First india news paper gujarat english news paper today-18 january 2020 edition

CM RUPANI FLAGS OFF A’BAD-MUM
TEJAS IN MODI, SHAH’S BACKYARDHaresh Jhala
Ahmedabad: Amid
fanfare the
Ahmedabad- Mumbai
Tejas Express, the
second premium
train to be run by
Railway subsidiary
IRCTC, was flagged
off by Gujarat Chief
Minister Vijay Rupa-
ni on Friday morning
in the home state of
both Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and
Home Minister Amit
Shah, who kept a
keen and close watch
on the whole develop-
ment from the Na-
tional capital.
Equipped with mod-
ern facilities, the train
departed from
Ahmedabad at 10.43 am
to reach Mumbai after
6.30 hours, covering a
distance of nearly
500km.
This is the second
premium train to be
operated by IRCTC,
the Railway firm that
handles catering,
tourism and online
ticketing.
The first such train,
between Delhi and
Lucknow, was flagged
off last year. The Del-
hi-Lucknow Tejas Ex-
press is also operated
by IRCTC, which is
listed on stock ex-
changes.
The Railways has
proposed to run 150
such premium trains
across the country.
The commercial run
of the Ahmedabad-
Mumbai Tejas Express
will start from January
19 from here, the Rail-
ways said.
The train was shown
green signal with a lot
of fanfare at
Ahmedabad station
where it was decorated
with flowers and gar-
lands on exterior.
Artists performed
traditional music and
dance on the platform
before the departure of
the train.
Railway Minister
Piyush Goyal, who
was to attend the flag-
ging off ceremony,
could not arrive here
due to bad weather,
BJP MP Kirit Solanki
said.
“It is a matter of
pride that this semi
high-speed, second
Tejas Express train
has been flagged off
between Ahmedabad
and Mumbai. This
will benefit both
states,” Rupani said
after flagging off the
train.
“Work on bullet
train is also going on
the Mumbai-
Ahmedabad route,”
he said.
The train
(82902/82901) will oper-
ate on the Ahmedabad-
Mumbai route six days
a week with Thursday
kept as off-day for main-
tenance activity.
The fully air-condi-
tioned train has two ex-
ecutive class chair cars,
having 56 seats each,
and eight chair cars,
having capacity of 78
seats each. The total
carrying capacity of
the train is 736 passen-
gers.
IRCTC will compen-
sate passengers for de-
lays. It will provide Rs
100 to each passenger in
case delay is more than
one hour and Rs 250 if
delay exceeds two
hours.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah
kept a keen and close watch on the whole development from the
National capital as (right) Chief Minister Vijay Rupani ﬂagged off
Tejas Express in Ahmedabad on Friday morning.

HIGHLIGHTS
The train was shown green signal with a lot
of fanfare at Ahmedabad station where it was
decorated with ﬂowers and garlands on exterior.
Artists performed traditional music and dance on
the platform before the departure of the train.
—PHOTOS BY NANDAN DAVE

M
S Dhoni com-
pletes 15 years
in internation-
al cricket having made
his debut against Bang-
ladesh in Chittagong on
December 23, 2004. It
wasn’t a memorable in-
troduction, though, for
the Ranchi cricketer,
who was run out for a
first-ball duck.
The national selec-
tion committee led by
Kiran More, a former
wicketkeeper himself,
handed Dhoni his maid-
en call-up and it would
not be long before he es-
tablished himself as a
regular in the ODI and
Test formats before be-
ing appointed the India
captain for the inaugu-
ral T20 World Cup in
South Africa.
He would transform
his batting to suit the
team’s needs and be-
come its de facto finish-
er, particularly in run-
chases, while his in-
stinctive on-field deci-
sions as captain started
delivering trophies.
The young Indian
side under Dhoni won
the T20 World Cup in
September 2007 to
soothe the scars of the
group-stage exit from
the 50-over World Cup
earlier in the year.
India won the tri-se-
ries in Australia in 2008,
registered its first Test
series win in New Zea-
land in 41 years, drew a
Test series in South Af-
rica in 2010, and under
Dhoni, it wasn’t just
competing but begin-
ning to win consistently
home and away.
In the final of the 2011
World Cup, Dhoni tran-
scended himself to play
arguably the defining
innings of his career -
an unbeaten 91 - to help
India end its 28-year
wait to win the quadren-
nial tournament.
The six over long on
off Sri Lanka seamer
Nuwan Kulasekara and
the outpouring of emo-
tions are among the
iconic moments of In-
dian cricket.
In 2013, he became the
first international cap-
tain to win three ICC
trophies when India
beatEnglandinthefinal
of the Champions Tro-
phy. The captaincy man-
tle was passed on to Vi-
rat Kohli in the middle
of India’s away Test se-
ries against Au stralia
in December 2014 and
India would fail at the
penultimate stage of the
2015 World Cup and the
2016 T20 World Cup on
home soil.
Dhoni has remained
the hope and a source of
joy for much of the 15
years since that Decem-
ber afternoon in Chit-
tagong. We don’t know
if we will see Dhoni play
his trade for a 16th year,
but his remains a career
that’s been celebrated
and deserving of more
celebration.
SPORTS
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Indian players Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Manish
Pandey and Yuzvendra Chahal during a training session
ahead of 2nd ODI match against Australia in Rajkot.BEGINS PRACTICE WITH RANJI SQUAD
D
honi’s omission from the central contracts list
was imminent and he was duly informed before
the national selection committee finalised the
names, a top BCCI official told PTI on Thursday. If
the former skipper makes it to the T20 International
(T20I) squad sometime this year, he might be re-
inducted on a pro-rata basis even though chances of
that are remote. The 38-year-old double World Cup-
winning former India captain’s omission from the list
was not unexpected as he has not played any interna-
tional cricket for over six months now.
The 87-year-old woman, who
became an overnight sensa-
tion on social media after
her videos with Virat Kohli
and Rohit Sharma went viral
during the World Cup 2019,
passed away. The Board of
Control for Cricket in India
(BCCI) took to Twitter to
share the news. “#TeamInd-
ia’s Superfan Charulata Patel
ji will always remain in our
hearts and her passion for
the game will keep motivat-
ing us. May her soul rest in
peace,” The BCCI tweeted.
Jaipur: MS Dhoni has
been left out of the BC-
CI's central contacts
list for players. He has
not played for India
since the 2019 Cricket
World Cup semi-final
defeat to New Zealand.
Dhoni had retired
from Test cricket in De-
cember 2014 after play-
ing 90 matches and had
stepped down as captain
of limited-oversformats
in January 2017.
Dhoni was part of
Grade A in the BCCI's
central contracts list
last year but after he
had made himself una-
vailable since the World
Cup, he was left out of
the 27-member list for
the period from October
2019 to September 2020.
The former skipper
has helped earn several
accolades in the global
arena, including the in-
augural World T20 in
2007, World Cup in 2011,
and ICC Champions
Trophy in 2013. He has
so far featured in 90
Tests, 350 ODIs and 98
T20Is and has amassed
over 17,000 runs.
Sydney: In-
dia is ap-
proaching cri-
sis mode with
Virat Kohli under
fire for a batting ex-
periment that is set to
be reversed as it grap-
ples with a concussion
blow to Rishabh Pant.
Kohli is back at No.3
as India face Australia
in the 2nd ODI in Ra-
jkot today with the se-
ries on the line. Kohli
and Co. will go into the
game 0-1 down after a
thrashing in Mumbai,
courtesy David Warn-
er and Aaron Finch,
who hit unbeaten hun-
dreds.
The talking point go-
ing into the match has
been Kohli’s batting
position and it is cer-
tain that the Indian
captain will return at
his favoured number
three spot.
First cricket team
to play 500 Tests
New Delhi: England
became the first cricket
team in the history of
the sport to play 500
away Tests. The side
achieved the feat when
they took the field to
play the third Test of
the ongoing four-match
series against South Af-
rica. England has man-
aged to win 149 match-
es, while losing 182.
Halep knocked
out in Adelaide QF
Adelaide: Two-time
Grand Slam winner Si-
mona Halep will head
into the Australian
Open with room for im-
provement after being
upset 6-4, 6-2 by Aryna
Sabalenka on Thursday
at the ATP-WTA Ade-
laide International.
Chiragh shines at
Singapore Open
Singapore: Indian golf-
er Chiragh Kumar was
impressive off the tee
and he added some good
putting on the back
nine to bring home a
card of three-under 68
in the first round of the
SMBC Singapore Open.
India’s first model
sports villages
New Delhi: Bahadur-
pur & Kheri Viran are
set to become India’s
first ‘Model Sports Vil-
lages’ as part of Insti-
tute of Management
Technology Ghaziabad’s
plan to evolve a sports
culture in the country.
Prajnesh enters
final round
Melbourne: India’s top-
ranked singles player
Prajnesh Gunneswaran
is a win away from seal-
ing a place in the Aus-
tralian Open main draw
after progressing to the
final round of the quali-
fiers but it was curtains
for Sumit Nagal.
Sindhu crashes
out in 2nd round
Jakarta: Indian cam-
paign at Indonesia Mas-
ters 2020 came to an end
when PV Sindhu
crashed out in the sec-
ond round of the tour-
nament with a three-
game loss to Japan’s
Sayaka Takahashi on
Thursday.
Ireland stun
Windies by 4 runs
Grenada: Ireland rode
a career-best 95 from
opener Paul Stirling be-
fore keeping their nerve
in a nail-biting final
over to pull off a four-
run win over world
champions West Indies
in the first of a three-
match Twenty20 series.
Selection of SAI
to be held in Jan
New Delhi: The Sports
Selection Selection of
Sports Authority of In-
dia (SAI) for the training
center at Vidyadhar Na-
gar will be held from
January 20 to 22. In this
selection process, play-
ers will be selected for
Athletics, Basketball,
Volleyball, Weightlifting.
BRIEF
in
Sydney: Close to A$
five million($3.4 mil-
lion) was raised for the
raging Australian bush-
fires after a special
charity event in which
world’s best tennis play-
ers took to the court.
Amid the Australian
Open
qualifying
rounds, the Rally for Re-
lief -- organised on
Wednesday evening --
featured big stars name-
ly Roger Federer, Sere-
na Williams, Novak
Djokovic, Rafael Nadal,
Naomi Osaka, Caroline
Wozniacki, Stefanos
Tsitsipas, Alexander
Zverev, Nick Kyrgios,
Petra Kvitova, Coco
Gauff and Dominic Thi-
em. Firefighters and
emergency personnel
watched on from court
side seats as the multi-
generational stars
played fast four dou-
bles, bringing much
needed laughter and
fun to those who have
struggled over the past
months. Nick Kyrgios,
who comes from an
area near to where the
fires are, described the
emotional feeling of
seeing some of the big-
gest stars in the world
getting behind Austral-
ia in a time of need.
“The awareness has
grown and I think we’re
doing everything we
possibly can to over-
come this,” Kyrgios
said. In an Australian
Open preview, Kyrgios
was joined by Federer
for a friendly one set
match, which the Swiss
legend won 7-6.
“What I wanted to do
was raise awareness,
raise money and tell
people to still come and
travel to Australia be-
cause people probably
think around the world
that you can’t right
now,” Federer said.
Federer paired up with
Nadal to donate A$
250,000 from their pock-
ets too help with relief.
Tennis stars raise 5 mn Aus dollars for reliefBUSHFIRE CHARITY
New Delhi: Javelin
thrower Devendra
Jhajharia on Thursday
dispelled all rumours
of retirement and said
he has his eyes set on a
hat-trick of world re-
cords at the 2020 Tokyo
Paralympics.
The 38-year-old jave-
lin thrower won a gold
at the 2004 Athens Para-
lympic Games in the
men's javelin throw F46
event setting a new
world record of 62.15
metres. He then repeat-
ed the feat 12 years later
at the 2016 Rio edition
bettering his own world
record with a throw of
63.97 metres. He became
the first Indian to clinch
two gold medals at the
Paralympics.
"I have qualified for
the Tokyo Paralympics
and I hope I can break
my own world record,"
Jhajharia told PTI in an
event. A recurring
shoulder injury trou-
bled him for more than
a year and a half, even
forcing him to consider
retirement.
Hobart: Sania Mirza
and her Ukrainian
partner Nadia Kiche-
nok advanced to the
women's doubles
semi-finals of the Ho-
bart International.
The duo defeated
USA's pair of Vania
King and Christina
McHale. On Tuesday,
they had won against
Georgia's Oksana
Kalashnikova and
Japan's Miyu Kato.
33-year-old Sania last
played at China Open
in October 2017.
Earlier in Decem-
ber, she was named
in the five-member
Fed Cup team an-
nounced by All India
Tennis Association
(AITA) to represent
the country in the
Fed Cup Asia/Oce-
ania Group I event.
Riya Bhatia, Ankita
Raina, Rutuja Bho-
sale, and Karman
Kaur Thandi are the
other players of the
five-member squad.
Sowjanya Bavisetti is
the reserve player.
Sania enters women’s
doubles semifinals of
Hobart International
Naresh Sharma
Jaipur: Hyderabad-
based polo player
Shamsher Ali turn the
tables by his excellent
performance. Shamsh-
er lead the Dragon team
to victory path which
was on the verge to lose
the game at Rambagh
Polo Ground. Dragon
won by 3–1 win over Los
Polistas. When the
match was about to
reach the finishing
point, Shamsheer gave
the Dragons the victory
with the easy goal.
In another match
played on the Cavalry
ground, Jaipur Riding
defeated the Cavalry
6-5. Angad Kalan scored
four goals for Jaipur
Riding Club, while Cav-
alry’s Ravi Rathore
scored 3 goals.
IS THIS END OF MS DHONI ERA?
n MS Dhoni has been
left out of the BCCI's
Annual Contracts List
n Dhoni has not
played for India
since the 2019 World
Cup semi-final
n Dhoni will lead
Chennai Super Kings
in the 2020 Indian
Premier League
BCCI CENTRAL CONTRACTS FOR 2019-20 DHONI WAS INFORMED OF EXCLUSION: BCCI
Grade A+ (INR 7 cr):
Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma,
Jasprit Bumrah
Grade A (INR 5 cr):
Ravichandran Ashwin,
Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvnesh-
war Kumar, Cheteshwar
Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, KL
Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan,
Mohammed Shami, Ishant
Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav,
Rishabh Pant
Grade B (INR 3 cr):
Wriddhiman Saha,
Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra
Chahal, Hardik Pandya,
Mayank Agarwal
Grade C (INR 1 cr):
Kedar Jadhav, Navdeep
Saini, Deepak Chahar,
Manish Pandey, Hanuma
Vihari, Shardul Thakur,
Shreyas Iyer, Washing-
ton Sundar.
Rattled Men In Blue to
end Kohli experiment
lll
Devastating
bushfires have
claimed at least
28 lives,
destroying over
2,000 homes
and razed
millions of
hectares of
wilderness
ShamsherleadsDragonstounexpectedwin
‘Want to break my
own world record’
Naresh Sharma
Jaipur: : Rajasthan
won a silver medal and
a bronze medal on
Thursday at the Khelo
India Youth Games 2020
held in Guwahati.
Jubera Raj won sil-
ver in the under-21 boys
wrestling category and
shooter Navdeep Jatra-
na won bronze in the
under-17 boys category.
While in boxing, wom-
en boxers performed
brilliantly to make it to
the quarter-finals. Boys
& girls basketball teams
of Rajasthan enjoying
their winning cam-
paign. So far, Rajasthan
has won a total 28 med-
als, including six gold,
15 silver and 7 bronze.
Rajasthan shines at Khelo India
Youth Games in wrestling
l Sania Mirza
and Nadia Kiche-
nok are making
waves in Hobart
l Sania will also
represent country
in the Fed Cup
Asia/Oceania
Group I event
TEAM INDIA‘SUPERFAN’ CHARULATA PATEL DIES
D
honi began practising with
the Jharkhand Ranji Trophy
squad on Thursday after he
was axed from the BCCI’s list of
centrally contracted players ear-
lier in the day. Amid fresh specu-
lation on his future, the 38-year-
old turned up at his home team’s
net session in Ranchi. This is
probably an indication that he is
getting ready for the upcoming
edition of the Indian Premier
League. Now, Cricket fans
wonder if Dhoni’s career
is over after being
dropped from cen-
tral contract list
by the BCCI.
YOU READ IT FIRST IN FIRST INDIA
JANUARY 17, 2019
He is a
man of
his
words and it
came as no
surprise that
he was out
there train-
ing with the
guys just
like any
other.
—Coach
Kumar
India has won 27, lost 19
and drawn 15 of the 60
Tests he has led the team in.
37-year-old Dhoni, who is
also the team’s wicket-
keeper, took over as Test skip-
per in 2008 after a successful
spell captaining the one-day
and T20 sides.
Under Dhoni, India’s only
notable Test wins away from
home have come in South Africa
and New Zealand – one each.
India beat West Indies in the Car-
ibbean once, but even that was a
laboured effort. India have won just
six away Tests out of the 30 that
Dhoni has captained
Dhoni has played 90 Tests and
scored 4876 runs at an average
of 38.09
Under Dhoni’s captaincy, India
became the No.1 Test team and
retained the ranking for 18 months
starting December 2009.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni broke the world re-
cord for the most number of stumpings in
international cricket after he effected his 134th
dismissals during the third Test against Australia
in Melbourne. He surpassed Sri Lanka’s Kumar
Sangakkara when he stumped Mitchell Johnson
off the bowling of off-spinner R Ashwin for his
world record dismissal. He reached the landmark
in his 460th innings while Sangakkara has 133
stumpings from 485 innings.
MS Dhoni’s omis-
sion from BCCI’s
central contract list
which was announced
on Thursday came as a
surprise to many in-
cluding the fans of the
veteran wicket-keeper
batsman, who have
been eagerly waiting
for his comeback in in-
ternational cricket.
Dhoni has not played
for India since the con-
clusion of the 2019
World Cup extending
his sabbatical to over
six months. Dhoni’s last
appearance for India
came in the World Cup
semi-final against New
Zealand where he
scored a gritty fifty but
failed to take India over
the line in the 241-run
chase as the Men in
Blue bowed out of the
showpiece event after
an 18-run loss. In his ab-
sence, speculations have
been doing the round
overDhoni’sfuturewith
the Indian team. His ex-
clusion from the BCCI
contract further fueled
the rumours of his re-
tirement, however, Dho-
ni is yet to address the
rumours. He has re-
sumed training with the
Jharkhand side.
Jharkhand coach Rajiv
Kumar said he was ex-
pecting Dhoni to be a bit
rusty having not played
any cricket for quite
some time but he was
left surprised when the
former Indian captain
middled the ball well
against both pacers and
spinners.
EXPECTED RUSTINESS BUT MS DHONI SURPRISED ME
WITH HIS FLUENCY IN NETS: JHARKHAND COACH
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He became the second Indian
captain to lift the World Cup in 2011
against Sri Lanka in Mumbai
The two first met at the Taj Bengal in Kolkata in
2007. It took a few months of serious wooing on
Dhoni’s part before they started dating in 2008
Ziva has been
constantly stealing
the attention of
fans with her
adorable gestures
He also holds the
all-time record of
107 stumpings in
ODI cricket and is
third overall in Test
cricket with 38
stumpings
Dhoni led India to the title triumph in
the inaugural edition of the ICC T20
World Cup in 2007
He has numerous motorcycles ranging from the Suzuki
Shogun to the Kawasaki Ninja H2 and Confederate Hellcat
Dhoni has been unlike many great players
who drag their feet in the twilight of their
careers. And his outstanding career has
showed that professional sport need not
always be about fitting in. He stood
out for his acumen and an
undemonstrative approach that
earned the nickname ‘Captain Cool’
MS WIN DOSE...
LOGS OUT? MS
Dhoni’s
journey
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
announced his retire-
ment after the third Test
of the Border-Gavaskar
Trophy at Melbourne
on December 30, 2014.
Australia beat India in
the series with one Test
remaining. Virat Kohli will
take over the reigns
Having led India in 60
matches, MS Dhoni
ranks 6th in list of players
to have captained a side.
Dhoni holds the record for highest Test score by an
Indian captain - 224 (Vs Australia in 2013). His 224 is
also the highest by a Test wicketkeeper-captain in history.
Nicknamed ‘Captain Cool’ for his calm demeanour in the
face of challenging situations, MSD will continue to
lead India in ODIs and T20s.
Post the World Cup win
in 2011, India lost eight
straight Tests away from
home. This put Dhoni the
captain under immense
pressure, which was ac-
centuated by a 2-1 home
series loss to England in
2012-13, the first time
India had lost at home in
more than eight years.
Dhoni was the 31st
captain of India in Tests
and is the most successful
Indian Test skipper.
In batting,
he aver-
aged 40.63
as captain,
and to-
talled 3454
runs. He
had hit five
centuries
as captain.
In 2013, he
became the first
international
captain to
win three ICC
trophies

RTIpleaquestions
Modi’s citizenship
Punjab to move SC
over CAA: CM Singh
New Delhi: Right to
Information (RTI) ap-
plication has been
moved before the Ker-
ala information dept
seeking to know
whether PM Modi is
an Indian citizen.
Josh Kalluveettil,
a native of Chalak-
kudy town in Thris-
sur dist, moved the
application in this
regard on Jan 13.
The application
has sought docu-
ments that prove PM
Modi’s citizenship.
It has been filed
before the public in-
formation officer of
the Chalakkudy mu-
nicipality.
Chandigarh: Shortly
after the Punjab As-
sembly passed a reso-
lution by voice vote
against the controver-
sial Citizenship
(Amendment) Act or
CAA, Chief Minister
Amarinder Singh on
Friday said his gov-
ernment like Kerala
will approach the
Supreme Court on
the issue.
Amarinder Singh
said the Centre will
have to make the
necessary amend-
ments to the CAA if
it has to be imple-
mented in Punjab
and other states op-
posing the legisla-
tion. Turn on P5
‘Doctor Bomb’
who jumped
parole arrested
Lucknow: A 68-year-
old convict of the 1993
Mumbai serial blasts
case, Jalees Ansari,
who had gone missing
on Thursday after he
jumped parole, has been
arrested
in Kan-
pur on
Friday.
Ansa-
ri, also
k n o w n
as Dr
Bomb, was leaving a
mosque in the city
and headed to the
railway station when
he was caught by the
Uttar Pradesh Po-
lice’s Special Task
Force, police said.
Turn on P5
IT’S FINAL: HANGING ON FEB 1
New Delhi: Fresh death warrants
were issued on Friday evening for
the four men convicted of the gang-
rape and murder of a 23-year-old
medical student in Delhi in 2012.
The four will now be executed at 6
am on February 1, Addl Sessions
Judge Satish Kumar Arora said on
Friday, while also turning down a
plea by Mukesh Singh, one of the
convicts, to postpone the execution.
The warrants were issued mere
hours after President Ram Nath Ko-
vind rejected a mercy plea filed by the
same convict. The new death warrants
are dated to exactly 14 days from Friday,
in accordance with a law that states
convicts to be executed must have a re-
prieve from the time their mercy plea
is turned down.
Vinay Sharma, Mukesh Singh,
Akshay Kumar Singh and Pawan
Gupta were to be hanged at Delhi’s
Tihar Jail on January 22, the same
trial court judge had declared last
week, signing a death warrant more
than seven years after the young
girl was gang-raped on a moving
bus, tortured and killed.
However, on Thursday, 5 days be-
fore the scheduled execution, Tihar
officials asked for a new date, say-
ing the executions could not take
place till after all mercy pleas were
settled. Turn on P5
Indian economy could recover
to 6.6% next fiscal: UN report
New Delhi: A combina-
tion of fiscal stimulus
and financial sector re-
forms, boosting invest-
ment and consumption,
is expected to “support
a recovery” in India’s
economic growth to 6.6
per cent in 2020-21, a
United Nations (UN) re-
port said.
According to the
World Economic Situ-
ation and Prospects
(WESP) report, the
Indian economy is
also expected to grow
at 5.7 per cent in the
current 2019-20 fis-
cal. This is higher
than the Modi govern-
ment’s estimates of
an 11-year-low
growth of 5 per cent
in 2019-20. Turn on P5
3 REASONS FOR GDP DECLINE
3 INDICATORS OF ECONOMY
 Auto Sector: The
sector witnessed a
slowdown last year.
Vehicle sales recorded
the fastest decline in 19
years.
 IIP: Despite major
steps like corporate
tax cuts in September,
industrial activity in the
country remains slug-
gish. The IIP registered
a steady decline in Aug,
Sept and Oct.
 NBFCs: One of the
reasons for the decline
in GDP growth is the
cash crisis of NBFCs.
 Inflation is rising in
the country, employ-
ment is decreasing,
but the stock market
is on boom.
 Retail inflation rate
the highest in five and
a half years.
 The retail infla-
tion rate in December
was 7.35%. This is
the highest since July
2014. Inflation was
more affected in De-
cember due to increase
in prices of vegetables,
especially onions.
A day after Amazon jibe, Goyal
says lawful investments welcome
New Delhi: A day af-
ter Commerce and
Industry Minister
Piyush Goyal called
Amazon investing a
billion dollars in In-
dia “not a favour”,
the Minister on Fri-
day clarified saying
his statement was
takenoutof context.
“My statement
should be seen in
context. Turn on P5
Niti Aayog CEO
Amitabh Kant has
come under fire from
the ‘Swadeshi’ lobby
after he tweeted a story
detailing Amazon’s
India plans. Kant had
Thursday tweeted a re-
port detailing Amazon’s
plans to export $10 bn
worth of Make in India
goods by 2025. Re-
sponding to his tweet,
Ashwani Mahajan of
the Swadeshi Jagran
Manch, a body affiliated
to the RSS, criticised
Kant’s “unending
love” for Amazon at a
time “crores of small
traders are being hurt
by the deep discounts
given by the company”.
Mahajan followed it up
with another tweet ask-
ing Kant to “side with
the people” — shop-
keepers and workers
— pointing out that the
government has made
its stand clear that deep
discounting is not ac-
ceptable.
KANT’S AMAZON LOVE IRKS RSS AFFILIATE
New Delhi: E-commerce giant Amazon on Friday announced that it plans to cre-
ate 1 million jobs in India by 2025 through investments in technology, infra-
structure and its logistics network. The announcement comes in the wake of
India trip by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. During his stay in India, Bezos
also announced that the company planned to invest $1 billion to “help bring
10 million traders and micro, small, and medium-sized businesses (MSMEs)
across India online, enabling the US $10B in cumulative exports by 2025.”
Will create
1 million
jobs in India
‘SAME PEOPLE WHO HELD
PROTESTS...’
NIRBHAYA’S PARENTS
MISGUIDED: KEJRIWAL
sha Devi, mother of Nirbhaya has said that
the case is being used for political mileage.
“Those who attacked my daughter are being
given a thousand options, but we have no
rights? Till now, I never talked about poli-
tics, but now I want to say that those people who held
protests on streets in 2012, today the same people are
only playing with my daughter’s death for
political gains,” she told reporters.
Her comments come amid a blame
game between the BJP which rules at
the centre and the AAP which gov-
erns Delhi over the delay in the exe-
cution of four men convicted of the
rape and murder.
At a news conference on
Thursday, BJP leader and
union minister Prakash Ja-
vadekar had said all four
convicts would have been
hanged by now had the
AAP government act-
ed quickly Turn on P5
elhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal urged
the BJP on Friday not to indulge in politics
over the Nirbhaya case issue and instead
work together in ensuring that justice in
such cases is delivered at the earliest.
Reacting to Union Minister and BJP leader Smriti
Irani blaming the AAP government for the “delay”
in hanging of the four convicts, Kejriwal
said that he feels “sad that politics is be-
ing done on such an issue”. “I feel sad
that politics is being done on such an
issue. Shouldn’t we be working to-
gether to ensure that the guilty are
hanged soonest? “Shouldn’t we join
hands to ensure a system so that
such beasts get hanged within six
months?
P l e a s e
don’t do
p o l i t i c s
on this.” Ke-
jriwal tweet-
ed. Turn on P5
A D
AKSHAY THAKUR PAWAN GUPTA MUKESH SINGH VINAY SHARMA
The new warrant was
issued hours after
President Ram Nath
Kovind rejected a mercy
petition filed by Mukesh
Singh, one of the convicts
AHMEDABAD l SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2020 l Pages 14 l 3.00 RNI NO. GUJENG/2019/16208 l Vol 1 l Issue No. 54
IT’S REALLY
SUNDAR...
PICHAI
Alphabet hit the $1 trillion market
capitalization, making it the fourth
US company to hit the milestone
after Apple, Amazon and Microsoft.
Pichai had already been the CEO of Google, which
includes company’s all core businesses like
search, advertising, YouTube and Android
and generates all its revenue and profits.
Despite the company’s seemingly
perpetual cultural clashes, Wall
Street sees more dollar signs.
Fresh speculations of BJP mulling change of guard in Gujarat
Haresh Jhala
Gandhinagar:It seems
rumour-mongering
about the BJP high
command looking for
a new face to lead Gu-
jarat has finally
reached Chief Minis-
ter Vijay Rupani’s
doorstep. CM Rupani
tied to douse fire with
a public denial, say-
ing, ‘I am not going
anywhere’, but it has
only fueled the specu-
lation even more.
Now, a fresh round
of speculations has
begun to take con-
crete shape that the
BJP high command
has made up its mind
to bring changes in
the state government
and is looking for a
new leader.
If party sources are to
be believed, Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi
may go for either state
BJP Vice President
Bhargav Bhatt, who
has also served in the
Sangh Pariwar for
long, or Union Minis-
ter of State for Ship-
ping Mansukh Man-
daviya, who happens
to be a Patel.
On the other hand,
Union Home Minister
and National BJP chief
Amit Shah, who virtu-
ally controls Modi’s all
Gujarat operations,
may prefer that Rupani
be continued as the
Chief Minister. But in
case, if Rupani has to
be replaced for some
political reasons,
then Shah may prefer
Praful Patel or Prad-
ipsinh Jadeja. Notably,
Amit Shah had replaced
Praful as MoS Home in
Gujarat in the year 2010
whereas Jadeja is the
sitting MoS Home.
Some party leaders
may have reservation
with Mansukh Manda-
via, Praful Patel or
Jadeja, but very few
will have objection to a
dark-horse Bhargav
Bhatt, who is very low
profile and has served
Sangh for long.
It is noteworthy that
the State would go to
polls almost two years
from now, while there
are crucial municipal
corporation elections,
which are due at the
end of this year.
According to party
sources, the specula-
tions started from the
body language of the
Chief Minister and
his public utterances.
While, CM is pushing
hard to publicise good
governance and that the
state is scaling new
heights of progress, a
party leader, on the con-
dition of anonymity,
said that the govern-
ment is moving at a
snail’s pace even in ur-
gent situations. Citing
one instance of locusts
attack in North Gujarat,
the State government
took ten days to seri-
ously launch combat
operation and post that
almost15daystodeclare
that it will compensate
for farmers’ losses.
Rupani’s recent state-
ments that he plays at
“half wicket”andrepeat-
ing former Chief Minis-
ter Modi’s famous words
that ‘Khato nathi ane
Khava Deto Nathi’ (Am
not corrupt Turn on P5
Praful Patel Pradipsinh JadejaMansukh MandaviaBhargav Bhatt

First India News
Ahmedabad: City resi-
dents will pay an addi-
tional Rs244 crore in
property tax and Rs26
crore in vehicle tax this
year. Ahmedabad Mu-
nicipal Commissioner
Vijay Nehra made the
announcement on Fri-
day, while presenting
the civic body’s draft
budget of Rs8,907.32
crore for 2020-21. This is
the first time in six
years that the
Ahmedabad Municipal
Corporation (AMC) has
proposed a hike in prop-
erty tax.
Commissioner Nehra
said the increase in
property tax and vehi-
cle tax would not affect
the majority of the peo-
ple. “There is a nominal
hike in the vehicle tax
on the vehicles priced at
Rs15 lakh or above.
There is no increase in
vehicle tax for two-
wheelers, hatchbacks
and sedan cars. We are
expecting a total of
Rs26 crore more in vehi-
cle tax next year,” he
said.
He further said that
those living in inde-
pendent bungalows
would bear the addi-
tional property tax; it
would not affect the
other sections of the so-
ciety much, he said.
“We conducted some
studies and found that
people in Ahmedabad
are paying less in taxes
as compared to cities
such as Mumbai and
Pune. Moreover, the
proposed increase has a
ceiling of Rs4,000.
There is no hike for
slum huts and shanties.
Moreover, pol houses
will see an increase of
Rs300 in property tax,
while taxes on flats,
row-houses and tene-
ments have been in-
creased by Rs500 to
Rs700, annually,” said
Nehra.
The commissioner
also announced a new
scheme for tax incen-
tives.
“Any society which
has a decentralized sol-
id waste and effluent
treatment plants, uses
renewable energy and
practises rainwater
harvesting and tree
plantation will be con-
sidered as a smart soci-
ety. As a result, such so-
cieties will be exempted
from property tax. Even
those who meet three of
the above-mentioned
criteria will get tax dis-
count of 25%,” the com-
missioner said.
He gave his budget
for the upcoming fiscal
year the title, “New
Ahmedabad for New In-
dia” and informed the
media that, keeping in
mind 75 years of Inde-
pendence, Ahmedabad
city will number one in
all aspects in the next
two years.
It is to be noted that
this is the second con-
secutive AMC budget to
impose higher charges
on city residents. Last
year, the civic body an-
nounced an increase of
Rs110 crore in its budg-
et, that was expected to
be levied on citizens in
the form of “user
charges”.
GUJARATAHMEDABAD | SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2020
BUGGED? Or is it the
grapevine... . First India
begins a column that
brings to you gossips or
tete-e-tete from the
corridors of power
GUP
SHUP
Radadiya at his
aggressive best!
Like father, like son. State
minister Jayesh Radadiya’s
late father Vithal Radadiya,
who joined the BJP after many
years in the Congress, was
always a go-getter using all
possible means to get his work
done, including pulling out a
firearm at highway toll booth.
Ditto, the young Radadiya on
Thursday got cleared a long
queue of over 200 cars near
a Saurashtra toll booth just
because he was getting late
and was stuck. He shouted at
the person manning the booth
and managed to get cleared the
huge jam.
One name to
bind them
With a scandal regarding outsourced
agencies at a well-known
government medical college in the city
making newspaper headlines, it was
perhaps obvious that a high-ranking
official from the health department would
be in a shouty mood when he visited
the college—especially since his visit
occurred the same day the news did.
However righteous his anger over the
mismanagement by the agency, he quickly
deflated after hearing that the agency
under scrutiny had been hired on the
recommendation of another, equally high-
ranking, official. We’re still not entirely sure
who this secret influencer is, but the name
certainly seemed to have a ‘quieting’ effect
on the Gandhinagar official.
Where are nimboo
and mirch?
After Defence Minister
Rajnath Singh performed
‘Shastra Puja' offering nimboo
and mirch near the Rafael jets in
France, many people expected
a similar kind of puja when
Tejas Express was flagged off
from Ahmedabad on Friday.
People were looking for mirch
and nimboo in the doors and
windows of the train on the
chance that Chief Minister Vijay
Rupani may have tied them after
performing ‘Vahan Puja’. Did
Tejas Express, the country’s first
semi-high speed and fully air-
conditioned train, shake them
off? We may never know!
SBI ties up with
METRO Cash and
Carry in Surat
Surat: The State Bank
of India (SBI) and Met-
ro Cash and Carry have
joined hands to offer
SBI’s existing and new
SME customers a pre-
approved Metro card
which will enable them
to shop at Metro’s 27
stores across India. Un-
der the partnership, ex-
isting Metro customers
can avail value-added
SBI current accounts,
business debit cards,
POS machines, digital
products and other as-
set products. Loans will
also be offered to eligi-
ble Metro customers for
renovation of their out-
lets. SBI will also place
a kiosk at the store
premises to educate
customers about vari-
ous schemes.
Central Bank of
India opens Credit
Processing Branch
Ahmedabad: Central
Credit Processing
Branch of Central
Bank of India was in-
augurated by Girish
Karia, field general
manager of
Ahmedabad Zone, here
on Wednesday. This
branch, which has been
designated as Central
Credit Processing
Branch for
Ahmedabad, will focus
on mortgage-based
loans. Mahesh Ojha,
who is in charge of this
branch assured the cus-
tomers that all the loan
proposals received
from branches will be
done quickly and his
entire team is available
to solve the problems
of customers. All the
staff of zonal office
and regional office in-
cluding Regional Man-
ager of Ahmedabad Re-
gion BS Shriram were
present on the occa-
sion.
A’bad-Mumbai
flight delayed
Ahmedabad: Around
150 passengers were
left waiting as Spice-
Jet’s Ahmedabad-Mum-
bai flight was delayed
by three hours on
Thursday night at
Ahmedabad airport.
The flight was sched-
uled to leave the city by
11pm but landed in
Mumbai after a delay
of around three hours.
Airport authorities had
cited bad weather for
the delay but others
passengers allege that
the airline landed in
the city late.
1 jail official
suspended, other
transferred
Ahmedabad: An offi-
cial of the Sabarmati
Central Jail was sus-
pended for laxity in al-
leged extortion case
involving Vishal Gos-
wami and his aides
from inside the prison
while another jailer
was transferred. The
city crime branch on
Wednesday had arrest-
ed four members of
the Vishal Goswami
gang.
BRIEF
in
AMC’s ` 8,907 crore draft budget
brings higher property, vehicle taxes
AMC gives milk bottle and rose as
return gift for Swachh feedbackFirst India News
Ahmedabad: The
Ahmedabad Municipal
Corporation (AMC) on
Friday distributed ros-
es and bottles of fla-
voured milk among
visitors to the Flower
Show at the Sabarmati
River Front in return
for online feedback for
Swachh Survekshan.
The solid-waste depart-
ment has distributed
2,400 bottles of milk on
Day One of its unoffi-
cial “scheme”.
The Ministry of
Housing and Urban Af-
fairs has announced a
new award, ‘Best City
in Maximum Citizen
Participation’, in the
2020 edition of Survek-
shan, and the civic
body seems to have that
in its sights.
In a seemingly des-
perate measures to get
people’s feedback, visi-
tors to the flower show
were asked to fill the
online form and get a
bottle of milk in re-
turn; some were given
roses, too.
“We have been asked
to get feedback from
the people. Today was
the first day and we
will continue giving
free milk bottles to the
visitors who will give
us feedback. We have
distributed 2,400 milk
bottles till evening and
on the weekend we are
expecting to distribute
more,” said Tushar Pa-
tel, an official of the
solid waste depart-
ment, AMC.
LoP in the AMC,
Dinesh Sharma called
it a “desperate move”
of the civic body to get
feedback.
First India News
Ahmedabad: The mer-
cury plunged signifi-
cantly across the state
over the last few days,
with both day and night
temperatures being re-
corded at considerably
below normal. While
the day temperatures
are below normal by 5-6
degrees in many places,
minimums are 2-3 de-
grees below normal. Al-
though the minimum
temperatures haven’t
dropped much in the
past 24 hours, many cit-
ies have recorded sin-
gle-digit minimums.
Naliya recorded a mini-
mum of 3.4°C which is
the lowest of the sea-
son. In fact, it is the low-
est temperature in the
city since 2012. Simi-
larly, other cities like
Bhuj, Kandla, Keshod,
Mahua, Porbandar, Ra-
jkot etc. are also wit-
nessing single-digit
minimum tempera-
tures.
Most places in Guja-
rat are expected to expe-
rience below-normal
day and night tempera-
tures for at least the
next week.
First India News
Ahmedabad:A Motera
resident has alleged
that he was cheated of
Rs10.30 lakh by three
persons on the pretext
of providing his son
with a job, police sourc-
es told First India. The
complainant, who
works as a security
guard, alleged that he
was duped by Nagend-
ra Prasad, Sanjay Ram-
pal and Minakshi Gan-
guli over a span of
three years.
In his complaint
filed with the Chand-
kheda police, the com-
plainant said the trio
tricked him into pay-
ing Rs10.30 lakhs for
getting his 21-year-old
son, who currently
works as an LRD
jawan, a job in Rail-
ways. He added that he
was also given fake of-
fer letters. Chandkhe-
da police have started
an investigation into
the matter.
Late winter chill to continue
for atleast next seven days
Man claims to be cheated
with false job promises
Visitors to the Flower Show at the Sabarmati River Front received
milk in exchange for feedback. —PHOTO BY HANIF SINDHI
People warm themselves in front of a fire.
Municipal Commissioner Vijay Nehra presents the AMC’s draft budget for 2020-21 to Mayor Bijal Patel.
PROVISIONS IN BUDGET
INFRASTRUCTURE
FOR WARDS
BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS


TAX MANTRA
—PHOTO BY HANIF SINDHI
Huts, ‘smart societies’ to receive property tax benefits; hike only for vehicles priced at `15 lakh or higher
 278 schools to
become ‘hi-tech’
 100 Smart e-toilets
 466 Anganwadis to
become ‘smart’
 Smart BRTS
 Digitalization of
100 heritage sites
 Swimming pool
 Mini-sports com-
plex
 Model garden with
open gym
 Vegetable market
 Health and wellness
centre
 Model road like CG
Road
 Rs968 crore for 20
flyovers
 Rs700 crore for
road redevelopment
and modernization
 Rs500 crore for
five multi-level park-
ing lots
 Rs200 crore for
two bio-diversity parks
 Rs968 crore for
20 flyovers, includ-
ing some in non-AMC
areas
 Rs200 crore for
two sports complexes
 Rs200 crore for
two bio-diversity parks
 Rs30 crore for
Happy Street and
Food Street in each
zone

GUJARATAHMEDABAD | SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2020
Fresh
speculations...
and have zero tolerance
for corruption) “are
sending signals as
though he is playing
last ten overs in one-day
cricket,” a party leader
said.
Sources claimed that
if there is a change of
guard, the party may
even ask both the Chief
Minister and Deputy
Chief Minister Nitin
Patel to vacate and
make space for new fac-
es.
The speculation is
also linked with the
party reorganisation.
Party sources said, it is
not just because Union
Home Minister and par-
ty President Amit Shah
was busy with CAA and
other national issues,
but, also because the
party high command
wants to bring changes.
The leadership also
has to balance the caste
equations in the gov-
ernment and the par-
ty’s state unit, sources
said, adding that if it
wants to continue
Rupani, then they will
have to make Patel lead-
er as the state unit pres-
ident with the incum-
bent Jitubhai Vaghani’s
term having ended. But,
if Rupani is replaced
with a Patel leader, the
state unit president has
to be from OBC.
IT’S FINAL...
Mukesh Singh had filed
his mercy petition on
Tuesday, directly after
the Supreme Court dis-
missed a curative peti-
tion - the last legal ap-
peal - moved by him and
Vinay Sharma.
The petition had been
forwarded to the Presi-
dent via the Home Min-
istry late Thursday
night and was rejected
this afternoon. Nirbha-
ya’s mother, Asha Devi,
had made a public ap-
peal to the President to
summarily reject the
petition.
‘Same People...
and served notices to
them immediately after
the Supreme Court re-
jected their appeal
against death sentence
in 2017.
Hitting back at the
BJP, Deputy Chief Min-
ister and AAP leader
Manish Sisodia said if
central government
handed over the capi-
tal’s law and order to
his government for two
days, the hangings
would be carried out
immediately.
“If they have not
been hanged yet, it is
due to the AAP govern-
ment’s negligence...
This delay of over two
and a half years is due
to the complicity of Del-
hi’s AAP government.
It has sympathies with
these convicts, and this
(delay) is a result of
that,” Mr Javadekar
said.
Nirbhaya’s
parents...
Lets together create a
safe city for our wom-
en,” Kejriwal said in a
tweet.
Punjab to...
“Like Kerala, our gov-
ernment will also ap-
proach the Supreme
Court on the issue,”
Singh told reporters in
an informal chat out-
side the state Assembly.
In response to a ques-
tion, the chief minister
made it clear that the
Census 2021 will be con-
ducted on the old pa-
rameters in Punjab.
The new factors add-
ed by the Centre for the
purpose of the National
Population Register
(NPR) will not be in-
cluded, he added.
The Punjab Assem-
bly passed the resolu-
tion by voice vote
against the CAA, the
second state after Kera-
la to do so.
The Shiromani Akali
Dal (SAD) sought inclu-
sion of Muslims in the
list of communities
that could be granted
citizenship under the
amended law.
The CAA provides for
granting citizenship to
Hindus, Sikhs, Bud-
dhists, Jains, Parsis
and Christians, who
had migrated to India
before December 31,
2014, from Pakistan, Af-
ghanistan and Bangla-
desh. It excludes mem-
bers of the Muslim
community.
A day...
Investments are wel-
come but they should be
within the law,” Com-
merce and Industry
Minister Piyush Goyal
told reporters on Fri-
day.
Indian economy...
Speaking at the launch
of the report Friday,
Nagesh Kumar, head,
UN Economic and So-
cial Commission for
Asia and the Pacific,
stressed the need for
“continued structural
reforms” to bring In-
dia’s growth back to its
previous level. He said
country has committed
to an ambitious fiscal
expansion to comple-
ment its loose monetary
policy.
“Heavy reliance on
monetary policy has its
limits. We should look
at a balanced mix of
both monetary and fis-
cal policy,” Kumar said.
Asked which sectors
will propel India’s
growth, Kumar said,
“Infrastructure and ed-
ucation are the sectors
that can never be
over-emphasised. Fur-
ther, there is also a need
to invest in young peo-
ple.”
He added that credit
crunch is affecting de-
mand currently. “De-
mand crunch is also
very serious. It is a
chicken and egg situa-
tion.”
WESP is the UN’s
flagship annual publi-
cation which reports on
the expected trends in
the global economy.
‘Doctor Bomb’...
“Jalees Ansari has
been arrested when
he was coming out
from a mosque. He
has been brought to
Lucknow. It is a big
achievement of the
UP Police,” said Uttar
Pradesh top cop OP
Singh.
Ansari, originally a
resident of UP’s Sant
Kabir Nagar district
and who holds a MBBS
degree, may have been
trying to leave the coun-
try through the Nepal
route, police said, and
added he was arrested
due to an anonymous
tip off to a senior STF
officer.
FROM PG 1
COMMONWEALTH NATIONS
HONOURS GANDHI, SARDAR
First India News
Ahmedabad: The Com-
monwealth of Nations
on Friday announced a
decision to confer hon-
ours on two of Gujarat’s
stalwarts, Father of Na-
tion Mahatma Gandhi
and Sardar Vallabhbhai
Patel.
The announcement
came from Secretary-
General of the Com-
monwealth of Nations,
Patricia Scotland, in a
meeting with Energy
Minister Saurabhbhai
Patel, chief secretary
Anil Mukim, and chief
principal secretary to
CM K. Kailashnathan,
in Ahmedabad.
Scotland further
stated the organization
is determined to en-
sure that the 2.4 billion
population spread
across the 53 common-
wealth countries, most
of whom are youth, are
inspired and encour-
aged by Mahatma Gan-
dhi’s ideology of non-
violence, simple think-
ing, unity and peace for
making development.
For this purpose, on
the occasion of the
150th birth-anniversa-
ry of Mahatma Gandhi,
a ‘Commonwealth
Peace Prize on Mahat-
ma Gandhi’ has been
announced.
Similarly, to high-
light the ultimate con-
tribution in good gov-
ernance made by iron-
man Sardar Vallabhb-
hai Patel by uniting
India, a ‘Common-
wealth Fund for Good
Governance’ has been
announced by the Com-
monwealth of Nations.
This is an attempt to
forever keep alive the
unique contributions
made to the world by
these two sons of Guja-
rat and India, Scotland
added.
Secretary-General Patricia Scotland made the announcement during visit to Gujarat
Surat: Assets worth
about Rs 10 crore of a
Mumbai-based busi-
nessman have been at-
tached in connection
with the multi-crore ha-
wala and money laun-
dering case of Surat,
the ED said on Friday.
It said a housing com-
plex named ‘Rasool
Manzil’ and land, two
flats (each measuring
480 sq feets) in Maha-
rashtra’s capital city
and a plot of land locat-
ed in Godsai village in
Raigad district of busi-
nessman Abdul Karim
Jaka have been provi-
sionally attached under
the Prevention of Mon-
ey Laundering Act
(PMLA).
The total value of the
attached properties is
Rs 9.50 crore. The case
pertains to over Rs 5,395
crore hawala funds be-
ing sent as alleged ille-
gal outward remittanc-
esonthebasisof import
documents or fake bills
of entry through an IC-
ICI Bank branch in Su-
rat.
The Enforcement Di-
rectorate (ED) had filed
a criminal complaint
under PMLA after stud-
ying a 2014 FIR of Surat
Police crime branch.
The central agency, in
March 2014, had busted
a multi-crore hawala
racket after searches at
officesof somediamond
traders in Surat, includ-
ing Afroz Fatta and
Madanlal Jain.
Fatta, Jain and a firm
called R A Distributors
along with others are
accused in the case that
is being probed under
the anti-money launder-
ing law by the ED. Probe
found that nine compa-
nies having accounts in
ICICI Bank, Surat, had
remitted huge amounts
of money on the basis
of forged bills of entry
to three companies in
UAE and 15 companies
in Hong Kong.
“The main source of
credits in these ac-
counts are from entities
like Vandana and Co,
Natural Trading Co,
Maruti Trading among
others,” the ED said in a
statement.
First India News
Ahmedabad: Follow-
ing the arrest of an al-
leged operative of the
militant group Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria
(ISIS) earlier this
month, Ahmedabad air-
port has banned the en-
try of visitors at both
international and do-
mestic terminals from
January 20 to 31.
Airport management
sources say they have
taken this safety meas-
ure in the wake of the
Gujarat Anti-Terrorists
Squad’s (ATS) arrest of
Zafar Ali from Va-
dodara’s Gorva area on
January 9. He was re-
portedly wanted in
Chennai and was ar-
rested for spreading the
ISIS module.
Airport authorities
say they will also beef
up security to avoid un-
wanted incidents in the
run-up to Republic Day.
Airport director Manoj
Gangal could not be
contacted despite multi-
ple attempts.
According to an Air-
port Authority of India
report, Sardar Vallab-
hbhai Patel Interna-
tional (SVPI) had the
highest growth in do-
mestic flight move-
ments among airports
that operated over
20,000 flights between
April and August in
2019, recording 12.3%
growth compared to the
same period in 2018.
First India News
Ahmedabad: A
50-year-old Maldhari
man allegedly commit-
ted suicide by hanging
himself at his office on
Friday, police said. In
his suicide note, the de-
ceased, Manjarbhai
Hun, who worked as a
peon at Bahumali
Bhavan, claims that in-
justice was done to his
sons during Lok Rak-
shak Dal (LRD) exami-
nations.
He alleged that injus-
tice was done to his two
sons, Raju and Sanjay,
who passed the written
and physical examina-
tions of the LRD but
were unable to get jobs
due to political pres-
sure. Hun says he did
not get justice even af-
ter putting forth a caste
certificate. He even
blamed BJP ministers
in the four-page suicide
note.
Police have regis-
tered a case of acciden-
tal death and started a
probe. The body of the
deceased was sent for a
medical examination.
First India News
Ahmedabad: An anga-
dia firm employee has
alleged that three
masked men on a mo-
torcycle snatched dia-
monds worth Rs 6.71
lakh from him at gun-
point on Thursday
night, Bapunagar po-
lice said.
The complainant, Yo-
gesh Rawal, told the po-
lice that has been work-
ing with angadia firm P
Shailesh in Bapunagar
since the last year. He
alleged that three
masked men on bike
threatened to take his
bag while pointing a
gun at him. He said he
was about to board a
bus to deliver a parcel
for his firm on Thurs-
day night, when the in-
cident occurred.
Bapunagar police
have filed his complaint
and started a probe.
They are also looking at
CCTV footage of the
area as well as the bike’s
registration number to
identify the suspects.
COMMONWEALTH
Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland (third from right) with State Energy Minister Saurabh
Patel, CS Anil Mukim and K.Kailashnathan, Chief Principal Secretary to CM and others.
ED attaches ` 10 crore
assets in Hawala Scam
Amid security tensions, A’bad airport
bans visitor entry from Jan 20 to 31
Maldhari blames
politicos in suicide note
Thieves run away
with `6.71L diamonds
TEJAS IS MORE PREMIUM THAN SHATABDI
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Friday launched the inaugural run of the second
Tejas Express train by IRCTC.The Tejas Express offers state-of-the-art facilities for
the passengers.The train is a more premium version than the Shatabdi Express.The
Ahmedabad-Mumbai Tejas Express is fully air-conditioned, has executive and non-
executive coaches. It has an aircraft-style personalised LED screens in the Executive class.
—FILE PHOTO
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PERSPECTIVEAHMEDABAD | SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2020
IS INDIAN
ECONOMY
STARING AT
STAGFLATION?
Lower lending rates in this scenario
would only make inflation higher
n a few days from now, when fi-
nance minister Nirmala Sithara-
man would present the Budget for
the next fiscal year, she would be
reminded of a Tamil verse she
quoted in her 2019 speech to argue that an
elephant doesn’t trample afield if it gets the
required quota of its food. The implication
was that when people pay their taxes and the
compliance rate is high, the government does
not consider raising the rates or introducing
new taxes. But, considering the state of the
Indian economy and the need to spend more,
this year she would find it difficult to stick to
her philosophy.
It is now almost certain that the growth rate
for the current year would stay just around 5
percent—the lowest in many years. The next
fiscal will begin with the economy falling for
nine straight quarters and showing no signs
of recovery. Some of the problems India is fac-
ingarebecauseof aglobalslowdown.But, the
slowdown across the world has only added
to India’s problems that date back to de-
monetisation and GST, both of which hurt
the informal sector and wiped out many
small and medium businesses.
To bring the economy back on track, to
keep its promised tryst with a $ 5-trillion
economy, the finance minister needs more
money in her account to spend on big-tick-
et projects. But, unfortunately, since the
tax revenue has remained low—a result of
falling corporate earnings—she has noth-
ing to spare for new projects. Her only op-
tion would be to look at new sources of
income through additional taxes.
The other option is to rely on corporate and
foreign investors to pump in more money by
offering them cheaper loans and sops. But,
the policy planners have very little scope for
being liberal with their lending rates. In all
probability, India is moving towards a phase
that’s a nightmare for policy planners. On
the one hand, the growth is falling, on the
other inflation is rising. This combina-
tion is called stagflation and it can lead
to job losses, destruction of savings and
bring about a lot of misery. Lower lend-
ing rates in this scenario would only
make inflation higher.
Political challenges would further test the
finance minister’s resolve. Since the govern-
ment gave tax sops to India Inc—the 2019 deci-
sion was meant to encourage investment but
didn’t yield the desired result—the middle
class is expecting a cut in personal income
tax rates. A government that has very little
in its pocket can think of becoming charita-
ble only if it believes in miracles. In all likeli-
hood, this year, trampling over the field
would be a more tempting proposition.
IN-DEPTH
I imply because a woman is
physically weaker than a man,
he has done everything to make
her psychologically weaker,
spiritually lost and financially
nowhere. Till man learns to re-
spect women, he will never
know himself – because half of
him is just that.
Indian spirituality has al-
ways been a rich mixture of
men and women reaching the
heights of their conscious-
ness. A woman is as capable as
a man when it comes to inner
nature. It is only the peel, the
body, which you call as a man
or a woman. What is within is
the same. The peel is not going
to decide what one’s spiritual
capabilities are. Right from
Vedic times, there have been
many women who have
reached the very heights of
their consciousness.
In ancient times, women
also wore the sacred thread,
because without it, they
could not read the scrip-
tures. Like a man, she could
live within the marriage for
ten to twenty years, and
when she had the urge to be-
come spiritual, she could
renounce the family. How-
ever, when barbarian hordes
invaded India, women slowly
lost their freedom. The rules
started changing. Maybe it was
necessary for a certain period
of time, because the physical
situation was such that some
restriction had to be placed on
women for their own safety.
But unfortunately it became
the law. In the Vedas, the first
let down for a woman was
when they declared that she
cannot wear the sacred
thread. It was also said that
the only way she can attain
mukti, or her Ultimate Na-
ture, is by serving her hus-
band. It was fixed that only
a man could renounce.
Unfortunately, this contin-
ues even today. A woman is told
that she has been born only to
serve her father or her hus-
band. People who talk about
advaitha, nonduality of ex-
istence, have taught this,
“Everything is one, but
women are less.” In spite of
the fact he knows that his
existence depends upon her,
if he cannot even accept her,
his accepting all the duali-
ties in the existence is sim-
ply out of question. The
question of inferiority or
superiority comes only in a
prejudiced mind. It is just a
question of two qualities. If
a woman, out of whom a man
is born, is inferior, how can
man be superior? The possibil-
ity just does not arise. This
problem is universal. It is not
just about one gross man think-
ing like this. It has become a
man’s way of life, a part of his
very culture and religion.
Once, a certain social re-
former went to Vivekananda
and asked, “It is great that you
also support women, what
shall I do? I want to reform
them. I want to support this.”
Then Vivekananda said,
“Hands off. You do not have to
do anything about them; just
leave them alone. They will do
what they have to do.” This is
all that is needed. It is not that
a man has to reform a woman.
If he just gives room, she will
do what is necessary.
Generally, a woman’s fem-
ininity will not allow her to
be an effective Master. But
she is very good at pursuing
the path. A man can do many
things here and there, but
his receptivity is lesser. He
can prepare himself, but a
woman comes with that nat-
ural quality. So wherever
there is a Master, more wom-
en will gather, simply be-
cause they are more suited
for receiving. There have
been some very wonderful
Masters who were women, but
they are of a different kind.
They cannot operate the way a
man does. They have to find a
certain kind of situation, a cer-
tain kind of support system in
the society. Society never sup-
ported a woman as a Master.
Especially in the West, when-
ever a woman started express-
ing her wisdom, wherever a
woman started having access
to something beyond what nor-
mal people had, she was labeled
a witch and burnt at the stake.
However, there have been a
few women who have more
masculine fire in them than
most men do. Such women can
become very wonderful Mas-
ters, if the social support is
there. There have been such
people, but in all these many
centuries of human history,
they never had that kind of
support. Probably in the fu-
ture, it should be possible.
There may be many women as
spiritual Masters.
WOMEN – ON THE
PATH OF FREEDOM
A woman is told that she has been born only to serve her father or her husband
S
A woman is
told that she
has been born
only to serve her
father or her
husband.
People who talk
about advaitha,
nonduality of
existence, have
taught this,
‘Everything is
one, but women
are less’
Indian spirituality has
always been a rich
mixture of men and
women reaching the
heights of their
consciousness. A
woman is as capable
as a man when it
comes to inner nature
argaret At-
wood’s novel,
The Hand-
maid’s Tale, de-
scribed the hor-
ror of the authoritarian
regime of Gilead. In this
theocracy, self-preservation
was the best people could
hope for, being powerless to
kick against the system.
But her sequel, The Testa-
ments, raises the possibili-
ty that individuals, with
suitable luck, bravery and
cleverness, can fight back.
But can they? There are
countless examples of
past and present mon-
strous regimes in the real
world. And they all raise
the question of why peo-
ple didn’t just rise up
against their rulers. Some
of us are quick to judge
those who conform to
such regimes as evil psy-
chopaths – or at least mor-
ally inferior to ourselves.
But what are the chances
that you would be a heroic
rebel in such a scenario,
refusing to be complicit in
maintaining or even en-
forcing the system?
To answer this question,
let’s start by considering a
now classic analysis by
American organisational
theorist James March and
Norwegian political scien-
tist Johan Olsen from 2004.
They argued that hu-
man behaviour is gov-
erned by two comple-
mentary, and very differ-
ent, “logics”. According
to the logic of conse-
quence, we choose our
actions like a good econo-
mist: weighing up the
costs and benefits of the
alternative options in the
light of our personal ob-
jectives. This is basically
how we get what we want.
But there is also a second
logic: the logic of appropri-
ateness. According to
this, outcomes, good or
bad, are often of second-
ary importance – we of-
ten choose what to do by
asking “What is a person
like me supposed to do in
a situation like this”?
The idea is backed up by
psychological research.
Human social interactions
depend on our tendency to
conform to unwritten rules
of appropriate behaviour.
Most of us are truthful, po-
lite, don’t cheat when play-
ing board games and follow
etiquette. We are happy to
let judges or football refer-
ees enforce rules. A recent
study showed we even con-
form to arbitrary norms.
The logic of appropri-
ateness is self-enforcing
– we disapprove of, ostra-
cise or report people who
lie or cheat. Research
has shown that even in
anonymous, experimen-
tal “games”, people will
pay a monetary cost to
punish other people for
being uncooperative.
The logic of appropriate-
ness is therefore crucial to
understanding how we can
organise ourselves into
teams,companiesandentire
nations.Weneedsharedsys-
tems of rules to cooperate –
it is easy to see how evolu-
tion may have shaped this.
The psychological foun-
dations for this start early.
Children as young as three
will protest if arbitrary
“rules” of a game are vio-
lated. And we all know how
punishing it can be to
“stick out” in a playground
by violating norms of
dress, accent or behaviour.
Both logics are required
to create and maintain an
authoritarian regime. To
ensure that we make the
“right” personal choices,
an oppressive state’s main
tools are carrots and sticks
– rewarding conformity
and punishing even a hint
of rebellion.
But personal gain, or
survival, alone provides a
fragile foundation for an
oppressive state. It is easy
to see how the logic of ap-
propriateness fits in here,
turning from being a force
for cooperation to a mecha-
nism for enforcing an op-
pressive status quo.
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‘Rohingyas carried out massacre in India’BJP MP Pragya added that the community was thrown out of their native country for the same reason, thereby, hinting at their fate in Myanmar
New Delhi: BJP MP
Pragya Thakur on Fri-
day accused the Roh-
ingya people of con-
ducting a massacre in
India, adding that the
community was thrown
out of their native coun-
try for the same reason,
thereby hinting at their
fate in Myanmar.
Pragya Thakur was
addressing a pro-Citi-
zenship Amendment
Act (CAA) gathering in
Sehore when she said
the following, “Rohing-
yas were thrown out
from their country be-
cause they carried out a
massacre there. They
took shelter in our
country and started do-
ing the same thing here.
They damaged our cul-
ture and tried to disin-
tegrate the country.
They insulted our law
and the Constitution.
CAB has now become
the Citizenship Act.”
Thakur also clarified
the contentious act be-
fore the gathering, ex-
plaining that the CAA
“will not take anyone’s
citizenship.” She al-
leged that the political
parties opposed to the
amended citizenship
act are bringing in peo-
ple to the anti-CAA with
money.
“CAA will not take
away anyone’s citizen-
ship. They are alluring
people with money
to bring rallies against
CAA,” the BJP MP
said. —ANI
Mamata, Dhankhar
are two jokers of
circus: Chowdhury
Midnapore: Congress
leader Adhir Ranjan
Chowdhury on Friday
took a dig at West Ben-
gal Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee and
Governor Jagdeep
Dhankhar over their
tussle and described
them as “two jokers of
circus”.
“In Bengal, a circus is
going on at Raj Bhavan
(Governor’s House) and
Nabanna Bhavan (State
Secretariat). The heads
there are the two jokers
of the circus,” he told
reporters here.
Dhankhar and Trina-
mool Congress govern-
ment in West Bengal
have differed on several
issues with the ruling
party accusing the Gov-
ernor of running a
“parallel administra-
tion”.
The Governor has re-
futed the allegations.
Chowdhury was in
Midnapore to attend a
rally against the Citi-
zenship Amendment
Act, National Popula-
tion Register (NPR) and
National Register of
Citizens (NRC) organ-
ised by Paschim Medin-
ipur District Youth Con-
gress. —ANI
Nadda dares Rahul to speak 10 sentences on CAA
New Delhi: In a stri-
dent defence of the
Citizenship Act, BJP
working president JP
Nadda on Friday dared
Congress leader Rahul
Gandhi to deliver just
10 lines on the act.
Nadda further ac-
cused the Congress
leader of speaking
without knowing all
the attendant facts.
“I challenge Rahul
Gandhi to speak 10
lines on Citizenship
(Amendment) Act
(CAA). He talks with-
out knowing. It is un-
fortunate for the na-
tion. All those oppos-
ing CAA are making
the nation weak,” said
Nadda.
The BJPworking
president, speaking at
an event in New Delhi,
accused Gandhi of
misleading the coun-
try and said the newly
amended citizenship
law is for minorities
who took shelter in In-
dia after facing reli-
gious persecution in
neighbouring coun-
tries for years.
The amended law
provides for fast-track-
ing Indian citizenship
for non-Muslim refu-
gees from Pakistan,
Bangladesh and Af-
ghanistan.
Shah had also earli-
er challenged Rahul
Gandhi to prove that
the act can take away
somebody’s citizen-
ship. “I challenge Ra-
hul Gandhi to find out
a provision in the Citi-
zenship Amendment
Act that can take citi-
zenship away from
anyone in this coun-
try,” Shah had said
while addressing a
public meeting in Con-
gress-ruled MP.
VIEWPOINT
DELHI ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS 2020
BJPannounces57candidates
New Delhi: BJP an-
nounced a list of 57 can-
didates out of 70 for the
upcoming Delhi Assem-
bly elections, which are
scheduled to be held on
February 8. Kapil
Mishra, who switched
from AAP to BJP, will
contest from Model
Town.
Delhi BJP chief
Manoj Tiwari’s candi-
dature has not been an-
nounced in the first list
of candidates. Party
leader Anil Jha will
contest from the Kirari
seat, while Vijender
Gupta will contest from
the Rohini seat. The
party is yet to announce
the names of 13 candi-
dates.
Meanwhile, the Aam
Aadmi Party an-
nounced their list of 70
candidates for the elec-
tions on Wednesday.
The party has fielded
Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal from the New
Delhi Assembly seat
and his deputy Manish
Sisodia from the Patpar-
ganj seat.
The Congress Party
is yet to declare the
names of their candi-
dates for the upcoming
polls.
WOMEN POWER
New Delhi: Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi
on Friday alleged that
the best way to “si-
lence” Jammu and
Kashmir DSP Davin-
der Singh was to hand
the investigations
against him to NIA
chief Y C Modi, under
whose care the case
will be “as good as
dead”.
Training his guns on
the National Investiga-
tion Agency chief, Gan-
dhi said he had earlier
investigated the Guja-
rat riots and the Harem
Pandya assassination
cases.
“The best way to si-
lence Terrorist DSP
Davinder, is to hand
the case to the NIA,”
Gandhi said on Twit-
ter, adding that the
agency is headed by
“another Modi” who
investigated the Guja-
rat riots and the Haren
Pandya’’s assassina-
tion.
In his care, “the case
is as good as dead”,
Gandhi alleged.
Using the hashtag
“WhoWantsTerrorist-
DavinderSilenced”, the
Congress leader asked
“And why”.
Singh was arrested
from Kulgam in south
Kashmir along with
Hizbul Mujahideen ter-
rorists Naveed Baba
and Altaf and a lawyer
operating as an over-
ground worker for ter-
ror outfits. —PTI
RAGA HITS OUT AT NIA CHIEF
‘Give him Davinder
case to silence him’
POPULATION CONTROL ON RSS
AGENDA: BHAGWAT
Moradabad: It is not
Mathura or Kashi that is
on RSS agenda. It is now
population control that
the RSS will push for.
RSS chief Mohan Bhag-
wat who is presently on a
four-day visit to Morad-
abad, said at a meeting
that a law for two children
should be brought in
to ensure proper devel-
opment of the country.
Addressing the meeting at
the Moradabad Institute
of Technology, Bhagwat
said that RSS will support
any law that calls for two
children only.”We feel this
is the need of the hour
though it is up to the gov-
ernment to take the final
call on this. This law will
not have any relation to
any particular religion and
will be applicable to all.”
ARUN SOOD ELECTED AS NEW
CHANDIGARH BJP CHIEF
Chandigarh: Arun Sood was unanimously elected
president of the Chandigarh unit of the BJP for
the next three years. Outgoing president Sanjay
Tandon was unanimously elected member of the
national council of the BJP. Both were elected
unopposed. The announcement was made by
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, who
was appointed observer by the central BJP. Tan-
don had been Chandigarh BJP chief for a decade.
After his three-year term ended, he was given an
extension of another 3 years & later for 4 years.
‘VIJAYAN TRYING GOOD BOY
IMAGE IN FRONT OF PM’
Thiruvananthapuram: Days after the Left govern-
ment in Kerala moved SC against CAA, the Con-
gress alleged that CM Pinarayi Vijayan was trying
to implement the controversial act “secretly,”
Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Ramesh
Chennithala alleged at a press meet in Thiruva-
nanthapuram. “The Chief Minister should end
his attempts to make political gains in the name
of CAA. Instead of cheating people, he should
ensure that the Act is not being implemented in
the state,” he alleged.
OBC LEADER SWATANTRA DEV
SINGH ELECTED AS UP BJP CHIEF
Lucknow: Prominent
OBC leader Swatan-
tradev Singh was elected
unopposed the chief of
UP BJP, party’s media
co-incharge Alok Awasthi
said. The announcement
about Singh’s election
was made by party’s
national general secretary
Bhupendra Yadav at Uttar
Pradesh BJP office. The
55-year-old Singh, who
will have a three-year
tenure, was appointed
UP BJP chief in July last
year after Mahendra Nath
Pandey was re-elected
to Lok Sabha and joined
the government at the
Centre. Belonging to the
influential Kurmi caste,
Singh made his presence
felt during the 2019 LS
elections as in-charge of
party affairs in MP.
AzadcallsoutPMfor‘identify
peoplebyclothes’remark
New Delhi: A day after
he was released from
Tihar Jail, Bhim Army
chief Chandrashekhar
Azad Friday called for
repealing the conten-
tious Citizenship
(Amendment) Act and
said that it would be
shameful if he does not
raise his voice when the
Prime Minister say
‘identify people from
their clothes’.
“If I don’t raise my
voice when PM says
identity people from
their clothes, it would
be shameful. Insaniyat
(humanity) is some-
thing that is greater
than caste and reli-
gion,” Azad said while
addressing a press con-
ference. He also said
that if someone is dis-
criminating on the be-
half of religion, they
are disrespecting the
Constitution of the
country.
Holding the Constitu-
tion in hand, Azad said,
“I cannot go against the
Constitution. I respect
PM because he is in a
constitutional position.
I urge him to honour
the Indian Constitu-
tion. Shri Modiji says I
am the servant of the
people, but he is not see-
ing the troubles taken
by women in Shaheen-
bagh.”
Terming CAA as a
“black law,” Azad said
CAA & NRC could be “a
political agenda”.
“They (BJP) have fewer
numbers in RS. This
could be to increase it.
But for us, it’s not poli-
tics. It’s about rights of
the people.” —ANI
Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad addresses a press
conference in New Delhi on Friday.
AMARINDER SINGH’S TAKE ON CAA
‘Nazi rule unfolding in India now’
New Delhi: Stating
that the contentious
Citizenship (Amend-
ment) Act was against
the secular fabric of
the country, Punjab
Chief Minister Ama-
rinder Singh Friday
claimed that events
unfolding now bear
similarity to the ones
witnessed in Germa-
ny in 1930s when Ado-
lf Hitler was at the
helm.
“You want to
change secular fabric
of this country. It is
very sad what is hap-
pening now. We had
not even thought of
such a thing. We want
to break brotherhood
merely for politics,”
Singh said while par-
ticipating in the dis-
cussion in the state
Assembly on a resolu-
tion against the CAA.
“Clearly, no lessons
have been learnt from
history,” he added.
The Punjab Assem-
bly, through voice
vote, passed the reso-
lution against the
controversial CAA
and sought its repeal
by the Centre. Shortly
after passing the reso-
lution, CM Ama-
rinder also said that
his government will
move the SC on the is-
sue.
“Like Kerala, our
government will also
approach the Su-
preme Court on the
issue,” Singh said.
With this, Congress-
ruled Punjab became
the second state after
Kerala to bring in an
Assembly resolution
seeking the repeal of
the CAA and move
the top court.
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INDIAAHMEDABAD | SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2020
FIN MIN BUDGET EXERCISE COULD
DELAY BANK APPOINTMENTS
Budget exercise underway in the Finance
Ministry could temporarily delay some key
appointments in the Banking sector.
HOW MANY MEMBERS WILL BE
IN RLY BOARD ?
There is an utter confusion about the
number of members to be stationed in Rail
Bhawan after reorganisation. One official
says, there will be five members in the
RB whereas a CRB press note, issued on
December 26,2019 says there will be one
CRB /CEO and four members on Functional
basis. Independent members will be induct-
ed as non - executive Members and will be in
Advisory role.
NOW POPULARITY IN FOREIGN BUREAU-
CRACY CIRCLES COUNT
A new trend is being seen in the appointment
of diplomats in key missions. The popular-
ity - of those who have earlier served in key
missions - in the bureaucracy of that country
is being seen as the benchmark to hold the
Ambassador posts. However, the decision still
rests with the Prime Minister.
FOUR ICS POSTS ARE VACANT IN CIC
In CIC, four Info Commissioners posts are
vacant for the last two years. No CIC has been
appointed after retirement of Sudhir Bhargava.
93 OFFICERS GET JOB AT JOINT
SECRETARY LEVEL IN GOI IN 2018-19
As many as 93 officers were appointed at Joint
Secretary or equivalent level in Government of
India from April to March 2019, according to
data released by DoPT.
FIVE 1987 BATCH IPS OFFICERS
ARE NOW DGPS
Police Chiefs in Punjab, Bihar, Uttarakhand,
Sikkim and J&K are 1987 batch IPS officers.
WHO SUITS THE CHIEF MINISTERS ?
In a chitchat of retired IPS officers, one senior
remarked “In the present day system DGP
only suits to the Chief Minister because of “T”
theory. What is this “T” theory?
ONLY 47 OFFICERS GET JOB AT ADDL
SECRETARY LEVEL IN GOI IN 2018-19
Only 47 officers were appointed at Additional
Secretary or equivalent level in Government of
India from April to March 2019, according to
data released by DoPT.
DESAI POSTED AS DG, PIB, MUMBAI
Ministry of I&B has transferred two IIS
officers to new places. Manish V Desai ,
Press Registrar ,RNI has been transferred as
DG(West), PIB, Mumbai while S Vankateshwar
is going to Chennai as DG (South) in PIB.
AMITABH KHARKWAL RETURNS
TO PARENT CADRE
Amitabh Kharkwal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of
Home Affairs, has been accorded premature
repatriation to his parent cadre on the grounds
of availing promotion. He is a 1989 batch
officer of Indian Postal Service.
MAJOR RESHUFFLE OF IAS OFFICERS
IN MAHARASHTRA
As many as 22 IAS officers have been trans-
ferred and posted to different places in
Maharashtra.
45 OFFICERS AT DSP LEVEL
TRANSFERRED IN CBI
As many as 45 officers at Deputy Superinten-
dents of Police (DSP) level have been trans-
ferred and posted to different places in Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
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COPS BUST SEX RACKET IN MUM,
3 FEMALE ACTORS RESCUED
Mumbai: Mumbai police have busted a high-pro-
file sex racket in a hotel here, arresting a woman
and rescuing three female actors, including a mi-
nor.The police conducted the raid in the hotel on
Thursday evening. The woman who forced wom-
en into prostitution has been identified as Priya
Sharma, who runs a travel and tour business. A
case has been registered against Sharma. While
one of the rescued is a woman actor and singer,
who has worked in a TV show, another one has
worked in a Marathi movie and serials.
BHIM ARMY CHIEF AZAD READS
PREAMBLE AT JAMA MASJID
New Delhi: Bhim Army
Chief Chandrashekhar
Azad visited Jama Masjid
on Friday and read out the
Preamble to the Constitu-
tion as a mark of his pro-
test against CAA & NRC &
said that peaceful protest
is the strength. “Peaceful
protest is our strength.
People from all religions
who support us should
join us in great number to
prove it to the govt that
these protests are not led
by Muslims alone,” Azad
said. Meanwhile, Delhi
Police on ‘Bhim Army
chief Chandrashekhar
Azad’s visit to Jama Mas-
jid’ said, “He has a time of
24 hours after his release
from Tihar Jail yesterday,
to leave Delhi. He is not
holding any protest at
Jama Masjid.”
IN THE COURTYARD
He’s beyond formal recognition: SC
declines PILfor Bharat RatnatoBapuThe bench agreed with the sentiments of the petitioner for granting official decoration to the father of the nation
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court Friday
refused to entertain a
PIL seeking confer-
ment of ‘Bharat Ratna’
on Mahatma Gandhi
saying that people hold
the father of the nation
in ‘high esteem,’ be-
yond any formal recog-
nition.
A bench, comprising
Chief Justice S A Bob-
de and justices B R Ga-
vai and Surya Kant,
however asked peti-
tioner Anil Dutta Shar-
ma to give representa-
tion to the central gov-
ernment in this regard.
“Mahatma Gandhi is
the father of nation
and people hold him in
high esteem, beyond
any formal recogni-
tion,” the bench said.
The issue of direct-
ing the government to
award Bharat Ratna to
the father of the nation
was not a “justiciable
issue”, it said.
The bench however
said that it agreed with
the sentiments of the
petitioner for granting
official decoration to
Mahatma Gandhi.
Disposing of the pe-
tition, the top court
said, “We will allow
you to give a represen-
tation to the Centre in
this regard.” Sharma,
in his PIL, had sought a
direction to the govern-
ment to give “official
decoration” to Mahat-
ma Gandhi to honour
him for the contribu-
tion to the nation.
Delhi HC issues notice to CBI
on Kuldeep Sengar’s plea
New Delhi: The Delhi
High Court on Friday
issued a notice to the
Central Bureau of In-
vestigation (CBI) on an
appeal filed by expelled
BJP MLA Kuldeep Sin-
gh Sengar challenging a
trial court’s verdict
which had sentenced
him to life imprison-
ment for raping a minor
girl in Uttar Pradesh’s
Unnao in 2017.
A Division Bench of
Justices Manmohan
and Sangeeta Dhingra
Sehgal sought response
from the investigating
agency and rape survi-
vor’s family and posted
the matter to May 4. The
court also granted Sen-
gar time of two more
months to deposit the
amount levied on him
for the commission on
crime.
The trial court, in its
judgement, had direct-
ed him to give Rs 10
lakh amount to the vic-
tim and Rs 15 lakh to
the court’s registry
within 30 days.
Advocate N Hari-
haran, who represented
Sengar in the court, ar-
gued that the trial
court’s order was full of
“misconclution”. “Evi-
dence was ignored. My
client presence was not
at the location where
this alleged incident
took place,” he told the
court.
Sengar has ap-
proached the Delhi
High Court challenging
his conviction and sen-
tencing in connection
with the rape case. —ANI
Another petition
in SC against CAA
New Delhi: A petition
has been filed in the Su-
preme Court challeng-
ing the Citizenship
(Amendment) Act, 2019
that grants citizenship
to non-Muslim refugees
from Pakistan, Afghan-
istan and Bangladesh.
A professor Apurba
Baruah and two mem-
bers of ‘Sushta Samaj
Bikash Chakra’ have
filed the petition. A
Bench headed by Chief
Justice of India SA Bob-
de have asked senior
advocate Indira Jaising
to mention the matter
before the Mentioning
Registrar. The petition-
ers have stated that sec-
tion 6A of the amended
Citizenship Act has
shifted cut off date of
1971 to 2014 that violates
the 1985 Assam Accord.
The Indian Union
Muslim League & the
Kerala Government
have moved the apex
court against CAA that
grants Indian citizen-
ship to refugees from
Hindu, Christian, Sikh,
Buddhist & Parsi com-
munities fleeing reli-
gious persecution from
Pakistan, Afghanistan,
& Bangladesh & who
entered India on or be-
fore Dec 31, 2014. —ANI
NOTICE TO
GOPAL
KANDA
Chandigarh: Pun-
jab& Haryana HC
issued a notice to
Haryana Lokhit
Party (HLP) leader
Gopal Kanda on a
petition seeking
his election from
Sirsa assembly seg-
ment to be an-
nulled.
Gokul Setia
claimed that Kan-
da used money and
liquor to sway the
votes in his favour,
the PIL stated.—ANI
Plea for school in
every Tehsil in SC
New Delhi: The SC has
directed the Central
government to take a
call on a petition seek-
ing to establish Kendri-
ya Vidyalayas in each
tehsil, taluk, sub-divi-
sion, circle or State Leg-
islative Assembly
across the country, ad-
vocate Ashwini Upad-
hyay said.
Upadhyay, who had
filed the petition in this
regard, said, “The Su-
preme Court has direct-
ed the Ministry of Fi-
nance and the Ministry
of Human Resource
Development to take a
decision in three
months on plea seeking
to open a Central school
in each tehsil of the
country and inclusion
of the Indian Constitu-
tion in the syllabus of
primary schools.”—ANI
SC to hear Azam Khan’s
son’s plea against HC order
New Delhi: The SC
agreed to hear a peti-
tion filed by SP leader
Mohammad Azam
Khan’s son, Moham-
mad Abdullah Azam
Khan against the Alla-
habad High Court’s or-
der which annulled his
election as UP legisla-
tor on grounds that he
was underage and not
qualified to contest the
poll in 2017.
A Bench headed SA
Bobde agreed to hear
his plea but refused to
stay the High Court’s
order. It also issued a
notice to BSP leader
Nawab Kazim Ali Khan
who had moved the plea
against Khan before HC
order. It posted the mat-
ter for hearing on
March 25. Allahabad
HC had declared elec-
tion of Abdullah Khan
from Suar Assembly
segment from Rampur
district null and void.
Abdullah Khan was
elected as MLA on a SP
ticket on 2017. —ANI
SC refuses to
entertain MPs’
attendance PIL
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court on Friday
refused to entertain a
petition regarding the
issue of MPs not attend-
ing the Parliament and
asked the petitioner to
approach the Speaker.
The court gives liberty
to petitioner Anil Dutt
Sharma to withdraw
the plea and make a rep-
resentation before the
Speaker. —ANI
Can withdraw ` 20 cr
deposit: SC to Karti
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court allowed
Congress MP Karti
Chidambaram to
withdraw Rs 20 crore
which he had depos-
ited with the court’s
registry as a condi-
tion for being allowed
to travel abroad.
Earlier, the apex
court had in January
and May last year
granted Karti Chid-
ambaram permission
to travel abroad after
depositing Rs 20 crore
(Rs 10 crore for Janu-
ary and 10 Crore for
May) with the Secre-
tary-General of the
Supreme Court. The
Supreme Court had
allowed Karti Chid-
ambaram, son of for-
mer Union Minister P
Chidambaram, to
travel to the United
States, Spain and
Germany in May and
June 2019. Providing
the relief, the bench
headed by the then
Chief Justice of India
Ranjan Gogoi direct-
ed Karti to deposit a
security of Rs 10
crore.
Karti has been
questioned on sever-
al occasions in the
INX media case in
which both the En-
forcement Directo-
rate (ED) and CBI are
probing how Karti
managed to obtain
clearance to the tune
of Rs 305 crore from
the Foreign Invest-
ment Promotion
Boardin2007whenhis
father was the finance
minister. —ANI
CM: Investigate insulting reference to Bhils in MPPSC
Anirudh Tiwari
Bhopal: There was a lot
of uproar over the issue
of insulting the Adivasi
Bhil Samaj in the MPP-
SC examination in a
special session to ex-
tend reservation for the
ST SC class to ten years.
Congress MLA Kantilal
Bhuria took up the mat-
ter and said that strict
action should be taken
for terming the Bhil
community as criminal
and alcoholic in the pre-
liminary examination
of Madhya Pradesh
Public Service Commis-
sion.
Responding to it,
Chief Minister Kamal
Nath said that the gov-
ernment has ordered an
inquiry into the matter
and whoever is found to
be negligent in the case,
will be punished. On
the promise to increase
the reservation, Kamal
Nath said that he would
demand the Central
Government to make
special amendments in
this act for the tribal
community. If the cen-
tre does not make this
amendment, then the
CM will do it in his state
and give special facili-
ties to the tribal com-
munity.
The CM also said that
MP has maximum trib-
al population. On this,
former BJP Speaker
Sitasharan Sharma
raised objection & said
that the government
should dismiss the de-
mand for amendment.

Rajkot: India beat Aus-
tralia by 36 runs in the
second one-dayer to
level the three-match
series 1-1 here on Fri-
day. Mohammed Shami
was the most successful
Indian bowler with 3/77
while Kuldeep Yadav,
Ravindra Jadeja and
Navdeep Saina took two
apiece as Australia lost
wickets at regular in-
tervals to be all out for
304 in 49.1 overs. Steve
Smith top-scored with a
102-ball 98 while Mar-
nus Labuschagne made
a 47-ball 46.
Earlier, Shikhar Dha-
wan missed a well-de-
served ton by a whisker
but laid a solid platform
for the aggressive duo
of skipper Virat Kohli
and KL Rahul to ensure
a commanding total.
India put up a much-
improved batting per-
formance with Rahul’s
blistering 52-ball-80 tak-
ing India to 340 for six
after Shikhar Dhawan
(96 off 90 balls) and
skipper Virat Kohli (78
off 76 balls) laid the
foundation.
Australia were in the
game till Steven Smith
(98) carried the battle
back to the enemy camp
but Kuldeep’s ninth
over turned out to be a
game-changer as he
first dismissed wicket-
keeper Alex Carey and
then had a delivery that
bounced extra to have
Smith played on. The
visitors were all-out for
304 in 49.1 overs.
Kuldeep’s final fig-
ures of 2 for 65 may not
be mind-blowing but
did just enough damage
to see that the third ODI
in Bengaluru doesn’t
lose context.
Mohammed Shami
(3/77 in 10 overs) and
Navdeep Saini (2/62 in
10 overs) then bowled
some exquisite toe-
crushers to put an end
to the contest.
SPORTSAHMEDABAD | SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2020
Hockey India hires
analytical coach
New Delhi: Hockey In-
dia (HI) appointed Jan-
neke Schopman the an-
alytical coach for the In-
dian women’s team. The
decorated hockey star,
who has 212 interna-
tional caps for the Neth-
erlands, also successful-
ly led the side for two
years before retirement.
SAI set up
complaint panel
New Delhi: The sports
Authority of India
(SAI) on Friday has set
up an internal com-
plaint committee to en-
sure the safety of sport-
spersons, especially the
girls, to prevent them
from sexual harassment
or any exploitation.
Rabada handed
test ban by ICC
New Delhi: South Afri-
ca pacer Kagiso Rabada
was reprimanded by the
International Cricket
Council (ICC) and
would be missing the
fourth Test against Eng-
land. He has also been
fined 15 per cent of his
match fee and received
one demerit point after
being found guilty of a
Level 1 breach of the
ICC Code of Conduct.
Adelaide Strikers
defeat Brisbane
Sydney: Adelaide Strik-
ers on Friday displayed
an all-round perfor-
mance to defeat Bris-
bane Heat by ten wick-
ets in the ongoing Big
Bash League (BBL) here
at the Adelaide Oval.
This is Strikers’ first
ten-wicket win in the
history of the BBL.
WWE: HHH issues
apology to Paige
Sydney: WWE’s vice
president Triple H has
apologised for making a
lewd joke about former
female wrestling star
Paige. Ahead of an
event, Triple H made
the off-colour comment
when he questioned
whether Paige knew
how many children she
had, according to the
media reports.
Anand beats
Xiong for 1st win
Eindhoven: Five-time
world champion Viswa-
nathan Anand crashed
through the defences of
Jeffery Xiong of United
States to score his first
victory in the Tata Steel
Masters chess tourna-
ment that moved to the
iconic Eindhoven Soc-
cer Stadium for a day.
Hafeez to retire
post T20 WC
Eindhoven: Recalled
Pakistan allrounder
Mohammad Hafeez Fri-
day said he will retire
from international
cricket after the Twen-
ty20 World Cup later
this year, vowing to end
his career on a positive
note. The 38-year-old
was Thursday recalled
to Pakistan’s Twenty20
series against Bangla-
desh starting in Lahore
from January 24.
BRIEF
in
New Delhi: Hockey
Australia on Friday
thanked Hockey India
(HI) for their support to
efforts for the recent
bushfires.
“On behalf of the
Board and Manage-
ment of Hockey Aus-
tralia, we really appre-
ciate your support to-
wards Hockey Austral-
ia’s fundraising efforts
for the recent bush-
fires,” the Hockey Aus-
tralia said in a letter.
“Your thoughts and
kind words have been
well received by our
Board and staff at
Hockey Australia.
Your support rein-
forces the strength of
the relationship be-
tween Australia and In-
dia including our
shared love for the sport
of hockey,” it added.
More than 28 people
and millions of animals
have died as a result of
bushfire and more than
3,000 homes have been
destroyed and damaged
in the state of New
South Wales.
Aus expresses gratitude to Hockey India
BUSHFIRE SUPPORT

Hockey India
donated the
USD 25,000 to
the Red Cross
Bushfire Appeal
and also sent
the signed India
team jerseys
which will soon
be auctioned
Saudi Arabia: Vet-
eran Spanish driver
Carlos Sainz won the
Dakar Rally for the
third time on Friday,
finishing with a com-
fortable winning mar-
gin in the first run-
ning of the event in
Saudi Arabia. The
57-year-old crossed
the line in the 12th
and final stage 6min
21sec ahead of near-
est challenger and
reigning champion
Nasser al-Attiyah of
Qatar, who had man-
aged to cut Sainz’s
lead to just 24 seconds
but fell back after nav-
igation errors. “I feel
very happy. There’s a
lot of effort behind
this. A lot of training,
practice,” Sainz said.
“It has been a flat out
rally since the begin-
ning. It was fantas-
tichere, of course you
can always improve.”
Sainz added.
Guwahati: Players
from Maharashtra,
Karnataka continue to
impress in U-21 and
U-17 categories as Guja-
rat and Kerala also win
matches in U-17 at the
ongoing Khelo India
Youth Games 2020 here
in Guwahati on Friday.
Karnataka, Gujarat
boys won against
Andhra in the U-17 cat-
egory. The boys domi-
nated the first half with
a 7-0 scoreline. Andhra
boys showed some resil-
ience in the second half
by clinching 6 points
but that was not enough
to stop Gujarat as they
added 9 more points to
account in their second
innings, to win the
match by 10 points.
The girls in the U-17
category, however,
could not go past Hary-
ana. The girls lost to
Haryana by a single
point in their match.
CarlosSainzwinsDakar
Rally2020for3rdTime
Gujarat win
against Andhra
in Youth Games
Sania-Nadiia sail into
women’s doubles final
Previously won
with Volkswagen
in 2010, and
Peugeot in 2018
F1 champ Alonso
finished 13th
Hobart: Former World
No.1 Sania Mirza con-
tinued her dream come-
back to the WTA circuit
when on Friday she en-
tered the women’s dou-
bles final at the ongoing
Hobart International.
Mirza paired with
Ukraine’s Nadiia Kiche-
nok to win their semi-
final clash over Marie
Bouzkova of the Czech
Republic and Slovenia’s
Tamara Zidansek, &
moveintosummitclash.
Mirza and Kichenok
beat Bouzkova and
Zidansek that lasted 1
hour & 24 minutes. The
Indo-Ukranian pair had
15 break points in the
match and were able to
convert just four of
them, but they were
only broken twice in the
match, to garner the
straight-set victory.
The Indian star, who
has three Grand Slam
titles in women’s dou-
bles and another three
Grand Slam titles in
mixed doubles, is now
into her 62nd WTA dou-
bles final and would be
seeking her 41st title.
Sania Mirza with
partner Nadiia
Kichenok beat
Marie Bouzkova
and Tamara
Zidansek
Adelaide: The world no. 1
Ashleigh Barty is through
the 13th WTA final, defeat-
ing Danielle Collins 3-6, 6-1,
7-6 in an hour and 55 min-
utes to stay on the course
for the first title in front of
the home fans.
After an early loss in
Brisbane, Ashleigh Bar-
ty was ready to give her
best in Adelaide and
chase the best possible
result ahead of the Aus-
tralian Open where she is
among the favorites to go
all the way.
Ashleigh Barty prevails over
Danielle Collins to reach final
Smoke-free skies gave Australian Open organis-
ers a 2nd day of reprieve and they will keep their
fingers crossed that the haze stays away for the
preparations for the multi-billion dollar tournament.
The year’s first Grand Slam begins on Monday, but
organisers have already come in for severe criticism
after letting qualifying continue, with noxious smoke
shrouding Melbourne Park. Fears the smoke would
return on Saturday for the final round of qualifying
eased on Friday, when the Environmental Protection
Agency downgraded the forecast for air quality in
the Melbourne area from “very poor” to “moderate”.
AUSTRALIAN OPEN ORGANISERS ON
ALERT FOR RETURN OF BUSHFIRE SMOKE
Aerial photo depict the Bushfire crisis from beach to bush, farm
to forest, across NSW and South Australia.
INDIA ROARS BACKShikhar Dhawan set up the
match for India with most
consistent performance
Steve Smith top-scored with
98 runs but couldn’t prevent
an Australian defeat
Shami picked up 3 wickets,
Saini, Jadeja and Yadav took
2 wickets each
Kuldeep claimed his 100th
ODI wicket during the 2nd
match between India & Aus
Fans cheer for their team during the second one day international (ODI) cricket match between India
and Australia at Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot.
India vs Australia
Toss: Australia, field first
India R B 4 6 SR
RGSharmalbwbZampa 42 44 6 0 95.45
SDhawancStarcbRichardson 96 90 13 1 106.66
VKohlicStarcbZampa 78 76 6 0 102.63
SSIyerbZampa 7 17 1 0 41.17
KLRahulrunout 80 52 6 3 153.84
MKPandeycAgarbRichardson 2 4 0 0 50.00
RAJadejanotout 20 16 1 0 125.00
MohammedShaminotout 1 1 0 0 100.00
Extras:14(b5,lb4,w5),
Total:340/6(50Overs,RR:6.8)
Fall of wickets:1-81(RohitSharma,13.3ov),2-184(Shikhar
Dhawan,28.4ov),3-198(ShreyasIyer,32.4ov),4-276(Virat
Kohli,43.1ov),5-280(ManishPandey,44.1ov),6-338(KL
Rahul,49.4ov),
Bowling:PJCummins10-1-53-0,MAStarc10-0-78-0,KW
Richardson10-0-73-2,AZampa10-0-50-3,ACAgar8-0-63-0,
MLabuschagne2-0-14-0.
Australia R B 4 6 SR
DAWarnercPandeybShami 15 12 2 0 125.00
AJFinchstRahulbJadeja 33 48 3 0 68.75
SPDSmithbKuldeepYadav 98 1029 1 96.07
MLabuschagnecShamibJadeja 46 47 4 0 97.87
ATCareycKohlibKuldeepYadav 18 17 0 1 105.88
AJTurnerbShami 13 15 0 0 86.66
ACAgarlbwbSaini 25 25 3 0 100.00
PJCumminsbShami 0 1 0 0 0.00
MAStarccRahulbSaini 6 11 0 0 54.54
KWRichardsonnotout 24 11 4 1 218.18
AZampacRahulbBumrah 6 6 1 0 100.00
Extras:20(lb10,w10)
Total:304allout(49.1Overs,RR:6.18)
Fall of wickets: 1-20(DavidWarner,3.2ov),2-82(Aaron
Finch,15.1ov),3-178(MarnusLabuschagne,30.5ov),4-220
(AlexCarey,37.2ov),5-221(StevenSmith,37.5ov),6-259
(AshtonTurner,43.1ov),7-259(PatCummins,43.2ov),8-274
(AshtonAgar,46.1ov),9-275(MitchellStarc,46.3ov),10-304
(AdamZampa,49.1ov)
Bowling: JJBumrah9.1-2-32-1,MohammedShami
10-0-77-3,NASaini10-0-62-2,RAJadeja10-0-58-2,Kuldeep
Yadav10-0-65-2.
India win by 36 runs
SCOREBOARD
Virat Kohli Shikhar Dhawan KL Rahul

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