DHARMAPURI l Monday l June 17, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 12 l CITY EDITION T20 World Cup 2024: The who, why and when of Super 8s With the group stages coming to an end on Monday, a look at the teams that have progressed, what lies ahead and more... How the groupings are made? Who will face India and when? While the top two teams from each group advanced, their seedings in Super 8s will be based on initial grouping. For example, Afghanistan will remain C1 even if they finish below West Indies in Group C as the former will be replacing New Zealand in the original grouping made by the global cricketing body before the tournament | p11 ■ ■ India, who will be A1, are up against Australia (B2), Afghanistan (C1) and either of Bangladesh/Netherlands (D2). They will begin their Super 8s journey against Afghanistan on Thursday The other Super 8s group will feature England, both the tournament hosts — West Indies, United States — and South Africa 3 matches were abandoned due to rain during group stages so far CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOgGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI Shah seeks Kashmir-like zero-terror plan in Jammu Says Centre committed to rooting out terrorism from the region M U K E S H R A N J A N @ New Delhi UNION Minister Amit Shah on Sunday asked security agencies to replicate their success in tackling terrorism in the Kashmir Valley in the Jammu division as well. Noting that the fight against terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir is in its decisive phase, Shah directed security agencies to implement ‘area domination’ and ‘zero-terror plans’ in Jammu like they did in Kashmir. Chairing a high-level meeting to review the prevailing security situation in Jammu & Kashmir in the wake of recent terror attacks, Shah directed the security agencies to work on a mission mode and ensure quick response in a coordinated manner, officials said. Reiterating the Centre’s ‘zero-tolerance policy’ against terrorism, Shah said the government will root out terrorism from Jammu and Kashmir. The gover nment’s efforts have yielded great results in Kashmir with significant reduction in terror-related incidents and improvement in the law and order situation, which is “reflect- Home Minister Amit Shah during a high-level meeting to review security situation in Jammu & Kashmir and preparedness for Amarnath Yatra, in New Delhi on Sunday | PTI ed in the record inflow of tourists in the Valley”, he added. National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Sinha, Army Chief General Manoj Pande, Army Chiefdesignate Lt General Upendra Dwivedi, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, Director of Intelligence Bureau Tapan Deka, CRPF Director General Anish Dayal Singh, BSF Director General Nitin Agarwal, Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police R R Swain and other top security officials attended the meeting, which was held in the wake of terror attacks in Reasi, Kathua and Doda districts. The attacks came within a span of four days last week, killing nine pilgrims and a CRPF jawan, and leaving several others injured. On Thursday Prime Minister , Narendra Modi had reviewed the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and directed the “deployment of the full spectrum” of “counter-terror capabilities” in the region. Later on Sunday, Shah chaired another meeting to review the preparations for the annual Amarnath pilgrimage, which is scheduled to begin on June 29. During the deliberation, the minister was given a thorough briefing on the measures taken to ensure a safe Yatra, officials said. P8 Why teach riots? NCERT’s spin on lesson cuts E x p r e s s ne w s s e r v i c e @ New Delhi Amid furore over the omission of references to Gujarat riots and Babri masjid demolition in the Class 12 syllabus, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) director Dinesh Prasad Saklani sought to justify it saying such topics won’t benefit students. Such content can create ‘violent and depressed citizens’, he said in an interview to PTI. “Should we teach our students in a manner that they become offensive, create hatred in society or become victim of ha- E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Bhubaneswar AMID nationwide outrage over the NEET-UG fiasco, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday said the Centre has taken note of two incidents of lapses in the test and those found guilty will face serious action. Pradhan also said that the Centre is mulling necessary reforms in the National Testing Agency (NTA), an autonomous agency under the Ed- S i d d ha r th P r a b haka r @ Chennai Festival designs Tribal leaders thwart bid to traffick four girls in Gudalur two women, he also visited other houses to find more girls to A bid by a group of three Ker- do similar work. They were apalities to lure four tribal girls in proaching the parents and chilGudalur into child labour was dren. They tried to convince thwarted when community the tribals to send four of their leaders, finding their activities children with him by claiming suspicious, intercepted the trio they would provide a monthly and handed them over to the salary of `5,000 for each child,” Gudalur police on Saturday Po- said a police officer. . lice on Sunday arrested the two However, a few village leadwomen and a man on charges ers grew suspicious and picked of attempting to traffick four a quarrel with the trio. They tribal children from the Srima- refused to send the children durai Panchayat. with them and instead The arrested have handed over the Keralbeen identified as T ites at the Gudalur poMubharish Lal, (33) Y lice station. They were Sunira Kuruniyan, a During their investibroker, and I Byrusa approaching the gation, police said they parents and (37), a relative of Lal. learned that the tribal children and All three are natives of girl who had worked at trying to Malapuram district in Mubharish Lal’s house convince the Kerala but Sunira was earlier had left the job tribals to send residing in Srimadurai as he paid only `3,000 four children panchayat. instead of the `5,000 he with them According to sourchad promised. es, the trio arrived in Police official from A case was regisThe Nilgiris the village on Saturday tered against the trio in a car and started under Section 370 of canvassing parents in the area the IPC and Section 3 read with to allow them to hire their chil- Section 14 of the Child Labour dren for household labour in Act. They were remanded in juKerala. A tribal girl had report- dicial custody Based on the in. edly worked at Lal’s house for formation from Gudalur police, three months and recently re- the Nilgiris District Child Proturned to the village. tection Officer S Shobana found “Mubharish Lal arrived in the four girls had discontinued the village with a plan to take their studies after completing back the girl who had worked at class seven at the Kungru Moohis place earlier. Along with the la Government School. P5 S Senth i l K uma r @ Nilgiris Dinesh Prasad Saklani, director of NCERT | PTI that paved the way for the construction of a Ram temple at the site where the disputed structure once stood before it was torn down by Hindu activists in December 1992. The changes in textbooks have triggered a controversy Centre has taken note of NEET lapses, guilty to face serious action: Pradhan Malaysia to Pondy Bazaar: Gold smuggling gang busted A girl getting henna applied on her hands on the eve of Bakrid, in Kozhikode on Sunday | E Gokul tred? Is that education’s purpose? Should we teach about riots to such young children,” he said, adding that hatred and violence should not be the focus of school textbooks. The comments come at a time when new textbooks have hit the market with several deletions and changes. The revised Class 12 political science textbook does not mention the Babri masjid but refers to it as a “three-domed structure”. It has pruned the Ayodhya section from four to two pages and deleted details from the earlier version. It instead focuses on the Supreme Court judgement IN a significant breakthrough, the seizure of `50 lakh in Indian currency from four separate Malaysian nationals at the Chennai international airport led Customs officials to bust a gold smuggling gang operating from the south-east Asian country . A detailed investigation by Customs found the alleged involvement of a gold trader in T Nagar and a smuggler based out of Malaysia, who hired the four. Sources said the case details will be handed over to the Income Tax department for further probe. Around two weeks ago, Customs officials found, during regular screening in the airport’s departure hall, that four Tamil-speaking Malaysian men had concealed around `50 lakh in Indian currency notes in their baggage. While one man had around `7.5 lakh, another had `10 lakh, the third `15 lakh and the leader of the group `17.5 lakh. All four of the men were around 35 years in age. The cash had not been declared by the passengers, a violation under the regulations of the Foreign Exchange Management (Export and Import of Currency) Act. While the officials initially believed it to be a routine case of currency smuggling, sources said interrogation with the ring leader revealed it was a gold-smuggling operation. The alleged ring-leader, a Malaysian gold and silver trader, admitted to Customs that he had smuggled around 250gm of gold into India and given it to a trader in Pondy Bazaar in T Nagar, sources said. Israel pauses fighting during daytime along key aid route A g en c i e s Amid warnings about dire shortages of food and other essentials in the Gaza Strip, Israel on Sunday announced it will pause fighting during daytime along a route in the southern part of the Strip to facilitate aid deliveries. “A local, tactical pause of military activity for humanitarian purposes will take place from 8.00 am (0500 GMT) until 7.00 pm (1600 GMT) every day until further notice along the road that leads from the Kerem Shalom crossing to the Salah alDin road and then northwards,” a statement by the Israeli military said. Overland access restrictions and the closure of the key Rafah crossing with Egypt since Israeli forces seized it in early May have made it tough to get essential supplies to those in need. The “tactical pause,” which applies to about 12 kilometers of road in the Rafah area, falls far short of a complete cease-fire that has been sought by the international community including Israel’s prin, cipal ally the United States, AP News reported. , ucation Ministry, tasked with conducting the nationwide medical entrance exam. “Two incidents of lapses pertaining to NEET has come to fore. Initial information was that some students were upset for getting less time in the exam and awarded grace marks. However, the government rejected it and on the recommendations of the Supreme Court, ordered a retest of 1,563 candidates in six centres,” he said. He also said some irregulari- ties have come to light at two places. “I assure students and parents that the government has taken serious note of it. All these matters will be taken to their logical conclusion and accountability will be fixed on those found guilty for the lapses,” he said. “No matter how senior official of NTA someone is, if lapses are found they will face strict action,” he added. Minister Pradhan further said the NTA needs a lot of improvement. with critics accusing NCERT of promoting saffronisation of the school curriculum. Rejecting such notions, Saklani said: “If something has become irrelevant ... it will have to be changed. Why shouldn’t it be changed? I don’t see any saffronisation here. We teach history so students know about facts, not for making it a battleground.” Claiming that the NCERT’s curriculum is based on facts and evidence, Saklani said, “If we are telling about iron pillar in Mehrauli and saying Indians were way ahead of any metallurigical scientist, are we saying wrong?” e x p r ess r e a d INDIA will support TDP’s Speaker candidate, says Sena’s Sanjay Raut Preetha Nair @ New Delhi: SHIV Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday said the INDIA bloc will support the Telugu Desam Party if it fields its candidate for the Lok Sabha Speaker. Raut added that if the BJP gets the Speaker’s post, it will break the TDP, JD(U), and the outfits of Chirag Paswan and Jayant Chaudhary. TDP spokesperson K Rammohan Rao told this newspaper that there are no cracks in the NDA and alliance partners will sit together and decide the candidate.
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