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Progressive 

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The Canadian Press 

TORONTO : Progressive Conservative 

majority government 

in Ontario. It's a stunning victory 

for the party led by Doug Ford, 

whose campaign was heavy on 

populist promises but light on fiscal 

details. 

The New Democrats, who 

had been neck and neck with the 

Tories in several polls before the 

election, will form the Official 

Opposition. The election has also 

marked a stunning collapse for 

the Liberals, who governed the 

province for the last 15 years. 

Green Party Leader Mike 

Schreiner captured the party's 

first-ever seat in Ontario. 

A Liberal defeat was predicted 

by Premier Kathleen Wynne 

herself just days before the vote, 

as she admitted her party had 

such low support it would not 

form government again. She inherited 

a government already rife 

with billion-dollar scandals, but 

under her leadership more fuel 

was added to the fire, such as rising 

hydro bills and questionable 

government spending. 

The Liberals had also veered 

sharply left in recent years, ushering 

in policies often championed 

by the NDP, such as a promised 

$15 minimum 

wage, 

pharmacare 

for youth and 

generous tuition 

grants making 

university free 

for low-income 

students. Ford's 

election promises, 

which invited 

comparisons to 

U.S. President Donald Trump, 

were in stark contrast, including 

income tax cuts, scrapping the 

Liberals' updated sex-ed curriculum 

and strongly opposing a carbon 

tax. Ford rolled out several 

pledges designed with populist 

appeal in mind, from cutting gas 

prices by 10 cents a litre to introducing 

buck-a-beer and allowing 

beer and wine in corner stores to 

cutting hydro bills. 

But Ford's campaign 

certainly wasn't immune 

to controversy. 

He dismissed allegations 

that 

he was involved 

in selling bogus 

Progressive Conservative 

party memberships, 

a candidate 

was dropped following 

accusations he was involved 

in an alleged theft of customer 

data at a toll highway operator, 

and Ford was frequently 

accused of failing to be transparent 

by dodging calls to release a 

fully costed platform. 

With about one week left in 

the campaign, the party published 

a list of promises and their 

price tags, but didn't indicate how 

they would pay for them, what 

size of deficits they would run 

or for exactly how long. Then in 

the waning days of the election, 

Ford family drama — that had 

laid mostly dormant in the public 

sphere since the death of his 

brother, former Toronto mayor 

Rob Ford — burst onto the scene 

with a lawsuit from Rob Ford's 

widow alleging Ford mishandled 

his brother's estate and destroyed 

the value of the family business. 

Continued on page 03 

Fourth man charged in beating 

death of Brampton man 

TORONTO: A fourth man has been arrested following 

the beating death of a Brampton man in March. 

Around 5:50 p.m. on March 19, Peel Police responded 

to reports of an assault 

near Sandalwood Pkwy. 

East and Cedarcliff Tr., 

in Brampton. 

Parviter Singh 

Bassi, 21, of Brampton 

was rushed to a Toronto 

trauma centre after he 

was beaten by "multiple 

suspects" on the grounds 

of Sandalwood Heights 

Secondary School on 

March 19. He died the next day. (SUPPLIED/PEEL RE- 

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discusses 2019 polls 

Indo-Asian News Service 

Chandigarh : BJP chief meets 

Akali Dal leadership, discusses 

2019 pollsBJP President Amit 

Shah on Thursday met leaders 

of alliance partner Shiromani 

Akali Dal (SAD) here and discussed 

the strategy for the 2019 Lok Sabha 

elections. Shah, who arrived here 

on Thursday afternoon, drove 

straight to the government apartment 

of five-time former Chief 

Minister Parkash Singh Badal in 

Sector 4 here, and held a closeddoor 

meeting with top Akali Dal 

leadership. 

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Badal, 90, Shah met Badal's son 

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June 08, 2018 | Toronto 

‘Family quarrel’: Kudlow shrugs off 

escalating Canada-U.S. trade dispute 

QUEBEC : Donald Trump’s top economic 

adviser dismissed differences 

over tariffs as a “family quarrel” 

Wednesday as reports of a testy phone 

call between the president and Prime 

Minister Justin Trudeau roiled Canada-U.S. 

relations ahead of this week’s 

G7 summit. The fallout from Trump’s 

imposition of steel and aluminum 

tariffs on his G7 partners, as well as 

broader disagreements on trade and 

climate change, was also fuelling the 

G6-plus-one divide that has the U.S. 

increasingly offside with its allies. 

Trudeau wanted the G7 to be a 

moment for Canada to shine, but the 

summit is rapidly turning into an 

exercise in pure survival: prevent 

Trump from taking a wrecking ball to 

the exclusive club of the world’s leading 

democracies, to say nothing of the 

country’s most critical trade nexus. 

U.S. senior economic adviser Larry 

Kudlow played down his country’s 

trade dispute with Canada, and said 

he hoped Trump and Trudeau could 

work through their differences during 

their face-to-face meeting at the 

summit, which opens Friday. 

“I regard this as much like a family 

quarrel,” Kudlow told a news conference 

in Washington, adding that 

he’s confident the current tariff angst 

will soon blow over.“I’m always the 

optimist, I believe it can be worked 

out, and I’m always hopeful on that 

point.” 

Kudlow, the director of the U.S. 

National Economic Council, refused 

to discuss what CNN first reported 

was a tense phone call recently between 

Trump and Trudeau. 

According to CNN, when Trudeau 

pressed Trump to explain how he 

could use national security as the 

justification for the tariffs on Canada, 

the president reportedly replied: 

“Didn’t you guys burn down the 

White House?” 

Fourth man charged 

in beating death of 

Brampton man 

Continued from page 01 

Paviter Singh Bassi, 21, was found suffering from lifethreatening 

injuries. He was rushed to a Toronto trauma 

centre, but later died of his injuries. 

Bassi was allgedly beaten with sticks, according to police. 

Peel police charged 24-year-old Harminder Bassi, of 

Brampton, with first degree murder on Wednesday. 

Three other men — 22-year-old Karanvir Singh Bassi, 

23-year-old Guryodh Singh Khattra, and 20-year-old GurrajBassi 

— were charged with first degree murder in March. 

Investigators say that there is no familial relationship 

between the victim or any of the accused. Police are appealing 

for witnesses or dash-cam footage related to the incident. 

Anyone with information can contact Peel Regional Police 

homicide at (905) 453-2121 x 3205. 

Bramptonians throng in large numbers at 

Airport Lacoste Centre Summer Festival 

Brampton : The Airport 

Lacoste Centre’s first annual 

summer festival was 

a roaring success, with 

thousands of Bramptonians 

making a beeline to the 

shopping Centre. Organised 

by the management 

of Airport Lacoste Centre 

comprising Satish Thakkar 

of Excelsior Group, Mejor- 

Natt of Asian Food Centre, 

Avninder Singh of Akal Optical 

and Harkanwal Thind 

of GTR Property Management, 

the festival promoted 

local small businesses and 

provided an opportunity 

for the community to bond 

with local entrepreneurs 

while simultaneously being 

entertained. 

The highlight of the festival 

was the free food provided 

by Simply South and 

Asian Food Centre to all 

guests who participated in 

support of Sick Kids Foundation. 

“Over 7,000 guests 

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Mr. Thind said, and added 

that all voluntary donations 

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were donated to Sick Kids. 

The festival commenced at 

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Cash, drugs, loaded 

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man facing 13 charges 

Toronto : A Brampton man arrested in downtown 

Toronto is facing 13 charges including possession 

of a loaded handgun and drug possession for 

the purpose of trafficking. 

Toronto police were conducting a drug investigation 

in the area ofSpadina Avenue and Queen Street 

West on Monday, June 4. 

A man was arrested after a brief struggle and 

police say they seized a .38 calibre revolver loaded 

with five rounds of ammunition, 14.5 grams of marijuana, 

eight grams of hashish and $2,030. 

Nathaniel English, 23, of Brampton, has been 

charged with several drug possession charges, assault, 

resist arrest, sevral firearms charges including 

carrying a concealed weapon, possession of proceeds 

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PCs win majority in Ontario election 

Continued from page 01 

By contrast, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath 

consistently polled as the most popular of the 

three party leaders, so Ford repeatedly slammed 

her roster of candidates as radical and inexperienced. 

The Liberals warned that the NDP's plan 

was not practical, gleefully pointing out mathematical 

errors in their platform, including one 

that increased their proposed deficit by $1.4 billion 

annually. Wynne also frequently slammed 

Horwath's opposition to back-to-work legislation, 

saying it would lead to indefinite strikes. 

The Liberals came to power in 2003 under 

Dalton McGuinty, and when he stepped down in 

2013, Wynne took the reins. She led the party to a 

majority in 2014, despite the party already being 

bogged down by scandals at eHealth Ontario, air 

ambulance service Ornge and a price tag of up to 

$1.1 billion to cancel two gas plants. 

But her popularity began to soon dip, and 

reached well below 20 per cent in 2016 and 2017, in 

large part due to anger over rising hydro prices. 

The Liberals eventually cut bills by eight per cent, 

then another 17 per cent months later, but by her 

own admission, Wynne failed to recognize early 

enough the impacts that investments in the energy 

system were having on people's wallets. 

She also faced criticism over her partial privatization 

of Hydro One and her decision to plunge 

the province's books back into the red after finally 

getting them to balance in 2017-18. 

Wynne insisted that the billions it pumped 

into health care, child care and a drug and dentalcare 

program was necessary spending. 

Wynne spent the last few days of the campaign 

pleading with voters to at least elect some Liberals 

_ party insiders say they are worried they could 

win fewer than seven seats, which would mean a 

loss of official party status in the legislature. 

Ontario NDP to form 

opposition to PC majority 

HAMILTON : Andrea Horwath and the Ontario NDP 

didn’t have the night they wanted. Minutes after polls 

closed, CTV News projected the Progressive Conservatives 

would form a majority government. 

Though, the night wasn’t without gains. The NDP 

will form Official Opposition with more seats than they 

had before the election. 

Supporters relished each 

successful candidate, 

both incumbent and newcomers 

wiping out longtime 

MPPs. 

For those at the NDP 

election night headquarters, 

the results were anti-climactic 

after a 28-day 

campaign. It took less than 28 minutes for PC Leader 

Doug Ford to dash their hopes for power. 

“It was very disheartening. I truly believe that we 

had a good shot at this, I did,” said Patti Encinas, a 

single mom and NDP member since the federal leadership 

race. 

“I’m disgusted at the voters of this province, because 

they voted for a buck-a-beer, and they’re going to 

throw our education and our healthcare and our children’s 

futures down the drain,” she said. 

“I know what it’s like to live on minimum wage, I 

know what it’s like to be on welfare,” she said, wiping 

away tears. “I know how hard it can be.” 

This was Horwath’s third election campaign as 

NDP leader after taking the helm at the 2009 party convention. 

Going into this race the NDP had 18 MPPs. 

They’ve now doubled that, with the final count yet to 

be settled an hour after polls close. 

In all three elections as party leader, Horwath has 

grown the Ontario NDP’s seat count. In 2014 the NDP 

won 21 seats at Queen’s Park with 23.7 per cent of the 

Indian Punjabi 

leaders play 

Major role in 

Ontario election 

Brampton South 

Win : Prabmeet Singh 

Mississauga Centre 

Win : Natalia Kusendova 

Loss : 

Paramjit Gill 

Loss : 

Sukhwant Thethi 

Loss : 

Laura Kaminker 

Loss : 

Bobbie Daid 

Brampton East 

Win : Gurratan Singh 

Brampton Centre 

Win : Sara Singh 

Mississauga Malton 

Win : Deepak Anand 

Loss : 

Sudeep Verma 

Loss : 

Parminder Singh 

Loss : 

Harjit Jaswal 

Loss : 

Safdar Hussain 

Loss : 

Nikki Clarke 

Loss : 

Amrit Mangat 

Brampton West 

Win : Amarjot Sandhu 

Mississauga streetville 

Win : Nina Tangri 

Brampton north 

Win : Kevin Yarde 

Loss : Vic 

Dhillon 

Loss : Jagroop 

Singh 

Loss : 

Abhijeet Manay 

Loss : 

Jacqueline 

Gujarati 

Loss : 

Harinder K. Malhi 

Loss : 

Ripudaman Dhillon 

Kathleen Wynne resigns Liberal leadership 

Ontario : Calling being 

premier of Ontario the “greatest 

privilege of my life,” Kathleen 

Wynne stepped down as 

leader of the Ontario Liberal 

Party Thursday night following 

an election that ended 

her party’s 15-year reign and 

reduced it to a handful of ridings. 

Speaking to a small 

but rowdy group of 

supporters inside York 

Mills Gallery — declaring 

“I am not going 

to cry” as she became 

emotional — Wynne said the 

process would now begin to 

select an interim leader. “It 

is the right thing to 

do. There is another 

generation and I am 

passing the torch,” 

she said. 

Having secured 

her Don Valley West riding, 

Wynne said she had called 

and congratulated premier 

elect, Progressive Conservative 

leader Doug Ford, saying 

“I wish him well.” Wynne 

left the stage on a hopeful 

note, proclaiming “we’re still 

standing” as the Elton John’s 

“I’m still standing” blasted 

from speakers.

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Trump vs World showdown looms at G-7 

Washington: What 

is being described as a 

White House wrecking 

ball will swing by Canada 

this weekend on its way to 

Singapore in what could be 

one of the most consequential 

weeks in global politics. 

US President Donald 

Trump, who has battered 

enemies, friends, and allies 

alike with a trade war 

that he says puts “America 

First”, is travelling reluctantly 

on Friday to Charlevoix 

in Canada’s Quebec 

province for the G-7, after 

having antagonised almost 

all its members. 

Such are the tensions 

surrounding the meeting 

that there is even talk of 

Trump — a reluctant traveller 

at the best of times 

— ditching it at the last 

minute and sending vicepresident 

Mike Pence, citing 

his preoccupation with 

the Singapore summit on 

June 12 when he is scheduled 

to meet North Korea’s 

leader Kim Jong-un. 

From most accounts, 

a chilly reception awaits 

Trump in Quebec where 

leaders of Canada, France, 

Germany, Italy, Japan, 

and the United Kingdom 

are meeting in an annual 

gathering of the world’s 

seven largest advanced 

economies representing 

more than 60% of the global 

wealth. 

Some are calling it 

the ‘G6 plus One’ summit. 

The group is now rife with 

rancour and resentment, 

mostly directed at the 

US, after Trump ignited a 

trade war by slapping steel 

and aluminium tariffs on 

countries that are considered 

Washington’s closest 

allies. 

The fact that Trump 

invoked American national 

security in slapping 

the tariffs has angered its 

northern neighbour with 

whom the US shares the 

world’s longest peaceful 

border. In a testy exchange 

whose leaks ignited the 

media, Trump is reported 

to have asked Canada’s PM 

Justin Trudeau, “Didn’t 

you guys burn down the 

White House (in 1812)?” 

to justify his invoking national 

security concerns. 

The US President was 

Chilly Reception 

Awaits US Prez, 

But He Seems To 

Be Up For The 

Fight 

pilloried mercilessly on 

social media for his ignorance 

of history. Canada 

did not exist in 1812 and the 

White House was gutted by 

British colonial troops. Although 

Trump may have 

been joking, an episode 

earlier in the week where 

the President did not seem 

to know the words to the 

song “God Bless America” 

while hosting a patriotic 

event at the White House 

brought him even more 

scorn from the liberal set. 

Lessons in loathing at N Korea’s 

museum to ‘US atrocity’ 

Sinchon: Every few minutes 

a new set of visitors arrives 

at the ‘Revenge-Pledging 

Place’ at North Korea’s 

Sinchon Museum, where 

regime propaganda insists 

US troops massacred over 

35,000 people during the 

Korean War. 

A volunteer among the 

group stands up in the concrete 

amphitheatre, where 

a mural reads “Let us drive 

out the Americans and reunify 

our nation”, to issue 

a vitriolic denunciation of 

the US. 

Pyongyang says the nuclear 

arsenal it has spent 

decades developing is to defend 

itself from a possible 

US invasion. 

That means next week’s 

Singapore summit between 

leader Kim Jong Un and US 

President Donald Trump 

presents a potential conundrum: 

could making peace 

with the enemy undermine 

the authorities’ claim to legitimacy? 

The Kim dynasty 

bases its right to rule in 

founder Kim Il Sung’s role 

in the 20th century fight 

against Japanese colonial 

rule. 

According to the orthodoxy, 

that historic mission 

was interrupted when the 

US and Soviet Union divided 

the peninsula between 

them after Tokyo’s surrender 

ended the World War 

II. The North’s attempt to 

reunify it by force with 

its 1950 invasion was then 

thwarted again by a US-led 

UN coalition. 

The museum portrays 

US troops committing 

atrocities, their hands 

gnarled and their features 

twisted as they drive nails 

into their defiant victims’ 

heads, crush them to death, 

or cut off a woman’s breast. 

But whatever happened 

at Sinchon in 1950, 

researchers say there is no 

evidence it was carried out 

by the US. 

According to Leeds 

University historian Adam 

Cathcart, the first foreign 

unit on the scene was British 

rather than American, 

and the town was of little 

interest to the USled allied 

troops, including South Korean 

forces. AFP 

FB staff learn Sinhala insults after Lanka riots 

Colombo: Three months after Sri 

Lanka was rocked by deadly anti- 

Muslim riots fuelled by online vitriol, 

Facebook is training its staff to 

identify inflammatory content in the 

country’s local languages. 

The social network has been 

seeking penance in Sri Lanka after 

authorities blocked Facebook in 

March as incendiary posts by Buddhist 

hardliners fanned religious 

violence that left three people dead 

and reduced hundreds of mosques, 

homes and businesses to ashes. 

Until the week-long ban, appeals 

to Facebook to act against the contagion 

of hate speech had been met 

with deafening silence. 

“We did make mistakes and we 

were slow,” Facebook spokeswoman 

Amrit Ahuja said. The dearth of staff 

fluent in Sinhala compounded the issue. 

Ahuja said Facebook was committed 

to hiring more Sinhala speakers 

but declined to say how many 

were currently employed. AFP 

Remarkably, Trump 

is expected to fly directly 

from the meeting of democratic 

allies in Quebec to 

Singapore, where he will 

meet one of the world’s 

most odious dictators who 

has suddenly become a 

White House favourite 

(particularly if he forgoes 

nuclear weapons), joining 

a long list of murderous 

despots Washington has 

bought peace with and patronised. 

Trump himself unwittingly 

reminded the 

world of the irony in the 

developments, tweeting 

on Wednesday morning: 

“Isn’t it Ironic? Getting 

ready to go to the G-7 in 

Canada to fight for our 

country on Trade (we have 

the worst trade deals ever 

made), then off to Singapore 

to meet with North 

Korea & the Nuclear Problem-...But 

back home we 

still have the 13 Angry 

Democrats pushing the 

Witch Hunt!” 

Islamabad: Pakistan’s 

supreme court 

summoned expresident 

Pervez Musharraf on 

Thursday and assured 

him that he will not be 

arrested upon his appearance 

in court. After 

resigning in 2008, 

Musharraf moved to 

the UK and returned 

to Pakistan in 2013 to 

participate in elections. 

However, he was disqualified 

for life by the 

Peshawar HC from contesting 

polls. He then 

filed a plea in 2016 in the 

SC against the verdict. 

On Thursday, chief 

justice Mian Saqib 

The President’s unending 

obsession with the 

Mueller probe, reflected 

in angry tweets every day, 

comes amid his transparent 

admiration for strongmen 

such as Russia’s Vladimir 

Putin and China’s Xi 

Jinping, and his dismissive 

approach to countries 

that were long thought to 

be in consonance with US 

values. 

What is worrying – 

and galling to – foreign 

policy punditocracy is the 

fact that Trump is literally 

winging his way on 

North Korea with hardly 

any visible preparation, 

apparently believing the 

force of his personality 

will result in some sort of 

progress with a mercurial 

dictator. Trump aides 

though insist that he has 

his way of doing things 

and what matters are the 

results. In fact, it now transpires 

that Trump, who is 

scheduled to meet Kim at 

9am on Tuesday, may have 

multiple sessions with him 

if they hit it off. His return 

to US is scheduled for 

Wednesday. 

Pak SC allows Mush to 

file nomination papers 

Nisar, head of a threemember 

bench, hearing 

Musharraf’s review 

petition against his disqualification, 

directed 

him to appear on June 

13 at its Lahore registry. 

Nisar also said he will 

ask authorities to accept 

Musharraf’s nomination 

papers conditional 

to the final verdict on 

his appeal. 

Dr Muhammad Amjad, 

general secretary 

of Musharraf’s All Pakistan 

Muslim League, 

said the ex-president 

will contest the upcoming 

polls from four constituencies 

in Pakistan.

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AROUND THE WORLD 

11 women, 6 men: Spain’s cabinet breaks barriers 

The government cabinet with 

the highest proportion of female 

ministers in Spanish and European 

history was sworn in on Thursday, 

putting the cap on one of the fastest 

power transitions in Spain's four decades 

of democratic rule. The new 

Socialist government of Prime Minister 

Pedro Sanchez is comprised of 

11 female ministers — overseeing 

key areas such as the national economy, 

finance and defence — and six 

men. 

Women represented 64.7% of the 

new cabinet, above the 62.5% that 

the Finnish government scored in 

2015 according to the statistics of the 

Organisation for Economic Cooperation 

and Development. 

‘Glen’ from where? Lens on German 

whisky labels 

A German distiller selling a whisky 

called “Glen Buchenbach” may be 

infringing Scotland’s rights on its national 

drink even though he makes 

clear he produces it in Germany, the 

EU’s top court ruled on Thursday. 

The European Court of Justice took 

no final view, referring a complaint 

from the Scotch Whisky Association 

back to German judges to make 

a ruling. “Scotch Whisky” can only 

be sold in the European Union if it is 

actually made in Scotland, for which 

the spirit is the biggest international 

export earner. The ECJ said the 

German court must decide whether 

the “average European consumer” 

would indeed make that error. 

Driver halted by cop is man who 

helped in his birth 

A New Jersey state trooper was 

unexpectedly reunited with a retired 

cop who helped his mother deliver 

him 27 years ago. 

Trooper Michael Patterson 

stopped Matthew Bailly for a minor 

traffic violation on Friday. The two 

men struck up a conversation in 

which Bailly said he used to work 

as a cop in Patterson’s hometown 

and revealed he had helped deliver a 

baby. Patterson then revealed he was 

the baby born in 1991. 

Chinese univ 

scraps Islam 

course taught by 

Pak teacher 

Beijing: A Chinese university has suspended a course 

on Islamic culture after online complaints that a Pakistani 

instructor was using the opportunity to spread 

Islam. The university was also blamed on social media 

sites for supporting pan-Islamic tendencies and allowing 

education classes to be used for the spread of religious 

practices. 

The school, Nanjing Agricultural University 

in East China’s Jiangsu province, later denied the 

charge, saying it found no evidence that the instructor 

had tried to persuade students to engage in Islamic 

practices on the campus or outside it. But it has ordered 

an investigation into the issue and continued 

with the suspension of the course. 

The controversy gained momentum after an expert 

on Marxism at the government-run Chinese Academy 

of Social Sciences objected to the course. The expert, 

Xi Wuyi, wrote in his column on Sina Weibo, the country’s 

biggest social media outlet, that the university 

had violated the law against spreading religious beliefs. 

China’s education law stipulates that education 

should be separated from religion. 

The course was meant to introduce students to Islamic 

culture, history and festivals, and also to introduce 

Muslim conventions. 

US evacuates diplomats from 

China over ‘sonic sickness’ 

Guanzhou: A US medical team was 

screening more Americans who work in a 

southern Chinese city as the state department 

confirmed evacuating a number of 

government workers 

who experienced 

unexplained health 

issues like those that 

have hurt US personnel 

in Cuba and China. 

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Rajinikanth’s reel magnetism is undeniable 

but what do voters see off the screen? 

Rajinikanth’s Kaala attracted immense prerelease 

interest among those hoping to glean his 

politics from the film. No matter that the film’s 

director Pa Ranjith is a votary of subaltern assertion, 

when it is a Rajini film the superstar 

overtakes the vehicle and the message. Unlike 

the black and white binary and associated cultural 

connotations of evil versus good or dirt and 

purity that Kaala seeks to overturn, Rajini is already 

finding that politics rarely lends itself to 

such neat compartmentalisation. He got a taste 

of this difficulty in Tuticorin. Rajini’s views 

about anti-socials infiltrating the agitation and 

that continuous protests could turn Tamil Nadu 

into a graveyard were heavily criticised. 

Successful politicians rarely have a readymade 

political script but are products of circumstances 

like political and developmental vacuums 

that they skillfully exploit. Yet Rajini must 

tout Kaala as his own spin to Dravidian politics 

given the question many are asking, whether a 

post-Dravidian polity is possible in Tamil Nadu 

and whether his honorific as “Thalaiva” endows 

enough clout to exploit the shortcomings 

of Dravidian parties. 

Both Rajini and Kamal Haasan seek to exploit 

the vacuum created by AIADMK’s floundering 

leadership as they turn their fan associations 

into political parties. These clubs 

may have organisational presence down to the 

grassroots, experience in mobilising audiences 

to fill theatres, and conducting charitable activities. 

But the neo-netas will be competing with 

political parties that have developed competencies 

like patronage networks that cut through 

bureaucratic red tape or offer financial assistance 

or physical protection when the situation 

demands. MG Ramachandran supplanted a 

weakening Congress as DMK’s main rival. NT 

Rama Rao’s TDP harnessed regional sentiments 

to upstage an overbearing Congress in Andhra 

Pradesh. 

These two were charismatic individuals 

but also benefitted from voters generously ascribing 

to their real-life personas the qualities 

of the superhuman, mythological or do-gooder 

roles they played in films. But another matinee 

idol Chiranjeevi pitted against YS Rajasekhara 

Reddy and Chandrababu Naidu failed. It’s a 

moot question whether overexposure has set 

in and movies cut less ice with Tamil Nadu voters 

when making political decisions these days. 

But the performer-politician is among democracy’s 

greatest surprises. Forget not that Donald 

Trump was a TV reality show star before 

trouncing American politicians who thought 

they had seen it all. Times news Network 

Naresh Trehan 

The Future is Now’ was 

a hip-hop album. I borrow 

the term to underline the 

fact that all future takes 

birth in the present; we 

form and define it here and 

now. This calls for great responsibility, 

requires us to 

be visionary and innovative 

while being compassionate. 

And in healthcare, 

exceedingly committed to 

patients. 

I see the future of 

healthcare driven by an increasingly 

patient-centric 

approach, characterised 

by constant connectivity 

and enabled by technology. 

Maturing in the middle 

of the last century, the 

present healthcare system 

is actually a sick care system. 

We have made incredible 

advances in treatment 

and technology, but care 

delivery has remained 

much the same. 

It is still largely bricks 

and mortar where people 

who are sick or acutely ill 

come to be treated. It was 

never designed to deal with 

the huge growth of chronic 

disease, which now represents 

well over 80% of all 

healthcare spend. In the 

new paradigm, we will 

have to start looking at 

healthcare from the perspective 

of the patient. 

That is, we have to first 

help patients understand 

the drivers that impact 

their chronic condition 

better, so they can play a 

more active role in managing 

it. We have to get 

involved in health, rather 

than just treating sickness. 

The aim is to proactively 

keep people well rather 

than react when they become 

ill. 

It is not just about 

telling them what to do, 

it is about truly engaging 

them, providing them 

with smart technology so 

they can closely monitor 

themselves. Patients will 

still need specialists with 

expert knowledge, but the 

patient and specialist will 

not need to be in the same 

space at the same time. 

Through a network 

of connected care, several 

experts will look at 

the case simultaneously. 

This would enable early 

diagnosis of health issues 

through constant monitoring, 

before they become 

more serious. This will be 

Dawn Of Smart Medicine 

Present healthcare is sick care. We are moving to an always 

on system that keeps people well 

normal practice within 10 

years. 

The idea of maintaining 

people’s well-being, 

rather than reacting to 

an episode makes sense. 

We will have to apply ourselves 

to hard changing a 

system that is hardwired 

to be reactive. We can already 

see hospitals becoming 

smarter, patients more 

empowered and the ambient 

space increasingly 

dispense the efficiency and 

precision of technology. 

I see interconnectedness 

and concordance with 

other sectors of the digital 

economy as healthcare 

moves to its logical progression. 

A robust ecosystem 

thriving alongside an 

intense healthcare ecosystem. 

From organisational 

perspectives, we will see 

a radical consolidation in 

healthcare. 

The sheer size and 

scale of our country will 

attract investment in 

healthcare infrastructure, 

divided between increasing 

the reach and deployment 

of technology. Beds 

will increasingly move out 

of hospitals, which in turn 

will focus on diagnostics 

and treatment. 

Recuperation will be 

shifted to homes. I expect 

to see India leading the 

world in creating the vehicles 

for that reach. This 

will also help in better 

continuum of care, further 

bridging the gap between 

the patient and healthcare 

provider. 

This will also help patients 

take better care of 

themselves, for access to 

data and analysis will enable 

wearables to predict 

health problems and offer 

advice on potential lifestyle 

changes based on 

one’s health and genetic 

history, predict recovery 

duration, and suggest the 

right doctor in accordance 

with the patient’s profile. 

In the future, algorithms 

will help map 

patient history, making 

treatment faster and more 

effective. With tremendous 

scope for innovation, 

the possibilities for ensuring 

better healthcare outcomes 

are enormous. 

On the cusp of unprecedented 

disease and unprecedented 

treatment, we 

are faced with deeper questions: 

Who shall receive 

what healthcare? What resources 

can be allocated, 

how and to whom? What 

is an acceptable form of 

healthcare? 

At the heart of these 

lies the demand for more 

equitable distribution 

of the benefits of medical 

knowledge. Unless we 

imaginatively improvise 

creative and sustainable 

answers and apply them, 

we cannot negotiate India’s 

healthcare crisis. 

In closing, i am drawn 

to the one thing which 

has never and shall never 

change: the doctor-patient 

relationship. In ancient 

India, Charaka the physician 

clearly outlined four 

ethical principles of a doctor: 

‘Friendship, sympathy 

towards the sick, interest 

in cases according to one’s 

capabilities and no attachment 

with the patient after 

his recovery.’ The Charaka 

Samhita emphasises 

values central to the nobility 

of the profession: ‘He 

who regards kindness to 

humanity as his supreme 

religion and treats his 

patients accordingly, succeeds 

best in achieving his 

aims of life and obtains the 

greatest pleasures.’ In the 

Susruta Samhita, the doctors’ 

duty and obligations 

to the patient are stressed: 

‘The patient may doubt 

his relatives, his sons and 

even his parents but he 

has full faith in the physician. 

He [the patient] gives 

himself up in the doctor’s 

hand and has no misgivings 

about him. 

Therefore, it is the physician’s 

duty to look after 

him as his own son.’ The 

core and quintessence of 

all medicine past present 

and future has been, and 

shall be the empathy and 

trust between doctor and 

patient. Forevermore as 

the future of healthcare 

manifests itself. 

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and MD, MedantaSource 

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Community Talents Shineat Airport 

Lacoste Summer Festival in Brampton 

Joyeeta Dutta Ray 

Contributing Editor 

There was free food 

flowing from 12.00 noon 

to 10.00pm; magic and 

pet show; live music and 

dance; vendors selling 

their colourful wares; 

spicy food contest, fashion 

show and the grand finale 

– the vibrant “Brides of 

India” showto end it all. 

It was the Airport Lacoste 

Summer Festival held 

on Saturday June 2, 2018, 

hosted by AJ Media Entertainment, 

for the first time 

in Brampton. And what a 

show it was! 

Apna Plaza at Lacoste 

Boulevard had come alive 

with a riot of colours, 

styles, community camaraderie 

and hours of fun 

in the sun. The purpose 

was to bring families in 

the community together 

to celebrate the local 

South Asian talent.Proceeds 

from 

the event went 

towards The Sickkids 

Foundation. 

Visitors attended 

from near and far - from 

Toronto, Mississaugaand 

surrounding areas- to embrace 

multiculturism and 

the summer spirit, unfazed 

by the scorching heat. 

Summer Festivals in 

the GTA 

When the sun is out 

and summer shines in 

full glory, Canadians all 

over Toronto step out to 

celebrate with myriad festivals 

all over the GTA. 

There are close to 200 festivals 

held in the city. Plan it 

well and you could have all 

your weekends booked out 

by the end of September. 

While downtown rings 

with jazz music, dance 

shows, food feasts and film 

fests, the suburbs turn up 

the heat on multicultural 

fun. From middle eastern 

belly dancing to Punjabi 

Dhabaand South Indian 

treats, Apna Plaza showcased 

the exuberance and 

enthusiasm of its local 

community. For newcomers, 

it was time to meet 

and greet others in the 

community. For long time 

residents, it was time to 

catch up with old friends 

and make new ones. 

Organized by AJ Entertainment 

AJ Media Entertainment, 

the popular choice 

for event planning, management 

and coordination 

services across Canada, 

were behind the show on 

this one. They specialize in 

local events, festivals, music 

concerts led by popular 

local and international 

artists and promotional 

activities on traditional 

and digital media. Among 

the engaging activities, 

the Brides of India Show 

was the showstopper, shining 

with its content and 

creativity. Different communities 

from all states 

of India came together to 

showcase their wedding 

rituals and traditions, 

strung with songs and 

dance, at short notice. 

“With just one call, 

people readily came forward 

to participate in very 

little time and exceeded 

all our expectations with 

their performances,” says 

Anuradha Chatterjee, Program 

Coordinatorof Brides 

of India and part of the AJ 

Entertainment team. 

“Everyone was so enthusiastic 

and sporting’, 

she says. “They not just 

readily participated but 

also pulled in vendors from 

their community such as 

makeup artists to promote 

their services.There were 

at least 200 participants in 

all out of which 60-70 were 

from the Brides of India 

show itself. It is wonderful 

to see everyone come 

together in full spirit” she 

finishes with a smile. 

From the looks of it, 

the inaugural Airport 

Lacoste Summer Festival 

2018 has certainly taken 

off well. Keep your seatbelts 

fastened for the rest 

of the grand celebrations 

through the season. 

Living Arts Centre Unveils 

2018-2019 Season 

Osler’s fourth annual Walk ’n Roll 

Fest for Healthy Families to support 

Etobicoke General’s transformation 

MISSISSAUGA, ON: The Living 

Arts Centre unveiled its 

2018-19 Season to an excited and 

enthusiastic invite-only crowd 

on Tuesday, May 29, 2018. Guests 

were treated to entertainment by 

some of the artists performing in 

the new season and received an 

advance window to purchase 

tickets to the much anticipated 

shows. 

The LAC’s Arts for Life 

Patron Club Members, Board 

Members, Supporters, Sponsors, 

Special Guests, Mississauga City 

Councillors, and former Mayor 

Hazel McCallion were on hand 

as the 2018 Ron Lenyk Inspiring 

Youth Awards were awarded to 

Pujita Verma, Selena Xu, Sereen 

Aziz, and Mason Victoria 

by members of the Lenyk family. 

Last year’s winner, William 

Leathers, who is on his way to 

The Julliard School, was invited 

back to showcase his virtuosity 

and talent on the piano and 

trumpet. 

CEO Natalie Lue took the 

audience through the full lineup 

of the season which starts in September 

2018 through to May 2019. 

She said, “It is definitely a season 

worth celebrating with incredibly 

exceptional talent and 

some of the best music, dance, 

spectacle, comedy, and, theatre 

available anywhere! We’ve packaged 

them in a way that provides 

some insight into why we programmed 

what we did. 

You’ll also see some familiar 

shows in the season because 

you’ve told us to keep bringing 

them back!” 

The presentation included 

exciting giveaway prizes for 

audience members, as well 

as brilliant performances that 

gave the public a real taste 

of what’s to come. It was no 

surprise that everyone in 

the audience fell in love with 

The Dreamboats bringing back 

good ol’ Rock n’ Roll. , and jaws 

were dropping once UnCoveredsinger 

Sara Farb’ s voice 

echoed through the hall. Meanwhile, 

OKAN, with their unique 

blend of Cuban music, Jazz and 

world rhythms, wrapped up the 

show and the party continued at 

the post show reception. 

ETOBICOKE : More than 600 community 

members are expected to 

participate in William Osler Health 

System Foundation’s fourth annual 

Walk ’n Roll Fest for Healthy 

Families on June 10, 2018 at Woodbine 

Racetrack in Etobicoke. After 

the walk, participants will enjoy a 

free lunch and fun festival for the 

whole family, including carnival 

games, face-painting, a petting zoo, 

and entertainment. 

All funds raised will be matched 

by Orlando Corporation’s $15 Million 

Matching Challenge and will 

go towards equipping the new patient 

tower at Etobicoke General 

Hospital, which is currently under 

construction. 

Osler Foundation is proud to 

partner with its many corporate 

and community sponsors including 

BMO Bank of Montreal, Woodbine 

Entertainment (Venue and Lunch 

Sponsor), CIBC and Diamondboi 

Designs. 

Where: Woodbine Racetrack 

(old Paddock Building near gate 10) 

555 Rexdale Boulevard, Etobicoke 

When: Sunday, June 10, 2018, 

Registration 9 a.m., Photo Opportunity 

9:45 a.m. 

Walk: 10:30 a.m. 

Who: Councillor Vincent Crisanti 

(Ward 1- Etobicoke North) 

Nicole McCahon, Vice-President, 

William Osler Health System 

Foundation 

Dr. Susan Shinoff, Physician, 

Obstetrics and Gynecology, William 

Osler Health System. 

To register for the event or to 

find out more, visit oslerwalknroll. 

ca or call (416) 747-3388. 

ABOUT WILLIAM OSLER 

HEALTH SYSTEM AND OSLER 

FOUNDATION: William Osler 

Health System is ahospital system 

that serves 1.3 million residents 

of Brampton, Etobicoke, and surrounding 

communities within the 

Central West Local Health Integration 

Network. Osler’s emergency 

departments are among the busiest 

in Canada and its labour and delivery 

program is one of the largest in 

the province. William Osler Health 

System Foundation builds and fosters 

relationships in order to raise 

funds to support William Osler 

Health System’s capital, education 

and research priorities at Brampton 

Civic Hospital, Etobicoke General 

Hospital and the new Peel 

Memorial Centre for Integrated 

Health and Wellness. 

For more information: Alineh 

Haidery Manager, Public Relations 

William Osler Health System P: 

(905) 494-2120 ext. 29124 alineh.haidery@williamoslerhs.ca

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June 08, 2018 | Toronto 08 

Children make mistakes: Rajnath 

on stone-pelters 


BJP-Sena pact for LS elections 

on course 


Srinagar: Home minister 

Rajnath Singh on Thursday 

sought to reach out to 

the public in the Kashmir 

valley, saying cases against 

first-time stone-pelters were 

withdrawn as “children 

make mistakes” even as he 

said being “right-minded” 

rather than “like-minded” 

would facilitate dialogue. 

“Talks can be held with 

everybody. For this exercise, 

being like-minded is 

not necessary but people 

should be right-minded,” 

Singh said, adding,“There 

is extreme love in the heart 

of Prime Minister Narendra 

Modi for Jammu and Kashmir. 

It is our responsibility 

to provide a secure future to 


Leaders of the SAD and 

BJP's Punjab unit were present 

at the meeting which, party 

sources said, was held in a 

cordial atmosphere. 

Senior Akali leader Sikander 

Singh Maluka told 

the media earlier that while 

the outreach campaign of the 

BJP President to the NDA 

allies was a welcome step, it 

was started a "little late" in 

the day. 

The former Minister said 

that the BJP-led government 

at the Centre had "ignored the 

interests of Punjab". 

The meeting was held 

as part of Shah's initiative to 

connect with the Bharatiya 

Janata Party allies in the National 

Democratic Alliance 

(NDA). 

Shah had met NDA ally 

and Shiv Sena President Uddhav 

Thackerey in Mumbai 

on Wednesday. 

the youth.” 

The minister’s formulation 

on a dialogue made it 

clear it was up to the Hurriyat 

to decide whether it 

wanted to be part of talks 

and and the Centre was not 

in a hurry to seek the separatist 

group’s presence. The 

view in the government 

seems to be that talks with 

the Hurriyat cannot come 

about without the group 

making clear it wanted to 

engage in dialogue and not 

The SAD-BJP alliance did 

not do too well in the Punjab 

Assembly elections early last 

year. They also did not fare 

well in the Lok Sabha polls in 

April-May 2014 despite a clear 

Modi wave in most other 

states in north India. 

Both parties, which have 

an alliance for over three 

decades in Punjab, were relegated 

to the third spot in the 

2017 Assembly polls as new 

entrant Aam Aadmi Party got 

20 seats in the 117-member Assembly 

and became the principal 

opposition party. 

obstruct peace. 

At a press conference, 

the minister sharply attacked 

the separatist alliance 

without naming it saying, 

“They give education 

to their own kids and put 

stones in the hands of other 

kids. I appeal to them to 

treat the kids of others just 

like they treat their own.” 

His comments made it clear 

he considers the Hurriyat 

an obstacle rather than a facilitator 

of peace. 

BJP chief meets Akali Dal 

leadership, discusses 2019 polls 

The Congress, which was 

out of power in Punjab for 

a decade (2007-2017), during 

which period the Akali Dal- 

BJP alliance ruled Punjab, 

got 77 seats in the Assembly 

(the Congress tally increased 

to 78 after win in Shahkot byelection 

last month, giving 

the party a two third majority 

in the house). 

Out of the 13 Lok Sabha 

seats in Punjab, the Akali Dal- 

BJP combine holds five (four 

Akali Dal; one of BJP), while 

the Congress has four seats 

and AAP another four. 

Mumbai: BJP and Shiv 

Sena agreed in principle 

to contest the 2019 Lok 

Sabha elections together 

at the meeting between 

their chiefs, Amit Shah 

and Uddhav Thackeray, on 

Wednesday, but the discussion 

at Matoshree remained 

inconclusive due to lack of 

consensus over sharing of 

seats for the Maharashtra 

assembly polls, also due next 

year after the parliamentary 

elections. 

If a senior BJP cabinet 

member is to be believed, 

both parties agreed to stick 

to the 2014 formula for the 

LS polls. BJP had then contested 

26 of the total 48 seats, 

and Sena 22. However, after 

the discussion on sharing of 

seats for the assembly polls 

began, there seemed to be no 

consensus and the meeting 

had to be adjourned. In the 

2014 state elections, BJP had 

contested 260 seats and won 

122, while Sena had contested 

282 and won 63. 

The cabinet member 

said the BJP leadership took 

the view that since BJP and 

Sena together had won 185 

out of the total 288 assembly 

seats, the discussion on seat 

sharing should be restricted 

to the remaining 103 seats. 

Before 2014, when BJP 

and Sena had contested the 

state polls jointly, the Sena 

had contested 171 seats 

while BJP had contested 117. 

It had been agreed during 

the Bal Thackeray-Advani- 

Vajpayee era that the chief 

minister would be from the 

party that secured more 

seats. As Sena had got more 

seats in 1995, one of its leaders, 

Manohar Joshi, became 

the CM. 

The BJP member said 

that after the 2014 LS and assembly 

polls too, the BJP’s 

performance under the leadership 

of CM Devendra Fadnavis 

had been impressive, 

and it had won the largest 

number of seats in elections 

to municipal corporations, 

councils and zilla parishads. 

“The entire (changed) political 

situation was explained 

to the Sena leadership. BJP 

will not contest less than 122 

assembly seats,” the cabinet 

minister said. 

The alliance had come 

apart before the 2014 assembly 

polls after the Sena 

called itself the ‘senior partner’ 

and insisted on contesting 

more seats, while BJP 

leaders took the view that 

BJP had much improved its 

performance, especially after 

Narendra Modi’s victory 

in the LS polls, so the old 

formula had no relevance. 

“We won more seats in the 

2014 assembly elections 

than Sena after we contested 

separately,” the BJP member 

said. 

Further, the minister 

said the Sena leadership 

was told that if BJP and 

Sena did not contest together 

in 2019 and Congress and 

NCP joined hands, the alliance 

was sure to lose power 

in the state.

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At RSS headquarters, Pranab preaches 

pluralism, tolerance and secularism 


Nagpur: : Former President 

Pranab Mukherjee, 

who drew flak from Congress 

for accepting an RSS 

invite to address its cadres, 

spoke of the need to respect 

pluralism rather than dogmas 

and religious identities 

even as he called for public 

engagement and dialogue to 

reconcile ideological differences. 

Mukherjee’s comments 

stressing inclusiveness and 

warning against intolerance 

diluting national identity 

were seen by Congress as 

“sagacious advice” to the 

RSS but his endorsement of 

Sangh founder K B Hedgewar 

as a “great son of Mother 

India” could not be so easily 

explained. 

The media and political 

commentary over Mukherjee 

agreeing to be the chief 

guest at the passing-out parade 

of Sangh trainees drew 

in a larger-than-normal 

crowd to hear him with people 

pouring in to the Reshimbagh 

grounds hours before 

the event started. 

Mukherjee did not utter a single word on RSS but made pointed references to Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision 

of Indian nationalism, marking 

a clear difference with 

the Sangh’s less-than-laudatory 

view of India’s first PM. 

“We celebrate our diversity. 

Any attempt at defining 

our nationhood in terms 

of dogmas and identities of 

religion, region, hatred and 

intolerance will only lead to 

dilution of our national identity,” 

he said. But even as he 

delivered a class on inclusive 

values, his presence at the 

RSS HQ marked a rejection 

of Congress’s view that this 

goes against his political beliefs. 

Dera chief 'daughter' 

Honeypreet's bail plea 

dismissed 

Dalit woman assaulted for sitting on chair 

Ahmedabad: A 48-year-old Dalit woman 

anganwadi worker, tasked with issuing 

Aadhaar cards, was allegedly attacked 

by a member of the upper caste Darbar 

community for “sitting on a chair at the 

panchayat office” of Valthera village in 

Dholka, Ahmedabad. The woman, Pallavi 

Jadhav, is the aunt of Maulik Jadhav, 

who was assaulted last month in Dholka 

for adding suffix ‘Sinh’ to his name. 

According to the FIR at Koth police 

station on Thursday, Jayrajsinh Vegad, 

one of the 10 accused, asked Pallavi why 

she was sitting on a chair and kicked 

the chair, causing her to fall off it. Nine 

other men of the Darbars then came to 

the panchayat office and started abusing 

Dalits and attacked her with sticks and 

iron-pipes. “When her son and husband 

rushed to her rescue, they were attacked 

too,” the FIR said. 


Chandigarh : A Panchkula 

court on Thursday 

dismissed a plea for regular 

bail filed by Honeypreet in 

connection with violence 

that broke out after the 

conviction of Dera Sacha 

Sauda sect's head Gurmeet 

Ram Rahim Singh in two 

rape cases. Honeypreet had 

sought the bail from the 

court in adjoining Panchkula 

in Haryana, claiming 

that no evidence was found 

against her by Haryana Police 

even as she was behind 

bars for 245 days. 

Her counsel told the 

court that others booked by 

the police on same charges 

as Honeypreet had been 

granted bail by different 

courts. 

The Special Investigation 

Team (SIT), which investigated 

the violence in 

Panchkula in August 2017 

following Gurmeet Ram 

Rahim's conviction, had 

slapped sedition charges 

against Honeypreet in September 

last year. 

Honeypreet, whose real 

name is Priyanka Taneja, 

has been lodged in the Central 

Jail, Ambala, 45 km 

from here, since October 

last year. 

The police had claimed 

that she was the closest 

aide of the sect chief and 

knew many things about 

the sect's activities and 

its role in the violence in 

Panchkula and other places 

after the August 25 conviction 

of Ram Rahim. 

Honeypreet remained 

on the run for 38 days after 

she was booked by the 

Haryana Police on charge 

of sedition. She was arrested 

on October 3, 2017 

from the Zirakpur-Patiala 

Highway, about 15 km from 

Chandigarh. 

The woman claims to 

be Ram Rahim's "adopted 

daughter" though her former 

husband Vishwas 

Gupta has alleged illicit relations 

between her and the 

sect chief. 

Ram Rahim was sentenced 

to 20 years of rigorous 

imprisonment and 

a fine of over Rs 30 lakh, 

following which violence 

erupted in Panchkula and 

Sirsa in Haryana, leaving 

41 people dead and over 260 

injured. 

Isolated incidents of 

violence were also reported 

from Delhi and several 

places in Punjab.


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Sachin’s son, Arjun, picked 

for India under-19 squad 

Mumbai: The most famous 

surname in Indian 

cricket is set to take the 

field for a national squad 

once again. But it will be 

Arjun Tendulkar, not father 

Sachin, and he’ll be 

playing for the India under-19 

squad. 

Sachin’s story is the 

stuff fairytales are made 

of. But one dream of his 

remained unfulfilled. As a 

13-year-old, he had visited 

the MRF Pace Academy 

with the hope of becoming 

a fast bowler, but was 

rejected by Aussie pace 

legend Dennis Lillee, who 

advised him to “stick to 

batting”. The rest is history. 

Arjun, who will turn 

19 this September, is living 

his father’s dream. The 

nippy pacer will be part of 

the junior squad that will 

tour Sri Lanka in July to 

play two four-day matches. 

The team will be coached 

by former India batsman 

W V Raman, with Rahul 

Dravid away for the India 

‘A’ tour to England. 

The proud father sent a 

brief message to the media 

from London. “Thanks for 

the good wishes. We are 

happy about Arjun's selection. 

It is an important 

milestone in his cricketing 

life. Anjali and I will always 

support Arjun in his 

choices and pray for his 

success,” said Sachin. 

Arjun's coach, Atul 

Gaikwad, said, “Arjun’s 

hard work has paid off ”. 

The Pune-based Gaikwad 

is a level-3 coach from the 

National Cricket Academy 

(NCA) with a PhD in 

biomechanics, who has 

worked at Brisbane’s Centre 

of Excellence. He was 

roped in by Sachin himself 

to coach Arjun three years 

ago. 

It hasn’t been an easy 

journey for Arjun. “I’ve 

seen that boy very closely. 

From suffering back-toback 

stress fractures three 

years ago to struggling 

with a spate of injuries, he 

has worked very hard to 

get here,” said Gaikwad. 

Having remodelled his 

action recently after suffering 

several injuries, 

Arjun can whip up good 

pace, the primary reason 

why the selectors opted for 

him. “On a good day, he 

can consistently touch 135 

(kmph),” said Gaikwad. 

Asked why Sachin 

chose him to work with 

Arjun, Gaikwad said he 

had no idea. “He never 

told me and I never asked 

him,” said Gaikwad, who 

has also worked intensively 

with India women’s 

captain Mithali Raj over 

the years. 

Like any son born to 

a famous father, Arjun is 

bound to face the pressure 

of comparison and questions 

about whether he 

really deserves his spot. 

“I expect him to handle it 

well. Personally, I’ve never 

seen him take advantage of 

his father’s name. 

For instance, never did 

he expect his coaches to 

give him any special attention 

because he is Sachin’s 

son nor has he ever made 

noise about it. I only hope 

people don’t jump the gun 

and start talking trash 

about why he’s here and 

whose son he is. Watch his 

cricket and see for yourself 

his talent,” said Gaikwad. 

Sanjay Dutt a great reason to be part of 

'Prasthaanam' remake: Ali Fazal 

Mumbai : Actor Ali Fazal, 

who will next be seen in the 

Hindi remake of the cult classic 

Telugu film "Prasthaanam", 

says one of the reasons 

why he became a part of the 

project was having actor Sanjay 

Dutt as his co-star. 

The film is being remade 

in Hindi by filmmaker Deva 

Katta, who also made the 

original. It will go on the 

floors on Friday, which is 

also Sanjay's mother and late 

actress Nargis' birth anniversary. 

"It's a remake of a cult 

classic. And Deva helming 

the film was a great reason to 

come on board. I met the team 

once I loved what I heard. 

As an actor sometimes, you 

go with your instinct of the 

film and the part you play," 

Ali said in a statement. "To 

top this, Sanjay Dutt who is 

an iconic name whom I have 

grown up watching and been 

a fan of, was a great reason 

to be on board without a second 

thought. And plus it's a 

father-son duo that actors 

would love to dive into," he 

added. 

U N V E I L I N G 

I N F I N I T Y 

Rafa kicks into gear, downs 

Schwartzman 

Paris: Quiz question: 

What will it take to beat 

Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros? 

Diego Schwartzman, 

who started their French 

Open quarterfinal clash 

in blistering fashion on 

Wednesday, faltered when 

the sun came out on Thursday. 

Safe to say, for the time 

being at least, the 5 ft 7’ Argentine 

doesn’t know. 

The world No.1 Spaniard 

-- who lost a mere four 

games in the two-setsanda-bit 

after play resumed 

in dry and happier conditions, 

some 17 hours later 

-- powered to a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 

6-2 win. In Friday’s lastfour 

clash, his 11th here, 

the 32-year-old going for 

La Undecima will play the 

fifth-seed Juan Martin del 

Potro, who edged out Croat 

Marin Cilic 7-6 (7-5), 5-7, 

6-3, 7-5. The other semifinal 

will pit the seventh-ranked 

Dominic Thiem against Novak 

Djokovic’s conqueror, 

Italian, world no.72 Marco 

Cecchinato. 

Nadal, who struggled 

with the conditions on a 

rain-marred day, trailed by 

a set and a break when play 

was halted for the first time. 

Schwartzman, the world 

No.12, who came out swinging, 

may have had a better 

look at his lead in the locker 

room. Suffice to say that 

the defending champion, 

who despite the bleak conditions, 

looked distinctly 

sorted when he returned to 

the Philippe-Chatrier court. 

Nadal then won three consecutive 

games from 2-3, 

breaking twice, and serving 

for the set at 5-3 (30-15) when 

the skies opened up again. 

“The stop helped because 

I was able to think, to calm 

down and to see things with 

more clarity,” Nadal said. 

“He was playing great and 

I was playing too defensive. 

I was playing too behind 

the baseline, he was taking 

the ball earlier than me. 

After that I increased the 

intensity. I won a little bit of 

court, playing closer to the 

baseline.” Schwartzman, 

however, came up with 

a hazy clue, a pointer of 

sorts. The day to beat Nadal 

was definitely Wednesday. 

“It’s always tough against 

Rafa. Yesterday I was doing 

many winners, not many 

unforced errors. He was 

not playing his best tennis,” 

Schwartzman said. 

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