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TORONTO : Progressive Conservative<br />
majority government<br />
in Ontario. It's a stunning victory<br />
for the party led by Doug Ford,<br />
whose campaign was heavy on<br />
populist promises but light on fiscal<br />
details.<br />
<strong>The</strong> New Democrats, who<br />
had been neck and neck with the<br />
Tories in several polls before the<br />
election, will form the Official<br />
Opposition. <strong>The</strong> election has also<br />
marked a stunning collapse for<br />
the Liberals, who governed the<br />
province for the last 15 years.<br />
Green Party Leader Mike<br />
Schreiner captured the party's<br />
first-ever seat in Ontario.<br />
A Liberal defeat was predicted<br />
by Premier Kathleen Wynne<br />
herself just days before the vote,<br />
as she admitted her party had<br />
such low support it would not<br />
form government again. She inherited<br />
a government already rife<br />
with billion-dollar scandals, but<br />
under her leadership more fuel<br />
was added to the fire, such as rising<br />
hydro bills and questionable<br />
government spending.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Liberals had also veered<br />
sharply left in recent years, ushering<br />
in policies often championed<br />
by the NDP, such as a promised<br />
$15 minimum<br />
wage,<br />
pharmacare<br />
for youth and<br />
generous tuition<br />
grants making<br />
university free<br />
for low-income<br />
students. Ford's<br />
election promises,<br />
which invited<br />
comparisons to<br />
U.S. President Donald Trump,<br />
were in stark contrast, including<br />
income tax cuts, scrapping the<br />
Liberals' updated sex-ed curriculum<br />
and strongly opposing a carbon<br />
tax. Ford rolled out several<br />
pledges designed with populist<br />
appeal in mind, from cutting gas<br />
prices by 10 cents a litre to introducing<br />
buck-a-beer and allowing<br />
beer and wine in corner stores to<br />
cutting hydro bills.<br />
But Ford's campaign<br />
certainly wasn't immune<br />
to controversy.<br />
He dismissed allegations<br />
that<br />
he was involved<br />
in selling bogus<br />
Progressive Conservative<br />
party memberships,<br />
a candidate<br />
was dropped following<br />
accusations he was involved<br />
in an alleged theft of customer<br />
data at a toll highway operator,<br />
and Ford was frequently<br />
accused of failing to be transparent<br />
by dodging calls to release a<br />
fully costed platform.<br />
With about one week left in<br />
the campaign, the party published<br />
a list of promises and their<br />
price tags, but didn't indicate how<br />
they would pay for them, what<br />
size of deficits they would run<br />
or for exactly how long. <strong>The</strong>n in<br />
the waning days of the election,<br />
Ford family drama — that had<br />
laid mostly dormant in the public<br />
sphere since the death of his<br />
brother, former Toronto mayor<br />
Rob Ford — burst onto the scene<br />
with a lawsuit from Rob Ford's<br />
widow alleging Ford mishandled<br />
his brother's estate and destroyed<br />
the value of the family business.<br />
Continued on page 03<br />
Fourth man charged in beating<br />
death of Brampton man<br />
TORONTO: A fourth man has been arrested following<br />
the beating death of a Brampton man in March.<br />
Around 5:50 p.m. on March 19, Peel Police responded<br />
to reports of an assault<br />
near Sandalwood Pkwy.<br />
East and Cedarcliff Tr.,<br />
in Brampton.<br />
Parviter Singh<br />
Bassi, 21, of Brampton<br />
was rushed to a Toronto<br />
trauma centre after he<br />
was beaten by "multiple<br />
suspects" on the grounds<br />
of Sandalwood Heights<br />
Secondary School on<br />
March 19. He died the next day. (SUPPLIED/PEEL RE-<br />
GIONAL POLICE)<br />
Continued on page 02<br />
BJP chief meets Akali Dal leadership,<br />
discusses 2019 polls<br />
Indo-Asian News Service<br />
Chandigarh : BJP chief meets<br />
Akali Dal leadership, discusses<br />
2019 pollsBJP President Amit<br />
Shah on Thursday met leaders<br />
of alliance partner Shiromani<br />
Akali Dal (SAD) here and discussed<br />
the strategy for the 2019 Lok Sabha<br />
elections. Shah, who arrived here<br />
on Thursday afternoon, drove<br />
straight to the government apartment<br />
of five-time former Chief<br />
Minister Parkash Singh Badal in<br />
Sector 4 here, and held a closeddoor<br />
meeting with top Akali Dal<br />
leadership.<br />
Apart from Parkash Singh<br />
Badal, 90, Shah met Badal's son<br />
and party President Sukhbir Singh<br />
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‘Family quarrel’: Kudlow shrugs off<br />
escalating Canada-U.S. trade dispute<br />
QUEBEC : Donald Trump’s top economic<br />
adviser dismissed differences<br />
over tariffs as a “family quarrel”<br />
Wednesday as reports of a testy phone<br />
call between the president and Prime<br />
Minister Justin Trudeau roiled Canada-U.S.<br />
relations ahead of this week’s<br />
G7 summit. <strong>The</strong> fallout from Trump’s<br />
imposition of steel and aluminum<br />
tariffs on his G7 partners, as well as<br />
broader disagreements on trade and<br />
climate change, was also fuelling the<br />
G6-plus-one divide that has the U.S.<br />
increasingly offside with its allies.<br />
Trudeau wanted the G7 to be a<br />
moment for Canada to shine, but the<br />
summit is rapidly turning into an<br />
exercise in pure survival: prevent<br />
Trump from taking a wrecking ball to<br />
the exclusive club of the world’s leading<br />
democracies, to say nothing of the<br />
country’s most critical trade nexus.<br />
U.S. senior economic adviser Larry<br />
Kudlow played down his country’s<br />
trade dispute with Canada, and said<br />
he hoped Trump and Trudeau could<br />
work through their differences during<br />
their face-to-face meeting at the<br />
summit, which opens Friday.<br />
“I regard this as much like a family<br />
quarrel,” Kudlow told a news conference<br />
in Washington, adding that<br />
he’s confident the current tariff angst<br />
will soon blow over.“I’m always the<br />
optimist, I believe it can be worked<br />
out, and I’m always hopeful on that<br />
point.”<br />
Kudlow, the director of the U.S.<br />
National Economic Council, refused<br />
to discuss what CNN first reported<br />
was a tense phone call recently between<br />
Trump and Trudeau.<br />
According to CNN, when Trudeau<br />
pressed Trump to explain how he<br />
could use national security as the<br />
justification for the tariffs on Canada,<br />
the president reportedly replied:<br />
“Didn’t you guys burn down the<br />
White House?”<br />
Fourth man charged<br />
in beating death of<br />
Brampton man<br />
Continued from page 01<br />
Paviter Singh Bassi, 21, was found suffering from lifethreatening<br />
injuries. He was rushed to a Toronto trauma<br />
centre, but later died of his injuries.<br />
Bassi was allgedly beaten with sticks, according to police.<br />
Peel police charged 24-year-old Harminder Bassi, of<br />
Brampton, with first degree murder on Wednesday.<br />
Three other men — 22-year-old Karanvir Singh Bassi,<br />
23-year-old Guryodh Singh Khattra, and 20-year-old GurrajBassi<br />
— were charged with first degree murder in March.<br />
Investigators say that there is no familial relationship<br />
between the victim or any of the accused. Police are appealing<br />
for witnesses or dash-cam footage related to the incident.<br />
Anyone with information can contact Peel Regional Police<br />
homicide at (905) 453-2121 x 3205.<br />
Bramptonians throng in large numbers at<br />
Airport Lacoste Centre Summer Festival<br />
Brampton : <strong>The</strong> Airport<br />
Lacoste Centre’s first annual<br />
summer festival was<br />
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the festival promoted<br />
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“Over 7,000 guests<br />
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<strong>The</strong> festival commenced at<br />
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PCs win majority in Ontario election<br />
Continued from page 01<br />
By contrast, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath<br />
consistently polled as the most popular of the<br />
three party leaders, so Ford repeatedly slammed<br />
her roster of candidates as radical and inexperienced.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Liberals warned that the NDP's plan<br />
was not practical, gleefully pointing out mathematical<br />
errors in their platform, including one<br />
that increased their proposed deficit by $1.4 billion<br />
annually. Wynne also frequently slammed<br />
Horwath's opposition to back-to-work legislation,<br />
saying it would lead to indefinite strikes.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Liberals came to power in 2003 under<br />
Dalton McGuinty, and when he stepped down in<br />
2013, Wynne took the reins. She led the party to a<br />
majority in 2014, despite the party already being<br />
bogged down by scandals at eHealth Ontario, air<br />
ambulance service Ornge and a price tag of up to<br />
$1.1 billion to cancel two gas plants.<br />
But her popularity began to soon dip, and<br />
reached well below 20 per cent in 2016 and 2017, in<br />
large part due to anger over rising hydro prices.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Liberals eventually cut bills by eight per cent,<br />
then another 17 per cent months later, but by her<br />
own admission, Wynne failed to recognize early<br />
enough the impacts that investments in the energy<br />
system were having on people's wallets.<br />
She also faced criticism over her partial privatization<br />
of Hydro One and her decision to plunge<br />
the province's books back into the red after finally<br />
getting them to balance in 2017-18.<br />
Wynne insisted that the billions it pumped<br />
into health care, child care and a drug and dentalcare<br />
program was necessary spending.<br />
Wynne spent the last few days of the campaign<br />
pleading with voters to at least elect some Liberals<br />
_ party insiders say they are worried they could<br />
win fewer than seven seats, which would mean a<br />
loss of official party status in the legislature.<br />
Ontario NDP to form<br />
opposition to PC majority<br />
HAMILTON : Andrea Horwath and the Ontario NDP<br />
didn’t have the night they wanted. Minutes after polls<br />
closed, CTV News projected the Progressive Conservatives<br />
would form a majority government.<br />
Though, the night wasn’t without gains. <strong>The</strong> NDP<br />
will form Official Opposition with more seats than they<br />
had before the election.<br />
Supporters relished each<br />
successful candidate,<br />
both incumbent and newcomers<br />
wiping out longtime<br />
MPPs.<br />
For those at the NDP<br />
election night headquarters,<br />
the results were anti-climactic<br />
after a 28-day<br />
campaign. It took less than 28 minutes for PC Leader<br />
Doug Ford to dash their hopes for power.<br />
“It was very disheartening. I truly believe that we<br />
had a good shot at this, I did,” said Patti Encinas, a<br />
single mom and NDP member since the federal leadership<br />
race.<br />
“I’m disgusted at the voters of this province, because<br />
they voted for a buck-a-beer, and they’re going to<br />
throw our education and our healthcare and our children’s<br />
futures down the drain,” she said.<br />
“I know what it’s like to live on minimum wage, I<br />
know what it’s like to be on welfare,” she said, wiping<br />
away tears. “I know how hard it can be.”<br />
This was Horwath’s third election campaign as<br />
NDP leader after taking the helm at the 2009 party convention.<br />
Going into this race the NDP had 18 MPPs.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y’ve now doubled that, with the final count yet to<br />
be settled an hour after polls close.<br />
In all three elections as party leader, Horwath has<br />
grown the Ontario NDP’s seat count. In 2014 the NDP<br />
won 21 seats at Queen’s Park with 23.7 per cent of the<br />
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Ontario election<br />
Brampton South<br />
Win : Prabmeet Singh<br />
Mississauga Centre<br />
Win : Natalia Kusendova<br />
Loss :<br />
Paramjit Gill<br />
Loss :<br />
Sukhwant <strong>The</strong>thi<br />
Loss :<br />
Laura Kaminker<br />
Loss :<br />
Bobbie Daid<br />
Brampton East<br />
Win : Gurratan Singh<br />
Brampton Centre<br />
Win : Sara Singh<br />
Mississauga Malton<br />
Win : Deepak Anand<br />
Loss :<br />
Sudeep Verma<br />
Loss :<br />
Parminder Singh<br />
Loss :<br />
Harjit Jaswal<br />
Loss :<br />
Safdar Hussain<br />
Loss :<br />
Nikki Clarke<br />
Loss :<br />
Amrit Mangat<br />
Brampton West<br />
Win : Amarjot Sandhu<br />
Mississauga streetville<br />
Win : Nina Tangri<br />
Brampton north<br />
Win : Kevin Yarde<br />
Loss : Vic<br />
Dhillon<br />
Loss : Jagroop<br />
Singh<br />
Loss :<br />
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Loss :<br />
Jacqueline<br />
Gujarati<br />
Loss :<br />
Harinder K. Malhi<br />
Loss :<br />
Ripudaman Dhillon<br />
Kathleen Wynne resigns Liberal leadership<br />
Ontario : Calling being<br />
premier of Ontario the “greatest<br />
privilege of my life,” Kathleen<br />
Wynne stepped down as<br />
leader of the Ontario Liberal<br />
Party Thursday night following<br />
an election that ended<br />
her party’s 15-year reign and<br />
reduced it to a handful of ridings.<br />
Speaking to a small<br />
but rowdy group of<br />
supporters inside York<br />
Mills Gallery — declaring<br />
“I am not going<br />
to cry” as she became<br />
emotional — Wynne said the<br />
process would now begin to<br />
select an interim leader. “It<br />
is the right thing to<br />
do. <strong>The</strong>re is another<br />
generation and I am<br />
passing the torch,”<br />
she said.<br />
Having secured<br />
her Don Valley West riding,<br />
Wynne said she had called<br />
and congratulated premier<br />
elect, Progressive Conservative<br />
leader Doug Ford, saying<br />
“I wish him well.” Wynne<br />
left the stage on a hopeful<br />
note, proclaiming “we’re still<br />
standing” as the Elton John’s<br />
“I’m still standing” blasted<br />
from speakers.
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June 08, 2018 | Toronto<br />
Trump vs World showdown looms at G-7<br />
Washington: What<br />
is being described as a<br />
White House wrecking<br />
ball will swing by Canada<br />
this weekend on its way to<br />
Singapore in what could be<br />
one of the most consequential<br />
weeks in global politics.<br />
US President Donald<br />
Trump, who has battered<br />
enemies, friends, and allies<br />
alike with a trade war<br />
that he says puts “America<br />
First”, is travelling reluctantly<br />
on Friday to Charlevoix<br />
in Canada’s Quebec<br />
province for the G-7, after<br />
having antagonised almost<br />
all its members.<br />
Such are the tensions<br />
surrounding the meeting<br />
that there is even talk of<br />
Trump — a reluctant traveller<br />
at the best of times<br />
— ditching it at the last<br />
minute and sending vicepresident<br />
Mike Pence, citing<br />
his preoccupation with<br />
the Singapore summit on<br />
June 12 when he is scheduled<br />
to meet North Korea’s<br />
leader Kim Jong-un.<br />
From most accounts,<br />
a chilly reception awaits<br />
Trump in Quebec where<br />
leaders of Canada, France,<br />
Germany, Italy, Japan,<br />
and the United Kingdom<br />
are meeting in an annual<br />
gathering of the world’s<br />
seven largest advanced<br />
economies representing<br />
more than 60% of the global<br />
wealth.<br />
Some are calling it<br />
the ‘G6 plus One’ summit.<br />
<strong>The</strong> group is now rife with<br />
rancour and resentment,<br />
mostly directed at the<br />
US, after Trump ignited a<br />
trade war by slapping steel<br />
and aluminium tariffs on<br />
countries that are considered<br />
Washington’s closest<br />
allies.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fact that Trump<br />
invoked American national<br />
security in slapping<br />
the tariffs has angered its<br />
northern neighbour with<br />
whom the US shares the<br />
world’s longest peaceful<br />
border. In a testy exchange<br />
whose leaks ignited the<br />
media, Trump is reported<br />
to have asked Canada’s PM<br />
Justin Trudeau, “Didn’t<br />
you guys burn down the<br />
White House (in 1812)?”<br />
to justify his invoking national<br />
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social media for his ignorance<br />
of history. Canada<br />
did not exist in 1812 and the<br />
White House was gutted by<br />
British colonial troops. Although<br />
Trump may have<br />
been joking, an episode<br />
earlier in the week where<br />
the President did not seem<br />
to know the words to the<br />
song “God Bless America”<br />
while hosting a patriotic<br />
event at the White House<br />
brought him even more<br />
scorn from the liberal set.<br />
Lessons in loathing at N Korea’s<br />
museum to ‘US atrocity’<br />
Sinchon: Every few minutes<br />
a new set of visitors arrives<br />
at the ‘Revenge-Pledging<br />
Place’ at North Korea’s<br />
Sinchon Museum, where<br />
regime propaganda insists<br />
US troops massacred over<br />
35,000 people during the<br />
Korean War.<br />
A volunteer among the<br />
group stands up in the concrete<br />
amphitheatre, where<br />
a mural reads “Let us drive<br />
out the Americans and reunify<br />
our nation”, to <strong>issue</strong><br />
a vitriolic denunciation of<br />
the US.<br />
Pyongyang says the nuclear<br />
arsenal it has spent<br />
decades developing is to defend<br />
itself from a possible<br />
US invasion.<br />
That means next week’s<br />
Singapore summit between<br />
leader Kim Jong Un and US<br />
President Donald Trump<br />
presents a potential conundrum:<br />
could making peace<br />
with the enemy undermine<br />
the authorities’ claim to legitimacy?<br />
<strong>The</strong> Kim dynasty<br />
bases its right to rule in<br />
founder Kim Il Sung’s role<br />
in the 20th century fight<br />
against Japanese colonial<br />
rule.<br />
According to the orthodoxy,<br />
that historic mission<br />
was interrupted when the<br />
US and Soviet Union divided<br />
the peninsula between<br />
them after Tokyo’s surrender<br />
ended the World War<br />
II. <strong>The</strong> North’s attempt to<br />
reunify it by force with<br />
its 1950 invasion was then<br />
thwarted again by a US-led<br />
UN coalition.<br />
<strong>The</strong> museum portrays<br />
US troops committing<br />
atrocities, their hands<br />
gnarled and their features<br />
twisted as they drive nails<br />
into their defiant victims’<br />
heads, crush them to death,<br />
or cut off a woman’s breast.<br />
But whatever happened<br />
at Sinchon in 1950,<br />
researchers say there is no<br />
evidence it was carried out<br />
by the US.<br />
According to Leeds<br />
University historian Adam<br />
Cathcart, the first foreign<br />
unit on the scene was British<br />
rather than American,<br />
and the town was of little<br />
interest to the USled allied<br />
troops, including South Korean<br />
forces. AFP<br />
FB staff learn Sinhala insults after Lanka riots<br />
Colombo: Three months after Sri<br />
Lanka was rocked by deadly anti-<br />
Muslim riots fuelled by online vitriol,<br />
Facebook is training its staff to<br />
identify inflammatory content in the<br />
country’s local languages.<br />
<strong>The</strong> social network has been<br />
seeking penance in Sri Lanka after<br />
authorities blocked Facebook in<br />
March as incendiary posts by Buddhist<br />
hardliners fanned religious<br />
violence that left three people dead<br />
and reduced hundreds of mosques,<br />
homes and businesses to ashes.<br />
Until the week-long ban, appeals<br />
to Facebook to act against the contagion<br />
of hate speech had been met<br />
with deafening silence.<br />
“We did make mistakes and we<br />
were slow,” Facebook spokeswoman<br />
Amrit Ahuja said. <strong>The</strong> dearth of staff<br />
fluent in Sinhala compounded the <strong>issue</strong>.<br />
Ahuja said Facebook was committed<br />
to hiring more Sinhala speakers<br />
but declined to say how many<br />
were currently employed. AFP<br />
Remarkably, Trump<br />
is expected to fly directly<br />
from the meeting of democratic<br />
allies in Quebec to<br />
Singapore, where he will<br />
meet one of the world’s<br />
most odious dictators who<br />
has suddenly become a<br />
White House favourite<br />
(particularly if he forgoes<br />
nuclear weapons), joining<br />
a long list of murderous<br />
despots Washington has<br />
bought peace with and patronised.<br />
Trump himself unwittingly<br />
reminded the<br />
world of the irony in the<br />
developments, tweeting<br />
on Wednesday morning:<br />
“Isn’t it Ironic? Getting<br />
ready to go to the G-7 in<br />
Canada to fight for our<br />
country on Trade (we have<br />
the worst trade deals ever<br />
made), then off to Singapore<br />
to meet with North<br />
Korea & the Nuclear Problem-...But<br />
back home we<br />
still have the 13 Angry<br />
Democrats pushing the<br />
Witch Hunt!”<br />
Islamabad: Pakistan’s<br />
supreme court<br />
summoned expresident<br />
Pervez Musharraf on<br />
Thursday and assured<br />
him that he will not be<br />
arrested upon his appearance<br />
in court. After<br />
resigning in 2008,<br />
Musharraf moved to<br />
the UK and returned<br />
to Pakistan in 2013 to<br />
participate in elections.<br />
However, he was disqualified<br />
for life by the<br />
Peshawar HC from contesting<br />
polls. He then<br />
filed a plea in 2016 in the<br />
SC against the verdict.<br />
On Thursday, chief<br />
justice Mian Saqib<br />
<strong>The</strong> President’s unending<br />
obsession with the<br />
Mueller probe, reflected<br />
in angry tweets every day,<br />
comes amid his transparent<br />
admiration for strongmen<br />
such as Russia’s Vladimir<br />
Putin and China’s Xi<br />
Jinping, and his dismissive<br />
approach to countries<br />
that were long thought to<br />
be in consonance with US<br />
values.<br />
What is worrying –<br />
and galling to – foreign<br />
policy punditocracy is the<br />
fact that Trump is literally<br />
winging his way on<br />
North Korea with hardly<br />
any visible preparation,<br />
apparently believing the<br />
force of his personality<br />
will result in some sort of<br />
progress with a mercurial<br />
dictator. Trump aides<br />
though insist that he has<br />
his way of doing things<br />
and what matters are the<br />
results. In fact, it now transpires<br />
that Trump, who is<br />
scheduled to meet Kim at<br />
9am on Tuesday, may have<br />
multiple sessions with him<br />
if they hit it off. His return<br />
to US is scheduled for<br />
Wednesday.<br />
Pak SC allows Mush to<br />
file nomination papers<br />
Nisar, head of a threemember<br />
bench, hearing<br />
Musharraf’s review<br />
petition against his disqualification,<br />
directed<br />
him to appear on June<br />
13 at its Lahore registry.<br />
Nisar also said he will<br />
ask authorities to accept<br />
Musharraf’s nomination<br />
papers conditional<br />
to the final verdict on<br />
his appeal.<br />
Dr Muhammad Amjad,<br />
general secretary<br />
of Musharraf’s All Pakistan<br />
Muslim League,<br />
said the ex-president<br />
will contest the upcoming<br />
polls from four constituencies<br />
in Pakistan.
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11 women, 6 men: Spain’s cabinet breaks barriers<br />
<strong>The</strong> government cabinet with<br />
the highest proportion of female<br />
ministers in Spanish and European<br />
history was sworn in on Thursday,<br />
putting the cap on one of the fastest<br />
power transitions in Spain's four decades<br />
of democratic rule. <strong>The</strong> new<br />
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A German distiller selling a whisky<br />
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infringing Scotland’s rights on its national<br />
drink even though he makes<br />
clear he produces it in Germany, the<br />
EU’s top court ruled on Thursday.<br />
<strong>The</strong> European Court of Justice took<br />
no final view, referring a complaint<br />
from the Scotch Whisky Association<br />
back to German judges to make<br />
a ruling. “Scotch Whisky” can only<br />
be sold in the European Union if it is<br />
actually made in Scotland, for which<br />
the spirit is the biggest international<br />
export earner. <strong>The</strong> ECJ said the<br />
German court must decide whether<br />
the “average European consumer”<br />
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Driver halted by cop is man who<br />
helped in his birth<br />
A New Jersey state trooper was<br />
unexpectedly reunited with a retired<br />
cop who helped his mother deliver<br />
him 27 years ago.<br />
Trooper Michael Patterson<br />
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Chinese univ<br />
scraps Islam<br />
course taught by<br />
Pak teacher<br />
Beijing: A Chinese university has suspended a course<br />
on Islamic culture after online complaints that a Pakistani<br />
instructor was using the opportunity to spread<br />
Islam. <strong>The</strong> university was also blamed on social media<br />
sites for supporting pan-Islamic tendencies and allowing<br />
education classes to be used for the spread of religious<br />
practices.<br />
<strong>The</strong> school, Nanjing Agricultural University<br />
in East China’s Jiangsu province, later denied the<br />
charge, saying it found no evidence that the instructor<br />
had tried to persuade students to engage in Islamic<br />
practices on the campus or outside it. But it has ordered<br />
an investigation into the <strong>issue</strong> and continued<br />
with the suspension of the course.<br />
<strong>The</strong> controversy gained momentum after an expert<br />
on Marxism at the government-run Chinese Academy<br />
of Social Sciences objected to the course. <strong>The</strong> expert,<br />
Xi Wuyi, wrote in his column on Sina Weibo, the country’s<br />
biggest social media outlet, that the university<br />
had violated the law against spreading religious beliefs.<br />
China’s education law stipulates that education<br />
should be separated from religion.<br />
<strong>The</strong> course was meant to introduce students to Islamic<br />
culture, history and festivals, and also to introduce<br />
Muslim conventions.<br />
US evacuates diplomats from<br />
China over ‘sonic sickness’<br />
Guanzhou: A US medical team was<br />
screening more Americans who work in a<br />
southern Chinese city as the state department<br />
confirmed evacuating a number of<br />
government workers<br />
who experienced<br />
unexplained health<br />
<strong>issue</strong>s like those that<br />
have hurt US personnel<br />
in Cuba and China.<br />
<strong>The</strong> evacuations of<br />
the workers in Guangzhou<br />
followed medical testing that revealed<br />
they might have been affected. State department<br />
spokeswoman Heather Nauert said “a<br />
number of individuals” have been brought<br />
to the US but didn’t say how many were<br />
affected or evacuated. One case in Guangzhou<br />
had been disclosed last month.<br />
<strong>The</strong> incidents have raised fears the<br />
unexplained <strong>issue</strong>s that started in Cuba in<br />
2016 have expanded. Most of the incidents<br />
were accompanied by bizarre, unexplained<br />
sounds that initially led US investigators to<br />
suspect a sonic attack.<br />
Asked about<br />
the latest incidents,<br />
Chinese foreign<br />
ministry spokeswoman<br />
Hua Chunying<br />
said the United<br />
States had not formally<br />
raised the<br />
matter with Beijing. “If the US makes formal<br />
contact with us, China will continue<br />
necessary investigations in an earnest and<br />
responsible manner and maintain close<br />
communication and cooperation with the<br />
US,” Hua added.<br />
China had earlier said it had looked<br />
nto the first case but came up with no clues<br />
about the cause of the symptoms. AP<br />
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Rajinikanth’s reel magnetism is undeniable<br />
but what do voters see off the screen?<br />
Rajinikanth’s Kaala attracted immense prerelease<br />
interest among those hoping to glean his<br />
politics from the film. No matter that the film’s<br />
director Pa Ranjith is a votary of subaltern assertion,<br />
when it is a Rajini film the superstar<br />
overtakes the vehicle and the message. Unlike<br />
the black and white binary and associated cultural<br />
connotations of evil versus good or dirt and<br />
purity that Kaala seeks to overturn, Rajini is already<br />
finding that politics rarely lends itself to<br />
such neat compartmentalisation. He got a taste<br />
of this difficulty in Tuticorin. Rajini’s views<br />
about anti-socials infiltrating the agitation and<br />
that continuous protests could turn Tamil Nadu<br />
into a graveyard were heavily criticised.<br />
Successful politicians rarely have a readymade<br />
political script but are products of circumstances<br />
like political and developmental vacuums<br />
that they skillfully exploit. Yet Rajini must<br />
tout Kaala as his own spin to Dravidian politics<br />
given the question many are asking, whether a<br />
post-Dravidian polity is possible in Tamil Nadu<br />
and whether his honorific as “Thalaiva” endows<br />
enough clout to exploit the shortcomings<br />
of Dravidian parties.<br />
Both Rajini and Kamal Haasan seek to exploit<br />
the vacuum created by AIADMK’s floundering<br />
leadership as they turn their fan associations<br />
into political parties. <strong>The</strong>se clubs<br />
may have organisational presence down to the<br />
grassroots, experience in mobilising audiences<br />
to fill theatres, and conducting charitable activities.<br />
But the neo-netas will be competing with<br />
political parties that have developed competencies<br />
like patronage networks that cut through<br />
bureaucratic red tape or offer financial assistance<br />
or physical protection when the situation<br />
demands. MG Ramachandran supplanted a<br />
weakening Congress as DMK’s main rival. NT<br />
Rama Rao’s TDP harnessed regional sentiments<br />
to upstage an overbearing Congress in Andhra<br />
Pradesh.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se two were charismatic individuals<br />
but also benefitted from voters generously ascribing<br />
to their real-life personas the qualities<br />
of the superhuman, mythological or do-gooder<br />
roles they played in films. But another matinee<br />
idol Chiranjeevi pitted against YS Rajasekhara<br />
Reddy and Chandrababu Naidu failed. It’s a<br />
moot question whether overexposure has set<br />
in and movies cut less ice with Tamil Nadu voters<br />
when making political decisions these days.<br />
But the performer-politician is among democracy’s<br />
greatest surprises. Forget not that Donald<br />
Trump was a TV reality show star before<br />
trouncing American politicians who thought<br />
they had seen it all. Times news Network<br />
Naresh Trehan<br />
<strong>The</strong> Future is Now’ was<br />
a hip-hop album. I borrow<br />
the term to underline the<br />
fact that all future takes<br />
birth in the present; we<br />
form and define it here and<br />
now. This calls for great responsibility,<br />
requires us to<br />
be visionary and innovative<br />
while being compassionate.<br />
And in healthcare,<br />
exceedingly committed to<br />
patients.<br />
I see the future of<br />
healthcare driven by an increasingly<br />
patient-centric<br />
approach, characterised<br />
by constant connectivity<br />
and enabled by technology.<br />
Maturing in the middle<br />
of the last century, the<br />
present healthcare system<br />
is actually a sick care system.<br />
We have made incredible<br />
advances in treatment<br />
and technology, but care<br />
delivery has remained<br />
much the same.<br />
It is still largely bricks<br />
and mortar where people<br />
who are sick or acutely ill<br />
come to be treated. It was<br />
never designed to deal with<br />
the huge growth of chronic<br />
disease, which now represents<br />
well over 80% of all<br />
healthcare spend. In the<br />
new paradigm, we will<br />
have to start looking at<br />
healthcare from the perspective<br />
of the patient.<br />
That is, we have to first<br />
help patients understand<br />
the drivers that impact<br />
their chronic condition<br />
better, so they can play a<br />
more active role in managing<br />
it. We have to get<br />
involved in health, rather<br />
than just treating sickness.<br />
<strong>The</strong> aim is to proactively<br />
keep people well rather<br />
than react when they become<br />
ill.<br />
It is not just about<br />
telling them what to do,<br />
it is about truly engaging<br />
them, providing them<br />
with smart technology so<br />
they can closely monitor<br />
themselves. Patients will<br />
still need specialists with<br />
expert knowledge, but the<br />
patient and specialist will<br />
not need to be in the same<br />
space at the same time.<br />
Through a network<br />
of connected care, several<br />
experts will look at<br />
the case simultaneously.<br />
This would enable early<br />
diagnosis of health <strong>issue</strong>s<br />
through constant monitoring,<br />
before they become<br />
more serious. This will be<br />
Dawn Of Smart Medicine<br />
Present healthcare is sick care. We are moving to an always<br />
on system that keeps people well<br />
normal practice within 10<br />
years.<br />
<strong>The</strong> idea of maintaining<br />
people’s well-being,<br />
rather than reacting to<br />
an episode makes sense.<br />
We will have to apply ourselves<br />
to hard changing a<br />
system that is hardwired<br />
to be reactive. We can already<br />
see hospitals becoming<br />
smarter, patients more<br />
empowered and the ambient<br />
space increasingly<br />
dispense the efficiency and<br />
precision of technology.<br />
I see interconnectedness<br />
and concordance with<br />
other sectors of the digital<br />
economy as healthcare<br />
moves to its logical progression.<br />
A robust ecosystem<br />
thriving alongside an<br />
intense healthcare ecosystem.<br />
From organisational<br />
perspectives, we will see<br />
a radical consolidation in<br />
healthcare.<br />
<strong>The</strong> sheer size and<br />
scale of our country will<br />
attract investment in<br />
healthcare infrastructure,<br />
divided between increasing<br />
the reach and deployment<br />
of technology. Beds<br />
will increasingly move out<br />
of hospitals, which in turn<br />
will focus on diagnostics<br />
and treatment.<br />
Recuperation will be<br />
shifted to homes. I expect<br />
to see India leading the<br />
world in creating the vehicles<br />
for that reach. This<br />
will also help in better<br />
continuum of care, further<br />
bridging the gap between<br />
the patient and healthcare<br />
provider.<br />
This will also help patients<br />
take better care of<br />
themselves, for access to<br />
data and analysis will enable<br />
wearables to predict<br />
health problems and offer<br />
advice on potential lifestyle<br />
changes based on<br />
one’s health and genetic<br />
history, predict recovery<br />
duration, and suggest the<br />
right doctor in accordance<br />
with the patient’s profile.<br />
In the future, algorithms<br />
will help map<br />
patient history, making<br />
treatment faster and more<br />
effective. With tremendous<br />
scope for innovation,<br />
the possibilities for ensuring<br />
better healthcare outcomes<br />
are enormous.<br />
On the cusp of unprecedented<br />
disease and unprecedented<br />
treatment, we<br />
are faced with deeper questions:<br />
Who shall receive<br />
what healthcare? What resources<br />
can be allocated,<br />
how and to whom? What<br />
is an acceptable form of<br />
healthcare?<br />
At the heart of these<br />
lies the demand for more<br />
equitable distribution<br />
of the benefits of medical<br />
knowledge. Unless we<br />
imaginatively improvise<br />
creative and sustainable<br />
answers and apply them,<br />
we cannot negotiate India’s<br />
healthcare crisis.<br />
In closing, i am drawn<br />
to the one thing which<br />
has never and shall never<br />
change: the doctor-patient<br />
relationship. In ancient<br />
India, Charaka the physician<br />
clearly outlined four<br />
ethical principles of a doctor:<br />
‘Friendship, sympathy<br />
towards the sick, interest<br />
in cases according to one’s<br />
capabilities and no attachment<br />
with the patient after<br />
his recovery.’ <strong>The</strong> Charaka<br />
Samhita emphasises<br />
values central to the nobility<br />
of the profession: ‘He<br />
who regards kindness to<br />
humanity as his supreme<br />
religion and treats his<br />
patients accordingly, succeeds<br />
best in achieving his<br />
aims of life and obtains the<br />
greatest pleasures.’ In the<br />
Susruta Samhita, the doctors’<br />
duty and obligations<br />
to the patient are stressed:<br />
‘<strong>The</strong> patient may doubt<br />
his relatives, his sons and<br />
even his parents but he<br />
has full faith in the physician.<br />
He [the patient] gives<br />
himself up in the doctor’s<br />
hand and has no misgivings<br />
about him.<br />
<strong>The</strong>refore, it is the physician’s<br />
duty to look after<br />
him as his own son.’ <strong>The</strong><br />
core and quintessence of<br />
all medicine past present<br />
and future has been, and<br />
shall be the empathy and<br />
trust between doctor and<br />
patient. Forevermore as<br />
the future of healthcare<br />
manifests itself.<br />
<strong>The</strong> writer is chairman<br />
and MD, MedantaSource<br />
Credit: This article was first<br />
published in <strong>The</strong> Times of India.<br />
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Community Talents Shineat Airport<br />
Lacoste Summer Festival in Brampton<br />
Joyeeta Dutta Ray<br />
Contributing Editor<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was free food<br />
flowing from 12.00 noon<br />
to 10.00pm; magic and<br />
pet show; live music and<br />
dance; vendors selling<br />
their colourful wares;<br />
spicy food contest, fashion<br />
show and the grand finale<br />
– the vibrant “Brides of<br />
India” showto end it all.<br />
It was the Airport Lacoste<br />
Summer Festival held<br />
on Saturday June 2, 2018,<br />
hosted by AJ Media Entertainment,<br />
for the first time<br />
in Brampton. And what a<br />
show it was!<br />
Apna Plaza at Lacoste<br />
Boulevard had come alive<br />
with a riot of colours,<br />
styles, community camaraderie<br />
and hours of fun<br />
in the sun. <strong>The</strong> purpose<br />
was to bring families in<br />
the community together<br />
to celebrate the local<br />
South Asian talent.Proceeds<br />
from<br />
the event went<br />
towards <strong>The</strong> Sickkids<br />
Foundation.<br />
Visitors attended<br />
from near and far - from<br />
Toronto, Mississaugaand<br />
surrounding areas- to embrace<br />
multiculturism and<br />
the summer spirit, unfazed<br />
by the scorching heat.<br />
Summer Festivals in<br />
the GTA<br />
When the sun is out<br />
and summer shines in<br />
full glory, <strong>Canadian</strong>s all<br />
over Toronto step out to<br />
celebrate with myriad festivals<br />
all over the GTA.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are close to 200 festivals<br />
held in the city. Plan it<br />
well and you could have all<br />
your weekends booked out<br />
by the end of September.<br />
While downtown rings<br />
with jazz music, dance<br />
shows, food feasts and film<br />
fests, the suburbs turn up<br />
the heat on multicultural<br />
fun. From middle eastern<br />
belly dancing to Punjabi<br />
Dhabaand South Indian<br />
treats, Apna Plaza showcased<br />
the exuberance and<br />
enthusiasm of its local<br />
community. For newcomers,<br />
it was time to meet<br />
and greet others in the<br />
community. For long time<br />
residents, it was time to<br />
catch up with old friends<br />
and make new ones.<br />
Organized by AJ Entertainment<br />
AJ Media Entertainment,<br />
the popular choice<br />
for event planning, management<br />
and coordination<br />
services across Canada,<br />
were behind the show on<br />
this one. <strong>The</strong>y specialize in<br />
local events, festivals, music<br />
concerts led by popular<br />
local and international<br />
artists and promotional<br />
activities on traditional<br />
and digital media. Among<br />
the engaging activities,<br />
the Brides of India Show<br />
was the showstopper, shining<br />
with its content and<br />
creativity. Different communities<br />
from all states<br />
of India came together to<br />
showcase their wedding<br />
rituals and traditions,<br />
strung with songs and<br />
dance, at short notice.<br />
“With just one call,<br />
people readily came forward<br />
to participate in very<br />
little time and exceeded<br />
all our expectations with<br />
their performances,” says<br />
Anuradha Chatterjee, Program<br />
Coordinatorof Brides<br />
of India and part of the AJ<br />
Entertainment team.<br />
“Everyone was so enthusiastic<br />
and sporting’,<br />
she says. “<strong>The</strong>y not just<br />
readily participated but<br />
also pulled in vendors from<br />
their community such as<br />
makeup artists to promote<br />
their services.<strong>The</strong>re were<br />
at least 200 participants in<br />
all out of which 60-70 were<br />
from the Brides of India<br />
show itself. It is wonderful<br />
to see everyone come<br />
together in full spirit” she<br />
finishes with a smile.<br />
From the looks of it,<br />
the inaugural Airport<br />
Lacoste Summer Festival<br />
2018 has certainly taken<br />
off well. Keep your seatbelts<br />
fastened for the rest<br />
of the grand celebrations<br />
through the season.<br />
Living Arts Centre Unveils<br />
2018-2019 Season<br />
Osler’s fourth annual Walk ’n Roll<br />
Fest for Healthy Families to support<br />
Etobicoke General’s transformation<br />
MISSISSAUGA, ON: <strong>The</strong> Living<br />
Arts Centre unveiled its<br />
2018-19 Season to an excited and<br />
enthusiastic invite-only crowd<br />
on Tuesday, May 29, 2018. Guests<br />
were treated to entertainment by<br />
some of the artists performing in<br />
the new season and received an<br />
advance window to purchase<br />
tickets to the much anticipated<br />
shows.<br />
<strong>The</strong> LAC’s Arts for Life<br />
Patron Club Members, Board<br />
Members, Supporters, Sponsors,<br />
Special Guests, Mississauga City<br />
Councillors, and former Mayor<br />
Hazel McCallion were on hand<br />
as the 2018 Ron Lenyk Inspiring<br />
Youth Awards were awarded to<br />
Pujita Verma, Selena Xu, Sereen<br />
Aziz, and Mason Victoria<br />
by members of the Lenyk family.<br />
Last year’s winner, William<br />
Leathers, who is on his way to<br />
<strong>The</strong> Julliard School, was invited<br />
back to showcase his virtuosity<br />
and talent on the piano and<br />
trumpet.<br />
CEO Natalie Lue took the<br />
audience through the full lineup<br />
of the season which starts in September<br />
2018 through to May 2019.<br />
She said, “It is definitely a season<br />
worth celebrating with incredibly<br />
exceptional talent and<br />
some of the best music, dance,<br />
spectacle, comedy, and, theatre<br />
available anywhere! We’ve packaged<br />
them in a way that provides<br />
some insight into why we programmed<br />
what we did.<br />
You’ll also see some familiar<br />
shows in the season because<br />
you’ve told us to keep bringing<br />
them back!”<br />
<strong>The</strong> presentation included<br />
exciting giveaway prizes for<br />
audience members, as well<br />
as brilliant performances that<br />
gave the public a real taste<br />
of what’s to come. It was no<br />
surprise that everyone in<br />
the audience fell in love with<br />
<strong>The</strong> Dreamboats bringing back<br />
good ol’ Rock n’ Roll. , and jaws<br />
were dropping once UnCoveredsinger<br />
Sara Farb’ s voice<br />
echoed through the hall. Meanwhile,<br />
OKAN, with their unique<br />
blend of Cuban music, Jazz and<br />
world rhythms, wrapped up the<br />
show and the party continued at<br />
the post show reception.<br />
ETOBICOKE : More than 600 community<br />
members are expected to<br />
participate in William Osler Health<br />
System Foundation’s fourth annual<br />
Walk ’n Roll Fest for Healthy<br />
Families on June 10, 2018 at Woodbine<br />
Racetrack in Etobicoke. After<br />
the walk, participants will enjoy a<br />
free lunch and fun festival for the<br />
whole family, including carnival<br />
games, face-painting, a petting zoo,<br />
and entertainment.<br />
All funds raised will be matched<br />
by Orlando Corporation’s $15 Million<br />
Matching Challenge and will<br />
go towards equipping the new patient<br />
tower at Etobicoke General<br />
Hospital, which is currently under<br />
construction.<br />
Osler Foundation is proud to<br />
partner with its many corporate<br />
and community sponsors including<br />
BMO Bank of Montreal, Woodbine<br />
Entertainment (Venue and Lunch<br />
Sponsor), CIBC and Diamondboi<br />
Designs.<br />
Where: Woodbine Racetrack<br />
(old Paddock Building near gate 10)<br />
555 Rexdale Boulevard, Etobicoke<br />
When: Sunday, June 10, 2018,<br />
Registration 9 a.m., Photo Opportunity<br />
9:45 a.m.<br />
Walk: 10:30 a.m.<br />
Who: Councillor Vincent Crisanti<br />
(Ward 1- Etobicoke North)<br />
Nicole McCahon, Vice-President,<br />
William Osler Health System<br />
Foundation<br />
Dr. Susan Shinoff, Physician,<br />
Obstetrics and Gynecology, William<br />
Osler Health System.<br />
To register for the event or to<br />
find out more, visit oslerwalknroll.<br />
ca or call (416) 747-3388.<br />
ABOUT WILLIAM OSLER<br />
HEALTH SYSTEM AND OSLER<br />
FOUNDATION: William Osler<br />
Health System is ahospital system<br />
that serves 1.3 million residents<br />
of Brampton, Etobicoke, and surrounding<br />
communities within the<br />
Central West Local Health Integration<br />
Network. Osler’s emergency<br />
departments are among the busiest<br />
in Canada and its labour and delivery<br />
program is one of the largest in<br />
the province. William Osler Health<br />
System Foundation builds and fosters<br />
relationships in order to raise<br />
funds to support William Osler<br />
Health System’s capital, education<br />
and research priorities at Brampton<br />
Civic Hospital, Etobicoke General<br />
Hospital and the new Peel<br />
Memorial Centre for Integrated<br />
Health and Wellness.<br />
For more information: Alineh<br />
Haidery Manager, Public Relations<br />
William Osler Health System P:<br />
(905) <strong>49</strong>4-2120 ext. 29124 alineh.haidery@williamoslerhs.ca
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Children make mistakes: Rajnath<br />
on stone-pelters<br />
Indo-Asian News Service<br />
BJP-Sena pact for LS elections<br />
on course<br />
Indo-Asian News Service<br />
Srinagar: Home minister<br />
Rajnath Singh on Thursday<br />
sought to reach out to<br />
the public in the Kashmir<br />
valley, saying cases against<br />
first-time stone-pelters were<br />
withdrawn as “children<br />
make mistakes” even as he<br />
said being “right-minded”<br />
rather than “like-minded”<br />
would facilitate dialogue.<br />
“Talks can be held with<br />
everybody. For this exercise,<br />
being like-minded is<br />
not necessary but people<br />
should be right-minded,”<br />
Singh said, adding,“<strong>The</strong>re<br />
is extreme love in the heart<br />
of Prime Minister Narendra<br />
Modi for Jammu and Kashmir.<br />
It is our responsibility<br />
to provide a secure future to<br />
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Leaders of the SAD and<br />
BJP's Punjab unit were present<br />
at the meeting which, party<br />
sources said, was held in a<br />
cordial atmosphere.<br />
Senior Akali leader Sikander<br />
Singh Maluka told<br />
the media earlier that while<br />
the outreach campaign of the<br />
BJP President to the NDA<br />
allies was a welcome step, it<br />
was started a "little late" in<br />
the day.<br />
<strong>The</strong> former Minister said<br />
that the BJP-led government<br />
at the Centre had "ignored the<br />
interests of Punjab".<br />
<strong>The</strong> meeting was held<br />
as part of Shah's initiative to<br />
connect with the Bharatiya<br />
Janata Party allies in the National<br />
Democratic Alliance<br />
(NDA).<br />
Shah had met NDA ally<br />
and Shiv Sena President Uddhav<br />
Thackerey in Mumbai<br />
on Wednesday.<br />
the youth.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> minister’s formulation<br />
on a dialogue made it<br />
clear it was up to the Hurriyat<br />
to decide whether it<br />
wanted to be part of talks<br />
and and the Centre was not<br />
in a hurry to seek the separatist<br />
group’s presence. <strong>The</strong><br />
view in the government<br />
seems to be that talks with<br />
the Hurriyat cannot come<br />
about without the group<br />
making clear it wanted to<br />
engage in dialogue and not<br />
<strong>The</strong> SAD-BJP alliance did<br />
not do too well in the Punjab<br />
Assembly elections early last<br />
year. <strong>The</strong>y also did not fare<br />
well in the Lok Sabha polls in<br />
April-May 2014 despite a clear<br />
Modi wave in most other<br />
states in north India.<br />
Both parties, which have<br />
an alliance for over three<br />
decades in Punjab, were relegated<br />
to the third spot in the<br />
2017 Assembly polls as new<br />
entrant Aam Aadmi Party got<br />
20 seats in the 117-member Assembly<br />
and became the principal<br />
opposition party.<br />
obstruct peace.<br />
At a press conference,<br />
the minister sharply attacked<br />
the separatist alliance<br />
without naming it saying,<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y give education<br />
to their own kids and put<br />
stones in the hands of other<br />
kids. I appeal to them to<br />
treat the kids of others just<br />
like they treat their own.”<br />
His comments made it clear<br />
he considers the Hurriyat<br />
an obstacle rather than a facilitator<br />
of peace.<br />
BJP chief meets Akali Dal<br />
leadership, discusses 2019 polls<br />
<strong>The</strong> Congress, which was<br />
out of power in Punjab for<br />
a decade (2007-2017), during<br />
which period the Akali Dal-<br />
BJP alliance ruled Punjab,<br />
got 77 seats in the Assembly<br />
(the Congress tally increased<br />
to 78 after win in Shahkot byelection<br />
last month, giving<br />
the party a two third majority<br />
in the house).<br />
Out of the 13 Lok Sabha<br />
seats in Punjab, the Akali Dal-<br />
BJP combine holds five (four<br />
Akali Dal; one of BJP), while<br />
the Congress has four seats<br />
and AAP another four.<br />
Mumbai: BJP and Shiv<br />
Sena agreed in principle<br />
to contest the 2019 Lok<br />
Sabha elections together<br />
at the meeting between<br />
their chiefs, Amit Shah<br />
and Uddhav Thackeray, on<br />
Wednesday, but the discussion<br />
at Matoshree remained<br />
inconclusive due to lack of<br />
consensus over sharing of<br />
seats for the Maharashtra<br />
assembly polls, also due next<br />
year after the parliamentary<br />
elections.<br />
If a senior BJP cabinet<br />
member is to be believed,<br />
both parties agreed to stick<br />
to the 2014 formula for the<br />
LS polls. BJP had then contested<br />
26 of the total 48 seats,<br />
and Sena 22. However, after<br />
the discussion on sharing of<br />
seats for the assembly polls<br />
began, there seemed to be no<br />
consensus and the meeting<br />
had to be adjourned. In the<br />
2014 state elections, BJP had<br />
contested 260 seats and won<br />
122, while Sena had contested<br />
282 and won 63.<br />
<strong>The</strong> cabinet member<br />
said the BJP leadership took<br />
the view that since BJP and<br />
Sena together had won 185<br />
out of the total 288 assembly<br />
seats, the discussion on seat<br />
sharing should be restricted<br />
to the remaining 103 seats.<br />
Before 2014, when BJP<br />
and Sena had contested the<br />
state polls jointly, the Sena<br />
had contested 171 seats<br />
while BJP had contested 117.<br />
It had been agreed during<br />
the Bal Thackeray-Advani-<br />
Vajpayee era that the chief<br />
minister would be from the<br />
party that secured more<br />
seats. As Sena had got more<br />
seats in 1995, one of its leaders,<br />
Manohar Joshi, became<br />
the CM.<br />
<strong>The</strong> BJP member said<br />
that after the 2014 LS and assembly<br />
polls too, the BJP’s<br />
performance under the leadership<br />
of CM Devendra Fadnavis<br />
had been impressive,<br />
and it had won the largest<br />
number of seats in elections<br />
to municipal corporations,<br />
councils and zilla parishads.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> entire (changed) political<br />
situation was explained<br />
to the Sena leadership. BJP<br />
will not contest less than 122<br />
assembly seats,” the cabinet<br />
minister said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> alliance had come<br />
apart before the 2014 assembly<br />
polls after the Sena<br />
called itself the ‘senior partner’<br />
and insisted on contesting<br />
more seats, while BJP<br />
leaders took the view that<br />
BJP had much improved its<br />
performance, especially after<br />
Narendra Modi’s victory<br />
in the LS polls, so the old<br />
formula had no relevance.<br />
“We won more seats in the<br />
2014 assembly elections<br />
than Sena after we contested<br />
separately,” the BJP member<br />
said.<br />
Further, the minister<br />
said the Sena leadership<br />
was told that if BJP and<br />
Sena did not contest together<br />
in 2019 and Congress and<br />
NCP joined hands, the alliance<br />
was sure to lose power<br />
in the state.
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At RSS headquarters, Pranab preaches<br />
pluralism, tolerance and secularism<br />
Indo-Asian News Service<br />
Nagpur: : Former President<br />
Pranab Mukherjee,<br />
who drew flak from Congress<br />
for accepting an RSS<br />
invite to address its cadres,<br />
spoke of the need to respect<br />
pluralism rather than dogmas<br />
and religious identities<br />
even as he called for public<br />
engagement and dialogue to<br />
reconcile ideological differences.<br />
Mukherjee’s comments<br />
stressing inclusiveness and<br />
warning against intolerance<br />
diluting national identity<br />
were seen by Congress as<br />
“sagacious advice” to the<br />
RSS but his endorsement of<br />
Sangh founder K B Hedgewar<br />
as a “great son of Mother<br />
India” could not be so easily<br />
explained.<br />
<strong>The</strong> media and political<br />
commentary over Mukherjee<br />
agreeing to be the chief<br />
guest at the passing-out parade<br />
of Sangh trainees drew<br />
in a larger-than-normal<br />
crowd to hear him with people<br />
pouring in to the Reshimbagh<br />
grounds hours before<br />
the event started.<br />
Mukherjee did not utter a single word on RSS but made pointed references to Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision<br />
of Indian nationalism, marking<br />
a clear difference with<br />
the Sangh’s less-than-laudatory<br />
view of India’s first PM.<br />
“We celebrate our diversity.<br />
Any attempt at defining<br />
our nationhood in terms<br />
of dogmas and identities of<br />
religion, region, hatred and<br />
intolerance will only lead to<br />
dilution of our national identity,”<br />
he said. But even as he<br />
delivered a class on inclusive<br />
values, his presence at the<br />
RSS HQ marked a rejection<br />
of Congress’s view that this<br />
goes against his political beliefs.<br />
Dera chief 'daughter'<br />
Honeypreet's bail plea<br />
dismissed<br />
Dalit woman assaulted for sitting on chair<br />
Ahmedabad: A 48-year-old Dalit woman<br />
anganwadi worker, tasked with issuing<br />
Aadhaar cards, was allegedly attacked<br />
by a member of the upper caste Darbar<br />
community for “sitting on a chair at the<br />
panchayat office” of Valthera village in<br />
Dholka, Ahmedabad. <strong>The</strong> woman, Pallavi<br />
Jadhav, is the aunt of Maulik Jadhav,<br />
who was assaulted last month in Dholka<br />
for adding suffix ‘Sinh’ to his name.<br />
According to the FIR at Koth police<br />
station on Thursday, Jayrajsinh Vegad,<br />
one of the 10 accused, asked Pallavi why<br />
she was sitting on a chair and kicked<br />
the chair, causing her to fall off it. Nine<br />
other men of the Darbars then came to<br />
the panchayat office and started abusing<br />
Dalits and attacked her with sticks and<br />
iron-pipes. “When her son and husband<br />
rushed to her rescue, they were attacked<br />
too,” the FIR said.<br />
Indo-Asian News Service<br />
Chandigarh : A Panchkula<br />
court on Thursday<br />
dismissed a plea for regular<br />
bail filed by Honeypreet in<br />
connection with violence<br />
that broke out after the<br />
conviction of Dera Sacha<br />
Sauda sect's head Gurmeet<br />
Ram Rahim Singh in two<br />
rape cases. Honeypreet had<br />
sought the bail from the<br />
court in adjoining Panchkula<br />
in Haryana, claiming<br />
that no evidence was found<br />
against her by Haryana Police<br />
even as she was behind<br />
bars for 245 days.<br />
Her counsel told the<br />
court that others booked by<br />
the police on same charges<br />
as Honeypreet had been<br />
granted bail by different<br />
courts.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Special Investigation<br />
Team (SIT), which investigated<br />
the violence in<br />
Panchkula in August 2017<br />
following Gurmeet Ram<br />
Rahim's conviction, had<br />
slapped sedition charges<br />
against Honeypreet in September<br />
last year.<br />
Honeypreet, whose real<br />
name is Priyanka Taneja,<br />
has been lodged in the Central<br />
Jail, Ambala, 45 km<br />
from here, since October<br />
last year.<br />
<strong>The</strong> police had claimed<br />
that she was the closest<br />
aide of the sect chief and<br />
knew many things about<br />
the sect's activities and<br />
its role in the violence in<br />
Panchkula and other places<br />
after the August 25 conviction<br />
of Ram Rahim.<br />
Honeypreet remained<br />
on the run for 38 days after<br />
she was booked by the<br />
Haryana Police on charge<br />
of sedition. She was arrested<br />
on October 3, 2017<br />
from the Zirakpur-Patiala<br />
Highway, about 15 km from<br />
Chandigarh.<br />
<strong>The</strong> woman claims to<br />
be Ram Rahim's "adopted<br />
daughter" though her former<br />
husband Vishwas<br />
Gupta has alleged illicit relations<br />
between her and the<br />
sect chief.<br />
Ram Rahim was sentenced<br />
to 20 years of rigorous<br />
imprisonment and<br />
a fine of over Rs 30 lakh,<br />
following which violence<br />
erupted in Panchkula and<br />
Sirsa in Haryana, leaving<br />
41 people dead and over 260<br />
injured.<br />
Isolated incidents of<br />
violence were also reported<br />
from Delhi and several<br />
places in Punjab.
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Sachin’s son, Arjun, picked<br />
for India under-19 squad<br />
Mumbai: <strong>The</strong> most famous<br />
surname in Indian<br />
cricket is set to take the<br />
field for a national squad<br />
once again. But it will be<br />
Arjun Tendulkar, not father<br />
Sachin, and he’ll be<br />
playing for the India under-19<br />
squad.<br />
Sachin’s story is the<br />
stuff fairytales are made<br />
of. But one dream of his<br />
remained unfulfilled. As a<br />
13-year-old, he had visited<br />
the MRF Pace Academy<br />
with the hope of becoming<br />
a fast bowler, but was<br />
rejected by Aussie pace<br />
legend Dennis Lillee, who<br />
advised him to “stick to<br />
batting”. <strong>The</strong> rest is history.<br />
Arjun, who will turn<br />
19 this September, is living<br />
his father’s dream. <strong>The</strong><br />
nippy pacer will be part of<br />
the junior squad that will<br />
tour Sri Lanka in July to<br />
play two four-day matches.<br />
<strong>The</strong> team will be coached<br />
by former India batsman<br />
W V Raman, with Rahul<br />
Dravid away for the India<br />
‘A’ tour to England.<br />
<strong>The</strong> proud father sent a<br />
brief message to the media<br />
from London. “Thanks for<br />
the good wishes. We are<br />
happy about Arjun's selection.<br />
It is an important<br />
milestone in his cricketing<br />
life. Anjali and I will always<br />
support Arjun in his<br />
choices and pray for his<br />
success,” said Sachin.<br />
Arjun's coach, Atul<br />
Gaikwad, said, “Arjun’s<br />
hard work has paid off ”.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Pune-based Gaikwad<br />
is a level-3 coach from the<br />
National Cricket Academy<br />
(NCA) with a PhD in<br />
biomechanics, who has<br />
worked at Brisbane’s Centre<br />
of Excellence. He was<br />
roped in by Sachin himself<br />
to coach Arjun three years<br />
ago.<br />
It hasn’t been an easy<br />
journey for Arjun. “I’ve<br />
seen that boy very closely.<br />
From suffering back-toback<br />
stress fractures three<br />
years ago to struggling<br />
with a spate of injuries, he<br />
has worked very hard to<br />
get here,” said Gaikwad.<br />
Having remodelled his<br />
action recently after suffering<br />
several injuries,<br />
Arjun can whip up good<br />
pace, the primary reason<br />
why the selectors opted for<br />
him. “On a good day, he<br />
can consistently touch 135<br />
(kmph),” said Gaikwad.<br />
Asked why Sachin<br />
chose him to work with<br />
Arjun, Gaikwad said he<br />
had no idea. “He never<br />
told me and I never asked<br />
him,” said Gaikwad, who<br />
has also worked intensively<br />
with India women’s<br />
captain Mithali Raj over<br />
the years.<br />
Like any son born to<br />
a famous father, Arjun is<br />
bound to face the pressure<br />
of comparison and questions<br />
about whether he<br />
really deserves his spot.<br />
“I expect him to handle it<br />
well. Personally, I’ve never<br />
seen him take advantage of<br />
his father’s name.<br />
For instance, never did<br />
he expect his coaches to<br />
give him any special attention<br />
because he is Sachin’s<br />
son nor has he ever made<br />
noise about it. I only hope<br />
people don’t jump the gun<br />
and start talking trash<br />
about why he’s here and<br />
whose son he is. Watch his<br />
cricket and see for yourself<br />
his talent,” said Gaikwad.<br />
Sanjay Dutt a great reason to be part of<br />
'Prasthaanam' remake: Ali Fazal<br />
Mumbai : Actor Ali Fazal,<br />
who will next be seen in the<br />
Hindi remake of the cult classic<br />
Telugu film "Prasthaanam",<br />
says one of the reasons<br />
why he became a part of the<br />
project was having actor Sanjay<br />
Dutt as his co-star.<br />
<strong>The</strong> film is being remade<br />
in Hindi by filmmaker Deva<br />
Katta, who also made the<br />
original. It will go on the<br />
floors on Friday, which is<br />
also Sanjay's mother and late<br />
actress Nargis' birth anniversary.<br />
"It's a remake of a cult<br />
classic. And Deva helming<br />
the film was a great reason to<br />
come on board. I met the team<br />
once I loved what I heard.<br />
As an actor sometimes, you<br />
go with your instinct of the<br />
film and the part you play,"<br />
Ali said in a statement. "To<br />
top this, Sanjay Dutt who is<br />
an iconic name whom I have<br />
grown up watching and been<br />
a fan of, was a great reason<br />
to be on board without a second<br />
thought. And plus it's a<br />
father-son duo that actors<br />
would love to dive into," he<br />
added.<br />
U N V E I L I N G<br />
I N F I N I T Y<br />
Rafa kicks into gear, downs<br />
Schwartzman<br />
Paris: Quiz question:<br />
What will it take to beat<br />
Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros?<br />
Diego Schwartzman,<br />
who started their French<br />
Open quarterfinal clash<br />
in blistering fashion on<br />
Wednesday, faltered when<br />
the sun came out on Thursday.<br />
Safe to say, for the time<br />
being at least, the 5 ft 7’ Argentine<br />
doesn’t know.<br />
<strong>The</strong> world No.1 Spaniard<br />
-- who lost a mere four<br />
games in the two-setsanda-bit<br />
after play resumed<br />
in dry and happier conditions,<br />
some 17 hours later<br />
-- powered to a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2,<br />
6-2 win. In Friday’s lastfour<br />
clash, his 11th here,<br />
the 32-year-old going for<br />
La Undecima will play the<br />
fifth-seed Juan Martin del<br />
Potro, who edged out Croat<br />
Marin Cilic 7-6 (7-5), 5-7,<br />
6-3, 7-5. <strong>The</strong> other semifinal<br />
will pit the seventh-ranked<br />
Dominic Thiem against Novak<br />
Djokovic’s conqueror,<br />
Italian, world no.72 Marco<br />
Cecchinato.<br />
Nadal, who struggled<br />
with the conditions on a<br />
rain-marred day, trailed by<br />
a set and a break when play<br />
was halted for the first time.<br />
Schwartzman, the world<br />
No.12, who came out swinging,<br />
may have had a better<br />
look at his lead in the locker<br />
room. Suffice to say that<br />
the defending champion,<br />
who despite the bleak conditions,<br />
looked distinctly<br />
sorted when he returned to<br />
the Philippe-Chatrier court.<br />
Nadal then won three consecutive<br />
games from 2-3,<br />
breaking twice, and serving<br />
for the set at 5-3 (30-15) when<br />
the skies opened up again.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> stop helped because<br />
I was able to think, to calm<br />
down and to see things with<br />
more clarity,” Nadal said.<br />
“He was playing great and<br />
I was playing too defensive.<br />
I was playing too behind<br />
the baseline, he was taking<br />
the ball earlier than me.<br />
After that I increased the<br />
intensity. I won a little bit of<br />
court, playing closer to the<br />
baseline.” Schwartzman,<br />
however, came up with<br />
a hazy clue, a pointer of<br />
sorts. <strong>The</strong> day to beat Nadal<br />
was definitely Wednesday.<br />
“It’s always tough against<br />
Rafa. Yesterday I was doing<br />
many winners, not many<br />
unforced errors. He was<br />
not playing his best tennis,”<br />
Schwartzman said.<br />
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