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7`]]`hfd`_+ 0DXU4QY\i@Y_^UUb $C56J6* 68E8=60=4F 834=C8CHC>C7430;8CB 51,5HJQ1R25,(1* VQSUR__[S_]TQY\i`Y_^UUb >@?6J"! A182;40ABC74342:B5>A>=C0? 10=:8=610AB1862>A?>A0C4B 4bcPQ[XbWTS '%# ?dQ[XbWTS5a^\ 34;78;D2:=>F 17>?0; 17D10=4BF0A A0=278A08?DA 270=3860A7347A03D= DA@CE"& <H066A4BB8>= ?083>55)A07D; 17D10=4BF0ACD4B30H0D6DBC!! k %*?064B %C" 2Xch E^[ !8bbdT ! 0XaBdaRWPaVT4gcaPXU0__[XRPQ[T m 931>>5F5B 25149B53D?B* 1<91281DD !#F9F139DI fffSPX[h_X^]TTaR^\ ?2CD:?89H:?D?252C@F?5 >SXbWPST]XTbaTRTXeX]V 2VPaW[TccTa^]:T[^_a^YTRc arsingh Yadav’s dream of catching a plane for Rio still looks very much intact after the wrestler was exonerated of doping charges by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) here on Monday. Following the verdict, the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh said the process to get Narsingh back in the Olympic squad has been set in motion and the report will be sent to global wrestling body United World Wrestling, that will take a final call on the issue. Narsingh will also have to undergo the reinstatement test by NADA before he can be cleared of going anywhere. “He will have to go through a reinstatement testing before he goes anywhere,” said Narsingh’s lawyer Vidushpat Singhania. He added, “WADA has a right to appeal within 21 days. Till the time they do not N <0A:4CB D6?D6I ?:7EJ :RUOGERG\WRWDNHFDOORQZUHVWOHU¶V5LRGUHDP 7TfX[[WPeTc^V^cWa^dVWPaTX]bcPcT\T]c cTbcX]VQTU^aTWTV^TbP]hfWTaT =0AB8=67´B;0FH4AE83DB7?0CB8=670=80 CWXbWPbQTT]cWTc^dVWTbcUXVWc^U\h[XUT8 fP]cc^U^aVTccWTT]cXaTT_Xb^ST]^fP]S b^[T[hU^Rdb^]fX]]X]VP\TSP[PccWT >[h\_XRb;Pbc SPhbWPeTQTT] TgcaT\T[hc^dVWU^a\T\hU^RdbXb]^f UXa\[h^]QTX]VPc\hQTbcP]SV^X]VP[[^dc c^QaX]VV[^ahc^cWT]PcX^] =0AB8=67 =8A970A :0AC78:A0<0=Q =4F34;78 appeal and this decision is not overturned, this decision stands. Right now he is free to compete at Rio unless they appeal and it is overturned.” Earlier, ending week-long speculation, NADA DG Naveen Agarwal said Yadav was a victim of sabotage and he deser ved the benefit of doubt, leading to wild celebrations among his supporters who gathered in numbers to offer their support to the wrestler’s case. “We kept in mind that in the past, till June 2, none of his samples were positive. It was inconceivable that one-time ingestion would be of benefit. Therefore the panel is of the view that the onetime ingestion was not intentional,” Agarwal told reporters on Monday while reading out the verdict. “The panel concludes that the athlete deserves the bene- fit of Article 10.4 of the NADA’s anti-doping code. Keeping in view that he was victim of sabotage, the panel exonerates the athlete from charges of antidoping rules of NADA,” he added. Agar wal added that wrestler was not informed about the report till the July 5 sample was taken. So had he been regularly taking it, then the extent of the substance in Yadav’s body would have been same on July 5 as well June 25. ?`ecfde+3;5]`dVd5_R]>f_ZTZaR]Zej 5^da^UbXg_Pach 2^d]RX[[^abSTUhfWX_ ?=BQ 374=:0=0; F40C74A <0G"!&2! <8=!%#2 6T]TaP[[hR[^dShbZhfXcW[XVWcaPX] 20?BD;4 ³?0:A4B?>=B81;45>A A09=0C7´BB42DA8CH´ =Tf3T[WX)8U°P]hbTRdaXchXbbdT PaXbTbfWT]7^\T<X]XbcTa APY]PcWBX]VWeXbXcb8b[P\PQPS [PcTacWXbfTTZU^acWTB00A2 R^]UTaT]RTXcfX[[QT?PZXbcP]³b aTb_^]bXQX[Xchc^STP[fXcWXc± <X]XbcTa:XaT]AXYXYdc^[S aT_^acTab^]<^]SPh 6BC18;;C>14C0:4= D?>=F43)0=0=C7 =Tf3T[WX)?Pa[XP\T]cPah0UUPXab <X]XbcTa0]P]cW:d\PabPXS^] <^]SPhcWPccWT6BC1X[[WPb QTT][XbcTSU^aSXbRdbbX^]X]cWT APYhPBPQWP^]FTS]TbSPhP]S W^_TSXcfX[[QT_PbbTScWa^dVW R^]bT]bdb B>7A01D338=20B4)B707 64CBA4;8455A><B2 =Tf3T[WX)8]PQaTPcWTaU^a 0\XcBWPWcWTBd_aT\T2^dac ^]<^]SPhSXb\XbbTSP_[TPQh b^RXP[PRcXeXbcP]SU^a\Ta QdaTPdRaPc7PabW<P]STa RWP[[T]VX]VcWT19?_aTbXST]c³b SXbRWPaVTX]cWTP[[TVTSbcPVTS ZX[[X]V^UB^WaPQdSSX]BWTXZW P]SWXbPXSTCdb[XaP\?aPYP_PcX ³8=380=BBCA0=3438= B0D38C>144E02D0C43´ =Tf3T[WX)0Q^dc 8]SXP]bbcaP]STSX]BPdSX0aPQXP fX[[QTTePRdPcTSP]S]^^]TfX[[ V^Wd]VahPbaPcX^]WPbQTT] SXbcaXQdcTSc^cWT\4gcTa]P[ 0UUPXab<X]XbcTaBdbW\PBfPaPY bPXSX]?Pa[XP\T]c^]<^]SPh 7TaST_dchE:BX]VWXb[TPeX]V U^aBPdSX0aPQXPc^^eTabTTcWT TePRdPcX^]_a^RTbbbWTbPXS n a major jolt to the ruling BJD, IChairman its Dhenkanl Municipality Indramani Behera lost his post on Monday as four of the party Councillors voted in favour of the Congress-moved no-confidence motion defying party whip. Out of the civic body's 23 Councillors, 17 voted in support of the motion while three votes were declared invalid. Behera along with Gyanachand Mishra of the BJD and Independent Councillor Sisira Dalei abstained from voting. After Behera's ouster, ViceChairman Namita Behera of the BJP was declared in-charge Chairman. With six BJD Councillors, Indramani Behera had managed to avail support of five BJP Councillors and become the 341030B?A0370=Q 17D10=4BF0A mid attacks from opposiA tion parties, the State Government on Monday rushed to clarify that neither was it informed by the Central Water Commission (CWC) about the Kelo project nor did it receive any letter from the Chhattisgarh Government to this effect as claimed by opposition parties and the neighbouring State. “We want to clarify that Odisha Government has not received any letter from the Chhattisgarh Government contrary to media reports, which showed two letters were received from the Chief Engineer and the Chhattisgarh Water Resources Secretary in July and September 2008,” claimed Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi at a Press conference at the State Secretariat here. Slamming the CWC Padhi said, “On January 20, 2009 the Kelo project on Mahanadi was cleared by the CWC and Odisha was not apprised. Such back door clearance is unjust and as a co-basin State, Odisha should have been invited to the meeting before clearance.” He further stated that the Government would move an appropriate forum or court of law if water level in the nonmonsoon period decreases. "During the non-monsoon period if the water level that Q ?`ejVeeR\V_UVTZdZ`_`_[`Z_e S`RcUdRjd4YZVWDVTj Q =DDaVR\VcdVV\d3R]jR_dcVa]j`_ acZgZ]VXV^`eZ`_ ²CWT6^eTa]\T]cf^d[S \^eTP]P__a^_aXPcT U^ad\^aR^dac^U[PfXU fPcTa[TeT[X]cWT ]^]\^]b^^] _TaX^SSTRaTPbTb³ we want to maintain will be less, Odisha will be adversely affected and we will not tolerate that. After getting detailed information from Chhattisgarh, we will certainly approach the appropriate forum to get the projects stopped or justice." The Chief Secretary also claimed that Chhattisgarh's Kelo Project was approved by the Central Water Commission (CWC) on January 20, 2009 and Odisha was not apprised. On the issue of formation of a joint control board (JCB) Padhi said the State Government has not yet taken any decision on the formation of a JCB as suggested by the Centre at the July 29 meeting held in New Delhi. Water Resources Secretary Pradip Jena, who was present 193c^STcPX]2VPaWQ^d]ScaPX]bc^\^aa^f 0UcTa1TWTaPb^dbcTaEXRT2WPXa\P] =P\XcP1TWTaP^UcWT19?fPb STR[PaTSX]RWPaVT2WPXa\P] Chairman in 2013. There was an understanding that Behera would quit the Chairman post to the BJP after two years. Indramani faced the anger of the BJP Councillers as he refused to quit the post after two years. Meanwhile, four aggrieved BJD Councillors supported the motion and defied the party whip on the plea that their wards were neglected and their voice was ignored in the party. ?=B Q 17D10=4BF0A E`R__`f_TVWRTeWZ_UZ_XeVR^`_2fX& he BJD on Monday said it T would hold a token protest at various railway sta- Commission office here on August 3 demanding an impartial probe into the Chhattisgarh's secret ploy against Odisha's interest," said party general secretary Debi Prasad Mishra, spokesperson Pratap Keshari Deb and WODC Chairman Kishore Kumar Mohanty at a Press meet here. They alleged that the Chhattisgarh Government has shown false information tions to stop Chhattisgarhbound goods trains for half an hour on August 3 to protest against construction of barrages upstream the Mahanadi in the neighbouring State. "We will stop all goods trains to Chhattisgarh at different railway stations and hold a relay strike at the Central Water B2bTTZbP[[Qd]VP[^fb^RRd_XTSQhD?Tg2<bc^QT he Supreme Court on ePRPcTSfXcWX]cf^\^]cWbaT]cU^aX[[TVP[bcPh_TaX^S 01A070<C7><0BQ =4F34;78 T Monday struck a double whammy on all the former Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh by directing them to vacate their official bungalows in the State within two months and pay rent for the period of their “illegal” stay. A 1997 executive order issued by the State Government titled “Ex-Chief Ministers Residence Allotment Rules” had permitted all former Chief Ministers to occupy Type VI bungalows for life. A PIL filed by NGO Lok Prahari challenged this privilege on the ground that there already existed a law, The Uttar Pradesh Ministers (Salaries, Allowances and Miscellaneous Provisions) 7TP[^]VfXcW \^cWTaeXbXcb3T[WX U^a\^eXT_a^\^cX^] ?=BQ 17D10=4BF0A ith wonder boy Budhia W Singh reiterating that he would not return to Act, 1981 which governs allotment of bungalows. Under this Act, a Minister or a Chief Minister is allowed to retain the bungalow only for 15 days after demitting office. A Bench of Justices Anil R Dave, NV Ramana and R Banumathi unanimously struck down the 1997 Rules as violative of the 1981 Act and directed all bungalows occupied by ex-Chief Ministers to be vacated within two months. the Sport Hostel, the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) on Monday engaged psychologist Prof UN Dash to counsel him to return to the hostel. Meanwhile, on Monday evening Budhia left for Delhi along with his mother Sukanti Singh for promotion of a movie ‘Budhia Singh, Born to Run,’ a Hindi movie directed by Soumendra Padhi. The movie is based on the Budhia who ran 62 km at the age of four. Notably, the 14-year-old marathon runner Budhia is unwilling to return to the Staterun-Sports Hostel in the city, where he was staying since 2007. He had left the hostel on May 10 during summer vacation and did not return thereafter. However, Budhia alleges that he was not getting training at the Sport Hostel up to his expectation. Budhia’s mother Sukanti Singh also said that she would prefer to allow his son to stay at a private place where he would get proper training. BcdST]c2^]V01E?PRcXeXbcbSTcPX]TS +LOVDFXUU\RXWRIPHQXDVILVKSULFHKLWVURRI C ?=BQ :4=3A0?030 hilsa (ilishi) Idropsontheinitsdelicious way out? A drastic the catch of hilsa has brought into sharp focus the endangered State of the sea fish. With the yield not encouraging this time, the price has shot through the roof making the fish out of reach of the common people. One can rarely find hilsa in the fish markets of Kendrapadra now-a-days. A kg of hilsa is selling at as high as Rs 1,400-1,500 in Paradip, informed, Orissa before the Centre regarding its construction of barrages on the Mahanadi. Mishra said Odisha has the absolute right to be consulted before clearing any project on the Mahanadi, be it for irrigation or power generation. They too informed that party would announce a fact-fining team to visit barrage sites in Chhattisgarh on August 5. )RUPHU&0VFDQ¶WRFFXS\*RYW ?bhRW^[^VXbcc^R^d]bT[ 4>?RgVV_gZdZedFFR^ZU EXQJDORZVIRUOLIHUXOHV6& 1dSWXPc^aTcda]c^W^bcT[ f_acVTVUV_eVUdVTfcZej ?=BQ 17D10=4BF0A :_PSP9B_da UXbWTabf^aaXTS PbRPcRWUP[[b at the Press briefing, said, though the Chhattisgrah Government is coming up with seven projects it has only shared about one with the Odisha Government. "Out of seven projects in Arpa of Chhattisgarh, we have received the detailed project report (DPR) of one project only on April 18 this year. We have also intimated them our comments. Neither we have the DPRs of three completed projects nor the three proposed projects in Chhattisgarh. It is really impossible to assess the combined impact of the projects without information," said Jena. Meanwhile, Chhattisgarh Water Resources Minister said they sent the receipt of the letter to Odisha Government. On the other hand, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Monday sought a reply from Water Resources MoS Sanjeev Balyan seeking his response over the privilege motion brought by the BJD over the Mahanadi dispute. On Monday too, BJD MP Prabhas Singh too submitted a priviligae motion against Balyan on the issue. Fishermen Federation president Narayan Haldar. "The drop in the yield is unprecedented. Never before, had hilsa catch fallen to such a low level. Those who had pinned their hopes on bountiful catch are left thoroughly disappointed this time," he informed. A few years back, at this time of the year, Kendrapada, Jagatasinghpur and its nearby fish markets were flooded with basketful of silvery hilsa. But now, hilsa has become a rare sight in the fish market. The fishermen are going to sea to catch fish, especially for catching hilsa, as it is the right time for catch. But hardly have the fishermen been able to catch hilsa at sea. As a CWTWX[bPbd__[hc^ FTbc1T]VP[ \PX][h:^[ZPcP WPbP[\^bcR^\T c^PVaX]SX]VWP[c cWXbhTPab^[T[h SdTc^[PRZ^UWX[bP RPcRWX]cWTbTP result, the hilsa rate is high. The hilsa's peculiar habitat makes it impossible to breed the fish artificially through aquaculture, unlike other fish. The adult hilsa swims several km upstream to freshwater from the sea for spawning and returns to saline water after that the eggs hatch in freshwater. The sub-adult hilsa flows back downstream into the sea, a process that takes a few months. Generally, during the low pressure, the fishermen generally catch abundant hilsa at the confluence of river mouth of Mahanadi and the Bay of Bengal. But, this year in the ongoing monsoon season ,the rain is playing hide and sick and low pressure rain has not occurred enough on this coastal part, so the hilsa catch has reduced a lot, stated Additional Director of Fishery (Marine), Kujanga Biraja Prasanna Mohapatra. "The fishermen dispose of their yield through auction in the Paradip fishing harbour. While nearly 10-15 per cent catch is sold off in local markets of Paradip civil township, Kujang, Kendrapada and Jagatsinghpur, the bulk of the produce is dispatched to other parts of the State. The hilsa supply to West Bengal, mainly Kolkata, has almost come to a grinding halt this year, solely due to lack of hilsa catch in the sea," said Maa Ramchandi Boat Owner's Association president Anatha Bandhu Das. ity roads from PMG Square to Acharya Vihar and from Acharya Vihar to Vani Vihar wore a deserted look at least for half an hour as shops and market complexes remained closed and vehicles were stranded ahead of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s visit to the Utkal University campus here on Monday afternoon. The Commissionerate police didn’t take any chance for any agitators to show black flags or shout anti-Government slogans during movement of the CM’s cavalcade. A large number of armed police personnel stood on roadsides hours before the CM came to inaugurate a boys’ hostel and a sports hostel in the university campus. Over a 100 activists of the Student Congress and the ABVP were taken to preventive 01E?PRcXeXbcb P[[TVTScWPc]^ STeT[^_\T]c WPbQTT] TUUTRcTSSdaX]V cWT %hTPab^U cWT193ad[T custody to avert any form of protest by them. Notably, some Student Congress activists had managed to pelt rotten eggs at the CM’s car at the Rabindra Mandap during his visit to Vani Vihar last year. Opposing the CM’s visit to the premier university of the State, Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists alleged that no development has been effected during the 16 years of the BJD rule. RP_XcP[! 17D10=4BF0AkCD4B30H k0D6DBC !! % D@8[RhR_UZVdUfcZ_XecRZ_Z_XZ_TZej 2^[[TPVdTbW^[SbcXa P[[TVX]V]TV[XVT]RT X]_aX\PahcaTPc\T]c ?=B Q 17D10=4BF0A ension gripped the SOG camp at Chandaka on the city outskirts after a Special Operation Group (SOG) jawan died while running as part of his training on Monday. As the news broke out, the other jawans of the camp staged a demonstration in front of the camp alleging T that the victim was forced to undergo training even after he had complained of illness. The deceased was identified as Laxminarayan Pradhan. Pradhan fell unconscious while running during the training session in the morning. He was rushed to the Capital Hospital here but declared brought dead by doctors. Following the mishap, other jawans staged protest in front of the camp and blocked road alleging that Pradhan was directed to undergo training even after he complained of suffering from fever. They further alleged that there was delay in providing primary treatment to the jawan for which he died. The jawans demanded a probe into the incident and action against the camp authorities who asked Pradhan to participate in training despite his sickness. Intelligence Director Sunil Roy and IG, Operations Soumendra Priyadarshi held discussions with the agitating jawans, following which the jawans called off the strike. “Neither the victim not others informed the authorities about his health condition before running. Compensation will be provided to the family of the deceased jawan as per Government norms. Though it appears to be a case of cardiac arrest, the actual reason behind the death can be ascertained after postmortem,” said Priyadarshi. 2:4µc=QXQ^QTY`\e^WU 1PX[_[TPWTPaX]V^U]X]T d_Tb_g^YdY^UTTYUc =8;03A81894580B2> 0bBcPcTUPX[bc^ UXVWc26´bR[PX\b ³cTRW]XRP[[h´ B0=944E:D<0A?0CA>Q 17D10=4BF0A ensing a gargantuan challenge from a raging BJP Sriding on PM Modi’s charisma, and when the ruling BJD apparently finding itself sucked deep into the scandalous mucks, the ruling party for ‘electoral nirvana’ went for a plunge in the Mahanadi. Why, or else, when the smoke of Kelo Project and Ar pa-Bhaisajar barrage emanated from Chhattisgarh soil way back in 2007 and 2012, when the irrigation projects were touted then by Chhattisgarh Government as harbinger of new Green Revolution and which hogged the national media headlines then, Odisha caught fire only in 2016 as the State Government here smelt the perils when the projects are almost on the verge of completion. Significantly, as per a Central Water Commission (CWC) assessment, the river basin of Mahanadi has an average water resources potential of around 66.9 billion cubic metre (BCM) annually and the surface storage capacity created in the Mahanadi basin is only 50BCM. And, with increasing population in the basin, where Odisha has a share of over 46 per cent to Chhattisgarh’s around 53 per cent, the per capita water availability of Mahanadi river basin is on the down slope as it is set to touch 1,294 million cubic metres (MCM) by 2050 – down by 29 per cent since 2010. This reveals reduced water availability per capita in the Mahanadi in future. As per the 1983 interState agreement, Chhattisgarh has been allotted to use 26, 542 MCM of water of Mahanadi basin. And, the current water usage by Chhattisgarh from the basin stood at around 7, 470 MCM. Since, rivers are dynamic in nature and Mahanadi being dependant on monsoon, there ought to have a fresh review done with regard to the water resources p otential of Mahanadi basin now, given the present CWC assessment was done in 1993. Odisha’s best bet now lies in proving the fact that could show how the State is or would be drawing reduced water inflow as an after effect to Chhattisgarh’s upping up of surface storage projects in Mahanadi basin. 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What surprises the water watch bodies here is while the ruling party is gleefully moving fast to flame up passions on Mahanadi water in districts where the river is the lifeline, it makes a niggard headway on the real ground of technical study which matters most to fight with either in tribunal or in the Supreme Court. Even, what dismays the political watchers is BJD’s political move to set fire on the Mahanadi river in order to harvest a sound electoral fortune. The reason: It carries the risk of sinking BJD in the Mahanadi eddies as the ‘hype’ of BJD must have to meet the ‘ground-level’ feeling among the water users in the districts. BJD’s hawkish stance could bear fruits only when the standing crops of farmers in Odisha could risk a washout like the infamous Cauver y imbroglio that singed Karnataka and TN in 1990s. bTaeXc^abSTUTaaTSc^0dV# ?=BQ ?DA8 he Additional District Judge (ADJ) Court here on T Monday postponed the bail plea hearing of nine servitors of the Shree Jagannath Temple, who are accused of creating disturbance during the Niladri Bije rituals on July 17 and are also declared as absconders, to August 4. The servitors include six priests who were arrested for allegedly misbehaving with Puri district Collector Arvind Agarwal during the Niladri Bije of Lord Jagannath. On the other hand, eight servitors, Damodar Mahasuara, Jayakrushna Mahasuara, Saina Khuntia, Bhimsen Palankadhari, Ipsit Pratihari, Rabi Dash, Kashinath Khuntia and Bhagirathi Khuntia, who were declared absconders by Puri police are yet to be arrested. Some servitors had an altercation with the Collector during Niladri Bije rituals when the latter confronted them after they took their family members atop chariots despite a ban order. The incident had led to delay in the rituals and the Pahandi of the deities. AReYR\[`Z_dRd_Vh ?CC:5ZcVTe`c ?=B Q 2DCC02: minent rice scientist Dr E Himanshu Pathak joined as the new Director of National Rice Research Institute (NRRI) here on Monday. Earlier, he was working as a Senior Scientist at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) in New Delhi. An expert on soil science and agricultural chemistry, Dr Pathak has published more than 200 research papers and authored at least 11 books, most of which are on climate change. He is also a visiting scientist in the UK-based University of Essex, Philippines-based IRRI and Germany-based Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research. Speaking to this correspondent, Pathak said his new assignment is relatively challenging as he would be working mainly on improving rice productivity in the country, particularly in eastern India against the backdrop of climate change and at the same time managing the natural resources. ODNKLQHOLJLEOHSHRSOH GURSSHGIURP1)6$OLVW <^aT[XZT[hc^ bdaaT]STaU^aUTPa ^U[TVP[PRcX^] ?=B Q 17D10=4BF0A s many as 15,00,405 ineligible beneficiaries have been A excluded from the list of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) cardholders by June 10, and the number seems to rise further as more such beneficiaries are likely to surrender cards by August 13 for fear of legal action. Beneficiaries, who have obtained digitised ration cards to get subsidised rice and wheat under the NFSA by furnishing false information, are being excluded. By now, 4,03,785 ration cards either have been cancelled or returned. Notably, the State Government had set a target to include 3, 26, 41,250 eligible person under the NFSA. Accordingly, households comprising 3.15 crore people were issued over 83 lakh ration cards by end of previous financial year. There were nine criteria for addition of genuine beneficiaries under the scheme and five criteria for exclusion of beneficiaries from the centrally sponsored scheme. Under NFSA guidelines set by the Centre, the bogus ration cardholders such as APLs counted fraudulently as BPLs would be excluded. The persons like beggars, destitute, pension holder widows, particularly vulnerable tribal groups (PVTGs) and persons having 40 per cent or above disabilities would be included under the scheme. Except Antodaya Anna Yojana, APL families of KBK districts, BPL families across the State and poor/left-out family concepts have been discarded. However, provisions for SC/ST boarders, fisherman families and persons with differently abled schemes would not be covered under the Act. The State Government would have to shoulder the responsibility for these categories. The nine exclusion criteria include monthly income of over Rs 15,000 in urban area and over Rs 10,000 in rural area, income tax payers, persons having four wheelers, electric consumption above 300 units per month, State and Union Government employees, persons having tractors, power-tillers, fishing boats or any other heavy vehicles, persons having entrepreneurship and professional tax payers. pioneer interview of the week µ3OHGJHWRHQGVXSHUVWLWLRQV DQGGRQDWHERG\RUJDQV BdVhP] 2W^dSWdah He holds no office of profit. He owns no business empire either. Yet, he has devoted his entire time and energy for eradicating superstition, blind beliefs, social taboos and the like. An arch enemy of religious obscurantism and fanaticism, a restless crusader against occult practices, Debendra Sutar has undertaken a pioneering effort for introducing a legislation in the Odisha Legislative Assembly for those willing persons voluntarily expressing their desire to donate their bodies after their natural death for medical research. Sutar also played a pivotal role in promulgating a law in the Assembly against witchcraft in our State by providing necessary data to the Government over this macabre practice of burning women suspecting them as witches. Both these Acts have come into force from 2013. He is also in the habit of extending free legal aid by arrangement with the socialminded lawyers and also helps such victims in rehabilitation and in providing education to the needy. He has his own ways to reach the desired goal for an egalitarian society. Nourishing strong contempt against the supine bureaucracy, Sutar files PILs in the High Court and pursues the court for carrying the matter to its logical conclusion. At present, he is the editor of Odia magazine Vaignanika Charcha published from Bhubaneswar. The journal carries articles against social dogmas and superstitions. In an interview to The Pioneer, Sutar spoke to Sugyan Choudhury at his CDA residence in Cuttack. is now possible to save the patient by removing the diseased organ and transplanting a healthy organ in its place. Now, from where does his healthy organ come? It is not possible to extract such an organ from a living person nor will any living person agree to part with his organ. But once a person is ‘brain dead’ if instead of cremating or burning a dead body, we extract the organ from such a body and transplant it in the patient, we may save a number of lives. The cornea extracted from such a person may give sight to somebody who is blind due to some corneal problem. In this way, a man or woman who is dying will live in another body for many more years. Besides, there exists an acute shortage of cadavers for medical students to study. First, for a long time, I had been knocking at the doors of Ministers and MLAs. Failing in my efforts to convince them, once again I took the shelter of the High Court through a PIL. After the What propelled you to take up endgames 3TQT]SaPBdcPa against superstition? As a child, I had been very inquisitive. I used High Court’s directions, the Government to question on anything I did not have an answer. brought about an amendment to the Odisha I remember I was then a primary school student. Anatomy Act, 1975 facilitating body and organ On a lunar eclipse day, I had to return home donation after death. Until now, we have from school in full fasting, walking down a long, donated 15 bodies to the different medical collong way, while I was hungry. Even then, my suf- leges in Odisha. We have deposited more than fering did not end. I had to keep on fasting there- 500 forms from different persons pledging to after throughout the night. This incident donate their bodies after death. shocked me very much to be on revolt against our customs. As a youth, I observed that poor Odisha still abounds with superstitious beliefs villagers had to sell their minimum possession and practices. What other works are you of accruable land organising feast for the entire undertaking to eradicate these phenomena? Yes, it is unfortunate but true. Many of such village on the Sraddha ritual of the departed. I have noticed my mother propitiating Goddess old beliefs and traditions are impeding social of wealth Lakshmi, but we still continued to suf- development. Take for example, Rath Yatra. It fer from extreme poverty. Such incidents left a is one of the important festivals of Odisha and deep imprint in my mind. When I grew up, I celebrated everywhere. It is a part of our social life. Such festivals may be necessary for all-round pledged to fight against all such blind beliefs. societal good. But just one aspect of it: Every How did you begin trying to end witch year, the carts for the deities are built anew from fresh wood. For making the three carts only for haunting? Large numbers of people, particularly the Puri Rath Yatra, 1,000 trees, 50–60 years old, women, are killed in Odisha being branded as are cut every year. This is having a serious witches. Every year, an average of 70 murders adverse effect on the environment and ecology. is committed in Odisha for alleged practice of We like to say that instead of building the carts witchcraft. During last six years, 360 people anew every year, necessary repairing could be have been killed. But there is no concern done. I had moved the High Court on this issue expressed about this. Much less numbers of too but without a success. We are trying to build people died in the State in the hands of Maoists. up public opinion on the matter. I have tried to bring an end to this medieval practice. In 2011, I filed a PIL in the High Court It’s said charity begins at home. Do you in your for directing the Government to frame a spe- life and family practice do what you preach cial law on the matter. The High Court after against superstition for a scientific bent of adjudicating the case directed the Government mind? accordingly. In 2013, the Government pro- Yes. I had told you that right since my childhood mulgated the prevention of witch haunting Act. I started questioning. As a child, I could not do In case of a witch killing, both the perpetra- more. But when I was grown enough to take my tor and the victim suffer longtime social and own decisions, I have tried to live by examples. financial disaster. Therefore, once we come to I married without a priest, without a provision, know any such incident, we try to investigate without dowry in a most informal way. We do the different aspects involved and try to devel- not have a ‘Puja room’ in our house; we have a library instead. Instead of observing Sraddha for op social consciousness. our forefathers, we keep their photos and What’s your interest on the post-death body remember them. All my family members, including my children, have deposited the and organ donation? When vital organs like heart, kidney, lungs form pledging our bodies after death. After my and liver fail due to any reason, people die. mother’s death, her body was donated to the SCB Efforts are taken to treat these diseases with Medical College. It was the first such case in medicines and surgery. But often, such treat- Odisha. Instead of believing in fate and miraments are not enough to set right the organs. cles, I repose confidence on my work. I am With the developments of medical science, it happy. 7ZgVac`a`dVU^VUT`]]VXVdWRTVWf_UTcf_TY CaP]bVT]STabc^QT 2T]caT_a^eXSTSC !Ra^aTb^UPa P__^X]cTSPbYPX[fPaSTab QQ <11BR[PbbTb\Ph]³cQTVX]Pb_TabRWTSd[T Bhubaneswar: The State Government has decided to recruit transgender persons as jail warders as per the directive of the Supreme Court. The State police have intimated to the Odisha Subordinate Staff Selection Commission (OSSSC) to initiate necessary process for recruitment of transgenders as jail waders. “A letter to this effect has been sent to the commission to take necessary steps in this regard,” ADG (Prisons) Manoranjan Patnaik. Notably, in a letter to the ADG-cum-IG of Prisons, and Department of Correctional Service (DCS) on July 27 this year, Home Deputy Secretary BB Mishra had sought a clarification on inclusion of the transgenders as a gender category in recruitment of jail Warders by keeping their physical standards at the same level as that of women candidates as per the observation of the Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (SSEPD). The letter had also requested the ADG to furnish the above observation/clarification to the OSSSC to expedite the process of recruitment of jail warders by stipulating the same physical standards for the transgenders as are prescribed for women candidates. PNS ?=B Q 17D10=4BF0A ven as the State Government has ambiE tiously set a target to commence MBBS classes in the proposed f ive new Government medical colleges from the 2017-18 academic session, paucity of funds for infrastructure seems to be standing on the way. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, which approved the proposed medicals to come up at Mayurbhanj, Baleswar, Puri, Balangir and Koraput with a project cost of Rs189 crore each, is going very slow in releasing funds, sources in the Health Department said. Cost of the projects sanctioned in 2014-15 had been shared in the ratio of 75:25 between the Centre and the State Government. But it was later changed to 60:40 in 2015-16. Out of Rs 567 crore Central share, the Union Government has so far released Rs120 crore, which counts only 21.16 per cent of the total. Hence, projects are facing severe funds crunch now. Though Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to release funds for timely completion of construction of the medical colleges, yet it had yielded no result. The CM has too informed the PM that admission to MBBS courses has been set to commence from 2017-18 academic session. Even as the State Government has made adequate budget provision for the projects, Centre has been very slow in releasing funds, said a senior official. Meanwhile, a revised estimate of Rs 2450.9 crore has been submitted to the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry for the five proposed medical colleges for capital expenditure, equip- ment and manpower. With 12th Five Year Plan ending in 2016-17, State Government officials are apprehensive as to whether the Centre would provide funds for the new medical colleges. Unless capital cost is released in 2-3 installments during the current financial year, construction of infrastructure would certainly be delayed and the commencement from 2017-18 academic session may not be possible, apprehended a top official. 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We have begun the second phase investigation from today. We will confine our investigation to Phulbani, Baliguda and its nearby areas. We are trying to collect relevant information in connection with the incident to bring the truth to the limelight at the earliest,” said Kundu. He said the SIT is yet to get the forensic report of the guns, live bullets and empty cartridges it had seized in its first phase investigation to ballistic experts. “Till then, our next phase probe will focus on the collection of allied information about the nature of firing and the nature of death of the villagers,” said Kundu. Meanwhile, demanding arrest of the jawans responsi- ble for the civilians’ killing, a mass protest was organised at Baliguda by several tribal and dalit organisations from across the State. In view of the mass congregation, security was tightened at Baliguda. Four DSPs, 50 officers and 19 platoons of police force were deployed to maintain law and order. The protesters’ rally began from the Baliguda mini stadium and marched through the town before culminating at the Sub-Collector’s office, where tribal and dalit leaders addressed a gathering. Later, they submitted a memorandum addressed to the President and Governor to the Sub-Collector. “The Government is yet to take any proactive action against tribal and dalit killers. In the name of Maoist operation, the security forces have been killing civilians. 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This record handling of cargo growth in July 2016 versus the same month of previous year in 2015 is 32% more (in July 2015, PPT had handled 6.09 MMT). The major growth of cargo came in July 2016 with addition of 8 lakh tonne of POL, 6 lakh tonne of imported coking coal and 6 lakh tonne of other cargoes like imported lime- stone, dolomite, etc. Incidentally, in the four months (April-July) of 201617, the port handled 28.65 MMT of cargo compared to 24.34 MMT in the corresponding four months of 2015-16 witnessing a growth of 17.75%. The port authorities have taken necessary steps in recent months not only for the port customers to do “Business with Ease” as per the initiatives of the Ministry of Shipping, but its efforts have taken the port in achieving many records in the history of the port. The PPT Chairman and Deputy Chairman congratulated all the port users, stakeholders and service providers of the PPT along with port employees and officers who have contributed to the cargo handling records. have rendered their voices to the songs. When asked why listeners would love the music, Ratnesh Bhagat saied the music can win the heart of music lovers as all the tracks have true Odia flavour to attract the listeners. Being a non-Odia, he endured a lot of pain to justify the belief, the director and the producer has on him. The film is based on a real incident of Chandipur area, where most of the scenes of the films have been shot. Director Chakradhara Sahoo hoped that the movie would give a new direction to the Odia cine industry that is passing through a bad phase for different issues. imansha, the sixth flick of noted production house M of Ollywood Manjari Movies, is all set to hit the big screen on August 5. The audio of this womenoriented movie was released at a function recently held in a city hotel here in the presence of the entire team. Mumbai-based young music director Ratnesh Bhagat has scored the music. The film has four different types of sequence demanding songs that are penned by Nijam, Mohit Chakraborty and Jatindra Pradhan. 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New club president Bijay Behera took the charge from his predecessor Bijay Kumar Nanda. Chief guest former Rotary District Governor Ashok Bihari Mohapatra talked about the successful polio mission undertaken by the Rotary International. He also enlightened all members about the new Rotary n integrated 5-year degree course in Law may begin A in the Balasore Law College literacy mission programme. Guest of honour PP Ashok Kumar Mohapatra spoke about the importance of true leadership. Dr Jogindra Nath Senapati inducted three new club members. The club souvenir The Salia was released by the guests. Club secretary Dhirendranath Patra read out the club’s action plan. Rotarian Omprakash Agrawal presented mementoes to the guests while Rotarian Sarojini Dash gave a vote of thanks. from this academic session. An expert team comprising National Law University, Cuttack Vice-Chancellor Srikrishna Deva Rao, KIIT Law School’s PK Sarkar and Siksha O Anusandhan University’s Jaydev Pati visited the college last week. FM University Registrar Gananth Patra, PG Council Chairman Sabyasachi Pattnaik and College Development Council Director Ranidra Nayak were present. The team inspected the available infrastructure and staff position to assess whether the college would be able to impart the integrated course after Plus Two. The team also examined another proposal to consider the college as a constituent of the FM University. The team has given positive opinion on both the proposals. “Two proposals were given to the FM University. The university’s syndicate proposed to form a committee and get its opinion. The team members were have given positive remarks,” said college Principal Rabinarayan Panda The college, established in 1978, is still being privatelymanaged and affiliated to the FM University. Apart from three-year LLB course, the college has been imparting LLM course with 32 seats since 2003. "The college had a humble beginning and now it has grown with passage of time. Since the expert team gave a favourable note, we hope the 5year integrated course will begin from the current academic session,” college management committee president Himansu Das. 8YReZ\YR]4YfUR_XR D´Z^cTPS\X]bX[T]c^]X[[TVP[R^]bcadRcX^]X]6^ec[P]S <V`_[YRcRU^Z_WRZ]d c]jU`fS]Z_Xh`c\V_Ud e`eRT\]VUV_XfV+3;A <>=>70A<>70=CHQ D<0A:>C4 he Revenue Department T has turned a blind eye to an unauthorised construction on ?=BQ 17D10=4BF0A he doubling work for 12-km stretch from Ghantikhal T Nidhipur to Chudangagarh of the 31-km-long RajathgarhBaranga railway line doubling project commissioned on Sunday. The 13-km stretch between Rajathgarh and Ghantikhal Nidhipur and from Machapur to Radhakishorepur had commissioned earlier. Out of 31-km doubling work, 25 km from Rajathgarh to Chudangagarh have been completed and ready for train movement, informed an official release. As many as six major rail bridges, including one over Mahanadi, have been completed. It is expected that, the doubling work of the project between 6-km stretch ChudangagarhBarang would be completed in the current financial year. The Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) has emphasized to complete this project on warfooting basis. a patch of Government land near the Old bus stand on Khata no. 1 and plot no. 276 despite court orders. According to sources, the land is spread over an area of 3.27 acres out of which some parts were given on lease to some beneficiaries long back but subsequently, the lease was canceled and the entire land was once again taken into the Government khata. Later, some persons encroached upon it by constructing shopping complexes, thereon and the Revenue Department has initiated encroachment cases against them under the provisions of OPLE Act. But a person whose lease was cancelled earlier claiming to be the owner of the land on the plot evicted the encroachers by the help of local revenue officials and sold the same to some other persons, alleged K Pravakar Rao, a denizen of that locality. He further alleged that the entire land in Khata no. 1 belongs to the Revenue Department and the lease earlier given to the beneficiaries was canceled. He further alleged there is a nexus between the local revenue officials and the persons having vested interest therein that requires a high level inquiry by the Vigilance Department. The aggrieved encroachers who have been evicted from the land have moved the Orissa High Court by filing a writ petition for settlement of land in their favour under the provisions of OPLE Act. The court while accepting the writ petition has issued notice to the local tehsildar and five others and as an interim measure, the court directed to maintain status quo over the site in question till the next date of hearing. But despite the court order communicated to the local tehsildar and to the parties, still people continue to construct a shopping complex thereon and the Revenue Department remains a mute specter, fumed petitioner Prakash Ahuja. 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Not a single woman or child activist has raised voice against it. Many girls in the village remain unmarried due to dowry system. The men folk consume excessive liquor everyday and ill-treat women. The women work as labourers and receive meagre wages. Slowly, the tribal labourers, especially women, are losing even coolie jobs and are divert- ed to work under the SubContractors. It is a matter of concern that tribal women from peasantry and forestry have been compelled to take up unorganised jobs like sweeping, grass cutting, clearing bushes, head loading, lifting heavy metals and hazardous wastes and sand filling, etc. Now, slowly, machines have started replacing this labour force. Thousands of tribal women have not yet recovered from the shock of displacement by several hydro-electric projects. When tribal women protest, either they are branded as extremist group and put behind bars or sexually harassed or physically tortured by the State agencies or threatened to be arrested by NSA. Because of no land and no forest, the women folk now migrate to semi-urban areas / urban areas as labour force for working in construction sector. Many of them also work as domestic helps. This has led to a plethora of serious problems, including disintegration of families. Tribal women, with the advent of globalization, can’t be kept secluded. In spite of the negative impact, the culture of tribals, especially tribal women, has not degenerated (culture does not necessarily mean the outwardly dress, ornaments, etc., but the intrinsic value one bears / exhibits). In this context, still now the tribal women represent the community feeling; resist industrialisation and dream for an environment friendly egalitarian society. It is said liquor is a part of the tribal culture, but the tribal women are active in leading the anti-liquor campaign. Kondhs have shunned human sacrifice as part of their culture. Tribal women are particularly vulnerable to the evil effects of industrialization / globalalisation during the last decade. It is also a good sign that they actively resist the liberalization process. The tribal women have to be made aware of the processes of globalization so that they look beyond their hamlet / slum / village. They have to be organized and their anger towards privatization has to be constructively ventilated through concerted actions. Young tribal women are to be oriented on this process to take collective action. Until the projects come, the existing movements have to be strengthened. Evolving alternative projects for the area, which could generate more revenue and income for the country is also the need of the hour. Irrigation has to be expanded to boost agricultural production and horticulture (Kondhs are very good at cultivating pineapple, orange, mango, lemon etc.) has to be promoted. Besides steps are to be taken for value addition of non-timer forest produces etc. The tribal women have to be organsied to ask a portion of the dividend for the development to be decided by them. Education is must for the tribal kids. The existence of any past project must be decided by the project affected people (PAPs) around the area. The projects must not affect the basic living conditions of the Desia Kondha women. The Government should not abdicate its welfare role within the area of the project like education, health, PDS etc. All in all, child labour must be avoided. Staying place of the women labourers must be regularized, they must be provided with quarters and essential services like toilet, crèche, transport, leave, minimum wage, PF, gratuity, insurance etc. There must be grievance cell for tribal women to look into the sexual harassment at worksites. Either they or their sons/daughters/dependents of the PAPs must get jobs and it must continue for generations till the company continues. Massive plantations in the colonies, inside the plant area, avenue plantation, etc. should be undertaken. Free education and health facilities to the affected villages have to be ensured. (Dr Maharana is a faculty member, Jeypore Law College, Jeypore, dist-Koraput, Mob. : 9438170563) 3T\P]SbC![PZWc^ ZX]^UTPRWSTRTPbTS ?=BQ :4>=970A he uncontrolled spread of the deadly dengue epiT demic in Keonjhar district and the failure of the administration in tackling the situation were highlighted by BJP leader Murali Manohar Sharma. Speaking at a Press meet, Sharma said the gross negligence of the authorities has resulted in death of five persons, even though there are many more deaths which have gone unreported in Keonjhar. Sharma said that the district being one of the highest gross revenue earners of the State does not have even proper medical facilities for its inhabitants. In spite of the presence of big corporates, mines owners, plant owners and entrepreneurs which have huge CSR budgets, the plight of the poor in the district remains dismal. The recent dengue epidemic is but an example of the apathy of the administration towards this district, he lamented. The meeting was presided over by the BJP district president Radha Mahanto, vice president Dhiren Panda, Anil Dhir and Swadhin Satapathy. Sharma demanded that a state-of-the–art hospital should be set up in Barbil with the funding from the District Mining Fund. Meanwhile, the hospital should be equipped with a Plasma Infusion Facility. The District Headquar ters Hospital at Keonjhar has the facility, but it is lying defunct ever since it was installed. The Barbil Municipality does not even have a health inspector since the last 20 years, even though the post is mandatory. There should be an immediate permanent appointment of two medicine Specialists at the Barbil Hospital. The CBC Machine was installed only after pressure was put on the State. In fact the Centre had responded immediately after Sharma had met the Health Minister at Delhi. The death of Rasabati Sahu is a clear case of criminal neglect and culpable homicide. She was admitted in a serious condition on the July 20 but she was discharged on the July 22 even though her condition had not improved. On July 24, she suffered from respiratory distress and she was brought to the hospital. As her condition worsened, and in spite of the pleadings of her husband to shift her to Cuttack, she was instead sent to Keonjhar at 1 am. The next day the Keonjhar doctors sent her to Cuttack where she died in a few hours. The persons responsible for her death should be booked and criminal proceeding initiated against them, Sharma demanded adding that a compensation of Rs 20 lakh for each of the deceased be disbursed. He also demanded the setting up of a 24-hour control room. Sharma said that the dengue victims, even after recovery, suffer from long term symptoms like weakness and debility for six months. The database for the discharged and affected persons should be made and their health monitored for the next six months. As dengue has a tendency of recurrence in the following years, adequate monitoring and preventive measures should be taken. ]PcX^]# 17D10=4BF0AkCD4B30H k0D6DBC !! % CCE4Y`]UdT]VR_]Z_VddUcZgVZ_TZejd]f^ EXVc^cPZT9^hSTT_ B?>ACB 9D=8>A103<8=C>=270<?8>=B78?2>=2;D34B ^]aT\P]SPVPX] 1WdQP]TbfPa)CWTcf^SPh0]Vd[3XbcaXRc9d]X^a1PS\X]c^] ?=BQ 17D10=4BF0A ?=BQ 2DCC02: he Regional Resource Training Centre (RRTC), T run by the Association for Special (Vigilance) Court here on Monday allowed A the anti-corruption wing of the Voluntary Action (AVA) organised an awareness programme on Prevention of Drug Abuse and a cleanliness drive at the BJB Colony Government School at Mahinsikhal Basti here on Saturday. Jointly organised by the RRTC, the Sambedna Education and different Integrated Rehabilitation Centre for Addicts (IRCAs) of Khordha district, the programme was attended by over 80 participants. A meeting was held to create awareness on the prevention of alcohol, drugs and substance abuse. BMC Deputy Mayor K Shanti attended the programme as chief guest whereas Mahinshikhal Community Development State police to take arrested Tripura-cadre IPS officer Joydeep Nayak on remand for two more days. Nayak, a native of Odessa, was arrested on July 23 on graft charges. The Vigilance police had earlier last week taken him on remand for three days. “We are taking the suspended IPS officer for further custodial interrogation in the corruption case registered against him in connection with his involvement in embezzling Rs 88 lakh meant for computer education of SC and ST students,” said an officer associated with the investigation, adding that the second remand period would begin on Tuesday. Committee president Bijaya Behera joined as guest of honour. The Deputy Mayor spoke on the ill effects of alcohol con- sumption and encouraged the people to carryout cleanliness drive effectively so that proper health and hygienic condition will be maintained. Later, all the participants, including schoolchildren and slum dwellers cleaned the surroundings of the school. RRTC Project Coordi- nator Deepak Ojha, documentation officer Basanti Behera and field staff Sashi Bhusan Mohanty coordinated the programme. Dg_XUQT]YcdbUccUc 9WPabdVdSPA^cPah cQ\Qbicd_``UTY^CµWQbX X]bcP[[PcX^]UTbcWT[S 5^aR[^bX]VbRW^^[b Primary School of Giringkela headmistresses and withheld panchayat was locked around their salary. Assistant teacher QTU^aTcX\T 3.40 pm and the Giringkela Madanmohan Naik was on leave ROURKELA: Headmistresses of two Government schools in Sundargarh faced music for closing their schools before time and their salary for July was withheld. Besides, an assistant teacher also faced action for staying on unauthorised leave. On July 29, Lepripada Block Education Officer Sarangdhar Bariah had gone for inspection of teachers training at Gundiadih and while he was returning, he found Saletikra Upper Primary School was closed around 3.50 pm before the usual closing hour of 4 pm. While inquiring there, the Lepripada BEO came to know that headmistress Hiranyamayi Patel of Saletikjra Primary School had left for her residence while Jyotsnamayi Sahu, headmistress of Giringkela Upper Primary School, had closed the school before closing hour as per her sweet will. The Lepripada BEO issued show cause to both on that day but the leave had not been sanctioned. The BEO marked it as unauthorized absence of Naik. Significantly, the headmasters of eleven schools and seven Cluster Resource Center Coordinator (CRCC) of Lepripada block in Sundargarh had been served show cause notice on July 11 by BEO Bariah for not bringing 11 meritorious students to appear in a scholarship exam which was held on July 10. 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Local MLA Naba Kishore Das, who was present as chief guest, lauded the role of the Rotary Club in serving the needy in the society. Club pres- ident Rajesh Agarwal handed over his charge to newly-elected president Vikash Badhan. Vinod Arukia took charge as the new secretary of the club. Sheetal Agrawal and Nupur Singhania were chosen as the president and secretary for the Inner Wheel Club, respectively. Newly-elected Rotary Club president Badhan said his team is committed to continuing the club’s service of rendering service to the suffering humanity. Members Anil Kedia, Manish Shah, Ajay Poddar, Ranjit Ghosh, Sanjay Khetan, Suresh Kumar Tulshyan, Ajay Kedia, Amit Agrawal, Praduman Lath and Harshit Modi were present. 1WdQP]TbfPa) F^\P]2P]SXSPcT<PbcTa BPX]PBP[^]XZPV^ca^dbX]VfT[R^\TWTaTPc 1XYd?Pcc]PXZPXa_^ac^]WTaT^]<^]SPhbWT aTPRWTSWTaTQhfX]]X]VcWTbX[eTa\TSP[X] cWT=PcX^]P[D "6Xa[b2WTbb2WP\_X^]bWX_ ! %fWXRWR^]R[dSTSPc0W\TSPQPS^] BPcdaSPh;PbchTPaBPX]PUX]XbWTSbTeT]cWX] cWTD "=PcX^]P[X]cWThTPa! #bWT QPVVTSQa^]iT\TSP[X]cWTD RPcTV^ah P]SUX]XbWTS(cWX]cWTD "PVTVa^d_TeT]cb 7TaVa^fcWXbR^]bcP]cP]SR^]cX]dTb=^f bWT]TTSbc^R^]RT]caPcT\^aTPb]^fPSPhcWTR^\_X[PcX^]Xb c^dVWTaBWTXbWPeX]VP[[_^cT]cXP[c^aTPRWcWTF8<cXc[TRWTbbR^PRW BdQWPbXb?Pcc]PXZbPXSCWTc^da]P\T]cfPbWXVW[hR^\_TcXcXeT8 \XbbTScWTcXc[TfXcWP]Paa^f\PaVX]8P\V^X]Vc^_PacXRX_PcTX]cWT F^a[S9d]X^a2WTbb2WP\_X^]bWX_WTaT8]cWXbhTPa8P\V^X]Vc^ _PacXRX_PcTX]cWTF^a[SD "2WP\_X^]bWX_bRWTSd[Tc^WT[SPc AdbbXPX]BT_cT\QTaP]SP[b^V^cbT[TRcTSc^_PacXRX_PcTX]cWT0bXP] H^dcW2WP\_X^]bWX_P]SF^a[SD #2WTbb2WP\_X^]bWX_X]cWThTPa ! &BPX]PBP[^]XZPbPXSBPX]Pb\^bcR^eTcTSPRWXTeT\T]cfPbPc 0;0X]X]D04X]cWThTPa! 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He further alleged under the pressure from RSS, Punjab Government had created such a situation in which sending and selling milch animals to other States had become almost impossible. “The mafia does not allow the milch animals to be transported from the State, resulting in fall in demand of cow breeds, which were earlier in high demand from neighbouring States,” he said. Sadarapura said the Cow Protection Board issued directions to procure a ‘No Objection Certificate’ before sending cows to other States and Deputy Commissioners of the Districts had been assigned the responsibility to issue the NOC but it took around 3 months to procure the NOC from administra- tion. He said the traders preferred to go to Haryana, as Haryana allowed daily per- mits for selling milch animals and C300 were charged for issuing a permit for selling milch animals. IP__TSU^aPb[P_0\\P^dbcb<?BPbXZP[P C=2<90H0;0;8C700B083?DB7?0F0B 148=64G?4;;435A><C740803<:5>A 20DB8=638BA4?DC4C>C74?0ACH ?=BQ 274==08=4F34;78 IADMK chief J Jayalalithaa on Monday expelled her A party’s Rajya Sabha MP Sasikala Pushpa, involved in the slapgate controversy, from the party and issued a stern warning to the cadre to have “no contacts” with the Parliamentarian. Pushpa, for her part, created a flutter in the Rajya Sabha by alleging that she faced a threat to her life in Tamil Nadu and that she was slapped by “a leader”, who she did not name even as the Opposition egged her on. In a statement released to the media, Jayalalithaa said Pushpa was being ousted from the AIADMK for causing disrepute to the party through her acts and for acting against the principles of the party. Pushpa (40) from Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu was in the news last week following reports about fisticuffs she had with the DMK’s Tiruchi Siva (62) at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi on Saturday. There were reports that Pushpa slapped Siva following an argument the duo had at the airport. Pushpa’s allegations led to sharp exchanges between the AIADMK members and the Congress and the SP leaders, who urged Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien to allow her to speak. AIADMK MPs, led by their leader A Navaneethkrishnan, had denied Pushpa’s allegations and demanded expunction of certain remarks made by her. Kurien assured protection to the woman MP, who broke down several times while making her submission. While Siva was not available for comments, Pushpa had told on Saturday that she slapped the DMK member because of the harsh language he used against her leader. But political observers in Tamil Nadu were unanimous of the view that there are some facts which have been left out of the story. Pushpa had been handpicked by Jayalalithaa from among the cadre and was made the mayor of Thoothukudi Municipal Corporation. She was also made the chief of the women’s wing of the party and was nominated to Rajya Sabha in April 2014. But of late, she was stripped off all her positions in the party as a fallout of gossips which had made to some of the Tamil weeklies and dailies. “There is something more than what the ordinary eyes see. There were money transactions which ended up in mind transactions and the news could have reached Veda Nilayam (residence of Jayalalithaa),” said a former top bureaucrat. Former Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswamy said Pushpa would not lose her membership of the Upper House following her ouster from the party. “But it will be difficult for her to function as an unattached member in the House,” he said. In the House, Pushpa first rushed into the Well of the House to get permission to make her statement and then broke down several times as she said she faced “life threat” from the State Government and alluded to her being slapped by a “leader”. She, however, did not mention who slapped her and when. Raising the issue, she said “If an MP is being slapped by a leader, where is human dignity?” provoking strong protest from members of her own party. She was backed by Congress and SP members who asked the Chair to let Pushpa speak. Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien said the chairman was the custodian of all members of the House and he will protect her too. He, however, asked her not to mention anyone’s name who cannot come to the House to defend himself or herself. ]PcX^]$ 17D10=4BF0AkCD4B30H k0D6DBC !! % B>7A01D338=50:44=2>D=C4A:8;;8=6 D4cVWfdVde`cV`aV_ecZR]RXRZ_de2^ZeDYRY 1T]RW^U9dbcXRTbBWPaPS0aeX]S1^QSTP]S 0bW^Z1WdbWP]R^]bXbcT]c[haPXbTScWTXbbdT ^U°[^Rdb±^U7PabW<P]STaX]PRaX\X]P[caXP[ 01A070<C7><0BQ =4F 34;78 n a big relief to BJP president ICourt Amit Shah, the Supreme on Monday refused to reopen the trial against him in the 2005 fake encounter killing of Sohrabuddin during his tenure as Gujarat's Home Minister. A trial court in Maharashtra had discharged Shah in the case in December 2014 following which the victim’s brother Rubabuddin moved to withdraw his appeal protesting against the discharge. But a former IAS officer and social activist Harsh Mander filed an application before the trial court opposing Rubabuddin’s decision as also discharge of Shah. However, on November 23, 2015, the trial court allowed Rubabuddin to withdraw. T5^a\Ta80B^UUXRTaP]Sb^RXP[PRcXeXbc7PabW <P]STaUX[TSP]P__[XRPcX^]QTU^aTcWTcaXP[R^dac ^__^bX]VAdQPQdSSX]³bSTRXbX^]PbP[b^SXbRWPaVT ^UBWPW T>]=^eT\QTa!"! $cWTcaXP[R^dacP[[^fTS AdQPQdSSX]c^fXcWSaPf T<P]STafT]cPWTPSRWP[[T]VX]VcWXb^aSTaQTU^aT cWT1^\QPh7XVW2^dacQdc[^bcPbcWT72 `dTbcX^]TSWXb°[^Rdb±X]cWTcaXP[P]SSXb\XbbTSWXb _TcXcX^]^]<PaRW ! %<P]STacWT]RP\Tc^ cWTP_TgR^dacPVPX]bccWXb^aSTa Mander went ahead challenging this order before the Bombay High Court, but lost as the HC questioned his “locus” in the trial and dismissed his petition on March 11, 2016. Mander then came to the apex court against this order. It was battle royale on Monday as Mander’s legal team, headed by senior advocate Kapil Sibal, clashed with Shah’s coun- sel senior advocate Harish Salve. Sibal pointed out that the Sohrabuddin encounter killing was a case of such gravity that the Supreme Court monitored it and ordered CBI to conduct the trial outside Gujarat, in Maharashtra. With Shah being discharged despite being chargesheeted for serious offences of murder, kidnapping, extortion, and criminal conspiracy, Sibal urged the Court not to close its eyes when even the CBI has “turned turtle” by choosing not to appeal against the discharge order with the change in Government at the Centre. ³F^aZTabfX[[QTTePRdPcTS]^^]TfX[[V^Wd]Vah´ E:BX]VW[TPeTbU^aBPdSXc^ ^eTabTT^_TaPcX^]bc^SPh ?=BQ =4F34;78 s the Parliament on Monday expressed conA cern over the plight of 10,000 Indian workers stranded in Saudi Arabia, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj assured that the workers will be evacuated and "no one will go hungr y." She also informed the members that her deputy VK Singh will leave for that country on Tuesday to oversee evacuation. Making a statement in both the Houses, she said the Indian embassy was running five camps to feed the 19?34<0=3BD?2<´B A4B86=0C8>=>E4A 1D;0=3B707AA0?4 workers. Moreover, she was continuously monitoring the situation, the Minister said adding "not one worker of ours will go hungry. This is my assurance to the country through Parliament... We will bring all of them back to India.” The Government, she said, was in touch with the foreign and labour offices in Saudi Arabia to ensure their early evacuation. Sushma informed Parliament the Saudi laws do not permit an exit visa without no objection certificate(NOC) from the employers. However, the employers 8]SXP]T\QPbbhXbad]]X]V UXeTRP\_bc^UTTScWT f^aZTabCWT6^ecXbP[b^ X]c^dRWfXcWcWTU^aTXV] P]S[PQ^da^UUXRTbX]BPdSX 0aPQXPc^T]bdaTcWTXa TPa[hTePRdPcX^]CWT BPdSX[PfbS^]^c_Ta\Xc P]TgXceXbPfXcW^dc=>2Ua^\cWTT\_[^hTab P]ScWTT\_[^hTabWPSR[^bTSS^f]cWTXa UPRc^aXTbP]S[TUccWTR^d]cahCWTT\QPbbh ^UUXRXP[bWPSR^]eThTScWXbUPRcc^cWTBPdSX 6^ecP]ScahX]Vc^VTcTgXceXbPb had closed down their factories and left the country. The Indian embassy officials had conveyed this fact to the Saudi Government and trying to get exit visas. Efforts were on through the labour office of Saudi Arabia to ensure that the workers get their salaries dues, the Minister said. In many cases, the workers had not received their salaries for more than eight months and the Indian Government was trying that they get their dues even after returning to India. Some opposition members in Lok Sabha raised some questions and Speaker Sumitra Mahajan disallowed them, saying “She (Swaraj) has done everything. She has done really good work. Nobody has worked this much.” Swaraj's response also drew praise from the Chair and members cutting across party lines in the in the Rajya Sabha. The issue was raised by Ali Anwar(JD-U) and Naresh Agrawal(SP). They said many stranded workers hailed from Bihar and UP and were facing tough times in Saudi Arabia. In her reply, Sushma said workers hailed from minority and majority communities besides from many parts of the country. But the Bench of Justices Sharad Arvind Bobde and Ashok Bhushan consistently raised the issue of “locus” of Mander in a criminal trial. “We cannot leave the locus so wide open that any criminal trial can be gone into at the instance of an outsider…It is not a case where at your instance prosecution has been initiated.” Salve countered saying in criminal matters, State is the master of criminal litigation. He showed recent cases where the apex court has disallowed third party interests in criminal matters as he said, “It’s a dangerous trend to allow anybody to join anybody's trial." But Sibal cited various decisions to the contrary where the Supreme Court held that if a public offence is committed, Section 397(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure allows "any person” to seek revision against a trial court’s order. But the Bench said, “You are not directly affected…we don't know whether you are a political person. 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One of the significant Bills passed in the Upper House was the The Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill 2016, which concerns lakhs of pre-medical entrance candidates undergoing NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) as per the Supreme Court's decision. The four legislations passed in the Lok Sabha related to amendments in the existing debt recovery acts. The amendments included the speedy recovery methods like attaching collaterals given for loans, provisions for central register and power of RBI in speedy recovery of the bad debts or defaulters. Rajya Sabha passed The Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill, 2016 and the Dentists' Amendment Bill, 2016 together. During the debate on the Medical Council Bill most of the members expressed their concern on the proforma of the NEET exams. Replying on the debate, Health Minister JP Nadda said NEET's aim was to reduce the multiplicity of exams; improve transparency to curb corruption; reduce exploitation of students. He also mentioned that all private institutions, including those under deemed universities, will be covered under NEET. “Health Ministry is trying to increase the quantity of medical seats without compromising on quantity and for that deliberations are being conducted about Medical Council of India. “We have also taken the recommendations of the Standing Committee in this regard and will do the right thing," Nadda said. On concerns expressed by members from AIADMK, DMK, NCP and SP that the poor will be sidelined through NEET, Nadda set aside apprehensions by stating that state reserved category is with the State Government and they can decide. Jairam Ramesh of the Congress slammed the Centre on the issue stating that in the current structure of the con- stitution of the National Board of Examination, he has no confidence at all that this government has the courage to stand up to the Medical Council of India's vested interests and go with the recommendations of the Standing Committee. While SP's Naresh Aggarwal said that all concerns can be put to rest if the government rethink on a system of exit exam of the passing out doctors. On the issue of reservation Nadda said reservation is something for states to decide but as for the fee structure in private colleges, it will be decided on the basis of the infrastructure of the colleges by a committee headed by a retired judge. “We will make parity between NCERT and state syllabi before creating question paper. We have already asked states about details of how many students have taken exams in regional languages. Once we have that, we will create exams in regional languages also," Nadda said. Another Bill passed in the Rajya Sabha was National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research (Amendment) Bill, 2016. HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said the faculty problem in all institutes will be addressed duly and the government is contemplating on how more students can retain themselves as faculty. “I can assure you that there will be no dearth of funds for NITs as far as teach- ing, research is concerned. Hostels and other facilities are also planned accordingly. Research infrastructure will get a boost with C20,000 crore," Javadekar said who had his maiden Bill as HRD Minister passed. In Lok Sabha, the MPs debated on the amendments to Sarfaesi Act, Recovery of Debts due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, Indian Stamp Act and Depositaries Act and raised concerns over the implementation of recovery of bad debts created by powerful corporate defaulters including absconding liquor baron Vijay Mallya. The amendments also made provisions for new asset recovery companies for specialising on bad debts recovery and enhanced role of RBI. *67%LOOLQ56WRPRUURZ-DLWOH\KDVDQRWKHUURXQGZLWK$]DG ?=BQ =4F34;78 inally, the long-pending GST Bill has been listed for F consideration and passage in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday amidst indications that it would be supported by Congress and all other major political parties. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley held further consultations with senior Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma and chalked out details of the contentious bill aimed at bringing about a consensus on the key Bill. Meeting was also held with other parties, including the Left and Samajwadi Party, for building a consensus on the key tax reform legislation. Another round of talks to clarify on the language of key parts of the bill is likely to be held with Congress on ?TcXcX^]U^aVaTT]R^eTac^ =PcX^]P[7XVWfPhb=6C bTTZb2T]caT´baTb_^]bT ?=BQ =4F34;78 he National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday sought the response of the T Centre, NHAI and others on a petition seeking a direction for maintenance of mandatory 30 meters green cover on both sides of the national highways. In another hearing on a related issue in Himachal Pradesh, NGT said “day is not far off when common man has to move about with oxygen cylinders in hand”. The remark of the green bench came in observation of the fact that not a single tree had been planted after clearing a forest area for road project. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Swatanter Kumar issued notices to the governments of Delhi and Haryana, based on a petition claiming that there was an erosion of the mandatory green cover on both sides of NH-1 and NH-8, necessary to maintain the ecological balance between pollution and development. The next hearing has been slated for September 7. As per the plea, an effort should be made by National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and the respective governments of states, through which national highways pass, to preserve and maintain the surrounding areas. It further pointed out that the effective green cover is as per what NHAI had prescribed as mandatory. "This is a huge loss to the green cover of the country, which is facing acute shortage of water and is faced with mammoth air and noise pollution," it said. The petition also referred to the notifications issued by the Haryana government which said that no construction can be allowed within 30 metres on either side of national highways and 50 metres on both sides in case of bypass road and it has to be maintained as green area. "The basic concept is that trees should be planted along the highway to maintain ecological balance between pollution and development and the future need for expansion of roads and insulate the population living nearby from noise pollution, dust and emission pollution," noted the petition. During the hearing on the issue of tree plantation in Himachal, NGT Chairperson questioned, "Half of the country is facing floods and half of the country is dry. Temperature of Shimla is going up. Show us one tree which you have planted. Will the road give you oxygen? It is tree which would give us oxygen." Voicing concern over environment degradation, the green bench further observed, "nobody bothers" about this key issue and that the concerned authorities have failed to show even a single photograph where trees have been planted. The next hearing has been scheduled for August 11. Tuesday. Jaitley also met CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury. Yechury said his party is “completely out of loop” over the developments relating to the proposed legislation and “does not know” what the Government is planning to bring as GST bill and asked it to call an all-party meeting to build consensus in this regard. Sources said that the Government was to initially bring the Bill on Tuesday, but Congress was not keen on the proposal due to the roadshow of party president Sonia Gandhi in Varanasi on Tuesday which may be attended by some party MPs. BJP has issued a whip to its members asking them to be present in the House for the next three days during which it expects the legislation to be passed. 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The Government aims to achieve the goal of the Mission of making India ODF by 2019. “As on July 27, 2016, 17 districts, 223 blocks, 31,077 gram panchayats and 68,808 villages have declared themselves as ODF as per the information uploaded by states on Integrated Management Information System (IMIS)," Drinking Water and Sanitation Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said during Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha on Monday. In rural areas, 207.49 lakh toilets have been constructed under the mission and sanitation coverage has increased to 53.45 per cent now. In urban areas, 58 cities and towns have so far become open defecation free, he said. Upto June 2016, work has commenced on around 21.44 lakh individual household toilets and 20.73 lakh toilets completed. While work has started on 1.40 community and public toilet seats and 68,506 seats have already been constructed, he said. There is 100 per cent door-to-door waste collection in 38,990 wards, the Minister said. Observing that there was a spurt in progress in rural sanitation after the launch of the mission on October 2, 2014, ing exemption from paying income tax for the assessment year 1994-95. The Congress claimed that the Income tax Appellate Tribunal and the Delhi High Court failed to take note of the fact that the exemption available to it under Section 13A of the Income Tax Act was available prior to this period (beginning 1986-87) and even after this period (till 2014-15). However, for the assessment year 1994-95, the exemption under Section 13A was denied on account of certain procedural formalities that later stood complied. Challenging against the Delhi High Cour’s order of March 23, 2016 by which the exemption for paying income tax was rejected, the party showed that in the final assessment done by the income tax authorities for 1994-95, a net loss of approximately C60 lakh was computed. “Thus on remand, it was found as a matter of fact that there was no assessable income and if there was no income, there could not have been any levy of income tax,” the petition said. The bench of Justices Kurian Joseph and RF Nariman issued notice to the Centre seeking response on the petition filed by the oldest political party. he said since sanitation is primarily a behavioural issue, the mission is therefore focusing on addressing the behaviour of communities to adopt safe sanitation. Highlighting the steps taken to bring about behavioural change, Tomar said the states have been suggested to adopt community-led and community-driven approach for behaviour change in rural areas. On monitoring the programme, he said it has been strengthened to capture household level details on the IMIS. Mobile application for uploading photographs of toilets constructed after October 2, 2014 has been developed. Third party monitoring is also being done through agencies such as National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) and Quality Council of India (QCI) among others, he said, adding that the progress of the mission was being monitored on a regular basis. Launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 2, 2014 on Gandhi's 145th birth anniversary, the mission is a national campaign, covering statutory cities, towns and villages across the country. ]PcX^]% 17D10=4BF0AkCD4B30H k0D6DBC !! % 4>e`fcd3RcR^f]]R UZdeR^ZUdYfeU`h_ &XUIHZLQ6RXWK .DVKPLUGLVWULFWV 5HVWULFWLRQVLQ SDUWVRI$QDQWQDJ 6ULQDJDUDUHDVWR WKZDUWSURWHVWV :0B7<8AE>B5CD :7DAB7443F0=8Q BA8=060A ³B_TRXP[RPcTV^ahc^0]SWaP´ R[P\^daVa^fbbWaX[[Ta E5A >AddeRXVdZeZ_ UV^R_UWf]WZ]]^V_e`W ac`^ZdVd^RUVZ_DeReV CV`cXR_ZkReZ`_2Te ><4A50A>>@Q 7H34A0103 ammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on JMonday toured north Kashmir's hile Telugu Desam MPs held noisy protests in and outside the W Parliament in New Delhi on Monday Baramulla district to meet a selected group of locals even as curfew, restrictions on public movement and shutdown continued to impact normal life in Kashmir for the 24th day since the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani. The authorities imposed curfew in two south Kashmir districts and restrictions in parts of Anantnag and Srinagar districts to thwart public protests. Police and paramilitary personnel were deployed in strength to block attempts of locals to hold protests according to the plan circulated by the separatist groups. A civilian from south Kashmir's Anantnag district Manzoor Ahmad, who was admitted with a head injury 20 days ago at SMHS Hospital, died. However, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police (south Kashmir range) Ghulam Hassan Bhat said the civilian was injured in a tyre burst on July 11 and his death was not related to the ongoing unrest in Kashmir. Sources said clashes erupted between youth and security forces in Kalaroos area of Kupwara district, in which four people sustained injuries. Locals alleged that security personnel smashed the windowpanes of residential houses. Hundreds of bikers held a protest demonstration in Shopian against the recent civilian killings. Sources said that Minister for Rural Development Abdul Haq Khan faced angry protesters in Tangdar area, where he had gone on an official tour. “Locals staged protest and demanding Special Category Status (SCS) to Andhra Pradesh, the State leaders also continued their criticism of the BJP. A day after a high-level meeting of TDP leadership chaired by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu decided to step up the pressure, TDP MPs staged a sit-in protest near Gandhi statue in Parliament premises. They shouted slogans and carried placards demanding the Centre to fulfil all the promises made in the State Reorganization Act, including the SCS. Later they continued the protest in both the House of the Parliament shouting slogans, displaying placards and disturbed the proceedings. The YSR Congress MPs rushed to the Well of the House shouting slogans and demanded the SCS. YSCRP has called a State-wide strike on Tuesday to protest against Centre's stand. It has evoked support from the Congress and the Left parties, while the ruling TDP was opposing it. Outside the Parliament, the issue also came up for discussion as the Minister of State for Science and Technology from Telugu Desam YS Chowdary and Union 2WXTU<X]XbcTa^U9P\\d:PbW\Xa<TWQ^^QP<dUcXP[^]VfXcW _Pach<;0bSXbRdbbX]V^]V^X]V:PbW\XabXcdPcX^]fXcWRXeX[b^RXcXTb \T\QTabSdaX]VP\TTcX]VPc1PaP\d[[PSXbcaXRc^]<^]SPh ?C8 <X[XcP]cZX[[TS Pb0a\hU^X[b X]UX[caPcX^]QXS Srinagar: A militant was killed in north Kashmir's Nawgam sector, as Army foiled another infiltration bid, Defence sources claimed on Monday. “There was an exchange of fire between alert troops and infiltrating militants. During the gun fight one militant was killed,” the official said and added that search operation is going on in the area from past many days. Sources added that one AK-47 rifle was recovered from the encounter site. Seven militants and three soldiers have been killed in Nowgam sector since July 26. PNS started pelting stone on the Minister's cavalcade. The security forces escorting the Minister swung into action to disperse the protesters,” witnesses said. This is the second time when a Minister faced angry protesters. Last week education Minister and Government spokesman Naeem Akhtar was waylaid by protesters at Sumbal in Bandipora District. Additional reinforcements were rushed to rescue the Minister's cavalcade from the mob fury. Reports of minor clashes between protesters and security personnel also poured in from several old city areas during which security forces resorted to tear smoke shelling to chase away the protesters. A spokesman of provincial police claimed the situation throughout Kashmir remained under control though “15 incidents of stone-pelting were reported.” These incidents were reported from Ganderbal, Kulgam, Anantnag, Shopian, Baramulla, Kupwara and Bandipora, police said. “During these law and order violating situations three people, 25 police and security force personnel, including a CRPF Company Commander, were injured. The CRPF Company Commander suffered serious injury on his face,” police said. As a precautionary measure, curfew, restrictions were put in place in police stations of north zone of Srinagar and Anantnag town. Meanwhile, scores of youth were also seen writing pro-free- ³022834=C´:925>E4AG1>9µC:8;;8=6 CU^Qc\Q]c:; 4U`edi 3=V_b´Y^ce\dY^WµZQgQ^c C=A067D=0C70Q <D<108 astigating Jammu & Kashmir Deputy Chief C Minister Nirmal Singh of the BJP over his remark that the killing of Hizbul commander Burhani Wani was an “accident”, the Shiv Sena said on Monday that Singh's remark amounted to his “backing” a terrorist and “insulting” the Army jawans killed on the borders. Viewing Singh's comment in the context of Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar's recent statement that anyone speaking against the country must be “taught a lesson” in the same way that an “actor” and an “online trading company” were taught, the Sena took strong exception to the J & K deputy chief minister's statement that Wani's killing was an “accident”. In an editorial published in its official mouth-piece “Saamana”, the Sena referred to Parrikar's covert dig at Bollywood actor Aamir Khan whose contract with Snapdeal was not renewed after his “increasing intolerance in the country” statement, and said: “It is easy to teach a lesson to an actor. What should we do with people who make similar statements wearing mask of CWTR^d]cah]TTSb_^[XcXRXP]bfW^ YdbcXUhFP]XbZX[[X]VP]Sbd__^accWT 0a\h\T]fW^RPaaXTS^dccWTPRc8U ZX[[X]VFP]XfPbP]PRRXST]ccWT] cWT?3?19?6^eTa]\T]cX]9P\\d :PbW\XaXbP[b^P]PRRXST]c FWPcXUcWT_T^_[TeXTfFP]Xb ZX[[X]VX]cWXbfPh. ¯0BWXeBT]PTSXc^aXP[ patriotism. Should we perform puja to such people?” Alluding to the J&K deputy chief minister's “accident” remark over Wani killing, the Sena editorial said: “The country needs politicians who justify Wani's killing and support the Armymen who carried out the act. If killing Wani was an accident then the PDP-BJP Government in Jammu & Kashmir is also an accident. What if the people view Wani's killing in this way?”. The Sena editorial said that the J&K Deputy Chief Minister's statement had put Parrikar's in a difficult position. “Parrikar has only expressed the sentiments of people but who is it that is discouraging our armymen? We can understand if Pakistan mourns the killing of terrorist Burhan Wani. But it was (J&K CM) Mehbooba Mufti who first shed tears on Wani's killing and then it was Nirmal Singh, who allegedly termed it as an accident,” the Sena said. “This is like backing the terrorist in Wani on one hand, while insulting our martyred jawans on the other. This will make it challenging for Parrikar who talks of teaching a lesson to those who speak against the nation,” the Sena editorial stated. The Sena, in its editorial ripped apart Singh's remark that Wani's killing was an “accident”. It may be recalled that on July 30, the J&K deputy chief minister — referring to Wani's killing — had said: “Police and security forces told us (the government) that they don't know who the terrorist is. It was an accident. Because when an operation takes place, precautions are taken but we didn't know it would be of such kind. Had we known about it, preparations would have been made”. dom and anti-India graffiti on walls, shop shutters and roads. Senior Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Geelani painted a slogan on a wall near his residence in uptown Srinagar. The Srinagar Municipal Corporation warned people against defacement of public places. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti called for a collective effort to reach out to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, especially the youth, to expand and consolidate the constituency of peace in the State. “To achieve sustainable peace in the State and the region, we have to unshackle the political thinking from the legacies of the past and have confidence in our self, our institutions and above all our people,” Mehbooba said. The CM said the country's policy on Jammu and Kashmir should not be based on strategic and security considerations alone but on ideological and humane values. “If we were to base our J&K policy on the ideological values of democracy, rule of law and tolerance, which have been the defining strength of India, we will expand the constituency of peace at the micro level of individuals as well as institutions,” she said. C3?\T\QTab_a^cTbcc^ST\P]Sb_TRXP[bcPcdbU^a0]SWaP?aPSTbWPc?Pa[XP\T]c7^dbTSdaX]VcWT^]V^X]V <^]b^^]BTbbX^]X]=Tf3T[WX ?C8 Minister M Venkaiah Naidu met the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. They discussed the situation arising out of Jaitley's statement rejecting the demand of SCS for AP. Venkaiah Naidu also met the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and briefed him about the situation. According to the sources, Venkaiah Naidu urged the Prime Minister to solve the problem with Andhra Pradesh by fulfilling the election promises. Naidu conveyed his concern over the growing differences between the two friendly parties. The PM on the other hand inquired about the statements made by the TDP president Chandrababu Naidu and other leaders of the party. Meanwhile, in Andhra Pradesh also TDP leaders continued to target the BJP. In Visakhapatanam the TDP MLA V Ganesh adopted a novel method of protest. He took the garb of a Sadhu clad in saffron clothes to meet the BJP MLA Vishnu Kumar Raju and urged him to cooperate in the fight for the SCS. Vishnu Kumar assured him that his party will also not compromise on the special status and he will soon meet the Prime Minister to convey the people's sentiments to him. Senior Andhra Pradesh Minister Ganta Srinivas said that if the Prime Minister takes the issue seriously, he can give special status to Andhra Pradesh in one hour. “The people who had demanded special status for ten years are now saying they will not give it. This is not justified”, he said. 19?´bD?TgTRdcXeT R^\\XccTT\TTcX] 9WP]bXcWXbfTTZ ?=BQ ;D2:=>F he stage is set for the crucial meeting of Bharatiya T Janata Party’s State executive 0VXa[fP[ZbSdaX]VWTPehaPX]bX]2WT]]PX ^]<^]SPh ?C8 1R9LGDUEKD6WDWHKRRGSURSRVDO)DGQDYLV C=A067D=0C70Q <D<108 aharashtra Chief Minister M Devendra Fadnavis on Monday sought to defuse the vehement protests by the ruling Shiv Sena and the Opposition Congress and the NCP against any move to bifurcate Maharashtra, by stating categorically that there was no Vidarbha Statehood proposal before his Government. In a statement made amid fierce protests by the Sena, Congress and NCP legislators in the both the House 0f State legislature, the Chief Minister informed the Assembly: “There is no such proposal (about formation of separate Vidarbha state) before the Maharashtra Government. The formation of new States is a subject dealt with by the Centre and Parliament”. On a day when the ruling Shiv Sena joined the Opposition Congress and NCP in protests against any move to create a separate State for Vidarbha region, senior Congress member and former Chief Minister Narayan Rane demanded Fadnavis' resignation over the pro-Vidarbha statehood stand taken by the BJP legislators from the backward eastern Maharashtra. Monday was second day when the proceedings in both the Houses of Maharashtra Legislature were disrupted by the ruling Shiv Sena and Opposition Congress and NCP over the contentious Vidarbha State issue. On Friday, pro-Vidarbha statehood members had raised slogans in favour of their demand in the State Legislative Council, prompting the Sena, Congress and NCP to stage strong protests against the BJP members' clamour for bifurcation of Maharashtra. The issue had also sparked protests by the Sena and the Opposition in the State Assembly on that day. The protests by the Sena, Congress and NCP were a fallout of a private member bill moved recently by BJP MP Nana Patole in Lok Sabha, demanding a separate Vidarbha state. In the State Assembly, the Congress and NCP members hit out at the ruling BJP for its MLAs's clamour for a separate state, while the Shiv Sena members raised slogans against the BJP for its efforts to bifurcate Maharashtra. Earlier in the day, Congress and NCP legislators rushed to the well and raised slogans against the formation of a separate Vidarbha state. The ruling Sena members also joined the Opposition members in the protests. Shiv Sena MLA from Kolhapur, Rajesh Kshirsagar, CWT2WXTU <X]XbcTa X]U^a\TScWT 0bbT\Q[hcWPc cWTU^a\PcX^] ^U]TfBcPcTb XbPbdQYTRc STP[cQhcWT 2T]caTP]S ?Pa[XP\T]c picked up the mace kept in front of the Speaker. He, however, kept it back after the Chief Minister took exception to the member's act. The Sena MLAs also sought an apology from BJP state unit president Raosaheb Danve for backing the demand of a separate Vidarbha state. Senior Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik demanded that State BJP president Raosabhe DanvePatil clarify his party's stand on the separate Vidarbha statehood issue. Inside the House, Sena MLA Prakash Abitkar asked Fadnavis to clarify stand on creation of a separate Vidarbha state. Leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil charged that there was a fixing between Sena and BJP over Vidarbha. Outside the House, VikhePatil said: “If the Chief Minister is so honest about his inten- tions, then he should table a resolution on separate Vidarbha in the legislature,” The Shiv Sena, who has been consistent in its opposition to the bifurcation of Maharashtra, staged protests at the entrance of the Vidhan Bhavan, opposing the clamour for a separate Vidarbha state. Displaying a banner BJP MP Nana Patole as “shekhchilli” (a comic character), the Sena legislators shouted slogans like “Maharashtra should remain united” and “we are for Akhand Maharashtra (United Maharashtra)”. The protesting legislators also wore caps that carried a slogan “ Akhand Maharashtra” In the Upper House, Congress' Narayan Rane demanded the chief minister's resignation, while leader of the Opposition Dhanjay Munde asked the chief minister to clarify his stand on the Vidarbha statehood issue. Senior Sena MLC Neelam Gorhe had a covert dig at the ruling BJP, when she said: “Just because a party has a majority in Lok Sabha does not mean that it owns the country”. NCP MLC Jitendra Awhad said that Patole's move to table a private member bill in Lok Sabha seeking statehood for Vidarbha had given rise to apprehensions in the minds of the people that the State was heading for a bifurcation. “That being the case, we will not allow this House to function. We will also enforce gaon-bandhi (ban on entering villages) on those speaking against Maharashtra,” Awahad said. committee at Jhansi this weekend following announcement of a jumbo-size executive committee. BJP State president Keshav Prasad Maurya announced the 255-member executive committee that has former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Lal Krishna Advani and PM Narendra Modi as special invitees. Kashi region has the maximum number of 68 members. Rupesh Pandey, the man who made controversial poster depicting Maurya as ‘Lord Krishna’ a couple of months back, has been included in the list from Varanasi city. The Awadh region has 51 members. They include Dr Ram Kapoor, an eye specialist from Chowk in Lucknow. It is his maiden entry into the BJP state executive committee. The western UP has 42 members, followed by Gorakhpur region (37), Braj region (29) and KanpurBundelkhand region (28). Almost all BJP leaders handling media have been accommodated in the state executive committee. Among them, Dr Chandra Mohan is from west UP, Harish Srivastava from Lucknow in Awadh region list, IP Singh from Gorakhpur region list. Yash Bharti awardee Narendra Singh Rana also finds a place in the list. The much-awaited announcement came five days before the first state executive committee meeting under Maurya’s presidentship, scheduled to be held in Jhansi on August 6 and 7. Meanwhile, BJP state general secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak said that preparations for the executive committee meeting were underway on a war footing and around 600 members would participate in the meet. He said the meeting would be inaugurated at 11 am on August 6 and conclude the next day in the afternoon. On the evening of August 5, a meeting of state office-bearers would be held to finalise the agenda of the state executive committee meeting. 3;AecjZ_Xe`UZgZUVaV`a]V`_TRdeV]Z_Vd+ >R^ReR B0D60AB4=6D?C0Q :>;:0C0 ays after returning from Delhi and little more than D a week after she disclosed her 5XbWTa\T]T]VPVTSX]b^acX]V^U³:X[X\TT]´CWaTPSUX]QaTP\PccWTEh__X]WPaQ^daX]:^RWX^]<^]SPh ?C8 national ambitions from a Trinamool Congress rally in Kolkata, Bengal Chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led Central Government for trying to divide the people of the country along religious and caste lines. Coming down heavily on the Narendra Modi Government for having done nothing except “unleashing cow vigilantes” throughout the country, Banerjee said, “You are doing nothing except spreading fundamentalism, giving ads and doing cow census,” adding that the BJP was doing it consciously to divide the people of the country along communal and caste lines. “You (BJP) are spreading fundamentalism and even not sparing the Hindus when your men attack the Dalits,” the Chief Minister said at a programme organised for minority development. “Here you are attacking the Dalits, there you are attacking the Christians and somewhere else you are attacking the Muslims,” she said adding “every where your men are involved in spreading hatred.” Attacking the Centre for allowing a portal launched for giving scholarships to the minority community to lie nonfunctional for a year Banerjee said “either you repair it or you simply discontinue it. There is no use continuing with something and intentionally allowing it to remain non-functional.” The Chief Minister who had a few days ago told a Trinamool Congress rally that she was planning to bring togeth- er all the like-minded regional parties and prop a non-BJP, non-Congress Federal Front in the Centre alerted the people not to be provoked by the BJP's “evil designs to divide the people.” She said “the BJP is trying to divide the people. They are not even sparing the Hindus and are attacking the Dalits. They have no regards for united India. So they are planning to provoke the people. But do not get provoked by them, because we want peace to prevail. We want development. “But they want to divide us. So we should not step into the trap layed down by them.” The Chief Minister had last week sent a three-member Trinamool parliamentary committee led by Derek O Brien to visit Una in Gujarat to sympathise with Dalit victims of a clash. Unhappy with the cow census undertaken by a particular organisation in Midnapore a nervous Chief Minister is known to have asked her party men to remain vigilant about ensuring that the former Left supporters do not get sucked into the saffron orbit by in the name of cow census. “This Government is doing nothing but only giving advertisements and spreading fundamentalism in the name of cow census” Banerjee said asking the people to “remain vigilant against their evil designs.” ]PcX^]& 17D10=4BF0AkCD4B30H k0D6DBC !! % 2ddR^+9Z_Uf3R_X]RUVdYZd¶ _R^Vd_`ee`WZXfcVZ_?C4 0=D?B70A<0Q 6DF070C8 nding the confusion over the inclusion of Hindu Bangladeshis into the National Register of Citizens (NRC), authorities updating the NRC in Assam said that they have not received any instruction from the Supreme Court to enter the names of Hindu Bangladeshis, who had entered India due to religious persecution, into the NRC. State Coordinator of the NRC, Pratik Hajela said this on Monday while addressing a Press conference and said that the Supreme Court order in this regard only instructed not to deport the Hindu Bangladeshis but there is no instruction to include their names in the updated NRC. The process of the updation of the NRC necessitated as there have been reports of lakhs of Bangladeshis entering the State of Assam illegally and living in the state, affecting state's demography. Assam had also witnessed a mass movement between 1979 to 1985 demanding detection and deportation of the E =^B2 ^aSTa c^X]R[dST \XVaP]cb´ ]P\TbbPh PdcW^aXcXTb C74?A>24BB>5 C74D?30C8=6C74 =A2=424BB8C0C43 0BC74A470E4 144=A4?>ACB>5 ;0:7B>5 10=6;034B78B 4=C4A8=6C74 BC0C4>50BB0< 8;;460;;H Bangladeshis. After the Central Government last year issued a circular allowing the minority communities from Bangladesh’ who enter India due to religious persecution, it led to an apprehension among a section of people in Assam that the names of these Bangladeshis, particularly the Hindu Bangladeshis will be included in the updated NRC. The updation of the NRC would also be beneficial for lakhs of people who have doubtful citizenship creden- tials, known as 'D' voters and hence not allowed to cast their votes. According of official statistics, there are 1,36,448 'D' voters in Assam. Hajela said that the 'D' voters have to apply for inclusion of their names in the NRC but those will be included only after Foreigners' Tribunals, where their cases are pending, declare them as Indian citizens and not as foreigners. Hajela said that they have so far received 6.63 crore documents to verify the citizenship status of individual applicants. “It's a herculean task to verify such a huge number of documents. However, we are doing as per the guidelines of the Supreme Court in this regard. We have also received forged documents from different individuals to prove their Indian citizenship and we have registered 137 cases so far against individuals for submitting forged or fake documents,” he said adding that the task will be completed as per the date specified by the Supreme Court in future. 7eZ* FYZQiBe`Q^Y`_ccYR\U Vb_^dbe^^UbV_b3=µc`_cd =0H0=30E4Q 60=378=060A ven as the BJP's parliaE mentary board is expected to announce a new Gujarat Chief Minister in the next few days following Anandiben Patel's exit, already few names for the new incumbent are making rounds in the political circles of Gujarat. Though sources close to the top BJP leaders are not denying surprise package, current Gujarat BJP president and Cabinet Minister in Anandiben Patel Government Vijay Rupani is believed to be the front runner for the most coveted post in the State. A known close-aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi having exceptional organisational ability, Rupani belongs to Jain Baniya community. He can be the best bet for the BJP to neutralize caste factor in context of on-going issues of pro-quota agitation, post Una episode related to beating of Dalit youths and emerging OBC movement in the state. In case the 60-year-old leader coming from the Saurasthra region would be announced on Tuesday, it would a great birthday gift for him as Rupani was born on August 2, 1956. The MLA from Rajkot West assembly constituency remained Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) from 2006-2011. He started his political career as RSS worker and later on in 1971 joined Jan Sangh. Other prominent name making round is Gujarat BJP's organising secretar y Bhikhubhai Dalsania. After historic win of BJP in 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Dalsania's name was emerged as one of the contenders to become Narendra Modi' successor in Gujarat. Once again, the RSS man believing in working silently in party's organisational structure emerged as one of the contenders for the Chief Minister's post. Apart from Rupani and Dalsania, names of Gujarat's senior cabinet Minister Nitin Patel, former state BJP presi- dent RC Faldu and even Union Minister of State for Panchayti Raj Parshotam Rupala are also being discussed. Barring Nitin Patel who is from North Gujarat town Kadi, all the three - Dalsania, Rupala and Faldu are from Saurasthra region and belonging to Kadva Patel community. Name of Gujarat Assembly Speaker Ganapat Vasava is also making round. Highly educated Vasava is not only young in his forties but he belongs to tribal community too. Even a faction BJP envisaging BJP's national president Amit Shah's entry in Gujarat as the Chief Minister. However, chances of Shah becoming the new CM are blink in view of the upcoming assembly polls in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. A section of powerful business community is expecting Gujarat's finance Minister Saurabh Patel for the post. Though Patel is considered as an intellectual, but many in the party strongly believe that he lacks mass appeal. According to a senior BJP leader, what BJP requires at the moment is a state level leader with mass appeal in order to win 2017 assembly polls and retain power in Gujarat. D?22Tg_T[b <X]U^aPQdbX]V 6^ec^UUXRXP[b Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) strongly criticised open abuses against Government officials hurled by State Minister Radha Shyam Singh and demanded his immediate arrest in the matter besides sacking him from the post. “It seems that that there is no law for the Samajwadi Party leaders and Ministers hence they openly used muscle power, threatened and abuse the government officials just after anyone dared to refuse to dance to their diktats”, asserted Amarnath Agarwal, senior spokesman of the UPCC media cell. Reacting to Singh’s statement here on Monday afternoon, Agarwal said that this is not the first case but a series of Ministers or those enjoying Minister’s status in Akhilesh’s ministry had taken law in their hand resulting into ‘Jungle Raj’ in the State. Agarwal also criticises Chief Minister for adopting double standards. “Why SP leaders were at the maximum removed from the post and no further action has been taken against them for issuing threats to Government officials or abusing them”, questioned Amarnath. PNS BQ[UcXCYTTQbQ]QYQX\QYTd_bUcdY^=icebe =^RPbdP[cXTbaT_^acTSX]RadSTQ^\Q :4BCDAE0BD:8Q 14=60;DAD he mortal remains of Rakesh Siddaramaiah, son of Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was laid to rest at his form house in Katur village near Mysuru on Monday with thousands of people paying their tributes to the departed soul. The body of 39-year-old Rakesh, who died of multiorgan failure at Antwerp University Hospital in Brussels, in Belgium on Saturday, was bought to Mysuru, his home town by a special aircraft on Monday morning. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, his family members and others T Bd__^acTabVPcWTaPbcWT\^acP[aT\PX]b^UAPZTbWBXSSPaP\PXPWT[STab^]^U :Pa]PcPZP2WXTU<X]XbcTaBBXSSPaP\PXPWPaaXeTX]<hbdad^]<^]SPh accompanied the body to Mysuru from Brussels. Karnataka Governor Vajubhai R. Vala and senior leaders from various parties, including Mallikarjuna Kharge, Digvijay Singh, S.M. Krishna, M. Veerappa Moily, Kagodu Thimmappa, K.H. Muniyappa, B.S. Yeddyurappa, D.V. Sadananda Gowda, Jagadish Shettar, H.D. Kumaraswamy and former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and many others paid their last respect. Rakesh, the elder son of Siddaramaiah, who was all set to enter electoral politics from Varuna constituency in Mysuru, now represented by Siddaramaiah, was expected to be his heir. The body, accompanied by Home Minister G. Parameshwara and Minister in-charge of Mysuru District H.C. Mahadevappa, was brought to the venue around 12.40 p.m. in a special funeral vehicle, where thousands of people paid their last respect to the departed soul. As the leaders paid floral tributes, an evidently grief stricken Siddaramaiah stood next to the body. According to his close aides Siddaramaiah was attached to Rakesh and wanted him to make it big in politics. He broke down when top political leaders consoled him. Tg_[^bX^]X]<hbdadR^dacR^\_[Tg loud explosion rocked the Mysuru City Court comA plex on Monday around 4.15 0_^acX^]^UcWT c^X[TcQ[^RZ R^[[P_bTS pm and disrupted the court proceedings. The explosion was reported from the toilet block. There were neither any injuries nor casualties, but a portion of the toilet block collapsed due to the impact of the explosion. Window panes and the asbestos sheet of the toilet block shattered due to the explosion. The court proceedings have been suspended. The nature of explosive is yet to be ascertained. The police rushed to the spot and are investigating. Experts from the bomb squad also rushed to the court complex. According to Home Minister G Parameshwara, who visited the spot confirmed the explosion but said investigation was on to ascertain the reason. He said it was a crude bomb :4BCDAE0BD:8Q 14=60;DAD 3RZHUWDULIIQRWKLNHGIRU FXUUHQWILQDQFLDO\ULQ83 Lucknow: In a major relief to the domestic power consumers and farmers having private tube wells, the power tariff has not been hiked by the power regulator in the tariff order for the current financial year 201617 announced here on Monday. The power regulator UP electricity regulatory commission has however announced overall hike of 3.18 per cent in power tariff for all other categories of the power consumers which will help the four power distribution companies—all subsidiaries of the UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) to stabilise their financial bottom line. UPPCL in its annual revenue requirement petition filed before the regulator in April this year had asked for hike of 5.75 percent in tariff. The regulator however approved hike of only 3.18 per cent, which is estimated to fetch additional revenue of C1,537 crore to the UPPCL during the current financial year 20160-17. Even after the hike in tariff the revenue gap or the cash loss of UPPCL is estimated to be C7,598 croee in 2016-17.The accumulated loss of the UPPCL is over C75,000 crore by the end of March this year. The domestic consumers of NOIDA where the power distribution is handled by a private company have also been spared from the hike in tariff. The farmers having private small tube wells have also been spared from the hike in tariff. Power regulator has also announced relief for the farmers of Bundelkhand region and they will pay only C100 per BHP till the installation of the meter applicable for the private tube well. In another relief to the power consumers the power regulator has abolished the regulator y surcharge-I, imposed by the power distribution companies to cover their cash losses. Power regulator has also reduced the regulatory surcharge-II to 3.03 per cent from the present 4.28 per cent. To encourage the consumers for making payments of the electricity bill on or before due date the rebate has been increased from 0.25 percent to 0.50 percent. This will benefit both the consumers and power distribution com- ?T^_[TcPZT_PacX]1^]P[dUTbcXeP[_a^RTbbX^]X] ^[SRXch^U7hSTaPQPS^]<^]SPh ?C8 panies. The regulator has however announced a steep hike of 7.24 per cent for the commercial category of consumers and 8.83 per cent for the state tube wells and other Government consumers like the pump canals of the irrigation department. The farmers having private tube wells have also been spared from the hike in tariff. This was the lowest ever hike in the tariff order announced by the power regulator during the present Samajwadi Party regime.. In the fifth and the last tariff order of the current regime as the state goes to pools in first quarter of 2017, this was the lowest ever hike of only 3.18 per cent. In 2012-13, the tariff was increased by 17.60 percent, and 8.9 percent in 2013-14 and 5.47 percent in 2015-16 and 3.18 per cent for 2016-17. PNS explosion and investigation was on to ascertain the reason and type of material used in the low intensity explosion. According to unconfirmed reports two people have been injured and taken to hospitals by bystanders. It is also said two unidentified bags were recovered on the blast site. The bomb squad and dog squads were at the site of blast, and Police have cordoned off the area . The explosion has occurred at a time many VIPs were in Mysuru to attend the last rites of Rakesh Siddaramaiah D``_RcVgZVhaVeZeZ`_RXRZ_de eRcZWW`cUVcZ_FA W`c#!"'"( Lucknow: UP power consumer forum has said it will soon file a review petition against the tariff order for 2016-17 issued by the UP electricity regulatory commission here on Monday. It said that the power regulator has done no favour to the domestic power consumers and farmers by not increasing the tariff for the two categories of consumers. Instead of maintaining status quo the regulator should have reduced the tariff for the domestic consumers and farmers owning private tube wells. 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In its Left-wing form it has brought us Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn, and last month it helped the Leave campaign to win a famous victory. Finding the answer to such rampant discontent should be the central concern of mainstream political leaders, in a race against time to find workable solutions before rampant populism overwhelms them. In speaking as she did on the steps of Downing Street, and in the speech she gave in Birmingham just before the dramatic collapse of the Tory leadership election, May fired the starting gun of that race, opening up a new effort to define how the centre-Right of politics can lay claim to inclusion, fairness, and control. The prize for success is enormous: Across the world, parties of the Left have been unable to find the language or policies to deal with this disillusionment, leaving them vulnerable to the old-fashioned socialists now returning with such vigour. If Conservatives can produce the next wave of successful ideas, their political dominance for another generation will be assured. The urgency of this effort is impossible to overstate. Every one of the factors squeezing the unhappy middle-income household, or the young person who is worse off than their parents, is accelerating. Japan-style economic stagnation is spreading to other economies, particularly in Europe. The huge numbers around the world who aspire to move to richer nations is growing rapidly. W 5 Above all, the pace of technological change seems set to jump into a faster gear with the arrival of artificial intelligence — computers which learn as they go along, and have the potential to disrupt or make redundant the jobs, training and qualifications of hundreds of millions of people. One assessment is that we are on the brink of change happening at 10 times the speed and with 300 times the scope of the industrial revolution itself. More livelihoods are going to be upset, more professions transformed, more skills made obsolete and more new ones required than ever before in the history of the human race. From the car that drives itselfto the robot that provides a company’s security and audits its accounts at the same time, new devices are going to present not just an important scientific event but a transformational political one too. The risk is that such a change will divide society further into those who master it and those who are at its mercy; that the disappearance of the steady, routine job will be a dis- 9VQ^i]Y\YdQ^dYc[Y\\UT gXiYcdXUbUQ^UUTd_ ]Q[UYd`eR\YSdXQdXU gQcQ]Y\YdQ^dCUU$' Y^^_SU^d`U_`\UXQfU\_cd dXUYb\YfUce^^USUccQbY\i 3_^WbUcc\\UQTUb ±CecXY\[e]QbCXY^TU C74?A8I45>A BD224BB8B 4=>A<>DB85 2>=B4AE0C8E4B 20=?A>3D24C74 =4GCF0E4>5 BD224BB5D; 8340BC748A ?>;8C820; 3><8=0=245>A 0=>C74A 64=4A0C8>=F8;; 140BBDA43 aster for vast numbers of people, who consequently will be angrier still. The challenge set by our new Prime Minister is, therefore, even more urgent, more important, and even more difficult than it might seem. Whatever the answers may be, we can be sure they will not be found on the Left. This will be a century in which state ownership and direction will fall even further behind private initiative; regulation will be out of date before it can even be agreed; and penal taxation will impoverish any country foolish enough to try it. It might well be a good idea to have an “industrial strategy”, as the new Cabinet does, but not if it is going to be focused on picking businesses to support and spending too much time worrying about who owns what. That is where Britain went wrong in the 1960s. An industrial strategy for the next few decades would mean providing the research base, worldclass infrastructure and skills in concentrated areas necessary to attract innovators and jobs that B>D=318C4 9dµccQTdXQdQSd_bcWUddXU e``UbUTWU_^]ecYSYQ^c DXUicX_e\TWUddXUYbTeUQ^T RUdbUQdUTQd`QbgYdXdXU QSd_bcYV^_dQR_fUdXU] haven’t been invented yet. That could be supported by rolling out on a far bigger scale many of the ideas tried in small packets in recent years: Generous tax reliefs for small businesses on research and development; enterprise zones; enterprise capital funds dedicated to backing new technologies; and much more on these lines — but absolutely not civil servants trying to plan the future of the economy. If we have spare public money as a result of balancing the budget less quickly, that should go into science, faster broadband and pilot projects to train and educate people in a new way. Learning a set of facts or skills to be used over a lifetime is becoming less useful than learning how to learn, re-learn, and adapt many times to changes in the nature of work. Giving people opportunity was an important theme of May’s Birmingham speech. The way to do that is liberate them to use their brains and free the businesses they work in from slow-moving rules and controls. There is a danger of opinion moving instead against the entrepreneur and the fast-moving company. When Philip Green exhibits the “unacceptable face of capitalism” it is not surprising that our minds turn to new controls. Yet there are many successful firms which treat their employees as partners, and ensure they share widely in success. Some big businesses do have to change their attitudes, and the idea of binding shareholder votes on executive pay is a good one, but the emphasis must be on making the UK the best possible home of the thrusting, innovating, risk-taking user of new technology and ideas. Leaving the EU makes it all the more vital that we chart a pro-enterprise future, as investors worry about sticking with Britain. Transparency and fair taxes from the big corporations are vital, but that shouldn’t stop us going for low taxes and great infrastructure for the businesses we need. If the discontented voters find, in the new industrial revolution, that they have strong firms around them, better jobs and the adaptive learning they need, they will be much happier. If they don’t, no amount of laws and regulations will ever pacify them. (Courtesy: Daily Telegraph) DXU@<1gY\\cQVUWeQbT ^QdY_^Q\c_fUbUYW^di cUSebYdiQ^TTUfU\_`]U^d Y^dUbUcdcY^S\eTY^WdUbbYd_bY Q\Y^dUWbYdiQ^T]QbYdY]U bYWXdcQ^TY^dUbUcdc 3XY^UcU4 4UVU^SU= =Y^YcdUb ±3XQ^WGQ^aeQ^ 1Sd_b ±1iecX]Q^^;XebbQ^Q ;4CC4ABC>C74438C>A 9^Tecdbig_Uc Sir — This refers to the editorial, “Children aren’t workers” (July 29). Why don’t we appreciate the fact that the owners of the industries are also possessed with human rights? Therefore, their interests should also be taken into account. If industries are forced to recruit adults, they will have to part with a larger pay packet. Also, unlike the hapless child laborers, adults will not be exploited to the full, economically and physically, for fear of repercussion. So won’t the profit margin of industrialists witness a significant nosedive, thereby harming our economy? Kajal Chatterjee Kolkata CXQ]UVe\QSd Sir — It is shameful that All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) Rajya Sabha MP Sasikala Pushpa slapped senior Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader and R ajya Sabha MP Tiruchi Siva at an airport. She has also gone on record to confirm her act with pride. =Vdd`_dYRgV_`eSVV_ UcRh_Wc`^UZdRdeVcd C WXbaTUTabc^cWTTSXc^aXP[°FPcTafPcTaTeTahfWTaT±9d[h APX]b WPeTP[fPhbQTT]P[Xc\dbcTbcU^acWT`dP[Xch^UdaQP]X]UaPbcadRcdaT 8cbTT\b[Tbb^]bWPeT]^cQTT][TPa]cUa^\cWTU[^^SbX]:PbW\Xa 2WT]]PX^aTeT]DccPaPZWP]SCWTR^d]cah³b<X[[T]]Xd\2Xch6daVP^]Xb bTT]PbP²b[d\^UcWTaXRW³Pc^f]^UcWTPUU[dT]cQdcXcWPb_^^aX]UaP bcadRcdaTBTeT]ch_TaRT]c^UXc³bfPcTa]TTSbPaTQTX]V\TcUa^\Va^d]S fPcTafWXRWWPb[TSc^PbWPa_STR[X]TX]cWTfPcTacPQ[TX]cWT[Pbc! hTPab0]S^][h#_TaRT]c^UcWTc^f]WPbbTfTa[X]Tb >]Tf^]STabfWT]R^\\^]bT]bTfX[[SPf]^]^da_T^_[Tc^]^c T]Ra^PRW^]b_PRTb[XZTRPcRW\T]cPaTPbfTc[P]SbTcRcWPcPaT\TP]cc^ aTRTXeTU[^^SfPcTabP]SaT_[T]XbWVa^d]SfPcTa3aPX]bWPeTc^QTaTVd [Pa[hSTbX[cTSP]SR[TPaTS^U_[PbcXRb^cWPccWThS^]^cRPdbTaPX]fPcTa c^bcPV]PcT^]a^PSbaTbd[cX]VX]c^acda^dbVaXS[^RZb<TP]fWX[T_dQ[XR \Ph\PZTdbT^U6?BQPbTS\^QX[TP__bU^aaTSaTbbP[^UcWTXaVaXTeP]RTb 2E:aXbW]P<P]^Y 7hSTaPQPS It is unfortunate that such people are nominated by political parties to the Rajya Sabha. AIADMK supremo Jayalithaa has done well to sack Pushpa, who with her bad conduct, has brought shame not only to her party, but also to Tamil Nadu. Tharcius S Fernando Chennai Cd_`ebRQ^YcQdY_^ Sir — This refers to the editorial, “Water, water, everywhere” (July 1). A decade back, India’s financial capital, Mumbai too witnessed waterlogging after a heavy spell of rain throughout the city. But no steps were taken to stop the growth of jhuggie clusters. What to talk about eliminating the earlier ones. All remaining construction works on the national highway and their sides should be completed on war-footing. It may be noted that record-breaking traffic jam at Gurgaon was caused due to unfinished work on a drain at side road of the national highway rather than rain. Effective measures need to be taken in a manner to create much-desired fear psychology amongst wrong-doers of encroaching on public land and unauthorised constructions to effectively check migrant population coming to cities who find easy place to erect jhuggies, and vending on public-land including open area, roads and footpaths. Unfortunately such activities grow like a cancerous disease because of political patronage required by votebank politics. Madhu Agrawal Delhi ?fUbS_]Y^WRQbbYUbc Sir — This refers to the brain stromer, “India’s blind spot at Rio: Track and Field” (July 30). The answer is simple: Brilliant selfrespecting athletes are destroyed by sports officials and drug testing authorities. People lose interest in sports once they get a Government job or a seat in a good course under the sports quota. They know that it is better to quit sports than lick the boots of the fat corrupt officials. Whatever achievement that has been achieved is inspite of these officials and not because of them. 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Dalits, both Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST), as a group, account for 25 per cent of the Indian population. A recent report by the very erudite Amitabh Kundu said that 44.8 per cent of ST and 33.8 per cent of SC populations in rural India lived below poverty line in 2011-2012. This highlights some other known and yet embarrassingly disturbing facts. A 2014 report by The India Governs Research Institute said that medical field workers do not visit 65 per cent of Dalit settlements, 47 per cent are not allowed entry into ration shops, 64 per cent are given less grains than non-Dalits. And yes, the aforesaid data is for the period when the Congress-led UPA Government was in power which shamed and failed its people en masse. And this is not all. A report by the National Confederation of Dalit Organisations, working for the Dalits, said that in 2011-2012, 49 per cent of the children from Dalit families in Haryana were underweight and malnourished. Eighty per cent of the Dalit children in the six to 59 months’ age group were anaemic. The sex ratio in Haryana had been languishing at 877 or each 1000 male for a decade. However, in 2015-2016, under the BJP-led Manohar Lal Khattar Government, it stood at 905 females for every 1,000 males. Dalits are the biggest beneficiaries of the fall in infant and maternal mortality rate in States like Haryana. Hundred per cent digitisation of ration cards, linking Aadhaar with ration cards, transferring subsidies/cash via direct benefit transfer to provide food security, opening more than 22 crore bank accounts under the ‘Jan Dhan’ scheme, efforts to give loans to at least 1.5 lakh Dalit entrepreneurs under the ‘Stand up India’ scheme by asking bank branches to give at least one loan under this scheme to a SC/ST aspirant, benefits under the ‘Green Business’ scheme to help Dalits fight the adverse impact of climate change, venture capital fund with a C200 crore corpus specifically for the SC/ST, ‘Sukanya Samriddhi’ scheme which specifically aims at the girl child, especially girls from Dalit families, efforts to ensure five crore free LPG connections to families below poverty line over the next three years, et al, are slated to make the lives of the poor, especially the Dalits, much better. Last two years of Modi’s governance has done more in terms of empowering the Dalits than almost 60 years of inept Congress rule. Yes, it is the same Congress which is trying to usurp the legacy of BR Ambedkar and has blissfully forgotten about its own leaders. I am talking about Jagjivan Ram who was one of the tallest Dalit leaders and has now been abandoned by his own party men. Hypocrisy of the Congress was again highlighted last year during the death of Rohith Vemula, a Dalit research scholar at the University of C B0=9DE4A<0 CWTaXbT^U3P[Xc RP_XcP[Xb\P]S 3P[Xc T\_^fTa\T]c d]STacWT RWPaXb\PcXR [TPSTabWX_^U<^SX XbQTbcTgT\_[XUXTS Qhcf^VXVP]cXR bcT_b5XabccWT ?aPSWP]<P]caX <dSaP1P]Z;^P] bRWT\TP]S bTR^]ScWT P\T]S\T]cc^ cWTBRWTSd[TS 2PbcTbP]SCaXQTb ?aTeT]cX^]^U 0ca^RXcXTb0Rc ('( Hyderabad. Between 2004 and 2013, as many as eight Dalit students committed suicide in University of Hyderabad. Of the eight suicides, seven took place when the Congress Government was in power — both at the Centre as well as in the State. Surprisingly, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, never visited the aggrieved families then, but made a dash to Hyderabad to lend ‘support’ to Rohith’s cause. On the other hand, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati’s conduct has been equally deplorable. The outrage over the violence in Una is a sham coming from a behenji who did not even deem it fit to condemn a mob that stripped and paraded a Dalit woman naked in full public view, in front of her young son, in Uttar Pradesh last year. Both the Samajwadi Party and the BSP did virtually nothing in the last decade to improve the condition of the Dalits in Uttar Pradesh. In sharp contrast, the BJP-led Devendra Fadnavis Government in Maharashtra took a noteworthy step by passing the Prohibition of Social Boycott Bill in the State Assembly. This Bill seeks to make discrimination and social boycott a punishable offence, with a maximum punishment of seven years in prison or a fine up to five lakh rupees or both. One thing amidst all the clutter that deserves applause and is unarguably one of the most defining moments for its sheer progressiveness, is the laudable step taken by BJP president Amit Shah who on May 11, took a holy snan (sacred bath) with Dalit sadhus, on the occasion of Simhastha Kumbh Mahaparv at Valmiki Ghat in Ujjain. Dalits know that religious, social or caste-based discrimination can alienate one forever. The holy snan is symbolic of the BJP’s larger ethos and desire to bring the Dalits onto the socio-cultural centrestage; from the fringes to the mainstream. It will be suffice to conclude that the rise of Dalit capitalism and Dalit empowerment under the charismatic leadership of Modi is best exemplified by two gigantic steps. First, the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Bank Loan scheme which gave loans to the tune of C1.37 lakh crore to almost 3.6 crore people last year. For the next year, the target is even more ambitious at C1.8 lakh crore with the re-finance rate in many cases being just seven per cent. Coming back to Uttar Pradesh, which along with Bihar accounts for more than 30 per cent of all crimes committed against Dalits, Mayawati’s doublespeak has no takers anymore. While Mayawati reportedly spent anywhere between C7,000 crore to C40,000 crore in building elephants in pink sandstone and obscenely expensive statues of Dalit leaders, the true inheritor of the legacy of Kanshi Ram is the BJP. The second big stride by the Modi Government, to ameliorate the condition of the Dalits, is the amend- 7KHKROORZ'HPRFUDWLFFDPSDLJQ 7X[[Pah2[X]c^]b_a^cTRcXeTbWXT[S^UUTaTSc^cWT<db[X\bP]ScWT;61CbXbbT[USTUTPcX]V0UcTaP[[fWPcTgPRc[hWPb 2[X]c^]cWT2[X]c^]UP\X[hWTaWdbQP]SWTaSPdVWcTa^aWTab^]X][PfbPRaXUXRTSU^acWTR^d]cah. eigned moral outrage is one of the most powerful tools in the Leftist arsenal, and this week, we witnessed some of the most fact-free examples of it in the US presidential elections. It seems most of the ‘mainstream’ Press in the US (translation: Self-certifying Left-wing types) have decided that presidential candidate Donald Trump “slandered” the parents of US soldier Humayun Khan. Obviously, its complete tosh. Piece after piece, while outraging about the said outrage, failed to provide any quote on how exactly the fallen captain or his family had been slandered. But this worldwide phenomenon of hurling unproven, fact-free muck at the Right, has hidden the foreign policy disaster ie Hillary Clinton. This same cabal of self-righteous hypocrites has casually laughed off Trump's earthy but remarkably clear sighted vision of foreign policy. The plague i.e. Clinton is best described by F Khizr Khan — the father of Humayun Khan. He asked rather pompously at the Dumbo National Convention (also known as the Democratic National Convention) of Trump, “You have sacrificed nothing and no one" following it up with (without even a hint of irony) with this hilarious line “Have you even read the US Constitution? I will gladly lend you my copy”. This pretty much sums up the problem because everything that he attributed, Trump is far more applicable to Hillary. After all, what exactly has Clinton, the Clinton family, her husband, her daughter or her son-in-law, sacrificed for the country? Far from the members of her husband’s Cabinet — specifically former Foreign Secretary Madeleine Albright are certified war profiteers, reaping huge commercial contracts in places that Bill Clinton bombed (sorry “liberated”). It is ironic then that if Khizr Khan was worried about Trump’s assault on minorities, he didn’t offer to lend his copy of the Constitution to Clinton — the same woman who had opposed the Gay and Lesbian equality for decades, and voted for the abominable Defence of Marriage Act (DoMA). This was the same DoMA that was struck down by the US Supreme Court as being unconstitutional, but hey since Clinton is a democrat — even her bigotry is you know “liberal”. But that brain-deadedness is exactly what Khizr Khan displayed at the DNC — the simple words of a weak malleable mind. As professor Sumit Ganguly (A sworn democrat) observed a few years back during a lecture on the last US elections — there was a distinct pattern of southern Black voters, voting against their own interests — voting Republican, the same party that arguably disenfranchises them. This same pattern though can equally be observed with two minorities with respect to Clinton — Muslims and the LGBT community. Clinton is one of the biggest Muslim killers in modern history. Every disaster in the Middle East today — Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya — all have a direct or indirect relationship to her actions. In fact, going by the lady's record, if you were superstitious, you'd be excused for thinking Clinton is the unholy by-product of a diabolical Congress between a Dementor and Damien (from Omen). Yet, here was Khan endorsing the woman whose vote killed his own son, do you need any more proof of voting against one’s own interests? The second set of supporters of Clinton is large sections of the LGBT community. To be fair, much Republican homophobia has pushed the community into an unhealthy Stockholm syn- drome with the Democrats. Curiously this was community whose mention was left out by “freedom lover” Khan. Hardly surprising given that Clinton and US President Barack Obama refused to blame Islamic extremism for the Orlando Gay club shooting — instead blaming guns. Curiously they didn't see fit to blame trucks for the July 14 Nice attacks. Forget the fact that Omar Mateen was a licensed security guard, who had a permit for his firearm; forget that his employers were uncomfortable with him, but didn't want to sack him and get accused of being islamophobes; forget that Omar swore Bayah (allegiance) to Daesh. And what was Obama’s solution (endorsed by Clinton)? Get the US Embassy in Delhi to run LGBT films and light the hideous eyesore of an Embassy in a particularly unpleasant rainbow. Yup that should fix Daesh — after all Clinton isn’t known as Umm Ad-Daesh (mother of ment to the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. The amended act assumes special significance in the wake of horrifying data from the Akhilesh Yadav Government in Uttar Pradesh which reported a shocking 8,946 cases of crime against Dalits in 2015. The amended SC/ ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act which was passed by both houses of Parliament in April, is more lethal as it includes new offences, increases quantum of relief payable to Dalit victims, provides for speedy justice via exclusive special courts and special prosecutors and even has a whole new provision to fix wilful negligence and dereliction of duty by public servants while dealing with crimes against the aggrieved. It will be apt to end with an immortal quote by BR Ambedkar which goes thus... ‘Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die’. That idea of Dalit empowerment, which only found lip service even after 60 years of independence, is today an idea whose time has come, an idea that needs to be propagated by each one of us, cutting across political affiliations so as to ensure for future generations, ‘Dalit’, does not mean oppressed or marginalised, but empowered and enriched. (The writer is an economist, stock market expert and a spokesperson for the BJP) WKLQN QRZ 017898C8H4A<8CA0 Daesh) for nothing. And guess what — Ghazala Khan, mother of the fallen Captain said, “When Donald Trump is talking about Islam, he is ignorant. If he studied the real Islam and Quran, all the ideas he gets from terrorists would change, because terrorism is a different religion”. Yes Ghazala, this is the same tired line that every apologist has used. These are the same people who believe that while temple and church should be separated from state, mosques should not on the grounds of cultural relativism. If you actually believed the lip service your husband paid to the constitution you would've said "religion is fallible and incompatible with a modern state". But perhaps the biggest revelation was Clinton, whose actions killed Khan. Yet she had not one iota of shame using the fallen hero's corpse as a political shield. 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At present, there are 27 public sector banks and 24 private sector banks in the country. “The licensing window will be open on-tap, and the applications ... Could be submitted to the RBI at any point of time,” according to the 'Guidelines for 'on tap' Licensing of Universal Banks in the Private Sector' released by RBI. As per the guidelines, the initial minimum paid-up voting equity capital for a bank should be C500 crore and thereafter, the bank should have a minimum net worth of C500 crore at all times. “Large industrial houses are excluded as eligible entities but are permitted to invest in the banks up to 10 per cent,” the guidelines said. Individuals/professionals who are 'residents' and have 10 years of experience in banking and finance at a senior level and existing nonbanking financial companies (NBFCs) that are 'controlled by residents' and have a successful track record for at least 10 years can apply for the licence. Further, “entities/groups in the private sector that are 'owned and controlled by residents' and have a successful track record for at least 10 years, provided that if such entity/group has total assets of C5,000 crore or more, the non-financial business of the group does not account for 40 per cent or more in ter ms of tot a l assets/in terms of gross income” are also eligible promoters. The applicant would have to pass the 'Fit and Proper' criteria. According to it, promoter/promoting entity/pro- moter group should have a past record of sound financials, credentials, integrity and have a minimum 10 years of successful track record. The foreign shareholding in the bank would be as per the existing FDI. At present, the aggregate foreign investment limit is 74 per cent. While assuming charge on S e pte mb e r 4 , 2 0 1 3 , Governor Raghuram Rajan had said one of his key reform measures would to put bank licensing on-tap. He fulfilled a part of it in April 2014 by issuing in-principal approvals to two-infra lender IDFC and microfinancier Bandhan, out of 25 applicants. Both of them are operational since last year. These banks came in after a gap of over a decade. Besides, the RBI gave inprinciple approval to 10 payments banks and 11 small finance banks last year. RBI had last issued guidelines for licensing of new banksin t he pr iv ate s e c tor on Febr u ar y 22, 2013. Consequently, the RBI issued in-principle approval to two applicants and they have since established the banks (Bandhan Bank and IDFC Bank). It its monetary policy statement in April 2014, RBI had indicated that after issuing in-principle approval for new licences, the central bank will start working on the framework for on-tap licensing as well as differentiated bank licences. RBI released draft guidelines on 'on-tap' licences for universal banks in May. After considering the experience of licensing two universal banks in 2014 and granting in-principle approvals for Small Finance Banks and Payments Banks, RBI has now worked out the framework for granting licences to universal banks on a continuous basis, RBI said in a release. On approval process, RBI said that the applications will be referred to a Standing External Advisory Committee (SEAC) to be set up by the Reserve Bank. The validity of the in-principle approval issued by the RBI will be 18 months from the date of granting in-principle approval and would thereafter lapse automatically. On minimum capital requirement, RBI further said the promoter/s and the promoter group/Non Operative Financial Holding Company (NOFHC), should hold a minimum of 40 per cent of the paid-up voting equity capital of the bank which would be locked-in for a period of five years from the date of commencement of business of the bank. ?C8 4YZ_Rd5ZUZRTbfZcVd 2fe`^R[`cdcVa`cec`SfdedR]VdXc`heYZ_;f]j 0DUXWL6X]XNLKLNHVSULFHVE\XSWRC FSVcZ_$&SZ]]Z`_UVR] R ?=BQ=4F34;78 ?C8Q 14898=6 hinese ride-sharing giant C Didi will take over Uber's China business, in a deal worth $35 billion as the US car-hailing firm gave in after fierce competition from its rival in the world's second largest economy. Uber will take a 5.89 per cent stake in Didi. Didi did not disclose the stake it will take in Uber. Uber China's on-demand mobility (ODM) service will continue to operate independently. The deal follows China's legalistion of ODM services. Uber's founder Travis Kalanick and Didi founder Cheng Wei will sit on each other's company boards. The two companies have been locked in a bitter battle for customers in China marked by huge customer discounts since last year. Post the merger of its Chinese business, Uber is expected to focus more aggressively on the Indian market, its third biggest market after the US and China, at present. Interestingly in India, Uber is locked in an intense battle with market leader Ola which counts Didi as an investor. Didi had picked up a stake in Bengaluru-based Ola last year as a part of the $500 million funding round. Last December, Didi Chuxing, along with Ola, USbased Lyft and GrabTaxi had also formed a global pact to share customers and technology across countries to compete with Uber. Uber has been pumping in substantial funds to fuel its growth in India. In July last year, Uber had announced an investment of $1 billion in India to expand its services here. It has also set up a response and support centre in Hyderabad with an investment of $50 million. India is also expected to be a major beneficiary of the $3.5billion fund raised by Uber earlier this year as the US-based firm looks to overtake local rival Ola. There were also reports suggesting that Uber may buy Ola, though the Indian company rubbished those saying it has “no intentions of selling to Uber”. Uber is one of very few foreign tech firms that has been able to compete with domestic rivals head-on in China. While Didi holds a majority share in China's ODM services, Uber has managed to establish a foothold, and has made inroads into lower-tier cities this year to further threaten Didi's dominance. iding on positive sentiments brought by a good monsoon car sales in the country grew at a robust pace in July with market leader Maruti Suzuki India posting record monthly sales while others like Hyundai, M&M, Ford and Renault also registered strong numbers Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) said it had its best ever monthly domestic sales in July at 1,25,778 units, up 13.9 per cent from 1,10,405 units in the same month last year. Its growth was mainly on the back of sales of utility vehicles, including newlylaunched compact SUV Vitara Brezza, Ertiga and the SCross, which surged over twofold to 17,382 units in July this year from 6,916 units in the corresponding month last year. The company's sales of mini segment cars, including Alto and WagonR, however, declined by 7.2 per cent to 35,051 units as compared to 37,752 units in the year-ago month. ?=BQ =4F34;78 prices of its various models by up to C20,000. The increase in price for the newly launched compact SUV Vitara Brezza will be C20,000 while that of new premium hatchback Baleno is C10,000. On a select range, the price hike will be between C1,500 and C5,000, Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) said in a regulatory filing. On reasons for the hike, MSI said: “This price revision is based on factors like, segment-wise demand, f o r e x m ov e m e nt s a n d strategic objectives of the company.” The hike is effective f r o m f r o m Mo n d ay, i t added. The company sells a range of models starting from hatchback Alto 800 to p r e m i u m c r o s s ov e r S Cross, priced C2.45 lakh to Rs 12.03 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi). MSI stock on Monday ended at C4,869.80 on BSE, up 2.41 per cent from the previous close. Sales of the compact segment comprising Swift, Estilo, Ritz, Dzire and Baleno increased by 4.1 per cent to 50,362 units in July this year as against 48,381 units in the corresponding month last year. Rival Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) sold 41,201 units in the domestic market last month as compared with 36,503 units in July last year, a growth of 12.87 per cent. Commenting on the sales performance, HMIL Senior Vice-President (Sales and Marketing) Rakesh Srivastava said the company continued to sustain growth trajectory on the strength of strong pull performance of Grand i10, Elite i20 and Creta. The market has showed improved customer sentiments led by good monsoon, low inflation, reduced interest rates and dropping fuel prices, he said. Homegrown utility vehi- cles major Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) reported 14 per cent increase in its domestic sales at 35,305 units last month compared with 31,087 units in July 2015. M&M Chief Executive (auto division) Pravin Shah said: “The advent of good monsoon so far has brought in positive sentiment for the economy and that is somewhat reflected in our performance.” Ford India said its domes- ountry's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki C India on Monday hiked 7DWD'R&R0RGHDO)LQ0LQUHMHFWV 5%,SOHDIRU)(0$H[HPSWLRQ =4F34;78)Rejecting RBI plea for exempting Tata-DoCoMo deal from foreign exchange Act, the Finance Ministry has said the two firms had entered into a share buyback contract in contravention of prevalent law and the case will now have to be legally settled. Japan's largest mobile phone firm NTT DoCoMo had in November 2009 acquired 26.5 per cent stake in Tata Teleservices for about C12,740 crore (at C117 per share). This was as per a 2008 understanding that in case it exits the venture within five years, it will be paid a minimum 50 per cent of the acquisition price. A top Finance Ministry official said the Tata-DoCoMo buyback contract was signed despite Reserve Bank of India (RBI) rules barring pre-set buyback pricing. The RBI had in 2007 come out with regulations barring pre-determined share buyback contracts, he said, adding the Tata-DoCoMo contract was signed despite RBI FEMA rules barring such deals. DoCoMo in April 2014 decided to exit the joint venture that struggled to grow subscribers quickly. It sought C58 per share or C7,200 crore from Tatas. But the Indian Group offered C23.34 a share in line with RBI guidelines that states that an international firm can only exit its investment at a valuation “not exceeding that arrived at on the basis of return on equity”. The Japanese firm dragged Tatas to international arbitration where it won a $1.17 billion award. To honour that award, an application was made to the RBI seeking exemption from the foreign exchange act. The official said the RBI in turn wrote to the Finance Ministry exemption from the rules as such a measure would boost investor confidence.?C8 tic sales rose 62.21 per cent to 7,076 units last month as against 4,362 units in the same period a year ago. Renault India also reported an over seven-fold increase in sales to 11,968 units in July as against 1,686 units same month last year. Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) domestic sales grew by 2.76 per cent rise 12,404 units in July, 2016 as against 12,070 units in the same month last year. Nissan Motor India saw its domestic sales rising by overtwo-fold at 6,418 units in July, compared to 2,841 units in the same period of previous year. “Our sales have been gaining momentum over the past few months and the trend has been encouraging. The customers have responded positively to the new Datsun rediGO,” Nissan Motor India Managing Director Arun Malhotra said. In the two-wheeler segment, the country's largest twowheeler maker Hero MotoCorp reported 9.13 per cent increase in sales at 5,32,113 units in July. It had sold 4,87,580 units in July 2015. 7HFK0DKLQGUD4SURILWJHWV DWRSOLQHOLIWXSDWCFU <D<108) Software exporter Tech Mahindra today reporteda 28 per cent year on year growth in its June quarter net profit at C796 crore, buoyed by a surge in revenues. Vice-Chairman Vineet Nayyar said: “We have had a steady quarter in spite of seasonal weakness in our mobility business. We look forward to continuing our journey of improving profitability of our business.” It had posted a profit of C880.6 crore in January-March. Nayyar added that quarteron-quarter performance was affected largely by a dip in margins, which slipped to 14.9 per cent as against 17 per cent in the March quarter on an increase in visa costs and seasonal downturn in some clients. Its Chief Financial Officer Milind Kulkarni said the company incurred a cost of $11 million on H1B visas while there was a hit of 1.80 per cent because of the seasonal downturn with select clients of Comviva. Its consolidated revenues grew to C6,920.9 crore, from C6,293.8 crore in the year-ago period. Terming the UK's vote to exit the European Union as the “biggest destabilising factor”, Nayyar said it will take at least one year for the uncertainties to settle down. He added that the US election verdict can also be “potentially disruptive”. Nayyar hoped that the company's “critical services” will not be affected. MD and CEO C P Gurnani said Britain accounts for 10 per cent of the company's revenues and the spillovers in an inter-connected world are something the company needs to keep in mind. Gurnani said the delivery on one deal lifted the share of digital revenues to above 20 per cent, from 11 per cent in the year-ago period, and is optimistic that this will be maintained. Interestingly, he said Indian customers are featuring among some of the digital deal wins. ?C8 3^]cWXaT[dgdahRPQbbcPhX]RaTfW^cT[b)08^UUXRXP[bc^[S =4F 34;78) To tighten the purse strings further, national carrier Air India has barred its officials from using luxury cabs while travelling within the country and asked them to put up only in crew hotels. In a strongly-worded circular to “all concerned” on Saturday last, Air India Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani Lohani warned the officials of serious action in case of any violation of his instructions on austerity measures. “I have been repeatedly emphasising on economy, curbing of wasteful expenditure and maintaining immaculate conduct and behaviour,” he said. Recalling that several instructions regarding official travel have been issued in the past, Lohani said, “Full time taxi shall not be hired for any officer (except CMD) while travelling in an overseas country.” “If any officer has to cover many points in a day that otherwise would be uncomfortable, to cover by point-to-point taxies, written prior approval need to be taken,” according to the circular. The circular came soon after the PMO asked the airline to improve its performance on all fronts during the first official review late last month. According to the circular, taxies hired for domestic travel should not be luxury vehicles while “crew hotels being fairly reasonable, officials shall invariably stay in the hotels only during official travel both within India and overseas.” However, at places where crew hotels are not available, the officials should be “judicious” in booking a reasonably priced hotel, the Air India top boss said in the circular. “Entertainment is definitely not for entertaining family and friends. It should be for strictly for official purposes and done judiciously. The official should maintain a record of who was entertained and in case of excessive expenditure, this record may be called for scrutiny,” it said. The airline's director-finance has been asked by Lohani to keep a tab on such expenses and bring any violation in this regard to his notice. ?C8 \^]Th 17D10=4BF0AkCD4B30H k0D6DBC !! % CfaVVcR]]ZVde`_VRc]j#^`_eY YZXYgdFD5V_UdRe''(% <D<108) Extending its gains for the fifth straight session, the rupee on Monday surged by 28 paise to close at nearly 2month high at 66.74 a dollar on persistent dollar selling by banks and exporters on hopes of foreign capital inflows into equity market. The rupee opened higher at 66.80 a dollar from last closing level of 67.02 per dollar at the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market. It firmed up further to 66.69 per dollar before finishing at nearly 2-month high at 66.74 per dollar, showing a gain of 28 paise or 0.42 per cent. The domestic currency has gained 61 paise or 0.91 per cent since Junly 26. The domestic currency had last settled at 66.71 a dollar on June 9, 2016. Overseas investors infused over Rs 12,600 crore into equity markets last month. The foreign capital inflows are expected to grow further with the passage of long-pending GST bill in the Rajya Sabha. The bill has been listed in Rajya Sabha for consideration and passage on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the RBI fixed the reference rate for the dollar at 66.7412 and for euro at 74.5165. In cross-currency trades, the rupee recovered against the pound sterling to close at 87.96 from 88.31 on last Friday while dropped further against the euro to settle at 74.50 from 74.47 previously. The domestic currency also moved down further :_WcRdVTe`cViaR_Ud&#Z_;f_V =4F34;78)Infrastructure sec- tor grew at 5.2 per cent in June, fastest in two months, on the back of double-digit growth in coal and cement sectors. The eight infrastructure sectors -- coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertilisers, steel, cement and electricity -- had expanded by 3.1 per cent in June 2015. The eight core sectors comprise nearly 38 per cent of the total industrial production. The cumulative growth during the first quarter of the current fiscal was 5.4 per cent. These eight core sector industries had expanded by 3.1 per cent in June 2015. The core sector had expanded by against the Japanese yen to 65.27 per 100 yen from 64.89. The dollar index was trading up by 0.16 per cent against a basket of six currencies in the late afternoon trade. Overseas, the dollar struggled against the Japanese yenbut rose against the British pound in late afternoon trade as the UK manufacturing activity hit its lowest level in three years. In the forward market, premium for dollar ended narrowly mixed due to uneven transactions of dollars. The benchmark six-month premium for January 2017 moved down to 198-200 paise from 198.5-200 on last Friday while and forward July 2017 contract inched up to 399-401 paise from 397.5-399. ?C8 A<AfchRcXVed RUUZeZ`_R]TYRcXVRd >E?=TYZVWW`c$^eYd =4F34;78)P K Purwar has been given additional charge of Chairman and Managing Director of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) for three months. The Appointments Committee of Cabinet has approved entrustment of additional charge of the post of CMD, MTNL, in favour of Purwar, for a period of three months with effect from June 8, an order issued today by Department of Personnel and Training said. Purwar is currently working as Director (Finance) in MTNL, which has been without a fulltime CMD since May 31, 2014, following superannuation of A K Garg. Meanwhile, the Government has started search for the new head of the loss-making telecom PSU, after a gap of two years. 75$,SODQVWRUHYLVLWWHOHFRP QHWZRUNLQWHUFRQQHFWFKDUJHV =4F 34;78) Telecom regulator Trai is planning to start a consultation process to review call connect charges, also known as Inter-connection Usage Charges, for the telecom network -- a move that could bring down call rates. According to sources, the regulator plans to bring out a consultation paper on the same in about a week. In February 2015, during the previous review of IUC, the regulator removed charges that a landline service provider has to pay to other players for transmitting a phone call of its customers. The benefit of the waiver was passed on to consumers by leading fixed line providers. This prompted PSUs BSNL and MTNL to start free unlimited night calling plans. Among pri- 173&SODQVC.FURUH FDSH[IRU)<WRXSFDSDFLW\ <D<108)State-run NTPC Ltd 2.8 per cent in May, slowest in 2016. As per the data released by the Government, coal production increased by 12 per cent in June year-on-year. Similarly, cement production saw a double digit expansion in June (10.3 per cent) over the same in 2015. Fertilizer production increased 9.8 per cent in June (though slower than the previous month) while petroleum refinery production expansed of 3.5 per cent. The growth in electricity generation was 8.1 per cent on annual basis. Steel production, with a weight 6.68 per cent in the index, also increased by 2.4 per cent. ?C8 jca^l today said it has chalked out a capital expenditure plan of C30,000 crore in 2016-17 to add anot her 4,500 MW power generation capacity to meet r ising elec tr icity demand. “For the financial year 2017, the capex outlay of NTPC is C30,000 crore to increase the power generation capacity. The capex of C5,538 crore incurred in Q1 of FY17,” NTPC Chairman and MD Gurdeep Singh told reporters here. During FY16, the company spent C25,737 crore towards cap ex plans as against C23,239 crore in the preceding year. “The company plans to raise C15,000 crore through bonds in the current year,” Singh said, adding that the fund raising is an ongoing programme for the company. The company will be adding 4,500 MW of power generation capacity and hope to surpass the total capacity of 50,000 MW in the current fiscal, he said. NTPC has a tot a l installed capacity of 47,178 MW through its 18 coal based, 7 gas based, 9 solar PV, one hydro and 8 subsidiaries/joint venture power stations. Dur ing FY16, NTPC group contributed 24 per cent of total electricity generated in the country with 15 per cent share of country’s total installed capacity as on March 2016. The company has added 2255 MW capacity during the last fiscal. The comp any has a capacity of over 24,000 MW under different phases of const r uc t ion pres ent ly. Among the coal-based projects, it is setting up a 1,980 MW unit at Barh in Bihar, 2,400 MW unit at Kudgi in Karnataka, 1320 MW at Solapur in Maharashtra, 1600 MW at Lara in Chhattisgarh, 1600 MW at Gadarwara in Madhya Pradesh, 1320 MW at Tanda in Uttar Pradesh and 1600 MW at Telangana. In the renewable energy space, the company has committed to central government for setting up 10,000 MW of renewable energy project during the next four to five years. It has commissioned 200 MW and 560 MW is under construction, Singh said. In the overseas market, the company has set up 50:50 JV with Bangladesh Power Development Board to set up 2X660 MW thermal power projec t at K hulna in Bangladesh. It has also set up 50:50 JV with Ceylon Electricity Board to undertake the development, construction, operation and maintenance coal based electricity generating station of 2X250 MW capacity at Trincomalee in Sri Lanka. “The power generation company will diversify into fertiliser production,” said Singh entering a regulated industry. L ast mont h, Pr ime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the foundation stone at Gorakhpur, for the revival of gas-based Gorakhpur fertiliser plant, implemented by Hindustan Urvarak Rasayan Ltd, a joint venture between Coal India Limited (CIL) and NTPC. ?C8 vate operators, telecom major Bharti Airtel offers unlimited local and STD calls from its landline connection on any network throughout the day for a fixed monthly charge. Trai also reduced network IUC on calls made from mobile phones by about 30 per cent to 14 paise per call, from 20 paise earlier. Telecom subscribers cannot communicate with each other or connect to other networks unless necessary inter-connection arrangements are in place. ?C8 7HVODRIIHUVEIRU6RODU&LW\ ORZHUHQGRIH[SHFWDWLRQV 0?Q=4FH>A: esla will spend about $2.6 billion on solar panel T maker SolarCity in an all-stock deal. While electric car maker has said that the tie-up would create a one-stop shop for cleaner energy, some have questioned the motives behind it. Elon Musk is the chairman and biggest shareholder of both companies. And SolarCity is run by his cousin, Lyndon Rive. SolarCity’s stock slid more than 6 per cent before the market opened today. The buyout gives SolarCity Corp stockholders 0.110 Tesla common shares per SolarCity share, which puts the value of SolarCity stock at $25.37 per share. Tesla previously said it would offer $23.56 to $25.30 per SolarCity share. Musk has cultivated the image of a maverick since he made his initial fortune as cofounder of online payment service, PayPal, which eBay bought for $1.5 billion in 2002. He is hailed as a visionary by admirers who applaud him for shaking up the auto industry with Tesla’s sleek, electric vehicles and drawing up plans to send people to Mars on Space X’s rockets. His detractors ridicule him as an unpredictable control freak. Musk owns a 26 per cent stake in Tesla Motors Inc., based in Palo Alto, California, and a 22.5 percent stake in SolarCity. His motivation to pair Tesla with the San Mateo, California, solar company primarily revolves around a battery system that stores solar energy in homes and businesses. The deal may draw more attention to the financial position of both companies. Tesla has lost $1.2 billion in the past two years alone while SolarCity has suffered losses exceeding $1.1 billion during the same span. Analysts surveyed by FactSet are predicting a 416 million loss from Tesla this year while they believe SolarCity will lose $851 million. On Monday, SolarCity said that it experienced lower-thanexpected residential bookings in the first half of the year, so it’s reducing its full-year guidance for megawatts installed to a range of 900 to 1,000 megawatts. Its previous outlook had been for 1,000 to 1,100 megawatts. =PcX^]P[B\P[[8]SdbcaXTb2^a_^aPcX^]=B82bXV]TSP]<T\^aP]Sd\^UD]STabcP]SX]V<>DU^acWT HTPa! % &fXcW<X]Xbcah^U<XRa^B\P[[P]S<TSXd\4]cTa_aXbTb6^eTa]\T]c^U8]SXPCWT<>DfPb bXV]TSQhBWaX::9P[P]BTRaTcPah<X]Xbcah^U<B<46^eTa]\T]c^U8]SXPP]SBWaXAPeX]SaP=PcW 2<3=B82CWTbPXS<>DT]eXbPVTb_a^eXbX^]^UT]WP]RTSbTaeXRTbQh=B82d]STaXcbePaX^dbbRWT\Tb U^a<B<4bX]cWTR^d]cahfXcWcWTVa^fcWX]cWT^_TaPcX^]P[_TaU^a\P]RT^UcWT2^a_^aPcX^]SdaX]VcWT hTPa! % & Public Awareness Bulletin - 10 RATIONALISATION OF TARIFF FOR GROUP HOUSING SOCIETY FOR SUPPLY AT 11 kV 5^acWT=^acWTa]ATVX^]³bRdbc^\TabP]X]cTaPRcX^]U^aX]RaTPbX]VbcTT[dbTX]7PahP]PfPb^aVP]XiTSX] 9X]S7PahP]Pc^SPhfWXRWfPbVaPRTSQhBcTT[<X]XbcTaBWaX2WPdSWPah1XaT]STaBX]VW7PahP]P<;0 ?aT\;PcPBX]VWP[b^PccT]STScWTTeT]cCWTRdbc^\Tab\TTcQPbTS^]Q^^bcX]VbcTT[R^]bd\_cX^]fPb ^aVP]XiTSQhBcTT[0dcW^aXch^U8]SXP;cSB08;P]SAPbWcaXhP8b_Pc=XVP\;cSA8=;cWTcf^\PY^a bcTT[?BDbd]STacWT<X]Xbcah^UBcTT[ CPcP?^fTa33;X]Pbb^RXPcX^]fXcW3T[WX9P[1^PaSXST]cXUXTSAPX[fPh;P]T992^[^]h2#1[^RZ :TbWPe_daP\PbPbXcTU^aX]bcP[[PcX^]^U0CF?[P]cPUcTabTTZX]VX]_dcbUa^\cWT[^RP[PaTP?aPSWP]b P]S8]bcadRc^ab^UCPcP?^fTa33;F^\T];XcTaPRh2T]cTabfW^f^aZX]cWXbPaTPCWTA>_[P]cfTaT STSXRPcTSc^cWT99aTbXST]cbQh<;0CaX]PVPa9XcT]STaBX]VWC^\PaX]cWT_aTbT]RT^UX]cWT_aTbT]RT ^UCPcP?^fTa3T[WX3XbcaXQdcX^];X\XcTSCPcP?^fTa33;WPbQTT]bcaXeX]VU^acWTX\_a^eT\T]c^U `dP[Xch^U[XUTP]Sd_[XUc\T]c^UcWTd]STa_aXeX[TVTSbTRcX^]^Ub^RXTchcWa^dVWXcbePaX^dbb^RXP[X]]^ePcX^] X]XcXPcXeTb It is for general awareness of the members of Group Housing Societies that Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC or Commission) has rationalized the tariff for supply at 11 kV to Group Housing Societies in the Tariff Order dated 29/09/2015 as follows: 1) Group Housing Society (GHS) shall mean a residential complex owned/managed by a GHS registered with Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Delhi/registered under Societies Act, 1860 and for sake of brevity, the definition shall include residential complex developed by a Developer and approved by appropriate authority. 2) Distribution Licensee shall bill at Rs. 6.00/- per unit to GHS. 3) GHS shall bill the Individual Members of the society as per the applicable Tariff slab available for Domestic Consumers: i.e., for FY 2015-16. DOMESTIC (INDIVIDUAL) CONNECTIONS 0-200 units 400 Paisa/kWh 201-400 units 595 Paisa/kWh 401-800 units 730 Paisa/kWh 801-1200 units 810 Paisa/kWh Above 1200 Units 875 Paisa/kWh 4) GHS shall bill Common Area as per Tariff of GHS i.e., Rs.6.00 per unit. 5) Any deficit/surplus, due to slab rate of Tariff and Tariff of GHS (Rs.6.00 per unit), shall be billed by the members of the GHS on pro rata basis of consumption. 6) As per Order of GoNCTD for Domestic Consumers, individual members of the GHS are also eligible for benefit of subsidy. The subsidy benefit is applicable w.e.f. 01/10/2015 7) DERC has framed modalities regarding claim of subsidy by the individual members of the GHS as follows: a) GHS shall maintain consumption data of individual members. b) GHS shall submit Subsidy Claim Form to Distribution Licensee duly signed by individual members and counter signed by President/Secretary of GHS. Format of Subsidy Claim Form is available on the Commission's website. c) Distribution Licensee on receipt of Subsidy Claim Form shall adjust subsidy in the subsequent bill. d) GHS shall get the subsidy audited by a CAG empanelled auditor on yearly basis and submit its report to Distribution Licensee. Issued In Public Interest by DELHI ELECTRICITY REGULATORY COMMISSION VINIYAMAK BHAWAN, C-BLOCK, SHIVALIK, MALVIYA NAGAR, NEW DELHI-110017 Tele: 011-41080417, Email: [email protected], Website: www.derc.gov.in DIP/Shabdarth/1390/16-17 f^a[S ! 17D10=4BF0AkCD4B30H k0D6DBC !! % Ecf^aZd`]ReVURdT]RdY 5XVVLDQDLGFKRSSHUVKRWLQ6\ULD 0[[$^]Q^PaSZX[[TS hZeY<YR_dVdTR]ReVd 0?Q <>B2>F transport heli7RS5HSXEOLFDQVEDFN0XVOLPIDPLO\LQIUDFDV ARussian copter was shot down in rebel territory in *ROG6WDUIDPLOLHVGHPDQGDSRORJ\IURP7UXPS opposition northern Syria on Monday and all five crew and officers BA0906>?0;0=Q F0B78=6C>= onald Trump is up against D a mounting backlash as the confrontation between him and the parents of a slain Pakistani-American Muslim soldier have quickly snowballed into a major controversy, prompting top Republican leaders to distance themselves from Trump’s comments and hail the sacrifice of the soldier and his family. House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell obliquely criticized Trump as they said that the sacrifice of the soldier, Army Captain Humayun Khan, and his family should always be honoured. Significantly, they also came out strongly against Trump’s proposal for a temporary ban on all Muslims entering the United States, commenting that a religious test for entering our country was “simply contrary to American values”. “Many Muslim Americans have served valiantly in our military, and made the ultimate sacrifice. Captain Khan was one such brave example. His sacrifice — and that of Khizr and Ghazala Khan — should always be honored. Period,” Ryan said in a statement. The spat between Trump and Khizr Khan, father of the soldier who died in the Iraq war in 2004, appeared to roil the US presidential race as it played out across all major American television channels and social media for the third day on Monday. In his series of media interviews on Sunday, Khan, who said Trump does not know what sacrifice is, branded the New York billionaire “a black soul” who lacked “a moral compass”. And his wife, Gazala Khan, writing an opinion piece in The Washington Post, said: “Donald Trump said he has made a lot of sacrifices. He doesn’t know what the word sacrifice means.” “Donald Trump said I had nothing to say. I do. My son Humayun Khan, an Army captain, died 12 years ago in Iraq. He loved America, where we moved when he was 2 years old,” she wrote, adding: “I am a Gold Star mother. Whoever saw me felt me in their heart.” While Ryan and McConnell did not name Trump, senior Republican Senator John McCain directly hit out him, saying: “While our party has bestowed upon him the nomination, it is not accompanied by unfettered licence to defame those who are the best among us.” Commenting that Trump has “disparaged a fallen soldier’s parents”, McCain said, adding how deeply he disagrees with Trump’s other suggestion that the likes of Captain Khan should not be allowed in the United States — to say nothing of entering its service”. With Khan continuing to be interviewed by TV networks on Monday, Trump got active on Twitter again, commenting: “Mr Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over TV doing the same — Nice!” In a tactical move in an apparent bid to walk back from the controversy that is seen to be damaging for Trump, his vice-presidential running mate Mike Pence put out a statement on Sunday night, saying: “Donald Trump and I believe that Captain Humayun Khan is an American hero and his family, like all Gold Star families, should be cherished by every American.” Amid the raging controversy, a number of other “Gold Star families” of service members who died fighting for America came for ward, demanding an apology from Trump. In a joint letter, members of 11 Gold Star families — a term used for families that have lost their loved ones in military service — termed Trump’s comments “repugnant, and personally offensive”. onboard were killed, the Kremlin said, in the deadliest single incident for the Russian military since its entrance into Syria’s civil war. The Mi-8 helicopter was shot down in Idlib province while returning to the Russian air base on Syria’s coast after delivering humanitarian goods to the city of Aleppo, the Defence Ministry said in a statement. The helicopter had three crew members and two officers deployed with the Russian centre at the Hemeimeem air base on the Syrian coast. “From what we know from information provided by the Defence Ministry, all those 05?Q :01D; powerful Taliban truck bomb struck a hotel for forA eigners in Kabul on Monday, triggering a seven-hour gunand-bomb assault that highlighted the deteriorating security situation in a capital still reeling from its deadliest attack for 15 years. The guests and staff of Northgate hotel were unharmed but one policeman was killed after the bombing, which rattled windows several kilometres away, paved the way for armed insurgents to enter the heavily guarded facility close to Kabul airport. The compound housing foreign contractors was previ- 4YZ_VdV^Z]ZeRcjg`hde` ac`eVTeZed^RcZeZ^VcZXYed ?C8Q ;>=3>= ?C8Q 14898=6 European Union which could lead to a second referendum, a senior Conservative party peer warned on Monday. Baroness Wheatcroft said she hoped that a pause in introducing Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, the official trigger for Brexit, could lead to British public potentially changing its mind. “If it comes to a Bill, I think the Lords might actually delay things. I think there’s a majority in the Lords for remaining,” she told ‘The Times’. addressing security threats and “provocations”, amid escalating tensions over the disputed South China Sea after a UNbacked tribunal struck down Beijing’s claims over the strategic waters. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will “unswervingly safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests including territorial integrity and maritime rights and interests”, State Councillor and Defence Minister Chang Wanquan said. “It will always stand ready to be called upon and be able to fight and win,” state-run China Daily quoted him as saying while addressing an event to mark the 89th anniversary of the PLA. coalition of insurgent groups called Jaish al-Fateh, or Army of Conquest, which has captured most of Idlib. Videos uploaded online by Syrian opposition activists show the burning wreckage of a Russian helicopter in footage seemingly taken in the first few moments after the helicopter crashed. In one video, a rocket pod can be seen next to the wreckage. People standing nearby are CP[XQP]cadRZQ^\Qa^RZb W^cT[U^aU^aTXV]TabX]:PQd[ 7^dbT^U;^aSb R^d[SST[Ph1aTgXc D:_TTafPa]b ritain’s House of Lords hina vowed to protect its could delay the process of Cmaritime rights and is B the UK’s exit from the “fully confident and capable of” who were on the helicopter died,” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman told journalists. The ministry statement released earlier said their fate was still unknown. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said the Russians “died heroically because they tried to move the aircraft away so to minimise losses on the ground.” There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Idlib province has a strong presence of fighters both for the al-Qaeda branch in Syria known as the Nusra Front and other groups fighting against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces. The Nusra Front announced last week that it was changing its name and relinquishing ties with al-Qaeda in an attempt to undermine a potential US and Russian air campaign against its fighters. The group is part of a The 2.3 million-strong army, the world’s largest and part of the ruling Communist Party of China’s liberation struggle, turned 89 on Monday. China will staunchly protect the country’s maritime rights and interests and is “fully confident and capable of addressing various security threats and provocations”, he said. Chang did not directly refer to the South China Sea situation during his remarks yesterday, but tension there was heightened this year by increased US patrols and the arbitration case brought by the Philippines against China, according to the official media. ously attacked in July 2013. Earlier this month, the Islamic State group claimed twin bombings that left 80 people dead in the Afghan capital, the deadliest attack in the city since the Taliban were ousted from power in 2001. “A truck bomb packed with explosives struck the outer wall of the hotel,” said Kabul police chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi. “One policeman lost his life and three others were wounded but none of the hotel staff or guests were hurt. Three Taliban fighters, including the truck bomber were killed.” Afghan commandos set up a tight security cordon around Northgate as erratic grenade explosions and gunfire rocked the area after the attack began around 01.30am local time (0230 IST). Local TV station Tolo cited a source inside the facility as saying that all the staff and guests — including 11 foreigners — hunkered down in safe rooms all through the night. It added that NATO special forces had overseen the clearance operation at the Northgate, a luxury enclave which had been fortified with blast walls, watchtowers and sniffer dogs. Tremors from the massive truck bombing, which was preceded by a power outage, were felt across the city. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed that more than 100 “American invaders” were killed and wounded in the assault. )DFHERRN¶VLQWHUQHWGHOLYHU\ GURQHFRPSOHWHVVWWHVWIOLJKW Washington: Social media giant Facebook has successfully carried out its first test flight of a solar-powered drone designed to provide faster and inexpensive internet access to remote regions of the world. The Aquila drone is being created to widen the range of internet connectivity around the globe. “New technologies like Aquila have the potential to bring access, voice and opportunity to billions of people around the world, and do so faster and more cost-effectively than has ever been possible before,” said Jay Parikh, global head of engineering and infrastructure at Facebook. When testing is finished, the huge unarmed airplane will be able to circle a region mea- suring up to 96.6 kilometres in diametre, while using laser communications and millimetre wave systems (extremely high-frequency radio waves) to send connectivity down from an altitude of more than 18,288 metres, ‘Live Science’ reported. The autonomous aircraft has a wingspan larger than a Boeing 737 airliner, but weighs hundreds of times less (about one-third of an electric car) because of its carbon-fibre frame, according to Facebook. Half of Aquila’s mass is made up of batteries, which lets the internet-delivery drone fly during day and night. “Aquila is designed to be hyper efficient, so it can fly for up to three months at a time,” said Parikh. PTI seen taking cellphone photos and shouting “Allahu Akbar,” or God is great in Arabic. The helicopter appears to have broken up as it crashed, its tail can be seen lying separately from the aircraft’s body in flames. In other videos, the body of one purported Russian soldier is seen being dragged by the legs while an unidentified person stands on the body of another soldier, also purportedly Russian. =T_P[TbTeXbXcX]V 8]SXPaT`dXaTSc^ RPaah83RPaSb)AT_^ac Kathmandu: Nepalese travelling to India are now required to carry identity cards with them, amid increased security arrangements at border areas in view of the Independence Day on August 15. “India’s Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) made the request to the aspiring Nepali visitors through the Nepal Police,” Baitadi District Police Office was quoted by media as saying. DSP Mohan Prasad Pokharel said that those without proper ID cards would be turned back from the border points. According to the SSB, security has also been tightened at Jhulaghat, the border area in Baitadi, according to Nepal’s Rastriya Samachar Samiti news agency. 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Turns out this addiction is now compromising the vision of a generation. “It has become a serious problem,” says Dr Sanjay Verma, head of the department of ophthalmology, at Paras hospital in Gurugram. “It has been observed that constant exposure to blue light, which has a short wavelength and high energy level, leads to multiple eye problems and even sleep disorders. When you play games on a small screen, your concentration level is at its peak because you have to focus on multiple things together. The human eye is not meant to be focussing on anything beyond a certain time frame, so when that happens, the blink rate goes down significantly resulting in dryness and irritability.” This may or may not have a lasting effect on sleep patterns, but when it does, it can have some serious repercussions. Mike Schultz, a 21-year-old communications graduate on Long Island, New York, took a spill on his skateboard while he was playing the game, he cut his hand on the sidewalk after hitting a big crack. He said, “I wanted to be able to stop quickly to see if there were any Pokemons nearby to catch, I don’t think the company is at fault.” The American Association of Orthopaedic surgeons has said in an official guidance that looking at your phone or any electronic devices while walking can result in sprains, broken bones and other serious and even fatal injuries. Experts around the world believe that this can have adverse effects on one’s mental health as this is a very addictive game. They advise people to regularly monitor the number of hours that they are spending on the game each day and if playing the game is affecting their social life or not, because if it is, then they have to be classified as addicts and treated accordingly. Some experts and psychologists recommend setting an alarm to limit your time on the game and organising trips and sessions with people that don’t involve your phone. Some even go to the extent of asking people to leave their chargers at home if they see signs of addiction. The famous television cartoon show that exploded in popularity in the 90s has made a comeback and looks stronger than ever. This time it has entered the space of your mobile screen and is so addictive that people don’t even have the time watch the road while they are walking the streets. Pokemon Go is a game that uses your phone’s GPS and clock to detect where and when you are in the game and make a Pokemon appear on your phone R $hTPa^[S0hdbW 1WPaPSfPYXbP eXRcX\^UQ[dT[XVWc bh]Sa^\TE890H B :D<0A aT_^acb screen so that you can go and catch it. The game is an attempt at realising what the fans always wanted. It is a world full of exotic and powerful monsters in the form of rats, snakes, dinosaurs, eggs and trees. You try and catch, tame and train these Pokemons and make them fight your opponents. You become a trainer in the process and can eventually flaunt your success. Doesn’t it sound interesting? Well, it did, at least for those millions who remained glued to their television screens at sharp 5 in the evening to see the central character Ash winning those highly acclaimed tournaments. As they say, excess of everything is bad; there is no light, constant exposure of which does not cause harm. Alternatively you can try and reduce the brightness and increase the contrast, if you can’t live without it! 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The whole idea of being able to game on and doing multiple things on our phones and Ipads has handicapped us so bad that we now try and “kill time” than utilise it. How many times have you noticed a family sitting in a restaurant and talking to each other? It is a rare sight these days because mothers are usually busy chatting on their whatsapp groups, fathers are busy with their work and children with their games. Why blame technology or in this case a game, when the root cause is you, yourself? We think the best thing to do in this case would be to either grab a Pokemon that induces sleep or learn the divine art of self control. any women make the mistake of trying out all trends at the same time; an M extremely sculpted face with a very strong eye and lip. I believe in finding a balance; try the dark lip trend, for example, but keep the rest of your makeup light and fresh. And I also believe that just because it is a trend, doesn’t mean it will suit you. I believe that trends can be adapted and personalized to a woman. If you don’t feel comfortable wearing a dark purple lipstick, try wearing a purple gloss instead; that way you are still on trend but you don't become a fashion victim,” said Emmanuelle Geoffrey, the lookbook expert from the house of Christian Dior. Geoffrey was in town for the opening of the brand’s first boutique store at Select Citywalk, Saket. We also asked her about the easiest way to turn a day look into something that works for a night-out, to which she said, “Just create more contrast on your eyes by using a eyeshadow palette in a more intense shade. This has eyeshadows, shimmer and a cream liner to easily make your day makeup look more sophisticated. Apply a deep mascara and a brighter lip colour and you are set for a fun evening out.” Talking about the latest trends, the international makeup artist said, “Graphic eyeliner, dark lip or a softly sculpted complexion and strobing are the current trends.” Also, she felt, no woman should leave home without a mascara, lipstick and a blush. We also asked her if there is an age that she thinks is too soon for girls to begin wearing makeup on a regular basis, “That is something I face very often during my travels and which can be a bit tricky. I believe that makeup should be used to enhance beauty but it seems that young girls are wanting to grow up too fast in this world and want to be older more quickly; again, the media has a big influence on the younger generations and it seems that young girls are being ‘forced’ to look and act older than they are. Why rush it? That being said, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a young teenager using a coloured lip balm, a touch of mascara and a hint of blush on the cheeks,” she answered. Talking about her career, Geoffrey told us, “I think for me the biggest challenge has been that many people think being a makeup artist is all just glitz and glamour but in reality, it has taken a lot of hard work, dedication and sacrifice to get where I am. I wouldn’t have been able to do it if it hadn’t been for the support of my husband, family and friends.” craze for Korean platters is increasing. Looking at the fast-spreading love, the Korean Culture Centre India hosted a workshop by Master Chef Ahn Bok Ja. A Korean food specialist, she gave a two-hour lesson on Yukwa, a traditional Korean snack, from scratch. She also prepared a special presentation on Korean food at the beginning of the session, which was extremely helpful and informative for everyone present. Yukwa, a healthy traditional Korean rice snack, is exclusively made by hand. “A lot of effort goes into making the Yukwa. Specially when you have to make everything from scratch. We use dried fruit, honey and natural products, she said. “These snacks can be preserved for a long time and don’t get spoilt if kept away for long,” she added. The delicious Yukwa is made in a time span of about 50 minutes and includes various powders like pumpkin, cactus and rice. “The powders that are used in making Korean snacks are natural products from the environment so they are health-friendly,” said the master chef. Mrs Ahn Bok Ja also showed us how to make really frilly and flat rice cakes. The rice cakes are then deep fried in hot oil and later, sugar syrup is added to them. “Yukwa is a traditional dish which is made in various flavours and shapes. When the dish is in a square shape, it is called ‘Yukwa’ and when it is cut into small pieces, it is called ‘Khan Jum’. There is no addition in the ingredients, only the name changes when the size does,” she added. The master chef, who decided to take up this profession to meet her financial needs, told us a few fun facts about Yukwa. “In history, Yukwa was a royal snack. It was only made during festivals and special occasions. However, later on it was made compulsory on all occasions. It is now easily available in the market and is a part of regular meal” she claims. The ace chef also spoke about ‘Ebazi’ meal, which is her specialisation. “In E-bazi, special food is prepared only for the bride and groom. It is not made for the guests. So even though I am not restricted to anything, I can easily say that E-bazi meal is my specialisation” she rounded off with a touch of humour. eXePRXch jPacl # 17D10=4BF0AkCD4B30H 80D6DBC !! % he trouble with play adaptations is that you have watched so many versions of them that you end up comparing the original with its many renditions and interpretations. So though Rage production’s 12 Angry Jurors, staged recently at the Aadyam theatre fest, raised relevant moral questions in a society homogenised more by biases than fairplay or debate, it got many talking about the film Ek Ruka Hua Faisla. For those not in the know, this Basu The drama is an adaptation of 12 Angry Men, a 1954 teleplay by the erican writer Reginald Rose. Director Nadir Khan’s version unfolds somewhere in contemporary India in a room in which 12 individuals on jury duty must decide the conviction of an 18-year-old slum dweller being tried for the murder of his father. The filmief: To establish the crime without “reasonable doubt.” And though the jurors begin by more or less agreeing that the distressed slum kid had killed his oppressive and abusive father in a fit of rage, it takes one of them to question the veracity of the evidence itself. Since the jury system is out of place in our country, having been stopped in 1959, it is a tad difficult to contextualise it in the present. But Khan perhaps uses all the 12 jurors as a metaphor for the voices in our heads, voices that get drowned in the cacophony of loud-mouthed pre-suppositions, instant judgment and bullying majoritarianism. It is an unpeeling of our urban masks with the reality of the prejudiced, regressive,hierarchical and conditional value systems. As one of them blatantly says, “Let us get them before they get us,” implying the revenge of the marginalised, their challenging of upper crust comfort zones. Also one of the T APVT ?a^SdRcX^]´b ! 0]Vah9da^ab bcPVTSPccWT 0PShP\cWTPcaT UTbc_^bTSP aT[TeP]c\^aP[ SX[T\\PeXbPeXb ^daYdbcXRTbhbcT\ P]Sb^RXTcP[ _aTYdSXRTP]S _TabdPbX^]CTP\ EXeP[^^ZbU^a ]Tf\TP]X]VbX] P\dRWPSP_cTS eTabX^] 1bUgUgb_^W/ jurors, who is tormented by his own wayward son, projects his repressed frustration on to a convenient scapegoat. One of the reasons Khan gave his own spin could be because theatre companies in various countries have adapted it to their local scenarios. The play opens with the judge’s somewhat dismissive voice handing over the charge to the jury, almost assuming that it is an open and shut case. We hear neither the prosecutor nor the defence attorney and learn of the evidence as the jurors debate and analyse it. In the process, the play becomes a critique of the justice system as we know it today. It has a contemporary relevance considering the crime is by a juvenile, who has just turned 18. The jurors gradually move away from the question if the defendant is innocent or guilty to whether the jury has a reasonable doubt about his guilt. The evidence has such gaping holes of logic that you are left wondering if the defence lawyer was sleeping on the job. How can a case stand if facts are compromised so easily? Point to ponder. The principle of reasonable doubt, the belief that a defendant is innocent until proven guilty, is one of the most enviable and demanding clauses of our justice system. But do we practise it indeed? Aren’t we given to convenient opinionating? As the key dissenter juror Rajit Kapur says, “We may send the guilty back to society for all we know but is the evidence beyond doubt?” D`f]`W5R_TV CWTbTb^RXP[ R^]U[XRcbPaT _Tab^]XUXTSQhcWT RWPaPRcTabP[[^U fW^\WPeTSXUUTaT]c QPRZVa^d]Sb° QdbX]Tbb\T] _a^UTbbX^]P[b PRcXeXbcb W^\T\PZTab TeT]cWT=A8 It isn’t. These social conflicts are personified by the characters, all of whom have different backgrounds — corporates, businessmen, professionals, activists, homemakers, there’s even the NRI returnee who’s constantly reminded of his unpaid debt to the country of origin and his misplaced righteousness — and attitudes. This is also an extremely well-knit and timed ensemble anchored by many familiar faces of stage and ad films. While Rajit Kapur is the pivot of dissent, who gradually turns the 11-1 vote against him to 12-0 in his favour, his subtlety is matched by the combative and aggressive Deven Khote, who being a victimised father, won’t allow any argument to stand in the way of his belief. And if you are literally left gnashing your teeth by the rigidity and racism of the juror played by Prerna Chawla, you know she has been great at her job. The play is longish, almost making you feel like it is done in real time. There has been deft use of a cinematic technique, the jury room windows screening shots of a rain-washed city outside. The screen is also used to project the private conversations in the loo between likeminded jurors and also to examine the evidence close-up, like the switch-blade knife and the layout of a chawl where the murder happened. Evidence is debated so completely that we feel we know as much as the jury does, especially about the old man who says he heard the murder and saw the defendant fleeing, and the lady across the street who says she saw it happen through the windows of a moving train, though she may or may not have been wearing glasses. The jurors even debate the angle of the knife wound and do mock drills to analyse the efficacy of the claims. So Kapur shuffles like the old witness, a stroke victim, to see if he could have gotten to the door in time to see the murderer fleeing. In the way it balances one piece of evidence against another that seems contradictory, the play keeps it taut like a thriller. But in the end, it is not about solving the crime. It is about sending a young man to die on the possibility of contaminated evidence. “We’re talking about somebody’s life here," Kapur says. “We can’t decide in five minutes. Supposing we’re wrong?” In its claustrophobic intensity, the play makes you stop and think. 88CWT[_b6^h]P you love to dance, <QgcdeTU^dcceWWUcdY_^`QfUcgQiV_b79cdQdec is the in thing, IfBharatanatyam she believes. Adorned with temple jewellery, ankle he Intellectual Property Rights cell bells, vivid colored silks and of IIT Kharagpur has taken up an T alta, this was the most imporinitiative to facilitate the process of fil- tant evening of Lavanya’s life, a 11th grader is it was her first public performance at the India International Center stage from where Rukmini Devi, Mrinalini Sarabai, Yamini Krishnamurti, Sonal Mansingh and Yamini Reddy, besides others have excelled as well. It was a total houseful even much before the show began in the spacious IIC hall. Guests were welcomed with traditional greetings, sweets, fragrant silver coated cardamoms and tilak at an evening of a world class Arangetram performance.After an :KHQ\RXGDQFH intensive training of 11 years, Lavanya's gurus - Jamuna Krishnan and Ragini, decided that their student was ready for ZLWK\RXUVRXO Arangetram, or “ascension to the stage”, to make her pubWKHIHHWDWWXQHWR the lic impacting debut as an accomplished Bharatanatyam perWKDWKDUPRQLRXV former. The Arangetram is usually performed before an audience of family and friends who do not judge the student too EOHQGRI harshly for any mistakes made in their first public performance, SHUIHFWLRQDQG but is still intended as a platform for criticism of both the stuSURIHVVLRQDOLVP dent and the guru in the interest of developing artistic excellence. 7KLVFRXOGEH For witnessing Lavanya's performance, her friends and relVHHQLQWKH atives came from the US, UK, Canada and almost all over India. SHUIRUPDQFHRID Lavanya though only 16, prepared for her debut public performance, with a commitment not taken lightly by Sonal and WHHQDJHURI her parents and the perfectly gelled mother and daugh0RGHUQ6FKRRO Girish, ter duo of Jamuna Krishnan and Ragini Chandrashekhar. The DW,QGLD long painstaking training schedule included extra lessons several times a week, and an intensive training period over the ,QWHUQDWLRQDO mid-year break from her school. &HQWUHGXULQJ An ace debater and winner of five best academic awards KHU$UDQJHWUDP in school, Lavanya has also been training in the Hindustani %\),52= %$.+7 Classical Music for the past eleven years. In her Bhataynatyam Arangetram, she exuded with flawless expertise and ease, a $+0(' heartwarming performance like a dancing queen.All the Bharatnatyam ingredients of Pushpanjali, Jatiswaram, Varnam and Alarippu were immaculately brought out by Lavanya in a manner most professional. Though with the highest of regards for them, she doesn't like being compared to any of the greatest Bharatnatyam exponents as she believes that all dancers develop their own personal style - and she possesses her own. The original elements of Hindu mythology, history, drama and aesthetics that is, bhava (expression), raga (melody) and tala) were a treat to watch in the ebulliant of Lavanya in the entire performance as part of her elegant moves from hands and feet to the minutest of nerves. No journey to excellence is complete without ones Gurus. When asked, Lavanya stated that all credit goes to both her Gurus, Jamuna Krishnanji and Ragini Chandrashekhar - the mother and daughter duo, most highly revered owing to their amazing competence in the world of Indian classical dance. Though a maestro like Jamuna excels beyond the mortal realms of awards and achievements, however, she is a winner of the most coveted Sahitya Kala Parishad, Natya Ratna and Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskarbesides others in India and abroad. At present, globally, she comes across as the best Bharatnatyam trainer with her students from all over the world. The Jamuna-Ragini rendition of the vocal Nattuvangam gelled so well that they sang on two separate mikes but the loudspeaker released just one voice! The Wizard on the flute was, G Raghuraman while the magic on Mridangam was rendered by MV Chandra Shekhar. In her heart- warming speech, Sonal, mother of the talented dancer said “Lavanya's aim in life is not to dance better than others but to dance better than herself ”. However, the reward was instant, right after her Arangetram as Lavanya was approached by an exponent of Bharatnatyam who invited her to dance at the Khajuraho Dance Festival. ing of potential Geographical indications for "Goyna Bori" — the fine art of using lentil paste mix to create exquisite designs, a institution's director said here on Sunday. “Goyna Bori is distinctive of certain parts of Bengal. With a distinct historical basis dating back several centuries, the art form has been elaborately described by Rabindranath Tagore in his works. It is believed to have originated in Midnapore” IIT Kharagpur director Partha Pratim Chakrabarti told the media. A team comprising students and faculty of the IPR Cell visited Tamluk, headquarter of East Midnapore district and embarked on the exercise of preparing the requirements for filing of a GI for "Goyna Bori". The team met district officials and also interacted with some self-help groups engaged in the art-form. The women demonstrated various aspects of the making of the goyna bori, its current status and also the distinct demand this has in several states of India and abroad. “The self-help groups suggested that this art must be encouraged and agreed to assist in providing information that could help in the documentation for the registration of GI.” The IIT's AIP Cell team collected the documentation as well as details of the socio-economic aspects of the art form. The team is in the process of documentation for filing of GI. T h e endeavour followed a sug gestion f r o m Neerajita Sarkar, a graduating student of LL.B Hons. in IP Law, who initiated the thought for GI recognition of "Goyna Bori". Chakrabarti said the institute would recognize faculty excellence at all levels of the career path of the teachers and staff by endowing regular faculty members through chair professorship 6>H=01>A88B 38BC8=2C8E4>5 24AC08=?0ACB >514=60;F8C7 038BC8=2C 78BC>A820; 10B8B30C8=6 102:B4E4A0; 24=CDA84BC74 0AC5>A<70B 144= 4;01>A0C4;H 34B2A81431H A018=3A0=0C7 awards and faculty Excellence Awards. The regular non-faculty staff members will be endowed with staff excellence awards. The Institute will shortly announce six chair professor awards for full professors for a three-year term which may be renewed once. The award amount will be Rs 25,000 per month pver and above the salary. He said the ministry of human resource development has sanctioned Rs 48.75 crores to IIT Kharagpur for the second phase of National Digital Library project.' b_^ac $ 17D10=4BF0AkCD4B30H k0D6DBC !! % CRYf]afed:_UZR`_Wc`_eW``e >_T]Ta³b $'VXeTb<T]X]1[dTcWTR^\\P]SX]bTR^]SCTbc ?C8Q :8=6BC>= pener Lokesh Rahul showed a lot of composure hitting a careerbest 158 as India reached a comfortable 358 for 5 on the second day, taking complete control of the second cricket Test against West Indies here on Monday. At stumps, India had consolidated their lead to a sizeable 162 runs despite only 232 runs being scored in the 88 overs bowled in the day as the visitors looked to grind the home team with an aim of outbatting them. With three days of play left, India has enough time to register another facile win over a below-par Test outfit. Rahul certainly was the hero of the day as he scored his third Test century on foreign soil with the help of 15 boundaries and three huge sixes — the first of which enabled him to complete a coveted ton. It was a compact innings in which he played 303 balls. He had a partnership of 121 runs for the second wicket with Cheteshwar Pujara, who scored a dogged 46 off 159 balls with four boundaries. Rahul also had a 69 run stand with skipper Virat Kohli, who scored 44 off 90 balls. Kohli's innings had four boundaries and a six. By the time, Rahul was adjuedged caught behind down leg-side off Shanon Gabriel (1/50), he had put India in driver's seat. Kohli, who has been in sublime form was dismissed just when he was looking to take on the spinners having hit a six and couple of fours off O <D<108) Even as deadline for their crucial meeting with the Justice Lodha panel is approaching, the bigwigs of BCCI are to meet here on Tuesday to discuss the Supreme Court verdict upholding most of its appointed committee's recommendations for sweeping reforms in the Board. The Working Committee of the Board has been convened urgently to discuss this burning issue that is set to shake up the very structure of the BCCI, along with the proposed two-match T20 series against the West Indies in Florida, USA, later this month. Post the WC meet, the BCCI's SGM has been convened on August 5 in Delhi to discuss the Supreme Court order which has shaken up the Board's mandarins, a lot of whom will be impacted by it. The SC-appointed Lodha panel has also invited BCCI president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke to meet the committee in Delhi on August 9 and, as such, tomorrow's meeting would obviously be used to discuss the apex court's verdict threadbare. Already Mumbai Cricket Association has held a meeting of its managing committee and accepted the SC verdict in toto, although they wanted some clarifications about the one state, one vote order. PTI BTgSadVbP]SaTR^aSa^[[ U^a2WX]PbbfX\Bd]bPcX^] 05?Q 14898=6 China's anti-doping procedures have also been in the spotlight ahead of Rio, after the un Yang's career has mixed tales of sex and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) susdrugs with jaw-dropping world records, but pended the accreditation of its national testChina's wild-child star will hope to stay clear ing laboratory in Beijing in April. In March, China's state media had reportof trouble as he anchors his country's Rio ed that six Chinese athletes had failed doping Olympics swimming assault. If China's swimming team has a reputa- tests — including two who were let off with tion for controversies, Sun is no exception, and warnings for taking the banned musclethe man who knows no equal over 1500m has builder clenbuterol. Liu Peng, head of the General often made headlines for his activities outside Administration of Sport, said in May that the pool. Chief among his indiscretions was a WADA's suspension of the Beijing lab has three-month doping suspension in 2014 — brought "difficulties and challenges" for served in secret and announced retrospective- China's anti-doping work, according to a ly -- for taking a banned stimulant, which he Chinese media report. Chinese swimming has a chequered repsaid he needed for a heart complaint. Sun's rap sheet also includes clashing with utation following a rash of doping cases in the officials over his affair with an air hostess, 1990s. Seven Chinese swimmers tested positive for steroids at the 1994 Asian Games detention time for driving a Porsche SUV in Hiroshima. — that was hit by a bus — withIn 1998, swimmer Yuan out a licence, and an altercation 8c Yuan was banned after with a female Brazilian Australian customs officers swimmer at last year's TRW^TS[Pbc discovered a large stash of world championships. hTPabf^a[S human growth hormone Along the way, Sun in her bags at the world lashed the national RWP\_X^]bWX_bX] championships in Perth. anthem of China's bitThe towering Sun ter war-time rivals :PiP]AdbbXPfWTaT will be the most recogJapan as "ugly", and turned heads by Bd]f^]cWT#\P]S nisable figure in China's pulling out of the '\QdcfXcWSaTf team, but his current form is largely an 2015 world champiUa^\cWT $\ unknown quantity after onships 1500m final, he missed the national again citing a heart Q[P\X]VPWTPac championships in April problem. R^]SXcX^] with a foot injury. But no one would argue In June at Santa Clara, he with the athletic achievements won the 200m freestyle in a worldof the 6ft 6in (1.98m) Sun, 24, leading time, but then pulled out of the who is acclaimed as China's most suc400m final and the 1500m event without explacessful swimmer. Sun became China's first male Olympic nation. It echoed last year's world championships swimming champion when he won the 400m and 1500m freestyle at London 2012, where in Kazan, Russia, where Sun won the 400m and he also lowered his own world record over the 800m but withdrew from the 1500m, blaming longer distance — after smashing Grant a heart condition. Kazan was eventful for Sun, who was also Hackett's decade-old mark at the 2011 world involved in an angry confrontation with championships in Shanghai. The two titles in London put Sun at the Brazil's Larissa Oliveira in the warm-up pool. Sun will hope for less choppy waters in Rio forefront of his country's best ever Olympic swimming performance, as China finished sec- -- although he may face a challenge from Italy's ond behind the United States in the pool tally Gregorio Paltrinieri, who swam the secondfastest 1500m in history at the European chamwith five gold medals. More glory could follow in Rio, although pionships in May. As for Ye, after her phenomenal 2012 with China's swimmers taking part in few international events, their form is hard to Olympics, she failed to make the podium at either the 2013 or 2015 world championships, assess. In London, China unleashed Ye Shiwen, and was 22 seconds off her 400m medley world then only 16, who won a sensational women's record at the Chinese championships, after sufindividual medley double including a new fering stomach pain. However, Ning Zetao, who served a oneworld record in the 400m race. Ye attracted doping innuendo — strong- year suspension after testing positive for ly rejected by China — after her final 50m clenbuterol in 2011, should shine for China burst in the 400m medley was quicker than after he upstaged a strong field to win 100m American Ryan Lochte's when he won the freestyle gold at last year's world championships. men's gold a few races earlier. S Devendra Bishoo's (1/79) bowling. It was spinner Roston Chase (2/91), who bowled an off-break which Kohli tried to guide only to offer a simple catch to Rajendra Chandrika at forward short leg. Ravichandran Ashwin (3) was adjudged leg-before off a Bishoo delivery that hit the toe. Rahane and Saha negotiated the remaining 12.5 overs adding 31 runs with minimum fuss. Earlier, Rahul notched up his third overseas Test century and helped India lead by 63 runs at tea. Along with Pujara, he looked to make good on the hard work done in the morning session. The West Indies were looking listless as ever and this was a good time to get some quick runs under the belt. The only difference from the Antigua Test was perhaps that West Indies weren't allowing easy scoring, and had tightened up. The 200-mark for India came up in the 70th over, and the duo celebrated their 100run stand for the 2nd wicket off 283 balls. Even as the batsmen looked for runs, they had to take some risks, and in doing so Pujara was run-out after a direct throw from square leg found him short of the crease. Rahul suffered cramps thereafter, but kept going as Kohli joined him. The West Indies' decision to delay the new ball helped him settle down, and he was beaten only once in the first 20 deliveries that he had faced. Kraigg Brathwaite (0-26) was put to bowl, much to everyone's surprise, and soon the runs began flowing again as India went past the 250-mark in the 90th over, as the two batsmen put up 50 runs for the 3rd wicket off 106 balls. Just before tea, Rahul went past the 150-mark for the first time in his Test career. In the morning, Rahul and Pujara had played out a slow morning session, as India were trailing the hosts by just 11 runs at lunch. Starting at the overnight score of 126/1, the two batsmen looked to play for time, as there was still something in the pitch for the bowlers. However they didn't have any help from the weather, as it was bright and sunny when play began, rendering this a good day to bat. ³<hX]cT]cX^]c^bcPh_^bXcXeTP]SPVVaTbbXeT_PXS^UU´ ?C8Q :8=6BC>= oing through a purple patch, centurion Lokesh Rahul said his intenG tion to stay positive and aggressive on the second day paid off as he put India on the driver's seat in the second Test against West Indies here. Opening the innings, Rahul scored a composed 158 on day two to help India finish at 358/5, a lead of 162 runs with still three days to go. It was the highest individual score for Rahul, who had notched up his maiden ODI hundred on debut in Zimbabwe. This is his third Test ton overall and all three of them have come outside India — Australia, Sri Lanka and now in the Caribbean. Even so, his place in the eleven is not confirmed yet, as he was a replacement for the injured Murali Vijay. That could change in the near future. "To me, it didn't look too difficult. I went in there and started hitting the ball from the first or second ball. Obviously, I've been spending a lot of time in the nets. It's a different challenge once you go out there and when you have the pressure of the game," Rahul said after the end of the second day's play. "I tried to keep things simple. I've been in good form for the last 3-4 months. I've been moving well, and hitting the ball really well. "My plan when I went out yesterday was to put the loose balls away and be positive and have a very aggressive intent. I am really happy with the way I batted. I don't know whether it is easy or tough, but the simplest things if you do it right, it pays off all the time. "That is to play to the merit of the ball, you think the ball is there to be hit, and you feel confident, then you hit the ball. I tried to keep it simple," he added. The 24-year-old from Karnataka said he is enjoying his consistent run in all three formats of the game. "The last couple of months, I've been performing well. I've been consistent in all the three formats and that's what I want to do as a cricketer," said Rahul. "I'm only watching the ball and trying to judge the ball and if I think the ball is there to be hit, I'm hitting the ball. I'm very happy with the space I'm in and the focus levels have been great. "The biggest challenge was obviously the weather, it was a very hot day. When I went into bat yesterday, the wicket was still a little two-paced and a little damp, and the ball was doing a little bit. Those were the challenges but once I got a few runs under my belt, and once I spent a little time on the wicket, I felt comfortable. To have Kohli, Ashwin and the other guys speak highly of me definitely gives confidence." he said. ´?ebR_g\Y^WXQc &DQ WVWRSDVVRFLDWLRQHOHFWLRQV Y]`b_fUTVb_]1^dYWeQµ %&&,VHF\WHOOV/RGKDSDQHO ?C8Q :8=6BC>= avishing praise on his bowlers for their disciplined show on day two, West Indies' coach Phil Simmons said they would now look to get the remaining Indian wickets and urged the batsmen to step up to help them bounce back in the second cricket Test. "I think it was a lot better. Usually you average a day to be 270 in Test cricket with 90 full overs and we have restricted them, especially with KL Rahul going the way he was and then the skipper later. Restricting them to 230 in 90 overs shows there's improvement from Antigua," Simmons said. "The only thing we can do is to come again tomorrow and work hard to get the wickets that we have to. And then the batsmen have got to stand up because the bowlers have stood up today. Hopefully they will stand up again tomorrow morning and we get the wickets we need," he added. Indian opener KL Rahul, who scored 158, was also full of praise for the opponents who bowled tight lines and didn't let any batsmen get away quickly. It was a stark contrast from the first Test, wherein runs had come off very easily for the Indian batsmen. "We have plans for everybody, to get their wickets and stop them scoring. We got Kohli cheaply this time, which is good for us. But we have plans for every batsman so its about how we execute what plans we have for them," said the coach. "I think the bowlers learned today what we have B2eTaSXRcC!bTaXTbX]DB0U^RP[ _^X]cbX]1228\TTc L been talking about for the last six months, about being patient in Test cricket. And when the wicket isn't assisting like this one you have to be patient. "Then the pressure that you build from patience will get you wickets. They are seeking the patience now, and they are trying to hold these world class batsmen," he added. The coach, meanwhile, defended his team's ploy of batting first on a damp pitch as the West Indies were bowled out for 196 in their first innings. "Batsmen are supposed to bat. I didn't think there was any threat in the wicket yesterday. So I would bat first bat again," he said. "Ashwin is the number one bowler in the world. He is going to be difficult on any wicket you play him on, let alone a wicket that's turning and has some bounce too. It's going to be difficult but that's what Test cricket is about. "If its not difficult it won't be called Test cricket. The batsmen know that they have to come and make sure that they put their heads down and they have to work hard against both spinners," he signed off. =4F 34;78) The BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke has responded to the letters sent by Lodha panel, stating that the parent body of Indian cricket cannot stop the state units from holding its elections. The Cricket Association of B engal (CAB) and Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) are not having their elections on scheduled date after Supreme Court-appointed panel sent a letter to BCCI to intimate associations that all state unit elections to be put on hold. This was after the apex court verdict on July 18 as the reforms will take place in next six months. According to ESPN Cricinfo, Shirke wrote: "The BCCI is not empowered under any law to stop any electoral process which is mandated by any statute. Furthermore the Lodha Committee recommendations does not empower the BCCI to interfere with statutory and fundamental rights of citizens who are members of such associations." However a source close to Committee maintains that BCCI were never ever asked to interfere in state units' elections but merely intimate about panel's decision that all elections will remain frozen till the reforms take place. "Yes, Shirke has replied to the letter that was sent to the BCCI office-bearers. Mr Shirke in his reply has stated that BCCI cannot stop state associations from having elections." PTI FP[ZTa^dcSdT[b3Ph^] QPRZ]X]Tc^fX]?60 05?Q B?A8=6584;3 nheralded American Jimmy Walker captured his first major title in wire-to-wire U fashion, outdueling top-ranked defending champion Jason Day down the back nine at rain-softened Baltusrol to win the PGA Championship. Trading dramatic shots over the final holes of a 36-hole golfing marathon, Walker and Australian star Day kept the drama intense to the last shot, a three-foot par putt by Walker at the 18th to claim a one-stroke victory yesterday. "Sometimes a par is tough," Walker said. There were a lot of emotions out there... It was a battle all day." Day was at the 18th green to congratulate Walker after the tension-packed putt. "I know how it feels," Day said. "It's a very special moment to be able to celebrate on the 18th green." Walker, a former top-10 player now set to rise from 48th in the rankings, fired a threeunder par 67 in the final round to finish 72 holes on 14-under 266 and win his sixth US PGA crown, the first since last year's Texas Open some 16 months ago. The 37-year-old from Oklahoma took the Wanamaker Trophy and the top prize of $1.8 million (1.6 million euros) from a $10 million purse. Walker, the PGA's first wire-to-wire winner since Phil Mickelson at Baltusrol in 2005, missed the cut in three of the prior four majors and was never better than seventh in 17 prior major starts. American Daniel Summerhays was third on 270, three strokes behind runner-up Day, with Japan's Hideki Matsuyama, South African Brendan Grace and American Brooks Koepka sharing third on 271. Day and Walker were among 10 golfers forced to play their entire third and fourth rounds on an overcast and sometimes rainy Sunday after thunderstorms halted play Saturday. The water-soaked course nudged organizers into using preferred lies, or "lift, clean and place" rules, in the last round, believed to be a first in major golf history. ´=Q^h=YccY\UdQbWUdc U\ecYfU?\i]`YS]UTQ\ 05?Q ;>=3>= t's now or never for British cycling great Mark ICavendish in his goal to at last win an Olympic medal. In theor y ever ything appears in mint condition for the 31-year-old 'Manx Missile' to fill the one hole in his CV as he arrives in Rio fresh from four stage wins in the Tour de France — taking his total to 30, just four shy of Eddie Mercx's record. However, Cavendish — who pulled out of the Tour de France early so as to preserve his strength for the Games — will have to adapt quickly as he is not competing on the road but reverts to the track, something he has not competed at in the Games since 2008. Cavendish teams up with Wiggins in the six-discipline Omnium in Rio — the duo having won the world title this year in the Madison — and hope for a happier outcome than when they finished ninth in the 2008 Beijing Games. "Olympic gold is one thing left - I've tried it twice and I was in superb form on both days and they eluded me," said Cavendish, whose other appearance at the Games saw him squeezed out of contention 8]cWT^ahTeTahcWX]V P__TPabX]\X]cR^]SXcX^] U^acWT" hTPa^[S<P]g <XbbX[Tc^UX[[cWT^]TW^[T X]WXb2EPbWTPaaXeTbX] AX^UaTbWUa^\U^dabcPVT fX]bX]cWTC^daST 5aP]RT¯cPZX]VWXbc^cP[ c^"YdbcU^dabWh^U 4SSXT<TaRgbaTR^aS in London. "I've made no secret that my aim is to win an Olympic medal and I'm so pleased to have been given this opportunity. "I'm proudly patriotic and I love every time I get to pull on the Great Britain jersey and the Olympics is the biggest thing I can do. I wouldn't have done it unless I thought I could medal in my two events," added Cavendish, who is also a reserve for the team pursuit. Cavendish, who won the world road race title in 2011 when the team was captained by one of his idols as a boy David Millar, fell in love with competitive cycling at an early age. He would often compete in mountain bike races while racing an ordinar y BMX. Frustrated at his failure to compete, he pestered his parents for a mountain bike to level the playing field. "I got one for my thirteenth birthday. The very next day I went out and beat everyone," he said in a 2008 interview. Cavendish, though, has had to battle hard to make it as a professional and despite sometimes being accused of arrogance, is described as down-to-earth by those closest to him. Indeed Cavendish showed his sensitivity when he won the opening stage of this year's Tour de France, which climaxed at Utah Beach, one of the landing sites for the Allied Forces on D-Day in 1944. After collecting the yellow jersey, Cavendish was part of a moving ceremony to remember the war dead. "I wanted to be involved with the armed forces in the UK and to finish here at Utah Beach was an incredible opportunity to remember and respect not just D-Day but those who've fought and died in all wars for our freedom in the western world," said Cavendish. "I wanted to (dedicate) this victory and say thank you to those great men and women and friends back in the UK who served in the armed forces." b_^ac % 17D10=4BF0AkCD4B30H k0D6DBC !! % 3RTYUVWV_Ud:@4YR_U]Z_X`WCfddZR_U`aZ_X 8>2_aTbXST]cQPRZbeTaSXRc]^cc^QP]T]cXaTAdbbXP]R^]cX]VT]cUa^\R^\_TcX]VPcAX^>[h 0?Q A8>3490=48A> OC president Thomas Bach defended the decision not to ban Russia's entire team from the Rio Games, declaring on Sunday that the doping crisis won't damage the Olympic body's credibility and taking a swipe at global anti-doping officials for failing to act sooner against state-sponsored cheating in Russia. Speaking at a news conference five days before the opening of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Bach said a total ban on Russia for systematic doping "would not be justifiable" on either moral or legal grounds. "Every human being is entitled to certain rights of natural justice," said Bach, who also denied suggestions he had bowed to pressure from the Russian government to reject calls by anti-doping authorities for a complete ban. Bach was peppered with questions about the International Olympic Committee's handling of the Russian scandal, including the decision to give international sports federations the authority to decide which Russian athletes should be cleared to compete in Rio. Asked whether the ruling represented a failure by the IOC, Bach said: "No. This is for very obvious reasons." Bach said the IOC had set a "very high bar" by imposing strict conditions on the entry of Russians, including a ban on any athletes with prior doping sanctions. More than 100 Russian athletes — including the track and field team — have been excluded, with more than 250 declared eligible by the federations. With the games opening Friday, it remains uncertain exactly how many Russians will be competing. Some have filed appeals against their bans. "I don't think that this in the end will be damaging because people will realize we have to take this decision now," Bach said. "Imagine if we had not taken a decision, what limbo we would be in then. "I trust the people realize the difficulties we are in, that they realize that it was not an easy decision to take, and that they realize we did our best to address this situation in a way which allows to protect all I clean athletes all over the world," he added. The IOC on Saturday set up a "review panel" consisting of three executive board members who will have the final say on which Russians are let into the games, based on advice from an independent expert appointed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Bach and the IOC have been heavily criticized by anti-doping bodies, athletes' groups and Western media for not imposing a total ban on Russia. Pressure for a complete ban followed a World Anti-Doping Agency report by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren that accused Russia's sports ministry of overseeing a vast doping conspiracy involving the country's summer and winter sports athletes. Despite the backlash against the IOC decision, Bach said the committee had "broad support" across the Olympic movement, including from national Olympic committees and sports federations. "Of course the negative opinions are most likely to be quoted," he said. Bach took a shot at WADA, which was set up by the IOC in 1999, for not having acted earlier on whistleblower evidence of widespread doping in Russia. He also questioned why WADA had accredited the Moscow and Sochi doping labs at the center of the scandal. "The IOC is not responsible for the timing of the McLaren report," Bach said. "TheIOC is not responsible for the fact that different information which was offered to WADA already a couple of years ago was not followed up. The IOC is not responsible for the accreditation or supervision of anti-doping laboratories. "Therefore, the IOC cannot be made responsible, neither for the timing nor for the reasons of these incidents we have to face now ... just a couple of days before the Olympic Games." Bach said the IOC wants to "shed full light on all the allegations" in McLaren's report, including evidence that Russian officials replaced tainted urine samples with clean ones during the 2104 Winter Games in Sochi. McLaren's investigation has been extended so he can identify athletes and others involved in state-backed doping and cover-ups. Once McLaren finishes his 2OWPDQVFRPSODLQVDERXWODFNRI FKDLUV79VHWVLQ2O\9LOODJH ?C8Q A8>3490=48A> he Indian hockey teams at the Olympics are facing a shortage of chairs and Television sets at the Games Village and chief coach Roelant Oltmans has complained that the players' apartments are not properly furnished. In a letter to Chef de Mission of the Indian contingent Rakesh Gupta, Oltmans complained about unfurnished accommodation provided to both the men's and women's hockey teams. "The apartments of the Rio Olympics are not furnished properly," Oltmans, who is also the High Performance Director of Indian hockey, wrote in his letter. T "For athletes who have to perform at top-level during a longer period of the Olympics we need proper chairs and tables in the apartments for 6 persons. Actually there are only 2 chairs in each apartment. "For men and women we are 4U\XY4i^Q]_c cYW^@U\YccQbY ?C8Q =4F34;78 SL franchise Delhi Dynamos on Monday signed Brazilian central midfielder Bruno Pelissari from Chennaiyin FC for the upcoming season. The central attacking midfielder had been one of Chennaiyin FC's key players for the last two seasons and is expected to inject energy and creativity into the Delhi Dynamos FC side. The Brazilian had signed up with Moldovan Divizia Nationala side Sheriff Tiraspol but the Dynamos managed to lure him back to the ISL on a free transfer. "I am thankful to Delhi Dynamos FC for this opportunity. I have been playing in the ISL since its inception. I was fortunate to win the title last year and hope that I enjoy similar kind of success this year too. "I was looking for new challenge and when Delhi Dynamos FC approached me, I couldn't say no. It was unfortunate that Delhi lost in the semifinals last year. But now, with a new coach and a stronger set of players, I believe we will be a real force to reckon with," Pelissari added. Delhi Dynamos' head coach Gianluca Zambrotta was highly pleased with the signing and declared that Bruno will be vital to his plans for the upcoming season. "He has been one of the top players in the ISL over the last two years and through his performances he has proven himself a match-winner. He will definitely be an asset to us at Delhi Dynamos FC," Zambrotta said. Club's CTO Vishnu Madhu was delighted with the new signing and feels that Bruno will play a crucial role in achieving DDFC's goal of going all the way in the ISL. "We are very happy to welcome him into the Delhi Dynamos FC family. He is a past champion and that is going to help an ambitious team like ours. Both, the club management and the coaching staff, believe in him and his abilities and know that he will do wonders for us," said Madhu. I using 9 apartments so there is a lack of 28 proper chairs and for 7 Apartments we need at least one table as well. In the staff apartments we've managed to bring in some tables. During the Olympics we would like to give our players the possibility to watch the matches of our competitors live on TV. This will help the players to prepare themselves for the upcoming matches against these opponents." he said. In another letter, Oltmans asked for Chef de Mission's permission to purchase TV sets for the hockey teams. "Thank you very much to offer your TV to our team to be able to watch the hockey matches during the Olympic Games. I've tried to rent more TV's but unfortunately they are sold out in the Village. "I would like to get permission to purchase 3 TVs to be able to follow the hockey competition in both the staff rooms and at least in one of the male and female Apartments," the Dutchman wrote. work, "then we will take all the further necessary sanctions," Bach said. The evidence published so far by McLaren was "shocking," Bach said. "If this system was applied like this, it's an attack on everything we want to represent," he said. "It's an attack on the Olympic Games and it's an attack on our values." But Bach reiterated his position that it would be wrong to collectively sanction all Russian athletes because it would punish some who had no links to doping. "How far can you go to punish an individual for the failures or manipulations of your government?" he said. "Is it possible to take an athlete and say, 'Because your government has done something wrong, you automatically are out?' This would not be justifiable, neither on a moral ground, not to speak on a legal ground." Bach dismissed suggestions that pressure from the Russian government influenced the IOC decision. "I haven't been talking to any Russian government official since the publication of the McLaren report and not even in the days or weeks preceding it," he said. Bach defended the decision to reject a bid by 800-meter runner Yulia Stepanova, a former doper and whistleblower who helped expose the extent of cheating in Russia, to compete in Rio as a neutral athlete, as proposed by the IAAF. "It was not easy," he said. "The executive board made it really clear that it appreciates the contribution of Yulia Stepanova in the fight against doping. We offered assistance and support which no other organization has so far offered." Bach said the IOC had targeted 2,200 athletes in pre-Olympic tests ahead of Rio, and that 4,500 urine tests and 1,000 blood controls would be conducted during the games, similar to the figure in London four years ago. Bach also gave an upbeat assessment of Rio's readiness for the games. The preparations have been clouded across multiple fronts, including a severe recession leading to Olympic budget cuts, concerns over water pollution, crime and the Zika virus, and problems with accommodations in the athletes' village. ²6^P]SfX]\TSP[ U^a\TR^d]cah³ ?C8Q =4F34;78 ouble Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar on Monday welcomed the D NADA decision to exonerate Narsingh Yadav from charges of doping which would enable him to represent the country at the Olympic Games. Sushil and Narsingh were locked in a bitter legal battle as to who would represent the country in the 74kg category. Narsingh won the quota place while Sushil wanted a trial. "Bahot Khushi ki baat hain. Mera support pahle bhi thaa, aaj bhi bhain aur kal bhi rahega. (It's a great news. My support was there earlier also, even today and will remain tomorrow). Go win for me and the country," the legendary Olympian tweeted. He also lamented that wrestling in the past few months went through this tumultous phase. "very unfortunate 2 see the Wrestling go through this. I hv given my life to ot (sic) & wl always support fellow wrestlers," Sushil stated in the micro-blogging site. Meanwhile, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today expressed happiness over Narsingh Yadav getting a clean chit in the doping scandal, saying he always knew the wrestler was being victimised. 3Y^Z^eXRQTPcb:TXc^R[PX\C^a^]c^cXc[T 05?Q C>A>=C> inutes after completing a 6-3, 7-5 ATP Toronto Masters M final win over Kei Nishikori for his 66th career title, Novak Djokovic had already shifted his focus to the Rio Olympics. The world number one, who claimed his fourth Canadian title with a command performance over Asia's top player lasting less than 90 minutes, will waste no time in heading south to Brazil for the weekend start of the Summer Games. "It's the biggest event in the history of the sport, so to be part of it is already a huge privilege and honour that I will cherish, as I did in Beijing and London Olympic Games," said the holder of a leading 30 Masters 1000 trophies. "I had an honour of carrying the flag for my country in London 2012, one of the most unique and unforgettable moments of my life. So I look forward to that, honestly, just being part of it. "I'm approaching the Olympic Games as any other tournament. I'm trying to respect the same kind of preparation and routine that I have with my team and that I have respected for so many years. "It has worked well for us this week and as most of the other weeks the last couple of years." Djokovic lifted his game in Canada as the week progressed, sweeping to the title without the loss of a set and dispatching challenges from Gael Monfils in the semis followed by Japan's Nishikori. "The overall sensation (of Rio) is not going to be the same as the other tournaments, because it's Olympic Games," he said. "Of course you represent your country. "You get to feel that you're part of something much larger than just the tennis event. I look forward to that. "I'm going to try to extract that positivity out of that huge attention and energy that will be directed into the Olympic Games and hopefully put myself in a position to battle for a medal." C``_Vjd]R^d9`UXd`_W`c6fc`Yf^Z]ZReZ`_ 80=BQ ;>=3>= Hecking's men face Augsburg for the first round in German Bundesliga on August 27. aptain Wayne Rooney has attributed England's Euro 2016 failure C to Roy Hodgson's unsuccessful team line-up changes. Hodgson made six changes to England's final group match against Slovakia and the goalless draw in the match cost England the top spot in their group. England then lost to Iceland 1-2 in their last 16 stage match, reports Xinhua. Rooney was one of those rested by Hodgson and the Manchester United forward said the loss of momentum caused by Hodgson's decision was crucial to the team's surprising defeat against Iceland. "I wouldn't have rested six players. It's more than half the team. It was a gamble and it didn't pay off," Rooney told the Daily Mail on Monday. "We had lost momentum from the Slovakia game and tournament football is about confidence. You get that from winning." "We didn't play great in the friendlies, but we won. So you try to build, even from before the tournament, but we couldn't get that consistency once it began," he added. "It was Roy's decision to make changes against Slovakia and either way, the team he put out should have been able to win. But, right or wrong, I wanted to play and I can't deny that." 3>AC<D=3´B1;0BI2IH:>FB:8 9>8=BF>;5B1DA6 Wolfsburg have signed Polish midfielder Jakub Blaszczykowski from Bundesliga rivals Borussia Dortmund for three years, both the German 5A4=27BCA8:4A686=02>= 10A24;>=0BA030A football clubs confirmed on Monday. The 30-year-old strengthens the "Wolves" offence after German Andre Schurrle left for Dortmund last week. The contract keeps Blaszczykowski in Wolfsburg until June 2019, reports Xinhua. "We clearly increased our versatility and effectiveness on the right wing with this signing," Wolfsburg coach Dieter Hecking told the club's official homepage. "Jakub has a vast experience and is a tremendous asset for us." Blaszczykowski played since 2007 for Borussia Dortmund where he scored 27 goals in 197 appearances ever since. He won with Dortmund the Bundesliga title in 2011 and the German domestic double in 2012. However, after the departure of coach Juergen Klopp and the arrival of Thomas Tuchel, the Poland interna- tional was loaned to Italian outfit ACF Fiorentina on August 2015. During the season-long loan deal, the midfielder scored two goals in 15 games. Wolfsburg's sixth summer transfer is since 2006 part of Poland's national squad, where he made 84 caps to provide 18 goals, and will join his new teammates in the trainings camp soon. Dortmund and Wolfsburg agreed to keep silence over the transfer fee. French striker Andre-Pierre Gignac, who is currently playing for Mexican side Tigres UANL, is being targeted by Spanish football champions Barcelona, who seek to support their attacking lines, according to media reports. Catalan newspaper El Mundo Deportivo reported on Monday that Barcelona's sporting director Roberto Fernandez has spoken with the Frenchman and his club to see if there is a possibility of hiring his services. Gignac, 30, who played with France in Euro 2016, is one of the favourites to join Barcelona on the bench as a substitute for the attacking trio of Lionel Messi, Lui Suarez and Neymar, reports Efe. El Mundo Deportivo explained that Barcelona's list of interests also includes the Croatian Mario Mandzukic of Juventus, Germany's Mario Gomez of Fiorentina and Colombian Carlos Bacca of AC Milan. In the meantime, Roberto Fernandez is touring Latin America in search of a striker that will complete the missing spot in Luis Enrique's squad before the beginning of the new season. Gignac started off his career in FC Lorient for three seasons, and then he moved for four seasons to Toulouse, then to Marseille for five seasons, before heading to Mexico, where he scored 33 goals with Tigres UANL in 50 games in the 2015-16 season.