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Jharkhand for the urban
renewal initiative, has been
selected for Phase-II of Smart
City Mission on special fasttrack. It will receive projects
worth C1500 crores for smarter
urban amenities and better
standard of living.
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tion for all, but making Ranchi
a Smart City is a great challenge. Government has accepted this challenge and will make
the most of this opportunity. As
a State capital, Ranchi should
have all the amenities: Urban
Development Department and
Ranchi Municipal Corporation
will ensure that,” stated Urban
Development Minister CP
Singh during a press conference
on Tuesday.
The proposal from the
State Government opting for a
combination of Greenfield
Development (development on
vacant space of 341 acres in
HEC area) and Retrofitting
Mode (developing an already
developed area in the city)
won Ranchi the Smart City tag.
“The 341 acres in HEC has
already been approved by the
Cabinet for Greenfield
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Development. We have sent a
proposal for additional 34 acres
of land which has received the
Government’s approval,” stated
Urban Development Secretary
Arun Kumar Singh.
The project will be con-
ducted in two parts – Area
Based
Development
(Greenfield Development) and
Pan-city Solutions (Retrofitting
Mode). The total cost of making Ranchi smarter has been
pegged at C1489.27 crores.C
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swearing-in of the party’s
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first Chief Minister in Assam on
Tuesday, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi emphasised that
progress of North-East India was
imperative for the overall development of the country. The
Prime Minister said he hoped
that the BJP-led new
Government in Assam would
take the State to great heights.
Speaking at the swearingin ceremony of Chief Minister
Sarbananda Sonowal, Modi
said Sarbananda will not leave
any stone unturned to bring
‘sarva anand’ (overall happiness) to Assam.
“The North-East has
always remained a priority for
us. I have always believed that
the North-East is one of the
most important parts of India’s
overall development. This is the
reason we have announced the
Act East policy, which will
encourage India to engage with
its eastern neighbours through
India’s North-East,” Modi said.
Modi heaped praise on the
new Chief Minister and said
that Sonowal and his team
would do everything possible
to develop the State.
“I have always believed the
India has to develop in its
entirety and if the country has
to develop, we cannot leave
behind the North-East,” Modi
said adding that the Central
Government would give all
support to the new Assam
Government under the leadership of Sonowal.
Modi said the Central
Government believes in competitive cooperative federalism and said development is a
continuous process started by
the NDA Government and all
the States that want develop-
ment would be given more
than what is required.
Modi stressed on participation of the people for the
sake of good governance.
“I believe that the Assam
Government, under the leadership of Chief Minister
Sonowal will work shoulder-toshoulder with the people of
Assam and the Central
Government at Delhi will give
all the support to achieve an
fulfil the expectations of the
people,” said Modi.
The PM also thanked the
people of Assam for a historic
and decisive mandate for the
BJP. On his part, Sonowal
promised a “corruption-free”
and “illegal foreigner-free”
Assam as he took oath of office
and secrecy along with ten
other colleagues in the presence
of veteran BJP leader LK
Advani and Home Minister
Rajnath Singh.
The glittering swearing-in
ceremony came as a reminder
of the first Asom Gana
Parishad
(AGP)-led
Government that came to
power in 1985 while riding on
a six-year-long anti-illegal foreigners movement in Assam.
While
the
AGP
Government under the leadership of then Chief Minister
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta took
oath at the Nehru Stadium in
the city, Sonowal and his colleagues took oath at
Veterinary College ground at
Khanapara area that was
attended by thousands of people.
Along with Sonowal,
other BJP leaders, including
1397.18 crores of which will be
used for developing 341 acres
in HEC as an educational hub
whereas C92.09 crores is to be
invested in Pan-city Solution.
These expenses are to be equally borne by the Union
Government,
State
Government and third parties
like World Bank.
“The
Area
Based
Development in HEC is meant
to be a lighthouse project. The
rest of the city will be developed
based on the achievements and
lessons we experience there,”
stated Rajesh Kumar Sharma,
State Urban Development
Agency.
“Smart features will be
incorporated in transportation,
security, water and electric supply,” added Singh, while enumerating the changes that the
Mission will bring about in the
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Himanta Biswa Sarma,
Parimal Suklabaidya, Chandra
Mohan Patowar y, R anjit
Dutta, Pallab Lochan Das and
Naba Doley also took oath as
Ministers. Four of the alliance
partners including Atul Bora
and Keshab Mahanta of the
AGP and Pramila R ani
Brahma and Rihan Daimary
also took oath as Ministers.
city. Smarter Ranchi will offer
smarter versions of basic amenities –rainwater harvesting, sewerage treatment plants, solid
waste management, use of solar
energy, Intelligent Transport
System, Wi-Fi hotspots, carbon
emission reduction to name a
few. Internet of Things (IoT)
will be used prominently to efficiently manage them.
Sluggish transport system of
Ranchi will definitely get a
boost from the urban renewal
initiative. “Five upgraded streets
and two flyovers have been
approved by me and will soon
be taken up by the Department.
For the first time, RMC is going
to adopt hot mix plants for constructing roads,” stated the
Minister.
Transportation, a part of the
Pan-city Solution, will be crucial in decreasing average trav-
el time and increasing average
travel speed, stated Municipal
Commissioner Prashant Kumar.
In their Smart City proposal
to Union Urban Development
Department, RMC had proposed to develop the city as a
knowledge hub for Eastern
India that will also address the
socio-economic needs of its
denizens. 150 acres of the available land will be converted into
an educational hub; master plan
for the same will be drafted
soon, Singh added.
“Ranchi Smart City
Corporation will be established
within 15 days, which will
receive Rs 300 crores from the
Union Government simultaneously with its formation.
Identical corpus of funds will be
concurrently handed to the
Corporation by Jharkhand
Government,” said Singh.
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Lucknow has topped the
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list of winners of the Fast
Track Competition conducted
for 23 cities from as many
States and Union Territories
under the Modi Government’s
ambitious ‘Smart Cities
Mission.’
Lucknow is followed by
Warangal in Telangana and
Dharamshala in Himachal
Pradesh.
Other winners announced
on Tuesday were Chandigarh,
Raipur (Chhattisgarh), New
Town (Kolkata) Bhagalpur,
Panaji, Port Blair, Imphal,
Ranchi, Agartala
and
Faridabad.
Twenty three cities, with
higher rankings from as many
States and Union Territories,
which failed to get representation in the first round of the
competition held in January,
participated in the ‘’Fast Track
Competition’, the result of
which was announced by
Urban Development Minister
Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday.
Of these 23 cities, only 13
could qualify for the Smart
City projects through the fresh
competition, said Naidu
adding that with the selection
of these 13 cities, 25 States/UTs
were now covered under
Smart City Mission.
“The 13 cities selected in
the Fast Track Competition
have proposed a total investment of Rs 30,229 crore.
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vehicles with engines
above 2,000 cc extended to
Kerala, Japanese auto major
Toyota is “re-looking” at its
Indian operations saying
orders are passed “against
principle of natural justice”.
Although the company, which
operates in India as a joint venture — Toyota Kirloskar Motor
— with the Kirloskar group, is
not considering shutting shop
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hearing us. It is going against
the principles of natural justice. We feel our vehicles are
being targetted,” Toyota
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Director Shekar Viswanathan
told PTI.
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tourists with the world’s
first Bollywood-themed
amusement park where visitors
will be able to enjoy immersive
3-D and 4-D rides and stunts
from movies such as Krrish and
RA.One and savour a Mughale-Azam style banquet.
Dubai Parks and Resorts
complex, a Dh 10.5 billion
(about $2.75 billion) venture,
will have 16 cinematic rides, six
themed restaurants and 30 live
shows inspired by contemporary Hindi-language blockbusters such as superstar
Salman Khan’s Dabangg, Shah
Rukh Khan’s Don, Aamir
Khan’s Lagaan and Hrithik
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Thomas Jellum said he is sure
that apart from Indians, people
from other countries will also
come to Dubai to experience
the vibrant celebration of India’s
film industry at this attraction,
spread over 1.7 million square
feet.
The theme park will also
include Broadway-style live
shows with fine-dining.
Tourists will have to shell out
extra at Rajmahal, a 850-seat
theatre that will house a separately ticketed Broadway-style
Bollywood musical.
The theme park will have
a glittering opening ceremony
in October attended by some
of the biggest stars in
Bollywood, Jellum said.
Unveiling an exclusive preview and tour of the upcoming
park at a Press conference,
Chief
Destination
Management Officer of Dubai
Parks and Resorts Vinit Shah
said he and his team members
have tried to take all the ingredients that go into a Bollywood
movie to create an experience
that stays with people visiting
the park.
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onsoon cheers are set to
continue with a waning El
Niño paving the way for the
onset of its counter phenomenon La Niña in the days to come.
The country’s private weather
forecaster, Skymet on Tuesday
raised its monsoon forecast to
109 per cent of normal from its
earlier prediction of 105 per cent
and also predicted that it would
be slow at first but will reach its
peak in September.
However, since the El Niño
conditions are still in the
process of weakening, the
monsoon season that starts
from June, will not begin with
a bang. As per the second prediction released by Skymet, the
second half of the monsoon
season will receive more bountiful rainfall than the first and
will spill over to October. This
would be the fallout of the La
Niña taking over in the latter
part of this year.
Accordingly, rainfall will be
13 per cent below normal in the
month of June. Henceforth, it
is expected to be 8 per cent
above normal in July, following
up the trend with 13 per cent
above normal in August, and
peaking with 23 per cent excess
rainfall in September, said the
forecast.
The private forecaster predicted that chances of normal/above normal rainfall are
as high as 92 per cent. Central
India and the western coast of
India will get plentiful rainfall
this year.
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big tragedy was averted
after an air ambulance carA
rying seven people, including
two pilots, crash-landed on a
field in Kair village in Najafgarh
in Delhi around 2.45 PM. Pilot
Amit Kumar and co-pilot Rohit
Singh displayed exemplary skill
and courage to land the plane in
an open field even after both
engines of the C-90 aircraft
developed technical malfunction. The six-seater C-90
Beechking aircraft belonging to
Trinamool lawmaker KD Singh’s
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The Medanta Hospitalbound air ambulance was carrying 61-year-old Virender Rai,
a cardiac patient, from Patna to
Delhi. Rai was accompanied by
Dr Rupesh from Jagdish
Memorial Hospital, Patna, technician Jang Bahadur, Juhi Rai
and his younger brother
Bhagwan Rai, who sustained
minor injuries. He was rushed
to Rao Tula Ram Hospital, while
the patient was rushed to
Gurgaon-based Medanta
Hospital by a Delhi Police PCR
van. Bhagwan Rai was discharged after the first aid, said
Medical Superintendent Dr AK
Singh.
It was around 2.40 pm on
Monday when the pilots noticed
that one of the engines of the aircraft was not working. Pilot
Amit Kumar informed the Air
Traffic Control (ATC) at Indira
Gandhi International Airport
(IGIA) about the imminent
emergency landing. But before
they can plan a place for emergency landing, the second
engine too developed malfunction forcing the pilots to crashland on a field in Kair village.
While the plane was hurtling
down, the pilots noticed that
there were houses beneath, then
in a last-ditch effort to minimize
the damage and loss of lives, they
maneuvered the plane out and
crash-landed on an open field.
The pilots ensured that the
plane landed on its belly at the
safest part of the field as there
was 460 liters of gaosline in the
fuel tank.
South-West
Joint
Commissioner of Police
Dependra Pathtak said the crash
landing site was 10 km away for
IGIA. The hydraulic gear of the
plane was broken with the
impact
and
the one of the tyres was separated from the plane. The plane
stopped immediately without
suffering much damage, the
official added.
An official at the IGIA said,
“The 1989-make aircraft, carrying registration number VT
EQO, was in touch with to Air
Traffic Control as it was in the
final approach to landing.”
Minister of State for Civil
Aviation Mahesh Sharma said
DGCA officials have been sent
to the site of the incident to conduct a probe. “We received an
emergency call from the pilot.
Both the engines of the aircraft
had reportedly failed. They
made the landing safe.
The Directorate General of
Civil Aviation (DGCA) is looking into the incident,” the
Minister added.
“I pray for the early recovery of the injured. The causes of
the accident shall be looked
into,” tweeted Civil Aviation
Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju.
A senior official of Delhi
Fire Service said that as many as
14 fire tenders were rushed to
the spot after the aircraft crashlanded.
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new motorcycle and 30
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Dhanbad last night.
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showroom after breaking the
wall and escaped with
two brand new bikes,
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also
took
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cash
after
breaking the locker.
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registered and we are
investigating into matter”,
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sation.
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snatching incidents have
been rising across the
city these days; spread
a
feeling
of
insecurity among the
residents as the police
have failed to keep a check.
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Jharkhand High Court
have left for their favourite destination to enjoy summer holidays, Chief Justice Virender
Singh has chosen to stay back
in Ranchi and dispose of criminal cases pending for over 10
years.
The Chief Justice along
with newly elevated judge
Justice Anant Vijay Singh
began to hold the court today.
Though a system to hold a
vacation court has been in
practice earlier too, but it was
for the first time in Jharkhand
that the Chief Justice has
made a division bench functional in the court during
summer vacation.
“It is for the first time that
a division bench, headed by the
Chief Justice, is at place during
vacation to hear criminal
appeals of such prisoners which
are pending for more than 10
years and are lodged in various
jails of the State,” said Vice
Chairman of Jharkhand State
Bar Council Rajesh Kumar
Shukla. “It is really a commendable effort made by the
Chief Justice where only urgent
matters are being heard which
requires immediate attention,”
he added.
According to Shukla, it
will prove to be beneficial for
all those people whose matters
are pending since years due to
which they need immediate
attention or they will have to
remain in jails for the next one
month. “Only urgent criminal
matters are being taken up in
the court and priority will be
given to the pending criminal
appeals,” said Shukla.
As many as 332 such cases
are scheduled to be heard by
the division bench during
vacation. Besides, there are
hundreds of other criminal
appeals which will be heard by
a single bench of Justice Anant
Vijay Singh.
Both division and single
bench will sit during first
week of vacation. The
Division Bench is sitting in the
morning from 9 am to 11 am
while from 11:15 am onwards
the single bench of Justice AV
Singh will hear the other
cases.
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expected to
be sent to the
Centre formally by this
week
end
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apex cour t
given in the
light
of
drought condition prevailing in
good part of
the country.
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judgment has
asked the Centre to cover all
persons under the National
Food Security System. We
are ready with a proposal in
this regard. This would cover
entire chunk of population in
the State besides 2.64 crore
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FSA originally,” Saryu Roy,
he State Government, Minister for Food and Civil
while referring to a recent Supplies told The Pioneer on
Supreme Court order has Tuesday.
Through the order proapproached the Centre for
universal coverage under the nounced last week in the
Food Security Act (FSA) pro- petition filed by NGO Swaraj
visions. The Department for Abhiyan, the Supreme Court
Food and Civil Supplies in a directed the Centre for the
high-level meeting on measure keeping in mind
Tuesday prepared a proposal gravity of the food availability scenario besides, telling to
in this regard.
The proposal that is appoint State food commis-
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sioners and district grievance
redressal officers in the
drought-hit States. Including
Jharkhand, there are 11 other
States that have been declared
drought hit due to deficient
monsoon witnessed in most
part of the country.
Moreover, provisions of
the FSA mandates the Centre
to provide food security to 75
per cent population in rural
and 50 per cent in urban areas
while in Jharkhand the scale
has already been raised covering 86.4 per cent in urban
and 60.4 per cent in rural
areas. Now the latest proposal in this regard would stretch
the coverage to nearly 50
lakh additional people who
were left out otherwise.
Special Secretary with the
Department Ravi Ranjan said
that the proposal is an extension of the Government’s idea
which proposes to cover the
entire populace residing in
troubled and disturbed pockets in the State.
“We were working on
complete coverage under FSA
in naxal dens such as Saranda,
Sarju and Jhumra from this
year itself. But since the
Supreme Court order came
and when the entire State
can be covered, we would
look into those specific pockets next year,” said the official,
adding that additional
requirement of food grain
and total number of people to
be covered would be reached
in couple of days and the figures would be shared with the
Center to ensure the supply.
Along with that the
Government is working hard
to revive ‘grain banks’ in
every panchayat in order to
create a buffer in case of
immediate grain shortage.
“We have named it ‘Grain
Gola’ which would keep 40
quintal of rice reserved to
meet any short supply. The
reserve would be revolving in
nature which would be filled
when allotment comes. We
would seek rice from the
Center for this as well and if
denied we would maintain it
from our own sources,” said
the Minister stressing that a
proposal in this regard would
be brought before the Cabinet
soon.
Notably as many as 22
districts of the State are reeling under intense drought
which has exposed people to
mass level migration and even
hunger related disorders. The
situation led to another recent
order of the Supreme Court
providing midday meals in all
primary schools even during
a month long summer vacation. Following the direction,
the State Government has
decided authorities to continue MDM in the break.
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three-member team of
the Press Council of India
(PCI) has expressed concern
over delayed announcement
of compensation to the family of Indradev Yadav, a scribe,
who had been killed recently
in Chatra. The team, at the
same time, also rejected the
initial claims of the district
administration that had
labeled Yadav as a contractor.
Addressing mediapersons
on Tuesday after touring
Chatra on Monday, PCI
member Rajeev Ranjan Nag
also expressed concern over
growing number of attacks on
journalists in the State.
“The incident was very
unfortunate but the State
Government after much hue
and cry and media pressure
announced C5 lakh as
compensation for the family
of journalist Indradev Yadav
that has not been paid yet.
We are also concerned
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about three-four other cases
in which journalists lost their
lives. We believe that
Jharkhand Government has
not shown sincerity on the
issue,” said Nag.
Yadav, working for a news
channel, was shot dead in
Chatra on May 12 allegedly by
a splinter group of Maoists.
Three persons related to TPC
and MCC have been arrested
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so far for the murder. Initially,
the district administration
had claimed that he was a
contractor which trivialised
the situation. However, the
PCI team made it clear that
Yadav was a working journalist.
“We also met DC and SP
and other officials. They
referred Indradev Yadav as a
journalist only. We also
believe that he was mainly a
journalist. Some of his relatives may be in other business
but was the business was
illegal,” asked the member
and expressed satisfaction
over direction of the probe so
far.
He also dismissed the
demand for a CBI probe
andrather stressed over better
compensation
and
rehabilitation
of
the
affected families.
The team is likely to meet
Chief Minister Raghubar Das
on Wednesday on his return
from Assam in which besides,
a set of recommendation
it would seek immediate
arrest of the main culprit and
wider norm for safety and
security of the scribes in the
State. Prabhat Kumar Das
and Sandeep Shankar were
other members of the
team that would submit its
repor t to PCI b efore
June 10.
Nag, at the same time,
also termed the environment
challenging for journalists in
the State and expressed
displeasure over media
houses disowning local
repor ters and stringers
fearing
demand
for
standard
facilities
and wages.
“We in our larger
recommendation would put
light on these issues
apart from setting up funds
for
journalists,
provision
for
adequate compensation,
separate statute to empower
press and also acts for
protection
of
journalists.
PCI
is
serious on these issues,” said
the member.
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thieves for their involveR
ment in two cases of theft
under Gonda police station.
Ramiz Raza, Jagdish Sao and a
minor of 16 years were arrested by police officials for stealing from houses of Swarna
Kamal Banarjee and Naval
Officer PK Singh in Dhawan
Nagar back in March.
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During interrogation,
Ramiz disclosed that he is
working with Jharkhand
Armed Police-7. The arrested
criminals have confessed of
being responsible for four cases
of theft.
Their names came up
when Hazaribagh police arrested Khurshid, another notorious
thief involved in dozens of
thefts and the mastermind of
this gang. He divulged the
names of the criminals arrested from Ranchi along with two
of his other accomplices, Sonu
and Imraan, from Hazaribagh.
“Ramiz was the one who
rented a house in Gandhinagar
which was used by his accomplices and most of the loot has
been recovered from his possession, indicating towards his
active
participation
Departmental action will be
initiated against him.
Individuals who brought stolen
items from them will also be
identified and action will be
taken against them too,” said
Superintendent of Police (City)
Kishore Kaushal during a press
conference on Tuesday.
Police has seized two television sets, a pair of silver
anklets, a silver note and several brass utensils they stole
from a house near LPN
Shahdeo Chowk.
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mminent personalities
including politicians and officials paid tributes to martyr
Surjit Barla at Birsa Munda
International Airport in Ranchi
on Tuesday. Those who paid
tribute to Barla included Urban
Development Minister CP
Singh, Ranchi DC Manoj
Kumar, City SP Kaushal
Kishore and several others.
Body of martyr Surjit Barla
was brought to Birsa Munda
Airport in Ranchi on Tuesday
who was killed in a militants
attack in Chandel district of
Manipur near Indo-Myanmar
border on May 22, 2016.
Principal Secretary SK
Satpathy also paid tribute to the
martyr on behalf of Governor
Draupadi Murmu at the
Airport. Governor in her message stated that the whole
nation was proud of Barla. She
also added that the soldiers of
our Country are fully devoted
for external and internal secu-
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rity of the nation and have also
sacrificed their livers for the
unity and integrity of the
nation.
“We are all safe because of
such real heroes. We are all
grateful to such people who are
playing with their lives for
security of the nation,” stated
the Governor.
Barla belonged to Gumla
district of Jharkhand who was
ambushed in Manipur along
with six others including a
JCO. Those who got killed in
the incident also included
names of JCO Subedaar BK
Sharma, Riflemen Mahesh
Gurung, AK Pandey, Pawan
Kumar and Bhupinder Singh.
The dead were part of a
29-member team who were
returning to their Joupi
Battalion in the district after
inspecting a landslide.
Soldiers retaliated and an
encounter ensued but the
attackers escaped, taking
advantage of the thick forests
nearby, they said. They also
managed to take away six
weapons.
Last June, NSCN (K) rebels
in Chandel had killed 18 soldiers, leading to a surgical
strike by the army in Myanmar
which the government claimed
had led to several militants
being killed. The area however, has been cordoned off initiating a search operation in the
area,” an official said.
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ECON has requested
Defence Research and
Development Organization
(DRDO) to give its expertise
to resolve the problem it
has been facing to prevent
tearing
of
the
world’s
highest
tricolour in the air.
Notably, despite several
ef for ts made by Pahari
Mandir Vikas Samiti and
MECON, they have not been
able to prevent the
highest
and
largest tricolour in Ranchi
f rom
b eing
ripped off.
“As we have no expertise
in fabric material, we are
seeking help from the DRDO
for which they have also given
their consent. Very soon we
are expecting experts from
their side who will give their
suggestions on the issue,” said
MECON D GM JK Jha.
DRD O has internally
developed some alternate
fabric which may be used
for
making
the
tricolour more durable,
added Jha.
Meanwhile, the MECON
has b een working on
providing an additional manrider through which one can
easily go on the tip of the flag
post through a cage like
structure to fix any fault,
Jha said.
“Presently we are focusing
on synchronization of the
winch f ixed inside and
outside it so that they
can r un and stop
together making it easier to
ascend and descend the
f lag up or down of
the
f lag
p ost,”
Jha said. Regular meetings are
being
conducted
between MECON and
representatives of Valmont
C ompany
which
was
entrusted to install the flag
post
in
R anchi,
he added.
Notably, due to some
technical fault which arose
with the motor of the flag
post, the highest tricolour
remained stuck halfway on
the flag post for over a
fortnight making a mockery
of it.
Taking lessons from the
last incident, Pahari Mandir
Vikas Samiti decided
to
f ix
problems
with the motor so that the
Triclour could be brought
down at any point of time in
case
it
gets
ripped
of f
due to speeding wind.
“Since, the pully is still
stuck on the top, we have
engaged a constr uction
company to bring
it down,” said Pahari Mandir
Vikas Samiti PRO Mukesh
Agrawal. The primary aim of
Samiti was to fix the mechanism of the motor so that best
use of technology could be
ensured and such problems
could be avoided in future, he
added.
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azaribagh, DSE, Shivendra
Kumar has been strictly
instructed to get hold of a
teacher, who has never attended the school since 2002, after
being appointed there and have
failed to deliver his service.
Bipin Singh was appointed as
a teacher in primary school in
Ichak, Gobarbanda Dangi,
Hazaribagh district.
According to information
collected, Singh has also contested election from Bihar
recently. The decision has been
taken today in the weekly
review meeting of CM Jan
Samvad presided by Secretary
to CM, Sunil Kumar Barnwal,
where he ordered the DSE to
act promptly on the matter.
Barnwal has asked DSE,
Hazaribagh to take strict action
against the defaulter, as he
cannot challenge the system.
Similarly, in another case,
even after the retirement from
the department, Prem Shankar
Prasad has been living in the
same house which has been
allotted to him during his service tenure. Prasad has occupied the residence since 2010
and even after several orders
issued to him, he has not yet
acted on it seriously. However,
the nodal officers have assured
Barnwal that within 15 days,
Prasad will be compelled to
give the rent. If the nodal officer fails, strict action will be
taken against the officers in
charge, Barnwal pointed out.
The Pollution Control
Board has been issued the
show cause notice, as the resi-
dent of Madhukam have complained that the health of the
resident residing in Madhukam
is being adversely affected, due
to the presence of New
Goldmohar Shop and
Detergent factory situated in
the area. In another case from
SBI Shivpur Branch, Garhwa,
where the benefit of widow
pension scheme is not reaching
to the beneficiaries, the authorities have asked SBI, DCM to
act on this immediately and
resolve the matter.
Another plea came from
family members of deceased
Munnan Prasad, whose family has yet not received any
compensation from Road
Construction Department.
Even after writing to the officials at Road Construction
Department, the family members have not received any positive response from the
department. Barnwal ordered
the official to consider the
matter
with
utmost
seriousness.
ue to illegal parking on
Straight Mile Road passing
through Sakchi Market, traders
are facing loss in business. So
much so that a delegation of
Jamshedpur Chamber of
Commerce led by its president
Mohanlal Agarwal handed a
memorandum to East
Singhbhum deputy commissioner Amitabh Kaushal.
The DC was apprised
about business loss suffered as
customers facing parking woes
and mishap threat avoid visiting shops situated on nearly 80
meters stretch of Straight Mile
Road in Sakchi Market.
Incidentally, the road
stretch on Straight Mile Road
witnesses heavy traffic around
2 lakhs daily throughout the
day as it connects residential
areas like Baradwari,
Bhalubasa, Sitaramdera,
Agrico, Sidhgora and Baridih
with commercial hub of Sakchi.
Besides private vehicles large
number of commercial vehicles use this stretch.
Mohanlal Agarwal said
that shopkeepers have been facing complaints from regular
customers about traffic snarl
while coming to the shops due
to illegal parking and difficul-
ty faced in parking of their own
vehicles. Shopkeepers admit
that footfalls to shops have also
decreased in the last few
months. The shopkeepers
alleged that nearly 2,000 twowheelers are parked illegally on
this stretch daily.
East Singhbhum deputy
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Giridih district conducted
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raids within Bengabad police
station jurisdiction and
recovered
more than 5
tonnes of illegal
coal.
Motorbikes
and bull-card
loaded with
illegal coal
were also
seized during
the police
action and
three persons
identified as
Md Kalim
,Pankanj Das
and Premi
Mukesh were arrested in this
connection .
It has been one of the huge
seizures of illegal coal made by
the Giridih police here on
Tuesday following direct orders
from the Superintendent of
police, Giridih Akhlesh V.
Varier early this morning, a
police team lead by the officerin charge of Bengabad police
station Manoj Kumar, raided
an illegally run depot at
Bengabad locality .The illegal
coal dump was functioning
following the dumping of illegally mined coal and was being
run by some coal smugglers.
According to police
sources, when the police team
reached at the locality and
pounced upon them and
arrested three persons and also
seized several motorbikes and
bull-cards with stolen coal
were seized. The raids which
will be continued in routine
work as created panic among
transporters of coal ,said Manoj
Kumar ,O/C of Bengabad
police station .
commissioner
Amitabh Kaushal
accepting the memorandum of the traders
assured of looking into
the issue and suggested them to approach
Jusco.
Incidentally, Jusco
has identified parking
spots on Sakchi
Highway (in front of
The Bengal Club),
stretch in front of
Jamshedpur
Eye
Hospital, stretch near
Dalda Line, stretch on
Tank Road (near Tin
Shed Market), stretch
on Straight Mile Road
(backside of Bhola Maharaj
Sweet shop) and two basements at Super Center.
Jamshedpur Notified Area
Committee (JNAC) special
officer Dipak Sahay said that
the construction of the parking
bays has already started on this
stretch by Jusco and would be
completed by this month.
A traffic official said that
the road obstruction and congestion due to violation of
parking norms has been a
problem. We do carry out
prosecution of vehicles for
‘no parking’ violations but
vehicle owners plead that they
were not aware that this area
was a designed ‘no-parking’
spot.
There have been road signage installed on the road at
different points but people do
not bother to take a look at
these signage.
After consultation with
Jusco we have come up with
this idea. Vehicle owners while
stopping for parking on the
road now cannot plead that
they have not seen the signage
as it would be clearly visible on
road surface.
This
apart
reflective signage will also
indicate the zones even at
night.
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resident Pranab Mukherjee
on Tuesday promulgated the
Ordinance to keep State boards
out of the ambit of the common
entrance test (NEET) for MBBS
and dental courses for this year.
The second phase of NEET will
be conducted on July 24. The
first phase was held on May 1.
Health Minister JP Nadda
said the Ordinance gives the
NEET a firm statutory support
and backing to bring in transparency in examinations. “The
Government was very clear
from the beginning that it was
in favour of NEET,” he main-
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scrapped a C1,700-crore
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proposed deal for procuring
torpedos from Finmeccanica
for Scorpene submarines now
under construction at Mazagon
Docks
Limited(MDL),
Mumbai. The deal was put on
hold in 2014 by the then UPA
Government in the wake of
AgustaWestland VVIP helicopter deal controversy.
Finmeccanica, the Italian conglomerate is the parent company of AgustaWestland. The
Government is likely to float a
fresh golbal tender or request
for proposal(RFP) to procure
torpedos.
Disclosing this here on
Tuesday, sources said Black
Shark torpedo, manufactured
by Whitehead Alenia Sistemi
Subacquel(WASS), a subsidiary
of Finmeccanica, emerged as
the lowest bidder and negotiations began in 2013 for fitting
98 torpedos on to six Scorpene
submarines. Incidentally, the
first submarine christened INS
Kalvari is now undergoing
final trials and expected to join
service in September.
When asked how the
Government proposed to
maintain operational preparedness of the submarines in
the absence of torpedos,
Defence Minister Manohar
Parrikar told a reputed nation-
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had emerged as the second
lowest bidder and sources said
at the time of technical trials
there were some differences
between the German manufacturers and the French firm
building the Scorpene submarinies in collaboration with
MDL.
“However, it seems that the
differences have been resolved
now,” sources said adding that
either a fresh tender could be
placed or the Government may
go in for direct purchase. If the
issue is not resolved fast, the
Navy would be inducting the
first Scorpene submarine without its main anti-ship attack
system.
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tained, rejecting Congress’
charge that the Government
was going against the test.
He explained that only
State Government seats in
Government medical colleges
and State Government seats in
ix years after a Delhi boy
went missing from his
Shome,
he has now been tracked
to Jessore in Bangladesh from
where the Indian Government
is trying to bring him back.
A senior official in the Indian
High Commission in Dhaka is
travelling to Jessore in southwestern Bangladesh to meet 12year-old Sonu after External
Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj
intervened in the matter.
“A First Secretary from
@ihcdhaka is going to Jessore
today to meet with Sonu,”
External Affairs Ministry
spokesperson Vikas Swarup
tweeted on Tuesday. Swaraj
swung into action after TV
channels showed a report about
a man from Bangladesh who
had come to India in search for
Sonu’s parents. The Bangladeshi
citizens and Sonu’s parents later
met External Affairs Ministry
officials and MEA promised to
resolve the issue soon.
“Thanks for bringing this
to my notice. We have initiated action already. We will
resolve this soon,” Swaraj had
tweeted after her attention was
drawn to Sonu’s plight.
Sonu had reportedly gone
missing from Delhi in 2010 and
a man from Jessore recently
contacted his family here and
gave details about the whereabouts of the boy, who is
reportedly in a child care home
in Jessore. The details of how
the boy had gone missing are
not yet known.
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he CBI has registered a
criminal case against former
Vice-Chancellor of Viswa
Bharati
University,
Shantiniketan, S Duttagupta,
in connection with alleged irregularities in the appointment of
a deputy registrar and conducted searches at five premises of the accused persons.
The agency had registered
the case against the ViceChancellor of the then
Registrar D Gunasekaran
(Presently Registrar, IIT,
Bhubaneswar); Finance Officer
AP Trivedi and Deputy
Registrar Shyamala Ray Nair
under Section 120-B (criminal
conspiracy) and revenant provisions of the Prevention of
Corruption Act, 1988, official
sources said.
The FIR alleges that
Duttagupta, in connivance with
other accused officials, appointed Shyamala Ray Nair as
Deputy Registrar illegally in
violation of UGC guidelines.
“It was alleged that the said
officials entered into a criminal
conspiracy amongst themselves
and in pursuance thereof, a
Deputy Registrar was appointed in the University in violation
of the laid down UGC Rules as
the said Deputy Registrar did
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not meet the educational criteria and had an age above the
maximum age limit by at least
7 years,” the CBI said in a statement.
The agency conducted the
searches on Tuesday on five
premises in Shantiniketan,
including two in Kolkata (West
Bengal) and two premises in
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) which
led to recovery of relevant
“incriminating” documents,
the agency added.
Searches continued till late
in the evening and further
investigation is continuing.
CBI sources said the case was
registered following a reference
from the Centre.
The prestigious university
was founded by Nobel laureate
Rabindranath Tagore.
he CBI on Tuesday questioned Uttarakhand Chief
Minister Harish Rawat in connection with an extra legal
probe under a Preliminary
Enquiry relating to a sting
operation involving him.
Rawat accompanied by
some supporters and an MLA
arrived at the CBI headquarters
at about 11 am and was grilled
till 4 pm. He will again appear
before the agency on June 7.
Rawat said he will present his
side of the story before agency
on June 7.
CBI had registered a
Preliminary Enquiry (PE) on
April 29 to probe the sting
operation in which Rawat was
purportedly shown negotiating
a deal to buy the support of
rebel Congress MLAs ahead of
the floor test.
A Preliminary Enquiry
(PE) as opposed to Regular
Case (FIR) is beyond the mandate under the Criminal
Procedure Code. Often the
PE lingers for long periods as
the agency is not bound by the
provisions under the CrPC to
file a final report under stipulated time period of 60 or 90
days.
The CBI had last week
rejected the State Government’s
notification withdrawing the
nod for probing the case which
was given during President’s
Rule.
The Uttarakhand High
private institutions will have
exemption (if the State
Government concerned so
opts) for the current year.
However, said Nadda, as
Tamil Nadu and Puducherry
do not conduct an examination
for entrance in their medical
and dental colleges, and instead
admit students on the basis of
marks obtained at Class XII
examinations for their State
Government seats, admissions
in these States for the current
year only, will be as per present
procedure being adopted by
these two States.
“All State seats will be filled
up either by NEET or by their
State examination board and in
private medical colleges, the
quota that they have for States
will also be filled up by the State
list or NEET list. PG examination in December 2016 will be
a complete NEET,” he said.
He said as the States had
not effectively put forth their
views in the right perspective
before the Supreme Court, we
brought this Ordinance in
order to provide them relief.
He said that after the apex
court order, many State
Governments had approached
the Centre and apprised it of
various issues, including ongoing tests of States, parity of syllabus and regional languages.
Nadda said that after due
consultations, including an allparty meeting and State health
Ministers’ meet, a consensus
was reached that NEET “in
principle” is to be implemented which is why the Ordinance
was brought.
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al daily that “I will make the
Scorpenes functional. Don’t
worry about it.”
Replying to another question whether the Governemnt
will go for ‘Make in India’ option,
the Minister said there are other
companies who can supply it.
He, however, refrained from
giving further details and said
these issues could not be discolsed due to security reasons.
Given the urgency of the
project, sources said fresh RFP
will take time and the Ministry
may go for Governemnt to
Governemnt deal. This process
entails that the foreign made
torpedo finally selected will be
backed by that Government
instead of the vendor.
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probe as requested by Rawat.
CBI had said the notification was rejected after taking
legal opinion, which said there
was no ground for its withdrawal and it was “not legally
tenable”.
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sought more time after which
he won the floor test and
returned to power.
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he Supreme Court on
T
Tuesday questioned the
basis for refusing water supply
to the distilleries and breweries
in drought-hit Maharashtra
after it was asked to modify a
Bombay High Court order that
recently ordered the State to cut
up to 60 per cent water supplied to the liquor producing
units in the wake of the dry
spell in Marathwada region.
The petitioner before the
High Court, Sanjay Bhaskarrao
Kale, had approached the
Vacation Bench of the Supreme
Court to ensure not a single
drop of water is supplied to the
distilleries and breweries in the
State in the face of severe
drought conditions this year.
Snubbing the petitioner for
pursuing such a petition for
“publicity”, the Bench of Justices
Prafulla C Pant and Dhananjay
Y Chandrachud refused to pass
any directions to the State. It
even did not choose to alter the
High Court order realising that
the order passed by the
Aurangabad Bench of the HC
was an interim direction and
the matter is to be finally decided at a later stage.
However, the Bench questioned the basis for judicial
intervention in such a matter. It
said, “These are all policy decisions and the court’s interference
will be like taking over governance. Even the 60 per cent cut
has no basis. There can be no
justification. These are all policy decisions and the courts cannot interfere in all these matters.”
The Bench told the petitioner’s counsel to rest content
with the HC order as it strikes
a “balance” between the interest of the petitioner and that of
the liquor industry. The petitioner later decided to withdraw the petition and sought
liberty to approach the High
Court.
The Aurangabad Bench’s
order became effective from
May 10 and is to remain operational till June 27. The HC had
also ordered the State
Government to curtail water
supply to other industrial units
to ensure the limited water
stock gets diverted to people for
their daily needs.
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ith a view to gain experience for the gruelling
circumnavigation of the globe
in 2017 in sailing vessel INS
Mhadei, the first ever allwomen officers team on
Tuesday sailed for Mauritius
from Goa. The boat is expected to complete the 2,500 nautical miles(5,000km) voyage
in about 25 days and return to
Goa in mid July.
The first open-ocean voyage by the six-member crew led
by Lt Commander Vartika
Joshi is part of the training to
face ordeals in the sea for the
forthcoming expedition. For
the ongoing voyage, the crew
will have to negotiate rough
seas and heavy weather in the
Arabian Sea due to south-west
monsoon thereby testing the
navigation skills of the officers.
Giving details of the voyage, Navy officials said here on
Tuesday, this training will
expose the crew including Lt P
Swathi, Lt B Aishwarya, Lt
accordingly. We will take action
as soon as the report comes,”
otassium bromate used in Nadda told reporters.
However, indicating that it
breads including pav and
buns may soon be banned had already submitted the
with the Health Ministry wak- report seeking ban on the
ing up to study the recom- chemical, FSSAI CEO Pawan
mendations of the country’s Kumar Agar wal said,
food regulator for removal of “Potassium bromate is one of
the toxic chemical from the list 11,000 food additives that are
of permissible food additives. allowed in food business. After
The move comes a day careful consideration, the
after a report by CSE claimed FSSAI has recommended
the presence of the cancer- potassium bromate from the
list of permissicausing chemicals
in bread samples of 1A4038BBD4 ble additives.”
On the notivirtually all top
fication, Agarwal said, “As far as
brands.
Union Health Minister JP issue of notification is conNadda said he has directed the cerned the FSSAI has already
Food Safety and Standards sent the recommendation to
Authority of India (FSSAI) to Ministry of Health and it would
take the matter seriously and be issued by the Ministry and
submit a report at the earliest, there it may take a week or two.”
the regulator long back had After the removal of potassium
submitted a report in this bromate from the list its use as
food additive would be banned,
regard to the Ministry.
“I have told FSSAI to take he said adding that on use of
the matter seriously and submit potassium iodate, FSSAI is
the report. They are coming examining the evidence and
out with a report. The Ministry soon a decision will be taken
will take appropriate action over the same.
Pratibha Jamwal, Lt Vijaya and
Lt Payal Gupta to weather that
would be faced by them during
the circumnavigation in 2017.
All the women officers are
keen sailors who took to the
sport after joining the Indian
Navy. The skipper Vartika Joshi
and Swathi were part of
Mhadei crew on earlier voyages. The officers have undergone theoretical training in
Navigation, Communication,
Meteorology and Seamanship
at the navy’s training schools in
Kochi. The crew is undergoing
training under Commanderdr
Dilip Donde, India’s first circumnavigator, who undertook
his voyage on the same boat, in
2008-09.
The all-women crew circumnavigation of the globe
would be undertaken on board
the new sailing vessel of the
Navy presently under-construction at M/s Aquarius
Shipyard Pvt Ltd, Goa. The yetto-be-named boat is expected
to be delivered to the Navy by
February 2017.
The Navy is in the process
of setting up an ocean sailing
node at Goa to promote ocean
sailing and a spirit of adventure amongst young naval officers and sailors. Mhadei and
her sister vessel would be
based at this node in Goa. The
exploits of this all-women
crew on board Mhadei,along
with accounts of their voyage
and photographs, can be followed on the Facebook page
‘Mhadei’. The boat is expected
to enter Port Louis on June 1112 and return to Goa by early
July.
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A
lmost six months after
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi announced setting up of
two AIIMS-like institutes in
Jammu & Kashmir as part of
the Centre’s development package, the Union Health Ministry
has cleared sites—Awantipora
in Pulwama district in
Kashmir and Vijaypur in
Samba district in Jammu for
establishment of the health
institutions.
The proposed AIIMS will
be spread over 200 acres of
land.
The J&K Government had
identified three locations —
one in Kashmir and two in
Jammu—for establishment of
the institutions. Besides
Awantipora in Pulwama district in Kashmir, the State
Government had proposed
two sites—Vijaypur and
Ghagwal in Samba district in
Jammu.
According to sources in
the Ministry, the Centre has
asked the State Secretary for
Medical Education, MK
Bhandari to ensure protection
of site in Jammu from flooding of Devak river as well as
join two patches of the site separated by national highway
either through the bridge of
underpass. For the AIIMS site
in Kashmir, the State
Government has to either close
down the firing range of the
army located adjacent to the
proposed site permanently or
relocate to another area.
In 2015-16 Union Budget,
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
had announced setting up of
an All India Institute of
Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and
IIM in the State. The decision
to set-up AIIMS in Kashmir
triggered protests in Jammu,
prompting the Centre to sanction another such institution
for the region.
Under the development
package announced by Modi,
the Centre has earmarked
C4,000 crore for establishing
the institutions.
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piced up by the stupendous
majority with which the
STrinamool
Congress has roared
back to power in the recently
concluded Assembly elections,
Mamata Banerjee is planning
to bring in fresh faces to replace
tainted names in her new
Cabinet inside sources said.
The TMC has notched up
211 out of 294 seats while the
Congress and Left have bagged
44 and 33 each. BJP has won 3
seats and GJM 3. In an
apparent bid to clean up the
party’s imag blemished by
Sharada, Narada, SGDA, Trident
and other scams Banerjee may
drop some her Ministers and
shift others to lesser portfolios,
a senior leader said.
According to sources,
Urban Development Minister
Firhad Hakim may not get
back his old Ministry, while
Cabinet berth for Kolkata
Mayor Sovan Chatterjee who
also seen taking bribe in the
Narada video footage may also
get deferred for a while.
The CM will take oath on
May 27. The only exception
could be Panchayat and
Irrigation Minister Subroto
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Mukherjee who may once
again get his original portfolio
despite his alleged involvement in the Narada scam.
Mukherjee had done “an excellent job in 100-days’ work
scheme which brought the
Trinamool its bulk of votes” so
he will not be deprived of his
place.
Party MP and Banerjee’s
Nandigram spearhead Suvendu
Adhikary who was brought
back to the State politics and
won the Nandigram Assembly
seat this time round is also likely to get an important portfolio despite his appearance in the
Narada footage, sources said
adding the Chief Minister “will
take a decision later if the Lok
Sabha ethics committee finds
any truth in the sting video.”
The new faces who may get
Cabinet berth are Forward
Bloc turncoat Udayan Guha
who is likely to get inducted as
the North Bengal Development
Minister. Former Chief Whip
and a man known for his
integrity
Sobhandeb
Chattopadhayay is likely to get
the Law Ministry, sources said.
Bratya Basu a former
Education Minister is likely to
get the Information and
Culture portfolio while senior
leader and Parliamentary
Affairs Minister Partho
Chatterjee may get back his
Industry port folio after even
Finance Minister Amit Mitra
new Government of the
CPI(M)-led LDF will take
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charge in Kerala on Wednesday
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who had replaced Chatterjee to
handle Industry as the additional charge also failed miserable to bring investment.
Meanwhile, the Congress
and the Left on Tuesday decided to boycott the swearing-in
ceremony on May 27. Both the
parties have decided to hold a
rally at Esplanade in Kolkata to
protest against the ongoing
violence in the State.
“How can we take part in
the swearing-in when our men
are being attacked their properties and party offices looted
and torched, their women
raped” Adhir Chowdhury
Pradesh Congress president
asked.
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fter giving a long rope to
the Nitish Kumar baiters in
his party, the RJD supremo
Lalu Prasad has decided to rein
in them and rescue the embattled Chief Minister from
embarrassment. Lalu asked his
partymen to refrain from
unnecessary utterances and if
they have any issue they should
instead contact him.
Nitish who is already under
fire from the opposition for the
alleged deterioration in law
and order situation, spate of
murders and involvement of
the ruling class legislators or
their kin in the crime, also
came under stinging attack
from the senior leaders of the
RJD who went a step ahead of
the opposition training their
guns at the CM.
Amongst them the most
vocal is RJD MP and octogenarian leader Mohammad
Taslimuddin. He said, “Making
Nitish as CM was a mistake. The
RJD should have nominated its
own person as CM. Nitish is not
even eligible to become a
Mukhiya and he is day dreaming to become the PM. If I had
my way I would have walked
out of this alliance right now.”
Nitish also came under
attack from other two senior
RJD leaders Raghubansh Prasad
Singh and Prabhunath Singh,
both former MPs. RJD vice
president Raghubansh has made
it a point to criticise Nitish
every now and then and
Prabhunath opened front
against him after shifting of former RJD Siwan MP
Mohammad Shahabuddin from
Siwan to Bhagalpur central jail.
In its first, the RJD issued
a show cause notice to
Taslimuddin for his comments
giving him one week time to
reply or face action.
While the leaders of oppo-
sition parties stepped up their
jungle raj chorus and started
speculating
that
the
Mahagathbandhan Government
would not last even half of its
term, Lalu stepped in to clear the
misconception. He said, “Our
alliance is strong like a rock and
it is unbreakable. The opposition
is totally frustrated over their
defeat in the Assembly polls and
good governance by the present
Government. I can understand
the pain of RSS, BJP, Ram Vilas
Paswan and Jitan Ram Manjhi.
They need not salivate by thinking that this Government would
fall due to infighting.”
With the slapping of the
show cause notice to
Taslimuddin, the Nitish baiters
in RJD have fallen silent. The
political observers said that
Lalu was playing smartly to gag
the critics in his party in the
larger interest of his GenNext,
or his two sons Tejashwi Prasad
Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav,
who are number two and number three status respectively in
the Government. Any crack in
the grand alliance at this
moment would jeopardize their
future, they feel. Even Lalu is
enjoying unchallenged power
as his party bounced back due
to this alliance.
Tejashwi, who is Deputy
CM, reportedly expressed his
grave annoyance over the criticism by Taslimuddin,
Raghubansh and Prabhunath
and told his dad in no uncertain terms that giving a long
rope to them would be disastrous for the government and
the alliance. Publicly, he
assailed the opposition for
defaming Bihar by mounting
attack on the government. He
asked, "Why the BJP leaders are
not taking pride in admitting
that one of their rapist and
absconder leader is a Minister
at the Centre and another from
whose house unaccounted
money to the tune of Rs 1.50
crore was seized is also a
Central Minister?" Privately,
the Deputy CM prevailed upon
his father to take action against
the critics of the CM and
silence them.
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evening with a 19-member
Cabinet headed by Chief
Minister-designate Pinarayi
Vijayan, CPI(M) Politbureau
member, being sworn in at a
"simple" ceremony at the Central
Stadium
in
Thiruvananthapuram, ending
the allegedly corruption-ridden
five-year rule of the Congressled UDF.
"The Government to be
sworn in tomorrow will be one
of the entire people. There will
be no party, religious or caste
discrimination," CM-designate
Pinarayi
said
in
Thiruvananthapuram on
Tuesday.
"The
new
Government's only agenda will
be to work for the welfare of the
people and unity of the State and
it will hope to see a similar
approach in return," he said.
The CPI(M), CPI and other
partners of the LDF coalition
have already finalized their representatives in the Cabinet.
However, formal confirmation
on the names and their portfolios will come only by
Wednesdaymorning. The
CPI(M) will have 12 Ministers
including the CM, the CPI four
and three minor partners, Janata
Dal (S), NCP and Congress(S),
will have one each.
In the Assembly election
held on May 16, the Left had
scored a landslide victory by
bagging 91 of the total 140
seats and confining the ruling
Congress-led UDF to a mere 47.
The CPI(M) won 63 seats and
the CPI 19 but the Congress
could get only 22 seats. The BJPled NDA opened account in the
State by winning one seat.
"We had just seen a furiously
fought election. But that is over.
What we now need is to work
with unity for the State's development," Pinarayi said. He will
have a meeting with the State
Governor on Wednesday morning at which he will hand over
to him the list of Ministers. The
first Cabinet meeting will be
held lateWednesday evening
after the swearing-in ceremony.
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T
his year’s Ganesh Chaturthi
festival in Hyderabad is all
set to be drastically different in
terms of arrangements for the
immersion of the idols. Greater
Hyderabad
Municipal
Corporation (GHMC) has
started initiating measures to
implement the orders of the
Hyderabad High Court to
ensure that the immersion of
thousands of Ganesh idols does
not result in much pollution or
harm to the water bodies.
Keeping in view the successful model of Bengaluru,
the civic body in Hyderabad was
taking up the works to create 10
special ponds within the historic
Hussain Sagar lake specially
for the immersion of the idols.
Each of these ponds will be
44 meters in size and 13 feet
deep to ensure proper immersion of the idols of various sizes.
The plans also include immediate clearing of the debris from
these ponds and also releasing
them fresh water by clearing out
the used water.
GHMC officials said that
similar arrangements will also
be made at nine other ponds in
the city and surrounding areas.
Though the Ganesh idols were
immersed in as many as 44 lakes
in the city and its outskirts, only
ten have been chosen for creat-
Giving an indication that
the new Government would
not tolerate corruption, nepotism and such negative tendencies, Pinarayi said, "Some 'incarnations' may appear claiming
closeness to me. Such an incident has already taken place.
They don't know my style. All
should be alert about such
'incarnations'. I should take care
too," he said.
On Monday afternoon,
Pinarayi and the party colleagues who would be ministers
paid tributes at the Martyrs'
Memorials at Punnapra and
Vayalar in Alappuzha district.
He also paid a visit to 97-yearold communist KR Gowri who
had recently been showing signs
of patching up with the CPI(M)
22 years after her expulsion
from it.
Sources in the CPI(M) said
that the immediate task before
the Government to be sworn in
was to take steps to avoid a
financial catastrophe, the threat
of which was very much in the
air due to alleged mismanagement in the five years of the
UDF rule. "The Cabinet meeting of Wednesday is sure to consider this but actions will come
only in the coming days," said a
top CPI(M) leader.
CPI(M)'s central committee
member TM Thomas Isaac,
who will take over as Finance
minister, has already said that
the State finances were in a
shambles and a White Paper
would be issued on this.
However, outgoing Chief
Minister Oommen Chandy
denied the charge saying that,
"The State's coffers are not
empty. Isaac will correct his
opinion once he takes charge."
As a first indication of his
determination to keep austerity
and
transparency
in
Government spending, Pinarayi
issued an instruction that no
modification works should be
carried out on the ministers' residences when new occupants
moved in. Corruption to the
tune of lakhs of rupees used to
take place in such modifications
and renovations at the start of
Governments.
The real test, however, for
the Government of Pinarayi
will be over how it would deal
with the allegations of corruption against the members of the
outgoing Oommen Chandy
Cabinet, and what action it
would take to bring to book the
culprits behind atrocities against
women including in the case of
the brutal rape-murder of a
Dalit law student in
Perumbavoor on April 28.
Nonagenarian Marxist VS
Achuthanandan, whom the
CPI(M) denied the post of CM
after using his services as the
chief campaigner for the Left in
the election, on Tuesday gave a
clear but indirect warning to
Pinarayi over such matters. "The
people are meant to eat the fruits
of victory. Don't make them eat
defeat. We will be remaining
alert," he said on the Twitter.
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hough the AIADMK won
the elections held to the
Tamil Nadu Assembly and party
General Secretary J Jayalalithaa
was sworn in as Chief Minister
for a “historic” consecutive term,
data collected from the election
results may not be music to the
ears of the winners.
Jayalalithaa who contested
from the Radhakrishnan Nagar
constituency, a Chennai suburb,
defeated her nearest rival Shimla
Muthuchozhan of the DMK by
a margin of 39,545 votes. It is
being projected as an impressive
victory by the AIADMK cadre.
But what they have forgotten is
the fact that Jayalalithaa had contested from the same constituency in 2015 in a by-election
and won by a record margin.
In the by-election held in the
month of June 2015, Jayalalithaa
had polled 1,60,432 votes while
her nearest rival C Mahendran
of the CPI could poll just 9,710
votes. Within one year,
Jayalalithaa lost 63,214 votes to
a greenhorn fielded by the DMK.
The AIADMK leaders need to
do a lot of introspection about
the drastic reduction in the
number of votes polled by the
party. The final result of the 2016
assembly election in Tamil Nadu
has a lot of similarities with the
results of the famous Calcutta
League Football match between
traditional rivals East Bengal
and Mohun Bagan. Whoever is
the winner, they scrape through
by a whisker!
The AIADMK contested in
all 234 constituencies (election
to two constituencies has been
deferred) and won in 134 constituencies. But the DMK
which won in 89 constituencies
had contested only in 173 seats
leaving the remaining to its
allies Indian National Congress,
Muslim League,Puthiya
Tamilakam, MMK. The
Congress won in eight constituencies and the Muslim
League in one. Congress leaders could feel happy in the fact
that the party won the eight
seats out of the 41 it was allocated by the DMK.
“Had the Congress leadership accepted the initial offer
made by DMK chief
Karunanidhi, the result would
have been entirely different,” a
source close to Karunanidhi
told The Pioneer. “Karunanidhi
had offered the Congress ten
seats from where the party would
have won handsomely. He also
put forward another option to
the party; the Congress could
select ten seats of its choice
from where the DMK would
ensure their victory. But Ghulam
Nabi Azad, the Congress representative who held negotiations
with the DMK leadership was
not impressed and wanted more
seats,” said the source.
N Murugan former IAS
officer and a close confidante
of Karunanidhi said though the
DMK lost the battle, the defeat
was full of dignity. “We will be
seeing a resurgent DMK as well
as the Congress in the
Assembly. Though they did
not win the match, the DMKCongress combine put in a sterling performance. If they continue this unity, then the
AIADMK will have a tough
time in the 2019 Lok Sabha
election,” said Murugan who
also disclosed that Karunanidhi
has started his scheming for the
next Lok Sabha election.
It was true that there was
no visible anti-incumbency
factor against the Jayalalithaa
Government. But the directives
issued by various factions of
the Church (Tamil Nadu
Bishop Council representing
the Catholic sect, the Church
of South India and the
Pentecostal Church) urging
the laity to vote only for the
DMK-Congress combine
could have played a major
role in this election, feels Pon
Vijayaraghavan, BJP leader
from Kanyakumari. He has
enough reasons for his conclusion. Not a single AIADMK
or BJP candidate could win
from Kanyakumari district
which has considerable
Christian population.
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ing these special ponds in them
for immersion this year. The
State Government has allocated C6.95 crore for these works.
Simultaneously in accordance with the High Court
directions,
the
State
Government and the GHMC
were also trying to create awareness among the people and the
organisers of the festival to
reduce the size of the idols to the
possible extent and not to use
the harmful chemicals and
paints in preparation of the idols
and prefer the use of mud and
bio degradable material.
Hyderabad witnesses one of
the biggest Ganesh processions
in the country with thousands
of idols in various shapes and
sizes, the biggest being the
Khairatabad mandap idol of 58
feet. Last year as many as 22,000
idols, many of them 20 to 25 feet
height were immersed in the
Hussain Sagar lake.
A case seeking restriction
on the immersion in Hussain
Sagar was pending before the
High Court for the past many
years. The petitioners, including
environmental activists had
sought the intervention of the
court on the grounds that the
immersion was adding to the
pollution in already stinking
lake. Though the Court had
been issuing interim orders and
directions around the festival
time every year, this time the
orders have come well in
advance giving ample time to
the officials to make necessary
arrangements.
However it remains to be
seen how the BJP-VHP controlled Bhagyanagar Ganesh
Utsav Samiti will respond to
these Government measures.
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do not even look at each other.
Jayalalithaa and Karunanidhi
arking the beginning of a had not greeted each other even
new era in the DMK, Tamil once during their political career.
Nadu’s principal opposition For a change, Stalin greeted
party, MK Stalin (63) was elect- Jayalalithaa for her victory in the
ed as the leader of the legislative assembly election. He also
party on Tuesday. This means attended the swearing in cereStalin would be the Leader of the mony on Monday along with ten
Opposition in the 15th party MLAs. But the seating
Legislative Assembly which is arrangement offered to Stalin
having its first meeting on and colleagues has vitiated the
AIADMK-DMK relation furWednesday.
The DMK legislature party ther with Karunanidhi lambastmeeting held at the DMK head- ing the AIADMK leadership for
quarters was presided over by the “deliberate disrespect” shown
party chief M Karunanidhi. to his heir apparent.
The AIADMK camp pointVeteran leader Durai Murugan
has been elected as Stalin's ed out that the personalised
deputy. The one-day session of attacks by Stalin on Jayalalithaa
the
15th
Legislative
Assembly on
Wednesday will
see the newly
elected 232
members being
sworn in by the
pro-term
Speaker
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that the ruling
AIADMK and the Opposition during the election campaign
DMK is evenly matched. While can never be forgotten that easthe treasury bench will have 134 ily. “He exceeded all limits while
members, the DMK has 89 criticising Amma and we will
members. The Congress with never forget the words he used,”
eight members and the Muslim said a senior AIADMK leader.
Election of the Speaker will
League with one member will
increase the Opposition bench to take place on June 3. It is only
an effective strength of 98 mem- after the election of the Speaker,
bers, a record figure in Tamil the official schedule of the first
full-fledged session of the House
Nadu politics.
Though the DMK chief would be announced, said
Karunanidhi too is a member of sources close to the AIADMK
the House, he usually does not leadership. Meanwhile, CM
attend the House when the Jayalalithaa expanded her
AIADMK is the ruling party. He Cabinet by inducting four more
did not attend any sessions of the members late Monday evening.
14th House though he had been The four new ministers which
elected from Thiruvarur. The include a woman, would be
explanation given by him was sworn in at the Raj Bhavan on
that the House has no ramp for Wednesday evening. With the
a physically challenged person induction of Nilofer Kafeel, the
like him who is always confined MLA representing Vaniyambadi
constituency, the council of minto a wheel chair.
Unlike in other States, lead- isters will have representation
ers of the AIADMK and DMK from the Muslim community.
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fter the death of a 25-year
old Hyderabadi maid
Asima Khatoon in Saudi Arabia
due to alleged torture of her
employer, many more families
in the city were coming forward
with the complaints of torture
and harassment in Saudi Arabia
and demand that their women
should be brought back to
India.
While one maid Husna
Begum, resident of Hasan
Nagar in Hyderabad has sent
two videos with her tale of woes
and appeal to the Center and
the State Government for help,
families of three other women
have lodged a complaint with
the city police alleging torture
by their employer in Saudi
Arabia.
Husna Begum's father
Mohammed Yousuf told the
media in Hyderabad that in
December 2015 she had gone to
Saudi Arabia on the promised
job of dress designer in King
Fahad hospital in Dammam.
"But on landing there, her
employer Abu Saif Haris took
her to Haffar Al Batin, 480 kms
away from Dammam and
forced her to work as a house
maid promising that she will get
the promised job later".
But when after some time
the lady refused to work has a
house maid, her employer started harassing and torturing her.
"She was not being allowed to
go out of the compound and
even use a phone to talk to her
family in India", Yousuf said.
Husna Begum narrated the
same story in two video messages she somehow managed to
send to Hyderabad. A city
political leader Amjadullah
Khan Khalid on the basis of the
video messages of the lady
wrote a letter to the External
Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj
and the Chief Minister K
Chandrasekhar Rao seeking
directions to the Indian
Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
Ahmad Javeed and the police
authorities to intervene and
get the lady released from illegal custody and also to take
action against the travel agents
in Hyderabad and Mumabi
who cheated her.
After the story of Husna
Begum came to light, families
of three other women
Shameem, Anees Fatima and
Sameena Fatima, residents of
Malakpet in Hyderabad
approached the Chadarghat
police station alleging that they
were being tortured by their
employers in Saudi Arabia
They told the police that a
local agent Muskan had sent the
three ladies to Saudi Arabia as
house maids and Sultan Bin
Nazeer Bin Salesh Al Ammar
was their employer.
The families told the police
that they were neither paid
salaries nor were being allowed
to go out or contact the Indian
embassy officials.
When they approached the
local agent Muskan about their
safety, she demanded Rs 2 lakh
from each to bring them back
to Hyderabad, the families told
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Ranjan, recommending a three tier probe into the
‘Salary Sharing Scam’ in Colvin Talqudars College
which came up during an enquiry.
Earlier the former State Ombudsman, NK
Mehrorta sent a letter to Chief Minister Akhilesh
Yadav, alerting him that how the bureaucracy and
senior educational officer were illegally distributing salaries to staff of said College.
Sources confirmed that present State
ombudsman sent a letter to Alok Ranjan in which
he recommended to set-up three tier probe into
the Colvin College Salary Sharing Scam. The
probe is to be conducted by the Finance
Department, Education Department as well as the
Law Department of the Government.
Sources said that Ombudsman asked Ranjan
to submit the findings of the said departments
back to him so that necessary legal proceedings
could be made against the accused, who were
hand-in-gloves to distribute salaries illegally.
It may be mentioned that earlier then
Lokayukta in his report termed the above
irregularities as ‘Salary Sharing Scam’ in the State
Government. Mehrotra in his letter reportedly
requested Akhilesh Yadav to immediately take
cognisance before the education department officials would misuse their power to distribute
salaries in the name of directions from the Court.
“In none of the orders of the Apex or the High
Court, directions have been given to State
Government to release salaries to teachers of
Colvin but still the principal secretary (secondary
education) and district inspector of school in
Lucknow misguided the Government and illegally
sanctioned salaries, thus resulting into huge loss
to State ex-chequer”, Mehrotra reportedly
appraised to the Chief Minister while requesting
him to intervene before Salary Sharing Scam
would incur further loss to the Government.
the police.
Chadarghat police has
booked a case and was looking
in to the matter, officials said.
Meanwhile the minister for
NRIs welfare in Andhra
Pradesh Palle Raghunatha
Reddy has also written a letter
to Sushma Swaraj complaining
that the women domestic workers from Andhra Pradesh and
Telangana were being sold like
"products in retail shop".
He urged Ms Swaraj to
intervene and extend help to
these women to come back
home. He said that a large
number of such women were
languishing in Gulf states after
attempting to flee their abusive
employers or overstaying their
visas.
"Necessary steps should be
initiated to bring them to their
native places safely by providing free travel and necessary
visa documents at the earliest
possible", he said in the letter
sent a week ago.
"Women are being sold to
the tune of Rs 4 lakh in Saudi
Arabia and between Rs 1 lakh
to Rs 2 lakh in Bahrain, UAE
and Kuwait", the Minister said
in the letter. He also revealed
that 25 women jailed in Gulf
States had sought the help of the
Government recently.
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fter the intermittent rains of
last fortnight had cooled
the weather down, the temperatures were again rising across
Telangana and heat wave conditions have returned to many
parts of the State.
The mercury was rising in
Hyderabad where the temperature had dipped last week
below normal to hover around
37-38 degrees but now it has
again crossed 40 degrees
Celsius. At many places the
temperature was two to four
Degrees Celsius above normal.
According to the Indian
Meteorological Department,
Ramagundam in Karimnagar
district was the hottest place in
the state with 46 Degrees
Celsius.
The IMD has issued a
warning that the heat wave conditions will prevail over the districts of Adilabad, Nizamabad,
Karimnagar,
Waragal,
Khammam and Nalgonda over
the next 48 hours.
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Pradesh too the summer heat
was on the rise and
Rajahmundry in East Godavari
district recorded the maximum
temperature of 46.5 degrees
Celsius.
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Management Department of
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including a commander were killed
in a swift action by
police and security
in capital Srinagar.
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officer in two separate attacks in the capital city on Monday.
“The two militants fired on the
Monday morning.
Locals said that the two slain men search party. We retaliated and the
had taken a room on rent in a build- militants were killed in a brief
ing at Saraibala a few days ago intro- encounter,” the official said.
A shutdown was observed in the
ducing themselves as students from
south Kashmir. Police have taken locality on Tuesday against the killing
grandson of the widowed landlady in of two militants. All shops and other
business establishments in the area
custody for questioning.
Director General of Police (DGP) remained closed and vehicular moveK Rajendra said that among the two ment was affected. There were reports
slain militants one has been identified of minor clashes between a group of
as Saifullah, while the identity of local youth and police in the area.
The youngsters attempted to hold
another slain militant is being ascertained. The DGP said that one AK- funeral prayers in absentia for the slain
47, one pistol and other weapons were militants. Meanwhile, senior separatist
leader Syed Ali Geelani rejected
recovered from the encounter site.
Police said that after specific police claim that the slain men were
information about the presence of militants and they died in an
militants, forces cordoned off encounter. He demanded impartial
Saraibala area and launched house to probe into the gun-battle and
house searches at around10:00 pm on described it as “staged”.
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personal security staff of CM
Siddaramaiah in Bengaluru. In
a press conference in Bengaluru
on Tuesday Savitha, a dalit
woman alleged that she was
detained humiliated and labelled
as a call girl by the security staff
of Karnataka CM as she forced
her way to have Janata darshan
of CM to plead her grievances.
Savitha, a mother of two,
told the reporters she was
humiliated when she had gone
to meet the Chief Minister on
May 17 to seek his intervention
over a family property dispute.
She said “I was made to wait
entire day on the road outside
CMs official residence. The
security people did not allow my
memorandum to be handed
over to him. I protested and was
taken to High Grounds Police
station where I was abused and
put to lot of mental torture.
They even called me a call girl
and it happened in front of
everyone. For it was humiliating and terribly embarrassing.”
She said she was seeking justice
and protested. According to
reports she was taken to High
Grounds Police station and sent
her to a remand home. She was
released later next day after the
intervention of her husband.
The incident has taken a
political turn and JDs chief and
former CM HD Kumaraswamy
sought a detailed probe into the
incident. He said “ this is just
horrible. CM claims to be a
champion of Dalits and backward classes and his security staff
are indulging in humiliating a
dalit woman. The law and order
situation has deteriorated. He
can’t remain a mute spectator.
Congress will lose.” Meanwhile
Bengaluru police Chief NS
Megharikh denied the allegations and said the police have the
evidence to prove that she was
treated well like any other people. He dismissed her charges
and said “we had to take her to
custody as she threatened to
commit suicide in front of CM’s
residence”.
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in the state during the summer
season so far. The deaths due to
the sun stroke and other heat
related problems occurred from
March when the summer set in
to May 21, officials said.
Nalgonda district recorded
the highest number of deaths
91. These deaths were confirmed after verification by a
three member panel.
However, the number of
deaths due to the heat wave
condition in the state this year
was much less than last year
when nearly 1300 deaths were
reported from all over the State.
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undreds of people from
Amboli and neighbouring
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villages in Sindhudurg district of
coastal Maharashtra on Tuesday
bade an emotional adieu to
martyred soldier Naik Gawade
Pandurang Mahadev, who succumbed to critical injuries that
he had sustained during a fierce
encounter with terrorists in
north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Saturday last.
Gawade’s last rites were
performed at his home village
of Amboli with full military
honours, in the presence of his
grieving family members who
included his parents, wife, two
children and two elder brothers
who had earlier served the
Army. While entire Amboli village had turned out for Gawade’s
funeral, hundreds of people
from the neighbouring villages
had trekked all the martyred
soldier’s village to pay their last
respects to the brave soldier.
The mortal remains of the
brave martyr had arrived Goa
on Monday evening. After a
solemn wreath laying ceremo-
ny, where wreath was laid by
Brigadier SK Agarwal,
Commandant, 2 Signal
Training Center in Goa in the
morning. Gawade’s body was
transported to the soldier’s
native village Amboli later in
the morning.
Brigadier Pravin Shinde,
Commandant of Maratha Light
Infantry Regimental Center,
Belgaum laid wreath to the
mortal remains of the soldier
prior to the cremation.
Gawade had been critically injured in a fierce encounter
that resulted in the elimination
of five heavily armed terrorists
on Saturday last at Durgmulla
in Kupwara district. The soldier
was part of the column which
initially located and engaged
the terrorists hiding in a cluster of houses. He was evacuated to the Military Hospital but
later succumbed to his injures.
Gawade, who belonged to
the 41 Rashtriya Riffles (RR),
succumbed to injuries at the
Kashmir Military hospital.
Thirty-four-year-old Gawade
is survived by wife Pranjal and
two sons, Prajwal (6) and
Vedant (four months).
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ast week, two back-toback book discussions
on war and hard power
passed off routinely when
they ought to have
attracted higher political and public interest and attention: After all,
it is never too late to review past
strategic errors and oversight
which have cost India dear by
allowing China into making India
a military and economic laggard.
The release of Air Vice Marshal
Arjun Subramaniam’s outstanding
history of India’s Wars 1947-1971
was a landmark event, as the book
is the first collective account of
wars penned by a serving Air Force
officer whose version was cleared
by Government censors. The book
is all the more striking because the
official account of India’s wars has
been suppressed since independence by Governments led by the
Congress, the BJP and the Third
Front. The ruling NDA
Government was expected to
unlock the dark secrets of political and military failures but has
chosen to maintain the veil of
secrecy. Fortunately the BJP’s MJ
Akbar, the keynote speaker, made
a candid observation: “Military history has not been made public
because the political class is as
afraid of its failures as it is of the
military’s successes.”
The lack of knowledge and
experience of defence and strategic
security among the Indian political
class was due partly to Whitehall
retaining both as its exclusive preserve. Worse was its transforming
civilian political control into
bureaucratic control of the military
without any accountability or
responsibility. Jawaharlal Nehru’s
idealism coupled with Mahatma
Gandhi’s pacifism in a milieu of
missing strategic culture turned the
British empire’s greatest Army into
a reactive and defensive force. The
strategic mistakes of not preventing
China’s occupation of Tibet, proactively attempting to resolve the
inherited disputed McMahon Line,
and prematurely terminating the
war in Kashmir by taking it to the
UN, are still extracting a high cost.
The central question AVM
Subramaniam asked about the
strategic content of the wars was
lost in the tactical details of war
fighting. Except the 1971 war,
where a synergised politico-military and diplomatic strategy
underscored the 13-day lightening campaign, in other wars the
strategic thinking was conspicuously absent. Reason: Since the
political and military defeat in the
high Himalayas, a passive and
reactive mentality had taken root.
Witness the unrequited parliamentary resolutions on Kashmir
and the 1962 debacle focus on
recapturing every inch of lost
ground leading to defence fortifications around ditch-cum-bund
and canal obstacles. Even 45
years after the great 1971 victory, the conventionally superior
Indian military is flummoxed by
Pakistan’s wily employment of
cross-border terrorism under a
nuclear shadow, virtually
paralysing a military response
after the attack on Parliament and
Mumbai. For the under-utilisation of the military are three reasons: Lack of political will,
absence of higher political and
military direction, failure to build
a military edge with a killer
instinct. On the other hand, India
has flaunted strategic autonomy,
eschewing military alliances and
calibrated use of force. Strategic
restraint and strategic patience are
proclaimed as virtues.
The second book is Bharat
Karnad’s Why India is Not a Great
Power (Yet). Karnad is at his audacious, provocative and unconventional best and, therefore, the book
is fun debating. He says there is no
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doctrine document. The nub of his
argument is that India lacks the software of hard power and is hobbled
by resources: Small and inconsistent
defence budgets, nascent military
industry and rudimentary defence
research and development. By contrast, India’s space and nuclear
programmes are world-class. By
February 1964, India’s secret nuclear
programme had reached a nuclear
weapons threshold, but Nehru
dithered and did not test. Last week,
the US State Department declassified a report noting that India had
weapons grade plutonium to
go nuclear.
Karnad argues that sequencing
the rise of India as a great power
through first becoming an economic power followed by developing
military power is not tenable, as
hard power must accrue in sync
with soft power. The Chinese in
their Four Modernisations had relegated defence modernisation to the
fourth place — and, therefore, the
yawning military capability gap
with the US. In 1991, Finance
Minister Manmohan Singh, while
launching the economic liberalisa-
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tion programme, had told the three
Services they would have to make
do with smaller budgets till the
GDP growth rate took off. The consequences of that decision were felt
during the Kargil war, when defence
inventories for fighting even two
divisions dried up. But for the SOS
to Israel and South Africa, many
more lives would have been lost on
the Kargil heights.
Does India wish to be a great
power, leave alone why it is not one
yet? The US is keen to help India
in becoming a great power in its
own right. During UPA2, Congress
president Sonia Gandhi and Prime
Minister Singh literally shied away
from the poser of India’s great power
status at a Hindustan Times summit.
That the question was ducked by
both tells us something: Great
power status brings rights and
responsibilities; India wants to be
recognised as a great power but is
unwilling to fulfil the accompanying responsibility.
Is the BJP-led NDA
Government any different? In its
first avatar, little was done to
enhance the Military Order of
Battle after the attack on Parliament.
But it did cosy up to the US — supporting ballistic missile defence,
providing logistic assistance in
Afghanistan and escorting US ships
across Malacca Straits. After the
nuclear tests, the Next Steps to
Strategic Partnership with the US
were completed by the Vajpayee
Government culminating in the
ten-year Defence Framework
Agreement and the India-US Civil
Nuclear deal with the UPA regimes.
Then Defence Minister AK Antony
was rather suspicious of the US. The
Defence Intelligence Sharing
Agreement of 2003 lapsed in 2008
and has not been renewed.
Similarly, the Defence Foundational
Agreements have been languishing
for more than a decade.
The Modi regime, despite having excellent relations with the
Obama Administration, has failed
to figure out how to leverage and
optimise US defence technology
support to upgrade its military
capability. This week’s US House
Amendment enhancing defence
and security cooperation with India
could be a game-changer if New
Delhi stops flip-flopping on its
policy of balancing China.
According to any yardstick, India is
an under-achiever, when after independence, it was punching above its
weight. Karnad’s lament is that India
is not a military Great Power, it
under-utilises military strength, is
outwitted by China, and if China
can do it, why can’t India. It has to
get strategic to be a great power.
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Sir —This refers to the report,
“Save every drop of God’s prasadwater” (May 23). Water is the
elixir of life. Unfortunately, indiscriminate use of water has left the
earth parched. Prime Minister
Narendra Modi has taken a welcome initiative to sensitise the
people towards the need to conserve every drop of God’s prasad.
Water scarcity is posing many
challenges, such as drought, heat
deaths and falling agricultural
productivity. To mitigate agrarian distress, it is imperative to save
water resources.
A comprehensive plan for
water conservation that includes
rainwater har vesting and
afforestation, is needed. People
should help their elected representatives with innovative development solutions and contribute
to projects like Namami Gange
and Swachch Bharat Abhiyan.
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Delhi
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displeasure with the US for the
latter’s drone strike on Pakistani
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Taliban chief Mullah Mansour.
Pakistan is upset that the US violated its sovereignty. Yet, question
of violating Pakistan’s sovereignty would not have arisen had
Pakistan not been nurturing the
militant and others of his ilk.
KV Seetharamaiah
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Sir — As expected, BJP leader and
three-time Lok Sabha MP from
Himachal Pradesh, Anurag
Thakur, has been elected as president of the Board of Control for
Cricket in India. The BCCI is the
world’s richest cricketing body
but it is also fighting an existential battle. Hence, Thakur will face
many challenges as he takes up
the top job.
Generally speaking, Thakur is
known to be a result-oriented
politician and has a good track
record. He has also vowed to
carry on the reforms process in
the BCCI, insisting that the Board
will not run away from implementing the ‘practical’ recommendations of the Supreme
Court-appointed
Lodha
Committee. One can only hope
that he delivers at the BCCI.
J Akshay
Bangalore
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Sir — Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor
is correct about the naming every
other road, school, bridge, airport
in India after a Nehru-Gandhi
family member. In contrast, there
has been no Damodardas Modi
International Airport or Hirabai
Modi College, even though Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has
introduced many welfare
schemes. Instead, he is focussed
on his work, and that’s why the
nation adores him.
Hansraj Bhat
Mumbai
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Sir — This refers to the letter,
“Pampering Hindi” (May 23) by
Kajal Chatterjee. Belgium, though
smaller than Kerala, recognises
Flemish, French and German as
its official languages to avoid strife
within its diverse population. It
also ranks high on the Human
Development Index. We should
learn from Belgium on how to
shape good language policies.
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W
hen in power or in
majority,
the
Communist Party of
India (Marxist) and all
other types and genre of
communist parties in India have always
displayed the most intolerant and fascist
attitude, by hacking away at democratic systems, frameworks, institutions and
approaches. Communists have generally displayed contempt and intolerance
towards any kind of opposition, be it
political or intellectual. When in a
minority or out of power, they cry wolf
and deftly act out the victim card, conjuring up the spectre of violence and
claiming to be victims.
Years of mastering the techniques
of Goebbels like propaganda and
erecting a propaganda super-structure,
which has enabled them to obfuscate
issues and present a narrative that is
always insidiously false and subversive
in nature, the communists have succeeding in the keeping the lid on their
records of governance and human
rights in India. While communism and
communist regimes the world over have
been exposed and their diabolic record
of governance has come out in the open,
the record of communism in India is yet
to be documented in its entirety.
The prop of intellectualism has
been the Indian communist’s greatest
cover for carrying on, undetected, their
politics of violence and retribution.
Over the years, the comrades have built
up an ecosystem of acolytes, adherents
and drum-beaters who are, at a given signal, ready to justify, divert and dialectically explain away the fads and excesses of their co-ideologists as the manifestations of an extreme revolutionary
urge to cleanse the system of reactionar-
ies and revisionists.
Over the years, this network and
denial-web has worked to their advantage, and the Indian communists —
though most regressive and violent in
nature and outlook — have passed
themselves off before the world as the
most suave, articulate and conscientious
protectors of India’s social fabric and
national life. Never at the forefront of
social or community service, never at the
forefront when calamity strikes, never at
the forefront when India’s integrity and
safety is at stake — in fact, on these
counts, the comrades can never ever
equal the work of the RSS — the comrades have only excelled in widening
faultlines, in keep embers of potential
conflict alive and in trying to ensure that
conflicts never abate but exacerbate.
Such an approach to Indian polity and
public life has also ensured that the comrades continue to be feted, invited and celebrated among certain academic cartels
in the West — cartels, whose sole research
and academic objective is to somehow
prove, despite contrary evidences and
often lack of evidences, that India under
Narendra Modi and the BJP is breaking
and unravelling at the seams. The last two
years, especially, have been particularly
bad for the Indian comrades, faced as they
with rising political irrelevance, and now
academic marginalisation.
The comrades’ latest display of acute
fascism and Stalinism in the form of
extreme violence undertaken with the
intention of liquidating political and
intellectual opponents, began on the
night of May 19, with the killing of BJP
youth activist and swayamsevak Pramod,
who was battered with bricks by a communist mob which was celebrating the
LDF victory in the just-concluded
Assembly election. Eyewitnesses say 38
year-old Pramod was attacked with bricks
on the head and was rushed in a critical
situation to the hospital at Kodungallur,
later to another hospital at Irinjalakkuda,
and on becoming unconscious was
rushed to a third hospital in Thrissur city,
where he finally succumbed. This was followed by an unabated spate of attacks on
homes and establishments of BJP and RSS
workers, injuring and rendering a large
number of them homeless. Women
activists and youth activists in Kerala are
bearing the brunt of these senseless
attacks — with the self-styled ‘liberals’
remaining silent or looking the other way.
The spate of murders of BJP and RSS
workers in Kerala has been on for
decades and it aggravated especially
from 2015 onwards, when the BJP began
to be perceived as emerging and consolidating itself as a major force in State politics. Just before the Assembly election, a
BJP worker and auto-rickshaw driver E.K.
Biju, for example, who was ferrying
school children, all of them below 10 years
of age, was waylaid and attacked by the
CPI(M)’s henchmen in Kannur district
and lynched to death, with blood spattering on the school uniforms and bags of
the children Biju was ferrying. The comrades, having seen the BJP’s electoral performance in the State, have realised that
the ground beneath them will gradually
shift away in the years and force upon
them into oblivion and irrelevance in the
State (as in West Bengal). Therefore, perhaps, there is desperation to take recourse
to third degree methods in dealing with
a political and democratic opposition.
Much in the same the line that they
have followed in West Bengal in over
three decades, the comrades have begun
going about spreading terror and panic,
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T
he stupendous victory of
the Bharatiya Janata Party
in Assam is indicative of
the people endorsing Prime
Minister Narendra Modi’s economic programmes. The hope
he has kindled is reflected in the
mandate. Merely to say that the
result is due to the polarisation
of votes is to over-simplify a
myriad picture. During elections, polarisation does not take
place merely because people
want to jump to one side. The
hopes parties generates lead to
the final result.
Assam, where the BJP-led
NDA has swept the poll, indicates the rejection of the
Congress’s Manmohanomics on
all fronts. It is not only at the
social or political plain but also
that the aspirations for better
economic conditions, jobs, agriculture and industrial growth
have changed the equation. The
Prime Minister’s catch-line,
‘Gramoday to Bharat Uday’ has
created an appeal. This has
helped the party leave its stamp
on other States as well, though
electoral gains in the number of
seats may have been for now
minimal. Opening an account in
difficult terrain itself is an indication that the party is making
inroads into virgin pastures.
This is also the challenge for
the Prime Minister, who is completing two years in office. His
numerous programmes — from
Make in India to Stand Up India
to Start-Up India — reviving
agriculture, eliminating corruption, providing direct benefit
transfers etc — have been able
to win the people’s trust. It is no
less than a miracle amid sharp
non-cooperation by a combined Congress-Left opposition. The Opposition did not
leave a chance to heckle the
Government, stall land and
GST Bills and cause ruckus at
the slightest opportunity.
The Modi Government also
has had to suffer for the nonperformance of the predecessor
UPA on several counts. It inherited an economy, which has a
severe cash crunch; banks were
denuded by reckless loans taken
by large houses; jobs had dwindled owing to severe mechanisation and corporate apathy in
recruiting people. Despite this,
the Prime Minister went on to
announce new programmes like
Ujjawla, that gives free gas connection to poor families. In the
short tenure of two years so far,
the vision for electricity has also
changed. There is improvement
in power generation; and overall improvement in relations
with Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Bangladesh’s relationship with
the Modi Government is particularly cordial, especially given its
ability to seal the land swap deal
(to finally demarcate the IndiaBangladesh border).
It is also important to note
that, only because Bangladesh
agreed to allow India to use its
fibre optic cables, Tripura has
been able to get Internet connectivity. It generated many jobs.
Much of the current dismal
economic scenario at the
Central level and the States are
the result of populism. In
Assam, no populist slogan was
given. There is an undercurrent
that once the BJP-led
Government is in power, the
Bangladeshis would be sent out.
The BJP’s partner, the Asom
Gana Parishad, has been
demanding this since the 1985
accord with Rajiv Gandhi. The
issue is ticklish. But for that, the
BJP did not in the poll campaign
make any populist projection.
The situation is challenging.
The Union Government would
have to make efforts to solve the
issue not only because it has
made a promise. The new State
Government and the Centre
would be of the same party. As
the economy of Assam and the
North-East progresses, the
Prime Minister would have to
look for amicable solutions to
various irritants without disturbing either the social fibre or relations with our neighbours.
The Modi Government is
on a critical path. Its goodwill in
Assam and the North-East
depends on diplomatic solutions
to issues that were kept pending
for long by Congress
Governments in the State. It has
to strive hard not only to create
new highs but also to ensure that
the economy in all the parts of
the country takes a new turn.
The hope it has generated
should not be belied.
The Opposition is keen on
upsetting the applecart on issues
like prices and jobs. But Prime
Minister Modi has to go beyond.
The hurdles being created by the
National Green Tribunal and
similar other organisations to
delay projects and create an
unfriendly industrial scenario
in the districts of Kerala. In over three
decades in West Bengal, adopting the
same line, the comrades destroyed families, killed and maimed thousands of
activists of opposition parties — then
mostly belonging to the Congress and
later to the Trinamool Congress. It was,
therefore, pitifully ironical to see
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee share stage
with the confused Congress scion Rahul
Gandhi at an election rally in Kolkata,
and State Congress chief Adhir Ranjan
Chowdhury, felicitate Bhattacharya on
the occasion. It was in 1998 that in a public meeting in Behrampore in
Murshidabad, Bhattacharjee, then Chief
Minister, had called Chowdhury “an antisocial element who is trying to run a parallel administration” and who should be
“dragged by the hair and locked up”. The
blinded Congress central leadership
agreed to an alliance of political opportunism and erected it over the memory
and legacy of its forgotten workers murdered by the communists in West
Bengal. Such is the level of politics that
the present Congress leadership practices
— shorn of ideology, of principles and
of gratitude for the thousands of its workers who sacrificed themselves resisting
communist rule in West Bengal.
The CPI(M) and the communists
parties in general refuse to see the writing on the wall — of their nearing political decimation — and continue to
remain active as a disruptive element in
India’s body politic, injecting violence and
falsehood while supporting elements that
are clearly inimical to the country’s wellbeing. While Congress-mukt Bharat is
actively on the way to becoming a reality, it is time to sound the bugle for a Leftmukt or a communist-mukt Bharat as
well. Achieving this will signal true azadi.
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have to be solved to give economy the necessary boost. The
curbs on diesel cars, high taxes
in the name of so-called pollution and similar issues are not
helping. Auto giant Mercedes
put its Indian investment on
hold over the quixotic orders on
2000cc diesel cars. Toyota,
M&M and Tata’s Jaguar have
also been heavily hit. With Euro
IV-plus standards, vehicular
pollution should not be an issue.
But, whatever the growth
may be, it does not seem to be
translating into jobs. Possibly,
the growth is not in employment-oriented sectors or overall growth is overstated. Prime
Minister Modi has to reorient
the economy. Perception about
his programmes and reality has
to match.
Assam should not be
betrayed. The belief of its people in the economic vision of the
BJP-led NDA has to be realised
for the nation to transform.
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ing the worst set of numbers
in the nation’s banking history with a net loss of C5,367
crore for the March quarter,
Punjab National Bank on
Tuesday said it will be cautious on troubled sectors like
steel till a lasting solution is
found.
As much as a quarter of
the C55,818-crore of dud
loans that PNB had reported
in the March quarter came
from the steel sector. Just five
steel accounts alone contributed to over C12,500 crore
in bad loans, the country’s
second largest state-run bank
said.
“We have been bitten very
largely by the steel sector. So,
we have decided to keep away
from those sectors where we
have been bitten until that
sector turns around.
“Apart from steel, we have
heavy exposure to textiles
and chemicals as well... We
will be cautious on these sec-
tors too,” PNB Managing
Director and Chief Executive
Usha Ananthasubramanian
told a select media meet here.
She further said, “There
are certain areas, certain
industries which you may
have to shut shop or not be an
active player. In some of
them like steel, we have huge
exposure and we will certainly be pruning them, irresp e c t ive
of
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promoters/promoter groups.”
The New Delhi-based
lender had reported gross
non-performing assets of 12.9
per cent in the March quarter, almost double from what
it had a year ago at 6.55 per
cent, while its net NPAs too
more than doubled to 8.61
per cent from 4.06 per cent.
This had the bank setting
aside C11,380 crore for bad
loans, which included C385
crore for discoms and C167
crore for losses on Punjab
food-grain related loans.
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regulator Sebi to sell land parcels
of Saharas, HDFC Realty and SBI
Capital Markets have initiated
the process for e-auctioning 61
properties owned by the beleaguered group across the country.
While HDFC Realty has
pegged the circle rate value of 31
properties to be auctioned by it
at about C2,400 crore, SBI Cap
would auction another 30 land
properties with an estimated
market value of about C4,100
crore.
The Securities and Exchange
Board of India (Sebi) roped in
HDFC Realty and SBI Cap after
being asked by the Supreme
Court to initiate the process of
selling Sahara properties whose
titles have been deposited with
it by the group.
Following a go-ahead from
the Court, the two entities have
put in place a mechanism to auction as many as 61 properties put
together.
These properties are located in various states including
Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh,
Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,
Chhatisgarh, Kerala, Jharkhand,
West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh,
Assam, Gujarat and Tamil
Nadu.
The assets being sold
include land parcels, agricultural
land as well as residential, commercial and industrial properties.
HDFC Realty said these
“land parcels shall be available
for sale through e-auction
whose date will be declared
through a public notice”.
Besides, SBI Caps has prepared an information dossier
having details of all 30 properties including location map.
“The entire auction process
of these 30 properties would be
completed in next four months
and advertisement for the first
five properties is likely to be
published in this week,” sources
said.
As per the court directions,
these properties cannot be sold
at less than 90 per cent of circle
rates. After spending two years
in jail, Sahara chief Subrata Roy
is currently out on parole. He
was sent to jail on the orders of
the Supreme Court in a long
running dispute with Sebi. ?C8
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=4F34;78)Nokia Networks is in talks with Indian telecom operators to start trials of next generation 5G networks even as the country is yet to see full-scale roll out of 4G technology based mobile voice
and data services.
The Finnish telecom equipment maker is already testing the fifthgeneration networks with global telecom giants like US-based Verizon,
Korean SK Telecom and Japan’s NTT Docomo.
The 5G technology will guarantee delivery of 100 megabit per
second speed at homes and will be capable of handling 1000 times
more data traffic when it will be commercialised by 2020, Nokia
Networks Head of Mobile Broadband Milivoj Vela said on the sidelines of an event today.
In India, Nokia Networks is part of Telecommunications
Standards Development Society which is working on 5G, and is in
discussion with telecom operators to start 5G trials.
However, Indian telcos are still investing in 4G technology to
roll out the fourth generation networks and large parts of the country are yet to be covered under the high-speed data and voice services.
Talking about 5G networks, Vela said that 5G will focus on data
services while voice calls will be facilitated through 4G technology.
“It will be used for purposes beyond voice and data communications carried by people today. It will has less than 1 millisecond
latency that will be used by machines for quick action like for to stop
in case it identifies any obstacle, surgery from remote location etc.”
“Discussion about spectrum (at global level) in which 5G will
operate will finish by 2019. Commercial 5G deployment will start
in 2020. Then you will see 100 mbps guaranteed speed everywhere,”
Vela said.
He said that 5G will operate in spectrum band above 6000 Mhz
and the technology will be launched in phases.
“One cell (mobile antenna) in 5G will be able to handle 1000
times more data traffic in 2020 compared to data traffic in 2010. We
have already achieved 1 million devices connected to single cell site
and 30 gbps speed on 73 Ghz band in lab,” Vela said.
At present spectrum band between 700 Mhz and 2.6 Ghz are
available for mobile services in India. Wifi services are generally used
between 2.4 Ghz to 5.9 Ghz.
“Already 4G is taking voice calling to high definition voice calls
and voice call cannot be better than this. 5G will about high quality data experience. It will enhance telepresence (web conferencing)
to a level where one will not feel the difference if a person is in room
or on telepresence,” Vela said.
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behind the decision, she said
earlier banks looked more at
the names of the promoters,
but today, “since we are bitten so badly, we are in the
process of having high collateralised or good quality
proposals”.
“There are certain sectors
to be avoided and there are
certain sectors even if we do
not have exp er tis e like
nuclear power, we may hire
c o n s u l t a n t s , ”
Ananthasubramanian said,
adding that there is a conscious decision on processing
of proposals and upskilling of
its employees.
Stating the the steel, textiles and chemicals are the
worst hit, where the bank has
high exposure, she said in the
banking business nobody can
afford to claim that the bad
days are over.
“We are working in a
dynamic environment. If steel
is able to pick up, possibly
s omet hing els e w i l l get
impacted. But the conscious
attempt is to repair these
assets,” she said.
She also pointed out that
most of the troubled steel
accounts are too big to be
allowed to go under or even
invoke SDR, because they
are very large assets.
She said the only way
forward is finding a lasting
solution “We also have to
understand that the problems of the steelcompanies
are not their making alone,”
a s s e r t e d
Ananthasubramanian.
On the measures that the
bank is taking to stop its balance-sheet from worsening
further, she said it has created
a war-room with a general
manager in charge to track and
make recoveries.
“Since April 1, we have
recovered C1,800 crore out of
our first quarter target of
C5,000 crore,” she said.
On asset sales to ARCs,
Ananthasubramanian said the
bank has identified 53
accounts worth C6,600 crore
for this quarter.
Stating that steel sector is
still not out of the woods, she
said she expects around C7,000
crore of letters of credit (LCs)
to get devolved in the year.
She said the bank has nine
SDR accounts worth C5,458
crore as of now and none of
them have reached a resolution.
Similarly, under the 5/25
scheme, the bank has restructured 17 accounts worth
C7,239 crore. Under the Uday
scheme, it has resolved C4,700
crore worth of SEB loans and
has an NPA of C1,620 crore
from one of the UP discoms,
Ananthasubramanian said.
The PNB counter closed
down 0.3 percent at C71.95,
taking its market capitalisation down to a paltr y
C14,128.10 crore on the BSE
on Tuesday whose benchmark Sensex closed down 0.3
per cent to 25,305.47.
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n a move to promote
investments in exchangetraded funds (ETFs) for this
financial year, Government is
planning to hold a meeting
with Central board of trustees
(CBT) soon. “We will soon
hold the Central board of
tr ustees (CBT) meeting
where the proposal of raising
EPFO’s investment in stocks
will be discussed. But I am
confident that it will go
beyond five per cent,” Labour
Minister Bandaru Dattatreya
said at a press meet here on
initiatives taken by Labour
Ministry in the last two years
of NDA regime.
Asked about the unions’
protest on this issue, the
Minister, however said, “We
will listen to the CBT members. They will speak on it
whether to increase it or not.
But the final decision will be
of the Labour Ministry. I am
the Chairman of CBT and in
capacity of Chairman I will
take a decision.”
As per the past estimates
of the EPFO, it earned a negative return of 9.54 per cent
on its C5,920 crore investment in ETFs from August 6,
2015 to February 29, 2016.
The market value of investments of C5,920 crore in the
ETFs in 2015-16 was C5,355
crore as on February 29,
2016, as per an analysis of
equity investment by the
EPFO.
How e v e r,
L a b ou r
Secretary Shankar Aggarwal
that the EPFO invested
C6,788 crore in ETFs so far
since August last year and
has got a return or yield of
1 . 6 8 p e r c e nt on t he s e
investment. “At present, the
investment is only 5 per
cent in ETFs and in long
t e r m s it i s prof it abl e ,”
Aggarwal added.
In a bid to see quantum
increase of investments of
Employees’ Provident Fund
Organisation (EPFO) into
stock markets, the Minister
hinted at increasing EPFO’s
investment in exchangetraded funds (ETFs) for this
fiscal from 5 per cent currently.
The CBT is the apex
decision making body of the
EPFO, which is headed by
the Labour Minister. Trade
unions have already lodged
their protest against parking
EPFO’s funds in stock market and submitted their dissent note on the issue in earlier meetings of the CBT.
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<D<108)Mahindras on Tuesday
became the third entity to drop
out of the payments bank race,
saying business profitability
would take longer time due to
“aggressive posturing” by many
deep-pocketed players.
Tech Mahindra is the third
applicant to abandon the plan to
set up payments bank after
Cholamandalam which quit
last month and Dilip ShanghviIDFC Bank-Telenor combine
last Friday.
“Over a period of time, we
have realised that the amount of
aggression that has come into
the marketplace only erodes the
margins,” Tech Mahindra managing director and chief executive CP Gurnani told reporters,
after its board decided not to
pursue the opportunity.
After the Reserve Bank had
given in-principle approval for
payments banks to TechM and
10 others last August, it had said
group company Mahindra
Finance would be an equal
partner in it.
Gurnani said profit margins
were always supposed to be
“razor thin” in the payments
bank business, but the aggres-
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e x p or te r
Te ch
Ma h i n d r a on Tu e s d ay
reported a 90 per cent jump
in post-tax profit for the
three months to March at
C897 crore on wider margins from an expanded revenue base, forex gains and
lower tax payout.
While its total revenues
grew to C6,883 crore from
C6,116 crore a year ago, its
pre - t a x prof it m arg i n
expanded to 17 per cent
from 15.4 per cent, lifting
the bottom-line for the
reporting period.
For the full year ending
March, the company’s net
income rose 18.7 per cent to
sive posturing by competition
which has the who’s who of the
telecom world, including the
Ambanis, the Birlas, Airtel and
Vodafone, among others, only
made it realise that “business
profitability will take a much
longer period”.
C3,118 crore, while revenue
was up 17.1 per cent to
C26,494 crore.
Chief financial officer
Milind Kulkarni explained
that the profit margins were
pulled down by two acquisitions done in 2014-15,
and the turnaround in the
acquired companies has
helped it post good numbers
in the reporting period.
Citing Comviva, which
it had acquired in 2012 for
C260 crore and performed
exceptionally good in the
reporting period, chief executive and managing director
C P Gu r n an i s ai d Te ch
Mahindra has repeatedly
shown its capacity to turn
around businesses acquired
at lower valuations.
The company is currently working to lift the
performance of its US-based
L i g h t h o u s e
Communications acquired
in 2014 for $240 million and
shed 20 per cent of the
business which was not
profitable enough, Gurnani
said.
Gurunani said it will
take another four quarters
for the company to turnaround, while Kulkarni said
TechM’s ultimate target is to
take the profit margin from
low-single digit to doubledigits for this company.
This US company underwent an organis at iona l
restructuring exercise wherein Manish Vyas has been
appointed as the chief executive of the business.
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TechM becomes the third
entity, after the Chennai-based
Cholamandalam Group and
Dilip Shanghvi (of Sun
Pharma)- Telenor-IDFC Bank
combine last week announced
to withdraw its name from the
race. These withdrawals come at
a time when the RBI is in the
process of giving out the final
licences.
When asked if RBI conditions are onerous, its chief strategy officer Jagdish Mitra said
the regulator cannot be blamed
for pursuing the broader goal of
financial inclusion.
But he was quick to add that
“it has to make business sense
because at the end of the day if
it doesn’t make business sense
then the objective of financial
inclusion is not met.”
Mitra said they did a field
surveys to gauge the sense of the
market, after which it took
decision. He said though there
were no major investments
from the group in the venture,
it had spotted the top tier executives to drive the business.
The announcement comes
a day after RBI deputy governor
SS Mundra had expressed displeasure over licencees abandoning their plans to set up payments banks. “We would certainly feel little aggrieved
because lot of efforts from the
part of RBI go in processing
these applications,” Mundra has
said.
The 11 in-principle
licensees were selected after
sifting through the proposals of
nearly two dozen applicants.
The in-principle approval is
valid for 18 months, during
which time the applicants must
comply with requirements
under the guidelines and fulfil
the other conditions as may be
stipulated by the apex bank.
The payments bank will not
be allowed to undertake lending services and non-resident
Indians will not be allowed to
open accounts.
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raising crude oil imports
from the Persian Gulf nation
as part of efforts to widen
economic and energy ties
post lifting of sanctions.
Indian Oil Corp (IOC),
the nation’s largest oil firm,
has proposed to Iran that it
be given rights to operate
and produce crude oil from
the discovered field to help
move away from buyer-seller relationship to a strategic
partnership, sources privy to
the development said.
The oil produced from
the field can then be
shipped home, the IOC has
said.
IOC had last fiscal
imported 1.2 million tons of
crude oil from Iran. In the
fiscal year that began from
April 1, it is looking to raise
it by at least three-fold.
Prime Minister Modi’s
visit to Iran was aimed at
boosting trade and commerce b etween the two
countries. His trip came just
months after lifting of international sanctions on Iran
following Tehran’s historic
nu c l e a r d e a l w i t h t h e
Western powers over its
contentious atomic programme.
B esides IO C, ONGC
Videsh Ltd has also sought
two discovered fields from
the 16 fields that Iran is likely to put on auction shortly.
The fields sought by
OVL, the overseas arm of
state-owned Oil and Natural
Gas Corp (ONGC), is
besides the Farzad-B offshore field for which it is in
advanced talks to secure
developmental rights.
OVL had in 2008 discovered the Farzad-B field
in the Persian Gulf. The
field holds 12.5 Trillion
cubic feet of recoverable
reserves.
Sources said Iran has so
far not responded to the
requests by the Indian firms.
It has, however, shown
willingness to give FarzadA, which holds 283 billion
cubic meters of reserves.
The field besides holding smaller reserves is more
cha l lenging, OVL fe els.
S ources said India may
import as much as 20 milliontonnes of crude oil from
Iran in 2016-17 fiscal, up
from about 11 million
tonnes in the previous year.
This follows lifting of
sanctions against Iran in
January.
Till 2010-11, Iran was
the second biggest supplier
of crude oil to India after
Saudi Arabia. Fresh US
sanctions in 2010 led to
imports, which were 18.5
million tonnes in 2010-11,
to fall to 11 million tonnes.
Iraq is now the second
biggest supplier of oil to
India.
Sources said India has
also expressed interest in
i nve s t i ng i n ch e m i c a l s ,
petrochemicals and fertilizer plants if Iran provided
natural gas at low prices. It
also is looking at setting up
an ammonia/urea plant in
Chabahar Free Trade Zone
with long-term off-take of
urea to India.
While
Mangalore
Refinery
and
Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL)
and Essar Oil Ltd -- the
biggest Indian buyers of
Iranian oil -- are likely to
maintain buying at around
5 m i l l i on t on n e s e a c h ,
Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd
( B P C L ) a n d Hi n d u s t a n
Pe t r o l e u m C o r p Lt d
(HPCL) may begin importing oil from the Persian
Gulf nation.
HPCL-Mitt a l Energ y
Ltd (HMEL) has indicated it
will buy a small quantity
with an option to raise volumes.
In a d d i t i o n , p r i v at e
refiner Reliance Industries
is seeking to buy 5-6 million
tons of Iranian oil, mainly
heavy grades.
India imports about 189
million tonnes of crude oil
to meet about 80 per cent of
its oil needs. Saudi Arabia
sold about 38 million tonnes
of oil to India in 2015-16,
while Iraq supplied 33 million tonnes.
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India on Tuesday joined its
peers to report deeper losses at
C3,587 crore in the quarter to
March as provisions for bad
loans more than doubled to
C5,470 crore.
The bank had reported a
net loss of C56 crore in the
same quarter last year.
“Losses in the quarter was
on account of higher provisions
made for NPAs, for accounts
under asset quality review,
pension liabilities, Uday
scheme and the Punjab food
grain case,” the bank’s
Managing Director and Chief
Executive Melwyn Rego told
reporters.
The bank’s total provisions
more than doubled to C5,470
crore in the March quarter
from C2,256 crore a year ago as
its gross NPAs more than doubled to 13.07 per cent from 5.39
per cent, while net NPA too
more than doubled to 7.79 per
cent from 3.36 per cent.
In absolute terms, net
NPAs stood at C27,776.40
crore as against C13,517.57
crore.
Rego said the bank made
a provision of C100 crore with
respect to certain NPA
accounts sold to asset reconstruction companies during
2014-15, but the provision
was deferred to FY16.
The bank provided C353
crore towards pension liabilities and C1,829 crore for
accounts under asset quality
review in the quarter.
It also made a provision of
C298 crore on account of
Uday scheme and Punjab
foodgrain issue.
“The total impact of the
above factors, which are non
recurring in nature, is C2,580
crore out of a total loss of
C3,587 crore,” Rego said.
Fresh slippages stood at
C13,500 crore during the quarter and for the full year they
rose to C27,500 crore.
“The bank expects to face
asset quality challenges
though in a much comparatively lower magnitude during
the next two to three quarters,” Rego said.
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ensure that India ranks among
the top 30 countries in terms of
‘ease of doing business’ in the
next 3-4 years, Niti Aayog CEO
Amitabh Kant said on Tuesday.
Speaking at an IAMAI
event here, Kant said the ecosystem of innovation is just ‘beginning to blossom’ and one is seeing a resurgence of young
Indians starting new businesses. “Our objective is that India
must become a very easy and a
very simple place to do business
in. This is one Government that
is focussed on innovation and trying to make India an easy simple
place to do business,” he added.
Stating that India has
jumped up 12 positions in the
ease of doing business, Kant said
the government has taken various steps in this regard including bringing in the bankruptcy
law, e-biz platform for a single
channel of approvals and is
also introducing a national
company law tribunal.
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2016, India ranks 130 out of 189
countries in the ease of doing
business. “Our objective is that
in the next 3-4 years, India must
come in the top 30 countries as
far as ease of doing business is
concerned,” he added.
Kant added that the
Government is strongly
focussed on enhancing the
infrastructure sector and
improving connectivity. He also
released a report by the Internet
and Mobile Association of India
(IAMAI) that highlights the
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India’s
fourth quarter of 2015-16 is
likely to improve to 7.8 per cent
- the highest pace in six quarters - on account of uptrend in
economic activity and favorable
base effect, says a report.
According to the global
financial services major
Citigroup, the January-March
quarter GDP is likely to reinforce growth optimism.
“Given the sequential
uptrend in several economic
activity indicators and supported by a favorable base
effect, we expect real GVA
(Gross Value Added) growth to
improve to 7.8 per cent y-o-y in
Q4 vs 7.1 per cent in Q3,”
Citigroup said in a research
note, adding that this would be
the highest pace of growth in
six quarters.
The report noted however that any upward revision to
fourth quarter GDP of the
previous financial year could
introduce ‘downside risk’ to
the projections. As per the
report, on the back of the
third advanced estimate of
agriculture production, agriculture output could surprise
positively despite second year
of inadequate rainfall.
opportunities for India to
become a leading player in the
global data centre market.
“Decision to set up data
centre in the country cannot be
mandatory and it will not be
conducive for the ecosystem.
For a conducive policy and
regulation on data centres, we
have to work in partnership
with the industry and bodies
like IAMAI,” he said.
He added that a dialogue
will be initiated with departments like IT, telecom and
energy to create the best pos-
number of companies
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feel the existing security
standards as well as legal,
regulatory and compliance
frameworks in the country
are not adequate to support
corporate security requirements, a survey said.
A majority of the respondents felt that the industry is
not fully equipped to promptly respond to natural disasters
such as floods and earthquakes, according to the survey conducted by PwC India
and American Society for
Industrial Security (ASIS).
However, many organisations have woken up to the
implications of physical security over the past few years and
there has been a conscious
effort to ensure better safety
arrangements, a statement
from PwC said. While five
years back, physical security
assessment was rare, on
Tuesday almost 46 per cent of
the organisations surveyed in
the country conduct a physical security risk assessment
once a year, whereas 17 per
cent do it monthly, it said.
“Over the past few years,
corporate India has witnessed
a steady increase in the number of physical security threats
and breaches. While we have
very little control over occurrences such as floods, earthquakes and terror attacks, we
do have control over the ways
we can safeguard our businesses and people against
them,” said Dinesh Anand,
Partner and Leader-Forensic
Services India.
The report suggests that it
NEW DELHI: Although the ease
of doing business has improved
in the last two years of the NDA
Government, more work needs to
be done especially in the real estate
sector that has ‘complicated’
approval process, according to
leading industrialist Adi Godrej.
The $4.1-billion Godrej Group
has a large presence in the real
estate sector through its firm
Godrej Properties, besides in
a variety of other sectors,
including FMCG, consumer
durables and agri-products.
“Real estate permissions have
become very complicated in our
country. (As permissions are)
given by the State Governments,
the Centre should work on
improving the ease of starting in
new real estate projects,” Godrej
told PTI in an interview.
As per CREDAI, it takes at
least 18 months to get various
approvals for starting a real estate
project. While commending the
Government for taking up a slew
of measures to improve ease of
doing business, he, however, said:
“They have said that they would
not levy retrospective taxes. One
of the things on which they may
have to do is ease of doing business
in real estate permissions.” PTI
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Imonetary
Governor Raghuram Rajan’s
policies, Union
Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on
Tuesday said high interest rates
are impacting cost competitiveness of the industry, especially
small and medium enterprises.
The Minister said she has already
taken up the matter with the
Finance Ministry and written to
the Central Bank on the issue.
“I have already said that the
input cost cannot be so high.
Particularly, if we keep in mind those
industries, say for small and medium industries, who do not have any
group companies or holding companies outside from where they can
get cheap credit. So interest rates do
have a bearing on the cost competitiveness of industries,”
Sitharaman said an interview to a
news channel.
The Minister was asked about
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy
attacking the RBI Governor for
affecting fortunes of mid sized corporates by keeping the interest rates
high. Swamy had earlier stated that
Rajan was ‘not appropriate for the
country’ as he had in the garb of con-
trolling inflation raised interest rates
leadingto“collapseofindustryandrise
of unemployment in the economy”.
Asked whether she agrees with
Swamy’s views, Sitharaman said:
“Mid-sized corporates have been
engaging with us. They have also
voiced this. SMEs have voiced it.
Industry, when interacting with the
ministry, has also expressed similar
views.” She told NewsX channel: “We
have communicated with the
Finance Ministry, we have also once
written to the RBI.”
While refusing to be drawn
into Rajan’s statement that
Inspector Raj culture still exists
in India, she said the Govt has
been putting efforts to improve
the ease of doing business and
move towards ‘self certification, lack of inspections’.
largely due to lack of representation in highest-paying job
functions and industries, says a
report. According to Korn
Ferry Hay Group, women globally earn 17.6 per cent less than
men and the figure for India
stands higher at 18.8 per cent.
The global study by the
group’s PayNet database
tracked and analysed gender
and pay for more than 8 million employees in 33 countries, including 57,000 job
holders in India.
“Our data shows that
when it comes to thinking
about pay on the basis of
gender, a man and a woman
in the same company, doing
the same job, will usually be
paid nearly the same – but
still favouring men by 1.6
per cent,” Ben Frost, a global reward expert at Hay
Group said, adding that the
data shows this very consistently, from Sweden to
South Africa. In India, for
the similar job levels and
functions the pay gap, however, is 3.5 per cent.
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in the infrastructure sector by
2019 which will help generate 4
crore jobs, Union Minister Nitin
Gadkari has said. “First two years
were spent in correcting the legacy we had inherited of stalled projects. We could manage to award
projects worth C2.5 lakh crore only
as most of our efforts were directed towards addressing roadblocks.
The infrastructure space was
one of the worst victims and
things were at standstill. Yet, with
our grit we bulldozed majority of
the problems impeding growth.
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centres. According to the
report, India's data centre infrastructure market is pegged to
be around $7 billion by 2020
from about $2.2 billion currently. This would make India
the second largest market for
data centre infrastructure within the Asia/Pacific region by
2020. “India has the potential to
capture a big share in the global data centre market. However,
there is a need to address some
of the risks and barriers and
create the right incentives for
businesses to build effective
data centre infrastructure in the
country,” IAMAI President
Subho Ray said.
The report calls for the
government to facilitate data
centre operations in India
through clear policies to facilitate trans-border flow of
data and tax sops and incentives to woo foreign players.
It also warns against the dangers of ‘forced localisation of
data’ adding that the same
would reduce competitiveness, harm India's GDP and
fledgling reputation as an
emerging data centre hub.
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is critical for security professionals and management to be
aligned and work together to
identify potential strategic
security threats and prepare a
plan for resilience and sustenance of their business.
There is also a strong need
for public-private partnerships
and involvement of industry
veterans in the policymaking
process, besides the need for
setting up a compliance standard for baseline requirements
and benchmarks for physical
security, the report said.
Anand further said the
Private Security Agencies
(Regulation) (PSAR) Act, 2005
also needs to be reviewed.
The report added that cybercrime and corporate espionage
have been rated as two of the
most serious threats to organisations in the coming years.
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C25 lakh crore in the sector in the
next three years. We rolled out the
majority of the 403 stuck projects
worth C3.85 lakh crore. The
developers who were shying away
were brought back again and now
the stage is set for an unprecedented work,” Road Transport and
Highways Minister Gadkari told
news agency an interview.
Gadkari further said the
union Cabinet took as many as 21
major decisions pertaining to
highways sector besides other
policy initiatives. The Minister further said that with the massive
projects that are lined up, the
country will witness at least 4 crore
direct and indirect jobs and a
boost in GDP by up to 3 per cent
by 2019. In the next one year, the
government will award projects
worth at least C5 lakh crore, he said
adding that projects worth C2.5
lakh crore only could be awarded in the last two years but now
the target is to achieve building of
41 km of highways a day. When
the system gets streamline it is easier to work, he said adding the first
two years were spent in solving
problems but now things have
become smooth.
“There is no dearth of money
in pursuing the dream of a worldclass infrastructure. What I say, I
do. We are spending only C12 lakh
crore in Sagarmala project of
which projects worth C1,500 crore
already have been rolled out,” he
said. Gadkari said that C50,000
crore investment has already been
lined up for the port sector and a
massive work is underway to
develop the waterways as well.
Citing an example of how bad
the situation was when he took
charge in 2014, the Minister said
at that time Larsen & Toubro
CMD had come to him expressing inability to work in the highways sector. “Sector had collapsed. Larsen & Toubro chairman came to me that seeking
rejection of a tender in
Maharashtra and said they were
ready to pay penalty as their Board
had decided to not to do any road
project as the company had suffered loss of C2,500 crore.
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NEW DELHI: Prices of models like Toyota
Camry Hybrid and Maruti Suzuki India’s
mid-sized sedan Ciaz and multi-purpose
vehicle Ertiga, which feature micro hybrid
technology in diesel variants, have come
down in the capital due to VAT reduction by
the Delhi Government on such vehicles.
Price of Toyota Kirloskar Motor’s Camry
Hybrid has come down by C2.3 lakh after VAT
came down to 5 per cent from 12.5 per cent
in Delhi. The vehicle, which was earlier priced
at C33.2 lakh, is now priced at C30.9 lakh (all
prices ex-showroom Delhi). Similarly, Maruti
Ciaz will be cheaper by upto C68,534 in the
capital due to the duty reduction. Its different variants are now priced between C7.68
lakh and C9.59 lakh while earlier they were
tagged between C8.23 lakh and C10.28 lakh
(all prices ex-showroom Delhi). Price of diesel
Ertiga with SHVS technology (hybrid) has
been cut by up to C61,891. The vehicle is now
priced between C7.08 lakh and C8.66 lakh.
Earlier, it was tagged between C7.58 lakh and
C9.28 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).
“These changes (in prices) are due to Delhi
government VAT reduction on hybrids. These
apply at the dealership level only in Delhi,”
Maruti Suzuki India spokesperson said. The
SHVS micro-hybrid system used in the diesel
variants of the Ciaz and Ertiga comprises fuelsaving tech like an engine stop-start function and
a brake-energy regeneration system.
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MUMBAI: Market benchmark
Sensex on Tuesday reversed its
four-day fall and ended higher by over 75 points, taking
comfort from encouraging corporate earnings despite lingering worries about a likely
rate hike by the US Fed as early
as June. A higher opening in
Europe and a mixed trend in
Asia offered some respite.
Sentiment got a lift after
Tata Power and National
Fertilisers posted strong earnings for the March quarter,
brokers said. But the possibility of the US Federal
Reserve raising borrowing
costs kept investors on a leash,
which capped the gains. A
higher rate would temper
capital flows to emerging
markets, including India.
The 30-share Sensex
slipped in early trade on sustained foreign fund outflows
and a weakening rupee against
the dollar. However, some
value-buying and higher opening in Europe took the barometer to 25,305.47 at the close, up
75.11 points, or 0.30 per cent.
The gauge had fallen 549
points in the past four sessions
on foreign fund outflows after
regulator Sebi tightened
guidelines to check any misuse of P-Notes. Tata Power
and National Fertilisers surged
up to 3 per cent after their
quarterly numbers for the
March quarter gave investors
much to cheer.
However,
Jubilant
FoodWorks and Britannia
Industries tumbled up to 4.45
per cent on Tuesday amid
concerns over bread samples
of virtually all top brands in
Delhi reportedly containing
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fghan Taliban chief Mullah
Akhtar Mansour, killed in
a US drone strike in
Balochistan, was a frequent
flyer and used a Pakistani passport for his visits abroad for
over nine years, a media report
said on Tuesday.
Mansour was coming to
Quetta
from
Taftan,
Balochistan, when his car came
under the drone attack, killing
him and his driver. A passport
and a computerised national
identity card found near the
burnt car bore the name of
Muhammad Wali. It is suspected that Mansour carried
fake travel papers, Dawn News
reported.
While Pakistan has not
officially stated that the person
killed in the drone strike was
Mansour, US President Barack
Obama has confirmed that the
man killed was the Taliban
supremo, believed to be in his
early 50s.
‘Wali’ frequently travelled
between Karachi and Dubai,
and Iran via the Pakistani border town of Taftan. He had
returned to Taftan from Iran on
May 21 and was killed the
same day around 3 pm (local
time) by a US drone in the
Kochki area of Nushki district,
the report said, citing a senior
official of an Investigation
agency. “’Wali’ had a Pakistani
passport and was travelling on
it with a valid visa of Iran and
Dubai,” the official said, adding
that the passport was twice
issued to him from the Quetta
passport office — first in 2006
and then in October 2011, after
the previous one had expired.
“The passport was valid up
to October 2016,” the official
said. The national identity card,
too, was issued to ‘Wali’ from
Quetta in 2002 and after completion of its 10 years’ validity
it was renewed from Karachi.
The official claimed that
‘Wali’ was a frequent flyer and
70 per cent of his travel originated from Karachi airport
while once he flew from Quetta
airport. He started travelling
abroad on March 12, 2006, and
flew to Dubai from Karachi airport. His last travel on March
31, 2015 was also from Karachi
to Dubai, the report said.
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moned US ambassador
David Hale to express concern
over the drone strike by
American forces in Pakistani
territory to kill Afghan Taliban
chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour
which it said was a “violation
of its sovereignty”.
According to a statement
by the Foreign Office, Special
Assistant to Prime Minister on
Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi
pointed out to the US envoy
that the drone strike was a “violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and a breach of the UN’s
Charter that guarantees the
inviolability of the territorial
integrity of its member states.”
Fatemi also emphasised that
“such actions could adversely
impact the ongoing efforts by
the Quadrilateral Coordination
Group (QCG) for facilitating
peace talks between the Afghan
Government and the Taliban.”
The Special Assistant said
that Pakistan and the US had
been closely coordinating in the
fight against the menace of terrorism and that “this cooperation needed to be maintained”.
Mansour, believed to be in his
50s, was killed when a US
drone fired on his vehicle in the
southwestern Pakistani
province of Baluchistan.
Kabul: The Afghan Taliban are
struggling to find a successor
to slain chief Mullah Akhtar
Mansour, militant sources said
on Tuesday, with one saying the
two main contenders had
backed out of the leadership
race. Mullah Yakoub, the
Taliban founder’s son, and
Sirajuddin Haqqani, an
implacable foe of US forces,
were seen as the two frontrunners for the job after
Mansour was killed Saturday in
a rare American drone strike
deep inside Pakistan.
“Yakoub has refused to
accept the role, saying he is
too young for it,” a senior
Taliban source in northwest
Pakistan said.
“Mansour’s deputy and
operational head of the
Haqqani network, Sirajuddin
Haqqani, has also refused due
to personal reasons.” That
development will complicate
the job of the Taliban’s
supreme council, which has
been holding emergency
meetings since Sunday at an
undisclosed location in
Pakistan to find a unifying figure for the leadership post.
The insurgents have yet to
officially confirm the death of
Mansour, which has thrown
the deeply factionalised Taliban
into disarray nine months after
he was elevated to the Taliban
leadership following a bitter
power struggle.
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Senate panel has approved
a legislation which blocks
$300 million US military aid to
Pakistan unless the defence
secretary certifies to the
Congress that Islamabad is taking demonstrable steps against
the Haqqani terror network.
The Senate Armed
Services Committee,
which renewed blockage
of $300 million coalition
support fund to Pakistan
subject to action against
the Haqqani network like
previous year when it
passed the National
Defence Authorisation Act
(NDAA)-2017 last week,
has however argued in
favour of continuing secu-
rity assistance to Pakistan.
NDAA-2017 is scheduled
to come up before the Senate
for voting, during which several
Senators are expected to bring
in amendments to this bill.
Senate version of the
NDAA differed with that of the
House on many issues, including Pakistan. The House ver-
sion of the bill, which was
passed last week, calls for
blocking $450 million of the
$900 million US aid to Pakistan
in coalition support fund.
The Senate version has
reduced both the figures to
$300 million and $800 million,
respectively. However, for
release of this fund, both seek
certification from the
defence secretary
that Pakistan is taking demonstrable
action against the
Haqqani network.
NDAA 2016,
which ends on
September 30 this
year, makes it
mandatory for the
defence secretary to
certify
that
Islamabad is taking action
against the Haqqani network
for the release of last $300 million of the coalition support
fund to Pakistan.
“The defence secretary has
not taken a decision yet,” Navy
Captain Jeff Devis, the
Pentagon spokesman, told
reporters on Monday when
asked if Ashton Carter has
issued the Congress-mandated
certification.
In its report accompanying
NDAA-2017 sent to the Senate,
the Senate Armed Services
Committee noted that Pakistan
has been a long-standing strategic partner of the US and
believes that the bilateral relationship between the two countries will continue to be strong
and enduring.
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increase in fake and phony
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universities, colleges and
schools whose numbers have
gone up to over 400 as they use
names of real institutions by
slightly altering them to confuse and dupe prospective students, state media reported on
Tuesday.
A list of fake universities,
colleges and schools was last
week released on sdaxue.Com
website that helps students
choose higher educational
institutions.
It exposed 73 Chinese universities or colleges as unaccredited diploma mills.
The website has been publishing its annual list of fake
schools since 2013.
The list pushes the total
number of phony colleges
exposed to over 400, staterun Xinhua news agency
reported.
On the list are 23 schools
in Beijing where many of the
country’s top universities
are located. Shandong was second, with eight fake colleges,
while Shanghai has seven.
Names of institutions are
usually slightly altered versions of the names of real universities and colleges to confuse
prospective students.
Accreditation is usually
fabricated or out of date.
According to the website, 66 of
the 73 bogus colleges were not
on the college list published by
the Ministry of Education
(MOE), while six used old
names of legal colleges.
One used an alternative
name of a Party school in
Beijing.
These colleges usually woo
and swindle high school graduates through slick recruitment sites, it said.
Xinhua reporters contacted a dozen of them, all supposedly located in Beijing, but
none of their phone numbers
were available.
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reek authorities sent hundreds of police into the
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country’s largest informal
refugee camp on Tuesday to
support the gradual evacuation
of the Idomeni site on the
Macedonian border.
The left-led government
has pledged that police will not
use force, and says the operation is expected to last about a
week to 10 days. Journalists
were blocked from covering
inside the camp
By about midday 23 buses
carrying a total 1,110 people
had left Idomeni, heading to
new refugee camps in northern
Greece, police said, while earthmoving machinery was used to
clear abandoned tents. No violence was reported.
Vicky Markolefa, a representative of the Doctors
Without Borders charity, said
the operation was proceeding
“very smoothly” and without
incident. “We hope it will continue like that,” she said.
The camp, which sprang up
at an informal pedestrian border crossing for refugees and
migrants heading north to
wealthier European nations,
was home to an estimated 8,400
people — including hundreds
of children — mostly from
Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. At
its peak, when Macedonia shut
its border in March, the camp
housed more than 14,000, but
numbers have declined as people began accepting authorities’
offers of alternative places to
stay. In Geneva, UNHCR
spokesman Adrian Edwards
said the evacuation appeared to
be taking place “calmly,” and the
UN refugee agency was sending more staffers to Idomeni.
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London: A 34-year-old British Muslim mother has been jailed
for two and a half years by a UK court for lying to authorities
and trying to take her children, including an 11-month-old baby,to
be raised in Islamic State-held territory in Syria.
Muslim convert Lorna Moore was found guilty of failing to
tell authorities her husband Sajid Aslam, 34, was about to leave
for Syria to join Islamic State (ISIS), Old Bailey court in London
ruled on Monday.
She was also found guilty of plans to take her three young
children to the war zone, including an 11-month-old baby. “One
of the troubling things about you is your facility for telling lies,”
Judge Charles Wide said in his ruling, adding that she had told
“lie after lie”. Moore was convicted alongside 28-year-old
Ayman Shaukat, who was found guilty of preparing terrorist acts
by helping Aslam and Muslim convert 22-year-old Alex Nash
on their way to ISIS territory.
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resumptive Republican
presidential nominee
Donald Trump has said he
would have no problem asking
the Congress for a declaration
of war against terrorism.
“It would not bother me at
all doing that, we probably
should have done that in the
first place. This is a war against
people that are vicious, violent
that we have no idea who they
are or where they come from,”
Trump, 69, told Fox News when
asked if he would support asking Congress for a declaration
of war to fight terrorism.
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ran’s Assembly of Experts
chose another hardline cleric as its chief on Tuesday, keeping the powerful religious body
in ultraconservative hands
despite gains by reformists and
moderates in February elections. The assembly oversees
the work of supreme leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and
would choose the 76-year-old’s
successor if he dies during its
eight-year term.
Its 88 members elected
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, 89,
as chairman, defeating two
conservatives. The cleric is one
of the few hardliners who
secured re-election in the
February vote that saw a landslide for reformist and moderates in the capital and big
gains elsewhere.
The hardliner also chairs
the Guardian Council, the body
which vets all candidates for
public office in Iran and has a
veto over all legislation.
The council sparked controversy in February’s election
by disqualifying thousands of
hopefuls, most of them
reformists.
“We are allowing tens of
thousands of them into our
country now, so on top of
wars on foreign land, wait until
you see what happens in the
future. It is probably not going
to be pretty,” Trump said.
Meanwhile, Trump met
Senator Bob Corker, Chairman
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee in New York,
fuelling speculation that this
was part of his vice presidential search. Corker, however,
refuted such reports.
“We talked more about
China, Russia. You know, I will
tell you what is interesting. I
met my counterpart last week
from China. The fact that he is
challenging some of the status
quo, it is causing these countries to think a little bit differently about the US and I say
that in a positive way,” Corker
told reporters after meeting
Trump. A new poll by
Washington Post/ABC News
poll showed Trump is leading
his Democratic presidential
rival Hillary Clinton, 68, by
four per cent in a hypothetical
November match up.
In the NBC News/Wall
Street Journal poll, Clinton is
leading Trump 46-43. But both
the polls are within the sampling error. Trump, who so far
has self-funded his campaign,
would hold his first fund raiser on Tuesday in New Mexico.
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Washington: Democratic
presidential front- runner
Hillary Clinton has alleged
that Donald Trump could
“bankrupt” America like his
companies as the controversial presumptive Republican
nominee’s economics is a
“recipe” for lower wages,
fewer jobs and more debt.
“Ask yourself, how could
anybody lose money running
a casino? Really? And that is
not all. I hear every day from
families who are afraid of
what a Donald Trump presidency would mean for millions of immigrants living
and working in America,”
Clinton, 68, said as she
mocked Trump, 69.
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told communist Vietnam
on Tuesday that basic human
rights would not jeopardise its
stability, in an impassioned
appeal for the one-party state
to abandon authoritarianism.
In a sweeping speech,
which harked back to the
bloody war that defined both
nations but also looked to the
future, Obama said that
“upholding rights is not a threat
to stability”. Vietnam ruthlessly cracks down on protests, jails
dissidents, bans trade unions
and controls local media.
But the US leader said bolstering rights “actually reinforces stability and is the foundation of progress”, in his
speech to a packed auditorium
including Communist Party
officials. The visit is Obama’s
first to the country and the
third by a sitting president
since the end of the Vietnam
War in 1975. Direct US
involvement in the conflict
ended in 1973.
Obama’s visit has formally
reset the relationship between
the former foes with the lifting
of a US arms embargo. Trade
has dominated the trip, with
multi-billion-dollar deals
unveiled, as well as further
endorsement by both sides of
the planned Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP).
Immediately after his
speech, Obama flew to
Vietnam’s boisterous southern
commercial hub Ho Chi Minh
City, where he will meet techstartup entrepreneurs later on
Tuesday.
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secret military trail for allegedly planning to hijack a Pakistani
warship to attack one of the US
navy’s refuel ships, a media
report said today.
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Ahmed and four other naval
officers have been sentenced
after being convicted by a Navy
tribunal for their involvement
in the September 6, 2014 attack
on Karachi Naval Dockyard.
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has changed the way we perceive,
recognise, organise, think and
act. Mobile telephony has made
access seamless. Leave alone working,
options like media on demand, entertainment on call and gaming portals
and multi-dimensional cinema experience has changed the way we relax
and let loose and play or entertain.
This boom in new media is making
the back end of entertainment a topclass career alternative.
As an industry, gaming has
grown manifold in the last decade,
with new markets emerging from
countries like the US, Europe, China
and Western Europe. With the current estimated revenue from game
and games content in the US growing bigger than Hollywood, the global industry is expected to touch $80
billion by the end of this year. While
the primary consumers of gaming
content continue to be young men in
the age groups ranging from 13 to 35,
with growing Internet bandwidth,
more and more people across all
demographic groups are engaging in
game play now and this trend has
only been steadily rising.
Within the Indian Media and
Entertainment (M&E) industry, gaming has created a significant niche for
itself and is on the cusp of a strong
phase of growth driven by rising digitisation and higher internet usage
over the last decade. According to
NASSCOM, the Indian gaming sector is valued at $300 million (around
C2,000 crore). Video games have
become a big part of modern culture
and are now becoming one of the
most popular forms of entertainment.
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incomes, increase in consumption of
smartphones, availability of better
data network and connectivity like 3G
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India is emerging as the next big
hub for game process outsourcing led
by major international gaming companies that are setting their sights on
its industry prowess and a ready
workforce. With the availability of a
large working population at our end,
we have managed to develop the right
skill sets and professional aptitude to
meet international game standards. In
other words, gaming industry is
undergoing a rapid transformation
and is on its way to become one of the
fastest growing employment sector in
the coming years. It could be the best
time to taking up game development
as a serious career. A host of top international studios like Electronic Arts,
Ubisoft and Zynga have already set
up development centers here and
have drawn up aggressive growth
plans.
As an industry, it offers career
opportunities in different functional areas like Game Design, Game Art
creation in 3D and 2D, Game
Animation, Game Programming,
Game Testing, Project Management,
along with general management positions. Game Art creation is an evolved
field of art involving various specialised workflows and developing a
game requires a large team of skilled
individuals and a special set of development process.
Although, the industry offers
multiple career options one can
choose any specialisation depending
upon the area of interest. It is always
better that the candidate researches
the various disciplines of the game
development industry before taking
up any specialisation. An entry-level
game artist needs to possess basic to
intermediate level knowledge of their
specialised domain. For example, an
animator will need to be comfortable
with the animation tool-set in Maya
or Max while a 3D artist will need to
have an understanding of tools for
creating polygonal models in software
like Maya and textures in Photoshop.
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large an artistic and a highly technical one. It takes a natural creative bent
of mind along with a disciplined
study of techniques to make a good
professional. To make a career specifically in the Game Art field candidates should consider enrolling for a
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nine popular Cambridge International AS & A Level
subjects were introduced to the March series, alongside a range of Cambridge IGCSE subjects.
STEM subjects such as mathematics, physics and
chemistry made it to the list of the top five subject
entries in both Cambridge IGCSE and Cambridge
International A Level examinations. English and Hindi
were also in the list of the top five subjects.
Ruchira Ghosh, regional director South Asia,
Cambridge International Exams, said: “Since we introduced a March series of exams in India last year,
entries have more than doubled. We are delighted to
see such an enthusiastic response from schools. This
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association with Delhi Traffic Police
inaugurated the Road Safety Summer
Camp 2016 in Delhi. It was inaugurated by Alok Kumar Verma,
Commissioner of Police, Delhi and
Yadvinder Singh Guleria, senior
vice-president, sales and marketing,
HMSI in the presence of eminent
dignitaries.
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learnings of road safety and appealing to the consciousness of young
school children. More than 1,000
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the CBSE Class XII exam declared on
Saturday. While Mononito Goswami of
Science stream is the topper of the
school securing 95.2 per cent followed
by Shipla John at 94.6 per cent,
Shreshtha Singh topped the Commerce
with 94.4 per cent and Shambhavi Dutta
bagged the top honors in the
Humanities securing 95.2 per cent.
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Cambridge International AS & A Level subjects –
specifically to help our Cambridge learners bridge the
gap between the international board examinations and
the application cycles for Indian universities.”
Students also showed an increasing interest in subjects such as Environmental Management and Global
Perspectives which provide them with an opportunity
to cultivate the critical thinking, research, communication and collaboration skills.
The entries for the March exam series in 2016 have
more than doubled to 26,000 compared to 11,000
entries in 2015. The series caters specifically to Indian
students applying for places at Indian colleges and universities by releasing results in time for the application May deadlines.
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Camp. The Road safety Summer
Camp which has started today will
continue till June 10, 2016. Honda’s
Road Safety Camp will have an
assortment of theoretical and practical experiences for children. The
specially designed fun engagements
like Road Sign Intelligence Game,
painting and traffic quiz contests will
make the younger ones aware on
basics of road safety.
High school students will be
the second position in Humanities. “If
excellence in academics is the hallmark
of any good institution then the Class
XII result of our school proved without
an iota of doubt that Father Agnel
School, Noida has done it once again.
Wish them a great success in their
future endeavours,” Father Carvahallo,
director of the school, said.
Kalka Public School, Alaknanda in
South Delhi too came out with brilliant
Class XII results. Mayank Mishra, who
is the son of a senior railway personnel, obtained 443 out of 500 in the
Commerce including 96/100 in
Accountancy and principal Dr Anju
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the corporate world which he wishes to
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its own specific skill requirements.
For example, Game Designers need
to have a clear understanding of the
different game genres, as well know
what makes each genre unique and
fun. They also need to have strong
written and verbal communication
skills, as well as knowledge/exposure
to product design. Meanwhile, Game
programmers typically need to have
a strong foundation in Mathematics
(especially Coordinate Geometry)
and Physics. They also need to be able
to programme in one or more languages such as C, C++ and Java.
The gaming industry is a high
paying career and a game developer
in India can make between C5 lakh
to C7 lakh per month. In order to
grow, however it is imperative that
one regularly updates oneself with
state of the art developments in the
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Shiksha
Abhiyan
movements,
aisectmoocs.com has been launched as India’s
largest free online open learning platform. This
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) portal,
launched by the Bhopal-based education group
AISECT, will offer over 2,000 courses including school courses, skill courses and higher education courses. All courses on aisectmoocs.com
will be free of cost.
For this initiative, AISECT has partnered
with Ireland-based Alison, which is the global leader in free online certified skills training for the workplace with seven million registered learners and 800,000 graduates worldwide. All 750 plus diploma and certificate level
Alison courses will be offered through the
AISECT MOOC portal. Additionally, AISECT
will offer courses on school curriculum as well
as courses on higher education subjects.
Initially, the course curriculum will be available in English and Hindi but more regional
language content will be added to the MOOC
platform over the next few months.
Aisectmoocs.com offers a range of shortterm courses in areas like digital literacy and
IT skills, health literacy, financial and economic literacy, languages, personal development and soft skills, business and enterprise
skills, beauty and wellness, retail, electronics,
etc. The duration of the courses ranges from
three hours to six months and students get an
online certificate on successful completion of
the course.
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trained on Honda Riding Trainer (a
virtual riding simulator which helps
people above 13 years of age to experience over 100 possible dangers on
road before actual riding on road).
Children in the age group of 9 to 12
years will be trained on Honda’s CRF
50 model, specially imported from
Japan to help them understand the
importance of safety riding.
At the end of the camp, students
will also be awarded with a certificate of completion.
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one of the largest multi-disciplinary healthcare organisations in
India, in collaboration with Health
Careers, a leading Australian healthcare education provider, has come up
with training programmes to provide
international standard nursing and
healthcare specific training for people in rural areas, in local languages, and using the latest technology.
The partnership aims to raise the
level of skills and capability of
healthcare staff as they take up
opportunities to become part the
Hello Health team as the company
expands further into rural areas of
India, and also enable highly skilled
healthcare professionals to take up
global opportunities. Their training
programmes will be available at
Hello Health training centres and
virtual classrooms in Sant Kabir
Nagar, UP in the first instance, and
expand to more than 17 rural centres by this year. Students will have
access to learning resources and leading educators from around the
world as they open new horizons in
the health care sector in India.
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Shiv Nadar University
invites applications for Bachelor
of Arts (Research), Bachelor of
Science (Research) and
Bachelor of Technology. A new
Bachelor’s programme in
Management Studies under the
aegis of the School of
Management
and
Entrepreneurship is also open
for intakes and is uniquely
designed to provide specialised
knowledge through experiential
learning and exchange programmes, internships and projects at partner universities like
Duke, Carnegie Mellon and
Babson College. Apart from
the new school of Management
and Entrepreneurship, the
University offers undergraduate
programmes under the aegis of
three schools:
QSchool of Humanities and
Social Sciences: Inter-disciplinary courses across English,
History, Sociology, Economics,
Art Design and Performing
Arts, Communications and
Education etc.
QSchool of Natural Sciences:
Research-based programmes in
Chemistry, Mathematics, Life
Sciences and Physics etc.
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includes courses like Chemical
Engineering, Civil Engineering,
Computer Science and
Engineering, Electrical and
Electronics Engineering,
Electronics
and
Communication Engineering,
and Mechanical Engineering.
Shiv Nadar University has
earmarked a scholarship fund of
C35 crore for its undergraduate
students. Scholarships at the
university cover full or partial
educational and living expenses for the entire duration of the
undergraduate programme. The
last date of receiving application
forms for undergraduate programmes is May 31, 2016, and
the last date to appear for
SNUSAT and APT test is June
9, 2016. For more information,
log on to www.snu.edu.in.
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The KIIT College of
Engineering, Gurgaon, invites
application for its engineering
courses BTech with specialisation in Computer Science
Engineering, Electronics and
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Educational Institutions (MREI)
invites applications for admission to its undergraduate
Engineering programmes. The
applications are being invited
under the banner of MREI for
two of its flagship institutions —
Manav Rachna International
University and Manav Rachna
University. The last date for
receiving applications for the
Engineering programmes is 15
June, 2016.
A number of new programmes and specialisations
are being launched in 2016 for
which the admission process is
already in progress. MRIU has
a tie-up with IBM and is offering BTech (four-year) Computer
Science and Engineering programme with three new specialisations ie Mainframe
Technology, Open Source
Software and Open Standards as
also Graphics and Gaming
Technology. Moreover, BTech in
Electrical Engineering with specialisation in Power Electronics
in association with SU-KAM is
also a new entrant in the field.
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(Science stream) and Simran Walia
(Humanities) topped the exam with 97.2 per
cent aggregate marks followed by Muskan Joon
(Commerce) with 96.6 per cent, Muskaan
Kansal (Science) and Akash Tiwari (Science)
with 96.0 per cent. Some of the students who
scored 100 marks includes Aditya Pal and
Simran Walia in Psychology, Ashish Ranjan in
Chemistry and Computer Science and Akash
Tiwari in Biotechnology. The principal Nidhi
Chaudhary has congratulated students and
entire school staff for this splendid success.
Communications Engineering,
and MTech in Computer
Science
Engineering,
Electronics
and
Communications Engineering
for 2016-17.
Candidates, who are interested to apply, should have
completed 10+2 examination
from
a
recognised
Board/University with physics
and mathematics as compulsory subject along with other
subject. Scholarship given to
meritorious students and reservation as notified by Haryana
State Technical Education
Society. The selection procedure
is based on entrance exams,
group discussion and personal
interview. The last date for submission of application is July 30
2016.
running junior golf training for the age
groups of eight to 15 years at Delhi Golf Club,
Dr Zakir Hussain Marg, New Delhi till June
24, 2016. The 30th edition of JTP is divided
into four camps (of 10 day duration) starting
May 26, June 5, and June 15 respectively.
Under the guidance of A-category coaches,
Vikram Sethi, Nonita Lal Qureshi, Jasjit
Singh and Ajay Gupta, every participating
child will be trained on the basics of the sport.
As per their ability and knowledge about the
game, camps are divided into three levels of
ability — Advanced, Intermediate and
Beginners. These daily, two-hour sessions will
cover all aspects of the game including long
drive, putting, chipping, bunker and pitching
as well as the rules and etiquette. Each camp
will conclude with a prize distribution awarded as per the age and ability across all disciplines.
Speaking about the event, Komal Mehra,
events head, Usha International Limited said:
“We are strongly committed to the development of sports in the country and have been
a major supporter of golf. As we continue to
partner with junior training for golf with DGC
for a decade now, we want more and more
juniors to take up this training at the learning stages of their life.”
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marks in both papers. “Numerical based
questions (subjective in nature) only had no
negative marks. There was not even a single
question with only one correct choice. Both
papers had combined 18 questions with one
or more correct with 50 per cent negative
marks. Even paragraph based questions in
paper II had 50 per cent negative marks. Paper
I had two matrix-match type questions with
each of four rows having one or more correct
answers carrying 50 per cent negative marks.
This year, paper I had five Multiple
Choice Questions (MCQs) with single option
correct. Eight questions of one or more correct type with 50 per cent negative marks with
a difference that there is scope of partial marks
if no incorrect option is darkened. For each
correct option there is one mark awarded. Five
numerical based questions carry no negative
marks.
This year, even in paper II, each subject
had six single correct Multiple Choice
Questions (plus 3, minus 1); eight questions
multiple choice that had one or more correct
with marking similar to paper I and two paragraphs with two questions each with marking
scheme (plus3, 0) — no negative marking.
Hence, this year cut-offs are expected to
be normal — 10 per cent per subject and 35
per cent overall as against seven per cent per
subject & 24.5 per cent overall in 2015.
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options in which one or more than one of the
options were correct. Marking scheme in this
section is plus 4 for correct, partial marks if
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deadline: The application deadline is July 13,
2016.
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Advanced Studies Lucca is
providing 34 PhD scholarships for the academic year
2016-2017. These positions
are available to candidates
without regard to nationality,
age, gender or religion for the
programme starting in
November 2016.
Eligibility: Applicants
must meet these criteria:
Proficiency in English is compulsory. No knowledge of
Italian is required. A university degree of at least four
years or equivalent. For foreign degrees, eligibility will be
assessed by the PhD Selection
Committee. Applicants
obtaining their degree by no
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must fill out the online application form (registration
required), providing personal data and attaching the
required documents. Basic
instructions for the submission procedure will be provided after registration.
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mainly focusing on past academic performance (grades)
and scientific relevance to the
selected curricula.
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fellowships for 2016-2017.
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universities/institutions in
India and abroad.
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agriculture/allied sciences
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candidates should not be more
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date prescribed for receipt of
applications. The upper age
limit for in-service candidates
will be 40 years on the last date
for receipt of applications.
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detailed eligibility requirements. The council will identify and announce the priority areas of research and the
list of institutions — for
admission, one year in
advance.
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options in which only one of the options was
correct. Marking scheme in this section is plus
3 for correct response, zero for no response
and minus 1 for all other cases. Maximum
marks for this section was 18.
Section II had eight questions with four
options in which one or more than one of the
options were correct. Marking scheme in this
section is plus 4 for correct response, partial
marks if an option was correct provided no
incorrect options were marked, zero for no
response and minus 2 for all other cases.
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publishing industry in India?
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a lot of scope in today’s time, especially
in the education sector. We have a lot of
publishers in India in a niche segment as
well as service provider sector. Foreign
companies are collaborating with Indian
publishing houses for the printing and
distribution of their books, novels, etc.
Q Do you also conduct workshops on
how to publish your own book, start a
publishing house and make a career in
publishing industry?
We did that abroad. In July, we are
going to conduct various workshops for
training and skill development with the
nodal agency of Malaysia. Unfortunately,
in India, such forums do not exist under
the Government’s nodal agencies. I have
seen some new training come up. We do
training for the election commission
employees. Government has to take
more initiative. We can only do it in a
small way through the Federation of
Indian Publishers which gives us candidates to train free of cost.
Q How are start-ups doing in the publishing industry?
There are many start-up companies
that have been launched in the past 10
years. We would like to boost some
promising start-up firms in this industry through collaboration and investment
— start-ups which are promoting digitisation in the publishing industry, softwares etc. I’m looking for more path
breaking ideas on online platform.
Q How is the waste management industry working to recycle the papers ?
We have a large unit for recycling
paper or book sized stationary, but the
industry wants white wood paper. With
recycled paper, there is issue of colour differences and raw material being expensive. Children don’t want to write on
paper which is dull. Education industry
doesn’t recycle as much as it should.
There are a few units in India that are
producing recycled materials. However,
India is not inclined towards it right now.
Q Tell us about the educational services
provided by MBD Group?
From textbooks for all grades, all
subjects, all major boards in India and for
all major languages in India, activity
books, workbooks to teaching manuals,
teachers’ and students’ resources, reference books and State board syllabus, we
offer a wide range of services covering
every platform. Adding to that basket is
E-learning (online and offline), Mlearning, language education apps, assessment engine, Enterprise Resource
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We have partnered with Intel and
Microsoft for providing content. Netra,
our augmented reality free app, is gaining popularity. We sell copyright and
export books. We have also started theatre in education to make teaching and
learning more interesting. We have
launched our e-commerce site for purchasing books.
Q How has been the response of MBD
Disha for teacher’s training?
We have done that in collaboration
with Imagine Education (UK). The way
they do teacher training is different from
India and thus we are adopting new modules for training teachers in various fields.
We have been teaching teachers for a long
time and but never thought it will
become such a huge industry and
Government will take up such initiatives.
So far we have trained around 30,00042,000 teachers.
Q You are also providing skill development and vocational courses...
It offers residential training and
non-residential training courses and
books in the field of printing, web
designing, editorial services to IT, ITES
and Hospitality, with the aim of bridging the gap between the supply and
demand of skilled manpower. We are
working on various Government projects
across India like Udaan to train and provide jobs to 5,000 students in J&K. The
endeavour is to train about a million by
2020. There have been talks to incorporate vocational courses at school level in
a big way.
Q What else is there in the pipeline?
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required and adapt and make it available
worldwide. We are going to launch version three of E’cademy, an e-learning platform for schools, whose contents will be
refreshed for nine more States.
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and Vasant Kunj, are organising the third edition of edutainment festival —We Love
Summer 2016 Kids Carnival
till June 5, 2016. The festival
will see non-stop fun and
learning with an array of carefully designed activities for
varied interests. The carnival
intends to expand children’s
creative thinking while offering them and their families a
great time.
Activities include basketball and football workshops,
kids robots activities, puppet
workshop, paintball, bakery
classes, theatre workshops,
music and dance classes, ice
skating, zumba-kickboxing,
meditation through music.
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The
Management
Education & Research Institute
collaborated with Unity
International Foundation to
give its international business
students a chance to meet delegates, ambassadors and other
delegation of neighbouring
countries like China, Bhutan,
Nepal and others. The basic
aim of this collaboration is to
foster international relations
between India and neigh-
bouring countries. Students
from neighbouring countries
will also visit India.
Unity
International
Foundation has been able to
mark its presence across borders as an platform delivering
international harmony and
peace. The association is globally appreciated for its valuable
attempts in lessening the
movement of youth towards
terrorism and drugs.
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Baidu’s India office has
announced its participation
in Baidu Inc’s first
International University
Marketing Competition. The
competition, which aims to
empower the next generation
of marketers, will be open to
university students in India,
China and Indonesia.
The India portion of the
campaign will encourage local
university students to create
short marketing videos for a
chance to intern at Baidu’s New
Delhi office, and visit the company headquarters in Beijing.
Speaking at the event,
Zhang Gao, general manager
of Baidu’s Educational Business
Unit said: “The Internet is
changing the world quickly,
and there’s a huge need for digital marketing talent. The competition is a platform for students to put their best foot forward and showcase their creative ideas.”
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IMT Ghaziabad’s Centre
for Distance Learning (IMT
CDL) has been ranked No 1
in the Distance Education
National Ranking Survey
2015-16. The survey, conducted by DNA and Daksha
Skill Development Pvt Ltd for
PG programmes, evaluated
distance education institutes
on seven key parameters.
The seven parameters
included — quality of study
material, faculty and
resources, examination and
result process, interaction
with students/alumni, online
material,
learning and information, teaching/mentoring and interaction/response. Student and
employer satisfaction are also
determinants.
Speaking on this achievement, Dr SR Musanna, Dean
(Academics) said: “This ranking underlines our commitment to offer an exceptional
academic experience for students. This recognition
affirms that commitment and
demonstrates the value of an
IMT CDL qualification.”
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Creation Infoways Pvt Ltd,
a fast growing single source
internet and related service
provider, has announced its
support to the Prime
Minister’s initiative — Start Up
India, Stand Up India — following which it will help
potential start-ups with technical as well as financial support.
The company will offer
end to end web solutions to
start-ups to help them drive
operational efficiency as well
as inflate their customer base.
Further more, Creation
Infoways has also decided to
provide high potential startups with financial support to
spur the growth of entrepreneurship in the country.
“We are committed to
help young businesses in the
country with our state-of-theart solutions as well as a highly experienced and proficient
team. With youths forming the
majority population, the
potential in online and mobile
space for start-ups is immense
and Creation Infoways will
strive to help them tap these
booming opportunities, Satya
Satapathy, director, Creation
Infoways said.
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envisaged by chairman Ryan
Group of Institutions, Dr
Augustine F Pinto, and managing director Grace Pinto,
the students of Ryan
International School, Vasant
Kunj attended a summer
course in journalism —
Beyond Breaking News at
Ryan International School,
Malad in Mumbai.
Students learnt camera
handling. editing, scripting,
anchoring and recording.
They got the opportunity to make their own news
bulletin along with advertisements. They also had the
privilege to interact with
many child artists. On termination of the course all participants received the title of
Young Journalist. The Ryan
Group of Institutions, once
again guided students towards
a new path of excellence.
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158 all out against Royal Challengers
Bangalore in Qualifier 1 of the Indian
Premier League here on Tuesday.
Smith hammered six sixes in his
whirlwind knock and shared an 85-run
stand with Dinesh Karthik (26 off 30) after
Lions lost their top three batsmen for nine
runs. All-rounder Shane Watson was the
stand out bowler for the hosts, ending with
four wickets for 29 runs in his four overs.
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at home, were on top of the opposition
after putting them in at the Chinnaswamy
Stadium.
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hands of AB De Villiers doing the needful. Finch departed three balls later as he
tried a flick off one that turned away, only
to be caught at first slip by Chris Gayle.
The Lions were in deeper trouble in
the fourth over when Watson removed
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who is set for his maiden India tour
of Zimbabwe next month, said he
would never attempt to bowl a
"doosra" in his career since it cannot
be done without a bit of elbow kink.
"I have never bowled a doosra in my life and will never bowl
one. I believe doosra can't be
bowled without a bit of kink. My
stock ball is the off-spinner and
that's my strength. I am working on
my carrom ball but to be honest, I
have not reached a stage where I
can use it at a big platform like IPL
or international matches," the 26year-old, who has 110 first-class
wickets from 40 matches, said.
For Jayant, playing first-class
matches at the seamer-friendly
Bansi Lal Stadium in Lahli is a
challenge as he has had to fight for
a place in the state team with Amit
Mishra and Yuzvendra Chahal.
"I think it has made me
tougher that we play at Lahli,
which is known for its seamerfriendly tracks. Also when Mishy
bhai (Amit Mishra) is around, he
is obviously the first choice spinner. If we play a second spinner, the
fight is between myself and Yuzi
(Yuzvendra Chahal)," Jayant said.
In fact, for him it was a decision by Haryana CA supremo and
BCCI treasurer Aniruddh
Chaudhary that proved to be the
turning point.
"It was my Ranji Trophy debut
in 2011 against Gujarat in Surat.
We were fighting to save relegation.
Mishy bhai and Chahal were supposed to play and Aniruddh sir
said that I should be played. It was
a match that could have been
make or break for me and he
(Chaudhary) had belief in my
abilities. I got six wickets in the
game and we saved relegation," said
Jayant, who is waiting to have an
interaction with Mahendra Singh
Dhoni as he has never spoken to
the Indian captain.
The next big turn came when
he got to interact with Rahul Dravid
during last year's India A stint.
"For the first two days, I was
in awe of him. I simply could not
speak as it was like standing in
front of Rahul Dravid. Then as I
interacted, I was amazed at his
homework.
"That was evident in IPL where
in each of the five matches I had
the same role and it was a specific one. I was told that I will have
to bowl in Powerplays. Rahul bhai
believes that in match situations,
every player is his own coach and
needs to learn to think out of the
box," said Jayant, who is employed
with Chemplast and plays in
TNCA league for the renowned
Chennai club side.
Talk about his favourite offspinners, he names Ravichandran
Ashwin and Graeme Swann.
"Swann had such amazing drift
in his deliveries while Ashwin is a
master of variations. As a bowler,
it is necessary to have variations
when one aspires to play at the
highest level."
Yadav believes that coming
through the age-group ranks has
helped him go through a steady
progress.
"I have played for Haryana in
all age-groups. Right from U-15,
U-17, U-19, U-22 and then the
state side followed by IPL and India
A. It's been a gradual progression.
In fact, at U-15, it was Yuzvendra,
who was our captain."
While he hails from Gurgaon,
Jayant lives with his parents in the
Air India quarters at South Delhi's
Vasant Vihar area.
Sunrisers Hyderabad will have
revenge on mind when the two
teams clash in the IPL Eliminator,
here on Wednesday.
Both Sunrisers and KKR finished their league engagements on
16 points each but the Gautam
Gambhir-led side ended fourth
behind Sunrisers due to inferior
net run rate.
But going into Wednesday’s
game, KKR have psychological
advantage over the Sunrisers having beaten them on both the occasions during the league stage.
KKR spanked Sunrisres by
eight wickets in their first meeting this season and came out victorious by 22 runs in a must-win
match last Sunday to qualify for
the play-offs.
Going by records too, KKR
enjoy edge having won the tournament twice in the past — 2012
and 2014 — and finishing in the
Play-offs in 2011.
Sunrsiers, on the other hand,
managed to secure a play-off
berth in 2013 and would be gunning for glory this time around.
Wednesday’s match will also give
Sunrsiers an opportunity to
avenge their defeats to KKR.
KKR have been led from the
front by Gautam Gambhir, who
would be desperate to prove a
point to the national selectors
after being ignored for the tour of
Zimbabwe and West Indies
despite scoring consistently in the
ongoing IPL.
Gambhir is the leading scorer for KKR with 473 runs from 14
games with five half-centuries. His
opening partner Robin Uthappa
(383 runs) and Yusuf Pathan
(359) too shone with the bat but
they too were being ignored for
national call-up.
But KKR's young batsman
Manish Pandey, who has scored
212 runs from 11 games so far, has
been picked up for the
Zimababwe tour and would be
eager to justify his selection with
another fine outing with the bat.
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competition. Raina fell to a short ball again
as he pulled Watson straight to the man
at short fine-leg.
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did the repair Job. The duo forged a much
needed partnership with Smith scoring the
bulk of the runs. The West Indian took the
attack to the spinners, not allowing them
get into the groove. He got to his third half
century of the season by sweeping Abdulla
to a six over long on.
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supporting well until he shuffled across the
stumps to lap it towards fine leg, only to
play on to his stumps. His shot selection
was questionable with a man at deep fine
leg in place.
Jadeja joined Smith but the southpaw
perished cheaply to continue his modest
season with the bat. When the time came
to get a move on, the quick wickets of
Karthik and Jadeja pegged Lions back further, reducing them to 107 for five.
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Lions but he too departed while attempting another big one off leggie Yuzvendra
Chahal. Besides a barrage of sixes, he
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mind-numbing football, one trophy and countless
Sreferences
to his "process" and "philosophy," Louis van
Gaal is no longer manager of Manchester United.
So how will Van Gaal be remembered? Here's a look
at Van Gaal's legacy at United:
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HIGHS:
WINNING THE FA CUP
"Now I have won the cup in four
countries," a grinning Van Gaal said
after the 2-1 extra-time win over
Crystal Palace on Saturday. "Not
many managers can say that"
It didn't count for much in the
end - within an hour of the final whistle, it was being widely reported that
Van Gaal would soon be out of a job
— but the victory at Wembley
Stadium at least gave him something
tangible to take from his reign. It got
United back among the trophies after
a three-year gap and gave the club a
record-equaling 12th FA Cup title.
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eplacing Alex Ferguson is proving
harder than Manchester United
could ever have imagined. United
is looking for its third manager since
Ferguson's trophy-laden 26-year dynasty
ended in 2013 after firing Louis van Gaal
on Monday following months of uncertainty around his position.
Jose Mourinho is set to take over at
Old Trafford as the latest coach attempting to revive the fortunes of England's
biggest club.
It was beyond David Moyes, who
lasted 10 months as Ferguson's handpicked successor, and now Van Gaal has
departed after two underwhelming
years when he oversaw more than $350
million of spending on new players.
"I am very disappointed to be
unable to complete our intended threeyear plan," Van Gaal said. "I believe that
the foundations are firmly in place to
enable the club to move forward and
achieve even greater success."
United, the record 20-time English
champion, said its "decision on a successor as manager will be announced
soon" while giving no names.
Delivering United's first trophy —
an FA Cup on Saturday — since
Ferguson's retirement was not enough
to save Van Gaal. He paid the price for
failing to qualify United for next season's
Champions League, with the team finishing fifth in the Premier League.
"I hope that winning the FA Cup
will give the club a platform to build
upon next season to restore the success
that this passionate set of fans desire,"
Van Gaal said.
The 64-year-old Van Gaal could
now be heading into retirement. He has
also coached Ajax, Barcelona, Bayern
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The French Open's Twitter feed
posted a video of the crowd at
Court Suzanne Lenglen giving 2010
title winner and 2011 runner-up
Francesca Schiavone a standing ovation after her 6-2, 6-4 first-round loss
to 26th-seeded Kristina Mladenovic.
And Tuesday's tweet included this
line: "For her last Roland Garros,
Francesca Schiavone, 35 years old
and the champion in 2010, deserved
a real ovation."
Schiavone was surprised to get
that send-off when she left the
court, saying that the poor way she
played certainly didn't merit that sort
of adulation. And she was unaware
anyone thought this might be her
final appearance at the clay-court.
Besides, the Italian explained,
"When I retire, I'd like to retire on
my couch, without any sort of celebration. Roland Garros announced
my retirement, but I didn't. So you
can stand up, all of you, and go back
to work in the office, because I didn't say that. I will announce when I
will want to stop.”
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Andy Murray says his sometimes fiery on-court behavior wasn't the cause of his split from coach
Amelie Mauresmo. Speaking after a
first-round win at the French Open,
Murray insisted "we certainly didn't
fall out," and their relationship
remains "good" despite the end of
their ground-breaking, two-year
coaching tie last month. Murray says
he and Mauresmo parted on good
terms." To say that the reason that we
stopped working together is because
of my behavior on the court, that is
not true," he said.
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TOP OF THE LEAGUE
It seems a while ago now, but
LOWS:
MISSING OUT ON UCL
A failure to guide United into next
season's Champions League badly
damaged Van Gaal's stock. A finish in
the top four, coupled with winning the
FA Cup, and Van Gaal might have
limped on.
As it was, a second season in three
years away from the European elite,
missing out on the prestige and vast
riches, and playing on Thursday nights
in the Europa League just wasn't good
enough for the Old Trafford hierarchy.
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE EXIT
Van Gaal had earlier disappointment with the UCL this season. United
was eliminated at the group stage after
Munich and the Netherlands in a stellar coaching career.
"Having managed in Holland, Spain
and Germany, I had always hoped for
the opportunity to manage in English
football and be part of English culture,"
Van Gaal said. "Both of these experiences have lived up to expectations and
been fantastic."
United executive vice chairman
Ed Woodward praised Van Gaal for
behaving with "great professionalism
and dignity" in the two years since he
replaced Moyes.
United was top of the league this season. A commanding 3-0 win against
Sunderland last September saw United
climb the summit for the first time in
two years.
"It is a very nice feeling, being
top," Van Gaal said. "It is not so easy
to keep that." And that was as good
as it got for United in the Premier
League under the Dutchman.
UCL RETURN
A fourth-place finish in the 201415 season saw United return to the
Champions League after a one-year
absence. United was back where it
belongs — among Europe's elite.
And everything pointed to a successful season in 2015-16 when
United surged to an easy two-legged
losing 3-2 to Wolfsburg on Dec. 8 in
a match United headed into knowing
victory was essential.
When United was pitted in a
group with PSV Eindhoven, Wolfsburg
and CSKA Moscow, the draw was
viewed as favorable for Van Gaal. But
the doomed European campaign was
symptomatic of United under his
guidance — the team appeared focused
on defensive organization and lacked
the attacking flair and creativity to
break down stubborn opponents.
LVG CONTEMPLATES QUITTING
A loss to Stoke on Dec 26 was
United's fourth straight defeat and left
Van Gaal looking bewildered and
pondering his future when he faced
the media after the match.
"(Van Gaal) leaves us with a legacy
of having given several young players
the confidence to show their ability on
the highest stage," Woodward said.
Indeed, the redeeming feature of
Van Gaal's reign was his continuation
of the club's long-held policy of giving
youngsters a chance, including Jesse
Lingard — the scorer of the winning
goal in the FA Cup final against Crystal
Palace. But Van Gaal's turbulent tenure
has been marred by accusations from
critics that he betrayed United'sheritage
by playing a defensive, risk-averse style.
win over Club Bruges in the
Champions League playoff in August,
with new signing Memphis Depay
demonstrating his full range of skills
and Wayne Rooney scoring a hat trick
in the second leg.
BEATING LIVERPOOL, CITY
If one match under Van Gaal
cements itself fondly in the memories
of United supporters, it is the 2-1 victory against fierce rival Liverpool at
Anfield in March 2015. A 4-2 comeback victory against crosstown rival
Manchester City the following month
saw a rare attacking demonstration
from Van Gaal's side and he leaves having lost just one of four Manchester derbies. He also won all four league
matches against Liverpool.
"It is not always the club that has
to fire (me)," Van Gaal said.
"Sometimes I do that by myself."
He had walked out of a news conference after four minutes, 58 seconds
in the build-up to the Stoke match,
after speaking of his frustration at Jose
Mourinho being linked with his job.
HUMBLED BY MK DONS
United was drawn to play
third-tier MK Dons on the
back of encouraging news, having confirmed the signing of
playmaker Angel di Maria from
Real Madrid in a 59.7 million
pound ($84 million) deal. But
MK Dons doused any excitement around the club by recording an emphatic 4-0 victory.
Mourinho has been heavily linked with the United job for
months and told The Associated Press
last week that he would sign a contract
with a new team by the end of next
month. The Portuguese coach is a serial winner, guiding Chelsea to three
Premier League titles in his two spells,
but his footballing philosophy and confrontational style has long been regarded as at odds with United traditions.
United has often dominated the
league and been European champion
three times, but the club has lost its way
since Ferguson retired.
Van Gaal arrived with his reputation on a high after leading the Dutch
to a third-place finish at the 2014 World
Cup in Brazil. He spoke of implementing his "philosophy" at Old Trafford,
which ended up translating as long periods of possession and a pressing game
without the ball. He achieved his first
aim of qualifying United for the
Champions League at the end of his first
season, after the club had spent a year
out of Europe's top competition.
United even led the Premier League
in the early part of this season, but the
squad always looked unbalanced —
short of strikers and real speed in midfield — and there were reports of
senior players being unhappy with Van
Gaal's restrictive style of play. United
drew 0-0 in five out of nine games in a
spell between late October and early
December and a soundtrack of "Attack,
attack, attack" was the backdrop of many
games at Old Trafford as supporters
became disgruntled.
Van Gaal's position started to look
perilous after United was eliminated from the Champions League in
December, and the team was winless in eight games between Nov
25 and Jan 2 Van Gaal raised the
prospect of quitting during
that sticky patch.
He lasted to the end
of the season, with
speculation about
Mourinho — his former assistant at
Barcelona — never
far away.
Mour inho's
arrival would
throw
into
doubt Ryan
Giggs' position at
United. The club
great has been
assistant manager under
Van Gaal and was often
regarded as the man likely to take over from the
Dutchman.
Instead, United
appears to have gone for
the experience and reputation of Mourinho, which
adds spice to the Premier
League with Pep Guardiola
to start a three-year contract at Manchester City
from next season.
Van Gaal will forever be known as the man who
oversaw an outlay of $375 million on new signings over
two seasons without ostensibly improving his squad.
Expensive signings like Angel Di Maria ($99 million), Memphis Depay ($48 million), Morgan
Schneiderlin ($39 million) and Bastian Schweinsteiger
($23 million) have disappointed or failed to adapt to
Van Gaal's rigid system. Di Maria is a genuine worldclass player who was a star at Real Madrid and has gone
on to be a key player at Paris Saint-Germain. How he
was wasted by Van Gaal.
Despite Van Gaal's heavy spending, he managed to
leave himself an unbalanced squad lacking in strikers
and creative attacking midfielders. Daley Blind has
played as an emergency center back for most the season and he cannot settle on regular fullbacks.
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United's end-of-season scoring stats make grim
reading for Van Gaal. The 49 goals netted in the league
is United's lowest return in Premier League history, and
never previously has the team failed to score in 10 games
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Meanwhile, United went into halftime drawing 00 in 24 of its games this season. And its players played
more backward passes than any other team in the
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Some would say his tactics were a demonstration of
"total football" long favored by the Dutch. Many more
likely would say they were the result of muddled thinking. What proved to be his last match — the FA Cup
final — provides an example. Ashley Young, a wide midfielder, came on as a second-half substitute and played
as a lone striker. By the end of the match, Young was
playing at left back and United also had a center forward in deep midfield (Wayne Rooney).
In one of United's most significant matches this season, against Wolfsburg in UCL in December, Van Gaal
ended the game with two young full backs (Varela and
Borthwick-Jackson) and a 21-year-old Nick Powell whose
last match for United came 18 months previously in the
League Cup. United lost 3-2 and was eliminated. Van
Gaal mostly played playmaker Juan Mata out wide, and
often played two holding midfielders in home games.
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Van Gaal's one saving grace has been his adherence
to United's traditions of bringing academy graduates
into the first team.
Some of them might have been forced on him
because of injuries — striker Marcus Rashford springs
to mind — but he hasn't been afraid to use young players and decided against more splurges in the transfer market in the January windows. The club's pathway for youth
remains open, and youngsters coming through will see
how the likes of Rashford, Jesse Lingard, Cameron
Borthwick-Jackson and Timothy Fosu-Mensah have
established themselves as regular squad members.
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afael Nadal is back doing what he
does best: Demolishing opponents on the red clay of Roland
Garros.
The nine-time champion's 6-1, 61, 6-1 victory against Sam Groth of
Australia added another notch to
Spanish player's stunning record
here, now at 71 wins, with just two
losses.
Groth, an Australian ranked 100
who has yet to make the second
round of theFrench in two visits,
lacked the variety of shots and power
to derail Nadal's pursuit of a 15th
major title.
"So bad, so bad," he muttered to
himself after netting a backhand as
Nadal raced through the first set. In
all, they were on court for 80 minutes.
Seeded fourth, Nadal lost last year
in the quarterfinals to Novak
Djokovic, ending a 39-match winning
streak at Roland Garros.
Andy Murray rallied to win from
two sets down for the ninth time,
advancing to the second round of the
French Open by beating qualifier
Radek Stepanek 3-6, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3, 75 on Tuesday.
In the women's draw, Australian
Open champion Angelique Kerber
lost in the first round.
Hampered by a left shoulder
injury, the third-seeded Kerber was
beaten by 58th-ranked Kiki Bertens
of the Netherlands 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.
Francesca Schiavone, the 2010
French Open champion, was also
eliminated, losing to Kristina
Mladenovic 6-2, 6-4.
Stepanek, the oldest
man in the field at 37, hit
57 winners in his suspenseful encounter on
Court Philippe Chatrier.
Murray was leading 4-2
in the fourth set when play
was suspended Monday
because of darkness.
He was twice two
points from losing
while serving and
trailing 5-4 in the
fifth.
But he held there,
then broke Stepanek and
served it out after wasting his
first match point with a
double-fault.
"It's unbelievable what he is
doing," Murray said. "At 37 years old,
coming out and fighting like that. I
don't expect to be doing that myself
at that age."
Murray had rallied from two sets
down twice before at Roland Garros,
against Richard Gasquet in the first
round six years ago and then to beat
Viktor Troicki in the fourth round in
2011.
With Aljaz Bedene, Kyle Edmund
and Murray through,
there are three British
male players in the
second round at
Roland Garros for
first time since 1975.
Even the normally intense Rafael
Nadal cracked a
mid-match smile in
appreciation of the
'tweener he produced Tuesday at the
French Open.
The bit of magic
came in the next-to-last
game of the nine-time
champion's lickety-split
6-1, 6-1, 6-1 victory over
Sam Groth.
Chasing a lob by
Groth, Nadal raced
to the baseline
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with
his back to the net, smacked a forehand between his legs. By then,
Groth was up at the net, but the ball
zipped by him for a down-the-line
passing winner.
Nadal grinned and raised both
arms overhead as the Court Suzanne
Lenglen crowd roared.
Also advancing in the men's
draw were seventh-seeded Tomas
Berdych, No 13 Dominic Thiem, No.
15 John Isner and No. 20 Bernard
Tomic.
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Kerber received treatment on
her shoulder during a changeover as
she trailed 3-0 in the deciding set. The
left-handed Kerber then briefly
left the court and returned to
win her service game but
could not break back and lost
the match.
Kerber arrived in Paris on
the back of early losses in both
Madrid and Rome. Last week, she
pulled out of the Nuremberg tournament because of her shoulder injury.
"It's getting worse and worse, but
I hope it's not too bad," Kerber said.
It was the second time in three years
that the Australian Open women's
champion lost in the first round at
Roland Garros - the same thing happened to Li Na in 2014. Chris O'Neil
(1978), Barbara Jordan (1979) and
Lindsey Davenport (2000) are the
other reigning Australian Open champions who lost in the opening round on
the Parisian clay.
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ovak Djokovic treated the
Roland Garros crowd with
some great tennis shots on
Tuesday. His charm offensive
continued after the match.
Interviewed on court by
former Wimbledon champion
Marion Bartoli, the top-ranked
Serb pleased the fans on Court
Philippe Chatrier with a few
words in French.
Djokovic is craving a career
Grand Slam at the French
Open after losing in the final
three times over the past four
years. A fans' favorite in
Paris, he has dramatically improved his level of
French in recent years.
"These two weeks
might be the most
important in the whole
season (for me)," Djokovic
said after defeating 95thranked Yen-hsun Lu of Taiwan
6-4, 6-1, 6-1.
Djokovic was in complete
control, broke his opponent
seven times, and closed the
match with a drop shot. He
joined his main rivals Rafael
Nadal and Andy Murray in the
second round.
Meanwhile, Venus Williams
avoided a second consecutive
first-round Grand Slam loss and a second consecutive first-
round French Open loss.
The
ninth-seeded
American needed nearly 2
hours to get past 82nd-ranked
Anett Kontaveit of Estonia 76 (5), 7-6 (4) on Court 1 at
Roland Garros on Tuesday.
Less than a month shy of
her 36th birthday, Williams is
the oldest woman in the tournament. She is a seven-time
Grand Slam champion, but she
dropped her opening match at
the Australian Open in January,
and also exited in the first
round at the French Open in
2013 and 2015. Williams hasn't been past the second round
in Paris since reaching the
fourth round in 2010.