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emand for the start of a
political process to defuse
the volatile situation in Kashmir,
gained ground on Monday as
Jammu & Kashmir Chief
Minister Mehbooba Mufti and
most Opposition parties made
a fervent pitch to reach out to
the people of the embattled State
for restoration of peace.
While Mehbooba, who was
in the national Capital, discussed the situation with Union
Home Minister Rajnath Singh
and called for holding talks
with people of the State,
Opposition parties raised the
issue in Rajya Sabha and
demanded that an-party delegation be sent to the Valley.
Pitching for early initiation
of a dialogue process with the
people of Kashmir, Mehbooba
urged Prime Minister
Narendra Modi to seize the
opportunity created by the
unrest to “win the hearts” of the
masses by solving their problems, the way former PM Atal
Bihari Vajpayee did.
Emerging from a two-hour
meeting with Singh with whom
she discussed the situation in
the Valley, large parts of which
have been under curfew for
over a month now, Mehbooba
told reporters that there was a
need to take steps to “ win the
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hearts of the people.”
“I am hopeful that the
Prime Minister will take this as
an opportunity to initiate dialogue with people of Jammu &
Kashmir to address their problems. There is a need to take the
same initiative of winning
hearts of people, which was
taken during Vajpayee’s tenure,”
she told reporters here.
The meeting was attended
by Defence Minister Manohar
Parrikar, National Security
Adviser AK Doval and other
senior officials of Home,
Defence and Finance Ministries.
Facing trouble in restoring
normalcy in the Valley following the killing of Hizbul
Mujahideen terrorist Burhan
Wani on July 8, Mehbooba said,
“I believe there is a need to heal
the wounds of people of J&K
and initiate dialogue with them.
These are our own people. If
the process of dialogue with the
people can improve the situation in the Valley, we should do
it.” She added that her State
could become a bridge between
India and Pakistan.
At the same time, expressing concern in the RS over the
prevailing situation in Kashmir,
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the Opposition demanded a
statement from Modi and an
all-party meeting to discuss it.
The agitated members also
said an all-party delegation
should visit the strife-torn State
and demanded a ban on the use
of pellet guns.
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after terrorists attacked a picket in Macchil sector of north
Kashmir’s Kupwara district on
Monday morning.
A BSF spokesman said that
the militants attacked a picket
jointly manned by the BSF
and the Army at Bhuriwala
post in Macchil sector, around
150 km from here, triggering a
fierce gunfight that continued
for several hours.
While two BSF men and a
militant were killed on the
spot, two BSF men and several Army soldiers were also
injured in the encounter. One
BSF jawan later succumbed to
his injuries.
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the attackers were fresh infiltrators or they were already in
the area. Defence spokesman
in Srinagar Colonel NN Joshi
ruled out the involvement of
Pakistan Army’s B order
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said the encounter was a routine
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for making the Goods and
Services Tax (GST) regime a
reality with Prime Minister
Narendra Modi terming it as
“crucial step” towards ending of
tax terrorism, reducing corruption and black money.
Expressing gratitude to all
parties for the support, Modi
told the Lok Sabha that the new
regime will make the consumer the “king”. All parties
except the AIADMK supported the Bill. AIADMK MPs
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State law enforcement agencies
seem to keep their eyes closed
towards such elements and wait
until a formal order reaches to
their mailbox regarding the
same from ‘above’. The Police
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ment where Kasi’s body was anywhere to figure out cow vigt least 75 people were killed brought for an autopsy. Gunfire ilantes and hence have made no
and 115 others injured on followed the explosion. Police specific plan for it.
Monday when a Taliban suicide said it was a suicide attack
Two of the cases which
bomber struck mourners, where eight kilogrammes of have shocked the State this year
mostly lawyers, gathered at a explosives were used.
so far were directly or indirecthospital in Pakistan’s restive
“No crater found at the site ly associated with cow vigiBalochistan province in one of of the attack and it appears the lantes. The first unfortunate
the deadliest terror attacks in bomber had the explosives one which was directly a cow
the country this year.
strapped to his chest,” a police vigilante case prima facie took
The bomber struck at a officer said. Bomb Disposal place at Balumath in Latehar distime when over 200 mourners Squad officials also confirmed trict where two cattle traders,
had gathered at the the explosion was a suicide including a minor were lynched
Government-run
Civil bombing. A spokesman for to death by some cow vigilantes
Hospital in Quetta where the Jamaatul Aharar, a faction of on March 18. Both the victims
body of prominent lawyer Bilal Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, were travelling to the nearest fair
Anwar Kasi, who was shot said that his faction “accepts to sell their cattle. Five men, all
dead earlier in the day, was responsibility” for the attack in allegedly belonging to the local
brought. Kasi was the president the southwestern city of Quetta Gau Rakhsha Samiti, were
of Balochistan Bar Association. and vowed more attacks “until arrested in the case of killing
A loud explosion was
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the truck driver who was shot at
a week ago of the death of
Kachhap in Rajganj allegedly at
the time of checking, was also
carrying cattle itself in the truck.
The issue was tried its best to
give the colour of illegal cattle
(mostly cow) trading by some
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Imtiaz Khan (13). However, the
However, Jharkhand Police
local samiti distanced itself from spokesperson MK Bhatia said
those vigilantes at later stages.
that there was no plan of taking
Even the report prepared by strict actions against cow-vigiNational Minority Commission lante, as there was no direction
confirmed that the way police from State Government. "We
acted to handle protesters who have got no direction from
had approached to file a report Government to start action on
after killing, was below their whatever the PM appealed,"
standards. Villagers also com- said Bhatia.
plained that the cow vigilante
But, Gaushalas appear to
groups often threatened them to have welcomed the statement of
stop their business or face con- Modi and have shown their
sequences. The report included willingness to help the police
that there was involvement of identify and punish such elecommunal elements in the ments. "The real gau-rakshaks
Balumath incident. However, will never attack somebody.
any action from the police or any They don't actually have time to
other State Authority is still do so. They spoil our name as
under consideration and the well," said the Manager of about
entire incident has been, time to 97-year old Jharia Dhanbad
time, projected as a result of per- Gaushala Munna Pandey.
sonal animosity.
Reflecting similar views,
Suspicious death of Executive Committee Member
Topchanchi (Dhanbad) Police of Ranchi Gaushala Nyas and an
Station Inspector Umesh active gau-rakshak Rajkumar
Kachhap onJune 18 last was not Tibrewal said that the cow-viga direct cow vigilante case. But ilantes were the enemies of cows.
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staged a walkout during voting,
reiterating their objections and
demands for more compensation packages to the manufacturing states.
Intervening in a debate
on Constitution (122nd
Amendment) Bill, Modi asserted that the GST will benefit
mainly those States which are
considered backward and
address the problem of imbalanced development. He
acknowledged that manufacturing States will suffer losses but
said they will be compensated.
He emphasised that the
passage of the GST Bill by
Parliament was not a victory of
any party or Government but
was everybody’s victory as it
highlighted the success of the
democratic ethos of the country.
“August 8 marks a crucial
step towards freedom from
tax terrorism,” said the Prime
Minister, while recalling that
this was the day in 1942 when
Mahatma Gandhi had sounded the bugle of ‘Quit India’
which marked a major step
towards the countr y’s
Independence.
He said he had held consultations with his predecessor
Manmohan Singh and Congress
president Sonia Gandhi on the
issue. “Rashtra Niti (national
policy) is above ‘Raj Niti’ (politics).... I thank all political parties, as also State Governments
run by different parties. We are
taking such a decision. We have
reached here after churning in
the Lok Sabha, the Rajya Sabha,
29 States, their representatives
and 90 parties. We are putting
a stamp on the final decision,”
Modi said.
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ruling in favour of the
Lieutenant-Governor in his
months-long turf war for the
reins of the national Capital,
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal
is set to feel the first jab as
Lieutenant Governor Najeeb
Jung on Monday directed the
heads of all departments to
“review” orders and “identify”
files for which his approval was
required but not taken by the
AAP Government. The L-G
also directed that no order in
future be issued without
approval of the competent
authority as per the prevailing
constitutional scheme.
Secretary to the L-G Vijay
Kumar issued an order to
Principal
Secretaries,
Secretaries and heads of all
departments, autonomous
bodies, corporations, boards
and institutions under the
Delhi Government to immediately identify and review all
the orders where prior approval
of the LG was required but not
taken by August 17.
Sources said Jung will hold
a review meeting on August 17
of decisions taken by AAP since
it took charge in February last
year, after winning the Delhi
election. All Cabinet decisions
and appointments made by
AAP Government are expected
to come under L-G scrutiny.
Jung’s move may further
strain his relation with Kejriwal
who is on a vipassana or meditation course in the hill station
near Dharamsala.
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harkhand becomes fifth State
JTelangana,
in the countr y after
Andhra Pradesh,
Rajasthan and Madhya
Pradesh, to launch machine
based PDS in the country following completion of all works
related to National Food
Security Act in the State.
Talking to mediapersons at
Project Building, Food and
Civil Supplies Minister Saryu
Roy said that names of as
many as 2,63,88,000 beneficiaries will be freezed from
August 10 and no new names
will be further added or
removed from the list till the
next three months.
“A list of 2,63,88000 beneficiaries has been finalised
which will be further sent to the
Government of India. Now,
names could be added or
removed through system only
with having no such right with
the districts,” said the Minister.
Works related to end-to-end
computerisation has been completed fulfilling all requirements related to Food Security
Act,” he said.
“Those who have been left
out of this list will be issued
‘White Ration Cards’ on the
basis of demands raised by a
beneficiary. ‘Process of making
'White Ration Cards’ is in its
final stage for those whose
names could not be inducted in
the list,” he said.
Biometric Machine is being
installed in all public distribution shops in the State in three
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phases while the PDS dealers of
the first phase are also being
inducted training programmes
in three phases so that there
should not be any doubt related to its operation.
“With the installation of
electronic balance and
Biometric Machines in PDS
shops, a beneficiary can purchase foodgrains in installments,” Roy said. “Now, our
concern is to how efficiently we
will be able to launch it in the
State,” he said.
The Minister also warned
PDS dealers that no excuse
will be entertained as they will
have to make all transactions
of foodgrains through
machines only.
“I have directed the PDS
dealers strictly that any work
related to PDS will be done
through machines only, and
they will also have to bear the
problems arising out of
machines. Those who have
any problem may quit at any
point of time, we will appoint
some other dealer in his place,"
said the Minister.
Later, Food and Civil
Supplies Secretary Vinay
Kumar Chaubey said that distribution of foodgrains will
through machines will be completed phase wise till October
this year.
“In the first phase, eight
districts of the State will be
covered in August this year,
including Garhwa Ranchi,
Khunti,
Saraikela,
Hazaribagh, Chatra, Pakur
and Jamtara," said Chaubey.
"10 districts will be covered in
September while the remaining 6 districts will be covered
in October," he added.
Three models for the same
are being introduced — Fully
Online, Partial Online and
Offline. Real time authentication of a beneficiary is done in
fully online, while deferred
authentication of the beneficiary is done in case of partial
online. Offline model is introduced in the mobile shadow
zones where transactions are
done through machines.
“There will be no distribution of food grains on 1st,
2nd 3rd and 4th day of a
month as these dates have
been kept reserved for maintenance of machines and
servers and also to download
the remaining data.
To remove any confusion
among the beneficiaries, rice
day will be observed on 14 and
24 of every month in Dumka
Division, 15 and 25 of every
month in Palamu and
Hazaribagh Divisions while it
will be observed on 16 and 26
of a month in South
Chotanagpur, Ranchi and
Kolhan Divisions.
A toll free number —
18003457013 has also been
released for PDS dealers.
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he Earth Overshoot Day
observed on Monday across
the globe sounded an alarm bell
for the humanity by revealing
that it has already exhausted the
budget of nature’s resources
for the year with its ecological
overspending.
From this day onwards up
to the rest of the year, the world
will use more resources than
the planet can renew in a year.
According to the Global
Footprint Network, an international research organisation,
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this means that the world will
now be operating in overshoot
for the year — exerting excess
pressure on the planet for any
resources drawn.
The experts on climate
change explained that the reason why the earth is exhausted already and so early in the
year is that it now emits more
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than the oceans and
forests can absorb.
Fisheries and har vest
forests are as a result depleted
far more quickly than they
can reproduce and replenish.
As per research of Global
Footprint Network, while
economies, populations and
demands in resources grow, the
size of earth and its base of natural resources remain the same.
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and consumption habits continue till 2030, the world will
need the equivalent of two
Earths to meet these demands.
Presently, the world consumes as much as 1.6 Earths
can provide. The impacts of
ecological overspending are
apparent in soil erosion, desertification, reduced cropland
productivity, overgrazing,
deforestation, rapid species
extinction, fisheries collapse
and increased carbon concentration in the atmosphere.
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the imposition of an Islamic
system in Pakistan”.
“The Tehreek-e-Taliban
Pakistan Jamaat-ur-Ahrar takes
responsibility for this attack,
and pledges to continue carrying out such attacks.
We will release a video
report on this soon,” spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan said in
an email to media outlets.
Soon after the attack, Prime
minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief
of army staff General Raheel
Sharif reached the city and visited the hospital to take stock of
the situation. Doctors and rescue officials put the death toll at
75 and said the number could
increase as the condition of
some of the injured was very
critical. They said 115 people
were injured in the attack.
Balochistan
Home
Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti
said the suicide bomber had
blown himself up at the
entrance of the hospital as
many lawyers and mourners
had gathered to receive the
body of slain Kasi.
“It was a well coordinated
and planned suicide attack
with the aim to cause maximum damage,” he said.
Bugti said the impact of the
explosion was so strong that
scores of vehicles and motorbikes that were around the
hospital were destroyed. The
dead included a cameraman for
a local television channel while
another cameraman and
reporter of another channel
were also wounded in the blast.
Barrister Ali Zafar of the
Balochistan bar association
said that majority of the dead
or injured were lawyers.
He said the former president of Balochistan Bar
Association Baz Mohammad
Kakar was injured in the blast.
“There was total chaos and fear
after the blast at the hospital as
people were running and seeking shelter to save their lives,”
he said. Police surrounded the
hospital and cordoned off the
areaafter the blast. An emergency was declared in hospitals
fastest growing contributor to
ecological overshoot, with the
carbon Footprint now making
up 60% of humanity’s demand
on nature, which we call its
Ecological Footprint. If we
adhere to the goals set by the
Paris climate agreement adopted by nearly 200 countries in
December 2015, the Carbon
Footprint will need to gradually
fall to zero by 2050. This calls
for a new way of living on our
one planet,” is the message of
Mathis Wackernagel, cofounder and CEO of Global
Footprint Network.
across Quetta and several
injured were shifted to other
hospitals for treatment.
The Home Minister conceded it was a security lapse and
investigations would be held
into the circumstances leading
to the incident. The troubled
Baluchistan province has been
hit by terror attacks by militants
and separatists who demand
more autonomy in the province.
Outlawed outfits have also carried out sectarian killings of Shia
Hazaras and targeted police
and security officials.
Television footage showed
scenes of chaos with panicked
mourners struggling to leave
the scene as debris and smoke
filled the corridors of the hospital’s emergency ward. Many
of the victims were clad in the
black suit worn by lawyers.
“Today’s suicide attack
appeared to target Kasi’s supporters,” Anwar ul Haq, a
spokesman for the Balochistan
Government, said. It is the
second deadliest in Pakistan
this year so far, after a bombing in a crowded park in
Lahore over Easter killed 75
and injured over 300.
Prime Minister Sharif and
President Mamnoon Hussain
strongly condemned the
attack. Sharif ordered the
provincial Government to
arrest the culprits.
“No one will be allowed to
disrupt the peace of the
province,” Sharif said. He cancelled all prior commitments
and visited Quetta.
The provincial government
also announced a three-day
mourning during which
Pakistan’s National Flag will
remain at half mast on government buildings.
Social networking site
Facebook activated its “safety
check” feature after the blast in
the provincial capital. Officials
said mobile phone jammers
had been activated around
hospitals in the area.
Quetta has also long been
regarded as a base for the
Afghan Taliban. In May,
Afghan Taliban leader Mullah
Akhtar Mansour was killed by
a US drone strike while travelling to Quetta from the
Pakistan-Iran border.
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of these blocks will be sensitized phase wise. Initiating
with triggering activities which
will have different programmes
will make people aware about
demerits of ODF, in the second
phase mass level form distribution will be conducted. The
details of the beneficiaries will
be linked with bank account.
All the beneficiaries will be
entitled to get Rs. 12000 for
constructing toilets,” added,
Kumar.
For the success of this
ambitious plan, the district
administration has formed a
four member’s team and will
sensitize public on this vital
issue. The team includes
teacher, co-coordinators from
different NGOs, anganwadi
workers and panchayat sevaks.
“The district administration is targeting to construct
approximately 60,000 toilets
in all the five blocks. Around
two lakh toilets will be constructed in Ranchi whereas 14
lakh toilets will be constructed
across the state. Looking at the
target, the work has been distributed among various stakeholders. It was not possible for
Village Health and Sanitation
Committee (VHSC) to achieve
the target in the stimulated
time, hence other stakeholders
were also included to achieve
the set target,” added Kumar.
Kumar on Monday interacted with anganwadi workers,
panchayat representatives,
teachers and other resource
personnel of different blocks to
present the details of the cleanliness camps and also presented the vision of this ambitious
project.
solution, he said.
Sharing similar views,
Sitaram Yechury (CPM) said
the situation was grave in
Kashmir, adding the treatment
meted out to protestors was
“inhuman and criminal.”
Objecting to the use of pellet
guns, he said even Israel did not
use it against the Palestinians.
Given this situation,
Parliament cannot be silent as
ongoing incidents were alienating Kashmiris, Yechury said
and quipped that the Prime
Minister’s silence was more
eloquent than words.
The Left leader also said
nearly 30 days had passed
since Rajnath Singh called him
to help resolve the situation and
agreed to send an all-party delegation there. Yechury said the
all-party delegation should
immediately visit the State
besides an all-party meeting in
New Delhi as part of the political process.
ith the aim to make
Jharkhand
Open
W
Defecation Free (ODF) and to
achieve State Government’s
target of promoting sanitation
for healthy lifestyle by October
02, 2018, Ranchi district
administration will organise
cleanliness camps at five different blocks from August 10 to
August 18. Under the ambitious project, Swacch Bharat
Mission (Gramin), the camps
will sensitise people on ill
effects of open defecation and
will make natives aware about
benefits of constructing toilets.
“Ranchi District has
demarcated five blocks which
include Angara, Ormanjhi, Itki,
Khalari, Nagri and will organize cleanliness drive camps at
these respective blocks from
August 10 to August 18. The
main aim to organise such
camps is to sensitise and
encourage people to construct
toilets,” said, Ranchi DC, Manoj
Kumar.
“Notably, 30 per cent crime
against women takes place due
to the lack of proper toilets in
their respective houses. People
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Raising the issue during
Zero Hour, Leader of
Opposition and senior
Congress member Ghulam
Nabi Azad said the administration was paralyzed as many
towns were curfew-bound for
more than 30 days.
Claiming that this had
never happened since 1947,
Azad asked why Modi
remained a silent spectator
even as more than 60 people
had died and nearly 5,000
injured. He also remarked
while Kashmir was burning, its
heat was yet to reach New
Delhi.
Azad had submitted a
notice for suspension of
Question Hour to take up this
matter but the Chair did not
grant permission. Deputy
Chairman PJ Kurien asked the
Government to have a discussion on it on Tuesday as the
Elders wanted it as soon as possible. Azad said while the present turn of events in Kashmir
was being talked about internationally, it was strange the
matter did not figure in
Parliament.
Urging the Government to
send an all-party delegation to
the Valley, Azad stressed that
the need of the hour was to
resolve the issue through the
political process and not treat
it as a law and order problem.
Claiming that the social
media was highlighting Modi’s
silence on this critical issue, he
said more than 1,000 youths
were in jails and the situation
was not normal. It needed a
political and developmental
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and District Council Lohardaga
bock and district level inter
school Subroto Mukherjee Cup
football match was concluded.
The final match was played at
the mini stadium of plus two
Nadia Hindu high school. In
17th h years boys group Nadia
Hindu high school defeated
Project high school Mungo by
4-0 goals. Likewise in 14-year
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The Lieutenant Governor’s
letter comes just a few days
after the Delhi High Court
declared that Delhi continues
to be a Union Territory under
the Constitution with the
Lieutenant Governor as its
administrative head. Not
happy with the judgment, AAP
Government has moved the
Supreme Court.
The order, copy of which
was sent to sent to Union
Home Secretary, Secretary to
Chief Minister, Secretary to
Deputy Chief Minister and
Chief Secretary of Delhi, said,
“Over the last one and half year,
orders relating to issue of statutory notifications, conferment,
of statutory powers, amendments to Acts/Rules/Statutes,
constitutions/re-constitution
of
various
Boards/
Commissions/Corporations/C
ommittees, including appointment of Chairman/members
thereof etc have been issued
which required prior approval
of the competent authority Lieutenant Governor of Delhi
under
extant
Acts/Rules/Guidelines as per
prevailing constitutional
scheme. Where in some of the
said orders prior approval of
the Lieutenant Governor of
Delhi though required was not
obtained,” the order said.
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Underlining that the development marks the “recognition
of One India” and strengthens
this concept, he said, “We are
aligning ourselves with new
taxation regime... GST is a new
‘moti’ (bead) in this ‘maala’
(necklace).”
He coined the GST in a new
manner -- ‘Great Step by Team
India’, ‘Great Step towards
Transformation’, ‘Great Step
towards Transparency’.
Responding to Congress’
contention that GST was its idea
being implemented by the NDA
Government, he acknowledged
that all political parties and previous Governments had contributed to making of the Bill.
In this context, the Prime
Minister quipped, “janam koi
de, lalan palan koi kare. Krishna
ko janam kisne diya, bada kisne
kiya? (Somebody may give
birth, but someone else may
nurture. Who gave birth to
Lord Krishna and who brought
him up?)”
At the same time, he said,
“We do not have ‘guroor’ (arrogance) that his Bill is the perfect
one” even though “so many
brains have made an effort
which will have results”.
Initiating and intervening in
the end of the debate, Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley reiterated
school Chitri Senha with 1-0
score and became the champion. In 17-years girls group
KGBV Kisko defeated KGBV
Senha in penalty shot with 42 scores.
On the occasion the chief
guest district council head
Sunaina Devi, member Vinod
Singh Kherwar, Rani Devi,
BDO Gautam Bhagat, Kishor
Kumar Verma and others were
present. The refry of the match
was Uttam Tigga and it was
directed by Lakhan Ram.
Besides it Ramanath Purty,
Arjun Murm and others were
present.
that implementation of GST will
reduce tax evasion and improve
ease of doing business by engendering a common market
throughout the country.
“GST will ensure one tax in
the entire country. It will result
in seamless transfer of goods
and services in the
country...This is a major indirect
tax reform, which, in long run,
will be in interest of the country,” he said, adding the Centre
has addressed concerns of all the
States.
The Lok Sabha, which had
already passed the GST
Constitution Amendment Bill
in May 2015, took it up again to
approve the modifications made
in it by the Rajya Sabha last
week. The Government had
moved six official amendments,
including scrapping of 1 per
cent additional tax.
On the vexed question of
GST rate which may have
implications for inflation,
Jaitley said it would be decided by the GST Council, which
will comprise representatives
of the Centre and the States.
As regards the issue of the
States giving up sovereign
power to levy taxes, the
Minister said it is not the
case, “the States and the Centre
will be pooling in their sovereignty together and creating a
new mechanism which will
take all its decision within that
pooled sovereignty”.
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BJP unit reorganisation
was not taken in the team spirSit bytate
a number of workers and
leaders as they came up with different modes of protests against
the decision of State BJP president
Tala Marandi here on Monday.
While some part loyalists
who were ousted from the
core team in the Sunday
evening reshuffle chose to keep
mum, a number of party workers thronged the party headquarters and lodged their
protest outside the office staging an indefinite hunger-strike.
“We just want to know why
a person, who has been inducted in the party six months ago
was made the president of the
youth cell? On what conditions
and merits he has been chosen
by the officials to lead the
youths? We will end our strike
if someone clarifies the issues
to us,” said a worker drenched
in rains outside the BJP office.
Meera Munda, wife of former CM Arjun Munda sent a
letter to State BJP chief Tala
Marandi expressing her inability to join the new post of State
Vice president owing to personal constraints. She also sent
her resignation to Marandi in
the evening.
Similarly, former Deputy
Mayor Ajay Nath Sahdeo and
Aditya Sahu also expressed
their inability to join on the
new responsibilities. Shahdeo
was made General Secretary,
while Sahu was made vice
president. “I have made it clear
that I will not be able to carry
on with the new responsibilities due to personal reasons. I
have also sent my resignation
and put the issue on Facebook
too,” said Shahdeo.
“Dear Friends, Thanks
for your wishes and support.
However, with due humility I
would like to inform you all
that I am unable to accept the
responsibility of Pradesh
Mahamantri, BJP, Jharkhand
due to some reasons. I have also
conveyed the same to Pradesh
Adhyaksh Sri Tala Marandi ji.
Looking Forward for your support as always,” read his
Facebook post.
State BJP chief Tala
Marandi could not be contacted to comment on the issue,
while one of the Spokespersons
Kamal Khan said that such
issues need to be discussed with
the concerned persons privately. “Whoever is not happy
or has any issues with the
reorganisation, will be contacted by party officials. These
are party issues that need to be
sorted out amicably,” he said.
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majestic tigers, Forest offiO
cials are now unsure about the
number of the animals roaming in the Palamu Tiger
Reserve (PTR).
Against the previous scat
sample-based census that had
brought the figure as low as just
around half a dozen five years
back and got reconfirmed in
2014, the officials are
tightlipped while blaming some
external forces for the vanishing carnivores.
When
contacted,
Divisional Forest Officer-Core
of the PTR, Betla AK Mishra
cited growing activities of the
Maoists and the deterrents put
in place by the security forces
as the reasons behind the
depletion.
“CRPF activities have gone
up considerably in the areas,
especially which have been the
critical tiger habitats for the
wild animal in the forest
reserve. Even 15 days ago,
fierce gun battle between the
naxals and CRPF men took
place around Baresand jungles.
How can the tigers reside where
the mortar shells are getting
fired and exploding,” asked
Mishra.
The entire area of the PTR
falls right in the red zone
known for heavy naxal presence. Staring from Kechki and
Betla, the forests of Baresand,
Garu and others touch boundaries of Chhattisgarh, another
hotbed of the outlawed. It is
learnt that top officials of the
Forest and Environment
Department have been
apprised about the situation but
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n order to extend greater
Iunder
assistance to the workers
the rural job scheme
MGNREGA, the Government
has decided to rope in
SGHs, working in close coordination at villages.
Chief Secretary Rajbala
Verma while issuing directions in this regard termed it
a Government’s priorities.
“SHG, CRP, CLF will be made
more effective to upgrade the
lives of the rural people. The
Government is committed to
uplift the livelihood of unemployed youths in villages
through training programme.
The members of SHGs will
also act as MGNREGA-mate,”
said she while a review of
National Rural Livelihood
Mission (NRLM) on Monday.
She added that focus was
also on necessary aspects of
rural development, agriculture, education, health and
skill development. SHG
members will be trained and
connected with various
types of work and responsibilities of the officials there
would be fixed.
The CS also underlined
the importance to convert
barren land will into fertile to
boost up agriculture in the
State. SHG should focus on it.
The people related with agricultural work should coordinate with district agriculture
officer, she added.
“SHG can run agro-store
for which the Government
will provide license. The
Government will spend Rs 25
crore for making fishing net.
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one of the most sacred places
for Muslims in the world in
Saudi Arabia. Among them,
there were 79 male and 61
female passengers. Ranchi had
the largest share with 107 passengers in first flight, followed
by 7 each from Bokaro and
Sahibganj, 5 from Ramgarh, 4
since the matter is related to
security nothing can be done
immediately.
“In recent times we have
seen the activities of the CRPF
growing up in the area. Since
the area has been one of the
major hidings of naxals, frequent encounters take place
there. The situation is very disturbing for any wild life to stay
in the PTR,” said a top official
which reportedly has gone up
in recent times in the reserve
spreading in 226.27 sq km. “I
had brought a question in the
Assembly about illegal cuttings taking place at Betla.
Nevertheless the Government
replied that in the last three
years only 84 trees have been
cut but the number is much
more, I guess,” said BJP legislator from Chhatarpur Radha
Krishna Kishore.
Local officials, however,
asserted that there are 170
eco-development committees
at village levels meant to protect trees inside the Betla
national forest. The committee
members are given night vision
devices and binoculars but the
officials maintain in private that
these are mostly running on
papers without being given
much rights and duties.
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ohammad Zishan from
Kulipada (Sahibganj) had
tears of happiness in his eyes to
wave a ‘bye’ to his 63-years old
father at the airport, as both
were witnessing their dream
come true — The dream of
Zishan brother-trio to send
their father for Haj, and the
dream of Mohammad Rafeeq
to go on Haj in this life. It was
not easy for Rafeeq at the age
of 63 to get physically prepared
for Haj, but he prepared himself for this before the final
moment came.
And Zishan was not alone
at shedding tears of joy at
Birsa Munda Airport in
Monday morning. There were
more than 500 family-members and well-wishers to see
their fortunate ones off for
Haj. The first flight for Haj this
year took off at 10:50 in the
morning. Welfare Minister Luis
Marandi was there to represent
the well wishes of the State at
airport and to see off the
would-be-hajis. It was the first
time in recent years that the
Chief Minister was not there to
see off the Haj aspirants.
The Air India flight took
off with 140 passengers from
Jharkhand on board to Medina,
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of the Department requesting
anonymity.
Situation in the tiger
reserve is so serious that the
management there has not
done any citing of the royal
animal in recent time despite
having camera trapped
installed. “We have installed
camera traps which are
around 75 near water bodies
where the wild animals visit
very frequently. But no citing
of tiger has taken place in
recent times. Often we remove
the camera during monsoons
and also because the instrument cannot be left installed
all the time due to the chances
of theft etc, the citing would
not have occurred,” added
Mishra.
Besides, another worrying
situation for the Betla reserve
is in the form of tree felling
from Giridih and East
Singhbhoom each, 3 from
Hazaribagh and Dumka each
and 2 from Palamu.
A total of 2,753 Muslim citizens from State will go to Haj
this year in age group varying
from as infant as little over a
year (though only and visa yet
in process) to 86 years. Ranchi
(district) counts for largest
number in this with a total of
547 pilgrims going to Haj
between August 8 and August
28. The daily flight on August
8th-20th will be RanchiMadeena non-stop with only a
technical stop at Sharjah for
refueling purposes. Flights on
21st-27th will be non-stop
between Ranchi and Jeddah, as
these will have just little over
four hours of flying duration.
Poultry and goat rearing will
be promoted in villages.
Regarding animal husbandry,
SHG people can contact district livestock breeding officer.
SHG can contact dairy officers
and apply for running collection center,” she said.
Rajbala Verma also
stressed on making rural
women self –employed
through skill development and
directed to ensure training
for making school dress, sanitary napkin and house-keeping. She said that the work
done by NRLM has been
appreciated in New Delhi.
Now schemes should be prepared so that NRLM can make
use of the modern infrastructure.
Principal Secretary of
Rural
Development
Department NN Sinha,
Agriculture Secretary Nitin
Madan Kulkarni, NRLM CEO
Paritosh Upadhayay, NRLM
State Program Coordinator
Vinay Kumar Pandey and
Pravin Singh of NRLM were
present in the meeting.
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JSU party on Monday
launched ‘Jan Ki Baat’ camA
paign across the State on the
death anniversary of Martyr
Nirmal Mahto demanding corrections in the recently introduced domicile policy in the
state. This campaign, starting on
August 8 will continue till
November 15, the death anniversary of Birsa Munda in three different phases.
“On the first day of campaign, as many as 500 hundred
villages were covered across the
state and camps were organised
at more than 100 places where a
total of 1, 07,362 people were
contacted and post cards were
collected from them demanding
corrections in the recently introduced domicile policy in the
state,” said AJSU Spokesperson
Deosharan Bhagat. As many as
1000 workers have been roped in
to make this programme a success, he said.
“Today, tributes were also
paid to Shaheed Nirmal Mahto
in Jamshedpur and we also met
wife of late Sudheer Mahto in
Jamshedpur. Besides that,
homage was also paid at
Chamaria Guest House in
Jamshedpur where Shaheed
Nirmal Mahto was killed,” said
the Spokesperson.
Meanwhile, in Lohardaga
also the party started Jan-Jan Ki
Baat after garlanding the statue
of freedom fighter Late Lalu Tana
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Bhagat at Jingi village of Kuru
block. It was directed by the
AJSU party official Suraj Agarwal
and Lal Guddu Nath Shahdeo.
The party announced the local
policy against the welfare the
people of Jharkhand. They told
that through post cards we
protest this policy. This is not in
public goodwill.
The leaders told that no policy can be implemented ignoring the public welfare. AJSU
party being a responsible political party wants some amendment in it. Under the programme it was run at Nagjua of
Kairo block and Itta of
Lohardaga block. On the occasion Kanwaljeet Singh, Munna
Agarwal, Om Bharti, Kalim
Khan and others were present.
Discontented with the
Domicile Policy adopted by the
present Government, AJSU
Party under the first phase of its
‘Jan Ki Baat’ Programme will collect feelings of five lakh citizens
in the form of postcards and
send it to CM Raghubar Das
requesting him to make necessary corrections in the policy.
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epicting the problems,
challenges and constraints
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of indigenous population
including their present status,
the Welfare Department inaugurated a tribal fest ‘Aadi
Samagam’ for the people of
Jharkhand. Besides, research
based activities, the fest also
highlights the aesthetic work of
tribal artists residing across the
Atate and help them to promote their dying art forms.
Inaugurating the three days
tribal fest ‘Aadi Samagam’ at
Ramdayal Munda Tribal
Research Institute, Social
Welfare Minister, Louise
Marandi emphasised on bridging the gaps and bringing the
tribal inhabitants into mainstream. With the theme ‘Right
to Education’, as set by UN this
year, the Welfare Department
has planned to renew the Tribal
Research Institute coaching
concept from the current academic year and will also
encourage fellowship programme in different research
projects for the benefit of tribal community.
Other programmes, which
include Gareeb Vikash Mela,
empowering tribal community women through different
Self Help Groups (SHGs), special programmes for Primitive
Tribe Groups (PGT), Mukhaya
Mantri Jan Jateey Vikash
Yojana are being carried out at
blocks and panchayats level.
Additionally, the department
also aims to target 5700 rural
pockets in five years to provide
skill development training to
the tribal youths and make
them self reliant in various
trades.
The Central Government
has recently sanctioned C 200
crore for the welfare of tribal
communities in the State this
year. The money allocated will
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be utilised for three major
purposes which include
income generation, education
and health. It will be helpful in
combating illiteracy, addictions and will also help in
linking tribal groups with other
communities bringing positive change in their lives.
To make this fest a success
among the public and to highlight various facets of tribal
community, the department
has organised various cultural
activities on the occasion. The
event which kicked off on
August 7 will continue till
August 9. Diverse activities
like sporting events, tribal food
stalls, tribal artifacts stalls
including other fun folic activities has been planned by the
Welfare Department to lure the
people from different sections.
“The department and
research institute has stressed
on different medium to popularise the event. From jingles to
associating school and college
students with programme several measures are being adopted. The department with the
aim to promote indigenous
work and to provide platform
to tribal artists has organised
the fest, besides highlighting
the core issues,” said, Tribal
Research Institute, Director,
Suchitra Sinha.
The programme is being
organised by Dr. Ramdayal
Munda Tribal Welfare Research
institute,
Jharkhand
Government in association
with Indian Chamber of
Commerce.
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hief Minister Raghubar
Das walked nearly 4 km in
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a kalash yatra from Hari
Mandir premises in Baridih to
Surya Mandir in Sidhgora in
about an hour on Monday.
For the second year in succession, Das dressed in saffron
T-shirt and white pant took part
in the kalash yatra organised by
the Surya Mandir Committee
to mark the third Somvari of
auspicious month of Shravan.
Along with his 28 year-old son
Lalit Kumar Das (an HR official in Tata Steel, Jamshedpur)
the distance showing no sign of
exhaustion after he reached
Surya Temple in Sidhgora at 9
am. More than 20,000 devotees,
took part in the kalash yatra
during the function.
Outside the Sur ya
Temple, Das also watched the
performance enacted from
epics by a troupe of Sonaribased group. The Chief
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Minister then went inside the
temple to offer ‘jal abhishek’
at the Shivalaya.
After offering ‘jal abhishek’,
Raghubar Das speaking to
media said that he prayed for
the welfare of the State. He said
that his prayers are for the uplift
of the downtrodden, scheduled
tribe and scheduled caste.
“Every time I come to the
temple I feel blessed. I seek
blessing from lord and pray for
welfare. I have prayed that lots
of downtrodden, marginalised,
scheduled caste and scheduled
tribe improves and they come at
par with the mainstream of society. The difference in society
between rich and poor should
reduce,” said Das. “We should
take inspiration from Lord Shiva
who drank both poison and
Amrita and not get influenced
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by negative thoughts, evils and
criticisms but always think on
positive lines for betterment of
society,” said Das.
The Chief Minister along
with his son after performing
the jal abhishek took Prasad
(khichdi, puri, and mixed vegetable) which was arranged
for nearly 30,000 person.
The Chief Minister left for
Ranchi by a State chopper at
3.40 pm from Sonari Airport.
Meanwhile,
the
'HarHarMahadev' chant and
sounds of bell resonated across
the city as thousands of devotees thronged temples to seek
blessings of Lord Shiva on the
third Monday of the auspicious
Shravan month.
Temples were decked up
with colourful lights and flowers. The devotees waited in long
queues since early morning to
offer prayers to the deity and
sung bhajans. Inside the temples,
the fragrance of agarbattis, sandalwood and flowers gave a
pious feel. While the serene air
that accomplishes religious festivities instilled a positive feeling
among the devotees.
In the temples, devotees
poured milk, curd, honey, ghee
and bael (bilwa) leaves on
Shivlings and prayed for the
well-being and prosperity of
the family. People also offered
prasad (sweets) to the deity
along with flowers which were
later distributed among devotees. "Lord Shiva is the one who
removes all hindrances in the
way of his devotee's life. During
the month of Shravan, we visit
temple every Monday," said a
devotee Nikhil Akhilesh.
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hief Secretary Rajbala
Verma’s concern to revive
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fallow lands for cultivation in
the State has begun to show its
result in Palamu where 5,132
hectares of fallow land have
been identified and owners of
the fallow lands are being motivated and prodded to cultivate
pulses and oil seeds.
Deputy Commissioner
Palamu Ameet Kumar said,
“The State Government had
written to us to identify all fallow land falling in the district
o be used for growing daal
especially and accordingly a
massive work out was done
here for the fallow land.”
Sources said around 2 lakh
hectares of land in Jharkhand
are fallow land and in the first
serious identification of fallow
land in Palamu more than
5,000 hectares have been identified. Sources said DC Palamu
Ameet Kumar kept a tab on the
identification of the fallow land.
Speaking to The Pioneer on
Saturday Ameet Kumar said ‘
Our district has a fleet of Aryas
a band of youths having agri-
cultural back ground who have
carried out the identification of
the fallow land spread over in
more than 1700 villages in this
district’. The Aryas are the ones
entrusted with the task of finding out the fallow land.
When asked if Aryas are
paid for the labour of identification of fallow land DC said ‘
There is something in the offing for them. The Government
is yet to announce the remuneration for the Aryas’.
DC expressing hope said
with agricultural office back up
here farmers better say raiyyats of the fallow land will turn
towards growing daal and talhan on this land. He said the
revival of the fallow lands will
change the rural economy of
the villages.
A fallow land is one where
for the last five years or more
no crop has been grown
reminded Ameet Kumar.
District agricultural officer
Edmund Minz said if there is
any instance of any crop growing on such a land has been
found then in that situation the
land ceases to be a fallow land.
Minz said fallow land is
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the team with the ‘Best cosD
tume, in an Inter DPS Dance
Festival 2016 organised on
August 6, 2016 at DPS, New
Town, Kolkata. The competition was for the Eastern Zone
in which 20 schools had participated. The theme for the
Dance festival was ‘Tamso Maa
Jyotir Gamaya’, which means
moving from Darkness to Light.
Out of the 20 schools, four
teams have qualified for the
national competion. DPS,
Ranchi is one among of them.
The nine participants were
Aishwarya Vijya Lakxhmi (XII),
Vidushi Jayant (XI), Smriti
Bhagat (XI), Isha Deep (IX),
Neha Sinha (IX), Suvigya Shree
(IX), Kaushiki (X), Vedika (X)
and Pankhudi Jha (X).
Principal Ram Singh congratulated the students and motivated them to put in extra effort
to hone their dancing skills and
be a winner of the nationals.
The participants in turn
said that getting qualified for the
nationals has been possible only
because the constant inspiration
which they receive from the
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strengthen the potential which
they have within themselves.
They also said that they would
definitely work harder and bring
laurels to the school by winning
the Nationals.
Meanwhile, DPS Bokaro
won the zonal level of the Inter
DPS Dance Competition
(Nrityanjali 2016) held at DPS
New Town, Kolkata.
'DPS Bokaro paved its way
to the Nationals by securing the
first position amongst 20 competing teams; the final will be
held in December 2016', school
authority informed.
“Showcasing classical dance
form on the given theme ‘Tamso
Maa Jyotirgamaya’ — a journey
from darkness towards light,
DPS Bokaro was also awarded in
the ‘Best Props’ Category”, he
added. The DPS Bokaro troupe
comprising –Ishika Dutta, Aditi
Agarwal, Kavya Jha, Aditi
Thakur, Aishwarya Singh,
Amisha Singh, Arpita Bhagat,
Stuti Taneja &amp; Soham
Mohanty won the trophy by
securing the first position.
The Director and Principal
of DPS Bokaro, Dr. Hemlata S.
Mohan congratulated the winners and wished them the best
for the bigger challenges ahead.
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t was a literally burglars day
out in the Steel City as a gang
went on a lock-breaking spree
targeting two homes and a
shop in Kadma and Bagbera
localities of the city.
The burglars first
decamped with ornaments and
other valuables from the house
of Kartik Ram, whose wife
Khemlata was brutally murdered at the same residential
quarters on June 27 night,
before committing the same
crime at a nearby home of
Ricky Anthony in Kadma.
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Tata Steel employee Ram
was not staying at his residence
on Tansa Road home after the
murder of his wife. He was
staying at a relative's place in
Sonari and was not at home
when the burglary took place.
The burglars have decamped
with C 15,000 cash, two wristwatches and silver ornaments
from the house of Anthony.
Officer-in-charge, Kadma
thana, Animesh Gupta confirmed about the burglaries at
two houses on Tansa Road,
including at the house of Kartik
Ram in the night.
"We have started the inves-
tigation. We had received a
complaint of burglary from
Anthony at about 8 am today,
leading a team of police officials to rush to the spot. After
inspecting the residence of
Anthony, the cops found the
house of Ram also lying open.
After inspecting it the police
team gathered that the criminals had struck at Ram's house
also," said Gupta. He said they
had immediately informed
Ram about the burglary at his
Kadma residence.
Ram (55) who had turned
up at his Kadma residence
immediately after getting the
information. Anthony (35),
who works in Tata Steel-run GTown Club said that they had
gone out of the city for four
days and returned home
Monday morning.
In another incident of burglary, unknown criminals
decamped with cash worth Rs
24,000 from a medical shop on
DB Road in Harharguttu under
Bagbera police station in the
night.
Owner of the shop, Ranjit
Kumar Pandey when came to
open the shop at about 9 am
found his shop's shutter lock
broken.
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University,
Hazaribagh will give students a strong platform in the
field of higher education
accompanied with skill development. From session 2016-17
the university is starting its
journey at Hazaribagh, admissions are going on and soon
erection work of university
campus in 32 acres area will
start here,” said Chancellor of
AISECT University Professor
Santosh Chaubey at a Press
conference here on Monday.
Talking about the specialty
of AISECT, Chaubey said that
their organisation is 10 years
ahead in comparison to Central
and State universities. Semester
based system, dress code, special
facilities to girl students, economically weak but meritorious
students, placement facilities
are the main features of AISECT.
mostly upland and here rain
water run off is sharp which
forces farmers (raiyyats) to
avoid any farming. Again on
fallow land comes up huge man
size shrubs and the soil texture
goes dry which too force raiyyats to avoid farming.
However Minz said raiyyats are now doing deep ploughing of fallow land with the help
of tractors.
Some big raiyyats left farming when the naxalites imposed
ban on their farming. Naxals’
ban on farming in some cases
of land belonging to upper
caste raiyyats is evident in
Palamu’s Paton block and
Chhaterpur block. Police
sources too confirm this embargo on farming by the naxalites.
Minz said Palamu has fallow land in all its 20 blocks. If
Chainpur and Ramgarh block
combine has 812 hectares of
fallow land Pipra the highly
lWE hit block has only 78
hectares of fallow land.
Satbarwa block which is on NH
75 has only 88 hectares of fallow land just because of the
high price of land here said
sources.
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s many as 15 new coal
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washeries have been
planned for installation with a
When asked about the
need of another university at
Hazaribagh he said that the
Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER)
of Jharkhand is 9 and it needs
to be raised. That is why the
present government is inviting
private universities here. There
are 300 private universities in
this country in which about 40
per cent students of higher education are enrolled. Since the
government doesn’t have extra
money to spend on education
so for quality education and
making the youths eligible in
sustaining in the era of competition the need of AISECT
University was identified and
so we are here.
VC RN Yadav, VC MP VK
Verma, PVC CK Sinha and
Registrar Munish Govind were
present on the occasion.
capacity of 112.60 Million
Tonnes per year. Out of these,
six are Coking Coal Washeries
with capacity of 18.6 Million
Tonnes per year and nine are
Non-Coking Coal Washeries
with total capacity of 94
Million Tonnes per year.
Currently, 15 Coal Washeries
owned by subsidiaries of
Public Sector Undertaking
(PSU) Coal India Ltd are functioning with total capacity of
36.80 Million Tonnes per year.
Piyush Goyal, Minister of State
(Independent Charge) for
Coal, Power, New and
Renewable Energy and Mines
stated in Rajya Sabha today in
reply to the question raised by
member of Rajya Sabha
Parimal Nathwani.
According to the Minister,
out of total 15 functioning coal
washeries owned by CIL subsidiaries, 12 washeries are
located in Jharkhand. In addition to coal washeries owned
by CIL, privaltely-owned 19
coal washeries are also functioning in the country, as per
the statement.
Nathwani wanted to know
about the details of coal washeries functioning at present
and the annual expenditure
incurred for running them,
the steps taken/ being taken
by the Government to construct coal washeries to
improve the quality of coal
produced in the country and
the measures taken by the
Government for producing
more quantity of high grade
coal in the country.
In the year 2015-16, total
annual expenditure of C
3844.73 crore was incurred on
the 15 coal washeries owned
by subsidiaries of Coal India
Ltd, such as BCCL, CCL, NCL
and WCL, said the statement.
The minister also stated
that Coal India and its subsidiaries are deploying more
number of surface miners to
facilitate selective mining,
adopting selective mining of
bands of more than one meter
thickness, appropriating positioning of OB and coal benches to avoid contamination
and scrapping, cleaning of
coal benches before blasting
for improve the quality of
low grade coal.
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he local unit of Sanskar
Bharti organised rangoli
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and mehandi competition in
the premises of Hindu High
School Hazaribagh. Mayor
Anjali Kumari and retired
HOD of VBU Kiran Rana
inaugurated the programme
with lighting the lamp.
On this occasion participants of different age groups
presented their talent in front
of everyone. Around 85 participants took part in Rangoli
competition while 90 in
Mehandi. Akansha, Anjali and
Shruti were declared winners in
Rangoli competition in below
11 year age group. Nishu, Swati
and Priya were declared winners in 11-17 year age group
while Swati, Priyanka and
Sanju won in above 17 year age
group. In mehandi, Anjali,
Sudipti and Priya won in below
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in 11-17 age group and
Sita, Sonali and Swati were
declared first to third in above
17 year age group.
Addressing the gathering
mayor Anjali Kumari said that
Sanskar Bharti is an organisation which is regularly working
in the field of preserving the art
and culture of our country. She
thanked the organizers, participants, judges and volunteers
for their enthusiasm and hard
work to make this program
successful. Shankar Chandra
Pathak anchored the program
while Dr. Veena Akhouri presented vote of thanks.
n a bid to strengthening the
security arrangements at
IBokaro
General Hospital
(BGH) management handed
over the security arrangements
to the CISF cops.
The new arrangement was
formally launched on Monday
by Director I/c (BGH) Dr AM
Kekre and Commandant
(CISF) RC Choudhar y.
Deployment of CISF at BGH
will be done in a phased manner in strategic locations, said
a PR official.
The CISF Control Room,
adjacent to Casualty, will monitor the security of the hospital. Apart from this deployment, installation of CCTV
cameras in important locations
is also being contemplated.
These efforts will not only
help improve the security
arrangement of the hospital,
but will also aid in regulating
number of visitors. In the
longer run, these initiatives will
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n a joint operation of
Central Reser ve Police
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(CRPF), Jaguar and
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help in maintaining better
hygiene in the hospital as well
for the benefit of patients,
official said.
Beside others Director (M
& HS) Dr GN Sahoo, Dr KN
Thakur Senior doctors of BGH
and CISF officials were also
present on this occasion.
Dhanbad police four cane
bombs (of 10 kgs each), four
guns with 11 live cartridges
were recovered at Belmi
under Topchanchi police station in Dhanbad district on
Monday morning.
The arms and explosives
were packed in a jute bag;
bombs were later diffused by
the bomb squad team inside
the forest, police said.
“A joint team of cops of
Jaguar, CRPF and district
police was on Long Range
Patrolling (LRP)”, he added.
Presence of outlawed CPI
(Maoist) and few splinter
groups of naxal rebels in this
hillock are still a threat and
challenges. The district police
(JAP) along with Jaguar and
CRPF cops launched a massive combing operation in
the bordering areas of
Dhanbad, Bokaro and Giridih
which is the strongest base
station of the naxal rebels.
Notably,
operation
‘Pralay’ has been launched in
these areas to check the naxal
menace recently. Coal belt
DIG Saket Kumar Singh said
operation has been launched
in Upparghat, Jhumra and
Lugu hillocks regions in
Bokaro, Parasnath region of
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rise in the maoists activities
patrolling have been intensif ied. “ The police have
beefed up security in the
naxal-infested areas across
the trio district”, police
sources said.
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Narendra Modi rebuked
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those indulging in atrocities on
Dalits, particularly the cow
vigilantes, the Vishwa Hindu
Parishad (VHP) vowed to
continue its work related to
protection of cow even though
the Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh (RSS) condemned
attacks on Dalits. However,
the Congress on Monday criticised the PM for sounding
helpless and not taking action
against those indulging in
criminal acts.
Congress members in Lok
Sabha criticised PM’s
statements saying instead of
shedding crocodile tears, he
should take firm action against
those indulging in harassment
of people in the name of cow
protection. Congress members also demanded a statement by the PM in the Lok
Sabha on the issue instead of
conveying his messages
through “tweet”.
Shortly after the Zero
Hour, Congress members
stormed the Well of the House
when Speaker Sumitra
Mahajan did not immediately
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the backdrop of killing of 14
people by militants in Kokrajhar,
Home Minister Rajnath Singh
on Monday said the Centre has
urged the Assam Government
to hunt down those involved in
the attack and bring them to justice. “I have taken up with the
A s s a m
Government and
the security
forces in the State
to track down the
militants
involved in this
attack, so that
they are brought
to justice for this
crime against
humanity,” he
said during Zero Hour.
Giving details of the August
5 incident, the Minister said
there was a militant attack at a
crowded weekly market at
Balajan Tiniali in Kokrajhar
district of Assam.
Quoting available information, he said around 11.30 AM,
the militants, reportedly wearing army-like fatigues, set ablaze
some houses and shops which
led to a cylinder blast and fire in
the area. This was followed by
indiscriminate firing on the
crowd of shoppers by the militants.
“14 innocent persons—8
Bodo men, one woman, one
child and four others lost their
lives in the attack. 19 persons
were seriously injured who are
under treatment in various hos-
pitals of the district and the state
capital," he said.
Singh said the State police
and security forces reacted swiftly and neutralised one militant
whose identity is yet to be established. From the slain militant
one AK 56 rifle, two magazines
of live ammunition and one
grenade were recovered.
“The exact number of militants and the militant group
involved in the
attack is being
investigated,” the
Home Minister
said, adding the
state government
has made satisfactory arrangements
for the treatment
of those injured
in the attack.
Ex-gratia
relief of C5 Lakh has been provided to the next of kin of those
killed, Rs 1 lakh to those seriously injured and C20,000 to
those with simple injuries. A
criminal case has been registered
at Kokrajhar Police Station to
investigate the militant attack.
allow party leader Mallikarjun
Karge to raise the issue. The
Speaker said she would allow
Kharge to speak but only after
she finishes with the Zero
Hour list as she has not got any
notice. She repeatedly appealed
to the Congress members to go
back to their seats.
Home Minister Rajnath
Singh and Minister for
Parliamentary Affairs Ananth
Kumar gestured to Kharge
suggesting that a way could be
found out through informal
talks. But the unrelenting
Congress members demanded
that the PM come to the House
and speak on the issue.
“He (the PM) should not
shed crocodile tears. He should
not tweet, but act (against
those perpetrating atrocities on
dalits),” the Congress MPs
shouted. They later staged a
walkout.
For the second consecutive
day, the RSS termed violent
attacks on Dalits as inhuman
and asked the State
Governments to take action
against elements trying to disturb communal harmony and
trust.
“We appeal to all the sections of the society to remain
aware of elements who want to
disturb the environment of
communal harmony and trust.
We expect the administration
to take speedy action against
such individuals and groups
who break the law,” RSS general secretary Bhaiyaji Joshi
said in a statement. This was
the second statement in two
days by the RSS.
Joshi added that several
political parties and leaders of
various castes are trying to create a situation of uncertainty
through ‘half-baked informa-
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on Monday said in the Lok
Sabha that the Union
Government is moving toward
granting special status to Andhra
Pradesh. Jaitley’ statement came
amidst continued uproar in Lok
Sabha over the issue. “We are at
a fairly advanced stage in discussions with the AP CM and
will shortly arrive at a solution,”
Jaitley said while making a brief
intervention in Lok Sabha to
calm down agitating YSR
Congress members. The
Minister also said, at the time of
division of the State, the issue of
revenue and finances has been
“unfair” to Andhra Pradesh,
which has to be “compensated”.
Jaitley’s remarks came after
YSR Congress leader Mekapati
Rajamohan Reddy raised the
issue saying that former PM
Manmohan Singh had promised
special category status to Andhra
Pradesh. “The leaders of the then
Opposition party (the BJP) Arun
Jaitley and Venkaiah Naidu had
pitched for 10 years for special
category status to the State,”
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BJP of its poll promises during
which several party leaders
promised special category status
to Andhra Pradesh and it was
even included in the manifestos
of both BJP and TDP. He added
that now instead of special status to the State, the BJP is talking of a special package for it.
“But injustice is being done
to 5 crore people of AP,” Reddy
said, “If they are not fulfilling the
promises, what is the sanctity of
the Government? It is our right
to protest against the lapses of the
Government,” he said as YSR
Congress party MPs also protested in the Well.
This was the sixth consecutive day when members of YSR
Congress shouted slogans, holding placards, and trooped into
the Well demanding special category status for Andhra. They
refused to oblige Speaker
Sumitra Mahajan who continuously urged them to return to
their seats and not display the
banners.
Congress leader Mallikarjun
Kharge said the PM should
come to the House and assure
the agitating members like his
predecessor Manmohan Singh
had assured special category
status for Andhra Pradesh, the
Speaker rejected the demand
saying “every now and then” it
was “not necessary” to call the
PM as Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley has already made a state-
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head of the Punjab
Assembly polls, the
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Congress on Sunday received a
shot in the arm with Akali
splinter group Shiromani Akali
Dal (Longowal) headed by former CM Surjit Singh Barnala’s
wife formally merging with
Congress which is attempting to
consolidate all anti-Akali forces
in the poll-bound State.
Announcing the “unconditional” merger in the presence of senior Congress leaders, Punjab Congress President
Amarinder Singh said that
this will strengthen the party
ahead of 2017 Assembly polls
in the State, where Arvind
Kejriwal’s AAP is also surging
ahead and could spoil
Congress’ prospects.
“The SAD (Longowal)
headed by Surjit Kaur Barnala
has decided to unanimously
merge their party with
Congress. I welcome them in
the Congress. This will give us
much greater strength,” he
said in her presence.
Senior Congress leaders
Ambika Soni and Shakeel
Ahmed, who is incharge of
party affairs in Punjab, were
also present, besides SAD(L)
leaders Gaganjit Singh Barnala
and Baldev Mann.
Amarinder Singh said the
Barnala family has been at the
forefront of Punjab politics and
former CM Surjit Singh Barnala
has also contributed his lifetime
for the state and its people.
Barnala is the former Governor
of Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand,
Andhra Pradesh and Andaman
and Nicobar Islands and an exUnion Minister.
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New Delhi: Continued protests over
the demand for special category status for Andhra Pradesh on Monday
saw Samajwadi Party supremo
Mulayam Singh Yadav expressing
dismay over the way the Lok Sabha
was being conducted, a charge which
was staunchly rejected by Speaker
Sumitra Mahajan.
“I have seen many a Speaker. Why
are you not holding consultations with
leaders of political parties” to sort out
such issues, a visibly annoyed Yadav
remarked during Zero Hour, springing a surprise on the treasury benches and a shock for the Speaker. The
Speaker immediately retorted, “Please
don’t speak like this. I am following
rules which have been laid down by
the House itself ”, adding that she has
been holding consultations with the
leaders of all political parties.
Mahajan told Yadav that she had
never disallowed him from speaking.
She observed that the Finance Minister
had spoken twice on the Andhra issue
and it was not feasible that there is a
solution to every issue.
Yadav was seen suggesting that
when attempts to find a solution did
not succeed, it should be ensured that
at least the House runs smoothly. At
times, he also referred to Home
Minister Rajnath Singh in the matter,
who was present in the House.
Mohammad Salim (CPI-M) took
the opportunity to flag the issue of
atrocities on dalits. “I am making
efforts (to take everyone along) and the
Business Advisory Committee meetings decide what issues are to be taken
up,” Mahajan said.
Yadav made the remark when the
Congress members were not in the
House after staging a walkout for not
being allowed to raise the issue of
atrocities on dalits.
PTI
Barnala had been with
Sant Harchand Singh
Longowal, who had inked the
famous Rajiv-Longowal accord
to bring peace in Punjab during the troubled days of militancy. “I have known Barnala
sahib for a long time and have
been a Minister in his Ministry
and he has contributed his
entire life for Punjab and he
and his family have been all
over Punjab,” he said.
Speaking after the merger,
SAD(L) president Surjit Kaur
Barnala said, “Going by
Punjab’s present conditions, we
feel this is the right decision.
Punjab’s future is with Capt
sahib (Amarinder Singh) and
we hope he will live up to the
expectations. He has served
Punjab earlier and we also have
a lot of hope on him, that is why
have merged our outfit.”
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New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha
on Monday passed the
Mental Health Care Bill 2013,
which provides for protection
and promotion of rights of
persons with mental illness
during the delivery of health
care in institutions and in the
community. Replying to a
debate on the legislation,
Health Minister JP Nadda
termed it as “humane and
progressive” and said its focus
was to provide better support
and facilities to the people
suffering from various kinds
of mental illnesses. “This is a
historic and progressive Bill.
It has been a long standing
effort. It is patient-centric
and focusses on how more
facilities and support could be
provided to the patients,”
Nadda said. He said around
6-7 per cent of the country’s
population suffered from
some kind of mental illnesses, while 1-2 per cent suffers
from acute mental disease.
Nadda admitted that
there was shortage of medical
staff dealing with mental
health in the country and the
Government is trying hard to
have more such specialists.
Initiating the discussion on
the Bill, Madhusudan Mistry
(Congress) said there was an
urgent need to upgrade the
mental healthcare infrastructure in the country and
increasing the number of
psychiatrists and care-givers.
He said there was no data
in the country on the num-
ber of persons suffering from
mental illness, but broadly it
was considered to be around
one per cent of the population. Another crucial issue,
Mistry said was that the Bill
does not shed much light on
the treatment and availability of cheap medicines.
Earlier, Congress member T Subbirami Reddy raised
a point of order saying the bill
had as many as 134 amendments and sought to know if
a new Bill could be drafted.
He was supported by his
party colleague Jairam
Ramesh, with even Deputy
Chairman PJ Kurien observing that the point of order
raised by Reddy was “very
valid” but asked them to
raise the issue when the measure was taken up for passage.
While AK Selvaraj
(AIADMK) said it was a
matter of concern that barely one psychiatrist was available for every 4 lakh population, Kahkashan Parveen
(JD-U)
asked
the
Government to pay attention
to
the
plight
of
destitute women and warned
that some provisions of the
bill could be utilised against
women by in-laws, who
could escape arrest after driving women to suicide in the
name of mental illness.
Dilip Kumar Tirkey
(BJD) said it was an irony that
India had barely 43 mental
hospitals for a population of
125 crore.
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The RC book for vehicles,
lorries with C570 crore in cash cle numbers of the container
which were escorted by three lorries, he had alleged. The per- have the same photograph of
sons who accompanied the one person making it clear that
CBI has registered a pre- Innova SUVs, sources said.
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The seizure made three vehicles in three Innova cars, they are nothing but fake, he
inquiry into the
alleged seizure of C570 crore days before May 16, 2016 when claimed that they were securi- claimed.
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cash in three tanker Tamil Nadu was scheduled to ty officers from Andhra
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court
on Monday rejected a petition by
former Coal Secretary HC Gupta
to club cases against him in the
coal block allocation scam for
holding a joint trial. The Court
held that doing so would lead to
“hotchpotch” as it was of the view
that each individual case was not
part of same transaction.
A bench comprising justices
Pinaki Chandra Ghose and
Amitava Roy dismissed the plea
by Harish Chandra Gupta seeking joint trial in all the cases on
the ground that the FIRs were
common and the alleged
offences pertained to same transaction.
Gupta, who was the then
chairman of the screening committee for allocation of coal
blocks, submitted that all the
cases against him comprised
similar charges and he should
not be tried separately.
Senior advocate Aman
Lekhi, appearing for Gupta, said
that eight different charge sheets
have been filed against him and
proceeding are going on separately. “This is not proper as
mandate of law says that there
should be a joint trial in all the
cases. In each case, the recommendations by the screening
committee are composite and
unanimous. Even the material
witnesses are common,” Lekhi
said.
PNS
lorries in Tirupur district by a
team of Election Commission
in the run up to Tamil Nadu
Assembly elections.
The move comes after the
Madras High Court directed
the agency to register a PE on
a petition of DMK MP TKS
Elangovan despite opposition
from the Central agency which
was reluctant to probe the
case.
On May 13, 2016, Election
Commission Surveillance team
stationed at Tirupur chased
down and seized three tanker
go for polling had sent ripples
in the administration as DMK
alleged it was hawala money,
the sources said.
In his petition, Elangovan
had alleged when the surveillance team of EC questioned the
three drivers and the persons
who escorted the lorries in
Innova vehicles, they were not in
a position to give proper answers
or documents for transportation
of huge sum of C570 crore.
It was found that the documents submitted by these
persons did not have the vehi-
Pradesh, but there were not in
uniform, he claimed.
The DMK leader claimed
out of three seized vehicles, one
lorry bearing Registration No
AP-13-X-5204 is not the number registered for the lorry, but
rather it is the number of an
Innova car belonging to one
Jaffer Ahmed Khan.
Elangovan in his petition
alleged the vehicle number
AP-13 X 8650 belongs to one
Kaja Mohammed and the vehicle AP-13-X-5203 belongs to
one Salim Mohammed.
while SBI claims its their
money and there was a direction from RBI, there was no
such instruction from the
Bankers' Bank.
"As per the RBI Guidelines,
whenever huge moneys are to
be transported between the
chest of the same or different
banks within the state or interstate, the same has to be done
only through Rail and has to be
escorted by the local police.
However, no such steps have
been taken in the instant case,"
he had alleged.
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influential OBC leader
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Swami Prasad Maurya on
Monday joined the BJP, giving
fillip to the party’s chance to capture power in the crucial Uttar
Pradesh Assembly elections.
Maurya recently resigned from
the BSP after accusing party chief
Mayawati of corruption in selecting candidates.
A veteran leader who has
been a four-time MLA, Maurya
joined the BJP in the presence of
party chief Amit shah. Maurya
was the leader of Opposition in
the State assembly and the BJP
hopes his induction will help the
party woo OBC voters in a big
way. While expressing confi-
dence that the
BJP will gain a
decisive victory
in the UP polls,
Maurya heaped
praise on PM
Modi, saying he
is working for
the empowerment of the
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Slamming
Mayawati for turning her party castes and apprehended that she
into an “industrial house” and might not give more than 26-27
allegedly selling tickets, he seats to the OBC candidate in the
claimed that more BSP leaders assembly polls. He went on to
would join the BJP and request- point that in the Lok Sabha polls,
ed Shah to properly accommo- the BJP gave tickets to 29 OBC
date them in the party. He candidates and all of them won
accused Mayawati of ignoring where Mayawati fielded only 16
the interest of the backwards candidates.
New Delhi: The monthly salary
of all officers working in the
Prime Minister’s Office (PMO)
has been made public as part of
suo motu disclosure under the
RTI Act with senior IAS officer
Bhaskar Khulbe the highest
paid at C2.01 lakh.
Khulbe, who is Secretary to
the Prime Minister, gets a
monthly remuneration of C2.01
lakh, according to details of the
salary as on June one, 2016 put
on the PMO website.
Nripendra
Mishra,
Principal Secretary to the PM,
National Security Adviser Ajit
Doval and PK Mishra,
Additional Principal Secretary
to Modi get C1,62,500 per
month, plus pension, each. All
these top bureaucrats are
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retired civil servants.
Six Joint Secretaries in the
PMO—Tarun Bajaj, Vinay
Mohan
Kwatra,
TV
Somanathan, AK Sharma,
Anurag Jain and Debashree
Mukherjee—get a monthly
salary ranging between C1.55
lakh and C1.77 lakh, it said.
Rajeev Topno and Sanjeev
Kumar Singla, both private
secretaries to the PM, get a
monthly salary of C1.46 lakh
and C1.38 lakh respectively.
Sharat
Chander,
Information Officer, and J M
Thakkar, Public Relations
Officer in the PMO, get a
monthly remuneration of C1.26
lakh and C99,000, respectively,
according to the PMO website.
Five other bureaucrats
including the PM’s close aide
Sanjay R Bhavsar, working as
Officer on Special Duty (OSD)
in the PMO, draws monthly
remuneration of around C1.1
lakh, it said. Besides Bhavsar,
four other OSDs are Hiren
Joshi, Pratik Doshi, Hemang
Jani and Ashutosh Narayan
Singh.
The PMO has also made
public details of monthly remuneration given to Secretary to
former Prime Ministers Atal
Bihari
Vajpayee
and
Manmohan Singh.
NC Jhingta, Secretary to
Vajpayee, gets Rs 1.42 lakh
while G Muralidhar Pillay,
Singh's Secretar y, draws
monthly remuneration of Rs
one lakh (plus pension), the
PMO said.
These disclosures have
been made under Section 4 of
the Right to Information(RTI)
Act that casts an obligation on
all public authorities to suo
motu disclose, among others,
details of remuneration given
to all its employees for the sake
of transparency.
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overthrow
Turkish
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President Tayyip Erdogan last
month had some connection in
India, Turkey on Monday urged
the Indian authorities and
Maharashtra Government to
shut down all the institutions in
Mumbai and elsewhere in the
country, linked to the Fethullah
Gulen “terror” network.
Talking to the media,
Turkey’s Consul General Erdal
Sabri Ergen said that his country had requested the Indian
authorities as well as the
Maharashtra Government to
act against the network of
Gülen movement in Mumbai
and elsewhere in the country.
“Everything connected with
this network should be closed.
They should be put under
microscope. This is an illegal
network with a sinister design
in mind,” he said.
Blaming the Gulen-led
movement, Fethulla Terror
Organisation (FETO) and “a section of the army” for the failed
coup in Turkey last month,
Ergen said, “FETO has a worldwide network including India..
In the aftermath of coup attempt
in Turkey, we have found some
connection in India, particularly Mumbai... The institutions
connected with the network are
(there) in Mumbai. Our
Ambassador has informed
Indian authorities. We believe
the Indian authorities already
had that information”.
While in New Delhi,
Turkey’s Ambassador Burak
Akçapar has written to the
Indian Government, the Consul
General in Mumbai has been in
touch with the Maharashtra
Government officials.
“”Our communication
the Turkey Consul General
said, “For legal reasons I cannot be specific... I can’t take
names. I cannot name individuals or institutions for legal
reasons... We have given a lot
of documents and provided
evidence. There are several
such institutions in Mumbai
and elsewhere in India”..
Maintaining that FETO
was not a terror organisation in
a classical sense, Ergen said,
“The network projects a positive, moderate image... what
they have done is not good... it
is sinister... it is not a terrorist
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Describing the foiling of
the coup attempt by the people
with Maharashtra Government of Turkey was a victory of
is in parallel to what our democracy and media, Ergen
Ambassador is doing in Delhi,” said,”There will be consequences for Fethullah terror
Ergen said.
“India and Turkey are organisation which has netdemocratic countries. India work in many countries includmust support our country (by ing India. This organisation’s
is
sitting
in
acting against Gülen net- leader
work)...the FETO supports or Pennsylvania”.
Replying to a question,
are part of educational institutions, hospitals, musafirkhanas Ergen admitted that some
and so on. Not only it (FETO) Turkish people were either
is a threat to us it is also dan- manning or part of such organgerous to your (India’s) securi- isations and said that his
Government is planning to
ty,” he added.
Declining to either identi- cancel their visas. “There are
fy or specify the number of some people who might have
such Mumbai-based organisa- got into it unknowingly...we are
tions that have links with telling them to come out and
FETO, Ergen said, “Jordan inform...Infiltration into the
closed down (Gülen support- (Turkish) Government is going
ed or affiliated organisations) on with a bigger vision to take
immediately. In Somalia, there over the country. The purge
was a hospital that we took started around a year ago...The
over... We have informed the purge would have taken place
Indian Government and the in the military in August and
Maharashtra Government the people supporting (Gülen)
about these organisations... would have been retired out of
These organisations must be jobs. Before the purge took
place, they attempted the coup
closed down”.
When pressed for details, (in July)”.
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ormer Delhi Chief Minister
and Congress’s Chief
Ministerial face for 2017 UP
Assembly polls made a frontal
attack on both Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and Chief
Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
She blamed Modi for taking more interest in raising
non-important issues and
showing no concern for the
problems particularly on rising
prices of essential commodities
while she criticised Yadav on
the deteriorating law and order
situation and lack of development of Uttar Pradesh.
“I don’t agree with Modi
who is only on a lip-service. He
has done nothing for Gau
Raksha at the Centre for the
past two years. There is a need
for gaushalas but the
Government has failed to do
it”, she said while reacting to the
comments of Modi on ‘GauRakshaks’on Sunday.
Dikshit said that Congress
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would not go for any pre-poll
alliance in the UP polls and
remained unresponsive about
whether she would contest the
polls or not. However, the UP
CM face was bit uncomfortable, when asked about the
humiliating defeat of the
Congress candidate in the
Moradabad mayor bypolls held
recently.
“People are yet to see anything positive from this BJP
Government,” she added, while
taking on the Central
Government for not fulfilling
any of the promises made during its poll campaigns. Hailing
the works done by the UPA
Government, Dikshit said the
pace of development had
stopped in the present regime
and Uttar Pradesh is the most
deprived State in this regard.
The three-time Delhi CM
was optimistic that the
Congress will return to power
in UP after 27 years. “The
enthusiasm seen among the
party workers during our visit
to several cities, particular in
PM’s constituency Varanasi, is
a clear picture that people have
now decided to give the
Congress a chance,” she said.
Dikshit claimed that the
Congress is preparing a
roadmap for UP to attract the
youths by promising development in all fields which had
lagged during the past 27 years.
“Law and order situation has
hit the bottom and regular
assault on women, including
the one made in Bulundhshar,
is a clear reflection of the jungle raj in the State”, she quipped
while attacking the State
Government. “
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the BJP is likely to work on
the twin strategy of hitting
out at the Akhilesh Yadav
Government for poor law and
order situation and spreading
the message of good work
done by the Narendra Modi
Government at the Centre.
In its two-day State Working
Committee meeting in Jhansi,
senior leaders drilled these two
points in the minds of party
workers. “Go to your `kshetra’
and highlight the failure of
Akhilesh Government. But at the
same time, spread the achievements of Modi Government,”
State BJP president Keshav
Prasad Maurya said in his parting shot to the workers.
“We believe that the next
Assembly polls would be
fought on development. The
BJP always focuses its poll
campaign around bijli, sadak
and paani,” State BJP general
secretar y Vijay Bahadur
Pathak said.
“Now, we have a model of
development in the form of
Modi Government’s accomplishments. We will tell the
people how BJP-ruled States
have progressed and how propeople and pro-farmer policies
of the Centre Union have lit up
the lives of people,” he said.
To take their campaign to
the people’s doorstep, leaders
have been asked to raise local
crime at muhala meetings. The
local leaders have been asked to
reach out to victims or to their
kin and extend all possible
help to them. The heinous
crimes, particularly crime
against women, should be
raised at the district level. If
need be, protest meetings
should be held, the local leaders were told.
There was a sense of déjà
vu among BJP members of the
State Working Committee. The
hope of BJP’s comeback to
power was the order of the day.
There were talks about exodus
of leaders from other parties
and how the BJP has emerged
as the first choice for them.
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Union Home Minister
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Rajnath Singh on Uttar
Pradesh turning to ‘Prashna’
(question) Pradesh, Chief
Minister Akhilesh Yadav said
that UP has been in the forefront in giving solution to
problems and thus the State
should be hailed as one that
solves peoples’ problems.
“Has any State built such a
long expressway like the one
linking Agra and Lucknow in
such a short time? Land acquisition was done peacefully and
there has been no protest. Milk
production has increased from
6 lakh litres to 10 lakh litres and
the Metro Rail will start operating in Lucknow soon. We
have provided drought relief in
record time. Can any State
match these achievements?”
Yadav shot back soon after
chairing a Cabinet meeting in
Lucknow on Monday.
In the State BJP Working
Committee meeting in Jhansi,
Singh had termed UP as
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for its persistent failure to
improve governance and law
and order.
The CM defended his
Government saying that people have seen the previous
Governments too and they
can compare the performance
of the SP Government with its
predecessors.
When asked about the
BJP’s demand to set up a task
force to protect cows, Yadav
said that the BJP is the only
party which enacts drama in
the name of Gau Raksha. “It is
a point to ponder as to why
issue of gau raksha is raised
only in BJP-ruled States. We
are committed to protecting
cows. The State has stringent
laws to deal with cow slayers
and hence there is no need to
have a separate force in UP,”
he said.
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injured in security forces’
action against protesters, succumbed to injuries in a
Srinagar hospital on Monday
though a comparatively lesser
number of clashes took place
during the day across the
Valley. Normal life remained
crippled throughout the Valley
for the 31st consecutive day
since the killing of Hizbul
Mujahideen commander
Burhan Wani on July 8 that
triggered massive public
protests across Kashmir.
Police said no major untoward incident was reported
from any part of the Valley barring five minor incidents of
stone-pelting in Anantnag,
Sopore and Bandipora districts.
The 17-year-old Aamir
Bashir Lone succumbed to his
injuries at Sher-e-Kashmir
Institute of Medical Sciences in
the wee hours. A resident of
Sedaw village in Shopian, Lone
was admitted to the hospital on
Friday last after he got injured
with pellets. Doctors said that
Lone’s body was perforated
with pellets and some of them
had entered into his brain.
With his death, the toll in
Kashmir has mounted to 54
civilians. Two policemen have
also died in the clashes so far.
The curfew and restrictions
under Section 144 RPC continued in many parts of south,
central and north Kashmir districts and parts of Srinagar city.
Separatists had asked people to
block roads leading to the Civil
Secretariat in Srinagar, District
administrative and Tehsil
offices to block movement of
Government employees from
attending the offices. The separatists have extended the shutdown call till August 12.
The curfew continued in
Khan Sahib and Chadoora
towns of central Kashmir’s
Budgam district and Anantnag
town in South Kashmir. The
curfew will remain in force in
Kupwara, Langate, Handwara,
Trehgam, Kralpora and some
other areas in north Kashmir’s
Kupwara district. The curfew
like restrictions will continue in
areas under five old city police
stations and areas under
Batmaloo police station in
uptown Srinagar besides besides
Baramulla, Pattan and Sopore
towns in north Kashmir.
In
Srinagar,
main
Opposition National Conference
staged a march against the civilian killings, mass arrests and
demanded initiation of dialogue
process. The NC leaders later
clashed with police personnel
who stopped their march on
Residency Road. Senior
Legislator Ali Muhammad Sagar
said that the present
Government has lost moral
authority to rule the state after
the killing of civilians in
Kashmir. The NC leader and
former Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah tweeted that it took
CM Mehbooba Mufti 31 days
and more than 50 deaths to
finally gave up on her ‘business
as usual’ act and rushed to
Delhi instead.
Reports said that seven
civilians including two women
were injured after clashes
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Nayeemuddin alias Nayeem,
known for grisly methods of
murdering his targets, was
killed in an encounter with
Greyhound commandos at
Shadnagar
town
of
Mahabubnagar district, 50
kms away from Hyderabad
early on Monday morning, the
police said.
Nayeem, whose name
spelled terror for more than 20
years and another accomplice
were killed in an exchange of
fire after Greyhound force and
special police force raided his
hideout at around 7 am at a
gated colony Millennium
Township in Shadnagar town of
Mahbubnagar district on
Monday.
Director General of Police
Anurag Sharma told the media
in Hyderabad that the policemen tried to nab Nayeem alive.
“When the police asked
him to surrender his men
opened fire and in the retaliatory firing by the police
Nayeem was killed”, he said.
“In the melee Nayeem’s
driver managed to escape from
the scene”, a police official
said. There was no casualty on
the side of the police. Two others were taken in to custody
and were being questioned.
Though Telangana police is
looking for Nayeem for a long
time, it achieved a major breakthrough last evening after
Nayeem allegedly killed one of
his gang members Wajed at
Zaheerabad town of Medak district. “Police learnt that Nayeem
and his gang members had fled
to Shadnagar and reached there
at around 7 pm last evening”,
Anurag Sharma said.
Special forces from
Hyderabad and Nalgonda surrounded the hideout on Sunday
night and vacated the other
houses in the vicinity before
raiding the place. The deployment of heavily armed commandos, hectic police activity
and cordoning off the area had
led to rumors of the presence of
terrorists there. Panic spread as
the gun shots rang through the
township off the Hyderabad-
Bengaluru highway.
After the encounter the
police recovered one AK-47
and four shotguns from the
house belonging to one Basha.
Two bullet ridden bodies
including one of Nayeem were
found in the house.
Later the Police also raided and searched Nayeem’s
house in Alakapuri area of
Hyderabad and seized a big
amount of cash. 200 policemen
took part in the operation and
currency counting machines
were being used to count the
money recovered.
Using his skills of using
arms and explosive as a trained
naxalites and the backing he
received as a police covert and
informer, Nayeem had formed
a gang of criminals and anti
social elements emerging as a
law unto himself and amassed
massive wealth, a senior police
official said. Police say as he
was involved in settling the
land and other property disputes for a fee Nayeem had also
amassed huge tracts of prime
land and other properties in
and around Hyderabad.
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erupted at semthan village in
Bijbehara area of south
Kashmir. The security forces
allegedly fired pellets to break
up the demonstration against
alleged excesses by police and
security forces.
Reports said two grievously injured persons including
a woman sustaining pellet
injuries in eyes, were referred
to Srinagar hospital for
advanced treatment. Police
have denied the allegations
saying miscreants resorted to
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stone pelting in which 12 police
and security personnel were
injured while 2 persons were
referred to Srinagar hospital.
Low intensity evening clashes
were reported from Rainawari
and Dalgate areas of Srinagar
Protests erupted in north
Kashmir’s Sumbal area after
Army Casper vehicle hit a car
killing a civilian Muhammad
Ashraf Mir on the spot near
Wangipora area. An FIR has
been lodged while driver was
arrested and vehicle seized.
Nalbari (Assam): An NDFB(S)
militant suspected to be closely
associated with those involved in
the attack in Kokrajhar that
claimed 14 lives was apprehended on Monday from Assam’s
Nalbari district, police said. Acting
on a tip-off, a joint team of the
Army and police nabbed the militant from a bus at Ganesh Mandir
Chowk on NH-31 in the district
and a 7.65 pistol, four rounds of
ammunition and some documents were seized from him.
The police claimed that the
militant, identified as Bodoland
Boro, was associated with those
involved the Balajan Tiniali market attack on August 5. The militant hails from Dhurmopur village in Kokrajhar district and
was on his way to Guwahati from
Kokrajhar, police said.
The Centre has asked Assam
Government to hunt down those
involved in the attack and bring
them to justice, Home Minister
Rajnath Singh told Lok Sabha on
Monday in a suo motu statement.
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The mobile internet services continued to remain suspended in the entire Valley on
31st consecutive day while the
outgoing facility on prepaid
connections is barred.
Meanwhile, over 2 lakh 18,
300 yatris had darshan of ice
lingam at the Holy Amarnath
cave so far as around 500 pilgrims paid obeisance at the cave
on Monday. The pilgrimage
would officially culminate on
August 18 but the footfall has
already lessened to a trickle.
to Government employees by
jacking up House Rent
Allowance (HRA) and making
the packages to King George
Medical College non-teaching
employees at par with that of
their counterparts at Sanjay
Gandhi Post Graduate
Institute of Medical Sciences.
These decisions were taken by
the UP Cabinet meeting
chaired by the CM in Lucknow
on Monday.
The Cabinet approved an
increase of 20 per cent in
HRA for State employees from
August 1. Now the minimum
HRA will be Rs 360 per month
and the maximum Rs 12,600
per month. Similarly, nonteaching staff of the KGMU
would now get a salary equal
to that of SGPGI staff.
The retirement age of
employees of UP Minority
Finance and Development
Corporation has been
increased from 58 years to 60
years. The Cabinet effected
minor changes in the encashment of leaves for employees
who faced suspension or other
departmental enquiry.
It was also decided to
implement an Advance Traffic
Management System facility to
make the Lucknow-Agra
Expressway mishap-free. To
improve implementation of
traffic rules, the government
not just increased fines but
also
empowered
the
cops of the rank of head constables to exact compounding
fine.
The Cabinet also gave its
nod to “UP small and medium
industries interest policy” to
facilitate setting-up of industries in backward areas.
Industries set up under this
will get 7 per cent rebate (upto
Rs 3 lakh) for five years on
installation of plant and
machineries.
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took on record a report submitted by
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and ascertain the damage caused to the
building and printing press at Ambedkar
Bhavan at Dadar in north-central
Mumbai, during the demolition carried
by the People’s Improvement Trust
(TPIT) in June this year.
Hearing pleas by TPIT which runs
Ambedkar Bhavan, and Prakash
Ambedkar, who manages the printing
press, Justice SJ Kathawala perused the
report submitted by architect Shashi
Prabhu on August 5 and ordered that the
copies of the report be made available to
the contesting parties.
While posting the matter for next
hearing on August 18, the judge
restrained all the parties concerned
from entering the Ambedkar Bhavan
premises, till then.
Following a notice served by the
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation
(BMC), TPIT had on June 25 demolished a substantial portion of the of the
Ambedkar Bhavan which was in a
“dilapidated and dangerous condition”.
At the previous hearing, Prakash and
his brothers Prakash, Anandraj, and
Bhim Rao, all grandsons of Dr
Ambedkar had told the court the demolition carried out by the trustees had
caused major damage to their printing
press and their offices on the ground
floor.
Following Prakash’s suggestion, the
High Court had appointed architect
Prabhu to inspect the damage caused the
building and printing press at Ambedkar
Bhavan. The court had also asked
Prabhu to submit details of the inventory
lying at the ‘Budh Bhushan’ printing
press.
Prakash had told the high court that
periodicals and some magazines were
being printed at the press. His counsel
urged the court that his client be allowed
to visit the premises to ascertain the
damage caused to the press, a plea that
the judge kept on hold till August 18.
At the earlier hearing, the High
Court had asked TPIT and Prakash
Ambedkar to redevelop the property
jointly. However, Prakash’s counsel told
the court that his client was not agreeable to the High Court’s suggestion. The
Counsel said that Prakash was of the
view that Ambedkar Bhavan be preserved because of its emotional value as
late B R Ambedkar had got it built.
The High Court is hearing TPIT’s
plea challenging the rebuilding of the
demolished structure through ‘shramdaan’ (voluntary contribution of labour)
as proposed by Prakash Ambhedkar.
On July 29, the high court had
restrained people from entering the
Ambedkar Bhavan for either rebuilding
or restoring the damaged structure.
On its part, TPIT had told the High
Court that there were three structures in
the Ambedkar Bhavan which was demolished on June. Prakash and his brother
Anandraj were occupying one of the
structures in the building.
The Trust had informed the High
Court that Prakash and Anandraj would
be allowed to occupy the proposed 17storey redeveloped structure in the
future.
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16th Chief Minister of Gujarat, Vijay Rupani allocated portfolios to his 24 Ministers on Monday. The two-tier Rupani Ministry has nine Cabinet Ministers,
including the Chief Minister, and
16 Ministers of State.
Rupani kept key departments, including Home, Mines
& Minerals, Ports, Information
& Broadcasting, Science &
Technology, General Administration, Planning and Climate
Change, with him. He will also
look after all those departments
which have not yet been allotted
to other Ministers. Deputy Chief
Minister Nitin Patel has been
given responsibility of Finance,
Roads & Building, Narmada,
Kalpsar, Petrochemicals and
Urban Development & Urban
Planning. Bhupendrasinh
Chudasama, most senior
Minister in the Cabinet after
Rupani and Patel would look
after Revenue, Education, as
well as Parliamentary affairs.
Tribal leader from south
Gujarat Ganapat Vasava, who
was Speaker in Anandiben’s
Government will monitor
Tribal Development, Tourism
as well as Forest. Another
Cabinet Minister Chiman
Shaparia has been given
Agriculture and Energy portfolios. Since 2002, Saurabh
Patel is holding the charge of
energy department in
Narendra Modi as well as
Anandiben Governments. Patel
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Allahabad/Lucknow: The
Allahabad High Court on
Sunday sought to know from
the
Uttar
Pradesh
Government why the investigation in the Bulandshahr
gangrape case be not handed
over to the CBI.
Directing the State
Government to file its reply by
August 10, a division Bench of
Chief Justice DB Bhosale and
Justice Yashwant Varma also
sought a report on status of
probe in the case, including
the "criminal antecedents,
social background and political affiliations, if any", of the
accused persons.
The court has taken suo
motu cognisance of the July 29
incident when a group of
criminals waylaid a car, carrying six members of a Noidabased family on their way to
Shahjahanpur in western
Uttar Pradesh, and sexually
assaulted a minor girl and her
mother after dragging them
out of the vehicle.
The Lucknow Bench of
the High Court also sought
within a week an appropriate
reply from the Uttar Pradesh
Government on a PIL seeking
a direction for a CBI probe
into the case.
A division Bench of justices Amreshwar Pratap Sahi
and Vijay Laxmi passed the
order on the PIL filed by NGO
We the People through its
general secretary Prince Lenin.
The court has listed the
matter for further hearing on
August 22. The court had
asked the petitioner to file
details of the alleged irregularities in the case. The petitioner filed a supplementary
affidavit on Sunday entailing
therein the alleged lapses in
the investigation and the factors which had led to the filing of the petition showing
lack of confidence in the
probe process.
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its beginning in 1960,
Smanyince
Gujarat has been ruled by as
as four Patidar Chief
Ministers, including the first
woman CM Anandiben Patel,
but none of them were able to
complete their terms for some
of other reasons irrespective of
party alignment.
Collectively, the four
Patidar CMs — Chimanbhai
Patel, Babubhai Patel,
Keshubhai
Patel
and
Anandiben Patel got seven
opportunities to head the State
Government at different point
of time. Except Anandiben, the
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become Gujarat CM. However, powerful Patidar leader of
Ahead of the 2017 Assembly
after almost 14 years he Saurashtra region.
polls, Anandiben had to step
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Porbander MLA Babubhai are concerned, 46-year-old quota Patidar agitation as well as
Bokhiria has been given Water Shankar Chaudhari has been Dalit protest across the State
Supply, Animal Husbandry and given independent charge for
Cow Conservation, Fisheries, Environment. He would also
Civil Aviation, Salt Industry. look after Health and Urban
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vious Government and now Amit Shah and Vatva MLA
Cabinet Minister Atmaram Pradipsinh Jadeja was given
Parmar would take care of Social Home an Energy department.
The 67-year-old strong Patel
Justice & Welfare department.
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in North Gujarat has been made Industry, Mining and Finance as
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Narendra Modi’s new agrimission to double
farm incomes by the year
2022, R ajasthan Chief
Minister Vasundhara Raje is
going all out to promote agriculture sector in Rajasthan.
Through its three day
Global Rajasthan Agritech
Meet(GRAM) which will be
held in November in Jaipur the
State is also set to promote
organic farming as its main
focus. Neelkamal Darbari
Principal Secretary, Agriculture
& Horticulture, told The
Pioneer on Monday in
Bengaluru
that
State
Government would focus on
organic farming as it has large
tract of land traditionally dedicated to organic farming.
She said “Rajasthan with its
vast tracts of naturally organic land, provides immense
opportunities for organic farming. Dungarpur is being developed as an ‘organic district’.
Opportunities exist for companies engaged in developing
& marketing organic crop varieties, and also for organic farm
produce processing & exporting companies”.
“Rajasthan is a strong performer in agriculture with 10
agro climatic zones. The State
Government had initiated
many policy changes in agriculture in the recent past that
relates to technological and
infrastructural interventions
for sustainable enhancement
of farm productivity, reducing
harvest losses and promoting
farm based industries” she
added.
The GRAM aims at technological and infrastructural
interventions for sustainable
enhancement of farm productivity, reducing post-harvest losses, promoting farm
based industries and ensuring
higher return to the farmer
while delivering better quality products to consumers .
She said “Through GRAM
we want to expose our farmers to the best technological
advancements and global
best-practices while showcasing investment opportunities
in the state to agri-business
communities across the
world” .
The event is expected to
bring together all stakeholders
— farmers, academicians,
technologists, agribusiness
companies and policy makers
— to accelerate development
of sustainable agricultural and
allied activities through innovative methods and best
practices.
She said the exposure
would help farmer with skill
development & training, setting up farmer information
centers and e mandis for marketing their products. “Agri
sector contributes to 31 per
cent in State’s growth and we
are aiming it to increase by 50
per cent” she added.
after the flogging of Dalit youths
in Una for skinning dead cow.
Patel who became Gujarat CM
in May 2014 however tendered
resignation citing her age earlier this month.
First Patidar Chief Minister
of Gujarat, Chimanbhai Patel
assumed office in July 1973.
Despite having thumping
majority in the Assembly, 140
MLAs (Congress) out of 182,
Patel had to resign within a year
in February 1974. He became
victim of students’ agitation
‘Navnirman Andolan’.
After Chimanbhai’s unceremonious exit, people in
Gujarat including his political
friends believed that he would
never surface on political scene.
However, he rose like phoenix
from ashes and again became
Gujarat CM in October 1990
after 16 long years. He in fact
emerged as face of VP Singh’s
Janata Dal in the State and led
Janata Dal — BJP coalition
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1929, the architect of ‘Modern
Industrial Gujarat’ was going
great guns but died in his
office due to massive heart
attack in 1994.
Freedom fighter Babubhai
Jashbhai Patel became successor
of Chimanbhai in June 1975 and
led coalition of anti-Congress
parties — Janata Morcha. After
a week then Prime Minister
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Hyderabad: Two more persons,
including a research assistant
working in National Institute of
Nutrition, were arrested on
Monday by the Telangana CID
in connection with the medical
EAMCET-II question paper
leak case, taking the total number of arrests to ten.
"In the TS EAMCET-II2016 (medical) entrance examination question paper leak
case, two more brokers Shyam
Yadav alias Guddu, a native of
Ranchi in Jharkhand, and
Athimamula Rama Krishna, a
Research Assistant in National
Institute of Nutrition, and native
of Nizamabad district (in
Telangana) were arrested," CID
Inspector General of Police
Soumya Mishra said in a release.
Yadav is the link between
Nishad and Mayank Singh who
had allegedly organised a practice camp at Mumbai for eight
students with two leaked TS
EAMCET-II-2016 (Medical)
entrance examination question papers.
"Shyam Yadav collected
C60 lakh from four parents of
students who attended the
camp and from that amount he
transferred C50 lakh to Mayank
Singh," the officer said.
As per CID, Ramakrishna
secured four students from his
contact Rajesh and handed
over the students to one Dr
Gangadhar, a native of Chittoor
in Andhra Pradesh.
PTI
Indira Gandhi imposed
Emergency but he continued as
CM till March 1976 as Assembly
dissolved and President’s rule
imposed. In the next polls
Babubhai again became CM in
1977. His Government lost
majority after few MLAs migrated to Opposition Congress party
which forced him to dissolve
Assembly in 1980. Again Gujarat
witnessed Presidential rule till
the next election.
Under the leadership of
Keshubhai Patel BJP won 121
seats out of 182 in Gujarat
Assembly and Patel became
first BJP CM in the State in
March 1995. BJP’s central leadership’s decision to install
Keshubhai as CM left then
senior BJP leader Shankersinh
Vaghela ignored. In September
1995, Vaghela rebelled against
the BJP leadership with the
support of 47 MLAs. The rebel
forced BJP leadership to workout compromise formula and
Patel replaced by a neutral
candidate Suresh Mehta.
Again in March 1998 BJP
won the election and
Keshubhai became Gujarat CM
for the second time. During his
tenure Gujarat faced massive
earthquake on January 26, 2001
and more than 20,000 people
lost their lives. Keshubhai
Government was criticised for
weak rehabilitation work postearthquake and the BJP high
command decided to replace
him by Narendra Modi in
October 2001 to consolidate
party’s political position in the
State. And rest is the history.
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Opposition party, came out
T
in the open on Monday demanding the immediate quashing of
the draft National Education
Policy (NEP) proposals initiated
by the Ministry of Human
Resources and Development.
MK Stalin, Leader of the
Opposition, declared that the
DMK would bring in a resolution in the State Assembly against
the NEP, which he termed as a
conspiracy to saffronise the
country’s education sector.
Addressing a mammoth
rally at Chennai, Stalin lambasted the BJP Government for
the “retrograde” measures
which according to him would
communalise the country’s
youth. The Dravida Kazhakam
leader K Veeramani, who also
owns a private university and
many professional colleges said
his party as well as educational institutions would support
the agitation against the NEP.
Monday also saw hundreds
of students from schools owned
by Christian management staging demonstration in Chennai
with placards “RIP our future”
and “Down with the
Saffronisation drive” .
Tamil Nadu Priests
Council and Tamil Nadu and
Puducherry Nuns Council, two
powerful organisations in the
State wielding major influence
too have come out demanding
a thorough overhaul in the proposals in the draft NEP. “The
draft proposals posted on the
website of the Ministry of
Human Resources are totally
against the guarantees offered
to the minorities in the Indian
Constitution,” said a statement
issued by the councils.
The council charged that
the proposals are meant for the
introduction of vedic education, gurukul system,
Sanskritisation and introduction of compulsory yoga classes. “There is no need of village
schools. The draft proposal
should have a socialist character,” said the release. Both the
councils expressed their reservations on the move to introduce vedic education and
gurukula system and declated
they would vehemently oppose
any move to tinker with the
socialist and secular character
of the education sector.
JS Rajput, former chief of
the National Council of
Education Research and
Training, said those opposing
the proposals of the draft NEP
were doing so without reading
and comprehending the report.
“There is no saffronisation
drive or hidden agenda behind
these proposals. The proposals
are in synch with the 2002
Supreme Court verdict in the
Aruna Roy Vs Government of
India,” said Rajput.
The crux of the verdict was
that education should give special emphasis to the culture and
heritage of India. “No child
could be educated without
telling him/her about the rich
cultural heritage of the nation,”
said Rajput who was involved in
the drafting of the previous NEP.
Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh
Chief Minister Pema Khandu
on Monday launched the first
free wi-fi hotspot in the State
at a Government college here.
"This pilot project has
been launched in a centre of
learning to bring internet closer to the students and faculty
to make them at par with
other premier technical institutes across the country in the
field of education and
research," he said.
Khandu
said
the
Government has plans to
make the twin towns of
Itanagar and Naharlagun a
free wi-fi zone and it would be
a step towards digitisation of
the country, which is a vision
of Prime Minister Narendra
Modi.
The State Government
would also in the future try to
connect the villages with
internet facility to associate
them in Government policies
and programmes as a part of
Digital India programme, he
said.
The internet facility at
Dera Natung Government
College will allow access to
information and improve data
communication to help in
faster transfer of information
between college officials and
students.
"It will also open up new
opportunities for the college to
offer new environment to its
students and faculty for better
education and research
options over the internet free
of cost," Khandu said. PTI
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compass to his nation,
said, “Every people
must answer morally for all of its
past — including that past which
is shameful”. This involves trying
to understand, “How could such
a thing have been allowed? Where
in all this is our error? And could
it happen again?”
As another independence day
dawns, we must ask ourselves if we
have achieved the egalitarian
promise of the social reform movement of the 19th century and the
freedom struggle of the 20th; or are
we regressing towards an exclusionism and morally repulsive vigilantism which aims to impose a selective morality in the public domain.
Amidst sporadic incidents in
different parts of the country, we
can discern a pattern internal to
Hindu society. When parents
refuse to let children eat mid-day
meals prepared by a Scheduled
Caste (SC) worker in an anganwadi (Government-run child care
centre); when pregnant women
needing nutrition refuse food prepared by an SC cook; when denial
of access to the village well or temple persist in the 21st century;
when persons are beaten and urinated upon for having a certain
caste background, it is impossible
to deny that we have failed to bless
all citizens with equal dignity.
Upper caste Hindus often cite
Adi Shankar’s apology to an outcaste who challenged his Advaita
philosophy when asked to move
out of the Acharya’s path on
grounds of alleged impurity, to
assert the universal reach of
Upanishadic precepts. This is theoretically sound, but Adi Shankar
did not practice social liberation in
his lifetime, and in the millennium
since, Hindus have not ceased to be
offensive towards those they designate as socially inferior. Some
recent incidents make sensitive
individuals cringe with shame.
It needs stating that while
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
fought the 2014 parliamentary
election exclusively on a development plank, his impressive
victory has led to unwarranted
assertiveness in some sections.
Incidents of vigilantism over
the cow (and beef) fall squarely within this realm.
As the issue has deep resonance in Hindu civilisation from
primordial times, some nuancing
is in order. The Vedas declared the
cow a sacred animal that should not
be killed; there was no intellectual
challenge to this position for cen-
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turies. Physical assaults on the
cow appear to be coterminous with
the dominance of foreign-born
faiths on the subcontinent. Coming
to independence, some Muslim
members of the Constituent
Assembly urged that cow slaughter be banned as a matter of religious sensitivity of Hindus; this was
resisted by successors of the British
Raj who did not share this sensitivity. Therein lay the seeds of conflict in successive decades.
Hints that some people misread the Modi mandate came with
loose statements about the nonsons of Sri Rama, for which the
Prime Minister personally apologised in Parliament. The BJP tackled other damaging statements
individually. But the deeper malaise
in caste Hindu society surfaced in
September 2015, when a mob
attacked a Muslim family in Dadri
village, Uttar Pradesh, killing
Mohammad Akhlaq, 52, and seriously injuring his son, Danish, 22,
for allegedly killing and consuming a cow on Eid-ul-Adha. It has
since been reported that laboratory tests have established that the
meat was indeed beef; the Akhlaq
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and near-murder of another.
The July 11 incident of flogging
and stripping four SC youth in Una,
Gujarat, for allegedly killing the
cows they were skinning, is far
more serious. The episode threatens to derail the Prime Minister’s
agenda of development with good
governance, and is possibly behind
his lengthy silence on the issue.
Once Chief Minister Anandiben
Patel was replaced for inept handling of the episode, the Prime
Minister availed of the first opportunity to publicly condemn the vigilantes as anti-social elements
deserving official scrutiny.
Still, many sensitive citizens felt
disappointed that the Prime
Minister did not promptly attack
the growing culture of vigilantism
and caste arrogance. It is true the
BJP quickly demoted and expelled
a senior Uttar Pradesh leader who
used foul language against former
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
Mayawati, but the delayed response
in Una enabled Congress vice
president Rahul Gandhi and Delhi
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Punjab) to fish in troubled waters.
Now, at the very least, the BJP
needs to compile a list of persons
like MLA Raja Singh who rejoiced
at the brutal thrashing of the
leather tanners and ensure that they
are not given tickets in future. One
of 16 youths who consumed poison during a protest rally in
Ahmedabad on July 19 died in hospital on July 31; his agony deserves
some mitigation. Unsurprisingly,
incidents of ‘cow lovers’ extorting
huge money from legitimate cattle
traders are coming to light.
A positive side of the SC anger
is the refusal to dispose of dead cattle or clean sewers, to send a message to the derelict administration.
For Prime Minister Modi, the
challenge is not to view SC assertion through the prism of Assembly
elections in Uttar Pradesh and
other States in 2017. Taking a cue
from the leather tanners’ decision
to pile up carcasses in front of
Government buildings and ask
gau rakshaks (cow protectors) to
dispose off the dead animals, the
Prime Minister should consider a
multi-pronged strategy.
There should be an immediate end to skinning of dead
cows/animals in any district in
which there are atrocities against
tanners. Until there are assurances of good behaviour, the
dead animals should be cremated. This will deprive the leather
industry of a valuable raw material, and prompt leather manufacturers to demand protection of
tanners and action against vigilantes. This will alter the public
discourse on the subject.
The Dalit Chamber of
Commerce and Industry should
be asked to mentor the leather
tanners to evolve as small scale
leather manufacturers, or cooperatives, an endeavour that is doable
under Skill India, with funding
from Mudra Bank. So far, small
and medium enterprises have
not got the fillip they deserve; this
could kick start entrepreneurship
among these groups.
Finally, Hindus must realise
that most gau bhakts have done
little to nourish cows. Most
gaushalas are run by upper castes
with Government funding.
Recently, over 200 cows died in
just 10 days at a Government-run
shelter in Jaipur, ostensibly due
to poor maintenance of the cowsheds. Over the years, NGOs
have shut down cow shelters for
not being lucrative enough.
India’s untouchable past is also its
shameful present. We can no
longer live in denial.
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“The London knife threat” (August
6). It is apt to highlight the growing menace of the Islamic State (IS).
After the air attacks by the US,
Russia and other Western countries
in Iraq and Syria on IS-occupied territories, the IS has drawn up a new
strategy to terrorise isolated spots
by unexpected attacks on innocent
civilians in Paris Nice, Munich and
the most recent one was the knife
attack in London. In light of this,
major targets of the IS like London,
Paris, New York, New Delhi,
Mumbai, Sydney etc, must be on
high alert to face the terror attacks.
PN Saxena
Via email
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Sir — This refers to the report,
“What about ‘life’ for milk adulterators, asks SC” (August 6).
Incidentally, the recent exposure
that more than 68 per cent of milk
in the country does not conform to
the standards laid down by the food
regulator and the presence of hazardous adulterants like detergents,
caustic soda, glucose, white paint
and refined oil etc, calls for strict
measures to stop adulteration of
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milk and milk products.
Although food spoilage is a
routine business in our country, the
apparent listlessness of successive
Governments, in containing the
offenders, is skeptical. Undoubtedly,
the current mechanism to ensure
the quality of food items, available
in the open market is inadequate
and, therefore, a comprehensive
revamping of the system is vital in
the interest of the people.
Cicily Thomas
Kerala
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Sir — This refers to the report,
“What about ‘life’ for milk adulterators, asks SC” (August 6). No
doubt, milk adulteration is a
crime that needs to be severely
punished, but the punishment
should not be disproportionate to
the crime committed. Life-term
punishment for adulteration is
too harsh a punishment.
Imprisonment for four years to
five years is enough to bring a sense
of fear among the adulterators.
This can be at least for the first
time. If the crime is resumed even
after the jail sentence is served, certainly more punishment can be
inflicted on the adulterators.
KV Seetharamaiah
Hassan
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Sir — This refers to the brain
stromer, “Tughlaq Kumar” (August
5). There should be a way for the
Union Government to remove
such administrators like Bihar
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar before
they can do irreparable harm to the
fabric of the country.
Abhi
Via web
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Sir — This refers to the editorial,
“For a unified tax regime” (August
5). The passage of the Goods and
Services Tax Bill major breakthrough in the history of tax
reforms in the country. The credit goes to the BJP-led NDA
Government, especially Prime
Minister Narendra Modi. This
achievement has earned him a
place in the history. This is something similar to the achievement
made by former Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee who laid
down the golden quadrilateral
road project in our country.
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Patna
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espite suffering a major
defeat in the 2014 Lok
Sabha election, the national leadership of the
Congress is continuing to
prove that it has not learnt any lessons
from
past
experiences.
P
Chidambaram, the Congress’s most
prominent leader from Tamil Nadu,
withdrew from contesting the 2014 Lok
Sabha polls and made his son Karti
Chidambaram a candidate who faced
defeat. The Congress did not even win
a single seat in Tamil Nadu.
When P Chidambaram was the
Finance Minister in the UPA II
Government, allegations about corruption involving several crores of rupees
surfaced against him. A man with no
roots in his own State, P Chidambaram,
was made a Rajya Sabha member from
Maharashtra, despite stiff objections
from the party. As per reports, the
Congress is planning to make him its
leader in the Rajya Sabha. What is the
Congress high command planning to
achieve by bringing P Chidambaram,
who could not even strengthen the party
in his own State, into the Rajya Sabha?
Does the Congress leadership have a
practical plan to effectively face the challenges posed by the BJP? The BJP is a
party with a strong cadre base while the
Congress still remains a mass organisation. It is yet to be seen whether the high
command has a plan to transform the
Congress into a cadre-based party with
enough strength to take on the BJP.
There has been no general body
meeting of the All India Congress
Committee for the past several months.
It is also not certain whether serious discussions are taking place in the Congress
Working Committee as to how to
strengthen the party. Most Congress
leaders are speaking about how the party
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made a come back in 1980, like a
phoenix, after losing in 1977. What they
do not remember is the fact that it was
possible only due to the charismatic leadership of Indira Gandhi. Does the grand
old party have a leader like India Gandhi
who can communicate with the people?
While on the one hand, in the 2009
Lok Sabha polls, the BJP could get only
116 seats and the Congress bagged 206
seats. On the other hand, in the 2014 election, the Congress managed only 44 seats
and the BJP bagged 282 seats. The
Congress could not even become the principal opposition party in the Lok Sabha.
The BJP’s campaign was heavily based on
the corruption committed by the
Ministers of the Congress and its allies in
UPA II, to the tune of C2,10,068 crore.
Just like the 2014 Lok Sabha election,
in which people had thrown the UPA out
of power, the 2016 Assembly election in
Kerala saw the people rejecting the
Congress-led United Democratic Front
(UDF) Government. Allegations of corruption and immorality were leveled
against several Ministers, including the
Chief Minister, the Home Minister of the
UDF regime. They became subjects of
heated debates. The fall of the UDF
Government was made intense by the
alleged corrupt decisions taken by its
Cabinet just before the announcement of
the schedule for the election.
The situation worsened further by the
decision taken by the then Cabinet to
butcher the Right to Information Act in
order to bury allegations. Other reasons
that worsened the UDF’s defeat were the
survival-based groupism played under the
leadership of top Congress leaders like
Oommen Chandy and Ramesh
Chennithala. They carried unhealthy
activities in the name of factions and allocation of tickets in polls on group basis.
Corruption became rampant even at the
district and lower levels, reminding one
of the saying, ‘Yatha Raja Tatha Praja’ (As
the King, so the people). Traditional votes
that had leaked from the kitty of the
Congress had gone to the BJP-led NDA
and the Communist Party of India
(Marxist) CPI(M)-headed Left
Democratic Front (LDF).
One wonders whether the decisions
taken by the Congress high command,
with regards to the organisational matters in Kerala, were really intended to
strengthen the party? When the
Congress faced the Kerala Assembly polls
of 2001, under the leadership of Congress
leader AK Antony and the then Pradesh
Congress Committee (PCC) president
Thennala Balakrishna Pillai, the party
won 61 out of the total 140 seats.
Antony became the Chief Minister,
but had to resign in 2004 due to plots formulated by those who were craving for
his post. In 2004, Chandy became the
Chief Minister and Chennithala took the
position of the Kerala PCC chief.
In the 2006 election, the Congress
could get only 24 seats and the UDF
became the opposition party. Chandy
became the Opposition leader and
Chennithala continued as the PCC president. The UDF continued as an inert
Opposition for five years. The Congress
and the UDF faced the Assembly election
in 2011 under their leadership and the
party won only 38 seats. Though the UDF
could come to power, but strangely, the
CPI(M), with 45 seats, became the single
largest party in the Assembly.
It should be noted that the 2011 election was held when the divisionist battle
in the CPI(M), between two of its tallest
leaders, Achuthanandan and Pinarayi
Vijayan, was at its peak. The CPI(M)-led
LDF had lost the Kottayam, Piravam and
Azheekode seats by thin margins.
If there were no group problems in
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Labour
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Regulation) Bill, 2016,
which was passed in Parliament
recently, was expected to resonate
with the Government’s resolve to
completely prohibit economic
activities of children under the
age of 14 years and regulate occupations for adolescents. However,
while the Bill completely bans
employment of children under
the age of 14 years, it gives legal
sanction to their involvement in
family enterprises.
In India, where a majority of
children work within the family
set-up, this loophole is at loggerheads with the Government’s
intent to prohibit child labour for
this age group. It is also based on
the flawed assumption that education and work can go hand-inhand for children. This argument
goes against the spirit of the Right
of Right to Free and Compulsory
Education (RTE) 2009.
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within the family, alongwith
schooling, has a far-reaching
implication on the child’s education and learning outcomes as
well as their health and overall
development. We have witnessed
children as young as eight years
going to pick jasmine flowers
before the crack of dawn and
thereafter going to school, hungry and sleep deprived.
Millions of children are over
burdened with work in the family set-up. Also, in school, these
children are inattentive, tired and
have low attendance. Lack of
playtime with peers, in and after
school, deprives them of a
chance of holistic development.
These children remain at a
greater risk of dropping out
with no option to let go of their
economic roles which is essential to their family’s survival.
Moreover, children working
in family enterprises are at risk
of being engaged in unregulated
work where the entire family
works together. This holds true
for industries such as beedi
rolling, carpet weaving, embroidery, shoe-making, bangle making etc, which are largely homebased set ups. While half of the
work is carried out in factories,
the other half is done at the community level as ‘family enterprise’.
While the Government said
that the child is allowed to ‘help’
the family members after
school, the extent of their
involvement in family-based
work can definitely not be classified as ‘help’. In Madhya
Pradesh, where children work
for six hours to seven hours,
rolling beedis with their family, has more of an economic
implication than mere ‘help’.
Families rendering work for
contractors usually work on a
per-piece cost basis and looping
in children for long hours means
more work done and more
money, even if it is a meager
amount for the amount of hours
put in. Children rolling beedis
with their families get paid a
measly sum of C60 for more than
six hours of work.
In occupations where the
entire family migrates at the
site, for instance in brick klins,
children are usually engaged as
full-fledged labourers alongwith
the family. There is no mechanism to monitor the number of
hours the child puts in, or if the
child is only helping the family.
Also, the definition of family includes not only the immediate family, but also the
extended family. A family
enterprise means any work,
profession, manufacture or
business which is performed by
the members of the family
with the engagement of other
persons. This not only opens up
a range of settings where the
child can work, but also
increases instances of trafficking where the child is working
under the garb of family enter-
prise. In most cases of trafficking, the perpetuator is a close
family or community member.
This law has also brought
under its ambit the adolescent
population of children in the age
group of 15 years to 18 years to
regulate the work they are
involved in. This would have
largely been viewed as a welcome
step, but it is grave injustice to
children as it covers a small percentage of children involved in
only certain occupations.
The list of hazardous occupations for this age group has
been reduced from a list of 83
(occupations and processes) to
just three — in mines, production of inflammable substances
or explosives and the hazardous
processes assigned with it in
clause of the Factories Act, 1948.
This conveniently ignores
many other hazardous occupations that children in this age
group are involved in — domestic labour, work in brick kilns,
the CPI(M), the LDF could have retained
power by winning those three seats. In
2014, Chennithala resigned as the PCC
president and became the Home minister in the then Chandy Cabinet. Senior
leader VM Sudheeran assumed office of
the State Congress president. Two
absolutely unhealthy groups had come
into being in the Kerala Congress under
the leadership of Chandy and Chennithala
since 2004. Factions had existed in the
Kerala Congress even before, but leaders,
Antony and former Chief Minister K
Karunakaran, had always held fast to the
pro-people politics.
For this year’s Assembly election in
Kerala, the two group leaders competed
against each other for giving seats to their
loyalists. State Congress chief Sudheeran
had no big role in the selection of candidates. And the result? The Congress could
win only 22 seats. The responsibility for
the shrinkage of the number of Congress’s
Assembly seats from 61 in 2001 under
Antony’s leadership to mere 22 in the last
election rests solely on the shoulders of
these two faction leaders.
After the May election, Chandy
refused to take up the position of the
Opposition leader. Several leaders had
advised the Congress high command
against making Chennithala the
Opposition leader. The author of this piece
too had written to Congress president
Sonia Gandhi and Congress vice president
Rahul Gandhi, requesting them not to
give the post to either of these two leaders. But the Congress high command did
not lend ear to these advices and requests.
It is with immense disappointment
that one has to state that the approach of
the Congress high command even after
all these devastating experiences is that it
would not improve, come what may.
(The writer is a senior Congress leader
and former Kerala Minister)
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agriculture, gem cutting, work in
slaughter houses, carpet weaving,
cotton ginning, stone breaking
and crushing, tyre retreading etc.
While the Government has
assured that the list of hazardous
occupations and processes for
children will be revised, there is
no clarity on the basis on which
it will arrive at the new list.
There are 33 million child
labourers in the age group of
zero to 18 years (Census 2011),
when they deserve a childhood
that is free from labour and the
pressure of fulfilling economic
roles as adults. The
Government’s mission of transforming the childhood would
have been much meaningful,
had it banned child labour in
entirety, without any exceptions.
The Bill now has the assent
of the President which has left a
few concerns unaddressed.
(The author is the Director,
Policy and Advocacy for CRY)
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announced that the bidding
rounds for the country’s
biggest-ever spectrum auction would kick-off from
September 29. “Large chunk
of spectrum is being put for
auction which address issue of
fragmentation, improve quality of service and rules have
been made bidder friendly,”
Telecom Secretary JS Deepak
said while releasing Notice
Inviting Application (NIA).
The Government is
expecting to raise at least
C64,000 crore from the auction of about 2,354.55 Mhz of
spectrum and C98,995 crore
from various levies and services in the telecom sector this
financial year. For the first
time, the Government has
promised to assign spectrum
within 30 days of making
upfront payment by successful bidders.
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a total of 2,354.55 megahertz
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and 2300 Mhz. All the airwaves being put for auction
can be used for high speed 4G
services. The total quantum of
spectrum being put for auction includes about 197 Mhz
of frequencies in 1800 Mhz
band and 37.5 Mhz in 800
Mhz band (CDMA band).
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airwaves in 700 Mhz band will
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C4 lakh crore if all spectrum
in it gets sold at the base price.
The Department of
Telecom (DoT) will hold prebid conference on clarification
over NIA on August 13. The
DoT will issue clarification, if
any, on August 29, and then
will give 15-days time to companies for submitting their
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auction by September 13.
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COAI on Monday termed
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TRAI’s consultation paper on
call connect charges as “unfair
on incumbent operators”, and
questioned the regulator’s
urgency in initiating the process
of interconnect review, which
the association claimed
“favours new entrants”.
“We are unable to understand what is the hurry. Usually,
there is a 2-3 years timeframe
(for the review) but it has only
been one year,” COAI (Cellular
Operators Association of India)
director general Rajan Mathews
told the news agency.
On Friday, TRAI started
the review of interconnection
charges -- paid by one telecom
operator to another for connecting phone calls -- against
the backdrop of 4G and
charges (SUC) to the
Government.
However, telecom companies winning spectrum in
700, 800 and 900 Mhz band
will have to pay at least 25 per
cent of the bid amount ini-
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largest telco Idea Cellular on
Monday reported a massive
74.5 per cent fall in consolidated net income to C217.1
crore for the three months to
June 30, on spectrum capex
and changes in recognising
data revenue.
On a standalone basis, the
profit slipped 36.1 per cent to
C497.1 crore from C777.8 crore
a year ago, the company said.
Total income grew 7.9 per
cent on a consolidated basis to
C9,486.6 crore, while pretax
profit stood at C1,155 crore,
down from C1,567.64 crore a
year ago.
Pre-tax profit margin
slipped to 32.4 per cent for the
reporting quarter from 33.9
per cent a year ago, which its
chief financial officer Akshaya
Moondra attributed to higher
network and IT spends and
also dip in 3G inter-connection
revenue it earned from other
operators.
The Aditya Birla group
company also changed the
way it recognises data revenue,
which forms 20.6 per cent of
the revenue pie to recognise
income only after data usage.
Moondra said this has
resulted in a hit of C128 crore
to the topline, but stressed that
this was a one-time hit.
Additionally, there was spec-
trum payouts for March 2015
and February 2014 periods.
He further said because of
the data deferment charges
and the spectrum payouts,
where the exact figure was not
shared, the bottomline is not
comparable.
The company said at the
end of June quarter, its active
4G customers stood at over 18
lakh, while 2.7 crore customers
were using 3G or 4G data services with 1.03 crore addition
in last one year.
Its overall mobile data
users reached 4.9 crore at the
end of June with blended
mobile data average revenue
per user of C142 in the reporting period which was C147 a
year ago. The blended Arpu,
including voice, slipped a
notch to C181 from C182 a year
ago.
Managing
Director
Himanshu Kapania said Idea is
following a “volume-led” strategy on the data front, which
will soon be witnessing aggressive competition with the entry
of Reliance Jio, due to which
the Arpus are going down.
Kapania said the company
is expanding aggressively on
the data front, saying it is
installing one site every 10
minutes and already has 40,000
sites.
He said data usage is moving from classes to masses, but
each telco is trying to locate the
“sweet spot” when it comes to
pricing. Moondra said the
company invested C1,080 crore
during the quarter and maintained C6,500-7,000 crore guidance for the fiscal, excluding
the money which gets invested
in the upcoming spectrum
auctions that begins from
September 29.
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ONGC shelled out C18,787
crore in excess subsidy over 3
years as it ‘over- reported’
crude oil production by 12 per
cent, which also resulted in
extra payment of peformance
related pay to its executives,
government auditor CAG said
on Monday.
In a report tabled in
Parliament, the Comptroller
and Auditor General of India
(CAG) said ONGC ‘overreported’ its crude oil production by 12 per cent through
inclusion of items like condensate in the output.
“Audit of the crude oil
measurement and reporting
system indicated that the company (ONGC) was reporting
partially stabilized crude oil as
its crude oil production.
“This led to over-reporting
of crude production by including items other than crude oil,
namely, off-gas, BS&W (impurities) and recoverable internal
consumption,” it said.
Basic sediment and water
(BS&W) is a technical specification of certain impurities in
crude oil.
ONGC has also reported
‘condensate’ production inappropriately as crude oil production, though both products
were identified distinct and
treated differently by it.
Out of 132.17 million tons
of crude oil production claimed
by ONGC in five years from
2010-11 to 2014-15, as much as
12.1 per cent of over 6 million
tons was over-reported.
“The over-reporting and
incorrect reporting of crude oil
production has presented an
inaccurate picture of perfor-
mance of the company on
crude oil production and has
led to the company sharing an
additional subsidy burden of Rs
18,787.43 crore during 2012
and 2015,” CAG said.
Besides, the over-reporting
also resulted in over payment
of performance related pay
(PRP) to the company executives and staff.
“With ageing of fields
(majority bring more than 30
years old), there has been an
increase in water cut. This
coupled with lack of adequate
handling/processing facilities at
the production installations
resulted in higher proportion of
BS&W and off gas in the crude
oil.
“The company, however,
reported crude oil production
without adjusting these elements fully,” CAG said.
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Kapania said Idea will continue to look at expandingnetwork and enter new markets
post the next month’s spectrum
auction, and expressed the
confidence that the bidding will
not be as aggressive as the
industry is moving into an era
of “spectrum glut” from “spectrum scarcity” due to which
companies will not bid in “frenzy” and stick to economic fundamentals.
Meanwhile, the company
has decided to create a separate
entity to house its tower assets
and will look at “creating value”
by housing the unit separately,
Moondra said.
Accordingly, Idea Cellular
has already transfered over
9,700 towers into Idea Cellular
Infrastructure Services, the
newly-created entity, he said,
adding its 16 per cent stake in
leading tower company Indus
Towers will continue to be
held by its wholly-owned subsidiary Aditya Birla Telecom.
Moondra said nearly 70
per cent of the management
team for the new entity is
already in place and the company is hoping to have the
entire structure in place in the
next three-four months.
Idea Cellular counter fell
2.8 per cent to C103.1 on BSE
as against a 0.37 per cent gain
of the Sensex.
Internet telephony changing
the way consumers communicate.
At present, the termination
charges for a mobile to mobile
local and national long distance
call is pegged at 14 paise per
minute while the termination
charges for international
incoming call to wireless and
wireline stands at 53 paise per
minute.
Telecom Regulatory
Authority of India (TRAI) has
sought public view on how
domestic termination charges
should be computed -- cost
based or Bill and Keep (BAK)
-- for maximisation of consumer welfare, adoption of
more efficient technologies and
growth of the telecom sector in
the country.
In BAK method, each telecom operator bills its own subscribers for outgoing traffic
that it sends to other interconnecting network and keeps the
revenue received from its subscribers.
“TRAI is trying to introduce ‘Bill and Keep’ method,
and the move would mean that
new operators would not have
to pass on payment to existing
operators, while the latter will
have to ‘incur costs’,” Mathews
said.
“It is unfair to the incumbent operators and appears to
favour new entrants. This is a
misguided effort from TRAI
that will help new entrants, at
the cost of the incumbent...We
are extremely disturbed by this,
this further tilts the level playing field,” he alleged.
Stating that no country
with calling party pays regime
has zero termination charges,
he pointed out that the previous TRAI move on termination
rates for calls involving mobile
and landlines had already been
challenged in the court.
“The
IUC
(Interconnection Usage
Charges) paper requires us to
give answers which are the context of the litigation, and therefore subjudice,” Mathews said.
The TRAI paper also seeks
views on how charges would be
impacted as telecom operators
move to Internet Protocolbased networks.The regulator
said that essentially, with the
new arrivals viz voice over
LTE (VoLTE) and internet telephony, any attempt to set uniform domestic termination
charges on cost basis would be
a challenging task.
The last date for submission of IUC comments is
September 5 and that for
counter-comments
is
September 19, 2016.
tially within 10 days the auction ends. Rest of the payment
will have to be paid in 10
annual instalments after two
years of moratorium.
For rest of the bands, at
least 50 per cent of payment
will have to be made and the
Government has also reduced
interest on instalments to 9.3
per cent from about 10 per
cent earlier. “With auction
size of this magnitude and
bidder friendly rule there is
going to be immense interest
from bidders. The amount of
spectrum being put to auction
is more than any previous auction. It will give them opportunity to bid and acquire
chunk of spectrum which
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and automobiles are supMotoCorp on Monday
posed to witness a significant
reported 18.13 per cent
jump in net profit at
C883.10 crore, its highest
ever quarterly performance, for the first quarter
ended June 30 aided by
robust sales during the
period.
The company had registered a net profit of Rs
747.54 crore during the
April-June period last fiscal, Hero MotoCorp said in
a regulatory filing.
The
two-wheeler
marker posted gross sales
of C7,901.34 crore during
the period under review,
up 7.7 per cent from
C7,335.84 crore in the corresponding quarter of the
previous fiscal.
“The first quarter of
this fiscal carried forward
the growth trajectory that
we set for ourselves in the
previous quarter,” Hero
MotoCorp Chairman, MD
and CEO Pawan Munjal
said.
The sales growth is
reflected in the positive
financial results for the
quarter and has given the
company the momentum to
carry forward as it prepares for the upcoming festive season, he added.
would enable to them to provide international quality services,” Deepak said.
Existing or incumbent
telecom operators winning
spectrum in the upcoming
auction will need to pay SUC
according to weighted average
method calculated taking in
account current levy applicable on them and three per cent
on fresh airwaves.
The Government has
relaxed equity lock-in period.
This will free company, whose
networth has been used to
procure spectrum, to exit
from the company in 1 year as
against 5 years prescribed earlier. “The roll out obligation
will be considered complete if
the district headquarters and
block headquarters are covered by use of any technology in any band. In the sense
that if a district-headquarter
is covered through one technology it does not have to be
done by other technology,”
Deepak said.
New participants in the
auction will have to provide
Performance Bank Guarantee
(PBG) of C35 crore per telecom circle for bidding in 700
MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz and
1800 MHz. Existing players
will need to provide PBG of
C21 crore per circle.
surge in the next couple of
months as the Government is
expected to disburse an initial
amount of C45,000 crore in
August and September to
implement the 7th pay panel
recommendations.
Tata Strategic Management
Group’s report titled UnLocking the 7th Pay
Commission Bonanza highlights several cities and consumer categories that will
expect upswing in sales thus
presenting a window of opportunity for firms to target large
revenue growth in specific geographies.
As per the report, implementation of the recommendations will result in an initial
disbursement of C45,000 crore
to Central Government
employees and pensioners during August and September.
“If a large portion of this
amount were to be spent on
durables, several categories can
expect significant sales uplifts.
“Potentially, more than 30 lakh
households can purchase large
appliances or high end smart
phones or two-wheelers or
home improvement products,
more than 8.5 lakh households
could avail an international
holiday and more than 4.5 lakh
households can purchase a car,”
it said.
Further another large sum
of about C34,000 crore is likely to be disbursed for
allowances post submission
and acceptance of the report of
the
Finance
Ministry
Committee in JanuaryFebruary, it said.
“Companies that can intelligently identify these pockets of
demand and focus their attention on specific employee bands
are likely to reap benefits from
the one-time discretionary consumer spend before the festive
season this year,” said Pankaj
Gupta, Senior Practice Head,
Consumer and Retail, Tata
Strategic Management Group.
The report also predicts
that demand is unlikely to be
uniform across cities and states.
“The states of Delhi,
Maharashtra, UP and West
Bengal will account for more
than 40 per cent of the total disbursement in this period.
Smaller cities like Lucknow
and Nagpur are likely to witness
higher disbursements than larger ones like Bangalore and
Pune,” it said.
The research report said
companies need to understand
the large disbursement destinations and act quickly between
now and September 2016 to
lock in the one-time discretionary consumer spend.
The top five states -- Delhi,
Maharashtra, UP, West Bengal
and Andhra Pradesh -- will
account for about 50 per cent of
the disbursement between
August and September.
Among cities, Dehradun,
Lucknow, Nagpur, Jabalpur and
Allahabad make it to the top 10
list of cities ahead of metros of
Bangalore and Ahmedabad.
The report said with annual allIndia volumes of 50 lakhto 110
lakh units across most durable
good categories, these households represent a high growth
opportunity if a sizeable portion
of the disbursements were to be
spent on them.
Similarly, the report said 4.5
lakh Central Government
employee households will have
the capacity to spend on big
ticket purchases like fourwheelers, more than 8.5 lakh
employees could avail international holidays and almost all
could be targeted by the financial services industry for various investment and savings
products.
“While in some of these
categories there may be outright
purchases, the remaining can be
made possible with EMIs due to
monthly disbursements from
October 2016,” it said.
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Bank Governor D Subbarao
has said differences between
the central bank and the government are not bad in themselves but contribute to
improving public policies.
“Both the Central
Government and the central
bank are bound to have differences, but they are not bad
in themselves. In fact I will go
even further to say that having
differences will contribute to
improve public policies,” he
told the news agency here.
He was replying to a
query on whether the differences between him and the
then Finance Minister P
Chidambaram,
besides
Raghuram Rajan and current
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
augured well for the Indian
economy.
Subbarao, however, laid
emphasis on having appropriate arrangements, protocols
and conviction to manage differences between the two institutions so as to not to vitiate
public debate and confuse
financial markets.
“We should have appropriate arrangements, protocols and conviction for managing differences between the
central government and the
central bank. We should keep
the differences behind closed
doors so as to not vitiate public debate and not to confuse
financial markets and financial
sector professionals,” he said.
Subbarao
said,
“Differences between the central bank and the Government
is not unique to India alone,
such differences exist even in
other countries too.”
The differences stem from
the fact that the former as an
institution has a much more
larger mandate than RBI, he
said.
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than RBI. Therefore they are
bound to have differences,” he
said.
On formation of Monetary
Policy Committee (MPC),
Subbarao said there is no need
to rehash the panel and it
would only give a fillip to the
autonomy of the RBI.
“There is a debate going on
what should be the composition of the committee. I don’t
think there is any need to
rehash that. The Government
has decided that it would have
three plus three with the
Governor having the second
vote.”
“This will give a filip to the
autonomy of RBI,” he
said.Subbarao further said that
by moving to MPC system,
thecountry is adopting best
practices followed in the world.
“My view is that MPC is
good. It is a tested practice
around the world. By moving
to MPC system we are adopting the best practices being
adopted by best central banks
around the world,” he said.
Last month the government notified a law for setting
up a six-member MPC which
will decide the monetary policy.
The Centre has not
named members of the panel,
which will have an equal number from both government
and RBI.
The MPC will set interest
rates by majority, with a casting vote for the Governor in
the event of a tie.
Of the six members, three
will be from the RBI-- the
Governor, who will be the exofficio chairperson; a Deputy
Governor and an Executive
Director.
The other three members
will be appointed by the
Government, on the recommendations of a search-cumselection committee, which
will be headed by the Cabinet
Secretary.
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more for buying mutual fund
products after the implementation Goods and Services Tax
(GST), which the Government
expects to bring into force from
April next year. Investment in
mutual funds will become costlier by 300 basis points or 3 per
cent, says experts.
Under GST, which is likely
to take effect from April 1, consumers may end up spending
more as service tax burden
would go up. While there is no
indication of what the GST rate
will be, experts put it between 18
and 22 per cent.
The current service tax is 15
per cent, while under GST
regime it may go up to 18 per
cent, making the implementation of GST unfavourable for the
mutual fund sector as investors
will end up paying more taxes.
“It will impact all three
stakeholders investors, distributors and manufacturers.
Investors will pay management
fees with higher service tax
increase from 15 to 18 per cent,”
Reliance Mutual Fund Chief
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NEW DELHI: Mutual funds
ramped up their allocation for
bank stocks to a record high of
nearly C94,000 crore by Juneend, primarily on account of
steps taken by the Government
and RBI to clean up the banking system. Fund managers
have been raising their allocation to banking since February.
Prior to that, they had trimmed
exposure to the sector between
November and January due to
higher bad loans.
The recent focus on cleanup of the Indian banking system
by RBI and the Government by
rightly recognising NPAs (nonperforming assets) has helped
fund managers raise their allocation for bank stocks,
Wealthforce.Com founder
Siddhant Jain said. Besides, the
Government’s announcement
of capital infusion in public
lenders too has a positive
impact. In percentage terms,
exposure to banking stocks
was at 20.4 per cent of equity
AUM in June as against 20.28
per cent in May.
The overall deployment of
equity funds in bank stocks
stood at C93,885 crore at the
end of June compared with
C90,014 crore in May-end, as
per data available from the
Securities and Exchange Board
of India (Sebi). The industry's
exposure to banking sector was
at C78,644 crore, C71,864 crore,
C82,196 crore, C85,330 crore in
January, February, March and
April, respectively.
PTI
Executive Sundeep Sikka said.
“Asset
Management
Companies (AMCs) have to
compensate investors on liquid
kind of products where fee
charged are inelastic and to dis-
tributors who will ask manufacturers to bear part of the burden,”
he added.
In services sector, including
MF, which did not have multiple taxes, GST will not subsume
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other taxes. On the contrary,
there will be about additional 3
per cent hit for investors. The
GST Bill, which was passed in
the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday,
was taken up in Lok Sabha on
Monday.
Hailed as the most powerful
tax reform that India has seen,
GST aims to do away with multiple-tax regime on goods and
services and bring them under
one rate, will subsume central
excise, services tax and various
local levies.
“Based on the final rate
decided, it could increase rate of
tax on management fees, potentially lowering fees received by
the AMC’s. The rate of tax on
fund accounting, custodian fees
and other services could also
increase. Besides taxing of services on basis of place of supply
will further increase initial capex
and ongoing compliance costs,”
Quantum MF CEO Jimmy Patel
said. “AMC’s may choose to
absorb the overall increase in the
costs on account of GST or pass
it on to investors by increasing
expense ratios of the schemes to
the extent permitted by Sebi
Regulations,” he added.
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rules for governing terms and
conditions of service or appointment of heads of these
autonomous organisations.
“It is, however, observed
that the rules notified by the
Central Government to regulate
the terms and conditions of
appointment of heads of
autonomous organisations do
not contain any provision for initiating disciplinary action against
them in respect of misconducts
committed during their tenure of
posting,” the anti-corruption
watchdog said.
In one instance, the
Commission observed, no disciplinary action could be taken
against the head of an organisation in the absence of any
specific provision contained
in the terms and conditions for
his appointment. The whole
exercise of (preliminary) investigating in the the case turned
out to be futile as no action
could be taken against the
head of that organisation for
the misconduct, CVC said.
MUMBAI: Pharmaceuticals,
financials, consumer, auto and
auto ancillary companies have
consistently given high equity
returns to the investors while
sharp out performance has been
observed in shares of small
and mid-size businesses, during
the last 20 years, says a report.
According to financial services firm Centrum, some of the
long-term outperformers have
been Sun Pharma, HDFC Bank,
Dr Reddy's, Hero MotoCorp,
Britannia, Apollo Hospitals,
Shree Cement, Kotak Mahindra
Bank, IndusInd Bank, LIC
Housing Finance, Supreme
Industries and Eicher Motors.
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their investors over the last 20
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with the selection process for
chairman and members of the
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board,
the Government has notified certain provisions of the new law that
aims to make debt recover process
more strong. The Insolvency and
Bankruptcy Code, 2016 -- notified
by the Government in May -seeks to consolidate and amend
laws relating to reorganisation as
well as insolvency resolution of
corporate persons, partnership
firms and individuals in a timebound manner.
Corporate Affairs Ministry
has already sought applications
for the post of chairman and
three whole time members at the
Insolvency and Bankruptcy
Board, to be set up under this law.
With regard to the selection
process, certain provisions of
the law has been notified.
“The Centre hereby appoints
August 5, 2016 as the date on
which the provisions of sections
188 to 194 (both inclusive) of the
said Code shall come into force,”
the Ministry said in a notification.
These sections have been notified
to enable the selection of chairman and members to the board,
a senior official said.
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foreign brokerage BofAML on Monday said outgoing Governor Raghuram
Rajan is likely to cut rates by
0.25 per cent in his final
monetary policy review on
Tuesday on expectations of a
cool-down in inflation.
“We see three compelling
reasons for the Governor to
cut rates by 0.25 per cent on
Tuesday. As this is the last policy, he may stop at a dovish
signal,” the brokerage firm
said in a note released on the
eve of the policy review.
It said the consumer price
inflation, which has shot up to
5.8 per cent in June, will cool
down to 5.1 per cent by March,
once food inflation ebbs on
good rainfalls. The brokerage,
however, said the same number will inch up to 6 per cent
in July. Apart from inflation, it
said, the high lending rates in
the system are affecting the
economic recovery by impacting loan demand.
The note added the high
rates are also leading to higher non-performing assets. With
the ‘busy credit season’ which
witnesses a spurt in loan
demand going up, it would be
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if they indulge in corruption.
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There is no provision, at present,
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section of officers of the
public sector banks (PSBs)
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under AIBOC will hold a
‘March-to- Parliament’ protest
on Tuesday against a move to
consolidate state-owned lenders
and other ‘anti-worker’ decisions of the Government.
All India Bank Officers'
Confederation
General
Secretary Harvinder Singh said
AIBOC has called the protest on
the same day (August 9) on
which Gandhiji had launched
Quit India movement in 1942 to
oust the British from India,
because it too wants to save the
Indian economy from the
clutches of capitalists and foreigners, while protecting PSBs.
More than 10,000 officers
including from communication, power and other public
sector entities will take part in
the march, he said.
“We are opposing policies of
the Government that are leading to the foreign direct investment into critical sectors including banking. We want to oppose
the privatisation. The government is not paying attention to
our issues,” Singh said.
years. Pharma, financials, consumer, auto and auto ancillary
stories have mostly not disappointed the market and have
managed to generate good
returns, year after year,” the
report said. “These have been
most consistent performers and
have neither given outsized
returns in any period nor have
they seen sharp under performance in any period,” it added.
Going by data compiled by
Centrum for Sensex, the 30share index has generated a
return of 7.55 per cent since
2011. It had given negative
returns of 1.64 per cent to
investors during the period
1996-2001, following which it
had generated 25.37 per cent
and 12 per cent returns in
2001-2006 and 2006-2011,
respectively.
Similarly, Nifty has given an
equity return of 8.05 per cent till
July 1, since 2011. The index
had given 23.23 per cent returns
in 2001-2006, after giving negative returns for the previous
five year period (1996-2001).
Further, it had generated returns
of about 12.4 per cent in 20062011. Centrum also noted that
sharp out performance in the
last 20 years has always comes
from small, mid-sized and
upcoming businesses.
“While equity is a longterm return giving asset class,
stock selection is very important and one cannot necessarily keep holding the same
shares,” the report said. PTI
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maker Wockhardt on Monday
tanked nearly 10 per cent
after the USFDA banned
import of products manufactured at its Ankleshwar
plant for non- compliance of
manufacturing norms.
The import alert has been
issued under 'Import Alert
66-40', which authorises the
health regulator ‘detention
without physical examination
of drugs from firms which
have not met drug GMPs’.
Following the development,
shares of the company opened
on a weak note at C955.00 on
BSE, then tanked 14.33 per cent
to an intra-day low of C870 and
finally settled for the day at
C915.30, down 9.88 per cent.
Similar movement was
seen on the NSE as well where
the stock opened at C952, then
plunged 13.51 per cent to an
intra-day low of C877.95. At the
end of today's trading price, the
stock was quoted at C915.05,
down 9.86 per cent.
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good to lower the rates ahead
of it. A possible rate hike by the
US Fed, which was earlier said
to be one of the factors deferring a cut by the RBI, is also
getting delayed, it said.
With the RBI pushing for
reforms, the brokerage pointed out the passage of the constitutional amendment on GST
which should assuage concerns. Rajan is widely expected to go in for a status quo at
his last review on inflation
concerns. This is going to be
the last bi-monthly monetary
policy to be decided by the
Central Bank Governor as the
broad-based six-member panel
may take over the job before
the next review on October 4.
The
Government
announced last week that it
would like the RBI to focus on
maintaining retail inflation rate
of 4 per cent for the next five
years, based on which the new
interest rate setting panel would
take its monetary policy decisions
going forward.
The move, which provides
for a margin of plus or minus
2 per cent in this target thus fixing the upper tolerance level at
6 per cent till 2021, is being seen
as the government putting the
seal on Rajan's inflation-first
model of monetary policy.
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company plans to launch their
air-purifiers in Indian market soon.
“Now, we can say we will launch airpurifiers in India,” Xiaomi India
head Manu Jain said when asked
about products the company was
planning to introduce beside
mobiles this year. He, however, did
not mention any specific date for
the launch or pricing details.
Jain also declined to comment
about the launch of Mi TV in 2016.
The compact Mi air-purifier was
first showcased in China in
November 2015 when it was touted to be priced at around C7,000
based on Chinese pricing. Air purifiers will be one of the major products beside mobiles and some
accessories and Mi Band. Asked
about the target for 2016, Jain said,
“We never had targets in Xiaomi.”
Without disclosing sales in
India in 2015, Jain said in the last
four quarters (last 2 quarters of
2015 and first 2 quarters of
2016), the company has sold in
excess of one million handsets in
India. He said despite focus to
stay in online strategy, the company will gradually grow the
offline sales, which is at 10 per
cent of the total sales with some
5,000 retail dealer footprint.
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NEW DELHI: To increase
power generation potential of
low-capacity wind mills, the
Government will provide additional interest rate rebate of
0.25 per cent for wind turbine
generators of up to 1 megawatt.
The Government has come
up with the policy to promote
optimum utilisation of wind
energy resources as a large
number of wind-turbines
installed up to the year 2000 are
of capacity below 500 KW and
are at sites having high wind
energy potential, a senior official told PTI.
Initially, wind turbine generators of capacity of up to one
MW would be eligible for
repowering under the policy.
However, the Ministry of New &
Renewable Energy (MNRE) can
extend the policy to other projects also after evaluation of
their initial experience.
“The main aim of the
Repowering Policy is to promote
optimum utilisation of wind
energy resources by creating
facilitative framework for repowering,” the official said.
As per the policy, Indian
Renewable Energy Development
Agency (IREDA) will provide an
additional interest rate rebate of
0.25 per cent over and above the
interest rate rebates available to
the new wind projects being
financed by IREDA.
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including a new-born baby, on
board a private chopper were
killed after it crashed in a forest area in central Nepal while
flying the baby and her mother to Kathmandu for treatment.
The Fishtail Air helicopter
carrying six passengers lost
contact with air traffic control
tower shortly after it took off
from Gorkha on Monday.
The chopper, which was
flying the new-born for a treatment in Kathmandu with her
mother, crashed at Bhatine
Danda area in Nuwakot district, 150 km west of
Kathmandu, officials said.
All seven people, including
pilot Ranjan Limbu, on board
the 9N-AKA helicopter were
killed, the Civil Aviation
Authority of Nepal (Caan)
said. A Nepal Army team and
other rescue officials have been
deployed at the crash site, said
Devendra KC, spokesperson of
the Caan.
The cause of the crash was
yet to be probed. “Without an
investigation, we cannot tell
what caused the accident,”
Ramesh Shiwakoti of the
Fishtail Air said.
PTI
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IClinton
having established an average 10 per
cent lead in six major polls, Donald Trump
has turned to his plans for the economy —
a perceived area of his strength.
As Trump prepared to unveil on
Monday his policy to stimulate growth and
create jobs in a big way, his advisers were
quoted as saying that he would focus on
trade, taxes, regulations and immigration as
part of his bid to make America more competitive on the global stage.
Ahead of the policy release in Detroit,
indications were that Trump would make
a strong push by slashing the corporate tax,
trimming regulations and boosting domestic energy production. There has been talk
that Trump would pursue a 15 per cent corporate tax rate, down from the current 35
per cent.
Trump has already proposed major tax
reductions across the board. According to
his website, the highest income would be
taxed at a rate of 25 per cent, while there
will be no income taxes on single filers
making less than $25,000 or families
making less than $50,000. Currently, the
tax rate on the top income group is pro-
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Indian girl, who was abducted
from Bihar and taken to Nepal,
was rescued on Monday as two
of her kidnappers were arrested from the country’s eastern
Morang district.
Sparsa Agrawal was
abducted on Thursday from
Kursela in Katihar district of
Bihar while returning home
from school. A joint team of
regional investigators and
Central Investigation Bureau
personnel rescued Agrawal
from the Morang district, ‘The
Kathmandu Post’ reported.
The kidnappers had
demanded a ransom of Rs 10
million, the police said, adding
that a former bus driver of the
girl’s school was involved in her
abduction.
PTI
Ankara: A senior German
diplomat, making the most
high-profile visit to Ankara by
a Berlin official since the failed
July 15 coup, urged Turkey to
respect international law as it
deals with those responsible for
the attempted putsch.
“If this attempt had succeeded, it would have been a
disaster for Turkey, Germany
and the region,” Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs Markus
Ederer said after seeing the
damage to parliament from
bombs dropped by F-16 jets.
He offered Berlin’s support in punishing putschists
but stressed actions should be
“within the rule of law”. “It is
essential that these criminal
investigations are conducted in
accordance with international
norms — European Union,
Council of Europe and OSCE
standards,” Ederer told a press
briefing at the parliament
building in Ankara.
Tensions between Berlin
and Ankara worsened last
month after President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan was blocked by
a German court from delivering a speech from Turkey to a
rally in Cologne.
AFP
jected to be 39.6 per cent.
One of Trump’s advisers was quoted
by Reuters as saying that this would be the
biggest tax revolution since President
Ronald Reagan’s in 1986. The proposed
corporate tax initiative is expected to
encourage US companies with overseas
operations to repatriate profits at a reduced
tax rate.
Trump’s plan will also eliminate the
estate tax and propose a temporary moratorium on new regulations but moot
stronger protections for American intellectual property, a Trump campaign aide
was quoted as saying.
Coming as it does after a week of missteps that are thought to have cost him
heavily in the polls, Republicans are hoping that their nominee will effectively reset
his presidential campaign from now on
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surging Clinton candidacy.
Clinton will appear before the same
forum — Detroit Economic Club — on
Thursday to come up with a counter and
highlight her own economic policy. As of
Monday, the Democratic nominee was sitting pretty with a CNN Poll of Polls, incorporating the results of six major national
polls, reported that Clinton had an average
of 49 per cent to Trump’s 39 per cent. All
these polls (by CNN/ORC, CBS News, Fox
News, NBC News/Wall Street Journal,
Marist/McClatchy Poll and ABC
News/Washington Post) were conducted
after the recent Republican and Democratic
conventions.
“The new averages reflect a sharp
increase in support for Clinton compared
with pre-convention polls,” CNN said, noting that its previous Poll of Polls, conducted before the Republican convention,
found Clinton ahead by a smaller number
— 45% to 41%.
The polls have also thrown up another interesting find: a surprisingly good performance by the two third-party candidates. Gary Johnson, a former Republican
Governor turned Libertarian candidate,
has 9 per cent, and Jill Stein, the Green
Party candidate, has 5 per cent.
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Washington: Delta Airlines
grounded all its flights for several hours on Monday because
of a system-wide computer
breakdown, making for a
messy day at airports around
the world.
Even after the US carrier
lifted the order about six hours
into the snafu, it warned of
continued cancellations and
delays, as tens of thousands of
passengers around the globe
were left stranded.
Travelers crowded ticket
lition, a media report said here on Monday.
The 55-year-old Hanif, an alleged aide
of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, was
traced to a grocery store in Bolton, Greater
Manchester, and arrested by Scotland Yard
on an extradition warrant from Indian
authorities in February, 2010.
He lost his appeal in the UK High
Court in April 2013 following which the
case was handed over to then UK home secretary and now Prime Minister, Theresa
May, to sign an extradition order.
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made to the Home Secretary in this case
and they are currently being carefully
considered,” a UK Home Office spokesperson said. Hanif, whose full name is
Mohammed Hanif Umerji Patel, arrived in
the UK illegally in 1996 after skipping bail
in India following his arrest over the
attacks.
He was allowed to stay in Britain claiming he was a Muslim being persecuted in
Hindu-dominated Gujarat and went on to
obtain a UK passport in 2005.
PTI
passports of 68 citizens over their
involvement in Islamic State’s
activities abroad, Deputy Prime
Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
said, warning the threat from the
dreaded terror outfit is real.
Ahmad, who is also the
Home Minister, said the passports were revoked two weeks
ago after a directive was issued
by Prime Minister Najib Razak.
“They no longer have travelling documents as Malaysian
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Washington: Dog lovers, say cheers! A
US-based company has created new
wines to cater to your canine companion’s sophisticated tastes. The pet wine
company has introduced two varieties
of dog wines, ZinFanTAIL and
CharDOGNay, in about 350 ml bottles.
The wines do not contain any alcohol or grapes — both of which are dangerous for dogs. They are made with
brewed peppermint or chamomile to
help calm your pup down. They get their
colouring from beet juice, the company said.
Earlier this year, the company had
introduced new wine for cats which
relies on catnip to produce a stimulating effect.
PTI
be taken against them under the
Immigration Act,” he said.
The 68 Malaysians included two families which had
travelled to Syria with the
intention to fight for ISIS and
achieve martyrdom, he said,
adding the families comprised
couples with children aged
between 3 and 11.
“They went to Syria to
supposedly fight for IS (Islamic
State), but are working as clean-
threat was real, and that the
Government was not trying to
divert the public’s attention
away from other issues as
claimed by certain quarters.
“There are 10 hand
grenades in the possession of
the terrorists we are tracking.
Two were used in the night
Club bombing here last month.
We do not know when or
where the next (attack) is going
to take place,” he said.
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reportedly found major security flaws in chips being used
in nearly 900 million Android
smartphones globally that
could give cyber criminals
complete access to the data.
According to the team
from Israel-based software and
hardware giant Check Point,
the bugs were uncovered at the
software running on chipsets
made by US firm Qualcomm,
BBC reported on Monday.
Qualcomm processors are
found in about 900 million
Android phones, Check Point
said, adding that there is no evidence of the vulnerabilities
currently being used in attacks
by cyber thieves.
“I am pretty sure you will
see these vulnerabilities being
used in the next three to four
months,” Michael Shaulov,
head of mobility product management at Checkpoint, was
quoted as saying.
The flaws, which were
found in software that handles
graphics and in code that con-
trols communication between
different processes running
inside a phone, were revealed
after six months of work
to
reverse
engineer
Qualcomm’s code.
The attackers can exploit
the bugs to gradually take control over a device and gain
access to data. “It is always a
race as to who finds the bug
first, whether it is the good guys
or the bad,” Shaulov added.
According to the report,
Check Point handed information about the bugs and proof
of concept code to Qualcomm
earlier this year.
According to Check Point,
affected devices include:
BlackBerry Priv and Dtek50,
Blackphone 1 and Blackphone
2, Google Nexus 5X, Nexus 6
and Nexus 6P, HTC One, HTC
M9 and HTC 10, LG G4, LG
G5 and LG V10, New Moto X
by Motorola, OnePlus One,
OnePlus 2 and OnePlus 3, US
versions of the Samsung Galaxy
S7 and Samsung S7 Edge and
Sony Xperia Z Ultra.
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Karachi: Hizbul Mujahideen
chief Syed Salahuddin asked
Pakistan to snap diplomatic ties
with India if a “peaceful solution”
to ongoing violence in Kashmir
is not reached. Salahuddin said
Hizbul Mujahideen commander
Burhan Wani’s killing gave a
“new meaning to the struggle”
for Kashmir. He asked Pakistan
to “find a peaceful solution to the
ongoing violence”, Dawn newspaper reported.
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“Further representations have been
in 1993 following the Babri Masjid demoBaghdad: Iraqi air force has
received a new batch of F-16
Fighting Falcon aircraft from
the United States, bolstering the
country’s fledging air force
amid more than two years of
fighting with the Islamic State
group, a spokesman said on
Monday as attacks in and near
Baghdad killed six people.
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spokesman, Brig Gen Tahseen
Ibrahim, told The Associated
Press that the new batch consisted of four fighter jets.
Ibraim did not give more
details or say when the next
shipment will be delivered.
With the new arrivals, Iraq
has now eight F16s in service,
out of 36 fighter jets the US
agreed to sell to Baghdad. Also
today, a bomb went off at an
outdoor market in the town of
Youssifiyah killing four shoppers and wounding 11, a police
officer said. Two more civilians
were killed in another bomb
explosion in a commercial area
in Baghdad’s western Eskan
neighborhood.
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counters, lay on the ground in
airports and tried to grin and
bear it. Ticket agents were
reduced to checking people in
manually, news reports said.
The carrier blamed the
computer problem on a power
outage in its hub in Atlanta,
Georgia.Flights have resumed
but on a limited basis, Delta
said in a statement after flights
had been grounded for about
six hours. However, the ripple
effect of the meltdown will drag
on.
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Taipei: Nearly 350 drivers in
Taiwan were slapped with fines
for playing on their phones
after Pokemon Go launched on
the island, which has already
resulted in broken legs and
museum bans. The gaming
app has sparked a global frenzy since its launch last month
as users hunt for virtual cartoon characters overlaid on
real-world locations using augmented reality technology.
A total of 349 fines were
issued since the game launched
in Taiwan on Saturday, with the
majority of the offenders driving motorcycles, according
to the National Police Agency.
While Pokemon Go has
been praised for motivating
people to become more active,
authorities have warned players to remain alert. “Catch the
rare creatures, but don’t let accidents catch up with you!”
Taiwan’s Premier Lin Chuan
said on the cabinet’s Facebook
page.
AFP
Tokyo: It was a bit touch and
go for Hiroshima officials, but
the atomic bomb memorial
park in the western Japanese
city is now Pokemon No.
The city had asked the
developer of the popular
“Pokemon Go” smartphone
game to remove the creatures
and sites that appeared in the
park by last weekend, when a
solemn annual ceremony was
held to mark the anniversary of
the atomic bombing that killed
140,000 people in the final
days of World War II.
The “Pokestops” and gyms,
and the clumps of players that
they attract, were gone by last
Thursday, but the monsters
that gamerss try to catch were
still popping up.
The city sent an email
inquiry to game developer
Niantic, and got a repsonse at
1:56 am Saturday, just six hours
before the start of the ceremony. “We were so relieved,” city
official Tatsuya Sumida said.
AP
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for his vivacious
charm
and
calm
hen I started doing fashion designing, my first
collection was in khadi.
The sales were good. And now
after being 25 years in the Fashion
industry, today I am honored to do
it again,” said designer Ritu Beri
unveiling her collection using
khadi.
The Khadi and Village
Industries Commission (KVIC)
launched the exclusive range in the
presence of Micro, Small and
Medium Enterprises minister Kalraj
Mishra, BJP’s national spokesperson
Meenakashi Lekhi and Minister of
State for Home Haribhai Parthibhai
Chaudhary. The designer, known
for her love for khadi, tried to give
the ethnic fabric a global image, to
adopt it to different forms of creativity, rather than limiting it to the old
yesteryear image.
“There is nothing more comfortable than khadi. It should be
known everywhere in the manner
linen is. Wearing it is a real luxury.
Khadi is handspun and handwoven.
What makes me happier is that it
gives employment to millions of
Indians. We should join hands and
work together to make it more popular. In the latest collection, I tried
out something that would be equally pleasing to almost all, be the
youth or the old”, said Beri.
One of the guests, BJP
spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi
said, “Khadi is our national fabric
and we should be proud of wearing
and promoting it. If you want to
take the heritage of the country forward, you will have to connect the
younger generation to khadi.” She
also thanked Ritu for designing a
line that would gel with the youth.
Congratulating the designer,
Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary
said that “all of us should unite as
a nation and support and promote
khadi. The Prime Minister always
promotes khadi even on his foreign
tours,” he added.
Mr Mishra said that khadi is
now meant for each and every one,
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whether Ritu Beri will be named the
brand ambassador of khadi, he
said, “PM Narendra Modi has been
attached to khadi for long. He has
been popularising it across the
globe. Modi jackets are worldwide
trend now. So, why do we need an
ambassador?”
Ritu Beri agreed with Mishra
and said that “It is my a dream to
design dresses for the PM. He’s a
real inspiring leader. To design for
him will be an honour”.
The new collection is about
voluptuous indulgence and has a
huge variety for men and women.
It is a blend of ghagras, salwars,
choga like jackets and easy wear
tops. The colour palette ranges
from whites to pastels, metallics to
blacks.
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Diaries, by Helen
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Fielding, will be published
by Jonathan Cape on 11
October 2016. Based on
Fielding’s original columns
in The Independent, the
diaries tell Bridget’s story of
her somewhat bumpy journey into motherhood.
As she careers towards
baby-deadline, tortured by
Smug Mothers miming her
ticking biological clock, a
series of classic Bridget
Jones moments finally
leads her into pregnancy –
but just not quite as
intended. It’s a pregnancy full of cheesy
potatoes, outlandish
advice
from
Drunken Singletons
and Smug Mothers,
chaos at scans and
childbirth classes,
high jinks and
romance, joy and
despair – but all of it
dominated by the
terribly awkward
question – ‘Who’s the
Father?’
Rights for the novel
were acquired from
Creative Artists Agency by Richard Cable, Managing Director at
Vintage, for Jonathan Cape. Translation rights will be handled by
Aitken Alexander Associates in the UK. The book will be available in hardback, ebook and audiobook formats.
Helen Fielding’s novel Bridget Jones’s Diary was an international bestseller and a global phenomenon when it was first published
in 1996. Fielding followed in 1999 with a sequel, Bridget Jones: the
Edge of Reason and in 2013 with Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
All three were phenomenal international bestsellers and have been
published in 40 different countries.
Helen Fielding said, “At heart Bridget Jones is about the gap
between how we all feel we’re expected to be and how we actually
are and – as Bridget discovers with her somewhat bumpy pregnancy — how we expect life to turn out and how it actually does. I’m
excited to see Bridget’s world on the big screen again.”
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demeanour, seems to be
getting better with age.
Having established himself
in the action and entertainer genre, the actor is
slowly carving his space
with his offbeat outings.
He seems to be enjoying
himself without the pressure of big bucks riding on
these projects. On being asked about his character in
Rustom, he said, “I have played many characters
before but this is a little different. You will see that I
am restraining myself and I speak only when
required.” Maybe his friendship with director Neeraj
Pandey helped matters, but the actor countered this
saying, “Yes we are friends, but at the same time we
are professionals. I don’t know if he
likes me as an actor or not, but yes,
it's fun working with him, because
it doesn’t seem like work. We come
for the shoot, finish things on time
and that’s about it.” He is experimenting with different genres. "I
am the same as any other
normal person, I get
bored with doing the
same kind of roles over
and over again. There
is no harm in trying
new things and I am
looking forward to
doing things I have
not done before,” he
said. Ileana D’Cruz,
who is playing her
first lead character
in Bollywood, looked
supremely confident
about her work in the
film. She said, “I think
Vipul has done a fantastic
job with the script. When
I read it, I knew I had to
take this up. I have never
done anything of this sort
before.” Asked about actors
hailing from South Indian
film backgrounds finding
their apt space in mainstream Hindi films, she said,
“I am not of the opinion that
any film is small, but yes,
when you are working in
films, you want to reach out
to a larger audience. Also
since I am more comfortable
talking in English, Hollywood
may be?” On working with a
new director, she said, “I am of
the firm belief that the director
is the anchor of the ship, experience doesn’t count, and it’s the
conviction
that
is
needed."Director turned producer Neeraj Pandey, appeared a little hesitant about
sharing what the film was about and summed it up
with, “I call it a suspense thriller. If I speak more
about it, it will kill the suspense that surrounds the
launch.” Looking at the way the producer and cast has
lauded the script and their characters, one can expect
en explosive opening to the film. Rustom releases in
theatres on August 12.
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imperialism, the freedom fighters
floated hundreds of kites in the sky
with the words, “Go Back Simon”
Patangbaazi or kite-flying is
an ancient tradition of India, particularly Delhi. It is believed that
it had been a socio-cultural tradition of Delhi at least for the last 500
years. The scene of kite-flying is
also found in the ancient miniature paintings of the Mughal era.
And this recreational activity continues with full vigour in Delhi
even today, particularly around the
Independence Day.
Yes, come August, the skyline
of Delhi undergoes a beautiful
transformation with thousands
of tiny-dots of manifold colours
gliding under the vast blue canopy.
These tiny-dots are patangs. They,
indeed, create a riot of colours in
the sprawling sky. With the gush
of air, those coloured dots move
right and left, up and down,
reflecting freedom of expression.
Way back in 1812 when Phool
Waalon Ki Sair started in Delhi,
hundreds of people took to flying
kites to welcome the Mughal
Prince Mirza Jahangir back to
Delhi from his years of exile in
Allahabad. It is an interesting tale
to tell. Mirza Jahangir, son of
Mughal badshah Akbar Shah II,
had fired upon Sir Archibald
Seton, the British Resident in the
Red Fort, whom he did not like.
The bullet missed Sir Archibald
but killed one of his bodyguards.
For this, the Shahzada was exiled
to Allahabad. His mother Queen
Mumtaz Mahal Begum was total-
ly distraught and vowed that as
and when her son returned to
Delhi, she would offer a floral
chadar at the Dargahof Khwaja
Bakhtiar Kaki at Mehrauli (a place
that continues to exist in Delhi).
After three years, when
Shahzada Mirza Jahangir was
released and came to Delhi in
1812, his mother offered the
chadar, while hundreds of Delhiwallahs flew kites to celebrate his
return. The offering of chadar
turned into an annual traditional
event called Phool Waalon Ki
Sair, in Delhi. Even today, colourful kites sail in the sky on the occasion of Phool Waalon Ki Sair
marking Patangbaazi a matter of
uninterrupted tradition of 204
long years.
Patangbaazi and a few locali-
ties of Delhi grew together
Though Patangbaazi is common to entire Delhi, there are certain old pockets of the metropolis, which have grown synonymous
with it. These localities of Delhi
include Chandni Chowk,
Daryaganj, Hundson Lines,
Kingsway Camp and Lal Kuan.
When we talk of Lal Kuan, we
are referring to the main manufacturing hub of Patang or kites,
thread with Manjha and the wooden wheel that controls the movement of the Patang. This particular locality within the Walled City
that was once known as
Shahjahanabad, had been the
main bazaar for anything and
everything concerning the kites for
centuries together. Lal Kuan has
numerous kite shops, in the busi-
ness for several generations; many
are existing for even five generations. The current owners would
tell you a very interesting fact,
which they heard from their
ancestors – “There used to be
competitions of kite flying between
zaminders and nawabs in the
olden days”. Like the olden days,
the kite-flying competitions continue to remain in force in Delhi.
And now that the 70th
Independence Day is again round
the corner, all the passionate kite
flyers could be seen indulging in
the sport. One could find them flying kites in big lawns and on roof
tops. Hardly anybody knows that
there are about 150 kite-flying
clubs who regularly hold these
competitions, especially around
the Independence Day.
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Modern, Contemporary Art
auction on 14 September 2016
will be part of Asian Art Week in New
York. The auction presents paintings by
leading modern Indian masters, such
as Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, Syed Haider
Raza, Francis Newton Souza, Maqbool
Fida Husain and Jehangir Sabavala,
alongside significant contemporary
works by Bharti Kher, Subodh Gupta,
Shilpa Gupta and Sheba Chhachhi.
Also included are important works by
South Asian modernists George Keyt,
Abdur Rahman Chughtai, Rashid
Choudhury and Sheikh Mohammed
Sultan. The sale offers an overview of
the past 100 years of Indian art making.
Ahead of the New York auction,
Christie's will present, in its 20th
exhibition in India, with 10 selected
highlights on view at The Taj Mahal
Hotel here. The exhibition opens to
public from 24-25 August.Works by
Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, Syed Haider
Raza, Jehangir Sabavala, Francis
Newton Souza, Jagdish Swaminathan
and Bikash Bhattacharjee, to name a
few, will be exhibited ahead of their
flight to New York, where these works
will be presented at another open to the
public viewing at Christie's Rockefeller
Centre before the auction on 14
September.
Following Christie's last two auctions of South Asian Modern and
Contemporary Art in Mumbai and
London, where new benchmarks were
set for works by Vasudeo S. Gaitonde,
including the new world auction record
for any modern Indian work of art,the
upcoming New York sale will offer an
important canvas by the artist.
Featured on the cover of the catalogue,
the work was painted in 1970 at a
moment when Gaitonde was recognised as being at the peak of his artistic powers - in fact the following year,
he would receive the prestigious Padma
Shri award. Gaitonde's unmistakable
treatment of the canvas using roller and
pallet knife, layering, adding and taking away pigment give the painting a
marine like quality, conveying his
artistic philosophy through its ebbs and
flows. The painting, which displays a
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a meditative masterpiece and represents a cornerstone in Gaitonde's oeuvre (estimate: $1,800,000-2,200,000 /
will be on view in New Delhi).
Syed Haider Raza paintedL'Orage
(the tempest) in 1975, a fitting title for
the climax of his expressionistic use of
colour. During this period, Raza
increasingly embraced colours over
form. Discernible figurative elements
of the landscape seen in his works of
the 50s dissolved during the 60s and
early 70s into expansive explosions of
colour. This painting also perfectly presents Raza's powerful emotive longing
for the Indian landscape so acutely felt
and articulated in the 1970s. L'Orageis
is not only a homage to home but the
personification of home. Here, Raza
invokes a deep sense of land and
night by fusing abstract, representational and symbolic forms into a powerful and mystic expression of the
mood and atmosphere of the stormy
Indian landscape. Rooted in Raza's
childhood memories of life growing up
in the small and densely forested village of Kakaiya, near the Narmada
River valley in Madhya Pradesh, the
painting is an evocative expression of
the warm, pervasive darkness of the
Indian night (estimate: $1,000,0001,500,000 / will be on view in New
Delhi).
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is sketchs, be the woman playing a
string game or the one who is about
to hold a robot, directly communicate with the viewer. Human beings in
Khandual's sketches try to move away from
monotonous surroundings; they are lost in
the world they belong to. Are they represent
people from the real world? “Yes. My works
are primarily inspired by people from the real
world. They come to my mind when I sleep
or during a daydream or while I chat with
friends or even strangers”, the artist says.
He named the exhibition ‘Drawings from
my diary’ as the characters, most of them,
are those who were created first on his diary
pages. “These are drawings which got
inspired from my diary on the pages of which
they were initially created. Drawings of
Kathakali (popular art form in Kerala)
dancers have also been included in the exhibition which I created in joyous delirium.
Drawing is about connecting two points. At
a very basic level you could draw a line
between two dots. I remember drawing hundreds of these lines between preset dots on
sheets of paper in our first year architecture
studio. It was like shadow boxing. I do drawing and writing at darkness at dawn.
Drawing in the dark, for me is portraying the
world precisely. In darkness I can recreate my
dreams visually and also my past life which
is overflowing out of my diary pages”, the
artists speaks on.
“My drawings draw themselves. I watch
with glee”, he adds.
The exhibition has around hundred
drawings on paper, ten done in watercolour
and the rest in ink and conté. Sharing about
the technique while doing drawings
in conté and ink, he said, “The
crow quill pen I used to create
the drawings is with me for the
last forty years. I preferred to
be subtle in using colours in
order to show myself down.
The pen and ink drawings of the
show were created just a month
ago”, he says.
“I keep drawing either on
paper or in thin air. One drawing leads to another and so on. The process
is a harmonious continuation. You would
find me ogling at pretty women, pretty men,
would keep watching on trees, plants, goats
and sparrows. I may appear rude. But I am
at work”, he quips.
The artists, who pursued Bachelor's
Degree in Architecture from School of
Planning and Architecture, says that becoming an architect has nothing to do with his
creativity. “The desire to draw was not born
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Chaddah got together to create a
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space for artists across the country to share
their work, enabling them showcase their
talent. Konnect Art Group, an initiative
they started years ago to provide a platform
to artists, who were otherwise left unnoticed, is now organizing 'Collectively
Independent'. As the name depicts the
exhibition has a collection of works by
many artists. The exhibition going on at the
Visual Art Gallery at the Indian Habitat
Centre here, showcases paintings from all
walks and elements of life, some captured
human emotions, while others concentrated on inner peace, nature and landscapes.
On talking about the initiative Richa
Chaddah said "I started from a very young
age. I was lucky to born in a family that
allowed me to choose my path. But there
are lot of others who have talent and who work hard but are
forced to leave art due to many
compulsions. Me and Gaurav
launched Konnect Art Group
to provide a platform for
those who, would otherwise
don't get a space to showcase
their talent", she says. The
exhibition is the group's first
collective one.
hat first caught our eye
while maneuvering our
way past all those beautiful art
pieces was, a painting so pristine that it almost felt as if the
woman in the painting is breathing. But,
it did not end there, we soon found out that
it was the work of a 12-year-old girl Mishika
Chawla! She started to paint at the tender
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age of 3. "I like to read a lot, I
love to observe", she says.
Professor SN Lahiri, principal
at the College of Arts,
University of Delhi, then guided us to show his paintings. His
paintings are about the influence from the Ghats of
Banaras. In the paintings we
observed something strikingly dissimilar from what the
Ghats usually like, he said
"When I have to work, I just
look at some spot for a while
and then go back home, sit,
relax and then start again".
Gaurav Chawla's works, on the other
hand, were abstract, with a liberal usage
of colors, some with vertical stripes while
some others are horizontal, all connect to
inner movements. He says "I meditate on
colors. For me it is a natural way to get rid
of my anxiety and stress". On being asked
why he left his paintings untitled Gaurav
said "I don't want to name works. You are
free to see what you want, feel what you
want, you may like my work or may criticize me. I am not here to get universal
acceptance, I am an artist who loves colors and here I am."Award winning artist
Jyoti Lahiri's, paintings reflect the search
for inner peace. "Ultimately it is inner peace
we all search for. I don't follow a specific
pattern for work. I paint when I feel like",
he says. "When I was young, I was asked
to copy Mona Lisa which I hesitated to do
wondering that what would then happen
to my outlook" Jyoti added.
It is a rare thing, at present, to see artists
come together in a common platform.
"What
they normally do these days is to simply judge other's work. They don't work
hard. Neither they do read books or experience life in a way an artist should do", says
Proffessor SN Lahiri.
Artist Mange Ram Sharma, recipient of
many National awards also welcomed the
idea of artists coming together in a common platform. On being asked if art was
limited to those who are born with it? "In
most of the cases the answer is yes. I can
teach you the technical aspects of sketching a face, looking at an object, and the
usage and meaning of colors, but what you
do with it, is matter of your inner self. You
need to have it in you", he says. The exhibition concludes today.
out of learning architecture. I don't see
much difference between architecture
and drawing or cooking and singing.
I am not a professional. I am not very
fond of that word. Being a professional is about sitting pretty on the fence
and being safe. I switch from one thing
to another and it goes on. If I ever run
out of ideas or money I would happily become a ‘bhikshu’”, he says.
This is a remote control message
from the philosopher artist John Berger to
me, the most precious thing that has ever
happened to me. It's almost like a mantra that
he passed onto me through another friend
of mine, who herself draws everything from
birth to death and from disaster to heartbreaks. That message was about life - “We
all call it life. You won't call that work? Would
you? That's living, that's life. That's breathing in a normal way, not puffing and panting!!," concludes Khandual. The show is on
till August 16.
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ndian men's hockey team's perennial
habit of conceding late goals continued to haunt them as reigning double
Olympic champions Germany scored
seconds from the final hooter to steal a
2-1 win in a thrilling Pool B match of the
Rio Olympics, here on Monday.
It was heart-break for the Indian fans
as despite playing near perfect hockey for
the major part of the match the Germans
stole the win with just 3.1 seconds from
full time.
After weathering India's attacking
onslaught for the majority of the game,
the Germans exerted tremendous pressure on the Indian defence in the final two
minutes.
The Indian defence, which had a
good match and stood firm all throughout, fumbled in the final seconds as
Christopher Ruhr scored the winner for
Germany with a deflection from close
range to dash the PR Sreejesh-led side's
hopes.
Earlier, Germany took the lead
against the run of play through a field goal
from Niklas Wellen (18th minute) before
Rupinder Pal Singh (23rd) drew parity for
India by converting his third penalty corner of the Games.
The win helped Germany keep their
successful run intact against India since
1996. India last defeated Germany in
Olympics way back in the Atlanta Games
when they secured a 3-0 victory.
But despite the loss, the Indians can
take heart from the fact that they dished
out a much better display against
Germany today than what they managed in the recent past, which
includes a 3-3 draw against a depleted German side in the Champions
Trophy in London and 0-4 thrashing in
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India started the match as underdogs
going by the recent record against the
mighty Germans, who were in search of
their third successive Olympic gold but
it turned out to a very closely contested battle.
It was even stevens between the
two sides in the first two quarters with
both teams showcasing some good attacking and defending skills.
The Indians had the better share of
exchanges in the first quarter and even put
the opposition under tremendous pressure midway through the first quarter, but
the German defence did just enough to
avert any crisis.
It was India who had the first scor-
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ing chance in the 11th minute but Nikkin
Thimmaiah's backhand shot from a
Akashdeep Singh feed was padded away
by an alert Nicolas Jacobi in front of
German goal.
After a barren opening quarter, the
reigning Olympic champions enjoyed a
good share of possession at the start of the
second and broke the deadlock in the 18th
minute against the run of play when
Niklas Wellen beat Indian goalkeeper
Sreejesh with a forehand strike after being
fed by Linus Butt.
The goal pumped up the Germans as
they gave some anxious moments to the
Indian defence thereafter.
Christopher Ruhr soon came close to
doubling Germany's lead only to be
denied by Sreejesh.
It took some brilliant individual
effort from India's captain for the match,
SV Sunil, to earn a penalty corner, their
first in the game. Rupinder pounced on
the opportunity and dished out a powerful flick to the right of Jacobi to score
his third goal of the Games and level the
scores. If not for German goalkeeper
Jacobi, India could have scored at least
three to four more goals.
An alert Jacobi first kept away
Nikkin's deflection in the third second
quarter and then came up with terrific
double save to first deny Rupinder from
India's second penalty corner and then
Chinglensana Singh from the resultant
rebound as India made a promising
start after half time.
The German custodian again came to
his side's rescue to keep away another
Nikkin try minutes later.
Germany thereafter secured their
only penalty corner of the match in the
47th minute but skipper Moritz Fuerste's
flick was deflected wide by Surender
Kumar from the line.
India got another short corner soon
but this time Rupinder's try was blocked
by an onrushing runner before Sardar
Singh's deflection from a Surender cross
just flew wide of the German goal.
Germany had earlier defeated Canada
6-2 while India beat minnows Ireland 32 in their opening pool matches. India will
next play Argentina on Tuesday.
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Rio de Janeiro: Narang had started off by picking up 73.7 points from his first seven shots before
firing a 10.8 to jump to the pole position with
105.3 points.
But he lost the plot in the consecutive rounds.
After scoring 105.3 in his first round, Narang's performance went down as he shot 104.5, 102.1, 103.4,
101.6, 104.8 in the next five rounds to finish with
621.7 points in the field of 50 shooters.
The qualification round consisted of 60
shots in six rounds.
Narang will now be competing in two more
events — 50m rifle prone on August 12 and 50m
rifle 3 positions on August 14.
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Bindra on Monday qualified for
the final of the men's 10m Air
Rifle event even as Gagan Narang
crashed out on day three of the
Olympic Games here.
Beijing Olympics gold-medallist Bindra finished seventh in the
qualifying round to make the cut.
However, Narang missed out
after finishing at a lowly 23rd position.
Bindra, who is taking part in his
fifth and last Olympics, scored 625.7
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to book a berth in the finals. This is
the only event Bindra is competing in
the ongoing Olympics.
Campriani Niccolo of Italy
topped the qualification with a score
of 630.2, which is an Olympic record.
Bindra, who crashed to a 16th
place finish in 2012 London, scored
104.3, 104.4, 105.9, 103.8, 102.1
and 105.2. His last series of 105.2
proved to be the clincher for Bindra,
who raised his game when it mattered the most. Heena Sidhu, who
bowed out of the 10m air pistol in the
qualification round, will be seen in
action on Tuesday in 25m pistol.
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Rio de Janeiro: Juan Martin del Potro
stunned a tearful Novak Djokovic in an
emotional Olympics triumph as Venus
Williams pondered the end of her fourgold Games odyssey.
Del Potro, the 2009 US Open champion who was pushed to the brink of
retirement by a series of wrist injuries,
downed the top seed 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (7/2)
yesterday.
The giant Argentine had also defeated the 12-time major winner in the
bronze medal match at the London
Olympics in 2012.
Both players embraced at the net
and wept at the end of their centre court
duel played out in front of a raucous
Argentine and Serb crowd.
Del Potro, now ranked at 145 in the
world after being number four in 2010,
said Sunday's win was more special
than his victory in 2012.
He had his first surgery in
2010 but more followed in 2014 and
2015 when he played just six events.
"This victory is bigger than last time
because I know how tough it was to
come back from three surgeries," said
the 27-year-old who unleashed more
than 40 winners.
Del Potro started the day by getting
stuck in an elevator for 40 minutes at the
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the Americans to a time of
3:09.92 to end French dominance of the event stretching
over the past two world championships and the
London Olympics four
years ago.
"It was crazy," said Phelps,
competing in his fifth and final
Games. "I was standing on the
block while Caeleb (Dressel) was
coming in and I honestly
thought my heart was going to
explode out of my chest.
"We wanted that race back
so badly," added Phelps, who
hugged team mate Ryan Held on
the podium as he sobbed tears
of joy. They were making us cry.
My last 400 free relay ever, it feels
damn good to get a win."
In contrast to the Brazilian
crowd's love-in with a fistpumping Phelps, however, there
was genuine animosity when
Russian Yulia Efimova, who
escaped a drugs ban to compete
in Rio, was introduced before the
100m breaststroke semi-finals.
That paled compared to
the boos that greeted the Russian
men's 4x100m freestyle relay
team, however, as fans and athletes supporting team mates
vented their irritation after
months of scandals. Agencies
Rio de Janeiro: Indian gymnast Dipa
Karmakar scripted history as she became
the first Indian to make the cut for the individual vault finals in her debut Olympic
Games after finishing 8th in the qualifying
round here.
The Tripura-girl, who is the country's
first woman gymnast to qualify for the
Olympics, managed to perform her muchappreciated 'Produnova' vault cleanly to
secure 14.850 points after two attempts.
It was a nervous wait for the Indian after
that. She had ended sixth after the third of
five sub-divisions.
She dropped to 8th eventually when
Canadian Shallon Olsen's terrific effort of
14.950 rejigged the overall standings.
But that was just about enough to secure
her a place in the finals scheduled for
August 14 as the top-8 made the cut for the
medal round.
"I'm happy but wish I could have done
a bit better. In practice, I perform way better than this," Dipa said.
Agencies
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But that inconvenience did not
shake the Argentine out of his bighitting stride as he set up a secondround clash with Portugal's Joao
Sousa.
"Delpo was the better player
and he deserved to win. That's
sport," said world number one
Djokovic, whose Olympic singles
record is stalled at a bronze from
Beijing in 2008. Meanwhile, four-time
gold medallist Venus Williams was
staring at the end of her 16-year, fiveOlympics journey.
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record-breaking and barely concealed needle Sunday by bagging
an astonishing 19th Olympic
gold medal in the men's 4x100
metres freestyle relay.
Earlier, Adam Peaty ended
28 years of Olympic hurt for
Britain's male swimmers as he
romped to gold in the 100
metres breaststroke final in Rio,
smashing the world record for
the second time in two days.
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fiancee Nicole and toddler Boomer in the stands,
the peerless Phelps again provided the spark, producing a
blistering 47.12-second leg to
overtake France's Fabien Gilot
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