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SENGAR MOVES HIGH COURT TO CHALLENGE
CONVICTION IN UNNAO RAPE CASE
US, China ink deal seen
as a ceasefire, not truce INDIA INDICATES
HOSTILITIES PAUSED US to nix tariffs on Chinese goods; Beijing to step up American imports
Yashwant Raj
n letters@hindustantimes.com
WASHINGTON: The world’s two
dominant economic powers, the
United States and China, signed
Phase 1 of a trade deal on
Wednesday, putting on pause a
two-year-long trade war that has
shaken up the global economy.
The agreement, signed by
President Donald Trump and
Chinese Vice-Premier Liu He,
includes a “major commitment”
by China to make “significant
reforms” in a wide range of criti-
cal areas and to make substan-
tial additional purchases of
American goods and services in
the coming years, the White
House said in a note background-
ing the agreement.
The “phase one” agreement —
which includes pledges from
China to beef up purchases of
American crops and other
exports, according to news
agency AFP — also comes just as
Trump faces an impeachment
trial in the US Senate, giving him
a victory to trumpet at least in
the short term.
But the most difficult issues
remain to be dealt with in “phase
two” negotiations, including
massive subsidies for state
industry and forced technology
transfer.
Will invest $1bn to
bring small units
online, says Bezos
NEWDELHI: Amazon.com Inc chief
executive officer Jeff Bezos said
his company will invest $1 billion
to bring small businesses online
in India, reaching out to some of
his fiercest critics. Speaking at an
event, Bezos said Amazon was
committed to being India’s long-
term partner. “The dynamism,
the energy ... the growth. This
country has something
special,” Bezos said.
Amazon said it
will set up digital
centres in 100 cities
and villages to help
the businesses there
get online. ››P17
Chhattisgarh govt
moves top court to
challenge NIA Act
NEW DELHI: The NIA Act takes
away the power of state govern-
ments to investigate certain
offences and confers unfettered,
discretionary powers on the cen-
tral government to investigate
such offences, the Chhattisgarh
government on Wednesday sub-
mitted before the Supreme Court
in a plea challenging the validity
of the Act. ››P11
Bhim Army chief
gets bail under
strict conditions
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on
Wednesday granted bail to Bhim
Army chief Chandrashekhar
Azad who has been accused of
inciting people during an anti-
CAA protest at Jama Masjid on
December 20, while restraining
him from visiting Delhi for four
weeks. The court also directed
him not to hold any protest in the
Capital till elections. ››P3
PHASE 1: BREAKING THE ICE
What the deal has for both countries
KEY AREAS
n Beijing to step up
orders of US farm
products by $50
billion, of
manufactured
goods by around
$75 billion, of
energy products
by some $50
billion and of
services by about
$40-50 billion
n US, in turn, will
cancel planned
tariffs on
Chinese-made
cellphones, toys
and computers,
and halve the
tariff rate to 7.5%
on about $120
billion worth of
Chinese goods
“Today we take a momentous
step one that has never been
taken before with China as we
sign phase one of the trade deal,”
Trump said, announcing the
conclusion of the agreement at a
White House event attended by
lawmakers, officials, and sup-
porters and the former secretary
of state Henry Kissinger, who
New central vista set to be
expanded to Yamuna bank
Anisha Dutta
n letters@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: The central vista is
likely to be extended beyond the
Rashtrapati Bhavan to the
Mother Teresa Crescent in the
west and from the India Gate to
the banks of the river Yamuna in
the east, according to new
changes made to the plan to rede-
velop the landmark Lutyens
neighbourhood that houses
India’s legislative and executive
power.
The redevelopment plan
includes a slew of changes to
existing structures, with a new
Parliament building and a com-
mon secretariat for all central
government offices among the
prominent new features.
According to presentations by
Ahmedabad-based HCP Design
– the agency selected to carry out
MONTH OF PROTEST
Commuters brave hardships as
Shaheen Bagh sit-in goes strong
HT Correspondent
n letters@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: A blockade started by
Muslim women in south-east
Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, which
has grown into the Capital’s big-
gest demonstration against the
new citizenship law and inspired
identical protests in other cities,
but also created a traffic night-
mare for thousands of commut-
ers, completed a month on
Wednesday.
To mark the occasion on
Two missiles hit Ukrainian jet in 30 seconds
WASHINGTON: New video footage
has emerged showing two Ira-
nian missiles tearing through
the night sky and hitting a
Ukrainian passenger plane,
sending the aircraft down in
flames and killing all 176 pas-
sengers and crew on board.
The projectiles were fired 30
seconds apart and explain why
the plane’s transponder was not
working as it hurtled to the
ground -- it was disabled by the
first strike, before being hit by a
second, said the New York
Times, which published the
verified security camera foot-
age on Tuesday.
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China isolated on J&K
in informal UNSC talks
n S Jaishankar Shishir Gupta and Yashwant Raj
n letters@hindustantimes.com
NEWDELHI/WASHINGTON: China and
MINISTERS TO INDIA MUST BE
TOUR JAMMU PERMANENT IN
Pakistan tried, for the third time,
RCEP IS NOT A to raise the Kashmir issue at the
United Nations, in part to embar-
AND SRINAGAR UNSC: RUSSIA
KEY DATES
CLOSED CHAPTER rass India on the international
stage and, in part, to stoke fires
in Kashmir Valley, according to
SRINAGAR: Over five months
after the nullification of
Article 370, 36 Union minis-
NEW DELHI: Russian foreign
minister Sergey Lavrov on
Wednesday said India, Bra-
Jan. 22, 2018: Trump imposes tariffs on NEW DELHI: India has not closed officials aware of the develop- ters, including Ravi zil and an African country
all imported washing machines and solar the door on a China-led regional ment who said the efforts were Shankar Prasad and Piyush “absolutely deserve” to be
panels - not just those from China. economic pact, external affairs thwarted by India’s diplomatic Goyal, will visit Jammu and included in a reformed UN
March 8, 2018: Trump orders 25% tariffs minister S Jaishankar said on allies who left Beijing isolated. Kashmir from January 18 Security Council.
on steel imports and 10% on aluminum Wednesday, months after New China got a “stinging to 24 to create awareness India, he said, is one of
from all suppliers - not just China. Delhi pulled out of the Regional response” when it raised Kash- about the developmental the new centres of eco-
April 2, 2018: China imposes tariffs of up Comprehensive Economic Part- mir at a closed-door informal works carried out there, nomic might and political
to 25% on 128 US products. nership (RCEP). consultation of the UN Security officials said citing the influence that will be key to
Apr-Aug, 2018: Trump unveils plans for
In November, China joined 14 Council (UNSC), Syed Akbarud- schedule of the visit given the formation of a multi-po-
tariffs on about $300 bn of Chinese goods.
countries in agreeing terms for din, the Indian envoy to the UN, to the administration. ››P10 lar world. ››P9
April 30, 2019: US and Chinese RCEP but India pulled out at the said in a late-night tweet.
negotiators hold mid-week trade talks. last minute, saying the deal “Today @UN..our flag is fly-
Talks fail eventually. would hurt its farmers, busi- ing high. Those that launched a with the discussions, none of the have resolved to treat as bilat-
June 18, 2019: Trump and Xi agree by nesses and consumers. “False Flag” effort got a stinging other 14 members of the body eral — for India and Pakistan to
phone to rekindle trade talks. “Where RCEP is concerned, response from our many “took the bait”, leaving China resolve between themselves.
June 29, 2019: At the G20 meeting in we have to look at cost and bene- friends...,” he posted. isolated in its continued efforts The attempts to raise the issue
n Trump, Xi first spoke of a deal in June.
Osaka, Trump agrees to no new tariffs.
fit. We will evaluate RCEP on its According to people familiar to raise an issue that all others CONTINUED ON P 8
Both sides make some concessions.
IN PHASE 2: economic and trade merit. We
Oct 11, 2019: After two days of
*Chinese state subsidies have not closed our mind to it,”
high-level talks, Trump announces a DEC 16 CASE
IMD to announce
*Forced technology transfer and cyber-security issues Jaishankar said at the Raisina
Phase 1 deal that includes suspension of
US tariffs will remain on roughly $360 billion of Dialogue in New Delhi. ››P9
planned tariffs and a Chinese pledge to
annual Chinese imports to the US, a majority of
the Chinese exports to America.
buy more farm goods.
mustread
Uncertainty over new dates for exit,
had spearheaded President
Richard Nixon’s outreach and
implement the deal in “real ear-
nestness”. Xi also said he hoped
DAVINDER: FOCUS
hanging on Jan 22 onset of monsoon
the 1972 visit to China that led to that US treats Chinese compa- ON AIRPORT DATA Jayashree Nandi
the thaw in relations between nies fairly. Investigators have widened n jayashree.nandi@htlive.com
the two countries. China will buy $200 billion probe to see whether he had HT Correspondent verdict as precedent, the coun-
Vice-Premier Liu read out a worth of US farm produce and helped any militants and n letters@hindustantimes.com sels of Mukesh Kumar, 33, who NEWDELHI: The India Meteorolog-
message from President Xi Jin- other goods and services over overground workers access the challenged the death warrant on ical Department (IMD) is set to
ping in which the latter stressed two years, over a baseline of $186 high-security airport, an official NEW DELHI: The hanging of four the grounds that his plea was announce new dates for the
the need for equality and mutual billion in purchases in 2017. The said. ››P10 people convicted for the gang pending, also argued that if the onset and withdrawal of the
respect in tackling issues and CONTINUED ON P 8 rape and murder of a 23-year-old President rejected his petition, south-west monsoon this year, a
paramedical student in the he should be hanged at least 14 government official and the
national capital could be days from the day of that deci- weather department said on
Vegetables under delayed, after the Delhi govern-
ment told the high court on
Wednesday that their January
sion.
The high court refused to pass
an order setting aside the death
Wednesday, in a move that could
affect millions of farmers who
depend on the rainy season for a
PDS possible cure 22 execution seemed unlikely warrant, but allowed Kumar to bumper yield of kharif crops.
to food inflation?
because one of the men had filed
a mercy plea before the Presi-
dent.
Citing a 2014 Supreme Court
approach the trial court that
ordered the execution of the four
convicts. It, however, stressed
CONTINUED ON P 8
The normal monsoon onset
date over Kerala is June 1, and
the withdrawal date is Septem-
ber 30, according to IMD. These
Roshan Kishore dates are based on the monsoon
n letters@hindustantimes.com pattern between 1901 and 1940,
NEWDELHI: Consumer Price Index
mustread but India has recorded signifi-
cant shifts in the pattern over the
(CPI) grew at 7.35% in December past decades, M Rajeevan, secre-
2019, the highest since July 2014.
‘J&K MOVE DENTED GOVT QUITS AFTER tary in the ministry of earth sci-
The headline inflation number PAKISTAN’S PLANS’ PUTIN’S SPEECH ences, said at IMD’s 145th foun-
does not mean that prices are ris- In an address on Army Day, Gen The cabinet resigned after Presi- dation day on Wednesday.
ing across the board in the econ- Naravane said revocation of Article dent Putin proposed sweeping “Over Kerala, it [monsoon]
omy. In fact, 30% of the rise in 370 disrupted the plans of India’s constitutional changes that could has not changed much, but over
CPI is explained by just one com- ‘western neighbour’. ››P9 allow him to extend his rule. ››P15 many other places, it has
modity, namely onions. Onion CONTINUED ON P 8
prices have increased by 328% in
December on an annual basis.
Vegetables and food category
accounted for 48% and 72% of the
rise in CPI.
n An artist’s impression of a section in the redevelopment plan. What explains the spike in
vegetable prices, especially
the works -- a new triangular Gandhi National Centre will be CONTINUED ON P 8
Parliament building will come
up next to the existing complex,
the North and South Block office
relocated, and the National
Archives will be remodelled. The
Prime Minister’s residence will
FULL COVERAGE ››P13
complexes will be turned into
national museums, the Indira
also be shifted behind the exist-
ing South Block complex. ››P6 US Sikhs to be a
separate ethnic
entity in census
WASHINGTON: For the first time,
Sikhs in the US will be counted as
a separate ethnic group in the
2020 census, an organisation of
the minority community said on
Wednesday, a congregation from night of December 15 in protest Tuesday.
Punjab joined the protesters, against violent police action at President of the Sikh Society
whose numbers swell each night neighbouring Jamia Millia Isla- of San Diego, Baljeet Singh, said
and especially on holidays as art- mia and the CAA. Since then, the that the Sikh community’s
ists, students, activists and civil protest has grown manifold. efforts have come to fruition.
society members join local
women and men under a tent to
shout slogans against the Citi-
Led primarily by local Muslim
women, many of them in their
60s and 70s, it has spawned simi-
“This has paved the way forward
nationally not only for the Sikh
community but also for other
zenship (Amendment) Act, or
CAA, and for rights enshrined in
lar protests in Uttar Pradesh and
West Bengal.
ethnicities in the United States,”
he said.
the Constitution.
A group of around 15 women
occupied a small stretch of the
But the protest has extracted a
heavy cost from daily commut-
ers, whose travel time and cost of
The United Sikhs said that
this will be the first time the
minority group will be counted
carriageway of Road 13A from commute between Delhi and and coded in the decennial US
Sarita Vihar to Noida on the CONTINUED ON P 8 Census. ››P9
N E W F O O TA G E
The blurry film, shot from a
rooftop in a village four miles
from an Iranian military site,
shows the Kiev-bound plane on
fire and circling back to Teh-
ran’s airport, the Times said.
Minutes later, the aircraft
exploded and crashed.
Tehran came clean on Satur-
day when it acknowledged a
missile operator had mistaken
the Ukraine International Air-
lines plane for a cruise missile
and opened fire. The incident
happened when Iran’s armed
forces were on alert after
launching a volley of missiles at n Investigators and rescue officials at the site of the plane crash in
Iraqi bases. ››P15 Shahedshahr, south-west of Iran’s capital Tehran. AP
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T HURSDAY, JA N UA RY 1 6 , 2 02 0
htmetro
Bhim Army chief Police tried to hush up ’84 riots cases: SIT
gets bail, can’t stay
in Delhi for a month
ANTI-CAA STIR Additional sessions judge Kamini Lau tells Azad that
he has to make sure that his protests did not inconvenience public
Shiv Sunny
shiv.sunny@hindustantimes.com
n
NEWDELHI:Twenty-five days after
Bhim Army chief Chandrashe-
khar Azad was arrested for alleg-
edly inciting protesters in central
Delhi’s Daryaganj, a city court on
Wednesday granted him bail on
the condition that he would not
visit Delhi for the next four
weeks, unless it is for medical
treatment, and would not be
involved in any protests during
this period.
Kamini Lau, the additional
sessions judge in Tis Hazari
court, said the decision to keep
him out of Delhi was taken to
avoid “violence” and “interfer-
ence” in the Delhi Assembly elec-
tions on February 8.
“Why should he stay in Delhi?
Is he a voter,” Lau asked Azad’s
counsel, Mehmood Pracha, who
insisted that the 33-year-old poli-
tician be allowed to stay in Delhi.
“He may seek to vote from Delhi.
He may also want to influence
voters (since he is a politician),”
said Pracha.
Upon insistence by Pracha, the
judge agreed to let Azad visit
some religious sites – namely
Jama Masjid, the Jor Bagh shrine
and Ravidas Temple in Tughlaqa-
bad – to pay “obeisance” within 24
hours of his release. He would
then be escorted by the police to
his hometown in UP’s Saharan-
pur where he would have to
report to the local station house
officer every week.
The judge said Azad would not
be allowed to visit Shaheen Bagh
– where there are ongoing pro-
tests against the Citizenship
Amendment Act. “He cannot stay
overnight at Jama Masjid,” Lau
added, in a reference to his stay at
the religious site for several
hours before he surrendered to
the police in the early hours of
December 2.
On Tuesday, judge Lau had
come down heavily on the Delhi
Police for not producing any evi-
dence against Azad and had gone
on to say that the police were
“behaving as if Jama Masjid was
Pakistan”.
On Wednesday, however, the
judge had words of advice for
Azad. Reminding him of his
“duties”, she said that he had to
PROBE CONTINUES
Sixth student
questioned in Jan 5
JNU violence case
HT Correspondent
n htreporters@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: Police on Wednesday
questioned Jawaharlal Nehru
University (JNU) student, Dolan
Samanta, to ascertain her role in
the vandalism and violence
which took place on the campus
between January 3 and
January 5.
Samanta, who was seen on a
video with her face covered, is
among the nine students named
by the Special Investigation
Team (SIT) for indulging in the
January 5 violence on JNU cam-
pus, in which 34 students and
teachers were injured. So far, five
of the nine students have been
questioned on Monday and Tues-
day. Samanta was the sixth per-
son who was questioned.
Samanta and another JNU stu-
dent, Chunchun Kumar, were
served notices by the SIT — that is
probing three cases related to
JNU violence and vandalism — to
join the probe on Wednesday.
While Samanta turned up,
Kumar did not appear before the
investigators, said an SIT officer.
“We questioned Samanta for
almost an hour. She was showed
the video and asked why she was
masked. Samanta was also asked
about the three men who were
seen with her in the video. The
questioning was focused on her
role in the violence and the
sequence of events leading to it,”
the officer said, on the condition
of anonymity.
After her questioning,
Samanta told she has submitted a
two-page statement to the police
which includes her complaint
and her whereabouts on January
3, 4 and 5.
“They asked me questions like
— where the video is from (a grab
from which was shown in a police
RELIEF AFTER 25 DAYS
DECEMBER 20, 1 pm: Large
number of people gathered at
gate number 1 of Jama Masjid
after Friday prayers to protest
against CAA and NRC.
2 pm: Bhim Army chief Chan-
drashekhar Azad appeared in the
crowd holding a copy of the
Indian Constitution. Azad de-
tained and taken away by the
police. However, he escaped and
disappeared in the crowd.
2:15 pm: A section of protesters
started moving towards the
Jantar Mantar. They were stopped
by the police at Delhi Gate — on
the carriageway outside Darya-
ganj police station.
4:00 pm: Crowd start to disperse
from the spot after prayers
4:14 pm: Chandrashekhar Azad
reappeared at the Jama Masjid.
He entered the mosque with
people during evening prayers.
5:00 pm: Azad addressed pro-
testers
5:15 pm: Around 1,000 protesters,
mostly those coming from
northeast Delhi areas such as
Seelampur, Jafarabad and Mauj-
pur and from Ghaziabad, assem-
ble at Delhi Gate barricades.
6:00 pm: Protests turned violent
make sure his protests did not
cause inconvenience to the public
and affect their rights. “Protests
have to be the last resort. The last
resort cannot be the first resort.
There has to be dialogue first,”
she said.
She also stressed that any dam-
age to property by protesters
would be the responsibility of the
organisers. In her order, this
point was highlighted in bold.
“Violence or destruction of prop-
erty is totally unacceptable and
for any kind of damage to private
or public property during the pro-
test, it is the organisers who
would be responsible for the said
damage and liable to compensate
for the said loss,” her order read.
The hearing in the bail plea
picked up on Wednesday with
Pracha reading out some tweets
of Azad that the public prosecutor
submitted as evidence of inciting
remarks by the accused.
When Pracha began by read-
We questioned
› Samanta for almost
an hour. She was showed
the video and asked why
she was masked. Samanta
was also asked about the
three men who were seen
with her in the video.
A POLICE OFFICER
press conference last week). They
showed me a video of Sabarmati
Hostel where the attack hap-
pened and I helped them identify
some of those who were involved.
I was in Sabarmati when the
attack happened and I was also
injured,” she told PTI. “They said
I could be called again. I have
agreed and I have signed a bond
stating that I will come whenever
I am called,” she said.
Chunchun Kumar told PTI
that he did not receive any mes-
sage or mail in this regard, other-
wise he would have made himself
available for questioning. He said
he was in Delhi.
Three students who are from
the ABVP – the masked woman
seen on video indulging in vio-
lence at Sabarmati hostel, Akshat
Awasthi and Rohit Shah – are still
absconding, the police said. Awa-
sthi and Shah are seen testifying
to their involvement in January
5 violence in a sting operation
done by India Today news chan-
nel.
On Wednesday, a team of
Forensic Science Laboratory also
visited the campus to retrieve
data from the server room, the
police said.
WITH AGENCY INPUTS
n Chandrashekhar Azad.
at Delhi Gate. Agitators break
barricades. Police use water
cannons. Some protesters torch a
car, at least a dozen more parked
vehicles vandalised.
DECEMBER 21, 3:18 am: “All
those detained should be freed
and then I’ll surrender. Friends,
continue fighting and stay united
for the Constitution, Jai Bhim and
Jai Constitution.” Azad tweets
from inside Jama Masjid
4:00 am: Azad surrenders before
the police, is produced before a
judge and sent to 14 day police
custody.
JANUARY 14: Azad’s bail plea is
taken up by ASJ Kamini Lau at Tis
Hazari Court.
JANUARY 15, 5:20 pm: Azad is
granted bail
ing out a tweet in which Azad had
praised Ambedkar and the Con-
stitution, ASJ Lau said, “That’s
right. But a few tweets later came
a tweet in which Azad had said
that Prime Minister Narendra
Modi takes shelter behind the
police when threatened.”
ASJ Lau raised objections to
the tweet mentioning PM Modi.
“This is problematic. You have to
respect the PM,” said Lau.
In her order, while beginning
to deal with the bail application,
Lau wrote that she was reminded
of poet Rabindranath Tagore. “He
during the colonial era in early
1990s, when the British followed
the policy of divide and rule, he
visualised a nation where there is
no fear in the mind of people and
education is attained by all. Peo-
ple are enlightened and do not
create walls of discrimination,”
she wrote before invoking Tag-
ore’s poem, ‘Where the mind is
without fear’.
Verdict in 2013 minor
rape case on Saturday
HT Correspondent
letters@hindustantimes.com
n
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on
Wednesday deferred the verdict
in a 2013 rape case of a minor girl
that was reported from east
Delhi’s Gandhi Nagar area.
Additional Sessions Judge
Naresh Kumar Malhotra said
that the court will now pro-
nounce the verdict on Saturday
in the case.
The incident took place in
April, 2013, when a five-year-old
minor girl was allegedly confined
for two days and raped by the
accused who lived in the same
building as the girl and her fam-
ily. The girl was missing for two
days and was later found at the
accused’ room.
The girl, who was reported
missing on April 15 evening, was
rescued on April 17 morning from
Murali Krishnan
n murali.krishnan@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: Efforts by police to
hush up criminal cases relating
to 1984 anti-sikh riots resulted in
crimes remaining unpunished
and culprits going scot-free, a spe-
cial investigation team (SIT) con-
stituted by the Supreme Court
India has concluded in its report.
“The basic reason for these
crimes remaining unpunished
and culprits going scot-free was
the lack of interest shown by the
police in handling cases as per
law or to proceed with the inten-
tion of punishing the culprits,”
the report submitted by the SIT,
headed by former Delhi high
court judge Justice SN Dhingra,
said.
The SIT also took a grim view
of the manner in which the trial
was conducted by the judges stat-
ing that “acquittals were handed
by the judges in a routine man-
ner”.
“The report shows that the
whole system was paralysed. The
police, the prosecuting agency
and even the judiciary were all
hand in glove to shield the cul-
prits. It is shameful that the
Poll code: Four lakh
posters removed
Press Trust of India
n htreporters@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI:Over four lakh posters
and banners have been removed
by the civic bodies in compli-
ance with the model code of con-
duct enforced in the national
capital since January 6, officials
said on Wednesday.
Till January 14, a total of 66
entries, including 61 FIRs for
defacement, have been lodged
for violation of the model code of
conduct. Out of the 66 entries,
two are against the Aam Aadmi
Party and one against the Con-
gress for defacement while the
remaining 63 were under the
head others/non-political,
Delhi Chief Electoral Officer
Ranbir Singh said.
Till now, 110 FIRs have been
registered under the Arms Act
and 121 people have been
arrested while 109.65 kilogram
of narcotics has been seized.
According to Singh, five cases
of violations, like misuse of
vehicles, violation of loudspeak-
ers, illegal meetings and gratifi-
cation of electors among others
have been recorded till now.
A total of 301 FIRs have been
registered under the Excise Act
and 309 people have been
arrested, he said.
THE INCIDENT TOOK
PLACE IN APRIL, 2013,
WHEN A FIVE-YEAR-OLD
WAS CONFINED FOR TWO
DAYS AND RAPED BY
THE ACCUSED
the ground floor of the building.
Delhi police registered a case and
filed charges of attempt to mur-
der and rape against the man.
The girl was admitted in the
All India Institute of Medical Sci-
ences (AIIMS) after she con-
tracted infection due to the inser-
tion of foreign objects in her pri-
vate parties. The case, reported
within five months of the Delhi
2012 gang rape case, showed how
despite stricter laws and policing,
women were still unsafe in the
capital.
whole judicial system can be
paralysed by powerful politi-
cians. We are very proud of our
strong legal system but this
shows how easy it is for powerful
politicians to scuttle the whole
process,” senior counsel HS
Phoolka, who is representing
1984 riot victims, told HT.
Phoolka also clarified that no
prominent leaders were accused
in any of the FIRs, in which the
SIT has recommended filing of
appeals.
The SIT, which was consti-
tuted by the Supreme Court in
January 2018 after a petition filed
by Gurlad Singh Kahlon, a mem-
ber of Delhi Sikh Gurudwara
Management Committee, re-ex-
amined 199 cases connected to the
1984 anti-sikh riots that followed
the assassination of then Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi.
The SIT recommended that
appeals be filed against acquittal
of accused in eight FIRs — seven
involving murder and one
regarding bodily injury. Seven
out the eight cases, in which
accused were acquitted, were
decided by judge SS Bal.
In another case, the SIT con-
cluded that there was evidence
As many as 47 bottles, 318
half, 23,977 quarters of Indian
Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL),
496 bottles, 194 half, 78,739
quarters of country liquor and
107 bottles of beer have been
seized.
A total of 130 unlicensed arms
were seized, while 2,782 licensed
arms were deposited.
Meanwhile, another official
of the poll body said owners or
drivers of 163 auto-rickshaws
which were “carrying political
advertisement” were prose-
cuted by the city police under
the Motor Vehicles Act.
The police have also seized Rs
53,38,020 in cash while bullion
worth Rs 1.17 crore and narcot-
ics worth Rs 3.82 crore have also
been seized till now, the officials
said.
hindustantimes
against inspector Survir Singh
Tyagi, who was the station house
office at Kalyanpuri police sta-
tion, of conspiring with the riot-
ers. The report stated that Tyagi
deliberately disarmed local Sikhs
of their licenced firearms, so as to
enable the rioters to indulge in
killing and destruction of prop-
erty. Though Tyagi was sus-
pended, he was later reinstated
and promoted to the rank of
assistant commissioner of police.
The SIT recommended that his
case should be referred to the riot
cell of Delhi Police for action.
Central government’s law offi-
cer Solicitor General Tushar
Mehta told the top court on
Wednesday that the recommen-
dations made by the SIT will be
implemented.
Out of the 199 cases re-exam-
ined by the SIT, 114 involved loss
of property, 31 cases involved
bodily injury and 54 cases
involved murder.
The SIT, which comprised
former Delhi high court judge SN
Dhingra and IPS officer
Abhishek Dular, had given pub-
licity in newspapers and website
of home ministry about its inten-
tion to re-examine the cases and
AAP’S FRESH FACES STRIKE A
CONFIDENT NOTE.
had requested people to come for-
ward with material and evidence
regarding crimes. However, the
report lamented that nobody
approached the SIT with any spe-
cific evidence relating to the cul-
prits or witnesses.
The SIT, however, said that the
reason why the crimes went
unpunished was because the
police did not show interest in
pursuing the cases and made
efforts to hush up the cases.
Despite a large number of vic-
tims approaching various agen-
cies soon after the riots and for
few years thereafter, a large num-
ber of crimes remained unpun-
ished and untraced. The lack of
interest shown by the police and
authorities in handling these
cases as per law or to proceed
with the intention of punishing
the culprits led to the criminals
going scot-free, the SIT said.
Another flaw which the SIT
noted was that “FIRs were not
registered incident-wise or
crime-wise”. If one FIR was regis-
tered with respect to one incident
of murder-cum-rioting in a par-
ticular area, all other incidents of
murder-cum-rioting in the same
area were clubbed together
03
> P05
under the same FIR. This meant
that one investigating officer (IO)
was tasked with probing hun-
dreds of cases.
The report also took a scathing
view of the fact that the police and
authorities did not even preserve
the forensic evidence with
respect to unidentified dead bod-
ies
“It was obligatory on the part
of all police stations in Delhi to
make sincere efforts to ascertain
the identity of unidentified dead
bodies recovered and to preserve
some sort of evidence in case the
bodies remained unidentified so
that they could be identified later
on,” the report said.
The manner in which the trial
was conducted by courts also met
the SIT’s disapproval. The report
pointed out that in a particular
case from Kalyanpuri, the police
had clubbed various cases and
sent a challan with respect to 56
murders but charges were
framed by the trial court only
with respect to killing of five per-
sons.
“Acquittals were handed over
by the judges to the accused of
1984 riots in a routine manner”,
the report stated.
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T HURSDAY, JA N UA RY 1 6, 2 02 0

SHADES OF THE SHAHEEN BAGH STIR

n ART OF PROTEST: Youngsters design posters at the Shaheen Bagh n SHUTTERS DOWN: Shops close to the protest site at Shaheen n WOMEN POWER: Majority of the protesters are women. Many of n ROAD, A CANVAS: Graffiti against the CAA, a possible pan-India
protest site. BURHAAN KINU/HT PHOTOS Bagh have remained closed since the agitation began. them say this is their first time at a street protest. NRC and the NPR.

Delhi choked as artery cut off A month later,

spirit of protest
ON THE ROAD Traffic on GD Birla
Marg and Road 13A has been closed
lingers in the air
from Dec 15, when the blockade began
HT Correspondent vehicles on Ring Road and DND
n htreporters@hindustantimes.com also added to commuters’ plight.

New Delhi: The massive protest NOT JUST CAR OWNERS

against the Citizenship (Amend-
ment) Act, or CAA, in Shaheen
Bagh, which completed a month
Wednesday, has thrown traffic
out of gear not only in neigh-
bouring areas of Sarita Vihar,
Kalindi Kunj,Jasola and Noida
in Uttar Pradesh but also caused
tail backs in large swathes of
south and south-east Delhi.
Traffic on GD Birla Marg and
the arterial Road 13A between
Sarita Vihar and Noida has been
closed from December 15, when
the blockade began.
The closure meant traffic
from Faridabad and parts of
south Delhi such as Sarita Vihar
and Jasola had to take other Noi-
da-Delhi links, such as Mathura
Road and DND flyway, leading to
traffic jams spilling over to Ash-
ram Chowk, Mathura Road, and
parts of Ring Road.
Ashram Chowk is one of the
busiest intersections in the city.
According to traffic police data,
about 350,000 vehicles use the
intersection daily at peak morn-
ing and evening hours, and that
number is expected to have dou-
bled over the last month, traffic
officials estimate.
“Even with the genuineness of
the protest, purely in terms of
traffic movement, it is definitely
causing a lot of problems. This is
all happening in the middle of the
city and is affecting lakhs of com-
muters. What the traffic police
can do is look at alternative
routes, especially for heavy vehi-
cles. This will bring some ease,”
said former Delhi traffic chief
Qamar Ahmad.
Dharminder Singh, a private
cab driver who is a regular on the
stretch, said the increased vehic-
ular movement the the Ashram
intersection and the DND Fly-
way has created a traffic night-
mare. “Even during non-peak
hours, it takes around half-an-
hour to cross the intersection.
Traffic barely moves here these
days,” he added.
Other commuters on Mathura
Road on Wednesday said the
movement of heavy commercial
theysay
› intersection has
become a mess. It takes
several rounds of the
traffic signal to turn green
before one can pass.
TIRATH SINGH, cab driver
While car owners were at the
receiving end of a major chunk of
the traffic snarls, people from
slum clusters in the Shaheen
Bagh and Madanpur Khadar
also complained of spiking travel
costs and time. Many said the
increased Delhi Metro fare made
it unaffordable for them.
Shanti, 38, who works as a
help in Noida sectors 45 and 46,
said that earlier she could take a
public bus to reach the Kalindi
Kunj Bridge and would walk
across to reach Noida. This
would cost her R10. But now, she
has had to abandon the mode of
transport.
“The bus takes a longer route
now. So, I now take two mini
buses that take me only half the
way and I have to walk longer
now. This costs me R40 one way.
I cannot afford to take the metro
after the fare hike,” she said
Currently, commuters com-
ing from Faridabad, Okhla and
Sarita Vihar have to take the
route near Apollo Hospital at
Jasola, and take Mathura Road
to reach Ashram Chowk, before
turning towards Noida.
A plea before the Delhi high
court on Monday seeking direc-
tions to withdraw the closure of
Kalindi Kunj-Shaheen Bagh
Stretch (Road No 13-A), saw the
court asking the police to ‘use its
wisdom’ and act accordingly.
Police have approached the pro-
testers, who have refused to
budge.
Senior Delhi traffic police offi-
cials said the road was closed on
the directions of local police.
“Unless we get directions from
the local police, we will keep the
road closed,” a senior traffic offi-
cial said. The official said the
spillover of traffic jams were
being witnessed in areas around
Nehru Place, Okhla, Noida Link
Road, Barapullah Elevated Cor-
ridors, Indraprastha Marg,
Bhairon Marg, Pragati Maidan,
ITO, Nizamuddin, Lajpat Nagar,
Sarai Kale Khan, East of Kailash,
Greater Kailash, CR Park and
Moolchand.
The Ashram
› buses that take me
only half the way. This
costs me ₹40 one way. I
cannot afford to take the
metro after the fare hike.
SHANTI, domestic help
n The India Gate installation has names of people who died in the
anti-CAA protests. BURHAAN KINU/HT PHOTO
Kainat Sarfaraz if we cease to be citizens in our
n kainat.sarfaraz@htlive.com own country,” he said.
n Vehicles moving towards DND flyway stuck in a jam at Ashram Chowk on Wednesday. BURHAAN KINU/HT Photo
NEW DELHI: For the past month, FOOD AND WATER
several women in Shaheen Bagh With thousands of people at the
CRAWLING ON THE ROAD have been living two lives — of a
protester and a homemaker.
site each night, food and water
requirements have been
They wake up in the morning, resolved by an army of volun-
Since the protest began on the vital Delhi-Noida link, it has resulted in several chokepoints, particularly at Ashram finish their chores, and come to teers, who distribute and coordi-
the tent at the protest site. nate supplies and insist that
Sarai Kale Khan “Most of us wake up at around everything is crowd-sourced.
4am. We help our children bathe Every two hours, announce-
Barapullah early in the morning because we ments blare from mikes that
flyover Yamuna
river NOIDA spend our afternoons and even- cash donations are banned.
DND ings here. I go back home late at “It is difficult to put a number
Ashram Ring Flyway night and then make some prep- since people just start distribut-
Chowk Road arations for the next day as ing things when they come
From ROADS CLOSED: well,” said Shabnam Naaz, 30, here,” said Asif, who is a part of a
Lajpat Both carriageways to mother of three and a resident of team of volunteers. “At least 100
Nagar New Friends Jamia
Colony and from Kalindi Kunj Shaheen Bagh. litres of milk is used for tea,
Millia bridge to Mathura
Islamia Hundreds of others like her, 15,000 boxes of biryani is distrib-
Road near Sarita many first-time protesters, have uted, along with scores of car-
Okhla Vihar underpass spent the past month -- from the tons of fruits, biscuits, choco-
Underpass Fortis Escorts Road coldest winter night in decades lates, and juice boxes.”
construction Heart Institute Kalindi to spells of rain -- protesting the On Wednesday, students and
Sukhdev Kunj Road Citizenship (Amendment) Act, farmers from the Bharatiya
at Ashram Vihar
n Protesters at Shaheen Bagh on Wednesday. BURHAAN KINU/HT or CAA. Their mantra: Using Kisan Sangh joined the protest to
Shaheen every minute efficiently.“In give a message of unity. With
Mathura
Road Bagh Begins: December 15, 2019, after police attacked students at between attending the protests them, came more food. “We
DELHI Apollo Jamia Millia Islamia during a violent protest by locals against and managing our households, started preparing the langar
A
Hospital d 13 the amendments to the citizenship law we barely get any sleep,” said early morning. We brought 35kg
Alternative Roa Rizwana Bano, a protester, add- of sabzi with us along with uten-
route due to Sarita Vihar Total number of vehicles Since protest
ing that the packed schedule sils and around 500 litres of milk.
road closure at Ashram
1.5-2 hours didn’t affect their morale. We used it to prepare kheer and
Okhla 3.5 lakh “I have a burning sensation in tea for everyone,” said Garmail
peak hours, on normal day From Ashram to Apollo my eyes due to lack of sleep. The Singh, a farmer from Bhatinda.
Normal route 7 lakh Hospital government thinks that we are
towards Noida since protest 20 minutes weak. But if we were, would we
be able to go through all this?”
ARTY TWIST
A few metres away from the lan-
Normal travel time On normal day
To Faridabad she asked, as others around her gar, stood a small-scale replica of
between Noida & S. Delhi
From
Faridabad 20 minutes 40 minutes nodded in agreement. the India Gate inscribed with the
since protest Nida Parvez, a Class 12 stu- names of those who died during
dent, said she was unable to pre- the anti-CAA protests. “The idea
pare for her board examination was to remember them in a way
because of the demonstration,
but fully backed it. “I do not
similar to how we remember
martyrs at India Gate,” said
come here everyday but when- Shaunak, a Delhi-based curator
ever I switch on the television, I and part of a team of artists and
I now take two mini What about the poor? Going to Noida used
› They can’t afford the
Delhi Metro and the bus
now takes longer to reach
› to take just 20
minutes now it takes 1.5
hours. I have to travel at
see news of some violent crack-
down. Our dinner conversations
have moved towards this.”
Along with the women, the
lives of many local men have also
changed in the past month.
students. Others made vibrant
graffiti and painting on the road.
A little distance away was
another installation -- a deten-
tion camp made of steel rods.
“We needed to make more
destinations. The mini least 20km extra to get Mohammad Asif, 25, who is a
wedding planner, closed his
people aware of what it meant to
be in a detention camp. Till now,
buses are charging ₹40. to my home. office and has been volunteering they were just coming across
DHARMINDER SINGH, SANTOSH KUMAR, at the site. “There is some mone- news items on it. With the instal-
Noida resident Madanpur Khadar resident tary loss for everyone. But peo- lation, they could see what it
ple know that money is of no use stands for,” said Aniq, 24.

Tale of two hospitals stuck in a snarl A month after police action,

Anonna Dutt
n anonna.dutt@htlive.com
NEW DELHI: For the staff of Fortis
Escorts Heart Institute (FEHI)
the policemen outside the Sukh-
dev Vihar metro station are not
the only reminder of the violence
at Jamia Millia Islamia in Decem-
ber. The jam-packed roads
around the hospital since the
month-long protest started at
Shaheen Bagh are the other.
Divya Yadav and Sukhveen
Suri, technical staff at FEHI, have
almost got used to the now-daily
traffic snarls up to Ashram
Chowk.
“Traffic was normal even on
the day the Jamia incident hap-
pened. But since the protests, it
has become a nightmare. For the
last one month, we have been
walking to Maharani Bagh and
taking a bus from there. It is use-
less taking a bus from here. It
takes around 40 minutes just to
reach Ashram, which is just 2-3
kms away! I have a child waiting
for me at home. I used to reach
home at 6:30pm, now I reach at
7.40pm,” said Yadav, who lives in
Mayur Vihar Phase 2.
“And, it’s not just us. Patients
are coming in at least 30 to 45 min-
utes late for their appointments.
They do not anticipate the traffic
jams here,” said Suri.
Heavy traffic on Mathura Road
and in Okhla have kept patients
coming to hospitals like Fortis
Escorts and Indraprastha Apollo
waiting in their vehicles for
hours. Those coming from Noida
face the brunt of it, with having to
go all the way around to the Delhi-
Noida-Direct (DND) flyway and
then getting stuck at the Ashram
Chowk.
Anjay Sinha, who lives in
Noida sector 34, had an appoint-
ment for his annual check-up at
Indraprastha Apollo hospital.
After checking the traffic sce-
nario on his mobile phone, he
decided against driving to the
hospital. He and his wife took the
Metro instead.
n Patients say a journey to the hospital now takes double the time if
one travels by road.
“Usually, if we drive to the hos-
pital it takes us only about 17 to 20
minutes. If we took the DND
option, it would have taken us
double that time. The Metro is not
very convenient; we have to take
an auto to the station. But, it is
better than getting stuck in the
traffic for hours,” he said.
SANCHIT KHANNA/HT PHOTO
Two nursing students, who
had travelled to Delhi to join the
hospital, could not reach their
hotel in Sarita Vihar because of
the protestors blocking the way.
“We had already booked the hotel
in Sarita Vihar. But we realised
that there was a problem when
we tried to take a cab or an auto
there. Everybody refused to go
there. There was no way to reach
the hotel, we had to book another
hotel in the evening,” said one of
the nursing student, on condition
of anonymity.
And, it’s not just the patients.
“At least two or three ambulan-
ces are dispatched to Noida every
day from the hospital. Now, it
takes double the time to reach the
hospital,” said a hospital official,
on condition of anonymity.
At Fortis Escorts Heart Insti-
tute (FEHI), located around 3-km
from Shaheen Bagh, there’s a
similar story.
Tahla Khan Nadwi, a Noida
resident, said he gets stuck in the
traffic jams around the hospital
and the distance that could easily
be covered in 10 minutes, takes a
lot longer these days.
“If you look around, there are
no foreign patients here at the
moment. Usually, the area used
to be full of foreigners. They must
have read about the protests and
are avoiding the area,” he said.
Jamia library remains shut
Fareeha Iftikhar
n fareeha.iftikhar@htdigital.in
NEW DELHI: Ever since the police
barged into the Jamia Millia Isla-
mia (JMI), assaulted students and
damaged university property on
December 15 last year, the uni-
versity library continued to
remain sealed on Wednesday,
with a cascade of green cloth
down its façade.
On Wednesday, there was a
bouquet at the door. Pinned onto
the green cloth are posters with
messages such as “Get well soon
Dear Library” and “Read for Rev-
olution”— making it look like a
memorial to the library that was
extensively damaged during the
police attack.
On the evening of December 15,
students said they were in the
Zakir Hussain Library on cam-
pus when the police attacked.
The university had said they
had not given police the permis-
sion to enter, and although the
administration had filed a com-
plaint in the matter, an FIR is yet
to be registered. The administra-
tion on Wednesday said they
would move the court for it.
Although classes have
resumed, the library is still off
limits for students. “Many of our
friends are still recovering and
our library is still sealed. It’s so
painful to see the locked doors of
the library,” said Saba Kareem,
an MA student at Jamia.
Mohammed Minhajuddin, an
LLM student in Jamia, who par-
tially lost his vision in the attack,
said that the incident had
changed his life forever. “I have
been trying to get an FIR regis-
tered, but in vain. Doctors are try-
ing to save my other eye from
infection. I am just hoping to get
well and return to my studies
soon,” he said.
Mujib-ur-Rahman, father of
Shayaan Mujeeb, a third-year
BBA student in Jamia, who suf-
fered severe leg injuries, said,
“Doctors are saying he will be
able to walk after three months.
But he cannot run or lift weight
for at least a year or more.”
In the last one month, Jamia’s
gate number 7— now popularly
known as ‘Jamia Square’— wit-
nesses protests every day against
the CAA and the police brutality
on students. Hardly an inch of the
university’s boundary wall has
been spared from banners.
On Wednesday, Jawaharlal
Nehru University Students’
Union president Aishe Ghosh
had come to the protest site.
“We will have to continue our
fight against this injustice and
attacks on our Constitution. I
congratulate the students of
Jamia for keeping this fight alive
for over a month,” she said.
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T HURSDAY, JA N UA RY 1 6 , 2 02 0
AAP’s fresh candidates
strike a confident note
Sweta Goswami
n sweta.goswami@hindustantimes.com
NEWDELHI:In 2015, they were polit-
ical greenhorns facing the chal-
lenge that their success in the
2013 elections was not a fluke.
Five years later, the Aam Aadmi
Party is going back to the elector-
ate with known faces and a list of
works that the its government
has done in the past five years in
the national capital.
Besides repeating prominent
MLAs, which includes the CM
and the deputy CM, the party has
also given ticket to three of the
seven candidates that it had
fielded in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls
— Raghav Chadha, Atishi and
Dilip Pandey. Despite not being
part of the government, all three
have been prominent faces of the
party, representing it in various
fora.
On Wednesday, a day after the
AAP announced its candidates
for the assembly elections on Feb-
ruary 8, Chadha opened his elec-
tion office in Rajendra Nagar – the
assembly constituency from
where he is the party candidate.
“This office will be my permanent
workplace for the next five years.
It will be used for dealing with
public, a place where anyone
from Rajendra Nagar can come to
get their grievances resolved,”
Chadha said.
When asked if his campaign
during Lok Sabha polls would
proving beneficial in connecting
with the voters, Chadha said, “I
was born in New Rajendra Nagar
and my parents and rest of my
family live in this area. This
whole area is like a family for me.
So, people know me; also because
I have been actively working for
AAP over the past few years.”
Atishi, the party candidate
‘Give up free facilities before talking about subsidies’
HT Correspondent
n htreporters@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI : Senior Aam Aadmi
Party (AAP) leaders Manish Siso-
dia and Sanjay Singh on Wednes-
day accused the Bharatiya Jan-
ata Party (BJP) of working
against welfare policies and
degrading the education system.
The BJP dismissed the allega-
tions and hit back calling the AAP
n Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh addresses a press
conference at the party headquarters, on Wednesday. MOHD ZAKIR/HT
from Kalkaji, said her work with
deputy chief minister and Delhi’s
education minister Manish Siso-
dia in the education sector will
help her make an immediate con-
nect with the people in the area.
She had contested from the East
Delhi parliamentary constitu-
ency last year.
“Thanks to my work on Delhi
government schools, I have had
the opportunity to work across
various constituencies. As
advisor to Sisodia, I have worked
very closely on the School of
Excellence project in Kalkaji. I
have a close connection with hun-
dreds of parents in school man-
agement committees (SMCs) in
Kalkaji. I am looking forward to
serve the people of Kalkaji over
the next five years,” she said.
Karawal Nagar candidate Dur-
gesh Pathak says he already has
a base in the area. The seat had
fallen vacant in August, 2019 after
sitting AAP MLA Kapil Mishra
was disqualified for defecting to
the BJP.
“I already have a base in Kar-
leaders “hypocrites”.
“The BJP can say whatever
they want, the AAP government
will continue to give free services
for the next five years. BJP lead-
ers continuously oppose free
facilities provided to the people of
Delhi, now BJP MP Gautam
Gambhir joins the list. I appeal to
Gautam Gambhir, to first give up
all the free facilities he enjoys as
an MP before opposing the free
awal Nagar since I have been
working for the area over the past
one year. On public demand, I
have already got at least seven
mohalla clinics opened in the
area and have set up CCTV cam-
eras. Drains also have been built
in the past one year,” he said.
Deputy CM Sisodia, who will
be contesting from east Delhi’s
Patparganj seat for the third con-
secutive time, will file his nomi-
nation papers on Thursday.
AAP MLA from Okhla, Aman-
atullah Khan, who is seeking
re-election from the seat,
announced on Wednesday that he
will have low-key campaign.
“Today, it has been one month
since our sisters, students and
every local in my constituency
have been protesting against
CAA and NRC. Both Shaheen
Bagh and Jamia fall in my seat
and so I have decided that till the
protests continue, I will not con-
duct any pad yatra, bike rally or
hold any public meeting. I will
only go door-to-door and give
pamphlets to people,” he said.
facilities given to the public,”
Singh said addressing the media.
Minutes later, in a separate
press conference, Sisodia said,
“Education budgets have been
reduced in the BJP-ruled states,
whereas it has increased three
times under AAP in Delhi. By
decreasing the education budget,
the BJP is destroying the future of
our youth. The BJP wants people
to remain uneducated because
For new recruits,
it is uphill battle on
familiar ground
Abhishek Dey
abhishek.dey@hindustantimes.com
n
NEW DELHI : As the Aam Aadmi
Party (AAP) continues to cam-
paign with its sole poll plank of
development, the challenge can
be one notch higher for its new
recruits who have joined from
other parties and would be con-
testing the February 8 assembly
polls in Delhi on AAP ticket.
Of the 23 news names in the
AAP’s candidates list, eight are
those who have migrated from
other political parties in the last
six months – some of them are
prominent names and former
MLAs.
“That can be a challenge but it
is achievable,” said Prahlad
Singh Sawhney, the AAP’s candi-
date from Chandni Chowk.
Sawhney is a four-time MLA and
was a popular leader of the Con-
gress.
“The party (Congress) I was
with was hardly doing anything
for prominent leaders who could
contribute. On the other hand,
the AAP’s MLA (Alka Lamba) in
the constituency was hardly
doing any work. People can see
through such things,” said
Sawhney.
Chandni Chowk is likely to
witness a switch – Sawhney came
from the Congress and got an
AAP ticket, rebel AAP MLA
Lamba went to the Congress and,
according to senior functionaries
in the party, is most likely to get a
ticket from the same constitu-
ency.
Vinay Mishra, the AAP candi-
date from Dwarka, is the son of
former Congress MP from West
Delhi, Mahabal Mishra. Vinay
said, “I switched party with the
educated people ask questions. I
challenge the BJP to contest in
the upcoming Delhi elections
based on providing quality edu-
cation.”
Responding to the allegations
made by Singh, Gambhir said,
“Those who cannot afford to pay
should get the best services free of
cost, no doubt about that. But
what would you call a person who
swore to remain an Aam Aadmi
hindustantimes metro 05
AAP fielding tainted candidates: Goel
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata ence, Goel said the AAP’s list of dates in the elections. He has pol-
Party (BJP) leader and Rajya
Sabha MP Vijay Goel Wednesday
said the list of candidates
candidates contradicted chief
minister Arvind Kejriwal’s claim
that corruption, crime, character
luted the politics in the city. Most
candidates in the AAP’s list are
communal elements, have crimi-
announced by the Aam Aadmi
Party (AAP) for the Delhi assem-
bly polls included people who
have cases against them for cor-
and communalism were non-ne-
gotiable issues for him.
The AAP did not react to Goel’s
allegations.
nal backgrounds, and are
involved in serious crimes
against women,” he said.
“The AAP is fielding such can-
OF THE 23 NEWS NAMES ruption, crimes against women,
violence and other offences.
“Although Kejriwal could not
control pollution in Delhi, he defi-
didates who have been involved
in breaching peace and har-
IN AAP’S LIST, EIGHT ARE
Addressing a press confer- nitely has fielded tainted candi- mony,” he said. HTC
THOSE WHO HAVE COME
FROM OTHER PARTIES
consent of a large number of vot-
ers in my constituency.”
“Dwarka needs development
in the areas of education, health-
care and water access. In my case,
people suggested that I should go
to AAP. I followed. If elected, I will
not disappoint,” said Mishra.
Five-time MLA Shoaib Iqbal
too is an experienced politician
and has contested elections
under different political parties.
He represented three different
parties in the Delhi Assembly at
various points between 1993 and
2013. Iqbal has contested both
assembly and Lok Sabha elec-
tions on the tickets of the Con-
gress, Lok Jan Shakti Party (LJP)
and the three avatars of the Jan-
ata Dal - Janata Dal, Janata Dal
(Secular) and Janata Dal
(United).
“I will be taking the AAP’s
message of development from
door-to-door and I have full confi-
dence that they will support me,”
said Iqbal, the AAP’s candidate
from Old Delhi’s Matia Mahal
constituency.
Among the new recruits from
other parties, Iqbal was a hard
critic of Delhi’s chief minister
Kejriwal. “This is no time to talk
about the past,” he said about his
past political disposition. “Right
now, people are only talking
about development. In Matia
Mahal, a lot of work has to be done
to provide solution to regular
traffic congestion and sewer have
to be repaired.”
(common man) and is now enjoy-
ing all perquisites—bungalows,
cars and more?”
He further said, “I have never
said that the poor should not get
free services. Only that people
who can afford to pay should be
charged a nominal amount.”
Leader of opposition in Delhi,
Vijender Gupta, said, “The AAP
government has failed to open
new colleges and schools.”
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Central Vista may sprawl till Yamuna

REVAMP Project likely to be extended
Javedekar slams
CM Kejriwal for
‘deviating from
beyond Rashtrapati Bhawan, to Mother New buildings, triangular Parliament to come up Anna’s path’
Teresa Crescent in west and from India Gate Among major changes is conversion of the North and South Block offices, as well as the PM’s office, into national museums HT Coreespondent
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5 NEW DELHI: Union environment

Anisha Dutta
n letters@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: The central vista is
likely to be extended beyond the
Rashtrapati Bhawan to the
Mother Teresa Crescent in the
west and from the India Gate to
the banks of the river Yamuna in
the east, according to new
changes made to the plan to rede-
velop the landmark Lutyens
neighbourhood that houses
India’s legislative and executive
power.
The central vista redevelop-
ment plan includes a slew of
changes to existing structures,
with a new Parliament building
and a common secretariat for all
central government offices
among the most prominent new
features.
According to presentations
made by Ahmedabad-based HCP
Design – the agency selected to
carry out the works -- a new trian-
gular Parliament building will
come up next to the existing com-
plex, the North and South Block
office complexes will be turned
into national museums, the
Indira Gandhi National Centre
will be relocated, and the
National Archives will be remod-
elled.
The Prime Minister’s resi-
dence will be shifted behind the
existing South Block complex
while the residence of the Vice
President is proposed to be relo-
cated behind North Block.
“Lutyens architecture was
spectacular and there is no doubt
about that. However, post-Inde-
pendence the construction that
took place in the vista didn’t have
an inspiring vision behind it.
There was no comprehensive
planning. Today, the structures
are incoherent, there’s no grand
plans of buildings and precious
land is used in an insufficient
way,” chief architect of HCP
Design, Planning & Management
Private Limited, Bimal Patel,
said.
Patel’s firm was among the
four firms that had been short-
listed for the project by the Cen-
tre.
The sweeping redevelopment,
which is being handled by the
ministry of housing and urban
affairs, is slated to complete a new
Parliament by India’s 75th Inde-
pendence Day in 2022, with the
rest of the work scheduled to fin-
ish by 2024.
“We have seven main objec-
tives to accomplish with the
project that include modernising
Parliament facilities, consolidat-
ing, rationalising, and synergis-
ing government functioning, pro-
viding adequate facilities for the
Vice President and Prime Minis-
ter, refurbishing and better
equipping the Central Vista ave-
nue, strengthening cultural insti-
tutions in the vista, commemo-
rating 75 years of independence
and executing a large complex
project such as this with ease,”
Patel said.
To be sure, the plan is still a
work in progress and the pro-
posal could undergo several
changes, he added.
COMMEMORATING 75
YEARS OF INDIA'S
INDEPENDENCE
On the proposed extended por-
tion of the central vista, the gov-
ernment plans to construct a gar-
den near the river Yamuna – a
“New India garden” -- to install
structures commemorating 75
years of India’s independence.
“Even Lutyens’s original plan
was envisaged to extending the
Vista from the Ridge to the river.
Presently the vista is from Rash-
trapati Bhawan up to India Gate.
One of the things we were asked
was to see a possibility where that
could be done,” Patel said.
“We will also set up walking
and cycling paths all the way up
till the garden past the Purana
Quila route,” he added.
The government plans to hold
a design competition for selecting
the structures that should be put
up at the proposed garden, a sen-
ior government official said, ask-
ing not to be named.
NATIONAL ARBORETUM
In extending the vista towards
the west, the plan also involves a
national biodiversity arboretum
on about 48 acres of land beyond
Mother Teresa Crescent.
“If you look at the land beyond
President’s
Estate
8 2
7 National Register of Citizens
1 2 3 4
North Block to be South Block to be Redeveloped
converted into converted into National
museum of India museum of India Archives of
post 1857 pre 1857 India
the Crescent, which is essentially right now,” Patel said, adding
forest area, we plan to carve out that the objective was to convey a
about 48 acres for a national bio- shift in India’s political ethos.
diversity arboretum which will “What comes to mind is the
have glass houses inside that will Louvre which was the palace of
house endangered plant species the king that was converted into
of India,” Patel said. a museum. These are grand sym-
bols of authority which are being
NATIONAL MUSEUMS opened to people,” Patel added.
Among the major changes is con-
verting the North and South CENTRAL SECRETARIAT
Block offices, which at present A total of 10 common secretariat
house some of India’s key minis- buildings have been planned to
tries such as home, defence, serve as offices for about 70,000
finance, as well as the Prime Min- central government employees.
ister’s Office, into national muse- “None of the new structures
ums. will be higher than the India gate.
The central government min- We have planned 10 symmetrical
istries will be shifted to a common structures with modern offices.
secretariat. The plan is to also ensure they
“These blocks will be con- have courtyards in the centre for
verted into national museums. It trees,” Patel said. “At present
is proposed to make South Block only 22 of 51 government minis-
a museum showcasing India’s tries reside in the Vista,” he said.
history up to 1857 and North
Block can be a museum of India CENTRAL AVENUE
after 1857. These are just ideas The area around Rajpath is being
9 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) con-
Parliament
1 House
6 that the AAP was misguiding
4
10
Ra
jpa
th
5 6
Central National New
conference arboretum Parliament
centre complex
referred as the Central Avenue.
Among the plans to redevelop it
include setting up civic amenities
such as toilets, benches and orga-
nised parking.
“It has haphazard parking
today, bad landscape, poor path-
ways and footpaths, it has ad-hoc
vending spaces and inadequate
facilities for national events and
poor lighting...We will create
pedestrian underpasses. One of
the decisions was on whether to
put either traffic below or the peo-
ple below, in this case we thought
that the traffic should stay on top,
because some of the people who
come from outside get to cross
just once and get that one shot to
view the great vista. You want to
allow motorists to also have the
same experience,” Patel said.
Cultural institutions
A plot of 15 acres has been iden-
tified by the Centre to relocate
IGNCA near Jamnagar House.
“We will utilise IGNCA land
CP
3
India
Gate
7 8 9 10
New Prime New Prime New Vice Common
Minister's Minister's President's secretariat
office residence residence
for building the secretariat com- it to his residence so that it will be
plex while IGNCA will be shifted. walking distance,” the official
There is currently 15 acres of hut- said.
ments at Jamnagar house which
will be removed to make way for PARLIAMENT
IGNCA. The idea is that this plot The triangular complex proposed
which is right across Hyderabad as the new Parliament Complex
House will be a symmetric mirror will be situated on plot inside the
image of the the building,” the present complex. Contrary to his
government official said. previous proposal of converting
the old building into a museum,
PRIME MINISTER AND Patel said the plan now to utilize it
VICE PRESIDENT’S for certain functions after going
RESIDENCES through remodeling and retrofit-
According to government offi- ting. “We have gone through the
cials, about 90 acres of prime land old drawings and ancient copies
has been “wasted” due to of the old building while design-
encroachment by hutments. This ing the new building...among one
land will be reclaimed utilised to of the issues is a seating the MPs.
construct new residences of the One of the options we have nar-
Vice President and the Prime rowed on is two-people per bench
Minister. seating arrangement where the
“For the PM, there are two central hall can seat 800 MPs and
plots behind South Block which 1200 for a joint session,” Patel
has hutments and in that there said.
will be PMO with a garden in The plan also includes build-
front for functions etc connecting ing of chambers for all MPs.
minister Prakash Javadekar on
Wednesday alleged that the
siders people from Uttar Pra-
desh and Bihar as “intruders
(ghuspaithiye)”. He also said
Delhi residents on Citizenship
Amendment Act (CAA) and
(NRC).
He made these remarks at the
state unit office on Pant Marg in
central Delhi.
Addressing the gathering,
Javadekar, who is also the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Delhi election in-charge, said
chief minister Arvind Kejriwal
had earlier “betrayed” anti-cor-
ruption activist Anna Hazare.
“Kejriwal deviated from the
path shown by Anna and his
basic principles and cheated the
people of Delhi for five years,”
he said.
In reference to NRC, Java-
dekar said, “Kejriwal considers
people from Uttar Pradesh and
Bihar as intruders as he had
said that if the Citizenship
Amendment Act and NRC is
implemented then Manoj
Tiwari (Delhi Bharatiya Janata
Party chief), who hails from
Bihar, would have to move out
of Delhi.”
He said that Kejriwal is delib-
erately trying to incite violence
by spreading misinformation
among people about the Citizen-
ship Amendment Act.
Residents of Delhi are aware
of the Citizenship Amendment
Act; therefore, it will prove
to be counterproductive for
the Aam Aadmi Party, he
said.
Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party
vice-president Shazia Ilmi, who
was earlier the Aam Aadmi
Party’s national executive but
joined the saffron party in May
2014, alleged that Kejriwal
“killed” the Anna movement to
begin his political journey.
“Anna movement was for
social change, but Kejriwal sac-
rificed Anna’s principles for his
political gain,” she said.
The Aam Aadmi Party lead-
ers did not respond to the allega-
tions.

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Install smog towers at CP, Former Mangolpuri MLA Cold winds pull down
Anand Vihar in 3 months: SC may return to Congress mercury to 6.4° Celsius
Press Trust of India
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NEWDELHI:The Supreme Court has
given three months to the Centre
and Delhi government for the
pilot project of setting up a ‘smog
tower’ at Connaught Place and
Anand Vihar here, while issuing
a slew of directions to combat the
menace of air and water pollu-
tion.
Smog towers are structures
designed as large-scale air purifi-
ers to reduce air pollution.
A bench of Justices Arun
Mishra and Deepak Gupta
directed the Delhi government to
complete installation of smog
tower at Connaught Place within
three months.
“Let smog tower be installed at
Anand Vihar as pointed out by
Central Pollution Control Board
(CPCB). Let Delhi government
provide space of 30x30 meters for
installation of experimental
tower at Anand Vihar within
seven days. The project to be
decision be also taken with
respect to cost of installation,
duly considering the principle
‘polluters pay’ evolved by this
court,” the bench said.
With regard to the pollution
caused by crop burning, the apex
court sought a comprehensive
plan.
“Let Crop Residuary Manage-
ment be prepared, its use inter
alia as fertilizer, cattle food and
bio fuel be also worked out. Let
the final decision be taken with
respect to incentive and disincen-
tive of Rs 100 per quintal and the
insitu farming,” the bench said.
It also ordered that the Centre,
and the state governments of
Punjab, Haryana and UP prepare
a scheme for making available
“Combine Harvesters, Happy
Seeders, Hydraulically Reversi-
ble MB Plough, Paddy Straw
Chopper, Mulcher, Rotary
Slasher, Zero Till Seed Drill and
Rotavators and balers” espe-
cially dedicated to small and mar-
ginal farmers to be made availa-
han and UP to monitor the indus-
trial areas especially at night also
and to take stringent action with
respect to the industries emitting
black smoke from chimneys and
it be ensured that the industries
comply with the norms and stan-
dards for PM/NOx/Sox.
“For construction and demoli-
tion, we direct Delhi, Rajasthan,
Haryana and UP to file status
report regarding compliance
with Construction and Demoli-
tion Waste Management Rules,
2016. Let penal action be taken
against developers found flouting
the norms,” the bench said
It also directed them to file sta-
tus report on the penalty imposed
and the action taken on develop-
ers for violating norms regarding
construction and demolition
activity and whether any devel-
oper has been blacklisted.
The apex court also directed
Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and
UP to file status report with
respect to compliance of road
construction norms and details of
Soumya Pillai
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NEWDELHI:Former Delhi minister
and five-time legislator from
Mangolpuri, Rajkumar Chau-
han, who had left the Congress to
join the BJP before the 2019 Lok
Sabha elections, met Congress
interim president Sonia Gandhi
on Wednesday sparking rumours
of his return ahead of the Febru-
ary 8 Delhi assembly elections.
Chauhan, had left the Con-
gress party in 2019, was disgrun-
tled at having been left out of the
candidate list for the parliamen-
tary elections. His name was
“nearly confirmed” to represent
the party from Northwest Delhi
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constituency, but when the final
list came out, the then Delhi Con-
gress working president Rajesh
Lilothia was chosen over him.
Chauhan confirmed his meet-
ing with Gandhi on Wednesday
along with Delhi Congress chief
Subhash Chopra and hinted at his
return.
“Whatever I am today is
because of the Congress party
and Soniaji. She (Gandhi) gave
me the party ticket several times,
made me fight elections and gave
me a cabinet position. Now it is
her wish and I cannot say no to
her,” Chauhan said.
Delhi Congress spokesperson
Mukesh Sharma also confirmed
the meeting and said that Chau-
Date: 15.01.2020
han will be officially re-inducted
into the party once the formali-
ties are taken care of.
The BJP refused to react on the
matter. Chauhan was the co-con-
venor of BJP’s manifesto commit-
tee for the upcoming assembly
polls.
Senior Congress leader said
that Chauhan might get a ticket
from Mangolpuri, which is his
stronghold. He is also likely to be
made the head of the party’s
SC-ST committee, leaders con-
firmed. “His popularity in the
area is unmatched. It is not by
fluke that one wins elections from
the same seat five times,” a senior
All India Congress Committee
(AICC) member said.
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dropped on Wednesday as cold said.
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to blow in from the hills, the temperature will increase over
weather department said. the next two days due to a cloud
The city recorded a low of 6.4 cover.
degrees Celsius, over four There was a slight decrease in
notches less than that recorded pollution levels in the national
on Tuesday (10.5 degrees Cel- capital due to favourable wind
sius). speed and the Air Quality Index
The maximum temperature was recorded at 218 in the ‘poor’
settled at 19.9 degrees Celsius, category.
normal for this time of the year, The Air Quality Index was
the India Meteorological recorded at 283 on Tuesday.
Department (IMD) said. Rains and winds gusting up to
Moderate rains/thunder- 25 kilometers per hour are likely
storm or hailstorm is expected to improve the air quality on
in the national capital on Thurs- Thursday.
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China isolated restoration of internet in Kargil
and hospitals in the Valley point
after 14 days from the date on
which mercy plea is rejected. As
Soon after, Kumar’s counsel
moved the Patiala House Court,
almost 10 days late over north-
west India now. Total period of
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were through a fresh letter by
Islamabad to Vietnam (which
holds the presidency of the UN
Security Council for this month)
and an attempt by Beijing to put
Kashmir as a topic of discussion
during the informal meeting on
Wednesday night. The efforts
were meant to revive the failed
December 2019 bid to raise Kash-
mir at the UNSC. The UNSC did
not take up a Pakistani letter last
month after India pushed back
strongly with the help of its
friends in the council, particu-
larly France and the US.
According to South Block offi-
cials, the Chinese-Pakistani plan
was meant to set the stage for
Pakistani foreign minister Shah
Mehmood Qureshi’s visit to the
US starting Wednesday. Instead,
hours before Qureshi’s arrival,
the plan unravelled, with India’s
allies saying they will stick to
their stance that Kashmir was a
bilateral issue between Delhi
and Islamabad.
“France has noted the request
of a UNSC member to raise the
Kashmir issue once again in the
powerful body and it is going to
oppose it like it did on a previous
occasion,” a French diplomat
told HT earlier in the day.
Under the garb of peace in
West Asia, Pakistan Prime Min-
ister Imran Khan has tasked
Qureshi to visit the US while
army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa
is seeking support from West
Asian friends such as Saudi Ara-
bia and the United Arab Emir-
ates.
The latest move, according to
Kashmir watchers in New Delhi,
is an attempt to disrupt recent
Indian successes in Kashmir,
including the visit of 17 foreign
envoys — including the US —
last week. The release of some
detainees, visit of European Par-
liament MPs, the successful con-
duct of football matches, and the
situation, they added.
While Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi and Chinese President
Xi Jinping had a candid discus-
sion during the October 11-12,
2019, Mamallapuram informal
summit, Beijing has not yielded
on any of its core interests and
continues to side with Islamabad
from the UNSC stage.
“Chinese diplomacy seems to
be increasingly emboldened in
its collective efforts against
India in concert with Rawalpindi
GHQ. This is the third attempt in
the past six months by the China-
Pakistan combine [to raise the
issue at UN] even as they con-
tinue to push the 1267 sanction
committee against Indian
nationals on the basis of cooked
up evidence of deep state of both
the countries,” said a senior
Indian government official.
He was referring to efforts in a
committee, set up in the wake of
9/11 attacks to name and sanc-
tion international terrorists, to
label Indian professionals work-
ing in reconstruction projects in
West Asia, especially Afghani-
stan, as terrorists.
New Delhi has noted that this
is the second attempt by Beijing
to raise Kashmir after the
Mamallapuram summit. Indian
officials said they have also
noticed that China, especially,
has worked to spread disinfor-
mation on the Citizenship
Amendment Act while keeping
silent on Uighur unrest in the
Xinjiang province.
Uncertainty
over hanging
that there was no error in the
January 7 ruling that said the
four men should be hanged at
7am on January 22.
“The law is quite clear that a
convict can be executed only
per the judgment in Shatrughan
Chauhan v. Union of India and
the Delhi Prison Manual, it is
explicit that after the rejection of
mercy plea, the convict is enti-
tled to fourteen days,” Anup Sur-
endranath, assistant professor
at National Law University
Delhi, and executive director at
Project 39A, told HT.
On Tuesday, soon after the
Supreme Court dismissed the
curative petitions filed by con-
victs Kumar and Vinay Sharma,
27, against their death sentence,
Kumar filed a mercy plea before
the President and approached
the high court. The other two
convicts, Akshay Thakur (33),
Pawan Gupta (25), are yet to file
their curative petitions, consid-
ered the last legal option for a
death row convict in the
Supreme Court.
According to prison rules, if a
death penalty has been awarded
to multiple persons, and even if
one of them moves a mercy plea,
the order of execution for others
gets postponed till that plea is not
decided, advocate Rahul Mehra,
who appeared for the Delhi gov-
ernment and the prison authori-
ties, and his associate advocate
Chaitanya Gosain, told the high
court on Wednesday.
“Then your rule is bad if you
cannot take action till all the
co-convicts have moved a mercy
plea. It seems there has been
non-application of mind [while
framing the rules]. The system is
suffering from cancer,” a two-
judge bench of justices Manmo-
han and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal
said.
The court also pulled up
Kumar’s counsels, senior advo-
cate Rebecca John and advocate
Vrinda Grover, for delay in
availing the legal remedies soon
after the Supreme Court in 2017
upheld the death sentence of all
four convicts.
Kumar’s plea, filed through
Grover, also sought that if the
President rejected his plea, he
should be hanged at least 14 days
from the day of that decision.
“We feel this is a stratagem
devised on how to prolong the
matter, since you had time since
May 5, 2017, when the apex court
dismissed their appeals, to move
a mercy plea or file a review or
curative petition. Why did you
wait till now? What restrained
you from doing so? What pre-
vented you?” the two-judge
bench said.
The court said there was no
seeking postponement of the exe-
cution date. Additional sessions
judge Satish Kumar Arora, who
passed the death warrant earlier
this month, sought the response
of the state and the victim’s par-
ents, and posted the matter for
further hearing on Thursday.
In a related development, the
Delhi government recom-
mended rejecting the mercy plea
filed by Kumar, and forwarded it
to the Lieutenant Governor at a
“lightning speed”, deputy chief
minister Manish Sisodia said.
The four convicts brutally
assaulted and gang-raped the
young woman on a moving bus
on December 16, 2012, before
throwing her out of the vehicle.
The woman died about two
weeks later at a hospital in Sing-
apore.Ram Singh (35), the fifth
accused in the case, committed
suicide in Tihar jail in 2013. An
underage person, who was con-
victed by a juvenile justice board
in 2015, was released from a cor-
rectional home after serving a
three-year term.
In September 2013, a fast-track
court awarded death penalty to
the four convicts. It was upheld
by the high court in March 2014
and by the Supreme Court in
May 2017.
Shaheen Bagh
Noida has tripled. With the arte-
rial road closed, people are being
forced to take a longer route via
the DND Flyway and then get
stuck near the Ashram Chowk.
Santosh Kumar, a resident of
Madanpur Khadar in south-east
Delhi, said before the road clo-
sure, it took him 20 minutes to
reach Noida. But now, commut-
ers take at least an hour and a
half to cover the distance.
Traffic snarls usually spill
over to south Delhi neighbour-
hoods as far as Greater Kailash
and Lajpat Nagar.
The jams on Mathura road
and in Okhla have also incon-
venienced patients and staff
coming to hospitals such as For-
tis Escorts and Indraprastha
Apollo. Those from Noida have
to go around to the DND flyway
and get stuck at Ashram Chowk.
Virendra Tiwari said he took
his car to meet a senior colleague
from his company admitted at
Indraprastha Apollo, and the
two-hour drive caused him pain
in the legs. “Protest for a day or
two, it’s fine. But how can you
block the road for over a
monsoon is same, but it’s coming
late and going late. This change
ACROSS
1 Advertising campaigns that should result
will affect farmers. They will in more money (10)
8 Mark and pass on (5)
have to change their strategy,” 9 They took over from the night-shift (7)
Rajeevan said. 10 Leave a musical group and have no
IMD director general, M come-back (7)
Mohapatra, said the new dates 11 It normally comes with two others, hips
will be announced in April, and first (5)
12 It may be done up, but not back (6)
will apply from this year. 14 Article getting serious towards the end (6)
Rajeevan pointed out that the 17 Course must be if you steer wrongly (5)
changed dates were recom- 19 Gold added to family silver for highland
mended by meteorologists in the table (7)
past as well, but they never got 21 Number return with a piece of writing for
broadcasting (7)
IMD’s approval. “IMD didn’t 22 Tie up a bundle of straw (5)
want to possibly attribute it to 23 Arrange to send away for some goods? (3,2,5)
climate change, though they
knew things were changing. DOWN
People accept climate change 2 I learnt to be confident (7)
QUICK CLUES
now. I insisted that dates should 3 Be careful, one is told, explosives have ACROSS DOWN
been laid (5) 1 Premiere of play (5,5) 2 Opposite (7)
be changed. We cannot use the
4 Drinking a great deal of the best gin, 8 Auctioneer’s hammer (5) 3 Discharge of guns (5)
climatology of the 1940s to perhaps (6) 4 Nullify (6)
inform people, it’s a little awk- 9 The largest ape (7)
5 Disagrees with things in general (7) 5 Relevant (7)
10 New England US state (7)
ward,” he said. 6 Some thousand held captive in battle (5) 6 A flowering bulb (5)
7 They may move in very high circles (10) 11 A tree-borne fruit (5)
Rajeevan, however, said it 12 Mediterranean country (6)
7 Become suddenly afraid (4,6)
8 Having trouble getting up? (10) 8 Be forced to retreat (4,6)
was not possible to immediately 14 Shooting star (6)
13 Letters awaiting despatch to a colonial 13 Of the heart (7)
link the changes in monsoon settlement (7) 17 Present itself (5) 15 Conspicuous (7)
dates to the climate crisis; it 15 Bring into effect a capital sentence (7) 19 Deficient (7) 16 Catchword (6)
could be a change in monsoon 16 It’s said to be articulated (6) 21 Zero amount (7) 18 Three Ancient Greek
cycle also. 18 Pay attention and lose some sleep (3,2) 22 A representative (5) goddesses (5)
20 Change later, or change now (5) 23 Mediocre (6-4) 20 Professorship (5)
The monsoon rains are criti-
cal because nearly half the popu-
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS (15501)
lation depends on a farm-based
income and 60% of the country’s CRYPTIC QUICK
net sown area does not have any
form of irrigation. Millions of
farmers wait for the rains to
begin summer sowing of major
staples, such as rice, sugar, cot-
ton, coarse cereals and oilseeds.
Half of India’s farm output
comes from summer crops, or
kharif crops, dependent on the
rains.
According to IMD, the four-
month monsoon season nor-
mally begins retreating on Sep-
tember 1, and withdraws from
the north-west, central and east- htsudoku
ern parts of the country by Octo-
ber 15. The peninsular region Fill in all the squares in the grid so that each row,
receives rains again when the column and each of the 9X9 squares contains all the
northeast monsoon commences digits from 1 to 9.
around mid-October.
In 2019, according to IMD, the DIFFICULTY LEVEL
south-west monsoon started
withdrawing on October 9. The
weather department said it was SUDOKU>> SCAN THIS SUDOKU UNIT FOR
the most delayed withdrawal in THE SOLUTION AND MANY MORE PUZZLES
the past 58 years (since 1961).
Last year, the onset happened on
June 8. The month ended with a
rain deficiency of 33%, while
July, August and September
received 105%, 115% and 152%
rains of their Long Period Aver- htweather
age (LPA) respectively.
“2019 was a year of extremes. ALMANAC TEMPERATURE
There was severe heat wave in
Today is
16th January 2020 IN FOUR METROS
the east... excess monsoon end- l 20 Jumada Al-Awwal 1441 Delhi
ing with 110% of LPA. The post- THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY l Magha, Krishna
Paksha, 6
16°c I 09°c
Thunderstorm with Generally cloudy sky Dense fog Mumbai
monsoon season saw some seri- hail with light rain or
l Samvat 2076

error in the lower court order
that issued the death warrant for
the four convicts. “If the peti-
tioner is of the opinion that the
date of execution mentioned in
the impugned order needs to be
set aside in view of any subse-
quent event, then he [Mukesh]
must approach the court that
passed the impugned order,” the
court said.
month?”
Delhi Police have reached out
to protesters to persuade them to
relocate, after the Delhi high
court authorised the force to
decide how it wanted to handle
the agitation. But no agreement
has been reached.
Despite the increasing pres-
sure, the women say they are not
daunted. “I have a burning sen-
sation in my eyes due to lack of
sleep. The government thinks
that we are weak. But if we were,
would we be able to go through
all this?” asked Rizwana Bano, a
protester.
At the protest, which has cap-
tured the imagination of the
nation, across the divider from
the main tent, artists have
erected a replica of the India
Gate with names of the protest-
ers dead in anti-CAA demonstra-
tions and other installations.
Photos of Mahatma Gandhi and
BR Ambedkar line the protest
site, and copies of Preamble of
the Constitution are distributed
every night.
For every visitor walking into
Shaheen Bagh, there is food –
often biryani packed neatly into
boxes and handed out by an
army of volunteers. At least 100
litres of milk is used for tea,
15,000 boxes of biryani is distrib-
uted along with scores of cartons
full of fruits, biscuits, chocolates
and juice boxes. Everything is
contributed and crowd-sourced,
the organisers and volunteers
say.
“Our stand is clear. If they
don’t move back by repealing the
law, we too won’t. We will con-
tinue our peaceful protest,” said
Bilkis, 82, who has been attend-
ing the protest since the first day.
New dates
changed. It is either arriving
early or late in some regions. For
example, over central India it’s
arriving late. Withdrawal is
ous cyclonic activity... From
December 15 to 31, we saw a very
severe cold spell in north India,”
said Mohapatra.
DS Pai, a senior scientist from
IMD Pune, who recently submit-
ted a report to the weather
department on changes in mon-
soon pattern, said: “Our dates
were based on data from 1940s,
and only from 149 weather sta-
tions. Now there is climate
change. We want to document
what has changed. Agricultural
policies and practices are
impacted by these dates.”
Krishna Achuta Rao, a profes-
sor of atmospheric sciences at
the Indian Institute of Technol-
ogy, Delhi, said, “My sense is
that they are changing what is
supposed to be normal. It is a rec-
ognition that normals have
changed in the past decades
because the data used to record
onset and withdrawal is very old
-- from the ’40s. For the weather
community, this is a very impor-
tant development.”
IMD also announced that it
will soon issue impact-based
forecasts wherein the weather
department will inform state
governments about what to
expect from an extreme weather
event to help them prepare bet-
ter. This system is being devel-
oped with help from the UK
Meteorological Department.
US-China deal
deal includes $50 billion in addi-
tional orders for US agricultural
products, Trump said, adding he
was confident that US farmers
would be able to meet the greater
demand. He also said China
would buy $40 billion to $50 bil-
lion in additional US services,
$75 billion more in manufactur-
ing goods, and $50 billion more
worth of energy supplies.
It will also liberalise its finan-
cial services sector to grant
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access to American companies,
end forced transfer of technology
through acquisitions, end cur-
rency manipulation, work
towards balancing trade
between the two countries and
also punish companies found to
have stolen proprietary intellec-
tual property and patented tech-
nology.
In return, the United States
will halve tariffs on $120 billion
of goods from China, and shelve
for now further levies. But
import duties on $360 billion of
Chinese goods will remain in
force, to make sure, according to
news reports citing unidentified
US officials, China delivered on
its commitments.
Treasury secretary Steven
Mnuchin said Trump’s negotiat-
ing stance led to a “fully enforce-
able deal” that could bring addi-
tional tariffs. If China fails to
abide by the agreement, “the
president has the ability to put
on additional tariffs,” Mnuchin
said on CNBC on Wednesday as
part of a media blitz promoting
the new pact.
In his address, Trump said the
deal included very strong protec-
tion of intellectual property, and
that transfers and licensing of
technology will be based on mar-
ket terms. The President said
work on the second phase will
start “as soon as this kicks in”.
Mnuchin said the deal puts
pressure on Beijing to stay at the
negotiating table and make fur-
ther commitments, including on
cyber-security and other servi-
ces to win relief from the tariffs
that remain in place. “In phase
two there will be additional roll
backs,” Mnuchin said. “This
gives China a big incentive to get
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back to the table and agree to the
additional issues that are still
unresolved.”
Critics of the President, how-
ever, called the deal “weak” and
accused the administration of
giving up prematurely. “Based
on the reports we’ve seen so far,
the commitments China is mak-
ing, including on forced technol-
ogy transfer, currency manipu-
lation, and intellectual property
protection, are almost all vague,
weak, or covered by previous
announcements and existing
agreements,” said former vice
president Joe Biden, who is seek-
ing the Democratic presidential
nomination to take on Trump in
November.
Some experts said that the ele-
ments of the deal the administra-
tion has touted as achievements
effectively take the relationship
between the two powers back to
where it was before Trump took
office.
“The US-China phase-one
deal is essentially a trade truce,
with large state-directed pur-
chases attached,” economist
Mary Lovely said in an analysis.
Even so, “The truce is good
news for the US and the world
economy.” The trade expert with
the Peterson Institute for Inter-
national Economics cautioned
that “we will continue to see the
impact of this in slower invest-
ment and higher business costs.”
After announcing the deal
December 13, the US cancelled a
damaging round of new tariffs
that were due to kick in two days
later and promised to slash in
half the 15% tariffs on $120 bil-
lion imposed September 1 on
consumer goods such as cloth-
ing.
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Prices of
vegetables
onions? Unseasonal rains, more
so in Maharashtra, destroyed a
lot of the crop earlier last year.
Because of crop destruction,
even farmers are unlikely to gain
significantly from the higher pri-
ces this time. Reason being, they
have very little stock to sell. With
climate change beginning to
manifest itself, freak weather
events are likely to increase in
the future. This also means that
crops, especially perishables,
will witness a rise in supply
shocks due to weather induced
crop losses.
In a country such as India,
where food accounts for 40% of
the retail consumption basket,
seasonal supply shocks for
important commodities have the
potential of culminating into
massive inflationary shocks.
This is an additional challenge to
the central contradiction of
maintaining a balance between
farm incomes, which require
remunerative prices; and house-
hold budgets, which need low
food inflation. One of the ways of
handling this contradiction has
been the Public Distribution Sys-
tem, where the state buys cereals
at Minimum Support Prices
from farmers and sells them to
the beneficiaries – there were
more than 870 million in 2019 – at
₹1/2/3 per kg.
With vegetable prices becom-
ing more and more volatile due
to rising freak weather events,
there is a good case for extending
the scope of the PDS to important
vegetables as well. It will come at
a cost, but will provide much
needed stability to farm
incomes, household budgets and
macroeconomic situation.
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htnation
India must find equilibrium with Revocation of Article 370
China on key issues: Jaishankar offset proxy war: Naravane
RAISINA DIALOGUE Minister calls India
a ‘stabilising power’, says it is vital for
neighbours to reach an understanding
HT Correspondent
n letters@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: India and China must
find equilibrium and under-
standing on key issues affecting
their relationship because the
two neighbours and emerging
powers have no choice but to get
along, external affairs minister S
Jaishankar said on Wednesday.
Speaking at the Raisina Dia-
logue, a think tank event backed
by his ministry, Jaishankar said
India hasn’t closed its doors to the
Regional Comprehensive Eco-
nomic Partnership (RCEP) and it
is up to the other states involved
in the free trade agreement to
convince the country to sign on.
He also described India as a
“stabilising power” and not a
“disruptionist power” on the
world stage, and it shouldn’t be
self-centred or mercantilist.
India should be law-abiding and
work for a rules-based order
while using its capacities for
global good, including as a net
security provider and in dealing
with challenges such as terror-
ism and climate change.
Jaishankar said: “To my mind,
it is absolutely necessary that the
two countries find equilibrium
and find accommodation and
understanding on the key issues
which affect each other. For me
this is a must, it is not a choice.”
Neither side can get the rela-
tionship wrong, he said, adding,
“The reason is that we are neigh-
bours. It is vital for neighbours to
reach understandings as a gen-
eral principle.”
The India-China relationship
is also unique because it is very
rare to have two powers who are
neighbours rising on the global
stage in approximately the same
time frame, he said.
The challenge for both sides is
deciding terms and the basis for
reaching understanding on dif-
ferences. “I would say it is a work
in progress and it will continue to
be a work in progress,” he said.
With India and China expected
India deserves to be included in UNSC: Russian minister
Rezaul H Laskar
n letters@hindustantimes.com
NEWDELHI:Russian foreign minis-
ter Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday
said India, Brazil and an African
country “absolutely deserve” to
be included in a reformed UN
Security Council.
India, he said, is one of the new
centres of economic might and
political influence that will be
key to the formation of a multi-
polar world.
Lavrov criticised the
US-backed concept of the Indo-
Pacific and a “rules-based world
order”, saying they are either
divisive or aimed at containing
China.
Lavrov made the remarks at
the Raisina Dialogue, a think
All but 2 states set NPR
ball rolling, say officials India may cut imports
HT Correspondent
n
from Malaysia, Turkey
letters@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: Barring West Bengal
and Kerala, all states have reis-
sued notifications for the exercise
to update National Population
Register (NPR) and communi-
cated the same to the Centre, two
officials aware of the matter said
on Wednesday. The two states
have asked for a “temporary
hold” on the exercise while oth-
ers including Congress-ruled
states of Madhya Pradesh,
Punjab, Chhattisgarh have
agreed to conduct the exercise,
they added.
The officials cited above said
West Bengal and Kerala had ear-
lier notified they would partici-
pate in the exercise, but they
backtracked after the passage of
the controversial Citizenship
(Amendment) Act (CAA) last
month that has triggered protests
across the country. Kerala moved
the Supreme Court on Tuesday
saying the CAA violates the Con-
stitution’s secular nature.
The opponents of the CAA,
which seeks to fast-track the citi-
zenship process for non-Muslims
refugees from Afghanistan, Paki-
stan, and Bangladesh, insist it is
discriminatory as it leaves out
the Muslims. They say it could
result in the expulsion or deten-
tions of the Muslims if the law is
seen in the context of a proposed
pan-India National Register of
Citizens (NRC).
to be among the world’s top pow-
ers within a decade, “the logic of
reaching an understanding will
be a very, very powerful”, he said.
Ties between China and India
were hit by the military stand-off
at Doklam in 2017, but they
improved after Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and Chinese
President Xi Jinping held their
first informal summit in Wuhan
in 2018. The second informal sum-
mit was held in Mammallapuram
last October.
On the RCEP, Jaishankar said
India pulled out of the trade deal
being negotiated by the 10 Asean
states and six trade partners last
November as the offer made by
the other countries didn’t meet
India’s expectations.
“Where RCEP is concerned,
we have to look at cost and bene-
fit. We will evaluate RCEP on its
economic and trade merit. We
have not closed our mind to it,” he
said. The ball, he said, is in the
court of the other countries
involved in RCEP.
India had pulled out of RCEP as
its “core concerns” were unre-
solved and the proposed deal
would impact the livelihoods of
citizens. RCEP states like Japan
have said efforts are being made
to get India to join the trade deal
likely to be signed in February.
Though India has been a “pris-
oner of its past image”, it is now
more of a decider and shaper than
an abstainer, and this has been
reflected in its work in areas such
as connectivity and climate
change, Jaishankar said.
Answering a question on how
the country is dealing with criti-
cism over the actions in Kashmir
and the new citizenship law, he
said the key issue should be
whether India is going to define
itself or allow others to define it.
“I would like to believe that it is
the first. That is my political out-
look and that of my party,” he
said, adding it is important to see
how India responds to common
challenges faced by many coun-
tries.
tank event backed by the exter-
nal affairs ministry. He also crit-
icised unilateral sanctions.
Much of Lavrov’s criticism was
directed at the US-backed con-
cept of the Indo-Pacific, which he
said wasn’t a “benign” format
and kept out East African and
Persian Gulf countries.
“When we asked the initiators
about the difference between the
Indo-Pacific strategy and Asia
Pacific region cooperation, they
said Indo-Pacific is more open,
democratic. If you look at it, it is
not at all the case,” he said.
“It is an attempt to reconfig-
ure the existing structures in
Asia Pacific and to move from
Asean-centred consensus seek-
ing forms of interaction to some-
thing which would be divisive.”
The government has in the
past described NPR, which is a
comprehensive biometric data-
base of all “usual residents” in
India as opposed to the Census or
a database of households, as the
first step towards a nationwide
NRC. It now maintains that there
is no link between the two and
that an all-India NRC is not
immediately on the anvil.
“We have been informed
through our state Census com-
missioners that both states [Ker-
ala and West Bengal] have asked
for a temporary hold. We are hop-
ing that the situation will be
resolved soon,” one of the offi-
cials cited above said.
On Wednesday, West Bengal
chief minister Mamata Banerjee
said her state will not take part in
Centre’s meeting the NPR on Jan-
uary 17. “On January 17, the
Union government had convened
a meeting on NPR. I won’t be
going, neither any representative
of my government will attend
that meeting,” she said.
The NPR database will be
updated between April 1 and Sep-
tember 30 along with the house
listing phase of Census 2021.
Declaration of mother tongue,
sharing parents names, their
dates of birth and birthplace are
to be declared in NPR if they are
living in same household, the offi-
cials said. “There are concerns
around sharing parents’ birth-
places,” the second official said.
(With agency inputs)
n Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the ministerial delegation from various countries on the sidelines of
the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Chinese presence in Indian
Ocean increasing: Navy Chief
Press Trust of India
n letters@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: The Chinese Navy’s
presence is rapidly increasing in
the Indian Ocean region and the
Indian Navy is keeping a watch
on the developments through
“mission-based” deployments,
Navy chief Admiral Karambir
Singh said on Wednesday.
The Navy chief asserted that
China’s Belt and Road Initiative
and the China-Pakistan Eco-
nomic Corridor impinge on
India’s sovereignty.
Speaking at a panel discussion
at the Raisina Dialogue here, he
said there have been instances
when People’s Liberation Army
(PLA) ships have entered India’s
exclusive economic zones and the
Navy has told them that it
impinges on Indian interests.
Asked if China has abided by
India’s assertions when such
incidents have taken place, Singh
said in one such incident,
n Sergey Lavrov
Russia, he said, appreciates
India’s position, which says
Indo-Pacific shouldn’t be dis-
cussed in a way that implies that
some country should be con-
tained.
Lavrov said: “Why do you
need to call it Indo-Pacific? And
you know the answer — the
answer is to contain China. It is
KASHMIR ROW
Reuters
n letters@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: India is planning to
cut some imports from Turkey
and widen curbs on palm oil
› has not taken kindly
from Malaysia to oil, gas and
other products, government
officials said, targeting the
countries for their criticism of
India’s policy towards Kashmir.
India, the world’s biggest
buyer of edible oils, has already
effectively stopped importing
palm oil from Malaysia by ask-
ing Indian importers to look
elsewhere.
New Delhi is now planning to
restrict buying of petroleum,
aluminium ingots, liquefied
natural gas, computer parts and
microprocessors from Malay-
sia, the two government offi-
cials, who did not wish to be
identified, told Reuters.
The government is also plan-
ning to cut imports of oil and
steel products from Turkey, one
of the officials said.
“Our government has not
taken kindly the comments of
Malaysia and Turkey and we
will restrict trade from both the
countries,” one of the officials
said.
The Indian Commerce Minis-
try did not reply to an email
seeking comment.
Malaysian Prime Minister
Mahathir Mohamad had
n Karambir Singh
recently, “we acted then, they
respected and moved out”.
His remarks were in reference
to the incident in which a Chinese
naval ship was driven away from
India’s Exclusive Economic Zone
in the Andaman sea.
The Chinese Navy is the strate-
gic arm of the PLA and it has
grown at a very rapid pace, Admi-
ral Singh said.
“We are all aware of the num-
bers, the tonnage, the number
of ships, everything that is grow-
ing. We have seen in the Indian
not even hidden. The Indian
friends are smart enough to
understand this trap and not to
get into it.”
Russia prefers to promote for-
mats such as the Shanghai Coop-
eration Organisation (SCO),
Russia-India-China (RIC) and
the Brazil-Russia-India-China
grouping which “are not divi-
sive, but which unite”, he said.
India’s position on the Indo-
Pacific was clearly enunciated
by Prime Minister Narendra
Modi in 2018 at the Shangri-la
Dialogue, where he said the
country envisages it as an inclu-
sive and open concept that is not
directed against any country.
Lavrov also criticised the
insistence of Western powers on
a “rules-based world order” and
Our government
the comments of Malaysia
and Turkey and we
will restrict trade
from both the countries
OFFICIAL
recently said that India was
“invading and occupying the
country” of Jammu and Kash-
mir and Turkey’s Tayyip Erdo-
gan had said Kashmiris are “vir-
tually under blockade”.
The Union government had
on August 5 last year nullified
the Constitution’s Article 370,
stripping Jammu and Kashmir
of its special status and split the
state into two Union territories.
Tension between India and
Malaysia, the world’s second-
biggest producer and exporter
of palm oil after Indonesia, fur-
ther escalated after 94-year-old
Mahathir criticised India’s new
citizenship law that critics say
discriminates against Muslims.
Turkey meanwhile has sided
with Pakistan on issues such as
its membership of the Nuclear
Suppliers Group, which over-
sees the export of goods that can
be used for nuclear weapons
manufacturing.
PTI
Ocean region itself starting 2008
when they came in for the anti-pi-
racy patrol. Before that they
weren’t really very obvious in the
Indian Ocean region but now you
find that at any given time, 7 to 8
PLA warships in that area,” he
said.
Djibouti is a reality, Gwadar is
on and more places are to come,
he said, speaking on China’s
growing presence.
“We have placed our ships in
mission-based deployments so
that we get an idea what are the
activities, not only of China but of
all other countries, so that if there
is anything that impinges on our
national interest or sovereignty,
we will have to act,” Singh said.
“To my mind if there is any
maritime activity that deviates
from the norm, that can cause
regional instability. That is what
we are looking for,” he said.
On the Indo-Pacific, he said
such constructs are not against
anybody but for something.
said the focus should be on inter-
national law. Western powers
were dismissing the rules
embodied in international law
and the UN Charter, he added.
“What is wrong with interna-
tional law? Why do our Western
friends insist...that rules-based
world order must be key, not
international law?” he asked.
He cited the example of a
former UN secretary general
mentioning in a report the need
to counter violent extremism.
“We asked, why not extremism
in any form? Then we were told
because that is how the Western
countries had framed it,” he said.
Without naming the US, Lav-
rov said unilaterally imposed
sanctions wouldn’t work. “This
is not diplomacy,” he said.
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SHAH ATTACKS
OPPOSITION
OVER ECONOMY
Hitting out at the Opposition,
Union home minister Amit
Shah said on Wednesday that
those who did little to solve
the problem of unemploy-
ment despite ruling for
decades were questioning the
Modi government which had
steered India to the $3-trillion
mark in five years. ››P13
Rama not a myth, says Bengal governor
HT Correspondent
n letters@hindustantimes.com
KOLKATA: West Bengal governor
Jagdeep Dhankhar defended on
Wednesday his remark that the
arrows of Arjuna, a character in
the epic Mahabharata, had
nuclear power, stressing that he
“subscribed to the Indian history
and culture”. Dhankhar also said
he did not believe that Rama was
a mythological figure.
“You don’t believe that we
were leaders in the world 4,000
years ago. You don’t believe that
Sanjaya gave description [of the
Kurukshetra war] to Dhritarash-
tra. You don’t believe that the
arrows that Arjuna used were so
powerful that they can be com-
pared with the best in the current
times. Sir, madam, I subscribe to
Indian history, Indian culture. I
am proud of it,” he said in Kolk-
hindustantimes
O N A R M Y D AY
HT Correspondent
n letters@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: Army chief General
Manoj Mukund Naravane on
Wednesday called the nullifica-
tion of Constitution’s Article 370,
which granted special status to
Jammu & Kashmir, a historic
step that would prove to be signif-
icant in integrating the region
with the mainstream.
In his address at the Army Day
parade, Naravane said the revo-
cation of the region’s special sta-
tus disrupted the plans of India’s
“western neighbour (Pakistan)”
and its proxies. “We have zero-
tolerance for terrorism. There
are a lot of options to respond to
the country that is encouraging
terrorism and we will not hesitate
to use these options,” said Gen-
eral Naravane in his first Army
Day address after taking over as
the chief on December 31.
On January 3, Naravane had
said that peace was returning to
the Kashmir Valley after the Cen-
tre’s move in August to revoke
the region’s special status even as
Pakistan-backed terrorists were
making infiltration attempts
every day.
January 15 is celebrated as
Army Day since 1949, when Gen-
eral KM Cariappa (later Field
Marshal) became the first Indian
to take charge of the force as the
commander-in-chief.
Naravane said the country
faced some security challenges
last year. “Not only it countered
proxy war but other situations.
Whether it is LoC (Line of Con-
trol) or LAC (Line of Actual Con-
trol), we have ensured security
with activeness and strength,” he
said, adding the situation along
borders with China is peaceful.
The situation along India’s de
41-yr-old gets 3 yrs
in jail for molesting Sikhs to be counted as
actor during flight separate ethnic group
HT Correspondent
n letters@hindustantimes.com
MUMBAI: A 41-year-old Mumbai
businessman Vikas Sachdev was
on Wednesday convicted and sen-
tenced to three years in jail for
molesting and sexually assault-
ing an actor, then a minor girl, on
a Delhi-Mumbai flight in Decem-
ber 2017. The case was being
heard in a special Protection of
Children from Sexual Offences
(Pocso) court.
“I am holding you guilty for
Section 354 (Molestation) of the
Indian Penal Code and Section 8
(sexual assault) of Protection of
Children from Sexual Offences
(POCSO) Act,” special judge AD
Deo said in his verdict. Sachdev
has also been told to pay a fine of
~25,000.
The prosecution had examined
seven witnesses, including the
actor, a passenger and two cabin
crew members.
The actor had shared her
ordeal in a video posted on Insta-
gram in December 2017, accusing
the passenger on the Air Vistara
flight of rubbing his foot against
her back and neck while she was
half asleep.
“So, I was on a flight travelling
from Delhi to Mumbai today and
right behind me one middle-aged
man who made my two-hour
journey miserable. I tried to
record it on my phone to under-
stand it better because the cabin
lights were dimmed, I failed to get
it...,” she had said in her post.
The businessman and his wife
had countered the complaint,
insisting that Sachdev was
returning from a funeral, was
mentally disturbed and asleep
when the incident took place. It
was unintentional, they had said.
n Jagdeep Dhankhar
ata. “We have given to the world
what the world never had. World
is looking up to Indian language
Sanskrit now. Nasa is looking at
it. No other language is as rich as
Sanskrit, even for scientific
development,” he said .
On Tuesday, speaking at the
45th Eastern India Science Fair
and 19th Science and Engineer-
ing Fair in the city, Dhankhar
said flying objects existed during
the time of Ramayana, drawing
n Captain Tania Sher Gill leads the contingent at Army Day Parade in
New Delhi on Wednesday.
facto border with Pakistan in
Jammu & Kashmir — the LoC —
is linked with the situation in the
region, Naravane said.
He referred to his visit to Sia-
chen last week and said he was
extremely happy to see all the
ranks brimming with confidence.
In his Army Day message on
Twitter, Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi lauded the courage and
commitment of soldiers, describ-
ing the Indian Army as the coun-
try’s pride.
“It is also respected for its
humanitarian spirit. Whenever
people have needed help, our
Army has risen to the occasion
and done everything possible!
Proud of our Army. I pray for the
good health of Shamima and her
child,” he said in a separate tweet.
Modi’s tweet was in response
to a tweet by the Srinagar-based
15 Corps detailing how soldiers
helped an expecting mother,
Shamima, in urgent need of medi-
cal help, to reach a hospital,
where she gave birth to her child.
IN 2020 US CENSUS
Press Trust of India
n letters@hindustantimes.com
WASHINGTON: For the first time,
Sikhs in the US will be counted as
a separate ethnic group in the
2020 census, an organisation of
the minority community said on
Tuesday.
President of the Sikh Society of
San Diego Baljeet Singh said the
Sikh community’s efforts have
come to fruition. “This has paved
the way forward nationally not
only for the Sikh community but
also for other ethnicities in the
United States,” he said.
The United Sikhs said that this
will be the first time the minority
group will be counted and coded
in the decennial US Census.
A delegation of the United
Sikhs has held several meetings
with the US Census in the recent
past with the last one being on
January 6 in San Diego.
“It’s clear that a separate code
is needed to ensure an accurate
count of Sikhs in the United
States, recognising a unique iden-
tity,” said US Census Deputy
Director Ron Jarmin.
“Working with United Sikhs,
we understand how this change
affects the national Sikh commu-
nity, leading us to add this code
for the 2020 Census,” said Sha-
gufta Ahmed with the Census
Bureau and Office of Manage-
ment Budget.
According to the United Sikhs,
the current estimates of Sikhs liv-
ing in the US are at 10 lakhs.
Sikhs meet the criteria for rep-
resentation in the US Census as a
distinct ethnic group and have a
distinct unified appearance, cul-
ture, language, food and history.
The body has advocated for the
criticism from a section of scien-
tists and scholars, and several
politicians.
Dhankhar said on Wednesday
he respected the views of his crit-
ics, but had the right to disagree.
“I regard their opinion well. But
that does not mean I have to agree
to it...Sir try to read Indian his-
tory, Indian culture. I can join
issues with anyone. It is so easy to
say it is unscientific,” he said.
“Some people may take Lord
Ram to be a mythological figure,
but I don’t. It is said that the plane
was invented in 1910 or 1911. But
if we delve into our scriptures, we
will see in the Ramayana that we
had the ‘uran khatola’ [aircraft],”
he said. “I believe in my culture. I
believe in my background of sci-
ence,” said the governor.
Hitting out at Dhankhar, West
Bengal education minister Par-
tha Chatterjee said, “I fail to
09
VIPIN KUMAR /HT PHOTO
Apart from the three service
chiefs, India’s first Chief of
Defence Staff, General Bipin
Rawat, also attended the parade.
A woman officer, Captain
Tania Sher Gill, was the parade
adjutant for the first time at the
event. The parade adjutant plays
an important role in directing
and conducting the parade.
A fourth-generation soldier,
Captain Gill was commissioned
into the Corps of Signals two
years ago.She will also be in the
same role at the Republic Day
parade.
The military hardware show-
cased at the Army Day parade
included infantry combat vehicle
BMP-2K, K9 Vajra-T artillery
guns, locally built Dhanush
towed guns, T-90 main battle
tanks and the short span bridging
system.
Naravane also gave gallantry
awards to soldiers and unit cita-
tions to different battalions for
outstanding and sustained per-
formance.
It’s clear a separate
› code is needed to
ensure an accurate count
of Sikhs in the United
States, recognising a
unique identity
RON JARMIN,
US Census Deputy Director
separate coding for more than
two decades and filed commen-
tary with the US Federal Register
advocating for Sikhs to be added
as an ethnic group, in large part,
so that action can be taken to
address major Sikh issues such as
bullying, intimidation and hate
crimes against the community.
“With the 2020 census
approaching, many historically
undercoded communities will be
at-risk for being under-counted
and under-served,” said Ruben
Singh, United Sikhs Census Man-
ager.
“We look forward to collabo-
rating with our census partners
and other Sikh organisations and
institutions to address the unan-
ticipated challenges of the 2020
Census,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Sikh Coalition
has partnered with the Census
Bureau for the 2020 census.
This is because Sikhs have tra-
ditionally been a ‘hard to count’
population in the United States,
said Satjeet Kaur, Sikh Coalition
executive director.
“Our community matters, and
we want to make sure that Sikh
families are appropriately
counted and accurately
resourced wherever they are
across our country,” she said.
understand why the governor is
making a laughing stock of him-
self.”
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan
Chowdhury said, “If Arjuna’s
arrows were so powerful, let him
give those to Prime Minister
Modi. He can destroy all his ene-
mies. We won’t need the army.”
The Bengal unit president of
the Bharatiya Janata Party, Dilip
Ghosh, came out in Dhankhar’s
support and said, “Do those criti-
cising his statements have proof
that such things did not exist?
Have they studied our scriptures?
What contributions have these
scientists made? They criticise
people for saying things that they
have not studied,” Ghosh said.
Nuclear physicist and Padma
Bhusan awardee Bikash Sinha
said he is afraid that such state-
ments can have a negative impact
on the society.
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former chief ministers, detained ters”. The ministry is coordinat- of disseminating information ing and planned developmental
in August continue to remain ing the visit, said the official on about the importance of the projects in the state, they added.
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ON THURSDAY
The ministers will visit 59 pla- Union minister of state for development of the Union Terri- spokesman, Altaf Thakur, said
ces, including eight in the Kash- home G Kishan Reddy has writ- tory and its people along with the ministers will hold a series
mir Valley, and meet a “broad ten a letter to Jammu and Kash- the steps taken by the govern- of official meetings. “[They] will
section of the society” including mir chief secretary B V R ment, particularly in the past also meet BJP workers, who will
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Subrahmanyam informing him five months after the abrogation brief them about developmental
workers, civil society members about the visit. of Article 370 provisions, and works in Kashmir.”
CHANGE OF NAME CHANGE OF NAME CHANGE OF NAME
GENERATORS I, SUMIT Ajmani son of Late Ruplal
Residing at F-57, Ashok Vihar,
I, HARISH Chander S/O Behari Lal
makkar R/O plot no. 226, Block-B1,
I, KARISHMA Gupta D/o Dhanpat
Rai Gupta, DOB 18-07-1973, R/o
and government officials, an In his letter, Reddy said bifurcation of the erstwhile (With PTI inputs)

Phase-1, Delhi-110052. Have

changed the name of my minor
Son Kirti Vardhan Ajmani aged
16 years and he shall hereafter be
known as Kartikeya Ajmani.
I, JAI Prakash S/o Sh. Ballu Mal
R/o M9/2 M-9, Mushedpur DLF
Phase-2, Sector-25, Sikanderpur
Ghosi (68), Distt. Gurugram, Harya-
na-122002 have changed my name
from Jai Parkash to Jai Prakash for
all future purposes.
I, DEEPA Joshi D/o Shri Dhoom
Singh R/o D-3/115, Street No. 1,
Amar Colony, East Gokalpur,
Delhi-110094 have changed
Pashchim Vihar, New Delhi-63 have
changed my name to Harish Kumar
Makkar for all purposes.
I, AKIFA khanam w/o Mohd. Kashif
Siddiqui, R/o 614/37 Zakir Nagar
Okhla New Delhi-25. have changed my
name from Akifa khanum to Akifa
khanam for all future purposes.
I, RAJEEV Ranjan Singh R/o SMQ No.
226/5, Air Force Station, Arjangarh,
New Delhi have changed my son's
name from Aakrash to Aakarsh Singh
vide affidavit dated 13.1.2020 before
Mehrauli, New Delhi SDM Office.
I, BAL Kishan S/o Jai Bhagwan H-No.
C-2/254, Yamuna Vihar Delhi-53.
J-9/2 DLF City Phase 2, Gurgaon,
Haryana have changed my name
from Karishma to Karishma Gupta
for all purposes Focus on airport records Omar Abdullah
I, PARAMJIT Kaur W/o Vinod Gupta
to be now placed
R/o H.No. G-442, Gali No.4, SGM
Nagar, Faridabad (HR) have changed
my name from Paramjit Kaur to
Swati Gupta for all future purposes.
I,KUNAL PRATAP Singh Samor, s/o
in probe against Davinder under detention at
Deepak Samor r/o 135 sector 40
gurugram, have changed my name to
Kunal Samor as per affidavit sworn
Sudhi Ranjan Sen
n letters@hindustantimes.com
ACCORDING TO THE
INITIAL PROBE IN THE
trying to move out to ensure his
safety,” the second official said.
HT on Tuesday reported the
residence: Official
before Notary public gurugram, on 13
Jan 2020 NEW DELHI: Investigators probing
Jammu and Kashmir Police offi-
CASE, SINGH, WHO WAS Jammu and Kashmir Police will
also investigate Singh’s links
Mir Ehsan
letters@hindustantimes.com
I,RACCHIT ROSHYN S/o Late Sh.
A PART OF SRINAGAR
n

my name from Deepa to
Deepa Joshi for all future
purposes.
I, PHOOLA W/o Late Sh Om
Prakash Nagpal R/o B-13, B K Datt
Colony, Karbala, Lodhi Road,
New Delhi - 110003, have changed
my name to Veena Nagpal for all
future purposes.
I, SUNITA w/of. Pankaj Bisht R/O WB-
106 Shakar pur gali no-3 Delhi-92 has
changed my name from Sunita to
Sunita Bisht for all future purpose.
I NARESH Kumar S/o Rajiender
Singh R/o I-1304, Arihant Arden,
GH07A, Sector-01, Greater Noida
West Bisrakh Jalapur Gautam
Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh,
Pin-203207 have changed the name
of my minor son from Lakshya to
Lakshya Kumar for all purposes.
I, RAMESH Kumar S/o Sh. Singhram
R/o Nilaheri,Distt. Jhajjar (HR)
declare that in my Army service
record my daughter Priti date of birth
I have Changed my name Bal Kishan
Kaushik to Bal Kishan for all future
Purpose only. F/o Varun Kaushik of
Class V-A Respectively Studying in
Gyandeep Vidya Bhawan Yamuna
Vihar Delhi-53.
I, NEHA Rakhra D/o Sh. Rajender Pal
Rakhra R/o House No. 285, Gali No.
11-A, Chandan Vihar, West Sant
Nagar, Burari, Delhi-110084 have
changed my name to Neha Kumari
for all future purposes.
I, SUNITA W/o Bal Kishan H-No.
C-2/254, Yamuna Vihar Delhi-53.
I, have Changed my name Sunita
Kaushik to Sunita for all future
purpose only.M/o Mohit Kaushik of
Class VII-B Respectively Studying in
Gyandeep Vidya Bhawan Yamuna
Vihar Delhi-53.
I, SUNITA W/o Bal Kishan H-No.
C-2/254, Yamuna Vihar Delhi-53.
I have Changed my name Sunita
Kaushik to Sunita for all future
purpose only.M/o Varun Kaushik of
Class V-A Respectively Studying in
Gyandeep Vidya Bhawan Yamuna
Shashi Kant Mohan R/o J-105, Sector
- 25 Jalvayu Vihar, Noida Dist - G.B.
Nagar, U.P. have changed my name
from Rachit Roshyan to Racchit
Roshyn for all future purposes.
I ANSHIKA Sharma D/o Ramesh
Chand Sharma W/o Mohd Haris R/o
232, Shiva Khand, Vishwa Karma
Nagar, Jhilmil Colony, Delhi-95 have
changed my religion from Hindu to
Muslim & also my Name to Ayesha
for all purposes since 29.10.2018
I, SAVI Khanna W/o Mr. Rajneesh
Khanna R/o 4/10, Jasmine Street,
Vatika City, Sohna Road, Gurugram-
122018 (Hr), have changed my name
to Savita Khanna for all purposes.
I, SIMAR Deep Singh R/o A-301
Alaknanda Apartment CGHS 45 sector
56 Gurgaon Haryana 122002 I have
changed the name of my minor
Daughter Reet to Reet Juneja DOB
02/10/2003 for all purposes.
I, DINESH Kumar Chaudhary S/o Sh.
Sipahi Chaudhary R/o H.No.18, Block
10, Spring Field colony, Sec-31-32,
cer Davinder Singh’s alleged
militant links have widened
their investigations and were
examining records at the Srina-
gar airport, where he was
posted, to see whether he had
helped any militants and over-
ground workers access the high-
security airport, an official said
on condition of anonymity.
Singh was arrested last week
while on his way to Jammu
along with a wanted Hizbul
Mujahideen militant, Naveed
Babu, and his two accomplices.
“CCTV footage at the airport
is being examined after investi-
gations indicate that he had
transported terrorists out of the
Valley earlier as well,” the offi-
cial said.
AIRPORT’S ANTI-HIJACK
UNIT, ALLEGEDLY
PASSED ON “CRITICAL
INFORMATION” TO
TERROR GROUPS
“He had access to sensitive
information and had passed it
on to terrorists for money, our
investigations indicate,” a sec-
ond official said on condition of
anonymity.
The officials cited the prelim-
inary investigation and added
Babu’s mother and one of his
brothers live in Chandigarh and
that Singh was asked to ensure
the militants accompanying
with 2001 Parliament attack
convict Afzal Guru, if required.
Guru was convicted in the
2001 Parliament attack case and
was executed on February 3,
2013. In a letter to his lawyer,
Guru had alleged that he had
transported one of the terrorists
killed in the assault to Delhi on
the instructions of Singh, who
was then posted with the SOG.
Security agencies like the
Intelligence Bureau and the
Research and Analysis Wing,
India’s external intelligence
agency, have so far questioned
Singh.
The National Investigation
Agency (NIA) is likely to take
over the case. “The NIA will
take over the investigations
SRINAGAR : Former chief minister
Omar Abdullah will be shifted to
his residence and placed under
detention there four months after
he was detained ahead of the nul-
lification of Constitution’s Arti-
cle 370, which gave of Jammu and
Kashmir special status, an offi-
cial said on condition of anonym-
ity.
He was detained along with
two other former chief ministers,
Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba
Mufti, and hundreds of political
leaders and activists in August. A
lockdown and information black-
out were also imposed in the
region to prevent protests against
the nullification. Most of the
restrictions have since been

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I SALEEM Ahmed S/o Shahbuddin
R/o H. No. 361, Noor Nagar,
Sihani, Ghaziabad have changed
my name to Salim Ahmed for
all future purposes.
I, SHAKIL Ahmad S/o Abid Hussain
R/o 5/84, Chhuriya Mohalla, Tugh-
lakabad village, New Delhi-44 have
confirmed that my name wrongly
mentioned as Aley Nabi instead of
Shakil Ahmad in my Son documents.
My correct name is Shakil Ahmad
for all future purposes.
I, SANJAY Dutt S/o Ran Singh R/o
Vill. Guriyani, Tehsil Kosli, Distt.
Rewari (HR) declare that in my
father's service record my name
Sanjay Datt is wrongly mention.
According to my documents my
correct name is Sanjay Dutt for all
future purposes.
I, REKHA Singh W/o Mr. Bhanu
Singh R/o Air men mess, air force
station, Tughlakabad, New Delhi-
110062 have changed my name to
Rekha for all future purposes.
I, PEEYUSH Singh S/O, Diwaker
Singh R/o A-305, Designers Park,
B-9/1a Sectorr 62, Noida have
changed my name to Peeyush
Kumar Singh for all purposes.
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Vihar Delhi-53.
I, PRABHAT Kumar Rai S/o Girish
Prashad Rai, R/o: G 26/Tower C /
Gaur Global Village, Crossing
Republik, Ghaziabad-201016, have
changed my minor Son name from
Yatharth Rai to Yatharth Sontosh
Rai for all purposes in future.
I, BAL Kishan S/o Jai Bhagwan H-No.
C-2/254,Yamuna Vihar Delhi-53.
I have Changed my name Bal Kishan
Kaushik to Bal Kishan for all future
Purpose only.F/o Mohit Kaushik of
Class VII-B Respectively Studying in
Gyandeep Vidya Bhawan Yamuna
Vihar Delhi-53.
I, SMT. Kusum Lata W/o Yogesh
Kumar Rustagi R/o H.No.D-186, 3rd
floor, West Vinod Nagar, Delhi-92,
have change my name to Veena
Rustagi for all future purposes.
I, PRACHI, W/O Naveen Kumar, R/O
B-1906, Angel, Jupiter Ahinsa Khand
2 Indrapuram Ghaziabad UP-201014,
affirm that Prachi Singla and Prachi
both are one and the same person.
I, KULDIP Singh Malik S/o Shri Raj
Singh Malik R/o H.No E-24, Shatabadi
Enclave, Sector-110049, Noida kuldip
Singh mentioned in my all
Educational Record and Kuldip Singh
Malik has been mentioned in my
service record ,both name are same
person.
Faridabad have changed my name
from Dinesh Kumar Chaudhary to
Dinesh Kumar for all purposes.
I, NEHA Malik D/o Shri Kuldip Singh
Malik R/o H.No E-24, Shatabadi
Enclave, Sector-110049, Noida Have
Changed my name Kumari Neha To
Neha Malik for all Future Purposes.
I, GURPREET Singh S/o Paramjeet
Singh R/o F 2 Rajouri Garden, New
Delhi – 110027, have changed my
minor daughter's name from Samaira
Singh to Samaira Kaur (date of birth
is 04/01/2011) for all future purposes
I, AJEESH Chandy S/o M. U. Chandy
R/o JC-27D,Hari Enclave,Hari Nagar,
New Delhi-64, have changed my
name to Ajeesh C Alex full name
Ajeesh Chandy Alex for all purpose.
I, DEEPAK Bhutani R/o H.No. 229,
Tagore Park Model Town Delhi-09
have changed my minor daughter
name from Pavni Bhutani to
Pahi Bhutani for all purposes
I, RISHABH S/O, Sharad Kumar
Kansal R/o D-582, Dabua Colony, Nit
Faridabad-121001- Haryana have
changed my name to Rishab Kumar
Kansal for all purposes.
I,ANJANA KUMARI W/o Dinesh
Chhabra R/o G-5/11 Malviya Nagar
New Delhi-17 have Changed my name
as Anju Chhabra after my marriage.
Anju Chhabra and Anjana kumari are
the name"s of same person
I, SHAGUFTA Rahman Husain W/o
late Abdul Rahman Mahdi R/o 202,
Aman Aptts, D/331, Nai Basti, Okhla,
ND-25, have changed my name to
Shagufta Bano Husain for all purpose
I, Manish Kumar Jha S/o Kripal Nand
Jha R/o J.K house, alipore road, kolk
ata, west bengal. have changed my
father name Kripal Mano jha to Kripal
Nand Jha for all future purposes.
According to the initial probe
in the case, Singh, who was a
part of Srinagar airport’s anti-
hijack unit, allegedly passed on
“critical information” to terror
groups. He was earlier a part of
the Jammu and Kashmir
Police’s Special Operations
Group (SOG) .
Top Hizb terrorist gunned down
Press Trust of India
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JAMMU: A top Hizbul Mujahideen
terrorist, involved in four killings
and two weapon snatching inci-
dents, was killed in Doda district
on Wednesday, Director General
of Jammu and Kashmir police
Dilbag Singh said.
“The first 15 days of January
were very eventful during which
three good operations were con-
ducted (against terrorists) in
Kashmir and another in Doda dis-
trict of Jammu region where a
dreaded Hizbul Mujahideen ter-
rorist Haroon Abbass Wani was
killed this morning,” Singh told
reporters here.
him crossed the Jawahar Tun-
nel, which connects Kashmir
Valley with to the rest of India,
safely.
“We are primarily looking
whether Naveed was trying to
move out of the Valley to carry
out a terror attack elsewhere in
the country or whether he was
The encounter between the
ultras and a joint team of Army
and police personnel took place in
the Gondana belt, Public Rela-
tions Officer, Defence, Jammu, Lt
Col Devender Anand said.
Wani, a resident of Gattah belt
of Doda, along with Osama was
involved in the sensational kill-
ing of a BJP leader and his
brother in November 2018 and
RSS functionary and his PSO in
January last year besides two
weapon snatching incidents in
Kishtwar district in 2019, the
police chief said.
“After the killing of Osama
along with two of his associates in
an encounter in Batote area of
Ramban district last year, he was
after the preliminary investiga-
tions are over,” a third official
said on condition of anonymity.
PTI quoted Jammu and Kash-
mir police chief Dilbag Singh as
saying the force has recom-
mended Singh’s dismissal. He
also said the arrest will not
impact the morale of the force.
trying to revive terrorist activi-
ties in Chenab valley region. His
killing is a major setback to the
terrorism revival plan in the
region,” the DGP said.
He said after the killing of
Osama, Wani became very active.
“We got information about his
presence along with his other
associate, hailing from Kashmir.
The operation to track down the
other militant is continuing,” he
said. The DGP further said terror-
ists are running short of weapons
and the weapon snatching was
carried out to arm new recruits.
“We have recently arrested one
more terrorist, Tariq who had
bought a .303 rifle for ~1.5 lakh,”
he said.
relaxed.
“The former chief minister
[Omar Abdullah] will be shifted
to his house and the arrange-
ments are being finalised for it,”
said the official cited above on
condition of anonymity without
giving further details. News
agency PTI quoted a source as
saying that the former CM is
likely to be shifted on Thursday.
Officials said a proposal to shift
Mufti to her residence to be
placed under detention there has
been rejected as authorities feel it
needs further deliberations
within security agencies.
Farooq Abdullah has been
under detention at his residence
that has been declared as a sub-
jail. He was detained on Septem-
ber 17 under Public Safety Act for
a period of three months which
was renewed on December 16 last
year.
Omar and Mufti been under
detention at two government
bungalows. Mufti’s daughter,
Iltija, has accused authorities of
confining the former chief minis-
ters in solitary confinement to
break their resolve. Both the
former CMs were detained under
section 107 of the Code of Crimi-
nal Procedure.

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Chhattisgarh govt moves Govt may collect data

UNNAO RAPE CASE

Sengar files plea in Delhi HC on houses headed

top court against NIA Act
PETITION Says in plea Act violative of the Constitution and goes against its federal spirit
Murali Krishnan
n murali.krishnan@hindustantimes.com
NEWDELH: The National Investiga-
tion Act, 2008, (NIA Act) takes
away the power of state govern-
ments to investigate certain
offences and confers unfettered,
discretionary powers on the cen-
tral government to investigate
such offences, the Chhattisgarh
government on Wednesday sub-
mitted before the Supreme Court
in a plea challenging the validity
of the NIA Act, which was drafted
by the Congress-led UPA regime
after the 26/11 Mumbai terror
attacks.
P Chidambaram, who was
brought in as home minister after
the 2008 terror attacks, had
pushed for the creation of NIA,
India’s first federal counterter-
ror probe agency with powers to
supersede the state police in the
investigation and trial of terror-
related offences.
The BJP government at the
centre had amended the NIA Act
WHAT THE ROW OVER NIA ACT IS ABOUT
n Drafted by the UPA regime
after 26/11 terror attacks, the
Act confers unfettered powers
on the Centre to investigate
terror-related offences at
the state-level
n NDA government amends
the Act in 2019 to investigate
offences committed outside
India, against Indians or
affecting Indian interests
n Chhattisgarh files petition
Article 131 of the Constitution,
which empowers the Supreme
Court to decide disputes between
the Centre and states.
It is the case of the state that
NIA is nothing but a “national
police” for conducting investiga-
tion even though the subject mat-
ter of framing legislation relating
to “police” is clearly a state sub-
ject as per entry 2 of state list of
against the Act in SC on January
11 saying parliament not
authorised to enact laws on
subjects which are within the
exclusive domain of state
n CPIM asks Centre to make it
mandatory to also involve
state during investigations
n Leaked US embassy cable
reveals P Chidambaram, the
architect of the Act, expressing
legal concerns over its validity
out through Police, which is a
subject matter of the State under
Entry – 2, List – II, Schedule 7, and
therefore Parliament lacks legis-
lative competence to enact the
legislation on matters contained
in List-II”, the petition stated.
Further, the state submitted
that there are no rules governing
the exercise of powers under the
act by the central government
Moreover, the NIA Act, Chhat-
tisgarh argued, does not have any
provision for coordination
between the Centre and state or
any precondition of consent to be
taken by the central government
from the state government before
commencing an investigation
under the act.
The state, therefore, submitted
that the Act is violative of the
Constitution and goes against the
federal spirit envisaged by the
Constitution.
“The question is that the cen-
tral government has made a
‘police system’ through the NIA
Act. Do we need an empowered
agency for the offences commit-
ted in the local area (eight catego-
ries of crimes have been kept in
it)? We believe that the central
government cannot do this under
the constitution, because the con-
stitution says that police is a state
subject,”said Satish Verma,
advocate general Chhattisgarh.
Sitaram Yechury of the Com-
munist Party of India (Marxist)
challenging his conviction
HT Correspondent
n letters@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: Expelled Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) MLA Kul-
deep Singh Sengar moved the
Delhi high court on Wednesday
challenging his conviction and
life sentence for raping a minor
girl in Unnao in 2017.
The plea is yet to be cleared
from the Delhi high court regis-
try, following which it could be
listed for hearing later. In his
plea, Sengar has sought the
quashing of the December 16,
2019, judgment of the trial court
which convicted him.
He has also sought setting
aside of the December 20 order
sentencing him to imprisonment
till the remainder of his life.
On December 16, the trial court
convicted 54-year-old Sengar
under various provisions, includ-
ing Section 376 (2) of the Indian
Penal Code which deals with a
public servant who “takes advan-
Differently-abled
n Kuldeep Singh Sengar
tage of his official position and
commits rape on a woman in his
custody as such public servant or
in the custody of a public servant
subordinate to him”.
District and sessions judge
Dharmesh Sharma awarded Sen-
gar the maximum punishment
prison until the “remainder of his
natural biological life”, and also
imposed an exemplary fine of ~25
lakh to be paid within a month.
Sengar was held guilty under var-
ious provisions of the Protection
of Children from Sexual Offences
(Pocso) Act. The court acquitted
a co-accused, Shashi Singh, giv-
Two members of panel on
ing her the benefit of doubt.
The minor girl was kidnapped
and raped by Sengar in 2017.
The trial in the lower court
started on August 5 after the apex
court transferred the matter to
Delhi from Unnao, and hearings
were conducted on a day-to-day
basis. The Supreme Court, after
taking cognisance of the rape sur-
vivor’s letter written to the then
Chief Justice of India Ranjan
Gogoi, on August 1 last year
transferred all five cases regis-
tered in connection with the
Unnao rape case from a Lucknow
court to a court in Delhi with
directions that the trial be com-
pleted in 45 days.
Ajendra Awasthi, the lawyer
of Unnao rape survivor, said Kul-
deep Sengar challenging his con-
viction in a superior court was his
right. “He can approach High
Court and Supreme Court, it is
well within his rights; we will
present our case strongly when
the court asks us to do.”
by trans persons
NEW DELHI: In a first, the govern-
ment looks set to collect data on
households headed by a trans-
gender person and members liv-
ing in the family, home ministry
officials said on Wednesday.
Census officers will be seeking
specific information based on 31
questions from every household
during the house listing and
housing census exercise sched-
uled from April 1 to September 30.
“It is for the first time that
information on households
headed by a transgender is being
collected,” the officials said.
Information will be sought on
building number, census house
number, predominant material
of the floor, use of census house,
condition of the census house,
household number and total
number of persons normally
residing in the household,
according to a notification issued
by the Registrar General and
Census Commissioner.
In 2011, the Census collected
data on the number of transgen-
der persons, as well as details on
their literacy, caste and employ-
ment. The data was clubbed
under ‘Males’ and later released
under a separate heading. HTC

in the 2019 to make it more robust

by empowering NIA to investi-
gate offences committed outside
India, against Indians or affecting
Indian interests.
Chhattisgarh, in its petition
filed on January 11 through advo-
cate Sumeer Sodhi, submitted
that the act empowers the central
government to create an agency
for investigation of offences
which have been categorised as
scheduled offences under NIA
Act. The petition was filed under
the Constitution.
Law-and-order and police,
Chhattisgarh pointed out, are
subject matters which fall within
the domain of the state govern-
ment as per the constitution and
the parliament is not authorised
to enact laws on subjects which
are within the exclusive domain
of the state.
“The NIA Act empowers the
Central government to create an
agency for “investigation”,
which otherwise is being carried
which gives ample discretion to
the centre to interfere at any
juncture without providing any
reason or justification for the
same. “The scheme of the NIA
Act is such that once brought in
motion, it completely takes away
the power of plaintiff to investi-
gate the offences which have
been categorised as scheduled
offence under the NIA Act and
which has been committed
within the jurisdiction of the
state,” the petition stated.
had asked the government to
make it mandatory to associate
the state government in the
investigation and trial of offen-
ces.
Several months later, P Chi-
dambaram, the architect of the
NIA Act, told the then FBI
Director Robert Mueller - accord-
ing to a leaked US Embassy cable
- that the NIA’s powers could be
challenged in the courts for con-
travention of constitutional pro-
visions on Centre-state relations.
teen gang-raped
in MP; two held
REWA (MP): A 14-year-old differ-
ently abled girl was allegedly
gang-raped by two people, includ-
ing a minor, in Madhya Pradesh’s
Rewa district, police officials
familiar with the matter said.
According to police officials,
the accused waylaid the hearing
and speech-impaired girl when
she was going to her home in the
district’s Baikunthpur town on
data bill to miss first meet Congress attacks
Amrita Madhukalya
n
govt over ~45k-cr
amrita.madhukalya@hindustantimes.com
lution has to be passed first for us
to attend [the meeting],” said
NEW DELHI: Two new members ofsubmarine project
the Joint Parliamentary Commit-
Tiwari. Lekhi said the new mem-
bers can attend meetings only
after the due procedure is fol-
tee on Personal Data Protection lowed. “No name is finalised NEW DELHI: The Congress on
Bill will not be able to attend the unless the member’s party rec- Wednesday alleged that the
panel’s first meeting on Thurs- ommends the name. In the same National Democratic Alliance
day since a resolution allowing way, no changes can be made (NDA) government was trying to
their inclusion is yet to be passed. unless the changes are presented favour Adani Defence and Aero-
The committee was formed in Parliament,” said Lekhi. space in a ~45,000 crore subma-
after Union minister Ravi In its first meeting on Thurs- rine project.
Shankar Prasad moved motions day, the government will make a Party chief spokesperson Ran-

Christian women lured into IS trap: Catholic body Tuesday night.

HT Correspondent & PTI
n letters@hindustantimes.com
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An influen-
tial Catholic body has alleged that
scores of Christian women from
Kerala were being lured “into the
trap of Islamic State (IS)” and
used in terror activities.
In a statement on Tuesday, the
Synod of Syro-Malabar Church,
an apex body of Catholic Bishops
chaired by Cardinal George
Alencherry, accused police of
inaction. The Synod referred to
police records and said out of 21
people recruited in Kerala for the
IS terror group, half were con-
verted from Christianity.
The statement said “unofficial
accounts say many girls were
being used in terror activities”
and called it a serious matter.
The Synod said the issue was
affecting the friendship between
religions and urged the govern-
ment to treat it as a law and order
matter and not a religious one. It
demanded speedy action against
the culprits involved and said
that parents and children should
be sensitised about the dangers.
“Instead of viewing this as a
religious issue, police should con-
sider this as a law and order prob-
lem that threatens to vitiate com-
munal harmony. Statistics with
us show it is not imaginary. There
have been recent complaints in
the state that women were sexu-
ally abused in the name of love
and later forced to convert,” the
statement said.
The Popular Front of India
(PFI), a Muslim organisation,
questioned the “timing” of the
statement. It urged the Church to
withdraw it immediately, saying
it would only help create division
amid growing unity among vari-
ous sections of society.
“The Church is raising such a
baseless allegation at a time when
the minorities including Muslims
and Christians and the people of
the Hindu community are in a
joint fight against the Fascist gov-
ernment at the Centre,” said
Naziruddin Elamaram, PFI
leader.
“The accused stopped her and
forcibly took her to a deserted
house where they raped her,”
Rewa district’s superintendent of
police (SP) Abid Khan said.
He added that two accused
have been held and booked under
the Indian Penal Code’s Section
376-D (gang-rape) and the rele-
vant sections of the Protection of
Children from Sexual Offences
(Pocso) Act.
A sign language interpreter
has been communicating with
the girl on behalf o the police to
know about the details of the
assault, Khan added.
in both houses to refer the legisla-
tion to a JPC during the Winter
Session in December. The com-
mittee has 30 members, 20 from
the Lok Sabha and 10 from the
Rajya Sabha. Bharatiya Janata
Party MP Meenakshi Lekhi was
appointed the head of the commit-
tee. Following resignations of
Congress’s Jothi Mani and Trina-
mool Congress (TMC)’s Saugata
Roy, Manish Tewari of the Con-
gress and Mahua Moitra of the
TMC were to replace their col-
leagues in the JPC.
However, Tiwari said, the new
members will not be able to
attend the JPC meeting. “A reso-
presentation on the Bill, after
which members will discuss and
debate it. The meeting, initially
scheduled for January 14, was
shifted to January 16. The com-
mittee has to submit its first
report to the Lok Sabha by the
end of the Budget Session.
The Union Cabinet, in Decem-
ber, approved the Personal Data
Protection Bill to regulate how
individuals and firms handle dig-
ital data of citizens, introducing
new provisions that, while dilut-
ing some of the contentious locali-
sation requirements, could now
require firms to carry out real-
name verification of users.
deep Singh Surjewala and senior
spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill
held a press conference here
where they claimed that “Adani
Defence has zero experience of
making ships or submarines”.
“(The project) is under a cloud
of suspicion owing to allegations
of favouritism, crony capitalism,
violations of ‘Defence Procure-
ment Procedure, 2016’ and an
alleged overruling of Indian
Navy and its ‘Empowered Com-
mittee’ by Modi Government,”
the party’s statement said.
The company was not
immediately available for a
response. HTC

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held its Annual
graced by the Chief Guest M.S. Bitta,
Exhibition. The occasion
Chairman of All India Anti-Terrorist
was graced by the
Front, Guests of Honour, Patron His
School Chairperson
Grace Most Rev. Anil. J.T. Couto,
Prafull Goradia, Vice
Metropolitan Archbishop of Delhi and
Chairperson Dr. Nayana
Rev. Monseigneur Susai Sebastian, the track events showcased the indomitable
Goradia, Principal Tania
Vicar General and the Chairman of spirit of the athletes. The achievers were
Joshi and Development
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The ceremonial torch was handed to environmental issues. The event
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Annual Function at Little Prize Distribution Function at

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appropriate class under “Unified Registration System (e-Registration) Earnest money & Form Fee: To be paid through Online mode as per Tender Terms &
Honour was S K Aggarwal, Manager, participated in
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Shahdara celebrated its 45th Annual R.K.TTI, Prof. Lalit Aggarwal, Vice collaborated with a
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Budget 2020: A movement to save the Idea of India
Focus on growth
Address unemployment, boost
demand, push policy reforms
T
wo key economic statistics, which were released this
month, will matter a lot in the ongoing pre-budget
discussions. The economy is expected to grow at 5%
in 2019-20. This is the lowest since 2008-09. Nominal
growth, which is what determines tax collections,
will be just 7.5%. The previous budget
had assumed a 12% nominal GDP
growth. Inflation, on the other hand,
reached 7.35% in December, the highest since July 2014.
Dealing with a low growth and a high-inflation economy
requires a different policy orientation than the usual concerns
around fiscal prudence and widening welfare benefits, which
have characterised previous budgets of the government. With an
almost 40% shortfall in nominal growth rate and a mid-year cut
in corporate tax rates, which the government had admitted
would lead to a revenue loss of ~1.5 lakh crore, anything other
than a revenue shortfall will be a miracle. If the government cuts
down on spending to keep the fiscal deficit in check, it will only
backfire as GDP growth will come down even more. The bottom
line is that everyone expects a fiscal slippage this time. The gov-
ernment has delivered on targets of asset building and service
provisions such as housing for poor, toilets, LPG connections
and electricity connections for all households. They are impor-
tant milestones, but these gains are not a replacement for
employment. The latter is crucially dependent on economic
growth. The next budget ought to put its sole focus on reviving
growth in the economy. This time, complacency about the gov-
ernment’s welfare achievements will be counterproductive.
After a cut in corporate tax rates, there has been a lot of buzz
about a cut in income tax rates. Doing this will increase disposa-
ble incomes and boost private demand. If the income tax rate cuts
involve a rolling back of various exemptions, as was done with
corporate taxes, it will lead to a reduction in the corpus of small
savings fund, which are normally at the government’s disposal.
This increases the importance of a big policy reform, which the
budget should target. India needs synergy in its efforts to seek
long-term finance to sustainably fund investments and provide
attractive returns to households outside what continues to be an
overvalued stock market.
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Don’t jeopardise
forests for mining
India needs a new policy
framework to protect forests
T
he Union ministry of environment, forest, and climate
change, whose mandate is to preserve India’s stressed
natural wealth, has sought a reassessment of the sus-
tainable mining plan for Saranda and Chaibasa forests
in Jharkhand’s Singhum district. Critics suspect this is to facili-
tate mining. The Saranda forests are India’s largest, contiguous
Sal forests spread over 82,000 hectares (ha). The current plan,
which was prepared by the Indian Council of Forestry Research
and Education in 2018, said mining should not be allowed in the
dense forest. It also said marked out a certain area in the periph-
ery of the forests for mining, but recommended that very dense
forests with canopy density above 70% be left untouched.
Other than being a rich biodiverse forest and a huge carbon
sink, Saranda is home to a large number of animal, bird and rep-
tile species. While the forest is famous for sal trees, it is also rich
in minor forest products. Marginalised tribal communities are
also dependent on these forests. However, due to indiscriminate
mining, Saranda has lost several plant and animal species.
One key reason why forests areas of the country, which are
also mineral-rich, face such threats of destruction is because
India, while it pursues its goal of having 33% of its land under for-
est cover, is yet to have a new national forest policy. This policy
can define a “forest”, mark out the inviolate areas , and chart out
a proper forest management system. The current National For-
est Policy dates back to 1988, and cannot meet current challen-
ges, where the trade-off between economic growth and infra-
structure on the one hand, and safeguarding critical natural
resources on the other, has only intensified. Additionally, along
with assessing the value of minerals in Saranda-type forest
areas, the Indian State must also measure the financial worth of
the ecosystem services that a forest provides. Instead of looking
for ways to facilitate mining, the ministry should focus on
designing the new policy framework to protect forests.
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Like demonetisation, the government’s CAA-
NPR-NRC plan will affect the poor the most
DEREK
O’BRIEN
I
f you asked my father Neil O’Brien, the
pioneer who brought quizzing to India
in 1967, what his favourite subjects
were, pat would come the reply: heavy-
weight boxing and World War II. Our
ourtake bedtime stories, oddly enough, were
not about Hansel and Gretel.
Now you know why my speech in Parlia-
ment last month on behalf of the All India Tri-
namool Congress drew a comparison
between Hitler’s Old Germany and the Bhar-
atiya Janata Party (BJP)’s “New India”.Were
the drafters of the Citizenship (Amendment)
Act (CAA), and the National Register of Citi-
zens-National Population Register (NRC-
NPR), which are inextricably linked to it,
drawing from the Nazi copybook? The simi-
larities are ominous.
One, in 1933, the first Nazi concentration
camp for Jews was set up in Germany. In
2018, the Union home ministry sanctioned a
detention camp in Assam for non-Indians.
Two, in 1935 Germany, one needed an
“ancestor pass” to prove their Aryan lineage.
In 2019 India, a piece of paper proves your
Indian citizenship.
Three, the Germans called it GroßeLüge or
the Big Lie, which convinced them how the
Jews are a threat to their race. Today’s lie:
India is under 24x7 threat.
The other data challenge:
Measuring life in a metro
We need to know how many people enter cities, where
they live, how they travel, and what they do for a living
HARSHITA
AGRAWAL
HARSH V
PACHISIA
I
ndia’s data problem isn’t confined to mac-
roeconomic indicators. Indian cities —
which generated up to 70% of the coun-
try’s gross domestic product (GDP) over
the past decade — face a similar issue. Their
massive growth potential is undercut by poor
infrastructure and inadequate service deliv-
ery. Effective public policy solutions require
quality, granular city-level data. There is a
large gap here. Collecting, organising and
publishing such data should be a top priority
for policymakers in the new decade.
For spotting and analysing trends, the bed-
rock of efficient governance, we need informa-
tion on the number of people coming into cit-
ies, their contribution to economic activity,
the number of jobs cities create, the demand
for housing and transport and so on. This is
especially relevant in light of the fact that the
past decade has seen urban population grow
from 380 million in 2010 to about 450 million in
2017.
In the case of housing, publicly available
data on house prices at the city-level is una-
vailable. This means that local governments
cannot accurately estimate property tax col-
lection as a potential source of revenue. With-
out such clarity, resource allocation gets
skewed, creating a host of other problems
such as poor land use. This, in turn, contrib-
utes to poor urban governance.
Understanding trends related to variables
such as jobs in cities, migration and income
numbers are critical to tracing how cities
function as labour markets. For instance,
employment data will be useful for workforce
participation trends, and migration data will
be key in understanding the labour pool avail-
able in cities. But this data is unavailable,
inaccessible or incomplete. Data on other
important socioeconomic fronts such as edu-
cation and health care should no longer be
merely about whether the service exists, but
whether the quality of that service is improv-
ing residents’ ease of living and quality of life.
With such granular data, public service deliv-
ery can be both streamlined and made more
efficient.
City-level data on travel demand, traveller
behaviour and transport systems perform-
ance are critical inputs to decision making on
transport policy, planning and design issues.
However, collecting real time, large-scale
transport data is difficult and expensive. As a
result, city-wide transport policies have his-
torically been based on small-scale travel sur-
veys that capture only a fraction of the city’s
population.
Most importantly, we know intuitively,
and from alternate data sources, that cities
generate most of the country’s value, but
there is no official data collected at the city
level to give a more complete picture. The cen-
tral government releases GDP data at the
national level. State governments release
state-level data, but they are not mandated to
do so at the district or city level. State depart-
ments such as the Directorate of Economics
and Statistics do publish GDP data for select
districts, but there are no standard guidelines.
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comment
Four, Germany had the Lügenpresse or
the lying press to push propaganda. Today’s
Indian equivalent of the Lügenpresse is fake
news and the pressure on the owners of main-
stream newspapers and television networks
to push the BJP’s divisive agenda.
The Narendra Modi-Amit Shah, or the
Mo-Sh (copyright on the coinage!), govern-
ment is good at making promises. They are
even better at breaking promises. How easily
we forget. Didn’t the prime minister publicly
plead for just 50 days to fix the disaster cre-
ated by demonetisation? “Hang me in public
after that! 50 days is all I ask for.” The failure
was so monumental that the PM has barely
used the term demonetisation in the last two
years.
In April last year, the PM said “Chowkidar
ki paanchvarsh ki chowkidari mein koi
bada dhamaka hua kya? (Has there been a
big attack in the five years that I have been a
guard?)” Another broken promise. A total of
388 “major” terrorist incidents were
recorded in India between 2014 and 2018. In
2018, Kashmir saw the highest fatalities in
terror-related violence in a decade with 451
deaths in a single year.
If one was generous you would call Mo-Sh
breakers of promises. But using a more blunt
characterisation about the licenses they take
with truth will not be out of place either.
Last month, the home minister had the
gumption to tell Parliament that the govern-
ment would implement NRC across India. At
least two Union ministers said the same on
the floor of both the Houses. There is also
more evidence in the public domain linking
CAA-NRC-NPR. As a member of the Joint
Parliamentary Committee (JPC) that exam-
n Governance needs quality, granular, city-
level data. Come up with a decadal plan
Consequently, methodologies vary widely
across districts and states, making the num-
bers incomparable. And current state-level
GDP data cannot be evenly distributed across
cities since a city like Mumbai will contribute
significantly more than, say, Aurangabad to
Maharashtra’s GDP.
In the past decade, private sector players
have started publishing limited data. For
instance, Using Nighttime Satellite Imagery
as a Proxy Measure of Human Well-Being,
2013, by Ghosh et al, used satellite imagery to
measure economic activity at a sub-national
level. IDFC Institute also used this methodol-
ogy to calculate city-level GDP, but these stud-
ies are not accurate and underestimate eco-
nomic activity because night-time light values
— used as a proxy for such activity — are
capped after a certain point as a result of tech-
nological constraints.
Similarly, when it comes to transport data,
Uber uses real-time, alternative big data sour-
ces, and publicly releases granular travel time
information for certain Indian cities. This is
useful in estimating congestion and in identi-
fying choke-points where traffic is at its worst.
However, the use of such big data as well as
researchers’ access to it is extremely limited.
There are, thankfully, some positive devel-
opments on the government front. The Centre
has started schemes to boost city-level data
collection such as the DataSmart Cities Mis-
sion, in which India’s 100 ‘Smart Cities’ are
tasked with collecting and employing local-
level data for governance. In another
instance, all 500 cities under the AMRUT mis-
sion are to create GIS-based master plans to
refine land use for their future growth. So far,
120 cities have been successful in this endeav-
our. However, if underlying public data is
unsound, these initiatives become harder to
execute or fail to achieve their desired impact.
Policymakers should target establishing
new data sources to make better, more
informed policies. They must direct more
resources towards the goal of measuring data
at the city level. A decadal plan is vital since it
will help tackle structural issues impacting
the governance of cities, as well as those of
accountability and transparency.
Harshita Agrawal and Harsh Vardhan Pachisia
are associates, IDFC Institute, a Mumbai-based think
tank. Kadambari Shah, senior associate,
IDFC, also contributed to this article.
The views expressed are personal
n The marginalised will scurry for lost
documents. And then there are millions
who never had any documents
ined the CAA for three years, one doesn’t
know whether to be angry or just plain
amused when the Mo-Sh duo are now doing
damage control and saying there is no link. It
is simply not true.
Even greenhorn marketing managers
would laugh at the idea of scaling up a failed
“pilot project”. The pilot was a big disaster. In
Assam, 7% of the residents of the state were
left out of the final NRC list. Extrapolating 7%
to the national level, over 100 million Indians
will become stateless. How will the govern-
ment ever make up for the human cost of this
exercise?
The Trinamool Congress had estimated
the scale of the catastrophe, and even pro-
vided hard numbers in writing to the JPC.
The guestimates turned out to be very close
to the actual figures. Beyond just the verba-
tim records of the committee which prove
Disentangling the
threads of a broken
criminal justice system
Every actor – the police, the accused, lawyers, judges,
prosecutors – wants to go to trial. Change the incentives
ABHINAV
SEKHRI
A
fter not publishing the annual
Crime in India Reports for almost
two years, the National Crime
Records Bureau (NCRB) recently
cleared its backlog, by sharing reports for
both 2017 and 2018 in the past month. Consid-
ering how voluminous and complex these
documents are, it is encouraging to find
newspapers — including this publication —
HT take the effort of presenting the information
in a digestible manner, spurring debate and
discussion.
To a large extent, these efforts end up
spurring criticisms and laments about one
thing — that the Indian criminal justice sys-
tem is being crushed under its own weight,
with delays now plaguing all the units that
make up this system.
The conversations following this output
of data have been largely predictable — get
more judges, more courts, and stricter time-
lines in place, and things will get better.
These investments in the system’s infra-
structure will surely help. However, it is
foolhardy to think that a pendency level of
almost 25 million cases at the trial court
level is being caused only because of poor
infrastructure.
In a new paper (written and published
before the NCRB released its data for 2017
and 2018), I argue that a fair share of the
blame for India’s long-standing crisis of
pendency in the criminal justice system lies
in how our system is being operated. Or, put
another way, we have millions of cases
pending in trial courts not because we have
a perfect system which is broken, but
because the system itself is being worked in
ways that are bound to cause delays.
As it stands, the Criminal Procedure
Code 1973 has many funnels in place. These
kick-in from the investigation stage itself, to
test whether a given case really deserves to
go to trial or not. The funnels vest discretion
in the individual officers, be it police officers
or the magistrates, who decide whether or
not there is sufficient basis to proceed fur-
ther with a case at each stage.
This makes sense. Trials are long-drawn
procedures, which come at significant costs
for taxpayers, and also cause great hardship
to persons who are accused without credible
material.
FUNNELS, WHICH VEST POWERS
IN POLICE OFFICERS OR
MAGISTRATES TO DECIDE ON
WHETHER THERE IS SUFFICIENT
BASIS TO PROCEED WITH THE
CASE, HAVE BECOME
REDUNDANT. TRIALS HAVE
BECOME THE NORM
HIN DUSTA N TIMES, N EW D E LHI
T HURSDAY, JA N UA RY 1 6, 2 02 0
our contention, the dissent note submitted by
the two Trinamool Members of Parliament
on it could have the words “we told you so”
scribbled on it.
Then of course, what of the 10 million peo-
ple who migrated to India from East Paki-
stan? They did not come here in the 1970s
because of religious persecution.It is well-
documented that they moved here because of
linguistic persecution. Or take the case of the
Matuas, Bengali Hindus living and voting in
Bengal for decades. They are deemed citizens
who have not only voted, but in 2011 even had
a minister of state for refugee rehabilitation
in the Bengal government. You are gifting
them citizenship that they already have.
At the end of it all, just like demonetisa-
tion, the debate on CAA-NRC-NPR boils
down to the rich versus the poor. Were there
any crorepatis in queues during notebandi?
Of the 130 people who died during demoneti-
sation, how many were lakhpatis? In this
AP cold, senseless legislation too, the poor and
the marginalised will suffer once more. The
socially deprived will suffer. They will
scurry around for documents lost in floods
and ethnic violence. Worse still, millions of
them, genuine Indian citizens, have never
had documents.
In 2006, Mamata Banerjee sat on a 26-day
hunger strike to fight for land rights and
rights for farmers. She fought the good fight.
In 2016, the Supreme Court vindicated her
decade-long struggle. In 2020, ordinary citi-
zens, including students, are headlining this
people’s movement against CAA. A mass
leader like Banerjee, who hit the streets from
Day One, will be only too glad to play the role
of just a catalyst. This isn’t a battle to win
brownie points. This is truly a people’s move-
ment to save the Idea of India.
Derek O’Brien is Trinamool Congress’s
Parliamentary Party Leader in Rajya Sabha
The views expressed are personal
Under this mindset, it does not make
sense to send every case for trial, and it is
accepted as a bitter truth that some guilty
people are bound to escape the law, for there
is no perfect system.
A close look at the NCRB data suggests
that the manner in which the criminal jus-
tice system is being run is almost entirely
contrary to the manner in which the statute
is designed. The funnels have been rendered
redundant, with the police filing charge-
sheets in almost every case, and the judges
treating trials as the default procedure.
Consider the latest NCRB numbers. For
Indian Penal Code (IPC) offences, police file
chargesheets in almost 70% of cases, and
judges take up trials in a staggering 89% of
the total cases that they disposed off. It is
hardly a surprise, then, that almost 50% of
these trials end up in acquittals (and, since
this is an average figure, it masks what are
wildly varying rates of acquittal for specific
offences).
My preliminary research in this area,
based on experiences in Delhi, suggests that
the answers for “why trials?” are complex.
At the level of police investigations, one fac-
tor appears to be the distrust of police discre-
tion, leading them to recommend most cases
for trial. The situation in courts is different.
Here, a long-drawn trial ends up being the
rational choice for all actors in the system,
where these actors are guided by different
connected considerations.
For instance, an accused person knows
the conviction rate is low and is happy draw-
ing a matter out; in the case of an indigent
defendant, legal aid lawyers may be driven
to opt for trial, since in many States they are
paid on an appearance basis. At the same
time, when parties are interested in settling
a dispute, they are often barred from doing
this at the level of the trial court itself and
have to go before the high court.
Judges and prosecutors may be driven to
opt for trials because of more bureaucratic
tendencies. Judges are hard-pressed to
“manage” their caseload, and thus may sim-
ply avoid hard decisions to maximise the
disposal of cases on a daily basis. Similarly,
even though the prosecutors are given the
discretion to, say, recommend withdrawal
of what they think are bogus chargesheets,
ultimately they are also part of a bureau-
cratic structure, where every step they take
requires prior permissions and many expla-
nations. Ultimately, the easier choice is to
simply go with the flow.
To a certain degree, trials are supposed to
be cumbersome, taxing, and time-consum-
ing, for, at the end of the day, an individual’s
liberty is at stake.
Thus, to argue that the law should “make
trials faster” to reduce delays is, frankly,
wrong. What that leads us to are farcical pro-
cedures, which end up being set aside in
appeals and compounding injustice. Rather,
we need to shift the conversation to ask why
have the filtering processes been aban-
doned, and why are there so many trials
happening in the first place?
Abhinav Sekhri is a Delhi-based lawyer.
The paper referred to appears in
volume 15(1) of the Socio Legal Review
The views expressed are personal
HIN DUSTA N T IMES, N EW D E LH I
T HURSDAY, JA N UA RY 1 6 , 2 02 0
Inclusion of vegetables in PDS
may check food inflation woes
PRICE PINCH The move will come at a fiscal
cost, but is also likely protect farm incomes
and family budgets from sudden shocks
NUMBERTHEORY
Roshan Kishore
n letters@hindustantimes.com
NEWDELHI: The Indian economy is
in a peculiar situation. The non-
food economy is facing a serious
crisis of demand. This crisis has
come at a time when the food,
especially the vegetable econ-
omy, has been hit by a massive
supply shock. Given the struc-
tural asymmetry and inequality
in the Indian economy, the mac-
roeconomic indicators have been
affected very differently. Since
food prices have a bigger weight
in the inflation basket, the head-
line retail inflation number, cap-
tured by the Consumer Price
Index (CPI), has reached a five-
and-a-half year high at 7.35% in
December. Yet, nominal GDP
growth in 2019-20 is expected to be
7.5%, the lowest since 1975-76.
This is 4.5 percentage points less
than the 12% figure assumed in
last year’s Union budget, and will
create a big crisis on the revenue
front.
This situation calls for a seri-
ous rethink in policy approach
towards the food economy.
Here’s why.
As the economy is getting mod-
ernised, the share of agriculture
in Gross Value Added (GVA) has
been coming down. Agriculture,
forestry and fishing used to
account for 35% of the total GVA
in 1990-91. This has come down to
14.1% in 2019-20. Agriculture’s
importance in headline GDP
growth numbers has reduced
considerably, and will go down
even more. But there are two
fronts where agriculture is still
very important for the economy.
More than 40% of India’s work-
force is still employed in agricul-
ture, according to data from the
2017-18 Periodic Labour Force
Survey (PLFS) conducted by the
National Statistical Office (NSO).
shortstories
LS BUDGET
SESSION
FROM JAN 31
NEW DELHI: The budget session
of the Lok Sabha will start on
January 31 with the President’s
address to both Houses of
Parliament, Lok Sabha officials
said. The session will conclude on
April 3. After the presentation of
the Budget on February 1, the
House will adjourn on February 11
to meet again on March 2. Apart
from the budget presentation,
the Central government is likely
to push key labour reforms and
surrogacy bills.
MALDA CLASH:
THREE COPS
SUSPENDED
MALDA: Authorities have
suspended three police
constables and demobilised
two civic volunteers for
their alleged involvement
in the violence at Sujapur in
Malda district during the
nationwide strike by central
trade unions on January 8, a
police officer said. The state
Criminal Investigation
Department (CID) has
identified the five, Malda
district superintendent of
police Alok Rajoria said on
Wednesday. The CID, which
on January 9 took over the
probe into incidents of
violence at Sujapur in
Kaliachak area found the
five involved in damaging
vehicles on that day, Rajoria
said. A departmental
inquiry has also been
initiated against the
policemen.
ED ARRESTS
HYDERABAD
PROMOTER
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement
Directorate (ED) claimed on
Wednesday it had arrested the
promoter of a Hyderabad-based
company and his associate for
laundering loans worth ~1,768
crore taken from banks. Leo
Meridian Infrastructure Projects
and Hotels Ltd (LMIPHL) promoter
G S C Raju and his associate A V
Prasad were produced before a
special court in Hyderabad which
sent them to seven-day ED
custody. Till now, the Enforce-
ment Directorate has identified
and attached 3,43,17,948 shares of
the promoters, 76,62,434 benami
shares, 11 immovable properties
of Raju and his family and 38
immovable properties worth
~250.39 crore.
So farm incomes determine the
purchasing power of almost half
of India’s workforce. Food items
have a 40% weightage in India’s
CPI basket. This means that an
average Indian household spends
40% of its income on just buying
food.
There is an inherent conflict
between these two factors. If farm
prices go up faster than non-farm
prices, then farmers tend to gain.
This means they can spend more
on non-farm goods. But it entails
a squeeze on the budget of non-
farmers, who have to spend a
larger part of their incomes in
buying food. Because non-farm-
ers earn more than 80% of India’s
GDP, higher food prices are a
problem for the economy.
If farm prices are depressed
vis-à-vis non-farm prices, then
non-farmers get to spend more on
non-food items, while the farmers
experience a decline in income
and purchasing power. Because
farmers are the single biggest
occupational block in the coun-
try, a real or perceived squeeze on
their purchasing power can
translate into political anger.
This is not just an academic
problem. In a country where
farmers and food are the largest
stakeholders in the workforce
and household budgets respec-
tively, mismanaging this conflict
can have political ramifications.
The Indian state is aware of the
importance of handling this con-
tradiction. Food subsidies are the
biggest expenditure item in the
budget after interest payments
and defence. They accounted for
6.6% of the total spending in the
2019-20 Budget. According to a
2018 government release, more
than 807 million people were ben-
efitting from the Public Distribu-
tion System in India, which pro-
vides subsidised food grains at
~1/2/3 per kg. This means that a
Aaditya meets
Rahul, discusses
Maha situation
Saubhadra Chatterji
n letters@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena leader and
Maharashtra minister Aaditya
Thackeray on Wednesday met
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at
his residence here – the first such
meeting since the two parties
formed a coalition government in
Maharashtra along with Nation-
alist Congress Party in Novem-
ber last year. The meeting comes
days after the Sena skipped an
Opposition meeting on economy
and the Citizenship (Amend-
ment) Act convened by Congress
president Sonia Gandhi.
Sena functionaries said that it
was a courtesy meeting but politi-
cal issues were discussed.
The two discussed the political
situation and the economic issues
along with development plans for
Maharashtra, the functionaries
said. The meeting is aimed at
building a better rapport with
Rahul who had skipped the
swearing-in ceremony of the new
Maharashtra cabinet, they said.
Thackeray, the environment
and forest minister in the Maha-
rashtra cabinet, also met senior
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh.
The Sena chief’s son shared his
ideas on environment protection
and eco-tourism with Ramesh,
the functionaries informed. .
Check the feasibility of blue traffic
lights: HC to Maha pollution board
Badri Chatterjee
n badri.chatterjee@hindustantimes.com
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court
(HC) and the environment
department have directed the
Maharashtra Pollution Control
Board (MPCB) to check the feasi-
bility of “blue traffic light” at sig-
nals to indicate to drivers to turn
off their engines in a bid to reduce
air pollution.
The concept of the blue traffic
light was suggested by Ghatko-
par residents Shivani Khot, 20,
and her sister, Esha, 15 in 2018
that won the National level gold
medal at the National level All
India Universities Anveshan
Research Convention 2018 repre-
senting Mumbai Univeristy, and
the idea was also selected in the
top 20 projects of the Interna-
tional Sustainability Challenge of
Indian Institute of Technology-
Bombay’s Techfest last year.
According to the idea, an addi-
Understanding food price
inflation in India
CHART 1 Vegetables are a big
source of volatility
Food inflation is more stable once vegetables are
taken out from the commodity basket
CPI-Food
15
Annual growth in %
12
7.89
9
3
7.27
0 central fault line in the
-3
Feb-14
CHART 2 What has been driving
inflation recently?
Bars show % contribution of each item to
increase in headline CPI in the December quarter
Oct-19
Food
Vegetables
15.7
Onion
large section of the population is
insulated from a hike in foodg-
rain prices. Cereals alone
account for 10% of an average
household’s budget in the coun-
try. The Centre also procures a
significant share of cereals pro-
duced at remunerative prices. In
2018-19, 30% of the total rice and
wheat production was procured
by the government. Simple
speaking, the government inter-
venes directly to maintain a bal-
n People take part in Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday.
Jallikattu begins, at least
62 injured in Madurai
Press Trust of India
n letters@hindustantimes.com
MADURAI: ‘Jallikattu,’the annual
bull taming event held in parts
of Tamil Nadu, took off to a col-
ourful start on Wednesday on
the occasion of Pongal, in which
over 700 bulls and 750 partici-
pants took part.
An official said 62 men were
injured, including 34 partici-
pants and 28 spectators, of
whom eight were referred to the
Government Rajaji Hospital. No
bull was injured, he added.
Medical examination of both
the men and animals decided
their participation, he said.
tional blue light should blink for
10 seconds after the red light
comes on, and blink again for 10
seconds before the light turns
green. The first blinking light
would indicate to drivers to
switch off their engines, and the
second to turn the engines back
on. HT reported about the idea on
November 18, 2019. Over the past
year, the sisters presented this
concept to state and central agen-
cies, before writing to Maharash-
tra government and the HC in
December 2019, requesting a test-
run for the concept.
The HC registrar last week (on
Friday) asked the Maharashtra
environment department to look
into the application “appropri-
ately in accordance with law”.
The environment department on
Wednesday further directed
MPCB to study the concept and
file a report. HT has reviewed the
letters issued by the HC and the
environment department.
CPI Food without vegetables
14.12
7.35
Dec-19
Nov-19 Nov-19
65.5
69.1
72.8
36.2
41.0
48.0
20.0
29.4
Source: CMIE
ance between family budget and
farm incomes in the cereal econ-
omy.
There is no such government
intervention in the vegetable
economy. This means that when
prices crash, farmers go bank-
rupt. And, when they shoot up,
which is mostly because of crop
destruction, consumers pay
much more without there being a
concomitant rise in farmers’
incomes. Given the fact that vege-
AP
The Jallikattu at Avaniapu-
ram marks the start of the once
a year bull-taming sport in
many rural and semi-urban
regions of Tamil Nadu. Similar
events will be held at Palamedu
on Thursday and in Alanganal-
lur Friday.
If the participant manage to
hang on over the hump of the
bull for a distance, he is
declared a winner and if not, the
animal emerges the victor.
In each round, about 60 to 70
participants with colour coded
T-shirts and shorts took part.
The event was held under the
supervision of a panel, led by a
retired judge.
“This can be implemented on a
trial basis to record the drop in
traffic emissions. The concept
can be implemented at a cost of
~8,500 for each junction while the
carbon savings will be more,”
Shivani said on Wednesday.
“There is no major infrastruc-
tural change needed. The instal-
lation of a small bright blue blink-
ing retrofitted light next to exist-
ing traffic signals,” Esha added.
“This is important concept and
needs to be implemented. Vehicu-
lar idling is one of the highest
emission sources from overall
emissions coming from vehi-
cles,” said Anumita Roy Chow-
dhury, executive director
(research and advocacy), Centre
for Science and Environment.
MPCB said it has written to the
transport department to under-
stand the concept’s impact. “We
have not heard from them yet,”
said Sudhir Srivastava, chair-
man, MPCB.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
n The spike in retail inflation
in December is driven
mainly by vegetables,
especially onions because
of untimely rains
destroying crops.
n As climate change begins to
manifest itself, freak
weather events will only
increase. This will add to the
already high volatility in
food prices, especially that
of vegetables, which are
perishable in nature.
n Because food consumption
has a big share in overall
spending and farmers are
the single-largest occupa-
tional block, the tension
between high food prices
and farm incomes is a
Indian political economy.
n The PDS resolves this
contradiction for cereals,
but with rising importance
of vegetables in consump-
tion and rise in price
volatility, the Centre should
consider expanding the
public distribution system
(PDS) to cover vegetables.
table prices tend to be the most
volatile in the food basket, they
are the biggest source of disrup-
tion in the farm income-family
budget balance.
In an age in which factors
related to the climate crisis are
likely to lead to more and more
freak weather events, supply
shocks to the vegetable economy
will only increase. Given this, the
time may have come to revisit the
idea of keeping government
intervention confined to just
cereals in India’s food economy.
A decision to widen the PDS to
vegetables will involve a fiscal
cost, but it will also provide much
needed stability to the basic polit-
ical economy tension between
protecting farm incomes and
family budgets against intermit
rude shocks, which will only rise
in the future (see chart 1).
Centre postpones
deadline to notify
digital media rules
Amrita Madhukalya
n amrita.madhukalya@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: The Union govern-
ment has pushed its deadline to
notify the Intermediary Guide-
lines (Amendment) Rules, which
will define liabilities for digital
companies such as Facebook and
Google, according to an official
who said the rules will now be
disclosed around January 27-28.
In September last year, the
Supreme Court directed the gov-
ernment to give a deadline for
the notification. In an affidavit
filed in October, the ministry of
electronics and information
technology said it will complete
the notification by January 15.
“The case comes up for hear-
ing on January 28; we will notify
the Rules just around that time,”
an official told HT.
HT had last week reported
that it is likely that tweaks in the
draft could include changes in
intermediary culpability and a
redefinition of unlawful content
to include terrorism and child
sexual abuse imagery. The focus
on the liabilities of such compa-
nies intensified in 2017 following
a spate of lynching incidents that
are seen to have triggered by
rumours spread through servi-
ces such as WhatsApp. However,
several intermediaries have
expressed their reservations due
to the Indian government’s
insistence on traceability. What-
sApp, which has an estimated
400 million users in India, has
said that the changes could inter-
fere with users’ privacy.
Bandra may get London Eye-like Ferris wheel
Swapnil Rawal
n swapnil.rawal@hindustantimes.com
MUMBAI: The city could soon get
its own Ferris wheel observatory
on the lines of the one in London,
to enable tourists to capture a
bird’s eye view of Mumbai.
The state government is plan-
ning to build ‘Mumbai Eye’, a
giant Ferris wheel, at Bandra
Reclamation, deputy chief minis-
ter Ajit Pawar said. The Ferris
wheel have enclosed capsules, in
which people can sit and enjoy
the view of the area around.
Pawar said the plan was dis-
cussed during the Cabinet meet-
ing on Wednesday and it received
a nod from all ministers. “It was
discussed to have a Mumbai Eye
and other such observatories in
other cities. We keep seeing these
hindustantimes
Shah hits back at the Oppn
over economic slowdown
Amandeep Shukla
n amandeep.shukla@htlive.com
GANDHINAGAR: Hitting out at the
Opposition, Union home minister
Amit Shah said on Wednesday
that those who did little to solve
the problem of unemployment
and took the economy only to a
$2-trillion mark despite ruling for
decades were questioning the
Modi government which had
steered India to the $3-trillion
mark in five years.
Claiming that turning India
into a $5-trillion economy in the
next five years was an “achieva-
ble goal”, Shah said the Centre
was taking steps to ensure that
the youth got the required skills,
employment opportunities and
were future ready.
Speaking at the ground-break-
ing ceremony for the Indian Insti-
tute of Skills (IISs) in Gandhina-
gar, Shah said, “Those raising
questions about the economy at a
› for 50-60 years, what
time of global slowdown, I want to
remind them that it’s not like they
got little time to rule the coun-
try.”
Opposition parties, especially
the Congress, have been critical
of the government’s handling of
the economy and blame it for not
creating enough jobs. Shah, how-
ever, did not name any party in
his speech. “Back-breaking price
rise, deadly unemployment and
falling GDP has led to economic
emergency. Price of vegetables,
pulses, edible oil, cooking gas and
other items has snatched away
food from poor people. Modi has
left people’s budget tukde tukde,”
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi
tweeted on Tuesday.
Hitting out at the opposition
ANTI-CAA PROTEST IN MANGALURU
n People take part in a protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act near Mangaluru on
Wednesday. The rally, organised by the Muslim Central Committees of Dakshina Kannada and
Udupi districts, witnessed participation from thousands of people, the organisers of the march
said. In December of last year, violence broke out during an anti-CAA stir in Mangaluru, resulting
in the death of two people after receiving firearm injuries.
ON INDIGENOUS ASSAMESE
MHA gives panel 1 more
month to finalise report
HT Correspondent
n letters@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: A high-level commit-
tee, set up by the home ministry
to suggest ways for providing
constitutional safeguards to the
indigenous people of Assam, has
been given one-month extension
to submit its report, said senior
MHA officials who did not want
to be named.
According to the terms and
conditions, “the committee will
assess the appropriate level of
reservation of seats in the Assam
Legislative Assembly and local
bodies for the Assamese people.”
Assam has been witnessing
continuous protests against the
Citizenship (Amendment) Act
2019, which gives citizenship to
religious persecuted minorities
from nearby countries such as
Pakistan , Bangladesh and
Afghanistan, but omits Muslims.
There has been a growing con-
THE STATE GOVERNMENT
IS PLANNING TO BUILD
‘MUMBAI EYE’, A GIANT
FERRIS WHEEL, AT
BANDRA RECLAMATION
structures globally... We can
have it at a vacant plot in Bandra
Reclamation if there are no
Coastal Regulatory Zone issues.”
Besides London, other cities
such as Singapore, Nanchang in
China, Las Vegas have such giant
ferris wheels, which are popular
tourist attractions.
The project will be imple-
mented by the Mumbai Metropol-
itan Region Development
Authority (MMRDA). “We have
been asked to carry out the
nation
n Home minister Amit Shah and Tata Group chairman-emeritus Ratan
Tata, in Gandhinagar on Wednesday
You ruled this country
measures did you take?...
Did you find a solution
to provide employment
to the youth?
AMIT SHAH, home minister
which has been raising the issue
of unemployment, Shah said
there were some who viewed
things through a negative prism.
“When they talk about unem-
ployment, a question comes to my
mind, ‘you ruled this country for
50-60 years, what measures did
you take?’ I want to ask them all,
‘Did you find a new solution dur-
ing your 50-60 years of rule to pro-
vide employment to the youth of
this country with 130 crore popu-
lation? Is it possible that you
cern among the indigenous peo-
ple of Assam that the newly
enacted legislation will damage
their culture and economy.
Earlier, a four-member dele-
gation of the committee, headed
by Justice (Retd) Biplab Kumar
Sharma, met home minister
Amit Shah and briefed him
about the progress of its work. It
had also sought a 15-day exten-
sion to submit it’s report.
The committee was set up in
mid-July last year.
The committee, with more
than a dozen members, was set
up according to Clause 6 of the
1985 Assam Accord.
Last week, Assam chief minis-
ter Sarbananda Sonowal had
met the home minister last week
and discussed with him various
aspects of the Assam Accord’s
Clause 6, under which the cen-
tral government had promised to
provide constitutional safe-
guards to the indigenous people.
project in today’s meeting. The
location selected to explore [the
possibility] is near the Bandra
end of the sea link. We will soon
invite expressions of interest
(EoI) for the same. The MMRDA
will also seek clearances from
various departments for the
project,” said RA Rajeev, metro-
politan commissioner, MMRDA.
A MMRDA official, who was
part of the Cabinet meeting, said
the government aims to create a
new tourist attraction in the city.
“The London Eye and other pro-
jects are a huge attraction for
tourist as well as locals,” he said.
This is not the first time Maha-
rashtra government has toyed
with the idea of building the tour-
ist attraction.
In 2014, the state government
had planned it, but it did not fruc-
13
ANI
ruled for 50 years, didn’t do any-
thing new and are today seeking
answers from us?” he said.
Shah said the government had
drawn elaborate plans to skill the
youth which would turn the
country’s young population into
a major strength. “It can be
viewed as a weakness, but I think
70 crore youth are a strength,” he
said.
Industrialist Ratan Tata,
whose group is partnering the
government in setting up the
institute, said many visionary
initiatives were being taken by
the government. “I wish I was 20
years younger so that I could con-
tribute more,” Tata said.
Union minister for skill devel-
opment Mahendra Nath Pandey
also emphasised on skill develop-
ment. Gujarat chief minister
Vijay Rupani, senior state minis-
ter Nitin Patel, Union minister R
K Singh, and L&T chairman A M
Naik were among those present.
PTI
shortstories
ANTI-CAA STIR:
ASSAM CM SHOWN
BLACK FLAGS
DIBRUGARH: Assam chief minis-
ter Sarbananda Sonowal was
shown black flags by activists of
the All Assam Students’ Union
(AASU), who were protesting
against the Citizenship Amend-
ment Act (CAA) on Wednesday.
The chief minister had landed at
Dibrugarh airport and was on the
way to Chabua to celebrate
‘Bhogali Bihu’ harvest festival
with his family.
21 ARRESTED FOR
VANDALISING
RLYS PROPERTY
NEW DELHI: The Indian Railways
has identified 21 miscreants who
have been arrested so far for
being involved in vandalism and
arson of its property during the
anti-CAA protests in West Bengal,
Assam and Bihar, a senior RPF
official said, adding, recoveries to
the tune of ~87.99 crore will now
be made from them.
tify. In 2008, the Brihanmumbai
Municipal Corporation (BMC)
had proposed the idea of Mumbai
Eye. However, it did not material-
ise.
Sena legislator Ravindra Wai-
kar said he had mooted the plan
in 2008 when he was the standing
committee chairman in Mumbai
civic body, and later as a minister
int the BJP-led government.
“I had proposed and worked on
this plan. We wanted to make it
higher than any other city. We
had identified Bandra Reclama-
tion as the spot. We visited the
locations, did studies, brought in
experts, and even decided to
carry out on a public-private
partnership, but it did not materi-
alise,” Waikar said, adding, the
project could be expedited as
there is a political will now.

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Location, Farm House Facing. @
2.25 Crore. Contact: 9810053457.
VASANT VIHAR, Brand New
Construction,600sqyd, FF&TF with
Terrace, 4BHK each, Park Facing,
N/E Facing, Separate Driveway,
1 S.Q, #7838871110
GULMOHAR PARK 500yd
Bungalow for Outright Sale, Vastu
Perfect, wide rd. Exclusively through
Sharmajee Prop. Gulmohar & Niti
Bgh Mrkt. 9910061255, 9810061255
SALE OF Shop No. 18, Area 68 sq.ft.
(Opp. Mother Dairy) in DDA Shop-
ping Centre Opp. House No. 31,
Sukhdev Vihar, ND-25, Best Deal.
Contact: 9868995090
LUXURIOUS DESIGNER
floors in Vasant Kunj freehold 4
BHK with Top Amenities Park fac-
ing with lift & stilt Car Park. Bro-
kers Welcome. call 9910595137
FLOORS : Hauz Khas, GK, Safd-
arjung, Panchsheel Encl 200/250/
300y Value for Money/ 300y 3rd
Flr+Terrace,5 yr old @ 4.25. Floor
Heights 9013000630, 9873111411
G.K.-I, 208 Sq Yds, Rear Park view,
Second Floor 3 BHK with Separate
Gate Car Parking,Wide Road,Modern
Const, High End Specs, Reasonable
Price. Nitin Maggo 9810201939
VASANT KUNJ Institutional Inde-
pendent building rented to Canadian
School & Corporate NGO: 11 Lacs,
Lock in 3years, 15000sft. Return 6%
Authorized Owner 9818560977
FOR SALE Aradhna Enclave
375 Sq.Yds Bungalow Prime
Location 6 Beds (Broker Excuse)
Contact 9643080590
RENTED
FRESH LEASE
TENANT US MNC
Location
Golf Course Ext. Road
Building Centra One
Area 3000 sqft
Rent RS 240000 PM
Lease 9 Yrs
Lockin 3 Yrs
Sale @ 4.26 Cr
OWNER
9810404394
GUEST HOUSE'S for Sale in
South Delhi - Kalkaji Ext., Chirag
Encl, Lajpat Nagar Ring Rd, East
of Kailash, Green Park. Sunil
Batra - 9910003177, 9910103177
VASANT VIHAR 600 BMT+GF,N/E,
Nr Park, 800 TF+T. N/F, Wide Road
Booking Reputed Builder, 400 GF,
N/Facing, Bungalow 600 N/Facing-
Park. C-6, Vasant Vihar 9899755500
WESTEND, 1200 sq.yds,
clear title Independent Bungalow
available on Immediate Sale
@ 75 cr. Negotiable. Contact
Vijay 9800010211
VASANT KUNJ For Sale 450
sq.yd. building, 2 side open, 3 Phase
Electricity Conn., Regularised
Colony. Rate-2.25/sq.yd.
Ph: 9953774092
HOUSE FOR- Sale Hauz Khas
Enclave 500 sq.yds. S.D.A 500
sq.yds and 800 sq.yds. Grover and
Associates (Real Estate Services)
9810173911, 26961118, 26511118
VASANT VIHAR, Bungalow,
Area 625yds, Park/North Facing, On
Wide Road, Freehold also Sunder
Nagar, Bungalow, Area 867yds
#7838871114
VASANT VIHAR 600 -
East & Park Facing - Independent
House, Rajesh 9810014771,
Amrit 9810019279.
ANAND NIKETAN 250 Sq
Yrd, Bldr Floor, 3BHK, Top Floor+
Terrace, East Facing, Park View,
Stilt, Lift, Power Backup @ 5.6Cr.
@ 9650047191.
SOUTH DELHI
GK-1 CORNER 500 yards
3rd floor with terrace 4BHK
park facing independent
parking value for money.
Ashish Sharma 9811996939
GK-2, EAST /Park Facing, 300yds,
B+GF, @4.25Cr, GK-1, TF, 500Yds,
4 br, @5cr and Kailash Colony, FF,
4Br, @4.85cr, more details
#7838871114
VASANT VIHAR, 400 sq.yds.,
North East Facing, Independent
Building comprising 16 Bedrooms.
Immediate Sale. Salwan Real Estate:
9810062871, 9800010211
MALVIYA NAGAR 75/100/125/150
/ 200 Yds, Freehold All Floors 2/3
BHK, Ready/U.Const also Shivalik
200 Yds, All Floors 3 BHK, Ready/
U.Const. 9811191901, 8447888784
RENTED COMMERCIAL
Property Available for sale in
Saket District Centre, Delhi.
Contact Owner: 8130102222 /
9910054918
VALUE FOR money, Aradhana Apa-
rtments,Adjoining Chankyapuri, best
Resi multistorey building of South/
Central Delhi, Builtup 2200ft. 8.49Cr
(Nego) 9891483481, 9625244883
GREATER KAILASH 1, 500 yds
Second with entire terrace with lift 4
Beds,Att. Baths, D/D,Kitchen, Vaastu
complaint,Drive way car prkg @ 7cr .
Gagan :9971298498, 7703913734.
DEFENCE COLONY, Park Facing,
First Floor, Lift, Vastu Perfect, 217yd
4 years Old Like New, 3 BHK, SQ,
1650 ft, PBU, 2 Car Parking in Stilt,
9810407156 Hemendra Rathore.
ANAND NIKETAN 375 SF & TF+
Terrace Corner N/E Facing Park
Wide Road, Vasant Vihar 800 BMT+
GF, N/E, Wide Road, 5 Car Parking.
C-6, Vasant Vihar. Call 9899755500
LAJPAT NAGAR, com. Road,
L/G/F/Area 1100,sq ft., Entry F&B.
5feet , Life time conversion paid,
7,50,000/, Rent Getting 47000/,sale
1.10cr. # 9319702424, 9868201120
SHIVALIK BRAND New 217 Sq.Yd.
GF & Bsmt 3BHK, N/E/Park Facing
Lift, SQ with C.C, Resr. 2 Car Prkg,
Sarvodaya Enclave 300 Sq.Yd.
4 BHK GF & Bsmt # 9910333322.
C.R PARK Adj Gurudwara Road,
G.K.-II, Lower G/F, 7 steps down,
2 side entry, pantry, toilet, all toug-
hened glass partitions. # 85272-
12424, 9810062660, 9868201120
WNTD COLLABORATIONS in
Vasant vhr,GK,Hauzkhas,Green park
Gulmohar park, Panchsheel, SDA,
Anand, Shanti Niketan, Jorbagh,Golf
links,Defence Colony. 9999503595 .
COMMERCIAL / SCO Corner Plots
253 sq.yds on 45 Mtr & 24 Mtr Rd in
Sec-83, BPTP Faridabad. @ 2.10Cr.
80% Bank Loan available
# 9968246753, 8750406672
CHHATARPUR, SATBADI Plots
1008 sy Rs35000 per sy, Jonapur
1008 sy Rs 17000 To 22000 per sy,
Deramandi plots 1008 sy Rs
15000per sy, Call: 9910087786.
VIKRAM VHR GF 3BHK Cnr/CC; CR
Park (233) SF Stilt/Park @2.85 Cr;
South X1(220) SF&TF New@2.75;
GK2(250) SF Lift @2.90-more @
lamaisonz.com - 9818-888-333.
ANAND NIKETAN, 270 sq.yds.
North East Facing, Independent
Building on stilt, 12 Bedrooms
D/D & Basement. Immediate Sale.
Contact D Salwan: 9810034566
NEW DELHI, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2020
SOUTH DELHI
GK-II : 250y Park view pair of SF+TF+
Tr with lift,stilt 3Bhk each@8 & 250y
Brand New FF 3Bhk, Excl.Gate@4.21
also GK-I 208y N-E fac New FF 3BHK,
Rich Specs @3.60.# 9873293169
VASANT KUNJ C-1 GF, FF, SF cor,
park fac,C-2 GF,FF,SF cor,C-3 GF, FF,
C-8 GF,FF,C-9 G/F Dup, F/S Dup, Sec
with terrace, B-1 G/F,F/S,S/T Dup, D-
2 GF, D-3 FF, SF Sunny 9971234411
2BR FLAT with attached bath,
D/D, Furnish, Modular kitchen, Lift,
Parking, Laldora, Registry, Neb
Sarai, IGNOU Road, Near Saket
Metro @ 34.5L. # 9968246753
SALE BUNGALOWS Sarvpriya
Vihar 200yd Park Facing N/E Also;
Safdarjung Enclave 300yd 3 storied
N/E Both Freehold Suit Self User/
Builder. Sanjay Malik 9810039071.
GREATER KAILASH 300Yds
Top flr+terr Gdn. 4Beds D/D Lou-
nge Qtr. Pkg lift Top of Line Const
N/E Fac. Ready Going Cheap Pav-
neet 9811036030, 9999926224.
KOTHI : P'Sheel Park 800y N-Block;
Niti Bagh 325y P/F; SDA 450 Corner;
Swami Nagar 1000y Cnr P/F; Anand
Lok 400 P/F; Def 325y; GK-I, 1000y;
Maharani Bgh 500y. SR 9999996725
FLR : Maharani Bagh 500 SF Cnr P/F
8.5;Grn Park Ext 465 SF @7; Chirag
Enc 500 FF 8.5; Niti Bgh 500 SF 8.75;
GK-I, 500 TF+T@7.5; H.KhasEnc 670
Cnr FF+SF @ 12.5. SR 9999996725
TAJ APPTS (Shanti Nktn)
3 Beds Duplex 2200sqft @4.5CR
Westend 500 Yds F.Flr @ 12 CR
Golf Links 1250 Yds Bungalow
Aman Bajaj 98100-81588
DLF − SUSHANT LOK
UDYOG VIHAR phase 5 ,( near
NH8, India bulls) 1000 meter build-
ing for sale covered area 27000 sft
(30 meter wide road) for further de-
tails. Cont: 9811131131, 9811165758
DLF-4 360YDS fully loaded
4bhk ultra modern New luxury
Top floor for sale with Terrace.
ready to move. NSS Realtor
9810047003
DLF CITY-I / 300 Yard Duplex /
5 BHK/ D.D./ Beautiful / Ready to
move house / Park Facing / Ample
Parking / Price @5.50 Cr.
Call - 9811068621
APARTMENTS
FOR SALE
Park Place
Belaire
Crest
Aralias
Magnolias
Housing Solutions (P) Ltd.
9810090598, 9312110788
VILLAS-DUPLEX D.L.F. 502y @
7.10cr/ 300y @ 5.25cr, S.City-1 502y
@ 6cr/ 360y @ 5.20cr, Suncity 360y
@ 5.8cr Call Opaks - 9711406261.
FOR SALE Plot Size-333 Sq.yds
D-blk Defense colony main Rd,Mo
olchand Side, Prime location, sur-
rounded by comm bldgs @40 Cr
nego. 9811022205, 9990065550.
DLF CITY- II 251 yards Plot,
North facing, top location. Also
DLF City Ph-1, 502yards corner, 18
meter. 9810149964/ 9810431734
AVAILABLE FOR Sale in Sahara
Grace, 4 BHK on Higher Floor and
Lower Floor. For more details
please contact - Sam Estate:
9910498067
PARK PLACE -2704 Sq.ft, 4 B.rooms,
3 covered car parking, Aravali facing,
DLF Icon-2600 Sqft, 4 B.rooms, 2
covered car parking, road facing.
Contact Owner 9650348739
GREENWOOD CITY @108k
/yds only 360 sq yd Plot for sale.
North facing. excellent location.
NSS Realtor 9810047003
DLF − SUSHANT LOK
UDYOG VIHAR phase 5 , (nr NH8/
trident ,oberoi hotels) 600 meter
corner building for sale covered
area 15000 sft. for further details
kindly cont: 9811131131, 9811165758
DLF ALAMEDA Plots Available at
Best Loc.-250/538/700syd St.-A1, A5
A8,B2,B3,B4,C2,C3,D2,D4,D1,D8 Nor-
th /East & Park. 60k P.S.yd onwards.
Sabharwal 9811196453/9811196843
FOR SALE, Sec-51 Gated Laxotica
Society GF 3BHK+D/D & First floor
400 sq.ft. Shop Galleria Market,
Key in hand. Call # 9811449840.
DLF CITY Ph-1 Plot 500 sq.yd.
on A-48 road North-East facing,
18 mtr road @ 1.42 Lac per sq.yd.
Brokerage minimum @ 1%. Call
9810011187
GUEST-HOUSES ON Comm./
Legal Sector road approved lo-
cations, Sec- 52, 502y, 28 rooms +
expandable. More opts. available/
wanted. Opaks - 9999406261.
DLF, SUSHANT Lok, South City,
Sun City, Buy / Sell Plots, Houses,
Builder Floors, Shops & Offices.
Contact Fairdeals (A Real Estate
Consultancy) DLF-I. # 9810014398
INVESTMENT IN pre rented
properties (Top MNC's, Reputed
Retail Brands, Banks, shops.) Inv.
Starts 40L to 20Cr! ROI upto
9.00% Call # 7303125072
FOR SALE-BPTP Astaire Garden
Sec-70A, SPR Gurgaon. Plot size 250
sqyrd Basement+GF, 80% occupied.
Ready to move in Luxurious Floor,
Block-B #8447107198, 9810554213
LUXURY BUILDER Floor 3/4 BHK
DLF-I/2/4, S.Lok-I south city, Green-
wood, 300/400/500yd stilt parking,
100% P/B, Park, Corner gated Sabh-
arwal # 9810099174 ,9999234687
RENTED BUILDING/ Factory for
sale in udyog vhr/IMT manesar (
budget 6 cr to 100 cr) rent 3 lac to
70 lac per month (confirm & genu-
ine deals)#9811131131, 9811165758
SOUTH CITY-I Floor wise Kothi 9br
with Lift, 240yd P-blk, Excl loc, Gat-
ed Lane, DLF-II Old Livable House
well mntd 300yd Excl loc. attractive
price. 9716914000, 9810456475
AVAILABLE PLOTS DLF-I, II
Size: 200/ 270/ 300/ 500 Syd,
DLF-IV 270/ 360/ 500 Syd & Sushant
Lok-I 300/ 418/ 500/ 800 Syd. Star
Shine Realtors 9910985500
B'FUL FLOORS Stilt/Lift/Servant,
DLF-1 316y 2-side-open @1.9cr only
& DLF-2 park facing duplex 300y @
2.30. Call Opaks - 9711406261.
ON THURSDAY
DLF − SUSHANT LOK
LUXURY FLOOR and kothi For
sale 3/4/5/6 Bhk,DLF -l, ll, lll, lV,
Sushant Lok-1 215,250,300,400,
500 sq.yd. For More details
call 9873273997, 9971722223
SUPER LUXURIOUS Floors, A-199
Sushant Lok-2, 4BHK, Lift, Stilt North
Facing, Vaastu complaint, Park facing
Price U.GF@ 1.65Cr, FF & SF @ 1.60 Cr
TF (Terrace) @ 1.70Cr. Ph: 9818192111
SALE SHOP cum showroom DLF 1
Arjun Marg Shopping Mall 1550 sq ft
G Fl. Upto 8% returns. Reasonable
price. Full chk acceptable. Call /
Whatsapp 9818935905. Brokers
welcome
B'NEW_FLOORS LIFT & stilt.
S.Lok-3 gated 240y@1.40, Sec. 27
@ 1.55cr, S.Lok-2 300y @1.50cr,
S.Lok-2 180y @1.15cr, Sec. 56 204
@1.25cr. Opaks - 9999706261.
VATIKA CITY, Sohna Rd 4 BHK
Apartment in Jasminium Beautifully
renovated with modular kitchen &
Valley View 3 BHk both for Sale
Owner 9810010681, 8588860933.
UDYOG VIHAR phase 1 ( near Nh8,
trident/ oberoi hotels) 2100 meter
plot for sale (250 % FAR) best for
rental income/corporate office,
kindly cont: 9811131131, 9811165758
EXCELLENT
RENTED PROPER TY
IN ONE OF THE BEST RETAIL
PROJECT IN GURUGRAM
Tenant:
LOOKS SALON
HALDIRAM’S
Area Available:
MULTIPLE AREA AVAILABLE
(Front Facing)
CONTACT
9810554213
PACE CITY ( sector 37 , near hero
honda chowk/ Nh8) 250 meter
industrial plot for sale ( wide road/
east facing) for further details kindly
contact 9811131131, 9811165758.
SUSHANT LOK-I: (Laburnum
) Pent house apartment for sale
6800 Sq.ft, 5BR + DD + 2 Servant
Qtr.+ 2 Car Parking. Cont: Ravi
9810294388.
450 SQ.YD Corner C-2 Block
Sushant Lok-I 18 mtr. wide road
North East facing Plot Gated area
Call:- Mohit Kukreja 9810417349
FOR SALE / Collaboration 316,
400, 500yd prime plots on Mouls
ari Rd, Siris Rd & Nathupur Rd in
DLF-III@attractive price. Sumin-
dra Prop9810165528, 9810165532
SUSHANT LOK-2 500 Sq yd
Plot. Incredible location, North
facing on 18 Mtr Road. NSS Real-
tor 9810047003
FOR ENQUIRY CONTACT: 011-66561389/66561161
DLF − SUSHANT LOK
DLF-1 PLOT A-25 line 1022yds
North East & Green facing @15cr
plot 502yards 12mtr Road N/W
facing @7.5cr # Indo Scottish
9990008392
DESIGNER FLRS 3/4 BHK@1.40 Cr
onwards in S.Lok, DLF-1/2/4, South
City-1, Greenwood with stilt pkg/lift,
Modular Kitchen, Marble Flooring &
ACs, gated with PB. # 9990305533
AVAILABLE FOR Sale high
end luxurious builder floors &
Designer kothi of 316syd at Plot
rates in prime locations of DLF-
1&2. Contact 9999881156
DLF CITY-I confirm Plot 360
syd North-East & Park facing in D-
block @1.80 lac per syd. Surendra
Properties 4, Poorvi Marg, DLF
Ph-II, 9810980000, 9910980000
DLF-IV 270Y North @ 125k/360y
North@130k/500y north/gated plots
Sushant Lok-1 813/502yd park fac/
418/300 North/ East fac A,B & C-Blk,
215y gated 9810099171,9958492130
GURUGRAM
1500-50000 SQFT, Warmshell /
fully furnished office spaces
available on lease in Udyog Vihar /
MG Road/Sohna Road @ 40rs/sqft
#8447097773
SOUTH CITY-1, plot & builtup
180 yds. block A & 360 yds block G
& 500 block H, J and K many other
Direct options # Indo Scottish
9990009777
TULIP VIOLET, Sector-69,
Gurgaon, 4-BHK, Unit No. A12/201,
2010 Sqft. with 2 covered car
parking Ready to Move, Immediate
Sale- Bharat 9999101489
3000SQFT, FULLY Furnished
Office Space Available on lease in
DLF City Court @ 75rs/sqft, More
options available #8447097773
GURUGRAM
40000SQFT, FULLY Furnished
Office Space Available on lease in
Udyog Vihar @ 25rs/sqft
#8447097773
AVAILABLE FOR Sale 502 sq.
yards Plot on 18 meter wide Road,
Siris Road, DLF Phase-3 Gurgaon.
Contact:- 9891700500
REQD. PLOT or Kothi (500 sqyds)
for outright purchase on Arjun, Pas-
chimi, Sukhchain Marg (s), & Ashoka
Crescent, DLF1. Other Ph 1 blocks
(500,300,270) only corner/ park fac-
ing. CI Mr. Praveen at 7827808318.
2500SQFT, FULLY Furnished
Office Space Available on lease in
Ninex Time Center @ 80rs/sqft with
2 Free car parking #8447097773
RENTED PROPERTY- Axis Bank
2.45L. IOB 3.0L. Samsung 3.8L. HDFC
3.5L. Bikaner 4.2 L. Multiplex 11.45L.
Motel 18.0L. 9810327243,
9582262519
TULIP VIOLET, Sector-69,
Gurgaon, 4-BHK, Unit No. A12/101,
2010 Sqft. with two covered car
parking Ready to Move, Immediate
Sale - Abhishek 9582648522
RENTED COMMERCIAL
Property Available For Sale On
Golf Course Extn. Road. Contact
Owner: 8130102222 /
9910054918
MAPLE HEIGHT, C-Block, Sushant
Lok Phase-1, Gurugram, available
2 Bedrooms attach bath, D/D. Site
Visit on Sunday: 11.00am to 5.00pm.
Salwan: 9810034566, 9810062871
RDY BLDG Leasing Started M3M
Tee Point office space, Golf Course
Ext. Ggn. 595 sft, Assured Return
of Rs77/-Post Possession of Rs70/-
@Rs.10000/-Per sft. 9810096962
FARIDABAD
FARIDABAD HUDA Sectors, 14,
15, 16, 17, 19, 28, 29, 30, 31, 21A, 21B,
21C 21D, 45, 46 Plots, Kothies, Floors
Sunil Properties 199/21C # 98100-
18730, 9810483108, 0129-4041874
BPTP PARKLAND Sector-75
Faridabad, Plot size 500 sq.yards /
R-Block Best Location. Call:
9873340866, 011-43004300
GREENFIELD SUPER Delux Flat:
3br/4br (s.u.) lift & S.pkg. (90%loan)
@68 to 82,resale flat. 2BR,3BR (D.U.)
cash @ 24 to 42, 3BR (S.U.) + loan @
49 to 54. Chirag Prop. 9811031478
FOR SALE in Sector - 27, Faridabad,
2800 Sq. Yds. Industrial Plot, built
16000 sq. ft. Contact : 7668676686
FOR SALE in Sector - 57, Faridabad,
9400 Sq. Yds. clu granted Industrial
Plot, Contact : 7668676686
NOIDA/GREATER NOIDA
FOR SALE Industrial Plots/Building
208/372/416/800 sqmtr. Sectors
2,3,6,7,9,10 and 490/800/1800
sqmtr. Sectors 57,60,63,67.
Contact: 9711099993
450SQ.MT TO 10,000sq.mt
Factory, Plot, Shed, Warehouse For
Sale/Rent, in Greater-Noida. For
more information #7838801113
PLOT FOR Sale JP wish Town Sec-
tor-128 Noida Plot Size 239sq.yrd &
Residential Flat at Krescent Homes
with Clean Title, Good Location.
Call: 9873340866, 43004300
INDUSTRIAL SHED available for
sale 450mtr Sector- 63 Noida corner
very prime location reasonable
price. Brokers excuse. Call:
Kundan: 9971831792
GR. NOIDA Buy/Sell Resi.,Comm. & SAKET COURTYARD 1571 ft.
Indust.plots,built up Houses. chi phi,
Eta & all sectors. also avail Yamuna
Expway plots 300-4000 sm. lowest
Price. Aggarwal Prop 9999112002
FOR SALE IT/Corporate plots/
Building 1000/2000/4000 sqmtr
Sector-136 Contact: 9350037810
NOIDA/GREATER NOIDA
VERY PRIME location Industrial
property for sale Noida Phase 2 size
approx 15000mtr. Contact only
buyer, broker excuse. Call:
8800115194
FOR SALE!!! 338sq mt Corner
Residential Plot in Sector-40,
Completion,One time lease rent
paid, N/W Facing, Near Metro
Station. #7838871119
NEW INDUSTRIAL Building
Phase-1 800mtr and Industrial Plot
Sector-63 1000mtr on 30mtr road.
Prime Location & Near Metro.
Contact: 9717544000
INDUSTRIAL SHED for sale/
Phase -2/size 4300mtr. Big wide
road. Very reasonable price.
Contact Mehra: 9810379410
SALE INDL Bulg 1000mt, D-Blk
Sec-63, Co. Transfer, 18mt Rd Rent
3.5L @7.75Cr & Resi. plot 300mt
Sec-100, Corner, Park Face #
9811047847, 9810047847
250SQ MT Completion and 1 time
lease rent paid plot for sale in
Sector-46, N/W Facing Near by
metro station. for more details
#7838871119
3300 SQ. Ft. Ground Floor at ATS
Greens, Chi-4, Greater Noida. 4
Bedroom, 5 Toilets, Servant Qtr., 2
Car Prkg. Two Lawns of 1700 Sq. Ft.
Cont: Owner Sanjay Kohli 9810125390
NOIDA / Greater Noida Sale/Purcha-
se Yamuna Expressway, Resi. plots
Size-300, 500, 1000, 2000, 4000 &
Noida Extn. Plots Sec-2,3 & Ind. Plots
Raj Estate-9811842931, 9810022874
162SQ MT Brand New Kothi for
Sale in Sec-30 Noida, 6bhk with
Stilt parking, Excellent location,
wood work done, Nr Metro Station
#7838871119
GR. NOIDA / Yamuna Exp.Buy/Sell,
Resi./Ind. Plots. Alpha, Beta, Gama,
Delta, P-3, S.Nagri, Omicron, Sec-2, 3
& Sec-18,20 Cont: Ghar Sansar Prop-
erties #9818341540, 9871015111.
INDEPENDENT BUNGALOW
(250 sq.mtr area) for sale in Noida
Sector 56, Built in Ground plus two
floors. Call: 8383056210 or
01204169489.
PROPERTY FOR sale size
450 mtr. Sector 65 Noida distress
sale only genuine buyer. Contact:
Vimal: 9810394710
2100 MTR Hiway facing & 4000mtr
Sec-63 & 3000 Mtr sec-80, 4000mtr
corporate plot sec-153, Resi 450mtr
sec-92, 44 & 47 Kothi 450mtr
Sec-44 # 9871146434, 9811701783.
ONE OF the best location with 5 year
payment plan option (a) corner
green belt facing 450mtr Sec-99
(b) corner North/East facing 300mtr
sec-31 # 9810253914, 8860017999.
BUY/ SELL/ Rent Noida Plots
Gr. Noida / Yamuna Industry Office
/Shop IT/ ITES/Shade Corporate
/Factory/ Building Warehouse
Call 9971847626, 9911714666
SEC-44, NOIDA Completion plot
of 300 mts on 18mts Rd, East facing,
going cheap. We specialize in Plots
& Kothis in Noida. Best Properties
M: 98 100 88 635
NAINITAL
RAMA LAKE Breeze City - Bhimtal,
100/200 sq.yds plots @7200/-per
sqyds and 1 BHK Apartment @15 L
only. Registration open Rs. 11000/-,
Balance in 2 years. (All Facilities)
Contact : 9310610845
GOA
FOR SALE North Goa-Calangute
1100 Sq.Mtr. & Anjuna 1725 Sq.Mtr.
Sanctioned Plots, Clear Title.
Walking Distance to Beach.
Contact: 9958370705, 9999914102
ACCOMMODATION
WANTED
INDUSTRIAL
PROPERTY
INDL- PLOTS- @ New-Bombay
Thane Raigarh Palgarh Pune District
1000 Sq Meters to 1000 ACERS
Price 1000/- Per Sq Meter Onward
Lucky Group- 9820048631
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shortstories
PAST DECADE
WAS HOTTEST
ON RECORD,
REVEALS UN
GENEVA: The past decade has
been the hottest on record, the
UN said on Wednesday, warning
that the higher temperatures
were expected to fuel numerous
extreme weather events in 2020
and beyond. The World Meteoro-
logical Organization, which based
its findings on analysis of interna-
tional data sets, said increases in
global temperatures had dire
consequences, pointing to
“retreating ice, record sea levels,
increasing ocean heat, acidifica-
tion and extreme weather”. AFP
CHINA SHAPING
OPINIONS ABROAD:
U.S. WATCHDOG
BEIJING: The Communist Party of
China has expanded its ability to
shape media narratives about the
country across the world, includ-
ing in India, US watchdog Free-
dom House has claimed. It has
urged governments to impose
penalties on “transgressions” by
Chinese officials who apparently
try to shape opinions overseas.
“Impose penalties for transgres-
sions by Chinese officials,” the US
monitor said in a report titled
Beijing’s Global Megaphone. HTC
TSAI WARNS
CHINA: WE’RE
INDEPENDENT
TAIPEI: China must
rethink its hardline stance
towards Taiwan, Presi-
dent Tsai Ing Wen said
on Wednesday, as she
warned the island was
already independent and
that any invasion would
be “very costly” for
Beijing. Tsai won a second
term over the weekend
with a record 8.2 million
votes, an outcome that
was seen as a forceful
rebuke of China’s ongoing
campaign to isolate the
self-ruled island. China’s
leadership had made no
secret of its desire to see
Tsai muscled out of
power. AFP
TRUMP TO APPLE:
OPEN IPHONES
OF TERRORIST
WASHINGTON: US President
Donald Trump called for Apple to
“step up to the plate” and
suggested the company unlock
iPhones used by the gunman
behind the December 6 terrorist
attack on a Florida Navy base.
Trump said the US govt helps
Apple on trade, so in return, the
Cupertino, California-based
technology giant should unlock
phones used by “criminal ele-
ments”. BLOOMBERG
EMERGENCY-HIT
JET DUMPS FUEL
ON L.A. SCHOOL
LOS ANGELES: A Delta airliner
experiencing mechanical trouble
dumped jet fuel onto a school in
the Los Angeles area, leaving 20
students with minor injuries.
Delta Flight 89 took off from Los
Angeles en route to Shanghai on
Tuesday and was forced to turn
back due to engine trouble. The
plane landed safely at noon after
dumping its fuel, which fell onto a
wide area, including Park Avenue
Elementary School, located 25km
east of the airport. About 20
children and 11 adults complaining
of skin irritation at the school
were treated on the spot. AFP
Weekend outing gets Hitler lookalike into trouble
Agence France-Presse
n letters@hindustantimes.com
BERLIN:German police said on
Tuesday they were investigat-
ing after a man dressed as
Adolf Hitler rode around a
weekend festival in a motor-
bike sidecar, although he pro-
voked more amusement than
outrage - including from a
local policeman.
“When people dress up as
Adolf Hitler, an investigation
is always necessary,” a
spokesman for Saxony police
told news agency DPA on
Monday.
The fake Fuehrer appeared
at a classic motorcycle gather-
ing in Augustusburg, near
Chemnitz, and was seen in
Zarif: Soleimani’s death
a blow in fight against IS
RAISINA DIALOGUE Iranian foreign minister opens up on US-Iran crisis; meets Indian prime minister
Rezaul H Laskar
n rezaul.laskar@htlive.com
NEW DELHI: The killing of Iranian
general Qasem Soleimani in a US
drone strike represents a major
setback for the campaign against
the Islamic State (IS), which
poses a threat to India from its
bases in Afghanistan, Iran’s for-
eign minister Javad Zarif said on
Wednesday.
Zarif accused European pow-
ers of violating the 2015 Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action
(JCPOA) or the Iranian nuclear
deal, and questioned the useful-
ness of fresh negotiations on the
nuclear issue with Washington,
especially after US President
Donald Trump’s withdrawal
from the deal.
Referring to the killing of Solei-
mani in a US drone strike outside
the Baghdad airport on January
3, Zarif told the Raisina Dialogue,
a think tank event in New Delhi
backed by India’s external affairs
ministry, “I think the war against
Daesh (another name for the
Islamic State) just suffered a
major setback, and Daesh just
won a major victory.
DAESH IS NOW ‘CLOSER’
TO INDIA, WARNS ZARIF
“Now Daesh is closer to you
(India) and to us than we all hope
or wish. Daesh is in Afghanistan,
not only as splinter groups but
with territory. They started occu-
pying the same territory from
which Taliban started,” he said.
Zarif called for creating a new
coalition against the IS because
the current coalition used its
bases in Iraq to “kill the most
effective anti-Daesh general”.
The US should show it wants to
fight Daesh because the only peo-
ple celebrating the death of Solei-
Govt resigns after Putin ‘Humans could become vectors’
calls for major shake-up
Bloomberg
n letters@hindustantimes.com
MOSCOW:Russian President Vlad-
imir Putin replaced his long-serv-
ing prime minister and called for
sweeping constitutional changes,
fuelling speculation that the
country’s leader is moving to
extend his grip on power beyond
the end of his term in 2024.
The constitution now requires
Putin to step down as president
then but he could take on another
post to ensure his continued
influence. Putin hasn’t com-
mented on his plans and his pro-
posals didn’t include any over-
hauls that would have created a
new post for him. But the shifts
could reduce the sweeping pow-
ers currently held by the presi-
dent, potentially reining in any
successor while making other
bodies more influential.
Putin gave little public expla-
nation for the dramatic and unex-
pected upheaval, which saw
Dmitry Medvedev, one of his
most loyal lieutenants, ousted
after nearly eight years in office.
Medvedev became PM in 2012
after stepping down as president
to make way for Putin’s return to
the Kremlin. He will take a new
position as deputy chairman of
the Security Council, reporting to
Putin.
Putin later nominated Mikhail
Mishustin, 53, a low-profile tech-
nocrat who heads the federal tax
service, as his successor, the
‘FUHRER’ ARRESTED
n The Hitler impersonator (left) in the bike’s sidecar.
videos of the event posted
online.
He sported a toothbrush
moustache and was seated in
the sidecar of a bike driven by
mani are Daesh and Trump, he
said.
He questioned the US claim of
Iran using proxies around the
world by contending there were
protests in “430 Indian cities”
against what he called the “assas-
sination of a revered general”.
The “arrogance” of the US is
“fuelling mayhem” and could
lead to disaster, he added.
The JCPOA is not dead but
Trump’s withdrawal from the
deal put a question mark over
fresh negotiations with the US, he
said. “I had a US deal and the US
broke it. If I have a Trump deal,
how long will it last? Another 10
months?” he added.
British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson has called for Trump to
replace the 2015 deal with a new
pact to ensure Iran doesn’t get
nuclear weapons. Trump, who
abandoned the pact in 2018 and
re-imposed economic sanctions
on Iran, has agreed with John-
son’s suggestion.
IRAN NOT INTERESTED IN
NEGOTIATING WITH U.S.
Iran is interested in diplomacy,
but not in negotiating with the
US, Zarif said a day after Britain,
France and Germany initiated a
dispute mechanism process and
accused Iran of violating the
terms of the JCPOA. The future of
the pact rests on Europe, he said.
Zarif accused the European
powers of violating their commit-
ments under the JCPOA after
being bullied by the US. “They are
not buying oil from us, all of their
companies have withdrawn from
Iran. So Europe is in violation,”
he said.
Noting that the EU is the larg-
est global economy, he asked, “So
why do you allow the US to bully
you around?”
n Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and outgoing Prime Minister
Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow.
Kremlin said.
The reshuffle shocked even
some top officials, with the
speaker of the lower house of par-
liament interrupting a meeting
with legislative leaders to con-
firm the news, according to a per-
son familiar with the session.
It came after Putin outlined a
raft of proposed constitutional
changes in his state-of-the-nation
address on Wednesday, aimed at
strengthening the roles of parlia-
ment and other government bod-
ies.
The two men appeared on state
television in a choreographed
announcement to tell ministers of
Medvedev’s departure and the
resignation of the government.
VIDEO GRAB
a man dressed as a 1940s-era
soldier, complete with a
World War 2-style helmet.
In the video people are
heard laughing as the pair
n Protesters hold up a photo of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani
during an anti-US rally in Tehran.
AFP/FILE
The reforms set out by Putin
will mean “fundamental
changes” to the constitution “and
the balance of power,” Medvedev
said. “In these circumstances, I
think it would be right for the gov-
ernment to resign,” he said.
Putin, 67, said the government
hasn’t fulfilled all of its tasks,
though “I want to express my sat-
isfaction at what was achieved.
Not everything was successful of
course but it never totally is”.
For the moment, the govern-
ment will remain in place while
Putin decides on replacements.
Mishustin’s nomination is sub-
ject to parliamentary confirma-
tion, but that’s a formality as the
ruling party has a majority.
pass by and a policeman
guarding the event pulls out
his phone to take photos.
The officer could now face
consequences for his failure
to step in. “We would have
expected our colleague to put
a stop to all this without the
least hesitation,” the Saxony
police spokesman said.
Saxony premier Michael
Kretschmer also condemned
the Hitler pantomime. “Dress-
ing up as a mass murderer is
more than just bad taste,” he
tweeted. “This kind of behav-
iour is unacceptable and
shouldn’t be repeated.”
The officer seen laughing at
the impersonator was sum-
moned for a meeting with his
superiors .
BLOOMBERG
C H I N A B R E A K S S I L E N C E O N C O R O N AV I R U S O U T B R E A K
Sutirtho Patranobis
n spatranobis@htlive.com
BEIJING:For the first time, Chinese
health authorities have said that
it is possible that the new corona-
virus, which has sparked fears of
an outbreak as hundreds of mil-
lions begin travelling in China
and outside for the upcoming Chi-
nese New Year (CNY) holidays,
could be passed through human
contact. However, they said the
risk of person-to-person trans-
mission is still low.
At least one person has been
killed and dozens infected by the
new virus, which can cause respi-
ratory illness and influenza-type
symptoms. Among the 41 people
infected so far, there is at least one
couple.
The announcement from
Whan city’s health authorities in
Despite high risks, villagers
make volcano their home
n Lightning flashes as the Taal volcano erupts, as seen from Tagaytay, the Philippines.
TALISAY,PHILIPPINES:It’s the second-
most active volcano in the Philip-
pines, a designated permanent
danger zone long declared off-
limits to human settlements. Yet
to more than 5,000 people, the
Taal volcano is still home.
A lush island dotted with doz-
ens of craters in the middle of a
lake, the volcano roared into
action on Sunday with an erup-
tion that shot rocks, ash and
steam miles into the sky just
hours after the inhabitants of its
four villages fled on boats. A man
who defied warnings to sneak
IT IS STILL TOO EARLY TO SAY THAT THE
CEASEFIRE HAS FALLEN APART.
> HULUSI AKAR, Turkish defence minister, on the failed Libya peace deal
‘Crisis triggered by
assassination led
to accidental
downing of jet’
NEWDELHI: Iran’s foreign minister
Javad Zarif believes the crisis
triggered by Iranian commander
Qasem Soleimani’s killing led to
the accidental shooting down of a
Ukrainian airliner by Iran’s secu-
rity forces on January 8, killing
all 176 people on board.
“Why did it happen? Because
there was a crisis. People make
mistakes, unforgivable mistakes
but it happened in the time of the
crisis,” Zarif said.
He acknowledged that lack of
clarity on the shooting down of
the aircraft had led to angry pro-
tests by Iranians.
“In the last few nights, we’ve
had people in the streets of Teh-
ran demonstrating against the
fact that they were lied to for a
couple of days,” Zarif said, adding
that Iran’s military was “brave
enough to claim responsibility
early on”.
IRAN’S FM MEETS MODI,
DOVAL AND LAVROV
Zarif held an informal meeting
with his Russian counterpart
Sergey Lavrov on the margins of
the Raisina Dialogue in New
Delhi and briefed India’s NSA
Ajit Doval on the situation in
West Asia.
He also met Indian Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi, who reiter-
ated India’s continued commit-
ment to developing strong rela-
tions with Iran. HTC
n GHOST TOWN: A woman walks past shuttered shops in Wuhan.
central China’s Hubei province
came after it was confirmed that
an infected person who travelled
to Thailand was from Wuhan and
is undergoing treatment in a hos-
pital near Bangkok.
back to the island to check on his
pigs, says there is complete dev-
astation.
“Almost everything was
destroyed,” Christian Morales
told AP, adding that he was only
able to get his bearings after see-
ing the cross of a mud-encrusted
Catholic church where he used to
hear Mass.
So far no one has been reported
killed in the eruption, but the dis-
aster is spotlighting the long-
standing dilemma of how the gov-
ernment can move settlements
away from danger zones threat-
hindustantimes
Chilling footage
shows missiles
striking flight 752
MOMENT OF SECOND
MISSILE HITTING PLANE
n A freeze frame of the moment the Ukraine International Airlines
Flight 752 was struck by a second Iranian missile before crashing
on January 8.
Agence France-Presse
n letters@hindustantimes.com
WASHINGTON: New video footage
has emerged showing two Ira-
nian missiles tearing through
the night sky and hitting a
Ukrainian passenger plane,
sending the aircraft down in
flames and killing all 176 passen-
gers and crew on board.
The projectiles were fired 30
seconds apart and explain why
the plane’s transponder was not
working as it hurtled to the
ground. It was disabled by the
first strike, before being hit by a
second, said the New York
Times, which published the
security camera footage on Tues-
day.
The blurry film, shot from a
rooftop in a village four miles
from an Iranian military site,
shows the Kiev-bound plane on
fire and circling back to Tehran’s
airport, the Times said. Minutes
later, the aircraft exploded and
crashed.
Iran had for days denied West-
ern claims that the Boeing 737
had been downed by its missiles.
Tehran came clean on Satur-
day when Revolutionary Guards
aerospace commander Amirali
Hajizadeh acknowledged a mis-
AFP
At least three other Chinese
travellers from Wuhan were
diagnosed with fever in Thailand,
but they were later found not to
have been infected with the virus.
On Tuesday, the WHO said
AP
ened by volcanoes, landslides,
floods and typhoons.
Sometimes, as is the case with
Taal, the settlements are in viola-
tion of laws that have not been
enforced. “It’s an accident wait-
ing to happen,” Renato Solidum,
head of the Philippine Institute of
Volcanology and Seismology,
said of the villages on the island.
He said his agency has repeat-
edly warned against living on the
island, which it has declared a
permanent danger zones where
people are forbidden from setting
up homes. AP
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UKRAINE WANTS
BLACK BOXES
KIEV: Ukraine has asked Iran
to hand over the black box
flight recorders of a Ukrainian
passenger plane that crashed
after being hit by an Iranian
missile, prosecutors said. The
prosecutor’s office said it
would take “all measures” to
decode the black boxes and
“preserve evidence”. The
prosecutor’s office said it sent
“a request for legal assistance
linked to the handover to the
Ukrainian law enforcement
agencies of the Boeing 737
flight recorders”. The state-
ment added that Ukraine’s
SBU security service was in
charge of investigating the
crash. AGENCIES
sile operator had mistaken the
Ukraine International Airlines
plane for a cruise missile and
opened fire.
The incident happened when
Iran’s armed forces were on
heightened alert after launching
a volley of missiles at Iraqi bases
hosting US troops in retaliation
for the killing of top general Qas-
sem Soleimani on January 3.
there may have been limited
human-to-human transmission
of the virus in China within fami-
lies and the possibility of a bigger
outbreak couldn’t be ruled out.
Wuhan’s health commission
told Chinese state media that peo-
ple in close contact with the trav-
eller were under medical obser-
vation but no symptom of the dis-
ease had been found in them yet.
“The commission said that
they found no evidence that the
new coronavirus can be passed
on via people, but they cannot
completely rule out the possibil-
ity. However, such risk is low,
and further research is under-
way,” a state media report said.
The Wuhan health commis-
sion also that among the 41 cases,
most were men and the majority
were exposed to a certain seafood
market.
In 2020, a woman
can become US
president, argues
Warren at debate
Agencies
n letters@hindustantimes.com
DES MOINES, IOWA: Elizabeth War-
ren made a case for a female presi-
dent and stood behind her accu-
sation suggesting sexism by rival
Bernie Sanders in a Democratic
debate on Tuesday.
“Look at the men on this stage.
Collectively they have lost 10
elections,” Warren said. “The
only people on this stage who
have won every single election
that they’ve been in are the
women.” Sanders responded,
“Does anybody in their right
mind think a woman can’t be
elected president? Of course a
woman can win.”
Senator Kamala Harris, who
ended her presidential campaign
last month, could still find herself
in the White House after Demo-
cratic front-runner Joe Biden
said he would consider her for the
position of vice-president.
IMPEACHMENT TRIAL:
DEMS RELEASE PAPERS
WASHINGTON: House Democrats
released a trove of documents
they obtained from Lev Parnas, a
close associate of Trump’s lawyer
Rudy Giuliani, including a note
that mentions asking Ukraine to
probe “the Biden case”.
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1550 sq ft Ground Floor. Call /
Whatsapp 9818935905. Brokers
welcome.
GURUGRAM
READY TO Move in Office for rent,
2500 sq ft, 40 workstations, 3 ca-
bins, 1 conf room, 2 toilets, recep-
tion, power backup. Udyog Vihar,
Gurgaon. Call Owner 9871084488.
431 UDYOG Vihar-III, Gurgaon, Fully
Furnished Offices Availbl. 5000/2650
/2250/1300 Sq.ft. Near Highway, 'A'
Class Bldg, Delhi Gurg. Border, Ample
parking. # 9810162866, 9810300431
WANTED RUNNING / Oper-
ational/ Vacant Buildings For Paying
Guest (PG), Long Lease By Corporate
Client in Delhi/Faridabad/Gurgaon
& Noida# 9999838647, 9953130634
NOIDA/GREATER NOIDA
AVAILABLE FULLY Furnished,
Airconditioned & Power Backup Of-
fice having 60 workstations (3500
sqft) near Metro Stn in Sec-2, Noida.
Ring: 9873412658/ 8178296784.
AVAILABLE FOR Rent 3 BHK
Flat with servant quarter
Assotech Sector-44, Noida
Area 2150 Sq.ft. Contact
8860060023
GHAZIABAD
AVAILABLE FOR Rent 3 BHK, First
Floor Semi Furnished Flat, Basement
Parking, on Main Road Surya Nagar
Gzb., Delhi touch. Cont: 8920658899
7011409772, 9811999737
BAHADURGARH
EMPLOYMENT
ACADEMIC
REQ. EDUCATED TGT for Maths,
Science, English for Reputed Coach-
ing Centre in Avantika Rohini. Hand-
some Salary. M: 9599319922,
8860726196.
SREE CHAITANYA Pub. School,
NGO SCHOOL in Vasant Kunj,
REQD EXP, young, gud lkg female
teachers for PRT (all sub.) TGT Eng,
S.St. Maths. Lovely Rose Pub. School
C-9 Yamuna Vihar. Email CV: lovely
rosepublicsecschool@gmail.com
ACADEMIC
BAL MANDIR
SR. SEC. SCHOOL
DEFENCE ENCLAVE
VIKAS MARG, DELHI-92
(Opp. Preet Vihar Metro Station)
principalbalmandir@gmail.com
Requires
Female Trained Experienced
Fluent in English, Dynamic Staff
Academic Co-ordinator
Head Mistress
Counsellor (at 10.30 am)
P.G.T. - English, Maths
Economics, Fine Art
Physics, Chemistry
Political Science
Information Technology
Phychology (at 11.30 am)
T.G.T. - English, Maths, Science
Social Science, Lab Assistant
Nurse (at 12.30 pm)
WALK-IN-INTERVIEW
19. 01. 2020
Sec-5, Rohini, nr. Rithala Metro Stn.
9810064173. Walk-in-Interview PGT,
TGT,PRT,Nursery, Comp. Sci. Tr., Spl.
Edu., Phy. Edu. Tr. (F/M), Asstt. Lib.
S.Delhi reqs SPL Educators, B'ED/
NTT, Fine art, Painting with Comp
Graphics teachers. PA/Front desk.
E: info.freesia1@gmail.com
ACADEMIC
MASONIC PUBLIC SCHOOL
Sector B-1, Vasant Kunj,
New Delhi-70 Tele No.011-26135473
Requires
Invites Applications for various posts:-
PGT: English, Commerce
PGT: Physics, Chemistry, Maths
Counselor, Staff Nurse
Special Educator
Nursery Assistant
Care Taker/Transport Incharge
Accountant, Office Assistant
Candidate should have requisite
academic qualification and age criteria.
Apply with Recent Resume & Photo, should
reach this office within 10 days in sealed cover
addressed to The Manager, MANAGER.
WANTED LADIES Staff 1) NTT, 2)
PRT, 3) Receptionist. Bal Vikas
Public School, Block A3, Paschim
Vihar New Delhi-63. Ph 8375021530
(time 11am to 1 pm)
HINDUSTA N TIMES, NEW DELHI
THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2020
ACCOUNTS/FINANCE RECEPTIONIST BUSINESS BUSINESS OFFER
REQ. ACCOUNTANT knowing
Tally, in South Delhi. Very Good
REQD RECEPTIONIST (Girl),
Graduate, Fluent English, Fresher & BUSINESS OFFER
Remuneration #2285/69,Gurudwara Experienced, Design Concepts, 204,
Road, Karol Bagh. 9810175773, II Flr, Gupta tower, Comm. Cmplex,
LAUNDRY FOR Sale: Running
28751933. cajbgupta@gmail.com Azadpur # 9810723944, 8375962631
Laundry in DLF Phase-3 for
URG. REQ. North East Smart Girl 4 Immediate Sale. With Iron & Dry
SALES & MARKETING export house knowing Hindi must. Cleaning unit. Contact: 9811768334 /
Cont. Mansi export, 2665 gali no. 3, 9910719969
Beadon Pura, Karol Bagh. Ph. 011-
REQUIRED 15 Marketing/Field 49075254,9810870163,9999515062
Executives Graduate Delhi based
own bike own house Salary 15k to
20k+Conveyance+ Incentive. Call: STENO−TYPIST/
OFFICE ASST
9650481792
REQUIRED EXPERIENCED
Sales Person for Industrial Electrical
CA FIRM at Nehru Place Requires
Office HR/Admin. Executive to handle
/Electronic Item. Interview. Nutroni- all HR related matters, knowledge of
cs India : A-72 mangolpuri Industries
Area phase-2 Delhi # 9871090354.
shorthand will be an added
advantage and Steno with knowledge LOAN/FINANCE
SALESMAN/ FRESHER FMCG
of shorthand apply to hr@bnbindia.co
Own Conveyance Reqd. Two friends, LOAN AGAINST Property, Home
HOTEL/RESTAURANT Loan, BT+Top Up & B L, OD &
210 S.L House,10 Asaf Ali Road New
Delhi Teleph: 23237762, 41004079 Reduce ur existing ROI @ Best Rate
Email: mail@twofriends.in & Fast Approval. Unique Finance #
9315496768, 9899779789 T&C Aply
Suzu Steel (India)
is one of the leading Co. in
Locks and Hardware from
last 35 yrs having operations
Pan India & Abroad
Hiring Sales Executive,
Area Sales Manager &
Asst. Export Manager
*Gradua te with dyn amic
personality. Age (27-40 yr.)
* Min. 3 yrs exp. in Sales in
Locks & Hardware Products.
* Self- motivated and should
know Network.
Please forward your CV at
Email: suzudelhi18@gmail.com
+91-90530 33353
REQUIRED SALES Executive CALL CENTER JOBS
for selling chemicals in industries,
Mirdula Detergent Pvt. Ltd.,
Email: sk@mirdula.com, CURE & Care. Req. Telecallers (M/F)
Good communication Skills..
Mobile: 9310002640.
Contact - 2E/4 Jhandewalan
Extension. 9311666666
REQD SALES Exec. age 30yrs. Meet
1PM onward at Gold Tex Furnishing Em: vikaswahi99@gmail.com
Industries, GT Road, Piao Maniyari,
Behind Parnami Hospital, Kundli
Sonipat (HR) 0130-2370349,2370350 HUMAN RESOURCE
REPUTED GARMENT Distributor
A REPUTED Garment Export
require Marketing Executive for House in South Delhi Required HR
Nehru Place. Graduate/MBA with
Manager with Minimum 20 Years
Bike. 8586992012,9971199466.
Experience Contact at Email:
E-mail: vivek_8262@yahoo.co.in staarenterprise@yahoo.com
REQ MARKETING staff for Real
Estate Sector with good communi- REAL ESTATE
cation, strong back ground, con-
fident, motivated, can look forward
independently. RK- 9810118217 GK-1 REAL Estate Com. Req. Exp
sales/rent Executivs handle clients
Accounts Asst. Tele-callers, Driver
MEDICAL slry/com/Inc,veg prfd- 9910134752
khannaassociatesgk1@gmail.com
REQD. MEDICAL Superintendent,
Gastroenterologist, Urosurgeon, GENERAL MULTIPLE
Neurophysician, Physician (MD), VACANCIES
Paediatrician (MD),Pathologist, RMO
MBBS, Pharmacist, Nursing Staff, REQUIRED WELL edu, ambitious
Marketing Executive, Biomedical single matured ladies /Males from
Tech, Electrician, Receptionist, each corner of Del/NCR for liaisoni-
In Surbhi Hospital, sec-35, ng Job in Properties. Attractive Inco-
Noida UP. 8448867785. me # M.K 8587878745,9810778970
surbhihospitalvacancy@gmail.com
REQD MANAGER, Trust /
Branches VRS/ Ex. preferred
Aply JGSPCT, Contact: A-10,
Neeti Bagh. # 011-46523120,
Em: jgspct@gmail.com
MATRIX NET-ON-LINE LTD.
REQUIRES
1.OFFICE ASSTT (F)- for Front Office,
Co-ordination,Administration
(English Speaking, MS Word,
Excel & Internet Research.)
Exp.Min 0-1 Yr. - Salary 1.25 L - 1.50 L PA
2.BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
EXCECUTIVE (BDE)
for Developing Business for Trade Portal
(Good Communication & Computer Skills must)
Exp. 1-2 yrs., Salary- Rs. 1.80 L - 2.00 L PA
West Delhi candidates preferred.
Send Resume at :
admin@krsgroup.in
For any further clarification contact :
011 - 25542801 (Harshita Batra)
REQUIRED X-RAY Tech n
Physiotherapist for a Polyclinic
in Dwarka Sector-7. Handsome
salary Contact- 9654015819.
NURSES B-GRADE or Trainee
required at Balaji Medical Centre,
4/2703, Gali-5, Bihari colony, Shahd-
ara, Delhi-32. (family accommodat-
ion avlbl) 9312609415, 9868708850
FOR CHILDREN Ortho Surgery
need 5 Beds in a Nursing Home or
Charitable Hospital in NCR prefer-
ably East Delhi on yearly rental
or collaborative for Ayushman
10 Beds needed for Empanalment.
Contact Raman - 9654425262.
WANTED MEDICAL Representati-
ve for a Nutraceutical Firm. Attract-
ive Sal. + performance based Com-
mission. Good comm. skills, 4-5 yrs
exp. Delhi residents only. Apply with
STAR BIOMED Req Purchase/Logi-
biodata. E: rishiatkalath@gmail.com stic Mgr, Sales & Service Coodinator,
KUKREJA HOSPITAL, C-1, Vishal Digital Mktg, Accountant, Service
Engg (B.tech, BE) at Karol Bagh
Enclave, Rajouri Garden requires,
# 9643207024, yash@starhuman.in
RMO for ICU & CCU, Pharmacists,
Marketing Executives, Staff Nurses.
# 9582206031 (10am - 4pm), email:
FEMALE EXP/ Fresh Receptionist,
Comp Optr cum Office Asst. Mktg.
quality.kukrejahospital@yahoo.com Excu. Store Assit. Sigma Diag. Ser-
vices 18-19 FF, DDA Mkt Pitam Pura
FULL TIME, Male medical
Opp Pillar No. 365 # 9999777329
attendant for 88 yrs stroke
patient in Goa. Bathing, feeding,
medication. Max/Fortis preferred
REQD. CARE Taker for
# 9910931234 Construction Site with construction
knowledge & Field Boy for site
HR HEAD, Purchase Mngr., Front acquisition. Graduate, comp.
Office Exec., ICU Nurses, Senior knowledge must. # 9560036004.
Accountant, Billing Exec. Digital
Mktg Exec. Maintenance Mngr.
REQ. ENGLISH Content Writers,
Front desk executive, Graphic
Email: hr@prayaghospital.in
Designer in Gurgaon. Exp. 2 yrs.
   ! $ (
Parking Contact: 41036873,
29835250, 29835170, 45151664.
1012 SQ.MT Factory for Rent ENGINEER/
Salary: 20K # 9599686887 Email:
infoastroeshop@gmail.com
Footwear Park HSIIDC, Bahadurgarh
 
 Haryana, Brand New Construction,
PROD/TECHNICAL
   $&' Ground+1st Flr, Best Height, Layout REQD. ELECTRICAL Supervisor /
DEFENCE COLONY 325 sq.yds, + & Location. Contact: 9811102434
Engineer for Residential/ Commer-
Fully Furnished/Furnished 1 Room + $*("
with kitchen, Bathroom, car parking. cial Projects Min Exp. 10Yrs Sal. 25K
Suits for Working. Contact: Hoshiar !
( $%+   (
 SHOP/OFFICE RENT (all inclusive) # 8882644772, mail
Singh Rawat 9811120448 ( $+  & CV to: rekhimanni@gmail.com

E-125 LAJPAT Ngr-I, 2nd Flr,
N.Facing 2BHK-3 Toilet all 3 sides
balcony Ample Prkg, near Metro,
Rent 28K, Vastu prefct. lamurthy@
gmail.com, #9310048710 / 715
GK-1, 500, TF, 4BR, Lift/Stilt, Best
Location, Ample Parking, GK-1, 300,
SF, 4BR, Lift/Stilt, Excellent location.
More options available. Pratham
Gupta: 9999339294
KALKAJI MARKET (H-16A) Main
Road Fully Commercial 900 Sq.Ft.
Each Floor. Basmt/UGF/1st Flr with
Lift, Pantry & Toilet on Each Floor.
Available On Rent # 9811006783
INDUSTRIAL/ SHOWROOM /
Office First Floor , Third Floor for
Rent 1600 Sqft. each, F-89/3, Okhla
Industrial Area, Phase-1, Contact
Bhalla # 9810001414
PANCHSHEEL ENCL. for
Resi Hi End Luxurious Fully Furn.
3rd flr. 4 BHK, 4 Bath, D/D with
LCD A/C kit. With freeze, micro-
wave, OTG, Electric kettle and
Toaster in Kitchen, Oil Heater,
Air-purifier in all rooms Etc.
24 Hrs Security, Prkg, S.qtr Fore-
igners/ CEO/ MNC. # 9971577702
JOR BAGH 3 BHK High end
Spec, Fully Furn,Terr. Grdn,Luxur-
ious.2-4BHK with Terr. grdn.many
More Options Avail. for Expats/
Diplomats/MNC's # 98735 56512.


COMMERCIAL / Showroom / Office
Ground Floor, Ist Floor for Rent 1700
Sqft Each Bhishmpitamah Marg, 96
Wazir Nagar, Opp. YES Bank Defence
Colony. Contact Bhalla # 9810001414
VASANT VIHAR, D3/2 Second Flr -
2 BHK fully furnished and Equipped
with open Terrace in front on 450
sqyd Plot - suitable for Foreigner.
Narang: 9810032811, 9810032812
VASANT SQUARE Mall, Vasant
Kunj LGF-3, Super area 726.31 sqft
(covered area 690 sqft); LGF-4,
Super area 721.05 sqft (covered area
685 sqft) 9873000049, 9811060390
SARVPRIYA VIHAR 15/9, for
Rent 4 BR DD Second Floor brand
new with stilt parking, bful location
near Metro Station. Contact Mr
Mann 9873000049, 9811060390
DLF − SUSHANT LOK
COMMERCIAL SPACE / Running
Home Appliances Showroom 13 yrs,
Available on Lease/ rent in Vasundh
ara Ghzbd. Area 500-700 sq.ft. LGF,
Front-27ft. Contact: 9811084575.
EDUCATION
ACCOUNTS/FINANCE
ADMISSIONS
REQ. ACCOUNTANT & Acc Asst-2
(Fe/male),exp. 3-6yrs on Tally. 9
ERP, GST & taxes-e-filling. DNA-pow-
er trans,5219,GB.Rd,Dlh-6,Nr N Delhi
rly stn E: dnapower5224@gmail.com
CA FIRM in Nehru Place Urgently
Requires CA's with minimum 5 years
Exp. for Audit & Tax Departments,
Company Secretary for Secretarial &
ROC Work, Articled Clerks for CA
Training & Account Assistants having
knowledge of Tally,TDS,GST,ROC
Matters. Apply to:-
taxauditor@bnbindia.co
(www.bnbindia.org.in)
REQUIRE EXPERIENCED &
Fresher C.A & Article , Audit
DO, X/XII (CBSE/ NIOS/Bihar) Grad- Assistant for Bank & Internal Audit.
uation, Post Graduation, B.Tech, Email: asaconsultingtax@gmail.com
M.Tech, BAMS, BHMS, BDS. Study
Abroad, MBBS Abroad HRD, MEA. BADLI BASED Export Mfg. Unit
Embassy Consultant # 9582935636 Reqs experienced Accountant
Having command over Tally, GST
MEDICAL Etc. Apply to: sanjay@agcpl.com
ADMISSIONS CC to sunilguptaca@yahoo.co.in
MINN. FEES CMS (Allopathy)/CCH OFFICE CUM Account Fresher.
BAMS BUMS BHMS BNYS DNYS Tally Walk in SoftChip Instrumen-
BEMS MD 10 12 BA LLB Ph.D DPT tation F-107, Sector-8, Noida
BPT GNM DMLT D.Pharma CMO/Cou- Contact: 9310214985 Email:
ncil Reg. Agent W'come 7042111699 softchipacc@gmail.com
REQ. FOR a HVAC Dealer: Site /
Sales Engineer. Persons having
1-2 years exp. of Auto Cad shall
be preferred. # 41540551-53.
E mail: info@ambamotors.com
REQ. CIVIL, Elect, Mechanical
Engr, Foreman, Sprvsr, Purchaser,
Accountant, Comp Optr for Bldng
Works, Handle Proj. indptly in Del
Cont: E-108, LGF, G.K.Enc-I, ND-48
# 7217753805, info@confoss.com
EXPORT HOUSE JOBS
REQD FEMALE Receptionist (2)
Eng. speaking must, Freshers may
apply (Unmarried). Sal 15-20k. Walk
in daily 1pm-3pm. Creative Stop 53,
Harsh Vihar,Pitampura.9958393888
SOUTH DELHI bsd IT Networking
Co. Req Exe. staff for Sales, support,
front office, Technicians, accountant
1yr exp & own convy. # 9711791790
Email: pkm@metrosolutions.co.in
EXPORT HOUSE looking for an
Accountant and a Logistic Docume-
ntation Executive for their factory
in Manesar, Gurgaon. Contact:
8800166687, umesh@silknfab.com
MEDIA
WANTED Graduate Editors & News
Readers @Kaushambi, GZB. Excel-
lent English & Hindi mandatory,
3LPA # 8171810565, 9560955566
Send CV: newsbulb2@gmail.com
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GOVT DETECTS
1,200 FAKE
EXPORTERS
NEW DELHI: The government has
identified over 1,200 non-existent
exporters using an analytics-
driven investigation of Goods and
Services Tax refunds and plugged
leakage of ₹350 crore worth of
fake claims, according to an
official with direct knowledge of
the matter who asked not to be
named. The investigation points
towards “nefarious elements
among the customs broker
community”, added the official.
“At least 50 customs brokers have
been found to be involved. These
entities, which are untraceable at
their registered addresses,are also
under lens,” he said. According to
the Central Board of Indirect Taxes
and Customs, customs brokers
need to independently verify the
credentials of exporters. “Contin-
uous risk evaluation of exporters
is being conducted with the help
of predictive modelling. Regular
strategy meetings are being held
by the revenue secretary himself
with data analytic experts, state
and central tax investigators,”
said the official quoted above.
HC APPOINTS
PANEL TO RECOVER
PMC BANK DUES
MUMBAI: The Bombay
high court on Wednesday
appointed a three-mem-
ber committee, headed
by retired justice S
Radhakrishnan, to ensure
speedy recovery of dues
for the fraud-hit Punjab
and Maharashtra Cooper-
ative (PMC) Bank from
Housing Development
and Infrastructure
Limited (HDIL). The court
has sought a progress
report from the commit-
tee on April 30. A division
bench of justices Ranjit
More and Surendra
Tavade said justice
Radhakrishnan will
choose other two
members and the
three-member commit-
tee will expeditiously
identify all properties
mortgaged solely with
PMC Bank, and owned by
HDIL or other companies
in the HDIL group. These
assets would then be sold
to recover dues payable
to the multi-state
cooperative bank.
SEBI REJECTS AXIS
BANK’S PLEA TO ACCESS
PLEDGED KARVY SHARES
NEW DELHI: Markets regulator
SEBI (Securities and Exchange
Board of India) has rejected Axis
Bank’s plea to allow the lender to
invoke the pledge on shares in
the Karvy Stock Broking Ltd
matter. Axis Bank, later in a
statement, said it has filed an
appeal before the Securities
Appellate Tribunal (SAT) against
the Sebi order. “The SAT has today
(Wednesday) granted interim
relief to Axis Bank by directing
status quo to be maintained on
the Sebi order till further hearing
of the matter,” the bank’s spokes-
person said. The Sebi order comes
after the SAT on December 20
asked markets regulator to pass
an order by January 15, 2020 in the
case.
SENSEX, NIFTY PAUSE
AFTER FOUR­DAY
WINNING STREAK
MUMBAI: Benchmark indices
Sensex and Nifty took a pause
after a record four-session run on
Wednesday, as higher bank bad
loans in ongoing quarterly results
weighed on banking stocks
coupled with a caution ahead of
US-China trade deal. At the
closing bell, the BSE gauge
Sensex was down 79.90 points, or
0.19%, at 41,872.73. The NSE
barometer Nifty was 19 points
(0.15%) lower at 12,343.30. Both
indices had closed at their
lifetime high levels for the second
day in a row on Tuesday. The
Indian rupee settled 5 paise
higher at 70.82 per US dollar.
COMPILED FROM AGENCIES
AND REPORTERS
Max crisis: Boeing orders plunge to 16-year low
AP
n feedback@livemint.com
CHICAGO : Boeing orders and
deliveries of new jetliners
plunged last year as the com-
pany struggled with the
worldwide grounding of the
737 Max, which had been its
best-selling plane.
Gross orders fell to their
lowest mark in 16 years, and
that tells only part of the
story. Boeing reported more
cancellations than new
orders in 2019, in large part
because a major order from
Jet Airways almost certainly
vanished when the airline
went bankrupt.
The Chicago-based com-
pany said that it booked 246
Bezos pulls out all stops
in India charm offensive
LOCAL FLAVOUR Pledges $1 bn to take small sellers online to counter criticism
Suneera Tandon
n suneera.t@livemint.com
NEWDELHI: Amazon.com founder
Jeff Bezos pledged $1 billion in
new investments to help take
small Indian businesses online,
as the world’s richest man pulled
out all the stops to woo merchants
and the government amid regula-
tory scrutiny and protests by
traders.
The investments, said Bezos in
a chat with Amazon India coun-
try head Amit Agarwal, will
touch as many as 10 million small
and medium businesses, includ-
ing manufacturers, resellers,
local offline shops and brands.
“This initiative will use Ama-
zon’s global footprint to create $10
billion in Indian exports by 2025,”
Bezos told a hall packed with
Amazon executives and busi-
nessmen, who sell on its market-
place, and industry stalwarts at
the company’s first Smbhav sum-
mit for small businesses.
As many as 3,000 small and
medium businesses (SMBs),
startups, and technology solution
companies thronged the venue in
Delhi from across the country to
attend the two-day event, cheer-
ing Bezos as he spelt out his vision
for India.
In another part of the city, a
group of traders protested Ama-
zon’s policy of offering deep dis-
counts on products, a strategy the
traders claim is aimed at bank-
rupting them and cornering mar-
ket share. They held up posters
that read “Amazon Go Back”.
But at Jawaharlal Nehru Sta-
dium, the venue of the summit,
thousands turned up to hear
about the services offered by the
e-commerce giant that has com-
mitted investments worth $5.5
billion since entering India in
Huawei to hold 5G
trials in tie-up with
Airtel, Voda Idea
Navadha Pandey
n navadha.p@livemint.com
NEW DELHI: Chinese telecom gear
maker Huawei has teamed up
with mobile service providers
Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea,
which have submitted applica-
tions to the government for con-
ducting 5G trials.
“Huawei has partnered with
Bharti Airtel for trials in Benga-
luru and with Vodafone Idea to
hold trials in Delhi. The telcos
have already submitted the
applications,” one person aware
of the development said, on con-
dition of anonymity.
On December 31, the govern-
ment had initiated the process
for deploying 5G in India and met
operators and vendors to discuss
the broad road map for the trials
expected in January-March.
The last date to submit appli-
cations for the trials was Janu-
ary 15. The government will
assess the applications and allo-
cate the trial spectrum to its
licensees, or telecom service pro-
viders.
An emailed query to Huawei
was unanswered till press time.
Huawei’s teaming up with
Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea
comes at a time when the Chi-
nese telecom equipment maker
is facing global scrutiny over
network security concerns. The
US has claimed that Huwaei’s 5G
equipment could be used by
China to spy on other countries,
an allegation the company has
TURBULENT PHASE
n The 737 Max was Boeing’s best­selling plane until two of them
crashed five months apart, killing hundreds.
gross orders, the lowest total
since 2003, but after cancella-
tions, the number of net
orders was just 54.
And after subtracting other
orders that are too doubtful to
n Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in New Delhi on Wednesday.
2013.
“We are doing this now
because it’s working. And when
something works you should
double down on it,” Bezos said,
explaining his decision to invest
in India and small businesses.
Amazon is currently battling
Walmart-owned Flipkart in
India’s small but burgeoning
e-commerce market. The
Smbhav summit is aimed at
attracting more sellers and part-
ners into its fold, especially as
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance
Industries steps up efforts to digi-
tize millions of kirana stores in
India.
As part of its investments,
Amazon will expand the reach of
its existing Digital Haats in 100
n The trials will be held in
Bengaluru and Delhi. MINT
repeatedly denied.
Australia and Japan have also
barred Huawei, while Canada
and New Zealand are likely to
follow suit. Many countries in
Europe are yet to take a decision,
while Russia, Indonesia, Malay-
sia, South Korea, Turkey and
Saudi Arabia have welcomed
Huawei.
Last month, the department of
telecommunications (DoT) also
approved the prices for the spec-
trum auction scheduled to be
held by April.
Of the 8,300 megahertz (MHz)
of airwaves the government
plans to offer, 6,050MHz have
been allocated for 5G. The band
allocation for 5G of
3,300-3,600MHz has been priced
at ₹492 crore per megahertz.
India’s 5G trials and commer-
cial rollout are already far
behind those of global peers.
REUTERS
stay in Boeing’s backlog —
the Jet Airways deal — the
company suffered a net loss of
87 orders last year.
Deliveries also tumbled,
falling 53% from 806 planes in
cities, villages and communities
that will help provide services
such as e-commerce on-boarding,
cataloguing and warehouse
space for small businesses.
Amazon will also expand its
Amazon Easy programme, which
helps kirana shops set up kiosks
to provide assistance to their cus-
tomers in choosing the right
product, place an order on Ama-
zon and earn a commission in the
process. Amazon has been put-
ting more resources to assist
small businesses globally as well.
In 2019, the company launched
150 tools and services to help
independent small and medium-
sized businesses grow their sales
in Amazon’s stores.
“New tools and services, along
Employees of
govt-owned banks
threaten two-day
strike from Jan 31
Press Trust of India
n feedback@livemint.com
NEW DELHI: Bank unions have
threatened to go on a two-day
nationwide strike beginning
January 31 to press for early
wage revision.
The wage revision for employ-
ees of public sector banks has
been pending since November
2017.
The strike call has been given
by the United Forum of Bank
Unions (UFBU), an umbrella
body of the nine bank unions
including All India Bank Offi-
cers’ Confederation (AIBOC), All
India Bank Employees Associa-
tion (AIBEA) and National Orga-
nisation of Bank Workers
(NOBW). If the proposed strike
materialises, it will coincide
with the beginning of the budget
session and presentation of Bud-
get 2020-21.
UFBU in a circular alleged a
“rigid approach” by the Indian
Banks’ Association on demands
for a fair wage revision settle-
ment. “In this background, the
meeting of UFBU held at Mum-
bai on January 13 came to the
unanimous and inescapable con-
clusion that intensified agita-
tional actions have to be resorted
to press our demands for reason-
able resolution and satisfactory
settlement,” it said.
Unions are demanding wage
revision settlement at a 20% hike
on pay slip components with ade-
quate loading.
2018 to 380 last year. That left
Boeing far behind rival Air-
bus, with 863 deliveries.
The 737 Max was Boeing’s
best-selling plane until two of
them crashed five months
apart, killing 346 people and
prompting regulators around
the world the ground the
plane last March. The com-
pany lists 4,545 unfilled
orders for the Max, a backlog
that would take several years
to work down.
Boeing is pausing produc-
tion of the Max. It is still mak-
ing changes to software and
other systems, and the US
Federal Aviation Administra-
tion has said it has no timeta-
ble for approving Boeing’s
work
PRADEEP GAUR/MINT
with infrastructure, pro-
grammes, and people, are part of
the more than $15 billion Amazon
is on track to invest this year to
empower independent small and
medium-sized businesses selling
in Amazon’s stores,” the com-
pany said in August.
The announcement comes as
the e-commerce giant battles pro-
tests by small and medium busi-
nesses that have accused the
company of unfair trade prac-
tices, including the use of deep
discounts and giving preference
to select sellers.
Earlier this week the Competi-
tion Commission of India ordered
a probe into alleged competition
law violations by Amazon and
Flipkart over these complaints.
Airtel raises $3 billion to repay dues to govt
Navadha Pandey
n navadha.p@livemint.com
NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel Ltd has
raised $3 billion through a quali-
fied institutional placement
(QIP) and an overseas bond to
repay government dues.
The telco raised $2 billion
through a QIP at ₹445 a share, it
said in a release on Wednesday.
An additional $1 billion was
raised through an issue of for-
eign currency convertible bonds
(FCCB). The bonds were issued
at a coupon of 1.5% per annum
and will mature in 2025. FCCBs
are debt instruments denomi-
nated in a foreign currency,
which can be converted into
shares.
Bharti Airtel’s board had
approved an initial conversion
price of ₹534 per equity share for
the bond issue.
‘Others’ under fire as govt
plans import restrictions
Asit Ranjan Mishra
n asit.m@livemint.com
NEW DELHI: Imports of uncatego-
rised items may soon require
special licences, with the com-
merce ministry seeking to curb
such imports by shifting them to
a restricted list in a month, trade
minister Piyush Goyal said.
“We have a big problem in our
imports of a category called ‘oth-
ers’. In that category, all sorts of
stuff are being put in and
imported into the country. The
last analysis I got done, I found
one out of four products being
imported in the ‘others’ cate-
gory,” Goyal said at the National
Standards Conclave
on Wednesday. “I appeal to
everybody, who is importing any
product or service into the coun-
try, please categorise your prod-
uct into the respective HSN (har-
monized system of nomencla-
ture) code where it falls. If your
product is imported in sufficient
measure, it requires a separate
HSN code.”
Importers may face serious
consequences if they fail to com-
ply with the directions, the min-
ister said. These could be higher
duty on products that come
under the “others” category or
requirement for a licence to
import such items, he said.
“In one month or so, I will
restrict the import of every prod-
uct that goes in the ‘others’ cate-
gory. You will have to approach
us, take a special licence without
which you cannot import any
product in the ‘others’ category.
Regulator restricts
banks from issuing
contactless cards
by default to users
Shayan Ghosh
n shayan.g@livemint.com
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of
India (RBI) on Wednesday
restricted banks from issuing
contactless credit and debit
cards by default for all cardhold-
ers. The banking regulator said
this facility, along with interna-
tional transactions, will have to
be enabled by the user.
RBI said that at the time of
issue or re-issue, all cards (phys-
ical and virtual) shall be enabled
for use only at contact-based
points of usage like automated
teller machines (ATMs) and
point of sale (PoS) devices within
India.
It said that the volume and
value of transactions made
through cards have increased
manifold and this decision is
expected to improve user conve-
nience and increase the security
of card transactions.
The central bank said that for
existing cards, the issuers may
decide, based on their risk per-
ception, whether to disable the
card not present (domestic and
international) transactions,
card present (international)
transactions and contactless
transaction rights.
However, for existing cards
which have never been used for
online, international or in con-
tactless transactions, will see
such facilities disabled mandato-
rily.
The issuers, RBI said, will
have to provide an option to
switch on or off and set or modify
transaction limits for all types of
transactions—domestic and
international.
The facility should be availa-
ble round the clock through mul-
tiple channels—mobile applica-
tion, internet banking, ATMs,
Interactive Voice Response
(IVR) and may also be offered at
branches, it said.
n Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal.
With the completion of the lat-
est fund-raising exercise, Airtel
has raised a total of $11.1 billion
in equity capital over the past
five years.
The operator, hit by an apex
court verdict mandating it to pay
dues of ₹35,586 crore to the
department of telecommunica-
tions (DoT) by January 24, will
n Importers may face serious consequences if they fail to comply with
the directions, said trade minister Piyush Goyal.
Either the import duty will be
increased exorbitantly or a spe-
cial duty imposed so that FTA
(free trade agreement) countries
also will bear it,” Goyal said.
There are 2,500-3,000 items on
the “others” list that are not well-
defined, a commerce ministry
official said on condition of ano-
nymity. “There is a tendency on
the part of the importer to mis-
classify some items as ‘others’,
which can be prevented by better
enforcement. However, India
has the prerogative to impose a
special tariff line for such items,”
he said.
Mint reported on 3 January
that India is set to implement
stricter quality standards for 371
items by March, a move aimed at
curbing imports of non-essential
items especially from China.
Meanwhile, data released by
the commerce ministry on
hindustantimes
POWERED BY
Hinduja pulls out
of race to buy Jet
Deborshi Chaki, Gopika
Gopakumar and Rhik Kundu
n deborshi.c@livemint.com
MUMBAI/NEWDELHI: London-based
Hinduja group pulled out of the
race for Jet Airways (India) Ltd,
leaving only two contenders—
South America’s Synergy Group
and New Delhi-based Prudent
ARC Ltd—in the fray to acquire
the airline that shut operations
in April last year, said two people
with direct knowledge of the
matter.
Synergy submitted its expres-
sion of interest (EoI) on January
6 and Prudent, an asset restruc-
turing company, submitted its
initial bid on Wednesday, the
final day of submitting bids, the
people said. With only two par-
ties left in the fray, the revival of
what was once India’s largest
private airline appears to be an
uphill task.
“Subject to the eligibility of
the potential bidders, the lenders
expect to get binding bids by Feb-
ruary 17,” one of the two people
said, requesting anonymity.
“Prudent ARC has submitted
an EoI for Jet Airways. But its
assets doesn’t meet the eligibility
criteria of a minimum net worth
of ₹2,000 crore,” the second per-
son added.
Ashish Chhawchharia, the
resolution professional
appointed by the lenders to over-
see the sale proceedings, did not
comment.
Industry experts said a
revival of Jet Airways looks
bleak with the current set of bid-
ders and the carrier may have to
be liquidated.
“It’s quite impossible to resur-
rect Jet Airways,” said a Mum-
bai-based analyst at a global bro-
kerage.
“There’s nothing left in Jet
Airways to bid for. The only
attraction, the slots, are already
redistributed to other airlines,
who will not let go without a
fight,” the analyst said.
Synergy had earlier this
BLOOMBERG
use a chunk of the proceeds from
the QIP to meet this liability.
“The company proposes to
utilize the net proceeds for any
payment that may be required to
be made arising out of the judg-
ment of the Supreme Court deliv-
ered on October 24 in relation to
a long outstanding industry-
wide case in respect of the defini-
MINT/FILE
Wednesday showed that India’s
exports contracted for the fifth
consecutive month in December
by 1.8%, while its imports shrank
for the seventh straight month at
8.8%, narrowing the trade deficit
to $11.8 billion.
Non-oil, non-gold imports
continued to record a substantial
contraction of 12.2% in Decem-
ber, reflecting both subdued
commodity prices as well as
weak demand conditions. “The
double-digit contraction sus-
tained by non-oil, non-gold
imports for three months in a
row is a cause for concern. The
reversal of non-oil merchandise
exports to a contraction in
December, led by gems and jew-
ellery, chemicals after the mod-
est growth seen in the previous
two months, is a clear disap-
pointment,” said Aditi Nayar,
principal economist at ICRA Ltd.
17
n Jet has a debt of more than
₹8,500 crore. MINT
month submitted a fresh bid for
Jet Airways. In a bidding process
initiated last year, it emerged as
the sole contender for Jet Air-
ways, though the conglomerate
did not make a binding bid after
seeking several extensions.
Lenders to Jet Airways are
however sceptical about Syn-
ergy’s bid because they doubt
whether the conglomerate has
the financial strength to com-
plete the acquisition. They are
also doubtful because neither
has Synergy “put enough people
on the assignment, nor made any
statutory payment,” the second
person said,
While Synergy wants Jet’s
lenders to take a huge haircut on
the airline’s debt of over ₹8,500
crore, it will also need to find an
Indian partner for the acquisi-
tion as mandated by India’s for-
eign investment rules. Another
challenge is the financials of
Synergy which has seen some of
the airlines it fully or partially
owned shutting shop in the last
few years. Controlled by Bolivia-
born German Efromovich, Syn-
ergy is engaged in aviation,
energy and telecom.
Jet Airways was grounded on
18 April 2019 due to a severe cash
crunch. On 20 June, the National
Company Law Tribunal admit-
ted Jet Airways under the Insol-
vency and Bankruptcy Code.
tion of adjusted gross revenue
(AGR),” Airtel said on 8 January.
Post the QIP issue, Airtel’s pro-
moter group holding will fall
from 62.70% to 58.98%.
“The transaction is the largest
dual tranche equity and FCCB
offering ever in Asia-Pacific, the
largest QIP by a private sector
issuer ever in India and the larg-
est FCCB offering from an India
issuer in the last 12 years,” it
added.
The Supreme Court had
upheld the government’s defini-
tion of AGR, which includes rev-
enue from non-core telecom
operations such as rent, divi-
dend and interest income. Oper-
ators have to pay 8% of their AGR
as licence fee.
The fundraise is also signifi-
cant as Airtel needs to build a
war chest to survive in the com-
petitive domestic telecom sector.
EDELWEISS
CHAIRMAN SHAH
APPEARS BEFORE
ED IN FEMA CASE
Pratik Salunke
n pratik.salunke@hindustantimes.com
MUMBAI:: Edelweiss Group chair-
man Rashesh Shah was on
Wednesday questioned by the
Enforcement Directorate (ED) in
connection with a forex scam.
Shah reached ED’s Ballard
Estate office a little before noon
and left at around 5pm. He
refused to speak with reporters.
The agency is probing the
finances of a firm named Cap-
stone Forex for alleged viola-
tions of the Foreign Exchange
Management Act. “Capstone is
being probed for remitting forex
abroad without following know-
your-customer norms,” said a
person aware of the matter.
“Forex of ₹740 crore is involved
which is being probed.”
This person said Shah has
been called for “clarification for
certain doubts”. This is the first
time that the Edelweiss chief has
appeared before the agency in
this case. He had earlier been
summoned on January 9.
In a recent exchange filing,
Shah said the allegation of
FEMA violation is false and the
company will fully cooperate in
the investigation.
Edelweiss has denied any
links with Capstone. “We have
received a communication from
the ED to appear and provide
information about Edelweiss
group companies’ dealings with
a company called Capstone forex
Pvt Ltd,” it had earlier said.
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Stokes ICC’s Player of the Year Kohli surprised

AWARDS India’s Rohit Sharma named ODI Player of the Year and Aussie Pat Cummins best in Tests
n Virat Kohli was picked as captain for both ICC’s Test and ODI teams of the year, while Rohit Sharma was a no-brainer as an opener in the ODI team.
HT Correspondent
n sportsdesk@hindustantimes.com
NEWDELHI:Rohit Sharma’s dream
run with the bat in 2019 was
rewarded with the batsman cho-
sen the ICC ODI Player of the
Year on Wednesday with
England all-rounder Ben Stokes
a runaway winner for the biggest
prize—Sri Garfield Sobers trophy
for the ICC Player of the Year.
Stokes has been the driving
force for England across formats.
His match-winning efforts in the
hosts’ World Cup triumph was
capped by an unbeaten 84 in the
thrilling final win over New Zea-
land. He carried the form into the
Ashes, where he produced a sen-
sational 135 not out to steer
England to victory in the third
Test at Headingley. Thanks to
Stokes, England recoverd from
286/9 to chase down 359.
“To be recognised and be the
person to win that (award) it’s
pretty amazing,” Stokes, 28, said
in a statement. Stokes scored 821
runs and took 22 wickets in 11
Tests, and aggregated 719 runs
and claimed 12 wickets in 20 ODIs
during the phase of voting by
former players and media
reprsentatives.
“The past 12 months have been
incredible for England cricket
and to lift the ICC Men’s Cricket
World Cup for the first time was
our greatest achievement,” he
said. “This award is testament to
my team-mates and the support
staff that have been there every
step of the way. Fundamentally,
without the support of these indi-
viduals, we would never have
achieved our objective of lifting a
major trophy.”
Stokes, who extended his form
into this year with a Man-of-the-
Match performance in the second
Test victory over South Africa at
Cape Town last week, including
the last three South Africa vic-
tory, hailed the strong bond
between the players.
“There is an incredible bond
between team-mates and to
savour our achievements,
whether that’s winning the
World Cup final at Lord’s or dig-
ging deep to win a Test against
Australia at Headingley,” he said.
“It is satisfying you can accom-
plish these superb highs together.
The last 12 months have been the
best in my career, and I believe
what we attained will be the cata-
lyst to achieve further success
over the next few years.”
Sharma was in red-hot form at
the World Cup, where India
reached the semi-finals. He
aggregated 648 runs in nine
matches, averaging 81 and with a
strike rate of over 98. Five centu-
ries and a fifty underlined
Sharma’s consistency in the tour-
nament. He scored seven ODI
centuries last year.
Sharma said: “It is great to be
recognised in this fashion. We are
very happy with the way we per-
formed as a team in 2019. We
could have done better but we
have a lot of positives and a lot to
look forward to in 2020.”
Virat Kohli’s leadership quali-
ties were acknowledged after he
was given the ‘Spirit of Cricket’
award for asking fans not to boo
Australian batsman Steve Smith
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but applaud him when the teams
met at the World Cup. Smith was
returning to international
cricket after suspension for the
ball-tampering scandal in South
Africa the previous year.
CAPTAIN KOHLI
Kohli was also named captain of
the ICC Test and ODI teams of the
year.
Paceman Deepak Chahar was
the other Indian winner. He won
the ICC T20 performance of the
year accolade for his six for seven
runs against
Bangladesh in Nagpur, which
included a hat-trick. It is the best
bowling figures in the format.
“Taking six wickets conceding
only seven runs was a dream per-
formance for me and will always
remain close to my heart,” the
ICC ROLL
OF HONOUR
Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy
for Best Cricketer of the
Year: Ben Stokes (England)
Test Cricketer of the Year:
Pat Cummins (Australia)
ODI Cricketer of the Year:
Rohit Sharma (India)
T20I Performance of the
Year: Deepak Chahar (India, 6/7
v Bangladesh)
Emerging Cricketer of the
Year: Marnus Labuschagne
(Australia)
Associate Cricketer of the
Year: Kyle Coetzer (Scotland)
Spirit of Cricket Award: Virat
Kohli stopping the fans booing
Steve Smith at the Oval
David Shepherd Trophy for
Umpire of the Year: Richard
Illingworth.
THE ICC’S
TEAMS OF THE
YEAR 2019:
ODI Team (in batting
order): Rohit Sharma, Shai
Hope, Virat Kohli (captain),
Babar Azam, Kane Williamson,
Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler
(wicketkeeper), Mitchell Starc,
Trent Boult, Mohammad
Shami, Kuldeep Yadav
Test Team (in batting
order): Mayank Agarwal, Tom
Latham, Marnus Labuscha-
gne, Virat Kohli (captain),
Steve Smith, Ben Stokes, BJ
Watling (wicketkeeper), Pat
Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Neil
Wagner, Nathan Lyon.
Rajasthan seamer was quoted as
saying.
Australia fast bowler Pat Cum-
mins won the ICC Test Player of
the Year award. Cummins has
been a force in international
cricket since his return from
long-term injury on the India
Test tour of 2017 and was the most
successful Test pacer last year.
“59 Test wickets in 2019, 14 more
than any other bowler Pat Cum-
mins is the 2019 Test Cricketer of
the Year,” ICC tweeted.
Scotland’s Kyle Coetzer was
named Associate Cricketer of the
Year. He led the Associate bats-
men in ODIs with 880 runs in 18
matches and 702 runs in 22 T20Is.
England umpire Richard
Illingworth was awarded the
David Shepherd Trophy for
Umpire of the Year.
at winning Spirit
of Cricket award
Press Trust of India
n sportsdesk@hindustantimes.com
MUMBAI/DUBAI: Indian captain
Virat Kohli says he is surprised at
winning the ICC’s Spirit of
Cricket Award after “years of
being under the scanner for the
wrong things”, referring to his
past flare-ups.
He won the award for his ges-
ture at the 2019 World Cup, when
he egged the crowd on to support
and not boo Steve Smith soon
after his return to international
cricket from a one-year suspen-
sion for ball-tampering.
From once stopping short of
calling his Australian rival a
cheat to urging the crowd to back
him, it has been an incredible
turnaround for Kohli, one of the
world’s best batsmen alongside
Smith. “I’m surprised that I have
got it, after many years of being
under the scanner for the wrong
things,” Kohli said in a statement
issued by the ICC.
Speaking at an event in Mum-
bai on Wednesday, Kohli said
people should avoid being too
judgemental. “Sometimes we are
too judgemental of someone in
their early years and that’s
exactly what I don’t want the
younger players in the team to
face. Everyone should be given
space to realise themselves and
who they are,” Kohli said.
Explaining his reasons for
backing Smith the way he did, the
31-year-old dasher said, “That
moment was purely understand-
ing an individual’s situation. I
don’t think a guy who is coming
out of a situation like that needs to
be taken advantage of.”
The passionate Kohli, who was
once fined 50 percent of his match
n Virat Kohli asks fans not to boo Steve Smith, during India’s World
Cup tie against Australia at the Oval.
fees after he was seen showing the
middle finger to the crowd as a
reaction to some hostility from
fans, is strictly against booing.
“That should not be a repre-
sentation of our fans and what we
stand as a cricketing nation, a
sporting nation.
“We need to all take responsi-
bility towards that. Intimidate
the opposition, definitely try and
have an upper hand but in a mat-
ter that is not targeting someone
emotionally. That is not accepta-
ble at any level and people should
be wary of that.”
Nearly three years ago, Kohli
stirred up a major controversy by
virtually accusing the then Aus-
tralian captain Smith of cheating
in the usage of DRS. Smith had
looked towards the dressing
room for instructions at that time
and had apologised for the “brain
fade”.
The incident had escalated ten-
sions between the two sides dur-
ing a heated Test series in India.
Smith had a torrid time in the
aftermath of the ball-tampering
scandal, including a public
breakdown. “...I could feel what
the individual must be going
through after coming back from a
time like that. To take advantage
of someone’s emotions wasn’t
correct so I stood up for that. It
wasn’t to gain something. It was
also a representation of who we
are as a nation,” Kohli explained.
“I was happy ICC recognised it
but also for people to remember
our thinking should be right in
whatever we do. I used to look for-
ward to these things when I was
younger, some sort of global rec-
ognition, now I have started to
realise it’s just an appreciation of
work that you do.”
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FIT-AGAIN PRITHVI SET TO JOIN
INDIA A TEAM IN NEW ZEALAND
How Warner neutralised Bumrah’s arsenal
Sanjjeev K Samyal soap and difficult to grip, like in advice, and I take this as well,
n sanjjeev.samyal@htlive.com the Indian Premier League games you’ve got to be nice and still. His
that go beyond 10.30pm. bouncers surprise you, his york-
MUMBAI:When India were bowled Most of all, what hurt India’s ers surprise you and then when
out for 255 in the first one-dayer at chances of a fightback was a lack he bowls the change-up it’s very,
the Wankhede Stadium on Tues- of bite in the bowling of Bumrah, very difficult. It’s like when
day, it was obvious the score was India’s X-factor. It was not as Lasith Malinga was at his prime,
going to be difficult to defend benign a track as the Aussie open- he bowled 140km/h and swung
against the strong Australia bat- ers David Warner and skipper them in, but you knew you were
ting line-up. What Indian fans Aaron Finch made it look with going to get a yorker or a bouncer.
didn’t factor in was an absolute unbeaten centuries. On the same It (the challenge) was how you are
lack of fight from the home bowl- wicket, the visitors’ bowlers had going to play that and that’s
ers. This despite the attack con- thrived, and the pacers shared what’s so unique.”
sisting of the world’s top-ranked seven wickets. Kuldeep was tidy but not inci-
bowler, Jasprit Bumrah, the skil- Spinners Ashton Agar and sive. Warner and Finch had cov-
ful Mohammad Shami and china- Adam Zampa had built pressure ered for his unpredictability,
man bowler, Kuldeep Yadav, a in the middle overs, and prised keeping him wicketless in a spell
wicket-taking option in limited- out two big wickets—Virat Kohli of 10-0-55-0.
n Prithvi Shaw injured his shoulder during a Ranji match. overs. and the set KL Rahul—triggering Asked to analyse, the left-
And dew was not a factor. The a middle-order slide that saw handed opener said: “With Kul-
NEW DELHI: Opener Prithvi Shaw will join the India A squad in New Zealand game had an early start, at India lose four wickets inside six deep, he’s got great change-ups as
in the next two days, having recovered from the shoulder injury he suffered 1.30pm, to minimise the disad- overs. The India bowlers’ inabil- well. I find he’s bowling a fraction
during a Ranji Trophy game in January first week. Shaw’s rehabilitation was vantage for the team bowling sec- ity to take a wicket despite having slower these days, quite different
handled by the National Cricket Academy (NCA), which has cleared his ond. There was no dew even an 250-plus runs to bowl was thus to Rashid Khan (Afghan leggie)
return. “Prithvi Shaw will leave for New Zealand either on Thursday or latest hour after the finish, maybe the even more baffling. n Australia’s Aaron Finch and David Warner put up the highest opening stand against India on Tuesday. PTI who bowls at 100kph; under lights
by Friday. He has been declared fully fit,” a senior BCCI source told PTI on strong breeze from the Arabian Clearly, something was miss- chinamans are very difficult to
Wednesday. The 20-year-old’s return to the competitive fold will give the Sea playing a role in the condi- ing from Bumrah’s game. He has ans). They had never seen bats- formance. It was clear Australia staggering in there and all of a pick.”
national selectors an opportunity to consider him for the two Tests against
tions. Australia anyway chased just returned from injury and men play him as comfortably as had done their homework. “It’s sudden 150km/h; it takes a while It’s a short series with little
New Zealand. A source said Shaw and Shubman Gill will now compete for the
down the target with 12 overs to could be rusty. He needs more Warner and Finch. At the top of about being nice and still,” to get used to and that’s great skill time to regroup. Bumrah and Co
slot of reserve opener in the Test team.
spare. matches under his belt to get his his game, it’s a pitch where he has Warner said about his prepara- from Bumrah. That’s how he’s have their task cut out for Fri-
Hence, the Indian bowlers rhythm back. The Wankhede Sta- made batsmen struggle to get a tion to face Bumrah after the win. always bowled as a kid growing day’s Rajkot game. The pressure
didn’t have an excuse they were dium crowd knows his game well, run even in the slog overs in T20s. “I can’t imagine someone like up and you’ve just got to watch is on Kohli and his team to come
Concussed Pant not to Jacqueline first woman 3rd bowling with a wet ball, which having watched him for seven An effort of 7-0-50-0 was quite Brett Lee running in from almost real hard. He’s got great change- up with a better game plan to
travel with team to Rajkot umpire in men’s T20I can sometimes get slippery like years in IPL (for Mumbai Indi- unlike a typical Bumrah per- the boundary and just sort of ups as well; if I’m to give any challenge this Australia line-up.
MUMBAI: Diagnosed with a DUBAI: Jacqueline Williams of the
concussion, Rishabh Pant will not West Indies will become the first
travel with the Indian team to
Rajkot for the second ODI against
Australia. Pant didn’t take the
woman to officiate as the third
umpire in a men’s international
when she takes the field for the Kimono inspires Tokyo ticket design “Never suspected
fixing but it was odd”
field for the second half of the first of three T20Is against the
first ODI here on Tuesday after visiting Ireland team. The 43- Reuters wave of domestic sales for those
getting hit on the helmet while year-old from Jamaica will n sportsdesk@hindustantimes.com events began on Wednesday.
batting. “He was taken to the officiate in the position in all the
hospital for overnight monitoring three matches of the series. “This TOKYO: The ticket designs for the PARALYMPICS SUPPORT Press Trust of India Vaughan, then a rookie, wrote in
under a specialist. He is stable and is a matter of huge honour for me Tokyo 2020 Games were unveiled American silver medallist para- n sportsdesk@hindustantimes.com the ‘Daily Telegraph’. “They
all his scan reports are clear. He and I am really excited. I have by Japanese para-canoeist Mon- archer Matt Stutzman was in were a hard bunch and very
has been discharged from the officiated as a third umpire in ika Seryu on Wednesday as the Tokyo to rally even more sup- LONDON:Former England captain tough competitors. They were a
hospital and will head to NCA to men’s matches before, but this is
second wave of ticket sales for port for the Paralympics. Michael Vaughan says he had felt bit like Australia in that regard,
undergo his rehabilitation for the first time in an interna-
the Paralympics began. “I think that the spectators are “odd” after being given “a sniff” and yet they agreed to a deal. I
protocol. He is ruled out of the tional and that too featuring the
2nd ODI,” a BCCI statement said. West Indies,” Jacqueline said. Organisers said the simple going to come and watch archery of a win in the dodgy 2000 Centu- remember thinking a few days
ticket designs, which feature the and watch basically the impossi- rion Test against South Africa, later that it was odd,” he said.
pictograms of each individual ble,” said Stutzman, who won sil- the game the late Hansie Cronje A few months after that Janu-
event and come in one of four col- ver at London 2012. fixed to change cricket forever. ary Test, Delhi police charged
Rule maker MCC wants Tests to remain five-day affair ours, are inspired by the creation “That is people with physical The match, which was almost Cronje with fixing South Africa’s
LONDON: Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the custodians of the game’s laws, of fabrics for kimono, Japanese disabilities like myself, me with- ruined by bad weather, launched ODIs against India in March 2000.
says it wants Tests to continue being played over five days amid calls for traditional formal wear. out any arms, performing at the the infamous match-fixing scan- They also released transcripts of
matches to be reduced to four days to ease a crammed international calen- The colours—red, blue, pur- n Paralympian Monika Seryu (right) unveils tickets for the Tokyo highest level of competition.” dal. an alleged conversation between
dar and reduce player workload. The ICC is set to discuss the idea of manda- ple and green—represent each of Olympics and Paralympics, in Tokyo on Wednesday. AP The Tokyo 2020 Olympics run “I never suspected match-fix- Cronje and an Indian bookie.
tory four-day Tests. “MCC has noted the recent discussion regarding the Japan’s four seasons. from July 24 - Aug. 9 with the ing. Why would you as a young “But I was still stunned when it
future of Tests,” MCC said. “The MCC Cricket committee and MCC World Tickets for the Olympics have far. Organisers are still unclear 7.8 million would be available. Paralympics starting over two player? But the one thing that broke a few months later that
Cricket committee have recently discussed the issue and although they can been on sale since May 2019 and on how many tickets are availa- Tickets for the Paralympics weeks later on Aug. 25. (Report- struck me as strange was why Cronje was doing anything to get
see some benefits that four-day Tests, both committees believe that Tests organisers said on Wednesday ble but in Tokyo 2020’s bid to host are also a hot commodity for Jap- ing by Jack Tarrant; Editing by that South Africa team had a result as part of his deal with a
should continue to be played over five days.” that 4.48 million had been sold so the Olympics, they detailed that anese sports fans and the second Stephen Coates) decided to give us a sniff,” bookie,” Vaughan wrote.
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T HURSDAY, JA N UA RY 1 6 , 2 02 0 hindustantimes sport 19

Top-ranked doubles
Rookies breathe smoke, player Farah tests
positive for steroid
legends come under fire Associated Press
n sportsdesk@hindustantimes.com

MELBOURNE: Top-ranked doubles

AUS OPEN Federer, Nadal slammed for not protesting against smoky conditions
Reuters
n sportsdesk@hindustantimes.com
MELBOURNE: Tempers flared at
the Australian Open qualifying
on Wednesday as players bat-
tled through another day of
smoky air and two of the game’s
all-time greats were labelled
“selfish” for not protesting
about the conditions.
Qualifying was disrupted for
a second successive day, firstly
by bushfire smoke and later by
a torrential rain storm which
cleared the air but put an end to
play at Melbourne Park.
Tournament organisers have
been under fire for ploughing
ahead with the qualifiers after
an initial delay on Tuesday,
with players complaining of
breathing difficulties and one
forced to retire from a match
after suffering a coughing fit.
The ill will spilled over into
Wednesday, with Canadian
world number 103 Brayden
Schnur taking aim at 20-times
Grand Slam champion Roger
Federer and world number one
Rafa Nadal for not taking a vocal
stand for the lower-profile play-
ers in qualifying.
“It’s got to come from the top
guys - Roger and Rafa are a little
bit selfish in thinking about
themselves and their careers,”
Schnur told Australian Associ-
ated Press after winning his
qualifier against Austrian
Sebastian Ofner.
“Because they’re near the
end and all they’re thinking
about is their legacy and they’re
not thinking about the sport
itself and trying to do what’s
good for the sport - so those guys
need to step up.”
Schnur said he felt “super
dryness” in his throat and that
conditions were “100 percent
not normal”.
“They’re just trying to shove
us on the court because we’re
qualifiers.”
France’s Nicolas Mahut
posted a picture of himself wear-
ing a mask over his mouth and
nose with the caption: “Ready
for my first round.”
n (Lett) Maria Sharapova reacts during her match with Laura Siegemond which was abandoned due to
the heavy smoke cover and (right) Nicolas Mahut posts a picture wearing a face mask. AFP/INSTAGRAM
Canada’s Vasek Pospisil, a
member of the ATP Player
Council, tweeted: “It’s time for a
players’ union. This is getting
absurd.”
Australia is experiencing one
of its worst bushfire seasons on
record, with fires burning for
months and killing 28 people,
destroying more than 2,500
homes and razing forests and
farmland the size of Bulgaria.
Tennis Australia said it
would continue to monitor
on-site data and consult their
medical team, the local bureau
of meteorology and government
scientists to determine whether
conditions were fit for play.
Scheduled horse race meet-
ings in two separate Melbourne
suburbs were also cancelled on
Wednesday, governing body
Racing Victoria said, “due to
smoke haze and poor air qual-
ity”.
Bushfire smoke has affected a
number of Australia’s elite
sporting competitions including
soccer, rugby league and
cricket.
Victoria state’s chief health
officer, Brett Sutton, said Ten-
nis Australia needed to estab-
lish a proper air quality policy
alongside its existing extreme
heat policy.
“They do have a heat policy, I
think they need to plan out an
air quality policy in the same
way,” he told media.
“You can’t have a blanket
solution, you need to look at the
individual circumstances and
what the alternatives are for
protecting people.”
SETBACK TO KERBER
ADELAIDE: Angelique Kerber’s
preparations for the opening
Grand Slam of the year were
dealt a blow Wednesday when
she was forced to retire from the
Adelaide International with
back pain. The German former
world number one, who won the
Australian Open in 2016, pulled
out when behind 6-3, 2-0 in her
second-round clash with
Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska.
The ninth seed began show-
ing serious signs of the back
problem early in the second set
then stopped after two points in
the third game on her own
serve, calling for the trainer.
A medical evaluation on
court ended with the 31-year-old
world number 18 calling it quits
against her teenaged opponent.
player Robert Farah says he
tested positive for a banned ana-
bolic steroid. Farah made the
announcement on social media
hours after he pulled out of the
Australian Open for what he ini-
tially said were personal reasons.
The 32-year-old Colombian
said he tested positive for Bolden-
one, which he claimed was the
result of eating meat in his home
country.
“I will not be able to play at the
Australian Open, an event for
which I had been preparing since
December,” Farah, who won last
year’s men’s doubles titles at
Wimbledon and the U.S. Open,
wrote in remarks translated from
Spanish on Twitter.
“A few hours ago the ITF
informed me of the presence of
Boldenone in a test that I did on
October 17, 2019 in Cali.
“Two weeks before the test
mentioned ... I did an anti-doping
test in Shanghai which had a neg-
ative result. And I was also tested
at least 15 other times randomly
in the international circuit
throughout the year with the
same negative result. As stated by
the Colombian Olympic Commit-
tee in 2018, this substance is found
frequently in Colombian meat
and may affect athletes’ test
results.”
“Felt uneasy”, Ankita after qualification exit
Rutvick Mehta
n rutvick.mehta@htlive.com
MUMBAI: India’s lone women’s
singles player in the Australian
Open, Ankita Raina said she felt
“uneasy” and “not normal phys-
ically” due to the pollution in
Melbourne caused by the raging
bushfires during her first round
qualifying defeat on Tuesday.
The 27-year-old said she was
forced to take a medical timeout
during her 2-6, 6-7(2) loss to Bul-
garian Viktoriya Tomova after
feeling a burning sensation in
her chest and stomach pain.
“I took the medical timeout in
the second set; she was 3-1 and I
threw up, so I told the umpire I
needed the doctor. It was 3-2
when the physio came on court.
I told them I was feeling burn in
n Players pose for a photo during the Rally For Relief at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Wednesday.
Roger, Rafa lead fundraising
efforts for bushfire relief
Reuters
n sportsdesk@hindustantimes.com
MELBOURNE: Tennis greats Roger
Federer and Rafa Nadal pledged
A$250,000 ($172,000) towards the
Australian bushfire relief efforts
at a charity event on Wednesday
in the leadup to the Australian
Open.
World number one Nadal
made the announcement at
Melbourne Park’s Rod Laver
Arena during the “Rally for
Relief” event where top players
including Serena Williams and
Australian Open defending
champion Novak Djokovic led
fundraising efforts.
n Ankita Raina.
the chest, pain in the stomach,
and was just feeling drained out.
That wasn’t usual after one-and-
a-half sets,” Raina said over
phone from Melbourne on
Wednesday.
Several players have com-
plained about the toxic air affect-
“Hopefully that will keep
inspiring the people to support
this terrible disaster that we’re
going through and helps to
recover all the things that we
need,” Nadal said on court after
an exhibition match.
Australia is experiencing one
of its worst bushfire seasons on
record, with fires burning for
months and killing 28 people,
destroying more than 2,500
homes and razing forests and
farmland the size of Bulgaria.
Smoke from bushfires blan-
keted Melbourne in a thick, grey
haze on Wednesday before a
clearing rain-storm, disrupting
the Australian Open’s qualifying
ing them during qualifying
matches. Slovenian Dalila Jaku-
povic retired midway through
her match on Tuesday. Eugenie
Bouchard and Bernard Tomic
also needed medical timeouts.
Raina, India’s highest-ranked
woman player, said she had
never experienced such physical
problems earlier. “I definitely
didn’t feel normal physically,
I’m used to playing matches
every week, back-to-back, but
GETTY IMAGES yesterday I felt very uneasy. In
the morning when I got to the
venue, the sky wasn’t clear due
to the smoke. From the begin-
ning of my match, I was feeling
tired and uneasy in my chest,”
she said.
Raina had landed in Melb-
ourne on Saturday after playing
in the semi-final of a Challenger
AP
matches for a second successive
day.
The ATP on Sunday pledged
$500,000 to the WWF Australian
Wildlife and Nature Recovery
Fund as part of the bushfire
relief efforts.
A number of players have
made individual pledges includ-
ing American Williams who said
she would donate all her prize-
money from winning a tourna-
ment in Auckland on Sunday.
Australian Nick Kyrgios has
pledged A$200 for every ace he
hits this month.
The Australian Open, the first
Grand Slam of the year, starts in
Melbourne on Monday.
event in Bendigo, which had
been shifted from Canberra due
to the bushfires in that region.
Australian Open organisers
were forced to postpone qualify-
ing matches on Wednesday.
Raina, who played her match on
Tuesday morning on Court No.
22, said they could have halted
games the previous day as well.
“They could have waited for a
couple hours and seen if it got
better, because it didn’t seem fair
for the players who played yes-
terday. There were quite a few
players yesterday who had
trouble with breathing; it would
have been due to the smoke. I can
understand from the organisers’
point of view, they have lots of
matches to get on with. Having
said that, the health of the play-
ers should be their priority.”

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England fret over Archer fitness
THIRD TEST South Africa skipper Du Plessis marked out Stokes as key; England are yet to take a call on Archer and Wood
Agencies
n sportsdesk@hindustantimes.com
PORTELIZABETH: Rival captains Faf
du Plessis and Joe Root were
united in their praise of World
Player of the Year Ben Stokes
ahead of the third Test between
South Africa and England start-
ing at St George’s Park on Thurs-
day. Stokes, Man of the Match
when England levelled the four-
match series with a 189-run win
in the second Test in Cape Town,
was named the world’s best
player by the ICC on Tuesday. He
is likely to be a key player in a
pivotal match in the series.
“It was very well deserved,”
said South African captain Du
Plessis. “He’s had a fantastic sea-
son where he played big
moments really well. That’s
when you really want to judge
cricketers, when it really mat-
ters, and that’s why he has been
so successful over the last year.
He’s single-handedly won so
many games for England.”
Du Plessis said Stokes had
already made a mark on the cur-
rent series. “He plays a big role,
whether his team does well or
not. For us, he is guy that we need
to keep quiet because he’s that
sort of player that takes the game
away from you when he gets in,
similar to what Quinton de Kock
does for us.”
Unlike wicketkeeper De Kock,
Stokes offers a strong bowling
option. “He’s got a big tank,” said
Du Plessis. “He bowls many
overs and tries 150 percent.”
England captain Joe Root
added: “It’s hard to say any more
superlatives. It’s the right deci-
sion, obviously. It couldn’t really
be anyone else the way he’s per-
formed all year, across the for-
mats. It’s just been fantastic to be
a part of the same team. He’s
shortpasses
SINDHU WINS, SAINA CRASHES OUT
JAKARTA: PV Sindhu beat Japan’s
Aya Chori 14-21, 21-15, 21-11 to enter
the second round of the Indonesia
Masters. Sindhu thus far is the
only Indian to progress to the
next round with Saina Nehwal,
Kidambi Srikanth, Sai Praneeth,
Sourabh Verma and mixed
doubles pair Pranaav Jerry Chopra
and N Sikki Reddy all losing their
first round matches earlier in the
Odisha jumps to fourth with
win against Hyderabad
HYDERABAD: Odisha FC strength-
ened their playoff hopes with a
2-1 win against Hyderabad FC in
the ISL. Marcelinho (1’) gave the
hosts an early lead but Aridane
Santana (15’, 45’) netted a brace to
help the visitors complete a
comeback. Odisha are fourth on
the table with 21 points from 13
matches. Hyderabad remain at
the bottom with five points.
Spurs beat Middlesbrough
to enter FA Cup 4th round
LONDON: Tottenham edged into
the FA Cup fourth round as
Giovani Lo Celso bagged a rare
goal in their 2-1 win over Middles-
brough, while much-maligned
Newcastle striker Joelinton scored
for the first time since August in a
victory against Rochdale on
Tuesday. Jose Mourinho’s side
almost killed off second-tier
Middlesbrough within the first 15
Nadal, Osaka among
Laureus nominees
Press Trust of India
n sportsdesk@hindustantimes.com
BERLIN: Tennis stars Rafael
Nadal and Naomi Osaka along
with teen sensation Coco Gauf
are competing for this year’s
Laureus Awards after being
nominated in different catego-
ries on Wednesday.
Three-time winner and world
number one Spaniard Nadal is
in contention for the ‘World
Sportsman of the Year’ award
alongside six-time Formula 1
World champion Lewis Hamil-
ton, six-time World MotoGP
champion Marc Márquez and
six-time FIFA World Footballer
of the Year Lionel Messi.
Also nominated in the same
category are Eliud Kipchoge,
the first athlete to run a mara-
thon in under two hours and golf
legend Tiger Woods, who won
his 15th Major Championship at
The Masters.
The awards Ceremony will be
held in Berlin on February 17.
In the ‘World Sportswoman
of the Year’ category, Osaka, the
first Asian tennis player to be
ranked number one in singles is
competing with FIFA Women’s
World Cup Golden Ball and
Golden Boot winner Megan
Rapinoe, gymnastic great Sim-
one Biles, sprinters Allyson
Felix and Shelly-Ann Fraser-
Pryce along with US skiing
great Mikaela Shiffrin.
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affected games across all three
formats. In my opinion he’s defi-
nitely the number one player in
the world at the moment.”
Both captains said they were
debating the final make-up of
their teams.
Du Plessis said fast bowler
Dane Paterson could make his
day. Saina, who is the defending
champion in the women’s singles,
lost to Japan’s Sayaki Takahashi.
She won the first game but then
was completely outclassed in the
second and third and the final
scoreline read 19-21, 21-13, 21-5 in
the Japanese’s favour. Srikanth
went down to local favourite
Shesar Hiren Rhustavito 21-18,
12-21, 14-21.
minutes. Lo Celso, on loan from
Real Betis, got Tottenham up and
running with only his second goal
of the season. Spur’s second came
when Argentina winger Erik
Lamela sliced through the
defence before slotting home in
the 15th minute. George Saville
got one back in the 83rd minute.
Gokulam Kerala thrash
East Bengal 3-1
KALYANI: East Bengal went down
to Gokulam Kerala 1-3 ahead of
Sunday’s I-League derby. East
Bengal conceded their first goal in
the 21st minute when an un-
marked Henry Kisekka cut in from
the edge of the box to slot it past
goalkeeper Lalthuamawia Ralte.
Marti Crespi scored an own goal
just before half-time. Marcus
Joseph sealed the issue in the
65th minute. East Bengal’s
solitary goal came in the 27th
minute when Kassim Aidara
slotted it home from a rebound
off the post.
n Rafael Nadal.
FIFA Women’s World Cup
champions USA Women’s Foot-
ball Team and UEFA Champi-
ons League winners Liverpool
FC are the football nominees in
the Laureus World Team of the
Year category.
Joining them are six-time
Formula 1 Drivers and Con-
structors World Champions
Mercedes AMG Petronas,
Rugby World Cup champions
South Africa, the first Canadian
team to win the NBA Champion-
ship Toronto Raptors and two-
time FIBA World Cup winners
Spain Men’s Basketball Team.
Gauff is joined in the ‘World
Breakthrough of the Year’ cate-
gory by Canadian tennis player
and the first woman to win the
US Open on her debut Bianca
Andreescu, Colombia’s first
ever Tour de France winner
Egan Bernal, Rugby World Cup
trailblazers Japan Men’s Rugby
Team, former unified heavy-
weight boxing champion Andy
Ruiz Jr and US swimming star
Regan Smith.
debut on a pitch where reverse
swing could be a factor. He said
Paterson’s style of bowling could
make him dangerous in the
expected conditions—but added
that it was a difficult choice,
which would mean leaving out
an all-rounder, probably Dwaine
Pretorius, or left-arm spinner
Shubhankar eyes
consistency as he
joins old caddie
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ABU DHABI: Feeling confident that
his game is in a good space, Indian
golfer Shubhankar Sharma has
brought back his old caddie,
Vicky Sharma, as he aims to com-
pete at the Tokyo Olympics later
this year. Shubhankar is starting
his new season at the Abu Dhabi
HSBC Golf this week.
“I do have some goals. Being
fitter and being consistent is part
of it. I also want some good early
results to finish higher on Order
of Merit. I feel my game is in a
good place and one good week will
make all the difference,” he said.
“Getting to Tokyo would be
great. That’s what I want to do. If
I play well in these early events
which are big and have a lot of
points, I will make good head-
way.”
Sharma will play his first
round with David Lipsky, who
like the Indian, has won the Asian
Tour Order of Merit in the past.
The third player in the pairing
will be Andrea Pavan and they
will be the first to tee of in the aft-
ernoon wave on Thursday.
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Keshav Maharaj.
He said weather could play a
role in the final decision. “It’s
been hot the last few days. You
need hot and dry weather for
reverse swing but there’s talk of
some rain on days three and four
so that could affect it.”
Root said fast bowlers Jofra
Longest unbeaten
streak for Carlsen
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WIJKAANZEE:Viswanathan Anand
remained winless for the fourth
round running, playing out a
draw with China’s Yu Yangyi in
the Tata Steel Chess where world
champion Magnus Carlsen broke
the record for being undefeated in
maximum number of games.
Anand, who lost to Wesley So
in the second round, shares the
11th spot alongside Nikita Vitui-
gov of Russia while Yu Yangyi is
13th currently with one point in
his kitty. With nine rounds still to
come in the 14-player round-
robin event, Vladislav Kovalev of
Belarus is at the bottom.
Carlsen drew with local talent
Jorden Van Foreest, registering
his 111th game without losing,
surpassing a 15-year-old record
made by Russian-turned-Dutch
Sergei Tiviakov.
American Wesley So shot in to
sole lead ahead of the first rest
day handing Iranian Alireza Fir-
ouzja his first defeat of the tour-
nament. Wesley moved to three
points out of a possible four and is
now followed by compatriots
Caruana Fabiano and Jeffery
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Archer and Mark Wood must
still prove their fitness to be
included in the side. England are
seeking a replacement for James
Anderson, whose tour has ended
after he picked up a rib injury in
the second Test victory in Cape
Town. Archer missed that game
with an elbow problem and
Xiong, Foreest, Firouzja and
Vladislav Artemiev of Russia.
Carlsen, after four draws in first
four games, is joint seventh with
Anish Giri, Daniil Dubov and
Jan-Krzysztof on two points.
For Anand, the Ragozin varia-
tion in the Queen’s gambit
declined has been working fine
for some time and in the fourth
round too, the Indian ace opted
for the same. It was a keen tussle
in the opening but pieces changed
hands at regular intervals. After
the trading of queens, the players
were left with rooks and knight
only and even though Yangyi
played on till move 32 the result
was never in doubt.
GANGULY WINS
In the Challenger’s section
India’s Surya Shekhar Ganguly,
famously known as Anand’s sec-
ond in three world champion-
ships triumphs, scored a crush-
ing victory over Dinara Sadua-
kassova of Kazakhstan to emerge
as the sole leader on three points.
The other Indian, Nihal
Sareen, also won his first game of
the tournament at the expense of
Max Warmerdam to move to joint
second spot on 2.5 points.
Wood has had a number of fit-
ness issues in the past, meaning
neither might get the nod.
“No decision has been made,”
Root told reporters. “It is impor-
tant to use today’s training ses-
sion to get a real clear under-
standing of where everybody is
at and as this tour has proven,
make sure that we are all ready
to go when we turn up to play.”
QUESTIONS REMAIN
Root suggested a fully fit Archer
would play, but whether his
elbow will hold up over five days,
allowing him to bowl at his full
intensity, is the big question.
“With Jofra, he is 24-years-
old, right at the start of his Test
career and has a huge amount of
ability. It is clear to see what he is
capable of doing,” Root said.
“But managing workloads is a
very important part of it as well.
He has played a huge amount of
cricket since he has come into
the international arena and we
have seen a little bit of push-back
from his body with that elbow
injury.
“If he is fit and raring to go you
want him in your side. But you
want to make sure that he is able
to deliver all of his skills and not
just seam it around and swing it,
but do it all at 90 miles an hour.”
Wood’s chequered past with
injuries means the selectors are
cautious over him as well, and
Root suggested that he, like
Archer, must be able to bowl at
full pace to get into the line-up.
“The reason we have been
quite cautious in terms of rush-
ing him back is that (injury) his-
tory and knowing that his value
in the team is being at 100%,” the
skipper added.
“If he is 100% and firing, the
skills he has at his pace will be a
great asset in Test cricket.”
Maharashtra remain top,
Assam and Bengal win big
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GUWAHATI: The Assam contin-
gent reaped a rich harvest on
Bihu as their lawn bowlers
helped the state double their
gold medal haul to six at the
Khelo India Youth Games on
Wednesday. West Bengal joined
Assam in stealing Maharashtra
and Haryana’s thunder on
Wednesday by also winning
three gold medals.
The 19-year-old Surajit Bur-
hagohain hit paydirt in lawn
bowls boys under-21 singles
final with a 21-10 win against
Jharkhand’s Abhishek Lakra.
The boys fours and girls triple
teams also made the home state
proud, winning with ease. In
Assam’s only disappointment,
the girls pair of Abhaya Bharti
and Soni Kumari Gupta lost by a
point to Bihar’s Khushbu
Kumari and Nikhat Khatoon.
On a day when 17 gold were at
stake, Maharashtra and Hary-
ana picked up two each to stay
on top of the medals tally. It was
at the velodrome that Maha-
rashtra won two gold on
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over teenage
shooter’s training
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NEW DELHI: International trap
shooter Vivaan Kapoor’s father
has complained to the national
shooting body of “harassment” of
the teenager by the shotgun chief
coach, Mansher Singh, after an
incident at the Karni Singh Ran-
ges here on Wednesday.
Vikram Kapoor has alleged
that Mansher confronted the
shooter’s personal coach,
Kuwait’s Khaled Al Mudhaf,
while he was supervising prac-
tice of the teenager, who is India
No 4 in senior and had won gold in
the Asian junior championships
last November. The letter alleged
it was an attempt to disturb his
18-year-old son’s focus with the
national selection trials starting
on Monday to pick shooters for
competitions, starting with the
World Cup in March.
However, National Rifle Asso-
ciation of India (NRAI) president,
Raninder Singh, blamed poor
communication by the shooter’s
camp. The federation must be
informed when a foreign coach is
hired privately, and NRAI then
will inform Sports Authority of
India (SAI) and its executive
director-teams, who monitors
the training programme of elite
athletes.
“We got a letter from Vivaan’s
father on December 15 that they
have appointed a foreign coach.
But it didn’t specify whether he
would be coaching in SAI ranges
run by government,” Raninder
said. “NRAI doesn’t have any
objection, but there is a formality
for foreign experts. Had they
informed us of Vivaan training at
the Karni Singh Ranges, such an
argument could have been
medalstally
State G S
Maha 28 32 50
Hry 23 25 25
UP 17 13
Delhi 17 12
Kerala 13
G-Gold S-Silver
Wednesday, with Kolhapur’s
Pooja Baban Danole winning
her fourth gold in girls under-17
category and Mayur Pawar
emerging the fastest under-21
rider.
Haryana under-17 rider Arab
Singh won the boys individual
pursuit gold while Anjali
Chaudhary claimed the girls
under-21 25m pistol shooting
title to ensure that the gap with
Maharashtra would not widen
at the end of the day. They would
be disappointed that Anil Man-
glaw was beaten by Punjab’s
Naman Kapil in the boys
under-21 individual pursuit
cycling final.
Uttar Pradesh edged ahead of
Delhi to third place after their
SHOOTER’S FATHER HAS
ALLEGED MANSHER
CONFRONTED HIS SON’S
PERSONAL COACH,
KUWAIT’S KHALED AL
MUDHAF, WHILE HE WAS
SUPERVISING PRACTICE
OF THE TEENAGER,
avoided.”
Vikram, in his complaint to
NRAI, said Mansher objected to
the training times of the shooter.
“My son was training with his
personal coach away from the
playing/shooting area … Man-
sher went to Vivaan and started
shouting at him and threatening
him,” he said in the letter.
“Mansher also started taking
videos of Vivaan and mentally
harassing my son. He then started
fighting with Khaled about his
legality in India.” Vikram said the
documents needed to allow
Khaled to train his son were in
order, alleging Mansher was
upset as he had dropped him as
his son’s personal coach.
Mansher denied the allega-
tions. “The coach and shooter
were on the field of play and being
the chief coach, I asked him to
vacate the area. But the foreign
coach was rude. Foreign coaches
using the ranges for private
coaching should inform NRAI
and SAI. There is a protocol. I
wasn’t aware of the time of train-
ing and politely told them to move
out as others were waiting.”
On giving private lessons to the
shooter, which nationals coaches
are not allowed to, Mansher said
it was before he took over as chief
coach last year.
boys under-17 volleyball team
won the final against Uttara-
B Total khand. Uttar Pradesh and Delhi
110 have 17 gold and 48 medals each
and are separated by the silver
73
medal count.
18 48
19 48 BENGAL STRIKE GOLD
Bengal struck gold through
3 12 28 sprint cyclist Triyasha Paul, the
B-Bronze under-21 mixed team rifle shoot-
ers Ayushi Poddar and Amartya
Mukherjee as well as the girls
under-17 volleyball squad. The
three gold on Wednesday helped
the state move up into the top-10
with seven gold.
Triyasha Paul and Odisha’s
Swasti Singh joined Pooja Dan-
ole as multiple gold medallists
in cycling. Kerala’s lone gold on
Wednesday was won by the
under-21 girls volleyball team,
which overcame early nerves to
find their A game and beat West
Bengal in straight sets.
The Gujarat boys, who
turned the tables on Tamil Nadu
in the semi-finals, went on to
beat Haryana in four sets while
the Uttar Pradesh boys defeated
Uttarakhand by a similar mar-
gin.