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Khunti and Jamshedpur,
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
on Tuesday asked people to
vote for ‘double-engine of
growth’ that comes with a BJP
government both at the State
and Centre levels. At Khunti, he
said the subsequent govern-
ments in the State have
betrayed people. The people of
Jharkhand must vote for devel-
opment this time.
Targeting key Opposition
parties Congress and JMM,
Modi said that both the parties
are desperate to come to power
in the State. “These parties
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shrinking budget of the
Navy over the years and its
impact on modernisation and
acquisitions, Navy chief
Admiral Karambir Singh said
here on Tuesday the force has
approached the Government
and “hope to get some money”
so that maritime interest of the
nation was not compromised.
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ing military prowess and
its Navy making forays into the
Indian Ocean, India has not
invited its eastern neighbour
for a mega international naval
exercise “Milan” next year.
Navy chief Admiral Karambir
Singh said here on Tuesday
that only like-minded nations
are invited for the event.
He also said the Indian
Navy recently asked a Chinese
research vessel to leave after it
was found in the Indian waters
near Port Blair, Andaman and
Nicobar Islands. “Our stand is
that if you have to work in our
Exclusive Economic Zone
(EEZ) then you have to take
our permission,” Singh said.
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believe in politics of ‘deception’
while the BJP believed in ser-
vice of people. The only reason
why both the parties are des-
ing the annual Press conference
on the eve of the Navy Day, he
said the Navy’s budget has
come down from 18 per cent of
the overall defence allocation in
2012-13 to below 13 per cent in
the current fiscal. The capital
allocation for the Navy is now
C23,156.43 crore while the IAF
got the highest amount totaling
C39,302.64 crore followed by
the Army C29,461.25 crore.
On how the Navy plans to
get over the resource crunch
given the state of economy,
The Chinese ship sailed away
from the Indian EEZ after the
Navy’s warning.
Asked if the Chinese ship
Shi Yan I was on a spying mis-
sion in the Indian Ocean
region, Singh said the Chinese
ships carry out deep sea min-
ing in certain areas and are also
engaged in research and satel-
lite launch operations. “At least
seven to eight ships are always
present in the Indian Ocean
region for anti-piracy opera-
tions,” he said, while address-
ing the annual Press confer-
ence on the eve of the Navy
Day on Wednesday.
Like India, China also is
part of the international
effort to check sea piracy in the
Gulf of Aden.
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Government on Tuesday
approved the construction of
an extension line of the Noida-
Greater Noida Metro at a cost
of C2,682 crore. The 14.95 km
extension link will run between
Noida Sector 71 and Greater
Noida Knowledge Park-V, con-
necting the twin cities, officials
of the Noida Metro Rail
Corporation (NMRC) said.
The decision in this regard
was taken at a Cabinet meeting
Adityanath. The project is
expected to be completed in the
next three years. The new rail
will connect the densely pop-
ulated areas of Gaur City and
Noida Extension to the Aqua
Line and the adjoining Blue
connects Noida with Delhi.
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plunder State’s natural wealth.
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progress but they want to take
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done keeping our requirements
and funds in mind. We will pri-
otise our requirements.”
In August also, Singh had
lamented over the reduced
allocation and said long-term
budgetary support was a must
to build naval capacities and
capabilities.
Despite resource crunch,
the first indigenously designed
and manufactured aircraft car-
rier INS Vikrant (IAC-I), now
under construction at Cochin
shipyard, will be operational by
2022, Singh said.
He also said as the Navy
chief he was convinced that
India needed at least three air-
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Senior advocate Rajeev
Dhavan, who represented
Muslim parties in the Ram
Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid
title dispute case, on Tuesday
removed from participation in
the Ayodhya case on the “non-
sensical” ground that he is
unwell. “Just been sacked from
the Babri case by AOR
(Advocate on Record) Ejaz
Maqbool who was representing
the Jamiat. Have sent formal
letter accepting the “sacking”
without demur. No longer
involved in the review or the
case,” he wrote.
“I have been informed that
Mr Madani has indicated that
I was removed from the case
because I was unwell. This is
total nonsense. He has a right
to instruct his lawyer AOR Ejaz
Maqbool to sack me which he
did on instructions. But the
reason being floated is mali-
cious and untrue,” Dhavan said
on the social networking site.
Arshad Madani is president of
the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind.
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their agenda and for this they
are spreading lies and rumours.
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craft carriers with two of them
always operational. At present,
India has only one such carri-
er, INS Vikramaditya. While
hopeful that INS Vikrant will
be operational by 2022, he
also advocated for a second
indigenously designed and
manufactured aircraft carrier.
Singh said they are prepar-
ing the case and finalising the
requirements after which they
would go to the Government
for Acceptance of Necessity
(AoN) after which design con-
sultancy would be taken up to
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D ays after Congress leader
Priyanka Gandhi suffered
a security breach at her Delhi
residence, Home Minister Amit
Shah on Tuesday said a high-
level enquiry has been ordered
into the matter and three secu-
rity men have already been
suspended.
Speaking about the inci-
dent during a debate on the
Special Protection Group
(SPG) Amendment Bill in the
Rajya Sabha, Shah said the
security breach at Priyanka
Gandhi’s residence was an
“unlikely coincidence” as the
personnel there were informed
that her brother, Rahul Gandhi,
would be visiting in a black
“Tata Safari” SUV.
Instead, a few Congress
workers from Meerut in Uttar
Pradesh came in a similar vehi-
cle and were allowed into the
house, he said.
Shah sought to clarify on
what the Congress called a
massive security breach, when
on November 25 a car with a
family drove into Priyanka
Gandhi’s home in Delhi with-
out being stopped.
The Congress walked out
of the Rajya Sabha saying it is
dissatisfied with the Home
Minister’s reply on the
amendment to the SPG Act.
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Sabha on November 27.
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that they are voting for devel-
opment”.
Amidst cheer of support-
ers, Modi further said Chief
Minister’s chair was up for
sale during Congress-JMM
rule and that even today several
of their leaders are under trial
for corruption. Till five years
ago, Jharkhand used to be in
news for political instability. In
just 15 years, the State saw 10
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Recovery (CATOBAR) and full
electric propulsion.
He also said the Defence
Research Development
Organisation (DRDO) has
offered to develop a new twin
engine deck based fighter for
the Navy based on the experi-
ence of the Naval Light Combat
Aircraft (LCA) and it should be
ready by 2026, he said.
“The Qualitative
Requirements (QR) are being
made. They said they should be
able to push it out by 2026. If
it meets our time and QR
requirements we will definite-
ly take it,” he said.
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According to the Home
Minister, Rahul was scheduled
to visit his sister Priyanka at the
time, and when a black Tata
Safari drove in no one stopped
it. “The car had Congress
worker Sharda Tyagi and three
others in it, instead of Rahul
Gandhi,” Shah said.
“So the car got in without
security checks. This kind of
coincidence never happens but
still we ordered an enquiry and
suspended three officers who
were on duty. We did not want
even a 0.001 per cent chance,”
said the Home Minister.
Shah said changes in the
SPG Act were not meant to tar-
get one family. “We are not
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chief ministers. However, BJP
has brought stability in the
State, he said.
Connecting to the tribal
voters, Modi said that it was
only after Lord Ram spent 14
years with the Adivasis (tribals)
that he went on to be known as
Maryada Purshotam Ram.
The Prime Minister said
that when it comes to taking
hard decisions, only the BJP
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45-year-old man, his wife
and another woman allegedly
jumped to their death from
the eighth floor of their build-
ing in Indirapuram after the
couple killed their teenage son
and daughter, police said
on Tuesday.
The man identified as busi-
nessman Gulshan Vasudeva,
his wife Praveen and their
manager (work partner)
Sanjana jumped to their death
in the early hours of Tuesday.
“The couple killed their
son Hritik (14) and daughter
Hritika (17) by injecting them
with poisonous substance on
Monday night. They also killed
their pet rabbit,” said Maneesh
Mishra, Ghaziabad City
Superintendent of Police (SP).
Police said Hritika was
pursuing a fashion designing
course while Hritik was study-
ing in Class IX. “The incident
took place after an altercation
between the man, his wife and
manager (working partner)
over a monetary dispute
involving more than C2 crore,”
said the SP.
“During initial investiga-
tion, it was revealed that
opposing the parivaar (family),
but parivaar-vaad (nepotism).
India’s democracy cannot run
like this. Why talk of only the
security of the Gandhi family?
The security of 130 crore
Indians, including the Gandhi
family, is the Government’s
responsibility,” he said.
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government could do it. Citing
examples of Ayodhya Ram
Mandir, Article 370 and Triple
Talak, he said that the
Government has solved major
issues at ease.
Modi said, “We all have
seen how the issue of Ram
temple in Ayodhya was solved
peacefully. When Ram came
back to Ayodhya after spend-
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have distanced himself
from the rebel BJP leader,
Saryu Roy, who is contesting
against the Chief Minister
from Jamshedpur East seat.
While addressing a gathering
of more than 25,000 people at
Gopal Maidan, Modi said:
“There should be no confu-
sion. Modi is with Lotus sym-
Sanjana lived with the couple
and a possibility of a quarrel
over an extramarital affair can-
not be ruled out. Though ini-
tial probe suggest that Sanjana
was second wife of Gulshan but
their family members denied
it,” said a senior police official.
“Police has recovered a
suicide note. They also found
a few lines written on the walls
by the children. The family has
held Rakesh Verma, brother-
in-law, responsible for the
extreme step. The family had
also pasted C500 notes on the
wall and wrote that they all
should be cremated together.
The room has been sealed for
forensic examination. The man,
his wife and the other woman
were admitted to hospital
where they were declared
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tion given by Chief Minister
Uddhav Thackeray two days
ago, senior NCP Minister
Jayant Patil said here on
Tuesday that the Maha Vikas
Aghadi (MVA) Government
was examining the need to put
on hold some mega projects,
including the Mumbai-
Ahmedabad Bullet train pro-
ject, in view of the staggering
C6.71 lakh crore debt burden
on the State exchequer.
Talking to mediapersons
ahead of a meeting called by the
Chief Minister to review the
viability of go-ahead with mega
infrastructure projects, Patil,
who is tipped to be the Finance
Minister in the MVA
Government, said, “I have had
a cursory look at the State’s
finances. I see the State
Government has debt of C4.71
crore. In addition, the State
Government has an obligation
to clear loans amounting to C2
lakh taken by it to execute var-
ious infrastructure projects”.
“We will have to see as to
what will be the viability of var-
ious projects taken up by the
State Government and what
kind of responsibility that the
State Government will take to
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Maryada Purshotam. This was
because the tribals taught them
culture. Lord Ram left Ayodhya
as a prince but returned as
‘Maryada Purushottam’ as he
spent time with Adivasis”
He accused the Congress of
delaying resolution of the
Kashmir problem and said that
Continued on Page 4
bol only. Where there is Lotus
there is Modi". His party
comes first for him.
Though supporters of Roy
have been claiming blessings
of Modi, the Prime Minister
made it clear that Lotus is his
identity. Prime Minister also
associated himself with the
founder of Jamshedpur steel
plant and said Jamsetji Tata
was from Navsari in Gujarat
and he was also a Gujarati.
brought dead,” said the SP.
Police said Gulshan faced
financial problems as Rakesh,
a resident of Shalimar Garden
in Sahibabad, had taken C2
crore from him to invest in real
estate but failed to hand over
the property.
Police said whenever
Gulshan asked him for the
money, he would give cheques
to him which would bounce.
Gulshan had also lodged
an FIR in 2015 against Rakesh
at Sahibabad Police Station
after which he along with his
mother were jailed, said the SP.
“The prime suspect,
Rakesh, is absconding. Police
teams have been formed to
trace the suspect,” said the
police officer.
Continued on Page 4
repay loans taken for the new
projects. Later, today, we will be
reviewing the whole thing. We
would like to ascertain the
stages of implementation of
various projects, whether
investments have been made
properly and if loans could be
obtained at lower rate of inter-
ests,” Patil said.
“Some big projects are
needed in the larger interests of
Maharashtra. On the other
hand, we are considering if we
can put on hold some projects
like Bullet train,” Patil said.
Charging that the previous
BJP-led Devendra Fadnavis
Government did not imple-
ment farm loan waiver scheme
properly, Patil said, “The farm-
ers across the State are feeling
that they were taken for a ride
by the previous Government.
We in the new Government
have gauged the sentiments of
the farmers in this regard. We
are looking at ways to extensive
relief to farmers affected by
unseasonal rain and conse-
quent floods in the State. The
previous Government had
given assurances to the farm-
ers without considering facts
and figures. That’s why we
would like to review everything
and take proper measures.”
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C hief Secretary Dr DK
Tiwari today asked officials
of the Industry Department to
move forward with such inno-
vative ideas that prove fruitful
for the common masses.
Chairing a review meeting of
the ongoing works of the
department here on Tuesday
the CS asked to keep the com-
mon man in mind while pro-
viding training of different
trends under the department.
The CS said that mere
expenditure in salar y,
allowance, office expenses,
honorarium etc. through the
work to be done for any scheme
is not enough, but that plan
should also achieve its purpose.
He said that the basic objective
and measure of achievement or
performance should be that
how many people created
sources of income from that
plan or training. How many
self-employment started? How
many people got jobs? This
should form the basis of eval-
uation of each scheme, he said.
The CS has directed that
Industry department should
keep board-corporations in the
interest of work and make them
into each other and make it ben-
eficial. He instructed the board-
corporations to assess the ben-
efits to the common people. “In
the assessment, focus on keep-
ing the income and employ-
ment of the people at the Center.
What else should be done in this
so that maximum public inter-
est can be improved? With this
purpose, decide the scale of
board-corporations,” he said
instructing employment of per-
sonnel to be based on output.
Dr Tiwari said that instead
of implementing every scheme
in every block and district, it
should be decided where it can
prove to be more profitable. Its
base area can be accessible
raw material, labour force and
market etc. He directed to pay
special attention to the plastic
park. There are a lot of employ-
ment opportunities after train-
ing in the plastic sector. Only
the training agency gets the job
done soon. He also directed to
keep a constant eye on the sin-
gle window system while
instructing to repair the infra-
structure in Adityapur indus-
trial area and also instructed to
produce silk cocoons and
weave with that yarn after
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making yarn from it. ment to new units by February
The CS asked to ensure 2020. He asked to start differ-
starting of production from 44 ent courses at Jharkhand
food processing units that have Institute of Craft and Design.
been allotted land by March On the occasion,
2020 and complete land allot- Additional Chief Secretary of
Planning cum Finance
Department KK Khandelwal
instructed to curb incidents of
fake withdrawal from banks.
He asked all departments to
close their unimportant bank
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accounts and regularly moni-
tor those accounts that being
used. He said that steps have
been taken to safeguard people
from cyber fraud, but alertness
in the matter was needed.
T he Central Government
has undertaken a number
of different schemes to encour-
age art, culture, artists and
cultural workers as well as var-
ious cultural associations across
the nation. Prahlad Singh Patel,
Minister of Culture and
Tourism, provided the infor-
mation of various such
schemes, in response to MP
Mahesh Poddar’s question in
Rajya Sabha.
The Minister informed that
the cultural ministry is work-
ing on the National Mission on
Cultural Mapping to prepare a
nationwide database on the
artists and facilities present in
the cultural ministry, other
associated ministries as well as
the cultural associations pre-
sent in the states. Currently the
data available on various artists
is being standardized and for-
matted so as to provide them
with a reliable, IT-enabled plat-
form for better exposure.
Cultural ministry has many
schemes functioning to recog-
nize future potential and pro-
vide facilities to budding artists
on a standard basis. These
schemes are working to nurture
these artists as well as provide
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hand-held support and train-
ing. All across the nation var-
ious plans; through scholar-
ships, fellowships, pension and
grant/financial assistance, are
providing aid and necessary
facilities to these artists.
Financial assistance in the
form of various components
like repertory grants, monetary
aid to cultural institution of
national significance, Cultural
Function and Production
Grant (CFPG), financial assis-
tance in for the preservation
and development of Cultural
Heritage of the Himalayas and
the development of
Buddhist/Tibetan Arts and cul-
ture, is being provided through
the various schemes.
Schemes for Financial
assistance for creation of
Cultural Infrastructure include
monetar y assistance for
Building Grants including
Studio Theatres, assistance for
allied cultural activities as well
as financial assistance for
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cum- Deputy
Commissioner Bokaro has can-
celled 132 arms’ licences since
their holders failed to surren-
der their weapons before high-
er officials in view of the
Assembly poll.
Despite the repeated direc-
tives and explanation letters
issued to such arms’ licence
holders stating to submit
appropriate reply within next
24 hours, they failed to do so
and now their licences have
been cancelled, said Mukesh
Kumar, DC Bokaro.
Following the announce-
ment of Assembly polls and
with the imposition of Model
Code of Conduct, the district
administration Bokaro asked
the licensed weapon holders to
deposit their arms and ammu-
nition anyhow by 18
November, said an official.
Earlier during the last Lok
Sabha election which was held
in May month this year over
500 licensed weapons holders
were also not submitted their
weapons before the police of
authorities, he said.
The model code of conduct
mandates arms license holders
to deposit their weapons at the
police station.
Kumar said, we are ready
to conduct fair poll keeping a
‘vulnerable’ booths across the
constituencies.
Out of 588, a total of 506
polling stations will be web-
casted under Bokaro assembly
constituency while 75 centers
of Chandankiyari (SC) assem-
bly constituency would be web-
casted. Election Commission
directly monitors the electoral
process through webcasting
and thus there is no need to
deploy additional security
forces there, said an official.
"At least 73 polling stations
including 60 polling stations in
Bokaro and 13 polling stations of
Chandankiyari assembly con-
stituency would be converted
into model polling station. A total
of 7,67,560 voters in a total of 855
polling stations, including 73
model polling stations in both of
the above assembly constituen-
cies, will cast their right and elect
their representatives," added the
official.
Besides Webcasting,
Videography and Still photog-
raphy two choppers will keep a
close watch on free and fair poll
even in the difficult terrain of
ed in getting together the sup-
porters of BJP candidate Alok
Chaurasia and Congress can-
didate KN Tripathi at the police
station where the two camps
had too many allegations
against each other but finally
resolved to sink their distrust
for each other.
Under order of the SP
Palamu, Ajay Linda, this meet-
ing was convened by Officer In
Charge of the Chainpur police
station Sunit Kumar which
was presided over by SDPO
sadar Sandip Kumar Gupta.
Gupta asked both the sides
to let their pent up feelings out
as this will later purge them of
malice and distrust against
each other.
A few started leveling accu-
sations against each other but
many elderly there were in
favour of burying the hatchet
once for all saying, “Whatever
happened on November 30 at
the Kusiyara booth where
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one loves to keep it for long.”
Gupta reminded the two
sides that keeping hostility
against each other will not
benefit any of the two camps
and this police officer remind-
ed that when East Germany
and West Germany can unite to
become one why not the vil-
lages in support of Chourasia
and Tripathi join hands togeth-
er for peace and amity. Many
there nodded in affirmation.
OC Sunit Kumar had invit-
ed around 72 people from vil-
lages Kusiyara, Narsighpoor
Pathra, Katuwal Khurd,
Majhigawan, Lidhkee,
Purabdeeha and Koluhawa.
Police reacted too swift
following interception of a few
WhatsApp messages and face-
book write ups, which were
found to be most intimidating
to the Chaurasias and in retal-
iation of it the Chaurasias were
equally getting red over all
these developments.
Sources said there is sec-
ond round strain and effort for
police when votes will be
counted here on December 23
as on that day tension is bound
to erupt if victory margin is too
narrow.
SDPO Gupta was asked in
the meeting if there would
come any legal relief to persons
named accused in the FIRs
lodged in this Tripathi episode,
to which he said, “Let law
work on its own. There cannot
be any pressure on this count.”
Linda said he has asked his
officials and QRT (quick
response team) to keep strict
vigil on both the camps and if
need be put behind the bars
those who try to outsmart law
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the constituency.
"A total of 690 non-bailable
warrants have been successful-
ly executed in the district and

over 200 people have been pros-
ecuted under section 107," said
P Murugun Superintendent of
Police Bokaro. Around 60 peo-
ple have also been bound down
while taking action under 107;
all these actions have been
taken to conduct the elections in
a clean environment in a peace-
ful manner," added SP.
Adequate number of secu-
rity forces have been deployed
across the district, anti-Naxal
operations and flag marches
especially in Naxal affected
areas were intensified. A elab-
orated plan has also been pre-
pared to deal with any emer-
gency or accidental medical
disaster, said SP.
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T he court of Chief Judicial
Magistrate Amit Kumar
Vaishya has taken cognisance
against the then Garhwa SP
Mohamad Arshi, ASI Munna
Singh and bodyguard Gorelal
Kuar, in a complaint petition filed
by advocate Ashish Dubey. After
perusal of statements of Ashish
Dubey and six others witnesses,
the court has taken cognisance of
offences under sections 323,
325/379/504 and 506/34 of the
IPC against the SP, his body-
guard and ASI in the complaint
case 836/2018 filed in the CJM
court here.
Complainant, Ashish Dubey,
has alleged in his petition that one
dozen policemen including body-
guard of SP Gorelal Kuar, ASI
Munna Singh, ASI Ram Badan
Singh, Bondo Soren constable,
officer in-charge Lakshmi Kant
Pandey, Ramlakhan Ram, Arbind
Paswan, Navnit Kumar Singh,
Bablu Prasad, Brajesh Prasad
Yadav, had thrashed him after
instigation of SP Arshi. Due to
assault, he got serious injuries.
Later, accused persons lodged
him in police lock up without food
and water whole night. He was
released on PR bond in the next
morning. He was treated at Sadar
Hospital, Garhwa and later
referred to RIMS, Ranchi for bet-
ter treatment.
After hearing the plea of the
complainant’s advocate, Bhrigu
Nath Chaubey, the court took cog-
nisance against the SP, his body-
guard and ASI Munna Singh and
issued notice to them to be present
in the court on December 16. So
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which is being witnessed for the
past few days is unlikely to create any
SD Kotal, Director MET Centre-
Ranchi.
During the first week of December,
perature in Ranchi was recorded at 13.4
degree Celsius which is 2.8 degrees
above normal.
inconvenience for the residents of the the weather conditions will continue to The minimum temperature in
State capital, as the temperature is remain dry with a clear sky and Jamshedpur and Daltonganj was at 14.4
likely to remain constant for the com- absolutely no chances of any rainfall. and 15.5 degree Celsius which is 2.6 and
ing three days across the State. “There is a strong wind factor 5.4 degree Celsius above normal respec-
According to the MET Observatory prevalent over the region. This is pri- tively. Bokaro and Chaibasa were at 14.1
Centre, Ranchi there are not many marily due to the cold air blowing in and 13 degree Celsius which is 0.5 and
chances of the temperature further from the north- west. In the early morn- 0.6 degrees above normal.
falling in the first week of December. ing hours, residents will witness slight From December 4 to December 7,
“From December 4 to December 6, mist and shallow fog,” added the the maximum temperature in Ranchi
no significant change in the tempera- Director. and its surrounding areas will remain
ture will be experienced and it is like- As per the weather bulletin released at 25 degree Celsius. The minimum
ly to remain near normal. It is also being by the Meteorological Centre, Ranchi temperature around this time will be
predicted that from December 6 on December 3, the minimum tem- around 11 to 12 degree Celsius.
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Sthattate BJP spokesperson Pratul
Shahdeo on Tuesday said
Babulal Marandi is misin-
forming people. “There is no
death due to hunger in the State.
Now, he wants to sensationalise
the issue by connecting death
due to illness to starvation,
which is sad. It does not suit on
Babulal ji to do politics by mak-
ing false statements on the
issue of death. Perhaps, he for-
got his track record when he
was the Chief Minister he burnt
the entire State in the fire of
Domicile, which killed dozens
of people. There was unrest
throughout the State and there
was an atmosphere of chaos in
the State. Jharkhand had gone
back many years due to the
Domicile fire. Investors had
opted out of Jharkhand. Babulal
Marandi is a rejected leader
who has lost four Lok Sabha
and Assembly elections. Pratul
said that by defeating both the
by-elections this time, Babulal
Marandi will become the first
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T he Congress party on
Tuesday said Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) has no right
to claim that the menace of Left
Wing Extremism (LWE) has
reduced in Jharkhand under
their regime as the number of
affected districts has increased
from four to 19 in 16 years of
BJP rule here.
Reacting to Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s rally in
Khunti, Congress party’s
Executive President Rajesh
Thakur on Tuesday said, “The
Prime Minister has disap-
pointed all those people of
Jharkhand who were waiting
for his speech with baited
breath. He addressed a rally in
Khunti but did not say any-
thing about the future of all the
villagers accused of sedition by
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each other in a political
battle, are set to make contests
interesting in many con-
stituencies during the ongoing
Assembly elections in
Jharkhand. Siblings, spouses
and even sisters-in-law have
confirmed their candidature
against each other in at least
three crucial Assembly seg-
ments here. Some of these
candidates have turned age-old
family feud into a political
rivalry, while some continue to
maintain a healthy relationship
with their relatives despite con-
trary political beliefs.
Jharia is likely to witness
the most interesting, and by far
the most dramatic contest
between relatives this year.
Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP)
candidate Ragini Singh, wife of
ex-MLA Sanjeev Singh, is set to
take on Congress candidate
Purnima Niraj Singh, widow of
Sanjeev’s cousin and former
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person to hold the post of
Chief Minister losing half a
dozen elections and will get his
name in the Guinness Book of
Records,” said Shahdeo.
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the Government.”
Thakur accused the
Government of making tall
promises and claims, but failing
to deliver on the ground. “BJP
leaders have no right to talk
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Dhanbad Mayor Niraj Singh
here. The story behind this
political battle can give a run for
their money to some of the best
Bollywood script writers.
Sanjeev is in judicial custody on
charges of murdering his cousin
Niraj. The latter’s body was rid-
dled with bullets in an infamous
incident that drew an uncanny
resemblance with scenes from
popular Bollywood flick ‘Gangs
of Wasseypur’ — based on real
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T he poll battle in Tamar is
going to witness interesting
contest as all three prominent
candidates who are in electoral
fray are related to each other in
a very peculiar way. Vikas
Singh Munda, the sitting MLA
and son of late Ramesh Singh
Munda, is contesting the elec-
tion on Jharkhand Mukti
Morcha ticket. Contesting
against Vikas is Kundan Pahan,
jailed CPI (Maoist) zonal com-
mander and murder accused of
Ramesh Singh Munda. The
National Investigation Agency
(NIA) in its investigation has
found the involvement of Pahan
in murder of Ramesh Singh
Munda. Pahan is contesting
election as an independent can-
didate.
The third candidate in
Tamar electoral battle is former
Minister Gopal Krishan Patar
alias Raja Peter, who is also fac-
ing charges in connection with
Ramesh Singh Munda’s murder
case and is accused of helping
Pahan in killing Munda.
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about Left Wing Extremism.
Only four districts were LWE-
affected at the time of bifurca-
tion of Bihar and Jharkhand.
And the number of affected dis-
tricts has gone up to 19 in 16
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life events in parts of Dhanbad
and Jharia.
While the BJP fielded
Ragini as Sanjeev Singh is
under trial for his cousin’s
murder, the Congress party was
quick to field Niraj’s widow
Purnima Niraj Singh to cash in
on sympathy votes here, say
political experts. Locals say
that the family feud between
the Singh brothers has trans-
formed into a political rivalry,
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The reserved constituency
for STs, which comes under
Ranchi district and Khunti par-
liamentary constituency, has
remained hotbed of LWE
members. The region despite
bestowed with full of nature
beauties has remained one of
the economic backward regions
of the State. The economic
backwardness of the region has
given scope to various LWE
splinters groups operating in
the region.
Sources said that all three
candidates have influence at dif-
ferent pockets of the area.
Sitting MLA Vikas Singh
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years of BJP rule,” he said.
The BJP Government here
claims to have pushed the LWE
groups on back foot in the past
five years. The latest report of
the Ministry of Home Affairs
(MHA) also backs the claim of
the Government. The MHA
report says that LWE incidents
have reduced from 501 in 2010
to 205 in 2018. However,
Jharkhand has witnessed at
least two LWE incidents since
the announcement of elections
here on November 1.
Thakur on Tuesday accused
the BJP Government of sup-
pressing the voice of the rural
populace on gunpoint and
counting it as an achievement.
“The BJP used muscle power to
suppress protests. It has charged
villagers of sedition. We need a
reply from the Government on
its plans for the people charged
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with one half of the family sup-
porting the Congress party
and the other half sticking to
the BJP. With Niraj Singh’s
murder, the bad-blood has fur-
ther increased and so has the
intensity of campaigning for
the elections.
Age-old family feuds have
led to political contests in
many parts of the country in
the past. However, husband
and wife turning political rivals
Munda in 2014 won the seat on
AJSU party ticket, but later due
to differences with AJSU party
Chief Sudesh Mahto he started
parting ways from AJSU chief.
Months before the 2019,
Assembly election his differ-
ences with AJSU party chief
started widening and later he
joined the JMM.
Former JDU MLA from
Tamar, Ramesh Singh Munda in
2008 was addressing a function
at SS High School, Bundu when
he was killed. JDU leader Gopal
Krishan Patar alias Raja Peter
hogged limelight in State polit-
ical circles after he defeated
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A ll eyes are set on the election
campaigning
Jamshedpur East constituency
in
where CM Raghubar Das and
his estranged former minister
Saryu Roy are pitted against
each other. The fight is becom-
ing interesting as the polling day
is coming closer.
While Roy is campaigning
at Chhayanagar, Bhuiyandih
and Babudih besides reaching
out to the voters at smaller
pocket like Jamshedpur Bar
Association, Das held a padya-
tra at Baghbera and Karandih.
Supported by his men, the
Chief Minister on Tuesday first
paid homage to Khudiram Bose
on his birth anniversary at
Mango Chowk. Das is on cam-
paigning spree in his own con-
stituency. He has been camping
in the city since the past four
days.
During Raghubar’s absence
because of his campaigning
schedule for BJP candidates in
other constituencies throughout
Jharkhand, his son, Lalit Das
took charge and never let the
with sedition,” he said.
The All India National
Congress also released its fifth
list of star campaigners on
Tuesday. The list includes party
bigwigs, including Congress
President Sonia Gandhi, for-
mer party president Rahul
Gandhi, former Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh and General
Secretary Priyanka Gandhi
Vadra.
Rahul Gandhi addressed a
rally in Simdega on Monday –
his first in Jharkhand since the
2019 General Elections. Rahul
is the only member of the
Gandhi family to have
addressed a rally in Jharkhand
during the ongoing polls.
While Priyanka Gandhi’s name
went missing from the first list
of star campaigners here, Sonia
Gandhi is yet to pay a visit to
Jharkhand this election season.
is still not a common scene in
the country. In Jharkhand’s
Bhawanthpur, a married cou-
ple has decided to contest elec-
tions against each other.
Manish Kumar and Priyanka
Devi, legally wedded to each
other, are set to contest from
the Bhawanathpur constituen-
cy as independent candidates.
It is brother versus broth-
er in Mandu, where the BJP has
fielded Jai Prakash Bhai Patel
and its arch rival Jharkhand
Mukti Morcha (JMM) has
given a ticket to Ram Prakash
Bhai Patel. Jai Prakash and
Ram Prakash are siblings. They
live in the same house, but
campaign for different parties.
Earlier, both the Patel brothers
were active members of the
JMM and Jai Prakash Patel was
the sitting JMM legislator in
Mandu. However, JMM sus-
pended him for six years on
charges of supporting the BJP
and gave his younger sibling
Ram Prakash Patel a ticket
from Mandu.
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JMM supremo Shibu Soren in
2009 bye-election after the death
of Ramesh Singh Munda.
Everything was going fine, but
in 2014 when JDU denied tick-
et to Vikas Singh Munda he con-
tested the election as AJSU can-
didate and even won the seat.
Due to State police’s strict
action against LWE members
operating in area, banned Naxal
group zonal commander
Kundan Pahan facing over 100
cases including that of murder
of senior police officers and car-
rying a reward of C15 lakh on
his head had surrendered
before the police in 2017. The
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mood.
The mood in the BJP camp
and among voters of his con-
stituency is on a high. The
political air may be blowing in
Raghubar Das’ favour if the
observations of political pundits
are taken as a case in point.
Das had won the 2014
assembly polls from
Jamshedpur East with a margin
of 70,157 against nearest
Congress rival Anand Bihari
Dubey. Before leaving for nom-
ination, Das performed prayed
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S enior BJP leader and party’s
national spokesperson
Shahnawaz Hussain on
Tuesday slammed the All India
Muslim Personal Law Board
and the Jamait-Ulema-e-Hind
for their decision to seek a
review of the Ayodhya verdict.
The BJP leader claimed that
the two Muslim bodies have
decided to file review petition
on the instructions and direc-
tion of All India Majlis-e-
Ittehadul Muslimeen Chief
Asaduddin Owaisi.
The BJP leader claimed
that before the Ayodhya ver-
dict Muslim ulema and Hindu
saints had stated that they
will abide by the court verdict,
but the Muslim bodies, who
are not the representing entire
Muslim communities are try-
ing to create an atmosphere of
communal tension.
Slamming the Congress
party, Hussain said, “While the
Congress party created the
Ayodhya issue, BJP resolved
the issue.” Appreciating the
effort of NDA Government, he
said that the credit for main-
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NIA later found the involve-
ment of Pahan in murder of
Ramesh Singh Munda.
Sources said that in due
course of investigation name of
former MLA from Tamar
Gopal Krishna Patar alias Raja
Peter also came to fore. On
October 2017, the NIA arrest-
ed Peter in connection with the
murder of rival MLA Ramesh
Munda. It was alleged that Raja
Peter had paid C4 crore to
Naxalites to eliminate Ramesh
Singh Munda.
The area despite full of nat-
ural beauties with several water-
falls falling in the region has
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at Shitala Mandir.
Apart from Roy, the Chief
Minister is being challenged by
Congress Party’s national
spokesperson and XLRI
Jamshedpur Professor Gourav
Vallabh and JVM’s central sec-
retary Abhay Singh.
During over one and half
hour drive Raghubar Das along
with party activists also inter-
acted with common people. “I
am here to spread party’s vision
of growth and progress,” said
Das. He also asked party work-
taining law and order in coun-
try after the Ayodhya verdict
goes to Prime Minister as no
parts of nation witnessed any
communal flare up.”
For Muslims the impor-
tant issue is not just "Babri
(mosque) but barabri (equal-
ity)" in the areas of education
and economic and social
upliftment, he said.
The BJP leader also said
that National Register of
Citizens (NRC) will be imple-
mented in country and those
illegal migrants will be driven
out from the country. Hussain
said, “The illegal migrants are
those Muslim who have no
restriction of practicing their
religion are entering India
mainly from Bangladesh,
Pakistan and other countries.”
However, Hussain said that
minority such as Hindus,
Sikhs, Christians, Jains and
other communities entering
India due to restriction in
their religion are not treated as
illegal migrants.
Appreciating the work car-
ried out by Chief Minister
Raghubar Das government in
Jharkhand, Hussain said,
"
remained economically back-
ward. Karthik Oroan, a resident
of Bundu Bazar said, “The area
has many scenic sites such as
Dasham waterfall, Deori Temple
in Tamar where cricketer
Mahendra Singh Dhoni occa-
sionally visits among others. But
the region has remained eco-
nomically backward as none of
the Governments has tried to
improve the economic condi-
tions of people.”
Echoing the views of Oroan,
another student Sukhdev Sahu
said, “The main reason behind
Tamar remaining backward than
other areas in State capital is var-
ious LWE splinters group oper-
ating in the area.”
Tamar Assembly seat,
which comes under Ranchi
district and under Khunti par-
liamentary seat has 2,06,322
voters out of which 10,3,868 are
male voters and female 1,02,454
voters. The millennial voters,
who are in age group of 18 to
19 years, are numbered 4,336.
The Assembly seat along with
19 other constituencies is going
to poll in second phase of poll
scheduled on December 7.
ers to increase party’s reach and
message to every corner.
“In last five years we have
given growth oriented gover-
nance. We are committed to
provide houses for those with-
out shelter under PMAY
schemes. We are also commit-
ted to provide basic infrastruc-
ture in each of the urban slums
like proper lights, road, drink-
ing water, drains and sewage
facilities. Work has already
started with Jusco agreeing to
provide electricity and waters. I
would like to encourage women
to form Sakhi Mandals and
obtain benefit of state govern-
ment schemes to improve their
financial condition,’ said Das.
He reiterated that the
Government is dedicated
towards development of State
with special focus on rural
areas. He said that the people
will reap the benefits of the sev-
eral welfare schemes is his
Government’s priority. He also
motivated the workers to ensure
victory. He deliberated minute-
ly on issues pertaining to the
strengthening of the booth
committees.
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“Jharkhand is few states in
country which has successful-
ly implemented the centre
schemes and the credit for its
goes to Chief Minister
Raghubar Das.” The BJP leader
on the occasion also high-
lighted the work carried out by
Raghubar Das government in
State such as provision of dou-
ble cylinder to beneficiaries of
Ujjwala Scheme, registry of
properties at token C1 upto
C50 lakh for women among
others.
On the issue of economic
slowdown and rising prices of
onion, the BJP leader said
that the escalating onion prices
is temporary and it will be
checked soon. On the issue of
issue of India's annual growth
in gross domestic product or
GDP fell to 4.5 per cent for the
quarter ended September 30,
down from 5 per cent in the
previous three months, the
BJP leader said that it is more
due to global recession. He
claimed that Country’s GDP is
still highest in G20 countries
and the Indian Government
has initiated measures to check
the GDP downfall.
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landed on the lunar surface on
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was expected to soft land on
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until Indian amateur space sci-
entist Shanmuga Subramanian
located it
by scouring through the images
from the ISRO’s Moon orbiting
spacecraft.
Thirty-three-year-old
Subramanian’s effort in locating
the site of the debris was
acknowledged by NASA.
Madurai-born mechanical
engineer and app developer,
Subramanian, tweeted,
“NASA has credited me for
finding Vikram Lander on
Moon’s surface.”
Subramanian, who works as
an IT engineer in a Chennai
company, said he spent hours
going through the images taken
by NASA’s Moon orbiting Lunar
Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO),
monitoring them on two com-
puters in his “lab”.
Subramanian, who has also
keen interest in weather moni-
toring, said he spent four to six
hours a day over the last couple
of month closely analysing the
images.
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sure where to look, later I found
the intended landing site of
Vikram Lander and started
looking in the
adjacent squares for differences,”
he said.
The data and information
he had collected from multiple
sources that the crash landing
must have happened to the
north of the intended landing
site came handy for his probe.
This led him to further narrow
down the area of search and ulti-
mately pinpoint the
spot where the debris from
Vikram fell down.
The images were of rough-
ly 1.5 GB size and had a resolu-
tion of 1.25 square metre per
pixel. There were vertical and
horizontal lines with each square
marking an area of one square
kilometre.
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the exact spot where the lander
ended up after getting out of
control and identified the debris
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in the two pictures provided by
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land and the other after it got
disintegrated and fell on the
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taken by its Lunar
Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
that flew over the area where
Vikram was expected to make its
landing. “LRO flew over the area
on September 17 and NASA
released the images through a
blog on September 29,” said
Subramanian.
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of the service rendered by
Subramanian tweeted on
Tuesday morning about his con-
tribution. “The Lunar
Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
team released the first mosaic
(acquired Sept. 17) of the site on
Sept. 26 and
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Muslim parties, the All India
Muslim Personal Law Board
(AIMPLB) said it was hopeful
that the veteran lawyer will
represent the body when it
files a review petition.
In a tweet, AIMPLB
spokesman Khalid Saifullah
Rahmani said, “Rajeev Dhavan
has always been a symbol of
justice and unity. @AIM-
PLB_Official will continue its
efforts in the Supreme Court
under his esteemed leader-
ship.”
The AIMPLB has asserted
that 99 per cent of Muslims in
the country want a review of
the Ayodhya verdict.
In another tweet, Maulana
Umrain, an office bearer of the
Board said, “We are indebted
to the senior advocate Mr
Rajeev Dhavan for his sincere
exceptional and incomparable
effort in the #babrimasjid-
case. We hope that he would
represent us again when the
“I am committed to the
cause and to the Muslim par-
ties but making such a state-
ment is completely wrong,” he
added.
In a separate December 2
letter addressed to Maqbool,
the AOR in the review peti-
tion, Dhavan narrated the
sequence of events related to
drafting of the review plea in
the case.
“As promised, I am
responding to your call at
10.14 AM today when I was at
the doctors, informing me
that I have been sacked from
further involvement in the
Babri case on behalf of your
client. We were in agreement
that the correct term was
‘sacked’ and you explained
you had no choice in the mat-
ter. With humility and respect
and the norms of my profes-
sion, I accept the sacking
without demur,” Dhavan said
in his letter.
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From Page 1
It may be recalled that
Uddhav had said on Sunday
that he had asked updates on
various ongoing major pro-
jects, including cost estimates,
hurdles and deadlines. “Once
we have the status report with
us, we will decide on what
needs to be done on priority.
We will also look at whether
some projects are needed at
this juncture. We will not act
in a vindictive manner. But, we
will definitely review projects
like bullet train,” the Chief
Minister had said.
The MVA Government
has announced that it would
table a White Paper on the
State’s economy during the
Winter Session of the State
Legislature beginning at
Nagpur on December 16.
A brainchild of Prime
Minister Narendra Modi, the
Bullet Train project is being
executed at a cost of around
Rs.1.10 lakh-crore, of which 81
per cent is to be funded
through on a 50-year soft loan
of 0.1 percent by the Japan
International Cooperation
Agency (JICA).
The Nationalist High
Speed Rail Corporation
(NHSRC) is the executing
agency for the project.
Maharashtra and Gujarat will
contribute fund Rs.5,000 crore
each as equity for the project,
while the Centre will pitch in
Rs.10,000 crore for the project.
Currently, the bullet train
project is in the land acquisi-
tion stage, with opposition in
parts of Palghar in the State,
with the project slated to be
completed by 2023.
Responding to what he
called “baseless” and “false”
made by the fellow BJP leader
from Karnataka that he had
returned Rs 40,000 crore to the
Centre, former Chief Minister
Devendra Fadnavis had said,
“We have not retuned even
naya paisa to the Centre. In
fact, the State Government
has not received even on naya
paisa from the Centre”.
“For implementing the
Bullet Train project, a Central
Government-run company
has been set up. Whatever
money that the Centre releas-
es for the project will go
directly to this company,”
Fadnavis had said.
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party politics" on it. However,

H ome Minister Amit Shah

on Tuesday rejected the
Opposition’s charge of political
vendetta in the amendments in
SPG Bill. The Rajya Sabha
passed the Bill to amend the
Act governing the elite-SPG
with Congress walking out of
the House saying it was dis-
satisfied with the Home
Minister's reply.
"The Gandhi family has the
same security as the Defence
Minister, Home Minister, Vice
President and President. They
have been given personnel who
have been in the SPG, Shah
said, adding, "SPG is now only
for the Prime Minister of the
country.
"If the time comes, even
(Prime Minister Narendra)
Modi-ji won't be entitled to
SPG after five years. He is
entitled only to five years of
SPG after his term ends," said
Amit Shah, defending the move
to replace the Gandhis' elite
SPG cover with Z-plus secu-
rity. Shah also pointed there
was no discussion when secu-
rity cover reviews with respect
to former Prime Ministers
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including PV Narasimha Rao,
IK Gujral, Chandra Shekhar,
HD Deve Gowda and recently
Manmohan Singh were under-
taken.
Replying to the Left's
charge of BJP acting with polit-
ical vendetta, he said 120 work-
ers of BJP and RSS have been
killed in Kerala.
The passage of the amend-
ments to the SPG Act will pave
the way for only the Prime
Minister and his "immediate
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family residing with him at his
official residence", as well as
any former Prime Minister
and members of his immediate
family "residing with him at the
residence allotted to him for a
period of five years, from the
date he ceases to hold the
office of Prime Minister" to be
given SPG cover.
Participating in the debate,
Congress MP Vivek Tankha
said ever yone wants the
Gandhi family to be protected
BJP MP Neeraj Shekhar, who
himself was a SPG protectee for
11 years, being the son for for-
mer Prime Minister Chandra
Shekhar, said there was no
need for such a cover for the
family of ex-prime ministers.
While A Navaneetha
Krishnan of AIDMK support-
ed the bill, saying a reasonable
decision has been taken by the
Centre, SP's Ram Gopal Yadav
said the definition of security
threats changes with the change
of government.
"People should not feel
that this has been done for vin-
dictive politics," said Yadav,
adding that the home minister
should "use his conscience"
before deciding on threat per-
ceptions.
Introducing the Special
Protection Group
(Amendment) Bill, 2019,
Union Minister of State for
Home G Kishan Reddy said it
was raised to protect the prime
minister and his immediate
family members only and was
later extended to relatives of the
former Prime Ministers
through amendments.
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C ongress leader Priyanka
Gandhi Vadra’s husband
Robert Vadra on Tuesday
described as a "very big" secu-
rity lapse the incident of
unidentified people driving
up to the porch of their home
last week, and alleged that the
removal of the Gandhi fami-
ly's SPG cover was a "political"
move. Congress general sec-
retary's office has taken up the
issue of the November 26
security breach with the
Central Reserve Police Force.
"Our security is not
important as much as the
security of the women in the
country. The Government
should think about it at the
national and State level. Our
security and of our children is
on second level, we have to
think about the security of
women first," Robert Vadra
told reporters.
Asked about the security
breach at their residence, he
said it was a "very big lapse",
but he would like to emphasise
more on the safety of women
in the countr y. "The
Government would know why
they took the call to remove
the SPG cover. Whatever they
do we will face it. People of the
country are with us and they
will give us security," he said.
Several senior Congress
leaders also expressed concern
over the alleged security
breach with AICC general
secretary, organisation, K C
Venugopal saying the
Government should not put
someone's life in danger for
"settling cheap political scores".
"The massive security breach
at the residence of Priyanka
Gandhi Vadra proves that with
the withdrawal of SPG pro-
tection, Modi and Shah
together have put the lives of
our leaders at risk," he said in
a tweet.
On whether there was any
response from the Home
Ministry over the security
breach at their home, Robert
Vadra answered in the negative
and said "whatever they want
to do, they do". The threat per-
ception everyone knows is
very sensitive but nobody is
looking at it, he alleged.
Earlier, in a Facebook post,
Robert Vadra claimed that
security throughout the coun-
try is compromised. "It is not
about the security for
Priyanka, my daughter and
son or me or the Gandhi fam-
ily. It's about keeping our cit-
izens especially the women of
our country, safe and secure,"
he said.
"Security throughout the
country is compromised. Girls
are being molested/raped,
What society are we creating
?" he asked, adding that the
security of every citizen is the
Government's responsibility.
"If we are not safe in our own
country, our homes, not safe
on roads, not safe in the day or
at night, where and when are
we safe," he asked.

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L ok Sabha on Tuesday wit-
nessed sparring between
BJP and Congress over
Congress Leader Adhir Ranjan
Chowdhury terming Finance
Minister Nirmala Sitaraman
as "Nirbala" a day ago.
Many BJP MPs including
Minister's demanded apology
from Chowdhur y. But
Poonam Mahajan created stir
by terming Congress MPs as
"Nirbals" who were only con-
cerned about serving Sonia
Gandhi's family affairs rather
than serving the Country's
affairs.
Rejecting BJP's demand
for apology, Chowdhury went
on citing weak economic situ-
ation and mismanagement in
controlling prices of essential
commodities.
Participating in the dis-
cussion on Taxation Laws
(Amendment) Bill,
Chowdhury had on Monday
said that the Finance Minister
has become weak and called
her 'Nirbala Sitharaman'. As
BJP members protested against
his comment, Speaker Om
Birla had ruled that any unpar-
liamentary remark would be
removed from records.
When Zero Hour started
on Tuesday, including
Parliamentary Affairs Minister
Arjun Meghwal demanded
apology from Chowdhury for
his "continuous use of deroga-
tory" words including terming
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi
and Home Minister Amit Shah
as "ghuspetiyas" (infiltrators)
from Gujarat to Delhi.
After the chaos, when
Chowdhury rose to speak on
onion prices, Mahajan referred
to a rule to slam the Congress
leader for his remarks. "Dada,
You are nirbal (weak) as you
stand for one family. You are
weak as you call the Prime
Minister an infiltrator," she
said amid noisy protests by BJP
members including women
MPs of the party.
Amidst slogan shouting,
Chowdhur y said this
Government is anti-poor and
anti-farmer as it is hardly doing
anything when the prices of
onion have crossed C100 per
kg. The Government is unable
to check prices of essential
commodities, he said, and lead
the walk out of Congress MP.
Sabha members
on Tuesday that
the Bill seeking to regulate
ship-breaking in India be dis-
cussed in detail to ensure it has
adequate measures to reduce
the impact on the environment,
saying that India should not a
dumping area of foreign ship-
ping companies. Participating
in the debate on Recycling of
Ships Bill, 2019, many MPs
demanded that the
Government ensure adequate
measures are taken to mitigate
the impact of ship-breaking on
the environment.
"Do not make India a
dumping ground," NCP mem-
ber Supriya Sule said, express-
ing apprehensions that 'Make
in India' could become 'Dump
in India.' BSP's Danish Ali
stressed that safety of workers
should not be compromised in
the name of generating
employment. He also said
'Make in India' should not
become 'Dump in India' or
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I ndia and Sweden on Tuesday
joined hands to combat air
pollution and climate change
and deliberated on various
technological solutions to
reduce industrial emissions.
India''s Principal Scientific
Advisor V K Raghavan and
officials from the Ministries of
Environment, Agriculture and
Renewable Energy discussed
these issues with the visiting
A demand to exhume and
bring back remains of
Maharajah Duleep Singh, the
last ruler of the Sikh empire,
from his grave in the English
countryside, was made in Rajya
Sabha on Tuesday.
Raising the matter through
a Zero Hour mention, Pratap
Singh Bajwa of the Congress
said the issue is close to entire
Punjab and "history should be
corrected."
Duleep Singh was born in
Lahore in 1838 to powerful
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throne of the Sikh kingdom, he
'Break in India'. Veeraswamy (DMK) said about said, adding Punjab was
RSP's NK Premachandran 3,000 ships are broken every annexed to British India after the
said that the Government year and the bulk of them in second Anglo-Sikh war in 1849.
should study environmental developing nations such as Duleep Singh was removed
implication of old ships from Bangladesh and Turkey and from the throne and separated
other countries landing in India India. A Samanta (BJD) said from his mother Maharani Jind
for recycling. Suggesting that ship-breaking is a dangerous Kaur, who was imprisoned.
the bill needs to discussed in occupation and hence should Bajwa said he was taken to
detail as it has implications on be subject to strict safety guide- England and converted to
the environment, K lines. Christianity at the age of 16 and
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lived in England under the
patronage of Queen Victoria.
After 13 years of separation
from his mother, he was reunit-
ed with her and upon learning
of the history and Sikh identi-
ty, he decided to reconvert
and gave away British pension.
In 1886, Duleep Singh set
sail for India along with his
family but fearing mutiny, the
British detained him and
placed him under hour arrest,
he said, adding his grave is in
the English countr yside
Elveden. Bajwa demanded that
the Maharajah's body be
exhumed and brought to
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T he Indian Council of
Medical Research (ICMR)
and Delhi-based All India insti-
tute of Medical Sciences
(AIIMS) are jointly working on
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Amritsar where his last rites
should be performed as per
Sikh traditions.
Dona Sen of the TMC
sought installing a portrait of
Nandalal Bose, one of the pio-
neers of modern Indian art and
a key figure of Contextual
Modernism, in the Central
Hall of Parliament
Chairman M Venkaiah
Naidu said a parliamentary
committee on installations
seems to have decided that no
more portraits will be installed
but he allowed Sen to raise the
issue because it is the birth
anniversary of Bose.
working together on a tech-
nique for postmortem without
incising/dissecting the body.
This technique is likely to
become functional in the next
six months," said the Minister.
The ICMR and AIIMS

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King of Sweden Carl XVI
Gustaf.
Gustaf spoke of the impor-
a technique for postmortem have studied global practices
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tance to work on improving the
quality of forests and acknowl-
edged that the discussion at the
roundtable made him feel pos-
?=BQ =4F34;78 The raids were conducted itive that many different stake-
on 42 premises in Delhi, holders are committed to work-
Government told the Rajya family members of the deceased
so that they emit less pollution- change are essentially two sides neutral cement by 2030. Sabha on Tuesday. feel uncomfortable with the
causing materials. The second of the same coin. Talking about waste man- India is the first country to traditional way of postmortem,
is whatever pollutants there are, Now we have a global cli- agement, Baylan said Sweden start "virtual autopsy" in the He said all records will be
we try to measure what is hap- mate accord and in most of the recycles 99 per cent of its waste south east Asian region, said digitally stored for review.
pening everywhere. Sensors countries vibrant debates are and even imports it. Union Health Minister Dr Vardhan said the virtual

T he Income Tax (IT)

Department has issued a
notice to the Congress seeking
Mumbai, Hyderabad, Erode,
Pune, Agra and Goa on a
group of people issuing bogus
ing on conservation and cli-
mate change.
"Today, we looked at solu-
are very important. Thirdly, taking place about how to
this information needs to be promote a more sustainable matic about it. Sweden used to
"You have to be very prag- Harsh Vardhan.

an explanation over the party
allegedly receiving funds to
the tune of C170 crore from a
Hyderabad-based firm as part
of its tax evasion probe in a C
3,300-crore hawala racket case,
bills and conducting hawala
transactions, the statement had
said. Raids resulted in busting
of a "major racket of cash gen-
eration" by leading corporate
houses in the infrastructure
tions for air pollution. There
are three different components
that the government is address-
ing. One is attitude change in
our industries and institutions
given to decision-making sys- development. We have to do be heavily oil-dependent earli- in many western countries, for
It is an established practice
autopsy will be cost and time
effective as it would take only
30 minutes to complete one
tems," Raghavan said. everything we can across all er but by using waste as example Switzerland. autopsy as against two-and-half
Sweden's Minister of sectors." resources, we are now import- "The All India Institute of hour in normal postmortem.
Business, Innovation and He said Sweden is working ing waste from countries like Medical Science (AIIMS), New The new technique will
Enterprise Ibrahim Baylan, towards innovation in making Italy, Great Britain and Delhi and Indian Council of facilitate and ensure that there
said, "Air pollution and climate carbon-free steel and carbon- Norway," he said. Medical Research (ICMR) are is no delay, he added.

officials said on Tuesday.
Officials said the notice
was issued to the party to take
the probe forward in the case
that came to light last month
after multiple raids, with links
to "leading corporate houses" in
the infrastructure sector, were
conducted in Delhi, Mumbai
and Hyderabad.
According to the officials,
the funds to the Congress were
sent by Hyderabad-based
Megha Infrastructure and
Engineering. Some func-
tionaries of the Congress and
an Andhra Pradesh-based
political party are also under
the scanner of the taxman in
this case, they said.
The Central Board of
Direct Taxes, which makes
policy for the Income Tax
Department, had said in a
statement in November that
raids to unearth the large tax
evasion nexus were conducted
in the first week of the month.
sector through bogus contracts
and bills, it added.
According to CBDT, funds
meant for public infrastructure
projects were siphoned off
through entry operators, lob-
byists and hawala dealers in this
case. The companies involved in
siphoning of funds were said to
be mostly located in the
National Capital Region and
Mumbai.
"The projects involved in
bogus billing are major infra-
structure and EWS (economi-
cally weaker section) projects
located in south India.
"Evidence of cash payment of
more than C150 crore to a
prominent person in Andhra
Pradesh has also been
unearthed during the search,"
the CBDT had said.
"Unexplained cash of C4.19
crore and jewellery worth in
excess of C3.2 crore was also
seized during the search oper-
ation," it had said.
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A lmost four years after India
got its first indigenously
made Rotavac vaccine to com-
bat severe diarrhoea causing
rotavirus, Vice President M
Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday
launched vaccine's newer vari-
ant, Rotavac 5D, a smaller
dosage and low cost cold chain
footprint form of its earlier oral
immunisation shot.
Globally, Rotavirus disease
burden is estimated at 200,000
deaths and about 2 million hos-
pitalizations annually, mostly in
low-income countries. While
child deaths from rotavirus
have more than halved since
2000, almost half of the deaths
each year occur in just four
countries: India, Pakistan,
Nigeria and the Democratic
Republic of Congo, according
to the WHO.
Sharing the details of the
new variant at a press confer-
ence here, Bharat Biotech
Chairman Dr Krishna Ella
said that available in a 0.5 ml
dosage, Rotavac 5D can be
stored at 2-8 degree Celsius for
up to 24 months, and can be
administered in five drops.
Rotavac 5D is also stable at
37 degree Celsius for seven
days. In contrast, the earlier
version, Rotavac is available in
2.5 ml vial per dose and has to
be stored at -20 degree Celsius,
he said.
"During clinical trials, we
realized that nearly 20 per cent
of the children were not able to
swallow an entire of 2-2.5 ml,
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es were in a quandary so as to
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whether the dose should be re-
administered or not. We
advised the nurses against
delivering double doses.
Eventually we packed the dose
in a smaller quantity," said Dr
Ella on the need to have a new
version.
A baby requires three doses
of the vaccine at sixth, tenth
and fourteenth week after birth.
In the private set-ups both
Rotavac and Rotavac 5D are
expected to cost between Rs
900-Rs 1100 per dose, ten
times higher than what is being
made available to the
Governments.
Dr Ella said that Rotavac
5D is now available for sale,
having received commercial
license in India where it plans
to tap private hospitals for
supply of the vaccines, as well
as export to countries in Africa
and Asia.
However, Rotavac 5D, will
not be part of the Indian
immunization scheme. "The
Government has said it has
enough storage at -20 degree
Celsius and does not need vac-
cines at a relatively higher tem-
perature as of now", Dr Ella
said. The company has sup-
plied over 100 million doses of
Rotavac globally since its
launch. The original Rotavac
was made part of the Indian
immunization program in 2016
after it received regulatory
approval in 2014.
The company had invested
USD 20 million for the devel-
opment of Rotavac, over and
above the USD165 million it
invested for the original ver-
sion.
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ligence in midday meal dis-
tribution, a dead rat was found
in the food served in a school
here on Tuesday, following
which an enquiry has been
ordered by the district admin-
istration.
Additional District
Magistrate Amit Kumar Singh
said that eight students and a
teacher of Janata Inter-College
in Mustafabad Panchenda vil-
lage were taken ill and sent to
hospital after the rat was found
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ordered into the incident and
strict action will be taken
against those found guilty of
negligence, Singh said.
District authorities have
ordered lodging of an FIR
against the mid-day meal sup-
plier, the official said.
The students and the
teacher complained of vomit-
ing after they saw the rat and
were taken to hospital, he said.
Last week, another case of
apathy had come to light when
a video showed that a litre of
milk was allegedly diluted with
a bucket of water so that 81
children could be served dur-
ing their midday meal at a gov-
ernment school in Sonbhadra
district of Uttar Pradesh, fol-
lowing which a teacher was
suspended.
Two months earlier a sim-
ilar shocking video had
emerged from Siyur Primary
The National Human
Rights Commission (NHRC)
had taken note of the Mirzapur
incident and sent a notice to the
Uttar Pradesh chief secretary
following which two teachers
were suspended.
According to a NHRC
statement, the commission had
also sought a detailed report
about the status of the midday
meal scheme across the state
within four weeks.
The state government had
lodged an FIR against the jour-
nalist who recorded the video
of schoolchildren being served
salt and roti in their midday
meal.
F acing the brunt of ‘strong’
retaliation by the Indian
Army, the Pakistan Army on
Tuesday targeted several civil-
ian areas along the line of con-
trol in Poonch sector in which
a 12th class student and a
woman were both killed while
seven others received
injuries.
According to ground
reports, around two dozen for-
ward Indian villages of Shahpur
and Kirni sectors were affect-
ed in the heavy mortar shelling
by the Pakistan Army. In
response, the Indian Army
gave them a befitting them were undergoing treat- Bhimber of Pakistan Occupied
reply. ment in district hospital, Kashmir.
Local villagers claimed, Poonch. Senior Superintendent of
mortar shells landed in villages Since August 2019 this Police Rajouri Yougal Manhas
which were around 10 kms
away from the line of control.
Panic stricken residents
year, around 1000 incidents of
ceasefire violations have been
reported along the line of con-
said that cognizance into the
matter under relevant sections
of law has been taken and
claimed,”We had never wit-
nessed shelling in the area
trol and International
border across Jammu &
accused
questioning.
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even at the peak of hostilities Kashmir. He, however, added that no

Srinagar: Barring the clamp-
down on internet services, nor-
malcy is slowly returning to the
Kashmir Valley almost four
months after the Centre
announced abrogation of
Article 370 of the
Constitution that gave
special status to Jammu &
Kashmir.
Shops, schools and busi-
ness establishments opened on
Tuesday morning and
markets remained open till
around 1 PM, in comparison to
a few weeks earlier when shops
would down their shutters
much before noon, officials
said.
As per the ‘new normal’,
students have started going to
schools though without wear-
ing uniforms. Schools have
asked their pupils to attend
classes in casual clothes for
security reasons.
Officials said that the situ-
ation across the Valley has
remained peaceful with no
untoward incident being
reported from anywhere.
However, there has been
no official word on the restora-
tion of internet services which
were snapped from all plat-
forms on August 5 when Union
Home Minister Amit Shah
announced the abrogation of
Article 370 and bifurcation of
the state of Jammu &
Kashmir into two Union
Territories.
Besides severely affecting
local businesses and education
of the region’s youth, the
working of journalists has been
hampered due to lack of
internet services. PTI
during 1999 Kargil war and
even during 1965-1971
wars”.
To prevent further loss of
lives, several villagers had taken
shelter inside bunkers. Tension
prevailed along the LoC even
as heavy mortar shelling was
still going on in the area till the
time of filing the report.
Deputy Commissioner of
Poonch, Rahul Yadav said, “a 12
th class student identified as
Shoaib and 35 year old Woman,
identified as Gulnaz were both
killed in mortar shelling by
Pakistan army in Bandi
Chichian area while seven oth-
ers received injuries”.
Rahul Yadav said, out of
seven injured, two seriously
injured villagers were referred
to Government Medical college
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Meanwhile, alert Army
jawans on Tuesday appre-
hended an intruder from PoK
while he was trying to sneak
inside the Indian territory in
Nowshera sector of
Rajouri.
Senior Superintendent of
Police, Rajouri, Yougal Manhas
said, “ On Tuesday afternoon
alert army troops guarding the
line of control noticed a man
who was trying to sneak inside
the Indian territory. After
nabbing him the intruder was
handed over by the army
authorities to local police for
necessary formalities.
According to police, an
intruder from Pok has been
identified as Tariq Mahmood
son of Fazal Rehman resident
of Chai Nalla village of
Samahani Tehsil in District
weapon or any such incrimi-
nating material has been recov-
ered from the intruder. On the
other hand, Northern Army
Commander, Lt-Gen Ranbir
Singh reviewed overall securi-
ty situation in the Kashmir val-
ley.
Defence Spokesman, Col
Rajesh Kalia in Srinagar said,
“Accompanied by Chinar
Corps Commander, Lt Gen
KJS Dhillon, the Army com-
mander visited the formations
and units in the hinterland in
South Kashmir on Tuesday”. He
said, Lt-Gen Ranbir Singh was
briefed by commanders on
ground regarding the opera-
tional and logistic prepared-
ness. Interacting with the
troops, Lt-Gen Singh stressed
upon the need to maintain vigil
and defeat terrorist design.

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between the Mamata
Banerjee Government and
Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar
had extraordinary fallouts with
State Assembly Speaker Biman
Banerjee on Wednesday taking
an unprecedented decision to
adjourn the House for two
days following a delay by the
Raj Bhavan in signing three
bills.
Though there was no offi-
cial statement from the
Government or the Governor’s
House on the bizarre develop-
ment inside sources said, the
inordinate delay by the
Governor in signing the bills
was an upshot of growing dif-
ferences between Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee and
the Governor who has repeat-
edly complained against the
State Ministers and even the
Chief Minister for being
incourteous to him.
The Speaker announced
that the House will remain
adjourned till December 5. He
said “the House will be
adjourned for two days. The
bills which were scheduled to
be placed won’t be tabled as
they are yet to receive the nod
of the Governor …We had sent
those bills for printing but
can’t place them in the
Assembly as they are yet to get
the nod.”
While Opposition Left and
Congress jointly questioned
the logic behind the adjourn-
ment as “there are a host of
other issues to be discussed —
from rising cases of dengue to
rising prices of eatables,” State
BJP president Dilip Ghosh said
the Governor was not a puppet
in the hands of the
Government and he was not
bound to sign all the bills
making it clear that there was
“some politics behind his not
signing the bills as is the
norm.”
While there was no state-
ment from the Governor’s
House Ghosh said “Governor
is not bound to sign every bill
sent by the Government just
because it is in majority.” He
accused the Government of
“getting passed all the bills
without it being scrutinised.”
He said “I was in the
Assembly for three years and I
saw how sometimes bills were
sent to the Governor at the last
hour so that he had no time to
go through it… Maybe this
time he is taking time to go
through the bill… this gov-
ernment runs the house in a
peculiar manner. The bill that
is discussed sometimes is not
the one that gets signed. So if
the Governor is taking time to
read it between the lines he is
not doing any wrong.”
The State has sent three
bills including SC/ST
Commission bill, sources said.
Dhankhar is at loggerheads
with the TMC Government on
a number of issues. The cold
war peaked on the Constitution
Day celebrations last week.
The Chief Minister and the
Governor who were present at
the State Assembly would not
exchange pleasantries.
Subsequently Dhankhar
accused Banerjee for “humili-
ating” him “on every occasion”
and not briefing him
regularly.
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T he Kolkata Police suspect-
ed Delhi and Romania
links in Tuesday’s Kolkata
Automated Teller Machine
frauds that have allegedly
duped customers of lakhs.
Police said the number of
people defrauded had crossed
50 on Monday with video clip-
pings procured from Delhi
Police showed masked fraud-
sters withdrawing cash from
the Capital’s Laxmi Nagar area
on most of the occasions.
Senior IPS officer
Murlidhar Sharma on Monday
said “two FIRs have been
lodged in two places in Kolkata
and accordingly we have start-
ed investigation,” adding the
police would soon go to the
Capital to further investigate
the case.
He said Romanian and
Turkish gangs could be behind
the frauds and were being
probed. Last year similar frauds
took place and 8 people of
Romanian gang were arrested.
2024 as the deadline for
implementing NRC across
the country, West Bengal
Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee on Tuesday termed
the citizens register as “BJP’s
political rhetoric”.
She said a pan India citizens’ register can never be a
reality on the basis of caste and religion as all persons liv-
ing in the country are its legal citizens.
A citizens’ register would be a blunder as it would face
backlash across the country, she said.
“We will not allow the National Register of Citizens
(NRC), it will never happen in West Bengal. You cannot
implement NRC on the basis of caste and religion,” she told
reporters in the premises of the State Assembly.
“NRC is a political rhetoric of BJP. It can never be a
reality. They (BJP) are busy using political rhetoric but we
should not fall into their trap. All people living in this coun-
try are its legal citizens and no one can take away their cit-
izenship,” Banerjee, who is a staunch critic of the saffron
party, said.
The TMC supremo said her opposition to NRC is not
driven only by politics but also on humanitarian grounds.
“A person who is living in the country for last so many
decades, how can you just announce him foreigner all of
a sudden ? This is completely unacceptable. Pan India NRC
will never be a reality,” Banerjee said.Her comments come
a day after BJP chief Amit Shah at an election rally in
Jharkhand on Monday set 2024 as the deadline for imple-
menting the hugely divisive NRC across the country.
He asserted that “each and every” infiltrator will be
identified and expelled before the next general election.
The omission of a large number of Hindu Bengalis from
the final NRC list in BJP-ruled Assam has apparently cre-
ated panic among the people in West Bengal and has
allegedly led to 11 deaths in the state so far.
sarpanches on Tuesday began a
week-long hunger strike here in
support of their various demands,
including the clearance of C1,000
crore liabilities under the Centre’s
flagship MGNERGA
scheme.
The hunger strike under the
banner of the All Jammu &
Kashmir Panchayat Conference
(AJKPC) was also to press for
security cover to all sarpanches
and panches in the vulnerable
areas and enhancement of month-
ly honorarium given at the rate of
C 2,500 to sarpanches and C1,000
to panches.
“We are forced to go for the
hunger strike in support of our
demands because of the insensi-
tive approach of the administra-
tion. Our round-the-clock hunger
strike will continue till December
10 but if the administration comes
forward and addresses our issues,
we are ready to call off the strike
anytime,” AJKPC president Anil
Sharma told reporters.
He said the AJKPC had
served an ultimatum of 15 days to
the UT Government for clearing
the mounting liabilities of C1,000
crore under the MGNREGA
scheme.
“The poor labourers, includ-
ing skilled and unskilled, have not
PTI been paid their meagre wages for
tunate that the Government has
become insensitive to the miseries
of poor labourers,” Sharma, who
is leading the protest, said.
He said sarpanches and
panches from all the districts of
Jammu & Kashmir are taking part
in the protest.
He alleged that the successive
Governments of the erstwhile J &
K State and now the UT admin-
istration have been violating the
MGNREGA guidelines with
regard to the payment of wages to
workers with “impunity”.
“The MGNREGA guidelines
suggest that workers should be
paid their wages within 15 days of
the work done but the situation is
quite grim in the UT where the
workers who executed works
from 2015 to March 2019 have not
been paid their wages till date.
This is the worst example of
human rights violation,” said the
leader of the AJKPC, which is a
frontline body of the elected pan-
chayat members.
Referring to the killing of a
sarpanch and a Government
official in a terror attack at Hakura
village in Anantnag district on
November 26 during the ‘back to
the village’ programme, he said
the security of the panches and
sarpanches is a major issue and
needs to be dealt on priority. PTI

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T ransgenders took out a
march to the Raj Bhavan
here on Tuesday protesting
against the Transgender
Persons (Protection of Rights)
bill 2019.
They urged the President
Ram Nath Kovind to withhold
his assent to it. The bill was
passed in the Rajya Sabha on
November 26. Raising slogans,
the members of the
Transgenders Collective Forum
said the bill had been passed
amid protests and resistance
from them, whose rights it
claims to protect. “We strong-
ly resent the passing of this bill
and condemn the members of
Parliament who voted in its
favour. The bill was passed
without any change or amend-
ment during the deliberations”,
they said.
The forum also urged
President not to sign the bill as
they said it would be, if he does,
a gross violation of his duty as
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and the head of the state, and
to revert the bill to the Rajya
Sabha. On November 26, the
Rajya Sabha passed the bill on
protection of rights of trans-
genders after a motion to refer
it to a select committee of the
Upper House was defeated.
The Lok Sabha had passed
the bill on August 5.
The Transgender Persons
(Protection of Rights) Bill,
2019, seeks to provide a mech-
anism for social, economic
and educational empowerment
of transgenders and was moved
for consideration and passage
in the Rajya Sabha by Social
Justice and Empowerment
Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot
on November 20.
Replying to a discussion for
further consideration of the bill,
Gehlot had said efforts would
be made to incorporate the
suggestions presented by mem-
bers while framing the rules.
ed to medical examination by
a panel for a district magistrate
(DM) or collector to certify a
person as a transgender which
was earlier part of the bill, has
been done away with, after
reservations were expressed by
members in this regard.
However, in case of a child,
his or her parents can file
application for issuance of an
identification certificate.
Elaborating on the provi-
sions of the bill, the Minister
had said it is aimed at elimi-
nating discrimination against
transgenders and the
Government would form a
national council for its imple-
mentation after the legislation
is brought into effect.
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Minister Ashok
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said the Congress’
proposed rally in
New Delhi against
“anti-people” poli-
cies of the NDA
Government will
shatter its “arro-
gance”.
The Congress
has called for a rally
at the Ramlila Maidan against Modi Government by
the alleged “anti-people poli- Congress workers across the
cies” of the Prime Minister country.
Narendra Modi led “This rally will prove to be
Government. effective in shattering the arro-
“On December 14, there gance of the central govern-
will be a demonstration at ment,” Gehlot said.
Ramlila Maidan in Delhi and When asked about his
thousands of Congress workers views on the removal of the
from all over the country will SPG cover of the Gandhi fam-
participate,” the CM said here. ily, he said the reasons cited for
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B ollywood actor Riteish
Deshmukh and elder his
brother-Congress MLA Amit
Deshmukh, sons of
Maharashtra’s late Chief
Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh,
on Tuesday vehemently con-
tested the messages floating
around in the social media that
they had sought loan waivers to
the tune of C 4.75 crore from
the Maharashtra
Government.
Responding to a tweet put
out by academic and chairper-
son of Indian Council of Social
Science Research (ICSSR)
Madhu Kishwar, Riteish tweet-
ed: “Dear @madhukishwar Ji,
The said paper in circulation is
with malafide motive. Neither
me nor my brother
@AmitV_Deshmukh have
availed any loan as mentioned
in the paper posted by you.
Hence, there is no question of
any loan waiver whatsoever.
Please don’t be misled. Thank
you”. Interestingly enough, the
original tweet put by Kishwar
went missing from the twitter,
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two days, NCP chief Sharad
Pawar on Tuesday said
he was aware that party leader
Ajit Pawar was in touch with
Devendra Fadnavis even as he
distanced himself from his
nephew’s sudden political move
to join hands
with the BJP on
November 23.
Pawar had on Monday said
that Prime Minister Narendra
Modi had proposed “working
together” but he rejected the
offer.
Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar
took oath on November 23
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Bengaluru: Alleging that the
ruling BJP, fearing defeat in the
December 5 bypolls, has tried
to contact some of its MLAs
with an intention to engineer
defections, the Congress in
Karnataka Monday warned the
saffron party of a backlash
from the party and people if
they went about it.
The principal Opposition
party also claimed that BJP was
spending about C 1,000 crore
after Riteish’s tweet.
On her part, Kishwar gra-
ciously admitted she had been
“misled” into putting the tweet
and expressed regret.
“@Riteishdji, an otherwise reli-
able Mumbai friend sent me
that info. Knowingly,I never
publish misleading info even
against someone I may hate.
Sorry, in this case I was misled.
From now on, won’t trust even
good friends on SM matters.
Sincere apologies.BTW I
admire your acting,” Kishwar
tweeted.
“I am also deeply
impressed by the gracious
manner in which
@Riteishdpointed out my mis-
take. Thank you Riteish, that
one tweet of yours carried
many valuable lessons,” she
added in another tweet.
As per a purportedly
“fake” document dated
February 2, 2019 from Latur
floating around in the social
media, Amit Deshmukh and
Riteish Deshmukh had alleged-
ly availed a huge farm loan of
around C4.75 crore and also
reportedly applied to the
morning as chief minister and
deputy chief minister, respec-
tively, even though the Shiv
Sena, NCP and Congress had
almost finalised their alliance
and named Uddhav Thackeray
as the chief ministerial candi-
date.
However, Ajit resigned on
November 26, following which
Fadnavis also threw in the
towel, resulting into collapse of
the government that lasted for
only 80 hours.
“I knew Devendra
Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar were
in talks, but the speculation
that I was aware of Ajit’s polit-
ical move is wrong,” Pawar told
NDTV in an interview.
“corrupt money” for the
bypoll.
“I want to tell one thing to
BJP- some of their leaders have
claimed that Congress MLAs
are ready to join them...Im
warning them not to again
indulge in Operation Kamala
(poaching of opposition
MLAs),” KPCC President
Dinesh Gundu Rao told
reporters here.
“...In fact, they are already
making phone calls to our
MLAs, already called a few of
them. If it repeats, we will not
spare you... If it (poaching)
repeats, we will not spare
you. They (BJP) know they
will lose in the bypolls...
If they indulge in
Operation Kamala again,
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Police arrested three former
directors of the Punjab &
Maharashtra Cooperative
(PMC) Bank Ltd late on
Tuesday evening, in connec-
tion with the C 4,355 crore
scam.
The police identified the
three arrested former directors
of the PMC Bank as Jagdish
Mookhey, Mukti Bavisi and
Trupti Bane.
While Mookhey was a
member of the Audit
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people were killed in a com-
pound wall collapse near here,
the owner of the house around
which the structure had been
built was arrested on Tuesday
on charges of causing death by
negligence.
Amid demands for action
under the SC and ST Act since
the victims were Dalits, Tamil
Nadu Chief Minister K
Palaniswami met the bereaved
families at Nadur, over 50 km
from here, and described the
incident as ‘painful’ and
assured action against the
owner in accordance with law
based on proper inquiry.
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Government for its waiver. State Assembly elections held
The indication of the doc- in October”.
ument being a fake one can be “We have a reason to
seen from the fact that it bears believe that some vested inter-
hand-written noting that ests are behind this mischief.
Deshmukhs allegedly owed We are lodging a police com-
farm loan amounting to plaint now to thoroughly inves-
C 4,70,64,195 and it carries tigate the entire matter and
another remark— all penned arrest those peddling these
with a yellow marker-pen: fake messages in social media,”
“Advise, how to waive off the Amit said.
loan”. In a detailed clarification, To substantiate the the
Congress MLA Amit document circulating in the
Deshmukh said: “This kind of social media was “fake”, Amit
messages have been floating came out with the latest copy
around in social media since of a genuine document
the run-up to the Lok Sabha. received from the local revenue
We had then issued a clarifi- department on November 29,
cation. The messages once 2019 which has no figures of
again resurfaced during the any alleged outstanding loan
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leave alone Congress, people
will chase and beat them. Dont
indulge in such undemocratic Bengaluru: The high-octane
things, he added. campaign for the December 5
Clarifying that Congress bypolls in Karnataka that will
would not indulge in such determine the future of the BJP
“operations”, Rao said disqual- Government in the
ified Congress legislators like State ended on Tuesday, with
Byrathi Basavaraj, S T leaders of political parties mak-
Somashekar and Munirathna- ing a last bid to woo
who are now BJP candidates, voters.
had in fact said they wanted to The by-elections to 15
re-join the party, a request Assembly constituencies saw
which was turned down. BJP seeking votes for “stabili-
The bypolls were necessi- ty”, while the
tated after the resignation and Congress and JD(S) urged the
absence of 17 Congress-JD(S) electorate to defeat the dis-
legislators during the trust qualified legislators responsible
vote, leading to the collapse of for the collapse of their coali-
the coalition government and tion government, who are now
paving the way for BJP to the ruling party
come to power. PTI candidates. PTI
Committee from 2005 to 2020, duce the three arrested former
Bavisi was member of the directors of the bank before a
loans and advances committee
between 2011 and 2020. Bane
was on the Bank’s recovery
city court on Wednesday
morning and seek their
remand.
committee from 2015 to With the latest arrests, the
2020. total number of arrests in the
Ahead of their formal PMC Bank scam has gone up
arrested, the three former to eleven.
directors were questioned in Earlier on November 16,
connection with the loans and the police had arrested Sardar
facilities extended to the HDIL Ranjeet Singh, son of a city BJP
Group and the status of their leader and former MLA from
long-pending recoveries. They Mulund Sardar Tara
failed to provide satisfactory Singh.
replies to the investigators, Among those arrested so
prompting their arrest. far include: two promoters of
The investigators will pro- the Housing Development and
the tiled roof structures in
the Dalit settlement.
Sivasubramanian, who
had been ‘absconding’
since the mishap, was
arrested in Mettupalayam,
about 45 km from here,
police said adding they
were interrogating him.
A portion of the over
Conceding other 15-foot high compound wall,
demands, he announced damp due to heavy rains lash-
enhancement of the solatium ing the area for the past few
from C 4 lakh to C ten lakh and days, came crashing down on
said orders had been issued to the adjoining four tiled-roof
provide suitable jobs to the houses in the Dalit settlement
next of the kin of the deceased. in Nadur around 5 am on
He also said concrete houses Monday, killing the 17, includ-
will be constructed to replace ing ten women and two chil-
due from Deshmukhs nor does
it make a mention that they had
sought a loan waiver.
In normal course,
Deshmukhs — being the land-
holding farmers — are not eli-
gible for are not eligible for
benefits under the State
Government’s loan waiver
scheme, a fact that the
Devendra Fadnavis
Government had made it
known it announced the
C 34,022 crore loan waiver
scheme “Chhatrapati Shivaji
Maharaj Krishi Samman
Yojana” on June 4 2017.
Deshmukhs believe that
their political rivals might have
been behind the whole thing.
“If the fake document has
resurfaced again in the social
media, Amit Deshmukh’s rivals
may be trying to deny him
ministerial berth in the Uddhav
Thackeray Government.
This is because he was a
Minister for a brief time in the
earlier Congress-NCP alliance
government and is now a min-
isterial aspirant,” a Congress
leader close to the Deshmukh
family said.
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Bengaluru: Senior Congress
leader K Siddaramaiah on
Tuesday said the party leader-
ship would take a call on pos-
sible tie-up with JD(S) to form
a government in case the rul-
ing BJP fails to retain its major-
ity following the December 5
assembly bypolls in Karnataka.’
His statement came even as
several of his party colleagues
maintained that they were not
averse to possibility of a post
by-poll alliance.
“No, no such things, high
command will discuss and
decide about it,” Siddaramaiah
told reporters in Hunsur in
response to a query on discus-
Infrastructure Limited (HDIL)
Sarang Kumar Wadhawan and
Rakesh Wadhawan
The PMC Bank’s expo-
sure to the HDIL group was
nearly 73 per cent of its total
loan book size of C8,880 crore
as of September 19, 2019.
The EOW suspects a nexus
between some of the accused
and realty group HDIL, whose
mammoth loan defaults are
said to have caused a liquidity
crisis at the bank, leading to
appointment of administrator
and restrictions on withdraw-
al of funds.
The bank’s former chair-
dren.
The arrest of the house
owner, absconding since the
incident, came amid demands
by the locals and some Dalit
outfits besides political leaders,
including DMK president M K
Stalin who visited the bereaved
families and alleged officials
had failed to act on com-
plaints about stability of the
wall.
Police said a case under
Indian Penal Code section 304
A (causing death by negli-
gence) had been registered
against Sivasubramanian, who
runs a textile showroom in
Mettupalayam. PTI
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the BJP’s name from her twit- ning to make to make a major in the October 21 State
ter handle sparked intense spec- announcement on December Assembly polls by a margin of
ulation that she might quit the 12, while not disclosing as what 30.701 votes in their home
BJP on December 12, Pankaja it could be. constituency of Parli in Beed
said: “I had not put the On Monday, the district of Marathwada.
Facebook post to indulge in Maharashtra BJP had gone into Shiv Sena spokesperson
pressure tactics within the party. a tizzy, after Pankaja —through Sanjay Raut had added fuel to
I am a loyal party worker. a Facebook post put out on ongoing speculation that
Rebellion is not in my blood. Sunday and subsequent Pankaja might join the Shiv
My Facebook post has been removal of the BJP’s name from Sena, through his cryptic
misinterpreted. I am upset with her twitter handle on Monday remarks made during his inter-
misleading news reports. I am — hinted at the possibility of actions with media persons at
very committed to the BJP. her quitting the parent party Nashik. Asked if it was true
Rumours are being spread to and joining another party. that Pankaja would be joining
suggest that I am leaving the As Pankaja was incommu- the Shiv Sena, Raut said: “Many
BJP”. nicado all through Monday prominent BJP leaders have
Earlier in the day, former after she removed the BJP’s expressed their willingness to
Ministers Vinod Tawade, name from her twitter handle, join the BJP. If you are talking
Babarao Lonikar and Ram
Shinde met Pankaja at her
Mumbai residence and request-
the BJP had gone into a dam-
age control mode and denied
that she had any plans to be
about Pankaja Munde, you will
get know about her plans on
December 12”.
ed her not to take any extreme
step of quitting the BJP. Talking
to media persons after his
quit the party, as was being
interpreted by the political
obser vers from Sunday’s
Talking to media persons,
Maharashtra BJP president
said: “At a time we have an acci-
meeting with Pankaja, Tawade Facebook post and her decision dental Government in the state.
said: “Every year Pankajatai to remove the party’s name It is but natural that we get to
puts out such posts on
Facebook. But, this year, her
political rivals misinterpreted
from her twitter handle.
Forty year-old Pankaja is
the daughter late BJP leader
see the ruling front leaders
indulge in this kind of wishful
thinking. There is absolute
her post. She is upset because Gopinath Munde. Pankaja had truth in the rumours that
of this”. taken over the legacy of her Pankajatai would quit the BJP.
Informed sources in the father Gopinath Munde after Many of us have spoken
BJP said that former chief min- the latter died in a road acci- Pankajatai. I don’t think there
ister and senior BJP leader dent in the national capital on is any possibility of her taking
Devendra Fadnavis spoke to June 3, 2014. A former minis- such a step(of quitting the
Pankaja over telephone and ter in the previous BJP-led saf- BJP)”.
reportedly prevailed upon her
not to quit the party. “Both the
leaders discussed the current
political situation in the state,”
sources said.
Notwithstanding Pankaja’s
denial about her quitting the
BJP on December 12, the birth
sions on alliance with JD(S).
Earlier speaking to
reporters in Mysuru, he said,
there was no internal under-
standing between Congress
and JD(S) during the bypolls,
and both parties were serious-
ly fighting against each
other. PTI
man Waryam Singh, managing
director Joy Thomas and other
senior officials, along with the
directors of HDIL Sarang
Wadhwan and Rakesh
Wadhawan, have been named
in the FIR.
HDIL’s promoters had
allegedly colluded with the
bank management, to draw
loans from the bank’s Bhandup
branch.
During the course of the
investigations, it has come to
light that the PMC Bank cre-
ated more than 21,000 fake
accounts to hide the various
loans.
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source is at Kalapani. The tri-junction For India, Nepal is outlets. As far as tourism is con- ing petrol C2 per litre cheaper in executive Chairman of the Nepal
OHIWZLWKDWGHDWK$QGLQDPRQVWURXVPXUGHURIWKHKXPDQVSLULWVFUHHQVKRWV between China, India and Nepal is also con- geostrategically the most impor- cerned, Indians remain the Nepal. Of the nation’s 28 mil- Communist Party, rejected last
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ed it about 6 km north. Indian posts at Minister Modi visited it for an is competing with Bangkok and tures. Around six to eight mil- confidence about China’s trans-
WKHVHYLFDULRXVSOHDVXUHVHHNHUVDUHMXVWDVJXLOW\DVWKHRIIHQGHUVWKHPVHOYHV Kalapani and Navidang routinely patrol till unprecedented four times dur- Dubai. Border trade has lion people reside in India and Himalayan connectivity net-
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Joint/boundary working groups and techni- for the past 17 years. rotting on the border. India’s aid projects are grouped broadly Both railway lines are huge geo-
RIIDQWDV\GHVLUHDQGHYHQVDGLVP7LOOWKDWLVDGGUHVVHGIUDQNO\DOOFRQYHUVD cal committees have failed to resolve the dis- India has lately been to Nepal increased by 73 per into two categories: The Belt and logical and ecological challenges
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resolve border-related issues with con- stable Nepal and a prosperous 19 — but we are yet in no posi- which include the Trans Chinese railway line to Lumbini
IRUIDVWWUDFNFRXUWVRUWUDLQHGSHUVRQQHOIRULQYHVWLJDWLRQVLPSOHPHQWDWLRQLVD cerned technicians.” I have been travelling one. Emphasis is on trade, hydel tion to match China’s deep Himalayan Connectivity will breach an old Indian red line
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tatives were not the only reason why improvement of border infra- next two years during Xi’s visit. 35 projects worth $10 billion between the People’s Liberation
UHSRUWDJHRIFULPHVDJDLQVWZRPHQDIWHU1LUEKD\DWKRXJKPXFKRIWKHPDUH Kalapani has become a hot potato and structure. Dozens of my reports Another $23 million have been under consideration or project Army (PLA) and the Nepal
VWLOOXQGHUUHSRUWHGRUQRWWUHDWHGHTXDOO\LQWHUPVRIQHZVZRUWKLQHVV7KHGHDWK requires early resolution. in the 1970s and 1980s to the given for military stores. review. China has opened a Army is another troubling
SHQDOW\KDVSRVHGQHZSUREOHPVZLWKUDSLVWVPXUGHULQJWKHLUYLFWLPV:HQHHG Xi’s landmark visit to Kathmandu, the Government, urging better bor- The numbers of integrated commercial office in threshold for the Indian Army.
first by a Chinese leader in 23 years, was well der connectivity, went unauc- checkposts are being expanded Kathmandu from which Nepal, Nepal’s “Look North” policy
LQVWLWXWLRQDOEHKDYLRXUDODQGSROLFHUHIRUPVLQVRFLHW\DVDSROLF\SXVKQRWDV timed though it raised the hackles in New tioned when the Nepali side was — one at Kakarbhitta and the as a member of the Asian contains the seeds of serious
VHPLQDUWRSLFV$QGORRVHWDONRIYLJLODQWLVPRUO\QFKLVWDQFRPLQJIURPVRPH Delhi. The concurrent rise of China and the getting roads ahead. The bottom other at Biratnagar — which is Infrastructure Investment Bank, security challenges for India. But
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macy in Nepal (and the region) by reduc-
ing Kathmandu’s dependence on India.
New Nepal is secular, democratic, federal and
,V5DKXO%DMDMULJKWDUH,QGLDQFRUSRUDWHVWRRDIUDLGWRVSHDN a republic. Monarchy, which unified Nepal
250 years ago, was abolished due to the 10-
RXWDJDLQVWWKLVJRYHUQPHQW"2ULVWKLVMXVWSDUIRUWKHFRXUVH" year-long Maoist insurgency and 19 days of
fection so as to match and bet-
ter China.
Of Nepal’s total trade of
$13.5 billion in 2017-18, 65 per
cent was with India and just 14
per cent with China. The Indian
A new bridge has been built over
Mechi river near Kakarbhitta,
which will expedite movement
into east India. India has already
submitted to Nepal a project
report on the 113-km Raxaul-
grants and loan components and
interest rates. China’s track
record in supporting infrastruc-
tural development is suspected
and can lead to a debt trap.
Nepal ideally wants a trian-
tion, the long-festering Kalapani
dispute through high-level dia-
logue and arrest the anti-India
sentiment.
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er or agency can sustain operations by subsidy on other inputs like power, irri- per cent. Further, even on phosphate
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Retail Price (MRP) of urea, which cur-
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mental impact. It has also led to large-
scale diversion to chemical industries
that the Government will reimburse in
excess of the cost of production and dis-
tribution over the MRP, he/she won’t
make efforts to improve efficiency and
reduce cost. Further, even suppliers of
raw materials such as LNG, phosphor-
ic acid, ammonia and potash used in
producing fertilisers get away with
charging a high price, as they too
know that input costs are “passed-
through” under the subsidy regime.
In food, the FCI gets paid for its
expenses on procurement, handling and
distribution on “actual” basis. This
allows cover up for its inefficiencies, cost
concession.”
Since then, successive Governments
have continued with subsidy on both
urea and non-urea fertilisers with much
higher subsidy on the former. In 1998
under the then NDA Government led
by AB Vajpayee, the then Finance
Minister, Yashwant Sinha while present-
ing the Budget had proposed an increase
of C1,000 per ton in the MRP of urea
with a view to bring about some reduc-
tion in subsidy. In a bid to camouflage
its harshness, in his speech, Sinha pre-
sented this as an “increase of C1 per kg”
(thinking that this might pass muster).
FDOOWKH´QHDUDEURDGµ³ZKLFKLVZK\1$72GRHVQRWOHWWKHPMRLQ backed by sovereign guarantee (2014-15 to (30 per cent of the total supply). padding and even for quantities which But the Minister was caught napping as
7KHPRGHVWWUXWKLVWKDW1$72LVDIDPLOLDUDQGFRPIRUWDEOHFOXE 2016-17) to mitigate the adverse impact on the In food also, diversion of sub- often disappear from the warehouses. all parliamentarians — cutting across
WKDWOHWVWKH(XURSHDQPHPEHUVGHPRQVWUDWHWKHLUFRPPLWPHQWQRW Budget and prevent fiscal slippage. sidised cereals from the Public Similarly, oil firms get reimburse- party lines — protested, forcing him to
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ll is not well with the BJP’s
allies. Murmurs of dissent
from the alliance partners are
getting louder, more so after the
recent rift between the Shiv Sena and
the BJP which led to the former quit-
ting the NDA and finally breaking up
their alliance in Maharashtra.
However, the BJP is not worried
as it has absolute majority in the Lok
Sabha, though Prime Minister
Narendra Modi chose to include the
representatives of the alliance partners
in his Cabinet in 2014 and continued
the same practice after improving the
BJP’s tally in the 2019 elections.
Modi is on record saying that he
believes that coalitions are necessary
for Indian democracy and his
Government would combine nation-
al ambition and regional aspirations.
'HPRFUDF\DQG:RUN of fertilisers, food and fuel at a low price, unre-
Unlike the Vajpayee Government,
which faced constant troubles from
NDA allies, Modi has had smooth
sailing for the last five years. The NDA
is no longer the same as the position
of the partners has weakened. In the
last five years, many allies have either
quit the alliance or are at odds with
the Modi Government. Even those
who have declared that they stand
firm with the BJP — the Shiromani
Akali Dal (SAD) and the Janata Dal-
United (JD-U) — are disturbed by the
treatment meted out to partners.
The BJP had five major allies.
They were the SAD, the Telugu
Desam Party (TDP), the Shiv Sena,
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
and the JD-U. Out of these, the TDP
left the BJP in 2018, while the Shiv
Sena parted company with the NDA
recently and the BJP itself dumped
the Mehbooba Mufti led-PDP.
The Sena is the BJP’s only ideo-
logical ally while the Akalis are the
only ones whose social base couples
perfectly with the BJP’s. All of the
NDA partners have been protecting
their turfs in their respective States.
However, the big question is,
does the BJP need allies? Of the 543
LS seats, the BJP has no need for
them — except for smaller partners
as in Uttar Pradesh — in 331 seats.
Of the 212 seats where the BJP is
dependent on allies, Bihar and
Maharashtra are the only States
where an ally is either the senior or
equal partner. The BJP’s decision to
hang on to the allies could be
because the party is yet to attain
majority in the Rajya Sabha (RS).
When the BJP came to power in
2014, it had 43 MPs in the Upper
House out of a total strength of 245.
Today, that number has almost dou-
bled to 78. Along with its allies, the
BJP has 115 MPs in the RS now. It
to all farmers (without any ceiling on the
needs the cooperation of a few
smaller parties to push its agenda in
the House. The NDA allies are obvi-
ously dissatisfied with the present
arrangement as they feel that unlike
Vajpayee’s time, there is hardly any
consultation among the partners
now. They want a chairman and con-
vener for the NDA, which used to be
the case earlier. While the BJP leader
was the chairman, the convener was
chosen from among the partners.
The Modi era has seen no such
arrangement and this demand has
been voiced many times. In fact, just
before the current Winter Session of
the Parliament, the Lok Janshakti
phate and potash fertilisers and with-
Party’s (LJP) national president
Chirag Paswan pointed out that the
appointment of a convener or con-
stitution of a coordination commit-
tee would ensure the exchange of
ideas across alliance partners.
SAD leader and Rajya Sabha MP
Naresh Gujral also said, “There was
a time when no one was in alliance
with the BJP and at that time too, the
Shiv Sena and the SAD stood with
them. It doesn’t mean that when you
get absolute majority you start treat-
ing your allies as lesser partners.”
The Apna Dal, JD-U and a few
other allies made similar remarks.
The NDA has 16 allies, of which the
BJP is the only national party. The
relations with the partners in the
Modi era have not been that cordial.
This is because of their tussle for
votes. The BJP is ambitious and
wants to expand while the allies want
to protect their turf. This was the rea-
son why the Shiv Sena left the
alliance last month. Also Modi does
not succumb to their arm twisting.
The BJP has a new strategy to
build the NDA. Modi has said that
the doors of the BJP are always open
for old and new partners. For
policy analyst)
instance, the TDP is said to be inch-
ing closer to the BJP again. Shiv Sena
could come back any time. The BJP
has also got new allies; particularly
in the North-East and several more
are in the making, like the All India
Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
(AIADMK), Telangana Rashtra
Samithi (TRS), the Yuvajana Sramika
Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) and
other smaller parties.
The BJP has expanded its base
and has become the richest and
biggest party, overtaking the
Congress even in the RS. It has major
presence in most big States, and is
now eyeing the South and the North-
East for expansion. The saffron
party has replaced the Left in Tripura
and edged the Congress out in West
Bengal and Odisha as the chal-
lenger to the ruling party. Its winning
spree continues as it has
Governments in 17 States. Modi is in
a strong position right now and it is
the allies who need the party and not
the BJP which needs the partners, as
in the past. There was a time when
the saffron party was considered an
untouchable but it is not so anymore.
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lenders, the Securities
Appellate Tribunal (SAT) on
Tuesday asked NDSL not to
transfer any more shares to the
clients of the crippled Karvy
Broking.
Issuing an interim stay, a
two-member SAT bench com-
prising MT Joshi and CKG
Nair said the final order will be
issued Wednesday afternoon.
The SAT order came on a
plea from affected lenders--
HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank,
Indusind Bank and Bajaj
Finance — which challenged
NSDL’s Monday decision to
transfer shares from now-
banned Karvy Broking back to
83,000 clients, which helped
almost 90 per cent of the demat
accountholders of brokerage to
recover their investments.
Since most of the shares
were kept as securities for loans
made by banks, and “unilater-
al” transfer of shares will have
a chilling effect on this stream
of lending, HDFC Bank, ICICI
Bank and Indusind Bank told
the SAT during the hearing.
Karvy had misused secu-
rities of over 95,000 clients
which it was holding on behalf
of the clients to raise over
C600 crore in loans.
Following an order from
the capital markets regulator
Sebi, National Securities
Depositor y (NSDL) on
Monday transferred back
stocks of nearly 83,000 clients.
Bajaj Finance was the first to
challenge NSDL move at the SAT
within hours of the transfers, and
the banks joined it on Tuesday.
Banks claimed that such “uni-
lateral” transfer of shares, which
are pledged with them as secu-
rities for borrowings, will deeply
impact the entire business of
loans against shares and will pre-
vent them from undertaking
this business in toto.
As a solution, senior coun-
sel representing banks pleaded
for shares to be either clawed
back from clients and frozen in
an escrow account and warned
that if the securities come back
to the open market, it will be
“irreversible”.
Banks also said they cannot
be forced to pay for the “sins”
of the regulators and the regu-
lated companies.
During the course of the
arguments, a counsel for
HDFC Bank said the largest
private sector lender alone has
a C300 crore exposure where
the shares worth over C 470
crore have been pledged.
Counsel for NSDL said
depository acted only as per
Sebi order and drew focus on
a Sebi order of June 2019
which made it clear that such
pledges might be untenable
and alleged that banks have
been “recklessly” lending to
brokerages.
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ments, the NSDL counsel told
SAT that the decision to trans-
fer back the shares to clients
was made by the NSDL board
after a lot of thoughts.
The NDDL counsel also
pointed out banks should have
been aware of the Sebi order
since all these banks which
have challenged the NSDL also
run dedicated broking arms.
SAT reserved the order
and said the final order will be
delivered at 1400 hrs
Wednesday. On Monday, Sebi
had directed NSDL to transfer
the investors’ securities, held by
Karvy Stock Broking in their
respective accounts. The deci-
sion resulted in nearly 83,000
investors getting back their secu-
rities that were illegally trans-
ferred by the broker to its own
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al players, Finance Minister
Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday
said the Government is open to
further reforms for making India
a more attractive investment
destination. The Government
has taken various steps, includ-
ing reduction in corporate tax,
she said at the India-Sweden
Business Summit here.
Without sharing details of
future reforms, the finance min-
ister said, “I only can invite and
assure that the Government of
India is committed for further
reforms in various sectors
whether it is banking, mining or
insurance and so on.”
She added the Government
is addressing challenges faced
by the industry not just Indian-
owned but operationalise
industries which are present in
India. “Since after budget I have
made sure constant interac-
tions with the industry, under-
standing their challenges, and
therefore, since after the bud-
get not waiting for another
budget which is expected in
February 2020, we took major
structure reform in the form
reduction in corporate tax.
“This one measure indicates
how our government believes in
reforms. Today I say there are
many more steps we have to
take,” she added. In the biggest
tax reduction in 28 years, the
government in September
slashed corporate tax rates up to
10 percentage points as it looked
to pull the economy out of a six-
year low growth with a C1.45
lakh crore tax break.
Base corporate tax for
existing companies has been
reduced to 22 per cent from 30
per cent, and to 15 per cent
from 25 per cent for new man-
ufacturing firms incorporated
after October 1, 2019, and
starting operations before
March 31, 2023.
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L eading stock exchange NSE
has shortlisted eight compa-
nies, including Future
Enterprises and GMR
Infrastructure, that have higher
levels of pledged shares by pro-
moters, for surveillance action.
The exchange would levy
minimum margin of 35 per
cent on the respective shares,
including on stocks in deriva-
tives segment.
Jindal Steel & Power, Dish
TV India, Gayatri Projects,
Max India, Sadbhav
Infrastructure Project and
Sequent Scientific are the other
six companies identified for
surveillance action, according
to a circular.
“The applicable rate of
margin in equity and equity
derivatives segment shall be 35
per cent or existing margin,
whichever is higher with effect
from December 5 on all open
positions as on December 4
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It also noted that shortlist-
ing of securities under this sur-
veillance measure is purely on
account of market surveillance
and it should not be construed
as an adverse action against the
concerned company.
In October, stock
exchanges decided to take addi-
tional surveillance measures
from November 1 in order to
reduce volatility in stocks hav-
ing higher levels of pledged
shares by their promoters.
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T he Income Tax Department
processed as many as 2.10
crore tax refund cases, return-
ing back over C1.46 lakh crore
in first eight months of 2019-
20, up 20 per cent over the last
year as a centralised processing
centre has expedited the
process, officials said.
The Centralised Processing
Centre (CPC) processed 4.70
crore tax returns between April
2019 and November 28 (almost
eight months of current 2019-
20 year) as opposed to 3.91
crore returns being processed
in the same period a year back,
they said.
It processed 2.10 crore tax
refund cases for current
Assessment Year 2019-20 as on
November 28, 2019, compared
to 1.75 crore refunds for the
same period in FY 2018-19, an
increase of 20 per cent.
The total amount of
refunds issued in FY 2019-20
till November 28 was C1.46
lakh crore as compared to
C1.19 lakh crore in the same
period of the previous year (an
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increase of 22.7 per cent), they
said.
Of the 2.10-crore refunds
processed in 2019-20, 68 per
cent of refunds were issued
within 30 days from the date of
the e-verification of income tax
return as compared to 57 per
cent for the same period in FY
2018-19.
All refunds issued by CPC
have been directly credited to
the taxpayers’ bank accounts by
ECS, eliminating paper cheque
and ensuring faster,
accurate and safer credit, offi-
cials said.
The number of verified
refunds pending as on
November 29 are 20.76 lakh
and currently being processed.
Officials said not only were
20 per cent higher number of
refunds processed for the cur-
rent AY2019-20, the pendency
of refunds for verified income
tax returns (ITR) has been
reduced by 36 per cent from
31.97 lakh last year at the
same time to 20.76 lakh this
year as on November 29.
Balance refunds are being
processed, they said.
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ncumbent telecom carriers
Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea
and Reliance Jio have asked the
sector regulator TRAI to set up
floor pricing for data services
as early as possible while ask-
ing for continuation of for-
bearance for voice services.
In a letter to Telecom
Regulatory Authority of India
Chairman, COAI Director
General Rajan Mathews said
tariff correction in the current
level of fierce competition is not
possible by any service provider
voluntarily and thus the only
option available is prescription
of a minimum tariff for mobile
data service by the Authority.
At the same time TRAI
would be aware that unlike
mobile data, voice services are
considered as essential ser-
vices by the people mainly at
the bottom of the pyramid
and therefore would need to be
continued under the present
forbearance regime.
It said data tariffs in India
are 50 times lower than that of
the developed/developing
economies. “Telecom service
providers in the private sector
— Bharti Airtel Limited,
Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea
Limited — are in complete
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agreement that TRAI be
requested to regulate tariffs by
setting a floor price for data ser-
vices,” said the Cellular
Operators Association of India
(COAI) Director General
Mathews in a letter dated
December 3, 2019, to the TRAI
chairman Ram Sewak Sharma.
COAI represents India’s
telecom service providers and
network vendors excluding
state-run Bharat Sanchar
Nigam Limited (BSNL) and
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam
Limited (MTNL).
“Necessary orders as per
the statutory provisions of the
TRAI Act be issued urgently.
We expect tariffs to be regu-
lated and decided by TRAI will
ensure that the telecom indus-
tr y remains healthy and
robust,” the letter stated.
The financially-strained
telecom sector, sitting on a debt
of more than C7.5 lakh crore, is
further stressed following the
recent adverse Supreme Court
New Delhi: A day after clock-
ing bountiful gains, telecom
companies’ shares closed on a
mixed note on Tuesday.
Bharti Airtel shares logged a
marginal 0.09 per cent gain to
settle the day at C458.95 a unit on
the BSE. The stock fell 2.84 per
cent in intra-day trade before
staging a recovery. The operator’s
shares had hit 52-week high on
Monday. On the NSE, the telco’s
shares closed at C460.85 apiece,
up 0.49 per cent. While
verdict asking telecom compa-
nies to pay due to the govern-
ment settling a decade-and-a-
half dispute on the
interpretation of Adjusted
Gross Revenue (AGR).
In the September quarter,
Bharti Airtel and Vodafone
Idea together posted highest
loss of more than C75,000
crore. The telecom body, citing
TRAI data said overall average
revenue per user (APRU)
has come down from C141 in
2010, to C118 in 2017, and to
C80 a month.
Vodafone Idea shares dived 9.50
per cent to end at C7.05 apiece on
the BSE. Intra-day, the stock
plummeted 13.73 per cent to hit
a low of C6.72.
On the NSE, its shares set-
tled 7.69 per cent down at C7.20
per unit. During the day, the
scrip nosedived 14.10 per cent.
Shares of Vodafone Idea on
Monday closed higher by 14.06
per cent and those of Bharti
Airtel by 4.12 per cent.
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New Delhi: India needs to dis-
courage large-scale paper
imports to boost the domestic
paper industry, Union Minister
Nitin Gadkari said on Tuesday.
The MSME Minister also
pitched for use of bamboo as a
raw material by the industry as
different types of papers can be
made using bamboo. The
Government has allocated
C1,300 crore towards ‘Bamboo
Mission’, he said.
“India is witnessing large-
New Delhi: The voluntary
retirement scheme of BSNL
and MTNL on Tuesday closed
with over 92,700 employees
opting for it, according to
senior officials of the public
sector telecom companies.
Around 78,300 employees of
BSNL and 14,378 of MTNL
have opted for the scheme.
“Approximately 78,300
employees have opted for the
VRS as per data received from
all the circles till the closing of
the scheme. This is as per our
target. We were expecting
reduction of 82,000 headcount.
Besides VRS applicants,
scale paper imports despite the
presence of diversified paper
sector in the country. I am espe-
cially concerned about the
growth prospects of small scale
paper and pulp industries, an
important part of MSME sector.
“The imports in paper sec-
tor need to be discouraged
while exports should be
enhanced to support the
domestic industry,” Gadkari
said in a video message at the
inauguration of Paperex 2019.
around 6,000 employees also
retired,” BSNL Chairman and
Managing Director PK Purwar
said. The PSUs had set
December 3 as last date for
employees to opt for VRS.
MTNL Chairman and
Managing Director Sunil Kumar
said that the PSU too has
exceeded the target set for VRS.
“14,378 employees have opted
for VRS against target of 13,650
employees. This will reduce our
annual salary bill from C2,272
crore to C500 crore. Now we are
left with 4,430 employees which
is sufficient to run our business,”
Kumar said. PTI
He pitched for increasing the
use of bamboo as it can be a
win-win situation for the paper
industry and the farmers.
JK Paper Managing
Director Harshpati Singhania
said,”Growth in paper industry
is moving from developed
world to the developing world.
Consumption growth is declin-
ing in Europe and Americas
while the same is going up in
Asia and some of the Latin
American countries.” PTI

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New Delhi: German luxury car-
maker Mercedes Benz on
Tuesday launched its premium
SUV GLC with price starting at
C52.56 lakh (ex-showroom all
India). The latest generation of
the GLC is available in both
petrol and diesel engine options.
These are equipped with MBUX,
an intuitive and intelligent multi-
media system.
While the petrol option,
GLC 200 is priced at C52.75 lakh,
the diesel variant GLC 220d is
priced at C57.75 lakh (all prices
ex-showroom, India). “The
launch of the new GLC reiterates
our product offensive for the
Indian market,” Mercedes-Benz
India Managing Director & CEO
Martin Schwenk said.
Stating the GLC is one of
Mercedes-Benz India’s highest
selling SUVs, having sold over
7,000 units since its debut, he
said launch of latest generation
GLC “also marks the introduc-
tion of the next generation of
MBUX with the aim to improve
driver’s interaction with the var-
ious systems in the car”. “New
GLC combines ruggedness of a
SUV with the intelligence of
MBUX and luxury appoint-
ments synonymous with Three
Pointed Star (Mercedes-Benz).
We are confident this offering
will continue to win hearts and
minds of our discerning cus-
tomers,” he added. PTI
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New Delhi: The country’s
largest car maker Maruti Suzuki
India on Tuesday said it will
hike prices of its vehicles from
January to offset rising input
costs. Other car manufacturers
such as Toyota, Mahindra &
Mahindra and Mercedes-Benz
said they are also contemplating
a similar move.
Hyundai Motor India and
Honda Cars India, however,
said they will not increase
vehicle prices in January, but
their products will see rise in
prices when BS-VI compliant
models are introduced in the
market. Taking the first step for
the year-end price hike
announcements, Maruti Suzuki
India said in a regulatory filing
that over the past year the cost
of company’s vehicles has been
impacted adversely due to
increase in various input costs,
“Hence, it has become
imperative for the company to
pass on some impact of the
above additional cost to cus-
tomers through a price increase
across various models in
January 2020,” it added.
This price increase shall
vary for different models, the
company said. Currently, the
company sells a range of vehi-
cles starting from entry-level
small car Alto to premium
multi-purpose vehicle XL6
with price ranging from C2.89
lakh to C11.47 lakh (ex-show-
room Delhi).
Toyota Kirloskar Motor
Deputy Managing Director N
Raja also said that the compa-
ny is working out details to off-
set rising input costs by pass-
ing it to customers.
“We are in discussion for a
January timeline for the price
increase. We will be reviewing
prices along with the model
year change and we will look at
price increase,” said. PTI
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Mumbai: The Indian rupee
closed on a steady note against
the US dollar on Tuesday as the
domestic forex market turned
cautious ahead of the RBI
monetary policy outcome.
Besides, participants also
took note of the developments
on the global trade canvas,
where US President Donald
Trump announced imposition
of tariffs on imports from
Brazil and Argentina as
well as indicated that a deal
with China might not be hap-
pening till next year’s US pres-
idential polls.
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assured the Rajya Sabha
that merger of 10 public sector
banks will not lead to any job
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Other top losers were basic now allow US military ships and will be protected.
with Punjab National Bank,
Allahabad Bank will be amal-
gamated with Indian Bank.
These two banks are head-
quartered in Kolkata.
“Merger of banks will
strengthen the lending capaci-
ty. It has been ensured that no
integration,” Thakur said.
After due consideration by
their respective boards, the
banks have informed that multi-
level coordination and integra-
tion committees have been set
up to ensure faster integration
across functionalities, he added.
which went for asset quality
review of bank loans given
between 2004 and 2014. We
adopted an approach for better
functioning of the banks and
recapitalised them with over C
2.35 lakh crore for better
strengthening and function-
file of the bank. As far as the
interest of the employees are
concerned, pay allowances were
less favourable overall.”
He said UBI’s total business
size is C 2,08,000 crore, where-
as that of PNB is C 11,82,224
crore.

B enchmark stock indices

Sensex and Nifty on
Tuesday fell in line with sub-
dued Asian markets after the US
decision to slap tariffs on
imports from Brazil and
Argentina opened a new front
in global trade war.
The 30-share BSE gauge set-
tled at 40,675.45, down 0.31 per
cent or 126.72 points. The index
swung between a high of
40,885.03 and a low of 40,554.04
during the day.
The broader NSE Nifty set-
tled at 11,994.20, showing a dip
of 0.45 per cent or 54 points.
In view of fresh tussle in
global trade, metal stocks came
under pressure. Besides, bank-
ing stocks saw selling pressure
as investors took a cautious
stance ahead of the RBI mone-
tary policy meet outcome on
December 5.
On the Sensex chart, Yes
Bank was the worst hit with 7.81
per cent decline. It was followed
by Tata Steel, Vedanta, M&M,
IndusInd Bank and Tata Motors
— shedding as much as 5.07 per
cent.
On the other hand, Bajaj
Auto, TCS, Kotak Bank, Infosys
and HDFC were among the
major gainers.
Sectorally, metal index bore
the brunt of global trade tussle
materials (1.94 per cent), tele-
com (1.76 per cent), industrials
(1.53 per cent), utilities (1.24 per
cent), capital goods (1.18 per
cent), oil & gas (0.86 per cent)
and FMCG (0.68 per cent).
On the other hand, realty
index tops the gainers’ chart
with 1.36 per cent rise, followed
by IT (0.59 per cent), con-
sumer durables (0.09 per cent)
and teck (0.16 per cent).
Of the 19 sectoral indices,
15 closed in the red and 4 ended
in the green.
In the broader market, large
cap, small cap and midcap
indices underperformed the
benchmark Sensex.
Midcap index dropped 0.95
per cent, smallcap 0.74 per cent
and largecap 0.51 per cent.
“Domestic markets
remained muted on account of
downbeat global sentiments
after US reinstated tariffs on
Argentina and Brazil and threat-
ened even harsher penalties on
dozens of popular French prod-
ucts” said Paras Bothra,
President of Equity Research,
Ashika Stock Broking.
Stoking more worries,
China announced sanctions
against several US non-gov-
ernment organisations for
encouraging protesters to
“engage in extremist, violent and
aircraft to visit Hong Kong, he
said.
These developments are
likely to have a negative impact
on chances of a fruitful dialogue
between the US and China
over trade deal.
Back home, the Reserve
Bank of India (RBI) is expect-
ed to cut interest rates on
December 5, experts believe.
On the currency front, the
Indian rupee ended almost flat
against the US dollar.
Foreign institutional
investors sold shares worth Rs
1,731.33 crore in the capital
market in the previous session,
while domestic institutional
investors bought equities worth
753.99 crore, data available with
stock exchange showed.
Brent futures, the global oil
benchmark, surged 0.54 per
cent to USD 61.25 per barrel.
Asian markets slipped on
Tuesday as global trade tensions
resurfaced after the US decision
to reimposed tariffs on the two
South American countries.
Bourses in Hong Kong,
Tokyo and Seoul settled in the
negative terrain, while Shanghai
finished with marginal gains.
In early trade, London
slipped 0.1 per cent, while
Frankfurt was up 0.7 per cent
and Paris rose 0.2 per cent.
In August, the government
announced a mega plan to
merge 10 public sector banks
into four with a view to creat-
ing fewer and stronger global-
sized lenders with robust bal-
ance sheets that can be used to
boost credit and spur growth.
During the Question Hour,
Minister of State for Finance
Anurag Singh Thakur said
lending and other banking ser-
vices to eastern states will be
improved after two Kolkata-
based banks are merged.
While United Bank of
India (UBI) will be merged
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New Delhi: As part of a
Government-mandated out-
reach programme, public sec-
tor banks have disbursed a
record C4.91 lakh crore of
loans during October-
November, the finance min-
istry said on Tuesday.
To boost consumption and
revive the economy, Finance
Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
had in September asked banks
to reach out to customers and
signal their willingness to lend
following all prudential norms.
Under her direction, out-
person loses job. The employ-
ees of merging banks will ben-
efit the maximum. Merger is
being done keeping their inter-
est in mind,” he said.
“We have taken enough
precaution,” he said, adding
that Narasimham Committee in
1998 and Leeladhar Committee
in 2008 recommended amalga-
mation of the banks.
“Amalgamating banks was
advised to duly factor in and
draw road maps for converging
IT systems and HR and to put
in place institutional arrange-
ments to ensure expeditious
reach camps or loan ‘melas’
were conducted across 374 dis-
tricts to improve credit deliv-
ery and support the needs of
the economy, with particular
focus on MSMEs, NBFCs, cor-
porates, retail and agriculture
sector borrowers, without com-
promising prudential lending.
Banks disbursed C2.52 lakh
crore of loans in October and
C2.39 lakh crore in November.
With this, the total disburse-
ment by public sector banks to
various sectors since the launch
of the Customer Outreach pro-
The minister was respond-
ing to a query from Trinamool
Congress member Manish
Gupta who said that about
50,000 employees will be jobless
by next year due to the merger.
To another query on bank-
ing services likely to be affect-
ed in eastern states due to the
merger, the minister said the
reach and lending capacity will
be “much larger and better” with
the amalgamation.
“In today’s time of compe-
tition, I think expansion of
these banks is very impor-
tant...It was our government
gramme in October stands at
C4.91 lakh crore, it said. During
the two months, banks have
given C72,985 crore to MSME
sector while loans to corporates
stood at C2.2 lakh crore.
For NBFCs, PSBs dis-
bursed Rs 25,525 crore loan in
November, increasing sharply
from C19,628 crore in October,
taking the total to C45,153
crore, it said.
Total support sanctioned
by PSBs in the form of credit
(including co-origination and
on-lending) and pool buyouts
ing,” he said.
As far as lending to eastern
states is concerned, the minis-
ter said, “Let me assure the
member there would not be any
shortage or shortfall of ser-
vices.”
Responding to another
query from Trinamool
Congress member Manas
Ranjan Bhunia on reasons for
merger of UBI with PNB, the
minister said, “I think the over-
all intention was to create a
strong and competitive bank
that may serve as catalyst of
growth with improved risk pro-
from NBFCs since the IL&FS
default in September 2018 till
November 2019 has risen to
C4.23 lakh crore, including
pool-buyouts of C1.24 lakh
crore, it added.
PSBs, that are being ade-
quately capitalised and record
recovery underway, have suffi-
cient liquidity to support cred-
it growth, it said.
Sitharaman while replying
to a query on Taxation Laws
(Amendment) Bill, 2019 in the
Lok Sabha on Monday said the
Government would make sure
With the merger, total busi-
ness size will be C 17,94,526
crore, making it the second
largest bank in the country.
“What we have kept in
mind is the software ‘Core
Banking System’ being used by
them. All these banks which are
using similar kind of software
have been merged accordingly
so that there would not be any
difficulty for the employees,” he
said.
As far as the sentiment of
eastern states or Kolkata is con-
cerned, that will be taken care
of, Thakur added.
that the banks would not go to
metropolitan cities but to 400
districts and hold outreach pro-
grams to address liquidity issue.
“So that whoever
approaches them, MSMEs,
farmers, homebuyers, whoev-
er approaches them will get the
credit that they would want,”
she said. As per the data
released, banks have given
C27,225 crore as home loan,
C11,088 crore as vehicle loans
and C1,111 crore as education
loan during the two months.
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London: President Donald Trump
criticised Democrats at the opening
of a NATO leaders’ meeting on
Tuesday, calling the impeachment
push by his rivals “unpatriotic” and
“a bad thing for our country.”
Trump, who commented while
meeting with NATO Secretary-
General Jens Stoltenberg, is upset that
Democrats scheduled an impeach-
ment hearing while he is abroad.
The House Judiciary Committee
has set a hearing on the constitu-
tional grounds for Trump’s possible
impeachment on Wednesday just
before he wraps up two days of meet-
ings with NATO alliance members in
London.
“I think it’s very unpatriotic of
the Democrats to put on a perfor-
mance,” Trump said. “I think it’s a
bad thing for our country.”
Trump isn’t the only one com-
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London: US President Donald politics but did endorse Prime
Trump on Tuesday refrained
from giving his view on British
Minister Boris Johnson indi-
rectly as he arrived here for a
plaining. Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo, White House counsel Pat
Cipollone and adviser Kellyanne
Conway all have criticized the com-
mittee’s timing.
Trump insists he’s solely focused
on scoring domestic and foreign pol-
icy wins, including making NATO
members spend more on defense.
But he’s often appeared consumed by
the day-to-day battle against
impeachment.
“I’m not even thinking about it,”
Trump insisted anew Tuesday.
Before the trip to London,
Trump slammed “Do Nothing
Democrats” for scheduling the hear-
ing during the NATO meeting as
“Not nice!” to hold up military aid to Ukraine
He also said that during the flight “entirely prudent.”
he had read a newly issued Democrats contend Trump
Republican-prepared report on abused his presidential powers by
impeachment that called his decision holding up the aid to pressure
three-day visit to mark 70
years of the NATO alliance
amid the general election cam-
paign in the UK.
President Trump is visiting
the UK to attend a Nato sum-
mit on Wednesday in Watford,
south-east England, com-
memorating the 70th anniver-
sary of the transatlantic organ-
isation.
Trump said he was staying
out of the UK election on
December 12 “because I don’t
want to complicate it”.
“I have no thoughts on it.
It’s going to be a very important
election for this great country,
but I have no thoughts on it. I
could work with anybody,”
Trump told reporters at a brief-
ing at the US ambassador’s res-
idence here. PTI
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N orth Korea on Tuesday
repeated its assertions that
the Trump administration is
running out of time to salvage
nuclear negotiations, saying it’s
entirely up to the United States
to choose what “Christmas gift”
it gets from the North.
The statement, attributed
to a senior diplomat, came as
North Korea continues to dial up
pressure on Washington and
Seoul ahead of leader Kim Jong
Un’s end-of-year deadline for the
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Ukraine President Volodymyr
Zelenskiy to investigate meddling in
the 2016 U.S. presidential election and
former Vice President Joe Biden and
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Colombo: Sri Lankan
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa
has prorogued the Parliament
for one month and fixed
January 3, 2020 for the com-
mencement of the next session,
a move that will give his minor-
ity government freedom to
rule without obstruction from
the Opposition.
The parliament should
have met on Tuesday, accord-
ing to the schedule.
President Gotabaya
Rajapaksa issued a special
gazette notification effective
at midnight Monday noticing
that parliament would be
reconvened on January 3. PTI
US to offer mutually acceptable
terms for a deal.
Negotiations have faltered
since a February summit
between Kim and President
Donald Trump broke down after
the U.S. Rejected North Korean
demands for broad sanctions
relief in exchange for a partial
surrender of its nuclear capabil-
ities.
Working-level talks held in
Sweden in October broke down
over what the North Koreans
described as the Americans’ “old
stance and attitude.”
his son, who had a seat on the board
of Ukrainian energy company.
But Trump was adamant that the
cloud of impeachment wasn’t under-
cutting his negotiating position on
the international stage.
“I know most of the leaders,”
Trump said. “I get along with them.
It’s a hoax. The impeachment is a
hoax. It’s turned out to be a hoax. It’s
done for purely political gain. They’re
going to see whether or not they can
do something in 2020 because oth-
erwise they’re going to lose.”
But even as he boasted of his
relationships with NATO leaders,
Trump rebuked French President
0? Emmanuel Macron for recent com-
ments that NATO was experiencing
“brain death.” Macron argues that the
U.S. under Trump’s leadership has
turned away from the alliance.
“Nobody needs NATO more
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Hong Kong: Hong Kong’s Chief
Executive Carrie Lam on
Tuesday closed ranks with China
semi-autonomous region added
that US firms were also con-
cerned, as they too might be
and condemned the US Senate’s affected by the law.
passage of the Hong Kong “All this is creating uncer-
Human Rights and Democracy tainty and won’t go well for any
Act (HKHRDA), which she economic development,” Lam
lambasted as unnecessary and said. She described the HKHR-
unjustified. DA as clear interference by
Lam said in a press confer- Washington in Hong Kong’s
ence that the US legislation internal affairs, echoing the
would have an impact on the stance of Beijing, which on
city’s economic development by Monday responded by banning
undermining confidence and the stopover of US military
creating an unstable environ- ships and aircraft in the city and
ment for Hong Kong-based imposed sanctions on several
businesses, reports Efe news. non-governmental organizations
“This is very regrettable,” and human rights groups.
Lam said. “For now, it under- “We will follow the law in
mines confidence; it creates an supporting the central govern-
unstable environment.” ment and we will follow up on
The leader of the Chinese the measures they take,” said
London: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday denounced Iran’s
crackdown on anti-government protesters, as rights groups said the
death toll had soared.
Protests erupted in Iran on November 15 after an announce-
ment that petrol prices were going up by as much as 200 percent
with immediate effect. “Iran is killing perhaps thousands and thou-
sands of people right now as we speak,” Trump told reporters in
London ahead of a NATO summit. “That’s why they cut off the inter-
net. They cut off the internet so people can’t see what’s going on.
“And frankly, I don’t know how you get in there, I don’t know
how you do your business but the press ought to get in there and
see what’s going on.” Trump added: “The word is that thousands
of people are being killed in Iran that are protesting. “Not just small
numbers, which are bad; big numbers, which are really bad -- and
really big numbers.” Asked if there was more that the United States
could do, he replied: “I’d rather not say right now. IANS
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than France,” said Trump, who him-
self in the past has questioned the
long-term prospects of NATO
because too few nations are on track
to meet the alliance goal of spend-
ing at least 2% of GDP on their own
defense by 2024. “You can’t just go
around making statements like that
about NATO. It’s very disrespectful.”
Trump also lashed out against
France for a French digital service tax
that he said unfairly discriminates
against U.S. tech companies, includ-
ing Google, Apple, Facebook and
Amazon. There is no direct effect on
the United States from the French
tax, which only applies to the tech
companies’ revenues in France, not
the United States. Robert Lighthizer,
the chief U.S. trade representative, on
Monday recommended $2.4 billion
in new tariffs on French cheese, wine,
and other products. AP
Lam. The Chief Executive also
criticized the American law for
suggesting that the rights of
Hong Kong residents were being
violated and stressed that they
enjoyed freedom of the press,
religious liberty and freedom of
assembly.
The HKHRDA, which was
signed into law by US President
Donald Trump, requires the
State Department to conduct
reviews at least annually evalu-
ating whether Hong Kong
retains enough autonomy to
merit a change to its current sta-
tus as a preferential trade part-
ner. It also prescribes sanctions
on individuals found to have
abused human rights in Hong
Kong, including Chinese offi-
cials. PTI
Beirut: At least 19 people were
killed in air strikes by the
Syrian army and its Russian
allies on the northwestern
Syrian province of Idlib, the last
stronghold of the armed oppo-
sition to President Bashar al-
Assad, a war monitor reported.
At least 13 civilians were
killed in airstrikes by the Syrian
army on a popular market in
Maarat al-Nauman, the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights
reported.
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the election for the China
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China and on-again off-again
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de-stabilised markets and
stoked geo-political tensions.
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night to attend a summit mark-
ing the bloc’s 70th anniversary,
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invites applications for admis-
sions to its Bachelor of Design
programme for the year 2020-
2021.
The programme is
designed by experts from high-
er education, management
studies, business and industry
with an aim to bring about a
fresh, new approach to Design
education, that is collaborative
in nature and integrative in
process. It is both unique and
relevant for the neo-designer,
somebody who is at-ease work-
ing in the studios, experiment-
ing at the labs and in present-
ing at board room.
Duration: Four years
Eligibility: Minimum 50
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Eligibility: Minimum qual-
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students awaiting final year
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This programme starts by
providing fundamental clarity
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the participants to all essentials
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nfrastructure is the bedrock of
structures, services, and systems that
are required for any operation.
Infrastructure is the main driver for
GDP growth. This is the foundation on
which the nation is built. Some of the
sectors in infrastructure are: railways,
roads, highways, expressway, power
lines and power projects (solar, hydro,
nuclear, coal). Similarly, infrastruc-
ture that shapes organisations across the
globe can be termed as business and
technology infrastructure. These could
include operating systems, security
systems, and communication lines,
data centres or upgrading existing
consumer management systems.
With the facet of infrastructure
being classified broadly into different
sectors, with all of them bearing
numerous similarities, it is quintes-
sential for one to understand that
there are considerable differences
among the three too. For example, a
project in technological infrastructure
could follow the software development
life cycle along with implementing an
agile approach, both of which are
unlikely to be used across economic or
business infrastructure projects.
Owing to these varied categories,
it is imperative for individuals wishing
to pursue an MBA in Infrastructure
Development Management to choose
the category they would like to spe-
cialise in. By pursuing a specialised cat-
egory, individuals develop project plan-
ning, execution and monitoring skills.
Their ability to resolve issues, manag-
ing stakeholder expectations lead to a
successful project: within time budget
and delivering required results.
Over the last few years, India has
seen tremendous growth in infra-
structure. According to a World Bank
(World bank annual report, 2018 for the
period July 2017 to June 2018): World
Bank Group committed almost $ 67 bil-
lion in investments, investments and
guarantees, MIGA (Multilateral
Investment Guarantee Agency)
financed $ 17.9 billion and IDA
(International Development Agency)
provided $24 billion to poorest coun-
tries. This is a fair indication of sup-
port provided by World Bank to pro-
jects in developing nations. This helps
improvements in project execution
leading to significant savings and will
impact the world economy. Hence, this
topic is of significance for project
management profession in general and
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like India, where any savings in project
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and money, can be employed usefully
elsewhere. With such massive invest-
ments, the sector is in dire need of adept
leaders with specialised expertise to
drive this motion forward. Leaders who
understand strategic planning, social,
legal and environmental issues, public
policies along with their designated spe-
cialisation to hold a steady command.
Through the MBA in Infrastructure
Development Management, individu-
als can build leadership, learn the abil-
ity to adapt to change, develop a strong
business acumen that is crucial for deci-
sion making, understand scientific
and data-driven facets to understand
business risks and recognise emerging
trends in the infrastructure develop-
ment sector. The course also deals with
experiential learning through real-life
situations, along with showcasing piv-
otal aspects of digital transformation
and public-private partnerships and
understanding the holistic infrastruc-
ture ecosystem.
While the magnitude of infra-
structure development cannot be
emphasised enough, the infrastructur-
al development in the country both in
terms of quality and quantity has not
matched up to the standards or the
requirements.
Governments do not have the
financial capacity to build infrastruc-
ture on their own. Private enterprises
are invited to be a part of the process.
Public Private Partnership (PPP) model
of infrastructure development is, now,
way forward. This results in employ-
ment opportunities in private sector. In
addition to opportunities, PPP projects
throw up challenges. This course enable
the students to study the ‘how’ of lead-
ing a PPP project to success. In addi-
tion, the course identifies the enablers
that ensures effective contract man-
agement, stakeholder engagement to
name a few.
India expects 300 million new
urban occupants constantly to the pre-
viously existing base of 377 million
urban inhabitants. The administration
of such an extraordinary size of the pop-
ulace in urban zones is a test which
includes adapting to the disintegrating
urban framework, urban transporta-
tion, financial constraints faced by local
bodies, administration issues and a
stress on existing infrastructure. The
challenge lies in maintaining existing
infrastructure and adding new to meet
the continuously increased demand.
The MBA Infrastructure
Development and Management pro-
gramme prepares the students to:
structure projects technically, com-
mercially, socially and environmental-
ly feasible projects within regulatory
framework, ensure projects are com-
pleted within given constraints of time
and money and manage contractual
and stakeholder relationships.
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examination in India or in any
foreign country recognised as
equivalent to Class XII system
by the Association of Indian
Universities (AIU).
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final examination of Class XII
may also apply.
The applicants are required
to appear in one of the nation-
al level design admission tests,
such as UCEED or NID DAT
held in 2019. In case the can-
didate has not appeared for any
national level design tests, they
will have to appear in the JKLU
Design Entrance Test (DET) to
qualify for the programme.
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TKWs Institute of Banking
& Finance invites applications
for its postgraduate diploma in
Banking and Finance for the
coming academic session for
PG diploma in programme
Banking & Finance. This makes
it worlds only PG Diploma
course in Banking & Finance
demand draft in favour of
TKWs Delhi.
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The University of Sheffield,
UK invites applications for
admissions to its new MSc
Civil Engineering &
Management course.
Duration: One year
Eligibility: Holders of a
three year bachelor degree with
a minimum of 60 per cent or
first class (BEng, MEng, BSc)
in Civil and Structural
Engineering or other appro-
priate engineering or science
subject from a reputable insti-
tute.
Overall IELTS score of 6.5
with a minimum of 6.0 in each
component, or equivalent
Fee: £23, 750 for interna-
tional students.
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is serious business. Teachers
and parents need to work in tan-
dem to bring up a child and
ensure that he lives limitless and
excels in a chosen field. Ongoing
discussions between parents and
teachers can enhance the
achievement and happiness of
young learners, both inside the
classroom as well as outside.
An open line of communica-
tion between parents and teachers
and engagement of parents in
school activities facilitates a better
understanding of expectations of
the various stakeholders. This in
turn can be used to improve the
overall experience for the stu-
dents while they are learning, cre-
ating or playing during their grow-
ing up years.
Professional developmental
programmes are being initiated in
different schools and universities
across the world to improve the
association between these two
vital stakeholders. The idea is to
provide training to teachers on
how to engage with the parents of
their students.
According to mentors, a close
connection between parents and
teachers can instill discipline in stu-
dents, highlight achievements, and
identify weaknesses; without it, stu-
dents are not able to grow to their
full potential and achieve all the
dreams in their lives.
One could say that the teacher
is a school parent; he is responsi-
ble for the student at school. A par-
ent can talk to a teacher and
expect to get a comprehensive
report on the behavior as well as
performance of the student at
school. Such kind of a dialogue as
is evident in a parent teacher
meeting builds a strong relation-
ship between the two groups and
works really well for the overall
development of the student.
Why it is important?
A bond between parents and a
teacher translates into a better
relationship between the student
and the teacher as well. Students
can place their trust and faith on
the teacher and have someone on
whom they can depend in school.
The teacher can channelise the
energies and behavior of their
students towards productive activ-
ities.
A strong connection between
parents and teachers triggers aca-
demic excellence as the work of the
young one is monitored closely by
both the groups. When a parent is
involved, it creates a positive atti-
tude in the child towards school-
work. In such a context, the young
child becomes more interested to
attend school regularly. It ignites a
passion for learning in young
minds.
It is also important the teach-
ers understand the psychology of
the children and try and help the
parents to sort out issues at home
to ensure the complete wellbeing
of the little ones.
If the teacher witnesses poten-
tial in a child, he should ideally
inform the parents so that all of
them can work together to nurture
the talent in the little one.
How can such a connection be
maintained?
A solid partnership between
the parents and teachers can be
maintained through technology
tools, email, social media, and
also over telephone calls. Moreover,
one-on-one meeting can be used
to share information pertaining to
overall growth and improvement
of the child in the classrooms.
With improved technologies
and software programmes, stu-
dents, parents and teachers can
communicate openly with each
other. The use of such technology
saves time as the parents are not
required to visit the schools phys-
ically while also being able to talk
to the teachers and monitor the
academic progress, discipline, and
other activities of their children.
What should be the frequen-
cy of communication?
Ideally, the communication
between the parents and teachers
should be on daily basis. It is not
advisable for one of the parties to
leave the entire responsibility of the
child to the other. A consistent and
open dialogue between the two
parties can steer the students in the
right direction and motivate them
to make correct choices in their
lives.
For a school going child, the
parents as well as the teacher are
the mentors and guiding souls who
can shape their lives for the better
with concerted efforts every day.
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role in the life. The different alphabets
present in a name vibrate with definite
frequencies. In a most successful
name, most of the alphabets which are
present in the name of a person or
company will also be friendly and in
harmony with each other.
In any person’s life, 30 per cent role
or weightage is given to the name.
While selecting or giving the name of
a person or business, one should try to
ensure that the name vibrations should
be in harmony with the date of birth
of the person who is planning to launch
the business.
In the date of birth of any person,
we come across two things: Psychic
Number (Driver number) and Destiny
Number (Conductor number).
Psychic number (Driver number)
refers to actual date of birth.
Destiny number (Conductor num-
ber)refers to the sum total of date,
month and year.
The efforts should be made that
the number of the name of a person or
brand should vibrate in harmony with
Psychic number and Destiny number.
When these three things i.e. Name
Number, Psychic Number and Destiny
Number vibrate in harmony with each
other, the take-off will be successful,
growth will be fast and best results can
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then following things should be kept
in mind:
Q Whatever name you have
thought of, for the business or brand,
it should vibrate harmoniously with
your date of birth.
Q The brand name should also
vibrate harmoniously with the name of
the person, who is launching the busi-
ness.
Q Address where business is to be
launched i.e. number of the shop or
house or wherever starting is planned,
should be harmonious with his Destiny
Number.
Q The date on which business is to
be launched should be in harmony
with the Personal year number
i.e.chronological age (actual age num-
ber) of the person as well as with
Destiny Number.
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T he IP university organised the Annual
Convocation 2019 on December 3,
2019 at its Dwarka campus. Chief Minister
of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal was the chief guest
at the occassion. Manish Sisodia, Deputy
Chief Minister was the guest of honour at
the event. Anil Baijal, the LG of Delhi
presided over the function. Prof Samir K
Brahmchari, Founder DG, CSIR delivered
the convocation address.
The university presented total 68,662
degrees for the last three academic years of
2016-2017, 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 includ-
ing 108 PhDs, 11,683 master degrees, 55,367
bachelor degrees, 542 MBBS degrees, 108 BDS
degrees, 656 MD/MS degrees, 122 DM/MCH
degrees and 76 MPhil degrees.
Apart from it, 258 first rank holders were
I n a world of multi tasking, cre-
ativity and spontaneous think-
ing provides an upper niche to
those capable of tapping into
their creative mind. To foster the
talent of lateral and diverse
thinking for the future genera-
tion, JP International School,
Sector Omega 1, Greater Noida
have added another feather in
their cap and hosted the fouth
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2019 at its school campus in asso-
honoured with Gold medals and 16 exem- ciation with Creative Thinkers
plary performance holders were also reward- Foundation & Odyssey of Mind
ed with plaques on the occassion. India.
STEAM stands for Science,
Technology, Engineering, Arts
and Mathematics. It is a fusion
of Science and Art required to
enhance overall creativity, to
facilitate nurturing the problem
solving abilities and also skills
like team work and communi-
cation. A total of 11 schools from
Delhi NCR participated in the
event comprising of 210 students.
The event challenged the
students of various age groups to
think out of the box and find
solutions to various challenges
given to them. In this competi-
tion the students were divided
into teams under three divi-
sions — Division I (eight to 12
yrs), Division II (12-15 yrs) and
Division III (15 -18 yrs). The stu-
dents displayed best of their
creativity and innovation in the
tasks given to them.
Amit Saxena, Vice President
of Sparsh Group and JP
International School said: “We
are happy to see the creative bend
of mind of the new generation.
We shall continue to give simi-
lar exposure to our students and
shall implement STEAM from
Class I itself to give students a
wider platform to perform.”
TheGroupRyanof Institutions
International United Arab Emirates), Vipul
was (Consul General of India,
awarded the Most Promising Dubai) and Asian Games Gold
School with Academic medallist wrestler Padma Shri
Excellence Awards at the Indo Bajrang Punia were present as
Arab Leaders Summit and the chief guests.
Awards 2019 in Dubai. The While addressing the audi-
award was given by Market ence Vipul said: “Technology
Research Company, Worldwide has become a part of our life.
Achiever for outstanding con- Through these investments,
tributions in the field of edu- both countries can be benefi-
cation. Ryan Pinto, CEO of cial for each other. Technology
Ryan International Group of is evolving in the field of teach-
Institutions received the award. ing as well, online learning apps
On this occasion, HE Dr are the best example of it.
Mohammad Saeed Al-Kindi Nowadays, students are also
(Former Minister, taking the help of technology
Environment and Water, for studying”.
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luster work environment. People today are
more aesthetically aware than ever, be it with
the products they use, the place where they
choose to spend their leisure time in, and most
importantly, their workplace. A well-designed
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n today’s world there is at
most need of education
which encourages the stu-
dents involvement in terms of
attention, interest and inquisi-
tiveness, that can be promote-
don how they are being taught.
Teachers are valued as most
essential resource in determin-
ing the learning outcomes of the
students. At every level of edu-
cation there is a need of quali-
ty teachers.
Teachers have an influence
in learning outcomes of students
and have a deep impact on their
future contribution to the soci-
ety.
An inspired and well-
informed teacher helps the
future generations acquire
knowledge, guide them on the
right path and help them
acquire the skills necessary to
lead a productive life and con-
tribute to the society. A teacher
therefore plays an important role
in the creation of a society that
is healthy, productive and peace-
ful. That is why the profession
is considered the most noble of
professions.
Even the noblest of profes-
sions has its own set of chal-
lenges and shortcomings. From
a room full of excited young
studentswith starkly different
aptitude and mannerism to
external disruptors like the
internet and digital devices, a
teacher has to find ways to bal-
ance them all and help the stu-
dents in the pursuit of knowl-
edge.
From the quick learner to
the struggler and the obedient
sort to the playful sort.
Disruptions like the Internet and
web enabled devices have had a
massive impact on the class-
rooms. Access to and con-
sumption of knowledge have
undergone a sea change.
Classrooms are increasingly
being digitised and so are edu-
cational contents.
This has a disruptive impact
on the traditional functioning of
a classroom and poses a serious
challenge for teachers. From
being the primary source of
information, teachers today have
to contend with supposedly
unlimited amount of informa-
tion that is easily accessible
over the internet. The new age
teacher therefore must up-skill
to equip themselves with the
necessary skill and under-
standing of technology so that
they can successfully co-opt
and harness the benefits.
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tion has been one of the key
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RTE and SSA are aimed square-
ly at improving access to
schools.
This not only calls for an
increase in the number teachers,
it also calls for improving learn-
ing outcomes through teacher’s
up-skilling and training. The
Government having woken up
to the need for improving access
to and quality of education is
implementing stricter quality
controls in teachers' training.
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and teachers’ training and up-
skilling needs to be undertaken
regularly to keep them abreast
with the latest developments in
technology induced disruption
in the education system.
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panies have on the back of sig-
nificant investments accumu-
lated significant experience and
expertise in content develop-
ment and delivery mechanisms.
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to developing new and effi-
cient learning aids these private
players have a clear insight and
understanding of the education
sector. These players experience
and expertise can and must be
leveraged to augment the gov-
ernment’s efforts at teacher’s
training and development.
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rience in the education field
have a wealth of experience and
are utilising towards training
and equipping teachers with
the requisite training for an
effective teaching and learning
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Imagine Education (UK) in
2015 to provide teacher training
in India was signed. The train-
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to equip teachers in content and
pedagogical competence and
their implications to classroom
practices.
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week, each four-five hours train-
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by 30-50 teachers and these
training sessions are conducted
pan India.
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grammes help in-service teach-
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edge of subject content and
help them employ a constructive
approach to the teaching learn-
ing process.
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laboration with government
agencies as well as internation-
al educational firms of repute
can lead to an enhanced quali-
ty of modules and training
materials. It will take the con-
certed efforts involving the gov-
ernment as well as players in the
private sector to successfully
develop and implement an all-
encompassing teachers' training
program for government as well
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University in Canada.
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International students can
apply for these endowments.
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ship will provide the award
amount in the following
manner: $7,500 per academ-
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year (For 75.0% – 79.9%)
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high school curriculum or
year 2020-21. The pro-
gramme is accessible for the
international applicants who
wish to undertake a bache-
lor’s degree coursework at
the university in Australia.
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senior secondary school
qualification or university
entrance examination, such
as the New South Wales
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university. After being
enrolled, you will be auto-
matically considered for the
one year of a university
degree from a recognised
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ments of the university.
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Rapinoe was not at the Chatelet
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to make the trip back to the coun-
try where she led the USA to victo-
ry in July.
However, Messi was there with
his wife, Antonella Roccuzzo, and
two of their children. It is Messi’s first
Ballon d’Or since 2015 and his sixth
overall as he moves one ahead of old
rival Cristiano Ronaldo.
“It is 10 years since I won my
first Ballon d’Or here in Paris and I
remember coming here with my
three brothers, I was 22 and it was
all unthinkable for me what I was
going through,” Messi said on stage
after receiving the award from last
year’s winner Luka Modric.
“I hope I have several years left
to keep enjoying my football. I am
aware of the age I have and these
moments are all the more enjoyable
because the moment when I have to
retire is getting closer and that is dif-
ficult.
“All going well I’ll have several
years left but at the moment time
seems to be flying and everything is
happening very quickly.
“I hope to keep enjoying my
football, my family, facing my rivals
and all of this life that I have.”
VAN DIJK COMES SECOND
The Barcelona number 10 won
this year’s prize — organised by
France Football magazine and voted
for by a panel of journalists from
around the world — ahead of
Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk,
with Ronaldo third.
It is the first time since 2010 that
Ronaldo has failed to rank in the top
two.
Having starred in the Liverpool
team that won the Champions
League, Van Dijk finished second to
Messi just as he did in the voting for
FIFA’s equivalent prize, The Best, in
September.
“Unfortunately there are a cou-
ple of players like him who are a bit
unnatural. Six times Ballon d’Or —
you need to respect greatness as
well,” said Van Dijk.
Van Dijk was one of four
Liverpool players in the top 10, with
Sadio Mane fourth, Mohamed Salah
fifth and goalkeeper Alisson seventh.
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goalkeeper of the year, named after
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es last season as Barcelona won the
title.
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was also the top scorer in last sea-
son’s Champions League with 12
goals.
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liance were required, on Sunday he
scored a wonderful late winner for
Barcelona against Atletico Madrid.
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This is just the second year that
a women’s Ballon d’Or — voted for
by 48 journalists — has been award-
ed, with Rapinoe succeeding
Norway’s Ada Hegerberg.
Rapinoe was the star of the
Women’s World Cup on, and off, the
field, winning the Golden Boot for
top scorer, with six goals, and Golden
Ball for best player.
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the USA beat the Netherlands 2-0 in
the final. But the 34-year-old femi-
nist icon made headlines with her
outspoken criticism of US President
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four Liverpool players finish
in the top 10 in the ranking for this
year’s Ballon d’Or can be an extra
source of motivation for the
Anfield club in their quest for
more on-field success this season.
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more players than that on the total
shortlist so everyone can be proud
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Dijk after coming second behind
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ment and has led calls for her team
to be paid the same as their male
counterparts.
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“I want to say a huge thank you
to my team-mates, the coaches, the
US Soccer Federation, for all of the
support to allow me to be who I am
and do what I do on the field but also
be the person who I am off the field.”
Rapinoe was one of four mem-
bers of the US side that lifted the
World Cup to be nominated for the
prize, along with Tobin Heath, Rose
Lavelle and Alex Morgan, who fin-
ished third on Monday. England’s
Lucy Bronze came second.
Dutch defender Matthijs de Ligt,
the ex-Ajax star now at Juventus, suc-
ceeded Kylian Mbappe as the winner
of the Kopa Trophy for the best play-
er aged under 21.

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ting line-up will start against
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R iding on his runners-up finish at the Syed
Modi International, Indian shuttler
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a second successive century.
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who had reached world No 30 in 2012, had
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al champion, entered his maiden final of a
Super 300 event at Lucknow before losing to
A ll-rounder Vijay Shankar
was named captain of the
Tamil Nadu team for the Ranji
Mumbai trophy squad for their
lung opener against Baroda.
The two made to the 15-
MEHULI SHOOTS 10M AIR RIFLE GOLD had been asking for from the Chinese Taipei’s Wang Tzu Wei. Trophy 2019-20 season, begin- member squad, which was
Kathmandu: 8]SXP]bW^^cTabQPVVTS]X]T\TSP[b top order,” said Hohns. However, his progress to the summit clash ning on December 9. picked by the Milind Rege-led
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New Zealand for three Tests —
in Perth, Melbourne and
current batting line-up to con-
tinue their form across the next
three Tests.”
next best with five players inside the top 30.
Among others, young woman shuttler
Ashmita Chaliha also made a massive jump
RAshwin and out of favour
opener M Vijay.
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bestowed with the
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mended the Blackcaps,
saying: “The New Zealand
in the recent Syed Mushtaq Ali
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matches he played, has been
opportunity for Shaw, who
returned to competitive cricket
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Manchester United is “a closed “It’s that time of year. It’s never nice
chapter” and he is only interested to see your colleagues lose your jobs
in beating them when he takes his in- — three in a very short space of time.
form side to Old Trafford today. “It’s a game of margins,” he added.
It is the new Tottenham manag- “Sometimes you have luck, sometimes
er’s first return to the touchline at you don’t, but it doesn’t make me any
United’s home ground since his sack- more concerned that it’s December.
ing by the club last December. “I’m good, absolutely no problem.
“This is a closed chapter for me,” Sometimes you laugh when you read
said Mourinho, who has won all stories about what I’ve said and stuff,
three of his matches in charge of at least I know the sources are just
Spurs. “I left the club, I took my made up, blatant lies.”
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time to prepare myself for saying they were not getting the
the next challenge. results their football deserved.

“Honestly, United for
me is in my book of experi-
ences, it’s in my history
book.”
United are struggling
under Mourinho’s succes-
sor, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer,
but go into the game
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just two points behind fifth-placed
Spurs.
“It is not for me to analyse United
now,” Mourinho said at his pre-
match press conference.
“I analyse them as an opponent,
how they play. How can we beat
them? How can they beat us? For
me that is the important thing.”
Mourinho is excited about
the prospect of returning to
Old Trafford.
He said: “I feel good, I
like to play big matches,
I like to play against
the best teams and go
back to a place where
I was happy.
“I have a great rela-
tionship with the
Manchester United support-
ers. I went back as a pundit
and I was humbled by such a
beautiful reception.
“Tomorrow I go back as the
coach of the team that will try and
beat Manchester United.
“I understand that what they
want is the exact opposite of what I
want. Of course during the match I
expect them to forget me.”
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says he
does not fear for his future as
Manchester United manager despite a
spate of Premier League sackings as he
prepares to face his predecessor Jose
Mourinho.
Spurs turned to Mourinho
after dismissing Mauricio
Pochettino last month, while
Arsenal and Watford have
subsequently sacked Unai
Emery and Quique Sanchez
Flores.
Solskjaer is under
increasing pressure, with
United ninth in the Premier
League, 22 points behind
leaders Liverpool and eight off a top-
four spot as they prepare for today’s
match against Tottenham.
“No, it doesn’t make me more con-
cerned,” Solskjaer said at his pre-match
press conference on Tuesday. “I’m just
focusing on my job and that’s just
The club are winless in three
games and Solskjaer’s job will not get
any easier with a derby against
Manchester City on Saturday to follow
the game against Mourinho’s Spurs
side.
The Norwegian, though, dis-
missed any need for crisis talks with
the United board.
“Three days or four days are not
going to change a whole lot, but these
two games are great chances for us to
prove things and prove to ourselves
that we can continue in the vein we
have had against some of the better
sides,” he said.
Solskjaer expects Mourinho to
receive a warm welcome when he
returns to Old Trafford a year after
being sacked, having won the League
Cup and Europa League during his
time in charge.
“We know we have to improve, we
are working hard to do that right and
when you change a manager halfway
through the season (it) isn’t where it
is supposed to be,” said the Norwegian.
“I don’t think whoever the man-
ager of the opposition team is will
change their motivation (of the play-
ers),” he said.
“They are motivated to do well for
Man Utd, because they know it’s
about improving every day in training
and every time you step on that pitch
it’s a chance to prove you can be part
of this long term. That has always been
the case at Man Utd.”
United will still be without the
injured Paul Pogba but Scott
McTominay and Nemanja Matic will
be assessed as Solskjaer looks at his
midfield options.
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L iverpool midfielder Alex
Oxlade-Chamberlain says
the Premier League leaders are
going into every game believing
they can win after racking up 13
victories in 14 games.
Jurgen Klopp’s unbeaten
side have dropped just two
points this season and estab-
lished an eight-point advantage
over second-placed Leicester.
But even the pressure of
maintaining their winning run,
which appears to grow with
every game for a club searching
for their first league title since
1990, has not affected the men-
tality within the club, according
to Oxlade-Chamberlain.
“I’m going into it (a game)
with the mindset that we’re
going to win. I think that’s how
we all feel,” the England inter-
national told the PA news
agency.
“We’re going into the games
expecting ourselves to win and
anything else we’re disappoint-
ed with.”
He added: “I think that’s the
mentality you need to be suc-
cessful, to have those high stan-
dards that nothing else is accept-
able. Then you’ve got to let his-
tory take its course.”
Liverpool are firm
favourites to end their title
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Chamberlain said they needed
to remain mentally strong.
“You’ve got to just keep
going out and churning out
results,” he said. “There might be
a time where results don’t go so
well and people maybe close the
gap a little bit.
“We’ve got to be also ready
for those moments mentally as
a team to just keep going and see
what happens.”
Liverpool’s next match is
the Merseyside derby at home
to struggling Everton today,
with the Reds unbeaten against
their local rivals at Anfield
since 1999.
But Klopp’s side have not
kept a clean sheet at home all
season and are without sus-
pended first-choice goalkeeper
Alisson Becker.
“I don’t think we’re leaking
loads of goals but probably just
a few little silly mistakes here
and there all over the pitch,” said
Oxlade-Chamberlain.
“But even when we have
been conceding, we’re still find-
ing a way to come up with the
goods and most of the time at
the minute it’s been winning the
game.”

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East Bengal will begin their
All eyes will be on the mar-
quee player and head coach

F reddie Ljungberg intends to tap into

the knowledge of Arsene Wenger
and Sven-Goran Eriksson as he pre-
pares for his second game in charge of
Arsenal.
The 42-year-old interim manager
took over from Unai Emery at the
Emirates last week after the Spaniard
was sacked, with Arsenal languishing
in mid-table in the Premier League.
Ljungberg said Wenger, who
brought the Swede to Arsenal as a play-
er back in 1998, and Eriksson could
offer valuable experience as he looks to
build his own career.
Asked if he had spoken to former
Arsenal boss Wenger, he replied: "No
(not yet).
"I would really like to speak to him.
I'm in contact with him but I haven't
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tic, but it's on my list to do so.
under his Swedish compatriot Eriksson,
he admitted he heard good things about
the former England manager.
"Sven is intelligent," he said. "I spoke
to him a lot when he was the manager
of England because he was watching
our games.
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I-League campaign against Real
Kashmir Football Club here
today.
A title eluded East Bengal
last season as, in spite of defeat-
ing Gokulam Kerala 2-1 on the
last day of competitions, they
fell one point shy of eventual
champions Chennai City FC.
Under the guidance of
head coach Alejandro
Menendez, the red-and-gold
brigade drew with Real
Kashmir at home and scored a
victory in Srinagar last season
and this will give them a psy-
chological advantage before
they start their season.
The Kalyani Municipality
Stadium will serve as the
home venue of both East
Bengal and Mohun
they are a very competitive out-
fit. The onus now lies on us, we
need to be really accurate and
sharp whenever we
have the chance to
attack.
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be a very tough game,” he
added.
David Robertson’s son, Mason
Lee Robertson who possesses
the ability to play in different
positions.
The Srinagar-based team is
also bolstered with the inclu-
sion of former NEROCA FC
striker Singham Subash Singh
and winger Kallum Michael
Higginbotham, the fresh trans-
fer from Scottish
Championship side
Dunfermline Athletic Football
Club.
Coach Robertson said,
“Last season, we had a good
season and defended well and
had a very good defensive
record. This season we have
added more firepower and
hope to score more goals this
season.

W olves manager Nuno Espirito Santo has

branded his side's December schedule
"absurd" and hit out at the decisions of the
Football Association and Premier League.
The Molineux club are playing eight games
this month, seven of them in the league, culmi-
nating in matches against Manchester City and
Liverpool within 48 hours.
"He was here for 22 years as the
coach so he has a lot of experience. And
he probably has some things that he
thinks are important that he can share
with me and make me a better coach.
That's what I wanted to ask."
While Ljungberg never played
how he treated players and how he
made them feel good and things like
that.
"I have stolen a little bit of those
ideas. He's a great coach, it's been a long
time, and I hope I can speak to him
soon."
Bagan except for the
two derby matches.
Speaking before the match,
Menendez said, “Real Kashmir
are a very solid and strong side,
their defence is very compact.
We are very well aware that
“We need to per-
form well in this
match to enhance our chances
and to get success in the league.
Otherwise, things can get
tricky towards the end of the
season. I believe it is going to
Real Kashmir, on the other
hand, had a dream season last
year. They became the first-
ever team from Kashmir to
play in the I-League and were
title contenders at one point of
time. Real Kashmir finally fin-
“East Bengal are a very
tough side to play against they
are stronger than last season
also. I think they will be one of
the strongest teams this season
and one who can win the
championship.”

Wolves host champions City on the evening
of December 27 before travelling to Anfield on
December 29 for an afternoon kick-off.
Espirito Santo's men have already played 27
games this season due to their progress in the
Europa League.
"It's crazy. This schedule doesn't make sense,"
he said.
"In our case we are the team who has more
competitions already and we are going to play
with 45 hours between games. It's absurd," he
added.
"Every time we have a meeting with the FA,
we try to make them understand what it means
to the players.
"It's not human, the amount of games we
have. If we increase that with international play-
ers it becomes really tough."
The demands of television broadcasters have
been blamed for the staggering of games around
the festive period.
When the schedule was released, City also
complained that the "sporting integrity" of the
Premier League was being compromised by the
scheduling -- Wolves will have a day less than
Liverpool to recover before the sides meet.
"We are a team who have had a lot of com-
petitions and the gap between games is not being
respectful," added Espirito Santo.
Despite their fixture pile-up, Wolves are sixth
in the table and have already secured their place
in the last 32 of the Europa League.
The job done by Espirito Santo at Molineux
has seen him linked with the vacant manageri-
al job at Arsenal following Unai Emery's sacking
on Friday.
"I still have a contract, for me it's more impor-
tant that I focus on what I have to do today," said
Espirito Santo on the speculation.
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Liverpool have been
drawn at home to
Merseyside rivals
Everton in the FA Cup
third round, while hold-
ers Manchester City will
start the defence of their
title at home to third-
tier Port Vale. The Toffees face Jurgen Klopp’s side
today in the Premier League and will make the
short trip to Anfield for a second time this season
during the first week of January.
Pep Guardiola’s City thumped Watford 6-0 in
last season’s final and have been given a favourable
draw to kick-start their 2019-20 campaign, with
John Askey’s League Two side pitching up at the Etihad
Stadium.
Manchester United face a difficult away tie against Premier
League rivals Wolves, who knocked them out of the competi-
tion last season’s quarter-finals, while Arsenal welcome
Championship leaders Leeds United to the Emirates Stadium.
New Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho takes his side to
Middlesbrough, managed by former Spurs defender Jonathan
Woodgate, and Chelsea host Nottingham Forest.
Ties will take place between January 3 and 6.
Also in an important announcement, the start of games in
the third round of the FA Cup will be delayed by one minute
to raise awareness of mental health issues.
Most games in the third round of the cup will start at 3:01
pm on Saturday, Jan 4.
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O disha FC would look to break their string of
draws with a victory when they host defend-
ing champions Bengaluru FC at the Shiv
Chhatrapati Sports Complex here today.
Josep Gombau’s side come into this tie after
playing out three successive draws, two goal-less
results against ATK and Kerala Blasters, followed
by a 2-2 draw away to Chennaiyin FC.
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their dominance into results.
As Gombau seeks to deliver results, he faces
a tough challenge in Bengaluru FC. The Blues
are undefeated in the league so far and boast a
water-tight defence which has conceded only two
goals in six matches.
Odisha will bank on Aridane Santana, who Vinit Rai and Xisco Hernandez love to get on the injured Michael Onwu and Ashique Kuruniyan
has scored four goals so far, to help breach the ball and dictate play. But so do Bengaluru mid- are yet to open their accounts for the season while
Bengaluru backline. But much will depend on fielders Erik Paartalu, Dimas Delgado and Udanta Singh has just one goal to his name so
playmaker Xisco Hernandez who has the abili- Raphael Augusto. far.
ty to carve open any defence. He has also shown Bengaluru come into this game after a gut- “Most of the games we were dominating. We
his eye for goals, having scored three so far. wrenching 1-1 draw in Hyderabad where an have to finish those games well. We have not been
The Spaniard will be pumped up for the bat- injury-time equaliser from Robin Singh denied good enough in certain aspects, and we have to
tle against his former team and is expected to play them a win. Cuadrat’s team were all over work on that. I am not worried about not get-
a huge role in the outcome of today’s encounter. Hyderabad FC throughout the game and should ting goals. Sunil is an experienced player. He is
Much will also depend on the midfield bat- have scored more goals to put the tie to bed. giving us solutions. Ashique and Udanta are
tle as two technically-gifted sets of players go up Lack of goals have been a worry for the Blues young players and they are improving,” Cuadrat
against each other. The likes of Marcos Tebar, despite Sunil Chhetri’s recent scoring run. The said.