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fter much delay, the Eastern
and Western Peripheral
Peripheral Expressway, initiated almost 11 years ago to ease
congestion as well as air pollution levels in the national
Capital, has started seeing the
light of day. Union Minister for
Road Transport and Highways
Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday
threw open to the public the 52kilometre Manesar-Palwal section of total 135-kilometre the
Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP)
Expressway, also known as
Western Peripheral Expressway.
Though there will be no
significant impact on Delhi’s
traffic due to opening of the 52kilometre stretch, once both the
Eastern and Western Peripheral
Expressways are completed,
traffic passing through Delhi is
expected to be brought to half
with proportional reduction
in the pollution levels.
Speaking on the occasion,
Gadkari promised to complete
that Eastern and Western
Peripheral Expressways are targeted for completion within
400 days. Once both the
expressways complete, apart
from reducing traffic congestion and air pollution levels in
Delhi, farmers, traders and the
people of the region as a whole
will benefit due to better con-
nectivity, he said.
While the project had been
languishing for several years,
the Centre and the Haryana
Government resolved the issues
plaguing it and the 52.33 km
long section of the expressway
has been completed in a record
time of eleven months, claimed
Har yana Chief Minister
Manohar Lal Khattar.
Gadkari reiterated his
Government’s commitment to
bringing in policies aimed at
improving the condition of
villages, poor people, farmers
and labourers. He said that a
strong infrastructure plays a
major role in fostering development. “Road building activ-
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ith an aim to push
Government’s financial
inclusion agenda and support
entrepreneurship among
women and SC & ST communities and, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi on Tuesday
launched the Stand-up India
scheme under which 1.25 lakh
bank branches will provide
loans up to C1 crore to SC/ST
and women entrepreneurs. At
a function, which was organised to mark birth anniversary
of Dalit leader and former
Deputy Prime Minister Babu
Jagjivan Ram, Modi also distributed 5,100 e-rickshaws.
Before launching the
scheme, Prime Minister
Narender Modi interacted with
e-rickshaws beneficiaries over
Chai Pe Charcha. E-rickshaws
driver shared their dreams and
struggle with the PM.
Explaining the contours of
Stand-up India programme,
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Modi said this will help in creating 2.5 lakh entrepreneurs
throughout the country as every
bank branch will be required to
provide two such loans ranging
from C10 lakh to C1 crore without collateral for setting up a
new enterprise. Stressing that it
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is not possible for the
Government to provide jobs for
everyone, the PM said the
scheme will convert “job-seekers into job-creators...This
scheme is going to transform
the lives of people from Dalit
and tribal communities.”
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ity has caught speed, and today
we are building about 20 km of
roads per day as against 2 km
per day during the UPA
Government,” he said.
Gadkari further said that
the Government is constructing
1.5-lakh kilometre of highways
in a year. “When the Modi
Government came to power, we
decided to give topmost priority to infrastructure. When I
became the Minister for Road
Transport and Highways, there
were merely 96,000 kilometres
of highways. That makes it
after taking loans.
“This nation has seen the
generosity of poor. Rich borrowers look for ways to run
away after borrowing money
from banks. The poor people
were required to open zero
balance account under the
Jan Dhan scheme. Look at
their honesty, their self
respect. They opted to put
money into their accounts...
C50, 100, 200. The deposits
exceeded C35,000 crore. This
is the generosity of our poor
people,” Modi said.
Stand up India, he said,
aims to empower every Indian
and enable them to stand on
their own feet. The scheme
was announced by Modi in his
Independence Day address.
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rubbished Pakistani media
reports that the terror attack on
the Pathankot airbase was a
drama staged by India to
malign Pakistan. Rejecting the
media reports that quoted
Pakistani Joint Investigation
team members as saying there
was no evidence to link
Pakistan to Pathankot attack,
sources in the Indian
Government said the very fact
JIT came to India to collect evidence against involvement of
their citizens is self-explanatory. Sources also termed media
reports as “concocted.”
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took onboard the detailed evidence which was shared by
National Investigation Agency.
Since the JIT collected evidence in accordance with a
Pakistani law which applies to
Pak citizens committing an
offence abroad, the involvement of Pakistanis in the
Pathankot attack is self-evident,” sources said.
The Indian reaction came
following a report in Pakistan
Today attributed to JIT officials who told the paper that
the attack on Pathankot airbase was a drama staged by
India to malign Pakistan for
being involved in terrorism,
and there was no evidence to
show that attackers entered
from their side. It also said the
JIT members have complained
that Indian authorities did
not cooperate with Pakistan in
investigation and instead
made efforts to hinder the
probe. The JIT is expected to
submit its report to Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif in next
few days.
However, there is no official word from the Pakistani
Government on this.
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n a new twist to the Pratyusha
Banerjee suicide case, the city
police on Tuesday booked her
boyfriend Rahul Raj Singh for
allegedly abetting her suicide.
Four days after the “Balika
Vadhu” television serial fame
Pratyusha was found hanging
from a ceiling fan at her house
in north Mumbai, the
Bangurnagar police registered a
case against her boyfriend Rahul
under Sections 306 (abetment of
suicide), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (criminal
intimidation) of the IPC.
Rahul, who runs a production company, is currently
admitted at Shree Sai Hospital
at Kandivali.
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32-year-old man was killed
by a speeding Mercedes
while crossing the main
road near Ludlow Castle
School, at 8:50 pm on Friday
night in North Delhi’s posh
Civil Lines area.
The deceased, Sidharth
Sharma, alias Sidhu, a resident of White Apartments in
Civil Lines, was studying
Business Administration at
Modi-ATI
Academic
Institute. Sidhar th was
returning home from college
and was crossing the road
after buying eatables from a
shop at the trisection when
the killer Mercedes hit him
from behind.
“Sidhu was flung several
feet into the air and landed at
least 15 meters away.
After hitting Sidhu,
the speeding Mercedes,
hit the road divider and both
the tyres on the right were
busted by the impact,” said a
police officer.
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in partial prohibition, Chief
Minister Nitish Kumar on
Tuesday sprang a major surprise and announced total prohibition in Bihar with immediate effect.
Now, the Indian Made
Foreign Liquor (IMFL), which
was earlier planned to be sold at
limited Government-controlled
outlets in urban areas, has been
totally banned. The Bihar
Government will incur an annual revenue loss of C4,000 crore by
declaring Bihar a dry State.
A Cabinet meeting chaired
by Nitish Kumar approved
total prohibition and soon after
the decision, all IMFL outlets
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whose name figured in the
Panama paper leaks, on
Tuesday denied that he had
known any of the four offshore
companies mentioned in the
leaks and said his name might
have been “misused”.
A day after the names of
500 Indians figured in the
secret files of Mossack Fonseca,
a law firm headquartered in tax
haven Panama, and identified
Bachchan, his daughter-in-law
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and
her family members as being
among them, the Big B denied
that he did not know any of the
companies linked to him in the
newspaper report.
Seventy-three-year-old
megastar also said that he
had never been a director of
any of the four off-shore companies mentioned in the
report. He also made it a
point to mention that the
news report did not suggest
any illegality on his part.
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C457.81 crore. It is an access
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half,” he added.
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network in the country which
was used by around 40 per cent
of total traffic. There were also
used to be around 5 lakh road
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business were shut down.
Giving credit to women
and anti-liquor activists who for
the past few days had been
protesting against the opening of
IMFL shops in municipal areas,
the CM said, “I had been waiting for this positive atmosphere
in favour of total prohibition and
now I have no qualms in declaring total ban on liquor.”
On March 31, the State
legislature had passed the Bihar
Excise (Amendment) Bill, 2016
unanimously and from April 1,
country-made and spice liquor
was totally banned in rural
areas. The move received overwhelming support of the people, particularly women, and in
urban areas many Governmentowned IMFL shops could not be
opened due to public protests.
The Government had planned
to sell IMFL in municipal areas
through 655 outlets.
Welcoming
the
Government’s decision, former Deputy CM and BJP
leader Sushil Kumar Modi said
his party was in favour of total
prohibition
and
the
Government had to succumb
to pressure and change its policy. He promised all help in
implementing the ban.
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home and auto loans are set to
get cheaper as Reserve Bank of
India (RBI) on Tuesday
reduced the short-term lending rate by 0.25 per cent to
over 5-year low of 6.5 per cent,
taking the total cut to 1.5 per
cent since January last year.
“Don’t look at the monetary policy review as 25 bps
(cut alone). Look at the composite of measures (marginal cost of funding-based lending rate methods effective
April 1), they all add up.
Borrowing rates are coming
down significantly in the
economy,” said RBI Governor
Raghuram Rajan.
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o monkey business any
more — at least in tourist
hotspot Shimla. Declared vermin, the marauding monkeys will be shot down in
areas outside forests to check
their menace.
The
Ministry
of
Environment, Forests and
Climate Change, in a communication to the Himachal
Pradesh Government on March
14, declared the Rhesus monkey as vermin within Shimla’s
municipal limits, which legally allows their elimination.
Forest Minister Thakur
Singh Bharmouri told IANS
that the permission to cull
them will be valid for six
months in the municipal limits alone, excluding the forest
areas. Hailing the decision,
which followed several requests
from the state, he said the
culling would go a long way in
mitigating the damage to
human life, crops and other
state property.
The Minister said 39 out of
the 75 tehsils in 10 of the 12
districts have been identified by
the state forest department as
monkey hotspots.
A hotspot means a place of
maximum conflict with humans.
The maximum of seven
monkey-affected tehsils are in
Kangra district, followed by
Una, Bilaspur and Sirmaur
districts (five each) and
Shimla (four).
In a written reply during
the ongoing budget session,
Bharmouri informed the
assembly that the attack on
humans in the state has
increased since 2006.
In 2013-14, the maximum
513 attacks were reported.
In the last three years,
there were 674 attacks on
humans by the monkeys and
the sufferers were compensated C28 lakh (more than
$42,000) during this period.
The Minister said the State
has been conducting a monkey
sterilisation programme since
2006 and more than 51 per cent
of the monkeys in the State
have been neutered.
Quoting the agriculture
department report of 2014,
Bharmouri said monkeys and
other wild animals damaged
agricultural crops worth C184
crore annually.
He said the loss to horticulture crops was estimated at C150
crore between 2006 and 2014.
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January 2011 putting on hold
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Chandigarh: About 15,027
metric tonnes (MT) of wheat
has so far arrived in the
mandis (grain markets) of
Haryana during the ongoing
procurement season.
Out of it, 14,843MT
has been purchased by
the Government procurement
agencies at Minimum
Support Price, said a
spokesman of the Food and
Supplies Department.
He said that 1,446MT of
wheat has been procured by
Food
and
Supplies
Department,
whereas
HAFED has purchased
454MT of wheat.
He said that Food
Corporation of India has purchased 3,000MT of wheat,
Haryana Agro Industries
Corporation purchased 56
metric tonnes and 9,887MT of
wheat has been procured by
Har yana
Warehousing
Corporation. Apart from this,
184MT of wheat has been
procured by traders.
District Mewat is leading
in wheat arrival where
9,768MT of wheat has so far
arrived in the mandis. Jhajjar
has recorded arrival of 1773
MT of wheat, district
Faridabad
1703
MT,
Yamunanagar 424MT, Rewari
567MT, Narnaul 336MT and
Ambala has recorded arrival of
21MT of wheat in the mandis.
About 75 lakh MT of
wheat is expected to arrive in
the mandis of Haryana during
the Rabi season-2016. PNS
permission to farmers to shoot
monkeys, Bharmouri said the
government would apprise the
court of the latest permission
granted by the centre.
“The case is listed for hearing on April 13 and we are
hopeful we will convince the
court to provide immediate
relief,” the Minister said.
He clarified that after
being declared vermin, individuals who anticipate a threat
to their self or property were
free to kill monkeys.
Animal protection groups,
however, are outraged.
“Killing monkeys is
not a solution,” argued USbased Humane Society
International campaign manager NG Jayasimha.
He told IANS that they
would soon take legal recourse
to save the monkeys.
Himachal Pradesh is home
to 207,614 monkeys as per
last year’s census against
226,086 in 2013. Till March 31,
a total of 108,325 monkeys
were sterilised at eight centres.
Their number was the highest at 317,512 in the 2004 census.
The monkey census says
there are about 2,452 monkeys
within the Shimla municipal
limits, which is higher than
their number registered in 2013.
Marauding monkeys,
prowling in gangs on Shimla’s
streets created panic among residents and tourists. They have
been causing havoc by biting
passersby and snatching food.
Shimla
Municipal
Corporation deputy mayor
Takinder Panwar said on an
average, more than 100 dog bites
and over 60 monkey bite cases
are being reported every month
in the Rippon Hospital alone.
He said the monkey menace has reached an alarming
proportion and needs to be
tackled scientifically.
In localities like Jakhu,
Tutikandi, Nabha, Phagli,
Kaithu, Summer Hill, Tutu,
Boileauganj, Chotta Shimla and
Sanjauli, the residents have literally converted their houses
into jails by erecting iron grills
on the doors and windows to
check the intrusion of monkeys.
Wildlife officials said around
eight years ago, the monkeys
were trapped from Shimla and
banished to the jungles and that
was the best technique to reduce
their population.
“Now their population has
grown manifold and they need
to be relocated once again
rather than going for culling,”
said an official.
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imachal Pradesh Chief
Minister Virbhadra Singh
on Tuesday informed the State
Assembly that there was no
move to appoint his deputy.
As the question hour began
on Tuesday, BJP member Rikhi
Ram Kaundal referred to a
news report that said there was
a possibility of appointment of
a Deputy Chief Minister.
Following this, Speaker
BBL Butail said the question
could not be allowed and asked
Kaundal to take up the question mentioned in his name.
Virbhadra Singh then
intervened saying that the news
report was false and planted
and there was no truth in it.
BJP members kept raising
the issue and shouted slogans
against the government, disrupting the question hour.
Later, they staged a walkout
from the house.
The proceedings of the
house went on in the absence
of BJP members. After the
question hour, the BJP members joined the proceedings.
Meanwhile, the Himachal
Pradesh Tax on Entry of Goods
into Local Area (Amendment)
Bill, 2016, which was introduced in the house a day earlier, was passed without any
discussion as the opposition
BJP members at that time were
protesting on another issue.
Excise and Taxation
Minister Prakash Chaudhary
said the bill includes provisions
to tax as it was providing
uneven playing field for local
businessmen and also causing
revenue loss to the
Government.
A clause has been inserted
in the bill providing for levying
of tax on e-commerce.
“Notwithstanding anything
contained in section 3, tax shall
be levied on entry of goods
specified in schedule II, made
through online purchase or
transactions or through e-commerce. The tax shall be levied
on the value of goods in the
manner prescribed and shall be
collected from person in-charge
of the goods on behalf of the
importer,” says the clause.
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night, Chandigarh and its
surrounding areas witnessed
cloudy skies on Tuesday and
maximum temperatures
dropped slightly.
Heavy rains accompanied
by
hailstorm
lashed
Chandigarh last night leading
mercury to dip by few notches, said a Met Department
official here.
After receiving 12.2 mm
rains, Chandigarh recorded
maximum temperature at 31.9
degrees Celsius, one degree
below normal. Haryana’s Hisar
district settled at maximum temperature of 36.5 degrees Celsius.
The holy city-Amritsar in
Punjab recorded maximum
temperature at 31.6 degree
Celsius. Patiala settled at maximum temperature of 33 degree
Celsius while Ludhiana saw a
high of 32.4 degrees Celsius.
Among other places,
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maximum temperature at 33.2
degree Celsius, Karnal settled
at 34.4 degree Celsius.
The minimum temperature recorded was 19.1 degrees
in Chandigarh, 22.2 degrees
Celsius in Ambala, 19.7 degree
Celsius in Hisar, 19.6 degrees in
Karnal, 17.5 degrees Celsius in
Amritsar, 21.7 degrees in
Ludhiana and 21.6 degrees
Celsius in Patiala.
Meanwhile, rains also
brought down temperatures in
Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday,
with the state capital recording
a maximum temperature of
21.1 degrees Celsius. The weather department in Shimla has
forecast more thundershowers
in the State till Thursday.
Shimla and nearby areas
experienced overnight rain.
Most of the areas in the state saw
rain, bringing the temperatures
down by two to three degrees,
said a Met official in Shimla.
Kalpa in Kinnaur district
recorded a temperature of 16.2
degrees Celsius, while it was
33.4 degrees Celsius at Una
town. The day temperature at
Dharamsala stood at 24.8
degrees Celsius with a rainfall
of 12 mm.
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Manali saw 10 mm rainfall.
Keylong town in LahaulSpiti district was the coldest in
the state with a low of 0.4
degree Celsius, while Shimla
and Manali towns saw the
minimum temperature at 9.7
degrees and 3.4 degrees Celsius.
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aryana Health Minister
Anil Vij on Tuesday said
that now doctors and
their assistants of class
IV,
would
be
given C1,000 and
C500 respectively for
performing
postmortem in hospitals.
Earlier, they were being
given C10 and C1
per postmortem.
This decision
was taken in a
review meeting of
Health and Medical
Education Departments
presided over by Anil
Vij here.
H
released a sum of C356
crore on March 31 to
Cooperative Sugar mills for
payment to the cane growers,
for the sugarcane purchased by
these mills.
Haryana Minister of State
for Cooperation, Bikram Singh
Yadav on Monday said that out
of this amount, over C238.21
crore have already been disbursed among these mills to
clear part of cane arrears of
cane growers for the crushing
season 2015-16.
He said that it was C18.50
crore of Cooperative Sugarmill,
Panipat, C30 crore of
Cooperative Sugarmill, Rohtak,
C23.20 crore of Cooperative
Sugarmill, Karnal, C22.75 crore
during the year 2015-16, C646
crore were released to the
Cooperative Sugarmills for
payment to the cane growers.
A provision of C400 crore
has already been made
for the purpose in the budget
of the State for the financial
year 2016-17, said he.
He reiterated the commitment of the State
Government to clear all
arrears of cane growers within a fortnight after the completion of the crushing season.
The Minister added
that the State Government
has always stood by the farming community and have
ensured remunerative price
for their produce.
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unjab Congress chief Capt
Amarinder Singh is eyeing
greener pastures back home
with support from abroad.
The former Chief Minister
is going global to seek support
from the NRIs, particularly
Sikhs, settled across the seas,
especially after their support to
the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP),
during 2014 General Elections,
helped them to secure four
seats out of 13 in Punjab.
Capt Amarinder, the
Punjab Pradesh Congress
Committee (PPCC) president,
would kick-start his poll campaign from the United States
and Canada from April 19.
He had earlier planned to
visit the two countries in
October the previous year to
woo the NRI brethren ahead
2017 State Assembly polls, but
put off his plans citing federal
elections in Canada, schedule
in mid-October, as a reason for
the same.
During his visit, Capt
Amarinder would hold meetings, interactions with Punjabi
diaspora in various cities of the
two countries. Main places on
his itinerary include Chicago,
Los Angeles, San Francisco in
the US and Toronto and
Vancouver in Canada.
“We would arrange meetings, interactions and various
events where the NRIs can openly interact with Capt Amarinder
on any issues they wanted to take
up,” a senior Congress leader
informed The Pioneer.
The leader said that all the
issues marring the state, especially related to the NRIs,
would be discussed, ranging
from the state of affairs in
Punjab, steps he would take if
elected to power blacklisted
Sikh NRIs, among others.
The ruling Shiromani
Akali Dal (SAD) had in 2015
sent its five-member ministerial delegation to Canada and
North America to woo the
NRIs, which, at some places,
faced protests.
The move by the state’s
major political parties to seek
support from the NRIs was
mainly to counter the AAP’s
support base. During 2014 par-
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liamentary polls, the NRIs rallied behind AAP by supporting
through social media, poll
funding and campaigning, lead-
ing to its emergence in Punjab.
Besides lending a helping
hand in the State’s election
campaigning, either from
abroad or by flocking here, the
NRIs have been seen making
lavish donations to the muchneeded poll funds.
It is estimated that around
11 million NRIs are living in
various countries across the
world, most of whom are from
Punjab. The Doaba belt, comprising Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur,
Kapurthala and Nawanshahr
districts, had seen maximum
immigration to arid zones
from Punjab.
Notably, in the US alone,
there are approximately seven
lakh Punjabis, of whom nearly 2.5 lakh hold Indian passports and are eligible to vote in
the Punjab elections.
As the Punjab Congress
president in 2011, Amarinder
had also used radio talk shows
to connect to the Punjabi diaspora before the previous state
Assembly polls in 2012.
He was hosted by popular
Punjabi FM radio channels of
Canada such as CKYE 93.1 Red
FM in Canada and Sher-ePunjab and Punjabi Radio,
headquartered at San Jose,
California.
The US-based NGO —
Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) — had
also filed a criminal complaint
against Capt Amarinder to
seek his criminal prosecution
considered to be the possible
reason behind postponing his
earlier plans to visit the US?.
The SFJ has sought “for
reinstating, promoting and
protecting
police
officials named repeatedly by
victims and human rights
groups as perpetrators of torture, disappearances, and
extrajudicial executions during counter-insurgency operations in the 1990s”.
However, Amritsar MP
had described the same as
being filed with the sole purpose of seeking cheap publicity. He had maintained that the
complaint was “totally motivated and has been prompted
at the behest of certain vested
interests and political parties in
Punjab which do not want
him to visit the US”.
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Chandigarh: Shiromani Akali
Dal on Tuesday lashed at
Punjab Congress chief Captain
Amarinder Singh for his double-speak on contesting SGPC
elections and stated that the
statement of Amarinder once
again reflected the dual
Congress policy of pretending
to be secular but trying to infiltrate Sikh organisations from
the backdoor.
In a statement issued here,
Member of Parliament and
party General Secretary Prem
Singh Chandumajra questioned Captain Amarinder
Singh as to why he had never
explained his reasons for
rejoining the Congress party
after saying a good bye to it by
holding it responsible for the
attack on Sri Darbar Sahib.
He said that the truth of the
matter was that Amarinder
had played the role of a mole
in the SAD after quitting the
Congress. “This explains
Amarinder’s prompt decision
to desert the SAD and rejoin
the Congress”, he added.
Describing the PPCC chief
as a ‘Captain of a Sinking Ship’,
Chandumajra said anyone who
was acquainted with Punjab
could sense that the Congress
was on a losing spree.
He said even the top
Congress brass had become
disheartened and now even, the
PCC chief had started making
an “excuse list” by stating the
Akalis had a subtle link with
the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
Reiterating that the SADBJP alliance would contest
2017 Assembly polls on the
development agenda, the senior
MP said the alliance had gained
the confidence of the people of
the state by ushering in a
development era in the state
during last 9 years.
He said that parties like
Congress and AAP were opting
for a negative campaign as
they were finding it difficult to
counter the development and
pro-people initiatives initiated
by SAD-BJP Government.
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autioning the people to beware of
malicious propaganda of ‘seasonal
birds’ and ‘proven enemies of the State’,
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh
Badal on Tuesday said that these leaders
were indulging in political mimicry to
attain power in State.
Addressing a public gathering during
Sangat Darshan in Lambi Assembly segment here, the Chief Minister said that the
interests of State were safe only in hands
of SAD-BJP alliance, which was devoted
fully for all round development of the state
and prosperity of its people.
He said that due to ensuing Assembly
polls a number of ‘seasonal birds’ have
ended their period of hibernation and were
indulging in all sort of political tantrums
to attain political power in State.
Badal said that while one such bird
was donning the cap of Aam Aadmi another one- the Congress, which was a known
enemy of State, was experimenting new
methods to woo the people.
The Chief Minister exhorted the people to judge these people by their actions
rather than words. Badal reminded the
people that like chameleons, the Aam
Aadmi Party (AAP) leadership has been
changing its colors on issue pertaining to
the State adding that the interests
of the State were not safe in their hands.
He said that the Congress party has a
notorious past of meting out a step motherly treatment to the State. Badal asked the
people that could anyone forgive this party
who has denied State of its capital, legitimate share of river waters and Punjabi
speaking areas adding that hands were
drenched with gruesome murder of innocent Sikhs during anti Sikh Carnage in
several parts of country and Operation
Blue Star.
Reminding the people of glorious
legacy of Shiromani Akali Dal, the Chief
Minister said that the party has always
remained on forefront to secure the
interests of the State. He said that Akali
Dal has relentlessly struggled to oppose
any sort of injustice with Punjab and
Punjabis besides ensuring holistic development of State.
“We are the true sympathisers of the
State and are always ready to make any sacrifice for safeguarding the interests of the
State” added Badal.
Later on interacting with the mediapersons at the residence of chairman of
Punjab Agro Food grains Corporation
Jathedar Dyal Singh Kolianwali, the Chief
Minister said that it was unfortunate that
the opposition was unnecessarily politicising each and every issue in the State.
Badal said that healthy criticism was
always welcome but criticism for the sake
of criticism should be avoided. He
bemoaned that rather than being a war of
ideologies, the politics has today become
an arena of mudslinging, which was highly condemnable.
Listing the major initiatives taken by
the State Government to protect the interests of the farmers, the Chief Minister said
that the Government has started first of its
kind scheme to provide interests free crop
loans worth C50,000 to the farmers.
He said that during the last more than
nine years, the State Government has provided free power to farmers worth C5,000
crore annually otherwise their problems
would have accentuated manifolds on
account of tube well bills.
Badal added that in another historic
decision it has been decided that all the
farmers would be provided a health insurance cover of C50,000 and an insurance of
C5 lakh in case of accidental death or incapacitation of head of family.
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upon Punjab Chief
C
Minister Parkash Singh Badal
to withdraw the Akali Dal
from the Narendra Modi
Government rather than the
State Government threatening
to walk out of discussion in the
Supreme Court on the river
waters issue.
Punjab
Congress
Legislature party leader
Charanjit Singh Channi said
that Badal should at least once
in his entire political career
manifest his commitment to
the cause as when in power, his
stand had always been characterised by extreme opportunism going by what is on the
record and hence he could not
escape this blame.
“You can’t befool all the
people all the time”, he added.
Reacting to the neutral
stand taken by the Modi
Government in the Supreme
Court during hearing on
Presidential Reference relating to
Punjab Termination of
Agreements Act, 2004, he pointed out that Badal had been
blaming the Congress for discriminatory apportionment of
river waters but now, when his
own party was part of the
Government at the Centre,
Punjab expected that he would
get that ‘injustice’ undone at the
political level. It was not surprising that Prime Minister
Narendra Modi had ditched
Punjab on this critical issue too
like on others, Channi said.
The CLP chief reminded
Badal of his promise as men-
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tioned in his 2007 party manifesto to abrogate Section 5 of
the Punjab Termination of
Agreements Act and said his
party would extend total support in case he summoned
special session of the Vidhan
Sabha for this purpose.
He said this Section was the
need of the hour at the time this
legislation was enacted. However,
despite there being no other
compulsion now, it was surprising that the Chief Minister had
conveniently forgotten about
this promise, said he.
In this context, he referred
to Badal’s statement about
waters flowing to Haryana and
Rajasthan and said rather than
talking in vague terms, his
Government should bring forward the amendment to drop
Section 5 that would end enti-
tlement of these two States over
Punjab river waters.
He asserted that the legislation to fill the SYL was
brought by SAD-BJP government but the amendment to
return land to the farmers
back was brought by the
Congress. Still the Government
failed to get it approved from
Punjab Governor. They intentionally gave time so that the
Supreme Court stays the legislation, said the Congress leader.
Channi said that Badal
government should re-negotiate the river waters apportionment with Har yana and
Rajasthan after abrogating
Section 5 of Punjab
Termination of Agreements
Act rather than issuing threats
in the Supreme Court as it was
not purely a legal issue.
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unjab Chief Minister
Parkash Singh Badal on
Tuesday said that the assassins
of Mata Chand Kaur, wife of
Late Satguru Jagjit Singh of
Namdhari Darbar would be
brought to book soon.
A high-level special investigation team (SIT) has already
been constituted, which would
arrest the assassins soon, said
the Chief Minister while speaking to the mediapersons after
attending the cremation of
Mata Chand Kaur at Bhaini
Sahib here.
He said that the State
Government is closely keeping
a tab on the progress of this SIT
in the case.
A day before, Punjab
deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir
Singh Badal while condoling
the death of Mata Chand Kaur
had ordered the setting up of
Special Investigation Team
(SIT) under the supervision of
ADGP-cum-Director, Bureau
of Investigation IPS Sahota to
probe into the circumstances
leading to her death.
The SIT comprises of
Commissioner Police Ludhiana
Jatinder Singh Aulakh as
Chairman, SSP Khanna
Satinder Singh and AIG
(Crime) Ravi Charan Singh
Brar both as members.
Meanwhile Congress
has demanded resignation
of Sukhbir Badal following
the incident.
The widow of a former
head of the Namdhari sect
was shot dead by two unidentified assailants at a Gurdwara
complex near Ludhiana on
Monday. Chand Kaur
Namdhari, 88, was fired at
from close range by two motorcycle-borne assailants at
Gurdwara Bhaini Sahib, the
headquarters of the sect.
Punjab Home Minister
Sukhbir Singh Badal should
immediately resign from his
post taking moral responsibility for the deteriorating law and
order situation in the State, said
leader of opposition in Punjab
Assembly, Charanjit Singh
Channi while participating in
the last rites of late Mata Chand
Kaur in Bhaini Sahib.
He said that the law and
order situation in the state has
worsened badly in the recent
times. Now the people are not
safe in their homes also. The
very tragic shoot out in the
Bhaini Sahib premises in which
Late Mata Chand Kaur died is
glaring example to this. The
police have become just a mute
spectator in the hands of their
political bosses, said Channi.
He further said that the
government decision to constitute SIT is also mere eyewash. The SIT is being worked
out to just give easy way to the
culprits which has been happening in earlier cases also,
alleged he.
Channi attended the last
rites of Late Mata Chand Kaur
at Bhaini Sahib alongwith the
party legislatures and senior
leaders on Tuesday.
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iving relief to the five
Haryana former Member
G
sof the Legislative Assembly
(MLAs) in the CLU scam, a
Division Bench of Punjab
and Haryana High Court has
asked them to appear before
the Single Judge for getting
interim relief against the
Haryana Lokayukta recommendations on lodging FIR
against them.
Putting a restriction on
the police to file final report
in the CLU scam, the Division
Bench has asked that the
final report should not be
filed until the issue of interim relief is decided by the
Single Judge.
Haryana Lokayukta had
recommended the lodging of
FIR against the five former
MLAs in the CLU scam last
year but later on, the Single
Bench of High Court had
put a stay on the recommen-
dations of Lokayukta on the
petitions filed by Vinod
Bhayana,
Naresh
Selwal, Jarnail Singh, Rao,
Narinder Singh, and Ram
Niwas Ghorela.
They had challenged the
order dated December 16,
2015 by Haryana Lokayukta,
whereby a recommendation
was made to the competent
authority to register criminal
cases for offences punishable
under the Prevention of
Corruption Act.
Later, on the appeal filed
by State of Har yana, a
Division Bench had put stay
on the stay orders passed by
Single Bench.
The
matter
of
CLU-CD scam had surfaced
when the opposition party
Indian National Lok Dal had
released CD wherein the
MLA were allegedly seen to
be seeking bribe for getting
CLUs cleared by the
Government.
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unjab Chief Minister
Parkash Singh Badal on
Tuesday described the Delhi’s
Kejriwal-led
Delhi
Government’s stand against
Punjab on the SYL issue in the
Supreme Court as “a stab in
the back of all Punjabis on an
issue of life and death for
Punjabis, especially farmers.
“The AAP has miserably
failed and stands fully exposed
in its very first test of loyalty
to the state, especially to our
toiling farmers. This is the
height of political opportunism and broad daylight
falsehood. I am sad this has
come at the expense of the
beleaguered farming peasantry of my state,” said the
Chief Minister, adding, “I do
not know how Kejriwal will
now come and face the people
of Punjab after playing this
fraud on them.”
In a statement, Badal said,
“The saga of outsiders coming
to Punjab to offer fake sym-
pathies and then going back to
betray the state within hours
and leave its people bleeding
continues. Does it behove a
Chief Minister to indulge in
such an act of deceit against
the poor, innocent and trusting farmers?,” asked Badal
adding, “People have been
talking about Kejriwal’s politics of falsehood and opportunism. But he should have
spared the brave and patriotic farmers who are already facing such hardships because
farming has become a nonlucrative profession,” said
Badal in a statement here.
“How shocking that
Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi
Party (AAP) had been befooling the farmers of Punjab by
visiting and offering crocodile
tears to the tragedy-stricken
families here only to take a
brazenly treacherous stand
against the same farmers in the
Supreme Court. In Punjab,
Kejriwal said that Punjab
alone had an exclusive right
over the Ravi-Beas waters and
that he and his party were
opposed to the construction of
the SYL. But no sooner did he
leave the sate than he went
back on his word and declared
that Ravi Beas waters belonged
to Haryana, Himachal, J&K
and Delhi and that Punjab did
not have any exclusive right
over these waters,” said the
Chief Minister.
The Chief Minister
added that he had not
reacted to Kejriwal’s earlier
flip-flop because he thought
that the Delhi Chief Minister
might have been misquoted by
the media.
“But what happened in
the Supreme Court on
Monday has shocked me and
everyone else, especially the
farmers. I do not know how
will the AAP leadership in
Punjab face the Punjabis now,
having betrayed the State and
its farmers on the most critical issue on the very first
opportunity they got to stand
by them,” concluded Punjab
Chief Minister.
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It intersects with DelhiJaipur NH8 near Manesar,
Palwal-Sohna-Rewari NH 919,
Sohna-Nuh-Alwar Road NH
248A and finally joins NH2
near Palwal.
The road will provide uninterrupted high-speed link for
traffic, especially commercial
traffic from Haryana to its
neighbouring States. It will also
decongest road traffic through
Delhi by allowing bypass of traffic not destined for Delhi. The
road also has several underpasses, cattle crossing underpasses, agricultural vehicle
underpasses bridges and pedestrian crossing underpasses.
The Eastern Peripheral
Expressway will connect
Kundli, Ghaziabad and Palwal.
The Haryana Chief
Minister said that the State,
which had just four National
Highways for so many years,
has got nine new National
Highways in the last one and a
half years. Kundli-Palwal section of the Western Peripheral
Expressway will be completed
within this year, he added.
Speaking on the occasion
Minister of State for Social
Justice and Empowerment
Krishna Pal Gurjar commended the Haryana Government
on having speedily completed
a project that was languishing
for so long. He said that the
Government at the Centre was
committed to building sound
infrastructure in the country.
Once the KMP Expressway
becomes operational, vehicles
coming from northern India
on National Highway-1 and
going towards Rajasthan and
Gujarat can get on the expressway and take the National
Highway-8 at Manesar.
Similarly, those driving towards
central and southern India can
take National Highway-2 at
Palwal.
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the BJP-led Union
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Government, former Chief
Minister Harish Rawat on
Tuesday questioned the propriety of deployment of Central
Industrial Security Force
(CISF) to guard the residences
of nine rebel MLAs of
Congress. Speaking at a Press
conference at his Bijapur guest
house residence, the former
CM lambasted the BJP accusing it of the murder of democracy in Uttarakhand.
He said the both houses of
parliament were adjourned
sine die and after that
President’s rule was imposed in
Uttarakhand. Rawat objected to
this step of Union Government
and questioned as to what
were those extraordinary conditions prevailing in the country which prompted the Union
Government to take this
unprecedented step.
Taking a dig at BJP
Government for deploying CISF
at the residences of rebel MLAs
when they were not even in their
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houses he said that the central
force is which is mandated to
provide security to industrial
establishments is being deployed
to guard what treasure or
antiques or national wealth.
Rawat said that it is more interesting that under the President’s
rule CISF is deployed ostensibly
to protect rebel MLAs.
He further claimed,
“Political sharpshooters of BJP
and some other people travelled to state capital from New
Delhi in a motorcade of four
Honda City cars escorted by
the CISF last week. It is a com-
mon perception that these
sharpshooters brought loads of
money with them.’’
When asked to elaborate
about these ‘sharpshooters’ the
former CM said that BJP leader
Kailash Vijayvargiya had himself claimed recently that he has
shot the nine congress MLAs.
In response to a question on
rebel Congress leader Vijay
Bahuguna’s notice to him on
defamation, Rawat said that he
has not received any legal
notice so far.
On the President’s rule
Rawat said that at present the
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misconception is being
spread regarding the recent
split in the Congress in
Uttarakhand with the BJP
being accused of orchestrating
the split. Splits are not new to
the Congress which has a history of such divisions, said
Nainital Udham Singh Nagar
MP and BJP leader Bhagat
Singh Koshyari while addressing the media here on Tuesday.
He regretted the fact that name
of Prime Minister Narendra
Modi is being unnecessarily
dragged in the whole episode.
Narrating the history of
splits in the congress he said
that these divisions were always
caused by party insiders.
Koshyari advised Harish Rawat
to get acquainted with the history of Congress splits before
blaming the BJP for it.
The BJP leader disclosed
that the some rebel Congress
MLAs had sent feelers to senior
BJP leader last year also but
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
directed the BJP to keep a dis-
tance from them. Lampooning
Harish Rawat for blaming BJP
for split in Congress, Koshyari
said that it was Congress which
is poaching on one of BJP’s
MLA (Bhim Lal Arya) as it
kept him away from assembly
on March 18 and is in turn
blaming BJP for practicing
immorality in politics.
Justifying the imposition of
President’s rule in state he said
that a government falls immediately in case a money bill is
not passed and even if one
member demands division of
votes than the speaker is bound
to grant it. The BJP leader said
that the speaker acted in patrician way by passing the budget
and termed it a murder of
democracy on the floor of the
house on March 18. He opined
that the governor should have
removed the Chief Minister on
that very date and put the
house in suspended animation.
Similarly Harish Rawat should
have resigned on moral
grounds but it appears he was
interested to stick to the power
come what may. He said that
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poor show in higher eduE
cation sector, Rourkela MLA
Dilip Ray on Tuesday said the
State Government had not only
failed to fund the sector adequately but also lost huge
amounts of Central assistance
due to improper management
and poor infrastructure in educational institutions.
He said most of the universities and Government colleges are facing staff crunch.
Nearly 90 per cent of colleges
don’t have NAAC accreditation,
which is a prerequisite for
availing UGC and RUSA
(Rashtriya Uchattar Shiksha
Abhiyan) grants.
Out of 14 universities, only
three have NAAC status now.
Similarly due to poor infrastructure, 24 out of 34
autonomous colleges are yet to
get NAAC accreditation.
“It is disappointing that
Principal posts in all
autonomous colleges are lying
vacant and 36 such posts are
vacant in other Government
colleges,’ he said adding, “The
Government should stop blaming the Central Government
and own up the responsibility
for poor condition of educational infrastructure and take
immediate action to revive it.”
He said standards of higher education institutions will
improve only when more
Central funds come in. “This
can be ensured only when the
State Government becomes sincere towards bettering educational institutions,” opined Ray.
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two daughters belonging to
Baipalli village in Bargarh district carried the body of their
70-year-old mother to the
funeral ground for performing
last rites.
They were forced to do so
after a futile wait of nine
hours as no man in the village
came forward to carry the
dead woman. The incident
took place in Sohela block on
Monday.
Dei Pradhan’s husband had
left the village 15 years ago
being affected with leprosy.
After he passed away, Dei lived
with her two daughters,
Chandrakanti (35) and Rosy
(30). After Chandrakanti was
married, Rosy and her mother
lived together.
Dei died at 9 in the morning on Monday. The body
kept lying on the veranda till
5 pm as no one came forward
to carry it to the village funeral ground.
As per Hindu tradition, a
dead body needs to be carried
for last rites by four males.
Women are not allowed to
carry the body, nor give fire
to the pyre.
BJP approached President of
India and complained about
breakdown of constitutional
machinery in Uttarakhand and
he acted by imposing
President’s rule. The senior
BJP leader said that Congress
is now trying to drag the matter by going to the court but the
courts too would justify imposition of President’s rule. He
evaded questions like as to
who would be the next Chief
Minister and why BJP is not
opting for elections but added
that it appears that mood of the
most of the MLAs of the present assembly is that they
should be allowed to work for
full term.
Governor enjoys all the powers
of the Government and it is
expected of him that he would
implement the decisions taken
by the State Cabinet in past as
it is his constitutional obligation. Rawat said that his government had made all the budgetary provisions for the sanctioned projects and schemes.
He claimed that malicious
actions of the Union government resulted in non utilization
of allotted funds in the year
2015-16 due to which the interests of the State are being
adversely affected.
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a “kidnapper” of India’s
D
future, money and develop-
T
he Congress on Tuesday
attacked Prime Minister
Narendra Modi over the
Pakistani JIT’s visit to
Pathankot, and Islamabad’s
failure to nail in the terrorists
who carried out the attack. The
party also demanded an apology from BJP chief Amit Shah
for “having distributed certificates of sincerity to Pakistan”
after a Pakistani media reported that the JIT, which came to
India to probe the Pathankot
terror attack, dubbed it as a
“drama staged by India to
malign Pakistan”.
Alleging that the development has caused “national
embarrassment”, senior party
leaders Anand Sharma said
the Congress had “cautioned”
the PM and the Government
about the JIT which also had a
representative from ISI.
“What Prime Minister has
claimed and his Government as
diplomatic triumph has turned
out to be a diplomatic disaster.
We had questioned the visit of
the Pakistan JIT which included representatives of the ISI,”
said Sharma.
Sharma said a diplomatic
crime has been committed.
“This has caused national
embarrassment. BJP chief Amit
Shah, who lacks any comprehension of the complex issue
and gravitas of foreign policy,
was distributing certificates of
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sincerity to Pakistan in the
Pathankot matter. He should
apologise to the people,”
Sharma said.
He claimed this happened
as the BJP chief and the
National Security Adviser were
“busy operating the dirty tricks
department and engaged in
toppling the Congress
Governments more than paying attention to serious issue”.
Congress’ communication
department chief Randeep
Surjewala said “reports in
Pakistani media quoting leaked
contents of Pakistani Joint
Investigation Team report on
Pathankot terror attack have
once again exposed the doubled-faced policy of Pakistan in
dealing with terrorism.”
The Congress said the
Prime Minister should “rise
over theatrics” and take diplo-
macy seriously, which the
country expects as 125 crore
people of India are feeling
“betrayed” by Modi.
Surjewala said the “reposition of confidence” in the
Pakistani JIT by Shah appears
to have “backfired”.
“They came to our country
with a pre-determined agenda
and went away after levelling
false allegations. Even China
has come to their rescue in the
UN by vetoing declaration of
Maulana Masood Azhar as a
terrorist,” Surjewala said.
Sharma also recalled that
first it happened post Ufa when
there was an attack in
Udhampur, then Gurdaspur,
then after his dramatic visit to
Lahore and Raiwind to Nawaz
Sharif ’s residence, in five days,
country faced another attack in
Pathankot.
ment, the BJP on Tuesday
sharply reacted to the
Opposition party’s digs at the
Government over black money
and Panama Papers leak issues
and suggested that the
Congress leaders should be
asking their leader Sonia
Gandhi about the whereabouts
of the illicit money .
“Congress leaders keep asking us every evening where is
our C15 lakh? Let me answer
them. This is like the story of
kidnappers who after abduction
come back to see what police is
doing so that they can change
their tactic,” party spokesperson
Sambit Patra said.
He said BJP MPs have made
statements saying they have no
black money but Congress
members, including Sonia and
Rahul Gandhi, did not.
“Congress is the kidnapper
who has abducted India’s future,
money, development and prosperity. And every evening it asks
us where is our money, development and prosperity... Don’t
ask us, ask respected Sonia ji. If
the almirah is opened, then all
the money is inside,” party
spokesperson Sambit Patra said.
The BJP congratulates the
Modi Government for ordering
a multi-agency probe into
Panama Paper leaks, Patra said.
He, however, declined to
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of the Government over
Pakistani media reports quoting JIT sources that the
Pathankot terror attack was a
drama staged by India.
The BJP spokesperson
praised the ‘Stand Up India’
project launched by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and
used it to take a dig at the UPA
Government.
“There used to be a government which would give to
those who did not deserve it. It
would give bad loans causing
NPA. ‘Stand Up India’ opens
the coffers for the SC, ST and
women. These are the people
who will take the country forward,” he said.
He also sought to corner
West Bengal Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee over the flyover collapse in Kolkata, claiming that the Railway Ministry
under her stewardship had
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he Congress on Tuesday
alleged that the BJP
T
Government’s decision to constitute a multi-agency group
on the ‘Panama Papers’ was a
“shoddy attempt” to brush
aside the issue and thus
demanded that the Panama
Papers be handed over to the
Supreme Court, which is looking into the black money issue.
Congress communication
department head Randeep
Surjewala said Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, in the run-up
to the Lok Sabha polls, had
promised to bring back black
money within a hundred days
of Government formation but
reports suggest that even his
friends are involved in this.
“The PM’s credibility is at
stake today with the latest
expose. Some of them relate to
those who are the industrialist friends of the PM, those
who are travel companions of
the PM and those who have
been brand ambassadors of
PM Modi,” said Surjewala.
For its part, JD(U) president Sharad Yadav said it was
“embarrassing” that the list of
account holders leaked
through Panama Papers
includes the names of Padma
awardees and questioned the
Government’s decision to constitute a multi-agency team to
look into the matter.
“A Supreme Court-monitored SIT is already looking
into the issue of black money.
The leaked Panama Papers
should be part of this investigation. It is embarrassing that
Padma awardees are among
those who have opened such
accounts,” he said.
Jammu regions was given by
her before she quit as the
Railway Minister to become the
State Chief Minister in May,
2011 and the Ministry was
given to another Trinamool
Congress leader, he said.
Patra sought to underline
the TMC Government’s “bias”
towards the firm and demand-
ed that the CM reply.
Referring to a sting operation, he said the Kolkata Mayor,
who is also from TMC, claimed
that construction material for
projects come from a “syndicate” of party leaders and supporters. It is such action that led
to the collapse of the flyover,
Patra alleged.
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boost economic
countries
Intiesorderwithto EFTA
(Iceland, Liechtenstein,
Norway and Switzerland),
India is working to firm up a
Trade
and
Economic
Partnership Agreement.
During a meeting between
External Affairs Minister
Sushma Swaraj and Iceland
Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi
Sveinsson, the two leaders
resolved to expand economic
ties and agreed that a Trade and
Economic Partnership Agreement would facilitate greater
flow of bilateral trade. The negotiations for free trade agreement
between India and EFTA was
launched in 2008, but both
sides are yet to firm up the pact.
To further strengthen the
relations between the two countries, the two Foreign Ministers
agreed to work on increasing the
number of high-level official visits between the countries and
advocate for further mutual visits of business delegations
between the two countries.
India and Iceland decided
to strengthen economic cooperation, particularly in areas of
renewable energy. The two sides
called for an early adoption of
the Comprehensive Convention
on International Terrorism by
the UN to effectively deal with
terror networks. Iceland reaffirmed its support to India’s bid
for permanent membership at
UN Security Council as well as
in the multilateral export control regimes.
awarded a contract in 2011 to
the same firm which is facing
a probe in connection with the
incident.
Noting that Banerjee had
blamed the previous Left Front
Government in the State for
awarding the flyover contract
to the private firm, Patra questioned her over awarding railway contract to IVRCL in 2011
and also raked up a sting operation to accuse her of destroying the State.
“You awarded this contract in 2011 to the same company IVRCL and how conveniently that you go to the site
when the bridge collapse and
say it is not me or my
Government. Mamataji you
will have to answer. You people gave contract to the same
blacklisted company,” he said.
The contract of over C761
crore for building a tunnel
connecting Kashmir and
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households which do not
have reliable access to electricity can now bank on low-cost
environment-friendly solar
lighting device developed by
the Department of Science and
Technology.
Science and Technology
Minister Harsh Vardhan, who
launched the device at a Press
conference here, said it is “leak
proof ” and works for almost 16
hours at a stretch.
“This device has the potential of being used in some 10 mil-
lion households and, if this happens, it would result in saving of
1,750 million units of energy.
This would also lead to reduction
in emission of 10 million tons of
carbon dioxide,” he said.
“This can be typically used
in slums,” said YS Chowdary,
Minister of State for Science &
Technology, adding it was used
in the slums of Lal Bagh in the
national Capital as a pilot project.
Explaining the working of
the device, Vardhan said the
micro solar dome captures sunlight through a transparent
semi-spherical upper dome and
concentrates it inside a dark
room. The light passes through
a sun-tube having a thin layer
of highly reflective coating on
the inner wall of the passage.
It also contains a low dome
having a shutter at the bottom
that can be closed if light is not
required in the daytime.
The cost of the device is
around C1,200 and the figure
could go down if it is manufactured on a large scale.
holding simultaneous elections to Parliament, State
Assemblies and local bodies.
Parliamentary Affairs
Minister M Venkaiah Naidu
on Tuesday said the
Government is moving
towards evolving a broad consensus on the proposal and if
implemented, it will help
reduce expenditure and diversion of energies.
“The public is in favour of
this and so are political leaders
but it can done only by broad
consensus among political parties,” he said during an interaction with journalist at the
Indian Women’s Press Corps.
“People want and I also
personally strongly feel that
Parliament and Assembly elections should be held on the
same day. Within that one
week, local body elections
including cooperative elections should be held. All elections should be completed
within a fortnight so that there
is time and focus and attention
on developmental issues.
“Let the debate go on.
The Standing Committee on
Law and Justice also made a
strong recommendation in
favour of the simultaneous
elections. I am for simultaneous elections. The government also is in favour of
simultaneous election. But at
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Supreme Court on Tuesday held
that the stray canines cannot “puncture” human life. It ordered the
Kerala Government to pay C40,000
to a man from Kerala who lost his
wife after being bitten by a stray.
The court while dealing with
complaints filed by a Kerala-based
NGO pointing to rise in deaths due
to dog bites also constituted a
committee headed by a retired
Kerala High Court judge to examine the extent of stray dog menace
in Kerala, facilities for treatment
and actual deaths due to stray dog
bites. The three-member committee, also comprising the State Law
Secretary and Director, Health
Services, will submit a report to
court in three months.
Based on the fact finding report,
the court will consider extending its
order to other States, depending on
the extent of the problem. Already
Maharashtra has claimed that death
due to stray dog bites has increased
manifold over the years. The municipal authorities under law are capable to sterilise dogs but cannot eliminate the stray canines.
Faced with this difficulty, Joe
Sebastian from Kerala approached
the apex court seeking compensation for his wife, who died after
being bitten by a stray dog.
Sebastian, a labourer, was living in
pathetic conditions and had sought
help on compassionate grounds
through his lawyer VK Biju.
The Bench of Justices Dipak
Misra and Shiva Kirti Singh decid-
ed to treat the case as a special one
and ordered Kerala Government to
pay a compensation of C40,000 to
Sebastian. It said, “The thrust of his
(Sebastian) submission is that
because of inadequate action on the
part of the State, the number of victims has arisen in the State of
Kerala and it has given rise to a catastrophe, for death of number of
persons has ruined the families.”
The court further constituted
the committee headed by retired
High Court judge Justice Sirijagan
to examine how many deaths took
place in the state due to stray dog
bites. The committee will also
probe the reason of deaths in each
reported case and conclude
whether lack of treatment and
medical facilities to such victims
was the possible cause of death.
The task of the committee has
been restricted to the State of Kerala
alone although stray dog menace
continues to be a nagging problem
for civic agencies to handle. The
Bench directed that it will not entertain any further demand for compensation and any such request may
be addressed to the committee.
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force it without evolving a
broad consensus,” Naidu said.
The Cabinet Minister also
made it clear that ‘Bharat Mata
ki Jai’ slogan is not compulsory and has not been imposed
on anyone through any government order, but it is an
emotive issue and sensibilities
of all should be taken care.
Asked about his views on
Maharashtra Chief Minister
Devendra Fadnavis on the
‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ slogan,
Naidu said, “It is his opinion
and I am not in agreement
with him.” “Has the
Government issued any circular saying that those who don’t
say ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ should
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rules released by the Environment
Ministry on Tuesday recognise the
intrinsic role of rag pickers in its management. Revised after 16 years, it also
makes burning of waste a criminal
offence.
Under the new rules, sanitary napkins and diapers would not be allowed
to be dumped in the open. The rules
further warn against throwing or
burying the solid waste generated on
streets and in open public spaces outside residential premises, clogging
drains or in water bodies.
The authority of the new rules
have been extended beyond municipal corporations and includes notified
industrial townships, areas under the
control of Indian Railways, airports,
airbase, port and harbour, defence
establishments, special economic
zones, State and Central Government
organisations, places of pilgrims, religious and historical importance.
Releasing the rules, Environment
Minister Prakash Javdekar said, “as per
official estimates, at present around 62
million tonnes of solid waste is generated every year. But only 43 million
tonnes is collected and only 12 millions tonnes is treated.”
Solid waste management is thus a
major problem across the country as
untreated waste disposed in the open
has led to water pollution and clogged
sewer systems, he added.
The new rules have assigned specific responsibilities of those generating waste. They would henceforth have
to segregate waste in to three streams;
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asked all such brand owners who sell
products in non biodegradable packaging material to put in place a system
to collect back the packaging waste
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Trinamool Congress, Mayor
of Bidhannagar-Rajarhat
Municipal
Corporation
Sabyasachi Dutta has proudly
conceded before a concealed
camera that he is a fountainhead of the dreaded SyndicateMafia Raj worth several hundred crores.
What is more when Dutta,
also an MLA was confronted by
the media he owned up his version saying, “like others I will
not disown what I said, neither
will call it a sting operation
because I had already gone on
record in the State Assembly
that there is no way we can do
away without the syndicates
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This is because there is no
harm in arranging for bread
and butter of thousands of
unemployed youth associated
with the syndicates.”
Dutta was shown in the
video footage telling the second
person that there was no way
that syndicates could be
touched because they have
20,000
members
and
“Government will fall if action
is taken against them.”
The BJP has approached
the Election Commission with
a demand to cancel the candidature of Dutta who is contesting from Rajarhat Assembly
constituency.
During the elections the
syndicates not only provide the
ruling outfit with “goon power”
but also arrange for funds as is
shown in the footage where
Dutta concedes that for an
Assembly elections one needs
C50-60 lakh. “I can provide
C5 lakh, the party allocates
another C5 lakh. The rest is
provided by the syndicate” he
says adding in lieu he has to
“look after” their interests for
four years and 364 days — save
the election day.
Such syndicates with political patronage have been func-
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“The Kolkata flyover accident
is a direct result of syndicate
raj” says CPI(M) leader Sujan
Chakrabarty adding “at least
two MLAs and an MP’s name
has got involved directly in the
accident. The syndicates run by
them supplied substandard
material and labour in the
construction work.”
“We have approached the
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the candidature of this leader
who proudly introduces himself as a promoter of syndicatemafia raj that has eaten into the
vitals of Bengal and also says
that syndicate money is directly being used in elections” said
State BJP leader JP Majumdar.
The Trinamool had of late
been hugely stung by the
Narada expose where a dozen
of his leaders were caught on
camera taking bribes from a
journalist posing as a fictitious
businessman.
Meanwhile, the Narada
news had on Tuesday submitted
an affidavit in the Calcutta High
Court claiming the footage of the
sting operation is genuine. A PIL
was filed in the court seeking an
order to examine the genuineness of the video tapes. The next
date of hearing is on April 8.
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against him in the Vigilance
paign trail on Tuesday by in Malampuzha.
review the liquor policy if they
Proving that his advanced court. When the verdict in that against the Opposition Left.
unleashing scathing attacks
“VS was saying the other come to power,” he said.
age had not weakened him case comes, the doors of
against each other.
At the same time, the LDF
The BJP-led NDA, which is even a bit, the 93-year-old Poojappura (Central Jail) will day that I should not contest in
the election because of the on Tuesday gave shape to its
striving not just to open account Marxist went on attacking open before him,” he said.
Though Achuthanandan allegations against me. Why draft manifesto for the
in the State Assembly but also to Chandy and his Government as
pave the foundation for captur- the crowds applauded and appeared in a couple of LDF should that be so? If I am such Assembly election, the catch
ing power in the State “tomor- shouted slogans. “Eighteen poll programmes in Palakkad a corrupt person as they are word of which would be
row if not today”, had got battle- Ministers in the Chandy district on Tuesday, he would trying to make out, let them “Needed, a new Kerala”. It says
ready much earlier and has Cabinet are facing 136 corrup- launch full-scale campaigning defeat me in the election,” he that the development of Kerala
already covered a good part of tion cases. That is what only by Friday or Saturday. His said while inaugurating the was at a crucial juncture and
Chandy’s concept of transpar- rival in the party, Politbureau poll convention RSP’s AA Aziz this had to be put on the right
the Phase 1 campaigning.
track. The manifesto is likely to
member Pinarayi Vijayan, at Eravipuram.
The Left’s star campaigner, ent Kerala is,” he said.
Chandy challenged the be released on April 21 after
Achuthanandan did not whom many consider as the
Opposition Leader VS
Achuthanandan, entered the spare the NDA either but his Left’s chief minister candidate LDF to announce its view on detailed discussions in the front.
Strengthening the public
campaign scene on Tuesday attacks against it were mainly is yet to hit the campaign trail. the partial Prohibition his
Chief Minister Chandy Government had introduced in distribution system, creation of
with a furious attack against the directed at Vellappally Natesan,
UDF and the NDA at an elec- general secretary of the SNDP opened the UDF’s election cam- the State. “What will be their more job opportunities, augtion
convention
in Yogam, the force behind BJP paign at Eravipuram in Kollam liquor policy? Achuthanandan mentation of the agriculture
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He said Natesan had joined defences against the numerous Vijayan is saying something a woman-friendly state are also
“(Chief
Minister) hands with the BJP in order to allegations he was facing and else. The sum total of what they points that have found place in
the nose of the Central forces the erring leaders, the CPI(M) Oommen Chandy is always protect himself in the issue of launching furious attacks are saying is that they will the draft manifesto.
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Congress continued to beat us up,” said one of the
Banerjee
Birbhum
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strongman
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ing the objections of the PCC chief.
other places even as the Central went unheard.
“The list has proved one thing. Even the high comA complaint was being challenged the ECI saying
forces reportedly pumped in for
medicine
the
area domination and ensure lodged with the Election “what
issatisfaction is brewing in Kerala’s Congress over the mand is afraid of acting against the wishes of the Chief
neutral elections looked the Commission, CPI(M) MP Commission will apply for
party’s candidates’ list for the May 16 Assembly elec- Minister though it showed the boldness to drop his proRitabrata Bhattacharya said. Birbhum I do not know but I tion released by the central election committee of the AICC posal to include Benny Behennan. But it has only symother way, victims alleged.
Hundreds of Trinamool CPI(M) workers who went to take desi Ayurvedi medicine late Monday night with complaints coming up to the effect bolic value. The list also tells us how insignificant the
goons surrounded the Luvpur cast their votes at Salboni on and use that during the polls.” that the high command had approved the list not on the PCC chief ’s role has become in Kerala’s Congress,” said
Mandal had reportedly basis of merit but with the eagerness to satisfy group lead- a pro-Congress paper’s senior editor.
village of an already burning Monday ignoring threats were
Tuesday saw protests coming up in the Congress
Birbhum district and attacked also attacked on Tuesday. At locked up about 450 polling ers in the State unit.
CPI(M) households allegedly to least four persons had been agents of the other parties and
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got 400 votes rigged for each who hold that the top leadership had failed to adhere said that R Rajaram, the party candidate in Devikulam,
teach them a lesson for taking hospitalised at Salboni.
Incidentally Chief Minister booth giving his party candi- to any criterion while preparing the list which, accord- was prevented from entering the party office by suppart in election campaign,
n some relief to jailed former Gujarat cadre IAS
Mamata Banerjee and her other date a lead of 80,000 votes in ing to them, reflects an urgency to have a balance among porters of PCC vice-president AK Mani. In Thrikkakkara,
sources said.
officer Sanjay Gupta, the Gujarat High Court
While some injured men party colleagues had repeated- 2014 General elections. This the interests of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and posters appeared against PT Thomas who was made the on Tuesday granted him bail in Ahmedabad–
had been shifted to hospitals ly threatened from public ral- was made public thanks to the Ramesh Chennithala, heads of the two strong groups in party candidate there instead of Benny Behennan.
Gandhinagar Metro Rail Project scam case.
Former State Women’s Congress chief Shanimol
about a dozen CPI(M) men lies that the CRPF would be Narada expose where State the party, and PCC president VM Sudheeran.
Gupta was chairman of the Metro-Link
“For example, certain names that were in the active Usman’s name was under consideration till the last Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad
were still lying in the village there for three days but “we will Minister Bobby Hakim was
with broken limbs as the be there after the polls making caught revealing the victory consideration of the screening committee failed to make moment for Ambalappuzha seat but she was dropped Company Limited (MEGA). He was languishing
it into the final list just because of its urgency to finalise after a decision was taken to hand over the seat to UDF in Sabarmati jail for the past 10 months for his
attackers were not allowing our opponents to account for formula to a party MLA.
The Opposition is going to it somehow. I would say that there was no need for them constituent Janata Dal (United). “Several able person- alleged involvement in the scam worth C113 crore
them to be taken to hospitals every inch of their notoriety.”
While the Commission the Commission seeking a to take a week to prepare such a list,” said a top leader alities have been kept out of the list like this,” the jour- related to Metro-rail project.
when reports last came in.
nalist pointed out.
“All these happened under was yet to take action against redressal, sources said.
from Thiruvananthapuram.
The 1985 batch IAS officer offered documents
“This is a party being led by a woman, Sonia Gandhi. of his property worth nearly C8 core as surety
All leading aides of the Chief Minister, head of the
party’s ‘A’ group, except Benny Behennan MLA have But it is a painful fact that it has been able to allocate before the Gujarat High Court to get regular bail.
found place in the list of 83 of the total 86 candidates only seven seats to women while the (CPI(M)-led) LDF Gupta’s counsel also told the court to deposit
the Congress has as head of the ruling UDF. As per the has fielded 17 woman candidates. So much for the slo- C25 lakh cash as surety for his bail apart from his
list, 33 of the party’s 39 sitting MLAs have been select- gan of women empowerment in Congress,” said a source company owned Goa based property. However as
ed as candidates and all Congress Ministers, except two close to Shanimol.
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Kashmir’s Pulwama district. A
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when security forces received tip-off and cor- tion. A senior police official said that there was
named for involvement in the irregularities.
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clashes with security forces near encounter site unidentified militants in the morning.
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apparently to provide safe passage to the holed
near a nallah in Kralpora area of Kupwara district,
a critical role in Gujarat’s successful foray in layup militants in the area.
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wounded with stones.
A workaholic, ‘go-getter’ and ‘quick decision
maker’, Gupta later resigned from the IAS services
following his posting as managing director of the
insignificant Gujarat Sangeet Natak Akademi and
joined Adani Group as CEO for infrastructure
projects. He parted ways with Adani in short time
Additional SP Avnish Kumar said thereafter to start his own hospitality venture,
“Initially they followed and tried to
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molested one of the women in a hilly area tease them. When one the tourists handbags of the foreigners containing Neesa Group, with hotels and resorts in
on the outskirts of the city. All six men objected, the accused hit him with a money were snatched by the attackers Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Jaipur, Gurgaon, Goa
xternal Affairs Minister Suhma Swaraj
stone. They dragged one of the women which police located later and returned and Kerala under brand name Cambay. He also
have been arrested.
on Tuesday spoke to Rajasthan Chief
started TV news channel, which didn’t click and
“Swaraj spoke to the Chief Minister and tore her clothes. The tourists man- it to the foreigners.
Minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia and
A case against the assailants was reg- he had to close down.
of Rajasthan who has said that strict aged to escape from the place and
sought stringent action against the men
Gupta’s meteoric rise to affluence has always
action is being taken against the accused. informed people who were known to istered under IPC sections 147 (rioting),
who molested and beat up four foreignThe bags of Spanish tourists have already them,” he said. They were rushed to a 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), been the subject of gossip among his former colers in Ajmer near Pushkar.
been located,” the MEA Spokesperson local hospital where the injured tourist 149 (unlawful assembly guilty of offence), leagues and juniors with the Gujarat government.
The four foreigners — two men from
said. The Minister also asked the was given treatment. He is under obser- 307 (attempt to murder) 354 (assault or The senior IAS officer turned industrialist had
the US and UK, and the women from
Spain and Turkey — had gone to Ajaypal on Monday when six men attacked Rajasthan Government to provide all vation at a private hospital on Pushkar criminal force to woman with intent to headed the Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar metro rail
outrage her modesty) and 395 (dacoity). from 2011 to 2013 as chairman.
road, the SP said.
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included Additional
Director General of Police
(law and order) Daljeet Singh
Chowdhary as well as IG of
two elite forces of the State, the
Anti-Terrorist Squad and
Special Task Force (STF),
along with that senior officers
of National Investigation
Agency (NIA), all working
together to get some breakthrough into the sensational
killing of NIA Deputy SP
Tanzil Ahmed had failed to get
any fruitful results.
“The probe is still wide
open on both personal as well
as terror angle as so far they
failed to establish the concrete
motive which had lead to
killing of NIA officer”, disclosed senior officer who was
camping in Bijnore to crack
the case at earliest. The officer
said that identity of the two
youths, who were seen in the
venue at the marriage of niece
of Ahmed is still to be ascertained. However, he said that
it is still to be established that
the two had any link to the
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any mobile call from unknown
number has been made from
the spot particularly by the
two youths as it might give
them some further lead.
The officer further confirmed that what also creates
hurdle before them is that
though two black motorcycles
were found parked near the
marriage venue but they failed
to see their registration number plate or any other important mark which helped them
to establish the owner’s name.
Replying whether the
killing could be executed by
some terror group, the officer
said that at present they were
looking on all angles which
included all personal disputes
of the deceased officer.
Meanwhile IG Bareilly Zone
claimed that the video footage
of Close Circuit Televisions
(CCTVs) which they received
so far give them no important
clue about the killers or the bike
used by them to execute the
sensational killing. The cops
claimed that Ahmed wanted to
purchase some land but the dispute occurred as brother of the
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the property should remain in
the ownership of the family,
thus he protested the move of
his brother.
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in
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Telangana has demanded Vleader, is facing a major
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immediate arrest of Baba rebellion in his own party with
Ramdev for his threat to
behead the people who refuse
to chant “Baharat Mata ki
Jai” slogan.
Leader of Opposition in
Telangana Legislative Council
Mohammed Ali Shabbir, in a
statement strongly condemned Ramdev’s statement
saying it was aimed at inciting
communal hatred and violence in the country. “If Baba
Ramdev had any respect for
Constitution and country’s
law he would not have issue
such a provocative statement.
He is clearly playing into the
hands of RSS and BJP to create communal tension in view
of assembly elections in five
states”, Shabbir said.
Shabbir also criticized the
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat for
creating controversy over the
slogan and the MIM President
Asaduddin Owaisi for adding
fuel to the fire.
The Congress leader said
as per the Constitution, it
was not compulsory for any
Indian citizen to chant any
slogan, including Bharat Mata
Ki Jai. Way back in 1986 the
Supreme Court has given a
clear ruling in this regard, he
said.
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five MLAs and ten district secretaries revolting against him
on Tuesday for aligning with
the People’s Welfare Front.
According to VC Chandra
Kumar, the dissident leader, the
five MLAs and ten district secretaries of the DMDK would
walk out of the party if
Vijayakant fails to align with
the DMK by Wednesday
evening. Vijayakant, who has
not been seen in public for the
last one week, retaliated within minutes by throwing out all
the five dissident MLAs and
district secretaries from the
party. Other constituents in the
PWF termed the action of the
dissidents a deep rooted conspiracy hatched by the DMK.
Captain Gnanappazham
(Divine Fruit), as Vijayakant is
addressed by wife Premalatha,
was given 24 hours by Chandra
Kumar and the rebels to align
with the DMK. “The DMDK
leadership’s decision to align
with the four-party People’s
Welfare Front is against the
wish of the majority section of
the cadre and leaders. We all
know that the PWF is a B team
of the AIADMK . The DMDK
has been waging a war against
the corrupt AIADMK
Government for the last five
years. The PWF has been
launched to help Jayalalithaa
regain power in the 2016 election,” said Chandra Kumar
while addressing a hurriedly
convened press meet at
Chennai Press Club on Tuesday.
Chandra Kumar, a DMDK
MLA in the outgoing assembly
is also the propaganda secretary of the party. The revolt by
Chandra Kumar and gang
comes immediately after the
exit of S Dinesh, Kanyakumari
district secretary of the DMDK
who joined the DMK on last
Saturday. Dinesh was accompanied by senior leaders of the
farmers’ wing of the DMDK
who had declared that more
leaders would leave the party in
the next few days.
There were reports that the
DMK, which wanted the DMDK
to side with it to face the
Assembly election was upset
with Vijayakant following his
refusal to align with the
Karunanidhi clan. “A deep rooted conspiracy has been hatched
by the DMK’s top leaders to
poach senior leaders of the
DMDK to weaken that party as
well as the PWF. The DMK had
succeeded in making many
MDMK leaders too to switch
over their loyalty following
Vaiko’s refusal to align with it,” G
Ramakrishnan, the CPI(M) state
secretary and one of the founders
of the PWF told The Pioneer.
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of his niece along with his
family members on late
Saturday night. In the postmortem, doctors found 24
bullet injuries in the body of
Tanzil Ahmed. His wife
Farzana also received four
bullet injuries and was rushed
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to a hospital in Noida in critical condition. The children
aged 15 and 12 years were
unhurt with their father asking them to go hiding in the
back seat. The criminals
reportedly used prohibitory
9mm pistol to kill the officer.
ven as the Telangana unit
of Bharatiya Janata Party
has made up its mind to break
its alliance with the Telugu
Desam Party, its counterpart
in neighboring Andhra
Pradesh seems to be in two
minds on the same issue.
While majority of senior
party leaders of the party in AP,
who met in Vijayawada were of
the opinion that the alliance
with the TDP was hampering
the growth of the party, the
State BJP president K Haribabu
was not in favour of immediately severing the relations.
The TDP and the BJP were
sharing power in Andhra
Pradesh while both of them were
in Opposition in Telangana
rapidly losing ground to the ruling Telanganan Rashtra Samiti.
The Andhra BJP leaders,
who interacted on the option
before the party in the State
were also unhappy with the
TDP for not giving the due
credit to the BJP Government at
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n a new twist to the Pratyusha
Banerjee suicide case, the city
police on Tuesday booked her
boyfriend Rahul Raj Singh for
allegedly abetting her suicide.
Four days after the “Balika
Vadhu” television serial fame
Pratyusha (24) was found
hanging from a ceiling fan at
her seventh floor flat in
Harmony residency building at
Goregaon in north Mumbai,
the Bangurnagar police registered a case against her
boyfriend Rahul under sections 306 (abetment of suicide),
323 (voluntarily causing hurt)
and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.
Rahul, who runs a production company, is currently in
Shree Sai Hospital at Kandivali,
where he was taken on Sunday
after he complained of chest
pain and low blood pressure
while he was being questioned
for the second consecutive day
in connection with the actress’
alleged suicide. Rahul, who was
initially admitted to the
Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the
hospital, was shifted to general
ward of the hospital on Tuesday.
The postmortem, conducted on Pratyusha’s body,
had earlier ruled out any foul
play in the actress’ alleged suicide. The police had on Sunday
attributed Pratyusha’s death to
ligature marks over neck and
asphyxia, caused because of
hanging or strangulation.
Rahul, whom the investigators see as a logical suspect
in the case, has come under the
intense scanner of the police for
his failed love relationship with
Pratyusha.
Both of Pratyusha and
Rahul hail from Jharkhand
state. While Pratyusha was
from Jamshedpur, Rahul is
from Ranchi.
Pratyusha’s friends claim
that she and Rahul had been
going steady for the past one
and a half years and were planning to get married on April 14.
At a press conference held
on Monday, Pratyusha’s close
friends Kamya Punjabi, Vikas
Gupta and Adah Khan had
claimed that her relations with
Rahul had soured.
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Gupta – who is television
producer – had said: “She was
doing very well professionally.
She had no shortage of work
she had earned a lot of money
and her money was taken care
of by Rahul. She was not in
depression at all. The only
problem was she was in a disturbed relationship”
Pratyusha’s friends said
that Rahul was allegedly cheating on her and had “physically assaulted” the 24-year-old
actress in “public”.
On his part, Rahul has
claimed that he was “innocent”
and he wanted to marry
Pratyusha.
Meanwhile, the investigators are currently recording the
statements of 10 colleagues of
Pratyusha, whose names lawyer
Falguni Brahmbhatt has disclosed to the Bangurnagar
police. Pratyusha’s another
close friend Leena has gone to
town saying that her friend was
disturbed by Singh’s ex-girlfriend, Saloni Sharma, who
allegedly “assaulted” Balika
Vadhu” actress.
Leena, who was present at
the press conference, had
claimed that Singh’s former
girlfriend “used to torture her
(Pratyusha)”.
“A day before she allegedly
committed suicide, Pratyusha
had called me at 3 am, and she
was crying very badly. She told
me ‘I can’t live my life like this,
and I want to come out of it’. She
said she wants to fight back and
wanted to come out of it. She
just wanted to get married to
Rahul and have a child, this was
her plan,” Leena said.
Meanwhile, veteran actress
Hema Malini came in for
severe flak in social media for
being “insensitive” in her
tweets. For, she called
Pratyusha’s alleged suicide
“senseless” and said that world
admired a fighter not a “loser”,
who takes away his or her life.
“All these senseless suicides
which achieve nothing! Life is
God’s gift for us to live not for
us to take at will. We have no
right to do that. One must
learn to overcome all odds &
emerge successful, not succumb
under pressure & give up easily. The world admires a fighter
not a loser,” she tweeted.
In his criticism of the
media
for
exploiting
Pratyusha’s suicide, the veteran
actress stated: “Just becomes
food for the hungry media
who chew on news like celebrity suicides until the next sensational news happens. Then it
is forgotten”.
the Centre for releasing funds
for various schemes and also
sanctioning several institutions
for the newly created State.
The party leaders who had
come from all the 12 districts,
including likes of former union
Minister Purandeswari and
former State Minister Kanna
Lakshminarayana wanted the
State leadership to take the initiative and break up with the
TDP. But according to the
party sources Haribabu told
them to wait for the TDP to
make the first move.
The differences between the
alliance partners had recently
come to the fore when during
his visit to the State BJP national president Amit Shah had
gone on an offensive against the
TDP and listed out various sops
Center had given to the State in
form of funds and institutions.
Purandeswari pointed out
that when she raised the questions about the State TDP
government not giving credit
to the BJP for the Central
funds and schemes, the TDP
leaders launched a personal
attack on her.
But Haribabu, MP from
Visakhapatanam, indicated that
he was no hurry to break the
alliance with the TDP. “We are
open for alliance with any non
Congress party. BJP was comfortable with the TDP and the
continuation of alliance is an indication of the BJP’s stand”, he said.
As far as Telangana was
concerned, the BJP leadership
has made up its mind to break
the alliance as it failed to yield
any results in the recent elections in the state. The BJP drew
a blank in the municipal corporation elections in Warangal
and Khammam and put up
worst ever performance in
Greater Hyderabad Municipal
Corporation elections.
After the issue was discussed at the state executive
meeting of the BJP, union minister of State Bandaru Dattatreya
said, “there are many voices
within the BJP that there was no
point in continuing alliance
with the TDP”.
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ny suggestion for the
revival of Sanskrit is
today fraught with
political implications.
One
could
be
denounced as being a Saffronite or
a Hindutva character or a communal element, or all of these, since in
the eyes of the secularists, they
mean the same. Besides, there are
those who see no purpose in
expending energy over a language
that is ‘dead’ (American philologist
and Sanskritist Sheldon Pollock’s
conclusion); a language that has collapsed under the weight of the
“social monopolisation and discursive ritualisation” it was used for
(Pollock again); and a language that
was not used by the masses but
restricted to the “Place” such as the
courts and its high-caste courtiers
(in Pollock’s opinion). It is true that
Sanskrit has over the decades lost
out as a medium of oral communication, with various vernaculars
and Hindi taking its place. But the
eagerness in some quarters to pronounce it dead is both misplaced
and devious.
Pollock should have been the
last person to harbour such funereal thoughts, given that he has
dedicated a lifetime to the study of
Sanskrit and Sanskriti, albeit lending to his interpretations a highly
jaundiced, and to many Indians a
deeply offensive, opinion. His
stance has been further discredited by the overt political positions
he has taken and his readiness to
mix politics with academia. His
willingness to align everything
that he finds in ancient Sanskrit
works such as the Vedas and the
Ramayan with his pre-determined
notion of caste- and gender-discrimination prevalent in Indian (or
‘Hindu’, for want of a better term)
society, must have eventually given
him sadistic pleasure over what he
sees as the demise of Sanskrit.
And because he believes that
Sanskrit fell by the wayside largely
because of the malignant ways of
caste-and-patriarchic Hindus, he
shows tremendous reluctance in
attributing the fall of the language
from its preeminent position to the
long periods of Mughal and British
rules in the country. If he were to
hold the monotheistic Muslim
kings, and the British regimes
(most notably its learned servant,
the famous Thomas Babington
Macaulay), additionally accountable, he would lessen the burden of
guilt on Indians — not a prospect
he looked forward to with relish
because that would have disturbed
his Left-leaning, Western-oriented
theory crafted over decades.
But despite his best efforts and
the propaganda that Sanskrit is dead
— as dead as Latin or Greek — and
can, therefore, at best be a subject
matter of academic discussion and
no more, this ancient language inextricably linked to the Indian cultural ethos, still breathes strong, though
not so much in the realm of daily
conversation. It was vibrant enough
even in post-independent India;
and it will come as a surprise to
many Indians who have been fed on
a contrary belief, that as recent as
in the late 1950s, a Governmentcommissioned panel happily
reported on the ‘living-ness’ of the
language considered ‘dead’. And yet,
if Sanskrit has not gained the traction it ought to have, the blame
should lie squarely on the shoulders
of successive Governments, and the
secularists who played their petty
games via the various regimes
which did little to implement suggestions the panel made.
The Sanskrit Commission of
1956-1957, which had been commissioned by the Ministry of
Education and Culture headed by
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, found
to its pleasant surprise that a lot
many people than it had expected
across the country were tuned in
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to the language and concerned
about its health. Panel Chairman
Suniti Kumar Chatterji submitted
before the Education Minister:
“As Chairman of the Commission,
I have nothing specially to bring to
the notice of the Government,
excepting that Government might
give early consideration to our recommendations. As an educationist, who has been connected with
linguistic and humanistic studies
and research for over 40 years, I
can only put in a plea before our
national Government for the support of Sanskrit which forms one
of the bases of the cultural and
political unity of India. In my opinion, as a professor of linguistics
who has not cut himself off from
public contacts and public affairs,
the rehabilitation of Sanskrit in
Indian education and Indian public life, apart from the general cultural life of the people, will be a
potent factor which the
Government may well employ to
fight the growing fissiparousness
of linguism and to strengthen the
bonds of unity...”
The reference to the promotion
of Sanskrit to “fight the growing fissiparousness… and to strengthen
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the bonds of unity” among the
Indian people, is contrary to the theory the likes of Pollock and his supporters have forwarded — of
Sanskrit having become a means of
discrimination and social divide. It
also goes against the argument secularists have been pushing that the
patronage of this language by a BJPled Government would tantamount
to foisting a Hindutva agenda.
The panel had strongly
pitched for a robust education of
Sanskrit at the school level (now,
remember the massive outcry
among secularists when tentative
attempts had been made some
two years ago to introduce
Sanskrit as a subject, instead of
German, in certain schools). It
told the Government in its report,
“The aim of education — particularly of General Education —
can never be ‘thorough knowledge or nothing at all’. Provision
must certainly be made even in
Secondary Schools for a specialised study of Sanskrit. But the
Compulsory General Course in
Sanskrit would be intended mainly to give a pupil the necessary
inkling into his cultural past, to
arouse in him an interest in the
language and literature of his
ancestors, to afford him a wholesome training of mind and character, and to inculcate in him real
respect for pure learning. Nobody
ever thought of making every
schoolboy a miniature Pandit.”
The Sanskrit Commission had
gone to the extent of recommending that, barring certain exceptions,
Sanskrit should be made a compulsory subject in schools. It said, “One
need not fight shy of the element
of compulsion involved here. It is
indeed wrong to suppose that
compulsion invariably breeds distaste and unpopularity. Something
has to be made compulsory,
because no one would ever think
of leaving the choice of subjects to
the immature judgement of a child.
As Dr Radhakrishnan once said,
the aim of education should be not
only to teach a boy what he wants
but also to make him want what we
teach him.”
If these hopes have not been
realised to the fullest extent, or to
a level that can be considered satisfactory, even six decades after
the panel giving its findings,
there is none but the secularists
to blame, since they had held the
reins of national and State education systems for the longest period of time — and even when out
of office, they maintained their
grip through the minions they
have placed in various prestigious
institutions of learning.
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Sir — This refers to the editorial, “Calypso’s back in cricket”
(April 5). England’s hope of winning the T20 World Cup Cricket
tournament got dashed with the
mesmerising four sixes by Carlos
Brathwaite in the last over.
Equally praiseworthy is the feat of
Marlon Samuels, who stood
steady till the end with his precious contribution of 85 runs, and
was rightly named Man of
the match.
More importantly, this win is
precious for West Indies. Despite
facing a lot of issues, including a
disrespectful cricket board, the
team won the tournament. The
Windies have proved that anything is possible if only we take
things seriously and concentrate
on our assignment by setting all
problems aside — at least until we
complete the task with success. It
will take ages for cricket-lovers to
forget this West Indian feat.
Tharcius S Fernando
Chennai
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Sir — This refers to the editorial, “Calypso’s back in cricket”
(April 5). The Caribbean team
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must be congratulated for its
remarkable
performance
throughout the tournament,
despite the indifference of its own
brethren and hostilities between
the players and the West Indies
Cricket Board.
It was heartening to see Indian
cricket-lovers dancing to the tunes
of Dwayne Bravo’s international
music hit, Champion, and David
Rudder’s classic, Rally Round the
West Indies, played at Eden
Gardens, instead of peddling outrage on social media and poking
fun at the players.
Shreyans Jain
Delhi
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Sir — This refers to the editorial, “Needless over-reaction”
(April 4). ‘Motherland’ and
‘fatherland’ are commonly used
words by nationals of various
countries. By no stretch of imagination, a chant of victory (jai)
for the motherland is considered
to be a form of worship.
One had expected that
Muslim religious bodies like the
Darul Uloom Deoband would
have shed their separatist, bigoted mindset, to allow progressive
ideas to flourish in the interest of
social and communal harmony.
But, unfortunately, with this latest fatwa, the Deoband has
exposed itself as the most regressive centre of Islamic fanaticism.
M Ratan
Via email
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Sir — This refers to the editorial, “Needless over-reaction”
(April 4). It’s true that the Darul
Uloom Deoband has raised a
needless controversy by saying
that Muslims should not chant
‘Bharat Mata ki jai’ because the
slogan supposedly violates the
basic tenets of Islam.
It must be remembered that
during independence, many of
our freedom-fighters embraced
death by chanting, ‘Bharat Mata
ki jai’. Even today, our jawans,
safeguarding the borders, raise
the ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ slogan
routinely. Many soldiers have
lost their lives for this country.
Raising controversies on this
issue is nothing but a malicious
attempt by political parties for
vote-bank politics. The slogan
has nothing to do with ‘god’.
PN Saxena
Via email
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ast week, while addressing the
Press in Kolkata, BJP president
Amit Shah articulated one of the
most appropriate descriptions of
West Bengal; he said that the
State was afflicted and weighed down by
fear, hunger and corruption with successive Governments, in the last nearly four
decades, only reinforcing these instead of
trying to address them. This degenerative
triad has in fact been the defining dimensions of West Bengal politics from the
1970s up to the present. Every
Government since then — the majority
of them led by the CPI(M)-led Left Front
and in the last five years by that epitome
of ‘centralised despotism’ — to borrow an
expression from Trinamool Congress
Member of Parliament Sugata Bose — the
Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool
Congress, has only further shackled the
state with these three chains.
Fear and death have been the constants in West Bengal politics ever since
the communists assumed charge. Not that
the Congress regime before it can be
absolved of fear and death-mongering;
one needs to recall the alliance that the
Congress had struck with Naxals for a
while in 1970s in order to liquidate its
political adversaries. Once the CPI(M)
came to power, it unleashed another
round of violence, targeting political
opponents, hounding out independentminded intellectuals and others who did
not sing paeans to the ‘people’s revolution’.
It was in three decades of communist rule that violence became endemic
to West Bengal polity, a way of life and of
politics that was hard to counter and stall.
The communists justified, as they have
always done, all their actions, especially
the violent and inexplicable ones, in the
name of the people — much as they are
trying to explain away today their oppor-
tunistic tie up with the Congress in the
name of the people.
Armed gangs of party cadres owing
allegiance to the ‘people’ unleashed a cycle
of violence against ‘people’ who worked
against ‘people’. Thus, in the name of the
people, West Bengal developed into one
of the most violent States. The Congress
cadres — Rahul Gandhi was perhaps too
young to recall and hence his confused
political stand in the State — bore the
brunt of these attacks, their cadres being
killed or hounded out of home and hearth
in the fight of turf-control or the proverbial communist operation of Elaka dakhol.
Armed and motorbike-borne gangs,
known as the Harmads, mushroomed
across the State and terrorised the very
proletariat in whose name they had
sought the people’s mandate. The entire
countryside was perpetually beset by fear
and violence. Retribution was swift and
often bloody for anyone questioning the
might and writ of the party.
These armed cadres thrived in their
personal businesses as well, often tying up
with builders and terrorising people in
parting with their properties at throwaway prices. In turn, cadre-promoters built
sub-standard edifices on these properties,
flouting safety regulations. The Girish
Park flyover collapse is symbolic of all the
construction ills that both communists
and TMC have institutionalised.
The AMRI hospital fire in 2011,
where 90 patients died (many of them in
the ICU), was a classic example of how
the communist party cadres-leadersbuilders lobby nexus operated in the State
on a solid quid pro quo and violated all
regulations to erect infrastructures that
were potential coffins and tinder boxes
waiting to conflagrate or collapse.
Corruption had become endemic too. It
had enmeshed itself in the cadre raj that
the communists had clamped on West
Bengal and which to this day continues
under the TMC’s protective mask. Every
construction had to be referred to the
Party bosses and handled by the cadrepromoter, with the proceeds being shared
between the cadres and the Party. The
local club had to be propitiated and
humoured so that the locality was kept
under watch and each independent
action by citizens scrutinised, reported,
controlled, co-opted or simply stalled. A
large army of anti-socials had also to be
patronised and protected. One recalls how
a particular mafiosi leader patronised by
the communist regime and operating in
the southern parts of Kolkata, had
addressed the then city Police
Commissioner by his first name, suffixing it with the Bengali ‘da’, during the
funeral of Satyajit Ray in 1992!
Country-made rifles and bombs had
become the order of the day and large
swathes of rural Bengal were in the grip
of these armed militia. The Congress,
which had initially resisted such lumpenisation of West Bengal politics, gradually
acquiesced while acting as a token opposition. Most of its State leaders had
struck a pact with the communists and
were allowed to perpetuate their local and
locality fiefdoms in various corners of the
State undisturbed.
Post-2011, the majority of the mafiosi
cadres and lumpens from the Left shifted en masse to the TMC and continued
with the same zeal and with similar political protection they had under the comrades. While the Left leaders and Party
bosses indulged in corruption through
other means, the TMC people have no
qualms in openly tendering and cornering. While the Left Front quietly polarised
the State’s politics by patronising Islamists,
the TMC does it openly by kowtowing
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he Budget is a powerful
instrument of fiscal and
economic policy. It’s not
a mere statement of accounts
but it signals the policies to
come and affords an opportunity to the Government to
determine its socio-economic priorities and set the developmental direction and speed
of the economy. The Budget
presentation is a great
Government festival celebrated, and the most important
event, in Parliament. Ancient
Indian texts on statecraft stress
the importance of kosha
or the treasury.
The
Mahabharat
(Shantipar va), Samhitas,
Smritis, rock inscriptions containing the sacred laws, (the
Dharamshastras), deal with
taxation and the treasury and
mention at length the sources
of revenue of the state and the
manner and scale of revenue
collection. According to a
verse in Mahabharat (XII
88,7-8), the king should gather the tax from the state in the
manner the bee collects honey
without hurting the flower.
The text also enjoins that
taxes should be levied at the
proper time, place and form,
and realised in a pleasing
manner as the calf suckles the
udders of the mother.
According to AL Basham,
the author of the magisterial
work on the history of ancient
India, “The Mauryans had
evolved a fairly regular system
of taxation.” Smriti literature
and Jatakas refer to diverse
sources of revenue and numerous exemptions and remissions. For example, land
brought under the plough was
not taxed fully for five years (an
early variant of tax holiday),
while the tax might be wholly
or partially remitted in times of
bad harvest. Women, children
students, learned people (read
Brahmins) and ascetics were
tax-exempted.
The
Arthashastra, a masterly treatise
on statecraft by Kautilya, says
that the chancellor shall first
estimate for the year the revenue from each place and
sphere of activity under the different heads of account and
then arrive at a grand total after
adding the delayed receipts of
previous year received in the
current year. The expenditure
on the king, standard rations
for essential services, exemptions granted by the king and
authorised postponement of
payments into the treasury,
were to be excluded from the
estimates of the revenue — akin
to the charged expenditure
under Article 112(3) of the
Constitution, which is shown in
the Budget but which cannot be
voted by Parliament. The
Arthashastra classifies taxes
both in cash and kind.
The imperial injunction
was that officers shall not start
work without authorisation,
and were not to collude or
quarrel so as to prevent swallowing the revenue due to the
kingdom. Taxation should be
such that it did not act as a negative check on trade and industry. The obvious intension was
to promote freedom of trade
and intercourse throughout
the realm. Here, there is an
early indication of the intent
which is behind the Good and
Services Tax legislation, yet to
be enacted by Parliament.
Kautilya cautions that, if
the tax structure is repressive
or unbearable, the business
community may take flight to
neighbouring kingdoms. In
today’s globalised world,
marked by the increasing predominance of transnational
corporations, this is a real danger as the TMCs engineer
swift flight of their capital and
resources, obliterating nation-
al boundaries. Kautilya also
draws the analogy of the
unhurtful manner in which the
bee collects honey. Taxes were
to be fixed so as always to allow
profit to the taxpayer, while
having regard to cost of production, capital employed, risks
incurred,etc. Notably, profit
and not the ‘capital’ was to be
taxed. Imports harmful to the
state and luxurious goods were
to be discouraged by imposing
taxes. The rates of taxation varied depending upon the king,
though the injunction of the
Dharamshastras was that one
who pleases the subject is
called a king (‘Ranjitascha prajah sarvasteva rajeti’).
The welfare of the subjects,
as it ought to be in a democracy, has remained the core
philosophy of successive
Governments post-independence. The Budget of 1991 ushered in the era of economic
reforms, signalling a tectonic
before violent Islamists and allowing their
bomb-making and radical agendas to
flourish openly in the State.
While the Amlasole starvation deaths
in West Midnapore in 2004 was a symbol of hunger under the communist
regime, the tea garden starvation deaths
symbolise the failure of the ‘Ma-matimanush’ model. In 2007, the National
Sample Survey Organisation found that
nearly 11 per cent of families in Bengal
faced starvation during several months of
the year — the highest among any State
in India. Tribals faced neglected, the marginalised were further marginalised and
the State regime refused to accept its failure or rush relief. While the then ‘communal’ Chief Minister of Gujarat had
developed a tradition of visiting the tribal belts of his State every year for personally monitoring the development projects
in the area, the proletarian Chief Minister
of West Bengal tried to shove these deaths
under the carpet with the brush of ideology and bombast. After 27 years of communist rule, Amlasole had only “one well
supplying drinking water, while there was
no healthcare facility available apart from
some mobile medical vans”.
For the 13 last years, neither the communist rule nor the TMC regime was able
to prevent starvation deaths in the tea gardens of north Bengal. Both the ideologues
of the proletariat and the harbingers of
poriborton failed in salvaging the situation.
As late as October 2015, starvation deaths
in these gardens continued and prompted Mamata Banerjee to knee-jerk in
announcing a package, whose implementation still remains suspect.
Real poriborton continues to elude
West Bengal, and the triumvirate of
hunger, fear and corruption still holds
sway. The false messiahs and liberators of
the people have roundly failed.
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shift in Budget formulation,
with a view to spur economic
growth and development. The
Budget of 2016-17, while following the path of economic
liberalisation in a guarded
manner, makes a paradigm
shift in the allocation of
resources with far greater focus
on growth with equity — with
the clear objective to bridge the
yawning rural-urban hiatus,
improve healthcare, stimulate
investment and bring massive
infrastructure development to
transform India.
The words of Arthashastra
ring through time: “In the
happiness of his subjects lies
the king’s happiness; in their
welfare, his welfare. He shall
not consider as good only that
which pleases him but treat as
beneficial to him whatever
pleases his subjects.”
(The writer is Additional
Secretary, Lok Sabha. Views
expressed here are personal)
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nveiling the first bimonthly monetary policy for the current fiscal, RBI
Governor Raghuram Rajan
on Tuesday cut the key interest rate by 0.25 per cent and
introduced a host of measures
to smoothen liquidity supply
so that banks can lend to the
productive sectors and indicated accommodative stance
going ahead.
Given weak private
investment in the face of low
capacity utilisation, a reduction in the policy rate by
0.25 per cent will help
strengthen growth.
Accordingly, the repo
rate, at which RBI lends to the
financial system, has come
down to 6.5 per cent.
The cut was broadly in line with expectations.
However, investors were not
enthused by RBI’s 25 bps rate
cut and Sensex plunged by
516 points, most in nearly two
months, to crack below the
25,000-mark, with banking
stocks taking a big knock.
Rajan also took a host of
measures on the liquidity
front, starting with the narrowing of the policy rate corridor to 0.50 per cent from the
earlier 1 percentage point,
which resulted in the reverse
repo rate - at which banks can
park excess funds with the
RBI - being reset at 6 per cent.
The policy said the average overnight borrowings by
banks have increased to
C1,935 billion in march from
C1,345 billion in January.
Stating that the inflation
objectives are closer to being
realised and price-rise will
hover around the 5 per cent
mark for the remainder of the
fiscal, Rajan reaffirmed that
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Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR),
also had its bearing on the
sentiment.
Among rate-sensitive
stocks, ICICI Bank topped the
list by tumbling 5.45 per cent
followed by SBI 5.38 per cent,
Axis Bank 2.89 per cent,
HDFC Bank 1.03 per cent and
HDFC 0.07 per cent. Realty
and auto stocks suffered too.
The sell-off was so intense
that barring Lupin, all 30
Sensex shares ended in the
red and lost up to 6.23 per
cent.
Broader markets were
also lower with mid-cap index
falling 1.47 per cent and
small-cap down 1.40 per cent.
“It did not help that global markets were in deep red,
with US Fed minutes expected tomorrow. Cash market
volumes as well as FII buying
have also been easing for the
past few days, in contrast to
a bright March,” said Anand
James Chief Market Strategist
at Geojit BNP Paribas.
Faltering volumes could
be attributed to the cloud
that has fallen on high frequency trading after Sebi’s
technical advisory committee
recommended action on the
basis of reports of unfair
access to market data, he
added.
For the day, S ensex
resumed lower at 25,372.44
and fell further to a low of
24,837.51 before finishing at
24,883.59, showing a loss of
516.06 points of 2.03 per cent.
This was index’s biggest single-day fall since February
11.
He also welcomed the
government’s adherence to
the path of fiscal consolidation, calling it as a commendable commitment this
will support the disinflation
process going forward. The
Reserve Bank reiterated the
need for a bettertranslation of
its policy actions into the
lending rates by banks, adding
that measures like reduction
in the small savings rates,
refinements in the liquidity
management framework
announced in the policy and
the introduction of the marginal cost of lending based
lending rates will help in this
regard.
Rajan had last cut the key
rates at the September 2015
review by a surprising 0.50 per
cent, stating that the RBI is
“frontloading” through the
measure but affirmed that the
central banks continues to
the monetary policy will continue to remain accommodative to address the
growth concerns.
RBI also retained its GDP
growth forecast at 7.6 per
cent, on the assumption of a
normal monsoon and a boost
to consumption through the
implementation of the
Seventh Pay panel recommendations.
The central bank said it
expects the implementation to
hurt inflation by 1-1.5 per
cent over a two year period,
but added that the shock will
not be as strong as that felt
during the implementation
of the sixth pay panel suggestions.
Rajan welcomed the government move to amend the
RBI Act to create a monetary
policy committee, saying it
will further strengthen the
policy s credibility.
The NSE index Nifty after
dipping below the psychological 7,600-mark, touched a
low of 7,588.65, before settling
155.60 points or 2.01 per cent
at 7,603.20.
Overseas, Japanese stocks
led decline in Asian markets
on uncertainty regarding the
quantum and timing of interest rate hikes in the US. Japan’s
Nikkei closed 2.42 per cent
lower, while indices in Hong
Kong, Singapore and South
Korea dropped between 0.82
per cent and 1.57 per cent.
China bucked the trend to end
1.45 per cent higher.
Europe was lower as
volatility in oil price continued
to weigh. Key indices in France,
Germany and the UK fell by
1.45 per cent to 2.61 per cent.
Back home, major losers were,
Adani Ports (6.23 pc),
ICICIBank (5.45 pc), SBI (5.38
pc), Bharti Airtel (5.03 pc), Tata
Motors (4.52 pc), BHEL (3.67
pc), Maruti (3.66 pc), L&T
(3.30 pc), Coal India (3.26 pc),
NTPC (3.09 pc), Axis Bank
(2.89 pc), Tata Steel (2.53 pc),
M&M (2.39 pc), GAIL (2.21
pc) Bajaj Auto (2.17 pc) and
Infosys (2.01 pc).
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hough India Inc welcomed
RBI’s 0.25 per cent rate cut
, they said the time was opportune for the apex bank to go
for a bolder 50 basis points cut
to augment growth.
“Given the kind of stress in
large sectors of the economy,
particularly in manufacturing, construction and infrastructure, the policy interest
rate cut should have been
bolder,” Assocham President
Sunil Kanoria said.
Given weak private investment in the face of low capacity utilisation, a reduction in
the policy rate by 0.25 per cent
will help strengthen growth,
RBI Governor Raghuram
Rajan said in the first bimonthly monetary policy
review for the 2016-17 fiscal,
which began on April 1.
“We now look forward to
banks taking the lead in supporting the investment cycle
and improving economic
growth,” Ficci President
Harshvardhan Neotia said.
Rajan also took a host of
measures on the liquidity
front, starting with the narrowing of policy rate corridor
to 0.50 per cent from the earlier 1 percentage point, which
resulted in the reverse repo
rate - at which banks can
park excess funds with the RBI
- being reset at 6 per cent.
Reacting on RBI’s policy
Omaxe Ltd CEO Mohit Goel
said: “It is expected that the
both the measures will reduce
the cost of funds for banks; the
benefits of the same should be
passed on to consumers by the
banks, thereby benefiting the
entire economy.And with RBI
indicating that the policy may
continue to be accommodating going forward, albeit with
condition, we believe some
more reduction in interest
rates will happen, thus providing the required impetus
for economy to grow at a
faster trajectory.”
Meanwhile realty experts
are of the view that interest on
home loans is expected to
come down helping the revival
of housing sales following
RBI’s lowering the policy rate
by 0.25 per cent on Tuesday
day, say realty experts.
hold the accommodative
stance.
Conducive Government
actions and macroeconomic
data had heightened expectations of a rate cut by Rajan in
the first bi-monthly policy
announcement for 2016-17.
At 5.18 per cent for
February, the headline inflation was trending lower than
expectation, making it easier
for the RBI to achieve its
goals.
The Government’s affirmation of sticking to the fiscal consolidation path in the
budget by promising to bring
down the fiscal deficit to 3.5
per cent in the current fiscal,
and also a reduction in the
small savings rates flagged by
RBI in earlier policy
announcements only bolstered
the demands for the cut.
Repeated contraction in
the factory output, which
came in at a negative 1.5 per
cent in January, had also
upped the demands for the
growth-boosting measure of a
cut in the key policy rates.
With the liquidity being
tight in the recent months,
there were expectations of
measures on this front.
On the regulatory side,
RBI said it is mulling a regime
where large borrowers (which
account for a bulk of the
NPAs) shall be mandated to go
to the market for a part of their
funding rather than relying on
banks completely.
RBI also proposed to redefine bank branches and permissible methods of outreach.
It will also issue a discussion paper to go ahead on the
differentiated banking and
look into the introduction of
custodian banks and wholesale
banks, the policy document
said.
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International Startup
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Challenge, is back again with its
twelfth edition.
Conquest is India’s biggest
student-run startup challenge
that provides an exemplary
platform for emerging startups to step to the fore and skyrocket. It offers incubation
opportunities, networking sessions with industryleaders,
funding opportunities and
equity-less cash prize.
This year, Conquest eyes
the so far untapped startups in
tier 2 and tier 3 cities of the
country with immense entrepreneurial talent and provides
them an opportunity to be on
equal footing with ventures
across the globe. Furthermore,
Conquest has widened its outreach in Asia with its incubation partners inall major countries.
Conquest is backed by
industry bigwigs like Neeru
Sharma, CEO at Infibeam,
Satyen Kothari, MD at Citrus
Pay and Samay Kohli, CEO at
Grey Orange Robotics as mentors and judges. Commenting
on his associations with
Conquest, Tarun Davda, MD
at Matrix Partners India said,
“It was a great experience to be
a part of Conquest 2015 and
see the strong entrepreneurial
BITS community develop even
further. I got to meet some
ver y promising startups.
Superb effort by the team to
put together such a fantastic
event.”
Conquest boasts off a BITS
Pilani tag, with a team of just
fifteen intrepid students
involved in the entire organisation of the conclave. Dhairik
Fuletra, the CEO at Conquest
this year, says, “We believe
one must startup not just to live
one’s visionary dreams, but
rather, to generate employment that would lead thousands to live their own dreams.
Every waking day, we see thousands of budding entrepreneurs willing to startup and we,
at Conquest, provide them
with the perfect platform to
launch their venture in the
form of networking and funding opportunities.”
Over the years, Conquest
has produced some of the best
startups in India. Conquest
winners include startups like
Gamezop,
iTraveller,
PosterGully,
GharPay
(Acquired by Delhivery), Social
Cops, Voonikand many more.
Gamezop, the Runner-up of
Conquest ‘15, raised a funding
of $350,000 after Conquest
Grand Finale. Gaurav and
Yashash, the Agarwal siblings,
who founded Gamezop in
2015, have been featured in
Forbes 30 under 30 this year.
Talking about Conquest,
Gaurav said, “We have a special
relationship with BITS Pilani
and Conquest.We have been at
several events in the last 8
months, both in India and
overseas, and can say with certitudethat Conquest was one of
the grandest. The team leaves
no stone unturned to ensure
class. If you are a serious startup, you have to try and get the
spot at Conquest!”.
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remains a bright spot in the
global economy, IMF chief
Christine Lagarde said on
Tuesday.
In her major policy address,
Lagarde said overall, the global
outlook has weakened further
over the last six months —
exacerbated by China’s relative
slowdown, lower commodity
prices and the prospect of financial tightening for many countries.
Emerging markets had
largely driven the recovery and
the expectation was that the
advanced economies would pick
up the “growth baton”.
“That has not happened,”
the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) Managing Director
said in her address ‘Decisive
action to secure durable growth’
at Goethe University, Frankfurt
in Germany.
While emerging markets
are a very diverse group, the
story is broadly similar. China’s
transition to a more sustainable
economic model — which is
good for China and the world —
means that its growth rate, while
still strong, is lower. Downturns
in Brazil and Russia are larger
than expected, she said.
“The same is true for the
Middle East — hit hard by the
oil price decline. Many African
and low-income nations also
face diminished prospects.
“India, by contrast,
remains a bright spot — with
strong growth and rising real
incomes,” she said.
The ASEAN-5 economies
— Indonesia, Malaysia, the
Philippines, Thailand and
Vietnam — are also performing well, while countries such
as Mexico continue to grow,”
Lagarde said.
She said regarding fiscal
policy, for most countries the
issue is how to make policies
more growth friendly.
This can be done by shifting the composition of revenue
and expenditure.
“India, for example, has
reduced spending on costly
energy subsidies so it can
invest more in growthenhancing social infrastructure.
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Vivo Mobile on Tuesday
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launched a couple of new V
series smartphones --V3 and
V3 Max at a mega event here
and both the smartphones
will be available at C17,980 and
C23,980 respectively in the
market soon.
Keeping the Indian audience in mind to promote its
business in wider prospectives in the country, for the
first time the company has
unveiled the smartphones
globally here with its unique
premium features and speedy
fingerprint recognition.
The new launch of the
company comes at a time,
just before three days of Indian
Premier League (IPL) season
in which the Chinese mobile
maker is the title sponsor of
the event.
V3 Max has a 13.97cm
(5.5) full HD display with the
resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. It comes with 2.5D
Corning Gorilla glass and a
metal body.
Similarly, the company’s
new phone V3 has 12.7 (5) HD
display with the resolution of
1280×720 pixels and powered
by Octa-core Snapdragon 616
processor.
Commenting on the new
launches, Alex Feng, CEO of
Vivo India said, “We are very
closer to ‘Make in India’ initiative and will support the
Government’s move through
our businesses in the country.
Also, we are expanding
our operations in India with
enhanced branding to reach
out to a larger customer base.
Currently, we are present in
over 10,000 outlets.”
Mixing business with both
cricket and entertainment, he
added, “With the help of our
business supporters we are
going to make great progress
in the coming IPL season
2016.”
The smartphones are said
to be most popular in the
country but no details regarding availability has been shared
by the company yet. Vivo has
also announced actor Ranveer
Singh as its brand ambassador to promote its products.
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to having 50 per cent headcount
from India. We have 90,000
employees here and the group
employs 1,80,000. A few more days
and then we will have 1,00,000,”
Capgemini chairman and chief
executive Paul Hermelin told
reporters here. He attributed the
iGate acquisition as the real reason
behind the increased role India
plays in the group.
“The iGate acquisition forced
us to think of the role of India in
the group. The group had 60,000
employees in India then, with
iGate it became 85,000 and now
we have added 5,000 organically,”
he said.
At a gross level, the company plans to hire around 35,000
people here this year, while the
attrition rate at present is 15 per
cent. Capgemini launched a new
campus at Airoli, Navi Mumbai
which can seat 30,000. Built at an
investment cost of C1,800 crore,
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Uday scheme for distribution
firms, Power and Coal Minister
Piyush Goyal on Tuesday said
states have floated bonds worth
C1 lakh crore under the scheme
in just two-and-a-half months.
Uday is the most comprehensive assessment for the power
sector, he said adding it is a bottoms-up approach, which is why
every state has almost accepted
it and the rest will come in line
after elections. The concept has
also found resonance across
political parties despite being voluntary, Goyal said at industry
body CII's annual session here.
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you will be delighted to know
that we have been able to place
C1 lakh crore of Uday bonds by
March 31 within a short span of
two-and-a-half months,” the
Minister noted. This will bring
down the interest costs of the discoms by a significant level and
therefore keep power tariffs at
least at the level they are now
rather then going up, he said.
Under Uday, 10 states have
signed MoUs till date. The
combined discom debt that
would be restructured in respect
of these states is around C1.96
lakh crore, which is about 45 per
cent of the total outstanding discom debt of C4.3 lakh crore as
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campus with a built-up area of 1
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while the second phase is expected to be completed by early 2018,
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here. We will progress rapidly and
will have 26,000 people (on the
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have 30,000 people which will
make us the biggest in single location,” he said.
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create an innovation centre at
Airoli which will form part of the
network of applied innovation
and exchange, launched at the
end of last year. The Capgemini
group has 40 innovation centres,
out of which nine are group
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teel giant ArcelorMittal said
it has successfully completed a $3 billion rights issue, proceeds of which will be utilised
to pare debt. In February, the
Luxembourg-headquartered
steelmaker had announced
plans to reduce its $15.7 billion
net debt by nearly a quarter. In
March, it came out with a $3
billion rights issue to reduce
debt after losses widened sevenfold in 2015 to $7.9 billion.
In a statement late last
night, the world's largest
steel manufac turer s aid
there was strong investor
support for its rights issue
with total subscription rate
of 126.9 per cent.
“1,229,905,208 new shares
were subscribed for through
the exercise of primary subscription rights under the
rights, representing 97.4 per
cent of new shares to be
issued,” it added.
Oversubscription demand
amounted to 372,398,986 new
shares, representing 11.5 times the
number of surplus shares available
after satisfaction of the primary
subscription rights, and will as
a result be satisfied only in part,
that is for 32,446,323 new shares,
ArcelorMittal said.
“As announced on February
5, 2016, ArcelorMittal intends to
use the net proceeds of the
rights issue to reduce its indebtedness and to strengthen its
balance sheet,” it added.
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pain, France and several
other countries launched
tax evasion probes on Tuesday
after a massive leak of confidential documents lifted the
lid on the murky offshore
financial dealings of a slew of
politicians and celebrities.
The scandal erupted on
Monday when media groups
began revealing the results of a
year-long investigation into a
trove of 11.5 million documents from the law firm
Mossack Fonseca, which specialises in creating offshore
shell companies in the tax
haven of Panama.
Among those accused are
close associates of Russian
President Vladimir Putin, relatives of Chinese leader Xi
Jinping, Iceland’s Prime
Minister Sigmundur David
Gunnlaugsson as well as
Barcelona striker Lionel Messi.
“We have opened an investigation for money laundering
in relation to the law firm”
Mossack Fonseca, a judicial
source at the National Court,
Spain’s top criminal court, told
AFP after the release of the
documents which named
Messi and Oscar-winning
Spanish film director Pedro
Almodovar among others with
offshore holdings.
The footballer’s family
immediately came to his
defence, saying “that Lionel
Messi has not carried out any
of the acts attributed to him,
and accusations he created a...
Tax evasion plot, including a
network of money-laundering, are false and insulting,” it
said in a statement.
Messi has been charged
with tax fraud in a separate case
that is due to go to trial in May.
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in Panama has said it will
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launch an investigation into
revelations contained in a massive data leak of a law firm that
created offshore companies for
the world’s rich and powerful.
“The facts described in
national and international
communication media publications under the term
‘Panama Papers’ will be the
subject of criminal investigation,” the office said in a statement on Monday.
The probe will aim to
establish what crimes might
have taken place and who
committed them, as well as
identifying possible financial
damages, it said.
The law firm involved,
Mossack Fonseca, says the leak
of 11.5 million documents
from its servers was the result
of a “limited hack,” suggesting
it believed an outside party was
responsible.
One of its founders,
Ramon Fonseca, told AFP the
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itself, which is dependent on its
financial services sector.
Panama’s president, Juan
Carlos Varela, said his country
would cooperate with “whatever Government and whatever investigation” resulted from
the scandal.
But he also vowed to
“defend the image of our country,” which had been making
progress in trying to lose a reputation as a hub for money
laundering and other shady
transactions.
Offshore entities, of themselves, are not illegal. But they
can be used to launder money
or hide assets from tax authorities in other countries.
Australia said it had
launched a probe into 800
wealthy Mossack Fonseca
clients. Prosecutors in France
and tax authorities in the
Netherlands also announced
investigations in those
countries.
The trove of documents,
known as the Panama Papers,
was anonymously leaked to
German daily Sueddeutsche
Zeitung and shared with more
than 100 media groups by the
International Consortium of
Investigative Journalists (ICIJ),
with more information expected to be released over the
Tunis: Inkyfada, an electronic
magazine investigating any
Tunisian involvement in the socalled Panama Papers, came
under attack by hackers on
Tuesday just hours after its first
postings on the scandal.
“Our site has come under a
serious IT attack. The hackers
have managed to post false
information under our name,” it
said on Twitter, adding that it was
being temporarily taken offline.
Monia Ben Hamadi, editorial chief of Inkyfada said
that the false reports had been
identified but not the hackers.
Several countries have
vowed to open tax evasion
investigations following the
leak of 11.5 million confidential documents in the Panama
Papers scandal.
The vast stash from
Panamanian legal firm
Mossack Fonseca was obtained
from an anonymous source by
German daily Sueddeutsche
Zeitung and shared with more
than 100 media groups by the
International Consortium of
Investigative Journalists, which
published their first findings on
Sunday.
AFP
Reykjavik: Iceland’s Prime
Minister Sigmundur David
Gunnlaugsson has resigned,
his party said on Tuesday, the
first major political casualty to
emerge from the leak of the
so-called Panama Papers
financial documents.
“The Prime Minister told (his
party’s) parliamentary group
meeting that he would step
down as Prime Minister and
I will take over,” the
Progressive party’s deputy
leader and Agriculture
Minister Sigurdur Ingi
Johannsson told a live broadcast.
AFP
coming days and weeks.
The first revelations elicited a chorus of denials, including from the Kremlin, which
suggested a US plot after the
ICIJ said that banks, companies
and close associates of Putin
had “secretly shuffled as much
as USd 2 billion through banks
and shadow companies”.
“Putin, Russia, our country, our stability and the
upcoming elections are the
main target, specifically to
destabilise the situation,” said
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry
Peskov, adding the reports
were likely the work of journalists who were “former officials from the (US)
Department of State, the CIA
and other special services.”
Offshore financial dealings are not illegal in themselves but may be used to hide
assets from tax authorities,
launder the proceeds of criminal activities or conceal misappropriated or politically
inconvenient wealth.
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hina on Tuesday dismissed
as “groundless” allegations
that eight of its ruling
Communist Party officials
including President Xi Jinping’s
brother-in-law used off-shore
tax heavens while the official
media here alleged that “powerful” western forces were
behind the ‘Panama Papers’.
“For such groundless allegations I have no comments” to
make, Chinese Foreign
Ministry spokesman Hong Lei
told a media briefing when
asked about the ‘Panama
Papers’.
He declined to answer
another question about
whether China, which
embarked on new tax reforms,
will investigate the offshore
accounts.
“As for the Panama papers,
I have no comment,” Hong
said.
A massive leak of 11.5 million tax documents has reportedly exposed the secret offshore
dealings of around 140 political figures globally.
The vast stash of records,
covering around 40 years, was
obtained from an anonymous
source by German daily
Sueddeutsche Zeitung and
shared with media worldwide
by
the
International
Consortium of Investigative
Journalists (ICIJ).
Eight of the top former and
current officials of the
Communist Party of China
(CPC) were among the 140
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The Executive Engineer (E) - Project, Civil Construction Wing,
All India Radio, 2nd floor, Room No. 239-41, Soochna Bhawan,
New Delhi invites on behalf of the President of India online item
rate-bids in three bid system for the following work:NIT No.- NIT/SE(E)/NZ/2016-17/01 Name of work- Construction
of Doordarshan Bhawan, Tower-C at Mandi house, New Delhi.
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Scheme "Infrastructure Development Programme relating to Film
Sector" - Upgradation of Sirifort Complex. (SH: Installation of 10 passengers auto lift for persons with disabilities at Auditorium - III), (i) Estimated
cost Rs.1450000/-, (ii) Earnest Money Rs.29000/- Period of completion:
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months last time and date of submission of bid 3:00 P.M. on 14/04/2016
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political figures around the
world alleged to have links to
offshore accounts.
The officials include Xi’s
brother-in-law Deng Jiagui,
who reportedly set up two
British Virgin Islands companies in 2009 when Xi was
member of the powerful
Standing Committee of the
CPC.
The official media blacked
out the leaked documents.
However, state-run Global
Times, while skirting references to CPC officials, hit out
at the western countries, saying
that they are using such disclosures to target other political leaders.
In an editorial titled
‘Powerful force is behind
Panama Papers’, the CPC-run
Global Times said, “In the
Internet era, disinformation
poses no major risks to
Western influential elites or the
West”.
“In the long-run, it will
become a new means for the
ideology-allied Western nations
to strike a blow to nonWestern political elites and
key organisations,” it said.
While the editorial referred
to Russian President Vladimir
Putin, it avoided any mention
of the eight former and current
CPC officials including Xi’s
brother-in-law Deng.
In 2014, both New York
Times and Bloomberg carried
reports of the family members
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of terror attacks as deadly as the
Paris massacre in London,
Berlin and Rome in a latest
chilling video which shows
images of the UK Parliament
and Eiffel Tower crashing to the
ground. The video shows
footage of the Paris and Brussels
attacks as well as 9/11 strikes,
calling previous massacres a
“cautionary message”.
“If it was Paris yesterday...
tomorrow it will be London, or
Berlin, or Rome. Nations of the
cross, this message is for you.
Know that your options are few,
either you join Islam, or pay tribute, or freeze the war,” warns the
video released by the group’s
Alwa’ad media arm on Monday.
It also shows other iconic
European landmarks such as the
Rome’s Coliseum interplayed
with footage of executions and
beheadings from Syria and Iraq.
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“The President’s comments were motivated by the
concern that we have about
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House Press Secretary Josh
Earnest told reporters, noting:
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weapons that are designed for
use on the battlefield.”
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source of concern because
they’re susceptible to theft due
to their size and mode of
employment. Essentially, by
having these smaller weapons,
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lowered, and the risk that a
conventional conflict between
India and Pakistan could
escalate to include the use of
nuclear weapons,” he said.
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local time today, after the heaviest fighting in the disputed
region since 1994.
The ministry said in a statement today that the operations
of Azerbaijani and Karabakh
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An Associated Press reporter in
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news conference on conclusion
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Security here on Friday, during
which he had lumped India
and Pakistan together and said
progress was needed to make
sure that “they are not continually moving in the wrong
direction” as they development military doctrines. Reacting to the comment, External
Affairs Ministry spokesman
Vikas Swarup said on Monday:
“There seems to be a lack of
understanding of India’s
defence
posture.
Conventionally, India has
never initiated military action
against any neighbour. We
also have a no-first use nuclear
weapons policy.”
Asked pointedly about
India’s complaint about the
“lack of understanding” about
its defence posture, Earnest
said: “We’re certainly aware of
the unique region of the world
in which India is located. And
we certainly appreciate the
need India has to take the
necessary steps to defend
themselves.”
But the goal of the
Nuclear Security Summit, he
said, was to eventually create
a world without nuclear
weapons, adding it was a
longer-term goal prioritized
by Obama who believed it
could be pursued consistent
with national security interests of countries around the
world.
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be particularly concerned
about and attuned to the
national security concerns
that are expressed by close
partners of the United States
like India,” Earnest said,
adding: “And that said, we do
believe that evolving in this
direction is something that
won’t just enhance the national security of the United
States, it will also enhance the
national security of India.”
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requires peaceful, creative
and energetic planners who work
together to keep up with fast changing styles and trends for the customers having varied choice.
Moreover, the fashion industry can be
very appealing to young, innovative
students, who can make wonderful
careers in this industry. Being a
designer is one of the most attractive
characters of the business, but aptitude and ability are also necessary.
Here are a few pointers which will
guide you to formulate a career in the
fashion industry:
place you can be is online. Use different types of social networks and
search engines to keep track of fashion platforms in your area and overseas. Most of the organisations keep
a link to their jobs page. There are
also numerous sites that assist as hubs
for jobs in the fashion business.
Social media sites are also great
places to look out for job opportunities. Make a habit of reading through
these pages daily and apply as soon
as anything comes up. It’s also important to highlight your strong points
in the cover letter and indicate how
they will benefit the company while
you are applying for a position.
Q Fashion internship
Q Learn new skills
An internship can really give you
a headstart. Nothing can beat the realworld experience. You’ve to be completely open to learn everything
from scratch. An internship is assured
to round off textbook knowledge and
enable you to grow your skills.
Moreover, it would also help you in
a job interview and could even end
up as a permanent job for you.
Q Start small
Apart from Vogue magazine and
Fashion TV, there are many other
players in the industry. The most
important lesson a candidate can get
is by starting their career with a startup or with a small agency where you
can explore and learn more through
practical experiences and accomplishments. Like all start-ups in various other sectors, fashion start-ups
too mainly depend on interns for
their work, at a time when these firms
are still emerging and trying to find
a place among the others. Your contribution with this type of start-up can
pass on a dual value in the form of
exposure and experience.
Q Be present online
When it comes to the fashion
business today, the most significant
As with any job prospect, it’s most
vital to have a confident mindset,
even when doing monotonous tasks
or finding yourself being exploited.
Update your resume every time you
learn something new or master a skill.
Q Work towards your dream
One of the best things a candidate
can do is to identify their dream
career, no matter how difficult it is to
achieve, and start focusing on the
areas you need to know to accomplish
your career. It’s true that it may take
years to gain that kind of understanding but it makes it easier to make
your career and take your next step
forward.
Q Don’t be afraid to ask
Asking to do something is the
best way to improve your skills and
knowledge about the industry. If
you are curious to know more about
fashion industry, why not ask the person responsible for it or simply
observe the process? Finding an
adviser in the organisation is also one
of the best ways in which you can
acquire knowledge.
Q Keep moving
with many diverse talents. They
require writers, business development
people, photographers, planners,
designers, accountants, project leaders, marketers etc. Make a choice as
per your strength. If you remain
unsuccessful in grabbing an opportunity, there’s nothing to worry about
because you can gain the same skills
from many other organisations.
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Making a blog or creating a
voice on social media is one of the
finest methods to shape up a network
and gain acknowledgment in the
fashion world. Even if your future
company has never heard of you, presenting them what you have accomplished in your extra time gives you
a huge step-up. Forming an online
platform today is easier than it ever
was.
Use it to share your thoughts,
aspirations and special style of presenting your write-ups, creative skills
and editorial skills with concerned
people in the industry.
Q Know all fashion trends
Stay up to date with what’s happening in and around the fashion
industry. One way of doing this is by
following a few well-known personalities in the industry through social
media platforms. Scanning and keeping a note of the hot matters and fashion news on a day-to-day basis will
enable you to be knowledgeable
enough to form an opinion and provide valuable inputs once you join any
organisation or fashion house. Your
passion and inspiration are your
strongest resources in this field.
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numerous options available. Here are
a few recommendations and thoughts
for getting started:
Fashion sales & marketing: Design
and trade are interconnected.
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Bengaluru facility.
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and Earn’ programme offers students a three-year diploma
in Aerospace Manufacturing Technology (advanced composites), rolled out under the National Employability
Enhancement Mission. The programme involves classroom
sessions on fundamental theory, behavioural skills training
and vocational training in manufacturing skills at TAML.
This initiative is by Boeing, with training provided by NTTF,
a partner of the National Skills Development Corporation.
The programme is aimed at enhancing the employability
of students and bridging the gap of skilled manpower in the
aerospace sector. Students from the Science stream in Class
XII will be eligible. The NTTF will conduct an eight-week
induction programme to make the students industry-ready
for their job training. The batch will then be placed at TAML
for training in their manufacturing facilities. Trainees who
complete the programme will be awarded a three-year
Diploma in Aerospace Manufacturing Technology (advanced
composites) certificate by NTTF.
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recently in the Capital by Manish Chabbra,
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owner of Business First, in association with Cybnetics and
Vertise Advisors. The conference focussed on building an
enterprise, overcoming initial start-up and business challenges, developing start-ups and connecting with new Digital
India and Make in India initiatives of Prime Minister of India
Narendra Modi. The summit was held as a learning opportunity for all the budding entrepreneurs and future leaders
to learn few nuances of building a successful business from
vast knowledge and experience. A session on ‘Profitability
or Scalability for Start-ups’ had panelists sharing their experience on building their start-up models whereas ‘Developing
Digital Start-up’ focussed on Digital India campaign, high
speed internet networks and improving digital literacy.
val in collaboration with U-Special
International Campus Film Festival 2016.
Thirteen short films, of both national and
international origin, were screened.
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Heart Sisters which deals with patriarchal
operation in the society and an international
feminist movement was the first major
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University has entered into a
tie up with Peking University,
China, for a major collaborative
research programme involving
students from both sides on environmental challenges faced by the
two fast developing nations. They
will launch a large scale programme to promote research on
environmental issues and highlight the humanitarian and climatic challenges being experienced by local communities in
Designers initially need to get their
product to the marketplace.
Merchants keep a track and observe
fashion trends and customer trends.
There are many alternatives that fall
under the ‘merchandising’ umbrella.
Retail management is an important
one, regarded as an under-appreciated
professional path. Candidates can
make decent money and get direct
understanding of a large number of
brands, promotional plans and how
to deal with people in the industry.
Visual production or styling: These
are two separate streams, but likely to
be corresponding careers. With the
increasing number of people with
celebrity status from across the globe,
it’s certainly a career that is on the rise
in standings of visibility. A degree isn’t
essential, but again, having some
understanding of figures, business
and communications is important.
Networking is perhaps more significant in designing than in any other
career.
Public relations (PR): PR is the central man among a product, retailer
and a consumer. PR representatives
are in charge of maintaining clean
image of the product and making sure
that people are discussing about it.
Their job is to make a brand appear
likeable in the industry. An attractive
and friendly character is an absolute
must in this field. A degree in communications, advertising or business
along with an internship in a reputed organisation will get you there.
Fashion journalist: If you love to
write and love fashion too, the opportunity to report and weigh in on
what’s going on in the world of fashion has never been better. Magazines
are growing their online presence and
are employing bloggers to describe
news in the industry. You can also
write for trade magazines, PR agencies or relevant e-commerce sites.
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Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and
Communication, New Delhi and A
Bohemian Musician, a documentary produced by Film and Television Institute of
India. Dignitaries who attended the event
were senior journalist and film critic,
Manjula Negi and regional advisory member, Central Board of Film Certification,
Vivek Sinha.
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filmmakers whose films were screened.
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Environmental issues such
as air and water pollution, land
degradation and climate change
need deeper engagement between
stakeholders of the two countries.
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the deliberation and policy discourse led by the governments. As
socially conscious academic institutions, the two Universities want
to produce tangible research outcomes that can influence government policy.
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week between O P Jindal Global
University vice chancellor Dr
CRaj Kumar and Prof CAO
Heping, dean, school of economics, department of environment,
resources and development economics, Peking University.
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cross learning exchange programmes for students with extensive and diversified joint research
within China and India focusing
on key environmental challenges
facing communities. The result of
the joint research will be showcased as part of a documentary to
highlight environment concerns
at the grass root levels. The documentary research will be undertaken in the summer months
from May-July 2016.
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of Information Technology,
Delhi, invites application for
admission in Master of
Technolog y (MTech) in
Computational Biology (CB)
starting from July, 2016.
Candidates, who are interested to apply, must have
completed bachelor’s degree in
Engineering (BTech/ Bachelor
of Engineering in Computer
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Information
Technology or Mathematics or
BTech/BE in any other discipline with at least one computer programming course or
at least two mathematics
courses.
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valid
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(2015/2016). They must have
a CGPA of at least 6.5 out of
10 or 65 per cent in BTech/BE
and 60 per cent in all previous
courses including 10+2.
IIIT-Delhi provides relaxation to SC, ST, OBC, PD and
CW category candidates.
Specially, candidates under
these categories must have a
CGPA of at least 6.0 out of 10
or 60 per cent in BTech/BE
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degrees or certificates courses including 10+2.
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percentage of marks.
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http://www.iiitd.ac.in/admission/mtech/2016.
The last date for the submission of online application
form is April 11, 2016. The
application fee of C350 only
should be paid through a payment gateway via net banking/credit or debit card. The
announcement date of the
candidates qualified to appear
in the written test and an
interview is April 14. The
written test and interview of
the shortlisted candidates will
be held on April 23. The final
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will take place at IIIT-Delhi
campus on May 2, 2016.
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University Grants Commission
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to automate their admissions
management process.
Automation of the admissions process can bring a windfall of benefits for higher education institutions. It helps
campuses improve efficiency,
information storage and speed
of admissions, while also
improving transparency and
the student experience. With
such streamlined automation,
campuses have options to redeploy staff from the admission
management team to other
teams that may require more
headcount.
With UGC strongly advising universities to implement
automated admissions, institutions are recognising they can
no longer afford to have timeconsuming manual processes.
With this online service from
Campus Management, campuses can automate their
admission processes prior to
the next admission cycle by
leveraging cloud technology,
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renewable energy investments in India jumped to $10.9
billion in 2015 from the annual average of $8 billion in the
last three years, driven by the
solar energy sector. India joins
countries like China, Africa,
US and Latin America, which
also saw an increase in clean
energy investments.
The Government’s ambi-
ndian Handloom Brand will be organising the
Indian Handloom Design Contest to attract
young talent for contemporary designing, an
international level design contest for aspirants from
India and abroad. The first phase of the contest
began from April 3, 2016.
The international fashion design competition
will give the winners a chance to win valuable
industry accolades and cash prizes, with a total of
18 prizes in categories of best design entry, second
best design entry and a jury special award for
Indian, western and Indo-western type. The win-
ning 18 ensembles will be showcased at a grand
event on second National Handloom Day. .
The competition is open for individual entries
from natural person or a group/entity and applicants must be 18 years old or above. The invited
entries must be the original work of the applicants.
The contest will be a two stage process. The first
stage applicants will submit ensemble sketches with
swatches. The shortlisted entries will then submit
their final prototypes.
Apply online through IHB website —
www.indiahandloombrand.gov.in.
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tious push to install 100 GW of
solar power capacity by 2022
has boosted this. This initiative
has led to an increase in job
opportunities. More and more
people are opting for unconventional courses including
the energy management and
building a career in this sector.
This sector plays a vital role
in the growth and development
of the country. The accessibil-
ity of various sources of energy and the correct utilisation of
energy for the advancement of
any nation, serves as the key
component towards the financial development of the country. Therefore, top Indian Bschools are encouraging the
energy management courses
and offering courses to
enhance skills of executives
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the JEE (Main) 2016 examination from over 2000 centres in 129 cities in India and
abroad this year. Aspirants had the
choice of appearing in any one of
the two types of papers or both.
Paper 1 is for BE/BTech courses
while paper II is for
BArch/BPlanning. Paper I had
objective type multiple choice questions with one out of four correct
with equal weightage to Physics,
Chemistry and Mathematics. The
pattern of the paper was similar to
the past five years.
RL Trikha, director FIITJEE
tells you: “Paper was balanced and
set from CBSE syllabus of Class XI
and XII. However, as expected,
many of the questions were conceptual with some needing higher
analytical skills. 27 questions were
easy, 48 questions were of moderate difficulty and 15 questions
were of relatively higher difficulty.
As in 2015, few questions in Physics
were tricky and challenging but
compared to last year this section
was a shade tougher. Further question 84 (Set F) has two answers.
One or two questions in Chemistry
were tricky prima facie. Compared
to last year, this was also a tougher.
Question 17 (Set F) appears to have
no matching answer from the
choices given. Mathematics compared to last year is tougher with
few lengthy questions.”
He also tells you that overall
difficulty level for paper was moderate. “A student who has been
focussed and serious through the
last two years in improving speed
and accuracy by taking regular
quizzes and mock tests on JEEM
pattern, must have done well. It is
always relative performance, which
matters in such highly competitive
examinations,” he added.
In paper II, there are 30 Maths
questions, 50 Aptitude questions
and three questions of drawing.
About paper II, Ramesh Batlish,
FIITJEE expert, says: “The Maths
questions were easy to moderate
and the aptitude questions were
moderate on the difficulty scale.
Paper was balanced and set from
CBSE syllabus of Class XI and XII.”
Aakash Chaudhry, director
Aakash Educational Services
Pvt Ltd had a slightly different opinion and said: “Overall
the JEE (Main) 2016 test
paper was on easier side in
comparison to last year’s.
Many of the questions in the
paper were straightforward
and could be solved by a student who has been preparing
sincerely for the exam. But
the test paper had some surprises for the students aspiring to excel in the first engineering entrance exam of
2016. In all the three subjects,
five-six questions were
framed differently. Few of
them were also ambiguous.”
For example in Physics, there
were two questions which
had more than one correct
answer, leaving students in a
dilemma whether to leave it
or attempt it. In addition, two
questions were confusing and
anyone who tried attempting
them might have wasted a
fair amount of time. In
Maths, the overall paper was
good, leaving aside one question which was ambiguous.
But many students also
reported the section of
Mathematics to be lengthy.
Chowdhry also said that
in Chemistry, distribution of
question paper was skewed
with more questions from
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designed to complement
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various aspects of UNFPA
work. Interns do not receive a
salary or any other form of
remuneration from UNFPA.
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Ask & Answer mobile app.
With 1,000+ experts, it is a one
of its kind app through which
higher education aspirants can
get personalised guidance on
queries ranging from career
and course options to entrance
exam preparation, stream
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across various career and edu-
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The International Institute
of Health Management
Research (IIHMR) Bangalore
has signed an MoU with
Healthcare Information and
Management Systems Society
(HIMSS) Asia Pacific India
Society to offer seven-day certification course for healthcare
professionals (one programme
for clinicians and One for IT
professionals in the hospital )
and a three-month certifica-
tion programme in Health IT
for healthcare professionals.
Rajendra Pratap Gupta,
chairman, HIMSS Asia Pacific
India Society said, “Given the
importance of technology in
the emerging healthcare delivery, we feel that it is timely to
initiate a program on Health
Information Technology for
medical professionals and
hence the tie up with IIHMR,
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Gurgaon India, has signed a
Memorandum
of
Understanding (MoU) with
Lynchburg College Virginia
USA to strengthen research
and development activities
between the educational institutes.
“The agreement seeks to
promote quality education
and boost research culture
amongst students of respective
country by conceivable acad-
tion alongside classroom studies?
In India we have traditionally
emphasised on academic records
and paid lip service to sports education. Sport is multidimensional and
helps you develop many faculties —
competition; the ability to deal with
pressure, focus and outcomes; it prepares you to handle successes and failures; helps you develop team spirit;
teaches you the value of persistence,
patience, determination, and the
importance of hard work. More
importantly, India is an unhealthy
nation and on its way to becoming the
obesity capital of the world. If the
youth are unhealthy and unhappy,
they will not be very productive.
Q Do you feel Indians are actually
inclined towards getting a sports
education for their children?
Thanks to the advent of TV and
social media, more and more parents
are interesting in their kids taking up
sports. But this trend changes after the
children pass Classes VIII or IX
when the focus shifts to academics.
We, as a nation, are still far from
opening up to the idea of taking up
sports education on a regular basis.
Fortunately there has been discernible
growth in the number of children
looking at sports as a career and that
augers well for the country. It is time
parents also start supporting their
children at an age where their talent
is recognised and invest in their training and growth as a player.
Q To what extent do sports impact
the holistic development of a child?
It is very important because as the
saying goes, ‘healthy mind results in
a healthy body’. When a child is
healthy, he is tough both physically
and mentally. Sport creates the right
mental framework in strengthening
not just the body but also the mind
of the kids. That’s why I feel sports
education is very important because
it focuses on both physical and mental development.
Q There is a rising awareness about
fitness in India today. What would
you say to that?
People are getting aware about fitness and you’ll notice that over the
last seven-eight years, there has been
emic, cultural, extracurricular
and other collaborative projects/assignments,” said BR
Kamrah, chairman, KIIT
College Gurgaon.
As a result some students
from KIIT
will visit
Lynchburg college for their
research projects in the next
academic session. The
research projects will be carried out in areas such as,
engineering, business and
education.
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a boom in the physical fitness scene,
but it’s limited to gyms. All-round fitness includes both aerobic and anaerobic exercises. People need to understand that gym-fitness is one thing
and playing sports is different.
Q What is your take on the demand
for sports quota in schools?
It is very important to allocate
sports quota. Universities in many
foreign countries support sports and
have special reservations for sportsmen. Sports quota helps students
excel in sports, while their academic education is taken care of. The
quota helps those kids to get admissions in top schools and colleges who
are not 90 per cent in academics. I
think even the private schools and
universities should start allocating
sports quota to encourage more students to take up sports as a career.
Q In future, which sports do you see
doing very well in India?
Ranking the sports in order of
growing popularity: Football, tennis,
badminton and last, boxing.
Q Do you feel Government intervention is needed to make sports
infrastructure better?
Government should provide
proper allocation of facilities and
reservations. The word “intervention”
has many connotations. Government
is mandating several areas and is
innovating schemes but they should
keep a tab to make sure that the rules
are being followed. In the suburbs and
rural areas, you see there are few to
almost zero public sporting facilities
available. The Government should
reserve land for sports facility, which
will provide access and encourage
more and more people to take up
sports training. It is important to
know how to maintain them to provide the best of service.
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University (SIU) announces
the establishment of the
Symbiosis School of Culinary
Arts (SSCA) which offers a
three-year, full-time B.SC programme in Culinary Arts.
Celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor,
chair professor, Culinary Arts,
SSCA will mentor the students.
Besides a thorough introduction to both global and
Indian cuisine, students will be
introduced to other elements
of the industry like finance,
nutrition and sanitation. The
inputs will be both theoretical
and practical with live work
stations in fully equipped laboratories.
This degree will prepare
students for a wide range of
career options such as chefs,
chef managers, food critics,
food photographers, entre-
preneurs, concept developers
for health foods, sommelier,
culinary advisors and so on.
Modern concepts like sous
vide cooking and molecular
gastronomy will be part of the
programme.
Monitored internship will
introduce the students to onthe–job situations. Experts
from the industry will network
and interact with the students
on campus.
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Some coaching centres
have gone the extra mile by
joining hands with some edtech companies specialising in
online testing and assessment.
Consequently, their students’
results have seen an appreciable improvement. TCYonline is
one such company which has
made a name for itself panIndia and is helping coaching
centres boost their profits
through enhanced student
enrolments.
Be it a Combined
Admission Test (CAT) for IIMs,
Railways, Banking or PTE, an
online help is available to the
students. Specially designed
program for coaching centres is
a boon for those situated in
small towns and cities. The
company attracts the largest
chunk of test-takers preparing
for various competitive exams
in India.
Recently, the company has
also launched a mobile app
called My Coach through
which a coaching centre student
can attempt his tests online,
anytime anywhere.
An analytical report generated following the test helps
him benchmark his performance with similar kind of students preparing for that particular exam sitting in other part
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Coursera, the world’s
largest open online education
provider, recently announced
the launch of project-based
courses on topics from persuasive writing to computer
construction.
In a project-based course,
one can master content efficiently by applying his knowledge and the concepts he has
learnt to a real-world project
as he learns and he will receive
guidance from instructors and
peers along the way, and finish the course with a completed project to be used and
shared.
Project-based learning is
becoming popular as they provide career-oriented students
a way to learn skills they can
prove in the job market. These
courses feature capstone projects which the students can
incorporate into portfolios for
their job searches once they are
done with the course.
Some of the courses are:
Creating a Resume, SUNY
Buffalo University; Create
Your Own Website in One
Week, SUNY Stonybrook
University ;
Writing
Professional Emails and
Memos, Kennesaw State
University; Write a TV or web
series pilot episode, Michigan
State University.
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the Champions League.
City's domestic campaign has been
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team only one point above city rival
Manchester United. Those defeats followed
City's announcement that Pep Guardiola
would replace the Chilean manager at the
end of the season.
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Champions League quarterfinals. City
now travels to Paris Saint-Germain in a
matchup between newly rich clubs that are
looking to finally break through in
Europe's top competition.
"We're full of hope and full of desire
and we can't wait for the games to come
around," Manchester City winger Jesus
Navas said. "It's really nice to be part of this
experience and part of this team that has
achieved it. It's all about going step by step,
and with a good performance in this
round, who knows where we can get to."
City showed greater maturity on the
European front this season and prepared
for the trip to the Parc des Princes with a
4-0 win over Bournemouth. But it travels
to the French capital missing its experienced backbone, with Vincent Kompany
and Yaya Toure set to be out.
"Like City, PSG is also desperate to win
the Champions League, the main goal set
by its wealthy Qatari owners. But since they
took over in 2011, Laurent Blanc's team has
failed to advance past the quarterfinals,
having lost to Barcelona twice and Chelsea
in 2014.
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PSG will be without midfielder
Marco Verrati, but it can count on the inform Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
With his contract expiring at the end
of the season and his professional future
still unclear, the Sweden international
looks as motivated as ever.
Ibrahimovic scored a hat trick on
Saturday that helped him join Pedro
Pauleta as the club's all-time best scorer
at the Parc des Princes. He took his league
tally for the season to 30 and has now
scored 144 goals in 170 matches with
PSG.
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1 goalkeeper after Joe Hart trained with his
teammates on Tuesday.
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out since picking up a calf injury against
Manchester United on March 20.
Midfielder Fabian Delph, sidelined with
an Achilles injury since early February,
also took part to the training session.
If Hart can't recover in time, Angus
Gunn will be on the bench as a cover for
Willy Caballero because third-choice
keeper Richard Wright has not been registered with the Champions League
squad. The 20-year-old Gunn is the
son of former Scotland goalkeeper
Bryan Gunn.
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Wolfsburg are coming from
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"clasico" while reduced to 10 men that
ended its old rival's Spanish record
unbeaten streak at 39 games across all
competitions.
Wolfsburg slumped to a 3-0 defeat at
Bayer Leverkusen on Friday, its third
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Champions League qualification place
after a lackluster domestic season.
Not only recent history is against the
Volkswagen-backed club. Wolfsburg, in
the knockout stages for the first time, is
playing its first-ever European Cup quarterfinal. Madrid will be in its 33rd.
Despite its recent good form,
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the Champions League.
Zinedine Zidane's side is still third in
the Spanish league, seven points behind
Barcelona, which also has a better headto-head record.
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Despite progressing in Europe's premier competition in only the club's second Champions League appearance,
Wolfsburg has disappointed in the
German league after finishing runner-up
last season, when it also claimed the
German Cup.
Ten losses and eight draws in 28
Bundesliga games suggest Wolfsburg is far
from formidable and that the team was
perhaps over-reliant on Kevin De Bruyne,
sold in the summer to Manchester City.
The Belgian playmaker had chipped in 13
goals and set up 27 more in 52 Bundesliga
games for the side.
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Few players rise to the occasion like
Cristiano Ronaldo, who stole the show in
the "clasico" by scoring the winning goal
with five minutes remaining.
Having dealt the reigning European
champion a loss in the Spanish league,
Ronaldo is primed to add to his
Champions League record tally of 91 goals
against Wolfsburg.
The Portugal forward, leading
Europe's top-tier competition with 13
goals already, is four short of matching his
own single-season record of 17 in the
competition.
He has found the net 14 times against
German opponents overall and is on a
scoring streak with eight goals in his last
six matches, including two goals against
Roma in the round of 16.
While Ronaldo provides a one-of-akind threat up front, Madrid's success in
the competition is also thanks to Keylor
Navas's goalkeeping.
The Costa Rica 'keeper has kept eight
clean sheets in as many appearances in the
Champions League and is only second to
Jens Lehmann's record of 853 consecutive
minutes without conceding a goal.
All three goals allowed by Madrid in
this edition of the tournament came when
backup Kiko Casilla played in a 4-3 win
at Shakhtar Donetsk in the group phase.
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across the country while spending
crores of rupees on select cricket
boards made the Supreme Court on
Tuesday to observe that the Board of
Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
had become a "mutually beneficial
society" practically corrupting cricket boards and doing nothing to promote the game in the country.
A bench of Chief Justice TS
Thakur and Justice FM Ibrahim
Kalifulla on examination of the spending profile of BCCI given in an affidavit
filed by the Board saw that several state
boards received an annual fund ranging between C50 crore to C60 crore
towards development of cricket infrastructure. Since the BCCI has dominant presence of three cricket boards
each from Gujarat and Maharashtra,
the Court observed that there was no
rationale for equitable distribution of
funds to every state.
For instance, the three full time
members of Maharashtra namely
Vidharba Cricket Association with 16
districts, Maharashtra Cricket
Association and Mumbai Cricket
Association, each received a minimum
annual contribution of C50 crore on
infrastructure development, amounting to C150 crore annually. Similar was
the case with Gujarat which has three
full time members — Baroda Cricket
Association, Saurashtra Cricket
Association, and Gujarat Cricket
Association. Even a small state such
as Goa was entitled to C60 crore annual fund.
Noting the unfair distribution, the
bench said, "Out of 29 states, 11 states
are getting not a single penny paid
while you are releasing such huge
amounts to states like Gujarat on what
basis. You are leaving this amount to
their wish, practically corrupting
them by demanding no account."
BCCI's senior advocate KK
Venugopal said that the criteria for
release of funds depended on the level
of cricketing activity by the Board and
the availability of a stadium. The bench
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asked, "Goa gets C50 crore and they
don't have a stadium. You pay them for
what?" It further drew a comparison
between Goa and Bihar. "In Bihar there
is a stadium and two cricket associations and yet you have not paid them
a penny. You give C60 crore to Goa and
neglect Bihar. Your mandate is to
develop cricket in the country and not
just in Mumbai or Gujarat or Punjab
alone. Other parts of the country also
love the sport but you have made it
(BCCI) a mutual beneficial society."
The disparity was visible even in the
treatment meted out to affiliate members. Venugopal told the Court that affiliate members were introduced in year
2009 and it was decided to give them
annually C50 lakh. States of Meghalaya,
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Nagaland, and Arunachal Pradesh
receive this fund annually, he added. The
bench said, "Even Chhattisgarh is an
affiliate member. It receives C1.37 crore
annually on what basis."
With questions being raised on
BCCI's affairs, senior advocate Ashok
Desai appearing for a member cricket body said that Lodha Committee
recommendations has far exceeded
the mandate of restructuring cricket
by trying to change BCCI's composition. The bench replied, "All that the
Committee has said is to remove certain people entrenched in managing
the game. It has not recommended
there should be seven balls in an over
or four wickets instead of three." The
bench will continue hearing on Friday.
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energy. That will be visible on
the field. These are guys who
have been performing consistently in the Indian domestic
season. Shreyas (Iyer) has had
a great season. Karun, Sami is
coming back from injury.
Everyone is excited," he said.
He is also expecting good
things from Quinton de Kock
who had a good World T20
apart from Nathan CoulterNile.
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drought-like
situation
in
Maharashtra, the Bombay High Court
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<D<108) IPL chairman Rajiv
Shukla on Tuesday ruled out shifting the matches out of Maharashtra
on account of the drought and
water scarcity. Mumbai, Pune and
Nagpur in the state would be hosting IPL matches this season.
"As far as the question of
drought, water is concerned, we are
with the farmers of Maharashtra,
we are ready to help in all possible
ways, if the Maharashtra
Government brings a proposal,
then BCCI president, all of us will
think in what way we can help the
farmers, and I, through my
MPLAD fund, am going to personally adopt some villeges...There is
a water crisis in Marathwada, that
will be solved," he told reporters
here at an event organised by Vivo.
There is a demand from some
quarters that IPL matches should
not be played in the state as the
preparation of grounds requires
huge amounts of water.
"If the water needed to irrigate
two-three grounds were to solve
the problem of Maharashtra's
farmers, that would be another
thing. I don't think this (saving
water by shifting matches) would
serve any purpose....Sport is a different thing, it needs little water.
Farmers need huge amount of
water, all political parties should
come together to deal with this crisis of water shortage," he said.
There was no proposal to shift
the matches or change the schedule, he said to a specific question.
The opening ceremony of the
Indian Premier League (IPL) 2016
will witness a host of Bollywood
and international stars performing,
including Ranveer Singh,
Jacqueline Fernandes, Katrina Kaif
and Yo Yo Honey Singh along with
American singer Chris Brown and
musical group Major Lazer. PTI
today said it needs to look into it while
hearing a PIL against use of water for the
purpose of maintaining pitches prior to
the Indian Premier League tournament.
Besides, another similar PIL, filed
in the high court on Tuesday by former
journalist Ketan Tirodkar, sought a
direction to the IPL Commissioner to
pay tax on water, as about 60,000 litres
per day would be required to maintain
the pitches.
A division bench headed by Justice
V M Kanade was hearing the PIL filed
by NGO 'Loksatta Movement' challenging the use of nearly 60 lakh litres of water
to maintain pitches at three stadiums in
the state which will hold IPL matches.
"This is a serious issue and we need
to look into it," the high court said and
posted the PIL for hearing on
Wednesday. According to the petition,
the state is reeling under a drought and
acute water shortage as levels in dams
and lakes have gone down.
"There is already a scarcity of
drinking water and water for sanitation
purposes and the state authorities are
turning a blind eye," the petition said.
It said that under the Maharashtra
State Water policy, the government has
prioritised use of water, and usage of
water for recreation and other purposes comes last in the priority list.
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The Mumbai Cricket Association
(MCA) on Tuesday told the high court
that tickets for the IPL matches have
been already sold and huge loss would
be caused if they are cancelled.
The court, while posting the PIL for
hearing on Wednesday, sought responses from all other respondents, including the Maharashtra Cricket Association
Stadium, Vidarbha Cricket Association,
Maharashtra government and the civic
bodies of Mumbai and Nagpur.
Meanwhile, Tirodkar in his petition
sought a direction to IPL Commissioner
to pay tax on water, as about 60,000
litres per day would be required to
maintain pitches.
He sought an undertaking from
state government that it would supply
1,000 litres of water per day to each family of drought-hit districts till the time
rains fill up the need.
"The IPL Commissioner should be
asked to pay tax of C1,000 per litre for
meeting expenses of supplying water to
the drought-affected district," said the
PIL, which is expected to come up for
hearing soon.
The IPL tournament is set to begin
from April 9 with the first match to be
played in Mumbai's Wankhede
Stadium. A total of 20 matches will be
played in Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur.
Maharashtra is facing acute shortage of water for the past two decades,
right from Mumbai to Vidarbha and
Marathwada and the gravity of the situation can be seen by 3,228 farmers'
suicides across the state in 2015,
Tirodkar's PIL said.
The HC has already taken suo-motu
cognisance of the drought situation leading to suicides by farmers across the state,
the petitioner said. The pitch maintenance
in these stadiums will consume 60,000
litres of water every day, said the PIL.
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Zaheer Khan is hoping that
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West Indies' World T20 hero
Carlos Brathwaite will be his
usual attacking self when they
take on Kolkata Knight Riders
in their IPL match on Sunday.
"Everyone knows that IPL
is all about momentum. Every
guy's contribution will be crucial. And after his performance in the World Cup final,
Brathwaite is coming in with
that kind of confidence. I am
hopeful that he will carry forward that confidence in the
IPL," Zaheer told mediapersons, here on Tuesday.
For 37-year-old Zaheer,
the biggest positive will be
working with youngsters from
India as well as overseas.
"I am looking forward
towards work with young
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great Zaheer Khan feels that
IPL should not be used as a
yardstick to select bowlers for
the rigours of Test cricket and
also ODIs as they require different skills set.
The 37-year-old, who has
311 Test and 282 ODI wickets,
made it clear that for Test
series bowlers should be
picked according to the conditions and opposition.
"I think it has to go format wise. T20 format is hugely different from ODI format
and so is ODI different from
Test matches. I think when
you judge players in T20 format, it should be based only
on T20 performances," said
Zaheer, who would be playing his final IPL season for
the Delhi Daredevils.
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icketkeeper-batsman Sarfraz
Ahmed was on Tuesday
appointed captain of Pakistan's T20
team following Shahid Afridi's resignation from the post in the wake of the
side's disastrous WT20 campaign.
The appointment of 28-year-old
Sarfraz means that Pakistan will continue to have separate captains for all
three formats of the game with Misbahul-Haq leading the Test side and Azhar
Ali heading the One-day squad.
Sarfraz's appointment was on the
cards after Afridi announced last
Sunday that he was stepping down as
captain but would continue to be available as a player for the T20 format.
"It is a great honour to be made
captain of Pakistan. My effort would
be to ensure we get back our top rank-
ings," Ahmed said.
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)
Chairman, Shaharyar Khan said
Sarfraz was the natural choice for the
position since he had been made vicecaptain in the ODI and T20 formats
last year.
"I spoke to Sarfraz this morning
and conveyed to him that he was our
natural choice for this position. His
appointment is open-ended. I wish
him good luck in his new role," he
said," Khan said.
Sarfraz has been one of the few
consistent performers in the team in
all three formats since the last two
years and for long, has been seen as a
natural successor to Afridi.
Ahmed has played 21 Tests in
which he has scored 1296 runs at an
average of 46.28. His 58 ODI appearances have fetched him 1077 runs at
an average of 29.91.
In 21 T20Is, Ahmed has notched
up 291 runs at 29.10. He recently also
led the Quetta Gladiators franchise
in the Pakistan Super League guiding them into the final where they
lost to Islamabad United.
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would be preferred, however first
class cricketers having more than 10
years experience may also apply," it
said. The PCB also wants candidates to have strong computer
skills and experience of successfully coaching athletes/cricketers to the
required international standards.
P
akistan on Tuesday launched
its hunt for a new head coach
for the national cricket team even
as outgoing coach Waqar Younis
has warned that the performance
of the side is unlikely to improve
until wholesome changes were
made in the way the game is being
run in the country.
The Pakistan Ccricket Board
(PCB) on Tuesday posted an
advertisement on its official website inviting applications from
interested candidates for the elite
coaching position by April 25.
But if the PCB follows its own
eligibility rules for appointing a
new coach it virtually rules out
many candidates for the job.
"The interested candidates
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must have atleast five years of
working experience in a similar
role with elite cricketers or national and international teams," the
advertisement reads.
"Test/international cricketers
Pakistan's outgoing coach
Waqar Younis has received an
apology from the Cricket Board
(PCB) for the leakage of his confidential report on the national
team's poor performance in the
just-concluded ICC World
Twenty20 in India.
PCB chairman Shaharyar
Khan has confirmed that he had
met Waqar on Monday and apologised to him.
"Waqar might not have been
able to produce desired results
with the national team but he
remains one of our top players and
has big status in cricket. It was
unfortunate that his confidential
report was leaked to the media
from the board," Shaharyar said.
"I apologised to Waqar and
wished him the best after he
informed me and had decided to
resign as head coach. But the
meeting was held in a good environment and I have promised him
the board will hold an inquiry to
find out how a confidential report
was leaked," he said. Waqar's twoyear coaching stint was due to
expire in May and sources aware
of the developments said that he
was keen to continue until the tour
to England this summer.