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Pouille beats Lopez in three
sets to win Stuttgart title
STUTTGART: Big-serving
world number 16 Lucas
Pouille tuned up for Wimbledon by muscling past
Spanish veteran Feliciano
Lopez 4-6 7-6(5) 6-4 in just
over two hours on Sunday
to win the Stuttgart Open.
The 23-year-old, seeded
fourth, fired a total of 29 aces
on his way to his second title of the year following his
victory in Budapest in April.
He also reached the final
in Marseille earlier this year.
Pouille's patience paid
off when a double fault and
two unforced errors from
Lopez gave the Frenchman
his first break points mid-
way through the third set.
He took his chance at the
first opportunity and then
comfortably held serve.
Pouille who saved a
matchpoint in the round of
16, squandered his first
against Lopez with a double fault but made amends
with an ace. (Reuters)
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SHILLONG: A move by the Congress
is afoot to topple the P.N Syiem-led
Executive Committee in the KHADC.
A party source said top Congress
functionaries are reaching out to the
KHADC MDCs to muster support to
oust the EC led by the suspended
Congress CEM.
If the Congress manages to get the
numbers, the party may move a nonconfidence motion during the KHADC
session starting from Tuesday.
However, sources said the MDCs
who were approached by the party are
not willing to forge an alliance with
the Congress considering the issues
plaguing the State which are yet to be
solved by the party in power.
With the Assembly elections just
six months away, the MDCs are not
keen to have any truck with the Congress as they consider that this will
Angry cricket fans break television sets in Ahmedabad on Sunday after India suffered a humiliating
180-run loss to Pakistan in the final of the ICC Champions Trophy 2017 at The Oval cricket
stadium in London. (ST) Match report on P-12
SDRF’s 38-hour rescue ops
come to an end in Umiam
By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The rescue
operations of the State Disaster Response Force
(SDRF) at the landslide site
at Tharia, Umiam, in Ri Bhoi
district have come to an end
with the recovery of the fifth
body on Sunday afternoon.
The body of the last victim, identified as Cristina
Lama (55) alias Kali Mai, was
recovered in the afternoon.
The body of her 25-year-
Rs 5.5 lakh in
old currency
notes found
By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: Several old
currency notes of Rs 500
were abandoned in a plastic bag near Manipuri
Mandir on Bomfyle Road
in Laitumkhrah on Sunday
evening.
The cash worth Rs 5.5
lakh was found by a resident around 7.30 pm. It
was later handed over to
police in Laitumkhrah.
ST POLL
Question: Do you think the
announcement of the ShillongSohra rail project is an ill-timed
move by the chief minister?
(Poll closes at Midnight)
Yesterday’s Result
Question: Do you think the
district police is doing
enough to contain the cases of arson in the city?
YES
20%
NO
80%
old daughter Rina Lama was
recovered on Saturday
evening.
Earlier on Saturday after
the landslide at 5 am, the
bodies of a couple who were
workers at the plywood factory at Tharia were recovered. They were identified as
Loba Mahanta (25) and wife
Babbi Mahanta (19). Later,
the body of a minor girl identified as Santi Lama (12) was
also recovered.
Another injured, Banti
Lama (13), was shifted to
Shillong civil hospital.
Altogether nine people
were injured in the incident.
In a statement, Paul H.
Shylla, Junior Staff Officer
cum Public Relations Officer of the Directorate of Civil
Defence and Home Guards,
said on Sunday the rescue
team swung into action at 9
am on Saturday.
The team of 12 jawans of
the State Disaster Response Force of the Direc-
torate of Civil Defence and
Home Guards, led by the
Deputy Controller of Civil
Defence (Shillong) and Officer in Charge, SDRF,
worked for almost 38 hours
along with the personnel of
Fire and Emergency Services, Ri Bhoi district officials
and local inhabitants.
According to the officer
in-charge, SDRF, the operation was stopped after the
body of the final missing
woman was found.
Gohain to launch LPG
scheme for poor today
Centre to give Rs 1600 to each beneficiary
By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The Pradhan
Mantri Ujjwala Yojana
(PMUY) to provide free LPG
connections to women belonging to BPL households
will be launched by Union
Minister of State for Railways Rajen Gohain here on
Monday.
As per the scheme, oil
marketing companies will
provide free LPG connections to poor women with an
aim to empower them and
bring about social transformation in their lives.
An official statement
said on Sunday that availability of clean cooking fuel
has been a major challenge
for rural households in the
country.
According to the Cen-
tre, lack of access to clean
fuel adversely affects the
health of particularly women and children in households using unclean fuel.
The government is committed to providing clean
fuel to all poor households,
the statement said.
The LPG connections in
this scheme will be released
in the name of women only.
Initial support of Rs
1,600 for providing an LPG
connection would be given by the Centre for each
new LPG connection in the
form of cash assistance.
The Centre said while
selection of beneficiaries
will be from BPL families,
preference will be given to
SC/ST and weaker sections
of society.
The beneficiary list will
be as per the Socio Economic Caste Census, 2011
which was conducted in a
transparent manner by the
Ministry of Rural Development and State Government.
As far as implementation
is concerned, women of the
BPL households, who are
not having LPG connections, can apply for a new
LPG connection under the
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana to the distributor.
While submitting the
forms, women have to submit address proof, bank account and Aadhaar card,
the statement said.
Oil marketing companies
will organise camps at various locations for releasing
LPG connections to BPL
families.
Don’t add
fuel to fire:
Bindo to CM
Rail imbroglio
By Our Reporter
By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: UDP has
asked Chief Minister Mukul
Sangma to desist from adding "lubricants" to the fire
and show restraint on the
railway issue.
UDP working president
Bindo Lanong said on Sunday that the adamant stand
of the chief minister will not
solve the current problem.
"What is needed is not
an aggressive stand. There
is a need to have cool approach to settling the matter and he should not add
fuel to the fire," Lanong said.
According to Lanong,
while announcing ShillongSohra railway line just six
months before the next Assembly polls, the chief minister is only provoking the
pressure groups instead of
finding a solution to the
problem.
"What is the intention of
the chief minister in announcing the Shillong-Sohra project which even cabinet ministers are not aware
of," Lanong said.
NEW DELHI: In a shocking
case of negligence, a newborn was allegedly declared
"dead" by the staff of a central government hospital on
Sunday but was found to be
alive just before the infant
was to be buried.
A police officer had earlier said the baby died but later claimed that there was
another case in the hospital
and that it was a case mis-
taken identity.
The baby is alive, the officer, who did not want to
be named, said.
The incident occurred at
Safdarjung hospital when a
resident of Badarpur delivered a baby on Sunday
morning.
The nursing staff apparently failed to find any sign
of breathing.
"The doctor and the nurs-
ing staff declared the baby
dead and sealed the body
in a pack, labelled it and
handed it over to us for burial," said Rohit, the father of
the child.
As the mother's condition was not stable, she remained in the hospital while
the father and other family
members took the body and
went home, making preparations for the burial.
But then Rohit's sister
suddenly felt some movement in the pack and when
they opened it, they found
the baby breathing and
moving its limbs.
Immediately a PCR call
was made and the baby was
rushed to Apollo Hospital
from where it was shifted to
Safdarjung.
The shocked parents
have approached the police
affect their poll prospects in case they
decide to contest the Assembly polls.
Some non-Congress MDCs consider that starting from the ban on coal
and limestone mining to issues related to the jurisdiction of MUDA and
curtailing of powers of headmen, the
Congress had not done anything to
ameliorate the concerns of the people
affected.
Sources close to Syiem said the
Congress had first tried to target the
KHADC CEM by passing the dual
post bill and subsequently to weaken
him, the party placed him under suspension for three years.
The fresh move of the Congress to
oust him from power is the last ditch
effort ahead of the Assembly polls,
sources added.
However, the UDP MDCs are unlikely to support the Congress as in
the past UDP chief Donkupar Roy had
said the party desires that the Syiemled EC completes its full term.
Sources added that even when the
Central Executive Committee of the
UDP recommended withdrawal of
support to Syiem in the past, UDP
MDCs Donkupar Sumer and Teinwell
Dkhar had extended support to him.
Conrad undecided on
return to state politics
SHILLONG: NPP national
president and Tura MP
Conrad Sangma is yet to
decide whether to come
back to state politics in view
of the 2018 Assembly polls
or to stay put in national
politics.
In the last 2013 Assembly polls, NPP faced its
worst ever defeat with the
party getting only two legislators, James Sangma and
Nihim Shira.
Later, the party improved
its position in the GHADC
polls forming the Executive
Committee led by NPP
which, however, was ousted on March 31 this year.
The party regained its
position further with the
landslide victory of Conrad
in the by-election to Tura
Lok Sabha seat.
Buoyed by the victory,
the party is planning to go
bigger in the 2018 Assembly polls.
However, the party supporters are yet to get any
clear picture whether Conrad will lead the party in
Meghalaya or some other
leader will be projected.
While from the family,
Conrad and James are active in politics, their sister
and former Tura MP Agatha
Sangma is unlikely to steer
the party due to her ill
health.
When contacted, Conrad said that it is too early
to project anyone as the
chief ministerial candidate
for the 2018 polls.
According to Conrad, it
is after all the elected
MLAs who will decide their
leader.
He, however, remained
non committal to a question whether he would return to state politics.
NPP to wait & watch
on EC formation
By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: At a time
when suspended NPP
MDC Boston Marak, who
is aspiring for the post of
GHADC CEM, is hopeful of
forming the next Executive
Committee, NPP has decided to wait and watch.
The cabinet on June 15
had recommended withdrawal of administrator's
rule in GHADC.
Later, Boston had
claimed the support of 15
MDCs to form the next EC.
However, NPP national
president Conrad Sangma
said it was up to the governor whether to accept the
recommendation of the
Cabinet or not. "We are
waiting and watching. We
even heard that there are
differences within the
group led by Boston," he
said.
(Contd on P-10)
Security to be
stepped up for
rail protest
By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: Security will
be tightened in the district
for the sit-in protest called
by three pressure groups on
June 21.
When contacted, Deputy Commissioner of East
Khasi Hills P.S Dkhar said
no communication was received from the agitating
organisations till date.
However, East Khasi
Hills SP Davis Marak said,
"We will put adequate security arrangements."
When asked on the cases of arson, he said there are
no fresh cases of arson on
Sunday.
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regarding the case. "How
can they be so irresponsible and declare a baby, who
is alive, as dead? If we had
not opened the sealed pack
in time, my baby really
would have died and we
would never have come to
know the truth. This is a
gross negligence on the
part of the hospital and the
guilty should be punished,"
Rohit said. (Contd on P-10)
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Cong makes move to
topple Syiem-led EC
By Our Reporter
India’s Ramandeep Singh celebrates after scoring a
goal against Pakistan during their Hockey World
League Semi-Final match in London on Sunday. (PTI)
LONDON: While the world scored a fine goal after a brilwas engrossed in the ICC liant effort from Sardar Singh
Champions Trophy title from the left end. SV Sunil
clash between India and deflected the ball and
Pakistan at London, the In- Talwinder netted the ball in
dian hockey team decimated the final moments.
Pakistan by winning the
In the 24th minute,
semi- final in Pool B match Talwinder made another
of Hockey World League spectacular goal by leading
by 7-1 on Sunday.
India 3-0. With the start of
With this victory, the In- the
second
half,
dian team has reached the Harmanpreet converted a
top of Pool B with nine penalty corner for India. Inpoints.
dia has now moved ahead
Drag flicker Harmanpreet by 4-0. Akashdeep Singh
Singh, Talwinder Singh and scored India's fifth goal in
Akashdeep Singh scored the 47th minute.
twice, while Pradeep Mor
In the 49th minute,
scored one goal. Pakistan's Pardeep Mor completed a
only goal was made by beautiful goal from a diffiMuhammad Umar.
cult angle.
The Indian team, led by
After conceding six
Manpreet Singh, lead 3-0 in goals, Pakistan changed its
the first half, after which goalkeeper. Pakistan scored
Pakistan had no chance of their first goal in the 57th
making a comeback.
minute, Mohammad Omar
Team India's first goal reduced the margin of defeat
was scored by drag flicker by field goal.
Harmanpreet in the 13th
But in the 59th minute,
minute on a penalty corner. Akashdeep netted his secThis was the second goal in ond goal and gave India a
Harmanpreet's tournament. 7-1 win.
In the 21st minute of the secIndia will next face Nethond quarter, Talwinder erlands on Tuesday. (UNI)
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