UN doesn`t know definition of terrorism: Modi

RNI No. GUJENG/2014/57876
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10 persons killed, several trapped in flyover collapse
News Track Network ,
Kolkata: On Thursday after,
near Ganesh Talkies,an under construction flyover collapsed in a congested area
in North Kolkata. So many
People are feared captured
under it. As per the
report,rescue operations are
trying to handle the matter.
According to ANI, at least 10
people were killed . The
death toll may rise. The construction of this flyover has
been delayed six times. The
flyover was supposed to have
been completed three years
Tamil superstar
Rajinikant is in
legal trouble
again
News Track Network ,
Tamil superstar Rajinikanth
are again in the trouble
because an injunction suit
has been filed against the
actor and his fans, and this
time for wasting thousands
of litres of milk during the
release of his films. Petitioner Dr IMS Manivanna
charge a plea against the
superstar Rajni and asked
the superstar to come
forward wilfully and give a
break to the dispersal. Also,
. The case was filed on
March 26, the petitioner
Maniyanna appealed to the
court to give notice to the
actor and his fans. A notice
has been sent to the actor
and the court has asked him
to respond to it. And the
next hearing will be on April
11. Earlier, Rajinikanth has
been dragged into a number
of controversies. His last
released Lingaa has been
mired in one controversy
after another from the time
of its making.
ago.But unfortunately it
wasn’t and today it collapsed
badly. Police sources said
that eight persons were killed
in the incident, while several
others were injured. The
death toll could go up, they
said. Several injured persons were rescued from
under the debris and were
being sent to different hospitals in the vicinity. "Two
persons were brought
dead and two others were
in serious condition,"
Kolkata Medical College
and Hospital superinten-
dent Sikha Banerjee said.
"More injured persons are
still being brought in to
the hospital," Banerjee
said. Cutting short her visit
to West Midnapore district, Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee, who
was campaigning there,
rushed back to the city and
visited the site and directed the authorities to
speed up the relief and
rescue operations carried
out by police, fire brigade
and disaster management
personnel. Several pas-
Holding lower rank post
is humiliating: Khemka
Hindusthan Agency, Chandigarh, Senior IAS officer Ashok
Khemka today said it is "humiliating" for him to hold a "lower
rank" post and he has been
awaiting posting on promotion for the last three months.
"Awaiting posting on promotion for last 3 months. Holding a lower rank post is humiliating. Like a Lt Gen forced
to hold post of Brigadier
(sic)," tweeted the senior IAS
officer, who currently holds
the rank of Principal Secretary of the Haryana government. The 1991 batch officer was
promoted to the rank of Principal Secretary in January by the
BJP-led Haryana government. Khemka had shot into limelight in
2012 when he had cancelled the mutation of a land deal
between Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert
Vadra's M/s Skylight Hospitality and DLF Universal Ltd. The IAS
officer has faced over 40 transfers during his career so far.
Chemistry paper
leak: Students protest at PUC building
in Bengaluru
Agency, Bengaluru:
Students and parents protest over repeated 12th
standard question paper
leak. Students protested
over repeated II PU Chemistry question paper leak in
Bengaluru on Thursday.
The II PU Chemistry re-examination was scheduled
today. Angry students
pelted stones at the Department of Pre-University
Education
here. Disgruntled Disgruntled students said they would not
appear for the 12th standard re-examination again.
senger vehicles, including
a bus, were trapped under
the debris, as operations
were on to clear the rubble
and bring out those trapped
under. Huge cranes and other
rescue vehicles were
pressed into service to clear
the debris and bring out the
injured. A PTI correspondent
who was at the accident site,
saw a number of severely
injured persons lying in a
pool of blood. At least a few
persons were seen trapped
under vehicles, concrete and
heavy steel girders. The in-
cident took place at around
noon at the busy Rabindra
Sarani-K K Tagore Street
crossing near Burrabazar, the
trading hub and one of the
most congested areas in the
city. A number of hawkers
operate under the flyover
which is also used for parking several vehicles. NDRF
personnel were also rushed
to the site to to assist in the
rescue operations.Minister
for Disaster Management
Javed Khan said that about
20 to 35 people are injured
in the collapse. He, how-
ever, couldn't confirm the
number of deaths. 'I suddeny
heard a loud noise, everything went dark' Gopal
Debnath, one of the survivors of the incident, was travelling from Howrah district
in a Tata Sumo with three
family members. "Around 12
.30 - 12.45, I suddeny heard
a loud noise and everything
went
dark.
I
lost
consiounesss," he said. He
was rescued by the driver
and received first aid from
the locals. A disaster management team is on the spot.
from the encounter site, and
their handlers were shared by
the NIA with the Pakistani joint
investigation team (JIT) on
Wednesday. "We have asked
them to confirm these and get
back to us," NIA DG Sharad
Kumar said. The identity and
origins of those behind the attack were worked out by NIA
sleuths through laborious investigations over the past
three months. The NIA was
tight-lipped on how these details were cracked, with Kumar
only attributing it to "a thorough, professional and transparent investigation by the
agency". "The identities
(worked out by the NIA) are
confirmed," he insisted. The
NIA had recently released photos of the four terrorists on its
website, inviting the public to
identify them. The Jaish-eMuhammed handlers identified by the NIA are Kashif Jan,
resident of Tehsil Dusra in
Charsadda district of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa, and Shahid
Latif, resident of More
Aminabad in Gujaranwala.
Latif is incharge of Jaish operations in Manday ki Dett, Sialkot,
and is responsible for launching cadres into India. Interestingly, Latif had visited Kashmir
earlier and served more than
10 years in an Indian jail before
being deported to Pakistan via
Wagah. According to Sharad
Kumar, the JIT informed the
NIA Kashif was missing ever
since his name surfaced in the
probe. The pinpointed results
of the NIA's probe have ruled
out any scope for deniability on
Islamabad's part about the
Pathankot attack conspiracy having been hatched on its soil and its
execution by Pakistani fidayeen,
duly facilitated by Pakistani handlers. With reciprocity the basis for
allowing the JIT's probe on Indian
soil, the NIA hopes to travel to Pakistan soon to take forward its investigation. NIA sleuths will seek
access to Maulana Masood Azhar
and his brother Rauf in Pakistan.
The NIA, during discussions with
the JIT in New Delhi on Wednesday, sought voice samples of
Azhar, Rauf, Latif and Kashif.
NIA corners Pakistan with
names of 4 Pathankot terrorists
Corrspondent NEW
DELHI: In the biggest breakthrough so far in the Pathankot
probe, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has nailed
the identity of the four fidayeen
who struck at the IAF airbase
on January 2, and their two
Pakistan-based Jaish handlers.
The slain terrorists' names,
accessed exclusively by TOI,
are Nasir Hussain, Hafiz Abu
Bakar, Umar Farooq and Abdul
Qayum and they were residents of Vehari (Punjab),
Gujranwala (Punjab), Sanghar
(Sindh) and Sukkur (Sindh)
districts of Pakistan, respectively. The names and addresses of the terrorists,
whose bodies were recovered
4,000 Indian millionaires shifted
overseas in 2015, report says
US, India discuss Pakistan and
the Pink Flamingo scenario
HindusthanNEW DELHI:
India has seen the fourth-biggest outflow of high net worth
individuals globally in 2015 with
shifting of 4,000 millionaires
overseas, says a report. According to a report by New
World Wealth, some 4,000
uber-rich Indians have
changed their domicile in
2015, while France saw the
maximum outflow of millionaires with as many as 10,000
super rich leaving the country.
The report however noted that
the migration of super rich
from China and India is not a
"concern". "The outflows from
India and China are not particularly concerning as these
countries are still producing
far more new millionaires than
they are losing," the report
said and added that "once the
standard of living in these countries improves, we expect several wealthy people to move
back." In terms of countries
ranked by millionaires outflow,
France was followed by China
in the second place with 9,000
millionaires leaving the coun-
try while for Italy, at third
position, the figure stood at
6,000. On France, the report
said, the country is being
heavily impacted by rising religious tensions between
Christians and Muslims, especially in urban areas. "We expect that millionaire migration
away from France will accelerate over the next decade as
these tensions escalate," the
report said. It further noted
that other European countries
where religious tensions are
starting to emerge such as
Belgium, Germany, Sweden
and the UK will also be negatively affected in the near future. Other countries that saw
significant millionaire outflows
include Greece (3,000), while
Russian Federation, Spain and
Brazil saw 2,000 such outflows each. In terms of millionaire inflows, Australia
topped the chart as it saw as
many as 8,000 uber rich people
shifting base there, followed
by the US (7,000) and Canada
(5,000) in the second and third
place respectively.
Agency, WASHINGTON:
The United States and India
have begun conversations
about Pakistan's runaway
nuclear weapons program, including its development and
deployment of battlefield tactical nuclear weapons, in the
backdrop of the nuclear security summit that opens here
on Thursday. Prime Minister
Narendra Modi is expected in
the US capital on Thursday
morning, but ahead of his arrival, National Security Advisor
Ajit Doval and his US counterparts and other senior Ameri-
but it was unfortunate that the
UN was still unable to define
such terrorism and act on a
resolution which prescribes
action against the countries
which support or give shelter
to terrorism. He said that terrorism cannot be defeated only
by guns, but an environment
needs to be created in the society to ensure that the youth
are not radicalized. The Prime
Minister said “The world was
jolted by 9/11. Till then the
world powers did not understand what India was going
through. But India never bowed
to terrorism and there is no
question of bowing before it.”
Modi added “The UN could not
perform its duty in this
regard…if the UN does not ad-
dress this problem, it will not
be too far before the world
body loses its relevance, During the last few years, 90 countries have faced terror attacks,
with hundreds falling victims.
In my talks here, the main topic
was terrorism. They have told
me you have been suffering for
the last 40 years. The PM also
announced relief from higher
rates of TDS for NRIs who did
not have Permanent Account
Number (PAN). “NRIs who did
not have PAN earlier had to
face higher rates of TDS. They
will get relief (mukti)… We will
also increase the free baggage
limit for NRIs. For FDI investment, NRIs will get same incentives as other investors,” he
said. Modi also said ‘This has
not happened because of
Naseeb or Modi, but because
of people. During the last two
consecutive years, there have
been droughts in different
parts of India, but the country
still has made progress at fast
rate. If our intentions are good,
nobody can stop India from
progressing,” he said”. He said
that terrorism cannot be de-
can interlocutors have been discussing the progress in India's
ties with Pakistan, including
complications arising from the
patronage of terrorist groups
by sections of the Pakistani establishment, and its nuclear
posture. The Pakistani headache featuring in talks with Doval
was revealed by US Secretary
of State John Kerry, when he
referred cryptically to Washington having "serious questions"
about "some choices" being
made in the region that "may
accelerate possible arms construction." "We've raised them
with various partners in the
region. So our hope is that this
Nuclear Security Summit will
contribute to everybody's understanding about our global
responsibilities and choices,''
Kerry said, without directly
naming Pakistan. There was
little doubt Kerry's remarks
were directed at Pakistan,
which has bailed out of the
summit citing the terrorist attack in Lahore, one of dozens
in the country over the past
decade that has not persuaded
its establishment to jettison a policy
of fostering extremist groups.
UN doesn’t know definition of terrorism: Modi
News Track Network ,
Brussel, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi is in 3 day visit
of Brussel. And in the backdrop
of terror attacks in Brussel last
week Modi highlighted the danger posed by terrorism to the
world and said UN should address such major challenges
failing which the global body
could be rendered irrelevant,
The Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting, Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
receiving a contribution of Rs. One crore from the Executive Directors, Planetcast Media
Services Ltd., Shri Lalit Jain and Shri M.N. Vyas, towards the Prime Minister’s National
Relief Fund (PMNRF), in New Delhi on March 31, 2016. PIB
Chhattisgarh: Seven jawan
of the CRPF were killed !
News Track Network ,
Chhattisgarh: On Wednesday
at
Dantewada
d i s t r i c t , s e v e n
CRPF’s(Central Reserve Police Force) jawan were
killed in a landmine explosion triggered by Maoists.
Dinesh Pratap Upadhyay
(Deputy Inspector-General
of the paramilitary
force)told to reporter “A
vehicle of the CRPF’s 230th
battalion was blown up by
Maoists near the Malewara
market on the DantewadaSukma road around 3 p.m.
S e v e n j a w a n s were
martyred in the blast”
Kamlochan Kashyap,SP said
“The jawans belonged to the
Ghusaras CRPF camp in
Dantewada and were return-
ing after leave for Holi,” Bodies of two jawans bore bullet
injuries,by the presence of
Maoista at the spot. Upadhyay
added, “The blast was so
powerful that the bodies were
thrown 100-150 metres
away. Almost all of them
might have died in the explosion or would have been on
the verge of death. But it is
true thatMaoists shot some
of the bodies.” D.M.Awasthi
(special DG) said,“We is sued instructions a
few days ago. We will
b e g i n a p r o b e to find out
what went wrong,” Raman
Singh,CM said, “a probe
would be conducted to find
out whether or not the norms
were followed”
feated only by guns, but an
environment needs to be created in the society to ensure
that the youth are not
radicalised. He said that while
world was feeling the impact of
terrorism only now, India has
been facing this menace for
over last 40 years. "The world
was jolted by 9/11. Till then the
world powers did not under-
stand what India was going
through. But India never bowed
to terrorism and there is no
question of bowing before it,"
the Prime Minister said. Referring to the UN, Modi said it has
all means and mechanism to
deal with war. But unfortunately the UN does not know
what the definition of terrorism
is and how to address it.
Tamil Nadu Commission for Protection of
Child Rights will soon launch Policy to
safeguard children’s rights
News Track Network , Tamil Nadu Commission for
Protection of Child Rights will soon launch Policy to safeguard
children’s rights On Wednesday,TNCPCR’s (the Tamil Nadu
Commission for Protection of Child Rights ) member
C.Selvakumar said, A state policy to safeguard the right of
children and to ensure their safety and protection will be
implemented in the next few months. Mr. Selvakumar said, “the
commission had recommended to the Tamil Nadu government
not to extend recognition for 764 schools in the State that had
not met the stipulated norms.” He aforesaid, “These schools
are dangerous for children due to poor quality infrastructure.
The safety of children should not be compromised,” Former
Child Protection Specialist from the UNICEF R. Vidyasagar,
said, “the State specifically grappled with issues related to an
increasing number of suicides by students as well as additional
issues such as the regulation of private schools.” He added,“A
State-specific plan is the need of an hour as the current
monitoring system leaves much to be desired. Mobile counselling vans meant for government and Corporation schools
hardly reach them regularly and there needs to be a shift in
focus from academics towards holistic development,”
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Ahmedabad. Dt. 01-04-2016 Friday
Editorial
Lessons from the
Palmyra victory
The recapture of the ancient city of Palmyra by Syrian
government forces marks one of the biggest setbacks for
the Islamic State since the group announced its ‘Caliphate’
in June 2014. It also demonstrates the continued weakening
of the IS on the battleground. It lost about 14 per cent of the
territory in Iraq and Syria last year, including the city of
Ramadi, to Iraqi troops. Several factors have been at play in
structurally weakening the IS over the past few months. The
tide started turning against it when in June it lost Tal Abyad,
a strategically important town on the Turkish-Syrian border,
to Kurdish rebels. The town was one of the IS’s main access
points for smuggling in weapons, materiel and fighters.
Turkey’s move to tighten its long and porous border with
Syria after jihadists began attacking Turkish cities and
international pressure mounted on Ankara, squeezed the
IS’s cross-border supply lines. Pointed U.S. air strikes on the
group’s oil infrastructure and training camps too weakened
it both financially and organisationally. But the final blow
came from Russia. From the beginning of its intervention in
Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin kept saying that the
best answer to the terrorists in Syria would be the “restoration of statehood”. This is what Russia achieved in Syria.
Five months of Russian intervention has bolstered the
regime of Bashar Al-Assad, raised the morale of its troops
and helped it make major advances on the ground. The
ceasefire in Syria, which led to a partial suspension of the
fighting with the rebels, may also have helped government
forces to use their resources more effectively. Palmyra is an
instance that could be repeated in future battles against the
IS: first weaken the organisation through multiple attacks
and then launch a final ground offensive by the most
organised military force — in this case the Syrian national
army — to recapture territories. For the IS, territory is
important. It is its hold over territories that makes the IS
different from other jihadist groups. The claim of establishing a ‘Caliphate’ comes out of the territories it controls. So
every time it loses land the ‘Caliphate’ shrinks, weakening its
terror machinery further. The fight against the IS will not be
complete unless its core is destroyed. This is not an easy
task, however. The group seems to be deeply entrenched in
Raqqa, its de facto capital. Mosul is still under its control. If
the advances made in Ramadi and Palmyra are to be taken
forward, there has to be coordination between the anti-IS
forces, including the U.S. and the Syrian army. President
Assad is less of a threat than Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Mr.
Assad’s fate could be decided through a political process,
which is now under way, but not that of Baghdadi. Both the
peace process in Syria between the regime and the rebels
and the war on the IS in Syria and Iraq could continue
simultaneously. The international community must help the
Syrian and Iraqi governments continue their campaigns to
free more territories from the IS.
Disrupting the
disruptors
Hindusthan Agency, The decision to allow 100 per cent
FDI in e-commerce entities running online marketplaces is a
belated yet welcome step by the government. It clears the
air a great deal on the norms governing a rapidly expanding
part of the economy, and makes de jure what has hitherto
been de facto. Billions of dollars have already been committed as investment in the sector, and online shopping is now
an established retail habit. The growth potential of the
segment has drawn in venture capital and private equity
investors in droves, and e-commerce players had exploited
the policy ambiguities and loopholes to obtain attractive
valuations for their enterprises. The latest guidelines make it
clear that as long as a business entity acts purely as a
marketplace, facilitating online transactions between a seller
and a buyer, 100 per cent overseas ownership is allowed in
the venture. Safeguards have also been specified from the
marketplace operator’s perspective, so that the responsibility for both delivery and quality of the product and related
warranties will lie with the seller. E-commerce firms can
provide support services to sellers, including warehousing,
logistics, call centres and payment collection. The rub for
them lies in some of the other conditions pertaining to what
the foreign-owned e-commerce marketplaces cannot do
hereafter. The imposition of a 25 per cent cap on the value
that sales from a single seller and group companies can
contribute to overall turnover at the marketplace means
some of the largest e-commerce players will have to redraw
their business strategies. The unequivocal assertion that any
ownership of inventory by the entity running the marketplace
will render its business into the inventory-based model,
where FDI is barred, also makes it clear that these foreignowned e-commerce enterprises can no longer sell wares
sporting their own brand names online. And the most
worrisome norm is the vaguely worded one prohibiting
ventures from “directly or indirectly” influencing the sale
price of goods. This is construed by most observers as a
deterrent for discounts. If the idea is to level the playing
field, would e-sellers be allowed to slash prices only if their
offline counterparts are offering discounts? Would pricing
decisions be dictated by a government nod instead of
market forces? Brick-and-mortar retailers, some of whom
had moved court seeking an end to the deep-pocketsbacked discounts offered by e-tailers that they claimed were
ruining their businesses, might be pleased. But for the
consumer, strict enforcement of the guidelines could make it
difficult to access value-for-money deals. E-commerce,
including m-commerce spurred by India’s smartphone
surge, have been a significant disruptor in the way domestic
consumers shop. If consumers lose interest, the Centre’s
guidelines could well disrupt this disruption and end up
staunching the very flow of foreign capital it aims to attract.
Tata Steel puts U.K.
operations on the market
Agency, With Tata Steel rejecting a two-year £100-million
rescue plan proposed by steel unions to save Port Talbot, the
biggest of its steel manufacturing plants in the United Kingdom, and deciding instead to put its entire U.K. steel operation on the market, the country’s beleaguered steel industry
has been plunged into crisis.Thousands of workers at Port
Talbot, and in plants at Rotherham, Corby and Shotton face
imminent job losses should the company opt for closure before
a buyer can be found. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called
for parliament, currently in recess for the Easter break, to be
re-called to discuss the “strategic risk to the United Kingdom if
it loses its steel making industry,” BBC has reported. The
government is looking at the option of a management-worker
buyout of the operation, a plan that the unions had put
forward to Tata Steel, and which the company had rejected.
With the livelihoods of 15,000 of steel workers and their
families, and another 45,000 in the supply chain at risk, the call
for re-nationalising the steel industry has been raised by the
unions and several parties across the political spectrum. The
British Steel Corporation was de-nationalized in 1988.
Garvi Gujarat
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Never fight with Delhi
MGR’s old caution that it was in State governments’ interest to stay on the
Centre’s right side is still heeded by regional parties. With the courts hearing cases
relating to President’s Rule, there will hopefully be more clarity on Central overreach
Hindusthan Agency, To
my mind, M.G. Ramachandran
(MGR) was India’s Ronald
Reagan, an actor whose
greatest role was played in
real life, as a leader of his
people. Both were politicians
who understood political realities without being doctrinaire. In March 1977, MGR’s
All India Anna Dravida
Munnetra
Kazhagam
(AIADMK) fought the Lok Sabha
elections in alliance with the
Indian National Congress and
together they won 34 out of
the 39 Lok Sabha seats from
Tamil Nadu. The AIADMK won
17 seats. It was a great victory
for a political party hitherto
untested on a large scale at
the hustings. However, despite its good numbers in Tamil
Nadu, the Congress lost its
overall majority in the Lok
Sabha. The first non-Congress
government at the Centre was
formed by the Janata Party. In
June 1977, barely two months
later, when it came to the
Assembly elections, MGR and
the AIADMK opted to fight the
elections on their own. He
abandoned the Congress
which had lost power at the
Centre. After winning the elections and becoming Chief Minister, for the first time, MGR
became an ally of the Janata
Party. When some of his associates asked MGR the reason
for his switch in loyalties, he is
said to have remarked, “Never
fight with Delhi.” He remembered the way the Karunanidhi
government had been dismissed and President’s rule
imposed in 1976, events that
had paved the path for MGR’s
ascension to power. MGR’s
logic was that for a State not
part of the Hindi heartland, it
made no sense to quarrel with
the party in power at the Centre. The Centre could at any
time make out a case for
President’s rule, dismiss the
State government and run the
State through its proxies. On
the other hand, cooperation
with the Centre meant an undisturbed reign in the State,
easy access to federal funds,
and even a share of Central
power. Thereafter, barring
brief aberrations, MGR was
always in tune with the rulers
in Delhi. Two AIADMK MPs,
Satyavani Muthu and Aravinda
Bala Pajanor, even joined
Charan Singh’s short-lived
government when he became
Prime Minister. When MGR’s
government was dismissed in
1980, his rival Dravida
Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)
had allied with a resurgent
Indira Gandhi, MGR was strong
enough to win the ensuing
Assembly elections again.
Nevertheless, he turned sail
and allied with the Congress
at the Centre, an alliance that
continued till his death in 1987.
The “never fight with Delhi”
formula, has now almost become the rule for ruling parties in Tamil Nadu and has
never openly been abandoned
for any considerable length of
time. Recent events may make
the former Chief Ministers of
Arunachal Pradesh and
Uttarakhand well wonder
whether they could have emulated MGR and avoided a fight
with New Delhi. I venture to
submit that, but for the antidefection law, many a Chief
Minister would have succumbed to the ‘MGR doctrine’.
In avoiding confrontation with
the Centre, a Chief Minister
from a regional party has a
certain manoeuvrability, which
is denied to a Chief Minister
elected by a national party.
The MGR formula of 1977 was
taken to its logical extreme in
1980, when after Indira
Gandhi’s return, Bhajan Lal,
the then Janata Party Chief
Minister of Haryana, walked
across to the Congress with a
majority of the MLAs. He then
continued to rule Haryana as a
Congress Chief Minister. These
events of the past must be retold because they illumine our
present. The return of a government with a strong majority at the Centre has culminated in an extension of its
countrywide reach and an attempt to bring under its flag all
outposts that stand in opposition. BJP MP Kailash
Vijayvargiya is on record stating that after Arunachal
Pradesh and Uttarakhand, efforts will be made to bring in
Himachal Pradesh and
Karnataka also under Central
rule. But between 1980 and
today, there has been a jurisprudential outreach that offers a slim harbour of hope to
beleaguered governments. A
rash of dismissals In 1977, the
new Janata Government dismissed State governments
headed by Congress Chief
Ministers and dissolved the
Assemblies on the ground that
they had lost the people’s
mandate. The matter was
carried to the Supreme Court
in the State of Rajasthan v.
Union of India. A seven-judge
bench dismissed the petition
on several preliminary
grounds, including its refusal
to get into the thicket of political questions. Some judges
even held that presidential
satisfaction in invoking Article
356 of the Constitution was
not justiciable. Mrs. Gandhi’s
return in 1980 saw her return
the favour by dismissing Janata
Party governments in the
States. This action went unchallenged in the courts in the
wake of the Rajasthan judgment. The routine invocation
of President’s Rule to get over
political horse-trading continued through the 1980s, most
notably in Jammu and Kashmir, where the Farooq
Abdullah Government was replaced with his brother-in-law
G.M. Shah’s ragtag battalion,
aided by Governor Jagmohan.
In 1985, a constitutional
amendment made retail floorcrossing a disqualification for
membership of Parliament or
Sate Assemblies. The Supreme Court in Kihoto Hollohan
v. Zachillhu and Others ruled
that the Speaker’s decisions
on disqualification were subject to judicial review. The
end result was that defection
became a game of footloose
legislators, ambitious leadersin-waiting and grim court
battles. The success of a political operation to topple a
sitting government became
dependent on Speakers cooperating and courts staying
away. The destruction of the
Babri Masjid saw P.V.
Narasimha Rao’s government
dismiss four State governments lead by the BJP. In 1994,
the challenge to this dismissal
and earlier impositions of
President’s Rule came to be
decided by a nine-judge bench
in the S.R. Bommai v. Union of
India case. The judgment held
that the President’s satisfaction in the invocation of Article
356 could be inquired into by
the courts. It upheld the dismissal of the BJP governments
to protect secularism, which
was part of the Constitution’s
basic structure. It held that
the President was required to
act on objective material and
that Article 356 could only be
resorted to when there was a
breakdown of constitutional
machinery as distinguished
from an ordinary breakdown
of law and order. The court
also held that in no case should
a State Assembly be dissolved
without Parliament approving
the proclamation, and that a
test of numerical strength
could only be conducted on
the floor of the Assembly and
not outside it. Relying on a
Pakistani Supreme Court decision in Nawaz Sharif’s case,
the judgment ruled that an
improperly dismissed government could be restored to office. Thus, during Narasimha
Rao’s minority government,
citizens saw the Supreme
Court becoming a strong bulwark of constitutional right and
propriety. The doctrine in
Bommai came to be applied
by the Supreme Court in the
Bihar case of Rameshwar
Prasad & Ors v. Union of India.
In 2005, Governor Buta Singh,
after an inconclusive election,
recommended the dissolution
of the State Assembly, without it being convened even
once. The Court struck down
the imposition as unconstitutional but refused to restore
the Assembly because another election had already
been ordered. Governor
Buta Singh resigned in the
wake of the judgment.
Since 1994, the instances
of the imposition of
President’s rule have
dwindled considerably. It is
only in recent times that a
spurt has been seen, and
more instances seem to be
on the horizon. This year,
the Supreme Court has
heard for nearly a month
the challenge to the imposition of Article 356 in Arunachal
Pradesh. Here, a fresh alignment of forces may have overtaken any relief that was possible at the hands of the court.
The Uttarakhand case too is
soon likely to reach the Supreme Court. The doctrines
and parameters of judicial
review have already been set
out. The question is of the
willingness of the judiciary to
cut through the political thicket
in time to be of consequence
to the political process. A
majority government may well
be tempted to brave an adverse verdict in the distant
future, if there is an immediate gain of adding another
outpost to the empire. Our
quasi-federal Constitution with
unitary features has from time
to time seen centrifugal forces
overpower centripetal accelerations. But a unitary empire, where Centre and States
are always in political tandem, is not what the Constitution makers envisaged. Willing partnerships cannot be
turned into forced marriages.
India that is Bharat was to be
a Union of States. It is now
sought to be turned into a
state of Union. The Union government may well heed William Butler Yeats’s apocalyptic
warning of a world where:
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/ Mere
anarchy is loosed upon the
world,/ The blood-dimmed
tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of
innocence is drowned;/ The
best lack all conviction, while
the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity.” Sanjay
Hegde is a senior advocate
of the Supreme Court.
On the margins
in a city of dreams
Behind the haze of the Deonar fire in Mumbai is the story of how agrarian distress
and ‘development’ programmes have forced people into an unliveable habitat
News Track Agency,
A week after a fire broke
out in the Deonar dumping
ground in Mumbai, fires in
smaller pockets continue to
blaze. But toxic smoke is
only an addition to a long
list of problems in Deonar.
The oldest and largest
dumping ground of India
receives over 5,500 metric
tonnes of waste, 600 metric tonnes of silt, and 25
tonnes of biomedical waste
daily. Between March and
June every year, the daily
amount of silt rises to more
than 9,000 metric tonnes
because of drain cleaning
before the monsoon season. As of December 2014,
the waste had reached a
height of around 164 ft,
equivalent to the height of
an 18-storey tower. The
high mounds of trash in
which children and stray
dogs loiter around, and
around which the air smells
of burnt plastic and putrefying garbage makes
Deonar most certainly unfit
for human habitation. Since
the early 1970s, this peripheral ward has evolved
into a space for dumping
garbage, waste from polluting industries, from abattoirs, and so on. It is not
only unwanted things but
“unwanted” people too who
were and are dumped in
this place. Poor people living in inner city slums, and
migrants displaced from
other parts of the country
were all forced by circumstances to settle here. In
1972-73, poorer residents
from inner city areas were
relocated to Shivaji Nagar,
Baiganwadi, and Lotus
Colony. More people
(largely Dalits and Muslims)
relocated around the
dumping ground, following
acute droughts in rural
Maharashtra and other
parts of the country. In
1976, people were internally displaced within the
ward, when residents of
Janata colony within and
around the Bhabha Atomic
Research Centre were
shifted to Cheetah Camp.
The Prime Minister’s special grant for urban renewal
from 1986 to 1993 resulted
in massive eviction of poor
people from inner city areas to Deonar. This trend
of relocating a large number of slum households
from all over the city for
“development” continued
from 2003 to 2006, with
World Bank-funded infrastructure projects. Now, MEast ward, with over 80
per cent of its people living
in slums, has emerged as
an expanded poverty
space. Along with the lack
of decent housing, there is
lack of potable water, adequate drainage, electricity, and welfare services
such as public health facilities and government secondary schools. Housing is
not the only prism of legality and realising fundamental rights. When people are
dislocated, or when they
migrate to the city because
of distress conditions back
home, they are uprooted
from their social, economic,
and environmental contexts. They may put up/
rent a hut in the ward, but
lose access to workplaces,
schooling, water and sanitation, and social capital.
The cost of being displaced
from established slum areas and villages and being
relocated close to the
dumping ground is devastating particularly for children, women, the elderly,
and persons with disability
or illness. People’s rights
to minimum standards of
living here are challenged
on a daily basis. M-Ward’s
Human Development Index
is the lowest in the city, at
a meagre 0.2. The unemployment rate is 52 per cent.
Of those ‘employed’, the
income of 71 per cent of
the ragpickers is uncertain.
The average monthly income of a family is Rs.
8,000. Talking about the
is bound to get desperate.
There are at least 17 settlements on the edge of the
dumping ground. The
people here are constantly
afraid of the threat of eviction, particularly during
peak monsoon season.
Their lives take on a repetitive pattern of construction and breakdown — first
families reclaim the land
from the marsh, lay the
ground, build the walls, and
raise the tin roof. Then a
sudden shift from village
life to life in a garbage
dump, Aamna Bi, 16, who
has come from Kolhapur to
Nirankari Nagar after marriage, says: “It feels
strange to live with garbage all around you. The
water is not clean, and the
place stinks all the time.
But what is good is that this
very dump is also a good
source to fill our stomachs.
If you work hard to collect
sufficient recyclable garbage, you will have food at
the end of the day. The
dump sees to it.” But with
the Municipal Corporation
deciding to cancel licenses
of ragpickers, the economic
condition of Amina Bi and
several thousand families
bulldozer accompanied by
the police mows these
houses down. After a few
days, the families start rebuilding their lives all over
again. Says Salima of
Nirankari Nagar: “Working
filled with insects, with just
our heads above it, my husband and I slowly pushed it
back, made the ground
solid, and built a home on
it. And we paid registered
rents to the Brihanmumbai
Municipal Corporation.
Suddenly ward officials
came with bulldozers and
the police and demolished
it. They said this is not my
father’s land.” Straddling
the Shankar Nagar housing
colony and the vast dumping ground, the residents
of Nirankari Nagar live on
the edges of both. Even
though they are registered
renters to the BMC, the expanding garbage dump has
now spilled over into their
homes. With open defecation, acute air and water
pollution, and decaying garbage, M-East Ward has the
lowest life expectancy rate
of less than 50 years, and
the highest infant mortality
rate with around 20 per
cent of all deaths in 2015
accounted for by infants.
Every second child is underweight. Over 90 per cent
of pregnant women in
2014-15 were anaemic,
and there is a high instance
of maternal mortality.
There is a high threat of
contacting diseases such as
tuberculosis. Healthcare is
grossly inadequate; the
‘health service’ providers
are mostly quacks. Education is poor, and seven out
of ten households have no
access to piped water connection. To add to the challenges, factors such as
caste, religion, region of
origin, and occupation also
affect the experience of
poverty. The parameters of
human development in
parts of this ward are, in
fact, comparable to some
of the poorest regions in
the world, and overall ward
development is still much
lower than the rest of the
city. But M-East ward is not
an isolated phenomenon of
our human condition. At its
roots is the systemic agrarian distress in India’s villages. This has to be addressed through accountable and efficient welfare
and
development
programmes. It is here that
the late President Abdul
Kalam’s vision of creating
secured villages (through
the Provision of Urban
Amenities to Rural Areas
framework), and comprehensively articulated by
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi as the Sansad
Aadarsh Gram Yojana, becomes important. This
programme has the potential to retain people in the
villages and ensure that
they live with dignity. Such
rural prosperity can contribute substantially to creating sustainable cities and
better economic development. Forty years ago,
when Mumbai embarked on
several redevelopment
programmes, spatial transformations, ‘beautification’
and ‘cleansing’ drives to
become the economic capital of India, it seemed to
close its eyes to communities which are at the very
bottom of its class, caste
and gender pyramid. In MEast ward, over half a million people living in the most
difficult conditions contribute immensely to keep the
city moving. They maintain
our antiquated colonial sewage disposal system, clean
the streets, take away and
sort garbage, work as security staff, as maids in
well-off households, as constables, and provide other
basic services. Their abject standard of living has
no place in a ‘global city’.
Surely, Mumbai’s rich and
powerful are capable of
showing some compassion
to address the existential
problems of a few millions
of fellow citizens who were
dumped, along with the city’s
garbage, in M-East Ward and
other peripheries of the
city. S. Parasuraman is
Director, Tata Institute of
Social Sciences, Mumbai.
Garvi Gujarat
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What they talk
about when they talk
New Delhi and the Prime Minister could benefit from a
more structured approach to talks with Pakistan, so that
dialogue is about issues that India wants to address
Agency, What finally matters is not the truth of
Kulbhushan Yadav or the authenticity of his confessional
video; it is the timing of its release, which has dealt a body
blow to the bonhomie generated by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s Christmas
visit to Lahore. By New Year’s
day, the operation to attack
Pathankot airbase had begun;
within two weeks of that, the
Foreign Secretary-level composite dialogue was put off;
and events that followed
haven’t done much to stem the
inexorable slide to a stop. The
one possible game changer,
the proposed meeting between the Prime Ministers of
India and Pakistan in Washington this week, was felled by
Sunday’s Easter bombing in
Lahore, which forced Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif to cancel his trip. While the diplomatic
process floundered over the
past few months, the security
relationship between India and
Pakistan seemed to fare better.
After National Security Advisers (NSA) Ajit Doval and retired
Lieutenant General Naseer
Khan Janjua met in Bangkok in
December 2015, where they
famously broke the ice over a
pack of cigarettes, they have
been in regular touch over the
telephone. The results have
been unprecedented. Even as
security forces finished battling
Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists
in Pathankot, the NSAs spoke.
Mr. Doval asked for prompt
action against the JeM, and Mr.
Janjua reportedly swore to
crush the group. While the Pakistan government has taken
action against the JeM before,
seldom has it offered to act so
quickly, reporting that JeM offices were raided and some
unidentified leaders taken into
custody soon after. Next came
the news that the Pakistan gov-
ernment was filing an FIR in the
case, based on Mr. Doval’s information, and sending a Joint
Investigation Team (JIT) to
India to gather evidence in order to prosecute the culprits.
While it never confirmed this
directly to the Ministry of External Affairs, news that Masood
Azhar was in ‘protective custody’ was positive. And then
came the even more startling
news that Mr. Janjua had
passed on information
about 10 suspected terrorists entering India to carry
out
attacks
on
Mahashivaratri, as a result
of which some officials even
claimed three of them were
killed. This now denoted a
whole different order of cooperation between the NSAs.
That camaraderie finally bore
fruit when, after some political
jostling and a few differences
within the Indian Cabinet, the
five-member JIT/Special In-
appreciate and support good
movies and the channel now
takes this support one notch
higher by honoring not only
the actors, but also legends
behind the camera responsible for these movies. Vaishali
Sharma, Senior VP, Marketing & Communications, MAX2
said "Sony MAX 2 has been
conceptualized as a contemporary place for great Indian
cinema. We believe no matter
what day and age, great stories, legends and music has
eternal appeal. With MAX 2
'Timeless Digital Awards' we
aim to bring together likeminded viewers and honour
the iconic stars and the people
who were responsible for giving us these everlasting stories in the form of movies".
vestigation Team from Pakistan landed in India to carry out
its investigations in Pathankot
and Amritsar on March 27. On
the Indian side, the government has been criticised for
extending its hand too far to
ensure the visit happens. First,
there was criticism that it didn’t
call off the Foreign Secretary
talks altogether. Next was that
despite its statements that
there will be zero tolerance on
terror, it made no comment
after the Pampore attack by
suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba
militants. Third, serving military officers from the ISI and
military intelligence were allowed access to the Pathankot
airbase, a completely unique
precedent worldwide. Eventually, these can all be chalked up
to good communication both at
the prime ministerial and NSA
levels. Even the date of arrival
for the SIT, rushed through
despite the fact that they had
not sent the requisite letter
rogatory, seemed timed before the Prime Ministers’ travel
to the U.S. It is then extremely
puzzling that the Pakistani establishment should choose exactly the same time to release
details of the arrest and confession by the former naval
officer accused of spying and
funding Baloch groups, who
claims to report to Mr. Doval
and the Research and
Analysis Wing chief. While
Mr. Yadav’s confessional
statement isn’t quite convincing, the circumstances
around his appearance in
Pakistan certainly need investigation by India. What is
clear is that the storm
couldn’t have come at a
worse time for India-Pakistan relations, hinged as
they are on the security relationship alone. The question that arises is, if the
NSAs had indeed built a
strong relationship, with a
commitment not to go public before they had spoken to
each other, why did this not
apply to the spy case? What
makes it more worrying is that
Pakistan has chosen to play up
the arrest domestically, with a
minister and Inter Services
Public Relations chief at the
press conference, and also internationally, with the Army
chief attempting to bring up the
issue with Iranian President
Hassan Rouhani. The Pakistani
allegation that Mr. Yadav was
arrested in Chaman along the
Afghan border and that he was
working on a plot to target Chinese hotels in Gwadar adds to
the international implications
of those accusations. It is in
order for the government to
consider its next steps very
carefully, with firm grounding
rather than the flair and fireworks of Prime Minister Modi’s
Lahore stopover. It may also be
necessary to rethink the primacy of NSA-to-NSA engagement after the spy case, and
giving back the reins of the dialogue to diplomats. Prime Minister Modi and his government
could benefit from a more
structured approach to dialogue, which doesn’t have to
depend on domestic debate
each time, and resolve to
meet, say, once a month to
take talks on terror forward. In
any case, with the Prime Minister still expected to travel to
Islamabad in November for the
SAARC summit, several official
meetings where an Indian-Pakistan concord is necessary
are unavoidable over the next
few months. To its credit, the
government has made it clear
that it intends to keep the lines
of engagement open, even if it
is only to avoid the constant international focus on India-Pakistan that India wishes to
avoid. “We have found that
when we stop talking to Pakistan, others we talk to talk to
us about talking to Pakistan,” a
senior government official admitted to journalists recently.
It is time then to wrest back
control of the India-Pakistan
engagement, and make the
dialogue about issues that India most wants to talk about.
Ahmedabad. Dt. 01-04-2016 Friday
Dulux invites India to take the Dulux
SuperClean KidProof™ Challenge
(SETU PR Agency) Dulux,
the flagship decorative paints
brand from AkzoNobel India,
invites individuals to take the
DuluxSuperClean KidProof
Challenge.Dulux
SuperClean'sKidProof™ technology gives unmatched stain
repellence along with its antifungal and anti-bacterial properties. Throughthis activation,
the brand is open to accepting
any challenge that can prove
the existence of any other superior washable emulsion
(T&C applied). If any individual
is able to contest the brand's
proposition, Duluxwill provide
20 Litres of paint of consumer's
choice (T&C applied) for painting their house. The challenge
will be undertaken in more
than 50 towns across India
between March 20 - April 30,
2016. Consumers who wish to
take the challenge can register
themselves
atwww.dulux.in/
kidproofchallenge. Registrations will be open from March
20 to 15 April. Thereafter they
will be contacted by the company representatives to schedule
a
meeting
for
conductingthe challenge. Rajiv
Rajgopal, Director, Decorative
Paints, AkzoNobel India said,
"Increasing consumer consciousness and nuclear
home set up has made home
maintenance a difficult task
especially when there are
kids at home. Backed by rich
heritage and international
standards of quality, at
AkzoNobel India, we hope
to empower consumers in
achieving functional as well
as aesthetic benefits with
Dulux products for both
home decoration and
ease of maintenance."
said, "We are happy to announce our collaboration with
Saina Nehwalwho inspires
people all over the world to
face challenges and carve their
own niche. Huawei is continuously associating with sports
team and athletes across the
worldwho shares Huawei and
Honor's philosophy and this association is a step forward in that
direction. Recently we also en-
rolled Lionel Messi the ace
footballer as our global brand
ambassador and SainaNehwal
is another person who has
countered all challenges to
become the first woman Indian badminton player to win
an Olympic medal. Not only
we associate with the top
ranking teams of athletes but
moreover with people who resonate with the spirit of Honor."
Honor - the leading e-smartphone brand announces ace badminton
player Saina Nehwal as the new brand ambassador
(SETU PR Agency)
Honor, the leading e-brand
from Huawei today announced
the association with Saina
Nehwal as its India brand
ambassador. The global
smartphone manufacturer has
signed a long-term pact with
the Olympic medalist to endorse its Honor range of
smartphones, which is one of
the
fastest
growing
smartphone globally, since its
launch in December 2013. The
company recently launched
two exciting models - Honor
5X and Honor Holly 2 Plus,
which are available on
flipkart.com and amazon.in.
The partnership with Saina
Nehwal coincides with Honor's
next phase of growth in India,
as the e-brand aims to significantly strengthen its market
share in India, post the very
encouraging response from
the India market. Speaking
on the association, Mr. Allen
Wang, President of Consumer
Business Group, Huawei India
Kamdhenu Limited winner of WCRC
Awards 2015 Asia's Best Brand in steel
Company has successfully
made its mark in global market. The company is also credited for pioneering franchisee
association model in construction material segment in India.
Sony MAX2 honors the Golden Era of Hindi COLORS Gujarati Announces
Cinema with 'Timeless Digital Awards' The Launch of ShukraMangal
(SETU PR Agency)To
celebrate the magic of Indian
cinema and inspire viewers to
remember and appreciate the
evergreen Hindi movies and
its timeless stars, Sony MAX2
is launching the India's firstever online film awards, the
'Timeless Digital Awards'. Via
this unique and never been
done before online awards,
Sony MAX2 is enabling its
viewers to be the jury and
vote for their favorite nominees across various categories. Ever since its inception (
in which year), Sony MAX 2
has inspired the audience to
((TVM Communication Agency) Micromax Informatics Ltd. today announced a new addition to its massively successful Spark series of smartphones
- the Canvas Spark 3 exclusively with Snapdeal. The launch marks a big step
forward towards the company's vision to dominate the smartphone market in
India by offering an extraordinary smartphone with industry's best features to
price ratio. Micromax Canvas Spark series is already a big hit with consumers
with its earlier two smartphones Canvas Spark 1 and Canvas Spark 2 selling
more than more than 1 million units within six months of its launch. The Spark
series have garnered excellent customer feedback with over 87000 positive
ratings and an overall rating of 4.5 stars out of 5 from consumers. The Canvas
Spark series has built a very strong equity with its users that over 94% users
have recommended the product to others on the Snapdeal website. With the
launch of Spark 3, the company is all set to outdo the massive success of the
Spark series. Big screen has become a rage amongst consumers who are
looking at achieving more with their smartphones from gaming to watching
videos. True to its belief, Micromax realized this trend early on and has been
focusing on offering larger screens to the consumers at a price to specs ratio
never seen. With the launch of Canvas Spark 3, Micromax is looking at offering
consumers an unparalleled entertainment experience through a combination
of strong performance, bigger screen, good battery life and optimal processing power.
Washington Apple Wagon Tour all set to reach
Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Rajkot, Vadodara and Surat
((TVM Communication
Agency)To bring in summers
with a blast of freshness and promote healthy living in India,
Washington Apple Commission
(WAC), is organizing a unique
country wide roadshow titled
'The Apple Wagon Tour' in 70
cities. Get ready as this mega
roadshow of Washington apples
comes to Ahmedabad on 2nd
April 2016. Straight from the orchards of Washington State, the
Apple Wagon is all set to woo you
with the best quality apples in
your city. The road show spreads
across two months, and is aimed
at educating apple lovers about
the succulent varieties available
in India along with a number of
delights. Keep the doctor away,
have an apple a day! Get your
hands on the host of delectable
Washington apple varieties available at your nearest store. Spot
the Apple Wagon at key locations
in your city and you may just win
yourself exciting prizes. The
wagon will also offer a chance to
win Washington apple gift hampers every week. All you have to
do is take interesting and fun pic-
tures at the Washington apple
photo booth, upload it on your
social media pages and get maximum likes. Talking about the initiative, Mr. Keith Sunderlal, India
representative of the Washington Apple Commission said, "After the grand success of the
maiden Apple Wagon Tour last
year, we are thrilled to announce
the second season of the road show
for our discerning consumers. We
believe that Washington apples are
the Original Health Fruit and look forward to bring in the goodness of
Washington apples to you this summer.
MIS 2016 - DP WORLD
PRIZE START UP CONTEST
RECEIVES AN OVERWHELMING RESPONSE
ACROSS THE COUNTRY
(SETU PR Agency) Ahmedabad, Fate brings two people
together but it is love that holds them together; COLORS
Gujarati, the State's only Gujarati GEC hopes to enthrall viewers
with its new fiction showShukraMangal? Premni Vaat, Aema
Niyatino Haath. The show follows the story of Tulsi, a naïve 22
year old woman but with a childlike approach towards life after
a misfortunate accident in her childhood. She is left brimming
with energy and enthusiasm like that of a little girl and an
innocence that is her biggest strength. Premiering on 4th April,
(SETu PR Agency)
Kamdhenu Limited, one of
India's most reputed and
growth oriented companies in
infrastructure & construction
products sector has been selected as the Asia's Best Brand
in steel and conferred with the
prestigious WCRC Award 2015. Organized by one of
the best global consultancy
body, World Consulting & Research Corporation (WCRC)
Awards are very sought-after
accolades given to corporate.
This Awards is another recognition of Kamdhenu at global
forum after receiving 'World's
Greatest Brand, 2015-Asia &
GCC' in the Iron and steel
category in the last December
in Dubai. March 2016, the Felicitation of Kamdhenu at the
grand event of Asia's Most
Promising Brands 2015 in front
of the august audience includ-
Micromax to dominate the online entry level
smartphone segment with Canvas Spark 3
the show will air every Monday to Saturday at 8pm. Produced
by veteran producer and theatre actorSanjay Goradia under
the "SanGo Telefilms" banner, the show is penned by Vipul
Mehta, who has written for iconic shows like
KyunkiSaasbhiKabhiBahuthi and Kya HogaNimmo Kya amongst
others. Moreover - Riddhi Dave, granddaughter of the stalwart
Sarita Joshi and daughter of the famous Ketki and Rasik
Davewill debut as the lead (Tulsi) in the show opposite the
charming Vikram Mehta. Elaborating on the same, Sanjay
Upadhyay, Programing Head - COLORS Gujarati,
"ShukraMangalquestions the power of fate versus that of love.
The show questions values set on the surface by the society as
against designed by the cosmic forces…through the eyes of the
protagonist Tulsi. Her simplicity and innocence stress the
reality more correctly than the worldly pandits. COLORS Gujarati
aims to entertain viewers with fresh and delightful content and
we believe that this show, slotted for the 8pm primetime slot
will strike a chord with viewers." Producer Sanjay Goradia
further added saying, "COLORS Gujarati and Sango Telefilms
go back a long way and share a very fruitful association. With
ShukraMangal, we hope to further continue delivering
entertaining shows that appeal to the Gujarati viewers."
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ing media professionals, Marketing Gurus, Corporate Leaders etc., took place at Hotel
Amary Water Gate, Bangkok,
Thailand. The directors of the
Company, Mr. Sunil Agarwal
and Mr. Saurav Agarwal had
received this coveted award
on behalf of Kamdhenu Limited. Giving away the WCRC
Award - 2015 the organizer
acknowledged the contribution of Kamdhenu towards
revolutionizing the business
model and bringing forth advance technologies in the steel
industry. Kamdhenu Limited
is a well established group
dealing in manufacturing,
marketing, branding and distribution of wide range of quality construction products. Since
1994, operating in the business of National and International quality of Steel bars
manufacturing in India the
(SETU PR Agency) In support of the upcoming Maritime
India Summit; Ministry of Shipping, Invest India and DP World
have joined forces to organise
the "MIS 2016 -DP World
Prize"contest. The contest is
specially curated for the budding entrepreneurs to showcase
new and innovative ideas in the
Maritime and associated sectors.
The contest has attracted great
interest from India's booming
start-up industry. The contest
will be judged by an eminent jury
panel consisting of Mr. Deepak
Parekh, Chairman, HDFC, Capt.
B.B. Sinha, Chairman and Managing Director, SCI; along with
other distinguished personalities
from the Government, industry
and the shipping ministry. Senior
official from Ministry of Shipping,
Government of India said, "In line
with Prime Minister's Make in
India initiative, this is a great opportunity for budding entrepreneurs in the country. This prize
will facilitate the path breaking maritime-logistics initiatives designed by them at the
upcoming Maritime India Summit to be held in Mumbai.
1, 38,313 farmers from 16 states submit petition to Environment
Ministers and Agriculture Ministers in support of GM Mustard
(SETU PR Agency, A consortium of 6 leading national farmer organization named Rashtriya
Progressive Kisan Samiti which includes Sir Choudhary Choturam Bhartiya Kisan Samiti (BKS),
Consortium of Indian Farmers Association, Kisan Coordination Committee, Shetkari Sanghatana
Trust, United Farmers Empowerment Initiative (UFEI) & Confederation of NGOs of Rural India (CNRI)
came together to submit a petition to Shri Prakash Javadekar Union Minister of Environment, Forests
and Climate Change and Shri Mohanbhai Kundariya, Union Agriculture Minister of State in favour of
GM Mustard. The newly formed consortium of these progressive and pro-technology, farmer
organizations collectively fanned out across some of India's key agrarian states including Rajasthan,
Punjab, Haryana, Bihar, Gujarat, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh,
Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh and
collected one lakh thirty eight thousand three hundred and thirteen signed farmer petitions. The
consortium that collectively represents over 8 crores of farmers across these 16 states is demanding
the non-politicization of commercialization of GM Mustard which is currently under review with
Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC). Talking about the economic benefits of GM
Mustard Sardar U.S Mann Ex- M.P Rajya Sabha and Chairman, Kisan Coordination Committee said "As
per the initial studies GM Mustard has the potential to increase yield between 20-30 percent which
is significant enough for the commercial cultivation of the crop. Additionally this technology will
reduce the import bills, increase farmer's income and will bring more area under cultivation. The
hybrid if adopted could bring a total additional benefit to farmers between Rs. 162 crores to Rs. 1118
crores during the peak cultivation season. Even from a national perspective GM Mustard will help in
increasing the country's revenue through exports, something which we saw after Bt Cotton got
approved in 2002. India became world`s largest exporter of cotton from an importer with 90
percent of the cotton cultivation area being under Bt Cotton".
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Ahmedabad. Dt. 01-04-2016 Friday
‘Namo pens' for board
students raise hackles
Corrspondent,
Ahmedabad: In an apparent
bid to catch them young, politically , students of Class X
and XII were given `Namo'
pens with the inscription `I
Love Modi' for writing their
board exams. The pens,
which were packaged in saffron covers complete with a
picture of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and the
BJP'party symbol, lotus, were
the gift of a private firm.
They were distributed among
students before the board
exams began on March 8.
School principals in
Ahmedabad reported that
they had received packages
containing 5-10 packets of
NAMO pens and each packet
had five pens. The pens were
accompanied by a covering
etter from the company
claiming that they had sent
the pens for distribution
among students as gifts after taking the consent of the
chairman of Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary
Education Board (GSHSEB) R J
Shah, and deputy chairman R
R Thakkar. This alleged
`politicization of exams' has
not only triggered protest
by the opposition Congress
but also caused dismay
among
school
authorities.“This kind of
politicization of exams has
never been allowed. The
pens came packed with a
big image of the party symbol
as well,“ said the principal of
an Ahmedabad-based school.
Congress spokesperson
Manish Doshi said that there
are over 50,000 vacant posts
of teachers in schools. “Instead of making efforts to give
qua ity education, the BJP is
allowing politicization of the
education system. It is shocking that the board allowed
such blatant politicization of
school exams,“ Doshi said.
Board authorities, however,
deny that they gave permission. “The pen company
had approached us some
five months back with the
proposal but we had refused
since it involved the use of a
political party's symbol,“ said
RR Thakkar. The company ,
however, claims otherwise.
Suresh Zaveri, head of the
promotional activities of
Todays' pens in Gujarat, said
that their company had distributed 1.50 lakh pens with
`I love Modi' message among
students in Ahmedabad,
Gandhinagar and Vadnagar.
“We came up with this idea
three years ago, when Modi
was Gujarat chief minister.
We first went to him to show
him samples of the pen. He
liked our idea and gave his
permission to distribute the
writing tool,“ Zaveri said. He
further claimed that he had
met state ministers, including education minister
Bhupendrasinh Chudasma,
the Gujarat Secondary and
Higher Secondary Education
Board (GSHSEB) chairman A
J Shah, and also deputy chairman R R Thakakar before distributing the pens. “We were
provided a list of schools by
GSHSEB office-bearers,“
Zaveri said. When asked why
the pen covers carried the
symbol of lotus which is the
electoral symbol of BJP , he
said, “Those pens must be
some leftovers.“ Rajesh Drolia,
promoter of the company ,
was not available for his comment. An email query to
him remained unanswered.
Karnavati Club set to
elect new board
Agency, Ahmedabad:
The city's tony Karnavati Club
is set to hold one of its most
important elections on Thursday , to elect 23 directors to its
30-member board. These
elections are a direct fight
between the `Members Power
Panel' (MPP) and `Members
Freedom Panel' (MFP). MPP
already has seven directors
on the board. MPP , which
swept the Rajpath Club elections last year 27-3, is eyeing
a complete majority at
Karnavati as well. After defeating the Paresh Dani-led
`President Panel' in Rajpath
Club in March 2015, MPP defeated the Girish Daniled panel
7-0 in the August 2015 elec-
tions at Karnavati Club.Girish
Dani had resigned after the
defeat, after serving as president of the club for more
than15 years. Following the
defeat, Girish Dani and three
other founding members were
removed from permanent directorship at an extraordinary
general meeting (EGM) earlier this month. MPP was
formed on an anti-corruption
plank and has ta ken a slew of
measures at Rajpath Club after its takeover, under the new
president Jagdish Patel. Last
week, the Rajpath Club management suspended five
members, including Paresh
Dani, for alleged fraud of Rs
5.52 crore. They have raised
SC reserves order on funding
repairs of temples, mosques
Hindusthan Agency, Ahmedabad: After four years of
proceedings, the Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its
order on an appeal against Gujarat high court's order to fund the
restoration and repair of the religious structures that were
damaged during the 2002 riots in Gujarat. The state government had moved the apex court after then chief justice of the
Gujarat high court, Bhaskar Bhattacharya, held in February 2012
that the damage done to re igious structures was due to
negligence and inefficiency on part of the state government to curb the violence, and hence it s liable to pay for
the damages. The petitioner in this case - Islamic Relief
Committee, Gujarat (IRC) and the state government could
not reach a compromise on payment to trusts towards
damages and the case was heard at length by the apex
court. The SC also raised a question about whether a state
government can be asked to fund restoration of religious places.
the issue of corruption for the
elections at Karnavati Club as
well. MFP , which was formed
six months ago, wants to promote youth and women in the
club. It has fielded two women
candidates besides several
young members. Two days
befo re voting, MFP suffered a
set back after its candidate
Vijay Thakkar withdrew his
nomi nation. Both MPP and
MFP have not announced
names for the post of president ahead of vo ting. There
are 9,800 members in the club.
Of these, as many as 809
members cast their vo tes via
e-voting before Tuesday
evening. MPP already has
seven se ats and needs nine
more to ga in power at the
club. MFP ne eds to win 16
seats to get past the majority
mark. If MPP wins, it will control the two most prominent
clubs in the city. The club
management held its last annual general meeting (AGM)
with the current board members on Wednesday morning.
The election was declared at
the AGM, which lasted for just
a few minutes. Justice (Retd)
P B Majmudar, who is overseeing the elections, on
Wednesday took stock of
preparations for voting. The
members will have to vote for
their choice on all 23 seats or
their vote will be invalid.
Parents ransack DP
School in Vadaj
Agency, Ahmedabad:
The alleged in cident of electrocution of se ven-year-old
Harshil Soni at DP School in
Vadaj took an ug ly turn on
Wednesday when a few parents tried to make representations to the school principal
Jaydev Sonagra. According to
sources Harshil's father Rajiv
Soni and uncle Vijay Soni went
to the school on Thursday to
talk to the principal. “However
they alleged that the principal
refused to talk to them. The
agitated relatives of the boy ,
along with a few other parents who'd come to school to
drop their children turned vio-
lent and ransacked a few notice boards and flower pots,“
said a police official. Police
sources said they rushed to
the spot and pacified the agitated parents and deployed
bandobast at the scho ol. “After the incident, which took
place on Tuesday , the school
remained open, but fol lowing
the incident of violen ce the
school was closed on Thursday . It will remain open on
Friday as students have to
face their exams“ said a police
official. It is noteworthy that
Hars hil, a class two student of
the school, allegedly got electro
cuted on Tuesday , while drin
king water from cooler installed in the school. Meanwhile, the cops who registered a case of accidental
death have seized the water
cooler and sent it for forensic
examination. “It was alleged
that while drinking water from
the cooler, the boy got electrocuted and died,“ added senior police official Police
sources said they are also
verifying whether the student
had a medical history or not.
On Wednesday , district education officer (DEO) A K Rathod
issued a notice to the school
and sought a detailed reply on
the incident. Sources said the
DEO has also issued notices to
other schools to take care of
such instruments, which can
prove hazardous if not in
proper working condition.
Garvi Gujarat
Isotopes indicate the
source of groundwater
Agency, Ahmedabad: Is it the rainwater falling on the
ground that is replinishing the subterranean reserves? How
`fresh' is the wa er that you find, use or drink? What is the
source of the water which can be found in your vicinity? The
scientists point towards isotope characterization of groundwater as a reliable method to answer these questions. R D
Deshpande, senior scientist with Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), presented a paper at a conference called by
CGWB describing their efforts to map groundwater. Experts
said that the method can be used to trace depletion at a given
ocation over a period of time and to ascertain the depth at
which water with greater age, than that found near the
surface, could be accessed. As part of the project, the
scientists worked closely with CGWB and collected pre and
post monsoon samples from 200 locations in Gujarat. The
samples were then ested at PRL for oxygen and hydrogen
isotopic analysis. “Significant variation in isotopic composition of groundwater indicated that the water in different parts
of the state was recharged through different geo-hydrological processes.Groundwater recharged by water undergoing
considerable evaporation during infiltration and percolation
had more iso opic value than the one recharged by sources
below ground,“ said Deshpande.He said that such studies
would be important o assess vulnerability and managing of
groundwater resources.
HC questions why women's
shelters function like jails
Hindusthan Agency,
Ahmedabad: Gujarat high
court on Wednesday raised
several questions on the pathetic conditions of women
shelter
homes
(Nari
Sanrakshan Gruh) in the state.
A bench headed by Justice Akil
Kureshi sought to learn why
women above the age of 18
are kept in shelter homes without their consent. The court
also questioned why the conditions of such shelter homes,
where women are sent as a
last resort, conti nue to be like
jails. The court also questioned
why these places are not open
for all women, and girls are
sent there only upon judicial
orders, or when they are associated with criminal cases.
The high court also noticed
that such shelter homes are
being run in accordance with
laws that were formed way
back in 1962. The questions
came in context of girls fleeing
from Nari Sanrakshan Gruhs.
Two fled recently from a
women's shelter in Odhav. Last
year too, there were instances
when girls fled shelter homes
to escape inhuman living
conditions.The judges also
said that the court is waiting
for the report from the committee it had set up to look
into the matter. The HC said
that there should be periodical inspection and reporting of conditions in
these shelter homes.Acting
on a PIL filed by an NGO,
Peace & Equality Cell, complaining about pathetic conditions in shelter homes, the
HC had in November last
year formed a committe e
to study the condition.
Agency, Ahmedabad; In
one of the biggest hauls of
Fake Indian Currency Notes
(FICN), the Gujarat anti-terrorist squad (ATS) on
Wednesday night arrested
from Kheda district a man
named Narsinh Sevla of
Banswada, Rajasthan, with
counterfeit notes of the face
value of over Rs 1.41crore.
It is noteworthy that this is
the first time that fake notes
have been pushed into
Gujarat from Rajasthan.
“We are looking for associates of Narsinh who had ordered the consignment. We
will nab them very soon,“ said
a senior police official. Sources
in Gujarat police said this could
be biggest haul ever of fake
currency notes in Gujarat. “
ATS officials are bringing the
accused to Ah medabad for
further interrogation,“ said a
senior police official. The
sources said Gujarat ATS had
a tip-off about Narsinh ferrying counterfeit notes into
Gujarat from Rajasthan. “We
had been tipped off that fake
notes were smuggled from
Rajasthan into Gujarat by
train. Hence, we scrutinized
railway reservation charts of
three months. We finally zeroed in on Narsinh,“ said a
police official. Sources in the
police said they had dispatched
a team to Kheda on Wednesday afternoon. “Our team was
ready and nabbed Narsinh with
a parcel containing the fake
notes,“ said a source. During
preliminary interrogation of the
accused, it came to light that
the consignment of fake notes
was smuggled from Rajasthan
which also borders Pakistan.
Rs 1.41 crore in fake
notes seized, 1 held
VS Hospital trustees seek judicial probe
Corrspondent, Ahmedabad: Following a criminal complaint of
financial fraud at the VS Hospital cash counter, the board of
management of the hospital has now sought a judicial enquiry into
a number of irregularities -financial and the administrative matters.
The Sheth Vadilal Sarabhai Municipal General hospital and Chinai
Nursing home public trust members Rupa Chinai , Brijesh Chinai, Jai
Arun Sheth and Dr Virendra Shah claimed in a resolution that the
recent scams ha ve affected the reputation of the hospital, and
required a judicial enquiry into alleged irregularities. The trust
members have also resolved that for several decades the VS
Hospital has not been submitting an audit report to the charity
commissioner . Besides this, the trust members have claimed that
instead of getting the books of accounts of the hospital audited
by the AMC, the VS Hospital administration has appointed a private
auditor to audit its accounts.
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State's water table
unsettled: Study
Hindusthan Agency.
Ahmedabad: Random drilling of bore wells in the state's
water-scarce areas for both
drinking and irrigation has led
to a drop of up to 4 metres
(13.12 ft) in 40% (13 out of 33
districts) in Gujarat, a study
conducted by the Central
Ground Water Board (CGWB)
has found. The CGWB study ,
`Ground Water Scenario in
Gujarat', presented this
Wednesday , covered the
change experienced between
2003 and 2013 (for a decade).
Most affected districts were
found to be located in north
and central Gujarat and
Saurashtra peninsula. On the
brighter side, the Narmada
canal network provided a silver lining. Areas covered under the network reported
stable or increased groundwater levels. Ashok Kumar,
senior hydrologist with CGWB,
Gujarat, who had conducted
the study along with Anoop
Nagar, regional director, however, said that interventions in
past one decade has impro
ved overall groundwater situation in Gujarat. “Compared
to 15.02 billion cubic meter
(bcm) available in 2004, in the
year 2011, it was measured at
17.58 bcm. Out of 225 talukas
of Gujarat, 12 were critical
and 31 were over-exploited in
2004, which improved to 5
and 24 in 2011,“ he said. The
study found the districts most
affected include Ahmedabad,
Banaskantha,
Patan,
Sabarkantha, Narmada,
Vadodara, Amreli, Bhavnagar,
Jamnagar, Junagadh, Rajkot,
Surendranagar and Kutch.
Researchers point at rampant
water extraction through bore
wells in these areas as the
primary reason for the phenomenon. “One has to understand the rise and fall in context of aquifers. The groundwater is measured in terms of
large areas. Thus, if the water
level on the map shows 10
meter, it wouldn't mean one
would find water at 10 meter
level. The figure indicates average level of water in an
aquifer. Individual bore wells
might find water at different
levels on the basis of underground rock formations and
soil types,“ said Kumar. An
aquifer, according to scientists, refers to an underground
layer of permeable rock, sediment, or soil that contains
water. Aquifers can range
from a few square kilometres
to thousands of square
kilometres in size. Thus, a
small drop in the average level
of groundwater in an aquifer
can affect a large geographic
area on the surface. Over 200
delegates from various government and non-government
organizations participated in
a one-day conference organized by Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) to discuss
issues related to groundwater
in Gujarat at Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA)
on Wednesday.Anoop Nagar,
regional director, CGWB, said
that the event was organized
under Jal Kranti Abhiyan initiative. “We tried to cover several aspects such as groundwater resource management,
aquifer mapping, salinity control measures in coastal areas, watershed management
techniques and public participation,“ he said. At the
end of the conference, the
delegates announced a
resolution encompassing
various suggestions that
emerged from the discussions, whichwouldbepresented
to concerned stakeholders.
Corrspondent,
Ahmedabad; Industrial activities, coupled with unchecked
pollution, would seriously affect the groundwater quality
in Ahmedabad district, states
a study by Mona Khakhar, an
associate professor with
CEPT University. Khakhar
shared the findings in a conference on Wednesday. In
her study titled `Assessing
Groundwater Vulnerability
to Contamination: A Case
Study of Ahmedabad District,'
Khakhar mentions that she
used DRASTIC parameters
(Depth, Recharge, Aquifer
media, Soil, Topography, Im-
pact of Vadose zone, Conductivity) to assess the vulnerability (probability of contamination of groundwater by any
factor) using available data
and found that 5.20% of the
district area is highly vulnerable, 49.4% moderately vulnerable and 45.4% had low
vulnerability. High vulnerability in Dholka and
Dhandhuka taluka is primarily due to sea intrusion.
Ahmedabad city is included
in moderate zone. In India,
there are no formal mechanisms by which one may
plan developmental activities on the basis of vulner-
ability of groundwater. The
vulnerability can be used
to ascertain areas under development for smart city
plans, special economic zones
(SEZ), hazardous waste landfill sites and other activities,
so that the groundwater resources can be saved,“ she
said. She added that the
groundwater in certain areas
may shift towards high degree of vulnerability if activities inducing contamination
of groundwater continue unchecked. According to her
study, the primary issues in
moderately vulnerable areas include high TDS and sodium levels.
NT
Network,
Ahmedabad: The suicide of
his 21-year-old son Kishan
Thakker -a promising engineering student at LD Engineering College -came as
shock to rickshaw driver
Bhadresh Thakker, who had
saved money , penny by penny
, for his son's passport and
paperwork to send him abroad
for further studies. Kishan, a
sixth semester IT engineering
student, who scored 85% in
his previous semester, committed suicide on March 28 by
jumping into the Sabarmati
near NID. “His body was fished
out only on Thursday morn-
ing,“ said a police official of
Riverfront West police station.
Police had found his bag on
March 28, at the parking lot on
the riverfront but didn't open it
until March 29. “Until then, his
family had been running from
pillar to post to find him. If the
police had opened his bag
earlier, they would have found
the suicide note inside it, which
said he alone was responsible
for the extreme step,“ said a
family friend. Police sources
said Kishen, who lived at
Dharmnath society on Nikol
Road had left for college on
March 28. “Instead of going to
college, which had just re-
opened on Monday , he went
to the riverfront near NID. He
parked his motorcycle and
hung his bag around the
handle. From CCTV footage,
we found that he went to the
water's edge and came back
to his bike twice,“ said a senior police offici al. On March
29, the cops opened the bag
and found the suicide note,
along with his college identity
card and switched-off
cellphone. “On informing his
family members, we came to
know that Kishan had gone
missing on March 28. We were
almost certain that he had
committed suicide as we had
found the note,“ said a senior
police official. Police sources
said they and Kishan's father
contacted fire department officials, but they said they
hadn't found a body in the
river on Monday . “On Wednesday morning, fire department
personnel finally fished out
Kishan's body from the river
near NID. He was identified by
his clothes,“ added a police
official. Kishan's cousin Dhaval
said Kishan was a brilliant student and had also got placed
at a private company for Rs 7
lakh per anum on completion
of his studies. “However, he
seemed disturbed for about a
month or so,“ added Dha val.
‘Groundwater quality
at risk in half of district'
Engineering student
kills self
4 cities
in state cross 40°C mark
C o r r s p o n d e n t , the extreme climatic conditions
Ahmedabad: Even before summer sets in fully , four cities in
Gujarat including Ahmedabad,
Vadodara,
Amreli
and
Surendranagar crossed the 40
degrees celsius mark on
Wednesday . This portends a
long and scorching summer for
the state. Central Gujarat and
Sarurashtra bore the worst of
Three tax defaulters
from state among top 20
NT Network Ahmedabad,
Finance minister Arun Jaitley
recently revealed the names
of India's top 20 income tax
defaulters including three from
Gujarat. Out of the 67 tax
evaders, whose names have
been made public by the I-T
department in the past one
year, Gujarat with 24 evaders
tops the list of states with
highest
number
of
defaulters.Cumulatively , these
24 individuals and entities have
not paid tax to the tune of Rs
576.8 crore. Gujarat is followed by Maharashtra and Te
langana with 15 defaulters
each. As part of its `Name and
Shame' policy , I-T department has released three separate list of 67 defaulters across
India, who have evaded tax of
more than Rs 3200 crore between assessment year 198081and 2013-14. The individuals and entities who have defaulted on taxes from Gujarat
are into businesses such as
capital gains, share trading,
and textile, angadia and film
distribution, jewllery and
manufacturing among others.
The three defaulters from the
state to figure in the top 20
list, tabled in Lok Sabha by FM
Jaitley , include two firmsBlue Information Pvt Ltd and
Liverpool Retail India Ltdas well
as an individual-Praful M
Akhani. Together, these three
have tax arrears of Rs 136.38
crore.Out of total 24 from
Gujarat, 17 belong to
Ahmedabad and the remaining are from Surat, Rajkot and
Gandhidham.As many as 11
defaulters have evaded tax of
over Rs 25 crore each. The
lists of tax defaulters have
been compiled by the Income
Tax department and issued by
the Finance Ministry carry
names of the evaders, their
last known addresses, PAN
numbers, and amount of arrears and last known source
of income. According to a senior IT official in Ahmedabad,
till last year the department
was asked to compile the
names of defaulters who had
evaded taxes of more than Rs
10 crore. “Now, we are gathering names of defaulters who
have evaded taxes of more
than Rs 1crore and have not
paid even after several reminders,“ added IT official.
on Wednesday , with five other
cities in these regions touching
39°C. Ahmedabad was the hottest city in the state with a
maximum temperature of
40.5°C, and a night temperature of 18.5°C. City roads wore
a deserted look with very few
people outside due to the extreme afternoon heat. In central Gujarat, Vadodara recorded
a maximum of 40.2°C, and a
minimum of 23°C. In Saurashtra,
Amreli was the state's second
hottest city with a 40.3°C maximum temperature and a 21.2°C
minimum. Surendranagar was
at 40°C by day with a minimum
of 22.2°C.
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