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told the Supreme Court
that the ban on non-CNG taxis
will adversely impact the economy and hundreds of Business
Process Outsourcing (BPOs)
services run by multinational
corporations (MNCs) could
move their business outside
the country.
Seeking time to file an
application to modify the court
order of April 30 permitting
only Compressed Natural Gas
(CNG) cabs to operate in the
Capital, Solicitor General Ranjit
Kumar said, “The Government
of India is concerned as a large
number of BPOs are being
affected by this order.”
The Bench of Chief Justice
TS Thakur and Justice R
Banumathi, which was hearing
the matter related to the
Eastern and Western Peripheral
Corridor, asked the Solicitor
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the problem and suggested
replacing non-CNG cabs with
CNG buses.
Kumar said this idea would
not be feasible as most employees of BPOs are women who
work till late in the night and
need to be dropped right at
their doorstep. “There is a definite problem about their safety,” he said. Sharing the larger
concern of the Government,
Kumar pointed out that the
National Association of
Software and Ser vices
Companies (NASSCOM ) had
written to the Centre that the
exodus of the BPOs could cost
the nation more than $1 billion.
Kumar said, “Business is
likely to get affected by the
court order and we fear that
MNCs will go out of the country if their concern is not met.”
The Bench, which is
expected to take up the matter
on Monday, asked Kumar to
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suggest remedial measures if
the April 30 order is to be modified. Already, the Delhi
Government has volunteered to
present a plan of action to
ensure phased removal of nonCNG taxis from the city.
The All-India Tourist
Permit drivers’ association also
sought a hearing by the court as
they argued that diesel taxis,
mostly with engines meeting
BS-IV emission norms are protected by a SC order of 2000 and
2001 in the MC Mehta case. The
association said that following
the order passed in 1998 asking
all public vehicles to convert to
CNG, the court specifically
exempted diesel cabs which
met BS-II emission norms. The
judgment further clarified that
the order would apply only to
pre-1990 autos and taxis.
The Bench wished to know
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sserting that India was one
of the major economies,
which would do better with a
little help from good monsoon,
Union Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley on Thursday said the
Government’s efforts on black
money have brought to the
books undisclosed assets of
C71,000 crore and ruled out
withdrawal of excise duty on
non-silver jewellery.
The Finance Minister
warned of action against those
passing off income from other
sources as agricultural income
but ruled out taxing farm earnings. He was responding in the
House to demands from
some Lok Sabha members
that agricultural income needs
to be taxed.
Replying to a discussion on
the Finance Bill 2016 in the Lok
Sabha, Jaitley hoped that good
monsoon and revival of the
rural sector would further help
the economy. Jaitley’s reply in
the House followed passing of
the Finance Bill in the Lower
House. The Bill will now go to
the Rajya Sabha.
The Finance Minister
ruled out withdrawal of the 1
per cent excise duty on non-sil-
ver jewellery, a demand that
was made by the Congress
Party and ruling NDA constituent, the Shiv Sena.
“I have not been able to
understand the politics of
hatred for a ‘suit’ but love for
gold,” the Minister said as he
took on the Congress which
was against imposing excise
duty on gold and other precious jewellery.
In his hour-long speech,
Jaitley said the Government
will act tough against illegal offshore accounts. He said notices
have been given to all in the
Panama papers leak case.
The Minister described
Non-Performing Assets (NPAs)
of banks as “worrisome.”
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wo persons, including a
woman software engineer,
died in on Thursday morning
when an auto rickshaw in
which was travelling was
crushed between two buses
on Mahamana flyover near
Noida Sector 44. Woman’s colleague was also injured in the
accident.
The deceased were identified as Pragya Singh, 22 and the
auto driver Vinod Kumara.
Pragya along with her colleague Navita Verma, 24,
polls. This ranges from free
power to mopeds at half rate
for women as well maternity
assistance and 100 MW free
power to all. Party general secretary and State Chief Minister
J Jayalalithaa released the
much-awaited manifesto of the
AIADMK on Thursday during
an election rally at Perunthurai
on Thursday.
Taking into account the
fact that women outnumber
men in the May 16 Assembly
elections, Jayalalithaa has incorporated many women-centric
schemes in the manifesto. But
her promise to provide 100
units of free power for all is
likely to rattle the rival parties.
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Prima facie, the casualties
resulted due to collapse of
tents and some gates erected at
the Kumbh area, he said.
A third of the tents put up
by pilgrims were blown away in
the squall, police said.
Authorities fear the death toll
may rise as some people are
suspected to be trapped under
the collapsed tents.
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n “uninvited” water train
for
the
parched
Bundelkhand region arriving at
Jhansi has threatened to snowball into a controversy between
the Centre and the State
Government ahead of the
meeting of Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Akhilesh Yadav with
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
on Saturday on the drought situation in the State. The battle
has already reached the social
media sites.
The Uttar Pradesh
Government turned down the
Centre’s offer to send a water
train to the State’s drought-hit
Bundelkhand region, saying
the water crisis situation there
was not as serious as in Latur
district of Maharashtra.
The UP Government,
however, requested the Centre
to provide it 10,000 water
tankers for distributing water in
the
region.
“UPCM
@Yadavakhilesh requests GOI
for 10,000 road tankers to distribute water in Bundelkhand
from available water resources
around the region (sic),” the
CM office tweeted.
“We do not have any
requirement to bring water by
train...We have made arrangements
for
providing
water...Wherever tankers are
required, an assessment has
been made and tankers have
been bought,” said Chief
Secretary Alok Ranjan.
“There is no such crisis
(that we need) to bring water
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handpumps had been rebored
and ponds redug for ensuring
water to the people of these
areas. The drought-affected
Bundelkhand region is spread
across 13 districts of UP and
Madhya Pradesh.
The Centre dispatched the
water train to Mahoba following the request by BJP MP from
Hamirpur Pushpendra Singh
Chandel. He had met Railway
Minister Suresh Prabhu and
had requested the latter for
sending a water train to his constituency Hamirpur-Mahoba,
which was facing a serious
water crisis due to drought.
The Prime Minister has
invited the Chief Ministers of
Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra
and Karnataka here on
Saturday for discussions on
drought and water-scarcity situation which has hit these
States badly. Modi will take
stock of the situation with
regard to drought and water
scarcity that these States are facing, they said. UP, Maharashtra
and Karnataka are worst hit by
the twin problems.
Interestingly, a 10-wagon
water train, which already
arrived in Jhansi, has been
kept in the railway yard and
water was being filled in the
coaches for its forward journey
to Mahoba. Railway Board
Member (Traffic) Md Jamshed
said that reports and reactions
suggesting that train is without
water are completely incorrect. “The water train is ready
at Jhansi station,” Jamshed said
on the sidelines of a function at
Rail Bhawan.
Refusal of the State to accept
water evoked sharp reaction
from the Centre with Water
Resources Minister Uma Bharti
telling the Akhilesh Yadav
Government to shed “arrogance”
for the sake of the needy people.
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If the AIADMK is voted
back to power, women in Tamil
Nadu would be able to buy
mopeds at 50 per cent subsidy
to be issued by the
Government. Women in the
State would be trained in dri-
ving vehicles and they would be
given subsidy to buy autorickshaws. Girls from BPL families would be given a sovereign
for their marriage. In addition
to all these offers, Jayalalithaa
declared that women would get
maternity assistance of C18,000.
The maternity leave for women
would be increased to nine
months from the present six
months.
The Government would
write off all farm loans taken by
the farmers from cooperative
banks. Hereafter, people in
Tamil Nadu would be issued
Amma Banking Cards to avail
all Government schemes.
A major proposal in the
manifesto is the move to take
over the mining and auctioning of granites and beach sand
in the State, a topic which
generated a lot of controversy
due to the scams associated
with it. Students in Classes X
and XII would be given free
laptops with Internet connection. School education in
Government schools would
become more attractive from
next academic years as the
classes will begin with breakfast
under the nutritious meal
scheme. The State has one of
the bestnoon-meal schemes in
the country. The AIADMK
manifesto says the Government
would reimburse the education
loan availed by students who
are yet to get employment.
While the leaders of the
Opposition parties termed the
manifesto as uninspiring and
insipid, farmer leaders welcomed the proposal to write off
farming loans availed from
cooperative banks. “This is a
welcome change from the manifestos of other parties. I am
sure the farming community
would be satisfied with the proposals,” said RV Giri, president,
Consortium of Indian Farmers’
Association (CIFA).
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been selected for revamp and
restoration.
The Union Railways
Ministry has shortlisted a total
of 13 stations, out of the nearly 90 across the State, where its
infrastructure will be upgraded. Besides, the stations will
also be provided with the
facilities for the passengers
travelling by the trains.
The stations, thus shortlisted, include Patiala,
Ludhiana, Bathinda Junction,
Amritsar,
Pathankot,
Jalandhar City, Jalandhar
Cantonment, Beas, Chakki
Bank, Ferozepur Cantonment,
Phagwara, Rajpura Junction,
and Sirhind.
For the purpose, the State
Local Government director
has been nominated as a
Coordinating Officer on
behalf of the Punjab
Government to facilitate
clearance from local bodies
ight people, including a
sadhu and three women,
were killed and around 90 others injured when heavy rainstorm uprooted makeshift tents
at Simhastha Kumbh Mela in
Ujjain on Thursday, said Ujjain
Divisional Commissioner
Ravindra Pastaur.
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Prime Minister Narendra
Modi tweeted to express sorrow over the tragedy and
prayed for speedy recovery of
the injured.
Madhya Pradesh Chief
Minister Shivraj Singh
Chouhan has announced an
ex-gratia of C5 lakh each to the
kin of the deceased and C50,000
to seriously injured and
C25,000 to the minor injured.
Chouhan will visit Ujjain
on Friday to take stock of the
situation. The torrential rain
made large parts of the Mela
ground slushy, making the rescue operation difficult.
According to eyewitnesses, a
big drainage suffered a breach
on Ramghat on the banks of
the Kshipra river as a result of
which filthy water is gushing
into the river.
Over 25 lakh people are
expected to take a holy bath on
the occasion of second Shahi
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boarded the autorickshaw from
her rented accommodation at
Sector 51 to reach her office at
Sector 126.
Pragya, who was employed
with the HCL, was a resident of
Patna where her father
Shailendra Pratap Singh is an
advocate at the Patna High
Court. Auto driver Vinod
Kumara was resident of
Bulandshahar district.
According to police, the
incident took place as a school
bus carrying children coming
from Delhi to Noida Sector 44
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plied within city limits. The
Environment Pollution Control
Authority (EPCA), which is
assisting the court in the Delhi
pollution case through its recommendations, informed the
Bench that the agitation is by All
India Tourist Permit cabs which
have to cater to the National
Capital Region. Since CNG is
not available in the NCR, the
EPCA has proposed a five-year
breather for non-CNG cabs to
convert to CNG. In addition,
EPCA has ordered a ban on any
fresh registration of non-CNG
taxis in the Capital.
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and other concerned departments for the re-development
of these railway stations.
The development assumes
significance as the Indian
R ailway C atering and
Tourism
C or poration
(IRCTC), in its latest allIndia survey, has listed the
Jalandhar city and cantonment railway stations for poor
arrangements in terms of
cleanliness in its survey, conducted in Januar y and
February, this year.
Beas was the only railway
station in Ferozepur division
that was classified in A1 cat-
egory in the survey conducted by IRCTC under ‘Swachh
Rail-Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’.
The survey was based on
passengers’ feedback, where
the passengers were asked to
rate the cleanliness of the
railway station on 40 parameters.
In the survey, 75 A1 stations and 332 Category-A
stations were taken in account
across the country.
To maintain the cleanliness standards, the officials
have already outsourced the
cleanliness work at Ludhiana
and Amritsar in March and
the results were positive.
Only recently, the
Railways Ministry, with an
aim of afforestation on the
vast tracts of rail land, had
joined hands with the forest
departments of Punjab and
Haryana for plantation of five
lakh trees in the two States as
part of the 'Green India
Mission'.
Centre is also in talks
with the Punjab Government
to acquire land to expand railway network in the State.
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Thursday celebrated his birthday by sharing a Mid-day meal
with students of a Government
school in Morni area in
Haryana's Panchkula district.
Khattar, who turned 62 on
Thursday, visited the
Government Senior Secondary
School and distributed school
uniforms among the students.
The schoolchildren were
surprised when the Chief
Minister joined them for the
mid-day meal.
Khattar sat on the floor
mat in one of the classrooms
with other children to share the
meal with them. He also interacted with the students.
The Chief Minister began
the day by visiting the
Panchkula Civil Hospital where
he distributed fruits to the
patients and wished them
speedy recovery. Later in the
evening, he visited Karnal to
celebrate his birthday with
orphan children.
Talking to the mediapersons, the Chief Minister said
that Shivalik region is an
important part of Panchkula
and it would be the priority of
the State Government to get
various development works
undertaken here through the
Shivalik Development Board.
He said that this area also
has ample opportunities for
development of eco-tourism
and herbal medicines.
On the request of MLA
Kalka Latika Sharma, the Chief
Minister said that the issues of
construction of Shyamla and
Damrala dams over river
Ghaggar would be taken up
with the Punjab Government.
About various development projects executed in the
State, he said that the BJP-led
State Government has implemented a large number of projects during its more than oneand-half years tenure and
would implement more projects in the future for the development of Haryana.
On his birthday celebrations, the Chief Minister said
that he likes to celebrate his
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birthday in a simple way and
urged other to do so rather than
celebrating it in a lavish way.
Earlier in the day, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi
extended birthday wishes to
Manohar Lal. Modi posted on
Twitter, “Wishing Haryana's
down-to-earth & hardworking CM @mlkhattar on his
birthday. I pray for his good
health & long life.”
Several Union Ministers
and Haryana Cabinet Ministers
also extended birthday wishes
to the Chief Minister.
Khattar, who became a
first time legislator in the
October 2014 Assembly elections, was chosen by the BJP
to be its first Chief Minister
in Haryana though he had no
previous administrative experience.
He assumed office as Chief
Minister on October 26, 2014.
Before joining the BJP,
Khattar was a Rashtriya
Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS)
'Pracharak'. Khattar, who is
unmarried and a vegetarian,
graduated from Delhi
University.
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Chairperson, Pratibha Singh on
Thursday said that the State
level Red Cross fair would be
organised at historic Ridge
Maidan, Shimla in the third
week of June.
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On the occasion of World
Red Cross Day on May 8, a
massive rally of schoolchildren
would be flagged off from
Rajbhawan Shimla to spread
the message to encourage people to donate liberally towards
Red Cross.
Singh, a former MP and
wife of Chief Minister
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Virbhadra Singh, said that
Red Cross Society had been
working dedicatedly for helping the poor and needy
patients. In order to increase
the funds the Red Cross
Society organises various
activities at State, district and
Sub Divisional level.
She said that large number
of tourists visit Shimla in the
month of June, thus it was a
suitable time to organise Red
Cross activities. Singh said that
various stalls of Himachali
cuisines would be set up
besides tambola, flower exhibition, dog show, fancy dress
completion, band performance
along with a colourful cultural program by the schoolchildren which would be the
added attractions.
She urged the executive
members of the section for raising more funds towards Red
Cross as many people were
willing to contribute.
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aising serious questions over
the death of 21-year-old
R
Jagbir Singh Jaggu, a resident of
Chaumajra village, in police
custody, Aam Aadmi Party on
Thursday demanded a fresh
inquiry in the case.
The party alleged that the
case is related to the death in
police custody and need to be
investigated.
“The police’s role is under
scanner in the case. The victim’s
family has alleged that Jaggu has
died due to the police torture and
his body was hanged on a tree
few meters away from the police
station. The police has tried to
convert the case of custodial
death into a suicide,” said party’s
state convener Sucha Singh
Chhotepur and party’s women
wing joint secretary Surinder
Kaur, in a joint statement.
Chhotepur said that the victim’s family has many proofs that
there were bruises on the lower
limbs of the victim, which shows
that the police had beaten up
Jaggu to death.
He said that the employer of
the victim, Rajpal Walia, and the
police are equally responsible for
the death of Jaggu.
Surinder said that as per the
family statement, the argument
between Jaggu and his employer took place over the issue of
money matter. After the argument, employer brought Jaggu to
the police station. The police, on
the instruction of his employer
had beaten up Jaggu to an extent
that he died in the police station.
“Later, after the pressure
from the family and villagers,
police registered a case of abetment to suicide on employer to
defence to save their skin,” said
Chhotepur.
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Society (CLS) on Thursday
T
organised the launch of two
books in the city. The second
novel of corporate trainer and life
coach, Suditi Jindal, The Adulteress, published by Grapevine
India Publishers, was released at
the Chandigarh Golf Club.
‘The Adulteress’ is the story
of a woman undergoing midlife
crisis and her journey to self-realisation amidst conflicting human
emotions. The book was released
by CLS Chairperson Sumita
Misra, along with family and
friends of Suditi.
The author was hopeful that
the book will encourage the
readers to submit to ‘Divine Will’
or love to unravel the mysteries
of their lives – analogous with
her journey to the higher self
while writing The Adulteress.
Suditi began her journey as
a writer at the young age of 9
years and while still in school got
an award from Hindi Academy
Delhi, and in 2012, under Snab
Publishers her debut novel
‘Grow Up Moon!’ saw the light
of the day.
Suditi regards herself as a
sponge that soaks up the good,
the bad and the ugly of life
around her and then weaves simple tales with deeper underlying
messages. The second book
launch was debut novel, “The
Lamentations
of
a
Sombre Sky”, written by a young
man, Manan Kapoor, who originally hails from Shimla but has
made the city his home, at the
Whistling Duck restaurant.
Dr. Rana Nayar, Head of the
Department of
English
Literature, Panjab University,
explored the nuances and inspiration behind writing of this
novel, and Manan revealed that
the idea germinated from the
album, Ghost Reveries by Opeth,
which is a story of a man’s turmoil after committing an unconscionable act, and over a period
of next two-and-a-half years, the
novel emerged. The Lamentations of a Sombre Sky, published by Frog Books, is the story
of a skirmish with life and the
perseverance in the dark times.
The Lamentations of a
Sombre Sky is about a phenomena that every individual experiences at least once during their
lifetime – loss, said Manan.
unjab Government is all set
to notify its Energy
P
Conservation Building Code
(ECBC) soon. With its successful implementation, the
energy consumption in new
commercial buildings will
reduce about 30-40 per cent as
compared to the conventional
buildings.
“This would reduce 15,000
ton carbon dioxide emission,”
said
Punjab
Energy
Development Agenc chief executive Dr Amarpal Singh, while
inaugurating two-day intensive
training programme on Energy
Conservation Building Code
for Architects and Engineers.
The programme was organized
by PEDA in association with
Bureau of Energy Efficiency
(BEE), Union Ministry of
Power and UNDP.
“The programme was
organized in PEDA wherein
Master trainers from BEE has
trained 54 participants from
different departments viz
Housing
and
Urban
Development, Town and
Country Planning, Local
Government, Architecture,
Municipal Corporations,
PWD
(B&R)
and
Institutions,” said PEDA
director Balour Singh.
He said: “The participants
have been sensitized about the
designs of building envelope,
heating ventilation and airconditioning, service hot water
heating, interior and exterior
lighting and electrical powers
and motors.”
The participants have also
been imparted knowledge of
scope of code, mandatory and
perspective requirements and
whole building performance
method through simulation
software tools.
During the training program, the amendments made
in the Punjab ECBC have also
been explained through presentation by the representative
of IIA (Chd-Pb Chapter).
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mid the heated political
debate over chanting
'Bharat Mata Ki jai’, the outspoken Haryana Minister Anil
Vij on Thursday said that people who do not wish to chant
'Bharat Mata ki jai' should be
“sent” to RSS Shakhas.
The Haryana Health and
Sports Minister also wanted to
know "what is wrong in saying
Bharat Mata Ki Jai" and said
"these people (who do not
wish to chant the slogan) must
be sent to RSS Shakhas."
Anil Vij while addressing
mediapersons at the ‘Meet the
Press’ programme here said
there is nothing wrong in
chanting the slogan.
On his campaign for
declaring cow as the national
animal, the Minister said that
the issue is being discussed
with Central Ministers. The
Minister said "stringent laws"
should be enacted to check cow
slaughter as it provides milk to
people of all religions.
The five-time MLA also
said, "It is need of the hour to
make children aware about
Gita as it contains history of
the country".
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Vij alleged drug addiction has
become a "problem" in
Haryana districts neighbouring
Punjab. "Punjab is facing the
problem of drug addiction and
there have been several cases
where youths in districts of
Haryana close to Punjab have
been found to be addicted to
drugs," said the BJP Minister,
whose party is an ally of
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in
Punjab.
He added the Haryana
Government has been taking
preventive, curative and educative measures to make people
aware of the problem of drugs.
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Admitting that there is an
acute shortage of doctors in the
state, he said that about 300
medical officers have been
recruited by the present
Government. The Government
is going to recruit more doctors
in the State. In addition, a separate cadre of specialists is
being made in the department
so as to ensure all kind of heath
care services to the patients, he
added.
He also said that a permanent transparent transfer policy would soon be rolled out for
doctors and other staff of the
department. A software has
been developed for the same,
said he.
On the transfers of officers
in the state, he said that the officers should not be transferred
before two years as it hampers
work.
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About the steps taken for
improvement in the health
sector, he said that as many 84
government hospitals in
Haryana will be upgraded so
they become compliant with
standards prescribed by
National Accreditation Board
for Hospitals and Health care
(NABH).
"A survey is in process and
all 84 government hospitals in
the state will be to NABH level
in one go soon," said he adding,
"37 per cent of states total budget will be spent on upgrading
government hospitals".
Claiming that the number
of out and in patients in government hospitals has
increased in the recent past, he
said. MRI and CT Scan facilities will be made available in all
the 21 district hospitals in the
state.
Besides, there will be the
facility for dialysis in each district level hospital, he added.
Vij said a digital database
of patients will be created in
government hospitals and government medical colleges.
Besides, laboratory reports of
patients will be sent to them on
their mobiles through text
messages, he said.
Biometric attendance of
staff of hospitals will be made
compulsory, he said.
He informed that the government had given a Letter of
Intent (LoI) to Sirsa based
Dera Sacha Sauda to set up a
super speciality hospital. Also,
SGPC has been asked to expedite construction of Shahbad
(Kurukshetra district) medical
college for which more funds
from the Sikh religious body
have been received, he said.
"Many trusts are keen to
open hospitals in Haryana.
One trust has evinced interest
to open hospital in Dadri and
Faridabad," he said.
The Health Minister said
that the State Government has
decided to open senior citizen
corners in all government hospitals in the state to ensure better services to them in these
institutions. Senior citizens
need not stand in queues for
their registration as staff would
be deployed in these corners to
properly guide and help them
for any kind of treatment at
these institutions, added Vij.
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ontinuing with his plans
to boost industry and
attract investment in Punjab,
Deputy Chief Minister
Sukhbir Badal will lead a high
level delegation to Shanghai
(China) from May 7.
The four-day visit is
aimed at giving a fillip to the
State’s investment drive.
In pursuance of his agenda to accelerate industrial
growth in the State, Sukhbir
would visit an International
Cycle Show-2016 on May 8
and attend a high-level meeting with China Bic ycle
Association.
Sukhbir, accompanied by
a delegation of top state officers, is scheduled to have
hectic parleys with business
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of agriculture, manufacturing, textiles and infrastructure
development to impress upon
the top honchos of China to
invest in the state.
He will also hold a meeting with Shanghai Municipal
Agricultural Commissioner
vice chairman Feng Ziyong
on May 9 and visit Suzhou
Industrial Park the next day.
Besides, he will also participate in investment summit on
May 11 being hosted in
Shanghai.
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aking a serious view of “misleading” posters put up by
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), BJP
national secretary Tarun Chugh
on Thursday said that the posters
cite a “fake survey” which projects that AAP would be getting
a big chunk of seats in Punjab.
“But the posters have neither the
name of any publisher nor that
of the printer,” he said.
Chugh said that nobody
can publish or print any posters
and display or distribute the
same in public without printing
the name of the publisher and
the printer. He said that the law
does not permit such posters and
besides that the misleading posters were being put up on public and private properties without any permission from the
Government or the owners of
the properties. He said that
though the people of Punjab, by
now, have understood the ulterior motives of Arvind Kejriwalled party, some of the gullible
voters may get swayed by the
claims carried in these illegal
posters put up without owning
responsibility. Chugh said that he
has made a formal complaint in
this regard to the authorities concerned and the police, demanding a strict action against the publishers and printers of such
posters. The BJP leader said
that AAP is known for first making some claims and then taking
u-turns on important matters.
“It is the same party which first
published a poster carrying a
photograph of Jarnail Singh
Bhindranwale and AAP leaders,
but later disowned the same when questioned about its motive
and party policies,” he said.
Terming AAP convener
Arvind Kejriwal as ‘Natwar Lal
of Indian Politics’, Chugh said
that the Delhi Chief Minister
who pretends to be an ‘aam
aadmi’ allocated a budget of Rs
526 crore for advertisement of
Delhi government but the same
was used to lure prospective voters in Punjab.
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demanded immediate susP
pension of Chandigarh SHO
Narinder Patial for trespassing
into Congress Bhawan on
Wednesday and manhandling
the party workers and journalists there.
A delegation of the party
led by the CLP leader Charanjit
Singh Channi and comprising
of MLA Balbir Singh Sidhu,
Inderjeet Zira, Sandeep Sandhu
and Kamal Saini met Punjab
and Haryana Governor and the
UT Administrator Kaptan
Singh Solanki on THursday
and brought to his attention as
how the police official had
run amuck on Wednesday
inside the Congress office.
The Governor gave a
patient hearing to the delegation and assured that strict
action will be taken against the
guilty cop. The delegation
brought to the Governor’s
notice that the security of the
Punjab Congress Bhawan was
being taken care of by the
Punjab Police and the
Chandigarh Police official had
no business to barge into the
office premises.
Government has been decided to
install CCTV cameras, speed
governor and depute women
attendants in such buses of the
State. Haryana Transport
Minister Krishan Lal Panwar
presided over a meeting of
Secretaries of Regional Transport
Authority in this regard.
The Minister said that the
department should abide by all
the 21 instructions concerning
school buses and in case of violation of these instructions by
schools, their buses should be
challaned and impounded.
He also directed the
Secretaries to take strict action
against plying of overloaded
vehicles and unauthorised buses
as well as taxis in the State.
During the meeting, it was
observed that many private taxi
companies are running vehicles
in an unauthorised manner in
NCR region in Haryana like
Gurgaon and Faridabad.
He also directed to launch a
campaign to check such vehicles
and ban the plying of 15 years
old petrol operated commercial
vehicles and 10 years old diesel
operated commercial vehicles in
the National Capital Region
falling in Haryana, which are
brought from Delhi and Punjab.
He added that orders of
Supreme Court regarding ban on
plying of 15 years old petrol
operated commercial vehicles
aryana Chief Minister
Manohar Lal on Thursday
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became the first Chief Minister
to have deposited with the
Toshakhana as many as 45 items
gifted to him at different public
functions since he assumed the
office of the Chief Minister in
October 2014. A Toshakhana has
been set up in New Guest House
at Haryana Raj Bhawan here for
keeping such gifts.
Though the instructions say
that the recipient should deposit
any gift item costing C5,000
upwards gifted to him while in
office with the Toshakhana,
Manohar Lal is perhaps the first
Chief Minister of Haryana to
deposit all kinds of items gifted
to him. These include several
Krishna Raths in silver and idols
made of silver and brass, said a
spokesperson of State
respective districts, prepare a
project report and submit to
the headquarters.
He said that all officers
should also ensure that all
private driver training schools
and
pollution
control
centres are adhering to the rules.
The Transport Minister also
directed to make efforts to
achieve the target of opening of
government driver training
schools in all districts.
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Education
Minister R am Bilas
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Sharma on Thursday directed the district education officers to investigate into the
reports of harassment of girl
students at Rewari’s Suma
Khera and Katopuri, due to
which they have stopped
going to their schools.
Media reports had highlighted that the students and
parents complain that around
40 girls who have to travel to
their school in Lala village
had been facing sexual
harassment.
Taking cognisance of the
rep or t, the Education
Minister said that the school
at village Sumo in district
Rewari would be upgraded to
Class VIII. According to the
norms
of
Education
Department, this school
would be upgraded to Class
X when the prescribed number of students express desire
to take admission in Class IX.
Besides, admission of girl
students for Class IX and X
would b e arranged in
private school in village
Katopuri to facilitate the girl
students of these villages,
said he while interacting with
mediapersons
after
presiding over a meeting of
of f icers of Education
Department here.
He said that taking serious note of the demand of
panchayat of the village, the
concerned school has been
upgraded up to Class VIII
with immediate effect.
The Minister said that he
and Minister of State for
Cooperation, Bikram Singh
Yadav had also discussed the
problems being faced by girl
students of village Sumo and
Katopuri with Chief Minister
Manohar Lal.
Sharma said that he had
also
spoken
to
Superintendent of Police,
Rewari and he was informed
that two accused have been
arrested and others would
also be soon arrested.
Minister of State for
Cooperation, Bikram Singh
Yadav said that residents of
these two villages met him in
view of problems faced by the
girl students there and taking
serious note of the problems, he discussed the issue
with Education Minister and
Chief Minister.
It has been decided that
the school in village
Sumo and Katopuri would be
upgraded up to class VIII.
He said that some rowdy
elements had tried to disturb
the atmosphere of the
village. Now accused have
been arrested and others
would soon be arrested,
he added.
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unjab Government on
Thursday released payments worth Rs 1,029 crore to
the farmers for the wheat
procured during the ongoing
Rabi marketing season.
“All transactions have been
electronically documented and
payments have been credited
to the accounts of the commission agents or the farmers,”
said an official spokesperson
of the government.
Spokesperson said that
the instructions have been
given to all the procurement
agencies to expedite the lifting
process.
Meanwhile, the officers of
the state Food and Civil
Supplies Department along
with the local administration
have also been asked to visit
grain markets and purchase
centres under their jurisdiction to oversee the ongoing
wheat procurement operations and to listen to the grievances of farmers, commission
agents and others and solve
them instantaneously.
It may be recalled that the
state government released
payments worth Rs 3,248 to
the farmers to clear their
dues.
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and 10 years old diesel operated
commercial vehicles in the
National Capital Region falling
in Haryana are being strictly
adhered to.
The Minister further said
that he is making efforts to
ensure that each district has its
own separate RTA Secretary.
He directed the officials
concerned to identify land
for the offices of RTA and
passing of vehicles in their
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Government on Thursday.
The gift items deposited by
him include four silver Krishna
Raths; Krishna Rath with two
horses with silver frame; brass
Krishna idol with cow; Brass
Ganesha with frame; Brass
multi-coloured Hanuman idol;
Brass cow with calf; Radha
Krishana scenery with gold leaf;
Krishana Rath in wooden and
glass frame; Krishna Rath with
silver frame; four Hanuman
Gadas in brass and a silver
sword, he said.
The spokesperson said that
the philanthropist in Chief
Minister who believes in simple
living and high thinking, had
made him donate last December
one acre out of his ancestral three
acres of land to the Panchnad
Memorial Trust in Panipat.
The Chief Minister celebrated his 62nd birthday on
Thursday in a simple way by
sharing a mid-day meal with students of a Government school in
Panchkula district and visiting a
Government hospital.
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Thursday issued guidelines
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for posting and transfer of
officers and officials of the
government during 2016-17.
As per the new policy,
transfers would be kept to the
bare minimum and made
against vacant posts except
where justified on administrative or compassionate grounds.
It would be done up to May 31,
2016.
For the cases where husband and wife both are serving
in the government, the
spokesperson said: “It is desirable to keep them at one station
for a period of not more than
five years, thereafter they would
be transferred as per the policy.”
Even in the cases where the
wife is in Government service
and the husband in private, the
same policy would be adopted.
However, efforts would be
made to post unmarried female
employees and widows at stations suitable to them as far as
possible and they would be
given preference over couples.
He said that the state government would be “sympathetic” in deciding on posting
and transfer of handicapped
employees and those who have
mentally-challenged children.
“Sympathetic attitude would be
adopted while posting or transferring a government employee or officer whose child is
mentally-challenged and efforts
would be made to post them at
the place of their choice,” he
said.
A stay of three years and
five years would be treated
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and maximum period at a particular place, he said.
Similarly, employees transferable within the state, particularly Group 'A' and 'B' officers,
would not be allowed to serve
in their current postings
beyond a period of seven years,
he said.
Within a particular office,
seats having “sensitive” nature
of work like extensive public
dealing, establishment, monetary sanctions, would be clearly defined and maximum stay
would be kept at two years, he
said.
Premature transfers — that
is transfer before an employee
completes three years — would
not be ordered except under
“rare circumstances” of punishment or clearly spelt out
administrative reasons, the
spokesperson said.
The employees or officers
posted in the border areas, bet
areas, like near river and canal,
and Kandi (sub-mountainous)
areas would remain there for a
minimum of two years, he
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aking strong exception to
Congress leader Jagdish
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Tytler’s wish to appear before
Akal Takht, Senior Advocate
and Aam Aadmi Party leader
HS Phoolka said he will meet
Akal Takht Jathedar Giani
Gurbachan Singh in Delhi
on Friday and point to the
complicity of the Congress
leader in the 1984 riots.
Recently in a media interview, Jagdish Tytler had stated that he wished to apologise
to the Sikh community. He
said that he had written a let-
ter to Jathedar, Akal
Takht that he wanted to meet
him and appear before Akal
Takht.
In a strong reaction to the
Tytler’s statement, Phoolka
has said that it is shocking and
surprising that the main mastermind of 1984 Anti-Sikh
Genocide wants to appear
before Akal Takht Sahib.
Phoolka said that he would
present all the proofs
against Jagdish Tytler, showing his involvement in the
Genocide, to the Akal Takht
Jathedar.
Raising a finger at the
President of Delhi Sikh
Gurdwara Management
Committee, Phoolka said that
Tytler was presented a saropa
and sword, just days after a
criminal
case
was
registered against him for the
1984-riots. Phoolka has
expressed apprehension that
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He said the steel sector had
contributed to the maximum
NPAs as many companies
closed down on account of
cheap availability of steel from
China. Anti-dumping duties
imposed by the Government
had led to the revival of the steel
sector. He said the Government
will work to resolve the NPA
problem of banks whose lending was essential for growth of
the economy.
Responding to some MPs,
particularly those from the BJD,
demanding that agricultural
income needs to be taxed, Jaitley
said the Centre has not pro-
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police post suddenly
applied brake following which
the auto behind it was crushed
by another private bus killing
the driver and the woman and
injuring her colleague.
Police said four children of
Marigold School in Noida also
received injuries in the accident. They were rushed to
Kailash Hospital, Noida where
doctors declared the duo
brought death.
Meanwhile Navita Verma,
such elements may facilitate
meeting between Akal Takht
Jathedar and Tytler.
Tytler, former Union
Minister, facing allegations
of instigating the mob after
the assassination of former
Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi, was entangled into
posed to do it and also advised
States against taking such a
step.
“In any case, please remember, under the Constitution of
India, the Centre has no power
in the matter. It is a State subject,” he added. The Minister
said there were some cases
where people were passing off
income from other sources as
agricultural income, which, he
said will be dealt under law as
a case of tax evasion. Jaitley said
prosecution had been launched
in the HSBC list where C6,500
crore of undisclosed assets had
come to light, and the
Liechtenstein list. Also, C4,0004,250 crore had been disclosed
under the foreign black money
law. He said through assessments another C71,000 crore of
black money had been
unearthed.
who received multiple fractures, has been kept into the
ICU (Intensive Care Unit).
The injured children identified
as Ashish, Shivam, Sumit and
Raghav are undergoing treatment. Noida Superintendent of
Police Dinesh Yadav said that
an FIR has been registered
against school bus driver in
Sector-39 police station.
“The driver has been identified and a police team has
been detailed to arrest the
absconding bus driver. Noida
police have informed to victim’s
family in Patna and the body
has been preserved for the
autopsy.”
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“I request the Uttar Pradesh
Government not to be arrogant.
Either you give water to the people or welcome the step taken by
the Government of India...
People are thirsty. People, animals, birds are dying,” Uma
said outside Parliament House
while talking to media.
Samajwadi Party leader and
PWD Minister Shivpal Yadav
said in Kanpur: “We do not need
water from outside... When we
will need water, we will ask for
it... Where will we store it if it
comes through train like this?”
BSP supremo and former
UP Chief Minister Mayawati
said if the State Government has
actually refused to accept the
water train sent by the Centre,
then it becomes the moral
responsibility of the SP
Government to provide water to
the people of Bundelkhand.
Former Uttar Pradesh
Congress president Rita
Bahuguna Joshi said that there
is sufficient water in
Bundelkhand but due to lack of
proper management, it is not
reaching the people.
the controversy again, when a
Delhi court in 2013, directed
C entral
Bureau
of
Investigation (CBI) to reinvestigate allegations that
Tytler instigated a riotous
mob, prompting murder of
three men who had taken
shelter in a Pul Bangash gur-
dwara in north Delhi on
November 1, 1984.
Tytler, in his defence has
maintained that at the time of
the incident at Gurdwara, he
was present in Teen Murti
Bhawan, where the body of
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
was kept for public tributes.
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High Court on Wednesday
was told that there was information of rape of two relatives of
a Punjab Raj Bhawan employee
in Murthal during the Jat reservation stir.
During the resumed hearing
before the Division Bench of
Justice SS Saron and Justice
Gurmit Ram, the Amicus Curiae
Anupam Gupta claimed that
there was information about
rape of two women, who happen
to be relatives of a Punjab Raj
Bhawan employee. The Haryana
police found itself on the receiving end as the Amicus Curiae
Anupam Gupta lambasted the
police for its inaction against the
perpetrators of assault on women, reports by Judicial In charge at district level, marked
Haryana police inefficient and
negligent.
Seeking action against the
top police officers, Gupta said
that action should be taken
against top police and district
administrative officers for not
coming out with the truth.
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efforts being made by the police,
Gupta asserted that ever since the
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matter, information on rapes was
trickling in, including reports
hovering around the rape of two
relatives of a Raj Bhawan
employee.
He raised question on the
inability of the police to contact
the reporter, who had published
the interview of a victim. He also
objected to the notice sent to
journalists by the special investigation team for sharing information instead of contacting
them. To add on the humiliation,
the reports filed by the District
judicial heads brought more
embarrassment for the Haryana
police, as the judicial officers in
their reports have expressed a
sorry state of affairs for the
Haryana Government.
The status report filed by the
judicial officers say that they were
compelled to leave their residences for taking shelter in transit houses as the police failed to
provide them security. And
bringing the matter to the notice
of the top cops even did not help.
A woman judicial officer, who
lost her mother-in-law during
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(RPFOA) are at loggerheads
over the appointment of senior
IPS officer SK Bhagat as the
new Director General (DG) of
the Railway Protection Force
(RPF). The RPFOA has not
only dragged the Ministry to
court opposing an “outsider” as
the new DG but also obtained
a stay on his appointment. The
RPFOA has demanded that
the head of its force should be
from within its own ranks.
The Delhi court has issued
a stay on the decision of the
Appointments Committee of
Cabinet (ACC), which had on
April 27 stamped its approval to
Bhagat’s name. The court issued
notices to the Railway Ministry
and the Railway Board directing them to reply by May 19.
“Since Bhagat has already
joined and stay order came late,
he would continue as DG. We
would respond to the judiciary,”
a Ministry official contended.
The RPFOA has sought the
court to quash the appointment
which, it maintained, was in
violation of RPF Rules, and
appoint a DG through promotion from within the force. The
writ petition has said that “outsiders” cannot be appointed to
the RPF, following an amendment in the RPF Act and Rules
made in 1987.
The Railway Board, however, told the court that the Act and
the rules do not prohibit an IPS
officer from being made the RPF
DG. It said the Rules provided
that an officer (read IPS) from
outside the paramilitary force
could be appointed as the DG of
the RPF, if a competent officer
was not available in the RPF.
Interestingly, the RPF DG
has always been an IPS officer.
Ministry officials said a dilution
of the Rules could well set a
“wrong precedent” for other
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paramilitary forces too.
The direct attack on Bhagat’s
appointment has evoked strong
reactions from his IPS fraternity. IPS officers are now pointing
out that RPF despite being a
security force continues to be
outside the ambit of the Union
Home Ministry. “This is the
biggest anomaly. All other paramilitary forces like CRPF, CISF,
ITBP come under the MHA,”
they said, adding even the
Cabinet Secretary had in 2013
issued directions to continue
with the provisions of appointing IPS officers to the top posts
in the RPF.
“Since IPS is an All India
Service, its officers have work
both at the Centre and the State.
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high-level meeting chaired by
Home Minister Rajnath Singh
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on Thursday discussed various issues
pertaining to Jammu & Kashmir
including rehabilitation of Kashmiri
Pandit migrants, return of civilian
land by the Army and the situation
along the Line of Control. The
meeting was attended by Defence
Minister Manohar Parikar, State
Governor NN Vohra and National
Security Adviser Ajit K Doval.
According to official sources,
the issue of surrender of civilian
land being used by the Army was
discussed at the meeting and it was
decided that state’s Chief Secretary
will hold a meeting with Defence
Ministry officials to identify those
and work out a proposal.
The Army had in principle
agreed to hand over the 139-acre
between the Centre and State,”
said a senior DoPT official.
The RPF Association has
been raising the issue of “outside” appointments for several
years now as, according to
them, the 1987 amendment of
section 19 prohibits RPF personnel from going on deputation anywhere and simultaneously, prohibits deputation
within the department. They
have argued that appointment
of IPS or any other service to
the RPF affects the career progression of their own personnel.
“Most importantly, the law
& order is State subject. Since IPS
is an All India Service who can
work both in State and Centre
can handle law & order and
policing while being paramilitary
too. How can RPF or any paramilitary wing handle the law &
order or policing on their own
without IPS officers as they will
be representing Centre only.
This is against Constitution and
against federalism and violates
basic structure of Constitution,”
added DoPT official.
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‘Tattoo ground’ to the State
Government but a final decision
had to be taken by the Defence
Ministry. According to sources, the
Army has been pressing for regularisation of a land in Gulmarg in
return for the ‘Tattoo ground’.
“In the meeting it was decided
that decisions and action on decisions
taken earlier, would be expedited,
especially with regard to sparing of
land(s) not required for operational
reasons,” said Home Ministry.
The rehabilitation of Kashmiri
Pandits in the Valley and identifying
land for their resettlement also came
up for discussion. There are about
62,000 registered Kashmiri migrant
families who left the State after the
onset of militancy in the 1990s.
he Supreme Court on Thursday made it clear
that private medical colleges will have to fill seats
through the National Eligibility Entrance Test
(NEET) conducted by CBSE even as it kept the window open for exempting State medical tests this year.
The court was confronted by a news report by
lawyers appearing for private medical colleges that
an impression is created among students that in
the absence of any bar on private medical colleges,
its associations and states to hold exams, SC had
validated them for this year.
Dismissing the suggestion, the Bench of
Justices AR Dave, Shiva Kirti Singh and Adarsh K
Goel said, “We have not said anything. So long as
Regulations are there to conduct NEET, it will go
on.” Later in the day as confusion still prevailed on
the fate of exams to be conducted by private medical college associations, the bench clarified, “We
will not allow private medical colleges to hold their
exams.” However, as regards common entrance test
(CET) of states, the bench asked all counsels appearing for the states, Centre, CBSE and Medical
Council of India to give suggestions by Friday.
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that former board member
of Aeromatrix Gautam Khaitan
has accepted taking payments
from Guido Haschke and Carlo
Gerosa, middlemen in the
AgustaWestland helicopter deal.
But Khaitan, the agency said,
rejected allegations that it was
part of any kickbacks.
“He has agreed taking payment from European middlemen Guido Haschke and Carlo
Gerosa. However, we do not
agree with the purpose behind
the payment which has been
cited by him,” a CBI official said.
Sources said while Khaitan
accepted money was received
from Gerosa and Haschke he
denied that it was part of kick
backs to clinch the deal. The
CBI continued Khaitan’s questioning for the second day on
Thursday. The agency summoned former IAF chief SP
Tyagi’s cousins — Sanjeev,
Rajeev and Sandeep — to
appear before it on Friday.
While the questioning of
Khaitan continued for about 10
hours, former Air Vice Marshal
NV Tyagi left within four hours
of examination.
The
Enforcement
Directorate (ED) on Thursday
also questioned former IAF chief
SP Tyagi in connection with its
money laundering case relating
to the VVIP helicopter deal.
Though the ED has already
filed a chargesheet in the case,
this is the first time the agency
has questioned Tyagi. The
move comes after a Milan
court order in which it was
mentioned that bribes were
paid to Indian babus, service
personnel and politicians. Tyagi
was earlier questioned by the
CBI for three consecutive days.
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BJP leader Subramanian Swamy
was targeted in the Rajya Sabha
by Congress members who
wanted to know how he got
access to sensitive and secret
files of the CBI and ED and
whether he had authenticated
the documents quoted by him.
Deputy Leader of Congress
Anand Sharma raised a point of
order, saying sensitive documents of CBI and ED had
been referred to when Swamy
spoke in the House on
Wednesday. The House “must
know how an honourable
member or rather less honourable member” was given
access to sensitive and secret
files, which he has refused to
authenticate and place on the
table of the House, Sharma said.
Deputy Chairman PJ
Kurien said the Rule will take
its own course if Swamy had not
complied with his ruling that all
documents he was quoting
must be authenticated by him
and placed on the table of the
House. “It (the ruling) has to be
complied with... That has to be
complied with,” Kurien said.
As Congress members
protested, Minister of State for
Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar
Abbas Naqvi said Swamy had
authenticated and placed on
the table of the House the
documents he had quoted.
Swamy has taken care of the
issue, Naqvi said.
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necessitated in the wake of a
recent Milan court order
which had sentenced Italian
defence and aerospace major
Finmeccanica’s former chief
Giuseppe Orsi and the former
CEO of the firm Bruno
Spagnolini on corruption
charges in the sale of a dozen
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to India. Tyagi’s name cropped
up at several points in the
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across party lines, including
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Thursday
asked
the
Government to make stringent
laws to check the menace food
adulteration that is leading to
dangerous diseases like cancer.
During the Zero Hour,
Naresh Agrawal (SP) raised the
issue of growing menace of
adulteration in food products
including essential items such as
milk, as also in fruits and vegetables. “It is a very serious issue.
There are growing cases of liver
and heart diseases as well as cancer and the reason for this is
food adulteration. The current
laws are not very strict to check
this menace,” he added.
Agrawal said there are
reports of plastic rice imported from China being mixed in
rice and sold in the market as
well as synthetic milk being
sold in the national Capital.
Deputy Chairman PJ
Kurien supported the issue
saying that there was a rise in
cancer cases and the reason for
this adulteration in food items.
“It is a very, very serious matter. Report it to the Minister
concerned and come out with
a legislation which has more
teeth,” Kurien said.
In its report on the
Consumer Protection Bill 2015
tabled in Parliament last month,
a Parliamentary Standing
Committee suggested legal
teeth to advertising watchdog
ASCI to curb misleading advertisements and proposing severe
penalties, imprisonment and
cancellation of licenses of those
involved in food adulteration.
According to a report on
public laboratories released by
FSSAI in December last year,
every fifth sample of food items
tested by public food safety labs
have been found “adulterated
and misbranded”, with maximum cases in UP followed by
Punjab and Madhya Pradesh.
Rajya Sabha who expressed concern over the developments in
Central universities like JNU,
Hyderabad University and now
Allahabad University and regretted that educational institutions
have become political arena,
which needs to be stopped.
As the House took up discussion on functioning of HRD
Ministry, members also voiced
concern over the quality of
education, saying it is deteriorating. Samajwadi Party member Naresh Agrawal alleged
that students are being targeted
in Central universities and vice
chancellors are being used for it.
“This has never happened
before that Vice Chancellors of
Central universities are being
used to target students. This has
happened in JNU, Hyderabad
and now in Allahabad. This is
a wrong precedent and needs to
be checked,” he said and asked
Why such incidents are hap-
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Agarwal claimed that an
RSS leader is said to be running
the organisations such as
AICTE, which drew strong
reaction from the BJP members. Deputy Chairman PJ
Kurien said allegations cannot
be levelled against a person
who is not present in the
House. At this, Agrawal asked,
“Then why were names and
allegations levelled in the
House on AgustaWestland?”.
Taking a dig at HRD
Minister Smriti Irani, Agarwal
said, “There is a debate over the
degree of HRD Minister, but
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Prabhat Jha of the BJP
however countered the
Opposition members asking
them to “cooperate and contribute” and not to politicise the
issue. Sharing about the steps
taken in education sector, Jha
said the Government is coming
out with new National
Education Policy, which will
change the sector in a big way.
Earlier during the Zero
Hour, Tapan Kumar Sen of CPI
(M) raised the issue of lathicharge on students in
Allahabad University on May 2
in which agitating students
were “brutally beaten” and several were injured.
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New Delhi: Members of
Parliament are not “super citizens”, Civil Aviation Minister
Ashok Gajapati Raju said in the
Lok Sabha on Thursday when
a BJP member demanded that
they be given a “little priority”
at airports.
Responding to a series of
supplementaries during
Question Hour, the Minister
said MPs are treated with
respect and his Ministry will do
everything “practically possible” to make their air travel
more comfortable. “But MPs
are not super citizens,” he said
responding to a demand by a
BJP member that they be given
a “little priority” at airports.
The member said ground
staff of private airlines do not
recognise the MPs and even
when they display their identity cards, they are offered little assistance at airports.
Countering him, Raju said
MPs are recognised at airports as
most of them are members of
airport committees.
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many parts of East Midnapore,
Thursday’s sixth and final
phase of Bengal Assembly elections passed off near-peacefully save for some sporadic incidents of violence.
The 25 constituencies —
nine in Coochbehar and 16 in
East Midnapore — that went to
polls recorded an average 84.24
per cent polling by 5 pm.
While Coochbehar recorded 82.71 per cent, the figure for
East Midnapore was 85.09 per
cent, Chief Electoral Officer
Sunil Kumar Gupta said.
In 2011 these districts
recorded 85.66 and 90.07 per
cent polling respectively.
While two presiding officers were removed, FIRs were
filed against two Trinamool
Congress candidates for creating disturbance and threatening Election Commission (EC)
officials. The candidates proceeded
against
are
Rabindranath Ghosh of
Natabari and Udayan Guha of
Dinhata, sources said adding
the police and the CRPF once
again did a good job to keep
trouble-mongers at bay.
The Central forces lathicharged illegal gatherings at
booths at Toofanganj, Sitalkuchi,
Haldia, Khejuri sources said. At
Panshkura in East Midnapore
the police and the Central forces
ferried terrified voters by buses
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to polling booths.
Though most number of —
about 1,500 — complaints
lodged with the EC by 3 pm
came from Coochbehar, an
undercurrent of terror tended
to prevail in large parts of East
Midnapore
including
Nandigram,
Khejuri,
Bhagwanpur and Panshkura,
police sources said, adding
despite repeated cajoling the
voters refused to come out to
vote as they feared post-poll
violence and arson as threatened by the Trinamool
Congress.
“TMC goons would come
at midnight and threaten us.
They would tell us not to vote,”
said some locals who dared to
ignore the warnings. Most of
the others remained indoors.
“How can we vote. The CRPF
will go away tomorrow. Who
will protect us from the goons
who will torch our houses,
snatch our women and shoot
our men,” wondered an old
woman from Bhagwanpore.
CPI(M) State secretary
Suryakanta Mishra told The
Pioneer, “We could not provide
polling agents in 135 booths at
Nandigram, 72 booths at
Khejuri, 62 booths at
Bhagwanpur and 25 booths at
Patashpur. In the remaining
parts of East Midnapore our
polling agents were driven away
by TMC men from 331 booths.
However, by and large the
polling was peaceful.”
There are 4,298 booths in
East Midnapore and 2,467
booths in Coochbehar where
about 59 booths were captured,
sources alleged.
The high percentage of
polling in these areas was
attributed by the Opposition to
rampant rigging in the absence
of genuine voters and rival
agents, Opposition parties
claimed. Both Mishra and PCC
president Adhir Chowdhury
claimed the Congress-Left
alliance was coming to power
while Trinamool’s Mukul Roy
said his party was all set to form
the “second Government.”
Meanwhile, the post-poll
violence continued in various
parts of the State. The first
report
came
from
Murshidabad where a
Trinamool Congress district
general secretary Bapi Sarkar
was shot. He was rushed to
Kolkata in a critical condition.
While TMC blamed the
Congress for the incident the
latter said the incident was a
product of intra-party clash.
Two Congress workers
were shot at in Malda by
alleged Trinamool men,
sources said. Both were admitted to Malda Medical College
and Hospital. Trinamool goons
threw bombs at the house of a
former CPI(M) MLA at Behala
in Kolkata, police said.
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has entered a high pitch
mode with the DMK-Congress’
joint election campaign
unleashing a no-holds-barred
attack on the Modi
Government at the Centre and
the
ruling
AIADMK
Government in the State.
Congress president Sonia
Gandhi, who shared the stage
with DMK chief M
Karunanidhi in a joint election
rally at Chennai on Thursday
blamed the AIADMK
Government of inefficiency
and misrule. “Development of
Tamil Nadu has come to a
standstill since 2011. Farmers
in the State are forced to commit suicide due to a number of
reasons arising out of the failure of the State Government,”
charged Sonia while addressing
a well-attended election rally at
the famous Island Grounds in
Chennai.
Praising the Karunanidhiled Government which ruled
the State during 2006 to 2011,
Sonia said Tamil Nadu was one
of the fast-growing States in the
country under the DMK dispensation. “Every day we saw
the opening of a new factory in
the State. Many industries set
up manufacturing facilities in
the State during the five years
of the DMK rule. But after 2011
what we saw was the closure of
all the factories and the industrialists leaving for neighbouring States for a host of reasons,”
she said. Sonia said thousands
of educated youth have ended
up as unemployed because of
the closure of the industrial
units.
Sonia said Chief Minister
Jayalalithaa was forced to shift
her stance on prohibition following the firm and uncompromising position of the
Congress and the DMK in
their demand for prohibition in
the State. “Our commitment is
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account in the Tamil Nadu
T
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for the welfare of the weaker
sections, minorities and the
downtrodden. We do not make
any tall promises but we take
our manifestos seriously,” she
said. What was unique about
Sonia’s speech was that she did
not mention the name of
Jayalalithaa even once in her
short but sharp speech.
Sonia
blamed
the
AIADMK Government for
amending the Land Acquisition
Law enacted by the UPA
Government. “Because of the
amendment introduced by the
AIADMK Government, Tamil
Nadu farmers are at a disadvantage. Their land could be
taken over by the Government
without their permission and
they stand to lose the fair compensation,” she said.
The Congress president
blasted the Modi Government
at the Centre for its scant
regard to the interests of the
fishermen from Tamil Nadu.
“While the fishermen from
Tamil Nadu are kidnapped and
their boats are seized, the Modi
Government is allowing foreigners to fish in Indian seas,”
she charged.
Karunanidhi in his speech
said that the DMK and
Congress has been natural
allies since the days of late
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
who had a special affection for
the State. “Ours is an alliance
for the welfare and progress of
the people. We only can provide a corruption-free and
transparent Government,” said
Karunanidhi.
tion, intensified its onslaught
on the ruling AIADMK and
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on
Thursday. P Muraleedhar Rao,
the national secretary incharge of Tamil Nadu BJP
challenged Jayalalithaa to a
debate on her claims that the
State turned power surplus
during her regime.
Addressing the media
after a sumptuous lunch in a
hotel in the city, Rao challenged Chief Minister
Jayalalithaa to come out with
figures, like the number of
power connections given by
her Government and the
number of power connections surrendered by the people during the last three years.
Rao was upset that the
AIADMK supremo has been
ignoring all criticism levelled
against her by the BJP leadership. “Madam Jayalalithaa,
you can ignore BJP but you
cannot ignore the people of
Tamil Nadu. The BJP has
taken this election campaign
seriously and we have big
ambitions for Tamil Nadu,”
thundered Rao.
He said a big vacuum was
emerging in Tamil Nadu politics because of the failure of
both the Dravidian majors.
“The only political party in
the country which can fill this
vacuum in Tamil Nadu is the
BJP. We are building upon the
political and leadership infrastructure established by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi at
the national level. Modi has
created a mobilisation capacity for the BJP and this would
be proved in the ensuing elections,” said Rao.
The BJP leader said the
rallies to be addressed by
Prime Minister Modi in
Chennai, Hosur, Kanyakumari
in the next two days would be
a game changer in Tamil Nadu
politics. “All national leaders
of the BJP are going to
criss-cross the State of Tamil
Nadu in the coming week
and this will ensure a big
majority for the party in the
State,” said Rao.
ith just ten days remainW
ing for the crucial Kerala
Assembly election, BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday
opened the party-led NDA’s
week-long mega campaign
with scathing attacks against
the Congress-led ruling UDF
and CPI(M)-led Opposition
LDF. Shah reached Kerala 24
hours ahead of the arrival of
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
for the election campaign.
“We are activists of the BJP.
We don’t keep hidden agendas.
We have only one agenda and
it is clear. It is to defeat both the
UDF and the LDF,” Shah said
while inaugurating a BJP-NDA
election rally in Ranni,
Pathanamthitta district, in
response to the allegation of a
secret understanding between
his party and both the fronts.
Giving a clear message that
the BJP was contesting the
Kerala polls this time not just
to ‘open its account’, Shah said,
“Kerala too has realised that the
BJP should come to power for
ensuring equal justice… The
people have understood the
hypocrisy of the Congress and
the Left.” Shah had four election programmes in the State
on Thursday.
He said that the Congress’s
MLAs and MPs were corrupt
just like the Kerala Chief
Minister and his Ministers. It
had been established through
the AgustaWestland chopper
deal that even former Defence
Minister AK Antony, Congress
Working Committee member,
was not exempt from this, the
BJP president alleged.
“Antony should say at
whose behest changes were
made in the agreement. Why
were the field trials of the helicopter shifted abroad? …
Antony is saying that secularism in Kerala will suffer if the
BJP wins. Our party is in power
in several States but there are no
communal problems in any of
these States,” Shah said.
“Law and order has col-
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lapsed in Kerala. Two Dalit students were raped and one of
them was brutally murdered.
So many days have passed
since the heinous murder but
the police have so far not been
able to nab the culprits. The
Chief Minister of the State
owes an explanation to the
people in this regard,” the BJP
chief said at another rally in
Kanjirappally constituency.
Meanwhile, elaborate
arrangements have been made
in Palakkad where Prime
Minister Modi is scheduled to
address an election rally on
Friday afternoon, the first of his
programmes in Kerala. About
a lakh BJP workers are expected to take part in the rally at
which all the 12 BJP-NDA
candidates from the district will
be present.
Reports from Delhi said
that Modi might visit the mother of the 29-year-old Dalit law
student who was brutally raped
and murdered on April 28
when he arrives in Kerala for
election programmes on May
11. He might also visit the
house of the victim at Iringole,
Perumbavoor where she was
killed, it is said.
Several other senior BJP
leaders including Home
Minister Rajnath Singh,
Venkaiah Naidu and Smriti
Irani will be addressing BJPNDA election rallies across
Kerala in the coming days.
Earlier, Union Ministers JP
Nadda and Rajiv Pratap Rudy
had supervised the ground
works for the party’s election
programmes by camping in
Kerala.
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n the lexicon of Congress
president Sonia Gandhi,
there is nobody by the name of
Lal Bahadur Shastri and PV
Narasimha Rao. While
addressing an election rally at
Puducherry on Thursday,
Sonia Gandhi chose not to
mention the names of Lal
Bahadur Shastri and PV
Narasimha Rao, the most pop-
ular Congress Prime Ministers
of the country.
She claimed that her mother-in-law Indira Gandhi, who
was the Prime Minister of
India, had dreamt of establishing smart cities in the
country much before the present ruling dispensation at the
Centre thought of the concept.
The Congress chief came down
heavily on the BJP, the All India
NR Congress and the
AIADMK for spoiling and
derailing the good works done
by the previous Congress
Governments at the Centre for
the progress of Puducherry.
Sonia Gandhi said late
Prime Ministers Jawaharlal
Nehru, Indira Gandhi and
Rajiv Gandhi had special interest in the economic and social
development of Puducherry.
“The previous Government
led by Manmohan Singh took
extra care in successfully
implementing and executing
all Central Government-sponsored schemes in the Union
Territory. But the present
Government led by the AINRC
at Puducherry and the Union
Government led by the BJP has
been ignoring all welfare measures and development of
Puducherry has come to a
standstill,” said Sonia Gandhi.
The Congress president, while
giving credits to Jawaharlal
Nehru, Indira Gandhi,and
Rajiv Gandhi did not mention
the names of former Prime
Ministers Lalbahadur Shastri
and PV Narasimha Rao even
once.
She blamed the BJP
Government at the Centre for
not granting any schemes or
projects for Puducherry. “All
women self help groups
launched by the Congress
Government in the union territory arr dead. Fishermen and
farmers are suffering because
of the BJP Government at the
Centre. The AINRC is an
opportunistic party. It had no
qualms in joining hands with
the BJP and the AIADMK
much to the anguish of the
people of Puducherry,” charged
the Congress president.
She also blamed the Union
Government for ignoring the
woes of the people of
Puducherry which suffered
heavily during the December
floods.
“The
Modi
Government at the Centre is
insensitive to the problems
faced by the people of
Puducherry. I am shocked that
the Union Government has not
brought any new railway
schemes to Puducherry during
the last two years,” said Sonia
Gandhi.
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ith the Union Minister of
State for Finance Jayant
Sinha also ruling out special
status or more funds for
Andhra Pradesh, politics over
the issue has heated up, with
Leader of Opposition YS
Jaganmohan Reddy announcing State-wide protests on
May 10.
After Union Minister of
State Haribhai Chaudhary’s
statement against special status
to Andhra, Jayant Sinha’s fresh
statement in Parliament has
added to the political woes of
Chief Minister Chandrababu
Naidu and his Telugu Desam
Party.
Speaking at a function in
Vizianagaram on Thursday the
Chief Minister said the State
was still facing serious problems because of the bifurcation.
“The Center’s help is a must to
make the State’s economy stand
on its own feet”, he said. Naidu
pointed out that despite a revenue deficit, the State had
spent C23,500 crore on waiving
farmers’ loan.
Breathing down Naidu’s
neck, Opposition leader
Jaganmohan Reddy has gone
on the offensive against the
Naidu Government. He will
lead the party’s protest in East
Godavari district while other
senior party leaders will participate in other districts.
“Jayanth Sinha’s statement
on special status has clarity that
it is not going to happen”, said
senior YSRCP leader Botsa
Satyanarayana.
He held the State
Government’s failure in mounting pressure on the Centre for
the situation.
Another party spokesperson Ambati Rambabu
demanded that the TDP should
withdraw its Ministers from
NDA Government.
Not to be left behind the
Congress Party has also joined
the issue and organised protests
at different places in the State.
Party
senior
leader
Shailajanath, who led the
demonstration in Anantapur
said that special status was the
right of Andhra Pradesh and
the Centre will have to give it.
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between the Chief Ministers
T
of Telangana and Andhra
Pradesh K Chandrasekhar Rao
and N Chandrababu Naidu has
been soured again by the fresh
controversy over sharing of river
waters.
The two Chief Ministers,
who had publicly patted each
other on various occasions and
shared the platforms at major
events over the last one year
have resumed tongue lashing
aimed at their respective vote
banks rather than each other.
K Chandrasekhar Rao has
warned his AP counterpart
against waking up “Telangana
Tiger”.
“I am warning Andhra
leaders that for your petty politics don’t irritate or wake up
Telagnana tiger”, KCR said at a
function held to welcome the
YSR Congress Party MP P
Srinivas Reddy and MLA P
Venkateshwarulu in to his
party’s fold.
KCR warned that if Andhra
leaders rake up unnecessary
controversy over Telangana
projects, he will not keep quiet.
“We will give reply to brickbats
with stones”, he said.
He targeted both the Chief
Minister Naidu and leader of
Opposition in AP Assemly YS
Jaganmohan Reddy. “They are
using people of Telangana and
enacting a drama to harm the
interest of our State”, he said
adding that he will not keep
quiet over such antics.
Chandrababu Naidu on
the other hand fumed over
Telangana taking up projects
on river Krishna saying this
projects will create a major in
delta region of coastal Andhra.
He ruled out any compromise on AP’s share of water.
“We don’t have any objection
on Telangana drawing its share
of water. But Andhra Pradesh
should get its own share of
waters”, Naidu said.
Naidu said that earlier
Krishna water was coming to
Andhra Pradesh after passing
through two upper riparian
States but after formation of
Telangana, the water has to
cross three states. “As per the
orders of the Tribunal, AP
should get 1,000 tmc ft of
water but it got only 65 tmc ft
of water”, he said.
“Telangana CM is talking
loosely. It is not correct”, Naidu
said.
The issue has erupted in a
full fledge war of words at a time
when Telangana was pressing
ahead with Palamuru-Ranga
Reddy irrigation project over
river Krishna and AP’s leader of
Opposition Jaganmohan Reddy
was planning to go on a three
day hunger strike in Kurnool in
the middle of this month.
While Telangana irrigation
minister T Harish Rao suggested talks between the two States
to thrash out the issue, his AP
counter D Umamaheshwara
Rao has rejected it.
Umamaheshwara Rao said that
Telangana had taken up the
Palamuru-Ranga Reddy project
and Dindi project in violation of
AP state reorganization act.
Harish Rao wanted to talk
about AP farmers creating problems in the works on
Rajolibanda Diversion Scheme
between Kurnool and
Mehbubnagar districts.
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youngsters Keenan Santos
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and Reuben Fernandez were
brutally stabbed to death when
they resisted some eve-teasers’
attempt to molest their girl
friends near a restaurant at
Andheri in north Mumbai, a
special court on Thursday convicted all the four accused and
sentenced them to life imprisonment till their death.
Additional Sessions Judge
Vrushali Joshi, who presides
over a special women’s court in
Mumbai, held Jitendra Rane
(29), Satish Dulhaj (39), Sunil
Bodh (24) and Deepak Tival
(23) guilty of murder, outraging the modesty of women and
other charges of the Indian
Penal Code (IPC) and awarded them life imprisonment till
their death.
The family members of
Keenan and Reuben had not
pressed for capital punishment, but had rooted for a full
life term in jail.
Talking to media persons
outside the court, Special
Public Prosecutor Ujjwal
Nikam said that all charges of
the prosecution were proved in
the case, but ‘It is not a rarest
of the rare case’.
“There is direct evidence to
show that the accused were
eve-teasing and molesting girls
when the victims tried to stop
it. This is a pre-determined
murder and the accused had
even threatened them with
their life and had come back
with weapons to attack them
after some time….the evidence
of the two girls bolstered the
case”, Nikam said.
Describing the verdict as
“victory for all”, Keenen’s father
Valerian Santos said, “Today all
I can say is that the verdict is a
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victory for all. This victory is
not mine, this is Keenan’s and
Reuben’s victory which I have
been hoping to give them as a
present. Keenen’s birthday has
gone in March, I had hoped to
gift him this”
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has granted life imprisonment
to them. I am also happy that
the molestation section
(charge) was also applied,”
Valerian said.
Describing the four convicts as termites, Valerian said,
“I call the killers as terminates.
Like termites spoil furniture,
these termites have spoiled the
lives of girls and women. These
termites should not be let loose
in the society. Today, pest control has been done on these
people”
The incident took place
between 2200 hrs and 2230 hrs
on October 20, 2011, when a
group of seven youngsters
—including Keenan (25),
Reuben (27) and their girl
friends — had gone to party
and watch on television a oneday international cricket match
between India-England at
Amboli Bar and Kitchen, a barcum-restaurant at Amboli in
north-Mumbai.
After the match the group
stopped by at a paan shop just
outside the restaurant, where
four men led by Jitendra Rana
began passing lewd comments
against the women in the
group.
Keenan and Reuben confronted Rana and his friends
and managed to drive them
away. However, minutes later,
Rana returned with a group.
Before long, Keenan was
stabbed in the abdomen, while
Reuben was beaten with bamboo sticks and stabbed. Both
Keenan and Reuben bravely
resisted the attack on them.
No help was forthcoming
for the two youngsters from
onlookers and passers-by. Even
the staff of the restaurant where
the two youngsters had partied
along with other members of
their group, did not come to the
rescue of the duo.
The badly injured Keenan
and Reuben were rushed to the
nearby Kokilaben Dhirubhai
Ambani Hospital. While
Keenan died on his way to the
hospital, Reuben succumbed to
injuries on October 31. While
Keenan was a bar tender in a
five-star hotel, Reuben was
unemployed.
All the four accused were
arrested by the Amboli police
a day after the incident.
On January 16, 2012, the
Amboli police filed a 416 page
charge-sheet in the KeenanReuben double murder case, in
the Andheri Metropolitan
Magistrate’s court.
There were in all 21 witnesses in the case, including
Keenan’s girl friend and other
friend present at the crime
site on the night of the incident.
Ahead of the filing of chargesheet, the police had recorded
the statements of all the 21 witnesses in the case.
The case was committed to
a fast-track trial sessions court
of Judge NP Dalvi at Sewri on
February 29, 2012.
On October 23, 2012, a
Sewri sessions court framed
charges against the four
accused — Jitendra, Satish,
Sunil and Deepak (19) — for
murder, criminal conspiracy
and molestation.
During the trial, the
Prosecution examined as many
as 245 witnesses.
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have claimed that the
IGoanpolice
MLA Atanasio alias
Babush Monserrate, who has
been accused of allegedly raping a minor girl, had ‘purchased’ the victim from her
aunt and an accomplice, before
allegedly committing the rape
after drugging the victim in
March this year.
The disclosure by the police,
in form of a Press statement,
came a short while after
Monserrate surrendered to the
Crime Branch on Thursday afternoon. Chief Minister Laxmikant
Parsekar has called the accusations against Monserrate, an
unattached legislator in the Goa
legislative Assembly, as serious
and meriting a thorough probe
by the police.
The summar y of the
offence emailed to journalists
on Thursday by the Goa Police,
said that the minor girl was
“delivered” to the accused
Babush “for sexual exploitation
for consideration of C50 lakh
and in furtherance Babush
wrongfully confined her
administered her stupefying
substance and had sexual intercourse with her without her
consent and all the accused
abetted the illegal act on the
complainant”.
Medical examination of
the victim which was conducted late on Wednesday has
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also confirmed rape.
Earlier in the day, the
beleaguered Monserrate, a former education Minister surrendered before the Crime
Branch on Thursday afternoon, less than 24 hours after
he was named in the FIR filed
by the victim.
Speaking to reporters just
before he surrendered to Crime
Branch officials, Monserrate
said he was innocent and that
he had been framed.
“This is a conspiracy against
me. I have been framed. I have
nothing to do with the charges
leveled against me,” Monserrate
said. Monserrate was accompanied by his wife Jennifer, who is
a Congress MLA and his supporters when he surrendered to
the Crime Branch, which is
probing the case.
Monserrate was arrested
minutes after his surrender.
According
to
Superintendent of Police
(Crime) Karthik Kashyap,
Monserrate has been under
sections 342 (wrongful confinement), 328 (causing hurt),
370 (detaining against will),
376 (rape) and relevant sections
of the Protection of Children
from Sexual Offences Act and
the Goa Children’s Act.
Speaking to reporters after
the formal arrest Kashyap said:
“We have strong evidence
against Babush for raping the
minor girl. We have collected
digital, circumstantial and
forensic evidence too,” Kashyap
said.
Goa Chief Minister
Laxmikant Parsekar has also
termed the accusations against
Monserrate as serious and said
that only a thorough police
probe would bring the truth
out in the open.
“I feel the police need to figure out genuineness of the case.
Let investigation get completed.
Police have been asked to do in
depth investigation. I have
been given to understand that
the incident did not occur today
or yesterday. It happened weeks
ago. Therefore, it needs to be
investigated properly because he
is a public figure,” Parsekar told
reporters in Panaji.
Monserrate is elected to the
St. Cruz constituency in North
Goa on a Congress ticket, but
was subsequently ousted from
the party because of his proximity to the Bharatiya Janata
Party leadership.
In the past, Monserrate
has been booked for extortion
as well as money laundering.
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T
he Kerala Police continued
their struggle to identify and
nab the culprit behind the brutal rape and murder of a 29-yearold Dalit law student in
Perumbavoor near Kochi for the
eighth consecutive day,
Thursday. The poor Dalit
woman was raped and murdered
at her small house in Iringole,
Perumbavoor on April 28.
Despite the claims by the
police top brass that crucial
leads had been collected about
the culprit and that a confirmation could be made by late
Thursday night, members of the
special investigation team could
be seen holding inspections in
places adjoining the victim’s
house, suggesting that they
could be still groping in the dark.
Sources said that the police
had now come to the conclusion that the culprit was a person who had been an acquaintance of the victim earlier. The
investigators had put under
surveillance some workers who
had been involved in the construction of the victim’s house
and those who had worked
with her earlier at a hospital in
Perumbavoor.
“There are clear leads. We
are examining them… We are
at work,” said Inspector General
of Police Mahipal Yadav heading the probe team on Thursday.
Director General of Police TP
Senkumar, who said that the
probe team was constituted
with efficient officials, was
expected to reach Perumbavoor
late Thursday night.
The probe had so far been
centered mainly around a
youth, a resident of the victim’s
village, since his detention from
Kannur on Tuesday but the
police were unable to find any
conclusive evidence for his role
till Thursday evening. Also,
the interrogation of a relative of
the victim and another person
failed to produce any results.
In this context, the probe
team which was expanded the
other day, started inspections at
the camps of the migrant work-
ers in the area. The police also
began collecting information
from the neighbourhood on the
basis of a statement that somebody had heard loud noises of
arguments from the victim’s
house on the day of the incident.
Meanwhile, the pressure on
the police mounted as more dignitaries from the Centre arrived
in Perumbavoor to assess the situation and expressed unhappiness over the progress of the
probe. Those who visited
Perumbavoor on Thursday
included National Women’s
Commission chairperson
Lalitha Kumaramangalam.
“It (the probe) has taken
very long. Even now they haven’t
been able to identify the culprit,”
said Kumaramangalam after
visiting the victim’s mother at the
Taluk Hospital in Perumbavoor.
“I will meet the DGP personally. There seem to be several
angles to this. I am requesting
the local people to cooperate
with the probe,” she said.
After visiting the place on
Thursday morning, Union
Social Justice Minister
Tawarchand Gehlot said that he
would report on the matter to
the Rajya Sabha on Friday. “I
have to make my report to
Parliament, the Rajya Sabha. I
cannot make any disclosures on
it now,” he added. Gehlot had
decided to visit the State after
the issue was discussed in the
Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
In the meantime, a preliminary inquiry by the Principal,
Government Medical College,
Alappuzha found that serious
flaws had been committed by
the Forensic Department of the
college in the procedures of
autopsy of the body of the law
student. The inquiry report said
that the required seriousness was
not shown in the procedure.
An associate professor
should be present at the autopsy throughout the procedure as
per norms but this norm had
not been adhered to in this
case, the report said. It is said
that the autopsy was carried out
by post-graduate students of
the Alappuzha medical college.
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Shah Thursday announced a
three member committee of
party MPs that will visit
Perumbavoor and Varkala in
Kerala witnessing “shocking
and unfortunate incidents “
relating to Dalit women.
According to the party, the
committee includes three BJP
MPs- Meenakshi Lekhi, Arjun
Ram Meghwal and Udit Raj.
The committee will visit relatives of the victims from May
7 to May 9 and submit a report
to the party president.
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K
erala’s nonagenarian
Opposition Leader VS
Achuthanandan had the other
day reflected the fury of the
entire State over the brutal
rape and murder of a 29year-old poor Dalit law student of Perumbavoor near
Kochi but it would be interesting to recall how he, as then
chief minister, had taken an
allegedly negative stand over
the agitation by thousands of
Dalits in the Chengara hills
seven years back for land to
live on.
This is not the only example of the insensitivity shown
towards the woes of and atrocities committed against the
poor Dalits of Kerala, touted
as the most socially emancipated State of India, but it was
obvious in the approach of the
local people and people’s representatives in the case of the
Perumbavoor
incident,
according to Dalit activists.
It is pointed out that it
took four long days for the
police to show at least some
seriousness towards a crime of
such dimensions and magnitude mainly because of the
lack of sensitivity of the people living near the small, insecure house of the victim inside
which she was brutally raped
and murdered in broad daylight.
Dalit activists, sociologists
and psychologists term as irresponsible and insensitive the
behavior of the people in the
entire locality in maintaining
for four days that they had not
heard any cry, sound or commotion from the victim’s small
house, the widows of which
cannot be closed, in that late
afternoon when she was raped,
beaten and killed brutally.
“That silence of the local
people was not entirely innocent especially when one considers the fact that the victim
and her mother were living in
total isolation from the neighbours and that they had been
facing threats from people in
that very locality. It is in such
situations we tend to doubt the
very concept of human trust,”
said a journalist specializing in
Dalit issues.
She criticized the reports
that neighbours were refusing
to mingle with the victim’s
family because her mother
had some mental problems.
“From what we have seen
about that mother in the past
four days, it is certain that this
was a theory built by those
who did not like her and her
daughter, may be simply
because they were Dalits” she
said.
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T
he Nuclear Security
Summit held by US
President Barack Obama
in Washington last
month saw a number of
world leaders come together to discuss steps that should be taken to
reduce the threat of nuclear
weapons from conventional war as
well as terrorist action. President
Obama, while addressing more
than 50 world leaders present at the
summit, said, “The danger of a terrorist group obtaining and using a
nuclear weapon is one of the greatest threats to global security”. He
further stated that while no terrorist has yet gained possession of a
“dirty bomb” made of radioactive
materials, such terrorists pose a persistent and evolving threat. He
referred to the fact that the Islamic
State has used chemical weapons,
including mustard gas, in Syria and
Iraq, and, therefore, the use of
nuclear weapons was a distinct possibility. Obama further stated that
“there is no doubt that if these madmen ever got their hands on a
nuclear bomb or nuclear material
it is certainly that they will use it to
kill innocent”.
The truth is that overall, the
world has done very little to reduce
the threat of destruction from
nuclear weapons despite statements
by world leaders focusing on this
threat seeking to eliminate it. An
article in The Guardian, published
in June 2015, mentioned that the
latest Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty Review Conference did not
make waves and there was hardly
a word about it in the mainstream
media. According to The Guardian,
the official nuclear-armed states,
that is the US, the UK, Russia,
China and France, are estimated to
possess about 15,650 nuclear
weapons, with the vast majority
owned by the US and Russia. This
huge arsenal of nuclear weapons is
enough to blow up this planet several times over and to destroy life
of every kind both on land as well
as in the oceans. It is ironic that
more than 25 years after the end of
the cold war, the reduction in the
total stockpile of nuclear weapons
across the globe remains low.
While the Washington Summit
of April did not produce any tangible agreement or plan of action by
which the world could reduce the
risk of nuclear danger, what was
particularly heartening was the
statement delivered on the occasion
by the President of Kazakhstan,
Nursultan Nazarbayev. Nazarbayev
made a strong plea to reduce the
threat of war on a global scale and
outlined a programme for ensuring
that the 21st century is a world with-
out wars. His proposal involved several steps which need to be accepted and implemented with a sense
of urgency.
The first of these involves gradual progress towards a world free of
nuclear and other weapons of mass
destruction. Second, he recommended that we must build on and
expand existing geographical initiatives to gradually eliminate war as
a way of life. Third, he stated that
it is necessary to eliminate such
relics of the cold war as military
blocs, because these threaten global security and impede broader
international cooperation. His
fourth recommendation was to
adapt the international disarmament process to the new historic
conditions. For instance, he felt that
we need a new strategy for the UN
Conference on Disarmament. His
fifth suggestion was that a world
without war requires primarily fair
global competition in international trade, finance, and development.
A world full of inequality and systems biased in favour of the rich
and powerful will only create conditions that enhance the risks of
nuclear devices being used for
mass
destruction
and
economic domination.
In 2001, former media mogul
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established an organisation called
the Nuclear Threat Initiative, which
has been monitoring global developments on the threat that the
world faces from nuclear weapons
and materials. NTI has carried out
a very useful analysis of the Nuclear
Security Summit convened by
Obama, and in its progress report
it points out that 83 per cent of
global stocks of weapons — usable
nuclear materials are military materials, and, therefore, outside international mechanisms. While the
summit re-affirmed the fundamental responsibility of states to
maintain effective security of all
nuclear and other radioactive material, it did not take additional
steps to address the security of the
83 per cent component of global
stocks which are under military
control. Incidentally, at the summit,
Pakistan’s national statement noted
that it has secured nuclear materials and all related facilities in all
places, which can be interpreted as
including military nuclear materials. However, this whole area
remains a major gap in the
global system.
Undoubtedly, one of the major
achievements of successive Nuclear
Summits has been the high level of
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political attention that these events
have created on the subject of
nuclear security. However, it is
essential to sustain this high-level
attention, so that a successful and
effective global nuclear security
system can be created worldwide,
there by eliminating the threat of
damage and destruction from
nuclear devices.
The United Nations General
Assembly voted in December, 2015
to establish a special working group
which was provided with a mandate
to develop “legal measures, legal
provisions and norms” for achieving a nuclear-weapon-free world.
This so-called Open-Ended
Working Group held its first session
in February. As expected, there were
sharp divisions between various
countries during their discussions.
Several delegations, including those
of Brazil and Indonesia put forward
the view that a total ban treaty is the
most logical next step since it can
be negotiated now even without the
support of the nuclear weapon
states which have boycotted this
open-ended working group. The
next session is taking place now in
Geneva, where it is expected that
several states will call for a nuclear
weapons ban.
The danger from nuclear
weapons can be minimised or
eliminated only if there is a distinct
change in human intentions and
actions that eliminates the threat
of war completely. It is noteworthy
that Nazarbayev took the determined step of removing nuclear
devices from his country’s territory and terminate all nuclear tests
immediately after the break-up of
the Soviet Union. In fact, the UN
General Assembly resolution on
the universal declaration for the
achievement of a nuclear-weaponsfree world was put forward
by Kazakhstan.
Technology now has raised
the extent of the damage that is possible from today’s weapons of mass
destruction. War is, therefore, not
an option for settlement of disputes,
and legal as well as peaceful systems
need to be established, which
ensure the total elimination of war.
At the same time, efforts to ban
nuclear weapons and a process by
which these can be systematically
eliminated, acquire urgency. As
the OEWG meets in Geneva, delegations should keep in focus the
essential goal of a 21st century in
which wars are eliminated totally.
That will also support a total ban on
nuclear weapons and material
across the globe. India should take
a proactive approach
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Sir — This refers to the report,
“Nirbhaya rerun in Kerala: Law student raped, killed brutally” (May 3).
Once the most literate State in India,
Kerala is now witnessing incidents
of rape, violence and murder. The
recent incident of rape and murder
of a law student from Kerala bears
a striking resemblance to the
Nirbhaya rape case in Delhi.
However, if the Dalit woman
belonged to a rich and wealthy family, police action and the
Government’s intervention would
have been rapid and expeditious.
Nimai Charan Swain
Bhubaneswar
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“Cleaning medical mess” (May 4).
The Supreme Court’s directive to set
up an Oversight Committee to
monitor the Medical Council of
India will set a strong precedent that
can hopefully usher in the muchneeded change in medical education and practice in India.
Since the new regulatory mechanism will take time to come to
force, the Oversight Committee can
maintain a tight vigil on the policy
matters and overall functioning of
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the colleges, which will only be the
first of a series of measures that need
to be taken to overhaul the state of
medical education in India.
Isha Shah
New Delhi
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Sir — This refers to news reports
about a ‘composite floor test’ for the
Uttarakhand Assembly, as was
directed by the apex court in 2005
in Jharkhand. The procedure for
selection/removal of a Chief
Minister should be in tune with the
Supreme Court’s verdict of the
Uttar Pradesh Government (Kalyan
Singh vs Jagdambika Pal), where the
State Assembly elected a Chief
Minister through secret voting on
the floor of the House.
A system should be formulated in which the Chief Minister may
be simultaneously elected with
Speakers and Deputy Speakers by
secret and compulsory voting on
nominations signed by at least 34
per cent of members of the lower
House through EVMs.
Members not participating in
such a democratic process should
lose the voting right, while retaining the membership of the House.
Such elected persons may only be
removed by the same process, but
with the compulsion of naming an
alternate nominee in the same
motion. Voting on any such noconfidence motion should be done
on priority say within a week of submitting the duly signed motion at
the secretariat.
SC Agrawal
Delhi
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Sir — This refers to the editorial,
“Opinionated, uninformed” (May
4). It is the most arrogant, supercilious, self-serving exercise on part of
a US Congressional body to pass a
verdict on the alleged religious
intolerance of other nations, including India. This venture seems to
perpetuate a myth of the US being
the sole superpower and moral
authority, to determine and declare
who is good and who is not.
Sadly, Americans have not yet
realised that the world has moved
on, cutting their country to size.
Over the years, the US, in its arrogance of power, arbitrarily intervened in other people’s internal
affair. It is time they look within to
see what is wrong with their policies and thinking.
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Via email
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ploughs back to the system
after serving its purpose.
The purpose of credit is to
help the entrepreneur earn surplus amount after the re-payment
of the loan. Therefore, before
sanctioning a loan, bankers make
a thorough appraisal of the project, to know whether the entrepreneur can earn surplus from
his venture. Good governance, a
transparent marketing network
and moderate inflation helps the
entrepreneur earn surplus after
re-paying the bank loan which
ultimately helps nurture a healthy
credit cycle.
However, a healthy credit
cycle often grows in isolation. For
example, villages can prosper
only when they earn surplus
income from their entrepreneurship. For increasing village
income, the Government has to
make the soil fertile, repair the
water-table and improve biodiversity. Quality schools, healthcare facilities, transparent marketing facilities, quality extension
services, good governance, safety etc always makes the village an
attractive place.
It has been reported that 35
per cent 40 per cent of the fruits
and vegetables in India rot in the
farm yard. A 100 per cent foreign
direct investment in processed
food is not the solution. The challenge is to provide a transparent
market chain, storage facilities
and an effective transportation
system to the farmers. The Union
Government has spent lakhs of
crores of rupees building roads,
godowns and market yards, but
these infrastructural facilities
have to perform to help the
farmers earn surplus.
Farmers in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra sell
Alphonso (mango) at C20 to
C25 per kg in their farm yard, but
when the mango reaches
Mumbai, Pune or Nashik, its
price rises to C80 per kg.
Alphonso is also sold in the Gulf
and in Europe but the mango
farmers hardly know about the
export price. This is because
traders and middlemen manipulate the agriculture produce
price. The farmers lose income
and the credit cycle is affected.
As per the National Sample
Survey Organisation, about 40
per cent of the Indian farmers
want to leave farming. Today
more than 90 per cent of agricultural graduates prefer jobs in
banks, Government departments
and the insurance sector. The
Government, instead of giving
subsidy, daily wages and free
food, should repair the water
table, the bio diversity, the top
soil, the rivers, ponds, lakes and
water bodies.
Credit from borrowers can
generate interest income for the
banks and surplus for the farmers if basic requirements of village productivity is ensured.
Politicians and planners may
seek advice from social activist
Anna Hazare who has developed
his village Ralegan Siddhi into a
happy and productive village.
During summer, when large
parts of Maharashtra faces water
scarcity, Ralegan Siddhi has
enough water to sustain two
crops. The credit flow to Ralegan
Siddhi has not turned into a nonperforming asset. Bankers with
honesty and integrity can auto
repair the credit cycle. But honest bankers can survive only if
politicians, the police and judiciary protect them.
Though the credit cycle in
the agricultural sector is impact-
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Prince Charles, Congress
scion Rahul Gandhi,
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
leader MK Stalin and Punjab
Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir
Singh Badal? They all are in the
queue to take over from their parents, some eagerly and some reluctantly. Ninety-year old Queen
Elizabeth has made Prince Charles
wait for decades. Stalin too is facing the same problem — his 94year old father Karunanidhi is
still in the saddle. Prakash Singh
Badal, father of Sukhbir Singh
Badal, is still going strong
at the age of 87.
Stalin is important in
the context of Tamil Nadu
politics. His fate will be
known in the ensuing
Assembly polls. Having
made the DMK party his
family fiefdom, Karunanidhi
was not averse to anointing
his son, but he does not want
to upset the apple cart before
the Assembly poll. Stalin’s
supporters wanted him to be
projected as the chief ministerial face but the old guard
wanted Karunanidhi to stay
in the lead. Also, Stalin is no
match for Tamil Nadu Chief
Minister J Jayalalithaa.
Before the entry of elder brother MK Alagiri and half-sister
Kanimozhi a decade ago, Stalin was
the undisputed heir. Karunanidhi
even made him Deputy Chief
Minister of Tamil Nadu in 2009.
However, family politics have
blocked his rise. Alagiri and
Kanimozhi are staking claim to
their father’s legacy. Alagiri is still
not in favour of Stalin, but
Kanimozhi has patched up with
him. So, Stalin has taken over the
organisation despite family feuds.
The bitter truth is that for the
DMK-Congress combine, it is a
difficult task to come back to
power. Jayalalithaa has surpassed
the DMK by extending welfare
programmes and freebies. All its
traditional political planks for the
Tamil cause have also been
hijacked by Jayalalithaa.
Still, Stalin is trying his best to
woo the electorate. He has been
touring the State with his
Namakku Naame road shows. He
has hired a PR firm for an image
make-over. In an attempt to woo
the youth, who account for about
21 per cent of the electorate,
Stalin is wearing trousers and
shirts. He has also been active on
social media. Making a shift from
Dravidian ideology, he is visiting
temples and participating in religious ceremonies.
Many are doubtful about the
future of the DMK, postKarunanidhi. The party may not
remain intact. For more than six
decades, Karunanidhi has been a
key figure in Tamil Nadu politics,
either as the Chief Minister or as
the Opposition leader. He has survived other leaders like CN
Annadurai
and
MG
Ramachandran. Therefore, his
stature is unquestionable. But his
baton has to be handed over soon-
ed, bad loan in this sector is less
in comparison to coal, realty,
power, infrastructure, steel, telecom, mining and aviation sectors.
These sectors contribute to more
than 50 per cent of the bad debt.
Gross non-performing asset
of 39 banks has reached C4.38
trillion for the quarter ended
December 31, 2015, which shows
that the credit cycle principle was
grossly violated after 2008. The
Indian banking sector was in
good shape with less than 2.36
per cent NPA till 2010-11 when
it was partially integrated with
the global financial sector. Ever
since the integration process
picked up pace, the NPA graph
has shown a sharp rise.
The Indian banking sector
added five lakh crore rupees in
bad loan between 2007 and 2013.
After 2010-2011, the public sec-
risky sectors. Clearly, the banking sector has to learn how to
wade through global traps and
opportunities. This will be possible only under the supervision
of a group of experts.
The damage to Indian banks’
credit cycle is deep and severe.
Unless the banking sector takes
concrete measures, its credit cycle
is beyond repair. More than 70
per cent of the total deposit of
people are parked in public sector banks which have a wider outreach than private banks.
Many
developmental
schemes of the Government are
routed through PSBs. The banks
have to fine tune three things:
Audit, appraisal attitude to the
public and accuracy of data. For
the next 10 years, politicians
should not interfere in the financial decision-making process.
Let the banks decide who will be
their Chief Executive Officer
and the Board of Directors without any external pressure.
The Government can form
an independent supervisory team
of experts to evaluate the performance of the heads from
time-to-time. PSBs are the backbone of the financial sector.
They can do business and social
good only when they have a dedicated research team to access the
economic sectors.
The banking sector needs to
have an authentic survey report on
India’s potential economic sectors
for accurate credit projection.
Banks credit cycle is built over
authentic potential survey. Had
banks prepared an authentic survey, such massive credit would not
have disappeared into the steel,
power, infrastructure, realty, construction, telecom, mining and aviation sector. But with team work,
experience and knowledge, the
Indian banking sector can bounce
back as the country offers huge
business opportunities to all.
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In Delhi, reports said that
Rahul Gandhi is all set to become
the president of the Congress this
year. This news has been making
rounds for quite some time. Since
2013, when Rahul Gandhi became
the vice president of the Congress,
it was thought that he was only a
step away from becoming Congress
chief. Although Congress president
Sonia Gandhi has taken a backseat,
allowing a free hand to her son,
Rahul Gandhi is still not in the
lead. The four States and one
Union Territory, which are going
to polls this year, will not
only be a test for him but
a miracle for the Congress
if it can retain even
one of the two States where
it rules.
There is a leadership
crisis in the grand old
party. The dual power centre experiment has created
confusion. The old guard is
apprehensive and is clinging to Sonia Gandhi. The
Congress also does not
have second-rung leaders.
As for Sukhbir Badal,
he is practically the boss,
both in the Government
and in the party, though
his father is still electorally relevant. It is expected that the
senior Badal will be the chief
ministerial candidate in 2017, and
he will be more than a match for
Congress leader Captain
Amarinder Singh. He is also the
glue that is keeping together the
Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP alliance.
In Punjab, the Aam Aadmi
Party is making inroads, and Sukhbir
Badal does not have the same relationship with the BJP as his father
does. The old war horses should
realise that the time has come for
them to hand over the reins. They will
be out of step with the electorate if
they fail to do so.
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n India, to get preferential treatment anywhere
and in any situation, one
has to pay a price, which
manifests in corruption.
Corruption is everywhere —
not a place to serve or be
served without a bribe.
Media reports suggest that
corruption has not spared a
single office, organisation or
system. Even the judiciary is
not clean, and fingers have
been raised even at some
Chief Justices. Just as the
mind controls every organ
in the body, the temples of
justice likewise influence
and encourage the various
systems in society.
To curb or control any
evil, there are two approaches: The preventive (the
defensive) or the curative
(the proactive or offensive).
The preventive approach
includes a system where no
one needs to give or take
bribe, while the curative
approach would require the
framing of anti-graft legislation and its appropriate
implementation.
The latter approach is
the one which most countries follow only to face
problems related to the
degree of implementation of
the laws. Control over the
implementation of the laws
require other tools such as
the Right to Information
Act which has helped many
countries effectively control
graft in public places.
But India is still struggling to make legislation to
curb corruption. The effectiveness and appropriateness of the preventive or
curative approaches greatly
depends on the country, its
people, their culture and
habits. In this author’s
opinion, the preventive
approach will be more suitable for India.
Corruption comes into
the picture whenever some
decision, like job appointments or award of contracts,
is based on manual judgement. This is where one can
not only prevent but even
eliminate corruption —
through a system in which
the stated selection would be
based on a quantitated number, such that the individual
judgement factor (and hence,
the corruption) is eliminated.
For example, for every
candidate for a certain position, an index will be evaluated which will manifest
the integrated effect of all
the specified requirements
of the said position/job. The
selection will be done by a
duly and appropriately programmed computer which
will calculate the said index
of every candidate from the
candidate’s biodata and give
a print-out of the order of
merit list of all the candidates, and this way the
manipulative human factor
will be eliminated.
This is necessary in a
country like India where
merit is the least considered
factor, reflected in the fact
that it is still a third
world developing nation,
despite having qualified,
hard working people in
almost all disciplines.
Another manifestation
of this phenomenon is evident both in cricket and
diplomacy — where India is
often defeated by much
smaller powers. This is
because the smaller countries are merit-minded,
India is not.
A smaller but merit-oriented country selects its
best available person for the
job. This person may not
even be as good as the top
talent available in India but
his actual Indian counterpart will be in all probability much weaker, for the latter hasn’t been chosen on
merit but for his contacts or
money power. Meanwhile,
the meritorious in India are
under-acknowledged or they
migrate to other countries.
In short, if merit is
adopted in India, then corruption will automatically
go away or be prevented.
Such a prevention of corruption strategy will be foolproof compared to the curative approach based on laws
and their implementation.
This is because in this corruption-infested country,
law or rules will not be
obeyed or will be suppressed
through a bribe.
Therefore, in a corruption-laden India, the fine
collection strategy will be a
success only when the fine
collector is paid a hefty
bonus, which will ensure he
is duty bound, honest and
sincere. Similarly, judges
can be given a bonus
amount per case as an
incentive for deciding
each case on time. They
may also be penalised if the
case is not decided on time
and with honesty.
All
Government
employees should be paid a
bonus (a legalised bribe)
for processing each case,
and their salaries may be
reduced appropriately. This
will ensure efficiency and
improve productivity.
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Ranbaxy Laboratories,
the Singh brothers and family have been asked to pay
damages of C2,562.78 crore
to Daiichi by an arbitration
tribunal here for concealing
and misrepresenting information during their stake sell
to the Japanese firm.
Malvinder Singh, currently the Chairman of Fortis
He a lt hc are, and f am i ly
including his brot her
Shivinder Singh, had sold
their entire stake of about 35
per cent in Ranbaxy for $2.4
billion in 2008 to Daiichi
Sankyo.
However, in 2013, the
Japanese pharmaceutical
major had filed an arbitra-
tion case in Singapore accusing the Indian promoters of
concealment and misrepres ent at ion of fac ts af ter
Ranbaxy paid $500 million
to the US Department of
Justice as settlement for misrepresenting facts.
The arbitration tribunal
has issued an award by a
majority of 2:1 in favour of
the claimant for damages of
an amount of C2562.78 crore,
RHC Holding Pvt Ltd said in
a statement.
RHC Holding Pvt Ltd is
among the sellers of shares of
e rs t w h i l e
R anb a x y
Laboratories along with
Oscar Investments, which
have been named as respondents in the arbitration suit
by the claimant, Daiichi
Sankyo.
The statement added the
damage amount to be paid
include “quantified interest,
costs and expenses of the
arbitration till the date of
award and interest on above
u nt i l d ate of p ay me nt ,
against all the respondents
jointly and severally”.
C omment i ng on it s
future course of action, RHC
Holding said: “The company
is exploring further legal
options to challenge the
majority award.”
It, however, declined to
share details stating “all the
parties to the arbitration are
bound by confidentiality
obligations as a part of the
arbitration proceedings.”
Whe n
c ont a c te d
Malvinder Singh declined to
comment.
After buying out the erstwhile promoters, Daiichi
spent a total of around
C22,000 crore to gain a
majority stake in Ranbaxy.
Later on, the Japanese firm
exited Ranbaxy following a
$4.2 billion merger deal
between Sun Pharma and
Ranbaxy.
L ast Apr i l, D aiichi
Sankyo sold its entire stake
of around 9 per cent in Sun
Pharmaceutical Industries
for over C20,420 crore, which
it received after merger of
Ranbaxy in the Indian firm,
ending its seven years of
tumultuous experience in
the country.
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Thursday told the Delhi
T
High Court that Cairn India
cannot be permitted to export
excess crude from its Rajasthan
oil field, till India attains “self
sufficiency”.
“The stand of the central
government is unequivocal and
unambiguous that as a national policy, export of crude oil is
not permitted till India attains
self sufficiency,” the Centre told
a bench of Justice Manmohan.
The submission was made
by the Ministry of Petroleum
and Natural Gas which is
opposing Cairn’s request for
permitting them to export crude
oil.
Additional Solicitor General
(ASG) Tushar Mehta, who was
assisted by central government
standing counsel Anurag
Ahluwalia, said, “It is admitted
position that between the parties that a Production Sharing
Contract (PSC) is entered into
by and between the parties and
that the petitioner is governed
by the terms of the said PSC
which prohibits export till India
attains self sufficiency.”
ASG further said that,
“whether to permit exports of
crude oil exploited from the
fields located within the territory of India (at a time when the
country itself is suffering from
huge deficit in demand and supply of hydrocarbons and is primarily dependent on imports),
essentially falls within the realm
of a policy decision, which is to
be taken by the Government
keeping in mind the national
interest and large public purpose.
“The decision of the government not to permit export
of the oil produced by the petitioner is a policy decision
taken by the government,
which cannot be in anyway
termed to be an arbitrary,
irrational or a mala fide deci-
sion warranting interference
by this court,” the Centre submitted.
The court asked the
Government to show it the
copy of the policy under which
Cairn was denied permission.
While listing the matter
for further hearing on May 18,
it also asked them to inform
whether there was any law or
any contract under which they
can restrict Cairn from selling
their crude abroad.
The court was hearing the
plea of Cairn India, subsidiary
of UK-based Vedanta group,
seeking directions to the government to permit it to export
the excess crude.
Earlier, Cairn had contended that a loss of C1,400
crore has been caused to
Government as the company
was forced to sell its share of
crude from its Rajasthan oilfield to private players at prices
20 per cent less than global
rates.
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<D<108)Amid challenges from
physical commodity markets,
Sebi Chairman UK Sinha on
Thursday said the regulator will
not bring in new products in the
commodities derivative market
unless they have enough liquidity.
The regulator is continuously reviewing the risk management framework in the commodities segment and it would
take a few more months to
bring in the mechanism to the
level of securities market, the
Sebi chief said.
“Price discovery in this
country is very complex. For
example, the physical market is
controlled by the states and
there are many obstacles and
measures under the essential
commodities Act.
“I am not saying it is good
or bad but these are difficulties...And what is the actual
stock, what is the actual crop output, such information is not
available to us well in time,” Sinha
told reporters on the sidelines of
Thomson Reuters Risk Summit.
“That is why Sebi has been
very careful in allowing trading
in new commodities. We want to
do that, but we want to do it very
carefully, unless we are assured
that there is enough liquidity in
some commodities we will not
go ahead,” he said.
The problems in the physical market and also the stage of
development of warehousing
mechanism in the country doesn’t give Sebi the comfort to
progress on the same in a big
way immediately, he added.
Noting that the surveillance and risk management
framework in the commodity
market is developing, Sinha
said the process of bringing the
system at par with the equities
market would take a few
months.
“The risk management issue
in the commodities market is at
a stage which is not giving us a
comfort that it is as advance as
it is in the securities market. We
have been continuously trying to
improve that system through a
series of measures, for example
we have weekly meetings with
the exchange, we review the
trades, we also use surveillance
mechanism that is in place,” he
said. “A thorough review of the
exercise is going on but it willtake us a few months to bring it
to the same level as securities
market,” the Sebi chief said.
On providing settlement
guarantee fund (SGF) for the
commodity exchanges, Sinha
said, “before introducing core
SGF through our SECC regulations we provided for this money
to be set aside.”
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accountants’ apex body ICAI
is reviewing financial statements of certain Vijay Mallya
group firms to assess the
role of auditors and has
warned of strict disciplinary
action in case of violations.
The move also comes
against the backdrop of the
embattled Mallya facing a
case of loan default worth
C9,400 crore.
Warning of strict action
against auditors in case of
violations, the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of
India (ICAI) has said it is
highly concerned about the
issue and role of its members
in “an unhealthy manner”.
The Financial Reporting
Review Board (FRRB) of
ICAI is reviewing the financial statements of certain
enterprises of the Mallya
group to assess the performance of the auditors.
“In the case of the UB
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general purpose financial
statements of various enterprises of the UB group which
were reported by the media to
have been involved in irregularities,” ICAI President M
Devaraja Reddy told the news
agency.
FRRB assesses whether
the financial reporting framework has been duly complied with.
Among others, FRRB
reviews the financial statements of various enterprises
with a view to verifying various aspects such as compliance with the generally
accepted accounting principle
in the preparation and pre-
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It will also grant user free
unlimited access to Jio’s 4G
mobile applications like Jio
Play, Jio On-demand, JioMag,
JioBeats, Jio Drive etc for 90
days.
RIL recently said that over
5 lakh users are using its network during trial phase. It has
seen average monthly consumption per user is in excess
of 18 gigabyte within the first
month of service and average
voice usage is over 250 minutes
within the first month.
On April 22, the company
said, “The launch is now being
expanded to others in the
ecosystem. This test programme
will be progressively upgraded
into commercial operations in
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<D<108)Moving towards on-tap
licensing regime, the Reserve
Bank on Thursday proposed
allowing professionals with 10
years of experience to promote
full-fledged banks but large
business houses can come in
only as investors with less than
10 per cent stake.
The draft guidelines, issued
today, may upset the plans of
several business houses who
had lost out in the last round of
distribution of universal bank
licences and were eagerly waiting for on-tap regime to set up
their own banks.
In a departure from the earlier norms on universal banks,
the draft guidelines have made
resident individuals and professionals having 10 years of experience in banking and finance as
eligible for promoting universal
banks.
“Large industrial or business
houses are excluded as eligible
entities but permitted to invest
in the banks to the extent of less
than 10 per cent” of paid up
equity capital, which RBI has
fixed at C500 crore, as per the
guidelines.
“The initial minimum paidup voting equity capital for a
new bank shall be C500 crore
and thereafter, the bank shall
have a minimum net worth of
committee of ICAI.”
Multiple agencies, including t he Enforcement
Directorate and CBI, are
probing issues related to the
massive loan default by
Mallya and others.
Emphasising that ICAI’s
regulatory mechanism is
“working assiduously”, he
said it has been taking disciplinary action against members found guilty of alleged
professional misconduct.
Action is initiated as per
provisions of the Chartered
Accountants (Amendment)
Act, 2006, and related rules.
“ICAI has a strong disciplinary mechanism in place
whereby proceedings are initiated and taken to their logical end through a welldefined procedure, which
maintains the interests of
natural justice while ensuring
the guilty are never spared,”
Reddy said in the e-mailed
statement.
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its services for general public
on trial basis but a person will
be able to buy its sim only after
getting invite from employees
of Reliance Industries group
firms.
Another rider for availing
the service is that the person
will have to buy LYF handset
being sold by Reliance Digital.
The LYF handset are available
in the price range of C5,599 to
C19,499 apiece.
“As we inch closer towards
our commercial launch, we
are providing our near and dear
ones (Yes you!) a chance to test
out our network,” an invite
from employee said.
RIL group firm employee
under the scheme can invite 10
people to buy Jio’s 4G sim and
LYF Handset. The connection
will come bundled with unlimited 4G mobile internet and
phone calls service for 90 days.
The invitee will need to pay Rs
sentation of financial statement.
In the latest monthly
message to members, Reddy
has flagged concerns over
bad loans and wilful defaulters.
“The problem may relate
to management or judgement; non-retrieval of loan
money will have direct inferences on the auditing profession as well,” he said.
Noting that regulators
and banks are striving hard to
recover bad loans from wilful
defaulters, he said, “ICAI is
highly concerned about the
issue and role of its auditors
in an unhealthy manner.”
In the context of FRRB
reviewing the financial statements of certain Mallya
group firms, Reddy said,
“Auditors’ role in this dilemma, which so far has not
come to the fore, if found
deficient, shall be dealt with
strictly by the disciplinary
C500 crore at all times,” the central bank said.
While assuming charge on
September 4, 2013, Governor
Raghuram Rajan had said one of
his key reform measures would
to put bank licensing on-tap. He
fulfilled a part of it in April 2014
by issuing in-principal approvals
to two-infra lender IDFC and
microfinancier Bandhan, out
of 25 applicants. Both of them
are operational since last year.
These banks came in after a gap
of over a decade.
Rajan took the second step
by announcing in-principle nod
to 10 payments banks and 11
small finance banks last year. At
the last monetary policy in
April, Rajan had said he would
look at more differentiated
banks like custodian banks and
wholesale banks.
RBI said interested parties
will have to float a non-operative financial holding company
(NOFHC), which has now been
made non-mandatory in case of
promoters being individuals or
standalone promoting/ converting entities who/ which do
not have other group entities.
The NOFHC is now
required to be owned by the
promoter or promoter group to
the extent of at least 51 per cent
of the total paid-up equity cap-
ital of the NOFHC, instead
being wholly-owned by the
promoter group, which was a
necessity in the previous guidelines.Existing specialised activities are permitted to be continued from a separate entity
proposed to be held under the
NOFHC subject to prior
approval from the Reserve Bank
and subject to it being ensured
that similar activities are not
conducted through the bank as
well.
Existing non-banking
financial companies (NBFCs)
that are ‘controlled by residents’
and have a successful track
record for at least 10 years will
be eligible for the licence.
“Entities or groups in the
private sector that are ‘owned
and controlled by residents’
and have a successful track
record for at least 10 years, provided that if such entity or
group has total assets of C5,000
crore or more, the non-financial
business of the group does not
account for 40 per cent or more
in terms of total assets or in
terms of gross income,” the
guidelines said.
The foreign shareholding will
be as per the existing foreign direct
investment (FDI) policy, which is
currently at 74 per cent.
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compact SUVs, Honda Cars India
on Thursday launched sevenseater compact SUV BR-V priced
between C8.75 lakh and C12.9 lakh
(ex-showroom Delhi).
“With the launch of BR-V, we
are getting into the fast-growing
compact SUV segment. With its
versatile features, we see a huge
potential for the vehicle in the
country,” said Honda Cars India
(HCIL) President and CEO
Yoichiro Ueno.
“India being a key market for
Honda, the company is focusing
on increasing its customer base
with new model introductions”,
Ueno added.
The compact SUV segment
has been one of the best-performing segments in the Indian
passenger vehicle market, growing at around 35 per cent for the
past two years.
Talking about Indian market
Ueno said the country has huge
potential for growth but there are
challenges.
“Last year was tough for the
industry, and growth was achieved
mainly by new product launches
and discounts,” Ueno said, marking out the rapid shift from diesel
to petrol and introduction of
infrastructure cess also impacting
the industry.
“Despite all these challenges,
we are confident of achieving
strong growth in the current fiscal.”
The company also plans to
expand its sales network to 340
dealerships in the current fiscal,
from the current 298.
“It will help us penetrate into
new regions and offer better services to customers,” Ueno said.
When asked about the next
launch from the company in the
coming months, Honda Cars
India Ltd (HCIL) Senior VicePresident (Marketing and Sales)
Jnaneswar Sen said : “After the
New Honda Amaze and BRV, The
new Honda Accord Hybrid will
be launched in India this festive
season.”
The sale of petrol-only DSegment sedan was stopped in
India in late 2013 owing to poor
demand but thanks to the incentives offered by the Government’s
FAME (Faster Adoption and
Manufacturing of hybrid and
Electric vehicles), the company is
planning to relaunch its premium
sedan in its latest avatar.
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NEW DELHI: IT-BPM industry body Nasscom has
partnered social media giant Facebook to evangelise the product design ecosystem and support over
500 product startups in India. Under ‘Product Design
Initiative’, a flagship programme of Nasscom
Product Council, the partners aim to support over
500 product startups on product design and train
more than 5,000 product designers over a period
of two years, Nasscom said in a statement.
This initiative stems from the need to build design
skills that will propel innovative thinking and
approaches to build solutions in key sectors where
technology can play a transformational role, it added.
“Design as a tool for innovation has developed rapidly in recent years. Design thinking, methodologies
and tools enable solutions for complex and challenging issues and help re-imagine systems,”
Nasscom President R Chandrashekhar said. With
this initiative, Nasscom plans to scale up the focus
on product design and engage the young entrepreneurs into becoming problem solvers and solution
builders, he added. The nationwide initiative will
offer focussed programmes to build awareness
around product design, training on design tools,
design lab, awards, design sprints and mentorship.
“The Design Initiative will aim to build and diffuse
a design culture across our ecosystem, link up with
academia, recognise outstanding designs and overall, ensure India's software products delivery
delightful customer experiences,” Nasscom said.PTI
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coastal industrial centres,
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planned under coastal economic zones, are expected to
boost exports by $110 billion
besides creating one crore
new jobs, the Government
said on Thursday. The clusters
are planned in the vicinity of
India’s top 12 major ports.
“ Twenty-nine
port
based/coastal industrial clusters have been proposed
across 14 coastal economic
zones. The consultants have
projected that these industrial cluster projects will enable
creation of approximately 1
crore new jobs, including 40
lakh direct jobs and boost
exports by $110 billion in the
next 10 years,” Minister of
State for Shipping Pon
Radhakrishnan told Lok
Sabha in a written reply.
napdeal on Thursday said it
has
acquired
TargetingMantra, a move that
will help the ecommerce major
enhance personalisation of shopping experience of customers.
However, the acquisition amount
was not disclosed by Snapdeal.
TargetingMantra specialises in the field management of
customer life cycle through personalisation, targeting and big
data analytics. Founded by former Amazon executive Saurabh
Nangia and management consultant Rahul Singh in March
2013, TargetingMantra has
offices in Palo Alto and
Gurgaon.
Its solutions help increase
conversion rates through intu-
itive product discovery, recommendations and channel selection.
“At
Snapdeal,
TargetingMantra's team will further
the on-going initiative to build the
customer experience engine, which
will personalise shopping experiences for customers,” Snapdeal
said in a statement. Rohit
Bansal, co-founder of Snapdeal
said the company is always on
the lookout for talented teams
that come with complementing
tech skills.
“Personalisation is a key
piece which helps consumers
discover and transact in a fast,
frictionless and intuitive manner. The TargetingMantra team
comes with valuable experience in driving superior customer experience through
machine learning,” he added.
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largest two-wheeler maker
Hero MotoCorp on Thursday
posted 70.85 per cent rise in
standalone net profit at C814.16
crore for the fourth quarter
ended March 31, riding on the
back of its best ever quarterly
sales. The company had posted a net profit of C476.53 crore
during the same period of the
previous fiscal.
“The improved profit margins were the combined result
of of the highest ever quarterly sales of 17,21,240 units and
several margin improvement
initiatives taken during the
period,” Hero MotoCorp said in
a statement.
Net sales of the company
rose by 10.3 per cent to
C7,385.23 crore during the
fourth quarter as compared to
C6,695.19 crore during the
same period of the previous fiscal. The company sold
17,21,240 two-wheelers during
the fourth quarter, up 9.25 per
cent from 15,75,501 units a year
ago. For the fiscal ended March
31, the company posted a net
profit of C3,132.37 crore, up 32
per cent, against C2,385. PNS
While Kandla port will
have petrochemicals, cement
and furniture-based industries, JNPT will have power,
electronics and apparel projects, the Minister said.
Petrochemicals and marine
processing are planned at
Paradip while Kolkata will
have leather processing industries, he said.
The projects have been
formulated as part of National
Perspective Plan (NPP) for the
Sagarmala programme, which
is an ambitious project for
port-led development of
India's coastal cities.
“The industrial cluster
projects have an implementation time schedule of up to
10 years with an estimated
infrastructure investment of
C1 lakh crore and are projected to attract additional
industrial investment of C7
lakh crore,” the Minister said.
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services by using JandhanIAadhaar-Mobile
(JAM) trinity,
IDFC Bank on Thursday said
it has tied up with Andhra
Pradesh Government for DBT
schemes in the Krishna district
of the state.
The delivery of services
under the Direct Benefit
Transfer (DBT) will be through
inter-operable
Aadhaar
Enabled Payment System
(AEPS) micro ATMs deployed
in villages in Krishna to
enhance last mile financial
access using digitisation, IDFC
Bank said in a release.
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Royal Enfield, plans to invest
C600 crore during the current fiscal for product development, setting up of two R&D centres and
expansion of manufacturing
capacities in India and the UK. The
company sells various popular
models like Bullet, Classic,
Thunderbird and Continental GT.
“We will be investing C600
crore towards product development, setting up of the two technical centres, in Leicestershire,
UK and Chennai, enhancing
our manufacturing capacity and
market development activities
across geographies,” Eicher
Motors Ltd MD & CEO
Siddhartha Lal said.
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To begin with, effective
May 1, Andhra Bank will deliver social security pension under
the DBT. IDFC Bank said the
programme will be extended
for delivery of other government services or entitlements
and then to Public Distribution
System (PDS).
“It also makes IDFC Bank
the first to deliver Direct
Benefit Transfer like social
security pensions, and in coming days, others schemes like
scholarships, LPG subsidies,
MGNREGA benefits, through
an interoperable AEPS Micro
ATM model, at scale, in a district, in a concentrated manner”, IDFC Bank said.
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op leader of Bangladesh’s
fundamentalist Jamaat-eT
Islami Motiur Rahman Nizami
on Thursday faced a major setback after the Supreme Court
rejected his final plea to review
his death sentence it earlier
handed down over war crimes
during the 1971 Liberation
War with Pakistan.
The
four-member
Appellate Division Bench headed by Chief Justice Surendra
Kumar Sinha pronounced the
single-word judgement at the
tense courtroom.
“Dismissed,” said top judge,
who is the first Hindu to occupy the post in the Muslimmajority country, about the
final appeal of 72-year-old
Nizami, convicted for murder,
rape and orchestrating the
killing of top intellectuals.
Court officials said the
details of the order would be
issued later in writing.
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Washington: A 28-year-old
American Army officer
deployed to Kuwait has sued
President Barack Obama
because he believes the war
against the ISIS terror group is
“illegal” as it has not been
authorised by Congress.
Captain Nathan Michael
Smith voiced strong support for
fighting the ISIS but, citing his
“conscience” and his vow to
uphold the Constitution, he
said he believed that the mission lacked proper authorisation from Congress, the New
York Times reported.
Smith is seeking “a declaration that President Obama’s
war against ISIS is illegal
because Congress has not
authorised it,” according to
court documents.
“To honour my oath, I am
asking the court to tell the president that he must get proper
authority from Congress, under
the War Powers Resolution, to
wage the war against ISIS in
Iraq and Syria,” he wrote in
court documents filed in the
US District Court for the
District of Columbia on
Tuesday.
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Tight security was enforced
in and around the Supreme
Court complex ahead of the
verdict, though unlike the trial
court, the apex court procedures did not require Nizami’s
presence during the delivery of
the judgment.
The Jamaat chief is now
kept at a special cell for death
row convicts at suburban
Kashimpur Central Jail.
Wednesday’s final verdict
comes two days after the Bench
wrapped up hearing Nizami’s
petition, seeking a review of the
top court’s own previous judgement that had confirmed his
deathsentence.
Immediately after the verdict, Jamaat issued a statement
calling Nizami a “victim of
state-sponsored conspiracy”
and called a day-long nationwide strike on May 8.
“The Government has
taken a plan to kill Maulana
Nizami in the name of trial of
crimes against humanity as
part of its political vengeance,”
the statement said.
The Supreme Court’s decision clears the final legal hurdle for the Government to
hang the Jamaat-e-Islami chief,
who is now left with the only
option to seek presidential
mercy.
President Abdul Hamid,
however, has earlier rejected
two such prayers by 1971 war
crimes convicts, including
Nizami’s top aide then, who
were subsequently executed
late last year.
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Ahmet
Davutoglu
announced his resignation on
Thursday, paving the way for
the country’s president to pursue a tighter grip on power.
“I decided that for the
unity of the (ruling party) a
change of chairman would be
more appropriate. I am not
considering running at the
May 22 congress,” Davutoglu
told the nation.
Davutoglu, who had fallen
out with President Recept
Tayyip Erdogan, announced
he was stepping aside following
a meeting with executives of
the ruling Justice and
Development Party, or AKP,
which has dominated Turkish
politics since 2002.
The decision is not effective immediately. The party will
hold an emergency convention
May 22 to select a new party
leader who would also replace
the premier.
Davutoglu indicated he did
not plan to resign from the
party, saying he would “continue the struggle” as a ruling
party legislator.
He pledged loyalty to
Erdogan, saying the president’s
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suggested he would not be a
party to any efforts to divide
the party “I feel no reproach,
anger or resentment against
anyone,” Davutoglu said.
The shake-up is seen as the
outcome of irreconcilable differences between Erdogan, who
would like to see the country
transition to a presidential system, and his once-trusted
adviser. It comes a day after
Davutoglu’s government scored
a victory of sorts, with the
European Union’s executive
commission recommending
approval of a deal to give
Turkish citizens the right to
travel to Europe without visas.
Jamaat was opposed to
Bangladesh’s 1971 independence from Pakistan and sided
with Pakistani troops in carrying out the atrocities during the
Liberation War.
At the time, Nizami was
the chief of the party’s student
wing as well as the notorious
Al-Badr militia force, manned
by Jamaat activists.
He was a Minister in the
past BNP-led four- party
alliance Government with his
party being its crucial ally.
Two Ministers of the same
Cabinet Salauddin Quader
Chowdhur y of BNP and
Jamaat’s secretary general Ali
Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed
were earlier executed as convicts of 1971 war crimes
charges.
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remaining top perpetrators of
crimes against humanity as
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s
Government initiated a process
to try the 1971 war criminals.
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Jerusalem: Israeli forces uncovered a Hamas tunnel stretching
across the border from Gaza on
Thursday, the Army said, the
second such discovery in recent
weeks.
“About four hours ago, the
IDF exposed a second tunnel in
the southern Gaza Strip,” Army
spokesman Peter Lerner said.
“We understand the tunnel
was approximately 28 to 29
metres (100 feet) deep in the
southern Gaza Strip, stretching
from Gazan territory into
Israel.”
He did not say how far into
Israel the tunnel stretched but
confirmed the discovery was
made by Israeli forces on the
Gazan side of the border.
The discovery follows another
on April 18 in which the IDF
said it had uncovered the first
Hamas tunnel since the devastating 2014 war in Gaza.
It comes amid a new flareup in violence along the border with the Palestinian
enclave. A series of Israeli air
strikes on Gaza overnight
wounded four people, including three children, while Israel
said Hamas fighters have fired
a number of mortars at
Israeli territor y since
Wednesday.
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London: Computer simulations of disease
processes and detailed digital models of our
organs could provide more accurate monitoring and outcome measurements for clinical trials. The research being presented at the
University of Sheffield in the UK on
Thursday aims to develop a model of pulmonary
arterial hypertension using MRI technology.
“Two-thirds of the patients we assessed
could be correctly diagnosed with PAH using
our model, which meant only those patients,
where diagnosis was unclear, would have had
to have the catheter test if this was in full clinical use,” said Andy Swift, Insigneo Senior
Clinical Research fellow.
Currently, the condition is diagnosed by
inserting a catheter into the patient, often in the
neck or groin to test the pressure in the pulmonary artery.
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“loose cannon”, Democratic
front-runner Hillary Clinton
has warned fellow-Americans
that
the
presumptive
Republican presidential nominee would be a risky choice for
the high office.
“I don’t think we can take
a risk on a loose cannon like
Donald Trump running our
country. I do think he is a loose
cannon, and loose cannons tend
to misfire,” Clinton told CNN on
Wednesday, a day after Trump
became the presumptive nominee after his last two rivals
crashed out of the race.
Clinton’s comments came
even as Trump’s conservative
detractors, who have floated
the #NeverTrump movement,
are still actively exploring the
possibility of putting up their
own candidate for a thirdparty run to halt the New York
billionaire in his tracks.
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Governor Rick Perry, Nebraska
Senator Ben Sasse and former
Oklahoma Senator Tom
Coburn have been floated as
possible candidates for a thirdparty or independent bid, the
Associated Press reported, noting this project remains “a
long shot at best, with filing
deadlines for getting on state
ballots fast approaching”.
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Washington: Republican presumptive presidential nominee
Donald Trump has reiterated
his stand on banning Muslims
from entering the US and
deporting illegal immigrants
out of the country.
The rival Hillary Clinton
campaign
immediately
slammed Trump asserting that
the former secretary of state
would not tolerate this divisive
and dangerous direction as the
US President.
A day after he became a
presumptive nominee, Trump
refused to budge down from
his primary election season’s
controversial rhetoric’s in a
series of interviews.
In an interview with CNN,
Trump did not back away from
his proposal to temporarily
ban all foreign Muslims from
entering the US. At the same
time, he said he would work
with Muslim countries in the
fight against terrorism. But
the onus for this is on those
countries first, he argued.
Taking a rigid stand,
Trump said he does not care
if it hurts him. “I’m doing the
right thing when I do this.
And whether it’s Muslim or
whether it’s something else, I
mean, I have to do the right
thing, and that’s the way I’ve
been guided,” he told MSNBC
in another interview.
“And I’ve been guided by
common sense, by what’s right.
And you see what’s happening.
We have to be careful. I mean,
we’re allowing thousands of
people to come into our country, thousands and thousands
of people being placed all over
the country that frankly
nobody knows who they are.
They don’t have documentation in many cases — in most
cases. And we don’t know
what we’re doing,” Trump said.
The Clinton campaign
slammed the real estate mogul
after he in his last interview of
the day reiterated his position
on Muslims and immigrants.
“In less than 24 hours
after capturing the Republican
nomination, Donald Trump
has already made it abundantly clear the type of
America that would emerge
under him: one in which
Latinos, Muslims and other
communities of colour would
not feel at home,” said Lorella
Praeli.
PTI
In her interview, Clinton
attacked Trump for having run
a “negative, aggressive, bullying
campaign”, saying it has all
been about “insulting people,
demeaning women, degrading people with disabilities,
talking about keeping Muslims
out of the country”.
She laughed off a question,
signalling she is more than
ready to take on Trump who
disposed of a host of tough
competitors to rise to the top
of the Republican race.
“Oh, please. This is to me
a classic case of a blustering,
bullying guy who has knocked
out of the way all the
Republicans because they were
just dumbfounded,” she
remarked. “I’m going to keep
staying on the campaign I’m
running. I have more than 3
million votes over Sen. Sanders
and I have 2 million votes
over Trump.”
Quizzed on the possibility
of Trump raking up the past
and attacking her husband,
former President Bill Clinton,
she commented: “If he wants to
go back to the playbook of the
1990s, if he wants to follow in
the footsteps of those who
have tried to knock me down
and take me out of the political arena, I’m more than happy
to have him do that.”
A couple of months ago,
when Hillary Clinton attacked
him over his stand on women’s
issues, Trump counterpunched and called her husband “one of the great women
abusers of all time”.
Hitting out at Trump’s
rhetoric, Clinton said he would
have to offer policy specifics in
the run-up to the November 8
election. “He makes these
grand statements and grand
accusations,” she said, remarking: “At some point when you’re
running for president, you
actually have to put a little meat
on the bones.”
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released the first ever Chinese
translations of the collective
works of Nobel laureate
Rabindranath Tagore, a rare
honour to the famed poet who
enjoys iconic status among
generations of Chinese people.
In all 33 volumes containing 16 million words covering
his poetry, essays, novels and
drama sections were released
ahead of Tagore’s 155th birth
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of Indian and intentional
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India and Bangladesh
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on Thursday survived a threat
to his Government after a Uturn by Prachanda-led Maoists
who decided not to withdraw
support to him for now.
The dramatic turnaround
in the country’s politics came
after top leaders of the coalition
partners met at the residence of
the Maoist chief Prachanda
and decided not to withdraw
support to the Government
“for the time being”.
It has not been disclosed
what type of understanding the
Maoists have reached with Oli’s
party to change its earlier deci-
sion.
A Maoist leader said: “Our
party has decided to wait for
now given that there are some
legal complications in registering the no confidence
motion against this government. The coalition will remain
intact now.”
The Maoists and the
Opposition Nepali Congress
have accused Prime Minister
Oli for failing to implement the
new Constitution, address the
problems related to the
Madhesi people, expedite the
post-quake reconstruction
work, failing to check soaring
market price and promoting
black
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Melbourne: The bond between an
owner and a pet dog is so strong that
their hearts beat in sync with each
other when they are reunited, a new
study suggests. Researchers found
that not only does our heart rate
become lower when in the company of dogs — but so too does the
canine’s — to the point where both
heart rhythms mirror one another.
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dog owners were separated from
their pets and then reunited, to see
what kind of effect they had on each
other’s heart rate.
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the owner and dog,” said Mia Cobb
from Monash University in
Australia.
“Upon being reunited within the
first minute, each heart rhythm
became almost directly aligned and
we saw a reduction straight away,"
said Cobb.
The results showed the way in
which both the owner and dog
experienced reduced levels of stress
when in contact with each other,
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lberta declared a state of
emergency as crews frantically held back wind-whipped
wildfires that have already
torched 1,600 homes and other
buildings in Canada’s main oil
sands city of Fort McMurray,
forcing more than 80,000 residents to flee.
Alberta Premier Rachel
Notley said fire had destroyed
or damaged an estimated 1,600
structures. Flames are being
kept from the downtown area
thanks to the “herculean’”
efforts of firefighters, said Scott
Long of the Alberta Emergency
Management Agency. No
injuries or fire related fatalities
have been reported.
The fire appeared near the
airport late yesterday where
crews were onsite. All commercial flights in and out of
Fort McMurray have been suspended.
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boreal forest in much of
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passing moment is breathing
heavy and you cannot wait to see
the big screen light up. The stranger
standing next to ceases to be one as you
get talking about when the anticipation
is going to end. All the bated hysteria
vanishes the moment the DJ takes his
first step on the stage. The crowd goes
wild by the time he reaches the
turntable, and things turn wild as the
first track rolls out.
We might be talking about one lineup at Sunburn, Goa but did you know
that there are quite a few music and
dance festivals. international at that,
happening all through the year, all over
the country?
Yes, you do not have to wait to hit
Goa during the EDM festival, you can
very well shake a leg at festivals like
Tomorrowland (to be hosted in July in
Hyderabad), Don’t Let Daddy Know (to
be hosted later this month), Sensation,
Mad Descent Block Party and SHM One
Last Tour among many others.
We got talking to organisers of few
of these grand festivals about what
makes India and the people the best
recipients of the biggest international
dance and music festivals.
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Ferriswheel Entertainment India
(Tomorrowland UNITE second edition
2016 and Don’t Let Daddy Know 2016),
the Indian dance music market has been
a burgeoning phenomenon and a global mainstream and has taken India’s
young, urban populations by storm!
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develops and progresses, there is a thirst
— a need for international concepts and
properties which we are trying to
bridge,” she added.
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because a DJ’s love for the land. And we,
fans, love them, too. “There is a huge
market and captive audience for it and
all the infrastructure we need! What
more could we possibly want?” smiled
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us a glimpse of the other side of the
coin. He explained that the country has
a population of over a billion, of which
the youth form 60 per cent of the figure. “They are very aspirational and
wish to travel to international music and
dance festivals but sometimes cannot
make it for multiple reasons. We strive
to bring in some of the bigger players
in the industry so that they can enjoy
a similar or maybe better experience in
their own country. And fans are always
open and welcoming to all the
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get to India,” pointed out the man
behind bringing international concepts
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scene still remains vastly undiscovered.
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Switzerland for decades. Now the Swiss government is
honouring him with a special statue, as a mark of gratitude and salutations.
A sculpture made of pure bronze, and weighing
about 350 kilos, will present Yash Chopra in an iconic
pose of him directing a film. Chopra, who opened a legacy of South Asian tourists flocking to Switzerland, loved
to spend time there. Natural beauty and warm hospitality mark the association that his banner Yash Raj
Films shares with this country. This statue will be
installed at the heart of Interlaken, inside the KURSAAL area, near the Congress Centre. A prime, popular spot with tourists, the statue will remind many of
the cinematic splendor that Yash Chopra had created
for this picturesque nation.
While many ministers and senior bureaucrats from
the Swiss government attended this inauguration, Pamela
Chopra and Rani Mukerji were also present for the occasion. The event was organised by Interlaken Tourism and
Jungfrau Railways.
This is not the first time the filmmaker has been honoured in this way. The government of Interlaken awarded him the honorary title of “Ambassador of Interlaken”
in 2011, and Jungfrau Railways named a train after him
– an honour shared only with the railway’s founder, Adolf
Guyer. In addition, the five-star Victoria Jungfrau Grand
Hotel & Spa in Interlaken named a suite after Yash Chopra.
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in 2011, and Jungfrau Railways named a train after him
– an honour shared only with the railway’s founder, Adolf
Guyer. In addition, the five-star Victoria Jungfrau Grand
Hotel & Spa in Interlaken named a suite after Yash Chopra.
has a huge fanbase for most EDM artists
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technology, as a country we are
equipped to handle global set-ups and
stage design,” said, Vinay Hegde,
founder, Voila Events who brought
Sensation to the country.
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From Hell?
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is moving in with her boyfriend and
all these big exciting things are happening. She has this practice with
her dad, her dad is also a dermatologist, and this weird, drunk, very
inappropriate, personal space-violating thing comes into her life that
is in the form of a guardian angel.
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the two of them getting to know
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international formats and standards, it
goes without saying that the local
Indian touch and flavour to things is
key. We come to know from Bhardwaj
that India has an incredibly good infrastructure, such as equipment, speakers,
sound sampling, lighting equipment,
LED’s CO2s and pyro techniques for
large dance music events. “Local vendors and suppliers have been acquiring
good equipment for a while and they’re
now in a position to provide equipment
that will stand the tests of outdoor,” she
added.
For Sensation, however, Hegde had
imported technology and stage design
from Amsterdam whereby the cost of
the production had shot up. “The formats, once again, are what are approved
by the umbrella global brand because we
wish to giver homegrown audiences a
taste of what they would get when they
are in Miami, Belgium or Amsterdam.
The only modification is maybe adding
an Indian act to promote our local talent on a global platform,” he said.
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affinity with music and art, and we
believe that this is just the beginning of
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episode that you feel defines your
character?
There is like a sequence – it’s
sort of the third time that this crazy
angel has popped into my world and
I now consider her a stalker and in
order to get me to listen to her she
tells me that she has cancer, which
is just so wrong on so many levels.
And it sort of leads into this like next
scene of her getting drunk on shots,
telling me what’s about to happen in
my life, being completely wrong or
so it seems in the moment. And I
have a bit of a breakdown in this
scene and then I kind of come back
to life. But I think it defines our relationship a bit because I am telling her
she has a problem and she needs to
stop drinking. She is telling me my
boyfriend is cheating on me and it all
just becomes this weird, complicated but kind of almost like a love affair
relationship. It’s really strange.
QWhat sets Angel From Hell apart
from other sitcoms on television?
It’s interesting. It sort of has this
— it’s sort of buddy, it’s also kind of
romantic comedy, like it’s very
strange because the dynamic
between my character and Jane
(Lynch’s character), the angel, is
based on sort of chemistry and vibes
and it’s very interesting. And then,
on top of that, it has this sort of fast
pace almost screwball, like thirties
element to it that’s really, really fun
and kind of new and I like that.
QWho is Allison?
Allison is a dermatologist, sort
of type A, very driven, very by the
book, you know, and she has at the
start of the show a very happy relationship. And then she comes across
this really strange, kind of drunk,
odd human being — or is she a
human being, we don’t know — who
claims to be her guardian angel and
starts helping her guide her way,
navigate her way through the
changes that are happening in her
life and sort of guide her in a better direction. And my character,
Allison, is not into it at all.
QWhat makes Allison’s story relatable?
One of the things I love about
this script and the show and sort of
our group is this sort of breakdown
of this girl who is so type A, I mean
to the point — and I think we all get
like this a little bit whether it is on
our phones, our schedules, traffic,
you know, that everything becomes
so rigid, we don’t actually stop to just
have a good time and enjoy the
moment and also maybe get a little
crazy or do something we wouldn’t
normally do, just step out of the
comfort zone. And I kind of like that
Amy comes into Allison’s life and
just turns it upside down, like she
has no choice. And I feel like that?s
when we grow actually in life, you
know, is you actually find that in the
chaos, in the madness and in the
crazy. And I love that we’re exploring that in a comedy, because that’s
life, you know. That is how all that
stuff happens is when you are like
completely broken down that it’s
like, oh, right, this can bloom and
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cast-mates on Angel From Hell?
It kind of couldn’t be any better.
I mean Jane (Lynch) is just a professional but so talented and so warm
and so open. We’ve had such a good
time sort of finding the scenes and
finding the characters together.
And Don (Scardino) who directed
and Tad (Quill) who wrote it,
they’ve also been really great in sort
of giving us that freedom to find it
with each other and not be so, you
know, connected to lines and movements. It’s about what’s happening
kind of naturally. And then Kyle
(Bornheimer) and Kevin (Pollak) on
top of that, I mean it’s just — it’s
always fun when they are around. So
yeah, I feel really lucky. It feels like
a special thing.
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Bar has become a new place for youngsters
to celebrate their big day. With its aphrodisiac-themed menu, the restaurant has
introduced few new cuisines to their
menu.
“There are several restaurants in
Connaught Place which serves Indian,
Chinese, Japanese or Oriental. So, we wanted to do something different and then we
came up with an idea of aphrodisiac
themed restaurant. This is something
which I guess no one has done in this area,”
said Akshay Anand, co-owner of the
restaurant. He added, “I have always
thought of giving to Delhi something which
is quirky, modern and innovative. We have
created Hotmess with a vision of offering
our customers the best of both the worldsfood and drinks at the most pocketfriendly process.” The whole menu is
curated by chef Param Luthra.
As soon as we found a place for ourselves, we were offered pan dando, a
bourbon whisky. The waiter informed us
that it is a signature drink at their restaurant. It was one of the best drinks that we
were served at the restaurant.
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served Imli Patola, strawberry martini, and
sparkling daisy. The bar tenders not only
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drinks but, they also managed to make their
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outré. The ammo boxes, suitcases placed
at the corners add up to that old-world
charm, the photos, portraits although
miscellaneous give out a homogenous impression, pointing out
to the stories of the people, families. They definitely stir up the
intrigue in you to find out more about spaces, places and people framed up tastefully on the walls.
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we catch up a whiff of food, making our gustatory cells work overtime. We make our way to the table where we go through the menu
which has been done in the, no brownies for guessing, Army fashion with names of the dishes stylised keeping the military character alive. The menu boasting of high octane, dynamic names
turns out to be the obvious derivative of regional cuisines across
the country with some foreign elements making their way into
the kitchens of the place.
Their cocktail menu didn’t seem very elaborate; we really had
a tough time settling for our choices. After taking our bittersweet
time we made our decision, first came sangria, incongruously
named AK47, which on the palate was similar to the usual sangrias you get but the only thing that didn’t go down too well with
us was the overload of little chunks of fruits floating on the top
of our tipple. With that we ordered skin splatter which was nothing but their take on British staple, jacket potatoes, nothing
thrilling about it; maybe
they ought to incorporate a
hint of spice to the potatoes.
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Mulligatawny soup which
had to make its way to the
Army kitchen inspired
menu.
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kebabs which for some weird
reason reminded us of the
fresh water lakes and the
fish. This time we went for
another kebab, the ubiquitous galouti, which made
our palate enwrapped with
cinnamon smoke. For the
mains we had tangy baingan
with zafrani biryani, eggplants lacked the very thing
they were named for, you
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hint of tamarind chutney
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crispy and easy to chew. Dahi kebab
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tried. It had the stuffing of bell peppers with
dahi and was beautifully wrapped in a
french loaf. The taste of curd was dominating the dish and if it is paired with green
chutney, it gave a better taste.
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served was nacho pehcho. On a nacho, a
layer of the paste of green kidney was placed
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crunchy due to nachos but we found it
bland due kidney beans. Adding more
spices could have made it a perfect appetizer.
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topped with dark chocolate croutons,
served on a flame; it looked impressive but
when it came to taste, we found it usual as
others.
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Chinese or Japanese cuisines, then you
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host batsmen found starts but could
not turn those into big scores.
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side in place of Zaheer Khan, was the
top-scorer for the side with his 34-run
knock, which came off 32 balls with
just one shot to the fence.
Sanju Samson (20), Karun Nair
(32) and Sam Billings (24) were all
guilty of throwing away their wickets after getting starts.
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Daredevils innings with excellent
bowling from Rajat Bhatia (2/22) and
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Premier League here on Friday.
Yuvraj is yet to play in a single game this IPL since being
ruled out after suffering an injury in the World T20 match
against Australia.
Yuvraj had earlier hoped to join the team for the match
on Friday and he is already in the city.
Starting with a string of victories, Gujarat Lions have
hit a roadblock as they suffered defeats at the hands of laggards Kings XI Punjab and Delhi Daredevils in their last
two outings at home.
The debutants would hope playing away from home
would bring some luck as the Suresh Raina-led side seek
to revive its campaign.
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Royal Challengers Bangalore.
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are placed second in the points table with six wins from nine
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out of form initially. Warner's superb 92 off 50 balls led SRH
to victory in their last match against RCB.
Kane Williamson, skipper of New Zealand team,
joined the side after recovering from an injury. He
announced his arrival with a valuable 50 off 38 balls in the
match against RCB.
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won six and lost three.
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Karthik made useful contributions in the middle-order even
though they failed in the match against Kings XI Punjab. The
batting form of all-rounders Dwayne Bravo and Ravindra
Jadeja remains a cause for concern, but the side should be
pleased with Jadeja's unbeaten 36 in their last match.
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finished with excellent figures of 40-22-2.
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five-day break, a rejuvenated Sunrisers Hyderabad
team is raring to take the field
against Gujarat Lions in an
Indian Premier League match
here on Friday, captain David
Warner said here on
Thursday.
"We won a couple, we
lost a couple. We are coming
out and putting up good
performances. It's going to be
challenging for the guys but
the team is in a good frame
of mind. The guys had rest
(during) last couple of days
and everyone is fresh and
ready to go," Warner told.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
played their last game on
April 30 in which they
defeated Royal Challengers
Bangalore by 15 runs.
And Warner said the
much-needed break helped
the players to regroup.
"For us, it's about making
sure that mentally we are ok,
we are not exhausting ourselves. The guys had a little
bit of training session yesterday. The guys bonded very
well at resorts, some went for
go-karting," he said.
Stating that Gujarat
Lions are a strong side,
Warner said Sunrisers
Hyderabad need to make
early inroads to contain the
explosive batting line-up of
the visitors.
"We have to contain
them early. Whether we bat
or ball first, it's all about first
six overs and early wickets.
For us as a batting unit, it is
important not to lose too
many wickets and for our
bowlers it is important to get
as many wickets as they can,"
he said.
The Australian said their
aim is to keep on winning
games without thinking
about others. "For us, it's
about winning. If we keep
winning, we are going to
make it to the finals. We don't
have to worry about what
other teams do," he said.
Waarner said as a captain, he is open minded and
always accessible to his teammates. "My life becomes easy
when the guys are doing
their job. If I feel something
is not in place, I talk to the
players. My doors are always
open to the players," he said.
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player Yuvraj Singh, who is
yet to feature in the tournament so far because of an
injury, might play tomorrow.
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reply when asked whether
Yuvraj is fit.
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team immediately.
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to convince Law or choose from Englishman
Andy Moles and Australian Test batsman Dean
Jones. "Yes there are hurdles in the way of signing on Stuart Law as head coach although he
is our first choice for this position," PCB
Chairman, Shaharyar Khan (in pic.) told.
"He had applied for a coaching position
with us but he has now conveyed he is more
interested in a consultant's position and that
he wouldn't be able to join the team immediately," Khan said.
Law, a former Australian Test batsman, is
already signed up by Cricket Australia as a batting consultant for the tour to Sri Lanka from
July to September and apparently he has told
the PCB he is not available when Pakistan tours
Australia in November-December this year.
Khan admitted that finding the right person for the job had become a tedious task for
the board. He also confirmed the board of governors unanimously picked Law as the first
choice coach and Moles as second choice.
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Jones although the BOG had some reservations
over some candidates," the PCB chief said.
A reliable source in the board told PTI that
the PCB were not certain about signing on
Moles, 55, as yet because of his history as coach
with associate teams like Kenya, Scotland,
Afghanistan and test side, New Zealand.
"What is of concern to us is that Moles
left or had to leave coaching assignments with
Kenya, Scotland, New Zealand and
Afghanistan because of disagreements or discord with their boards or players," the
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officially earned qualification berths for the August Olympic
Games in Rio de Janeiro after the
much-awaited BWF world rankings were released on Thursday.
Thursday's rankings were
used to determine the Olympic
qualifiers in each of the five categories — men's singles, women's
singles, men's doubles, women's
doubles and mixed doubles —
from the points accumulated in
the period between May 4, 2015
and May 1st, 2016.
Four years ago, five Indians
had qualified at London Olympics.
This year, London Olympics
bronze medallist Saina would be
representing India in her third
Games, while the women's doubles
pair of Jwala and Ashwini
Ponnappa will also play their second Olympics in August.
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Sindhu earned their maiden
Olympic berths in men's singles
and women's events respectively.
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two women's singles players playing in the Olympics.
Other countries with two representatives in women's singles are
China (Li Xuerui, Wang Yihan);
Japan (Nozomi Okuhara and
Akane Yamaguchi) and Korea
(Sung Ji Hyun and Bae Yeon Ju).
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that an Indian men's doubles pair
of Manu Attri and B Summeth
Reddy will be representing the
country in Olympics.
A total of 172 shuttlers made
the cut on Thursday for the Rio
Olympics, where there will be
slight change in qualification quotas for men's and women's singles
with a maximum quota for singles
players from the same National
Olympic Committee (NOC) being
two places if both players are
ranked in the world's top 16.
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for doubles in which there is a
maximum of two pairs per NOC
if both pairs are ranked in the top
eight. The total quota per NOC
will therefore be reduced from 18
to 16 (eight male ansd eight female
players).
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number of quota places is around
34. Besides, one place is reserved
for the host NOC and three for
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World No 12 in the latest BWF
rankings issued on Thursday.
Jwala Gutta and Ashwini
Ponappa, who made the cut for
their second Olympics, rose one
rung to be World No14 in
women's doubles.
Manu Attri and B Sumeeth
Reddy slipped a spot to be positioned at the 20th spot.
Among others, H S Prannoy
jumped two places to reach the
25th spot, while Ajay Jayaram lost
a spot to be placed 21st in the
men's singles rankings which is
topped by China's Chen Long.
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Nehwal and Sindhu were static at
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The format of the tournament
will be similar to the London
Olympics with the players being
drawn in separate groups in
Round-Robin and then a separate
draw will be held ahead of the
knock-out stage.
Though the Olympic qualifiers
have been determined on the basis
of today's Race to Rio rankings, a
final list of qualifiers will be published after the deadline of July 18,
which will include the allocation of
quota for Tripartite Commission
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crore while their co-owners Shrinivas Dempo
and Dattaraj Salgaocar were banned for two
and three seasons respectively for "bringing
disrepute" to the tournament.
The ISL Regulatory Commission took
the decisions after the conclusion of the hearings in Mumbai relating to the controversy
surrounding the scuffle between Chennaiyin
FC's Brazillian marquee player Elano Blumer
and FC Goa officials after the ISL second season final in Margao in December last.
The five-member Regulator y
Commission of ISL headed by Justice (Retd)
D A Mehta met in Mumbai over last three
days in continuation of their earlier sittings
since February to hear the submissions of the
respective parties in the matter of Football
Sports Development Limited vs FC Goa; FC
Goa vs Chennaiyin FC; FC Goa vs Elano
Blumer and Chennaiyin FC vs FC Goa.
"In its final order pronounced today, FC
Goa were found in breach of ISL regulations/code of conduct bringing disrepute to
the ISL, following the unfortunate incident
on 20th December 2015 soon after the Hero
ISL final at Fatorda Stadium, Goa. FC Goa
were facing the allegations of violating ISL
Regulations namely for 'boycotting match
and league ceremony', 'public criticism and
threatening match officials,' 'alleging that the
match were fixed,' and 'non-adherence of
League rules'," the ISL said in a release.
"Mr. Dattaraj Salgaocar shall be banned
from associating with any activity pertaining
to ISL matches (including entering stadium)
for three (3) ISL seasons. Mr. Srinivas Dempo
shall be banned from associating with any
activity pertaining to ISL matches (including
entering stadium) for two (2) ISL seasons.
"A sum of Rs 10 crore (Rupees Ten
Crores Only) shall be paid by FC Goa to
FSDL towards penalty/fine as well as costs;
and a sum of Rs 1 crore (Rupees One Crore
Only) shall be paid by FC Goa to Chennaiyin
FC towards costs," the release said.
Dempo is also a vice-president of the All
India Football Federation.
FC Goa team will also be docked 15
points in the next ISL season.
The Regulatory Commission members
were unanimous in arriving at the verdict.
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Champions League final into a
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crosstown derby on Wednesday, beating
Manchester City a day after Atletico
Madrid had sealed its place in decider for
European football's biggest prize.
A convincing 1-0 victory over City
at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium
means that Real will face Atletico on
May 28 in a rematch of the 2014 final
that it won in extra time. Real Madrid
will be trying to win its 11th Champions
League title in the all-Spanish showdown in Milan. Atletico, which eliminated five-time champion Bayern
Munich on Tuesday, will be trying to
avenge the 4-1 loss from two years ago
as it bids for its first title.
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souls in another final," Real Madrid
defender Sergio Ramos said. "We managed to stay united and soak up the
pressure to try and pull it off. We've
eliminated a huge team in City. It has
taken a lot to get to the final, but we
deserve it."
The second leg of the semifinal was
decided by a superb shot by Gareth Bale
from a tight angle that deflected off
defender Fernando in the 20th minute
and was marked down as an own goal.
Madrid advanced with a 1-0 aggregate
win after a scoreless first-leg draw.
"We suffered, as expected, but in the
end we were able to reach the final and
that's the most important thing," Real
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Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said.
Wednesday's win ended City's best
ever participation in the Champions
League, though it was outclassed on the
night and never really looked like turning the game around. The wealthy
English club hadn't made it past the
round of 16 until this season's campaign.
"I am disappointed because I think
that was a very close game," City coach
Manuel Pellegrini said. "We didn't
deserve to lose, Madrid was lucky
with its goal, when the ball was deflected. I don't think any of the teams
deserved to win. There was a lot of work
by both sides in the two games, but not
a lot of creativity."
football giants beat Manchester City 1-0 in
the second leg of UEFA Champions League
semi-final.
"It was a tough game, but I think we
played better than City, we created more
chances and were more intense. After our
goal, we knew that City would press, but we
controlled the game well," Efe quoted
Ronaldo as saying British broadcaster BT
Sport on Wednesday.
"The team was very good. It's the game
that we had to kill off," added the Portuguese
attacker "One-nil is a close but sufficient
result. We are in the final."
Commenting about his injury, he said:
"I was at a hundred percent. Obviously not
at a fitness level, because I've been out for
a while. But I did a good job for the team
and we are in the final."
He commented that the French head
coach Zinedine Zidane "is doing a great job".
Ronaldo stressed he was "very happy"
to be in the final of the Champions League.
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Real Madrid head coach Zinedine
Zidane has heaped praise on his footballers
for putting up an impressive performance.
Real Madrid will now face cross-town
rivals Atletico Madrid, who earlier defeated Bayern Munich, in summit clash in Milan
on May 28.
"We suffered, like we knew we'd have to.
In the end we've made it and we're really
happy. The players deserve this. The fans
were with the players for the whole game and
that always helps," Zidane was quoted as saying by uefa.com. "Cristiano (Ronaldo) played
like he always does, but everyone worked
hard and that's why we're in the final. I'm
delighted for what has happened. The final
will be perfectly even, but now we're going
to enjoy this. It's an important day."
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made their way into the Madrid
N
Open quarterfinals on Thursday, each
mid the recent controversies including the banning
A
of some big names, Indian
with straight-set wins.
The top-ranked Djokovic beat
Roberto Bautista Agut 6-2, 6-1 for his
30th win of the season, the most on tour.
Defending champion Murray defeated
Gilles Simon 6-4, 6-2.
"I wanted to be aggressive and it's
what I've done," said Djokovic, who had
25 winners and only 11 unforced
errors. "The conditions were quite different than yesterday, it was a bit slower but a bit more windier, so I had to
be concentrated."
A day earlier, Djokovic met Ronaldo
at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium
before Real Madrid's game against
Manchester City in the Champions
League. Rafael Nadal was also at the
football match.
Murray broke Simon's serve in the
final game of the first set and twice in the
second to stay on track to defend his title.
Murray's match against Simon was
a rematch of the 2008 final in Madrid,
when the British player won his first title
wrestlers will seek a fresh start
when they take to the mat at
the 2nd World Qualifying tournament, starting here on
Friday, with an aim to secure as
many Olympic quotas in their
last attempt.
The 14-member India
team, sans the likes of famous
Phogat sisters — Geeta and
Babita Kumari, will be keen to
secure Olympic berths for the
country during the three-day
event from May 6 to 8. It will
be a tough competition, considering that only the top two finishers in each weight category
will ensure a quota place at the
Rio Games.
Last week, the Wrestling
Federation of India (WFI)
issued show cause notices to
four wrestlers — Geeta
(women's 58kg), Babita
(women's 53kg), Sumit (men's
at the tournament.
Also, sixth-seeded Kei Nishikori
reached the quarterfinals by defeating
10th-seeded Richard Gasquet 6-4, 7-5,
while eighth-seeded Tomas Berdych beat
ninth-seeded David Ferrer 7-6 (8), 7-5.
In the women's tournament, 19year-old qualifier Louisa Chirico defeated Daria Gavrilova of Australia 7-6 (1),
6-2 to reach the semifinals.
The 130th-ranked Chirico became
the first American teenager to reach the
semifinals of a top clay-court event since
Ashley Harkleroad in Charleston, South
Carolina, in 2003.
Also, sixth-seeded Simona Halep
reached the semifinals by beating IrinaCamelia Begu 6-3, 0-6, 6-1.
125kg freestyle) and Rahul
Aware (men's 57kg freestyle) —
before handing them temporary suspension for showing
indiscipline, bringing their
dream of qualifying for Rio
Olympics to an abrupt end.
To add to all this, Vinesh
Phogat (in pic.) (women's
48kg) was disqualified from the
event for being 400gms overweight. However, Vinesh was
let off with a warning and now
all eyes would be on her, as she
is not only India's best bet in
women's category but also
because she has assured WFI of
ensuring an Olympic berth at
the competition here.
No Indian woman wrestler
has so far won a quota place
and with Geeta and Babita out
now, the onus will be on
Vinesh.
With WFI deciding to
come down heavily on the
offenders and world body also
having debarred them from
this tournament, the last
Olympic qualifying event will
not have some of the best
Indian wrestlers.
Lalita has replaced Babita
and Sakshi Malik comes in
place of Geeta.
Others in the fray are Shilpi
Sheron (63kg), Geetika Jhakar
(69kg) and Kiran (75kg). The
three have come in for Anita,
Navjot Kaur and Jyoti.
The men's freestyle category will be spearheaded by experienced Mausam Khatri (97kg)
as Satywart Kadian failed to bag
a quota in this category at the
last tournament. Gopal Yadav
(86kg) and Hitender (125kg)
will be the others fighting here,
replacing Somveer and Sumit.
So far four Indians — three
in men's freestyle division and
one in Greco-Roman category
— have qualified for the quadrennial extravaganza.