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Tunda Terror
New Delhi Alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Abdul Karim Tunda used to get counterfeit Indian currency from a brigadier of Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), said police Tuesday. The two operated with the help of a conduit. Tunda has received several consignments of fake Indian currency arranged by an ISI brigadier, but he doesnt know his name, said a police officer. Tunda, who was arrested Aug 16 from the India-Nepal border, Page 12
New Delhi The army has mobilised all its resources to effectively retaliate to any ceasefire violation by Pakistan, Defence Minister A.K. Antony said Monday. Replying to clarifications from members in the Rajya Sabha on his statement on the Aug 6 attack near the Line of Control (LoC) that left five Indian soldiers dead, Antony said the government was taking the incident very very seriously and that armed forces would take Page 3
Army Chief Meets PM
STOP HURTING WOMEN NOW

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India needs to get its act together for women

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Tyre manufacturer Apollo Wednesday became the second Indian company after telecom major Bharti Airtel to sponsor highly popular English Premier League (EPL) side Manchester United. As a part of the three-year deal, Apollo will create football-based play zones, using recycled rubber, in local communities in Britain and India Page 22
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When India got independence, the rupee was at par with the dollar, one for one. Sixty-seven years down the line, where is the rupee now? .?.?. Today, Indias finance ministers age is equal to one dollar. P Chidambaram, Union Finance Minister, India: If I have one wish which the people of India can fulfill,
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US student calls India Report sought from Maharashtra a travellers heaven, a on gang rape womans hell
Washington Back from a study trip to India last year, a Chicago university recalls it as a visit full of adventures and beauty but also relentless sexual harassment, groping and worse. In a powerful account posted on CNN iReport under the username RoseChasm, Michaela Cross says upon her return, she was diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder and is now on a mental leave of absence from the school after a public breakdown in the spring. Her story India: The Story You Never Wanted to Hear has struck a chord around the world, racking up more than 800,000 page views as of Wednesday morning, CNN reported. Cross, a fair-skinned, red-haired South Asian studies major, who left India a few days before the deadly gang rape of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi, said that helped others understand what she and her classmates went through. On her return, Cross struggled to find a way to talk about a cultural experience that was both beautiful and traumatising, CNN cited her as saying in her essay. She writes: Do I tell them about our first night in the city of Pune, when we danced in the Ganesha festival, and leave it at that? Or do I go on and tell them how the festival actually stopped when the American women started dancing, so that we looked around to see a circle of men filming our every move? Do I tell them about bargaining at the bazaar for beautiful saris costing a few dollars a piece, and not mention the men who stood watching us, who would push by us, clawing at our breasts and groins? When people compliment me on my Indian sandals, do I talk about the man who stalked me for 45 minutes after I purchased them, until I yelled in his face in a busy crowd? How it feels to be a woman in India Later, she writes: For three months I lived this way, in a travellers heaven and a womans hell. I was stalked, groped, masturbated at; and yet I had adventures beyond my imagination. I hoped that my nightmare would end at the tarmac, but that was just the beginning. A University spokesman confirmed to CNN that Cross is a student at the school, but would not comment on her mental leave. He said the school is committed to students safety at home and abroad. The news channel quoted Cross as saying she didnt say anything to the professors on the trip until things reached a boiling point-what she called two rape attempts in 48 hours. New Delhi The central government Friday called the gang rape of a photojournalist in Mumbai extremely unfortunate and said it had sought a detailed report from the Maharashtra government. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Home R.P.N. Singh said immediate action should be taken to arrest the guilty and they should be given harsh punishment. It is extremely unfortunate. (We have) asked the state government for a detailed report, Singh said. Earlier, Deputy Chairman P.J. Kurien asked the government to take note of the incident. A 22-year-old photojournalist working for an English magazine was gang-raped in Mumbais Shakti Mills compound Thursday after her male colleague was brutally thrashed. The photojournalist suffered grievous internal injuries. Four people have been detained by police. Raising the issue, Bharatiya Janata Partys (BJP) Smriti Irani said there was no security in the area where the incident took place. Referring to some other incidents of
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crime against women in Maharashtra, she said the gang rape was not an incident to be viewed in isolation. There was some din in the house as Congress members sought to raise incidents of crime against women in BJP-ruled states. Earlier, political leaders cutting across party lines condemned the incident. Law Minister Kapil Sibal said: Our country cannot afford to have our
women and children insecure. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar said: It is very unfortunate. When the Dec 23 gang rape occurred in Delhi, within a few days a new legislation was proposed in parliament. I am hopeful it will now be soon implemented. BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said: The gang rape is beyond tolerance. A photojournalist goes for work and if she is not safe. Who is safe then?
Mumbai no longer a city we grew up in: B-town

Mumbai Filmdom is ashamed and devastated after the gangrape of a young woman in the city, which was once considered one of the safest place for women. Four people have been detained for the alleged gangrape in an abandoned mill compound late Thursday. The 22-year-old woman, who suffered grievous internal injuries, has been admitted to the Jaslok Hospital along with her colleague who was brutally thrashed. Both are in a state of shock. The incident came barely five days after an American woman was attacked and robbed in a suburban local train, raising questions over the safety and security of women in the city. Some of the popular names of Btown took to micro-blogging site Twitter to show their concern and express grief. Here is what they tweeted. Karan Johar: Helpless to say the least ... words like devastated ... disgusted mean nothing at a time like this! Gangrape in my city, I feel ashamed. Pooja Bhatt: Mortified to hear about the gangrape in Mumbai which occurred in broad daylight. This is not the city I grew up in. Ashamed! Anupam Kher: There is no fear of law. Rape cases go on for years. Nobody is hanged for Rape. Politicians are interested in power not welfare of people. Shobhaa De: Yeh mera India. Yeh meri Mumbai. (This is my India and this is my Mumbai). Another gang rape. One more victim. Just another day in our great nation. Manoj Bajpayee: Mumbai is shamed by the incident of gangrape last night. We all hang our head in shame that we can not give a safe world to women. Onir: Sad to see how the city one loves and has given so much to so many is becoming a place of nightmare for women.
NWMI condemns gangrape of journalist in Mumbai
Thiruvananthapuram The Network of Women in Media, India, (NWMI) expressed shock and anger Friday over the gangrape of a journalist and the assault on her male colleague in Mumbai a day ago. In a statement issued here, the NWMI said the incident was a grim reminder of the deteriorating safety for women in Mumbai, and the lack of security for media professionals, especially women. The harassment of women professionals in the media is on the rise and, along with workplace related harassment, journalists also have had to contend with anti-women prejudice and biased reactions from employers as well as law enforce-
ment officers, the release said. NWMI cautions colleagues in the media to report such incidents responsibly and sensitively, without providing unnecessary details that provide markers to the identity of the journalist involved. NWMI also demanded speedy investigation into the assault, so that justice is delivered without delay. It has sought that media houses ensure the safety and security of their staff. The brutal gangrape of a 22-year-old photojournalist while she was at work, taking photographs of an abandoned mill in Mumbai at Mahalaxmi in central Mumbai, has left fellow professionals in the field in shock. The two journalists were accosted and intimidated by a few people who demanded to see their authorisation for shooting in the area. They took the woman journalist aside on the pretext of securing the authorisation for her, and tied up her colleague, and then raped her. The Mumbai police have now arrested one person and identified four other people in the incident. The Kerala chapter of NWMI has scheduled a meeting Friday evening at the Thiruvananthapuram Press Club to condemn the incident.
Gul Panag: Sad validation of the fact that no city in India is safe for women. It is after all the same prevention, enforcement mechanism in use all over. Shreya Ghoshal: Disgusted disgusted disgusted. A gangrape in daylight in our so called safe city Mumbai. Celina Jaitly: Devastated to hear of gangrape of our dear journalist in Mumbai, severe action has to be taken to make rape punishment extreme to instil fear. Ehsaan Noorani: Appalled at the news of the gang rape. What is with this country Tisca Chopra: Cant be happening in Mumbai... a city full of working women... working all hours of the day and night.... Pooja Bedi: Absolutely shocked
by news of the Mumbai gang rape. Get the scum off our streets! Swift sentencing, severe punishments are need of the hour! Varun Dhawan: Just heard the news about a gangrape in Mumbai. Disgusted! Please publicly hang these people. Sickened with these repeated acts by cowards Sophie Choudry: A young photographer gangraped, her colleague thrashed at 5p.m. in Mahalaxmi area Mumbai. Still no fear. Rapists feel they can get away! What the fuck. Shekhar Ravjiani: My heart goes out to the victim and I hope and pray that God gives her the strength to make it through this ordeal. It isnt about Mumbai or Delhi. Its about India. And her daughters. We need to find a way to protect them.
Army chief meets PM amid spike in ceasefire violations
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IAFs C-130J transporter lands near India-China border
Pakistan protests soldiers death in border firing

New Delhi/Islamabad In continuing tensions, Pakistan Wednesday summoned the Indian deputy high commissioner in Islamabad Gopal Baglay to lodge a strong protest over the killing of a Pakistani army captain in Indian firing on the Line of Control (LoC), with India saying it had carried out appropriate retaliation to Pakistani shelling. Baglay was summoned to the foreign office and a strong protest was lodged over the unprovoked firing by Indian army soldiers last night in the Shaqma sector, Kargil, which resulted in the martyrdom of a Pakistan Army captain and injury to another soldier, said a Pakistan foreign office statement. Pakistan conveyed its serious concern on the continued violations of the ceasefire across the LoC by the Indian Army over the past few weeks and the escalation of tensions which is counterproductive and detrimental for stability and peace in the region, it said. It said that Pakistan is committed to a constructive, sustained and result-oriented process of engagement and it calls upon India to take serious and credible measures to prevent further ceasefire violations and reduce tensions. India responded by saying that Pakistan had resorted to unprovoked firing from 9 p.m. Aug 20 till 4 a.m. Aug 21 from the Pakistani post in Marol Sector to the Indian post in Kargil sector.
New Delhi Indian Army chief General Bikram Singh met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here Monday evening, official sources said. The meeting came in the backdrop of increased ceasefire violations by the Pakistan Army at the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir. The army chief met the prime minister. The meeting lasted for 15 minutes, an official in the Prime Ministers Office told. It is not immediately known what was discussed. But sources said the army chief apprised the prime minister about the steps taken after five Indian soldiers were killed by Pakistani troops who crossed the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmirs Poonch district Aug 6. The meeting also comes after Defence Minister A.K. Antony said in the Rajya Sabha the army has mobilised all its resources to effectively retaliate to any ceasefire violation by Pakistan. Antony said the government was taking the Aug 6 killing of five Indian soldiers very very seriously and that the armed forces would take every
Army will retaliate against truce violations: Antony

tions from Pakistan were increasing even as the civilian government there talks of peace. Antony said the government fully understands the sentiments of the house. In his statement, the defence minister said that the killing of five Indian soldiers will have consequences on our behaviour on the Line of Control and for our relations with Pakistan. He said ceasefire violations happen every year but their frequency has caused concerns, noting there had been 24 ceasefire violations between Aug 6 and 6 a.m. Monday (Aug 19). There had been 82 ceasefire violations by Pakistan this year against 70 in 2012, he said. Everything is in my statement. Do not want to elaborate, he said, and added that the paragraphs had been prepared with great deliberation. In his statement, Antony said the brutal and unprovoked attack on an Indian patrol on our side of LoC had outraged the country and accused specialist troops of Pakistan Army of involvement. Antony also referred to his statement of Aug 7 which had created a controversy as it did not directly blame the Pakistan army for the incident, saying it was based on information then available and there was some confusion. However, he did not elaborate.
step to protect the sanctity of the LoC. Now the army (is) taking all possible steps, sometimes strong action, to effectively retaliate every violation on the LoC. The army has mobilised all its resources to effectively retaliate any violation, Antony said. Our forces, specially the army, will take every step to protect the sanctity of the LoC, Antony said. In his statement, the defence minister said that the killing of five Indian soldiers will have consequences on our behaviour on the Line of Control and for our relations with Pakistan. Antony said his statement reflected the views of the government. He said ceasefire violations happen every year but their frequency has caused concerns. This time (what) worried us more is the frequency, he said. Antony said there had been 24 ceasefire violations between Aug 6 and 6 a.m. Monday (Aug 19). Our restraint should not be taken for granted, nor should the capacity of our armed forces and resolve of the government to uphold the sanctity of the LoC ever be doubted, he said.
New Delhi In a quantum boost to its mediumlift capabilities, a newly-acquired C-130J Super Hercules of the Indian Air Force (IAF) touched down Tuesday at the highest airstrip in the world - the Daulat Beg Oldie in Ladakh close to the Chinese border - the region in which the two Asian giants were engaged in an impasse in April. The airstrip, at 5,100 metres was reactivated in 2008 and is one of the most important sectors for India. Built during the Sino-Indian conflict in 1962, the IAF had conducted sorties from the airstrip during the war. In a significant capability demonstration move by the IAF, a C 130J Super Hercules aircraft landed at Daulat Beg Oldie today (Tuesday) located at 16,614 feet in the Aksai Chin area after taking off from its home base at Hindon, an IAF statement said of the flight commanded by Group Captain Tejbir Singh.
The tactical airlift aircraft of the special operations squadron is capable of undertaking quick deployment of forces in all weather conditions. These include airdrops and landings on unprepared or semi-prepared surfaces. Todays achievement will enable the forces induct troops, improve the communications network and also serve as a great morale booster for maintenance of troops positioned there, the statement said. With this enhanced airlift capability, the IAF will now be in a better position to meet the requirements of our land forces who are heavily dependent on the air bridge for sustenance in these higher and inhospitable areas, it added. The decision to deploy the C-130J, which is capable of lifting upto 20 tonnes of load, was taken by the IAF considering the lower load carrying capability of its AN-32s and helicopters.
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Chinese troops have transgressed LAC: BJP

New Delhi Chinese troops transgressed the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and had intruded 60 km inside Arunachal Pradesh, a BJP leader from the state said Wednesday. Indian Army officers, however, did not confirm this and said there were differences in perception of the LAC and both sides patrol the area accordingly. Kiren Rijiju, a former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Arunachal Pradesh, said that Indian and Chinese forces were locked in a face-to-face situation in Anjaw district of the state. Chinese troops have erected tents and are carrying military equipment. According to information from our party workers, they have managed to intrude about 60 km inside our territory, Rijiju told. Rijiju said that the intrusion began Aug 13 and the Chinese troops had been able to come deep inside. He said the army was not permanently deployed in the area and Indo-Tibetan Border Police was looking after the security of the area. It is a major intrusion. The government should immediately talk to China and ask it to pull back its troops, Rijiju said. He said that Indian and Chinese troops were near Plamplam post, about 60 km from the LAC, and 20 km from Chaglagam, an administrative centre where the Arunachal Pradesh government has posted its officials. He said party activists had been asked to visit the area. Tapir Gao, a BJP general secretary from Arunachal Pradesh, claimed here were over 100 Chinese troops in the area. ndian Army officers, however, did not say if there was an intrusion. They said there was a difference of perception of the LAC and added that both sides go on long patrols according to their perception of the boundary. There have been a spate of Chinese intrusions in the past few months.Chinese troops had ptiched tents in the Ladakh sector of Jammu and Kashmir in April and had pulled back after 21 days following flag meetings and talks at the official level. Indian and Chinese forces were face-to-face in the Chumar sector of Ladakh after Chinese troops transgressed into the Indian side on June 17 and took away a surveillance camera, which they later returned.
New Delhi The army has mobilised all its resources to effectively retaliate to any ceasefire violation by Pakistan, Defence Minister A.K. Antony said Monday. Replying to clarifications from members in the Rajya Sabha on his statement on the Aug 6 attack near the Line of Control (LoC) that left five Indian soldiers dead, Antony said the government was taking the incident very very seriously and that armed forces would take every step to protect the sanctity of the LoC. Earlier, Antony read out the statement he made in the Lok Sabha Aug 8 on the unprovoked attack on In-
dian troops along LoC in Jammu and Kashmir. Members from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal and Communist Party of India sought clarifications from him about his reference to consequences of the LoC incident. Leader of opposition Arun Jaitley made an indirect query on speculation that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could meet his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the UN meet next month. Do we start the process of engagement at the highest level? Rules of engagement are clear. Engage when an environment is there, he said. He said incursions and provoca-
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to give height. Then back comb front panel, take out a few bangs of hair to frame the face. The hairstyle requires a lot of hair spray as after every step we need to spray and fix the hair. Mumtazs birds nest: Blow dry the hair with a round brush. Take hot rollers and let them cool down. Back comb entire hair taking horizontal sections from the nape to the crown and then sides in a similar fashion. Once this is done, neatly pick up a
Style hair like yesteryears actresses
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New Delhi Remember how Bollywood actresses Asha Parekh and Mumtaz immortalised the bouffant and the birds nest? With a little help from an expert, you too can don those hairdos. Najeeb Ur Rehman, PPS Manager at Schwarzkopf Professional India, offers few tips to get the looks: Asha Parekhs bouffant: The hairstyle requires hair attachment. Leave the front panel of hair, use rest of the hair to make a high ponytail, roll all your natural hair around ponytail, fix an artificial hair attachment in order
circle or an oval from crown and pin it, this section will create a lot of height. The hairstyle is good for round and square faces, short height ladies. Hair spray will be required to create the hairdo. Dimple Kapadias blow-out: Apply serum on damp hair, blow dry hair with medium round brush, from back and sides. Take a square section and blow dry it back. It would be great if you use rollers especially on top crown, then use a hair spray to complete the look.
Recognise creativity, passion involved in cooking: Ranveer Brar

By Natalia Ningthoujam New Delhi From drying charcoal to hand-grinding spices, chef Ranveer Brar, the host of Zee Khana Khazanas Snack Attack, did all that as a beginner and feels it is high time the hard work and creativity involved in cooking gets recognition and appreciation. I think it is about time that the creativity, passion and the labour involved in cooking is recognised. Media has played its part in glamorising chef, Brar told. The profession might be seen as a glamorous one by many, but thats not true most of the time, especially when you are a fresher. There were regular industry challenges like tough menial jobs. Drying charcoal, hand-grinding spices, and washing pots were some of the jobs that I had to do, he said while remembering the obstacles he had to face when he started off. Brar, who has worked with hotels like the Taj group, The Oberoi, The Claridges and many more, had a hard time convincing his parents. I told them at the age of 16 that I didnt want to study. I was interested in cooking. This was met with a lot of resistance for two reasons - one, because I would have been the first in the family who wouldnt have graduated and two, because I would be the first bawarchi (cook) in the family,
said Brar whose parents later understood that cooking was his calling. If he did a diploma course at the Institute of Hotel Management in Lucknow, he learned valuable lessons by working with street vendors in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. I learnt on the streets of Lucknow with a kebab vendor by the name of Munir Ahmed. The street food there inspired me to be a chef, said the chef who prepared his first dish when he was 12 years old. He may be a perfectionist now, but Brar threw quite a few dishes in the bin when they didnt turn out the way he expected them to be. Talking about the experiments he did, Brar said: There are dishes that involve a heavy interplay of flavours. A lot of times I imagined flavours
marrying well, but they turn out to be a disastrous combination. I had a lot of such dishes that didnt work out like when I combined Asian and French flavours in Boston for my restaurant Banq. Scallops with moong risotto was one, Darjeeling tea crusted swordfish was another, he said. He is currently working with The Novotel in Mumbai as a Senior Executive Chef. Asked him about the tips to make a restaurant run successfully, he said that a clear financial projection, business acumen, great location and the best food are required. Customers are equally important. Social media and food review websites have to be closely monitored too, he added.
Trashion (a portmanteau of trash and fashion) is a term for art, jewelry, fashion and objects for the home created from used, thrown-out, found and repurposed elements. The term was first coined in New Zealand in 2004 and gained in usage through 2005. Trashion is a sub genre of found art, which is basically using objects that already have some other defined purpose, and turning it into art. In this case, trash is used. Initially trashion was used to describe art-couture costume usually linked to contests or fashion shows; however, as recycling and green fashion become more prevalent, trashion has taken a turn for the more wearable. The term is now widely used in creative circles to describe any wearable item or accessory that is constructed using all or part materials that have been recycled, including clothing that has been thrifted and reconditioned. Philosophy[edit source] Trashion is a philosophy and an ethic encompassing environmentalism and innovation. Making traditional objects out of recycled materials can be trashion, as can making avant-garde fashion from cast-offs or junk. It springs from a desire to make the best use of limited resources. Trashion is similar to upcycling and refashion, although it began with specific fashion aspirations. Like upcycling, trashion generates items that are valued again, but these may be low-cost or high-cost, perhaps depending on the skill of the artist. History Indigenous people throughout the world have used salvaged materials to create new objects for an indeterminate number of years. Africans have made bags from rice and juice packets, Haitians have made sculptural jewelry from old oil cans, and American settlers have made quilts and rugs from cast-off clothing and feed sacks. People were making something from nothing long before the word trashion was coined; however, Trashion usually
refers to making something from nothing for aesthetic purposes, not for practical use. In the 1990s, American artist Ann Wizer began using plastic waste in her wearable art. Working in the Philippines, and titling her line the Virus Project, Wizer created a set of costumes made entirely from post consumer plastic waste to celebrate Earth Day. The first plastic packaging tote bags were accessories to these costumes. There are now numerous small scale poverty intervention projects throughout Southeast Asia in the process of creating similar trashion accessories and other fashion and homeware items. This includes the XSProject, a charity originally founded by Wizer and based in Jakarta. The Trashion movement took off in New York City in late 2004, early 2005 through underground parties on the lower east side of Manhattan at a club called Plan B. Trashion was part of the fashion of Urban Gypsy Circus, which is an interactive art party thrown by multi-media artist Miz Metro. These parties exhibited art made out of recycled materials and included monthly TRASHION FACEOFFS where 2 designers would compete to be the TRASHION QUEEN. This led to Matthew Namer & Miz Metro curating the TRASHION Art show at Gallery 151 on exhibit during the summer of 2009 on the lower east side of Manhattan. Trashion has become a very popular style of art. For example, in 2006, Julia Genatossio launched Monsoon Vermont, a trashion design house. The company designs items such as umbrellas, shower curtains and backpacks which are made from Jakartas scavenged trash. Unlike the XSProject, Monsoon Vermont is a for-profit venture. Trashion is also the subject of school projects,local fashion shows, community center exhibits, and fundraisers, among other purposes. Some contemporary trashion artists include Marina DeBris and Nancy Judd.
Congress MP slams Haryana More trouble for Himachal Pradesh Cricket CM Association
Shimla, Aug 20 (IANS) There was more trouble for the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA), headed by BJP MP Anurag Thakur, as the state vigilance and anti-corruption bureau found the sports bodys initially registered address in Kanpur as bogus. During a recent investigation, state vigilance and anti-corruption bureau found that the Kanpur address was bogus. A team led by assistant superintendent of police Jograj Jariyal visited the Kanpur address. A vigilance team had visited Kanpur and found that the office associated with the HPCA is fictitious and non-existent, an investigator told IANS, on the condition of anonymity, here Tuesday. HPCA, who is located in picturesque hill station of Dharmasala, some 250 kilometers from here, was initially registered with the Registrars of Companies, in Kanpur in July 14, 2005. It was later shifted to a Chandigarh address in 2011. Top sources in the vigilance bureau told IANS that they will also investigate the Chandigarh address. HPCA has now got the company registered in Chandigarh. This address will also be investigated, the official said. Investigations against the HPCA started after Congress came to power in the state government last year in December. Earlier this month, a cheating and misappropriation case was registered against the HPCA over alleged wrong-doings in allotment of land to
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Jind (Haryana) Rajya Sabha MP Birender Singh, a known detractor of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Tuesday lashed out at the uneven development of the state at a rally here. Indirectly slamming the Congress government led by Hooda in Haryana, Singh said: Nine districts of Haryana have been ignored by the government. There has been no development and no industry has come here. There are no jobs and youths are facing the rampant problem of unemployment in these districts. Singh is a member of the Congress Working Committee (CWC).
New Delhi Alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Abdul Karim Tunda had planted a bomb in Amritsar in 2009 on the direction of Babbar Khalsa Internation (BKI) operatives, Delhi Police said Wednesday. Tunda, who is in four days police custody, said he placed a 10 kg explosive near Hindu Dhaba in Amritsar in December 2009. However, Punjab Police recovered the explosive and arrested three people. The explosive was brought from Pakistan through Nepal, said a police officer. Iqbal Kana, a Pakistan-based terrorist and Tundas associate in dealing in fake Indian currency, had given the consignment of explosives to Tunda, who then gave it to LeT operatives in India to use, police said. Police claimed that Pakistani Intelligence Service (ISI) and terrorists groups like BKI had used Tundas network to execute their plans in India. His involvement surfaced in 21 terror bombing cases in Delhi between 1993 and 1998. Tunda, who was arrested Aug 16 in Uttarakhands Banbasa area close to the Nepal border when he was trying to enter India, claimed that he sent a consignment of explosives to Delhi before the Commonwealth Games 2010 on BKI member Ratandeep Singhs direction. BKI is a Khalistani militant organisation based in India. However, its operatives work from Pakistan and west-Asian countries.
Tunda planted bomb in Amritsar: Delhi Police
Birender had Tuesday conducted a massive rally at Jind town, 220 km from the state capital Chandigarh, which was attended by many bigwigs, including Congress minister Kumari Shelja and general secretaries Shakeel Ahmed and Digvijay Singh. Condemning the detractors in the party, Singh said: I am a loyal Congressman. I do not want to leave this party. Even former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi wanted to give more responsibilities to me in the party. I am fighting for the rights of people and will continue working for the all-round development and strengthening of the party.
the states sports body. The disputed land, some three km away from the stadium has been used by the HPCA to build a five-star residential complex called The Pavilion, which has 38 rooms, 32 huts and a high-tech gym. The HPCA website calls it the exotic residential resort. The land was allotted when the BJP government, headed by Prem Kumar Dhumal, was in power in the state. Thakur, who is also Dhumals son, had alleged that the case against HPCA is politically motivated. Thakur is also a joint secretary in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Thakur had justified the move to change the HPCAs entity from a society to a non-profit company under section 25 of the Companies Act of 1956.
It was dome only to save HPCA from the control of the state government, like most other cricket associations had done all over the country, Thakur had said. We have registered as a company on no-profit, no-loss basis under section 25 of the Companies Act for promoting cricket activities. This was done with the permission of the BCCI, Thakur said. But sources told. that HPCA has sub-leased the residential complex of its state-of-the-start stadium to a company for commercial use. On July 26, two Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers -- Deepak Sanan and R.S. Gupta -- were charge-sheeted by the state government for allegedly allowing the change in the land-use for building the HPCA complex.
Himachal renews licences of colonisers indicted for lapses
Tunda also told investigators that his last meeting with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was in 2002 in Pakistan, after a list of wanted terrorists and criminals was given by India to Pakistan. Since, 1994 he was in regular touch with Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who is wanted in India for the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Punjab Police Wednesday interrogated Tunda to find out his involvements in other bombings in Punjab during the 1980s and 1990s. Tunda is in four days custody of Delhi Police.
Shimla Only a year-and-half after a judicial commission indicted colonisers of 62 housing projects in the state for irregularities, the Virbhadra Singh government has renewed the licences and registration certificates of 18 such builders again this year. This came to light Thursday through a written reply by Town and Country Planning Minister Sudhir Sharma in the assembly. In the reply to a question of BJP member and former town and country planning minister Mohinder Singh, Sharma said the registration of 12 builders were renewed, while licences of six colonizers re-issued from Jan 1 to July 31 this year. The development is significant as the Congress party, while in opposition, took advantage of delaying tactics by the previous BJP government, which announced in the assembly that all real estate transactions stood frozen.
The BJP government had admitted in December in the high court that it had not repealed the Himachal Pradesh Apartment and Property Regulation Act of 2005, which enables the builders to construct and sell flats under various categories, in spite of recommendations of a select committee of the house. In an affidavit dated as Dec 4, 2012, the government said the steps have been taken to introduce a new legislation but the fact is that the property regulation act has not been repealed as of now. A division bench observed Dec 7, 2012: Therefore, there will be a direction to the government, subject to the result of the writ petitions, to process the applications of the petitioners for the grant of licences. The courts interim order came on the petitioners who said they were not granted licences under the exist-
ing Act. The BJP government had constituted the one-man commission of Justice (retd.) D.P. Sood, a former judge of the Himachal Pradesh High Court, to probe benami (illegal) land transactions in the state from 2003 to 2011 and look into violations of statutory provisions and administrative procedures. The commission, in its 147-page report submitted to the government in April last year, recommended the withdrawal of the act. The builders, indicted by the commission, whose licences and registration certificates were renewed by the Virbhadra government included Omaxe Ltd of Delhi, MDC Estates Private Ltd of Chandigarh, Amarnath Aggarwal Colonizers of Panchkula in Haryana, Manchanda and Manchanda Builders Private Ltd of Delhi and Gee City Builders Private Ltd of Chandigarh.
6 A Nation of Rogue Men

An American student, on a tour of India narrated her horrid experiences via Internet articles over last few days. She mentioned facing gropes, lewd acts, stares and other far more horrendous things that demeaned her as a woman. When a young woman was brutally raped and murdered in Delhi last year, commentators went breathless talking about the Delhi Culture or how the brutal atrocity could be explained by narrow parochial explanations. However the Mumbai gang rape of a photojournalist has demolished all such notions
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and highlighted the ugly and naked truth, we are a nation of men gone rogue! Whether it is Mumbai or Delhi, no matter if the female in question is 5 or 50 years old and of course nationalities do not matter either. Lustful rogues are gladly willing to lap up anything they can lay there hands on. Law is also hardly a deterrent as strict penalties are not known to stop a crime. A case in point being the fate of measures post Delhi gang rape case. India over the last decade has undergone fast paced changes that have ex-
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posed its citizens to unbridled materialism and a culture of consumption. The conspicuous consumption has accentuated the differences between the haves and have nots. Such a sharp and contrasting differentiation has led to a case of heterogeneous pace of various sections of society. Freedom of women and liberal mores are increasingly being taken to as open invite for trouble by the mischief makers and such attitudes need to be nipped in bud. There should be a cultural revolution in how women are treated in this country.
Capital curse: Inept local authorities and the blame game

New Delhi A spell of showers - which can be so welcome otherwise - can bring the national capital to its knees, leaving the people always asking the question: Why does Delhi collapse when it rains? Traffic gets gridlocked as many traffic lights stop working, leaving millions of commuters fuming and frustrated. Poorly laid roads develop potholes and sometimes moon craters; water collects at unexpected places spelling danger for both motorists and pedestrians and rickety footpaths crumble, making them into accident and even death traps. Worse, the uncollected and spilling garbage - compounded by lack of civic sense among its people who litter the streets without thinking - flows into the drains and chokes them, making things difficult for both motorists and pedestrians. For those who dont drive but are caught walking on the streets, the pavements - at least in the few places they exist or are not encroached on - are accident prone with open manholes, missing tiles, uneven walking paths, jutting cables, and other unexpected hazards. The capital has about 760 traffic signals but these frequently stop working and serpentine jams result within minutes of a downpour. This is because water invariably seeps into the cable system that are products of poor engineering and maintenance. Soon after rains the traffic signals stop functioning. Most of the transmission cables of traffic signals in the capital are damaged. We are in talks for solar power traffic signals, but the proposal has been pending since 2002, a senior Delhi traffic police officer confessed to IANS, not wishing to be identified, adding that talks had been on with a public sector company, but held out little hope of a solution to a perennial problem which no one bothers to attend. After police helplessness comes civic negligence. Every year the local authorities fail the monsoon test and expose their hollow claims. The civic agencies sanitation staff, after sweeping the streets, shove into the drain rubble, muck and plastic in the absence of more scientific garbage collection. No one bothers to clean that as that is not the sweepers job but someone elses, Randeep Guleria, member, Delhi Resident Welfare Forum, told. According to various Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs), corrupt politicians, colluding civic agencies and scheming contractors ensure that substandard construction material is used and care little about naked electrical cables and open drains and crumbling sidewalks. The civic agency does not question the private contractors who are involved in cleaning the storm water drains, who do not clean the drains properly or any other job for which they are contracted as there is little supervision or audit of their work, V.K Arora, of the RWA East Delhi, told. Under the present system, a contractor working for either the PWD or a civic agency has to give a fiveyear warranty for the roads or pavements they lay. If a road gives way, it is the responsibility of the contractor to repair it. But no civic authorities question the contractors, enquiries reveal as they are colluders in corruption and loot, as a senior resident put it. But when waterlogging happens agencies pass the buck to the Public Works Department (PWD), saying that it handles 90 percent of the desilting of storm water drains. On its part, the PWD blames the civic bodies. And corporation officials in turn blame the increased broken roads and sidewalks to power discoms and gas authority for laying pipelines and then not repairing them. Harassed citizens say the municipal corporations - South, East and North - are indifferent towards their problems and lack accountability and their trifurcation has not helped things one bit. Be it a parking issue, a road cave-in, or overflowing drains, we have to meet a string of authorities and call up a dozen people before anyone attends to our complaints. They are there just there to pass the buck or give some excuse, Raghubir Rai, a member of the Residents Welfare Forum of East Delhi, told. Experts note that the monsoon woes of waterlogging can be tackled in Delhi only when a comprehensive drainage board is set up as the poorly managed Delhi Jal Board (DJB) lacks the requisite expertise or equipment to tackle the recurring problems. We need a comprehensive body for drainage in Delhi, as the drains are interconnected and they fall in each zone. In order to make the multiple agency responsible, a separate body should have members from the three civic agencies, PWD and Delhi Development Authority (DDA), K.K.Kapila, chairman, International Road Federation (IRF), told. He also said that for an immediate solution to waterlogging, authorities can dig huge water-harvesting pits in low-lying areas and concretise them, which will help increase the water table in summer. Noting that due to global climate change, the capital might in future frequently have more high intensity rain, Anumita Roychowdhury, executive director, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), said poor design and senseless urban planning can make cities chaotic. Sensible urban planning is most important and a proper drainage alignment is necessary on a war footing; right now the drainage capacity of the capital is poor, Chowdhury told warning that worse days were ahead for a city of 17 million people that was bursting at its seams.
Remember 1962
In the Summer of 1959 India was the dominant power in Asian continent and China was still reeling under the aftershocks of Communist Revolution. China was still finding its feet in the comity of nations and India was going strong under the leadership of its modernist Anglophile Prime Minister Nehru. Indias currency Rupee was legal tender in some gulf nations and despite threat of food shortages, seeds of green revolution and generous American assistance under PL-480 scheme was helping the nation along. However all of that changed in the
next three years. Tibet an autonomous province and at times sovereign nation under its head Dalai Lama was ruthlessly subjugated by the Chinese Communist Party to strengthen its hold over China. India at that time provided refuge to the young Lama and his entourage. The fervor generated by visit of Chinese Premier Chou En Lai evaporated as quickly as water on desert sand. Mao planned to put India in its place by exploiting the weakness of its leadership, especially in matters military. Nehru had neglected the military development as a part of his ideological
predilections. Using a very calculated approach Peoples Liberation Army checked the response time and capability level of Indian army. Once ascertained they made their move and occupied parts of Aksai Chin and North East Frontier Agency, NEFA (then name of Arunahcal Pradesh) in 1962. The dent to the prestige of India was immense and we had to undergo numerous strategic and economic humiliations. There is no need for alarm but current border disturbances have a dark background to them, it does not hurt to be cautious.
Uttarakhands orphaned children may fall prey to traffickers

Dehradun Two months after the Uttarakhand tragedy, the wounds continue to deepen as stories of missing and orphaned children come to the fore with fears expressed that many of them may fall prey to human traffickers. While the state government estimates 455 children missing after the floods ravaged towns and villages, the states child rights commission puts the number much higher. The commission and aid agencies are also worried that orphaned and vulnerable children may be falling prey to traffickers. The risk of children falling prey to traffickers is always there after a natural calamity, especially of this magnitude, Ajay Sethia, chairperson of the Uttarakhand State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, told IANS. My concern is how to handle the more than 300400 orphaned children because the government has no infrastructure. Flash floods and landslides caused by cloudbursts claimed thousands of lives in Uttarakhand in June. Among those killed and affected were both pilgrims and locals. As a result, families have been torn apart, some being entirely washed away, others leaving only a few survivors and orphaned children. Quoting the latest state government figures, Sethia said that as of now, 287 children from other states - mostly pilgrims children - have been reported to have gone missing after the tragedy. The most among these missing children 130 - were from Uttar Pradesh. Others were from Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Chandigarh. The district administration figures of children of local people going missing is 168, but the commission believes the figure is higher, Sethiya said. For instance, in Rudraprayag district, the official estimate of missing children is 146, but the commissions figure is 181. So our total figure is 203 missing children, but there may be more. Kailash Satyarthi of the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) said that the focus of the government has not yet reached the children, which is a matter of concern. The focus was on rescuing the missing people, the pilgrims first because they were in such big numbers and then the locals. Children have still not got the focus, which is worrying, because from our experience, after every natural disaster a place becomes a trafficking zone. We had seen it during and after the Kosi floods, during the Tsunami, and now we fear the same in Uttarakhand. The Uttarakhand SCPCR pushed the central government to start the Integrated Child Protection Scheme in the state under which all existing child protection schemes, with additional interventions, will be brought together to build a protective environment for children. The central government will allot the funds and we have given directions for the care of vulnerable children and orphans. We have said that of the 13 observation homes, only three should remain and the rest should be made childrens homes. In Tehri, there is one shelter home which should be converted into a childrens home, Sethia said. Although no case of trafficking or kidnapping has been reported till now, recognising the looming threat on vulnerable children, Sethia said, he had instructed the director general of police to activate the four anti-trafficking units in the state. Civil society, on the other hand, has been doing its bit to offer a protective environment to the affected children. Save the Children India, for instance, has plans of building 100 child-friendly spaces in as many villages in which trained caregivers will help children learn, play, get medical help and interact with one another for psycho-social support. Children are at a loose end and unprotected, either because their families have disappeared or they are left alone because their parents have gone looking for alternative livelihood. Schools have been washed away and the kids are extremely traumatised. In such a scenario, these child-friendly spaces, which are tented areas, aim to provide support, Devendra Tak of the NGO told. Of the 100 planned, 13 such spaces in three districts - Chamoli, Uttarkashi and Tehri Garhwal - are functional and support 25-30 children each, although their capacity is 50 each. The initiative has the support of both the state government and the Centre. Satyarthi further said that BBA has written to the Uttarakhand government to instruct the local police to prevent outsiders from entering the 2,000 affected villages without verification. Its very easy to lure away children from parents on the pretext of a job in a city and a good livelihood when they have lost everything. Traffickers will be on the lookout for such vulnerable families to source child labourers, he warned.
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7 SCIENCE AND TECH Indian astronomers help get peek Fuel leak grounds Indian rocket into ancient cosmos
north of Perth. The MWA will image the inter-galactic hydrogen gas surrounding early galaxies during the cosmological epoch of re-ionisation, and study the structure of the gas in the Milky Way galaxy and its magnetic field. The first observing cycle is underway and indications are the telescope and data are meeting the expectations set during commissioning. The telescope has begun gathering the weak radio signals from deep space that will be analysed over the coming years by scientists at RRI and in the US and Australia using parallel computing systems, institute spokesman Ram Subramaniyan told. The MWA is a precursor to the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a global project to be built as the worlds largest radio telescope across Australia and South Africa. This next-generation radio telescope (SKA) will herald path-breaking advances in the deployment of distributed and parallel antenna technology, integrated receivers, energy systems, communications and computing, Subramaniyan pointed out. According to Australian Nobel Laureate Brian Schmidt, who participated in the project, the MWA is a momentous step towards setting up the SKA low-frequency telescope nearby over the next five years. Schmidt was a joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2011 for proving that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. Founded by Nobel Laureate Sir C.V. Raman in 1948, the RRI is an autonomous body engaged in research areas of astronomy, astrophysics, light and matter physics, soft condensed matter and theoretical physics. Since 1972, the institute is funded by the department of science and technology. Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh) Delaying Indias entry into a select group of nations with cryogenic engine technology, the Indian space agency Monday had to call off the launch of its heavy rocket, the geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLVD5), after a fuel leak was detected. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K. Radhakrishnan said: The countdown for the rocket launch was progressing well. (But) Two hours before the scheduled launch time, we observed a leak in the fuel system of the second-stage engine. Because of that, we are calling off the launch. The liquid fuel in the second stage and the four strap-on motors of the first stage and the cryogenic engine will be drained, he told media at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here. According to him, the rocket, which cost Rs.160 crore, will then be moved to the rocket assembly building to make an assessment of the leaks cause and the action that needs to be taken. The GSAT-4 communication satellite it was was to carry into space costs Rs.45 crore. He said the revised launch date will be announced after the leak assessment. Nearly two hours before the scheduled blast off (4.50 p.m.) while the cryogenic engine - developed by Indian space scientists after around two decades of labour at an outlay of around Rs.400 crore - was being fuelled up, scientists and officials at the mission control centre got suddenly excited and huddled in a serious discussion. Small groups of scientists gathered around some monitors. The countdown was put on hold for some time and an emergency meeting was called where a decision was taken to hold the launch. The fuel leak was also visible on the television screen at the launch centre. The GSLVs success-failure ratio is skewed towards the latter. Out of the seven GSLV rockets that soared into the skies till date, four have turned out to be failures for ISRO. While two missions were successful, one is considered as partial success as the rocket under-performed.
Bangalore Stars born billions of years ago emit signals, and a specialised radio telescope can capture such signals. Indian astronomers have been part of an international team building such radio telescopes to increase our knowledge of the early universe. Four astronomers of the Raman Research Institute (RRI) in Bangalore participated in building a new radio telescope in Australia to track and receive signals from distant stars and galaxies, which emerged at cosmic dawn, 13 billion years ago. We participated in building the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope in Western Australia outback to unfold the cosmic history that remained a mystery so far, RRI director Ravi Subrahmanyan told. Unlike an optical telescope through which planets, stars and galaxies are viewed and studied from the earth, a radio telescope uses antennas, which operate in the radio frequency of the electromagnetic spectrum to detect signals emitted by celestial bodies and objects in the outer space for studying their phenomena. The primary goal of the radio telescope is to view the birth of the first stars and galaxies - the cosmic dawn - almost 13 billion years ago. The telescope entered the operational phase July 9 to get a deep insight into cosmic phenomena, Subrahmanyan said. Besides Subrahmanyan and three other astro-physicists -- Uday Shankar, K.S. Dwaraknath and A.A.
First Indian floating solar power station by 2014

Kolkata Following in the footsteps of Asian giants Japan and Singapore, this West Bengal capital may soon get Indias first floating solar power station by 2014. Such solar power stations comprise floating platforms (usually hexagonal)fitted with solar panels to generate more energy than land-based plants. The brainchild of solar energy expert S.P. Gon Chaudhuri, the proposed sites for the maiden floating solar power station are ponds surrounding the iconic Victoria Memorial and some other water bodies in Kolkata. Such floating solar stations would generate more energy as research has shown that if the panels stay cooler, they generate more energy, up by 16 percent, Gon Chaudhuri told IANS. According to him, applications have been forwarded to Victoria Memorial authorities and plans to utilise other areas near EM Bypass are also on the anvil. Each station would require around 3,000 square feet of space to generate 20 kilo watt of power. There are many water bodies that could be used for this, said Gon Chaudhury. The research has been completed and the project, funded by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, is expected to be implemented by 2014.
Deshpande -- four top engineers from the institute also partnered with counterparts from Australia, New Zealand and the US in building the mammoth radio telescope to enable astronomers to glean insights into the Milky Way and galaxies beyond, pulsing and exploding stellar objects. We have designed and built the digital receivers of the telescope at the institute, installed and commissioned them to also study the influence of the sun on interplanetary space weather close to the earth, Subrahmanyan said. The digital receivers pick signals from the antennas and perform complex algorithms to process the data for transmitting it to a central processing unit, which computes the imaging information. The MWA will survey the entire southern sky and make sensitive images of targetted regions. The data will provide astronomers insights into the dramatic evolution of the primordial cosmic gas that led to the formation of the first stars and galaxies in the early universe. As a joint initiative of Australia, India, New Zealand and the US, the MWA consists of 2,048 wideband antennas optimised to operate in 80330MHz frequency. The antennas are arranged as 128 square tiles, each of which has 16 pairs of receivers spread across 3 km at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, about 200 km from the Western Australian coast and 700 km
The two successful launches were in 2003 and 2004 when the rocket launched GSAT-2 and Edusat, an educational satellite. The rockets maiden flight in 2001 was a failure as it was not able to sling GSAT-1 into its intended orbit. The 2006 mission was sort of an historic flight for a dubious reason. For the first time, ISRO destroyed the rocket mid-air soon after the take-off as it started backing up. The 2007 flight is considered as a partial success. At that time, 15 seconds before the lift-off, the rockets computers -- which takeover checking of the systems 12 minutes before lift-off -- put GSLV on hold after detecting anomalies in the cryogenic fuel stage. The launch was postponed by two hours to set right the problem even as ISRO officials were considering rescheduling the launch by another two days. However, the detection of one of the vent valves in the cryogenic engine that had not shut properly led to its immediate rectification. ISRO scientists were on tenterhooks till the last moment as for a few seconds during the final cryogenic stage signals from the rocket failed to reach the ground stations. After a threeyear gap, ISRO flew a GSLV in April 2010 with its own cryogenic engine. The mission failed due to the problem in the cryogenic engines fuel booster turbo pump. Another GSLV went down in December 2010 after it veered off its designated path and exploded mid-air. For the second time, a GSLV rocket was destroyed mid-air for safety.
Nitish calls UPA minister a fool
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New Delhi Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may intervene in the discussion on missing coal-allocation files in parliament, if required, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajeev Shukla informed the Rajya Sabha Thursday. The demand for the prime ministers statement in the upper house was raised by members from the BJP, CPI-M, AIADMK and other parties. Replying to the demand, Shukla said: Leader of Opposition and others demanded a reply from government and coal minister gave a reply ... there were clarifications also. If members are not satisfied, we can continue the discussion. Prime minister may intervene, if it is required, in the coal scam case, Shukla said. Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley demanded that as the prime minister was present in the house, he should reply. CBI is looking into the matter of missing files of coal block-allocation. Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal made a statement in the house but we are not satisfied. Prime minister should give a statement on the coal issue, said Jaitley. Outside parlia-
PM may intervene in parliament on missing coal files: Shukla
Patna Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Wednesday called Minister of State for Railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury a fool for blaming the state government for the train tragedy that killed 28 people. I can say that he has made a fool of himself. It was an irresponsible statement, Nitish Kumar told the media
here. Chowdhury had accused the Bihar administration of not alerting the railways about the large congregation of pilgrims in Khagaria district where a speeding train ran over the 28 pilgrims Monday. If that had been done, the railways could have taken measures to prevent the disaster, he said.
Rajya Sabha condemns activist Dabholkars killing

New Delhi The Rajya Sabha Thursday condemned the killing of anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar, and asked the central government to assist the Maharashtra government in bringing the guilty to justice. Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan said: We want to know what is the state of law and order in Maharashtra and the central government must assist the state government in investigations and punishing the guilty. Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajeev Shukla replied that the central government was ready to provide all help to the state government if it approaches us... guilty would be punished. Unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants shot dead Dabholkar Tuesday near the Omkareshwar Temple in Pune while he was taking his morning walk. Right wing Hindu organisation Sanatan Sanstha appeared to gloat over the killing as its chief Jayant Athavale said: Instead of dying bedridden through illness or after some surgery, such a death for Dabholkar is a blessing of the almighty. Congress parliamentarian from Maharashtra Husain Dalwai said
Tamil version of Madras Cafe yet to get clearance

Chennai The Tamil version of John Abraham-starrer Madras Cafe is yet to get a clearance for release from the Central Board of Film Certification, the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court was told Wednesday. The Hindi version of the movie releases Friday. A Madurai bench Wednesday observed that the Tamil version should not be released without an appropriate certificate. The case has been posted to Sep 3, petitioner B. Stalin told . Stalin, an advocate, had filed a PIL seeking a ban on the film, alleging that it contained objectionable content and might lead to law and problems if released. The film came under the scanner after Tamil activists alleged that it portrays the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres as terrorists. After attending a special preview of the Shoojit Sircar-directed film Sunday, the objection against the film by the groups grew stronger. Tamil filmmaker Seeman, head of Naam Tamizhar (We Tamils) group,
ment, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath earlier said it would not be appropriate to ask prime minister to make a statement in parliament about the missing files relating to the allocation of coal blocks. The prime minister is not the custodian of files. Why should he reply? If they (opposition) want, the coal minister will reply, Kamal Nath told a TV news channel. I think this demand (by the opposition) is not appropriate. We have a minister and it is his direct responsibility to reply in parliament, he said. Jaiswal had Saturday admitted that some files related to the coal
blocks allocations had gone missing. He made a statement in the parliament Tuesday, saying efforts are on trace them. A preliminary inquiry to examine the irregularities in allocation of coal blocks during 2006-09 was registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation on reference of the Central Vigilance Committee in June 2012. During the period under review, 204 coal blocks were allocated to state-run and private companies -- 132 by the screening committee and 72 by the coal ministry. Out of that, licences for 40 blocks were cancelled.
such radical organisations should be banned.There are two-three organisations in Pune that are spreading communal hatred. The Maharashtra government has submitted a resolution to the central government demanding a ban on them. The government (central) should pass it, said Dalwai. Deputy Chairman P.J. Kurien said he would submit suggestions of Paswan and Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M) for observing two minutes silence in memory of Dabholkar to Chairman Hamid Ansari who would take the final decision in this regard.
Activists urge PM to prioritise womens bill

New Delhi Womens rights activists Wednesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to prioritise the Womens Reservation Bill and pass it in the monsoon session of parliament. The bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha in March 2010. The Centre for Social Research (CSR) issued an online petition to the prime minister on the urgency of passing the bill during the monsoon session of parliament. The aim of the petition is to garner enough mass support so that a bill as vital as this can be passed in the Lok Sabha, it said in a release. With so few women in governance at this level, the environment in these institutions is unsupportive of womens growth and engagement and serves to perpetuate their exclusion from the higher levels of political process, Ranjana Kumari, director, CSR said.The Womens Reservation Bill proposes to amend the constitution to reserve one-third seats in the Lok Sabha and in all state legislative assemblies for women. This will result in a reservation of 181 seats out of a total of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha and 1,370 out of a total of 4,109 seats in all assemblies.
MIM chief meets Sonia, opposes Hyderabad as union territory

New Delhi/Hyderabad Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi Wednesday called on Congress president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi amid increasing demand from a section of Congress leaders in Andhra Pradesh for union territory status to Hyderabad in the event of the states bifurcation. The MP from Hyderabad is understood to have conveyed his partys strong opposition to the idea of Hyderabad as union territory or a permanent capital of Telangana and Seemandhra. The meeting assumed significance in the wake of intensified consultations by the Congress party to find a way to take forward its July 30 decision to carve out separate Telangana state. In view of the continuing protests and strike by government employees in Seemandhra, a section of leaders are demanding union territory status to Hyderabad. The party, which is a key political force in Hyderabad with seven assembly seats and one Lok Sabha member, is strongly opposed to the demand. Addressing a public meeting in Hyderabad Aug 16, Asaduddin Owaisi had warned the central government of massive protest if it made Hyderabad a union territory or a permanent joint capital of two states. MIM had been opposing the states
said the film was nauseatingly antiTamil. In a related development, the Bharatiya Janata Partys Tamil Nadu unit chief Pon Radhakrishnan said the movie should not be released in any part of the country. Also featuring Nargis Fakhri, Rashi
Khanna, Ajay Rathnam and Leena Maria Paul, Madras Cafe is a fictional story inspired by true events. It is set against the Sri Lankan civil war and also depicts the 1991 assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
division. However, it also had expressed the view that if bifurcation becomes inevitable a separate state Rayala-Telangana, comprising Rayalaseema and Telangana regions, be formed with Hyderabad as the capital. Owaisis meeting with Sonia Gandhi came a few hours after Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy called on her. It was MIM chiefs first meeting with Gandhi after the party snapped its ties with United Progressive Alliance (UPA) at the centre and with the Congress party in Andhra Pradesh. He had said Kiran kumar Reddys communal behaviour forced his party to take the decision.
POLITICS QUOTE FIRE
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DEVALUATION OF RUPEE
Narendra Modi, Chief Minister, Gujarat: When India got independence, the rupee was at par with the dollar, one for one. Sixtyseven years down the line, where is the rupee now? .?.?. Today, Indias finance ministers age is equal to one dollar.
P Chidambaram, Union Finance Minister, India: If I have one wish which the people of India can fulfill, it is Dont buy gold,every ounce of gold is imported. You pay in rupees. We have to provide dollars.
Rahul Kanwal, Media Personality: For all the financial wizardry attributed to Chidambaram, FM seems completely unable to stop free fall in rupee, stock markets. Scary spiral
Anand Sharma, Union Commerce Minister, India: Every possible measure is being taken by govt & RBI to bring situation under control.
Sharad Yadav, President Janata Dal United: We have nothing but our domestic power-we have our minerals and industry. We should strengthen that. The condition of the economy is going to worsen and they are not going to be able to handle it. It is going to be a problem for the next Government.
Rajnath Singh, President, BJP: I believe that the economic situation of the country has not been worse in independent India. Even several international agencies are pondering on whether Indias economy will be able to revive or not. The government is failing to take effective steps to revive, restart.
Sitaram Yechury, CPM Leader: It is clear that a very serious current account deficit has built up in the country and the situation is not very different from what it was in 1991.
CAMP UPA
POLITICAL CAMP NEWS

New Delhi The government is ready to move fresh amendments to the Food Security Bill to address some concerns of the opposition parties who have proposed 265 changes to the legislation, informed sources said Wednesday.The government hopes the bill, which could not be taken up in parliament on Tuesday, would be debated and passed in the Lok Sabha on Thursday. Ac-
Government likely to amend food bill

cording to the sources, most of the amendments moved by the opposition relate to making the coverage universal, including pulses, oils and sugar besides grains, increasing entitlement to food grains from five to seven kg per person per month and removing the provision of cash transfers.Together, the opposition parties like the Bharataiya Janata Party, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), Communist Party of India, Samajwadi Party (SP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Janata Dal-United, Biju Janata Dal (BJD), Akali Dal, DMK, AIADMK and Trinamool Congress have moved around 265 amendments to the Food Security Bill.Both the SP and the BSP have said they support the bill but want their changes to be approved.The changes suggested vary from party to party, but there are some common issues as well.While some CPI-M members favour a universal coverage for the entire population - up from 67 percent of the population proposed in the bill - others in the party want income tax payees to be excluded. Some Left and Akali Dal members want inclusion of pulses, sugar and oils besides rice, wheat and coarse grains.
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BJP blocks Sonias food bill, three states roll it out

New Delhi Congress chief Sonia Gandhis pet welfare measure, the food security programme was Monday launched in three party ruled northern states - Delhi, Haryana and Uttarakhand even as the bill could not be taken up in parliament with the BJP disrupting the proceedings on its demands regarding alleged irregularity in coal block allocations. The governments hopes to pass the bill in the lower house Aug 20, the birth anniversary of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, were belied as the Congress managers failed to gauge the opposition strategy. However, Sonia Gandhi, while launching the rights-based ambitious food scheme in Delhi, described it as unparalleled in the world. Delhi is among the first states to roll out the programme after the government got the president to approve an ordinance in June. We decided to formulate food security bill so that the poor do not remain hungry, their children do not sleep hungry and they do not suffer malnutrition, Sonia Gandhi said at Talkatora Stadium here.The guarantee of food provided by food security scheme on such a large scale is unparalleled in the world, she said in her speech beamed live by TV channels. She gave away food security ration cards to women bene-
ficiaries along with a 5 kg packet of rice. Speaking at the function, Food Minister K.V. Thomas accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of delaying the passage of food security bill in parliament.The BJP did not let the Lok Sabha function over its demand for the prime ministers statement on missing files related to controversial coal block allocations.
Mamata accuses GJM of stalling development in the hills

Kolkata Attacking the GJM for stalling the development process in the northern West Bengal hills by renewing its demand for a separate state, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday announced she would visit Darjeeling in the first week of September. Breaking an eight-day silence on the hills where normal life has been paralysed following a spate of shutdowns and other movements launched by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) which leads the newly-formed Gorkhaland Joint Action Committee (GJAC), Banerjee termed the unrest as unfortunate and accused the agitationists of resorting to political gimmickry. I respect all my Darjeeling brothers and sisters. I am proud of them. But it is very unfortunate that instead of developmental works, that political party has resorted to agitational programme stalling the development process, Banerjee said in a post on her Facebook page. Iterating that her government was committed to delivering services to the people of the hills, she asked: Then why these agitational programmes every six months? Why this political pollution? As a result of it, development is suffering, people are suffering, Darjeeling is suffering. Banerjee said politics should facilitate development, not impede it.The ongoing political gimmickry is harming everybody. Some of the damage may be irreversible. Students may lose a year. NREGA (Natioanal Rural Employment Gaurantee Act scheme) funds may lapse. Tea exports from the Hill may fall and be possibly replaced by tea from other countries. Who is to be blamed?
Parliament disrupted over missing coal block files

New Delhi Both houses of parliament were disrupted over the missing files on the allocation of coal blocks last week, with the BJP contending it was an effort to shield Prime Minister Manmohan Singh while the government said it has set up a probe panel.The CBI has asked for 157 documents of companies which had applied prior to June 2004 but have not been allocated coal blocks, apart from few other files and documents, Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said in a statement in the Rajya Sabha.Since some documents could not be located in the coal ministry, I have constituted an inter-ministerial committee under the chairmanship of additional secretary (coal) on July 11 to look into the matter, he said. I would like to assure the house that my ministry would leave no stone unturned in tracing and providing the documents sought by the CBI, he added, amidst sloganeering by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members. Jaiswal rejected allegations that files related to a family that was close to him were among the missing documents. If these allegations are proven right, I am ready for any punishment, he asserted. His assurance could not pacify the BJP, which said it was an effort to save the prime minister, who held the coal portfolio during the period under probe. During the period under review, a total of 204 coal blocks were allocated to state-run and private companies - 132 by the screening committee and 72 by the coal ministry. Out of that, licences for 40 blocks were cancelled. A preliminary inquiry to examine the irregularities in allocation of coal blocks during 2006-09 was registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on reference of the Central Vigilance Committee in June 2012.
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Curfew continues in Kishtwar, looted weapons found
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New Delhi The Editors Guild of India Wednesday came out against Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewaris view that journalists should be tested and licensed to practice the profession and said it is a recipe for the total state control of the media. The reporting of facts and the expression of ideas is the right of every citizen, and to require the passing of a test and the possession of a licence issued by the government would be a violation of the very concept of freedom, Editors Guild of India president N. Ravi said in a statement. People with varying qualifications, ideas and interests should be allowed unrestricted access in the exercise of their right to free speech through the media, he said. In this age of citizen journalists, bloggers and social media and Internet users, it would be ridiculous
Police seek 10 days Mamata cant wipe out Gorkhaland aspirations: GJM custody of Tunda
to introduce any restriction on who should practice journalism even if it were possible to enforce it, he said. According to him, licensing of journalists is an obviously undemocratic practice that has been condemned repeatedly by international human rights organisations, including the Inter American Court of Human Rights. Requirements such as membership of a particular organisation, specific qualifications and licences issued by the government are tools used by totalitarian states to control the media, he said. The right to freedom of expression is guaranteed under Article 19 (1) of the constitution and it is open to every citizen to practice it through the media subject only to restrictions on the grounds specified in Article 19 (2), added Ravi.
Jammu Curfew continued for the 12th day Tuesday in Kishtwar town of Jammu and Kashmir. Police said they have recovered nine guns looted from a gun-shop by rioters. Curfew was relaxed for four hours Monday, during which the situation remained peaceful with no report of any untoward incident. Kishtwar District Magistrate Basheer Ahmad Khan said curfew was relaxed for two hours in one portion of the town and for another two hours in the other portion. The situation remained completely peaceful during the curfew relax-
ation period, he said. Police in Kishtwar have recovered nine of the 22 guns looted from a local gun-shop by rioters in Kishtwar. Some people have been arrested in this connection, police told. An allparty delegation comprising representatives of the regional National Conference (NC), the Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party, Samajwadi Party, Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Shiromani Akali Dal, Bahujan Samaj Party and Nationalist Congress Party met 70 representatives of the minority community in Kishtwar Monday evening.
The delegation is scheduled to meet representatives of the majority community Tuesday. The main opposition party in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), did not participate in the all-party delegation, with its leaders claiming that they were kept out of the delegation by the NC-Congress ruling alliance. An official statement by the administration, however, said all political parties had been advised that the delegation would leave for Kishtwar from Jammu at 8 a.m. Monday. All those leaders who came to the departure venue were included in the delegation, the statement said.
India, China discuss ways to maintain peace on border
Kolkata The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) Wednesday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of going on a rampant arrest spree but asserted the crackdown cannot wipe out peoples aspirations for a separate Gorkhaland state. The demand for Gorkhaland is an aspiration of Gorkhas and other hill communities. Instead of respecting this sentiment, the chief minister (Banerjee) has talked of being rough and tough and going on a rampant arrest spree, GJM supremo Bimal Gurung said. After the GJM intensified its separatist movement by clamping an indefinite shutdown in the Darjeeling hills, the Banerjee regime has been arresting key Morcha leaders along with hundreds of supporters and activists to crack down on the movement. Central security forces have also been deployed in the region. Gurung said arrests of GJM leaders were in violation of the 2011 tripartite agreement between the GJM and the central and state governments giving birth to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) - the autonomous hill development council.
By not withdrawing pending cases against Morcha leaders, the government has violated the agreement. Every clause of the GTA says with the approval of the government which proves that GTA is not autonomous, said Gurung. Claiming that over 600 persons have been arrested so far which is unprecedented, Gurung said: Is this the respect the chief minister is showing to the hill people for peacefully voicing their aspirations? People are willingly going to jail, but how many people can they arrest? It will be wrong for Banerjee to think that the aspirations of the hill people will be wiped out by merely arresting Morcha activists. The demand will only get stronger just as it has gone from strength to strength for more than 100 years. This is not a development issue but an identity issue that the chief minister must understand, said Gurung. Gurung also welcomed Governor M.K. Narayanans announcement that he was ready to mediate.
New Delhi Delhi Police Tuesday sought from a city court 10 days police custody of Abdul Karim Tunda, an alleged LeT terrorist arrested near the India-Nepal border. Metropolitan Magistrate Jay Thareja, before whom Tunda was presented, ordered in-camera proceedings of the case Tuesday after an advocate created ruckus inside the court room. Brought in the court under heavy security by the Delhi Police, Tunda was slapped by Hindu Sena President Vishnu Gupta inside the court premises. Tunda, the Delhi-born, one-handed extremist was in the list of top 20 terrorists wanted by India. He is allegedly involved in around 40 bombings in the country. An aide of fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim and an operative of Lashkar-e-Taiba, he was also wanted for suspected involvement in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts. Tunda was arrested Friday in Uttarakhands Banbasa area close to the Nepal border when he was trying to enter India.
New Delhi India and China Monday discussed ways to maintain peace and tranquility along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) as well as the recent incidents of incursions. The two sides discussed issues of mutual interest including ways to reduce trade deficit during the 5th round of India-China Strategic Dialogue, a ministry of external affairs release said. The discussions covered bilateral, regional and global issues of mutual interest, it said. The Indian side was led by Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh and the Chinese side by Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin. The two sides discussed ways to enhance understanding on using transborder river waters, expanding bilateral trade and investment and ways of maintaining peace and tranquility along the LAC. There have been Chinese incursions in Ladakh sector including the stand off in April after Chinese troops pitched tents but pulled back after 21 days following flag meetings and talks at official level.
The two sides also took stock of developments in bilateral ties since the visit of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to India and discussed ways to boost cultural cooperation, people-topeople exchanges and expansion of scientific and technological cooperation. They also prepared the ground for a possible visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to China later this year. The two sides also talked about the potential and prospect for Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) cooperation. India and China also discussed future cooperation in the BRICS framework and ways of ensuring an open, inclusive and transparent architecture in the Asia-Pacific region. The two sides also discussed the outlook for Afghanistan in 2014 and beyond. Later, Liu called on External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid. It was also decided that the 6th India-China Strategic Dialogue will be held at Beijing at a mutually convenient time, the release said. IANS
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Parliament disrupted over demand Asaram Bapu supporters want FIR quashed, attack for united Andhra
New Delhi Both house of parliament were adjourned for the day Friday over protests against creation of Telangana. While the Rajya Sabha was adjourned till Aug 26, the Lok Sabha was adjourned till Saturday. When Union Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal started to make a statement on the missing coal files in the Rajya Sabha, members of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) started raising slogans. Rajya Sabha Chairperson P.J. Kurein requested the two TDP members to allow the discussion on coal files to continue as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was in the house. Prime Minister is in the house and he will intervene, he said. However, TDP members continued to raise slogans following which the house was adjourned for halfan-hour.When it reassembled, the same members continued to disrupt the house.I am deeply pained and hurt. As deputy chairman, I genuinely and sincerely want to run the house, said Kurien.If the house gives me support then I am ready to take action against the two honourable members, else I will adjourn the house, he said. As the commotion continued, Kurien said: We are taking house to ransom. The house stands adjourned to meet on Aug 26. Similar scenes were witnessed in the Lok Sabha, which was adjourned till Saturday after suspension of 12 Members of Parliament from Andhra Pradesh for causing unending disruption. The house witnessed repeated disruptions by the members from Andhra Pradesh. It was adjourned twice over the disruptions. When the house met again at 12.30 p.m., the speaker asked Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath if he wanted to proceed with the motion for suspension of 10 members from Andhra Pradesh which he had moved Thursday. Kamal Nath replied that he didnt want to press the motion. The speaker then named the 12 -four from the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and eight from the Congress -- under rule 374 (A) of parliamentary proceedings, which automatically suspends them for the next five sittings. Under the rule, any member named by the speaker shall stand automatically suspended from the service of the house for five consecutive sittings or the remainder of the session whichever is less. The speaker took the names of the 12 MPs and said: I name you under rule 374(A). You may forthwith withdraw from the precincts of the house.After this the house was adjourned for the day.
Gurgaon MP Rao Inderjit R a j n a t h moves to form new party blames UPA

for economic mess
New Delhi Supporters of Asaram Bapu Friday protested outside a police station here, where a girl had lodged a complaint alleging sexual assault by the spiritual leader, and demanded quashing of the FIR and assaulted a media person. Around 500 supporters gathered outside the Kamla Market police station in central Delhi and demanded quashing of the FIR. The supporters gathered at the police station around 10 a.m. and raised slogans against the police and media, accusing them of trying to dent the image of the spiritual leader. Later, they marched towards Jantar Mantar. Asaram Bapus supporters attacked the media person of a Hindi news channel and a complaint has been filed against them.
Indias young its biggest advantage: Tharoor

New Delhi Indias biggest competitive advantage over countries like China, US and Japan is its young population, Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor said Friday.India has a dynamic, productive and youthful workforce which will be 64 percent of the population by the year 2020, whereas China, US and Japan have ageing labour, said Tharoor at the launch of the Gen Next Workforce Study 2013. By 2020, the average age of the workforce in US would be 40, in Japan 46 and in India it will be just 29, he said.
Gurgaon Congress leader and Gurgaon MP Rao Inderjeet Singhs supporters have applied for registration of their front as a political party, party sources said. The new party has been named the Haryana Insaf Congress and the younger daughter of the former central minister has been appointed its president. Raos younger daughter Bharti Singh Rao has been appointed the president of proposed party, party sources told. Bharti Singh Rao had got married to a Delhi-based businessman a few months ago. Rao Inderjeet, currently chairman of the parliamentary standing committee for information and technology, did not responded to phone calls by IANS for comment on the new party. According to the papers submitted at Election Commission of India in New Delhi, the main office of the Haryana Insaf Congress is at a farm
house near Bhagwat Bhakti Ashram in Haryanas Rewari district. Dalip Singh has been made secretary while Surender Kumar has been given charge as treasurer, a Haryana Insaf Manch official, who did not wish to be named, told. Rao Inderjeet has announced the formation of the Haryana Insaf Manch (HIM) in a huge public rally organised at Pataudi March 3 this year, while attacking Chief Minister Bhupender Singh Hooda for being biased with the people of south Haryana in allotting development projects and government jobs. South Haryana comprises the districts of Gurgaon, Faridabad, Mewat, Palwal, Rewari, Mahendergarh and Bhiwani. A four-time legislator in Haryana since 1977, Rao Inderjit was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998, and re-elected in 2004 and 2009.
India against accessing internet communication content: Sibal
The unit member of the Hindi news channel was attacked near the Parliament Street police station and three of the supporters have been detained, said police. According to the complaint, the sexual assault took place Aug 15 at an ashram in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, where the girl had gone for medical treatment. The girl, a native of Uttar Pradeshs Shahjahanpur district, visited Asaram Bapu along with her family. Police said Asaram Bapu took the girl to a separate room on the pretext of treating her illness and sexually assaulted her. A spokesman for the spiritual leader, who enjoys a wide following across the country and abroad, said the girls complaint was an attempt to malign Asaram Bapu.
However, Tharoor added that proper training and education must be imparted to the young workforce.This generation is equipped with vast knowledge and we must educate and train them, said Tharoor adding that the Indian education system was a boon for the youth as it is very flexible.The education scenario has changed today and it is very flexible. An engineer can turn into an economist and a doctor can become an IAS (Indian Administrative Services) officer, he said.
Lucknow BJP president Rajnath Singh Friday accused the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government of pushing the country into an unprecedented economic crisis. Addressing a traders convention here, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader exhorted the traders community to rise to the occasion and vote out the government in the next Lok Sabha battle. He alleged that the Congress was conspiring to crush the 4.5 crore small time traders in the country by allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail. He said the stand of the BJP on FDI had been communicated to the US ambassador to India and it was one of the reasons no company had so far come through the FDI route to invest in India.
New Delhi The Indian government was opposed to anyone accessing content of internet communications emanating from the country, Communications and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal told parliament Friday. He also assured members that steps had been taken to protect communications sent by missions abroad. Responding to concern of Rajya Sabha members over reports of access by US agencies to internet communications emanating from India, Sibal said the issue had been very seriously raised by the government. He said US Secretary of State John Kerry, who visited India in June, had defended the electronic surveillance programmes of his country and said
that it had led to uncovering of terrorist plots. Sibal said the US had conveyed that its surveillance programmes monitor only broad patterns of internet traffic with the objective of thwarting terrorist attacks and the content of data was not being accessed or monitored. He said the US authorities had also informed that content of internet traffic could be accessed only through court orders. Sibal said there was no information that content of internet communications emanating from India had been accessed. No evidence, nor has the US said (they) accessed content information. (We are) certainly opposed to anybody accessing content, he said. Answering a query, he said servers of internet search engines Google and Yahoo were located in the US. He also said servers of some Indian companies providing e-mail services were located in India. They can protect e-mails within India, he said. Sibal said that Indian embassies had linkage to the National Informatics Centre server for protection of government information. He said that officials in the missions abroad had also been sensitised to the steps they should take so that communications sent by them come in an encrypted form only known to us. Answering another query, he said blacking out of Google will not serve interests of people. However, he said the government intervenes if there is any content which has consequences on India.
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Tunda got fake currency from ISI brigadier: Cops

interrogators that the counterfeit notes were printed in Islamabad and Peshawar in Pakistan. Police said Kana, wanted in a case related to running a fake currency racket in India, was using Tundas network for circulating the counterfeit. Tunda himself came to India or several occasions and used his men to deliver the fake currency consignments in various parts of the country, said the officer. Kana is suspected to haved his base in Pakistan. Kanas name first surfaced when a team of police recovered fake notes with a face value of Rs.2 crore from south Delhi in 2012. Few more persons, including Tunda, were found to be involved in the same case, the officer added. Tunda, whose police custody was extended for four more days Tuesday, told investigators that he got commission from the ISI for delivering the consignments in India. But the amount of commission were always altered. Police said Tunda and Kana together were also involve in extortions in Pakistans Lahore city. They extorted money from Pakistani traders by posing as ISI officials. However, their extortion racket was busted by the ISI and they were nabbed. Later, the ISI let them go after a warning, the officer said. Tunda was arrested Friday in Uttarakhands Banbasa area close to the Nepal border when he was trying to enter India.
Tunda does not regret his actions

New Delhi Abdul Karim Tunda, the alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba operative and expert bombmaker, has surprised police interrogators with his deep knowledge of religion and literature and feels he was Gods chosen man who has no regrets for his actions. What surprised interrogators was that, despite his humble background, he seemed to familiar with the works of Nobel Prize-winning playwright George Bernard Shaw and with the Gita, Hinduisms sacred text and philosophy. Tunda is highly intellectual and well-read in the works of social activists and their revolutions in world history, the sources told IANS declining to be named. Tunda was arrested by Delhi Police Aug 16 from the India-Nepal border as he was trying to enter India. Tunda, who studied till Class 7 and came from a very poor family of Ghaziabad, expanded his intellectual vision after the age of 40 when he had taken to jehad, one officer said. He quotes extensively from the writings of Shaw and the Irish playwrights observations of the inequalities in society during his interrogation by police. Shaw was one of the founders of the London School of Economics. Many times he talks about Shaw, quoting from his writings and contribution to society. He describes himself as Allah ke nek bande (Gods chosen people), said the officer. Tunda, who is accused in more than 40 serial bombings in India, has been lodged in the Delhi Police Special Cell. He is a great observer too. When the officers start asking him about his involvement in bombings, Tunda first closely observes the officer and listens to the question properly, said another officer. Tunda, who has a beard dyed a flaming red with henna, is very canny. He sometimes tries to sidetrack the quizzing officer by quoting from the works of social activists and writers like Shaw, and then holds forth for sometime, said a officer.
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New Delhi Alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Abdul Karim Tunda used to get counterfeit Indian currency from a brigadier of Pakistans InterServices Intelligence (ISI), said police Tuesday. The two operated with the help of a conduit. Tunda has received several consignments of fake Indian currency arranged by an ISI brigadier, but he doesnt know his name, said a police officer. Tunda, who was arrested Aug 16 from the India-Nepal border, claimed that he didnt know the name of the brigadier because he was not in direct touch with him, said investigators. A man named Iqbal Kana worked as a conduit between Tunda and the ISI brigadier. The brigadier would give fake currency to Kana who delivered it to Tunda to circulate it in India through his network, said the officer. According to the officer, Tunda used to get the counterfeit Indian currency in separate consignments of Rs.1-2 crore. Tunda told
New Delhi Abdul Karim Tunda, Delhi Polices big catch, began his career as a carpenter, moved on to do scrap-dealing before becoming a cloth merchant. And then he took to terror. Police say he got radicalised in the eighties when he came in touch with the Lashker-e-Taiba through operatives of the ISI, Pakistans secret agency. But he earned notoriety and came on the police radar after the Mumbai serial bombings in 1993 that followed the demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992. Police say that before he got involved in the Mumbai bombings, he had constituted a tanzeem - an organisation set up with the lofty aim of working for the community - Tanzeem Islah-ul-Muslimeen (Islamic Armed Organization) with one Jalees Ansari, a resident of Mumbai. Another top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant, Azam Ghouri,
Tundas journey: From a carpenter to terrorist

joined up with another Tanzeem floated by Ahl-e-Hadis to avenge the Babri Masjid demolition in the Indian town of Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh. He got the moniker Tunda - Hindi for without a hand - after his left hand got severed in an accident while preparing a bomb in 1985 in Mumbai. Born in a poor family in 1943 at Chatta Lal Miya area in central Delhis Daryaganj, Tunda started his career as a carpenter at his native village in Bazaar Khurd area in Pilkhuwa in Uttar Pradeshs Ghaziabad district. He started supporting his father who used to melt metal like copper, zinc and aluminium to earn livelihood. After his fathers death, he was the lone earner of his family so he started working in scrap dealing to earn more money, but it was not enough to met his expenses. Later he became a cloth merchant before becoming a radicalized jehadi militant. He married thrice, including for the third time a 18-year-old girl, at the age of 65. His younger brother Abdul Malik, who still is a carpenter, is reportedly the only immediate family member alive in India. He also stayed in Pakistan where he is known to have imparted training on fabrication of IED and other explosives to mujahids, who are sent to India from Pakistan for jehad.He returned from Dhaka to India to mastermind the deadly 1996 and 1998 bombings. In almost all the bombings in Delhi during 1996 and 98, Tundas men, who were from Pakistan and Bangladesh, had detonated the bomb bombs using pencil batteries, police said.The most devastating of these blasts was in a crowded private bus at Punjabi Bagh in Delhi in December 1997 which occurred when the bus, running between Ajmeri Gate and Nangloi, reached Rampura in Punjabi
Tunda has no regrets about the terror activities he has indulged in, said the officer. Tunda, who looks at least 15 years younger, speaks like a well-read, genteel person. He knows about Hinduism and Hindu philosophy as enshrined in the Gita, said the officer. He also knows about Jainism and other religions across the world. He can read and write Urdu and Hindi and read English too, though he cannot write in the language. Tunda had run many madrassas in Bangladesh and Pakistan where he indoctrinated Muslim youths for jihad as a religious duty of Muslims. He offers namaz five times everyday in police custody. He eats on time and is a frugal eater. He mainly eats dal, roti and chicken, said the officer. Tunda, who worked in a cloth dyeing factory in Delhi as a young man
Bagh, killing four commuters and injuring 24. Subsequently, Tunda fled to Pakistan via Bangladesh, from his home in Ghaziabad in 1998. Tunda tried to cause serial explosions in India in 2010, just before Commonwealth Games organised here using an elaborate network of human traffickers and fake currency suppliers active in Bangladesh. Tunda had also been associated with Rohingya operatives in the past. His association with LeT commanders Rehan alias Zafar and Azam Cheema alias Babajee is well known.
and was later a cloth merchant in Ahmedabad, morphed into a radicalised jehadi militant after the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition. He was deeply upset at the sectarian violence taking place in several parts of India in the late 80s and early 90s. Over the years, he was the brain behind more than 40 serial bombings in several parts of India, including the 1997 Delhi bus bombing, the officer said. According to another police officer, when Tunda fled to Pakistan in 1998 he met many leaders of small and big terror groups. They welcomed him warmly as his reputation had spread among the terror circles. They treated him like a royal guest for having successfully planned the execution of more than 40 bombings with his meagre resources. When he joined the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in Pakistan it was a small group. The members considered him to be a great achiever. Tunda also got the opportunity to meet the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, who was in Karachi at that time. The LeT is believed to be one of the largest and most active Islamist terrorist organizations in South Asia, operating mainly from Pakistan.
New Delhi Abdul Karim Tunda, who was arrested Friday by Delhi Police from the India-Nepal border, was in direct contact with Hamid Gul, a retired lieutenant general of the Pakistan Army and former spymaster who was head of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency. Tunda was directly in touch with former ISI chief Hamid Gul, said a police officer. Tunda first met with Gul in 1995 and was in regular touch with him till the day he was arrested. Gul was director general of the ISI during 1987-89.
Tunda was in contact with ISI ex-chief
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Bhangarh Fort: The most Stay in a floating cottage: At Keralas haunted place in India?
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Bhangarh (Rajasthan) How many of us believe in ghosts? Do they actually exist? Can they be felt? Believers will reply in affirmative and non-believers will perish the thought. But everybody would like to take a trip to THE den of the ghosts and such was the trip to Bhangarh, considered Indias most haunted place. Although it is a 300-km drive away from Delhi, yet a handful of people know about it. We started driving towards Bhangarh from Delhi early morning, expecting the journey to last not more than four hours. As not many people frequent the place, we did not have any first hand information and took guidance from a map and distance measurements available on the internet. After crossing Gurgaon we proceeded towards Bhiwadi and turned to Alwar district in Rajasthan. Till this point we did not encounter any problem; it was a nice long drive and a little anxiety about what we would encounter at the fort. From Alwar, as we crossed the Sariska reserve, the weather conditions changed. The sky became completely dark and in the afternoon it seemed like 7 o clock in the evening. Dark clouds started descending over the Aravalli range and both melted into each other. The weather condition was becoming hostile the more we approached the fort. To add to our plight, we bumped our way over at least two kilometres where there was no asphalt on the surface. After crossing Ajabgarh, we entered into Bhangarh territory. It started raining profusely. It rained so much that visibility was down to 500 me-
tres. Luckily we were carrying umbrellas and so without wasting a minutes time, we jumped out of the car and entered the fort. The lush green grass in the fort and its adjoining area surprised us. It did not at all seem like a place in the desert state of Rajasthan. There were many local tourists who came in groups, mostly youngsters. The dilapidated fort and the ruins welcomed us. As we entered we found a Hanuman temple right next to the main gate. The sprawling premises has more than half a dozen temples: Hanuman Temple, Gopinath Temple, Someswar Temple, Keshav Rai Temple, Mangla Devi Temple, Ganesh Temple and Naveen Temple and a very strategically positioned Purohitji ki Haveli. It left us wondering how ghosts stay in a premises where there are so many temples! A young tourist, Babulal, who was in a group of 10, said: We all have come to see bhoot bangla (the fort of the ghosts)! We have heard about this place a lot and hence thought of coming once. As we entered, we saw a Dancers Haveli and Jauhari Bazar. All dilapidated now, but locals say paranormal activities are observed in these places at night. Further down the sprawling expanse of the fort was the Gopinath Temple, crossing which we reached the Royal Palace. It is located at the farthest end of the fort area. The architecture of the buildings and the fort speaks volumes of the talent and acumen of the people during the rule of Bhagwant Das who established the town in 1573. There are many myths about the place. It is believed that the entire
township was obliterated in a day. But no written evidence has been found till date. Against the backdrop of the Royal Palace stands the Aravalli Range. Bisram Nath, who works in the Someswar Temple said at times wild animals come down from the mountain ranges at night. A few families like ours stay within the premise. We stay near the Ganesh Temple. The biggest problem is that the area does not have electricity. The Archeological Survey of India has put up a board on the fort gate that it is prohibited for tourists to stay inside the fort area after sunset and before sunrise. Locals say whoever has tried to stay inside after sunset was never found. Standing on the terrace of the Royal Palace one can view the vast expanse of the fort. It has four gates - Lahori Gate, Ajmeri Gate, Phulbari Gate and Delhi Gate. It seems life has come to a standstill in this area. Like all other tourists, we also left the place before sunset with many questions remaining still unanswered in our minds. How to get there: 1. Route: Delhi-Gurgaon-BhiwadiAlwar-Sariska-Thanagazhi-Pratapgarh-Ajabgarh-Bhangarh. Its a nearly 300-km drive. Best to travel in a SUV and always carry a spare tyre as there are stretches where for kilometres there are no petrol pumps or habitations. 2. Always carry some dry food as good dhabas and eateries are rare. 3. Carry a torch with you as the fort does not have electricity and even in day time, a torch will help you to see parts of the fort better.
By Sanu George Imagine waking up to the gentle rocking of a boat, the water languidly slapping against its side. Head for the Poovar Island Resort, 20 km from Thiruvananthapuram, where you can stay in a floating cottage, relax to an Ayurvedic massage, sample the local cuisine and indeed, sample all of Kerala in one spot. You can walk on the sandy beaches, take a boat ride in the backwaters, feast your eyes on the abundant greenery - the resort has everything that a tourist wants. The experience of a lifetime begins the moment your vehicle reaches the resorts jetty as the only way to reach this exquisite and tastefully decorated holiday home is via a 15- minute boat ride through the Poovar river. For a first timer at the resort, the excitement begins even before one arrives at the resort when one spots 16 traditional Kerala-style homes spotted floating in the river, quite naturally eliciting Oohs and Aahs. The boat berths near the floating cottages and from there one reaches the resorts foyer through a walkway. All around is the traditional Keralastyle architecture: roof tiles, the clay floor tiles and mud-plastered walls. Also visible in the reception area is a sampling of the famed coir and handloom industry. The staff too is dressed in the traditional Kerala attire. The resort spread over an area of 18 acres has 78 cottages which include 39 land cottages, 10 ayurveda land cottages, five superior land cottages, eight premier deluxe rooms, 12 floating cottages and four ayurveda float-
ing cottages. Speaking to IANS M.R. Narayanan, who co-owns the resort with his partner, Dubai-settled Keralite Kabeer Khader, said that since its opening in 2000, the partners have invested Rs 35 crore in the property. The ayurveda section is in a separate block and we have a herbarium for our requirements. Separate kitchens are also there. We offer numerous ayurveda packages to the tourists, said Narayanan. Another feature of this resort is a scenic estuary a stones throw away that is one of the most-frequented places by tourists. The resort has its own sewage treatment plant, besides having gone green with extensively used solar power. Apart from the tourists, there is a huge demand for conferencing and get-togethers at the resort, added Narayanan. * Getting there: 20 km from the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport. * Tariff: Ranges from Rs.4,500 to Rs.12,000 per night, depending on the accommodation and the season, inclusive of breakfast. (Monsoon is considered off-season.) Ayurveda packages cost Rs.10,000 per night and are all inclusive - accommodation, all meals and ayurvedic treatment. These packages are popular throughout the year. * Other facilities: Two multi-cuisine restaurants and one vegetarian outlet for those taking the ayurveda package. Theres also a sunken bar in the swimming pool.
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Boss made Akshay nostalgic
CELEB
Ill miss seeing Fergie pregnant: Josh Duhamel
Anil feels good looks equal good acting: Tisca
New Delhi Shooting for action-comedy Boss was almost like going down memory lane for Bollywoods khiladi Akshay Kumar as he shot a major part of the movie in Bangkok and Delhi - two important cities in his lifes journey. Akshay grew up in Delhis Chandni Chowk area, and it was in Bangkok that he worked as a chef and learnt martial arts. The actor had even once become emotional while shooting for the movie, said a source close to the projects unit. We were shooting for a scene in Chandni Chowk and it was hardly some 200 metres away from Akshays old house. That was the place where he grew up... Akshay wanted a glimpse of his old house as he hadnt visited the place for a few years now.
But it was impossible for him to reach his old house in Chandni Chowk in the day as he would get mobbed by the crowd. So one early morning, at 4 a.m., Akshay drove the car himself and went outside his house, stood there for 30 minutes and relived the old happy days, said the source. While the experience left Akshay all emotional, he has made sure Boss tickles the funny bone of the audiences. Directed by Anthony DSouza, the film also stars Mithun Chakraborty, Shiv Pandit, Aditi Rao Hydari, Danny Denzongpa, Ronit Roy and Johnny Lever. Co-produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, Cape Of Good Films and Ashwin Varde Productions, Boss will release in October.
I work out like a guy: Scarlett Johansson
Los Angeles Actor Josh Duhamel says once his wife, singer Fergie Duhamel delivers their baby, he will miss seeing her moving around in pregnant shape. Fergie, who is expecting a son, made an appearence here to support her husband at the premiere of his movie Scenic Route, despite her baby bump. Josh, 40, said that her presence doesnt surprise him.It doesnt surprise me that shes here, shes been unbelievable throughout this whole pregnancy, Josh told. Talking about Fergies strength, the Transformers actor said: Its been really fun to watch. Im actually gonna miss seeing her walking around the house pregnant. But I guess the grand prize is that we get a baby out of it, he added. The actor also said that he hopes theyll continue to expand their family.
Mumbai Tisca Chopra reveals that Anil Kapoor pushed her to lose weight for his debut TV production 24 as he believed that good looks complement good work. He has always encouraged me. He came and saw me in a play and said, you do good work and keep doing it. Then when I got signed for the show, he told me, you will do a great work if you lose weight. Work hard, good looking, good acting, that is the mantra, the 39-year-old said here Thursday at the promo launch of the show.Sharp at 8 a.m. I would get an sms, how is the diet going? and I would stop eating the whole day, she said. Anil plays the lead Jai Singh Rathod, the chief of anti-
terrorist unit of India in 24, while Tisca plays his wife. What was challenging for me was to bring the quality of cinema into the hours of television, to not let go of a single moment of authenticity of that feeling, intensity and to continue it in the structure of television, the hours and all that, she said. Tisca had been part of TV soaps Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki. The serial 24 is an adaptation of the hit US TV series by the same name and Anil was part of the eighth season of the show. The Indian adaptation is being directed by Abhinay Deo. It will go on air in October on Colors TV. Initially, it will have 24 episodes.
Gaga roots for censor on social networking
For Priyanka, its a Chopra weekend
Mumbai Priyanka Chopra starrer Zanjeer remake and her cousin, actress Parineeti Chopras romantic-comedy Shuddh Desi Romance are set to clash at the box office Sep 6. But the Desi Girl is unfazed and calls it a Chopra weekend. The way I see it, its a Chopra weekend. So go and enjoy the movies, Priyanka told reporters here Wednesday, while promoting Disneys animation film Planes, for which she has lent her voice. She (Parineeti) is my family and she is my sister, she added. Produced by Amit Mehra and directed by Apoorva Lakhia, Zanjeer is a remake of 1973 film of the same name and features southern star Ram Charan Teja with Priyanka. On the other hand, Shuddh Desi Romance features two film old
Parineeti with Sushant Singh Rajput. It also features veteran actor Rishi Kapoor in a key role. I think it is very cheap when people try and use that (same day release of our films) for creating some sort of interesting controversy, so that you can write a bit more about it, the 31-year-old said. Meanwhile, Parineeti, who is busy promoting her film these days, is also unfazed about it and is looking forward to watch Zanjeer. Its just happens that her (Priyanka) film and my film are releasing together, but it doesnt affect us. I will watch her picture and she will watch mine and you all will watch both the films, she said. Shuddh Desi Romance, directed by Maneesh Sharma and produced by Aditya Chopra, also features newcomer Vaani Kapoor.
Los Angeles Actress Scarlett Johansson says she exercises like a man because she likes to lift weights in the gym. The 28-year-old actress said that she heads straight to the weights room when she hits the gym and prefers to sculpt her body than do cardio exercises, reports . I go to the gym twice a week, but if Im preparing for a role, I sometimes go every day. Im not a fan of cardio, I like lifting weights and doing exercises to work my core muscles. To be honest, I work out like a guy! she told French Elle. However, the actress is far more feminine when it comes to her beauty routine.Ive always loved eyeshadow. When I was younger, my mother would always get dolled up before she went out, Ive inherited the same habit. In the evening, I wear bright red lipstick and accentuate my eyes. I like to have an expressive gaze, with lots of layers of mascara, she said.
Los Angeles Pop star Lady Gaga is shocked with the abusive comments that she reads on social networking platforms, and she has called for better monitoring of such websites. The 27-year-old has blamed social media bosses for letting their users bully others by spamming them with hurtful messages. She believes sites like Twitter should be monitored in a better way, reports. Its not something we can control. The only people who can control it are the companies that run these sites, and theyre putting money into the promotion of the site and the platform - not into monitoring. If we were to monitor it better, it would be safer, she said in a radio interview.
This comes after the 27-year-old stars own fans have been accused of harassing others online. Fans also trolled showbiz blogger Perez Hilton after Gaga publicly accused him of stalking her when she discovered he was apartment hunting in her building.The Poker face singer also touched upon the issue of bullying on social networking website. You go on the internet and especially Twitter and the things I see really shock me. This is the age we live in - this faceless cyber-bullying. Theres no accountability, theres no recourse. Freedom of speech is freedom of speech but theres a line that needs to be drawn when the language becomes abusive, Gaga said.
CELEB I never doubt myself: Erin Heatherton

Los Angeles Model Erin Heatherton says she has learned never to doubt herself. The 24-year-old, a top model for Victorias Secret, credits the luxury lingerie brand for giving her opportunities and boosting her confidence. My favourite thing about being an Angel is having the opportunity to play with my femininity - its a kind of creativity I never tapped into growing up, femalefirst.co.uk quoted Heatherton as saying. I love to learn and Victorias Secret has given me more opportunities than I ever thought possible. I like doing things that scare me - Ive learned never to doubt myself, she added. Heatherton, who was previously in a relationship with actor Leonardo DiCaprio, says she thinks the global brands popularity comes from the fact they have such a personal way of marketing. I think the brands success comes from embracing the personality of each girl and using that to create a real brand spokesmodel. Customers and fans are able to be a part of the experience with us - watching our careers grow and learning more about us, she said.
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Coaxed by daughters, Anil Kapoor joins Twitter

Mumbai Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor is on Twitter. He says his daughters - actress Sonam and filmmaker Rhea - pushed him into joining the microblogging site. So after all that coaxing by my digitally savvy daughters, I am finally on Twitter. Lets connect, Anil posted in his first tweet Tuesday. Both Sonam and Rhea are active on social networking sites. The actor, who has featured in films like Race 2 and Shootout at Wadala this year, is busy gearing up for his debut TV production - the Indian adaptation of hit international TV series 24 for the Colors channel. In the desi version, Anil features in the lead role of Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer, which was originally essayed by actor Kiefer
Sutherland. The TV show, which also features veteran actress Shabana Azmi, is directed by Abhinay Deo. The date of its telecast is yet to be revealed.
Jay Z to perform at Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
New Delhi She may have been liked as Ranbir Kapoors love interest in her debut film Rockstar, but Nargis Fakhri says its tough for an outsider to make a place in the industry. She considers herself lucky to have worked with A-listers and thanks her team for the feat. In her second film, Shoojit Sircar directed political thriller Madras Cafe, scheduled to release Friday, she will be seen with another top actor - John Abraham. Im still in awe of how I got so lucky to work with the actors like Ranbir and John. I hope to continue to work with more A-listers, Nargis told IANS in an email interview. It is pretty difficult for a newcomer to make in Bollywood. You need guidance, and I was fortunate that agencies like Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and KWAN Entertainment and Marketing Solutions had taken me on. If it wasnt for the team I think I might not have
Still in awe that I got to work with Ranbir, John: Nargis Fakhri
been here. In this industry, you need to know people or have family that is already in it to make it big. I still have so much to learn and so many people to meet, she added. Having said that, Nargis is open to work with newcomers as scripts also guide her decision. I am open to work with newcomers. Its just not about the co-stars, it also depends on the script...Im an equal opportunist, said Nargis. The actress, who likes donning a chefs cap while at home, is essaying the role of a foreign journalist in Madras Cafe. Nargis feels, when she did Rockstar, she had no clue about the industry, but acclimatised herself while working on her second film. With every new film you hope that you have grown, and I think I have grown a bit. I have put in a lot of hard work and time into Madras Cafe. As the time moves forward, you start understanding and learning more when it comes to the craft, she said. When it comes to Rockstar, I was new and had no clue on what was happening or what I had to do! I was thrown into something I had no clue about. In my second film, I have been able to give more, because I had the time to learn, the 33-yearold added. Sharing her experience of being a journalist in the film, Nargis stressed: It was difficult as I am not a real journo. But with the help of workshops, people, documentaries as well as footage from on the field war correspondents of BBC and CNN, and my own effort have helped me understand my character Jaya, said Nargis.
Mumbai Superstar Shah Rukh Khan says that the director Rohit Shetty-actor Ajay Devgn pair, who have created several hits together, is one of its kind. Shetty and Ajay have delivered hits like Golmaal series, Bol Bachchan and Singham. Rohit and Ajay have a very beautiful jodi. I dont think anything like this can be made. A franchise of three
films (Golmaal series) that too so successful. I think its a record of sorts, SRK, who worked with Shetty in superhit Chennai Express, said here. The kind of franchise Golmaal is, it is the first of its kind in our country. The best thing is everyone plays different characters. I think that is very, very special, he added.
Los Angeles Rapper Jay Z will perform at the Yasalam After-Race Concert at the du Arena on Yas Island Nov 1. The performance will be a part of the final evening of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend in the United Arab Emirates, reports aceshowbiz. com. Jay-Z is the biggest rap mo-
gul and music icon on this planet, said Mike Fairburn, vice president of Flash Entertainment. He was an obvious choice. Booking artists of high calibre is important since Abu Dhabi is one of the top circuits in the world, added Fairburn.
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Whats in a Cloud
Recycle packing materials
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When you look up in the sky on most days, you are likely to see some kind of cloud. Think about the different appearances of clouds. Some are puffy, others are thin. Some look like a flat blanket across the sky, where others float along by themselves. In this article, you will read about the location and shape of clouds, and their chemical makeup. Also, you will read how clouds function as part of the water cycle. Location and Shape Clouds appear in different layers of the atmosphere and come in many sizes and shapes. There are three general categories of clouds: cirrus, cumulus, and stratus. These names come from the Latin words describing their shape: wispy/curl of hair (cirrus), layer (stratus), and lump/heap (cumulus). Cirrus clouds are the clouds highest up in the sky. They appear wispy and thin. Stratus clouds are lowest in altitude, meaning they are closest to the ground. They tend to form a layer across the sky and when they are present we often say that the day is overcast. Cumulus clouds usually have a flattened base and seem to grow upwards. These clouds tend to be lumped together in patches and can look like big puffs of cotton or a piece of cauliflower. Chemical Makeup of Clouds Did you know that you have something in common with clouds? Just like humans, clouds are mostly made of water. The location of the clouds in the atmosphere determines whether the water in the cloud is a solid (ice), liquid (water drops) or a gas (water vapor).
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.
How much wood could would chuck
Recycle packing materials into a family of really nutty characters. What youll need: Brown lunch bags Newspaper or packing peanuts Tape Scissors Markers Glue How to make it 1. Stuff the brown lunch bag with newspaper or, better yet, packing peanuts. Seal the top of the bag with tape, then scrunch the middle so that it resembles the shape of a real peanut. 2. Draw on a face with colored markers. 3. For stalk-like arms and legs, accordion-fold brown paper strips and glue them to the body. Lastly, glue peanut-shaped paper feet to the ends of the legs.
a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck wood? He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood. Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep. The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed shilly-shallied south.
For example: a cirrus cloud is made mostly of ice crystals. This is because cirrus clouds are high up in the atmosphere where the air is very cold. Cumulus clouds are made of ice crystals and some water vapor. If you have ever seen steam rising from a hot pot on the stove, then you have seen water vapor. Because cumulus clouds are in the middle layers of the atmosphere,
the air is cold but not as cold as higher up. The water may form into ice crystals, or it may remain as water vapor. Because these clouds can contain water vapor, cumulus clouds are mostly associated with rain. Stratus clouds are mostly made up of water droplets as they are closest to the ground where the air is generally the warmest.
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 Water NIAR AOCNE ODLC WVAE ACGRELI VRIRE
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln
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HEGEMONY MEANING: dominance over others due to superior force or influence EXAMPLE : Genghis Khan had hegemony over most of Asia by the year 1279. INEVITABLE
MEANING: unavoidable and unpreventable Trees and other plants are essential parts of our environment. Plants clean our air and our water. They even clean the soil. Plants also provide us with food by harvesting the energy of the Sun. They use the Suns energy to convert water and carbon - dioxide into sugars, complex carbohydrates and oxygen. In some cases, they even make proteins like those found in beans and nuts. Plants also make pigments like the red found in an apples skin, or the orange found in a carrot. The chemistry of plants is amazing, and it is also essential for our survival. Without plants, the carbon dioxide that we exhale would build up to toxic levels, and there would be little oxygen for us to breathe. But plants need us too. We use up the oxygen that is toxic to them, and we produce the carbon dioxide that they need to live. Together, plants and animals are in balance. If either one were to die out, the other would not be able to survive. That is why it is important for us to preserve green spaces in and around our cities. It is also why we must pay attention to what we do to our environment. EXAMPLE: Death is inevitable, but that is all the more reason to live life to the fullest. LOQUACIOUS
MEANING: talking a lot or talking fluently and excessively EXAMPLE: He was a loquacious and passionate leader.
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You will get into the mood to start your new job or venture that you may have committed yourself to earlier. This new asTAURUS signment could well Apr 20 - May 20 be the turning point in your life. Those of you in the age group of 26 - 36, will receive a major promotion or financial boost during the next few days. You have a busy schedule ahead even though you have attended to routine matters. There will be fresh work offers that you may find SCORPIO difficult to refuse for Oct 23 - Nov 21 these have the potential of establishing you securely in your profession. Though you may have plans for vacations but may find it difficult to get away from your work. You will get completely immersed in your job or business that is poised to take you closer to your chosen goal. Success GEMINI in your venture is asMay 21 - Jun 20 sured but only after you have put in all your efforts and energy to conclude your current task on schedule. However, in a few days time you may feel the need for a romantic association that will appear elusive for a while. There are changes foreseen in your current associations. If employed a change of job is likely, and those working in SAGITTARIUS joint ventures or partNov 22 - Dec 21 nership, may now decide to go independent. Whatever the new developments that are in the stars assures long-term benefits for you in your career. The married or those in love can look forward to great times in the company of their beloved. You will feel quite satisfied with the rate of progress in your career and business. There will be fresh opportunities along that will CANCER coming enable you to increase Jun 21 - Jul 22 manifold your income or business profit. The married or those in love will find their beloved complaining of neglect that may not be altogether wrong. You will require spending some more time at work in order to conclude certain important tasks. This may require you to CAPRICORN change your plans that Dec 22 - Jan 19 you may have made with your family. However, others at home will understand your compulsions and will co-operate. It is necessary that you devote time to your career or business that may have given you some anxious moments of late. A sudden development around you will bring in fresh opportunities to increase your income and profit. You will have to take some quick Jul 23 - Aug. 22 decisions and act wisely in choosing your associates in handling new projects. Your love life keeps you in high spirits and full of enthusiasm.
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A certain project that may have been abandoned or given up as a lost opportunity gets revived and you will need to consider it afresh. Even though VIRGO you will take up this asAug. 23 - Sep 22 signment half-heartedly you will find it a treasure of great opportunity for making longterm financial gains.This particular deal will have the potential to change your life completely for the better. There will be series of good news that greet you this week. You will have ample reasons to indulge yourself enjoy the success PISCES and Feb 19 - Mar 20 achieved in your career and profession, and the adoration that you get socially. Romance and love seem to be part of your life more so when members of the opposite sex find you irresistible.
The next couple of days will see you in a more relaxed state of mind. You will get some good news pertaining to your ARIES job, career or travel that Mar 21-Apr 19 you will make the coming celebrations even more eventful. Your personal life will be full of excitement and you will find every opportunity to show your appreciation . After having attained job security and sufficient savings you will now have a strong urge to indulge yourself in LIBRA your favourite hobbies Sep 23 - Oct 22 and pas time. You may decide to spend time in the exclusive company of your mate or beloved at a quiet retreat of your choice. You will feel rather relaxed and energetic after your vacation and will begin work with renewed enthusiasm.
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There is lot to be satisfied and thankful for in your career and financial aspect. Even your personal life is happy and congenial. However, the AQUARIUS planets seem to create Jan 20 - Feb. 18 some mischief in your love life and could bring in a new romance. You will feel a strong urge for a secret liaison. You need to be highly discreet in such matters that offer attraction of physical kind.
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Taj city hit by green thieves

Agra A whole tribe of petty thieves with a peculiar fancy for flower pots and saplings seems to have hit the Taj city, targeting salons, mobile phone shops, dentists clinics and even scrap dealers. The green thieves are not even sparing government saplings planted across the city for beautification. When residents of some upscale colonies complained to authorities a few days ago that new saplings were disappearing, nobody took them seriously. But now activists and environmentalists have demanded action against the unidentified green thieves who reportedly came in a truck and whisked away two huge flower pots kept at the entrance of the newly-developed Etmauddaula view-point on the Yamuna bank, right in front of a police kiosk. This is amazing. When I got up around 4 a.m. and looked from
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the temple balcony towards Sudoku Solution 18 Aug, 2013 the newly-developed site across the Ambedkar Setu, I found the picture incomplete. Something looked amiss. I came down to have a closer view and, to my horror, I realised the huge flower pots were missing, Nandan Shrotriya, priest of the Mathuradheesh temple, told. On inquiry, I learnt a truck with some people had come to take the flower pots away. Only three days ago, Agra District Magistrate Zuhair Bin Saghir inaugurated the site, which provides such a magnifi- cent view of the Etmauddaula tomb across the river, he said. Citizens of Agra voluntary group convener Harvijay Bahia, who worked hard to beautify the area, and Ashok Jain, who installed two solar panels, expressed shock. How could somebody do this, said Bahia. Obviously, the huge flower pots must be somewhere in the city. We have to look for them and we need police protection. At this rate, voluntary agencies would be discouraged from taking up greening efforts, he said. Dinesh Pandey, an official of the state forest department, has complained to police, and a search has been launched. Theft of saplings has been reported from many areas. Its easy to plant saplings, but you need committed volunteers to look after them and tend them like kids. The NGOs generally fail in this task, said green activist Shishir Bhagat. The problem is that a whole tribe of petty thieves has raided the city, residents said. On Saturday night, a barbers salon, a mobile phone shop, a dentists clinic and a scrap dealers shop were burgled for whatever the culprits could lay their hands on, including flower pots, said social activist Sudheir Gupta. Brij Khandelwal
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during Navi Pillay visit
Chinese daily lauds Indias Sri Lanka indigenous aircraft carrier to cooperate
Colombo The Sri Lankan government will place no restrictions on the forthcoming visit of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, a minister assured Wednesday. Pillay, who is expected to arrive in the country Aug 25, will meet a range of government officials, including President Mahinda Rajapaksa, and is also scheduled to visit the former civil wartorn areas of Sri Lanka, reported. Sajin Vass Gunawardena, monitoring minister for the external affairs ministry, told the media that no attempt would be made by officials to intervene in these visits even though critical opinions of the government would likely be shared. The agenda of her (Pillays) visit has been coordinated with the government and will happen under its preview. But we see no reason to restrict access to her and nor will we, emphasised Gunawardena. During her stay, Pillay will meet members of Sri Lankas main Tamil political entity, the Tamil National Alliance, to discuss the human rights situation in the country and the forthcoming northern provincial council elections. Pillay and the Sri Lankan government have often bumped heads over the countrys lacklustre human rights record since the end of a brutal three-decade war with the LTTE in 2009.
Brazil not to retaliate on citizens detention in London
Beijing The launch of Indias indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant has demonstrated the countrys success in building large ships, a leading Chinese daily said Wednesday. The launch of Indias home-built aircraft carrier is indeed worth celebrating, because it marks a firm stride toward the indigenization of arms, Liu Zongyi, assistant research fellow at the Centre for AsiaPacific Studies, Shanghai Institute for International Studies, wrote in an article in the Global Times Wednesday. The triumphant launch of the hull demonstrated Indias progress in building giant surface carriers. According to the article, the launch of INS Vikrant also showed that India has made progress in localising arms production. Two days before the launch of the aircraft carrier, India announced the activation of the reactor on its domestically built nuclear submarine INS Arihant. The two pieces of news were released in turn. While helping boost the ruling Congress Partys election chances next year, they do mark Indias achievements in localising arms production, the article stated. While referring to some Chinese scholars remarks that India was yet to grasp the key technologies of the carrier, the writer stated that it is also a fact that many countries are supporting India in developing advanced weaponry, not only for profit but also to balance Chinas power. While stating that India is well aware of the intention of the Western countries, the article stated that some politicians and media outlets in India deliberately stress the role
of Indias military buildup in containing China so as to please those traditional powers. However, it added that a defensive carrier like INS Vikrant would not cause drastic changes in the AsiaPacific strategic scenario, but it did raise questions. Former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping once pointed out that no genuine Asia-Pacific century or Asian century can come until China, India and other neighboring countries are developed. According to Deng, such development mainly refers to economic growth and cooperation. Arms races and regional tensions will destroy these bright prospects, Liu wrote. According to the article, Chinas rise is more an economic one, while Indias rise is more prominently in the military sphere. Citing a Stockholm International Peace Research Institute report that said India has been the largest weapons importer since 2011, the article questioned the necessity of such a military build-up in a country with 40 percent of its population living in poverty and with insufficient infrastructure acting as a bottleneck in economic development. China has no intention to provoke an arms race. But Chinas national and overseas interests have been sabotaged from time to time due to changes in its surrounding areas. And there are voices calling for cutting off channels for Chinas overseas trade and energy to curb the Asian power, the Global Times article stated. It concluded by stating that peace in the Asia-Pacific must be guaranteed by military balance.
Rio de Janeiro Brazil has no plans to retaliate against British nationals entering the country after one of its own citizens was unjustifiably detained in Britain under an anti-terrorism law, state news agency Agencia Brasil said. The agency Tuesday said the government is not considering a tit-fortat measure, because David Mirandas detention Sunday at Londons Heathrow airport is regarded as an isolated case, reported. Mirandas detention was widely seen as a warning to his partner Glenn Greenwald, who has written a series of articles disclosing the extent of the US governments secret global surveillance programme, which eavesdrops on digital communications around the world, including Brazil. Miranda was returning to Rio from
Berlin when he was detained at the airports transit lounge, and was stripped of his laptop, cellphone and other electronic devices. Brazils Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota said Monday that Mirandas detention was unjustified, and another instance of official excess committed in the name of fighting terrorism. Patriota said he discussed the incident with British Foreign Secretary William Hague in the hope that it will not happen again. Britains anti-terrorism law allows the police to detain anyone at a port of entry for up to nine hours before formal charges are brought up. Miranda said he was detained for nine hours before being released without any charge, and his belongings remain with the authorities.
India, US bank on Manmohan visit to boost ties
Retail sales in South Korea fall

Seoul Retail sales in South Korea fell last month as the prolonged rainy season has weakened domestic demands, a government report showed Thursday. Total sales at three major discounted outlets - E-Mart, Lotte Mart and Homeplus - was down by 4.9 percent in July from a year earlier, reported citing the countrys ministry of trade, industry and energy. Combined sales at department stores of three brands declined 2.1 percent last month. The long streak of rainy days and mandatory reduction in the operating days discourage consumers from purchasing goods at retail stores, according to the report.
Washington Amid a perception that India-US relationship has plateaued of late, both countries are banking on a very successful visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here next month to take their ties to greater heights. Manmohan Singh will be here Sep 27 for a very short working visit, but National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon, who was here to lay ground for the visit expressed confidence Tuesday in terms of substance its going to be a good visit. As of now the plans include only a very substantive meeting with President Barack Obama followed by a lunch at the White House, he told Indian media here after meetings with his counterpart Susan Rice, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel and Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns among others. Menon also met Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, some members of the intelligence community besides an exchange of views at a couple of think tanks. When two leaders meet at that level, it has to be substantive because they both have actually taken this relationship forward in difficult times and good, he said. Manmohan Singh and Obama will
have a very comprehensive agenda as they review the full spectrum of the relationship encompassing agriculture, industry and trade, science and technology, anti-terrorism, security aspects and a whole range of global issues.It has been one of our most important relationships which has been transformed over the last few years, Menon said noting the two countries had as many as 32 separate dialogues going on on a broad range of relations. Menon also reported steady progress on the implementation of the landmark India-US civil nuclear deal which has stalled over Indias tough nuclear liability law, but declined to say if any agreement would be signed during the Manmohan Singh visit.Describing it as a complex project he suggested there would be a series of agreements leading to the actual construction of a US built nuclear plant. Right now it was down to a discussion of commercial and technical details between Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCL) as the buyer and operator and Westinghouse Electric Company as the seller of the nuclear plant, Menon said. The NSA
said quite a bit of progress had also been made on an initiative to streamline defence acquisition procedures, but again declined to spell out details not till its done. The basic idea behind this is that we move from a buyer seller situation to actually co-developing and co-producing various defence acquisitions and that could involve transfer and working together, he said. Echoing Menons views a White House statement on his meeting with Rice said the Prime Ministers visit will highlight Indias role in regional security and stability and provide an opportunity for the two leaders to chart a course toward enhanced trade, investment, and development cooperation between the United States and India. The meeting follows Manmohan Singhs visit to Washington in 2009, and Obamas visit to India in 2010, US National Security Council spokesperson Caitlin Hayden noted. As she reviewed the US-India strategic partnership with Menon, Rice took note of growing US bilateral ties with India and reaffirmed the US commitment to further expanding and strengthening our bilateral relationship, including economic and commercial ties. The two exchanged ideas on enhancing our security cooperation, reviewed progress on our civil nuclear and clean energy cooperation, and explored greater collaboration on climate change, Hayden said. Rice and Menon also discussed Indias continued support for a stable, secure, and prosperous Afghanistan. At his meeting with Menon Tuesday in preparation of Manmohan Singhs visit, Hagel stressed the Defence Departments commitment to continuing progress on defence cooperation including in the areas of trade and regional security, a Pentagon statement said.
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Baghdad At least 37 people were killed and 64 injured in a wave of attacks across Iraq, the police said. Nine people were killed and 27 wounded when a roadside bomb exploded during a wedding ceremony of a Shiite family in Dujail Thursday, 60 km north of Baghdad, reported Xinhua citing a police officer. Dujail is a Shiite muslim town surrounded by Sunni areas. Tensions between the two communities have escalated because the Sunnis feel increasingly marginalised by the Shiite-led government in Iraq. Unknown gunmen killed a woman in front of her house in Zahra neighbourhood, east of Mosul. In another incident, eight people were wounded when a car bomb exploded in Tal Afar, 70 km west of Mosul, the police said. A car bomb went off at a government offices parking lot in the city centre of Kirkuk, 250 km north of Baghdad, wounding two policemen and two civilians. In a separate attack Thursday, 10 soldiers and four civilians were killed when a suicide bomber
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Evidence against Bo Xilai in bribery case
37 killed, 64 injured in Iraq attacks
Beijing In the second day of trial against disgraced Chinese leader Bo Xilai Friday, prosecutors provided evidence to show that Bo, through his wife, Bogu Kailai, and his son, Bo Guagua, accepted a large sum of money and property from two businessmen. During the trial at the Jinan Intermediate Peoples Court in Chinas Shandong Province, prosecutors said Bo accepted bribes worth $3.5 million from businessmen Tang Xiaolin and Xu Ming. In 2002, while serving as the governor of Liaoning province, Bo used his post to conspire with others to embezzle five million yuan of public funds from the Dalian city government, the prosecutors added. He was also accused of abusing power when dealing with his wife Bogu Kailais murder case and the defection of his associate, Wang Lijun, in 2012. Prosecutors presented documentary evidence and played a video recording in which Bogu Kailai gave testimony while being questioned Aug 10 this year, reported. Prosecutors also read testimony given by witnesses Bogu Kailai and Frenchman Patrick Devillers. Relevant video and audio evidences were presented in court to show that Xu Ming provided funds for Bogu Kailai to buy a villa in France and that Bo Xilai was aware of this. The evidences were examined by the prosecutors, the defendant and Bos lawyers. Bo did not acknowledge the accusations, but expressed conflict-
Address human rights abuses, Pakistan told

New York Pakistans new government should urgently address serious human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said Friday. In a letter to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the rights body outlined 10 steps to improve human rights in the country. The abuses include attacks on religious minorities, disappearances in Balochistan and impunity for abusive militant groups, it said. Sharif has an important opportunity to create a rights-respecting government that abides by the rule of law and restores the publics faith in democratic institutions, Human Rights Watch said. Pakistan has made impressive gains in very challenging circumstances since democracy was restored in 2008, it said. But unless the government calls a halt to serious human rights abuses, these gains may slip away. Since 2012, well over 650 Shia Muslims have been killed in targeted attacks across Pakistan, the majority from the Hazara community in Balochistan. Sunni militant groups, such as the ostensibly banned Lashkar-e Jhangvi, operate with widespread impuni-
ing views on key facts during his defence. Prosecutors said that the evidence presented in court was taken legally from clear sources. The trial adjourned at noon and will resume in the afternoon. Bo, 64, was charged by the Jinan peoples procuratorate. The indictment was delivered to the court July 25. Bo took advantage of his position as a civil servant to seek gains for others, as well as accepted bribes in the form of large amounts of money and property, according to the indictment. From 1999 to 2012, the indictment stated, Bo was asked by Tang, general manager of Dalian International Development Co. Ltd, and Xu, chairman of Dalian Shide Group Co. Ltd, to provide help for related parties and individuals to obtain preferential quotas to import cars and work on petrochemical projects. Bo also took advantage of his posts as mayor of Dalian, secretary of CPC Dalian committee, governor of Liaoning Province and minister of commerce in doing so. Bo is a former secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a former member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau. During the first day of trial Thursday, which was attended by more than 100 people, Bo denied the charge of taking bribe. The court approved all applications by Bo, who was emotionally stable and physically healthy during the trial, to express his views.
Terror threat remains 12 years later, says outgoing FBI chief
attacked an army checkpoint with a booby-trapped tank near Ramadi, 100 km west of Baghdad, Xinhua reported citing a police source. Also Thursday, a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden fuel tanker into a military barrack in Anbar province, a former insurgent stronghold, killing at least nine soldiers and injuring 11. To undermine the governments efforts to step up security, militants have intensified their attacks in areas like Anbar province. In another incident, unidentified gunmen opened
fire at an Iraqi army checkpoint in Aslah neighbourhood in Mosul, 400 km from Baghdad, killing two soldiers, a police officer told. Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and four civilians wounded when a roadside bomb targeted an Iraqi army patrol in Baath neighbourhood in eastern Mosul, the officer added. Iraq is witnessing the worst eruption of violence in five years, raising fears that the latest bloodshed is bringing the country back to a fullblown civil conflict that peaked in 2006 and 2007.
ty across Pakistan. The government should apprehend and prosecute those responsible for attacks on the Shia and other groups at risk, Human Rights Watch said. Militant attacks on the Shia have occurred with increasing ferocity while the security forces have looked on helplessly, it said. Whether the failure to hold and deter attackers is a function of incompetence or complicity by elements of the security forces, the government has a responsibility to reverse this state of affairs. Human Rights Watch has recorded repeated enforced disappearances and killings of suspected Baloch militants and opposition activists by the military, intelligence agencies and the paramilitary Frontier Corps. Baloch nationalists and other militant groups also stepped up attacks on non-Baloch civilians in 2012 and 2013. Nawaz Sharif should take all necessary measures to end enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and arbitrary detentions in Balochistan, Human Rights Watch said.
Washington Outgoing FBI director Robert Mueller, who took over just a week before the Sep 11, 2001 terror attacks on America, believes that the threat remains though its nature has changed. Well, I think its changed. And theres a different landscape out there, Mueller, 69, who is stepping down Sep 4 after 12 years as Americas top law enforcement officer, told various American news media. After September 11th, you had core Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan with (Osama) bin Laden. Bin Laden was killed. You have Al Qaeda growing in countries like Somalia, but most particularly in Yemen, he was quoted as saying by CNN. And theres still substantial threat out of Yemen, he said. And now you have the countries in the Arab Spring: Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Mali; Egypt most recently, where theyre breeding grounds for radical extrem-
France favours UNs chemical weapons probe of Syria

Paris France has expressed its support to the United Nations (UN) for investigating into reported use of chemical weapons in Syria. The main Syrian opposition group has claimed that the Syrian government used chemical weapons Wednesday and killed as many as 1,300 people. Damascus, though, denied the accusation. The support to the UN probe into the probable use of chemical weapons in Syria was conveyed during a telephonic conversation between French President Francois Hollande and UN Secretary General Ban Kimoon Thursday, reported. Hollande praised the commitment of Mr. Ban Ki-moon to conduct a prompt and impartial investigation and reiterated his full support for the UN to carry out this mission as soon as possible, said a presidency office statement. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said earlier Thursday that force would be needed if it was confirmed that the Syrian government forces used chemical weapons in the eastern suburb of Damascus.
ists who may not stay there, but may present an attack. Mueller, who was charged with reshaping the FBI from a domestic crime-fighting force into a counterintelligence service with a key role in combating terrorism, also spoke of the homegrown extremists with in the US. And, finally, you have, within the United States, the growth of homegrown, radicalised extremists who are radicalised on the Internet and then get their instructions for developing explosives on the Internet, as well, he said. Mueller, who was appointed director by Republican President George W Bush, had his term extended by Democratic President Barack Obama with congressional approval beyond the normal 10-year maximum. Mueller also expressed the view that the kind of intelligence being collected today by the National Security
Agency (NSA) could have prevented at least a part of the 9/11 attack. I think theres a good chance we would have prevented at least a part of 9/11. In other words, there were four planes, he said. There were almost 20 -- 19 persons involved. I think we would have had a much better chance of identifying those individuals who were contemplating that attack, Mueller said. Mueller also did not foresee the day when the US arms drones would be used to take out individuals who are posing threats to Americans on American soil. We have used it a handful of times to provide surveillance in tactical situations where we, for instance, have a hostage rescue operation undergoing and for very narrow tactical purposes in limited situations, he said. Asked if America was in the day where Big Brother is now present in Americans lives, Mueller said: I wouldnt go so far as to say that at all. The controversial data collection programmes, on the other hand, he said had made America hugely safer. Asked about the Boston bombing despite such programmes, Mueller countered: The number of plots that we have disrupted would be in the dozens, and not just disrupted here but disrupted overseas. The ability now to work and exchange information with the CIA, with NSA, with our counterparts in the intelligence services and law enforcement entities overseas has grown substantially. And that makes us all safer, he said.
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Bhushan Steels Odisha plant faces closure threat
147 Maruti workers to stand murder trial

Gurgaon A Gurgaon court Thursday framed murder charges against 147 jailed Maruti workers allegedly involved in the July 18, 2012 violence at Manesar car plant that left a company executive dead and 100 others injured, said a lawyer. All the accused would be tried for murder. The next proceeding in the case is scheduled for Sep 9. A Gurgaon court framed charges of murder, attempt to murder, arson, rioting and unlawful assembly, among others, against all 147 dismissed workers of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL) arrested in connection with the violence at the car makers plant. MSIL general manager Awanish Kumar Dev was killed and nearly 100 people injured in the violent clash on the plant premises. The company dismissed more than 500 regular workers after the incident. As many as 147 sacked workers were arrested. They were in judicial custody since then. Family members of the dismissed
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Bhubaneswar Authorities in Odisha Friday said the 3.1 million tonne per annum steel plant of Bhushan Steel Ltd in the state could face closure if it failed to comply with prescribed pollution norms by Sep 30. The State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), which has already ordered closed a coal-based power plant of the company in Dhenkanal district nine days ago over pollution concerns, said it had also inspected the steel plant located nearby last month, and found several instances of noncompliance with norms. We have given them the opportunity to correct it. If they dont comply, we would be harsh on them, member secretary of the board Lalit Kumar Tewari told. The steel plant, located at Narendrapur in Dhenkanal, about 150 km from here, was granted consent to operate by the SPCB, valid till Sep 30. A senior board official said the unit had been served notice a number of times in the past, seeking corrective measures, but company officials had not paid heed to them. This prompted the board to issue a direction June 25 asking the unit officials
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to comply with the norms in respect of air and water pollution, and solid waste management. The board had also asked the unit to submit an action taken report within the stipulated period of 15 days, but no reply was received from them, he said. The board again sent a team of experts who inspected the plant and nearby areas July 16-17. They found that the unit was discharging huge volume of pollutants into nearby drains, in violation of the prescribed standards. The industry has grossly failed in the management of the process effluent and surface runoff generated from the entire plant, said the official, who was part of the inspection team. Presence of high concentration of toxic pollutants in the discharge made to nearby water bodies is a matter of serious concern, he said. Despite the steel plant having been given sufficient opportunity to control pollution, the board observed persistent non-compliance. We will wait for the deadline. If the company does not comply with the norms, we will be forced to shut down the plant, the official said.
Gap between elite schools and mass institutes will slow growth
New Delhi The gap between top schools and mass institutions in India is widening and has the potential to slow domestic economic growth, deepen income inequality and create less social mobility, warns a study. The country is investing in elite science and technology colleges in a bid to create world-class institutions and gain a long-distance edge over developed nations like the United States and Europe. But the mass institutions are receiving fewer resources, and thats where most of the students go. Students who go to the mass institutions are not getting high quality, competitive educational experiences, and many of the students also get stuck with big bills as funding assistance is directed towards the elite universities. This redistribution of funds away from second-tier institutions has serious implications as the engine of the economy is those who attend mass institutions, says the multidisciplinary Stanford University study. What happens, then, is they are doing a good job of educating students at the elite levels, but they are not doing a good job of educating students at the non-elite levels who are also fundamental for the economy, said Prashant Loyalka, research fellow at the universitys Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and one of the studys authors. The study covered the growth of higher education in the worlds four largest emerging economies -- Brazil, Russia, India and China-- where in the past 20 years, university systems have just exploded. So the questions are why did it happen and what are the implications? What happens to their societies if all the energy is focussed on elite institutions? The researchers approached these questions with the belief that societies and governments can be judged by the way they invest in and organise their public higher education systems, said Martin Carnoy, professor of education. For example, how well these countries create a labour force that is competitive in the information age depends on the quality of higher education. Whether people have equal
and arrested workers gathered outside the judicial complex as the case came up for hearing. Additional District and Sessions Judge S.K. Khanduja charged 12 office-bearers of the Maruti Suzuki Workers Union (MSWU) substantively for murder, while the remaining 135 workers were charged for
murder in view of being part of an unlawful assembly. The judge maintained that murder charge could be dropped against the remaining 135 accused based on the merit of evidence against them during the trial. All the accused, who were present in the court, pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Bangalore The resilient Indian IT industry is building next generation enterprises to leverage the emerging opportunities in cloud computing and mobility space worldwide, the countrys apex IT industry body said Thursday. With global customers placing premium on vendors having IP (intellectual property) assets, we need to create dynamic mobile enterprises, encompassing devices, platforms, networks, applications and security, Nasscom chairman Krishnakumar Natarajan said at a conference here. Admitting that the environment was becoming complex and customers were looking for best practices from their service providers, he said the convergence of mobility, consumersisation, social business and cloud have created an exciting oppor-
tunity to vendors, partners and enterprises. Enterprise ICT Infrastructure is evolving rapidly with on-premise infrastructure and enterprise solutions getting cloud enabled and smart devices ready, Natarajan said at the summit on Infrastructure Management on the growth of Enterprise IT & Mobility in India. The two-day summit, organised by the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom), focused on drawing strategies for the next-generation enterprises, service level agreements with clients in cloud computing to building next-generation data centres. Noting that infrastructure management in offing would be different from the legacy systems, the MindTree co-founder and chief executive said in the new environment, new tools and new processes would dominate the enterprise landscape. We are witnessing a trend of hybrid IT environments dominating enterprise IT architectures in mature and emerging geographies where competencies of a provider with a service operating model will be the differentiator from the old-world legacy environment, Natarajan said. The need to manage public and private cloud infrastructure and drive improvement in operating flexibilities will be the challenge for the future to service providers and enterprises.
chances to succeed relies on having colleges that are accessible to even the poorest students. And how effectively a country expands its university system may determine how successful it is at growing a robust economy and competing with advanced countries. If you have economic growth and provide educational opportunities, youre perceived as a legitimate, successful government, Carnoy said. So our theory was, if you can pull this off, if you can successfully expand your university systems, you are likely a pretty efficient government. The study found that in absolute terms the sheer number of students graduating from elite institutions in computer science and engineering majors in these countries is high. But sustaining and building innovation hubs requires more than the elite, it said. Overall, the scholars found that significant challenges remain as these countries march towards creating universities that can rank alongside those in the US and Europe. In India, Loyalka said, the higher education system does not appear to be well organized. India has good technical universities, but a small proportion of Indians going to those, and the mass institutions are of really poor quality. India should increase its graduate education and increase spending on research, said the researchers. Not even a single Indian higher institution could get a place in the top 100 list of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) for 2013 released last week. The only institution to book a
slot is Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science(IISc) that was ranked in the 301-400 category. China, the scholars said, is doing well. But what about Russia and Brazil? Russia has provided the vast majority of its people with a high level of education, but it has lagged in terms of putting money into research, Loyalka said. Brazil has a high-level of graduate education and research at its top-tier public institutions, and these institutions are receiving a lot of support. However, the vast majority of students attend private institutions, which are, on average, of dubious quality. So, the concern that these four BRICS countries will develop their own centres of high-tech production and innovation and draw research, development and scholarship away from American shores is still premature, say the researchers. And President Barrack Obama need not worry about the number of computer science and engineering graduates from Indian and Chinese universities. Obama has talked about an education arms race with countries like China and India and has been asking Americans to produce more graduates to compete globally and regain its top status. According to the university, the study is one of the first empirical and comparative research, and relied on in-country interviews, surveys, data analysis and classroom observation. It has now been published in a book, University Expansion in a Changing Global Economy: Triumph of the BRICS?
BUSINESS
Money involved in bank frauds has increased: CBI chief
New Delhi The money involved in bank frauds has increased substantially over the years despite a decline in the number of such cases, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chief Ranjit Sinha said Wednesday. While the number of bank frauds cases has shown a decline of 46.37 percent, the amount of money involved has quadrupled, showing an enormous increase of 324.27 percent, Sinha said while quoting a Reserve Bank of India analyses of the year 2009-10. According to Sinha, while the number of fraud cases has shown a decreasing trend from 24,791 cases in 2009-10 to 13,293 cases in 201213, a decline of 46.37 percent, the amount involved has quadrupled from Rs.2,037.81 crores to Rs.8,646 crores, an increase of 324.27 percent. Similarly, large value fraud cases involving Rs.50 crores and above, has also increased more than 10-fold from three cases in 2009-10 (involving an amount of Rs.404.13 crores) to 45 cases in 2013 (involving an amount of Rs.5,334.75 crores), he said. He was addressing the 5th Annual Conference of CBI officers and chief vigilance officers of banks and financial institutions organised by the CBI.
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Bajaj Allianz Life fined Rs.3.10 crore
Chennai Shareholders of private life insurer Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company Ltd were fined a whopping Rs.3.10 crore Wednesday by the insurance regulator for deliberate nonsettlement of claims and other violations. The company is a joint venture between global insurance major Allianz and Bajaj Finserv, part of the Pune-based Bajaj Auto group. In an order issued by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) chairman T.S. Vijayan, the life insurer has been directed to pay a penalty of Rs.3.10 crore within 15 days debiting the shareholders account of the company and not the policy holders account.
Telecom regulator asked to give views soon on media FDI caps
The penalty is levied for non-payment of death claims, payment of excess remuneration for intermediaries and group companies and violation of IRDA regulations. The IRDA rejected Bajaj Allainzs contention that 78 death claims were rejected as the contract was unconcluded because the policy was not received by the policyholder before his death. The regulator termed Bajaj Allianzs practice as unfair and against the policyholders interests levied a penalty of Rs.78,00,000 and warned the insurer. The regulator also ordered the life insurer to settle the 78 repudiated claims within 180 days along with interest.
Google search goes desi with Hindi tool
The high amount of Non-performing Assets (NPAs) of public sector banks is cause for concern, said Sinha, and added that the CBI has already initiated inquiries in some of the big defaulters accounts. He asked vigilance officers of public sector banks to play a proactive role in checking losses to the government exchequer and public money. He pointed out that at times there appeared to be reluctance by banks to declare bad accounts as frauds despite clear cut manifestations. Sinha added that delay in reporting a fraud
would adversely affect tracking and recovery of proceeds of crime. Speaking at the event, C. Rangarajan, chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the prime minister, said discretionary powers in the financial sector must be exercised only within prescribed limits. Rangarajan said both preventive vigilance and punitive vigilance are important factors in maintaining discipline in the banking and financial sector, and added that those who violate procedures and rules must be appropriately punished.
New Delhi The information and broadcasting ministry has requested Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to speed up its response on the existing sectoral caps of FDI in the broadcastsector, an official release said. The ministry has also urged Press Council of India (PCI) to give its advice soon on the proposal to increase the FDI in print media. In its communications to TRAI and PCI, the ministry has sought comments regarding the paper prepared by the finance ministry relating to revision in existing FDI caps in the two sectors. The finance ministry paper has proposed to raise the existing FDI cap of 26 percent through Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) route to 49 percent through automatic route in the news sector. In the non-news sector, the existing
FDI cap is 100 percent through FIPB route which has been proposed to be 100 percent through automatic route without the requirement of FIPB approval.The ministry has said last month that it had sought the views of TRAI and PCI on the caps in the broadcasting and print media.
Bangalore Global Internet search engine Google Wednesday unveiled a software tool enabling Indian netizens to search its encyclopaedic website by writing in Hindi (Devanagari) script. Instead of typing Hindi letters from an English keyboard, netizens can handwrite on screen what they want to search on our engine using our new Hindi tool, as the Internet can be used as easily as reading and writing in the vernacu-
lar, Google India said in a statement here. In its quest to get about 300 million more Indian users online, the companys geeks found that less than 10 percent of Internet usage was in Indian languages, while in the real world the remaining 90 percent of newspaper readers or television viewers were using the media in their respective mother tongue. Our innovative tool makes accessing Inter-
net in Hindi simpler. Hindi-knowing netizens should be able to use their language in the digital world to read and write as easily as they do offline, an official said in the statement. The software also enables Google users to search by scribbling Hindi words with a finger or stylus on any digital device screen. The tool can also be accessed on a mobile browser at www.google.co.in. Once the feature is enabled, a user can activate the handwrite icon on the screen to write letters in Devanagari for words or content to be searched on the engine.The Hindi handwrite features have been a collaboration between our teams across Zurich, Mountain View and Bangalore. Our engineers are excited with the potential these methods of inputs have in India, the statement added.
Kerala diaspora protests move to levy duty on TV sets

Thiruvananthapuram The Kerala diaspora is up in arms over the proposed moratorium on a scheme that allowed free import of television sets worth up to Rs.35,000 without payment of any customs duty. The new rules come into effect from Aug 26 from when anyone bringing in a TV set will have to pay a 35 percent duty. The central government has decided to levy this duty on account of the depreciating Indian rupee.
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from some members. She appealed to the sports minister to exercise his prerogative and give her the award along with with Sodhi. Besides Poonia, 2012 London Paralympics silver medallist H.N. Girisha has also made his case for the Khel Ratna. He also said that he should be considered for the Arjuna Award, if not recommended for the Khel Ratna. Reports said that the committee had earlier shortlisted Poonia and Girisha for the Khel Ratna. But Girishas name was removed at the insistence of a member and Sodhis name was included. Poonia later lost the race for Khel Ratna to Sodhi. A hurt Sodhi, who has won two silver medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and a gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games, said that he has never lobbied for the Khel Ratna. Full award list (Likely): Rajeev Gandhi Khel Ratna: Ronjan Sodhi Arjuna Awards: Chekrovolu Swuro (Archery) Renjith Maheshwary (Athletics) P.V. Sindhu (Badminton) Kavita Chahal (Boxing) Rupesh Shah (Snooker and Billiards) Virat Kohli (Cricket) Abhijeet Gupta (Chess) Gaganjeet Bhullar (Golf) Saba Anjum (Hockey) Rajkumari Rathore (Shooting) Joshna Chinappa (Squash) Neha Rathi (Wrestling) Dharmender Dalal (Wrestling) Amit Kumar Saroha (Athletics)
New Delhi Tyre manufacturer Apollo Wednesday became the second Indian company after telecom major Bharti Airtel to sponsor highly popular English Premier League (EPL) side Manchester United. As a part of the three-year deal, Apollo will create football-based play zones, using recycled rubber, in local communities in Britain and India to encourage healthy lifestyles among youngsters. Apollo has also become the clubs official tyre partner in Britain and India. Apollo will build Go The Distance football pitches made from recycled tyres in local communities across the UK and India, with the first being on site (as part of a fan zone/play zone) at Old Trafford. During Wednesdays launch event, Manchester United first team players Ryan Giggs, Rio Ferdinand and Jonny Evans participated in the Go The Distance skills challenges that will be similar to those featured on the new pitches. Manchester United Group Managing Director Richard Arnold, said: Apollo Tyres is a leading player in the tyre industry and its rate of growth and development into new territories made it an attractive partner for the Club. With a combined fan base close to 46 million followers in both the UK and India, we are
confident in providing Apollo with a highly engaged audience, not only to promote its brand, but also to engage and communicate with our fans. This partnership also allows the Club to continue its on-going commitment to investment in and the development of young people, whether through our Academy or via the work we do in the community. Onkar Kanwar, chairman, Apollo Tyres said: This is a very significant partnership for us as a company and clearly demonstrates our global ambitions for our business, and the brand. Very few sports platforms deliver such global profile and awareness and we look forward to working closely with Manchester United over the coming years. It is a matter of great pride for us to introduce a new healthy living initiative under our corporate social responsibility (CSR), to create new play zones for the youth in the UK and India. In its aim to stimulate the next generations to Go the distance, this campaign really brings to life our brand values of high performance, quality and excellence. Apollo Tyres is headquartered in Gurgaon and has a manufacturing presence in Asia, Europe and Africa. With revenues of over $2.34 billion, the company exports to over 100 countries.
New Delhi For the second day running, the sports ministry has not been able to announce the national sports awards. Senior officials in the department of sports Wednesday confirmed to IANS that the list has been finalised but they are unable to say what the hitch was in making the formal announcement. A top official, on condition of anonymity, epressed his helplessness in throwing any light on the impasse as the file was still with Sports Minister Jitendra Singh. The matter is still undecided. Even I dont know, when the announcement will be made. The file is still with the minister, the official said. Intense lobbying for getting female discus thrower Krishna Poonia the Khel Ratna, the highest sports award, has put the ministry in a fix. The ministry was supposed to make
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the list final Tuesday, but Poonia, who is upset at not getting the Khel Ratna, spent the whole day lobbying for the award at the ministry. Double trap shooter Ronjan Sodhi has been recommended for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Indias highest sporting honour, by the awards committee Aug 13. Cricketer Virat Kohli is one of the 14 chosen for the Arjuna Award to be presented at a ceremony here Aug 29. The awards selection committee is headed by three-time billiards world champion Michael Ferreira and comprises former India hockey captain Zafar Iqbal, archer Limba Ram, cricketer Ravi Shastri and table tennis player Indu Puri amongst others. Poonia, a 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medallist, was upset that the committee ignored her for the Khel Ratna despite having support
IPL spot-fixing: Warrants against three Dawood aides
Asian Youth Games: Three Indian lifters found overage

New Delhi There was more embarrassment for India Tuesday at the ongoing Asian Youth Games in Chinas Nanjing as three weightlifters were barred for taking part in the event after they were found to be overage. The three lifters, all 1996 born, are Chandrika Tarafdar, Jyoti Mal and Akshay Bhagwan. They were asked to pack their bags and go back home. Indian weightlifting officials told IANS that overage weightlifters were selected because of confusion in the eligibility criteria. We went by the rules of our international body according to which athletes born in 1996 were eligible. But only after reaching there we came to know of the criteria applied by the organisers - those born between 1997 to 1999 (i.e. 14 to 16 years of age in 2013), an official on the condition of anonymity told IANS. The official wondered how the tournament organisers granted visa and accreditation to the athletes. The event is affliated to the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), of which Randhir Singh is the secretarygeneral. This comes after 18 Indian athletes were sent back home for the same reason. Four Indian badminton players also failed to take part after their names were not entered by the Badminton Federation of India (BFI). Indians are participating in the Asian Youth Games as independent Olympic athletes because the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has been banned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Sports minister Jitendra Singh Monday has already ordered an inquiry into the incident. The minister has asked Director General, Sports Authority of India (SAI) to conduct an inquiry into both the incidents and fix the responsibility on the individuals responsible for the lapses. The minister has also directed DG, SAI to put in place a mechanism so that such incidents do not occur in future, a statement from the ministry read.
New Delhi Only Pune FC were granted exemption to play in the I-League by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) Wednesday while the cases of the 12 I-League clubs will be taken up by club licensing committees first instance body when it meets Aug 27. United Sikkim was the only club, among the 14 to flunk club licensing test, that didnt appeal for exemption since they have been relegated to the second division. The exemption is mandatory, without which the clubs will not be allowed to compete in the I-League. The committee, headed by retired judge N.K. Sud, reviewed the appeal filed by Pune FC and felt that the first instance body should have considered the supplementary report placed by the licensing manager. The committee felt that there was no non compliance with A Grade criteria and the only non compliance was really delayed submission of certain documents regarding criteria A. Since the club licensing regulations empowers the licensing manager to entertain documents if sufficient reasons exist after the deadline, the committee accepted the appeal of
Pune FC and ordered the grant of both Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and national license to Pune for the 2013-14 season. The committee alo referred the case of 12 clubs to the first instance body. It felt that the applications merely was a prayer for seeking exemption and are not appeals against the decision of the first instance body. The 12 clubs are Dempo SC, Salgaocar SC, Churchill Brothers, East Bengal, Mohun Bagan, Sporting Clube de Goa, Prayag United SC, Mohammedan Sporting, Mumbai FC, Rangdajied FC, Shillong Lajong FC and Pailan Arrows. The AIFFs Club Licensing Committee, headed by Girija Shanker Mungali, had refused to clear the 14 applicants. The decision in this regard was based on the report of a five-member AIFF team that inspected all the clubs during May-June. The AIFF started the process in January 2013 to implement Indian Club Licensing for the first time. This included an inspection of all the clubs in May and June when a five-member team, that included national coach Wim Koevermans, visited the I-League clubs.
New Delhi A Delhi court Wednesday issued nonbailable warrants (NBWs) against three Pakistan-based close associates of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim in connection with the IPL spot-fixing case. Additional Sessions Judge Dharmesh Sharma issued open NBWs against Pakistan-based Javed Chutani, Salman alias Master and Ehteysham, considered to be close aides of Dawood. The courts direction came on an application filed by Special Cell of Delhi Police seeking issuance of warrants against the three, saying they had played a key role in the entire conspiracy. An open NBW is one in which no time limit is fixed for its execution. The three, suspected to be based in Karachi and Lahore, and were instrumental in the conspiracy behind spot fixing during the IPL matches, police said in the application. The court in its order said: The crux of the argument is that it is not possible to execute warrants to these accused in Pakistan. In view of the above, issue open NBWs against three accused as requested. The judge also issued NBWs against four alleged bookies - Sanjay Aggarwal, Mohd. Shakeel Amir, Praveen Kumar G. Thakkar and Sandeep Sharma for Sep 30 on the plea of police. The plea of police sought issuance of NBWs against alleged bookies saying that during interrogation of other arrested accused, their names had cropped up but they evading arrest.
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have to play as much cricket as I can before the Challengers, he said Yuvraj last played a Test for India in December 2012 and an ODI in January. Asked if he hopes to be back before the ODI series against Australia, Yuvraj said: My focus is on performing better. If I am performing well and looking sharp on the field, I will. I have no doubts on by abilities. Yuvraj, along with Zaheer Khan, had spent six weeks training in France to get back in shape. Yuvraj feels that training away from India and away from the constant media scrutiny helped him.Yuvraj and Zaheer underwent intense fitness training at Brive La Gaillarde, a market town south of the centre of France. They trained under coach Tim Exeter, a high performance physical trainer well known in Europes rugby and soccer fields. After recovering from cancer, I trained at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) for a while. But I wanted to train away from India because there are a lot of distractions here. Just staying away from you (media) was of great help, said Yuvraj. Asked about his recent picture with Arjun Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh the young cricketer reminds him of his younger days. Some time back (Sachin) Tendulkar told me that he (Arjun) bats like me. When I watched him, he reminded me of my younger days in Chandigarh. Arjun is passionate about the game and that comes from his father (Sachin), said Yuvraj. New Delhi Wrestler Sushil Kumar, the only Indian to win two individual Olympic medals, said Friday that the sports administrators did not take him seriously when he revealed he was offered money to lose the final bout in the 2010 World Championships in Moscow. I had told even in 2010 about this incident, but nobody responded. Im not in FILA (wrestlings world governing body) or any other federation, so I cant say if the Russians medal should be taken away, Sushil told NDTV of his 66 kg freestyle bout against Russian Alan Gogayev in the World Championships. The Indian rejected the offer and won 3-1. He said he was offered around Rs.3 crore to lose the title clash.I was approached through a coach to throw the final bout. I was offered about Rs.3 crores. Wrestling is huge in Russia, and I suppose they didnt expect an Indian to enter the
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Comeback is the immediate goal: Yuvraj
New Delhi Out of favour Yuvraj Singh, hero of the 2011 cricket World Cup, Friday said he was not thinking too much about the 2015 World Cup and was doing everything possible to regain his place in the Indian team. Yuvraj said he was happy with the way the young Indian team had fared, winning the Champions Trophy and the ODI series in Zimbabwe, but felt it is the mix of young and experience that makes a team great. I am very happy with the way the youngsters have been performing. But it is the balance of seniors and youngsters that makes a team strong.
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For me, the most important thing is to play for the country and I will do every thing possible to play for the country again, said Yuvraj during a media interaction here. The southpaw said he wants to play in the 2015 World Cup but at the time being he was not looking at it since it is too far. His immediate goal remains to get back in the team. The 2015 World Cup is very far. We still have an year and half for the World Cup, it remains a part of my goal and I want to take it happen. But my immediate goal is to play for India as soon as possible. For that I
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final, said Sushil.The 30-year-old won the bronze medal at 2008 Beijing Olympics and followed up with a silver at the London Games last year. Refusing money is not new for the champion athlete. Sushil declined a Rs.50 lakh offer for appearing in a surrogate advertisement for a liquor brand.
Four Indian lifters take part, but not considered for medals
Nanjing (China) In a surprise move, the four overage Indian weightlifters were allowed to take part in the ongoing Asian Youth Games here Thursday but were not eligible for medals. The four weightlifters - Chandrika Tarafdar (Women`s 48kg), Jyoti Mal (women`s 53kg), Akshay Bhagwan (Men`s 62kg) and Manpreet Kaur (women`s 63kg) - were not considered for medals but were provided with certificates of participation, reports. Indian weightlifting coach Narendra Kumar said he was at a loss when he learnt of the disqualification.We came here and no one told us theres a problem. And before the match, they were disqualified, said Kumar. Rules stipulate that only weightlifters born in 1997 or later - meaning under 16 - are eligible to compete at the Aug 16-24 Games. But the four Indian weightlifters were born in 1996. India sent many weightlifters to the organising committee and also accepted the acreditation card and finally they entried. Totally, 17-year-old athletes can take part in the games. But our sport is for under 17 years old.
Port of Spain (Trinidad) Former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik of the Barbados Tridents has predicted that the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL) will become huge after the success of the ongoing inaugural tournament. After the IPL and the Big Bash League you can take this as third in the world and it is just the first year, said Malik. The response from the West Indies fans has been awesome. Whenever you are playing a league it is about people coming to the ground, that is the key to success, and I have seen that here, reports CMC. Malik has been one of the stars of the show as the leading batsman with 223 runs from seven innings, as well as three wickets. Maliks team, led by Kieron Pollard, plays Chris Gayles Jamaica Talla-
wahs in the second semi-final Friday. People have been coming from everywhere, said Malik, still only 31, despite being a veteran of 32 Tests, 216 One-Day Internationals and 53 Twenty20 Internationals. The Limacol CPL has given Malik a rebirth after he was dropped for Pakistans tour of Zimbabwe. He has been a star in the CPL, both with the bat and ball, relishing pitches that have often assisted the slower bowlers. I was struggling with my shoulder and my elbow but I have had surgery for my elbow and I have worked hard in the gym, he said. Now I am absolutely fine. I can even bowl 30 overs in one day. I am very happy and I want to play as an all-rounder, that is my priority.
Bangalore The million-dollar Indian Badminton League (IBL) rolls into the erstwhile Garden City for a double-header weekend that could well provide strong pointers to potential semifinalists from the six-team mix. The fifth round of the championship, that began in Delhi and travelled through Lucknow, Mumbai and Pune before heading to Bangalore and concluding in Hyderabad ahead of the knock-out matches, has Mumbai Masters (13 points) taking on Awadhe Warriors (8) on Saturday and hosts Banga Beats facing Krrish Delhi Smashers the following day. With the top team in the league, Hyderabad Hotshots (15 points from four ties) almost certain to qualify for the semi-finals, the remaining five franchises are jostling for the other three knock-out berths. While Masters and Smashers complete their league engagements here this weekend, the other four teams will meet in Hyderabad for the final round of the league phase when the semi-final line-up will be identified. That being the situation, the Masters, spearheaded by World No.1 Malaysian Lee Chong Wei, would be hoping to get back to winning ways after suffering a 2-3 defeat to Hotshots in
Pune earlier this week. In contrast, the Warriors, led by PV Sindhu, appear to have got some momentum going in their campaign that began with two defeats before a flattering 4-1 win against Smashers, also in Pune, put them back on track. Thus, another win should put them in contention for semi-finals. Thus, Masters who too need to win their concluding league fixture Saturday against the Warriors, have their task cut out. One suspects that the three singles matches could well hold the key to the tie. Much also would depend on the ability of the teams to travel well, unused as the players are to jetting around the country with insufficient time to rest and recover between ties. Also, given the altitude of Bangalore at 3,000 feet above sea level, the shuttles would be travelling faster through the air, something that puts a premium on control over shots, especially those deep and high to the backcourt. On the face of it, the Masters vs Warriors tie appears wide open with both sides having more than a fair chance to pull off a victory that, to say the least, will be hard-earned.
Smriti Mehra wins eighth leg of Hero golf

Bangalore Veteran Delhi golfer Smriti Mehra pulled off a stunning final round of four under 68 to win the eighth leg of the Hero-KGA Pro Golf Championships here Friday. Smriti, who finished with a total score of 217 (79, 70, 68), stunned overnight leader Ankita Tiwana to bag the winners cheque. Ankita had to settle for the runners up position trailing Smriti by one stroke. Vani Kapoor finished third carding 219 (72, 74, 73) at the end of the final round. The Rs.5,00,000 event was being played at the picturesque KGA golf course. Smriti showcased her experience against city mate Ankita carding the days and the tournaments best single round score of four under 68. Smriti had a modest start to her round with three birdies on the 2nd, 5th and 9th holes in her front nine. She consolidated her lead with three more birdies on the 10th, 15th and 16th holes in her back nine. Her winning margin over Ankita would have been bigger had she not faltered on the 18th hole with a double bogey. IANS
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Al Jazeeras fluctuating fortunes

Saudi Arabia and Qatar fell out because they supported conflicting interests primarily in Egypt. Elsewhere too - Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Gaza (Hamas). But their coming together in any case was for limited tactical reasons: to stall the Arab Spring. The big asset the Qataris brought to the union, hurriedly put together, was the incomparable credibility of their TV channel, Al Jazeera. Qatar launched Al Jazeera, initially only in Arabic. Later, superior retirees from the BBC like Sir David Frost were enlisted to launch its English service. In February 1991, a year after the collapse of the Soviet Union, CNN inaugurated the era of global TV by covering Operation Desert Storm, bringing to the worlds drawing rooms, on live TV, the defeat of an Arab country. The BBC World Service TV was launched in April of that year. If a nation is at war, its media will automatically become part of the war effort. Since, the US and its allies have been in a state of conflict almost continuously since Operation Desert Storm, BBC and CNN have had to pay a price for their unbroken spell of patriotism. Their credibility has plummeted, particularly in Muslim countries. Even when the US or NATO were not involved in a conflict, the sanitized coverage of, say, the Bosnian war or the two Intefadas impacted differently on Muslim and non-Muslim audiences worldwide. Samuel Huntingtons Clash of Civilizations would have remained a dark prophecy had the global media, BBC and CNN, not excavated deep along the civilizational fault lines to give it credence. After 9/11, and the manner in which the war on terror was conducted and covered, divided the world totally. It was during this period that the Muslim Brotherhood grew exponentially in Egypt; Nekmetin Arbakans Islamist Refah party came to power in Turkey. The Kemalist army snuffed him out, just as the Egyptian army has snuffed out Mohamed Morsi. Teyyep Erdo-
gan and Abdullah Gul are Arbakans spiritual descendents but packaged for a secular, Kemalist constitution. On them later. Much more than the one sided coverage of conflicts, the anger among Muslims was on account of a suffocating absence from their TV screens of views they could identify with. This was an enormous gap which Al Jazeera stepped in to fill. Its coverage was professional and thorough exposing BBC and CNN as vehicles of Western propaganda. Its viewership crossed 65 million in the early stages of the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. A rattled Western war machine bombed its offices in Kabul and Baghdad. The channels credibility was sky high when it telecast Osama bin Ladens taped interviews. This kind of scooping was so totally against the current that a question mark did stick to its image. Then came the Arab Spring. In February 2011, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia mobilized the monarchies, sheikhdoms and Emirates to join hands first in Libya and then in Syria to affect regime change. Otherwise, Peoples Power would consume the monarchies, including the Emir of Qatar. That is when the Al Jazeeras enormous credibility was placed at
the disposal of less than credible military operations in the two theatres - Libya and Syria. Somewhat carried away by his role in the region, the Emir began to play a larger role linking the Brothers in Egypt, Gaza (Hamas), Turkey, Syria and Tunisia. He stepped on Saudi toes by trying to mediate between Afghan groups. If there is one group the Saudis suspect more than Iran and Shiaism, it is the Muslim Brotherhood. Iran is an outside power. Brothers are available even within Saudi society and they are opposed to monarchies. So, the coffers of the House of Saud have been opened for Gen. Abdel Fattah el Sisi to break the back of the Brothers. Al Jazeera, which became a mouthpiece for the Brothers during the year that Morsi was in power, is in the process of packing up its bags in Egypt. Just when Al Jazeeras partisan coverage in Libya, Syria and in Egypt caused it to barter away the hard earned credibility it had built up since 1996, new avenues have opened up for the channel in the West. All legal hurdles have been removed from its path in the US and Britain. Yes, there will be an Al Jazeera in the US and in Britain. Some day we should decode the real story: whose baby is Al Jazeera?
When piloting aircraft, try to avoid hitting Jupiter

An Indian soldier stood at the window of a Ladakh lookout point and peered into the darkening sky. There it was again! Low on the horizon, a spy ship flew directly into Indian airspace. By now, the soldier knew The Enemys modus operandi. It would hover most of the night until it was relieved by a second spy plane at about 4 am. Over six months, he and his colleagues recorded 329 airspace violations by this pair of drones, which they were convinced had been sent by China. Earlier this month, astronomer Tushar Prabhu pointed out that they were actually Jupiter and Saturn. Indias army chief responded: I dont care if they are planets. Were still going to shoot them down. No, actually I made up that last quote, but the rest is true, as reported by the Telegraph newspaper of Kolkata earlier this month. You cant really blame the soldier. Last year, an Air Canada pilot mistook the planet Venus for an oncoming aircraft, and took evasive action, diving 180 meters and sending passengers hurtling to the ceiling. Only after crew assured him that chances of actually hitting Venus were on the lowish side did he return to his regular flight path. Still, one might wonder how the two get mixed up. I mean, planes are small, thin, metal things, while Jupiter is an astonishing large round ball of gas, think of Oprah Winfrey naked. (Sorry, I dont mean to put you off your food.) Readers I consulted pointed me to the writings of UFO debunker Tim Printy, who has recorded many reports of planets allegedly visiting earth. Airmen piloting planes over Japan have reported being chased by planets, Mr. Printy says. (Japan being Japan, this is probably some sort of prototype Nintendo toy.) In the US state of Georgia in 1967, a pair of police officers were spooked by the planet Venus following their patrol car. It gained on us and was going about 75 mph (120 kph), one of the officers said. After the object caught up with us, it pulled into the sky. (I didnt make those quotes up.) One reader said that if we took the reports at face value, it would mean that the planets are much smaller than we think they are and their inhabitants are steering them to earth to have a look-see at what were up to.
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Lucknow BJP president Rajnath Singh Friday accused the Congressled United Progressive Alliance government of pushing the country into an unprecedented economic crisis. Addressing a traders convention here, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader exhorted the traders community to rise to the occasion and vote out the government in the next Lok Sabha battle. He alleged that the Congress was conspiring to crush the 4.5 crore small time traders in the country by allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in multibrand retail. He said the stand of the BJP on FDI had been communicated to the US ambassador to India and it was one of the reasons no company had so far come through the FDI route to invest in India.
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