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Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hand with Nepal Prime
Minister KP Sharma Oli in New Delhi. —FILE PHOTO
MODI WISHES NEPAL PM ALL THE BEST
BEFORE KIDNEY TRANSPLANT
Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli would undergo his second kidney transplantation procedure later in the week. —FILE PHOTO
Rupani Govt extends deadline to avail agri scheme benefits till April 30
First India News
Gandhinagar: Keep-
ing the interests of
the farmers at heart,
the Viay Rupani Gov-
ernment wishes that
the maximum bene-
fits of various agri-
culture schemes
reaches most farmers
and so has extended
the deadline to file on-
line forms for these
schemes till April 30.
Chief Minister Vijay
Rupani has taken one
more step to reach out
to farmers. Normally to
avail any government
scheme, one has to ap-
ply within stipulated
time period and this has
to be March 31 of the
year. But, this time the
government has extend-
ed the deadline to file
forms till April 30.
To avail the agricul-
ture scheme benefits,
the farmers will have
to visit www.ikhedut.
gujarat.gov.in and file
forms online.
The state govern-
ment in its 2020-21 budg-
et has allocated Rs 7,423
crore for agriculture,
farmers welfare and co-
operatives. Last year
when the farmers had
suffered huge loss due
to unseasonal rains, the
state government had
announced the biggest
ever agricultural pack-
age of Rs 3,795 crore.
Farmers of the
State avail short term
crop loans of approx-
imately Rs 39,000
crore every year from
the cooperative as
well as nationalized
banks. The entire in-
terest component of
the loan is borne
jointly by the State
and the Central gov-
ernments. Thus,
farmers of Gujarat
avail crop-loan at zero
per cent interest. A
provision of Rs 1,000
crore has been made
for this purpose.
It has allocated Rs 235
crore to provide subven-
tion to 29,000 farmers
for procuring tractors
and to 32,000 farmers for
procuring various im-
plements under farm
mechanization. It has
allocated of Rs 12 crore
for setting up Gujarat
Organic Agricultural
University, the first in
the country at Halol in
Panchmahal District.
The state govern-
ment made provision
of Rs 750 crore for in-
tensifying agricultur-
al research and edu-
cational programme
at Agricultural Uni-
versity.
The Rupani govern-
ment is thoughtfully
giving priority to the
agriculture sector as it
wishes to meet the aspi-
rations of farmers. So,
on the farmers demand
it has decided to lay
down infrastructure to
provide power supply to
agriculture consumer
during day time. For
this, it has planned to
invest Rs 3,500 crore in
the next three years and
for the 2020-21 financial
year it has made provi-
sion of Rs 500 crore.
Last Friday, the
Chief Minister, on the
floor of the House, as-
sured that farmers
living on the bounda-
ries of sanctuary will
be accorded priority
in day time power
supply scheme.Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. —FILE PHOTO
rime Min-
ister Nar-
endraModi
on Monday
wished a
successful surgery
and speedy recovery
to his Nepalese coun-
terpart KP Sharma
Oli. The Nepalese
Prime Minister is to
undergo his second
kidney transplanta-
tion procedure on
March 4. Prime Minis-
ter Modi also ex-
pressed that he looks
forward to working
with KP Sharma Oli.
Oli will reportedly be
admitted to the Tribhu-
wan University Teach-
ing Hospital (TUTH) in
Maharajgung on Mon-
day itself for the kid-
ney transplant, Nepal
Communist Party
(NCP) Spokesperson
Narayankaji Shrestha
had said.
67-year-old Oli had
last undergone a kid-
ney transplant in In-
dia in 2007 after both
his kidneys failed to
function. Since then,
he has travelled
abroad on several oc-
casions for health-
checkups and has un-
dergone multiple
rounds of dialysis.
Oli had undergone an
appendicitis surgery in
November 2019 and was
kept on the ventilator
for a while. It was after
his condition improved
that he was taken off of
the ventilator. The Nep-
alese PM had also un-
dergone regular dialy-
sis as his transplanted
kidney has stopped
functioning. He spent
about 10 days in the hos-
pital. Also, the Nepal
PM had undergone four
cycles of hemodialysis
(procedure of purifying
the blood of a person
whose kidneys aren’t
working normally) at
Grande International
Hospital of Nepal. —PTI
P Narendra Modi
@narendramodi
My dear friend @
kpsharmaoli ji, wishing
you a successful
surgery and a speedy
recovery. May Lord
Pashupatinath bless you
always with good health,
happiness and a very
long life. Look forward
to your continued
contribution to taking
India-Nepal relations to
new heights.

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SUSTAINING ALL LIFE ON EARTH
O
n 20 December 2013, at its 68th
session, the United Nations Gen-
eral Assembly (UNGA) pro-
claimed 3 March – the day of sig-
nature of the Convention on International
Trade in Endangered Species of Wild
Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1973 – as UN
World Wildlife Day to celebrate and raise
awareness of the world’s wild animals and
plants.
The UNGA resolution also designated
the CITES Secretariat as the facilitator for
the global observance of this special day
for wildlife on the UN calendar. World
Wildlife Day has now become the most im-
portant global annual event dedicated to
wildlife.
World Wildlife Day will be celebrated in
2020 under the theme “Sustaining all life
on Earth”, encompassing all wild animal
and plant species as key components of the
world’s biodiversity. This aligns with UN
Sustainable Development Goals 1, 12, 14
and 15, and their wide-ranging commit-
ments on alleviating poverty, ensuring sus-
tainable use of resources, and on conserv-
ing life both on land and below water to
halt biodiversity loss.
Earth is home to countless species of
fauna and flora – too many to even attempt
counting. This rich diversity, and the bil-
lions of years during which its myriad ele-
ments have interacted, are precisely what
has made our planet inhabitable for all
living creatures, including humans. His-
torically, we have depended on the con-
stant interplay and interlinkages between
all elements of the biosphere for all our
needs: the air we breathe, the food we eat,
the energy we use, and the materials we
need for all purposes. However, unsustain-
able human activities and overexploita-
tion of the species and natural resources
that make up the habitats and ecosystems
of all wildlife are imperiling the world’s
biodiversity. Nearly a quarter of all species
are presently at risk of going extinct in the
coming decades, and their demise would
only speed up the disappearance of count-
less others, putting us in danger as well.
On World Wildlife Day, we will celebrate
the special place of wild plants and ani-
mals in their many varied and beautiful
forms as a component of the world’s bio-
logical diversity. We will work to raise
awareness of the multitude of benefits of
wildlife to people, particularly to those
communities who live in closest proximity
to it, and we will discuss the threats they
are facing and the urgent need for govern-
ments, civil society, private sector actors
and individuals to add their voices and
take actions to help conserve wildlife and
ensure its continued use is sustainable.
M
adhya Pradesh, the tiger state of
India has reiterated its focus on
wildlifetourismandstrengthening
its ongoing efforts towards combating the
threats of climate change and global warm-
ingbyfocusingonwildlifeconservationand
upliftment of forest dwellers.
Thestatewillalsobefocusingoncreating
favourable conditions for the conservation
of tigers especially the endangered Bengal
Tiger and the rare White Tiger. Madhya
Pradesh ranks first in the country with 526
tigers as per the results of the All India Ti-
ger Assessment declared on July 29, 2019.
Sustained tiger conservation efforts have
paidrichdividendsinMPwherethepopula-
tion of the big cat registered a healthy rise
of 218 in four years from 308 tigers in 2014
to 526 in the 2018 census.
The State has six tiger reserves (combin-
ing parts of National Parks and Wildlife
Sanctuaries) namely Kanha, Pench, Sat-
pura, Bandhavgarh, Panna and Sanjay.
The state also plans to create around 11
more protected areas within the state from
the current numbers of 24 wildlife sanctu-
aries and 11 national parks.
“Madhya Pradesh is referred to as wild-
life state of India with numerous sanctuar-
ies and reserves. At a time where the num-
bers of many animal species are declining,
Madhya Pradesh has played a pivotal part
in India’s wildlife conservation programs.
As the World Wildlife Day approaches on
March 3, we would like to reiterate our
commitment to protecting endangered
wildlife, especially tigers through a scien-
tific, planned and people-centric approach
with strict enforcement guidelines and
team support,” said Faiz Ahmed Kidwai
(IAS), Secretary Tourism, Govt of Mad-
hya Pradesh and Managing Director, Mad-
hya Pradesh Tourism Board.
“From preserving tiger population, to
being the state with the highest leopard,
vultures and gharial (an ‘endemic’ croco-
dile species) population to having success-
fully increased the population of the
highly endangered Barasingha (a hard
ground swamp deer), Madhya Pradesh
has come a long way in protecting the
natural order and habitat for animals. It
has implemented many important conser-
vation policies and ensured a crackdown
on poaching,” he further added.
Six of the 11 national parks of Madhya
Pradesh are also integrated with Project
Tiger, a conservation programme that
was launched in 1973 by the Central Gov-
ernment when the tiger numbers had
dwindled so dramatically that there were
fears that the big cat was in danger of ex-
tinction.
MP reiterates focus
on wildlife tourism
World Wildlife Day
will be celebrated
under the theme
“Sustaining all life
on Earth”,
encompassing all
wild animals and
plant species as key
components of the
world’s biodiversity
WILDLIFE MOVIES YOU CAN’T MISS
Based on Joy Adamson’s
non-fiction book (1960)
of the same name. From
three lion cubs that were
rescued (two of which got
sent to Rotterdam Zoo in
Netherlands) to raising
the third one—Elsa the
lioness—well into matu-
rity and everything that is
in between belonging to
the wild and being around
human settlement, this
movie warms one’s heart
from the beginning till the
end. Now an adult lion-
ess, Elsa gets into trouble
with villagers for which
the Adamsons face the
pressure of either sending
Elsa to a zoo or back in
the wild. Zoo being out of
question, in three months’
time, the Adamsons work
hard on reintroducing
Elsa to the wild.
A Dog’s Purpose is a
2017 American comedy-
drama adventure film
directed by Lasse
Hallström and written
by W. Bruce Cameron,
Cathryn Michon, Audrey
Wells, Maya Forbes, and
Wally Wolodarsky, based
on the 2010 novel of the
same name by W. Bruce
Cameron. The film stars
Britt Robertson, KJ Apa,
Juliet Rylance, John Ortiz,
Kirby Howell-Baptiste,
Peggy Lipton (in her final
film before her death in
2019), Dennis Quaid, and
Josh Gad. The film, like
the book, tells the story
of a devoted dog who is
looking for his rightful
purpose and wants to
fulfill it.
Hachi: A
Dog’s Tale
is a 2009
drama film
that is a
remake of
the 1987
Japanese
film Hachik
Monoga-
tari, which
follows the
true story
of the Akita
dog named
Hachik. It
was directed
by Lasse
Hallström,
written by
Stephen
P. Lindsey
and Kaneto
Shindo, and
stars Richard
Gere, Joan
Allen and Sa-
rah Roemer.
BORN FREE (1966) HACHI: A DOG’S TALE (2009)
A DOG’S
PURPOSE (2017)
Life of Pi is a 2012 adventure drama film based
on Yann Martel’s 2001 novel of the same name.
Directed by Ang Lee, the film’s adapted screen-
play was written by David Magee. The storyline
revolves around an Indian man named “Pi” Patel,
telling a novelist about his life story, and how at
16 he survives a shipwreck and is adrift in the
Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.
The film had its worldwide premiere as the open-
ing film of the 51st New York Film Festival at both
the Walter Reade Theater and Alice Tully Hall in
New York City on September 28, 2012.
LIFE OF PI
(2012)
THE JUNGLE BOOK (2016)
The Jungle Book is a 2016 Ameri-
can fantasy adventure film directed
and produced by Jon Favreau, pro-
duced by Walt Disney Pictures, and
written by Justin Marks. Based on
Rudyard Kipling’s eponymous col-
lective works and inspired by Walt
Disney’s 1967 animated film of the
same name, The Jungle Book is a
live-action/CGI film that tells the
story of Mowgli, an orphaned hu-
man boy who, guided by his animal
guardians, sets out on a journey
of self-discovery while evading the
threatening Shere Khan.
DUMA (2005)
Duma is a 2005 American fam-
ily drama adventure film about a
young South African boy’s friend-
ship with an orphaned cheetah,[1]
set in the country of South Africa
and based on How It Was with
Dooms by Carol Cawthra Hopcraft
and Xan Hopcraft. It was directed
by Carroll Ballard and stars Alex-
ander Michaletos, Eamonn Walker,
Campbell Scott and Hope Davis.
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR
DRAGON (2010)
How to Train Your Dragon is a
2010 American computer-animated
action fantasy film loosely based
on the 2003 book of the same
name by British author Cressida
Cowell, produced by DreamWorks
Animation and distributed by Para-
mount Pictures. The story takes
place in a mythical Viking world
where a young Viking teenager
named Hiccup aspires to follow
his tribe’s tradition of becoming a
dragon slayer.

Delhi rumours: 1880 distress
calls, 40 arrested, say cops
New Delhi: Maximum
number of distress
calls were received by
the police from West
Delhi, Dwarka, and
Outer Delhi after ru-
mours of violence
spread across parts of
the national capital
on Sunday. 481 calls
were received from
west Delhi, followed
by 310 from Dwarka
and 22 from Outer
Delhi, said Delhi Po-
lice. (Total 1880 calls).
A total of 40 persons
, 21 from Northwest dis-
trict, 1 from Rohini dis-
trict and 18 from South
district, have also been
arrested for rumour-
mongering so far. The
death toll in the vio-
lence in northeast Del-
hi which broke out last
week rose to 47 on Mon-
day afternoon.
On the first day of the
Budget Session, Con-
gress, TMC and Aam
AAP MPs staged sepa-
rate dharnas over the
violence in northeast
Delhi last week. Con-
gress leaders Rahul
Gandhi, Adhir Ranjan
Choudhary, Shashi Tha-
roor and Turn on P5
‘Thinking of giving up my social
media accounts this Sunday’
New Delhi: Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi, one of the most
followed personali-
ties in India, said he
was thinking of giv-
ing up his social me-
dia accounts. “This
Sunday, thinking of
giving up my social
media accounts on Fa-
cebook, Twitter, Ins-
tagram & YouTube,”
PM Modi tweeted late
on Monday evening.
“Will keep you all
posted,” PM Modi said.
PM Modi, who is
among the most-fol-
lowed political leaders
in the world on Twit-
ter, has 53.3 million
followers on the social
microblogging site.
He is the most fol-
lowed leader on Face-
book and Instagram,
with 44 million fol-
lowing his page on
Facebook and 35.2
million following him
on photo and video
sharing app Insta-
gram. On YouTube,
he has 4.5 million
subscribers.ThePrime
Minister did not ex-
plain the reasons that
provoked Turn on P5
Raj reports first
positive case of
CORONAVIRUS
First India News
Jaipur: An Italian
tourist tested positive
for coronavirus on
Monday and his blood
samples are being sent
to the National Insti-
tute of Virology in
Puneforconfirmation.
The first sample col-
lected Saturday tested
negative but his con-
dition deteriorated,
Health Minister
Raghu Sharma said.
The minister said a
second sample was
them collected and he
tested positive for the
virus, according to the
report received on
Monday.
He has been put
in isolation
ward of SMS
Hospital. His samples
will be sent again for
testing since two different
results were found in
different tests.
Raghu Sharma,
Rajasthan Health Minister
Screening of
passengers is
being conducted
at 21 airports, 12 major
seaports & 65 minor
seaports. We advise
Indians to avoid non-
essential travel to China,
Iran, Korea, Singapore.
Harsh Vardhan,
Union Health Minister
TWO POSITIVE
CASES IN INDIA
New Delhi: Two fresh
cases have been detected
in India. While one patient
belongs to New Delhi and
had travelled from Italy, the
other belongs to Telangana
and had visited Dubai.
‘Both the patients are
stable and being closely
monitored,’ a statement
from the Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare stated.
POLLUTION DIPS
IN WUHAN: NASA
Washington: Nasa satellite
images show a dramatic
fall in pollution over China
that is “partly related” to
the economic slowdown
due to the coronavirus
outbreak, the space agency
said. The reduction in
nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
pollution was first noticed
near Wuhan, the epicentre
of the outbreak.
SC to hear plea to free
Omar Abdullah on Mar 5
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court declined
to accept the Centre’s
a r g u -
m e n t s
against a
petition
filed by
Sara Ab-
d u l l a h
Pilot to challenge the
detention of her broth-
er Omar Abdullah and
listed the case for final
hearing on Thursday.
KK Venugopal, the
Centre’s to Turn on P5
‘ABDULLAH,
THREAT TO
PUBLIC ORDER’
“Omar Abdullah has been
a very vocal critic of any
possible abrogation of
Article 370 prior to its
abrogation in August 5,
2019, considering the
very peculiar geopolitical
position of Jammu and
Kashmir and Ladakh and
its geographical proximity
with Pakistan, the concept
of “public order” needs to
be examined contextually,”
stated the affidavit
submitted by Srinagar
District Magistrate.
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INDIA LOST 2ND TEST BY 7 WICKETS IN
LESS THAN 3 DAYS, BUNDLED OUT FOR
242 RUNS IN THEIR 1ST INNINGSP7 P9
UNION MINISTER SMRITI IRANI ALLEGED
THAT CONGRESS MPS IN LS MISBEHAVED
WITH BJP WOMEN MEMBERS
OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR & AHMEDABAD
Cong offers Nitin Patel CM’s post if he quits with 20 MLAs
Haresh Jhala
Gandhinagar: In a
stinging taunt at the
known differences be-
tween Chief Minister
Vijay Rupani and
Deputy Chief Minis-
ter Nitin Patel, the
Opposition Congress
on Monday offered
the latter the chief
minister’s post if he
joins the party and
accepts its ideology.
Senior legislator of
the Congress party Vir-
ji Thummar, who made
the offer to the Deputy
Chief Minister, said, “I
am making this offer in
a personal capacity, that
if Nitin Patel quits BJP,
along with 20 MLAs,
and is ready to accept
Congress ideology of
secularism and ideolo-
gy for poor, farmers and
youth, the party will
support him as the CM
of Gujarat.”
Thummar went on,
“Like we have support-
ed the Shiv Sena in
Maharashtra and the
Mahagathbandhan
government is run-
ning well, Nitin Patel’s
dream can come true,
with our support.”
“On Saturday, in a so-
cial function, Nitin Pa-
tel had said, he is alone
and all are against him
in BJP. Patel is a very
good person and works
for people and if he feels
lonely in the BJP, we are
ready to support him
provided he quits and
joins us 20 BJP MLAs. I
can convince my party
to extend Patel the nec-
essary support,” the
senior MLA asserted.
Earlier, Congress
Legislative Party
Deputy leader
Shailesh Parmar had
also claimed that BJP
MLAs, who are un-
happy with the party
and the government,
are going to join the
Congress soon.
OnFriday,Ministerof
State for Home Prad-
ipsinh Jadeja had of-
feredCongressMLAGu-
labsinh Rajput to join
BJP.Thisofferwasmade
on the floor of the house.
Such offers are likely to
continue till the March
26RajyaSabhaelections.Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel. —FILE PHOTO
KALSARIA TO BE CONG RS CANDIDATE?
Tihar authorities, during
the hearing, said the ball
is in the government's
court after the filing of the
mercy petition, and the
judge has no role for now.
They said the President
will seek a status report
from the jail on Pawan's
mercy plea and when that
happens, it will suo motu
stay the execution.
The court had on
February 17Â ordered that
the four convicts-Mukesh
Kumar Singh (32), Pawan
Gupta (25)Vinay Kumar
Sharma (26) and Akshay
Kumar Singh (31) —be
hanged on March 3 after
it issued fresh death
warrants,observing that
deferring the execution
any further would be
"sacrilegious" to the
rights of the victim for
expeditious justice.
This was for the third
time that the death
warrants were issued by
the court against them.
The court had noted that
death warrants were earlier
issued on January 7 and
the execution was later
deferred twice- on January
17 and January 31.
The first date of
execution, January
22, was postponed to
February 1 by a January
17 court order. Then, the
trial court on January
31, stayed, 'till further
orders' the execution of
the four convicts as they
had not exhausted all
their legal remedies.
CASE
IN
POINT
New Delhi: Delhi judge Dhar-
mendra Rana on Monday,
stopped the execution of the
four Delhi gang-rape con-
victs, barely 13 hours before
the four were to walk to the
gallows at Tihar prison to-
day morning.
The judge ruled that a last-
minute mercy petition filed
by Pawan Gupta - the last of
the four to file the plea - is
still pending with Rashtra-
pati Bhavan.
“I am of the opinion that the
death sentence cannot be exe-
cuted pending the disposal of
the mercy petition of the con-
vict. It is hereby directed that
the execution of death warrants
against all the convicts sched-
uled for 03.03.2020 at 6 am if de-
ferred till further orders,”
the judge said in his order.
Reacting to stay on
the executions for the
third time, the victim’s
mother blamed the
“failure of the system
and the government.”
“This is the failure of
the system and the gov-
ernment which has led to
the delay of the execu-
tion. Till the time the con-
victs are not hanged, Iwill
not be relieved.”she said.
Earlier on Monday, the judge
had rejected Pawan’s request to
stop the executions yet again
but reserved the order because
the convict had petitioned the
President to commute his death
sentence to life imprisonment.
Pawan Gupta’s lawyer AP
Singh had filed the mercy plea
shortly after the Supreme
Court dismissed the con-
vict’s curative petition Mon-
day morning. A curative
petition is the last judicial
resort available to a convict
for redressal against the fi-
nal judgment.
The Supreme Court had
dismissed curative petitions
filed by two other convicts,
Mukesh Singh and Vinay
Sharma on January 14. The
curative petition filed by the
third convict, Akshay Thakur
was dismissed on January 30.
Earlier on Monday, Justice
Rana also underlined during
the hearing that Pawan Gup-
ta had missed the seven-day
deadline that the Delhi High
Court had set last month for
the convicts to avail their le-
gal remedies.
The court had first issued
the death warrant against
the four convicts on January
7, 2020 and scheduled their
execution on January 22.
The execution date was post-
poned twice, first to Febru-
ary 1 and then to March 3.
In December 2012, five men
and a juvenile had raped and
brutalised a young para-medic
student in a moving bus in Delhi
before throwing her and a male
friend out of the vehicle. The
victim later died of injuries a
fortnight later in a Singapore
hospital. One of the accused
committed suicide in Tihar jail
during the trial. Turn on P5
This shows the
failure of our
system. The whole
world is watching
how justice is
being delayed in
India.I lose hope
every day but I
stand tall
everyday. They
would have to be
hanged. There
could not have
been a worse case
than Nirbhaya
but still I am
struggling to get
justice. The courts
are sitting and
watching the
drama.
Asha Devi,
Nirbhaya's mother
HANG IN
SHAME
THE MERCY PETITION OF ONE OF THE CONVICTS,
PAWAN GUPTA, IS PENDING WITH PRESIDENT RAM
NATH KOVIND, SO THEY HAVE NOT EXHAUSTED
ALL THEIR LEGAL OPTIONS,THE JUDGE RULED

GUJARATAHMEDABAD | TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2020
GUP
SHUP
NITINBHAI KO GUSSA
KYUN AATA HAI?
If you happen to meet Deputy CM Nitin Patel,
you would probably think that he is a jolly good
fellow. But his quick temper might be his folly. He
recently lost his temper at a social function, while
he was surrounded by MLAs and the media. Talking
to someone about the General Resolution and the
LRD exam, the minister was seen exchanging angry
words. Well, temper is a fickle thing, it can flare at
any moment. You have been forewarned!
HAPPY
DE-WEEDING!
Mosquitoes have
wreaked havoc
at the yard near Aji II
river in Rajkot.Every
day a team of around
15-29 people battle
with the little suckers
to defeat them, to no
avail. Because their
breeding ground
needs to be de-
weeded and there is
only one machine at
work. Hope they can
find another one soon
or it will take three
whole months to get
the work done!
GAME OF
CHAIRS
Renovation work is
currently underway
at the Ahmedabad
Police Commissioner’s
office. New chairs
have been ordered to
replace the old ones.
But there is this one
chair that two officers
are quarrelling over.
Both of them want the
chair for themselves
so, for the past two
days, a game of hide-
and-seek seems to
have ensued between
the two. We hope the
winner gets the chair!
BLISSFUL IGNORANCE
We all know that the State Assembly session
is underway these days. But it’s more like a
classroom full of people. Few members of the House
asked questions like what medicine should be taken
if someone has elephant leg? What benefits can one
avail of by setting up a unit in GIDC? Seems like
our MLAs themselves are unaware of the schemes
being run by the government. May God grant them
enlightenment (at least about the schemes).
Woman accuses
hubby of adultery
First India News
Ahmedabad: A wom-
an has filed a complaint
at Sarkhej police sta-
tion against her hus-
band Kunal Soni, a
resident of Bopal, for
allegedly cheating on
her by having an extra-
marital affair with an-
other woman.
In her complaint, Pri-
yanka Soni, said that
her husband of eight
years Kunal had been
involved in several ex-
tramarital affairs. The
couple have a 4-year-old
daughter and have been
married since 2012. Ini-
tially, after discovering
her husband’s infidelity,
she left him and moved
out of their house. Lat-
er, she received written
assurance from her hus-
band that he would
change his ways. How-
ever, she allegedly later
found out that he was
still involved in extra-
marital affairs.
The woman also reg-
istered a complaint
against her father-in-
law, Rajendrabhai Soni
who allegedly abused
and asked her to leave.
If convicted, the charge
falls under the Domes-
tic Violence Act.
Booze,food@`2.3Kperperson
Over 9,000 complaints of
dry law violation in 2 years
First India News
Gandhinagar: Even as
there have been several
recent cases of ram-
pant violation of the
dry laws, the State re-
ceived as many as 9,081
complaints during the
last two years.
Giving information
to Opposition ques-
tions on the floor of the
State Assembly on
Monday, the State
Home Department sub-
mitted that Ahmedabad
district reported as
many as 4,984 com-
plaints in two years,
while Surat district has
received 1,980 com-
plaints.
The Opposition
MLAs slammed the
government stating
that the latter claimed
of strict prohibition
laws in the State, visu-
als of big liquor par-
ties have come out of
Kutch and Surat in the
last 48 hours.
According to data re-
leased by the State Gov-
ernment, after
Ahmedabad and Surat,
Mehsana district re-
ceived 328 complaints,
while 225 complaints
have been received
from the Bharuch dis-
trict. As many as 258
complaints have been
received from Va-
dodara district. There
are many other dis-
tricts which have re-
ceived on an average
100 complaints during
this time.
It may be recalled
that Rajasthan Chief
Minister Ashok Gehlot
from the Congress par-
ty has often scoffed at
the Gujarat Govern-
ment’s claims that the
State practises prohibi-
tion strictly.
Among the other dis-
tricts, even Gandhina-
gar district -- which is
the State’s headquar-
ters -- received 145 com-
plaints during the last
two years, while ther
were 128 complaints
from Gir Somnath, 199
in Junagadh, 104 in Ra-
jkot and 155 in Sabar-
kantha district.
As many as 39 people out of the 52 were on Monday sent to judicial custody for 14 days
First India News
Surat: As many as 39
people from the 52, who
were caught by the po-
lice from a booze party
on Saturday, were sent
to judicial custody of 14
days following a squab-
ble between parents of
the accused youths and
the police.
The parents indulged
in a verbal spat when
one of the accused’s ad-
vocates appealed that
all the accused reached
on the spot following a
Whatsapp message cir-
culated by the organis-
er. A message was cir-
culated about the party
on Whatsapp stating
that the party will last
till 10.30 and liquor and
food was organised for
everyone at a charge of
Rs 2,300 per person.
The parents of the ac-
cused demanded to
meet judge. They
claimed that advocate
Viral Mehta of the or-
ganiser Gagan Dhingra
is trying to fix their chil-
dren in the case to save
his client.
Meanwhile, the po-
lice in their further in-
vestigations, nabbed the
boottlegger who sup-
plied the liquor in the
party. Around 78 bottles
of liquor was supplied
along with beer of Rs
250 per bottle. Organiz-
er Dhingra purchased
liquor from Viren Patel
and brought to the party
venue in his car. He was
associated by his friend
Suketu. The police are
looking for another
bootlegger from Magda-
lla area who supplied
another consignment to
the party.
However, some of the
parents thanked the po-
lice. One of them said,
“Police saved my daugh-
ter. I was unaware about
the party. Every one was
inebriated in the party.
In such a situation, be-
cause of the police the
girls were safe.” This
was the second major
liquor haul by the police
in the city. Earlier,
around 21 women were
detainedbyUmrapolice
on December 21. Here
liquor was served at a
kitty party. All the wom-
en were elite families of
the city.
YOU READ IT FIRST IN FIRST INDIA MARCH 2, 2020YOU READ IT FIRST IN FIRST INDIA MARCH 1, 2020
COMPLAINTS GALORE
First India News
Dahod: The state gov-
ernmentrecentlyadmit-
ted to a shortage of spe-
cialized doctors in rural
and backward areas. A
severe dearth of medi-
cal officers in these are-
as has left local people
helpless when it comes
to receiving proper med-
ical care. Coming to the
rescue of pregnant
women in Dahod, a re-
moteandbackwardarea
dominated by adivasis,
is Dr Kalsibhai Damor.
A gynaecologist by pro-
fession, Dr Damor offers
free consultations and
even medication to trib-
al women on the ninth
day of every month. He
has provided medical
care to over 8,000 adivasi
women so far.
On his unique initia-
tive, Dr Damor said, “I
started this service (for
tribal women) after
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi appealed to
practising doctors to
treat patients free of
cost once a month. So I
made up my mind to do
just that and have never
looked back since.”
Belonging to a very
humble tribal family, Dr
Damor grew up in Da-
hod, where he faced
many hardships during
his childhood. After
earning his medical de-
gree, he first he joined a
government hospital in
Dahod and treated adi-
vasis. Having experi-
enced hardships him-
self, he sympathized
with the plight of adiva-
sis in the area. This
compelled him to quit
his job and start his own
private hospital.
The idea behind the
new venture was the
scheme under which he
would provide medical
consultations and medi-
cation to pregnant adi-
vasiwomenontheninth
day of every month.
Ever since the scheme
was initiated, word of
Dr Damor’s humanity
has reached the ears of
adivasis far and wide.
Every month, at least
200 women descend on
his clinic for consulta-
tion. According to the
doctor, the haemoglobin
level of adivasi women
may be the lowest when
compared to women be-
longingtoothercommu-
nities. “I have operated
on and given birth to
babies of an adivasi
woman whose haemo-
globin was between
1-1.5%, which was
shockinglylow,”hesaid.
Granting a medical boon to adivasi women
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
WON’T TAKE IT LYING DOWN
Supporters of the Congress party protest against the price hike of gas cylinders and other household items outside the
District Collectorate in Ahmedabad on Monday. — PHOTO BY NANDAN DAVE
Dr Kalsinh Damor treating pregnant tribal women.
—FILE PHOTO
—FILE PHOTO

GUJARATAHMEDABAD | TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2020
SC to...
law officer, had told the
bench that Sa ra Ab-
dullah Pilot had not
demonstrated any rea-
son for not approach-
ing the High Court in
the first instance but
directly coming to the
Supreme Court.
“The matter per-
tains to liberty,” a
bench led by Justice
Arun Mishra observed
in response, rejecting
Attorney General
Venugopal’s opposition
to the top court hear-
ing the habeas corpus
petition in case of the
former J&K Chief Min-
ister and National Con-
ference leader.
Justice Mishra not-
ed that another case of
a similar nature was
pending before the top
court, a reference to
the petition challeng-
ing the detention of
Jammu and Kashmir
Peoples Democratic
Party boss Mehbooba
Mufti. It isn’t clear if
the judges will hear the
two cases together.
Sara Abdullah Pilot
had challenged her
brother’s detention un-
der the Jammu & Kash-
mir Public Safety Act
(PSA) last month after
the 49-year-old former
chief minister was
booked on February 5
under PSA.
Omar Abdullah was
detained in August
2019 when the Centre
nullified Article 370
and placed Kashmir
valley in a state of lock-
down. His detention in
2019 was under Section
107 of the Code of
Criminal Procedure,
which empowers an ex-
ecutive magistrate to
order a person to exe-
cute bonds “for keep-
ing the peace”.
Right before his de-
tention was to expire in
February 2020, the ad-
ministration issued a
fresh order under the
PSA that allows au-
thorities to detain a
person without trial
for a maximum period
of two years.
In her Habeas Cor-
pus [literally means,
produce the body] peti-
tion, Sara prayed for
orders to produce Ab-
dullah in the Supreme
Court. She argued that
he is a votary of peace
and there is over-
whelming evidence to
prove the same.
Hang in...
The brutality of the
crime had provoked na-
tionwide outrage that
brought tens of thou-
sands of people on the
streets and led to a ma-
jor overhaul of laws
relating to crimes
against women.
Delhi rumours:...
others held placards
demanding the resig-
nation of Home Minis-
ter Amit Shah. There
was no fresh incident
of violence on Monday
and security personnel
have been deployed in
Jaffrabad, Maujpur,
Babarpur,ChandBagh,
Shiv Vihar, Bhajanpu-
ra, Yamuna Vihar and
Mustafabad, news
agency PTI reported.
‘Thinking of...
him to consider quit-
ting social media but it
led to a barrage of re-
quests from his sup-
porters to revisit his
stand. His political ri-
vals jeered.
In less than 30 min-
utes, not surprisingly,
PM Modi’s tweet had
evoked more replies -
13,000 replies - than
(9,000) retweets. His
tweet celebrating the
Bharatiya Janata Par-
ty’s victory in Lok
Sabha polls was the
most retweeted and
liked tweets last year
and was acknowledged
as India’s ‘Golden
Tweet’ of 2019.
FROM PG 1
8 KILLED, 20 HURT IN ROAD MISHAPAccording to police sources, the death toll may go up to 10, police has filed an FIR against tanker driver
First India News
Surat: At least eight
people were killed and
over 20 others injured in
a major accident involv-
ing three vehicles, in-
cluding a State Trans-
port bus, on the national
highway in Tapi district
in South Gujarat on
Monday.
Police sources
claimed the death toll is
likely to increase to over
10. The tragic accident
occurred when a State
Transport bus collided
with a speeding tanker
and another four-wheel-
er on the national high-
way near Pokhran vil-
lage under Songadh po-
lice station in Tapi dis-
trict.
The bus was heading
towards Tapi through
National Highway 53
when a tanker driver
lost control over his ve-
hicle and hit the bus.
Just then, a four-wheel-
er coming behind the
bus rammed into it.
Around 25 injured
people were rushed to
the nearest hospital
with the help of 108
emergency sevices. Lo-
cals rushed to the spot
and managed to rescue
the injured from the bus
coming from Surat.
Police Inspector of
SongadhCKChaudhary
said the State Transport
buswascomingtowards
Ukai in Tapi district
from Surat district. “It
collided with the tanker
head on while another
vehicle, a Sports Utility
Vehicle (SUV),” he said.
The inspector did not
rule out the possibility
of rise in the death toll.
According to reports
from the Gujarat State
Road Transport Corpo-
ration (GSRTC), the bus
was on the route from
Kushalgadh to Ukai
when the accident oc-
cured near Doshwada
Village. In the accident
the bus was hit by tank-
er and from a cruiser
from rear side.
The eight people who
were killed on the spot
included, the driver of
the bus as well as of the
tanker and four travel-
lers in the SUV. The po-
lice have lodged a First
Information Report
(FIR) against the tanker
driver after a complaint
by the bus conductor.
23,000 attend
mega building
material expo
AAP LIKELY TO CONTEST
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONSMasuma Bharmal Jariwala
Rajkot: After winning
Delhi, the Aam Aadmi
Party is looking at con-
testing local body elec-
tions in Gujarat to-
wards the year-end.
Kishore Desai, a
founder member of
AAP heading the party
in Gujarat, told First
India, “ In the past 25
years, BJP and Con-
gress have played a
friendly game fooling
people. Corruption
grew because of them.
This was understood
by AAP and people of
Delhi. We will prove
this in Gujarat by con-
testing all the local
elections, including
Nagar palika, taluka
panchayat, district
panchayat and munici-
pal corporation.”
Two big faces of Ra-
jkot, Rajendra Jhala,
who had an active po-
litical career with the
BJP for 17 years and
was also standing com-
mittee chairman at Ra-
jkot Municipal Corpo-
ration, while former
President of Rajkot
Chamber of Com-
merce Shivlal Barasia,
already an AAP mem-
ber, is likely to get
some core responsibili-
ties.
State committee
member of AAP Ajit
Lokhil told First India
that, ”There would be
a massive change in
the Rajkot political
scenario as we have
our army spread even
below booth level. We
have the Delhi blue-
print as our base”.
Jhala told First In-
dia said,” I have known
BJP for years, includ-
ing their inside out.
The only reason for
quitting BJP was it did
not match my ethics
and as a standing com-
mittee chairman I
could see everything
out in the open. The
Aam Aadmi Party has
approached me and I
am likely to join them
and extend my support
for the betterment of
the country.”
First India News
Surat: The Southern
Gujarat Chamber of
Commerce and Indus-
try’s (SGCCI) four-day
Mega-Build Expo 2020
accounted for 23,000
footfalls at its maiden
edition at Sarsana, near
Bharthana, on Monday.
The aim of the mega
building material exhi-
bition is to promote
green building concept
in Surat’s real estate
sector. The expo show-
cased some of the latest
building material based
on green concept for the
real estate industry.
Nearly 144 exhibitors
fromSurat,Ahmedabad,
Vadodara, Valsad, Mor-
bi, Silvassa, Haryana,
Himmatnagar,Gurgaon,
Mumbai, among other
places, displayed their
products ranging from
hardware, ceramics,
home automation, fur-
nishing to insulation,
paints, maintenance
equipment and power
tools.Theeventwasheld
at the Surat Internation-
al Convention and Exhi-
bition Centre (SIECC).
Looking at the de-
mand, organisers say
they expect around dou-
ble the numbers of ex-
hibitors to attend next
year’s edition as com-
pared to this year’s
event.
Govt cuts engineering
seats in state by 10K
WHO WAS THERE?
Ahmedabad: Following
the announcement about
a cutback in the number
of engineering seats by
over 9,500, the state gov-
ernment has stated that a
Government Resolution
(GR) may add 510 engi-
neering diploma and de-
gree seats across 29 poly-
technics and 11 govern-
ment engineering colleg-
es across Gujarat. This
move comes after the
government had decided
to close down nearly
10,000 diploma and engi-
neering colleges on Feb-
ruary 7.
Issued on Saturday, the
resolution also states that
the number of sanc-
tioned seats in the re-
maining colleges is to
remain the same as men-
tioned in February and
will follow the AICTE ad-
mission guidelines. Expo organizers expect the footfalls to double next year.
A tanker, a ST bus and an SUV collided on a highway in Tapi district on Monday.
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PERSPECTIVEAHMEDABAD | TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2020
JUSTICE
DELAYED
ONCE AGAIN
cat has nine lives and it appears
that Nirbhaya’s rapists and killers
too have a charmed life like the
feline. They know their lives
hang by a thread yet, taking
advantage of legal loopholes, the quartet
of Pawan Gupta, Akshay Kumar Singh,
Mukesh Kumar, and Vinay Kumar Shar-
ma have been able to once again evade the
noose that awaits them in Tihar jail.
Their scheduled hanging at 6 a.m. tomorrow
has been deferred because, as the judge said,
they have not exhausted all their legal op-
tions. Pawan Gupta’s mercy petition is pend-
ing with President Ram Nath Kovind.
“The condemned convict must not meet
his creator with a grievance in his bosom
that the courts of this country have not
acted fairly in granting him an opportu-
nity to exhaust his legal remedies,” the
Patiala House court in Delhi said. The
hanging had earlier been deferred on
January 22 and February 1.
Pawan Gupta (25) and others, who have
been filing petitions separately to buy time
and delay the inevitable, waited for the Su-
preme Court to decide on his curative peti-
tion. After the Apex Court dismissed the peti-
tion on Monday morning, Gupta filed his
mercy petition and moved Patiala House
court praying for deferment of his execution.
An upset prosecution lawyer Seema
Kushwaha said, “Can’t the court under-
stand the manipulation of law? Our sys-
tem is completely rotten. It takes years to
get justice. We have to fix it together.”
The Central govt moved the SC last month
seeking change in laws which, it said, were
skewed in criminals’ favour. The delaying
tactic has been used despite the Delhi HC giv-
ing them a week’s time last month to exhaust
all their legal remedies.
Nirbhaya’s mother Asha Devi, who has
been relentless in her pursuit of justice for
her daughter, was distressed by the develop-
ment and called it “delaying tactics” as she
asked the court about her rights as the vic-
tim’s mother. On Monday, the distraught
mother said, “She was savagely raped and
thrown on the streets. Her intestines
were ripped out. And all these courts are
sitting and watching tamasha.”
On December 16, 2012, a paramedical stu-
dent was assaulted and tortured brutally by
these men. She died a few days later. Media
named her Nirbhaya. Their partners in the
gruesome crime were an 18-year-old and
the main accused Ram Singh. The teen-
ager was released after three years in a
reform home, while Ram Singh commit-
ted suicide in Tihar.
A law was specially formulated after the hei-
nous crime. The Criminal Law (Amendment)
Act 2013 (Nirbhaya Act) was legislation passed
byparliamenttoensurejusticetothevictimsof
sexual assault, harassment, stalking, etc. That
does not seem to be happening, as the convicts
have been able to dodge the noose a third time.
IN-DEPTH
A
Goods and
services across
the world are
suffering the
aftermath of the
quick spread of
the Covid-19
virus. Global
exports and
imports and
Chinese exports
and imports are
so intertwined
that it is
unavoidable
y the 20th anni-
versary of Har-
ryPotterin2017,
over 400 million
Harry Potter
books had been sold world-
wide and translated into 68
languages. In spite of J. K.
Rowling’s rejection by a
dozen publishers before
her success with Blooms-
bury, Harry Potter and
the Philosophers Stone
became one of the best
selling book s of all time.
The film franchise of the
books grossed US$8.5 bil-
lion (almost A$13 billion),
book sales totalled US$7.7
billion (A$11.7 billion),
US$7.3 billion (A$11 bil-
lion) has been made from
toys and merchandise, and
US$2 billion (A$3 billion)
from DVD sales. The Harry
Potter “empire” has an es-
timated total worth of
US$25billion(A$38billion).
With bars, theme
parks, fan conventions,
mugs, costumes and
knitting patterns going
gangbusters, it seemed
the little wizard could do
no wrong. Words like
“muggle”, “quidditch”
and “Hogwarts” have be-
come part of our vocabu-
lary. But more than a dec-
ade since the last Harry
Potter book was published,
it appears the lucrative
spell is wearing off.
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Since the end of the belov-
ed series (the last book in
2007 and film in 2011), there
have been two spin-off sto-
ries: the film Fantastic
Beasts and Where to Find
Them, and the play Harry
Potter and The Cursed
Child, both released in
2016. The film’s sequel
Fantastic Beasts: The
Crimes of Grindelwald
was released in 2018.
The first Fantastic
Beasts film performed
reasonably well at the
box office, grossing
US$814 million world-
wide (A$1.2 billion),
which is within the earn-
ings range of the first
eight Harry Potter films.
However, the Fantastic
Beasts sequel resulted in
less box office revenue
than the first, at US$654
million (A$1 billion) glob-
ally, the lowest grossing of
all the “Harry-verse” films.
Subsequent questions
have been raised about
how the third planned film
will perform, let alone the
rest of the five-film series
that had previously been
mooted.
The Harry Potter and
the Cursed Child play is
broadly considered a
West End and Broadway
success and has toured
internationally. Despite
the huge amount of money
invested and the creative
approach taken in promot-
ing the production, ticket
sales have seen a consider-
able drop in the past year
(50% since their peak).
A TURNING POINT
In and of itself the play
was always going to be a
challenge: it is a two-part
production which means
theatre goers have to buy
two tickets and attend
twice. The producers say
it is intended to be seen
“in order on the same
day (matinee and even-
ing) or on two consecu-
tive evenings”.
This makes cost a prob-
lematic factor. It’s also a big
timecommitment.Theplay
has a rather daunting run-
ning time of around two
hours and 40 minutes each
time, making a total dura-
tion of just over five hours.
That’s likely to be too much
for many young fans.
And about those “young
fans”. When the Harry Pot-
ter and the Chamber of
Secrets movie debuted in
2002, 60% of the audience
was under the age of 15.
This cohort are now in
their 30s and this age group
is considered as “non-thea-
tre goers”. In the UK the
average theatre audience
member is 52. The average
age of the Broadway the-
atregoer is 42 years old.
Australian audiences at
musicals and operas were
last estimated to be pre-
dominantly between 55 and
74 years of age in 2014.
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India’s rich culture & heritage
manifests across various art
forms, with paintings being an
intrinsic part Warli, Lippan &
Pichwai art forms are originated
from Maharashtra, Gujarat &
Rajashtan respectively, whose
artists are today showcasing their
work & talent through Railways.
ECONOMY
IN THE
TIME OF AN
EPIDEMIC
CHINA ACCOUNTS FOR AROUND 18 PERCENT OF THE GLOBAL GDP (2019) COMPARED
TO 4 PERCENT WHEN THE SARS EPIDEMIC HAD BROKEN OUT IN 2003
hen the world’s second-largest
economy gets hit, the tremors
are bound to be felt by both large
economies such as the US and
developing ones like our own.
The coronavirus epidemic,
with its epicenter in Wuhan, the
capital of the busy province of
Hubei in China, has claimed
more than 3,000 lives and infect-
ed over 88,000. It has spread to
over 60 countries and sent
shockwaves through finan-
cial markets. Beyond its path-
ological implications, lies its
impact on the global economy.
IMPACT ON INDIA
The trade between China and
India is worth $87 billion, of
which we import goods worth
$70 billion from China. It in-
cludes everything from electric
componentsandmachines,med-
ical instruments and pharma
raw materials, vehicles and auto
parts,ironandsteelcomponents
to nuclear machinery.
While China takes 5.1 per-
centof ourtotalexports,inthe
form of cotton, salt and organ-
ic chemicals, and mineral and
metal ores among others, we
get 13.7 percent of our total
imports from China alone.
Needless to say then, when
our second-largest trading part-
ner hits the brakes on its facto-
ry output, companies in India
break into a sweat.
Wemayhavepushedforsmart-
phonemanufacturerstoincrease
their domestic production, but
they still depend on China for
theircomponents.Otherelectron-
ic goods manufacturers would
also be facing production issues.
A supply shortfall in consum-
er electrical and electronic
goods in India (either due to
coronavirus-led Chinese cuts or
our economic slowdown) would
also trouble online sales, as
they form a sizable portion of
e-commerce goods sales.
Pharma companies bring
in key raw ingredients from
China to make medicines.
Automobile manufacturers,
too, are heavily dependent
for their components on
their Chinese suppliers.
However, the Chinese New
Year in January-February
would have proved to be a great-
er boon than usual as compa-
nies would have stocked up by
December last year, anticipat-
ing the Chinese holiday season.
The extra stock will act as a
cushion for some weeks till
March, as will India’s weak con-
sumer demand. But if the Cov-
id-19 virus continues its ram-
page, the second quarter could
see more manufacturing dis-
ruption in this slowdown.
GOODS AND SERVICES
Goods and services across the
world are suffering the after-
math of the quick spread of the
Covid-19 virus. Global exports
and imports and Chinese ex-
ports and imports are so inter-
twined that it is unavoidable.
The spillover of disruption
has been the most acute in Chi-
na’s neighbours as seen in their
monetary policy responses.
GOODS MOVEMENT
Shipping has been heavily af-
fected with curbs on movement
to stem the spread of the Cov-
id-19 virus.
Shipping companies have cut
back on their ships sailing from
China to the rest of the world,
carrying goods, to prevent the
virus from advancing to other
areas.
It has a direct bearing on
the world’s supply chain as
80 percent of global goods
trade by volume is trans-
ported in ships and China
itself houses seven of the
world’s 10 busiest container
sea-ports, says the United
Nations Conference on
Trade and Development. The
contagious coronavirus is a
threat to business infrastruc-
ture in adjoining countries as
well, as Singapore and South
Korea, too, have busy ports and
have seen the disease escalate.
The far-reaching supply con-
straints have affected the US
economy as well, besides its dar-
ling stocks like Apple, with its
manufacturing and services ac-
tivities at their lowest levels this
February in over six years on
fearsof thecoronavirusoutbreak
slowing global demand, accord-
ing to a monthly private survey.
Businesses are worried
about tepid demand as well
as managing the limited sup-
ply for existing demand, with
news of how even e-com-
merce giant, Amazon, taking
precautions as Chinese sellers
cut back on their visibility and
promotions to limit orders.
Global GDP
The global GDP will be compro-
mised due to the economic fall-
out of the coronavirus. China
accounts for around 18 percent
of the global GDP (2019) com-
pared to 4 percent when the
Sars epidemic had broken out
in 2003. Chinese businesses
are now more ingrained in
global supply chains.
Sars had robbed China of 1
percent of its economic growth
in the eight months it had last-
ed. The coronavirus is expected
to shave off 1-2 percentage
points off China’s GDP growth
in the first quarter of 2020.
INVESTOR TAKEAWAY IN
TIMES OF EPIDEMICS
Contagious epidemics bring un-
certainty to the investing com-
munity worldwide, prompting
them to move towards tradition-
alassetssuchasgoldsandbonds
that are perceived to be more
stable, instead of the assets with
systemic risk like equities.
That is where smart invest-
ment planning involving diver-
sification and asset allocation
comes in. It allows us to stay out
of troubled waters and focus on
our health, instead.
W
TRANSMISSION AND SIGNS OF
CORONA VIRUS INFECTION
SHARE OF CHINA IN WORLD
EXPORTS, BY PRODUCT (%2018)
Fuels 2%
Minerals 2%
Miscellaneous 3%
Vegetables 4%
Animals 4%
Transportation 5%
Food Products 5%
Chemicals 7%
Stones and glass 8%
Wood 9%
Plastic and rubber 11%
Metals 13%
Mach and Elec 20%
Hides and Skins 26%
Textiles and Clothing 34%
Footwear 39%
10%0% 20% 30% 40%

INDIAAHMEDABAD | TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2020
New Delhi: The Con-
gress, after raising the
issue of Delhi riots in
Parliament on Monday,
demanded that the
Prime Minister should
speak on the issue.
Staging a protest at
the Gandhi statue in the
Parliament premises, it
said it wanted a full de-
bate before moving on
to any other issue.
Congress MP Manish
Tewari said: “The riots
have happened in Delhi
and more than 40 peo-
ple have died... there
should be discussion in
the house and the
Prime Minister should
make a statement.”
To the ruling BJP’’s
allegation that Con-
gress is politicising the
issue, he shot back:
“Demanding a discus-
sion and statement
from the Prime Minis-
ter in a democracy is
politics?”
Congress members
demanded resignation
of Home Minister Amit
Shah and sought an an-
swer from Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi
over the violence. Mem-
bers of some other Op-
position parties also
joined the protest
against the govern-
ment.
The violence began
following clashes be-
tween anti and pro
CAA groups.
The budget session
of parliament began on
January 31 and ad-
journed on February 11
to resume on March 2.
It will conclude on
April 3. —ANI
PMmustmakestatementon
Delhi riots in Parl: Cong
OPPOSITION DEMANDS RESIGNATION OF HOME MINISTER AMIT SHAH
New Delhi: The Lok
Sabha was on Monday
adjourned till 4 p.m.
soon after it met after
an earlier adjournment
as Opposition members
created ruckus in the
House over Delhi vio-
lence and raised slo-
gans against the BJP-
led government.
Congress members
came to the well of the
House with placards
soon after the House
met at 2 p.m. following
an adjournment earlier.
Parliament met on
Monday, the first day of
second half of budget
session, after a recess.
Speaker Om Birla asked
the members to take
their seats but the Op-
position MPs continued
with their protest. The
House was first ad-
journed till 3 pm and
later till 4 pm.
Amid sloganeering,
the Speaker went ahead
with the listed business
for the day. The Speaker
said that members have
been elected to discuss
issues in the House. But
the Opposition mem-
bers continued with
their protest. Finance
Minister Nirmala Si-
tharaman moved the
Direct Tax Vivad Se
Vishwas Bill, 2020 for
consideration and pas-
sage amid sloganeering
byOppositionmembers.
While BJP member
Sanjay Jaiswal was
speaking on the bill, the
Speaker again referred
to protest by Opposition
members and said that
MPs were responsible
members of the House.
TheSpeakerassuredOp-
position members that
the House will take up
discussion the violence
in Delhi once the situa-
tion normalises. He said
themembersdonothave
therighttoraiseslogans
in the House. —ANI
LS faces adjournments over
Delhi violence, Cong protests
New Delhi: Lok Sabha
Speaker Om Birla on
Monday adjourned the
House for the
day expressing
“personalpain”
over ruckus in
the House dur-
ing protests by
o p p o s i t i o n
against vio-
lence in Delhi.
TheHouse,whichsaw
three adjournments ear-
lier over Delhi violence,
was adjourned for the
day when it reconvened
at 4.30 pm.
The Speaker said that
the House should be run
when members agree to
run it with dignity. “Our
effort should be that we
maintain the
dignity of Par-
liament. I am
p e r s o n a l l y
pained over
what happened
in the House.
We do not want
to run the
House in this condi-
tion,” the Speaker said.
He urged all mem-
bers, especially senior
members, to work to-
wards ensuring that the
Lok Sabha runs with
dignity. —ANI
New Delhi: Parliamen-
tary Affairs Minister
Pralhad Joshi con-
demned the ruckus cre-
ated by Opposition in
Parliament over the re-
cent violence in Delhi.
Joshi said, “Those who
didn’t take any action
even after 3,000 people
were killed in 1984, the
same people are today
creating a ruckus here.
I strongly condemn this
attitude.” By 1984, Joshi
was referring to anti-
Sikh riots in Delhi. Op-
position members cre-
ated ruckus in both
Houses of Parliament
over Delhi violence and
raised slogans. —ANI
New Delhi: Congress
said it will continue to
protest in Parliament
over the communal vio-
lence in Delhi as it is
the party’s duty to un-
cover the “conspiracy”
behind the riot. The op-
position party’s asser-
tion came soon after the
Lok Sabha was ad-
journed for the day. The
House was earlier ad-
journed thrice with
members from the BJP
and the Congress push-
ing and shoving each
other amid the Opposi-
tion’s protests against
last week’s communal
violenceinDelhi,which
claimed over 40 lives.
Pralhad Joshi
condemns Oppn
ruckus in Parl
Cong’s duty to
uncover Delhi riot
conspiracy:Adhir
Pained at ruckus in Lok
Sabha, maintain dignity
of Parliament: Om Birla
New Delhi: The Elec-
tion Commission of In-
dia (ECI) is not in fa-
vour of state funding of
elections as it will not
be able to prohibit or
check candidates own
expenditure over and
above provided for by
states, the Lok Sabha
was informed.
In a written reply,
Minister of State for Fi-
nance Anurag Thakur
said the ECI’s view is
that for addressing the
real issues, there have
to be radical changes in
the provisions regard-
ing receipts of funds by
political parties and the
manner in which such
funds are spent by them
so as to provide for com-
plete transparency in
the matter.
“The Election Com-
mission has informed
the Government that it
is not in favour of State
Funding as it will not be
able to prohibit or check
candidates own expend-
iture or expenditure by
others over and above
that which is provided
for by the state,” the
minister said. —ANI
New Delhi: Finance
Minister Nirmala Si-
tharaman on Monday
said the direct tax dis-
pute resolution scheme
announced in Budget
will be of great help to
people as they will
be able to save time
and money spent in
fighting cases.
As many as 4.83 lakh
directtaxcasesworthRs
9.32lakhcrorearelocked
up in various appellate
forums such as Commis-
sioner (Appeals), ITAT,
High Courts, Supreme
Court & Debt Recovery
Tribunals.
“The scheme will
give settlement option
to all those with disput-
ed tax... This will be of
great help because peo-
ple spent a lot of time
and money in settling
cases,” Sitharaman
said while moving the
Direct Tax Vivaad Se
Vishwas Bill, 2020 amid
a din in Lok Sabha.
She said government
has taken measures to
reduce litigation and a
similar scheme was an-
nounced for indirect
tax disputes. —ANI
EC not in favour of
state funding of polls
‘Vivaad Se Vishwas
will save time, money’
EX-FINANCE SECRETARY SC GARG
APPOINTED ADVISOR TO ANDHRA CM
Amaravati: Andhra
Pradesh Government
appointed Ex-Finance
Secretary Government
of India and retired IAS
officer Subhash Chandra
Garg as advisor to Chief
Minister YS Jagan Mohan
Reddy for resource mobil-
isation. “Government after
thorough consideration,
hereby appoints Subhash
Chandra Garg, IAS (Retd),
Ex-Finance Secretary,
Government of India, as
Advisor to Chief Minister
for the subject related to
Resource Mobilization,
duly assigning the rank
of a Cabinet Minister,”
read an order issued by
the state government on
Sunday. His appointment
to the post has been done
for a period of two years
from the date of joining.
NORTHERN RLYS TO RUN 16
SPECIAL TRAINS DURING HOLI
New Delhi: Northern Railways will operate 16
special trains in wake of huge rush during the
festive season of Holi. “Northern Railway is
running 16 pairs of Holi Special trains having 430
trips overall as compared to last years 19 special
trains with 324 trips. In addition to that 32 trains
have already been augmented during Holi festival
period to meet the demand,” said General Man-
ager Northern Railway Rajiv Chaudhry in a review
meeting. Principal Heads of Department of North-
ern Railway were also present at the meeting.
CHINA RECOVERING: CHINESE
CONSUL-GEN TO KOLKATA
Kolkata: Situation in China is fast returning to
normal as evident by increasing rate of resumption
of work in the coronavirus-hit country, Chinese
consulate General to Kolkata Zha Liyou said. Zha
made the remarks after participating in a prayer
meeting held to send out a message of love and
solidarity for the people of China. “For the major
state-owned companies, and for the medium-sized
companies, the rate of resumption to work is 70.9
per cent. That is huge. Nationwide, the major key
projects are resuming work,” Zha said.
JAMMU’S HISTORIC CITY CHOWK
RENAMED BHARAT MATA CHOWK
Jammu: The historic City
Chowk in the heart of
Jammu has been renamed
as the Bharat Mata Chowk
after a resolution was
passed by the Jammu
Municipal Corporation
(JMC). The JMC had won
43 of 75 wards in Jammu
Urban local bodies polls
last year. “Every year when
flag hoisting ceremonies
are held at the Chowk on
the Republic and Indepen-
dence days, with people
chanting Bharat Mata
ki Jai, the name change
reflects the aspirations
of the people,” Purnima
Sharma, Deputy Mayor
JMC said. She said, “The
House moved a resolution
on September 6, but it
got adjourned, and now
the resolution has been
passed with a voice vote.”
Opposition members protest in the Lok Sabha on Monday.
IN PARLIAMENT
New Delhi: Union
Minister Smriti Irani
on Monday alleged
that Congress MPs in
Lok Sabha misbe-
haved with BJP wom-
en members, who
have also complained
to the Speaker against
some opposition par-
ty lawmakers.
BJP and Congress
members pushed and
shoved each other in
the Lower House of
Parliament as opposi-
tion members vehe-
mently protested over
the issue of violence
in Delhi.
“Congress MPs
misbehaved with BJP
women MPs in Lok
Sabha. I would appeal
to the Speaker to take
the strongest possible
action against them,”
Irani told reporters
outside Parliament.
“For the past two to
three sessions ‘goon-
da’ elements of the
Congress are disrupt-
ing Parliament pro-
ceedings,” she said,
adding that the action
of Congress members
in Parliament shows
the desperation of the
Gandhi family. —ANI
Cong MPs misbehaved with
BJP women MPs in LS: Irani
New Delhi: Congress MP Ramya Haridas
on Monday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om
Birla alleging physical as-
sault by BJP MP Jaskaur
Meena inside the House
today. In her letter to the
Speaker, the Congress
MP wrote: “On March
2 at 3 p.m. inside Lok
Sabha I was physically
assaulted by MP Jaskaur
Meena. Is this repeat-
edly happens to me just because I am a Dalit
and a woman? I request you to take action
against the said MP.” Opposition raised
slogans against the BJP-led govt.
Was physically assaulted by BJP
MP Jaskaur Meena: Cong MP
New Delhi: The pro-
posed meeting of the
Ram temple trust
which was scheduled
to be held in Ayodhya
on March 3 and 4 has
been postponed.
Now this meeting
will be held in Delhi
after Holi.
According to trust
sources, the meeting
has been postponed
due to non-availability
of members and the
time taken by the tech-
nical team of the con-
struction committee
to prepare the initial
ground report. Now
this meeting will be
held in Delhi.
In this meeting it-
self, the date of Bhumi
Pujan will be decided
for the construction of
Ram temple. Accord-
ing to sources, the con-
struction of the tem-
ple has been entrusted
to Larsen & Tou-
bro, which has offered
to work for free.
The Bhoomipujan
for construction of the
temple will now be de-
cided only after April
2 as it is the Ram Nav-
ami. Prime Minister
Narendra Modi may
attend the Bhoomi
Poojan. The date will
be announced keeping
in mind Prime Minis-
ter’’s availability and
auspicious time.
Meanwhile, Nripen-
dra Mishra, chairman
of the temple con-
struction committee,
returned to Delhi on
Sunday evening after
visiting Ayodhya. It is
being said that he will
meet the Prime Minis-
ter and give a report
related to the con-
struction work. —ANI
Temple trust meeting postponed
KAR SEVAKS TO BE FELICITATED
THE SCHEME

INDIAAHMEDABAD | TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2020
New Delhi: A public
interest litigation (PIL)
filed in the SC on Mon-
day sought a court-mon-
itored special investiga-
tion team (SIT) investi-
gation into the violence
that rocked the national
capital last week.
The PIL, filed by so-
cial activist Yogita
Bhayana through advo-
cate Utsav Singh Bains,
sought a court-moni-
tored SIT probe into the
murder of IB officer
Ankit Sharma, damage
of places of worship in
Ashok Nagar, incidents
of throwing of acid on
CRPF officials etc. “Is-
sue an appropriate writ,
order or direction di-
recting the respondents
to set-up a court-moni-
tored SIT of officers
with impeccable integ-
rity to investigate all
deaths of persons in the
Delhi riots including,
damaging/destruction/
vandalizing of places of
worship in Ashok Na-
gar and elsewhere in
Delhi, incidents of
throwing acid on CRPF,
destruction of home of
a BSF jawan...,” the PIL
said.
The petition also
sought directions to ini-
tiate departmental ac-
tion against police offic-
ers for failure to pre-
vent the violence and
provide necessary help
to the victims. —ANI
PILseekscourt-monitoredSITprobe
New Delhi: The Delhi
Police on Monday is-
sued 16 helpline num-
bers for residents of
different parts in the
national capital to ver-
ify any report or ru-
mour of violence in the
city.
In a statement, the
Delhi Police said, “Un-
substantiated reports
of tense situation in
Delhi are being mis-
chievously circulated
on social media. It is to
reiterate that such re-
ports are being circu-
latedtospreadrumours
and create panic
amongst public.” “Del-
hi Police is closely mon-
itoring the social media
accounts spreading
fake news or rumours.
Strict legal action will
be taken against those
who are found involved
in spreading rumours.
People are asked to ver-
ify such reports from
Police on the following
phone numbers.” the
police said and shared
the numbers in a photo-
graph. —ANI
New Delhi: Delhi CM
Arvind Kejriwal has
urged people to inform
state govt about anyone
who is in need by using
#DelhiRelief so that
help can reach the
needy on time. “We are
working 24/7 to make
sure relief efforts reach
all in need. Please men-
tion the exact address/
contact details so that
we can reach them. We
will ensure a quick re-
sponse from our agen-
cies,” Kejriwal tweeted.
“Intheaftermathof the
violence in Northeast
areas of Delhi, CM Ke-
jriwal appealed to the
people to provide de-
tails of the needy for a
quick response from
govt agencies,” read an
official statement. —ANI
Delhi Police issues 16
helpline numbers
Security personnel stand guard along a road as children return from school at riot-affected Khajoori Khas area of northeast Delhi.
LG Anil Baijal leaves after meeting PM Modi at Parl, in New Delhi.
Reach us on twitter using
#DelhiRelief for help: Kejri
IS THE APPOINTMENT OF SEBI
CHIEF FOR SHORTER PERIOD?
If top sources are to be believed, six months
extension to SEBI Chief Ajay Tyagi is for shorter
period may be for three or five months.Even his
order says “Term of Ajay Tyagi is extended for
a period of six months beyond Feb 29 or until
further orders whichever is earlier”.
HARISH KUMAR NOW OUT
OF RACE FOR ED!
After the appointment of Harish Kumar in Set-
tlement Commission, it is said he is out of the
race for the post of Director Enforcement. Harish
Kumar is presently DG (Vigilance) IT in Delhi.
H B S GILL IS NEW DG INVESTIGATIONS IT
H B S Gill has succeeded Harish Kumar as DG,
Investigations, Income Tax in Delhi.
GARG IS NOW ADVISOR TO
ANDHRA PRADESH CM
Former Secretary Finance, S C Garg has been
appointed Advisor to the Andhra Pradesh Chief
Minister in the rank of Cabinet Minister. He is
1983 batch former IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.
WHEN IS GOVT RE-EMPLOYING LT
GEN (RETD) RANBIR SINGH?
Army circles in many Officers Mess are still spec-
ulating about retired Northern Army Commander
Lt Gen Ranbir Singh’s possible re-engagement
with the Govt in some manner. The biggest possi-
bility still is about him being given the post of
Security Advisor in J&K. However, considering
the surprises which await most top appointments
now, he could be roped in for something even
more significant in months to come.
PESB YET TO HOLD INTERVIEWS
FOR CMD, REC
Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) is
yet to hold interviews for the post of Chairman
& Managing Director, Rural Electrification
Corporation (REC).
K K GUPTA TO SUCCEED UMESH
SHARMA AS DIRECTOR (FIN),
MMTC LTD ON JUNE 1
Kapil Kumar Gupta, GM, Engineers India Limited,
is expected to succeed Umesh Sharma as Director
(Finance), MMTC Limited on June 1, 2020.
TENURE OF DHIRENDRA
OJHA TO END SOON
The tenure of Dhirendra Ojha working as Director
General (Media & Communications) in ECI is
ending soon. He is a 1990 batch IIS officer.
T K MANOJ KUMAR TO REMAIN AT
CENTRE AFTER EMPANELMENT
TO SECRETARY RANK
T K Manoj Kumar, whose tenure was ending in
March 2020, will remain in centre after empan-
elment to Secretary rank. Kumar, who joined
central deputation in Sept 2012, is a 1987 batch
IAS officer of Kerala cadre.
SATENDRA KUMAR GOMASTA
IN RACE FOR CMD, CMPDIL
Satendra Kumar Gomasta, Director (Technical),
CMPDIL, appears to be in the race for the post of
Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Central Mine
Planning & Design Institute Limited (CMPDIL),
falling vacant next year.
JOY GHOSH IS NOW DIRECTOR,
EXPERT ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Joy Ghosh of Hyderabad has been inducted as
Director, Export Advisory Committee of the Min-
istry of Corporate Affairs in the Govt of India.
L C TRIVEDI TO HOLD ADDITIONAL
CHARGE AS GM, NER
LC Trivedi, presently posted as General Manag-
er, East Central Railway, had been handed over
additional charge as General Manager, Northern
Eastern Railway w.e.f. March 1, 2020 for a period
of three months till the posting of a regular GM.
He is an IRSME officer.
S N SRIVASTAVA IS NEW POLICE
COMMISSIONER, DELHI
SN Srivastava has succeeded Amulya Patnaik as
Police Commissioner of Delhi on Sunday. He is
1985 batch IPS officer of UT cadre.
ORDERS OF A B PANDEY
TO BE ISSUED TODAY
Orders of Dr AB Pandey as new Secy Finance in
the Govt of India are to be issued on Monday. He
is 1984 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
ORDERS OF GOPAL REDDY
TO BE ISSUED TODAY
Orders of Gopal Reddy as OSD are to be issued on
Monday. 1985 batch IAS officer Gopal Reddy will
take over as CS of Madhya Pradesh on Apri 1.
MRS SHEFALI SHAH PROMOTED
TO PRCCIT GRADE
Mrs Shefali Shah has been promoted to the grade
of Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax.
POWERGallery
14,591 FARMERS COMMITTED
SUICIDE IN FIVE YEARS IN MAHA
Mumbai: As many as
14,591 farmers com-
mitted suicide in Maha-
rashtra, state Relief and
Rehabilitation Minister
Vijay Wadettiwar said
on Monday. He also said
that 1,286 farmers ended
their lives in 2019 in 11
districts falling under the
Nagpur and Amravati rev-
enue divisions.The minis-
ter gave this information
in the state Legislative
Council while replying
to a question raised by
Congress MLC Sharad
Ranpise. “From October
2014 to August 2019, as
many as 14,591 farmers
have committed suicide,
of which 5,430 cases are
disqualified for any help,
while another 214 cases
are pending for enquiry,”
Mr Wadettiwar said.
`10L COMPENSATION FOR
BSF’S HOUSE BURNT IN DELHI
New Delhi: Border Security Force (BSF) jawan
Mohammed Anees -- whose house was set on
fire during the communal violence in north-east
Delhi last week -- was presented an aid cheque of
Rs. 10 lakh by Inspector General (IG) of BSF DK
Upadhyay on Monday. The BSF jawan’s house in
Khajuri Khas was torched during the violence on
February 25. His colleagues have come forward
to help Mr Anees at this crucial time. Mr Anees is
going to get married soon and preparations for
the wedding ceremony were on at his house.
CONG LEADER SINGHVI SENDS
DEFAMATION NOTICE TO SAROSH
New Delhi: Congress
leader Dr Abhishek Manu
Singhvi has sent a legal
notice for criminal and
civil defamation to Lon-
don-based lawyer Sarosh
Zaiwalla for allegedly
defaming his family name
by linking his father LM
Singhvi to Bofors case
in a book. Singhvi, in the
legal notice sent through
his lawyer Jaiveer Sher-
gill, sought a public apol-
ogy from Zaiwala. The
Congress leader alleged
that London-based lawyer
Sarosh Zaiwalla defamed
his family name by linking
his father LM Singhvi to
Bofors case in the book.
The book ‘Honour Bound
- Adventures of an Indian
Lawyer in the English
Courts’, which was
launched last month.
Kolkata: West Bengal
Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee on Monday
c o n -
demned
the vio-
l e n c e
w h i c h
had bro-
ken out in North-East
district of Delhi.
“We are sad and de-
pressed and condemn
the incident that hap-
pened in Delhi. I think
it is a planned genocide.
We have to reach out to
more people. We need to
keep our ego aside,” Ba-
nerjee said at an event
here. Banerjee further
said that she had gotten
three people arrested
for raising provocative
slogans in Kolkata.
“In Delhi, BJP lead-
ers who gave provoca-
tive slogans have not
been arrested, but I got
three of the BJP work-
ers arrested (on charges
of raising ‘desh ke gad-
daron ko...’ slogans in
Kolkata) last night,”
she said.
“These words are pro-
vocative, strong action
will be taken. This is
not Delhi, this is Ben-
gal,” Mamata added.
Delhi violence
was a planned
genocide, says
Mamata
New Delhi: A Delhi
court on Monday de-
ferred for April 23 the
pronouncement of or-
der in a complaint filed
by the CPI-M leader
Brinda Karat against
BJP lawmakers Anurag
Thakur and Parvesh
Verma for alleged in-
flammatory remarks.
Chief Metropolitan
Magistrate Vishal Pa-
huja deferred the mat-
ter, while observing
that the matter is be-
ing heard by the high
court following which
he posted the matter
for April 23.
On the last date of
hearing, the Crime
Branch of the Delhi Po-
lice said that “no cogni-
zable offence is made
out” against the two
BJP lawmakers for
their alleged inflamma-
tory remarks.
In the report filed on
Wednesday, the police
stated, “On the basis of
allegations levelled in
the complaint, no cogni-
zable offence has been
found to be committed.”
It said that the sub-
sequent violence in
the national capital
has “no connection to
the speeches men-
tioned in the com-
plaint”. Police further
sought more time to
file a final ATR in the
matter. “Situation in
Delhi is such that po-
lice is busy and, hence
we want more time.”
Karat had filed the
complaint against the
BJP leaders on charges
of outraging religious
feelings, intending
to provoke, breach of
trust and criminal
intimidation. —IANS
Court defers order on plea against
Anurag Thakur, Parvesh VermaNew Delhi: SC judge,
Justice R Banumathi,
on Monday recused her-
self from hearing two
petitions including one
seeking transfer of the
rape case filed against
former union minis-
ter and BJP leader
Swami Chinmayanan-
da from Uttar Pradesh
to a Delhi court.
The second petition,
filed by senior advocate
Colin Gonsalves on be-
half of the rape survi-
vor, challenged the bail
granted to Chinma-
yanand by the Alla-
habad High Court.
Swami
Chinmayanand
case: SC Judge
recuses herself
New Delhi: Delhi Lieuten-
ant Governor Anil Baijal
on Monday arrived in
Parliament to meet Home
Minister Amit Shah. The
Delhi Police has regis-
tered 254 FIRs including
41 cases under the Arms
Act. Two Special Investi-
gative Teams (SITs) under
Dehli Police’s Crime
Branch to investigate the
violence. —ANI
LG ANIL BAIJAL
ARRIVES IN PARL
TO MEET SHAH
New Delhi: Delhi LG
Anil Baijal met PM Nar-
endra Modi on Monday
for almost an hour and
they are likely to have
discussed the violence
in the national capital.
“I met PM Modi,”
said Baijal after the
meeting but did not re-
veal what was dis-
cussed. The two are
likely to have discussed
the violence in the city.
At least 42 people have
lost their lives and over
200 were injured.
Delhi LG meets PM Modi
discusses Delhi situation
IN THE COURTYARD
New Delhi: The SC on
Monday refused to re-
fer to a larger bench a
batch of pleas, chal-
lenging the constitu-
tional validity of Cen-
tre’s decision of abro-
gating provisions of
Article 370.
The five-judge Con-
stitution bench of the
Apex Court, headed by
Justice N V Ramana,
refused to refer the pe-
titions to a larger
bench.
The SC had earlier
heard the detailed ar-
guments and submis-
sions from the respec-
tive petitioners and
respondent, including
that of the Centre’s,
and had reserved its
judgement on the
batch of petitions.
In August last year,
the govt abrogated Ar-
ticle 370, which ac-
corded special status
to the erstwhile state
of Jammu and Kash-
mir and bifurcated the
region into two Union
territories- J&K and
Ladakh.
SC denies to refer Article 370 cases to larger bench
DELHI VIOLENCE

SPORTSAHMEDABAD | TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2020
Real Madrid beat
Barcelona
Madrid: Real Madrid
recovered the No. 1 spot
in the La Liga Santand-
er table on goals by Vin-
cius and Mariano,
downing Barcelona in
the 26th week of Span-
ish soccer action at San-
tiago Bernabeu stadium
before 78,357 fans. The
soccer classic has be-
come a contrast in
styles marked by a psy-
chological factor as
Real Madrid -- fresh off
discombobulating loss-
es to Levante and Man-
chester City in Champi-
ons League play in the
middle of last week - on
Sunday evening went
up against their eternal
rivals with Barcelona
seemingly favoured
thanks to its recent tri-
umphs under the lead-
ership of Leo Messi, re-
ports Efe news.
Karl wins ski
jumping WC event
Helsinki: Germany’’s
Karl Geiger won the
1,000th ski jumping
World Cup of all time in
Lahti, Finland. Geiger
had posted two jumps
of 122.5 and 130.0 me-
tres in the final which
took place on Sunday,
scoring 266.4 points to
claim his fourth World
Cup title in the season,
reports Xinhua news
agency. Austrian jump-
er Stefan Kraft was sec-
ond with a total of 260.5
points, while his compa-
triot Michael Hayboeck
came third with 259.1
points for his first podi-
um finish since 2018.
“My jumps were really,
really good and it’’s in-
credible that I could
win the 1,000th World
Cup competition. But
winning is always spe-
cial and you’’re always
happy about it, no mat-
ter if it’’s the 1,000th or
the 1,001st competi-
tion,” said Geiger.
Azlan Shah Cup
postponed
Kuala Lumpur: The
29th edition of the Sul-
tan Azlan Shah Cup has
been postponed due to
the novel coronavirus
outbreak, the events or-
ganising committee
said on Monday. The
tournament was sched-
uled to be held between
April 11 to 18 at Malay-
sia. “The health and
well-being of the teams,
especially Australia,
Canada and Japan,
should be taken into
consideration as not to
jeopardise their prepa-
ration for Tokyo Olym-
pics 2020,” the organis-
er said in a statement.
Guj’s Vyom Shah
wins TT title
Jaipur: A table tennis
event was organized
in Jaipur. The event
was organized by Alta-
vol Sports Academy.
In which a player
named Vyom Shah of
Gujarat participated.
Vyom Shah became
the winner in the ta-
ble tennis event in
Jaipur. Vyom Shah
was awarded with tro-
phy and certificate.
BRIEF
in
Dubai: Ankita Raina’s
red-hot form and Sania
Mirza’s assuring pres-
ence will give India a
much better shot at the
Play-offs place when the
six-team Fed Cup com-
petition begins here
from Tuesday.
Ankita has been in
tremendous form since
the start of the season,
winning two ITF sin-
gles and as many dou-
bles titles.
She is placed at a ca-
reer-best 160 in the sin-
gles ranking chart but
during the Fed Cup the
gritty Ankita has al-
ways punched above
her weight, giving
tough times to formida-
ble opponents.
She would be captain
Vishal Uppal’s biggest
weapon apart from mul-
tiple-time doubles
Grand Slam champion
Sania Mirza, who is re-
turning to Fed Cup af-
ter four years.
The three-week delay
in the start of the tour-
nament due to Corona-
virus outbreak has giv-
en Sania a chance to
recover from her calf
injury which had forced
her to retire mid-way
from her Australian
Open women’s doubles
opener.
Her experience of
playing and winning at
the big stage will help
younger players in the
side in handling the
pressure situations
better.
“I had a good start to
the season, so I am con-
fident going into the
competition. And defi-
nitely Sania will inspire
all of us to give our best.
Her advise and tips will
be more than helpful,”
admitted Ankita.
Riya Bhatia has risen
in the ranks and her
new-found confidence
will be good for India’s
chances. Karman Kaur
Thandi has slipped in
rankings after an inju-
ry and it will be a
chance for the tall Delhi
girl to not only regain
her confidence but also
help the team qualify
for the next stage. —PTI
India ready for challenge with in-form Ankita Raina, Sania Mirza
FED CUP CHALLENGE

The three-week
delay in the start
of tournament
due to
Coronavirus
outbreak has
given Sania a
chance to
recover from her
calf injury
Rajkot: Medium pacer
Chintan Gaja grabbed a
fifer to lead Gujarat’s
fight-back after they
conceded a 52-run first-
innings lead against
Saurashtra on the third
day of their Ranji Tro-
phy semi-final here on
Monday.
Gaja (5/15) reduced
Saurashtra to 66 for 5 in
their second essay at the
end of the day three as
the hosts took an overall
lead of 118 at the SCA
Stadium in Khandheri.
The 25-year-old
Ahmedabad-born Gaja
bowled in the right are-
as and was handsomely
rewarded for his efforts.
His scalps included
Harvik Desai (0), Kis-
han Parmar (0), Avi
Barot (1), Vishwaraj
Jadeja (6) and first-in-
nings centurion Shel-
don Jackson (0) to re-
duced Saurashtra to 15
for 5.
But an experienced
Arpit Vasavada (23 not
out) and Chetan Saka-
riya (32 not out) stood
tall against the Gujarat
bowlers till stumps were
drawn.
This was after the
hosts, who had posted
304, bundled out Gujarat
for 252 in their first es-
say.
Gujaratwasreelingat
155 for 8 at one stage in
their first innings, but
then Rujul Bhatt (71 off
212 balls) and Gaja (61
off 103 balls) joined
hands to bail their side
outbyadding87runsfor
the eighth wicket.
It was Saurashtra
skipper Jaydev Unadkat
(3/86), who broke the
stand by dismissing
Bhatt, caught by Avi
Barot.
Bhatt’s dismissal
paved way for the hosts
to take the first-innings
lead. —Agencies
First India News
Gujarat: After the com-
pletion of 5th round Joy
Pankaj Shah leads with
4.5 points in Gujarat
state selection national
senior chess tourna-
ment. Udit Kamdar and
Manush Shah stood on
2nd and 3rd positions
respectively with 4.5 pt
each. In fifth round Joy
P Shah drew a match
with Chudasama Ankit.
In sixth-round Joy will
fight against Falgun
Purohit. During the 5th
round, Udit Kamdar
beats Shailesh Rawal
while Manush beats
Sanjeet Manohar and
holds 4.5 pt each.
A total of 9 rounds
will be played during
this tournament. A to-
tal cash prize of Rs 75,
000 will be awarded to
the first 20 winners’
along with that all U-13
players will be awarded
a medal.
Amman: World silver-
medallist Amit Panghal
has been given the top
billing in the men’s com-
petition while the iconic
MC Mary Kom seeded
2ndinthewomen’sevent
of the Asian Olympic
Qualifiers for boxing
starting here on Tues-
day. 8 men and 5 women
from India will be aim-
ing to secure Tokyo
Olympics berths at the
continental event being
conducted by IOC Box-
ing Task Force.
While Panghal is the
lone Indian man to be
seeded, 2-time world
bronze-medallist Borgo-
hain and Rani have been
seeded 2nd and 4th re-
spectively in women’s
competition. Indian
team arrived in Jordan
on Friday last week after
a training stint in Assisi,
Italy, a country battling
novel coronavirus out-
breakwhichhasclaimed
over 3,000 lives across
the world since being
discovered in Wuhan.
NZ SWEEP TEST SERIES
Gaja leads Guj’s fight back after
conceding 1st-innings lead
Joy P Shah shines in
state chess tourney
Amit gets top billing,
Mary seeded second
India lost the second Test by seven
wickets in less than three days
India were bundled out for
242 runs in their first innings
RANJI SEMIFINALS
Christchurch: New Zealand came out with
a brilliant performance, both with
bat and ball, as they defeated
India by seven wickets in
the second and final
Test at the Hagley Oval
on Monday, thereby
clinching the two-match
series 2-0.
After bundling out India for
mere 124 runs in the morning ses-
sion on Day Three, New Zealand
chased down the target riding on half
centuries from its openers Tom
Latham and Tom Blundell
Starting the post-lunch session at
46/0, Latham and Blundell didn’t allow
the Indian bowlers to make any in-
roads and collected runs at will. They
both shared 103-run opening stand be-
fore Latham (52) became the victim of
Umesh Yadav, who had him caught by
wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant.
Skipper Kane Williamson (5), also
couldn’’t contribute much with the
bat, just like the first innings, and was
undone by a brilliant delivery from
Jasprit Bumrah. Blundell, too, didn’t
stay long after his skipper’s depar-
ture and was bowled by Bumrah af-
ter scoring 55.
However, Ross Taylor (5*) and
Henry Nicholls (5*) completed the
formalities as the Black Caps won
the match in 36th over of their second
innings.
Earlier, starting the day at 90/6, the
Indian lower order, unlike that of the
Black Caps, failed to show any resist-
ance. The last four batsmen could add
just 34 runs as they got bowled out for
124, setting up a 132-run target for the
Kiwis. Kyle was declared Player of the
Match while Southee was adjudged the
Player of the Series. —PTI
A disappointed Virat
Kohli on Monday ad-
mitted that his side was
“completely outplayed” by
New Zealand in the two-Test
series and they can’t live in
denial about “not being brave
enough” to counter adverse
conditions. The Indian batting
was in complete shambles
in the two-Test series and
the skipper said that with a
packed schedule, the team
management will have to
ﬁnd solutions despite time
constraints.
“Obviously quite disappoint-
ed with how we played in this
series. I feel like we were com-
pletely outplayed in this series,”
the Indian captain was honest
and forthright in his assessment
following the seven-wicket loss
in the second Test here.
“We obviously didn’t play
the kind of cricket we do as a
team. The thing to take away
from here is to not shy away
from things that have gone
wrong and instead address
them straight up, and not be in
denial,” he said. Asked to point
out what exactly went wrong,
Kohli felt the outlook towards a
series in adverse conditions was
“not ideal”. —Agencies
‘We were completely
outplayed,
can’t live
in denial’
Kyle Jamieson plays a shot during the match between New
Zealand and India at Hagley Oval Cricket Stadium in Christchurch.

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attitude and behaviour will
define your life.
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2NDFRONT
Gandhinagar: Over 1
lakh kg beef had been
seized from Gujarat
in the last two years,
the Legislative As-
sembly was told on
Monday, prompting
the opposition Con-
gress to question the
efficacy of the amend-
ed cow slaughter law
that was brought in
the year 2017.
During Question
Hour,stateHomeDepart-
ment stated that 1,00,490
kgs of beef had been
seized from different
parts of the state in the
years 2018 and 2019.With
the recovery of 55,162 kg
of beef Surat topped the
list, followed by
Ahmedabad (18,345 kgs)
and Dahod (5,934 kgs).
Responding to ques-
tions raised by Con-
gress MLAs about the
issue, Chief Minister
Vijay Rupani, who
also handles Home
portfolio, told the
House that 3,462 cows
and its progeny, such
as bullocks and calves,
were recovered alive
from the accused.
Senior Congress
MLA Shailesh Parmar
said the BJP govern-
ment was doing only
politics in the name of
cows.
“It appears that the
(2017) law is not im-
plemented effectively.
That is the reason
why over 1 lakh kgs of
beef had been seized
in the last two years.
You are doing only
politics in the name of
cows,” said Parmar.
At this, Minister of
State for Home Pradeep-
sinh Jadeja said the Op-
position was doing poli-
tics of appeasement.
“It’s painful that poli-
tics of appeasement is
being done over this is-
sue. Do you want to save
the accused? Are you
with cows or those who
slaughter them? That
BJP sticker on the vehi-
cle was a conspiracy to
defame the party,” he
said. —PTI
Average 3 to 4 rapes reported in state every dayFirst India News
Gandhinagar: Com-
piling data from the
question book tabled
in the Assembly on
Monday, Opposition
benches revealed that
in the last two years
2,720 rape cases were
reported in the State.
The Opposition Con-
gress stated that this
means every hour
three to four rapes
are reported.
Congress MLAs had
raised a series of ques-
tions seeking informa-
tion on crimes in vari-
ous districts. The party
compiled all the data
provided by the State
Home Department and
shared it with the me-
dia. According to it, in
the last two years
14,702 persons have
committed suicide,
2,304 murders took
place, 3,305 rioting
cases. In all, 88,081
criminal offences
have occurred in the
state in 2018 and 2019.
The most rape cases
are from Ahmedabad
district with 540 offenc-
es, followed by Surat
with 452. The most in-
teresting is that the
lowest number of
rape cases, nine, were
in Dangs district,
while Botad reported
22, Aravalli 24, Morbi
25 and DevBhumi
Dwarka 34. During
the two years, 5,897
kidnappings have
taken place with Su-
rat at the top with 935
offences, Ahmedabad
was next 835 cases of
kidnapping. Dang is
the only district with
kidnapping cases in a
single digit -- just two
cases.Dangsistheleast
developed district, but
interestingly in crime
controlitisthebestper-
forming district with
less number of crimi-
nal cases. No loot, nine
murders, 18 thefts, four
rioting cases, attempt
to murder three. But,
what is disturbing, the
tribal district reports a
high number of unnat-
ural deaths vis-a-vis
crimes. There were 147
unnaturaldeaths,97ac-
cidental cases and 50
suicides.
Speaker reserves
ruling in House
First India News
Gandhinagar: State
assembly speaker Ra-
jendra Trivedi kept
his ruling reserved on
points of orders, one
each raised by Minis-
ter of State for Parlia-
ment Affairs Prad-
ipsinh Jadeja and
Leader of Opposition
Paresh Dhanani. Min-
ister of State for Parlia-
mentAffairsPradipsinh
Jadeja’s point of order
underlined that two sep-
arate questions on the
same subjects cannot be
clubbed.
LoP Paresh Dhanani
in a point of order de-
manded a half an hour
debate for questions on
which the government
had shared false infor-
mation. He said in the
question number 51, the
state government has
claimed that out of 11 ta-
lukas in the district, four
talukas have GIDC es-
tates and five talukas do
not. Dhanani asked the
government to account
for the two remaining ta-
lukas of the district. In
question number 251,
the state government
has stated that there is
one GIDC estate in
DevbhumiDwarkadis-
trict’s Okha Mandal
taluka and Gir Som-
nath’s Sutrapada talu-
ka each. Dhanani
claimed that the state
government had in-
formed the House that
thereisnoGIDCestatein
these talukas just two
years ago, thereby ques-
tioning the existence of
the two GIDC estates.
‘Study in Guj’ delegation
signs 69 MoUs in Africa
Patil initiative brings relief to
residents near Surat airport
London: Ramniklal
Solanki, a giant of
Gujarati journalism
and the pioneer of the
British Asian media,
passed away in India
after a brief illness,
his son said here on
Monday. He was 88 and
is survived by his wife,
two sons, one daughter
and 11 grandchildren.
Ahmedabad: ACB Gu-
jarat nabbed two people
including an engineer
of GSWAN takingbribe.
Assistant Director of
ACB, DP Chudasama
said that GSWAN engi-
neer MS Bhoora and
computer operator PP
Patel were caught from
the server room taking a
bribe of Rs 3000.
Ahmedabad: With suc-
cess of ‘AAP’ model in
Delhi, now the party has
once again been active
in strengthening the or-
ganization in Gujarat.
As part of this, Gopal
Rai, who is in charge
of AAP this week, is
coming to Gujarat for
8-10 days to start the
process of renewal. In
particular, the target is
the young leaders of
Patidar Reserve Move-
ment. While the name
of Hardik Patel has also
approached leaders of
the party and held meet-
ings with them, thus a
youth organization of
AAP is under way.
OPPNCONGPOKESGUJARATGOVT
OVER 2017COWSLAUGHTERBAN
First India News
Gandhinagar: As part
of the State Educa-
tion Department’s
‘Study in Gujarat’ ini-
tiative, a delegation
signed a total of 60
MoUs with African
universities and par-
ticipated in a number
of roadshows and ex-
hibitions from Febru-
ary 13-24 in Kenya,
Uganda, Zimbabwe
and Mozambique.
The primary objec-
tive of the initiative
was to establish Guja-
rat as the education hub
of India and invite stu-
dents from other states
as well as overseas to
pursue higher educa-
tion in the state. The
delegation was accom-
panied by 16 partner
universities to interact
with concerned stake-
holders.
Educational insti-
tutions such as PDPU,
IIT-RAM, RK Univer-
sity, Nirma Universi-
ty and Ahmedabad
University signed
MOUs with the Uni-
versity of Nairobi.
Gujarat Technologi-
cal University (GTU),
Gujarat University,
CHARUSAT, Swarnim
Startup and Innova-
tion University,
Sankalchand Patel
University and Veer
Narmad South Guja-
rat University signed
MoUs with Mount
Kenya University.
In all, the delegation
interacted with more
than 9,000 students and
500 educators in four
countries of Africa.
First India News
Surat: Concerned over
notices by the Directo-
rate General of Civil
Aviation over their
buildings being taller
than the approved
height around the Surat
airport, a delegation of
flat-owners of as many
as 27 housing projects
on Monday called on
Civil Aviation Minister
Hardeep Puri to hear
them out.
Following a meet-
ing coordinated by
Navsari MP CR Patil,
the Civil Aviation
Minister has agreed
to give them time to
make their case. They
were earlier called
for talks on March 4
but now more time
will be given.
CR Patil said, “A
group of contractors
and builders reached
me with their concern
and asked for help.
Looking at the serious-
ness of the issue, I or-
ganized a meeting with
the Civil Aviation Min-
ister and gave a chance
to the builders to pre-
sent their side. He also
assured us to make suit-
able alterations in the
law to prevent people
from being homeless.”
On their request,
even the venue of the
hearing would be
shifted from Mumbai
to Surat. A six-mem-
ber delegation from
Confederation of
Real Estate Develop-
ers Association of In-
dia (CREDAI), Surat,
on Monday met the
minister.
Many Cong leaders including
Hardik Patel may join AAP
‘Rs 1.32 CR SAVED IN 3,717 CYBER CRIME CASES’
State’s 106 talukas without GIDC
estates, only 8 came up in two years
First India News
Gandhinagar: The
Gujarat Industries
Development Corpo-
ration (GIDC) has set
up estates in 173 talu-
kas and yet 106 talu-
kas are without GIDC
estates. This, despite
the State Government
having once declared
a policy to have these
estates in all talukas.
Industries Minister
Saurabh Patel informed
the State Assembly that
Gujarat is committed to
set up estates in all talu-
kas, but the limitation is
that industrialists are
not ready to invest in all
estates.Thereareamany
as 12 estates where not a
single entrepreneur has
come forward to invest.
Citing instances,
Patel pointed to Adi-
vasis-dominated dis-
tricts of Dahod and
Vyara. So now, the
government has de-
cided to first conduct
a feasibility study of
the estate and if there
is a demand govern-
ment will set up in-
dustrial estates. Some
MLAs even submitted
that there is good infra-
structure in their area,
labourers are available,
waterisnotanissueand
the government should
set up GIDC estate.
Patel also informed
the House that GIDC es-
tates are small, medium
and big units, but for
larger units the State
Government has come
up with facilities like
Special Investment Re-
gion, Special Economic
Zone. In GIDC estates
mostly ancillary units
are set up.
First India News
Gandhinagar: Min-
ister of State for
Home Pradipsinh
Jadeja on Monday
while responding to
a question posed by
Congress MLA
Gyasuddin Shaikh
said that the state
had managed to save
Rs1.32 crore in over
3,717 cyber crime
cases. Citing data of
the year 2018, Jadeja
said that 350 cyber
crime offences were
registered and 558
people were arrested
with charge sheets
filed in 198 cases.
In the year 2019,
401 cyber offences
were reported in the
state and 609 ac-
cused were arrest-
ed. Charge sheets
were filed for 167
cases. Therefore,
the total number of
people arrested for
cyber crime stands
at 1,167. Jadeja also
elaborated on the tac-
tics used by cyber of-
fenders to cheat peo-
ple and the provisions
made by the state gov-
ernment to tackle
them. With cyber po-
lice stations in all four
major cities-
Ahmedabad, Rajkot,
Surat and Vadodara,
another such police
station has also been
activated at the CID
(Crime) that func-
tions round the clock
for seven days.
Delegation from Gujarat with their African counterparts. Ramniklal
passes away
ACB nabs 2
in graft case
It appears
that the law is
not imple-
mented effectively.
That is the reason why
over 1 lakh kgs of beef
had been seized in the
last two years. You are
doing only politics in
the name of cows
—Shailesh Parmar,
Congress MLA
Rajendra Trivedi
Saurabh Patel
Looking at the
seriousness of
the issue, I or-
ganized a meeting
with the Civil Avia-
tion Minister and
gave a chance to the
builders to present
their side.
—CR Patil, Navsari MP
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