
vances in about 172 depart-
ments, including the CMs of-
fice and those of cabinet
ministers.
This is a historic day for
Delhi in particular and India
in general. I remember how
Anna Hazare-ji and Aruna
Roy-ji worked for right to in-
formation. They led the mo-
vement for the poorest becau-
se they knew that informa-
tion was power. Aruna Roy-ji
led the Hamara Paisa, Hama-
ra Hisaab campaign for
transparency, Kejriwal said.
BATTING FOR TRANSPARENCY: Law minister Kailash Gahlot with CM
Arvind Kejriwal at the launch of Delhi governments RTI portal
The CM, who became well
known for his RTI work but
has faced criticism for alle-
ged lack of transparency in
his government, said the real
right would be achieved
when the government starts
putting up information,
which is important for
the public domain, in public
domain.
He added, Transparency
will stop corruption. For ex-
ample, when we are able to
put details of sale and other
PTI
would not just get soft copies
registers of ration shops in
the public domain, we will be
able to plug corruption. Bene-
ficiaries of the system will be
more powerful as they will be
equipped with information.
Kejriwal said the govern-
ment would put up more and
more information in the
public domain. The depart-
ments involved with const-
ruction work, like PWD,
DSIIDC, and irrigation & flo-
od control, should make all
such details public. Since pe-
ople are paying tax, they have
a right to know how the go-
vernment is spending their
money, he said.
Law minister Kailash
Gahlot said more features
would be added in the coming
days. The government plans
to make even RTI replies pub-
lic, instead of keeping it open
just for the applicant. Someo-
ne looking for information on
the same subject would then
be able to access the response
by the government, he added.
By filing an application
on the website, the applicant
of the response but also
message and email alerts
if action is taken on their
application.
The leader of opposition,
BJPs Vijender Gupta, said he
did not trust the govern-
ments assurances of trans-
parency. An e-RTI portal is
nothing new and going by the
history of the government, I
am not convinced that they
will be transparent. We will
have to wait and see what
it does with the new
system, he said.
jailed over
House ruckus
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Two men jailed by
the Speaker for throwing
pamphlets in Delhi Assembly
were grilled by the Delhi HC
on Monday.
Why were you behaving like
Bhagat Singh? Is this not a free
country yet? What were you in-
viting attention to? Why were
you recreating what Bhagat
Singh did, a bench of Justices
Siddharth Mridul and Najmi
Waziri asked the two men dur-
ing the hearing of their plea
against Assembly Speaker
Ram Niwas Goels order send-
ing them to 30 days of rigorous
imprisonment.
The court also questioned
the maintainability of their
plea against the Speakers June
28 decision as it was a habeas
corpus petition and it did not
assail the rules under which
they were sent to jail for
breach of privilege and con-
tempt of the House.
Both have challenged the
Speakers order sending them
to jail for throwing pamphlets
and sloganeering in the House.
HC said if the petitioners do
challenge the very constitu-
tional validity of the rules then

Software update: RTI section on

the plea may have to be heard by
adifferent bench and gave them
time till Tuesday to decide their
future course of action.

corp websites offline for 5 years

Paras.Singh@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: For five years, the RTI sec-
tion on the websites of the three munici-
pal corporations has been offline due to
updation of software.
Until 2012, before the trifurcation of
the erstwhile MCD, the corporation
website had a functional RTI tab. In the
past five years, while the websites have
been revised, several new apps laun-
ched, the RTI tab has been in a comatose
state. Corporation officials dont want
to say why.
Some blame it on administrative
functionality, some say its because of
technical complexity, others pass the
buck onto the Central Information Com-
mission. Under the RTI Act, every de-
partment has PIOs and a reply has to be
given within 15 days of an RTI being fi-
led. But since trifurcation, we have been
facing functional problems. If the sy-
stem receives the complaint, we will ha-
ve to send it to the appropriate depart-
ment. But since we have such a diverse
structure, the proper routing of applica-
tion to all the administrative offices
across city, or, lets say a deputy commis-
sioner in faraway Narela, might take
time. Proper mapping will have to be do-
ne otherwise and we will try to start in
by next week, said an official of south
corporation, the nodal agency for
e-governance.
PASSING THE BUCK
IT officials from all the three corpo-
rations couldnt explain why they ha-
vent been able to tweak the existing RTI
software for so many years.
The north corporation commissio-
ner said he would look into the matter
and see where the problem lies while
the spokesperson of south corporation
told TOI to direct the queries to Tech
Mahindra that has been managing the e-
services since 2010. But the IT team of
north corporation attributed the delay
to pending approval from the admini-
stration.
This blame game isnt new. RTI acti-
vist Mohit Goel claimed that the delay
has been due to the reluctance to be scru-
tinised. He said the system worked fine
before trifurcation. For six months, I
have used the online system. Its a mat-
ter of intentions being wrong, not the
software, Goel said.
He added that the websites of the
three corporations also dont post suo
motu disclosures mandated under the
RTI Act. They are simply not interes-
ted in transparency, Goel said.
High court lawyer Anil Kumar Ag-
garwal said the corporations were open-
ly flouting the RTI Act and running
away from accountability.
The mayors, however, promised to lo-
ok into it urgently and get the system up
and running in the next 10 days.

Zoo to get Court tells DCW Submit plan

new biogas for Yamuna
plant by Sept chief to comply revival: NGT
Rahesha Sehgal

New Delhi: The Delhi zoo,

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which has recently started a
month-long plantation drive
under Van Mahotsav, is all set
for another green initiative
which will see a biogas plant set
up by September, allowing the
zoo to segregate and process
waste internally.
The plant which can process
3 metric tonnes of waste each
day is likely to produce enough
biogas each month which will
be equivalent to 135 LPG cylin-
ders. While the waste would ear-
lier all go to landfill sites, with
corporation trucks coming dai-
ly to collect it, zoo officials say
this plant will not only help in
providing clean energy, but also
help them becoming more self-
sustainable.
The biogas plant can run
our kitchens and help us man-
age our waste in a better and ef-
ficient manner. The plant is
likely to be functional by Sep-
tember and we are carrying out
a tree plantation drive simulta-
neously, said Renu Singh, Del-
hi zoo director.
The plant is expected to cost
around Rs 55 lakh and is being
installed with the help of the
Bhabha Atomic Research Cen-
tre, with three such plants al-
ready installed at DTU, Tihar
Jail and Delhi Secretariat.
with its orders
New Delhi: Delhi Commis-
sion for Women chief Swati
Maliwal, facing prosecution
in a case of alleged irregula-
rities in the recruitment pro-
cess in the panel, has been
warned by a special court for
her failure to comply with its
directions.
Maliwal, who was allo-
wed by it to go to USA in May,
did not inform it on her re-
turn to India despite specific
directions from the court,
which has warned her to be
careful in future.
Perusal of order dated
May 5 reveals that accused
(Maliwal) was directed to
apprise the court qua her ar-
rival in India from USA on
the date of her arrival itself.
However, though accused re-
turned on July 1, she had not
informed the court...
Accused is warned to be
careful in future and to comp-
ly with the direction of the co-
urt in its letter and spirit,
Special Judge Hemani Mal-
hotra said.
Maliwal had filed an app-
lication apprising the court
about her arrival in India on
July 7 when the matter was
listed for hearing.
The court had in May allo-
Maliwal did not inform a special
court when she returned to
India, despite orders
wed Maliwal to travel to USA
from June 1-30 as she was in-
vited by the US Department
of State for a programme.
It had allowed her plea whi-
le asking her to furnish a copy
of her passport after its rene-
wal and inform the court im-
mediately after her return.
During the earlier hea-
ring, the court was informed
by the investigating officer
(IO) through prosecutor Atul
Shrivastava that the Anti-
Corruption Branchs further
probe in the case was likely to
end soon and requisite steps
would be taken obtaining
sanction to prosecute the co-
accused. The court directed
the IO to file a detailed status
report by July 12 and listed
the matter for further procee-
dings on August 1. PTI
New Delhi: The National Gre-
en Tribunal has asked some
northern states to submit a de-
tailed report on rejuvenation
and restoration of the Yamuna
in three weeks, saying pollu-
tion in the river was of serious
concern as it was highly conta-
minated by industrial efflu-
ents and sewage.
A bench headed by NGT
Chairperson Justice Swatan-
ter Kumar directed Himachal
Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Ut-
tar Pradesh and Central Pollu-
tion Control Board (CPCB) to
file a complete report in this re-
gard within three weeks.
The green panel warned
that in case of default, each of
the state would be liable to pay
an amount of Rs 50,000.
The pollution of river Ya-
muna still remains a matter of
serious concern... We direct
the State of Uttar Pradesh, UP
Jal Nigam, Namami Gange
(Ministry of Water Resources)
and Haryana to submit their
proposed plan for prevention,
control, rejuvenation and res-
toration of river Yamuna, the
bench said.
It had earlier constituted a
committee headed by the Delhi
Jal Board CEO to oversee the
execution of work pertaining
to the cleaning of the river and
asked it to submit reports at re-
gular intervals. PTI
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TUESDAY, JULY 11, 2017

NOT MANY SEATS LEFT

Colleges
Total
admissions
Total number
of seats
Withdrawals
Hopes afloat on fourth list Students in a fix
Hindu
Gargi
954
950
752
1400
6
150
Some Courses May Reopen After Withdrawals In Third List
TIMES NEWS NETWORK yal Singh (Morning), admissions to several For many others, however, the process
as no room for
LSR
Sri Aurobindo
595
983
783
979
10
20
New Delhi: At the end of the third cutoff
admissions, most courses in North Cam-
pus colleges have either closed or have ve-
key courses physics, chemistry, maths,
chemistry and commerce under the gene-
ral category have closed. For the rest, offici-
als said, the dip will be around 0.5% points.
is over. Priya Malhotra, with a score of
96%, chose Jesus & Mary over IP College
where she had got admitted in the second
list. It is near home and I preferred it.
course correction
Dyal Singh 1700 1363 20
ry few seats left. DU officials said the At Kamla Nehru, Sri Aurobindo and Hindu, Many OBC students were turned TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Kamala Nehru 720 869 175 fourth cutoff list is going to see a maxi- most seats are taken. away as all details were not mentioned in
mum drop of 0.25% to 1% points from the At South Campus, Motilal Nehru, Ram their caste certificate. Ranjan Krishna New Delhi: Deepali, an arts
Sri Venkateswara 888 1058 60 previous list. Lal Anand, Aryabhatta and Atma Ram Sa- Yadavs certificate doesnt specify the student, got 82% in her Class
ARSD 729 1179 167 Some courses are expected to reopen in natan Dharma colleges saw a high turnout OBC category, Yadav. So, he was told to XII board exams and picked
the fourth list after withdrawals in the third in the third cuoff. But many students said come back after making necessary chang- journalism (H), political
Maitreyi 850 1000 50 list. For example, Lady Shri Ram is plan- they would like to shift to other colleges. es. As it takes months to change details, I science (H) and English (H)
ning to reopen its philosophy and history co- I am still hoping for a seat in a North am trying to submit an undertaking for as her subjects while filling
Aryabhatta 190 700 15 urses. Some seats are available in journa- Campus college for English. I took admis- the time being. But I am told that it is not the online Delhi University
Janki Devi lism, English and psychology as well, said sion to be on the safe side, said Garima acceptable, said Yadav, who came to seek (DU) admission form. But
731 980 9 officials. But the dip is likely to be conserva- Tyagi, who took admission in English at admission in mathematics at Sri Venka- now, even after the third list,
Memorial College
tive around 0.25 percentage points. In Da- Ram Lal Anand. teswara College. either the key colleges
have closed admission for

Ambedkar BIGGEST DIP IN HUMANITIES

these courses or the cutoff at
lower-rung colleges rema-
ins sky-high, mostly above
univ sees fall First cutoff
NCT Non-NCT
Second cutoff
NCT Non-NCT
90%. She has been the top
scorer so far in her family, university asking for addi-

of up to 5% pts English
but that is still not enough to
get a seat in DU.
She now wants to add
tion or change of courses. At
least, something must be do-
ne to accommodate these
Arts 92 93.5 88.25 89.75
TIMES NEWS NETWORK BA (programme) to her list of children, said Sapna Gupta.
Science 96 97.5 92.25 93.75 subjects because the cutoff His daughter has applied for
New Delhi: There was a sharp for that is still approachable BCom and economics but is
fall in the range of 1.75% to Commerce 97 98.5 93.25 94.75 and the subjects align with unable to get through despite
5.5% in Ambedkar Universi- History her interest. However, DU being a 90 percenter.
tys cutoffs when the second rules do not allow any change However, rules are rules,
list was released on Monday Arts 93.5 95.5 89.25 93.25 in the list of subjects said grievance committee
evening. Science 97.5 99.5 93.25 97.25 chosen once the online regi- members. The cutoffs are
The social science and hu- stration is complete. The calculated by colleges after
manities courses saw a fall of Commerce 98.5 100 94.25 98.25 number of such requests has we give them the number of
5.5% for Delhi students. But increased as applications
Sociology
the fall hasnt been so pronoun- admission clo- received for
ced in the case of outstation Arts 93.5 96.75 90.25 93.5 ses in popular a specific
students, especially in English courses and subject. We
and history. Science 97.5 100 94.25 97.5 others conti- cannot make
Mathematics cutoff for Commerce 98.5 100 95.25 98.5 nue to have last-minute
Delhi students stands at 88.5% high cutoffs. changes, sa-
while for the outstation ones, Social Science and Humanities There needs to be some id a committee official.
its 94%. As regards history, so- consideration for aspirants The grievance committee
Arts 90.5 93.5 85 89.75
ciology and psychology, which who cannot make it past the has been getting such requests
had the first cutoff of 100% for Science 94.5 97.5 89 93.75 cutoff in the subjects of their ever since the first cutoff came
outstation students, the se- choice. What is wrong in out, after students realised
cond list has seen a dip betwe- Commerce 95.5 98.5 90 94.75 an 82%? It is not an easy score that their marks are very off
en 1.75% and 3.25%. Psychology to achieve, complained Dee- the scale as compared to the ex-
In the first list, 95 seats palis mother. pectations of DU colleges. De-
were filled up at both Kashme- Arts 93.25 95.5 91.5 93.75 Coming from a village close spite several posters and advi-
re Gate and Karampura cam- Science 97.25 99.5 95.5 97.75 to the Delhi-Haryana border sories put all over the help desk
puses. University officials say past Mundka, Arti got 74% in and the grievance hall, parents
economics and psychology Commerce 98.25 100 96.5 98.75 Class XII. She is an arts student have been coming to volunte-
have been the most popular co- who has applied for sociology, ers and officials in the hope
Economics
urses so far. English and Hindi. She too that some solution can be fo-
There are 445 seats in total, Arts 88.75 92.25 85.5 89.75 wants to add BA (programme) und other than sending their
and students are asked to to her list of courses because child for a correspondence
give a first and second prefe- Science 92.75 96.25 89.5 93.75 its cutoff is lower in the colle- degree or wasting the year.
rence of colleges while registe- Commerce 93.75 97.25 90.5 94.75 ges that fall in her area. Now tired of explaining
ring online. Campus is allotted All that these aspirants and turning parents away, the
on the basis of seats available Maths can do is write an application committee has settled for ta-
in the course. Arts 88 93.25 84.5 90 to the dean of Students Wel- king written applications for
Admission under the se- fare. If not here, then I will addition of courses, even tho-
cond list would start on July Science 92 97.25 88.5 94 have to send my child to a pri- ugh they know nothing will co-
11 and end on July 13. The vate university that will char- me out of it. On Monday, over
Commerce 93 98.25 89.5 95
third cut off list is expected on ge a lot. There are so many 90% complaints received were
*NCT-National Capital Territory
July 14. applications coming to the for change of course.

HC seeks CBSE reply on plea to

quash its order on teachers
New Delhi: The Delhi high court on
Monday sought the response of the
Central Board of Secondary
Education (CBSE) on a plea against
its new rule that teachers will not
accompany students in school buses
or do any other non-academic work.
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita
Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar also
issued notice to the Delhi Directorate
of Education and sought its stand by
November 6 on the plea which seeks
quashing of the CBSEs October 2016
circular. The CBSE had asked its
affiliated schools to ensure that
teachers are not engaged in activities
other than those related to teaching,
professional enhancement,
examination and evaluation. PTI
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3 armed men loot `10L from Horse racing

dairy booth owner, customers on e-way shows
Gold Worth `30 Lakh Snatched From 2 Jewellers In Rohini lax surveillance
TIMES NEWS NETWORK A team from Mahendra Park police Shikha.Salaria room, TMC said.
station has lifted evidence from the cri- @timesgroup.com The involvement of two
New Delhi: Cash and valuables worth me spot. A probe has been initiated to authorities in the manage-
Rs 40 lakh were robbed in two incidents identify the robbers, said DCP (northe- Noida: The horse racing on ment of the TMC is also
reported from Jahangirpuri and Rohini ast) Milind Dumbere. the Noida-Greater Noida Ex- proving a hindrance in pro-
on Monday evening. The second incident was reported pressway caught on CCTV per and timely cognisance
In the first case, three men with cove- around 4pm from Rohini when snat- cameras on Sunday has bro- of security issues.
red faces entered an Amul booth in Ma- chers targeted two jewellers travelling ught to fore the ignorance of While officials at the
hendra Park in Jahangirpuri and held on a rickshaw near Rohini East Metro the team manning the traffic TMC said they report to the
six people, including the owner Pawan station. The jewellers, Devinder Goyal management centre which Noida Authoritys traffic
Kumar, at gunpoint and robbed cash and Jahangirpuri robbery was caught on CCTV and his brother Rajiv, were carrying gold is responsible for monito- cell, the traffic cell said that
valuables worth Rs 10 lakh. and cash worth Rs 30 lakh and were re- ring all movements captured its management has been
Kumar said the men asked the custo- wrapped around their faces, the third, turning from Chandni Chowk. in the 93 high-tech cameras handed over to the traffic po-
mers to give their valuables and frisked who was the gang leader, was wearing a When they had boarded the ricks- installed on the e-way. lice. At least 12 officials of
them. They then walked up to his counter, helmet. All of them were carrying pistols. haw, Goyal kept the bag between his legs While the surveillance of the Efkon India company
took a bag from the drawer and asked After collecting the valuables, inclu- to guard it. When the rickshaw slowed the expressway is under a monitor the CCTV footages
them to put their valuables inside it. The ding the days earnings at the dairy bo- down at a signal, two men on bike snat- private company, Efkon In- from the cameras on the
robbery was caught on CCTV. The footage oth, the robbers sped off on a motorbike. ched the bag and sped off. DCP (Rohini) dia, which coordinates with TMC for 24 hours and a traf-
shows the customers and employees be- We parted with our valuables as it see- Rishipal said that a case of snatching the Noida Authoritys traf- fic constable is also present
ing frisked by the men against the shop med that the robbers would not hesitate has been registered and a manhunt laun- fic cell, the latter said they at any given time. Further,
wall. While two criminals had a cloth to open fire if we resisted, said Kumar. ched to nab the snatchers. have handed over the work quick response teams in-
of the TMC to SP (traffic). cluding PCR vehicles, am-
bulances and cranes are al-
RISKY RIDE
25-year-old strangled, Two held for robbing The cameras work un-
so deployed to react in case
of an accident on the ex-
pressway.
der the highway traffic ma- We have handed over
neighbour suspected elderly women in city nagement system (HTMS)
which are designed to cap-
the management of the
TMC to the traffic police a
TIMES NEWS NETWORK used to work at a nearby go- TIMES NEWS NETWORK schedule, they used to strike. ture images of vehicles mo- year back, Sandeep
down. On the same night, he They usually injured the ving at more than 100kmph. Chandra, incharge, Noida
New Delhi: A 25-year-old got into an argument with New Delhi: Two men, who person so that she could not However, police are yet to Traffic Cell, told TOI.
man was strangulated to de- somebody inside the go- used to rob elderly women raise an alarm. lodge any complaint in the SP (traffic) Anil Jha did
ath near his house in outer down. The police are suspec- taking a stroll at secluded Recently, a 72-year-old wo- matter. Horse races are usu- not respond to queries.
Delhis Mundka late on Sun- ting him to be behind the spots, were arrested on Sun- man registered a complaint at ally done for betting purpo- So far, only one biker che-
day night. Manish was found murder. day. The accused Gulam the Janakpuri police station, ses and the same could be be- ering along the horse racers
lying unconscious by locals The accused, identified (24) and Avinash (25) either stating that she was targeted by hind Sundays incident too. on the Noida-Greater Noida
near his house. as Sunny, allegedly used tried to choke the targets or two men when she went for a At least five bikers could Expressway on Sunday
One of the passersby in- a cloth to strangulate Ma- injured them with sharp wea- stroll at a nearby park in the be seen surrounding one of has been identified. An offi-
formed the police and the nish. Also a local, Sunny was pons before decamping with evening. She said that when she the horses with one of them cial of the company mana-
man was taken to Sanjay a former employee at the their belongings. tried to raise an alarm, the ac- capturing a video of the ging the traffic manage-
Gandhi Hospital where he same godown. Police said that Gulam cused tried to choke her and to- same while another appa- ment centre (TMC) located
was declared dead on arri- In another incident, a and Avinash had known each ok away the gold jewellery that rently encouraging the ra- in Sector 44 said that four or
val. Doctors found wounds man in his mid-30s was fo- other for around 8 years and she was wearing. cer. The employees on du- five bikers were with the ra-
on his neck, indicating that und lying unconscious near took to crime to buy drugs and CCTV footage of the adjoi- ty at 7.30am on Saturday cers. The officials handed
he was strangled and suffo- Teh railway tracks in Azad- lead a lavish lifestyle. They ning areas was scanned and the did not inform about the in- over four bike numbers
cated to death. The police ha- pur. The police said the man first used to recce the dark accused were arrested by a te- cident to the seniors. They from the CCTV footage to
ve registered a complaint. had stab wounds on his head and secluded spots to identify am led by SHO, Janakpuri, ignored it since the race did the expressway police.
According to the police, and other parts of the body. elderly woman who came Richh Pal Singh, said Vijay not cause any jam or hind- However, police said
Manish, who lived on Mar- They have circulated his pic- for a stroll alone. After beco- Kumar, deputy commissioner rance to traffic, Upendra that only two of the num-
wadi Street with his family, ture to find out his identity. ming familiar with a persons of police (west). Singh, supervisor,control bers were clear to them.
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MAXIMISE USE OF AADHAAR TO CHECK GRAFT, ED ISSUES SUMMONS TO MISHA BHARTI IN

PLUG LEAKS IN PLANS: PM TO OFFICIALS | 11 CASE RELATING TO DELHI PROPERTIES | 12

Give `10L to J&K

human shield: Air India goes veg for economy flyers TOI
STATOISTICS Rights panel Loss-making vantage. Vistara, on Monday
evening, tweeted a picture of
buy the international opera-
tions of AI and AI Express.

INDIAN CITIES IN 100 YEARS Saleem.Pandit@timesgroup.com

Entity Will
veg and non-veg biryanis say-
ing, Chicken or Vegetarian?
Last month, AI employees
had given a number of cost-

20% MORE CITIZENS HAVE

We leave the choice to you! cutting measures to the mana-
Srinagar: Jammu & Kashmir People flying full service gement to turn around the air-

MOVED INTO URBAN HOMES State Human Rights Commis-

sion (SHRC) headed by retired
Save `8cr pa airlines keep meal quality in
mind also while choosing
line and prevent its privatisa-
tion. These too little, too late
In 1901, only one in every 10 Indian lived in a city. Today, high court judge Bilal Nazki on TIMES NEWS NETWORK which full service carrier to measures included cutting
Monday directed the state go- fly. In budget airlines, they salad from meals.
nearly a third of our population lives in urban areas.
vernment to award Rs 10 lakh as New Delhi: Loss-laden Air have the option to buy veg or A senior AI official had
This growth is significant and yet among major compensation to the Budgam India has stopped serving non-veg meals. last month, in an internal ma-
economies, this urbanisation is still the lowest civilian used as a human shield non vegetarian meals to eco- Some frequent flyers feel il to top management, said
by the Army in April this year. nomy class passengers on its The airline says having only-veg in economy class of domestic routes AI could have handled the is- that on a recent flight, a cabin
INDIAS URBAN POPULATION
I have asked the state go- domestic flights in a bid to cut will avoid mix-ups and that vegetarian meals are more in demand sue differently. Like inter- crew in charge walked up to
Year % Urban population vernment to compensate Fa- cost. All flyers on AIs inter- national flights where pas- him to suggest some cost-cut-
1901 10.8 rooq Ahmad Dar for endange- national flights and business duce wastage, reduce cost and these fears. A majority of do- sengers are asked to give the- ting moves. One was that in
ring his dignity and life, Jus- class travellers on its domes- improve catering service. mestic flights are of short du- ir meal preference at the time international flights econo-
1911 10.3
tice Bilal Nazki, said. tic ones, however, will conti- The airline says having ration where meal service of booking tickets, full servi- my class, he found only 20%
1921 11.2 On April 9, Dar was tied to nue to get the non-veg option. only-veg in economy class has to be done quickly. Long ce carriers should do so for eating salad. He felt we must
1931 12.0 the bonnet of an Army jeep We started the practice will avoid mix-ups and that haul flights, as the name sug- domestic flights also, said discontinue salad in economy
13.9 and paraded through several about two weeks back. It is vegetarian meals are more in gests, does not require the Aarti Saxena, a Ghaziabad- class on international flights.
1941
villages in Budgam district. expected to save us Rs 7-8 cro- demand. While this may ma- crew to be in a hurry while based entrepreneur. He also felt that we must carry
1951 17.3 But the Army gave a clean re annually, said a senior of- ke frequent flyers wonder if serving meals, he said. AIs cost-cutting move co- only around 25 copies of
1961 18.0 chit to Major Nitin Leetul Go- ficial of the airline. AI is able to avoid mix-ups AIs full service rivals mes as its debt burden of over Shubh Yatra (AIs inflight ma-
1971 19.9 goi who took the decision to AI spokesman G P Rao sa- between serving veg and non- Jet and Vistara and low Rs 52,000 crore and mounting gazine) in a flight which can
use a human shield. In its jus- id: Air India has taken cons- veg meals in the economy cost carriers are going to use losses have led the govern- be kept in the magazine racks
1981 23.3 tification, the Army said the cious decision not to have non- class of its much bigger pla- the Maharajas restricted me- ment to decide to sell it off. In- rather than on every seat to re-
1991 25.7 Major had done it spontaneo- vegetarian meal in economy nes used for long internatio- al option for economy class diGo has already given a for- duce weight, the officials in-
2001 27.8 usly to avert civilian violence. class on domestic flights to re- nal flights, the official allayed domestic flyers to their ad- mal expression of interest to ternal communication says.
Army chief General Bipin
2011 31.1
Rawat in May awarded Major

No family planning Actor Dileep held

Gogoi a commendation card for
COUNTRY & % URBAN POPULATION (2011) his sustained efforts on coun-
ter-insurgency operations.
Developing world
China
50.6
Brazil
84.6
Russia
73.7 Fire at Mukesh allowance for govt staff in actress rape case
Ambanis Disney.Tom@timesgroup.com

Developed world
house Antilia Allocation For It submitted its report on
April 27 after which the the
government decided to ac-
Kochi: Almost five months
after the abduction and rape

81.6 80.9 78.6 74.5 91.2 Mumbai: A fire broke out in
industrialist Mukesh Amba-
UK US France Germany Japan
nis Antilia building, one of
the most expensive residen-
tial properties in the world on
Monday night, police and civ-
ic officials said.
Source: Census, World Bank Research: Atul Thakur The blaze started on the 6th
floor of the 27-storey building
owned by the Ambanis on Alta-
41 MLAs openly back former Nagaland CM mount Road at around 9:10 pm,
the Disaster Control Room of
Diet, Haircut,
Soap Nixed
New Delhi: Central govern-
ment employees will not get
a family planning allowance
and neither will the cabinet
secretary receive his
Rs 10,000 entertainment allo-
cation. Also gone are the
diet, haircutting and soap
MONEY MATTERS
vised, an official said.
The decision on revising
cept its recommendations
with 34 modifications.
The secret allowance giv-
en to officers working in the
Cabinet Secretariat has also
been done away with.
An official said the family
planning allowance is given
to central employees as an en-
couragement to adhere to the
small family norm. In its re-
port, the panel said, an allow-
ance aimed at population con-
of a well-known actress, top
Malayalam actor Dileep was
arrested on Monday for alle-
ged conspiracy in the crime.
Dileep was taken for ques-
tioning in the morning, the IN THE NET: Dileep
second time in as many we-
eks. Sources said police final- ces, Suni was allegedly given
ly decided to arrest him ba- a quotation (a contract) to
sed on concrete proof of sexually assault the actress
his close relationship with and record the gross visuals
the main accused Pulsar Su-
ni. The actor has been taken
on a mobile phone camera.
The actress was abducted

E ven as 41 MLAs of the 60-member House openly supported

former Nagaland CM TR Zeliang and decried chief minister
Shurhozelie Liezietsus dictatorial style, the CMs camp on
the Brihanmumbai Municipal
Corporation (BMC) said. On
toilet allowances given to se-
lect categories of employees.
the allowances was approved
at a meeting of the cabinet on
trol was not required now.
However, the cycle and
into custody after intense qu-
estioning. He was subsequ-
and raped in a moving car
on February 17 by Suni and
getting information, six fire With the government ac- June 28 and formal orders funeral allowances, which ently arrested, a source in four others.
Monday appealed to the dissidents camping in Assams tenders were rushed to douse cepting many of the recom- were issued on July 6. were recommended to be the DGPs office confirmed. Police said the sexual as-
Kaziranga to return home and resolve all differences. The rebel the flames, a civic official said. mendations of the Commit- The CoA referred to the abolished by the pay com- Dileep was arrested after sault was motivated by Dile-
group, with 41legislators (34 NPF and seven independents) hit Mumbai Polices PRO tee on Allowances (CoA),a seventh Central Pay Commis- mission, have been retained a marathon questioning las- eps personal grudge aga-
out at Shurhozelie for forcefully clinging to the chair of CM Rashmi Karandikar said po- raft of grants and allocations sions report, which had ex- by the government. Besides, ting eight hours which follo- inst the actress and not, as
and demanded his resignation with immediate effect, saying he lice and fire brigade teams made to various sections of amined 196 allowances given the diet, haircutting, and wed a similarly lengthy inter- was speculated widely, due
has lost the democratic mandate of the elected representatives were at the spot and the situa- government employees have to different categories of cen- soap toilet allowances have rogation of Suni on Sunday. to a big real estate deal
of the state assembly. Xavier Rutsa TNN tion was under control. PTI been done away with or re- tral government employees. also been abolished. PTI According to police sour- gone wrong.
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Hindu LeT terrorist US firm admits to paying $1.2m bribe to NHAI
arrested in Kashmir
Sharma From
UP Linked To
ATM Heists
M Saleem Pandit &
Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui TNN
Srinagar/Lucknow: Lash-
kar-e-Taiba (LeT) had hired a
Hindu man from Uttar Pra-
desh to rob banks and ATMs,
snatch weapons and kill cops
in Kashmir, police said on
Monday.
Inspector General of J&K
Police, Muneer Khan, said at
a press conference that San-
deep Sharma from UPs Mu-
zaffarnagar was arrested for
being a member of an LeT
module in south Kashmir
and a close aide of the outfits
commander Bashir Lashka-
ri, who had been gunned
down in an encounter in
Anantnag on July 1.
Sandeep Sharma was
operating under the code na-
me Adil and was arrested
from the same house in Kul-
gam where LeT terrorist
Realty regulatory bodies to
be operational by July 31
Prabhakar.Sinha
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Real estate regu-
latory authorities will be-
come functional by July 31,
Union urban development
and housing minister M Ven-
kaiah Naidu said on Monday.
Addressing a National
Housing Bank function, Nai-
du said he was closely follow-
ing it with chief ministers of
all the states to complete the
process of notification of Real
Estate Regulation (and Devel-
opment) Rules and the forma-
tion of regulatory authority.
Implementation of RERA
is likely to bring in transpar-
ency and accountability in the
real estate sector, which is
plagued by delays in the imple-
mentation of projects and not
keeping the promises made at
the time of sale of projects.
Suspected LeT terrorist Sandeep
Kumar Sharma, was a close aide
of Lashkar commander Bashir
Lashkari, who was killed in an
encounter in Anantnag on July 1
Lashkari had been killed in
an encounter, the IGP said,
adding that the 26-year-old
helped Lashkari in carrying
out ATM robberies and other
criminal activities in south
Kashmir. Sandeeps aide Mu-
neeb Shah from Kulgam was
also arrested.
Sandeep reached Srina-
gar from Patiala in Punjab
where he had gone in search
of a job in 2011, police said.
While working as a welder in
Patiala, he got to know a cont-
Housing minister
Venkaiah Naidu
said he was in
touch with chief
ministers for the
notification of
RERA and formation
of regulatory
authorities
When asked on the side-
lines of the function about
states like Uttar Pradesh
where registration of projects
under RERA has not begun as
yet, the minister said he was
following it with the respec-
tive chief minister to com-
plete the process. Registra-
tion will start soon, he said.
After the clarification of
the central government that a
developer cannot market an
ongoing project without regis-
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Hang him if hes a
terrorist: Brother
P raveen Sharma, a resident
of UPs Muzaffarnagar, is at
a loss for words since he got to
know of his brother Sandeeps
arrest by J&K police for being a
hardened terrorist.
Sandeep had left for Kashmir
more than two years ago and
as far as we know he was
working there as a welder,
Praveen, a taxi driver, added.
We are with our country. If he
has become a terrorist and his
involvement is established, he
should be hanged. TNN
ractor, Shahid Ahmed of Kul-
gam. On Shahids insistence,
Sandeep would accompany
him to the Valley during sum-
mers to work as a welder. The
two got into criminal activiti-
es and robbed ATMs and
banks. They came in touch
with LeT terrorist Shakoor
Ahmed from Sopore in North
Kashmir, who, in turn, intro-
duced them to Lashkari.
LeT, however, issued a sta-
tement in the evening, deny-
ing its link with Sandeep.
tering it with RERA, work in
the sector has almost come to a
standstill as many states have
neither notified the rules nor
appointed an authority.
In fact, developers are
claiming that sales had
picked in May June as the
impact of demonetisation
had receded. End user buyers
were closing deals in ready to
move-in houses. But after the
central governments clarifi-
cation that developers can-
not market flats in an ongo-
ing project, sales have again
slowed down considerably.
In his speech, Naidu un-
derlined the need for a regu-
lator which would work as a
facilitator. Formation of
such regulator will increase
the credibility of a project, as
buyers will feel confident in
buying in a project which are
registered with RERA.
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Dipak.Dash@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: A Boston-based
consultancy firm has admit-
ted to the justice department of
the United States that its offici-
als paid bribe of $1.18 million
to NHAI officials between 2011
and 2015, prompting the high-
ways authority to launch a
probe into the payments.
The company,
Smith, has agreed to pay
CDM
$40,371,38 to the US Treasury,
which it earned as profit
from illegally obtained ber 1, 2017, an official commu-
works for highway construc-
tion supervision and design
contracts and a water project
contract in Goa. The compa-
ny will pay the entire amount
Speakers jolt
to LG Bedis
nominations
Puducherry: Puducherry As-
sembly Speaker V Vaithilin-
gam on Monday returned the
file to Lt Governor Kiran Bedi
who nominated three BJP
functionaries as members of
the House, terming it as im-
proper and not acceptable.
Bedi had sworn in on July 4
BJPs Puducherry unit presi-
dent V Saminathan, its treasur-
er K G Shankar and another
functionary S Selvaganapathy
as nominated members. The
induction of the three mem-
bers was not acceptable as the
swearing in was not done in ac-
cordance with the procedure,
a source close to the Speaker
quoted him as having said. PTI
Time: 07-11-2017 01:43 Color: C
CDM Smith will now pay the entire amount of profit it earned through
illegal means in four instalments to the US treasury by Oct 1, 2017
in four instalments by Octo-
from NHAI. The bribes gene-
nication from the US justice
department said.
It mentioned that the com-
panys division for India ope-
rations and CDM India paid
Cabinet to take up bill replacing MCI
Sushmi.Dey@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: The health mi-
nistry is set to take to the
Union cabinet the new bill
seeking to replace the apex
medical education regula-
tor, Medical Council of India
(MCI), with a new body
National Medical Commis-
sion (NMC).
The new bill also propo-
ses an exit exam which all
MBBS graduates will have to
clear to get practising licen-
ce. The exit exam may also
serve as National Eligibility
cum Entrance Test (NEET)
for aspiring candidates for
post-graduate studies, offici-
al sources said.
Once cleared by Parlia-
ment, the proposed NMC
Bill, 2017 will replace the ex-
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bribes to receive contracts
as country manager) were
rally were 2-4% of the contract
price and paid through frau-
dulent subcontractors, who
provided no actual services
and understood that payments
POLICY CHANGE
isting Indian Medical Coun-
cil (IMC) Act, 1956 which go-
verns doctors through the
Medical Council of India.
The Commission under
the proposed law will have
four autonomous boards tas-
ked with conducting under-
graduate and postgraduate
education; assessing and ra-
ting medical institutions; re-
were meant to solely benefit
the officials, the department
said in its June 29 communica-
tion to the company.
It added that CDM Smiths
division responsible for India
and CDM, India, paid $25,000
to officials in Goa in relation
to a water project contract.
All senior management at
CDM India (who also acted as
employees and agents of
CDM Smith and signed cont-
racts on behalf of CDM
Smith, including CDM Indi-
associated with these impro-
aware of the bribes for CDM
Smith and CDM India cont-
racts, and approved or parti-
cipated in the misconduct,
the justice department said.
The bill also proposes
an exit exam, which all
MBBS graduates will
have to clear to get
practising licence. The
exit exam may also
serve as NEET for
postgraduate studies increasing the number of
gistering practitioners; and
enforcing medical ethics.
The idea is to bring in
transparency and accounta-
bility through the Commis-
sion while regulating
medical education to end
corruption.
The bill, originally draf-
ted by an inter-ministerial
committee under Niti Aay-
9
An NHAI official said the
matter will be probed to identi-
fy who all took bribe money
from the company.
The company has put a
public notice on its website
saying it has reached agree-
ments with the US Depart-
ment of Justice (DoJ) and the
World Bank Group (WBG) for
self-reported improper bu-
siness activities conducted
by a few individuals in the
firms India and Vietnam
operations. The employees
per business activities
were separated from the com-
pany following the early fin-
dings of CDM Smiths inter-
nal investigations.
og, has been evaluated and
recently cleared by a Group
of Ministers, headed by fi-
nance minister Arun Jaitley.
While the Niti Aayog
committee had pressed for
selection of members of the
Commission, the GoM is le-
arnt to have made a key
change regarding the consti-
tution of the Commission by
members and introducing a
part election process. As per
the new proposal, some
members of the Commis-
sion will be selected while
others will be placed thro-
ugh election.
The new bill aims to re-
form the medical education
sector which has been under
scrutiny for corruption and
unethical practices.
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TUESDAY, JULY 11, 2017

Anushka gets clean chit in flat row Kerala will open dog rehab zoos
Richa.Pinto@timesgroup.com
Mumbai: The BMC, which
had received a complaint in
May about a huge electric
junction box installed in the
common passage of the 20th
floor of a Versova tower by
actor Anushka Sharma, has
given her a clean chit.
After the complaint from
another resident of Badrinath
Towers, the local ward office
had termed it as objectionab-
le. Now, the same office, in a
letter sent to the complainant,
has said the common passage
(in question) is owned by Shar-
The Mumbai civic body has
rejected a complaint against actor
Anushka related to the installation
of a huge electric junction box
in her residential tower
ma. Sunil Batra, who lives on
the 16th floor, had complained
to municipal commissioner
Ajoy Mehta in May against the
junction box handling the wi-
ring of the entire floor as well
as of the central AC. The two
wooden cabinets 10 ft high, 4
ft wide and 15 inches deep
are covered with wallpaper
and kept locked. This is in vio-
lation of fire brigade rules and
high court has also passed the
judgment of common areas to
be free of any encumbrances,
said the complainants letter.
Following the complaint,
the BMC inspected the site
and in a written communica-
tion to the actor said it is
highly objectionable. Now,
two months later, the assistant
engineer (building & factory
department) of K west ward
has written to Batra, saying
Electrical junction boxes are
fixed on the wall. It is fixed just
like in their own home. Total
common passage is owned by
Shri Sharma (Anushkas fat-
her).... Batra said this is a ca-
se of preferential treatment .
K west ward assistant mu-
nicipal commissioner Pras-
hant Gaikwad was not availab-
le for comment.
Dhananjay.Mahapatra
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Keralas Left
Front government on Mon-
day informed the Supreme
Court that it has taken a poli-
cy decision to open dog reha-
bilitation zoos in all 14 dis-
tricts to tackle the alarming
situation created by fero-
cious strays in the state.
Appearing for the state,
senior advocate V Giri in-
formed a bench of Justices
Dipak Misra and M M Shan-
tanagoudar that the govern-
ment has framed a policy
which requires each district
panchayat to acquire 2-3
acres of agricultural land.
The land will be fenced to
create stray dog rehabilita-
tion zoos, he said.
The Centre, the Animal
Welfare Board and NGOs op-
CURBING THE
CANINE MENACE
posed the initiative and said
better results in checking ris-
ing population of stray dogs
would be achieved if the state
government implemented
the Animal Birth Control
(Dogs) Rules to sterilise the
canines. But the state said it
was not in favour of imple-
menting the central rules .
The Kerala government
said its policy was aimed
at creating shelters for stray
dogs.
However, it did not offer
any comment on the growing
impatience among counsel
for victims for immediate
culling of ferocious strays.
The bench said it would
decide the legal framework
suited for the purpose of
curbing increase in number
of stray dogs on September 15
but asked the state to take all
possible measures to protect
citizens from dog bites.
Even while fighting hard
for dog shelters, the state gov-
ernment was on difficult
grounds when it came to
granting compensation to
victims of dog bites.
Justices Misra and Shan-
tanagoudar ordered the Ker-
ala government to pay the
compensation determined
by the committee if it agreed
with the amount and if it had
any objections, it will bring it
to the notice of the Supreme
Court. The high court will
not entertain any plea relat-
ing to dispute over payment
of compensation.
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TUESDAY, JULY 11, 2017 TIMES NATION | Politics & Policy

Mallya defies SC, doesnt Govt plans to

take `20,000cr
Use Aadhaar Performance
of lawyers in
appear in contempt case loan from JICA to check graft, govt depts to
to aid dairies be reviewed?
Court To Take Call On Quantum Of Punishment On July 14 TIMES NEWS NETWORK PM tells states TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: In view of grow- New Delhi: The Law Commis-

TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Fugitive busi-
nessman Vijay Mallya failed
to appear before the Su-
preme Court on Monday in
defiance of the order of the
apex court which was to de-
cide on quantum of puni-
shment for contempt.
A bench of Justices A K
Goel and U U Lalit had on May
9 held him guilty of contempt
of court for not disclosing all
his assets and diverting $40
million to overseas accounts
of his family members in vio-
lation of the courts order. It
had directed Mallya to person-
ally appear before the court on
July 10 to decide the puni-
shment to be awarded to him.
As neither Mallya nor his
lawyer appeared before the
court, the bench adjourned
Vijay Mallya
the case for July 14 to decide
the further course of action to
be taken against the former
chief of the now-grounded
Kingfisher Airlines (KFA).
The court was told notice to
the businessman was duly
served after he was convicted
for contempt of court. The
court was hearing contempt
proceedings against Mallya
Home secy visits UK to talk on fugitives ing demand for milk, the gov-
Mahendra.Singh
@timesgroup.com sion has said that government
U nion home secretary Rajiv Mehrishi left for London on
Monday for talks between India and Britain on issues such as
the extradition of fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya and former
ernment has submitted a pro-
posal for availing loan from
the Japan International Coop-
New Delhi: Prime Minister
Narendra Modi asked top
departments and ministries
should evaluate the perform-
ance of lawyers hired by them
IPL chief Lalit Modi. His visit comes in the wake of Prime Minister eration Agency (JICA) for cre- officials of the Centre and and make a realistic assess-
Modis talks with his British counterpart Theresa May in ating or strengthening dairy states on Monday to maxi- ment of the number of such
Hamburg, on the sidelines of the G20 meeting. Modi had asked infrastructure across the mise usage of Aadhaar to professionals required in
for Britains cooperation in sending economic offenders back country. The total outlay of the check corruption and pre- each department.
to India. Home ministry officials are tight-lipped about the week- proposal is Rs 20,057 crore. vent leaks in welfare sche- In its draft National Litiga-
long visit of the countrys top security officer to London, but Besides meeting the de- mes. He also asked states to tion Policy for the law minis-
sources said it bears significance as New Delhi has been making mand of milk, which is estimat- accord top priority to ease try, which will be taken to the
active efforts to bring Mallya and Modi back from Britain. PTI ed to be in the range of 200-210 of doing business to attract Cabinet for approval, the com-
million metric tonnes (MMT) more investment, saying PM Narendra Modi on Monday mission cited the example of
filed by a consortium of 17 SBI has the highest expo- by 2021-22, the idea behind the the country must make best spent around two and a half the income tax department
banks led by SBI, which con- sure of Rs 1,600 crore to KFA. proposal is also to help farmers use of the golden opportu- hours and heard all 30 chief which reviews the perform-
tended he had not made truth- Other banks that have expo- double their income through al- nity as the world wanted to secretaries of states and UTs ance of lawyers on its panel
ful disclosure of his assets be- sure to KFA include PNB and lied activities like dairy farm- partner with India. who made presentations on every six months.
fore the court and had inten- IDBI Bank (Rs 800 crore each), ing in the next five years. Addressing a conferen- one best practice of their states Government departments
tionally kept the court in dark Bank of India (Rs 650 crore), The proposal primarily ce of chief secretaries of account for nearly 46% of the
on payment of $40 million, Bank of Baroda (Rs 550 crore), aims to cover additional 121.83 states and Union Territori- with each other on social 3.14 crore cases pending in
which he got in February 2016 Central Bank of India (Rs 410 lakh additional milk pro- es organised by Niti Aayog, and economic indicators courts, with the railways and
from UK liquor major Diageo crore). UCO Bank has to recov- the PM said, The use of such as heath, education the revenue department lead-
for stepping down as Chair- er Rs 320 crore and Corpora- MILK BOOSTER Aadhaar has brought bene- and water after Niti Aayog ing with maximum number
man of United Spirits Ltd. tion Bank Rs 310 crore. ducers across 1.28 lakh villages fits all around, and elimina- started ranking states on of cases or appeals filed.
in the country. Under the pro- ted leakages. He urged offi- outcome-based parame- To bring down pendency,
posal, the government will set cials to maximise use of ters, Modi asked officials the draft policy has suggested

Bilkis Bano IGNOU, 5,921 other NGOs

up 1.05 lakh bulk milk coolers
at village level, create chilling
facilities to handle 524.20 lakh
Aadhaar in the interest of
good governance.
The PM spent around
that similar competition
must start between dis-
tricts and cities.
that inter-department feuds
should be settled at the gov-
ernment level and should not
case: No SC kg milk per day and build proc-
essing infrastructure for 76.5
two and a half hours and he-
ard all 30 chief secretaries
At the meet, Niti Aayog
vice-chairman Arvind Pa-
reach the courts. The govern-
ment is already working on

relief to five could lose FCRA licence lakh kg capacity of milk &
milk products per day.
Besides, the programme
of states and UTs who made
presentations on one best
practice of their states.
nagariya said a strong India
could be built by building
strong states which could
this with a committee of sec-
retaries formed to look into
such disputes. Nodal officers

cops, 2 docs TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Indira Gandhi

TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Supreme
Court upheld on Monday the
Bombay high court order con-
victing five Gujarat police of-
ficers and two doctors for de-
stroying evidence and at-
tempting to shield the accused
in the gang-rape of Bilkis Ba-
no and murder of eight mem-
bers of her family, including
two children, in the 2002 com-
munal violence.
Dismissing the appeal fil-
ed by IPS officer R S Bhagora
and others against the HC or-
der, a bench of Justices S A
Bobde and L Nageswara Rao
said there was clear-cut evi-
dence against them to hold
them guilty.
The Bombay HC had
convicted the police
officers and doctors
of destroying
National Centre for Arts, IG-
NOU, Nehru Memorial Mu-
seum and Library, Indian In-
stitute of Technology-Kan-
pur and Mayo College Cen-
tral Council Society are
among the nearly 6,000
NGOs and associations that
could lose their licence to re-
ceive foreign funding for fai-
ling to file annual returns
for five consecutive years.
The home ministrys Fo-
reign Contribution Regula-
tion Act (FCRA) division
has issued show-cause noti-
ces to 5,922 NGOs asking
them whey their registra-
tion under FCRA should
not be cancelled for skip-
ping filing of mandatory
annual income and expen-
diture records from 2010-11
to 2014-15, despite repeated
notices.
The NGOs and
associations could
lose their licence
to receive foreign
funding for failing
to file annual
returns for five
consecutive years
Among the other promi-
nent associations in the list
are Ramakrishna Mission
Ashram, Delhi College of
Engineering, Punjabi Uni-
versity (Patiala), Mata Va-
ishno Devi Shrine Board,
Khadi Gramodyog Samiti
and Oxfam Trust.
These associations were
earlier told to submit their
annual returns for five ye-
ars 2010-11 to 2014-15.
The home ministry said
in a circular that as a one-ti-
me measure, all NGOs were
being given one months ti-
me till June 14 to file their
missing annual returns
without paying any penalty.
Email and text message
alerts were also sent to
them regularly for one
month beginning mid-May.
However, in spite of suffi-
cient and adequate notice,
it has been observed that
5,922 associations have not
uploaded their annual re-
turns for three or more
than three years within the
stipulated time given in the
notice, the circular said.
In May, 18,523 NGOs were
given a one-time opportuni-
ty to give details of their in-
come and expenses. The as-
sociations have now been as-
ked to furnish their replies, if
any, by July 23, failing which
it will be presumed that they
have nothing to say and ac-
tion as proposed will be ta-
ken by the home ministry as
per FCRA, the circular said.
will modify/expand old milk
and milk product plants, cre-
ated 20-30 years ago under Op-
eration Flood. It will also cre-
ate milk & milk products
plants for value-added prod-
ucts which will benefit 160
lakh existing farmers, said
the agriculture ministry. It
said, The fund will be routed
through National Dairy De-
velopment Board (NDDB) for
the development of dairy sec-
tor. The proposal has been for-
warded by department of eco-
nomic affairs to the JICA.
Sugar import
duty hiked to
50% from 40%
New Delhi: The government
increased the import duty on
sugar on Monday to 50%, up
from 40%, to restrict cheap in-
The PM strongly urged
officers to adopt a positive
attitude to new initiatives.
He said the elected political
leadership would always be
receptive to new, positive
ideas, irrespective of ideo-
logy, a PMO statement sa- puts from chief secretaries.
id. Urging states to come out
of silos and work cohesively
with the Centre and with
each other, Modi asked offi-
cers to remain mindful of
the credo of competitive
cooperative federalism.
As states are competing petition between districts.
be achieved through job
creation, shift to non-farm
jobs (and) large firms with
have been appointed in 55 de-
partments and ministries to
look into each departments
high productivity. pending cases and how frivo-
Niti Aayog CEO Ami- lous complaints and litigation
tabh Kant said, For the first can be withdrawn.
time, the PM took direct in- In a report on central litiga-
tion prepared by the law minis-
It raises the morale of state try after it launched a web-
bureaucracy. Cabinet se- based application last year for
cretary P K Sinha said com- digital monitoring of court
petition between states be- cases, ministries of railways, fi-
ing promoted by Niti Aayog nance, communications, home
was very useful and states and defence emerged as the top
must promote similar com- five central ministries with the
highest number of cases.

Zakirs passport could

evidence and
attempting to shield
the accused in the
gang rape of Bilkis
Bano and murder of
her family members
The HC on May 4 had up-
held the convictions and life
sentences awarded to 11others
by the trial court for the gang-
rape of Bilkis and two other
women and the murders. The
HC, however, set aside the
trial court order acquitting
the police officers and doctors
and convicted them too.
The HC had said the police
officers and doctors acted in
concert to falsify and destroy
evidence to protect the 11 men
who had raped and murdered
members of Bilkis Banos fam-
ily. Facing the threat of losing
his job, Bhagora had rushed to
the SC during the summer va-
cation immediately after his
conviction. However, a vaca-
tion bench had refused to
grant an urgent hearing.
be revoked in 10 days
Bharti.Jain@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Fugitive tele-
vangelist Zakir Naik could
soon become a stateless per-
son, with the Regional Pass-
port Office, Mumbai, serv-
ing him a 10-day ultimatum
to submit his passport in per-
son or face its revocation.
The proceedings were
initiated on a request from
the National Investigation
Agency (NIA), which is prob-
ing Naiks speeches that al-
legedly incited youth to com-
mit terror acts, after he
failed to respond to its multi-
ple notices asking him to
join the investigation.
The assistant passport
officer (policy) at RPO Mum-
ward shipments and main-
tain domestic prices.
The food ministry had pro-
posed increase in import duty
on the ground that fall in local
prices will affect millers ca-
pacity to pay cane dues to
growers. A notification issued
by the revenue department
bai wrote to Naik on against him. Cit- said that the import duty on
July 3, directing that ing its June 23 com- sugar (raw sugar, refined or
he meet him on any munication to the white sugar, raw sugar if im-
working day be- home ministry, the ported by bulk consumers)
tween 10 am and NIA said Zakir Naik has been increased from the
12.30 pm within 10 had thrice been is- present 40% to 50% with im-
days from the issue sued notices under mediate effect and without an
of the letter, along Section 160 of CrPC end date.
with his passport Zakir Naik on February 28, Sugar production in India,
dated January 20, March 15 and March the worlds second-largest
2016. Failure to submit the 31but was yet to join the pro- producer after Brazil, is esti-
passport will force us to initi- ceedings against him. It add- mated to fall to 21 million
ate necessary action under ed that a non-bailable war- tonnes in 2016-17 marketing
the Passport Act, 1967 rant had been issued against year (October-September),
against you, he warned. him on April 21. from 25 MT in the previous
The NIA had written to Naik had left India on year. To boost domestic sup-
the RPO, Mumbai, on June May 13 last year and has not ply, the government had in
29 seeking revocation of come back. NIA sources April this year allowed import
Naiks passport on the said he has been travelling of 5 lakh tonnes of raw sugar
ground that he was not to different countries, Ma- at zero duty to boost domestic
cooperating with them in laysia being his last known supply. The annual domestic
the investigation pending location. demand is 24-25 MT. PTI

INDIA DIGEST

7 more drown in Assam floods

The flood situation in Assam worsened on Monday with
seven people drowning in different parts of the state,
taking the death toll to 34. Over 12,55,692 people have
been affected by the floods in 20 districts. Three people
were killed in Lakhimpur, the worst-hit district in the
state where more than 3,00,000 people have been affect-
ed. Two children reportedly drowned in Jorhat district,
where 11,572 people have been hit. Two others were
washed away in Goalpara and Golaghat districts.

Murder accused shot outside Jind court complex

In the fifth case of firing at undertrials at Harya court
complexes since March, 24-year-old gangster Sumer
Singh was shot dead in Jind on Monday. Sumer and
co-accused Ajay Singh, who were facing trial in a murder
case, were getting into an autorickshaw after attending
the hearing, when two bike-borne men fired at them.

Mob lynches rape accused to death in Shillong

A violent mob lynched a 31-year-old man Shillong, Megh-
alaya, accusing
him of raping an
11-year-old girl,
police said on
Monday. The man
succumbed to his
injuries at Shil-
long civil hospital
on Sunday, a day
after he was
lynched. The man
had allegedly
raped the minor
and had filmed
her on his phone.

First Zika case

in TN reported
The first case of
Zika virus in-
fection was
reported on
Monday in Tamil
Nadus Krish-
nagiri district.
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12 TIMES NATION | Politics & Policy THE TIMES OF INDIA, NEW DELHI
TUESDAY, JULY 11, 2017

RJD netas downplay BJP offers support to

differences with Nitish, CM in Bihars interest
but mum on Tejashwi Wants Lalus
Continued from P 1
Nitish spoke to Lalu Son Removed
T
he rising friction between JD
(U) and RJD could also cast a
shadow over the meeting of op-
after raids: RJD leader As Deputy CM
position leaders called by Congress
president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday.
R JD leader Jagdanand Singh said
on Monday that Bihar chief
minister Nitish Kumar spoke to Lalu
Abhay.Singh@timesgroup.com

Though JD(U) is likely to be repre-
sented, the CBI case as well as recent
allegations about transfer of proper-
ties to Lalus kin threatens to weaken
opposition unity already hit by Ku-
mars support to NDA presidential
nominee Ram Nath Kovind.
The BJP state chief Nityanand
Rai meanwhile said the party could
offer support to Nitish Kumar from
the outside. The final decision of
course will be that of the central
leadership, said Rai. He has of-
fered such support earlier, but the
timing of the remarks ahead of the
JD(U) meet is significant.
Though RJD leaders chose to
downplay differences with Kumar
and claimed that Lalu had spoken to
the CM, the partys position that their
is no case against Tejashwi makes it
clear that the deputy CM is not quit-
ting just yet. JD(U) leaders feel that
without Tejashwi stepping down, a
middle ground will prove elusive.
The alliance may not, however,
snap overnight. If Kumar spells out
his stance clearly, the differences
will widen and further develop-
ments in either the CBI case or en-
forcement directorate probe into
shell companies and properties ac-
quired by Lalus daughter Misha
Bharti and her husband Shailesh
could provide a further trigger.
JD(U) sources, in fact, feel that
Tejashwis continuance in the min-
istry is becoming increasingly un-
tenable. In the light in which the
current situation is developing, the
alliance might remain in turmoil if
RJD doesnt respond to signals from
Kumar who had removed three min-
isters in the past after cases were
Prasad after the CBI raids on him and
his family members last week.
The CM did speak to Lalu on
phone on Sunday, said Singh, when
asked by newmen about the JD(U)
chiefs silence on this issue. Singh did
not disclose what transpired between
Nitish and Lalu. Piyush Tripathi | TNN
registered against them. Jitan Ram
Manjhi, Ramdhar Singh and RN
Singh had been removed. Manjhi has
now attacked Kumar alleging that ac-
tion against him was taken as he was a
Dalit but the Bihar chief minister did
not have the gumption to act against
Lalu Prasads sons.
Message to the RJD is loud and
clear that Nitishji cant run the gov-
ernment if people facing corruption
allegations are there in the minis-
try, said a senior JD(U) functionary
as he claimed that RJD should have
tried a way out but the party rallies
behind the Lalu Prasad family and
they have refused to accept removal
of Tejashwi and Tej Pratap.
The JD(U) camp is unhappy at
RJD as the latter has not been able to
answer questions raised by enforce-
ment agencies about the properties
of the Lalu Prasad family. Prasad
and his family should have counter-
ed the allegations legally and tech-
nically. But there has been only po-
litical barbs and a strong plea
backed by legal papers is missing so
far, a JD(U) leader said.
JD(U) sources said RJD had an
option to agree to removal of Te-
jashwi until a probe was completed
and one of the senior leaders like
Abdul Bari Siddiqui should have
been promoted in rank.
Patna: Even as relations bet-
ween the ruling partners in
Bihar have become tense af-
ter CBI raids on Lalu Prasad
and his family, BJP state unit
on Monday offered support to
the Nitish Kumar govern-
ment in the interest of the
CHANGING EQUATIONS? Nitish
state if JD(U) parts ways
with RJD and Congress.
A final decision in this re-
gard, however, will be taken
by our central leadership,
BJP state president Nitya-
nand Rai told reporters in
Patna on Monday.
Rai said the support will be
from outside. We will not join
the government and we will
not destabilise it, he said.
JD(U) has 71 MLAs in the
243-member House. With the
support of NDAs 58 MLAs, in-
cluding 53 of BJP, the number
would add up to 129, seven more
than the magic figure of 122
which Nitish would require in
case he parts ways with RJD
RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav with wife Rabri Devi and Bihar deputy CM
Tejashwi Yadav at the legislative party meeting in Patna on Monday
ED summons Misha, asks her
to be present in person today
T wo days after searching three premises connected to Rajya
Sabha MP Misha Bharti, the Enforcement Directorate has
issued summons to her for personal appearance before the
investigating officer at the EDs Delhi office on Tuesday.
Bharti has been asked to bring certain documents to establish her
proof of income and finances in acquiring properties in Delhi,
including three farm houses in posh localities. On Saturday, ED
officials had searched the three farmhouses in Ghitorni, Bijwasan and
Sainik Farms in Delhi allegedly belonging to Bharti and her husband
Shailesh Kumar in connection with a money laundering case
registered by the agency earlier. Misha and her husband were
questioned by ED officials during the search operations.
The ED is investigating Mishas financial trail in acquiring shares
of Mishail Packers and Printers Pvt Ltd, an alleged shell company that
was used to acquire properties in the Capital. Misha and her husband
are directors in this firm. During the searches, ED officials seized
several incriminating documents and electronic devices. The ED
raids on Bhartis properties came a day after the CBI conducted
multiple searches on the residence and offices of Lalu and his
associates in a different case pertaining to contracts awarded to a
firm when he was railway minister. Mohua Chatterjee | TNN
and Congress. The CM should break his
BJP continued to mount silence on the issue. He has
pressure on Nitish to remove till now maintained a zero-to-
Lalu Prasads son Tejashwi Ya- lerance policy towards mat-
dav from the post of deputy CM ters of corruption, and in
following CBI raids against the the past took resignation of
RJD chief and his family on few ministers, Rai said earli-
Friday in corruption cases. er in the day.

Opp may announce

VP candidate today
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Even as troubles in the
JD(U)-RJD alliance cast a shadow
over its deliberations, the opposition
could announce the name of a joint
candidate for the vice-presidential
poll following a meeting of several
non-NDA parties here on Tuesday.
Though Bihar chief minister
Nitish Kumar has decided to keep
away from the 11 am meeting and is
planning to address legislators and
party functionaries in Patna in-
stead, JD(U) MPs Sharad Yadav and
K C Tyagi will attend, making it a to-
tal of 18 political parties.
Sources in the Left told TOI that
while the opposition has not formal-
ised the name of any vice-presiden-
tial candidate yet, there is a broad
consensus on the person not being
from the Congress camp after Meira
Kumars nomination as presiden-
tial candidate.
Sections in the opposition did not
rule out the possibility of Dalit leader
Prakash Ambedkars name for vice-
president. A small section also said
former West Bengal governor Gopal
Krishna Gandhi, who was earlier
among the top contenders for the op-
positions presidential candidate,
may find mention on the list of names
during Tuesdays meeting.
There also seems agreement that
with time running out, the opposi-
tion parties should announce their
VP candidate even though the NDA
TMC to boycott meet on
eve of monsoon session
M amata Banerjees Trinamool
Congress has decided to
boycott the all-party meeting called
by parliamentary affairs minister
Ananth Kumar on July 16, a day before
the beginning of the Monsoon
session of Parliament.
TMC leaders though are expected
to attend the meeting called by Lok
Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan
later the same day, sources said.
The meeting called by the
government where the Prime Minister
is likely to be present is to be held in the
morning and the one convened by the
Speaker in the afternoon.
TMC plans a common platform for
a joint opposition campaign against
the government and ruling BJP on the
social media. The idea is to take on the
government jointly, not only in
Parliament through floor coordination
on issues but also outside with
programmes on the streets and digital
space, including social media, said
party sources. Mohua Chatterjee | TNN
government has not revealed its
nominee. The Left has indicated it re-
mains committed to contesting the
poll even though the numbers are
stacked in favour of the NDA nomi-
nee. A senior Left leader said they
were even willing to consider a candi-
date with no political affiliation.

Sachins campaign
raises privacy concerns
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: On a day when the al-

leged Reliance Jio data breach was
in the news, a twitter campaign by
cricketing legend Sachin Tendul-
kar led to concerns over privacy.
The master blaster started a fit-
ness campaign on Monday morning
tweeting, Have friends with many
excuses to not get fit? Tag them us-
ing #NoExcuses with their cities &
mobile no & I may call to give them
a pep talk!
Predictably, hundreds rushed to
tweet with their friends names, ci-
ties, and phone numbers, prompt-
ing some to point out that such per-
sonal information in the public do-
main is liable to be misused.
By Monday evening, the tweet
was deleted.
Social media analytics company,
Brandwatch React, pointed out that
those posting personally identifia-
ble information of their purported-
ly unfit friends were violating Twit-
ter rules. Think twice before post-
ing your friends phone numbers for
the #NoExcuses campaign. Here
are Twitters rules, it tweeted from
the handle @BW_React, linking to
Twitters community guidelines.
The social networks rules pro-
hibit posting another persons pri-
TOO PERSONAL? Sachin Tendulkar
vate and confidential information.
It counts non-public, personal
phone numbers as such informa-
tion. #NoExcuses isnt it a breach
of privacy? Get ready for 100s of
spam calls once your mobile no pub-
licly disclosed! tweeted a cautious
@KiranBeladiya.
Australian web security expert
Troy Hunt linked to Tendulkar's
tweet and quipped, How do you mine
troves of phone numbers from Indi-
ans? Get a famous cricketer to polite-
ly ask people to dox their friends!
#NoExcuses A twitter fan with the
account @krIshNDIA politely tweet-
ed: #NoExcuses Hi Sachin! I can DM
you my number & you can give me a
pep talk if don't mind! Will mean a lot!
#legend #rolemodel #Thanks!
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Post-GST, check-post removal
cuts trucks travel time by 1/5
Staff Extort
Money On
Other pretext
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The travel time
of long-haul trucks and
other cargo vehicles has re-
duced by at least one-fifth
since border check posts ha-
ve been removed across the
country following the imple-
mentation of GST.
However, top executives
of major logistics firms said
while tax officials have large-
ly disappeared from roads,
transport department offici-
als are extorting money on
some pretext or the other.
While Chhattisgarh be-
came the first state to do
away with check-posts of re-
gional transport offices
(RTOs), sources said the
Centre is considering to ap-
Centre becomes common enemy
for warring GJM, Mamata
Deep Gazmer &
Zeeshan Jawed TNN
Darjeeling/Kolkata: The
Centre has become a pun-
ching bag for both chief mi-
nister Mamata Banerjee
and the Gorkha Janmukti
Morcha (GJM) even as they
are opposed to each other
over the demand for a sepa-
rate Gorkhaland state.
While Mamata accused
the Centre of non-coopera-
tion saying that it was sit-
ting on the states requisition
for additional forces as the
bandh enters its 27th day on
Tuesday, GJMs Darjeeling
MLA Amar Singh Rai gave
vent to his fret over the Cent-
res wait-and-watch policy
instead of calling Hills parti-
es for talks over Gorkhaland.
33,000 have taken
admissions in elite
engg institutes this yr
Continued from P 1
T
he bench also took into
consideration that
around 33,000 students
had already taken admission
so far this year and any inter-
ference at this stage would
create further confusion.
The court turned down
the plea of a dozen students
seeking its direction to IITs to
revise the merit list by scrap-
ping the bonus marks given to
all 1.56 lakh examinees who
took the test. The court, how-
ever, expressed concern over
wrong and vague questions
being framed in the presti-
gious entrance examination
and directed the Centre and
IITs to file an affidavit assur-
ing that such a mistake would
not occur in future.
We vacate the order
passed by us. We are not in-
clined to interfere, the bench
said. Apprehending that
Javadekar gives
Guru Dakshina
to Prez Pranab
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: President Pranab
Mukherjee received guru
dakshina from human resour-
ce development minister Pra-
kash Javadekar on the occasion
of Guru Purnima on Sunday.
The occasion was the launch
of three digital initiatives
Swayam, Swayam Prabha and
National Academic Depository.
Felicitating Mukherjee, who
was a teacher before he took the
plunge into politics in 1969, Ja-
vadekar said his life was an ex-
emplary record of calibre, ca-
pacity and conduct, adding that
Mukherjee represented all tea-
chers in India.
As a mark of respect, he pre-
sented Mukherjee a slate a
traditional writing tablet whi-
le announcing that convocation
addresses delivered by the Presi-
dent will be compiled and publis-
hed as guru dakshina to him.
Since I called him a teacher,
there will be guru dakshina as
well. We will publish compila-
tion of his convocation addres-
ses to various universities so
that students can enlighten
themselves from his valuable
observations, he said.
The travel time between Delhi
and Mumbai is now three days
peal other states to follow su-
it. Road transport minister
Nitin Gadkari has said that
in the near future there will
be no checking by RTOs on
highways as all the toll plazas
will get weight-in-motion
bridges to check overloading.
The total travel time bet-
ween Delhi and Mumbai is
now three days in compari-
son to four days before GST.
Similarly, now it takes five da-
ys to cover the Delhi-Chennai
stretch against six-and-a-half
days earlier. Assam is the on-
ly state, which has not remo-
ved border check-posts, said
ON GUARD: Security personnel keep a vigil in Darjeeling on Monday
The MLA feared that the
situation might slip out of
the Centres hand. Rai do-
esnt foresee any relaxation
in the Hills strike in the
Gorkhaland Movement Co-
ordination Committee mee-
ting on Tuesday unless the
Centre arranges for talks
some students might ap-
proach high courts over the
bonus marks controversy, the
bench restrained HCs from
entertaining any such plea.
The bench was examining
the decision of IITs to award
18 bonus marks to all candi-
dates who appeared in the ex-
amination irrespective of
whether they attempted to an-
swer these questions. The pet-
itioners . said their overall
rank had gone down due to
the decision and pleaded for a
revised merit list without bo-
nus marks.
Around 1.7 lakh students
had registered for JEE (ad-
vanced) in 2017 and 1.56 lakh
appeared for the test. .
Justifying its decision,
IITs told the bench that the is-
sue was examined by its ex-
pert bodies which came to the
conclusion that awarding bo-
nus marks was the only prac-
tical solution.
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There is a view that
the reduction in
travel time of cargo
vehicles is due to
fall in such traffic
and vehicles
carrying items such
as food and
agriculture produce
and not due to GST
Rajesh Agrawal, chairman of
All India Transport Welfare
Association (AITWA) and he-
ad of Aggrawal Packers and
Movers Ltd.
Aggarwal said the provi-
sion of no detention by tax
officials has cut down the in-
ordinate delay of vehicles
reaching the destination.
We expect the government
will act quickly after recei-
ving any such complaint,
he added.
Even the Car Carriers As-
sociation said the travel time
of trucks carrying automobi-
les has improved. Removal
AFP
with Hills parties.
Mamata saw in the Cent-
res reluctance a conspira- culture of co-existence of
cy against Bengal. There is Hindu-Muslim communities
a conspiracy to divide Beng-
al which is why the Centre
isnt coming to the states without any communalism,
help in tackling the situa-
tion, she said on Monday.
TIMES NATION
of check posts is a welcome
sign. But you have flying squ-
ads and RTO officials flag-
ging vehicles at other loca-
tions. This must be stopped.
Such officials have shifted
their base only to avoid any
traffic pile-up at particular
locations, Vipul Nanda of
the association said.
But there is also a view
that the reduction in travel
time of cargo vehicles on
major routes is due to fall in
such traffic and vehicles
carrying items such as food
and agriculture produce,
petroleum and LPG tankers
are not impacted by GST.
There is almost 40% re- call for an emergency review of
duction in movement of vehi-
cles carrying parcel consign-
ments because of less boo-
king of such taxable consign-
ments and the transport
agents fearing action. Witho-
ut e-way bill and by ending
the old system of transit per-
mit, now there is a vacuum,
said S P Singh of IFTRT, a
Delhi-based think tank.
Violence a reason
to worry: Amartya
N obel laureate Amartya
Sen said on Monday
there is a reason to worry
over the communal violence
that has engulfed Basirhat in
West Bengal. Why is it
happening? Is it because
someone is inciting it? How
much political mischief is to
be blamed for this? We have
to ponder all these. There is a
reason to worry over this,
Sen said. Bengal has a
mals brought to its shelter
home... our names are being
and for a long time this
co-existence was possible
and suddenly this returns.
he said. IANS
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Roza means
diarrhoea in
Guj texboook
Bharat.Yagnik@timesgroup.com
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat Sta-
te School Textbook Board
(GSSTB) class IV Hindi (first-
language) textbook, prescri-
bed for Hindi-medium stu-
dents, defines roza as Ek chaa-
tak aur sankramak rog jisme
dast aur kai aati hai (an infec-
tious disease that causes diarr-
hoea and vomiting). The error
is found in the meanings sec-
tion of chapter 3 of the book
Executive director of
GSSTB Nitin Pethani, who is
under fire for error-riddled text-
books, said on Monday: Its a
grave mistake. The word roza
has been confused with haija
or infectious cholera. We will
the experience of being the
all textbooks.
He added that prima facie, it
appeared that the error crept
into the textbook at the data
entry level. Pethani insisted
that the mistakes were typos
and there was no intention to
hurt any religious sentiments.
Mufti Shabbir Alam of the ci-
tys Jama Masjid said the blun-
der hurt religious sentiments.
Not linked to
NGO that got
cow grants
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Lucknow: Aparna Yadav, the
younger daughter-in-law of SP
patriarch Mulayam Singh Ya-
dav, has refuted media reports
published and telecast on July
2 that it was her NGO that re-
ceived a majority of grants giv-
en by the Gau Seva Ayog during
Akhilesh Yadavs tenure as the
chief minister.
In a press release issued by
her team on Monday, she says:
We have nothing to do with the
Jeev Asharay, an NGO engaged
by the Lucknow Nagar Nigam
to look after the distraught ani-
most that he met, civil ser-
dragged unnecessarily into the
controversy .
We have no relation, what-
soever, with the NGO, Jeev
Ashray Goashala, she says.
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Former cabinet secy
Naresh Chandra dead
By T S R Subramanian
N
aresh Chandra, former
cabinet secretary who
passed away in Goa on
Sunday evening after a cardi-
ac arrest, held key positions
in the Centre and state go-
vernments, with assign-
ments in the economic, in-
frastructure, regulatory and
social sectors, including the
posts of defence and home se-
cretary, in all of which he dis-
tinguished himself. A 1956
batch IAS officer of Rajast-
han cadre, he was one of the
three or so out of 30-plus post-
independence cabinet secre-
taries who carried with him
liticians of the day). He wo-
chief secretary of a state.
After retirement, he re-
presented India as ambassa-
dor to the US, and also served
as governor of Gujarat. A
grateful government confer-
red the title of Padma Vib-
hushan on him, which he
richly deserved.
Outwardly a jovial perso-
nality, Naresh carried a
sharp and incisive intellect,
brought deep thought into
every issue, while being
strong and prompt where ac-
tion was required; he was the
Naresh was the principal adviser to Narasimha Rao
on the Babri episode; after retirement, Naresh
joined the PMO to head the Babri cell. He was also
one the key persons behind the 1991 reforms
ideal civil servant. One has
seen him take firm positions
in different ministries, ex-
pressing his views freely and
fearlessly, both in his verbal
presentations as well as on
paper. Soft spoken with much
deliberation in his delivery,
Naresh carried punch in eve-
ry word that he uttered no-
body, his minister or his sub-
ordinates, could afford to ta-
ke him lightly.
He was superior in intel-
lect and comprehension to
the PMO to head the Babri
vants and politicians alike.
He had a healthy ridicule and
mild contempt for most poli-
ticians who headed his mini-
stries (I knew that he had re-
spect just for three or four po-
on after Babri, he did men-
uld, however, not be
patronising to anyone, nor
would he ever show any sub-
servience. He knew that he
1934-2017
was the reverse of the gover-
nance coin, on the other side
of the politician; with true
democratic spirit, he would
cheerfully accept being over-
ruled, while fully knowing
that he was right.
Narasimha Rao depen-
ded on him implicitly, much
as Chandragupta looked
upon Chanakya. While Rao
and Manmohan Singh were
publicly recognised as the fa-
ce of the 1991 reforms, few
know that the two key per-
sons behind the scenes, who
played a critical role, inclu-
ded A N Verma, the principal
secretary to Rao, and Naresh
Chandra.
Naresh was also the prin-
cipal adviser to Rao on the
Babri episode; indeed after
retirement, Naresh joined
13
After retiring as cabinet
secretary, Naresh Chan-
dra represented India as
ambassador to the US,
and also served as
Gujarat governor. The
government conferred
the title of Padma
Vibhushan on him, which
he richly deserved
cell. Much of Raos book on
the fall of Babri Masjid is ba-
sed on the invaluable rese-
arch of Naresh. In one con-
versation with him, when I
was chief secretary in UP so-
tion to me that he had clearly
posed the alternatives to Rao,
and that the final decision
was that of the PM (did Na-
resh hint he had advised
otherwise?)
Naresh had a subtle but
strong sense of humour I
once asked him, when he was
governor of Gujarat, whet-
her it was incongruous that
he headed a dry state? His
answer, with a mischievous
twinkle, was that it is not ne-
cessary that all things be
known, in public interest. In
long meetings, particularly
with discursive long winded
presentations, Naresh would
quietly study a file, with in-
tense concentration. The ac-
tual document addressed by
him would be a hidden copy
of the Statesman Crossword
(London Times), which he
would finish in half an hour
or so a feat that very few In-
dians can accomplish!
A distinguished member
of the breed of post-indepen-
dence civil servants, imbued
with true democratic spirit,
immersed in genuine public
service is no more. He will be
missed by many in India; for
me it is a personal loss, ha-
ving known and admired
him for five decades.
(The writer is a former
cabinet secretary.)
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14 TIMES NATION | Sikkim Standoff THE TIMES OF INDIA, NEW DELHI

TUESDAY, JULY 11, 2017

Doklam: India boosts troop presence Malabar a signal to Beijing

we are one: US commander
AP
en activated and moved up ween Beijing and Thimphu.
Flag Meetings to the Zuluk and Nathang
Valley in the state.
India considers the Dok-
lam plateau, especially the L R Shankar

Have Lost Similarly, some elements

under the 20 Mountain Divi-
Zomplri Ridge area, strategi-
cally important because it
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Rajat.Pandit@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: The Indian Ar-
my has moved another 2,500
soldiers from their peace-ti-
me deployments in Sikkim to
further reinforce its proacti-
ve stance in the ongoing tro-
op faceoff with China on the
Doklam plateau, even as it
maintains high alert along
the entire 4,057km Line of
Actual Control from Ladakh
to Arunachal Pradesh.
China has apparently also
sent some troop reinforce-
ments to Khamba Dzong and
other areas near its Chumbi
Valley, which juts in between
Sikkim and Bhutan.
Flag meetings between
local commanders have lost
their relevance. There is total
stalemate. The decision to de-
escalate has to come from the
politico-diplomatic level.
The Working Mechanism for
Consultation and Coordina-
A 2013 file photo shows the Tricolour next to the Chinese national emblem
during a welcome ceremony for Indian officials in Beijing. The neighbours
are locked in a standoff at their border tri-junction with Bhutan
tion on India-China Border
Affairs, set up in 2012, or talks
between the two designated
special representatives, is
the only way to defuse the si-
tuation now, a source said.
There are just about 300-400
troops each from India and
China in the eyeball-to-eyeball
but non-aggressive confron-
tation at the exact standoff site
on the Doklam plateau Bhu-
tanese territory coveted by Be-
ijing to add strategic depth to
its narrow Chumbi Valley
near the Sikkim-Bhutan-Tibet
tri-junction. But all Indian
Army formations in the re-
gion, ranging from the 17 Di-
vision (headquarters at
Gangtok) to 27 Division (Ka-
limpong) and 20 Division
(Binnaguri), and all infantry
mountain warfare units with
over 10,000 soldiers each, are
maintaining high operatio-
nal readiness for any con-
tingency, sources said.
Apart from the already-
deployed 63 and 112 Brigades
in east and north Sikkim,
with 3,000 troops each, sour-
ces said two battalions under
the 164 Brigade have also be-
sion have also been moved to
their exercise area. The basic
aim behind all this is to ensure
availability of properly accli-
matised troops, who can be
mobilised at short notice if re-
quired, the source said.
On the actual faceoff site,
with each side headed by a co-
lonel-rank officer, the Indian
and Chinese troops are sepa-
rated by a distance of about
100-150 metres, and both have
pitched tents and established
logistics chains, as was earli-
er reported by TOI.
China is infuriated at the
way Indian troops deployed
in the Doka La general area
proactively blocked Chinese
troops and construction wor-
kers from building a moto-
rable road towards the
Zomplri Ridge on the Doklam
plateau last month after Bhu-
tanese soldiers had failed to
do so. This is evident in the
barrage of belligerent state-
ments made by China, asking
India to withdraw its troops
from the Doklam plateau bet-
overlooks the militarily-vulne-
rable Chickens Neck area,
the narrow strip of land that
connects the Indian mainland
with its north-eastern states.
The assessment is that the
PLA will not back off from
the faceoff ahead of its 90th
anniversary on August 1,
which is to be followed by a
crucial congress of Commu-
nist Party of China. Indian
troops are fully prepared to
wait it out because they have
better logistics in the region
than the PLA, whose lines of
communications are stret-
ched and difficult to mainta-
in, the source said.
India, with Bhutanese
support, maintains that the
tri-junction lies at a point near
Batang La based on the wa-
tershed principle, and Chum-
bi Valley should end there to
the north of Doklam. China
claims that the tri-junction li-
es at Gyemochen on the
Zomplri Ridge, around 7.5 km
south of Batang La, to butt-
ress its claim over Doklam.
Chennai: Amid vociferous protests and far-
from-subtle bluster by China, the navies of In-
dia and the US and the Japanese Maritime Self
Defence Force opened the 21st edition of mari-
time exercise Malabar on Monday with the US
unequivocally standing by the country in its
efforts to check Beijings growing footprint in
the Indian Ocean.
Commander US Strike Group 11 Rear Ad-
miral William D Byrne said the only strategic
message that Malabar 2017 is sending to all
navies is that we are better together, adding
that the drill should eliminate possibilities of
miscalculations.
Another US commander, who asked not to
be named, said the exercise would have a sig-
nificant impact on China. They will know
that we are standing together and it is better to
stand together, he said. However, the US will
not interfere in the domestic and economic re- US navy personnel at the inauguration of Malabar
lationships of (any) country. 2017, a Naval exercise involving India, the US and
Rear Admiral Byrne added that the US con- Japan that began in the Bay of Bengal on Monday
siders the Indo-Asian and Pacific region as
critical for close relationships. fighter jets, and two submarines will take part
Flag Officer Commanding in Chief, East- in the war games on international waters off
ern Naval Command, Vice-admiral H C S the coast of Chennai from July 14 to 17.
Bisht declared the exercise open, describing it The fleet deployed by the three navies is
as a joint attempt to address common chal- significant in its size and timing, given that
lenges and address shared threats. China is flexing its muscles in the Indian
He, however, refused to acknowledge out- Ocean, to the vexation of India, and that North
right that the choice of ships and the venue of Korea is growing increasingly hostile to its
the exercise had anything to do with presence neighbours and Washington with successive

Bhutan not China media in

Why ministers availing
of Chinese ships or Indian threat perception
in the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean.
Exercise Malabar, one of the biggest naval
likely to side two minds on military exercises at sea, will have three air-
craft carriers taking part the USS Nimitz of
nuclear-capable rocket tests, to the consterna-
tion of US.
But India and the US commanders denied
that China could be snooping on the exercise.
Vice Admiral Bisht denied that Malabar

with China
Saibal Dasgupta TNN
of Chinese hospitality? India strength
Saibal Dasgupta TNN
the US Navy, the INS Vikramaditya of the Indi-
an Navy and the JS Izumo of the Japanese
Maritime Self Defence Force. In addition, 16
ships, 95 aircraft, including a large number of
2017 would have any implication for Indias
current standoff with China but said the exer-
cise is aimed at a long-term strategic relation-
ship among the three countries.

Jaishankar to give glimpse

Beijing: Bhutan is unlikely to
compromise and accept Chi-
nas offer to ditch India in ex-
change for settling their bor-
der disputes. China claims ter-
ritory totalling 495 square ki-
lometres in eastern Bhutan,
and 286 square kilometres in
the western sector, which in-
cludes Doklam plateau. At one
stage, China offered to give up
its claims in eastern Bhutan if
Thimphu handed over Dok-
lam, which would give China a
commanding position over In-
dia. Bhutan did not agree.
The reason goes beyond
the India-Bhutan relations-
hip; it involves Thimphus fe-
ars that Chinese troops may
proceed further to cut off its
main thoroughfare that con-
nects the capital to Phuent-
sholing, where imports from
India enter Bhutan.
If Chinese troops claim
the disputed area, they will be
in control of the high mounta-
in ridges. This will put our Haa,
Paro and Thimphu valleys wit-
hin Chinese artillery range, a
Bhutanese analyst said.
China is trying to make a
big push into the Himalayan
kingdom because Bhutan is un-
dergoing major changes at the
economic and socio-political le-
vels. India is financing four ma-
jor hydel projects in the nation,
and will be the sole buyer of the
power generated. What is bot-
hering the Chinese, among
other things, is that Bhutan will
be even more dependent on In-
dia, said Rakesh Mohan, the
former executive director for
India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
and Bhutan for the IMF. If all
these projects come on stream
in 15 years, Bhutan will become
quite rich, like a petroleum-ex-
porting country, he added.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: In the face of
sharp criticism from BJP for
meeting Chinese ambassa-
dor Luo Zhaohui amid the
continuing border stand-off
between the two countries,
Congress vice-president Ra-
hul Gandhi tweeted, It is my
job to be informed on critical
issues and the government
must explain why three min-
isters are availing Chinese
hospitality. The reference
was to the visit of three min-
isters to China for BRICS-re-
lated engagements.
Ina series of tweets, Rahul
said, I met the Chinese am-
bassador, ex-NSA (Shivshan-
kar Menon), Congress leaders
from north-east and the Bhu-
tanese ambassador. The ex-
panded reference seemed
aimed at countering the im-
pression that he met only the
Chinese ambassador during
the ongoing crisis over Chi-
nas attempt to build a road
and take control of a part of
Bhutanese territory.
Rahulalso posted a photo
of PM Narendra Modi on a
swing with Chinese President
FRESH CRISIS: Rahul Gandhi
Xi Jinping during the latters
2014 visit and commented,
And for the record, I am not
the guy sitting on the swing
while a thousand Chinese
troops had physically entered
India. He was alluding to an
intrusion by Chinese troops
when Xi was visiting India.
But Rahuls statement
came hours after Congresss
denial and it calling the meet-
ing with Luo fake news
through much of the day. The
meeting, Congress admitted,
took place last week. As the
controversy grew, it con-
firmed the engagement, ar-
guing theres no need to sen-
sationalise the meeting.
The Chinese embassy,
which had posted about the
July 8 meeting between Ra-
hul and Luo on its website,
later withdrew it.
Beijing: Chinas official me-
dia spoke in two voices on
Monday about Indias milita-
ry capabilities in light of the
ongoing border standoff. So-
me commentators questioned
Indias ability to handle two
scenarios the firing at the
Line of Control and the stan-
doff at the border with China,
while others expressed con-
cern about growing India-US
military ties and said it had
put China at risk.
Pointing to the firing at the
LoC, Lin Minwang, a strategic
expert at the Institute for In-
ternational Studies at Fudan
University, said, China has
nothing to do with the situa-
tion in Kashmir, but it would
be unwise for India to engage
in two conflicts at the same ti-
me. Beijing-based Global Ti-
mes quoted Lin as saying,
There are frequent conflicts
and military scuffles between
the areas of Kashmir control-
led by the two sides.
In another commentary,
China Daily said the ongoing
Malabar Naval exercise betwe-
en India, the US, and Japan was
a security concern for China.
This view is in contrast to those
expressed by the Chinese fore-
ign ministry, which had said on
Friday that Beijing had no
objection to normal bilateral
relations between different co-
untries as long as they were not
directed at any country. ....The
US approved a $365 million sa-
le of military transport air-
craft to India last week and a
$2 billion deal for surveillance
drones is in the works; it is
China that should feel securi-
ty concerns, given the impor-
tance of the Indian Ocean for
its trade and oil imports, the
China Daily editorial said.
into Indias stance today
Indrani.Bagchi@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: As the India-Chi-
na standoff in the Doklam
plateau enters the third week
amid high-decibel criticism
of New Delhi by official Chi-
nese media, a glimpse into the
Indian point of view will
come on Tuesday, when for-
eign secretary S Jaishankar
gives a lecture in Singapore.
Jaishankar will address
India-Asean ties, but it is ex-
pected that he will also speak
on the current situation be-
tween India, Bhutan and Chi-
na. So far, the foreign minis-
trys reaction has been encap-
sulated in a lengthy statement.
While sources here main-
tained that the five-minute
meeting between PM Naren-
dra Modi and President Xi
Jinping in Hamburg went
better than expected, the
Chinese government refused
to agree that a meeting took
place at all (see inset).
The current border crisis
started after Indian forces stop-
ped the construction of a road
by China in the Doklam region.
Road construction is Chinas
way of expanding territory. It
has been doing so below Bhu-
tans claim line in the area for
some time, brushing away the
protests by the tiny country.
China is livid because India
came to Bhutans help and re-
fused to allow its mission
creep to continue further.
Beijing evades queries on Xi-Modi meet
C hina has refused to acknowledge that PM Narendra Modi met
Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 summit
at Hamburg last week. The Chinese foreign ministry insists there
was no bilateral meeting, and did not respond when asked
whether the two leaders had met at an informal level. According to
my information, the two leaders did not hold any bilateral meeting,
spokesperson Geng Shuang said more than three times. Geng said Xi
presided over a meeting of leaders of the five Brics member states
during the G20 summit, where Modi was one of the attendees. This is
interesting because the Union ministry of external affairs had
tweeted a photograph of the two leaders meeting and said they had
discussed a range of issues. There are signs China is not
acknowledging the meeting because that would run counter to its
stance that troop withdrawal by India from Doklam was a
pre-condition for meaningful dialogue. Saibal Dasgupta TNN
If allowed to continue un- accepts certain rules in dis-
contested, Chinese action puted areas. Bhutan is under
would render the slender Sili- sustained Chinese pressure
guri corridor vulnerable, and as well, so by changing the
have serious security implica- ground position, China is
tions for India. With this ac- once again attempting to re-
tion, China has again upended draw border understandings
an understanding between the between India and China to
special representatives. In its advantage.
2005, India and China had Meanwhile, some comic
agreed to a formulation on set- confusion by the Chinese gov-
tled populations in the guid- ernment is fast turning diplo-
ing principles for a boundary macy on the boundary crisis
settlement, but within a year, into a circus.
the Chinese envoy claimed all In addition, the Chinese
of Arunachal Pradesh, dis- embassy in New Delhi in-
missing the agreement. formed through its WeChat ac-
Chinese officials have count that the ambassador had
ruled out any conversation met Congress member Rahul
with India until Indian troops Gandhi. This was later deleted,
withdraw. This has been leaving everyone wondering
broadcast by the Chinese em- why, since Rahul also met Bhu-
bassy in New Delhi, drawing tanese ambassador V Namgyel
red lines. India, for its part, separately as well as former
cannot withdraw until China NSA Shivshankar Menon.

Army rejects Pak claim Mosul freed: Search on for 39 Indians

of strike at Indian posts Sushma: Aziz didnt acknowledge letter on Jadhav mom TIMES NEWS NETWORK

TIMES NEWS NETWORK institution, the Indian Army

New Delhi: The Army on Monday
rejected the Pakistani militarys
claim of having destroyed two Indi-
an posts and killing four soldiers
during cross-border firing on Sun-
day. Pakistan army has been vio-
lating the border ceasefire on a
regular basis, with the number al-
ready having crossed 220 this year.
It has deliberately targeted civil-
ian areas, said an officer who add-
ed that the Indian Army, unlike Pa-
kistans, did not hide casualties
and honoured its martyrs through
public tributes.
As a mature and accountable
keeps the public informed of casu-
alties suffered through an estab-
lished and transparent system,
he added. The Armys response
came after the Pakistani military
claimed that it had killed four Indi-
an soldiers and destroyed two posts
being used to target its civilians on
Sunday. The Pakistan army said it
had opened fire in response to un-
provoked firing by India.
Meanwhile, the cross-border
bus service was suspended on Mon-
day due to overnight shelling by Pa-
kistan. Sources said the bus from
Poonch to Rawalakote did not cross
the gates at Chakkan-da-Bagh.
New Delhi: Describing the liberation of
Mosul from the Islamic State (IS) terror
group as an important milestone in the
global war on terror, the government an-
nounced on Monday that it had activated
various channels for locating the 39 In-
dian construction workers abducted from
the Iraqi city in 2014 who remain missing.
Minister of state V K Singh reached
Erbil late on Monday evening to enquire
about them, the government said. Foreign
ministry spokesperson Gopal Baglay said
that as soon as the announcement of Mo-
suls liberation was made by the Iraqi
prime minister, the government activated
various channels to locate the missing In-
dians. The ambassador of India to Iraq
and our consul general in Erbil have
been instructed to continue the efforts
E xternal affairs minister Sushma Swaraj criticised her Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz on
Monday for not giving a visa to the mother of former Indian Naval officer Kulbhushan
Jadhav, on death row in Pakistan on spying charges, and also on the issue of medical visas for
Pakistani nationals. In a series of tweets, Swaraj said: I have my sympathies for all Pakistani
nationals seeking medical visa for their treatment in India. All that we require is his (Azizs)
recommendation for the grant of medical visa to Pakistan nationals. I wrote a personal
letter to Mr Sartaj Aziz for the grant of her (Avantika Jadhavs) visa to Pakistan. However, Mr
Aziz has not shown the courtesy even to acknowledge my letter, she tweeted. Swarajs
remarks came amid media reports in Pakistan that the Indian high commission in Islamabad
had rejected the medical visa application of a 25-year-old Pakistani tumour patient who was
to travel to India for treatment. Faiza Tanveer had sought Swarajs intervention. TNN
to locate them on priority, said Baglay. Monday assured Punjab CM Amarinder
Iraqi authorities had conveyed that all Singh that her ministry was making all-
cooperation would be extended in this out efforts to trace the 39 Indians, mostly
regard and that instructions had been from Punjab, held hostage in Mosul
issued by them to all relevant Iraqi agen- since 2014. Amarinder had called up
cies for the same, he added. Swaraj on Monday to seek her interven-
Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj on tion to track them.

Pilgrim bus was not registered with Amarnath board
Saleem Pandit & Bharti Jain TNN
Srinagar/New Delhi: The at-
tack on a bus carrying Amarnath
pilgrims to Jammu on Monday
was preceded by strikes at a police
bunker at Batengoo and a naka at
Khanabal in Anantnag district,
sources said. It was near Baten-
goo that the terrorists had opened
fire on the bus around 8.20pm.
The firing at the police bunker
as well as the naka led to an ex-
change of fire, but there was no re-
port of injuries. Central security
sources said the area where the bus
was attacked has Hizbul Mujahi-
deen presence, but Lashkar-e-Tai-
ba also has boots on the ground
there. The attack came as security
forces were anticipating efforts by
Pakistan-based jihadi groups to
PTI/Photo for representation
Amarnath pilgrims proceed towards the
shrine amid tight security last week
stage a strike around the first death
anniversary, July 8, of Hizbul com-
mander Burhan Wani.
Sources said there were general
inputs regarding a threat to Amar-
nath yatris, but no specific input in-
dicating the time or place of a pos-
sible attack. The response to the
last few incidents in the Valley has
been strong. The terrorists are un-
der pressure to show their worth
to start early so they can reach the
They kept firing till our bus reached Army camp base camp before sunset. The advi-
G ujarat resident Yogesh Prajapati (55), one of the passengers on the bus
attacked by terrorists, said, We left Srinagar at 5pm; two hours into
the journey our bus got a puncture some 2km ahead of Anantnag. Just
sory warns them against being on
the highway after sunset.
The CRPF said three policemen
when the bus was ready to leave, the windscreen was shattered by a spray were also injured in the shoot-out.
of bullets. Our driver Saleem bravely drove ahead even as terrorists The terrorists who attacked the
continued to pump bullets into the bus till we reached the military camp. bus in the evening were waiting for
The Army rescued us, but... seven of 60 passengers lost their lives. It is a the vehicle since afternoon, a se-
miracle the rest of us are alive. TNN nior police officer said. Interesting-
ly, the camps of the Kashmir police
and found an easy target in the all non-official vehicles headed for special operation group and the Ar-
Amarnath yatris, said a top intel- the shrine. The official convoy had my were just 500m away from the
ligence functionary. passed the spot at 7pm, under the site of the firing, eyewitnesses said.
The bus had not been regis- cover of J&K police and CRPF. The Security forces were rushed to
tered with the Amarnath board, security personnel had with- the area after the attack, but it was
which is why it did not have ade- drawn from the area by the time difficult to look for the assailants
quate security cover. CRPF chief the attack took place. in the darkness. Amarnath Yatra
Rajeev Bhatnagar said, The bus The advisory issued by the was resumed on Sunday after a
was not part of the official convoy. shrine board clearly asks yatris to day-long suspension over appre-
It was not registered with the register as this helps in security ar- hensions of a law-and-order sit-
Amarnath board, as required for rangements. Also, they are asked uation in Kashmir.
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Have a plan, start early and invest for the long haul, mind your risks and dont hesitate to seek help
funds using SIP route
Each year ample amount of my money gets debited because of income tax. Now I want to
Anuj Shah end goals and to achieve those there required to earn better returns. Say different financial instruments so
build a portfolio which will save my money and will also give me good returns.
are some basic investing principles you start investing Rs 10,000 every that your risks are spread across the
> MY CURRENT FINANCIAL POSITION IS AS FOLLOWS: Net salary of Rs 79,000 per month

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(pm); Two monthly SIPs (in tax saving plans) of Rs 2,000 each for three years; Car loan EMI
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of Rs 10,500 for seven years; Personal loan EMI of Rs 8,000 for three years and home
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gan, one had to information may have there is a third party breach, without banks
choose how often he led to less understand- involvement, and you report the same to
would like to receive ing for the investors. the bank within three working days after
information about per- you get to know of the unauthorised
formance of the fund R Raja is with a leading transaction. However, RBI said that if the
(every month, year or domestic fund house loss is due to the negligence of the
five years) and then customer, like sharing one's password or
could change the allo- Yours Behaviourally OTP, in that case the customer has to bear
cation. is a monthly column on the entire loss till he reports it to the bank.
After 25 years of psychology that impacts Once reported, he will not be responsible
simulation, those who our investment decisions for any subsequent loss.
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A thought for today

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected
to office can always console himself with the thought
that there was something not quite fair about it
Berth Too High, Platform Too Far
THUCYDIDES
Its time to refashion Indian Railways into a disabled friendly network

Gujarati Odds Sarabjit Arjan Singh

Life for persons with

disabilities is not easy
ex-railwayman and as someone who is
also a wheelchair user who travelled
extensively by train for performing his
duties. The proposed solution has three
in any case. It becomes components. The first component is
VVPATS are ready for 100% rollout, even more difficult availability of assistance at embarking
Congress is floundering, BJP is in pole position when the environment
is unsympathetic to
and destination stations very similar to
what airlines provide.
their needs. Recent cases of wheelchair- The second component is that those

T
he Gujarat assembly election slated for December will likely assigned to assist including the coach
bound para-athlete Suvarna Raj and
see a 100% rollout of VVPATs and mandatory counting of 100% blind Vaibhav Shukla bring this attendants are adequately trained in
paper trail slips in a fixed percentage of polling stations out very vividly. handling wheelchairs and transferring
across all constituencies. This is against the backdrop where If Indian Railways (IR) had made a a person with disability into an aisle
political parties like BSP and AAP have alleged that manipulation sincere effort to provide equal access to chair, without injury. They also have to
of EVMs gave BJP its landslide win in Uttar Pradesh. EVMs with a persons with disability as they are requ- be capable of lifting the person into
ired to do by the 22-year-old Disabilities the compartment and settling him or her
voter verified paper audit trail should help put such charges to rest into the allotted chair or berth.
Act then Suvarna would not have had to
while ushering in greater transparency. sleep on the floor of the compartment The last component is the ability of
Election Commission foresees the possibility of tension between and Vaibhav would not have missed his persons with disability to indicate their
supporters of rival parties at counting centres, given that counting entrance examination at Delhi University. needs for assistance at the time of
of paper slips will delay results. Congress of course has more than IR could not provide Suvarna with a booking and an institutional mechanism
just EVM related problems at hand in Gujarat. It has the onerous lower berth leaving her with no option that ensures that the asked-for assistance
but to sleep on the floor of the compart- is provided when the passenger reports
task of putting its house in order. The party high command has to the assistance desk.
ment and Vaibhav had to miss his train
dithered on taking a final call in the feud between two because no one would open the door of Once this is put in place it has to be
heavyweights: former chief minister and the compartment reserved for persons built upon by providing ramps and lifts
senior leader Shankarsinh Vaghela with disabilities. that will enable persons with disabilities

Uday Deb
and state Congress chief Bharatsinh Union railway minister Suresh get to other platforms with ease. There is
Solanki. Rahul Gandhis indecisiveness Prabhu has made the customary refrain also a need for compartments with wider
of ordering an enquiry into the doors and accessible toilets and
on the issue has left party workers in chairlifts for getting into compartments.
occurrence. But the way IR functions With such an attitude it is unlikely
disarray. Arvind Kejriwals AAP also it will in all likelihood limit the enquiry anyone will see a disabled friendly, barrier Handlers will still be required but
seems to be floundering here after a to the sequence of events that led to free IR in the foreseeable future unless Railways did not provide handling will become easier for them and
string of losses in Goa, Punjab and the incident, leaving the organisational the railway minister takes it upon him- wheelchair-bound athlete safer for the persons with disabilities.
MCD elections. factors and systemic failures that self to bring about a change in the All this can only come about if the
created the incident unrecognised and thinking, culture and the manner of Suvarna Raj with a lower berth, railway minister makes it his personal
In clear pole position is the party
that has won every assembly election thus unaddressed. everyday decision-making so it keeps the leaving her to sleep on the mission. For example he can make it
On the 3rd of December 2015, Prime need of persons with disability in view. floor. And 100% blind Vaibhav clear that he will not inaugurate any
here since 1995. But it is taking no Minister Narendra Modi launched the Even though IR appears a monolithic facility or train that does not cater to the
chances. Last Friday BJP president Accessible India Campaign (Sugamya organisation, in practice decision- Shukla missed his train and needs of persons with disabilities. For
Amit Shah addressed the first of a series of meetings with party Bharat Abhiyan.) This campaign begins making is spread over numerous university exam because this he will need a disability adviser
workers responsible for reaching out to voters in Gujarat. While with the statement that for persons with departments so the responsibility for who acts as his ears and eyes, for asses-
disabilities universal accessibility is building various links of the disability
no one would open the sing different facilities for compliance
flogging of Dalits in Una last July had led to widespread protests and
also to Anandiben Patel quitting as chief minister, since then Vijay critical to gain equal opportunity chain is also distributed, which makes compartment reserved for with disability requirements, before
and live independently and participate creating a barrier free environment the persons with disabilities the minister accepts any invitation for
Rupani seems to have regained lost ground for BJP. Hes shown fully in all aspects of life in an inclusive responsibility of everyone and no one inauguration.
deft handling of contentious issues from the Patel agitation to society. in particular. IR. European railways have addressed The disabilities cell in his office will
demonetisation. BJP also came up trumps in the local body Targets were set for each sector. But Further, most of the railway stations them by training handlers, constructing monitor the various projects for making
elections in November. Now Shah has set an ambitious target of even though the Disabilities Act 1995 and and other infrastructure were built ramps to the extent possible and using infrastructure and coaches disabled
150 out of 182 assembly seats for BJP in Prime Minister Narendra the recently enacted legislation which in the 19th or early 20th centuries, mechanical devices to lift the wheelchair friendly and for training station staff
replaces it mandate that IR should make which makes it difficult to render them user into the compartment. Wheelchair and coach attendants to handle wheel-
Modis home state. BJP had won 115 seats in 2012. users are asked if they would need any chairs, and also monitor the associated
passenger compartments and stations disabled friendly without substantial
At the same time the state has seen the emergence of youth disabled friendly, the IR targets only focus rebuilding, at great cost. To emphasise, assistance when booking a ticket, which information systems and the institutional
leaders like Alpesh Thakor, Hardik Patel and Jignesh Mevani on railway station accessibility. The moving from one platform to the other is provided by the railway as necessary. mechanisms for implementing the
who are leading protests on various issues like farm loan waiver, key issue of accessibility of passenger is also an issue as is accessibility to IR also has to find the solutions. proposed three component system.
reservation and Dalit rights respectively. In this context the coaches on an equal basis, in particular the compartments. I would like to propose a doable solution The writer is a wheelchair user and former
bigger challenge for BJP is creating employment opportunities, for wheelchair users, was ignored. These are not problems peculiar to based on my knowledge of IR as an general manager of Indian Railways
resolving the issue of caste reservations and ensuring inclusive
growth in Gujarat.
Malabar exercise helps ensure that India, Japan, US are
After Mosul ready to protect shared interests in the Indo-Pacific
Despite military setbacks, MaryKay Carlson Starting July 10 and going the region, according to which
Islamic State remains a grave threat until July 17, Indian, Japanese sovereignty and international
Billions of and US naval forces will come law are respected.
dollars worth together to sharpen their skills. The week of exercises and

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raqs Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Sunday visited Mosul
of commerce
and announced the city has been liberated from the clutches of
and millions of
Islamic State. Although IS still holds some territory in western tons of cargo
Iraq, the liberation of Mosul is very significant both militarily and move through
symbolically. It was in Mosul, seized by IS in June 2014, that the the Bay of Bengal each year, but
self-proclaimed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made his first this week the Bay is especially
sermon. Still, military setbacks to IS should not make anyone active as vessels from the
US Navy, Indian Navy, and the
underestimate the threat it continues to pose.
Japanese Maritime Self-Defense
The IS threat stems primarily from its ideology. As a proponent of Force are in Chennai for the
jihadi Salafism, it has created a global network of followers, adeptly 21st iteration of combined
using social media to spread its brand of naval exercise Malabar.
terror. If western nations such as France We are honoured that India
and UK are threatened by lone wolf is welcoming thousands of US
sailors who will build upon our
attacks, armed groups pledging alliance
countries strong relationship
to IS have taken over parts of Marawi, and forge new friendships. This
Philippines. India too has not been immune years Malabar exercise will
to its influence as young men inspired by be the largest and most complex
its ideology have set off to fight in Syria. in years.
And the threat emanating from this ideo- The aircraft carrier USS
Nimitz and her strike group
logy is unlikely to abate with ISs military losses in Iraq and Syria.
will participate, as will, for the
Indias policy makers and security apparatus should find it first time, the Indian Navy air-
particularly bothersome that IS seems to have drawn in educated craft carrier INS Vikramaditya
youth in relatively prosperous states such as Kerala and Tamil Nadu. and the helicopter destroyer JS
India needs to combat this threat at two levels. One, the intelligence Izumo, the largest ship in the
establishment has to measure up to the challenge of dealing with Japanese fleet. Malabar 2017 will
involve over 7,000 US personnel
the contemporary trend of self-radicalisation through social media.
on board four surface ships
Two, we should live up to the Constitutions ideals which offer a carrying close to a 100 aircraft.
view that is the polar opposite of ISs sectarianism. All Indians need
to believe they have a stake in India which is what the Constitution
guarantees. It is our best defence against sectarianism.
dilbert
Experts will exchange best
practices and crews will practise
communication, search and
rescue, antisubmarine opera-
tions, boarding tactics, and more.
By spending a week working
and training side by side, parti-
cipants from all three countries
will learn from each other, build
interoperability, and make
sure we are prepared to work
The week of exercises
will be dramatic, with
ships from three great
seafaring nations
assembling in the waters
off Chennai and their
aircraft crossing the skies
together in any future mission.
On shore, American sailors will
experience Chennais history
and culture by visiting schools,
seeing the sights, and playing
sports with local teams.
Exercises such as Malabar
play a critical role in ensuring
that those of us who operate in
the Indo-Pacific region are ready
to protect our shared interests,
whether we are responding to
the threat from piracy or to
humanitarian disasters.
This June, ships from the US
and Indian navies rushed to Sri
Lanka to assist with medical
and disaster relief when floods
gripped the island nation. Our
navies are often the first
responders when crisis strikes.
Building maritime partner-
ships, enhancing interoperabi-
lity, and increasing joint
capacity help foster security
and stability in the region.
Two weeks ago when he met
with President Donald Trump
in Washington, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi highlighted the
Malabar exercise and the impor-
tance of freedom of navigation,
overflight, and commerce.
President Trump noted that our
militaries are working every
day to enhance cooperation, and
both leaders encouraged more
maritime security cooperation.
The United States welcomes
Indias growing defence capabi-
lities and its commitment to a
common set of principles for
exchanges will be dramatic,
with ships from three great
seafaring nations assembling
in the waters off Chennai and
their aircraft crossing the
skies. But as impressive as
it is, Malabar is only a small
part of the growing US-India
partnership.
Whether we are talking about
our joint efforts to stabilise
Afghanistan, the campaign to
defeat international terrorism,
the work of our scientists to
combat emerging health threats,
or efforts to spur global entre-
preneurship, our two nations
and the world benefit when
India and the United States work
side by side for common purpose.
Once again, thank you to our
hosts the Indian Navy and the
city of Chennai for everything
you have done to make Malabar
2017 a success, and allow me to
join you in welcoming the sailors
of the US Navy and the Japanese
Maritime Self-Defense Force to
India. Forward together!
The writer is the Charg dAffaires
at the US Embassy in New Delhi
Sacredspace
Meeting Point

Who invited this peasant? The greatest event of our age

is the meeting of cultures, of
civilisations, meeting of
Fish knives, mineral water different points of view,
and other foolish fripperies making us understand that we
Bikram Vohra should not adhere to any one
kind of single faith, but respect
Went for a rarefied dinner the other day and the people on the
table were spooning their soup outwards to come in, like rowers
diversity of belief.
in a boat caught on a tide and for sheer affectation having soup S Radhakrishnan
this way in this day and age is hard to beat. Oh, just shovel it in.
Then you have that fish knife with its absurd shape. There

Amarnath Pilgrimage Prompts Deep Reflection

is fish and there is a knife that will cut the fish into reasonable
pieces so you dont look like an oaf but there is nothing that a fish knife will do
that a normal knife will not and it is so pretentious to upstage the less initiated
by taking that ugly piece of cutlery and brandishing it like a sword of honour.
Then you have stewards in those fancy restaurant who swish that serviette Ashok Parimoo a reflection? the seeker. Paramhansa asked for a others seeking wisdom. Of all such
(not napkin, you bumpkin) on your lap like you were going to have a haircut and At midnight, some drunkards bucketful of water, and told the aspirant devotees, the one who seeks wisdom is

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make you so deeply obligated for this grand gesture that you say thanks a dozen was on my way to the Amarnath cave
times, after which they ask you what sort of water you want. in the upper reaches of Sonamarg.
Still or sparkling? Carbonated or aerated? Spring or distilled? Room At a secluded spot, i stopped for a
temperature or chilled? Domestic or imported? Mineral or Fortified? And while to enjoy the beauty all around.
people around the table are making thoughtful assessments as if this The winds, tall and green pines, the
was a summit meeting to save the world, its just a glass of water, silvery peaks and the soft murmur of the
knock that grin off the steward by saying, normal table water please Amrawati river below, cattle grazing it
and then watch everyone cringe in shame, who invited this peasant? was exhilarating. Why cant we ex-
Now you get the designer food and it is two prawns balanced on each perience this blissful feeling everyday?
other with some red goo in little circles like a childs crayon drawing and a piece Krishna talks about the immutable
of cucumber dressed up in its Sunday best and one carrot shredded to look like Ashvatta Tree whose roots are in the air
a spray with something au gratin because if you say cheese theyll know you and branches touch the ground,
are not to the manner born. symbolising the subtle truth that the
And then there is the piece de resistance. The red and the white. And that world we observe is an inversion of the
supercilious way in which they present the bottle and you nod wisely as if you real. We know that a reflection is always
were Socrates discovering a new scroll and then with a flourish he opens it (not false, only the object is real. So, reality
Socrates, the steward) and pours an inch of the stuff into your glass and you
swirl it and taste it and then look profound, after which you dispatch your
and perception are two different things.
Reality has been described as one
acceptance that yes the wonderful full-bodied flavour of blueberries mixed without a second birth; changeless,
with a whiff of liquorice (yes, sure, you caught that) and a hint of honey with an immutable, ageless and deathless.
aftertaste of chocolate are all in order and we can now drink the stuff. However, we perceive the world of
What a lot of playacting. Just order the house plonk, no one will know the births and deaths to be real. Are
difference and you can save yourself a load of money. there two worlds, one real and the other
started rowing a boat. The boat,
however, was anchored. They rowed
the whole night. In the morning, they
realised that they had not moved even
an inch. Similarly, in life, our boat is
anchored to our ego, name, fame, home,
family, and above all, to an
unending desire. Human desire
is a bottomless pit. We do make
pilgrimages to holy spots. We
perform sacred rituals and give
to charity but still, our mind
is restless.
We need to have a positive
desire to concentrate fully on
the Godhead, sublimating
our mind and controlling
our senses.
speaking
To be able to enjoy the bliss
of the sacred is a difficult task. Once, a
man asked Sri Ramakrishna, Have you
seen God? Yes, the sage replied, just
as I see you. Can you show me? asked
to keep his head in water. After a
minute, he pulled his head out, gasping
for breath. Later, Paramhansa asked
him what his experience in water was.
Sir, i was breathless and was about
to die. In that state of helplessness, i
applied all my physical and
mental strength to save
myself. Paramhansa said,
The way you applied all your
senses, mind and nerves for a
breath, will you apply all those
powers to see God? If you do,
the next minute, God will come
running to you with a ton-load
the of bliss.
We tend to pray to God only
for our worldly needs, which
tree are much more than our
requirements. Krishna says in the Gita,
Four types of devotees worship me:
the distressed ones, those seeking
knowledge, those seeking wealth and
dearest to me.
Shrishti or creation means
projection and expansion coming out of
One. We do remember the sacred One
when we are in distress, and this is
how the English saying goes: Mans
calamities and Gods opportunities.
We must never forget God. He is always
concerned about us but our worship
lacks concentration and devotion.
Unfortunately, we remember Him in
sorrow for our selfish ends and not in
moments of joy.
Once we experience the sacred, the
secret of bliss will emerge within us
and all joy experienced through the
senses will get overtaken by intense
spiritual joy.
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Bad behaviour online inspiring kids in real life
Thousands Of Shares For Rude Posts Sending Children Mixed Message About Morality
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oung children know that Southern Californias Digital North said. Studies show that Cruel posts often become
name-calling is wrong. Social Media Program. young people who witness ag- an instant hit online, Stein-
Tweens are taught the Catherine Steiner-Adair, a gressive behaviour in adults er-Adair said. Its one of the
perils of online bullying and psychologist and author, said model and expand on that be- best ways to become pop-
revenge porn: Its unaccept- shes already seeing the ef- haviour. She pointed to Stan- ular. Viral posts then get
able and potentially illegal. fects. She said shes been con- ford University psychologist mainstream media attention,
But celebrities who engage fronted by students asking Albert Banduras famous Bo- spreading digital nastiness
in flagrant attacks on social why celebrities and political bo Doll Experiment, which into everyday conversation.
media are rewarded with leaders are allowed to engage found that kids who saw adults By not expressly rejecting
worldwide attention. US Presi- in activities for which they hit a doll in frustration not on- hateful online behavior, we
dent Donald Trumps most would be punished. ly hit the doll as well, but at- are creating a bystander cul-
popular tweet to date is a video On some school campuses, tacked it with weapons. ture where people think this

that shows him fake-pummel-
ing a personification of CNN.
Reality TV star Rob Kardash-
ian was trending last week af-
ter attacking his former fian-
ce on Instagram in posts so ex-
plicit his account was shut
down. He continued the at-
tacks on Twitter, where he has
over 7.6 million followers.
While public interest in
SHORT CUTS
Why working
Trumping means to grab a Social media is an atmo- is funny, she said. Young
girls rear end, she said. And sphere devoid of the social people, who may be the most
Social media has created a vast new venue for incivility to be expressed teenagers have killed them- cues that mitigate behaviour plugged in, are getting mixed
selves over the kind of slut- in real life, she said. When vi- messages as they form their
bad behaviour is nothing
new, social media has created
a vast new venue for incivil-
ity to be expressed, witnessed
Over time, the attitudes
and behaviours that we are
concerned with right now in
social media will bleed out into
shaming and exposure of pri-
vate images Kardashian lev-
elled at Blac Chyna.
Cyber incivility, particu-
olating social norms in per-
son, theres immediate feed-
back from others through
body language and tone of
moral concepts. It behooves
us all to question why we are
participating in this mob of
reactivity, Steiner-Adair
from home is not
and shared. And experts say
its affecting social interac-
tions in real life.
the physical world, said Ka-
ren North, a psychologist and
director of the University of
larly when practised by cultur-
al leaders, can have a profound
impact on human relations,
voice. No such indicators ex-
ist online, and retweets can
feel like validation.
said, and what are the char-
acter traits we need to model
for our children. AP working out
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ast year, Richard Laerm- the same time, work has be-
A reason to wake up A SPACE STATION ON EARTH Reuters
er decided to let his em- come more team-based. Some
ployees work from organisations found the most
AFP
Volunteers are seen inside a home. I always assumed that lenient work-from-home poli-
helps us sleep better simulated space cabin created as
part of a project called Lunar
you can get your work done cies kept workers too isolated
anywhere, Laermer, who for that kind of work.

Meng Meng, a Chinese panda bear, receives a cake
on its fourth birthday at the Zoo Berlin on Monday
Hippo who beat avg lifespan
by decades dies aged 65
Bertha, believed to be the worlds oldest hippo-
potamus, has died aged 65, the Manila zoo said
on Monday, having beaten the typical lifespan
for the mostly herbivorous mammals by dec-
ades. Fed a diet of grass, fruit, and bread in a
1,000 square-metre (quarter-acre) pen, Bertha
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he secret to a good nights sleep is hav- Palace 365 at Beihang University owns a US-based PR firm. IBM is one such firm. This
ing a reason to wake up in the morn- in Beijing, China, on Sunday. The Turns out, he was wrong. Em- year, the tech giant called
ing, say scientists. A team of research- project is aimed at creating a ployees took advantage, back tens of thousands of
ers, including a team from Northwestern self-sustaining ecosystem that Laermer said. The last straw, workers to the office amid
University in the US, has said that older provides everything humans need he said, was when someone falling revenue, hoping that
adults who felt their lives had meaning were to survive. An initial 60-day refused to come in for a meet- bringing people back togeth-
63% less likely to have sleep apnoea a dis- experiment concluded on Sunday, ing because she had plans. er will lead to more produc-
order that occurs when a persons breathing the same day four students from Ten months in, he tive workers.
is interrupted during sleep. Beijing University of Aeronautics scrapped the benefit. One of the challenges
According to the researchers, these peo- and Astronautics entered Lunar While telecommuting with ending remote work is
ple were also 52% less likely to have the rest- Palace-1 with the aim of living work occurring outside Thinkstock
less leg syndrome, and had moderately bet- the traditional office
self-sufficiently for 200 days.
ter sleep quality. Although the participants has ballooned over the
Sealed behind the steel doors of
in the study were older, the researchers said two bunkers, university students last 20 years, some offices
the findings were likely applicable to the will try to find out how it feels to are rethinking overly
broader public. Helping people cultivate a live in a space station on another broad policies. More
purpose in life could be an effective drug- planet, recycling everything from than 60% of organisa-
free strategy to improve sleep quality, par- plant cuttings to urine. They say tions surveyed by the So-
ticularly for a population that is facing more ciety of Human Reso-
they are happy to act as guinea-
insomnia, said Jason Org, associate pro- pigs if it means getting closer to urce Management, US,
fessor at Northwestern University. PTI this year said they allow HARD WORKING?
becoming astronauts
some type of telecom-
muting. But 77% dont let peo- keeping employees happy.

Google trying to keep AI from going rogue

ple work from home full-time. Firms removing the perk risk
lived far beyond the 40 to 50 year lifespans Technology such as chat backlash and attrition. IBM,
which are typical for the species in the wild and programs made remote work for instance, still offers ad-
in captivity respectively, zoo director James feasible for many white col- hoc work-from-home ar-
Dichaves said. Donna, who died in 2012 at the Aatif Sulleyman Theyve released a paper ex- of the reward it receives. erences no more difficult than lar workers in the last couple rangements to accommodate
age of 62 at a US zoo, was previously said to be plaining how human feedback In one instance it drove a boat learning it from a programmatic of decades. Employees love appointments.
the worlds oldest hippo.

Smiley faces ease pain of asking friends
for money: Asking someone for money can be
awkward, but when you can do it with a smiley
face and a winged dollar bill, it seems to make it
better. Hence the rise of Venmo, a digital payment
service owned by PayPal that allows consumers
to send and receive payments, and helps soften
the uncomfortable request by replacing the cold
language of transactions with colourful visuals.
G
oogle is developing a new
system designed to prevent
artificial intelligence from
going rogue and clashing with hu-
mans. The companys DeepMind
division, behind the AI that recent-
ly defeated the worlds number one
Go player Ke Jie, has teamed up
with Open AI, a research group
partly funded by Teslas Elon
Musk, to encourage machines to
work in a certain way.
can be used to ensure machine-
learning systems work things
out the way their trainers want
them to. A technique called rein-
forcement learning (RL), which
is popular in AI research, chal-
lenges software to complete
tasks, and rewards it for doing so.
However, the software has
been known to cheat, by figuring
out shortcuts or uncovering
loopholes that maximise the size
around in circles in racing game
CoastRunners, instead of actually
completing the course, because it
knew it would still win a reward,
reports Wired. DeepMind and
Open AI are trying to solve the
problem by using human input to
gauge when AI completes tasks in
the correct way, and then reward
them for doing so. In the long run
it would be desirable to make
learning a task from human pref-
reward signal, ensuring that pow-
erful RL systems can be applied in
the service of complex human val-
ues rather than low-complexity
goals, reads the report.
The improved RL system is
too time-consuming to be practi-
cal right now, but it gives us an
idea of how the development of
increasingly advanced machines
and robots could be controlled in
the future. THE INDEPENDENT
flexibility. Parents in partic- Having everyone in the of-
ular say its extremely im- fice has had quite a positive
portant, a 2013 Pew survey impact on business, said
found. Researchers have ar- Laermer. He still offers flex
gued that unconventional time and lets workers leave at
work hours could even help 3.00 pm on Fridays. I think
close the pay gap. people have to be trusted, he
In a bid to attract employ- said, But the work-from-
ees and cut down on real es- home thing has to be on a per-
tate costs firms permitted person basis, and it cant be
more remote work, and em- very often. It just doesnt
ployees took advantage. At work. BLOOMBERG
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Unclear If Lawyer With Alleged Kremlin Links Produced Any Compromising Info; Prez Son Defends Meeting
P
resident Trumps eldest
son, Donald Trump Jr,
was promised damaging
information about Hillary
Clinton before agreeing to me-
et with a Kremlin-connected
Russian lawyer during the 2016
campaign, according to three
advisers to the White House
briefed on the meeting and two
others. The meeting was also
attended by his campaign cha-
irman at the time, Paul Mana-
fort, and his son-in-law, Jared
Kushner. Manafort and Kush-
ner recently disclosed the mee-
ting, though not its content, in
confidential government do-
cuments described to NYT.
NYT reported the existence
of the meeting on Saturday. But
in subsequent interviews, the
advisers and others revealed
the motivation behind it. The
accounts of the meeting at
Trump Tower on June 9, 2016,
two weeks after Donald Trump
clinched the Republican nomi-
nation represent the first
Get it done, Prez tells Trumps U-turn on cyber unit with Russia
Congress on health bill
Washington: President Do-
nald Trump pressed Cong-
ress on Monday to get health
care done before leaving for
its long August recess, even as
Republican senators say the
GOP effort so far to repeal and
replace the nations health
law is probably dead.
As senators returned to
Washington after the July Fo-
urth recess, the president twe-
eted, I cannot imagine that
Congress would dare to leave
Washington without a beauti-
ful new HealthCare bill fully
approved and ready to go!
But prospects for the Re-
publican effort in the Senate
have been fading, and majori-
ty leader Mitch McConnell, R-
Ky., has been scrambling to sal-
vage the faltering legislation.
THIRD BIG FIRE IN LONDON
IN LESS THAN A MONTH
Firemen controlled the night
blaze in CAMDEN LOCK MARKET
in three tense hours amid fears
that the building, which dates to
the 1840s, could explode anytime
with several restaurant-kitchens nearby
Cause of re yet to
be known. Fire started
just before midnight
Camden Lock
Market is a tourist
hotspot with a rich
rock n roll history
The re broke out in
a burger shop in one
part of the building
Only 5%-10% of the
market was damaged. The
markets had two res before
With about 1,000 shops
LONDON FIRES: A June 14 blaze in a residential tower killed at
least 70. Another housing block caught re on July 3
Cardinal back
in Oz to face
abuse charges
Sydney: The most senior Vat-
ican cleric to ever be charged
in the Roman Catholic
Church sex abuse scandal re-
turned to Australia on Mon-
day to stand trial in his home
state on charges alleging he
sexually assaulted multiple
people years ago.
Cardinal George Pell, Pope
Francis top financial adviser,
avoided waiting media when
he arrived at Sydney Airport
on a flight from Singapore.
The 76-year-old cleric is
due to appear in a court in
Melbourne, on July 26 on what
Victoria Police described as
multiple counts of historical
sexual assault offenses
meaning crimes that oc-
curred years ago. There is no
statute of limitations on such
crimes in Australia.
Pell is free ahead of his
court hearing, during which he
can formally apply for bail. AP
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN IN TALKS WITH JAMES BOND
PRODUCERS TO DIRECT NEXT 007 THRILLER
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: After Trump tweeted a video of a pro wrestling
appearance that shows him pummeling a man whose face is covered by
the CNN logo, his son, Donald Trump Jr, on Saturday shared a video of the
president attacking CNN. In the doctored clip of the 1986 military thriller
Top Gun, Trumps face is superimposed over Tom Cruises as he shoots
down a Russian jet with a CNN logo on it. Trump is seen in the clip
repeating his youre fired catchphrase before launching a missile
public indication that at least
some in the campaign were wil-
ling to accept Russian help.
The episode at Trump To-
wer is the first such confirmed
Prez, Chelsea spar over Ivankas G20 seat
Support for the initial mea-
sure eroded during the week-
long July 4 break as many sena-
tors heard from constituents
angry about the GOP bill and
the prospect of rising premi-
ums. We dont know what the
plan is, said Senator Bill Cas-
sidy, Republican of Louisiana,
on Sunday. Clearly, the draft
plan is dead. Is the serious re-
write plan dead? I dont know.
Senator John McCain, Re-
publican of Arizona, said it
may now be time for Republi-
cans to come up with a new
proposal with support from
Democrats. Meanwhile,
Trump used Twitter in the af-
ternoon to urge Republicans to
follow through on their pledge
to get rid of the health care law
pushed by his predecessor. AP
10 re engines
and 70 re
ghters put out
the Sunday-night
blaze
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and stalls, Camden markets
been in the area since 1974
The market area gets 28m
visitors a year; a mecca for
teens for its second-hand
clothes and record stalls
Brexit to make English breakfast dearer
Ben Chapman
B
rexit means breakfast
will get more expensive,
says a new research.
The full English is perhaps
an unlikely casualty of the de-
cision to leave the EU. A hard
Brexit could add 12.8% to the
cost of a fry-up, according to
number crunchers at KPMG.
A typical family-sized
shopping list for the key ingre-
dients like bacon, sausages
and brown sauce, would jump
to 26.61 from 23.59, thanks to
increased tariffs on imports.
The true cost would likely
be even higher thanks to the
weak pound or additional ad-
ministrative burdens.
KPMGs calculation rests
on the assumption that the UK
would default to the World Tra-
de Organisations (WTO) cus-
toms rules, if no deal is agreed
by the March 2019.
Pure orange juice, from
Spain and bottled in Ireland,
and olive oil, from Italy and
Spain, are among the items set
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pany was under investigation
private meeting involving his
inner circle during the campa-
ign as well as the first one
known to have included his el-
dest son. It came at an inflection
Washington: US President
Donald Trump on Sunday
backtracked on his push for a
cybersecurity unit with Rus-
sia, tweeting that he did not
think it could happen, hours
after his proposal was harshly
criticised by Republicans.
Trump said on Twitter ear-
ly on Sunday that he and Rus-
sian President Vladimir Putin
discussed on Friday forming
an impenetrable Cyber Secu-
rity unit to address issues
like the risk of cyber meddling
in elections. The idea appea-
red to be a political non-star-
ter. It was immediately scor-
ned by several of Trumps fel-
low Republicans, who questio-
ned why the US would work
with Russia after Moscows al-
leged meddling in the election.
Its not the dumbest idea I
have ever heard but its pretty
close, Senator Lindsey Gra-
Swedish MPs file
genocide complaint
against Erdogan
Stockholm: A group of Swe-
dish lawmakers said on Mon-
day they have filed a legal
complaint accusing Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Er-
dogan of genocide, crimes
against humanity and war
crimes in the southeast of his
country. The complaint sig-
ned by five lawmakers from
the Left and Green parties is
the first of its kind in Swe-
den against a head of state.
The suit relates to the
conflict in Turkeys Kurdish
majority southeast, which
has been battered by rene-
wed fighting between Kur-
dish rebels and Turkish se-
curity forces since a fragile
truce collapsed in 2015.
We are five lawmakers
handing in a complaint... (re-
questing) punishment for ge-
nocide, crimes against huma-
nity and war crimes, Anni-
ka Lillemets, a MP for the Left
party, said in Stockholm.
The complaint, filed to
the Swedish International
Public Prosecution Offices,
names Erdogan and several
Bloomberg
PRICEY BITE
to incur the biggest increase,
at 34% and 30% respectively.
Milk, free range eggs and
sliced white bread were all so-
urced from the UK in the ana-
lysis, however the other items
were intentionally imported
for demonstrative purposes.
Paul Martin, KPMGs UK
head of retail, said British con-
sumers have become accusto-
med to seasonal produce all ye-
ar round and have binged on a
diet of discounts for some ti-
me. These are now likely to
come to an end as supermar-
kets face increasingly squee-
zed margins thanks to rising
prices he said. THE INDEPENDENT
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point in the campaign, when
Trump Jr, who served as an ad-
viser and a surrogate, was
ascendant and Manafort was
consolidating power.
It is unclear whether the
Russian lawyer, Natalia Ve-
selnitskaya, actually produ-
ced the promised compromi-
sing information about Clin-
ton. But the people intervie-
wed said the expectation was
that she would do so.
Veselnitskaya was former-
ly married to a former deputy
transportation minister of the
Moscow region, and her cli-
ents include state-owned busi-
nesses and a senior govern-
ment officials son, whose com-
information was provided or
in the United States at the time
of the meeting. Her activities
and associations had previous-
ly drawn the attention of the
FBI, according to a former se-
nior law enforcement official.
When first asked about the
meeting on Saturday, Trump
AFP
Ivanka Trump
ham of South Carolina told
NBCs Meet the Press pro-
gramme. Ash Carter, who was
US defence secretary until the
end of former President Ba-
rack Obamas administration
in January, told CNN flatly:
This is like the guy who rob-
bed your house proposing a
working group on burglary.
Trumps advisers, inclu-
Austria bans entry
to Turkish minister
A ustria said on Monday it
had barred Turkish
economy minister Nihat
Zeybekci from entering the
country to attend a rally
marking the anniversary of
last years failed coup attempt
in Turkey. "He has been barred
because his visit was not
planned as part of a bilateral
exchange, but was about his
public appearance at an event
marking the coup attempt,"
foreign ministry spokesman
Thomas Schnoell said. AFP
ministers including Prime
Minister Binali Yildirim.
The Public Prosecution
Offices said it would now de-
cide whether to initiate a
preliminary investigation,
adding that it may take a
while. If prosecutors deci-
de to launch an investiga-
tion, Erdogan could risk an
arrest warrant in Sweden,
the lawmakers said. AFP
EU parliament warns of veto
on Brexit over citizens rights
Brussels: The European Par-
liament on Monday set itself
on a collision course with Bri-
tain, making a damning as-
sessment of British propo-
sals on EU citizens rights af-
ter the UK leaves the EU.
The legislature indicated
it would be using its power of
veto on the negotiations if Bri-
tain did not become more leni-
ent on the rights of EU citizens
living in the country, a further
indication of how tough the
talks are expected to become.
In a letter Monday to EU
chief negotiator Michel Bar-
nier, the group said EU citi-
zens in Britain would be loo-
king at nothing less than rele-
gation to second-class status,
adding that the UK proposals
made on June 26 do not re-
spect the principles of reci-
procity, symmetry and non-
discrimination. Citizens
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Jr said that it was primarily
about adoptions and mentio-
ned nothing about Hillary. A
day later, he acknowledged he
was told beforehand that Vesel-
nitskaya, might have informa-
tion helpful to the Trump
campaign, and was told by her
during the meeting that she
had information about Clin-
ton. After pleasantries were
exchanged, he said, the wo-
man stated that she had infor-
mation that individuals con-
nected to Russia were funding
the Democratic National Com-
mittee and supporting Clin-
ton. Her statements were va-
gue, ambiguous and made no
sense. No details or supporting
sian government and never
even offered, he said in a state-
ment. He added she then tur-
ned the conversation to adop-
tion of Russian children.
On Monday, attempting to
brush off the significance the
meeting, he tweeted sarcasti-
cally, Obviously Im the first
P resident Donald Trump is defending a decision to have his daug-
hter briefly sit in for him at a table with world leaders at the G20
summit on Saturday. Trump tweeted on Monday, When I left Confe-
rence Room for short meetings with Japan and other countries, I
asked Ivanka to hold seat. Very standard. Angela M agrees! If
Chelsea Clinton were asked to hold the seat for her mother,as her
mother gave our country away, the Fake News would say CHELSEA
FOR PRES! Chelsea Clinton tweeted back that her parents would
never have done so. Chelsea, who was 12 when her father Bill Clinton
was sworn in as US president, tweeted: Good morning Mr
President. It would never have occurred to my mother or my father
to ask me. Were you giving our country away? Hoping not. AGENCIES
ding secretary of state Rex
Tillerson and treasury secre-
tary Steve Mnuchin, had re-
cently sought to explain
Trumps cyber push.
Mnuchin said on Saturday
that Trump and Putin had ag-
reed to create a cyber unit to
make sure that there was ab-
solutely no interference what-
soever, that they would work
Girl dies of
snake bite in
menstruation
hut in Nepal
Kathmandu: An 18-year-old
girl has died in Nepal after she
was bitten by a snake while ba-
nished to a shed because she
was menstruating, part of a
long-banned Hindu practice,
officials said.
Many communities in Ne-
pal view menstruating wo-
men as impure and in some re-
mote areas they are forced to
sleep in a hut away from the
home during their periods, a
practice known as chhaupadi.
Tulasi Shahi was bitten twi-
ce by a venomous snake and di-
ed on Friday in western Dailekh
district, mayor Surya Bahadur
Shahi said. She survived for se-
ven hours after the snake bite
but died because medical treat-
ment was delayed, said Shahi.
According to local media, her
family took her to a witch doc-
tor, for treatment instead of
taking her to a hospital.
Two women died in late 2016
in separate incidents while fol-
lowing chhaupadi one of
smoke inhalation after she lit a
fire for warmth, while the oth-
er death was unexplained. AFP
rights in each others nations
are considered the first issue
that both sides must settle.
It is clear we will not app-
rove any deal which diminis-
hes the rights of EU citizens
in the UK or UK citizens in the
EU, Guy Verhofstadt, the EU
Parliaments chief Brexit of-
ficial, said. Even though Bar-
nier is leading the negotia-
tions for the EU as a whole, the
European Parliament still
has a veto right on any deal.
British PM Theresa May
had first floated her ideas on
protecting the rights of each
others citizens in late June.
The aspirational langua-
ge used in relation to rights as
important as the right to he-
alth or the recognition of di-
ploma and professional quali-
fications does not provide the
much-needed guarantees,
the letter to Barnier read. AP
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person on a campaign to ever
take a meeting to hear info abo-
ut an opponent ... went nowhe-
re but had to listen.
Mark Corallo, a spokesman
for the presidents lawyer, said
the president was not aware
of and did not attend the mee-
ting. Trump Jr stated he as-
ked Manafort and Kushner to
attend, but did not tell them
what the meeting was about.
Veselnitskaya said on Sa-
turday that nothing at all abo-
ut the presidential campaign
was discussed. She recalled
that after about 10 minutes, eit-
her Kushner or Manafort left
the room. She said she had ne-
ver acted on behalf of the Rus-
discussed any of these matters
with any representative of the
Russian government.
Russian President Vladi-
mir Putins spokesman Dmit-
ry Peskov said on Monday the
Kremlin doesnt know Vesel-
nitskaya. NYT & AGENCIES
on cyber security together.
But Trump returned to
Twitter to play down the idea.
The fact that President Pu-
tin and I discussed a Cyber
Security unit doesnt mean I
think it can happen. It cant,
Trump tweeted. He then no-
ted that an agreement with
Russia for a ceasefire in Syria
can & did happen. REUTERS
Have reserves to weather all
sanctions: Qatari central bank
Dubai: Qatar has $340 bil-
lion in reserves that could
help the Gulf country to we-
ather the isolation by its
Arab neighbours, central
bank governor Sheikh Ab-
dullah Bin Saoud al-Thani
said in an interview publis-
hed on Monday.
This is the credibility of
our system, we have enough
cash to preserve any... kind of
shock, he told the CNBC
news channel in an intervi-
ew published on Monday.
AROUND THE WORLD
Japans men-only
island now a world
heritage site
A men-only island in Japan
where women are banned
and male visitors must bathe
naked in the sea before vis-
iting its shrine, has been
declared a Unesco World
Heritage site. The tiny land-
mass of Okinoshima is perma-
nently manned by a Shinto
priest who prays to the is-
lands goddess, in a tradition
that has been kept up for
centuries. Limited numbers
are permitted to land on the
island in the Sea of Japan (East
Sea) this year it was 200
for a yearly festival that lasts
just two hours, but they must
adhere to strict rules.
Case of critically ill baby
back in court: The mother of
a critically ill baby expressed
hope on Monday that a court
would allow her son to travel
from Britain to the US for
treatment after his case was
given prominence by President
Trump and the Pope. Connie
Yates, whose 11-month-old son
Charlie Gard suffers from a
form of mitochondrial disease,
a rare genetic condition that
causes progressive muscle
weakness and brain damage,
wants him to be sent to the US
for experimental therapy.
Police leave note after
digging up pot plantation:
Police left an amusing note
saying sorry we missed each
other after digging up a
cannabis plantation. Thames
Valley Police received a tip off
about drugs in woodland near
UNREASONABLE HASTE
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MOLIERE
PM, family face
corruption case
Significant Disparities Between
Income And Actual Wealth Found
Islamabad: In a setback to
Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif, a
Supreme Court-ordered pro-
be panel in its final report on
the Panamagate on Monday
recommended filing of a cor-
ruption case against him and
his children after finding sig-
nificant disparities in their
income and actual wealth.
The six-member Joint In-
vestigation Team (JIT) that
probed the Sharif familys bu-
siness dealings in its report
submitted to the apex court
recommended that a corrup-
tion case should be filed aga-
inst Sharif and his sons Has-
san Nawaz and Hussain Na-
waz, as well as daughter Ma-
ryam Nawaz, under the
National Accountability Bu-
reau (NAB) ordinance 1999.
The report, however, was
slammed by the Nawaz Sha-
rif government as trash
with PMs close aide and mi-
nister for development Ah-
san Iqbal in press conference
with other ministers, saying
they will challenge the re-
port in the Supreme Court
and will completely expose
and unveil its contradictions
and falsifications.
Sharif s daughter Mary-
am also rejected the report, sa-
ying, JIT report REJECTED.
Every contradiction will not
only be contested but decima-
ted in SC. NOT a penny of
public exchequer involved.
The JIT report said the as-
sets of all four respondents
were found to be more than
the sources of their income.
Significant gap/dispari-
ty amongst the known and de-
clared sources of income and
the wealth accumulated by
Al-Thani said the central
bank has $40 billion in reser-
ves plus gold, while the
Qatar Investment Authority
sovereign wealth fund has
DEFIANT DOHA
$300 billion in reserves that it
could liquidate.
We have enough CDs
(certificate of deposits) and
Treasury Bills and Treasury
Bonds in the hand - in the as-
set side of the banking sec-
An air hostess stands next to a statue of the Chinese sea goddess
Mazu onboard a Xiamen Airlines business class flight at Changi
International airport in Singapore. The statue of the goddess
became a social media sensation after being pictured flying
business class for a Southeast Asian tour. It is now headed home
Oxford last week. Police left a
note. Ooops! Sorry we missed
each other, but feel free to call
me on 101 so we can discuss a
deal. Lots of love, TVP xx.
They posted a picture of the
note on Twitter and added a
hashtag, WeveGotManners.
20 tourists robbed at Paris
airport hotel: Masked men
armed with tear gas robbed
Nawaz Sharif government call
the report trash, to challenge it
in the Supreme Court
the Respondent No. 1, 6, 7 and 8
have been observed, the JIT
observed in its concluding re-
marks. Respondent 1 refers to
Prime Minister Sharif; Re-
spondent 6 was Maryam; Re-
spondent 7 Hussain; while Re-
spondent 8 was Hassan.
The report said the finan-
cial structure and health of
companies in Pakistan ha-
ving linkages to the Sharif fa-
mily also do no substantiate
their wealth. It also highligh-
ted irregular movement of
huge sums of money in the
form loans and gifts betwe-
en Sharif and his youngest
son from various companies
set up in Saudi Arabia, the UK
and the UAE. The report said
the role of off-shore compani-
es is critical as they have been
identified to be linked with
their businesses in UK. The
JIT also said that the Sharifs
were unable to provide sub-
stantive evidence of a reliable
money trail, used to buy ex-
pensive properties in London.
Sharif held consultations
with his aides after the report
was filed with the court. PTI
tor, that provide them with
the liquidity, he said. He al-
so said the stability of the
Qatari riyal, which is pegged
to the US dollar, will conti-
nue for the future. Al-Thani
said long-term contracts in
the gas and oil sectors were
not seeing any disruptions.
Should the rift escalate
and more money flows out,
the countrys banking sy-
stem has enough buffers to
meet all the requirements,
al-Thani said. REUTERS
AFP
around 20 tourists who were
waiting for shuttle buses
outside a Paris airport hotel at
the weekend, sources close to
the investigation said. The
black-clad thieves arrived in at
least two vehicles at the hotel
near Charles de Gaulle airport
and robbed the French, Amer-
ican and Moroccan tourists of
their luggage and personal
belongings on Saturday.
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Amazons Flipkart CEO bets
but Nifty still sees new high $500m plan
for food retail
on local innovations
Exchange Halts Ops For Nearly 3 Hours, Denies Cyber Attack TIMES NEWS NETWORK Kalyan Krishnamurthy Says E-Tailer Outsells
M.Allirajan@timesgroup.com
MONDAY MAYHEM Nifty 50 Ends 1% Up Previous Technical
Bengaluru/New Delhi: The
government has approved
Amazon In All Categories, Except Grocery
Problems

A
n unexplained technical
glitch led to trading on
the National Stock Ex-
change (NSE), the countrys
largest bourse, coming to a
halt for three hours and cau-
sed price fluctuations later du-
ring the day. Despite the hic-
cup, the NSE which acco-
unts for nearly 80% of stock
trading in the country hit a
lifetime high of 9,782 points.
Brokers said that when the
 Govt, Sebi seek report from
NSE on tech glitch, P 20
exchange opened for trade, sha-
re prices were not updating as a
result of which quotes were
wrong for about an hour. This
also resulted in a huge discre-
pancy between cash and deriva-
tive prices. Brokers said that the
glitch had the potential to cause
big losses for arbitrageurs
those who use software to buy
and sell across markets.
The NSE has ruled out a cy-
ber attack. Although the ex-
change has backup servers,
these are designed to kick in
during a disaster or an inci-
10am | Tech glitch on NSE is
confirmed. Both cash as well
as F&O segment are crippled
10.22 | NSE officially confirms
glitch, says efforts are on to fix it
10.35 | Pre-open session doesnt
take off. NSE remains shut
10.42 | NSE announces pre-open
session again from 11am and
normal trade at 11.15am
11.15 | NSE fails to conduct
pre-open session, both cash and
F&O markets remain closed
12.00pm | NSE says normal trade
to start at 12.30pm
dent involving hardware or
connectivity problems. Preli-
minary assessment indicated
a software problem. Secondly,
the system was expected to be
rectified quickly, and shifting
to the BCP (business continui-
ty plan) site would have taken
longer, the NSE said.
Deven R Choksey, mana-
ging director, KR Choksey
Shares and Securities, said,
Their order-matching sy-
stem didnt work. We are fa-
cing such a problem after a
long time. G Chokkalingam,
High
9,782
9,70 Open Close
9,690 9,771
9,700
P. Close
9,666
9,650
9.15am NSE intra-day 3.30pm
12.17 | Pre-open trade begins
on NSE
12:19 | Nifty pre-open orders get
accepted
12.31 | Normal trading resumes
in NSE cash, F&O segments.
Nifty hits lifetime high
founder and MD, Equinomics
Research and Advisory, said,
Market prices were not upda-
ting. Something seems to have
gone wrong with their backup.
This is the longest blackout in
trading (on the NSE) after the
advent of technology. An NSE
spokeswoman said, We are still
trying to find the root cause of
the problem. If any orders were
not executed on Monday, they
will get cancelled.
About 3.9 crore shares we-
re traded in the cash segment
that saw a turnover of nearly
Nov 1, 2010 | BSE closes trading
for over 2 hours due to tech
glitches. Trading resumes
after 2.30pm
Oct 5, 12 | Erroneous order by
Emkay Global Fin Services trig-
gers a more than 900-pt fall in
the Nifty. NSE shuts down equity
segment for 10 minutes
Apr 9, 14 | Mkt participants face
difficulties in executing trades
due to connectivity issues
Jul 3, 14 | Tech snag on BSEs
network leads bourse to halt
trading for 3 hours
Rs 6,266 crore on Monday. On
an average, over 12 crore sha-
res are traded in the NSEs
cash segment with a turnover
in excess of Rs 20,000 crore.
However, trading was nor-
mal on the BSE. In fact, the
benchmark sensex rose 220
points to hit a fresh record
high of 31,600 points in early
trading and closed at an all-ti-
me high of 31,716 points a
355-point increase, or a 1.1%
gain. While the NSE issued an
apology, it did not come up with
any reason for the system error.
Amazons $500-million invest-
ment proposal for food retail
in India.
The Department of Indust-
rial Policy and Promotion
(DIPP) has given the nod to the
Seattle-based e-commerce gi-
ant for its food retail business
here, since the Foreign Invest-
ment Promotion Board (FIPB)
has been abolished. DIPP has
also approved similar propo-
sals by online grocers BigBas-
ket and Grofers. In total, the
government had received a
$695-million investment pro-
posal for food retail in India.
An Amazon spokesperson
confirmed the development,
saying, Yes, we have received
the government approval for
food retail based on our appli-
cation for the same.
Grofers too confirmed the
development to TOI.
To benefit farmers,
the govt last year
allowed 100% FDI
in domestically
manufactured
and produced
food products
Samidha.Sharma
@timesgroup.com
Mumbai: Flipkarts CEO
Kalyan Krishnamurthy is
confident the next 50-100 mil-
lion Indian customers who
will come on board the online
retail market will be driven
by local innovations introdu-
ced by the home-grown e-
commerce company and not
by a foreign player. In an ex-
clusive chat with TOI, Krish-
namurthy who took over
from Flipkarts co-founder
Binny Bansal last year sa-
id the Bengaluru-based web
retailer was the clear leader
in all categories, except gro-
cery, which it is yet to launch,
disputing Amazons claim of
being ahead.
We at Flipkart (not in-
cluding Myntra and Jabong),
are much bigger and outsell
them (Amazon) in all catego-
ries, except grocery where
we are not present but will be
entering soon. Both Ama-
zon and Flipkart do not their
detail their market shares
based on units shipped or sa-
les. However, we have been
reporting these numbers so-
We deeply understand the Indian consumer
and innovate for them with the help of tech. We
introduced the concept of catering to the Middle India
by building affordability constructs through product
exchange, upgrade on return, and low-cost
EMIs instead of just doling out discount
Market growth and innovation will
depend on Flipkart. If we are able to
innovate for the next 50-100 million, then the
market will grow. That is how it has been so far
and we will keep doing it every year
KALYAN KRISHNAMURTHY | CEO, FLIPKART
will push customer loyalty in India market. Flipkarts
avery local way through a pro- GMV stagnated, mirroring
gramme it will launch soon. the e-commerce market
An ex-Tiger Global executive, which, too, started to plateau
he wouldnt admit to any simi- by the end of 2015 and the In-
larities with Amazons popu- dian e-tailer was unable to
lar subscription service Pri- add new categories, beco-
me. The domestic e-tailer has ming largely restricted to sel-
experimented with Prime- ling mobiles and electronics.
like services such as Flipkart Krishnamurthy said
First and Flipkart Assured, Flipkart took time to launch
which havent been scaled up. new categories because it
We deeply understand worked on finding solutions.
the Indian consumer and in- We just dont come in and gi-
novate for them with the ve discounts to get adoption.
help of technology. We in- It has taken almost a year to
troduced the concept of ca- launch furniture but thats
the only time to market. You
TOI EXCLUSIVE can say you are late to the

IDFC merger
Was Rel Jios customer
To benefit farmers and re-
duce wastage of fruits and ve-
getables, the government last
news pulls year allowed 100% FDI in do-
mestically manufactured and
urced from logistics compa-
nies and other third-party
platforms.
While Flipkart is still ahe-
ad at the group level and is
tering to the Middle India by
building affordability
constructs through product
exchange, upgrade on re-
market, but we have to solu-
tion for the opportunities
and pain points of consu-
mers, he said.
The next big challenge for

down Shriram information hacked? produced food products. Ex-

ecutives of above mentioned
companies had told TOI re-
clocking gross merchandise
value (GMV) based on a large
number of high-value items it
turn, and low-cost EMIs in-
stead of just doling out dis-
counts, he said.
most consumer internet com-
panies like Flipkart from here
on is to penetrate deeper into

group shares TIMES NEWS NETWORK

TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: The first day after the
announcement on the proposed
merger of IDFC Bank and Shri-
ram Capital saw the stock price
of Shriram City Union Finance
(SCUF) plummet 5.6%.
Although the final swap ra-
tio and valuation details will de-
termine the winners and losers
in this merger deal, analysts are
already viewing the transaction
as a win for IDFC Bank and a ne-
gative for the Shriram group
companies. Shriram Transport
Finance Companys (STFCs)
shares were down 3.3% and
IDFC saw its shares drop 5.7%,
even as shares of IDFC Bank ro-
se nearly 1%.
MIXED BAG
Change in stock price on BSE (%)
-5.7 IDFC
-5.6 Shriram City
-3.3 Shriram
Transport
IDFC Bank 0.7
-6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0
New Delhi: Private data of
millions of customers of Reli-
ance Jio may have been com-
promised through a large-sca-
le hacking attack that revea-
led information such as a sub-
scribers name, mobile
number, email and SIM acti-
vation details. Jio, however,
called reports of a breach as
unverified and unsubstanti-
ated claims, but added that it
has informed the government
about the incident.
The matter came to light on
Sunday when a website, fonea-
rena.com, said it has been able
to get private details of custo-
mers of Jio on a website magi-
capk.com. The issue raised
concerns about whether the al-
leged hacking of information
may have also led to leakage of
Aadhaar data, something that
official sources described as
highly unlikely.
In any case, the informa-
tion accessed by fonearena-
.com did not bring out Aadhaar
details or even the Aadhaar
number, even though it could
access the names, phone num-
bers, email ids and SIM activa-
tion details of some customers.
1
UIDAI: No leakage
of Aadhaar data
New Delhi: Reacting to the
alleged Reliance Jio data
breach, the Unique
Identification Authority of
India (UIDAI) said the reports
suggest that there is no
leakage of Aadhaar numbers
or any other information linked
to it. UIDAI is very vigilant. And
in case any leak comes to light,
UIDAI will take strict action as
per the law, a top UIDAI
official, who did not wish to be
identified, told TOI. TNN
The magicapk.com website
has since been de-activated.
When contacted, a spoke-
sperson for Jio said data being
put out appears to be unaut-
hentic. We have come across
the unverified and unsubstan-
tiated claims of the website
and are investigating it. Prima
facie, the data appears to be
unauthentic.
The spokesperson said
authorities have been infor-
med. We want to assure our
subscribers that their data is
safe and maintained with
highest security. Data is only
shared with authorities as
cently that a final approval
from the government will see
more investment in the far-
sells like smartphones, its to-
ugh to separate the two in the
GMV battle. GMV is all the sa-
Flipkart grappled with a
string of issues in 2015 up
until mid-last year, fore-
newer markets and consumer
segments. The market
growth and innovation will
per their requirement. We ha- ming sector from these players. les made on e-commerce mar- most being the continued depend on Flipkart. If we are
ve informed law enforcement Food processing minister Har- ketplaces, out of which play- senior level management able to innovate for the next 50-
agencies about claims of the simrat Kaur had said that after ers like Flipkart and Amazon churn including the step- 100 million, then the market
website and will follow to en- allowing 100% FDI in food reta- earn commissions. ping away of both its foun- will grow. That is how it has
sure strict action is taken. il in India, the government had To expand its user base ders (Sachin Bansal and been so far and we will keep
Official sources in the IT received strong interest from and growth, Krishnamurthy, Binny Bansal) from opera- doing it every year, Krishna-
ministry said there are no rea- several companies. who has been dubbed the tur- tional roles. All of this slo- murthy said.
sons for a panic as critical The $500-million invest- naround man at the company wed down its growth per-
Aadhaar information such ment is on top of the commit- for his execution skills, said ceptibly just when Amazon For full report, log on to
as biometric details remains ment of the $5 billion for India. the 10-year-old online retailer was doubling down on the www.timesofindia.com
safe. It cannot be breached ea-
sily, and the government is al-
ways alert against any such
hacking, a top official said, re-
questing anonymity.
Earlier this year, online res-
taurant and food startup Zoma-
to said a record data of around
17 million users had been hack-
ed from its database, which in-
cluded email addresses and
hashed passwords. Asking
subscribers to reset passwords,
it, however, said no payment in-
formation or credit card data
had been stolen or leaked.
Cyber security has emer-
ged as a primary concern for
online companies and the go-
vernment as much of the cus-
tomer verification processes
get online, and cloud and priva-
te servers are increasingly be-
ing used to store critical data.

In a first, Tata Sons likely

Under the plan announced
on Saturday, all finance entities
under the Shriram group will
move under IDFC. While SCUF
will be merged with IDFC
Bank, STFC will remain as a se-
parate entity. The new entity
will have IDFC Limited as the
holding company for the insu-
rance subsidiary, asset mana-
gement arm, STFC and the
merged IDFC Bank-SCUF.
Analyst Kunal Shah of
Edelweiss brokerage said, We
believe IDFC Bank would be re-
latively better placed.
Among the many difficulti-
es analysts envision for the
merger is that under the
current structure for a non-
operative financial holding
company (NOHFC), an entity
cannot hold two separate len-
ding entities.
Brokerage Motilal Oswal
also held to the view that the
deal will primarily be benefici-
al to IDFC.
to recast overseas ops
Reeba.Zachariah
@timesgroup.com
Mumbai: In what might be
the first restructuring exerci-
se of its international opera-
tions, Tata Sons is scaling
down the number of its
offices outside the co-
untry to cut costs.
The restructuring
involves either shut-
ting down some of its
overseas offices or ma-
naging the affairs through ex-
isting international offices of
group companies, said people
familiar with chairman N
Chandrasekarans strategy.
The changes could make so-
me of the people redundant in
the countries where Tata
Sons operates. When reached
out by TOI, a Tata Sons spoke-
sperson, said that there is no
such decision.
While Tata Sons has had of-
fices in London (which
was the first to be set up
in 1907), Washington DC
(2005) and Beijing (2006),
the company in 2014 es-
tablished offices in Du-
bai and Singapore.
The last two offices were
set up under the leadership of
former chairman Cyrus Mist-
ry to explore opportunities
for the group in the Middle
East & North Africa and Ase-
an regions. At present, direc-
tors of all the foreign units of
Tata Sons report to Mukund
Rajan, chief ethics and sustai-
nability officer.
The people quoted earlier
said that the proposed scaling
down of overseas operations is
part of the wider company
restructure plan to pare down
expenses. Some of the more es-
tablished and key hubs will, ho-
wever, continue. They added
that the thinking at Tata Sons
is that offices in certain count-
ries are not required as some of
the group companies already
have a presence in these loca-
tions and their units can act as
a central hub for the group.

WhatsApp gets nod for UPI payments

Digbijay.Mishra
@timesgroup.com
Bengaluru: The worlds
most-popular messaging app-
lication WhatsApp has recei-
ved permission from the Na-
tional Payments Corporation
of India (NPCI) to enter into
partnership with multiple
banks to allow users to make
in-app payments and money
transfers using the Unified
Payments Interface (UPI).
UPI enables account-to-ac-
count transfers from a mobile
app without having any deta-
ils of the beneficiarys bank.
A P Hota, MD and CEO,
NPCI, confirmed that What-
sApp has received a nod from
the apex payments institu-
tion. The Facebook-owned
WhatsApp had been in talks
with banks for a while now.
The approval for multi-bank
partnership could put its pay-
ments business ambition on a
NEW CHANNEL
fast track. Some of the banks
WhatsApp is in talks with are
Axis Bank, ICICI Bank and
Punjab National Bank,
among others.
This is the first time that
NPCI, an umbrella organisa-
tion for all retail payment sy-
stems in India, has approved
a mobile app to enter into
multi-bank partnerships.
Players like WhatsApp and
Google are very large in size
and thus partnering with
multiple banks makes sense
to ensure a smooth payments
process. Google is now awai-
ting the Reserve Bank of Indi-
as approval to go live on
UPI, said Hota.
Online merchants like
Amazon and Uber are also in
final stages of testing before
enabling customers to make
payments using UPI, Hota ad-
ded. Flipkart and some other
e-commerce companies have
already started accepting
UPI payments. Earlier, anot-
her mobile app Truecaller
had entered into a partners-
hip with ICICI Bank for pay-
ments using UPI.
Hota said, We have per-
mitted multi-bank partners-
hip as WhatsApp did not want
all transactions routed via
one bank when payment lo-
ads are high. Hota did not
provide a timeline as to by
when WhatsApp payments
would be live on UPI.
An email sent by TOI to a
spokesperson for WhatsApp
did not elicit a response till
the time of going to print.
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Use app to
resolve tax
worries from
smartphone
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Now you can apply
for a permanent account num-
ber (PAN), pay taxes, chat with a
tax officer using your smartp-
hone, thanks to an app develo-
ped by the I-T department.
You can also link your 12-di-
git Aadhaar number with your
PAN and a host of other tax rela-
ted functions using the app,
which is being seen as a step to
reduce interface of the taxpay-
er with the department and en-
sure hassle-free services using
technology.
The app, which is available
for Android phones, was laun-
ched by finance minister Arun
Jaitley on Monday. A desktop
version was also unveiled.
This is a very important
step forward by the CBDT (Cen-
tral Board of Direct Taxes) and
the principle reason being tech-
nology as a very powerful tool
becomes an enabler. Most of the
work an assessee can discharge
without any external help sit-
ting at home, said Jaitley.
The app reduces the physi-
cal interface between assessing
officer (AO) and assessees. Phy-
sical interface has many unin-
tended consequences it is ti-
me consuming and can lead to
improprieties, the minister sa-
id. CBDT said it constantly en-
deavours to provide better tax-
payer services and reduce tax-
payer grievances. New schemes
and e-initiatives to educate tax-
payers and deliver tax payer ser-
vices in an effective manner are
key to this effort.
The new step is an effort by
the I-T department to directly
communicate with taxpayers,
on a range of multiple informa-
tive and useful tax services, ai-
med at providing tax informa-
tion at their fingertips, the tax
department said.
It said the module compiles
various tax tools, live chat facili-
ty, dynamic updates, and impor-
tant links to various processes
within the I-T department in a
single module. Taxpayers will
be able to receive updates regar-
ding important tax dates, forms
and notifications on mobile
numbers registered with the I-T
department. All taxpayers who
wish to receive such text messa-
ge alerts have asked to register
mobile numbers in the Aaykar
Setu module which was unvei-
led by the finance minister.
No GST on gifts worth up to
`50k from employer: Finmin
Free Membership Of Club Not Under New Tax Regime
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The government
on Monday said gifts up to Rs
50,000 per year by an employ-
er to his employee will be out-
side the ambit of the goods
and services tax (GST) while
free membership of a club,
health or fitness centre will
not come under the new tax
regime.
The finance ministry also
said free housing to employe-
es, when it is provided in
terms of the contract betwe-
en the employer and employ-
ee and is part of the cost-to-
company will not be subject
to GST.
It is being reported that
gifts and perquisites suppli-
ed by companies to their
employees will be taxed un-
der GST. However, gifts of va-
lue more than Rs 50,000 made
without consideration are
subject to GST, when made in
the course or furtherance of
business, the finance mini-
Real estate prices show
some signs of recovery
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Real estate prices
have shown some improve-
ment in majority of cities such
as Mumbai where index of pri-
ces went up by 3.7%, Gurgaon
by 6.7%, Chandigarh (6.2%),
Kanpur 8.1% and Bhubanesh-
war by 11.7%, among others in
the January-March 2017 quar-
ter. This was revealed in prices
of residential units released
on Monday by the National Ho-
using Bank (NHB). According
to NHB, out of 50 cities which
are monitored, 27 witnessed
improvement in prices in the
quarter ending March 2017 as
against that of December 2016.
Prices remained flat in citi-
es such as Noida, Greater Noi-
da, Chennai, Bengaluru, and
Hyderabad where the move-
ment in the Residex is around
1%-2% in the January-March
quarter over the previous qu-
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casionally. It cannot be de-
Free housing to manded as a matter of right
by the employee and the emp-
employees, provided in loyee cannot move a court of
terms of contract
law for obtaining a gift, it sa-
between the employer id. On the issue of taxation of
and employee and is part perks, the ministry said ser-
vices by an employee to the
of cost-to-company will employer in the course of or
not be subject to GST in relation to his employ-
ment is outside the scope of
GST (neither supply of goods
or supply of services).
It follows there from that
supply by the employer to the
employee in terms of cont-
ractual agreement entered
into between the employer
and the employee, will not be
subjected to GST, the state-
ment clarified.
It also said that the input
tax credit (ITC) scheme un-
stry said in a statement. der GST does not allow ITC of
Stating that gift has not membership of a club, health
been defined in the GST law, and fitness centre. It fol-
the ministry said in common lows, therefore, that if such
parlance, gift is made witho- services are provided free of
ut consideration, is volunta- charge to all employees by
ry in nature and is made oc- the employer then the same
arter. But 19 out of 50 cities wit- cember 2016. The maximum
nessed fall in index of property increase was observed in 7 ctii-
prices. In Delhi, it fell by 4.3%, es like Jaipur (8.7%), Chennai
Gandhinagar by 12%, Surat (6.7%), Lucknow (5.7%), Gu-
(8.9%), Ludhiana (7.8%) and wahati (5.2%), Howrah (4.4%),
Kolkata by 7.2% Hyderabad (4.4%) and Bidhan
I will be happy if land pri- Nagar (4.1%). 14 cities have
ces fall further. We still have shown decline in prices over
the situation where land pri- the previous quarter with
ces in Vijayawada is more than maximum fall observed in Pat-
Washington and New York. na (16.2%), Nashik (6.3%). Del-
hi (4.3%) Faridabad (3.9%) and
MOVING UP Chandigarh (3.4%).
Unfortunately, farmers are not The index for prices of un-
benefitted by this price rise as der construction project in No-
the middleman had already ida, Greater Noida, Bengaluru
bought the land from farmers and Ahmedabad remained
and now quoting unreasonab- flat. NHB Residex plans to
ly high prices, said Venkaiah bring out Land Price Indices,
Naidu, minister for housing Building Material Price Indi-
and urban affairs, who relea- ces and Housing Rental Index
sed the index, said. to enable consumers to have
In the under construction comprehensive view on hou-
segment, prices went up in 24 sing, said Sriram Kalyanara-
cities out of 47 cities which we- man, MD & CEO, NHB. He said
re monitored in the quarter en- they are planning to include
ded March 2017 over that of De- 100 cities from 50 cities now.
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will not be subject to GST,
provided appropriate GST
was paid when procured by
the employer, the statement
added.
Experts said the clarifica-
tion by the ministry puts se-
veral issues at rest that the in-
dustry was worried about.
It has been clarified that
anything done by employer
for employee in terms of
employment contract will
not be subject to GST. These
should include benefits offe-
red in terms of providing
cars for official use, free me-
als, gym and such other ame-
nities provided to employees
as part of a employment
contract. Therefore, GST will
have to paid only in exceptio-
nal situation where gifts are
given on voluntary basis,
such as Diwali gifts to emplo-
yees and that too if the value
is more than Rs 50,000, said
Pratik Jain, partner and lea-
der indirect tax at consulan-
cy firm PwC India.
Govt, Sebi
seek report
from NSE
New Delhi: The countrys
largest bourse NSE on Mon-
day halted trading for over
three hours due to technical
glitch, leaving investors with
no real time updates and pro-
mpting both the government
and Sebi to seek a report on
the matter.
Sources in the finance mi-
nistry said it was a technical
problem that led to trading
disruptions and there was no
information about hacking.
Sebi sought a detailed report
from NSE on the glitch in its
system that halted trading for
hours, even as the exchange
informed the capital markets
regulator that the problem
does not seem to be related to
cyber security.
NSE made a submission
to the regulator on the glitch
and informed that all execu-
ted trades in cash and Futu-
res & Options (F&O) seg-
ments remain valid. AGENCIES
Sanitary
napkins GST
rate justified
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi:Reducing the GST rate
on sanitary napkins to nil, will re-
sult in complete denial of input tax
credit (ITC) to domestic manufac-
turers of sanitary napkins and ze-
ro rating imports, the finance mi-
nistry has said. This will make do-
mestically manufactured sanitary
napkins at a huge dis-advantage
vis--vis imports, which will be ze-
ro rated, it said while justifying
the GST rate on sanitary napkins.
It said that the tax incidence on
this item before and after GST is
the same or less. In pre-GST, they
attracted concessional excise duty
of 6% and 5% VAT and, the pre-
GST estimated total tax incidence
on sanitary napkins was 13.68%.
Therefore, 12% GST rate had been
provided for sanitary napkin, the
ministry said. Providing specific
examples, the ministry said as raw
materials for manufacture of sani-
tary napkins attract GST of 18% of
12%, even with 12% GST on sanita-
ry napkins, there in an inversion in
the GST structure.
HC revokes order in
suit against Tata Sons
To Decide On Stay In `41,000-Cr Case Today
Swati.Deshpande
@timesgroup.com
Mumbai: The Bombay HC on
Monday revoked its earlier or-
der and held that a suit for Rs
41,000-crore damages filed by six
minority shareholders of a few
Tata companies cannot be trea-
ted as a representative suit by all
non-promoter shareholders of
the group. The order by Justice
S C Gupte comes on a plea made
by Tata Sons which had sought
revocation of permission gran-
ted last year by the HC to hear a
suit by six minority sharehol-
ders as a representative suit for
all non-promoter shareholders
of the Tata group companies.
There are over 25 lakh share-
holders of Tata companies. The
minority shareholders later so-
ught a stay of the order to enable
them to appeal against it. Tata
Sons wished to oppose the plea
for a stay and the court posted the
matter for a hearing on Tuesday
on the question of a stay. Till
LOSING STEAM
Car sales slipped by 11% in June,
rst decline in six months, as
dealers and companies avoided
inventory build-up at retail points
due to implementation of GST
from July 1. According to numbers
provided by industry body Siam,
there was also a fall in deliveries
of SUVs over GST concerns. There
was uncertainty over tax
credits and other
such matters, and
companies and
dealers avoided
to build an
inventory, an
ofcial said.
Category June16
Cars 1.5L
SUVs 55.8K
Scooters 4.5L
Motorcycles 9.4L
Comm. Vehicles 56K
Total Domestic 17.9L
Exports 2.8L
then, its order of revocation is
unlikely to be uploaded.
The company had argued
that the shareholders who
had moved the high court can-
not claim to represent all
other non-promoter share-
holders. In other words, all
non-promoter shareholders
dont necessarily support the
plaintiffs. The HC order appe-
ars to have accepted argu-
ments made by Tata Sons co-
unsel P Chidambaram that all
shareholders dont have the
same interest.
The half dozen non-pro-
moter shareholders of seven
Tata companies had filed a su-
it saying that because of the
illegal ouster of Cyrus Mist-
ry as Tata Sons chairman,
the market price of the shares
had crashed and thus they
had suffered enormous loss.
The damage sought is the loss
caused in shares of seven Ta-
ta group companies, since clo-
sing on October 24 to Decem-
THE TIMES OF INDIA, NEW DELHI
TUESDAY, JULY 11, 2017
The uncertainty
surrounding GST
implementation with
regard to passenger
vehicles has impacted
retail sales as customers
were postponing buying
plan post-GST roll out
Toyota has taken a
conscious decision to
lower the volumes
of vehicles sold
to dealers this
month
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DIRECTOR OF SALES
& MARKETING AT
TOYOTA
June17 Change (%)
1.4L -11
49.5K -11
5L 11
9.6L 2
56.8K 1
18.1L 1
2.9L 5
Source: Siam
ber 6, the suit said. Justice S J
Kathawalla had in December
passed an order permitting the
suit to be filed in a representative
capacity, in other words as a class-
action suit. Tata Sons counsels P
Chidambaram, Ravi Kadam and
Prateek Seksaria last month ar-
gued that it was perverse to say
that all non-promoter sharehol-
ders have the same grievance and
are unhappy.
But Dinyar Madon, counsel
for the few shareholders , argu-
ed that they were entitled to re-
present all similarly placed Tata
company shareholders.
He said 60 other sharehol-
ders supported the suit while
none opposed it. If permission
is revoked, it would mean all
shareholders would have to file
individual suits. Janak Dwar-
kadas, counsel for Mistry, had in
his arguments reiterated Ma-
dons submission. In a rejoinder,
Chidambaram hadstressed that
there cannot be an accepted
commonality of complaint.
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Onus now on Kohli to pick coach? Pics: Santosh Bane

COACH MARK
SHEET
Tom Moodys record as
coach of Sri Lanka:
TESTS: Matches 18, Won
10, Lost 5, N/R 3.
ODIS: Matches 70, Won
37, Lost 29, N/R 4.
T20IS: Matches 3, Won 2,
Lost 1.
Richard Pybuss record
as coach of Pakistan &
Bangladesh (combined):
TESTS: Matches 6, Won 2,
Lost 4.
ODIS: Matches 24, Won
12, Lost 11, N/R 1.
T20IS: Matches 8, Won 4,
Lost 4.
Lalchand Rajputs
record as coach of
Afghanistan:
ODIS: Matches 22, Won
11, Lost 9, N/R 2.
T20IS: Matches 13, Won
10, Lost 3.
Phil Simmonss record
as coach of Zimbabwe,
Ireland and West Indies
(combined):
TESTS: Matches 22, Won
2, Lost 14, Drawn 6.
ODIS: Matches 121, Won
46, Lost 68, Tied 2, N/R 5.
T20IS: Matches 47, Won
27, Lost 16, N/R 4.
Ravi Shastris record as
India team director:
TESTS: Matches 8, Won 5,
Lost 1, Drawn 2.
ODIS: Matches 16,
Won 7, Lost 9.
T20IS: Matches
20, Won 14, Lost
6.
A DRAMATIC
ANTICLIMAX
12:30 PM: Amitabh
Choudhary, the BCCI
acting secretary, is first to
arrive.
12:57 PM: VVS Laxman is
the first CAC member to
arrive.
1 PM: Sourav Ganguly
arrives.
1.35 PM: Virender Sehwag
arrives at the Cricket
Centre.
2:10 PM: Sachin Tendulkar
joins the meeting via
Skype from UK.
2:52 PM: Virender Sehwag
and Lalchand Rajput
complete their interviews
3:23 PM: Virender Sehwag
leaves
4.05 PM: Ravi Shastri sits
for interview through
Skype from the UK
5:46 PM: Ganguly
announces that the
appointment of a new
coach has been deferred
till captain Kohli gives his
inputs
Unlike In 2016, The CAC Now Looks To The Skipper
For Inputs; Shastri Remains Team Indias Choice
K.ShriniwasRao@timesgroup.com
Mumbai: Contrary to their own pro-
cesses put in place in 2016, when they
picked former India leg-spinner Anil
Kumble as Indias national coach, the
three-member Cricket Advisory Com-
mittee (CAC) now wants to hold back
its decision and put forward their
recommendation to the BCCI only
after meeting Virat Kohli. In 2016,
the CAC did not find the need to con-
sult Kohli before finalising Kumble as
Indias national coach ahead of former
India Team Director Ravi Shastri, who
was clearly the players choice.
After close to a six-hour interview
process at the BCCIs headquarters in
Mumbai on Monday, during which five
shortlisted candidates went through
their respective interviews, the CAC
said there is no hurry to announce
the name.
CAC member Sourav Ganguly in-
stead said: We have decided to hold on
for the time being (the announcement).
We need a few days more to talk to the
players, especially the captain. The
process is concluded (no more candi-
No hurry at the moment: Ganguly
XFrom P1
W
hat we have decided is that
we will hold on for the
time being (on) the an-
nouncement of the coach. We need
to talk to a few more players, espe-
cially the captain, and then make
an announcement because we feel
that there is no hurry at the mo-
dates will be interviewed). Virat did not
give his inputs. He (Virat) needs to un-
derstand how the coaches (also) oper-
ate.
In doing so, Ganguly also said Koh-
li had not given any inputs on the mat-
ter. This comes close to a month after
the CAC met Kohli in England and
discussed the subject with the skipper
in a long one-on-one meeting. Five can-
didates went through the interview
process but those tracking develop-
ments said Ravi and Tom came up
with the best presentations when they
spoke.
It can be confirmed that the coach
has already been finalised. One candi-
date, in fact, told this newspaper soon
after the interview process: Havent
the players finally got what they want-
ed?
Those in the know of things say the
CAC a three-member committee of
cricketing legends Ganguly, Tendulkar
and VVS Laxman, with close to 32,000
Test runs under their belt are refusing
to take a decision on a matter that is
entirely their responsibility, consider-
ing that it was indeed their responsibil-
ment, Ganguly said, adding that chand Rajput and former
the new coach would be given a con- Pakistan national coach
tract till the 2019 World Cup. Richard Pybus attended the
Former Team India director interview session. Only Se-
Ravi Shastri, ex-opener and Kings hwag arrived at the BCCI head-
XI Punjab mentor Virender Se- quarters to make his presentation
hwag, former Sri Lanka national in person while the others, includ-
coach and present Sunrisers Hy- ing Shastri who is presently in the
derabad mentor Tom Moody, Af- United Kingdom, participated
ghanistans national coach Lal- through Skype.
CAC will only
explain role of
coach to Virat
Gaurav.Gupta made to understand that
@timesgroup.com the style is typical of per-
son and therefore we
Mumbai: Reacting to per- should become accommo-
ceptions that captain Virat dative if that. So it was only
Kohli was dominating the with this intent that the
coach selection process, three greats decided to an-
Board of Control for Crick- nounce it (the name of the
et in India (BCCI) secretary coach) later.
Amitabh Chaudhary clari- Meanwhile, a top board
fied on Monday that the offocial told TOI, Kohli
Cricket Advisory Commit- will be told that we have
tee (CAC) would only make interviewed five people and
India skipper understand found such and such per-
the role of the coach in the son. Hes the best coach for
Indian team. Indian cricket. This is why
Speaking at the Legends we feel he is good. So you
Club function here at the have to work with him and
Cricket Club of India (CCI) we are discussing with you
to celebrate the 68th birth- because dont want a repeat
day of former India captain of the Kumble situation.
Sunil Gavaskar, Chaudhary This is a two-year appoint-
said: Sachin (Tendulkar) ment. So please dont
was (there) through skype fight...work with the new
CAC members Sourav Ganguly and Sourav (Ganguly and coach calmly.
(centre) and VVS Laxman with
acting BCCI secy Amitabh
VVS (Laxman) were there.
And I was actually touched
The source, however,
said that only the CAC
Choudhary and BCCI CEO
Rahul Johri in Mumbai
with the devotion and the
time that they gave to the
knows the name of the new
coach. They have made
subject. Because of the sen- the choice. We dont know
ity the previous year. Everybody else other than
sitivity of the issue, they what that choice is because
TOI can confirm that all members Shastri and Moody are out of
after due consideration only the three of them (of
of the Indian team are in favour of the race and between the two,
thought that they could CAC) were involved in that
cricketer-turned-commentator Shastri it is Shastri who is favoured by the
postpone the announce- discussion when that
taking over the role. All 15 members team members. Now it is up to the
ment just to make sure that choice was made, and no
of the team are unanimous on this. Its CAC, who want the onus to be on
the other stakeholders un- other board official was a
not even 14-1. This was exactly the una- Kohli, which is unfair.
derstand that a coach has a part of it.
nimity on the Kumble issue. All 15 BCCI SOURCE
certain...every individual
members of the team did not want has a certain style.
Former India opener
him, said a member of the Team India Every professional can
Virender Sehwag
camp. be on Kohli, which is unfair, a source have a certain style. So the
arrives for the
As far as the candidates are con- in the know of things said. other stakeholders are
interview on Monday
cerned, it has now come to light that Contrary to media reports, BCCI
Virender Sehwag one of the appli- CEO Rahul Johris trip to the Carib-
cants sent across his CV after one of bean wasnt about meeting Kohli. Johri
the boards senior administrators confirmed that he had travelled to the
asked him to apply. Following the board West Indies for a meeting with officials
officials advice, Sehwag informed of their cricket board, the details of
Kohli that he was going to send across which he refused to share.
his CV and the skipper encouraged him Those tracking developments close-
to do so, adding that everybody who ly say somebody is trying wash his
believes in his potential should apply. hands of this entire coach selection
The former India opener, nevertheless, process, knowing where its heading.
is not in contention. The consensus on the candidate is
Everybody else other than Shastri clear. What someone is essentially try-
and Moody are out of the race and be- ing to do is put the onus on Virat and
tween the two, it is Shastri who is fa- say we have zeroed in on a (particular)
voured by the team members. Now, it candidate because this is what the skip-
is up to the CAC, who want the onus to per wants.
VIRAT WILL NEED TO
UNDERSTAND HOW COACHES
OPERATE. AT THE SAME
The entire process, which began
at 12 pm, lasted close to six hours.
Asked specifically if the deci-
sion had already been made on
cess is done and completed. The
important thing is how we are going
to go forward, Ganguly said.
Those in the know of things
TIME, YOU HAVE TO GIVE this and the CAC was waiting to told TOI that Shastri and Moody
CREDIT TO VIRAT THAT HE only discuss the matter with Virat made impressive presentations
HAS STAYED OUT OF THE
Kohli before making it official, during their respective inter-
COACH SELECTION Ganguly said No, we have just views. The CAC did not invite for-
PROCESS. WE WILL HAVE A listened to all of them. What we mer India medium-pacer Dodda
DETAILED CHAT WITH HIM say here is honest and nothing Ganesh for the interview and said
ONCE HE IS BACK FROM THE changes. Virat needs to under- former West Indies all-rounder
WEST INDIES. stand how the coaches also oper- Phil Simmons could not partici-
Sourav Ganguly ate. Thats the best way forward. pate in the process because he
The CAC confirmed that the pro- wasnt available.

GALLERY

Root hails Cook and Ali

If you dont grab chances, you cant win Raza gives Zimbabwe
historic ODI triumph
AP
Kingston (Jamaica): Skipper Virat Koh- her chance when he heaved at a Kuldeep
after Englands win li was critical of Indias performance aga- Yadav delivery but got a reprieve when an
inst West Indies in the one-off T20, saying onrushing Karthik, at long-off, couldnt
London: New England captain Joe Root
his team was sloppy with both the bat and get into the position. Hambantota: Sikandar nanjaya struck back with
praised the parts played by predecessor
ball and did not deserve to win. If mis-hits go for sixes then you know Raza starred with the bat four wickets to rattle the
Alastair Cook and Moeen Ali after his first
Put in to bat, India posted 190 for six it is his day but he gave us two chances, we and ball to help Zimbabwe Zimbabwe middle-order.
Test as skipper ended in a 211-run win over
on a batting belter but Evin Lewis blas- couldnt hold on to them. Those were cost- edge out Sri Lanka by three The visitors slipped
South Africa on Sunday. Off-spinner Ali
ted an unbeaten 125 off 62 balls with as ly opportunities and in T20 games every wickets and clinch a histo- from 137-1 to 175-7 losing
took six for 53 as South Africa, set 331 for
many as 12 sixes and six fours as the reig- opportunity would cost you a lot. We could ric series victory in the six wickets for 38 runs
victory, collapsed to 119 all out. England
ning World Twenty20 champions knock- see the result went their way mostly be- fifth One-day Internatio- but Raza and skipper Grae-
lost seven wickets before lunch on Sun-
ed off the runs in only 18.3 overs. Even cause of dropped chances, Karthik said. nal on Monday. me Cremer (11 not out)
days fourth day after resuming on 119 for
in the first innings, we could have added Karthik, who top-scored for his team Taking the series 3-2 in Sikandar Raza hung on for an unbeaten
one. But with opener Cook, Englands
25-30 extra. We were on course for 230. with 48, said 190 was a good score but it was Hambantota, the 11th-ran- 29-run stand as the peren-
all-time leading Test run-scorer, making 69
And in the field as well, we dropped a few not Indias day as Lewis seemed unstoppab- ked Zimbabwe registered their mai- nial underdogs erupted in celebra-
and wicket-keeper Jonny Bairstow 51 they
chances and if you dont grab them you Dinesh Karthik drops Evin Lewis catch le. All said and done, 190 is a good score. den series win in Sri Lanka and first tions. Happy that Sikandar came to
still compiled 233 in their second innings.
dont deserve to win, Kohli said after Karthik said overall, the team has do- overseas triumph in eight years. the party. It turned around very qu-
That 100 runs coming into today, I think
the match. Not Indias day: Karthik ne well this year. Credit to us as well. We Off-spinner Raza claimed three ickly but happy we pulled it off in the
they made the wicket look a lot easier
If you give a good start up the order, Kingston: Dinesh Karthik rued the drop- are coming from a big tournament in wickets to restrict the hosts to 203-8 end, an elated Cremer said. This
than it was and probably it was worth
one batsman has to bat through. I think ped catches that proved decisive in his te- champions Trophy and come back and after Zimbabwe elected to field first. win is very special, fans must be
double. They need a lot of credit, and
Dinesh was good, but we needed someone ams nine-wicket loss to the West Indies. put same intensity and performance He then anchored a tense chase with jumping around back home.
obviously the way Moeen and the rest of
to get 80-90 which a team needs in T20 In the sixth over, Lewis went for a lofted through the West Indies tour has been an unbeaten 27 as the visitors won BRIEF SCORES: Zimbabwe 204/7 in 38.1
the guys bowled today was brilliant.
cricket, I think. Then we didnt start well straight drive off Bhuvneshwar Kumar good. Overall, it has been good year for with 71 balls to spare. overs (Masakadza 73, Mire 43, Raza 27
with the ball and didnt field well either. but a mix-up between Virat Kohli and Mo- most players and great opportunity for Zimbabwe opener Hamilton Ma- n.o.; Dananjaya 4-47) beat Sri Lanka 203
Rabada ban a big loss for Test
All these games are good feeders of how hammad Shami saw the opportunity go all to learn and Im sure we will keep go- sakadza top-scored with a fluent 73 for 8 (Gunaratne 59 n.o., Gunathilaka 52,
cricket, says Elgar: South Africa stand-
guys react to situations. waste. Four balls later, Lewis gave anot- ing forward, he said. PTI before rookie off-spinner Akila Da- Raza 3-21) by three wicket. AFP
in skipper Dean Elgar has said Kagiso
Rabadas ban from the second match of
the England series is a big loss for Test
cricket and not just the Proteas. Its a big
loss for everything, the Proteas and Test
cricket, Elgar told reporters. He is a
State associations protest Javelin star Neeraj in search of a coach PTI
vitally important bowler.
Mumbai: Three state associations ed by BCCI stalwarts Niranjan Shah Sudeshna.Ghosh aking Japanese Y Muraka- against time for the Athletics
have sent a notice to the BCCI protest- and N Srinivasan respectively, who @timesgroup.com mis six-year-old record. I Federation of India to bring
SA coach Domingo returns home:
ing about the last-minute sheduling of are both above 70. The special commit- knew I had to do it with that in a mentor for him.
South Africa coach Russell Domingo has
the Special General Meeting (SGM) of tee formed by the BCCI to see how fast Bhubaneswar: His former very attempt. So I told myself An AFI official, however,
returned home from the teams tour of
the BCCI in New Delhi on Tuesday to the reforms can be implemented has coach, the Australian javelin Id do it and put everything in- said that the federation is lik-
England to be by the side of his mother, who
discuss the implementation of the recommended accepting the guide- expert Garry Calvert, had to that throw, he said. ely to hold a meeting in a day
is on life support following a car accident.
Lodha reforms. line to disqualify called him a rare talent and Asked when he knew he or two to decide on the issue.
Team officials said the 42-year-old Domingo
flew back on Sunday because his mothers
The cricket associ-
ations of Saurashtra,
BCCI SGM those above 70.
Meanwhile, BCCI
someone you can watch
throw the javelin all day.
had made the meet record, he
replied: I knew I had won it as
He may be sent to Europe for
training under a coach, the
condition has deteriorated. The accident
Tamil Nadu and Kerala have put for- secretary Amitabh Chaudhary admit- Sports fans present at the Ka- soon as I released the javelin. official added.
took place last month. AGENCIES
ward their strong reservation to the ted that the Board was going through a linga Stadium here on Sun- But what makes his feat I can do most of the regu-
meeting, claiming that it wil be held "crisis" in the last two years in view of day got a glimpse of that more remarkable is the fact lar training on my own. But
ACTION TODAY without a mandatory 10-day notice. A the non-implementation of the Lodha sparkle in the 19-year-old Neeraj Chopra sets a meet record that the reigning junior when there is a coach, I dont
top board official, however, dismissed reforms for almost an year after the when he clinched the gold in javelin throw in Bhubaneswar world champion is without a need to worry about the actu-
TENNIS: Wimbledon Championships, 4
the concerns of these state units. supreme court accepted them. Yes, and set a meet record with his coach since Calvert left India al training if Im doing it
pm (Live on Star Select 2, Select HD2)
There was an SGM called on 25 De- it's been a trying time for us, collec- final throw of the day. inting 78.59 and 78.54m ef- in April last year. With the right or wrong. I can leave
HOCKEY: Men's World League Semifinals,
cember, 2002 after a four-day notice. So tively," said Chaudhary at the Legends On Sunday, he started forts. But his last throw, to a World Championships sche- that to a good coach and just
3.15 pm (Live on Star Sports 2, HD2)
there is a precedent there, he said. Club function to mark the birthday of with a foul and improved to distance of 85.23m, helped duled to start on August 4 in concentrate on my diet and
The SCA and the TNCA were head- Sunil Gavaskar on Monday. TNN the third place with disappo- him clinch the gold while bre- London, it is going to be a race rest, he commented.
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Diverse views on
NOT JUST ANOTHER on-court coaching
MANIC MONDAY
Prajwal.Hegde@timesgroup.com

London: Tennis top guns Roger

Federer and Novak Djokovic
blew hot and cold on the US
Opens move to test coaching
from the stands in the qualify-
Kerber Loses No. 1 ing competition of the last
major of the year.

Ranking; Venus Oldest The on-court coaching innova-

Quarterfinalist In 23 Yrs
London: Age has taught Venus Williams well.
The 37-year-old knows when to go for it, when
to walk away, when to wait. Venus gave her
opponent, 19-year-old Ana Konjuh who
wasnt even born when the great American
made her debut here 20 summers ago a
Centre Court lesson in owning time. Win-
ning never gets old at any stage in your ca-
reer, Venus, who wears her hair like a crown,
as if to underline her position as the sports
royalty, said. Ive matured, learned a lot
about the game since I first won here.
The mighty American, the oldest player to
make the quarters at Church Road since Mar-
tina Navratilova
in 1994, came
TIMES AT through 6-3, 6-2 in
a little over an
hour. On Tuesday
Prajwal Hegde she will face her
third-straight 97-
born player in what will be her 100th match at
Wimbledon when she takes on the irrepress-
ible French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko.
Venus, a champion of some stirring wins
in life, who six years ago was diagnosed with
Sjogrens syndrome, a chronic auto-immune
disease, that can cause fatigue and tiredness
and lead to joint and muscle pain, often with-
out warning, negotiated her toughest oppo-
nent off the court. Forehands and backhands,
whatever the pace theyre struck at, must
count as tame. All of my opponents (so far
in the tournament) have served amazing, hit
really hard. It was great preparation for me
to be able to get used to that sort of pace,
Venus said of facing Konjuhs big-hitting, all-
or-nothing style of tennis.
Venus, flaunting her own design, a classi-
cally cut one-piece, a picture of grace and
defiance, is the sentimental favourite wher-
eever she now plays. In the last-sixteen clash,
she kept things tight, serving strong, finish-
ing with seven aces and 24 winners, allowing
her opponent to lapse. Typically the Ameri-
can fought off a smile midway through the
second set when her screaming forehand
winner was met with a I love you, Venus
shout from the crowd.
In other womens fourth round matches, an
upset result of sorts when Spains Garbine Mu-
guruza put out the world no.1 Angelique Kerber
4-6, 6-4, 6-4. It was the duos eighth meeting with
the Spaniard having won the last four. The Ger-
man whose form seemed to have picked up in
the last two weeks of competition, failed to take
control after winning the first set.
Defending champion Andy Murray led the
men into the last eight with a 7-6 (7-1), 6-4, 6-4
win over Frenchman Benoit Paire. Murray will
face the big-serving American Sam Querrey,
who put out South African Kevin Anderson 5-7,
7-6 (7-5), 6-3, 6-7 (11-13), 6-3. Roger Federer
brushed aside Grigor Dimitrov 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 to
qualify for his 50th Grand Slam quartefinal.
Sania & Flipkens lose
Sania Mirza and Belgiums Kirsten Flipkens
fell to third-seeds Martina Hingis and Jung-Jan
Chan in the third round of the womens dou-
bles. The Indo-Belgian pair went down 2-6, 4-6
in 72-minutes. Indias Mahak Jain advanced to
the second round of the junior girls singles.
tion mooted with the other ma- Im not all for it. I find it cool
jors, including the Wimbledon that in tennis youre sort of on
will allow players to speak to their your own out there. Not
everybody has the same
coaches when on the same side and
use sign language when at the far amount of resources for
end. A 25-second timer be used to coaching. Roger Federer
cap time between points.
The rule change is another move
in the ongoing bid to reach out to
younger fans. Federer, 35, said he had
heard of the games newest ex-
periment only vaguely. Im not
TAKE THAT! Venus Williams returns all for it. I find it cool that in ten-
to Ana Konjuh on Monday nis youre sort of on your own
out there, the 18-time major
winner said, before pointing out,
Not everybody has the same amount
of resources for coaching. So Im not In certain situations it can
sure if its that beneficial. disrupt the flow of opponent.
RESULTS 7; Roger Federer beat Grigor Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x9) (LAT x13) bt Elina Svitolina (UKR Federer, soon-to-be 36, said that But in general if you have a
Men 4th rd: Marin Cilic bt Dimitrov 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 6-2, 6-4; Coco Vandeweghe (USA x4) 6-3, 7-6 (8/6); Johanna Konta while on-court coaching might spice coach, why not try to use him
Roberto Bautista Agut 6-2, 6-2, Women 4th rd: Garbie x24) bt Caroline Wozniacki (DEN (GBR x6) bt Caroline Garcia (FRA things up for the paying spectator, during the match itself?
6-2; Tomas Berdych beat Muguruza (ESP x14) bt Angelique x5) 7-6 (7/4), 6-4; Venus Williams x21) 7-6 (7/3), 4-6, 6-4; Simona its hardly new in tennis where com- Novak Djokovic
8-Dominic Thiem; Andy Murray Kerber (GER x1) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; (USA x10) bt Ana Konjuh (CRO Halep (ROM x2) bt Victoria munication between player and
beat Benoit Paire 7-6(1), 6-4, 6-4 Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS x7) bt x27) 6-3, 6-2; Jelena Ostapenko Azarenka (BLR) 7-6 (7/3), 6-2. coach is as old as the travelling guru.
I know that in some parts of the is an acceptable average to have
world coaching at junior level is to- between points.
Organisers defend decision on women tally normal, coaches and players
speak, Federer said. Im sure its
not going to make that much of a
difference because theres hand
Djokovic added, when you have
your player on your side, its fine.
As long as its within that time
limit, respecting the other player,
Top Women Shunted Jelena Ostapenko was on the
1,000-seater Court 12 show court.
signs going on as we speak. Its not
rocket science out there. We tell
the rhythm of the server.
He, however, wasnt quite con-
Off Top Courts NEW NO. 1
z Angelique Kerber lost her All England Club chief ex- maybe play more to the backhand vinced about how sign language
hold on the world No. 1 ranking. ecutive Richard Lewis said the side. It doesnt take much to under- would work when the player was at
London: Wimbledon defended nature of Wimbledons Manic stand that message. the far end.
z Kerber, the 2016 Wimbledon
shunting top women players Monday unique among the He said that while he didnt favour The WTA introduced on-court
runner-up, will be replaced at
onto the outside courts on four Grand Slams in that all on-court coaching it made sense to coaching in 2009. Many ATP play-
No. 1 by either Karolina
Manic Monday, saying the big last-16 matches are played on legalize it because too many players ers were not really positive about it
KERBER Pliskova or Simona Halep.
four of mens tennis were the the same day meant big had gone over the limit already. at that time. I thought it was a good
marquee matches demanded by name players would not get on Djokovic, electric on the court, move for the sport, Djokovic said.
broadcasters and spectators. Williams made it on the Centre number one Victoria Azarenka the main courts. Youve got who doesnt waste time between In certain situations it can disrupt
Andy Murray and Roger Court bill, while British home against world No. 2 Simona Ha- four of the all-time great male points, said the new rule was worth the flow of opponent. But in gen-
Federers matches were put on favourite Johanna Konta round- lep. On the 2,000-seater Court players: Rafa, Roger Novak and a try, but it was imperative that um- eral if you have a coach, why not
the 15,000-seater Centre Court, ed out the order of play on Court Three, former Wimbledon final- Andy. Youre left with some dif- pires kept an eye on the clock. try to use him during the match
with Rafael Nadal and Novak One, which holds 11,000. ist Agnieszka Radwanska faced ficult choices, he told report- It has to be within acceptable itself ? Were probably one of the
Djokovic on Court One on the That meant No. 1 Angelique two-time Grand Slam champion ers. The decision to make five- time, Djokovic said. The server only, maybe only global sport, that
second Monday, when all the Kerber was out on the 4,000-seat- Svetlana Kuznetsova, followed time Wimbledon winner Wil- dictates time between points. Its doesnt use coaching during play.
mens and womens last-16 er Court Two facing fellow for- by ex-world number one Caro- liams the only big-name woman on the chair umpire basically to Even in golf, an individual sport,
matches are played on the same mer runner-up Garbine Mugu- line Wozniacki. Meanwhile the to play on Centre Court was a judge whether its too long or too you have caddies communicating
day. Former champion Venus ruza, followed by former world new French Open champion unanimous one, he said. AFP short. Around seven-to-ten seconds with players on the course.
Its the yin and the yang for Djokovic Konta breaks Brit
N
ovak Djokovic said balance was the key to
adopting a winning mindset in life.
Anything you do in life has to have
time, otherwise youre going to burn out, added
the 12-time major winner.
Djokovic, soon to be a second-time
barrier after 33 years
both sides balanced. Its the yin and SERVE & father, said books brought a balance to London: Johanna Konta has necessarily the good things
yang, he said. If you lean towards one VOLLEY his life. Right now Im reading a book become the first British wom-
an since Jo Durie in 1984 to
she was doing and try to keep
in mind all the good things I
side you would lose that balance, which is about how to be the best parent I can
necessary for an optimal state of mind where be. Right now thats where my interest is. reach the quarterfinals at was doing.
youre happy and satisfied with what you do. Wimbledon. Konta, who won in Sydney
Wimbledons second seed said: It has always BORIS BACKING The sixth-seeded Konta de- and Miami earlier this year,
has been an integral part of my life, to be able to Boris Becker knows the signs. The German, who feated 21st-seeded Caroline had split her four previous
balance the two sides. Going out on the court is a coached Novak Djokovic for some of his most Garcia 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-4 on No. 1 meetings with Garcia, includ-
battle, a one-on-one battle. But it still is a dominating days, said the Serbs passion for the SUPERSTARS: Fans wear Federer and Nadal masks Court. There was very little ing in Indian Wells in March.
battlefield, facing, first of all yourself, then the sport was back. Djokovic, who appeared to hit a between us today, Konta, who Marin Cilic has reached
opponent in a lot of different aspects and things mental wall last year after his triumph in the French years, Djokovic said of the former champions had only won one match in her the quarterfinals at Wimble-
around. Generally in life its important to have the Open where he became the holder of all four comments. Weve been through ups and downs, previous five appearances at don for the fourth straight
right amount of adrenaline and things that make Grand Slam titles hit slip-sliding mode at both of us. Boris knows me very well. So hes right the All England Club, said in year. The seventh-seeded Cro-
you happy. We as professional athletes, most of Wimbledon 2016. He hasnt won a major title since when he says that the passion is back. Ive been a television interview. at beat Roberto Bautista Agut
the guys are very dynamic, have active last June and lost his No.1 ranking to Briton Andy feeling better on the court. Especially in the grass I was just very happy with 6-2, 6-2, 6-2. Cilic has never
personalities, lifestyles. Its important to kind of Murray. But Becker feels the 30-year-old is back and court this season. how I was able to compete and before made the semifinals at
balance that out, have some downtime, peaceful the Serb agrees. He felt it first-hand for a couple of Prajwal Hegde not pay too much attention to the All England Club. AP

INDIA FILE
Pearce to replace
Coppell at Blasters
Kochi: Kerala Blasters are going to lose the
services of their most popular coach in three
seasons of Indian Super League (ISL), Steve
Coppell. The franchise is close to signing
former Manchester City manager Stuart
Pearce as their new head coach for the
fourth edition. Though the 55-year-old Eng-
lishman is yet to sign a contract with Blas-
ters, sources close to the development
confirmed that both parties have completed
negotiations and Pearce joining the Sachin
Tendulkar co-owned club now remains a
mere formality.
Meanwhile, it is learnt that Coppell himself is
closing in on finalising a deal with ISLs new
franchise owned by the Tata Group.
FC Pune City sign Uruguay
striker Emiliano Alfaro
Pune: FC Pune City have made their first
foreign signing with Uruguays Emiliano
Alfaro for the 2017 edition of the Indian
Super League. The South American striker,
who had plied his trade in Uruguay, Italy
and UAE, had also represented NorthEast
United FC last season and in his 13 appea-
rances for NEUFC scored five goals. An-
nouncing the signing, FC Pune City CEO
Gaurav Modwel sounded upbeat with
Alfaros addition to his side. Alfaro is a
forward with a penchant for finding back of
the net. He is adept to lead line of attack
for the team and his game awareness is
New contract is up to
Vettel, says Ferrari boss
Spielberg: Ferrari have told Sebasti-
an Vettel he just has to sign on the
dotted line to stay with the Formula
One glamour team
next season.
The championship
leader is out of cont-
ract at the end of the
year but Ferrari chair-
man Sergio Marchion-
ne set out his teams position at the
Austrian Grand Prix.
I made it very clear that if he
wants to stay then well just renew it.
Its up to him, Marchionne told re-
porters before Sundays race.
Vettel has delayed contract talks
to focus on the championship battle,
saying there will be plenty of time
over the summer, and any haggling is
likely to be about money and the num-
ber of years.
Aditi finishes impressive T-28
Oneida: Aditi Ashok comple-
ted yet another impressive fi-
nish with a final round of
three-under 69 to be tied 28th
at the inaugural Thornberry
Force India sees Formula One
moving to a franchise future
Force India believe Formula One
is moving in the direction of a fran-
chise future under new owners Liber-
ty Media and the Silverstone-based
team want to be ready for it.
Liberty are making very clear in-
dications of where they want to take
the sport and that could well lead to
either long-term licences or franchi-
ses, deputy principal Bob Fernley
said at the Austrian Grand Prix.
That to me is where it should be go-
ing because that then locks in the te-
ams, he added.
Formula Ones current commer-
cial agreements with teams run to
2020 and Liberty, who took over the
sport in January, are drawing up a ro-
ad map for the future without divul-
ging much detail. AGENCIES
AFP
the FedEx Cup play-offs con-
firmed he is currently 46th
and the Top-125 will begin the
series.
Rahm heads to British
Froome denies
barging into
Costa given extra time off
Tour rival Aru
London: Diego Costa has be-
en permitted by Premier Lea-
gue champions Chelsea to
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chester United. Koeman im-
mediately made it clear that
he expected Rooney to provide
Bergerac: Race leader Chris miss the start of pre-season an offensive threat, ending
Froome has described sugges- training on Monday, fuelling suggestions that he might
tions that he deliberately bar- speculation he is set to rejoin play in midfield. Everyone
ged into rival Fabio Aru during Atletico Madrid. knows the qualities of Wayne.
agrueling Tour de France stage The 28-year-old Brazil- Were trying to get more pro-
as crazy. born Spanish international is ductivity. He can be 10 behind
Froome, who leads Aru by 18 still keen on a return to Atleti- the striker, the 9, the 7.
seconds after nine stages, said co despite them not being allo-
during Mondays first rest day wed to field new players until Diego Costa Lukaku joins Man United
that he just made a mistake. January because of a transfer for 75 million
Many race observers tho- ban. Another absentee (new Chelseas title-winning cam- Manchester: Romelu Luka-
ught the British rider might ha- signing Antonio Rudiger was paign. ku joined Manchester United
ve barged into Aru in retalia- also absent) was Diego Costa, from Everton for 75 million
tion after the Italian champion after it was agreed with the Rooney to play as striker for on Monday after the striker re-
appeared to launch an attack club that he should have an ex- Everton: Koeman jected a late bid by former club
when Froome had a mechani- tra few days off, read a state- London: Wayne Rooney will Chelsea. The 24-year-old Bel-
cal problem on the Mont du ment on the club website. play as a striker for Everton, gian signed a five-year deal
Chat climb. It was clear to me I Costa enjoyed a fractious his manager Ronald Koeman and became the second most
had to change bikes straight relationship with Chelsea ma- said on Monday when the 31- expensive player in United's
away and it appeared that Fabio nager Antonio Conte last sea- year-old was officially unvei- history after close friend Paul
Aru accelerated at that mo- son despite scoring 20 goals in led after returning to his first Pogba, who joined last offsea-
ment, Froome said. AP 35 league appearances in club following 13 years at Man- son for $116 million. AGENCIES
Prannoy keen to make
a mark in Canada Open
We hope to create
more interest in TT
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Hyderabad: HS Prannoy, who is keen to ma- Vita Dani fray, players ranked below 50
ke a mark, leads the Indian challenge at the in the world and best of the In-

something that we were very impressed
with. I wish him all the best for his new
stint and welcome him to FC Pune City,
Modwel said.
India women lose to USA in HWL
Johannesburg: A dominant USA beat India
4-1 in their second Pool B match here at the
Women's Hockey World League Semi Final
on Monday. There was plenty of action in the
first quarter with USA keeping Indias goalke-
eper Savita busy at the post.
Harikrishna holds onto second
position in Geneva
Geneva: Grand Master Pentala Harikrishna
played out a draw with table topper Teimour
Radjabov in a fourth round encounter to
remain in second position at the the Geneva
FIDE Grand Prix, here. TNN/AGENCIES
Creek LPGA Classic.
The 19-year-old Indian ro-
okie ended at 11-under 277,
her third straight finish bet-
ween 25th and 30th places.
Aditi played out rounds of 70-
68-70-69.
She has now made eight
cuts in 10 starts, including
two Majors, and is all set for
the US Open next.
Meanwhile, after a 2-un-
der-par 70, Australian Kathe-
rine Kirk put the finishing to-
uches on her third LPGA To-
ur victory.
Lahiri to return to European
Tour with Scottish Open
Troon: Anirban Lahiri, who
celebrated his 30th birthday
barely a fortnight ago, is exci-
Aditi Ashok
ted about returning to the Eu-
ropean Tour after a fairly ex-
tended stretch away from it.
Lahiri will tee up at the
Scottish Open on Thursday in
his first appearance on the
European Tour since his ho-
me event at the Hero Indian
Open in March.
Lahiri has been following
a fairly regulated schedule
with the knowledge that the
second half of the year will
be packed. With his place in
Open inspired by Seve
Portstewart: Spanish sensa-
tion Jon Rahm brilliantly
emulated legendary fellow
countrymen Seve Ballesteros
in capturing the Irish Open
and now he is seeking to do
the same at next weeks Bri-
tish Open.
Rahm has moved to No. 8
in the world rankings follo-
wing his dramatic six stroke
success at Portstewart on
Sunday.
The 22-year-old powerho-
use, in only his first full sea-
son on both the European and
PGA Tours, is now just three
places being fellow Spaniard
and reigning Masters Cham-
pion, Sergio Garcia. AGENCIES
Canada Open Grand Prix which begins in Ca-
lagry on Tuesday.
The world No. 23, who gave a good account
of himself with sensational performances in
Indonesia last month, is a strong favourite for
the Canada tournament. The second seed
will begin against little-known Mexican Job
Castillo in the first round. The Kerala shutt-
ler, who trains at the Pullela Gopichand Aca-
demy, may get a chance to avenge his Indone-
sia semifinal loss as he is likely to face Kazu-
masa Sakai in the quarterfinals.
The draw, however, is not an easy one as
there are some Japanese and Koreans lur-
king on his path. Prannoy wants to focus on
the initial rounds and take it match by match.
"This time the Canada Open draw looks very
tough as there are some Japanese and other
good players unlike last time. I am just focus-
sing on the initial rounds," says Prannoy, ad-
ding that the matches will be very competiti-
ve from the quarterfinals stage.
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