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in the national Capital has
become an obstacle to Delhi
Power Department’s commitment to provide uninterrupted
electricity supply to the city. The
Environment and Forest
Department of the Delhi
Government recently issued
notices to Delhi Transco
Limited (DTL) against trimming or pruning of tree branches, saying it was an offence to
cut/prune trees in the Capital.
Following the notices,
Delhi Power Secretary Sukesh
Kumar Jain has sent a letter to
Environment and Forest
Secretary SM Ali pointing out
that proactive action initiated
by the DTL to trim the tree
branches is to restrict their
growth to prevent system faults,
fire and transient tripping.
Saying that DTL is the
electrical transmission utility of
the Delhi Government and is
responsible for the smooth
operation and maintenance of
the Extra High Voltage (EHV)
transmission network of the
Capital region, Jain has urged
his counterpart in Forest
Department to give permission
for trimming of trees in the
right-of-way (ROW)/ underneath/ near
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ith just four days to go for
the crucial Nuclear
Suppliers Group (NSG) meet in
Seoul, where India’s application
for the membership in the
elite grouping will be considered, New Delhi has increased
its diplomatic efforts to secure
support from the 48-member
countries. In a bid to secure
Chinese support, the Foreign
Secretary spent the last two
days of the week in Beijing to
convince them to look at India’s
credentials and track record in
the nuclear sector before
opposing its candidature on
technical points.
External Affairs Minister
Sushma Swaraj on Sunday hinted at a consensus building in
India’s favour and the hope that
the NSG membership may finally come its way. Speaking at her
annual Press conference,
Sushma clarified that China is
not opposed to India’s NSG
membership bid, but is only
talking about the criteria and
procedures to be adopted for it.
She added India was hopeful
China will back India at the NSG
meeting on June 24 in Seoul.
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insisted India meet the essen- basis of merit. While talking wants to be part of the deci- other NSG members to support
tial clause of signing the Non- about India’s credentials, the FS sion-making in the elite group its bid. However, a number of
Proliferation Treaty before told Chinese authorities that the which is why membership is countries — including China,
seeking NSG membership. world should see what India crucial. “The difference is same Turkey, South Africa, Ireland
China is also backing Pakistan has done since the 2008 waiv- as like sitting out of a room and and New Zealand — are
in the NSG.
er,” she added.
being in a room on the dis- believed to have raised a red
On this, Sushma said
Sushma said India was cussion table. Despite the 2008 flag. Prime Minister Narendra
instead of talking about criteria hopeful of convincing China to waiver, we are sitting out. We Modi travelled to Switzerland
with respect to India’s bid, its give its backing in the 48-nation are engaged with NSG for the and Mexico recently to secure
track record and credentials grouping. Though India already last 12 years and for the last five their support. “I have myself
should be discussed. On has a NSG waiver given in 2008 years, there is talk about our spoken to 23 countries out of
Pakistan’s application, Sushma exempting it from the NSG’s membership with NSG,” which two or three had some
said India being a non-member rules governing civilian nuclear Sushma said.
queries which we tried to
of the NSG cannot comment on trade, the Government has
She added India plans to address. It seems a consensus
its entry and its role. “We will invested a lot of diplomatic cap- have 40 per cent of its energy is building and we hope to get
not oppose entry of any nation ital to secure the membership. requirement from non-fossil the NSG membership this
to the NSG. We think that the
She said India so far has fuels out of which one-third year,” the Minister said while
application of each country been watching the develop- will be nuclear, NSG member- hoping to cross the Great
should be considered on the ments from outside, but now it ship is crucial for India’s ener- Chinese Wall too.
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hile terming attacks on
Hindu minorities in
Bangladesh as unfortunate and
worrisome, External Affairs
Minister Sushma Swaraj
expressed satisfaction over the
crackdown by the Sheikh
Hasina Government on the
perpetrators.
Responding to a question
on attacks on Hindus in
Bangladesh by Islamic fundamentalists, Sushma said Prime
Minister Hasina is taking
strong steps, and making all
efforts to secure its citizens,
including those in minority.
“More than 3,000 arrests have
been made during the crackdown on terrorism. This is not
a small thing,” the Minister
said. She also lauded
Bangladesh’s effort to drive out
terrorists.
In this context, Sushma
welcomed the Fatwa issued by
the Bangladeshi Islamic clerics
terming terrorism as “haram”
and asking people to desist
from engaging in such violent
activities.
“Such a Fatwa, signed by
one lakh Islamic clerics, is a big
thing for us,” Sushma said.
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Haqqani Network founder
Jalaluddin Haqqani, Al-Qaeda
in the Indian Subcontinent
leader Asim Umar and slain
Afghan Taliban chief Mullah
Akhtar Mansoor, who was
killed in a US drone strike last
month, were among alumni of
the seminary.
When asked about such a
big chunk of financial assistance to a single seminary,
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cuilong. But soon seaweeds may also become our
culinary delights due to their
high nutritional value and easy
processing. In the first-ever
pilot project in the country, a
seaweed, commonly called
thread algae, found in abundance in Sunderban delta
region, is being used to make
bread, cookies and ice cream.
This is part of a climate
change project undertaken by
the Council of Scientific
Industrial Research (CSIR)
aimed at generation of alternative livelihood for the coastal
dwellers.
“Sunderban is a red alert
zone of climate change. Its
impacts are manifested by sudden bursts of cyclones or tidal
surge, erosion of land surface,
erratic rainfall among others,
whose intensity as well as fre-
quency are on the rise,” says Dr
J Sundaresan, lead scientist
and coordinator of the CSIR
Project called Vulnerability
Assessment and development
of Adaptation strategies for
Climate Change impact with
special reference to coasts and
Island ecosystems of India
(VACCIN).
The purpose of the project
is to help the coastal dwelling
communities come up with
measures of mitigation and
adaptation to climate change
with stress on improving/ generating sustainable solutions for
livelihood, he adds.
In Sunderban, thread algae
(Enteromorpha intestinalis) is
being used as a step in this
direction, says Dr Abhijit Mitra,
who is heading the project here.
Rich in anti-oxidants, minerals
and proteins, these seaweeds
mixed with the most widely
consumed bakery products such
as bread and biscuits/cookies or
ice cream, can help common
Recently, the priest of
Ramakrishna Mission got a
threatening letter from a terrorist group claiming allegiance
to the Islamic State, asking
him to stop preaching his religion in the country.
India has strongly taken
this up with the Bangladeshi
Government, which along with
the Ramakrishna Mission has
also beefed up security around
the Dhakeshwari Temple.
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Ministers and inducting 13 new faces that included
half-a-dozen wards of powerful Congress leaders.
Karnataka is the last bastion of the Congress and
the 2018 Assembly polls are crucial for the party. In
the reshuffle, the Chief Minister has tried to balance
equations of caste and region.
However, the reshuffle brought out on the streets
followers of the dropped Ministers, who include a Dalit
leader from Mysuru V Srinivasa Prasad, MH
Ambareesh, a Vokkaliga face from Mandya, and
Qamarul Islam, a Muslim leader from north Karnataka.
Siddaramaiah had recently met Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi to convince her about
his decision to drop non-performing Ministers and
to seek a free hand to perform a long-pending surgery
of his Cabinet. After BS Yeddyurappa assumed office
as State BJP chief, it is must for the Congress to
strengthen the party to take on the BJP.
Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala administered
the oath to newly-inducted members at the lawns of
Raj Bhavan.
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Peshawar: Pakistan’s KhyberPakhtunkhwa Government has
allocated Rs 300 million in its
budget to a madrasa known as
the ‘University of Jehad’ that
has top Afghan Taliban leaders
among its alumni, including its
former chief Mullah Omar.
“I am proudly announcing
that Darul Uloom Haqqania,
Nowshera will get Rs 300 million to meet its annual expenditures,” Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
Minister Shah Farman told the
Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa
Assembly this week.
He said the Imran Khanled Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf
(PTI) Government in KhyberPakhtunkhwa was not raiding
and targeting religious institutions but has been cooperating
and providing financial assistance to it.
The madrasa in Akora
Khattak in Nowshera district of
the province is known for having several top Afghan Taliban
leaders among its alumni,
including former Taliban chief
Mullah Omar who received an
honorary doctorate from the
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deficiencies, he says.
Dr Mitra is an expert on
oceanography from the
Department of Marine Science,
University of Calcutta, Kolkata.
He is being assisted by
researchers, Dr Debabrata
Bera, Dr Sufia Zaman and
Prosenjit Pramanick. The team
diligently collects samples of
the seaweed from the remote
islands, while sensitising local
communities on their importance and means of extraction.
Awareness campaigns have
been conducted in at least six
villages in this regard.
The seaweed mass is
extracted in steam. It is enough
for the extract to drip out of the
seaweed, when it is bundled
and tied up to a cloth suspended over steam. The green
extract that starts pouring out,
is then collected, says
Pramanick. “We could not opt
for expensive, hi-tech means,
keeping in mind the condition
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communities,” he adds.
This seaweed extract in its
powder form is henceforth
mixed with the dough of cookies/ biscuits/ bread, to get the
nutrient enriched product.
Similarly for ice creams too,
seaweeds can be an excellent
value addition, to reduce nutritional deficiencies caused by
sugar, artificial flavours and
make it rich in wide range of
constituents as minerals (iron
and calcium), protein (with all
essential amino acids), vitamins
and fiber. Efforts are on to link
the villages to the bakery and
ice cream companies, for sustainable income generation for
the beneficiaries.
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New Delhi: A day after the
Ministry of External Affairs
said Vijay Mallya was not on
the list of invitees for a book
launch event in London that
was attended by Indian High
Commissioner Navtej Sarna,
the liqour baron said he was
not a “gatecrasher”.
“I am not a gatecrasher and
will never be... never gatecrashed in my life,” Mallya
posted on Twitter.
Mallya’s presence at the
London School of Economics
(LSE) event for the release of a
book by author Suhel Seth
and journalist Sunny Sen
sparked off a controversy as the
liquor baron has been declared
a “proclaimed offender” by a
Mumbai court.
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not only the aspirants but
also officials of the Delhi
University on their toes. This
rush is not going to settle any
time soon as the varsity’s registration process for the admission to undergraduate courses
for 2016-17 academic session
has been extended till June 22.
One of the highly rated admission processes across the country, the possibility of DU
admissions to conclude can be
called only by July-end. Across
its 64 colleges, there are around
54,000 seats and the university has already received over
three lakh applications including 2,31,596 paid applications.
The university had tried to
increase the seats by introducing more courses but the
University Grants Commission
(UGC) did not approve them,
according to the DU officials.
“Some 20 colleges applied
for around 40 new courses
which could have brought the
possibilities of adding more
seats to the undergraduate
courses. The university had
held long discussion and
cleared these courses in both
Academic Council and
Executive Council but the
UGC did not approve them,”
DU Admission Committee
member, Nachiketa Singh told
The Pioneer.
He said the UGC instead
asked the colleges, who had
written appealed to it for
approval of the courses, to
start them as “self funded”
courses, which the university
refused.
While university has 77
colleges in total, the 13 are technical and science instititutes
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be released on June 30. “After
every cut-off list is released, the
students would get two days to
get to the colleges and enroll for
the courses. The third day
would be a break and then next
list would be followed until the
last (fifth) cut-off list. After this,
colleges will inform the university about the vacancy of
seats and the university will
issue a new schedule for the
registration and the process
would close on August 16,”
Singh explained.
The university has not
decided yet whether the registration for the vacant seats
would be centralised or directly to colleges. It is also pertinent
to mention that the colleges
would not be allowed to do any
admission after August 16,
even if there are any vacant
seats remaining.
“The students with less
percentage should keep an eye
on the cut-offs and vacancy so
that they grab a seat in any colleges at the earliest,” added
Singh.
There are no mid-term
admissions to Delhi University
colleges. However, students
can migrate from colleges within the university after second
semester.
The freshers would join the
colleges for orientation and
classes from July 20.
For admission to Sports
and Extra Curricular Activities,
the candidates must keep up
with the university website for
the announcement of dates
and venue.
“The dates and venue for
ECA and Sports category
admission
would
be
announced any time this week.
Candidates must watch out
for this,”said a DU official.
The university, after the
High Court order has made the
admission process through
ECA and Sports category also
centralised. This year, the varsity would mark some colleges, with infrastructure of
particular sports and activity as
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ing the crop, gold worth
C9 lakh seized from
smugglers has mysteriously
disappeared from Customs
vault at Indira Gandhi
International Airport (IGIA).
Alarmed over the development, authorities have filed an
FIR with Delhi Police. The
case was registered on the
complaint of Customs officials
who said two gold chains and
bangles, together weighing
298 gms, valued at about
C8.83 lakh, have been replaced
with yellow-coloured nonprecious metal.
The incident came to light
when packets containing 1.27 kg
gold, including the stolen gold
chains and bangles, duly sealed
at the instance of a court, were
opened by the Customs officials
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which are not part of the undergraduate admission process.
“We are concerned about
60 odd colleges, regular, which
offer only 54,000 seats.”
This is the first time the
university made its admission
process completely online and
instead of the unending 12 or
more cut-off lists, which would
go on for a period of month and
a half earlier, it (university)
decided to release only five cutoff lists after which the colleges
are free to admit candidates to
the vacant seats directly.
“This decision was taken so
that the time wasted in the
process of getting separate data
from colleges and then tallying
it for issuing the cut off lists
should be saved. As the university has strictly asked the
colleges to upload all the information online, the admissions
after the fifth cut off list would
be transparent,”Singh who
teaches at the Sri Guru Teg
Bahadur Khalsa College, said.
The first cut-off list would
mittee as part of inventorisation
proceedings.
“It appears that the contents — Two gold chains of primary gold total weighing 220
gms and four bangles of primary gold total weighing 78
gms were replaced with one
rectangular slab (cuboid) of yellow metal (non-precious
metal), which was not made of
gold,” reads the FIR.
The FIR under Section
409 for criminal breach of
trust by public servant and
120B (criminal conspiracy)
was registered against
unknown persons on June 15
at the IGIA police station.
“Police prima facie suspect it as
an insider’s job but nothing can
be ruled out as the matter is
under investigation,” a senior
official said.
It is not for the first time
that gold has gone missing
from the Customs vault. Over
23 kgs of gold worth more than
C6 crore had earlier gone missing from the customs warehouse, officials have said in
response to an RTI query filed
by PTI.
In June last year, the customs officials had lodged an
FIR in connection with disappearance of 11 kg of gold
worth C2.92 crore from its
vault. The gold was seized in
five incidents from passengers
at the international airport.
In most of these cases,
gold was replaced with yellowcolour non-precious metal.
Another case was registered in
2014 to probe similar instances
of theft. Theft of gold from five
packets had been reported to
the police on January 16, 20,
April 30 and December 23,
2014 in which gold worth
lakhs of rupees was replaced
by a yellow metal. “All these
cases, including the latest one,
are identical in nature,” as per
the FIR.
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the cluster colleges where trials and fitness tests would be
conducted.
The minority colleges
including St. Stephen’s College
and Jesus and Mary Colleges
are yet to agree for the centralised trial and fitness tests for
the admission. The university
has recently planned to write to
the colleges insisting them to
abide by the court ruling.
While the two Christian
minority colleges joined the
centralised registration process
by having a parallel application
process, this year, the three Sikh
minority colleges were given a
free hand to have their own
merit lists like the above two
colleges.
ADVICE TO ASPIRANTS
While the competition is
high in the Delhi University
colleges, the experts suggest
that students should not feel
disheartened and explore other
options.
“Students should not feel
disheartened, because even if
students have scored above 90
percent in many cases they
cannot get the college of their
choice. It is difficult to accommodate three lakh students in
54,000 seats. Candidates must
not lose good courses, thus we
advice them to choose course
over college because if they go
just for the college brand, it will
not help them in the future.
They must understand, ultimately it is the university’s
degree and not the college so
why to ruin an opportunity of
studying a good course just
because it is not in the top most
colleges,”one of officials of the
university said.
Delhi University has two
other platforms for students
with less percentages. One is
the School of Open Learning
(SOL) and another is NonCollegiate Women’s Education
Board (NCWEB). Many students join this parallel admission options of the university.
“We are concerned about
those students who score below
80 per cent. At SOL, we have
more than two lakh students.
Whoever qualifies the eligibility criteria at SOL would be
enrolled as there is no upper
limit. Same is in the NCWEB,
any woman candidate meeting
the eligibility criteria, could
enroll,” said an official of the
Dean Student’s Welfare.
It offers two undergraduate
courses — BA Programme and
Bcom. NCWEB, which admits
only female students from
Delhi, has a total of 6,084
seats.
The first cut off list will be
released on July 12 and admissions under this will continue
for the next three days after
which a second cut-off will be
released on July 15. A total of
five cut-off lists will be released.
There are 13 DU colleges that
function as teaching centres for
NCWEB, including Hansraj
College and Jesus and Mary
College. The classes are conducted only on Sundays.
NO CONFUSION
A lot of queries have left
the DU officials baffled. “It is
almost the end of the registration process and recently an
aspirant with her parents
reached the university to ask
about the entrance examination
dates for undergraduate courses. I was shocked. I told them
there are no entrance exams in
the courses you have opted for,”
the official apprised.
He said, “All the students
should
have
gone
carefully...There is no entrance
test for DU undergraduate
courses. Do not get confused.
Entrance tests is only for BA
(Honours) Multimedia and
Mass Communication. Other
entrances are for technical
courses including BMS, B.EI.
ED, BBA and FIA which would
be followed with the merit list
and interview. The final round
would be counselling and
accordingly the selected candidates would be given one of
the five colleges which offer
these courses.”
The experts also suggest
that all the aspirants must carefully read the prospectus, bulletin of information of the university and college. “Since the
days to secure a seat after the
cut-off is just two days, candidates must keep every required
document handy while
approaching the college. Most
importantly, they should be
very careful while filling up the
online registration form
because if there are errors, it
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receiving adequate medW
ical attention, the Mohalla clinics launched by the Arvind
Kejriwal Government have
brought an immense relief to
the poor and the needy people.
At present there are about 100
operational clinics across the
national capital, offering primary healthcare like basic consultation, tests and medicines.
The Chief Minister had
recently declared to open over
1,000 such clinics all over the city.
Mohalla Clinics were promised
by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in
their election manifesto.
These clinics are located at
buildings
rented
by
Government and doctors are
hired on contract basis. The
Raghubir Nagar Mohalla clinic, located in West Delhi operates from 9 am to 1 pm and
caters to around 100 patients
daily, mostly from the lower
income group. The clinic is a
humble space that houses a
nurse, a doctor and assistant
staff. It also consists of a waiting area for patients
According to one of the staff
members, “medical facilities can
be availed for free. The clinic
stocks about 80 different types
of medicines including ones for
hypertension, fever, diabetes
etc. Routine tests and blood
sugar levels can also be checked.”
The clinic although located in dingy and decrepit lanes,
LOOK BEYOND DU
Delhi has three Central
universities including Jamia
Milia Islamia, Delhi University
and Jawaharlal Nehru
University, and two state-run
varsities including Ambedkar
University and Guru Gobind
Singh Indraprastha University.
There are also several private
universities in the National
Capital Region which include
the pricey varsities like OP
Jindal Global University,
Ashoka University, Shiv Nadar
University, Sharda University
and Amity University.
“My mind was conditioned
to study hard and meet the cutoffs of the DU colleges but once
I got my marks and I made some
visits to the university. I felt, I
need more than this and there
was no need for the maddening
competition that is instilled in us.
I approached my parents to visit
one of the private university and
liked one of the courses. Their
approach is holistic and exposure
is also very good for students to
work. I am happy,”said Daniya
Ameen (name changed), one of
the students.
There are also several
Government universities in
Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.
Students from Delhi or even
the students from neighbouring States can explore these
options.
“To look beyond brand
name is a trend which will take
time to change but the range
of options have opened to
window of hope. May in down
the line, we would see that
change for good,”said a DU
professor.
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the Sikh General Baba Banda
Singh Bahadur was organised
in the heart of Delhi by the
Delhi Government .
On the occasion of the 300th
year of martyrdom of the great
Sikh General Baba Banda Singh
Bahadur, a light and sound show
was arranged by the Punjabi
Academy, an organisation of
Delhi Government under the
Department of Art, Culture and
Language, on Saturday, 18th
June 2016, in the Central Park,
Rajeev Chowk (Connaught
Place). The commemorative programme was attended by CM
Arvind Kejriwal along with the
MLA’s Somanth Bharti (Malviya
Nagar), Jarnail Singh (Rajouri
Garden), Jagdeep Singh (Hari
Nagar), Rajesh Rishi (Janak Puri),
Jarnail Singh (Tilak Nagar).
Addressing the audience,
Kejriwal said, “Heroes like
Baba Banda Singh Bahadur
are a source of inspiration for
the next generation. Knowing
the lives of such great personalities we come to know how to
stand against injustice and
fight against the atrocities of the
oppressive rulers.”
The CM cited the example
of the rule of Baba Banda Singh
Bahadur as good governance,
where he was committed to the
ideals of justice and equality,
and there was a general sense of
religious and political freedom
under his rule.
Kanchan Bhupal, Swati
Sachdeva, Baljit Singh and
Jaswant Singh Arora members
of governing council made
their efforts to make the pro-
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has a well maintained infrastructure with adequate lighting and an air conditioner.
The process to avail treatment
is simple however quite slow
owing to the huge turn over of
patients. The receipts only contain names which are then
forwarded to the assistant staff;
however the whole process is
done on papers and not computerised which many a time
leads to confusion and chaos.
“This is my third visit to the
clinic and I am satisfied with the
service. But, sometimes it gets
overcrowded and is left agitated” said Sumitra Devi, a diabetic patient. Jubail, another
resident of the locality, says that
they get medicines they need
for free from the clinic. “The
Moholla clinic really helped in
my breathing problem in a
short amount of time. It has also
made a massive impact to the
area”, she adds.
The Mohalla clinics have
the potential of becoming a
game changer for healthcare in
India said a doctor posted at
the clinic. However, some concerns need to be addressed.
Firstly, the level of sanitation
and hygiene needs to be maintained throughout. Secondly,
the waiting area needs to be
allotted more space, the doctor said.
would not be processed further
which will give no further
opportunity to the candidates,”
he further added.
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annually, is all set for a revamp
with the authorities planning to
give it a forest-like atmosphere. “We are planning to
build an aquarium, butterfly
park, food court and visitors’
centre as part of the Master
Plan 2031. All the progressive
measures will be completed by
2031 and the work has begun,”
Riyaz Khan, zoo curator said.
The official said many exotic
trees will be planted to attract
migratory birds.
“We have around 31
species of mammals, birds
and reptiles. With the exotic
trees, we expect more bird
species to reach here, especially during the migratory
season,” he said. Khan said the
zoo has also decided against
cutting down dead trees to
make way for nesting.
“The whole idea behind
the revamp is to give the place
a forest-like atmosphere. All
the concrete structures and
cages will be covered with
trees and other plantation so
that the animals don’t feel they
are in a cage.
“The Centre has promised
to provide us Quick Response
Teams, additional sign boards
and private security guards,” he
said. The curator said efforts
are on to convert the zoo into
an education and research platform. On being asked about
bringing in more wild animals to the park, the zoo
official said no such proposal
is under consideration at
the moment. The zoo does
not have giraffes and zebras.
It is also in need of a female
rhinoceros and a male
chimpanzee.
gram a great success. Sarbhjot
Singh Grover member of
Governing Council Punjabi
Academy achored the programme in a good way.
Gurbhej Singh Guraya,
Secretary, Punjabi Academy
stressed upon the need of such
programs to inculcate the feeling of social justice and equality in the society.
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Modi who will lead the
country in performing ancient
Indian physical exercise on
International Yoga day on June
21 at Chandigarh, thanked
nations across the globe for
their enthusiasm and support
to celebrate the discipline.
In a video posted on his
Twitter account on Sunday, the
Prime Minister asserted that
when he had outlined a vision
for an International Yoga Day
in September 2014 at the
United Nations General
Assembly, he never anticipated the enormous enthusiasm
for the occasion from all corners of the world.
“The reverberations of the
discipline found a natural
home at the UN Headquarters
in New York where the journey
began. I was fortunate to celebrate the event along with
30,000 of my fellow citizens
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and foreign guests in New
Delhi.
“As so many of you have
already discovered, yoga is
much more than physical exercise. It enables us to access a
new dimension of our self.
Even while providing a holistic approach to preventive
health care, yoga helps us to
restore balance and furnishes
us with a much need sense of
clarity,” the Prime Minister
said.
Asserting that India,
through yoga, seeks completeness and at the same time a
oneness with the worlds, Prime
Minister said all everyone
across the world are ambassadors of Yoga, taking India’s
message out to the world.
“I thank you for your commitment and welcome you as sister’s and brother of India’s family,” he added. While Modi will
be a role model for thousands at
Chandigarh on the D-day, as
many as 57 Union Ministers will
spread across the country for the
2nd International Yoga Day
programmes.
According to sources, as
many 57 ministers will be
leading various programmes
hosted by the Government
across the country during the
mega event. Ten of them will
concentrate in poll-bound
Uttar Pradesh to participate in
these events.
June 21 was declared as the
International Day of Yoga by
the United Nations General
Assembly in December 2014.
Over 190 countries, including
40 Islamic nations, supported
the move to have a special day
for yoga.
Following this, the first
International Yoga Day was
observed across the world on
June 21 last year with Modi
performing yoga along with
36,000 people at the Delhi’s
historic Rajpath.
The 57 Ministers who have
been assigned the task of leading this year’s programme
include Home Minister
Rajnath Singh, Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley, Defence
Minister Manohar Parrikar
and HRD Minister Smriti
Irani, among others.
Significantly, some 10
Ministers including Singh,
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Nirmala
Sitharaman and Maneka
Gandhi have been lined up for
poll-bound Uttar Pradesh to
lead these programmes.
The series of programmes
this year include mass yoga
events, workshops and
seminars.
Singh and Jaitley have been
assigned the task of leading the
2nd IYD programmes in
Lucknow and Mumbai
respectively.
Railway Minister Suresh
Prabhu has been assigned to
lead a programme in
Vijaywada in Andhra Pradesh,
while Defence Minister
Manohar Parrikar is expected
to participate in Kanpur.
Urban Development
Minister M Venkaiah Naidu is
likely to participate in a programme in the national capital while Power Minister
Piyush Goyal is slated to perform Yoga with others in
Raipur. Health Minister JP
Nadda has been assigned
Ahmedabad for the purpose.
As many as 10,000 people
will be participating in the celebrations in the national capital on June 21 in collaboration
with the Ministry of AYUSH
and the New Delhi Municipal
Council (NDMC).
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Minister Sushma Swaraj on
Sunday said that her Ministry
will seek extradition of former
IPL chairman Lalit Modi and
industrialist Vijay Mallya, both
in Britain, once it receives revised
requests from the Enforcement
Directorate (ED).
“As soon as extradition
request is received about these
two (Lalit Modi and Vijay Mally),
we will forward it,” she said at a
press conference here.
Sushma Swaraj’s respond
came in a reply to a question why
India is not getting support
from Britain on the extradition
of Modi and Mallya.
Mallya has fled India earlier this year with over C9,000
crore of outstanding dues to 18
Indian banks. A non-bailable
arrest warrant has been issued by
a Mumbai court against the
business tycoon.
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Health Ministry are having
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divergent views on usage of PET
(polyethylene terephthalate) for
pharmaceutical packaging.
While a panel in the Ministry
last month told the National
Green Tribunal (NGT) that
there is no conclusive evidence
to suggest its use can pose a
threat to human health, the second panel recommended ban
on its usage in the sector.
The panel, headed by former secretary of Biotechnology
Department MK Bhan, in a
report submitted to the NGT in
March said that the plastic
bottles made of PET are safe for
packaging medicines.
“The use of PET as a packaging material for pharmaceuticals can be practised safely
especially when the country has
a robust regulatory system in
place with clearly defined standards and requirements,” the
panel report said.
However, the Drug
Technical Advisory Board
(DTAB), a highest decision
making body on drug issues
under the Health Ministry in its
meeting last month has sought
prohibition on use of such
containers for packing of liquid
oral formulations for paediatric
use as well as formulations
meant for geriatrics, women in
reproductive age and pregnant
women following the tests
reports of National Test House
(NTH), Kolkata.
The debate on safety of
PET kicked off following an
Uttarakhand-based non-gov-
ernmental organisation
(NGO), Him Jagriti’s allegations that the PET bottles
leaked harmful substances,
including phthalates and heavy
metals into the substances
inside, thus posing a great
danger to peoples’ health. It has
also filed a petition before the
NGT urging to restrict the
sale of PET containers.
The expert committee was
set up by the Ministry to assess
the health and environmental
impact on the use of PET container for primary packaging of
drug formulations, following
the direction from NGT.
In September 29, 2014, the
Ministry had issued a notification seeking amendment to
Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940
to impose ban on plastic containers for oral formulation.
The notification was issued by
the ministry after an experts
committee and Drug Technical
Advisory Board, a statutory
board, deliberated the issue, following the representation from
the NGO.
However, Confederation
of Indian Pharmaceuticals
Industry (CIPI) has opposed
the proposed ban claiming
that the PET containers are
globally used for packing pharmaceutical formulations which
are meant for paediatric, female
and geriatric population.
“If PET bottles are prohibited, the industry will have no
option but to use the glass bottles that leach a very large list
of elements into water and
leaching is much higher as
compared to PET containers,"
said CIPI President PK Gupta.
he Delhi High Court has
quashed the detention of an
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IB officer in connection with a
case of gold smuggling at Goa
Airport in 2014, and ordered his
release, citing “unexplained
delay” in execution of the order
for detention.
A bench of justices GS
Sistani and Sangita Dhingra
Sehgal in its June 2 judgement
set aside the March, 2015 detention order issued by the
Conservation of Foreign
Exchange and Prevention of
Smuggling Activities (COFEPOSA) Unit on the ground that
there was “unexplained delay” in
execution of the order.
The officer was detained in
December 2015, nine months
after the detention order was
issued, and that too, when he
had surrendered before Goa
Police despite the fact that he was
working in the Subsidiary
Intelligence Bureau (SIB) at
Bhubaneshwar, the court noted
in its decision.
“Thus, in our view, the
order of detention is liable to be
quashed as there is unexplained
delay in execution of the
impugned detention order,” the
bench said.
Another reason cited by the
bench for quashing the decision
was that the officer was not supplied with the “relevant mechanism” to view the material considered by the authority prior to
issuing the detention order.
“In effect, it can safely be
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said that to form a subjective satisfaction, the detaining authority has relied on the CCTV
footage, and thus, the CCTV
footage in the 12 CDs are held
to be relied upon documents.
“Merely because the CDs
provided to the detenue along
with the show cause notice or he
was shown the CCTV footage at
the time of recording of the
statement under the Customs
Act, in our view cannot take the
place of providing the mechanism for viewing the CDs in
view of the settled law of the
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Bathinda: In Punjab ahead 2017
State Assembly polls, the BJP
stalwart and Union Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday
attacked the State Congress chief
Capt Amarinder Singh over his
family’s alleged foreign accounts,
while at the same time taking a
dig at Aam Aadmi Party saying
that it was more interested in creating controversies than running
the Government.
“Under the Modi govern-
ment, the country is firmly moving ahead on the path of development,” said Jaitley while claiming that the Congress was constantly “shrinking” across the
country. “This has happened for
the first time that the NDA has
340 seats in the Lok Sabha and
has government in 15 States
whereas the Congress has
shrunk to 44 seats in the Lok
Sabha and has its Government in
just six States,” he said.
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land. On this ground as well, in
our view, the order of detention
is liable to be quashed,” the court
said.
The order came on the petition filed by the wife of the
Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer
seeking quashing of the detention order.
As per the petition, the officer had initially joined the
Indian Navy as a sailor in July,
1993 and had retired in 2008.
Thereafter, he had joined the IB
and was posted at the Goa
Airport.
In July, 2014, when he was
on duty as wing in-charge in the
Immigration Department, four
persons were arrested on the
allegation of smuggling of 19.4
kg of gold.
On August 2, 2014, he was
summoned for an inquiry with
regard to the incident and had
denied any knowledge of the
case. Another summons was
issued to him asking for certain
documents such as his posting
order, but he informed the IO
that they were in possession of
the department.
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issue is back in spotlight
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ahead of the UP polls next year,
a book penned by a former IPS
officer has claimed that the
Ram temple was not demolished during the reign of Babar
but of Aurangzeb.
Quoting from old files
during British period, some
ancient Sanskrit texts and
reviews of archaeological excavation, the book has attempted to project that a Ram
Janmabhoomi temple did exist
in Ayodhya before a mosque
was built on it.
The book “Ayodhya
Revisited”, written by Kishore
Kunal, a former Gujarat cadre
IPS officer of 1972 batch, propounds a new thesis about the
period of the mosque’s construction and seeks to demolish earlier beliefs on the issue.
Kunal hails from Bihar
and is known there for his stint
as a police officer and later as
Administrator and President of
Bihar Board of Religious Trusts.
He was Officer on Special
Duty in Home Ministry and
officially associated with the
Ayodhya dispute in 1990
before the disputed structure
was razed to the ground. After
retirement, he was Vice
Chancellor of KSD Sanskrit
University Darbhanga.
Former Chief Justice of
India GB Patnaik has written
the foreword of the book in
which he says that the author
has given a “new dimension to
the history of Ayodhya” and
establishes several facts, which
are contrary to the common
beliefs and also the opinions of
several historians.
The book says the “demolition of the temple” did not
take place in 1528 AD (during
Babar’s regime) but in 1660 AD
when Fedai Khan was the
Governor of Aurangzeb in
Ayodhya.
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ILatehar
incidents, a minor girl from
who was confined and
physically abused for over 10
hours at Manika Police Station
in Latehar district by an
Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI)
around four days ago is
recovering slowly at RIMS to
narrate her ordeal.
The girl — belonging to
lower caste, was subjected to
cruel highhandedness by the
police officer during interrogation on a fake charge that too
without following the set
norms — now fears about her
future.
“I can never lead a normal
life. I have lost everything.
Those 10 hours inside the
thana were the most terrible
moments of my life. I was
asked dirty questions and
forced to accept the crime
which I had never committed,”
said, Nivedita Kumari (name
changed) on Sunday, while
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Transmission lines and electrical installations of DTL as
and when approached by
DTL.
“A large number of trees/
saplings have come up in the
ROW/underneath/ near these
transmission lines. During
storm and rainy season, the
tree branches have reached
the flashover zone of 4,00,000
Volts and 2,20,000 Volts line,
making it vulnerable to faults
and which can lead to major
fire in the area besides disruption of (power) supply to
a large part of the adjoining
area,” said the letter. It further
said it has been observed that
in many incidents persons
resting under the shade of
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Eight MLAs and 1 MLC
sworn in as Cabinet rank
Ministers, while 4 took oath as
Ministers of State at Raj Bhavan
in the presence of Chief
Minister Siddaramaiah.
The Ministers who faced
the axe are Qamarul Islam, S
Shivashankarappa, V Srinivasa
Prasad, MH Ambareesh, Vinay
Kumar Sorake, Satish Jarkiholi,
Baburao Chinchansoor,
Shivaraj Sangappa Tangadagi,
SR Patil, Manohar Tahasildhar,
K Abayachandra Jain, Dinesh
Gundu Rao, Kimmane
Ratnakar and PT Parameshwar
Naik.
The new Cabinet Ministers
are: Kogodu Timmappa
(Sagar), Ramesh Kumar
(Srinivaspura), Tanveer Sait
(Narasimharaja), HY Meti
(Bagalkot),
Basavaraj
those trees who were subjected to fault current of the
level of 20,000 to 40,000
Ampere got burnt and lost
their lives.
Trimming/pruning of
trees is to avoid any mishap to
human life, properties of
nearby residents and for
maintaining uninterrupted
power supply to the citizens of
Delhi as such tripping do
have potential to severely
affect power supply to large
areas, added the letter.
DTL has four 400 Kilovolt
and 34 220 Kilovolt of grid
substations spread across various locations in Delhi. These
grid sub-stations are interconnected with each other by
way of EHV transmission
lines and underground cable
links. The EHV network of
DTL comprises about 248
circuit Km of 400 KV and 580
circuit Km of 220 KV overhead transmission lines. Most
of these EHV lines installed
on transmission towers are
running in the National
Capital Region.
These lines had been laid
after due clearances from the
Central Electrical Authority
and other Government agencies to draw power from the
Northern Grid and from
Delhi’s own generating stations to cater to the load of
Delhi way back in the era of
the erstwhile DESU/ DVB.
Jain said, “A clear corridor/ right of way of 35 metres
is essential for those 220 KV
extra high voltage lines and of
Rayareddy (Yelburga), SS
Mallikarjun (Davangere
North), MR Seetharam, MLC
(Bengaluru city), Santosh Lad
(Kalagatagi) and Jarkiholi
Ramesh Laxmanrao (Gokak).
The Ministers of State are:
Priyanka Kharge (Chittapur),
Eshwara Khandre (Bhalki),
Pramod Madhwaraj (Udupi)
and Rudrappa Lavani (Haveri).
This is the first major
revamp of the Siddaramaiah
Government in Karnataka. The
exercise was supported by
Karnataka Pradesh Congress
Committee
chief
G
Parameshwara and Karnataka
in-charge general secretary
Digvijay Singh.
According to party sources,
Ministers who were non-performers and who were hit by
some controversy or the other
were shown the door. This
exercise was to inject “more
dynamic members” into the
Ministry.
Interestingly, the new
Ministers included as many as
six Ministers who are sons of
prominent Congress party
leaders and another a brother.
They are Priyank Kharge, son
of Congress Parliamentary
Party leader Mallikarjun
Kharge; SS Mallikarjun, son of
outgoing
Minister
Shivashankarappa; Pramod
Madhwaraj, son of senior party
leader Manorama Madhwaraj;
Tanvir Sait, son of late party
leader and former Minister
Aziz Sait; Ishwar Khandre, son
of prominent leader from Bidar
late Bheemanna Khandre and
Ramesh Jarkiholi, brother of
outgoing Minister Satish
Jarkiholi.
Kagodu Thimmappa tendered his resignation as the
Speaker of Legislative Assembly
and an order was immediately
passed by the Government
appointing Deputy Speaker
Shivashankar Reddy as Protem
Speaker of the Lower
House.
40 metres for 400 lines to
operate smoothly as laid
down in the India Electricity
Act.
The minimum vertical
and horizontal clearances
from the live conductors
(wires) of these tower lines as
per the provisions of the
Indian Electricity Rules, 1956,
Clause-80 (1) (2) and 82 are
5.4 metre and 3.7 metre for
220 KV and 07 metre and 5.3
metre for 400 KV respectively besides the ground clearance of 07 metre for 220 KV
and 8.8 metre for 440 KV and
the same have reduced to a
dangerous low level at many
places near these transmission
lines, making it prone to system faults, fire and transient
tripping.”
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Arang and Rajnandganon
(Shivnath) in the State, officials informed.
Notably, the Chhattisgarh
Road
Development
Corporation (CGRDC) which
will be executing the project.
It will also hire a Consultant
soon for conducting a roundthe-clock and week-long
‘Traffic Volume Count’ survey
at Arang and Kumhari Toll
Plazas falling on the proposed Expressway.
Notably, CGRDC has
already identified 61 different
projects for construction of
roads in the State.
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On spotting Mallya seated in the back row of the hall,
Indian High Commissioner
Navtej Sarna walked out of the
ceremony.
“I went for my friend -the author. Sat quietly with my
daughter and listened.
Headline news and unfounded speculation followed,” he
added.
“No evidence, No charge
sheet. Before claiming all this,
should I not be given a chance
to pursue my legal remedies?
Most unfair,” Mallya tweeted.
“What is happening to
me is unprecedented,” he
added.
Meanwhile, Minister for
external Affairs Sushma
Swaraj defended Indian High
Commissioner in UK Navtej
Sarna attending an book
launch event where Mallya
was also spotted in the audience. She said neither event
organiser London School of
Economics(LSE) nor the
Indian High Commission had
invited Mallya for the event
where a book by socialite
Suhel Seth was launched.
“If Suhel Seth invites
someone then the High
Commissioner did not know
that. There were two kinds of
invitation that were sent. The
first was for launch of book
and the other by the High
Commissioner for reception.
“The first invite was sent
by LSE. LSE has formally
written a letter to us and said
that they did not send invite
to him (Mallya) but it is also
true that there was an open
invitation too because they
(LSE) had to fill a hall of 400
people and students go on
vacation in summers. Hence,
through the open invite anyone could come,” she said.
Swaraj added that the
HC’s reception invite too did
not go to Mallya.
“There was no authorised
invite by LSE to him (Mallya)
nor any from the High
Commissioner. You also know
that as soon as the HC (Sarna)
saw that Mallya is present
there, he left in five minutes.
“I don’t understand then
why this is being made an
issue. When we see the invitees
list and the conduct of HC then
this issue does not remain,” she
said.
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Meanwhile,
Sushma
expressed hope for an early
completion of the Teesta water
sharing Treaty between India
and Bangladesh.
She said that since the
West Bengal Government is an
important stakeholder in this
matter we need internal political consensus on this and the
Union Government will now
begin consultations with the
State to bring it on board.
“West Bengal Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee too
wants good relations with
Bangladesh and she had even
invited Sheikh Hasina for her
swearing in-function. For the
last one year she was busy with
the State elections. Now that
she is relatively free, we will
begin our internal political
discussions,” Sushma said.
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Minister for Religious
Affairs Habibur Rehman said
that Chief Minister Pervez
Khattak had promised to
Haqqania madrassa’s administration financial assistance
of Rs 150 million which was
adjusted in the Auqaf fund
this year, the News
International reported.
“Darul Uloom Haqqania
is one of the oldest and largest
seminaries of Pakistan and it
deserves financial assistance,”
Rehman, who belongs to
Jamaat-i-Islami, was quoted
as saying by the paper.
Rehman said that Rs 150
million would be provided to
the madrassa in 2016-17
while the remaining amount
would be given to it next year.
Founded in 1947, the
Islamic seminary is currently headed by Maulana Sami ul
Haq, the leader of Jamiat
Ulema-e-Islam.
He also serves as the
chairman of the Difa-ePakistan Council, an umbrella coalition of more than 40
groups, including Hafeez
Saeed-led Jamat-ud-Dawa
(JuD) and the banned Sipahe-Sahaba.
Farman said that the
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
Government was providing
financial assistance to other
seminaries and mosques in
the province.
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Sushma Swaraj has said that
while the warmth and ease in
relationship between Prime
Ministers Narendra Modi and
Nawaz Sharif can help resolve
complex issues between the
two countries, India has made
it clear that terror and talks cannot go together.
Swaraj said that the NDA
Government was pursuing a
three-point formula vis-a-vis
Pakistan, which is to solve
every issue thorough talks,
involve no third party in bilateral engagements, impress
upon Pakistan that terror and
talks will not go hand-in-hand.
During her annual Press
conference on Sunday, Swaraj
said the relationship with
Pakistan is on a different platform under the Modi
Government as for the first
time Islamabad has come forward to help nab culprits of
Pathankot airbase terror attack.
“So far they have been in a
denial mode, but for the first
time PM Nawaz Sharif on his
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promised action. For the first
time an investigation team
came from Pakistan,” Swaraj
noted. She clarified Pakistan
has not refused to allow the
National Investigation Agency
team to visit that country to
probe the Pathankot attack
case but has only sought more
time to analyse the evidence it
has collected.
She clarified that the
Foreign Secretary-level talks
between the two countries have
not been called off. “After
Pathankot attack, there were
expectations from Government
and people that there should be
some concrete steps from their
side. This expectation is not
unreasonable. So we are waiting
for concrete steps from their
side,” Swaraj said while adding
there are forces which do not
want good relations between the
two PMs and better ties between
the two neighbours.
Swaraj also mentioned
India’s growing relationship
with the US, Russia and other
SAARC countries. Talking
about India-US relations, the
Minister said despite good
relations with the US, the
Centre is not compromising its
national interest nor moved
away from its policy towards
Non-Aligned Movement.
“While we are redefining
our partnership on one side,
wherever we find the US is
going against India’s interest we
are opposing it. Our growing
relations with the USA has not
impacted our relations with
Russia and China,” Swaraj
added.
Talking about terrorism,
Swaraj said India is working for
an early adoption of the longpending Comprehensive
Convention on International
Terrorism (CCIT). The India
backed draft CCIT is held up
on over disagreement on definition of word terrorist.
However, Swaraj said, several
countries — including those in
the Gulf region — have recognised the need for having a uniform approach to dealing with
terrorists.
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African nations last week, President Pranab Mukherjee
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laughed off the hectic schedule. Interacting with the accompanying media onboard the special aircraft while returning
to New Delhi, he asked if scribes were comfortable during the
trip. The President then remarked the visit was “pitching tent
here one day and pitching it somewhere else the next day.”
Journos and his staff had a good laugh.
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Day, our embassies are also preparing for the event. These
include Indian embassies at Ghana and Namibia, the two
nationals President Pranab Mukherjee visited last week. Yoga
instructor of Indian High Commission in Ghana Shailendra
Dubey has a class of more than 60 trainees including foreign
diplomats and Indian community. Same is the case with
Sandeep Wankhede, who has already trained the first batch
of Namibian police in Yoga. Both the instructors are now busy
preparing for the International Yoga Day.
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oon after BJP’s National Executive meeting at Allahabad
ended on June 13, the posters and poles around the venue
vanished in a jiffy. An army of urchins descended on the place
and took control of the areas. They took away most of the
posters, banners and wooden framework, iron pipes and ‘whatever else that held the leaders high in the sky. Most of the ‘leaders’, barring those perched at ‘safer heights’ from the ground,
vanished minutes after the meet. “Goonda Raj”, someone
quipped.
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in Iraq and Afghanistan, and problems of diaspora,
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External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj could not help mentioning the strange request made to her on social media regarding repair of refrigerator. “I may not have been able to fix someone’s refrigerator, but I am there for always there for the overseas Indians,” Swaraj said. The Minister had encountered this
strange request on Twitter seeking help to get a fridge repaired.
Swaraj had responded to him by saying that she was too busy
helping humans in distress.
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said large scale technological
upgradation would be done in
the border security areas. The
pilot projects will be implemented in the International
Borders of Gujarat, Punjab,
West Bengal and Tripura. Singh
was addressing Border Security
Force (BSF) jawans in Nadabet
in Gujarat.
“Till now our borders have
remained secure because of the
efforts of our jawans. Now we
are introducing technology on
a large scale to secure our borders using radar, laser, CCTV,
sensor and many such things,”
Singh said addressing BSF
jawans at an event here near
Pakistan border.
The project, called
“Comprehensive Integrated
Border Management System”
envisages securing borders with
latest technology to help BSF
guard the frontiers. “We have
already initiated pilot projects
in the States like Gujarat, West
Bengal, Punjab and Tripura,” he
said.
Asked about increasing
infiltration bids along the
Jammu and Kashmir border,
Singh said, “Our jawans have
also been killing terrorists in
more numbers than before”
and “successful infiltration”
has decreased by 38 to 50 per
cent in the last two years.
Singh was speaking at a programme where a Surat-based
diamond firm provided C51,000
each to the family members of
21 BSF jawans from Gujarat,
killed in the line of duty at various places in the country.
Asked if Gujarat faced any
immediate cross-border infiltration bid from Pakistan as
suggested by some intelligence
reports, he said terrorism is not
restricted to Gujarat alone but
is a global problem.
“Our PM has taken many
countries, including Islamic
countries, on board in the fight
against terrorism. I have said it
before that we should not look
at terrorism on the basis on
caste or religion,” he said.
Praising the efforts of corporates for supporting the family members of the slain BSF
jawans, Singh said he has talked
to several corporate houses to
take care of education of their
children.
“I have talked to corporates
so that at least the family of those
who lent their life for the country are taken care of,” he said,
adding that one corporate has
already taken responsibility of
300 children of such jawans.
Addressing BSF jawans,
Singh said the paramilitary
force is in fact “the first wall of
defence and not the first line of
defence” as it is popularly called.
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names to the DoPT. The grapevine has it that a senior education officer from Uttar Pradesh S V Bahadur Singh is ahead
in the race. Presently, Singh heads the SCERT of UP. This is
the third time a panel has been sent to the authorities for
appointment of a CBSE chairman. With so many exams successfully conducted in the last several months under a senior
HRD Ministry bureaucrat, YSK Seshu Kumar, the Centre is
now firm to take a UP man for the service. Singh will become
the third UP education service officer after BP Khandelwal
and Ashok Ganguly in the past to hold this post, if his
appointment is confirmed by the DoPT. The CBSE is without a Chairman since December 2014 after Vineet Joshi was
repatriated to the parent cadre after having a successful one
decade stint at the CBSE.
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midst the talk of a reshuffle in the Modi Government, there
is a buzz that in case Congress projects Priyanka Gandhi
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as face of the party in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, HRD Minister
Smriti Irani will be thrown in the political ring of UP as full
time campaigner until the elections early next year. Interestingly,
State Congress in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad has indicated a
larger role for Priyanka. Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev recently
quipped if Priyanka is given a bigger role in the party then
the BJP will have to “struggle hard”, whereas if Rahul is elevated to the top post, the BJP will be able to realise its dream
of Congress Mukt Bharat. On the other hand, Irani is making herself ready to face the mega poll battle from a State where
the BJP secured 73 out of 80 seats in the Lok Sabha polls.
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officials by projecting themselves as loyal to the investigating
body. They have created a WhatsApp group titled “CBI Boys”
in order to earn the favour of the CBI officials, particularly of
the information wing. The title CBI Boys is apparently inspired
from Kaw Boys, once referred to the officials of the Research
and Analysis Wing (RAW) when it headed by RN Kaw. Kaw
had earned such a reputation of a spymaster that the officials
lower down the agency were often referred to as Kaw Boys.
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missing files probe officer by a journo, the babus in Central
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Secretariat, North and South Blocks are shy on talking with
journalists. While babus do not answer mobile phones, they
have directed their personal assistants not to connect any calls
to avoid mischievous attempts.
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Urban Development Ministry recently learnt a lesson or
two at a workshop on how to innovatively use various social
media tools. The aim was to connect with the citizens regarding the different initiatives such as Swachchh Bharat Mission
(Urban), Smart Cities Mission, AMRUT, and HRIDAY,
amongst others and ensure real time updates intended for the
citizens. The workshop was attended by over 35 officials of
the level of Under Secretaries and above. Those qualifying the
evaluation test on the their understanding on the social media
landscape, will also be given certificate.
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rime Minister Narendra
Modi’s home State —
Gujarat is all set to celebrate the
International Yoga Day in style
as more than 1.25 crore people
are expected to perform simultaneously on Tuesday at over
40,000 venues across the State.
The
idea
of
an
International Day of Yoga was
first mooted by Modi during
his speech at United Nations
General Assembly (UNGA)
on September 27, 2014 and
responding to it UNGA with
support of 177 nations decided on December 11, 2014 to
celebrate International Yoga
Day on June 21 every year.
In order to pay tribute to
Prime Minister's efforts to popularise Yoga internationally
more than 8,000 school students will form a “Yoga Human
Chain” with a view to set a
world record. Apart from different Government departments, NGOs, social and reli-
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gious organisations, educational institutions, clubs,
Border Security Force and
Indian Army Jawans on bordering areas of Gujarat are all
set to participate on the day.
Talking to media persons
Gujarat's education Minister
Bhupendrasinh Chudasama
said that in 2015 more than
1.90 crore people participated
on the day and this year also
the state Government expecting at least 1.25 crore people to
perform on International Yoga
Day.
The State Government has
also encouraged Yoga camps
across the State and got
tremendous response from
people belonging to different
religion and background. Last
year some experts performed
Yoga on boats at Gujarat's lifeline Narmada River. This year
nearly 100 youngsters would
perform Yoga on the top of
Gujarat's tallest mountain
Mount Girnar situated in
Junagadh, said Chudasama.
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n the run up to the Assembly Elections
Ielectorate
in Tamil Nadu, he had promised the
a good life which includes free
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Interestingly, the State
Government has also selected
some historical and religious
sites with an intension to promote tourism for Yoga performances. These sites include
UNESCO World Heritage site
- Rani-Ki-Vav, famous
Modhera Sun temple, Gujarat's
only hill station Saputara,
Mount Girnar, Bindu Sarovar
and others. The State
Government had also arranged
Yoga camps at these sites for
maximum participation on
June 21.
The Gujarat Chief Minister
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Anandiben Patel will take part
at the main event to be organised at GMDC ground in
Ahmedabad. The event will be
attended by Gujarat governor
OP Kohli and Union Home
Minister JP Nadda. Chudasama
himself will remain present at
Sabarmati Riverfront.
Over 1000 differently
abled students will perform
Yoga at a venue in Bhavnagar.
Yoga Day will also celebrated
in most of the jails in the
State. The prisoners were
given Yoga training at most of
the district jails.
health care, free education, livelihood for
at least one member of each family and a
state-of-the-art public distribution service.
Though his campaign meetings were
rated as most lively, when the results were
announced on May 19, Anbumani
Ramadoss, the 47-year-old medical doctor-turned-politician and his party PMK
fell by the wayside failing to register a single seat in any of the 234 constituencies in
the State.
“The results proved beyond doubt that
the Election Commission of India is a
toothless and powerless body incapable of
taking any disciplinary action against
parties which use money and muscle
power to win elections,” Anbumani told
The Pioneer. He also warned that if electoral reforms were not implemented soon,
all future elections would turn out to be
farce.
The ECI was forced to rescind the election process in two Assembly constituencies, Aravakurichi and Thanjavur following seizure of more than C100 crore and
gifts from the houses of AIADMK and the
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DMK leaders which were meant to bribe
voters. The date for fresh notification is yet
to be decided by the Commission in spite
of pleas by the DMK to hold the election
at the earliest.
“The Election Commission should
have the power to derecognise and
deregister the erring parties. The Model
Code of Conduct does not have any
legality. The ECI cannot make a single
rule by itself. The Representation of
People's Act does not have any teeth.
Under these circumstances, what is the
raison'detre for such a body,” asks the
PMK leader.
He has asked the ECI to file cases
against the candidates at Aravakurichi and
Thanjavur under Section 171of the Indian
Penal Code. “If distribution of money by
him or his associates is confirmed, the candidates should be disqualified, which will
imply that they cannot contest any election for the next 15 years,” said Anbumani
in his letter to the ECI.
According to Anbumani, there is no
point in contesting elections in Tamil Nadu
unless the ECI implement the reforms.
“The Union Government itself could
amend some of the rules. Foremost among
the reforms should be to authorise the ECI
to take immediate disciplinary action
and show red card to those who violate the
rules. Another important decision should
be to ban the opinion polls. There is no scientific basis for the opinion polls held in
India,” said Anbumani.
His immediate task is to launch the
demand for setting up a parliamentary
committee for electoral reforms. “Money
power and media played a major role in
defeating the PMK in the assembly elections. In all opinion polls aired by TV
channels and published by periodicals, the
name PMK was conspicuous by its
absence. I am not crying over sour grapes.
There was deliberate attempt to black out
my party by the media and they succeeded in it,” he said.
The whole of Tamil Nadu knows well
that the DMK perfected the art of “purchasing votes,” he points out. “The 2009
Thirumangalam by- election is described
as the benchmark for “cash for vote”
deals. I'll not blame AIADMK leader
Jayalalithaa for the state of affairs. But
there are politicians in the AIADMK
who are trying to impress their boss by
purchasing votes wholesale,” he said. The
DMK was frantic to win the 2016 elections come what may, pointed out
Anbumani.
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amil Nadu is set to be the
next State in the country,
after West Bengal, Tripura and
Kerala, to have a Left
Democratic Front to take on
the Hindutwa and Dravidian
forces and bring together all
secular and socialist parties
under one umbrella. “There is
a strong potential in Tamil
Nadu for the Left Democratic
Front consisting of the CPI(M),
the CPI and other Left of the
Centre parties,” C Mahendran,
the most popular face of Tamil
Nadu CPI told The Pioneer.
He said the CPI, the
CPI(M) and the Dalit outfit
VCK had contested the recent
Assembly elections together
in the company of DMDK,
MDMK and the TMC. “But
there were some inherent problems and the coalition did not
fare well in the hustings. The
people had great hope in the
People's Welfare Front in which
these six parties were the constituents,” he said.
After the failed experiment of the PWF, efforts are on
to bring together all forces
which have similar ideological
commitments towards secu-
T
larism, social justice and
democracy, said Mahendran.
He said the Lefts never had any
problem sailing with VCK and
its leader Thirumavalavan,
whom the CPI leader described
as one with wide acceptability
in Tamil Nadu.
“What we have in mind is
a front similar to the LDF in
Bengal, Kerala and Tripura. In
Tamil Nadu, we have many Left
wing leaders who are ready to
join electoral politics, once
such a front takes shape,” said
Mahendran.
He said the CPI and the
CPI(M) were for forming a
high-power committee consisting of R Nallakannu and N
Sankaraiah, the nonagenarian
CPI and CPI(M) leaders and P
Nedumaran, a former TNCC
president to guide the PWF.
“But Vaiko had some reservations in bringing Nedumaran
on-bard. Otherwise the LDF
would have taken shape in
Tamil Nadu by this time,” said
Mahendran.
Gnani Sankaran, a long
time proponent of the LDF, said
the conditions were ripe in
Tamil Nadu to form a front like
that. “The AIADMK and the
DMK era is coming to a close.
It may not be able to constitute
the LDF overnight and it is a
long drawn out process. It can
take upto five years for forming
and strengthening a full-fledged
LDF in Tamil Nadu,” said Gnani
who said conditions in the State
were favourable, feasible and
conducive to such a front.
He pointed out that parties
led by Vijayakanth and Vasan
may not fit in such a front.
“There should be ideological
orientation towards each other,”
said Gnani.
A CPI(M) leader said one
cannot rule out the possibility
of such a front. “As on date, we,
the
CPI
and
Thol
Thirumavalavan are staying
and sailing together. We do not
have any issues among us and
we hope this ties will continue
and strengthen,” he said.
Mahendran pointed out
that many leftist groups, who
were actively intervening in
public issues too, would be
roped into such a front. “We
will have the likes of Kovan
who has been campaigning
for prohibition in Tamil Nadu
in this front. Give us sometime
and we are sure such an alliance
would fund favour with the
people,” he said.
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shering in an era of phased
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prohibition in the State, 500
retail outlets of the Tamil Nadu
State Marketing Corporation
(TASMAC), the public sector
monopoly in liquor trade have
closed down since Sunday. This
is the first step to make Tamil
Nadu free of liquor.
Outlets selected by district
collectors and senior managers
of TASMAC from across the
State were the first ones to
down the shutters on Sunday.
This was one of the election
promises made by AIADMK
chief Jayalalithaa to the people
of Tamil Nadu which has seen
an unprecedented increase in
liquor consumption over the
years resulting in societal and
family disturbances.
A release by TASMAC said
201 shops downed their shutters in Madurai region and 133
in the Tiruchirappalli region.
While Coimbatore region saw
the closure of 60 outlets, 58
outlets in Chennai and 48 outlets in Salem region too bade
farewell to the tipplers. The
TASMAC has more than 6000
outlets all over Tamil Nadu.
While many political parties clamoured for the immediate declaration of total prohibition in the State, chief
Minister Jayalalithaa explained
to the people about the practical difficulties involved in such
a drastic measure and told
them that she would bring in
prohibition by stages.
Within minutes of being
sworn in as Chief Minister for
a record sixth term on May 23,
Jayalalithaa had driven down
to Fort Saint George (Tamil
Nadu Secretariat) and issued a
series of orders which included shutting down 500 TASMAC outlets and reducing the
working hours of other liquor
outlets by almost four hours.
The changes in the working
hours has yielded immediate
results and many shops registered a decline of six to eight
per cent in sales.
The
Tamil
Nadu
Government has made elaborate measures to redeploy/reemploy the workers who would
lose their jobs with the closure
of the 500 shops. The staff in
500 outlets will be redeployed in
their respective category like
supervisors, salesmen and assistant salesmen and are to be
posted in the same districts.
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n a bid to ensure that the
Andhra Pradesh employees
Iworking
in Hyderabad comply
with the orders of shifting
their base to Vijayawada before
June 27, Chief Minister N
Chandrababu Naidu has
secured a special train between
the two cities.
Union Minister for
Railways Suresh Prabhu and
Chandrababu Naidu will flag
off the special train at the
Vijayawada station on Monday.
The special train named as
“Amaravati Express” after the
new under-construction
Capital of AP, will have only
one stop, making faster journey
possible.
The Railway Ministry
decided to introduce the special train on a representation
from the Chief Minister to
facilitate the movement of
thousands of employees from
Hyderabad to the make shift
capital Vijayawada.
The move was being seen
as another sop to the employees who were resisting the
Government pressure to shift
their base to the make shift
capital of AP. 4500 employees
were to shift to Vijayawada in
the first phase, These employees were working f rom
Hyderabad though the state
was bifurcated two years ago
and Chief Minister Naidu
and several other Ministers
had moved to the make shift
capital.
The special train will leave
Vijayawada at 5.30 pm and
reach Hyderabad at 11 pm. On
the return journey the train will
leave Hyderabad at 5.30 am and
reach the destination at 11 am.
Suresh Prabhu, who was
recently elected to the Rajya
Sabha from Andhra Pradesh,
took a keen interest in Naidu's
proposal for the special train.
The demand for introducing
such a train had come from
Andhra Pradesh Secretariat
Employees Association.
The special train is
expected to help the employees not only in shifting to the
temporary capital, but also
undertaking journey between
the two cities in futures as
many of them were leaving
their families behind in
Hyderabad.
Unhappy with the dillydallying by the employees in
shifting,
the
State
Government recently issued a
firm order setting a deadline
of June 27 for making the
move. Chief Minister rejected all the representation for
extending the deadline.
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aking a novel path to foster
and promote communal
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harmony and brotherhood during the month of Ramadan, the
Telangana Police has launched
a campaign of cleaning of the
religious places by joining
hands with the local people.
In the communally sensitive
Bhainsa town, where the religious festivals are often marred
by communal clashes and tension, the police sprung a surprise by taking up the brooms
and cleaning and washing of the
main mosque of the town.
At the same time, they also
cleaned the nearby Maha
Lakshmi temple along with the
temple committee office-bearers and local people.
“This is to bring the two
communities closer,” said an
officer who participated in the
programme.
A team of police officers led
by the Circle Inspector A Raghu
personally swept and washed
the Panje Shah Mosque in the
heart of the town on Saturday.
Sub-Inspectors Tirupati, A
Mahinder and Abdul Nazeer
also participated in the program. Mosque committee president Ahmad Hussain and former Chairman of Bhainsa
Municipal Council Aijaz
Ahmad Khan and a large number of worshippers took part in
the cleaning and washing of the
place along with the policemen.
“We have taken up this program in the holy month to promote communal harmony and
brotherhood among the different communities. It will help in
strengthening the peace and
take the city on the path of the
development”, said Raghu. The
programme coincided with the
visit of Adilabad district
Superintendent of Police
Vikramjeet Duggal to Bhainsa.
Thanking the police officials for their initiative, Ahmad
Hussain said that Muslim community very much appreciated
for this gesture on the part of
the police.
Panje Shah Mosque is
located in the most sensitive
locality of Bhainsa which wit-
nessed many communal
clashes during the festivals in
the past.
In Warangal district of
Telangana, Superintendent of
Police Sudhir Babu has also
launched a unique initiative of
plantation in all the mosques
and shrines as part of the beautification and cleanliness drive.
Policemen along with the
local people have taken up
plantation of trees in nearly 287
mosques and shrines in
Warangal coinciding with
Ramadan.
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Guwahati: In an embarrassment to the new Government
in Assam, poachers have
killed the second one-horned
rhino in Assam’s Kaziranga
Nationa Park within a span
of one week and taken away its
horn.
Park officials recovered a
carcass of a female one-horned
rhino from Bagori range of the
park on Sunday morning. It
was suspected that the poachers have killed the rhino on
Saturday evening and managed
to take away its horn.
This is the second onehorned rhino to be killed in the
park within a span of one
week and after the new
Government has taken over in
Assam. It is also the ninth rhino
to be killed in the park since
January this year.
The killing of the rhino
came as an embarrassment to
the new Government as Forest
Minister Pramila Rani Brahma
have recently visited the park
twice and assured to stop the
poaching immediately. The
poachers had also killed a onehorned rhino in the park last
week when the Minister was
visiting the park in the first
week of this month.
Following the poaching of
the rhino last week, the Assam
Government has also suspended the park Director for
allegedly trying to conceal
from the State Forest Minister
the incident of rhino poaching
that had taken place on June 7.
The poaching of the one
horned rhino has become one
of the important political issues
in the recently concluded
assembly polls in Assam. While
the erstwhile Congress
Government, which was in
power in Assam for the last 15
years have failed to stop the
poaching of rhinos, the BJP
campaigned aggressively ahead
of the Assembly polls on the
issue and assured to put an end
to poaching.
PNS
he CPI(M)-led LDF had
come to power in Kerala
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last month with a pledge to end
atrocities against women, especially from the poor and Dalit
sections, but when asked on
Sunday about the issue concerning the jailing of two Dalit
women the other day on
allegedly fabricated charges in
his home district Kannur,
Marxist Chief Minister
Pinarayi Vijayan's reply was,
“Ask the police. I have nothing
to say about that.”
When the issue was
brought to his attention by
mediamen in Delhi on
Saturday, 24 hours after the two
Dalit women aged 30 and 25,
daughters of a Congress leader,
along with an 18-month-old
child of one of them, the
response of the Chief Minister,
who is also holding the Home
portfolio, was even stranger. “It
hasn't come to my notice.”
“What does it mean if the
Chief Minister handling Home
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asked about such vital issues
and that police alone have
answers?” asked Opposition
Leader Ramesh Chennithala of
the Congress. “If every explanation is to come from the
police, why should there be a
Minister in-charge of the
police? Is Kerala under police
Raj?” he asked.
The Congress has decided
to make a big issue out of the
jailing of the two young Dalit
women, Akhila (30) and
Anjana (25), under judicial
remand and to organise
protests across the State.
“Pinarayi's reply is not acceptable. It is anti-democratic.
Being the Chief Minister it is
his duty to know about such
developments,” said former
Chief Minister Oommen
Chandy.
Those, who know how the
CPI(M) functions in Kannur,
known as Kerala's Marxist
heartland, say that nothing
can happen in the district,
especially in areas controlled by
the party, without Pinarayi's
knowledge. “Instead of making
such irresponsible statements,
he could have used some diplomatically and said he would
look into the matter,” said a BJP
leader from Thalassery.
The issue pertains to the
sending of the two young Dalit
women, daughters of Congress
leader
N
Rajan
of
Kuttimakkool in Thalassery, on
Friday under judicial remand
on the basis of an allegedly false
complaint from a CPI(M)DYFI functionary that they
had barged into the party's
Kuttimakkool branch committee office and attacked him
on June 11.
The Left had made the
insecurity of Dalit women
under the then Congress-led
rule a big campaign issue for
the May 16 Assembly election
in the context of the rape-murder of a Dalit law student in
Perumbavoor on April 28. The
Marxists had even staged a long
day-night agitation demanding
justice for the murdered
woman and end to atrocities
against Dalit women.
According to Akhila and
Anjana, they had indeed gone
to the CPI(M) office but that
was to question the DYFI
leader and others after they
publicly insulted them with references to their caste. The
Thalassery police slapped nonbailable charges on the two
women and they were sent to
the Central Prison in Kannur
after a court remanded them
on the DYFI man's complaint.
“They (the Marxists and
the police) are saying that we
had attacked them with dangerous weapons. We had no
weapons with us. It was they
who had attacked us with
chairs. We had gone there to
know from them why they
were insulting us whenever
we passed by the party office.
They have been doing this for
a very long time,” said Akhila.
The two women were
released on Saturday evening
on bail granted by a Thalassery
court but the issue did not end
there. Anjana was admitted to
a Thalassery hospital at midnight Saturday after she
attempted to commit suicide by
consuming some pills reportedly after a woman CPI(M)
leader attempted character
assassination at her and her
family on a TV talk show.
Anjana is already out of
danger but Congress leaders
have demanded booking of the
woman Marxist leader and others for forcing the Dalit woman
to attempt to commit suicide.
“The National Human Rights
Commission should directly
probe the whole development,”
said former Union Minister
Mullappally Ramachandran.
“What is the Government
doing to the Dalit women
here?” asked Bindu Krishna,
State president of the Women's
Congress. “We have a Social
Justice Minister (KK Shylaja)
who hails from Kannur itself.
She has not spoken even a single word about this whole incident nor has she visited these
Dalit women. What kind of a
Government is this?” she asked.
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day after Bengal Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee
ordered police investigation
into the Narada sting operation
the Kolkata Police on Sunday
set up a Special Investigation
Team led by Commissioner of
Police Rajeev Kumar. He will be
assisted among others by senior
IPS officer Vishal Garg and
other cyber crime cell officials,
sources said.
The police acted with
electric speed and an SIT was
set up within hours of Ratna
Chattopadhyay wife of
Kolkata Mayor and State
Minister Sovan Chatterjee filing an FIR against the Narada
News at the New Market
Police Station close on the
heels of Chief Minister’s declaration at a Trinamool
Congress organisational meeting on Saturday.
Sovan Chatterjee was
among the top Trinamool
Congress big guns, who featured in the Narada videos
allegedly accepting cash —
and swiftly wrapping it up
with a towel — from a Narada
journalist, posing as a prospec-
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tive investor.
Other Trinamool heavy
duties, who were shown taking
money were Firhad Hakim,
Subroto Mukherjee, Suvendu
Adhikary(then an MP) and
sitting MPs Sultan Ahmed,
Saugato
Roy,
Kakoli
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Poddar. A senior IPS officer
was also seen taking money
from the Narada journalist.
The Kolkata Police
Detective Department lodged
an FIR in the wake of the
police complaint filed by
Ratna Chatterjee. The police
have slapped cases against
Narada CEO under IPC sections 500 (defamation)
505(statement to create public mischief) 469 (forgery for
purpose of harming reputation), 171-G (false statements
in connection to elections)
and 120-B (criminal conspiracy), sources said.
The police were planning
to summon Narada CEO
Mathew Sammuel along with
the video footages and camera
with which it were shot, sources
said.
Apparently setting the tone
of the said investigation the
Chief Minister had on Saturday
said that the “whole issue
should be investigated the people of Bengal need to know the
real intention behind this ‘conspiracy’.”
Insisting that this was a
step to malign a Government,
a party its politicians and insult
the people of Bengal, particularly before the elections the
Chief Minister said “why
should Bobby Hakim or
Suvendu demand bribes? Are
they beggars? It has to be
investigated why these persons came and offered money
to our men?”
However, senior Calcutta
High Court advocate and former Kolkata Mayor Bikash
Bhattacharya said “it seems
that the Chief Minister has
roundly conceded the truth
behind the footage” while BJP’s
JP Majumdar wondered “why
the persons who offered the
money were instantly nothanded over to the police by the
Ministers and the MPs. This
means that there was a complacency.”
Majumdar also said even if
the investigation order stands
judicial scrutiny as already a
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case is being heard in the High
Court the people of Bengal
would not believe in the probe
conducted by Rajeev Kumar
who had unsuccessfully investigated the Sharada chit fund
case.
Election Commission of
India had removed Kumar as
the Kolkata CP following complaints of political bias by the
Opposition. After Banerjee
came back to power he was
reinstated as the Kolkata top
cop.
Giving his reaction former
Supreme Court Judge Ashok
Ganguli said the order of
investigation itself illegal as
the case was alreadysubjudice in the High Court which
had procured the hardwares
used for the shooting and
handed them over for forensic tests.
The case was likely to be
heard in a couple of week’s
time, sources said.
Incidentally the Trinamool;
Congress had in the beginning
rejected Narada footage as false
and fake. The Government
also challenged a PIL filed in
the High Court seeking an
investigation into the case.
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Lashkar-e-Tayyeba militant was killed in a gunA
fight with security forces at
Ladou village near Pampore
town of south Kashmir’s
Pulwama District on Sunday
afternoon. Police said two militants managed to escape from
the encounter site after the
exchange of fire that lasted
more than two hours. Sources
said that security forces cordoned off an area behind a milk
processing plant at Ladou village, around 17 kilometers
from here, following a tip-off
that militants were in the area.
The dead militant was
identified as Huzaifa alias Abu
Qasim, a cadre of Lashkar outfit. He is suspected to be a
Pakistani. A police officer who
was at the encounter site, said
that security forces had seen
three militants in the area.
“Two militants are believed to
have escaped from the
encounter site,” he said. An AK
series rifle with 19 rounds was
recovered from the encounter
site. Six militants and two soldiers, died in separate encounters in north Kashmir’s
Kupwara District last week.
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hadi and Village Industry
Commission (KVIC),
K
Chairman, VK Saxena on
Sunday said that of over 7,000
sale outlets of KVIC across
India, 1,000 would be modernised by the end of current
financial year.
Saxena, who inaugurated
one of such modernised outlets
in Ahmedabad said that C50
crore have been allotted for the
purpose of modernisation of
such outlets. The KVIC would
modernise all the sales outlets
in phase manner in future, he
said, adding that role of the
sales persons at the outlets
would be important in order to
makeover image of KVIC outlets.
He said that huge demand
for Khadi has been generated
following Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s appeal to
wear Khadi at least once in a
week.
Several
PSUs,
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Kolkata: Once again an arms
dealer was arrested from Malda
with a number of pistols, magazines and cartridges, police
said. Malda had of late become
a transit point for arms and
drug smuggling.
Anarul Haq a man from
Murshidabad was arrested following a tip-off and 10 sophisticated pistols and magazines
were recovered from him along
with 50 rounds of cartridges,
police said. He was being interrogated for further information.
A stockpile of bombs went
off near Boplpur in Birbhum
District leaving a person injured
and the several cracks in the concrete house, sources said.
Birbhum had of late earned
notoriety on account of blasts.
While the local Trinamool
leadership said it could be an
oven that had gone off locals
said an oven going off could
never cause cracks in a concrete building. The locals said
bombs stock-piled in the house
went off when they were being
removed from there. Elsewhere
7 people were injured at
Naihati in North 24 Parganas
when an illegal cracker-manufacturing unit caught fire,
sources said.
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Government departments and
even the private companies
have initiated adopting Khadi
as uniforms for their staff and
employess, he claimed.
“Recently JK Cement
placed an order of 7000 meters
dress material to KVIC for
employees Uniform. Further
Minister of Petroleum
Daremndra Pradhan has also
issued directives to all oil companies under his ministry to
adopt Khadi for uniforms of
permanent as well as temporary employees,” he added.
According to Saxena even
in the last financial year when
other similar industries were
not doing well and reported the
growth of just 5 to 7%, Khadi
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ven while asserting that his
party had no intention to
break its alliance with the BJP,
Shiv Sena president Uddhav
Thackeray on Sunday exhorted his party workers to prepare
themselves to go it alone in the
forthcoming polls to the
Brihanmumbai Municipal
Corporation (BMC) and eight
other municipal corporations
in the State.
Admitting candidly that
he could not predict the fate of
saffron alliance in the run up
to the municipal corporations
in the State, Uddhav said: “I am
not certain as to what will happen to the alliance (between the
Sena and BJP). Earlier, we had
forged an alliance with the
BJP on the Hindutva plank. I
will take a call whether or not
forge an alliance with the BJP.
But you (party workers) should
prepare yourselves to win the
elections”.
Speaking at the Sena’s 50th
foundation function at NSG
grounds at Goregaon in north
Mumbai, Uddhav said: “If the
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Nadabet BOP (Gujarat): In a
noble gesture, diamond merchants of Surat and Mumbai
donated 10,000 goggles, RO
water purifiers besides ECG
machines and a host of other
items for use by BSF jawans
guarding the Indo-Pak border
in scorching heat.
The items were handed
over to the BSF at a special
function organised here,
which was also attended by
Union Home Minister
Rajnath Singh.
The initiative followed a
request by Minister of State for
Home Haribhai Parathibhai
Chaudhary who himself is
associated with diamond trade.
Appreciating the gesture,
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the Home Minister said diamond merchants across the
country should join hands
with the security agencies for
the welfare of jawans who lay
down their lives protecting the
nation.
Describing
B order
Security Force as the “first
wall of defence,” Singh said
Government would do its
best for their all-round welfare.
Chaudhary, an MP from
Banaskantha in Gujarat, which
touches the International
Border, told the Surat-based
‘SRK Knowledge Foundation’,
that led the initiative, to come
forward with more such welfare
schemes.
PTI
BJP is prepared to invoke the
name of Chhatrapati Shivaji
and late Bal Thackeray, then we
are prepared to forge an
alliance with the BJP. We will
do so with our self-respect
intact and would not do an
alliance with the BJP out of desperation...Even today, i will
make it very clear that the Sena
has no intention to break our
alliance with the BJP But, we
are not interested in having a
crooked alliance”.
Alluding to BJP leader M
Venkaiah Naidu’s advice the
leaders of both the saffron
parties to sit across and sort
their differences, Uddhav
said: “Even in the past, we had
no intention to break our
alliance with the BJP. Today
there are reports where
Venkaiah Naidu has said
some good words about the
Shiv Sena. We have got to
hear good words about the
Sena from our ally after a long
time. But, let me tell you
Venkaiahji, after analysing
your speech (at the BJP’s
executive meet being held at
Pune and subsequent speech
by your party’s state unit
president’s speech, we will
have to prepare ourselves to
win the elections on our own
strength”.
Referring to the unpleasant
experience that the Sena had
with the BJP in the run-up to
the October 2014 Assembly
polls, the Sena chief said: “Four
months after the 2014 Lok
Sabha polls, we had Assembly
polls in the State. In the run-up
to the Assembly, we ( Sena)
were stressing about the saffron
alliance. Prime Minister
addressed as many as 27 public rallies for the BJP candidates
in a span of one month. After
this we also learnt our lessons
like other parties in Bihar,
West Bengal and other States”.
In his criticism of the NDA
government at the Centre on
various issues, Uddhav said”
“These days we get to hear slogans like Desh Badal raha
hain... But the situation has not
actually changed in the country. Our borders are still unsafe.
Infiltration from China continues. We have to make do
with Pak-sponsored terror acts
registered a jump of 29% in the
sales. During the year 2014-15,
the total sale of Khadi was
C1170 crores which has gone
up to C1520 crores during the
year 2015-16, which itself
shows the growing demand of
Khadi in the Country, he said.
To generate more demand,
KVIC has for the first time
given franchisee to 18 people in
various cities which will add to
sales of Khadi, said Saxena.
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as before. Prices of essential
commodities are sky-rocketing.
The dal prices have touched
C200 per kg. We do not know
the prices will spiral to”
“We are with the state government in its efforts to bring
down the prices of essentiloa
commodities. There is also
corruption which we have to do
deal with. Suffice to say, the
common man is finding it difficult to make both ends meet.
... I do not know much about
the “ache din” ( promised by
the Prime Minister). But, let the
common man experience
moments of satisfaction”.
On NCP president Sharad
Pawar’s poser to the Sena as
why it is continuing its
alliance with the “useless”
BJP, the Sena chief said: “ I
would like to tell Pawar not to
interfere in matters relating to
the saffron alliance. We (Sena
and BJP) will sort out issues
between us. Till today, I have
not criticised chief minister
Devendra Fadnavis. On the
contrary I have only praised
him. He is a man with good
intentions.”
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arping on the party’s muchdiscussed “Shat Pratishat
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Bajpa” (cent per cent BJP),
Union Minister and senior BJP
leader Nitin Gadkari on Sunday
asked the party men to lay
stress on expanding the party’s
base in the state rather concentrating on fruits of power.
Speaking at the concluding
ceremony of the BJP’s two-day
state executive meeting held in
Pune, Gadkari told the party
cadres: “Let us face it. Power is
not permanent, but the party
set-up is permanent. You should
concentrate on widening the
party base in the state”.
Exhorting the party workers against going after ministerial positions, Gadkari said that
senior functionary should
demonstrate ethical conduct.
“Those who crave for power
are driven by insatiable ambition
and they remain unhappy.
Ministership and the pomp and
power that come with it do not
last long. Senior party functionaries should demonstrate
ethical behaviour to set an example for new workers,” he said.
Since the remarks were seen
an apparent dig at the party’s
tainted senior party leader
Eknath Khadse who was sitting
on the dais, Gadkari swiftly
clarified: “Don’t interpret my
remarks in a wrong manner”.
Khadse, it may be recalled,
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Mumbai: Amidst a spar between
the ruling alliance partners in
Maharashtra, Chief Minister
Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday
greeted Uddhav Thackeray on
Shiv Sena’s 50th anniversary,
even as he “greatly missed” party
founder late Balasaheb
Thackeray’s guidance. “Shiv Sena
completes 50 years on Sunday.
My heartfelt greetings to party
chief Uddhav Thackeray and the
party workers,” Mr. Fadnavis
said on Twitter.“Late party supremo Balasaheb Thackeray’s guidance has always proved valuable.
He is greatly missed today!,” he
said in another tweet.
Talking about the CM’s
tweets, a BJP leader said Mr.
Fadnavis’ statement is an indication that had Balasaheb been
alive, the 25-year-old alliance
between both parties would not
have broken (ahead of the
2014 Maharashtra Assembly
polls) and the Sena would not
have constantly targeted the
BJP on each and every issue,
which it is seen doing on
Sunday.
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had resigned as the State
Revenue Minister over allegations of corruption recently.
Admitting his own weakness for food in the past, Gadkari
said: “We all have weaknesses. I’d
weakness for food. Doctors performed the bariatric surgery on
me and structurally limited my
food intake which is good for
health.”Everybody should
choose his own doctor to ensure
good health by curbing the
cravings”.
Gadkari said that unlike
the Congress which was “dynastic” entity, the BJP was a worker-based party and that the
party leaders could not dictate
terms while running the party.
“ I know this because I was the
president. This party is not run
by the dictates of any one individual - be it Atal Bihari
Vajpayee, LK Advani, myself,
Amit Shah, or Narendra Modi.
It has a different character and
the party belongs to its workers
who are the real source of its
strength,” he said.
“The BJP is not a party that
revolves around one leader.
There are other parties in the
country which are one familyrun party. We are a party with
difference. We are a party of
activists or workers. We should
all realise this. We should also
follow the examples of senior
and old party men who have
contributed to the party in a big
way,” Gadkari said.
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Panaji: The minor girl, who had
accused former Goa Minister
Atanasio Monserratte of rape,
has been admitted to the Institute
of Psychiatry and Human
Behaviour (IPHB) here from the
State-run protection home due
to her “abnormal behaviour”, a
senior police official said.
The 16-year-old girl, who
was lodged in the protection
home near here, after she filed
the case, was referred to IPHB
after the management of the
home complained about her
abnormal behaviour, the official
attached to Crime Branch told
PTI on Sunday.
On May 5, Monserratte was
arrested after the girl complained that she was purchased
by him (from her mother) at C50
lakh and was raped thereafter.
“The girl has been kept
under observation. We are
monitoring her behaviour. The
details cannot be disclosed
about the case as it amounts to
breach of privacy of the patient,”
a senior doctor from IPHB said.
The girl was admitted to the
institute last evening and kept
under tight police protection as
Monserratte is already out on
bail. Crime Branch had arrested
mother of the victim and another woman for human trafficking.
All are out on bail currently.
Monserratte, who represents
St Cruz constituency, refused his
involvement in the case claiming
it to be “political conspiracy”.
He said the victim, who
was working in the lifestyle
showroom owned by him, was
dismissed from services for
stealing cash.
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CRPF commando was
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killed on Sunday and two
others were injured in an IED
blast carried out by Naxals in
the jungles of Aurangabad district of Bihar.
A CRPF commando was
on Sunday killed and his two
other colleagues were injured in
an IED blast carried out by
Maoists in the jungles of
Aurangabd district, police said.
The Maoists triggered the
blast near Bandhu Bigaha village when three commandos of
CRPF’s elite 205th Commando
Battalion for Resolute Action
(CoBRA) unit were riding on
two bikes on way to their camp
from Bali Pahari locality,
Deputy Superintendent of
Police P N Sahu said.
CRPF personnel were
engaged in an encounter with
the ultras since last night in Bali
Pahari. The blast occurred
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on the spot while his two other
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leader builds an entire global
policy by his perception or
diplomacy, and takes the global
community with him, except
perhaps a handful of self-construed enemies. So, when Prime
Minister Narendra Modi sealed
the India-US strategic partnership
in Washington, DC, recently,
wherein he gave a stirring address
to the US Congress, his plea to his
audience was “to listen to a new
symphony in play”, calling for the
realisation of the full promise of
the relationship, he had already
laid the foundations of a new
world order.
That is why he could convincingly declare his relationship with
the US an “extraordinary” and
term the US as “an indispensable
partner”. This is no rhetoric that
we usually associate with summitlevel contacts, meant in each case
for a domestic audience for cheers.
In many key areas of the emerging global order, India-US partnership will now work together to
achieve specific goals.
Both, the joint statement of
the two leaders and Modi’s historic Congressional speech, highlighted the green technology
adoption, implementing of the
Paris agreement on climate
change, measures to defeat terrorism by isolating those who promote terrorism, claim sanction
for terror in the name of religion,
defend freedom of maritime lanes
especially in areas of tensions like
Pacific Rim islands and in the
Indian Ocean and increase world
trade and mutual cooperation for
it and open the doors for India
into global action groups like
Nuclear Supplier Group, Missile
Technology Control Regime,
Australia Group and Wassenaar
Group, despite the Chinese objection to it.
The reference in the joint
statement about agreement for
the US setting up six nuclear
power reactors in India reveals
that Modi’s diplomacy has finally overcome the strong differences
between the two countries on the
actualisation of the US companies-led nuclear power plants
here. Details are not yet available.
Prime Minister Modi’s first
challenge was to disentangle
India-US relations from the complex differences over principles of
civil compensation in case of a
nuclear disaster. The previous
Government had also left the
relationship in tatters over what
came to be known as Indian
woman diplomat in New York
being arrested by the US police.
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The turn round in the India-US
relationship into an extra-ordinary partnership in specific goals
ahead has also resulted in Modi
getting his host to agree on
removing almost all constraints
on flow of American technology
into India.
Importantly, this is in defence
technology. This has been spelt
out in the joint statement: “The
US will continue to work towards
facilitating technology sharing
with India to a level commensurate with that of its closest allies”.
India will receive license free
access to a wide range of dual use
technologies.
“In support of India’s Make in
India initiative and to support the
development of robust defence
industries and their integration
into the global supply chain, the
US will facilitate the export of
goods and technologies….for
projects, programmes and joint
ventures in support of US-India
defence cooperation”, the joint
statement added.
This further implies now
India can start making several
defence equipments of US origin,
partly or wholly in India, and also
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India no longer will have to wait
at the doors of Washington, DC
to obtain even on cash payment
sensitive weapons or dual technology items. It can now pick
them up off the shelf.
Only when we contrast this
with the almost endless negotiations that used to precede India
getting weapons from the US in
the past decades and Pakistan trying to scuttle such deals we do
realise how big is this achievement. Besides, with this stated
understanding between the political heads of the two countries, it
will now be easier for India to
make specialised weapons like
guns, tanks, planes, naval ships in
this country under the US license.
Close
observers
of
Washington would not have
missed the absence of any reference to Pakistan in the joint statement. The Prime Minister too
avoided bringing Pakistan into his
formal address to the US Congress
except to reiterate that together
India and the US will have to eliminate the threat of terrorism and
declare that certain organisations
like Lashkar-e-Tayyeba, the Jaish-
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e-Mohammed and others should
be targeted in this elimination. The
earlier practice of the US administration seeking to hyphenate
Pakistan along with India whenever matters of one of the two were
discussed in the Washington has
now been replaced. Washington’s
new strategy is to make its partnership with India stand on its
own feet.
The fact that just as Modi was
getting ready to go to
Washington, the Senate committee has advised the American
administration to hold off the
$300 million aid package to
Pakistan, tells its own tale of the
US giving up the balancing of
India and Pakistan in its global
policy. The India-US relationship
has balancing China as a major
goal for both countries.
Washington is convinced that
the entire politics in Pakistan is
playing round denying India any
status at the global stage. India
hovers in the Pakistan horizon as
the huge country with which it
must seek parity if it cannot be
destroyed.
But no global power is willing to support Pakistan except
China. Hence the global strategy
in New Delhi, Washington,
Beijing and Islamabad and Tokyo
is split along different parameters.
The China-Pakistan axis is
emphasised in the $45 billion
investment Beijing is making in
the road-cum port connection
between Gwadar in Pakistan and
Xinjiang in China.
Chinese media which is
under the control of the
Communist Party has reacted
with a warning to the unique success of the Modi diplomacy in the
US. It should hurt China that the
US is lobbying with other members of the powerful NSG to gain
its membership for India despite
Beijing’s opposition to it only to
keep Pakistan’s anti-India foreign
policy afloat.
In 2009, when the US was
pressurising NSG to give India
waiver on the NPT so that the
India-US civilian nuclear agreement could go ahead and the
technology denial on nuclear
materials and processes could be
lifted, China was the lone opponent. But the then US President
George W Bush spoke directly
with the Chinese President, and
China relented. It would be
worthwhile to watch how US
President Barack Obama plays the
game in the context of the ‘extraordinary’ relationship he has
forged with Prime Minister Modi
as the “indispensable partner”.
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Sir — The albatross of Congress
leader Kamal Nath’s alleged
involvement in the 1984 riots far
outweighs his usefulness as a
shrewd political operative. The
fiasco of his appointment as
party in-charge of Punjab and his
subsequent resignation is yet
another indication of the continuing cluelessness of the Congress
high command.
Unable to articulate a clear
political or ideological vision
and build an organisation around
it, the Congress has become
dependent mostly on jaded leaders, whose mass connect is questionable, and who prevent the rise
of young and new leaders.
P Arihanth
Secunderabad
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Sir — This refers to the article,
“The imminent churn in Delhi
politics” (June 18) by Ashok
Malik. I agree with the writer’s
suggestion that Congress leader
Ajay Maken is positioning himself to fill the void after former
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit left
Delhi politics. As expected, the
Aam Aadmi Party will have its
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first major political challenge in
the form of expulsion of 21
MLA’s and re-election and the
party may find itself on a slippery
wicket as it will be anything but
easy for it to retain all those seats
as both the Congress and the BJP
will make their task difficult.
For the BJP, the party needs
to seriously introspect to present
a strong a credible face to take
on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal. Not to undermine any
other BJP Delhi leader but Harsh
Vardhan remains the best candidate for the leadership role at
the capital city.
Bal Govind
Noida
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Sir — This refers to the article,
“Empowering our farmers” (June
17) by Ajit Kumar. Our farm sector can prosper only when it is
given a status at par with the
industry. To achieve this, a second green revolution is long over
due and that can take place only
when modern technology is
adopted for agriculture. Efforts
must be made to spread newer
technolog y and scientific
research to the field.
Anil Gupta
Via web
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Sir — This refers to article,
“Congress turning back to the old
guard” (June 17) by Kalyani
Shankar. People want jobs, infrastructural development, education and financial discipline. The
BJP fought the Bihar election on
these planks and lost because RJD
supremo Lalu Prasad put caste politics way ahead of development.
Chander Pal
Via web
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Sir — This refers to the article,
“Restricted religious freedom in
China” (June 16) by Claude Arpi.
In India, the concept of freedom
has not been understood by
many, including the Left and the
media. If China is at one end of
the spectrum, India stands at
another. So, rather than being
holier than thou, we should inject
a sense of reality and condemn
those in India who want to
destroy it from within, as much
as you like to condemn China!
Mike
Via web
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scientists were able to directly
detected gravitational waves —
ripples through the space-time
fabric that were created by
extreme, cataclysmic events in the distant
universe. The waves were detected using
the Laser Interferometer Gravitationalwave Observatory (LIGO) interferometers, located in Livingston, Louisiana and
Hanford, Washington. In 2015, the detectors had picked up gravitational wave signals for the first time.
The Theory of General Relativity,
enunciated by Albert Einstein some 100
years ago, predicted the existence of gravitational waves in cosmos, though he himself was not entirely convinced whether
these could be perceived. On February 11
this year, it was announced in Washington,
DC that the first direct observation of
gravitational waves was successfully completed, established and verified.
Gravitational waves are created when
two gigantic Black Holes, 1.3 billion light
years away, orbit each other closer and
closer, suddenly spiral/collide, followed by
their cataclysmic merger, accompanied by
burst of immense energy.
New Black Hole thus created is
equivalent to 62 suns coalesced together.
When spacetime matrix is distorted by
massive stars/planets, mysterious forces
of gravity are emitted that accelerate
objects lying in their domain, so elucidated Einstein in his theory. Putting it simply: Two massive Black Holes being balls
of supremely intense gravity collide and
merge causing tremendous disturbance
in the entire gravitational matrix translating into waves that may be perceived/measured millions of light years away.
Spacetime matrix has always been
regarded as a well-knit, infinite continu-
L
um of space (in length, breadth and width)
and time in the manifest of a single identifiable entity, also known as Minkowski
space after Eugène Minkowski (Albert
Einstein was his student) added fourth
dimension to the Euclidean Space Model.
It is difficult for human intellect to visualise, infinite void undergoing contortion
only to revolt into waves and ripples capable of shaking the consciousness. These
waves travel with the velocity of light with
diminishing amplitude as they move
across infinite stretches of the infinite void.
When they arrive in close proximity of Planet Earth, they are almost imperceptible being thousand times subtler than
the nuclear particle Proton. In 1970s,
Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor discovered gravitational waves indirectly while
studying binary pulser PSR B1913+16
wherein orbits of two orbiting Neutron
stars decayed gradually before colliding
which is impossible to explain without
energy depletion through emission of
gravitational waves.
An improvised version of Laser
Interferometer Gravitational-Wave
Observatory whose construction started 22 years ago, could detect and measure these gravitational space-time contortions, rather cosmic stretches that
bounce to shrink ultimately by splitting
a Laser beam into two perpendicular
arms each four kms long. The machine
is so sensitive that it can measure gravitational waves that stretches spacetime
matrix even by ten thousandth fraction
of the width of Proton. Gravitational
waves can penetrate any and every
object throughout cosmos and emerge
from the other end unscathed.
Invocation of the Theory of Relativity
or Quantum Mechanics may or may not
be able to explain the cosmic phenome-
non. However, if the wisdom of
agama/samkhya darsana is juxtaposed to
these observations, this writer finds it a
lot easier to visualise the cosmic event.
Albert Einstein had studied Sanatana
scriptures and most of his discoveries had
been inspired by the wisdom attained
therefrom by his own admission.
Many of us have observed simplified
version of the phenomenon in a container full of water wherein two or more floating air bubbles drift towards each other,
suddenly coalesce raising subtle ripples on
the surface of water! We have observed
summer heat creating partial vacuum by
diluting air density leading to rushing in
of air from surroundings at a great speed
causing wind storms. Like air bubbles
floating on the surface of water, these partial vacuums too have a tendency to move
towards each other and coalesce leading
to disturbance in atmosphere.
Entire spacetime entity is an infinite
ocean, rather an expanding ocean of
three guna-s of Prakrti ie Sattva, Raja and
Tama. As a matter of fact, infinite void
is not absolutely void lest it raises the
question as to what may be the
means/instrumentality with which such
a cosmic void has been created. Three
guna-s exist in the form of live/throbbing
spandana ie wave particles, all in a state
of well-poised equilibrium.
When cosmic stimulation dilutes
density of guna-s, Black Hole or something similar to that is generated with
intense forces of gravity within, caused by
the dilution or cosmic vacuum whatever that may be, entirely bereft of guna-s.
Thereafter, they behave like air bubbles
floating on the surface of water as illustrated above. The way air bubbles coalesce
to cause subtle ripples in water, Black
Holes merge cataclysmically to emit
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to manage a bad economy
that it has inherited. The
NDA Government is afflicted
with this problem. The Indian
economy was infested with
severe diseases — siphoning of
funds, scams, high bank nonperforming assets, monopolised markets and high prices.
Some of these, like the
untimely rise in the prices of
food grains, pulses, and commodities, have strained the
nation. The recent Consumer
Price Index-based inflation
climbed by 5.7 per cent on the
back of rising prices of food
grain, pulses and vegetables.
Wholesale Price Index also
showed a nominal increase.
The Modi Government took
some actions in the form of
excise duty hike on sugar and
the creation of buffer stock by
procuring pulses. However, the
20 per cent duty hike on sugar
exports and increased avail-
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ability had a sobering effect on
the prices.
The Government also initiated measures to control the
prices of pulses and other commodities. Prime Minister
Narendra Modi expressed his
concern over the situation and
asked officials to monitor the situation on a weekly basis.
Modi’s call to taxmen to
build the “bridge of trust” is also
timely. The Prime Minister
should look at how personal
income tax keeps reducing with
inflation. Union Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley utilised the
price stabilisation fund to keep
a check on the prices. He took
C630 crore for the creation of
buffer stock for pulses and
onion. The Government is
importing pulses from
Myanmar, Panama etc.
The Government is supposed to act in difficult situations. Importing staple dietary
needs like pulses is a short-term
approach. For a long-term solution a new look towards the
economy is needed. Pulse production has been falling for over
25 years. Piecemeal steps to
increase it have not worked.
Food
and
Public
Distribution Minister Ram Vilas
Paswan said that domestic
demand veers around 24.6 million tonnes against the production of 17 million tonnes. Added
to this, the recent drought has
increased the availability gap by
7.6 million tonnes. The Union
Government built a buffer stock
of 15 million tonnes.
All of these are suggestive of
the Government’s intent.
However, the pricing formula of
buying at C66/kg and allowing
the States to sell at C120/kg is
puzzling. If the Government
itself is allowing so much of
margin for one commodity, it is
likely not to set a proper example for other businesses. Nobody
doubts the intention of the
Government, but it has to act
business-like. Such huge margins raise many questions,
including effectivity of the
proposed steps.
The Government itself is not
supposed to be in the business
of onion or pulses. Citizens,
however, expect it to create an
atmosphere of checks and balances in the market. The recent
moves are indications of the seriousness. But if the Government
takes the right move, it may create a situation similar to what
former Prime Minister Atal
Bihari Vajpayee had done. The
Modi Government has initiated
moves, which if taken forward
properly, it can have similar
sanguine effects.
During these few years, due
to various steps or inertia of the
intermediate Governments —
UPA1 and UPA2— lots of convolution have taken place in the
market. There is monopolisation
of some big groups. Their prof-
its during the 2004-2014
bounced several fold.
Should the Government be
held responsible for such malpractices? No, it should not be.
All the same, no Government
can absolve itself of any irrational and unethical practices in
the market or society. It has to
look at these aspects as well.
Large groups should be prevented from having their way at public expense. In the new marketing and investment scenario,
these are some of the critical
areas requiring deft handling.
Two decades ago, AT&T
had become a powerful company. The US used its anti-trust
laws to clip its wings. That was
too drastic. However, for the
functioning of a democracy,
the Government must arm itself.
Food prices are not the
only item that needs
Government’s attention. India is
aiming to become a large producer with Make in India and
tremendous waves of gravity in the infinite expanse of cosmos all around.
Wherever and whenever the
equipoise is disrupted, process to restore
the equipoise begins instantly. Disruptions
and restorations continue alternately,
ceaselessly and infinitely.
LIGO team was constituted as a subgroup and was mandated to create artificial gravitational waves so as to booby
trap other scientists by faking gravitational waves to ensure, they remain on their
alert not to lose right direction of research.
Entire project also included 60 Indian scientists of Raman Research Institute and
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy
and Astrophysics. The machine so constructed happened to be the most sensitive one, never constructed before.
On September 14, 2015, at 11 am of
Central European Time, Marco Drago, an
Italian post-doctoral scholar and member of LIGO scientific collaboration, was
the first to observe waves remotely at the
Albert Einstein Institute, Germany.
It consumed months and mindboggling efforts to assure whether the discovery passed the five sigma test, gold
standard for declaring a new discovery in
Physics. The detection was declared
GW150914 corresponding to the date of
discovery. The discovery confirmed, existence of Black Holes which is impossible
to observe as the Holes do not reflect light
to be perceived with.
The US has invited India to raise
another such facility to verify observations
from a distant location and the
Government has already sanctioned
funds for that. We hope, our country shall
lead from the front in this extra-ordinary
field of research in years to come.
(The writer is co-convener of Delhi
BJP’s Intellectual Cell)
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many other programmes. Price
stability is sine qua non.
Normally, market does it on
its own. But political conditions and executive moves
ensure that no volatility take
place. Healthy conditions and
appropriate competition, not
cartelisation, have to be created.
It is essential for quality and right
prices. Manufacturing has to
learn to thrive with affordable
prices and good practices. If it is
sliding, the fault is not only of the
economy but also of producers.
The key to maintaining
prices and wages is adequate
farm production. During 20042014, it either stagnated or
dwindled. India remains a farmbased economy. Poor farm conditions hit all. The Modi government has started giving it a fresh
look. It shows positive growth.
If this is maintained and farms
become profitable, it would
have sanguine effect on prices
and market.
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Is it truly transformative like the
New Telecom Policy introduced
by the Vajpayee Government or
just another piece of paper,
Kushan Mitra takes a look.
The headlines were blaring
‘Cheap Flights’ and some papers
blew the trumpets declaring how
the Modi Government has finally started reforms. On the face of
it, there are some key announcements in the New Civil Aviation
Policy announced by Civil
Aviation Minister Ashok
Ganapathi Raju, but the headlines
seem to have missed the point.
While the reforms announced will
certainly lead to more flights and
thus enhanced competition,
cheaper flights are not the key part
of the package. Nor is this the most
crucial bit of reform that this
Government has undertaken,
major changes in the power and
coal sector possibly trump this
piece of reform.
Beyond the headlines of
cheaper flights, the biggest single
change in this policy is the decision to ostensibly free international
flights for airlines as the 5/20 rule
that stipulated that an airline
should have five years of experience and a fleet of at least 20 aircraft before they could get international rights, has been scrapped.
The new rule insists that an
airline have at least 20 aircraft
before they can start flying abroad.
The news rule keeps the 20 aircraft
rule and insists that at least 20 aircraft or 20 per cent of an airlines
fleet is deployed domestically
whichever is greater. This means
that an airline can only start flying abroad after they have a fleet
of 21 aircraft, and that too with
only one plane.
The rule change might havre
come too late for Vijay Mallya
whose Kingfisher airlines had
over 40 aircraft deployed to
domestic operations before the old
policy forced Mallya to buy Air
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Deccan which only accelerated
Kingfisher’s demise and could be
seen as the root of all of Mallya’s
troubles. The new rule will help
airlines to expand their operations
abroad quicker, and will help
Indian-carriers not lose out at the
expense of airlines from SouthEast Asia or the Gulf countries
which could fly to India from the
first day of their operations.
It is very unlikely that any airline will start with a fleet of
greater than 20 aircraft, even
Vitara has taken over two years to
build up a fleet, as per airfleets net
of 10 planes. GoAir which could
likely be the first beneficiary of the
ruling could have already qualified under the 5/20 rule. While Air
Asia India could grow its fleet fast
by transferring aircraft between its
other operations to India, the airlines partners Air Asia and the
Tata Group are facing some issues
according to news reports.
In addition, while flying
abroad has been liberalised - to
some countries like the UAE, a
favoured destination for many
Indian carriers using Airbus A320
and Boeing 737 planes flights and
passenger numbers are restricted
under bilateral Air Services
Agreements. India does have
freedom to fly unlimited flights
and passengers to some countries,
but flights to many major markets
are hobbled under this norm.
Then there is the other headline from the new policy - cheap
flights. The first thing to explain
is that this new change will not
make flights between existing
major cities very cheap. In this
regard the Government’s communication has been abysmal, as
many people actually asked
whether this means that flights
between cities like Delhi and
Lucknow or Kolkata and Patna
will now fall to C2500.
The short answer is no they
will not, this new policy is to
ensure connectivity increases
to small airports currently
unconnected to the national air
grid in Tier-II and Tier-III. The
policy talks about building out
many smaller airstrips - say at
Bikaner or Nashik - with small
low-cost terminals and then to
encourage airlines to fly there
provide a viability gap funding
jointly between the State and
Central Governments which
will keep the fare to below
C2500 on these routes.
This is ostensibly a great
idea and could dramatically
increase connectivity in the long
run. Yet in India as of today
almost three-quarters of air traffic starts or ends or connects
between one of four major cities
which are India’s economic powerhouses. The major announcements in civil aviation this
Government has made, may
not be this particular policy but
the second airports near
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milkman who always delivered.
As a veritable blue chip of the
1980s and 1990s, one would
have never imagined the rapidity of its decline and fall. Like so
many of its Engineering
Procurement & Construction
peers and others, who wanted to
imitate it, it has virtually fallen off
the cliff. The same Abhijit Rajan
who as promoter and CMD in
the early 2000s was known for his
time bound deliveries of projects
suddenly was found asleep on the
wheel, unable to shake himself
out of the stupor. In late February
this year, three of its 19 lenders
IDBI Bank, Indian Bank and
UCO Bank decided to convert
loans and interest aggregating to
C24.45 crore into equity.
Following the transaction the
lenders equity holding into the
infrastructure firm increased to
55.43 per cent.
Founded in 1922, Gammon
India (GMON) is amongst the
largest physical infrastructure
construction companies in India.
Gammon’ fortunes began to dip
in 2010 as the infrastructure
sector cramped due to policy
inaction and liquidity constraints.
Interest and finance costs mounted while the backlog of stalled
project sites created due to severe
liquidity crisis adversely affected
project execution. As the economy began to decelerate, its
poster child Gammon also suffered from its strategic investments in overseas subsidiaries
and real estate projects, increased
debt burden and interest liability. Investment in Private Public
Partnership/Build Operate
Transfer arm Gammon
Infrastructure Projects further
weighed on its core EPC business.
A combination of macro-economic factors and imprudent
management decision making
had hobbled the company saddling it with C14,814 crore of debt
sending it into Corporate Debt
Restructuring and then Strategic
Debt Restructuring mode.
Describing the RBI mandated failed Strategic Debt
Restructuring scheme as a
Bandaid for a Bullet Wound,
Religare Institutional Research in
early January this year provided
a scary prognosis, “Under strategic debt restructuring (SDR), a
consortium of lenders (banks)
converts a part of their loan
(debt) in an ailing company into
equity, such that the consortium
owns at least 51 per cent.
Conversion of shares is done at
fair value (lower of market price
or book value) or face value,
whichever is higher. Debt converted into equity and the
remaining outstanding loans are
NOT treated as restructured
assets and the entire debt retains
its existing classification on the
lenders’ books.”
In what has the makings of
a classic debt trap - Lenders will
be unable to revive ailing projects
merely by deferring or rescheduling debt repayment, if the
underlying assets and cash flows
are weak. In most restructuring
cases, banks have had to prop up
the embattled company by:
(1) providing additional
working capital funding and
(2) deferring or funding the
interest due on term and working capital loans.
With these added debt facilities, the general impression is
that upon conclusion of the
SDR process, debt at the stressed
company will rise 70 per cent
from the date of first restructuring. If an SDR package fails, the
concerned account will slip into
NPA and attract high provisioning requirements (35-95 per
cent). For many the SDR scheme
is akin to circling the drain
without really cleaning it.
Implications of failed
restructuring:
(A) Interest accrued but not
due on the initial restructured
debt will have to be reversed
from the date of first restructuring till the date of invoking
SDR.
(B) Interest accrued but not
paid on the accumulated debt
will have to be reversed for 18
months from the time of initiating SDR.
(C) Lenders will be burdened with 100 per cent provisioning towards majority of their
exposure as the loan will be
downgraded to the third category of doubtful asset loss asset
when SDR fails (up from 5 per
cent standard provisioning now.)
(D) We have not accounted
for any interest reversal hit on
additional lending facilities
granted post invoking SDR since
this would be spread over the
tenure of 18 months and would
also include funded interest.
(E) Apart from the provisioning burden, banks will also
have to account for the Mark To
Market hit on the debt converted to equity on evoking SDR. In
case SDR fails, we expect share
prices of the stressed company to
correct by 30-40 per cent.
Construction and engineering major Gammon India has
been reeling under high debt to
the tune of C14,814 crore, invested across engineering, procurement and construction (EPC)
and transmission & distribution
(T&D) businesses. Though cor-
porate debt restructuring (CDR)
in July 2013 provided some
respite, the company’s operating
performance was not enough to
service debt. Analysts reckon that
unavailability of resources on
timely basis; delays in execution
of projects, land acquisition, and
approval of design by clients;
scarcity of labour and materials;
and more than anything else a
liquidity crunch brought the
company to its knees. Between
2010-2013, a whole clutch of
wannabe and existing infra companies bid over aggressively and
bagged contracts on cut throat
margins.
Lack of liquidity took its toll
and in any case the tolls on highways too didn’t materialise, the
biggest damper being land acquisition and forest clearances.
Gammon’s financials got roiled
- for March 31, 2013, the death
knell was sounded - net sales of
C7602 crore and a net loss of
C910 crore. Slip, sliding away, by
September 2015 (for a 12 month
period), net sales were down to
C4224 crore, but helped by other
income of C255 crore, Gammon
managed to show a net profit of
C82 crore. SDR was invoked in
November 2015 since they were
unable to revive the company via
a CDR package. Businesses were
split into three separate units and
SDR was invoked on the company managing the real estate
assets in the Mumbai
Metropolitan Region.
Even now the company has
key projects like Delhi’s Signature
Bridge project (C821 crore),
Bihar elevated road corridor
(C717 crore), Rajahmundry
Godavari bridge (C740 crore),
Chennai Metro project (C1,947
crore), etc, which are at various
stages of development.
Gammon’s 58 per cent sub-
sidiary, Gammon Infrastructure
projects (GIPL), owns almost all
its Build Operate Transfer projects and has a debt of C3500
crore on its books. Of the 17
BOT projects, eight are operational and nine under construction. Revenue generated from
operational projects can take care
of cash flow deficits or cost
overruns from under-construction projects. Since 50 per cent
of projects are operational (mostly port, roads and renewable
energy), the probability of a
haircut will be low to negligible.
Also, since Gammon owns 58
per cent in GIPL, the equity value
works out to C4bn. Stress tests
conducted by the RBI revealed
that the shocks to the infrastructure segment will significantly impact the system, with
the most severe effect of a single
sector shock on the power and
transport sectors. CRISIL meanwhile, expects a rough ride for
road projects that are under
construction. As per their estimates, 50 per cent of under-construction projects spanning
5,080km are at high risk and
have a massive debt of C459bn,
accounting for 74 per cent of
total debt.
Post CDR and SDR,
Gammon continues to have an
outstanding debt pile of C14,569
crore. Last week Gammon India
closed at C11.20 with a market cap
of C409.30 crore. Its total income
for the December 2015 quarter
was C876.93 crore with a net loss
of C121.21 crore. Despite marquee
projects still in hand, the company’s financials have taken such
a bad hit that the provisioning
blow in FY18 @ 95 per cent on
debt o/s post SDR will be C13,841
crore. The hole it has dug for itself
is so deep, that the clawback will
indeed be Herculean.
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=4F34;78)Speculation was rife
on Sunday on who will succeed
Raghuram Rajan as RBI
Governor with over a dozen
names doing the rounds, including that of Deputy Governor Urjit
Patel, former CAG Vinod Rai and
SBI
chief
Arundhati
Bhattacharya.
Though there was no official
word, the rumour mills were agog
on who would be the next at the
helm of the central bank, a day
after Rajan made a surprise
announcement that he was not
interested in a second term and
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said
a successor would be announced
shortly.
Among the speculated
names, Patel has been known as
‘inflation lieutenant’ of Rajan at
RBI, while Bhattacharya’s tenure
as SBI Chairperson also ends in
September -- the same month
when Rajan would demit office.
Rai, the former Comptroller
and Auditor General of India who
is known to have flagged the 2G
scam, is currently heading the
newly-constituted Banks Board
Bureau, set up to help the gov-
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this office”, the outgoing
Raghuram Rajan said days
before
his
surprise
announcement that he was
not interested in a second
term.
Rajan, a former IMF
Chief Economist who is cred-
ited to have predicted the
2008 global financial crisis,
has been often hailed as the
‘rockstar central banker’ ever
since becoming RBI Governor
in September 2013 and for
containing rupee volatility
amid global market uncertainties.
Besides, he has also been
often praised for containing
inflation to a large extent and
for forcing the banks to do a
“deep surgery” to clean up
their books of bad loans. At
the same time, he has also
been criticised by some quarters for his hawkish monetary
policy stance and refusing to
heed to demands for lowering
interest rates to boost the
economy.
“What is important is to not
personalise this office. It will
survive any Governor, it is bigger than any Governor,” the
ernment appoint heads of public
sector banks and advice on banking reforms.
The names doing the rounds
also include Chief Economic
Advisor Arvind Subramanian,
World Bank Chief Economist
Kaushik Basu, Revenue Secretary
Shakatikanta Das, former Advisor
to Finance Minister Parthsarathi
Shome, BRICS Bank head and
ICICI Bank veteran KV Kamath
and Sebi Chairman U K Sinha.
Like Rajan, Sinha was made
Sebi Chairman during the previous UPA regime but was given a
surprise and rare extension by the
NDA Government in February
days before his already extended
tenure of five years was to end.
Other names being speculated are former RBI Deputy
Governors Rakesh Mohan and
Subir Gokarn, former Finance
Secretary Vijay Kelkar, former
CCI Chairman Ashok Chawla,
former CEA Ashok Lahiri and
noted economist R Vaidyanathan.
While most of these people
could not be immediately contacted for their comments,
Mohan said it is “premature to
discuss” his candidature, while
Bhattacharya had yesterday said
that “Rajan is a person of very
high caliber, who has built ably on
the reputation of our central
bank and given it a very large
measure of credibility”.
Basu, also a former CEA,
tweeted Rajan has been one of the
finest central bank governors
eserve Bank will survive
any Governor and it is
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important not to “personalise
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=4F34;78)The chief of SIT on
black money feels it will be
“difficult” for those holding
untaxed assets to avoid disclosure under the ongoing
one-time compliance window
opened by the Government
after the limited sucess of a
similar scheme launched last
year for those with tainted
money overseas.
SIT Chairman Justice
(retd) MB Shah said the
Income Tax department has
“tightened each and every
angle” under the current
scheme, and hence evading
disclosure under this scheme
will be “hundred per cent” difficult.
“The last such scheme was
not successful... Rather it was
successful to some extent in
the sense that attention was
drawn prominently that if
something is found (at a later
stage) they will be subsequently prosecuted... To some
extent it had a deterrent effect.
“Now, this time it will be
difficult (for evaders),” Shah
told the news agency.
He said the issue of Pnotes (participatory notes) has
also been “controlled” to a
large extent and hence it will
not be easy for tax evaders to
hide their assets and funds
from agencies like the Income
Tax department and they will
now have to disclose it to
them.
The SIT had last year suggested that market regulator
Sebi put in place regulations
that will help identify individuals holding P-Notes or
offshore derivative instruments (ODIs), and take other
steps required to curb black
money and tax evasion
through the stock market
route.
P-Notes are used by a
large number of foreign
investors to park funds in the
equity market without disclosing their identity to the
Sebi.
Talking about the probe in
the ‘Panama Papers’ issue, the
SIT Chairman said investigating agencies are facing “difficulties” in reaching to the
bottom of the matter as they
are not getting specific account
numbers and people named in
the list are also “not disclosing”
the details to the taxman. On
the issue of bank loan frauds,
Shah said it was thedomain of
the RBI which can act and
comment upon them.
Vice Chairman of the SIT
Justice (retd) Arijit Pasayat
also said they were “hopeful”
that the one-time compliance
window provided to domestic
black money holders will be
successful.
On ‘Panama Papers’,
Pasayat said the follow up
action of probe agencies is
“bound” to produce good
results.
Under the compliance window called Income Declaration
Scheme (IDS), income as
declared by the eligible persons,
would be taxed at the rate of 45
per cent which is 30 per cent
plus a ‘Krishi Kalyan Cess’ of 25
per cent on the taxes payable
and a penalty at the rate of 25
per cent of the taxes payable on
the income declared.
It opened on June 1 and
will close in September. Taxes
have to be paid by November
30. The scheme was announced
by the Government with an
aim to squeeze out black
money from the domestic
economy.
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Economist magazine quoted
Rajan as saying in its latest edition.
The comments are believed
to have been made amid intense
speculation on whether he
would get an extension or not
as RBI Governor -- in the runup to his own disclosure in a
publicly- disseminated “Message
to RBI staff” that he would
return to academia after the end
of his current three-year tenure.
anywhere.
Rajan, who will have the
shortest tenure as RBI Governor
since liberalisation began in 1991,
is also one of the few nonbureaucrats in this post as most
of his predecessors had been
IAS officers.
Traditionally, applications
have never been invited for the
post of RBI Governor unlike
many other regulatory posts. As
per the reports, a high-level
panel -- the FinancialSector
Regulatory Appointment Search
Committee -- could have been
tasked to shortlist the candidates
for the post of the next RBI
Governor, after which the final
decision would be taken by the
Government.
However, it is not clear as yet
whether the shortlisting would be
done by this panel, headed by
Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha, or
by the Appointments Committee
of the Cabinet (ACC) as has been
the case traditionally.
Rajan, an on-leave Professor
of Finance at Chicago University
whose current three-year term as
RBI Governor ends on
September 4, said last evening
that he has decided to return to
academia “on due reflection,
and after consultation with the
Government” though his work
was “yet to be completed” on
containing inflation and cleaning
up bank books.
Reacting to his decision, a
number of industry leaders and
economists have said it would be
a tough task ahead for the person who succeeds Rajan as the
next RBI Governor.
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=4F34;78)Regulator Sebi and
stock exchanges have beefed up
their surveillance and risk
management mechanism to
ring-fence capital markets from
any excessive volatility tomorrow on account of RBI
Governor Raghuram Rajan’s
surprise decision against a second term.
Banks and forex dealers are
also gearing up to meet any
excessive money demand, especially for dollar, on concerns
that Rajan’s eventual exit this
September could trigger capital outflows amid jitters among
foreign investors.
Maintaining that the
Indian capital markets have a
robust risk management and
surveillance mechanism in
place, senior officials said they
have beefed up the systems to
check any adverse eventuality.
The regulator and the
bourses would also keep a
strict vigil for manipulators
looking to exploit the volatile
trends expected in stocks and
derivatives, including those
linked to rupee’s movement
against other foreign currencies, they added.
Besides, brokers, portfolio
managers and other market
intermediaries would be under
a close watch for any attempts
to lure small retail investors
into promises of hefty gains
from the futures and options
trading, especially in banking
stocks and indices.
According to officials, the
financial market regulators,
including RBI itself, were
already bracing up for volatile
trends ahead of the Brexit referendum this week, but Rajan’s
sudden announcement over
the weekend has added to the
worry.
“Only respite is that Rajan
chose a Saturday to make the
announcement as any such
development on a weekday
during trading hours could
have been much more serious
despite a robust risk management and surveillance mechanism in place,” a senior official
said.
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=4F 34;78) Calling RBI
Governor Raghuram Rajan’s exit
a ‘bad omen’ for the Indian economy, eminent economists and
former policymakers on Sunday
said it will be seen by the world
as India’s non-approval to a policy against inflation and bad
loans.
Rajan’s colleague at Chicago
University Booth School of
Business Luigi Zingales termed
it is a “huge loss for India”,
while Harvard University professor Gita Gopinath said it was
“deeply disappointing” that the
Government instead of fighting
hard to keep Rajan has let him
go amid all the distasteful comments by those questioning his
commitment to India’s best interests.
Indian-origin economist
and British Labour Party leader
Meghnad Desai said he feels
“sorry for India’s reputation
abroad”, while World Bank’s
Chief Economist and India’s former Chief Economic Advisor
Kaushik Basu said Rajan has
been one of the finest central
bank governors anywhere.
53-year old Rajan, a former
IMF Chief Economist with a reputation to have rightly called the
2008 global financial crisis, yesterday made public his decision
against a second term as RBI
Governor after his currently
three-year tenure ends on
September 4, 2016.
Rajan, the on-leave Professor
of Finance at Chicago Booth
School, said he would return to
academia but would be ready to
serve India again in future.
Rajan indicated he was willing to take a shot at a second
term, saying he was “open to seeing” through his unfinished
work on containing inflation and
cleaning up the books of bank,
but said no to a second term “on
due reflection, and after consultation with the Government”.
This is being seen in some
quarters as his unhappiness over
the way things have developed in
recent months with regard to a
barrage of personal attacks on
him from some quarters and the
government reaction to that.
Echoing the sentiments of
various top industry leaders
from India, who termed Rajan’s
exit as ‘nation’s loss’, the econ-
omists from abroad and the
former policymakers back
home said it can prove to be
“very costly” for Indian economy.
Gopinath told the news
agency history will judge Rajan
as one of the most effective central bankers of not just India but
of the world”. “This is a very sad
day for the Indian economy and
it isdeeply disappointing that
the government instead of
fighting hard to keep Rajan has
let him go amidst all the distasteful comments cluding
those that question his performance and his commitment to
India’s best interest,” Gopinath,
John Zwaanstra Professor of
International Studies and of
Economics, told PTI.
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=4F 34;78) Free samples and
gifts offered with purchases as
well as popular 'buy-one-getone-free' deals may attract the
proposed Goods and Services
Tax (GST) levy which
Government plans to roll out
from April next year.
The model GST law,
unveiled by the Government
last week for stakeholder comments, says that any supply sans
any consideration will attract
tax. This would cover free gifts
and samples as well as buy-oneget-one-free deals, tax experts
said.
Section 3 of the model
GST law defines a supply of
goods and services to include
ones “made or agreed to be
made without a consideration.”
Under the Schedule-1 for
'Matters to be Treated as Supply
Without Consideration', the
law further goes on to define
them as “Supply of goods and
/ or services by a taxable person to another taxable or nontaxable person in the course or
furtherance of business.”
Simply put, buyers will
have to pay GST on articles
they receive free.
“GST will be entirely based
on the concept of a 'supply',
which now includes even goods
and/ or services supplied without consideration by a taxable
person in the course of or furtherance of business,” said
Rohit Jain, Partner, Economic
Laws Practice.
KPMG India National
Head (Indirect Tax) Sachin
Menon said, “This will impact
the sales and marketing cost of
companies which follow the
system of free samples or free
supply strategy such as “buy
one get one free.”
Presently, for a free sample
of goods, excise duty is payable
but VAT/ CST is not payable.
However, proportionate input
tax credit under VAT is
reversible in some states.
“The net impact for businesses will, therefore, be the
difference between the existing Excise and VAT cost, and
the GST which will become
payable,” Jain said. “Similarly,
complimentary services (for
which no charges/ fees are
payable) which do not currently attract Service tax, will
suffer GST.”
GST, which the government plans to roll out from
April 1 next year, is to subsume central levies like excise
duty and service tax as well as
state levies of VAT/sales tax,
entertainment tax, luxury tax,
octroi, entry tax, purchase
tax and state cess and surcharges.
Linked to the provision of
taxing free supplies is the
value to be attributed to such
free goods/ ser vice. Tax
experts said this will ordinarily be based on the value of
identical or similar goods/
services, or on the cost plus
mark-up for such goods/ services.
According to Nangia &Co
Partner Nitish Sharma, the
transaction value shall include
the value of such goods and/or
services as are supplied directly or indirectly by the recipi-
ent of the supply free of charge
or at reduced cost for use in
connection with the supply of
goods and/or services being
valued, to the extent that such
value has not been included in
the price actually paid or
payable.
Menon said the section 3 of
the model law make the free
supplies in the course of business either to another registered or unregistered dealer or
to an individual, taxable.
Sharma said, “post supply
discounts or incentives known
at or before the time of supply,
shall not form part of the
transaction value. Also the discount allowed in the course of
normal trade practice may not
form part of the transaction
value”.
Apart from this, certain
other goods/ service transactions without consideration are
also treated as supplies under
GST, including permanent disposal of business assets as well
as assets retained by a business
after deregistration.
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RQ)',URDGPDSRQ7XHVGD\
=4F 34;7) The
Prime
Minister's Office has convened
a meeting on June 21 to deliberate upon a roadmap for further easing FDI norms to attract
more foreign investment.
“Prime Minister Narendra
Modi is likely to chair the
meeting in which officials from
ministries,
including
Commerce and Industry,
Finance and Home Affairs,
would participate,” sources said.
The meeting assumes significance as the government is
considering relaxing FDI norms
in more sectors, including existing pharmaceutical companies.
The Department of
Economic Affairs has proposed
that FDI up to 49 per cent
should be allowed in existing
pharmaceutical companies
through the automatic route
and anything beyond through
approval of the Foreign
Investment Promotion Board
(FIPB).
FDI in the sector is a contentious issue as concerns have
been raised over mergers and
acquisitions of Indian pharma
companies by foreign giants.
The Department of
Industrial Policy and
Promotion (DIPP) has also
proposed complete ban of FDI
in tobacco sector. The proposal was supported by the
Finance and Health Ministry
but Niti Aayog has raised certain issues.
According to sources, the
other sectors which may see
some kind of policy tweaking
include single brand retail and
food processing.
Last year, the Government
relaxed FDI norms in about
dozen sectors at one go including defence, retail and construction development.
Steps have also been taken
to improve business climate of
the country by promoting ease
of doing business.
FDI in the country has
touched an all time high of $40
billion in 2015-16.
Foreign investment is considered crucial for India, which
needs around $1 trillion for
overhauling its infrastructure
sector such as ports, airports
and highways to boost growth.
A strong inflow of foreign
investments will help improve
the country's balance of payments situation and strengthen the rupee value against
other global currencies, especially the US dollar.
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whatsoever either in US or in
=4F34;78)Essar Oil, India's sec-
ond largest private oil refiner, plans
to nearly double its petrol pumps
to 4,300 in next 18 months, a
senior company executive said.
“We have 2,225 petrol pumps
now which we will increase to
4,300 in next 18 months,” Essar
Oil's CEO Retail Madhur Taneja
said.
The retail network expansion
planned is on franchise model and
will entail an investment of about
C2,500 crore by the pump owners.
“We were the first private
company to enter fuel retailing
business when we in 2003 opened
our first petrol station,” he said.
The network was expanded
to 1,400 outlets before the expansion was frozen in 2008-09 in view
of private retailers being unable to
compete with heavily subsidised
public sector oil firms.
After diesel price was deregulated or freed from government
control in October 2014, the
expansion was restarted and network has reached 2,225 now, he
said. “We saw sales volume
increase from 700,000 kilolitres in
2014-15 to 1.67 million kl in
2015-16 and we hope to continue to grow at over 100 per cent
this year as well against an industry growth of 7-7.5 per cent,” he
said.
Essar Oil has a pan-India network now except for Jammu
and Kashmir and the North East,
he said. Its first petrol pump came
up in Maharashtra about 13
years ago in 2003. Essar Oil was
the first private company to enter
petro product retailing in India at
a time when the government was
experimenting with the idea of
deregulated oil pricing by freeing
up the price of ATF.
After a brief spell of deregulated product pricing, the diesel
market was again regulated in
2004. The move posed challenges for private oil companies
like Essar.
Through the course of this
regulation regime, Essar Oil, in
a bid to keep its retail ambitions
alive, provided financial support to its franchisees through
various schemes, thus helping
them in tiding over the difficult
times, he said.
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behemoth SBI has been
named in a 'Hall of Shame'
list of 158 banking and financial institutions globally that
have invested billions of dollars in companies making
cluster bombs.
State Bank of India (SBI)
is the only Indian entity on
the list, which includes global giants like JP Morgan,
Barclays, Bank of America
and Credit Suisse that invested over $28 billion in seven
producers of cluster munitions between June 2012 and
April 2016, according to a
report by Dutch campaign
group PAX.
While SBI said it “always
works in accordance with
local laws and regulations”
and there is “no prohibition,
whatsoever either in US or in
India to finance such commercial projects”, PAX said
the investments have been
made in these cluster bomb
producers despite an international ban.
In its 275-page report,
PAX said the Convention on
categorically bans use, production, stockpiling and
transfer of cluster munitions.
This convention was
signed by 94 countries in
2008 and it came into force
from August 1, 2010.
Most financial institutions named in the Pax list
are from countries that have
not signed this convention.
However, there are also banks
from the countries that have
adopted this treaty over years.
The maximum number of
74 banks are from the US, followed by China (29) and
South Korea (26).
SBI has been included in
the list because of its exposure to Orbital ATK, a USbased company specialising
in the design, manufacture
and launch of small and
medium-class space and
rocket systems for commercial, military and other government customers.
Orbital ATK is one of the
world's largest manufacturers
of ammunition and a leading
supplier of precision systems
The company is also
active in propulsion systems,
the report added.
Pax said “State Bank of
India (India) has made an
estimated $87 million available to the companies on the
red flag list since June 2012.”
When contacted, an SBI
spokesperson said, “The syndicated deal was arranged
for Orbital ATK Inc by major
global banks -- Wells Fargo
Securities LLC, BoA Merrill
Lynch, Citigroup JP Morgan,
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi,
SunTr ust
Robins on
Humphrey among others.”
“ The mandated joint
leaders had conducted due
diligence and completed
compliance procedures on
the lendee company.
“To achieve its business
growth objectives, SBI participates in syndicated credit
deals to finance projects
across the globe. SBI always
works in accordance with
local laws and regulations
and would like to confirm
that there is no prohibition,
India to finance such commercial projects,” the
spokesperson said in a statement.
Pax said its earlier 'Hall of
Shame' list published in 2014
had 151 financial institutions.
Of these, 112 financial institutions are still in the 2016 list
and 34 have been removed,
while 44 new ones have been
included.
It further said these 158
financial institutions invested
more than $28 billion in the
seven cluster munitions producers -- China Aerospace
Science and Industry (China),
China Aerospace Science and
Technology (China), Hanwha
(S outh Korea), Norinco
(China), Orbital ATK (US),
Poongsan (South Korea) and
Textron (US).
These financial institutions provided loans for at
least $6.3 billion, provided
investment banking services
worth at least $9.1 billion
and owned or managed shares
and bonds worth at least
$13.0 billion.
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eliance Industries said it
was shocked at reports
R
that suggest the company
had been victims of unauthorised and illegal tapping
of telephones and it reserves
its right for legal action.
“Conversations attributed to us are false and
appear to have been doctored by someone who seeks
to defame us,” said a statement from the spokesperson
of the company.
We have, at all times,
abided by the law of the
land both, in letter and in
spirit in all our actions and
business activities and any
suggestion of any wrongdoing is plainly false. The
reports are unfortunate as
they make allegations without accepting any responsibility for the veracity of the
contents. We reserve our
legal rights to act against
this kind of sensationalism,” added the statement.
“We expect the author-
ities to take a serious view
of these alleged violations of
ou r r i g ht to pr iv a c y i f
indeed there has been any
illegal wire tapping. We also
expect the authorities to
verify the truth of these
allegations and take action
against t hes e ma licious
falsehoods,” said the statement
“We will render full cooperation to any authority
in ascertaining the truth
and remain confident of
demonstrating that the salacious allegations are false
and at all times, we have
abided by the law,” added
the statement.
T h e s t at e m e nt f rom
Reliance Industries follows
an Indian Express report
suggesting that a complaint
has been made to the Prime
Minister's Office by a lawyer
alleging illegal wire taps by
a top company on phones of
former, also now-serving,
ministers, corporate capt a i n s a n d b u r e au c r at s
between 2001 and 2006.
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rivals Hero MotoCorp and
Honda Motorcycle and Scooter
India (HMSI) in the mid-end
motorcycle segment in the first
two months of the ongoing fiscal, Bajaj Auto is focussing to further increase market share in the
category.
In order to turn up the heat
on its competitors, the Punebased firm has also reduced the
price of its Pulsar 134LS model
by around C4,000.
In the mid-end segment
(more than 110cc to less than
150cc) of the motorcycle market,
as per SIAM data, sales were at
5,90,318 units in the April-May
period this fiscal, up 35.57 per
cent from 4,35,412 units in the
year-ago period.
Bajaj Auto sold 1,75,190
units during the period as against
94,761 units in the corresponding period last fiscal, up 84.87 per
cent.
On the other hand Hero
Motocorp sold 1,58,304 units in
the April-May period this fiscal
in the segment as against 1,28,767
units in the year ago period.
HMSI sold 1,56,855 units in
the same period this year in the
segment as against 1,55,120 units
in the year-ago period.
Bajaj Auto's models, such as
Discover 125, Pulsar 135LS, and
the V15.
It competes with the likes of
Hero MotoCorp's models such as
Glamour, Super Splendor and
Ignitor, and HMSI's models and
CB Shine and CB Shine SP,
which are priced in the range of
C55,000 to C65,000.
“In FY 17 we're focused on
increasing share in the value segment. Towards this end, we
have launched the V15. This
model has been very well
received. Further, we have
aligned the price of the P135, to
reflect their premium positioning at the top of the value segment,” Bajaj Auto President
(Business Development &
Assurance) S Ravikumar told the
news agency.
He, however, did not share
the quantum of price reduction
of the Pulsar 135LS model,
which is currently quoted at
C58,002 (ex-showroom Delhi), it
was earlier priced around Rs
62,000.
The company's new model
V15, on the other hand, is priced
at C62,002 (ex-showroom Delhi).
Ravikumar said Bajaj Auto
has been able to enhance its position in the entry level segment
through models like the new CT
and Platina, while it has also
done the same in the premium
segment.
“With the new Avengers
doing extremely well, we
improved our market share to
47 per cent in the premium segment,” he said. In March this
year, Ravikumar had said the
company would launch six new
products in six months in order
to enhance its overall strength
in the domestic motorcycle
market.
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stricter norms to regulate highfrequency trades (HFT), leading algo trading system
providers say the usage of this
technology is set to surge in the
country and be at par with
developed economies.
HFT, also called 'algo' trading in market parlance, refers to
orders generated at a super-fast
speed by use of advanced mathematical models that involve
automated execution of trade.
It is mostly used by large institutional investors.
As per experts, algorithm
(algo) trades currently represent
35-40 per cent of the total
transactions in the domestic
capital markets -- nearly half of
the levels recorded in developed
countries.
However, it is expected that
India would eventually be at par
with the developed economies
with 80 per cent of the total
stock market turnover expected to be through HFT by 2020.
“With time, all technologies
get cheaper and available to
mass markets, technologies that
facilitate algo/ HFT would take
that path as well,” uTrade
Solutions founder and CEO
Kunal Nandwani told the news
agency.
“We foresee that as Indian
markets continue to attract
global capital by 2020, the share
of HFT in total transaction
turnover would shoot up to
match the benchmark of 80 per
cent and above as in developed
markets,” Nandwani added.
Echoing the sentiments,
Symphony Fintech Co-Founder
and CEO Praveen K Gupta said:
“India is very fast in adopting
any technology... Usage of
HFT and algo is unstoppable in
India. It is bound to grow
much more in short time.”
The rise of HFT has raised
concerns in India with regard
to its impact on market quality, financial stability and regulatory framework.
Concerned over the risks
from such trades, the Securities
and Exchange Board of India
(Sebi) is working on a set of
norms to ensure fair opportunities to those without such latest trading technologies.
While noting that there
were no market irregularities in
the last four years that can be
attributed to algo trading,
Nandwani said that Sebi's concerns around unfair market
access and systemic risks to
market stability “are valid”.
However, he added that
these issues need to be
addressed by understanding
their root cause rather than
“either banning or pressing the
brakes on HFT altogether”.
“Through co-location of servers
at the exchange premises, institutional players will reap the
advantage of faster access to
market information and hence
facilitation of more efficient
trade execution through the use
of algo,” Nandwani said.
“This differential market
access comes at a price and
hence should not be construed
as unfair,” he noted.
According to Gupta,
traders in a hurry to make
money generally skip the part
of sufficiently testing the algos
in the real-time environment.
“In US, traders have easy
access to design and test the
algos before doing live trading,” he said, adding that India
needs to keep enhancing the
technologies ahead of time
and ensure that processes are
being followed.
In developed markets
such as the US, UK and
Singapore, algo trades constitute over 80 per cent of the
daily turnover.
“From a risk management
perspective, the extant systems
adopted by Sebi and Indian
stock exchanges are as robust
if not better than those in
developed markets to handle
complex algo trading strategies,” Nandwani said.
The experts noted HFT
trades gives higher possibility to make better money,
though it also comes with
higher expenses.
“HFT is an imperative
part of stock market trading
world-wide... It provides higher liquidity,” Gupta said.
“The facility should be
extended to other class of
investors so that they are also
allowed to make use of technology to minimise their losses, while maximising profits
with discipline and scientific
processes,” he added.
Going by estimates of
uTrade S olutions, HFT
turnover as a percentage of
overall turnover in the equity segment has risen from 25
per cent in 2012 to 42 per cent
as on date.
In the equity derivatives
segment, the same has surged
from 22 per cent to 56 per
cent.
Under the pre-trade risk
management system mandated
by Sebi, every algo goes
through exchange approval
and thorough testing process
which involves 13 risk checks
done at different levels (trader,
trading group, broker and
client member) before any algo
trade goes to the market. ?C8
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large group of restaurateurs led by a Bangladeshi
A
union has made a common
cause with Indian-origin minister Priti Patel to call for
Britain's exit from the EU in a
highly-anticipated referendum
this week to “save” the 4-billion-pound curry industry
struggling with staff shortage.
The move has made the
'clash of curries' a central
theme to the campaign in the
lead up to Thursday's referendum which will decide
Britain's future in the 28member European Union.
The Bangladesh Caterers
Association (BCA) has sided
with Patel to call for 'Brexit' to
“save Britain's curry industry”,
arguing that free movement of
people from Europe hampers
the industry's ability to bring
in trained chefs from the
Indian sub-continent.
“Curry is our national dish
but unfortunately four to five
curry houses are closing every
week. There is a clear double
standard in the immigration
policy, where we are unable to
bring in skilled chefs but thousands are free to come in
from Europe,” said Pasha
Khandekar, president of the
BCA, which represents around
12,000 restaurants and takeaways up and down the UK
with their roots in the subcontinent.
However, on the opposing
end is the UK's Asian Catering
Federation (ACF) which has
been backing the campaign for
Britain to remain in the EU,
while continuing to lobby the
Government on staff shortages
within the curry industry.
The ACF, which represents a wider network of
around 20,000 restaurants by
working alongside the
Federation of Bangladeshi
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embracing “leave” campaigner Nigel Farage's vision
of Britain and its role in the
world ahead of the country's
referendum on its EU membership.
Cameron says Farage
wants to take Britain “backwards” and divide rather
than unite.
He made the argument
in an article in the Sunday
Telegraph, as large rallies
ahead of the EU vote
remained suspended following the killing Thursday of
Labour Party lawmaker Jo
Cox.
Meanwhile, prominent
“leave” campaigner Boris
Johnson told the Sun on
Sunday newspaper that a
British exit, or Brexit, offers
voters a “once in a lifetime”
chance to change British life.
Both sides are expected
to resume full-scale campaigning shortly ahead of the
Thursday vote.
Caterers UK, the Chinese
Takeaway Association UK and
the Malaysian Restaurant
Association, believes Brexit is
not the answer to Britain's
curry woes.
“The ACF recognises the
contribution of EU members,
ritish Prime Minister
David Cameron has
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warned of the dangers of
especially those from Eastern
Europe, who are prepared to
undertake demanding work
and anti-social hours associated with the hospitality industry,” it said in a statement.
ACF president Yawar
Khan has also written to
British Prime Minister David
Cameron to further discuss
the problems faced by the
curry industry but has meanwhile asked its members to
vote to remain in the EU.
Curry dates back to 1810
in the UK, when the first
such restaurant opened in the
country. It has since become a
generic term used to refer to
food originating in the Indian
subcontinent and tailored to
suit British palates. Chicken
Tikka Masala, a typically
British twist to chicken curry,
has been famously-branded
the nation's favourite dish.
Curry houses in particular
have their roots largely among
Bangladeshi-origin migrants,
with some from India and
Pakistan. In recent times,
authentically Indian restaurants with roots in India tend
to occupy the slightly higherend of the market. However,
stricter immigration norms
over the years have made it
tougher for many of these
restaurants to bring in qualified chefs from the subcontinent, leading to the closure of
hundreds of curry houses in
the past year.
“Curry has become a powerful symbol of our diverse
and tolerant society, one that
welcomes those who work
hard, pay their taxes and contribute. That includes the generations of Indians, Pakistanis
and Bangladeshis who have
brought their wonderful cooking to Britain.
But it also includes more
recent waves of immigration
from Eastern Europe who
have also brought their own
unique contributions to our
country,” says Keith Vaz,
another Indian-origin MP
who is campaigning for Britain
to remain in the EU.
The chair of the influential
House of Commons Home
Affairs Select Committee has
repeatedly challenged Patel's
claims over EU being responsible for Britain's curry demise.
He said: “The heart of the
problem is the current visa
scheme which has set a salary
threshold of 29,750 pounds for
chefs, much higher than the
average salary for cooks in
curry houses. This makes it
extremely difficult for the
nation's curry restaurants to
recruit chefs from abroad.
“This could easily be
solved in a stroke of Priti
Patel's pen by lowering the
minimum salary requirement
for chefs, something I have
campaigned for along with
MPs from all parties. But Priti
has failed to address this vital
issue and is now conveniently using the EU as a scapegoat.”
Patel, who is part of the
UK Cabinet as employment
minister, believes a fairer
immigration system is the
only solution to this curry
clash.
“Our curry houses are
becoming the victims of the
EU's uncontrolled immigration rules. By voting to leave the
EU we can take back control of
our immigration policies, save
our curry houses and join the
rest of the world,” she said.
Patel last month launched
a “Save Our Curry Houses”
campaign, blaming EU migration for the industry crisis.
With opinion polls showing
a lead for the Vote Leave camp
in the last few days, it would
seem her end of the argument
is resonating with at least some
curry lovers.
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central Indonesia have
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killed at least 35 people and
destroyed dozens of homes, an
official said on Sunday, as
searchers scoured devastated
villages for survivors.
Dozens were also missing
or injured following torrential
rain and widespread flooding
on the main island of Java,
where thousands of homes
have been swamped.
Areas prone to landslides
across densely-populated
Central Java province have
been worst hit, with drivers
swept off roads and dozens of
homes completely destroyed by
fast-moving walls of mud, rock
and water. TV footage showed
villagers sitting on rooftops to
escape the rising water, their
cars and homes submerged in
brown water.
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from floods and landslides in
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25 people missing and 14
injured,” said disaster agency
spokesman Sutopo Purwo
Nugroho.The worst-hit area
was Purworejo district on Java’s
south coast, where 19 people
were killed, he said.In one incident in the district, nine people
died as they tried to clear rubble
from a blocked road.
“Suddenly a huge landslide struck the cars and people on the street. Nine bodies
were retrieved,” Sutopo said.In
Banjarnegara, where six people
were killed in an avalanche of
mud, residents were bracing for
the prospect of further floods.
Emergency crews were trying
to clear roads of felled trees and
rocks dumped by huge land-
slides, an AFP journalist at the
scene said.
Heavy lifting equipment
was being used in the hunt for
survivors in Purworejo but
access to sites elsewhere was
difficult, said Sutopo.
Hundreds of rescuers were
being forced to shift debris with
their bare hands in some areas.
Evacuation
centres,
equipped with temporary shelters and kitchens, have been
erected near the disaster zones.
Sutopo said that much of
the flooding had subsided but
he warned people to stay on
alert as heavy rains could continue into the next day.
Landslides are not uncommon in Indonesia, a vast tropical archipelago prone to natural disasters and torrential
downpours.Last month 15 students holidaying at a popular
tourist spot in western
Indonesia were killed when a
landslide swept through their
camp ground.
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remark,
presumptive
IRepublican
presidential nominee Donald Trump on Sunday
said that the US should start
thinking about racial profiling
to prevent incidents like the
mass shooting in Orlando.
Citing the example of Israel
and other countries in this
regard, 70-year-old Trump
argued this is not the worst
thing to do.
“Well I think profiling is
something that we’re going to
have to start thinking about as
a country,” Trump told the
CBS’s Face the Nation in an
interview.
“Other countries do it, you
look at Israel and you look at
others, they do it and they do
it successfully. And I hate the
concept of profiling but we
have to start using common
sense and we have to use our
heads,” he argued.
Trump’s comments come
one week after 49 people were
shot and killed in a gay nightclub in Orlando, the deadliest
mass shooting in US history.
Following the massacre, Trump
renewed his calls for a temporary ban on Muslims entering
the US.
During the interview,
Trump, said horrific incidents
like Orlando shooting could be
prevented if the Muslim com-
munity would report suspicious
things.
“When you look at, when
you look at people within the
Muslim community and where
people are living and they don’t
report, and a good example of
that would be San Bernardino,”
he said.
“I mean, they had bombs
all over their apartment floor
and people saw it and nobody
reported them, and 14 people
were killed, many injured,” he
added.
Trump said Omar Mateen,
the Orlando shooter, had red
flags before the attack.
“You look at his past, I
mean? I’ve never seen a past
quite like that. You look at his
record in school, you look at
a lot of other things. There
were a lot of red flags, this was
not a very good young man,”
he said.
6.6 magnitude earthquake struck off the
A
Pacific island nation of
Vanuatu on Sunday, the
United States Geological
Survey (USGS) said.
There were no immediate
reports of damage or casualties, and no tsunami warning
was issued.
Vanuatu is part of the
“Ring of Fire”, a zone of tectonic activity around the
Pacific that is subject to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
The shallow quake struck
101 kilometres (63 miles)
southwest of the town of Isangel
on Tanna island, USGS said.
Vanuatu has been rocked
by a series of quakes this year,
including some that prompted tsunami warnings.
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Naha (Japan): Tens of thousands rallied on sunday on the
Japanese island of Okinawa to
protest against the heavy US
military presence and violent
crimes by American personnel
that have angered residents for
decades.
Demonstrators, claimed by
organisers to total 65,000, gathered in the prefectural Capital
Naha, infuriated with the
United States after a former
Marine employed as a civilian
base worker allegedly raped
and murdered a young local
woman in April.
The case has intensified
longstanding opposition to the
bases-a key part of the USJapan security alliance-on the
sub-tropical southern outpost,
a popular holiday destination
for Japanese and increasingly
for China and other Asian
countries.
Okinawa hosts about
26,000 US troops, more than
half the total Washington keeps
in all of Japan.
The demonstration was
held at an athletics park under
scorching heat. Police did not
have an immediate crowd estimate.It began with a moment
of silence for 20-year-old Rina
Shimabukuro, the murder victim, and a message from her
father.
“Why my daughter, why
was she killed?” said the message,
read on his behalf. “My thoughts
are the same as those of all the
bereaved families that have met
with suffering up to now.”
One protester carried a
banner reading, “Murderer
Marines
Out
of
Okinawa”.Others read, “Our
anger is past its limit” and “Pull
out the Marines.”Chihiro
Uchimura, 71, said she was
filled with sadness at
Shimabukuro’s death.
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n a horrific incident, a 17Iraped
year-old girl in the UK was
and stabbed in the stomach after being dragged out of
a restaurant by a man in a “violent and pre-planned attack” in
a busy town centre.
The 32-year-old man, who
according to police’s prima
facie investigation was known
to the victim, entered the Pizza
Hut branch in Epsom at around
10.30 pm (local time) and
assaulted a member of staff who
tried to intervene, before dragging the girl from the building
and leaving the area on foot.
The girl, who has suffered
a “horrific ordeal”, was subjected to the “violent and preplanned attack” on Friday
evening in Epsom, Surrey,
police said.
The girl was rushed to a
nearby hospital in Tooting
where she is in a serious but not
life-threatening condition,
Surrey Police said.
Police arrested the man in
a nearby recreation ground
soon after the incident
occurred. He was arrested on
suspicion of attempted murder,
kidnap, rape and grievous bodily harm and is in custody.
Detective Inspector Nick
Chambers said the girl had suffered a “horrific ordeal”.” This
appears to have been a violent
and pre-planned attack which
took place in a very public location in the centre of Epsom,”
Chambers said.
“Epsom on Friday night is
a busy place so I am sure
passers-by and motorists must
have seen this incident unfolding and I would like to hear
from anyone who saw anything
out of the ordinary in or around
Pizza Hut or Court Recreation
Ground Friday night.
“A member of staff at Pizza
Hut tried to intervene when the
man entered the restaurant
and suffered injuries to his arm
as a result but fortunately his
injuries are not believed to be
serious,” he said.
The victim and the man
are thought to know each other
and officers are not looking for
anyone else in connection with
the incident, he added.
“As long as there are US
military bases this kind of incident will continue to happen,”
she said.Rally organisers in
Okinawa said similar protests
were held throughout the
country.
In Tokyo some 3,000 people gathered outside parliament for a rally with some signs
reading “No base, no rape in
Okinawa” and “Marines, go
home”.
Hatsuko Aoki, one of the
demonstrators, shouted
through a microphone: “It’s
not just a problem for Okinawa.
It is a problem for all of Japan.”
Okinawa’s
governor
Takeshi Onaga, who attended
the rally, is among those opposing the relocation. Instead he
and others want Marine Corps
Air Station Futenma, which sits
in the middle of a crowded city,
moved off the island
altogether.
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Lahore: A 23-year-old woman
was paraded in her village
streets with blackened face and
shaved off head by her family
members for allegedly eloping
with a man, the latest in a series
of ‘honour’ related crimes in
Pakistan’s Punjab province.
According to eyewitnesses,
the family members including
parents of the woman, yesterday paraded her in the streets
outside her house after blackening her face and shaving off
her head in a village of Uch
Sharif, Bahawalpur, some 400
km from Lahore.
Reports said the woman
who had allegedly eloped with
a man of another village
returned home a week later.
On her return, her family
members including father, husband and step-mother reportedly tortured her secretly and
then presented her before a
Panchayat (a gathering of area
elders) that announced punishment for her for her crime
of ‘dishonouring the family’.
Senior police officer Ehsan
Sadiq told reporters that an FIR
has been registered against 10
family members of the woman
and the Panchayat members
and arrested the victim’s father
and step-mother. He said police
would soon arrest the remaining suspects and complete investigation at the earliest.Punjab,
Pakistan’s most populous state,
has seen a spur in honourrelated crimes, including honour
killing, in recent times.
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a worrying “climate of
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xenophobia” has taken hold in
Europe as the continent struggles with the biggest influx of
migrants since World War II.
Speaking to AFP in Tehran
at the start of a regional tour,
UN High Commissioner for
Refugees Filippo Grandi said
European leaders needed to do
more to coordinate migration
policies and to combat negative
stereotypes about refugees.
“Refugees Don’t bring danger to us, they flee from dangerous places,” said Grandi,
who took office in January.
National leaders need to
better explain that immigration
“in fact contributes to the development of societies,” he said.
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Baghdad: Fighting in the Iraqi
city of Fallujah has displaced at
least 30,000 people in three
days, the Norwegian Refugee
Council said on Sunday, warning that a humanitarian disaster was unfolding.
Iraqi forces achieved a
breakthrough on Thursday,
taking over the centre of
Fallujah while the Islamic State
group retreated to areas in the
north of the city.
That allowed thousands of
civilians who had been used as
human shields to flee the city,
a key jihadist stronghold west
of Baghdad that had been
besieged for months.
“The estimated total number of displaced from Fallujah
in just the last three days is now
at a staggering 30,000 people,”
the NRC said in a statement.
The aid group, which runs
displacement camps around
Fallujah, said another 32,000
people had already been displaced since the start of the
government offensive against
the IS bastion nearly a month
ago.It said it believed dozens of
families were still inside
Fallujah, including the most
vulnerable civilians such as
pregnant women, the sick and
the elderly.
The aid community has
been overwhelmed by the
influx of people and many
were sleeping in the open, in
the scorching summer sun and
waiting for a tent at one of the
displacement camps.
“We implore the Iraqi government to take charge of this
humanitarian disaster unfolding on our watch,” NRC’s Iraq
director Nasr Muflahi said in
the statement.
NRC said it could no
longer provide the required
assistance, with water rations
drying up fast.
It cited the case of a newlyopened camp in Amriyat alFallujah that houses 1,800 people but has only one latrine for
women.”We need the Iraqi
government to take a leading
role in providing for the needs
of the most vulnerable civilians
who have endured months of
trauma and terror,” Muflahi
said.
Fallujah was the first city to
fall out of government control
in January 2014, as the jihadists
began to establish a foothold on
parts of the country.
Around 3.4 million people
have since been forced from
their homes by conflict across
the country. More than 40 percent of them are from Anbar,
the province in which Fallujah
is located.
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Seoul: The Islamic State (IS) terror group has
released information about US military bases in
South Korea with the aim of attacking them,
Seoul’s intelligence services announced on Sunday.
The IS revealed the location of the US air
bases in Gyeonggi and North Jeolla provinces
as well as the personal data of a few South
Korean citizens through an online messaging
service, the National Intelligence Service (NIS)
said.The outfit obtained the information from
its hackers unit, according to NIS, which has
also intercepted messages in which the IS
encourages attacks against the bases, EFE
news reported.The intelligence agency added
that South Korean authorities have taken all necessary steps to protect the country from such
attacks in collaboration with the armed forces
and the US military.
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Washington: US Government
agencies should avoid using
religiously-charged terms like
‘jihad’, ‘sharia’, ‘umma’ and
instead employ “plain-meaning” American English in their
counter-terrorism discourse, a
report by the Department of
Homeland Security has recommended.
The Homeland Security
Advisory Council report also
recommended that the department focus on American milliennials by allocating up to
$100 million in new funding.
It also urged greater private
sector cooperation, including
with Muslim communities, to
counter what is described as a
“new generation of threats to
the Homeland related to the
threat of violent extremism.”
The funds would be used
for hiring experts and new
social media programmes and
technology to influence young
people not to join terror
groups, The Washington Free
Beacon reported, citing the
report.
Under the section on terminology, the report calls for
rejecting use of an “us versus
them” mentality by shunning
Islamic
language
in
“Countering
Violent
Extremism” (CVE) programmes, or CVE, the Obama
administration’s euphemism
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distant galaxy with oxygen
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to be detected, seen just
700 million years after the Big
Bang, which provides a glimpse
into the early history of the universe.
Using the Atacama Large
Millimetre/submillimetre
Array (ALMA) in Chile,
astronomers detected glowing
oxygen in a distant galaxy.
The galaxy SXDF-NB10062 lies at a redshift of 7.2, meaning that we see it only 700 million years after the Big Bang,
researchers said.
The team was hoping to
find out about the heavy chemical elements present in the
galaxy, as they can tell us about
the level of star formation,
and hence provide clues about
the period in the early universe
known as cosmic reionisation.
“Seeking heavy elements in
the early universe is an essential approach to explore the
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period,” said Akio Inoue from
the Osaka Sangyo University in
Japan.
“Studying heavy elements
also gives us a hint to understand
how the galaxies were formed
and what caused the cosmic
reionisation,” said Inoue.In the
time before objects formed in
the universe, it was filled with
electrically neutral gas.
However, when the first
objects began to shine, a few
hundred million years after
the Big Bang, they emitted
powerful radiation that started
“Those who do the opposite, who stir up public opinion
against refugees and migrants,
have a responsibility in creating a climate of xenophobia
that is very worrying in today’s
Europe,” he said.
“It provides a negative
example to countries further
away.”Protracted conflicts in
particular Syria’s five-year civil
war have prompted an
unprecedented wave of migration to the continent, with a
record 1.25 million Syrian,
Iraqi, Afghan and other
migrants entering Europe since
January 2015.
The influx has sparked a
backlash in some countries,
including in Austria where the
anti-immigration Freedom
Party nearly won the presidency last month and in
to break up those neutral atoms
— to ionise the gas.
During this phase —
known as cosmic reionisation
— the whole universe changed
dramatically.
Researchers carried out
high-sensitivity observations
with ALMA and found light
from ionised oxygen in SXDFNB1006-2, making this the
most distant unambiguous
detection of oxygen ever
obtained.
It is firm evidence for the
presence of oxygen in the early
Universe, only 700 million
years after the Big Bang.
Oxygen in SXDF-NB10062 was found to be ten times less
abundant than it is in the Sun.
“The small abundance is
expected because the universe
was still young and had a short
history of star formation at that
time,” said Naoki Yoshida at the
University of Tokyo.
The team was unable to
detect any emission from carbon in the galaxy, suggesting
that this young galaxy contains
very little un-ionised hydrogen
gas, and also found that it
contains only a small amount
of dust, which is made up of
heavy elements.
The detection of ionised
oxygen indicates that many
very brilliant stars, several
dozen times more massive
than the Sun, have formed in
the galaxy and are emitting
the intense ultraviolet light
needed to ionise the oxygen
atoms.
The findings were published in the journal Science.
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undreds of enthusiasts
practised yoga poses in
Dartmouth Park here in
Ireland to mark the
International Yoga Day, a
media report said on Sunday.
About 400 people gathered
on Saturday for the event,
organised by the Indian
embassy in Ireland, Yoga
Therapy Ireland and several
other Indian and yoga organisations, The Irish Times reported.This is the second year an
international day of yoga has
been celebrated.
June 21 was declared the
International Day of Yoga by
the UN General Assembly to
coincide with the summer solstice.
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a few days before the declared
date, the Irish Times said. On
Tuesday, June 21, President
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Radhika Lal Lokesh launched
the Dublin event.” Yoga has
been growing in popularity all
over the world,” she said.
“Although the philosophy
comes from India, it has spread
all over the world. In a world
that is stressed out and full of
problems, I think we need to
come back to ourselves and see
how we can engage with each
other and ourselves to bring in
greater peace and harmony,”
she said.
that seeks to avoid references to
Islam.Under a section on recommended actions on terminology, the report said
Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) should “reject
religiously-charged terminology and problematic positioning
by using plain-meaning
American English.”
Government agencies
should employ, “American
English instead of religious,
legal and cultural terms like
‘jihad’, ‘sharia’ (islamic law),
‘takfir’ (apostasy) or ‘umma’
(entire Muslim community),”
stated the June 2016 report by
the Council’s countering violent
extremism subcommittee.
The limits on counter-terrorism terminology outlined in
the report are the latest sign of
verbal censorship within government imposed by President
Barack Obama. The president
this week launched into an
angry public denunciation of
Republican critics of his policy of avoiding use of the
expression “radical Islam”.The
DHS report also called for
avoiding a confrontational “us
versus them” stance in public
efforts to counter Islamic radicalisation, government programmes should use the term
“American Muslim” instead of
“Muslim American”.
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Hungary where authorities
have sealed the border with
Serbia with razor wire and
made illegal border crossing a
criminal offence punishable
by jail.
Grandi said it was unfortunate that decisions taken last year
by the European Union to better handle the influx “were not
implemented”.It was, he said, “a
missed opportunity” because
“each country made decisions
separately. Borders closed.”
He called for “a more collective collegial system of managing refugee flows based on
solidarity and burden-sharing
between the states, as opposed
to trying to do it by themselves
with the result that only some
countries receive a large number of refugees and others
close the borders.”
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Assange, facing rape alleW
gation in Sweden, on Sunday
marked the fifth anniversary of
his life holed up in the
Ecuadorean Embassy here.
The 44-year-old is wanted
for questioning over a 2010
rape allegation in Sweden but
has been hiding in the embassy
since he was given asylum as he
fears being extradited to the US
to be quizzed over the activities
of Wikileaks if he travels to
Sweden.His supporters have
planned a series of demonstrations around the world,
including London, Paris,
Berlin, Brussels and Belgrade,
under the banner ‘First They
Came for Assange’.
They will mark the beginning of what organisers have
dubbed ‘Assange Week’, with
further events planned for
New York, Montevideo and
Buenos Aires.
A UK Home Office
spokesperson said that Assange
has exhausted all his avenues of
appeal under the Extradition
Act 2003.
“The UK has a legal obligation to extradite Julian
Assange to Sweden, where he
is wanted for an allegation of
rape,” the spokesperson said.
“The European Arrest
Warrant in respect of Mr
Assange was issued in full
accordance with the law and
has been upheld by the
Supreme Court. We are clear
that our laws must be followed
and he should be extradited,” he
said.The Australian former
computer hacker founded
Wikileaks in 2006 and has
been portrayed in two films in
recent years.
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of practices are tangible and physical. These days one hears of yoga
courses, which claim to make you fit and
healthy through certain postures and
breathing exercises directed at the physical. While one does feel good after doing
such practices, their effects are limited to
the physical body and do not touch upon
the root of the problem. As a result, the
‘problem’ reappears in some other shape
or form and once again one starts looking for a solution and more courses. What
you lose in the process, is not the heaviness and negativity, but your bank balance!
Yog is not about twisting and turning
your body or breathing abnormally, it does
not tie you to any particular religion, ritual, lifestyle or diet. Yog sets you free and
this can definitely not be given by one who
is himself tied in the bondages of maya and
charges a fee/favours from you.
When Rishi Patanjali wrote the Yog
Sutra he merely mentioned asana as
Sthir Sukham Asanam. A posture,
which gives you pleasure and peace
and can be maintained for a long period of time is called an asana.
Pranayam is natural cessation of
breath. And, there is only one yoga,
which happens (and is not done) in
the sanidhya of Guru, who is noncommercial.
Unfortunately, today there exist
a lot of misconceptions about yoga,
and a lot of people have found lucrative business opportunities in innovating and selling modern forms of exercise/breathing wrongly termed as yoga.
Think about it, if twisting and turning
your body was yog, then wouldn’t acrobats be called yogis?
Dhyan Foundation, under the guidance of Yogi Ashwini follows Yog, as it
is, the way it was laid out thousands of
years ago as per the ancient guru-shishyaparampara. “The purpose of asana is
cleansing the body — nadis (etheric
channels) and chakras (energy centres).
4500 years ago, there was no requirement
for this cleansing, the thought, actions and
environment were relatively pure and conducive to the practice of yoga. Therefore,
no mention of asanas in Patanjali
Ashtanga Yoga”, says Yogi Ashwini.
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breath rate
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increasing metabolic rate of the body,
asanas brings it down to an optimal
level. Former results in faster wear and
tear of the body (ageing), latter is the key
to longevity and forever youth.
QMonitoring breath and keeping eyes
closed are important requisites for
asanas.
QAsanas draw your awareness inwards,
so that you become aware of the physical and subtler aspects of your own
body, and attune you to nature. On the
other hand, while following modern
exercise routines, your complete focus
is taken away from yourself and you are
made to follow others. Following others mechanically is not going to help,
rather it may cause damage while try-
decreases with age.
QIf you do yoga under the sanidhya of a
Guru, it cannot cause bodily harm, whereas in exercises every two years you get to
know about how an old method is defunct
or not right and a new method is introduced. It is said that gymming continuously for years can ruin your knees, dry
up your vital fluids, and damage your
spine. So perfect is the science of asanas
that not even one asana puts strain on 5th
or 6th vertebra, which can cause serious
damage to the body.
QExercise only acts on the physical. It is
a mistaken realisation that things change
from the gross to the subtle, while in reality changes in the physical are controlled
through the subtle. Asanas not only train
your body but they affect various states of
consciousness, body and mind are just one
level of awareness. When a Guru takes you
through their practice, asanas touch all layers of your being and elevate consciousness. With this heightened consciousness,
changes in the physical body take place.
QAsanas bring stillness and stability.
They are maintained for long periods of
time unlike exercises that are repeated vigorously. Slowly asanas increase the capacity of the body by maintaining optimal
level of efficiency, where without straining yourself you can achieve seemingly
impossible feats.
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existence), Like padmasan represents yoni
of lotus. Perfecting the asana helps one
imbibe the subtler attributes of the yoni
and evolve through it.
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becomes a distant dream. You keep
pushing the ‘I promise to start tomorrow’ to the week next, (and then the
following week) and so on. The
result is a guilt trip. But can there be
something more enticing in Yoga for
you to get on the Yoga mat? Can yoga
be custom made for the lethargic
kind? The answer is a resounding yes!
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Pranayamas are a set of breathing practices which increase the flow
of prana, a subtle life force energy in
our system in a big way. Pranayamas
like bhastrika and ujjai breathing are
instant energy boosters for the body.
These may be learned guidance of a
professional Yoga instructor.
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Yoga brings perfect coordination
between all the parts of the body and
coordination on the level of body,
mind and soul. So when all your body
parts are well-coordinated, you will
require less energy to perform the
same task than what (energy) you
required before. Yoga helps conserve
your energy.
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There is a myth that yoga is just
about asanas or postures. In reality it
is something that gives you deep
relaxation on the physical, mental and
the subtle level of your being. When
you are well rested, you are highly
energised. When there is right amount
of energy in the system, you find the
required interest to do the task.
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Yoga is a way of life and not just
body contortions. It includes inculcating a healthy lifestyle into one’s system. If you have lethargic tendencies,
you must look at what you put in your
system. There are basic rules of
Ayurveda which, if followed, can rid
one of lethargy. If you are eating right
quality and quantity of food, it can
make a big difference. There are three
kinds of food — tamasic (negative),
rajasic (neutral) and satvic (positive).
Meat, fast food and heavy to digest
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food are considered tamasic food.
Milk and milk-based products have
rajasic qualities while fruits and fresh
vegetables are rich in satvic qualities.
Your state of mind depends on
what you eat. If you eat a satvic meal,
you attain a restful and alert state
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Meditation gives you a beautiful
blend of high awareness and deep rest.
Lethargy is a demand of rest in your
body and mind. Yoga, including
breathing and exercise, can suffice
that. Apart from asanas that help get
rid of physical restlessness in your
body, meditation helps to keep the
mind peaceful and to get rid of restlessness and agitation on the mental
level. According to spiritual guru and
founder of the Art of Living, Sri Sri
Ravi Shankar, “Meditation is the art
of doing nothing. It is total effortlessness.”
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Yoga nidra is a beautiful practice
which can be done even by those, who
do not know the basis of yoga. Yoga
Nidra is a resting technique where the
attention is taken through different
parts of the body, giving and taking
away the fatigue stored in each cell of
the body. It gives a deep relaxation.
The result is very similar to ironing
a garment. As ironing takes out the
wrinkles from the garments, this
asana takes away the tiredness and
rejuvenates the mind.
This high-density foam yoga brick has rounded edges
and corners to provide additional comfort and an easier
hand grip. Lightweight and easy to carry between classes, it’s a popular choice for yoga studios, home practice
or travel.
Bricks are ideal for adding lift or grounding in all manner of poses. They can help stabilise and add height in
standing and balancing poses, or placed between the knees
to activate the outer leg muscles.
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You can get into the physical
aspect of yoga gradually. And like
when one starts the ignition of a car,
it starts off at a slower speed and then
the driver steps on the accelerator; you
can slowly get into simpler asanas first
and then over time can reach to the
perfection of asanas. One can start
with rotations and stretches and then
can gradually get into the perfection
of postures. In this way, the body
adapts much easier and faster. Being
in complete oneness with whatever
posture you practice, is more important than complexity of the posture.
Yoga is not only physical postures.
It begins with tuning of body and
takes us to the harmony of inner being
when the emotions and feelings are
smooth.
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into your yoga practice. No matter what your level of experience is with yoga, a strap can provide useful help on support, alignment, and posture.
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body areas. Tri-section design allows full-body support.
It also helps your posture with sitting and/or sleeping in
bed. They are big enough to provide support, small enough
so it won’t take up the whole bed.
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comic performances unlike
Mumbai which has the
Canvas Laughter Club. Not
anymore. The club has now
opened in Gurgaon at the
Cyberhub complex at the
newly opened club called
The People & Co. Inspired
by all kinds of real people
out there, The People & Co
is established by the curators
of Canvas Laugh Club.
Promising a vibrant mix
of music, theatre, comedy
and all sorts of live performances, the club’s maiden
show was helmed by some of
the best standup comics
from the country with the
who's who of the city in
attendance at the gala.
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opened by Kunal
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from
Mumbai
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jokes that are all about the
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restaurant. The restaurant is
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way as world-class chefs are
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you which will leave your
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Bold yet distinct flavours will
be brought together in each
bite. Also, make sure you follow their motto “Eat till you
drop”.
The bar also has a motto
of its own-“Drink and let
drink”. Ever yone who
requires anything from coffee to cognac is welcome at
anytime of the day (or
night). The bar promises to
cater to your musical needs
with a fantastic line-up of
musicians and sometimes,
someone who believes he
can work up a tune.
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versatile tool that can be used
in many different ways to
add support and length
for many different
postures.
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placed
under
your heels,
sit bones, or knees when practicing forward-bending poses to make it easier to place your
hands flat on the floor without compromising correct form
and posture.
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like to start practicing, right?
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man is
motivated by the desire
to achieve, not
by the desire to
beat others.”
One of the
most famous
quotes from
Ayn Rand’s
novel,
The
Fountainhead
— it encapsulates the ideals of the protagonist, Howard Keating. A man of
principles and high ideals, who refuses to bend for anyone, all to uphold his
individual right to creation and ownership, he courts failure, poverty, while
being derided by society for his refusal
to fall into the trap of mediocrity.
Although, Hollywood adapted the
book into a film over 60 years ago, no
one has since attempted to film Rand’s
philosophical novel.
A filmmaker from Kashmir, Ali
Emran has adapted the story into a film
in Urdu, titled Ibtida. Ibtida in Urdu
means the birth or beginning of something or a ‘fountainhead’, if you will. The
film was recently screened at the India
Habitat Centre recently by the Habitat
Film Club.
The film follows the original plot of
the novel and revolves around the lives
of two main protagonists — Zahir, a selfmade man who lives by his principles
of scrupulous integrity, and Gautam who
climbs the ladder of success without any
original ideas of his own on the strength
of Zahir’s talent. Juxtaposing Gautam as
a foil, the film brings home the importance of integrity. Through Zahir we see
how faith in your convictions and
being steadfast to your principles is what
gains you respect and dignity, not
fame and fortune.
The film includes a cast made up of
amateur and theatre actors from
Kashmir, with Ali Emran playing the
role of Zahir, the protagonist. The film
is well-written, adapting the story and
the characters skillfully with its dialogues
being the highlight of the film. The philosophy of the story translates beautifully with the Urdu dialogues, giving it a
rather poetic quality.
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till waiting to hear from aliens and getting excited about the UFO sightings? Well, according to
astronomers, extra-terrestrials are not likely to call the
Earth for the next 1,500 years.
The team from Cornell University made this
assumption by deconstructing the Fermi paradox and
paring it with the mediocrity principle into a fresh
equation.
The Fermi paradox says billions of Earth-like planets exist in our galaxy yet no aliens have contacted
or visited us. Thus the paradox: the cosmos teems with
possibility.
The mediocrity principle is the idea that because
we are not in any special location in the universe, we
should not be anything special in the universe,
physics.org reported.
“We haven’t heard from aliens yet, as space is a
big place. But that doesn’t mean no one is out there,”
said Cornell student Evan Solomonides who presented the study at the American Astronomical Society's
meeting in San Diego, California, recently.
Hunting for extra-terrestrials means sending out
signals like television broadcasts, for example.
As Earth’s electronic ambassador, TV and radio
signals are sent into space as a by-product of broadcast. Earth's broadcast signals have reached every star
within about 80 light years from the Sun — about
8,531 stars and 3,555 Earthlike planets as our Milky
Way galaxy alone contains 200 billion stars.
“Even our mundane, typical spiral galaxy — not
exceptionally large compared to other galaxies — is
vast beyond imagination,” Solomonides added.
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Paradox so counterintuitive. We have reached so many
stars and planets, surely we should have reached somebody by now, and in turn been reached … this demonstrates why we appear to be alone,” he added.
Combining the equations for the Fermi paradox
and the mediocrity principle, the authors suggests
Earth might hear from an alien civilisation when
approximately half of the Milky Way Galaxy has been
signalled in about 1,500 years.
Yervant Terzian, Cornell’s Tisch Distinguished
University Professor of Astronomy, is the co-author
of the paper.
A thought proving narrative, coupled with strong dialogues gave Rand’s
classic an earthy feeling — something
we could connect to.
Emran, who also wrote the screenplay and dialogues, and also edited the
film was present at the screening and we
were lucky enough to talk to him about
the film afterwards.
“I was influenced by The
Fountainhead ever since I read it many
years ago, especially the character of
Howard Roark. His ideas of integrity,
individualism, and creative liberty
was something I was always inspired
by,” Emran said, when we asked him
why decided to chose the plot of
Rand’s book.
“When I got involved with filmmaking, I knew that I had to make a film
on this story and so I started writing the
screenplay for it two years ago,” he
added. The film also features a few songs
as background score, penned by Emran
himself, who admits to dabbling in writing poetry.
The film was shot over the course
of two months in Srinagar and its neighbouring areas and involved a crew of
some 40 odd people.
“I was very happy when the film
won the Best Feature Film award at the
Kashmir International Film Festival
last year. It is so satisfying and rewarding when you work hard on something
and receive recognition for it,” he
revealed.
Emran has also made two documentaries and a feature film in Urdu and
is in the process of developing a script
for a Bollywood musical.
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everybody’s mouth. Its really unbelievable that how this euphoria has
touched the hearts of people across
192 countries. This whole thing
started with Indian PM Narendra
Modi’s address at the United Nations
in 2014 where he expressed his wish
to dedicate a day as the International
Day for yoga. To everyone’s surprise
the UN agreed to sanction the event
and nine months later, the whole
world was preparing for a yoga spectacle and a couple of Guinness world
records, too.
Yoga as a method and practice
has evolved over centuries since the
time it was developed in ancient
India. As on today, for a seeker, there
are so many forms and branches of
yoga to choose from and hence at
times one gets confused as to which
is the best one for me. However from
a practical point of view, real Yoga is
the one that does not merely give
temporary health and happiness but
the highest stage achieved through
yoga is the one where no behavioural ailments, mental tensions or worries exist. In fact, it wont be wrong to
say that it is an ideal method of curing physical and psychological disorders for several births. Today it is
being stated by the political pundits
that ‘yoga’ is the best soft power that
India possesses to bring the world
together and end the increasing
trend of violence. In a way its perfectly a right statement because looking
at the present situation of the world,
it can be aptly said that a perfect
world order cannot be attained
through war of weapons merely, but
through the power of yoga.
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Of all the Yoga techniques taught
by various yogi’s over centuries, Raj
Yoga has been termed as the king of
all yoga. Before getting into practise of
this unique method, it is essential for
an aspirant to have a clear image of
Supreme. Yoga in actual sense means
union or link. It is union of the self
(soul) with supreme (almighty) for
which there is a prerequisite that an
aspirant needs to follow. He/she must
understand a fact that we are soul and
not body. All our physical and mental sufferings are a result of our failure
to remain in soul consciousness which
has today made our lives miserable.
However, through Raj Yoga we can
totally change this situation because
every soul in its original nature, is pure
and peaceful and hence with proper
guidance and practice it is possible to
live a life without stress, worries and
tension. Dedicating few minutes daily
to Raj Yoga is a meaningful expression
of caring for yourself that can help you
move through the mire of feeling
unworthy. It involves the turning of
one’s mind and the flow of love in the
direction of Almighty. It is a technique
of self-exploration, leading to the
experience of heightened and expanded awareness, reaching God and
bringing Him into the focus of the
soul’s awareness. The principal object
of Raj Yoga is to bring the self in conscious touch with Almighty, thus
making it increasingly aware of its
divine origin, divine destiny and
divine and peaceful real nature.
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lthough we have grown older physically, we do
not grow up emotionally. It feels as though you
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are a victim of your own emotions. “Oh! I feel like
this! I feel like that! What to do?” But what is the
big deal about your feelings? They were there yesterday and it came in your space, again. So what?
Sometimes you see dark clouds in the sky but the
space does not own them. It just allows them to
come and pass away. Similarly, these emotions
come, sometimes pleasant, unpleasant. You should
disown them. That is the first step. Let them come
and go.
All emotions are linked with people, objects
and events. Catching on to objects, people or relationships hinders freedom, liberation. Just examine why your spirits go down? More often than not,
it is because somebody said something nasty to you.
Because they had some garbage and they needed
to throw it out; and you were there, ready to catch
it. And once you have caught it, you hold on to it
so passionately! Wake up! Don’t let your smile be
snatched away by anybody. Nobody can feel bad
or good all the time; the good and bad feelings come
like waves. But we make it such a big issue and it
keeps bombarding our minds. This emotional
garbage is so useless; it’s also a sign of emotional
immaturity.
One should learn how to handle one self.
When your emotions are positive, you become
more sensitive to the truth. But the same emotions,
when they are rough, ruin your mind and body.
Emotion is your enemy and at the same time is your
friend as well. The emotion which makes you so
soft inside is your friend and the one that makes
you rough, is your enemy. If you have no emotions,
then you are like a dead rag and the Divine Love
cannot flower in you.
The awareness of how and what things are can
make a big difference. The same mind can bring
forth positive thoughts and vibrations and the same
can birth negative thoughts. Awareness is being generated about keeping our environment unpolluted. But what about the emotional impurity which
we create around us and the vibrations which we
create that harbour negativity in us?
We don’t use the detergent of knowledge to our
mind and purify it, and that’s when the polluted
mind goes on creating more pollution. If a person
is agitated, the anger does not stay limited to that
person but rubs off on to all those who he comes
in contact with. These negative vibrations, once
compounded, give rise to unrest in society.
Negative feelings of hatred, anger, jealousy are the
root cause of all disasters and misery in the world,
whether they are economical, political or social in
nature.
We need to attend to the human psyche which
causes pollution, whether physical or emotional.
It’s natural for a mind to become unhappy or to get
negative thoughts. We only have to learn to clear
them away quickly and become free of them faster.
And come back to the harmony immediately. That
is why practices like meditation, yoga and breathing techniques are there. Through them you can
cause positive, harmonious and joyful vibrations
within you and around you.
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will have to raise their game in the
second Twenty20 International to stay
afloat in the three-match series against
minnows Zimbabwe, here on Monday.
It was the first time that the young
team was tested on the tour and it faltered
on key moments to suffer an unexpected loss.
Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni
failed to get his team over the line in the
last over but equally culpable were the
batsmen who got out at key moments
after getting starts.
Manish Pandey made a fluent 48 but
like debutant Mandeep Singh, he would
have loved to carry on and take the side
through.
With Dhoni at the other end and
India needing eight off the final over, Axar
Patel got out to a loose shot to make life
tougher the visitors.
The second string squad was picked
to test the team's bench strength and the
youngsters had the ideal platform to perform in the back of a resounding series
win in the preceding three ODIs.
However, they wilted under pressure
when challenged for the first time in the
series.
While the batsmen did not show
composure required at the highest level,
the bowlers, who were given opportunity for the first time on the tour, disappointed.
Credit should go to Zimbabwe for
their performance after a humiliating loss
in ODIs but they were allowed by the
erring Indian bowlers to post 170.
All-rounder Rishi Dhawan, representing India for the first time since the
Australia tour and making his T20
International debut, put up an ordinary
effort leaking 42 runs in four overs.
Pressure was also on pacer Jaydev
Unadkat, who was in India colours for the
first time in almost three years. Making
his debut in the format, Unadkat was not
consistent with his line and length and
paid the price for it.
It remains to be seen whether he gets
another game after ending with figures
of 0/43 or Barinder Sran and Dhawal
Kulkarni come back to bowl with the new
ball, pushing Dhawan out of the eleven
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Leggie Yuzvendra Chahal, who
impressed in ODIs, also had an off day
and he would be aiming to bounce back
strongly. Ahead of the must-win game,
Dhoni warned his men to not repeat the
same mistakes in the remaining games.
Though spinner Jayant Yadav was the
only one to not get an opportunity in the
16-man squad, Dhoni is expected to get
back to his full strength bowling attack.
India did not see the loss coming after
a cakewalk in the ODIs, giving Zimbabwe
a much needed morale boost to press for
another win. Another fighting contest will
be welcome but beating a wounded India
could prove to be a too big a task for the
home team.
International here.
The young Indian batsmen thew their wickets away
at crucial junctures as the visitors ended up losing the
game by two runs here on Saturday.
Dhoni hopes the fresh faces don't make the same mistakes in the second game here on Monday.
"I feel, though we lost the game — it is disappointing — it is still a learning curve for the youngsters, provided they are learning out of it," said Dhoni.
"You have to take it in a serious manner because
whenever you will represent the country, whenever they
get a chance to be part of the proper Indian team for a
consistent period of time, they will
feel the pressure. That will be the
time when a game like this or a
tour like this will really help them
ease out that pressure," he said further.
The captain himself failed to
get his team over the line as India
could not get eight runs off the
final over with pacer Neville
Madziva holding his nerve. He
said he should have completed the job but expected a
more sensible approach from his batsmen.
"I felt the last ball was brilliant but that is what my
job is, so maybe I am the person to finish the job. But at
the same time, we kept losing wickets and what happens
at that stage is that you are losing wickets and you are
giving one dot ball and at the same time, the set batsman is not getting strike. I felt the batsmen will have to
take the responsibility. The reason being, few of them,
they were set, they were batting well. When you are chasing targets, you need to take it to the end and then look
to play the shots. That was something that was lacking
in this game," Dhoni pointed out.
The second string squad for the tour was picked in
the absence of seniors and Dhoni said the rookie players must make the most of the opportunity. The skipper
said he batted at six to give others more time in the middle. "It is not for me. If I had to bat up, I could easily bat
at four for this team. But what is important is for these
youngsters to bat at that number because this is an opportunity for them."
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it's all about self motivation.
"This new found mental toughness is a
result of self motivation. There is no other
secret formula," he added.
Seventh-ranked India defeated bigger
teams like Britain and drew the opening
match against Olympic champions Germany
in the prestigious tournament recently.
Despite the morale-boosting result, Sunil
identified certain areas where the team needs
to work harder.
"We need to improve more on striking
zone. We have to work on perfect finish after
entering D circle. With improvement in our
attack we can repeat this performance in
upcoming tournaments," said India’s ace
forward.
He is disappointed with the standard of
umpiring in the final but is happy with India's
overall performance in the tournament.
"In penalty shootout umpires should
have been more aware of timings, they made
a mistake that cost us. Otherwise we were
extremely happy as it was a total team effort.
It's an awesome feeling that our hard work
paid off. We could have won the final in regulation time but we missed some easy
chances. Still I am very happy with the overall performance," said Sunil.
"We had no time to celebrate as we had
to move to Spain immediately," he said
when asked about how the team celebrated
this historic win.
resh from their best-ever showing at the
Champions Trophy hockey tournament,
F
star striker SV Sunil says India stand a very
good chance of finishing on the podium in
the upcoming Rio Olympics owing to newfound mental toughness.
The Indian team settled for a silver
medal in its best- ever Champions Trophy
performance after it went down fighting to
world champions Australia 1-3 in a controversy-marred summit clash penalty shootout
in London last Friday.
"After our Champions Trophy performance, especially the way we played the final,
we have a great chance in Rio and we are very
optimistic about a podium finish there. We
will give our best and this silver medal will
work like a tonic for us," Sunil told from
Spain.
He said that this Indian side is not prone
to succumbing against the big teams anymore
and is capable of beating any side in the world.
"Earlier, we used to get scared about all
top teams but now we all know that we can
beat any team in the world. So, mentally, we
have changed a lot, toughened up, and all the
credit goes to chief coach Roelant (Oltmans),
who always infuse the much needed self belief
in us," he said.
Asked if there was any specific preparation to get rid of the mental block, he said that
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round of the Tipsport Golf Masters
with a superb three-under 68 that
gave her a 54-hole total of threeunder 210 here on Sunday.
On Saturday, she carded a
second straight even par 71 and
successfully made the cut. Aditi,
whose best LET performance came
as an amateur in the Hero
Women's Indian Open in 2012,
finished her first two rounds at
even par 142 and was lying 42nd
at the stage. But she then moved
up in the third round and is likely to finish in Top-30.
golfers Anirban Lahiri and
Jeev Milkha Singh exited early,
Iasndian
did many other big names,
including multiple Major winners
Phil Mickelson and Rory McIlroy,
after the completion of second
round in the US Open here.
Lahiri (73-78) and Jeev (76-79)
had to play 36 holes on a long and
tough day on Friday and then waited to see how the scores would go
on Saturday, when the second
round ended.
At 11-over and 15-over, they
were unlikely to make the cut and
so it was when the second round
ended. The cut fell at six-over and
it took with it as victims the likes
of multiple Major winners Phil
Mickelson, Rory McIlroy, former
US Open winner, Justin Rose,
Ernie Els and Retief Goosen
among others. It marked the second straight time that Lahiri,
whose best result this season has
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been tied Second at Hero Indian
Open and tied sixth at
Dean&Deluca Invitational, had
missed the cut at the US Open, the
only Major where he has failed to
make the final two rounds.
As for Jeev, it was only the second time in five appearances that
he had missed the cut in US Open.
Meanwhile, the third round
also started on Saturday but could
not be completed. Shane Lowry
had moved into clubhouse lead at
five-under and he had four more
holes to play. He was two clear of
surprise first round leader Andrew
Landry, who has five to play.
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shot two-under 69 on the final day
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Indians, who made the cut this
week here. Chiragh had rounds of
73, 72, 67 and 69 and he may well
have finished even better but for
two bogeys in his second nine,
after starting from the tenth.
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radio restrictions played a
F
decisive role in Sunday's
European Grand Prix as Nico
Rosberg got assistance in solving an engine-setting glitch
and sailed away to an easy victory, while his Mercedes teammate and title rival Lewis
Hamilton was frustrated at
getting no help in fixing an
identical problem and finished
a distant fifth.
Rosberg's win at the Baku
street circuit pushed his lead
over Hamilton in the drivers'
championship from nine points
to 24.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel
finished second, 16.6 seconds
adrift of Rosberg, while Force
India's Sergio Perez passed
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen on the
penultimate lap to take third.
Hamilton, who started the
race tenth after crashing out in
Saturday's qualifying, was up to
an effective fifth after just 10
laps and on a charge toward a
potential fight with Rosberg
when his engine picked up a
'de-rating', an inability to access
the stored hybrid power.
Rosberg had switched to
the same engine setting as
Hamilton during the race, and
suffered the same problem,
but was quickly told by the
team that the mode was problematic and he should switch
back to the original setting.
Hamilton, however, had
started the engine on that
mode, so the team was at first
unable to work out what was
causing the performance dip.
Even once the issue was diagnosed, and as Hamilton was
begging over the radio for the
team to tell him how to fix the
problem, the team was not
allowed to tell him.
Under the sport's new rules
designed to put more onus on
driver skills, teams are banned
from communicating information to drivers about how to
change engine modes.
The problem resolved itself
late in the race, and Hamilton
immediately set the fastest lap,
but by that time there was not
enough time left to catch the
cars in front, leaving the Briton
to mull over the logic behind
the radio restrictions.
Rosberg confirmed after
the race he had the same problem, and calmly said: "It was
just a matter of getting out of
it with the right combination of
switches."
Williams' Valtteri Bottas
was sixth, ahead of the Red
Bull's Daniel Ricciardo and
Max Verstappen, who both
struggled on the soft tires in the
first half of the race, and were
forced into making two pit
stops while those ahead needed just one.
Force India's Nico
Hulkenberg and Williams' Felipe
Massa completed the top ten.
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his face and was there again 10 minutes
later. Presented with another opening by
Ricardo Quaresma, Ronaldo shot straight
at Almer.
It was a strong performance by Almer,
who turned Moutinho's shot over after
Nani header's came off the post before the
break.
The second half opened with Portugal
goalkeeper Rui Patricio called into action
for the first time, turning Stefan Ilsanker's
shot away.
But Ronaldo couldn't beat Patricio's
opposite number.
When Ronaldo spotted a gap in the
defense to drive in a fierce shot it was
turned wide by Almer and the goalkeeper parried the forward's downward header from the resulting corner.
And don't mention set pieces to
Ronaldo.
He has now failed to score from 36 free
kicks at major tournaments, stretching
back to Euro 2004. The first in Paris hit the
Austrian defensive wall and the second
flew over the crossbar.
Even when Ronaldo was hauled down
in the penalty area by Martin Hinteregger,
the Real Madrid forward couldn't seize the
opening as his spotkick struck the post.
"If this ball would have been a goal we
could have returned home to Austria,"
Austria coach Marcel Koller said. "Now
we're still in the tournament."
record breaking night for Cristiano
Ronaldo, but one he'll want to
quickly forget. The Portugal captain
certainly won't want a copy of the selfie
taken by an intrepid fan, who evaded security to dart onto the Parc des Princes field
after Saturday's 0-0 draw with Austria at
the European Championship.
The memorable image of Ronaldo's
record 128th Portugal appearance should
have been the 79th-minute penalty.
Instead, as goalkeeper Robert Almer
dived to his left, Ronaldo struck the spotkick in the opposite direction and it
crashed against the post.
Ronaldo did find the net minutes later,
but there was no 59th Portugal goal for the
forward as it was ruled out for offside and
Portugal remains winless after two games
at Euro 2016.
It summed up another substandard
game in France for Ronaldo, who is still
waiting to score in a record
fourth
European
Championship.
"We have to take
our chances," manof-the-match Joao
Moutinho said, without singling out
Ronaldo for blame.
If the Portuguese
are as profligate in
the final group game
against
leader
Hungary, they could be
going home early after also
drawing their opening game against Iceland.
Iceland and Portugal are both on two
points, two behind Hungary.
Austria is off the mark after opening
with a loss to Hungary, ensuring a tight
conclusion to Group F.
Austrian fans taunted Ronaldo early
in the game when they chanted: "Messi,
Messi, Messi."
But the Austrians didn't have much to
cheer from their own team after Martin
Harnik missed the target after evading his
marker in the third minute.
After that, it was all Portugal — but all
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frustration.
Austria goalkeeper Robert Almer was
the initial barrier, blocking Nani's shot and
tipping Vieirinha's effort wide in quick succession.
After belittling Iceland's modest ambitions after last week's draw, Ronaldo wasn't living up to his own high standards in
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front of Luis Figo, whose appearance
record he surpassed.
Nani's interplay with Raphael
Guerreiro on the left flank led to the ball
being squared invitingly to Ronaldo but he
sent the shot wide in the 28th.
Ronaldo clasped his hands and looked
up to the skies. The anguish was etched on
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games, and he's ready for more.
The Wales forward, who scored with free
kicks in each of his previous matches at the
European Championship, will be looking for
another when his team plays Russiain their final
Group B match on Monday.
Wales has impressed in its first major tournament since the 1958 World Cup, beating
Slovakia and putting in a good first-half display
against England before conceding a late goal to
lose 2-1.
In spite of that loss, Wales is in a strong position to make it out of the group and into the
knockout stages at Euro 2016.
"The tournament is not over yet," said Bale,
who last month helped Real Madrid win the
Champions League. "We are still in the thick of
it and we will go into our
last game with even more
strength."
Wales coach Chris
Coleman said the stoppage-time loss to England
was "gut-wrenching," and
said his players will have
to bounce back before
Monday's match at the
Stadium de Toulouse.
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team are able to put the disappointments behind
them, they'll be the ones to prevail."
Russia has one point after drawing 1-1 with
England in its first match before its 2-1 loss to
Slovakia. Russia's matches, especially the match
against England in Marseille, have been overshadowed by fan violence and UEFA has threatened the team with expulsion from the tournament if their fans are involved in more violence in French stadiums. There are fears about
the Russia-Wales match because some Welsh
fans became involved in clashes with Russian
supporters in Lille.
Wales is second in Group B with three
points, one behind England. The Welsh will be
hoping that England will do them a favor and
beat Slovakia, which also has three points. Russia
is last with one point.
The new 24-team format at Euro 2016
means four third-place teams in the six groups
will reach the round of 16.
Russia midfielder Denis Glushakov, who
scored against Slovakia, said the team's players
need to put their poor start to Euro 2016 behind
them and focus on beatingWales.
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Portugal head coach Fernando Santos
has told his players to prepare for a "final"
as they look to secure a place in the last
16 of the Euro 2016 football tournament
when they take on Hungary in their last
group game on Wednesday.
"I do not want to talk about Cristiano,
please. The Portuguese journalists know
not to ask because I only talk about the
team and not individual players," Santos
was quoted as saying by goal.com.
"We are going through a tough time
right now. It's always the case but we need
to change things immediately. We can't
wallow in our own misery now. We have
to think that there is a final to play on
the 22nd."
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hen you're as muscular and imposing as Cristiano Ronaldo, it's hard
to hide in the shadows when it starts getting awry on the field.
Ronaldo rarely does.
The three-time world player of the
year hasn't been short of scoring opportunities at the European Championship.
The problem is that the Portugal captain
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has had 22 - but missed every one.
He even missed a penalty against
Austria on Saturday just weeks after he
won the Champions League with Real
Madrid from the spot.
Ronaldo - for years one of the most
lethal marksmen - blasted his spot-kick
at the post.
It was one of 11 Ronaldo misses in
the 0-0 draw, a repeat of the number of
chances squandered in Portugal's Group
F opener when he complained Iceland
was overly defensive in the 1-1 draw.
More specifically it's about Ronaldo
regaining the stellar goal-scoring standards that have served both Portugal and
his club sides so well for more than a
decade.
Aside from his problems from the
penalty spot, Ronaldo has also lost his
touch from free kicks. It was hardly surprising he didn't score from his two free
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kick efforts against Austria given that he
hadn't found the target from his previous 34 for Portugal at tournaments.
Ronaldo has another chance against
Hungary on Wednesday to show he is still
at the peak of his powers. If he doesn't
convert his chances then, Ronaldo and
Portugal could be taking an early trip
home from France this week.
He's unlikely to shirk from the
challenge.
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call England coach Roy Hodgson
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substitutions against Wales turned
the game and brought the knockout
stage into view.
The counter-argument is that
Hodgson erred in picking the wrong
side in the first place, and his team
selection for Monday's Group B
match against Slovakia in SaintEtienne will give a big indication of
the path England may take going into
the round of 16.
With four points from two games,
England is first in the group and has
already done enough to secure a topthree place and probable qualification
for the second round. Finishing first
would secure an easier last-16 opponent, so the game against a Slovakia
side also with first place in its sights
is crucial.
Slovakia, like Wales, has three
points. Russia has one.
Harry Kane and Raheem Sterling
started the 2-1 win over Wales, despite
struggling for form. They were
replaced at halftime by strikers Jamie
Vardy and Daniel Sturridge, who
scored England's goals and sparked a
livelier attacking display. They could
both be handed starts by Hodgson
against Slovakia.
That would mean playing with
two strikers, another in midfield in
captain Wayne Rooney, as well as
attacking midfielders Adam Lallana
and Dele Alli. Hodgson has a reputation for being a cautious coach, but
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he showed a daring side by picking
five strikers in his squad at the
expense of extra defensive cover and,
at 68 years old, he could continue his
bold streak.
The English managed to stifle
Wales forward Gareth Bale and they
will look to do the same to Slovakia's
undoubted star player, Marek Hamsik.
The Mohican-haired Napoli playmaker scored one goal and set up
another in the 2-1 win over Russia on
Wednesday and there remains a possibility that Hamsik could start up
front on his own, like he did when
Slovakia beat Spain in qualifying.
national record with his 54th
international goal as
Argentina
defeated
Venezuela 4-1 on Saturday to
set up a semifinal match
against the United States.
In Saturday's other quarterfinal, Eduardo Vargas
scored a career-high four
goals and Edson Puch added
two as Chile, the defending
Copa America champions,
routed Mexico 7-0.
Messi's goal in the 60th
minute gave Argentina a
3-0 lead and equaled
the Argentine record
for most international
goals set by Gabriel
Batistuta, according
to Argentina's governing body. The
Barcelona star also took
over the Copa America
scoring lead with his fourth
goal of the tournament.
Argentina now has two
days to rest before playing the
US in Houston on Tuesday.
The Americans have been off
since beating Ecuador on
Thursday.
With many in the
Foxborough, Massachusetts,
stadium wearing No 10 from
Messi's national team and La
Liga jerseys, the five-time
FIFA Player of the Year started the game after playing a
total of just 74 minutes in the
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Higuain on a long
entry pass to make it 1-0.
Higuain scored again in
the 28th to make it 2-0.
Messi then padded the lead
in the 60th after taking a pass
from Nicolas Gaitan just outside the 6-meter box.
Venezuela finally beat
Argentina goalkeeper Sergio
Romero in the 70th minute
when Salomon Rondon
headed the ball in, nicking
the post on the way. But Erik
Lamela scored a minute later
to make it 4-1.
Argentina is 6-2-2
against the US, with the
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last American win was in a
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defeat in a competitive match
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team-record unbeaten streak
at 22 matches. It occurred
almost a year to the day since
Mexico's previous loss, to
Ecuador in Copa group stage.
Vargas scored the first
goal of his big night in the
44th, five minutes after an
offside call cost him another score, then added goals in
the 52nd, 57th and 74th.
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