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Vol. II

Issue 84

Dibrugarh, Friday, October 7, 2016

Eat right and stay in great shape

One killed by wild buffalo gore at KNP Bijoy Shankar Handique Kaziranga, Oct 6: One Judhirstir Tasa (48) was killed by a wild buffalo gore in Burahpahar Range area when he was on his way to fishing in the water adjacent to the areas beside the NH-37 under Kaziranga National Park.

“The wild buffalo killed attacked and killed the person mercilessly”, said Shivashish Das, the Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of Kaziranga National Park here today.

The DFO said that the wild buffalo was single and was grazing inside a bush which was unnoticed by Judhirstir Tasa. The buffalo when saw Tasa approaching sprang with head down with its gore pointing towards him and killed him mercilessly as he received five injury marks in the face, chest and stomach.

This is the second case in the past 10 months in KNP. Earlier on the month of July during flood hours two persons were seriously injured in wild buffalo attack beside NH-37 under Burahpahar Range, informed official sources.

New Train announced by Railways Tinsukia, Oct 6:Indian railway announces 1st time in Northeast running of DEMU (Diesel Electrical Multiple Unit) trains.

The 1st DEMU train will run between DibrugarhTinsukia-Ledo-Dangori and vice-versa from 8th Oct. There will be 12 services daily with 8 coaches in every service. (Correspondent)

Assam police apprehends 11 poachers Nagaon, Oct 6: In a major crackdown against poachers, a joint team of Assam police and STF, on Thursday, apprehended eleven poachers from Kaliabor in Nagaon district of Assam.

The arrested poachers have been identified as Samsul Haque, Najmesadik Ahmed, Riyajuddin, Idris Ali, ABu Taler, Abul Hussain, Mahidul Islam, Jahirul Islam, Janab Ali, Abu Nasa, Haibur Islam.

Seven rounds of live cartridges, one 303 rifle have been seized from their possession.

Police disclosed that the apprehended poachers were conspiring to kill and dehorn rhino at Orang National park. (Correspondent)

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CM Khandu discusses on all Society would have to put joint developmental and economical efforts in protecting nature and aspects of the state with PM Modi Modi assures all out support to the state ET Bureau Itanagar, Oct 6

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu today called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi here at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg and had a detailed discussion on all developmental and economical aspects of the state.

The Prime Minister hailed Arunachal Pradesh as one of the most peaceful states of the country and commended the simplicity of its people.

Admitted the enormous potential of the state in agrihorti and tourism sectors, Modi assured all out support to the state. He said special impetus would be given on all potential sectors including connectivity and IT sectors.

“Northeast and especially Arunachal Pradesh has always been close to my heart,” the PM said while adding that the

MEETING’s HIGHLIGHT CM Khandu discusses on all developmental and economical aspects of the state with PM Modi PM hails Arunachal Pradesh as one of the most peaceful states of the country and commended the simplicity of its people.

Khandu informs PM over the

PM assures to present government’s inherited huge provide special impetus liabilities. on all potential sectors including connectivity Khandu assures PM to provide and IT sectors. transparent and clean governance.

CM submits detailed memorandum over various developmental aspects of the state. central government is committed to its development and welfare.

Khandu informed the PM that the present government has inherited huge liabilities of

previous several years. He said the situation has been further aggravated by the fact that several schemes of the Government of India now stand delinked, Contd. on Page 4

animal habitats: CM Sonowal A Staff Reporter Guwahati, Oct 6

Appreciating the relentless service rendered by forest personnel to safeguard the wildlife of the state, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said that the society would have to put joint efforts in protecting nature and animal habitats.

Stating that forest department alone cannot protect the wildlife, Sonowal called upon the residents living near the forest areas to realize their role in protecting nature and urged them to foil the nefarious design of the poachers and insurgent outfits.

Speaking on the occasion of 62nd Wildlife Week organized by the State Forest Department at Pragjyoti ITA Complex, Machkhowa, today, Chief Minister Sonowal exhorted the Assamese community to follow the teachings of Sankardeva who in the Kirtana said “Kukur Shrigal Gardabhoru Atmaram”.

Sonowal stressed on the need for a balanced man-animal relation and said that the mod-

ter for animals.

WHAT CM SAID? Stated that inCalls upon the residents living near the for- tensive action est areas to realize their against poachers role in protecting nature. would continue Urged villagers to foil the nefarious design of the poachers and insurgent outfits.

and exemplary punishment would be given to them

Advocated for joint training of police and forest personnel to study topography of forests and operation against Stressed on the poachers and inneed for a balanced surgents in forest man-animal relation. areas.

Exhorted the Assamese community to follow the teachings of Sankardeva who in the Kirtana said “Kukur Shrigal Gardabhoru Atmaram”.

ern society has failed to understand the importance of nature for sustenance of human civilization.

Like human beings animals also seek security and they will settle where they find favourable environment. Stating this Chief Minister ap-

Mentioned that eviction drive in Kaziranga was successfully carried out to protect the sanctity of the National Park.

pealed the people living near forest areas to refrain from sheltering poachers and extending them any help. Expressing his deep concern over high rise of man-animal conflict, the Chief Minister commented that conducive environment within the forest must be created to ensure safe shel-

Reiterating State Government’s commitment to protect wildlife and preserve nature, Sonowal categorically stated that intensive action against poachers would continue and exemplary punishment would be given to them.

He also advocated for joint training of police and forest personnel to study topography of forests and operation against poachers and insurgents in forest areas. The Chief Minister also mentioned that eviction drive in Kaziranga was successfully carried out to protect the sanctity of the National Park and vowed to continue such eviction drive in future to make all forest areas free from encroachment.

State Forest Minister Pramila Rani Brahma who also spoke on the occasion said that modern life style, industrial growth and smuggling of animal parts have posed a serious threat to the existence of wildlife.

Arunachal inks MoU with CII to promote Arunachal as the CM urges all Assam banks to ensure preferred investment destination successful implementation of Govt. flagship Signing MoU with CII: Advantages programmes for financial inclusion is “CMSGUY aimed to be

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ET Bureau Itanagar, Oct 6

“The rich potentials and resources of the state which remained hitherto latent and untapped will henceforth be put to optimum utilisation to benefit the people of Arunachal Pradesh” said Chief Minister Pema Khandu.

He said this after inking a historic MoU between Government of Arunachal Pradesh and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) to promote and project Arunachal as the preferred investment destination, to attract investments and build capacities within the State.

The MoU was signed between the State Govt and CII at Hotel Taj today in presence of Naushad Forbes, from Forbes Marshall and the president of CII, Deputy CM Chowna Mein, Chief Secretary Shakuntala D Gamlin, Commissioner Investment Ashish Kundra and corporate giants like

CII will improve internal efficiency and productivity.

Arunachal will get involved with important initiatives in the areas of Child Education, Women Empowerment, It will play a proactive role in Fight against HIV/ Disaster Arunachal's development process. AIDS, management etc.

CII will work closely with Govt on Arunachal will policy issues, interface with thought develop a platform to leaders, and enhancing efficiency, enhance business and competitiveness and business will develop newer opportunities for industry in Arunachal. markets.

Pawan Goenka of Mahindras, Ajit Gulabchand of HCC, Rakesh Bharti Mittal of Bharti Retails, Chandrajit Banerjee – CII and Banmali Agarwala (President and CEO) - GE South Asia.

The mutually agreed sectors where CII shall support the state government are HydroPower, Skilling, Tourism, Horticulture/ floriculture, Agro-processing,

and Information Technology.

It was agreed upon to constitute a high level Joint Task Force for successful implementation of the initiatives.

A detail development plan would be worked out by this team for Arunachal Pradesh in a time bound manner.

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A Staff Reporter Guwahati, Oct 6

“To brand the Possibilities, Potentialities and Prosperities of Assam, all Banks must join hands with the government and ensure successful implementation of Govt. flagship programmes for financial inclusion”, said Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal while interacting with the Bankers of the state in the State Level Bankers Committee (SLBC) meeting held today at Assam Administrative Staff College, Khanapara.

Expressing satisfaction on credit flow, the Chief minister said that Banks must increase enrolment under Prime Minister’s Jan Dhan Yojana, Suraksha Bima Yojana, MUDRA Loan, Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana and Atal Pension Yojana so that benefits under

these schemes reaches all in the state. He also said that around 1.25 lac small tea growers are engaged in tea cultivation in the state and Banks must focus on credit flow to this sector also Reiterating his Govt.’s commitment to strengthen rural economy, Sonowal said that a mega mission called Chief Minister’s Samagra Gramya Unnayan Yojana (CMSGUY) has already been announced in the last budget for next five years in order to double the farm income in the state.

Stating that CMSGUY is aimed to be implemented covering 25,000 revenue villages of the state investing Rs. 30,000 cr over a period of five years, the Chief Minister urged the banks to extend full cooperation in making the mission successful.

Sonowal also said that 12 sub-missions for promoting

implemented covering 25,000 revenue villages of the state investing Rs. 30,000 cr over a period of five years.

CM Sarbananda Sonowal

fishery, milk production, organic farming, land management and conservation, sericulture, khadi & Gramodyog, Piggery & poultry farming, broadband connectivity, semi processing, processing and market

linkages, youth-yoga-sports and e-gram mission will be implemented as focus areas under the CMSGUY. Stressing the need for harnessing the potential of youth in the state, Chief Minister Sonowal said that Govt. will develop youth clubs focusing skill development and creativity of the youth in the state.

He also requested the banks to help building the youth clubs and implement the School Development programme. Urging the Banks to put extra effort and initiative in overcoming the challenges of the state, Chief Minister promised to extend all possible support in recovery of Bank loan from defaulters. Vice Chairman of State Planning Board, Dipak Borthakur, Chief Secretary VK Pipersenia, Chief General Managers of UBI, SBI, NABARD and senior officials of all the Banks were present in the meeting.

ABVP unit of Arunachal to Arunachal to get composite textile park KMSS leader arrested for recruiting youth to ULFA(I) conduct 3 days Arun Pratibha Sammelan Scholar’s Meet ET Bureau Itanagar, Oct 6

For the first time in the state, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarti Parishad (ABVP) unit of Arunachal Pradesh will conduct three days Arun Pratibha Sammelan Scholar’s Meet for students who topped the recent General Knowledge test and academic topper of Government Higher Secondary and Secondary School of the state from October 8 next at Lekhi Public School, Naharlagun.

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HIGHLIGHTS OF ABVP The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) was formed in the year 1948.

ABVP is a Nationalist all India student organisation affiliated to the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

It claims to be World's largest student organisation with more than 3 million members.

Various branches of the ABVP have been involved in Hindu-Muslim communal riots since 1961.

By 1974, the ABVP had 160,000 members across 790 campuses and had gained control over several prominent universities, including University of Delhi via student elections.

By 1983, the organization had 250,000 members and 1,100 branches.

It continued to grow after the United Progressive Alliance came to power in 2003, trebling in membership to 3.175 million members as of 2016.

Union textiles minister Smriti Irani has agreed to sanction a Composite TextilePark for Arunachal Pradesh.

The park will have facilities for skill development, design and product upgrade, as well as export of finished handicrafts, Irani said during a meeting with chief minister Pema Khandu in New Delhi on Tuesday.

The Centre will dispatch a group of experts to the state to help the Arunachal government prepare a DPR, an official report said here on Wednesday.

Smriti also said her ministry will help the state government

Union textiles minister Smriti Irani explore the use of geo-textiles to prevent frequent landslides on the slopes of state and national highways and asked the Khandu government to submit a proposal which will be sanctioned at a highly

subsidised cost.

The chief minister was accompanied by deputy chief minister Chowna Mein and other top bureaucrats at the meeting, the report added.

Yuva Morcha and was expelled for corrupt practices.

Bijay Gogoi, Vice President of Dibrugarh district Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti(KMSS) was allegedly arrested today at Kenduguri under Joypur police station for recruiting youths in UlfA(I).

Police said that he was about to send two youths to join UlfA (I) to work as an UlfA(i) linkman.

Kumud Gogoi, member of KMSS central committee and Vice president of Dibrugarh district told the Correspondent that it was a ‘political conspiracy’. He said that they have no connection with any rebel group. “We will investigate the matter and if he was found guilty we will take action against him,’’ Gogoi said.

Officer in Charge of Joypur Police station K. Bora said that two days back they arrested a UlfA(I) cadre from Khowang and on the basis of his revelation Bijay was today arrested from Kenduguri.

Sources said that he was earlier associated with Bharatiya Janta

Another KMSS member Lakhi Phukan, founder of "Niryatan Virodhi Oikya Mancha” was arrested by Dibrugarh police from Khowang yesterday. He was also involved supplying new members toULFA(I).

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National level workshop held at Tengakhat College A staff Reporter Dibrugarh, Oct 6: Internal Quality Assurance Cell of Tengakhat Collge, Dibrugarh has organized a National Level Workshop on ‘Introduction of Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) in Undergraduate Courses’ at its campus on 1st October in Tengakhat.

government of India in making our students as successful entrepreneurs.

He stressed his concern over introduction of CBCS in UG Courses for the overall development of students by innovation, creativity and productivity for developing our nations’ grooming economy.

The workshop was attended by 96 scholars from 32 different colleges of State and Central Universities, teachers and students from 23 colleges from Assam.

It started with welcome introductory address by IQAC Coordinator Dr.Pranjal Bhuyan, who introduced the guest speakers, resource persons to the delegates.

Dr.Raman Trivedi, Professor & HoD, Dept. of Aquatic Environmental Management, West Ben-

gal Animal & Fishery University and Coordinator, New Education Policy, Ministry of Human Resources Development, GOI the Chief Guest of the workshop deliberated

on the topic “New Education Policy of Government of India”. He stated previous systems of education followed in Under Graduate level courses and importance of intro-

ducing a new educational policy which is able to address the recent industrial needs of our nation.

He explained the recent trends in educational system which is followed by

Dr. Kiran Hazarika, Principal, Tengakhat College in his address, explained the need of a new stream which will help the students to think about innovative ideas and creativity, and how a rural college like Tengakhat College addresses the needs of the rural students by introducing courses like Bachelor of Vocation in graduate level.

Dr.Praksh Barthakur, Principal, Doomdoma College, Dr.Sarat Sharma, known educationalist and Governing

Body Member, Tengakhat College were also present in the workshop to guide the delegates in the topic “Introduction of CBCS in UG level an overview.”

After the session, Arijit Hazarika, Dy.Controller of Examinations, Dibrugarh University had leaded the session in “Introduction of CBCS in UG Level-Problems & Remedies which was followed by question & answer session in which several questions were asked by the delegates regarding various issues on introduction of CBCS. The workshop was a grand success in order to create awareness among the academic community about the CBCS system, and concluded with vote of thanks by Dr.Kumud Ch. Gogoi, Vice Principal, Tengakhat College.

HOROSCOPE Aries

While you normally like all of your romantic relationships to be extremely nurturing and comforting, you may find that this isn't always possible, Aries. There's a disconnect between you and a close partner right now that could be hard to rectify. Time is really the only thing that's likely to resolve this sort of problem. Remember that all of your relationships can't always go exactly according to plan.

Taurus

A creative project that you've been working on may be coming to a climactic peak now, Taurus.

Discuss your progress with others and feel free to hold an informal critique in order to get honest feedback on your work. A piece of art should stir some sort of reaction inside another person.

Consider ways in which you can challenge the people around you with your talent.

Gemini

Cancer

Virgo

You're apt to be somewhat fickle when it comes to love and romance right now, Virgo. The key for you now is freedom. The problem with this mindset is that it might be misinterpreted. Your partner may think you simply aren't interested in him or her anymore. Remind your partner that it's OK to love someone while also needing time and space to do things on your own.

Libra

Scorpio

Sagittarius

Capricorn

Aquarius

Pisces

Indin Pankration World Championship team pose for a photograph . Pic - Sidharth Singh

Take your loved one out for a romantic dinner tonight, Cancer. Escort him or her on a magiccarpet ride to fantastic places that encourage a playful mood and carefree attitude. Consider having a bottle of wine at a playground. Decorate your house with candles and burn some incense. Create a mood that will calm the nerves and soothe the soul. Your sense of romance is right on target.

When it comes to romantic relationships, Leo, you might find that you're playing more of a game of hide-and-go-seek than a combined effort toward friendship, trust, and honesty. It could be that you're purposely trying to hide in order to test the stamina of your opponent.

You might want to take a new approach now, one that involves an effort toward connecting instead of distancing.

You may be confused when it comes to matters of the heart, Libra. Perhaps you feel cheated when the object of your desire doesn't give you complete attention at all times. The fundamental security of your being is your responsibility, not someone else's. Find a way to incorporate your dreams into the dreams of others instead of always working toward goals at opposite sides of the spectrum.

Your fairytale imagination of how your romantic life should run is hooking you up with many different opportunities, Scorpio. Whether you realize it or not, the optimal situation you seek is within your grasp.

Make sure that you aren't trying to manipulate a certain person into becoming the person you want him or her to be. If you're unhappy in your relationship, perhaps you need to find someone new.

Your dreams work out quite nicely in your head, Sagittarius, but the problem now is how to turn them into some sort of real life scenario. Be careful of taking too intellectual of an approach. When it comes to relationships, things don't normally happen logically or rationally. You're going to have to leave a great deal up to chance, so just learn to deal with things as they come.

Love and personal relationships are likely to take on a much dreamier and more romantic tone now, Capricorn. Your eyes are apt to sparkle as you speak or even think of the person you care about the most.

The unmistakable glow that surrounds you is likely to attract others to your side even if you aren't in the market for a romantic relationship right now.

When it comes to relationships with others, be careful about insisting that everything be done only your way, Aquarius. It could be that you have such high expectations of your partner that he or she will never be able to live up to your standards. Basically, you're setting the stage for failure by demanding that the person for you be of a certain make and model.

Your fantasies could come true now, especially when it comes to relationships, Pisces. This could be the moment you've always dreamed about, so get ready.

The attractive, romantic person in the corner has been keeping an eye on you all night. Your blood is pumping faster than ever. Remind yourself that all dreams can come true on a day such as today.

Bijoy Shankar Handique Jorhat, Oct 6: Jorhat Police apprehended two bike lifters from two different areas near Bigbazar on the busy Circuit House road when they were one about to lift a Pulsar bike just opposite to Bigbazar Mall on Wednesday night.

One was identified to be Pabitra Dutta who hails from Karanga was caught red-handed when he tried to lift a Pulsar bike on Wednesday night. He was produced at the CJM court

and was taken on police custody for four days .

While the other named Punit Das who hails from Machorhaat under Jorhat Police Station was picked up today and has been kept in police custody for further interrogation.

“These two Punit and Pabitra are working under a gang and after stealing a bike they pass it to nearby districts of Nagaland”, informed police sources here.

14 hurt in Magic collision on JorhatMariani road Bijoy Shankar Handique Jorhat, Oct 6: 14 persons were severely injured including the driver of a passenger carrying minibus when it lost control and ramped into the railway barricade between the railway track and the road on the busy Jorhat-Mariani road near Baghdhora under Cinnamora outpost here today.

According to eye witnesses the Magic minibus bearing registration no. AS03 AC 3952 was on competition mood with two other passenger carrying Magic minibuses as all the three

vehicles were coming from Mariani to Jorhat town. The speedy Magic bus when tried to overtake, lost control and ramped into the railway track iron barricade which has been fixed between the railway track and the road.

Passengers in the bus received injuries in legs, face and head as the vehicle was on high speed and beyond control. Out of 14 the driver of the minibus is stated to be critical. All the 14 are admitted in Jorhat Medical college. 13 are out of danger, police said

Durga puja preparation almost complete at Jorhat

Be aware that love is likely to wear some sort of disguise today, Gemini. There's something fanciful about the way in which this new romance will manifest, so get ready. Don't think that love always has to be planned and calculated. There is a strong sense of spontaneity associated with the delicious love interest of the day. Don't dismiss those who don't seem practical or levelheaded enough for you.

Leo

Two bike lifters held near Bigbazar at Jorhat

The members of Hindu Yuba Parishad protest for boycotting of Chinese products in Golaghat.

Pic - Sidharth Singh

ET Correspondent Jorhat, Oct 6 : If you are planning to visit upper Assam during Durga Puja, don't forget to visit Jorhat as the Jordanian are planning to celebrate this Durga Puja with great prompt and gaiety.

In this Puja Jorhat will focus on eighty Puja mandaps.

POK to pay tribute to Indian Army" said one of the member of JPR Puja committee.

Two of the Pujas, the Hari Sabha and Jorhat Theatre Hall, among eighty will be celebrating platinum jubilee. On the other hand, Jagarani puja will celebrate it’s silver jubilee.

"We are looking forward to celebrate this puja tentively" said one of the citizens of Jorhat.

Cloth stores and shopping mall were in great hike.

The famous JPR puja will show the surgical strike in POK to give tribute to the Indian Army.

"We are making an imitation of surgical strike of

Three apprehended by Jorhat police in suspect of making fake license ET Correspondent Jorhat, Oct 6: Three people were nabbed from Public bus stand area by Jorhat Police on suspect of making fake license on Thursday evening. Nilotpal Sharma, Raja Gogoi and Bikash Gogoi, are the three miscreants whom Jorhat

Police apprehended, was running a DTP center named Chandra Prada Printers situated at Khanikar market of Public bus stand area. Acting on a tip off Jorhat police nabbed the three from the DTP center.

"We already had an eye on

them and on Thursday we got confirmed information of making fake license" said the investigating officer of Jorhat Police.

The accused have been under police investigation at the time of filling of this report.

Cinema Galleria Cinema Dibrugarh Junction Mall Screen-1

The Jorhat Town Station Puja is creating a scenario of Kailash.

The people of Jorhat too are looking forward to celebrate this Puja.

"Around twenty percent of sale has increased in this Puja" said one of the shopkeepers of Jorhat.

Besides this, the 200 years old Buri Goshani Dewal will celebrate Puja in its own ritual way.

SPORTS

Lankashi & Progoti in Final Sports Correspondent Dibrugarh, Oct 6: Lankashi Tea Estate Football Club defeated Tengpani Tea Estate Football Club 10 in the first semifinal of the Makum A-division Zonal league organized by Makum Sports Association at Makum Jyoti Nagar playground today.

Santish Sonari scored the

lone salvo for Lankashi in the 26th minute.

In another semifinal, Progoti Yuva Sangha beat Bazaloni Tea estate Football Club 6-5 via- tiebreaker. The regulation time was ended in a 1-1 draw.

Monuj Swashi scored the

opening goal for Progoti Yuva Sangha in the 7th minute. Monuj received a pass from the left flank and found the back of the net with ease. Suraj Tirkey equalized the score in the 47th minute.

Tomorrow, Lankashi Tea estate Football Club will lock horn with Progoti Yuva Sangha in the final.

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Sports Correspondent Dibrugarh, Oct 6: Ranchi University defeated Utkal University, Orissa 2-1 in the East Zone Inter - University Women Football Tournament 2016-17 organised by Dibrugarh University Sports Board in association with the Association of Indian Universities at Dibrugarh University playground here today. Altogether, 22 team take part in the tournament.

Ranchi University took

their led through Soumitra Marandi in the 35th minute.

Soumitra collected a pass from the opponents from the right flank and found the back of the net. Ranchi dominated the first half with their offensive technique.

At lemon break Ranch led 1-0.

In the second half, Ranchi came strongly and scored their second goal through Pronati Tirki in the 75th minute. Pronati received a pass off Soumitra from the

left flank and strike the goal.

Utkal University got their first goal in the 84th minute.

Purnima Rao scored the lone goal for Utkal.

In another match, Manipur University blanked Dibrugarh University 4-0.

Umapati Devi scored hattrick goal for Manipur.

Umapati strike her second goal in 26th , 38th and 65th minute. Shanti Devi scored the fourth salvo through a header from the corner in the 77th minute.

DIBRUGARH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7

AROUND THE

Assam Pradesh Congress Committee asks Centre to clarify position ET Bureau Guwahati, Oct 6: The Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) today dared the BJP-led Union government to issue a clearcut statement on why the prices of essential commodities have been soaring so high contrary to its 2014 Lok Sabha election pledge that it would bring down the prices to the affordable level of common people.

In a statement here, APCC senior spokesman Apurba Bhattacharjee said the BJP rode to power with such pledges, which have now proved to be gimmicks aimed at bagging the votes of gullible people.

The BJP had launched a campaign during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls to smear the image of the Congress that it was due to the latter’s sponsoring the syndicates that the prices of essential items were shooting up. The BJP then assured the people that it would take firm steps against the syndicates and

bring down the prices of essential items to an affordable level.

But now, the prices of the essential items have doubled and the cost of construction materials has also skyrocketed. It is, therefore, the duty of the BJP-led Union government to tell the people in categorical terms as to why the prices of the essential items are still soaring, maintained the APCC senior spokesman.

Moreover, the BJP-led Union government also owes the people of the country an explanation as to how many jobless people

have been provided jobs by it during its two-and-half-ayear stint in power. The BJP had assured the people of the country that it would be providing jobs to two crore jobless people every year if voted to power, Bhattacharjee argued.

The BJP should also tell the people in unambiguous terms as to what has happened to its pledge of bringing back the black money stashed in foreign countries and thus depositing Rs 15 lakh in the bank account of each of the bank account holders, Bhattacharjee said.

(With inputs from agencies)

PHE department of Morigaon to complete Total Sanitation Programme within 31st Dec

STATE

Rajat Sethi, man behind BJP’s win in Assam, to be appointed Advisor to Jharkhand CM

Huge cache of heroin, banned medicine seized at Guwahati

thought that there using it more effectively would help the government taking to people,” said the official.

A Staff Reporter Guwahati, Oct 6: On a secret tip off, a team headed by Superintendent of Excise, Hailakandi M Amarendra Nath raided a location near Gharmura in Katlicherra on Wednesday evening and seized a huge cache of heroin and banned medicine.

ET Bureau Guwahati, Oct 6: Rajat Sethi, who strategised BJP’s campaign during Assam elections, is all set to be appointed as Advisor to Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das. Officials said that while he would advise the government on various development issues, a key area for him would be helping the government register its presence on the social media and use the platform to take its programmes to people.

Sethi, alumnus of IITKharagpur, MIT and Harvard in the US, was part of the election team that worked behind the scenes in formulating BJP’s strategy that helped it win Assam early this year with twothird majority. Aged around 30, Sethi also has masters in public policy and is also

meeting held at Bhurbandha Community hall on October 4 under the auspices of PHE, Morigaon where more than 5000 village people pledged to construct toilets in their homes under Total Sanitation programme.

Online registration of birth and death certificates begins at Guwahati

Speaking on the oaccasion, Debojit Kalta, Superintending Engineer, PHE, Nagaon assured the people for all possible help to construct their toilets. The meeting was presided over by Bhupen Deka, President, Bhurbandha Anchalik Panchayat.

make the process of obtaining birth and death certificates for the applicants hassle free and less time consuming. Bora stressed on extension of the online registration system encompassing the people living in rural areas of the district.

At a brief and solemn function held yesterday at the Office of the Additional Chief Medical and Health Officer (FW), Deputy Commissioner Bora said the online registration will

Joint Director, Health Services, Umesh Phangchu said the online registration currently available for people of urban areas will be made available to rural areas also in due course of time.

Construction of cement factory creates panic among villagers of Titabor ET Correspondent, Jorhat, Oct 6: Construction of cement factory in the middle of a highly populated Kundar Village of Jalukbari area of Titabor creates a panic situation among the villagers. Villagers alleged a businessman named Raju Gupta and Company of constructing the cement factory in the most populated village of Titabor.

Earlier in the year 2010, Gupta and Company started to construct the cement factory in the village. But due to protest of villagers and non political organisation, the construction work was stopped.

“They had started the construction of the cement factory in the year 2010, but due to support of some non political organization and villagers they were forced to stop the construction" said Ramen Bora, villagers of Kundar village.

The villagers and non political organization also alleged the district administration of granting permission to construct cement factory in such a populated area. " From the beginning we are protesting against the construction of the cement factory in such a populated area. But we are surprised of how the administration has given them permission." Said Sanjay Krishna Tanti ,Central president of Gana Adhikar Sangram Samiti.

By the beginning of September of this year, the work started gradually. The full fledged works of construction of the factory now creates a havoc situation among the villagers of Kundar village. It is a big question now of whether the administration will take any steps to stop the construction or the villagers will suffer the effect of the cement factory.

Sources in the CMO confirmed that Sethi’s appointment as Advisor was now only a formality. “The decks have been cleared. It may happen over the next couple of days or latest after the Puja holidays. The nomenclature of his designation would be decided soon,” said a source.

According to another official, it was Das who had insisted for Sethi’s services.

“The CM has been working hard to generate awareness about the state’s programmes for the poor and the tribal. But, at the meeting of BJP CMs in Delhi, it was felt that social media is required to be used more effectively for dis-

ET Bureau Guwahati, Oct 6: With great expectations and high hopes, people of Silchar, including officials of the Airport Authority of India (AAI), welcomed the Q-400 flights of SpiceJet airlines which began its operations from Silchar on Tuesday.

Nand Kishore Deoli, Airport Director Silchar, Siv Raj, Wing Commander of Indian Air Force station Kumbirgram and N Tyagrajan, chief security officer of SpiceJet, took part in the inaugural ceremony and greeted the passengers travelling by the Spicejet flight.

Arnab Kumar Das, Officer on Special Duty of the AAI, said that this was for the first time any new airline was given water cannon salute.

Ripan Mahanta, airport station in-charge of SpiceJet

said, “We are happy to start the much-awaited services connecting Silchar with Kolkata and Guwahati on a daily basis. We expect this will lessen the crisis to a significant extent as there will be flights to Kolkata and Guwahati from here at 6.40 am and 8.45 am every day.”

With its impressive cruise time, SpiceJet flights between Guwahati and Aizwal were also started from Tuesday, he added.

“We are happy to have travelled by the first flight of SpiceJet. This is a great step which will give a reprieve from the crisis of flights from Silchar to other cities and even to the State capital. The high rate of tickets shall be reduced with this new beginning,” said Sonali Das (name changed on request) who reached Silchar from Guwahati.

Meanwhile, even as the new flight promises to offer better facilities for the people, the timing of the flights operating from the Silchar airport remains a serious cause of concern for the people of this region. “All the flights are arriving as well as departing from the airport

Society would have to put joint efforts in protecting nature and animal habitats: CM Sonowal Contd. from Page 1

A Staff Reporter Guwahati, Oct 6: The online registration of birth and death certificates has begun in urban areas of Hailakandi district with Deputy Commissioner Moloy Bora formally distributing certificates to some beneficiaries.

said to have been part of election campaign of US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

The Minister said that Government has formed a Special Force to carry out operation against poachers and intensified action has been continued. She also informed the formation of Eco-Development Society involving the people living

near forest areas to encourage people’s participation in safeguarding wildlife in the state. Dr. Bibhuti Prasad Lahkar, who received IUCN Heritage Hero Award for his work in preserving ecology of Manas National Park was also felicitated in the programme. Besides, 36 police personnel, 41 forest

guards and two NGOs were also felicitated for their role in safeguarding wildlife.

DGP Mukesh Sahay, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest Daras Mathur, other PCCFs of Forest Department and senior officials were present in the meeting among others.

DC reviews the progress of National Register of Citizens (NRC) updation exercise A Staff Reporter Guwahati, Oct 6: Deputy Commissioner, Hailakandi, Moloy Bora reviewed the progress of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) updation exercise in the entire district at a high level meeting held with officials of different departments at his office conference room here today.

Deputy Commissioner Bora directed the officials to expedite the NRC updation process keeping in view the top priority accorded to the whole exercise by the present Government. “The officials involved in the NRC updation exercise will have to work full steam to meet the deadlines set by the State Coordinator NRC and under the guidelines of Honourable Supreme Court,” he said.

Bora asked the officials to ensure that genuine Indian

seminating information and also facilitating implementation of these programmes on the ground. Sethi is likely to look at this aspect, besides having an overall look at various development plans and strategies,” he said.

In nearly two years of taking over, Das has tried to generate awareness about various development programmes at the ground level by taking virtually his entire government to block and village levels time and again. He himself visits villages and block offices to generate awareness.

“Still, many programmes and policies still do not reach the common people on the ground. The number of mobile phone users with internet connectivity is quite high. So, it was

People in Silchar gets excite over new airline

The new flight which touched down at the Silchar airport at 6.15 am from Kolkata was accorded a water cannon salute by the AAI and Indian Air Force officials. The passengers were greeted with roses as the officials celebrated the occasion by cutting a cake.

Dalim Phoukon Morigaon, Oct 6: The Public Health Engineering (PHE) department of Morigaon district declares to complete the Total Sanitation Programme in every village of Morigaon district within 31st December of this year during an open

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citizens are included and the names of illegal immigrants are deleted. “Every care has to be taken to ensure that no genuine citizen is left out and not a single foreigner finds a place in it,” he asserted.

So far as the status of NRC updation in the district is concerned, computerization of family tree matching visa-vis legacy data (E Form Phase III) has been completed 95.89 per cent in Hailakandi, 90.17 per cent in Algapur, 52.11 per cent in Katlicherra and 50.08 per cent in Lala. Altogether 138758 Applicant Receipt Numbers (ARNs) have been enlisted.

The review meeting was attended, among others, by District NRC Coordinator, ADC, Amalendu Roy, ADC, Ruth Lienthang, District Resource Person, NRC, HA Laskar, District

Project Supervisor, NRC, MK Laskar, Circle Officers of Algapur, Lala, Katlicherra and a host of officials of different departments.

Meanwhile, Deputy Commissioner Moloy Bora has directed Joint Director, Health Services, Umesh Phangchu to file FIR against persons who submitted bogus birth and death certificates.

Deputy Commissioner Bora said no leniency must be shown to persons submitting bogus and forged documents and testimonials to establish that they are sons of the soil.

Phangchu pointed out that around 150-200 cases of false submission of birth/ death certificates have been detected during the process of scrutiny and legal steps would be initiated against such persons soon.

The move also comes at a time when the CM has been trying to attract investment in the state from companies both in India and abroad.

He has been trying to allay fears of investors related to land acquisition issue and naxal violence.

H o w e v e r, a n i n c i d e n t like death of four persons in police firing on October 1 at Dadi Kala village in Barkagaon area of Hazaribagh over protest against a coal mining project of NTPC, has left the government with the tough task of c h a n g i n g J h a r k h a n d ’s image to ‘being a safe destination’ for the investors.

12 grams of heroin, 520 nitrazepam tablets, 1190 alphrazol tablets and 1500 other such tablets were seized. The accused, however, managed to flee from the scene.

Deputy Commissioner Moloy Bora complimented Nath and his team for the good work leading to seizure of heroin and other substances. Bora said the administration will leave no stone unturned to bust such illegal operatives and also against bogus pharmaceutical firms operating in the district.

Assam: Google and ADBU collaborate to develop mobile apps for Northeast India

within 10 am which does not allow people to reach Silchar from places like Delhi and Bangalore on the same day since there are no afternoon or evening flights to Silchar as yet,” cried a section of the passengers.

Reacting to this situation, Nand Kishore Deoli, Airport Director, said that the situation is likely to improve after the completion of the re-carpeting of the runway which will begin in mid-October and shall be wrapped up within December 31. “We are trying our best to offer best facilities to the passengers within our limited resources. Night landing of flights could be possible after the re-carpeting work is completed,” Deoli said.

However, he said that despite repeated appeals for new airport, there has been patchy response from the State Government regarding land allocation. Furthermore, the Airport Director also said the shops and residences of locals in close proximity of the airport affecting the security reasons as well. (With inputs from agencies)

ET Bureau Guwahati, Oct 6: Google will collaborate with Assam Don Bosco University (ADBU) to develop mobile apps to meet the needs of the people of the northeast. The university, in turn, said it would provide support to the search engine giant if the latter wished to open an office in the region.

“Google sent us a proposal for collaboration. We accepted it,” the university’s pro vice-chancellor Father Joseph Nellanatt said on Tuesday. The proposal was the outcome of the Google University Meet 2016 in Delhi last week in which ADBU also took part.

Y Jayanta Singh, who teaches in the department of computer science and engineering at the university, said the apps would not be limited to any one field and would primarily focus on breaking the language barrier here.

“Earlier, apps would only be developed by big companies.

Now, Google is opening up to the idea of hyper-local apps. It

has sought support from our university to prepare apps using Android and other software,” said Singh who represented ADBU at the Delhi meet along with fellow faculty member Vijay Prasad.

He added that the apps to be developed as an outcome of the collaboration would consume less mobile space and be handier. “The number of mobile app users is increasing every day. That’s why people want customized apps for their organizations,” said Singh.

ADBU is also planning to offer a subject, ‘Mobile App Development’, to students with Google providing the infrastructure for related lab work.

“There are millions of mobile app users in the world but the number of app developers is few. Our focus is to help people, especially those in the northeast, make the best use of mobile apps,” Singh said. (With inputs from agencies)

Tezpur gears up to celebrate Durga Puja ET Bureau Guwahati, Oct 6: Like in the past, the citizens of historic Tezpur town, irrespective of caste and community are all set to celebrate the Durga puja with great fervour.

Tezpur and its outskirts are already wearing a festive look since the day of Mahalaya. In the wee hours of the day, hundreds of people came out on the streets and went to Jahajghat and Ganeshghat taking out a huge religious rally marking Mahalaya.

Several places, including Bhairabi, besides other domestic and community puja spots in the Tezpur town, vibrated with the chanting of Vedic mantras from midnight till morning.

This time as per the information revealed by the district administration. Durga Puja will be celebrated by over 148 puja committees.

It is worth mentioning here that the town and its adjoining areas have set up attractively decorated pandals drawing the people’s attentions.

Like in the last year, the people here will this time too witness Goddess Durga at the Usha Nagar Yubak Sangha Puja in traditional Assamese attire, while the Bhairab Nagar Durga Bari Durga Puja celebration committee is trying to reflect the historic Tezpur city through their cane and bamboo decorated pandal. In the puja pandal, cultural icons Kalaguru Bishnu Prasad Rabha and the legendary singer Dr Bhupen Hazarika

will also be honoured.

Considered as the first family puja of the then undivided Darrang district, the Durga puja performed by the Mukherjee family near Tezpur Police Station, has stepped into its 154th year. Likewise, the historic family pujas of Gangacharan Bhattacharya of Kolibari, Gangaram Das of Tol Gereki area, the 72-year-old Durga Puja of noted freedom fighter Mahadev Sharma (who started the puja inside Tezpur Jail during the Quit India Movement when he was jailed), the 48-year-old Durga Puja of Iswar Prashad Chowdhury at Ganeshghat have been trying to attract the people of the town with unique decorations.

Besides, the Rudrapal Samittee Durga Puja, the community puja performed jointly by the Bengali and Assamese people which has been going on since 1895 at the Bengali Theatre Hall, the Ban Theatre Durga Puja that started in

1909, the Kamrupia Sanatan Dharma Mandali Puja started in 1928, the old Ban Theatre Durga Puja at Kolibari, Marwari Panchayat Dharmashala Durga Puja, Ram Krishna Sevasram Durga Puja, Mahabhairab Haribilash Durga Puja, Rubber Bagan Chandimandap Durga Puja, Madhya Para Dakhina Kali Mandir Durga Puja, 102-yearold Dipota Kendryia Natya Mandir Durga Puja and Milonpur Durga Puja committees have completed all preparations.

The district administration has urged all concerned, including the puja committees and the common citizens, to extend their cooperation to the administration so that during the festival no untoward incident takes place.

When contacted, the new Darrang SP, PP Singh, said that all sorts of security arrangements have been taken so that the security of the people can be ensured during the puja season.

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NEWS

Ruchi Soya inks MoU with 1 day Orientation and training Arunachal Pradesh govt for oil palm programme on Galo dialect held at Aalo

ET Bureau Itanagar, Oct 6: Edible oil maker Ruchi Soya Industries has signed an agreement with Arunachal Pradesh government for oil palm plantation on additional 25,000 hectares land to boost domestic production.

Ruchi Soya Industries recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Arunachal Pradesh government to boost palm oil production through development of quality palm plantations and human capacity building, the company said in a

statement today.

Under the pact, Ruchi Soya will promote and encourage development of oil palm in 25,000 hectares in four districts - West Siang, East Kamang, Lower Subansri and Papumpare.

With this agreement, Ruchi Soya has obtained permission for oil palm development in 45,000 hectares, covering five districts in Arunachal Pradesh. Last year, it had obtained access to 20,000 hectares in East Siang district.

"We are pleased by the ef-

forts put by Ruchi Soya Industries for oil palm development in East Siang district through timely set up of state-of-the-art nursery, rising of plantations in the fields of farmers," Talem Tapok, Agriculture Secretary in Arunachal Pradesh government, said.

Ruchi Soya is into oil palm processing with 0.52 million tonnes capacity per annum in India, with land access to over 2 lakh hectares of potential oil palm cultivation in the country. The company has access to palm plantations in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Mizoram, Gujarat, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh and Arunachal Pradesh.

Ruchi Soya founder and MD Dinesh Shahra said Ruchi Soya has always been striving towards the betterment of Indian farmers and has continually strived to help them achieve better yields and realisation by providing the right technology and assistance.

The company has a turnover of USD 4 billion. Its brands include Nutrela, Mahakosh, Sunrich, Ruchi Star and Ruchi Gold.

Modi to make maiden visit to HP on Oct 18 IANS New Delhi, Oct 6: Prime Minster Narendra Modi will visit Himachal Pradesh on October 18, his maiden visit to the the state after assuming office, a BJP MP said on Thursday.

They appealed to the Galo teachers to learn the dialect completely so that it can be taught in schools.

The president and secretary GWS, West Siang unit Dr Marbom Basar and Mito Lollen also stressed on importance of learning the dia-

Mastermind involved in abduction of biz man arrested

During the visit, the Prime Minister will inaugurate three hydropower projects and address two rallies in Mandi and Nahan, BJP MP from Mandi constituency Ram Sawroop Sharma said.

He will inaugurate 800 MW Kol Dam, 540 MW III phase of Parvati Project and 412 MW Rampur hydropower project.

Caption: Prime Minster Narendra Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Modi doing 'dalali' over deaths of soldiers: Rahul Hindustan ki sena ne Hindustan ka kaam kiya, aap apna kaam keejiye...

(This is totally wrong... The Indian Army did its job for India, you do your work)," the Congress leader said.

IANS New Delhi, Oct 6: In a hard-hitting attack, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of doing "dalali" over the blood shed by Indian soldiers.

Gandhi was addressing a rally at the Jantar Mantar here at the end of his Kisan Yatra that took place in election-bound Uttar Pradesh.

Modi, he said, was taking political mileage from the surgical strikes the army conducted in PoK and the sacrifices of soldiers in

ET Bureau Aalo, Oct 6 : One day Orientation and training programme on Galo dialect was organized by the Galo Welfare Society, Aalo unit at Gumin Kiin on October 3 last.

A team of the ‘Galo Language Development Committee’, headed by Takop Zirdo dwelt at length on the synopsis on modified Roman Galo script, which gives scope to write and pronounce what we like in our own way.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Jammu and Kashmir.

"Unki dalali kar rahe ho,"

he thundered.

"Yeh bilkul galat hai...

The Indian Army carried out surgical strikes on September 29 against terrorist launch pads across the Line of Control in the wake of a terror attack that left 19 soldiers dead in Jammu and Kashmir.

An aggressive Gandhi also accused Modi of not fulfilling promises made to the people during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

PTI New Delhi, Oct 6: Delhi police has arrested the mastermind involved in abduction of a transport company owner for extortion of money last month in south Delhi, police said today.

The accused Jai Bhagwan, 29, was arrested by a Crime Branch team from Jharoda Kalan on a tipp-off on October 3, said Ravindra Yadav Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch).

Jai Bhagwan along with his two associates had abducted Ashok Sehrawat from Vasant Kunj (North) area and demanded extortion money of Rs 10 lakh on June 5. They later strangulated him and dumped him near Dhansa Border assuming him to be dead.

He is involved in half a dozen other cases including rape, attempt to murder and kidnapping for ransom and is associated with inter-state gangs of Anil Ganja and Pradeep Babloo who are lodged in jail.

In order to provide financial help to his gang members, who are in jail and to pursue their cases, Bhagwan started threatening the wealthy people to extort money from them.

He planned abduction of Sehrawat along with his associates Nitin and Jonny and invited the victim for a party at 11 am on June 5. They added drugs to the drinks of Shehrawat and when he was overdrunk they abducted him.

Crime Branch had earlier arrested Nitin and efforts are being made to catch Jonny, who is absconding, he added.

India recorded highest under-five deaths in 2015: Lancet PTI New Delhi, Oct 6: India has recorded the highest number of deaths of children under the age of five in 2015, according to a latest Lancet study which also said that the country performed poorly in terms of tuberculosis and maternal survival.

The Global Burden of Disease study 2015 published in the Lancet which assesses the state of world's health,

said over a million underfive children have died in 2015.

The study said that cardiovascular diseases account for a large and increasing proportion of deaths in India.

"Most countries in the region did better than expected at reducing health loss from strokes (like India, Pakistan) and lower respiratory infections (like Bangladesh, Nepal).

"India performed much worse than expected on tuberculosis, whilst Bangladesh did poorly on drowning. All countries in the region did much worse than expected at reducing deaths in children under-5, with India recording the largest number of under-5 deaths of any country in 2015, at 1.3 million," it said.

The study said that while Bangladesh has improved maternal survival much

faster than expected, India and Nepal have fared poorly.

"In this analysis we have estimated that there were more deaths due to chronic kidney disease than in previous analysis because of improved estimates within countries with large populations such as China, India, and Russia," it said.

The study found that although life expectancy has risen but seven out of 10

deaths now occur due to non-communicable diseases while headaches, tooth cavities and hearing and vision loss each affect more than 1 in 10 people across the world.

It said that progress has been made on reducing unsafe water and sanitation, but diet, obesity, and drug use are an increasing threat.

It also said that more than 2,75,000 women died during pregnancy or childbirth in 2015 across the world.

India slams "hold" on declaring Masood Azhar global terrorist PTI New Delhi, Oct 6: India today reacted sharply to the extension of the "technical hold" on banning JeM chief Masood Azhar by the UN, saying the global body will be sending a "dangerous message" if it fails to act upon India s demand for his designation as a global terrorist.

Noting that the UN Sanctions Committee has already proscribed Pakistan-based Jaishe-Mohammed, he said the panel, however, ignored the need to take action against the organisation s main leader, financier and motivator who continues his terrorist actions unhindered.

Without naming China, External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said only one country had put the technical hold, blocking the ban by another three months, and criticised the complete "nontransparent and anonymous" manner of designating individuals by the UN Sanctions Committee.

Responding to the extension of the hold, he said,"The Committee has already pondered (over) our submission for the last six months. It will get a further three months to ponder, but that will in no way change the strange situation we have of the Committee designating the terror organisation but failing to or ignoring the need to

designate the organisation s most active and dangerous terrorist.

"We conveyed to the Committee that it is expected to proscribe Azhar under the 1267 Sanction Regime on the basis of our submission. Such a designation would help send a strong signal to all terror groups across the world that the international community is no longer going to pursue, or tolerate, selective approaches to terrorism.

"Distinction between good and bad terrorists is fallacious and counterproductive. Concomitantly, it will also be sending a dangerous message if it fails to act upon India s Submis-

sion."

mittee of the Council.

He noted that the issue was also being taken up with the Chinese Government.

China was the sole member in the 15-nation UN organ to put a hold on India's application with the rest 14 members of the Council supporting New Delhi's bid to place Azhar on the 1267 sanctions list that would subject him to an assets freeze and travel ban.

He also emphasised that India would welcome any move which enables functioning of the UN Committee in a "manner where political considerations do not hold hostage the designation of known terrorists" and change the rule of "complete non-transparency and anonymity" of this process.

On March 31 this year, China - a veto-wielding permanent member of the Security Council - had blocked India's move to put a ban on Azhar under the al-Qaeda Sanctions Com-

The Chinese technical hold had lapsed on Monday, and had China not raised further objection, the resolution designating Azhar as a terrorist would have been passed automatically.

Beijing had on Saturday announced the extension of its "technical hold".

lect by the teachers and stuTeachers and students dents as it will be introduced from various schools of the in schools of Galo areas district also attended the allimportant training. A simisoon.

lar training was also conducted in Nikte Secondary School by the committee.

(DIPRO)

Govt rules out 'intrusion' in Delhi airport ATC system PTI New Delhi, Oct 6: The government today ruled out "any kind of intrusion" for the glitches in the air traffic control system at the IGI airport here, saying the reason for its malfunctioning has been identified and work is on to resolve it.

The civil aviation regulator, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has conducted a thorough probe into the matter and such interruptions are not expected to happen again, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Jayant Sinha said.

A software glitch in the air traf-

fic control system at the international airport here on Tuesday evening threw aircraft operations out of the gear, forcing the ATC personnel to increase the average gap between the landing and take-off of the aircraft to five minutes from 2 minutes on a normal day.

The glitch continued for nearly four hours before it was fixed.

"We have studied the matter thoroughly with respect to the interruptions in ATC software systems. We have identified the reason for its malfunctioning and we are addressing it," he said.

Asked if there were any possibility of cyber attack on the

ATC system that led to its malfunctioning, Sinha said, "I can definitely say there was no intrusion of any kind".

According to Sinha, the DGCA along with the Airports Authority of India (AAI), which is responsible for air traffic operations, conducted a thorough investigation.

Due to the glitch, the Delhi ATC was unable to obtain details of flights appearing on its radar, giving it a scare.

"We have identified the malfunctioning and addressed it.

We don't expect that to happen again," he added.

CM Khandu discusses on all developmental and economical aspects of the state with PM Modi Contd. from Page 1 the burden of whose implementation has fallen upon the present government.

Citing that the Central government has accepted the recommendations of the 7th Pay commission, which now needs to be implemented in the state, Khandu said this would add an additional annual burden to the state.

“I can assure you that we are

committed to providing transparent and clean governance which would ensure that public money is judiciously spent,” Khandu assured the PM. Discussing on various issues confronting the state, the Chief Minister submitted a detailed memorandum to the Prime Minister inviting attention to various developmental aspects of the state and the coordinated support required from the central government. The memorandum included

developmental issues, Agrihorti and allied sectors, IT issues, CAMPA, investor friendly policy, pay commission, infrastructure development apart from financial liabilities.

PM assures to come up with a mechanism to address all the issues highlighted in the memorandum.

This is Khandu’s first meeting with PM after his PPA Government joined the North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA).

Arunachal inks MoU with CII to promote Arunachal as the preferred investment destination Contd. from Page 1

CM Khandu had been aggressive on marketing the potential and resources strength of the state. “Our state is one of the most peaceful state in the country having rich deposits of untapped resources like, tourism, hydropower, agrohorti etc.” he informed while saying that if given the right platform, Arunachal has the ability and capacity to become a front runner.

“We are a developing state and we are in a position to tailor make policies to suit the industry leaders” CM emphatically said. He even disclosed that he would request the Union Government to make investment friendly policy for Arunachal to make business competitive in the State.

Pawan Goenka of Mahindra expressed interest of constructing resorts in the state and shared that his company

would soon send a state champion to Arunachal for studying the possibilities.

Rakesh Bharti Mittal of Bharti Retails showed interest on floriculture, Agri and Allied sector of the state. Similar interests were shown by business icons on Hydro Power sector.

In his closing remarks CM said “Arunachal Pradesh is known as the land of rising sun. But after this historic agreement, I am confident that our state would soon see the sun of investments”.

ABVP unit of Arunachal to conduct 3 days Arun Pratibha Sammelan Scholar’s Meet Contd. from Page 1

Taking to reporters at Arunachal Press Club, ABVP state unit president Agin Taboh informed that more than 450 students will be participating in the sammelan with the prime objective to develop core competencies and ways to face challenges to create a sense of nationalism.

Organizing vice chairman Dr Nani Bath, who is also professor at Rajiv Gandhi

University, informed that the three days programme would include career counseling, personality development, role of youths in society and ways to use the acquired knowledge for development of the society.

He further said that the organizing committee’s objective is to create a sense of unity among different students of the state, while also adding that “There is an immediate need to channelize the knowledge of youths to bring changes

to the society.”

ABVP state unit secretary, Vikas Rava also informed about the course of the three-day programme.

Informing that the ABVP will conduct more such programmes in different districts of the state, ABVP president Taboh further disclosed that apart from students, the organizing committee will be inviting other high profile achievers of the state.

BUSINESS

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RBI sets rupee reference rate at 66.63 against US dollar Mumbai, Oct 6: The Reserve Bank of India today fixed the reference rate of the rupee at 66.63 against the US dollar and 74.58 for the euro.

The corresponding rates were 66.56 and 74.65, respectively, yesterday.

According to an RBI statement, the exchange rates for the pound and the yen against the rupee were 84.66 and 64.34 per 100 yens, respectively, based on reference rates for the dollar and cross-currency

be based on this rate, the statement added. (PTI)

Amazon sells 15 mn units in 5-day sale, claims market leadership Prime is star of the show, getting tens of thousands of users to pay Rs 499 for subscription

Amit Agarwal Bengaluru, Oct 6: Prime, the Amazon subscription-based loyalty programme, drove a third of all orders on its platform, its highest sales so far in India, during its fiveday festive season sale which concluded on Wednesday.

The US-based e-tailer shipped a little over 15 million items to customers across the country and got tens of thousands of users to pay Rs 499 for its Prime membership.

Overall, more customers bought Amazon's Prime subscription than the best-selling smartphone on the platform.

Amazon in the US counts nearly half of all households as Prime Customers, who spend nearly double ($1,200) than regular users to buy goods on its platform.

"In the little over three

years we've been in India, we've probably created the fastest ramp up for ecommerce in this eco-system. This Diwali (sale) was three times bigger than last Diwali. We've been growing at 150 per cent year-over-year even though the landscape was flat and Diwali saw an even bigger acceleration," said Amit Agarwal, country manager.

Over the past week, Amazon and local leader Flipkart have been competing to garner higher share of the customer wallet, offering discounts, better product quality and faster delivery.

Flipkart and smaller rival Snapdeal close their fiveday sale on Thursday. The sale is expected to garner $1.5 billion (Rs 10,000 crore) across all e-commerce platforms.

In terms of reach, Ama-

zon said it was able to bring five times as many new customers on board during this year's sale when compared to last year. More, over 70 per cent of all new customers came from Tier-II cities and below, allowing the company to receive orders from 90 per cent of all registered postal pincodes.

"I've been saying that we've been leaders in India for a while in terms of parameters that customers care about. I don't have any benchmark with other players in terms of sales but with 150 per cent growth all through the year and a three-time jump in Diwali sales, I would not be surprised if we are the leader," added Agarwal.

Electronics, fashion and fast moving consumer goods continued to be the biggest three categories for Amazon during the sale.

The company said it saw growth across all its categories, a healthy sign for the e-commerce segment.

"Our vision in India is to transform the way the country buys and sells.

When I see 90 per cent of all pincodes shopping on Amazon, it gives me a lot of satisfaction that we are making a small step forward in that direction.

We will invest whatever it is and aggressively for many, many years, to ensure we fulfil our vision," said Agarwal.

Gold prices stay soft, Sensex recoups 104 points on losses deepen on weakening demand Asian uptrend New Delhi, Oct 6 :LAfter yesterday's steep fall of Rs 730, gold prices were down by another Rs 30 to Rs 30,490 per 10 grams at the bullion market today, tracking a weak global trend amid muted demand from jewellers at the spot market.

Silver too remained under selling pressure and broke below the Rs 43,000-mark by falling Rs 400 to Rs 42,850 per kg.

Sentiment was weak, largely in step with a sluggish trend overseas where the precious metal traded at over 3-month lows amid growing expectations that an improving US economy will prompt the Fed to boost interest rates soon, reducing the appeal of gold as a safe haven, traders said.

Globally, gold fell 0.14 per cent to USD 1,264.70 an ounce in Singapore.

Furthermore, fading demand from jewellers and

Vivo plans capacity expansion New Delhi, Oct 6: Vivo, the Chinese smartphone maker, might expand the capacity of its factory in India.

The aim is market share of seven per cent by the end of this year and this might necessitate more than the present capacity of a million handsets a month, said Kent Cheng, chief executive officer, Vivo Mobile India.

Pic for representation purpose. quotes at noon.

The SDR-rupee figure will

retailers at the domestic spot market fuelled the downward trend, they said.

In the national capital, gold of 99.9 per cent and 99.5 per cent purity declined by Rs 30 each to Rs 30,490 and Rs 30,340 per ten grams, respectively. The precious metal had tumbled Rs 730 yesterday -- the biggest single-day fall this year.

Sovereign, however, found scattered buying from retailers and traded higher by Rs 50 to Rs 24,400 per piece of eight grams.

Tracking gold, silver ready fell Rs 400 to Rs 42,850 per kg and weekly-based delivery Rs 515 to Rs 42,545 per kg.

Silver coins, too, plunged

by Rs 1,000 to Rs 73,000 for buying and Rs 74,000 for selling of 100 pieces.

(PTI)

Mumbai, Oct 6: The benchmark Sensex rebounded almost 104 points today after investors lapped up select blue-chips, tracking a firm trend in rest of Asia.

The 30 share index was trading higher by 103.56 points, or 0.36 per cent, at 28,324.54, with sectoral indices led by oil and gas, capital goods, consumer durables and healthcare leading the charge.

The gauge had lost 113.57 points yesterday after Europe turned shaky over talk of withdrawal of ECB stimulus and on profit-booking in recent outperformers.

The NSE Nifty was up 24.75 points, or 0.28 per cent, at 8,768.70 in early trade.

Brokers said emergence of buying, coupled with a better trend at other regional markets following an overnight rally in the US on unexpected pick-up in the services sector, had a positive bearing on sentiment here.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng was up 0.46 per cent while Japan's Nikkei gained 0.57 per cent in early trade today.

Financial markets in China remained shut today for a public holiday.

The US Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 0.62 per cent higher in yesterday's trade.(PTI)

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In the year's first half, its market share by volume was 2.6 per cent, up from one per cent at the end of 2015 (it was three

per cent by value), when it inaugurated the manufacturing unit at Noida.

Sales jumped 230 per cent in the April-June quarter.

Cheng said Rs 200 crore had been allocated for advertisement and promotions this year (it became title sponsor the Indian Premier League cricket tourney), and this had been spent entirely.

Focus would continue to focus on promotion and branding. "We want to become a brand which remains at the top of the mind of Indian consum-

Rupee runs up more losses, down 8 paise against dollar

The Company is in talks with a number of content and service providers in the photography and utility services segment.

ers," he said.

The company is in talks

with a number of content and service provid-

ers in the photography and utility services segment.

A majority of Chinese smartphone companies here had focused heavily on online channels for market entry. Vivo is yet to get into the e-commerce channel. Cheng said they'd keep expanding the reach through traditional outlets.

"We are present in more than 400 towns and growing further. At this moment, we want to stay away from any partnership in the ecommerce space," he said.

Air India wants to rejoin lobby group Chief Lohani writes to the Federation of Indian Airlines, which might meet later this month to decide

The Indian rupee fell to its weakest in three months on Monday.

Mumbai, Oct 6: The rupee weakened further by 8 paise to 66.59 against the dollar today following increased demand for the American currency from importers.

Forex dealers said strength of the dollar overseas also weighed, but a higher opening in the domestic equity market capped the losses.

Yesterday, the rupee had lost 5 paise to end at 66.51, halting its rally of three straight sessions on fresh demand for the American currency from importers and banks amid a bout of global risk aversion.

The benchmark BSE Sensex recovered 103.56 points, or 0.36 per cent, to 28,324.54 in early trade today. (PTI)

India, Sri Lanka to sign ETCA pact this year: Ranil Wickremesinghe The Lankan PM said that that the ETCA has the potential to promote growth of $500 billion sub-regional economy New Delhi, Oct 6: Sri Lanka expects the Economic and Technology Co-operation Agreement (ETCA) with India to be signed by the end of this year, which will help strengthen economic ties, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Thursday.

"The proposed ETCA will be signed by the end of this year... Prime Minister Modi and I have decided that we must conclude it by the end of this year," he said here at the India Economic Summit.

He impressed upon the audience the importance of this pact for Sri Lanka and South Indian states.

The five states Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Telangana - have a population of 250 million and a combined GDP of nearly $450 billion and with the addition of Sri Lanka of 22 million people

and $80 billion economy, the GDP "in the sub-region will be $500 billion", he said.

"Just imagine if we work together," the Prime Minister said, adding that ETCA has the potential to promote a growth of $500 billion sub-regional economy.

ETCA is expected to help Sri Lanka gain better access to India's rapidly growing market.

Wickremesinghe also said the economic asymmetry between the countries is going to increase in future when the "latter (India) emerges as the major global player in an increasingly multi-polar world".

He added that India and Sri Lanka FTA will be further expanded and deepened to go beyond trading in goods to cover trade in services, investments and technology co-operation.

(PTI)

He impressed upon the audience the importance of this pact for Sri Lanka and South Indian states.

New Delhi, Oct 6 : Two years after governmentowned Air India (AI) walked out of the Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA), citing differences in opinion, it has approached the lobby group to return, said three sources.

They say chairman Ashwini Lohani feels it will give more muscle to AI's demands when it approaches the government as part of a group. FIA is now a lobby group of the country's private airlines, which presses for change in public policy and regulations. At present, IndiGo, SpiceJet, Jet Airways and GoAir are members, together almost 80 per cent market share. AI's joining will give a shot in the arm to the group, which has been strongly opposing the move for relaxing the 5/20 rule for plying abroad. The rule, described by aviation minister Ashok Gajapathy Raju as anti-business, made it mandatory for an airline to have plied for at least five years and having 20 air-

craft before being allowed to fly abroad. It was partially diluted in June, with the norm of five years being removed.

According to a senior AI executive, Lohani has written to the group, "expressing interest to join the group". "Air India is facing similar issues as the FIA members are, such as high airport charges or oil companies increasing the price of air turbine fuel arbitrarily," the official said.

However, the official added, AI would be cautious against becoming a party to any case which the lobby group files against the government.

FIA is currently engaged in a legal tussle with the government against the decision on reducing charges for extra baggage allowance.

A senior executive of a private airline which belongs to FIA confirmed the AI development.

"TheFIA board will decide on the request in a special meeting this month," he

said.

AI left FIA in November 2014, citing discomfort on taking a stance against the government and differences among member carriers on policy issues.

Rohit Nandan, then chairman of AI, felt they were unnecessarily being dragged to court against the government.

"The airline has independent decision making power. It can make its own judgments for joining or leaving any group," said an official of joint secretary level at the ministry.

Multiple calls to Lohani were not answerd and text messages not replied to.

Ujjwal Dey, associate director of FIA, also did not respond to calls.

FIA was formed in 2006, after a meeting of airline executives of all major carriers, to approach the government on issues related to infrastructure and high taxes in the sector. In 2009, the group organised a strike against the then government. (PTI)

Online Diwali sales a big hit! E-tailers set to reach GMV of $1.2bn Bengaluru, Oct 6: India's e-commerce industry is likely to hit between $1-1.2 billion in gross merchandise value (GMV) during the week-long festive sales that end today.

E-tailers in India are expected to have shipped 3540 million products to customers, the highest ever witnessed in a six day period, according to researcher RedSeer Consulting. Yesterday, Amazon announced that it alone had shipped over 15 million products during its Great Indian Festival sale this year.

"Customers, both regular shoppers and first-timers, have come online to shop in millions. As a result of this bumper sales performance, we see the industry being on track to deliver the single biggest month for Indian e-tailing sector ever, in October 2016," said Anil Kumar, CEO at RedSeer Consulting, in a statement.

For the month of October the total GMV that the etailers could hit would be in the range of $1.7-1.9 billion adds Kumar, hoping that this puts the industry on the track of achieving an annualised GMV run rate of $20-23 billion. While sales do usually drop in the months after Diwali, experts say they usually provide a benchmark for the upcoming year.

The strong performance from the sector came nearly

Pic for representation purpose. six months after registering a subdued growth with the sale of online products falling by 19 per cent in the Jan-Mar quarter, followed by a further reduction of 510 per cent in the next quarter of this financial year. Experts see a boost in sales due to demand from smaller towns in the post-monsoon period.

Amazon said that 70 per cent of all its new customers during the Diwali sale were from Tier II and lower towns, signifying an increased outreach of e-commerce in the country. Country head, Amit Agarwal, said that he was extremely enthusiastic about the future of e-commerce in India given the deep penetration the company saw this year.

While Amazon made a big splurge this season, pushing its paid loyalty sub-

scription service-Primeonto buyers (of whom there are estimated to be 1.6 million during the five day sale), experts say Flipkart continued to lead the pack.

"Flipkart has done extremely well along with Myntra and Jabong. They continue to lead the pack," said an industry watcher who pleaded anonymity.

One of the biggest shifts the sector saw during the sales, however, was the increased shift towards the three major e-tailersFlipkart, Snapdeal and Amazon. The six day sale period increased the retailers' share in the GMV, which before that sale ranged bettwen 75-80 per cent.

This share was increased to 90 percent at present owing to the big discounts, better experience and larger inventories. (Agencies)

EDITORIAL

DIBRUGARH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7

Today's quote

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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years –– Abraham Lincoln

Disquiet over Cauvery's flows When the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) proposed the setting up of a Cauvery Management Board, it did so for very good reasons. During monsoon deficit years, the pattern of flows in the different sub-basins will not match the schedule of water deliveries worked out on the basis of normal year readings. The CMB was conceived as a body that would monitor the storage position in the Cauvery basin and the trend of rainfall, and assess the likely inflows for distribution among the States. The tribunal was emphatic in its final award: the CMB is integral to the resolution of disputes, between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka and also Tamil Nadu and Puducherry and Tamil Nadu and Kerala, over the schedule of releases for irrigation downstream. For the Central government to now oppose the setting up of the CMB, taking cover under Article 262 of the Constitution and the provisions of the Inter-State River Water Disputes Act, 1956 that forbid the Supreme Court from intervening in inter-State water disputes is little more than a streak of twisted logic. Indeed, the Section of the 1956 Act that gives the orders of tribunals set up by the government under it the same force as an order of the Supreme Court is being invoked not to strengthen the orders of the Cauvery tribunal but to subvert one of its crucial recommendations. The Supreme Court's direction to the Centre to constitute the CMB was in keeping with the tribunal order, and not in contravention of it, as the government was trying to make it appear.

The fact that the Centre did such a hasty U-turn on the CMB while making its submission in the Supreme Court suggests that political factors may have been at play. The Assembly election in Karnataka, where the BJP has high stakes, is less than two years away.

In contrast, Tamil Nadu, where the BJP has no real base, has recently concluded its election. If there is a good legal argument against the setting up of the CMB, it is that a larger, three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court is already seized of the matter. Tamil Nadu's plea to constitute the CMB had been clubbed along with the main appeal filed challenging the 2007 final award of the CWDT. In the short term, the Supreme Court's acceptance of the suggestion that a "technical team" visit the Cauvery basin and report back on the ground realities seems to be the only certain way of depoliticising the dispute. But any longterm solution will necessarily have to be on the basis of the well-thought-out recommendations of the CWDT, and the mechanism provided for the sharing of waters in a year of distress.

Surgical slugfest To talk of an "enemy within" might be stretching the point too far, yet the ugly spat over "proof" of the Army's surgical strikes across the Line of Control buttresses the contention that Indian politicians are, collectively, the nation's "worst own enemy". Not only have the Opposition leaders who demanded "evidence" been swayed by Pakistani propaganda, they have undermined the assertion of the DirectorGeneral of Military Operations of the Indian Army.

Questioning the veracity of such a senior official is casting aspersions on the Army at large, dragging soldiers into a political quagmire. That this has been done under the guise of a demand to disprove Pakistan's contention that it suffered no military reverse on the night of 28/29 September only confirms that there is method to the madness. While not too much attention need be paid to statements from the likes of Digvijaya Singh, Sanjay Nirupam and Arvind Kejriwal, when senior member and "palace favourite" P Chidambaram says much the same thing the Congress Party cannot easily disassociate itself from the politicisation of an issue of national security. It is, however, a moot point whether a member of Modi's cabinet need have reacted as strongly as he did and ought to have "risen above". Unless it also pointed to method in the madness: the Prime Minister and home minister maintain the desired dignified profile but allow their minions to revel in the muck-raking.

There is general consensus in military circles that it would be inadvisable to rush into providing the "proof" demanded: as the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee has pointed out the situation is still "live". The continued gunfire on the frontier should leave none in doubt on that score. And as for "proving" anything to Pakistan, experience points to the compilation of dossiers after the Mumbai massacre being a waste of time and effort. As a former home minister Chidambaram ought to have been fully aware of that. Sonia and Rahul Gandhi publicly "recognised" the Army's counter-punch, will they also endorse Chidambaram's new line?

The Congress party is clearly "hurting", though there is valid reason to decry the BJP's bid at reaping a political harvest from a military mission: a bid that could unravel should another major terror strike materialise. In citing a few border forays to contend that there was little new to striking across the LOC, the UPA is obviously embarrassed at its own inaction. Yet it cannot deny that governments will take credit for military success -- did Indira Gandhi not laud herself for the creation of Bangladesh? And to take a converse view did she not pay a price for "Bluestar"? As Rajiv did -- after being "conned" into sending the IPKF to Jaffna.

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Theresa May is the new Tony Blair Like Blair, May knows where the votes are and she -- just like Blair before her -- will stop at nothing to get her hands on them Appropriately, in the week of her first party conference as Prime Minister, there has been an intense focus on what Theresa May stands for, what she "really" believes in, even what makes her angry.

The answer to the last question, asked by Nick Robinson on the BBC Today programme, was "child sexual abuse, modern slavery, when we see the powerful abusing their position". All fairly safe options. Most people get angry about irrational, trivial things such as someone parking too close at the supermarket so you can't open your own door to get in the car, or watching your spouse flirt with someone impossibly attractive at a party. But the PM's answers were what you'd expect from a politician, and they were sincere enough.

In her early days, quite a few people thought they saw something of Margaret Thatcher in May, and maybe she did too. Most thought she was studiously discarding the "Bullingdon" trappings of the previous gang; anyone with a Notting

Hill postcode was for the chop in her administration.

That's true enough, but a bit of a negative definition of the makings of the new PM. By now, the discernible outlines of a highly pragmatic politician are clearly visible. But Theresa May is much, much less even than that. Let me explain.

I take as my text, worth reading again in full, her extraordinary and dramatic first words in Downing Street immediately after her appointment: "If you're from an ordinary working class family, life is much harder than many people in Westminster realise. You have a job but you don't always have job security. You have your own home, but you worry about paying a mortgage. You can just about manage but you worry about the cost of living and getting your kids into a good school.

"If you're one of those families, if you're just managing, I want to address you directly.

"I know you're working around the clock, I know you're doing your best, and I know that sometimes life can be a struggle. The government I lead will be driven not by the interests of the privileged few, but by yours.

"When it comes to opportunity, we won't entrench the advantages of the fortunate few. We will do everything we can to help anybody, whatever your background, to go as far as your talents will take you."

Ever since then May has taken every possible opportunity to stress she is not there for the "fortunate" or "privileged few".

She did it again in her first Conservative conference speech as leader: "The Conservative Party is the true workers' party, the only party dedicated to making Britain a country that works, not just for the privileged few, but for every single one of us". This is strange stuff to be hearing from any Tory, let alone the top one.

So far I'd say Theresa May's main political characteristics, aside from policy that is, can be summarised thus: 1. She is far more popular than her party in the country; 2. She dominates her party; 3. She is more than willing to steal her opponents' better ideas; 4. She is even more keen on appropriating their language where it is use-

ful; 5. She is super pragmatic; 6. She is cautious 7. She tells the party she's doing one thing while doing another; 8. She is happy to take on her party's vested interests and allies; and, 9. She is unideological: what matters is what works.

Remind you of anybody?

Yes, that's right. We've got Tony Blair back -- this time in a trouser suit and kitten heels.

Like Blair, May is a political shape shifter, a chameleon and a cross-dresser.

Blair was, after all, the last Labour leader to talk the language of his political opponents and brazenly so, praising business and going on charm offensives in the City to persuade them that they were safe in Labour hands. For the aspirational middle class voters he reached out to them in a way few of his predecessors, and none of his successors, even tried, identifying "Mondeo Man" and "Worcester Woman" as the voters he needed to get him and his party back into power.

Labour was, in a memorable phrase, the "political wing of the British people. New Labour governed for the

whole country, not one group or interest. It too was in favour of "the many not the few".

May, by analogy, knows her party has been traditionally weak among the working classes, but when they have won they have done so because they got what we used to call the "C1S2" to vote for them - skilled workers, and those with aspirations to be so. On grammar schools, Theresa May has identified those earning a little below the national average wage -- say, £24,000 a year -- as her rhetorical targets.

I don't argue that she'll succeed, or take a position on whether she's a fraud or driven by deep moral sensibilities. I merely state that, like Blair, she knows that here the votes are; that is to say, here are the votes her own party has all too often failed to secure to win power. And she, like Blair before her, will stop at nothing to get her hands on them.

Like Blair, May's style is cautious. Even Blair's greatest blunder, the Iraq War, was a cautious policy in the sense that he thought the war would be won rapidly and the opposition to it would subside just as quickly. On the unions, on the Tories' spending plans

he adopted, on public ownership -- you name it -- he was very slow to act, if at all. He was, in his pomp, though an unusually feline sort of politico; May is, you may have already noticed, strikingly similar.

It will be interesting to see how Theresa May and her Chancellor approach the privileges of the "privileged few". Crude as it is, if she is to win her missing votes she'll need to take on the bankers, the mismanaged utilities, the tax avoiding multinationals and various high-profile unacceptable capitalists in the same way Blair took on the unions.

Blair gave the "brothers" comparatively little while he was in Number 10 - just enough to retain their lukewarm support, and after 18 years of Thatcher and Major, that wasn't much.

A bit of skilful tax cutting for those hard-working families who find life tough, some grammar school places for their children and a sense that her government is behind them in their daily battles with the rob dogs who run the railways and the energy companies, and Ms May will be another electoral sun god, just like Blair.

We've got Tony back.

Something for the country to look forward to, I'd have thought.

Pakistan,1971 Military voices now challenge the established narrative of the Bangladesh war.

Military voices now challenge the established narrative of the Bangladesh war.

Every year,December 16 is observed in Pakistan as a moment of morose stocktaking,in which India is held responsible for the break-up of Pakistan in 1971. However,over the years,the Pakistani media has taken to mixing the message. It now balances the short-term culpability of India with the long-term culpability of Pakistan.

This year,the familiar pattern was disturbed by the hanging of a Jamaat-eIslami (Bangladesh) leader,Abdul Quader Mollah,for "war crimes" including the rape and slaughter of women,while he opposed the "war of liberation" for the new state of Bangladesh.

As the NGOs protest at the way Mollah was punished,the world has accepted the hanging. The Islamabad foreign office pointed to the violation of human rights in the "war crimes" tribunal,but called it an internal matter for Bangladesh. The Pakistani parliament,though,decided to condemn the hanging through a non-unanimous but bitterly-worded resolution that has not been taken kindly by Dhaka.

The Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan - having recently won back Taliban and al-Qaeda protection - flexed its street muscle by protesting

against the hanging of a man it feels affiliated to. It rightly expected the parliament to bend in deference to this new "empowerment". But the media in Pakistan has mixed the message more than usual this time. The "secret" Hamoodur Rehman Commission report on the atrocities committed by the Pakistan army in East Pakistan in 1971 has been taken out of the state's closet of collective conscience and quoted to great effect.

Unread books by honest military officers are now being quoted to the embarrassment of the Jamaat,which had thought the battle for its new leg-up had been won after the Mollah hanging. What Pakistan is still forgetting is the fundamental critique of its conduct towards East Pakistan contained in a book by senior bureaucrat,Hasan Zaheer - The Separation of East Pakistan (1994). In this,linguistic nationalism was more properly understood as the element which alienated the Bengali Muslim from the West Pakistani Muslim.

The idea of imposing Urdu on East Pakistan was born in the mind of a non-Bengali education secretary of East Pakistan,F.A. Karim,who was able to convince a dimwit Bengali central education minister in Karachi,Fazlur Rehman,to adopt it. It also caught the imagination of the governor of East Pakistan,Malik

Feroz Khan Noon,not the brightest son of Punjab. He started the scheme of writing Bengali in the Arabic script. By 1952,there were 21 centres doing this in East Pakistan,funded by the central education ministry. The East Pakistan chief minister didn't even know that this was happening outside the primary school stream.

Zaheer writes: "Such was the insensitivity of the ruling party to popular issues that the East Pakistan Muslim League Council also recommended Arabic as the state language. This was not acceptable even to the West Pakistan intelligentsia."

What happened to the Muslim League in East Pakistan in the years that followed is history.

Major General Hakeem Arshad Qureshi,who wrote The 1971 Indo-Pak War: A Soldier's Narrative (2002),was commander of the SSG Commandos and an infantry battalion in East Pakistan in 1970-71. He was a PoW in India after the war and went on to command the Pakistan Rangers as director-general,before retiring in 1990. His thesis was: "Despite the deliberate strategic conclusion that the defence of East Pakistan lay in West Pakistan,no effort was made to augment the defence of East Pakistan to gain time before the counter-offensive against the enemy could begin from West Pakistan. It was not taken into account that the

The Good Pirate Not only was Longhands a young pirate boy, he was also the son of a pirate, the grandson of a pirate, and the great grandson of a pirate. Actually, he hadn't yet stolen anything, nor attacked any ship; but his whole family were sure that he'd turn out to be a first class pirate.

Even so, the idea of spending his life robbing people certainly didn't appeal to young Longhands. He knew this because when he was a toddler, one of his cousins had pinched one of his favourite toys, which made Longhands really suffer.

While he was growing up, Longhands' good nature meant that he worried terribly that some day his real pirate personality would suddenly emerge, and send him down the path of robbing, raiding, and pillaging. Every morning,

when he woke up, he looked in the mirror to see if the horrible transformation had yet occurred. But every morning he had the same pleasant sort of face he had had the day before.

As time went on, it became obvious to everyone that

would have kept saying it even if Longhands had studied medicine and dedicated his life to caring for the sick.

However, Longhands was still worried about turning into a pirate, and he continued consulting the mirror each morning.

Longhands wasn't a pirate; but the family tradition was so long and so wonderfully infamous that no one was bold enough to come out and say it.

"It's just that he's a good pirate," they would say. And they

One day, though, seeing that he was now an old man, and having seen his children and grandchildren - none of whom had become pirates he realised that neither himself, nor anyone, was ever forced to be a pirate, whether from natural forces or from duty. Everyone could do whatever they chose with their lives!

And, having chosen his own life and his own path, Longhands felt deeply happy that he never chose to be a pirate.

Bengali component of the army in East Pakistan was not loyal,given long years of dissent in the Eastern Wing and protest against inequality of treatment."

Qureshi held that although Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was not to be trusted,his demand that he be allowed to rule Pakistan was negotiable. His six-point programme was actually the "last possible solution to preserve the unity of Pakistan",as a Dhaka newspaper put it.

More significantly,the book called into question the "victories" against India in 1948 and 1965. The first war failed to achieve its objective because "we caved in without consolidating initial success". The second war was first opposed by General Musa and General Ayub,but after they agreed to it,no authentic information was obtained about the "sympathetic" Kashmiri insurgency,and wrong assumptions were made about India's capabilities of launching a major offensive across the international border.

The author points to the "manufacturing defect" of the Pakistani state: "We enter a contest mostly on the rebound,with overly ambitious aims and without due thought and preparation and have usually given up the effort at the half-way mark for want of resources.We have also failed to understand the international inter-

ests and reactions in the event of an armed conflict on the subcontinent or to appreciate correctly the enemy's reaction to a major ingress. The blunder of 1965 was repeated in 1971."

The late Major General Khadim Hussain Raja's book,A Stranger in My Own Country: East Pakistan,1969-1971 (2012),exposes the less dignified side of the military leadership in East Pakistan,under a heavy-drinking,constantly priapic head of the state,General Yahya Khan.

Here is the climax of the book: "[Enter Commander,East Pakistan,General Niazi,wearing a pistol holster on his web belt. Niazi became abusive and started raving. Breaking into Urdu,he said: 'Main iss haramzadi qaum ki nasal badal doon ga (I will change the race of this bastard nation).'"

Raja adds: "He threatened that he would let his soldiers loose on their womenfolk.

There was pin-drop silence at these remarks. The next morning, we were given the sad news. A Bengali o f f i c e r , M a j o r Mushtaq,went into a bathroom at the command headquarters and shot himself in the head."

Interested in "genetic engineering",Niazi also asked Raja for the phone numbers of his Bengali girl-

friends: "Abhi tau mujhey Bengali girl friends kay phone number day do."

Irony of ironies,Niazi surrendered to a Jewish-born Indian general,J.F.R. Jacob,in 1971. "Tiger" Niazi handed over his personal pistol at the famous Race Course ceremony.

Jacob examined the weapon: the lanyard was greasy and frayed,and the pistol was full of muck as if it hadn't been cleaned in a long while. (From Surrender at Dacca: Birth of a Nation,by Lt General J.F.R. Jacob,1997.)

This year,there was another reference to the maltreatment of Biharis in Bangladesh as a palliative to the indictment of the Pakistani state,as if it were a sincere champion of this most tragic stateless people.

The ex-foreign minister of Bangladesh,Kamal Hossain,in Bangladesh: Quest for freedom and Justice (2013),reports a conversation with Pakistan's former foreign minister,Aziz Ahmed: "When pressed to suggest what should be done to those (Biharis) who were clearly eligible and entitled to go to Pakistan,but whom Pakistan was not willing to accept,Aziz Ahmed turned round and said,Why don't you push them into India?'

When told that this was hardly feasible,he retorted,Then push them into the Bay of Bengal'."

Global warming engulf the state

Sir, Consecutive intolerable heat for last one week makes us impossible to survive without air conditioner or cooler or electric fan.

Rise of temperature throughout the state is due to increase of greenhouse gases , like, carbon- di- oxide, carbon monoxide, sulphur di- oxide, sulphur trioxide, nitrous oxide, nitrogen dioxide, water vapour, dust particles, smoke, etc. Carbon dioxide is considered to be the main culprit among them . Due to the growth of industrialization or increase of number of vehicles in roads, deforestation, construction of multi complex buildings, lack of awareness are the basic reason to increase intolerable heat in the state for last one week. If we compared with 2012, in the month of October, we found that the average temperature for this week is increased up to 9.7 degree Celsius to this year.

The increase of temperature in the state is alarming signal for the people. If we not

control ourselves and don't take appropriate course of action in due course of time then it becomes impossible for us to survive for longer period of time. Being a citizen of this country, it is our moral duty to restore the environment and makes our cities eco friendly so that we can left better environment for the future . For that we need little awareness and good will.

Plantation or reforestation is considered to be the better option for us and secondly used of automobile should be reduced or minimize the use of vehicles.

Yours faithfully, Indrajit Sarma Chiding Chapori, Govind Sarma Path, Dibrugarh-786001

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Sikkim CM Pawan Chamling honoured Long-awaited Agartala-Kolkata for development leadership passenger train to run from Saturday IANS Agartala, Oct 6: The much-awaited passenger train service between Agartala and Kolkata would begin from Saturday fulfilling a decades-old demand of people from the Northeastern state of Tripura, an official said on Thursday.

The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) would operate the Kanchanjunga Express between Agartala and Sealdah (Kolkata) via Silchar and Guwahati in Assam twice a week.

"The Agartala-Sealdah Kanchanjunga Express would begin operations from Saturday, meeting a long-standing demand of the people to link Tripura with Kolkata," NFR's Chief Public Relations Officer Pranav Jyoti Sharma said.

The Kanchanjunga Express would leave from Agartala for Sealdah via Guwahati and Silchar on Tuesdays and Saturdays while it would depart from Sealdah for Agartala on Sundays and Thursdays.

It will halt at around 35 important stations enroute including Silchar, Guwahati, New Bongaigaon, New

Coochbehar, New Jalpaiguri, Malda Town, Bolpur Shantiniketan and New Alipurduar. The train will cover the 1,556 km journey in 38 hours.

This railway connectivity will comprise the lifeline for millions of people in Tripura, western Manipur and Mizoram besides southern Assam.

Sharma said that since February 2 the Kanchanjunga Express has been running thrice a week from southern Assam's biggest commercial city Silchar, 251 km by train from Agartala and 380 km from Guwahati.

Another much-awaited weekly passenger train, named "Tripura Sundari Express", is running between Agartala and Anand Vihar station of Delhi, since July 31, covering a distance of around 2,480 km in 55 hours.

After the launch of the Kanchanjunga Express train, Tripura would get connected to Kolkata bringing much relief to the Bengali-dominated population in the state.

The extension of the existing metre gauge track up to Agartala brought the city on India's rail map for

the first time in October 2008 since the advent of the railways in this subcontinent in 1853.

The single-track 227 km metre-gauge link -Badarpur (south Assam) to Agartala -- was converted into broad-gauge track earlier this year at a cost of Rs 2,016 crore.

"Though a veteran journalist Amiya Deb Roy first wrote a letter to the central government to extend railway network in Tripura in 1949, the formal agitation for rail began in December 1951 through a mass gathering addressed by veteran Communist leaders Jyoti Basu, Muzaffar Ahmad and S.A. Dange," said writer and journalist Tapas Debnath.

Debnath said: "Former parliamentarians and top Tripura Left leaders Dasaratha Deb and Biren Datta had in 1952 first raised the demand in the Lok Sabha for extension of rail network to Agartala."

The stir got a new impetus after the CPI-M (Communist Party of IndiaMarxist) -led Left Front government, headed by Nripen Chakraborty, as-

sumed office in 1978.

Chakraborty met then Railway Minister Madhu Dandavate on January 12, 1978, and put up a strong demand to put Agartala on the rail map.

A series of movements were organised in Tripura, Guwahati and New Delhi for extension of the rail network to Tripura. Incumbent Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and Revenue and PWD Minister Badal Choudhury, among other leaders, were actively involved in these agitations.

"The NFR has so far spent about Rs 2,016 crore to connect Agartala by rail by making two big tunnels through the Longtharai Valley and Atharamura Hills and constructing a record number of 233 minor and major bridges," said an NFR engineer.

The NFR is now laying broad-gauge track for the 112-km AgartalaSabroom line -- to be completed by March 2018 -- at a cost of Rs 3,351 crore. Sabroom is southern Tripura's border town adjoining Bangladesh.

Tripura Chief Minister

Manik Sarkar said: "After the Indian Railways extends its rail line up to Sabroom, it would be very easy to connect with the Chittagong international sea port in southeast Bangladesh, which is just 75 km from the Tripura border town."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his visit to Dhaka in June 2015, had laid the foundation stone to construct a bridge over Feni river, adjacent to Sabroom, to connect the town with Bangladesh's hill town of Khagrachari.

This will open another railway link between the two neighbours after the existing Kolkata-Dhaka and proposed AgartalaAkhaura rail links.

"After extending the railway line to Sabroom, Tripura and the entire northeast would be linked with Southeast Asia very easily," Sarkar said.

Meanwhile, the NFR has already undertaken works to lay a 15-km rail track to connect Agartala with Bangladesh's railway station Akhaura, an important rail junction there.

Court attack: Gauhati HC Chief Sharmila acquitted, says will launch party Justice visits Mizoram

High Court IANS Aizawl, Oct 6: Gauhati High Court Chief Justice Ajit Singh on Wednesday visited Mizoram in the wake of a mob attack at Lunglei court and subsequent withdrawal of all judges from there, an official said.

"Gauhati High Court Chief Justice Ajit Singh arrived here today (Wednesday) from Guwahati and held a series of meetings with senior officials to study the situation arising out of the mob attack in the Lunglei court on September 22," a Mizoram Law Department official said.

He, however, could not confirm whether the chief justice would also meet Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla and Home Minister R. Lalzirliana over the issue.

"After returning to Guwahati on Thursday or Friday, the chief justice might take a final decision on the issue," the official added.

Chief Justice Ajit Singh was accompanied by Gauhati High Court's Registrar General H.K. Sharma.

After the September 22 mob attack, the High Court Registrar General had withdrawn all the three judges of the Lunglei district and sessions court in southern Mizoram.

"The Mizoram government requested the Gauhati High Court Chief Justice to rescind the order withdrawing the judges. The Chief Justice, in a letter to Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla, assured to consider the request," the official added.

Mizoram Home Minister R. Lalzirliana earlier said that a magisterial inquiry has been instituted to probe the incident.

"Aizawl District Deputy Commissioner Kannan Gopinathan has finished his probe into the court attack and he would submit his report in a day or two," the official added.

A mob attacked the Lunglei district court buildings on September 22 and ransacked the official residence of a civil judge, after the police brought before the court a 26-year-old youth for allegedly killing a man in the Zohnuai locality of

Lunglei district on August 27.

The crowd had demanded to see the accused youth, but the police turned down their request, leading to the mob attack.

The Union Home Ministry has also sought a report from the Congressruled Mizoram government over violence in the court premises.

Describing the mob attack on the district court buildings in Mizoram as a "dark chapter", Chief Justice Ajit Singh had in a letter requested the Chief Minister to take stringent action against the culprits.

Unless strict action was taken at once, the incident would encourage future similar incidents, the Chief Justice wrote, according to the official.

The High Court's Registrar General, in his order, also asked Lawngtlai district Senior Civil Judgecum-Chief Judicial Magistrate not to hold any circuit court in Lunglei district until further orders from the high court.

The Mizoram chief minister and the Mizoram Bar Association's Lunglei district branch also strongly condemned the violence.

The police had arrested 27 people for the violent attack and the court had remanded them in judicial custody just ahead of the withdrawal of the judges.

Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland, besides Assam, fall under the jurisdiction of the Gauhati High Court, while Tripura, Meghalaya, Manipur and Sikkim have separate state high courts.

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Irom Chanu Sharmila

PTI Imphal, Oct 6: A district court in Manipur on Wednesday acquitted rights activist Irom Chanu Sharmila in an attempted suicide case and the 'Iron Lady' announced that she would launch her political party this month.

Chief Judicial Magistrate of Imphal West Lamkhanpao Tonsing acquitted her of the charges under IPC section 309 (attempt to commit suicide) as she was on an indefinite hunger strike.

Sharmila was on a hunger strike for 16 years, demanding repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) from Manipur and was

force-fed during this period.

The 44-year-old activist was released on bail by the same CJM after she signed a Personal Recognition (PR) Bond on August 9.

She had ended her fast the same day.

After coming out of court on Wednesday, Sharmila told reporters that she would launch her political party this month itself to contest the Manipur Assembly election due for early next year.

She had declared in August that she wanted to become the chief minister so that she could repeal the contentious AFSPA in the state.

NGT pulls up Centre Agencies Shillong, Oct 6: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday pulled up the Centre for not clearing the mining plan for Meghalaya again while accepting its old notification that allowed mining in the hill state under the traditional law.

Justice Javed Rahim, who was hearing the case in absence of the Tribunal chairperson put the case for hearing on November

11.

The State Coordination Committee of Coal Owners, Miners and Dealers Forum on Wednesday brought to the notice of NGT the notification issued on June 24, 2010, that said in Meghalaya, coal is mined under the traditional and customary rights vested on the local tribes and that the mines operated by the tribes were not subjected to the provisions of the law that regulates the operation of

coal mines.

The Tribunal also accepted the additional suggestions on mining guidelines submitted by Thomas Nongtdu, president of the Jaintia Cement Manufacturing Association.

“This is for the second time the Ministry of Environment was hauled up by the bench for inordinate delay in clearing the mining plan,” Ranjan Mukherjee, who argued for the State, said. The

State government has already submitted a detailed mining plan but the Centre is dragging its feet on it, the court felt.

On July 21, NGT had pulled up the Ministry of Environment and Forest for the delay in preparing the mining plan for Meghalaya after the ministry outsourced the matter to experts. It had also asked the Ministry of Environment and Forest, the Ministry of Coal and Meghalaya government to

hold a meeting to finalise the mining plan and submit a report at the earliest.

The coal owners’ forum had submitted opinions as stakeholders for the draft mining guidelines to the Ministry of Coal and the Ministry of Forest and Environment in Delhi earlier. The Tribunal had conceded the prayer of coal miners giving them the liberty to submit such proposal to ascertain the views of the stakeholders.

IANS Gangtok, Oct 6: Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling was on Thursday honoured with prestigious "Sustainable Development Leadership Award" by President Pranab Mukherjee here.

During "World Sustainable Development Summit" organised by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) at Vigyan Bhavan here, Chamling was recognised for his efforts to convert Sikkim into a fully organic state.

"The award was presented to Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling in recognition of his vision and leadership in environment and sustainable development leading to the establishment of Sikkim as the first and only organic state in the country," an official statement released here said.

Sikkim is the only state in

Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling India to have attained the official status of fully organic state in January 2016 announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Around 75,000 hectares of land in Sikkim has been converted into certified organic farms and it contributes around 80,000 tonnes of organic production out of total 1.24 million tonnes of organic production recorded in india.

"Chamling has taken various green initiatives under which ban on pan masala/ gutka was enforced in the entire state in the year 1995, and subsequently in 1997 passed an Act on prohibition of throwing of non-degradable garbage in public drains and sewerage," it said.

There is a ban also in the state on smoking at public places.

First batch of SF-10 inducted in police force Agencies Shillong, Oct 6: Chief Minister Mukul Sangma emphasised on a continuous training process for police personnel involving advanced technologies in the wake of multiple challenges in dealing with law and order.

Speaking at the passing out parade of the first batch of the Special Force-10 (SF10) at the 1st MLP Battalion at Mawiong on Wednesday, Sangma said the State government would continue to invest substantially in strengthening the internal security apparatus of the State.

Altogether 223 commandos and 115 rangers were inducted into the first batch of the specialised unit of Meghalaya police after six months of basic training and three-and-a-half months of special commando counter insurgency course at APTC, Mawiong.

Expressing disappointment over instances of police personnel deserting the force to join “evil forces”, the chief minister said selfregulation comes only when citizens have respect for the law and hoped that the first batch of SF-10 would further strengthen the police organisation.

“The State faces challenges in regard to law and order it needs to be pre-

First batch of SF-10 inducted in police force

pared while dealing with any kind of situation. This event (the SF-10 passing out parade) is a reminder of the government’s commitment to infuse a sense of responsibility in citizens to be self-regulating and creating a system that itself will be a deterrent to perpetration of crime,” he added.

He also thanked parents and families of the young cadets for their support and motivation.

Sangma later flagged off 30 SF-10 vehicles and distributed prizes to the 10 best commandos in different disciplines. The commandos also staged an ambush and counter-ambush demonstration on the occasion.

The special force was created keeping in mind the need for the State to have

its own specialised force to deal with counter-insurgency operations, crowd control and management during law and order disturbances.

The counter-insurgency training was coordinated

by Brigadier (Retd.) W.B.J Sturgeon and the cadets were trained in armed and unarmed combats as well as other tactics for survival in both urban and jungle warfare scenarios by instructors of Army Special Forces and Meghalaya Police.

The commandos will be deployed for anti-militancy operations while those selected for law and order will further undergo specialised training on riot and crowd control to be imparted by the Rapid Action Force of the CRPF.

Coal minister examines exemption demand Agencies Shillong, Oct 6: The demand to exempt Meghalaya from the purview of certain provisions of the central mining laws has reached Union Coal Minister Piyush Goyal.

Additional Chief Secretary Y. Tsering recently met ministry officials, who shared the queries of the minister with the official related to the demand made by the State government to exempt Meghalaya from the purview of the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973.

Earlier, armed with a resolution passed by the State Assembly last September, the State government had sent a specific proposal to the Centre to issue a presidential notification in exercising the powers conferred under Paragraph 12A (b) of the Sixth Schedule that says “relevant sections and subsections of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, shall not apply or shall apply with modifications to the Autonomous Region (Scheduled areas) in the State of Meghalaya and the Coal

Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973, and the Coal Bearing Areas (Acquisition and Development) Act, 1957, shall not apply to the Autonomous Region (Scheduled areas) in the State of Meghalaya”.

An official source said on Wednesday that the ministry officials wanted to know from Tsering about the implications of the exemption under Paragraph 12A (b) of the Sixth Schedule in other states like Assam, Mizoram and Tripura where there are scheduled areas.

Tsering had replied that while there was no coal mining in Tripura and Mizoram, coal extraction is carried out only in a few pockets in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district.

Moreover, the stand of the State government was that since the specific demand is coming from Meghalaya, the respective states can make their own demands if they want to pursue the matter.

As far as the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, is concerned the State Government wanted exemption mainly on two grounds.

While one is regarding the clause on auctioning coal blocks, which will be impractical as far as Meghalaya is concerned since it is a central subject, and the other hurdle for state miners as per the 1975 Act is to get permission from the Centre to get the mining lease.

The State government wanted the Centre to allow Meghalaya to allot mining lease to the miners since they may find it difficult to regularly approach the Centre.

The official source said the Coal ministry will send its views to the Home Ministry, which in turn will seek a presidential notification so that the central mining laws will not be applicable to Meghalaya.

Even if the Centre approves the proposals of the State government, various forest and environment guidelines and child labour laws will have to be adhered to by it.

Moreover, after the Centre’s clearance, it will depend on the NGT to finally lift the ban on rat-hole mining in the State.

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Indonesia holds military drill at South China Sea islands France, Oct 6 :The Indonesian air force Thursday held a major exercise around its islands in the South China Sea where there have been clashes with Chinese vessels in waters claimed by Beijing.

Thousands of personnel as well as F-16, Sukhoi and Hercules planes took part in the drill around the remote Natuna islands in the far northwest of the archipelago, with President Joko Widodo in attendance.

Military spokesman Tatang Sulaiman said the exercise was aimed at making preparations in case of potential threats and to "face challenges".

"We are conducting this exercise so that if there is an operation in this area, we know what to do," he said.

Chinese fishing and coastguard vessels have been embroiled in repeated confrontations with Indonesian patrol boats and navy ships in waters around the Natunas this year, sharply raising tensions between Jakarta and Beijing.

Indonesia is bolstering its defences around the Natunas - a remote scattering of islands, home to rich fishing grounds - and

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Nawaz Sharif warns army not to shield militants amid isolation Sharif directed that fresh attempts be made to conclude the Pathankot investigation and restart the stalled Mumbai attacks-related trials

This May 11, 2015, file photo, shows land reclamation of Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. plans to deploy extra warships, fighter jets and surface-to-air missiles.

Unlike some of its Southeast Asian neighbours, Jakarta has long maintained it has no maritime disputes with Beijing in the South China Sea and does not contest ownership of reefs or islets there.

But Beijing's expansive claims in the sea overlap Indonesia's exclusive economic zone - waters where a state has the right to exploit resources around the Natunas.

China has defended its incursions into Indonesian waters around the islands, saying its trawlers are operating in "traditional Chinese fishing grounds". But Jakarta disputes this.

Widodo flew to the Natunas early Thursday to watch the air force drill, inspect weapons systems and observe the development of the fishing industry, his second visit to the islands in recent months.

In June he toured the islands on a warship to send a strong message to China to respect Indonesian sovereignty.

Beijing asserts sovereignty over almost the entire, resource-rich South China Sea. In July a UN-backed tribunal in The Hague ruled against China's claims, finding in favour of a challenge from the Philippines which has long-running territorial disputes with Beijing in the waters.(PTI)

Islamabad, Oct 6: Facing international isolation, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharifin an unprecedented move has warned the powerful military not to shield banned militant groups and directed authorities to conclude the Pathankot terror attack probe and the 2008 Mumbai attack trials, a leading Pakistani daily reported on Tursday.

Sharif's orders came after a series of meetings between military and civilian leaders, Dawn newspaper said.

The government delivered a "blunt, orchestrated and unprecedented warning" to the military leadership and sought consensus on several key actions, including action against banned militant groups, the paper quoted unnamed individuals, who were involved in the meetings.

At least two sets of actions have been agreed as a result of the most recent meeting, an undisclosed

one on the day of the All Parties' Conference, which took place on Monday.

ISI Director General Rizwan Akhtar, accompanied by National Security Adviser Nasser Janjua, will travel to all provinces with a message that military-led intelligence agencies should not interfere if law enforcement agencies act against militant groups that are banned.

Sharif directed that fresh attempts be made to conclude the Pathankot investigation and restart the stalled Mumbai attacksrelated trials in a Rawalpindi anti-terrorism court.

Those decisions, taken after an extraordinary verbal confrontation between Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and the ISI DG, appear to indicate a high-stakes new approach by the PML-N government, the paper said.

Separately, on Monday

Nawaz Sharif Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry made an exclusive presentation in the Prime Minister's Office to a small group of civil and military officials.

The presentation by the Foreign Secretary summarised the results of the recent diplomatic outreach by Pakistan, the crux being that Pakistan

faces diplomatic isolation and that the government's talking points have been met with indifference in major world capitals, the paper said.

On the US, Chaudhry said that relations have deteriorated and will likely further deteriorate because of the American demand that action be taken against the

Paris climate deal a turning 'Pakistan would move towards China, point for planet: Barack Obama Russia as US is declining power'

HIGHLIGHTS America is "no longer a world power", Nawaz Sharif's envoys on Kashmir have said.

China is now an important factor in South Asia, Mushahid Hussain Syed said.

A file photo for representation purpose.

Washington, Oct 6: America is "no longer a world power" and Pakistan would move towards China and Russia if its views on Kashmir and India are not considered, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's envoys have said here. "(The) US is no longer a world power. It is a declining power.

Forget about it," special Kashmir envoy of Sharif, Mushahid Hussain Syed was heard as saying on Wednesday after the conclusion of an interaction at the Atlantic Council, one of the top American think-tanks.

Syed and Shazra Mansab, another Kashmir envoy, are in the US as part of the Pakistani effort to apprise the global community of the current situation in Kashmir and allegations of human rights violations in the valley.

Syed has gone to the extent to warn US that Pakistan would move towards China and Russia if its views on Kashmir and India are not considered.

He was apparently responding to a question from a member in the audience after the conclusion of the 90-minute interaction during which he expressed his frustration over the lack of response to his point of view on Kashmir and India.

The remarks of Syed were not recorded on camera, but was heard prominently by those inside the room.

Thereafter, he was quick to point out China and newly perceived relationship with Russia, which he had mentioned during his interaction at the Atlantic Council.

Syed submitted a dossier of alleged human rights violation in Kashmir to special US representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Olson.

With no takers for Pakistan's Kashmir policy, Syed said China is now an important factor in South Asia and described Beijing as part of what he termed as Greater South Asia.

"There has been slow and steady building of relationship between Moscow and Islamabad," he said, referring to the joint military exercise between Pakistan and Rus-

sia.

Syed said the Putin government has for the first time agreed to sell arms to Pakistan and the US should take note of this changing regional alignment.

"Unfortunately under the Obama administration, there was a drift in American foreign policy towards our region, towards Afghanistan.

There was confusion and there was a lot of flip-flops. I think, the Obama administration could not figure out this region Afghanistan and Pakistan and as a consequence this region suffered.

"With policies one step back and one step (forward), announcing surge, announcing a cut off time for exit. Asking sometime Pakistan that please we want to talk to the Taliban and then saying that we want to take on the Taliban and finally they said there would be no American troops and then they end up having 8,500 troops stationed in Afghanistan. It leaves this to the next administration," he said.

Syed said Pakistan feels that the US should look at the region as a whole.

"Whether it is Pakistan, India, China, Afghanistan and there is plus also, the Iran nuclear deal... because all these countries can contribute to the stability and security of the region.

"And what Pakistan would like to have from the US, I am talking about the incoming administration, because Obama is a guest for the next few months as January 20, 2017 there will be a new administration, that they have to see the region, where they have a more comprehensive perspective, and do not try to compartmentalised peace and security, because that is not possible," he said.

"When you talk of peace in Kabul, you have to ensure that Kashmir is not burning.

The US has a long-term interest in Kashmir. They are a party to the UN resolutions.

The US has played a very legitimate role in supporting oppressed people, oppressed Muslims (in) Bosnia, Kosovo and even the Kurds.

"So Kashmiris today should not suffer, just because Kash-

US should take note of changing regional alignment in South Asia, Syed said.

mir has no oil or Kashmir is not part of Europe or Kashmiris belong to a certain religious denomination, because we cannot have double standards on those issues," Syed said.

He said Pakistan has a long standing relationship with the US and "we would like that (to continue). But of course, we have options also. With the greater Russian involvement in the region, they are also interested coming into CPEC (China Pakistan Economic Corridor). Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia has also expressed interest in joining CPEC".

He also called for dialogue between India and Pakistan.

"Issues cannot be brushed under the carpet. People thought Kashmir issue is suppressed and buried. It has come back with a bang. It is more significant as (former) president (Bill) Clinton called as a potential nuclear flash point. The two nuclear neighbors should learn to talk to each other.

"We feel that the way forward is that the region calls for statesmanship and what I call a Nixonian transformation of Mr (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi. If he can have that outreach and develop that statesmanship which Richard Nixon demonstrated in 1971 courtesy Pakistan. I think, the options are there, opportunities are there. The ball is in Modi's court, can he rise to the occasion as a leader of 1.2 billion people to build a better and peaceful tomorrow," Syed said.

Alleging that US has done a U-turn of its policies on India, which started from the civic nuclear deal, he said the US is loosing sight of the other interests in the region.

"The most important interest of the US is stability of Afghanistan and counter terrorism. And for that they like it not they need Pakistan's cooperation, which they have been getting and we have been providing and we are also suffering in the process.

We see the shift (of US policy from Pakistan to India). And that shift would be detrimental to America's own security and interest in South Asia," Syed added. (PTI)

The US President said that the agreement will help delay or avoid some of the worst consequences of climate change Washington, Oct 6: Welcoming the news that the Paris agreement on climate change will enter into force in 30 days, US PresidentBarack Obama has termed it as a "turning point" for protecting the planet for future generations by avoiding some of the worst consequences of global warming.

"Today is a historic day in the fight to protect our planet for future generations...Today, the world has officially crossed the threshold for the Paris Agreement to take effect.Today, the world meets the moment.

And if we follow through on the commitments that this agreement embodies, history may well judge it as a turning point for our planet," Obama said in his remarks at the Rose Garden of the White House yesterday.

At the same time, Obama said Paris Agreement alone will not solve the climate crisis.

"Even if we meet every target embodied in the agreement, we'll only get to part of where we need to go. But make no mistake, this agreement will

Barack Obama help delay or avoid some of the worst consequences of climate change," he argued.

"It will help other nations ratchet down their dangerous carbon emissions over time, and set bolder targets as technology advances, all under a strong system of transparency that allows each nation to evaluate the progress of all other nations," he added.

"And by sending a signal that this is going to be our future - a clean energy future - it opens up the floodgates for businesses, and scientists, and engi-

neers to unleash high-tech, low-carbon investment, and innovation at a scale that we've never seen before," Obama asserted.

In a statement, the US Secretary of State John Kerry said enough countries - representing enough of the world's greenhouse gas emissions - have submitted their instruments to formally join the agreement.

The Paris Agreement will enter into force in 30 days, he said.

"For many years, scientists have been warning us that climate change is real,

it is happening now, and, barring global action to change the course our planet is on, it will have devastating impacts in nearly every corner of the world," he said.

"Today it is crystal clear that we have finally woken up," Kerry said.

"The reason we were able to pass the required threshold so early is that many of the largest emitters in the world - including the United States, China, India, the EU and a number of its member states - recognised the need to continue the momentum from Paris and joined swiftly to bring this Agreement into force as quickly as possible," he said.

In a statement, the campaign slammed Obama administration for the climate change deal, which it alleged would harm US economic interests.

"Politicians like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton continue to make bad deals that undermine the interests of the American people. The Paris Accord is just the latest example," it said. (PTI)

US military sends help to Hurricane-battered Haiti

Fisherman Eneides Soares, 41, stands next to his destroyed house after the passage of Hurricane Matthew in Carbonera, Cuba, October 5, 2016.

Washington, Oct 6 : Between 150-200 US troops will be on the ground in Haiti, and operations in the country will be directed from a center at Port-auPrince airport.

The US military said it is sending helicopters, an air-

craft carrier, troops and other equipment to Haiti to provide humanitarian assistance after the impoverished Caribbean nation was lashed by Hurricane Matthew. Nine Army and Marine Corps choppers were expected to arrive in Haiti today, and will

conduct surveys to figure out which areas are hardest hit before delivering aid, the military's head of its Southern Command, Admiral Kurt Tidd, told reporters.

"We have reports indicating that roads and communications infrastructure along the southern coastline are impassable," Kurt said on Wednesday.

Between 150-200 US troops will be on the ground in Haiti, and operations in the country will be directed from a center at Port-au-Prince airport.

Additionally, the USS George Washington aircraft carrier, the USS Comfort hospital ship and the USS Mesa Verde amphibious transport ship were all en route to the seas around Haiti.

A Navy official said the ships were yet to receive formal requests for help from Haiti.

"They are underway, head-

ing south, to be prepared to provide disaster response. They haven't yet received any orders," the official said.

Hurricane Matthew - the Caribbean's worst storm in nearly a decade - pounded Haiti this week, and aid organizations are bracing for "catastrophic damage" in the impoverished nation's hardest hit regions.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is coordinating the US response and has dispatched an elite team to the poorest nation in the Americas.

Separately, the US Air Force said it was evacuating dozens of warplanes from bases in Virginia, North Carolina and Florida as Matthew headed toward the southern United States.

(Agencies)

Haqqani network.

On India, Chaudhry said that the completion of Pathankot investigation and some visible action against Jaish-iMohammad, which India says was behind the January 2 attack, were the principal demands.

Chaudhry said while China has reiterated its support for Pakistan, it too has indicated a preference for a change in course by Pakistan.

Specifically, while Chinese authorities have conveyed their willingness to keep putting on technical hold a UN ban on Jaish-iMohammad leader Masood Azhar, they have questioned the logic of doing so repeatedly, the report said.

The Foreign Secretary's unexpectedly blunt conclusions triggered an astonishing and potentially ground-shifting exchange between the ISI DG and several civilian officials, it said. (PTI)

I don't love or hate Putin: Trump New York, Oct 6: U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has shrugged off allegations that he would be too close to Vladimir Putin if elected, saying he was unsure of his relationship with the Russian President.

"I don't love. I don't hate.

We'll see how it works," 70-year-old Trump said at an election rally in Reno, Nevada, a day after Senator Tim Kaine, Democratic vice presidential candidate slammed him for praising Mr. Putin.

"We'll see. Maybe we'll have a good relationship.

Maybe we'll have a horrible relationship. Maybe we'll have a relationship right in the middle. I can say this. If we got along with Russia and Russia went out with us and knocked the hell out of ISIS, that's OK with me, folks. That's OK with me," Mr. Trump, who had described Mr. Putin as a better leader than U.S. President Barack Obama, said.

Mr. Trump alleged that the allies of the U.S. are not paying their fair share.

"Foreign countries like Russia and China do not respect us. Do you ever see Hillary Clinton when she wants to talk tough about Putin? They say, Donald Trump loves Putin," he said, adding that he has no strong feeling about the Russian leader.

The Republican nominee alleged that countries like China, Japan are printing huge sums of money.

"The devaluation of currencies is staggering as to what it represents to our country, our businesses, our citizens, and our jobs," he said.

"Every time we start making progress, China devalues its currency and we go right back to the drawing board. Because you can't compete against that. It's cheating," he alleged.

"We are not going to level playing field and our politicians do not understand what is going on. They really do not get it. And the ones that do get it are taken care of with political contributions so they close their eyes," he said.(Agencies)

PAGE 9 EDUCATION to Write a Good Essay How to Memorize Quickly How in a Short Amount of Time

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Memorizing quickly is an important talent to have.

Whether for school, work or simply to improve yourself, exercising your memory adds to your capabilities as a person and helps to keep your brain healthy. The art of memorization is ancient and history is filled with clever ways of committing things to memory. By applying modern psychology, these approaches to memorization can be divided into five core methods.

Rote Memorization Imagine you're memorizing a few states and their capitals from west to east For the following steps in this method, we'll be trying to memorize these states and their capitals: m For rote memorization, we simply repeat and repeat what we need to memorize until it's committed to memory. This repetition makes your brain form new connections and patterns to help you produce what you're memorized - as neurologists say, "neurons that fire together wire together".

Imagine you're memorizing a few states and their capitals from west to east For the following steps in this method, we'll be trying to memorize these states and their capitals: m For rote memorization, we simply repeat and repeat what we need to memorize until it's committed to memory. This repetition makes your brain form new connections and patterns to help you produce what you're memorized - as neurologists say, "neurons that fire together wire together".

Know that rote memorization is better for some types of memory than other types Memorizing through repetition encourages your brain to form the necessary connections to say or do what you've memorized. mRote memorization is very good for manual tasks and short lists of items like a shopping list, starting a car, or ironing a shirt. mRote memorization is not very good for memorizing a large number of separate items or single complex

you remember what goes in the last two blanks? mAt first you'll get a lot wrong - don't get frustrated!

This is just your brain getting used to the work. Keep at it and within a few minutes you'll be able to remember everything you've memorized.

Chunking Imagine you have to memorize the countries on the UN Security Council There are 10 countries that could be organized according to some scheme or another.

Know what chunking is good for Chunking works well when you're memorizing things that are composed of smaller things in a sensible order.

Our example could subdivide by continent; the elements of the periodic table could be broken down by type; or if you have to memorize the components of an engine, you could divide it up into sub-assemblies (intake, engine, exhaust, electrical). mIf you've ever memorized a phone number, you might have noticed the way we write them - they're set up to be chunk-memorized. For instance, the White House phone number, (202) 4561111 is easier to remember as three numbers - 202, 456 and 1111 - than it is to remember as a single complex number, 2,024,561,111. m Chunking isn't a great

reciting one of the continents and their countries from the list above: Practice combining the chunk Mastering each individual portion or chunk is just the beginning - to fully memorize something using this method, you'll need to get the entire list down. Try scrolling down so the previous list is covered. How much of this list can you remember?

Chaining Items into a Sentence or Concept Imagine you have to memorize a shopping list Your list is composed of a bunch of different items that have no relationship to each other.

Understand what chaining is good for If you have a very large number of things to remember, this will be unwieldy; for this reason, the chaining method is best for shorter lists of hard-to-remember items. mChaining is great for a limited number of items in an arbitrary list without any seeming relation to each other (for instance, the list tree, bird, keyboard, bottle).

It's hard to apply a strategy like chunking because there aren't any real categories to break stuff down.

Make a sentence or image composed of all the items you have to memorize This is the fun part of this

Using Mnemonics Imagine you need to memorize basic trigonometry Suppose for this task we're memorizing how to figure out the sine, cosine and tangent of the base angle of a right triangle.

Understand what mnemonics are Mnemonics is simply a fancy word for a process you're probably familiar with from grade school. If you've ever used ROYGBIV to remember the colors (red orange yellow green blue indigo violet), or a nonsense sentence like "My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" to remember the planets (Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto), you've used a mnemonic.

Know what mnemonics are good for If you have to memorize more items than you can make a short sentence or phrase for, this will be hard to work with; for this reason, the mnemonic method, like chaining, is best suited for limited numbers of items you have to memorize that can fit into a scheme. Mnemonics are better suited for memorizing a list of words, for instance; it is not as good for memorizing big lists without clear organization, like a list of phone numbers or the digits of pi.

Create a mnemonic scheme A mnemonic scheme is simply a "key" sentence or a phrase for what you have to memorize. For our example, we can make up a simple, easy to remember nonsense word.

Practice remembering your mnemonic and what you have to memorize from your mnemonic Your mnemonic serves as the 'key' to your memory.

Scroll down to cover the previous list - can you remember what the mnemonic stands for?

ideas like the elements of the periodic table from left to right, the idea of dialectical materialism, or the components of a car engine.

Make a list of what you need to memorize Make sure your list is complete and in the sequence that you need it.

Practice reading what you've memorized For these states, that's simply reading off your table, over and over again, the names of the states.

Practice producing what you've memorized without looking at your list Try covering part or all of your list with a piece of paper and reciting what you've just covered over.

Scroll down so that the previous table is covered - can

strategy for big, complex things and concepts that don't break down into parts easily. For example, it's not easy to figure out what "memorizable" chunks would be for memorizing the concept of civil rights, the definition of nationhood or a list of similar phone numbers.

Divide what you have to memorize into smaller, easier-to-memorize pieces Since you'll have to create smaller pieces from big ones, this strategy works best with items that you can actually break down according to some sensible scheme.

Practice producing your your small items (the chunks) from memory For our UN Security Council example, you might try

method: the more outlandish and weird your sentence or image is, the easier it will be to remember. For instance: m Peanut butter and espresso bean sandwich wrapped in ethernet cable with a screwdriver going through it.

Repeat and memorize your sentence or image then practice producing the items you've memorized from your sentence or image You'll use your sentence or image as a key that will bring up what you've memorized. m Peanut butter and espresso bean sandwich wrapped in ethernet cable with a screwdriver going through it = peanut butter, espresso beans, bread, ethernet cable, screwdriver bit

Memorizing through Association Suppose you need to memorize the components of a 1911 handgun slide From the front to the back, a list of what you have to memorize would look like: m slide m barrel bushing m barrel m firing pin m extractor m hammer stop Understand how the associative method works The human mind is very good at associating things.

This talent runs so deep, in fact, that it's possible to use that ability to memorize things. For this memory, you'll create an imaginary journey or walk-through that you'll associate with what you have to remember.

Going on your imaginary journey or walk-through will

bring up your memories.

Know what the associative method is good for The associative method is very powerful, especially if you have a strong imagination. Throughout history, people have used some variation on the associative method (like imagining walking through mental houses, looking around an imaginary room or flipping through a pretend book) to organize memories. · Memories that are easy to split up and spatially organize are best suited for the associative method - things like the stanzas of a poem, components of a machine or the procedure for cooking eggs. · Memories that can't be divided up are less wellsuited - like the basic idea of Abstract Expressionist painting, the history of the War of the Roses or remembering how to ask someone out.

Imagine a set of second memories and associate them with what you have to remember You'll use your second set of memories as a "key" for what you have to remember. · For this reason, if you have a list of discrete items that don't fit together in any way, it'll be harder to shape your second "key" memories. For our example, we'll simply imagine being a tiny little man walking around inside a 1911 slide.

Sometimes, you need to be able to write a good essay in a short amount of time for a timed exam, such as the Advanced Placement exams in high school. At other times, you might find yourself in the uncomfortable situation of having to write an essay fast because you procrastinated or let it sneak up on you.

Although an essay written at the last minute will almost never be as good as an essay you spent more time on, putting together a decent essay quickly is still feasible.

With a little planning and a lot of hard work, you can write an essay that’s good (or good enough!) in just a short time.

Doing the Prep Work for Your Essay Develop a plan Consider how much time you have to write the essay and develop a writing plan based on that. This will help you figure out how long to spend on each part of the essay writing process, and will also keep you on task.

Be honest about your strengths and weaknesses when devising your plan. For example, if you are a good researcher but not great at editing, spend less time on the research section in favor of spending more time on the revising section. Ø Make sure to schedule breaks for yourself to refresh your brain and recharge yourself. Ø An example of a plan for a one-day essay writing project might look like this: Ø 8:00 – 9:30 – Consider an essay question and argument for the

don’t, first consider the question and different ways you could make arguments about the topic.

Doing this preliminary brainstorming will not only direct you towards the appropriate research, it will help the writing process go more quickly. Ø Make sure you understand what the question is asking for! If you provide a summary when the essay prompt asked you to “analyze,” you’re unlikely to do very well. Ø If you don’t have an essay topic, choose a subject that interests you and consider the essay question afterward. You are more likely to write a good essay on a topic that you’re interested in.

Develop your argument or thesis statement Your argument or thesis statement is the point you’re making in the essay through evidence and analysis. Develop your argument to help direct your research and make the writing process go more quickly. Ø If you don’t have much experience with your topic, it might be difficult to develop an argument. You can still consider your argument and then use your research to support or refute the claims you want to make. Ø A good exercise to help you quickly figure out your essay question and argument is to write “I am studying (choose a topic) because I want to know (what do you want to know) in order to show (this is where your argument goes).”

search. For example, the library and internet offer many different options for sources. Ø Just make sure that you use reliable sources, such as peer-reviewed journals, government and university websites, and newspapers and magazines written by professionals. Don’t use personal blogs, obviously biased sources, or sources that don’t have professional credentials. Ø You can draw upon information you know to speed up the research process. Simply find a (reliable!) source to support it and include it in your sources. Ø Doing preliminary research online can point you to sources in a library such as books and journal articles. It can also point you in the direction of web sources including newspaper article archives or other research on your topic. Ø If you're reading books, "gut" the book to get through it quickly and move on to other sources. To "gut" a book, skim the introduction and conclusion to find the main arguments, and then pick a few details from the body of the book to use as evidence.[10] Ø Take notes on your research sources. These will shows that you’ve legitimately researched the topic while giving credit to the person who forwarded the idea. This is especially important if you plan to use direct quotes and will also help you add footnotes and bibliographic information to your essay without having to look them up

Rehearse walking through or traversing your mental map and bringing up what you have to memorize This can be as cool and interesting or simple and easy to remember as you want to make it. For our example, a tiny man walking through a 1911 slide might say: · "First we'll encounter the barrel bushing, and inside it, I can see the barrel poking out. Behind the barrel and the breech face as we walk further back I'll see a tiny hole through which I can see the firing pin, and to its left will be the extractor against the side of the slide; when I make it to the very back, I'll reach the hammer stop."

Practice traversing and exploring your mental map A few times a day, concentrate and visualize going back through your walkthrough. The more that you practice, the easier it will be to remember.

Rehearse producing what you've memorized from your mental map As you perform this visualization exercise, your mind will get better and better at shaping your "key" visualization, but that's not enough - you need to remember the individual components you fit into your key. Try "working backwards" - starting from a list of items, see if you can reproduce your original mental journey or "key". (wikihow)

topic. Ø 9:30 – 9:45 – Take a short break. Ø10:00 – 12:00 – Conduct research. Ø 12:00 – 13:00 – Outline the essay. Ø 13:00 – 14:00 – Take a lunch break. Ø14:00 – 19:00 – Write your essay. Ø19:00 – 20:00 – Take a dinner break. Ø 20:00 – 22:30 – Revise and copy edit your essay. Ø 22:30 – 23:00 – Print and prepare your essay submission.

Consider the essay question You may know the topic of an essay when your teacher assigns it to you, but even if you

Ø For example, “I am studying the medieval witch trials because I want to know how lawyers employed evidence in their cases in order to show that the trial process influenced modern medical techniques and legal practices.” Ø Consider counter-arguments in order to strengthen your essay.

Research your essay topic You’ll need to strategically research your topic to find the evidence that will help you construct your argument and form the body of your essay.

There are many different types of sources you can use for research, from online journals and newspaper archives to primary sources at the library. Ø Since you don’t have a lot of time to write, focus on one or two places where you can do re-

in the sources.

Write an outline of your essay Construct an outline of your essay to guide you through the writing process. By structuring it in the same form as your essay and adding evidence, you will simplify and expedite the writing process. You’ll also be able to identify any areas that need better development. Ø Structure your outline as you will your essay, with an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. Ø The more detail you put into your outline, the easier and more quickly you can write the essay. For example, instead of just writing a basic paragraph about the body, flesh it out into bullet points or sentences that present argument and supporting evidence. (wikihow)

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No need to give out video of Rahul targets Modi on blackmoney, cross-LoC operation: Parrikar seeks debt waiver for farmers

New Delhi, Oct 6: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today questioned the "loyalty" of those who doubted the Army and sought proof of surgical strikes across the LoC even as he made it clear that there is no need to give out any video of the operation.

Describing the cross-LoC operation as "100 per cent perfect surgical strike", he said the borders of the country are secure under the Narendra Modi government.

However, he warned that one has to remain vigilant against "certain elements" who don't owe their loyalty to the country completely.

"No one had doubted bravery of our forces ever, but for the first time

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar recently some people are doubting," he said, maintaining that he would not like to take names.

Highlighting the news report of CNN News18 in which a Pakistani police officer has admitted that surgical strikes did happen, Parrikar said, "There

is now no more reason to release video or to give any proof."

Parrikar, who was speaking at a BJP organised public meeting, said that many ex-servicemen have shown willingness to fight on the border if required.

"Some ex-servicemen wrote to me and said that they are ready to fight on the border if need arises.

I salute them," said the minister, adding, "Our nation carries the heart and courage to carry this task out."

He also said that the forces and citizens will have to be vigilant against "frustrated" terrorists who will try and attack because of the shame they have been put to as a result of the surgical strikes. (PTI)

Rohith Vemula's Dalit status not established, says Commission It is learnt that the Commission felt that Vemula committed sucide because of his "personal frustrations."

Rohith Vemula New Delhi, Oct 6 : Raising questions over the Dalit status of the late Hyderabad University scholar Rohith Vemula, a commission constituted by the Human Resource Development Ministry after his death has said the material on record did not establish it and attributed his suicide to personal reasons.

The Justice Roopanwal Commission, in a report submitted to the Ministry, has given a clean chit to Union Ministers Smriti Irani and Bandaru Dattatreya, sources said.

The university authorities too have been absolved of any blame for Vemula's death, as the Commission held that they were not working under political

pressure.

The Commission is learnt to have raised questions about Vemula's caste status as a Dalit, saying there is no proof that his mother V. Radhika belonged to the Mala community.

The Commission is learnt to have said that Vemula's mother could have given the statement that she belonged to the Mala community to support the caste certificate that was issued to Vemula.

The Commission noted mS Radhika was not told the names of her biological parents by her foster family, according to the sources.

It is, therefore, unlikely that she would have been told the caste of her biological parents, the Com-

mission is understood to have said.

HRD Ministry officials have, however, maintained that ascertaining the caste status of Vemula was not part of the Terms of Reference of the Commission.

Therefore, they would only focus on those recommendations which aim at ensuring that such incidents do not happen in the future.

The suicide of Vemula triggered a huge political furore, with the then HRD minister Smriti Irani coming under attack along with Labour minister Bandaru Dattatreya for having written a letter related to the matter.

It is learnt that the Commission felt that Vemula committed sucide because of his "personal frustrations."

In its recommendation, the Commission emphasised that there should be a proper counselling mechanism, not just for students, but also for research scholars.

The sources said that in its recommendations, the Commission also emphasised that there should be proper grievance redressal mechanisms and equal opportunity cells so as to prevent unfortunate incidents like Vemula suicide.(Agencies

Meerut, Oct 6: Rahul Gandhi today targeted Prime Minister NarendraModi over the IDS scheme alleging that he had failed to act against blackmoney despite his talk of "56-inch chest" to fight corruption, and instead brought out a a scheme for turning into white the ill-gotten wealth of "thieves".

The Congress Vice President, who was speaking during his road show on the last day of his monthlong Kisan Yatra from Deoria in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh to Delhi, pressed upon the Modi government to announce a debt waiver for farmers.

Gandhi also took a swipe at ruling Samjwadi Party, saying he will give UP a government of farmers, labourers and people of every religion and caste and not that of a selected few.

Lashing out at Modi government, he said only the Prime Minister and his friends were "happy" as money has come into the pockets of 15 top businessmen and not the farmers, labour and small shopkeepers.

"Modiji had said he has a 56-inch chest and will fight out corruption, but he instead brought out a 'Fair and Lovely scheme' for turning the blackmoney of the country's thieves into white.

"The money has not come into the pockets of farmers, labour and small shopkeepers, but went into those of 15 top businessmen. Only Modiji and his friends are happy," he said.

Modi government had announced Income Declaration Scheme (IDS) -- a one-time opportunity to those with hidden income

Haj pilgrimage out of External Affairs Ministry's domain

The MEA will be looking after pilgrimages to places outside India and the Indian Pilgrim Ships Rules, 1933.

New Delhi, Oct 6: The management of Haj pilgrimage will now be done by the Minority Affairs Ministry instead of the External Affairs Ministry.

President Pranab Mukherjee has given assent to new rules in this regard.

The management of Haj pilgrimage, including administration of the Haj Committee Act, 1959 (51 of 1959) and the rules made thereunder will be under the Minority Affairs Ministry, the new rules is-

sued by the Cabinet Secretariat said.

Earlier, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) was looking after administration of the Haj Committee Act. The MEA will be looking after pilgrimages to places outside India and the Indian Pilgrim Ships Rules, 1933, and pilgrim parties from India to shrines in Pakistan and vice versa excluding the administration of the Haj Committee Act, the new rules said.

(PTI)

Two more Delhi Waqf Board members resign

Troops repulse raid on army UP villagcamp, killing 3 militants; ers boycott foil 3 infiltration bids Srinagar, Oct 6: The army on Thursday repulsed an attack by militants on one of its camps in north Kashmir's Kupwara district, while also foiling three attempts by militants to cross the Line of Control with the backing of Pakistani army posts.

"At around 5am, militants opened firing on an army camp at Langate in Kupwara district, which was retaliated by the alert jawans," an army officer said.

He said there was a stand-off firing for about 15-20 minutes. No casualties were reported in the exchange of fire.

"The troops were alert and the attack was foiled," the officer said.

Meanwhile, the militants again opened fire, this time at the forces who were conducting the search operation, the army officer said.

"There was firing once again on the camp at

6:30am as the forces were conducting the search operation," the officer said.

"Three militants have been killed in the ensuing encounter and three AK 47 rifles have been recovered from the spot," the official said.

He said the operation was on and additional forces have been rushed to the area.

Elsewhere in the state, the army foiled three infiltration bids assisted by Pakistani posts along the Line of Control.

"Three infiltration bids were foiled in two separate sectors on the LoC in Jammu & Kashmir on the intervening night of October 5-6," an army officer said.

He said while two infiltration bids were foiled in Naugam sector, one such attempt was foiled in Rampur sector.

"The infiltration attempts were assisted by Pakistani posts," he said. (PTI)

Assembly polls over no polling centre

Lucknow, Oct 6: The residents of Akhlakpur village here have decided to boycott the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for want of a polling centre.

Leading a group of protesters, gram pradhan Mustakim Ahmad said yesterday that they have decided to boycott the upcoming Assembly elections as the village lacked a polling centre.

He said the villagers have to travel 6 KM to Basaich village to cast votes.

Ahmed added that they have been demanding setting up of a polling centre in Akhlakpur village but the authorities concerned have paid no heed to their pleas.(Agencies)

AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan accused the members of working 'at the behest of' Lt Governor.

New Delhi, Oct 6: Waqf members, Mufti Ejaj Arshad Qazmi and Chaudhary Sharif Ahmad told reporters that they have resigned from the membership of the Board and sent their resignation letters to LG Najeeb Jung.

Two Delhi Waqf Board members on Wednesday announced their resignation from the body alleging "corruption" and "irregularities in appointments" in the regime of present chairman AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan, who denied the charges.

Members, Mufti Ejaj Arshad Qazmi and Chaudhary Sharif Ahmad told reporters that they have resigned from the membership of the Board and sent their resignation letters to Lt Governor

Najeeb Jung.

The duo levelled allegations of "corruption" and "irregularities in appointments" under the regime of present chairman and AAP MLA from Okhla Amantullah Khan.

The Board is under scanner for the alleged irregularities in Khan's chairmanship. The Anti-Corruption Branch of Delhi government is probing a complaint of irregularities.

Refuting the allegations, Khan accused the members of working "at the behest of" Lt Governor.

"It's a new ploy and they are colluding with LG. They wanted me to serve their interests which I refused. Everything will be clear in next few days," Khan said. (PTI)

Rahul Gandhi. to come clean by making the disclosure and paying 45 per cent tax and penalty. After the end of the four-month window on September 30, the government had pegged the disclosed amount at Rs 65,250 crore.

Training his guns on the family-led Samajwadi Party government in the state, Gandhi said, "Uttar

Pradesh will not have a government of just 15 persons. The government here will be of farmers, labour, small shopkeepers, and of people from every religion and caste."

The Congress vice President said he will force the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre for a loan waiver for the distressed farmers.

"We want higher MSP for farmers, we want to waive the farm loans so join me and come to Delhialong with me. We all will pressurise Modiji to waive farm loans.

"In the last two and half years Narendra Modi waived Rs 1.10 lakh crore loan to 15 big corporates.

Then why can't he waive the farmers' loan," he said.

Gandhi's yatra passed through various constituencies in this district and entered Modinagar where he was accorded a rousing welcome by party workers before he headed for Delhi.

He is accompanied by party's chief ministerial face Sheila Dikshit, UPPCC president Raj Babbar and actor-turned politician Nagma.

The Kisan Yatra will end today at Parliament Street in the national capital.(PTI)

BJP demands apology from U'khand Cong chief over surgical Dehradun, Oct 6: Opposition BJP in Uttarakhand today demanded an apology from state Congress President Kishor Upadhyay for casting doubts on Indian Army's surgical strikes on terror launch pads in the PoK. "The PCC president owes an apology to the whole nation for putting the army's action against terrorist camps across LoC under the ambit of doubt. How can he question the veracity of an action carried out by our troops?" Pradesh BJP President and Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Ajay Bhatt told reporters here.

Demanding an apology from Upadhyay for his remarks, Bhatt said if he fails to tender an apology immediatelyCongress president Sonia Gandhi and Vice PresidentRahul Gandhi should initiate ac-

tion against him.

Casting doubts on the veracity of the army's action, Upadhyay had recently termed it as an "election stunt" of Modi government and asked for evidence to substantiate claims about the surgical strikes.

Reacting sharply to Upadhyay's remarks, BJP's youth wing had blackened his posters here yesterday.

Giving details of several programmes worked out by the party at its state executive meeting in Roorkee, Bhatt said the party will conduct a statewide campaign from October 11 to honour exarmymen and their kin in recognition of the sacrifices they make to keep the borders safe.

With a large number of people from Uttarakhand in the armed forces, this is being seen as the

party's move to garner their votes.

The party will also conduct another drive simultaneously during which party workers will go to the countryside and ask the state government to give an account of the funds received from the Centre for development and their utilisation, Bhatt said.

"This is meant to counter the state government's repeated claims about step-motherly treatment of the Congress-ruled state at the hands of the Centre," the BJP leader said.

Bhatt also announced that the party will launch a Parivartan yatra in Uttarakhand on its statehood day anniversary on November 9 to whip up public opinion against Harish Rawat government ahead of 2017 assembly elections.(PTI)

Lankan Navy attacks TN fishermen; sinks boat, snaps nets Rameswaram , Oct 6: Sri Lankan Naval personnel allegedly attacked Tamil Nadufishermen with stones besides ramming and sinking a mechanised boat and destroying fishing nets of several other vessels off Dhanushkodi, a Fishermen Association functionary said today.

The Lankan naval personnel cut fishing nets of about 70 boats and pelted stones and bottles forcing more than 2,000 fishermen to flee and return to the shore here this morning, Tamil Nadu Mechanised Fishermen Association President P Sesuraja told reporters here.

Windscreens of some of the boats suffered damage, he said.

The fishermen from this region had put out to sea in 437 mechanised fishing boats last night and were fishing off Dhanushkodi sea when Lankan Naval personnel allegedly rammed their

vessel against one of the boats, Sesuraja said.

Under the impact of the collision, the boat broke into two pieces and sank, he claimed, adding five fishermen on board were left to struggle in the sea till fellow fishermen rescued them.

The latest incident comes a day after five fishermen from Pudukottai District were detained by Sri Lankan Naval personnel along with their boat.

Condemning the incident, Sesuraja said such an attack taking place when Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was on a visit to India and holding talks with his counterpart Narendra Modi caused deep anguish.

"When the Prime Ministers of the two countries are holding talks, the attack on Indian fishermen has taken place. It causes deep anguish.

The two leaders should find a permanent solution to the recurring prob-

lem," he told PTI. Stating that the livelihood of the state fishermen was at stake, he said the two countries should hold talks and find a permanent solution to the problem of fishing in the Palk Strait.

An early resolution of the issue was important as more than 100 seized boats of Tamil Nadufishermen were anchored in Lankan waters and faced the danger of suffering damage in view of the coming North East monsoon, he added. (reopens MDS5) Meanwhile, several fishermen staged a protest in this town, condemning the attack, and resolved to go on an indefinite strike.

Fishermen here have decided to boycott fishing from today, said General Secretary of Tamil Naduand Puducherry Fishermen Association, MJ Bose.(Agencies)

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7 Clothing Items Men Find Sexy So, by now probably most of you have found a great style that suits you and have learned to edit the trends according to what you like and think that fits your body shape.

You most likely think that what you wear really enhances your assets and makes you look sexy, but what you might see as sexy and your girlfriends think is sexy too, might not be the

same thing that appeals to a man.

We all know that men live in a totally different planet from us and think in a really different way, so it should come with not surprise discovering that men don’t like some of our favorite clothes whereas they literally go crazy for something we have never even thought about.

different and has different tastes, so there might be something that other men like and your bf can’t bare to see and something that he is the only one in the whole wide world who think is sexy, but generally speaking there are a few items and looks that most men love in a woman and think are super sexy.

Of course every man is

Anyhow, the best thing if

Mini skirts

you have a boyfriend is to simply test him on what he likes you to wear and not.

Of course with this I am not saying that you should change your personal style just to adjust to what he likes!

You are not his puppet to control and you have your definite personality, so it’s wrong to do everything just to please him.

What I am saying is rather to know what things he particularly likes about your style, so you will know how to surprise him on your next night out, maybe with a sexy dress that just makes him go crazy and could end up the evening in a high-level bed performance.

So, here are the items that will turn heads everywhere you go and capture the attention of every man!

Short rompers

A timeless classic, invented in the 1960s by Mary Quant, that we all already knew that men loved. Men just go crazy for bare legs, especially if they are really long and lean, so the more you show the better for them.

Men love it when women look simple and effortless, like if they have not put that much thought into their look but still look great in it, and a romper will give you just that effect.

So here I give you the first big rule for dressing for a man: don’t wear clothes that probably cost more than his car.

Don’t make it look like you are high-maintenance as you will just look not very approachable and you will probably scare the poor guy.

A short romper is super comfortable, simple and cute and it also does the big thing that men love, that is showing off your legs!

They especially love tight mini skirts, that not only show the legs, but also the curves of your hips and but. Just be careful not to cross the line into vulgarity, as the risk is very high.

When wearing a mini skirt, follow the general rule of showing just one portion of skin and go for a really high neckline and make sure that your shoulders are covered.

Eat right and stay in great shape What do you do when you feel starved? The easiest thing to do is to grab any junk food. That’s most convenient and happens too often. Isn’t it weird for people to want to be in perfect shape without giving up bad food habits?

We all know that it is not easy to quit the habit, but there is no gain without pain.

Yes, this time you have to choose between a slim body that makes you look beautiful and junk food that satisfies your taste buds. Bad diet will never let you achieve your goal of losing a ton of weight.

Whether it makes you lose or gain weight, it affects your body shape.

Exposed shoulders

Once considered a problem of the rich and high income group, overweight is now dramatically on the rise in low and middle in-

to count calories but also to focus on consuming a more healthy diet.

Researchers state that eating just one additional daily serving of bad food leads to a good amount of weight gain over a period of time.

Hence, quit your bad eating habits with the power of knowing ‘what not to eat’.

Some foods to avoid are: Sugar in beverages: They contain added sugars such as sucrose or fructose, often in large amounts. The calories provided by sweetened drinks have little nutritional value or may not provide the feeling of fullness. As a result, total energy intake may increase which can lead to unhealthy weight gain.

ingredients which are unhealthy. They are also high in refined carbohydrates and low in nutrition and fibre. It requires less energy to digest processed foods.

Refined grains: A higher consumption of refined grains can be unhealthy.

Whole grains that provide fibre make people feel full longer.

Processed seed and vegetable oil: These oils are loaded with omega-6 fats and are a category of polyunsaturated oils. The fact is that vegetable oil takes violent and heavily industrialized processing.

Here’s where the fat part comes in.

Keep a check on your daily favourite foods and round out a healthy diet

Alcoholic drinks: Alcohol may pack on the pounds even more than

Skinny jeans Skinny jeans are not only versatile and easy to wear, but they are also one of the clothing items that turn heads in the street. They show off the curves is a great way and also accentuates a woman’s assets without revealing too much and leaving a lot to the imagination.

They are also the staple item of the rocker look, a look that men find really sexy because it gives a strong, edgy and dominant appeal. They make her look really confident and independent which are other traits that men find really fascinating.

Some men, on the other side, really love a woman dressed in just a pair of skinny jeans and a simple casual t-shirt for a more natural and effortless look.

Workout clothes What I discovered it is really appreciated by men and makes them literally go crazy are workout clothes, and especially yoga pants, that are super fitting and body-hugging!

Ever wondered why men love to watch girls in the gym? Here the mystery is solved, as men associate the workout clothes with being athletic, having a great body, being really energetic and having a lot of sex drive.

Basically while you are working out you are sweating sex out of every pore and men just cannot resist you.

One-shoulder dresses, off-the-shoulder tops, strapless frocks.

Men love to see a bit of shoulder, which are a very sexy area in a woman, and also a bit of the back. It is a very simple way to look sexy without risking to going into vulgarity.

High heels Here again no surprise, as we all know that men adore high heels and they are probably the most sexy items a woman can wear. They elongate the legs making them look thinner and never-ending and they of course make you look taller, which is never a bad thing.

It goes without saying that other types of shoes, such as UGGs for example, are definitely sex killers so it is a no-no if your aim is to capture the attention of a handsome man or make an impression on someone.

Shorts and hotpants Shorts and hotpants again show a lot of legs, which for a man is an immediate call to sex. They especially love them worn with high heels as they will make your legs look super long and gorgeous!

come group also, particularly in urban set ups.

In today’s fashion conscious world, even the most unfashionable knows that shedding that pesky weight will make them look better and add to their confidence and personality.

Only a balanced and healthy diet and a dedicated fitness schedule can help lose excess weight.

However, the way to shedding calories is not simply

you thought. A study revealed that mere three ounces of alcohol reduces fat burning by about a third.

When alcohol is in your system, it becomes harder for your body to burn fat that’s already there.

Potato-based foods: A study has found that potatobased foods have a large effect on weight gain over time compared to other high-calorie foods.

Processed foods: Processed foods are high in sugar and contain artificial

with smart lifestyle choices. Your food habits should not be padding your waist line. Make yourself free of unhealthy diets with slow and steady changes in your lifestyle. Eat the right food in right quantity. Eating behaviour is driven by various biological factors like genetics, hormones and neural circuits. With a strong will power and good knowledge, you can change your bad eating habits to healthy eating which will help you stay in great shape.

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Marcelinho brace helps Delhi Dynamos overpower champions Chennaiyin FC Chennai, Oct 6: Delhi Dynamos FC beat Chennaiyin FC 3-1 at in front of almost 22,000 fans at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai to kick-start their Hero Indian Super League 2016 season with a clinical showing against the defending champions. Marcelinho opened the scoring from the spot in the first half for Delhi before Dudu equalised for Chennai. The Brazilian forward got his second goal of the night shortly after Dudu’s equaliser to make it 2-1 at half-time. Super-sub Badara Badji sealed the win for the Lions in the 84th minute by heading in a Kean Lewis cross from the left.

The hosts had the first shot of the game in just the second minute of the match after Delhi gave away possession at the back. Baljit Sahni was quick to pounce on the loose ball and unleashed a stinging effort that forced Delhi keeper Toni Doblas into a save low to his right.

Bernard Mendy went close to making it 1-0 for the home side seven minutes later

from deep inside their own half found Milan Singh on the edge of Chennai’s box.

The youngster controlled the ball brilliantly before being bought down by Kerr in the 18-yard box for a penalty. Marcelinho stepped up to the spot and sent Kerr the wrong way to make it 1-0 for the Dynamos in the 26th minute.

Players of Delhi celebrating after the massive win. when he headed a Jayesh Rane corner just wide of goal. The Super Machans were at it again a minute later as Jeje Lalpekhlua took a first-time shot at goal that Doblas had to parry away from the danger area.

The visitors responded with a shot of their own in

the 15th minute through Marcelinho. His attempt, however, was directed straight at Duwayne Kerr in Chennai’s goal. The Brazilian forward didn’t have to wait too long though to mark his Hero ISL debut in style.

A superb ball by the Lions

BCCI given one day to accept all Lodha Committee recommendations

The BCCI has been given less than 24 hours to fall in line with the Lodha Committee's recommendations.

New Delhi, Oct 6: The BCCI has been asked by the Supreme Court to give an undertaking by Friday, October 7, that it will "unconditionally" implement all the court-approved recommendations of the Lodha Committee. If the board failed to provide such an undertaking, the Supreme Court indicated it would pass an order on Friday to replace the board's office bearers with a panel of administrators.

The court asked the BCCI's legal counsel Kapil Sibal to check with the board and respond by October 7; Sibal is understood to have asked for more time but the court refused.

"What do you want?" TS Thakur, the Chief Justice of India and head of the three-judge bench hearing the matter, said. "Either we pass orders tomorrow or you give us a statement

that you will abide unconditionally by the recommendations and directions of the Lodha Committee."

The latest developments in the tussle between the BCCI and the Lodha Committee took place in the Supreme Court on Thursday. The court was hearing the BCCI's response to the status report filed by the Lodha Committee last week, which recommended that the BCCI office bearers be superseded because they were impeding the implementation of the recommendations passed by a Supreme Court order on July 18.

There was a dramatic turn of events towards the final half hour of the hearing. Sibal's argument that the BCCI needed approval from two thirds of its member associations, according to the Tamil Nadu Societies Act under which the board was incorpo-

rated, received sharp response from Chief Justice Thakur.

Thakur said the BCCI had been the "face" and "forefront" of defiance against the Lodha Committee's recommendations. "You are giving the lead to the associations," he said.

"You are trying to obstruct the Lodha panel."

His suggestion to the BCCI in response to its members' resistance was to either block their funding or to debar them.

At that point, Thakur gave the BCCI an ultimatum: agree to push through the recommendations, agree to discuss with the Lodha panel and "stop wasting our time."

The BCCI then asked for time until October 17, keeping in mind that the court will take a 11-day break next week, but the request was denied. Sibal was asked whether he could give the BCCI's undertaking of acceptance

by Friday, and when he said it was not possible because the board needed approval from its state associations, he was told: If you don't implement the recommendations, we will pass the orders."

Justice Thakur reminded the BCCI and the state associations that their money was public money. He warned that funds would be stopped to states that did not want to accept the Lodha Committee's recommendations. (Agencies)

The Super Machans took just six minutes to equalise through Dudu after the Nigerian striker ran beyond the Delhi backline with the ball before powering in a left-footed shot past Doblas in goal to make it 11.

The euphoria in the stadium surrounding the equaliser didn’t last long though thanks to another delightful ball that played Marcelinho in on goal. He finished expertly again with a first-time effort to make it 2-1 for the Lions and leave the home faithful stunned.

Marcelinho could have had a hat-trick before half-time but an alert Kerr was quick off his line to foil the dan-

ger as the Dynamos headed into the break with a 2-1 lead.

Delhi started to control the tempo of the match in the second half as the reigning champions went in search of their second equaliser of the game. Dudu nearly got his second goal of the night for Chennai near the hour mark after Doblas came charging off his line to clear a cross. The Spanish custodian failed to make a proper connection with his attempted clearance to give Dudu an opportunity to head into an open net.

Dudu, however, failed to keep his header on target much to the relief of the Lions fans and Doblas in goal.

The result was put beyond all dispute in the 84th minute after Lewis cut in from the left flank to deliver a right-footed cross for substitute Badji, who headed past Kerr in goal to make it 3-1 for the Dynamos and help them start their campaign with a comfortable win over the reigning champions. (Agencies)

Bhullar maintains form, takes lead in Jakarta; Atwal third

Gaganjeet Bhullar Jakarta, Oct 6: There was a strong Indian flavour on the leaderboard at the Indonesian Masters as Gaganjeet Bhullar returned a six-under-par 66 to take a share of the clubhouse lead with Gunn Charoenkul of Thailand while Arjun Atwal was in third place, here on Thursday.

Atwal, who last won in Dubai in 2014, carded fiveunder 67 to be two hosts behind Bhullar and Gunn.

Shiv Kapur, coming off a bout of jaundice, showed he was on good way to recovery with a four-under 68 that temporarily placed him Tied-sixth and Jeev Milkha Singh (69) was T-14.

Khalin Joshi, Himmat Rai and Jyoti Randhawa carded 70 each to be T-26, while Chiragh Kumar finished with 72.

However among those Indians, yet to finish the round was Anirban Lahiri, a former winner here, as he was way behind at three-over through 17.

Coming off a victory in Korea last week, Bhullar pro-

duced a flawless round. He overcame early nerves to produce a fine round highlighted by three straight birdies from the 12 hole.

He added another birdie on hole 16 and returned with birdies on seven and nine to stay atop the leaderboard.

"It was a bogey free round and at the end of the day, that s the target. I'm trying to repeat what I did last week.

In the beginning I was a bit nervous. Coming straight after a victory, your mental aspect is slightly different.

You try to go for a par and try not to attack the pins," said Bhullar a six-time Asian Tour winner.

"I putted really well today especially on 12, 13 and 14 (birdies) and those were all from 10 or 15 feet which I holed," he added.

Atwal, a former Asian Tour number one and first Indian to win on the PGA Tour, was a further shot back on 67 at the $750,000 event staged at the Royale Jakarta Golf Club.(PTI)

Pakistan ready for World Cup push, says Azhar Ali Abu Dhabi, Oct 6: Pakistan's one-day skipper Azhar Ali insisted on Thursday that his fast developing team is well set to qualify directly for the 2019 World Cup. Pakistan whitewashed the West Indies 3-0 with a convincing 136-run win in the third and final one-dayer on Wednesday.

The series win lifted Pakistan one place to eighth in the current rankings and relegating the West Indies to ninth in the fight for a direct berth at the World Cup finals in three years' time.

Hosts England and the top

seven teams in the one-day rankings on September 30 next year will get a direct place in the World Cup. The bottom four teams in the standings will be joined by six Associate sides in a 10team qualifying round in 2018 from where only two teams will qualify.

Ali said the win over West Indies was important in the quest for a World Cup place.

"It was an important series and it's just the start of more challenges," said Ali. "We have to keep this improvement with one year to go for the (World Cup 2019) dead-

line."

Since the 2015 World Cup, Pakistan had slumped to ninth after being routed 3-0 in Bangladesh and suffering defeats against England (in the United Arab Emirates last year and in England) and New Zealand.But Ali believes the confidence level of the players was But Ali believes the confidence level of the players was high after the series win over the struggling West Indies. "We have good players who have gelled well," said Ali, who singled out batsman Babar Azam for

his three successive hundreds. "Babar (Azam) stood out in this series and to score consistently with back-to-back hundreds shows that he has that hunger. He has given a world class performance," said Ali of the 21-year-old.

Azam scored 120, 123 and 117 in the three matches to become only the third Pakistani and eighth batsmen in all one day cricket to hit three consecutive hundreds. Ali credited new head coach Mickey Arthur with the improvements.

"Mickey has an important

role," said Ali of the former South African and Australian coach who took over in May this year. "It's a full team and the credit also goes to the selection committee, fielding coach Steve Rixon, physio Grant Luden and (batting coach) Grant Flower - all have contributed a lot so it's a full team."

Pakistan's next one-day series will be in Australia early next year and Ali feels his team has the potential to do well. "We can challenge Australia as well because we have new players who are match winners."(PTI)

"I got a 24-month suspension, but they (the ITF) wanted four years for me," Maria Sharapova said.

ITF blasts Sharapova for 'making example of me' doping rap London, Oct 6: The International Tennis Federation (ITF) blasted Maria Sharapova on Wednesday after she said that the governing body was attempting to make an example of her during her bitter doping ban.

The 29-year-old Russian superstar, who had a twoyear suspension slashed to 15 months on Tuesday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), also said the ITF exhibited a lack of neutrality in the dispute.

In an interview with the US broadcaster PBS the world's highest-earning sportswoman was asked that as a former world number one and five-time major winner, if the ITF was trying to make an example of her.

"I never wanted to believe that, but I am starting to think that," said the Russian.

"I got a 24-month suspension, but they (the ITF) wanted four years for me."

But the London-based ITF hit back on Wednesday, defending its procedures and the tribunal which originally handed down a two-year ban after Sharapova tested positive for meldoniumat the Australian Open in January.

"The ITF did not 'try to ban Ms Sharapova for four years'. The ITF took the position that it is the independent tribunal's responsibility to determine

what the appropriate sanction should be," said a statement from the governing body released to the British Press Association.

"This included the decision as to whether Ms Sharapova met the requirements set out in the tennis anti-doping programme -- which are the same as those in the WADA code -- for a reduction from the default four-year suspension for the use of a non-specified substance such as meldonium."

Sharapova also claimed the ITF were not neutral in their deliberations.

"I went through the ITF hearing, which was in front of an arbitration (panel) which was chosen by the ITF," she said.

"I am at a hearing (in London) knowing the people I am speaking to were chosen by the people that I am actually in a fight with.

"They call that neutral?

That is not neutral. CAS is neutral and this is what CAS has awarded to me."

The ITF hit back in their statement, insisting that Sharapova and her legal team had the right to object to any member of the independent tribunal.

"The members of the independent tribunal, which consisted of a barrister as chairman and medical and scientific experts as comembers, are appointed by the ITF," their state-

HIGHLIGHTS Sharapova's two-year suspension slashed to 15 months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

The CAS decision means Sharapova will be able to return to action on the WTA Tour next April.

Sharapova had admitted using meldonium for 10 years to help treat illnesses. ment added.

"However, Ms Sharapova's legal team was given the opportunity to object to any member of that tribunal, and they agreed in writing that they had no such objection."

Sharapova had admitted using meldonium for 10 years to help treat illnesses, a heart issue and a magnesium deficiency.

She said she was unaware though that the substance had been added to the banned list by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on January 1, shortly before her positive test.

The CAS decision means Sharapova will be able to return to action on the WTA Tour next April.

She will, however, be back on court as soon as next Monday when she takes part in a fundraiser event in Las Vegas. (PTI)

UAE-based Indian Rayhan Thomas best placed golfer in Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship Incheon, Oct 6: Dubaibased Rayhan Thomas was the best-placed Indian golfer at tied 7th after carding an eventful two-fewer than 70 in the opening round of the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, which guarantees the winner a start at the Masters next year.

Among those tied with Thomas was Australian Curtis Luck, the US Amateur winner and runner-up at World Amateurs in Mexico.

Thomas was five behind leader Australian Cameron Davis, who was last year thwarted from winning the title by rain on final day.

Davis had eight birdies in a superb seven-under 65 for a two-shot lead over Yuwa Kosaihara, who has made cuts in his last two starts in pro events on Japan Tour, and fellow Aussie Brett Coletta (67).

Thomas was the only Indian in red numbers, while

Chandigarh golfer Yuvraj Sandhu gave a good account of himself with an even par 72 for Tied-16th and among those tied with him was defending champion Cheng Jin of China.

Kshitij Naveed Kaul, the youngest in the Indian squad at 16, after finding his first birdie only on the 14th hole, rounded off the day with a second birdie for a 74 that placed him tied 29th.

The other Indians struggled as Mangaloreborn Rigel Fernandes, now at University of South Florida, dropped three shots in last three holes for a 76, while Viraj Madappa, whose golf bag arrived two days after he did from Texas, was undone by a quadruple and shot a similar 76 in tied 50th.

Priyanshu Singh, the All India Amateur champion, had a nightmarish finish with six bogeys in last seven holes for a 79.

The 17-year-old Thomas

produced a great fight back after being three-over through three holes.

"I had seven birdies and I came back with a two-under, so there are mixed feelings. But after the way I started with three bogeys in a row from 10th to 12th, I am very happy with the finish, which had three birdies in last three," said Thomas.

Three bogeys in first three holes threatened to derail Thomas' bid, but a par on par-three 13th stemmed the rot. Then he wiped out the bogeys with a streak of three birdies from 14th to 16th.

"That gave me a lot of confidence, as I turned in even par. The second nine was better. A birdie on second before I lapsed into two bogeys. But I was happy with the way I finished with three more birdies in last three holes," said Thomas, whose firm downhill putt from 12 feet on 18th saw him card 70. (PTI)

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