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Bumpy
on harsh realities on plea against probe ride for
Agrarian distress in Vidarbha, pollution deaths, classbased killings R. Ravikanth Reddy government. The parties
bike taxis
by police have been dropped from Class 11 sociology textbook HYDERABAD later withdrew the petition
after the SC told them they Curbs hit livelihoods
Prime Minister Narendra were not entitled to any
Modi took a dig at Opposi special immunity.
NEWS » PAGE 8
tion parties, saying they
have been jolted by the Su ‘Dynastic corruption’
preme Court’s refusal to Mr. Modi repeatedly re
entertain their appeal to ferred to parivarvaad (fa
stop the alleged misuse of mily rule), hinting at the
Central agencies. Congress and the Bharat
Mr. Modi was address Rashtra Samithi. He ar
ing a public meeting in gued that the genesis of
Hyderabad after launching corruption was in family
the Vande Bharat Express rule that wanted to control
from Secunderabad to the institutions. Some people
temple town of Tirupati on are worried about the de Comics are returning to shelves
Saturday, an event skipped velopment vision of the
by Telangana Chief Minis present government and MAGAZINE » PAGE 1
ter K. Chandrasekhar Rao. these are the same forces
The PM questioned the that promote family rule
morality of the Opposition since corrupt money bene
None of these deletions have been declared by the NCERT in its published list of revisions. FILE PHOTO trying to seek the court’s fits them directly, he said.
protection on inquiries in The PM repeatedly
Aroon Deep the Fun and Food Village Water and to corrupt acts. “By refus asked the gathering wheth
Maitri Porecha Amusement Park in Bazargaon village of ing to entertain their plea, er the country should al
NEW DELHI Nagpur district, a 40acre haven that offers the court gave them a jolt.” low them to go scotfree or
18 kinds of water slides and games. Another He was referring to the whether the fight against
R
eferences to the water crisis in branch of this water park is in Gurugram. petition filed by 14 Opposi such elements should con
the Vidarbha region of Maha The Hindu has confirmed that both the Nag tion parties, in which they tinue. The crowd respond
rashtra which leads to agrarian pur and Gurugram facilities are still said that the Centre was ar ed with an applause. Jadeja and Rahane deliver for CSK
distress, deaths due to pollu functional. bitrarily using probe agen
tion in India, and classbased killings by the The deleted portion includes these cies against leaders who CONTINUED ON SPORT » PAGE 14
police have all been dropped from the new lines: “Bazargaon falls in a region declared disagreed with the Modi » PAGE 6
ly printed National Council of Educational as scarcityhit in 2004. It had never faced
Research and Training (NCERT) textbooks. that fate before. The village also had its
The Hindu mapped the changes in the share of sixhour — and worse — power cuts
Class 11 sociology textbook, Understanding till about May. These hit every aspect of dai
Society, which revealed multiple instances ly life, including health, and devastated
of dropped topics. The culling of these top children appearing for exams. The summer
ics was not declared in the public domain heat, touching 47, made things worse. All
when the NCERT released the list of ration these iron laws of rural life do not apply
alised content last year. within Fun and Food Village. This private
The starkest deletion is in Chapter 3, En- oasis has more water than Bazargaon can
vironment and Society, in a section titled dream of. And never a moment’s break in
“Why environmental problems are also so power supply.”
cial problems”. Three full pages from the The deletions also include the mention
chapter that deal with two case studies of two more such parks in the State: one in
have been culled: one is on waterstarved Buldhana district’s Shegaon and one in Ya
Vidarbha having a growing number of wa vatmal. Similarly, a huge chunk of an article
ter parks and amusement centres, while by Amita Baviskar, initially published in the
the other is about the killing of an 18year International Social Science Journal, titled
old labourer and four others by the Delhi “Between violence and desire: space, pow
police in the industrial area of Wazirpur. er, and identity in the making of metropol
The case study on Vidarbha’s agrarian itan Delhi”, has been dropped.
and water crisis was authored by veteran
journalist P. Sainath and had first appeared CONTINUED ON
in The Hindu on June 22, 2005. It describes » PAGE 6
IN BRIEF
쑽 Centre removes 3 16th Finance
panel will be
lignite blocks in T.N. constituted
from auction list in November
Vikas Dhoot
The Hindu Bureau through a special calling at NEW DELHI
CHENNAI tention motion in the As
Despite Pawar’s sembly on Wednesday. The Union government is
stand, Cong. steps Union Coal Minister Pral Mr. Joshi’s announce gearing up to constitute
up attack on Adani had Joshi announced on ment came hours ahead of the Sixteenth Finance
Saturday that he had or Mr. Modi’s visit to Chennai Commission in November
dered the exclusion of to flag off the Vande Bharat this year to recommend
NEW DELHI
three lignite blocks from Express from Chennai to the formula for sharing re
Cracks may have appeared
the seventh tranche of auc Coimbatore and to launch venues between the Centre
within Opposition ranks on
tions launched by his Mi other projects. and the States for the five
seeking a JPC probe into the
nistry last Wednesday. year period beginning
Adani stock controversy, but
The inclusion of the East Annamalai’s appeal 202627, a top government
the Congress on Saturday
of Sethiathope, Michael A day after the Chief Minis official has confirmed to
continued to accuse the
patti and Vadaseri blocks — ter’s letter to the Prime Mi The Hindu.
BJP of diverting attention
of which the first two were nister, BJP State president The critical fiscal panel,
from the issue. » Page 7
protected under the Tamil K. Annamalai, along with which is also tasked with
Nadu Protected Agricul the party’s national gener recommending the distri
ture Zone Development al secretary and Tamil Na bution ratio of revenues
Activists: frame Act, 2020, and the third du incharge C.T. Ravi, met between States, along with
was a major paddygrow Mr. Joshi, appealing for the other terms of reference
rules under Right ing area — was opposed by exclusion of the three that the Centre proposes,
to Health Bill all political parties. blocks from the auction. is to be formed every five
Tamil Nadu Chief Minis In his tweet announcing years according to Article
JAIPUR ter M.K. Stalin wrote to the exclusion of the blocks, 280 of the Constitution.
With the deadlock over the Prime Minister Narendra Mr. Joshi said Mr. Annama However, the Fifteenth
Right to Health Bill coming Modi on Tuesday, express lai rushed to meet him in Finance Commission,
to an end, activists have ing concern over their in Bengaluru with the re which was headed by N.K.
sought framing of rules for clusion without any com quest. “In [the] spirit of Singh, had been given an
the early implementation munication to the State cooperative federalism extended mandate to make
of the Act. » Page 6 and urging that they be re and keeping in mind [the] recommendations for six
moved from the auction. interest of people of T.N., I years, up till 202526.
All parties, including the have directed to exclude
MAGAZINE 8 PAGES » BJP, called for the exclu them from the auction,” he CONTINUED ON
CLASSIFIEDS PAGE 4 » sion of these blocks tweeted, tagging Mr. Stalin. » PAGE 6
CM M ND-NDE
YK
THE HINDU
2 Sunday, April 9, 2023
City Delhi
INBRIEF
쑽 ‘AAP govt. building new schools, BJP
demolishing school to build party office’
Kejriwal takes a dig at BJP over the ‘planned demolition’ of school adjacent to its office; BJP says AAP leaders are habitual liars, mislead people
Delhi govt. approves projects The Hindu Bureau liars” prepared to go to any Highlighting the work schools was rising. “Stu
to revamp roads in Rohini NEW DELHI length to “mislead” people. done by the government in dents of Classes IVIII paid
the past eight years, he scant attention to studies as
C
Public Works Department Minister Atishi on hief Minister Arvind Education revolution said, “Just until a few years they knew they would be
Saturday approved road strengthening and Kejriwal on Satur Speaking at the school ago the conditions of the promoted. As a result, stu
beautification projects in the North Division to day said while the function, Mr. Kejriwal said government schools were dents with weak education
improve interconnectivity in Rohini area. Ms. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) go the “education revolution” horrible. But now the build al foundation reached Class
Atishi said, “This is expected to bring about a vernment is building new in Delhi was brought by ings of these schools and IX where they failed in
significant improvement in the condition of the schools, the BJP was demol former Minister Manish Si the facilities have been tests,” he said.
roads, making them more durable and resistant to ishing one to build its of sodia and that is why he transformed. Now, parents Earlier in the day, the
wear and tear caused by heavy traffic and adverse fice. “They will have their was sent to jail. Mr. Sisodia are taking their children Chief Minister tweeted that
weather conditions.” name etched in history if was arrested on February out of private schools and extra classes will be organ
they demolish BJP offices to 26 for alleged corruption in admitting them to govern ised for children who are
build schools. But it’s very the formulation and imple ment schools in Delhi.” weak in studies. This was in
Man arrested for killing painful that they are demol
ishing a school,” he said
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Education Minister Atishi at East
Vinod Nagar on Saturday. R.V. MOORTHY
mentation of the now
scrapped Delhi excise poli BJP reacts
response to a tweet by BJP
spokesperson Harish Khu
advocate over land dispute while speaking at the foun cy for 202122. The BJP countered the CM’s rana, who had alleged that
dation stonelaying cere a government school land the building was on the “He [Mr. Sisodia] had remarks saying that the more than 1 lakh children
A man was arrested for allegedly killing a mony of new buildings at adjacent to it” and that the land of the Central Public planned the building and AAP government’s “educa fail in Class IX every year.
50yearold advocate over a land dispute in the Rajkiya Sarvodaya Ka party was going to demol Works Department, which the government will carry tion model” has collapsed Mr. Kejriwal said: “One
southwest Dwarka, the police said on Saturday. nya Bal Vidyalaya in East Vi ish it. had already given a notice forward his education revo and the claim of providing of these children will be
The victim was shot dead by bikeborne men on nod Nagar. BJP leaders dismissed to the MCD to take back its lution on mission mode,” schools of international come the Prime Minister of
April 1. Meanwhile, a delegation of lawyers met On Friday, AAP had al the allegation and said the possession. Delhi BJP presi the CM said, adding that the standards is a “cruel joke”. the country in future and
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and expressed leged that BJP’s new central school building was lying dent Virendra Sachdeva school will look as beautiful Mr. Sachdeva said every we do not want anyone to
concern over their safety following various office on Deen Dayal Upad abandoned for many years. said Mr. Kejriwal and other as Columbia University in year the number of dro become PM in future with a
instances of attacks on lawyers in the recent past. hyay Marg “encroached on The party also claimed that AAP leaders were “habitual the U.S. once ready. pouts from government fake degree.”
MCD eyes next mayoral polls by month’s end Convicts, undertrials released during
The Hindu Bureau
NEW DELHI
Governor’s office, via the
Delhi government, in order
to appoint a presiding offic
ween AAP and BJP council
lors on three occasions.
standing committee.
Senior MCD officials said
the next House meeting to
pandemic reluctantly return to jails
The Municipal Corporation er for the internal Severe disruptions conduct the fresh internal
of Delhi (MCD) will likely
elect the next Mayor before
elections.
The presiding officer has
While the Mayor and the
Deputy Mayor were elected
elections is unlikely to see
the standing committee
Samridhi Tewari
NEW DELHI
Man released
the end of the month, eith
er on April 26 or April 28,
to be a councillor who is
not a candidate for the
on the fourth attempt, on
February 22, the remain
polls. This is mainly be
cause the hearing in con For nearly two years, Mo
on parole
according to sources in the
civic body.
mayoral polls.
Until the elections are
der of the House meeting
saw disruptions — includ
nection to the previously
held polls for the six posts
nu, 24, almost forgot what
it meant to be a prisoner.
during COVID
Senior MCD officials said held, the incumbent Mayor ing a marathon 22hour remain pending before the Arrested on murder charge kills girlfriend
incumbent Mayor Shelly and Deputy Mayor will con session with multiple in Delhi High Court. five years ago, Monu spent
Oberoi will suggest the date tinue to hold office. stances of clashes and ar “As of now, only the the last two years working
for the fresh mayoral polls. The previous election to guments between the Mayor and the Deputy at his father’s transport Press Trust of India
Subsequently, the MCD the two offices witnessed councillors from both par Mayor elections are likely company after he was tem NEW DELHI
Commissioner will send multiple disruptions fol ties — in electing the six to be held,” said a senior porarily released in 2021.
the file to the Lieutenant lowing violent clashes bet members to the MCD’s MCD official. As his interim bail ended, A 37yearold murder con
he reluctantly returned to Inmates who had received emergency parole or interim bail during vict, who was given parole
Tihar jail on Saturday. the pandemic returning to Tihar jail. SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR during the pandemic,
Like Monu, hundreds of killed his girlfriend after
other inmates who were cells, especially with the in a murder case in 2018 finding out she had mar
out on emergency parole pandemic showing signs of and given bail in May 2021. ried someone else while he
or interim bail granted dur a summer comeback. In 2015, Vikas was con was in jail, Delhi Police said
ing the pandemic to pre victed in a 2011 case under on Saturday.
vent the spread of CO Life out of jail the Narcotic Drugs and Psy An officer said that the
VID19 in overcrowded “The interim relief gave me chotropic Substances Act accused, Deepak, was ar
prisons, have returned to a chance to get my life so and sentenced to 12anda rested from RBlock, Sabzi
their respective jails — Ti mewhat back on track. I halfyears in prison. Grant Mandi, in Mangolpuri.
har, Mandoli and Rohini. had started earning. But ed relief in May 2021, he Deepak had recently
On March 24, the Su now that I have to go back, went back to Madhya Pra called his girlfriend to a ho
preme Court had ordered I’m worried. Moreover, CO desh to his family of five. “I tel room in Sultanpuri, slit
nearly 4,000 undertrial VID cases are also rising. was back farming in my vil her throat with a knife and
prisoners (UTPs) and con How will we [inmates] sur lage and helped my family then fled, the police stated.
victs to surrender within vive in the cramped cells?” save money for their fu A reward of ₹50,000
the next 15 days after the said Monu, who claims he ture,” Vikas, now 30, said. had been announced for
Director General (Prisons) was falsely accused in the However, not all hope information leading to his
moved the top court seek case. seems to be lost for these arrest.
ing clarity on the process. Another undertrial pri inmates. According to the During interrogation,
However, many of the soner, Bhupendra, de apex court, the UTPs who the accused told the police
prisoners and their kin are scribed the time spent in have now surrendered can that he frequently changed
apprehensive about the jail as “living in a box”. Like apply for regular bail be his address and stayed in
conditions in the crowded Monu, he too was arrested fore the relevant courts. five States to evade arrest.
HOMAGE
CM M ND-NDE
YK
THE HINDU
Sunday, April 9, 2023 3
Delhi
States
‘Mafia raj’ stronger under AAP
governments that ruled the party at the grassroots
Darshan Devaiah B.P.
BENGALURU Karnataka.” level across the State. The ‘patronage’: Navjot Sidhu
AAP’s Karnataka con party has added 10 frontal
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Saturday
While the main Opposition vener Prithvi Reddy said organisations, of women,
alleged that the ‘mafia raj’ in Punjab has grown
parties — the Congress and the other political parties youth, OBC, SC/ST, trad
stronger under the ‘patronage’ of the Aam Aadmi
the Janata Dal (Secular) — in the State had completely ers, farmers and profes
Party, which had promised to demolish it before
in Karnataka, continue to failed to meet the expecta sional wings to its Karnata
coming to power. In a tweet, he alleged, “Those
stress on the need to take tions of the people, and ka unit.
who promised to demolish it have become it’s
on the ruling Bharatiya Ja there was no development
godfathers! ... Only borrowings and taxes driving
nata Party (BJP) for the up by the government, espe 140 candidates
us towards bankruptcy.” PTI
coming Assembly poll, the cially in the health and Recently, the party had an
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is education sectors. AAP nounced tickets for 140
battling multiple issues as would start alternative candidates, including Su
it works on its prospects in ideas on the lines of preme Court la
the State. the Delhi model of wyer Brijesh Kalap
The party in power in governance in pa (Chickpet),
Delhi and Punjab has been Karnataka. former KAS officer
a minor player in Karnata Meanwhile, the K. Mathai (Shanti
ka. It contested the pre party is also wor nagar), Kannada ac
vious election but has not Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and AAP’s Karnataka convener Prithvi Reddy at a public meeting in ried about the ar tor Tennis Krishna
been able to open its ac Davangere. FILE PHOTO rest of the former (Turuvekere), AAP
count so far. However, it Delhi Deputy Chief Bengaluru presi
has announced that it work in the State. impact of Mr. Rao quitting protect the integrity of the Minister Manish Si dent Mohan Dasari
would contest all the 224 The party is solely de the party or the allegation country. sodia in the excise policy (C.V. Raman Nagar), and
Assembly constituencies in pendent on Mr. Kejriwal of a lack of prominent face. Speaking to The Hindu, case. A source said the ar AAP coconvener Shantha Police to probe ‘conman’ Patel’s
the State this time. and the various develop We have a very good deve AAP Bengaluru president rest would have an impact la Damle (Mahalakshmi
It was on March 4 that ment models in Delhi. Be lopment model in Delhi Mohan Dasari said, “The on the party but added Layout). educational background
AAP national convener fore he came to Karnataka, and now in Punjab,” a party has given good gover that everyone knows that it Mr. Reddy said, “All our
The Ahmedabad Crime Branch will probe the
and Delhi Chief Minister retired IPS officer Bhaskar source said. nance in both Delhi and is a “politically motivated” candidates represent va
educational qualifications of alleged conman
Arvind Kejriwal held the Rao, who was in AAP, After joining the BJP, Mr. Punjab with highquality arrest. rious sections of society,
Kiran Patel who was arrested in Jammu and
party’s maiden public joined the ruling BJP on Rao had alleged that education and healthcare; Shrugging off the obsta and 50% of them are aged
Kashmir last month for posing as a PMO official
meeting in Davangere and March 1. Mr. Rao had taken though he was associated the same will be imple cles, the party has taken below 45. We have selected
and brought to Gujarat on Saturday early
promised free electricity, voluntary retirement in with AAP for about a year, mented in the State. We up various initiatives with them after conducting a
morning. Mr. Patel claims to be a computer
good education in govern 2022 and joined AAP. he felt that the party did will make a big difference hopes of emerging as an survey. Candidates select
engineer who has worked in an advertisement
ment schools and good However, party sources not have the capability to in this election by contest important political party in ed represent farmers,
agency as well as abroad, Ahmedabad Deputy
healthcare if his party was said the development has grow in Karnataka. ing all the seats since peo the State. It conducted youth, women, advocates,
Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch)
came to power. After this, not impacted the party in He described the BJP as ple want a change, espe ‘Gram Sampark Abhiyaan’ doctors, IT professionals
Chaitanya Mandlik said. PTI
AAP started its ground Karnataka. “There is no the only party that can cially from the corrupt to expand the network of and other backgrounds.”
Dalit woman
raped and set First list: BJP Parliamentary Madras HC upholds Centre’s 360°
appraisal system for IAS officers
afire, dies in
Rajasthan
Board meeting postponed
Mohamed Imranullah S. system. The judges, ho Secretary and then Secre
It was deferred owing to the nonavailability of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi CHENNAI wever, refrained from im tary in the subsequent
Press Trust of India posing costs on the peti years. However, it did not
JAIPUR The Madras High Court has tioner “since an interesting happen due to the intro
The Hindu Bureau suggested by party work upheld the validity of a 360 question of law had been duction of the multisource
A Dalit woman who was al BENGALURU ers in the poll held recent degree appraisal/multi framed and argued”. feedback system under
legedly raped and set afire ly, the shortlist and recom source feedback system in According to Mr. Kata which the government had
by a man in Rajasthan’s he BJP Parliamen mendation by the State
T
troduced by the Centre in ria, he belonged to the decided to elicit opinions
Barmer district died dur tary Board meeting core committee, and inde 2016 for appraising the 1989 batch of Tamil Nadu about individual officers
ing treatment at a govern that was scheduled pendent surveys that the performance of the all In cadre and was empanelled from seniors, peers, ju
ment hospital in Jodhpur, to be held on Saturday party high command con dia service officers, in State to serve as Joint Secretary niors, external stakehol
the police said on evening, to decide on the ducted in all the 224 consti government service, for level officer under the GoI ders and serving secretar
Saturday. party’s first list of candi tuencies. empanelment so that they in 2012. Such empanel ies. Hence, he had
The 30yearold wo dates for the upcoming As While there has been could apply for vacancies ment took place by assess approached the court to
man, a mother of two, was sembly elections, was post speculation that many sit that arise under the Go ing his performance in declare the system as ille
allegedly raped and set poned due to the ting MLAs may lose ticket, vernment of India. terms of the 1996 office gal. The Division Bench
ablaze by one Shakoor nonavailability of Prime sources in the party said it Justices V.M. Velumani memorandum issued by said it did not find any ille
Khan at her house on April Minister Narendra Modi in was unlikely. and V. Lakshminarayanan the Union Ministry of Per gality in the Centre decid
6. The woman suffered Delhi. dismissed a writ petition sonnel, Public Grievances ing to assess an officer’s
around 50% burns, accord Mr. Modi was touring Fingers crossed filed by IAS officer Daya and Pensions. performance by looking
ing to the police. Telangana and Tamil Nadu Several BJP ticket aspirants nand Kataria challenging He was due for empa beyond his/her Annual
The Opposition BJP ac and landed in Mysuru on are camping in Delhi trying the 360 degree appraisal nelment as an Additional Confidential Report (ACR).
cused the Chief Minister Saturday night. The to lobby for themselves.
Ashok Gehlotled govern board’s meeting will likely However, most of them
ment of trying to suppress happen on Sunday night Prime Minister Narendra Modi being received by Union Minister have been in the dark as
the incident and said it after he returns to Delhi or Bhupendra Yadav and others in Mysuru on Saturday night. SPECIAL the leaders had been holed
showed ‘jungle raj’ was on Monday, sources in the ARRANGEMENT up in marathon meetings
prevalent in the State. Un party said. at Mr. Nadda’s residence.
ion Jal Shakti Minister and Karnataka Chief Minis “The Prime Minister will Keeping their fingers
Jodhpur MP Gajendra Marathon meetings ter Basavaraj Bommai, not go into the nittygritties crossed, most of them are
Singh Shekhawat alleged In the meanwhile, Central State party chief Nalin Ku of candidate selection. It is waiting for the Parliamen
the woman died due to a leaders, including Union mar Kateel, former Chief at these meetings that tary Board meeting to be
delay in treatment. Home Minister Amit Shah, Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, most of the list will be final held.
Barmer Superintendent party president J.P. Nadda Union Ministers Pralhad ised and presented for ap The party is targeting to
of Police Digant Anand said and BJP general secretary Joshi, Dharmendra Prad proval before the Parlia announce the candidates
the woman died late on (Organisation) B.L. San han, and Mansukh Manda mentary Board,” a senior for at least 150 constituen
Friday at a hospital in Jodh thosh, were huddled with viya, and incharge of par BJP leader said. cies in its first list, which
pur and the accused has State leaders in Delhi at Mr. ty affairs in State Arun Sources said that the will likely be announced
been arrested. Nadda’s residence over the Singh were part of the meetings were considering on Monday night, party
selection of candidates. deliberations. the list of three candidates sources said.
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SRINAGAR
CM M ND-NDE
YK
THE HINDU Sunday, April 9, 2023
4 Delhi
INBRIEF
쑽 When Tamil Nadu grows, Gaps in Delhi college’s
handling of sexual
India grows, says PM Modi harassment plaints:
Inaugurating infrastructure projects worth more than ₹5,200 crore in Chennai, the Prime Minister
says the schemes will give a big boost to development, which will raise income levels in the State
alumni, exteachers
Aravind Kumar B. see infrastructure as con The Hindu Bureau Joint statement
CHENNAI crete and cement but we NEW DELHI points at
see it with a human face.”
A train to Kashmir Valley amil Nadu is one of Earlier in the day, he in Alumni and former teach
several ‘missteps’
under Bharat Gaurav scheme
The Indian Railways, in association with the
T India’s growth en
gines, Prime Minis
ter Narendra Modi said
augurated the Chennai air
port’s new international
terminal. On his arrival, he
ers of Indraprastha College
for Women (IPCW) issued a
joint statement on Satur
by Indraprastha
College for Women
after students alleged
South Star Rail, a Coimbatorebased company, here on Saturday, as he in was welcomed at the air day questioning gaps in the harassment at a
will operate a tourist train to Kashmir Valley augurated infrastructure port by Governor R.N. Ra implementation of laws cultural festival
under the Bharat Gaurav scheme. “The package projects worth more than vi, Chief Minister M.K. Sta against sexual harassment on March 28
will begin on May 11. The train originates from ₹5,200 crore. “When Ta lin, his Cabinet colleagues on the campus.
Coimbatore. Tourists can board it at Erode, mil Nadu grows, India and MPs. On March 28, several
Salem, Dharmapuri, Hosur, Yelahanka, grows,” he said. The Prime Minister then students had alleged ha counts,” the statement
Perambur, Vijayawada and Warangal,” according Staying away from polit Fillip to growth: Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with Chief flagged off the Vande Bha rassment by a group of said, adding that only an
to Vignesh, product director of the Travel Times ical rhetoric, Mr. Modi said Minister M.K. Stalin and Governor R.N. Ravi at a function held in rat train to Coimbatore men who forced their way internal complaints com
India Limited that would coordinate the 12day that the projects would Chennai on Saturday. M. VEDHAN from Chennai Central Rail into the college during a mittee is mandated to look
tour package. The fare would be ₹41,950 (third give a big boost to growth, way Station. cultural festival — Shruti into complaints of sexual
A/C); ₹54,780 (second A/C), and ₹64,990 (first which would raise income Now it is deliver. The jour ture was driven by speed On Sunday, he will be ’23. The statement pointed harassment and complai
A/C). “Tickets can be booked by dialling levels. Elaborating on the ney from delay to deliver and scale, he said, adding visiting Theppakadu ele out that security was in nants are not required to
7876101010 or through www.railtourism.com,” new infrastructure thrust, happened due to work cul that this was the reason re phant camp and meeting adequate for the event or provide any proof.
Mr. Vignesh said. Tourists would be taken to he claimed that the work ture, as we feel accounta cord amounts were allocat Bomman and Bellie who ganised for 12,000 people. As per the law, a com
Srinagar, Moghul Gardens, Dal Lake, Sonmarg, culture and vision have ble for every rupee of tax ed to infrastructure deve featured in the Oscarwin plaint of sexual harass
Amritsar, Gulmarg, Taj Mahal, IndoPakistan changed since 2014. paid,” he said. The Indian lopment in this year’s ning documentary The Ele- ‘Create safe space’ ment can be filed within
border, and other places. “Earlier, it meant delay. revolution in infrastruc Union Budget. “We do not phant Whisperers. “As per the UGC [Universi three months from the
ty Grants Commission] reg date of the incident and
ulations, it is the duty of not mere three days, the
the institute to proactively alumni and former teach
Rajaji’s greatgrandson joins BJP; says he is not a dynast
create a safe environment ers said.
and curb incidents of sex
ual harassment, including Critical of principal
those perpetuated upon The statement also criti
Nistula Hebbar C.R. Kesavan’s entry scratch,” he said. He re when faced with a crisis, students or teachers by pe cised the principal for
NEW DELHI
is seen as part of the fused to speak on the rea you should confront it with ople outside the geograph terming student protests
sons why he left the Con calmness, something that I ical limits of the campus,” against the incident “politi
party’s push for the statement said. cally motivated” in an in
C.R. Kesavan, former Con gress. He said that he had saw in Prime Minister. His
gress spokesperson and traction in the always been “fascinated” handling of the situation It also pointed out that terview. “It is ironic that, in
greatgrandson of India’s southern States by the characters of Karna was exemplary and left a the college on April 3 had the same breath, she calls
last GovernorGeneral C. (from the Mahabharata) mark,” he said. issued a notice announcing upon the glorious 99year
Rajagopalachari, joined and Vibhishana (from the He also lauded Mr. Modi the setting up of a “com old legacy of IPCW and the
the BJP on Saturday, in the van, who hails from Tamil Ramayana), who were for “following Mahatma mittee” to look into “grie role played by the insti
presence of Union Minister Nadu, said while he was both great characters with Gandhi’s concept of poli vances” and asked stu tute’s empowered women
V.K. Singh, Rajya Sabha identified with his lineage, a strong sense of right and cies for the last person in dents to submit complaints in the nation’s freedom
member Anil Baluni and he was not “a vanshawaadi wrong, but while one the queue”. “along with proof of misbe struggle,” it said.
Bihar MLC Sanjay Mayukh. or parivarvadi (dynast)”. chose the wrong side, the He said as of now, he has haviour” to the administra The alumni and former
The move is seen as part “My father was an engi other, Vibhishana, chose neither asked for nor re tive officer. teachers added that they
of the BJP’s push for trac neer, my grandfather was a “the path of dharma”. ceived any indication of a affirm their belief in the
tion in the southern States, news editor with The Hin- He said he was im role within the party. ‘Rules violated’ college’s founding princi
where, apart from Karnata du in Chennai, and I myself pressed with Prime Minis “We all want to contri “This is in violation of ples to “educate, enable,
New entrant: C.R. Kesavan, former Congress spokesperson, joins ka, the party is yet to gain was pursuing a profession ter Narendra Modi’s han bute, and the BJP is a place POSH [Prevention of Sex empower young women”
the BJP in the presence of Union Minister V.K. Singh at the party significant support. Speak al life abroad. I came back dling of the pandemic. where I think I can do ual Harassment Act] and and “to ensure justice and
headquarters in New Delhi on Saturday. R.V. MOORTHY ing to The Hindu, Mr. Kesa to India and started from “Saint Tiruvallur said that this,” he said. UGC guidelines on several equity”.
Rahul’s public
meeting in
Saying it in style
Cardinal’s remarks against
Karnataka judiciary draw criticism
postponed The Hindu Bureau court. The statement that Delivering his Good Fri
KOTTAYAM he delivered from the altar day message at Mount St.
The Hindu Bureau of a church on the occasion Thomas, headquarters of
BENGALURU Cardinal Mar George Alen of Good Friday is mislead the SyroMalabar Church,
cherry, Archbishop of the ing and intended to in the Cardinal had remarked
The muchawaited public SyroMalabar Church, has fluence the public,” the or that some courts were
meeting of former AICC come under sharp criti ganisation said. passing ‘unjust’ orders,
chief Rahul Gandhi in Kar cism by a section of the lai possibly for media ap
nataka’s Kolar, at the same ty for his remarks over al ‘An offence’ peasement or for public
venue where he delivered leged judicial activism by Holding that the state applause. This trend, in his
a controversial speech in some courts. ment, which did not cite opinion, could even be
2019 based on which he The Kerala Catholic any particular judgment, seen as an attempt at being
was disqualified as an MP, Church Reformation Move sought to cast a shadow ov popular through judicial
has been postponed again ment has launched a scath er the judicial system as a activism.
to April 16. ing attack on the Cardinal, whole, the organisation To buttress his argu
The rally was first sche accusing him of criticising pointed out that the act ment, the Cardinal had al
duled on April 5, which the judicial system out of amounted to an offence so used the biblical analo
was then postponed to sheer frustration over be under the Religious Institu gy of Pontius Pilate, who
April 9. ing forced to appear before tions (prevention of mis ordered the crucifixion of
Former Chief Minister a court to get bail in con use) Act, 1988. Jesus Christ. The remarks
Siddaramaiah, who has al nection with a property Against this backdrop, assumed significance as
ready been nominated scam. the organisation urged the the Cardinal has many cri
from Varuna, has said he is “As a person of high es authorities to initiate con minal cases filed against
open to contesting from teem and influence in civil tempt of court proceedings him in connection with al
the second seat in Kolar, society, Mar Alencherry re against the Cardinal, while leged irregularities in the
while the Congress seems Events galore: People taking part in the Vote Fest, organised by the Chief Electoral Officer, Karnataka, in the view of the upcoming gards himself above law also reiterating its willing sale of land belonging to
worried that this might not Assembly elections, on Church Street in Bengaluru on Saturday. The awareness event is aimed at creating a better understanding of the and even made a declara ness to approach the court the ErnakulamAngamaly
send the right message. electoral process through activities such as street plays, flash mobs, bike rallies, and Yakshagana performances. K. MURALI KUMAR tion to this effect at the against Mar Alencherry. Archdiocese.
NIA likely to probe Nine red
sanders
Chennai to host Street Child Cricket World Cup
train arson case smugglers The Hindu Bureau
CHENNAI
showcase their talents, and
engage in discussions to
di, England, Hungary,
Mauritius, Mexico, Nepal,
The Hindu Bureau desh. Sources said the inci
nabbed in A.P. Chennai has always wel
learn about the concerns
they all face. Protection is
Rwanda, South Africa,
Tanzania, Uganda, Sri Lan
KOZHIKODE dent appeared to have comed cricket with open usually the first demand ka, and Zimbabwe. Seven
been a calculated act of ter The Hindu Bureau arms, and has played the that these children have, Indian teams representing
The National Investigation ror. RAYACHOTI perfect host to several na followed by access to ne different organisations
Agency (NIA) may take ov The possibility of sinis tional and international cessities including identity from across the country
er the Kozhikode train ar ter motives cannot be A combing party of the tournaments. Come Sep documents,” said Paul Sun will also participate.
son case as its interState ruled out, they added. Andhra Pradesh State red tember, Chennai will wit der Singh, director, Karu John Wroe, cofounder
implications involve con Sources said the NIA sanders antismuggling ness another cricket tour nalaya, a Chennaibased and CEO of Street Child
nections to Shaheen Bagh had identified some strik task force on Saturday nament, but one with a NGO working with street United, said that they were
in Delhi as well as the city ing similarities between nabbed nine smuggling op difference — the Street children. Four children happy to partner with
of Noida in Uttar Pradesh. the Kozhikode train arson eratives when they were Child Cricket World Cup from Karunalaya were a Latha Rajinikanth’s Shree
Initially registered by and the blast in the Bhopal reportedly about to enter 2023. Team India South celebrates winning the inaugural Street Child part of Team India South Dayaa Foundation for the
the Kozhikode railway pol Ujjain passenger train in the Seshachalam Hills at Organised by Street Cricket World Cup, at Lords Cricket Ground in 2019. FILE PHOTO which won the inaugural event, and are also work
ice, the case has now been 2017, which was carried Mandapalle village on the Child United in partner Street Child Cricket World ing with the support of Na
transferred to the Crime out by seven ISlinked ex RajampetaNandalur road ship with Shree Dayaa tournament is envisioned will see art workshops as Cup, hosted at Lord’s wabzada Mohammed Asif,
Branch. On April 2, on the tremists. in Annamayya district. Foundation, the tourna as a platform for street chil well as other childfriendly Cricket Ground, London in Dewan to the Prince of Ar
day of the incident, a preli The arson in Kozhikode According to SP A. Chak ment will take place at dren to not just showcase sessions in which 168 street 2019. cot, Oliver Ballhatchet
minary probe was con was allegedly executed by ravarthy, the combing par Amir Mahal, the official re their sporting talent, but to children from 15 countries National mixed teams of MBE, British Deputy High
ducted by the NIA with sev a 24yearold suspect, ty seized axes from them. sidence of the Nawab of Ar also advocate for their will participate. boys and girls will repre Commissioner in Chennai,
eral Central agencies and Shahrukh Saifi, who re The operatives are resi cot from September 20 to rights. While lots of crick “A tournament like this sent their countries for the and the NGO Save The Chil
antiterror squads from va portedly poured petrol on dents of Pullampetae man 30. This is the second edi eting action is in store gives street children across cricket tournament and drenIndia which will be fa
rious States, including passengers of the Alappuz dal in the district, aged bet tion of the Street Child through the T20style tour the world an opportunity this includes teams from cilitating their advocacy
Maharashtra and Uttar Pra haKannur Express. ween 30 and 45. Cricket World Cup, and the nament, the World Cup to represent their country, Bangladesh, Brazil, Burun work.
CM M ND-NDE
YK
THE HINDU
6 Sunday, April 9, 2023
News Delhi
Oppn. hit by SC view on
Central probe plea: PM
Communal clash in Murmu becomes third President
Chhattisgarh; 1 dead, to fly a sortie on a Sukhoi fighter jet
In a veiled criticism of the Telangana government,
the Prime Minister urged the State government
not to stall the Centre’s development projects, but
three policemen hurt
rather to cooperate in the interests of the State. The Hindu Bureau The SU30MKI flew at a
This noncooperation is not in the interests of Te The Hindu Bureau “As the adults got in NEW DELHI height of about two kilo
langana, he said, cautioning the people to be wary RAIPUR volved, there was mobilisa metres above sea level and
of it. tion of both the communi President and Supreme at a speed of about 800
Mr. Modi refrained from making any direct at A young man was killed ties and a clash broke out Commander of the armed kmph and was flown by
tack against the BRS government or against the and three police personnel between them. As people forces Droupadi Murmu Group Captain Naveen Ku
Chief Minister and his family. were injured when a fight advanced from both sides took a sortie on an Indian mar, Commanding Officer
The Telangana Chief Minister skipped all of the between two teens escalat and threw stones, police Air Force (IAF) Suk of 106 Squadron.
PM’s events, leaving Animal Husbandry Minister ed into a clash between were informed. However, hoi30MKI fighter aircraft
T. Srinivas Yadav to represent the State govern members of two communi while trying to convince at the Tezpur Air Force Sta IAF briefs Murmu
ment at the Vande Bharat Express launch. During ties in Bemetara district of them, three policemen tion in Assam on Saturday. The President was also
the last four visits of the PM too, the Chief Minister Chhattisgarh on Saturday. were also attacked. In the She is the third President briefed on the operational
had not met him or participated in any of his Following the violence, clash, one person, who and second woman Presi capabilities of the aircraft
programmes. Biranpur — a village 75 km had sustained serious inju dent to undertake such a and the Indian Air Force
from Raipur — was gripped ries, was found lying in the sortie. President Droupadi Murmu takes a sortie on the IAF’s fighter aircraft (IAF). She expressed satis
with communal tension. cluster inhabited by mem The President flew for Sukhoi30MKI at the Tezpur Air Force Station on Saturday. PTI faction on the operational
Eleven persons have been bers of a different com approximately 30 minutes preparedness of the IAF,
Centre to form 16th arrested for the violence.
According to the police,
munity. He was taken to a
hospital where he was de
covering the Brahmaputra
and the Tezpur Valley with
“It was an exhilarating
experience for me to fly in
to cover all the frontiers of
land, air and sea. I congrat
the statement added.
In March, Ms. Murmu vi
Finance panel in Nov. around 11 a.m., a 14year
old boy was allegedly at
clared brought dead,” a
police officer said.
a view of the Himalayas be
fore returning to the Air
the mighty Sukhoi30 MKI
fighter aircraft of the IAF. It
ulate the IAF and the entire
team of Air Force Station,
sited INS Vikrant and inte
racted with officers and
tacked by another juvenile The deceased has been Force Station, a statement is a matter of pride that In Tezpur for organising this sailors on board the air
“Since the last Commission was set up in Novem from a different communi identified as Bhuneshwar from the Rashtrapati Bha dia’s defence capabilities sortie,” Ms. Murmu wrote craft carrier commissioned
ber 2017, we are eyeing the same month this year ty with a sharp object. Sahu. van said. have expanded immensely in the visitor’s book. last September.
to constitute the Sixteenth Commission. That
should give the panel enough time to ready its re
port by around October 2025,” the official said.
The government is bound to consider the Com
mission’s suggestions and submit an action taken
report that conveys its stance on those ideas,
Agra cow slaughter incident Frame rules under Right
planned to incite riots in to Health Bill in Rajasthan
along with the first Union Budget of the fiveyear
period. That will be the Budget of 202627, likely
to be presented on February 2, 2026, as February
U.P., says Samajwadi Party at the earliest, say activists
1 falls on a Sunday that year.
The last time the Constitutional body was given
a sixyear mandate was for the Ninth Finance
Commission formed in June 1987. But the Tenth
Finance Commission was still constituted in June The Hindu Bureau The Hindu Bureau Hospitals that did tives, community mem
1992 within the fiveyear deadline specified by the LUCKNOW JAIPUR not get concessions bers, lawyers and public
Constitution. or govt. funds will be health experts from all ov
A day after the Uttar Pra With the deadlock over the er the State attended the
kept out of the
Terms of reference not finalised desh Police said that some Right to Health Bill over, convention.
The official, who will be involved in the notifica members of the All India public health experts and purview of the Act
tion process of the Commission, said that the Hindu Mahasabha slaught activists have sought an ‘Full health services’
Centre is yet to make up its mind on the terms of ered a cow in Agra to alleg early implementation of The JSARajasthan said the
reference that may be prescribed for it. edly frame four Muslim the Act with the framing of clause of the Bill in detail State government should
The Fifteenth Finance Commission was hand men for the crime in the the rules. both numerically and make the basic primary
ed some contentious tasks, such as determining Etmaddulah police station The Jan Swasthya Abhi quantitatively, aligning health services available
whether a separate mechanism was warranted for area last month, the Samaj yan ( JSA)Rajasthan has with the basic spirit of the within half an hour’s walk
funding defence and internal security spends. It wadi Party (SP) targeted Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya addressing a public urged Governor Kalraj Mis legislation, to facilitate ing distance for everyone,
was also asked to rely on Census 2011 data for its the ruling Bharatiya Janata meeting in Pratapgarh district on Saturday. TWITTER/@SWAMIPMAURYA hra to give his assent to the their quick and hasslefree full comprehensive prim
recommendations, which had caused concern Party (BJP) for creating a Bill at the earliest. The Bill application. ary health services that do
among some States that had done better on health hostile environment leaders declined to com “Sanjay Jat and his was passed in the Assemb Narendra Gupta, senior not require hospitalisation
and population management visàvis other peers. against the Muslim com ment on the issue, stating friends slaughtered a cow ly on March 21. consultant of the Chittor of more than 24 hours
“The terms of reference will take a while to munity in the State and that they have no informa on March 29, and asked Private doctors protest garhbased voluntary within 12 km and all emer
work out. The world is in the midst of multiple helping the fringe Hindu tion about the merits of the Hindu Mahasabha leader ing against the Bill had group Prayas, said that des gency medical care at a dis
challenges and new priorities may emerge by the fundamentalist elements case. Jitendra Kushwaha to com called off their twoweek pite some private hospitals tance that can be covered
time it is November. For now, we will begin by to target innocent people. plain against Mohammad long agitation on April 4 af going out of the ambit of with a vehicle in an hour.
identifying an officer on special duty who will take “The real face of the BJP Two held Nakim, Mohammad Riz ter an agreement with the the RTH law, there was “no JSARajasthan coordina
charge of the process of laying the groundwork to and its related organisa Earlier, the Agra police ar wan and Mohammad Sha State government on the compromise” with the tor Chhaya Pachauli said a
constitute the Commission,” the official said. tions has come in front of rested two persons and nu. In the investigation and applicability of the legisla core commitment of the grievance officer should be
everyone; a hostile envi named a few members of technical surveillance, it tion. Bill, which was to streng appointed in every health
GST Council impact ronment against Muslims the All India Hindu Maha was concluded that the Private hospitals that then the public healthcare institution and the patients
Typically, this officer is also appointed the mem is being continuously sabha, and a few Muslim named accused were not have not got concessions system. must also be provided with
ber secretary of the Finance Commission, once it created in the State with men as accused of slaught involved,” the police said. or taken land and building He said civil society the option to file com
is constituted. A fresh challenge for the Sixteenth the help of the fundamen ering a cow and implicat “Later in the inquiry, it at subsidised rates from groups should also be in plaints against a health fa
Commission is that it will have to figure out a way talist groups such as the ing four Muslim men with come to light that Mr. San the government will be volved in the process of cility through a web portal
to factor in the impact of decisions taken by Hindu Mahasabha,” Swami whom they had an enmity. jay had an enmity with kept out of the purview of implementation. or helpline. Besides, the
another Constitutional body created recently — Prasad Maurya, the party’s The Uttar Pradesh pol these people and wanted the Act. A people’s convention participation of public
the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council. general secretary, told The ice identified Sanjay Jat, to implicate them in the The JSARajasthan’s re was organised on Friday in health experts and para
“While the Finance Commission is not a per Hindu. the national spokesman for case with help of few peo presentatives said the State support of the Bill and for medical staff must be en
manent body, the GST Council is, and the latter’s Such incidents were the All India Hindu Maha ple,” R.K. Singh, Agra As government should make making the demand for its sured in the district and
decisions on tax rate and administration changes aimed at inciting riots in sabha, as the primary sus sistant Commissioner of an adequate budgetary al early implementation. Ov State health authorities to
can impact the former’s projections,” Fifteenth Fi Uttar Pradesh, he said. pect who conspired to im Police (ACP), told media location for implementing er 400 persons, including be established under the
nance Commission chief Mr. Singh has noted. Bharatiya Janata Party plicate the Muslim men. persons. the law and outline each civil society representa Right to Health Bill.
CM M ND-NDE
YK
THE HINDU
Sunday, April 9, 2023 7
Delhi
News
Trinamool to
send 1 crore Ram Navami violence: police Despite Pawar’s stand,
letters to PM
on MGNREGS
block ‘factfinding’ mission Congress steps up attack
The Hindu Bureau
Civil society activists, led by retired High Court judge L. Narasimha Reddy, not allowed to visit
Rishra in Hooghly district of Bengal; a team of Indian Secular Front leaders were also stopped
on Adani stock issue
KOLKATA
The Hindu Bureau In a third tweet, he said
Three days after Trinamool The Hindu Bureau NEW DELHI the focus of the Centre was
Congress MPs held talks KOLKATA on increasing the Adani
with officials of the Minis Cracks may have appeared group’s income and pro
try of Rural Development sixmember team within the Opposition’s tecting it from any investi
over the release of funds to
West Bengal under the Ma
hatma Gandhi National Ru
A of civil society acti
vists was on Satur
day stopped by the police
ranks on the issue of a Joint
Parliamentary Committee
( JPC) investigation of the
gation. Noting that the
prices of wheat flour, rice,
milk, ghee, mustard oil,
ral Employment Guaran from visiting the areas af Adani stock controversy pulses and LPG cylinders
tee Scheme, party general fected by violence during and the Hindenburg re have increased manifold,
secretary Abhishek Baner Ram Navami celebrations port, but the Congress lea he said that the Centre had
jee on Saturday said he will at Rishra in Hooghly dis dership maintained here not done anything to arrest
take the protest to Delhi trict of West Bengal. on Saturday that the Bhara Rahul Gandhi the price spikes.
and choke the national The “factfinding” team, tiya Janata Party (BJP) was
capital. Mr. Banerjee said led by retired Patna High trying to divert attention they mislead every day! JPC vs SC panel
one crore letters from the Court judge L. Narasimha from the real questions The question remains the Joining the fray, Congress
people of West Bengal Reddy, was stopped near such as who invested same — who invested general secretary Jairam
would be sent to Prime Mi Konnagar before entering ₹20,000 crore in Adani ₹20,000 crore benami mo Ramesh said that Prime Mi
nister Narendra Modi seek Rishra. companies. ney in Adani’s compa nister Narendra Modi’s pol
ing the release of funds. The police officers said Two days after National nies?” Mr. Gandhi asked on icy has been to “derail, dis
“If BJP does not release that prohibitory orders ist Congress Party (NCP) Twitter. tort, divert and defame”.
the funds, we will take out were in place in the vio Close watch: Security personnel deployed as train services resume at violenceaffected Rishra area, supremo Sharad Pawar Mr. Ramesh maintained
agitations. We will do eve lenceaffected area. Mem following clashes between two groups during a 'Ram Navami' procession, in Hooghly district. PTI questioned the Hinden ‘Chinese link’ that a JPC probe was best
rything to get the money bers of the team said that burg report’s veracity in an In another tweet with a vi positioned to investigate a
that the people of West they would meet the Com day, and is also hoping to peaceloving and united Rishra. After violence dur interview to NDTV, Con deo message, he alleged stock market scam. Mr. Pa
Bengal deserve,” Mr. Ba missioner of Police, Chan meet West Bengal Home but some people did try to ing Ram Navami, the Cal gress leader Rahul Gandhi that the relationship bet war had said that a Su
nerjee said in Alipurduar dannagar and urge him to Secretary B.P. Gopalika ov incite trouble here. Our ob cutta High Court had di shared a satirical logo of ween the Adani Group and preme Courtmonitored
district. allow the team to visit vio er the violence that had jective was to go to Rishra rected the deployment of Adani, designed with the China was very deep. The committee would be suffi
Funds under the lenceaffected areas. erupted over Ram Navami and talk to the local admi Central forces during Ha names of Ghulam Nabi video alleged that the Ada cient to investigate Hinden
MGNREGS have not been A member of the team processions in Shibpur on nistration on the prevailing numan Jayanti on April 6. Azad, Jyotiraditya Scindia, ni group has close links burg report. “The SC com
released to the State since said that prohibitory or March 30 and in Rishra situation,” the ISF leader There were no reports of Kiran Kumar Reddy, Hi with a Chineseowned mittee has very limited
December 2021 after the ders under Section 144 of April 4. said. any violence during the manta Biswa Sarma and company. “Isn’t this posing terms of reference. It can
Centre invoked Article 27 the Code of Criminal Pro Earlier, several leaders Hanuman Jayanti celebra Anil K. Antony. a threat to our national se not bring out the deep nex
of the MGNREGA, which cedure only meant that as ISF team of the Bharatiya Janata Par tions. While Mr. Azad left the curity?” asked the video us between the Prime Mi
allows for stoppage of sembly of people was In another development, ty (BJP), including State The Left Front has Congress to form his own message, which was made nister and Adani,” Mr.
funds for violation of rules. barred. leaders of the Indian Secu party president Sukanta called for a peace march party, all the others were by the Congress and Ramesh said, adding that
The Centre has withheld The team is also sche lar Front (ISF) were also Majumdar and Hooghly on April 9 in Hooghly and former Congress leaders shared by Mr. Gandhi. “Un only a JPC could find answ
funds for the State for the duled to visit Shibpur in stopped from visiting Rish MP Locket Chatterjee, on April 10 from Bally Khal who joined the BJP. “They derstand chronology,” Mr. ers to the 100 questions
financial year 202324 too. Howrah district on Sun ra. “People at Rishra are were stopped from visiting to Shibpur. hide the truth, that’s why Gandhi added. posed by the Congress.
Campaign to tarnish Opposition ISRO should
not become
Not against JPC, but SC panel
through social media: Akhilesh mouthpiece will be more effective: Pawar
of BJP: Cong. The Hindu Bureau JPC into the Adani issue in Shiv Sena (UBT) leader
The Hindu Bureau The golden rule wanted India to become MUMBAI Parliament. But in a JPC, 15 Sanjay Raut said Mr. Pa
LUCKNOW of comparison: like Pakistan. Press Trust of India persons will be from the war’s statement would
Comparison should “All Indians are getting NEW DELHI Nationalist Congress Party ruling party and only five have no impact on Opposi
Samajwadi Party (SP) pre benefits of development (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar or six members will be tion unity.
always be done with
sident Akhilesh Yadav on schemes without any dis The Congress on Saturday on Saturday said he was from the Opposition. If the
Saturday alleged that a someone who is better crimination,” he sid. took strong objection to not completely opposed to majority is from the ruling ‘Different view’
coordinated campaign is than you “The population of In the ISRO highlighting the a Joint Parliamentary Com party, then it is not certain Mr. Raut said, “This
being launched through AKHILESH YADAV dia is 140 crore. For the last achievements of the PM mittee ( JPC) probe into the how much truth will come doesn’t mean that there
social media and websites Samajwadi Party leader three years, our govern Mudra scheme. charges against the Adani in front of the country,” he are any differences in the
nourished by those in pow ment has been giving free “I can understand the Group, but a Supreme told reporters here. Opposition unity. On the is
er, with an aim to tarnish one better. Minister Amit Shah in ration to 80 crore people. Ministries concerned pro Courtmonitored panel In an interview to news sue of whether there
the image of Opposition “Reference: Uttar Pra Azamgarh, Mr. Adityanath On the other hand, the pagating this but why would be more “useful and channel NDTV on the alle should be a JPC probe or a
parties. desh Chief Minister is talk had claimed that while In population of Pakistan is should ISRO be acting like effective”. gations by Hindenburg Re Supreme Court inquiry, he
Mr. Yadav described it ing about being better than dia under Prime Minister 22 crore and it has been a drumbeater for someth Explaining his stance, search, Mr. Pawar said, has a viewpoint. He may
as a conspiracy to weaken Pakistan. The golden rule Narendra Modi’s visionary facing severe food scarcity. ing entirely out of its do Mr. Pawar said, “It is true “There is no need of a JPC.” have a different view, but
Indian democracy and of comparison: Compari leadership is providing Good leadership takes the main,” Congress general that NCP is one of the Op This is being viewed as Shiv Sena will stand where
sought an inquiry into it. son should always be done free rations to over 800 responsibility of raising the secretary Jairam Ramesh position parties that has breaking away from the the entire Opposition is
He also attacked Uttar with someone who is bet million people, the people standard of living of its citi said on Twitter. joined the demand for a Opposition stance. standing.”
Pradesh Chief Minister Yo ter than you,” added the SP in the neighbouring coun zens while standing with His response came to a
gi Adityanath in a tweet ov leader, who served as the try were struggling to get them in their happiness tweet by ISRO in which it
er his remarks on how In Chief Minister of the State two meals a day. and sorrow. But corrupt, highlighted that the Prime
dia has been performing between March 2012 and The Uttar Pradesh Chief divisive and discriminatory Minister’s Mudra scheme
better than Pakistan, say March 2017. Minister, without taking leadership creates a situa has fulfilled the entrepre
ing comparison should al Addressing a function the name of any party, ad tion like the one in Pakis neurial dreams of millions
ways be done with some on Friday along with Home ded that some people tan,” Mr. Adityanath said. of Indians.
Minister backs
Vijayvargiya’s
comment on
women’s dress
The Hindu Bureau
RAIPUR
News Delhi
INBRIEF
쑽 On two wheels and a prayer, bike taxis have bumpy ride
Suchith Kidiyoor taxis are allowed or not, brought bikes with height and the anonymity in a city
BENGALURU commuters, riders (white ened pillion seats,” she that gives her that choice.
board — not yellow board — says, adding that they often However, Ms. Srinivas
Shreyaa Shyam, 25, stands vehicles) and aggregators did not follow traffic rules. avoids taking a ride from
at Malleswaram in Benga all face problems, affecting This nonadherence is someone who has can
luru, waiting for a ride she both livelihoods and mo common, especially in Del celled it. “That means
has just booked on an app. bility. Services are disrupt hi, where rules are meant there is no record of my
As the traffic moves, bum ed, upsetting the bike taxi to be bent. Ajay R., 23, a ride, so I won’t be able to
per to bumper, she knows ecosystem built on youth photography student, has register a complaint if I
that if she takes an autor friendly rides, tapping into done a daily 9km com need to,” says Ms. Srinivas,
CUETUG application window ickshaw, the trip fare to Ko
ramangala will be ₹227.
the lakhs of singles in the
city.
mute in 22 minutes
through the duration of the
who sometimes takes up to
four rides a day, saving
to reopen for 3 days, says UGC Buses, of course, offer a ban order (the service was around ₹3,000 a month af
ticket at a fraction of the Bengaluru hurdle stopped in Delhi by the Ar ter switching from
The application window for CUETUG will reopen cost at ₹25, but then she The Bike Taxi Association vind Kejriwalled govern autorickshaws.
for three days from Sunday and there will be no will probably reach only an of Bengaluru says that Cheaper and faster: More than 1.1 lakh twowheelers are attached ment on February 20). In Mumbai, Meera Ku
change in the syllabus after rationalisation of hour later than if she took a more than 1.1 lakh two with different aggregators in Bengaluru. SUDHAKARA JAIN “The rider asks me to say I mar misses her daily bike
NCERT textbooks, officials said. “Following motorbike taxi. At ₹134, wheelers are attached with am a friend or relative, and taxis, which unlike in Del
requests from several students, we have decided the bike taxi comes at that aggregators Rapido and hundreds of people like plying, but on March 20, it I am okay with it,” says Mr. hi, are not plying following
to reopen the application portal for CUETUG on justright price and speed. Uber, out of which 70,000 me, each one has their came to a head as they Ajay, who is originally from a Bombay High Court ban
Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday and it will close at The service came into to 90,000 are active. own stories,” he says, ad protested. Mumbai. since January. The 41year
11.59 p.m. on Tuesday. Students are requested to existence in Bengaluru in Adi Narayana, from Ti ding he earns between “Sometimes, riders ar old bank manager heard
visit cuet.samarth.ac.in for more details,” UGC 2016. In Delhi and Mum rupati, shifted to Bengalu ₹1,000 and ₹1,500 a day. Start-up trouble rive to pick me up, but can about them through her
Chairman Jagadesh Kumar said. “The notified bai, they began in 2018 and ru in 2013. Until the out While Mr. Narayana is a As with many startups cel the ride on the applica sister in Delhi and wants
syllabus will remain the same as the exam is not 2020, respectively. break of the pandemic, he fulltime rider, there are which are just getting their tion and drop me to my them back. “It was uncom
just for students from a particular board. Not all Ms. Shyam, who works worked as a cab driver. “In students and workers who skin in the game, this is not destination for the same fortable to sit on the bike of
boards have rationalised the content,” a senior as a copywriter in an event 2019, I bought a car and re have fixed job timings who a seamless service with price, to instantly receive a stranger because you
National Testing Agency (NTA) official said. PTI management firm, is like gistered it as a taxi hoping ride parttime. customer care at its heart. the money,” he says. He don’t know where to hold,
thousands of commuters to earn decent money. But In Bengaluru, they have Jagrathi Nagaraj, 25, from pays anywhere between but the rides were never
who use this service in In everything changed after not had an easy run of it, Bengaluru, says she ₹70 and ₹90 on a bike taxi, more than 20 minutes
dia’s metros to commute to the outbreak of the pan with the Transport Depart stopped using bike taxis while autorickshaws and long,” she says. She carried
BJP plans to air 100th Mann work, catch up with
friends or to reach a metro
demic that hit the tran
sport sector,” he says. He
ment impounding vehicles
and imposing heavy penal
for several reasons. “Rid
ers would bring bikes with
cabs on the same apps
charge almost double.
a scarf to protect herself
from the pollution, and a
Ki Baat in U.P. madrasas station, where haggling defaulted on his ₹18,000 ties on bike owners for different registration num For women though, this shower cap to wear be
with autorickshaw drivers EMI to the bank, and his running bike taxi services bers from the app. Some could be plain unsafe. Ra neath the shared helmet.
In an attempt towards Muslim outreach, the is another cause of stress. vehicle was seized. without obtaining a li riders provide poor quality mya Srinivas, 32, a free
Minority Morcha of the Uttar Pradesh BJP unit However, with various “In 2021, I decided to cence. Auto drivers have helmets that do not cover lance copy editor who (With inputs from Muneef
plans to organise a mass broadcast of Prime State government flipflops run a bike taxi as I had no heckled and abused riders the head. I also found it un moved to Delhi from Tiru Khan in New Delhi and So-
Minister Narendra Modi’s 100th Mann Ki Baat on whether appbased bike income source. There are from the time they began comfortable when they pati, delights in the rides, nam Saigal in Mumbai)
speech at more than 100 locations associated
with the Muslim community in the State,
including madrasas and dargahs. “We are
Kochhars, Venugopal Dhoot Minister’s car Aroon Deep Net neutrality, consumer Scientists at the National
NEW DELHI protection and anticom Geophysical Research In
The CBI has filed a chargesheet against former
MD and CEO of ICICI Bank Chanda Kochhar, her
meets with consultation paper
petitive practices, we
would advocate for greater
stitute (NGRI), a Council of
Scientific and Industrial
husband Deepak Kochhar and Videocon Group
founder Venugopal Dhoot in a ₹3,250crore loan
fraud case, officials said on Saturday. The agency
accident;
no one hurt
A by the Telecom
Regulatory Author
ity of India (TRAI) on bring
cooperation across regula
tors, along with harmoni
sation of legislation, rather
Research facility in Hyde
rabad, have reported the
presence of lucrative rare
has filed the chargesheet under Sections 120B ing about a “convergence” than additional regulations earth elements (REEs) in
(criminal conspiracy) and 409 (criminal breach of broadcasting and con or a converged regulator,” Anantapur district in And
of trust) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Press Trust of India tent regulations has divid the association said in its hra Pradesh.
provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act. BANIHAL/JAMMU ed content providers, filing. These elements are key
The CBI has named nine entities in the broadcasters and telecom There is a more funda components in many elec
chargesheet and has moved to file its final report Law Minister Kiren Rijiju’s operators. While telecom mental tension in the car tronic devices and whose
before a special court in Mumbai without the car grazed a truck on the operators and broadcas riageversusbroadcasting industrial applications
mandatory requirement of sanction to prosecute JammuSrinagar National ters are arguing that con The TRAI has issued a consultation paper on bringing about a debate — telecom opera span sectors like imaging,
Ms. Chanda Kochhar from ICICI Bank. PTI Highway in Ramban dis tent providers and messag convergence of broadcasting and content regulations. tors and broadcasters com aerospace, and defence.
trict on Saturday evening, ing apps are undercutting plained that they faced ex The REEs are lanthanum,
officials said. He was not their services through on oversight and policy frame es,” the Digital News Pu tensive regulatory burdens cerium, praseodymium,
hurt in the accident. line distribution, the digi of the government despite blishers Association and levies, often to their neodymium, yttrium, haf
Drunk man attempts to open The truck had suffered a
breakdown and the Minis
tal industry is defending
existing regulatory frame
being functionally similar
to licensed services,” Re
(DNPA) said in its submis
sion. (The Hindu is a DNPA
detriment and to the bene
fit of online players. Tata
nium, tantalum, niobium,
zirconium, and scandium.
emergency exit of flight, held ter’s car grazed it before works, demanding a diffe liance Jio said in its member.) Play, which runs a satellite NGRI principal scientist
coming to a halt, the offi rence in approach towards submission. The Asia Video Industry TV business and also bun P.V. Sunder Raju said they
A 30yearold passenger from Kanpur who was cials said. content and its delivery. Association (AVIA), which dles streaming platforms, found enriched quantities
travelling from Delhi to Bengaluru on an IndiGo The accident took place “Due to the conver ‘No actual convergence’ represents Amazon, Net underlined this tension: of the REEs in “whole rock
flight has been arrested for attempting to open near Sita Ram Passi in the gence of technologies, ma Online content providers flix and Disney+ Hotstar, “... we have been making analyses”. He said deep
the emergency exit midair, the police said on Maroog area around 6 p.m. ny newage services includ are not convinced, howev insisted that there was no laws not for the basic com drilling for at least a kilo
Saturday. The accused, Pratheek, was travelling when he was on his way to ing social media, OTT er, that there is a need to actual convergence going ponents [of content deliv metre will help ascertain
by flight number 6E308 on Friday. He was in an Srinagar after attending [overthetop] communica bring the administrative on, and that content and ery] but combinations of the consistency of the ele
inebriated state, a police officer said. “The drunk two functions in Jammu tion and broadcasting ser regulation of these func carriage needed to be regu components, as and when ments’ presence. Accord
passenger tried to create trouble for others and Udhampur, the offi vices, online video stream tions together. “Mere con lated separately. they have emerged,” the ing to him, the most impor
seated in the plane and attempted to open the cials said. ing, etc. are operating at vergence of devices, servic “Whilst cooperation of company said. “As a conse tant enduse of REEs was
flap of the emergency exit,” the police official Security personnel in the intersection of these es or networks does not regulators already occurs, quence, the combinations to make permanent mag
said. A case was registered. “On noticing the accompanying cars rushed compartmentalised func warrant drawing of the e.g. with TRAI and MIB that escaped regulations nets, which have essential
violation, the crew on board alerted the captain and escorted the Minister tions of the [government] conclusion that there is [the Ministry of Informa have thrived while the use in devices like smart
and the passenger was appropriately cautioned,” out of his vehicle, they departments and may re ‘convergence’ of telecom tion & Broadcasting] coor ones that got regulated, are phones, computers, jet air
IndiGo said in a statement. PTI said. main out of the necessary and broadcasting servic dinating on issues such as languishing.” craft, and other products.
SUDOKU
쑽 Street performers in Delhi face a theatre of the absurd
Soibam Rocky Singh 1959, to keep them off the ras (snake charmers) are Mr. Khan says he has
NEW DELHI streets. quickly disappearing from feared the police ever since
While West Bengal and public spaces. his father was beaten up
On a Sunday afternoon, Delhi have repealed the “We belong to the jaa- while preparing for a per
Wazid, a 48yearold street Dramatic Performances dugar community. We formance in Haryana. “A
magician, was arranging Act, it is active in modified have been moving around policeman approached us
props for his show in Noida versions in several States. the country and perform and sought a bribe of ₹2.
when a bystander walked The Law Commission of In ing tricks for thousands of He hit my father when he
up to him and told him to dia, in its 248th report, years. We move to the hills said he had not made any
leave the spot. “He threa “Obsolete laws: warranting in summer. Come winter, money yet and would pay
tened to beat me up if I immediate repeal”, had we head to Mumbai, Kolka up after the performance,”
didn’t take my perfor said the archaic law “has ta, and the coastal belts,” he says.
mance elsewhere. I had to no place in a modern de Mr. Khan says.
relent,” Mr. Wazid says, ad mocratic society”. “It is a tragedy that a ma Online petition
ding that facing such ha In the absence of clear jority of jaadugars are For over a decade, Mr.
rassment is the daily reali cut guidelines, whether a (From left) Ishrat, Wazid, Rajadan Shah and Ishamuddin Khan at poor and illiterate, and Khan has been working
ty of street performers in public performance Kathputli colony transit camp, in New Delhi. SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA lack representation in Par with 300400 families of
the National Capital should be granted permis liament. Legislators should street performers in the
Region. sion or not is left to the dis eral meanings, Section 2 of the local police station sev pass laws to help us,” he National Capital Region to
Without a formal law to cretion of the local police. the Bombay Prevention of eral times. Now, the police adds. Facing a dead end, make a collective push to
Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku provide protection, busk Begging Act, 1959, views don’t say anything to me. many street performers wards ensuring that their
ing — the act of performing ‘Need regulation’ busking as a form of beg My struggles have made have turned to other trade is regulated. Finding
in public places for volun Regulation is needed to ging,” Mr. Pathak says. the path to busking a bit ea professions. little success, he has start
tary donations — has wit provide space to artistes to However, Varun Dagar, sier for others,” he says. “I faced harassment ed a petition on Change
nessed a steady decline. showcase their talent and who left his home in Pal from the police whenever I .org demanding that the
Ishamuddin Khan, a 52 earn a livelihood with dig wal, Haryana, to perform Disappearing act put up a show,” says Raja Delhi Police, the Delhi go
yearold street magician, nity and without fearing freestyle dance at Con Today, jaadugars (magi dan Shah, 60, a street mag vernment and the New
says the police use colo the authorities, says Delhi naught Place in Delhi, says cians), madaaris (perform icianturnedscrap dealer. Delhi Municipal Council
nialera laws such as the based lawyer Abhishek Ku busking should not be le ers with trained animals), “What is the harm in ask permit regulated busking
Dramatic Performances mar Pathak. galised till it is properly de nats (acrobats), baazigars ing for one or two rupees in public spaces. The peti
Act, 1876, and the Bombay “Though begging and fined in law. (jugglers), behroopiyas from the public for show tion has garnered over
Prevention of Begging Act, busking have different lit “I have been taken to (impersonators) and sape- casing our talent?” 7,600 signatures so far.
CM M ND-NDE
YK
THE HINDU
Sunday, April 9, 2023 9
Delhi
World
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‘Forced disappearances’, curbs in North Korea says it tested another Judge halts the FDA approval for Malaysian Prime Minister vows to
Balochistan invite public wrath ‘underwater nuclear attack drone’ mifepristone abortion pill in U.S. protect rights in South China Sea
Tsai’s U.S. visit prompts military Israel starts calling up Army
drills by China in Taiwan Strait reservists after latest attack
Taiwanese President pledges to work with the ‘U.S. and other likeminded countries’ in the face of ‘continued authoritarian in Tel Aviv kills an Italian
expansionism’; Taiwan says nine Chinese warships and 71 military aircraft detected around the island by Saturday 4 p.m.
Agence FrancePresse
JERUSALEM
Agence FrancePresse detail the type of weapon neither escalation nor con
BEIJING ry China was putting flict, but we remain stead Israel began calling up pol
through its paces, includ fast, rational, and serious ice and Army reservists on
Saturday after separate at
C
hina launched mili ing “longrange rocket ar to react and defend our ter
tary drills around tillery, naval destroyers, ritory and sovereignty.” tacks killed three persons,
Taiwan on Satur missile boats, air force including an Italian tourist,
day, in what it called a fighters, bombers, jam Livefire drills in Tel Aviv and the occu
“stern warning” to the self mers and refuellers”. Exercises on Monday will pied West Bank.
ruled island’s government Taiwan’s Defence minis include livefire drills off Violence has surged
following a meeting bet try released a video show the coast of China’s Fujian since the Israeli police
ween its President and the ing soldiers loading anti province, which faces Tai clashed with Palestinians Collateral cost: People gather at the site of Palestinian attack
U.S. House Speaker. aircraft missile launchers, wan, the local maritime inside Jerusalem’s AlAqsa where an Italian tourist was killed in Tel Aviv on Saturday. AP
Dubbed “United Sharp fighter jets taking off, and authority said. mosque on Wednesday,
Sword”, the threeday op other military prepared The manoeuvres come with Israel bombarding Ga and flipped over before be rules Gaza, said the attack
eration — which state me Tit-for-tat: A Chinese warship sails during a military drill near the ness exercises. after a meeting between za and Lebanon in res ing shot dead. was a “natural and legiti
dia said includes rehears Taiwancontrolled Matsu Islands on Saturday. REUTERS The footage included Ms. Tsai and U.S. House ponse to rocket fire by Pal Italian Prime Minister mate response” to Israel’s
ing an encirclement of surveillance of China’s Speaker Kevin McCarthy in estinian militants. Giorgia Meloni named the “aggression” in the AlAqsa
Taiwan — will run until pledging to work with “the maritime areas and air Shandong aircraft carrier, California. dead man as Alessandro mosque.
Monday, the People’s Lib U.S. and other likeminded space of the Taiwan Strait, which sailed through wa Taiwan’s Defence Minis Seven injured Parini, 36. On Friday, two British
eration Army’s (PLA) East countries” in the face of off the northern and south ters south of Taiwan earlier try said that by 4 p.m. The Italian was killed and The police identified the Israeli sisters were killed,
ern Theatre Command “continued authoritarian ern coasts of the island, this week. (1330 IMT) on Saturday seven other tourists driver as a 45yearold and their mother seriously
said in a statement. expansionism”. and to the east”, said Shi The 75second clip, nine Chinese warships and wounded when an Israeli from the Arab town of Kfar wounded when their car
Taiwanese President China’s war games Yin, a PLA spokesman. which included English 71 military aircraft had Arab ploughed a car into Kassem in central Israel. was fired on in the Jordan
Tsai Ingwen immediately would send planes, ships A report from state subtitles, ended with a been detected around the pedestrians on the Tel Aviv Palestinian Islamist Valley in the occupied
denounced the drills, and personnel into “the broadcaster CCTV on to caption saying: “We seek island. seafront on Friday evening movement Hamas, which West Bank.
Pakistan President returns to House a
Bill curtailing powers of Chief Justice
Press Trust of India new date for elections to of the Chief Justice of Pakis
ISLAMABAD the Punjab Assembly and tan (CJP), Bandial.
quashed the Election Com The Supreme Court
Pakistan’s judicial imbro mission’s decision to ex (Practice and Procedure)
glio intensified on Saturday tend the date of the poll Bill, 2023 was approved by
after President Arif Alvi re from April 10 to October 8. both houses of Parliament
turned to Parliament for The apex court’s verdict last month and sent to the
reconsideration a Bill was criticised by the coali President for assent.
aimed at clipping the pow tion government led by The President said that
ers of the chief justice, say Arif Alvi Prime Minister Shehbaz the proposed legislation
ing the proposed legisla Sharif of the Pakistan Mus was prima facie beyond
tion is beyond the and the government after a lim LeagueNawaz (PMLN) the jurisdiction of Parlia
jurisdiction of the legisla threemember Bench of party, which has refused to ment as only the Supreme
tive body. the Supreme Court headed accept it. The government Court has the power to
Pakistan is witnessing a by Chief Justice Uma Ata also is keen to curb the suo make laws to regulate its
rift between the judiciary Bandial fixed May 14 as the moto (on its own) powers business.
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YK
THE HINDU
10 Sunday, April 9, 2023
SCIENCE
Delhi
Vasudevan Mukunth physicists use to design nu rules are based on the nu such heavy elements in ex Dr. Niwase. nucleus is lead (82 pro
clear power plants and mo clei’s properties and plosive astronomical The team used timeof tons). Physicists have been
While studying the atoms dels of exploding stars. structure. events”. flight mass spectrometry trying to find the next such
of heavy elements, physi “The discovery of a new “In general, an atom’s The researchers acceler to estimate the mass of element.
cists in Japan discovered a neutronrich uranium iso mass is slightly lower than ated uranium238 nuclei each nucleus depending “We’d like to extend the
previously unknown iso tope is the first since 1979,” the sum of the masses of into plutonium198 nuclei on the time it took to reach systematic mass measure
tope of uranium, with Toshitaka Niwase, a post protons, neutrons, and at the KEK Isotope Separa a detector. “Precise mass ments towards many neu
atomic number 92 and doctoral fellow with the electrons,” Michiharu Wa tion System. The resulting value is a good fingerprint tronrich isotopes, at least
mass number 241, i.e. KEK Wako Nuclear Science da, head of the WNSC and nuclear fragments con of atomic nuclides,” Dr. to neutron number 152,
uranium241. Centre (WNSC), Japan, and another member of the tained different isotopes. Wada said. where a new ‘magic num
The finding refines our a member of the study, group, explained via email. This is how they identified There is particular inter ber’ is expected,” Dr. Wada
understanding of nuclear wrote in an email to The So, systematically mea uranium241 and mea est in ‘magic number’ nu said. Their work is a “first
physics. What shapes the Hindu. suring the mass of “urani sured the mass of its clei: containing a number step” in this direction, he
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boundaries of models that some rules. We know these derstand the synthesis of 40 minutes, according to heaviest known ‘magic’ Letters on March 31.
Male yellow crazy ants (Anoplolepis gracilipes)
are chimeras of two separate genetic lineages,
researchers report in a study (Science) that
Several lines of evidence point to interlinked dengue evolution driven by the underlying
population-level natural immunity
R. Prasad says Dr. Roy.
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the
announced it would “standardise” State. This has also driven more activity along the
Priyali Prakash the names of 11 places in Arunachal southernmost The list of names follows a new rule on the borders from locallevel authorities, such as
Pradesh. The Ministry of Civil Affairs is close to management of place names by the State stepped up programmes to build new civilian
The story so far: in Beijing published a list of 11 places along with Itanagar, Council, or China’s cabinet, that came into effect settlements (including some that have come up
ajor oilproducing countries including a map showing the Indian State of Arunachal capital of on May 1 last year, according to the Partyrun on territory disputed by both Bhutan and India)
M Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the United Arab
Emirates, as well as Russia, have
announced cuts in oil production that will start
Pradesh as a part of China’s Tibet Autonomous
Region. While India dismissed the renaming,
which is a largely symbolic move and unlikely to
Arunachal
Pradesh
Global Times, which said the regulation
“requires strict management over the naming
and renaming of localities and sites” and
as well as other border infrastructure.
What will be the impact on the boundary
in May and last until the end of 2023. The have any tangible ontheground impact on the standardising names. dispute?
announcement caused an instant uptick in border dispute, it has underlined a hardening Though this symbolic gesture may have little real
prices of crude oil. On April 3, the Organization Chinese stance on the boundary, the dim Is this the first such renaming attempt? impact on the ground, it, at the same time, also
of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), at prospects of any meaningful progress in the This is the third time China is issuing names for does reflect how the situation along the borders,
its 48th meeting of the Joint Ministerial longrunning talks, as well as the current places in Arunachal Pradesh, a gesture seen as described by India as “stable but
Monitoring Committee, acknowledged the crude strained relations between the neighbours. provocative by India and one that has coincided unpredictable”, is the most concerning since the
oil production cuts announced by major with periods of strains in relations. In 2017, the normalisation of ties between India and China in
oilproducing countries. The OPEC+ countries What are the places on the list? first list of “standardised” names was issued for 1988, when they agreed to shelve differences
include the 13 core members of OPEC and 10 The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs notification six places in Arunachal, which was then seen as and maintain peace along the boundary. Both
other major oil producers. The new production announced 11 “place names for public use”, in a retaliatory move after the Tibetan spiritual sides also took tentative steps towards a
cuts are in addition to those announced in Mandarin, Tibetan and English (pinyin leader, the Dalai Lama, visited the State. The permanent settlement, by appointing Special
October 2022. transliteration of the Chinese names). These second such list was issued in December 2021, Representatives (SRs) in 2003 to find a solution
include five mountain peaks, two more more than a year into the crisis sparked by to the dispute. This was, however, predicated on
Why are OPEC+ countries cutting crude oil populated areas, two land areas and two rivers. China’s multiple transgressions across the Line maintaining peace and tranquillity through a
production? All of the 11 sites are on Indian territory, and the of Actual Control (LAC) starting in April 2020. range of mechanisms set up by both sides.
According to OPEC’s official statement, the southernmost is close to Itanagar. The Chinese The second list coincided with a new border law China’s 2020 transgressions have, however, left
decision to cut crude oil production was aimed government referred to the location of the sites passed by the Chinese government that called those arrangements in tatters. A large number of
at supporting market stability. In February 2023, for various Chinese civilian and military troops from both sides, for the first time in
Russia announced it would cut crude oil agencies to take steps to “safeguard” Chinese decades, have been stationed permanently in
production by half a million barrels a day after territory, including through such administrative forward areas. Discussions to disengage have
Western countries capped the price of its crude measures. The second list had 15 places, moved slowly, and both are yet to reach an
as a response to the war in Ukraine. Russia’s including eight towns, four mountains, two agreement on Demchok and Depsang after
Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said rivers and the Sela mountain pass. having disengaged in four other friction areas.
that cutting production would help restoration Zhang Yongpan, a leading border expert at In the eyes of most observers, the most
of “market relations”, Reuters reported. Beijing’s Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, realistic permanent package settlement is one
The G7 bloc of told the Global Times in an earlier interview that that would see minor adjustments along the
Experts believe that advanced the renaming lists, as well as the border law, Line of Actual Control (LAC) in both the western
cutting production will economies were “important moves made by the country to sector, where India sees China as occupying as
lead to an increase in announced a price safeguard national sovereignty, better maintain much as 38,000 sq km in Aksai Chin, and in the
crude oil prices. cap of $60 per national security and manage borderrelated eastern sector, where China claims as much as
barrel for Russian matters at the legal level amid regional tensions, 90,000 sq km in Arunachal. Differences in the
According to some
crude oil in including frictions with India.” The border law, middle sector are less complex. The “swap” in
reports, the production December 2022. which took effect on January 1, 2022, contains 62 the west and east tacitly suggested by then
cut is a way of “The G7 and all EU articles covering delineation and border defence leader Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s was also
punishing short sellers Member States as well as immigration, border management and along these lines.
who had bet on oil have taken a trade. The issuing of new names is related to Beijing, however, has increasingly been vocal
prices falling decision that will Article 7, which calls for promoting border about its Arunachal claims and its officials have
hit Russia’s education at all levels of government. said any settlement would require India to give
revenues even harder and reduce its ability to up territory in the east, a departure from the
wage war in Ukraine,” European Commission What is behind China’s moves? Deng suggestion and an unthinkable prospect
President Ursula von der Leyen had said in a As with the two previous cases, India rejected for any Indian government. The renaming and
statement at the time. “It will also help us to the Chinese announcement. “Arunachal Pradesh issuing of “standardised” names by the Chinese
stabilise global energy prices, benefitting is, has been, and will always be an integral and government — which has essentially conveyed to
countries across the world who are currently inalienable part of India. Attempts to assign the Chinese public that the eastern sector is also
confronted with high oil prices,” she added. invented names will not alter this reality,” nonnegotiable for China — has only underlined
Moreover, recent developments in the Rising tensions: A photo at the Bumla Pass on the IndiaChina border in Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson the hardening Chinese stand, which has left
banking sector in the U.S. and Europe, including Arunachal Pradesh, taken in 2012.AFP Arindam Bagchi said. prospects of a settlement dimmer than ever.
the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank and the
turmoil at Credit Suisse, have fuelled the
possibility of an incoming recession. In March
2023, oil prices slipped 1% to a twoweek low, on
speculation of a recession and therefore a
reduction in oil demand. Experts believe that
cutting production will lead to increase in costs
Will platforms have to take down ‘fake news’?
of crude oil in the international market. A
sudden jump in both Brent crude and the U.S. What will the amendments to the IT Rules, 2021, allow the Press Information Bureau to do on requests. Mr. Chandrasekhar’s argument — that
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude prices — platforms are free to keep content up even after
both leading global oil benchmarks — was news flagged by the government as misinformation? Will this open up social media companies to it is flagged as ‘fake news’ — relies on social
observed in the wake of the announcement of legal action? Will online betting and gambling games be completely banned? media firms deciding to stand for users’ rights
the decision to reduce production. over maintaining good relations with the
According to Reuters, the production cut is Government. If platforms intend to do so, they
also a way of punishing short sellers who bet on Aroon Deep The Internet things, they don’t have a grievance officer for have not stated it explicitly.
oil prices declining. Freedom India, or don’t address user complaints on time.
The story so far: Foundation Additionally now, with this amendment, they What does the amendment say on real
Are the output cuts significant? he Ministry of Electronics and will lose their safe harbour immunity for posts money online games?
As per the latest voluntary production
adjustment, Saudi Arabia will be cutting
5,00,000 barrels a day; Iraq 2,11,000; United
Arab Emirates 1,44,000; Kuwait 1,28,000;
Kazakhstan 78,000; Algeria 48,000; Oman
T Information Technology on Thursday
amended the Information Technology
(Intermediary Guidelines and Digital
Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. The amendment
empowers the Union Government to designate
calls the
amendment
‘akin to
censorship’
and says it is
that have been flagged by the government as
misinformation.
Why has the amendment caused concern?
The government claims to have conducted
The amendment requires real money gaming
services, where users deposit money in
expectation of winnings, to get themselves
certified as “permissible” by a SelfRegulatory
Body (SRB) consisting of experts and industry
40,000; and Gabon 8,000 barrels a day. These an official fact checker for misinformation and ‘legally consultations with stakeholders before notifying members. Since decades of constitutional
cuts are in addition to the two million barrels ‘fake news’, and to regulate the online real contentious’ this particular part of the amendment. However, jurisprudence has narrowed down the definition
per day cut announced in October 2022. Russia money gaming industry, which comprises apps organisations like the Editors Guild of India and of “betting and gambling,” for which
had already announced a cut of 5,00,000 like fantasy sports sites, rummy and poker. the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) have administrative authority rests with States,
barrels a day, earlier this year. called the amendment “akin to censorship” and “permissible” real money games would likely be
The U.S. called OPEC’s decision What does the amendment say on fake news? “legally contentious,” indicating that they were those where the outcome doesn’t depend purely
“unadvisable”. “Our focus is going to remain on The fact check unit of the Press Information either not consulted or that their views were not on chance. The real money gaming industry,
making sure that energy markets are able to Bureau (PIB), which has been ‘debunking’ taken into account. The only change made from which has battled States in court — often
support a growing economy and keep prices WhatsApp forwards and news articles on the draft version on this subject is a technical successfully — against wholesale bans, has
down for Americans as they head to the pump,” Central Government schemes and departments one recommended by the Department of Legal welcomed this amendment, and indicated that
a White House official said during a press for years, will be notified as the official fact Affairs. “The fact check unit … could effectively they will comply. Mr. Chandrasekhar said that
interaction. checker for the Union Government. As such, issue a takedown order to social media games that are not declared “permissible”
whenever any news is notified as fake, social platforms and even other intermediaries across would fall under the “betting and gambling”
How will it impact India? media companies will lose their “safe harbour” the internet stack, potentially bypassing the category, opening them up to restrictions from
According to the World Energy Outlook 2021 for such content, opening them up to lawsuits or process statutorily prescribed under Section States where such activities are prohibited.
data, India ranks third in the world in crude oil other legal action. Social media companies have 69A of the IT Act, 2000,” the IFF stated.
imports after China and the U.S., while it ranks a traditionally enjoyed legal immunity for content Will betting and gambling apps be banned?
distant 21 in crude oil production and 26 in posted by users, as the Information Technology Will platforms take down ‘fake news’? The government has categorically refused to get
natural gas production. Act, 2000 treats them as intermediaries. Under Union Minister of State for Electronics and into the debate on whether a real money game is
The disparity in the two rankings shows the the IT Rules they lose this status if, among other Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar one of skill or chance, which is a crucial
country’s increasing reliance on imports to meet argued on Twitter and in a nearly hourlong distinction to legally determine whether an app
its energy needs. interaction with journalists on Thursday that facilitates betting or gambling. This decision has
India’s crude oil import from Russia touched this amendment did not constitute censorship, been left to the SRBs. As such, major fantasy
new heights in February this year, reaching 1.6 and would only remove social media firms’ sporting apps and card games that have
million barrels per day. This was more than the immunity when they choose to leave ‘fake news’ obtained court orders recognising them as
combined imports from conventional suppliers that is declared as such. “The notification of games of skill, may not be impacted. Before
like Iraq and Saudi Arabia. At the same time, these amended rules cement the chilling effect passing this amendment, the Union Cabinet
supply from Iraq and Saudi Arabia touched a on the fundamental right to speech and amended the Allocation of Business Rules to give
16month low. expression, particularly on news publishers, the Centre powers to regulate “online gaming”.
Russia’s increased share in India’s crude oil journalists, activists, etc,” IFF said. This amendment may not please State
import is a direct consequence of the fallout It is unclear how platforms will respond. governments. Tamil Nadu, for instance, has
between Russia and western countries following Generally, U.S. social media firms have been unsuccessfully tried three times to prohibit real
its Ukraine invasion that began in February hesitant to be pulled into public confrontations money online games under the “betting and
2022. with the Government, preferring to silently gambling” label. The latest Bill passed by the
The U.S. and countries in Europe decided not comply with takedown notices. Twitter has been State Assembly, which designated poker and
to buy crude oil from Russia in a bid to isolate an exception, fighting some censorship orders in rummy as gambling, has been returned by the
the country on an international scale. The the Karnataka High Court; under Elon Musk, T.N. governor R.N. Ravi. This interpretation, Mr.
decision, however, provided India with an while the case continues, the platform has been Ravi’s returning of the Bill indicated, may not
opportunity to buy Russian oil, reportedly at taking down accounts and posts of journalists, pass legal muster, especially now that there is a
discounted rates. GETTY IMAGES politicians and activists upon the Government’s legal framework to govern them.
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National Council of shared feeling, a synthesis of different he defeated Ibrahim Lodi in the
Educational Research cultures. The philosophical First Battle of Panipat in 1526,
and Training’s discussions during the time of Akbar and went on to capture all of
(NCERT) decision to remove a chapter and his son Jahangir led to North India in his brief reign of
on the Mughals from the history intermingling among commoners. In four years
textbooks for Class 12 students, noted Mughal India, Hindus and Muslims
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statement, denouncing the deletions. locality. The respect extended to His grandson Akbar ruled for
“The selective dropping of chapters places of worship. Often land grants almost 50 years, as did Akbar’s
which do not fit into the ideological for temples were made by the Mughal great grandson Aurangzeb
orientation of the present dispensation emperors; even the much maligned while son Jahangir and
exposes the partisan agenda of the Aurangzeb, who demolished temples, grandson Shah Jahan ruled for
regime,” a statement signed by Romila issued grants. over 20 years each
Thapar, Irfan Habib, Aditya
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others read. “Driven by such an population of the Mughal kingdom reduced from 1707 onwards,
agenda, the chapter titled “Kings and exceeded that of entire Europe, and and the last Mughal, Bahadur
Chronicles: The Mughal Courts” has the Mughal wealth was unmatched. As Shah Zafar, was only a
been deleted... In medieval times, the Mr. Rezavi put it, “Today, there is talk symbolic leader of the Revolt
Mughal empire and the Vijayanagara of Akhand Bharat. This was a reality of 1857
Empire were two of the most under the Mughals who controlled the
important empires... In the revised entire subcontinent comprising parts
version, while the chapter on the of modern Afghanistan, the entire
Mughals has been deleted, the chapter Pakistan, Bangladesh and parts of
on the Vijayanagara Empire has been Myanmar, the land mass from Sindh to
retained.” knocking distance of Kanniyakumari
It’s hard to understand the history ILLUSTRATION: R.RAJESH and even parts of Assam was under
of modern India without the defeated Ibrahim Lodi in the First successors were unable to replenish which was later translated into Aurangzeb for a few years. Shah Jahan
contribution of the Mughals, who, Battle of Panipat in 1526, and went on the treasury. To augment resources, Persian. Not just Baburnama, the was the first Indian ruler after Ashoka
including Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan to capture all of North India in his brief Aurangzeb had imposed jizyah, a tax Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the to reach Balkh and Badakshan. There
and Aurangzeb, were all born in reign of four years. Babur’s victory was solely on nonMuslims, which proved Upanishads were also translated was no mightier empire in the world.”
undivided India; and were buried to usher in a prolonged period of detrimental in the long run. Once during the Mughal era. “The first The richness was owed substantially
here. None of them ever left the political stability for the next nearly Aurangzeb passed away in 1707, his translations of texts like the Ramayana to the Rajputs, who were sharers of
country, not even to go on a pilgrimage 200 years. His grandson Akbar ruled successors proved incapable of ruling and Mahabharata in any language from power from the time of Akbar, who
to Mecca. “Is there anything in India for almost 50 years, as did Akbar’s over a huge, unwieldy empire. Their Sanskrit was done under the Mughals. defeated Rana Pratap in the Battle of
today which does not owe to the great grandson Aurangzeb, while his internecine battles didn’t help. Many Dara Shukoh translated 25 Upanishads Haldighati, and coopted them in his
Mughals?” asks Syed Ali Nadeem son Jahangir and Shah Jahan ruled for like Mohammed Shah Rangeela were into Persian. He also translated empire through matrimonial alliances.
Rezavi, secretary, Indian History over 20 years each, making sure there given to a life of debauchery. Add to Yogavashishta,” says Mr. Rezavi. Most Mughal rulers after Jahangir were
Congress. “From legal system to legal was consistency in state policy and the that the gradual advance of East India Incidentally, Shukoh, the man who born to Rajput women. As a result,
jargon, we owe to the Mughal and development of the empire was Company in India and the latter never became the king, was way ahead within the family, Hindavi was often
Turkish Sultanate before them. Words unimpeded. Their influence gradually Mughals proved unequal to the task of of the times. Eldest son of Shah Jahan, the language of communication.
like vakalatnama, kacheri, durbar, we reduced from 1707 onwards, and the defending their empire. It all came to a he was a Sunni Muslim who associated Aurangzeb, incidentally, conversed in
owe them all to the Mughals. Today, last Mughal, Bahadur Shah Zafar, was sad end with the banishment of Zafar closely with Hindu philosophers and Hindi and composed in Braj bhasha.
when a large number of Indians only a symbolic leader of the Revolt of to Rangoon after the 1857 revolt. Christian priests. He was, as Vincent Today, when a hue and cry is raised
consider Lord Ram as a major deity, 1857. However, in this symbolism lay a Smith wrote in the Oxford History of if a Muslim enacts a Hindu hero in
we have to thank Tulsidas who wrote message; common Indians, as The beginning India, “deeply imbued with the cinema, it’s important to remember
his version of Ramayana during the evidenced by the sipahis’ uprising, It started more promisingly. A pantheistic mysticism of the Sufis”. that during the time of the Mughals,
Mughal period. Also, Vrindavan, considered Mughals to be their kings; descendant of Timur and Genghis Shukoh clearly inherited all this Raskhan wrote of Krishna in Hindi and
associated with Lord Krishna, hence the leadership role to Zafar. Khan, Babur, who knew Turkish and from Jalaluddin Akbar, the Emperor Balkrishan Brahman in Persian. It was
developed thanks to Chaitanya saints This was a throwback to the golden Persian, started the practice of who built Ibadat Khana where a time of synthesis: Hindu practices
who were given grants by Akbar, era of the Great Mughals; the latter chronicling the events and noting scholarly debates were held between were adopted to commemorate Imam
Jahangir and Shahjahan, and helped Mughals, post1707, had done nothing down his impressions of the landscape Brahmins, Christians, Jain, Buddhist Hussain and the concept of triple
Vrindavan and Mathura emerge as a to earn that kind of trust. Aurangzeb’s and the artists he met. He thus and Islamic scholars. It was a move dome mosque architecture,
key centre of Krishna Bhakti.” prolonged battles in the Deccan had authored a unique document way ahead of the time when one popularised by the Mughals, is
It all started with Babur when he enfeebled the state’s finances, and his Baburnama, originally in Turkish thinks until then the religion of the uniquely Indian. Just like the Mughals.
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n a cold but sunny his father’s decision to step inland is all set to will be no change: Finland,
day last December, down and hand over pow get a new Prime Mi as the latest European na
Bhutan’s King er to him. nister. In the elec tion to join NATO, will con
Jigme Khesar Namgyel As King, Jigme Khesar tions held on April 2, the tinue to strongly support
Wangchuck, the fifth King has had to use the lessons centreright National Coali Ukraine and oppose Russia
of the current line of Dra he may have learnt very tion Party came out on top in the ongoing war.
gon Kings, stepped up on quickly. During his reign, with a 20.8% vote share It’s evident that enough
to the stage at Thimphu’s Bhutan has gone from hav and 48 of the 200 parlia voters have bought Mr. Or
Changlimithang stadium to ing diplomatic ties with mentary seats. The far po’s line that Ms. Marin’s
address the nation, the just 21 countries, to 54 to right antiimmigration spending on pensions and
first such public address day. Bhutan still does not Finns Party came second education was unwise at a
since the beginning of the Peace) for youth volun for the concept of “Gross maintain full diplomatic with 20.1% of the vote and about rising public debt, blic life, serving out stints time when rising energy
COVID19 pandemic. “We teers, a new educational National Happiness” ties with any permanent 46 seats, while the incum which had spiked to 70% of as Minister of the Interior, costs were straining public
fought an unknown and curriculum called the Bhu (GNH), left for him when member of the UNSC, but bent Social Democrats, led the GDP since Ms. Marin Finance Minister, and De finances. But Finland has
unpredictable enemy. I tan Baccalaureate, a slew he abdicated from the there is constant pressure by Prime Minister Sanna became PM in 2019. He puty PM under other, dallied with austerity be
can now safely say that we of governance and bureau throne in 2006. The abdi to change that. The 2017 Marin, finished third with campaigned on a plank of more popular leaders. fore. Attempts by Prime
have won the war,” the 42 cratic reforms, bolstering cation was met with public military standoff between 19.9% of the vote and 43 reducing government debt Known as a backroom con Minister Juha Sipila, who
yearold King said in Bhutan’s environmental sorrow, and for a while the India and China at Doklam seats. through spending cuts and sensusbuilder, he led a re helmed a centreright coa
Dzongkha. Deviating to En agenda with a new Tou population balked at the was a big challenge for the Finland has a political reviving the economy with volt in May 2016 to unseat lition from 2015 to 2019, to
glish, the King then deli rism policy that imposes next step the former King Bhutanese government, tradition whereby the lar lower income tax rates. the then NCP chair and Fi revive the economy by lo
vered a strong message on $200 a day sustainable de took, to turn Bhutan into a and while there were no gest party gets the first Given these sharply con nance Minister Alexander wering Finnish wage costs
drugs and alcohol addic velopment fee (₹1,200 for functional democracy and public statements, both chance to form the govern trasting approaches to eco Stubb and succeeded, re and cutting the education
tion, addressing Bhutan’s Indians), and plans for a constitutional monarchy. the fourth and fifth Kings ment. With the NCP nomic policy, a coalition placing him as Finance Mi Budget proved a disaster.
youth in particular. “This is new connectivity and digi Such reforms are normally of Bhutan are understood emerging as the largest, it between the NCP and the nister in June 2016. But Finns seem to have for
a challenge we have to tal technology hub along wrought by revolutions, as to have been involved in will, under the leadership Social Democrats looks un gotten recent history.
face. This is a reality we Bhutan’s southern borders in the case of neighbouring deftly handling the tricky of Petteri Orpo, 53, attempt likely. Mr. Orpo, as the lead Ailing economy With tectonic changes
have to face. Failure is not with India in a town called Nepal, not by the incum relations with both to from a coalition govern negotiator, is expected to While the ailing economy such as war in the neigh
an option. We have to ad Gelephu, where its second bent monarch, then just 51, neighbours. ment. If Mr. Orpo suc first hold talks with the — which has also suffered bourhood, accession to
dress this,” he said, looking international airport is himself. Boundary talks with ceeds, he could be Fin Finns Party. But here too, from diminished exports NATO, and the economy in
straight at the audience. coming up. While much about the China that began in 1984 land’s next Prime Minister. he would need to manage to Russia — has been a ma doldrums, it is perhaps not
It was this challenge, of royal family speaks of tra have made considerable The elections were the sharp differences bet jor factor in the Social De unexpected that the Finns,
a social ill borne of the lack Unusual tasks dition and reverence for progress, which could dominated by debates over ween the two parties on mocrats’ dip in popularity, too, like electorates el
of economic opportuni Clearly, the tasks King history, the Bhutanese have repercussions for In the economy. Mr. Orpo led immigration. While the Mr. Orpo also built a narra sewhere, have turned to a
ties, that brought the Bhu Jigme Khesar sets himself King was educated in the dia in Doklam, and will a powerful campaign NCP favours immigration tive about Ms. Marin’s rightwing nationalist lead
tanese King to India last are unusual for a monarch ways of the modern world possibly need more nimble against the leftleaning Ms. to address labour shortag seeming lack of serious er. If Mr. Orpo forms a go
week. In meetings with in any part of the world, — after high school in Bhu diplomatic footwork by Marin’s social democratic es, the Finns Party wants ness. Leaked videos of Ms. vernment with the Finns
Prime Minister Narendra where royalty is normally tan, he went to the U.S. to Bhutan of the kind seen policies. With the Finnish tighter borders. Marin dancing exuberantly Party, it would mark a deci
Modi and interactions with associated with a life of complete his schooling last week. Above all, King economy yet to recover Relatively low profile at a private party made sive rightward shift in Fin
Indian CEOs and others comfort and protocol, and then went to college at Jigme Khesar Namgyel from the shocks adminis compared to the more their way into social media nish politics. At the same
around the world, he is pressing the flesh and pos Oxford University in the Wangchuck’s task will be in tered by the pandemic, Ms. flamboyant Ms. Marin, Mr. and became fodder for the time, Ms. Marin’s loss is a
seeking new global invest ing for photographs. What U.K. For about a year in ensuring a strong GDP and Marin sought to invest in Orpo hails from a political Opposition. Mr. Orpo, in blow to the European Left,
ment to power his plans drives the fifth King, say 2005, as Crown Prince of a strong GNH, so that as his employment creation by family, with his father too contrast, presented him which will need to intros
for Bhutan’s “transforma most analysts in Bhutan, is Bhutan, he took courses at country opens its doors raising taxes on the af being a member of the self as a workaday politi pect on the failure of its
tion”. Among the plans, the desire to fill the shoes the Indian Military Acade wider, its people aren’t buf fluent. But Mr. Orpo, a self NCP. A postgraduate in cian who knew what to do most charismatic politician
powering his ‘Desuung’ the fourth King, Jigme Sin my in Delhi, learning les feted by both internal and styled fiscal conservative, political science, he has to bring the Finnish econo to communicate effectively
programme (Guardians of gye Wangchuck, famous sons in statecraft and war external winds. played on Finnish fears built a steady career in pu my back on track. with voters.
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INBRIEF
쑽 Global headwinds to slow World Bank could
lend $50bn more
India’s GDP growth: Parekh with reform: Yellen
India has enough tailwinds in terms of a robust domestic consumptionbased economy,
political stability, vaccine security, digitisation, robust regulatory system, says HDFC chairman Agence FrancePresse
WASHINGTON
Singapore governmentowned fund Temasek Cotton to
Luxury car sales to rise as more climate change. The U.S. is
the largest shareholder of
significant resource boost
marking a 20% rise in the
Holdings is believed to have acquired an
additional 41% stake in Manipal Health
Enterprises for about ₹16,500 crore to secure
acquire Excel Indians turn wealthy: Lexus’s Soni the World Bank Group.
“I expect there to be an
update of the bank’s mis
International Bank for Re
construction and Develop
ment’s (IBRD’s) sustainable
majority control in the Bengalurubased firm.
Temasek Holdingsbacked Sheares Health, which
Controlinkage sion to add building resi lending level.
Mini Tejaswi car makers to tap into, he lience against climate Ms. Yellen also said
already holds 18% in Manipal, is acquiring the BENGALURU said. Mr. Soni further said change, pandemics, and there would be an announ
stake valuing the healthcare chain at about The Hindu Bureau that to scale up the luxury conflict and fragility to the cement on updating the
₹40,000 crore, making it the largest deal in the MUMBAI India has great potential to segment, the government core goals,” Ms. Yellen said bank’s operational model
Indian healthcare sector, sources said. PTI significantly expand its should make a longterm in the interview with AFP. to “orient it towards the
Greaves Cotton Ltd., a di luxury car market as the roadmap on taxation She added that there goals that we’re setting.”
versified engineering com country, being a segment available instead of allow needs to be a recognition Among other things,
pany, said it has entered ed market, now offers ing kneejerk reactions. that these challenges aren’t this includes creating more
Tesla hit with class action into a definitive agreement
for the multitranche ac
multiple consumer seg
ments to tap into, said Na
“If the industry has to
be moved from one partic
separate or conflicting but
rather, inextricably linked.
incentives for the mobilisa
tion of both domestic and
Naveen Soni
lawsuit over ‘privacy intrusion’ quisition of Excel Contro veen Soni, President, Lex ular tax regime to another, “Second, there will be private capital.
linkage Private Ltd. us India, the luxury car All these will boost the lif a more liberal one, there
A California Tesla owner sued the electric In the first tranche, arm of the Japanese auto estyle sector and signifi should be a road map of 4
carmaker in a prospective class action lawsuit Greaves Cotton will ac maker Toyota. cantly drive sales of luxu to 6 years. Also, environ
accusing it of violating the privacy of customers. quire 60% of the share “More people are be ry cars,” Mr. Soni said in mentfriendly technolo
The lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the holding from existing coming rich in our coun an interview. gies should be promoted
Northern District of California came after Reuters shareholders. try. Plus, India is targeting Moreover, the country with better taxation. For
reported that groups of Tesla staff privately The aim is to combine a $5 trillion economy by has a segmented market instance, maybe the go
shared sometimes highly invasive videos and Greaves’ motor controller 2030 and if that happens, and therefore different vernment should intro
images recorded by customers’ car cameras line of business with Ex wealth distribution will customer categories were duce a carbonbased taxa
between 2019 and 2022. REUTERS cel’s electronic sensors. become broader as well. available here for luxury tion system,” he said.
India’s ‘protectionist’ aviaton policy will force FM to host
G20 in U.S.,
consumers to pay higher airfares: IATA’s Walsh attend IMF,
WB meetings
Jagriti Chandra countries will restrict ca be deprived of reciprocal ment’s policy reflected
GENEVA pacity as well,” Mr. Walsh rights. Civil Aviation Minis “old protectionist India”
said in an interview at IA ter Jyotiraditya Scindia has which didn’t have a na Press Trust of India
India’s reluctance to revise TA’s Geneva headquarters. ruled out a revision of bi tional airline that was cap NEW DELHI
bilateral seat allocations The International Air lateral seat allocations. able of competing at a glo
for international flights Transport Association (IA Mr. Walsh said that the bal scale. Finance Minister Nirmala
despite demands from TA) represents 300 air demand from various air “People should be more Sitharaman will be leaving
some countries reflects an lines globally. Mr. Walsh’s lines such as Emirates and confident and believe that for the U.S. to attend the
“old protectionist India” comments come at a time Qatar for additional seats Air India is capable of Spring Meetings of the
that could result in others when airlines such as Emi or flights within the bilat competing on a level play World Bank Group and the
retaliating and restricting rates and Turkish Airlines eral agreements were due ing field.” He said the po International Monetary
access for Indian airlines have demanded a revision to “demand for air travel tential for growth in India Fund along with G20.
which in turn would ham Willie Walsh of bilateral rights. Emi significantly outstripping was massive and though During her weeklong
per India’s ambition to de rates CEO Tim Clarke said the services available,” its domestic market was at trip, she will be hosting
velop a global airport hub, need to allow more com recently that India’s reluc and therefore the ultimate third place, after U.S. and the second G20 Finance
cautioned Willie Walsh, petition into India but you tance to allow Gulf carriers loser would be the con China, it only accounted Ministers and Central
the Director General of are not going to get the res more flights into India sumers who are forced to for 2% of global revenue Bank Governors meeting
global airlines body IATA. ponse from other coun could result in losses of pay higher airfares be passenger kilometres. under India’s G20 Presi
“With the ambition to tries if you have a restrict $800$900 million for In cause of fewer flights. He (Read the full interview at dency, the Finance Minis
expand will come the ed bilateral. Other dian airlines who would rued that the govern bit.ly/williewalsh) try said in a statement.
‘RollsRoyce keen to partner India for
developing combat engines with IP rights’
U.K. government and company working together very closely to develop small modular reactors, a clean energy solution which can combat
climate change by delivering costcompetitive, scalable net zero power for multiple applications, says the firm’s India, South Asia president
INTERVIEW Rolls Royce as a firm? fore the end of this year. battery technology. ensures Intellectual Pro
So, we’ll have to make RollsRoyce Trent 1000 perty (IP) for this critical
It is a very significant part sure that engines are in engines will power the technology is created and
Kishore of Rolls Royce, it is the lar place before that. firstever net zero transat owned in India. With
gestofitskind order for lantic flight from the U.K. technological knowhow
Jayaraman Rolls Royce anywhere glo Are you reducing the this year using 100% SAF. resting within the country,
bally. It is the largest wide carbon footprint? India could position itself
Lalatendu Mishra body order in India by far. How is RollsRoyce as a strong supplier to the
This is the first time that It’s a good question. We contributing to India? global market.
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n February, Tata’s Air an Indian airline has or have signed up to the U.N.
India placed an order dered the Trent XWB [en Net Zero chapter, so by Ours is the original Make What is the next big
for 840 aircraft, in gines] and the deal will 2050, we will be net zero, inIndia story which start thing happening?
cluding 40 A350900/ make Air India the largest all our products, all our ed over 60 years ago with
1000 aircraft from Airbus. operator of the Trent XWB services, all our factories, RollsRoyce partnering When we talk about cli
With this, RollsRoyce 97 in the world. to execute the order? everything we do will be with HAL for whole en mate change, Small Modu
bagged its biggestever or With a 15% fuel con net zero. That’s Rolls Royc gine technology transfer, lar Reactors play a very
der for Trent XWB97 en sumption advantage over We received an order from e’s promise. This year it is and RollsRoyce engines important role. The U.K.
gines which will power the the first generation Trent Air India for 68 Trent going to be sustainable al have been manufactured government and Rolls
A3501000 aircraft. The engine, the Trent XWB XWB97 engines, plus op ternative fuels (SAF). All in India since then. We Royce are working togeth
Trent XWB84 engines will goes further on less fuel, tions for 20 more. Air In our products will be SAF continue to build on this er very closely to develop
power the Airbus A350 and offers leading perfor dia has also ordered 12 compatible by 2023. relationship to deliver ser a product, which would
900s, says India & South mance and noise levels. It Trent XWB84, engines, We flew the first electric vice excellence and supply be approximately 400 me
Asia president Kishore is also ready to operate on the sole engine option for aircraft, it reached a speed chain capabilities. gawatts. I think that’s the
Jayaraman. Excerpts: a 50% sustainable aviation the Airbus A350900. limit of about 350 miles RollsRoyce is keen to future of sustainable pow
fuel blend. These are in the produc per hour, a speed record. partner India for combat er generation.
How significant is Air tion factory. Six aircraft For an allelectric [air engine development with (Read the full interview
India’s engine order for How are you gearing up need to be delivered be craft], we are looking at a cocreation model that at https://bit.ly/3mdAjjR)
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The Impact Player rule does not “threaten” the role of allrounders Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting said he can’t figure out Kolkata Knight Riders bowling coach Bharat Arun felt that the Cheteshwar Pujara was excited to be back among the runs with a
and instead provides teams with extra strength, said Gujarat Titans what is going wrong with his side, as it lost to Rajasthan Royals, for Impact Player rule provides a lot of options for a team. “It’s got to century in his county seasonopener for Sussex. “Things which I’ve
batter David Miller on Saturday. “Not necessarily threatened. I think its thirdsuccessive defeat on Saturday. “We are a long way off right be a dynamic decision, one we have to take on the go. In our case, been working on is paying off,” Pujara said after his 163ball 115, his
the fact that you’ve got the choice to have the extra batter or the now. I can’t put my finger on why. When I watch these boys prepare, we would be excited to go with three mystery spinners (Sunil sixth hundred for Sussex. “As a batter, when you start well, you feel
extra bowler just gives extra strength to the team.” their work has been great. We need to do a little soulsearching.” Narine, Varun Chakravarthy and Suyash Sharma, in pic),” said Arun. confident. I hope to keep scoring runs,” he said.
SCOREBOARD
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MUMBAI INDIANS
Amol Karhadkar Rohit Sharma b Deshpande 21
MUMBAI (13b, 3x4, 1x6), Ishan Kishan c
Pretorius b Jadeja 32 (21b, 5x4),
umbai Indians ob Cameron Green c & b Jadeja 12
Buttler, Jaiswal and Boult fashion Rajasthan Royals’ clinical victory
Pranay Rajiv over doublestrike, Capi guile as Rajasthan record
GUWAHATI tals’ pursuit was reeled in ed its second win of the
by R. Ashwin and Chahal’s season.
Rajasthan Royals produced
a clinical allround perfor SCOREBOARD Rossouw c Jaiswal b R. Ashwin 14
mance as it beat Delhi Cap 쑽 (12b, 2x4), Lalit Yadav b Boult 38
itals by 57 runs and bounce RAJASTHAN ROYALS (24b, 5x4), Axar Patel st. Samson
back to winning ways in Yashasvi Jaiswal c & b Mukesh 60 b Chahal 2 (6b), Rovman Powell c
IPL16 at the Barsapara Sta (31b, 11x4, 1x6), Jos Buttler c & b Hetmyer b R. Ashwin 2 (2b),
Mukesh 79 (51b, 11x4, 1x6), Sanju Abishek Porel c Hetmyer b
dium here on Saturday.
Samson c Nortje b Kuldeep 0 Chahal 7 (9b, 1x4), Kuldeep
Capitals were outplayed Yadav (not out) 3 (7b), Anrich
(4b), Riyan Parag b Powell 7
for most of the game as Nortje b Sandeep 0 (1b), Mukesh
(11b), Shimron Hetmyer (not out)
they fell to a third straight 39 (21b, 1x4, 4x6), Dhruv Jurel Kumar (not out) 1 (1b); Extras
defeat while Royals fin (not out) 8 (3b, 1x6); Extras (lb1, (lb2, nb1, w7): 10; Total (for
ished their ‘home run’ nb1, w4): 6; Total (for four wkts. nine wkts. in 20 overs): 142.
with a victory. in 20 overs): 199. FALL OF WICKETS
Royals’ win was set up FALL OF WICKETS 10 (Prithvi, 0.3), 20 (Manish, 0.4),
by a solid batting show 198 (Jaiswal, 8.3 overs), 2103 336 (Rossouw, 5.4), 4100 (Lalit,
from openers Yashasvi Jais (Samson, 9.5), 3126 (Parag, 12.6), 5111 (Axar, 14.5), 6118
13.5), 4175 (Buttler, 18.3). (Powell, 15.3), 7138 (Porel, 18.2),
wal (60) and Jos Buttler
CAPITALS BOWLING 8139 (Warner, 18.6), 9140
(79) which was backed up Power play: Buttler and Jaiswal got Royals off to a flying start, scoring 68 in the first six overs. RITU RAJ KONWAR
(Nortje, 19.2).
by a fiery Trent Boult and Khaleel 20310, Nortje 40440,
Mukesh 40362, Axar 40380, ROYALS BOWLING
spin twins R. Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal. per David Warner. Jaiswal dominated the when he fended a Mukesh yan Parag cheaply.
Kuldeep 40311, Powell Boult 41293, Sandeep 40201,
Boult struck twice in the After being sent in, Jais stand as he raced to his fif Kumar bouncer back to the Buttler and Shimron R. Ashwin 40252, Holder
20181.
first over — for a recordex wal and Buttler began in ty off 25 balls. The openers bowler. Hetmyer led the revival 30280, Chahal 40273, M.
DELHI CAPITALS
tending fourth time in the top gear, with the former dealt mostly in boundaries Capitals nudged their with their powerhitting Prithvi Shaw (Impact Player in Ashwin (Impact Player in place
IPL — to rock Capitals’ smashing Khaleel Ahmed as Royals gathered 68 runs way back into the game in and powered Royals to 199, place of Khaleel) c Samson b of Buttler) 10110.
chase, which failed to kick for five boundaries to gath in the PowerPlay. The left the middle overs with tight a total that proved beyond Boult 0 (3b), David Warner lbw b Toss: Capitals; PoM: Jaiswal.
on, mostly because of a er 20 runs in the opening hander’s entertaining bowling as Royals lost skip the reach of the struggling Chahal 65 (55b, 7x4), Manish Rajasthan Royals won by 57
slowpaced fifty from skip over. knock came to an end per Sanju Samson and Ri Capitals. After Boult’s first Pandey lbw b Boult 0 (1b), Rilee runs.
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Ding and Nepomniachtchi are the Koepka takes command even
most interesting to watch: Anand as storm halts play
strengths. “He will give his US Amateur champion
CHESS all in every position,” he AUGUSTA MASTERS Sam Bennett fired a 68 to
said. “He is much more sta stand third on 136. The 23
P.K. Ajith Kumar ble and has this ability to Agence FrancePresse yearold Texan, could be
come up with good ideas in AUGUSTA the first amateur in a Mas
The absence of Magnus his openings, which is all ters last pairing in 65 years
Carlsen has robbed the the more remarkable be Fourtime Major winner
and was confident he can
World chess championship cause he has a reputation Brooks Koepka, who
defeat Koepka.
some of its sheen no of working alone.” moved to the LIV series,
doubt, but Viswanathan He feels Nepomniacht seized command of the World No. 2 Rory McIl
Anand believes it is still go chi has a little bit of un Masters with a sizzling five roy, who needs a Masters
ing to be an exciting affair. predictability about him. under 67 before a storm victory to complete a ca
The Norwegian’s abdi “He is very much an all that uprooted trees halted reer Grand Slam, fired a 77
cation means chess will rounder,” he said. “He is al Friday’s second round at to stand on 149, three
Battle of wits: Anand feels the contrasting styles of
have a new World cham so incredibly prepared, I Augusta National. strokes over the projected
Nepomniachtchi and Ding makes their contest a mustsee.
pion for the first time since think he trained hard for Koepka torched the cut line. Topranked de
FILE PHOTO & RAJEEV BHATT
2013, but he will not be an his match against Carlsen. par5 holes for an eagle fending champion Scottie
undisputed one. slightly unexpected, it clash. “I think they are fair His touch of genius can be and three birdies in a bo Scheffler struggled to a 75
The match between adds a twist to it. I would ly equal in terms of ability,” come a weakness geyfree round. His superb to stand on 143, 11 off the
Russian Ian Nepomniacht say that Ding and Nepom he said. sometimes.” shotmaking followed an lead.
chi and China’s Ding Liren niachtchi are not just two “I would favour Nepom He said it was unfortu opening 65, his lowest Mas Tiger Woods, a 15time
begins at Astana on of the strongest but most niachtchi slightly because nate that Carlsen was not ters round, and left him on Major winner and fivetime
Sunday. interesting players to recently he has made dra taking part. “But it also 12under 132 for 36 holes, Masters champion, was le
“It is going to be a very watch as well.” matic progress and his vic means that instead of one, three strokes in front. Causing a flutter: LIV’s Koepka is raising anxious brows among vel par through 11 holes
exciting World champion Anand, for whom this is tory in the Candidates two very exciting players PGA officialdom with his assured play. GETTY IMAGES and on the projected two
ship, with two very strong the first World champion tournament was very con are getting chances,” he Rahm second over cutline overall.
participants,” Anand, a ship after becoming the vincing. Ding played much said. “In terms of impact, After winning last week’s golf’s greatest stages by a was second on nineunder Later, South Africa’s
fivetime World champion, FIDE deputy president, less due to Covid the first Chinese World LIV Golf event in Orlando, player from the breakaway after making a sevenfoot Louis Oosthuizen, the 2010
told The Hindu over phone feels the contrast in styles restrictions.” champion could be histor Koepka could produce the circuit. birdie putt on the par5 British Open champion,
from the Kazakhstan capi of Ding and Nepomniacht Anand said patience ic and could have a dramat PGA Tour’s nightmare sce Thirdranked Jon Rahm, eighth and a 12footer for withdrew due to an un
tal. “Since the pairing is chi augurs well for the title was one of Ding’s ic effect on the game.” nario of a victory on one of the 2021 US Open winner, birdie on the ninth. specified injury.
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INBRIEF
쑽 Bopanna training in Monte Carlo after
a refreshing break of 10 days at home
The oldest player to win a Masters title, he is happy to have retained the ability to compete at this level despite not being at his best physically
ning the title in Indian he had, as the final and
TENNIS Wells. Yet, the sense of semifinals were played
achievement was intact. within 24 hours.
Tejaswin Shankar clinches Kamesh Srinivasan
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“Am extremely proud to
be the oldest player to win
“I really believe in the
travelling physio. It is an
decathlon silver a Masters title. I am happy extremely key aspect for
t has been a fine sea to have sustained the abili good performance”, said
India’s Tejaswin Shankar bagged the decathlon
silver and came close to breaking the national
record at the Jim Click shootout competition in
I son for Rohan Bopan
na. The 43yearold is
keen to make the best of
ty to compete at this level,
despite not being physical
ly at my best. The mind is
Bopanna, who has been
travelling with physio Re
becca van Orshaegen of
Arizona (USA). Tejaswin competed in the the claycourt swing to en working and am adapting Belgium, with considera
10event decathlon and scored a cumulative hance his qualification to situations on crucial ble success.
7,648 points — 10 less than Bharatinder Singh’s chances for the ATP Finals points. “There are three Mas
national record of 7,658 set in 2011. The in Turin, Italy. “Indian Wells is one of ters events before the
competition was held at the University of After a refreshing 10 the biggest among the Mas French Open. We are play
Arizona’s Tucson campus and is recognised by days at home in Bengaluru, ters events. Lot of Indians ing as many practice sets as
United States Track and Field. Till Steinforth of Bopanna is training in come to watch. Am happy possible.
Nebraska took the gold with 7,845 points. The Monte Carlo, getting ready to represent India, as they “I have had good results
24yearold Tejaswin, who is currently working in for the Masters event. Sharp and agile: Bopanna says his mind is ready to react while playing crucial points. FILE PHOTO put up the national flag for on clay. But as a team, we
the USA after completing college at the Kansas “Even if you do well in every athlete who com want to stay within limits.
State University, competed as an unattached 10 tournaments, and feel We should have won in two break. It was hard, espe firstround loss in Miami. petes in the event,” said Try individually to play our
athlete. He won the high jump (2.19m) and 400m confident, it is still anybo sets. We had more chances cially against Fabrice Mar It was indeed disap Bopanna. best. We are still learning
(48.41s). The other events are 100m, long jump, dy’s game when the match in the first set. They took tin’s massive serve,” ob pointing for him to lose He was particularly to move well on clay,” said
shot put, 110m hurdles race, discus throw, pole enters the super tiebreak. big lead in the match tie served Bopanna, about the early in Miami after win pleased with the recovery Bopanna.
vault, javelin throw and 1,500m. Tejaswin also
breached the Asian Games standard of 7,500
points, set by the Athletics Federation of India.
Thapa, Hussamuddin and Bhoria headline Indian squad for Worlds
the camp in January last Kaushik as one of his com leave for Tashkent on April
BOXING following rehab to fix a petitors in 63.5kg, would 17 to attend a multination
shoulder injury. He ex be keen to add another me training camp before the
Y.B. Sarangi celled in the evaluation dal to his 2015 Worlds event. In seven Olympic
KOLKATA process to score 731 points bronze, Hussamuddin, an weight categories — 51kg,
against Amit’s 682. Asian bronze medallist, 57kg, 63.5kg, 71kg, 80kg,
Sixtime Asian champion “My injury flared up af would like to open his ac 92kg and +92kg — two box
ships medallist Shiva Tha ter the Commonwealth count in the elite event. ers each will participate in
pa (63.5kg), double Com Games trials as I was not Olympian and 2019 the camp.
monwealth Games bronze sure whether I should con Asian silver medallist Ash
Seifert blasts New Zealand to medallist Mohammad Hus
samuddin (57kg) and Asian Shiva Thapa. FILE PHOTO Mohammad Hussamuddin. PTI
tinue with the rehab.
Again, I did rehab for three
ish Chaudhary (80kg), who
had lost in the National
The squad: Govind Sahani
(48kg), Deepak Bhoria (51kg),
T20 series win over Sri Lanka silver medallist Deepak months before rejoining championships, booked Sachin Siwach Jr. (54kg),
Mohammad Hussamuddin
Bhoria (51kg) are some Shiva and Hussamuddin long evaluation process, the camp,” Deepak, who his spot. While Naveen Ku
Tim Seifert was matchwinner, with a careerhigh leading names who have was along expected lines, came as a surprise. last competed in an inter mar (92kg) pipped former (57kg), Varinder Singh (60kg),
88 off 48 balls, for the second straight game as Shiva Thapa (63.5kg), Akash
made the Indian squad for the return of Deepak, who Deepak, who defeated national event in the 2021 Asian champion Sanjeet by
Sangwan (67kg), Nishant Dev
New Zealand clinched the T20 series against Sri the World boxing cham pipped World Champion 2016 Olympic and 2019 World championships, told 12 points, Narender Berwal (71kg), Sumit Kundu (75kg),
Lanka with a tense fourwicket victory in pionships to be held in ships silver medallist and World champion Uzbek The Hindu. (+92kg) beat Common Ashish Chaudhary (80kg), Harsh
Queenstown on Saturday. Tashkent from April 30 to Commonwealth Games Shakhobidin Zoirov at the While Shiva, who had wealth Games medallist Sa Choudhary (86kg), Naveen
The scores: Sri Lanka 182/6 in 20 overs (Pathum Nissanka 25, May 14. champion Amit Panghal 2021 Strandja Memorial Olympian and Worlds gar Ahlawat by 20 points. Kumar (92kg) and Narender
Kusal Mendis 73, Kusal Perera 33) lost to New Zealand 183/6 in Even as the selection of through the threeweek tournament, returned to bronze medallist Manish The Indian team will Berwal (92+kg).
19.5 overs (Tim Seifert 88, Tom Latham 31; Lahiru Kumara
3/38).
33member core
Sriram Balaji & Jeevan
lose in semifinals group for national
Sriram Balaji and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan lost
36, 63, [103] to Marcelo Demoliner and Andrea
hockey camp
Vavassori in the doubles semifinals of the
€630,705 ATP tennis tournament in Marrakech,
Morocco. Press Trust of India
BENGALURU
The results: Semifinals: €630,705 ATP, Marrakech,
Morocco: Marcelo demoliner (Bra) & Andrea Vavassori (Ita) bt
Sriram Balaji & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 36, 63, [103]. Hockey India (HI) will con
$15,000 ITF women, Telde, Spain: Claudia Ferrer (Esp) & duct a 35day senior wo
Aneta Laboutkova (Cze) bt Celia Ruiz (Esp) & Vasanti Shinde men’s national camp here
64, 64. from Sunday to fine tune
the “structure” and “tac
tics” of the core group
ahead of the tour of Austra
lia in May.
Women’s team chief
coach Janneke Schopman
said the camp, to be held Schopman.
from Sunday to May 13 for FILE PHOTO: RITU RAJ KONWAR
the 33 probables and fol
lowed by the series against hockey,” she added.
Australia, will give her a
fair idea where the team The core probables group:
stands against the top Goalkeepers: Savita, E. Rajani,
countries. Bichu Devi Kharibam, Bansari
“After the last camp, in Solanki.
Priyanshu makes the Orleans which we were able to esta Defenders: Deep Grace Ekka,
Masters final with ease blish our baseline for the Gurjit Kaur, Nikki Pradhan, Udita,
Ishika Chaudhary, Akshata Abaso
needed physical output
Dhekale, Jyoti Chhatri, Mahima
India’s Priyanshu Rajawat stormed into the finals and addressed individual
Chaudhary.
of the Orleans Masters Super 300 badminton improvements, we are
Midfielders: Nisha, Salima Tete,
tournament with a straightgame demolition of looking to improve our
Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam,
Ireland’s Nhat Nguyen in the semifinals in team structure and tac Jyoti, Navjot Kaur, Monika,
Orleans on Saturday. The 21yearold dished out tics,” said Schopman in a Mariana Kujur, Sonika, Neha,
an attacking game to outplay the World No. 35 HI release on Saturday. Baljeet Kaur, Reena Khokhar,
Nguyen 2112, 219 in a lopsided singles “Playing Australia in Vaishnavi Phalke, Ajmina Kujur.
semifinals to progress to his maiden final of a Australia at the end of this Forwards: Lalremsiami, Navneet
Super 300 world tour event. camp will help us assess Kaur, Vandana Katariya, Sharmila
where we are compared to Devi, Deepika, Sangita Kumari,
the top teams of women’s Mumtaz Khan, Sunelita Toppo.
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Chef’s delight: Haleem bhatti (earthen ovens) being set up at Shalibanda in the Old City of Hyderabad.
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amzan, the ninth month of the Islamic now has a GI (Geographical Indication) tag.
calendar, is a time for fasting and Mohammed Abdul Majeed, owner of the famed
abstinence for Muslims. The devout fast Pista House and president of the Hyderabad
from dawn to dusk, but after sunset, it is time for Haleem Makers Association, was the one who
delicious food shared with family and friends. championed the effort to get the tag. The dish is
In Hyderabad, people are spoilt for choice now exported to North America, West Asia,
when it comes to the evening meal during Southeast Asia and Europe, helping thousands of
Nagara Gopal Ramzan. And at the top of the list is the widely families engaged in making the traditional
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popular haleem. A preparation of pounded Hyderabadi haleem.
wheat and mutton, chefs across restaurants The month brings seasonal employment
slowcook this Ramzan speciality for up to eight opportunities for the hawkers of Hyderabad who
hours in a cauldron, known locally as a degh. peddle clothes, accessories and toys. Seasonal
With haleem restaurants and stalls dotted workers find employment in restaurants that
across Hyderabad, it is no wonder that the dish require extra staff to meet customer demands. Y
Right coat: A small shop under the historic Chowk Masjid in Hyderabad bustles with activity during Ramzan, for it is
here that large cooking utensils are brought for a shiny coat. The kalaigaar is the one who skilfully coats the vessels.
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Touch of spice: The master
chef pours gingergarlic
paste into the degh
(cauldron). Other
ingredients include wheat,
dry fruits and spices.
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Creamy texture: The next
step entails adding a paste
of dry fruits, cashew and
almonds, and pulses. All go
into the degh and bring
about a lipsmacking
preparation.
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Stir and stew: The haleem is pounded, in a process known as ghota maarna. An arrays of cooks here pound the haleem with a ghota in a rhythmic fashion.
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Customer’s choice: A plateful of haleem makes for a satisfying meal. Today there are variations
with mutton, chicken and even vegetarian specials.
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Steaming plates: Soon after breaking the fast, rozadaars (those who fast) exit the Macca Masjid, Going global: Containers with haleem ready for export. The Geographical Indication tag has helped the Hyderabadi delicacy gain
one of the most prominent mosques in India, and head for a feast of haleem. worldwide fame.
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Bursting with flavour: The haleem is poured into containers for sale. A generous helping of ghee is added to each pack.
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