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Import lobbies derailing Indias oil exploration: Minister

obstructions. Every minister who is occupying this (petroleum) position is threatened. There is bureaucratic delay and obstructions and also other lobbies that dont want us to stop imports, Moily told media persons here. However, Moily cannot be threatened, said the minister. He said the country is floating on a sea of oil and gas and were not exploring it because of the threats and obstructions. Data show that after nine rounds of activity under the governments New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP), about 80 percent area is yet to be explored extensively. If the imports continued in the current manner, the country would be staring in the face of importing nearly 100 percent of its oil and gas requirements, said Moily. The decision making process is obstructed, aborted, while this work of the import lobbies will work out to the detriment of the country. All our earnings are going out (for oil imports). This cannot go on, it has to come to a stop, Moily said. Pointing out that low investor sentiment in the last 4-5 years has been a dampener for increased exploration activity, Moily underlined the need for properly compensating producers. We have to give the right price (contractual), the petroleum minister said. He said that such high level of import dependence meant that the country was always challenged by the vagaries of international prices, compounded by factors like rupee depreciation against the dollar. Moily said he has proposed to the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) to increase domestically produced gas prices from current $4.2 per million British thermal unit to $6.7 mbtu. He has been under attack from CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta for proposing to hike natural gas prices by 60 percent. Reacting to the petroleum ministers comments, Dasgupta was quoted as saying: He is a first class liar. Moily should go to court. Earlier this week, Dasgupta told a leading daily that while the benefit of enhanced gas prices that accrue to the state-run companies ultimately flow back to the government in the form of increased share in the fuel subsidy sharing mechanism, dividends and profits, corporates themselves pocket the enhanced super profits. The BJP Friday termed as shocking disclosure the remarks of petroleum minister, while the CPI-M demanded a reversal of government policies concerning oil supply. The Congress said it was for Moily to explain his remarks. Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said the shocking disclosure by the oil minister vindicates her partys stance. She said Moily was the fourth petroleum minister under the UPA government to hold the petroleum portfolio while the ministry had been handled by a single minister during the National Democratic Alliance government. They are changing ministers. Very clearly, there is no transparency in decision making. There is no policy. What Mr Moily had said vindicates what we have been saying, Sitharaman told. Many skeletons have come out of cupboard of UPA, she added. Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Basudeb Acharia said the government should explain why it had not resisted pressure from oil lobbies. He said Moliys remark about oil lobbies was a fact and Indias import of petroleum products has been steadily rising while share of domestic production going down. Why government cannot come out of pressure. Why government always surrenders before the oil lobby, he asked. The governments policy should be reversed, he said. Congress spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed said it was for Moily to explain his remarks. Who is trying to influence his decision, it is for Mr Moily to explain, Ahmed said.

New Delhi Petroleum Minister M. Veerappa Moily claimed that Indias energy exploration activities are being derailed by threats to ministers from the import lobbies, which want the country to remain dependent on oil and gas imports, and bureaucratic

2 The Idea of Federal Front

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of previous fronts that went by the names of Third Front, United Front and Alternate Front. All these political concoctions were just that, concoctions. Unlike the two national parties, INC and the BJP, who favour ideological alliances the Federal Front is more of a power sharing agreement amongst disparate regional satraps. The basis of a Federal Front political analysts aver lies in the small regional groups who may not have made up their mind about chances of the two larger national parties. Theoretically at least the idea of Fed-

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eral Front devoid of centralized high command culture of INC and the BJP is very appealing. However the absence of a defined policy programme and the past experience with such experiments have always resulted in disappointment for the nation. A meaningful alternative to the current polity lies in a gradual development of a common policy and philosophical thrust by the constituents. Likes of Nitish, Naveen, Mamta and Mulayam maybe excellent regional politicians but they lack the vision to be national level leaders.

Nothing healthy about Punjabs health department

Jaideep Sarin

The Rupee Slide

Rupee is bleeding and how! The currency of a nation is an important marker of how its economy is faring. Stronger economies invariably tend to have stable currencies that form the basis of global trade. The slide of Indian Rupee against the Dollar has not come as a surprise to most astute observers of Indias economic trends for the past 5 years. The key factors that have contributed to this decline are weak growth, widening current account deficit, rampant inflation and corruption. All these factors are mutually cor-

Past performance is not a guarantee of future results and especially so in Indian electoral context. Of all state and central elections held in India in the new millennium, 81% have thrown up a decisive result. In fact the 2009 election results also surprised political analysts by throwing up a Congress with 200 plus Lok Sabha MPs. In this context and also seen against the catapulting of Narendra Modi to the apex of BJP, does so called Federal Front make any sense? The idea of Federal Front is a rehash

related and self-sustaining in nature, unless intervened upon aggressively. The weak growth of Indian economy has less to do with global economic sentiment and more a result of depressed investment climate, that seeks to punish risk takers. Current account deficit is expected to remain large on account of imports and low confidence in Indias ability to stem its macroeconomic decline in the short term. Similarly inflation has remained sticky or in other words has not come down at an expected pace. Corruption has further compounded growth worries by in-

troducing legal tangles and courts to almost all auction processes and investment decisions in the nation. While the situation may not be alarming it certainly has the portents to be so. India faces a tough external economic climate and a slowing internal economic engine. A currency slide at this stage may set up a downward economic spiral that may take the country years to recover from. While politics of the nation is heating up with its myriad issues, we may very well heed the slide of Rupee as this may impact us the most.

Punjabs health department could do with some urgent resuscitation itself, what with having acquired the reputation of being in the news for the wrong reasons. The latest controversy involving the department is the mass transfer of 523 specialists - over half the strength across the state. Not surprisingly, the transfers have left the government medical community shocked and a prominent body of doctors, the Punjab Civil Medical Services (PCMS) Association, promptly called a twoday strike in protest. Punjab Health Minister Madan Mohan Mittal, who initially maintained that the transfers were irreversible, later cancelled 62 of them, saying these were genuine cases. Among the doctors transferred were three from the health centre in Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badals village, Badal. Their transfers, as expected, were also rolled back. Mittal justified the transfers, saying: The transfers were ordered as we are upgrading nearly 100 hospitals in the state. Some of the transfers were rolled back in genuine cases like health problems of doctors or couples getting posted to different places.

Sow the wind in Syria, reap the whirlwind in Turkey

Saeed Naqvi

It was October 2011. I knew this would be my last evening with the distinguished Turkish journalist, Mehmet Birand, as we looked over the Bosphorus from my hotel in Istanbul. He had been fighting cancer bravely for quite some time but the extent to which his large frame had shrunk was a clear sign that the disease was getting the better of him. Birand had not allowed the disease to subdue his spirits. Quite to the contrary, he had seldom been as optimistic about Turkeys place in world affairs. His country was not yet sowing the wind in Syria. All these years we have been a docile ally of the West, he said. But today we can hold our head high as an independent nation, a dissident country in the Western Alliance. He enjoyed using the term dissident, like he had been freed from the straitjacket imposed on his nation by the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Pasha. This sense of being freed was, in large measure, attributable to the manner in which Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, had expanded his electoral base from 36 percent in 2003, to 42 percent in 2007 and 50 percent in July 2011. Only with this kind of popular support could a government in Ankara tame the army. This Erdogan had effectively managed. The trick to ride the crest of popularity exceeding even Ataturks was to fall back on the formula of independent action in foreign affairs. This, in most Muslim countries, easily translates itself into anti Americanism. When Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, sought passage for US troops into Iraq in 2003, Erdogan refused because 90 percent of the population were opposed to military action. His popularity grew in geometric progression. With a considerable sense of theatre, he walked out on a bewildered Shi-

mon Peres in Davos. He snapped ties with the Jewish state when a Turkish goodwill vessel carrying succor to Gaza was attacked by Israel. This was a total reversal of Turkeys relations with Israel. Quite shrewdly, Erdogan had charted a path which went down well with the Arab street. He played this audacious hand because he knew that retribution would not be visited upon him for being a rejectionist. Turkey had its own protection: it was a member of NATO. Saddam Hussain and Qaddafi had been made examples of. Syria and Iran were in the line of fire. Their guilt? Having the temerity for being independent. That is why Turkey was an awkward dissident in the Western Alliance as Birand put it. Further, as part of its policy of peace with all its neighbours, Ankara had befriended Teheran to a point where the latter was willing to hand over its nuclear material to Ankara for safe keeping. All of this was deeply disturbing. Could Erdogan be manipulated? Ofcourse he could, if only one knew his background. Erdogan and his colleague, President Abdullah Gul, had learnt their paces in politics in the company of Necmettin Erbakan whose Islamist Refah party came to power riding a wave of resentment in Turkey against the televised brutalization of Bosnian Muslims, once subjects of the Ottoman Empire. Guardians of the secular state from the Ataturk era, the Turkish army dethroned Erbakan. But a determined Refah party reinvented itself as a toned down Conservative party without abandoning its Islamist base. Under the leadership of Erdogan and Abdullah Gul, the new Justice and Development party (AK party) strode out. For two and a half terms Erdogan and Abdullah Gul kept up a plausible manner: they were non-ideological, moderate Muslims. Yes, there was an occasional skirmish on trifles like headscarves for women but no

serious threat of a Shariah flag being hoisted on a nation restored by Ataturk. Why, then, did Erdogan manage to shuffle off the moderate image which had caused his reputation to rocket sky high? First, the constitution does not allow a prime minister more than three terms. Thus, Erdogan saw the end of the road for himself in internal politics. He will probably try swapping jobs with Abdullah Gul in 2014-15. But will people let him? After all, 70 percent are opposed to conflict with Syria. Second, the emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood across the Arab world, with a common strand, but different shades, tempted him to project himself as a true disciple of Erbakan to be able to beam his Islamic charisma regionally. Also, he had won three successive elections improving his vote each time. This helped qualify Turkey as something of a model democracy in an Arab world where peoples power could well be the order in the foreseeable future. These were alluring propositions for the AKP leadership but an obvious fact was obscured from their vision: Arabs will accept Ottomans only upto a point. Saudi Arabia and Qatar had joined hands and were playing for very high stakes (a) to scuttle the peoples movement, an essential ingredient in the Arab Spring, which brought down regimes in Tunis and Cairo. They, and the rest of the GCC, were the most vulnerable should Kingdoms and Sheikhdoms ever be threatened. (b) They sought to divert popular discontent along sectarian, Shia-Sunni lines. (c) A major focus of exactly this strategy has been a foreign induced civil war in Syria, hopefully along Sunni-Alawi lines, targeting Bashar al Assad who is being cast in the Western media as some sort of an Alawi ogre. With Assads departure (went the facile theory) Syria would

be removed from the Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas axis. How? What, pray, will come in Assads place? The 148 groups fighting the regime who cant even form a delegation for GenevaII? Listen to Tom Friedman screaming: send a UN force; send a UN force! Look at the nature of the plot and the nave simplicity of the expected outcome. Endorsed by the US and Europe, financed by Saudis and Qataris, helped by Turkey, armed by everyone, groups not dissimilar from the ones the US has been fighting in the AfPak region, are expected to create conditions which will cause a regime change in Damascus. Why will this heartless, remote controlled operation bring about regime change in Damascus? After all, it took a full-fledged US occupation of Iraq, destruction of the Baath structure, wiping out the secret service, killing of Saddam Hussain and all over 10 years, before the US could leave Iraq in the sort of mess that country is in today. Syrian power structure is, in some senses, a mirror image of the Iraqi regime. According to Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN representative in Syria, there are 148 groups, big and small, fighting in the country. Yes, these Islamic brigands can destroy Syria, but not change the regime which is fighting with its back to the wall and has been quite as brutal as the imported Islamists creating mayhem in the countryside. Now that the two sides have fought each other to a standstill, comes the moment of reckoning for the regional promoters of the mayhem. This is the moment that will change the region. Witness the escalating protests in Turkey.

But not all doctors are satisfied with the transfers and the rollbacks. This practice has been going on for years. First order mass transfers and then open up counters to make money to roll them back. Not all doctors are related to VIPs or are influential to get their transfers cancelled. Honest and hard-working doctors will have to suffer in the name of all this for the upgradation of hospitals. Some people will end up paying money to get back their previous posting, said a doctor who had been transferred. In Mohali district, considered the most attractive posting in Punjab and generally managed by highly influential people given its proximity to Chandigarh, the transfers of five doctors were rolled back. Mittal, in the past, has had run-ins with his immediate junior, Chief Parliamentary Secretary (CPS) for health Navjot Kaur Sidhu. The CPS, who is herself a doctor and wife of Amritsar MP and former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu, had last year begun raiding government doctors openly doing private practice and running private clinics. After she nabbed a doctor in Mohali, posing as a patient, the police arrested him. While the medical community reacted sharply to the incident, Mittal too added to the controversy by criticizing the move by the CPS. However, she stood her ground on the issue, resulting in an embarrassing controversy for the health department and the Punjab government. Both Mittal and Navjot Kaur Sidhu are Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators in the state, where the saffron party is in alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal government.

Vaivasvat Back in the 1990s Lal Krishna Advani was the poster boy of Hindutva brigade and thus persona non Grata for most politicians and media persons who professed secularism as the cornerstone of Indian polity. Such was the level of rage and anger associated with his image that he had to step aside and make way for Vajpayee as the Prime Minister of country in 1996 and further. But then life has a habit of turning full circle and media seems to have found its Advani of the 2000s, Narendra Modi. Ever since the original Iron man sought to alloy his hitherto pristine metallurgy with a tinge of Mercury via a Pakistan visit, he gained in the intelligentsia what he lost in the party, cadre support. The ageing patriarch and his battles in the party have received a sympathetic ear within most big media houses. Ideally this should have marked a turnaround of fortunes for the grand old man of the Indian right. Alas, his party and his ideological support base in RSS has moved on. Looking back on his career the determined man that Mr. Advani is, he must be wondering, being a hardliner denied him the party leadership and now not being one has had the same result. Funny aint it?

Funny Ways of Indian Politics

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COVER STORY

Ishrat Jahan encounter case set to heat up

This is a case of Modi Phobia: Jaitley

IB and CBI head for an unprecedented showdown

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Gujarat High Court New Delhi The Supreme Court dismissed a petition of Additional Director General of Gujarat Police Puthvipal P. Pandey challenging an arrest warrant issued against him in the 2004 staged shootout killing of Ishrat Jahan and three others. The apex court bench of Justice Gyan Sudha Misra and Justice Madan B. Lokur said the petitioner, a Gujarat cadre Indian Police Service officer, could not approach them for challenging the arrest warrant issued by a magistrate without approaching the high court. Besides seeking the quashing of the arrest warrant, Pandey had sought the quashing of the second first information report (FIR) filed in the case on the direction of the Gujarat High Court after the investigation was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). An Ahmedabad magistrate had issued the non-bailable arrest warrant against Pandey May 2. The CBI has told the apex court that Pandey is absconding. Mumbai college girl Ishrat Jahan, Pranesh Gopinath Pilai, Amjad Ali and Jishan Johar were killed by Gujarat Police in a staged shootout June 15, 2004, in Ahmedabad. At the outset of the hearing, senior counsel Shekhar Naphade, appearing for the police officer, told the court that matter may be adjourned for the next day (Wednesday) as Pandey had filed another petition challenging the Dec 1, 2011, high court order directing the registration of the second FIR in the shootout case and handing over the investigation to the CBI. Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaisinh opposed the adjournment plea and said the Gujarat Police officer moved court to challenge the Dec 1, 2011, order of the high court only after she pointed out in the course of the last hearing that the order by which investigation was handed over to the CBI had never been impugned. As Naphade pressed his plea for adjournment, the court said the subject matter of the plea before the court was different from one being raised by him. The court told Naphade that the question was whether plea for quashing of the FIR could be gone into under Article 32 of the Constitution. Jaisinh opposed the suggestion of maintaining status quo till the matter was taken up for hearing, which meant that the warrant against Pandey would not be enforced. As court asked how Pandeys plea for quashing the FIR and arrest warrant was maintainable, Naphade said that all the high courts orders, including the direction for the registration of the second FIR and handing over of the investigation to the CBI, were patently illegal. As the court rejected Pandeys plea for quashing the second FIR and his arrest warrant, Naphade said his petition challenging the Dec 1, 2011, order of the high court could be taken up at a later stage.

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New Delhi Accusing the Congress-led UPA government of destroying institutions,, BJP leader Arun Jaitley said that the cost of its Modi-phobia would be paid by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in the case of the alleged killing of Ishrat Jahan. In an article on the partys website, Jaitley said there were news reports that the CBI has been interrogating senior officers of the IB in the case of alleged killing of Jahan. The cost of the Modi-phobia will now be paid by the IB. Its senior officials will be grilled. They will be asked details of their intelligence collection methodologies. They could be questioned on the legalities of the means deployed by them to collect intelligence, Jaitley said. Jaitley, the leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, questioned the evidence in cases instituted against BJP leaders. In all these cases, political leaders targeted were released on bail. Regimes are not immortal. I hope one day a commission of inquiry will investigate the functioning of the CBI,

its politicisation and all these above cases, he said. Jaitley said media reports and court documents reveal that the IB had received information that a Lashkare-Taiba (LeT) module was active in western India in 2004 to assassinate Gujarat Chief Minister Narender Modi. He said that the IB had alerted Gujarat Police in accordance with its practice. It can be safely presumed that the central intelligence agency was a part of the operation in which the four activists of the module were intercepted and killed in an encounter with the police and security agencies, Jaitley said. Jaitley said a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed in the Gujarat High Court by Jahans mother. In its affidavit, the government of India strongly contested the petition. FBI Angle Jaitley said Pakistani American terrorist David Headley, a mastermind of 26/11 carnage at Mumbai, is believed to have told his interrogators

that Jahan was a key LeT operative. He said LeT, in its mouth-piece Ghazwa Times, had admitted to Jahan being an LeT activist and paid homage to her martyrdom but later disowned its statement. He said IB would be asked by the CBI about authenticity of the intelligence and motives could be attributed to it. Only Pakistan and LeT would have the last laugh. The myopic political regime in Delhi has not realised the significance of destroying institutions. Harass the Gujarat government even if it means destroying Indias security apparatus, the object of the Congress party is clear, Jaitley said. The introduction of the name of the former Home Minister of Gujarat in two cases was based on negligible evidence. When the director of prosecution commented upon inadequacy of the evidence the file noting shows that the senior CBI officials commented that the addition of Amit Shah as an accused was necessary if CBI was to reach the chief Minister, he said.

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Patna In an audacious daylight attack, suspected Maoists attacked a passenger train in Bihars Jamui district afternoon, killing a railway police personnel and two passengers, said police and the railway ministry. Three people including a constable of RPF (Railway Protection Force) and two passengers were killed in a Maoist attack on the Patna-bound inter-city train in Jamui, said Jamalpur Superintendent of Police (Rail) Amitabh Das. A railway ministry statement confirmed the deaths. Half a dozen people were injured in the attack, said Das, adding that the attackers fled with the weapons of two RPF personnel. According to district police officials in Jamui, about 180 km from Patna, nearly 100 armed Maoists attacked the train between Bhului and Kunder railway halt. Jamui is considered a Maoist stronghold. Maoists stopped the train by forcibly applying the vacuum brake and opened indiscriminate fire in

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which two railway police personnel and some passengers were injured. Three of them, including a RPF personnel, succumbed to their injuries, said an official. Additional Director General of Police S.K. Bhardwaj said in Patna that the Maoists also looted some ammunition and two rifles from the RPF personnel. The main motive of the Maoists attack was to loot arms of the RPF escort party and they succeeded in their attempt, he said. Bhardwaj expressed surprise over the Maoist attack on the train in broad daylight. Maoists usually attack trains in the night but this time they attacked in the day, he said. Bihar police chief Abhyanand has directed the rail police and district police of Jamui and neighbouring districts to launch combing operations against the Maoists. Railway ministry sources in New Delhi said the suspected Maoists, in a bid to snatch the weapons of the RPF personnel on the 1331 Dhanbad-Patna inter-city train service, opened fire at them. They said the security personnel returned the fire and a guard and a RPF constable were injured in the cross-firing. The train, which was detained for around one hour and 15 minutes, had since moved towards its destination and rail traffic was normal on the route, said the sources. Railway Minister C.P. Joshi said preliminary information indicated that it could be a Maoist attack, while Minister of State for Home R.P.N. Singh termed the attack as unfortunate and dastardly. Joshi announced an enhanced ex-gratia amount of Rs.5 lakh to the next of kin of those killed, Rs.1 lakh to a passenger who was grievously injured and Rs.25,000 each to four people (three passengers and train guard) who received minor injuries, said a statement. He said contingents of paramilitary forces, including the Central Reserve Police and the Border Security Force, had been rushed to the spot. Mumbai The Indian Navy has safely disposed of 90 unexploded ordnances, believed to be of World War II vintage, discovered during dredging operations in the Mumbai Harbour over the past few days, a defence official said here. The recoveries were made during operations by two dredgers to widen and deepen the main shipping channel which can improve capability and facilitate movement of higher tonnage and deeper draught vessels for the Mumbai Harbour. The Mumbai Harbours 34-km-long navigation channel serves the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), the Bombay Port Trust and also the Indian Navy. The capital project, taken up since April this year, has been severely hampered by the recovery of the UXOs (unexploded ordnance) from the channel. As a result, nearly 80 percent of the channel deepeningwidening work has been left pending.

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Suspected Maoists attack train in Bihar, three killed

World War II explosives found in Mumbai Harbour, defused

The JNPT requested the Indian Navy for assistance in safe disposal of these UXOs, which we have done, the defence official said. The disposal was done by an expert team comprising explosive ordnance disposal squad and the naval armament depot, he said. The dredging operations are being carried out by two Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers, the TSHD Queen of Netherlands and TSHD HAM 318. According to port officials, so far, recoveries include 83 bomb shells, several missiles, grenades and bullets. The officials explained that though recovery of stray UXOs is routine in and around Mumbai Harbour, this time the sheer quantity of the cache was baffling. Efforts are being made to ascertain whether the ordnance could have originated from the famous Bombay Explosion of 1944 when a huge freighter SS Fort Stikine had caught fire and exploded.

Government defers decision Police foil Telangana march, hundreds arrested on Jet-Etihad deal
Hyderabad Largescale arrests of Telangana activists here Friday foiled the march called by the Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) to press the demand for separate state but the protests at various places in the city threw the normal life out of gear. Hundreds of people including MPs, state legislators, leaders of political parties, students, lawyers, women and others were arrested in Hyderabad and other parts of Telangana to foil the march. Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has called for a shutdown in Telangana Saturday to condemn the crackdown. TRS chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao demanded immediate release of all those arrested. Hyderabad turned into a war zone with police sealing all routes leading to the Andhra Pradesh assembly to prevent protesters people from laying siege to the building. Sporadic incidents of violence were reported from parts of the city. Top leaders of JAC and legislators were arrested at various places for defying prohibitory orders. While police heaved a sigh of relief over the day passing off without any major trouble, the JAC claimed a moral victory. JAC chairman M. Kodandaram, Srinivas Goud and others were arrested when they gathered at Indira Park to march towards the assembly. Tension prevailed at the site as protestors stoned the policemen deployed in large numbers to prevent any gathering. Police retaliated with tear gas. TRS politburo member Shravan fell unconscious when police were forcibly shifting him. He was taken to a hospital. Osmania University also witnessed violence. Students, stopped by police from taking out a rally, resorted to stone throwing. The police responded with tear gas. Four students were injured in the clashes. Though the day people from various walks of life including journalists and lawyers came out on streets in batches and tried to march toward the assembly. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vidyasagar Rao sustained minor injury in a police baton charge near Indira Park. Police arrested him and party activists when they were took out a rally. BJP state president G. Kishan Reddy, senior leaders Bandaru Dattatreya, Indrasena Reddy and G. Lakshman were also arrested. Legislators of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), BJP and Communist Party of India (CPI) and those of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) from the region were arrested in the assembly when they staged protests. Two TRS legislators who climbed on the assembly building and hoisted a black flag were brought down and arrested. Other party legislators conducted a mock funeral of Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy. The protests by legislators led to the adjournment of the house for the day.

New Delhi The government Friday deferred a decision on approving the proposed stake-sale of 24 percent in Jet Airways to Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways. The decision to defer approval for the deal by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) was confirmed by Economic Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram. According to sources, the deferral for the Rs.2,058 crore deal came as capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and fair trade watchdog Competition Commission of India (CCI) sought clarity on some of the sticking issues of the deal like the number of Indian directors on board and the holding pattern of the merged entity. Even some Parliament members have alleged that the government gave huge concession to Abu Dhabi by granting it 40,000 seat per week additional capacity as a quid-pro-quo to facilitate a private party deal. The parliamentary panel on aviation chaired by CPI-Ms Sitaram Yechury is said to be investigating the newlyassigned bilateral air agreement between India and Abu Dhabi. Interestingly, the new bilateral air service agreement between India and Abu Dhabi was signed just hours after the announcement of the JetEtihad deal. However, on May 24, 2013 Jet Airways shareholders had approved the companys plans to offload 24 percent stake to Etihad Airways for around $379 million (Rs.2,058 crore).

The deal was ratified at an extraordinary meeting of Jets shareholders held in Mumbai. That time the company had said that the preferential allotment of shares to Etihad was subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions, including approval of the FIPB and the CCI. On April 24, nearly eight months after the Indian government permitted international airlines to invest in domestic passenger carriers, Jet Airways had announced a 24 percent stake sale to Etihad Airways. The two airlines were negotiating a Jet Airways stake sale since last September. However, the deal was delayed due to investment protection and management control issues. The deal is expected to garner around Rs.2,058 crore ($379 million) for Jet Airways, which will enable the company to service its debts and provide passengers with better connectivity. The Indian domestic passenger carrier is under financial strain of a slowing economy and high aviation fuel taxes. The airline has reported a net loss of Rs.485.50 crore for the year ended March 31, 2013 as compared to net loss of Rs.1,236.10 crore in 2011-12. The companys total income during the quarter under review had increased by 14.76 percent to Rs.17,403.17 crore from Rs.15,173.08 crore in 2011-12. Jet Airways scrip at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Friday increased by 8.47 percent or 36.65 points to Rs.469.20 per share from its previous close of Rs.432.55.

TRS MPs G. Vivek and Manda Jagannatham and other party leaders were arrested at Nizam Club near the assembly. Another TRS MP, Vijayshanti, and her supporters were also arrested. TRS chief Raos daughter Kavitha was taken into custody at Indira Park. Also arrested were CPI state secretary K. Narayana and his supporters when they tried to proceed towards the assembly. The protests and the unprecedented traffic restrictions hit normal life in parts of the city. The commuters were hit hard by traffic restrictions in a two kilometer radius around the assembly in the heart of the city. There was no impact on life in other parts of the city and the IT district of Cyberabad, the hub of national and multinational software giants. About 15,000 policemen and personnel from central paramilitary forces were deployed as part of the security arrangements. Police entered the office of the Communist Party of India (CPI) and arrested 30 leaders and activists. A party leader was injured in baton charge.

After scaling Everest, Haryana twins to try more peaks

New Delhi Twin sisters from Haryana, Tashi Malik and Naungshi Malik, who recently scaled the highest peak in the world, Mt. Everest, now aim to summit the highest peaks on each of the seven continents. The sisters, who met Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda here, said they wanted to set a record of twins having summitted the highest peaks in each of the seven continents. The twins, who set foot atop the Everest May 19, hail from Anwali village in Sonepat district of Haryana, 200 km from here. Hooda told the twins: We are proud of your great achievement. Tashi and Naungshi dedicated their feat to creating awareness against gender discrimination and female foeticide.

Unable to afford treatment, parents kill baby girl

Agartala Unable to afford costly treatment for their six-month-old daughter, a daily-wage labourer and his wife strangled her to death and dumped her body in a ditch near their home, Tripura Police said. Police Thursday arrested Laba Debnath, 53, the father of the ill-fated child, who confessed that he and his wife killed their baby girl Lina and later dumped her in a ditch near their Teliamura home in west Tripura, 55 km northeast of the state capital. A police official, quoting the girls father, said: The baby had tetanus and also suffered a haemorrhage. Doctors had prescribed medicines that cost Rs.1,500 each day; one injection was priced at Rs.900 per dose. Laba Debnath (the girls father) told us that the cost of his babys treatment was way beyond his means as the sole breadwinner and daily-wage earner having to fend for his fivemember family, the official said. The family had sought the help of the village panchayat and the local administration, but to no avail.

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NATIONAL NEWS
Unacceptable if US found violating Indian privacy laws, says India
New Delhi India said it would be unacceptable if it is discovered that Indian laws on privacy have been violated by the surveillance launched on web users worldwide by the US National Security Agency (NSA). If it is discovered that Indian laws relating to privacy of information of ordinary Indian citizens have been violated we would find it unacceptable, external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said at a media briefing in answer to a query. His reaction came following revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on emails, social network activity, listening in on internet calls around the world since 2007. A former CIA agent revealed to the Washington Post and the Guardian newspapers that the US agency has been using tech giants Microsoft, Google, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook, Skype and YouTube to spy on private information of users around the world. The programme, codenamed PRISM has been in operation since 2007. The programme is aimed to monitor foreign communications that take place on US servers. Akbaruddin also said that India is concerned and surprised by revelations that the US intelligence agency may be tapping information secretly, He said that India and the US have a cyber security dialogue that is helmed by the National Security Advisers from both sides. We intend to seek information and details during the consultations between the interlocutors, he said, and added that it is an evolving situation and India would see how the matter unfolds rather than jump to conclusions. Former CIA technical worker Edward Snowden has been identified by the Guardian newspaper as the person who leaked information about US surveillance programmes.

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President, PM condole Shuklas death

No SC relief for Gujarat cop in Ishrat Jahan shootout

New Delhi The Supreme Court dismissed a petition of Additional Director General of Gujarat Police Puthvipal P. Pandey challenging an arrest warrant issued against him in the 2004 staged shootout killing of Ishrat Jahan and three others. The apex court bench of Justice Gyan Sudha Misra and Justice Madan B. Lokur said the petitioner, a Gujarat cadre Indian Police Service officer, could not approach them for challenging the arrest warrant issued by a magistrate without approaching the high court. Besides seeking the quashing of the arrest warrant, Pandey had sought the quashing of the second first information report (FIR) filed in the case on the direction of the Gujarat High Court after the investigation was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). An Ahmedabad magistrate had issued the non-bailable arrest warrant against Pandey May 2. The CBI has told the apex court that Pandey is absconding. Mumbai college girl Ishrat Jahan, Pranesh Gopinath Pilai, Amjad Ali and Jishan Johar were killed by Gujarat Police in a staged shootout June 15, 2004, in Ahmedabad. At the outset of the hearing, senior counsel Shekhar Naphade, appearing for the police officer, told the court that matter may be adjourned as Pandey had filed another petition challenging the Dec 1, 2011, high court order directing the registration of the second FIR in the shootout case and handing over the investigation to the CBI. Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaisinh opposed the adjournment plea and said the Gujarat Police officer moved court to challenge the Dec 1, 2011, order of the high court only after she pointed out in the course of the last hearing that the order by which investigation was handed over to the CBI had never been impugned. As Naphade pressed his plea for adjournment, the court said the subject matter of the plea before the court was different from one being raised by him. The court told Naphade that the question was whether plea for quashing of the FIR could be gone into under Article 32 of the Constitution. Jaisinh opposed the suggestion of maintaining status quo till the matter was taken up for hearing, which meant that the warrant against Pandey would not be enforced. As court asked how Pandeys plea for quashing the FIR and arrest warrant was maintainable, Naphade said that all the high courts orders, including the direction for the registration of the second FIR and handing over of the investigation to the CBI, were patently illegal. As the court rejected Pandeys plea for quashing the second FIR and his arrest warrant, Naphade said his petition challenging the Dec 1, 2011, order of the high court could be taken up at a later stage.

Consensus needed on terrorism centre, says Shinde

New Delhi Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said there was need for a consensus on setting up a National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) but his ministry did not have plans to move the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on the issue. Shinde said that the government has to think about the opposition to the proposal to set up NCTC from some non-Congress chief ministers. We will have to go for a consensus. The states and centre have to work collectively, he said. He said that the government had accepted the demands concerning the NCTC. First, there was objection that it should not be under the Intelligence Bureau (IB). We took it out. They also said its operationalisation should not be under the IB, that also we did, he said. We tried to have a central intelligence agency but they said a multiagency centre is already there. That is also a central agency, Shinde said. The home minister said that seeing the resistance to the NCTC, the government had first decided to take the chief ministers opinion and then approach the CCS. Accordingly, they were given the drafts (at the meeting of chief ministers). There is still opposition. After examination, we will decide whether to take it to the CCS or not. As of

now, there is no proposal to taking it (NCTC) to the CCS, he said.

Jindal, former minister charged in coal allocation case

New Delhi Industrialist-lawmaker Naveen Jindal and former minister of state for coal Dasari Narayana Rao are among those against whom the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed cases for alleged irregularities in coal-block allotments. It is alleged that two steel and iron companies based in Delhi misrepresented facts to get coal-blocks. Also, there was alleged investment in a Hyderabad-based firm from the group of companies based at Delhi, the premier probe agency said. The reference was to allocation of the Amarkonda Murgadangal coalblock in Jharkhand to Jindal Steel and Gagan Sponge, besides two of Jindals group companies -- Jindal Realty and ND Exim. Raos company Saubhagya Media has also been named in the case. They have all been accused of staging a criminal conspiracy and cheating under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act. Both Jindal and Rao are members of the ruling Congress party. Searches are being conducted today at 19 locations in Delhi and Hyderabad in connection with the case, the agency said. A preliminary enquiry to examine the irregularities in allocation of coal-blocks during the period 20062009 was registered on reference of Central Vigilance Commissioner in June 2012. Earlier CBI had registered 12 cases in the allocations so far. The news immediately pulled down the shares of Jindal Steel by nearly 20 percent. The matter had taken a serious turn

New Delhi President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi condoled the death of Congress leader V.C. Shukla, who was seriously injured in a Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh last month. In his condolence message, Mukherjee said: Shri Shukla made valuable contribution to the growth of our nation in various capacities and the nation will remember his contributions and his pursuit of excellence in public life. I had a long personal association with Shri Shukla. In his death, I have lost a friend, and the nation, an eminent public figure, he said. The prime minister said he was pained that Shukla lost his life following a brutal attack by Left wing extremists. In Vidya Charanjis (Shukla) demise I have lost a very dear colleague, the Congress party a committed member and the country, a staunch nationalist. His passing away has only strengthened our resolve to fight the menace of Left wing extremism with firmness, said Singh. According to sources, Sonia Gandhi spoke to Shuklas family over the phone. Shukla, 84, passed away in a Gurgaon hospital Tuesday. He was being treated for bullet injuries sustained during the May 25 Maoist attack on a Congress convoy in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh.

last year when the Comptroller and Auditor General said in a report that lack of transparency in allocating coal mines to private players had caused a whopping Rs.1.85-lakh crore ($37 billion) loss to the exchequer. Jindal Steel maintained it has been assisting CBI in the probe. Jindal Steel and Power Ltd, as a law abiding company, is governed by a strong ethical code of conduct. This is an ongoing CBI investigation into coal-block allocations, said Manu Kapoor, chief of external affairs with the company. At this stage of investigation, Jindal Steel is committed to fully cooperate with CBI. The probe agency had told the Supreme Court, which is monitoring the case, that there had been massive irregularities and illegalities in the allocation of coal mines. The coal portfolio during that time was with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh himself. The issue had even cost Ashwini Kumar the law ministers job when it came to light that he had sought and vetted a CBI report before it was

submitted in Supreme Court -- a matter which the apex court did not take too kindly. Rao, who was questioned by the probe agency last year, was the union minister of state for coal between 2006 and 2009 when the irregularities allegedly took place. The 66-year-old actor-producer was Congress partys Rajya Sabha member then. The opposition was quick to react to Tuesdays developments. We welcome the case registered against former minister of state for coal Dasari Narayan Rao and industrialist Naveen Jindal. But this is too little and too late, Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said. On our complaint, the CBI started probing the case 15 months ago and now they will get nothing out of the raids. The CBI should go for money trail as it is a monumental corruption of Rs.50 lakh crore, he said. There has been massive cover up. We have seen how the (central) government tried to change the whole report to save the prime minister as he was the coal minister then.

Man beaten to death for protesting kins molestation

Ranchi A man was beaten to death by his friend and some others when he protested molestation of his sisterin-law in Jharkhands Jamshedpur district, police said. According to police, Krishna, a resident of Birsanagar colony in Jamshedpur, around 130 km from Ranchi, was returning home along with his sister-in-law Tuesday night when he met his friend Bhaskar and two or three others, who began to accompany them. On the way, Bhaskar and his friends allegedly molested and tried to rape Krishnas sister-in-law. When Krishna protested, he was beaten up brutally by Bhaskar and his friends, who then fled. Krishna was admitted to a local hospital where he died during course of treatment. Police have arrested one person in connection with Krishnas murder.

6 US immigration bill clears key senate hurdle

Washington As a major immigration bill that would give over 11 million people, including some 260,000 Indians, living illegally in America a path to citizenship, it received a full endorsement from President Barack Obama. If youre serious about actually fixing the system, then this is the vehicle to do it, he said Tuesday at the White House, flanked by immigration reform supporters, hours before a strong Senate majority voted to open debate on it. If youre not serious about it, if you think that a broken system is the best America can do, then I guess it might make sense to try to block it, he said referring to the bill drafted by a bipartisan gang of eight, four Democrats and four Republicans. But if youre actually serious and sincere about fixing a broken immigration system, this is the vehicle to do it, he said flanked among others by young undocumented students and the US Chamber of Commerce president and CEO, Tom Donohue. This bill isnt perfect, its a compromise, Obama said. And going forward, nobody is going to get everything they want. Not Democrats, not Republicans, not me. But this is a bill thats largely consistent with the principles that I and the people on this stage have laid out for commonsense reform. The 82-15 vote, with most Republicans joining the chambers Democratic majority in support, to begin the debate indicated that the bill would pass the Senate despite fierce opposition from conservatives. However, Republican Ted Cruz, a key opponent of the bill said Tuesday the Republican-controlled House would defeat it in its current form due to the pathway to citizenship. Addressing concerns of the measures opponents, Obama emphasised it would increase spending on border security and require undocumented immigrants to pursue what could be a 13-year path to eventual citizenship. You have to pass background checks, you have to learn English, you have to pay taxes and a penalty and then you have to go to the back of the line behind everybody who has done things the right way and have tried to come here legally, Obama said. Some congressional conservatives call opposing the gang of eight plan a matter of principle and say they wont bend. Many consider any measure offering a path to citizenship tantamount to amnesty for those who entered the country illegally. A bipartisan group has been working on a separate immigration plan in the House, but the effort suffered a setback last week when a key member dropped out of the negotiations.

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CHANDIGARH SUNDAY 16 June 2013

IAF flies home its first Boeing C-17 airlifter

Saudi to again hire Indian maids - on reduced salaries

Riyadh Saudi Arabia will resume the hiring of Indian female domestic workers but on less salaries than before. This is part of an agreement recently signed by the two countries labour ministries, according to Ahmed Al Faheed, under secretary (International Affairs) at the Saudi labour ministry. He said that the hiring of Indian maids will be resumed soon after it was halted due to conditions imposed by the Indian government. A few years ago, the Indian government set certain conditions on the hiring of Indian maids, such as fixed deposits in the Indian embassies and high salaries for the maids. Many Gulf families, however, complained it was too expensive for hiring such unskilled maids, as they have to be trained for months before they can handle all the work.

Worlds oldest person dies

Osaka A Japanese man listed as the worlds oldest died early Wednesday morning at the age of 116 in Kyoto Prefecture in western Japan. Jiroemon Kimura, who was born in 1897, died of natural causes at the municipal hospital in his hometown, Kyotango City, at 2:08 a.m. local time on Wednesday. He was suffering from pneumonia and was hospitalized since May, a spokesperson said. Kyotango City Mayor Yasushi Nakamura said in a statement that Kimura has been and will be the treasure of the city, expressing deep sorrow over his death. Kimura was first recognized by Guinness World Records as the worlds oldest living person on Dec 17, 2012, and more than a week later became the oldest man ever verified to have lived by reaching the age of 115 years and 253 days. Kimura celebrated his 116th birthday in April.

Washington The Indian Air Force (IAF) has flown home its first Boeing Globemaster III, becoming the newest operator of the leading airlifter, giving it the worlds most advanced humanitarian and strategic capabilities. The first aircraft was transferred to IAF in Long Beach, California, Tuesday after completion of a flight test programme at Edwards Air Force Base in Palmdale, California, that began following the Jan 22 delivery. Boeing is on track to deliver four more C-17s to the IAF this year and five in 2014, the St. Louis, Missouri headquartered Boeing Defence, Space & Security, a unit of the Boeing Company, said in a media re-

lease. The C-17 will equip the Indian Air Force with amongst the worlds most advanced humanitarian and strategic capabilities, said Air Vice Marshal SRK Nair, Assistant Chief of Air Staff Operations (Transport and Helicopters). We have looked forward to this day when our Indian Air Force flies the first C-17 to its new home in India. Congratulations to the Indian Air Force on this milestone as India joins the worldwide community of C-17 operators, said Tommy Dunehew, Boeing vice president of Business Development for Mobility, Surveillance and Engagement. Nations turn to the C-17 for the capability to perform a wide range of

operations, from peacekeeping and disaster relief to troop movements from semi-prepared airfields. This aircraft will provide the Indian Air Force with the versatility to augment airlift capability. Boeing will support the IAF C-17 fleet through the Globemaster III Integrated Sustainment Programme (GISP) performance-based logistics contract. The GISP virtual fleet arrangement ensures mission readiness by providing all C-17 customers access to an extensive support network for worldwide parts availability and economies of scale. Boeing has now delivered 254 C17s, including 222 to the US Air Force and a 32 C-17s to India and a few other nations.

Gay lobby exists in Vatican government: Pope

Vatican City Besides corruption, there is a gay lobby inside the Vatican government or curia, Pope Francis admitted, saying we will have to see what we can do. Yes... it is difficult. In the Curia, there are also holy people, really, there are holy people. But there also is a stream of corruption, there is that as well, it is true... The gay lobby is mentioned, and it is true, it is there... We need to see what we can do, the pontiff said. He did not specify what kind of action he might take. Francis made the remark during an audience with members of the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Religious Men and Women (CLAR). He also signalled his support for the reform of the government of the Catholic Church. The reform of the Roman Curia is something that almost all Cardinals asked for in the Congregations preceding the Conclave. I also asked for

Australia to deliver fund for new dementia research

Canberra Australia will deliver funds for new dementia research on the impact of Vitamin B12 levels, Minister for Health Tanya Plibersek and Minister for Mental Health and Ageing Mark Butler said. Vitamin B12, commonly found in seafood like oysters, has a key role in normal brain functioning. According to a statement, these new dementia research projects included one from University of Wollongong, two from University of Melbourne, one from University of Queensland, one from Edith Cowan University and one from University of Tasmania. These projects will focus on things

it, Francis said. In February last year, the Vatican attacked Italian media reports of a powerful gay lobby inside the curia, citing a confidential report commissioned by the previous pope, Benedict XVI. Benedict ordered the report after leaks of private papal documents to Italian media that laid bare corruption and venemous infighting in the Vatican. His former butler, Paolo Gabriele,

was jailed for the leaks but was released after Benedict pardoned him. The Vatileaks report was prepared by a three-cardinal commission. It uncovered a lobby of worldly gay prelates that could affect individual promotion prospects and wielded external influence, the La Repubblica daily said. Shortly before Benedict abdicated in February, the Vatican said the report would remain solely at the disposition of the new pope.

Japan needs to develop offensive military capacity

Tokyo Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that Japan needed to study the possibility to develop offensive military capacity so as to attack enemy bases. Abe made the remarks when he responded to proposals aimed at strengthening the countrys military capabilities, submitted by lawmakers from his Liberal Democratic Party. Abe said the matter was an important one and indicated that it would be in the discussion of compiling a governmental long-term defense programme to be outlined by the end of this year. The proposals referred to promote Japans capability to defend its islands, touching on the necessity to equip the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) with US MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft to create amphibious forces. The proposals also called for approving Japan to exercise collective self-defense right, the report said. Abe, a well-known hawkish politician that returned to power in December, is eager to revise the countrys war-renouncing constitution so as to make the SDF a full national army. This has raised concerns and worries from neighbouring countries.

like how a lack of Vitamin B12 contributes to age-related memory loss, reasoning and decision making, the specific type of protein that may be toxic to brain cells, potential new drug targets for Alzheimers treatment and so on. Plibersek said this research aims to make dementia a far less debilitating

condition than what it is today. Dementia is likely to affect 900,000 Australians by 2050, and Im proud that Australia is acting now in whole range of areas like research, awareness and better services, she said. Mark Butler said dementia had achieved national prominence this decade.

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INTERNATIONAL
Jerusalem Israel has denied having sold military equipment to Pakistan and said it could do nothing to compromise its excellent, strategic relations with India. The State of Israel categorically denies having sold military equipment of any kind to Pakistan, Israels defence ministry said in a statement released to the media. Israel would not do anything that could undermine Indias security. The ministry said Israel has a strategic relationship with India, the strongest democracy in the world - which, like Israel, deals with terrorist threats and serves as a major anchor in global international relations. The State of Israel does nothing that could compromise its excellent relations with India, it said. The ministry issued the statement following a report in the Haaretz newspaper which cited official reports from Britain indicating that Israel had sold defence equipment to Pakistan and other countries such as Morocco. In the statement, the ministry officials said that within the next few days, Israel would ask the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, which is responsible for issuing export permits in Britain, for details of the information that was published in the official reports, Israeli media reported Wednesday. Defence cooperation has been critical to the expansion of ties between India and Israel since the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations in 1992. Israel has become Indias second largest arms supplier after Russia. While arms sales constitute the largest chunk of Indo-Israeli defence cooperation, other forms of collaboration have taken place. Both coun-

Ban calls on private sectors in Cant compromise Indias security, US, China to help achieve says Israel; denies arm sales to Pakistan sustainable development
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appealed to Chinese and United States-based companies to boost their efforts to achieve sustainable development and prosperity through partnerships, stressing their impact in developing countries. US and Chinese companies can and must ensure that business activity is sustainable and responsible that it upholds the highest standards of business ethics, Mr. Ban said at the Hong Kong-US Business Council Dialogue in New York. I am convinced that principles and profits can go hand-in-hand. Business success requires delivering long-term value not just financially, but also socially, environmentally and ethically. Mr. Ban underlined that Governments alone cannot tackle global development challenges but instead need partnerships with the private sector to make a significant impact. He added that the contribution from the private sector will be even more vital to mobilize the resources, technology and innovation required to achieve as the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches and the post2015 agenda is set in place. Today, our challenge remains clear and urgent: cut greenhouse gas emissions; increase efficiency, rely more on clean energy and provide sustainable energy for all; and reach a global legal climate agreement by 2015, Mr. Ban said. He commended US and Chinese companies that have committed to the principles set by the UN Global Compact, and urged them to ensure that they uphold responsible practices in their strategies, in their supply chains, and in the communities where they operate. Their presence can make a tremendous difference. Each company that signs on with the UN Global Compact agrees to embrace, support and enact, within their sphere of influence, a set of 10 principles in the areas of human rights, labour standards, the environment and anti-corruption. Mr. Ban pointed to Chinas strong presence in Africa as an enormous opportunity for growth on the continent, and called on investors to use their collective influence to help spread commitment for sustainable change. In particular, he said tackling climate change must be a priority for the private sector, and encouraged US and Chinese companies to engage in the Caring for Climate initiative for business, through which companies can put forward innovations on energy efficiency, renewable energy and finance. There should be no more denial, no more deferring action, no more avoiding the tough decisions, no more hoping that a technological silver bullet will save us, Mr. Ban said. The private sector will have a central role to play in unlocking clean energy investments.

Sri Lanka to probe NGOs for conspiracies

certain NGOs from hatching conspiracies to effect regime change by engaging in politics in the guise of doing social work in the country, the governments information department said. According to Lakshman Hulugalle, director general of Media Centre for National Security, strict legal action would be taken against NGOs failing to comply with the registration rule and it will also result in the eviction of such NGOs. Currently, there are nearly 100 NGOs

tries recognise that terror is a threat, particularly after the 2008 Mumbai attack, and Israel has offered to cooperate in fighting terrorism, including intelligence-sharing, counterterrorist training, and joint exercises. Both countries have also exchanged military visits in an effort to expand military-to-military ties. Israel has supplied India with radar systems for airborne early warning and missile defence. Also, Israel and India have expanded their cooperation into outer space, with India launching two Israeli surveillance satellites. There are reports that the two nations are considering co-development of earth-observation satellites -- an area where Israel has considerable expertise. There are no diplomatic relations between Israel and Pakistan. Pakistan has also denied that its military had purchased equipment from Israel.

Colombo The Sri Lankan government has appointed a special committee to investigate charges and allegations being made against non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and their operations in the country. The government has also made it compulsory for all NGOs operating in the country to register themselves with the Office for the Registration of Non-Governmental Organisations. This step is being taken to thwart

UN agency sounds alarm over exploitation of millions of children in domestic labour

With an estimated 10.5 million children worldwide working in peoples homes in hazardous and often slavery-like conditions, the United Nations labour agency today called for an end to child labour in domestic work and urged decent working conditions for adolescents who can be legally employed. There is no place and no excuse for child labour in domestic or any other form of work, UN International Labour Organization (ILO) Director-General, Guy Ryder, said in his speech in Geneva to mark World Day against Child Labour. According to the latest figures in ILOs report, Ending child labour in domestic work, released to coincide with the Day, of the 10.5 million underage workers, an estimated 6.5 million are child labourers aged between five and 14 years of age. More than 71 per cent are girls, some of whom work as a result of forced labour and trafficking. Child labourers who work in the homes of a third party or employer, carry out tasks such as cleaning, ironing, cooking, gardening, collecting water, looking after other children and caring for the elderly. ILO reports that these children are vulnerable to physical, psychological and sexual violence and abusive working conditions, they are often isolated from their families, hidden from the public eye and become highly dependent on their employers. Many might end up being commercially sexually exploited. The situation of many child domestic workers not only constitutes a serious violation of child rights, but remains an obstacle to the achieve-

operating in the country, and a large number of them have been identified to be surreptitiously engaging in activities inimical to the state by hatching various conspiracies through opposition politicians, he said. NGOs have been told to submit a report to the government listing its role, staff and funding and donations received from abroad, their manner of expenditure and their proposals and plans. Their assets should also be registered with the relevant unit of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.

North Korea blames South Korea for failed talks

Seoul North Korea came down on South Korea after highlevel talks between the sides were cancelled. North Korea said South Korea had deliberately hindered the resumption of the talks. This fully proves that the south side had no intent to hold dialogue from the beginning and that it only sought to create an obstacle to the talks, delay and torpedo them after reluctantly taking part in the talks, far from solving issues at the negotiating table, a spokesperson for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) was quoted as saying. The North and the South were to have held two-day talks starting Wednesday, but the plan was called off after Pyongyang complained that Seoul fielded negotiators of insufficient rank. Yonhap said Wednesday that North

ment of many national and international development objectives, said Constance Thomas, Director of the ILOs International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC). The familial and legal care vacuum created by this situation works against the interests of the child, ILO noted, by disguising an arrangement that might entail cruel working conditions and often masking violence and abuse. The UN agency called on its Member States today to take appropriate measures to provide decent working conditions to adolescents of legal working age employed in domestic work. This includes limiting their hours of work, prohibiting night work; restricting work that is excessively demanding, and taking measures to ensure effective protection against all forms of abuse, harassment and violence. We urge ILO member States to rat-

ify and ensure effective implementation of the ILOs Conventions on child labour and on domestic work, Mr. Ryder said highlighting Convention No. 189 and Recommendation No. 201. Convention No. 189 also states that the minimum age for domestic workers should be consistent with the provisions of the ILOs child labour treaties. These require that children should not work below the legal minimum age for employment or work, and that young workers above the minimum age should be employed in safe conditions. In addition, the Convention identifies domestic work as an important source of employment, especially for millions of women. Domestic workers of all ages are increasingly performing a vital task in many economies. We need to ensure a new respect for their rights and to empower domestic workers and their representative organisations, said Mr. Thomas.

Koreas leadership did not return repeated calls from its counterparts in South Korea made over the last extant communication line between the two countries. Tensions mounted on the Korean Peninsula earlier this year after North Korea conducted new nuclear and missile tests. Pyongyang threatened Seoul and the US with war and closed off the joint industrial zone in Kaesong following a new round of international sanctions, but later voiced willingness to negotiate.

Twin brothers from India jailed in Singapore for pimping

Singapore Two men from India, who are twin brothers, have been sentenced to jail by a court here for working as pimps. Raman and Lakashmanan Selvaraj, 26, were sentenced to a three-and-ahalf month jail term for working as pimps for a vice syndicate in the Geylang area of this city-state. The brothers, who had pleaded guilty to the charge June 3, had hoped for a fine but were shocked on hearing the jail sentence. According to the report, Lakashmanan had arrived in Singapore in October last year and was met by Balamurugan Selvam Paneer, who ran a vice ring that exploited women from India. Lakashmanan started buying food for prostitutes and collected their earnings, which he handed over to Balamurugan. Balamurugan would then deduct the expenses and send the rest of the collections to the vice rings boss who is based in India.

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CHANDIGARH SUNDAY 16 June 2013

QUOTE FIRE

Advani ; Who said What?

L.K. Advani, BJP For some time I have been finding it difficult to reconcile either with the current functioning of the party or the direction in which it is going.I have decided, therefore, to resign from the three main fora of the party, namely the National Executive, the Parliamentary Board and the Election Committee.

Raj Babbar, Congress Spokesperson I dont need to elaborate.His resignation letter says it all. It confirms what we have been saying all along. The chaal, charitra and chehra of the BJP is different from what is being proclaimed.

Renuka Choudhary, Congress Spokesperson Im not surprised. BJP is politically bankrupt, they have sidelined people responsible for building the party.

Sharad Yadav, JD(U) This is not good for NDAs health. I am deeply saddened by the resignation of Advaniji. NDA was forged with the efforts of Atalji and Advaniji.

J.Jayalalitha, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister It is purely is an internal matter of the BJP. But at the personal level, I will only say that Narendra Modi is a good friend of mine.

Digvijaya Singh, Congress If Advani had demanded some more time or demanded setting up of two committees what was the problem in waiting? After all they were not going to miss a plane.

Narendra Modi, Gujarat Chief minister I had said yesterday (Monday) that Advani ji will not disappoint lakhs of Karyakartas (party workers). Today, I whole heartedly welcome his decision,

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DMK in discussion with all parties ahead of Rajya Sabha poll
Chennai DMK president M. Karunanidhi said the party would talk to all parties seeking their support for its candidate in the June 27 Rajya Sabha elections. He said: We have not asked for support from any particular party. We will generally talk to all the parties.The issue of Rajya Sabha elections was not discussed at Wednesdays meeting of the partys members in the Tamil Nadu assembly.The June 27 elections for the Rajya Sabha would elect members who would replace six people set to retire. The six members who will retire on July 24 are: A. Elavarasan and V. Maitreyan from the AIADMK, Tiruchi N. Siva and Kanimozhi from the DMK, B.S. Gnanadesikan of the Congress and D. Raja of the CPI.The AIADMK has already announced its candidates list that comprises V. Maitreyan, K.R. Arjunan, T. Rathinavel, R. Lakshmanan and Thangamuthu. While the AIADMK has a strength of 151 (including the speaker) in the 235-member house, the DMDK has 29 legislators, the DMK 23, CPI-M 10, CPI eight, Congress five, PMK three, MMK and PT two each, Forward Bloc one and nominated member one.A candidate needs 34 votes to get elected, and AIADMK is expecting to romp home with five seats with the help of other friendly parties, and take its tally in the Rajya Sabha to eight from the current five seats.Tamil Nadu has 18 seats in the Rajya Sabha, for which elections are held indirectly, and state legislators are eligible to vote. According to Election Commission of India, the last date for nominations for the Rajya Sabha polls is June 17. The last date for withdrawals is June 20.

CAMP NDA

We discussed formation of Federal Front: Nitish Kumar

Patna Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said his Janata Dal-United (JD-U) was in discussions with his West Bengal and Odisha counterparts, Mamta Banerjee and Naveen Patnaik, on the formation of a Federal Front. Yes, we discussed the issue. But the matter is still in early stages, and it is not proper to make guesses about the new formation now, Nitish Kumar told reporters in Patna before leaving for Katihar on his Sewa Yatra (peoples service journey). Nitish Kumar recalled that he had advocated unity among the eastern states for the resolution of their common problems of backwardness and for better development in the region. We have been facing similar problems, and there is need for unity, he said. Nitish Kumar also said that BJP president Rajnath Singh late Wednesday night spoke to him about the tension between the JD-U and BJP over the elevation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to the partys campaign chief for the 2014 general elections. He said that his party would closely watch the developments within the BJP and decide about its continued alliance with the BJP after deliberations with party leaders. The JD-U, which has considerable support from minorities, is alarmed that Narendra Modis elevation could affect its votebank in Bihar. Meanwhile, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav has attacked the JD-U for closing ranks with a communal party like the BJP. The recent victory of the RJD in the Maharajganj assembly byelection has given the JD-U cause for concern.

Kolkata As the West Bengal Police chief disputed National Crime Records Bureau figures that the state recorded the highest number of crimes against women, the opposition CPI-M accused the top police officer of talking like his boss Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The Left party said Banerjee was using the police as well as administration to further her political interest.

CPI-M takes dig at Bengals top cop

While figures released by the NCRB showed that Bengal ranked number one in crimes against women, states Director General of Police Naparajit Mukherjee contested the statistics, saying rape incidents had come down considerably.Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Suryakanta Mishra said: He is talking like his masters voice. It is better to utter that kind of words without wearing uniforms. If someone thinks that he would do politics, then he should not put on the uniform. They (policemen) cannot do this when they are in service, said Mishra, also the leader of opposition in the state assembly.He accused the Mamata Banerjee government of using police as well as the administration shamelessly in its interest. She (chief minister Banerjee) even decides what the DG would say at media meets, he said.

The CPI-M leader also contested the governments view that recording of crimes against women had increased during its rule. There is no scope for reporting of crimes at police stations across the state even in case of crimes against women, Mishra averred. Statistics released by the NCRB revealed that in West Bengal as many as 30,942 cases of crimes against women took place in 2012.

Congress questions Patnaiks commitment to Odisha

Bhubaneswar Criticising Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for holding a rally in New Delhi against the states alleged neglect by the central government, the Congress questioned his commitment to Odishas culture. It is ironical that Naveen Patnaik is the only chief minister in Indian history who cant speak or write Odiya, the states official language, senior Congress leader and former minister Niranjan Patnaik told. The chief minister is talking of Odiya Swabhiman (Odiya pride). Swabhiman to any Odiya means economic development as well as protecting the states language and culture. He should either learn Odiya or quit the state, he demanded. The Congress leader also shot off a letter to union Law Minister Kapil Sibal asking him to initiate moves for an amendment to Article 173 of the constitution to make it mandatory for all members of the state assembly to be able to read, write and speak the language of the state. Citing a rule the Odisha government has made, Niranjan Patnaik said it is ironical that a person cannot become a sarpanch (village council chief) in Odisha without knowing Odiya, but can be a legislator, minister or even the chief minister. Terming the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) rally in New Delhi as an unnecessary gimmick, he said not merely Odisha, but all the backward states are demanding special category status and the Congress supported the demand. The BJD, however refuted the allegation against the chief minister. The chief minister is able to speak and communicate in Odiya. He understands the language well, a senior BJD leader said.

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POLITICS

Andhra assembly disrupted again over Telangana issue

Break-up or Bargain?
New Delhi The political drama around the rise of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi threatened to impact Bihar, with the states ruling JD-U expected to snap its 17-year-old alliance with the BJP and the impending development triggering talk of a third front ahead of next years Lok Sabha polls. Even while veteran BJP leader L.K. Advani is learnt to have launched a firefight by talking to Janata DalUnited (JD-U) stalwarts, the saffron party said it was prepared to sit in the opposition in Bihar. In Kolkata, days after giving a call for a non-Congress, non-BJP federal front of regional parties, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she spoke to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Odisha Chief Minister Biju Patnaik. While Nitish Kumar virtually controls the JD-U, Patnaik heads Biju Janata Dal. Both are regional outfits. In Patna, a JD-U leader indicated that the alliance with the BJP could be over soon. Only a formal announcement is to be made for snapping ties with the BJP, said the leader, considered close to Nitish Kumar. A number of party leaders, including ministers, held discussions with Nitish Kumar at his official residence. It was decided to formally announce the end of ties with the BJP in next two to three days, said the leader, who did not want to

JD-U to snap ties with BJP, Mamata calls Nitish, Navin

be named. JD-U leader and Bihar minister Shayam Razak told that his party was discussing the issue in view of developments at the BJP conclave in Goa and later in Delhi. He was referring to the prominent role given to Modi for the 2014 polls and Advanis decision first to resign from his all party posts, and later to stay on bowing to pressure from the party. Bihar Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh categorically said Modi was not acceptable to his party as the NDAs prime ministerial candidate. We are against being part of the NDA under his leadership, said Singh. He said Modi was tainted by his involvement in 2002 Gujarat riots, and Advani was more preferred. Hitting out, the state BJP leaders said they were ready to sit in the opposition in case the alliance ended in Bihar. BJP will sit in opposition and play a role of an aggressive opposition, BJP leader and Bihar PHED Minister Chandra Mohan Rai told media persons. While maintaining that its alliance with the JD-U was intact, BJP leader Syed Shahnawaz Hussain said it would continue in the interest of the people of the state and any break in ties will ruin the hopes of the electorate. If we work together, we will continue to rule, Hussain said. The JD-U, which needs the support of 122 legislators in a house of 243 to remain in power in Bihar, has 119 lawmakers. Most of the six independent legislators are supporting the party and will extend support to carry on the government, said a party leader. JD-U spokesperson Sanjay Singh said two independents - Pawan Jaiswal and Vinay Bihari - have already extended their support. On the other hand, Advani is learnt to have called Nitish Kumar and Sharad Yadav and stressed that the two parties should contest the Lok Sabha polls together. In Kolkata, Mamata Banerjee Wednesday said she has spoken to Nitish Kumar and Naveen Patnaik on her proposal for a federal front. She said Nitish Kumar responded positively, while Patnaik has sought more time. Banerjee, also the Trinamool Congress chief, was speaking after meeting JD-U leader K.C. Tyagi at the state secretariat here. I have already discussed the matter with Navin Patnaik and Nitish Kumar, Banerjee said after her talks with Tyagi. In New Delhi, Congress leader and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath refused to give much credence to the proposed new front. I dont give much credence to the third front. The country will have a secular government in 2014, Kamal Nath told reporters.

Hyderabad Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) disrupted Andhra Pradesh state assembly, demanding passing of a resolution for carving out separate Telangana state. Speaker N. Manohar adjourned the house twice for half-an-hour each and the third time for the day as the TRS members did not allow him to conduct business of the house. Raising slogans of Jai Telangana, the TRS members refused to leave their position at the speakers podium till an assurance from the government on passing the resolution. The state government has already rejected the demand, saying the issue is before the central government. As soon as the house met for the day, the speaker rejected the adjournment motions sought to be moved by TRS, the main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and other opposition parties on various issues. The TDP wanted a debate on the problems faced by farmers, while TRS and Bharatiya Janata Party

(BJP) insisted on Telangana resolution. The TRS legislators were on their feet, demanding the speaker to direct the government to move a resolution. They trooped out and surrounded the speakers podium. Amid the din, the chair adjourned the house for half-an-hour. There was no change in the situation when the house re-assembled. Finance Minister Anam Ramnarayana Reddy appealed to opposition to allow smooth functioning of the house. As the bedlam continued, the speaker adjourned the house for the second time. When it re-assembled, the TRS continued their protest. Legislative Affairs Minister D. Sridhar Babus repeated appeals to cooperate with the speaker were ignored by the TRS. As the agitating members refused to resume their seats, the speaker adjourned the house for the day. The second phase of the budget session, which began Monday, is scheduled to continue till June 21.

Parrikar invokes Nehru to seek special Third front alternative to status for Goa Congress, BJP: Naveen Patnaik
submitted to the Prime Ministers Office evening. The memorandum follows a unanimous resolution passed by the Goa assembly earlier this year empowering the state government to seek special status under Article 371 of the constitution. The memorandum makes several references to Nehru and the assurances granted by Indias first prime minister to Goa around the time it was liberated by the Indian army in 1961 from 400 years of Portuguese rule, making it the oldest-ruled European colony in India. Nehru had made it amply clear during the discussions inside and outside the Indian parliament that both Goa as well as Pondicherry are integral parts of India and no compromises on its freedom and integration with India will be made, he said. The issue of rising real estate costs as well as rapid migration into Goa over the last few years due it its reputation as a place with easy and quality lifestyle, lots of entertainment and good investment destination has been debated across the political and social forums here. In his submission, Parrikar has tried to convey to Manmohan Singh how Goas case, as compared to other regions in the country, was unique. The move of the Portugal colonists to impose the Portuguese language on Goans had severely affected the states fortunes, he said. Goa remained isolated from the rest of the country because the Portuguese sought to insulate it from external influences by limiting educational opportunities. The Portuguese restricted education to the school stage and that too predominantly in the Portuguese language. This effectively kept the Goans in the dark about the rest of the country, let alone rest of the world, he said, adding that in spite of all efforts by the Portuguese rulers, Goa still retained its Indian cultural roots, albeit a distinct one. Parrikar also tried to carve a distinction between the demands for special status from other states like Bihar and Odisha, whose leaders have been demanding a hefty financial package from the central government. Goa is not seeking special status for financial benefits, but to preserve and protect its unique identity, Parrikar said. Large scale migration is diluting the Goan identity, apart from changing the demography. On account of largescale land purchases by outsiders, land rates have skyrocketed and local Goans are not able to afford a roof over their heads, Parrikar said, making a case for protecting the unique Goan identity by providing constitutional protection to control and regulate sale and transfer of land to non-Goans, including foreigners. New Delhi A third front would be an alternative to the BJP and the Congress in the 2014 general elections but it was too early to talk about it, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said. My party is equidistant from both the BJP and the Congress. The third front will be a healthy alternative, but it is too early to discuss that option. The election is still a year away. Lets see what pans out, Patnaik said in an interview. He said the elevation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the partys 2014 poll campaign incharge was an internal matter of the BJP, but noted that the minorities will not be happy with this kind of an elevation. Patnaik refused to speculate on the subsequent resignation of BJP veteran L.K. Advani from key party posts. These events in the BJP are the internal matter of the party, I wont like to speculate further, he said. Patnaik, whose party BJD parted ways with the BJP in 2009, said he would neither join the NDA nor the Congress. We will not be a part of the NDA. We are distant from the BJP. (Con-

Panaji Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has invoked former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehrus fondness for the state to convince Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that his state should be accorded special status. Rising real estate prices and the fear of indigenous Goans being reduced to a minority because of large and rapid migration into the state are also what Parrikar has underlined in a bid to convince the prime minister that Goa be granted special status. Drawing a parallel with French possessions in India, Nehru had acknowledged history and given Pondicherry and Goa an identity different from the rest of India. The Goans were assured that they shall have freedom to retain their unique identity in a manner wished by Goas people, said Parrikars memorandum

gress vice president) Rahul Gandhis political report card has been dismal in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, he said. When asked about the failure of the third front experiment in the past, he said: Lets wait and see. It would be healthy if a federal structure or third front comes to power. Patnaik ruled himself out as the leader of the third front. I dont see myself as a potential prime minister. Lets see what happens after the election, he said. Regarding a special status for Odisha, he said: It is Odishas fair demand to get a special category status. We are having a political meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) and after that we will carry one crore signatures of the people of Odisha to the president with a memorandum for that demand.

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Omar happy over Shindes remarks on AFSPA revocation

REGION
Srinagar Haryana has the lowest sex ratio in the zero to six age group in the country followed by Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir, a census department said. Releasing the final census of India 2011 figures for the state, joint chief principal census officer C.S. Sapru said: In the zero to six age group with 834 females per 1,000, males Haryana has the lowest sex ratio in the country followed by Punjab at 846 and J&K at 862. Developed countries in Europe have maintained the overall sex ratio at 1,000 females per 1,000 males because of their development, education and planning, Sapru said. In India, states with a better sex ratio in the zero to six age group are Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, both at 993. The good news for J&K in this segment is that the Ladakh region, which has a 100 percent scheduled tribe population, has an encouraging sex ratio of 1,016 females for 1,000 males in the zero to six age group, the census officer said. He said that the census figures provide voluminous data on population that can be used for planning. The delimitation of constituencies for parliamentary and assembly elections is also based on the Census of India figures. We can compare the figures of 2001 and 2011 to see what progress we have made. The population of India today stands at 121 crore, which is second to China at 131 crore and larger than the US at 31 crore. Among Indian states, Uttar Pradesh has the highest population of 17 crore followed by Maharashtra at 11 crore and West Bengal at nine crore. J&K forms one percent of the countrys population at 1.25 crore, Sapru said. The census figures reveal that in 1961, the population growth rate was seven to nine percent in J&K, which rose to 29 percent in 2001,

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J&K has third-lowest sex ratio in under six age group

but has now come down to 24 percent. This is a welcome development. Anantnag district has the highest population growth rate at 38 percent followed by Ganderbal district at 36 percent. The population of the Kashmir Valley, as per census 2011, is 58 lakh, while the Jammu region is 53 lakh and the Ladakh region is 2.74 lakh. The state has 22 districts, 86 statutory towns, 36 census towns and 6,553 villages. While J&K has a 67 percent literacy rate (76 among males and 56 among females), Haryanas rate is 75 percent (84 among males and 65 among females), Punjabs is 75 percent (80 among males and 70 among females) and Chandigarhs is 86 (90 among males and 81 among females). The census officer said the variation in the figures released last year, which were based on manual totals and the final figures released Monday was just 0.06 percent.

Srinagar Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah expressed happiness over what he called the central governments acknowledgement that the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) has to be lifted from Jammu and Kashmir. Talking to media persons on the sidelines of a function in Srinagar, the chief minister said the state government was in touch with the centre regarding the revocation of the AFSPA. Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said recently that all the stakeholders in Kashmir and the northeast would be taken on board before taking a final decision on the

revocation of the act. The AFSPA gives sweeping powers to the army and the paramilitary in troubled states for arrest, search and seize operations. Omar Abdullah also confirmed that Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs scheduled visit to the state June 25 has not been cancelled as reported by a section of media, quoting Professor Saif-ud-Din Soz, chief of the state Congress. The prime ministers visit stands as on date and we are working out the modalities with the Prime Ministers Office, Omar Abdullah said. The chief minister said UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi was also likely to visit the state with the prime minister.

Haryana IAS officer dies mysteriously

Gurgaon A Haryana IAS officer died under mysterious circumstances after allegedly falling from the staircase of his apartment building here, police said. The 1981 batch IAS officer, Harbaksh Singh, 56, was financial commissioner and additional chief secretary, Renewable Energy Department of Haryana. His body was found near staircase of his flat on the first floor of Park View Apartments here in Sector 15 early morning. He apparently fell down the staircase and sustained head injuries. His uncle Gurdayal Singh, son Vikram Singh and his friend Shashank Bhatia were in the flat at the time of incident, but no one saw him falling from staircase, said police. Gurdayal and Vikram were living in the Gurgaon flat since June 3. Harbaksh usually stayed in Chandigarh or Panchkula but had returned to Gurgaon June 10 with his driver Bachchan Singh. He (Harbaksh) was depressed, police said. Harbakshs driver saw him lying in a pool of blood. He was rushed to civil hospital where he was declared brought dead.

Punjab asks Congress welcomes central Tata Memorial Centre to train probe in Punjab books scam Chandigarh state doctors With the union human resource de- like Mahatma Gandhi and JawahaChandigarh With the incidence of cancer in the Bathinda belt of south-west Punjab growing over the years, the Punjab government asked the Mumbai-based Tata Memorial Centre to train its doctors and paramedic staff to fight the deadly disease. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Tuesday met senior officials of the centre and sought their assistance for imparting training in oncology to the doctors and paramedics of Punjabs government medical colleges and hospitals and the state health department, a spokesman said here. Badal emphasised on the need to initiate a six months oncology training programme by the centres. Once trained, the services of doctors will be utilised in the upcoming cancer treatment centres at Patiala, Amritsar, Faridkot, Bhatinda, Mohali and Sangrur, he said. Centre director R.A. Badwe assured the chief minister that a high level team would be deputed soon to visit Bathinda and Patiala for chalking out the training programme. adwe said that the centre would soon open a state-of-the-art radiotherapy hospital at a cost of Rs.22 crore in Sangrur, which would be equipped with ultra-modern machines. He added that the centre was awaiting permission of the union government to set up the hospital. Bathinda, Mansa, Sangrur, Barnala and Muktsar district in south-west Punjab, which comprise the states Malwa belt (south of river Sutlej), are the worst affected by cancer cases. Most surveys and reports have indicated that the high incidence of cancer is owing to excessive use of pesticides by farmers in this belt which is known for high agricultural productivity. The door-to-door health department survey covered nearly 97 percent of Punjabs 2.70 crore population and had brought out glaring figures of cancer deaths and the spread of the fatal disease in the agrarian state. The survey report pointed ut that another 24,659 people were suffering from the disease already while another 87,403 people had shown symptoms of having cancer. velopment ministry sending a team to probe the alleged embezzlement of central funds under Sarv Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) and Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) in Punjab, the opposition Congress welcomed the move. Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa welcomed the probe by the central government team into the infamous books scam involving Education Minister Sikandar Singh Maluka. He said the books scam involved financial as well as moral corruption. The scam is regarding publication of books with central funds. Bajwa alleged that orders for supply of books worth Rs.42 crore at exaggerated rates were given to a company which was manufacturing pipes. He alleged that Maluka was the architect of the scam and he owes moral responsibility to supply of books with vulgar and denigrating comments against national heroes

There were three injuries on the body. A head injury was the cause of death, Deepak Mathur, who conducted the autopsy, told. Harbaksh might have died between 1 a.m. and 2.30 a.m. Wednesday. His stomach was empty, Mathur added. We have handed over the body to deceaseds relatives. Investigations into his death are on, Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Surender Pal Singh told

rlal Nehru. The Congress leader said that Maluka had done irreparable damage to the reputation of education department but has been behaving as if he had won laurels for the department. The Congress has been seeking the resignation of Maluka after the books scam was exposed last month. It also urged Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to drop Maluka from the cabinet. Bajwa said that instead of owning responsibility for the scam, Maluka was adamant on not resigning. Badal ordered a probe into the scam nearly 20 days back. However, nothing has come out of the probe so far, and the Congress has rejected the probe. The most unfortunate part is that Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal chose to defend the tainted minister and tried to hush up the matter by holding a sham inquiry, Bajwa said in a statement here.

Punjab-J&K gas pipeline gets clearance

Srinagar Jammu & Kashmirs governor has cleared an ordinance that will facilitate the laying of a gas pipeline from Punjab to here and acquisitionnof land needed for it, sources said. Governor N.N. Vohra cleared the ordinance to lay the Rs.8.50 billion gas pipeline, government sources said. The issuance of the ordinance had become necessary because a bill to this effect could not be tabled by the government in the budget session of the state legislature earlier this year, a source said. The proposed 750-km gas pipeline would be laid from Bhatinda in Punjab to Srinagar, and will pass through Jammu. It will ease cooking gas woes of people in the state. The state cabinet cleared the ordinance in April. The contract for the pipeline was awarded to a Gujaratbased company in 2011. The ordinance will facilitate the ac-

IAS officer, wife killed in Ladakh road accident

Srinagar Four people, including an IAS officer, were killed and three others, including another IAS officer and an IPS officer, were injured in a road accident in Jammu and Kashmirs Ladakh, police said. All the officials were of the Madhya Pradesh cadre. A senior police officer told IANS that Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Dharma Rao, of the commissioner/secretary rank, his wife Vidya Rao, their companion Kumar Singh and driver Karma Dorji died on the spot when their vehicle fell into a deep gorge at Khardungla, 500 km from here on the Leh-Nubra road. The accident occurred after the driver lost control. The injured, who included Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Ashok Avasthi, of the rank of inspector general of police, his wife Manjuri and Shailendra Kumar, also of the rank of commissioner/secretary in the IAS, were brought to Leh hospital for treatment, the officer said. The officer said the group of officers from Madhya Pradesh were on a holiday in Ladakh. Khardungla Pass is situated at 18,380 feet above the sea level.

quisition of land for the pipeline, which would otherwise face legal problems because Article 370 of the Constitution debars outside individuals and companies from acquiring land in J&K for personal or commercial purposes.

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Medical admissions subject to final verdict: SC

CAMPUS
Calories important for body: Expert
Hot and crispy fried snacks, sweets, carbohydrates-rich food and much more should be avoided if you want to keep a check on your weight, but do provide calories to your body, say experts. Though most of us avoid having food items with lots of calories, our body requires some amount of calories. Each and every individual has his own calorie requirement, which is based on their basal metabolic rate. If a person eats more calories than what he needs, he will definitely gain weight or if he eats less calories than what he needs, he will lose weight, said Annapurna Agrawal, nutritionist at Snap Fitness India. She explained: Your body requires 2,000 calories and if you eat 2,500 calories, the extra 500 will be converted into fat. If you are gearing to adapt healthy eating habits, then shun junk food as it lacks essential nutrients like vitamins, minerals and proteins and is high in fat and calories. You need to shun all your favourite fried snacks and those curries that have a lot of fat and are cooked in fair amount of oil, Manik Pande and Meghana Surve, nutritionists at Talwalkars National Nutrition Centre, told. They even warn against intake of carbohydrates.

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New Delhi The Supreme Court said that admission to the under-graduate and postgraduate medical courses would be subject to the final outcome of the petitions challenging the Medical Council of India's decision requiring that candidates clear the National Eligibility Entrance Test. The apex court bench of Justice Gyan Sudha Misra and Justice Madan B. Lokur said this on an application filed by NGO Sankalp, seeking direction that the private medical colleges which were enrolling students on the basis of their own entrance tests should admit only those students who had appeared in the NEET and secured at least 50 percent marks. Appearing for the NGO, counsel Prashant Bhushan told the court that the interim order passed by the apex court May 13 was not clear as it had allowed the declarations of the results of the entrance examinations conducted by the Medical Council under the NEET and by various private colleges but did not spell out

how admissions would take place. Bhushan said there could be a situation that a student, who had appeared in the NEET but did not secure 50 percent marks, gets admitted to a private medical college. "Why they admit students who get zero in exams conducted by the MCI," Bhushan asked and submitted that "those students who have not secured minimum eligibility marks in the NEET may not be granted admission". This suggestion was opposed by senior counsel P.H. Parikh, appearing for a college, who said that the minimum percentage of marks for the successful candidate was 50 percent even in the entrance tests conducted by the private medical colleges. Parikh said that if admissions were not to be made on the basis of the entrance test conducted by the private medical colleges, then what was the purpose of declaring the results. Parikh appeared for Christian Medical College.At this, Justice Misra asked: "Don't you think it would be in our interest if we admit good students?"The apex Court by its May 13 order allowed the declaration of results of MCI's NEET and also of tests by private medical colleges to facilitate the admissions for the current academic year.

Admission News
Delhi University Admission to M.Tech Course in Nuclear Science & Technology The University of Delhi (DU) invited applications for admission in M. Tech. course in Nuclear Science & Technology. Interested candidates may apply on or before 28 June 2013. The University of Delhi (DU) has invited applications for admission in M. Tech. course in Nuclear Science & Technology from the Department of Physics and Astrophysics, Faculty of Science. Only those candidates who have qualified the Joint Admission Test for M.Sc. (JAM) Physics 2013, conducted by the Indian Institutes of Technologies (IITs) can apply to this course. Last date of receipt of form is 02 July 2013. Aspiring candidates are required to send the duly filled in application form along with a demand draft of Rs. 250/- in favor of The Registrar, University of Delhi payable at Delhi to the following address: Office In-charge Room No. 189, Multistoried Building, Second Floor Dept. of Physics & Astrophysics University of Delhi, Delhi 110007 Candidates can download the Application Form free of cost from the website of university: http://du.ac.in NALSAR University of Law offers specialised MBA Programmes 2013-2014 NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad has invited applications for admission to a full-time two-year programme for Master of Business Administration (MBA) management course for the academic session 2013 to 2014. The programme is conducted on campus. The programme is based on imparting knowledge regarding management skills and law that will find practical application. This MBA program is coupled with major specializations in the following: Court Management Corporate Governance Financial Services and Capital Markets Minor specializations include: Marketing Management Human Resource Management Business Regulations Important dates Availability of application forms: Forms can be downloaded now at the official website www.nalsar.ac.in Last date to submit applications: 21 June, 2013 until 4 p.m. Apeejay Stya University invites Applications for MBA Programme 2013 - 14 Apeejay Stya University, invites application for Master of Business Administrations for the year 2013. This programme will be offered in the School of Management Sciences at the university campus, Sohna, Delhi-NCR.The course details are as followsCourse name- Master of Business Administration (Marketing, Finance, HR).Duration-2 years Eligibility- Graduation in any discipline with 50% marks with CAT / MAT / XAT/ GMAT / CMAT ASU Prospectus & Application Form can be downloaded from the official website. before June 30.

Carbohydrates actually convert into fats after they are consumed. The body stores this fat and this adds to your body weight, explained the nutritionists. Grains and sugar, which are common feature of our diet, contain large amount of carbohydrates so you need to be careful as far as consumption is concerned. Hot summer season calls for chilled sodas and juices that instantly refresh us, but Pande and Surve advised to stick to something healthier. According to them, stick to water, lime juice and fresh fruit juices. Alcohol also is an evil beverage - 12 ounce of beer equals to 146 calories. Medicines usually help to eliminate diseases, but they can also make you heavier than before. Anti-depressant medicines, birth control pills, allergy medications, and blood pressure medications are some of the medicines that may cause weight gain, said Agrawal.

New Delhi Admissions under the sports quota into Delhi University (DU) have been made simpler this year following the introduction of the four-year undergraduate programme, a university official said. The candidates now seeking admission on the basis of chess, archery and shooting only need to qualify either in the 50-metre dash, standing broad jump or 1,000-metre race or walk, said Ram Dutt, DU deputy registrar, in a statement.

DU makes admissions under sports quota simpler

Unlike the previous year, students who apply under the sports quota need not go through the difficult physical exercises, irrespective of the particular sports they play. All the sports trials will also be video-graphed by all the colleges in order to ensure transparency, Dutt said.The sports trials will be held in different colleges, and candidates qualifying the fitness test would be issued certificates that would be accepted by all the colleges. The sports trials in different colleges would begin after the announcement of the first cut-off list, scheduled to be announced June 26, Avinashi Kapoor, joint dean, students welfare, told. DU reserves five percent seats in all courses for students who have won recognition in a range of sports activities throughout the country. DU has introduced, starting this academic year, the four-year undergraduate programme under which students are required to study 11 foundation courses in the first two years.

By Nury Vittachi There are few things more stressful than waiting for exam results, hoping and praying that you get the grades you desperately want: an F in every subject. Please please please please! Yay! Prayer works. An entire college received the score I wanted them to get when academic results were announced last week: Distinctions: Zero. Passes: Zero. Fails: 100 per cent. Done it again. The Junior Science College in the town of Jeerango, in Indias Odisha state, has become mildly famous for failing to successfully get a single student through the science exam since it opened in 2008. The just-announced 2013 score gives them five years of total failure, the Times of India reported. You have to admire their consistency. Why celebrate? Because the college lacks certain useful facilities, such as electricity, for example. This makes their computers less useful. The more headlines this school makes, the more likely the state government will actually do something about it. At almost exactly the same time, people in China had the opposite problem: too much functioning

Heres a college where every student fails! Nokia brings Man of Steel closer to audience
technology. An exam invigilator in Zhongxiang, Hubei, refused to accept large stacks of banknotes in return for letting students use their iPhones to find answers, the Beijing News reported. A furious mob of parents and students accused him of the heinous crime of Not Behaving Like a Chinese Official. I guess they have a point. Chinese officials are naughty. The government there always claims to have a free press, but a journalist leaked a secret memo issued last week by the State Council Information Office about the wife of the president: All websites are asked to immediately find and remove images of Peng Liyuan taking a picture with her cellphone. Why the panic? Peng has an iPhone 5, but its a secret, since the China authorities have a strict policy of verbally trashing all Apple products. No one knows why, but one reader has a theory that Samsung has secretly purchased the government of China as part of its marketing plan for the Galaxy S4. This is utterly unbelievable, so is probably true.But, going back to academia, did you read about that professor in Sri Lanka who claimed to have found a fossilized germ on a meteorite, proving that there is life in outer space? I was under the impression that this fact had already been confirmed by important pieces of scientific literature, such as Action Comics No. 1: The Origin of Superman. But what do I know? And now the good news: the biggest scientific mystery of this year so far has been solved. In February, a flock of char-grilled pigeons landed on a grassy bank in the British countryside and set fire to it. Where did they come from? A British newspaper found a witness who revealed what had happened. A large flock of birds landed on an electricity cable. When the 615th pigeon landed, the wire touched the one below and the flock was instantly barbecued. You see, theres a perfectly reasonable scientific explanation for everything. Such as the fact that trainee scientists wont achieve much with their computers if they have no electricity.

This summer will be more exciting with Nokia and Warner Bros Pictures joint effort to bring superhero Man of Steel closer to the movie enthusiasts through exclusive applications. The partnership brings a collection of exciting content, including an immersive Man of Steel application, exclusive to Nokia Lumia Windows 8 smartphones and the chance to win tickets to the movie premiere. Nokias exclusive app and content for Zack Snyders fresh take on a loved classic provides fans around the world with the perfect opportunity to connect with Man of Steel through Nokia Lumia720 - the perfect smartphone for powerful imaging and entertainment, said Viral Oza, director-marketing, Nokia India.Through the partnership, fans will have access to a collection of exclusive content including digital comics, video content and images. The Nokia site will also host a photography challenge, giving fans the chance to win tickets to the films world premiere in New York, along with limited edition of official memorabilia.

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Just who is Narendra Modi?

Pari WARs Impact On Indian Politics?

Once a humble cadre, now BJPs national hope

Mayabhushan Nagvenkar

The man who tirelessly crisscrossed Gujarats roads and alleyways on a scooter, building the BJP brick by brick is now in the drivers seat. Narendra Modi is now all set to chart a strategic course for the partys victory in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. Modis ability to first convert adversity into opportunity, and then leapfrog from one milestone to the next has been one of the reasons behind the 62-year-old leaders phenomenal rise in the BJP ranks. Born as Narendra Damodardas Modi in Mehsana district in north Gujarat, the bespectacled chief minister helped his father run a tea stall, say his aides. The journey from a young boy with humble, lower middle class roots boiling tea and serving savouries to making thousands of party workers and leaders eat out of his hands has been a fascinating one. His first tryst with public life was in his teens as a Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) volunteer after which he almost automatically upgraded himself to its mother forum, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh. His political life kicked off when he joined the BJP in 1987 and became the general secretary of the Gujarat unit within a year. RSS veterans recall how Modi, who had shown much promise, had been instructed by the Sangh leaders to attend political meetings and rallies, to learn the art of politicking from upclose. The quiet student did not miss out on much. Pundits say his proximity to L.K. Advani when he organised the Ram Rath Yatra, from Somnath to Ayodhya in 1990, welded into a fruitful relationship, especially after the Rath yielded the party both political and electoral winnings. Modi also organised Murali Manohar Joshis Kanyakumari-Srinagar Ekta Yatra in 1991 when Joshi was the party president. In 1995, he was appointed national secretary of the party. In 1998, he was promoted as the general secre-

tary (organization), a post he held until October 2001 when he was chosen to be the chief minister of Gujarat, says Modis biographical note on his website. The BJP government in Gujarat was led by senior leader Keshubai Patel, whose government was facing allegations of corruption and sluggish administration. Modi replaced Patel, a man he had helped to win the preceding election. Modis present day identity is largely influenced by the 2002 Godhra violence, and his government was blamed for allegedly conspiring with the Hindu rioters. The charge has stuck for over a decade. Then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had indirectly asked Modi to step down, saying he should abide by raj dharma, during a BJP meeting in Goa in 2002. Modi had faced the prospect of being sacked only after a few months in office. But his networking and abilities saw him through, once again. Backed by Advani, Modi managed to save the day, and won resounding success in 2002 where he won 128 out of 182 seats by playing the Hindutva card. That victory helped him purge nearly all opposition from within the party. Some, BJP insiders say, were cornered into calling it quits. Under Modis leadership, the BJP won Gujarat again in 2007 and 2012. Modi became a symbol of development and the partys ability to deliver good governance. The appointment of Modi as the chairman of the partys election management committee has now ensured him transition from a heavyweight in state politics to a man seeking to make a mark on national polity. It is a sign that the age of patriarchs like Vajpayee, Advani and Joshi is now past. In the age of Twitter, Facebook and blog updates, the time of the tech savvy, bespectacled and bearded Modi may have just arrived.

By Ravi M. Khanna

The controversial BJP decision to elevate hardliner Narendra Modi to run the partys campaign in 2014 elections and ruthlessly sideline a leader such as L.K. Advani is bound to damage its image, but let us not forget that it is a decisive victory for the RSS, which forced BJP President Rajnath Singh, from behind the scenes, to go ahead with the drastic step. Hardline groups such as RSS, Shiv Sena and Vishwa Hindu Parishad have been waiting in the wings for decades to somehow harden the BJPs Hindu nationalist image by encouraging leaders like Modi to lead the party campaigns and also the party. Surprisingly, some BJP leaders and most of the Indian media are describing it as a personal feud between a senior and a junior leader of the party. But apparently it is more than that. Advani realizes that Modi is perceived as a divisive and controversial force that can damage the partys chances of heading a coalition in 2014. Who can deny that Advani is the same leader who in the past did step aside when he realized that Atal Behari Vajpayee would prove to be a better prime minister for the party than him. Anyhow, the appointment of Modi as the chairman of the BJPs 2014 Election Management Committee has set the stage for next years Lok Sabha elections, which now will be a contest between Modi on one side and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on the other. So the fight will now be between the two parivars - the Sangh Parivar and the Gandhi Parivar. It is very convenient for the Sangh Parivar to say that the ongoing feud is nothing more than a manifestation of the internal democracy of the party. But the fact remains that the old guard has openly expressed its concern that elevating a known Hindu hardliner as the top national leader in the party could be a big gamble in todays India. The simple reason is that the number of hardline Hindu voters in India is much less than the total number of liberal Hindus and minorities combined. Modi sees his leadership as the best bet for the BJP in 2014 polls. He cites his three consecutive victories in the Gujarat elections, his rapport with Indias top industrialists and the economic development he has achieved in Gujarat as his top qualities to be projected as the prime ministerial candidate. Although his personality

is not charismatic, his ability to rebutting the Congress party slogans is great and his criticism of some of the present government policies is valid. But the problem is he also carries the taint of the 2002 Gujarat riots and an almost visceral hate for Muslims. There was a time in 2004 when the most accepted BJP leader and then prime minister Vajpayee also distanced himself from Modi. He had asked Modi not to discriminate between Hindus and Muslims in the aftermath of the 2002 Gujarat violence and had pushed for his resignation as chief minister. And when the BJP lost the elections, Vajpayee held the violence in Gujarat as one of the main reasons and acknowledged that not removing Modi immediately after the Gujarat violence was a mistake. Modi, instead had tried to equate the Gujarat violence with the 9/11 terror attacks in the US and responded to a newspapers criticism that compared him to Hitler by saying: I have not read and I would not like to read (the criticism). Perception matters a lot in politics. And when one talks to Indian voters and watches the TV talk shows about Indian politics, Modis image comes across as a dictatorial leader who has never felt any need to express any regrets about the 2002 riots, who is ruthlessly in a hurry to rule India and who doesnt care about the countrys minorities and feels that his party can win the elections with the support of just the Hindu majority of the country. Modi, according to some experts, comes across as a crude politician who does not have any political sanskars and does not have an open mind and the charisma for running a country like India. The way Modi sent his supporters to demonstrate outside Advanis home in Delhi; the way he treated a whistle blower (senior IPS officer Kuldip Sharma) who exposed some of his controversial actions, and the way he allegedly shunned his wife are some clear indications that he can use any means to achieve what he thinks is right. Deep down he is an authoritarian man ill at ease with dissent. Even his wife has alleged that she is afraid of losing her job and livelihood if she says something against her politically powerful husband. The bottom line is that Modi is now set to face Rahul Gandhi, who, in a total contrast to Modis clamouring approach for the prime ministerial post, is using the renunciation approach with a touch of magnanim-

ity. Rahul Gandhi has said he is in no hurry to become the prime minister because at first he wants to work for the unity of his party. But Rahul Gandhi also has a perception problem. He comes across as a young man who has no experience at all of holding any position in the government or otherwise. His critics say he is surrounded by the most ineffective cronies led by a very insecure adviser like Kanishka Singh, who for his own job security has been limiting Rahul Gandhis exposure. The critics also say if he becomes the prime minister, it will not be because of his ability but because he is a member of the Gandhi dynasty. But it is also clear that Rahul Gandhis sanskars are solid. When he says becoming the prime minister is not his top priority, he means it. He did not say he does not want to become the prime minister, but only that it is not his top priority and that the party comes first. Rahul has perhaps inherited this quality from his mother. For years after Rajiv Gandhis assassination, Sonia Gandhi kept on rejecting the party leadership until one day all senior politicians, who were fighting over it, forced her to become the Congress chief. So at a time when cracks are appearing in the BJPs unity, Rahul Gandhi comes across as a Congress leader who is trying to unite his Congress party by making it more democratic and giving more power to the middle ranks. The young Congress vice-president, it seems, is following his fathers footsteps. But, unlike his father, he doesnt seem to be in a hurry to implement the changes overnight. Rahul Gandhi, with his hard work and interaction with the grassroots for the past nine years, probably realizes, more than his father did, how murky and ruthless Indian politics can be. And perhaps he also realizes that once he is able to democratize the party and empower the neglected ranks in the Congress, he will automatically become their natural choice for leading them in parliament. Whatever the results, one thing is certain that next years Lok Sabha elections are bound to have far reaching repercussions for Indian politics. Also, the RSS victory in forcing the BJP to sideline the more acceptable moderate leaders and elevate a Hindu hardliner for the 2014 polls can prove to be a tipping point for the worlds largest democracy.

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You are seeing clearly one set of people are aligned with Advani and would not like Modi to be the prime ministerial candidate. The BJP clearly is a divided house, Haq told. Haq said it was possible that BJP improved its tally from 116 to 140-150 seats in 2014 but that will mainly be due to the dissatisfaction of the people with the ruling United Progressive Alliance and not due to Modi being helming the BJPs campaign. He said Modis influence was limited to Gujarat. Haq also added that Modis elevation will cause polarization of Muslims against the BJP, due to which the Congress and regional parties will gain. There is no unanimity in the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) on his name. Look at the stance of JDU, Haq said. Janata Dal-United is opposed to projecting Modi as the NDAs prime ministerial candidate. A.S. Narang, a professor of political science at the Indira Gandhi National Open University, felt Modi can succeed if there is no factionalism in the BJP. He said Modi would have limited appeal for people in rural areas as they were not drawn by his vaunted growth rhetoric. People in rural areas would be largely influenced by caste and local issues in the next Lok Sabha election, he said. In the urban electorate, there is a intellectual class opposed to Modi, Narang pointed out. Referring to criticism about the personality cult associated with Modi, Narang said the Gujarat chief minister could be more consultative in his new role. It will be clear in a few months how he operates, Na-

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Will Amit Shah deliver UP to BJP?

says that Amit Shah and his team will add value to the partys fight in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls. The BJP for long has not had a voterich face in the state. The tallest state leader the BJP had was former chief minister Kalyan Singh, who twice left the party in a huff - first after his tiff with former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and later when he was not allowed to handpick candidates for the 2009 Lok Sabha polls. The party, which had 182 seats and a 25 percent vote share in the late 1990s, has now been pushed out of contention in Uttar Pradesh. With the rise of Samajwadi Party and the BSP, the political space has shrunk for national parties in UP. However, political observer and senior journalist Rajiv Ranjan Jha said: The BJP is well-placed to take on the Congress nationally in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls. The fact remains that the Congressled United Progressive Alliance (UPA) at the centre is scam tainted and the SP state government has not much to show. I think the BJP will do well this time, he added. A party source said that Shahs entry would also herald a corporatepolitics nexus based on the Gujarat model and electioneering will become more jazzy, tech-savvy and modern. The old guard, both at the central and state levels, would perish now. The generational change taking place within the party is coming to UP in the form of Amit Shah, the source said. A close aide pointed out that Shah knows he is against an uphill task. UP is a dicey and huge state. It has its own political thought. One has to completely understand how things play out here, and that is why Amit bhai has extended his stay in the state by another day, he said. To understand the politics of UP, Amit Shah would spend two days in the state capital and would hold meetings with all state unit functionaries, eight regional presidents, general secretaries, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leaders and party workers. There is also a clamour in the state unit about seeing Narendra Modi contesting from a Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh and party sources say that Varanasi and Lucknow could be the potential seats for the Gujarat satrap.

What Do Political Analysts Observe?

rang said. Modi will face challenges improving BJPs stock in Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka due to the partys problems in the two states. The BJP does not count for much in Tamil Nadu and Kerala and is a minor player in Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal. It has also suffered setbacks in the past elections in Odisha and Assam. G.V.L. Narasimha Rao, a member of BJPs electoral reforms committee, admitted that Modi will face challenge in states the party is weak but added that the Gujarat chief minister loves challenges. He said Modi will be able to maximize BJPs gains. The image he carries, he will be able to deliver astounding results for the BJP, Narsimhan said. He said the party could win over 200 seats with Modi as the face of partys campaign. I dont see any internal challenges (to Modi), he said. BJP MP from Meerut Rajendra Agarwal said Modis record as a good administrator will be an asset during the Lok Sabha campaign. The next election will be fought on the issues of corruption and good governance. Modi has a very good record on this, he said.

By Mohit Dubey

As Amit Shah, the controversial close confidante of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, arrived on his maiden visit to Uttar Pradesh, opinion stands divided on his ability to deliver the countrys most populous state to the BJP. While the BJPs old guard is edgy about Shahs entry into UP politics, the new generation leaders feel the newly-appointed general secretary in-charge of the partys state unit could bring in the much awaited generational change. The popularity of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been on the decline in the state for the last one decade. Those were heydays of the Ram Janma Bhoomi movement, an old-timer pointed out while admitting that such a spectacular turnaround is not possible now. He, however, conceded that Shah could be a polarising factor in the state, which is on the boil due to minority appeasement policies of the Samajwadi Party (SP) government. We are very hopeful that Amit Shahs entry into UP will reap rich dividends for us, said BJPs state spokesperson Vijay Pathak. Pointing out that the Narendra Modi team had repeatedly proven its mettle in election management, Pathak added that a road map would soon be chalked out for the party. People have become disenchanted with the state as well as the union government. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is still a rejected lot. I feel the time is ripe for us to cash on the anti-incumbency, said Hriday Narayan Dixit, a BJP veteran and former state minister. The younger generation in the BJP

With the BJP having weathered a crisis soon after his elevation as the chief of partys campaign committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is unlikely to find the going easy in his new role that will require straddling intra-party tussles and strengthening bridges with allies. Modi had begun his new innings on a high note, declaring after the BJPs national executive meeting in Goa Sunday that a job well begun, is half won. But the words sounded hollow as Bharatiya Janata Party patriarch L.K. Advani resigned from his three organisational posts Monday, taking the focus away from Modis newfound stardom. The crisis blew over only with the intervention of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological parent of the BJP, but reinforced views about fissures in the party. Analysts said it will not be easy for Modi to take the BJP-led NDA to power in the 2014 polls as he faces a multitude of challenges. Nisar Ul Haq, a professor of political science at Jamia Milia Islamia, said Modi will not find the going easy as there was no unanimity about him in the BJP.

The War Ahead?

By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar and Anjali Ojha

Does Goa mean curtains for L.K. Advani and a last good bye from the grand old man of the BJP?

A battle has been won, but skirmishes and a war with all its rigours lies ahead for Narendra Modi. The next obvious campaign for the Bharatiya Janata Partys (BJP) newly nominated chief of the election management committee, making him the BJPs face in the Lok Sabha battle, is to contain a bloody skirmish within his own fortress. The immediate task for Modi after his elevation to the national stage will be to weld the image of the party following Loh Purush L.K. Advanis dramatic resignation and subsequent withdrawal of it from party posts. And, if possible, to mollycoddle the patriarch and usher him back to a comfort zone within the BJP. One did not need a crystal ball to realise over the last few weeks that Advanis relations with Modi, who Sunday overrode intra-party dissent and differences to emerge as the BJPs face for the 2014 polls, had soured. Advani, who along with Atal Behari Vajpayee founded the BJP, the successor to the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, in 1980, had given the three-day national executive meet of the party in Goa a miss for the first time ever, citing health reasons. Several leaders, including some from the Advani camp, too had stayed away from the June 7-9 conclave. These included Yashwant Singh,

Jaswant Singh, Shatrughan Sinha, Varun Gandhi, Uma Bharati, and Ravishankar Prasad. And from what insiders told during the conference, especially after the leaders doodling with ominous metaphors on his blog, Advanis hurt was evident. There is a sense of uneasiness among some leaders because Advani was overlooked in a way. This gap is very important to be filled, a BJP leader claimed minutes after the Modi announcement. Another senior party leader was worried about the control-obsessed Gujarat chief minister creating a single power pole in the BJP. This, it is feared, could have a negative impact on the democratic structure of the party. The embarrassment caused by the resignation of a leader of Advanis stature has already cut a deep gash in the BJP cadres psyche. It will also allow other parties, especially the Congress, to jab at the BJP

at will, especially because the latters guard is down and the partys leaders, dazed and stunned by the development. Goa MP Shripad Naik says Modis popularity and a craze for him would help reap dividends for the BJP. He feels Advani should have exercised restraint and not resigned at this juncture. An expert on the Sangh Parivar, Pralay Kanungo, says the challenge will be to temper the atmosphere in the party. It is a difficult beginning for Modi. How he proceeds from here will decide the partys fate in the general election and establish him as the prime ministerial candidate, Kanungo told. Kanungo says that charm and popularity arent enough to carry along a party. For Modi to prove himself efficient and a true leader, it is important for him to manage the differences. Extremities dont last in politics, the professor said.

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Many independent women suffer physical and emotional abuse in a relationship and actress-filmmaker Pooja Bhatt says there is no simple answer to it, but your silence the first time sets the tone and tenor for your relationship, while Gul Panag feels they tolerate abuse because of emotional vulnerability. Here is what Bollywood women have to say on the issue: I have been very loyal and honest with him. My world was just work and him. Hed repeatedly humiliate me in front of his friends. He used to say, See the most beautiful girl mere isharon pay rehti hai. He used to get violent if I did not prepare food on time. I think girls get into abusive relationships because to some extent they like bad boys. They want to change them but instead they are drawn into the dark, desperate personality of the man they think they can mend. I confess abusive relationships give a woman an extreme high even if they cause their self-esteem to fall extremely low. Also, women feel that bad boys will protect them from the outside world. Amrita Rao: I dont believe in generalizing the gender issue. However, even the most intelligent girl can lose her mind to her heart if she encourages and prolongs a wrong relationship. Any sensible girl must evaluate and analyse at the initial stages of a relationship whether she is getting respect from her partner or not. No relationship of unequal feelings can work. Any partner who makes you feel constantly small and guilty is not worthy of you. Learn to command respect at the start of a relationship. Or you will never get it.

Why women suffer in a relationship? Christians object to rosary on belly scene in Policegiri Bollywoods women answer

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Pooja Bhatt: There is no simple answer to such a complicated question. Ive been there myself. One thing that I was wise enough to know is that you dont have to wait for someone to treat you badly repeatedly. If you allow them to get away with it once, you are telling them they can get away with it every time. Your silence the first time (when physically abused) sets the tone and tenor for your relationship in the future. Abuse is not just physical. Some women spend years with men who dont strike them but break their spirit every day. Remember, if you endure abuse the first time, you are a victim. If you let anyone do that repeatedly, then you are accomplice.

Divya Dutta: When you are putting up a brave front in an abusive relationship, somewhere you do become unreasonably vulnerable. Women in such relationships are often unable to leave and often end up taking the blame for the abusive partners behaviour. Speaking for myself, Id rather be single than in an abusive relationship.

Veena Malik: Yes, I suffered an abusive relationship. I had an abusive relationship with Muhammad Asif...

SRK launches Chennai Express Madhuri the last dancing legend: Terence Lewis first look, praises Deepika Mumbai
Mumbai Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan Thursday launched the first look of his much-talked about film Chennai Express and praised his co-star Deepika Padukone, saying she has gone beyond what was written for her in the script. Deepika has done two to three stunning films recently and she has grown as an actor. She is fantastic, SRK told reporters at the launch. Deepika made her debut with SRK in Om Shanti Om and he added: The fact that she did her first film with me, so I am protective about Deepika and gentle towards her. It was nice working with her again. Deepika has gone beyond what was written for her in the script. As making a movie is an uphill task, SRK insists that filmmakers should be respected for making the effort. We all try hard to make film and its a difficult job. There is a lot of ifs and buts, slip-ups while making films. So, we have to be prepared for the worse. Filmmakers needs to be Choreographer Terence Lewis calls actress Madhuri Dixit the last dancing legend and adds that choreographer Saroj Khan was instrumental in shaping her career. When it comes to Bollywood dancing, choreographing and making stars out of the biggest stars, it has been Saroj-ji be it Sridevi or Madhuri, the 38-yearold said here at the announcement of a dance talent hunt show 20-20 Dance Competition. The actors were stars when they used to have the support of choreographers. Without choreographers, actresses didnt even do a bit... That was the time and today Madhuri is the last dancing legend. Saroj-ji has been instrumental in her career, he added. Saroj Khan-Madhuri gave hit dance numbers like Ek do teen and Dhak dhak karne laga. Saroj Khan, Terence and Remo DSouza will be judging 20-20 Dance Competition, started by Shafiq Ahmed, owner of Hollywood Bollywood Dress Wala Events and Entertainment. The grand finale of the show will be held July 1 in Mumbai.

Gul Panag: I suppose successful women tolerate abuse because of their emotional vulnerability. The pressures of everyday life make them hold on to what they think are emotional anchors.I would never tolerate an abusive relationship.

Celina Jaitley: Ive often wondered why women tolerate abusive relationships. Such men take advantage of the vulnerability of women who crave for a home, family and other domestic bliss. No matter how successful or independent they are, women become victims of their own idea of a perfect fairytale life while men often become abusive to overcome their own insecurities.

Mumbai A Mumbai community NGO Friday strongly objected to what it termed a blasphemous item number featuring starlet Kavitta Verma, likely to be shown in the forthcoming Bollywood movie Policegiri. The NGO, Catholic Secular Forum (CSF), has written to the movie producers and the Censor Board protesting the scantily-clad Kavitta allegedly performing the item number wearing a rosary with its cross positioned on her belly. The community is concerned. The rosary which she is shown wearing around her neck has its cross positioned on her belly , CSF general secretary Joseph Dias told IANS. Terming this as totally unacceptable, Dias pointed out that Christians respect the rosary which they use to intercede with Mary, the mother of Jesus, and reflect in prayer on the various stages in the life of Jesus Christ.

He said that the producer of the movie, T.P. Aggarwal, had assured them that the objectionable scenes would not be shown in the movie, due for release July 5. However, Dias said that in case the producer still goes ahead and depicts the scene, the CSF would initiate criminal proceedings against the makers of the movie. Dias further urged the Censor Board to ensure that the offensive scenes were deleted from the movie before giving it clearance for release. Incidentally, Policegiri was among the handful of movies completed by incarcerated Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt before he went to jail to complete his sentence in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case last month. Dias urged the producers and the government to take necessary steps to remove the promo pictures of the item number from the Internet as it hurts the religious sentiments of the entire Christian community globally.

respected, he said. Director Rohit Shetty has roped in Deepika to play a Tamil girl in Chennai Express and she has got her accent right. Talking about it, the actress, who recently wowed everyone with her performance in Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, said: It was just fluke, I had to do nothing. SRK is known for his knack to jazz up any event and he did it at the launch of Chennai Express first look when he joined the composers Vishal-Shekar and sang with them. The film is slated for Aug 8 release.

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come. But she is a very intelligent girl, she studied at the Boston University. On the contrary, if I am in some problem, I take her advice, the 54-year-old said here on the sets of his film Ishk Ka Manjan. Todays youth know more than we know and I can only give her my experience, he added. Sharddha hit the bulls eye with Aashiqui 2 and Shakti says he is proud of her. I am happy that her film has done well and as a father I am very proud to see a very good actor. I am not saying this because she is my daughter but actually she is a very good actor. She reminds me of natural acting what Madhubalaji or Meena Kumariji used to do, Shakti said. She reminds me of Waheedaji, of those era actors who were not just beautiful, but their acting also was very natural. There was no artificiality. She reminds me even of Madhuri Dixit, the innocent Padmini Kolhapure of Prem Rog. I wish her all the best, he added. Aashiqui 2 was Shraddhas first hit after dam squibs Teen Patti and Luv Ka The End. She is currently shooting for Punit Malhotras Gori Tere Pyaar Mein.

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Shraddha reminds me of Waheeda, Robert Pattinson, Madhubala: Shakti Kapoor Katy Perry in love?
Mumbai Actor Shakti Kapoor appreciates his daughter Shraddha Kapoors talent saying she reminds him of legendary actress Waheeda Rehman and Madhubala. He also confesses that she is so intelligent that he ends up taking advise from her. I dont interfere in anybodys life and never at the script level, said Shakti, who is married to Shivangi, Padmini Kolhapures elder sister. They have two children - Shraddha and Siddhant, who was seen in Shootout At Wadala. If she needs my advice, she is wel-

For Anushka, backless dresses signify confidence

Mumbai Actress Anushka Sharma confesses to be completely in love with backless dresses, saying for her it is synonymous with confidence. Backless signifies confidence and thats always in fashion, always in vogue. Backless in my head is synonymous to confidence and hence extremely important, Anushka told reporters during the making of her latest Nivea advertisement. Its something you should not be thinking about, you should be able to wear a backless top when you want to, there should not be a thought before that, added the model-turnedactress who made her debut in films as a salwar-kameez clad conventional girl in 2008 release Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. She went on to do glamorous roles in Ladies vs Ricky Bahl, Badmaash Company and Jab Tak Hai Jaan. Currently, the 25-year-old is shooting for Rajkumar Hiranis P.K. and Anurag Kashyaps Bombay Velvet.

Los Angeles Actor Robert Pattinson and Katy Perry have reportedly fallen for each other. The Twilight actor even stayed at the singers home for more than a week. The two also attended a Bjork concert at the Hollywood Palladium here. They were said to have met up secretly and made their way into the gig together before leaving separately to avoid photographers waiting outside the venue. Their romance is said to have blossomed as Perry comforted him over his split with Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart, who cheated on him with director Rupert Sanders. A source said: They are both good friends but have been hanging out more and more recently.

Rob poured out his heart to Katy about Kristen cheating on him. She proved to be a really good shoulder to cry on. He stayed at her house in LA after they went away to Santa Barbara together for few days over American Memorial Day weekend late last month. Their friends say they have now fallen for each other, the source added. The couple are now planning a romantic Caribbean summer getaway. The source said: They are talking about going to the Bahamas in the next few weeks to visit some friends of Katys. They are both hopeless romantics, so it wouldnt be a surprise if things developed quickly, the source added.

Theres more to me than looks: Film with Shahid has come Salma Hayek
out beautifully: Ileana
Mumbai Phata Poster Nikhla Hero will see Ileana DCruz teaming up with Shahid Kapoor for the first time on the big screen and she seems to be satisfied with the final product. The film that I have done with Shahid has come out beautifully. I am extremely excited. It is something, which is very different. I am hoping that everyone loves it, Ileana, who moved to Bollywood after making a name in the southern film industry with hits like Devadasu and Pokiri, told in a interview. A romantic comedy, Phata Poster Nikhla Hero has been directed by Rajkumar Santoshi, known for making serious action-dramas like Ghayal and Damini movies, had wielded megaphone for fun films like Andaz Apna Apna (1994) and Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani (2009). Ileana entered Hindi filmdom with highly acclaimed Barfi! and joined Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra in the cast. Although she won praises for her performance, but says she didnt expect any sort of appreciation. There are other films in the pipeline, but I am a little superstitious when it comes to these things. I only like to talk about something when I have signed the contract.

Working full throttle to promote Ghanchakkar: Emraan Hashmi

Mumbai Emraan Hashmi, lead actor of Ghanchakkar, says the films team is leaving no stone unturned to promote it in various cities and on reality shows ahead of its June 28 release. There are more reality shows, we have very extensive city tours lined up, said the actor while sharing details about Ghanchakkar promotional plans. We are touring 8 to 10 cities for the promotion of the film. The film releases June 28 and we are going full throttle, the 34-year-old told reporters Monday on the sets of dance

reality show Indias Dancing Superstar. The film is said to have both thrill and fun elements and Vidya Balan, who plays Emraans weird and wacky wife Neetu, says promotions will be comic ride. Wait till June 28 to see what is the thrill in the film. The weeks left for the release of the film will see us promote the film in a very comic and funny manner. It is going to be fun, she said. Vidya has promoted Ghanchakkar on dance reality show Dance India Dance Super Moms.

Los Angeles Actress Salma Hayek never considered beauty to be her first priority amd thats why she never tried to be as beautiful as she can be. I know people have always thought I was beautiful, but I have never tried to be as beautiful as I can be, InStyle magazine quoted the 46-yearold as saying, reports eonline.com. I could do a lot more like exercise, or not eat dessert or not drink alcohol. I dont think my first priority in life has ever been beauty. Its a little bit of a rebellious spirit in me. There

is more to me than looks, of course, she added. She also advised those who are unhappy with their looks. Youve got to take who you are and love who you are and do the best you can with what youve got. That goes for the figure, and it goes for everything else. Youve got to have a sense of humour about who you are and give yourself a break, said Grown Ups star. Hayek added: Youve got to be kind to yourself. And its not easy, you know?

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Dont get into any wrangle at home or outside and try to be away from new litigation. Stars are taking a turn for the better this week. ARIES If your partner is into Mar 21-Apr 19 your confidence, your mind would be least disturbed by the things that otherwise affect you. Keep a tab on your child who may use your name, if you are Government personnel. Your wisdom would be protecting your money and assets till the month of august, but anger should be kept under control. LIBRA Students, competiSep 23 - Oct 22 tors, scribes, critics ,medical people , coming week is bright. Effort is needed to keep a peaceful atmosphere alive if marriage hasnt completed seven years. On behalf of others, dont stand security or negotiate a loan. At place of work or within the distant kin, if some crevice exists then try to get into reconciliation. Pay a careful heed to TAURUS money management Apr 20 - May 20 ,as stars are in favor this week. Its the favorable time to invest or buy property. If daughters marriage proposal is half way, have a friendly discussion with her in advance to know her state of mind. Professors, scribes must try to go for a job change or assignment in abroad. Exporters shouldnt trust every visiting buyers. For SCORPIO those who are in trade Oct 23 - Nov 21 or in an industry related to oil and lubricants, they must strive to expand their income activity. There is chance of theft ,physical attack against you, be careful and keep your mind relax. Unfair means especially abridged notes may get caught in the exam. For hot headed , there is a need to control the GEMINI wrath against mother, May 21 - Jun 20 spouse, colleagues and friends. Dealers in motors should avoid any kind of adulteration. Journey to abroad may get beneficial this month for Medical representatives and exporters. Stars are in favor for you in the context of profession, career and business. Success in industrial management and SAGITTARIUS in marriage related Nov 22 - Dec 21 discussions would certainly depend upon your quality of proficiency especially if the proposal is of your sister or daughter. Dont go for selective studies if you are student, scribe or fortune teller.

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Put your idea of change of residence in abeyance till summer. Dispatches should be on the time, else it will costs heavily to exportCANCER ers. There is sudden of foreign trip Jun 21 - Jul 22 chance for professors ,Government employees. Counseling with any other financial experts on a new project is required, as estimates prepared by your expert may have been elevated. Drive carefully, an advice for your father. Those who want to deal in property, if your female member in the family approve ,just go for it. Girls seeking taller boys CAPRICORN have to wait for one Dec 22 - Jan 19 more year. Drive very carefully this week. Traders especially acts. Scribes who desires to get published in foreign press have a good chance along with writers seeking foreign publishers.

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Panchang in Brief: Sun, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter in Taurus, Moon in Leo, Mars and Ketu in Aries, Sani and Rahu in Libra. Nakshatra is Purva phalguni.
Keep your ego at bay, if you dont want to spoil negotiations related to business, superior job or marriage. If you are in a busiJul 23 - Aug. 22 ness, continue and strive to stretch it but avoid to start a new one this year. You can be victim of robbery , never move outside unguarded.
Enter into examination hall or viva room with confidence and if its competitive exam , revision is must. Beware your partner not to drive rashly or try not to get into any VIRGO yourself Aug. 23 - Sep 22 family tiff. If someone is into supply trade business, someone might trap you in a criminal offence. If a matter related to Government is pending, thats might get solved ,provided if it concerns your daughter.

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Dont dispatch goods Your partner should to any foreign buyer prevent herself from without Letter of injury and split in the Credit or Bank Guarfamily. Dont stand any antee. Due promotion guarantee or surety for neither to accept is likely to arrive. All PISCES AQUARIUS anyone the proposals of others. Jan 20 - Feb. 18 Feb 19 - Mar 20 business transactions Keep away from specuof high order go to lation and gambling. Dont go for your benefit. Try to avoid speculation any free trips nor unsolicited awards. in shares and keep yourself aloof from Avoid trouble with uncle/aunt/Cous- drinking. in. Take care of your important documents that may get lost.

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Sudoku Solution 09June, 2013

Indians who walk, cycle are less likely to have diabetes

A study has found that Indians who cycle or walk are less likely to be obese or overweight and have diabetes or high blood pressure. These findings suggest that encouraging more people to use physically active modes of transport could reduce rates of important risk factors for many chronic diseases, say the researchers from Imperial College London and the Public Health Foundation of India. Rates of diabetes and heart disease are projected to increase dramatically in India and other low and middle income countries over the next two decades. The study, published in PLOS Medicine, analysed physical activity and health information collected from almost 4,000 participants in the Indian Migration Study.

Sudoku 16 June, 2013

This study highlights that walking and cycling to work is not only good for the environment but also good for personal health, said Dr. Christopher Millett, of the School of Public Health at Imperial and the Public Health Foundation of India, who led the study, reports Science Daily. People can get the exercise they need by building physical activity into their travel to work, so they dont need to make extra time for the

gym, said Millett. Getting more people to use active modes of travel should be integral to strategies to maintain healthy weight and prevent diabetes and heart disease in India. This should include improving the safety and convenience of walking and bicycling in Indian towns and cities, and also greater investment in public transport, since this travel generally involves walking to bus or train stops.

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REVIEW
Music

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An enjoyable comedy with mild twists

Raanjhanaa Album glorifies love in unique way

album. Next is Piya milenge. Sukhwinder Singh sings it beautifully. Even though it is not a sad song, it has intended or unintended dullness. Somewhere in the middle, a tinge of Sufi music comes in and it sounds nice. Towards the end, the song becomes very passionate and lyrics intense. This is followed by Ay sakhi, sung by Aanchal Sethi, Vaishali, Chinmayi and Madhushree. What sounds like a conversation between girlfriends, the song has a pure classical touch in the beginning but gradually blends into a Bollywood track. An average track, it may not live up to music lovers expectations. Singers Neeti Mohan and Rashid Ali compliment each other in the next track, Nazar Laaye. A soothing romantic number, it has a kind of freshness. Not too loud or too slow, it creates a happy and romantic feel. The lyrics are cute and the song ends on a beautiful note. The Rahman flavour is prominent in Tu mun shudi. Sung by Rabbi and Rahman, it begins with hip-hop beats and has an element of funkiness. More like a boys song, the unique number has an interesting composition. The last track is Aise na dekho and Rahmans voice has never sounded more lovable. With the expressive song, the listeners can take a trip down memory lane. Like any other album, the music of Raanjhanaa has few low points, but otherwise it is thoroughly entertaining. Romance is purified in every song and the album has the capacity to grow on the listeners. The use of various instruments has saved the album from becoming clichd love compositions. The music has undoubtedly taken over the singers and lyrics. Listen to it for a unique experience in expressing love.

Fukrey

Movie

Cast : Pulkit Samrat, Manjot Singh, Ali Fazal , Richa Chadda Producer: Farhan Akhtar, Vikesh Bhutani, Ritesh Sidhwani, Rupali Suresh Vaidya Director: Mrigdeep Singh Lamba

Produced by Excel Entertainment, a joint venture of Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani, the movie is based on dreams of four young boys played by Pulkit Samrat, Ali Fazal, Manjot Singh and Varun Sharma. `Fukrey` is one such crazy story of four restless and unlucky souls running after their individual desires, brought together by one dream which turns their not so simple life upside down. From breaking school walls, to cross dressing dancers at the `Ram Lila` , a `Jugaad Baaz` col-

lege watchman to leaking examination papers. Can the four `Fukrey`, the four nobodies, twist their fate and turn their dreams into reality or will they forever be lost in the obscurity that they come from?

Ankur Arora Murder Case

Director : Suhail Tatari Writer : Vikram Bhatt Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Paoli Dam, Vishakha Singh, Harsh Chhaya, Tisca Chopra, Manish Chaudhary, Sachin Khurana

Harsh realities of Medical Profession

Music Director A.R. Rahman Singers Jaswinder Singh, Shiraz Uppal, Shreya Ghoshal, A.R. Rahman, Javed Ali, Pooja Av, Kirti Sagathia, Aanchal Sethi, Vaishali, Chinmayi, Madhushree, Neeti Mohan, Rashid Ali, and Rabbi The music of director Anand.L. Rais movie Raanjhanaa has eight tracks. Since the movie is based in Benaras, composer A.R. Rahman has included the regional flavour in most of the tracks. Use of a lot of instruments in all the songs is also evident. The soundtrack kicks off with Raanjhanaa, a high on energy number. Sung by Jaswinder Singh and Shiraz Uppal, it is not exactly a sugarcoated romantic number but

its rhythmic beats make you tap your feet and you may put the song on loop. The music is powerful and gives you goosebumps. It has a bit of a classical touch to it and the singers meet the expectations of the listeners. Shreya Ghoshals melodious voice greets the listeners in the next track Banarasiya. With a lot of regional influence, it is soothing and soulful. The lyrics and the singer balance the song and raise the bar. People can express their love even better with Javed Alis track Tum tak. Keerti Sagathia and Pooja Av join him behind the mike. A very beautiful romantic number, it is about one-sided love. It can be touted as one of the high points of the

Ankur Arora Murder Case is a Bollywood medical thriller film directed by Suhail Tatari and written by Vikram Bhatt. The film takes up an urgent and disturbing issue of death during surgery and is based on a reallife incident where a boy dies on the operation table due to medical negligence Rohan (Arjun Mathur) was a young medical intern who dared to dream. He was in awe of Dr. Asthana (Kay Kay Menon), the Chief of Surgery of the Shekhawat General Hospital. All he wanted to was be like him. He lived in with Riya (Vishakha Singh), his co-intern and the love of his life. However, when an eight year old boy, Ankur dies due to Dr. Asthana`s medical negligence, Rohan realizes that a good surgeon is

A life-altering book on the power of meditation as a tool for achieving balance and happiness in daily life
Author: Sangamithra Amudha Foreword By: APJ Abdul Kalam Publisher: Random House (2013) It is not possible to seek or feel God. Yet, you claim that God exists...I feel deceived by it. So asks Karma, the protagonist of this award-winning book by Sangamithra Amudha, founder and trustee of Sanmarga Foundations. In her debut book, The Search that Seeks You, Sangamithra explains the essence of meditation as a tool for understanding and achieving balance in our lives. Told in story form, the book addresses various life situations death, sorrow, happiness, change, and fear of the unknown and provides a thoughtful approach to dealing with them. Along the way, it imparts valuable life lessons that will lead you to self-discovery, enlightenment, and ultimately eternal happiness.

The Search that Seeks You

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not necessarily a good person. Together with Ankur`s mother Nandita (Tisca Chopra), Rohan sets out on a turbulent journey to fight for what is right. A fight for justice against his mentor, the hospital and the love of his life.

Ekta Kapoor launches new TV series Jodha Akbar

About the Author

Sangamithra Amudha is the founder and trustee of Sanmarga Foundations, a non-profit organization promoting yoga and the importance of kriya meditation in everyday life. Sangamithra has conceived and developed these kriyas with the help of her gurus. Each of these kriya practices have been tried, researched, and refined by her. Apart from teaching Kriyas that help one to lead a stressfree life, she teaches Kriyas for spiritual enlightenment as well. This is her first book.

Bharat Kumar Ranga and Ekta Kapoor with television actors Chetan Hansraj, Ashwini Kalsekar, Rajat Tokas and Paridhi Sharma. Known to be an expert in creating kitchen politics and horror shows for TV, Ekta Kapoor now walks through history. She is coming out with historical saga Jodha Akbar . Produced by Balaji Telefilms, Jodha Akbar is set to go on air June 18 on Zee TV. Its a story about love in the time of hate. Its a story about religious and cultural battle that was won by love and I really find Jodha Akbar a fine example, true or not, that people need to see today, said Ekta.

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SCIENCE AND TECH

CHANDIGARH SUNDAY 16 June 2013

NASAS Chandra Turns up Black Hole Bonanza in Galaxy Next Door

Washington Using data from NASAs Chandra Xray Observatory, astronomers have discovered an unprecedented bonanza of black holes in the Andromeda Galaxy, one of the nearest galaxies to the Milky Way. Using more than 150 Chandra observations, spread over 13 years, researchers identified 26 black hole candidates, the largest number to date, in a galaxy outside our own. Many consider Andromeda to be a sister galaxy to the Milky Way. The two ultimately will collide, several billion years from now. While we are excited to find so many black holes in Andromeda, we think its just the tip of the iceberg, said Robin Barnard of HarvardSmithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Mass., and lead author of a new paper describing these results. Most black holes wont have close companions and will be invisible to us. The black hole candidates belong to the stellar mass category, meaning they formed in the death throes of very massive stars and typically have masses five to 10 times that of our sun. Astronomers can detect these otherwise invisible objects as material is pulled from a companion star and heated up to produce radiation before it disappears into the black hole. The first step in identifying these black holes was to make sure they were stellar mass systems in the Andromeda Galaxy itself, rather than supermassive black holes at the hearts of more distant galaxies. To do this, the researchers used a new technique that draws on information about the brightness and variability of the X-ray sources in the Chandra data. In short, the stellar mass systems change much more quickly than

Apple unveils new operating system, refreshed MacBook Air

Google, Facebook, Microsoft seek easing of secrecy rules

the supermassive black holes. The research group previously identified nine black hole candidates within the region covered by the Chandra data, and the present results increase the total to 35. Eight of these are associated with globular clusters, the ancient concentrations of stars distributed in a spherical pattern about the center of the galaxy. This also differentiates Andromeda from the Milky Way as astronomers have yet to find a similar black hole in one of the Milky Ways globular clusters. Seven of these black hole candidates are within 1,000 light-years of the Andromeda Galaxys center. That is more than the number of black hole candidates with similar properties located near the center of our own galaxy. This is not a surprise to astronomers because the bulge of stars in the middle of Andromeda is bigger, allowing more black holes to form. When it comes to finding black holes in the central region of a galaxy, it is indeed the case where bigger is better, said co-author Stephen Murray of Johns Hopkins University and CfA. In the case of Andromeda we have a bigger bulge and a bigger supermassive black hole than in the Milky Way, so we expect more smaller black holes are made there as well.

This new work confirms predictions made earlier in the Chandra mission about the properties of X-ray sources near the center of M31. Earlier research by Rasmus Voss and Marat Gilfanov of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, used Chandra to show there was an unusually large number of Xray sources near the center of M31. They predicted most of these extra X-ray sources would contain black holes that had encountered and captured low mass stars. This new detection of seven black hole candidates close to the center of M31 gives strong support to these claims. We are particularly excited to see so many black hole candidates this close to the center, because we expected to see them and have been searching for years, said Barnard. These results will be published in the June 20 issue of The Astrophysical Journal. Many of the Andromeda observations were made within Chandras Guaranteed Time Observer program. NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the Chandra Program for NASAs Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls Chandras science and flight operations from Cambridge, Mass.

Honda launches its Most Affordable Automatic scooter in India

New Delhi As the unchallenged market leader with a overwhelming 50% market share in the Indian automatic scooter segment, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd. (HMSI) today launched its first 110cc personal compact scooter offering - ACTIVA-I. The Indian automatic scooter segment can be divided in 3 broad categories Moto Scooter, Family Scooter and Personal Compact scooter. Till date, Honda was present in only first 2 categories and with the new ACTIVA-I, Honda has now entered the personal compact category which contributes almost 25% of automatic scooter sales in India. In Personal Compact Scooter category, Customers desire an automatic scooter for daily commute which is lightweight, compact and easy to handle yet comfortable for both genders. Thus was developed ACTIVA-I HondasFirst ever Light weight personal compact automatic scooter and it is Most Affordable too. The ultimate answer to every young professionals daily commuting needs as they get Ready to Fly on ACTIVA-I and express their own Independence in Life. ACTIVA-I has been specially developed for comfort and convenience and leaves competition models far behind with its long list of exclusive features. These include Combi Brake System (which reduces braking distance by 24% compared to conventional brakes), tubeless tyres, maintenance

Washington Apple Inc. has unveiled an operating system for its iPhones and iPads that will radically overhaul how users touchscreens look, a top company official said. Besides the new system, iOS 7, also unveiled was a refreshed MacBook Airs. The company announced an iTunes Radio streaming-music service and a sneak peek at a new Mac Pro that would be the most powerful computer Apple has ever made. Unveiling Apples first major product event in nine months in California Monday, chief executive Tim Cook called it the biggest change to iOS since the introduction of the iPhone. Developers assembled for the weeklong conference got the first look at

a major reworking of Apples mobile operating system, due in September, CNN reported. iOS is home to more than 900,000 apps that collectively have earned independent developers $10 billion, according to Apple. The mobile design, overseen for the first time by new iOS boss Jony Ive, includes new typography, redesigned icons and a new colour palette. The pool-table green background on Game Centre is gone. Siri, Apples voice-activated digital assistant, has become more diverse. Users will be able to choose a male voice -- Siri has been solely a she so far -- and can ask it to perform basic tasks like playing a voicemail or turning down the brightness on an iPhone or iPads screen.

Washington Amid a raging controversy over a sweeping US Internet surveillance programme, top tech companies in a concerted move have asked the government ease the secrecy surrounding national security investigations. Google, Facebook and Microsoft in requests echoed by a top official from Twitter also asked US officials Tuesday to lift long-standing gag orders covering the nature and extent of information collected about Internet users by the National Security Agency. In an open letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III Google sought to be allowed to significantly expand its semiannual transparency reports on the information sought by courts and police worldwide. Google has nothing to hide, wrote Chief Legal Officer David Drummond. Facebook soon after issued a statement suggesting that it may start publishing its own transparency reports - a move the company has long resisted. We urge the United States government to help make that possible by

allowing companies to include information about the size and scope of national security requests we receive, and look forward to publishing a report that includes that information, wrote Ted Ullyot, general counsel to Facebook. Microsoft issued a statement as well, saying that greater transparency would help the community understand and debate these important issues. The Washington Post and the Guardian last week had cited NSA documents to suggest Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple and other technology companies were providers to PRISM, an NSA programme that reportedly let intelligence analysts review a wide range of information that users shared with the companies. Meanwhile, the Senate Intelligence Committee, whose Democratic chairperson, Dianne Feinstein has defended the surveillance efforts, asked the NSA to publicly explain programmes that use telephone and Internet records so that we can talk about them, because I think theyre really helpful.

free battery, viscous air filter, comfortable seating posture and maximum storage space of 18 litres. The compact and lean design is easy to handle in traffic by both male and female riders. At 103kg, its lightweight design ensures fatigue free ride & ease of parking for female riders and high ground clearance of 165mm guarantees joyful riding. In the looks department too, ACTIVA-I is sure to win hearts with its subtle yet attractive unisex style. The stylish indicators, appealing front headlight, chiselled muffler and catchy tail light are in complete synergy with the overall smoothness of looks. The vibrant instrument panel provides all information to rider in a glance. The wide front panel marries rider protection with good aesthetics while the specially designed ergonomic grab rail ensures that rider can put the scooter on stand with 15% less force.

On the performance front, Hondas technologically advanced 109 cc 4-stroke air cooled engine comes with the revolutionary. Honda Eco Technology successfully combines improved combustion, reduced friction and optimized transmission leading to Dream Mileage of 60kmpl. Leaving competition way behind in the roads, ACTIVA-I gives best in class net power of 5.83kw (8 BHP), superb torque output of 8.74Nm@5500 RPM for better pickup and effortless riding with higher initial and overtaking acceleration. ACTIVA-I comes in 4 stunning colors Beige Metallic, Pearl Sunbeam White, Alpha Red Metallic and Purple Metallic. As Hondas most affordable offering in automatic scooter lineup, ACTIVA-I comes at an extremely attractive price ofRs. 44,200 (Ex-Showroom, Delhi). It will be available for sale across India by end of June13.

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KIDS
Fathers Day is a celebration honouring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. Many countries celebrate it on the third Sunday of June, but it is also celebrated widely on other days. Different countries speak different names for the term dad. Yet, no matter how different each word is from the other, it means the same thing. This coming Sunday, a great number of countries will celebrate Fathers day in their own ways. So, in celebration of Fathers day, we are sharing 20 ways of saying dad in different languages.

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Keep children happy with pocket-friendly fun 20 ways to say Dad

Here we are giving your child an opportunity to enjoy our funny tongue twisters for kids and have fun trying to say some of the most difficult sentences . To get the full effect of a tongue twister you should try to repeat it several times, as quickly as possible, without stumbling. Merry Mary merrily married merry man. Sometimes what children wonder can make us wonder how they wonder such interesting wonders. Five fat peas in a pod pressed. Does he know that we know that he knows. Big Billy, who had a big belly was also a big bully. An Ape hates grape cakes.

Planning to spend some fun times with your children, but worried about spending more than your budget? Try cutting costs by going for some free activities and encourage children to play in gardens. Whether it is in your city or during an outstation vacation, We are sharing few tips that can help you stay in budget while you enjoy with your children. Stay local: Take your children to the events that happen in your society. This can cut down travel costs.

Save money: Encourage your children to save money everyday. You can ask them to use it during school holidays. Free activities: Visit museums and art galleries in your city with the children and take home-cooked food - this way you can have fun and keep the costs to a minimum whilst learning something new. Avoid junk food: Go out for movies with your children after lunch. This can not only help you save money

Picnic time: Take children for a bike ride or long walk, with packed lunch and fruits. Play in the garden: Encourage your children to grow vegetables in the garden. Not only is this fun but it also bring them close to the environment. They might take it as a hobby also. Shop around freely: Get family travel insurance and use it to cover any expensive and unexpected cost during a family holiday.

Meet the happiest animal in the world - Quokka

The happiest animal on the planet can be found in Southwestern Australia.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. George Herbert,English poet

Bangla- Baba or Abba Chinese- Ba (Baa) Cree (Canada)- Papa Dakota (USA)- Ate English- Father, Dad, Daddy, Pop, Poppa or Papa French- Papa German- Vater or Papa Hindi- Papa or Pita-ji Hungarian- Apa, Apu, Papa or Edesapa Indonesian- Bapa, Ayah Italian- Babbo Japanese- Otosan or Papa Latin- Pater, Papa or Atta Nepali- Buwa Persian/Farsi- Pedar Russian- Papa Sanskrit- Tatah or Janak Spanish- Papa, Viejo or Tata Swedish- Pappa Urdu- Abbu, Abbu-ji, Abbu-jaan

Put your puzzle solving skills to the test with our sport word scramble. Look carefully at the jumbled words and try unscrambling as many of the words related to the sports world. AKBSLLTAEB AKRTAE FGLO YHCOKE ECTIRCK SETNIN

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Knack Meaning- a special skill, talent, or aptitude Example- She is a gifted public speaker, with a knack for rousing a crowd. Appearance The Quokkas fur is fairly thick. Its underside, however, is usually lighter than its top coat which is either a grey or brown colour that is tipped with tinges of red around its neck and face. The Quokka has small, rounded ears, a rounded body and a snout - that is tipped with a cute, black button nose. Population It has a very restricted range and is classified as vulnerable. Quokkas were once abundant on the Australian mainland but with the arrival of the dingo around 3,500 years ago and then foxes in the late 1800s (neither of which reach Rottnest) their numbers were drastically reduced. Today they are showing signs of recovery on the mainland thanks to the Department of Environment and Conservations feral-proofing operations. Lousy Meaning- Very poor or bad Example- The last couple of years have been lousy for the corporate takeover business. Mollify Meaning-To calm in temper or feeling Example- The frightened child attempted to mollify his angry mother by giving her a big hug. Notorious Meaning-Famous or well known, typically for some bad quality Example- The government does have a record of backing some notorious energy failures. Answers to Word Scramble : Basketball, Karate, Golf, Hockey, Cricket, Tennis

his charming fluffy creature is the Quokka, a small, cat-sized marsupial .Quokkas are herbivorous and nocturnal, and are closely related to kangaroos.They eat native grasses and the leaves, stems and bark of a variety of plants. They prefer browsing on new, young growth. They are surprisingly agile, and can climb trees. Described as resembling a small, dumpy kangaroo, the quokkas primary claim to fame is its popular reputation as the worlds happiest animal largely because of its friendly nature and cheerful facial expression. Cute and furry, the animals often have a smiling expression due to their buccal structure and wide eyes.They also possess the unusual ability to survive in environments almost devoid of freshwater. The species are currently still listed as vulnerable, but numbers are recovering thanks to conservation and feral-proofing efforts.

20 Decks cleared for Mahindra Satyams merger with Tech Mahindra

Hyderabad The Andhra Pradesh High Court gave its nod for the much-awaited merger of Mahindra Satyam with its parent firm Tech Mahindra, which will create a $2.4 billion entity, the fifth largest Indian IT firm. Clearing the decks for the merger, Justice N.R.L. Nageswara Rao dismissed a batch of petitions filed to stall the move. Opposing the merger, 35 individuals and companies including the family members of Satyam Computer Services founder Ramalinga Raju, two entities owned by engineering and construction firm IL&FS and minority shareholders had filed the petitions. The Raju family and IL&FS, in their petitions, sought a refund of Rs.1,230 crore they claim to have lent Satyam before a crisis hit in January 2009. The judge also said all investigations into the accounting fraud at the erstwhile Satyam Computer Services would continue. Raju had on Jan 7, 2009 confessed to fudging the accounts of Satyam for years to the tune of at least Rs.7,136 crore. The biggest fraud in Indias corporate history plunged the Hyderabad-based company into a crisis. Mahindra Satyam has welcomed the court order. We are pleased with the decision of the court and our faith in the judiciary stands vindicated. The next step will be to formally conclude the integration process and accelerate our ambitious focus towards becoming a stronger force to reckon with in the IT industry and delight our stakeholders, said a company spokesperson.

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New Delhi India ranks 141st out of 162 in this years Global Peace Index (GPI), released. Despite an increase in military expenditure, India made positive gains in its level of peace after reductions in deaths from internal conflict and the level of perceived criminality in society. Globally, a dramatic rise in the number of homicides and more countries, 59, increasing their military expenditure as a percentage of GDP were the key drivers in making the world a less peaceful place, according to the 2013 GPI. This years findings underline a 6-year trend showing a deterioration of 5 percent in global peace. In this time, 110 countries have seen their score deteriorate while only 48 became more peaceful. The economic impact of this 5 percent loss in peace came at a cost to the global economy of $473 billion last year, or the equivalent to almost four times Official Development Assistance (ODAs) in 2012. The sharp increase in the number of

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homicides - up 8 percent over the last year - can be almost entirely attributed to Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Steve Killelea, Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) founder and executive chairman, said: The migration of populations to urban areas in developing countries has been a key driver in the rise of homicides worldwide. This has also led to an increase in violent crime. It is essential for police to gain the trust of those living in city slums, to achieve this, addressing police corruption would be a first important step. The GPI is the worlds leading measure of global peacefulness produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace. It gauges ongoing domestic and international conflict, safety and security in society, and militarisation in 162 countries by taking into account 22 separate indicators. IEP is an international think tank dedicated to shifting the worlds focus to peace as a positive, achievable, and tangible measure of human well-being and progress.

Automobile production and sales fall in May

Tech Mahindra bought the fraudhit firm in April 2009 in an auction conducted by government-appointed directors and re-branded it as Mahindra Satyam. Soon after the acquisition, the merger was proposed. However, the same was delayed due to various disputes both in India and abroad. Mahindra Group on March 21 last year had announced the amalgamation of its two technology companies. This merger is a key part of our strategy to deliver industry leading performance and this would make us a company with an annual revenue of $2.4-billion approximately, with more than 75,000 workforce and over 350 active clients across 54 countries, Tech Mahindra vicechairman and managing director Vineet Nayyar, who is also chairman of Mahindra Satyam, had said. The merger proposal was cleared by various bodies, including the Competition Commission of India, BSE Ltd, National Stock Exchange and

the Bombay High Court. The companies had informed the exchanges that their boards approved the merger with an exchange ratio of 2:17. It means two equity shares of Rs.10 each of Tech Mahindra will be given for every 17 shares of Rs.2 each of Satyam. Opposing the ratio, the minority shareholders had filed a petition in Andhra Pradesh High Court. They had alleged that Mahindra group fixed the swap ratio in its favour. The management of Mahindra Satyam had announced last month that four-year turn-around was over. The turnaround of Mahindra Satyam is symbolically and practically complete, Nayyar had said. He also said the merger would open a new chapter for the company. Mahindra Satyams revenues during 2012-13 were Rs.7,693 crore, 20.3 percent more than the Rs.6,396 crore in the previous year. The total number of employees of the company stood at 36,067 as of March 2013.

Second unit at Madras Atomic Power Station to re-start by September

NALCO commissions wind power project in Rajasthan

New Delhi The Indian automobile industry closed last month producing 4.08 percent lesser number of vehicles as compared to May 2012 while the overall domestic sales during AprilMay this year declined 0.64 percent over the like period last year, the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) said. The industry produced 1,737,548 vehicles in May 2013 as against 1,811,515 in May 2012, decline of 4.08 percent over the same month last year. The overall domestic sales during April-May 2013 declined by 0.64 percent over the same period last year, SIAM said in a statement. According to SIAM, the overall sales in passenger vehicles declined by 8.56 percent during April-May 2013 over the same period last year. However, within the passenger vehicle segment, sales of cars and vans dropped by 11.33 percent and 10.88 percent while sales of utility vehicles grew by 4.08 percent during AprilMay 2013 as against comparable period last year. The overall commercial segment registered slide of 5.20 percent in AprilMay 2013 as compared to the same

period last year. Medium and heavy commercial vehicles (M&HCVs) registered negative growth of 12.11 percent and light commercial vehicles also dropped by 1.36 percent. Three-wheelers sales recorded marginal growth of 1.47 percent in AprilMay 2013 over the same period last year. Passenger carriers and goods carriers grew by 1.48 percent and 1.44 percent respectively in AprilMay 2013 over April-May 2012, SIAM said. Two-Wheelers registered marginal growth of 1.04 percent during AprilMay 2013 over April-May 2012. Within the two-wheelers segment, mopeds and motorcycles declined by 11.45 percent and 1.38 percent, respectively, while scooters grew by 13.88 percent in April-May 2013 over April-May 2012. During April-May 2013 overall automobile exports declined by 8.62 percent. Exports of passenger vehicles and three-wheelers grew by 7.34 percent and 26.53 percent, respectively, while commercial vehicles and two-wheelers dropped significantly by 19.62 and 16.50 percent, respectively, in April-May 2013 over April-May 2012.

Bhubaneswar State-owned National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) said it has commissioned its second wind power project in Rajasthans Jaisalmer district. The Bhubaneswar headquartered aluminium producer, which has been foraying into other metals and energy sectors, had earlier commissioned its first wind power plant of 50.4 megawatts capacity at a cost of Rs.274 crore at Gandikota in Andhra Pradeshs Kadapa district last December. The wind power plant in Rajasthan is being executed through Gamesa Wind Turbines Private Ltd, which involves erection of 56 wind turbines. The Rs.283 crore-project would have a generation capacity of 47.6 megawatts. One part of the project has been commissioned successfully and power production has commenced from 18 wind energy generators, the company said in a statement. The plant is scheduled to commence full production by August 2013, it said.

Chennai The second unit at the Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) is likely to start functioning only by the end of September, when the installation of a new transformer is expected to be completed, a senior official said. The unit, belonging to Indias atomic power plant operator Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL), was shut down last month after a fire damaged its transformer. We have placed an order for a new transformer with TELK (the Kochi-based Transformers and Electricals Kerala Ltd). It will take three months for us to restart the unit. By September end the unit is expected to start functioning, MAPS station director T.J. Kotteeswaran told IANS over phone from Kalpakkam, around 70 km from here. According to him, TELK has started its part of the work and it would cost NPCIL around Rs.8 crore. The burnt transformer is around 30 years old, and was supplied by Asian power equipment major Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL). Similar transformers are not in its production line. Queried about the earlier plans of bringing a BHEL transformer from its Jhansi unit in Madhya Pradesh, Kotteeswaran said: Actually, it was not made for us. Some modifications would need to be done to suit our needs. He said the time that BHEL would take to do the modifications and transport the transformer would be more or less the same as the time TELK would take to manufacture and supply it to the Chennai unit. As TELK will be making the transformers as per our needs, we decided to go for that, Kotteeswaran said. A BHEL official said: We had located a transformer that can be modified to suit MAPS. The transformer was slated for Syria.

But owing to the problems in that country the shipment has been delayed at the request of the Syrian client. The MAPS, run by NPCIL, has two reactors of 220 MW each, but they have been functioning below their rated capacity owing to paucity of fuel. On April 15 morning when the reactor was operating at 110 MW, the unit tripped due to a fault in the generator transformers high-voltage bushing, and the reactor was shut down. The unit was restarted prior to that after a 40-day maintenance shutdown. Due to the generator transformer failure, the reactor turbine stopped and the reactor was gradually shut down, following due procedure. Kotteeswaran said the first unit is operating normally, feeding 170 MW to the grid. In August 2012, two reactors at MAPS shut down automatically after a critical component (breaker) in the 230 KV switchyard tripped, resulting in power supply failure to the reactors. Both reactors shut down their operations and restarted a couple of days later. According to Kotteeswaran, the MAPS operational licence is valid till 2014. Every nuclear power plant in India has to renew its operational licence once in five years. After the accident in Fukushima reactors in Japan, additional safety measures have been suggested by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board to NPCIL for its units. The NPCIL has also been asked for an implementation roadmap. Till such time, the units are given limited period licence. Meanwhile NPCIL is taking a series of measures as a part of its corporate social responsibility at Kalpakkam and surrounding places like building of bus shelters, overhead water tanks, improvement in the local school laboratories

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Falling rupee hits students aspiring to study abroad

Government pledges more reforms to spur growth

New Delhi The government will initiate a number of reforms such as lifting the cap on foreign direct investments in the coming weeks to spur growth, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said. I expect a number of decisions in the next few days and weeks. In June, you can expect a number of decisions taken and implemented that will accelerate reforms and spur investments in critical sectors, Chidambaram said. Chidambaram said the reforms will include allowing foreign direct investments (FDI) in various sectors, including defence and skill development, and rationalisation of coal and gas prices. The government is also likely to announce measures to ensure proper supply of coal to power plants. The finance minister said economic reforms undertaken by the government in the last one year have started yielding results and they would have more positive impact in the coming months. I think significant results have been achieved in the last nine months and I am looking forward to more reforms, he said. Stressing that economic reforms were not a one-day game, Chidambaram asked investors to take a longterm view on Indias growth story. My appeal to everyone is we have to take a long term view - whats happening in India and what will be the results we will achieve over a period of time, he said. On the recent slide in the rupee value, Chidambaram said there was no need to panic and the rupee will stabilise in the next few days. The Indian rupee is under pressure due to the growing concerns over the current account deficit. It hit a record low of 58.98 against the dollar Tuesday. Chidambaram also asked people to resist the temptation of buying gold for the sake of the health of the economy. I once again appeal to everyone to resist the temptation to buy gold. This will show positive impact on every aspect of Indian economy, he said. The finance minister said reduction in gold imports would have a big positive impact on vital macro-economic indicators, especially the current account deficit, trade deficit and inflation. People think that they are buying gold in rupees, actually they are buying gold in dollars... If for one year there are no gold imports, it will change the current account deficit story of the country, Chidambaram said. The monthly average gold import in the current fiscal was 152 tonnes as against 70 tonnes in 2012-13. The foreign currency outgo on gold import is estimated at $15 billion in the first two months of 2013-14. Also, Chidambaram said, it would be wrong to believe that gold was the safest investment option. To say that gold is the safest investment is wrong. There were several attractive options and the informed investors were putting their money in them, he said. Referring to the recent slump in gold prices, Chidambaram said those people who have invested in gold recent months have suffered huge losses. However, the finance minister ruled out the possibility of any further hike in duty to curb gold imports. On disinvestment, Chidambaram said he was confident of achieving the target of Rs.40,000 crore from stake sale in public sector firms in the current fiscal. He said the government plan to sell 10 percent stake in Coal India that would fetch around Rs.20,000 crore to the exchequer. The finance minister said the disinvestment proceeds will be used to finance expansion plans of other public sector undertakings, especially banks. If I disinvest in Coal India and if its raises Rs.20,000 crore, the entire money will go into the public sector. I am not using the money for current expenditure, he said.

New Delhi With expenditure on food, living expenses and stay rising sharply due to the weakening rupee against the dollar, Indian students aspiring to study abroad have been hit hard. Since March 2012, the rupee has weakened by 15 percent and it is under pressure due to the growing concerns over the current account deficit. It hit a record low of 58.98 against the dollar Tuesday. As per Assocham, fees for studying in the US ranges from $20,000 to 30,000 (around Rs.12 to Rs.18 lakh) for undergraduates and from $30,000-40,000 (around Rs.18 to 23 lakh) for MBAs. Due to the slide in the rupee, students will now have to pay an extra Rs.2 to 4 lakh. The application fee, examination fee and the tuition fee, even the cost of living will be higher for the students, said D.S. Rawat, secretary general of Associated Chambers of

Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham). Students planning for next years admission will also have to pay more for TOEFL, GRE and GMAT application forms, apart from the admission forms of foreign universities that range anywhere between $50 and $500 (Rs.3,000 and 30,000) depending on the institute. RBI (Reserve Bank of India) should actively sell dollars rather aggressively and tame it. On its part, the finance ministry should continue to take more measures to encourage capital inflows then only rupee will regain its strength, added Rawat. As per Assocham, of the 6 to 8 lakh students that go abroad for studies from India every year, about a lakh go to the US, followed by Britain, Australia and South East Asia. The quantum of currency that goes abroad is approximately Rs.100,000 crore.

Reunion Island The signing of an agreement between Indian Oil Corporation and the French island of Reunion for import and distribution of refined petroleum products marks a key milestone in the efforts of the Indian Ocean island to develop ties with India. Located about half an hours flight from Mauritius, the French territory of Reunion has been trying to develop its business and cultural relationship with India. This is not just because of the fact that Persons of Indian Origin make up for over one third of the 800,000 strong population of the island. The main reason behind the island - an overseas region of France - seeking to develop closer ties with India is business. As the European Union, and special-

Reunion Island signs distribution pact with Indian Oil

ly France, pass through an extremely turbulent economic crisis, the Reunion economy too has been suffering tremendously. The island, which remains dependent upon the mainland for all essential supplies, also has a monopoly in petroleum distribution, with the Socit Runionnaise de Produits Ptrolier (SRPP) being the sole player. The SRPP has become extremely unpopular with the local population due to extremely high prices and problems in distribution. This has resulted in strikes, protest and general discontent with the situation in the Reunion. Hence, the proposed deal with IOC is extremely crucial. This declaration of intent comes after months of discussions between Didier Roberts, the president of the Region, and Ravinder Sareen, chairman of IOC, which will import, stock and distribute petroleum products there. My first objective after taking charge in 2010 was to fight against the rising cost of living and the monopolies that exist in our island, especially in the essential items such as petrol or diesel. This agreement today should help in boosting competition as well as the purchasing power of the people of Reunion, said Didier Roberts, currently on an official visit to Tamil Nadu. Though this action of going overseas for help may be seen as controversial in the mainland, it shows the commitment of the regions of France to deploy all possible means to fight the economic crisis and ease the impact of a declining purchasing power. This alliance today has to be seen in the right perspective. The island has been hit by a strike of petrol stations who are threatened by a declining margin and the anger is rising in the streets, said Jean Regis Ramasamy, a journalist member of the delegation from the Reunion. The region has been subsidising the fuel to ease the pressure on the common man but this is not viable in the long term and a solution had to be found. The agreement could see the entry of the first ever Indian petroleum company entering the French market. The intent to work together, signed today, and which both sides hope to concretise in the next three to four months, has three main points. The third key point of the agreement deals with the setting up of a refinery on the island. A technical committee comprising representatives of the pri-

vate sector of the Reunion, existing service stations and representatives of IOC will be set up and will take this collaboration through its various stages, with the objective of a decline in prices. The agreement reflects the commitment of the French government to fight inflation and to promote economic development in all the regions and territories, said Robert. One of the first actions in this direction is the launch of a direct flight between Chennai and the Reunion by Air Austral. Over 150 years after the first Indians arrived in the Reunion, the two territories are now connected again. This is a historic moment and finally now thousands of people from the Reunion can finally visit the land of their ancestors, said Ramasamy.

Inflation falls to 3-year low at 4.7 percent in May India to be worlds most
New Delhi Indias wholesale price-based inflation fell to 4.7 percent in May, the lowest in more than three years, on the back of softening in price rise of manufactured as well as primary articles, government data showed. The countrys main inflation indicator based on Wholesale Price Index (WPI) was recorded at 4.89 percent in April and 7.55 percent in the corresponding month of last year. Inflation for March is revised downward at 5.65 percent from 5.96 percent reported earlier, according to data released by the ministry of commerce and industry here. This is the fourth straight month of easing in the countrys headline inflation. The consistent decline in inflation will give room to the central bank to further ease monetary policy. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is scheduled to announce review of the monetary policy June 17. The central bank had cut interest rates in all the last three policy review. Slower increase in the prices of manufactured as well as primary articles have helped in easing of inflationary pressure in the recent months. Inflation of manufactured products declined to 3.11 percent in May, while primary articles inflation eased to 6.65 percent. Food inflation declined to 8.25 percent. Fuel and power inflation stood at 7.87 percent in the month under review. As per the Central Statistics Office (CSO) data released earlier this week, retail inflation based on Consumer Price Index (CPI) declined to 9.31 percent in May as compared to 9.39 percent in the previous month and 10.39 percent recorded in March. Build-up inflation rate in the first two months of the current financial year is 0.88 percent as compared to buildup rate of 1.80 percent in the corresponding period of the previous year, the commerce and industry ministry said in a statement. Prices of some items like petrol, potato, metal and iron declined in May year-on-year. New Delhi Indias population is expected to surpass Chinas around 2028, according to a UN report launched Friday. The report, World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision, has projected that the global population will touch 9.6 billion by 2050, with most growth in developing regions, especially Africa. The current world population of 7.2 billion is projected to increase by almost one billion within the next 12 years, reaching 8.1 billion in 2025 and 9.6 billion in 2050, said a statement from the UN office in Delhi. Much of the overall increase between now and 2050 is projected to take place in high-fertility countries, mainly in Africa, as well as countries with large populations such as India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines and the US. Indias population will continue to grow for several decades to around

populous country by 2028

1.6 billion and then decline slowly to 1.5 billion in 2100. The population of China, on the other hand, is expected to start decreasing after 2030, possibly reaching 1.1 billion in 2100. Although population growth has slowed for the world as a whole, this report reminds us that some developing countries, especially in Africa, are still growing rapidly, said Wu Hongbo, the UN Under Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs. The report projects longer lives around the world as life expectancy is projected to increase in developed and developing countries in future years. The 20th century witnessed the most rapid decline of mortality in human history. For the world as a whole, life expectancy at birth rose from 47 years in 1950-55 to 69 years in 2005-10, it said.

Petrol became cheaper by 4.43 percent. Potato price declined by 3.44 percent. Basic metal and metal products became cheaper by 1.50 percent and iron became cheaper by 7.29 percent. Prices of most fruits and vegetables grew at a slower rate. However, onion price almost doubled. It jumped by 97.40 percent year-on-year during the month under review. Cereals became costlier by 16.01 percent. Price of rice surged by 18.48 percent and wheat became costlier by 12.65 percent.

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Government gives green signal for 2017 SC refuses to intervene in IPL scandal probe FIFA U-17 World Cup
New Delhi The government finally paved way for the All India Football Federation (AIFF) to bid to host the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup as the union cabinet cleared the proposal for submitting guarantees to the world body FIFA. FIFA, which had agreed in the principle to award the tournament to India, had earlier rejected the bid since the government didnt give specific guarantees. But now with the government finally giving the green signal, the AIFF will be submitting its formal bid to FIFA very soon. The final decision is expected to be taken by the FIFA executive committee that meets in September. The football tournament is a prestigious event and would be held in India for the first time, if the AIFF succeeds in its bid. While the expenditure for upgradation of stadia (Rs.95 crore) will be provided as additional central assistance to the state governments, a sum of Rs.25 crore is kept as a contingency to ensure smooth conduct of the tournament, said an official statement. AIFF and footballs world governing body FIFA have agreed to bear the entire expenditure of hosting the tournament. The amounts required are to be raised through sponsorships and other commercial agreements. The proposed U-17 World Cup

would encourage more youngsters to participate in sports and also help develop football in the country. It will also promote tourism, the statement pointed out. AIFF president Praful Patel, also a cabinet minister, hailed the governments decision. This is an extremely positive development for Indian football and I am confident India will be able to make a formidable and successful bid with the backing of the Union Government of India even though there are some other strong contenders, Patel said. I have been actively following up with FIFA regarding the submission of our bid and Im hopeful that our efforts will be fruitful, he said.

The U-17 World Cup 2017 will involve 24 of the best youth teams in the world, including hosts India, and is expected to be held in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Goa, Bangalore and Kerala if India is successful in winning the bid. Unilke the World Cup, which needs minimum 10 venues, the U-17 World Cup requires only four venues. The inaugural edition of the tournament was held 1985 and is held every two years. Nigeria and Brazil are the most successful teams, having won thrice while Ghana and Mexico have triumphed twice each. The next edition slated for 2013 will be held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) while Chile will host the U-17 World Cup in 2015.

Warner fined, suspended till Ashes

London Cricket Australia (CA) fined batsman David Warner $11,500 and also suspended him for the remainder of Australias ICC Champions Trophy campaign and two tour matches ahead of the Ashes for a bar brawl with an English cricketer. Warner will be available for selection for the first Ashes Test. The Australian opener Thursday pleaded guilty to breaching Rule 6: Unbecoming Behaviour. CA Senior Code of Behaviour Commissioner, Gordon Lewis, fined Warner and suspended him from the remainder of Australias ICC Champions Trophy campaign as well as the Australian teams two tour matches before the first Ashes Test against Somerset and Worcestershire. Warner will be eligible for selection for the first Test. Rule 6 states: Without limiting any other rule, players and officials must

Saina enters Indonesia Open semis

New Delhi The Supreme Court declined to interfere, for now, in the Delhi and Mumbai police investigations into allegations of betting and spot fixing in IPL-6 and asked a petitioner seeking a CBI probe to wait for the process to end. The apex court bench of Justice Gyan Sudha Misra and Justice Madan B. Lokur asked the petitioner, Mumbaibased law lecturer Sharmila Ghuge, to wait and watch the ongoing investigation while posting the hearing for July 23. Ghuge sought the handing over of investigation to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as multiplicity of investigation could result in conflicting findings which could be taken advantage of by people in the realm of suspicion. She urged the court to direct the CBI to investigate the allegations of spot fixing, match fixing and betting pertaining to the cricket matches of

IPL-6 or its earlier versions, unearth the huge racket committing such illegalities.... The court said that it was not possible for them to monitor the investigation. The judges told Ghuge to let the investigations get over and then file an affidavit pointing out gaps, if any, in the probe. Ghuges counsel Pankaj Kapoor told the court that investigations into the scandal by different state police could result in filing of different chargesheets before different courts. He told the apex court that it would be prudent if the entire spot fixing scandal was investigated by the CBI in its totality. The petition contended there were greater chances that the wrong doers may take benefit of lacunae that are bound to creep in when the same allegations are investigated by the multiple agencies resulting in filing of different chargesheets.

not at any time engage in behaviour unbecoming to a representative player or official that could (a) bring them or the game of game into disrepute or (b) be harmful to the interests of cricket. Warner Wednesday stood down from Australias Champions Trophy match against New Zealand over an alcohol-related problem. He was reportedly involved in a physical altercation with Englands Joe Root.

Coca-Cola taps 4 US athletes as Sochi Olympic ambassadors

Washington US soft-drink giant Coca-Cola has tapped four champion American athletes to represent the company at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russias Black Sea town of Sochi, including Olympic champion figure skater Michelle Kwan. Kwan, together with skier Ted Ligety, mens figure skater Evan Lysacek and Paralympian snowboarder Amy Purdy, will take a lead role in Coca-Colas marketing efforts in the run-up to the Sochi Games next February and will represent its brand for the event, the company said in a statement. Ligety, 28, is an Olympic gold medal winner and four-time World Champion in alpine skiing. He is

currently training to make the US Olympic team for Sochi. Lysacek, a 28-year-old who captured gold at the 2010 Winter Olympics, is also aiming for a slot on the US team for the games. Purdy, 33, had her legs amputated below the legs at age 19 due to bacterial meningitis. She has already secured a spot on the US team in para-snowboarding, which will debut as an official Olympic event in Sochi. With two Olympic gold medals, five World Championship titles and nine US championship titles under her belt, Kwan, 32, is the most decorated US figure skater in history. All four athletes will serve as living ambassadors for Coca-Cola.

Jakarta Defending champion Saina Nehwal entered the womens singles semifinals of the Indonesia Open Super Series Premier defeating Spaniard Carolina Marin at the Istora Gelora Bung Karno Stadium. However, it was the end of the road for mens singles shuttlers Ajay Jayaram and R.M.V. Gurusaidutt, who lost their respective quarterfinal matches. It was considerably an easy outing for Saina, who won the tournament in 2009, 2010 and 2012, triumphing in her first ever encounter against Carolina. The World No.2, who had also reached the 2011 final, won 2116, 21-19 in 39 minutes. Saina took time to get into the groove in the first game rallying more than usual. But once she found her rhythm, the Indian found legs to move ahead into the lead and eventually win the game against the World No.27. From 12-all, Saina bagged nine points to Carolinas four, hitting more clear winners than her opponent. The Spaniard, however, matched her much experienced op-

ponent when it came to smashes and also at the net. The Spaniard was more formidable in the second game, leading from the start. Saina equalised the game at 10all but Carolina again extended the lead. From 16-15, the unseeded Spaniard then won three points to get closer to sealing the game. But Saina used all her experience by winning the next six points to bag the game and match. In the semifinal, the Hyderabadi will face old rival and World No.3 Juliane Schenk of Germany. The second seeded Indian has a 8-3 head-to-head

against the fourth seeded Juliane, having won the their last three meetings. After an impressive win in the second round over Indonesian fourth seed Sony Dwi Kuncoro, Mumbais Jayaram lost to German Marc Zwiebler in the mens singles quarterfinals. Zwiebler beat Jayaram 21-16, 21-15 in 34 minutes to take a 2-1 lead in career meetings. Indonesian World No.20 Tommy Sugiarto beat Gurusaidutt 19-21, 21-11, 21-10 in one hour and six minutes to increase his career-meet lead to 3-1 over the Indian.

Urban Sports Infrastructure Scheme announced

New Delhi In its bid to develop infrastructure in the country, the sports ministry on announced its Urban Sports Infrastructure Scheme (USIS) for laying synthetic playing surfaces for football, hockey and athletics and construction of multipurpose indoor halls. As a first step, the ministry has approved seven projects, one in Goa, Ladakh, Kerala and Uttarakhand and three in Mizoram. The government will construct a multipurpose indoor hall at Sports Complex, Chaudi, Canacona South, Goa at an estimated cost of Rs.6.25 crore subject to the ceiling of Rs. 6 crore. A multipurpose indoor hall will also be constructed at Leh at an estimated cost of Rs. 7.98 crore subject to the ceiling of Rs. 6 crore. The government also has plans to lay synthetic athletic tracks at the universities of Calicut and Malapuram at an estimated cost of Rs. 7.2 crore subject to the ceiling of Rs. 5.50 crore. The projects in Mizoram are a multipurpose indoor hall at Sazaikawn in Lunglei district at an estimated cost of Rs. 6 crore. The government also approved two synthetic football turfs. One will be laid at Chhangphut Playground at Champhai at an estimated cost of Rs. 4.9 crore subject to the ceiling of Rs. 4.50 crore and the other at the Cyla Ground at Lawngtlai at an estimated cost of Rs. 4.9 crore subject to the ceiling of Rs. 4.50 crore. The government also approved the construction of a multipurpose indoor hall at Sports Stadium, Kashipur, Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand at an estimated cost of Rs. 13.45 crore subject to the ceiling of Rs. 6 crore.

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SPORTS
ies Ashwani Aggarwal, Baburao Yadav, Deepak Kumar and Sunil Bhatia, expressing strong opposition to bail for them. Opposing the bail for Aggarwal, police said told the court that he is a major bookie of Delhi having link with D-company and was the master controller of all north India terrorist on behalf of Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Shakeel syndicate. The court, after hearing brief arguments adjourned the bail pleas for Saturday. The judge also directed police to file reply on the bail application of alleged bookie Ramesh Vyas, who moved the court seeking relief after being remanded in judicial custody till June 18. On May 16, Delhi Police arrested three Rajasthan Royals players - S. Sreesanth, Chandila and Ankeet Chavan on spot fixing charges. Delhi Police had invoked provisions of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against 28 accused in the case including three cricketers, alleging that they were Kolkata The Indian cricket board will formally decide in a day or two its representative at the International Cricket Councils annual conference scheduled to start in London June 23. The matter has not been decided yet. Maybe we will take a decision in another two days, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) interim chief Jagmohan Dalmiya told IANS. There has been much speculation over Indias representative at the meeting, with reports talking of a rift between Dalmiya and BCCI president N. Srinivasan on the issue. Srinivasan stepped aside earlier this month till the pendency of the twoman probe commission into the Indian Premier league betting case allegedly involving his franchise Chennai Super Kings and son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan. Dalmiya was then appointed BCCI interim chief. At the Chennai meeting it was decided that Srinivasan will represent the BCCI at the ICC. But it is doubtful whether he will represent India in

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IPL spot fixing: Chandila key conspirator, Board representative at ICC meeting to be decided police tell court
New Delhi Opposing the bail plea of Rajasthan Royals player Ajit Chandila, arrested in connection with IPL spot fixing, the Delhi Police Friday told the court that he was a key conspirator in the entire case. The Delhi Polices Special Cell, filing its reply on Chandilas bail plea, said he was acting at the behest of a syndicate run by gangster Dawood Ibrahim. It added that the player was directly in contact with bookies and players and had received money to perform as per their directions. The investigating agency, in its reply before Additional Sessions Judge Ajay Kumar Jain, said: For accused Ajit Chandila, it is reiterated that this player has emerged as the key conspirator in the entire chain acting on behalf of the syndicate. A huge amount of money has also been recovered at his instance, which was received from various fixers. In view of the centrality of his role, his bail is strongly opposed. Police also filed replies on the bail applications of other arrested - book-

Dont blame cricketers alone for all the ills: Bindra

should be banned from both the IPL as well as the upcoming Champions League, Bindra wrote on his blog. During the course of discussions, I observed that we should not give the impression that the players are solely responsible for all malefactions and corruption in the game. I suggested that we should start the clean-up operations at the very top and the Administrators should set the example by agreeing for public probity, thus standing up for ethical behaviour and higher moral standards, he said. Bindra says the top brass of the board have no moral right to preach to players when they themselves are facing charges of conflict of interests. The administrators, facing serious charges of conflict of interests, have no moral right to set standards for players and ask only them to be above board. Besides, Boards working should be totally transparent. Its balance-sheet and Constitution should be put on its Website and there should be constant interaction with the cricket-loving public and accept tangible and worthwhile sugdia release issued by him does not reflect what actually transpired at the meeting and it was a command performance to cover up and perpetrate boards illegalities and improprieties. As usual the Media release of the June 8th Working Committee meeting of the Indian cricket board in Delhi does not reflect actual deliberations/discussion and decisions. Going by the contents of the release put out by the boards joint secretary, it appears he was attending a meeting which was different from the one attended by a majority of members! Pointing out, what he calls, certain glaring discrepancies in the official release, he said the points dealt with are not accurate, they are actually misleading. He said it was absolutely incorrect that the Working Committee had a hand in the appointments of Sanjay Patel as secretary and Ravi Sawant as treasurer. The Working Committee has not made any appointment. Sanjay Patel was already sitting on the Treasury bench and he glibly blurted out that he got his appointment letter from the President who had very graciously agreed to step aside. As regards Ravi Sawant, the Working Committee was of the view that it had no power to make a recommendation/ decision as it was obviously tutored to obviate public criticism about (former BCCI chief) N Srinivasan taking all decisions. Bindra points out that he had vehemently objected to the constitution of the probe panel by the IPL Operational Panel, but the majority view, despite his vehement objection, was that it was lawfully constituted and he blamed vice-president Arun Jaitley, an eminent lawyer, for it. It seems Arun Jaitleys concept of post facto legitimising patent illegalities has led to the tutoring of minutes. Lamenting the fall in the standards of the boards working, he said: This certainly is not the institution which was once the pride and envy of not only the cricketing world but also the entire sports world for the way its visionary administrators conducted themselves.

acting under the command of Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Shakeel. The other 21 accused including Sreesanth and Chavan have already been granted bail by the court.

the given circumstances. There is a strong probability of Dalmiya representing the board, a board source told IANS. A senior board member also said that Dalmiya was most likely to be Indias representative at the meeting.

New Delhi Inderjit Singh Bindra, former president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has taken exception to the board imposing severe restrictions on players and by inference blaming them for all the ills in Indian cricket. Bindra is livid with the present board dispensation and accused it of distorting even minutes of Mondays working committee meeting here. Bindra, who made one of his rare appearances at the last two working committee meetings after three years, is particularly unhappy with the way his friend Jagmohan Dalmiya tried to find fault with only the players for all the untoward happenings in the Indian Premier League (IPL). In the meeting Mr. Jagmohan Dalmiya had read out from a prepared text to state that the mobile telephones of players should be impounded before they enter the Dressing Rooms and also ask them to furnish their Bank Accounts and other Telephone numbers. He thundered that cheerleaders, after-match Parties and owners entry to the dug outs

gestions from them. Bindra said Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) chief C.P. Joshi, also a union minister, was also very forthright in demanding procedures to cleanse the administration and that it should start at the very top if it has to be honestly carried out. In the blog on his personal website isbindra.com, Bindra hit out at BCCI joint secretary Anurag Thakur for fudging the minutes, saying the me-

Jamaicas coach blames poor 2014 World Cup will end an era for Spain: preparation for bad form Casillas
Tegucigalpa (Honduras) Theodore Whitmore, who says he will resign as Jamaicas head coach after their 0-2 defeat to Honduras, has complained that inadequate preparation time and the loss of key players condemned his team to the cellar position in the final round of qualification for next years football World Cup in Brazil. Jamaicas defeat to Honduras Tuesday, their fourth successive World Cup qualifying loss and third in eight days, has put the Reggae Boyz on the brink of elimination. Jamaica is rooted at the bottom of the standings after failing to win a match in six outings in CONCACAF final round World Cup Qualifying Recife Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas feels the 2014 World Cup in Brazil would represent the end of an era for Spanish football. The 32-year-old, who captained Spain to victory at the 2010 World Cup and the 2008 and 2012 European championships, also revealed that next years World Cup could be his international swansong. After Brazil many of us will probably call it a day and make way for the younger players, said Casillas, whose Real Madrid contract expires in 2017. I will play as long as my head allows me to. Its more a psychological question. At the moment my objective is to see out my contract with Real Madrid. Spains national team trained in the rain Thursday at the headquarters of Brazilian club Nautico as they pre-

(WCQ). What we have we just have to work with it. It is not like we have a team where we can work around the clock, Whitmore explained. We lost some key players, some influential players and this has brought us to the position we are in now, but it is football and a situation we cant do anything about.

pare for their Confederations Cup debut against Uruguay, Sunday. Casillas is expected to return to Spains starting line-up at Arena Pernambuco after five months on the sidelines for both club and country. Despite having recovered from a hand injury in March, Casillas was overlooked by Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho for the remainder of

the season in favor of Diego Lopez. La Roja, as the Spanish team is famously called, coach Vicente del Bosque gave a strong hint last week that Casillas would be chosen ahead of Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes. He (Cassilas) is fit and I see him as being in the form that hes always shown, Del Bosque said.

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Who wants to wear skinny pants and thick denims in the sultry heat? Think out-of-the-box and team up your kurtis, kimono tops, tanks, and t-shirts with loose but comfortable dhoti pants and palazzos in cotton, to raise the heat on your fashion scale.They are a rage today - palazzos, which are long, super wide-legged trousers, and dhoti pants, a modern interpretation of the oldfashioned dhoti. Both are stylish and are being picked by college-goers and party hoppers alike.

Airy dhoti pants, palazzos - girls must-have this summer!

Tahiliani, who is known nationally and internationally, has focussed extensively on variations of the dhoti at several fashion weeks over the years. But while all of it looks trendy on tall and slender models, does the look suit the girl-next-door variety as well? Dhoti pants, contrary to popular opinion, create a perfect balance between simplicity and fashion as they are not shape-appropriate. While they add volume to the petite women; dhoti pants work wonders for curvier women as well by taking away excess volume to the lower body if shaped appropriately.

As the summer sets in, girls are quick to ditch denim and other heavy fabrics. Comfort is the new style and therefore dhoti pants and palazzos are becoming popular, Delhibased designer Jyoti Sharma told The best part about the garment is that there are hardly any fitting hassles as they are meant to be loose and free-flowing. As far as the fit is concerned, only the size (of the waist) has to be right for you and it will fit fine. These garments are primarily loose to let air flow easily and let your skin breathe; so fit is not of importance here, added Sharma.

The forms of dhoti pants can be varied - cropped, printed or embellished - but choose to team it well. Pair a monochromatic tie-dye pant with funky belt, statement jewellery and heels for a modern gypsy look or with a blouse or a camisole for a more feminine look. Complete the look with heels, flat, mojaris, gladiators or even regular chappals, added Mehta. Also, why must girls have all the fun with dhoti pants? Men are also experimenting and wearing them with a long shirt, bandhgala jacket, shirt and blazer for a chic look. The trend has gone international too As far as palazzo trousers are concerned, they seem to be back in fashion after being popular in the 1960s and 1970S. They flatter the waist and suit your look wherever you go - work, play or party. Play around with palazzos in different colours and prints, but choose the fabric carefully. It could be in pure or mixed cotton. Those with cotton lace and chikan (work) are also popular choices in pallazos. Chiffons are good too. Prints are big this season; so everything from the Mediterranean to the tropical prints to black and white to neon - they are all a big hit, said Sharma. Make sure you wear palazzos with a well-fitted top. Since these are loose garments, they look best when paired with a well-fitted top. Two loose garments do not look good together. You can add a burst of colour by wearing a neon accessory like a bold neckpiece, Sharma said. But heres an advice for all women - Palazzos and dhoti pants, if worn with a belt, are known to make the Indian pear-shaped women slender.

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