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Email: editor@canadianparvasi.com Contact Number : 905-673-0600 August 16, 2019 | Toronto | Pages 12
PM: ‘Population explosion a worry’,
govt schemes needed to control it
I-Day Speech: ‘If Art 370 Was So Crucial, Why Did Ruling Parties Keep It Temporary & Not Make It Permanent In Last 70 Yrs?’
New Delhi: PM Modi
on Thursday placed the
issue of “population explosion”
on the national
front-burner, calling it a
challenge and exhorting
the Centre and states to
devise schemes to tackle
it.
In his Independence
Day speech from the Red
Fort, Modi said the rising
population was a cause
for worry and posed new
challenges. He said citizens
with small families
needed to be held up as
role models as their decision
was an expression
of patriotism and love for
the nation.
Modi’s reference to
“population explosion”
came as a surprise as it is
after a long interval that
a PM has given the issue
any prominence. It also
marked a break from the
pattern over the past 10-
15 years where the bulging
numbers were seen
as an asset, with the term
“demographic dividend”
deployed to underline
the benefits they could
No FIR against Dalit
protesters: CM
Jalandhar: Having already
supported the Dalit
activists who organised
Punjab bandh yesterday,
Chief Minister Capt Amarinder
Singh today said no
FIRs would be registered
against them for blocking
the highways for eight to
10 hours during the bandh.
Giving a leeway to the
protestors, who were agitating
against the demolition
of Guru Ravidas Temple
in Delhi, the CM, who
was with minister Charanjit
Singh Channi, said, “We
have to look from case to
case. There has to be a
basis to register a case.
The Dalits were emotionally
disturbed. It was their
500-year-old temple which
was demolished. It could
have been a church or a
mosque too. It was all reactionary.”
Continued on page 08
bring.
The other big theme
in his speech was predictably
the decision to
do away with J&K’s special
status and to create
the Union territories of
J&K and Ladakh. The
dream of “one nation,
one Constitution” has
been realised and those
who oppose it should explain
why they did not
make Article 370 permanent
while in office, he
said.
Talking about population
control, Modi focused
on the disadvantages
of unrestrained
numbers. “If the population
is not educated, not
healthy, then neither
the home nor the country
can be happy. If the
population is educated,
empowered and skilled
and has adequate means
available to achieve the
right ambience to fulfil
their wishes and needs,
then, I think, the country
can fulfil these things,”
Modi said.
Continued on page 10
Mega discounts as nursing seats go begging in Punjab
Faridkot : As 4,000 of the total
5,500 BSc nursing seats in 109 Punjab
institutes are likely to go vacant,
private colleges have been pulling
out all the stops to attract students
for the new session beginning this
month.
From complete waiver of first
semester fee to reduced overcall
charges under scholarship category,
Dwindling numbers
• 22 institutes haven’t got even a
single new admission
• 25 institutes have secured one or
two fresh admissions
• 10 colleges have been able to get
three students each — 109 institutes
in all in state
the colleges have been doling out varied
sops to woo new entrants. Among
the other catchy discounts are 50 per
cent cut in transportation and hostel
fee and two-wheelers at the end of the
course for those paying the entire
fee in one instalment. Some colleges
have even hired commission agents
to contact the students with offers.
Continued on page 08
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Lower Drug Prices To Make
Patended Medicines More
Affordable For Bramptonians
Brampton, ON— The
deputy mayor of a northern
Manitoba town at
the centre of a massive
manhunt said it will be
a long time before things
in the community return
to normal.
Last week, the Government
of Canada announced
the final amendments
to the Patented
Medicines Regulations.
The most significant reforms
to the regulations
since their introduction
in 1987. Millions of
Canadians rely on prescription
drugs to stay
healthy, manage chronic
conditions and cure disease—yet
they pay some
of the highest prices in
the world.
These amendments
will change the "basket"
of countries we compare
ourselves to when setting
drug prices, so that
prices here are judged
against countries that
actually look like Canada
in terms of population,
economy and approach to
health care. These changes
will also provide the
PMPRB with the actual
market price of medicines
in Canada—rather
than inflated list or
"sticker" price—to more
accurately assess whether
a price is reasonable
when setting a price
ceiling.Finally, they will
let the PMPRB consider
whether the price of a
drug actually reflects the
value it has for patients.
This suite of measures,
which the Government
is implementing to
lay the groundwork for
National Pharmacare, is
the foundation of a
system that enables
all Canadians to get
and afford the medicines
they need.
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the Minister of
Health for this historic
step in terms
of pharmaceutical
reform in Canada.
Bramptonians, year
after year have
voiced their concerns
about the rising cost
of pharmaceuticals
and I am proud to be
part of a government
that listened to them
and has brought
about changes that
will save Canadians
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over the next
decade.” – Kamal
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Wow!!! A GREAT turnout this weekend at Bolton Midnight Madness!!
Bolton was packed with joyful residents and the streets were filled with lots of food, music and games for everyone! BIA also
known as Business Improvement Area of downtown Bolton, had their very own booth. They gave back to Bolton residents with many
awesome prizes. Bolton’s very own Regional Councilor, Annette Groves won one of the many prizes!!! Jotvinder Sodhi, Verona Teskey
congratulate Tony Rosa Councilor& Annete Groves Regional Councilor for organizing such a wonderful event!!
Director of BIA Bolton and community advocate;
Jotvinder Sodhi along with Verona Teskey and
Shirley Hoppler giving Regional Councilor, Annette
Groves a prize.
Bolton Resident receiving prize
Streets of Bolton filled with residents enjoying the Midnight
Madness in Downtown Bolton.
Ethics boss Dion’s professional lifetime
spent trying to make government work
The Canadian Press
OTTAWA : Mario Dion’s
appointment as ethics
commissioner in 2017 was
slammed by opposition
MPs as “just ragingly incompetent
and frustrating
and cynical.”
How can we trust you,
they thundered. We weren’t
consulted before you were
hired. Your history in the
civil service is checkered.
“Are you tough, are you
fair, are you a dog with a
bone?” NDP MP Nathan
Cullen asked Dion at a hastily-convened
committee to
review the appointment.
While opposition parties
may not have trusted
the appointment, they certainly
didn’t hesitate this
week to trust the damning
report Dion has now released
on Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau.
In a withering review
released Wednesday, Dion
concluded the prime minister
broke ethics law when
he pressured Jody Wilson-
Raybould, who was attorney
general at the time, to
halt the criminal prosecution
of Montreal firm SNC-
Lavalin. The firm is facing
bribery charges related to
its overseas work.
Dion is not granting interviews
at this time, his office
said, noting the report
speaks for itself.
Speak it does. Sixtythree
pages ripping apart
the way Trudeau and his
team went to bat for the engineering
giant in a bid to
Peel Regional Police Issue Warning
Over Debit Card Fraud In Taxi Cabs
Region of Peel– Investigators
from the Peel Regional
Police Fraud Bureau
have arrested and charged
three men in relation to debit
card fraud in taxis.
Fraud Bureau Officers
have investigated several
cases of debit card fraud
targeting taxi riders in the
GTA. The victims reported
providing their debit card
for payment, which is then
switched with a previously
compromised and maxed
out debit card from the
same bank belonging to another
victim. The victims
only realized their card was
switched and belonged to
someone else once they exited
the taxi. All taxis involved
in the incidents were flagged
down and not dispatched.
On Friday, August 9,
2019, Mohsin Chaudhary,
a 24 year-old man, was
charged with six counts of
Fraud Under $5,000.00, seven
counts of Possess Credit
Card Data and seven counts
of Possession of Property
Obtained by Crime.
Muhammad Khan, a 20
year-old man, was charged
with Fraud under $5,000
and Possession of Property
Obtained by Crime. ShaisEjaz,
a 22 year-old man, was
charged with Fraud Under
$5,000. All three men will appear
at the Ontario Court of
Justice in Brampton to answer
to the charges.
Investigators suggest
that users of taxi cabs always
keep their debit card
in their possession and note
down the taxi number and
company.
Anyone with information
is asked to contact the
Fraud Bureau at (905) 453–
2121, ext. 3335.
protect it from prosecution
and in turn potential financial
and political fallout.
Trudeau has said he
disagrees with some of the
findings, but accepts responsibility.
It’s a response
that may or may not resonate
with the 62-year-old
Dion, who described his
view of the relationship between
his office and elected
officials in a speech at York
University last year.
“Public officials and
ethics commissioners are
not adversaries,” he said.
“They must work together
to uphold the highest
standards of integrity
in support of the effective
functioning of democracy
in Canada.”
Dion joined the civil
service in the 1980s in the
Justice department, moving
up to a succession of top
jobs in three arms-length
government agencies: the
Ottawa: Canada's ethics
watchdog slammed Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau
on Wednesday, concluding
in the lead-up October elections
that he broke rules by
arm-twisting his attorney
general to settle a criminal
case against engineering giant
SNC-Lavalin.
The scandal, revealed
earlier this year, tarnished
the prime minister's golden
boy image, cost two ministers
and two senior officials
their jobs and plunged his
Liberals into a dead heat
Parole Board, the Commissioner
of Public Integrity
and the Immigration and
Refugee Board.
Those appointments
came from both Liberal and
Conservative governments,
a fact he took pains to point
out when his appointment
to the ethics job was questioned.
The Liberals had
promised to consult before
filling the post, but instead
just informed the other parties
that Dion was going to
be the one. That, coupled
with an auditor general’s
report finding “gross mismanagement”
in the handling
of two files under
Dion’s watch as the Commissioner
of Public Integrity,
saw some MPs question
whether he was the right fit
for the ethics post.
There were also concerns
he wouldn’t follow
through with investigations
already underway
with the opposition Conservatives
in the polls.
Independent parliamentary
ethics commissioner
Mario Dion said Trudeau
and his officials had wrongly
sought to "exert influence
over the attorney general in
her decision whether to intervene
in a matter relating
to a criminal prosecution."
Trudeau must pay a
small fine of up to Can$500
(US$375) for contravening
Canada's conflict of interest
act, but with only two
months before national
when he took over. He was
non-committal about them
when asked, saying he
wanted to review the work
himself. He later said he
would continue them all.
That response may
have reflected his earliest
education: he was trained
as a lawyer in Quebec,
where codified laws guide
decision making, not past
decisions as in the common
law system. So, he told the
York University audience
in 2018, he tends to focus
first on what the law says,
not how it was applied in
the past.
“I believe that rigour on
the part of my office is very
important,” he said.
“We expect rigour from
public office holders and
members in meeting their
obligations, and we exercise
rigour in reviewing
how they are meeting their
obligations.”
Canada's Trudeau rebuked
on ethics ahead of election
elections the political costs
could be much steeper.
Trudeau had steadfastly
denied accusations that his
inner circle sought to shield
SNC-Lavalin from a corruption
trial.
The Montreal-based
firm was charged in 2015
with allegedly paying
bribes to secure contracts
in Libya.
Attorney general Jody
Wilson-Raybould refused to
ask prosecutors to settle the
case, and the trial is set to
proceed.

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SKY IS NOT THE LIMIT FOR ISRO
From the Satellite Telecommunication
Experiments
Project (STEP) that
took the first televisions
to Indian villages much
before India officially had
TVs to real-time satellitebased
advisories being
sent to fishermen nowadays,
Indian Space Research
Organisation (Isro)
has led India’s development
from the adolescence
of Independence to present-day
advancements.
As the space agency
prepares for another
eventful year having successfully
launched its second
mission to Moon, it
has achieved another major
milestone. August 15,
India’s 73rd Independence
Day, also marks the golden
jubilee year for Isro, which
was founded on this day in
1969. The year also marks
the centenary year of Vikram
Sarabhai, the father
of the Indian space programme.
When India’s space
programme was first conceived,
it had a clear priority
that space science
must first help its citizens,
which is why the focus
was on earth observation
and communication. Vikram
Sarabhai had once
famously said, “We have
no fantasies of landing
people on Moon or studying
planets.” This was not
lack of ambition as much
as it was a result of a different
vision: Make India
self-reliant using space
technology.
Today, space agency
chairman K Sivan says:
“Sarabhai’s vision that
space science and technology
must be used for
the benefit of the common
man has been the guiding
force for Isro. And, all our
programmes were centred
around this vision, which
led to several applications.”
Another senior scientist,
while claiming that
Isro is still committed to
meeting the growing demands
of the common
man, whether it is in the
form of communication
satellite, remote sensing or
earth observation satellite,
said that huge strides have
been made by the space
agency in the last 50 years.
Isro, which was once
depended heavily on foreign
help to build and
launch its satellites, today
helps other countries
launch their satellites. In
fact, on February 15, 2017,
the Indian agency had
launched 104 satellites,
mostly foreign, in one go,
making a world record
that still stands.
In the past three years,
Isro has launched 239 commercial
satellites helping
Isro’s commercial arm,
Antrix Corporation, garner
Rs 6,289 crore revenue.
Today, it is able to rub
shoulders with the best in
the business. One example
is Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture
Radar (Nisar) project,
in which, Isro is an
equal partner with the US
space agency and not an
agency seeking Big Brother’s
help.
It is also planning a
joint mission with Japan
to explore Moon and another
joint project with
Nasa for Mars exploration.

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India to test deep-sea mining
machine at 6,000m by yr-end
Weeks after Chandrayaan-2
ands on moon on September
6 to explore, among
other things, minerals on
the lunar surface, an indigenous
craft will plunge into
the depths of the central Indian
Ocean to search for better
known minerals. This
will be the first time India
will be mining the seabed at
a depth of 6,000 metres.
A 12-tonne crawler with
sensors, pumps and a crusher
will be tested on the seabed
filled with metals such
as cobalt, nickel and copper,
located around 6000km
from the Indian shores. If
the trials are successful, India
will be the third country
after China and Korea to develop
technology for mining
polymetallic nodules.
M A Atmanand, director,
National Institute of
Ocean Technology (NIOT),
which is developing the
technology, said the system
will be tested in phases
from this year-end. By 2022,
a prototype will be ready for
trials. “The first stage test
with the pumping system
will collect nodules from the
seabed.
We will pump it out
again in the same location,”
he said. The test will also
include locomotion trials of
the seabed crawler.
The search for potatoshaped
polymetallic nodules
or manganese nodules
— a source of nickel, cobalt,
copper, manganese and iron
— will be in a 75,000sqkm
region in the central Indian
Ocean basin, where India
has been exploring for minerals
through a contract
with the UN’s International
Seabed Authority for 15
years. The licence was extended
for five years in 2017.
According to NIOT scientists,
the integrated mining
system has a ship from
which an intermediate
pump station and the mining
machine would be deployed.
The systems will be
linked through a cable and
slurry hose.
Prior to the deployment,
an in-situ soil tester
will evaluate the seabed
to ensure it can withstand
the load of the mining machine.
Once the crawler is
deployed, onboard systems
will collect and crush the
nodules into granules. It
will be then pumped to the
mothership where it will be
segregated and transported
to land.
Scientists have to ensure
the crawler lands
on the seabed, traverses
smoothly and collects the
nodules at a crushing pressure
that is nearly 600 times
more than the atmospheric
pressure. In an update, the
ministry of earth sciences
said the pressure is enough
to crush a car in minutes.
The underwater mining
system was tested at 512m
depth at Angira Bank off the
Malvan coast in Maharashtra
in 2010.
The trials have been
planned at a time when India
is expected to launch the
`10,000cr Deep Ocean Mission,
an inter-ministerial
effort, in October 2019. The
development of the mining
machine as well as manned
submersibles are some of
the components of the mission.
In July, NIOT signed a
memorandum with Krylov
State Research Centre in
Russia to develop machines
and technologies for deepsea
mining.
But why mine minerals
in the ocean? “Government
is focusing on blue economy
in terms of sustainable use
of ocean resources for economic
growth.
The Deep Ocean Mission
will help in leveraging
blue economy for economic
growth,” said M Rajeevan,
secretary, MoES, at a recent
event.
‘No First Use’ of nukes for now; circumstances
to decide future course: Rajnath
Mika Singh chants ‘Bharat Mata Ki
Jai’ as he returns from Pakistan
New Delhi : In a major
development, Defence Minister
Rajnath Singh on Friday
said that India’s commitment
to 'No First Use'
(NFU) policy for nuclear
weapons is for “now” but
“what happens in future depends
on the circumstances”.
Singh was at Pokhran—
the site of two of India’s nuclear
tests—where he paid
homage to former prime
minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
on the latter’s first
death anniversary.
The last nuclear test
conducted by India was in
May 1998, when Vajpayee
was PM.
In a tweet Rajnath
Singh said: “Pokhran is the
area which witnessed Atal
Ji’s firm resolve to make India
a nuclear power and yet
remain firmly committed
to the doctrine of ‘No First
Use’. India has strictly adhered
to this doctrine. What
happens in future depends
on the circumstances.”
The statement could be
taken as an indication that
NFU is under review.
In the past, former defence
minister Manohar
Parrikar had suggested
there should be ambiguity
about nuclear policy to
avoid “revealing our cards”.
At the time, the government
had clarified that the
remark was made in a personal
capacity.
After Punjabi singer
Mika Singh was banned
by the Indian film industry
for recently performing in
Karachi, the singer posted
a video thanking everyone
for a warm welcome back in
India.
Donning a mustard t-
shirt, in the video the singer
can be seen waving at
the crowd while chanting,
“Bharat Mata Ki Jai” and
“Vande Mataram”.
The 43-year-old singer
shared the video on Twitter,
saying: “Bharat Mata
ki Jai! Thank you everyone
for such a warm welcome.
Happy Independence Day
once again and salute to our
jawans.
They aren’t able to celebrate
any festival, all to
make our lives better. Jai
hind...” Mika had reportedly
performed at the wedding
of the daughter of former
Pakistan President Pervez
Musharraf's cousin.
A letter from AICWA
president Suresh Shyamlal
Gupta stated: "AICWA bans
and boycott singer Mika
Singh from the Indian film
industry for performing at
a high-profile event at Karachi
dated August 8, 2019."
"AICWA takes a tough
stand of immediately boycotting
all his association
with movie production
houses, music companies
and online music content
providers."

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Do What It Takes
On 73rd Independence Day
it is India’s economic future
that is in focus
The identity of this government is that it
neither avoids problems nor lets them fester. So
said Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence
Day address to the nation from the
ramparts of the Red Fort. He was referring to
the momentous decision to nullify Article 370. In
this view, a temporary provision came to endure
for seven decades because earlier governments
lacked the courage for course correction. A like
charge can be laid at the Modi government’s
door, on the economy front.
Signs of a worrying slowdown are all around.
However, the PM says that every citizen should
be dreaming of India becoming a five trillion dollar
economy in the next five years, which means
that instead of the usual incremental progress it
is time to “jump high”. Such exponential progress
requires confronting the problems that are
holding up the economy.
Indeed, the PM called for honouring wealth
creators and touched on the need to expand exports,
which implies a reversal of the current approach
of piling on taxes, tariffs, harassment by
tax agencies, high spectrum charges and the like
– a ‘maximum government’ approach that ends
up hobbling the global competitiveness of the
Indian economy. One concrete outcome of the
speech was Modi’s announcement of his government’s
decision to deliver on the long pending
demand for a chief of defence staff for the Indian
armed forces – essential for its modernisation
and integration and hanging fire since establishing
such a post was recommended after the 1999
Kargil war.
If the PM’s first term was signatured by the
Swachh Bharat campaign, a similar role in the
second term may be performed by the Jal Shakti
Abhiyan. With many areas suffering drought followed
by flooding in recent months it is obvious
that India’s water infrastructure and administration
need a radical makeover. More efficient
use of water is, indeed, a necessary ingredient
for India’s economic revitalisation. For such revitalisation,
and if India is to hit the $5 trillion
target, the government must display decisiveness
similar to that which it is willing to exhibit
on the security front.
It needs to get out of the business of running
businesses, including most public sector banks,
and to courageously reform the factor markets
that have been making India increasingly uncompetitive.
TNN
Regain India’s Textile Glory
How to reverse the slide in apparel exports and
ride a high growth path
Ajay Srivastava
A look at last year’s
apparel export figures
is chastening. China exported
$145 billion, Bangladesh
$36 billion, Vietnam
$33 billion and India
a mere $17 billion. India
is far behind China and
steadily losing to smaller
countries.
The biggest reason is
India’s near absence from
the main product category
that accounts for 70% of
world trade in apparels –
synthetic apparels. Today,
most formal, sports and
fashion wear uses synthetic
fabrics. They are durable,
do not fade, can have
any colour. Easy blending
with wool, cotton, or rubber
allows experimentation.
Unsurprisingly, synthetics
have overtaken
cottons and become favourites
of the fashion industry.
With weak synthetics,
India’s apparel industry is
a horse running with one
leg tied. The results are
low exports, low wages,
and low investments in
the sector. Here is how.
Globally cotton dominates
spring and summer
sales seasons. Synthetics
and blends dominate
autumn and winter seasons.
Indian units run six
months a year to produce
cotton apparels. In the remaining
six months, most
units are shut or run at a
low capacity as they do not
have orders for synthetics/
winter wear. Most
workers go home.
Also, a factory that
runs only six months a
year still has to pay the full
year’s fixed costs – rent,
salary for minimal staff,
interest on loans, etc. This
makes anything made in
the factory expensive.
Absence from synthetics
also affects workers’
wages. Winter wears are
more expensive than informal
cotton wear. So, at
20% labour cost, a worker
making a suit would earn
more money than the
worker making a blouse.
Since India is mainly an
informal cotton wear exporting
country, wages
remain at minimal levels.
Entry into synthetics
would make factories run
full year, and increase
wages manifold.
Why is India weak in
synthetics? Here are three
major pain points.
One, expensive raw
material. India is almost
a captive market for a few
large firms that produce
90% of the synthetics raw
materials consumed in India.
Domestic prices are
tied to import prices. And
imports are expensive because
of high customs and
anti-dumping duties on
raw materials like PTA,
PSF, PFY, acrylic fibers,
etc. Duty-free imports to
exporters offer some relief,
but the domestic synthetics
ecosystem remains
stunted.
Two, weak weaving
and processing. The textile
value chain consists
of yarn making, weaving,
fabric processing and apparel
making. Weaving
and fabric processing are
the weak links that threaten
to fragment this chain,
forcing the export of yarn
and import of fabric.
Most weaving and processing
units are small,
informal units that lack
expertise, scale and technology.
Power outage and
reduced capacity use doubles
the cost of weaving in
India, making it as expensive
as in the EU or US.
Fabric processing
faces similar issues. Chinese
units process 10 lakh
metres of cloth a day, Indian
units less than 20,000
metres. For large orders,
Indian units do batch
processing that often results
in output with varying
shrinkage, feel and
shades. Also, most Indian
processors are struggling
to meet the zero-liquid discharge
(ZLD) norms set by
Madras high court in 2011.
Not surprisingly,
while India is the number
one yarn exporter (India
23% share, China 13%)
when it comes to fabrics,
performance falls (India,
6%, China 52%). Yarn sector
has large units, while
weaving and processing
happen in small informal
units.
Three, low preparedness
of Indian exporters
to meet the demands of
the fast fashion industry
(FFI). Key FFI players are
the low-cost retailers like
Walmart, high fashion
brands like Zara, H&M,
Gap, and online-only retailers
like Amazon, Zalando.
They conjure new
fashion trends and convert
designs into affordable
clothing within a few
weeks. Any delay means
a change in fashion and
the product ending into
surplus. This forces FFI
to place orders only with
firms that deliver fast and
are compliant with labour
and other rules.
Cost is an important
issue. One metric used by
FFI for making payments
to apparel manufacturers
is standard allowed minute
(SAM). It measures
the time taken in making
a garment. FFI firms
compare SAM across
manufacturers and countries
while placing orders.
Skilled labour and the latest
technology are a must
to ensure a good SAM.
80% of Indian exporters
do not meet SAM or other
requirements. A three step
plan will unshackle the
sector and set it on a high
growth path.
One, lower import duties
on synthetics raw materials.
Lower duties will
bring down the prices by
30% to 50%, almost at par
with global prices. This
would free the apparel
industry to scale up and
invest in synthetics. Without
low import duties, the
synthetics industry and
hence exports cannot take
off in a big way.
Two, strengthen the
weaving and processing
segments. Only large units
with the latest technology
can meet the quality
requirements. Setting up
ten big scale weaving and
processing units could be
an annual goal. High investments
in the latest machinery
set Chinese industry
on a high growth path.
Three, take priority
action to make more
factories FFI compliant.
The good news is India
has about 1,200 compliant
factories supplying cotton
products to FFI and
other large buyers. Many
of these would invest in
synthetics and export new
products to the same set of
buyers. Indian has a rich
textile heritage with thousands
of firms and skilled
craftsmen. The suggested
actions would make us a
significant player in apparel
trade. The industry
engages 50 million people.
Change will benefit everyone
associated.
Source Credit: This article
was first published in The
Times of India. The writer is an
Indian Trade Service officer.
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All 24 Indian crew aboard Iranian
oil tanker released in Gibraltar
London : All 24 Indian
crew aboard VLCC Grace
1, an Iranian oil tanker,
have been released by Gibraltar
authorities and
are free to return to India,
Minister of State for External
Affairs V. Muraleedharan
said on Thursday.
In a tweet, Muraleedharan
said: "Spoke to our
High Commission in London.
They confirmed all 24
Indian crew aboard VLCC
Grace 1 have been released
by Gibraltar authorities
and are free to return to
India."
“I am grateful and
thankful for my release.
And I am grateful to all
who have facilitated my
release in my legal team,”
the Captain of the Grace 1
tanker said in a statement.
A spokesman for Gibraltar’s
government also
confirmed that police
proceedings against four
members of the crew had
ended.
The arrested Indian
crew members – the Master,
Chief Officer and
two Second Mates – were
aboard the Panamaflagged
supertanker that
was detained off Europa
Point in Gibraltar, a British
Overseas Territory
on the Spanish coast, last
month. The Gibraltar authorities
had said the vessel
is loaded to capacity
with crude oil enroute to
Syria, in breach of European
Union (EU) sanctions.
But after a hearing in
Gibraltar on Thursday,
the local Supreme Court
of the region ruled that the
tanker should be released
after formal written assurances
from Iran that the
ship would not discharge
its cargo in Syria and
therefore not be in breach
of EU sanctions.
“On 13 August, I received
written assurance
from the Republic of Iran
that, if released, the destination
of Grace 1 would
not be an entity that is
subject to European Union
sanctions. I welcome that
assurance. This is an important
material change
in the destination of the
vessel and the beneficiary
of its cargo,” said Fabian
Picardo, Chief Minister of
Gibraltar, a semi-autonomous
British Overseas
Territory.
“Indeed, this assurance
has the effect of ensuring
that we have deprived the
Assad regime in Syria of
more than USD 140-million
of valuable crude oil… In
light of the assurances we
have received, there are
no longer any reasonable
grounds for the continued
legal detention of the
Grace 1 in order to ensure
compliance with the EU
Sanctions Regulation,” he
said.
A total of 28 crew on
board the vessel include
majority Indians but also
Russians, Latvians and
Filipinos, who had spent
over a month in detention
on board the ship since it
was seized in early July.
They should now be able
to sail on to a destination
agreed with Iran and the
owner of the tanker – the
National Iranian Oil Company.
Picardo, who said he
has been conducting consultations
with the Iranian
authorities for weeks
in an effort to de-escalate
the political tensions surrounding
the seizure of
the vessel, confirmed that
the tanker has since been
re-flagged under the flag of
Iran and re-insured.
He added: “Separately,
the US Department of Justice
has requested that a
new legal procedure for
the detention of the vessel
should be commenced.
That is a matter for our
independent Mutual Legal
Assistance authorities
who will make an objective,
legal determination
of that request for separate
proceedings.
“The Grace 1 is therefore
now released from
detention under the Sanctions
Act by operation of
law, as confirmed by the
Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court.”
The UK Foreign Office
has declined to comment
on the US request and said
“investigations conducted
around the Grace 1 are a
matter for the government
of Gibraltar”.
The Gibraltar port and
law enforcement agencies
had detained the supertanker
and its cargo on
July 4 during an operation
conducted by the Royal Gibraltar
Police (RGP), Customs
and Port Authority
with the support of British
Royal Marines.
The detention of the
vessel relates to the suspected
destination of the
cargo, the Banyas refinery
in Syria, which is owned
by the Banyas Oil Refinery
Company. The Gibraltar
government said that its
investigations produced
evidence confirming that
at the time of its detention
the Grace 1 was “indeed
carrying its cargo to the
Baniyas refinery in Syria”,
which was in contravention
of Article 14 of the
EU Regulation on Sanctions
on Syria.
However, following the
assurances given by Iran
and the captain of the ship,
the Gibraltar government
has “revoked the Specification
of the Vessel” order.
The US demand is reportedly
part of the Trump
administration’s efforts to
intensify the effect of existing
Western economic
sanctions on both Iran and
Syria.
Iran had called for the
UK to release its oil tanker
and warned Britain not to
get involved in “this dangerous
game”, which eventually
led to Iran’s seizure
of a British-flagged tanker
in the Gulf as well.
Tehran blames the US
for arranging to have its
ship seized in the wake of
sanctions imposed against
Iran with the aim of halting
all its oil exports.
European countries do
not have sanctions against
Iran but have had them in
place against Iran’s ally
Syria since 2011.
‘Kashmiris and Pakistanis are one’,
says Pak President on I-Day
Islamabad : Pakistan
President Arif Alvi on
Wednesday said “Kashmiris
and Pakistanis are one”
people and the country will
continue to stand with the
people of Kashmir.
Addressing the main
function here to mark the
73rd Independence Day, he
reiterated Pakistan government's
stand against India's
move to revoke the special
status to Jammu and Kashmir
and said Islamabad will
move the UN Security Council
against New Delhi's decision.
He said by changing the
special status of Kashmir,
India not only violated the
UN resolution, but also the
Simla agreement.
India has categorically
told the international
community that its move
to scrap Article 370 of the
Constitution removing the
special status to Jammu and
Kashmir is an internal matter
and has also advised Pakistan
to accept the reality.
Alvi in his speech reaffirmed
Pakistan’s support to
the people of Kashmir.
“We will not leave them
alone at any stage. Kashmiris
and Pakistanis are
one. Our grief is common as
their tears move our hearts.
We were with them; we are
standing with them and will
continue to do so,” the staterun
Associated Press of Pakistan
reported quoting Alvi
as saying.
He said India has been
violating the ceasefire agreements
by firing and shelling
on civilian populations
along the Line of Control.
“Pakistan is a peaceloving
country and wants to
resolve the Kashmir dispute
through negotiations and
dialogue. India, however,
should not misunderstand
our policy of peace as our
weakness,” he said.
Meanwhile, Pakistanis
across the country celebrated
the Independence Day,
media reports said.
The day dawned with
the usual official functions
and ceremonies - a 31-gun
salute in the capital and 21-
gun salutes in the four provincial
capitals as well as a
major event in Islamabad in
which top government functionaries
and armed forces’
officials took part.
Special prayers were
offered at the mosques for
peace, progress and prosperity
of the country.
Pakistan has decided to
observe the Independence
Day as ‘Kashmir Solidarity
Day’ and August 15 (India’s
Independence Day)
as ‘Black Day’ to protest
India’s move to scrap the
special status to Jammu
and Kashmir and bifurcating
the state into two Union
Territories.
Pakistan launches crackdown
on sale of Indian film CDs
Islamabad : The Pakistan government has launched
a crackdown on the sale of CDs of Indian movies after
New Delhi revoked the special status to Jammu and
Kashmir, according to a media report on Friday.
The crackdown is the latest in series of measures announced
by Pakistan in reaction to revocation of special
status of Kashmir by India.
It also comes after Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory
Authority (Pemra) banned the airing of advertisements
featuring Indian artists and India-made products.
"We have banned Indian advertisements and
launched a crackdown on CD shops to confiscate Indian
movies," Dawn newspaper quoted Firdous Ashiq Awan,
the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information,
as saying.
She said the Interior Ministry had already started a
crackdown on Indian movies in the federal capital and it
would be expanded to other parts of the country soon in
collaboration with the provincial governments.
"Today the interior ministry raided some compact
disc shops in Islamabad and confiscated Indian movies."
Pemra on Wednesday circulated a letter dated Aug 14
on Wednesday announcing the ban.
Pemra said that it already withdrew the permission
for airing Indian channels and content on the directions
of the Pakistan Supreme Court in October last year.
"However, it has been observed that advertisements
of various products of multinationals which are either
produced in India or carrying Indian characters/talent
[are] being aired on electronic media," according to the
Pemra letter.

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Mega discounts as
nursing seats go
begging in Punjab
Continued from page 01
Why no takers for the
course? College owners
say Punjab has, in recent
years, witnessed unprecedented
migration of
youth to Canada and Australia
after these countries
eased immigration
norms. Nursing is losing
sheen, as did engineering
a few years ago, and the
colleges have been staring
at existential crisis,
they say. During the first
round of counselling for
BSc nursing on August 9,
Baba Farid University
of Health Sciences
(BFUHS), the nodal
agency for admissions to
all colleges in the state,
could only fill 906 of the
5,500 seats.
The university received
2,725 applications
Continued from page 01
He added, “No doubt this was a Supreme
Court order and we have to accept
it. But before it came to this stage, it
should have been taken care of. As many
as 30 per cent of Punjabis are from this
community.”
On hooliganism that they indulged
in, he said, “When such things happen,
the youth will do whatever comes to
them. Bache tan bache hi ne, chahe jinna
vi samjhalo. (Kids will remain kids.
However hard you may try to counsel
them).”
The CM also announced to lead a delegation
of the Ravidasia community to
meet the Prime Minister for resolution
of the crisis triggered by the demolition
of their historic temple. The CM, who
met Sants and leaders of the community
at Punjab Armed Police today, acceded
to their request to lead them for
a personal meeting with the Prime Minister
to seek the latter’s intervention in
and 1,100 of the students
cleared the test. While
78 private colleges could
only secure 499 admissions,
nine institutes, including
six in the government
sector, admitted 407
students.
With admissions lacking,
most of the private
institutes have been
struggling to even pay
outstanding dues to the
university. The BFUHS
last week put 96 of these
colleges on notice citing
“deficiencies” on account
of inadequate faculty
or poor infrastructure.
When almost all seats
are vacant, how can new
faculty be recruited or
infrastructure improved,
asks an institute owner,
worried about the loan he
took to open the college,
much of which remains
unpaid.
Desperate to fill more
seats, the BFUHS has invited
students from any
part of the country (they
must have appeared in
10+2 medical exam) to
seek admission in Punjab.
Not only BSc, MSc
seats, too, have been going
abegging. Twentyeight
nursing colleges
in Punjab offer 535 MSc
seats, but only 350 applicants
took the entrance
test and 141 cleared it.
HC Rawat, BFUHS
Dean (Exam) of Nursing,
said they are hopeful of
filling 500 more seats in
the next round of counselling.
Punjab Medical
Education Minister OP
Soni did not respond to
repeated calls.
No FIR against Dalit protesters: CM
the case. During the meeting, the Chief
Minister also promised to look into the
demand of the leaders for withdrawal
of the five cases against members of the
community for the 2009 violence in Jalandharduring
protests against firing at
the head of Dera Sachkhand Ballan and
his close associate in Vienna.
The community was represented by
25 Sants, including Shri Guru Ravidas
Sadhu Sampardai Society President
Sant Kulwant Ram, Vice-President Sant
Gurdip Giri, Chairman Sant Mohinder
Pal, General Secretary Sant Nirmal
Singh as well as Dera Sachkhand Ballan
Sant Lekhraj.
‘They were emotionally disturbed’
There has to be a basis to register a
case. The Dalits were emotionally disturbed.
It was their 500-year-old temple
which was demolished. It could have
been a church or a mosque too. It was all
reactionary. —Capt Amarinder Singh,
Chief Minister
Ravi Shastri retained as
Team India head coach
Mumbai : The Kapil Devlead
Cricket Advisory (CAC)
on Friday retained Ravi
Shastri as the head coach of
the Indian cricket team till
2021. The former Indian all
rounder was chosen from a
panel of six short-listed candidates.
Though the committee
members claimed that Shastri
was chosen amidst tough
competition from other
short-listed candidates, the
decision was on expected
lines and had the backing of
captain Virat Kohli.
Shastri has been reappointed
for a two-year period,
ending with the 2021
T20 World Cup in India.
This will be Shastri's fourth
stint with the national team,
having served briefly as the
Cricket Manager (2007 tour
of Bangladesh), Team Director
(2014-2016) and head
coach (2017-2019).
Shastri pipped former
India teammates Robin
Singh and Lalchand Rajput
along with former New Zealand
coach Mike Hesson and
Australian Tom Moody to
the post. Former West Indies
and Afghanistan coach
Phil Simmons pulled out of
the race, citing personal reasons.
"Number three was
Tom Moody, number two
was Mike Hesson. Number
one is Ravi Shastri as all of
you were expecting... (But)
It was a very close race,"
said Kapil at the press conference
to announce the decision
here.
Once Kohli openly
backed Shastri's candidature
at the pre-departure
media conference before the
West Indies tour, it was expected
that the former India
captain would be a favourite
to retain the position. The
committee members also
stated that Shastri’s `connect’
with the Indian team
members also weighed in
his favour.
“Basically, being a current
coach and knowing the
boys well and their problems
and he are well versed
with the system. The others
had to start from a scratch,”
added another committee
member, Anshuman Gaekwad
Among all the candidates,
Shastri's record was
unmatched as the team
reached the No.1 ranking
in Test matches under his
guidance and won a series
in Australia for the first
time in 71 years. On the
flip-side, India twice lost in
the World Cup semi-finals
(2015 and 2019) with him at
the helm but that doesn't
seem to have a bearing on
the decision taken by the
Dev-led committee that also
comprised Shantha Rangaswamy
and Anshuman Gaekwad.
Since he came back
in July, 2017 replacing Anil
Kumble, whose differences
with Kohli came out in the
open, Shastri's coaching record
has been phenomenal.
India have won 13 out
of 21 Tests, 43 out of 60 ODIs
and 25 T20 Internationals
out of 36 on his watch.

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Amarinder warns anti-national forces
against attempt to destroy peace
Jalandhar: Chief
Minister Capt Amarinder
Singh on Thursday
warned anti-national forces
against any attempt to
destroy the peace and harmony
of the country, while
calling upon the people to
join hands in fighting such
forces.
Addressing a gathering
at Guru Gobind Singh
Stadium here after unfurling
the Tricolour during a
state-level function on the
73rd Independence Day,
the Chief Minister said
there were anti-national
forces that were envious
of the peaceful atmosphere
and development in the
state.
“Let us rededicate ourselves
to working collectively
to build a strong and
prosperous Punjab, and to
cement the bonds of love,
peace and amity,” he said.
Highlighting the contribution
of Punjabis in the
national freedom struggle,
the Chief Minister said
it was now our collective
duty to preserve the hardearned
freedom.
Recalling his visit to
the Jung-e-Azadi Memorial
to inaugurate its third
phase on Wednesday,
Amarinder said the memorial
would be instrumental
in spreading awareness
among the youth about
various facets of the Indian
freedom struggle.
The Chief Minister
said 2019 is a historic year
in view of the 550th Parkash
Purb of Guru Nanak,
150th birth anniversary of
Mahatma Gandhi and the
Jallianwala Bagh centenary
being commemorated
with enthusiasm.
Referring to the crusade
against drug abuse,
Amarinder pointed out
that 27,744 cases had been
registered under the NDPS
Act with the arrest of
33,622 people and recovery
of 767 kg heroin and huge
quantity of other contraband
substances.
On the farmer-friendly
initiatives, the CM said the
state government is contemplating
to disburse Rs
520 crore to 2.85 lakh farm
labourers and landless
farmers who are members
of the primary agriculture
cooperative societies.
He said the the farmers’
income through sale of
foodgrains had increased
by over 32% since his government
took over.
The CM said that for
the first time in years, government
schools had outperformed
private schools,
registering an increase of
8.7 per cent in the overall
pass percentage of Class
X and 4.45 per cent in the
Class XII board results.
Amarinder said about
two lakh jobs in private
sector would be offered
to the unemployed youth;
besides 1 lakh applicants
were likely to be assisted
for self-employment.
The CM said the youth
would be provided free
smart mobile phones
shortly, under the Digital
Punjab initiative in keeping
with the poll promise.
Amarinder appealed
to people to plant 550 saplings
each in all 12,700 villages
in the state as part
of the 550th Parkash Purb
of Guru Nanak. He said 40
lakh saplings had already
been planted so far in 3,500
villages to make the state
clean, green and pollutionfree.
On the revival of industry,
the CM said the new
industrial policy had given
a big boost with over Rs
50,000 crore in investments
being firmed up.
Will win all 70 seats in
Delhi Assembly polls:
Kejriwal to AAP workers
on his birthday
New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal
on Friday said the AAP will win all the 70 seats in the
Assembly election next year
as he lauded the contribution
of his party workers on his
birthday.
The AAP national convenor
addressed his party workers
who came to greet him on
his 51st birthday.
"I want to thank the AAP
workers for their contribution
towards the party. In last assembly
elections, we won 67
seats but this time we will win all 70 seats," he said
in a video posted on the AAP's official Twitter handle.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) registered a landslide
victory in the last Assembly election and won 67
out of the 70 seats in Delhi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi also wished the
chief minister on his birthday.
"Birthday greetings to Delhi CM Shri @Arvind-
Kejriwal. Praying for his good health and long life,"
Modi tweeted.
Leader of Opposition in Delhi Vijender Gupta, his
West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee, former
Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren and BJP MP
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, among others who greeted
Kejriwal on his birthday.
"Wishing you a very happy birthday, Arvind ji,"
Banerjee tweeted.
"Thank u so much Didi," replied Kejriwal.
Gupta also wished Kejriwal on his birthday.
"I wish Arvind Kejriwal ji on his birthday. I wish
you a long and healthy life," he said. Several Bollywood
celebrities, including directors Vivek Ranjan
Agnihotri and Shirish Kunder also wished Kejriwal.
"#HappyBirthdayAK you literally changed Indian
politics," Agnihotri tweeted

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PM: ‘Population explosion a worry’,
govt schemes needed to control it
Continued from page 01
The PM dwelt at length
on the decision to revoke
J&K’s special status and
bifurcate it, and underlined
that two-thirds support
in both Houses of
Parliament reflected that
the move enjoyed wide
support and was a task
waiting to be done as old
approaches to resolving
issues had failed.
“Today, I can say with
pride that every Indian
can say we are one nation,
one Constitution.
And this one dream of
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
has been realised,” the
PM said.
Taking a swipe at Congress,
he said, “The country
asks them: if Article
370 or 35A were so necessary,
then despite
such a majority, why
didn’t you make it permanent?
Why did you
leave it as temporary?
This means that even you
know what happened was
not right, but you did not
have the courage to rectify
it or the political will,”
Modi said.
“The new system in
place is for direct benefit
of the people on the
ground. Now everyone
living in J&K can directly
question the Centre.”
He said the discriminatory
provisions of Article
35A, which flow from
Article 370, restricted the
rights of women and deprived
Dalits and tribals
of political reservation.
Modi referred to reading
down of Article 370
and passage of the legislation
to ban triple talaq
as reflecting the government’s
resolve neither to
keep problems pending
nor to nurture them.
“India does not want
to wait too long for incremental
progress. A
high jump is needed, our
thought process has to be
expanded,” he said while
speaking of the government’s
plan to invest Rs
100 lakh crore in infrastructure-building.
“People’s
trust in us has given
us new strength. The 2019
mandate shows hopelessness
has given way to
hope,” he said.
PM Links Family Planning To Nation-Building
New Delhi: The mention,
perhaps the first ever,
of “population explosion”
in a prime minister’s Independence
Day speech marks
the return of focus on an issue
which was seen as a big
national priority in the early
1970s before the excesses
committed during the Emergency
discredited what was
known as the “family planning”
programme.
Subsequent governments
diluted the exercise,
and it was rechristened
“family welfare” before it
came to be seen as redundant
because of the “demographic
dividend” narrative that
took hold in the wake of the
reforms of 1990s. The wheel
seemed to have turned full
circle when Prime Minister
Narendra Modi put it on his
agenda on Thursday.
Modi said the issue was
not tackled all these years
because of political considerations.
“Dear countrymen,
our nation has reached
a phase when we should be
transparent about everything.
Time has now come
that we should take challenges
heads on. Sometimes,
decisions are taken keeping
in mind political advantage
but they come at the cost of
growth of our future generation,”
he said.
He suggested that the
problem had been dodged so
far with an eye on political
advantage. “The time has
now come that we should
take (such) challenges head
on,” he said-.Modi was all
praise for citizens who have
chosen to restrict the size of
their families. “In our society,
there is a section which
is very well aware of the consequences
of uncontrolled
population growth. They
deserve our accolades and
respect. This is an expression
of their love for the nation.
Before having a baby,
they take a well-considered
decision whether they will
be able to take care of their
child’s needs,” the PM said.
Further emphasising his
point, he said, “Not only do
they (small households) contribute
to the welfare of their
family but also to the good of
the nation. People who have
played this huge role need
to be honoured, and by setting
them as examples we
need to inspire the segment
of society still not thinking
on these lines. We need to
worry about population explosion.”
The concern over growing
numbers has also been
the trigger for unease over
the “influx” of foreigners
and the demand to document
citizens by drawing an
all-India national register of
citizens.
In 2017, the UN’s World
Population Prospect predicted
that India’s population
was set to surpass China’s
in 2024. The country’s population
is projected to touch
1.5 billion in 2030. India accounts
for 18% of the world’s
total population.
As per census data, the
decadal growth rate has declined
from 21.15% in census
2001 to 17.64% in census
2011, while crude birth rate
has fallen from 23.1 to 19.
The total fertility rate has
reduced from 2.6 to 2.2. The
TFR is higher in some northern
states like Bihar and Uttar
Pradesh. Fertility rate
among Muslims is coming
down, as with other communities,
but remains higher.
Treat wealth creators with respect,
says Modi in outreach to industry
Asks People To
Buy Products
Made In India
New Delhi: While asking
citizens to opt for
Made-in-India products,
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi on Thursday
reached out to businesses
and called for treating
wealth creators with respect
in what was seen as
an attempt to bridge the
trust deficit between the
government and industry,
which has grown in
recent months.
“Those who create
wealth for the nation,
those who contribute to
the nation’s wealth creation
are serving the nation.
We should not suspect
them and we should
not treat them with disdain.
It is important that
those who create wealth
in the country should be
given respect and encouraged.
They should be given
pride of place. If wealth
is not created, it will not
be distributed. If wealth
is not distributed, then
the poor cannot benefit.
Therefore, wealth creation
is critical for a
country like us and we
want to encourage that.
To me, those who
are engaged in creating
wealth are the country’s
wealth,” the PM said in
his Independence Day
speech.
His statement comes
barely six weeks after finance
minister Nirmala
Sitharaman’s words of
encouragement in her
maiden Union Budget
speech.
Modi also used the
speech to reiterate his
backing to ‘Made-in-
India’ goods as he asked
citizens to prioritise locally-made
products.
While underlining the
need to boost exports, including
an emphasis on
district-level focus, the
PM said, “We have to proceed
with the Make-in-India
mission that we took
up. Why should Made-in-
India product not be our
priority?
We should decide that
we will give priority to
what is produced in my
country. We have to focus
on local products for
a lucky tomorrow.”
In fact, exports, which
have been one of the big
laggards in recent years
and are seen to be dragging
the overall manufacturing
sector, was a key
theme.
“Our country has to
increase exports. India
can’t just be a market for
the world. We also have
to attempt to reach global
markets,” Modi said.
The PM also said the
$5 trillion GDP target
may appear tough but it
could be achieved over
the next five years and
will help in fulfilling the
aspirations of all Indians.
He said the economy
should use the stable and
predictable regime to its
advantage, especially
when the government
had managed to strike a
balance between moderate
inflation and growth.

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With dancing & drum beats,
Ladakh celebrates ‘1st I-Day’
Leh: Winter is almost
knocking on the door but
on Thursday morning
standing in Leh’s main
market, you could only feel
spring in the air. Men and
women dressed in traditional
goucha and kuntop
hurried towards the city’s
Polo Grounds with children
and tricolours in tow.
A bright yellow banner
announcing “Union Territory
of Ladakh celebrates
its first Independence Day”
summed up the mood.
Overnight, banners had
sprung up thanking PM
Modi, and commemorating
the four youngsters who
laid down their lives agitating
for UT status.
Rinching Dolma
brought along her 82-yearold
mother, sister and
eight-year-old son from
their village in Stok, 10
km from Leh city, to watch
the function. “Today is a
special day and we really
wanted to be part of this,”
she said. The family had
woken up at 5 am to finish
their household chores before
heading for the Polo
grounds. Her son Tanzing
Somchuk was dressed
in army fatigues and was
planning to get his face
painted with the colours of
the flag.
Rinchin Norbu, 71
years, had travelled 160 km
from Nubra Valley with
10 family members. “In 70
years, we never got anything
until now,” he said.
His neighbour and an
army veteran Nawang Losang
hoped that UT status
would mean better jobs.
“My daughter has finished
MA and is at home without
a job. I hope this decision
will help our children get
better jobs,” he said.
The crowds grew stronger
by the hour, with people
standing on rooftops,
on vehicles, clicking selfies
and singing along as
local school children participated
in the march past
and performed to patriotic
Restrictions in
J-K to be eased
gradually:
Chief Secretary
J&K : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary BVR
Subrahmanyam on Friday announced that restrictions
in J&K will be eased in a gradual manner in the
next few days.
He said government
offices were
fully functional on
Friday and schools
will reopen next
week on an areawise
basis.
He also said that
telecom connectivity
will be gradually
eased in J&K, “in a
phased manner”,
keeping in mind the
“constant threat of
terrorist organisations”.Terror
groups carry out attacks in J&K to create
fear and block development, he added.
The Chief Secretary said that preventive detentions
will be continuously reviewed.
The chief secretary also said 12 districts in
Jammu and Kashmir were functioning normally
while there was limited restrictions only in five districts.
He also reiterated that no loss of life, major injury
has been reported during the last 12 days in Jammu
and Kashmir.
Islamabad : Pakistan
Prime Minister Imran
Khan on Wednesday vowed
to become the voice of
Kashmir and raise the issue
at every global forum,
including the United Nations,
as he questioned the
silence of the international
community on the situation
in the region.
Addressing a special
session of Pakistan-occupied
Kashmir’s (PoK) Legislative
Assembly in Muzaffarabad,
Khan said that
if a war breaks out between
Pakistan and India, the
world community will be
responsible.
“The world’s eye
is on Kashmir and on
Pakistan...I will be the ambassador
who raises Kashmir’s
voice at every international
forum,” he said.
Khan, who was in Muzaffarabad
to observe Pakistan’s
Independence Day in
solidarity with the Kashmiris
after India revoked
the special status of Jammu
and Kashmir, termed the
Indian move as a “strategic
blunder.”
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi on August 8
defended the scrapping of
Jammu and Kashmir’s special
status as a historic step
to usher in a “new era”. He
said Article 370 has yielded
nothing but separatism,
corruption, family rule and
was used by Pakistan as a
tool to spread terror in the
border state.
Prime Minister Modi
promised all-round development,
early and transparent
elections and an end
to terrorism in Jammu and
Kashmir.
India on Friday said
time has come for Pakistan
songs like Challe Re from
the film Uri. Slogans of
Bharat Mata Ki Jai and Jai
Hind rent the air.
BJP leader Ram Madhav,
who attended the flag
hoisting ceremony, told
TOI that the decision to
make Ladakh an independent
UT was a gift for the
region.
“Focus of the centre
will be on faster development
and we will address
the concerns of the region,
whether it is Kargil or
Leh,” said Madhav, who
is planning to meet eminent
citizens to understand
their concerns.
Ladakh MP Jamyang
Tsering Namgyal and Ladakh
Autonomous Hill
Development Council (LA-
HDC) chairperson Gyal
P Wyangal ended the ceremony
by breaking into a
traditional Ladakhi dance
which drew loud cheers
from crowds. Namgyal also
posted a video of himself
waving the Indian flag and
dancing on the street with
members of the public.
He tweeted, “The residents
believe firmly in the
principal of environmental
conservation.
Following this norm,
to accept the new reality
and stop interfering in its
internal affairs.
In his speech, Khan
said Prime Minister Modi
has “committed a strategic
blunder, he has played his
last card. It will cost a lot to
Modi and the BJP, because
they have internationalised
the Kashmir issue.”
“Whatever was done
during the curfew by India,
we will tell the international
community that you
are responsible. Whichever
forum we get, I will be the
ambassador and bring up
Kashmir at every forum,”
Khan said.
Prime Minister Khan
also said that Pakistan will
they have taken a pledge
of no crackers even for the
celebrations.”
Wyangal, who was
the chief guest, said that
a 70-year-old demand had
been fulfilled by the Centre.
“Our development has been
neglected at the expense
of J&K. We know that will
change now,” he said.
The event also saw
large number of visitors
from Pune and Mumbai.
Microbiologist Suniti Dikshit
from Mumbai was carrying
with her 500 rakhis
for the jawans.
“We are visiting Ladakh
as part of a group of 160
people. We have been sightseeing
in the past few days.
Today we wanted to be part
of the Independence Day
festivities,” she said. She
and her friends were wearing
colours of the flag. Tax
consultant Manjushree
Patwardhan said they were
all excited to be part of the
first I-Day celebrations of
Ladakh as UT.
‘India planning military action
in PoK’: Pak PM Imran Khan
respond with full force if
India launches any aggression
against his country.
“The Pakistan Army
has full knowledge...India
has made a plan to take action”
in PoK, he said.
“You take action and
this is my message: every
brick will be countered
with a stone,” Khan said.
“We will respond to whatever
you do; we will go till
the end.”
“Our message to international
organisations
that were formed to prevent
wars is that if this war
takes place, you will be responsible,”
Khan said.
He claimed that the
whole world, including the
entire Muslim population
in the world, was looking
towards the United Nations.
“You will see the
numbers in which the public
will come out during the
United Nations General
Assembly in September,”
he said, referring to the upcoming
annual session of
the world body.

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