Mizoram had become the third power- surplus state in the north-east after Sikkim and Tripura, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday. He also said the central schemes for the benefit of the north-east had gained momentum and that his government was committed to developing the region. “Today, we celebrate a significant milestone in the history of Mizoram with the completion and dedication of the 60-MW Tuirial hydropower project,” the Prime Minister said, while addressing a public meeting here after inaugurating it. With the commissioning of the project, Mizoram became the third power-surplus state in the north-east, he added. The hydropower project would produce “251 million units” of electrical energy every year and boost the economic development of the state, Mr. Modi said. “The completion of this project is a reflection of our commitment to completing the ongoing projects and ushering in a new era of development in the north-east,” he added. The Tuirial project, which was announced and cleared in 1998 by the then Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, was the first major central project to be successfully commissioned in Mizoram, the prime minister said. read more
WATCH: Streetboys show off slick dance moves in Vhong Navarro’s wedding SEA Games in Calabarzon safe, secure – Solcom chief MOST READ Read Next Typhoon Kammuri accelerates, gains strength en route to PH Takahashi finally gets to be No. 1 Don’t miss out on the latest news and information. Catriona Gray spends Thanksgiving by preparing meals for people with illnesses UPLB exempted from SEA Games class suspension LOOK: Venues for 2019 SEA Games LATEST STORIES Brace for potentially devastating typhoon approaching PH – NDRRMC Onyok Velasco see bright future for PH boxing in Olympics PLAY LIST 00:45Onyok Velasco see bright future for PH boxing in Olympics01:27Filipino athletes get grand send-off ahead of SEA Games03:07PH billiards team upbeat about gold medal chances in SEA Games00:50Trending Articles01:35Panelo suggests discounted SEA Games tickets for students02:49World-class track facilities installed at NCC for SEA Games05:25PH boxing team determined to deliver gold medals for PH03:04Filipino athletes share their expectations for 2019 SEA Games02:25PH women’s volleyball team motivated to deliver in front of hometown crowd Unfortunately for the 21-year-old Aragon, she fought on the defensive early against her Indonesian foe, struggling to recover from a 3-6 deficit in the second round as she settled for a silver medal in the women’s bantamweight division.Despite the defeat, Aragon’s was the second silver medal bagged by the Philippine taekwondo team, increasing the sport’s haul to seven medals.FEATURED STORIESSPORTSWATCH: Drones light up sky in final leg of SEA Games torch runSPORTSSEA Games: Philippines picks up 1st win in men’s water poloSPORTSMalditas save PH from shutout Kammuri turning to super typhoon less likely but possible — Pagasa Rhezie Aragon fought the good fight, but in the end, fell to Mariska Halinda of Indonesia, 4-9, in the gold medal match of the women’s 53kg division in taekwondo in the 2017 Southeast Asian Games Monday at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre Hall 1.With only three competitors in the weight class, Aragon was instantly slotted in the Finals while Halinda had to fight off Malaysian bet Jasmin Nabilla to earn the right to face the Filipina jin.ADVERTISEMENT View comments read more
Tim Cone. Photo by Tristan Tamayo/ INQUIRER.netBarangay Ginebra’s character was tested on Sunday when a motivated Meralco crew threw everything it had to equalize the series on Sunday.“It was a struggle. [Meralco is] mentally very tough and they’re hard to crack. But I’m just truly happy with our guys, just hanging in there, battling and finding a way,” said Ginebra coach Tim Cone.ADVERTISEMENT Read Next Nonong Araneta re-elected as PFF president Don’t miss out on the latest news and information. Mbala locks down Desiderio in DLSU rout of UP Frontrow holds fun run to raise funds for young cancer patients LATEST STORIES Typhoon Kammuri accelerates, gains strength en route to PH Trending Articles PLAY LIST 00:50Trending Articles05:25PH boxing team determined to deliver gold medals for PH00:50Trending Articles01:37Protesters burn down Iran consulate in Najaf01:47Panelo casts doubts on Robredo’s drug war ‘discoveries’01:29Police teams find crossbows, bows in HK university01:35Panelo suggests discounted SEA Games tickets for students02:49Robredo: True leaders perform well despite having ‘uninspiring’ boss02:42PH underwater hockey team aims to make waves in SEA Games LOOK: Loisa Andalio, Ronnie Alonte unwind in Amanpulo for 3rd anniversary MOST READ “Our energy went up in the last three minutes of the game when we tied the basketball game and we just kind of fed off that energy the rest of the way, emotionally. Seeing that the opportunity was there for us to win that game.”The triumph gave the Gin Kings to a 2-0 series lead in the 2017 PBA Governors’ Cup Finals, two wins away from retaining their title in the season-ending conference.It was an uplifting win given the situation both teams had to go through stemming from Game 1 in Lucena, but Cone knows the Gin Kings have their work cut out for them with a desperate Meralco side fighting for its life on Wednesday.“I think they have a lot of punches left to throw us. This is a real trying game because of the out-of-town experience that we had 48 hours ago. We didn’t get back to Manila until 3 o’ clock in the morning and guys weren’t asleep until 3:30 or 4 a.m,” Cone said.“So it was a real trying weekend for us and for them as well. It just looked like at the end, we just had a little more than they did. Now they got two days to refresh, and I think that extra day in a series is really valuable to the teams,” he added. “They’re gonna come out with full punches in Game 3.“ADVERTISEMENT “We didn’t shoot the ball particularly well tonight, but we played the game in other areas and made it up there,” said coach Tim Cone.The Gin Kings anticipated a huge fightback from the Bolts as they saw themselves down early, 8-17 to start the game. But they put themselves within striking distance as they waited for the right time to strike.FEATURED STORIESSPORTSWATCH: Drones light up sky in final leg of SEA Games torch runSPORTSSEA Games: Philippines picks up 1st win in men’s water poloSPORTSMalditas save PH from shutoutWith Meralco holding a 75-69 edge in the final 5:56, that was when Ginebra made its rally, with Japeth Aguilar’s thunderous dunk igniting what would be a deciding 17-1 finishing kick as the Kings came away with the 86-76 Game 2 win.“We took a big punch from them early in the game. We kind of survived that and we were able to kind of make it into a possession-by-possession game. No one really got up in front, then we had a real good closing kick,” Cone said. Fire hits houses in Mandaluyong City Kammuri turning to super typhoon less likely but possible — Pagasa Brace for potentially devastating typhoon approaching PH – NDRRMC BSP sees higher prices in November, but expects stronger peso, low rice costs to put up fight View comments read more
OUT OF GOD’S OVEN: TRAVELS IN A FRACTURED LAND BY DOM MORAES AND SARAYU SRIVATSA PRICE: RS 450 PAGES: 387The idea of India has always been a traveller’s burden. From the antique wandering sage, Orientalism’s first scriptwriter, to the modern day culture tourist, every adventurer has sought the meaning of,OUT OF GOD’S OVEN: TRAVELS IN A FRACTURED LAND BY DOM MORAES AND SARAYU SRIVATSA PRICE: RS 450 PAGES: 387The idea of India has always been a traveller’s burden. From the antique wandering sage, Orientalism’s first scriptwriter, to the modern day culture tourist, every adventurer has sought the meaning of its palimpsestic identity, its patinated diversity, its swelling sorrow – and its unused wisdom.The traveller’s notebook, or the Grating Indian Narrative, is an esoteric text inhabited by stereotypes and originals, and it is still flexible enough to accommodate more discoveries, like the old Russian novel. Ah, the predictable sigh of “been there, read that”: pagan rites of the faithful; neverending funeral flames on the river; photogenic poverty in the countryside; fanatics at the masjid gate; the lone rebel in a wretched country; the ghettoes and the grotesqueries of religion; the republic of hate ruled by newly awakened nationalists…. Still, India is an unfinished page in the book of revelations.Step in Dom Moraes and companion Sarayu Srivatsa and they have an India to unravel, an India that is familiar and distant, intimate and strange. What is important here is Moraes himself, one of India’s finest writers in English. Poet, memoirist, reporter, he is both sensitive and detached at the same moment. He has full control over that uncertain space between seeing and knowing. And it is that control, rarely seen in travellers with a heavy baggage of judgements, that makes Out of God’s Oven so conspicuous in the marketplace of Discover India.advertisementHe is here and at the same time elsewhere, he is the bystander who is occasionally pushed by the situation into the margins of the event. He won’t stay there for long. He walks out, more puzzled than enlightened. The remains of such moments are the best parts of this book, part memoir, part travel, part reportage.To get a better idea of this Dom Exceptionalism, you have Moraes introducing himself with a bit of ancestral remembrance, but no sentimental time travel. His father, Frank Moraes, legendary editor and stylist, left India in 1972 and came to London to die. “He hadn’t died happily.” There was a time when Moraes-lonely childhood, closed room poetry, madness of the mother, Oxford – wanted London so badly, “to live, to write”. PUZZLED TRAVELLERS: Sarayu Srivatsa (left) and Dom MoraesHe had to make a choice in 1980. He made the hard choice of India. His illusions died two years ago when the “grotesque reminders of the millennium” floated in the “sky of an unfamiliar London”. There was no happy homecoming and happiness thereafter. Rather, India would continue to be an engaging puzzle. The young Moraes had this idea of three Indias: one was the India of the cities and he disliked it; the other was the India of the villages -“I pitied it and wanted to love it, but it puzzled me.” The third India “no longer existed and perhaps never had but might have been beautiful if and when it did. But I still didn’t feel I belonged to any of them.”The feeling hasn’t changed. Moraes travels almost like an outsider in a strange country. And he has a perfect travelling partner in Srivatsa, the “dark Brahmin” who has the name of a sacred river and whose growing-up story too is one of cultural exceptionalism, intimately told in In Andamma’s House. The personal story of the narrators is a status statement – essential reading to understand the story of places and people they tell in God’s Oven. Familiar places. Like Gujarat 2002: “In the end the people would forget all this, as they did most unpleasant matters. It was the best way to cope with what life in India offered them.” Or Bombay 1992: “I saw two men carry a large sheet of mirror across the road, three feet by six feet. Reflected in it I saw the mob. Also a beggar woman, one eye torn out, her breasts tumbling out of her scruffy saree, she carried an overgrown child in her arms, doped. Then a crow looped over the mirrored rectangle, caw, caw, caw.” These and other places like Laloo Yadav’s Bihar may be banal datelines from the front pages of India’s recent history but in God’s Oven they are stranger than yesterday’s headlines. Perhaps the people are more interesting, like the Dalit poet in a blue sports car or “the General” in Bhopal.Timothy Garton Ash, the finest chronicler of Eastern Europe 1989, has an explanation for this kind of journalism: the drama documentary where the frontier with fiction is violated, events are rearranged and real people are turned into dramatis personae. The genre of reportage as literature.Moraes and Srivatsa have done it in elegant style. These cosmopolitan liberals may want to keep a distance from the fractured India. You can’t, from their despatches from the grey zones of India, so used to travellers worse and better.advertisement read more
Bournemouth boss Howe can’t fault players in Cup defeatby Paul Vegas10 months agoSend to a friendShare the loveBournemouth boss Eddie Howe was pleased with his players in their Carabao Cup quarterfinal defeat to Chelsea.Substitute Eden Hazard struck in the 84th minute with a strike that took a massive deflection as the Cherries were more than a match for the Blues, creating a number of good opportunities at Stamford Bridge.Howe said, “I’m pleased tonight, the start of the game was tough but we settled down and were good value.”We put in a disciplined defensive display, counter-attacked well and we used the ball well at times. The result really could’ve been different, I’m so disappointed for those players who gave their all out on the pitch.”At 0-0 we looked more than capable and had our moments, we just couldn’t get that one moment to score. There are so many positives to take.” About the authorPaul VegasShare the loveHave your say read more