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Gulshan Grover and Om Puri at the launch of Festival of Globe with Dr. Japra

Dr. Japra: Fesitival of Globe- Fiji Festival- connect first time

HAYWARD HIGH
SCHOOL It was a
pleasure and a great
honoe for me to
have the opportunity
to be able to connect Fiji Festival with
FOG, the Festival of
Globe led by DR.
Japra. It has been an
adrent wish of Dr.
Romesh Japra, the
CEO/Founder of
what really begam
as Festival of India
and recently crstalyzing into a global
extravaganza as
Festival of Globe.
With this connect
today, it is our sincerest hope that a
truly lasting bond
will be creating for
our unity and
togetherness.

Java Sahib: great

soccer leader
For over 20
years now the
Labasa soccer
star Java Sahib
has played a
role in the soccer entertainment for the
Fiji Americans.
Java has been
leading the
Norfold Soccer
team.

Large number of Fiji students graduate

Proud parents of flank
their daughter who
graduated
this summer
from UC
Davis with
biotech
major.

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FOG launching conference with Indian actors

Gulshan Grover and Om Puri at Dr. Japra Mahal

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Above Dr. Romesh Japara introduces Gulshan Grover to the memvers of the press at the official
launching of FOG, the Featival of Globe June 27, 2015 at his mansion in Fremont.

Bonding with Fiji Community at Fiji Festival 2015

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t has been a long felt

desire of FOG leader,
Dr. Romesh Japra to
connect
with
Fiji
Community on a very sincere note and forge a formidable alley and relationship and bring the two

largest Indian communities in USA together.

The FIJI SUN USA,
editor undertook the challenge and persuaded Fiji
Festival leaders Abdul
Rauf and chair Davend
Kumar to attend a FOG

community June 30 at the

Fremont
Temple
Conference room where
they were formally introduced to Dr. Japra who
invited them to join the
FOG Festival. Abdul and
Davend invited Dr. Japra

and the whole FOG committee to the Fiji Festival

held on the Independence
Day July 4th. It marked a
new beginning for all with
ainspiriting talking by Dr.
Japra.
FOG also obtained a

booth at the Fiji Festival

for the first to promote the
Festival of Globe . Fijians
extended a warm welcome to Dr. Japra and his
team who entertain the
crowd with a dance number.

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I never listen to my own ghazals : Ghulam Ali

egendary Pakistani
singer Ghulam Ali
Khan, who completed 62 years of ghazal
singing in 2015, is set to
share his big, splendid
flight in Delhi on Friday at
a ghazal concert Hoook's Ghazal Journey.
The 74-year-old tells
HT that he is very excited
to perform in Delhi, as
Delhiites hold a special
place in his heart. "Dilli ki
audience bahut samajhdaar hai. Jis calibre se
hum ghazal gaate hai,

utne hi pyaar se woh

humein sunte hai ... tabhi
toh main hamesha
Dilliwalon ko pyaar se
ghazal sunata hoon,"
says the singer, who is
known for popular tracks
such as Chupke Chupke
Raat Din, Kal Chaudhvin
Ki Raat Thi and
Hungama Hai Kyon
Barpa. He adds,
"Hyderabad me mere
Ustad-e-Mohtaram, (late)
Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali
Khan Saheb, jo mere
mann mein humesha

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rehte hai, unki dargah

hai. So India holds a
very special place in my
heart." The maestro,
whose ghazals have
been featured in several
Bollywood movies, further
mentioned that he is
absolutely humbled with
the love and appreciation
that he has got over the
years. "Main apne Allah
ka shukr ada karna chahoonga ki ghazal gaate
gaate mujhe 62 years ho
gaye ... Inshaallah! Mujhe
bahut khushi ho rahi hai

ki mere chahne waalon

ke liye gaane ka mauka
mil raha hai mujhe ....
bohot achchha lag raha
hai," he says.
Surprising the maestro
rarely listens to his own
ghazals. "I never listen to
my own ghazals. If at all I
have heard my own
works, it has always been
at someone else's place.
I end up finding faults in
my works. I might as well
listen to other works
rather than mine."

THE TRADITIONAL VENUE FOR ORAL PERFORMANCE WAS THE MUSHAIRAH, WHICH
CONSISTED OF A SMALLISH GROUP OF (MALE) PATRONS, CONNOISSEURS, MASTERPOETS
( USTADS ), AND APPRENTICES. MOST MUSHAIRAHS WERE BASED ON A WELLKNOWN PAT
TERN LINE ANNOUNCED IN ADVANCE, SO THAT EVERYBODY S GHAZALS COMPOSED IN THIS
PATTERN WERE FORMALLY IDENTICAL (SHARING METER, RHYME, AND REFRAIN).

he word ghazal
means something
like conversations
with women; like the genre
itself, it originated in sixthcentury Arabic verse. Early
Arabic ghazal revolved
around two broad themes:
the rakish celebration of
wine, women, and song;
and the elegiac lament over
lost love. By the time the
ghazal passed into Persian
from the early eleventh century onward, this second
theme had come to have
mystical overtones: separation and suffering were at
the heart of love, while the
faithful, longing lover was
even a kind of martyr. (For
discussion, see the latter
part of Convention in the
Classical Urdu Ghazal
[site].) The overarching centuries-long
history
of
Persian ghazal is described
in detail in E. G. Brownes
four-volume A Literary
History of Persia (1906;
[site]). Through Persian, the
medieval ghazal also came
to develop major traditions
in Turkish and Urdu. Early
Urdu, cultivated in the
Deccan during the Mughal
period, included a substantial body of ghazal poetry
(on Dakani or 'early Urdu'
literature: [site]). The northward migration of Urdu

The
Ghazal
poetry at the beginning of
the 1700's was a complex
and contested process (see
Chapter Six in Early Urdu
Literary Culture and History
[site]). The rest of this discussion will focus on the
'classical' (i.e., 18th/19thcentury) North Indian Urdu
ghazal; the two greatest
poets of this tradition were
Mir Muhammad Taqi 'Mir'
(1722-1810) and Mirza
Asadullah Khan 'Ghalib'
(1797-1869).
Formally speaking, a
ghazal is a set of two-line
verses (they arent technically couplets, since in
most of them the two lines
dont rhyme). Ideally there
are to be an odd number of
them, and ideally the number is to be something like
seven or nine. They share a
strictly-defined
Arabicderived quantitative meter;
for a pragmatic account see

A Practical Handbook of
Urdu Meter [site], and for
more details of Arabic metrical theory see Pybus 1924
[site]. At the end of each
verse they also share a
common rhyme syllable,
and after it usually a common repeated refrain word
(or words) as well. Beyond
this, the verses of a ghazal
share only the larger ghazal
universe of stylized characters, scenes, actions, and
images. A ghazal, in short,
is a series of semantically
independent two-line minipoems that have a strong
formal unity but usually
no particular unity beyond
that, though sometimes
small groups of verses can
be marked as a connected
'verse-set'. (On the quest
for unity, see Orient Pearls
Unstrung [site].) Thus in
performance, oral reciters
and singers freely reorder

the verses of a ghazal, and

almost always omit some of
them.
The first verse of a ghazal commonly incorporates
the rhyme and refrain at the
end of both lines,rather than
only at the end of the second line. If it does this, its
called an opening-verse.
Under oral performance
conditions, this feature
enables the listeners to perceive the formal structure of
the ghazal more quickly.
The last verse commonly
includes the poets chosen
pen-name; if it does this, its
called a closing-verse.
Both these features reflect
the ghazals expectation of
oral performance. The traditional venue for oral performance
was
the
mushairah, which consisted
of a smallish group of
(male) patrons, connoisseurs,
master-poets
(Ustads), and apprentices.
Most mushairahs were
based on a well-known pattern line announced in
advance, so that everybodys ghazals composed
in this pattern were formally
identical (sharing meter,
rhyme, and refrain). This
formal identity made them
extremely comparable, so
that individual achievement
stood out strikingly.

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The discovery of illegal weapons in Fiji

A MAJOR investigation
was carried out by police in
1988, leading to the recovery of illegal weapons from
different places in the
Western Division. The
investigation was the result
of information received from
police in Australia where a
container of weapons destined for Fiji had been intercepted. It was one year after
the country's first military
coup in 1987 which deposed
the Dr Timoci Bavadra led
Fiji Labour Party and
National Federation Party
coalition
government.
Australian police told their
Fijian counterparts that a
similar
container
of
weapons could have arrived
in the country a few months
earlier. The suspected
sender of the arms was
reportedly in the country at
that time but he is believed
to have fled when the
weapons were discovered in
Fiji. For the past three
weeks, The Fiji Times
brought to you some exclusive interviews with former
police officers involved in
recovering the arms and
also gave a flashback into
the case. Today, we bring
you another exclusive interview with a former politician
in the deposed Bavadra
Government who had an
"innocent" meeting with the
suspected arms sender in
England.
HE was a Cabinet
Minister in the Dr Timoci
Bavadra led coalition government when armed soldiers
stormed
into
Parliament on May 14,
1987. The democratically
elected Fiji Labour Party
and National Federation

Party coalition government

was overthrown by the then
Brigadier General Sitiveni
Rabuka.
Considering that it was
the first time for Fiji to experience a coup, the country
was in a chaotic situation
and a mass migration of
skilled people was also
recorded in the aftermath.
Although the military coup
had deposed the democratically elected government,
the deposed government
members did whatever they
could to resist the illegal
regime at that time. In June
1987, some members of the
deposed government went
to England to meet the
Queen's private secretary
and brief him on the situation. Dr Tupeni Baba, who
was the Education Minister
in the deposed government
and the spokesman, also
went on the trip to England.
With him were Dr
Bavadra, the deposed
Attorney-General Jai Ram
Reddy, government member Joeli Kalou and the
deposed government's legal
adviser Bhupendra Patel. In
an exclusive interview with
The Fiji Times, Dr Baba
revealed how he "innocently" met with someone in
June 1987 who became the
main suspect in the shipment of arms to Fiji in 1988.
According to media
reports in June 1988, Fijiborn Mohammed Rafiq
Khan, who also used names
like Peter Khan, Dr Ralph
Khan, Mohammed Rafiq
Kahan and sometimes
Mohammed Rafiq was the
suspected sender of the
arms and ammunition, and
other things.

Dr Baba said after the

May 1987 coup, the
deposed
government's
resistance
group,
"Movement for Democracy"
was very active in different
parts of the world. He said
when they went to England,
Dr Bavadra and Mr Reddy
were unable to have an
audience with the Queen
but they were allowed to see
her private secretary.
"I was in the hotel lobby
in London with Joeli Kalou
one evening meeting former
Fiji residents living there as
Dr Bavadra and Mr Reddy
had other commitments," he
said. "A number of Fijians
had raised money for us as
they were part of the
Movement for Democracy,
so they came to meet us.
"While we were meeting
Fijians living in London,
Khan walked up to me as he
probably knew that I was the
government spokesman too
then. "He just came up to
me and said we should get
some arms. And he then
asked me if we wanted

Some Fiji villages ignoring

human rights

Fiji extends flag consultation,

more designs on the way
T
F
iji has extended the
consultation period for
the country's new flag
until the end of year. The
Prime
Minister
Frank
Bainimarama announced
plans for a new flag earlier
this year, saying he wanted it
hoisted on the 45th anniversary of independence in
October. In a statement he
has announced the consultations will now be extended
until the last day of the year
and the new flag design will
be considered by Parliament
when it convenes next year.
Mr Bainimarama says more
choices for the flag will also

be offered over the next few

months. A flag design competition resulted in 23
designs offered to the public
for feedback. He says there's
been much positive feedback
on the new designs but the
government recognises people want more time and more
designs to consider. There
have been calls for a referendum on the issue and widespread criticism the process
of changing the flag has
been undemocratic. The
extension follows a weekend
poll which found 53 percent
of people want the current
flag retained.

he Fiji Women's
Crisis Centre says
the message that
village bylaws should
not violate women's
human rights is falling
on deaf ears in some villages. The Centre's coordinator, Shamima Ali,
says there have been
reports of village bylaws
restricting what women
wear, dictating their hairstyles, and public whippings for drinking kava
too late at night. She
says the iTaukei Ministry
released a statement
last week saying bylaws
will be reviewed, but
keeping in mind that
individual human rights
are not violated.
"Apparently, these things
are falling on deaf ears
the further you go away,
from the urban centres,
from the towns - the
more ingrained these
kind of rules and regulations policing women's
behaviour and dress
seem to be happening."

some arms. "To me, it was a

ridiculous idea and I told him
that's not the way we should
go in Fiji and that we are
resisting the illegal government without arms.
"He said he's from Fiji
and that he was operating
from Canada at that time. I
didn't know him and it was
just an innocent meeting."
Dr Baba said when Khan
left the hotel, he told his colleagues about what he had
said but none of them took
the matter seriously. He said
from the way Khan asked
him, it was obvious that he
was involved in the arms
trade. He said it was the first
and last time that he had
seen Khan. After visiting
England, he went to India
with Dr Bavadra and spent
some time there as the
guest
of
the
Indian
Government.
Dr Baba said when he
contested the 1987 general
election, he had to resign
from his teaching position at
the University of the South
Pacific. He was appointed

again by the university in

early 1988 but he continued
to speak for the deposed
Bavadra government. "It
was sometime in June 1988
when I was walking out of
the university gate when a
reporter stopped me and
asked if I knew about the
discovery of arms in Fiji," he
said.
"I remember telling the
reporter that it was an
attempt by certain people to
blame us (deposed government) for bringing the illegal
arms into the country. "We
had nothing to do with that
but it was probably the
result of differences within
that group as it was obvious
that someone wanted to
remain in harness." Dr Baba
said when Khan's name
popped up in the media
after a few days as the main
suspect behind the shipment, he realised meeting
him in London. "I had forgotten about meeting Khan in
England in June 1987 but
when I heard about the
arms shipment one year
later, it came to my mind so
we followed it with a lot of
interest.
"It was obvious that
some
people
wanted
Rabuka out of the illegal
government and luckily the
arms were found." Dr Baba
said he was also taken in for
questioning by police with
other members of the
deposed coalition government after the discovery of
the weapons but later
released. He said the idea
of using arms to fight for
something was out of his
thinking, saying Khan probably thought there would be
a lot of takers when he

approached him in London.

While he may not have seen
the illegal weapons that
were sent to Fiji, Dr Baba
believes some of the
weapons were in Parliament
after the civilian coup by
George Speight in 2000.
"I was in the Australian
civilian military and I was a
weapons specialist and
technician. I was in the
Sydney University regiment
while doing my studies," he
said. Dr Baba said after
studying about the Vietnam
war, he had ruled out the
thought that war was the
answer
to
problems.
Ponipate Lesavua, a retired
police officer who co-ordinated the recovery of the
illegal arms, was a member
of the deposed government
in 2000 and held hostage
with his colleagues. "When I
was held hostage in 2000, I
saw the shotguns and AK47
guns being carried around
by
the
Counter
Revolutionary
Warfare
(CRW) unit soldiers and
rebels in Parliament," he
said. "I also saw seven
bazooka or rocket propelled
grenade launchers when I
was with George Speight in
his office in Parliament. "I
told my colleagues who
were also held hostage that
some of the weapons carried by the rebels in
Parliament were similar to
those that we had recovered
from various places in
1988." Mr Lesavua said
while the team of police and
military personnel were able
to recover most of the illegal
weapons in 1988, about
three tonnes could not be
found. He said the missing
weapons were a worry.

Great bargains and a variety

of products at Fiji Showcase
I

ts the fifth day of Fiji

Showcase and people
continue to get good bargains on different products
at wholesale and below
wholesale prices. About
40,000 people have visited
Fiji Showcase so far. We
spoke to some people who
were at Fiji Showcase and
this is what they had to say.
Organizers of the Biggest
Trade Show in the South
Pacific say specials will run
right throughout the week
and thousands of items
continue to be sold at
wholesale and below
wholesale prices.
Looking at the entertainment today, the Breaking
Broken Dreams with Maple
Staplegun will be at
3.45pm, the TNT show with
Mr Vita all the way from
Spain will be at 5.45pm,
the Character Parade is at
6pm, the Delicious Dance
Crew will perform at
6.30pm while the Las
Cossas Nostra Show with
Mia Mine and Mr Vita will

be at 7.30pm.
Meanwhile, the famous
i-Taukei group Voqa kei

Valenisau will be performing on the Viti FM entertainment stage at 7pm.

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FIJI AND THE SW PACIFIC

"
I
f you haven't
already
heard, a
macking swell
(aka the #IndianOceanXXLSwell) rocked
everywhere from
West Oz to Indo to
the Maldives last
week.

Marching
eastward
under Oz, this swell has
recently plowed through
Tasmania and into New
Zealand, where it is currently making its way
through the Tasman Sea
and stepping into the
Southwest
Pacific.
Although the swell has
now lost a little gusto, you
can expect various locations from Fiji to Tahiti to
even the Americas to soon
feel the wrath.
STORM STATUS
It's been a week since
the storm was in its prime,
where it stretched across
the entire South Indian
Ocean as one large and
intense area of low pressure. Over the past few
days, this storm has broken up into a complex system with multiple areas of
smaller lows now making

its way under New

Zealand. However, one of
these associated lows is
still packing a punch,
boasting a decent-size
swath of satellite-confirmed wind speeds reaching 40-60kts in the
Southern Ocean and
tracking eastward.

WHERE THE SWELL

IS HITTING NOW
Tasmania and New
Zealand. Although this
s p e c i f i c
#IndianOceanXXLSwell
has recently passed the
peak for Tasmania, other
large swells are stacking
up on the horizon.
Meanwhile, New Zealand
is peaking right now with
about 16-18ft+ of deepwater swell for the wellexposed locations of the
island nation.
WHERE THE SWELL
IS HITTING NEXT
Following the great circle path and radiating out
through angular spreading, this swell has its sights
set on the many islands
that dot both the Tasman
Sea and the Southwest
Pacific, including the popular destinations of Fiji and
Tahiti.
FIJI: Steady build on
Wednesday July 1st with
the initial long-period energy, topping out late in the
day with about 9-10ft of

...this swell
has its
sights set
on the many islands that dot
both the Tasman
Sea and the
Southwest Pacific, including the
popular destinations of Fiji and
Tahiti."
Jonathan
Warren

deepwater SW swell at 1618sec and holding strong

into the morning of
Thursday the 2nd. This
swell will be greeted with
favorable ESE'erly trade
winds. Note: This is not as
big as the swells of July
2011 and June 2012 -- but
should still be a darn good
event.
In addition, consecutive
pulses of more solid SW
swells are lining up for Fiji.
We're looking for another
good-size SW swell to
build in Friday the 3rd into
Saturday the 4th, with
another by Monday the
6th, then possibly even
more for around the 8th10th. It's still pending
development, so stay
tuned to the forecast.
TAHITI: The swell at
hand will eventually make
its way over to Tahiti as

12-year licence
for Fiji TV
F
Smith
named Fiji
TV CEO

iji Television Limited

Board has announced
Geoffrey Smith as its
new Chief Executive Officer.
Smith has been acting as
CEO since December 16th
last year. Other appointments include the
Companys Secretary to the
Board for FTV Group which
has been appointed to a
lawyer by profession
Mereoni Matavou. Nitesh
Chand who is an accountant
by profession is the new
General Manager Corporate
while Karen Lobendhan is
the General Manager
International. Meanwhile,
the former Head of
Compliance Risk and
Human Resources Serai
Roxburgh is the new
General Manager
Operations. The Board says
all the newly appointed personnel will take up their
posts from tomorrow.

IJI Television Ltd has

been given an extension of 12 years to its
broadcasting licence where
it will have to pay $20,000
when the licence comes into
effect on Wednesday, July
1. The licence extension
announcement was made
yesterday by Minister for
Communications
Aiyaz
Sayed-Khaiyum a few days
short of the expiration of the
current licence on June 30.
While handing over the
licence to Nouzab Fareed,
CEO of Fijian Holding Ltd
CEO, of which Fiji TV is a
subsidiary company Mr
Saiyed-Khaiyum said the
licence was given for Fiji
TV's spectrum allocation in
news. "We have now
extended licence to a period
of 12 years. As you know
Government has been carrying out a number of substantive works in regards to
spectrum allocation in Fiji
which has led to a number of
changes,"
Mr
SayedKhaiyum said.
Fiji Television Ltd is
expected to switch from
analogue to digital with at
least the Suva-Nausori corridor to be finalised at the end
of this year.
"Certain conditions with

this, as soon as the switch

over, this licence will then be
varied to reflect the digital
spectrum." Other conditions
in the licence include the
emphasis on local content.
"When specific hours of
local content has been given
, people have tried to fulfil
that by showing local sports,
local content is not just
about local sports. For now
the 25 hours of local content, at least the 13 hours of
that should not be local
sports, it should be other
content, whether in the vernacular or English, it should
be local and that means
local production."
He said this would
encourage the development
of local production in Fiji.
Meanwhile, Mr Fareed said
the 12-year licence was
unexpected but added they
would
definitely
work
according to the conditions
and the switch from analog
to digital would allow members of the public to watch
high quality and high definition TV shows.
When its 12-year licence
expired in 2012, Fiji
Television Ltd was given sixmonth extensions up until
yesterday when a new 12year licence was given.

two overlapping pulses: 1)

The original Indian Ocean
swell, and 2) the newly
developing swell from the
storm in its current location. Look for this SW
energy to steadily build in
over Thursday/Friday the
2nd-3rd, topping out on
Saturday, the Fourth of
July, with about 9-10ft+ of
deepwater swell at 1618sec.
WILL THE AMERICAS
SEE ANY OF IT?
YES, and with the
SW'erly angle, this swell
will pretty much move in at
the same time for the
entire west coast of the
Americas, but showing
strongest for Chile through
Mainland Mexico. Similar
to Tahiti, this run of SW
energy will move in as two
overlapping swells: 1)

Australian
national fined
$2000 for fake
bomb threat
A 33-year-old ship officer from Australia who
pleaded guilty to the
charge of Threats and
False Statement
Respecting Aircraft has
been fined $2,000. The
Resident Magistrates
Court in Nadi was told
that on Tuesday
Swarup Das made a
threat and false statement to Air Terminal
service passenger
agent Martha Tuilakepa
that he has a bomb and
it is going to ignite,
knowing such communication was fake and
would cause inconvenience to people about to
travel in the flight bound
for Sydney. While sentencing him Resident
Magistrate Mohamed
Azhar highlighted that
though Das took it as a
joke it is indiscriminate
threat to everyone. He
told the man that he
cannot expect the person who heard his representation to take it as
a joke, because he or
she will be held liable if
anything happens on
the air. In default he will
be sent to prison for
three months.

Primarily the newly developing swell from the storm

as it slides out from under
New Zealand; 2) Some
underlying
super-longperiod energy from the
original Indian Ocean
swell. The longer-period
forerunners from this run
of SW swell will gradually
fill in over July 6th-9th, topping out the 9th-11th and
delivering fun-size to locally solid surf to the better
exposures from Central
America to Mexico; and
showing similar size but
just a touch sooner for
South America.
For California, this swell
will be a little smaller for a
couple reasons: 1) It's further away/north, and 2)
Shadowing by French
Polynesia. However, funsize surf is certainly

expected to still show at

the better Southern Hemiexposed breaks throughout the region as this swell
tops out over July 9th12th.
For Hawaii, after the
SW swell filters through
Fiji and the surrounding
islands, only a small fraction of it will be left over to
move on to the Aloha
State. Mixing in with other
SSW swells, this SW energy will build in over the
weekend of the 4th-5th,
topping out Sunday afternoon and holding through
Monday/Tuesday the 6th7th with modest to locally
fun-size surf.
Note: There is still plenty of time to iron out the
details for the Americas
and it would be wise to
expect at least a little
change in the forecast this
far out.
Be sure to follow us on
Instagram,
Twitter,
Facebook and Google+ for
more frequent updates as
we track this swell over the
next several days. Also
look
for
#IndianOceanXXLSwell
for further details. If you're
chasing this swell, we'd
love to see your photos via
t
h
e
#IndianOceanXXLSwell
hashtag, as well. Live
observations from the field
is critical to our forecast
success.

PM opens new R C Manubhai

manufacturing facility in Ba
R

C Manubhai Group
of Companies has
opened its brand
new manufacturing facility
in Ba today which is an
investment of $10 million.
This factory will manufacture
products
like
polyurethane foam, ropes
and plastics and more than
80 people will be employed
at this new factory.
While opening the new
factory this afternoon,
Prime Minister Voreqe
Bainimarama says this factory supplies its products
to the entire Fiji market and
exports its products to
other
Pacific
Island
nations.
Bainimarama says he
has been told that there is
a good chance that exports
to New Zealand and
Australia will begin soon.
The Prime Minister
highlighted that this is just
the latest milestone in the
story of the great company
as throughout its history
the Patel family has shown
enterprise, commitment,
determination and faith in
the future of Fiji.
Meanwhile,
the
Managing Director and
Chairman of the R C
Manubhai
Group
of

Companies, Dinesh Patel

says they will continue to
invest and diversify their
product range and people
can expect to see some
interesting products in due
course.
Patel also confirmed
this afternoon that their
group has major development plans for Fiji which is
worth between $30 million
to $50 million.
He says some of the
work will start before the
end of this year.

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Pak desperate to disrupt Amarnath Yatra in J&K

"The Pakistan side is
desperate
to
attack
Amarnath
Yatra
and
Vishno Devio Yatra, in the
wake of the tightened
security in the state and the
tough stand of the Central
government,"
he
told
reporters
in
Jammu.
Asserting that the recent
incidents of ceasefire violations were aimed at facilitating infiltration from
across the border, J&K
Deputy Chief Minister
Nirmal Singh on Monday
said that Pakistan was desperately trying to disrupt
the annual Amarnath Yatra
in the state. The Pakistan
side is desperate to attack
Amarnath
Yatra
and

Vishno Devio Yatra, in the

wake of the tightened
security in the state and the
tough stand of the Central
government,
he
told
reporters in Jammu.
While Pakistan army
and the ISI are busy in antiIndia activities, the intentions of the Pakistan government are also not clear,
he said. Addressing the
party workers during a
function on Monday, Singh
also spoke about the
alleged
differences
between the PDP-BJP
coalition in the state. The
coalition partners in the
state have their own separate agendas and the day
BJP feels that it has

become difficult for the

party to continue, it would
not spare a moment to pull
out of the government.
Problems do arise as we
have our own agenda and
our ruling partner (PDP)
has a different agenda. The
day the party (BJP) feels
that it has become difficult
to continue (in the coalition), we will not stay in
power for one second, he
said. The leader stated that
in the past four months
since the formation of the
state government, BJP has
set a level playing field
with the coalition partner
and the party would soon
start delivering to the people of Jammu.

Militants photo on Facebook

J&K Police turn to court for help
S
eeking to block Facebook pages
that upload photographs of militants, the J&K Police have
sought directions from a local court to
social networking sites.
The action comes after a photograph of Hizbul Mujahideen militants
was uploaded on a Facebook page.
The photograph, apparently taken
after a convention, shows the militants
in camouflage outfits posing with their
automatic rifles. The militants belong
to different parts of south Kashmir.
Security agencies are concerned
about how the militants were able to
meet at one place. All these militants
were already on our radar, said a senior police officer dealing with counter
insurgency. But the matter of concern
is how the militants from different parts
of south Kashmir managed to assemble at one place despite heightened
pressure from the security forces.
The rare photograph, police sources
said, indicates that militants from different parts of Tral, Pulwama and
Shopian assembled at one place for a
meeting. What is disturbing about this
meeting is why the militants took such
a risk just for a meeting, said the
police officer. Also, it shows that the
militants in south Kashmir are in close
contact with each other and have good
mobility too. Though militants, in army
fatigues, roam around in south
Kashmirs Tral area, their movement is
limited in Pulwama and Shopian dis-

The rare photograph, police sources said, indicates that

militants from different parts of Tral, Pulwama and Shopian
assembled at one place for a meeting.

tricts. These places are more than 30

kilometres away from each other.
Police have identified the militants in
the picture. They include Hizbul
Mujahideen commander Burhan
Muzaffar Wani, the 21-year-old militant
from Tral who is seen as the poster
boy of the new breed of militancy in
Kashmir. There are four militants from
Shopian, three from Pulwama, two
from Tral and one from Awantipora in
the picture. Police sources say that
one militant who is masked in the picture has not been identified. The picture has also confirmed polices apprehensions that Special Police Officer
Naseer Ahmad Pandit, who decamped
with a rifle from Minister Altaf Bukharis
residence, has joined the Hizbul
Mujahideen. Police sources said

Pandit, who can be seen in the photograph, had gone to meet an officer at a
police station. He was reportedly beaten up at the police station, and later
joined militancy. The photograph,
along with many other photographs of
militants, has gone viral on social networking sites in the Valley. In recent
days, many Facebook pages have
appeared with photographs of militants. There is every chance that the
militants are deliberately circulating
these pictures, said a police officer. It
is likely that they are doing it to inspire
more youth to join militancy. In the
past, the police have managed to track
down the people running pro-militant
and pro-separatist pages. But with the
youth using proxy sites, they are finding their task more difficult.

Joint team to
probe Iranian
boat's presence
in Kerala coast
HIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A
Joint Investigation team by
central and state agencies will
commence a probe from
Tuesday on the seizure of a
suspicious foreign dhow with
12 Iranian crew members intercepted off the Kerala coast.
The team, comprising personnel from Coast Guard, Navy,
Kerala Police and those from
central agencies, will be headed by Thiruvananthapuram city
police commissioner H R
Venkatesh, sources told PTI.
The Coast Guard had yesterday intercepted the foreign
dhow and had brought it to the
nearby Vizhinjam coast.
The sources said that the
statements given by some of
the crew members of the boat,
which had left Kalat in Iran on
May
25,
were
not
matching.Though the crew
stated that the boat was 'drifting', they were not able to tell
why they had not called for
help. A Pakistan ID card and a
satellite communication set
had also been recovered from
the vessel by the officials.
Coast Guard said the boat has
been handed over to police.
Venkatesh said that with the
probe being intensified, more
details are expected in the
coming days.

Monitoring Greek crisis

May hit India indirectly
New Delhi: The government on
Monday said it was closely monitoring
the Greek situation and euro market
movement after the rejection of creditors' austerity proposals in a referendum posed the possibility of Greece's
exit from the euro zone. "We will have
to see how the euro moves now. We
are closely monitoring the Greek situation. There could be some reaction on
the Fed (US Federal Reserve) rate
hike," Finance Secretary Rajiv
Mehrishi said here. "The Greece crisis
might impact India indirectly," he said.
Over 61 percent of Greeks voted "no"
on Sunday, responding overwhelmingly to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' calls
to reject a proposal by the country's
creditors for more austerity in
exchange for a financial bailout.
Mehrishi said last week that the
fallout from Greece would not have a
direct impact on India but capital flows
would be a potential concern, even as
the government was in touch with the
Reserve Bank of India to deal with any
untoward situation. "If yields on euro
bonds go up, it might impact inflows
and outflows from India," he said.
Indian industry feels that if a crisis
developed for Europe due to Greece,
India too could feel the tremors like the
rest of the world. "What is worrying is
that the overall situation with regard to
India's merchandise exports does not
look promising this year and the troubles in Europe could only deteriorate

the prospects," Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry of India
(Assocham) said in a statement here.
"There is a need for RBI and the
finance ministry to keep a close eye on
the muddy global situation and its possible effect on India's capital flows and
the currency movement," the industry
body added. India's merchandise
exports continued to decline for the
second month this fiscal, down by over
20 percent at $22.35 billion in May from
$27.99 billion in the same month of the
previous year, official data showed last
month. The Federation of Indian Export
Organisations (FIEO) has warned that
the continuing decline in exports would
result in layoffs, besides putting pressure on the current account deficit
(CAD). FIEO president S C Ralhan
agreed with RBI Governor Raghuram
Rajan's recent remarks that the central
banks globally were at risk of slipping
into the kind of beggar-thy-neighbour
strategies, leading to the Great
Depression of the 1930s again. In a
statement, he said that based on the
current order booking position, he was
apprehensive that the Indian exports
might significantly decline in volume in
the months ahead, resulting in job layoffs. The strategy of "making a beggar
out of neighbouring nations" normally
involves increasing the demand for
one's exports by devaluing the nation's
currency so as to make the exports to
other countries cheaper.

Two more bodies recovered in Amreli, flood death toll goes up to 47

Cattle-herders grazing their cattle near the banks of Shetrunji river
in Krakach village spotted the bodies lying at different spots near the
confluence of Shetrunji and
Gagadio rivers at around 3 PM and
alerted police. Around two weeks
after flash floods ravaged the district, two more human bodies were
recovered from the banks of
Shetrunji river in Liliya taluka of
Amreli district on Monday, taking the
death toll to 47.
Cattle-herders grazing their cattle near the banks of Shetrunji river
in Krakach village spotted the bodies lying at different spots near the
confluence of Shetrunji and
Gagadio rivers at around 3 PM and
alerted police. The bodies, partially
covered with mud were found from
either side of Amreli-Gariyadhar
state highway, police said. One of

the bodies has been identified to be

that of one Ghanshyambhai Patel.
We are in the process of ascertain
the identity of the other body. With
this, the death toll in the district due
to floods has gone up to 46 plus one
unidentified body, superintendent
of police of Amreli, Antrip Sood told
The Indian Express. The SP further
said that with the recovery of two
bodies, the number of persons

missing since June 24 floods has

come down to seven. Dharmishtha
Goswami, police sub-inspector of
Liliya said that relatives of Patel
identified him from the clothes he
was wearing and his limbs. Patel, a
55-year-old farmer from Devaliya
village of Amreli taluka, was reported missing after some parts of district received up to 26 inches of rain
within a few hours and rivers

swelled. The other body has

almost decomposed and reduced
almost to a skeleton. We are contacting relatives of those who are on
the list of missing persons to establish its identity, Goswami, who went
on the spot to oversee recovery of
the bodies said. Bagasara, Kukavav
and Amreli were the worst affected
talukas of Amreli district after it was
pounded by torrential rain under the
influence of a deep depression
which had developed in the Arabian
sea. More than 5000 cattle and hundreds of wild animals were also
washed away in the flood. So far,
carcasses of 11 Asiatic lions, the
endangered species found only in
Gir forest and adjoining area, have
been recovered. The incessant rain
and subsequent flood also led to
collapse of thousands of homes and
damage to agricultural land.

Assam flood turns grim;

over 65,000 affected

The flood situation in Assam

turned grim over the past 24
hours due to incessant rains with
over 65,000 people being affected in 125 villages across the
state. Assam State Disaster
Management Authority (ASDMA)
said in its flood report, that more
than 65,000 persons were
affected in Dhemaji, Bongaigaon
and Sonitpur districts. With
40,000 persons, Bongaigaon
district was the most affected followed by Dhemaji with almost
25,000 people being affected at

present, it said. More than 3,800

hectares of crop areas were
under water currently, the report
mentioned. Authorities have
opened four relief camps in
Bongaigaon, where 2,870 persons were taking shelter. The
flood waters have also damaged
a road and breached an
embankment in Sonitpur. The
death toll in this years flood in
Assam has remained at five
two in Lakhimpur and one each
in Bongaigaon, Baksa and
Sonitpur.

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Vyapam scam : 40 dead, 2000 held, 2.5m affected; but no CBI probe
A multi-crore scam in
Madhya Pradesh got murkier on Monday with a mysterious third death linked to the
scandal but the Centre ruled
out a CBI probe despite
mounting pressure amid
allegations of witnesses
being deliberately eliminated.
Police found the body of
25-year-old trainee subinspector
Anamika
Kushwaha -- who was
recruited by the scam-tainted process that affected at
least 2.5 million students in
a pond in a MP police academy and said preliminary
evidence suggested suicide.
Her body was discovered a
day after Arun Sharma, the
dean of a Jabalpur medical
college, who was helping
the investigation, was found
dead in his Delhi hotel room
on Sunday and a journalist
covering the multi-crore
racket died mid-interview on
Saturday night.
Opposition parties called
for the resignation of chief
minister Shivraj Singh

Chouhan and demanded a

Supreme Court-monitored
CBI probe as the investigation into one of the countrys
biggest corruption scandals
spread to Bihar and Uttar
Pradesh.
Chouhan should be
sacked and an impartial
probe ordered. How could
such a mammoth corruption
scam be carried on without
the complicity and knowledge of the CM? said
Congress spokesperson
Randeep Singh Surjewala.
At least 40 people including
witnesses, accused and
beneficiaries connected to
the racket have been found
dead since 2013, when the
arrest of 20 people in Indore
blew the lid off the massive
scam. It has since snowballed into the biggest crisis
to threaten Chouhans political career and led to over
2,000 arrests, including
politicians, bureaucrats and
middlemen.
Police say an organised
racket employed medics
from as far away as Patna

and Lucknow to impersonate medical students and

write recruitment exams
since as early as 2008.
Middlemen
manipulated
seating arrangements and
forged answer sheets in
exchange of lakhs of
rupees.
But many whistleblowers,
who initially spearheaded
the investigation, say they
now fear for their lives after
scores of people, many of
them in their 20s, were
found dead in recent
months. Some bodies have
been found under bridges
and on railway tracks while

SC allows unwed mothers to have

guardianship without father's consent
Father's consent is not
required
in
giving
guardianship of a child to
an unmarried mother, the
Supreme Court ruled on
Monday. The apex court
bench headed by justice
Vikramajit Sen said this
while recalling the earlier
order of a guardianship
court and asking it to reexamine the plea by the
unwed mother seeking
guardianship of the child
without issuing notice to
the father.
The court said that the
lower courts, including

high court, lost sight of the

issue that was before them
to be examined and decided the matter without taking into account the wel-

Modi, Sharif to meet on

sidelines of SCO Summit
Prime
Minister
Narendra Modi and his
Pakistani
counterpart
Nawaz Sharif will meet on
the sidelines of the SCO
Summit in Russia on July
10. According to sources,
the two leaders, who will
be present in Ufa to attend
the Shanghai Cooperation
Organisation
(SCO)
Summit, will be meeting on
the sidelines of it.
However, the details of
the meeting were not specified. Mr. Modi, who is
embarking on a six-nation
visit today, will be in Russia
to attend SCO as well as
the BRICS Summit.
Mr. Modi and Sharif had
last met in Kathmandu in
November at the SAARC
Summit where they did
not, however, hold any
bilateral meeting.

Earlier at the beginning

of the holy month of
Ramzan,
the
Prime
Minister had called Mr.
Sharif and extended his
best wishes while stressing the need for having
peaceful and bilateral ties.
During his telephonic
conversation, Mr. Modi had
also conveyed to his
Pakistani
counterpart
Indias decision to release
detained Pakistani fishermen on the occasion of
Ramzan. The call was
seen by many as an
attempt to reach out to
Pakistan after leaders from
both sides exchanged
sharp comments after Mr
Modis critical remarks
about Pakistan during his
Bangladesh visit and in the
wake of Indias military
action in Myanmar.

fare of the child.

The court order came
on a petition by a woman
who is a gazetted officer in
the government. She had
challenged the procedural
necessity of disclosing the
identity of the father and
issuing notice to him on a
plea
seeking
sole
guardianship of the child
by the unwed mother.
The mother had contended that the man
stayed with her barely for
two months and did not
even know the existence of
the child.

ISRO to launch
5 UK satellites
Bengaluru : An Indian rocket is
readying for its heaviest mission on
July 10 to put into orbit five British
satellites alltogether weighing
around 1,440 kg from the space
port in Sriharikota, the Indian space
agency said on Saturday.
According to the Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO), its
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
(PSLV) is scheduled to carry aloft
five foreign satellites on July 10.
The four-stage engine PSLV
rocket in XL variant is expected to
blast off around 10 pm from the
Satish Dhawan Space Centre at
Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The
62.5-hour countdown will start on
July 8 around 7.30 am.
With the overall lift-off mass of
the five satellites amounting to
about 1,440 kg, this mission
becomes the heaviest commercial
mission ever undertaken by
Antrix/ISRO, the Indian space
agency said. In its 13th flight,
PSLV-C28 will launch three identical DMC3 optical earth observation
satellites built by Surrey Satellite
Technology Limited (SSTL), United
Kingdom (UK).

other died of freak accidents

or mysterious illnesses,
sometimes while behind
bars.
A special task force probing the scam has visited
medical colleges in Bihar
several times in the past two
weeks in search of 40 medical students from Bihar who
helped impersonate candidates. Around 125 medicos
from UP are also wanted for
their alleged role as professional solvers, who were
paid up to Rs 5 lakh to
answer exam questions on
behalf of the candidates.As
the crisis spiralled, the Aam

ClASheS In
KAnnAUJ; One
deAd In FIRIng
One person was killed and
more than 20 others injured
after clashes broke out Sunday
night between two sections
over an issue involving a landlord and his tenant. An angry
mob went on the rampage and
burnt down several shops after
a young man, identified as
Azad, was killed by a stray bullet. DIG Kanpur Neelabhjo
Chowdhary said the police
have identified trouble makers
and were conducting raids for
their arrest. Trouble started
when a mob attacked the landlord who had gone to negotiate
the evacuation of a shop which
has been with another family on
rent for over 100 years.

Aadmi Party announced a

nationwide protest on July
11 with senior leader Kumar
Vishwas filing a public interest litigation in the Supreme
Court demanding a courtmonitored probe. The apex
court is already hearing a
petition to remove governor
Ram Naresh Yadav, who is
an accused in the case.
People want Prime
Minister to speak and intervene in Vyapam. PM should
no more remain silent,
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal
tweeted.
But
a
combative
Chouhan refused to give in,
saying all deaths shouldnt
be linked with the multi-layered MP public examination
board (PEB) scam, also
known as Vyapam scam
after the boards Hindi
acronym.
Her
(Kushwahas) death is an
unfortunate incident but it is
not related to the Vyapam
scam investigation. Every
death is sad, Chouhan
said. The Centre also
appeared to back him, but

Union
home
minister
Rajnath Singh ruled out a
CBI probe, saying a Madhya
Pradesh high court-monitored special investigating
team (SIT) was already
investigating the allegations.
The SIT is not working
under the Madhya Pradesh
government but under the
supervision of the high
court. Politics should be
based on valid and reasonable issues, Singh said in
Jhabua. We cannot direct
the Supreme Court or the
high court.
The government also
accused the Congress of
playing petty politics over
the deaths, saying the
deaths had no connection
with the scam.
Kushwaha and Arun
Sharma werent witnesses
or accused in the scam.
Kushwahas father has said
she was having domestic
problems. But the Congress
is trying to unnecessarily link
the deaths to Vyapam,
state
health
minister
Narottam Mishra said.

PAK violates ceasefire in Kupwara

in J-K, BSF jawan killed
Pakistani
Rangers
resorted to repeated ceasefire violations and fired at
Indian positions across the
LoC in north Kashmir's
Kupwara on Sunday, killing
a BSF jawan. Border
Security Force (BSF) constable Abhijit Nandi of 119
battalion was killed during
an exchange of fire
between both sides around
3:30pm in Nowgam Sector
of Handwara. The latest
round of firing started
around 7.30pm near the
Sonapindi post and reportedly lasted around 20 min-

utes. The Indian Army's

Kumaon regiment which
was posted in the area fired
back on a nearby range
housing Pakistani pickets.
Reports not yet confirmed by the army suggested that light mortar was
also exchanged, which is
rare in this part of the valley.
Immediately afterwards, the
army launched a cordon
and search operation in the
nearby forest area of Lenda
Began and Musa Began to
flush out militants who might
have sneaked in under the
cover of gunfire.

Rain relief for north India

Himachal pardeshs capital Shimla was one of the areas which

enjoyed heavy rainfall, creating a dense fog that covered the town

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Ladies who questioned editor

on his JD degree : response
The two ladies here
who said met the editor
some 8 years ago at an
event at CHANDI was
surprised the editor
hadnt changed much
over the years. Well,
thanks for the compliment.
However, the nice
lady on the left asked
editor of his qualifications and said she was
studying for a JD Degree
with already a Masters
degree
on
hand.
Surprised, the editor
said California State
Board requires only 60
college units for first
year bar exam.
He suggested the
young lady to visit the
Cal State Bar website
and submit an application for the bar exam.
The editor said the site
also gives information

on how to get your foreign law studies evaluated by a list of private

companies to transform
them into US college
credits for the bay exam.
There are two types of
JD, the bar and non-bar
JD degrees. Not all colleges offer a JD bar
degree as they may not
be accredited by the Cal

State Bar. Possession of a

JD degree does not
make you an attorney
unless you pass the bar
exam and obtain a proper licensing to practice
law in California. But the
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degree can also lead to
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India waging proxy war against

Pakistan through terrorism: Asif
ISLAMABAD: Defence
Minister Khawaja Asif on
Monday said India was
waging a proxy war
against Pakistan through
terrorism.
Fuelling terrorism
directly or indirectly is
Indias proxy war in
Pakistan,
Asif
told
Saleem Safi on Geo
News programme Jirga.
The minister said
there was evidence of
Indias
support
to
Te h r e e k - e - Ta l i b a n
Pakistan (TTP) and
Baloch separatists. He
added that this evidence
had been presented at
international forums.
Khawaja Asif emphasised that Pakistans
defence capability was
strong. According to the
defence minister use of
nuclear weapons was an
option as they were not

merely kept for show but

as deterrents.
We should pray that
such an option never arises, but if we need to use
them (nuclear weapons)
for our survival we will.
When asked about
Indian
support
to
Muttahida
Qaumi
Movement (MQM), Asif
replied that these reports
were only days old and if
there was any evidence
found it will be presented
in international forums.

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July-2015

11

DJ Butt claims PTI owes him Rs80 million

LAHORE: DJ Butt who
gave life to Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) rallies and last years sit in
claims he is owed Rs80
million by the party.
According to DJ Butt
the PTI racked up a bill of
Rs140 million during the
Islamabad sit in of which
he had been paid Rs59
million. DJ Butt claims he
had a daily agreement
which started off at
Rs680,000 with the PTI
during the Islamabad sit-in.
This daily agreement was
to cover costs of arrangements and was reduced.
The DJ said he is facing
financial difficulties due to
non-payment of his dues
by PTI.
DJ Butt informed Geo
News a committee had
been formed by the PTI
which demanded details
for his expenses. Details
were provided to the committee three months ago.
The DJ emphasised

that he will not take legal

action
against
PTI
Chairman Imran Khan and
can only pray to God for
his payment.
PTI leader Naeem-ulHaq has assured me that
dues will be cleared, he

added. Geo News spoke

with Naeem-ul-Haq who
praised the role played by
DJ Butt for the party. He
added that expenses are
approved by the finance
board of the party beforehand and the amount

owed to DJ Butt has been

cleared. Naeem-ul-Haq
further said that since the
sit-in
was
extended
beyond the agreement
period with DJ Butt, he had
called him to Islamabad to
resolve the matter.

Sub-Inspector, bank manager among 4 killed in violence Cannot enforce a law that
KARACHI: A sub-inspector
of Sindh Police and manager
of a local bank among at
least four people have been
gunned down in separate
incidents of firing within few
hours in the city, officials said
early on Tuesday. According
to the SSP Central, SubInspector Imran was killed by
unknown gunmen as they
opened fire at his car near
Abdullah College in North
Nazimabad. The incident
appears to be an attempted
car-snatching, he added. In a
separate incident, Sheikh

Nazir, the bank manager of

National Bank of Pakistans
(NBP) local branch was
gunned down near UP Mor
area of North Karachi.

Ayyan to be indicted in currency smuggling case on July

RAWALPINDI: Model Ayyan
Ali will be indicted in the currency smuggling case on
July 13. Upon completion of
her judicial remand Ayyan
was presented in the
Customs Court of Judge
Rana Aftab Ahmed Khan.
The court extended her judicial remand till July 13. The
model was arrested from the
Benazir Bhutto International
Airport in Islamabad on May
14, 2015 with USD 500,000.
She has been accused of
illegally trying to take this
amount outside the country.
During proceedings, Ayyan
said she was not aware that
taking a large amount of

money out of the country

was illegal. She pleaded that
bail was not being granted to
her while others had been
granted bail. The model also
dismissed reports that she
was associated with a political personality.
Ayyan Alis bail petitions
have been rejected twice by
the District Court, once each
by the Lahore High Court
Rawalpindi Bench and
Lahore High Court.
If convicted Ayyan Ali can
be sentenced under the
Customs Act to a maximum
of 14 years in prison and fine
up to ten times what was in
her possession.

SSP Muaqadas Haider

told Geo News that Nazir
was apparently killed for
resisting a street-crime. SHO
Sir Syed Town Gul Baig has

Altaf lauds bold

stance by CM
Sindh on additional powers of FIA
LONDON: Muttahida Qaumi
Movement (MQM) Chief
Altaf Hussain has praised
the bold stance taken by
Chief Minister Sindh Syed
Qaim Ali Shah on the issue
of giving additional powers
to Federal Investigation
Agency (FIA).
He said that the MQM
fully supports the stand
taken by CM Sindh, adding
that giving more powers to
the FIA was tantamount to
an attack on Sindh and a
great injustice.
CM Sindh has rightly
said that legislation should
be done to stop such injustices to provinces.
Altaf assured the Chief
Minister that the MQM would
extend every political, legal
and moral support if the
Sindh government challenges the additional powers
for FIA in a court. He urged
the parliamentarians from
Sindh to set aside their ideological differences and
launch a united effort for the
legal and constitutional
rights of Sindh.

been suspended after the

incident, he added.
In other incidents, a man
identified as Bakht Mansha
was killed near Ayesha
Manzil and an anonymous
dead body was recovered
from Sohrab Goth area.
Meanwhile, the Rangers
paramilitary force claimed to
have rounded up several
suspicious people besides
arresting nine suspects in
separate raids conducted in
Muslim Colony, Kausar
Colony and Godhra neighbourhoods.

does not exist : Rabbani

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Senate,
Mian Raza Rabbani on Monday
ruled that the parliament cannot
permit enforcement of a law that
does not exist.
The Senate Chairman ruled,
that the draft for the local bodies
elections was under review
adding that while it had recommendations it was not a law.
Rabbani further remarked that
as Chairman of the Senate of
Pakistan it was his responsibility
to make sure the constitution

and the parliament were obeyed.

Earlier in the day, the Supreme
Court of Pakistan demanded that
it be informed on Tuesday (tomorrow) regarding when the bill would
be passed.

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PM may raise Modis remarks, Indian interference at UN

ISLAMABAD: The Prime
Minister Office is considering
taking up the recent controversial statement of Prime
Minister Narendra Modi about
the creation of Bangladesh
and the ongoing Indian interference in Pakistan at the
United Nations.
A close aide to Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif told
Dawn that the issue was discussed at the Foreign Office
last week in the presence of
the countrys representative to
the UN, Dr Maleeha Lodhi,
and most of the participants of
the meeting were of the view
that Pakistan must take it to
the UN.
But considering Mr Sharifs
desire to develop friendly ties
with India, it will be interesting
to see his reaction to the suggestions of the Foreign Office.
The prime minister went to
Delhi in May last year on Mr
Modis invitation to attend his
oath-taking ceremony, but
since then relations between
the two countries had only
soured.
According to sources privy
to the development, a consensus had emerged during the
meetings at the Foreign Office

that the Indian prime ministers

speech made by him in Dhaka
last month and evidence
about Indias ongoing interference in Pakistans affairs must
be taken to the UN.
Input from all state institutions concerned dealing with
internal and external security
was duly incorporated during
discussions at the Foreign
Office and it was decided to
take up the matter to the international
body,
multiple
sources privy to the development confided to Dawn.
A final call, of course, will
be made by Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif who has been
conveyed the response of the
Foreign Office and other state
institutions concerned that the
government must give importance to the provocative statement of Mr Modi, a senior
government official told Dawn.
After holding consultations
at the Foreign Office, Dr Lodhi
met the prime minister. The
Foreign Office said Dr Lodhi
was in Islamabad for consultations on Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharifs planned visit to the UN
in September to attend a
series of summits, besides
addressing the General

Principal accused in Perween murder

case to be arrested soon, SC assured
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme
Court was assured on Monday
that the principal accused in the
mysterious murder of Orangi
Pilot Project director Perween
Rehman would be arrested
soon.
DIG Sindh Sultan Ali
Khawaja and SSP Karachi Pir
Mohammad Shah informed a
two-judge bench headed by
Chief Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk that
they had contacted the
Malakand police through some
mediators for the arrest of
Naeem Swati.
Ms Rehman was killed in
Karachi on March 13, 2013. She
was going home from her office
by a car when men on a motorbike opened fire on her on the
Main Manghopir Road near

Banaras Flyover. She suffered

bullet injuries in her neck and
was taken to Abbasi Shaheed
Hospital where she died.
The DIG and SSP said the
mediators had assured the
Sindh police that Naeem Swati,
who frequently changed his
whereabouts from Karachi to
Malakand and back, would soon
surrender after getting assurance that he would not be killed
in a police encounter. Advocate
Raheel Kamran Sheikh, representing the petitioners, requested the court to order the authorities to provide security to Aquila
Ismail, a sister of Ms Perween,
because she had been receiving
threats. The family was also
being pressurised to withdraw
the case, the counsel said.

Assembly. At the moment

three forums are reportedly
under consideration which
could be used to register
Pakistans protest against
India at the UN. I think the UN
General Assembly session
can be a more appropriate
place to highlight the subject
that how a sitting prime minister of India has admitted his
countrys interference in other
country, remarked a retired
federal secretary.
Foreign Office spokesman
Qazi Khalilullah said Pakistan

Indian shelling
continues
SIALKOT: The Indian
Border Security Force (BSF)
shelled Pakistani border villages in Merajkey, Harpal
and Charwah sectors of the
Working Boundary near
Sialkot on Sunday night and
early Monday. According to
senior officials of Punjab
Rangers, the Indians shelled
the three sectors almost the
whole night and targeted
civilian population. No casualty was reported. Several
houses were damaged
when Indian Border Security
Force (BSF) started unprovoked heavy shelling on
Pakistani villages in the
Charwah sector along the
Sialkot Working Boundary
on Sunday.

had all options available, but I

have no information whether
or not the government has formally decided to take the matter to the UN. In the speech at
Dhaka University, Mr Modi
publicly accepted the Indian
government and its peoples
role in the creation of
Bangladesh in 1971. A few
days later, Indian Defence
Minister Manohar Parrikar said
that terrorists had to be neutralised only through terrorists,
implying that his country will
not resist from sponsoring ter-

for an indefinite period. Nisar

reviews FIA investigations in corruption cases He said the National
Database and Registration
Authority would help in preparing a
central database of the ECL and
provide services and expertise to
devise an online mechanism for
registration of NGOs and regulating
their activities. The minister
presided over another meeting that
reviewed the progress of investigations into mega scams and directed
the FIA to take the cases to their
logical conclusion. The meeting
was attended by senior officials of
the Federal Investigation Agency
(FIA). It discussed major scandals,
including Hawala and Hundi cases,
and progress made so far. The
meeting also reviewed the internal
accountability mechanism of the
FIA and performance-based incentives for its officials. Chaudhry Nisar
asked the FIA director general to
submit recommendations in two

days about officials whose performance needed to be recognised.

Scams involving the Employees
Old-Age Benefit Institution, Trade
Development Authority of Pakistan
and Pakistan State Oil and the Haj
scandal also came under discussion. The meeting was informed
that of the 109 cases, challans had
been submitted in 79 cases while
30 were under investigation. The
minister directed the FIA to vigorously pursue all cases without fear
or favour and warned against the

according to the UN resolution

1373, passing such caustic
statements, coupled with
reported incidents of Indias
interference in the country,
clearly suggested that it (India)
was effectively obstructing
Pakistans ongoing counterterrorism efforts.
I am of the strong opinion
that the government must not
hesitate from putting these
facts before the international
community and pursue its
case under the light of UN
charter and resolutions, he
said. Following the attacks in
the US on Sept 11, 2001, the
Security Council adopted resolution 1373 which unequivocally reaffirms the principle
established by the General
Assembly in its declaration of
October 1970 (resolution 2625
(XXV)) and reiterated by the
Security Council in its resolution 1189 (1998) of 13 August
1998, namely that every state
has the duty to refrain from
organising, instigating, assisting or participating in terrorist
acts in another state or acquiescing in organised activities
within its territory directed
towards the commission of
such acts.

Witness in Benazir case retracts statement

ISLAMABAD: Another key
witness in Benazir murder
case retracted his earlier
statement during cross
examination before the AntiTerrorism Court (ATC).
Earlier, witnesses like
former director general
National
Crisis
Management Cell (NCMC)
retired Brigadier Javed Iqbal
Cheema and SSP Yasin
Farooq had disowned the
statements attributed to
them by the prosecution.
ATC
Judge
Rai
Mohammad Ayub Marth
commenced hearing in the
Benazir murder case in
Adiala Jail when a prosecution witness, retired SSP
Maj Imtiaz a key security
official of Ms Bhutto withdrew his earlier statement.

Thousands of names to be struck off ECL

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister
Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said
that thousands of names will be
removed from the exit control list
(ECL) if the departments concerned
fail to provide within a month justifications for keeping them on it.
During a meeting held here on
Monday to review the new ECL
framework, he said governments in
the past used the ECL as a tool to
punish or favour people, adding
that several names had been on
the list for decades.
He said the procedure for inclusion of names in the ECL would be
simplified and justice would be
ensured in the process. He directed
the ministry to finalise its recommendations on the new ECL framework after consultations with other
ministries and departments concerned. No name should be put on
the list without justification, he said,
adding that it was not appropriate to
keep somebodys name on the ECL

rorist acts in other countries.

But the sources said the government had decided to take
up at the UN only Mr Modis
statement and incidents of
Indian
interference
in
Pakistan.The much-talked
about BBC report that the
MQM receives financial assistance from the Indian intelligence agency, RAW, will not
be part of the case to be raised
at the UN, said the government official. Since the UK
government was already pursuing the cases of murder and
money-laundering against the
MQM and its leadership, there
was no need to take the issue
to the UN, he added.
Talking to Dawn, Ahmar
Bilal Sufi, a former caretaker
federal law minister and expert
on international law, favoured
taking up Mr Modis speech at
the UN.
What Mr Modi said in his
speech in Dhaka is tantamount to self-indictment in an
act of interference in another
country. Under international
law, Mr Sufi explained, this
was the most blatant violation
of the basic building block of
the UN the principle of noninterference. Mr Sufi said

practice of sparing the big fish and

laying hands on petty suspects. He
said services of leading lawyers
should be hired to ensure that suspects involved in the scams did not
benefit from shortcomings in prosecution. Also on Monday, the interior
minister talked to Sindh Chief
Minister Qaim Ali Shah on phone
and discussed with him the recent
empowerment of the FIA giving it
authority to detain suspects for 90
days. Chaudhry Nisar told Mr Shah
that the powers given to the FIA
under the Protection of Pakistan Act
were not Sindh-specific. The basic
purpose of giving the powers to the
FIA is to assign the authority investigations into international and interprovincial crimes which are beyond
the jurisdiction of provincial police
forces. He assured Mr Shah that
the federal government respected
provincial autonomy and there was
no reason for any province to have
any reservation in this respect.

Earlier, in a statement
attributed to Maj Imtiaz it
was claimed that Benazir
Bhutto was killed due to
inadequate
security
arrangements at Liaqat
Bagh where former chairperson of Pakistan Peoples
Party (PPP) had delivered
his last speech. Major Imtiaz
also alleged that the then
city police officer Syed Saud
Aziz and other high ups
were not on duty when the

attackers targeted Benazir.

However, Imtiaz told the
ATC on Monday that foolproof security cover was
provided to Ms Bhutto outside Liaquat Bagh on
December 27, 2007 the day
she was killed in a gun-andbomb attack afte a public
meeting. He said that all the
police officers including the
then CPO Aziz were also
present on the scene to provide security to Benazir
Bhutto.
He added, Had Benazir
not appeared from sunroof
of the vehicle, she might not
have been killed, he said.
After the cross-examining,
the ATC special Judge Rai
Mohammad Ayub Marth
adjourned further proceedings till July 8, 2015.

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Islamic calligraphy at its best : Centuries-old artefacts wows all

T

he gallery at
national
museum stands
ornamented with
metalware, wood,
textiles and semi-Precious stones. what,
makes them sPecial?
the artifacts on disPlay are adorned
with islamic calligraPhy inscriPtions
dating back to the
fifteenth century.

he 59-day show,
curated
by
Anamika Pathak
and Zahid Ali Ansari, portrays the aesthetics of
Arabic-Persian inscriptions, known for their
tasteful blend of florafauna designs that add
to the charm of the
objects.These artefacts
have been arranged, as
per their utilities, into five
main groups: writing
implements,
religion,
faith, tradition and trade.
A brass shallow bowl
from circa 1495 CE,
belonging to the ruling

period (1489-1517) of Delhi

Sultan Sikandar Lodi, is
the oldest exhibit at the
show. Sanjiv Mittal,
director-general of the
National Museum, said
the exhibition assumes
significance keeping in
mind the fact that lettering of a script has been
considered to be one of
the
most
important
aspects of certain cultures.
According to Pathak,
the artefacts at the exhibition are ones that were
crafted for daily, ceremo-

union minister of culture and

tourism, mahesh sharma inaugurated the exhibition 'art of
calligraPhy and beyond: arabic-Persian inscriPtions on decorative art
objects' on may 15. (national museum gallery
curated by
anamika
Pathak
and Zahid
ali ansari,
the exhibition Portrays the aesthetics of
arabic-Persian
inscriPtions.
(national museum
gallery

nial
and
religious
uses from a variety of materials
like ivory, jade,
ceramic,
textile,
wood, metal, glass,
paper, leather and
bone. The exhibition,
closing on July 12, showcases the vast scope of calligraphy, which is not confined
to paper and architecture.

Picasso Painting sells for $179.4 Monsoon inspires

million, smashes world record innovative 'found
object'
art
exhibition
A
S
Picasso oil painting
from
1955
smashed
the
record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at
auction when it soared to
$179.4 million at Christie's
on Monday. The auction
house had estimated "Les
femmes d'Alger (Version
'O')" would sell for about
$140 million, but several
bidders competing via
telephone drove the winning bid to $160 million,
for a final price of
$179,365,000 including
Christie's commission of
just over 12%.
The buyer of the
vibrant cubist work was
not identified. The most
expensive work of art previously sold at auction had
been Francis Bacon's triptych "Three Studies of
Lucian Freud," which sold
for $142.4 million at
Christie's in November
2013. "It will be fascinating
to see how long it holds,"
Jussi
Pylkkanen,
Christie's global president
who also served as auctioneer, said of the record
price.
Giacometti's
1947
sculpture, "L'homme au
doigt" (Pointing man), set
a world record for a sculpture, selling for $141.3 mil-

lion, in line with the presale estimate of about

$130 million. The previous
record of $104.3 million
had been held by
Giacometti's "L'Homme
qui marche I" since 2010.
Ten artists' records
were set at Christie's special "Looking Forward to
the Past" sale, which
spanned collecting categories to include artists
from Monet to Warhol and
took in a total of $705.9
million, far above the presale estimate of $578 million to $668 million. Only
one of the 35 works failed
to sell. "The results really
speak for themselves,"
Pylkkanen said.

The
record-setting
Picasso was last auctioned in 1997, selling for
$31.9 million or nearly
three times its pre-sale
estimate. Bidding started
this time at $100 million,
with deep-pocketed collectors driving the price
upward in $1 million increments. "We saw tremendous competition, with five
major collectors bidding at
the $120 million level,"
said Pylkkanen. "The market has certainly changed
dramatically."
Christie's said active
bidders came from 35
countries, with European
and Asian collectors in
particular competing with

Americans for the top-tier

works. Among other highlights, another Picasso,
"Buste de femme (Femme
a la resille)", fetched $67.4
million, beating the high
estimate of $55 million.
Mark Rothko's "No. 36
(Black
Stripe)"
and
Monet's "Le Parlement"
each sold for $40.5 million. Artist records were
set for Chaim Soutine,
Peter Doig and Jean
Dubuffet, whose "Paris
Polka" fetched $24.8 million, more than tripling the
old mark. The auctions
continue on Tuesday,
when Sotheby's holds its
sale of post-war and contemporary art.

ix months ago, five

contemporary
European abstract
artists were invited by
Ashwin Thadani, founder
of Galerie Isa, to showcase
their vision of the monsoon
through artworks. As the
season approached, the
works arrived, and are currently on display, as part of
The Monsoon Show.
Four of the seven artworks used recycled dayto-day items. German
artist Gregor Hildebrandt is
known to make art out of
music cassettes; Welsh
artist Dan Rees makes art
using Plasticine (modelling
clay) and Artex (a building
material);
RussianTunisian
artist
Nadia
Kaabi-Linke takes imprints
of walls that are hundreds
of years old and transfers it
on to her artwork; German
artist Anselm Reyle uses
found objects such as LED
lights, car lacquers and
foils and reinvents them
through her works.
The exhibition also
showcases artwork by
Danish-Icelandic
artist
Olafur Eliassons watercolour and pencil-on-paper
work; Eliasson has previously worked with elemen-

tal materials such as light

and water. Also featured
are works by Spanish artist
Oliver Roura, whose leitmotif is geometric shapes
reminiscent of microscope
slides.
Thadani says that it
wasnt a conscious decision for the artists to work
with recycled material.
Having said that, it is a
common practice in western contemporary art to
use found-and-recycled
objects,
he
says.
Interestingly, none of the
artists have actually witnessed an Indian monsoon, so they had to read
up or rely on their imagination. Kaabi-Linke, who is
exhibiting her painting
Spick & Span in June
(made using graphite on
silk paper on canvas) drew
from her memories of rain
in Tunisia: I imagined
heavy rains with a strong
socio-psychological
impact, something I know
from Tunisia. In the end of
the summer, the rain falls
on the dry ground, and creates myriads of water
streams.
The changing climate
affects the behaviour of
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as telling Him all

this by way of flattery, but Arjuna, just
to drive out this kind of
doubt from the minds of the
readers of Bhagavad-gita,
substantiates these praises
in the next verse when he
says that Krishna is accepted as the Supreme
Personality of Godhead not
only by himself but by
authorities like Narada,
Asita,
Devala
and
Vyasadeva. These are
great personalities who distribute the Vedic knowledge
as it is accepted by all
acaryas. Therefore Arjuna
tells Krishna that he
accepts whatever He says
to be completely perfect.
Sarvam etad rtam manye:
I accept everything You
say to be true. Arjuna also
says that the personality of
the Lord is very difficult to
understand and that He
cannot be known even by
the great demigods. This
means that the Lord cannot
even be known by personalities greater than human
beings. So how can a
human being understand
Lord Sri Krishna without
becoming His devotee?
Therefore Bhagavadgita should be taken up in a
spirit of devotion. One
should not think that he is
equal to Krishna, nor
should he think that
Krishna is an ordinary personality or even a very
great personality. Lord Sri
Krishna is the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. So
according to the statements of Bhagavad-gita or
the statements of Arjuna,
the person who is trying to
understand the Bhagavadgita, we should at least theoretically
accept
Sri
Krishna as the Supreme
Personality of Godhead,
and with that submissive
spirit we can understand
the Bhagavad-gita. Unless
one reads the Bhagavadgita in a submissive spirit, it
is very difficult to understand
Bhagavad-gita,
because it is a great mystery. Just what is the
Bhagavad-gita? The purpose of Bhagavad-gita is to
deliver mankind from the
nescience of material existence. Every man is in difficulty in so many ways, as
Arjuna also was in difficulty
in having to fight the Battle
of Kurukshetra. Arjuna surrendered unto Sri Krishna,
and consequently this
Bhagavad-gita was spoken. Not only Arjuna, but
every one of us is full of
anxieties because of this
material existence. Our
very existence is in the
atmosphere of nonexistence. Actually we are not
meant to be threatened by
nonexistence. Our exis-

tence is eternal. But somehow or other we are put into

asat. Asat refers to that
which does not exist.
Out of so many human
beings who are suffering,
there are a few who are
actually inquiring about
their position, as to what
they are, why they are put
into this awkward position
and so on. Unless one is
awakened to this position
of questioning his suffering,
unless he realizes that he

dents for understanding

Bhagavad-gita. The sincere
student should also have a
firm respect for the
Supreme Personality of
Godhead. Such a student
was Arjuna.
Lord Krishna descends
specifically to reestablish
the real purpose of life
when man forgets that purpose. Even then, out of
many, many human beings
who awaken, there may be
one who actually enters the

the benefit of future generations of human beings and

chalk out the plan of life.
Then man could act
accordingly and perfect the
mission of human life.
The subject of the
Bhagavad-gita entails the
comprehension of five
basic truths. First of all, the
science of God is explained
and then the constitutional
position of the living entities, jivas. There is ishvara,
which means the controller,

Srimad
Bhagavad

of different activities. All living entities are engaged in

different activities. From
Bhagavad-gita we must
learn what God is, what the
living entities are, what
prakriti is, what the cosmic
manifestation is, how it is
controlled by time, and
what the activities of the living entities are.
Out of these five basic
subject
matters
in
Bhagavad-gita it is established that the Supreme
Godhead, or Krishna, or
Brahman, or the supreme
controller, or Paramatma
you may use whatever
name you likeis the

Gita

GEETA SAYS

THIS IS ALSO
EXPLAINED IN GITA
AS INFERIOR
PRAKRITI, INFERIOR NATURE. THE
LIVING ENTITY IS
EXPLAINED AS THE
SUPERIOR PRAKRITI. PRAKRITI IS
ALWAYS UNDER
CONTROL,
WHETHER INFERIOR OR SUPERIOR.
PRAKRITI IS
FEMALE, AND SHE
IS CONTROLLED BY
THE LORD JUST AS
THE ACTIVITIES OF
A WIFE ARE CONTROLLED BY THE
HUSBAND.

doesnt want suffering but

rather wants to make a
solution to all suffering,
then one is not to be considered a perfect human
being. Humanity begins
when this sort of inquiry is
awakened in ones mind. In
the Brahma-sutra this
inquiry is called brahma jijnasa. Athato brahma jijnasa. Every activity of the
human being is to be considered a failure unless he
inquires about the nature of
the Absolute. Therefore
those who begin to question why they are suffering
or where they came from
and where they shall go
after death are proper stu-

manifestation there is a
controller. Nothing could be
manifested without being
controlled. It is childish not
to consider the controller.
For instance, a child may
think that an automobile is
quite wonderful to be able
to run without a horse or
other animal pulling it, but a
sane man knows the nature
of the automobiles engineering arrangement. He
always knows that behind
the machinery there is a
man, a driver. Similarly, the
Supreme Lord is the driver
under whose direction
everything is working. Now
the jivas, or the living entities, have been accepted
by the Lord, as we will note
in the later chapters, as His
parts and parcels.
A particle of gold is also
gold, a drop of water from
the ocean is also salty, and
similarly we the living entities, being part and parcel
of the supreme controller,
ishvara, or Bhagavan, Lord
Sri Krishna, have all the
qualities of the Supreme
Lord in minute quantity
because we are minute ishvaras, subordinate ishvaras. We are trying to control nature, as presently we
are trying to control space
or planets, and this tendency to control is there
because it is in Krishna. But
although we have a tendency to lord it over material nature, we should know
that we are not the
supreme controller. This is
explained in Bhagavadgita.
What is material nature?

spirit of understanding his

position, and for him this
Bhagavad-gita is spoken.
Actually we are all swallowed by the tigress of
nescience, but the Lord is
very merciful upon living
entities, especially human
beings. To this end He
spoke the Bhagavad-gita,
making His friend Arjuna
His student.
Being an associate of
Lord Krishna, Arjuna was
above all ignorance, but
Arjuna was put into ignorance on the Battlefield of
Kurukshetra just to question Lord Krishna about the
problems of life so that the
Lord could explain them for

and there are jivas, the living entities which are controlled. If a living entity says
that he is not controlled but
that he is free, then he is
insane. The living being is
controlled in every respect,
at least in his conditioned
life. So in the Bhagavadgita the subject matter
deals with the ishvara, the
supreme controller, and the
jivas, the controlled living
entities. Prakriti (material
nature) and time (the duration of existence of the
whole universe or the manifestation
of
material
nature) and karma (activity)
are also discussed. The
cosmic manifestation is full

greatest of all. The living

beings are in quality like the
supreme controller. For
instance, the Lord has control over the universal
affairs of material nature,
as will be explained in the
later
chapters
of
Bhagavad-gita. Material
nature is not independent.
She is acting under the
directions of the Supreme
Lord. As Lord Krishna says,
mayadhyaksena prakritih
suyate sa-caracaram: This
material nature is working
under My direction. When
we see wonderful things
happening in the cosmic
nature, we should know
that behind this cosmic

This is also explained in

Gita as inferior prakriti, inferior nature. The living entity
is explained as the superior
prakriti. Prakriti is always
under control, whether inferior or superior. Prakriti is
female, and she is controlled by the Lord just as
the activities of a wife are
controlled by the husband.
Prakriti is always subordinate, predominated by the
Lord, who is the predominator. The living entities
and material nature are
both predominated, controlled by the Supreme
Lord. According to the Gita,
the living entities, although
parts and parcels of the
Supreme Lord, are to be
considered prakriti. This is
clearly mentioned in the
Seventh
Chapter
of
Bhagavad-gita. Apareyam
itas tv anyam prakritim viddhi me param/ jiva-bhutam:
This material nature is My
inferior prakriti, but beyond
this is another prakriti
jiva-bhutam, the living entity. Material nature itself is
constituted by three qualities: the mode of goodness,
the mode of passion and
the mode of ignorance.
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Bonya identifies blogger Avijits killers

Investigators
say
seven
Ansarullah men were involved in
the murder Seven members of
Ansarullah Bangla Team were
involved in the murder of Avijit
Roy, investigators said, adding
that two of them had been positively identified by the bloggers
wife. Two of the culprits directly
carried out the attack on Avijit and
his wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya,
while the other five reportedly
tracked the bloggers movement
and helped the killers flee the
scene. All the perpetrators have
now been identified.
We have not only identified the
seven killers but also collected
photos suspected to be of them, a

senior official of the Detective

Branch of police told the Dhaka
Tribune yesterday.
Requesting anonymity, the official added that they had sent the
photos to the US Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) for verification, and Avijits wife who was
also injured in the attack has
already identified two of the suspects as being at the scene of the
murder. On February 27, Avijit Roy
was murdered near the TSC intersection while he was visiting the
ongoing Ekushey Book Fair. His
wife, Bonya, lost a finger in the
attack. The following day, Avijits
father Ajay Roy filed a case with
Shahbag police station. Along with

Khaleda asks leaders to stand

by the repressed activists
BNP
Chairperson
Khaleda Zia has asked her
colleagues to go to their
respective constituencies
and strengthen organisational activities by standing
beside the repressed leaders and activists of the
party. She gave this
instruction in a meeting
with the senior leaders of
the party at her Gulshan
office late last night.
The meeting also decided to strengthen the reorganisation process of the
party after the Eid vacation. The latest political
situation was analysed in
the
meeting.
Madam
[Khaleda] asked the leaders to stand beside those
who have been facing
repression, Nazrul Islam
Khan, a standing committee member of the party,

told reporters.
Sources said that the
meeting also discussed
sending a delegation to the
chief justice to clarify the
partys stance regarding
the judiciary. Khaleda had
recently been cautioned by
a court after she had said
that the judiciary had
become biased.
This was Khaledas first
formal meeting with her
senior colleagues after she
had come back home from
a nearly four-month stay in
the Gulshan office from
January to April.
The former prime minister is expected to leave
Dhaka on Wednesday
night for Saudi Arabia to
perform the holy Umrah.
She is also scheduled to
meet her son Tarique
Rahman there.

blogger Avijit

the DB police, the FBI also assisted in the investigation as Avijit was
a US citizen. We have got all possible details of Avijits killing and
we are certain that all the killers
belong to banned militant outfit
Ansarullah Bangla Team, said

Acid attack
burns woman
in Gazipur

woman has
been burnt in
an acid attack
in Boktarpur area
under Kaliganj upazila
in Gazipur. Shumoti
Rani Das came under
the acid attack early
Monday. She is the
wife of Komol Chondro
Das.
Kaliganj Assistant
Sub-Inspector (ASI)
Abdul Alim said:
Shumoti was sleeping
in her room when
unidentified miscreants threw acid on her
from the window
around 2am Monday.
Hearing her scream,
the family members
went to her room and
took her to upazila
health complex, he
said.

Indo-Bangla joint survey launched in 162 enclaves

A joint survey has begun in
Bangladesh and India to record
the choice of nationality of
51,584 people in 162 enclaves in
each other's territories ahead of
enclave exchange on July 31
next. According to the Land
Boundary Agreement signed
recently between the two countries, 75 joint teams have been
formed to conduct the survey.
Among the teams, 50 will
work in Bangladesh and 25 in
Cooch Behar district of India,
reported UNB. The survey
includes a joint census, enlistment of land category, taking
photograph and filling up of
forms mentioning ones desire
which countrys citizenship

he/she prefers. The survey will

complete on July 16,
Seventy-five joint teams,
each with two members -- one
each from India and Bangladesh
-- will enroll the names of children born after July 2011, when
the last joint census was conducted.
In 2011, when the joint census was conducted, there were
14,215 residents in the 51
Bangladeshi enclaves on the
Indian side, and 37,379 people
in 111 Indian enclaves landlocked in Bangladesh.
UNB Panchagarh correspondent reports: the 10-day survey
began in 36 enclaves in Sadar,
Boda and Deviganj upazilas in

the morning. Sadar upazila

Nirbahi Offcier Laila Muntajeri
Dina inaugurated the survey at
Garati enclave in sadar upazila.
District administration sources
said 18 camps have been set up
in 36 enclaves. A 25-member
delegation of the West Bengal
government reached here today
(Monday) to join the survey. UNB
Lalmonirhat correspondent says
a 5-member team began the survey at Bashpatari enclave of
India situated in Lalmonirhat
Sadar upazila on Monday morning.In Kurigram, deputy commission of Kurigram Khan
Mohammad Nurul Amin inaugurated the survey at Dsiar Chara
enclave in Fulbari uapzila.

Monirul Islam, joint commissioner

of DB police. Monirul, however,
said the location of the suspects
are yet to be figured out. He also
refused to disclose the identities of
the killers as the investigation was
still going on. Another senior DB
official, also wishing not to be
named, told the Dhaka Tribune
that the killers posing as fans
collected information about the
science writer from a friend of
Bonya, before the blogger couple
arrived in the country from the US
on February 16. Actually, Bonyas
friend had no idea about the
killers identities and she helped
them unknowingly, the DB official
added. He added that detectives

Mobile court fined Tk3.6 lakh, three factories sealed

M

obile courts yesterday

sealed three polythene-making factories in the capital and fined
four restaurants and food
product factories. The courts
in separate drives fined them
Tk3,60,000.
A mobile court of Rab 1,
led by Magistrate Md Firoz
Ahmed and Sub Adjutant Md
Haliuzzaman in the citys
Uttara Model Town area, fined
the owners of Safe the City,
Falguni Restora and Broccoli
Restora Tk1,10,000. The
drive took place around
1:30pm to 3:30pm. The court
gave a fine of Tk20,000 to
Safe the City, Tk30,000 to
Falguni
Restora
and
Tk60,000 to Broccoli Restora.
In another drive at Bangshal
in the Armanitola area, a
mobile court led by Rab 2
executive magistrate Md
Helal Uddin, in the presence
of Rab 2 deputy director Md

One and a half

years old child
drowned in Bogra
A one and a half years old
child drowned in a pond at
Pakulla WAPDA dam area
in Sonatala upazila of
Bogra district on Monday
afternoon. The deceased
is Tamim Hasan, son of
Rezaul Karim, of the same
area. Locals said the child
was playing beside the
pond. At one point he fell
into the pond. Later, his
floating body was recovered in the afternoon.
Sonatala Municipality
Councilor China confirmed
the death of the child.

Khaleda asks leaders to stand by the repressed activists

BNP
Chairperson
Khaleda Zia has asked her
colleagues to go to their
respective constituencies
and strengthen organisational activities by standing
beside the repressed leaders and activists of the
party. She gave this
instruction in a meeting
with the senior leaders of
the party at her Gulshan
office late last night. The

meeting also decided to

strengthen the reorganisation process of the party
after the Eid vacation.
The latest political situation was analysed in the
meeting. Madam [Khaleda]
asked the leaders to stand
beside those who have
been facing repression,
Nazrul Islam Khan, a
standing committee member of the party, told

reporters.
Sources said that the
meeting also discussed
sending a delegation to the
chief justice to clarify the
partys stance regarding
the judiciary. Khaleda had
recently been cautioned by
a court after she had said
that the judiciary had
become biased.
This was Khaledas first
formal meeting with her

have also extracted some sensational information from nine militants including three Ansarullah
members who were arrested last
month. The seven killers were
identified after verifying information provided by the arrestees,
analysing phone call data, and
going through video footage collected from 70 CCTV cameras
installed at book fair premises, the
official added. Following Avijits
death, a Facebook page named
Ansar Bangla Seven claimed
responsibility for the murder. Law
enforcers have so far arrested
only one youth named Shafiur
Rahman Farabi on charges of
instigating the murder of Avijit.

senior colleagues after she

had come back home from
a nearly four-month stay in
the Gulshan office from
January to April.
The former prime minister is expected to leave
Dhaka on Wednesday
night for Saudi Arabia to
perform the holy Umrah.
She is also scheduled to
meet her son Tarique
Rahman there.

Didarul Alam and environment directorate Director Md

Almgir, sealed three polythene-making factories
Shihab Printing and Press,
Makka Printing and Press and
Mim Printing and Press. The
court also fined Tk50,000 to
the owner of each factory.
Besides, another mobile court

led by Rab executive magistrate Golam Sarowar at

around 3pm at Staff Quarter
area of Demra fined a food
product factory for manufacturing food in an unhealthy
environment. The court fined
the owner of Bhuiyan Food
Products in the Demra area
Tk1,00,000.

Six held with 26 gold bars

olice in a drive
arrested six persons along with 26
gold bars worth about Tk1
crore from Forest Gate
area in the port citys
Sholoshohar yesterday
noon. The arrestees are
Safiul Azam, 24, Nejam
Uddin, 26, Md Sahajahan,
21, Md Bahdur, 30, Kaisar
Bin Yusuf, 24 and Md
Hasan, 32, confirm police
sources.
Being tipped-off, police
intercepted a private car
and a CNG-run autorickshaw carrying two and
four people respectively
from Ruby Gate area and
detained the six, said
Chittagong Metropolitan
Police
(North
Zone)
Deputy
Commissioner
(DC) Paritosh Gosh.
Later police recovered
eight gold bars from the
authorickshaw while 18
bars from the car. The
weight of the bars is about
3kg. Sources said Safiul
landed in Chittagong airport from Dubai in the
morning, who tactfully hid
18 gold bars in his waist

belt.
During primary questioning, the six, from two
different gangs,
confessed they collected the
gold bars from Hill View
Residential area.
Earlier on June 23,
Baizid police arrested two
people along with 120
gold bars from Ruby Gate
area and police believed
the gold haul was delivered from Hill View area
as well. Police have
seized the private car and
investigating into the incidents to find the link
between
them,
DC
Paritosh continued.

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India's push to save its cows starves Bangladesh of beef

DHAKA: Some 30,000
Indian soldiers guarding the
border with Bangladesh
have a new mandate under
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi's government this year
stop cattle from crossing
illegally into the Muslimmajority neighbour.
Roughly every other
night, troops armed with
bamboo sticks and ropes
wade through jute and
paddy fields and swim
across ponds to chase ageing bovines, and smugglers,
headed for markets in
Bangladesh.
The crackdown is one of
the clearest signs yet of how
Indian policies are having an
economic impact on neighbouring countries. About 2
million head of cattle are
smuggled into Bangladesh
annually from India. The
$600 million-a-year trade
has flourished over the past
four decades and is considered legal by Dhaka. Modi's
government wants to put an
end to it.
Union home minister
Rajnath Singh travelled this
spring to the frontier with
Bangladesh, calling on the
Border Security Force (BSF)
to halt cattle smuggling completely so that the "people of
Bangladesh give up eating
beef", media reported at the
time. CPI criticises beef ban,
says BJP will suffer in Bihar

Rajnath Singh to BSF: Halt

cattle smuggling, starve
Bangladesh of beef
polls
"Killing or smuggling a
cow is equivalent to raping a
Hindu girl or destroying a
Hindu temple," said Jishnu
Basu, an RSS spokesman in
West Bengal, which shares
a 2,216km (1,375 miles) border with Bangladesh.
Beef prices
up, exports Down
So far this year, BSF soldiers have seized 90,000
cattle and caught 400 Indian
and Bangladeshi smugglers.
Bangladeshi traders who
operate auctions to facilitate
the sale of cattle to slaughter
houses, beef processing
units, tanneries and bone
crushing factories estimate
the industry contributed 3
percent to the country's
$190 billion economy.
The hit to GDP from
India's policies is not yet
known. But HT Imam, a
political
adviser
to
Bangladesh Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina, said there

was "absolutely no doubt"

that the beef trade and
leather industry were suffering.
Syed Hasan Habib of
Bengal Meat, Bangladesh's
top beef exporter, said it had
to cut international orders by
75 percent. The company
exports 125 tonnes of beef a
year to Gulf countries.
He said the price of cows
had gone up by 40 percent
over the past six months
because of India's move,
and they had been forced to
close two processing units.
Habib plans to import
cows from Nepal, Bhutan
and Myanmar to meet
domestic demand, but he
said Indian cows had better
quality meat and raw hide.
Bangladesh
Tanners
Association
president
Shaheen Ahmed said 30 of
190 tanneries had suspended work due to lack of hides,
and about 4,000 workers
were jobless.
A senior official in India's

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home
ministry
said
Bangladesh should find new
sources of beef because
India would stick to its
stance.
cow protection force
India is home to 300 million cattle and is the world's
largest beef exporter and
fifth-biggest consumer.
But
since
Modi's
Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP), which is closely
linked to the RSS, came to
power last year, the rhetoric
on cow protection and the
beef ban has increased.
Critics say tougher antibeef laws discriminate
against Muslims, Christians
and lower-caste Hindus who
rely on the cheap meat for
protein. Butchers and cattle
traders, many of them
Muslim, say the push threatens thousands of jobs. The
rhetoric has also emboldened vigilante cow protectors.
"I was chained to a tree

ANGRAIL
(West
Bengal): Days after advocating a nationwide ban on cow
slaughter, Union home minister Rajnath Singh on
Wednesday asked BSF
jawans deployed along the
Indo-Bangla border to put a
complete halt to smuggling
of cattle to Bangladesh so
that people there give up
eating beef. "I am told prices
of beef in Bangladesh have
gone up by 30 per cent
recently due to heightened
and beaten by members of
the cow protection force.
They forced me to recite a
Hindu
prayer,"
said
Mohammed Tarafdar, who
was caught smuggling two
calves near the Bangladesh
border in April.
"My religion permits me
to eat and sell beef, so why
should Hindus have a problem?" said Tarafdar, sitting in
a crammed prison cell in
Basirhat district. Some BSF
soldiers said they could not

vigil by BSF against cattle

smuggling. You further intensify your vigil so that the cattle smuggling stops completely and prices of beef in
Bangladesh escalates 70 to
80 per cent more so that
people of Bangladesh give
up eating beef," he said
addressing jawans of BSF at
this Border Out Post.
According to official statistics,
around 17 lakh cattle were
smuggled to Bangladesh
from India in 2014.
understand why they were
chasing cows. Some animals are caught and auctioned by the BSF, only to be
bought and smuggled again.
Two soldiers were killed
by a gang of Bangladeshi
smugglers, while three
dozen have been injured by
the animals. "It is a wild
chase, but not of a kind a
soldier appreciates," said
Vivek Tyagi, a BSF commander at the Ghojadanga
check post.

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Gay marriage declared legal across the US in historic supreme court ruling
With 5-4 ruling in
Obergefell v Hodges, justices determine right to
marriage equality is protected under constitution in
decision hailed as victory
of love
Same-sex
marriages
are now legal across the
entirety of the United
States after a historic
supreme court ruling that
declared attempts by conservative states to ban
them unconstitutional.
In what may prove the
most important civil rights
case in a generation, five of
the nine court justices
determined that the right to
marriage equality was
enshrined under the equal
protection clause of the
14th amendment.
Victory in the case
known as Obergefell v
Hodges, after an Ohio man
who sued the state to get
his name listed on his late
husbands death certificate
capped years of campaigning by LGBT rights
activists,
high-powered
attorneys and couples waiting decades for the justices
to rule. It immediately led to
scenes of jubilation from

coast to coast, as campaigners, politicians and

everyday people gay,
straight and in-between
hailed a victory of love.
The ruling, in which
Justice Anthony Kennedy
cast the deciding vote,
means the number of
states where gay marriage
is legal will rise albeit after
some stalling from 37 to
50. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law,
Kennedy wrote in his opinion for the majority. The
Constitution grants them
that right.
Speaking from the White
House after calling one of
the
plaintiffs,
Barack
Obama said the decision
would end the patchwork
system we currently have.
This ruling is a victory
for America, the president
said. This decision affirms
what millions of Americans
already believe in their
hearts: when all Americans
are treated as equal, we
are all more free.
Four liberal justices and
Kennedy rejected claims
made by lawyers during the
legal argument in April that
marriage was defined by

law solely to encourage

procreation within stable
family units and therefore
could only meaningfully
apply to men and women.
The Constitution promises liberty to all within its
reach, a liberty that
includes certain specific
rights that allow persons,
within a lawful realm, to
define and express their
identity, wrote Kennedy.
The petitioners in these
cases seek to find that liberty by marrying someone
of the same sex and having
their marriages deemed
lawful on the same terms
and conditions as marriages between persons of
the opposite sex, he

added. Crucially, the majority ruling argues that the

court has frequently exercised jurisdiction over the
definition of marriage in
previous cases and is not
overstepping its constitutional role by intervening
now.
This Courts cases
have expressed constitutional principles of broader
reach. In defining the right
to marry these cases have
identified essential attributes of that right based in
history, tradition and other
constitutional
liberties
inherent in this intimate
bond, wrote Kennedy.
The crowd outside the
court indeed, across the

Clinton hopeful for Iran nuclear deal

emocratic presidential
contender
Hillary Clinton said
on Friday she hoped 18
months of nuclear talks
between Iran and major
powers would yield a deal
in the next week.
The groundwork for the
talks was laid when Clinton
was US Secretary of State
and she had not commented recently on the negotiations as she seeks the
Democratic Party nomination to run in the November
2016 presidential election.
"I so hope that we are
able to get a deal in the
next week that puts a lid on
Iran's nuclear weapons
program," Clinton told a
rally on the Dartmouth
College
campus
in
Hanover, New Hampshire.
She said that even if a deal
were reached, there would
be more work to be done.
Iran is in talks with the
United States and five

US announces
first death from
measles in 12 years
LOS ANGELES: Health authorities
on Thursday announced the first
US death from measles in 12
years, after an autopsy showed a
woman's fatal pneumonia was
caused by the contagious disease.
"The cause of death was pneumonia due to measles," said a statement from the Department of
Health in Clallam County,
Washington. "The woman had several other health conditions and
was on medications that contributed to a suppressed immune
system," it added. Her name and
age were not made public.

other powers - Britain,

China, France, Germany
and Russia - on an agreement to curtail its nuclear
program in exchange for
relief from economic sanctions. A self-imposed June
30 deadline passed without
a deal and negotiations
continue in Vienna, with a
new July 7 target date.
Republican presidential
candidates and Republican
lawmakers have been criti-

cal of the negotiations, saying the administration of

President Barack Obama,
a Democrat, has made too
many concessions to Iran.
The administration has
also come under pressure
from Israel not to make a
deal with Tehran. Israel's
opposition could influence
the way Jewish voters in
the United States contribute to campaigns and
also vote in the election.

The Republican-led US
Congress will review any
final deal, with congressionally mandated sanctions remaining in place if
the House and Senate disapprove. Clinton said in
early April before announcing her candidacy that "getting the rest of the way to a
final deal by June won't be
easy, but it is absolutely
crucial." She has also said
in the past that no deal
would be better than a bad
one. A good deal would be
one that "verifiably cuts off
all of Iran's paths to a
nuclear weapon" and
"imposes an intrusive
inspection program with no
sites off limits," Clinton has
said. A major sticking point
has been access to inspect
Iranian sites for compliance. Western and Iranian
negotiators said Friday
there were signs a compromise is beginning to
emerge on the issue.

country erupted in joy

after the ruling was handed
down, with many longtime
campaigners crying tears
of joy and embracing their
partners.
Chants of Love has
won reverberated among
the hundreds gathered
below the court steps and
across the street outside
the US Capitol, as rainbow
flags intertwined with the
American flag.
Among the crowd was
California representative
Mark Takano, an openly
gay member of Congress
who described being at the
scene as both profound
and pointed.
I feel like the supreme
court has just thrown a
huge wedding bouquet to
LGBT people all across the
country and couples are
going to be rushing to catch
that bouquet, Takano told
the Guardian.
Takano
nonetheless
cautioned
that
there
remained legal obstacles
ahead, insisting that a comprehensive civil rights act
would be required to
ensure that LGBT individuals do not face housing and

employment discrimination,
among other barriers. But
he was optimistic that the
ruling had set the tone.
The arc of history is quite
clear that the struggle for
LGBT equality is part of our
civil rights, Takano said.
The only 22 states
where you can't get fired for
being gay Twenty-two US
states and the District of
Columbia have LGBT nondiscrimination laws on the
books though New
Hampshire, New York and
Wisconsin do not extend
protections to transgender
residents.
Meanwhile,
twenty-eight states, including Alabama, don't offer
statewide civil-rights protections against discrimination whatsoever.
Judd Proctor, a 65-yearold resident of Silver
Spring, Maryland, said he
never thought he would live
to see the day that gay
marriage would be a constitutional right. When I first
met my partner 20 years
ago, I never thought there
would be marriage. We had
a commitment ceremony,
he told the Guardian outside the court.

Putin tells Obama US-Russia

key to global stability
Russian President Vladimir
Putin on Saturday said relations
between
Moscow
and
Washington were incremental in
ensuring global stability and
called for a diplomatic dialogue
based on "equality and respect".
In a message to his United
States counterpart Barack
Obama on Independence Day in
the United States, Putin said
US-Russian relations were "the
key factor in ensuring stability
and security in the world, despite
the differences" between the two
countries.
"Russia and the United
States are able to find solutions
for the most difficult international
problems and effectively counter
global threats and challenges,"
Putin said in a telegram, according to the Kremlin. This needs to
be done by "building dialogue on
the principles of equality and
respect of each other's interests", the message said. Russia

has used increasingly antagonistic rhetoric about the US

since the start of the conflict in
Ukraine, claiming that Western
sanctions against Moscow over
its alleged involvement in the
hostilities are the result of US
pressure on EU countries. Last
month, Nikolai Patrushev, who
heads Putin's security council,
claimed the US was out to
destroy Russia as a country.
Russia's military top brass have
focused on NATO's presence in
eastern Europe, which they view
as the greatest threat to the
country's security. However,
easing simmering tensions,
Putin has also reached out to
Obama to discuss the threat of
terrorism, notably from the
Islamic State group. The
Russian leader had tasked foreign minister Sergei Lavrov with
discussing a joint anti-terrorism
strategy with US secretary of
state John Kerry.

Socialist Obama reaches out to Vietnam, Kenya

WASHINGTON: President
Barack Obama has been
called a leftie liberal and a
closet socialist so often that
he might as well wear it as
badge of honour going by the
uptick in his poll numbers
lately. In a purple patch that
has seen him buttress his credentials as a radically different President, who is not
afraid to think and act out-ofbox, Obama has lined up two
more engagements this
month to add to his outreach
towards Iran and Cuba He
will welcome Vietnam's top
communist leader to the

White House on Tuesday, in

the first such visit since the
Vietnam War ended four
decades ago and the two
countries normalized ties two
decades ago. And later in the
month, he will embark on a
trip to Kenya, his paternal
homeland which he has not
visited since he assumed
office.
Both engagements will
give plenty of ammunition to
rightwing
fundamentalists
who have long cast Obama
as a "foreigner" who has
insinuated
himself
into
American politics and is pre-

siding over the eclipse of the

United States, as they see it.
But the 44th US President
and the first from a mixed

race couldn't care less latest

numbers
from
a
CNN/ORC poll released on
Tuesday show his approval
rating has hit 50% for the first
time in two years. Indeed,
there is a certain swagger in
Obama's speeches and gestures this week as he rides on
top of landmark Supreme
Court rulings on health care
and same sex marriage
issues, on top of legislative
victories on trade and other
issues. Tailing into the final
18 months of his presidency,
he is now pushing for new
overtime rules for all those

earning less than $50,440 a

year (the current threshold is
$23,660), a move that could
benefit up to 5 million workers, but which will be seen by
wealthy rightwingers as part
of a socialist agenda. The US
president is certainly hungry
himself to leave distinct legacy, socialist or otherwise. On
Tuesday, he will meet with
Nguyen Phu Trong, general
secretary of the Vietnamese
Communist Party, one of the
rare times the White House
has played host to someone
who is not the official head of
state or government.

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Career Guide For 2015

July-2015

LEO

SAGITTARIUS

NOV 23-DEC 22

our efforts to keep your family members may not be yielding best results,
as the month opens. Try your best to
keep everyone happy, but beyond a point,
even you shall be helpless. Accept that,
and things shall seem way better. On your
own, understand that the pleasure of your
company cannot be substituted by any luxuries for your loved ones. Take time out,
somehow, to spend with your family, even if
that implies keeping your career at the
back-seat for a few days. If you are married, conflicts over why you fail to devote
time and effort in marriage may become a
major cause of contention at this time. Take
care! Speak to your bosses at work, if need
be, but ensure, everything's sorted and
your personal life remains balanced. On a
happy note, you shall be confident and
radiant this month, coursing your way to
progress and financial stability. Steer clear
of impetuousness, though, especially
towards the month-end, when a hasty decision may put you in a tight spot. Overall,
you will be very practical and pragmatic,
making your way around the hurdles
Saturn may put you on your path.

CAPRICORN

t's time for some good news from foreign shores and matters related to
communications with far flung places.
Expect a boost in your returns, if you are
a business-person, dealing with clients
abroad. Forging new relationships and
associations is on the cards, and so is a
short trip meant to seize a deal. You may
also plan to initiate a renovation project at
home. Mercury's influence will make you
work over time, though, specifically if you
have foreign assignments on your platter.
Career professionals, otherwise, may
rather have a stable time, as the month
begins. Later in the month, though, you
may feel a bit confused or lost, given the
debilitated Mars' and unsteady Moon
transiting in unfavourable placements.
The inconsistent attitude of peers and
subordinates will dishearten you. Many of
you may even wish to change an existing
job, and why not, if you have not been
enjoying your work! Just ensure checking
all quarters, advises Ganesha.

APR 21-MAY 21

f it's your work that's bothering you as

the month begins, remember that even
the fiercest of the warriors had to face
the defeat at times. Do not set unrealistic
expectationsfrom yourself or others. There
will be work and there will be pressure, but
nothing that you won't manage to set aside
with some tact, planning and careful execution. Okay, the stars may not feel like your
ally on many occasions., but your grit, confidence and motivation will help you surge
ahead. Plus, you will thankfully be able to
rely on your seniors' bankable insights and
assistance. And, once you have given your
best, leave everything to the cosmos. Yes,
the things shall be moving at a snail's
paceblame it all on Saturn's retrograde
movementbut, you, on your own, cam
always choose to be undeterred and unrelenting, says Ganesha. When the slow planets give you some down-time, ponder, and if
needed, revise some of your past decisions.

hinking negatively shall be a no-no,

as you step into the rainy month of
July. Stay balanced. The mighty
Saturn shall help you, by stabilising things,
all the while coaxing you to look inwards.
Well, reflecting and identifying your shortcomings can never be a bad thing, but
don't let this make you gloomy or self-possessed. See what's wrong, resolve to work
on it to make it better and move on from
there, says Ganesha. On 9th, 10th and
11th you may be extremely busy chasing
some errant deadlines and projects. Well,
do that, but don't let any of the pressure get
you down, especially when the tricky Ketu
puts obstacles onto your path. Jupiter's positive influence shall soon brighten up things
for you, thankfully. Your confidence shall
surge, and your reputation shall scintillate.
Fruits of your past labour shall begin to
ripen and land in your lap. Significant benefits from unexpected sources are foreseen.
You will easily meet routine expenses.
Gains through ancestral property are indicated. Businesspersons trading overseas
shall manage to strike profitable deals.

LIBRA

FEB 20-MAR 20

e ready and willing to take up

some critical and unique projects
at your workplace, around the
beginning of this month. Okay, your
timid self may not allow you to relax,
when something so new and different is
on the platter, but give it a try this time.
And, the benefits shall be manifold. This
will give you an opportunity to establish
your credentials. Luck is on your side
now, and thus, you shall see yourself
easily accomplishing many of your
tasks, even the difficult tasks. Make the
best use of this favourable period,
advises Ganesha. You are a meticulous
person, and this inherent quality will be
applauded by your seniors as well as
other co-workers now. This is also a
good time for business-persons to
strengthen their position in the market.
Financially, though, there may be some
ups and downs, but nothing that you
won't sail through. However, do save
money for future rainy days.

SEPT 24-OCT 23

ou are unlikely to be focussed on

any one particular thing, as the
month begins. On 2nd, 3rd and 4th,
your mind (and heart) shall rather be distracted and divided, over too many options.
Which one will you choose? Ganesha feels
that you will give preference to something
that's purely fun and leisurely. Cool, but
don't spend exceedingly high. By the first
week's end, you may realise that you have
ended up ignoring your career way too
much, and may get into an introspective
mood. About time! Happily, the luck shall
favour you, and whatever you set your
mind on shall be up for grabs. As the
month wanes, the responsibilities in your
bucket shall pile on, but you won't be
deterred, simply because success will be
near in sight and people around you will
be supportive. Striking new deals and
implementing new and unique methodologiesall are likely. Just ensure that you
have measured the pros and cons, before
you begin/ execute anything new.

GEMINI

ARIES

TAURUS

JUNE 22-JULY 23

OCT 24-NOV 22

PISCES

AUG 24-SEPT 23

CANCER
rudge, walk, amble, strideyou
shall be taking on your own milestones, improving a notch or two
at every point, on almost all spheres of
life, as the month begins. Your enthusiasm shall find its way to the hearts (and
minds) of those who matter, helping you
earn rewards and praises. Spare a generous thank you for your friendly planet
Jupiter, as it aspects your 6th House
the House of day to day functioning
now. And, just as you go about expressing your gratitude in form of prayers and
positive visualisations, pray a little extra
so the stars help you defeat mischievous Ketu's negative influence.
Romance flowers, as the steady, committed love bonds saunter ahead
towards the next logical step. However,
be prepared for some unexpected roadblocks and work snags, towards the
second fortnight, says Ganesha.

MAR 21-APR 20

ingle Arians, do you know how hot

you are right now? Well, let the stifled sighs, shy smiles and side
glances from some interesting people tell
you that. You will be hot property! However,
if you are married, things may not be all
that rosy in the relationships department.
Now, now, don't let this get to your heart.
Relax, and try finding a middle ground with
your darling. It will be all worth your while.
And, when you are feeling really down and
out, head straight to your close friends. In
work matters, mid month, the stars may get
a little more stringent, making you work
harder than earlier. Any way, it's a phase
and it will pass. Don't wait for your bosses
to pay you a complimentself motivation
shall be the key. Deadlines may assail you,
but you will manage, assures Ganesha.
New business projects won't be a good idea
this month, but well planned business trips
shall help you gain a perspective.

FIJISUN

SCORPIO

JAN 21-FEB 19

ou may face difficulty while making

a quick buck, and later on realise
that there is no substitute for hard
work. Professionals and businesspersons will have to put in extra efforts to
attain desired outcome. Do not take
shortcuts. Ganesha advises that sometimes it is better to take a back seat,
rather than being in the limelight. This is
the right time for learning new tools and
techniques to work on some ambitious
tasks. Mid-month, you may feel tired
physically and mentally due to the heavy
workload. This may decrease your efficiency, despite your upbeat frame of
mind. Take a break, says Ganesha! By
month-end, any way, a relative relaxation in your work stress shall help you
unwind. Financially, the stars may
become tough towards the latter half of
the month. Sudden expenses are indicated. Don't worry as a friend will lend a
helping hand. But, Ganesha reminds you
to repay the borrowed amount at the
earliest to maintain the precious bond.
Personal life too may not be hunky-dory
during this period. Apologise to restore
harmonious relations.

VIRGO

DEC 23-JAN 20
kay, you are an extremely sincere
and responsible person, thanks to
your solid Zodiac Sign, but that
should not make you feel, as if the burden
of the whole world is on your shoulders.
Don't take yourself so seriously, tips
Ganesha. Manage your crazy mood
swings, and see to it that you don't end up
harbouring a rather lop-sided perspective.
You can't always be right, you see! Check
your temperament or you may end up
causing irreparable damage to some of
your special relationships, including the
one with your sweetheart. Domestic matters will demand your attention, and it
would be best that you attend to them at
the earliest. As always, you shall be
super-busy at your workplace, and would
need to do all you can to keep your relations cordial with the higher-ups. Well,
work and external factors like tough bosses or uncooperative peers are not always
manageable. But, what you can always
manage is your own attitude.

AQUARIUS

JULY 24-AUG 23

h, you busy beeflitting, bouncing and dancing awayas the

month begins. Your conviction
and determination bring you a good
amount of success, leaving you buoyant, even when the strict Saturn decides
to be a killjoy, putting obstacles onto
your path. See, there are times when
you work, and then, work some more,
and there are times, when the results
pour in. This is the time for former, and
you will be best placed, if you do not sit
around waiting for the results to pop up.
Now is the time to play smart and carry
on with your work or whatever that
makes your journey worthwhile. Saturn's
aspect on 10th House from your Sign
shall ensure that nothing comes easy
you will need to earn it, but when you
do, the results shall be sweeter than
ever, assures Ganesha. Financially, no
short cuts are allowed yet. If you are a
business-person, think twice before giving out goods on credit. A money puzzle
may put you off-track, towards the
month-endbut briefly. Home life will be
a breeze, simply because you shall be
your generous and loving self.

www.fijisun-usa.com

MAY 22-JUNE 21

xpect your communicative streak

to peak this month. Thank your
Sign Lord Gemini for eloquence,
and gratefully talk your way to your
beloved's heart and your boss' head.
This may, though, have a side effect.
Expenses shall take a steep upward
turn, as the month wanes, specifically
owing to the rising family demands. This
or something else may put your loved
ones in a bad mood, mid-month. Zip
your mouth, and go for a walk, whenever such a situation strikes. Discuss further, only when things cool down a bit.
Thankfully, things shall improve on the
relationship front towards the monthend. However, the same can't be said
for the financial matters, and it would be
best to stay alert, through the month.
Speculative activities shall be best
avoided, especially if they involve a
major sum or if you are looking at short
term returns, says Ganesha.

FIJISUN

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AfghAn news

July-2015

27

Afghanistan Said to Overturn Death Sentences in Womans Lynching

KABUL, Afghanistan An
Afghan court has overturned the
death sentences of four men convicted in the lynching of a woman
who had been falsely accused of
burning the Quran, a lawyer connected to the case and a politician
said on Thursday. In a nation in
which violence against women is
commonplace and so-called honor
killings often go unpunished, the
death in March of the woman,
named Farkhunda, managed to
galvanize Afghanistan as no other
case had. Videos of her final
moments, taken by members of the
mob that surrounded her, showed
Farkhunda pleading as she was
kicked and stomped, and was later
tied to the back of a car and
dragged to the garbage-strewn
banks of the Kabul River. There her
attackers set fire to her body.The
violence unfolded at one of Kabuls
most historic shrines, where
Farkhunda, a student of Islamic
law, had come to preach against
what she saw as the ignorant,
superstitious and un-Islamic practices that prevailed there, like the
sale of good luck amulets and the
veneration of the tomb of an early
Muslim conqueror of Afghanistan.
One of the shrines keepers,
apparently threatened by her
preaching and torrent of criticism,
began to shout that she was an infi-

del who had burned the Quran.

Summoned by the shouts, young
men nearby descended on the
shrine, ready to lynch her.
In the immediate aftermath of
the killing, it was easy to find
Afghan men who supported the
actions of the mob, saying that the
woman deserved to die if the accusation were true and that even if
she were innocent, her tormentors
had killed her in good faith.
But Farkhunda was soon transformed from a pariah into a martyr
as it emerged that she had been a
pious student who had been trying
to rid shrines of superstition.
Officials at the Ministry of
Religious Affairs declared her innocent and pledged an ambitious
campaign to carry on her effort to
rid shrines of fortune tellers. At her
funeral, women, not men, carried
her coffin to her grave. And young
men staged a re-enactment of her
murder, in a searing political
demonstration intended to pressure
the government to prosecute her
actual killers.
Initially, at least, the case
unfolded with an unusual degree of
transparency. The courtroom proceedings were at first televised, a
rarity for a court system built with
Western support that has earned a
reputation for being corrupt and
opaque. In May, the court issued

Women carried the coffin of Farkhunda, who was lynched by a

mob, during her funeral in Kabul, Afghanistan, in March.

death sentences for four men: the

shrinekeeper who appeared to
have sealed Farkhundas fate with
his accusation and three other men
in the mob believed to have been
among her most vicious assailants.
That trial also resulted in eight other
defendants receiving prison terms
of 16 years. But this week most
likely on Wednesday, although the
timing is unclear an appellate
court overturned those death sentences in a proceeding that
Farkhundas advocates have
described as secret and possibly
the result of political meddling.
The appeals courts decision
completely undermines the rule of
law in Afghanistan, and it complete-

McCain: US must reassess

Afghanistan troop withdrawal
KABUL, Afghanistan.
The ongoing Taliban offensive
in
Afghanistan
demands a reassessment of
the Obama administrations
current plan to drawdown
U.S. forces, U.S. Sen. John
McCain said Saturday during a visit to the countrys
capital.
The Republican told
reporters
that
Afghan
national forces are fighting
bravely, but suffering heavy
losses in the field.
American and international troops have already
stopped playing a combat
role, remaining as trainers
for local forces. The international numbers will be
reduced further at the end of
2016. But McCain said
reductions should be based
on conditions on the ground.
With the rise of ISIS and
the distinct fighting season
that is marked this year, the
threat environment contin-

ues to evolve in ways that

clearly, in my view, demands
a reassessment of the
administrations current calendar-driven drawdown of
U.S. forces with a plan that
must be based on conditions on the ground,
McCain said.
Meanwhile, Afghan lawmakers rejected President
Ashraf Ghanis nominee for
defense minister, a position
that has remained empty for
more than nine months amid
some of the toughest fighting since the Taliban insur-

gency began 14 years ago.

Masoom Stanekzai received
84 out of the 107 votes
needed for parliamentary
approval. Stanekzais rejection reflects in part a power
struggle between Ghani and
Afghanistans
Chief
Executive
Abdullah
Abdullah. Stanekzai, the
second nominee put forth by
Ghani to be rejected, is also
seen by some to be ineffective, based on the chaotic
security situation around the
country. Stanekzai led the
High Peace Council negotiating body charged with
ending the conflict with the
Taliban. He has been serving as the countrys top
defense official in an acting
capacity. In January, Gen.
Sher Mohammad Karimi
also failed to get enough
votes in parliament. It could
be months before a new
nominee for the position is
put forth.

ly undermines womens rights in

Afghanistan, said Kimberley
Motley, the lawyer who represented
Farkhundas family at the trial. This
case presented a wider issue than
Farkhunda being murdered, as
heinous as that was. This case was
about the future of Afghanistan:
whether it is going to be a country
that accepts mob violence or a
country that rejects it. Ms. Motley,
an American lawyer who practices
in Afghanistan, said her understanding was that the appeals court
had reduced the death sentences
to a term of 20 years in prison.
While a number of Afghan officials
also said that they believed the
death sentences had been reduced

Key Taliban
commander
killed in
Afghanistan
KABUL: A key Taliban commander in Afghanistan, Hajji
Wazir, was killed in a raid
on Saturday, police said.
"Hajji Wazir, the commander
of Taliban militants in west
Afghanistan, was chalking
out a terrorist plan in a
house when the security
forces, acting upon intelligence report, raided the
house on Saturday morning
and killed him," Xinhua
quoted provincial police
chief Abdul Majid Rozi as
saying. Wazir commanded
some 500 militants and his
killing could be a major setback to the Taliban outfit in
Herat and adjoining
provinces, Rozi added.
Taliban militants have been
fighting the government to
regain power in
Afghanistan's eastern
Wardak province and killed
at least 30 Afghan police
personnel in clashes that
broke out between them and
security forces on Friday.

to 20 years, there was some question as to whether they had been

cut further, a sign of just how
opaque the court process had
become in this case.
A top official with a governmental human rights commission,
Shamsullah Ahmadzai, said that his
understanding was that of the four
men originally sentenced to die,
three had received 12-year sentences, while the fourth received a
10-year sentence. Mr. Ahmadzai,
who was also on a governmental
commission
examining
Farkhundas death, said that one of
the four was a boy younger than 18
who had hit Farkhunda on the head
with a rock.
Both Farkhundas family and
the prosecutors office, as well as
the defendants, can appeal again,
Ms. Motley said. Ms. Motley criticized the appellate court for behaving in a manner that was all very
secret and hidden. She said
Farkhundas family had not even
been aware that the appellate court
had heard the case, which raises
troubling questions. Criminal
appeals in Afghanistan tend to
resemble a second trial in which the
various parties are allowed to present evidence and arguments. In
other words, Farkhundas family
might well have played a role in the
hearing had they been present, Ms.

Motley said. No one knew it was

even going on, or what the grounds
were for the appeal, Mr. Motley
said, adding that if the family
wasnt allowed to present evidence
there, thats a huge due process
violation. Ms. Motley is no longer
officially connected to the case
after, she said, the government
pressured me not to represent the
family any longer. A member of the
Parliament, Farkhunda Zahra
Naderi, said she had visited
Farkhundas family members on
Thursday and found them in a state
of shock. Farkhundas mother had
asked, Couldnt the court have
given me a call? This is the blood of
my child that is being discussed,
Ms. Naderi recalled.
Ms. Naderi said the court was
playing a political game and trying
to decide the case out of public
view. But other government officials
said the appeals courts ruling was
appropriate. Shahla Farid, a law
lecturer who was part of the government commission to investigate
Farkhundas death, said 20 years
in jail seems a fair judgment. Ms.
Farid said she had opposed death
sentences from the beginning, in
part because the mob that killed
Farkhunda was full of young, poorly
educated men who could be
reformed and come to realize the
wrong they had committed.

Men throw acid into girls'

faces 'for going to school'
K

abul, Afghanistan
(CNN)Attackers on
a motorbike threw
acid in the faces of three
teenage girls on their way
to school in Afghanistan's
western Herat province on
Saturday, an official told
CNN.
The girls, age 16 to 18,
are students at one of the
biggest girls' schools in
Herat city, the provincial
capital, said Aziz-ulRahman Sarwary, head of
the education department
for the province.
All three girls were
admitted to Noor hospital
in Herat city before their
parents took them elsewhere, said hospital head
Jamal
Abdul
Naser
Akhundzada. Two of the
girls were in critical condition after the acid was
thrown in their faces, he
said. Akhundzada quoted

the girls as saying that

their assailants were two
men on a motorbike. "This
is the punishment for
going to school," the men
told the girls after pouring
the acid on them, according to Akhundzada.
Abdul Rauf Ahmadi, a
spokesman for the provincial police chief, said
police were working very
hard to find the attackers.

Suicide attack targets Nato convoy in Afghanistan

T

he Taliban launched a suicide car

bomb attack on a Nato military
convoy in Afghanistan's capital on
Tuesday, killing two people and wounding 26 others, including two U.S. soldiers,
A Taliban-claimed suicide car bomb
targeting a foreign forces convoy in
Kabul has left one civilian dead and 22
others injured. The Tuesday afternoon
blast occurred near the Makroiyan
neighbourhood of the Afghan capital.
The area is home to a busy market,
shopping centres and the boys campus
of the Bibi Mahro school. Sediq

Sediqqi,
Ministry
of
Interior
spokesman, confirmed the casualty
toll. Sources on the scene however,
believe the actual toll may be higher
than initially reported. In an online
statement, the Taliban confirmed that
their target was a passing convoy
belonging to the Nato coalition in the
country. In a tweet, Zabihullah Mujahid,
a Taliban spokesman, claimed a vehicle in the convoy been destroyed and
that all passengers on board were
killed. The group is often known to
exaggerate their claims. The Nato mission denied that any of their forces or

equipment were damaged in the

attack. In a tweet, Resolute Support, as
the coalition is now known, said, that all
personnel and equipment had been
safely recovered. However, Nato
spokeswoman Capt. Susan Harrington
did confirm to the Associated Press
news agency that two coalition troops
suffered "minor injuries. Harrington did
not reveal the nationalities of the
wounded soldiers. For Afghans online,
the explosion once again raised questions about the dangers of having foreign forces vehicles on the streets of
Kabul. Seriously why would they still

drive in vehicle convoys?! If they don't

care abt their own, they should respect
lives of all those civilians, one tweet
read. Whoever the target might be,
Afghans get killed/injured, another
user said. Tuesdays blast is the second attack on the Afghan capital during
the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Prior to the start of Ramadan, the
group rebuked calls for a ceasefire during the holiday. The attack in Kabul
came only hours after a car bomb in
the southern province of Helmand
killed two and wounded 51 others in
Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital.

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The good
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July-2015

hahid
Kapoors
wedding
to Delhi-based
Mira Rajput has
been the
biggest talking
point in
Bollywood for a
while now. We
look back at
some other
high-profile
marriages that
also created a
lot of hype.

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Raj kunDRa
The gorgeous
actress and the
British-born
businessman
exchanged wedding vows in November
22, 2009 at a farmhouse
in Khandala owned by
the actress friend. The
mandap was decorated
with flowers and bells for
the marriage, which
combined the rituals of
the Mangalorean bride
and the Punjabi groom,
with the vows being
exchanged according to
South Indian tradition.

weddings
Although Arpita is not
directly involved in
Bollywood, the fact that
this was Salman
Khans sisters wedding was enough to
send the media and
fans into a frenzy. The
big fat wedding at
Falaknuma Palace in
Hyderabad in
November 2014 was
attended by the who's
who of Bollywood.

saif ali khan anD

kaReena kapooR

After a lot of
hype and

Riteish Deshmukh anD

Genelia Dsouza
The sweethearts had a
traditional
Marathi style
marriage in February
2012, which was attended by several celebrities
from the tinsel town.
They later had a traditional church wedding as
well.

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ViDya BalansiDDhaRth Roy kapuR

hoopla, Saif and Bebo

had a registered marriage in October 2012.
The event was preceded
by a sangeet ceremony
and a pre-wedding dinner. The wedding reception held in Delhi was
attended by Bollywood
stars and political bigwigs.

After varied reports

about how they would
get married, Vidya and
Siddharth tied the knot
at Green Gifts bungalow
at Bandra in Mumbai in
December 2012. It was a
hush-hush affair, and all
guests were informed
about the venue at last
moment.

Rani-mukeRji anD
aDitya ChopRa
After being married off in
gossip columns numerous
times Rani finally wed the
YRF chief in April 2014 in
the romantic countryside of
Italy. It was a complete family affair with only a handful
of special friends, including
Karan Johar, present on the
occasion. Far away from
prying eyes of the paparazzi,
Rani shared the news of her
foreign-themed fairy tale
wedding through a
media statement
the very next day!

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imRan khan anD
aVantika malik
The actor got married to
his longtime girlfriend in
a civil ceremony at his
famous uncle, superstar
Aamir Khans house in
Pali Hill in Bandra,
Mumbai, in January
2011. This was followed
by a wedding party
thrown by the newly married duo at Imrans
house.

Takhtani at a private ceremony in Mumbai in

June 2012. The wedding, which took place
at a temple, was conducted according to
south-Indian rituals.
Amitabh Bachchan
was spotted with son
Abhishek. That the
movie's director
Ramesh Sippy was also
present with his wife only
added to the dash of
nostalgia.

mahesh Bhupathi anD

laRa Dutta

aBhishek BaChChan
anD aishwaRya Rai

The tennis star and

actress became husband
and wife in February
2011. A marriage registrar came to the tennis
star's home in Bandra,
Mumbai to legalise the
marriage. The ceremony
was attended by the
bride's and groom's parents and close family
members. This was followed by a church wedding in Goa.

Big Bs sons wedding to

the former Miss World in
2007 was the biggest
entertainment story of its
time. The couple got
married in a private ceremony held at the
Bachchan residence
Prateeksha, in Juhu,
Mumbai. The media and
fan frenzy outside was
maddening.

esha Deol anD

BhaRat takhtani
Dharmendra and
Hema Malini's daughter
Esha tied the knot with
businessman and longtime boyfriend Bharat

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COMMUNITY NEWS

July-2015

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Your union is as strong as your leaders

Full FuNDiNg FoR HeAlTH cARe iN cAliFoRNiA cAmpAigN AT cApiTol
HAYWARD The SEIU
was a formidable part of
the Union campaign last
month at Sacramento
Capitol Mall urging the
State government to
consider full funding for
the health care for all in
California.
Busloads of members arrived from as far
LA to show the solidarity
and support and urge
the Government to consider their proposal
signed by an overwhelming number of
people.
Running a Union
chapter is no different
from running a business

where key to success is

sound leadership. Annie
Koya a Union steward at
the
Eden
Medical
Center urges all her
members to read their
contract and be familiar
with it and support their
Union while maintaining
a sound work relation
with the employers.
She is apt in addressing
any issues that employer/employee relationship with justice and
fairness for all.
Compliance with the
contract by both sides is
key to addressing any
issues, maintains Annie
Koya.

A big thank you to Abdul Rauf and Daven Kumar

A

big thank you to FANA president Abdul Rauf and chair

Daven Kumar of Fiji Festival
first for accepting my invitation to
attend the FOG committee meeting
last Tuesday and second for inviting Dr.Romesh Japra and the

entire FOG team on stage at the

Fiji Festival. This celebration
marked a new beginning for us all
and set the tone for continued
bonding and relationship between
two major Indian communities in
USA, a history was created Sat

July 4, 2015. Special thanks to Dr.

Romesh Japra for his leadership
and vision in uniting people of all
nations, creed, color and origin.
Pray, may this be a lasting and
genuine bond for us all. Gold bless
all, God bless America

(Above Abdul RAuf intRoduces dR. JApRA to the Audience At the 2015 fiJi festivAl in hAywARd)

Ahmad Mirza a great

Hyderabadi poet

amous Bay Area Urdu poet Ahmad Mirza of

Hyderabad, picture here with his wife, has hosted
hosted and socres of mushairas at his home and
has been a regular paricipants at most Urdu events in
Bay Area. For over 10 years he was also a regular at
our Urdu Institute of California events.

Norfolk Soccer Team hosts their July 4th Social

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