US President Donald Trump on Saturday accused Germany of owing "vast sums of money" to NATO and the US, one day after his meeting at the White House with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

He said on Twitter that Germany owed NATO and the US for the "powerful, and very expensive defence it provides to Germany!"

Trump also tweeted that he had a "great" meeting with Merkel, despite the "fake news" that, in his opinion, have been published in US media outlets. 

During his press conference with Merkel on Friday, he again raised complained that many European members of NATO, which he has described as "obsolete", were not pulling their weight within the Atlantic Alliance. 

"Many nations owe vast sums of money from past years and it is very unfair to the US. These nations must pay what they owe," he said, apparently referring to the failure of some member-states to comply with the NATO guideline calling for devoting at least two per cent of gross domestic product to the military, CNN reported.

Merkel said Germany had committed to increasing its military spending to the previously agreed level of two per cent of GDP for NATO's European members.

The US President also lashed out at the news media on Saturday. 

"Despite what you have heard from the FAKE NEWS," he tweeted, "I had a GREAT meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel."

The Trump administration wants to build a 30-foot-high border wall that looks good from the north side and is difficult to climb or cut through, according to a pair of contract notices posted to a government website further detailing President Donald Trump's promise to build a "big, beautiful wall" at the Mexican border.

The notices were made public last night by Customs and Border Protection, the Homeland Security Department agency that will oversee the project and eventually patrol and maintain the wall. The proposals are due to the government by March 29.

One of the CBP contract requests calls for a solid concrete wall, while the other asks for proposals for a see-through structure. Both require the wall to sunk at least six feet into the ground and include 25- and 50-foot automated gates for pedestrians and vehicles. The proposed wall must also be built in a such a way that it would take at least an hour to cut through it with a "sledgehammer, car jack, pick axe, chisel, battery operated impact tools, battery operated cutting tools, Oxy/acetylene torch or other similar hand-held tools." 

The government will award a contract based on 30-foot-wide sample walls that are to be built in San Diego.

This is the second time the Trump administration has asked for private companies to bid on building the wall. Last month CPB put out a call for "concept papers" to design and build prototypes by March 10.

Trump has bragged in recent days that the wall is ahead of schedule, though it's unclear from the latest contract notices if any firms have submitted wall proposals or if any such submissions have been rejected.

The race for the Champions League spots is heating up in the English Premier League and when third-placed Manchester City host Liverpool on Sunday, a lot will be on the line at the Etihad Stadium with the spotlight in particular on City manager Pep Guardiola.

The hawks are circling after the cash-rich club were dumped out of Europe in midweek, losing to a fired-up Monaco side and nothing but three points will do against the Reds.

It won’t be easy, however, for Liverpool are a side that deliver big performances in the big games and while goals will be guaranteed considering neither team has a half-decent defence, a result seems too close to call at this point.

Manchester City
City is on the verge of a crisis and it wouldn't be unfair to suggest that if Liverpool win, fans could start turning on their vaunted manager.

He spoke about the challenge of managing City this week, hinting that coaching the likes of Bayern Munich and Barcelona was easier since they were established clubs, but for Premier League standards, the Sky Blues are better off than most.

They have a great squad overall, with some obvious weak points but no team in modern football is perfect.

So Guardiola will have to coax the best out of Sergio Aguero and Kevin De Bruyne, two big names who on several occasions have gone missing when their side needs them most.

His shambolic defence isn't going to be fixed overnight, but City will need their stars to justify their high wages and take a cue from young wingers Raheem Sterling and Leroy Sane, who have arguably been the team’s bright spots this season.

City have no fresh injury concerns, with Ilkay Gundogan and Gabriel Jesus on the long-term casualty list.

Liverpool
Ignominious cup exits coupled with a failure to sustain a proper title challenge have brought down the mood at Anfield and while recent results have been encouraging, Liverpool are under pressure to win this game as well.

Arsenal and Manchester United aren't too far behind in the league table and while the Reds have plenty of quality in their squad, a lack of an out and out goalscorer is perhaps the chief reason for their inconsistent displays.

Brilliant against their main rivals but poor against teams that shut up shop, Klopp’s team seems to have no Plan B.

Against City, however, Liverpool will happily cede the possession battle and hit the hosts on the counter with searing speed thanks to the superlative talents such as Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Philippe Coutinho.

While Mane and Coutinho keep scoring the odd goal, Firmino has been quite ineffective in the final third and that will have to change if the Reds are to win and against a City side whose poor defence rivals Liverpools!

Divock Origi and Roberto Firmino are racing to get fit in time for the trip to the Etihad and while skipper Jordan Henderson and Daniel Sturridge are out, Dejan Lovren is fit for selection .

Super Stat: The first-ever meeting between Manchester City and Liverpool took place in 1901, a game which Liverpool won 3-2!

The Human Resource Development Ministry on Saturday alleged that a forged letter was sent to JNU by the UGC office notifying the closure of the Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy at School of Social Sciences. The purported letter was forwarded by the JNU administration to the chairperson of the Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy.

The alleged forged letter informed JNU that financial support to the CSDE would be discontinued after the end of the XIIth Plan and that the decision to discontinue the financial support had been taken at the level of the MHRD, by an order. The notice according to a press statement ends with the proclamation: “No communication whatsoever will be entertained or solicited by the UGC.”

A press statement from the government said some news reports had appeared on the basis of the forged letter allegedly sent to the JNU administration by UGC. “It would have been proper if the press would have confirmed with University Grants Commission before publishing the news item,” said the statement.

UGC has established  Centres for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy in various universities in the Xth Plan on plan-to-plan basis provided these Centres report satisfactory progress in the areas of their focus.  Keeping in view the same procedure, the UGC would be extending these Centres from 1 April, 2017 onwards.

In another letter of UGC dated 20 January 2011, JNU was informed that the Centres will continue as earlier and the work would be monitored by the Commission. In letters dated 22 September 2015, and 23 December 2015, UGC informed JNU that the centre being on plan-to-plan basis will continue on the same basis.
 

Punjab's Cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Saturday found support from his Cabinet colleague over his decision to
continue appearing in the popular comedy show  ‘The Kapil Sharma Show’.

The finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal said there was nothing wrong in Sidhu's TV appearance as it's his only source of income. "I am a farmer. By that count, tomorrow I may be asked to leave agriculture as I am a minister now," Badal told reporters after the first council of ministers meeting.

"No work is bad. It's for the individual to do it with honesty. I think Sidhu should continue to appear in the TV comedy show. He has the star power for it. He is a clean man," the minister said.

After assuming charge as minister of tourism, culture and local bodies minister  Sidhu on Thursday said he would continue to make television appearances and it wouldn’t hinder his ability to discharge his duties as minister as the shooting for the TV show will be done late in the night.
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If people don’t have problem, why do you worry? If I do TV I will leave at 3 p.m. from here (Chandigarh) and will return (from Mumbai) here before anyone wakes up,” he said adding that he would balance both the roles with ease.

In the past when he was the Lok Sabha member from Amritsar as member of the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP),  his wife Navjot Kaur had justified his absence from the constituency for TV programmes saying he works hard to earn his money with honestly and didn't believe in earning money through corrupt means like most politicians do.

Kaur had on Tuesday said even after becoming a minister, Sidhu would continue shooting for the show as such shooting requires only around 6 hours during night of Saturday every week.

Days after they became VVIPs, newly appointed Punjab ministers including the chief minister (CM) Capt Amarinder
Singh on Saturday decided against using the biggest symbol of being a VIP — the red beacon light.

In the very first meeting chaired by Captain Amarinder, the council of ministers decided against use of red beacon lights by the CM, ministers, MLAs and government officials.

Red beacon light will only be allowed for ambulances, fire brigade vehicles and the vehicles chief justice and judges of Punjab and Haryana High Court.

"Use of red beacon has become illegal in Punjab," finance minister, Manpreet Singh Badal, told reporters while informally briefing about the decisions taken during the over-three hour meeting held two days after  the Congress took over Punjab’s reins.

In all, 118 items were discussed during the meeting and more  than 100 decisions were taken to fulfilling the electoral promises.

A formal notification to this effect will be issued after a new policy on use of such beacon lights on vehicles is formulated, an official spokesman said.

The council of ministers also decided to ban foreign travel of all ministers, MLAs and officials on government expense for two years, except where it is so mandated or provided under and bilateral agreement or arrangement.

In another decision, the council of ministers decided that the CM, minister or legislators will lay the foundation stone of any project or inaugurate the same. "To the most, if a project is of over Rs.100 crore, only a stone will be placed there saying "this project was completed with the money collected from the taxes paid by the people," Badal said.

He said it has also been decided that all legislators and ministers will make public their property every month.  "A anti-graft Lok Bill more stringent than the one brought by social activist Anna Hazare will be brought and  everyone including the CM will be covered under its purview," the minister said.

He said 33 per cent reservation will now be given to women in all government jobs including contractual.  "Thirty-five per cent reservation will be given to women in local body elections," Badal said.

For loan-waiver, a decision was taken to set up a group of experts to assess and analyse the quantum of the agriculture debt of farmers in the state, and propose ways and means to waive the debt in a time-bound manner.

The Amarinder Singh government also decided to exempt media persons from payment of toll tax on the state highways.

The Jammu and Kashmir (J-K) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unit on Saturday authorised the party highcommand to decide whether it should contest the byelection for two Lok Sabha seats in Kashmir against its own ruling coalition partner PDP.

However, there were indications that the BJP highcommand might not allow the state unit to contest the election provided the PDP was against the strategy. The local BJP unit's strategy was to put up its candidates to prevent polling of votes of migrant Kashmir Pandits in favour of the Congress–National Conference alliance.

A high-level meeting of top BJP leaders and ministers was held here today to discuss the issue and also finalize candidates for the six seats of the Legislative Council that are falling vacant next month. The PDP and BJP on basis of their strength in the Assembly will contest two seats each.

The selection committee will forward the panel of BJP candidates to the high command for final choice.

BJP general secretary Ram Madhav and Avinashrai Khanna were present in the meeting.

Several party activists urged the leadership to field BJP candidates for the two Lok Sabha seats.
Ram Madhav said that the BJP would observe the coalition dharma and the alliance was working smoothly.

He said that the separatists need to be exposed as on one hand their leaders like Syed Ali Shah Geelani was spitting venom against Constitution of the country and on the other hand feels no problem when his kin is appointed on government job under the same constitution.

He said that the separatists were misleading the youth of valley and making them indulge in stone pelting and such other activities.

Himachali film ‘Brina’ which is based on customs of Mandi district, would be screened at International Women’s Film Festival (IWFF) at New Jersey in United States (US) on 28 March.

The film is based on local tradition which was prevalent in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh around 150 years ago.

“As per the prevalent tradition at that time, moneylender (called as ‘Sahukar’) used to buy brides after paying money to their parents,” Brina movie director, Pawan Kumar Sharma told The Statesman.

“However, a girl from the Pingala village in Sarkaghat in Mandi district, Lahula challenged the system. But she failed and committed suicide,” Sharma said.

And now as penance, the residents of Pingala village celebrate ‘Basoa’ festival on Baisakhi every year and immerse puppets in local rivulets after marrying them.

The main aim behind producing the movie is to give the message of ‘Save Girl Child’ to the society, at a time when there are lots of cases of crime against women in the country, Sharma said.

“Apart from this, the film highlights the issue of polyandry, child marriages and low sex ratio. We want to give a message to society if we could not save the girl child on time, such situation could arise in the near future,” he said.

Pawan Kumar Sharma, who is in his hometown in Sundernagar in Mandi district, says he had blended Pahari language with Hindi in the film and the film features a mixture of artists, both from Bollywood and Himachal Pradesh.

Produced in 2016, the film Brina has not been officially released as yet and Pawan Kumar Sharma is planning to release the movie in May-June this year.

The film has won many awards at international and national film festivals and it has won the Best Jury and Best Villain award at Prague International Film Festival.

Brina has also won the Best Jury, Best Actor and Villain award at Jaipur International Film Festival and Best Film award at the Shimla International Film Festival.

The film would also be showcased at the Nasik International Film Festival scheduled to be held from 23-26 March 2017.

The UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations and India will jointly conduct a course here to strengthen senior leadership capacity on effective planning and conducting of integrated UN peace support operations.

The Senior Mission Leaders’ Course (SMLC) will be held at the Centre for UN Peacekeeping from 20-31 March, according to the Ministry of External Affairs.

A total of 25 participants from 18 countries will attend the course along with 21 UN officials, senior mentors, facilitators and presenters.

The annual course is conducted with the objective of strengthening the senior leadership's capacity through training on effective planning and conducting of integrated UN peace support operations.

It provides a forum for the participants to interact on diverse issues related to peace and security; and challenges faced by them in UN missions. Participants in this course are high ranking military, police and civilian officials and who are expected to assume senior leadership positions in future UN Peace operations.

India continues its strong commitment to UN Peacekeeping both through enhanced contributions and peacekeeping capacity building efforts in recent times.

More than 2,00,000 Indian troops, military observers and civilian police officers have participated in 48 out of the 69 UN Peacekeeping Operations and Observer Missions established since 1948.

The keynote address at the inaugural session at the Manekshaw Centre will be delivered by Secretary (East) in the Ministry of External Affairs Preeti Saran, and attended by Deputy Chief of Army Staff (IS&T) Gen J S Cheema and Jack Christofides, Director, Department of Policy, Evaluation & Training (DPET), United Nations.

“I wish to go home. But who will trace my roots and who will take me there? It’s enough that they take care of me,” said Ram Singh, 47, a Nepalese, who is bedridden for ten years at an old age home in Shimla.

Ram Singh is from Gunam in Rolpa district in Nepal and had come to Himachal Pradesh in search of employment while he was a minor. He injured his spine, when he worked as daily wagers in forests under a private contractor with the State Forest Development Corporation to lift the logs of woods.

“I was admitted to Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) hospital in Shimla with serious injuries by the contractor, who never returned after leaving me there. I was hospitalised for long and was then shifted to this Home,” Ram Singh told The Statesman.

“I don’t even remember my home in Nepal as I left it in childhood for work,” said another inmate from Nepal, Sonam Bahadur, 43.

Sonam’s legs were amputated some years ago after he met with an accident in the forest. He has, however, learnt to brave the odds of disability as he moves around on inexpensive indigenous seat, which he manually operates.

Like Ram Singh, Sonam too was abandoned in the hospital by the contractor he worked with and his treatment expenses were also reportedly borne by Red Cross Society and the authorities at IGMC, then.

These are not the isolated cases of poor Nepalese housed in this Old Age Home, Basantpur in Shimla district, run by the Social Welfare Board.

There are eight such inmates here, who belong to Nepal and had left their native place long back in search of livelihood, for poverty back home. Among others, these include a deaf and dumb widow, Ganga Devi rescued from Rohru (Shimla) with her husband (who died later) and elderly Bal Bahadur, who earlier lived in a self-created cave like structure in abject poverty a rock near Shimla.

In all, there are 38 inmates from different parts of India in the Home.

With no official requirement of documents in hand, the Nepalese inmates have no clue about their roots. By the time they grew up here, they lost touch with their family members in Nepal. There is no mechanism in the state, as well, to find out their background in routine, for lack of link ups, resources, time and above all, priority.

“Where to go? It’s our compulsion to live in captivity. God has at least given us shelter and food,” said Sonam.

He points to the lock at the gate of Home that bars all inmates (even the normal ones) from moving out for a puff of fresh air. This conveyed his ‘untold pain’ even more.

The Trivendra Rawat government in Uttarakhand faces an uphill task to fulfill the aspiration of the hill people. After scoring a thumping win the state assembly polls, the biggest challenge before BJP to ensure a transparent government, put ban on illegal sand mining, solve the Uttarakhand capital issue and stop migration from the hills.

BJP raised the corruption issue prominently in the Uttarakhand polls. Appointing the Lok Ayukta , as promised in the manifesto, within 100 days will give a clear indication of the new government and its commitment towards transparency and accountability.  

After formation of Uttarakhand, both BJP and Congress have accused each other of wrongdoing. Every government instituted inquiry, but not even a single probe has reached its final stage. Trivendra Rawat’s real test will be to prove that his government is different from others and those guilty will not be spared.  

Illegal sand mining remains unchecked in Uttarakhand. The politician-mafia nexus prevail and putting an end to the ongoing manipulation is not going to be easy in Uttarakhand. 

Transfer/posting is a big industry in Uttarakhand. During the B.C Khanduri rule a dedicated transfer policy was formulated, but it never got implemented. 

Migration is major problem in the hills. According to a state government survey there are over one thousand ghost villages in Uttarakhand. The situation of other villages is also grime, facing burn of mass migration.  BJP has promised stopping migration from the hills? But it is easier said than done. Identifying the problem behind migration, creating livelihood sources there and creating basic facilities like education and medical facilities can help in reverse migration. Rawat government will be under pressure to do some concrete to stop migration.

The rehabilitation of over 300 disaster hit villages will test the commitment of the Trivendra government towards hill people. Post 2013 disaster, the Congress government was able to reconstruct many tourist facilities in Kedarnath. But much is desired to be done at Badrinath, Gangotri and Yamunotri. 

Creating jobs for youths, boosting industrial growth, developing infrastructure and creating other facilities will be among the key focus areas of the new government. Trivendra Rawat will face big headache in controlling the bureaucrats. The BJP government will have to fulfill its promise of making Gairsain the summer capital of Uttarakhand. 

After the Congress party's poll debacle in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand Assembly elections, senior party leader Digvijaya Singh on Friday urged party vice-president Rahul Gandhi to act decisively.

“He has to act. My complaint against Rahul Gandhi is that he is not acting decisively. I have told him a number of times. Sometimes, he gets angry when I keep repeating the same thing,” Digvijaya said at an event in New Delhi.

Digvijaya called on for a “new Congress” to rebuild the party after the humiliating losses in the state assembly elections on March 11.

“I would say that we want a new Congress, a new charter, a new roadmap, a new style of campaigning. A new Congress has to be built, and there is no other person who can do it better than Rahul Gandhi," he said.

 “We have to make the Congress party more attuned to modern changing times, looking into the aspirations of a rising middle class, and chart a new course for the party,” he added.

The Communist Party of India (CPI)-affiliate All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) on Saturday termed life imprisonment to 13 workers of Maruti in a 2012 violent agitation case as “most unfortunate.”
In a statement on the recent court judgment, the AITUC said awarding five years imprisonment to another batch of four workers was also “distressing”.
The union said the Trade Unions Council, Gurgaon, and five unions operating in the units of Maruti Suzuki industrial belt in Gurgaon Manesar, had rightfully decided to file an appeal in Punjab and Haryana High Court against the judgement, while launching a solidarity campaign with the aggrieved workers and their families.
“The main fault of workers of Maruti was their attempt to form a trade union in a multinational company,” AITUC secretary D L Sachdev said.
AITUC has given a call to its affiliated unions to condemn “the collusion” among the authorities and hold protest demonstration.

In order to address the situation of non-performing assets of public sector banks, the Central government in accordance with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) suggestion is likely to provide a final one-time settlement offer to the top 50 defaulters. If the government doesn’t find the response satisfactory, it will initiate the earlier strategy of ‘naming and shaming’ along with criminal action against willful defaulters.

Senior officials in the finance ministry said, “The strategy will help the banks to recover majority of the dues with the one-time settlement option ~ where the bank will take a cut in the total dues but will be able to recover most of the funds which was earlier completely out of question and would have been marked as absolute ‘dead asset’.”

On other loans like for the small and medium enterprise segment and educational loans, banks are conducting these strategies of one-time settlement without getting into the hassle of any legal proceedings. A senior banking official said, ”The rationale is these loans in any case are hard core NPAs and recovering them through legal process is a very tedious process. Since people are also willing to get their credit history clear and they want to pay and that is why what we find that the settlement schemes are a good source for improving the recovery performance.”

According to recent RBI data, the total stressed assets (Gross Non Performing Assets and Restructured Standard Advances) of Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) was Rs 9.64 lakh crore as on 31 December 2016 and reduction in NPAs due to actual recoveries (April to Dec) for SCBs are Rs 46,245 crore at the end of 31 December 2016 for global operations.

While the government is unlikely to set up a state-owned ‘Bad Bank’ to take over NPAs from state-owned banks in the near term, the Department of Financial Services has been asked to review the existing framework of private asset reconstruction companies (ARC) over the next few months and submit its report.

Putting rest to all speculations and suspense over the new Uttar Pradesh chief Minister, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday elected party MP Yogi Adityanath as the successor to Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav.

Forty-four-year old Adityanath, a native of Garhwal in Uttarakhand is a five-time Lok Sabha MP from eastern UP’s Gorakhpur. He was elected in 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014 elections.

Adityanath, the youngest member to be appointed to the 12th Lok Sabha at 26 years, is the head priest at the Gorakhnath temple in Gorakhpur, successor to former Hindu Mahasabha president Mahant Avaidyanath.

He was allegedly involved in the controversy of leading a purification drive of converting 1,800 Christians into Hinduism in UP’s municipality town Etah.

It may be recalled that Adityanath was one of the MPs who attacked Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan for his “growing intolerance remark”. He compared SRK to Pakistani terrorist and Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) leader Hafiz Saeed, who was allegedly, involved in the 2008 November Mumbai terror attacks.

Adityanath born as Ajay Singh Bish completed his BSc in Maths from HNB Garhwal University. He gained popularity in the state for delivering fiery and bold speeches.

Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who had turned down the titular role in "Munnabhai MBBS", says he couldn't have portrayed the role better than Sanjay Dutt.

"I think that every actor is destined to do certain films. I feel I couldn't have done it as well as Sanjay Dutt did," Shah Rukh said. 

He said this at the launch of the Bone Marrow Transplant and Birthing Centre of Nanavati hospital here. 

Produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and directed by Rajkumar Hirani, "Munnabhai MBBS" was a turning point in Sanjay's career. He played the role of a lovable goon in the film franchise.

The "Raees" actor also spoke about his meeting with colleague Aamir Khan on various occasions which sparked speculation that they are teaming up for a project.

He said: "I went to his house to wish him on his birthday. We don't talk work. We haven't spoken on work for years…There is nothing work wise that we have discussed."

Shah Rukh also asserted that they used to "meet earlier too. It's just that the media has started noticing now".

The Central government has initiated the process to interlink rivers in the country as conceived by to make irrigation facilities available for unirrigated areas.

Union Minister of Home Affairs, Rajnath Singh on Saturday said that the Centre has already initiated steps under the leadership to implement the ambitious project of former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. While inaugurating the 3-day 2nd Agri-Leadership Summit-2017 at Surajkund in Faridabad district, he said that a Rs 20,000 Crore fund has been created under NABARD to improve irrigation facilities as the Central government has set a target to bring more than 76 lakh hectares of land under irrigation by the year 2019.
 
The Central government is also taking steps to reduce the cost of inputs of cultivation so as to make farming a profitable occupation, he added. 

The Union minister also urged the farmers to ensure their role in branding, processing and marketing of their produce so as to become agri-leaders in real sense.

While lauding the efforts of Haryana government in agriculture and allied sectors, he said that 340 villages of Haryana were being developed as horticulture villages and a  Horticulture university was being established in the state.
 
"This reflects state government’s commitment  towards achieving the Prime Minister's vision to double the income of farmers by the year 2022," he said.

Referring to the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna, he said that this scheme has been launched  to provide insurance cover to crops of the farmers.

The Central government had made a provision of Rs 8,000 Crore for the promotion of dairy, poultry, fisheries and allied sectors in the year 2017-18. Out of it, Rs 2,000 Crore have been earmarked for the promotion of dairy sector. Though, India is number one in milk production, yet there is a lot of scope to increase the production of milk and other dairy products by using new techniques, he added.
 
Haryana Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister, O P Dhankar said that the state is promoting peri-urban agriculture in the areas adjoining national capital Delhi and other important cities.

He also urged the farmers, especially the cattle breeders to rear one more buffalo so that Haryana could become number one in milk production in the country.

A number of seminars would be organised during the 3-day summit. Also, the farmers would be apprised about risk management.