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જ્યેાં જ્યેાં વાસુે અેક ગુજરાતી ત્યેાં ત્યેાં સુદાકાળા ગુજરાત
પાષિચિમી જગતનાું અᖍῊણીી સુા�ાષિહાક
ભાારતીયે જ્ાના-સુાષિહાત્યે-સુમાચારનાું
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મીેડિરકાનીા ્ᕚમીુખા �ોનીાલ્� ᕏᖘમ્પીે �રૂ કરેલા
ટેડિરફેવાોરમીા� પીહીેલો ઘા તેનીે પીોતેાનીે જે વાાગ્યો
હીોવાાનીુ� જેણાય છે. એકમીા્ᕔ ચોીનીનીે બાા� કરતેા�
શિવા્ᕫનીા બાાકીનીા તેમીામી �ે�ો સોામીે નીવાા આકરા
ટેેડિરફે 90 ડિ�વાસો (્ᕔણ મીશિહીનીા) મીોકુફે રાખાવાાનીી
જાહીેરાતે તેમીણે ગીણતેરીનીા કલાકોમીા� જે કરવાી પી�ી
હીતેી, તેો એનીા થો�ા કલાકો પીછેી ᕏᖘમ્પીે ચોીનીથી
પીણ આયાતે થતેા �મીાટેટ ફેોન્સો, ઈલેકᕏᖘોશિનીક્સો તેથા
તેેનીા પીાટ્સોય, શિચોપ્સો વાગીેરેનીે ટેડિરફેવાોરમીા�થી બાાકાતે
કરવાાનીી જાહીેરાતે કરવાી પી�ી હીતેી.
બાીજી તેરફે ચોીનીે નીવાો વ્યૂહી અપીનીાવાી
અમીેડિરકાનીા નીાગીડિરકોનીે સોીધીુ� સો�બાોધીની કરી એવાુ�
સોમીજાવાવાાનીો ડિકશિમીયો અજેમીાવ્યો છે કે, ᕏᖘમ્પીનીા
ટેડિરફેનીી અવાળી અસોર કોઈ બાીજા �ે�નીે નીહીં,
ખાુ� અમીેડિરકાનીા નીાગીડિરકોનીે થાય છે. ટેડિરફેથી કઈં
રાતેોરાતે અમીેડિરકા બાધીી વા�તેુઓનીી જાતે ઉત્પીા�ની
કરતેુ� નીથી થવાાનીુ�, પીણ અમીેડિરકામીા� આયાતે થતેી
વા�તેુઓ મીંઘી થવાાથી એ વાધીારાનીી ડિકમીતેોનીો
બાોજે અમીેડિરકનીોનીે મીાથે જે પી�વાાનીો છે. મીોબાાઈલ
�મીાટેટ ફેોન્સો, ઈલેકᕏᖘોશિનીક ઉત્પીા�નીો, શિચોપ્સો વાગીેરેનીો
�ાખાલો તેનીો આ સો��ે�ો લોકોનીે ગીળે ઉતેારવાા મીાટે
પીુરતેો બાનીી રહીે છે.
બાીજી તેરફે, ચોીનીે ᕏᖘમ્પીનીે વાધીુ ભીંસોમીા� લેવાા
કેટેલાક મીહીᕈᖚવાનીા ખાનીીજો, મીે�ેટે (લોહીચોુ�બાક)
વાગીેરેનીી શિનીકાસો પીણ બા�ધી કરવાાનીી જાહીેરાતે કરી
હીતેી. તે ઉપીરા�તે, ચોીની સોતેતે ્ᕚયાસોો કરી રᕨᖎ� છે
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જો કે, ᕏᖘમ્પીે ચોીની શિસોવાાય બાાકીનીા �ે�ો મીાટે
નીવાા ઉંચોા ટેડિરફેનીો અમીલ 90 ડિ�વાસો સોુધીી �થશિગીતે
કરવાાનીી જાહીેરાતે કરી તેનીી સોાથે જે યુરોશિપીયની
યુશિનીયનીે પીણ અમીેડિરકા સોામીેનીા વાળતેા ટેડિરફ્સોનીો
અમીલ 90 ડિ�વાસો મીાટે અટેકાવાવાાનીી જાહીેરાતે કરી
�ીધીી હીતેી. તે શિસોવાાય ખાાસો કરીનીે યુકે તેથા ભીારતે
આ ટેડિરફેવાોરનીા મીોટેા ઘંઘાટેમીા� મીૌની ધીારણ કરી
અમીેડિરકા સોાથે ડિᕛᖋપીᕌᖋી વાેપીાર કરાર કરવાાનીી ડિ��ામીા�
મી્ᔪમીતેાથી આગીળ વાધીી રᕨᖘા છે અનીે વાાકયુ્ᕍ
શિનીવાારી રᕨᖘા છે.
ચોીનીે રેર અથય એશિલમીેન્ટ્સો, ધીાતેુઓ અનીે
મીે�ેટ્સોનીી શિનીકાસો પીર ્ᕚશિતેબા�ધી ફેરમીાવાતેા પીશિ્ᕐમીી
�ે�ોનીા હીશિથયાર, ઇલેક્ᕏᖘોશિનીક્સો અનીે ઓટેોમીેકસોય,
એરો�પીેસો મીેન્યુફેે્ᔯરસોય, સોેમીીકન્�ક્ટેસોયનીુ� ઉત્પીા�ની
કરતેી કંપીનીીઓ અનીે વ્યાપીક ્ᕦેણીમીા� કન્ઝ્યુમીસોય
ગીુડ્ઝ શિનીમીાયતેા કંપીનીીઓ મીાટે સોપ્લાય લાઇની
અવારોધીાવાાનીો ખાતેરો ઉભીો થયો છે.
ચોીનીે શિબાઝનીેસોનીા મીોચોે અમીેડિરકા પીર ્ᕚહીાર
કરવાાનીી સોાથે જે અમીેડિરકાનીી જેનીતેાનીે સોીધીી અપીીલ
કરવાાનીુ� પીણ �રૂ કયુય છે. ચોીનીનીા શિવા�ે� મી�્ᕔાલયનીા
્ᕚવા�ા મીાઓ શિની�ગીે સોોશિ�યલ મીીડિ�યા સોાઇટે એક્સો
પીર એક વાીડિ�યો પીો�ટે કરી તેમીા� એક અમીેડિરકની
ઇમ્પીોટેટરનીે �ેખાાᕐᖋો હીતેો. તે વ્યશિ� અમીેડિરકની
જેનીતેાનીે ખાાસો કરીનીે ᕏᖘમ્પી સોમીથયકોનીે સો�બાોધીતેા
આ ચોેતેવાણી આપીતેો �ેખાાય છે કે ᕏᖘમ્પીનીી આ
આᕅᖘમીક વાેપીાર નીીશિતેઓથી શિવા�ે�ી રાᖚ ો નીહીં પીરંતેુ
અમીેડિરકાનીા સોામીાન્ય નીાગીડિરકોએ નીુકસોાની વાેઠેવાુ�
પી��ે, આ પીોશિલસોીઓનીે કારણે આયાતેી વા�તેુઓનીી
ડિકંમીતેો વાધી�ે અ�તે તેનીો બાોજે અમીેડિરકની ᕇᖋાહીકોનીી
કે�ે જે આવા�ે.
ટેદિર�વીૉર બંધ કુરવીા ્ᕏમ્પનાો નાનાૈયુો
ચોીનીે અમીેડિરકાનીી જેનીતેાનીે અપીીલ સોાથે બાીજી
તેરફે અમીેડિરકની તે�્ᕔનીે પીણ ટેડિરફે ઘટેા�વાા કᕨᖎ હીતેુ�
પીરંતેુ �ોનીાલ્� ᕏᖘમ્પી ટેડિરફે મીુ્ᕌે મી્ᔪમી છે. તેમીણે ુᔻંકાર
કરતેા કᕨᖎ� હીતેુ� કે તેઓ કોઇપીણ �ે�નીે નીહીં છેો�ે
ᕏᖘમ્પીે ચોીની શિસોવાાયનીા �ે�ો મીાટેનીા નીવાા ટેડિરફે
90 ડિ�વાસો �થશિગીતે કરતેા� વાૈશિ્ᕫક મીાકેટેનીે રાહીતે મીળી
છે. આ ટેડિરફેમીા� રાહીતે આપીવાાનીા શિનીણયય મીાટેનીા
કારણોમીા� અમીેડિરકાનીા બાોન્� અનીે �ેર બાજાર બા�નીે
એક સોાથે તેૂᕎᖎા હીતેા. શિનીષ્ણાતેોનીા મીતેાનીુસોાર
ᕏᖘમ્પીનીા ટેડિરફેનીી �કાનીે કારણે ચોીની જેવાા �ે�ોએ
અમીેડિરકની બાોન્� વાેચોવાાનીુ� �રૂ કયુય હીતેુ� જેનીા કારણે
બાોન્� મીાકેટે ધીરા�ાયી થયુ� હીતેુ� . ઉપીરા�તે અમીેડિરકમીા�
રોક�નીુ� સો�કટે વાધીવાા લાગ્યુ� હીતેુ�. જેેથી મીંઘવાારી
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ભી� હૃ�યનીી આ કામીનીા છેે. ્ᕚભીુમીય બાનીી જેવાા શિસોવાાય બાીજી કોઇ ઇચ્છેા નીથી.
્ᕚભીુનીે ્ᕚા્ᕎ કરવાા મીાટેે ્ᕚભીુમીય બાનીવાુ� પી�ે. ્ᕚા્ᕎ કરવાુ� એટેલે પીોતેાનીુ� કરવાુ�. ગીમીે તેે રીતેે
પીોતેાનીુ� કરવાા મીાણસો જીવાનીભીર મીથે છેે. વા�તેુ હીોય તેો ખારી� કરીનીે, જીવા�તે વ્યશિ� હીોય
તેો ્ᕚેમીથી પીોતેાનીી કરવાા તેરફે મીાનીવાી સોહીેજે ઉᕕᖘમી કરતેો રહીે છેે.
ચોીજેવા�તેુ વાેચોાતેી લઇ �કાય. પીરંતેુ વા�તેુ ગીમીી, મીાકક કરેલો ભીાવા શિખા�સોાનીે પીોસોાય
એવાો હીોય તેો વા�તેુ લીધીી અનીે પીોતેાનીી કરી. પીણ મીાણસોનીે ખારી�ી �કાય નીહીં. એનીો
કોઇ ભીાવા હીોતેો નીથી. એનીા મીાટેે ભીાવાનીા હીોય તેો તેેનીે પીોતેાનીો બાનીાવાી �કાય. મીા્ᕔ
મીાની, લાગીણી અનીે ્ᕚેમીથી જે સોામીી વ્યશિ�નીે પીોતેાનીી બાનીાવાી �કાય.
એ રીતેે ઇ્ᕫરનીે ્ᕚા્ᕎ કરવાા મીાટેે ભીશિ� જોઇએ. સોાચોા હૃ�યનીી ભીશિ�થી ભીગીવાાની
્ᕚા્ᕎ કરી �કાય. કશિવાવાર રવાીન્્ᕖનીાથ ટેાગીોર કહીે છેે કે, "ભીગીવાાનીનીે મીેળવાી �કાય
જે નીહીં... એ કા�ઇ આપીણી મીાલ-શિમીલકતે નીથી. ઇ્ᕫરનીી બાાબાતેમીા� આપીણે એમીનીા
'થવાાનીુ�' રહીે છેે. એમીા� 'મીેળવાવાાનીુ� હીોતેુ� નીથી. ઇ્ᕫરનીે આપીણે મીેળવાી�ુ� એમી નીહીં,
આપીણે ઇ્ᕫરનીા� થઇ�ુ�. મીારા સોમી�તે �ેહી, મીની અનીે હૃ�યથી ુᔻં સોતેતે ઇ્ᕫરનીો થતેો
રહીી�.'"
આ ભીાવાનીા કેળવાાય તેેનીે પીાછેુ� વાળીનીે કા�ઇ જોવાાનીુ� જે રહીેતેુ� નીથી. બાાળક નીાનીુ� હીોય
ત્યારે એનીે પીૂછેીએ - તેુ� �ુ� થઇ�? ત્યારે એ એનીી મીનીોકામીનીા વ્ય� કરે છેે. �ોક્ટેર કે
બાેરી�ટેર બાનીેલાનીી નીકલ એનીે ગીમીે છેે. એ રીતેે એનીી મીહીત્વાાકા�ᕌᖋાનીી ગીા�ઠે મીનીમીા� બા�ધીાય
છેે. ઘરમીા� જો સો��કૃશિતેનીુ� શિસો�ચોની કરે એવાુ� વાાતેાવારણ હીોય તેો બાાળક પીર નીાનીપીણથી જે
એવાા� સોુ��ર સો��કાર પી��ે, જેે એનીે આગીળ મીાગીય��યક બાની�ે.
રવાીન્્ᕖનીાથ ટેાગીોરનીુ� મી�થની છેે� "જ્યારે ઇ્ᕫરનીે મીેળવાવાાનીી વાાતે આવાે છેે ત્યારે
ભીાષીા અનીે ટેેવાનીે કારણે આપીણા મીનીમીા� ᕌᖋુ્ᕖ ્ᕚયોજેનીનીે અથે ચોીજો મીેળવાવાાનીો જે ખ્યાલ
આવાે છેે. તેેનીુ� ��યની કરવાુ� એટેલે કોઇ મીૂશિતેયમીા�, કોઇ શિવા�ેષી મી�ડિ�રમીા� અથવાા શિવા�ેષી
કલ્પીનીામીા� તેેનીે જોવાો."
કશિવાવાર ટેાગીોર કહીે છેે તેેમી આપીણે રોશિજે��ુ� જીવાની જીવાતેા� ઇ્ᕫરનીે પીોતેાનીી જાતે
અપીયતેા જેઇએ. ની�ી જેેમી વાહીેતેી સોમીુ્ᕖનીે મીળે છેે અનીે સોમીુ્ᕖમીય બાનીી જાય છેે, પીોતેાનીુ�
અᕠᖌ�તેત્વા જે સોમીુ્ᕖમીા� ભીેળવાી �ે છેે. મીાનીવાી પીણ વાહીેતેો જાય છેે - થતેો જાય છેે. ઇ્ᕫરમીય
બાનીતેો જાય છેે. એમીા� જે એનીી પીૂણયતેા છેે. એમીા� એનીી ્ᕚશિતેᕗᖋા છેે. એમીા� મીાનીવાી મીાનીવાી
જે બાનીે છેે.
જેાᔰને ᕦᖔᕍᖋંની ઉપરે સાંચીી ᕦᖔᕍᖋં હેોયા છે,
જો ખરુ� પૂછેો િો એ ડોૂબી ગીયાેલં હેોયા છે.
- 'ઓજસા' પંલનપુરેી
મટી કાગળ કોરીો ુᔻં, ૂᔻંર્ી તોારીી રીુᔻં બનોી
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મીા�ટેરમીાઇન્� તેહીવ્વાુર રાણાનીે અમીેડિરકાએ છેવાટે
ગીતે સો્ᕎાહીે ભીારતેનીે સોંપીી �ીધીો. રાણાનીા ્ᕚત્યાપીયણ
મીાટે ભીારતે સોરકાર ઘણા� વાષીોથી કાયવાાહીી કરી રહીી
હીતેી. રાણા અનીે તેેનીા વાકીલોએ પીણ ભીારતેનીે સોંપીણી
ની થાય એ મીાટે ઘણા કાય�ાકીય �ાવાપીેચો અજેમીાવ્યા
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રૂઝાયા નીથી. એનીુ� કારણ એ છે કે રાણા જેવાા
ુᔻમીલાનીા અનીેક જેવાાબા�ારો સોજામીા�થી છેટેકી ગીયા
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બાચોી �કતેો નીથી. અમીેડિરકાનીા ્ᕚમીુખા �ોનીાલ્� ᕏᖘમ્પીે
તેો ગીતે ફેેᕜᖍુઆરી મીાસોમીા� જે કહીી �ીધીુ� હીતેુ� કે, મીુ�બાઇ
્ᕔાસોવાા�ી ુᔻમીલા મીાટે રાણાએ ભીારતેમીા� ન્યાયનીો
સોામીનીો કરવાો પી��ે.
2008નીી 26મીી નીવાેમ્બારે મીુ�બાઈ પીર થયેલો
્ᕔાસોવાા�ી ુᔻમીલો ્ᕔણ ડિ�વાસો ચોાલ્યો હીતેો અનીે 169
લોકો મીાયાય ગીયા હીતેા. સો�ખ્યાબા�ધી ઘવાાયા પીણ હીતેા.
આ ઘટેનીાથી આખાા �ે�નીે ભીારે આઘાતે લાગ્યો હીતેો.
ખાુ� સોરકારનીે પીણ પીહીેલીવાાર ખાબાર પી�ી કે આ રીતેે
પીણ ્ᕔાસોવાા�ી ુᔻમીલો થઈ �કે અનીે આપીણે ઊ�ઘતેા
ઝ�પીાઈ �કીએ.
આ ુᔻમીલાનીુ� કાવાતેરુ� કુખ્યાતે ્ᕔાસોવાા�ી જેૂથ લશ્કરે
તેૈયબાાએ ઘᕐᖋુ� હીતેુ�. આ કાવાતેરામીા� રાણાનીી ભીૂશિમીકા
મીુખ્ય હીતેી. પીણ એ વાખાતેે એ પીક�ાયો નીહીોતેો. રાણા
મીૂળ પીાડિક�તેાનીનીો છે પીણ તેેણે કેનીે�ાનીી શિસોટેીઝનીશિ�પી
લીધીી છે. ્ᕔાસોવાા�ી �ેશિવા� કોલમીેની હીે�લી પીણ તેેનીી
સોાથે જો�ાયો હીતેો. અમીેડિરકની નીાગીડિરક �ેશિવા� કોલમીેની
હીે�લી ઉફેે �ાઉ� શિગીલાનીી 2008નીા મીુ�બાઈ ્ᕔાસોવાા�ી
ુᔻમીલાનીા મીુખ્ય કાવાતેરાખાોરોમીા�નીા એકનીો નીજીકનીો
સોાથી છે.
64 વાષીયનીા તેહીવ્વાુર રાણાનીા ટેકાનીે કારણે તેે સોમીયે
ભીારતેમીા� હીે�લીનીી શિહીલચોાલ સોરળ બાનીી ગીઈ હીતેી.
પીાડિક�તેાનીી મીૂળનીા રાણા અનીે હીે�લી બાાળપીણનીા
શિમી્ᕔો છે અનીે બા�નીેએ એક જે લશ્કરી �ાળામીા�
અભ્યાસો કયો હીતેો. હીે�લી જોકે, અમીેડિરકામીા� તેાજેનીો
સોાᕌᖋી બાનીી ગીયો હીતેો.
ભીારતેમીા�નીા ુᔻમીલા પીછેી એ બા�નીે બાીજા �ે�ોમીા�
પીણ ્ᕔાસોવાા�ી ુᔻમીલાનીી યોજેનીા ઘ�ી રᕨᖘા હીતેા.
પીણ �ેન્મીાકમીા� ુᔻમીલો કરવાાનીી યોજેનીા તેેઓ ઘ�ી
રᕨᖘા હીતેા ત્યારે જે રાણા અમીેડિરકાનીી એજેન્સોીઓનીા
હીાથે ઝ�પીાઇ ગીયો હીતેો. �ેશિવા� હીે�લી પીણ ઝ�પીાઇ ગીયો
હીતેો. રાણા એ વાખાતેે પીક�ાયો નીા હીોતે તેો ભીગીવાાની
જાણે હીજી કેટેલાય ્ᕔાસોવાા�ી ુᔻમીલા �ુશિનીયામીા� થયા
હીોતે અનીે કેટેલાય લોકોએ જીવા ગીુમીાવાવાો પીᕐᖋો હીોતે.
અમીેડિરકામીા� 2013મીા� રાણાનીે �ેશિવા� કોલમીેની સોાથે
મીળીનીે મીુ�બાઇ ુᔻમીલા અનીે �ેન્મીાકમીા� એવાા જે ુᔻમીલાનીુ�
કાવાતેરુ� ઘ�વાા બા�લ �ોશિષીતે જાહીેર કરીનીે 14 વાષીયનીી
જેેલનીી સોજા કરાઇ હીતેી. આ 14 વાષીય પીૂરા થવાાનીી
તેૈયારીમીા� હીતેા ત્યા� તેેનીી ભીારતેનીે સોંપીણી થઇ છે.
રાણાનીે ભીારતે લાવાવાામીા� ભીારતેનીે અનીેક કાનીૂનીી
અ�ચોણોનીો સોામીનીો કરવાો પીᕐᖋો છે. રાણાનીે ખાબાર
હીતેી કે, ભીારતેમીા� તેેનીો ગીુનીો ગી�ભીીર છે અનીે તેેનીે
મૃત્યુ�ં� પીણ થઈ �કે છે. બાીજી બાાજેુ�, પીાડિક�તેાનીનીે
રાણા વાટેાણા વાેરી કાઢી�ે એવાો �ર પીણ રᕨᖘો છે. આથી
તેેનીુ� ્ᕚત્યાપીયણ રોકવાામીા� પીાડિક�તેાનીે પીણ પી��ા પીાછેળ
ઘણા ્ᕚયાસોો કયા� હીતેા�.
રાણાનીુ� ્ᕚત્યાપીયણ એ ભીારતેનીો મીોટેો શિવાજેય છે એ
વાાતે સોાચોી પીણ એ પીુરો શિવાજેય કહીેવાાય નીહીં. ભીારતેનીી
તેપીાસો એજેન્સોીઓનીુ� કામી હીવાે �રૂ થયુ� છે. મીુ�બાઇ
પીરનીા ્ᕔાસોવાા�ી ુᔻમીલાનીી યોજેનીાનીી તેપીાસો શિવાગીતેો
તેથા તેેમીા� પીાડિક�તેાની અનીે પીાડિક�તેાનીનીી ધીરતેી પીર
સોશિᕅᖘય ્ᕔાસોવાા�ી જેૂથોનીી ભીૂશિમીકાનીો ખાુલાસોો રાણાનીી
પીૂછેપીરછેમીા� થવાાનીી �ક્યતેા છે. આમી તેો ભીારતે
પીાસોે આ અ�ગીેનીા ઘણા� પીુરાવાાઓ છે પીણ ખાૂટેતેી
ક�ીઓ રાણા પીાસોેથી મીળવાાનીી આ�ા છે. આમીા� ઘણા�
રહી�યોનીો પી�ાયફેા� થ�ે અનીે ્ᕔાસોવાા�ી ુᔻમીલાઓનીી
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પા. પાૂ. મોરારીબાપાુ ᕛᖋારા ષિવાષિવાધ
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આ સોન્મીાશિનીતેોમીા� જેયતેીથય મીેવાુ��ી (ગીાયની), શિનીલા્ᕖી કુમીાર (શિસોતેાર
વાા�ની), શિવા�ુષીી અડિ�શિતે મી�ગીળ�ાસો (નૃત્ય કથ્થક) તેથા સોત્યશિજેતે
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ભાારતનાાં નાાણીાં ્ᕚધાના લંડીનામાં
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પા. પાૂ. ભાાઇᕦᖍીએ હાનાુમાનાજીનાો મષિહામા સુમજાવ્યેો
બાોચોાસોણવાાસોી અᕌᖋરપીુરુષીો�મી �વાાશિમીનીારાયણ સો��થાનીા વા�ા પીરમી પીૂજ્ય
મીહીંતે�વાામીી મીહીારાજે અત્યારે સોુરતેમીા� કણા� ખાાતેેનીા ્ᕦી �વાાશિમીનીારાયણ મી�ડિ�રમીા�
શિવાચોરણ કરી રᕨᖘા છે. ત્યા� તેેમીનીી ઉપીᕠᖌ�થશિતેમીા� �શિનીવાારે હીનીુમીાની જેન્મીોત્સોવાનીી
ઉજેવાણી કરવાામીા� આવાી હીતેી. પી. પીૂ. મીહીંતે�વાામીી અનીે અન્ય સો�તેો હીનીુમીાનીજીનીુ�
પીૂજેની કયુ� હીતેુ�. પી. પીૂ. મીહીંતે�વાામીી મીહીારાજે �થાશિનીક સો�તેો-મીહીંતેો અનીે હીડિરભી�ોનીે
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કયાય પીછેી ᕜᖍᖋῩશિવાહીારી�ાસોજીએ પી. પીૂ. મીહીંતે�વાામીી
મીહીારાજેનીા મીાગીય��યની અનીે ્ᕚેરણાથી અબાુધીાબાી
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પીૂ. ᕜᖍᖋῩશિવાહીારી�ાસોજી અનીે વા�ા્ᕚધીાની વાᔴᖔેનીી
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INDIA NEWS
• Waiver calms markets, but tensions loom - Pg 8
• Faith - Pg 11
THE SUPREME COURT on Tuesday
(8) came down heavily on Tamil
Nadu governor R N Ravi and said
reservation of 10 bills by him for
consideration of the president was
in contravention of constitutional
provisions.
A bench of justices J B Pardiwala
and R Mahadevan said that under
Article 200 of the Constitution,
the governor does not possess any
discretion and has to mandatorily act
on the aid and advice of the council
of ministers. Article 200 of the Con-
stitution deals with assent to Bills.
The governor cannot withhold
assent and adopt concept of absolute
veto or pocket veto, the court added.
It said the governor is obligated
to adopt one course of action - give
assent to bills, withhold assent and
reserve for consideration of the
president. The bench said it was not
open for the governor to reserve Bill
for consideration of the president
after it was presented to him for the
second time.
It said the governor must assent
to the bills produced before him in
the second round and the only ex-
ception is in case the bill is diferent
from the first one.
Ten bills that were cleared twice
by the Tamil Nadu assembly but
were stalled and reserved by gover-
nor, appointed by the federal gov-
ernment, since 2020 finally became
laws after the court's intervention
on Saturday (12).
Peace returns to Murshidabad, curbs stay
Soldier killed in Kashmir gunbattle
AIADMK, BJP join
hands for Tamil
Nadu polls
THE SITUATION in violence-hit ar-
eas of Murshidabad in West Bengal
was peaceful and under control on
Monday, a senior police ofcer said.
Prohibitory orders remain in
force in the violence-hit pockets of
the district where the roads wore
a deserted look and shops downed
their shutters.
The internet remains suspended
in the afected areas while security
forces are conducting checks on ve-
hicles along the main roads.
Three people have died and sev-
eral others injured in the violence
which raged in Suti, Dhulian, Sam-
serganj and Jangipur areas since
Friday (11) afternoon but there was
no report of any fresh incident from
anywhere in the district.
The deceased included father-son
duo - Harogobindo Das and Chandan
- who were found with multiple stab
wounds inside their home in Sam-
serganj area.
The third victim, identified as
21-year-old Ijaz Momin, sustained
bullet wounds during clashes at Sajur
More in Suti.
A total of 180 people were arrest-
ed in connection with the violence
following protests against the Waqf
(Amendment) Act till Saturday after-
noon, the police ofcer said.
‘The situation in and around
these disturbed areas is peaceful and
under control. There is no report of
any untoward incident from any-
where in the district of Murshidabad.
Police deployment is there and we
will not allow any form of nuisance
to disturb peace,’ the police ofcer
told PTI.
The Calcutta High Court on Sat-
urday (12) observed that it cannot
turn a blind eye to reports of van-
dalism and ordered the deployment
of federal troops in Murshidabad
district.
At least 18 police personnel
were injured in the clashes and were
undergoing treatment in diferent
hospitals, he said.
Several vehicles, including police
vans, were set on fire, stones were
hurled at security forces and shops,
and police kiosks burnt down during
the rampage.
The Waqf amendment bill that
set of the protests was passed earlier
this month after heated debate.
The new law makes sweeping
changes in the management of vast
tracts of land set aside solely for
Muslim use, potentially stoking ten-
sions between the government and
minority Muslims. Muslim groups
and political parties say the law, like
many of prime minister Narendra
Modi’s policies, aims to alienate and
discriminate against Muslims.
THREE suspected rebels and a soldier
were killed in separate firefights near
Kashmir's unofficial frontier with
Pakistan, the Indian army said on
Saturday (12).
Indian soldiers killed three fight-
ers in a clash that began on Wednes-
day in a remote forest in Kishtwar in
the south of the disputed territory.
Senior Indian army ofcial Brig-
adier JBS Rathi said troops had dis-
played ‘great tactical acumen’.
‘In the gun battle, three terrorists
were neutralized,’ he told reporters.
A soldier was killed in a separate
incident late on Friday night in Sun-
derbani district along the Line of
Control (LoC), the de facto border
between India and Pakistan.
The White Knight Corps said on
X troops had ‘foiled an infiltration
attempt’ there.
A CATHOLIC body said it was denied
permission for the Annual Way of
the Cross procession, a key religious
event observed by the Christian
community on Palm Sunday, in the
national capital, and condemned it
as ‘shocking and unfair’.
Sources in the Delhi Police said
the permission was denied as it was
a ‘non-traditional procession’, and
added that police can deny such per-
missions due to ‘security concerns’.
Federal minister George Kurian
said the permission for the proces-
sion was denied due to ‘security
reasons‘ and noted that even Hanu-
man Jayanti procession, which was
scheduled for Saturday (12), was not
granted approval.
The denial of permission drew
criticism from opposition parties.
In a statement, the Catholic
Association of the Archdiocese of
Delhi said, ‘This is deeply shocking
and unfair. The procession has always
been peaceful and well-coordinated
with authorities. The reason cited
- law and order and trafc - doesn't
hold when others get approvals for
similar events.’
AMIDST US director of national
intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's claims
of finding evidence of massive vul-
nerabilities in electronic voting
machines,India's chief election
commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on
Saturday (12) stated that electronic
voting machines (EVMs) in the coun-
try were absolutely safe and were not
being tampered with.
‘In India, EVMs made by pubic
sector undertakings were used, and
on these machines, legal scrutiny
had been done, and the EVMs of
India cannot be connected to Blue-
tooth infrared, and so it is not pos-
sible to tamper with them,’ Kumar
stated.
On Friday, Congress leader Ran-
deep Singh Surjewala questioned
the Election Commission of India
and the federal government for not
responding to Gabbard's remarks on
the vulnerability of the EVMs.
Gabbard, speaking to the media
on Thursday, said the US Cabinet
had found evidence showing that
electronic voting systems had been
vulnerable to hackers for a long time.
NEARLY two years after parting
ways, the AIADMK and BJP on Friday
(11) rekindled their alliance, with
federal home minister Amit Shah
declaring that the 2026 Tamil Nadu
assembly election will be fought un-
der the leadership of AIADMK chief
Edappadi K Palaniswami.
He also slammed the ruling DMK
for ‘diverting’ attention from key
issues by raking up matters like de-
limitation, NEET and the three-lan-
guage policy.
Palaniswami, also known as
EPS, said the AIADMK was honored
to be welcomed into a partnership
with NDA. ‘An alliance founded on
a shared vision for Tamil Nadu’s
progress and prosperity,’ he said in a
social media update.
The DMK criticized the AIADMK
for joining hands with BJP, calling
the alliance a big ‘betrayal of Tamil
Nadu.’
On a day of quick turns and
twists, Shah consulted with RSS
idealogue S Gurumurthy and by late
afternoon, stitched up BJP's alliance
with Tamil Nadu’s main opposition
party AIADMK. The two had been
part of the NDA combine that faced
the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and the
state elections two years later.
Meanwhile, Nainar Nagendran
will be next Tamil Nadu BJP chief,
replacing K Annamalai, who is now
all set for a national role that seems
to be an apparent reward for his work
in the Dravidian heartland.
Top court pulls up TN governor over bill delay
Remembering Ambedkar
Delhi police deny
permission to Palm
Sunday event
EVMs ‘safe’,
‘tamper-proof’:
Poll panel chief
Women take part in a rally organized on the occasion of B.R. Ambedkar's birth anniver-
sary, in Beawar, Rajasthan, Monday (14).
Security forces in
Murshidabad, West Bengal
RN Ravi
BJP and AIADMK leaders
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THE US government said on Wednes-
day (9) it will begin screening the so-
cial media of immigrants and visa ap-
plicants for what it called antisemitic
activity, leading to swift condem-
nations from rights advocates, in-
cluding some Jewish ones, who
raised free speech and surveillance
concerns.
President Donald Trump’s ad-
ministration has attempted to crack
down on pro-Palestinian protests
over US ally Israel’s devastating mili-
tary assault on Gaza after Palestinian
Islamist group Hamas’ deadly Octo-
ber 2023 attack.
‘Today US Citizenship and Immi-
gration Services (USCIS) will begin
considering aliens’ antisemitic activ-
ity on social media and the physical
harassment of Jewish individuals as
grounds for denying immigration
benefit requests,’ USCIS, an agency
of the Homeland Security Depart-
ment, said in a statement.
The step will immediately afect
those applying for lawful permanent
resident status, foreign students and
those affiliated with educational
institutions linked to antisemitic
activity, it added.
The Trump administration has
often labeled pro-Palestinian voices
as antisemitic and sympathetic to
groups like Hamas, Hezbollah and
the Houthi rebels, whom Washing-
ton designates as ‘terrorists’.
The administration is attempting
to deport some foreign students,
has revoked multiple visas and
has warned universities of federal
funding cuts over pro-Palestinian
protests.
Protesters, including some Jew-
ish groups, say the administration
conflates their criticism of Israel’s
actions in Gaza and support for Pal-
estinian rights with antisemitism
and support for extremism.
Free speech group Foundation
for Individual Rights and Expression
(FIRE) said the Trump administra-
tion was ‘formalizing censorship
practices.’
‘By surveilling visa and green
card holders and targeting them
based on nothing more than their
protected expression, the admin-
istration trades America’s commit-
ment to free and open discourse for
fear and silence,’ FIRE said.
AN INDIA-BORN doctor and mem-
bers of her family died in a plane
crash in upstate New York over
the weekend while heading to the
Catskills Mountains for a birthday
celebration.
Dr Joy Saini, a urogynecologist,
her husband Dr Michael Grof, a neu-
roscientist, their daughter Karenna
Grof, a former MIT soccer player and
the 2022 NCAA (National Collegiate
Athletic Association) woman of the
year, and son Jared Grof, a paralegal,
died when the twin-engine plane
crashed, according to media reports.
The National Transportation
Safety Board (NTSB) said in a state-
ment that on 12 April at about 12:06
pm, the aircraft got destroyed when
it was involved in an accident near
Craryville, New York.
The family boarded Grof’s pri-
vate plane at Westchester County
Airport in White Plains, New York.
NTSB said its investigators are
collecting evidence and interviewing
witnesses.
The victims included Jared
Groff's partner Alexia Couyutas
Duarte, who had planned to attend
Harvard Law School later this year,
and Karenna Grof's boyfriend James
Santoro who was an MIT graduate.
According to media reports, the
family was headed to the Catskills
for a birthday celebration and the
Passover holiday.
According to the information on
the website of Boston Pelvic Health
& Wellness, a centre founded by
Saini, she was a ‘highly experienced
and respected urogynecologist and
reconstructive pelvic surgeon’.
FBI DIRECTOR Kash Patel was
removed from his role as acting
director of the Bureau of Alcohol, To-
bacco, Firearms and Explosives and
replaced by Army secretary Daniel
Driscoll, US ofcials confirmed on
Wednesday (9).
Patel was sworn in as acting ATF
leader on 24 February, three days
after he was sworn in as FBI director,
a role he continues to hold.
It was unusual for one person to
be tapped to lead two major Justice
Department units at the same time.
A Justice Department official
confirmed Patel's removal and said
it had nothing to do with his job
performance. The ofcial did not say
why Patel was removed.
Driscoll is now serving as acting
ATF director, the ofcial said. Three
other sources familiar with the de-
cision said Driscoll will continue to
hold both roles.
It is unclear when Patel was
formally removed from his post or
when Driscoll was notified of his new
responsibility.
President Donald Trump’s sec-
ond term has featured multiple
whipsaw policy reversals, includ-
ing the firing and rehiring of large
numbers of federal workers and on
Wednesday the temporary lowering
of tariffs on many countries, less
than 24 hours after steep new taxes
on imports kicked in.
‘Director Kash Patel was brief-
ly designated ATF director while
awaiting Senate confirmations - a
standard, short-term move. Doz-
ens of similar re-designations have
occurred across the federal govern-
ment,’ White House spokesperson
Harrison Fields said.
‘Director Patel is now excelling
in his role at the FBI and delivering
outstanding results.’
Attorney General Pam Bondi has
launched a task force to focus on
enforcing the Second Amendment
of the US Constitution.
VICE PRESIDENT J D Vance and
national security adviser Michael
Waltz are expected to be in New
Delhi on 21 April, reflecting Wash-
ington's focus on its relationship
with India amid concerns across
the globe over president Donald
Trump's policy on tarifs.
Both the US vice president and
national security advisor are likely
to embark on separate visits to
India from 21 April 21, PTI reported on Friday (11) citing
top sources.
Vance's visit is likely to be more of a private trip, even
though it will have ofcial components.
Waltz's visit will be a purely business trip as he will
hold wide-ranging talks with his Indian interlocutors on
a range of key issues including the security situation in
the Indo-Pacific, the sources said.
Both Vance and Waltz are expected to meet prime
minister Narendra Modi before he travels to Saudi Arabia
for a two-day visit from 22 April.
The visits of Vance and Waltz
are taking place against the back-
drop of Trump's policy on tarifs
that triggered massive trade
disruptions and fears of a global
economic recession.
On Wednesday, Trump an-
nounced a 90-day pause on his
sweeping tarifs on all countries
except China as nations around
the world wilted under the impact of the seismic action.
Though Vance is also likely paying a visit to India
along with Indian American second lady Usha Vance and
their children from 21 April, the duration of his trip is set
to be longer than that of Waltz.
It is learnt that Vance and his family were planning to
travel to Shimla, Hyderabad, Jaipur and Delhi.
The visits are taking place weeks after US director of
national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard visited New Delhi, and
held meetings with Modi and top ministers.
GEORGIA has become the first state
in the US to introduce a bill to include
anti-Hindu discrimination in their
penal code.
Republican senators Shawn Still
and Clint Dixon, along with Dem-
ocratic senators Jason Esteves and
Emanuel Jones, had jointly backed
the Senate Bill 375 to end ‘Hindu-
phobia.’
‘The State of Georgia has in-
troduced SB 375, which formally
updates the state’s penal code to rec-
ognize Hinduphobia and anti-Hindu
prejudice, and enables law enforce-
ment and other agencies to consider
Hinduphobia while cataloging such
discrimination and taking appropri-
ate action,’ the Coalition of Hindus
in North America said.
US to screen social media of immigrants
Yoga session at
America’s tallest
building
Indian businessman
sanctioned for ties
with Iran
Kash Patel removed from gun control body
Vances to visit India from 21 April
Georgia to outlaw
'Hinduphobia'
India-born doctor, family killed in plane crash
YOGA mats were rolled out in the
iconic New York city landmark World
Trade Center as a special event at
the tallest building in the Western
Hemisphere kickstarted the 75-day
countdown to the 11th International
Day of Yoga, that will be commemo-
rated globally on 21 June.
The consulate general of India in
New York hosted the special ‘75 days
to go’ yoga session.
Overlooking expansive aerial
views of Manhattan and New Jersey,
the session was held early morning
on a rainy Monday (7) on the 102nd
floor of the One World Observatory
at the 1,776 feet tall One World Trade
Center, led by eminent yoga and
meditation instructor Ruchika Lal of
the Art of Living Foundation.
In the run up to the Yoga Day
commemoration in June, several
events will be held across the US -
from the Times Square and the UN
headquarters to other iconic desti-
nations.
THE US has sanctioned a United Arab
Emirates-based Indian national and
two India-based entities operating
as part of Iran’s ‘shadow fleet’ and
involved in shipping Iranian oil.
Jugwinder Singh Brar owns mul-
tiple shipping companies that boast
a fleet of nearly 30 vessels, many
of which operate as part of Iran’s
‘shadow fleet’, the US Department
of the Treasury said in a statement
on Thursday (17).
In addition to his UAE-based
businesses, Brar owns or controls In-
dia-based shipping company Global
Tankers Private Limited and pet-
rochemical sales company B and P
Solutions Private Limited.
The Treasury Department’s
Office of Foreign Assets Control
designated Brar, two UAE and two
India-based entities that own and
operate Brar’s vessels that have
transported Iranian oil on behalf of
the National Iranian Oil Company
and the Iranian military.
US visa
(From left) Dr Michael Groff, Karenna
Groff, Dr Joy Saini, and James Santoro
Kash Patel
J D Vance with Usha Vance
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COVER STORY
US TARIFFS exemptions for electronics
prompted market rallies Monday (14) from Asia
to Wall Street but failed to settle nerves over a
global trade war that Chinese leader Xi Jinping
warned would have ‘no winner.’
Investors are relieved at the apparent eas-
ing of pressure in president Donald Trump’s
wide-ranging but often chaotic attempt to
reorder the world economy by using tarifs to
force manufacturers to relocate to the US.
Tit-for-tat exchanges have seen US levies
imposed on China this year rise to 145 per cent,
and Beijing setting a retaliatory 125 per cent
barrier on US imports.
But even the electronics tarif reprieve -
that US ofcials late Friday (11) said would mean
exemptions from the latest 125 per cent duties
against China for a range of high-end tech goods
such as smartphones, semiconductors and com-
puters - brought new uncertainty.
Trump suggested Sunday (13) that the
exemption would be only temporary and said
he still planned to put barriers up on imported
semiconductors and much else.
‘NOBODY is getting ‘of the hook’ for the
unfair Trade Balances,’ Trump blasted on his
Truth Social platform. ‘We are taking a look at
Semiconductors and THE WHOLE ELECTRON-
ICS SUPPLY CHAIN.’
The Chinese commerce ministry said Fri-
day’s move was only ‘a small step’ and all tarifs
should be cancelled.
China’s Xi warned Monday (14) - as he
kicked of a Southeast Asia tour with a visit
to Vietnam - that protectionism ‘will lead
nowhere’ and a trade war would ‘produce no
winner.’
Short-lived relief?
Trump initially unveiled huge tarifs on coun-
tries around the world on 2 April.
He then made an about-face a week later
when he said only China would face the heavi-
est duties, while other countries got a global 10
MUMBAI terror attack key accused Tahawwur
Hussain Rana is being interrogated for eight
to ten hours daily by the National Investiga-
tion Agency (NIA) sleuths to unravel a larger
conspiracy behind the dreaded strikes, ofcial
sources said on Monday (14).
The 64-year-old Canadian citizen of Paki-
stan origin was brought to India on Thursday
(10), after being extradited from the US, and
sent to 18-day custody by a Delhi court.
The NIA ofcials are ensuring Rana’s daily
medical check-up and he is being allowed to
meet his lawyer, as per the court order.
The sources said Rana is being grilled by
the NIA investigators to probe the 2008 das-
tardly strikes orchestrated by Pakistan-based
terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba and in which
166 people were killed and over 238 injured.
‘Rana has been cooperating during the
questioning,’ a source said, adding that a team
of NIA ofcials led by chief investigating of-
cer Jaya Roy is interrogating him.
NIA is India’s federal counter-terrorism
law enforcement agency.
The sources said Rana has so far asked
for only three things - a pen, paper sheets or
notepad and Quran - which have
been provided to him.
They said there has not been
any specific food-related demand
raised by Rana so far and he is
being provided with ‘food items
which are given to any other ac-
cused’ according to the standard
protocols meant to deal with
such subjects.
Headley links probed
Rana is said to be grilled on the
basis of various leads gathered
by the probe agency during the
course of its investigation, in-
cluding a large number of phone
calls between him and his co-conspirator Da-
vid Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani, a US
citizen currently undergoing imprisonment
in the country.
The investigators also hope to find some
important leads on his travels in parts of
northern and southern India days before the
carnage in the country’s financial capital on
November 26, 2008, the sources said.
Rana had visited Hapur and Agra in Uttar
Pradesh, Delhi, Kochi in Kerala, Ahmedabad
in Gujarat, and Mumbai in Maharashtra with
his wife Samraz Rana Akhtar between 13-21
November, 2008.
The anti-terror agency had produced Rana
before the NIA special court at Patiala House
in New Delhi after formally placing him under
arrest following his arrival at the Indira Gand-
hi International airport on 10 April upon his
extradition from the US.
The NIA had secured Rana’s extradition
from the US following years of sustained
eforts and after the terror mastermind’s last-
ditch eforts to get a stay on his extradition
from the US failed.
The announcement that Rana would
finally be extradited came when prime min-
ister Narendra Modi visited the US capital in
February.
‘We are giving a very violent man back to
India immediately to face justice in India,’ US
president Donald Trump said at a joint press
conference with Modi on 14 February.
The NIA had registered a case on Novem-
ber 11, 2009 against Headley, his childhood
friend Rana and others.
During the NIA investigation, the roles
of senior functionaries of terror groups LeT
and Harkat-ul Jihadi Islami (HuJI) - Hafiz Mu-
hammad Saeed alias Tayyaji, Zaki-ur-Rehman
Lakhvi, Sajjid Majid alias Wasi, Illyas Kashmiri
and Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed alias Major
Abdurrehman alias Pasha - had also emerged.
These conspirators allegedly worked in ac-
tive connivance with ofcials from Pakistan’s
spy agency ISI, according to the NIA probe.
Waiver calms markets, but tensions loom
Long grilling for Rana by India sleuths
The US president has warned that nobody is getting ‘of the hook’ and hinted at fresh taxes on semiconductors..
per cent tarif for a 90-day period.
The trade war is raising fears of an economic
downturn as the dollar tumbles and investors
dump US government bonds, normally consid-
ered a safe haven investment.
And the latest wrangling over high-tech
products - an area where China is a powerhouse
- illustrates the uncertainty plaguing investors.
Washington’s new exemptions will benefit
US tech companies such as Nvidia and Dell as
well as Apple, which makes iPhones and other
premium products in China. But the relief could
be short-lived, with some of the exempted
consumer electronics targeted for upcoming
sector-specific tarifs on goods deemed key to
US national defense networks.
On Air Force One Sunday, Trump said tarifs
on semiconductors - which power any major
technology from e-vehicles and iPhones to
missile systems - ‘will be in place in the not
distant future.’
‘Like we did with steel, like we did with
automobiles, like we did with aluminum... we’ll
be doing that with semiconductors, with chips
and numerous other things,’ he said.
‘We want to make our chips and semicon-
ductors and other things in our country,’ Trump
reiterated, adding that he would do the same
with ‘drugs and pharmaceuticals.’
The US president said he would announce
tarifs rates for semiconductors ‘over the next
week’ and commerce secretary Howard Lutnick
said they would likely be in place ‘in a month
or two.’
A top UN economist has warned that global
trade could shrink by 3 percent and exports
could see a shift to India, Canada and Brazil due
to tarifs imposed by the US.
‘Global trade could shrink by 3 per cent,
with significant long-term shifts in trade
patterns and economic integration,’ Interna-
tional Trade Centre executive director Pamela
Coke-Hamilton said in Geneva on Friday.
India, US finalize terms for trade deal
INDIA and the US have finalized terms of
reference for talks over the first part of a bilat-
eral trade deal, an Indian trade ofcial said on
Friday (11), adding it was possible that a ‘win-
win’ deal could take shape in the next 90 days.
India and the US agreed in February to
work on the first phase of a trade deal to be
concluded late this year, with a view to reach-
ing bilateral trade worth $500 billion by 2030.
‘We are far ahead in trade talks with the
US compared to other countries ... there are
lots of possibilities in 90 days,’ said the ofcial,
who did not want to be named because of the
sensitivity of the issue.
Reuters reported on Thursday that In-
dia wanted to move quickly to clinch a trade
deal following Trump’s tarif pause.
Trade discussions between the countries
will continue virtually and regularly, the ofcial
said, adding there could be some delegation-lev-
el visits from both sides as part of the talks.
Trump administration had announced
a 26 per cent tarif on Indian goods earlier this
month, and New Delhi had said it did not plan to
retaliate. Bilateral trade with the US, India’s
largest trading partner, rose to around $129
billion in 2024, with a $45.7 billion surplus in
favor of India.
India has asked its customs authorities
to step up scrutiny of exports and imports
of goods to ensure the country is not used
as a conduit to re-route goods to the US, the
ofcial said.
Trade analysts have said that, following
Trump’s huge increase in tariffs on China,
some companies could use India to divert
exports to the US market.
‘Neither will India be the source of trade
diversion for our products, nor will it become
a safe haven for others to divert through In-
dia,’ the ofcial said. ‘India wants to remain a
trusted trading partner. This is the message of
prime minister Narendra Modi to all govern-
ment ofcials and industry.’
Donald Trump
Tahawwur Rana (second fron left) in
New Delhi
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BUSINESS
A CONSORTIUM of Indian banks, led by State
Bank of India, on Wednesday (9) won their
court appeal in London to uphold a bankruptcy
order against Vijay Mallya in a long-standing
legal battle seeking repayment of a debt owed
by his now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines.
UK high court judge Anthony Mann ruled
in favor of the banks to allow an appeal heard
in February, while refusing two applications
seeking permission to appeal filed by the
69-year-old businessman, declared a fugitive
and wanted for fraud and money laundering
charges in India.
‘The banks’ pleaded position on security
was one which they were entitled to adopt,’
Mann ruled. ‘The bottom line in relation to this
is that the bankruptcy order stands.’
Law firm TLT LLP, representing the banks,
noted that the ruling confirmed the banks did
not hold security over Mallya’s assets and that
the bankruptcy petition was correct.
The court also found that the realizations
from assets attached by the Enforcement Di-
rectorate, the financial crime fighting agency,
were conditional and did not discharge the
debt under English law.
The case dates back to 2017 when the banks
registered the debt recovery tribunal’s judg-
ment in the English courts, which pertained
to a personal guarantee Mallya had provided in
relation to loans made to Kingfisher Airlines.
Indian banks win appeal in Vijay Mallya case
INDIA’S seafood exporters are preparing to
ship 35,000-40,000 tonnes of shrimp to the
US with orders remaining stable after presi-
dent Donald Trump paused a planned 26 per-
cent reciprocal tarif, reducing the duty to 10
percent, industry ofcials said on Monday (14).
‘There is a lot of relief now as we are at par
with other exporters to the US. Now the ship-
ments that were held back will be processed,’
Seafood Exporters Association of India secre-
tary general K N Raghavan told PTI.
About 2,000 containers of shrimp that had
been delayed are now being readied for export
following Trump's decision on 9 April to pause
the higher tarifs, he said.
INDIAN IT giant Tata Consultancy Services
(TCS) reported on Thursday (10) weak-
er-than-expected results for the March quar-
ter, as lingering demand weakness weighed on
the company's operations.
TCS, the leader of India's $254 billion IT
sector, earns the bulk of its revenue from
Western clients but demand has slowed in
recent years due to high inflation and global
uncertainty.
The company's net profit for the three
months ended 31 March fell 1.69 percent year-
on-year to $1.42bn.
RESERVE BANK OF INDIA cut interest rates
on Wednesday (9) and policymakers warned
of ‘challenging global economic conditions’.
The cut, the second this year, aims to boost
a slowing economy grappling with the impact
of US president Donald Trump’s tarifs.
The central bank said the benchmark repo
rate, the level at which it lends to commercial
banks, would be reduced by 25 basis points to
6 percent.
Easing inflation concerns over the last few
months have allowed the RBI to focus on perk-
ing up the Indian economy, whose growth has
slowed in the last few quarters.
Trump’s protectionist trade policies will
likely add to growth pressures and present a
challenge for Indian policymakers.
Reserve Bank governor Sanjay Malhotra on
Wednesday (9) said he is more worried about
the impact of global tarif war on growth than
inflation.
While New Delhi is not a manufacturing
powerhouse, experts believe that high US
FUGUTIVE jeweller Mehul Choksi has been
arrested in Belgium and will file an appeal for
release, his lawyer told Reuters on Monday
(14), seven years after details of his role in one
of India's biggest bank frauds became public.
The Indian government had sent a request
for Choksi’s extradition prior to his arrest, a
source with India's Enforcement Directorate
told the news agency.
Punjab National Bank (PNB), India’s second
largest state-run lender by assets, had an-
nounced in 2018 that it had discovered alleged
fraud worth $1.8bn at a branch in Mumbai.
The bank had filed a criminal complaint
with the federal investigative agency against
several entities including billionaire jeweller
Nirav Modi and Choksi, his uncle and the man-
aging director of Gitanjali Gems, saying they
had defrauded PNB.
Indian federal police filed fraud charges
against Choksi, Nirav Modi and others in
connection with suspected involvement in
fraudulent transactions that led to huge losses
for PNB.
The two diamond tycoons have denied any
wrongdoing.
Choksi said in a letter in 2018 that the
‘investigating agencies were acting with
pre-determined minds and interfering with the
course of justice.’
Choksi's lawyer Vijay Aggarwal told Reuters
on Monday: ‘An appeal will be filed for his re-
lease, on grounds that he is undergoing cancer
treatment and is not a flight risk.’
He said that Choksi had not committed any
ofence in Belgium.
Nirav Modi fled India in 2018 before details
of his alleged role in the case became public. He
was arrested in Britain in 2019 and remains in
custody there although he has lost one extra-
dition appeal.
Modi grew up in Belgium's diamond polish-
ing hub Antwerp, and Choksi used to visit the
city frequently, even before the financial scam
was discovered.
Diamond traders in Mumbai have said Ant-
werp would have been an ideal place for Chok-
si to take refuge, as he knows people there and
remains connected to those in the business.
UK prime minister Keir Starmer hailed the
contributions of British Sikhs across all walks
of life in the UK in his Baisakhi greetings from
10 Downing Street on Sunday (13).
Having hosted a special reception earlier
last week to mark the festival symbolizing the
birth of the Khalsa, Starmer posted a video on
social media showcasing the festivities along
with his Baisakhi message.
‘I’m always very humbled when I see that
work, care, beacon of light in our communities.
A visible sign of the values of Sikhism, compas-
sion and courage, but also service or sewa, and
that’s particularly important to me,’ he stated.
Starmer said his government will always
stand with British Sikhs and ‘against bigotry’.
India’s central bank cuts rates
Choksi arrested in Belgium on
India’s extradition request
Baisakhi: Keir Starmer hails British Sikhs
Tarif pause: India to
ship 40,000 tonnes of
shrimp
TCS posts small
profts dip
NEWS
India needs ‘nuclear energy
renaissance’: Holtec CEO
INDIA needs a ‘nuclear en-
ergy renaissance’ and the US
is interested in helping the
country develop a nuclear in-
frastructure as both nations
have a vital shared interest in
this area, Holtec CEO Dr Kris
Singh has said, voicing opti-
mism that things will move
forward under prime minister Narendra Modi.
‘India and the US have shared strategic in-
terest in clean energy... Nuclear power should
be a unifier and India should naturally take
the lead there. For that, India needs to have
an exportable technology,’ Singh told PTI in
an interview at the sprawling Krishna P Singh
Technology Campus in Camden, New Jersey,
on Sunday (13).
Holtec International is a
diversified energy technol-
ogy company recognized
as the leading technology
innovator in the field of car-
bon-free power generation,
specifically commercial nu-
clear and solar energy.
In September last year,
Singh had met Modi during his visit for the
UN General Assembly session and they had
discussed Holtec’s plan to expand manufac-
turing in India.
The company had last month announced
that the US department of energy has granted
it a specific authorization, with the Indian
concurrence, to sell its flagship small modular
reactor SMR-300 for deployment in India.
tarifs will hurt billions of dollars of Indian ex-
ports across diferent sectors, including gems,
jewellery and seafood.
The RBI's monetary policy committee said
in a statement that ‘recent trade tarif related
measures’ had ‘exacerbated uncertainties’ and
clouded the ‘economic outlook across regions’.
‘In such challenging global economic con-
ditions, the benign inflation and moderate
growth outlook demands that the MPC contin-
ues to support growth,’ the statement added.
The central bank cut interest rates for the
first time in nearly five years in February 2024,
as it sought to boost an economy that has been
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INDIA wrapped up their campaign at the
Archery World Cup Stage 1 with a creditable
four medals, including a silver in the men’s
recurve team event and a bronze by rising
star Dhiraj Bommadevara in the individual
recurve category.
The 23-year-old Army archer Dhiraj
showed exceptional grit and composure to
clinch the bronze medal match, bouncing
back from a 2-4 deficit to beat Andres Temino
Mediel of Spain 6-4 in a tense five-setter in
Auburndale, Florida on Sunday (13).
Earlier in the day, he was also part of the
Indian trio alongside veterans Tarundeep Rai
and Atanu Das that settled for silver after a 1-5
loss to China in the team final.
India’s medal tally from the tournament
stood at four - gold in the compound mixed
team, bronze in compound men’s team, silver
in recurve men’s team and bronze in recurve
men’s individual (Dhiraj).
On Saturday, the Indian compound mixed
team of Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Rishabh
Yadav clinched the gold medal at the Archery
World Cup Stage 1, defeating their Chinese
Taipei opponents Huang I-Jou and Chen
Chieh-Lun 153-151 in a tough final.
India’s campaign also saw Abhishek Verma
narrowly miss out on a medal, finishing fourth
in the compound men’s individual section.
Rapper Hanumankind
makes Coachella debut
RAPPER-SINGER Hanumankind, known for
tracks like ‘Big Dawgs’ and ‘Run It Up’, per-
formed at Coachella 2025, marking his debut
at the American music festival.
Hanumankind is the latest Indian artist to
perform at Coachella after Punjabi stars Diljit
Dosanjh and AP Dhillon took the stage at the
global music festival last year.
The Bengaluru-based recording artiste,
whose real name is Sooraj Cherukat, shared
a series of videos of his performance at
Coachella 2025 on Saturday on his Instagram
Stories.
‘@coachella Thank you for having me,’
he wrote. In his next Instagram Story, Ha-
numankind posted a clip of him performing
with American rapper Maxo Kream.
The 33-year-old singer sang his hit songs
‘Big Dawgs’, ‘Run It Up’ and ‘Go To Sleep’ on
the stage.
Coachella 2025, which is being held in
Indio, California, will conclude on 20 April.
Archery World Cup: India bags four medals
LOSING four back-to-back matches was
weighing on opener Abhishek Sharma’s mind
and he wanted to ‘break that streak’ and help
Sunrisers Hyderabad emerge from the string
of defeats, which had pushed them to the
bottom of the points table.
Abhishek, who had been going through a
poor run of form, scored a breathtaking 141 of
55 balls as SRH scripted the second-highest
run chase in IPL history to return to winning
ways with a comprehensive eight-wicket win
over Punjab Kings on Saturday (12).
THE INDIAN Premier League season reaches
the halfway point this week as 10 teams battle
for supremacy in the high-octane Twenty20
cricket tournament. Here are four talking
points from the opening weeks of the 2025 IPL:
Chennai slump
Mahendra Singh Dhoni led Chennai Super
Kings to five IPL crowns in the past, but the
veteran wicketkeeper-batsman is struggling
to inspire the bottom-placed team.
The 43-year-old has been among the runs
batting down the order, but age seems to have
diminished his finishing powers and Chennai
have won only one of their six matches.
When captain Ruturaj Gaikwad was injured
before their last game, Dhoni found himself
leading Chennai again. But they collapsed to
103 all out against Kolkata, who romped to an
eight-wicket win with 59 balls to spare.
Lefties on top
Left-arm spinners have proved crucial in keep-
ing control of run rates in the middle overs,
with Chennai's Afghanistan wrist spinner
Noor Ahmad leading the bowling charts with
12 wickets. Orthodox leftie Sai Kishore has also
been able to choke the scoring rate for Gujarat
Titans, as has wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav of
Delhi Capitals.
Openers sparkle
Priyansh Arya and fellow left-hander Abhishek
Sharma have lit up the IPL with their swash-
buckling batting at the top of the order. Arya
hammered a 39-ball century for Punjab Kings,
the fourth fastest IPL century. Four days lat-
er, Punjab were on the receiving end when
Abhishek took 40 balls to reach his hundred.
Openers Sai Sudharsan (Gujarat), Mitchell
Marsh (Lucknow), Travis Head (Hyderabad),
Phil Salt (Bengaluru) and Virat Kohli (Benga-
luru) have also made rapid fifties to get their
side of to great starts.
Hot and cold stars
Kohli has carried his Champions Trophy form
into the IPL with 248 runs including three
half-centuries, but fellow big names Rohit
Sharma and Rishabh Pant have struggled.
PHULE, based on the lives of social reformers
Jyotirao Govindrao Phule and Savitribai Phule,
has been delayed due to objections raised by the
Brahmin community and not because of the
censor board-suggested amendments, film’s
director Ananth Mahadevan said on Friday (11).
The biopic, featuring the Scam 1992 star Pra-
tik Gandhi in the central role and Patralekhaa
as his onscreen wife, was set for release on 11
April but it will now arrive in theaters on 25
April.
The Central Board of Film Certification
had asked the makers to remove terms such
as ‘Mang’, ‘Mahar’ and ‘Peshwai’, replace the
visual of ‘a man carrying a broom’ with ‘boys
throwing cow dung balls at Savitribai’, and
the line ‘3,000 saal purani
gulami’ to be modified as
‘kai saal purani’, among a
few other tweaks.
‘They had suggest-
ed some amendments, I
wouldn’t call it cuts. I want
to clarify that there are no
cuts as such. We did so,’
Mahadevan said.
After the trailer was
unveiled online on 10 April
some members from the
Brahmin community raised
objections stating that
they’ve been portrayed in
poor light.
Mahadevan asserted
‘Brahmins got carried away
by a two-minute trailer’ but
there is nothing objection-
able in the movie.
‘I’m a Brahmin myself,
and I would not malign my
community. I want everyone
to calm down and under-
stand that we’ve made a film
that is supposed to inspire
and change,’ he said, adding
the release has been pushed
is to clear the controversy
surrounding the film.
PRODUCER Dinesh Vijan, whose last two
releases Chhaava and Stree 2 were major suc-
cesses at the box ofce, on Thursday (10) said
the audiences are connecting to stories that are
about the ‘new Bharat’.
The producer-director was asked about the
poor performance of Hindi movies in theaters
and what was it that he thought he was doing
diferent from others.
‘I can’t tell you what I’m doing and what
others are not doing because I’m doing the
same thing. We’re trying to understand that
right now, we are not aspirational; we’re Indian
in the way we think, and the common man
wants stories about us,’ Vijan said at the trailer
launch of his new movie Bhool Chuk Maaf.
‘So, the people we’re surrounded by are
important because they are going to influence
the decision that you’re going to make. I’m
fortunate that my writers and directors are
grounded, real people, and all are connected
with new Bharat.
‘There’s so much here; there’s a Khazana
of stories here,’ the producer said.
When asked if he deliberately weaves in
the theme of inclusivity in his movies, Vijan
said he feels blessed to have found the right
storytellers like Karan Sharma, Laxman Utekar,
and Amar Kaushik, who take pride in narrating
stories of India.
IPL halfway: Arya shines, Pant struggles
Phule delayed to avoid controversy: director
People want stories that reflect them: Vijan
Second-highest chase
in IPL history, courtesy
Abhishek
ENTERTAINMENT
Virat Kohli
Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Rishabh Yadav
Hanumankind at Coachella 2025