BHUBANESWAR  TUESDAY  OCTOBER 15, 2024  `9.00  PAGES 12  JEYPORE EDITION TRIO WINS ECONOMICS NOBEL FOR WORK ON WEALTH INEQUALITY Economists Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson win Nobel for research into differences in prosperity between nations (From Left) Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson RESEARCH ON WHY NATIONS FAIL OR SUCCEED HIGHLIGHTING ROLE OF SOCIETAL INSTITUTIONS By examining the various political and economic systems introduced by European colonisers, the three researchers explained why some countries are rich and others poor, the Nobel committee said. Their research also helped explain why countries with poor rule of law and exploitative institutions often become trapped in a situation of “low economic growth” ■ ■ “The three economists have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for achieving prosperity,” Jakob Svensson, Chair of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences, said | P10 Acemoglu and Robinson wrote the best-selling book Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty published in 2012 1968 WHEN THE SWEDISH CENTRAL BANK ESTABLISHED NOBEL ECONOMICS PRIZE 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 India expels six top Canadian diplomats, withdraws envoy Indian high commissioner ‘person of interest’ in Nijjar case: Canada Y E S H I S E L I @ New Delhi Canada’s Deputy High Commissioner Stewart Wheeler leaves from the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi on Monday. He is among the six expelled Canadian diplomats | PTI CURIOUS TIMING OF THE COMMUNIQUE “It is no coincidence that it takes place as Prime Minister Trudeau is to depose before a commission on foreign interference,” the foreign office said in its statement RELATIONS between India and Canada reached a nadir on Monday as the foreign office announced the expulsion of six Canadian diplomats and the withdrawal its high commissioner and other diplomats after Ottawa claimed they were ‘persons of interest’ in the murder of Khalistani radical Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia last year. Though Nijjar, a Canadian national, was not named, the insinuation was crystal clear. The six expelled diplomats are the acting High Commissioner Stewart Ross Wheeler, Deputy High Commissioner Patrick Herbert and first secretaries Marie Catherine Joly Ian , Ross David Trites, Adam James Chuipka and Paula Orjuela. All six were given a Saturday deadline to fly out of India. The announcement came after the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) summoned Wheeler and gave him a piece of its mind. “It was underlined that in an atmosphere of ex- Hardeep Singh Nijjar and Justin Trudeau The aspersions cast on him (High Commissioner Verma) are ludicrous and deserve to be treated with contempt tremism and violence, the Trudeau Government’s actions has endangered the safety of India diplomats. We have no faith in the current Canadian Government’s commitment to ensure their security the MEA said. ,’’ The MEA’s Secretary East summoned Wheeler and said India reserves the right to take further steps in response to the Trudeau government’s support for extremism, violence and separatism against the country . He was informed that the baseless targeting of the Indian high commissioner and other diplomats and officials in Canada was unacceptable. Earlier in the day, India trashed a communiqué that suggested that High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma and other diplomats were ‘persons of interest’ in the matter. Ever since Trudeau first alleged an Indian role in Nijjar’s murder, his government has not shared a shred of evidence despite repeated requests, the foreign office asserted. “This leaves little doubt that on the pretext of an investigation, there is a deliberate strategy of smearing India for political gains,’’ the MEA charged. But Wheeler later claimed his country had provided ‘credible, irrefutable evidence’. “Prime Minister Trudeau’s naked interference in Indian internal politics in December 2020 showed how far he was willing to go in this regard. That his Government was dependent on a political party, whose leader openly espouses a separatist ideology vis-a-vis India, only aggravated matters,’’ the statement added. BJD’s woes mount as ex-min Amar Satpathy severs ties with party Mamata Mohanta and Sujeet @ Bhubaneswar Kumar had left the BJD to join the BJP ranks. IN a big jolt to the BJD, former Satpathy had then also voiced minister and six-time MLA his concern saying, the deserAmar Prasad Satpathy on Mon- tion of MPs should be taken seday severed all links riously “We need to in. with the regional outfit t r o s p e c t a n d t a ke announcing he is no appropriate measures longer associated with to curb such trend,” he the party . said. The veteran politiThe senior leader, cian has been a vocal who was denied ticket critic of the leadership by the BJD for the 2024 since the party’s loss in Assembly election, said the elections this year. he has not renewed the On Saturday last, he membership of the reI will take a had directly blamed gional outfit and has decision on the next course of BJD president Naveen taken time-off from acaction after Patnaik for the debacle tive politics. “I have not consulting the in the Assembly and taken the membership people of Lok Sabha elections of party during the Barchana and urged him to own drive undertaken by it constituency up the responsibility. recently I felt suffocat. “Leaders should be preAmar Satpathy, ed in the organisation BJD leader pared to take the blame, because of the prevailnot only praise for sucing atmosphere,” he cess,” he said. said. Satpathy had joined the string “I will take a decision on the of leaders who have expressed next course of action after condissatisfaction on the manner sulting the people of Barchana in which the party is being run. Assembly constituency who are He is the second former MLA my advisors,” he said and addafter Prakash Chandra Behera ed that several political parties to quit BJD in the last one week. including the BJP are in touch CONTINUED ON P5 Earlier, two Rajya Sabha MPs with him. EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE 1st meet of Kuki, Meitei, Naga MLAs today P R A S A N TA M A Z U M D A R & MUKESH RANJAN @ Guwahati/New Delhi LEGISLATORS from Manipur’s Meitei, Kuki and Naga communities will sit down on Tuesday in Delhi for their first joint meeting since the eruption of ethnic violence in the state last year. The meeting, organised by the Centre, will be held on Tuesday . A Meitei legislator said he welcomed the initiative and was l o o k i n g fo rward to attending the meeting. “We were asked to sit together as part of a peace initiative,” he told this newspaper. An MLA camping in Delhi said 18 will attend the meeting – eight Meitei MLAs and five each from Kuki and Naga communities. “I don’t know the exact agenda of the meeting as of now,” Awangbow Newmai, a Naga minister who is attending the meeting, said. L Dikho, a Naga legislator said, “I will attend it and see how best we can take up the initiative.” Union home ministry said on Monday a decision was yet to be taken on home minister Amit Shah’s participation.