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Kamaraj’s was a selfpo The humility that he could do then, hardly anyone knows of him wering position. But even then, with, has a very hard, practical today. Chakrayya was a Dalit from Quota politics the fact of Indira Gandhi being Prime Minister made the party (as side to it as well. It is about the process of the identifi cation of the Andhra Pradesh. Now he is a meta phor, the unknown Congressman The Adityanath regime’s move to confer SC Kamaraj himself soon realised) as new Congress President. Those from a deprived background, un much her fi eld of action as it was who are loath to part from the fa compromised by power, unspoilt status on 17 backward castes has no legal basis Gopalkrishna Gandhi that of the party chief and his mily’s apron strings will say to him by fl attery, untempted by offi ce, T he Uttar Pradesh government’s latest attempt to Working Committee. So, barring and, even worse, nudge the part who, if entrusted with the respon extend the benefi ts available to Scheduled Castes the atypical interlude when P.V. towards the appointment of a per sibility and left free to wield it, can R to 17 castes that are now under the Other Back esignations are not an inten Narasimha Rao was Prime Minis son who is ‘a tried and trusted fa startle us. Such a Congressman or FILE PHOTO/PTI ward Classes (OBC) list has no legal basis and appears to tion. Nor are they something ter and when the quizzical Sitaram mily loyalist’. That way lies the Congresswoman is impossible to be aimed at making political gains ahead of a round of to be off ered, like an expla Kesri headed it, the Congress has party’s interment. name. But is not nonexistent. An nation or an apology. There is no been dependent on descendants election, openly announced and byelections to the State Assembly. It is fairly well such thing as “I am resigning”. You of Jawaharlal Nehru. Change and how freely conducted, can yet surprise known that Parliament alone is vested with the power either resign or do not resign. Four generations of them have better than never. He has relin Rahul Gandhi must discourage us. No leader will be found if the to include or exclude any entry in the SC list under Arti When, immediately after the In done the thinking, planning, stra quished status, he has retrieved that emphatically. His statement attempt is to fi nd a dummy, not a cle 341 of the Constitution. Union Minister for Social Jus dian National Congress’s compre tegising, campaigning, defending, stature. He has been brave, he has that the party needs to change fun leader. A dummy President will tice and Empowerment Thawar Chand Gehlot has clar hensive defeat in the general elec leading for them. They have been been wise. damentally is most reassuring. It is make a dummy of the party. ifi ed this position in Parliament, while suggesting that tion, 2019, Rahul Gandhi the party, the party them. And it And now that his resignation is in fact, redemptive. As much as his the State government follow due process. Uttar Pradesh announced his resignation from has to be said, not just in fairness ‘offi cial’, will he be that which is earlier statement that the new Pre Word of advice the offi ce of President of the Con to the GandhiNehrus but in fair about more than being wise? Will sident should not be from the Neh A fi nal word for and to what I has unsuccessfully tried to get some backward castes gress, he did something that was ness to modern Indian history, he be humble? Not in the theatri ruGandhi family. The question would like to see as the New Con declared as Scheduled Castes in the past, once during politically responsible. His moth that they have played this role cality of formal selfdiminution that needs to be asked, therefore, gress. In 1923, the Congress gave of the tenure of Mulayam Singh, and again during the rule er’s instinctive declining of the through the most trying periods in which Golda Meir put down in one is: Should not that change mean itself the Congress’s Swaraj Party. of Akhilesh Yadav. In 2016, a notifi cation was issued Prime Ministership of India in the party’s history, facing the fusil of her Ministers with, “Oh don’t be that the party President is elected Headed by Deshabandhu C.R. Das, stating that 17 castes were to be treated as Scheduled 2004 was from the crest of victory. lades of India’s growing disen so humblehumble; you are not as openly and as seriously as Netaji with Pandit Motilal Nehru as its Castes. The matter reached the Allahabad High Court, It bore the moral carat of instinct. chantment with dynastic politics. that great!” No, not in the sense of Subhas Chandra Bose was elected, General Secretary, it functioned as but in an interim order in March 2017, the court ob It was universally hailed. They have done this from the lone an obligatory humility but of ge in 1938 and 1939? Netaji, it will be the party’s legislative wing, oppos Rahul Gandhi’s relinquishing of liness and vulnerability that is the nuine preparedness for another recalled, defeated Gandhiji’s cho ing the Raj’s unjust raj, while the served that in case any certifi cates were issued on the his high and historic position 15 lot of any pinnacle. person being eff ective and better sen candidate Pattabhi Sitaramay main Congress Party functioned basis of the notifi cation, these would be subject to the years later was from the hollow of than oneself as the party’s sentinel ya. In that election and its after outside legislatures as a mass outcome of the litigation. More than two years later, defeat. It carried the ethical gram Stepping down and captain. Will he move to the math lies another lesson for movement led by Gandhiji. The this order has been utilised by the Yogi Adityanath go mage of principle. It was applaud Seen against this backdrop, Rahul side, not to maintain a sideview of today’s Congress. The party’s new Congress MPs and MLAs of today vernment to restore the proposal in an oblique manner. ed by democrats across the Gandhi’s announcing of his resig things, not to prompt from the President should be elected as and the Congress Ministries where Though it is quite apparent that it is not a judicial direc country. nation was as cathartic for his par wings, not allowing anyone to tell ‘grandly’ as Netaji was but she or they exist, should see themselves tive, the State government has asked authorities in all ty as it was natural for democracy. him to be the power behind the he should not be treated as Netaji as the Swaraj Party of today, lead The family factor It was as incredible for the Con throne, but to actually be just a was, by the Gandhiloyal Working ing the charge in legislatures, legis districts to issue certifi cates to those from these castes. But the ideationally null and valua gress as it was admirable for con plain billeted soldier of the party? Committee of the day. The new latively. The Congress Party out No doubt, these 17 castes comprise the most disad tionally empty in the Grand Old scientious politics, as unaccepta If he does he will reap a harvest of President should be left complete side, led by a new dynamic leader, vantaged among the backward classes. Categorising the Party were atremble. They feared ble to hangerson as it was genuine goodwill which is diff e ly free to form the Working Com the Chakrayya equivalent, should backward classes into two or three sections has been that their entries in the Gandhi admirable to the disinterestedly rent from fawning deference. And, mittee, from out of persons whose galvanise its popular base pro seen as one way to apportion the benefi ts of reservation Nehru family’s ledgers of loyalty interested. After four weeks and freed from the compulsion of servicemindedness not boss grammatically, addressing life and among many social groups. In such an exercise, these would go up in the air. They resist more of uncertainty about the se functioning as an alternative mindfulness, is manifest. death issues on our natural re castes may qualify for a compartment within the OBC ed the idea. Tacticians of power riousness of his intention, he has Prime Minister and of outdoing On May 31, 1947, Gandhiji la sources, our farms and mines, and play in the party also were unsure, had to reassert, as he did on July Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he mented the dying of a young Con with a zerocorruption, zerocro quota. However, treating them as Scheduled Castes is to the point of panic, about who or 4, that he has resigned, that he is will bring to his new leader, his gressman, Chakrayya, with these nyism, zerocommunalism plural beset with problems. For one thing, they may not qual what could replace ‘the family’ as not Congress President any longer, Congress President, the dividend words: “The time is fast approach ethic, redeem the nation’s trust ify to be treated as SCs because they may not have suf the Congress’s sellingpoint. These that the party must now fi nd of a new reading of the public ing when India will have to elect which it has not lost, only let go fered untouchability and social discrimination. Given individuals may not be judged too another leader. The interval of pulse, a new understanding of the the fi rst President of the Republic. awhile. the legal limitations on the State government’s power to hastily, for they have never known doubt has certainly dullened the popular will from the realworld’s I would have proposed the name expand the SC list, it is not diffi cult to discern a political their party without the Nehru shine of his initial announcement pitted ground rather than the dis of Chakrayya had he been alive…” Gopalkrishna Gandhi is a former motive behind any move to confer SC status on sections Gandhis. True, as Congress Presi and reduced its impact. But late is tancing plinth of a hyped rostrum. Not many had heard of Chakrayya administrator, diplomat and governor of the OBC. When the Samajwadi Party was in power, one could say moving them to the SC list would have freed up more opportunities for the infl uential and pol itically dominant Yadavs in the OBC category. For the Reclaiming the IndoPacifi c narrative present BJP regime, the move could help carve out a The ASEAN’s intent to be in the driving seat is clear as it seeks to manage the emerging regional order with policy moves vote bank from the newly declared SC groups. The Ba hujan Samaj Party, which has opposed the move both economic and military, requires Ministry of External Aff airs (MEA) India has welcomed the avoiding the deepening of mis earlier this year. ASEAN’s outlook on the IndoPac in Parliament and outside, understands that new addi trust, miscalculation and patterns For a long time, the ASEAN has ifi c as it sees “important elements tions would shrink opportunities for the existing castes of behaviour based on a zerosum been reluctant to frontally engage of convergence” with its own ap in the SC list. That is why its leader, Ms. Mayawati, has game”. with the IndoPacifi c discourse as proach towards the region. During hinted that the reservation pie can be shared among Despite individual diff erences the perception was that it may an U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pom more claimants only if its size is increased. The U.P. go Harsh V. Pant and bilateral engagements ASEAN tagonise China. But there was peo’s visit to India in June, India vernment would be welladvised to avoid misleading member states have with the U.S. soon a realisation that such an ap was categorical that it is “for so GETTY IMAGES vulnerable sections with the promise of SC status. and China, the regional grouping proach might allow others to mething” in the IndoPacifi c and A t the 34th summit of the As can now claim to have a common shape the regional architecture “not against somebody”, seeking sociation of Southeast Asian approach as far as the IndoPacifi c and marginalise the ASEAN itself. to carefully calibrate its relations The last four Nations (ASEAN) in Bangkok in June, its member states fi nally region is concerned and which the Prime Minister of Thailand, Pray ing seat as it seeks to manage the And so the fi nal outlook that the ASEAN has come up with eff ective with the U.S. and China in this geo politically critical region. As Exter India has retained the tag of favourite as the managed to articulate a collective uth Chanocha, suggested “should geopolitical churn around it. ly seeks to take its own position nal Aff airs Minister S. Jaishankar vision for the IndoPacifi c region also complement existing frame Engaged with the IndoPacifi c rather than following any one has suggested “[and] that someth cricket World Cup enters the semifi nal stage in a document titled “The ASEAN works of cooperation at the re concept for some time now, it has power’s lead. ing is peace, security, stability, T he ICC World Cup has entered its business end Outlook on the IndoPacifi c”. At a gional and subregional levels and now been pushed into articulating prosperity and rules”. India conti much after it commenced on May 30. Including time when the geopolitical contes generate tangible and concrete de its formal response with a sense of The framework nues to invest in the IndoPacifi c; the inaugural game that featured host England tation between China and the Un liverables for the benefi t of the re urgency after other major regional While the ASEAN outlook does not on the sidelines of the recent G20 ited States is escalating, it has be gion’s peoples”. players began laying their cards on see the IndoPacifi c as one contin Summit in Osaka, Japan, Mr. Modi and South Africa at the Oval in London, 41 matches come imperative for the ASEAN to the table. The release of the U.S. uous territorial space, it emphasis held discussions on the IndoPacif were played, while four contests became victims of the reclaim the strategic narrative in Conduct in the China Sea Free and Open IndoPacifi c (FOIP) es development and connectivity, ic region with U.S. President Do fi ckle English weather. In the leadup to cricket’s pre its favour in order to underscore What has been interesting also is strategy report in June — it focuss underlining the need for maritime nald Trump and Japan Prime Mi mier championship, India, England and Australia were its centrality in the emerging re the ASEAN member states agree es on preserving a “free and open cooperation, infrastructure con nister Shinzo Abe with a focus on the favourites and the expectation was that one among gional order. ing to push for a quick conclusion IndoPacifi c” in the face of a more nectivity and broader economic improving regional connectivity New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa and Sri Lanka, Though there were divisions of a Code of Conduct in the South “assertive China” — was perhaps cooperation. The ASEAN is signall and infrastructure development. would be the fourth contender. As the dust settles on among ASEAN member states in China Sea, an increasingly contest the fi nal push that was needed to ing that it would seek to avoid With the ASEAN fi nally coming the runup to the summit, they ed maritime space which is bring the ASEAN discussion on the making the region a platform for to terms with its own role in the In the league phase, India, Australia, England and New managed to come up with a non claimed largely by China and in subject to a close. Japan had alrea major power competition. Instead doPacifi c, the ball is now in the Zealand qualifi ed for the semifi nals. Virat Kohli’s men binding document. It underlines parts by the Philippines, Vietnam, dy unveiled its Free and Open In its frame of reference is economic court of other regional stakehol topped the table with consistent performances. The in the document the need for an Indonesia and Malaysia. Tensions doPacifi c concept in 2016, while cooperation and dialogue. The ders to work with the regional solitary loss against England was more of a wakeup call inclusive and “rulesbased frame continue to rise over the militari Australia released its Foreign Poli fact that the ASEAN has gone grouping to shape a balance of than a serious setback to the path to the knockout work” to “help to generate mo sation of this waterway; in June, a cy White Paper in 2017, detailing ahead and articulated an Indo power in the region which favours phase. This Tuesday, India will take on New Zealand at mentum for building strategic Philippine fi shing boat sank after it its IndoPacifi c vision centred Pacifi c outlook is in itself a seem inclusivity, stability and economic Manchester’s Old Traff ord and the second semifi nal pits trust and winwin cooperation in was rammed by a Chinese vessel. around security, openness and ing challenge to China which re prosperity. old foes Australia and England at Birmingham’s Edgbas the region”. An awareness of the It is hoped that the fi rst draft of the prosperity. Prime Minister Naren fuses to validate the concept. But emergence of a great power con code for negotiations will see the dra Modi articulated India’s Indo the ASEAN’s approach is aimed at Harsh V. Pant is Director, Studies, at ton on Thursday. The Men in Blue have an edge but it test around its vicinity pervades light by this year end. With these Pacifi c vision at the Shangrila Dia placating China by not allowing it Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi would be prudent to remember that in the warmup fi x the document as it argues that moves, the ASEAN is clearly sig logue in 2018, with India even set self to align with the U.S.’s vision and Professor of International Relations ture at the Oval on May 25, New Zealand won by six “the rise of material powers, i.e. nalling its intent to be in the driv ting up an IndoPacifi c wing in the for the region completely. at King’s College London wickets. Since then Kohli’s men have gained strength. India’s arsenal rides on the toporder, which has Rohit Sharma toplining it with 647 runs and a mindboggling LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to letters@thehindu.co.in must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. fi ve centuries, besides K.L. Rahul and skipper Kohli. The middle order, though, is undercooked. Hardik Crisis in Karnataka governments. Political modernisation. The India often miss out on for the youth of our country, Hitman on a high The resignation of 12 parties which join hands to government’s allocation of quality information. The apart from reintroducing After scoring fi ve fantastic Pandya and Rishabh Pant had their moments while Karnataka legislators, if form such alliances do so for ₹ 400 crore to craft a world proposed 10% duty on failed schemes such as Skill centuries, including three M.S. Dhoni punctuated a series of dots with a hit to the accepted, could spell the power and are unconcerned class higher education newsprint could also result India and MUDRA loan consecutive ones, in the fence. end for the CongressJanata about the interests of the ecosystem is also in an increase in the cover scheme. ongoing Cricket World Cup The bowling, though, has its fangs thanks to a fast un Dal (Secular) coalition (Page State. The Congress Party’s commendable. For a very price of dailies. However, as Unnikrishnan E.S., and accumulating 647 runs, 1, “Karnataka govt. teeters high command must take the long time, there has been a newspapers have become an Thrissur, Kerala ‘hitman’ Rohit Sharma has it helmed by the incisive Jasprit Bumrah. That India masked its weaknesses and overcame the loss of as 12 lawmakers resign,” blame for the current huge gap between the skill unavoidable component of deservedly grabbed all the players like Shikhar Dhawan and Vijay Shankar to inju July 7). The alliance, from political imbroglio as it chose set required by the industries social life, readers will be ■ The Finance Minister’s use headlines. Captain Virat the outset, had no clear to repeat a failed experiment and what has been provided forced to come to a of a redclothed bahi-khata Kohli, whose team has ries is evidence that the outfi t has resilience. New Zea road map either for the and unconditionally by the engineering colleges compromise. (ledger bag) instead of a fi nished at the top of the land, meanwhile, has always been an opponent where State’s development or for extended support to the in our country. The P.RV. Raja, briefcase was a mere ploy to points table and cruised its the sum is bigger than the parts. In Kane Williamson it addressing issues such as JD(S) without even seeking government’s push will Pandalam, Kerala divert the attention of voters. way to the knockout stage, has a supreme batsman and an astute leader, but the drought and drinking water the opinion of its State advance the skills of youth in Though Chief Economic has aptly said that Rohit is Black Caps tailed off with three losses and the slide has problems. Its only agenda leaders. Voters who chose areas such as 3D printing, ■ Ms. Sitharaman’s maiden Adviser Krishnamurthy the best ODI batsman in the to be reversed if India is to be challenged. As for Austra was to cling on to power, the MLAs have been the Internet of Things, Budget speech was a Subramanian called this a world today. The opener’s lia, the defending champion leans on the opening com even if this meant ignoring consigned to the status of Artifi cial Intelligence, propagandist exercise on the departure from the “slavery batting is a blend of classic the diff erences among mere spectators as they cybersecurity and Big Data. socalled “achievements” of of western thought”, the strokes, scintillating shots bine of captain Aaron Finch and David Warner, Steve elected representatives. watch the machinations and Vijaykumar H.K., the fi rst Narendra Modi irony here is that the and lightning sixes, making Smith, and the leftarm menace of speedster Mitchell Members of the Congress dirty games of disgruntled Raichur, Karnataka government, which failed government still called the him a modernday great. Starc, who leads the attack with 26 scalps, while maver had been unhappy as they legislators belonging to both miserably to deliver on the process a ‘budget’, a word Further, Rohit’s postmatch ick Glenn Maxwell lends the Xfactor. Finally, England were fi ghting the JD(S) in the parties. ■ One fears that the proposal promise of achche din. The derived from French word press conferences give a gets a chance to show that it can excel in limited overs diff erent constituencies for N. Sadhasiva Reddy, to impose a duty of 5% on proposal to raise duties on bougette, which refers to a glimpse of his commitment cricket; it is banking on the belligerence of men like Jon survival. The Lok Sabha Bengaluru imported books would petrol and diesel was ‘leather bag’. As is the and dedication to the team. ny Bairstow, Jason Roy and Ben Stokes. It is an interest election results acted as the adversely aff ect readers/ unnecessary and will have a general norm at present, the Cricket fans across the ing mix at the lastfour stage, and all that the eventual fi nal nail in the coffi n. Budget pros and cons booklovers, especially those cascading eff ect, aff ecting all packaging matters more than country would want his M.R.G. Murthy, A grand move by Finance who read books on citizens but the poor more the product. You can sell consistency to fetch India champion will need are two days of excellence. Anyth Mysuru Minister Nirmala Sitharaman engineering and social and severely. There is no move to anything to the unsuspecting World Cup glory. ing could happen, as South Africa showed by defeating has been the relaxation political sciences. Though support agriculture, the public, as long as it is well M. Pradyu, Australia in the last league encounter. But the force is ■ Karnataka has had an provided on angel tax for domestic publishing needs to sector of the economy under packaged and wellmarketed. Kannur, Kerala with India and a fi nal at Lord’s on July 14 beckons. infamous track record when startups, which can now be encouraged as an acute distress. The Budget Venkitaraman Krishnan, more letters online: it comes to coalition focus on intensifi cation and industry, books published in also does absolutely nothing Kowloon, Hong Kong www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/ CM A ND-NDE YK downloaded from : www.visionias.net downloaded from : https://t.me/Material_For_Exam EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE HINDU MONDAY, JULY 8, 2019 DELHI EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE OPED 11 No easy answer to economic slowdown FROM THE READERS’ EDITOR Multiple truths are neither What happens if higher credit fl ows don’t revive private investment? on private investment. The Econom ic Survey of 201819 contends that re a lie nor a contradiction ducing policy uncertainty can some how overwhelm the drag caused by Journalistic lessons can be drawn from diverse sources the twin balance sheet problem. This is questionable. The broad direction praised author Salman Rushdie for his cover T.T. Ram Mohan of policy has never been in doubt age of the U.S. presidential election in which since the onset of economic reforms, he had written “…the motorcades of two lar even if the pace has varied in res gely interchangeable and certainly unlovable The most keenly watched number in ponse to the situation on the ground. presidential candidates (Gush, Bore)...”. the Union Budget is, perhaps, the ra Had policy uncertainty been a se Wasn’t Mr. Rushdie essentially editorialising tio of fi scal defi cit to GDP. A decline rious issue, it would have surely been A.S. Panneerselvan to assert that George W. Bush’s rhetoric was in the ratio is cheered by commenta refl ected in infl ows of foreign capital, empty and gushing and that Al Gore’s argu tors and the markets. An increase is a whether foreign institutional invest ments failed to resonate with the electorate seen as a setback to reforms. ment or foreign direct investment. Journalism is increasingly being subjected to because they were boring, he asked. And This year, the number was of grea Resolving the twin balance sheet various forms of attack. Some cast asper how about the overt editorialising in Amitav ter interest than before thanks to the remains the key to reviving private sions on journalists, some accuse journalists Ghosh’s journalistic essay “Countdown”, vision outlined by the Economic Sur investment. This requires the go of being ideologically blinkered. A news om which appeared after the nuclear tests in In vey for 201819 a day earlier. Earlier vernment to provide adequate capi budsman’s observations too are subjected to dia and Pakistan in 1998, in which he wrote: editions of the Survey had suggested tal to public sector banks (PSBs). The scrutiny. Once you recognise that journalism “The pursuit of nuclear weapons in the sub that since private investment was not Budget’s biggest positive is the allo is an interlocking public, you tend to draw continent is the moral equivalent of civil taking off , there was scope for public “It is astonishing that FM Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget speech did not even cation of ₹ 70,000 crore towards cap journalistic lessons from diverse sources. war: the targets the rulers have in mind for investment to pick up the slack. mention the fi scal defi cit fi gure.” The FM with MoS Anurag Thakur and others ital for PSBs. However, the allocation But there is a catch. When a practitioner these weapons are, in the end, none other The latest Survey leaves no room on the day the Budget was presented. R.V. MOORTHY * is meaningful only if it is spent at one makes a distinction between contradiction than their own people.” for such ambiguities. It makes clear go in the current fi nancial year, not and multiple truths, it may be seen as a mis My columns deal with the rules that gov that private investment is the key of revenue expenditure. Major subsi vestment and the sale of land belong staggered over several years. Only leading exercise for some distant observers. ern journalism as well as some of the fi nest driver of growth and jobs. It follows dies (food, fertiliser, petroleum), ing to the government including pu then will banks have enough capital I never thought that an answer to the writings that have shaped our lives. Is there that the government must make few which used to claim 2% or more of blic sector enterprises (PSEs). to cover provisions for nonperform question of trust would lie in the science pag an inherent contradiction in citing and cele er demands on public savings so that GDP, have stabilised at 1.4% of GDP. Disinvestment in the sense of strateg ing assets as well as provide loans to es of this newspaper. In his weekly column, brating the journalistic writings of Gabriel more of it is available for private in But new items of expenditure have ic sale of PSEs has not really taken fi rms. Speaking of Science ( July 7), D. Balasubra Garcia Marquez, Zadie Smith, Amitav Ghosh vestment. In other words, going by emerged. The PMKisan scheme, off . Much of disinvestment has in manian cited a recent study to prove an im and Salman Rushdie on the one hand and in the Survey’s analysis, there is no es which provides ₹ 6,000 for each volved the buying of equity in PSEs The liquidity problem at NBFCs portant point: “Individual people are actual sisting on the fi rm line that separates news cape from an even sharper focus on farming household per year, will cost by other PSEs. The sale of govern The Budget also makes an attempt to ly more honest than they think they are”. and opinion on the other? fi scal consolidation. the government ₹ 75,000 crore in ment land is bound to be a long address the liquidity problem at The study sought “to examine whether peo 201920. The outlays on the National drawnout process and one fraught NBFCs. It provides cover for loss of ple act more dishonestly when they have a Information and insight Meeting the fi scal defi cit target Rural Employment Guarantee with controversy over valuation. Mo up to 10% on purchase of pooled as greater economic incentive to do so, and There is a vast diff erence between these ex It is astonishing, therefore, that Fi Scheme have crept up with each reover, the sale of government assets sets of NBFCs of a total value of found the opposite to be true.” It found that ceptionally gifted writers covering a specifi c nance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s passing year. to balance the Budget merely defers ₹ 100,000 crore during the current fi civic honesty is much more prevalent than event and general reporting. These writers Budget speech did not even mention fi scal problems to the future. It is not nancial year. Many see it as a govern what cynics would like us to believe. are commissioned to provide insights into the fi scal defi cit fi gure, perhaps a TaxGDP ratio the answer to the problem of fi scal ment bailout of private NBFCs. The what is happening, while a reporter is ex fi rst of sorts! Nor did it make any refe The big disappointment has been in sustainability. apprehensions may be misplaced. The line between news and views pected to provide information. The distinc rence to a path towards the fi scal def respect of tax revenues. The expecta In the short term, the govern The loss cover is only for six months I interact with readers as well as journalists tion is not an arbitrary one but a considered icit target of 3.3% of GDP. The omis tion following demonetisation and ment’s hopes must rest on the Bimal and is intended only for wellrated to address questions relating to journalism, eff ort to help readers get both information sion refl ects the limitations imposed the introduction of the Goods and Jalan committee on the economic portfolios and NBFCs. Banks may be ethics and fairness. Some of them used the and insight. I still believe that the adjective on the Finance Minister by trends in Services Tax (GST) was that both di capital framework for the Reserve incentivised to buy more of the port latest anthology of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, fi lter helps news to emerge from the emo revenue and expenditure. rect and indirect taxes would rise. As Bank of India (RBI). The govern folios of the better NBFCs, not those The Scandal of the Century and Other Writ- tional cauldron of the onfi eld experience In 201112, the fi scal defi cit to GDP a result, the tax to GDP ratio would ment’s intention in setting up the of the weaker ones. ings, to question the arguments advanced in without being judgemental. It reinforces that ratio was 5.9%. By 201516, it had de move to a diff erent trajectory. The committee was to see whether some The government expects that by this column. A person on the desk asked me cardinal principle of good journalism: let the clined to 3.9%. Thereafter, it has got Budget for 201819 projected the tax of the RBI’s reserves could be used to boosting the fl ow of credit, the re how I reconcile my respect for Marquez with facts speak for themselves. stuck at around 3.5%. The Budget for to GDP ratio to rise from 11.6% in mitigate the fi scal position. The re capitalisation of PSBs will help revive my column, “The adjective fi lter” (Septem The reason for celebrating the journalistic 201819 missed the targets set earlier, 201719 to 12.1% in 201819 and furth port has been submitted, but is yet to private investment. What if it ber 30, 2013), in which I had argued that the works of these great writers is not for the ex for 201718 and 201819. It outlined a er to 12.4% in 201920. The Budget for be made public. There are reports doesn’t? Should the government dividing line between news and views must emplary writing style, but for their journalis revised ‘glide path’ with fi scal defi cit 201920 dashes these hopes. It esti that the majority does not favour a continue to focus on a single number be maintained. Marquez’s journalistic writ tic rigour. When talking about his fi ction, targets of 3.3% for 201819, 3.1% for mates the tax to GDP ratio at 11.9% in oneshot transfer to the government, for the fi scal defi cit target? Or would ing is rich with adjectives, and his eff ortless Marquez said: “But those books have such an 201920 and 3% for 202021. The 201819 and 11.7% in 201920. The something the government would it be more realistic to accept a broad editorialising is what gave him global reader amount of research and fact checking and Budget for 201920 shows that the re shortfall in GST collections in 201819 have liked. range, keeping in mind the fall in the ship, she said. How do we relate to this jour historical rigour that in fact they are basical vised targets too have been missed seems to have set the clock back for Private investment is constrained infl ation rate and the decline in the nalism which has no line between news and ly great fi ctional or fantastic reports, but the thus far. The fi scal defi cit for 201819 fi scal consolidation. not just by the crowding out eff ect of combined fi scal defi cit of the Centre views? method of investigation and the way of han has ended up 3.4% of GDP; for 2019 How do we balance the fi scal num a high fi scal defi cit. Earlier editions and the States? The answer to the Another young reporter pulled out sen dling the information and the facts is that of 20, it is estimated at 3.3%. It would bers when the tax to GDP ratio is not of the Economic Survey had identi economic slowdown may not be as tences from The Story of a Shipwrecked Sai- a journalist.” We need to recognise this fact be a brave soul who believes that the coming up to expectations? The fi ed the twin balance sheet problem, simple as the Survey makes out. lor and When I Was Happy and Undocu- to celebrate the multiple forms of writings target of 3% for 202021 will be met. Chief Economic Adviser has indicat that is, high levels of debt in compa mented, major journalistic works of that constitute journalism. The government has had some ed that the government pins its nies and high nonperforming assets T.T. Ram Mohan is a professor at IIM Marquez, to again point out his liberal use of success in reining in traditional items hopes on capital receipts from disin of banks, as an important constraint Ahmedabad. ttr@iima.ac.in adjectives. A third said that I had once readerseditor@thehindu.co.in Crimes that India’s statute CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC FROM books have failed to defi ne ARCHIVES FIFTY YEARS AGO JULY 8, 1969 No law adequately deals with mass atrocities Subsoil water for Madras Varsha Singh pread and systematic’, which would require a higher threshold of proof. The Tamil Nadu Government is considering Neither ‘crimes against humanity’ Second, India wanted a distinction taking up immediately the work on tapping nor ‘genocide’ has been made part of to be made between international the underground Courtalliar water using a India’s criminal law, a lacuna that and internal armed confl icts. This system of radial collector pipes. Mr. Paul needs to be addressed urgently. This was probably because its internal Klaus, who devised the system, himself had was the lament of Justice S. Muralid confl icts with naxals and other non studied the water resources of the area and har of the Delhi High Court, while state actors in places like Kashmir submitted a report to the Government over pronouncing the judgment in State v. and the Northeast could fall under two years ago, on the possibilities of aug Sajjan Kumar (2018). the scope of CAH. menting the City’s water supply. The Go The case concerned the mass kill The third objection related to the vernment has now taken interest in trying ing of Sikhs during the antiSikh riots inclusion of enforced disappearance out the suggestions. The Government’s in in 1984 in Delhi — and throughout the of persons under CAH. It is pertinent terest in the scheme was revived after The country. The court categorically stat here that India has signed but not yet Hindu reported the views of Mr. Paul Klaus ed that these kind of mass crimes ratifi ed the UN International Conven and also published an article on tapping sub “engineered by political actors with tion for the Protection of All Persons soil riverbed water. Messrs. Mascaranhas the assistance of the law enforcement from Enforced Disappearances as it and Taraporewala, Consultants of the agencies” fi t into the category of would put the country under an obli French fi rm, Sernes, who hold the rights ov crimes against humanity (CAH). gation to criminalise it through dom er the Paul Klaus technique, at the instance Internationally, CAH are dealt with estic legislation. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC of the State Government, inspected on Sa under the Rome Statute of the Inter Can these objections be seen as turday last [ July 5] several sites at Tamara DATA POINT national Criminal Court (ICC). They providing the basis for India’s objec pakkam, 16 miles from the City [Madras], are defi ned as off ences tions/silence to the ILC’s and studied the general terrain and geologi such as murder, extermi ongoing work? Does In cal formations. They have provisionally se nation, enslavement, de dia have objections to lected one place upstream near the Tamara portation, torture, im the very defi nition of pakkam Anicut for the actual sinking of the prisonment and rape CAH based on the Rome radial collector pipe well. The Chief Engi committed as a part of Statute or does it have neer and other Engineers of the State Public “widespread or syste concerns with the con Health Department and Mr. S. Krishna Aiyar matic attack directed textual elements of the of Madras had accompanied the Consultants against any civilian pop crime? on their inspection. ulation, with knowledge of the attack”. A familiar pattern A HUNDRED YEARS AGO JULY 8, 1919. India is not a party to the Rome In State v. Sajjan Kumar, the Delhi Statute, which means that it is under High Court also said that “a familiar Women’s Bill. no obligation at present to enact a pattern of mass killings” was seen “in separate legislation dealing with Mumbai in 1993, in Gujarat in 2002, The Women’s Emancipation Bill today [ July CAH. Even after ratifi cation of the Ge in Kandhamal, Odisha in 2008, and 4] passed its third reading in the Commons nocide Convention (1948), India has Muzaff arnagar in Uttar Pradesh in [in London] by 100 votes to 85. No political not enacted it in domestic legislation. 2013”, where the criminals “have en importance attaches to Government’s de joyed political patronage and man feat. Mr. Astor, representing the Local Go Reasons for reluctance aged to evade prosecution”. vernment Board, opposed the passing of the The most probable reason for India’s India’s missing voice at the ILC third reading of the Women’s Emancipation reluctance to actively participate in does not go well with its claim of res Bill which the Labour party introduced. Mr. the negotiation process on a separate pect for an international rulesbased Astor said that the Government would intro Convention on CAH, which started in order. Turning a blind eye to the duce its own Bill next week to redeem its 2014, could be the adoption of the mass crimes taking place in its terri election pledge of equality for women in ci same defi nition of CAH as provided tory and shielding the perpetrators vil, judicial, but not in ecclesiastical matters. in the Rome Statute. The Indian re refl ect poorly on India’s status as a Powers would be taken to exclude women presentatives at the International democracy. It would be advisable for from certain branches of the civil service, Law Commission (ILC) have stated India to show political will and con notably Indian, where it was considered by that the draft articles should not con structively engage with the ILC, all competent authorities that it would be fl ict with or duplicate the existing which would also, in the process, ad unwise to admit women at present on the treaty regimes. dress the shortcomings in the domes same terms as men. The Bill would also ena India had objected to the defi ni tic criminal justice system. ble peeresses to sit in the House of Lords tion of CAH during negotiations of when it was considered advisable. It would the Rome Statute on three grounds. not deal with the franchise comprehensive First, India was not in favour of us The writer is a senior research fellow at the ly, because that might have to be revised la ing ‘widespread or systematic’ as one Centre for International Legal Studies, ter in consequence of proposals for devolu of the conditions, preferring ‘wides Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi tion within the United Kingdom. CM A ND-NDE YK downloaded from : www.visionias.net downloaded from : https://t.me/Material_For_Exam EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 12 NEWS DELHI THE HINDU MONDAY, JULY 8, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE Talaq Bill in a cliff hanger in Rajya Sabha Team up to challenge Scindia, Deora follow While numbers favour the NDA, allies have expressed unease over the criminality clause BJP: Yechury Rahul, step down Sobhana K. Nair nality clause”. “We can’t government has retained. Staff Reporter New Delhi vote in favour of the Bill but We haven’t decided what to BHUBANESWAR A top leader from Karnataka the political heft to nego With the arithmetic in Rajya at the same time we can’t be do in case of voting,” BJD’s CPI(M) general secretary said both the PCC president, tiate with the likes of Sidda Sabha slowly shifting in fa seen opposing the BJP either. Rajya Sabha fl oor leader Pra Sitaram Yechury on Sun Dinesh Gundu Rao, who ramiah. When the fi rst Con vour of the ruling NDA al So in all likelihood we shall sanna Acharya said. The par day appealed to all parties was appointed to head the gress MLA resigned he was liance, voting on the Muslim abstain if it comes down to ty has seven members. to come together to chal State unit after the Assemb abroad. Mr. Venugopal at Women (Protection of Rights voting,” a senior AIADMK lenge the Bharatiya Janata ly polls and the General Se best can only be a negotia on Marriage) Bill 2019, popu leader said. TRS yet to decide Party, alleging that the saf cretary incharge K.C. Venu tor but without a president larly known as the Triple Ta It’s the neutral bloc of par The TRS is also equally cir fron party was taking the gopal are equally to blame. there is not much that he laq Bill, is expected to go ties that include the Telanga cumspect. “We oppose the country to a ruinous “Mr. Rao does not have can do,” the leader said. down to the wire. na Rashtra Samithi, Biju Ja criminality clause but as far future. The legislation was intro three years for violators. has 115. Broadly, the Opposi nata Dal and YSR Congress as voting is concerned, we “Twentyone parties duced in Lok Sabha on June In its last outing, the Bill tion bloc led by the Con Party that will decide the will make up our mind when had been claiming to be Karnataka CM to seek 21 and the government is keen on passing it in both Houses in this very session. could not pass the muster in the Upper House as the op position had a stronger pre gress’s 48 members has a to tal of 107 votes. fate of the vote. Together these parties have 13 mem bers. All three parties main the legislation reaches Rajya Sabha,” TRS’s Keshav Rao said. fi ghting to save India for the past two years, but when election came, there postponement of session It was the fi rst legislation in troduced by the Modi go sence and lapsed along with 16th Lok Sabha. In February Abstention option At fi rst glance the NDA is well tain that they are against the criminality clause in the le The YSR Congress Party with its two members does was no understanding among them. The advan vernment in its second term. the government brought in ahead of the opposition in gislation. However, they re not want to be seen openly tage obviously went to Of the 13 MLAs who have According to sources, the The legislation makes it il the Bill via an ordinance to terms of numbers. However main uncertain on the opposing the BJP. A senior those whom they wanted submitted resignations from rebel MLAs would return to legal for a Muslim man to di keep it alive. two of its allies — JD (U) course of action in case of a leader hinted that it might al to dislodge,” said Mr. Ye the Assembly, 10 are camp Bengaluru on Tuesday and vorce his wife by uttering the In Rajya Sabha, the BJP which has six members and vote. so take the AIADMK route of chury, while addressing an ing in Mumbai. Three others submit their resignations in word “talaq” three times and alone now has 78 members, AIADMK with 13 members, “We are opposed to the abstaining in the event of a intellectual meet here. are set to join them on person to Speaker Ramesh provides for a jail term of and together with its allies, it have questioned the “crimi criminality clause that the vote. “We should not make Monday. Kumar as they had delivered further delay. It is time to The rebel Congress MLAs their resignation letters to understand the gravity of Book on Shah explores his Gandhian, socialist roots said also there was no ques only the Speaker’s offi ce on the situation. All parties, tion of their attending the Saturday as he was not avail including us, must come Congress Legislature Party able then. However, they together. If we have to face meeting on Tuesday as they are planning to return im them, the popular phrase, had already submitted their mediately to Mumbai soon Ekla Chalo re [walk alone] resignations. after meeting the Speaker. It says his enforced exit from Gujarat laid the foundations of BJP’s successful 2014 U.P. campaign of Rabindranath Tagore, Referring to speculations JD(S) leaders also held will not work. We have to that some of the rebels were meetings at the residence of Nistula Hebbar father and grandfather had paign, Acharya Kripalani the writings of the late K.M. walk together,” he said. also pitching for a change of party patriarch H.D. Deve NEW DELHI been nagarsheths of the was put up in our house for Munshi (lawyer, politician “The RSS is trying to re Chief Minister in the coali Gowda. D. Shivakumar, con Union Home Minister Amit princely State of Mandsa in seven days and supported and educationist who found move logic from the educa tion government, rebel Con sidered the Congress’ trou Shah, now occupying an of Gujarat and had links with the campaign. He was in ad ed the Bharatiya Vidya Bha tion system. They want to gress MLA S. T. Somashek bleshooter also met Mr. fi ce held by Sardar Vallabhb leaders of the freedom vanced years and had decid van), who is mentioned fre take the country back to har made it clear that they Gowda and discussed the hai Patel, got his start in pol movement over the years. ed to stay put in one place quently in the early chapters. what it was 5,000 years had never sought such a developments. itical campaigning when, as “My grandfather and father and express solidarity with Mr. Shah’s stint outside ago. We, however, want to change. (With PTI inputs) a 13yearold, he accompa were part of Gandhian cir the movement to unseat In Gujarat, as ordered by a see the country in a nied Maniben Patel (the Sar cles, my mother was a dira. I would go out every court in 201011, is also de prosperous future. This is dar’s daughter) in her Lok staunch Gandhian herself day accompanying Maniben tailed in the book as the most the ideological battle we More MLAs will quit in Sabha campaign from Meh sana in 1977. A new book on Mr. Shah, Amit Shah and the and they were well known to these senior leaders,” the book quotes Mr. Shah. as part of her campaign team. She was quite old by then, but would go around diffi cult challenge of his life. His travels across the country especially to Varana are fi ghting,” said Mr. Yechury. “The fundamental right Karnataka, says BJP March of the BJP (Bloomsbu ry), by Anirban Ganguly and Swing to Janata Party Amit Shah the whole day campaigning. This gave me my fi rst expe si, following his enforced exit from Gujarat, the book says, of every citizen is under threat. Whoever raises his Shiwanand Dwivedi makes “During the 1977 campaign, palani (18881982) and Mani rience,” Mr. Shah is further laid the foundations of his Ut voice against the govern However, BJP State presi by Monday evening. this point in the Home Minis a large number of these se ben Patel and many others quoted in the book as saying. tar Pradesh campaign of ment and their ideology, dent B.S. Yeddyurappa ex The BJP has asked all its ter’s own words fairly early nior Gandhians who were decided to come together in The book also details Mr. 2014, which led to the BJP his or her rights will cease pressed confi dence in the MLAs to reach Bengaluru to on. exasperated with Indira support of the Janata Party. Shah’s early career, early in getting 71 of the 80 Lok Sabha to exist,” said the veteran Speaker. “He has said he will attend a legislative party Mr. Shah’s greatgrand Gandhi, like Acharya J.B. Kri During the election cam fl uences on him, including seats. Left leader. take a call on the resigna meeting that Mr. Yeddyu tions on Tuesday. He is a rappa has convened on man of integrity and there is no need to doubt him. We are adopting a wait and Monday evening. The MLAs may be shifted to a resort in Doddaballapur on the city’s CBCID arrests activist on rape charge IndoAfghan trade watch approach,” he said. Meanwhile, the BJP has decided to keep its fl ock to outskirts later. “The climax will be on Ju ly 12 when the Assembly T. Mugilan alias Shanmugham had been missing for the last six months chokes on U.S. curbs gether fearing poaching by convenes for monsoon ses the coalition partners. sion. We intend to introduce S. Vijay Kumar the police said. spent fuel storage facility at Budget also cuts Chabahar funding Though Mr. Yeddyurappa a noconfi dence motion if Vivek Narayanan To attract attention, he Kudankulam. Claiming that on Sunday dared the coali the Chief Minister hasn’t re CHENNAI raised slogans condemning he was abducted and sub Suhasini Haidar New Delhi tion leaders to poach any of signed by then. So the MLAs A day after the railway police some projects in Tamil Na jected to mental torture, she his legislators, the party is will have to be kept together detained missing activist T. du, the offi cer said. suspected that a major cor The government’s decision said to be considering shift till July 12,” a senior leader Mugilan alias Shanmugham “He basically gave himself porate company had a role to slash its allocation for ing the legislators to a resort said. for raising slogans at the Ti up to the police. The railway in his abduction. “I met him Iran’s Chabahar port by rupati railway station, the police didn’t understand for some time and he said he twothirds, as announced Crime BranchCID of the Ta what he was saying and de did not know who abducted by Finance Minister Nirmala Mob thrashes three mil Nadu police on Sunday arrested him on charges of raping a woman of Kulithalai tained him. Later, we took custody of him,” the offi cer added. him and where he was ta ken. He has to be admitted in an ICU. It appears that he Sitharaman in the latest Budget, will be a further blow to IndiaAfghan trade, Dalit youth in U.P. in Karur district. The police said he re Mugilan emerging from the CBCID offi ce in Chennai. B. * The police took Mr. Mugi lan for a health checkup and was not given food,” she said, adding that the rape already hit by Pakistan’s de cision to ban airspace rights India has slashed its mained tightlipped all JOTHI RAMALINGAM started questioning him af charge against him was false. to most fl ights to and from allocation for the Chabahar The police are probing both While the names and through the day when inves ter doctors declared him Earlier, Ms. Poonkudi sus India, and U.S. sanctions on port by ₹ 105 crore this year. cases — the theft attempt background of the three tigators tried to ascertain rest. The activist was aware medically fi t. On the ongoing tained minor injuries when Iran, offi cials and diplomats and the beating by the mob, youths were not known, a what happened on the night that trouble was brewing proceedings in the habeas the car in which she was tra in Delhi and Kabul said. ments on Iran’s sanctions Mr. Mishra said, adding that spokesperson for SP Jaun of February 15, 2019, when from a relationship he had corpus petition seeking to velling crashed into a me The government, which naturally and indirectly has those involved in the thrash pur said the three belonged he boarded a train to Madu with a woman of Kulithalai trace him, the offi cer said dian following a tyre burst in had been allocating ₹ 150 negative impacts and led to ing of the youth were being to the Dalit community. rai at the Egmore station and and he tried to avoid con the CBCID would fi le a sta Villupuram district. crore for the port each year worry amongst companies identifi ed. Describing the incident vanished an hour later. frontation with her. Knowing tus report during the next Mr. Mugilan’s advocate for the past few years, has about working with Iranian The footage of the inci as serious, Brij Lal, chair Mr. Mugilan divulged no that she had lodged a police hearing in the Madras High Sudha Ramalingam met him slashed its allocation to just ports including Chabahar,” dent shows the three person of the Scheduled information about where he complaint accusing him of Court. Mr. Mugilan’s wife in the CBCID offi ce. “He has ₹ 45 crore in the Budget for he told The Hindu. youths, stripped to their un Castes and Scheduled had been for the last six cheating and rape, he simply Poonkudi, who came to the suff ered a dog bite and was 201920. Speaking to journalists dergarment, being pushed Tribes Commission, U.P., months, the police added. vanished,” a CBCID offi cer CBCID, told journalists that given treatment in Katpadi. last week, Afghanistan’s around, kicked and beaten said he would ensure that “We suspect that he disap told The Hindu. the government was against He refused to change his Waiver of little help new head of mission Tahir with slippers, belts and those involved in the thrash peared and remained cut off After lying low for a few her husband attending a pu clothes. He said he will re Technically, the U.S. has is Qadiry said they hoped Pa sticks. They were also ver ing of the Dalits would get from all communication months, Mr. Mugilan took a blic hearing on setting up an veal everything to the sued India a waiver to deve kistan’s airspace ban, which bally abused. the strictest punishment. channels only to evade ar train to Tirupati on Saturday, Away From Reactor (AFR) judge,” she said. lop the Chabahar port, to had been extended until Ju promote trade with Afghan ly 12, would be lifted shortly. istan as part of its “South As a result of the ban, Af Swamy booked for Asia” strategy. In practice, ghan fruit and agricultural Plan for district ecopanels draws fi re however, the cancellation of products that had made up all waivers for oil and crip a bulk of the cargo on fl ights remark against Rahul pling economic sanctions imposed by the Trump ad between Kabul and Delhi are being shipped to other ministration, have all but international markets. Making District Magistrates head expert authority causes ‘confl ict of interest’ Petitioner sees bid to disturb peace frozen deals. Afghan banks “The original cargo corri are hesitant to open credit dor is not operational as of Jacob Koshy On March 2016, the Mi grant of environmental Press Trust of India lines for shipments, and now,” Barun Birla of Aero NEW DELHI nistry further delegated the clearance,” B.N. Jha, Chair Jashpur/Raipur shippers and cargo handlers Trek International, the com Statelevel offi cers tasked authority to grant clearanc man, Bihar SEIAA noted. He The Chhattisgarh police are staying away from ser pany that operated the in with environmental assess es for up to fi ve hectares of also said the DM doesn’t have lodged a First Informa vicing the Iranian port. augural cargo charter on the ment have objected to sev individual mining lease of have technical expertise in tion Report (FIR) against “During the last months corridor, told The Hindu. eral clauses in a draft law minor minerals and 25 hec matters of environment and BJP’s Rajya Sabha member (FebruaryMay), Chabahar Offi cials say that with that proposes the creation tares in clusters, to the ecology. Subramanian Swamy follow had fl ourished for transpor trade through both air and of districtlevel environ DEIAA. S. Narayanan, Member ing a complaint that he tation of goods and com sea routes restricted, as well ment impact assessment Several provisions in the Secretary, Harayan State made a false statement modities to Afghanistan and as Pakistan’s refusal to give authorities. A perusal of EIA 2006 over the years Pollution Control Board, against Congress leader Ra central Asia with the volume Afghan trucks passage to the documents by The Hindu have been challenged in the raised similar objections hul Gandhi. of loading and unloading Wagah land route, trade shows that these objections National Green Tribunal and said that having the DM Based on a complaint of Subramanian Swamy twice as much as before,” may come to a standstill for point to the fact that these process whereby develop (NGT) and led to the MoEF as a chief would “dilute en Jashpur district Congress Iran’s Ambassador to Delhi now. authorities may have a con ers of infrastructure pro modifying rules. The EIA vironmental regulations.” president Pawan Agrawal, among people,” he said in Ali Chegeni said. “But the (With inputs from fl ict of interest and may not jects that have the potential 2019 aims to be an update The head of the Mizoram the FIR was registered at the the complaint. U.S. offi cials’ hostile state Jagriti Chandra) be technically competent. to signifi cantly alter or im that accommodates all SEIAA has said the State Patthalgaon police station A case has been regis The proposed Environ pact forests, river basins or these revisions. couldn’t aff ord to allocate on the night of July 6, Supe tered under Sections 504 ment Impact Assessment other ecologically sensitive Responding to the draft, “human resources” for a rintendent of Police Shan (intentional insult with an Notifi cation, 2019, makes regions seek permission the chairman of the Bihar DEIAA. kar Lal Baghel said on intent to provoke breach of the District Magistrate (DM) from the Union Ministry of SEIAA said the District Ma “Having the DM as head Sunday. peace), 505(2) (intent to in the chairperson of an exp Environment and Forests gistrate (DM) in the State is of DEIAA was a mistake,” an In his complaint, Mr. cite any class or community ert authority, or the District (MoEF) and experts ap also the ‘District Mining of offi cial in the Ministry told Agrawal said Dr. Swamy al of a person) and 511 (at Environment Impact As pointed by it. fi cer’ who is tasked with ex The Hindu on condition of leged that Mr. Gandhi took tempting to commit off enc sessment Authority While expert committees ecuting mining licence anonymity. “But we have to cocaine. “Swamy himself es punishable with impri (DEIAA), that will accord constituted by the MoEF ap deeds. These offi cers usual empower districtlevel knows that his statement sonment for life or other environment clearance for praise projects, those below ly had a “target” to collect authorities to assess and was false and intended to in imprisonment) of the Indian “minor” mining projects. a certain size are appraised revenues from mining activ monitor projects. The solu sult Rahul Gandhiji. Swamy Penal Code. The EIA 2019 aims to be by Statelevel authorities ities, he said. tion is not to do away with knows that his statement Chhattisgarh Congress an update of the EIA 2006. called the State Environ “Making the DM the districtlevel appraisal but can encourage enmity bet spokesperson Shailesh Nitin This document prescribes ment Impact Assessment chairman (of the DEIAA) to have another appropriate ween political parties and Trivedi said Dr. Swamy’s the environment clearance Authority (SEIAA). would be selfserving for competent expert.” provoke people. Such a statement was highly con statement can disturb peace demnable. CM A ND-NDE YK downloaded from : www.visionias.net downloaded from : https://t.me/Material_For_Exam EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE HINDU MONDAY, JULY 8, 2019 DELHI NEWS 13 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Defence allocation disappoints military Outlay for child welfare Questions over military modernisation and bigticket deals lined up for conclusion this year Dinakar Peri ters from the U.S. valued at sees a meagre increase NEW DELHI $2.6 billion is expected to be There is disappointment in concluded by yearend. A Health allocation has shown a decline of 0.39% the military and industry ov proposal for 10 more P8I er the defence allocation in longrange maritime patrol SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT the Union Budget. There are aircraft estimated to cost ov NEW DELHI questions on the overall mil er $3 billion is waiting for The outlay for children in itary modernisation and the clearance from the Defence the Union Budget has shown bigticket deals lined up for Acquisition Council (DAC). a marginal increase of conclusion this year as no re This means the Navy and 0.05%, going up from 3.24% sources are left for new Air Force have no money left in the last fi scal to 3.29% in procurements. for new deals, and may de the current fi scal with a “The capital expenditure fault on earlier payments as grant of ₹ 91,644.29 crore. allocated for the Navy and well. The Army with its large The share is less than the the Indian Air Force (IAF) size has a huge revenue bur low share of 5% that the Na does not meet their commit been done,” the source said. appointing, a senior industry duct platforms such as the den and a signifi cant part of tional Plan of Action for Chil ted liabilities this year. Ser Committed liabilities are offi cial said. “One expected CH47F Chinook heavy lift it goes towards salaries. For dren, 2016, has recommend vices had taken up the mat payments for deals signed easing of Foreign Direct In and AH64 Apache attack the coming year, the Army ed, says the HAQ Centre for ter with the Defence Ministry and typically spread over vestment (FDI), but the deci helicopters. In contrast, its has a total shortfall of Child Rights. after the interim Budget,” a several years. The remaining sion was excluded,” said capital allocation is ₹ 39,300 ₹ 12,000 crore of which A detailed analysis of the defence source said on con part of the capital head goes another offi cial of a major In crore. Similarly, the Navy’s ₹ 6,300 crore is in the capital budgetary grant carried out dition of anonymity. for new procurements. dian company. committed liabilities stand at head and around ₹ 5500 by Child Rights and You for Finance Minister Nirmala The IAF has committed ₹ 25,461 crore while the capi crore in nonsalary four thematic areas of child percentage points from the (Nutrition Mission) are Sitharaman, as Defence Mi Industry downcast liabilities of ₹ 47,400 crore, as tal allocation is ₹ 22,227 expenditure. rights — education, health, 79.02% of 201516. These in among the most important nister previously, had pro The industry too has given in the past few years, it had crore. The only relief the servic development and child pro clude schemes such as Sa government programmes mised to take up the matter the thumbs down to the de signed major deals such as The Navy has major deals es were given was waiver of tection — shows the alloca magra Shiksha, National aimed at reducing stunting, with the Finance Ministry fence budget. There was no those for 36 Rafale jets and lined up and they are in ad basic customs duty for im tion for the fi rst two catego Programme of Midday Meal anaemia, low weight and and get it addressed in the major expectation on de the S400 air defence sys vanced stages. A deal for 24 port of equipment not manu ries have declined and that in Schools and Navodaya Vi low birth weight. While the full Budget. “But nothing has fence, but this is actually dis tems and is beginning to in MH60R multirole helicop factured in the country. for the ambitious plan for dyalaya Samiti. former has registered an in nutritional development Healthrelated fi nancial crease of 19% and the latter may be insuffi cient. allocation as a share of the of 14% in this latest Budget Red signal for Train18 production child health budget has announcement, experts IN BRIEF Minor rise shown a decline of 0.39 per have argued it is inadequate. The share of education has centage point — from 3.9% Activists are unhappy increased marginally to last fi scal to 3.51%. with the cut back of 16% for 68.54% from 68.2%, but has The Anganwadi services the National Child Labour Design goes back to the drawing table; investigation on into procurements declined by more than 10 and the Poshan Abhiyan Project Scheme. S. Vijay Kumar cial who preferred not to be identifi ed. Researchers fault Survey CHENNAI The production of India’s He quoted the Member, Nirmala Sitharaman to fi rst semi highspeed train, Rolling Stock, Railway Board address RBI board today or Train18, has come to a as saying in a recent meeting NEW DELHI Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will address the grinding halt at the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) in Chen nai. The work on rolling out that “Vande Bharat Express has taken the world by storm. It was a herculean job fi nding on UIDMGNREGS link postbudget meeting of the RBI’s central board on 10 of these trains this fi scal to get the service started and Monday and highlight the key remains a nonstarter des credit goes to all the units They say false assumptions have been made in the study points of the Budget, pite fl oating of tenders. which have worked hard in including the fiscal Reason: the design of the the project.” Priscilla Jebaraj and after the introduction of consolidation roadmap. The train has been found to be in NEW DELHI the ALP. In supply and de government has lowered the violation of certain specifi ca Under watch: Train18 at the New Delhi railway station. Suppliers in gloom Researchers and activists mand for work as well as in fiscal deficit target to 3.3% tions and it will go back to “This stoppage of work has studying Mahatma Gandhi worker attendance, the of the GDP as it is expecting the drawing table. manufacture of Train18 from the past six months at high caused gloom among the National Rural Employment scheme’s performance in net additional revenue of Investigation is also on in the ICF. The primary issue speeds between New Delhi suppliers [of parts] in and Guarantee Scheme droughthit areas improved. ₹ 6,000 crore over the to allegations that one com was that the production and Varanasi. If we had around Chennai since they (MGNREGS) data have dis Rajendran Narayanan, As interim Budget estimates. pany was favoured in the made dozens of deviations strictly adhered to RDSO had worked equally diligent puted the argument made in sistant Professor, Azim making of the ₹ 97crore train from the specifi cations pre specifi cations, the axle load ly to make the project a suc the Economic Survey for Premji University, noted that CBI registers case on set, railway sources said. scribed by the Research De of Train18 would have been cess and had invested crores 201819 on the positive cau The Economic Survey found around the same time that Edesmetta encounter signs and Standards Organi much higher, resulting in of rupees in developing high sal impact of Aadhaarlinked a positive impact of Aadhaar Aadhaar was introduced to BHOPAL Success story sation (RDSO). less speed. Also, the cost tech products,” another top payments (ALP) on the payments on the scheme. the MGNREGS, a Supreme On the directions of the The Vande Bharat Express, After the vigilance inqui would have been on the railway offi cial said. scheme. Court ruling mandated spe Supreme Court, the Central the fi rst service to use the ry, engineers are now hesi higher side,” a senior engi “They believe that several The Survey used the rural ment Guarantee, a network cial measures for the Bureau of Investigation has train set, was fl agged off by tant to use the traction trans neer involved in the work multinational fi rms are be jobs scheme as a case study advocating for better imple scheme in droughtaff ected registered a case on the Prime Minister Narendra former and other electrics told The Hindu on Sunday. hind the repeated stalling of to show the benefi ts of the mentation and accountabili areas. Governments issued Edesmetta encounter that Modi between New Delhi procured for the fi rst train. The objective was to roll the tender process, which use of technology in improv ty of the MGNREGS. She said orders to comply with the took place in Bijapur district and Varanasi on February 15. The ICF has decided to fol out a worldclass train at the had earlier resulted in deve ing targeting and effi ciency the state verifi ed the work ruling, leading to interven of Chhattisgarh in 2013, The train, indigenously low the RDSO specifi cations lowest possible cost and lopment of lowcost indige in welfare schemes. One of done and the muster roll tions infl uencing the situa leaving a police commando built by Team ICF in record for electrics and go for fresh highest output in terms of nous alternatives.” the strongest pieces of evi and generated a fund transf tion at the same time as and eight villagers dead. The time and celebrated as one tendering, the sources said. operational effi ciency, safety A senior ICF offi cial con dence cited dealt with time er order, and in the next Aadhaar. encounter took place on the intervening night of May 17 of the most successful pro However, ICF engineers and comfort. fi rmed that work had come liness: the percentage of stage, money was credited “Another assumption is and 18, 2013, when the tribals ducts of the “Make in India” say Train18 was built to in “Team ICF achieved this to a halt, and he was not sure wage payments generated into the worker’s bank ac that MGNREGS outcomes in were celebrating a sowing initiative, has been running dustrystandard specifi ca goal, and Train18 was show when it would resume since within 15 days improved count. Aadhaar could play a drought and nondrought ritual before the monsoon. with no reported issues in tions and with readily availa cased as a game changer in the project had run into a from 27% in 201415 to more role only in the latter stage. districts were parallel before While the tribals alleged that these six months. ble equipment to roll it out in the industry. Now, some turf controversy. than 90% by 201819. Another area of conten and after the introduction of some CoBRA personnel had On the instructions of the a record 18 months. issues have also cropped up There was no response to “That’s just a false as tion is the Survey’s compari Aadhaar. But that has not fired at them indiscriminately, Railway Board, vigilance offi “There was no compro on the ownership of the train questions to the top manage sumption,” said Rakshita son of MGNREGS perfor been proven,” said Sakina the police claimed they had cials have taken away hun mise on safety. The train has that will be the future of In ment raised through the Pu Swamy, a member of the Pe mance in droughtaff ected Dhorajiwala, a researcher killed suspected Maoists. dreds of fi les relating to the been successfully running in dian Railways,” said the offi blic Relations Offi cer. ople’s Action for Employ and regular districts before with the LibTech group. Baloch leader says U.S. ‘Crackdown on disability mollifying Pak. Taliban pension based on analysis’ Press Trust of India meant for the needy was be Marri says BLA’s support base has grown New Delhi ing misused, P.C. Mody, The latest circular which Chairman of the Central Kallol Bhattacherjee clarifi ed the eligibility for Board for Direct Taxes, has NEW DELHI availing disability pension said. Following the U.S. ban on by armed forces personnel Earlier, the circular the Baloch Liberation Army was issued after data analy sparked an outcry among (BLA), the militant organisa sis found that the provision defence and war veterans. tion’s support base has wi dened within the political spectrum of Balochistan with even a prominent over ground leader urging the U.S. to reconsider its deci sion. Hyrbyair Marri, one of the nationalist leaders living Hyrbyair Marri in exile, has come out with open support for the mili U.S., the EU and others to tant organisation. fi nd out the “real terrorists” “Taliban, the brainchild in Balochistan. A spokesper of Pakistan, has been com son of the outfi t, Jiyand Ba plicit in bringing the Twin loch, had also urged for a re Towers down and now the consideration of the U.S. U.S. has unfortunately bent ban. The Marris are a family its knees to appease Pakis of traditional aristocrats of tan and Taliban by banning the Pakistani province the Baloch organisation. whose hold on the move The Trump administration ment is being challenged by should rethink their deci the more aggressive BLA sion,” he said in a message cadre. Mr. Marri had in the on social media. Mr. Marri is past said he was not asso the son of the late Khair ciated with the BLA, and the Bakhsh Marri and political latest social media message scion of the Marri clan. He is is a sign of acceptance of its known as a leader for the growing popularity among Free Balochistan Movement all sections of the Baloch and remains in exile but not movement. in hiding. Baloch spokespersons Mr. Marri’s comment claim that “death squads” came days after the U.S. are active in the province Treasury added the BLA in that assist the law and order the Specially Designated Na operations of the Pakistani tionals (SDN) list. His com military against the rebels ment refl ects the position and have claimed to have taken by the head of the conducted several opera BLA, Bashir Zeb Baloch, tions against Pakistani forc who had called upon the es in recent weeks. CM YK downloaded from : www.visionias.net downloaded from : https://t.me/Material_For_Exam EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 14 WORLD DELHI THE HINDU MONDAY, JULY 8, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Iran to breach uranium enrichment cap Taliban bomb kills 14 as group Tehran set to go beyond the 3.67% limit set under the 2015 nuclear deal; says it is open to diplomacy holds peace talks in Qatar Reuters 3.67% will begin,” he said, re um for use in fuelling its Dubai ferring to the limit set in the Bushehr power plant, to the Afghan President Ghani questions intent of the insurgents Iran announced on Sunday it 2015 agreement. level of 5%. will shortly boost its urani Longtense relations bet Reuters ghan President Ashraf um enrichment above a cap Decision condemned ween Tehran and Washing Kabul Ghani, agreed to join the in set by a 2015 nuclear deal, a French President Emmanuel ton deteriorated in May 2018 A Taliban attack on a govern traAfghan summit on the major breach likely to draw a Macron condemned Teh when Mr. Trump withdrew ment security compound in condition that those there tougher reaction from Presi ran’s decision as a “viola from the deal, and reim central Afghanistan on Sun would attend in a personal dent Donald Trump who has tion” of the pact. posed sanctions — saying the day killed at least 14 people capacity. pressured Tehran to renego Iran has broken the terms agreement did not go far and wounded more than About 60 highprofi le Af tiate the pact. of the deal and must imme enough, and did not address 180, including scores of chil ghan fi gures and activists In a sign of heightening diately stop and reverse its Iran’s missile programme or dren, hours before a meet were in Doha to meet the Ta tensions, France, Germany activities, a spokesman for its policies in West Asia. Teh ing in Qatar aimed at prepar Taliban negotiator Abbas liban offi cials during the and Britain — all parties to Britain’s Foreign Offi ce said ran says its missile pro ing the ground for peace Stanikzai arriving for the twoday conference, a meet the deal — expressed con on Sunday. “While the U.K. Stern warning: (From left) Atomic Energy Organisation gramme is defensive. talks. intra-Afghan summit. AFP * ing arranged by German and cerns over Tehran’s remains fully committed to spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi, government spokesman Ali Iran has expressed frus Taliban fi ghters detonat Qatari offi cials with the sup decision. the deal, Iran must imme Rabiei and Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. AFP * tration over what it says is ed a car bomb in Ghazni city to open the way for full port of U.S. negotiators. In a live news conference, diately stop and reverse all the failure of parties to the near an offi ce of Afghanis peace negotiations in the fu Mr. Ghani condemned the senior Iranian offi cials said activities inconsistent with The Iran nuclear deal dis Inspectors from the UN agreement to salvage the tan’s main intelligence ser ture. “It is unfathomable to bombing, and questioned Tehran would keep reducing its obligations,” said the pute resolution mechanism nuclear watchdog who are in pact — signed along with Bri vice, the National Directo endanger children in this the Taliban’s real intent. its commitments every 60 spokesman. will not be triggered for now, Iran will report back once tain, China, France, Germa rate of Security (NDS), way and I strongly condemn “They stain their hands days, unless European signa A German Foreign Minis said a source at Mr. Macron’s they have checked that Teh ny and Russia — by protect during Sunday morning’s this attack,” U.S. Special Re with the blood of innocent tories of the pact protect it try spokesman gave a similar Elysee offi ce. The French go ran has enriched uranium to ing Iran’s economic interests rush hour, offi cials said. presentative for Afghanistan people in Afghanistan every from the U.S. sanctions im response. vernment is giving itself until a higher level of purity than from U.S. sanctions. “Euro The Taliban claimed res Reconciliation, Zalmay Kha day. They should know that posed by President Trump. Iran did leave some room July 15 to try to get all parties that allowed under its nu pean countries have failed to ponsibility, saying in a state lilzad, said in a tweet. it is not possible to gain pri “We are fully prepared to for negotiations. All mea talking again. clear deal, the agency said uphold their commitments ment that dozens of NDS of At least 60 children who vileges in peace talks by tar enrich uranium at any level sures taken by Iran to scale Under the pact, Iran can and they are also responsi fi cers were killed or were attending classes in a geting civilians, especially and with any amount,” said back its commitments to the UN resolutions enrich uranium to 3.67% fi s ble,” Mr. Abbas Araqchi, wounded. private school situated near children,” he said in a Behrouz Kamalvandi, spo nuclear deal were “reversi Under that socalled snap sile material, well below the Iran’s senior nuclear negotia The attack took place as the blast site were among statement. kesman for Iran’s Atomic ble” if the European signato back, if a series of steps de 20% it was reaching before tor, told the news conference Taliban offi cials and a select the 180 people wounded. The intraAfghan talks fol Energy Organisation. “In a ries of the pact fulfi lled their signed to resolve diff erences the deal and the roughly in Tehran. “The doors of di ed group of Afghan activists The Taliban, who have re low the start of a seventh few hours the technical pro obligations, Foreign Minister fails, sanctions in all pre 90% suitable for a nuclear plomacy are open but what and civil society fi gures pre peatedly refused to nego round of peace talks bet cess will come to an end and Mohammad Javad Zarif vious UN resolutions would weapon. Mr. Kamalvandi matters are new initiatives pared to meet in Doha, cast tiate with the Western ween U.S. and Taliban nego the enrichment beyond tweeted on Sunday. be reimposed. said Iran would enrich urani which are required.” ing a pall over talks intended backed government of Af tiators in Doha last week. Clashes in Hong Kong after mass rally ‘Trump govt. is uniquely dysfunctional’ Agence France-Presse backlash. But that has done “We want to show tou Agence France-Presse Darroch described Mr. Mr. Darroch is one of Bri Hong Kong little to quell public anger, rists... what is happening in London Trump, who was received by tain’s most experienced di Fresh political violence which has evolved into a Hong Kong and we hope Britain’s Ambassador in the Queen Elizabeth II during a plomats whose posting in broke out in Hong Kong on wider movement calling for they can take this concept United States has described state visit to Britain just last Washington D.C. began in Ja Sunday night as riot police democratic reforms. back to China,” said Eddison President Donald Trump month, as “insecure” and nuary, 2016, prior to Mr. batoncharged antigovern Earlier on Sunday, tens of Ng, an 18yearold demon and his administration as “incompetent”. Trump winning the ment protesters seeking to thousands of people snaked strator. “inept” and “uniquely dys A memo sent following presidency. keep the pressure up on the through streets in the har Hong Kongers speak Can functional”, according to the controversial visit said The Mail on Sunday said city’s proBeijing leaders, af bourfront district of Tsim tonese but protesters used leaked diplomatic memos the President and his team the memos, likely leaked by ter a mass rally outside a Sha Tsui, an area popular Bluetooth to send leafl ets in published by the Mail on had been “dazzled” by the someone within Britain’s train station linking the fi with Chinese tourists, end Mandarin — the predomi Sunday. Donald Trump visit but warned Britain sprawling civil service, cover nance hub to mainland Protesters marching to the ing their march at a high nant language on the main Ambassador Kim Darroch might not remain “fl avour of a period beginning in 2017. China. West Kowloon Express Rail speed train terminus that land — to nearby phones, reportedly said Mr. Trump’s to become substantially the month” because “this is In one of the most recent Hong Kong has been Link Station. REUTERS* connects to the mainland. hoping to spread the word. presidency could “crash and more normal; less dysfunc still the land of America reported dispatches fi led on rocked by a month of huge The march was billed as an “Why are there still so many burn” and “end in disgrace”, tional; less unpredictable; First”. He reportedly wrote June 22, Mr. Darroch criti marches against a law that masked protesters stormed opportunity to explain to people coming out to protest in the cache of secret cables less faction riven; less diplo that the “vicious infi ghting cised Mr. Trump’s fraught fo would have allowed extradi Parliament last Monday, mainlanders in the city what now?” one man said in Man and briefi ng notes sent back matically clumsy and inept,” and chaos” inside the White reign policy on Iran, which tions to mainland China. plunging the city into an un their protest movement is darin through a loudspeaker. to Britain seen by the Mr. Darroch allegedly wrote House — widely reported in has prompted fears in global Sunday’s clashes came precedented crisis. The ex about given the massive cen “Because the Hong Kong go newspaper. in one dispatch. the U.S. but dismissed by Mr. capitals of a military confl ict, hours after the fi rst demon tradition bill has been sus sorship in Beijing. It passed vernment didn’t listen to our “We don’t really believe The paper said the most Trump as “fake news” — was as “incoherent” and stration since young, pended following the without incident. demands.” this administration is going damning comments by Mr. “mostly true”. “chaotic”. IN BRIEF Hardline Sri Lankan monk Pakistan judge denies being calls for Sinhalese govt. blackmailed ‘Leave fi ght against extremism to us’ Reuters Reuters Lahore Kandy A Pakistani judge on Sun Imran Khan to visit Sri Lanka’s most powerful day denied being black Russia to attend EEF ISLAMABAD Buddhist nationalist group mailed into convicting ex Pakistan Prime Minister Imran rallied its hardline base on Prime Minister Nawaz Sha Khan will travel to Russia in Sunday, saying they must rif for graft last year after September to attend the aim to take democratic con the main Opposition party Eastern Economic Forum, trol of Parliament to protect showed secretly taped vi sources said. Mr. Khan has the community, amid deo that appeared to show accepted Russian President heightened sectarian strains Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara him saying he was threa Vladimir Putin’s invitation, after the Easter attacks by Is tened over the case. which was extended last lamist bombers. cians should leave the fi ght Mr. Sharif ’s Pakistan month. Prime Minister The infl uential chief of against Islamist extremism Muslim LeagueNawaz Narendra Modi will be the the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), to the monks. “We can talk (PMLN) party had present chief guest at the EEF. PTI Galagoda Aththe Gnanasa to them face to face in villag ed the video at a news con ra, addressing hundreds of es and create the Muslim ference on Saturday. In the Regret comments about monks and followers in Kan culture as we want without video, judge Arshad Malik, segregationists: Biden dy, called on Sri Lanka’s going for extremism. It’s our a senior judge on the ac SUMTER, S.C. 10,000 Buddhist temples to responsibility because this countability court, is seen Former Vice-President Joe help win votes for candi is a Sinhalese country. We telling a man that unidenti Biden on Saturday apologised dates from the Sinhala are the historical owners of fi ed individuals had con for recent comments about working with segregationist Buddhist majority. “We the this country,” he said. fronted him with compro Senators in his early days in clergies should aim to create Police lined the streets of mising video footage to the U.S. Senate, saying he a Sinhala government. We Kandy and the army was on pressure him into convict understands now his remarks will create a Parliament that standby as the monks held ing Mr. Sharif. could have been offensive to will be accountable for the their fi rst big assembly since Mr. Malik, in a statement some. “I regret it, and I’m country, a Parliament that the attacks. Several worried on Sunday, said that his sorry for any of the pain of will protect Sinhalese,” said Muslim traders shut their es comments in the video misconception that caused Gnanasara. tablishments for fear of were pieced together and anybody.” AP He also said the politi violence. presented out of context. ‘Greek conservatives on U.K. court refuses to track for landslide win’ deport couple to India Agence France-Presse Press Trust of India case against Mr. Mallya in Athens London her ruling in favour of extra Greece’s conservative New Even as liquor tycoon Vijay dition, “discharged” the Democracy party is on Mallya was granted permis couple on human rights course for a crushing victo sion to appeal against his ex grounds under Article 3 of ry against leftist Prime Mi tradition order in the U.K. the European Convention nister Alexis Tsipras in Sun High Court, India suff ered on Human Rights. “In the day’s general election and another setback as its extra light of my fi nding that Ms. will return to power after New Democracy party leader dition request in a murder Dhir and Mr. Raijada if ex more than four years in the Kyriakos Mitsotakis. REUTERS * case was turned down re tradited will be subject to an Opposition, exit polls cently by a court here. irreducible sentence, I fi nd showed on Sunday. If these results are con On July 2, Chief Magis there are substantial A combined survey by fi rmed, the 51yearold Har trate Emma Arbuthnot of grounds for believing that Greece’s main TV stations vard graduate and former Westminster Magistrates’ they would face a real risk of showed New Democracy, McKinsey consultant Mitso Court handed down her being subjected to treat headed by Kyriakos Mitsota takis will have a majority of judgment in a case involving ment, a lack of review of a kis, son of a former Prime up to 167 lawmakers in the an Indianorigin British citi life sentence, which would Minister, leading Mr. Tsi 300seat Parliament. zen Arti Dhir and husband be inhuman and degrad pras’s Syriza party by an av Mr. Tsipras’s party will Kaval Raijada, wanted in In ing,” she notes in her ruling. erage of 40% percent to have up to 82 seats, the polls dia for the murder of their The judge did fi nd that 28.5%. “The result has been showed. The fi nal number adopted 11yearold boy Go “there is a circumstantial determined... but we’ll be will depend on how smaller pal and his brotherinlaw. prima facie case that Ms. back,” outgoing Finance Mi parties fare. They need at Judge Arbuthnot, inci Dhir and Mr. Raijada acting nister Euclid Tsakalotos told least 3% of the vote to enter dentally the same judge together and with others state TV ERT. Parliament. who had found a prima facie committed the off ences”. CM YK downloaded from : www.visionias.net downloaded from : https://t.me/Material_For_Exam EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE HINDU MONDAY, JULY 8, 2019 DELHI BUSINESS REVIEW 15 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Budget clear that Centre will keep tempo up on infra spending the Finance Minister has had operations (MRO), One Na capitalisation of ₹ 70,000 rate’s dependence on banks. tives will positively impact tive for entrepreneurship de quoted Chinese model of de a few weeks to put all this to tion One Power Grid, Nation crore is timely and much Quality of life for all is employment besides provid velopment. However, the velopment where the over gether. In essence, this is a al Gas Grid and DISCOM re needed, given that the invest another positive in the Bud ing stimulus to sectors such outlay in primary and secon seas Chinese play a major directional budget that is forms. PublicPrivate ment cycle is showing green get. The target of two crore as cement, steel and the cap dary education, which suff role, is not being emulated in heavy on intent but not participation in railway in shoots as per the Economic aff ordable houses by 2022, ital durables sector. Youth as ers in quality and quantity, India. By not off ering prefe equally forthcoming on frastructure is a welcome Survey. along with drinking water, a segment seems to have lost does not fi nd any mention. rential treatment to NRIs ov commitments. move but will depend upon The initiative to provide electricity and gas for all is a out in this Budget. Demo er other foreign investors, In Clearly, by starting with building consensus on this 10% fi rstloss guarantee to muchneeded infrastructure graphic dividend is one of Preference for NRIs? dia is losing out of this large infrastructure, the govern sensitive topic. banks for six months against that has multiple benefi ts. the reasons that makes India We are still playing catchup corps of investors. The tone of the Economic ment is stating that it will not portfolio purchases from Increasing interest subsi a worthwhile destination for in attracting global manufac The FM must be compli Survey whetted our expecta take the foot off the accelera Liquidity is key NBFCs is a positive initiative. dy for loans to purchase af investments. India adds one turing majors to invest in our mented for having conjured tion of some bold announce tor in this sector. The con Emphasis on creating liquidi Given that the loan maturity fordable houses will help million youth to the job mar country. Hence, the initiative up a document that articu ments in the Budget. The vi nectivity theme comes out ty and capital raising is wel for NBFC is over two years, stimulate demand. Model ket every month. A majority to fl oat global tenders to at lates the vision of the $5 tril sion of India entering the strongly in the Budget pre come. Given the global head the guarantee period should rental agreement contract is do not have employable tract such investors has to be lion economy that the Prime virtuous cycle of savings, in sentation with emphasis on winds that India faces due to cover the loan tenure rather an interesting idea that may skills. backed with attractive incen Minister has envisioned for vestments and exports also roadways and waterways. trade wars and the like, and than just six months. facilitate investment by the There was mention of the tives given that all major India. The eff ectiveness de added to our anticipation. Aviation gets coverage the slowing domestic econo Deepening the bond mar corporate sector into the New Education Policy, Mas emerging markets are alrea pends upon implementation However, we need to temper through higher FDI, facilitat my, liquidity is key to pump ket is a step in the right direc large and untapped rental sive Open Online Courses dy doing the same thing. and building consensus on our expectation given that ing maintenance, repair and priming the economy. Bank tion. This reduces corpo housing market. These initia and the Standup India initia In the same vein, the oft the way forward. Road to agricultural A Budget for the masses and rural prosperity reign yield curve. Lower borrowing in the of the borrower. Apart from this, there is already a tax domestic market should be benefi t on repayment of business and easeofliving positive for the currency and principal of up to ₹ 1.5 lakh. to the rural areas too, the interest rate, and therefore Having said all this, if the emphasis of ‘Gaon, Garib interest costs will come borrower buying such a pro and Kisan’ will see the uplift down. Housing has been and perty also fulfi lls all the re of rural lives of farmers and continues to be a priority for quirements of the PMAY the poor, equally. The go the government. scheme, then the eff ective vernment has shown that As Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman The FM said that the go overall interest rate on his every person having poten presented her maiden Bud vernment had already built home loan can be below 4% tial to bring economic revo get, public expectation to 1.5 crore houses and would p.a. even though the nomi A truly agriculture and rural lution will be given an equal wards Union Budget 201920 build 1.95 crore houses un nal home loan interest rate is developmentfocussed Bud opportunity. Another new was extraordinary, given the der the Pradhan Mantari 8.7% p.a. This should pro get, it has adequately met scheme — SFURTI — is an at massive victory of the Modi Awas Yojna (PMAY) — Gra vide a huge boost to aff orda the twin objectives of tempt in this direction. government and the state of min over the next two years. ble housing. growth and inclusiveness. Rural artisans have re the economy. GDP growth Also, the time taken to There has been a massive When doubling of farm ceived a holding hand from has slowed down, and global complete construction of cleanup of NPAs of the ers’ income is being rigo the government in a cluster outlook turning gloomy, houses under PMAY has col banking sector in the past rously pursued by the go based development ap amid heightened trade ten lapsed from 314 days in 2015 few years and the ₹ 70,000 vernment, a fresh slew of proach that will upgrade re sions and fear of prolonged 16 to 114 days in 201718, thus crore recapitalisation plan measures through this Bud gional and traditional indus slowdown in the euro zone. reassuring that the target of will adequately bolster PSU get will only fi rm up the tries, benefi ting about Housing for All by 2022 will banks’ capital base and im prospects of the agriculture 50,000 artisans. Now, un Growth-focussed be met. prove credit uptake. and rural development sec der Pradhan Mantri Gram The Finance Minister pre The FM has incentivised The FM said that the go tors. The crux of the Budget Sadak Yojana, a road net sented a Budget that fo people buying aff ordable vernment will provide a one is ‘sustainability’ in every as work of 1.25 lakh km will cussed on growth, touching houses, by increasing fi scal time, sixmonth partial cre pect, be it agriculture prac bring more villages to rural every aspect of the econo incentives on a home loan. dit guarantee to PSU banks tices or economic viability. markets. Enhancing the my, especially job creation. The Budget has provided for for fi rst loss up to 10% for the An announcement of for prospects of agripreneurs, The most reassuring as an increase of up to purchase of highrated mation of 10,000 new FPOs the ASPIRE scheme will pect was the fi scal defi cit tar ₹ 1,50,000 deduction p.a. on pooled assets of fi nancially over the next fi ve years is a create 50,000 skilled rural get of 3.3% for FY20, alth the interest component of a sound NBFCs. step towards the same. With entrepreneurs, especially in ough a large segment of home loan borrowed before This will incentivise banks this, the economies of scale the rural agriculture sector. intellectuals would have March 31, 2020, provided to lend to NBFCs. The FM can be harnessed to achieve been comfortable even with the property value is under has cut the tax rate to 25% the goal of doubling farm Power generation 3.5% in lieu of a growth Bud ₹ 45 lakh. With this, the total for all the corporates with an er’s income by reduction in To expand the income get. The government’s focus fi scal incentives on a home annual turnover of up to input costs and assuring bet sources of our farmers, on international borrowings loan by way of interest de ₹ 400 crore from the earlier ter price realisations by the there is a proposal to enable will prevent crowding out ductions are ₹ 3.5 lakh p.a. ₹ 250 crore thus covering farmers for their output. them to take up power gen the private sector borrowing This additional fi scal be 99.30% of all corporates in The incentives proposed eration activities on their in the domestic market as nefi t will also lead to in India. This is a step in the for women SHGs will not on fi eld to transform the ‘Anna well as help establish sove crease in the loan eligibility right direction. ly lead to livelihood genera data’ to an ‘Urjadata’. tion and women empower For relieving farmers ment, but also nurture fi rstgeneration entrepre neurs though the MUDRA from uncertain prospects, the States will be forced to implement eNAM mechan ‘No clarity on fi scal benefi ts on EVs’ loans of ₹ 1 lakh. With the ism for better operations nister had to ensure that fi s there is never enough. Now, proposed interventions, not under the APMC Act. cal defi cit did not go beyond it is up to us and other only farmers, but also rural The concept of zerobud 3.3/3.4%. Therefore I don’t players to make this EV entrepreneurship will get get farming, which some think everything that one dream a reality. Our EV stra the necessary boost. farmers have exemplarily would wish would be possi tegy has always been very A new scheme — Pradhan proved to be viable, will ble. The biggest thing that aggressive and we do not Mantri Matsya Sampada Yo boost the confi dence of has happened in this Budget need to change anything be jana — will give enough con farmers. With conventional is the likelihood of better cause of the Budget. fi dence to those who are in means, the farmers will be availability of fi nance and In FAMEII, there’s a lot of fi sheries sector, to enhance able to enhance their in This Budget is a blueprint for the likelihood of rates com money set aside for charging their income with better come levels by keeping the fi ve years for all sectors of ing down. And that is a big infrastructure. The govern fi sheries management, in input costs under control. the economy. The auto in thing. ment gives a fair amount of frastructure creation, in Integration of funds from dustry needs a stimulus to subsidy if you want to set up creasing production and various Ministries to fund get the demand cycle going. Financing is an issue a charging infrastructure productivity, improved the Jal Shakti Abhiyan may It needed a temporary Today, for example, it is not and this will help. postharvest management see critical water blocks be Goods and Services Tax re that the demand is not there Income tax benefi ts to bringing economic viability ing regained. In a nutshell, lief to get the demand back. I but a good number of people those companies that are of the sector. As the govern ‘sustainability’ has largely hope the Centre will consid are not getting the fi nancing. setting up manufacturing for ment wants to extend the remained at the centre of er it. This government has Hence, if fi nancing is made lithium ion batteries in India parameters of easeofdoing this Budget. come up with a clear belief easily available it will make a or solar will also benefi t. EV that the mandate that they huge diff erence in the is a oneterm opportunity have got brings responsibili market. and India should become a ty on them to deliver on pro As far as fi scal benefi t on hub for EVs for the emerging mises they had made. I fi nd electric vehicles (EVs) is con markets. a sense of urgency to get cerned, what is not clear to However, the main chal things done. me is whether this will only lenge is translating the intent Everything that has been benefi t personal buyers or to onground implementa said about rural India is in also benefi t fl eet buyers. tion. EVs is the biggest op line with what has been said Many benefi ts have been portunity or the biggest before. A few new things announced by the govern threat to Make in India, de were announced that will ment such as FAME II bene pending on how we handle add to the thrust. So I won’t fi t, registration being free it. India’s economy has to say that anything has and this announcement as grow at 7% and for that is changed drastically preBud well as incentives for local there enough in the Budget get and postBudget. It is the manufacturing to EVs and to spur demand? That is the same direction that we have benefi ts for setting up charg only question mark in my seen. It is easy for us to say ing infrastructure. As an in mind. With conventional means, farmers can enhance their income what happened and what dustry, we could not have (As told to Lalatendu Mis- levels by keeping input costs under control. NISSAR AHMAD * did not. But the Finance Mi asked for more. Though, hra) CM A ND-NDE YK downloaded from : www.visionias.net downloaded from : https://t.me/Material_For_Exam EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 16 MONEYWISE DELHI THE HINDU MONDAY, JULY 8, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ASK US Insure your a life insurance product high. 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This is why in plans represent about 10% the insured survives the payment options available Coming to the health problems your ‘returns on investment’ vestors looking for a safe any benefi t in case of sur surers have introduced to 12% of term life sales. term, the insurer will re in the market include an parents have started facing, they will be should not be the only cri and secure way to fi nan vival of the policy term, term insurance plans with Yes, though the num turn the premium i.e. nual, semiannual, quar covered only after a waiting period of 3 to 4 teria when choosing an in cially protect their loved has left people with the return of premium fea bers are currently quite ₹ 6,25,000 (₹ 25,000 x 25). terly and monthly. Some years. Another reason to buy a policy early! surance product. ones in case of their per quest of investing in life in ture. 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For additional coverage, you can opt for a topup or super topup policy which will be more costeffi cient. INSIDE BUDGET: THE FINE PRINT TECH TRAIL: PRECIOUS METALS Look carefully for exclusions and pre existing condition clauses whichever option you choose, whether from your employer or directly from an insurer. Also ensure you are clear about the copayment and deductibles in the options and make a considered Keeping a tab on spending Gold and silver on a song decision. If you are paying the premium for B. Krishnakumar them and they are dependent, you can avail applicable additional tax deduction under High-value transactions to come under the scanner The prices of gold and silver were on a strong uptrend in June 2019. section 80D of the IncomeTax Act, 1961. Parvatha Vardhini C yourself or others or have International gold prices touched To keep track of highvalue paid ₹ 1 lakh or more towards a sixyear high towards the end of About Annuities spends, the government, in electricity bills. Besides, as June. After touching a high of Q: I am a 54year old NRI professional the Budget, has brought as per the current laws, a per $1,443 an ounce, comex gold working in the UAE for the past 15 years. I sessees who enter into high son claiming benefi t of ex price has been largely range plan to retire by 60 or 62 years. bound in the past few days. Gold I estimate I will need a monthly income of value transactions and emption from capital gains whose income is otherwise tax on investment in speci gained 7.8% in June to settle at about ₹ 1 lakh for me and my wife post retirement. I have heard about single not taxable, under the re fi ed assets like house, bonds $1,413.7 an ounce. premium pension plans from LIC and private turn fi ling net. etc., is not required to fur While international silver pric insurance companies. Return fi ling has got a bit nish a return of income, if af es, too, remained strong in June Will it be a good option for me to invest in quicker with the Budget in ter the claim, his total in 2019, the momentum witnessed these plans? Kindly advise. troducing prefi lled tax re come is below that taxable in gold price was not as evident in MOHAMED RAFEEQ turn forms. While the perso limit. Now, a return has to be the case of silver. Silver price nal information is usually fi led if before the claim, your gained 4.7% in June to settle at signal that gold is on an uptrend view. A. While a life insurance policy deals with the risk of dying too soon, an annuity policy auto fi lled in most ereturns, total income is above the tax $15.25 an ounce. from a shortterm perspective. If Silver price at MCX achieved protects you from the fi nancial burden of prefi lled tax returns with income as per the TDS re able limit. Expectations of an interest rate the comex gold stays above the the target of ₹ 37,150. living too long. Since you are planning for details of salary income, cap turn of the deductor (ie the Further, to keep tabs on cut in the U.S. along with a weak support level at $1,360, a bounce After touching a high of your retirement towards the end of your ital gains from securities, insurance company) and the high value transactions en trend in the dollar were primary to the shortterm target of $1,450 ₹ 38,590, silver price has cooled working life, your options are a single bank interests, and divi income declared by you. To tered into by those who factors driving the price of pre 1,460 is a likely outcome. A move off a bit recently. The shortterm premium plans and plans that allow a shorter cious metals to higher levels in past $1,421 would strengthen the outlook for MCX Silver is positive dends and tax deductions weed out this anomaly, a 5% don’t possess a PAN, quoting deferment period before the vesting date June. case for a rise towards $1,450 and is likely to touch the imme (the date on which the pension, or annuity will also be available from TDS will be charged on net of Aadhaar has now been now on. income from September 1, mandated from September Refl ecting the positive trend in 1,460 zone. diate target of ₹ 39,90040,500 payments begin). Depending on when you are ready to Eassessments will help 2019 onwards. 1, 2019. Cash withdrawals in the international markets, the The shortterm outlook for sil per kilogram. This view would be invest the lump sum as single premium you reduce harassment by tax of excess of ₹ 1 crore in aggre precious metals moved to higher ver is similar to gold. A rise to the under threat if the price falls be have the following options. fi cials in case your returns Tightening the grip gate during a year from a levels in June, at the Multi Com immediate target of $15.7$16 an low ₹ 36,000. Until ₹ 36,000 is For a ₹ 1 lakh annuity per month at age 62, are taken up for further scru But the goodies end there. bank/cooperative bank or modity Exchange (MCX), India. ounce is likely. A move past $16 breached, there would be a that is six years from now, you need to pay tiny. If you are receiving a Several measures have been post offi ce will attract TDS The price of gold futures gained would impart further momentum strong case for a rise to ₹ 41,500 ₹ 1.2 crore as single premium today under a about 7% in June to close at to the uptrend. The positive view and beyond. maturity payout from an in taken to widen the tax base. (tax deduction at source) of deferred annuity pension plan. An immediate ₹ 34,206 per 10 grams. Silver fu would be invalidated if the price To summarise, the short to me annuity will require ₹ 1.5 crore as single surance company where the To keep track of high value 2%. premium paid during any spends, the Budget has in Sellers of immovable pro tures at MCX settled at ₹ 37,452 falls below the support at $14.4 diumterm outlook for precious premium today, and the rates could have well changed at your age 62. This example is year is more than 10% of the troduced mandatory return perty (other than agricultu per kilogram. $14.8 an ounce. metals has turned positive. It ho only illustrative. The premium is subject to sum assured, the receipt is fi ling for certain persons ral land) could now see more Based on the recent price ac Domestically, the outlook for wever remains to be seen if this 18% GST. This calculation is for a ‘simple taxable and a TDS of 1% is le even if their incomes are be outfl ow on account of TDS tion, the shortterm outlook for gold and silver is positive. The positive trend will spill over to the annuity for life’ option and are several other vied on the gross amount low the taxable limit. levied as 1% of considera gold and silver remains positive. gold price at MCX is likely to rise longterm time frame. options like assured annuity with return of paid. Thus, from assessment tion. Individuals providing Though there is a chance of a to the immediate target of (The author is a Chennai purchase price or annuity for spouse. However, when you dis year 202021 onwards ( ie, contractual work or profes shortterm cool off in the prices ₹ 34,95035,500 per 10grams. A based analyst/trader. The views close your income on this for transactions /income sional service will now see a of gold and silver, such dip in fall below ₹ 32,80033,000 zone and opinion featured in this co Readers can send in queries on personal fi nance and front in your tax return, you during 201920), you will TDS cut of 5% on receipts/ prices could present an oppor would invalidate the shortterm lumn is based on the analysis of investing to moneywise@thehindu.co.in. Our are required to disclose the have to fi le your returns if professional fee in excess of tunity to buy gold for shortterm positive outlook for gold. A drop shortterm price movement in experts who write on personal fi nance will answer net income (after deducting you have deposited more ₹ 50 lakh in aggregate in a gains. below ₹ 32,800 would indicate gold and silver futures at comex these queries. Moneywise will not give specifi c the premium paid from the than ₹ 1 crore in a current ac year. All these TDS moves Comex gold has support zone that MCX gold price is in short and Multi Commodity Exchange recommendations for investment in a particular at $1,3601,380 zone. Any bounce term downtrend but it would not of India. This is not meant to be a mutual fund scheme, share or fi xed deposit. total sum received). This count, have spent more than will take eff ect from Septem leads to a mismatch between ₹ 2 lakh on foreign travel for ber 1, 2019. off this zone would be a strong alter the mediumterm positive trading or investment advice.) 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BCCI raises banner issue Except for the blip against England, India has had someone delivering at critical moments throughout the tournament with ICC had a problem when Shikhar has now settled down into Dhawan left with a fractured consistent yields. He had an PRESS TRUST OF INDIA leftthumb. erratic stint in the blue shade LEEDS In Rahul, the management too. Just when he was reso Aircraft fl ying over the had a readymade solution — lutely clinging to his Test Headingley Stadium albeit from the longer for whites came the intense with antiIndia banners mat, and he wasn’t a left scrutiny following the mis is “unacceptable”, a hander like his injured pre ogynistic remarks linked to miff ed BCCI has said decessor. Additionally, he him and Hardik Pandya in a while raising concerns needed to strike a chemistry Koff ee with Karan episode. over the safety of its with Rohit. players with the ICC. In the faceoff involving Back to the basics Minutes after the K.C. Vijaya Kumar Manchester Pakistan, there was an initial An apologetic Rahul got back IndiaSri Lanka match issue of running between the to the drawingboard of so began, a plane Strong teams seize the tip wickets but Rohit and Rahul cial etiquette. Slowly he carrying the message pingpoint moments and al got their ‘yes’ and ‘no’ in or winged back and the recent ‘Justice for Kashmir’ ways have a player who deliv der and shared a 136run Indian Premier League fl ew above the ground. ers a critical performance. partnership. Rahul scored a helped him lure the right at After halfanhour, India did that all through the 57 and subsequently etched tention. He amassed 593 for another aircraft fl ew World Cup, though there was 30, 48, 0, 77 and 111. He also Kings XI Punjab and was over the stadium with a blip against England. The built two massive alliances placed second below David a banner ‘India Stop triumph over Sri Lanka at with Rohit: 180 against Ban Warner of Sunrisers Genocide, Free Headingley in Leeds on Sa gladesh and 189 in the joust Hyderabad. Kashmir.’ turday falls into the template featuring Sri Lanka. Promptly, Rahul gained Midway into India’s of unerring dominance. While Rohit seemingly the selectors’ nod for the run chase, a third The cricketers from scores hundreds for fun, Ra World Cup while the wheels aircraft was seen with a beyond the Palk Strait re hul had to wrestle with a of fortune unravelled for Am banner ‘Help End Mob vived themselves through a string of soft dismissals after bati Rayudu, who retired Lynching.’ ton from Angelo Mathews, laying the base. “I am not go with a sense of unspoken “This is completely but Virat Kohli’s men never ing to break my head over it,” hurt. Cricketing fates run on unacceptable. We have slackened. And when it was the Karnataka player said, slender threads and Rahul is written to the ICC time to chase, openers Rohit but he was conscious of the aware of his fresh lease. expressing our Sharma and K.L. Rahul aberration, be it a tame shot concern. If this kind of struck centuries and sealed to covers or a cute reverse The fl aws incident is repeated in the contest. sweep that found the fi elder The lanky player has an array the semifi nals, it will at short fi neleg! of strokes and even tried a be really unfortunate. Indelible imprint minihelicopter shot on Sa The safety and security The ability to leave an indeli Sterner tests turday. But he has a tenden of our players is ble imprint starts from the Finally, he maximised on a cy to get carried away and paramount,” said a very top. While Rohit has foundation and his ton Fighting back: Rahul has wrestled with a string of soft dismissals after laying the base. * REUTERS can be tentative around the BCCI offi cial. gleaned all the attention, it is against Sri Lanka augurs well off stump. Once these fl aws “We are incredibly important to acknowledge for India as it gears up for the Tuesday. Rahul. Unlike his famous na But he did the hard yards at trees yawned. are rectifi ed, Rahul should disappointed this has Rahul’s contribution. A suc sterner tests starting with the Ever since he burst mesake the reticent Rahul the National Cricket Acade A nervous Test debut fol become a permanent entity happened again,” the cessful opening pair is diffi semifi nal against New Zea through the ranks in Benga Dravid, the Mangalurubred my’s gym and nets till the lowed by an extreme mix of in India’s ODI playing eleven ICC had said in a cult to replicate and India land at Old Traff ord here on luru, it hasn’t been easy for lad had an extrovertstreak. nextdoor Cubbon Park’s poor scores and big knocks even after Dhawan returns. statement. Rohit has a template: Bangar ‘I don’t take praise or criticism seriously’ Match offi cials for semifi nals Special Correspondent On some pitches, slower balls work, on some they don’t: Bumrah Leeds PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Sanjay Bangar stressed that Special Correspondent Fivebowler strategy: Eve LEEDS India is in a good space and Leeds rybody is taking a lot of res The English duo of Richard primed to perform in the After strangling batsmen ponsibility and that’s a good Illingworth and Richard World Cup semifi nal. He during India’s last league sign for us. In most of the Kettleborough will offi ciate praised Rohit Sharma’s con game involving Sri Lanka in games, only fi ve bowlers in the fi rst semifi nal bet sistency and also backed the the World Cup clash at Hea have bowled and it’s been ween India and New Zea middleorder. India’s batting dingley here on Saturday, going like this throughout land at Manchester on coach spoke at Headingley speedster Jasprit Bumrah, the campaign. Tuesday. here on Saturday after Virat selfeff acing as ever, down Variations in play: It de Australian Rod Tucker Kohli’s men defeated Sri played his achievements pends on the size of the will be the third umpire, Lanka by seven wickets. while speaking in the ICC boundary and what end you Englishman Nigel Llong Excerpts. mixed media zone. are bowling from. Some the fourth offi cial and Rohit the class act: The se Excerpts. times you have a longer former Australian player cret behind his great pro Team before self: I don’t boundary on one side, so David Boon the match refe gress in ODIs is that he un Making his presence felt: Hardik Pandya has played some take praise or criticism se metimes you don’t. So you ree. derstands his game and has good knocks in the middleorder. REUTERS * riously. My focus is on prep analyse that. On some pitch The second semifi nal a template which he follows aration, execution and what es, slower balls work, on between Australia and En and it has given him success. Rahul and giving him the Hardik (Pandya), Mahi (M.S. I can do for the team. As far some they don’t and you gland at Edgbaston on On a tour, based on the con space that is required. From Dhoni) and Rishabh (Pant) as the bowling unit is con bowl length balls. Thursday will be offi ciated ditions and the country we the team’s point of view, have got some knocks under cerned, we are happy that Hardik Pandya’s value: by Sri Lanka’s Kumar Dhar are playing, we interact as to these contributions are very their belt. So they are in everybody has contributed He has been bowling well. masena and Marais Eras what tweaks could be ad critical. good nick. and taken wickets, be it Har Even in the IPL he worked a mus of South Africa. ded. But all credit to him be Middleorder blues? I New Zealand in the se dik (Pandya) or (Mo lot on his bowling. He is still New Zealand’s Chris Gaf cause he has worked hard don’t think so because mis: We played in New Zea hammed) Shami. I have also Cool customer: Jasprit Bumrah has bowled exceptionally well adding new things and is faney will be the third um and for any batsman to get whoever has got to bat, ob land and played fi ve games taken wickets. at the death. REUTERS* open to new ideas and pire and Pakistan’s Aleem fi ve hundreds (in the World viously they haven't got to against them. So we know Bhuvneshwar’s off day: changes. He contributes in Dar the fourth offi cial. Cup) is very special. It is not bat for longer periods of what they are capable of and Some days some bowlers team. He was clear in his ex the pitches are getting slow the fi eld and also with the Ranjan Madugalle of Sri just about his personal suc time except for the Afghanis what their strengths are and can go for runs. We bowl a ecution just that some days er but today (Saturday) it bat. Overall as a package, it’s Lanka will be the match re cess; he is also helping K.L. tan game. Apart from that, we will keep an eye on that. lot of diffi cult overs for the batsmen play well. Overall, was not that bad. a positive sign. feree. Go with both wrist-spinners: Kumble Warner, Carey heroics not enough for Australia No regrets: Duminy David Warner marked his AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Shreedutta Chidananda The one against South Africa MANCHESTER fi rst match against South Bengaluru was exceptional. It was In Australia will play England Africa since his ban with his India should fi eld both its dia’s fi rst match, he was in the World Cup semifi nals third hundred of the World Shayan Acharya wristspinners in Tuesday’s coming in with not many after the holder suff ered a Cup, but it was not enough Manchester semifi nal clash against New runs behind him in the IPL, dramatic 10run defeat to prevent Australia from JeanPaul Duminy looked Zealand, believes Anil Kum and people were talking against South Africa at Old suff ering its second loss of emotional as he walked into ble. Yuzvendra Chahal was about his lack of form. Even Traff ord on Saturday. the league stage. the mixed media zone post rested from India’s meeting in the practice game against his last international assign with Sri Lanka while Kul New Zealand, he hadn’t got SCOREBOARD SOUTH AFRICA VS AUSTRALIA ment after South Africa’s deep Yadav was left out of runs. He’s been the stand SOUTH AFRICA Phehlukwayo 3 (3b); Extras win over Australia on the side that faced Bangla out performer. The top three 325 for six in 50 overs. (lb4, w3): 7; Total (in 49.5 Saturday. desh. Kumble, though, is in have all been brilliant.” overs): 315. “It is fi tting to say that it AUSTRALIA favour of deploying both The former India legspin David Warner c Morris b Pre FALL OF WICKETS was my last international against the Kiwis. “If it was ner dismissed concerns torius 122 (117b, 15x4, 2x6), 15 (Finch, 2.1 overs), 233 game completely. I have England in the semifi nals, about the middleorder. “Ev Aaron Finch c Markram b Tahir (Smith, 6.3), 395 (Stoinis, been considering it for the you would have thought dif Anilspeak: Kumble feels India should choose fi ve attacking ery team, at certain times, 3 (4b), Usman Khawaja b Ra 18.3), 4119 (Maxwell, 24.1), 5 last couple of months and I ferently. But since it’s New bowlers for the semifi nal against New Zealand. FILE PHOTO * has certain combinations bada 18 (14b, 3x4), Steve Smith 227 (Warner, 39.1), 6272 have made the decision that Zealand, I’d certainly go with not standing up in a game. lbw b Pretorius 7 (6b, 1x4), (Cummins, 44.4), 7275 (Carey, it will be the last game. both,” he told The Hindu pitch at Old Traff ord, then tently. So these would be my And good teams know how Marcus Stoinis run out 22 (34b, 45.2), 8301 (Khawaja, 48.1), There is a big relief and ap 4x4), Glenn Maxwell c de Kock 9306 (Starc, 48.5). here on Sunday. maybe Bhuvi, but otherwise best three seamers, to go to mask those and still fi nd a preciation for amazing 15 b Rabada 12 (20b, 1x4), Alex SOUTH AFRICA BOWLING Virat Kohli seemingly has my fi ve bowlers will be the with the two wristspinners.” way to win. That’s exactly Tahir 90591, Rabada 100 years of international crick Carey c Markram b Morris 85 another diffi cult decision to fi ve attacking options,” he what India has done. I feel 563, Pretorius 62272, Mor et,” Duminy said at the Old (69b, 11x4, 1x6), Pat Cummins make in Manchester, in hav said. “Shami has been bril Exceptional Rohit Rishabh Pant, M.S. Dhoni c Duminy b Phehlukwayo 9 ris 90631, Shamsi 90 Traff ord. ing to choose between Bhuv liant. Jasprit Bumrah has Kumble, who is an exclusive and Hardik Pandya are cur (15b, 1x4), Mitchell Starc b Ra 620, Phehlukwayo 2.50 With Duminy and Imran neshwar Kumar and Mo been exceptional whenever cricket expert with CNN rently the best for those posi bada 16 (11b, 1x4, 1x6), Jason 222, Duminy 40220. Tahir calling it a day, the na hammed Shami. Kumble he’s come on to bowl. Hardik News 18, was eff usive in his tions — two powerful hitters, Behrendorff (not out) 11 (6b), MoM: Faf du Plessis. tional team is set to go would prefer to see the latter Pandya has been really praise of Rohit Sharma. and one calm head in M.S.” Nathan Lyon c Markram b South Africa won by 10 runs. through a transition period. in action. “If you have a slow good, giving 10 overs consis “Five hundreds with two games to go – you can’t ask for a better tournament,” he Dhoni factor Asked about Dhoni, who has Khawaja out said. “And look at the quality been criticised for his dis of those hundreds as well. play with the bat in a couple AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE of matches, Kumble re MANCHESTER marked: “Yeah, you can say, Usman Khawaja will miss ‘Why is he looking to take a the rest of the World Cup single when you need 10 with a hamstring strain. runs an over?’ But it’s impor Matthew Wade will re tant to look at the overall place Khawaja in the combination, the way India squad, subject to confi rma has won. I don’t think you tion from the ICC. need to worry too much Marcus Stoinis was also about one particular player, hampered by a side strain focus there and criticise him. against South Africa. He’s been a quality player for Mitchell Marsh has been India and his experience will added to the squad as cov be needed in this semifi nal.” er for Stoinis. CM A ND-NDE YK downloaded from : www.visionias.net downloaded from : https://t.me/Material_For_Exam EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 18 SPORT DELHI THE HINDU MONDAY, JULY 8, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Gauff ’s clash against Halep headlines Manic Monday Serena feels the pressure Divij Sharan, partnering Marcelo Demoliner, remains the lone Indian in the fray of hype DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Agence France-Presse London B 16 singles prequarterfi nals are scheduled for the day Serena Williams confessed to almost being overcome B Gauff ’s three main draw matches made it to the by the pressure of partner topeight of BBC’s ing British sporting icon An mostwatched list dy Murray in the Wimble don mixed doubles, but it B Federer hopes to become all worked out in the end as the oldest men’s singles Slam champion they won their fi rst round N. Sudarshan match against Germany’s LONDON B Nadal is primed for a Andreas Mies and Chile’s recordequalling third Alexa Guarachi 64, 61. Sport works best when there French OpenWimbledon is space for both the familiar Seventime singles cham double and the novel. Familiar to DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD pion Williams had fulfi lled make it more watchable and Murray’s search for a partn nents yet, a Grand Slam er — World No. 1 Ashleigh easier to follow; novel to champion and former World keep it from getting boring, Barty had been previously No.1 who looked menacing mooted. However, as the provide for the thrills that in her thrashing of Victoria accompany a prodigy’s rise match loomed on Centre Azarenka on Friday. Gauff Court her nerves began to and reinforce the notion though is not someone to that sport is, after all, the jangle as she feared she fl inch. would let down Murray on preserve of the young. Two others to exhibit si the court where he won Of late in tennis, these milar youthful exuberance, two Wimbledon singles tit two strands have existed in reigning French Open cham albeit to a lesser degree, are les and the 2012 Olympic entirely diff erent worlds, li pion from being at her effi 23yearold Matteo Berretti gold. mited to the men’s and wo cient best on her favourite ni and 21yearold Ugo Hum “At some point I started men’s Tours respectively. surface, losing just 12 games. bert, who will take on Feder feeling a lot of pressure,” It’s only at the Majors that er and Djokovic respectively. A victory over fellow said Williams on Saturday. they have an opportunity to Berrettini is coming off a grasslover Alison Riske, can entwine and ensure eclectic, stellar grass season (just one potentially land her at Sere fi rstrate tennis whichever loss from 12 matches) and na’s doorstep in the last way you look. was recently marked out for eight. Signs of a break-out star: Cori Gauff has captured the imagination of millions worldwide, and her biggest achievement thus far ‘Manic Monday’ at Wim has been her steadfast refusal to fall off the emotional cliff . AP * success by none other than Doubles specialist Divij bledon 2019, when all 32 of Federer himself. Sharan, partnering Marcelo the singles prequarterfi nal dest men’s singles Slam qualifying — to which she ings on Centre Court against The triumphs over fi ve However, Monday’s clash Demoliner, remains the lone ists will have their moments champion; Rafael Nadal, was awarded a wild card — Joao Sousa and Serena on time Wimbledon winner Ve may come too early for the Indian in the fi eld, and will under the sun — or under a who will be gunning for a re has captured the imagina Court 1 versus Carla Suarez nus Williams and 2017 semi Italian. Humbert, mean take on the topseeded pair steady, spitting drizzle cordequalling third French tion of millions worldwide. Navarro, but it will be fi nalist Magdalena Rybariko while, dispatched the highly of Lukasz Kubot and Marce which is never far off in OpenWimbledon double; Until Friday, all three of Gauff ’s clash against Simona va were stunning, enough rated Felix Auger Aliassime lo Melo. these parts — will bear testa Novak Djokovic, who will her main draw matches had Halep — second on Court 1 — for a lifetime’s worth of sto in straight sets but Djokovic ment to this. look to defend his crown, made it to the topeight of that will headline the day. ries. will present a signifi cant THE RESULTS and Serena Williams, seek BBC’s mostwatched list, Gauff ’s biggest achieve But the Hercog contest step up. The big names ing her 24th singles trophy with the thirdround win ov was a severe test of patience, Men: Third round: Joao Sousa ment thus far has been her to tie Margaret Court. (Por) bt Daniel Evans (GBr) 46, There is Roger Federer, who er Polona Hercog topping steadfast refusal to fall off judgement and skill, which Under the radar 64, 75, 46, 64. is into the second week of Then there is the irresisti with 5.2 million viewers, the emotional cliff , quite un she passed with fl ying co One player who has quietly Mixed doubles: Second round: Wimbledon for an astonish ble 15yearold American Co comfortably beating Nadal like most breakout stars fol lours. slipped under the radar has Eden Silva (GBr) & Evan Hoyt ing 17th time in 21 years, and ri Gauff , ranked 313 in the Nick Kyrgios at 3.7m. lowing their biggest In Halep she will face the been World No. 1 Ashleigh (GBr) bt 16Divij Sharan & Yin Andy Murray and will hope to become the ol world, whose run from the Nadal will open proceed moments. mostrounded of her oppo Barty. It hasn’t stopped the gying Duan (Chn) 63, 64. Serena Williams. * REUTERS IN BRIEF Tajikistan stuns India Record title No. 4 for United States Stages a dramatic comeback after being down 2-0 Rapinoe and Lavelle score in 2-0 win over the Netherlands INTERCONTL. CUP WOMEN’S WC Amitabha Das Sharma Associated Press AHMEDABAD Lyon Teunissen’s Jumbo-Visma wins team time trial Tajikistan made a spectacu The United States won its re BRUSSELS lar comeback, scoring four cord fourth Women’s World Dutch outfit JumboVisma goals in the second half, to Cup title and second in a stormed to victory on the shock a young Indian side row, beating the Netherlands Tour de France team time that was leading 20 at one 20 Sunday night when Me trial on Sunday with Mike stage, in the opening match gan Rapinoe converted a pe Teunissen keeping the yellow nalty kick in the second half of the Intercontinental Cup jersey after the 27.6km race and Rose Lavelle added a at the EKA Arena on Sunday. around Brussels. Geraint goal. Thomas' Ineos finished 20 Watched by a crowd of seconds behind. AFP around 7000, India went Rapinoe scored in the 61st ahead through captain Sunil minute after a video review Shortlived: India went ahead in the fourth minute and also Chhetri who scored off a determined Stefanie van der added a goal in the 41st, but Tajikistan rallied well. PTI * fourth minute penalty and Gragt had fouled Alex Mor also found the target in the fered injuries. combined well to create an gan with a kick to the shoul 41st minute. Tajikistan Even before the Tajiks opportunity. der in the penalty area. Top of the world: The U.S. women’s team celebrates its triumph. * REUTERS turned things around after could settle into a rhythm, Tajikistan found the target Two days past her 34th the break, showing better India nosed ahead. Lallian in the 56th minute when birthday, Rapinoe slotted the tight, and we’ll do anything coordination, as Komron zuala Chhangte won a penal Tursunov outwitted his ball past goalkeeper Sari van to win.” Tursunov, Sheriddin Bo ty for the host when he was marker Narinder Gehlot. Veenendaal for her sixth goal Lavelle, at 24 the team’s Hima, Anas and Jabir win boev, Muhammadjon Rahi brought down in the box by The equaliser came two mi of the tournament to win the upandcoming star, added gold in Polish meet mov and substitute Sham Tajik defender Siyovush As nutes later through Mandar Golden Boot as leading scor her third goal of the tourna KUTNO rom Samiev scored. rorov. Chhetri found the net who gifted a chance to Bo er. The oldest player to score ment on an 18foot leftfoot Star Indian sprinter Hima Das from the spot, adopting the in a fi nal, she struck a fami India’s dominance was boev with a faulty clearance. ed shot in the 69th after a so won her second international liar victorious pose with complete in the opening ‘paneka’ technique — a short Rahimov hoisted the lead lo run up the centre of the 200m, clocking 23.97s, at the half, the newlook side get chip over the goalkeeper. in the 71st before Samiev arms outstretched. fi eld. “She’s superstar, not Kutno Athletics Meet in Poland on Sunday, ahead of ting into quick passing bouts sealed the issue three mi “It’s surreal. I don’t know even in the making, she’s V.K. Vismaya. There were that head coach Stimac has Doubling it nutes later. how to feel like now. It’s rid straight up superstar at this gold medals for Muhammed been trying to inculcate. The India doubled the lead 37 mi The result: India 2 (Chhetri 4 iculous,” Rapinoe said. point,” Rapinoe said. Anas (men’s 200m, 21.18s ) Croatian left out seasoned nutes later when Chhetri pen, 41) lost to Tajikistan 4 “We’re crazy and that’s what The result: United States 2 (Ra and M.P. Jabir (men’s 400m defender E. Anas and San turned fi nisher again after (Tursunov 56, Boboev 58, Rahi makes us so special. We just pinoe 61pen, Lavelle 69) bt hurdles, 50.21s) also. PTI desh Jinghan after both suf Udanta Singh and Desai had mov 71, Samiev 74). have no quit in us. We’re so the Netherlands 0. 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The Earth bears the weight of every liv drink (8) radio (4) ing thing. It supports hills, and trees, besides supporting 16 Dying one responsible for a 5 Annoyance may result if I toss animals, birds and human beings. It lives for the sake of oth shutdown? (7) antacids out (15) ers. So, the very place on which we live shows us that we 6 Arbitration participant's must live selfl essly, said P.T. Seshadri, in a discourse. Hills 18 Run with the boy to cut up a integration goes haywire and trees too show us that we must help others. Trees give little green legume and build after logging out of the us fruits. When it rains, water fl ows down the slopes of hills. character (7) Iranian website (9) Thus, the hills too benefi t us. Nature, therefore, teaches us 20 Time to get rid of the page that we are born to help others. From the earth we should 8 Stroke by an underwater break and save (8) learn the virtue of patience. If we suff er in life, we should see explorer to get the rook to 21 Trade in the round mitts (4) that as a result of our prarabdha karma. The wind, when it move (5) blows, touches everything in its path. But does it claim kin 23 Leading lefthanded openers 14 Valuable mineral in a Nordic ship with any of these things? It picks up the fragrance of favour this stroke (4) coin (3) fl owers, and spreads that fragrance. It never thinks of that 24 Model's reception gets garbled 15 A compulsion for the players sweet smell as belonging to itself. after fl uorine contamination and umpires in a downpour? Likewise, a yogi may travel to many places, but remains (10) (4,5) detached and unaff ected by anything. Similarly, the atma, which is inside the body, controls the body. But when its 25 Show horror at the twist 17 Fish eggs found by a Greek Solution to puzzle 12671 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku time on earth ends, the atma exits the body, and is not at behind the note (6) character reportedly (3) ■ ACROSS tached to the body. In the same way, a jnani is totally de 7 Authorize the African city's 26 Firstclass vessel sent back 19 Edit the legal document tached. Akasa is everywhere — it is inside everything and all brief linking to the surge from with a Vshaped mark (35) without a header found inside around us. The Supreme One too, is inside everyone and is the east (8) the rolledover jug (7) also all around us. Winds disturb clouds in the sky and scat 9 Discarded vitamin imbibed by ■ DOWN 21 First wicket for the opener ter them. Does the sky bother about this? It may be connect mistake at this place (6) with a bold stroke (5) ed to the clouds, but it has no attachment to them. Similarly, 1 Son goes on top of the cages to a jnani remains untouched by the gunas for which the fi ve 10 Simultaneous change of get the inside story (5) 22 Stroke by one getting sloshed detectives in front of the elements are responsible. Water cleans us up, and signifi es in German wine (5) medical department (10) 2 Change in script seen in a purity. Jnanis live pure lives, and with their advice and gui 11 Stroke requiring strenuous version including the note 24 Drawing power of the peepul dance, they cleanse us. They bathe us in spiritual expe effort... (4) sent up with hesitation (15) leaf extract (4) rience. CM A ND-NDE YK downloaded from : www.visionias.net downloaded from : https://t.me/Material_For_Exam EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE HINDU MONDAY, JULY 8, 2019 DELHI SPORT 19 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE TV PICKS Wimbledon: SS Select 2 (SD & HD), 3.30 p.m. & SS Select 1 Double for Sethu, Ravikumar, Abhimanyu Indians disappoint SHOOTING Dhaliwal (54) were 15th and last. (SD & HD), 5.30 p.m. Hero Intercontinental Cup: Maiden win for Ryhana Bee in girls’ championship Sports Bureau Star Sports 2 (SD & HD) & Star LONATO (Italy) Yashaswini fourth Sports 3, 7.30 p.m. Meanwhile at the 30th Un MOTORSPORTS Anant Jeet Singh Naruka (72) iversiade in Napoli, Youth Red card Sports Reporter and Areeba Khan (60) shot 132 between them and Olympics fi nalist Yashaswini Chennai Singh Deswal qualifi ed in steals thunder Deepak Ravikumar (TVS Rac ing) and Rajiv Sethu (Idemit placed 26th in mixed skeet team competition in the the second place but slipped to the fourth spot in the wo from Messi su Honda Ten10 Racing) shotgun World Champion ship here on Sunday. Mairaj men’s air pistol fi nal. completed a double apiece Yashaswini was second in and Co in contrasting styles on the Ahmad Khan (70) and Karti ki Singh Shaktawat (59) shot qualifi cation with 573 be concluding day of the second hind World Cup gold medal 129 and placed 32nd among round of the MRF MMSC list Kim Minjung (582) of Ko Agence France-Presse 37 teams. Sao Paulo FMSCI Indian National mo rea, who pipped the Indian torcycle racing champion Ryhana Bee * In junior mixed skeet, It Lionel Messi was harshly was a belowpar perfor to the bronze. ship at the MMRT here on sent off as Argentina se 3. Mohan Babu P (Team Rockers mance by the Indians as The results: 10m air pistol: 1. Sunday. Dorsa Arabshahi (Iri) 240.1 cured third place at the Co Racing) (13:15.079). they fi nished at the bottom. Ravikumar was in a league (571); 2. Haniyeh Rostamiyan pa America with a 21 victo Girls (Stock 165cc, fi ve laps): 1. of his own posting an author Arjun Thakur (60) and (Iri) 238.7 (568); 3. Kim Min ry over Chile on Saturday. A Ryhana Bee (Sparks Racing) itative win by a country mile Darshna Rathore (66) were jung (Kor) 218.7 (582); 4. Yash In a niggly and fractious (11:11.579); 2. Alisha Abdullah in the premium ProStock 13th while Gurnihal Singh aswini Singh Deswal 197.7 match, fi vetime Ballon (Team Alisha Abdullah Racing) 301400cc race, his second Garcha (57) and Parinaaz (573); 10. P. Shri Nivetha 566. d’Or winner Messi and (11:20.990); 3. Ann Jennifer AS of the weekend, while be (Sparks Racing) (11:21.078). Chile captain Gary Medel hind him, Amarnath Menon were given their marching OneMake Championship: Ide orders eight minutes from halftime after tangling on (Team Alisha Abdullah) de nied TVS Racing another 12 by pipping K.Y. Ahamed. mitsu Honda India Talent Cup – Honda NSF 250R (Race two, Indians strike it rich the goalline. eight laps): 1. Varoon Sadasi Sergio Aguero and Paulo Dybala scored the fi rst half Sethu repeated his race one win from Saturday over On the podium: Deepak Ravikumar, centre, who scored a double in the ProStock 301400cc category, fl anked by K.Y. Ahamed, left and Amarnath Menon. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT vam (Chennai) (14:53.899); 2. Kavin Samaar Quintal (Chennai) with four gold medals TVS Racing’s Jagan Kumar * (15:03.271); 3. Geoff rey Emma goals that ensured victory nuel (Chennai) (15:32.943). for a double in the ProStock Sports Bureau hil Silwal (77.40m) and Ro for Argentina. tant third. Meanwhile, de traffi c. (Idemitsu Honda Ten10 Racing) 165cc class. Honda CBR 150 (Race two, Six Almaty hit Yadav (75.36). But the match will be fending champion in the While Bee disappeared in (16:22.798); 2. Mathan Kumar After exchanging leads laps): 1. Lal Nunsanga (Aizwal) Mohammed Salahuddin Meanwhile, Saritaben most remembered for the Girls (Stock 165cc) category, the distance, Jennifer could (Erula Racing) (16:22.876); 3. (13:28.925); 2. Lalrinzuala Tlau with Jagan through the race, took the triple jump gold, Gayakwad won the wo double sendingoff and the Ann Jennifer suff ered a rare not pass Alisha and decided Abhishek V (Idemitsu Honda (Aizwal) (13:29.167); 3. Samuel Sethu made a heartstopping with a personal best men’s 400m gold in the melee it sparked. Ten10 Racing) (16:55.918). Martin (Bengaluru) (13:30.521). pass on the last corner of the defeat as she fi nished third to hold position with an eye 16.64m, ahead of compa Kutno international meet in last lap to pull off a superb behind her Sparks Racing on the championship points. ProStock 165cc (Race two, TVS Open (Apache RTR 310, triot Mohammed Zuber Poland clocking a season Innocuous clash teammate Ryhana Bee and The results (Provisional): eight laps): 1. Rajiv Sethu (Ide Race two, eight laps): 1. Vivek win while Ahamed scram (16.21), in the G. Kosanov best 52.77s. In what seemed an innocu Alisha Abdullah (Team Al National Championship: Pro mitsu Honda Ten10 Racing) Pillai (Chennai) (16:01.298); 2. bled to third spot. (16:07.033); 2. Jagan Kumar memorial international ath Soniya Baishya (53.73) ous clash, a frustrated Mes isha Abdullah) in the fi velap Stock 301400cc (Race two, Karthik Mateti (Hyderabad) Bengalurubased Anish (TVS Racing) (16:07.152); 3. KY letics meet here on Sunday. and R. Vithya (53.73) took si shoved Medel in the back eight laps): 1. Deepak Raviku (16:16.321); 3. Soorya PM Shetty (Idemitsu Honda race. Ahamed (TVS Racing) M. Sreeshankar won the silver and bronze while V.K. as the centreback she mar (TVS Racing) (15mins, (Chennai) (16:18.106). Ten10 Racing) survived a It was Bee’s maiden win in 31.358secs); 2. Amarnath Me (16:09.355). long jump with a 7.78m Shalini was sixth in 55.25. pherded the ball out of Novice (Apache RTR 200, Race close fi ght with Mathan Ku the championship as she non (Team Alisha Abdullah) Novice – Stock 165cc (Race two, six laps): 1. Venkatesan eff ort. In the men’s event, K.S. play. A furious Medel res mar (Erula Racing) to win made capital of a favourable (15:45.432); 3. K.Y. Ahamed two, eight laps): 1.Abhimanyu (Chennai) (13:13.644); 2. Manoj Jeevan clocked 46.56s while ponded by chestbumping the ProStock 200300cc situation that had polesitter (TVS Racing) (15:45.558). Gautam (Sparks Racing) Y (Chennai) (13:14.210); 3. Another one-two Kunhu Mohammed (46.93) Messi twice in an incident race with Abhishek Vasudev, Jennifer fumbling at the start ProStock 200300cc (Race (13:10.877); 2. Venkatesan I Lakshmipathy Balaji (Vellore) India had a onetwo in and Amoj Jacob (47.24) that probably merited no also from Bengaluru, a dis and then getting caught up in two, eight laps): 1. Anish Shetty (Team Motomania) (13:13.508); (13:15.231). men’s javelin thanks to Sa were behind him. more than a single yellow card for the Chilean. Incredibly, Paraguayan referee Mario Diaz de Vivar showed the two captains the red card. Cavallo Veloce wins Anand draws with Karjakin Fantastic fi fth for Abhijeet Gupta The result (third place playoff ): Argentina 2 (Aguero Chief Minister’s Cup SPORTS BUREAU Tania Sachdev’s reign continues as Indians complete a medal sweep 12, Dybala 22) bt Chile 1 (Vi BENGALURU: Cavallo Veloce (A. (w), 21, 13 and 20 (p), SHP: 34, ZAGREB (5.5), 3. Amogh Bisht (5.5); Un dal 59pen). Imran up) won the Chief Minis THP: 44, FP: 178, Q: 88, Trinella: ter’s Cup, the chief event of the 726 and 551, Exacta: 19,026 and Viswanathan Anand held C’WEALTH CHESS der10: 1. Yash Bharadia (6), 2. IN BRIEF races held here on Sunday ( July 7). The winner is owned by Mr. 8,154. Favourite: Accolade. Owner: Mr. Arun Alagappan. Sergey Karjakin as all bat RAKESH RAO A.R. Ilamparthi (6), 3. Daaevik Arun Alagappa and trained by B. Trainer: B. Suresh. tles ended with honours NEW DELHI Wadhawan (6); Under12: 1. Suresh. even in the 10th and penul Garv Gaur (5.5), 2. Tanmay Jain Favourite Abhijeet Gupta 1 SNOW DEW PLATE (1,600m), maiden 3yo only, (Terms): 5 BASQUE PLATE (DIV. I), (1,400m), rated 30 to 50, 4 yo & over: SAHARA (P.S. timate round of the Croatia Grand Chess Tour here on claimed his fi fth title as India swept medals in all 16 sec (5.5), 3. Shreyansh Patnaik (5.5); Under14: 1. L. R. Srihari ROMAN SENATOR (Sandesh) 1, De (6), 2. Rohith Krishna (5.5), 3. fender (Zervan) 2, Streaming Chouhan) 1, Gerontocrat ( John) Saturday. 2, Mystic Flame (Zervan) 3 and tions of the Commonwealth Aditya Gampa (5.5); Under16: Gold (Neeraj) 3 and Mighty Red The results (10th round): Vis (Darshan) 4. 3/4, 31/4 and 4. 1m, Optimisticapproach (Koushik) 4. chess championship here on 1. Arjun Erigaisi (6.5), 2. Dhru 33/4, 1/2 and 3. 1m, 24.91s. ₹ 44 wanathan Anand (4) drew Sunday. pad Kashyap (5), 3. Jinan Jo 36.67s. ₹ 16 (w), 10, 13 and 12 (p), SHP: 31, THP: 35, FP: 47, Q: 27, (w), 15, 13 and 12 (p), SHP: 32, with Sergey Karjakin THP: 47, FP: 139, Q: 57, Trinella: After two other leaders, S. mon (5); Under18: 1. P. Iniyan Trinella: 69 and 34, Exacta: 630 (Rus,4.5); Wesley So (USA, (7), 2. Gaurav Zagade (5), 3. Ve and 540. Favourite: Roman Sen 204 and 82, Exacta: 4,259 and 6.5) drew with Magnus Carl L. Narayanan and Aravindh ator. Owner: Mr. M.A.M.R. 2,899. Favourite: Gerontocrat. Chithambaram, drew their dant Panesar (4.5); Under20: Owners: Mr. Abdul Azeez & Mr. sen (Nor, 7); Fabiano Caruana 1. Suyog Wagh (5.5), 2. Indrajit Muthiah. Trainer: S. top board battle in 32 Padmanabhan. Neil Darashah. Trainer: Neil (USA, 5.5) drew with Shakhri Mahindrakar (5.5), 3. Nilsu Patt Darashah. yar Mamedyarov (Aze, 4); moves, Abhijeet caught Ar nayak (5). Birdie hattrick puts Arjun Atwal at T9 2 RAMKIRPAL PLATE (1,100m), rated 00 to 20: SCARLET PRINCESS ( John) 1, Smile Of 6 PENDRAGON PLATE (1,600m), rated 15 to 35, 4yo Ding Liren (Chn, 5) drew with Levon Aronian (Arm, 5.5); jun Erigaisi in a checkmating net in 39 moves to reach 7.5 Girls: Under8: 1. Aishani Path ak (6), 2. Yatee Kothari (6), 3. BLAINE (USA) Peace (T.S. Jodha) 2, Odyssey & over: MARCO POLO (P.S. Maxime VachierLagrave (Fra, points. (Raghuveer Singh) 3 and Tashna Aggarwal (5.5); Un Arjun Atwal, despite a double Chouhan) 1, Ekalavya (Sandesh) 4.5) drew with Ian Nepom Singhsaab (Koushik) 4. Not run: 2, Radiant Treasure (Arshad) 3 Aravindh topped a three der10: 1. Sneha Halder (6), 2. bogey on the back nine, niachtchi (Rus, 5.5); Anish Giri Majestic Heroine and Dontbreak and Three Wishes (Bhawani way tie for the second spot Hiya Panchal (6), 3. A.N. Shefali closed with a brilliant hat therules. 43/4, 21/4 and Snk. 1m, Singh) 4. 31/4, 3/4 and 3/4. 1m, (Ned, 4.5) drew with Hikaru with Swapnil Dhopade and (5.5); Under12: 1. Riddhi Patel trick of birdies that gave him 07.16s. ₹ 18 (w), 11, 14 and 20 (p), 38.27s. ₹ 21 (w), 11, 17 and 30 (p), Nakamura (USA, 3.5). (6), 2. G. Tejaswini (5.5), 3. a second straight 68 for a SHP: 32, THP: 44, FP: 63, Q: 40, SHP: 52, THP: 61, FP: 98, Q: 73, Narayanan at seven points. Trinella: 194 and 116, Exacta: 383 Trinella: 996 and 369, Exacta: Tania Sachdev retained Yashita Rout (5); Under14: 1. tied ninth at the inaugural 3M and 103. Favourite: Scarlet Prin Divya Deshmukh (6), 2. Yash Bir Open golf tournament here on Saturday. Atwal is three cess. Owners: Mr. Soumitra Banerji & Mr. R.M. Ramaswamy. 3,120 and 1,031. Favourite: Marco Polo. Owners: Mr. Rajan Aggar wal, Mr. Gautam Aggarwal & Mrs. Kashyap the women’s title after an an xious wait. After being tied (5.5), 3. Chinnam Vyshnavi (5); Under16: 1. Bristy Mukherjee shots off a leaderboard Trainer: Sharat Kumar. Geeta Aggarwal. Trainer: Pra deep Annaiah. in Canada at six points with Divya Winning moves: Tania Sachdev and Abhijeet Gupta with their reward. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT (6), 2. Meenatchi Rajam (5.5), 3. 3 D.M. SHIVASWAMY ME- Deshmukh, Tania took the * comprising Matthew Wolff Nityata Jain (5); Under18: 1. K. MORIAL TROPHY (1,400m), (62), Collin Morikawa (64) and Bryson DeChambeau rated 45 to 65: AEOLUS (Zervan) 1, Dr Logan (P.S. Chouhan) 2, Silver 7 BASQUE PLATE (DIV. II), (1,400m), rated 30 to 50, 4 Open fi nal title on superior tiebreak score. Bhakti Kulkarni came points), 2. Aravindh Chitham Divya Deshmukh (6), 3. Bhakti Priyanka (6.5), 2. Sanskriti Goyal (6), 3. Srishti Pandey (5); Dew (Bhawani Singh) 3 and yo & over: BOLD MOVE (S. baram (7), 3. Swapnil Dhopade Kulkarni (5.5). (70). Meanwhile, Anirban Shareef ) 1, Panama (Arshad) 2, third. Under20: 1. Rutuja Bakshi Standout (Antony) 4. Not run: Press Trust of India (7). Lahiri (75) missed the 54 New Moon. 5, 31/4 and 3. 1m, Depth Charge (R. Manish) 3 and The medallists: Open: Under8: 1. Chinmay (5.5), 2. Vishwa Shah (5), 3. B. hole cut as he was tied 83rd. 23.86s. ₹ 13 (w), 12 and 16 (p), Reczai (Raghuveer Singh) 4. 1/2, CALGARY Open: 1. Abhijeet Gupta (7.5 Women: 1. Tania Sachdev (6), 2. Kowshik (6), 2. Vivaan Saraogi Mounika Akshaya (5). PTI SHP: 23, THP: 35, FP: 36, Q: 31, 11/4 and 21/4. 1m, 25.63s. ₹ 73 Former Commonwealth Trinella: 108 and 63, Exacta: 156 (w), 17, 23 and 12 (p), SHP: 74, Afghanistan’s to play and 49. Favourite: Aeolus. Own THP: 44, FP: 1,069, Q: 348, Games champion P. Kash Windies in India NEW DELHI ers: Mr. Rienzie M.K. Edwards & Mrs. P.P.M. Edwards. Trainer: Darius. Trinella: 1,504 and 645, Exacta: 11,839 and 5,074. Favourite: Win ning Heart. Owners: Skambha yap produced a stellar show to outplay Wang Tzu Neelash, Samriddhaa bag National titles Vinesh, Divya Afghanistan will play a full series against the West Indies, 4 CHIEF MINISTER’S CUP (1,200m), 4yo & over, Equine Enterprises Pvt Ltd rep by. Mr. Martin John Tower & Mr. Wei of Chinese Taipei and enter the men’s singles fi win gold; John Thomas D. Trainer: Irfan including a Test match, in its adopted home country India (Terms): CAVALLO VELOCE (A. Imran) 1, Accolade (Suraj) 2, Ghatala. nal of Canada Open Super 100 tournament on Satur CHESS Pooja bags Dream Catcher (Akshay K) 3 and Jackpot: ₹ 28,177 (26 tkts.); Run in November, the country’s cricket board said. The series Southpaw (P.S. Chouhan) 4. 2 3/4, 11/4 and Lnk. 1m, 10.91s. ₹ 78 ner up: 639 (491 tkts.); Treble (i): 193 (106 tkts.); (ii): 1,071 (33 tkts.). day. The sixthseeded In dian won 1421, 2117, 2118. Special Correspondent Kochi silver will also include three T20Is West Bengal’s Neelash Saha and three ODIs, beginning stayed steady and won the Press Trust of India from November 27. The RK — a passionate lover of horse racing open title while Statemate Madrid venues are yet to be decided. Samriddhaa Ghosh pulled Putting up a dominating The oneoff Test will mark off a big surprise to pocket show, India’s top wrestler Afghanistan’s third Special Correspondent was named ‘Goddess of the girls’ trophy in the 30th Vinesh Phogat won her appearance in the longest CHENNAI Luck.’ National under17 chess fi rst gold medal after shift format. It was beaten on R. Ramakrishnan, the chair He represented India in championship at the Oberon ing to 53kg category, while debut by India last year, but man of the Madras Race several international festiv Mall here on Sunday. Divya Kakran claimed the defeated Ireland by seven wickets in March at Dehradun. Club (MRC), passed away als and was a leading voice in The secondseeded Nee top honours in the 68kg ca The schedule: T20Is: Nov. 5, 7 here on Sunday. RK, as he the sport. He has also had lash, the overnight leader tegory at the Grand Prix of and 9; ODIs: Nov. 13, 16 and was popularly known in the commentary stints, includ and a former under13 Na Spain here. 18; Oneoff Test: Nov. 27Dec. racing circles, had been ing airing his views during tional champion, had a good In the eightwrestler 1. chairman since December the Invitation Cup (won by run here and defeated Guja 53kg draw, Vinesh comfor 2015, a post which he had Amorous Knight) in rat’s Aditya P. Melani in the tably beat Peru’s Justina previously held between Chennai. fi nal round. Benites and Russia’s Nina 1980 and 1983. As a BTC steward and “I was confi dent of win Minkenova before getting Ramakrishnan held the chairman of the computeri ning the title as I had been Winning duo: West Bengal’s Samriddhaa Ghosh and Neelash the better of Dutch rival unique distinction of being a sation subcommittee of that consistent here,” said the Saha with their spoils. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT * Jessica Blaszka in the fi nal. Steward of the MRC and the R. Ramakrishnan. club, he was instrumental in Kolkatabased Saha who fi n Also standing atop the was the win over Jyothsna Sibi Visal, Utsab Chatterjee bt Bangalore Turf Club (BTC) at * S.R. RAGHUNATHAN computerisation of the en ished with 9.5 points in the Arjun Gupta, Ayush Sharma podium was Asian Games (the third seed from TN, who the same time. tire tote system which yield 11round event. Incidentally, drew with Jayachandra Srini bronze medallist Divya, was among the leaders after As chairman of the MRC, contribution. ed wonderful returns to the the top three fi nishers — top vas, Rakshith Srinivasan drew who lost just four points in the previous round). This is Aditi placed tied 51st Ramakrishnan took racing Acclaimed for his know institution. seeded Aronyak Ghosh and with J.J. Nawin. her campaign. my fi rst National title.” after three rounds to new heights and endea ledge of the sport, Ramak Utsab Chatterjee were se Girls: Samriddhaa Ghosh bt B. The Indian grappler ONEIDA (US) voured to achieve further rishnan was appointed a Total commitment cond and third — are also Ghosh beat the overnight Kalyani, Saina Salonika drew blanked Poland’s Agniesz Aditi Ashok shot a three with his innovative thinking. member of the expert panel “His commitment to the from Bengal. leader, Andhra Pradesh’s with Palkin Kaur, L. Jyothsna bt ka WieszczekKordus in the under 69 to be tied 51st at He opened up the Chen of Turf Authorities of India sport was total. He resolved Meanwhile Samriddhaa, ninthseeded B. Kalyani, in Diya Chowdhury, Divyabharathi fi nal. the end of the third round of nai races for horses from in the formation of the Com many issues related to horse the fourth seed, suff ered a the fi nal round and after the Masanam bt Shanya Mishra, Pooja Dhanda (57kg) the Thornberry Creek LPGA other centres, thereby im mon Medication Rules and racing which was unique to shocking opening round loss topseeded Saina Salonika Swara Lakshmi Nair lost to Sne won the silver after losing Classic golf tournament here. Common Rules of Racing for drew her game against Del ha Bharathakoti. proving the competition at the sport,” said the BTC but still did not give up. the title clash to Russia’s The 20yearold Indian had Turf Authorities of India, hi’s Palkin Kaur, she Final placings (top fi ve only): the MRC. chairman Harimohan Naidu. “I’ve messed up the last Veronika Chumikova. six birdies against four emerged a clear winner with Open: 1. Saha (WB, 9.5 points), “He was a multifaceted which was adopted by diff e Surender Reddy, the rounds in earlier champion Also winning silver me bogeys. Sung Hyun Park’s 8.5 points from 11 rounds. 2. Ghosh (WB, 9), 3. Chatterjee person. He knew the indus rent turf clubs. chairman of the Hyderabad ships but here, though I lost (WB, 8), 4. Gupta (Del, 8), 5. dals were Seema (50kg), threeunder 69 left her in a try in and out. He was fi rm in Passionate about horse Race Club, while lamenting the opening round, I felt I Manju Kumari (59kg) and Salonika and Kalyani were Nawin (TN, 7.5). fourway tie for the lead with taking decisions”, observed racing, Ramakrishnan the loss called Ramakrish could come back…I’ve seen second and third. Girls: 1. Samriddhaa (WB, 8.5), Kiran (76kg). Shanshan Feng (65), Tiffany Javeed Ghtala, the acting owned horses for more than nan a stalwart of the indus players coming back,” said Select results (last round): 2. Saina (Odi, 8), 3. Kalyani (AP, Sakshi Malik withdrew Joh (66) and Ariya chairman of the MRC, while three decades and people in try who knew every aspect Ghosh. Open: Neelash Saha bt Aditya 8), 4. Jyothsna (TN, 8), 5. Sne from the competition due Jutanugarn, at 20under 196. PTI recalling Ramakrishnan’s the know say his fi rst horse of racing. “And the turning point P. Melani, Aronyak Ghosh bt R. ha (Tel, 7.5). to a minor injury. 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Founders Karthikeyan fl avour profi le. “The Insta beans from Idukki, a chocolate solution for ev No stranger to exotic in Palanisami and Harish Manoj gram boom between 2014 Kerala, Bengaluru’s ery mood and palate, be it gredients such as Italian Kumar, who source cocoa and 2019 has opened up in allday dining space, imported Swiss, Belgian or Piedmont Hazelnuts and from Kumar’s farm in the ternational trends to India,” Smoor By Bliss, is Fairtrade bars from Madagas Amazonian Pink Pepper, foothills of the Anamalai he explains. Mondelez’s new now experimenting car, or endless choices from P&M is also pairing jamun, si range, have ensured that the Dairy Milk variant is a refl ec with zesty orange and homegrown, singleorigin taphal and Alphonso man packaging (inspired by kan tion of market trends. “Going star anise in its True beantobar options. Take goes in their bars. The label is jeevaram sari borders) and forward, lowsugar variants Bars. Known for its gourmet food supermarket committed to becoming car the ingredients, like fi lter cof will be market movers as su fi ne couverture Foodhall that boasts about bon positive by 2023. “We fee, refl ect the brand’s place gar will be the sociallyostra chocolates, the 146 kinds of chocolates and use refrigerants that have of origin. cised ingredient,” adds Ben brand’s cocoa butter candies, including Xocola 99% lower greenhouse With 8,00010,000 bars galurubased brand expert is sourced from ti57, their inhouse brand. warming potential and also manufactured a month, they Harish Bijoor, adding that Ghana, Madagascar, CEO Jay Jhaveri says, “There opt for high carbon capture off er couverture baking and “bars with fruits like cranber Ecuador, São Tomé is a shift towards dark choco techniques,” claims Temani. cooking chocolate under the ry, prune or macademia nuts and Príncipe. late variants. And vegan, or In Mysuru, David Belo of brand Regal Chocolate, and (catering to the health con Naviluna’s signature is ganic and sugarfree varieties Naviluna Artisan Chocolate among their unfl avoured scious) will be popular”. their off beat fl avour pairings such as the are popular too.” This is in (formerly Earth Loaf ) and bars, the 82% is the darkest Fabien Bontems, cofoun seasonal Jamun & line with the AsiaPacifi c one of the earliest beanto with unrefi ned sugar. der and director of Auro Rosemary, Mango, Chocolate Market Report bar players, is another fan of Textile entrepreneur Pa ville’s Mason & Co, agrees. Red Capsicum & Chili 2019, which highlights the in Kerala cocoa. Looking at lanisami says that beanto Among the country’s largest and even a Mysore creasing demand in the sourcing cacao beans from bar chocolate is considered beantobar chocolate mak Pak version. “While country for dark and sugar Vietnam and Sri Lanka after healthier (with less sugar ers, with a presence in 100 Mysore Pak purists free chocolates crafted with tinct following. Brought to In designed exclusively for In launch of Hershey’s Kisses by the 2018 Kerala fl oods, he content). “Sugar is a big com stores across the country, scoff ed at our vegan organic ingredients. dia in 2013 by Samir Gadhok dia in September, he ensures The Hershey Company and was glad that the State’s ponent in commercial choco their offi cial chocolate shop version with its cacao At Foodhall, brands like and Avani Raheja of Burgun that their chocolate is not left ITC’s Fabelle Exquisite Cho farmers he works with late, along with emulsifi ers and café — Bread & Chocolate beans, wholemeal Lindt (over a 100 varieties), dy Hospitality, Royce’ sourc to the mercies of a supermar colates in 2016. Initially re bounced back, and that the and hydrogenated fat. The — is a must visit in Puducher gram fl our and Godiva (Belgium), Milka es its cocoa from the World ket shelf. tailing the popular Fabelle cacao trees survived. “This sugar is 50% or more as com ry. “People are conscious coconut oil instead of (Switzerland), Toblerone, Cocoa Foundation, like other Ganache and pralines in se was a warning sign for us and pared to beantobar choco about healthier options and ghee and brown and Diddier & Frank (USA) chocolatiers, complementing Indian players lect ITC hotels, a range of the going forward we are work lates. For instance, in an 82% also look at where and how sugar over refi ned are the bestsellers. Jhaveri re it with quality milk, butter As expected, Cadbury, syn chocolate bars are now in ing with more farms in Kar dark bar, there’s 82% cocoa their chocolate is made,” says sugar, this was our commends the vegan and or and cream from Hokkaido. onymous with classics like 400+ gourmet outlets across nataka and Tamil Nadu. and the rest is sugar.” Bontems, adding, “As a ve quirky tribute to ganic beantobar range, Me “We spent the fi rst few years the Dairy Milk and Perk in the country. Last year, the Though their quality may not Commercial players pro gan brand, we only make Mysuru,” says Belo. nakao from Madagascar, and developing an entire market the country, continues to be brand unveiled the limited be as good as the premium duce four to fi ve tonnes of dark chocolate, and don’t Plus, the newly Pacari, a singleorigin bar for Royce’ and establishing a fi rm favourite. According to edition Fabelle Ruby Giandu Kerala beans, they can be chocolate in a single batch use any chemicals or preser launched Juniper bar made in Ecuador. As a nod to what premium chocolate is, global market research ex ja (made from ruby cocoa worked on to improve quali and it can contain cocoa vatives. All our chocolate is with Macedonian Juniper berries has Japan, the food superstore its price points and location,” perts Nielsen, the $26 billion beans and with a light pink ty,” says Belo, whose outfi t from plantations across the organic certifi ed.” A good had a helping hand has stocked up on Royce’ at says Gadhok, who found that Mondelē z International ac hue) in select boutiques. has the capacity to churn out world. The beans are chemi souvenir, if you visit, is their from Greater Than two locations (Kolkata and Indians are surprisingly ex counts for over 65% of the close to 5,000 bars a month. cally treated and stripped of homage to Bread & Chocolate micro batch gin from Bengaluru). The brand’s Na perimental with their choco market share. This is fol Craft masters strong cocoa fl avours to get — the 70% Sourdough & Sea Goa. ma dark chocolates and bold late. With about 10 stores lowed closely by Nestle, Fer That said, when it comes to All things dark medium chocolate notes. Salt bar. fl avours such as the Potato across six cities, and plans to rero, Mars and Amul. Recent the country’s beantobar All of the craft brands are Belo of Naviluna says the With inputs from Nidhi chip Chocolate have a dis launch a new Nama variant entrants include the 2018 movement, the South ap champions of dark chocolate Indian palate is more into Adlakha DOWN MEMORY LANE Bible as having been among Tales of locust invasions the Seven Plagues of Egypt that caused widespread fa mine. In Fatehpur Sikri and its surrounding villages,the kisan leader, Ram Singh, a Delhi often had to bear the brunt of these pernicious grasshopperlike creatures, thickset exwrestler, peti tioned the British Govern but always managed to save itself G ood ment to come to give the farmers fi nancial assistance and waiving the taxes they had to pay. The regional R. V. Smith Commissioner responded wholeheartedly. Ram Singh later came to Delhi and made a round of fellows It’s time to be prepared to the newspaper offi ces, seek face an invasion, not by fo ing publicity to highlight the Jolly Nizams takes a bit Hyderabad at home (Above) Interiors, biryani at Jolly reign troops, but by locusts plight of the farmers. One of of Hyderabad and Nizams. R . V. MOORTHY * (tiddi), the bigheaded, ogre the editors, Philip Crosland, eyed insects that breed in asked the moff usil corres marries it with Delhi north and east Africa, partic pondent in Agra (my father) ularly along the Nile, and in to assess the damage at Sikri Syeda Farida the Sahara desert. They and fi le a detailed report wing their way to Sindh, with pictures. In the end Laham Mandi is a Yemeni where they breed again, be Ram Singh was satisfi ed with delicacy of rice cooked with fore invading parts of Pakis the government response a spice mixture called hawaij tan and India. The last great and the farmers were adeq and topped with curried locust invasion took place in uately compensated, even as succulent mutton. It was 1993 and now, after 26 years, thousands of the locusts made popular in the Toli another one looms large by Clear and present danger Locusts, or tiddi, as they are called locally, breed in Africa and wing killed lay rotting in the fi elds, Chowki and Barkas localities midmonsoon time. Both In their way to Pakistan and India. LINGARAJ PANDA * making plentiful food for of Hyderabad that cater to dia and Pakistan held an kites and crows. Locust, cur Yemeni students, the local curryleaf oil instead of cur a chef with Kebabs and Kur emergency meeting to tackle World War years in 1944. vaded Delhi, the whole of Elsewhere, Aftab, son of ried and fried, was the favou Arab community, and Hyde ry leaves that are used in the ries, ITC Kakatiya, Hydera the menace. The northern sky in Delhi the Jama Masjid area turned Ahmed Sayeed Khan, exDe rite new item on the menu! rabadi workers visiting original lentil preparation. bad, and later joined Nestle Though historical refe became completely black in black as the sun was com puty Superintendent of Pol All this comes to mind home on vacation from the The Pasanda kebab (origi India in Delhi. Zaheer takes rences are hard to fi nd, there the late afternoon as huge lo pletely hidden too. In Bazar ice, Jodhpur State, took out whenever there’s a threat of Middle East. So popular has nally mutton) is now Soya you through old Hyderabad were locust invasions during cust swarms (more massive Matia Mahal, people took up his badminton racket to a locust invasion that can the dish become that it’s Malai Pasanda, where soya and the kitchen of the Asaf the Mughal period and ear than Chingez Khan’s hordes) whatever they could to fi ght bring down umpteen locusts cause more damage than now a part of the wedding chaap is fi nished in a Hyde Jahi rulers, as he talks of lier too. The late A.S. Koch raided the Capital from Raj the insects spreading the while running up and down even a drought. The teeming daawat menu, along with rabadi ‘pasanda’ style, Hyderabadi food being a har, who was president of putana and Punjab. At Agra, fear of famine. One boy re on the terrace of Sayeed insects can make a fi eld ripe Marag, an Arabian lamb which is chaap marinated in blend of international cui the Mayapuri RWA and was the locusts covered the turning home from the ma Manzil. Meanwhile his fath with corn barren in a just stew. For me, this mildly spi powdered Hyderabadi kha sines with the local fl avours conversant with the oral his whole façade of the Taj Ma drasa used his “takhti” (woo er, who had fought some of few minutes. Hope then that cy dish is comfort food from da (whole) masala and of Telangana. tory of the Khalsa Panth, had hal, though it was protected den slate) to beat down as the most notorious dacoits the impending invasion Hyderabad, which is home. cream, and cooked in a tan Explaining Begumati Do this to say about it: During from their droppings, by the many insects as he could. A in Rajputana, brandished a passes without causing ex So, fi nding ‘Mandi rice’ in a door. And Mandi rice comes Pyaza (on the menu), he the reign of Mohd Farukhsi scaff olding that had been vegetable vendor took off his broomstick for the purpose, tensive damage, because of Noida restaurant came as a topped with paneer too! says, “In Persian the meat is yar (17131719), when the put up ostensibly for repairs lungi or loincloth to attack while Capt. Peter Foster of vastly improved locustcon pleasant surprise. There are four people be called ‘do’. So it is meat Mughal emperor was pursu but actually to protect the the pest, unmindful of the the Central Ordnance Depot, trol measures. Sadly, people Jolly Nizams, the restau hind the Jolly Nizams that cooked with onions.” ing the Sikh general, Banda monument from the Ger fact that he was left wearing going to the British club in like Aftab Ahmed, Ram rant that serves this, has a began ops two years ago: in The other two partners, Bahadur, there was a locust man war planes. there was a only his underwear in a very the Cantonment, used his Singh and Capt Foster won’t menu that lists many Hyde the kitchen is home chef Anil Kumar and Yoginder invasion in Sindh and parts warning for those, but there conservative area. Haji Mian tennis racket to smack down be around to squash tiddi, rabadi dishes such as Shi Shahnaaz Khan, from Hyde Kumar, are equally passion of Rajputana and Punjab was no warning for the lo Faiyazuddin (of the Haji Ho the intruders. though Haji Mian is still fi t to kampuri kebab (ground rabad. She trained chefs, all ate about food, sourcing in which led to a severe famine cust invasion. tel), then a schoolboy, was encounter them when the mutton stuff ed with mint, from Uttarakhand, over ma gredients locally and over in these places and devastat encouraged by his father, Za Combating the menace sky darkens thicker than onions and lime) and Tala ny months to get the dishes seeing the catering business. ed the peasantry. Horror in the Old City hooruddin, to kill as many as The priests of the Sacred monsoon clouds. huwa gosht (a tender lamb right, created spice mixes Perhaps the biggest com I remember that as the he could while the old man Heart Cathedral asked the starter). In Delhi, the Hyde and simplifi ed recipes. 2, Paras Tierea, Sector 137, Noida; paratively recent locust inva swarm of trillions of the in himself used his walking parishioners to go out and The writer is a veteran chronicler rabadi Dalcha is modifi ed to The other is her husband, ₹ 1,200₹ 1,500 for four; of Delhi 9999103677; 11 a.m.11 p.m. sion took place during the sects (as big as tadpoles) in stick for the purpose. kill locusts, mentioned in the Dal Saat Nizam, infused with Zaheer Khan, who started as CM A ND-NDE YK downloaded from : www.visionias.net downloaded from : https://t.me/Material_For_Exam EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SHOWCASE 21 THE HINDU DELHI MONDAY, JULY 8, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Modern problems Your neck isn’t just a victim Q&A of age, but also your overall health and diet Over the years my diabetes medicines * GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK have increased. Should I be taking this starts as dynamic lines around kles, sagging of skin and sun spots,” insulin injections instead? the neck that become static with explains Dr Sharad. “Sometimes, ■ You have not mentioned what your blood sugar time, so if you’re alert to it, you can you may also see a thick, dark, velve values are or what your glycated haemoglobin actually check it, but if you’re not, ty band around the neck, which (HbA1c) reading is. If your HbA1c is near 7%, then it’s hard to get rid of. “Tech Neck can looks like dirt, but is actually a condi the tablets can be continued. If trial of all the ta also be accompanied by muscular tion called Acanthosis Nigricans, blets has failed or if your insulin level in the body pain, so you need to start by improv caused by insulin resistance, dia has come down signifi cantly, or if your sugar and ing your posture and practising neck betes, Cushing’s disease, hormonal HbA1c levels are high, or if there is any risk of com exercises, besides hydrating well,” imbalances or obesity. It may even plications, then insulin injections can be consi explains Dr Sharad. be druginduced, or caused by a folic dered. Your doctor would be the best to decide if “Tech Neck makes your pigmenta acid or Vitamin B12 defi ciency.” “Ge insulin is needed or not. Since I have not seen any tion worse,” says formulation scien netics and weight loss are also major of your records, I will not be able to suggest any in tist Dr Aneesh Sheth, of Dr Sheth’s, factors when it comes to making dividual treatment. 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Your dermatologist The neck Prerna Singh Butalia lose its elasticity due to glycation of will help you ease the symptoms. collagen, leading to fi ne lines, wrin The key is not to ignore even a small Back in the 1930s, Marlene Dietrich change, so it doesn’t escalate. is said to have used surgical tape, project deftly concealed under her wig, to Caring for the neck pull up the skin on her neck, so it WHAT’S IN THE MARKET “Skincare has to go all the way from would look fi rm. Almost a century la face to chest,” says Dr Kiran Kaur From speciallyformulated ter, the Australian Academy of Facial Sethi, Delhibased dermatologist and creams and masks to fi llers Plastic Surgery reveals surgical tape and lasers, there’s much to founder of Isya Aesthetics. Dr Sharad remains popular on the red carpet, help lift your neck and jowls. suggests a Vitamin C serum and to help with ‘décolletage drop’. Kim moisturiser at bedtime, and a sun Kardashian West, who admits to be PRODUCTS screen during the day. 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Charles Dickens www.thehindu.com/education www.facebook.com/thehinduedge www.twitter.com/thehinduedge Delhi Monday • July 8, 2019 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Are you completely hooked onto your Facebook, Instagram, Google Han gouts, Twitter, PS4 and your WhatsApp accounts? Do you fi nd it hard not to check your phone every fi ve minutes and refresh the notifi cations and reply to the pop up messages on your screen almost instantaneously? Do you love to play video games on the Internet so much so that you pretty much forget the physical world that exists around you? Or are you a compulsive online shopper who must buy everything you get on line? Do you love to indulge in the sales, discounts and various off ers that esites off er from time to time? Is your exces sive screen and Internet usage interfer ing with your everyday functionality and impacting primary relationships, work, school, hobbies, interests, social meet ups? If your answer is yes to any of these questions, then you may be suff ering from Internet Addiction Disorder, also commonly referred to as Compulsive Internet Use (CIU), Problematic Inter GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK PHOTOS net Use (PIU), or iDisorder. Technology addiction is defi ned by, an impulse control disorder that in- volves the obsessive use of mobile devic- es, screens, the Internet or video games, despite negative consequences to the user of the technology. The disor- der may also be referred to as digital addiction, or internet addiction. The number of cases that come in When the with gaming, phone and screen addic The brain experiences the exact pro condition. certainly lead to internet addiction be ly to seek treatment. tions are only on the rise and it is ge cess, similar to that of any other form of Internet addiction also causes chang cause, in eff ect, they never end. Step 2 Action. Control, monitor and nuinely a huge concern as most of the chemical dependency and addiction, es in the prefrontal region of the brain Finally, there are also claims that the ration your internet usage and the sites clients are in the prime age group of 12 such as drugs, alcohol, nicotine and so (the area that is associated with remem inherent predisposition of an individual you visit. Deleting games and your ac 28 years. Most of them are school refer on. bering details, attention, planning, and could also be a reason to be addicted to counts are all temporary measures and rals and some desperate parents who bring in their little and not so little ado lescents. It is, however, almost rare to have an individual accept with com virtual Illeff ects The excessive usage of gadgets, screens and gaming aff ect and impact the plea prioritising tasks). This is rather detri mental as it literally grips one’s capabil ity to prioritise tasks, work, school as signments, studying, eating, nature the Internet. For example, with anxiety or depression, you may turn to the In ternet to seek solace and relieve your suff erings. Shy individuals, and espe sooner or later people reactivate them. Total abstinence from the Internet is not an eff ective method of correction. Step 3 – Meet a professional counsel plete responsibility that yes, he/she is suff ering not only from overusage but in fact is addicted to his gadget(s). becomes sure centre of the brain. The addictive behaviour triggers release of dopamine that promotes pleasurable experiences activating further release of this chemi breaks, leisure activities, outdoor play, exercise, your entire life in short, i.e., the screen literally replaces your life. Another reason why one might be so cially those with social awkwardness and social anxiety, might also be at a higher risk, as this off ers a ‘people free’ environment and does not need any in lor to get an exact assessment of the depth of the addiction. Some common therapies include individual, group, or family therapy sessions, behavior mod real Symptoms? cal and the cycle goes on. Over time, addicted to screen activity (e.g. gaming, terpersonal interaction whilst is hugely ifi cation, cognitive behavioral therapy Guilt, dishonesty, depression, anxiety, more and more of the activity is needed gambling, shopping, pornography, and emotionally rewarding to the (CBT), art therapy, recreation therapy feeling ‘high’ or euphoric whilst using to induce the same pleasurable res so on), is because it provides multiple individual. and so on. the gadget, inability to keep and main ponse, creating a dependency and an layers of rewards. That is, constant surf Therapies A psychiatric evaluation is also soli tain schedules, isolated behaviour, lack addiction. ing of the Internet leads to multiple re Step 1 – Recognising that a problem cited should there be an underlying of purpose and time management, in Behavioural and physical symptoms wards that are unpredictable. Each le exists. If the client (not the parent, si condition of anxiety and depression to creased defensiveness, aggressive be While technology makes us such as backaches, headaches, neck vel of your game, Facebook and bling, friend, spouse) does not believe treat the illness via medication and haviour when the gadget is taken away, pains, carpal tunnel syndrome, insom WhatsApp refresh button gives you un he/she has a problem, he/she is not like therapy. shoddy work — personal and profes feel blessed, its mindless usage nia, poor nutrition (failing to eat or eat predictable results that keeps you en :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Step 4 Physical activity is always a sional, avoidance of work to be com could be addictive. Where ing anything in excess to avoid being tertained and “hooked”, to keep com great idea as it increases the endorphin pleted on time, mood swings, agitation away from the computer), poor perso ing back for more. Certain games, such The excessive usage of gadgets, and serotonin levels in the body. and increased irritation and procrasti does one draw the line? nal hygiene (not brushing, bathing to as MMROPGs (massively multiplayer screens and gaming aff ect and nation are some of the heightened stay online), dry eyes and other vision online roleplaying games) – including impact the pleasure centre of The author is a practising counsellor and a symptoms. problems are very common in this World of Warcraft and Everquest may the brain. trainer. 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He was also a renowned freedom fighter. half a decade now. Her story start Every year, his birth anniversary, 1st July, ed in 2015, after she left her well is observed as National _________ Day in In- paying MNC job, started teaching dia as a tribute to his contributions to a dance to a bunch of young girls field in which he was originally trained who were children of domestic before turning to politics. Name the profession. workers. From there to opening her own dance school, Avanti has Greta Thunberg, a 16-year- come a long way. During her school and college Q2 old Swedish girl, made news early this year due to her fight against global warm- days, she started training in music. ing. In May, photographer Hellen van She believes that it is because of Meene took a train instead of a flight from her mother that she developed a the Netherlands to Sweden to photo- liking for performing arts. “She graph her for the cover of the TIME was a singer and used to partici magazine. van Meene’s choice of mode of travel was also to avoid the ‘flygskam’, a pate in several events during her newly coined term in Sweden symbolising a guilty feeling. college days. We used to sing to What is ‘flygskam’? gether in our free time,” she says. A loom usually contains a Q3 SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT component which con- MBA over Kathak stantly moves back and While growing up, in addition to forth, when it is being used music, she also learnt Kathak. That to weave fabric. This motion caused this is when her journey in dance start component to lend its name to sporting ed. A reminiscent Avanti says, equipment used in a sport which de- veloped from a game called ‘battledore’ “When I was in the fi nal year of originating in British India. Identify the graduation, I was awarded the best component or equipment. DANCE singer, actress, and dancer of the phasise the importance of per year. I used to participate in every forming arts in India, and for The flag of Cyprus features a function in my early days. I mas tered the art of Kathak from Bhatk people to understand the Indian culture through performing arts,” Q4 map of the entirety of the is- land, with two olive branches below the map. The olive hande Vidhyalaya, Lucknow in explains Avanti. branches signify peace between the Turks nearly two years. However, I did Through this school, Avanti also and Greeks. The orange colour of the map till you drop not get my degree as I was busy wants to empower girls and wo was chosen to symbolise something which is found in abundance in Cyprus and is a with the last semester exams.” men. “Diff erent forms of culture source of major revenue to the country. Her parents advised her to focus and performing arts are spreading What is this major source of revenue for on academics, instead of the per awareness about social issues, Cyprus? forming arts, as they believed that such as ending violence against In ancient times, Veena was dancing would not help her in pay women, women’s economic em ing bills. “I have graduated in eco A passionate dancer training powerment, women’s leadership, Q5 used as a term to describe a plethora of string instru- nomics as well as music, and keep underprivileged kids, Avanti Arya is slowly and so on.” She believes that with ments. One such string in- ing in mind the importance of in contemporary as well as tradi strument was ‘Shata-Tantri Veena’ which education, I pursued an MBA in paving way for women’s empowerment tional realms of culture, many wo translates to 100 stringed Veena, which human resource. It has played a through the performing arts men in India, regardless of their aptly describes this bridged instrument. After the Persian invasion, this instrument major role in my life. Due to skills economic background, remain un got its current name. Many believe the in- and knowledge that I learnt during Avanti Arya represented and often ignored. strument was used in Jammu and Kashmir my MBA, I could gather the cour when you are with kids. The out she was a classical dancer but nev been leading her troop and conti “Commercial aspects of culture, to devote their love for Sufi saints. Name this instrument that age and confi dence to come up come is what motivates me every er won competitions. She request nues to win competitions,” adds art, music and related fi elds show shares its name with an Indian soap brand by WIPRO. with such an initiative.” day to go and work.” ed us to choreograph a dance for Avanti. gender bias and carry sociallyen The ________ tree produces Many underprivileged children do not get a chance to join per Along with her team, Avanti makes sure that every child gets her. Her old teacher used to con stantly scream at her, and that Empowering women trenched stereotypes, which seem to perpetuate, generation after Q6 pod-like fruit that contains an edible pulp used in forming arts schools or training personal attention and gains the made her reluctant to perform. Avanti School of Performing Arts generation. Through performing cuisines around the world. Other uses of the pulp include traditional centres due to high fees. Consider required skills. She ensures that But when my team and I trained has been set up with the aim of arts, women can be empowered, medicine and metal polish. The name de- ing this, Avanti started her school they get their doubts clarifi ed and her, she stood fi rst in the comple creating a hub for cultural activi as they have a chance for fair re rives from Arabic word, meaning “Indian to teach dance to these kids and get the confi dence to excel. tion. I taught her the accuracy in ties under one roof, with the main presentation and help them be date”. What are we talking about? help them live their dream. “A lot “A lady once brought her dancing, because that is what she focus on art and craft, and instru come better decision makers,” of patience and time is needed daughter to me and told me that lacked. Since that day, she has mental music. “We want to em says Avanti. A6. Tamarind, derived from ‘Tamar-e-Hind’ Touch of success A5. Santoor A4. Copper Investment for life A3. Shuttle carbon footprint “Some people refer to this A2. The guilt of travelling by airplanes because of its higher EQ... ENGAGE) as the ‘Sadim touch’. It’s the A1. Doctor name Midas spelt Answers Krithvi shyam You may be done know your english) backwards.” If you have just graduat “Luckily Vasu doesn’t S. upendran ed, the last thing you with your exams, have the Sadim touch. He is owning so many facto probably want to do right now is study. Isn’t that but the learning “My uncle has been really ries now...” one of the main perks of process continues. happy ever since his son Vasu “You cannot say that he’s ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: graduating? The fact that It is a lifelong joined the company. Their owning something. You have ON THE SHELF exams are no longer a profi ts have soared since he to say, ‘He owns something’.” part of your life (unless of journey. took over the Marketing “Oh yes, now I remember. b Kritika Rathore course, you’re applying Department.” It’s like the word ‘have’. You “That’s good to know. do not say, ‘I’m having a Change starts for further studies)? young Perhaps you are keen Sounds to me like Vasu has house’. You have to say, ‘I Author: Ashwin on getting started right the Midas touch.” have a house’.” Nair and Yashveer away with work and get “Midas touch? Does it mean “Exactly! You always ‘own’ Singh ting some handson expe someone who makes a lot of something, not ‘owning so Publisher: Goya rience. However, just be money?” mething’. Some of my friends Publishing cause you are done with “When you say that some own a lot of property on the Price: ₹ 499 your studies, does not one has the Midas touch, what outskirts of the city.” India has the mean you are done with you’re suggesting is that every “My aunt owns several highest youth learning. venture they undertake is houses in the city.” population in the Today, our jobs de successful.” “Do you think she’d be will world. This throws mand that we refresh our “And because it’s success ing to sell one of them? My new and knowledge and skillsets ful, the person ends up mak father is looking for one.” innovative every few years. It does ing a lot of money.” “Really? I can ask my aunt. perspectives of “Exactly! Our company is But I wouldn’t hold my breath solving not matter whether you looking for someone young if I were you.” contemporary are just entering the who has the Midas touch.” “Hold my breath? Why issues. Change workforce, or if you have Starts Young tracks GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK been around for decades. “How about this example? would I hold my breath? What the stories of such Staying on the path of My cousin’s Midas touch has are you talking about?” young change learning is important. made my uncle’s company fa “What Im suggesting is that makers who have gone beyond their boundaries to make Why wait for someone to mous in Chennai.” my aunt is unlikely to sell any the world a better place. It is an illustrated book targeted come and teach you so “Sounds good. Let’s hope of her houses. The expression at younger audience to act as a source of inspiration. This mething, when you could your cousin doesn’t lose his ‘don’t hold your breath’ is book is a collection of stories from all over India which take control and learn the Midas touch anytime soon.” usually used in informal con will inspire the readers to work towards positive change. same thing by yourself? skills that you acquire. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: the world’s knowledge is “Tell me, who was Midas? texts to suggest that someth Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Laureate 2006, Why not show your com Pick the right top being served to you on Was he a businessman or ing is not likely to happen.” articulates the crux of this compilation in the Foreward, When choosing your pany that you take initia ics: Structuring your the golden (free) platter something?” “And even if it does, it’s go "Imagine the world you would like to build and start study material and tive and care about keep learning applies to the of the Internet, but it is all “No, he was a king. He ing to happen after a very long working now to create that world.” sources, ensure that ing yourself uptodate? topics you select as well. for naught if there is no asked Dionysus, a Greek god, time. Not immediately.” The impact of each story is enhanced with the aid of whatever options you Being a lifelong learner It doesn’t matter if the time to learn. You do not to grant him a boon — that “Exactly! And there’s no eyecatching illustrations and a set of questions that choose, they are whatever he touched should way you can hold your breath piques the curiosity of the readers. The authors doesn’t mean you have to topics are related to work suited to your have to sit through a two turn to gold.” for that long. Here’s an exam successfully put forward these inspiring stories and set enroll yourself in a un or outside of it. Maybe learning needs — just hour session every day, them in order as a beacon of change. iversity once every few you need to improve your because something is but surely you can carve “Oh, I know this story. Soon ple. The plumber said that years and acquire certifi skills in making Power free, it might not be 10 minutes out of your Midas realises that he’s made he’d be here in half an hour. cates or diplomas. Learn point presentations at the best choice for morning commute to lis a big mistake by asking for But if I were you, I wouldn’t ing does not have to take work. Or perhaps you you. ten to a talk? Having a such a boon because whatever hold my breath.” ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: place in a structured envi have an interest in psy fi xed schedule for when he touches turns to gold. His “We have been promised a EAR SHOT ronment like a classroom chology and want to learn casts. In eff ect, the aim is you want to learn will food turns to gold and even big bonus this year. But don’t ASHOK RAJAGOPALAN any more. There is a more about human beha to build a curriculum for help. his daughter. But tell me, is hold your breath.” mindboggling wealth of viour. Having clarity on yourself to follow, and There are some bene there a word for someone “That’s a good example. knowledge available on what you want to learn this can be a mix of cours fi ts to your mental well who loses money all the The Chief Minister has pro line, for free, from some will help you fi nd the best es, books and audiovisual being that lifelong learn time?” mised there will be no power of world’s most eminent sources of learning. media. Ensure that wha ing can provide. It helps and water shortage from next thinkers, academics and Which brings us to the tever options you choose, you build confi dence in Reverse eff ect year. But don’t hold your institutions. next point… they are suited to your your abilities. It makes “You mean someone whose breath.” Find the right sourc learning needs — just be you look at things, situa ventures always fail?” “I certainly don’t intend to What do we do? es: Do some research and cause something is free, it tions, problems and peo “Yes, that’s right! Someone hold my breath.” Structure your learn identify the best platform might not be the best ple diff erently, and it al who ruins everything he ******** ing: What do you want to for your learning. Per choice for you. It needs to lows you to adapt to touches. Someone who...” I have rather become like learn? If you enjoy learn haps there are courses on be aligned to your level of changes in your work “Many people use the ex King Midas, except that eve- ing for the sake of it, Khan Academy, Coursera profi ciency with the top place better. So putting pression ‘reverse Midas rything turns not into gold, that’s great; but if you like that are off ered for free. ic, and be taught in a eff ort into your learning touch’. I don’t think any com but into a circus. Albert learning only when it has Or you might fi nd some manner that you fi nd ac journey is a worthwhile pany would ever hire Dilip. Einstein some practical applica MOOCs (Massive Open cessible. Otherwise, a lot investment! He’s well known for his re tions in your life, then it Online Courses) that suit of your learning eff ort verse Midas touch.” The writer teaches at the English helps to think about your your needs. 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The key to IPA is provided in Fourth, it tells us if a word is Vocabulary development is an the introductory pages of the dic ● Developing one’s vocabulary countable or uncountable, used ongoing process. Once you learn Application-oriented involves hard work, daily practice tionary and is very easy to mas and application. for scientifi c writing or legal, to love the process you will grow I vividly remember all the ter. The phonetic alphabets, espe whether it is used in formal sit your vocabulary exponentially. classes, labs, assignments and cially the vowels, are quite ● Dictionaries today provide a lot uations as in the above entry (F) Invest in one good dictionary exams which moulded the similar to vowels in Hindi. There of information around a word like or if it is informal, colloquial even if it is a bit costly. It is go its pronunciation, placement and new me. My professors taught is a short /i/ and a long /i:/, usage. (used only in speech) or slang. It ing to be your friend for life. me the signifi cance of explor short /u/ and long /u:/ ( two dots further provides us with know ing the reading material inde as in a colon represent a longer ● Create a system where you focus ledge of the grammatical category The writer is former professor of on frequently used words that you pendently and applying my sound) and so on. Barring a few to be used. Here /’to/ is used on English, IIT Bombay. knowledge. It was quite diff e do not understand. consonants, the rest are similar ly in one sentence. Such input vineykirpal@gmail.com rent from what I had learnt in Value add) Get crafty to succeed Bringing back art and craft into the classroom today can play an instrumental role in improving cognitive development b Amrita Vohra In today’s academic scenario, the creative arts have all but entirely disappeared from the Indian education system. There was a time when crea tive classes were compulsory for students, and were given their due importance by pa rents, teachers, and kids alike. However, the current mount ing academic pressure, cou pled with the insurmountable curriculum goals, has com pletely pushed art and craft to the sidelines. The burdening importance placed on aca ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: K.V. SRINIVASAN When teachers encourage children to put their creativity in practice they increase their capacity of focusing Enhanced focus and grasping the subject Improved bilateral All forms of art, including sketching or dancing, require and matter. coordination train the perseverance and focus of children, making them abso demics and the growing ne This is the ability to si lutely essential in enhancing cognitive development. When teach glect of extracurricular activi multaneously utilise both ers encourage children to put their creativity in practice they in ties is certainly not unheard sides of the brain, and is a crease their capacity of focusing and grasping the subject matter. of. However, unfortunately in good indicator of cogni most cases, the concerned tive progress. Children Visual learning Problem-solving parties are still unaware of the who struggle with coordi For kids, painting, sculpting, skills contribution of those very nating both sides of their and sketching play important When we draw, we subjects to a child’s academic bodies face diffi culty in roles in helping evolve and en have to carefully depict and personal growth. completing daily tasks like gage their visual skills, while also several specifi c attri Learning art and craft tying their shoes, con improving their knowledge of spa butes of an object, in doesn’t solely foster a child’s ducting motor activities tial relations. When children draw order to portray it accu creative development, but al such as stringing beads, items that are specifi c and corre rately. The same goes so assists in advancing and re and carrying out visual lated, such as objects which are for children, when they fi ning his or her core skills, motor tasks like writing. thick and thin, smooth and rough, draw a house and a which help further academic ‘Crossing the midline’, for far and near, and so on, they are tree, for instance, using achievements as well. There instance, is a critical skill able to easily understand the con their cognitive skills to fore, an early interest in arts dependent on bilateral cepts of distance, size, compari determine where the and craft , can give children coordination. It is the abil son, and textural diff erences, in door of the house several key advantages, some ity to reach across the an elementary manner, which should be, and what of which are: middle of the body with augments their fundamental vi should be the relative one’s arms and legs cross sual analysis skills. As such, arts size of the person, or ● ‘Crossing the midline’, is ing over to the opposite and crafts help educate students what kind of emotions a critical skill dependent on side. This coordination bilateral coordination on interpretation and criticism, he or she is displaying. ability is enhanced by showing them how to make choic These entail problem ● All forms of art, including creative activities, since es based on visual information, solving and decision sketching or dancing, they simultaneously activ which is certainly beyond the making skills which are require and train the ate several diff erent areas perseverance and focus of scope of pure academics. Visual being constantly ap children of the brain through ab processing and spatial relations plied during these exer sorbing tasks such as us are crucial in performing basic cises, and hence, are ● For young kids, painting, ing playdoh ‘tools’, and sculpting, and sketching skills like riding a bike or playing assimilated, while pro play important roles in lacing yarn through holes, ball, and an underdeveloped skill ducing artistic projects. helping evolve and engage and other related activi capacity may greatly hinder this their visual skills ties. functioning. 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Personality building is workinprogress; invest in it while at college to reap benefi ts b Kulneet Suri tion. The experience you gain from this can be channelised into helping Today, employers look into more others, which starts building leader than technical skills while hiring. ship qualities in you. Working on Your fi eld expertise remains prim one skill sets a chain in motion that SIMATS’s College of ary, but the interview bench also in improves your overall quality, and cludes a professional who constantly employers will never fail to notice it. Architecture and Design will evaluates your personality. So, off er a holistic architecture whilst in college, it is crucial that you Adapt to stress PARTH SANYAL also invest time in personality You build your personal self during curriculum with emphasis on development. personality development. Your atti allied skills tude towards situations improve, Sociallyacceptable your perspective changes and you One course: Myriad avenues. A great personality makes you social are almost always goaloriented. Ev lyacceptable, which in turn makes ery task that comes your way be b Jenny Varghese you employable. There will always comes a learning process to you, and and Design (SCAD) with a un skills in writing and communi usual college courses don’t Chennai. be a diff erence between talking to you tend to take out the positives Once a student decides on his/ ique curriculum. The aim of the cation, which will help those equip students for,” he adds. someone by looking directly into from every instance. You become her career path, it is only natu newlydesigned curriculum is to who would like to pursue so Saveetha University has inter Handson their eyes and speaking erratically your source of encouragement, you ral for him/her to choose the in not only teach students archi mething diff erent from the national collaborations with “It is important to provide with no eye contact at all. When you barely rely on external validation, stitute that off ers the fi nest tecture, but also to give them an mainstream architecture route. Penn University, Arkansas State handson workshops in a school work on your personality, you build and you become capable of looking courses, to achieve that goal. opportunity to explore other For example, architectural jour University, University of Shef of architecture, where students yourself to enhance your levels of into the bigger picture. All these act However, in many cases, it is al subjects which may benefi t nalism is a growing fi eld which fi eld, Curtin University, and ma are exposed to materials and in selfacceptance, that will make you together to keep you stressfree in so highly likely that a student them. focuses on articles or essays on ny more. Collaborations with in novative technologies as well as more acceptable to the people the highly competitive corporate may not want to go the main SCAD off ers a holistic archi future cities, environmental ternational universities provide construction processes,” says around you. When recruiters hire world. stream route. It would be ideal tecture curriculum, with design standards, heritage, and related the possibility of exchange stu renowned architect Dean personnel, they also look for indivi for such students if a course off studio and technological work subjects. dios, workshops and travel to D’Cruz, who has been invited to duals most likely to gel well with Emotionally aware ers the opportunity to branch shops at its core — a unique pro Filmmaking as an elective experience new cultures. mentor students at Saveetha. their existing team. No one will look Personality development teaches out into various, and perhaps gramme with emphasis on criti aims at encouraging students to Travel programmes have These workshops, which will at graduates who are incapable of you to identify your strengths and less conventional paths, than in cal thinking, practical explore new media to convey an been proposed to universities in give students the experience conducting themselves in a social weaknesses. You become conscious itially thought. experience, creative explora idea, whereas the fascination Europe and SouthEast Asia, as and knowledge of diff erent cul group. of both your positive and negative Saveetha Institute of Medical tions, liberal arts, innovative for product design and interior well as study trips to Kerala, Ta tures, cities, technologies and emotions. You may be struggling and Technical Sciences (SI technologies, and quality re design gives architects a wider mil Nadu and other states in the ecological themes, will also be Better soft skills with anger management issues, but MATS) in Chennai, is set to do search. perspective in allied fi elds for north, to expose students to the open to students of all universi When you develop your personality, the patience that you will learn from just that by introducing the Sa creative expression of their rich cultural diversity, contem ties and practising architects. every achievement builds a sense of personality development will help veetha College of Architecture Wide range ideas and views. porary developments and archi The fi veyear B. Arch pro confi dence in you. This newfound you to curb that toxic emotion. An The programme, with a fl exible Professor Durganand Balsa tecture heritage. The pro gramme has an intake of only confi dence can improve other abili ger clouds logical thinking and you credit system, off ers an oppor var, Dean of Research, says that gramme also looks forward to 40 students per year, and has ties that you may possess. It can en will start identifying the trigger to ● Besides core subjects, able you to get over your stage fright, stay away. In the process, you will gel students can choose from tunity for students to choose the course was made interdisci hosting faculty and students received approval from the electives such as fi lmmaking, their subjects and electives plinary because it was felt that from international universities Council of Architecture, India. make you a better speaker, or help with your colleagues better and your journalism, liberal arts, interior from a wide range of options today, the architecture courses as well as to collaborate and Admissions are open to stu you improvise during a tough situa overall performance will improve. design, product design, digital Most PGDM colleges have dedicat technologies, heritage walks, such as fi lmmaking, journal within the country are so fo work in the studios of Saveetha dents who have written the Na environment, theatre and ism, liberal arts, interior design, cused only on buildings that in Chennai. Recently, an inter tional Aptitude Test in Architec : ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ed sessions for developing students’ music... product design, digital technol when the student graduates, he national workshop was con ture (NATA). When you work on your personality, as it is vital for their ca ogies, heritage walks, environ or she tends to not be as well ducted by Professor Balsavar, The fi rst semester commenc personality, you build yourself reer. Make use of such events, invest ● The fi veyear B. Arch time in yourself and continuously programme has an intake of ment, theatre and music, and so rounded in diff erent skill sets. with students from Braunsch es in midAugust, this year. The to enhance your levels of self- only 40 students per year and on. “Nowadays, many architects weig University, Germany. A lec eligibility criteria are as per the acceptance, that makes you work for a better you. will begin in midAugust, this The idea to introduce elec don’t just stick to the norm; ma ture was also organised in col guidelines of the Council of Ar more acceptable to the people year. tives such as journalism was to ny diversify into things such as laboration with the Goethe chitecture, and is indicated on around you. The writer is Senior Director, Institute of enable architects to evolve their freelance journalism, which the Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, the website. Management Studies (IMS) Noida. in brief) MoU signed Public speaking course My internship) Yoga awareness New options, new media A combination of coding and social media IIT Roorkee recently signed a MoU with Over 150 invitees recently attended the launch of SPEAK, marketing is rare, but this was exactly why Surbhi Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), a Portugal based engineering school. The ceremony was Express Yourself, a tailormade public speaking course brought by Innovative Services, Chennai. An array of opted for it Jindal Nature Institute recently organised an event to spread awareness on the significance of Yoga. The organised at IST and the memorandum was speakers shared their experiences and views on the During the summer, I took up a three event organised under the Government of India’s signed by Prof. Arlindo Oliveira, President, significance of speaking skills in the contemporary IST. This collaboration is aimed at promoting scenario. They emphasised on the importance of public month social media and business ana theme ‘Yoga for Heart’ was attended by over 1,200 academic and research cooperation between speaking and wished the SPEAK Team the best for their lyst internship at Rsquare Media Inc., a school and college students. Participants were taught the two institutions which would benefit programme. The company, founded by Venkatesh creative internet marketing company a series of asanas. The institute has also endeavoured to contribute to environmental conservation. students at the research level. Narayanasamy, has trained more than five lakh students headquartered in Uniondale, Long Is over the last decade. land, New York. I came across the com pany on a job portal. They were off er ing mentorship throughout Name: observing a growing trend of undergraduation, and a letter of refe Surbhi Inani offbeat... gaming) the upsurge of the gaming com rence postinternship. I got a Skype in College: Carnegie Mellon University, the U.S. munity and the increasing base terview with the CEO, Rajiv Jadhav. He Organisation: Rsquare Media Inc. of gamers. The live streams are specifi cally asked me why I wanted a Duration: Three months More than now gaining more attention. social media internship in spite of being The user base is trying to follow an electrical and computer engineering and indulge with this growing major. I told him that since technology teractive content editing web applica trend to experience and per is being used to propagate products tion for creating presentations and just a game form better. This is leading to and services extravagantly, I wanted to lectures using text, equations, and an exponential growth in the learn WordPress, graphic design tools graphics to bring static content to life fan base of trending gamers. for editing, and so on, to stay ahead of using animations. Using the concept of Many evolving gaming com my competition. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), this web application could be The gaming world is munities, events, and competi tions such as World Electronic Job profi le used by companies to create and dis evolving by leaps and Sports Games in China, Elec This was a remote internship that I play their services. I worked on draw started in the U.S. and continued later ing graphical shapes on the web board bounds GETTYIMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTOS tronic Sports World Cup and ESL India Premiership Winter in India. I had the responsibility of using Fabric.js and apply animation to LAN, add to the scope of being both, technical work and social media. them. I designed graphic toolbars a successful gamer in the indus I was in charge of website blogs and Fa which facilitated the editing of diff erent try. Gamers such as Sagar Vyas, cebook posts of three clients. I used to features of the shapes such as line Ankur Diwarkar, Bhavin Kotwa research about these companies and width, smoothness, position, and so ni, Simar Sethi and Ishan Arya, learn various ways in which companies on. I hardcoded various animations are some of the trending names used technology and the web to maxi such as fade inout, draw, disappear, in the country’s gaming mise their reach, and how their servic and so on, for each shape. Then, I b Ashish Solanki ● Live gaming streams are and innovative apps have been riencing. industry. es excelled through the use of proper worked with the UI coder to simplify now gaining more attention. fl ooding the market in the past Applications these days, fo The wide and varied growth equipment and uptodate software. Af buttons on the graphics toolbar to Imagine it is the 90s, you are decade, and the user base cus on being userfriendly, of the user base is expected to ter researching the need, history, use make it userfriendly. ● Many evolving gaming fulness, and targeted audience of the I enhanced my knowledge of social downloading big fi les or using communities, events, and seems to grow in leaps and timeeffi cient, and providing a keep growing. The fact that the CDROMS to install the heavy competitions add to the scope bounds. The rate at which tech compelling gaming experience. existing mobile gaming indus products of the clients, I used to create media marketing, and improved my fi les and play your favourite of being a successful gamer in nology is growing has been an These easytouse features al try has made a signifi cant im weekly blog articles on a product and business analysis and reporting skills. I games. It was a time when gam the industry. important factor in allowing lowed the gaming industry to pact on how games have publish it on their respective websites, also developed a working knowledge of ing used to be PC generic. But ● There has been an fi rms to bring forward new for successfully shift from PCs to evolved, in recent times, can which were built on WordPress. I also GitHub, and learnt to write project re thanks to technology, you can exponential growth in the fan mats of games. These games go small screens of the mobiles. A not be ignored. The industry is learnt to promote the blog posts on ports and document programmes so as now experience quality gam base of trending gamers. viral due to their features, and feature that has been attracting yet to experience the highest their respective Facebook pages and re to make our project opensourced. ing, in a matter of moments, are extensively downloaded. many gamers, of late, is one boom of success, and looks for direct the traffi c to the clients’ Face and that too with just a bit of world’s fastest growing indus Without indulging with a lot of where players can win real mo ward to the innovation and de book fan page to hype the product be Surbhi Inani recently graduated with a space. tries. This growth seems to be graphics and heavy processing, ney from games. velopment that technology has fore its launch. Bachelor’s degree in Science in Electrical unstoppable considering the the innovative ideas have to off er. For the technical work, I was a part and Computer Engineering at Carnegie From PC to mobiles rate of development and inno played a key role in the deve Gamers’ community of a coding project called CUBENTS Mellon University, Pennysylvania, U.S. (Comprehensive Utility Board for Equa Courtesy: Internshala (internshala.com) The gaming industry now vation happening around it. lopment of better user engage YouTube and other social me The writer is CoFounder, boasts of being one of the A number of new gamers ment that the user base is expe dia platforms are continuously Funnearn. tion Text and Graphics). This was an in CM A ND-NDE YK
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