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Government nearing completion of 100 days in power,
India's economic growth rate
has for the first time risen to
touch a two-and-half year's
high of 5.7 per cent for the
April-June quarter.
"The performance of the
economy in the first quarter
(Q1) of 2014-15 is broadly on
expected lines... With improvement in some important sectors, including manufacturing
and exports, along with the
measures taken by the
Government, the economy can
be expected to show further
improvement in the remaining
part of the year," said Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley.
The higher Q1 numbers
come with an improved performance of mining, manufacturing and services sector. The
economy had expanded by 4.7
per cent in the April-June quarter of the last fiscal ended
March 31. The manufacturing
sector recorded a growth of 3.5
per cent in Q1, 2014-15 as
against a contraction of 1.2 per
cent in Q1, 2013-14. The mining sector too grew by 2.1 per
cent in Q1, compared to a
decline in production by 3.9 per
cent in the year-ago period. In
the January-March period (last
quarter of 2013-14), it was 4.6
per cent. The previous high of
GDP growth rate was recorded
at 6 per cent in the OctoberDecember quarter of 2011-12.
Meanwhile, the highest
growth rate during Q1, 2014-15
was recorded by financial ser-
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vices sector at 10.4 per cent, followed by electricity gas and
water supply at 10.2 per cent, as
per data released here on Friday
by the Central Statistics Office
(CSO).
India Inc has cheered and
expressed optimism with the
growth figures. Even as the
business confidence index had
been showing an an upward
trend and rose by 17 per cent
in June 2014 over April 2014 on
improving economic conditions and positive investment
climate, as per the economic
think-tank NCAER. Also, the
Political Confidence Index
(PCI) for June quarter had
surged by 20 per cent over
April 2014.
"In order to convert the first
signs of revival into a fullfledged recovery, it is necessary
that the government continues
on its path of implementing the
reforms agenda which would
restart the investment cycle
and revive demand in the economy," CII Director General
Chandrajit Banerjee said.
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Modi expressed "disappointment" over the way
Pakistan tried to make a
"spectacle" of the Indian
efforts to weed out pending
issues between the two countries prior to the Foreign
Secretary level meeting in
Islamabad. The meeting was
cancelled after Pakistani
High Commissioner in India
Abdul Basit met Kashmiri
separatists for consultations
prior to the talks.
During an interaction
with the Japanese media,
PM said India desires peaceful, friendly and cooperative
ties with Pakistan and will
continue to make efforts to
build such ties with the
neighbours.
en years after floating
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global tender for 197 light
utility helicopters worth over
C3,600 crore for Army and IAF
to replace ageing Cheetah and
Chetak helicopters, which are
lifeline of troops in Siachen,
the Government on Friday
scrapped the tenders due to
alleged irregularity in field
trial and bribery charges. This
was the second time the tender was scrapped after the first
cancellation in 2007.
Revoking the tenders,
Defence Acquisition Council
(DAC) headed by Defence
Minister Arun Jaitley opted for
the Indian industry to manufacture the helicopters
as per 'buy-and-make-inIndia' policy.
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public sector company to procure technology from abroad
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of six submarines worth over
C4,800 crore, and procurement of 118 Arjun Mk II
tanks for C6,600 crore, and 40
self-propelled catapult guns
worth C820 crore, officials
said. The six submarines
include four Sindhu class
made by Russia and two
Shishumaar class built by
Germany.
While two Sindhu submarines will be refitted in
Russia, Mazagon Docks
Limited (MDL) will upgrade
the other two in Mumbai
besides the Shishumaar
submarines.
The DAC also cleared a
C900-crore proposal for setting
up dedicated mobile communication systems for troops
deployed along the China
border under Tezpur-based
4 Corps, Dimapur-based
3 Corps and Leh-based
14 Corps.
The Navy was also allowed
to go ahead with its plan to
acquire 16 multi-role helicopters and the bids will be
opened shortly.
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n yet another corporal punishment, a Class IX student
has lost his right eye after he
was beaten by a teacher in
Shambhu Dayal Inter-College
in the city on August 21. The
police registered a case on
Friday after the parents pursued the case for over a week.
Narrating the incident,
the mother of victim Krishna,
said on August 21, her son was
completing his Mathematics
homework in the class when
Hindi teacher Virendra Nagar
entered the class and asked
him what he was doing.
"He innocently replied he
was completing his maths
homework as the Hindi
teacher was not in the class.
This infuriated Nagar who
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The Government hopes
that this project has the potential of generating business
worth over C40,000 crore.
The DAC, apex body for
clearing procurement proposals of three Services, also
cleared several projects worth
over C20,000 crore.
These include procurement of 15 Chinook and 22
Apache attack helicopters from
the US after clearing the offset clauses, mid-life upgrade
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started beating the boy black
and blue. The teacher dragged
the boy to the blackboard
banged his head against it.
Krishna started bleeding on
his right eyebrow," Rajni said.
The student was bleeding
on his right eyebrow. Instead
of taking the injured student
to hospital, the school administration gave him first aid
and sent him home. The
ordeal of the 15-year-old student did not end here as his
parents were made to run
from pillar to post to register
a criminal case against the
guilty teacher.
The mother alleged that
the school management treated the incident very casually.
They just put some cotton on
the wound and sent him
home, she said.
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n the appointment of the new interlocutor for
Naga peace talks, the Prime Minister's Office
has overruled the Home Ministry. The PMO has
appointed RN Ravi, Chairman of Joint
Intelligence Committee (JIC), as the new interlocutor while Home Minister Rajnath Singh had
reportedly recommended the name of Ajit Lal,
who had retired as Chairman of JIC in July 2014.
Lal was also a former Intelligence Bureau high
up dealing with North-East.
"The Government has appointed RN Ravi,
Chairman, Joint Intelligence Committee as the
new official interlocutor and Government of
India representative for Naga peace talks," said
an official notification issued on Friday.
Sources said after deliberating over the suggestion made by Rajnath Singh for several
weeks, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) overruled it.
Ajit Lal was a UPA appointee and his tenure
as JIC Chairman was extended for a month up
to July 31. The Home Minister suggested him
as Interlocutor few days before his retirement.
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elhi Traffic Police faces the herD
culean task of implementing
the Delhi Government's order that
makes wearing helmets mandatory for women pillion riders.
However, as the order exempts
Sikh women from wearing helmets,
this diktat has put traffic cops in a
fix and they are wondering how they
will identify whether the woman riding pillion is a Sikh or not.
They also feel that exempting
Sikh women from wearing helmets
may prove to be a major impediment in the implementation of the
order as women from other reli-
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gions will also demand exemption.
As things stand, the Delhi
Government's notification making helmets compulsory for all
women pillion riders except for
Sikh women, has raised eyebrows
in the Capital.
Significantly, the Delhi Traffic
Police had on earlier occasions
raised the red flag and asked the
Government to make helmets
compulsor y for all women
pillion riders irrespective of
their religion.
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he CBI on Friday
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chargesheeted former
Telecom Minister Dayanidhi
Maran and his brother
Kalanidhi, two other individuals and four entities, for criminal conspiracy, graft and abuse
of official position for allegedly "constricting" the business
environment of Aircel on frivolous grounds to force its exit
from the telecom business and
its sale to Malaysian firm Maxis.
Investigations revealed that
the then Telecom Minister
Dayanidhi Maran had delayed
grant of license to Aircel on frivolous grounds and arm-twisted
it to sell its business to the
Malaysia-based company, Maxis,
the CBI alleged in its chargesheet.
It further said: "After the
change of ownership, the
requests/approvals pending
since long before the
Department
of
Telecommunications were
acceded to, for which alleged
illegal gratification of C549 crore
(approximately) was paid by the
UK-based company (Astro All
Asia Networks Plc) to Chennaibased TV Company (Sun Direct
TV Pvt. Ltd owned by the
Marans) in the garb of purchase
of its shares at a premium of
C69.57 per share through its
subsidiary the Mauritius-based
company (South Asia Entertainment Holding Ltd, Mauritius)."
The agency further alleged
that Astro also paid an illegal
gratification of about C193.54
crore to Chennai-based South
Asia FM Ltd through its
Mauritius-based subsidiaries
South Asia Multimedia
Technologies Ltd and South
Asia Technologies Ltd. Maxis
and its subsidiaries are alleged
to have paid a bribe to the tune
of C629-crore to Sun TV owned
by the Marans.
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amil Nadu Chief Minister
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J Jayalalithaa's re-election as
party general secretary for the
seventh time was a foregone
conclusion. But in the process,
the AIADMK got richer by
C6.16 crores on Friday when
2,467 party workers filed bank
drafts of C25,000 each drawn in
favour of the party as nomination fee for Jayalalithaa. No
names other than that of
Amma, as Jayalalithaa is fondly called by the people of the
State, had been proposed.
When the election schedule was announced early this
month, it was certain that
Jayalalithaa would be re-elected as party chief. The only
interest in the election was the
number of nominations which
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would be filed proposing the
name of Amma for the coveted post. Till date no other political party, at least in Tamil
Nadu, has received such a large
number of nomination papers
for a single individual.
Election for the post of
AIADMK general secretary is
held once in every five years.
Jayalalithaa has been holding
the post since 1987 following
the death of party founder
MG Ramachandran, popularly known as MGR.
With her re-election as party
chief, Jayalalithaa became the
second longest-serving chief of
a political party in the country.
Muthuvel Karunanidhi, the
DMK president, who has been
holding the post since 1969 has
the record of the longest-serving
chief of a political in the country. Karunanidhi is second only
to Fidel Castro, who holds the
world record as the longest-serving party boss. Castro had a 50year tenure as secretary of the
Cuban Communist Party from
1961 to 2011. If Karunanidhi
(92) continues to be the president of the DMK for another
five years, he will equal or surpass Castro's achievement.
Visalakshi
Nedunchenzhiyan, organisational secretary of the party, who was the
election commissioner, said
2,467 nomination papers were
filed by party members seeking
re-election of Jayalalithaa. "As
there were no other names,
Jayalalithaa has been elected
unanimously as general secretary," she said.
A jubilant Jayalalithaa said
she was moved by the affection
and trust the party men had
placed in her. "The AIADMK
is left with no enemies because
of the good work done by the
party," said Jayalalithaa while
addressing hundreds of party
workers who had thronged to
the AIADMK headquarters.
She said the victories recorded
by the party in the 2011
Assembly elections and the
subsequent local body elections
show that the party does not
have any enemies as the people
had acknowledged the
AIADMK as their own party.
"We created history with the
victory in the 2014 Lok Sabha
election which cannot be replicated by anyone. Our only
motive is to work for the welfare
of the people," said Jayalalithaa
who also released the names of
party candidates for the ensuing
by-election to the local bodies
in the State scheduled for
September. Now the only point
of interest is the number of
nomination forms which would
be filed in the name of
Karunanidhi during the organisational elections of the DMK
scheduled for later this year.
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ttarakhand police have
deployed 121 policemen
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and police officers of State
Disaster Response Force
(SDRF) in order to bolster
relief and rescue operations in
case of emergency as Nanda
Devi Raj Jat Yatra is on the
move with thousands of
pilgrims trekking their ways
along the deified routes.
State Additional Director
General of Police Ram Singh
Meena said, “In order to complete Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra
peacefully, several steps related to safety and security of the
pilgrims as well as to parking,
communication and rescue
operations have been taken.”
He said, “We have
deployed 121 policemen and
police officers of SDRF. Apart
from this, a company of
Provincial
Armed
Constabulary (PAC) jawans, a
platoon of Sashastra Seema
Bal (SSB) personnel, IndoTibetan Border Police (ITBP)
personnel, mountaineers, fire
department officials, one additional SP, two deputy SP and
policemen, including inspectors, sub-inspectors and constables, have been deployed
along the routes of the Nanda
Devi Raj Jat Yatra which began
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s the nation embarks on
a new era of banking system with the advent of inaugural ceremony of Pradhan
Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana,
Bank of Baroda actively
participated in the national
programme by staging
mega camps at various locations across the city, covering
28 Wards.
While covering these
wards as part of the financial
inclusion programme, the
Bank has opened 5000
Savings
Accounts
in
Dehradun district. Further, a
small distribution ceremony
was also convened at the
Bank of Baroda Regional
Office, Dehradun where the
regional head SK Mishra
handed over the Savings
Account kits to the specially
invited beneficiaries. Mishra
informed about the benefits of
having a Bank Account under
the present scheme and
appealed to propagate the
news among the society in
order to maintain the tempo
of the initiative.
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from August 18”.
Meena further said the
sacred Yatra will be completed on September 6. Held once
every 12 years, this yatra begins
from Nauti village near
Karnprayag and passes through
various high altitude areas.
Moreover, those undertaking
this Yatra cover about 243 kilometres on foot in 22 days.
He further said police will
ed by Puran Singh Tomar at
Vaidni Bugyal post, a sevenmember team headed by chief
constable Ram Seth Prasad at
Patar Nachauniya post, a sevenmember team headed by Arjun
Singh at Baguvawasa post; a
seven member team headed by
sub inspector Jitendra Joshi at
Shilasamudra post; a six-member team led by Pramod Kumar
at Chandniyaghat post, a
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use wireless sets and satellite
phones in high altitude areas of
the Yatra route where mobile
phone connectivity is poor.
Police force had conducted
recce of these routes before the
Yatra took off.
He further said all the
routes of Nanda Devi Raj Jat
Yatra are equipped with means
of communications.
Seventeen members of
SDRF team led by sub-inspector Gajendra Singh Parwan
have been assigned areas
between Nauti and Wan to
conduct relief and rescue operations in case of emergency.
At Wan post, a 12-member
team headed by Bhupendra
Singh Bhandari was deputed
while a 10- member team led
by Om Prakash at Gairoli Patal
post, a 12-member team head-
eight-member team headed by
Ravindra Singh at Latakhopri
post; a six- member team headed by chief constable Khurshid
Ali at Sitaul post and a
11-member team headed by
Ashok Kumar Parihar at
Sitaul post.
A 14 -member team led by
SDRF deputy commandant
Navneet Singh Bhullar has
been deputed between Wan
post to Ghat post for conducting relief and rescue operations
in case of emergency. In addition to this, in coordination
with SDRF, anti-mining team
and PAC (30 members) will
also work and they are deputed on routes of Nanda Devi Raj
Jat Yatra. SDRF teams have
arranged free food facilities
for the pilgrims on the Yatra
routes, atop Bedini Bugyal.
he Dehradun District
Magistrate Chandresh
Kumar Yadav's repeated warning-tinged directives to the
district officers to promptly
redress things as recorded in
the public complaints seem to
have failed to melt the ice of
inefficiency on the ground.
During the earlier meeting
with the district officers on
August 21, DM Yadav had
warned the district officers to
readdress public complaints
received in the Compliant
Redressal Cell at Collectorate in
Dehradun without delay, failing which he warned that their
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salaries would be withheld. He
said this against the backdrop
of only 401 such registered
complaints out of 1025 since
June 27 having been sorted out
by the district officers of various departments.
DM Yadav again reviewed
things related to pubic complaints with the district officers
on Thursday (August 28) and
he again sounded disappointed with the tardy pace of
redressal.
Out of 1174, only 441 public complaints were redressed
by the district officials of Public
Works Department, Dehradun
Municipal Corporation,
Education, Irrigation, Tehsil
among others. In course of the
meeting, it was observed that
around 50 complaints are
pending with the departments
of PWD, Irrigation, Municipal
Corporation, Education, Tehsil
Sadar and some others. He also
issued notices to various
departments who failed to rise
to the occasion in the stipulated time-frame.
Seemingly distraught with
things going on at a snail's pace
despite his repeated coaxing,
Yadav directed the officers
again to see to it that not even
a single complaint has
remained un-redressed.
After reviewing the complaints, DM also observed that
most of the complaints lodged
in the CRC are related to the
recent disaster. He asked the
sub-divisional magistrates to
take measures immediately for
redressing things in their
respective jurisdictions. He
also expressed outrage at the
officials thus found wanting.
PWD officials were
directed to open the closed
roads immediately. They were
also asked to submit such
reports to the DM office on a
daily basis.
DM again directed the
additional DM Pratap Singh
Shah to form a team of lekhpals
and submit a report following
surveys of the disaster- affected families so that they can be
provided promptly with financial assistance the State
Government has announced
for them, he added.
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verifying his location and consequently, he was arrested by
the team.
In regards to illegal sales
and purchases of property
(land), a case under section 420
of IPC was registered in the
Riskhikesh police station way
back in 2009. Meanwhile,
Bhandari had reached France,
eluding police. Recently he
returned to India and hid himself in Roorkee, Haridwar, Batla
(Punjab) and other places in
Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.
Currently, he was running a
hotel at Batla, Punjab. Police
impounded his passport.
Singh Bhandari from Rishikesh
and seized his passport. He had
intended to escape from India
overseas, it was learnt from
police. Earlier, Garhwal Deputy
Inspector General of Police
(DIG) had announced a bounty of Rs 5, 000 on Bhandari.
It should be mentioned
here that Bhandari was working as a property dealer and
was allegedly involved in illegal sales and purchases of
property (land) in Rishikesh
area.
Police received a tip- off
that he had been hiding in several places in Punjab, Haryana
and Uttar Pradesh and running
hotels from there.
Acting to a tip- off, STF,
Uttarakhand SSP had formed a
team headed by inspector
Yogesh Kumar and they began
searching the accused. Police
found Bhandari’s location in
Punjab. But he somehow managed to escape from Punjab
and come to Rishikesh a few
days ago. Police raided a house,
near Shyampur, Riskhiesh after
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awards, the Uttarakhand
Government would start the
State Sports Awards, these
awards would be given to 15
sportsmen every year and
they would carry prize money
of Rs 1.0 lakh and citation.
The Spor ts Minister
Dinesh Agarwal informed
this while addressing a programe on the occasion of
spor ts
day
at
the
Raipur sports college here
on Friday.
Paying tribute to hockey
legend Major Dyan Chand,
the
spor ts
minister
announced that the astro turf
hockey play ground of Raipur
Sports College would be
named after Dhyan Chand.
He advised the sport persons
to take inspiration from the
life of Dhyan Chand.
Agarwal said the state
government is working on a
proposal in which the sportsmen of the state who would
bag gold medals in the forth-
coming Asian games would
be given an out of turn Group
B appointment in the state
government.
He said that the government would soon come out
with a sports policy for promotion of sports in the state.
Agarwal announced that for
providing quality training to
the sports persons 100 new
posts of sport coaches would
be created in the state.
On the state sports awards
the sports minister said that
every year 15 sportsperson
would be selected that would
include the disabled and veteran sportsmen also and these
awards would be presented on
the occasion of State foundation day on November 9.
He declared that the food
allowance of students of
Spor ts C ollege would
be increased from Rs 150
to Rs 200.
He also declared that a
pension scheme for former
spor tspersons would be
launched on the anniversary
of GB Pant this year.
nscheduled load-shedding dragging on for more than five hours
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on Friday have badly hit normal life in different parts of
Haldwani and other parts of the region.
The power supply that went off around 11 am could be restored
only around 4.30 pm in Haldwani, including Mukhani, Kaladhungi
Road, Gasgodam Road, R K Tent House Road and Kushumkhera,
Kamaluwaganja, to name a few areas. However, the power supply
continued to be disrupted for short intervals here during evening
hours on Friday. Unscheduled load- shedding thus has become a
routine affair here for many days, as citizens also faced power outages for three hours on Thursday. “We keep suffering due to the
dragging power outages in many ways. Drinking water supply has
become erratic. We wonder for how long we would have to put up
with such ordeals,” said a senior citizen from the town.
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he Nainital district administration has asked the officials
concerned of different departments to utilise the funds
released to their respective
departments by end of
September 2014.
The Government has
already released Rs 52.65 crore
proposed under the district plan
for Nainital district, said Akshat
Gupta, District Magistrate,
Nainital, adding that out of the
released amount, Rs 22.10 crore
has been distributed among different departments for carrying
out developmental works.
This is the first time when
the entire amount proposed
under the district plan has been
released to the district in single
installment. Therefore, timely
utilisation of the funds is a must,
maintained Gupta.
More so, as the officials concerned of the district administration informed, allocation/distribution of district plan funds is
also being done through online
system. The third installment of
the district plan fund will also be
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distributed among departments
in October. Therefore, all the
officials concerned are supposed
to prepare work -plans on time,
the administration further said.
It has also stressed the need to
maintain quality and timely
completion of works. Strict
actions will be taken against the
officials concerned of those
departments if they fail to ensure
timely completion of works, the
administration warned.
More so, in such cases, the
approved funds for their departments will be transferred to
other departments, asserted the
district administration, Nainital.
The district administration
has also directed the officials
concerned of different departments to spend the funds only in
implementing the project for
which the fund has been
approved or sanctioned.
The administration has also
directed the officials to expedite
the development works being
carried out under state sector,
centrally sponsored and other
schemes and ensure timely utilisation of the funds released
under the same.
ifferent organisations and
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common people from the
district and regional headquarter Pauri have strongly opposed
the order of the Uttarakhand
Government to shift the camp
office of the Rural Development
Directorate to Dehradun.
Annoyed with the ‘arbitrary’
decision, they have decided to
launch agitation against the
decision. It would continue till
the order of shifting of camp
office presently located in
Gramya Vikash Nidashalya is
not revoked, they warned.
Rural
Development
Directorate was established in
Pauri in 2001. Instead of filling
the vacant posts of deputy commissioner and one administrative officer in the office of Rural
Development Directorate by
the government, the order of
shifting the camp office has
been issued. The refrain is that
the district and regional headquarter have been left crippled
since the time Uttarakhand
became a State.
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nvironmentalist Ram Babu
‘Junglee’ has objected to the
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State Government announcing a reward for Kamala Devi
of Rudraprayag district who
had recently killed a leopard
that had attacked her. He said
that while the government is
implementing various schemes
for wildlife protection, rewarding a person for killing a leopard reeks of double standards.
Addressing the media in
Dehradun on Friday, the environmentalist famous for his
ability to mimic various birds
and wild animals said that it is
wrong to reward a person for
killing a leopard at a time when
efforts by government and voluntary organisations are being
undertaken for protecting
wildlife. Factors like degradation of forests and decreasing
prey base and food sources are
forcing the wild animals to
venture closer to human habitations which in turn is escalating the human-wildlife conflict. “The wild animals are
liable to attack those venturing
in their habitats. I have dedicated my life to the conservation of environment and
wildlife. I am disappointed by
the human interference in environment and the killing of
wildlife. The government
should do justice in stead of
rewarding a person for killing
a leopard. The inefficiency of
the Forest Department is
responsible for the humanwildlife conflict. I and other
wildlife lovers will sit on protest
if the department doesn’t take
effective steps on this issue,” he
said. It will be recalled that
when attacked by a leopard
recently, 54 year old Kamala
Devi fought back and inflicted
mortal wounds on the big cat
with her sickle while also
sustaining injuries herself.
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n connection with subinspector (SI) recruitment
Iscam
of 2002-03, the special
bench of CBI has filed a chargesheet against two retired IPS
officers – the then Uttarakhand
Director General of Police
(DGP) PD Raturi and the then
additional DGP Rakesh Mittal.
The CBI court fixed charges
under sections 120b, 420, 467,
468, 471 of IPC; 66 IT Act, 13
of Prevention of Corruption
Act against both police officers.
In 2002, the State
Government had conducted
SI recruitment test for 251
posts of sub-inspector (civil
police, provincial armed constabulary and intelligence) for
the first time after formation of
the new state. The written test
was held through IIT Roorkee.
The then ADGP Rakesh Mittal,
had led a five- member board
and was given responsibility for
tion of results, 19 candidates
had filed a petition in High
Court. High Court has handed over the case to CBI. After
primary investigation, the State
Government had suspended
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completing the SI recruitment
process in the state.
It was alleged that to favour
some candidates, these police
officers had decreased marks of
those candidates who had
secured marks higher than the
cut off marks for the written
test. In regards to this case, a
case was registered against
these police officers in
December 2003.
Meanwhile, after declara-
then acting ADGP Rakesh
Mittal. However, he was given
reprieve through Central
Administrative Tribunal
(CAT). Then acting DGP
Raturi was also removed from
the DGP post. In addition,
six sub-inspectors were also
dismissed.
Later, Raturi was made
then DG (rules and manual)
while Mittal was given responsibility of ADGP (Home
Guard) and later DG. Both the
officers retired in due course.
CBI conducted an inquiry
over this case between 2003
and 2005. Due to the
Government’s apathy, CBI
could not file charge- sheet
against these officers, it was
alleged. In compliance with
Supreme Court, Nainital High
Court nudged the State
Government over the issue
and consequently, the
Government nodded the CBI
to file charge- sheets against the
accused. Special CBI court of
Amit Kumar Sirohi has filed a
charge- sheet against the officers, who were also present in
the court. The court has fixed
October 28 as the next date of
hearing, it is learnt.
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Sufi music programme by
SBadey
Gajee Khan was held at
Heritage School and Institute of
Management Studies on Friday.
They left the students at the
school as well as the college
enthralled by their performance. During the interaction
with the artists, the students got
to know about several instruments they use, how to play
them and how they are surviving the onslaught of time.
They were also told many
things about Manganiar community.
They sang the traditional
and still popular Kesariya
Balam and a devotional bhajan
on Lord Krishna 'Sri Radha
Rani'. The Algoza recital by
Alaudin Langa seemed to have
set new standards of excellence
in the annals of Sufi music ever
performed in Dehradun.
Notably, it is a very tough
instrument and only the
Manganiar community has
kept it alive though ages. The
audience was all in cheers
when they sang ‘Nimbuda
Nimbuda' as well as
‘Ghumaakad’.
The Rajasthani folk music
was presented by Din
Muhammad and group of the
Thar Lok Kala Sansthan.
The lead singer is the legendary Bade Gajee Khan
Manganiar who has been
bestowed with National
Sangeet Natak Academy Award
by the President of India,
Marwar Ratna Samman and
many more.
Along with his group, he
has performed in USA,
England, Germany, Brazil,
Japan, China, Norway, Spain,
Canada, France and all over the
Middle East over 200
times. 'Nimbuda'-the famous
Rajasthani song, catapulted
him to fame.
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he establishment of the
UNESCO C entre for
World Natural Heritage
Management and Training
for Asia and Pacific Region at
the Wildlife Institute of India
— the world’s first centre
dealing with natural world
heritage — will boost
capacity-building for world
heritage conservation in the
50 countries of the
Asia-Pacific region.
WII director Dr VB
Mathur said this while
addressing the media on the
eve of the foundation stone
laying ceremony for the cen-
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tre to be attended by Union
minister of State for
Environment, Forest and
Climate Change Prakash
Javadekar.
Mathur informed that
there are 32 world heritage
sites in India comprising
seven natural and 25 cultural sites. Natural heritage conservation in Asia-Pacific
region has been facing many
challenges in recent years
resulting from extreme pressure exerted on natural
ecosystems due to high population density, risk of disasters, constant economic
growth and persistent poverty. Capacity building for
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an effort to provide medical
in the mountainous
Iandnfacilities
inaccessible parts of the
State the Health Minister
Surendra Singh Negi convened
a meeting with the representatives of top private hospitals
here on Friday. In the
interaction the Health Minster
asked the private hospitals to
conduct health camps in those
parts of the state which are
deprived of the health facilities.
He said that the State
Government would provide
the boarding, lodging and travel facilities for these camps.
Negi said that the state government would provide the
services of helicopter to transport the doctors of these hospitals in the inaccessible areas;
this helicopter can be used to
airlift very critical patients if the
need arises.
He called for a synergy
between the private hospitals
and the State Government so
that the people of mountainous
part of the state get the benefit
of modern health facilities. The
representatives of the private
hospitals expressed their willingness to conduct these camps.
The health minister asked the
private hospitals to submit their
proposals till September 15.
The meeting was attended by
Joint Secretary Medical Health
Atar Singh, Director General
(DG) Medical Health Dr GS
Joshi, Director Medical education Dr RP Bhatt, Director
heath services Dr LP Gusain
and other senior officers of
health department. The hospitals like Medanta Gurgaon,
Fortis, Apollo hospital, Metro
hospital, Max hospital, HIHT
Jolly Grant and Bharat Heart
institute had sent their representatives in the meeting.
The medical facilities in the
state are severely hampered by
large number of vacant posts of
doctors; the departmental data
shows that 1482 posts of medical officers are vacant in the
State. The problem is more
severe in mountainous parts as
over 80 per cent of posts of doctors are lying vacant there.
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world heritage conservation
and management remains a
key concern in the region.
Very few countries are
equipped with proper natural heritage training facilities.
To address the situation, the
Government of India in
September 2012, submitted to
the
Director-General,
UNESCO a
"Request for Action"
towards the establishment of
a Centre of Excellence on
Natural World Heritage for
Asia and the Pacific region at
WII which was accepted by
the UNESCO DG.
The centre at WII will
work to strengthen imple-
mentation of world heritage
convention in Asia-Pacific
region by building the capacity of all professionals and
bodies involved with natural
heritage site inscription, protection, conservation and
management in the region
through training, research,
dissemination of information
and network building.
Mathur said that the institute has been working on
world natural heritage for
eight years now and has
already made a list of about 10
sites in India which it will
submit for inscription as
world heritage sites in the
coming years.
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he delay in budget from the
state government has
pushed the biggest hospital of
the state, Doon hospital on the
brink of financial bankruptcy.
The hospital owes about Rs 2
Crores to the private vendors,
drug
suppliers
and
Uttarakhand
Power
Corporation Limited (UPCL).
The annual budget of the
hospital is Rs 11.324 Crore and
the hospital administration
used to receive this budget at
the beginning of the financial
year. This year however the
finance department decided
to provide the budget on quarterly basis triggering the problem. The hospital received the
first quarterly installment of the
budget in the month of June
this year. The hospital administration is yet to receive the
second installment and this
delay is causing problems to the
hospital to carry its routine
activities. The sources revealed
that the hospital owes about Rs
1 Crore to the drug suppliers
who provide the medicines of
Local Purchase (LP). Similarly
the vendor who supplies the
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Dehradun: The Doon hospital levies user charges on public for variety of services like
OPD registrations, pathology
tests, Magnetic Resonance
Imaging (MRI), X rays,
CT scan, ECG, private ward
facility and ICU.
The hospital data shows that
it receives about Rs 40-45
lakh per month from these
charges. The hospital transfers
50 percent of this user charge
amount to the State
Government and rest amount
it keeps for meeting its own
requirements.
The hospital authorities have
consistently raised the issue
that the State Government
should allow it to use the
entire amount it receives from
the user charges.
The hospital receives 80 percent of its revenues from the
radiology department which
has ultra modern facilities
like MRI, CT Scan,
Sonography and digital radiography.
Those associated with the
hospital believes that more
revenues can be earned from
optimum utilization of these
machines.
They point out that these
machines are being used only
till 2 pm only and the
hospital can earn good revenues if these machines are
handed over to some private
player after 2 pm.
PNS
cooked food to the in house
patients is demanding Rs 25
lakh the hospital owes to him.
The hospital has also not paid
the electricity bill for last four
months which has mounted to
Rs 15 lakh. Recently the petrol
pump owner who supplies fuel
to the vehicles of the hospital
had threatened to stop the
supplies if his dues are not paid.
The food supply vendor too
had sent a notice mentioning
his inability to provide the
cooked food if his payment is
stopped further. However the
cause of relief is that despite
constant threatening none of
the vendors have actually
stopped the services yet.
The Doon hospital has to
pay the salaries of the contractual heath, sanitation and paramedic staffs also. There are
about 70 contractual sanitation
employees and 19 contractual
security personnel the salaries
of which the hospital administration pays. The expense in
salaries of the contractual staff
is about RS 14 lakh per month.
One of a senior official of hospital on condition of anonymity said that the issue of delay in
budget is consistently being
raised before the senior officers
of health directorate but nothing has improved. He said that
according to the provisions
the budget should be sent
before the start of the quarter
but the hospital is getting it at
the end.
The Principal Medical
Superintendent (PMS) of Doon
hospital Dr R S Aswal said that
the hospital receives the budget on quarterly basis and all
payments would be made as
soon as the budget of this
quarter is received.
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hat the present Uttarakhand
Government is reduced to a
one-man show has been proved
more than once during the
nearly six month stint of Harish
Rawat as the Chief Minister of
the State.
This charge dates back to
the time when he was supposed
to have deliberately kept his
ministers 'jobless' by not allocating portfolios for a period
longer than expected and the
people,
including
the
Opposition party members,
had questioned his intention in
keeping maters thus to hang fire.
That he has not changed a
bit has been proved again when
the Chief Minister Rawat
asserted himself by overruling
his two ministers' transferrelated decisions in the past two
days. He cancelled the transfer
orders of the teachers in basic
education sector, issued on the
direction of the State education
Minister on Wednesday and,
similarly,
ordered
implementation of the doctors’ transfer policy pending
long before the State health
Minister on Thursday.
Such decisions are, however, in sync with his recent
declaration that his government was set to take some
tougher decisions in the larger
interest of the people of the
state, post-rural and by-elections. Both the decisions taken
by the Chief Minister can be
touted as steps taken in the larger public interests. More so, caring a fig for what kind of
impact his having undermined
some ministers’ authorities will
have on his Government in the
long run, Chief Minister Rawat
has only sought to send a
strong signal to his Cabinet colleagues and the Government
officials that they must perform.
However, only time will tell
how things would pan out
politically or to what extent
Chief Minister Rawat succeeds
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over the recent spate of
transfers, particularly in the
basic education and the health
departments, Speaker of the
Uttarakhand Legislative
Assembly, Govind Singh
Kunjwal, has stressed on
evolving a transparent
transfer policy.
All the officials concerned
of the different departments are
supposed to get transferred
after the given periods of time.
But all such transfers should be
made in a transparent manner
as well as on time, said Speaker
Kunjwal here on Friday.
Issuing such orders belatedly not just affects developmental works but disturbs education of the children of the
employees who are thus transferred. All the officials concerned must discharge their
duties sincerely and honestly so
as to ensure developmentmomentum does not flag in
any way, he added.
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in stemming the tide of 'callousness' that keeps crippling
the government vis-à-vis development over the past many
years. However, unlike his
predecessor Vijay Bahuguna,
Rawat seems to be enjoying a
free hand in running his
Government.
That he is over-brimming
with confidence became clear
when he banned foreign trips of
the Ministers and the
Government officials ahead of
one of his senior Ministers'
reported foreign visit. In his less
than two years’ rule as the
Chief Minister, Vijay Bahuguna
could not have dared to assert
himself this way. Many factors
might account for him
remaining crippled.
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n connection with trafficking
and alleged rape of a 10year-old girl, who had lost her
family in the June 2013
Kedarnath
disaster,
Uttarakhand police have
deployed two teams headed by
women inspectors for Tehri
and Rudraprayag districts to
investigate the case, said State
additional director general of
police Ram Singh Meena on
Friday. The girl’s statement
was recorded before the magistrate and police have arrested the accused named
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Maniram, resident of koti area
in Tehri who was also sent to
14 days’ judicial custody, he added. The
girl who had lost
her family in
the last year’s
natural disaster was rescued by the
Army from Kedar
Valley.
Kabariwala
Ajay who had
allegedly brought the
girl to Tehri from Haridwar will
also be interrogated.
After her medical report
confirmed ruptured hymen,
police lodged an FIR against
the accused and sent a team to
arrest him. The accused was
arrested by the team and he was
sent to jail after being produced
in the court.
The girl would be shifted
to Dehradun Bal Niketan
from Chamba in Tehri,
he added.
The SP said the girl was
unable to locate where exactly her family lived in the
Kedarnath
Valley
of
Rudraprayag district. Team
of Dehradun also talked to the
girl on Friday, he added.
anesh Chaturthi was celebrated with fervour across the State on Friday.The
devotees brought the idols of Ganesha in procession accompanied with the traditional
drummers, shouting Ganpati Bappa Moriya
in the main market and set them in the lower
bazaar on Friday. A community worship was
organised in Pauri that set an example of communal harmony for the second consecutive
year. Notably, along the lower bazaar area several houses and shops of the Muslim
community are located.
The local fraternity of the jewelers led the
puja with the cooperation of the residents of
Pauri town in lower bazaar, a locality with
high concentration of members of the Muslim
community. The community worship was
done in a shop of lower bazaar in the morning and in the evening in accompaniment of
devotional songs.
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fter an enduring training spanning for
44 weeks, 286 Sepoy trainees passed
out from the training centre of 23 battalion located here and donned colours of
the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).
Uttarakhand provided the maximum
number of 61 recruits while 49 new
entrants belonged to Uttar Pradesh, 33 to
Bihar, 29 to Karnataka and 26 belonged
to Jharkhand. Speaking on the occasion
the reviewing officer of the passing out
parade, Inspector General (IG) of
Northern Frontier headquarters of ITBP,
IS Negi said the personnel of force apart
from manning the international border
are discharging internal security duties
also. He said that he firmly believes that
the new recruits would carry forward the
brilliant tradition of the force.
On the occasion the best performing
recruits in various disciplines were also
felicitated. Sepoy GD Azad Singh of 35
battalion was conferred the award of over
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hhattisgarh etched its name
prominently on the interC
national sporting map on the
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birth anniversary of Hockey
legend late Major Dhyanchand
with the inauguration of its second International Astroturf
Hockey Stadium here on
Friday.
This is the second
International
Astroturf
Stadium of Chhattisgarh after
the first was inaugurated early
this year in Rajnandgaon.
Chhattisgarh Assembly
Speaker Gaurishankar Agrawal
inaugurated the stadium amid
much fanfare.
In the inaugural ceremony,
players of Indian hockey team
played an inaugural match, in
which India Team ‘A’ won the
match by 4-1.
On the occasion, several
nationally and internationally
renowned hockey players were
also present. The State
Government’s
Sports
Department later felicitated
these sports persons.
While addressing the programme, Vidhan Sabha
Speaker Gaurishankar Agrawal
said : ‘India has a glorious history in the field of hockey
sport. India has won gold
medal in Olympics for eight
times. The Hockey Magician
late Major Dhyanchand’s birth
anniversary is observed as
‘National Sports Day’ across the
country. And now onwards
this day will be remembered for
one more reason and that is for
inauguration of International
Astroturf Hockey Stadium in
Chhattisgarh on this day.’
Both the stadiums have
been constructed by State gov-
ernment under the able leadership of Dr Raman Singh,
Agrawal said.
He welcomed the players of
Indian Hockey Team while
saying that their presence is an
honour for Chhattisgarh.
Agrawal congratulated
Sports and Youth Welfare
Department and PWD for
completion of the Stadium
construction work on time.
He also thanked Hockey
Federation of India for their
guidance and support in development of the stadium.
Presiding over the programme, Lok Sabha Member
from Raipur Ramesh Bais said
that Dr Raman Singh’s
Government has realized the
dream of hockey sportspersons
in Chhattisgarh by establishing
this stadium. He said that he
would request Chief Minister
to develop another astroturf
stadium in Raipur for providing sportspersons a proper
place for practice.
Agriculture Minister
Brijmohan Agrawal also
addressed the programme saying that within just 14 years of
its formation, Chhattisgarh has
created its unique identity at
national level in the field of
sports. Sports infrastructure
in state is developing at an
expedited pace.
He
congratulated
sportspersons and people of
state on inauguration of the
second International astroturf
Stadium in Chhattisgarh.
Sports
Department
Secretary Dinesh Shrivastav
read out the report of stadium
construction.
After the match, Vidhan
Sabha Speaker felicitated the
sportspersons and presented
them mementos.
Meanwhile,
ML A
Devjibhai Patel, Satyanarayan
Sharma, State Government’s
Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand,
Jila Panchayat R aipur
President Lakshmi Verma,
Executive Member of Indian
Olympics Association Vikram
Sisodia,
Chhattisgarh
Olympic Association General
S ecretar y Baldeo Singh
Bhatia, Executive Director
of Hockey India KR
Shrivastava and other public
representatives, Sports officials, senior officials and large
number of sports lovers were
also present.
135 in 12 forest divisions of
Bastar, official sources
informed.
The poachers who earlier
used to poison the bird are now
using mint in cooked rice to
catch the bird in order to avoid
legal action.
The poachers have killed
more than 1,000 peacocks during the past four years by the
new technique reducing the
population of peacocks to
alarming number, sources said.
The poachers use the similar technique for other birds
also. They have adopted the
new technique because they
used to face legal action when
they used poison for killing
peacocks protected under
schedule I of the Wildlife
Protection Act, 1972.
Conservator of Forest, V
Ramarao said that the number
of peacocks was very good in
the forests of Bastar. But the
increased poaching of the bird
for meat and feather has
reduced its number.
The Wildlife Census done
after four years states that only
135 peacocks are left in 12 forest divisions of Bastar.
The local villagers are coming forward to help the forest
officials to check killing of
peacocks. Apart from taking
steps to check poaching, the villagers are also helping in
increasing the number of
national birds. Although it is
against law, the villagers keep
the eggs of peacock with the
eggs of hen for hatching. The
chicks are taken care as they
grow up with chicken.
For increased killing of
peacock, the villagers said that
peacock’s meat is popular and
thus its demand is very high.
Besides this the skin of the neck
of peacock is used in preparation of ‘Gaursingh Mukut’. The
peacock feathers are also used
on large scale in decoration of
idols of deities. Being a
lucrative business, many
people are involved.
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the car. The investigation revealed that the
driver and others in the car were drunk.
Moreover, a case under sections 279 and 304
A of IPC has been registered in the Raipur police
station on Friday against Aditya and Aakash who
were admitted in a private hospital after the accident and are now out of danger, said Rajpur
Police Station in-charge Rajesh Shah.
He said these persons were coming from a
hotel located at Sahastradhara after a party.
Whether it was a rave party or birthday party is
being investigated by the team. Hotel owner
and officials are also being grilled about the party,
he added.
It should be mentioned that the tragedy
struck Dehradun city on Wednesday night
wherein two persons were seriously injured while
two women died on the spot. The accident
occurred near NIVH around midnight last night
after a car coming from Jakhan and speeding
towards the city veered out of control and hit a
streetlight before ramming into a tree on the
other side of the road. The impact flung the two
women out of the car killing them on the spot.
The two men sitting in the front of the car
were seriously injured.
According to police, the two deceased have
been identified as Mehrunissa and Catherine.
The injured were identified as local Aditya
Chaudhary and Kashipur resident Akash
Arora. Both are reported to be college students.
Sources revealed that Aditya and Akash were
under the influence of alcohol last night. The
women might have also consumed liquor,
according to police.
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and sought their assistance in
the matter. We have also
requested for Counselor access
and we will provide that to any
Indian nation who needs it
there. Our mission has also
gone to hospitals to check the
welfare of Indians. No Indian
national is critical or in danger
as of now,” said MEA
spokesperson
Syed
Akbaruddin. He added that the
remaining Indians are safe in
their camps. Indians have been
segregated from workers
belonging to other nationalities
considering the safety aspect.
“We have called the management of the company to
discuss with them and we will
work with them to try and
ensure that normal food provision, etc are there for Indian
nationals in the camp.
Incidentally they are in the
camp and we are working
through this. Despite today
being a Friday which is a holiday in Kuwait we have
worked through this,” said
Akbaruddin.
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with Kuwait the matter of
arrest of 25 Indian workers
there. The Indian nationals
have been arrested following a
brawl with their Egyptian coworkers in which two
Egyptians have died.
The incident took place on
Wednesday when Indian and
Egyptian workers of Ahmidiya
Construction company clashed
among each other. The company has about 500 Indians
working with it. It is learnt that
the Kuwait police has arrested
25 Indians on charges of murder while a dozen, who were
injured in the brawl, are admit-
ted in a hospital.
While the construction site
has been closed down at the
moment, all other Indian workers are, reportedly, locked up in
the compound. The workers
have sent videos to their families in India complaining of mistreatment by Kuwaiti police
and the company. They have
alleged that the police is not listening to their side of story. In
the video messages the Indians
have appealed to the Indian government for help while many
expressed desire to come back.
According to Ministry of
External Affairs (MEA), Indian
mission in Kuwait is trying to
reach out to the arrested
Indians through Counselor
access. However, the government has also asked the
Indians on foreign soil to abide
by the local laws and regulations. The Indian embassy
officials have visited the hospital where 15 Indians were
admitted after the incident.
“Our mission has written
to the Kuwaiti foreign ministry
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and Israel on Friday
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terrorism and homeland security between the two
countries. Israel’s
Ambassador to India
Daniel Carmon met
Home Minister
Rajnath Singh here.
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the Home Minister
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recently signed agreement is a to free world and India and
Israel are part of the free world,”
step further in this direction.
Later talking to reporters, he said. ISIS, which is fighting
the ambassador said during his Iraqi and Syrian forces, is an almeeting with the Home Qaeda splinter group. It has
Minister he has discussed seized hundreds of square miles
issues of mutual concern, com- of land in Iraq and Syria. The
mon values and how to counter Ambassador has invited the
terrorism. “We have also dis- Home Minister to attend the
cussed how to implement the Third Israel Homeland Security
agreement on counter-terror International Conference and
and homeland security that Exhibition to be held in Tel Aviv
Israel and India have already during November this year.
alleging sexual harassment
by the HC judge, had moved
the apex court raising questions over the judicial panel to
look into her complaint.
In her plea, she has said
that her resignation is a “constructive termination” and
she be reinstated with all
consequential benefits.
She said the HC order of
August 8 constituting a judicial panel should be quashed
as she felt it will not do justice to her.
“Chief Justice of India in
his administrative capacity
constitute a committee comprising two Chief Justices
from outside the High Court
of
Madhya
Pradesh
and another High Court
judge and also an external
non-judicial member to
enquire into her complaint,”
the petition said.
She had earlier also raised
objections to the inclusion of
a MP High Court judge in the
committee set up to go into
her complaint.
She had said the judge,
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Gandhi and vice-president
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Rahul Gandhi will not be campaigning for the by-elections in
Uttar Pradesh scheduled on
September 13.
Party sources, however, downplayed it saying the Congress
president, by convention, never
campaigns for bypolls.
The seats going for polls
include Noida, Lucknow East,
Saharanpur Nagar, Bijnore, Thakurdwara, Nighasan, Hamirpur, Charkhan, Sirathu, Balha,
Rohaniya and Sirathu as all the
sitting MLAs are representing
their areas in Parliament. The
process of filing nominations has
started and the last date is August
27. AICC sources said senior
party members will be campaigning for the candidates and
the organisation is yet to decide
on any other big names other
Indian fishing boats to States
and Union Territories. The
decision was primarily taken to
decentralise powers in the
Centre and strengthen State
maritime administrations.
“As per the notification, the
powers in respect of registration, survey and certification of
Indian fishing boats stand delegated to the secretaries in
charge of the Department of
Fisheries of respective State
Governments
or
the
Administrators in the case of
Union territories,” read an official statement by the Shipping
Ministry.
According to the notification issued by the Ministry,
Indian fishing boats will now
be registered at the specified
ports or places in the country
while the notified State
Government officials will be
the Registrars of the Indian
fishing boats for the purpose.
“The decision to decentralise these functions is in consonance with the resolution
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emerged at the meeting of the
Maritime States Development
Council held in Mumbai on 7th
and 8th January 2013,” the
statement said.
Officials in the Ministry
said that this decision will
strengthen the maritime
administrations of the states
and union territories, it said,
adding that the fishing community will benefit from ease
of business through reduction
in transaction time and costs,
accessibility of services at the
local level and convenience.
Earlier, fishing boats less
than 20 meters long were
required to be registered with
the State Governments and
Union Territories whereas
those above 20 meters in length
had to be registered by mercantile marine departments,
which is under the Directorate
General of Shipping in the
Centre.
Now all fishing boats, irrespective of their size or length,
can be registered with the
respective states and union
territories.
Guidelines are being issued
by the Directorate General of
Shipping, will facilitate the discharge of these functions by
maritime states/ union territory administrations, in a harmonised manner, the statement said.
New Delhi: Voicing concern
over mushrooming pornographic sites on Internet, the
Supreme Court today asked the
Centre to find out solution to
the “hydra headed” problem
after government virtually
expressed its helplessness, saying “if we block one site, another crops up”.
“Human mind is very fertile
and technology runs faster then
law. Law has to keep pace with
technology,” a bench headed by
Chief Justice RM Lodha said.
Additional Solicitor
General L Nageshwar Rao submitted that when one site is
blocked, similar multiple sites
crop up. He said that the
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Government is taking steps to
bring servers operating from
foreign countries to India to
control sites.
“If we block one site, other
crops up. There are also hidden
servers in the country and it is
difficult to control them. All
social media are being operated from foreign land,” he said,
adding that parental control
software should be provided to
keep indecent material on net
from children.
The bench, however, said
some solution has to be found
out for the problem. “Law,
technology and governance
have to be synthesised to control pornographic materials on
Internet,” it said, observing,
“There are rules to control
such sites and some method
has to be found out”.
The court was hearing a
petition filed by Indore-based
advocate Kamlesh Vaswani
who pleaded that although
watching obscene videos was
not an offence, pornographic
sites should be banned as they
were one of the major causes
behind crime against women.
The petition filed through
advocate Vijay Panjwani says
that the absence of Internet
laws encourages people to
watch porn videos and over 20
crore porn videos or clippings
are freely available in the market, which have been directly
downloaded from the Internet
or copied from video CDs.
The apex court also directed the Centre to place contents
of the petition before a
Advisory Committee set up
under Section 88 of IT Act so
that it can suggest ways to control the problem.
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who had harassed her sexually, was still discharging judicial and administrative functions over the staff who were
working with her and have
witnessed her victimisation.
The Gwalior judge had
also objected to the summons being sent to her husband and daughter to be present at the enquiry.
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New Delhi: Urban Development Minister
Venkaiah Naidu on Friday presented before
Prime Minister Narendra Modi a blueprint on restoration of the temple town of Varanasi as part of
a new scheme for development of heritage cities.
Sources in the UD Ministry said the Prime
Minister was keen to have a look on the development plan that has been prepared by the
Ministry ahead of his visit to Kyoto in Japan, a
world class city of the kind that Narendra Modi
wants to replicate in Varanasi with the help of latest technology. Naidu and UD Secretary Shankar
Aggarwal were present for the presentation.
The new UD Ministry scheme is aimed at
the preservation and revitalisation of India’s rich
heritage. It also seeks to enhance the quality of
urban life in such cities apart from improving
their physical, social and economic structures,
said sources close to the Minister. The holy towns
of Mathura, Gaya, Ajmer, Amritsar,
Kanchipuram and Velankanni will also be cov-
ered under the new scheme, they added.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in his 201415 Budget, proposed to set up an Integrated
Ganga Conservation Mission called “Namami
Gange” and allocated C2,037 crore for it. The
benefits from this mission will also flow to
Varanasi. Jaitley allocated C100 crore for the
development of the ghats (steps leading down
to a river) in Varanasi, Kedarnath, Haridwar,
Kanpur, Allahabad, Patna and New Delhi.
Modi who is an MP from Varanasi constituency had directed that the development plan
should envisage ways to find a firm position for
Varanasi on the global tourist map. The first-stage
makeover will include beautification and efforts
to ensure cleanliness and streamlined traffic, said
the officials in the Ministry. Modernisation of the
ghats with special attention to those at
Dashaswamedh, deploying motorboats in the
Ganga and ensuring a greener Varanasi are the
other highlights of the plan, sources said. PNS
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Court on Friday stayed the
proceedings of a judicial panel
set up to probe sexual harassment allegations levelled by a
former woman Additional
District and Sessions Judge
(ADSJ) against a Madhya
Pradesh High Court judge
after she raised apprehension
over getting justice from it.
Issuing notice to the High
Court judge, a Bench headed
by Justice JS Khehar also
sought responses from the
Secretary General of the
Supreme Court and Registrar
General of the High Court on
her plea to scrap the existing
panel and constitute a fresh
committtee, including two
Chief Justices from other
High Courts.
“In the meantime, proceedings in furtherance of
the order dated August 8,
2014 (of MP Chief Justice)
shall remain stayed,” the
Bench said in its order after a
brief hearing.
The former Gwalior
judge, who had resigned
signed,” he said.
Replying to queries, the
ambassador said the Islamic
State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was
a danger to the free world.
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than the high command.
In the Lok Sabha polls the
party could not register win
only on Lok Sabha seats Rae
Bariely and Amethi, both represented by mother-son duo.
Rahul had to face a tough fight
from BJP candidate Smriti Irani
and that she has already started
making inroads to dent Rahul’s
prospects in his pocket borough.
An AICC office-bearer said
that Rahul had once campaigned
in a Lok Sabha by-poll in favour
of party candidate Raj Babbar in
2009, where he was fielded against Dimple Yadav, daughter-inlaw of SP chief Mulayam Singh
Yadav. He was, however, not the
party vice-president then.
Source said Rahul will however campaign for the party and
alliance partners during the
Assembly State elections scheduled couple of months later and
he will extensively campaign in
Maharashtra.
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Kumar is being hummed on the streets by the people today after
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Yechury said on Friday. Reacting to the completion of 100 days in
office by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said, “Earlier, the people were forced to listen to ‘achche din aanewale hain’ (good days
are coming. And they were made to believe it.” “Now instead, the
people are humming ‘koi lauta de mere beete huye din (someone
return my good old days)’ on the streets after 100 days of this
Government,” Yechury said.
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controversial Hinduvta face
Yogi Adityanath to steer its
campaign for the September 13
bypolls in Uttar Pradesh, saying the party wants to create an
“atmosphere of communalism
and tension”.
“They (BJP) want the communities to fight with one
another. They want to bring in
the discussion of majority and
minority,” Congress leader
Manish Tewari said.
Without
taking
Adityanath’s name, he said the
BJP has given the responsibility of elections to a person who
has left “no stone unturned” to
implement this “policy”.
“It is BJP’s ambition that an
atmosphere of communalism
and tension prevails in the
country,” he said.
The Congress leader was
replying to question about
Adityanath and two others
being made in-charge of the
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Controversial BJP MLA
Suresh Rana has also been
given the responsibility to campaign in Bijnor constituency.
UP BJP chief Laxmikant
Bajpai, Union minister Kalraj
Mishra and Aditynath have
been nominated to lead the
campaign for the bypoll, party
spokesman Vijay Bahadur
Pathak had said in Lucknow
yesterday.
Adityanath has sparked
controversy due to his strong
Hindutva remarks made during campaigning in the past.
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and Sri Lanka today held a first joint committee on fisheries during which the island nation emphasised the need to
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up a joint interrogation mechanism for speedy release of fishermen, if held by any side.
This was among other issues discussed at the first meeting
on the contentious issue, a government official present in the
meeting said.
“In the meeting, it was noted that there are currently no
bonafide fishermen in each other’s custody. However, Sri Lanka
stressed the need to set up a joint interrogation committee in
other coastal Indian states on the lines of Tamil Nadu,” the official said after a three-hour meeting.
In the absence of such a mechanism, a Sri Lankan official
said there is delay in release of fishermen belonging to Andhra
Pradesh, Odisha and other coastal states as well as Sri Lankan
fishermen jailed in these states, the official said.
India informed Sri Lanka these coastal states have been asked
to set up such a mechanism at the earliest, the official added.
Tamil Nadu is the only coastal state at present which has a
joint interrogation mechanism. Under this system, efforts are
made for early release of fishermen without getting into legal procedures like filing FIRs and others.
Besides, the joint committee explored avenues for bilateral
cooperation in fisheries and discussed opportunities of joint ventures in the fisheries sector. “The two sides agreed to examine
joint opportunities between respective scientific institutes in
research, development and capacity-building,” according to the
joint statement issued after the meeting.
To maintain the momentum of bilateral dialogue process, the
two sides agreed to organise the next round of meeting of the
joint committee in Colombo at a suitable date, it added.
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Ram Manjhi on Friday
courted another controversy
with his misguided statement
while telling protesters in one
of his programmes that he
didn’t win the poll because of
their votes. Manjhi earlier had
embarrassed his Government
and predecessor Nitish Kumar
on several occasions through
his comments.
“I do not win because of
your votes … I don’t think you
vote for us anyway ... do you
think we are dependent on
your votes? ... Don’t try to scare
me with your protests and
threats,” Manjhi yelled at protesters during one of his programmes in Jehanabad to unveil
a statue at a school ground.
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telling them he didn’t need
their votes.
Later, however, he calmed
down somewhat as he
promised that all villages in
the district would get electricity by next year. But his
assurance hardly stopped the
protesters from their regular
shouting which continued
through the event.
Earlier too, the Bihar
Chief Minister had embarrassed the Government and
Nitish on several occasions
through his misguided comments and statements.
Recently, he had said that
despite Nitish’s best efforts corruption in State had increased
and couldn’t be checked.
Later, he said the officials of
the State didn’t listen to him and
mislead him on informations.
A few days back, he had
hit headlines when his son
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gathering, some people started that you people don’t vote for me would not vote for him and his unruly scenes were created at
protesting with banners read- … there are many who vote for party in the upcoming State the place reportedly for ‘nonpayment to the hotel’.
ing “no electricity, no votes” us and we win on votes of oth- Assembly polls next year.
Manjhi, later, commented
Apparently rattled by their
and Manjhi apparently lost his ers,” he shouted at the protesters.
cool to shout at them.
The protesters also open threat, the Chief Minister that what was wrong if his son
“Don’t scare me with such screamed at him saying if they lost his cool and composure was moving with his girlfriend?
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oulana Mohammed
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religious scholar of Hyderabad,
was granted bail by the Gujarat
High Court, five months after
he was arrested by the Gujarat
police in New Delhi in connection with a ten-year-old case.
A division bench comprising Justice Anant Deve and
Justice Manindra Pal granted
him bail on surety of C50,000.
The court also asked him to surrender his passport and appear
before the Ahmedabad City
crime branch once every month.
Though Moulana Qavi was
named as an accused in 2003
criminal conspiracy case, and all
other accused were arrested,
produced in the court and were
acquitted, he was not arrested
for 10 years. He was shown
absconding even as he was very
much available at his Madarsa
in Hyderabad and also visited
Gujarat on several ocassions.
But the Gujrat police suddenly arrested him at the Delhi
airport in March last when he
was on his way to Uttar
Pradesh to attend a meeting of
Muslim Personal Law Board.
Earlier in July last, additional principal judge of antiterrorist court in Ahmedabad
Geeta Gopi had rejected his
bail petition. Later, his lawyers
moved the bail petition in the
Gujarat High Court highlighting the fact that he was arrested on the basis of a secret witness who has already changed
his earlier statement.
Moreover, the lawyers pointed out that the court already
acquitted all other accused in the
case including two more
religouss scholars from
Hyderabad Moulana Naseeruddin and Moulana Ashraf Ali.
Detective Crime Branch of
Ahmedabad Police opposed the
bail to Moulana Qavi saying he
was facing serious charges of
working for Pakistan based terrorist orgnaisations, having links
with the ISI and conspiring and
waging war against the country.
Police also charged that he sent
Muslim youth to Pakistan for
traning to take revenge of post
Godhra riots. Moulana Qavi
strongly denied all the charges
as wrong and baseless.
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Oommen Chandy seems to
be destined to wage his war all
alone in the C200-crore Titanium
corruption case against him and
two of his Cabinet colleagues
with virtually no word of support
coming from top State Congress
leaders even when the court has
made it clear that no prior permission is required to register a
case against the Chief Minister
or his Ministers.
On Friday, Chandy and
his Home Minister Ramesh
Chennithala, another accused
in the graft case, claimed innocence and rejected the
Opposition demand for resignation. Chandy said the project
with alleged corruption was not
implemented when he was in
power while Chennithala
claimed that he was not even in
the Government when the project was approved in 2006.
While speaking to mediapersons in Kochi, Chandy said,
“There was no need to drag
Chennithala into this case as he
had nothing to do with the project in question.” Quite surprisingly, Chennithala did not
attempt to defend Chandy in
the corruption case when he
claimed innocence. “Let me
study the court order,” was all
he said when asked about the
charge against Chandy.
The Special Vigilance
Court in Thiruvananthapuram
had on Thursday ordered a
fresh probe against Chandy,
Chennithala, Public Works
Minister Ibrahim Kunju and
eight others in connection with
the alleged corruption in the
pollution-control plant project at the factory of public sector Travancore Titanium
Products Limited, approved
eight years back.
As per the case based on a
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employee, the former Congressled UDF Government headed
by Chandy himself had caused
huge losses to the exchequer by
opting to construct a C256.01crore pollution-control plant
and allowing the rusting of
machinery worth C70 crore
imported even before the project was approved.
Quoting relevant Supreme
Court verdicts, the court made
it clear that no special permission was required for proceeding against Chandy and his two
Cabinet colleagues as they were
not in the Government in 2006
when the complaint had first
come up and the first probe
was held. Chennithala was the
president of the State Congress
during that period.
Not many Congress leaders
in the State have shown the
urgency to come to the aid of
Chandy even when he is
trapped in a serious crisis.
When most leaders eagerly
defended Chennithala saying
that he was just the PCC chief
when the alleged corruption
took place, only a few men from
Chandy’s own ‘A’ group had
backed his claims of innocence.
Observers point out that the
graft case has been re-enlivened
at a time when Chandy is facing
a lot of criticisms in the Congress
over the revengeful manner in
which he had forced the party
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Hyderabad with the start of
Ganesh Chaturthi and installation of thousands of colourful
idols of Ganesh in different
styles all over the city.
Huge decorated and illuminated pandals have come up
on almost every street and
colonies as people made a beeline for offering prayers.
Though, there are many
giant idols made up of Plaster
of Paris have been installed, the
biggest of them was a 60-feettall Ganesh at Khairatabad in
the heart of the city.
Though every year this
pandal has been enjoying the
status of being the tallest, the
organisers decided to increase
its height to 60 feet as this was
the 60th year of the pandal.
Yet another unique feature of the idol was the 5 ton
specially prepared laddu in the
hands of the idol. Interestingly,
this laddu was prepared at
Tapeshwaram in East Godavari
district with special ingredients
and preservatives to ensure
that it is not spoiled over the
next ten days. The laddu was
brought from almost 500 km
away and put up in the left
hand of the idol using a crane.
For the last four years the
laddu was being prepared by
the Suruchi Foods company
team led by Malli Babu. Special
care was taken this time as last
year the laddu was spoiled and
could not be distributed among
the worshippers and had to be
dumped in Hussain Sagar lake
along with the idol on the
immersion day.
This year the idol has been
designed in the form of ‘Sri
Kailasha Ganapaty’ with
Ganesh, Shiva and Parvati’s
faces on the three sides.
State Governor ESL
Narasimhan and his wife were
the first to offer prayers at the
Khairatabad pandal followed
by Telangana Chief Minister K
Chandrashekar Rao who visited the pandal in the evening.
His Andhra Pradesh counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu
offered prayers at Ganesh pandal in his Telugu Desam Party
office in Hyderabad. “I prayed
for peace and prosperity in
both the States of Telangana
and Andhra Pradesh,” he said.
Though immersion of the
idols will start after a week, the
main procession will be on
September 8 when most of the
idols will be immersed in
Hussain Sagar lake, notwithstanding the objection and
opposition of the environmental conservationists.
Lucknow: A close follower of
Mahant Nritya Gopal Das, who
too was a mahant in Maniram
Dasji Chanvni in Ayodhya at
Faizabad, was found murdered
under mysterious circumstances on Friday morning.
Reports said that 40-yearold Vijay Ram Das was found
dead on Frdiay morning.
Another Mahant, Kamal Nayan
Das, who first noticed of the
incident informed the local
police after which senior officers along with SSP, Faizabad,
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The circumstantial evidences showed that the victim
was brutally hacked to death
with an axe after having some
dispute sometime late on
Thursday night. Some broken
bangles and a used condom
pointed towards involvement of
some woman in the crime,
claimed a senior officer engaged
with the investigation. He said
that there was also some dispute
between the mahants of two
akharas so they were looking
into all the possible angles and
had also picked up four suspects for interrogation. The
body of the victim was also dispatched for post-mortem
examination while a case has
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wars begin. Faced with
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depleting catches of fish largely blamed on poaching by its
trawlers from neighbouring
States, the Goa Government
has decided to flex its arms.
Until now when challenged
by superior powered high handed trawlers from neighbouring
States, all the Goa Government
and the State’s fishermen could
do is helplessly watch the ‘others’ dragnet the waters.
Enter “Avemaria 14” a
superfast patrol boat that can
skim the State’s waters at 30
knots of 60kmph.
According to Fisheries
Minister Avertano Furtado, the
move to acquire and operate a
fisheries patrol vessel was taken
because the raids by fishermen
from neighbouring States like
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu simply showed no sign of stopping.
“It is a serious problem. We
had one trawler, but their boats
have superior engines and
therefore more speed. Still we
caught 27 raiders in the last
three years,” Furtado said.
Officials say, that until now
for every raiding trawler caught,
at least 10 get away because the
fisheries department did not
have a craft which could match
the speed, the raiders’ boats
generated with their high powered engines.
The new 15-meter long
patrol boat, built by Goa
Shipyard Ltd would be able to
cover more than 40 nautical
miles offshore of Goan waters
in a single trip at the speed of
30 knots.
This new vessel is installed
with various and latest electronic equipment such as
marine radar, VHS, radio communication instruments, etc. It
is hoped that with this new fisheries patrol boat, the monitoring, control and surveillance of
the Goan waters would be more
efficient and effective to ensure
the sustainability of the fisheries
resources, the department said
in a statement.
Rampant poaching of fish
has been to the already existing
problem of fish famine, or
been registered under section
302/452 IPC for entering into
the premises and murder.
In a separate killing reported from Lakhimpur Kheri, a 40year-old advocate, Jagat Pal
Singh, a resident of Phool Behad
in Kheri, was returning with his
son Abhinav Singh, from
Lucknow when Shrawan Singh,
Anirudh Singh, Shivraj Singh,
Babloo Singh, Rajesh and three
unknown miscreants intercepted them at Saidpur crossing late
on Thursday night.
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and the ruling UDF it is leading
to accept his ‘unilateral’ proposal
for total liquor ban in the State
after being pushed to a corner
over the issue of reopening of
418 closed bars.
The lack of interest among
top Congressmen to come to
the defence of Chandy was
obvious when PCC president
VM Sudheeran said that he was
unable to understand the logic
behind making Chennithala
an accused in the case and that
the party would examine the
case against the Chief Minister.
Chandy said that he had an
active role in the decision to
erect the pollution-control
plant at Travancore Titanium
and he had played that role to
ensure that the factory did not
close down in the name of pollution. “I am ready to face any
kind of investigation though I
am sure about my innocence.
I had done everything in the
interest of the factory’s employees,” he said.
Chennithala said that it
was still unable to understand
why he was being made an
accused in the case when the
Cabinet had approved the project 42 days before he became
the PCC chief and when he was
neither a minister nor an MLA.
“Still, being a public servant, I
am ready to face the investigation,” he said in Kannur.
depleting fish catches.
Out of the 27 ships seized
by the fisheries department
since 2012, 20 were registered
in Karnataka and the rest were
from Tamil Nadu. Furtado
claims that there are reports
about raiding fishing vessels
from Maharashtra too.
“Anyone stealing our fish
will now be caught,” Furtado
said, adding that the State
marine police would also be
brought onboard during their
counter operations.
However the problem is
bigger than just strong arming
rogue fishermen out of the way.
Fisheries department officials admit that the that the
Goa Daman and Diu Marine
Fishing Regulation Act, under
which such raids and seizures
are conducted is toothless. The
maximum punishment under
the act is a fine of C10,000 a
confiscation of the fish.
“In some cases the fish
seized alone was worth C2 lakh
and more. These small fines
mean little to the raiders,” a State
fisheries department official said.
Today’s technology and the
controversial bull trawling
methods used by trawlers,
which fishermen themselves
admit even destroys fish nests
incubating on the sea bed.
Two boats, GPS gear, sonar-
based fish locaters and highpowered 350 BHP engines sail
parallel with a fine dragnet
between, running all the way
down to a few hundred metres.
The boats in tandem cut a
wide swath of the sea and
encircling the net at the end
before netting their catch of all
sizes which ranges from tuna to
baby sardine and sometimes,
even dolphin and stingray. One
round harvested they keep
scooping out tons of fish on the
move all the time until their
refrigerated storage hatches are
packed to the brim.
Trawlers often remain at
sea for days on end and sometimes whole weeks. Trawlers
from as far as Tamil Nadu fish
in Goa’s waters.
“It's called bull-trawling.
We have 10 such cases in one
year (2013). They sweep a vast
area of water and that too
right down at the bottom. Even
eggs and things like that are not
spared. That should be avoided,” Fisheries director Shamila
Monteiro said.
In 2010, Goa’s 1,400-odd
registered trawlers netted
23,831 tons of mackerel, a
commonly eaten fish. In 2013
however, the haul shrunk to
virtually half at 12,994 tons.
Sharks, which are cooked
in a spicy and sour amot-tikh
gravy have nearly disappeared
from the catch-list, their catch
falling from 3159 tons in 2010
to only 281 tons in 2013.
Prawns, a seafood which is
extremely popular with locals
as well as tourists and is eaten
fried, curried, pickled or even
used as cocktail garnish too
fell according to the State
fisheries department harvest
log from 9,970 tons in 2010 to
8,380 in 2013.
handed over responsibility of
ensuring victory of party candidates in the bypolls, found
himself in fresh trouble over his
alleged hate speech.
Senior officers reportedly
sent the alleged CD of the “hate
speech” of the BJP MP for
forensic examination. It may be
mentioned that Yogi has been
named as the BJP’s campaign
committee member for the next
month’s by-elections to 11
Assembly
and one Lok
Sabha seat in
the State.
The BJP MP
along with
U n i o n
Minister Kalraj Mishra and State
BJP president Laxmikant Bajpai
would address election meetings
in all the seats, where the bypolls
are being held. This particular
‘hate’ speech is dated January 27,
2007 and was made near
Gorakhpur Railway Station.
State police’s CB-CID wing
is probing a case against the
controversial MP for his role in
Gorakhpur riots of January
2007. A case was also registered
against him on CJM
Gorakhpur’s order in 2008 at
Cantonment police station in
the district. Cases under
Sections 120B, 153, 153A,
153B, 147, 148, 149, 143, 436,
395, 307, 302 of the IPC and
seventh Criminal Law
Amendment Act were also registered against the Yogi.
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had feigned ignorance about
the existence of Saradha chit
fund before April 2013 when
ponzi kingpin Sudipto Sen
defaulted in payments to the
depositors, downed his shutters
and decamped with thousands
of crores, CBI now probing the
multi-crore fraud has stumbled
upon records showing her
Government had indeed been
alerted repeatedly by various
authorities of the ongoing nonbanking fraud.
According to sources, then
United Bank of India CMD
Bhaskar Sen had raised the issue
in a State Level Bankers’
Committee of West Bengal conference attended amongst others
by Finance Minister Amit Mitra.
Curiously, the investigators
have also found that Mitra was
accompanied in the meeting by
jailed Trinamool MP Kunal
Ghosh who is one of the prime
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suspects in the case. Ghosh was
the odd man out in the meeting
as he had no locus standi to join
the conference, insiders said.
Apart from Ghosh, senior
Government bureaucrats were
also present in the meeting.
Sen had told Mitra in the
meeting how the Saradha and
other chit fund companies
were looting the common people of thousands of crores and
appealed to the Government
through him to control these
small non-banking units “looting the gullible poor by hold-
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ing out false promises of astronomical returns against minor
savings.” This incident took
place in later half of 2012.
He had also informed
Mitra about receding small-saving deposits in the State which
usually held the number one
slot in small-saving schemes.
According to sources, while in
2011-12 Bengal had recorded
C12,000 crore in small-saving
deposits in banks and post
offices while the figure slumped
to a bare C157 crore in the next
year. The Trinamool Congress
came to power in May 2011. It
was also reported how lakhs of
agents had migrated to chit
fund business lured by high
rates of commission.
Incidentally, 95.20 per cent
of Saradha’s income was recorded in its last three years of operation that largely coincided with
the Trinamool regime. While
before 2011, Saradha had
amassed about C140 crore, but
during the Trinamool regime it
earned C2,316 crore employing
about 16,000 workers.
“There is no explanation as
to why Kunal Ghosh once a
blue-eyed boy of Mamata
Banerjee accompanied Mitra to
the bankers’ meeting. He had
no locus standi to remain present in the meeting. It is clear
that he was sent with a leash to
control Mitra so that he did not
put something awkward on
record,” says Pradesh Congress
leader JP Majumdar.
The CBI sources also
revealed that the arrested
senior East Bengal Club functionary Debabrata Sarkar and
businessman Sandhir Agarwal
had worked as a go-between
linking some top SEBI and RBI
officials. CBI advocate said
that Sarkar had revealed names
of some senior SEBI and RBI
officials who had played a role
in facilitating Saradha’s business
at his instance.
The CBI also reported that
it had seized a laptop after
grilling Bengal Transport and
Sports Minister Madan Mitra’s
former confidential assistant
Bapi Karim. “We have found
that his assets far outmatch his
known source of income and
we are trying to prepare a list
of his properties and that of his
relatives,” sources said.
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arrested Shameel Shafiqulla,
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a native of Bihar, who had
acted as the host of Indian
Mujahideen (IM) operatives
Waqas Ahamed and Tehseen
Akhtar at Munnar in Idukki
district last year. Shameel, who
had been running a tea shop in
Munnar, had gone into hiding
after the arrest of the two IM
operatives in March last.
The Munnar police took
Shameel into custody in the
wee hours of Friday from the
place where he had been running
the tea shop after getting a tipoff. The police had taken him
into custody after encircling the
entire area to ensure that he did
not escape the net. Lookout
notices bearing Shameel's picture
had been stuck all over Munnar.
According to the NIA and
the anti-terror squad of the
Delhi Police investigating the
cases against Waqas and
Akhtar, they had stayed in
Munnar for three months from
September last year on the suspected mission of recruiting
young Keralites into the terror
outfit. The duo had reportedly
visited certain places in Kochi
also during their Kerala trip.
Investigators had learned
that it was Shameel who had
arranged the accommodation
for Waqas and Tehs-een in
Munnar. Delhi Police had taken
Waqas and Tehseen to Munnar
for an evidence-gathering exercise in April. A police source
hoped Shameel’s arrest could be
helpful to NIA in finding more
about the IM's Kerala links.
Mumbai: Home Minister RR
Patil said the police officials in
Maharashtra will now get leave
on their birthdays and marriage anniversaries.
Patil said the
State Govern-ment is
working on various
schemes to ease the
police officials of
stress and tension,
who have been burdened with extra duties over
the last few years.
“We have decided that they
will get their rightful leave on
their birthdays and marriage
anniversaries,” he said at a
function here organised by
Marathi daily Navakal on
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another blot on Bengal’s
history of sexual vioIlencenrecent
against women,
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Arnia sector was going on
since July 16, 2014 when a BSF
jawan Sanjay Dhar was martyred and seven others including 3 BSF jawans were injured.
Following escalation of tension and regular border skirmishes at least 5,000 families
were affected in the region
and vacated their homes and
hearths in search of safe shelters to escape the fury of roaring Pakistani guns.
According to official
sources,the BSF officers also
countered their Pakistan counterparts led by Brig Mateen with
elaborate details of firing in each
sector. BSF officers also denied
allegations by the Pakistani
Rangers that BSF initiated firing.
“We vehemently explained that
BSF never initiated any kind of
fire but retaliated only under
compelling circumstances to
safeguard precious lives of
Indian citizens and their property,” BSF Spokesman clarified.
According to sources, BSF
exposed the Pakistani lies by
sharing details of ‘unprovoked’
firing from 16 to 20 July and 10
August to 24 August 2014 by
more than 50 Pakistani Posts
from PP Hussain to PP
Jamshaid of 12 CR deployed in
area Charwah, Harpal and
Chaprar Sector of Pakistan.
a second year girl
student of Kala
Bhavan of Vishwa
Bharati University
in Shantiniketan
was allegedly
‘sexually harassed’
for a few days before her father
who hails from Sikkim brought
the incident before the media,
University sources said adding
Internal Complaint Committee
Against Sexual Harassment was
inquiring into the matter.
The father of the North
East girl who on Friday took
away her ward to Kolkata “to
give her a better psychological
environment out of this place
before I can take some further
decisions” told the media how
the girl who was lured away by
some students three of whom
were her classmates “molested
her, took her photographs and
threatened her with posting
them in the Net if she raised a
hue and cry.”
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he majestic Lalbaugcha Raja
(King of Lalbaug), installed
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inside the replica of the famous
ancient temple of Jejuri in Pune
district, the idol of ‘Andhericha
Raja’ seated amidst a replica of
splendorous Mysore Palace and
the GSB Seva Ganesh Mandal’s
gold-studded and heavily
insured idol at King’s Circle,
drew very huge crowds, as
Mumbaikars ushered in the
10-day Ganesh festivities on
Friday, amidst tight security and
CCTV surveillance.
As Mumbaikars brought
more than 2,00,000 small and
medium-sized Ganpati idols to
their homes and Sarvajanik
Mandals installed 12,000-odd
huge idols across the city, the
metropolis reverberated to the
beating of drums, cymbals,
chants of “Ganpati Bappa
Morya” and "Sukh-karta Dukhharta" bhajan, even as the
devotees accompanying the
idols to their homes and localities danced in revelry.
As Lalbaugcha Raja
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Mandal (LRSGM) entered the
87th year of its formation, the
organizers installed 22-foot
idol of the elephant-headed
God inside the replica of the
Jejuri Khandoba temple. The
Ganesh Idol here adorns a 5 kg
gold necklace.
Like
ever y
year,
Lalbaugcha Raja idol –installed
at Ganesh Galli at Lalbaug in
south-central Mumbai, has
been drawing thousands of
devotes from various parts of
the city and neighbouring
Patna: Showing its humanitarian face, the railways
stopped a long-distance train
at a station to help a pregnant
passenger who suddenly went
into labour.
Directed by the control
room, the speeding AjmerKishanganj Garib Nawaz
Express made an unscheduled
halt late on Wednesday night at
Dighwara station under Sonepur
division of East Central Railway.
A doctor and a nurse waiting at the platform quickly
took the woman to a primary
health centre where she delivered a baby girl.
“The decision to stop the
train at Dighwara was taken on
humanitarian ground,” Senior
divisional commercial manager (DCM), Sonepur, BNP
Verma told PTI over phone on
Friday.
PTI
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(BSF) on Friday lodged
strong protests over ‘unprovoked’ firing by the Pakistani
Rangers on Indian civilian
population and Border posts
during the crucial sector commander-level flag meeting held
inside Pakistani territory near
Inayat post on the International
border in RS Pura sector.
The flag meeting which
started around 4.30 pm lasted
over three and half hours.
The meeting was attended
by two DIG rank officers BS
Kasana, Rk Gurung and commanding officers of local battalions from the Indian side.
Pakistani Rangers were led by
Brig Mateen of Chenab Rangers.
According
to
BSF
spokesman, “During the flag
meeting, the BSF strongly
protested ‘unprovoked’ firing by
Pakistani troops from at least 50
posts and targeting of civilian
areas with heavy mortar shelling
and heavy machine gun fire”.
Firing in the RS Pura and
opment BJP State secretary
Rahul Sinha said, “Whatever
has been discovered by the CBI
is just only the tip of the iceberg.
More names are going to come.
Soon the money trail will lead us
to the top of the TMC hierarchy.”
Former CPI(M) MP Sujan
Chakrabarty said, “Our party is
keeping a close watch on who
else are trying to influence the
CBI probe. If investigation is
carried out properly then soon
quite a few senior police officers who formed part of the
State’s SIT that hid facts more
than investigating the case earlier will be hand-cuffed.”
Meanwhile, Congress leader
Abdul Mannan spoke of plans to
lodge a fresh case to locate people, documents that had allegedly been transported abroad with
active connivance of the State
Government and the SIT. “We
are planning to seek directions
for the CBI from the Court to
put Interpol on alert so that these
people and documents can be
traced,” Mannan said.
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visited by over 10 lakh devotees
during the 10-day festivities.
Equally popular is the
Ganesh idol installed at the
Lalbaug Sarvajanik Utsasv
Mandal, Ganesh Galli, Lalbaug
in south-central Mumbai. The
highlight of this year’s festivities this year is that the design
of the installed idol has been
patented by the Mandal.
Decorated with golden
ornaments and studded with
precious stones collectively
worth Rs 22 crore, the Ganesh
installed by the GSB Seva
Ganesh Mandal at King’s Circle
in north-central Mumbai is
the costliest idol in the city.
This year’s attraction of the idol
here is the “Vaijantimala”, a 14foot garland made in Karnataka
using 2.5 kg of gold and 12
kilograms of silver.
This year, the GSB Mandal
has taken an insurance cover
for a whopping Rs 259 crore.
The biggest component of the
insurance package that lasts for
15 days is the cover for personal
accident component that
includes visitors, volunteers,
electricians and other workers,
at Rs over 10 lakh per person.
As one of the anti-terror
initiatives, the city police have
announced that they reward
alert citizens who spot unattended, suspicious objects in
the vicinity of Ganesh pandals
across the city. Under the new
initiative known as ‘Mumbai Ke
Liye 1 Minute’ drive being
implemented under in association with a leading bank, the
police plan to award alert citizens with gold coins.
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Thursday evening.
He was felicitated at the
programme for taking decision
to keep 5 per cent reservation
in police recruitment
to children of serving
officials.
Patil said the
Government has completed recruitment of
55,000 officials in the
police force in the State
and the process to fill another
64,000 posts is on, following
which the existing stressful working hours of the policemen are
likely to ease down.
He said the recruitments
have been done in transparent
manner based on merit. PTI
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BJP’s defeat to the Lalu
Prasad-Nitish KumarCongress alliance in the
Bihar by-election a referendum on the Narendra Modi
Government. Frankly, it is too
early for people to make an
assessment of the Modi
Government. That apart, local
issues and configurations proved
to be more important than any
overarching national sentiment.
To cite two opposite examples, if
the loss in Bellary in Karnataka
cannot be blamed on Mr Modi,
the victory in two Assembly seats
in Madhya Pradesh cannot be
attributed to him either.
However, it is not as if the byelections, particularly in Karnataka
and Bihar, had no lessons for the
BJP. They exposed the limitations
of the BJP in an election situation
unrelated to a Modi wave. They
exposed the BJP’s organisational
and State-level infirmities. They
established that the Congress
Government in Karnataka, elected after forging a backward casteDalit-Muslim alliance, remains
formidable. They established that
BJP can still win the Bihar
Assembly election in 2015, but that
result is anything but a given.
If nothing else, the euphoria
that the afterglow of the Modi
triumph would leave opponents
across States in a state of shock
— and would ensure success for
the BJP — should now end. True,
a full-fledged Assembly election in Bihar will see greater
voter turnout than the small
polling percentage in the recent
by-election. It will also intensify the contradictions between Mr
Kumar and Prasad’s constituencies. Concerns about Prasad’s
return to power — directly or by
proxy — will get the BJP
incremental voters.
Yet, it needs to be admitted by
the BJP that winning a simple
majority on its own in Bihar
remains a tall order. It will require
an extremely well-managed campaign over the next one year to
present the BJP as the hope for a
new Bihar and a new awakening
in the State. This will need as
much effort and intellectual input
as the campaign to elect Mr
Modi as Prime Minister. This
project will have to be complemented with work on the ground,
including an identification of
fence-sitting voter groups and the
projection of a leader, probably,
Mr Sushil Kumar Modi.
A similar momentum will
have to be built for the Uttar
Pradesh election in 2017, though
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that is some time away. The
energies Mr Modi excited among
young voters — including voters
from castes, communities and
families that had hitherto not
backed the BJP — will have to be
tapped into once more. The 2014
Lok Sabha election proved these
energies can be harnessed and
caste barriers can be overcome.
However, to expect this will happen almost naturally in 2017, as
a follow-up to 2014, is foolish.
In Uttar Pradesh, as in Bihar,
quick-fix campaigning just before
the election is no substitute for an
organic mission, with the selling
of a dream, the projection of optimism and economic transformation, and the pushing of the
right social coalitions and faces.
To believe, as some tend to, that
themes such as ‘love jihad’ could
become principal electoral platforms by 2017, would be unrealistic. It would also be unwise to
underestimate Ms Mayawati’s
ability to put together the sort of
rainbow coalition that helped
the Bahujan Samaj Party win the
election in Lucknow in 2007.
The immediate election challenges are in Maharashtra,
Haryana and Jharkhand. In
Maharashtra, the BJP-Shiv Sena
alliance is likely to win big. The
Congress-NCP regime is defending a very mixed record, going
back 15 years and three terms.
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and the BJP-Sena combine is the
only alternative.
In Haryana, Mr Bhupinder
Singh Hooda’s Congress is set to
lose after 10 years of rule.
Following its success in the Lok
Sabha election, the BJP engaged
with the idea of going it alone and
attempting to win an absolute
majority. In recent days, a dilemma has troubled the party:
Bravely competing without allies
or pragmatically tying up with the
Chautala family’s Indian National
Lok Dal. In Jharkhand, the concern of a grand alliance or understanding of the non-BJP parties
remains. Of course, the diminution of Mr Babulal Marandi’s
breakaway group and the flight of
many of its leaders to the BJP
should offset that.
It is possible all obstacles will
be overcome and Haryana and
Jharkhand will be easily won by
the BJP. Nevertheless, for that to
happen, a serious and localised
election campaign is necessary. In
the weeks since the Lok Sabha
election, complacency has set in.
It is up to Mr Amit Shah, the new
BJP president, to shake things up.
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the BJP that organising election
campaigns and converting a general mood into firm votes is a fulltime, 24/7 exercise; it is not a parttime job. Mr Shah himself
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demonstrated while running the
Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha campaign. That was the Modi election
template; the BJP needs to institutionalise it.
That this is easier said than
done is apparent from the state of
the BJP in Delhi. The party that
won seven out of seven Lok
Sabha seats is far from confident
of attaining a majority should an
Assembly election be held today.
There is appreciable disquiet
about the performance of the
three municipal corporations in
the city, all run by the BJP. That
apart, the Aam Aadmi Party
retains a presence. Finally, there
is a perception that the Congress,
which got hammered in the
December 2013 Assembly election, has bottomed out in Delhi,
and should Ms Sheila Dikshit
return to State politics, will win
more votes than it did the previous time, cutting into both the
BJP and AAP.
Could this mean another
hung Assembly? Could this mean
the BJP will gain from a split in
the non-BJP vote? Nobody is certain, and this uncertainty is
reflected in the BJP’s unwillingness to rush into an election. Of
course, how long an election can
be delayed remains an issue. By
this winter, Delhi would need a
Government — or an election.
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Sir — This refers to the Supreme
Court’s move to leave the decision
of appointing tainted leaders to the
Council of Ministers and to merely observe that the Prime Minister
must use his wisdom to avoid such
appointments, gives an opportunity to leaders with criminal records
to hold ministerial charge. With
persons like Madhu Koda having
reached to the position of Chief
Minister in the present political
system, the larger national and
public interest demanded that the
Supreme Court should have fixed
proper guidelines for persons to be
appointed as Ministers. Sadly, this
has not happened.
SC Agrawal
Delhi
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Sir — This refers to the article, “A
new world order needs a new
Islam” (August 26) by Sandhya
Jain. The article highlights that Abu
Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic
State chief, was created by the CIA.
This is how the Americans have
practised a bizarre and fallacious
foreign policy. They supported the
Taliban against the Russians in
Afghanistan. And the same Taliban
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turned against them. They have
fought a 10-year war against the Al
Qaeda but lost. They tried to oust
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,
but failed since he clung to his
throne like a limpet.
Now, not with love but out of
necessity, the Americans are
forced to hobnob with Mr Assad,
send intelligence inputs to defeat
the IS which grabbed weaponry
from the Syrian rebels, supplied
by the Americans, and is fighting
against them. Whether the world
order needs a new Islam or not,
the US needs a pragmatic longterm foreign policy which does
not create terrorists and aids terror states like Pakistan.
A Seshagiri Rao
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Sir — Large sections of the police
and the bureaucracy in Uttar
Pradesh have become sharply
politicised. They are functioning
as willing tools in the hands of the
ruling political bosses, throwing
to the winds all norms of neutrality enjoined upon them by their
service rules. One such recent
example is that of a senior police
officer of Moradabad. He covered
himself with ignominy by his brutal conduct with peaceful protes-
tors in the town of Kaanth.
‘Political workers’ in the garb of
Government servants like the one
above need to be warned by the
Department of Personnel of disciplinary action if they do not adhere
to political neutrality in the discharge of their duties. The State
Government must also be warned
in this regard in no uncertain
terms. Democracy and the rule of
law are in real danger there.
Ajay Mittal
Meerut
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Sir —This refers to the article, “An
idea whose time has come?”
(August 26) by Hari Om. The BJP
won three Lok Sabha seats out of
six in Jammu & Kashmir.
This has raised the morale of
the party, which has now ventured
to win 44+ seats out of the 87 seats
in the State Assembly election.
Congress stalwart Sham Lal
Sharma has pitched in for a Hindu
Chief Minister for the first time in
J&K. The Constitution does not
bar a Hindu from becoming the
Chief Minister of this State.
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New Delhi
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xactly a year ago, President Barack
Obama was bracing for a military
strike against Syria as America’s
long-time bete noire Bashar al-Assad
crossed the “red line” with his alleged use
of chemical weapons. However, after all the
sabre-rattling for nearly a fortnight, Mr
Obama reversed course when confronted
by unexpectedly massive domestic headwinds, both on Capitol Hill and elsewhere,
with his camp-followers not relishing the
sight of an “anti-war President” launching
his own war. Much to his relief, Russia,
using its clout with Assad, came up with
a diplomatic proposal for international
control of Syria’s chemical weapons, and
Mr Obama lost little time to hit the
pause/eject button.
A year later, Mr Obama faces a similar predicament in Syria, the only difference being the target this time is not
President Assad, who is still sitting pretty, but a ruthless outfit which has been battling for his ouster — the Islamic State in
Iraq and Syria (ISIS). As a prelude to possibly taking the battle to ISIS’ safe havens
in Syria, Mr Obama ordered surveillance
flights over Syria earlier this week to gather the requisite intelligence. That came on
the heels of the ISIS’ cold-blooded execution of American journalist James Foley
and posting its savagery online. If the dispatch of spy planes and comments by some
top aides triggered speculation of
imminent military action, Mr Obama
took everyone by surprise by hitting the
brakes on Thursday, saying he has no
strategy as yet.
For the time being anyway, Mr Obama
appears to have beaten yet another hasty
retreat on the Syrian front, just days after
one of his top aides asserted that the
United States would “do what is necessary”
against the Islamic State militants in Syria
in the wake of the gruesome killing of
Foley. “If you come against Americans, we
are going to come after you,” Deputy
National Security Adviser Benjamin
Rhodes had declared, adding: “We’re
actively considering what’s going to be necessary to deal with that threat and we’re
not going to be restricted by borders.”
In contrast to the strongly-worded
statements by his aides earlier on, Mr
Obama is now offering a more sober
assessment. As he puts it, “Rooting out a
cancer like ISIL (official acronym for ISIS)
will not be quick or easy, but I’m confident
that we can and we will.” Far from pushing ahead with a unilateral strike, he now
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The broad view among experts and
military advisers is that the Islamic State
militancy cannot be defeated without
going after the group inside Syria. US
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Martin Dempsey believes the
Islamic State, right now a region threat,
would soon be posing a threat to both
America and Europe. He believes that ISIS
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speaks of the need for a long-term strategy to deal with ISIS for which he would
be sending his Secretary of State John
Kerry to the region to build a coalition of
“strong regional partners”. For now, the US
proposes to confine itself to continuing
with the airstrikes against ISIS within Iraq.
Mr Obama’s pause on the Syrian
front, pending finalisation of a regional
strategy and putting together a coalition
of willing, came about just as clutches of
lawmakers, both Democratic and
Republican, began to demand that the
President seek Congressional authorisation
before expanding the military offensive
against ISIS from Iraq to Syria. It also came
on a day when The New York Times cau-
tioned editorially: “There are too many
unanswered questions to make that decision now and there has been far too little
public discussion for Mr Obama to expect
Americans to rally behind what could be
another costly military commitment.”
There has also been a steady commentary in the American media that the
one man who would benefit the utmost
from a US crackdown on ISIS in Syria
would be none else than Mr Assad. “It is
not the case that the enemy of my enemy
is my friend,” commented Mr Rhodes. And
when the question was put to Mr Obama
himself at the White House presser, he said
dismissively: “I don’t think this is a situation where we have to choose between
Assad or the kinds of people who carry on
the incredible violence that we’ve been seeing there. We will continue to support a
moderate opposition inside of Syria in part
because we have to give people inside of
Syria a choice other than ISIL or Assad.”
In its anxiety to distance itself from the
narrative of unwittingly helping Mr Assad,
the Obama administration has, in recent
days, dismissed the Syrian warning that the
United States cannot act unilaterally, but
only with its approval and cooperation.
“Any breach of Syrian sovereignty by any
side constitutes an act of aggression,”
asserted the country’s Foreign Minister
Walid al-Moualem, only to be countered
by the State Department, with spokesper-
son Jen Psaki retorting: “We’re not going
to ask for permission from the Syrian
regime.”
If some lawmakers are relieved that
President Obama is not plunging the military into Syria, there are others, predominantly on the Republican side, who
are inclined to support an offensive against
the ISIS. That includes Senate Minority
Leader Mitch McConnell, who wants the
president to work with America’s allies and
develop a strategy. Reacting to the Obama
announcement, he commented: “Don’t forget, the threat from ISIL is real and it’s
growing — and it is time for President
Obama to exercise some leadership in
launching a response.”
must be pressured both in Iraq and in
Syria.
Ryan Crocker, a former US
Ambassador to Syria and Iraq, is a strong
proponent of expanding the offensive to
Syria. “The rise of ISIS presents the
gravest threat to United States national
security since 9/11,” he wrote in the NYT,
warning Americans: “This Al Qaeda
mutant is far better armed, equipped and
financed than the original. Unlike any variant of Al Qaeda since 9/11, it controls significant territory where, secure from
attack, it has the space and time to plan
its next set of operations. Anyone who
believes the US is not on that list is delusional.”
(The writer is Washington
correspondent, The Pioneer)
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he US air strikes on
Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria (ISIS) militants in
Iraq have dampened their
dream to form Caliphate States
in Iraq and Syria. ISIS is a
group, which has captured big
areas of Iraq and Syria to the
fear of the Baghdad government and its allies in the West,
including some regional countries. However, defeating them
and completely wiping them
off the region will take time
and will require a comprehensive strategy and help from
regional players, especially Iran
and Saudi Arabia. US officials
have indicated that the process
in Iraq will be a long one, and
that air strikes alone will not be
enough. Even US chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff General
Martin Dempsey accepted the
fact and said, “The long-term
strategy for defeating the militants includes having the
United States and its allies
reach out to Iraq’s neighbours,
including Jordan, Saudi Arabia
and Turkey.” He also added that
such a coalition could “squeeze
ISIS from multiple directions in
order to initially disrupt it and
eventually defeat it.”
A video shown by the ISIS
last week depicting the beheading of American journalist
James Foley provoked disgust in
the US and calls for harsher and
rapid action against the militants. It is believed that the
killing of the US journalist by
the ISIS was a blunder and provoked the West to take rapid
action against the terror groups.
It is also believed that ISIS activities also provided opportunities for other regional countries
to join with the West in its fight
against the militants.
After the beheading of
Foley, American forces
launched mild air strikes against
ISIS militants in Iraq. However,
the Obama Administration is
concerned that only military
power or air strikes won’t be
enough to root out the ISIS.
There is a need for combined
efforts from all regional countries, including political and
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diplomatic endeavours, to
address the complaints of Sunni
groups who have felt marginalised by Iraq’s Shia-dominated
government. Iraq’s Parliament
has chosen a new Prime
Minister, Haider al-Abadi, in
place of Nouri al-Maliki, who
has promised to form a new
government that will include all
factions of Iraq, including
Sunnis.
The advancement of the
ISIS and the killing of the
American journalist have compelled the US to rethink its
cooperation with regional
countries, especially Syria and
Iran. US President Barack
Obama declared a “major step
forward” in Iraq on August 18
after American fighter jets,
bombers and drones helped
Kurdish and Iraqi forces in
pushing ISIS back from Iraq’s
crucial Mosul Dam. Obama
praised the cooperation of the
Iraqi and Kurdish forces on the
ground at the Mosul Dam.
Justifying the US air strikes
against the terrorist groups,
Obama said, “We are not reintroducing thousands of troops
to engage in combat… We’re
not the Iraqi military; we’re not
even the Iraqi air force.” The US
Administration advised the
new Iraqi government to
quickly unite around inclusivity as a “long-term” strategy
against the ISIS. The US also
advised the Iraqi Prime
Minister to ensure that the
other groups have a greater say
in governance.
ISIS and Syria
According to local media,
the ISIS has captured one of the
important airbase of Syria —
Tabqa. The ISIS groups and
Syrian regime troops have
clashed in fierce battles that
reportedly killed at least 346
ISIS fighters and more than 170
members of government forces
over Tabqa military airbase, the
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last stronghold of the Syrian
Army in Raqqa province. The
clash over Tabqa airbase makes
it one of the extreme clashes
between the government forces
and the ISIS since the start of
Syria’s war. ISIS militants displayed the heads of Syrian
forces in the city square.
However, a Syrian state television claimed that there was a
“successful evacuation of the
airport” and the army was
continuing strikes on “terrorist groups” in the area. It is also
reported that the ISIS has captured three Syrian military
bases in the area in recent
weeks, advanced by arms
seized in Iraq. However, the
killing of US journalist provided opportunities to the
Bashar al-Assad government to
join hands with the US in
fighting against ISIS militants.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid
al-Moualem has already said
that his country would cooperate in any global efforts to
fight Islamic State militants in
Syria,
after
the
US
Administration signalled it was
considering extending the battle against the militants inside
Syria. However, Moualem
pointed out that any air strike
without Damascus’ approval
would be considered hostile
acts. “Anything outside this
(cooperation) is considered
aggression,” he said. It must be
noted that America has been
supportive of insurgency
against Assad’s regime for three
years and there has been no
indication as yet of any shift in
the US strategy towards the
Syrian leader.
Iran-Iraq cooperation and
the ISIS
Present crisis in Iraq
prompted Iran to help Baghdad
stop ISIS enhancement further.
Iranian Foreign Minister
Mohammad Javad Zarif
arrived in Baghdad on August
24 to meet the country’s new
Prime Minister and members
of the Cabinet. Leaders from
both sides discussed the current situation in Iraq. Zarif said
Iran is ready to work with the
new government and also
called for a broad effort against
the ISIS. However, Iraqi
Foreign Minister Hoshyar
Zebari said Iraq “needs help
and support from everybody...
all the forces against terrorism,”
but not in the form of troops,
as “there is no shortage of fighting men.” Zarif ’s discussion
with Iraqi officials was the
focus of Iraq’s National Unity
government and an effort for a
broader strategy to fight the
ISIS. Iranian Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei
too welcomed the appointment
of the new Iraqi premier, saying
that enemies’ plot to push Iraq
into further turmoil through
political disputes over premiership would be upset once the
new Cabinet starts work.
Iran-Saudi rapprochement
on regional issues
The rising terror activities
by the ISIS and Palestinian
issues have prompted two rival
countries in the region — Iran
and Saudi Arabia — to forget
their past differences and unite
on regional issues, including
terror acts and extremism.
Both Iran and Saudi Arabia
have welcomed new Prime
Minister Haider al-Abadi in
Iraq. Iran’s Deputy Foreign
Minister for Arab and African
Affairs Hossein AmirAbdollahian visited Riyadh on
August 25. Abdollahian and
Saudi Foreign Minister Saud alFaisal underlined the significance of establishment of stability and security in the region
and debated bilateral relations
and regional problems. This
would mark the first visit to
Saudi Arabia by a senior government official since President
Rouhani was elected in 2013,
promising to try to improve
Tehran’s relations with the
neighbouring countries. Both
the nations realised that it is
time to break the ice between
Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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The way forward
The existing crisis in the
West Asian region in general
and Iraq and Syria in particular has changed the strategic
dynamics of the region. Some
past enemies are now trying to
resolve their differences and
uniting on regional and bilateral issues. Some analysts
believe that taking action
against the ISIS in Iraq and
Syria should involve some sort
of arrangement with the moderate government of President
Hassan Rouhani.
Relations between Iran and
the US, frozen for decades,
have improved sharply since
the elections of Rouhani, who
has promised to pursue a
policy of “constructive
engagement” with the
West. The interim nuclear deal
between Iran and P5-plus
one was the first step and a
clear
indication
of
rapprochement between the
two countries. The present crisis in Iraq and Syria provided
a good platform for the US and
Iran to change their negative
and hostile attitude towards
each other and rebuild friendship and cooperation on
regional and bilateral issues.
It was a positive step on the
part of Iran to send its Foreign
Minister to meet the new
premier and the Cabinet in
Iraq, which also got support
from the US. However, it could
be argued without any
doubt that air strikes
against the ISIS are not the final
and permanent solution to
the present crisis in Iraq and
Syria. It needs broader
strategy, engagement and
cooperation by all regional
countries, especially Iran
and Saudi Arabia and
the West.
(The writer is Associate
Fellow, West Asian Centre,
Institute for Defence Studies
and Analyses, New Delhi)
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India (CCI) on Friday said
tha it wanted to ensure that
spare parts maintenance market gets less expensive for consumers.
CCI on Monday imposed a
penalty of C2,545 crore on 14
carmakers for unfair trade practices in the spare parts and after
services market.
“Our whole attempt was to
ensure that the spare parts
maintenance market gets more
broad based and user friendly
and less expensive for consumers,” CCI Chairman Ashok
Chawla said here.
Apart from slapping the
penalty, the watchdog has
directed the carmakers to “cease
and desist” from anti- competitive practices.
According to Chawla, the
Government should also look
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at the issue for having a framework with regard to auto spare
markets and after services market.
A copy of the CCI order
would be sent to the Ministry
of Road Transport and
Highways and the ACMA
(Automotive Component
Manufacturers Association).
On issues related to intellectual property rights, the CCI
chief said the regulator recognises such aspects.
He was speaking at a conference organised by industry
body Assocham. Penalty has
been imposed on Maruti
Suzuki, Tata Motors, Honda Siel
Cars India, Volkswagen India,
Fiat India Automobiles, BMW
India, Ford India, General
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Mahindra & Mahindra and
Tata Motors have said they
would challenge the CCI order.
“I believe what CCI has
done (is) that they have not
understood the entire issue of
spare parts of cars. What they
are saying may apply to other
industries (but not in auto)...
There is a lack of understanding of the difference. (The
auto) industry by its nature is
totally different,” Maruti Suzuki
India Chairman R C Bhargava
had said.
A detailed CCI investigation had revealed that these car
companies violated competition
norms with respect to its agreements with local Original
Equipment Suppliers (OESs) as
well as in terms of pacts with
authorised dealers.
The Commission had also
found that these companies,
who were found to be dominant in the after markets for
their respective brands, abused
their dominant position affecting around two crore car consumers, it added.
“The 14 car companies
were found to be indulging in
practices resulting in denial of
market access to independent
repairers as the latter were not
provided access to branded
spare parts and diagnostic tools
which hampered their ability to
provide services in the aftermarket for repair and maintenance of cars,” CCI had said.
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Friday after issuing yet another
profits warning, cutting both its
dividend and capital expenditure,
and rushing in its new chief
executive.
In reaction to the dire trading update, Tesco shares plunged
by more than 8.0 per cent in early
morning deals on the London
stock market to strike an 11-year
low point.
The company is Britain’s
biggest retailer and describes itself
as “one of the world’s largest
retailers”, with activities notably in
China, India and eastern Europe.
The group, which has struggled on its main market in Britain
in the face of stretched household
budgets and fierce competition
from German-owned discount
chains, blamed challenging trading conditions and high investment costs for today’s announcement.
Trading profit was forecast at
between 2.4 billion pounds and
2.5 billion pounds ($4.0 billion
and $4.2 billion) in the 2014/2015
financial year.
That was well below market
expectations of between 2.7 billion
pounds and 2.8 billion pounds,
and was down on the 3.3 billion
pounds reported in the prior
year.
Tesco also slashed its interim
shareholder dividend by 75 percent to 1.16 pence per share, while
expenditure was cut by 400 million pounds to no more than 2.1
billion pounds.
And in another surprise
move, new chief executive Dave
Lewis will start on Monday -- one
month earlier than planned -- in
order to carry out a review of
“every aspect” of the business.
“The combination of challenging trading conditions and
ongoing investment in our customer offer has continued to
impact the expected financial performance of the group,” Tesco said
in the statement.
“The business continues to
face a number of uncertainties,
including market conditions and
the pace at which benefits from
the investments we are making
flow through in the second half
and consequently the board has
revised its outlook for the full
year.”
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supply “unilaterally”,
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Haryana Government on Friday
threatened to take legal action
against Adani Power Limited
(APL) by charging it with the
“breaching terms” of power
purchase contract.
Haryana Government
accused APL of disconnecting
1,424 MW of contracted power
to the state “arbitrarily” and with
“malafide intention” on August
27.
“We will take legal action
against APL as the power supplier has disconnected power
supply to Haryana unilaterally.
We will charge the company
with the breach of contract and
decision in the regard will be
taken in next couple of days,”
Haryana Secretary Power Anil
Malik told the news agency
here.
Haryana power officials
said that the APL disconnected
power supply to Haryana,
accusing the state owned power
distribution companies of not
providing Escrow account as per
Power Purchase Agreement
(PPA) signed with the company.
“Haryana distribution companies gave a letter from OBC
(Oriental Bank of Commerce),
mentioning that the default
escrow account had been
opened and company could
execute the agreement on
August 28.
But on August 27, APL cut
off the entire capacity to the
Haryana discoms,” Haryana
power officials alleged.
“The company never
pressed for opening Escrow
earlier and they suddenly discontinued the supply,” said
Malik.
He said the power distribution companies had never
defaulted in making payment to
APL ever since the PPA was
signed.
“In the present scenario
where the rainfall in deficient by
60 per cent of the Long Period
Average in Haryana and the
agriculture demand is almost
double than last year such a
move from APL was arbitrary
and uncalled for and depicts a
malafide intention,” said a
Haryana Government release.
Haryana power distribution companies pay Rs 300
crore per month on an average
to APL for power purchase.
Haryana had contracted
1,424 MW of power from APL
in 2007 from its power project
located at Mundra in Gujarat.
Power from APL was contracted at a levelised tariff of C2.94
per unit for 25 years.
In February this year, the
central electricityregulatory
commission (CERC) had
accepted pleas by Tata Power
and Adani Power for higher tariffs following a change in the
pricing regime by the
Indonesian Government for
coal exports from that country.
CERC had awarded the
compensatory tariff over and
above the normal tariff, about
61 paise per unit, to APL which
was challenged by Haryana in
Appellate Tribunal for
Electricity (APTEL) to protect
the interest of 55 lakh electricity consumers of the state, said
Haryana power officials.
This decision would have
put “huge” financial burden of
about C1,400 crore per year
(about C35,000 crore for
Haryana over the life of PPA -25 years) that would have affected the 55 lakh consumers of the
state, Haryana power officials
said.
Aptel, in its interim order,
had stayed the recovery of past
dues and allowed only current
charges as per actual from
March 14, 2014 onwards.
In view of huge financial
burden that would have come
on consumers because of the
interim order, the same was
challenged in the Supreme
Court by Haryana.
Subsequently the tariff
increase claimed by APL was
disallowed and stayed by
Supreme Court on August 25
and the counsel of APL agreed
to accept the power purchase
agreement tariff for supply of
power,
the
Haryana
Government release said.
The Apex Court though
ordered the Aptel to decide the
matter expeditiously, it said.
Meanwhile, in view of
snapping of power supply by the
APL, Haryana power distribution companies said they have
sourced power from NTPC
power plants and begun generation from few of its own power
plants to meet the gap.
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is aiming at 8,000-9,000 MW capacity takeover
in stressed power plants but the recent Supreme
Court ruling on coal mines
may have an impact on the
move.
“We have received 34
applications aggregating
55,000 MW generation. But,
on a realistic basis, we expect
to acquire plants worth 8,0009,000 MW capacity after due
diligence,” NTPC chairman
and managing director Arup Roy Choudhury
said here today on the sidelines of the annual
conclave on environment and energy organised
by The Bengal Chamber.
“However, we have to look into the impact
from the ruling of the Supreme Court on coal
mines,” he said.
“If due to the recent Supreme Court order,
sourcing coal or holding a coal block becomes
an issue for such power plants, then we must
strike off such assets from our
takeover list,” Choudhury said.
NTPC is looking at power
plants which have achieved
financial closure or coal linkage,
but were facing financial issues
to start generation and cost less
than greenfield power plants.
“If cost is more than greenfield why should we go for it?
There should be some financial advantage,”
Choudhury said.
NTPC had set up a sub-committee to look
into the stressed power plant takeover.
Meanwhile, NTPC said projects worth
22,000 MW are under execution and another
8,000-10,000 MW under pipeline.
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TCA Anant is part of an
Iindependent
expert advisory
group constituted by UN
Secretary General Ban Kimoon that will advise him on
measures required to close
the data gaps and strengthen
national statistical capacities.
The 26-member advisory
group on Data Revolution for
Sustainable Development is
also expected to assess new
opportunities linked to innovation, technical progress
and the surge of new public
and private data providers to
support conventional statistical systems and strengthen
accountability at the global,
regional and national level.
Anant, who has the concurrent responsibility of
Secretary of the Ministry of
Statistics and Programme
Implementation, is also coChair of the Friends of the
Chair Group on Broader
Measures of Progress.
He was previously a professor of economics at the
Delhi School of Economics,
and a member of the advisory committee on regulations
under t he C omp et it ion
Commission of India.
The group also includes
Indian-origin Rakesh Rajani
from Tanzania, who is the
Head of Twaweza, an initiative to enhance access to
information, citizen agency,
and public accountability in
East Africa.
He was previously the
founding Executive Director
of HakiElimu, an independent organisation that promotes citizen engagement in
education in Tanzania.
“The data revolution is
giving the world powerful
tools that can help usher in a
more sustainable future,” Ban
said in a statement.”The recommendations of the Group
will be importantinputs to the
post-2015 debate and our
efforts to shape an ambitious
yet achievable vision,” he
said.
The group is part of the
Secretary-General’s efforts to
prepare the Synthesis Report
that UN Member States have
asked him to issue ahead of
the intergovernmental negotiations leading to the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda.
Special Advisor of the
Secretary-General for Post2015 Development Planning,
Assistant Secretary-General
Amina Mohammed and
Assistant Secretary-General
for Policy Coordination and
Inter-Agency Affairs, UN
Department of Economic and
Social Affairs, Thomas Gass,
will serve as ex-officio members and will provide the
link to the UN system.
Profess or
Enr ico
Giovannini of Italy and Robin
Li, co-founder, Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of
Chinese Nasdaq-listed internet search company Baidu are
the co-chairs of the group,
which is expected to submit
its recommendations to the
Secretary-General later this
year.
The other members in
the group include Iran’s
Shaida Badiee, Co-Founder
and Managing Director of
Open Data Watch, Brazil’s
Carmen Barroso who is the
Regional Direc tor at
Inter national
Planne d
Parent ho o d Fe deration,
Western Hemisphere Region,
Haishan Fu from China who
is t he Direc tor of t he
Development Data Group at
The World Bank, Robert
Kirkpatrick from the US who
is the Director of the UN
Global Pulse, an innovation
initiative of the SecretaryGeneral.
Also from the US is
Sandy Pentland, a professor at
the Massachusetts Institute of
Te chnolog y and Wayne
Smith, Chief Statistician at
Statistics Canada.
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61.2 per cent of full year
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Budget Estimates or over
C3.24 lakh crore in end July.
During the April-July
period of 2013-14 fiscal, the
deficit was 62.8 per cent of
Budget Estimates (BE) of that
year.
The data released by the
Controller General of
Accounts today shows that
the total expenditure of the
government during AprilJuly was over C5.03 lakh crore
or 28.1 per cent of the entire
year estimates.
Of the total expenditure,
plan spending was over C1.32
lakh crore and under nonplan head it was C3,71 lakh
crore.
Revenue collection was
over C1.75 lakh crore or 14.8
per cent of the BE.
Total receipts (from revenue and non-debt capital) of
the Government during the
four months was over C1.79
lakh crore.
The data said revenue
deficit in the four months was
over C2.66 lakh crore or 70.4
per cent of the BE.
The fiscal deficit was over
C5.08 lakh crore or 4.5 per
cent of GDP in 2013-14. It
was 4.9 per cent in 2012-13.
For entire 2014-15, fiscal
deficit - gap between government expenditure and revenue - for the whole fiscal has
been pegged at C5.31 lakh
crore or 4.1 per cent of GDP.
The Government had put
in place a fiscal consolidation
roadmap as per which the fiscal deficit has to be brought
down to 3 per cent of the
GDP by 2016-17.
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using drones to deliver
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items bought online, putting its
own spin on similar efforts by
Internet
retail
titan
Amazon.Com.
Two years of research into
what Google referred to as
“Project Wing” was capped this
month with test flights delivering candy, water, medicine, dog
treats and other items to two
farmers in Queensland,
Australia.
“Self-flying vehicles could
open up entirely new approaches to moving goods,” Californiabased Google yesterday said in
a blog post disclosing the project.
Throughout history, major
changes in how we move goods
from place to place have led to
new opportunities for economic growth and generally made
consumers’ lives easier.”
Project Wing drones were
described as having more in
common with Google’s self-driving car than remote-controlled
aircraft used by hobbyists.
Delivery drones and
autonomous vehicles are both
being worked on in Google X
lab devoted to innovative new
technologies.
Google expected it to be
several years before a delivery
drone system is ready.
Last month, Amazon
sought permission for drone test
flights in the United States, saying it is moving forward on plans
for deliveries using unmanned
aircraft.
In a letter to the Federal
Aviation Administration,
Amazon said that because of
restrictions on drones in US airspace, it has been conducting
test flights indoors and in other
countries.
Amazon said an exemption
to FAA rules would be “in the
public interest” and “is a necessary step towards realizing the
consumer benefits of Amazon
Prime Air,” which company
founder Jeff Bezos has described
as a plan for drone delivery to
consumers.
Bezos unveiled his idea for
drone deliveries last December,
and said the company would be
ready to launch Amazon Prime
Air as early as 2015 if FAA regulations allowed.
The letter said that over the
past five months, “we have
made advancements toward
the development of highlyautomated aerial vehicles for
Prime Air,” which travel at
over 80 kilometers per hour
and can carry loads up to 2.2
kilos.
Amazon’s plan is to allow
for deliveries of some goods
within 30 minutes of an order.
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debates on gas price hike and
a new contract for oil and gas
exploration, Vedanta Resource
on Friday said domestic rates
should be linked to international markets and an independent regulator be set up.
Speaking at an Oil & Gas
Seminar organised by Indian
Chambers of Commerce,
Vedanta chief executive Tom
Albanese said “the current
policy environment fostered
uncertainty and did not
encourage intensified exploration and production of
domestic resources.”
He, however, backed the
Oil Ministry move to replace
the controversial Production
Sharing Contracts (PSC) for
oil and gas exploration with
simpler revenue-sharing
regime.
The new regime where
companies will bid upfront the
quantity of oil and gas they
will share with the government, will replace PSC regime
that allowed investors to
recover all their cost before
sharing any spoils with the
Government. This model was
criticised by CAG which said
it encouraged companies to
keep raising cost so as to
postpone higher share of profits with the government.
“I
believe
the
Government’s recent initiatives to introduce a revenue
sharing model is one such
change that will minimise
cost recovery issues and delays
that have led to uncertainties
for producers.
“Extending this principle
to establish an independent
regulator for the sector would
be another great decisive step,”
he said.
Similarly, to convey a
strong message to interna-
tional investors, “it is important to link oil and gas prices
to international markets.
Timely and right price enable
investors to plan their investments and optimise production,” he said.
The Government is currently debating a new gas
pricing mechanism to replace
the Rangarajan formula which
would have doubled rates to
$8.4 per million British thermal unit.
He said: “For instance,
not allowing private sector to
fully exploit unconventional
hydrocarbons – Shale Gas – is
a limiting factor for enhanced
private sector participation.
Such differentiation creates
artificial boundaries and
makes risk capital averse to the
Indian market”.
Life of PSCs is another apt
example. “Limited tenures
with provisions of multiple
renewals do not allow companies and investors to put in
place business plans that maximise output over the economic life of the field,” he said.
Vedanta Group firm Cairn
India is seeking extension of
the contract for Rajasthan oilfields beyond their current
term ending in 2019.
“All these dissuade flow of
capital. Capital is very mobile.
Countries compete to attract
capital to spur economic
growth. Delays in statutory
approvals coupled with frequent policy changes lead to
an uncertain economic environment that adversely
impacts overall investment
climate and flow of risk capital,” he added.
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Coal India (CIL) to prepare
a detailed note on ways to fasttrack extraction of coal from its
mines which are explored and
have got green clearance.
The development comes at
a time when the country is facing acute coal shortages.
"Coal India was directed
that a detailed note may be prepared and sent to this ministry
(Coal)...This is under process," a
source close to the development
said.
The source further said that
the Cabinet Committee on
Economic Affairs had in
September, 2013 decided that
coal ministry will separately
examine how extraction of coal
from the mines from the
explored and environmentally
cleared blocks held by CIL could
be expedited and "bring an
appropriate note for the consideration of the committee at an
early date."
State-owned Coal India
(CIL) is awaiting environment
and forestry clearances pertaining to its 241 projects.
At present, 48 environmental clearance proposals, having a
capacity of about 109 million
tonnes per annum (MTPA), are
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levels.
Moreover, 193 forestry proposals are awaiting clearances
either at environment ministry
or at the state levels.
The Ministry of Coal had in
2012 alloted 116 blocks to CIL.
In addition, it was alloted
three de-allocated mines -Brahmini, Chchro Pastimal and
East of Damogoria.
The state-owned firm had
asked for 138 mines in 2008 in
order to reverse the declining
trend of production and to augment output.
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earlier expressed hope that it can
start mining by 2014 in 13 of the
119 blocks allotted to it.
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those dressing up their
Sillicitending
money-pooling schemes
as 'credit cooperative societies' or other permissible
activities, market regulator
Sebi has said it is very serious
in bringing them to book
and is not wary of 'intensive
litigations'.
Determined to clamp
down on ponzi and other
such schemes with enhanced
powers, Sebi Chairman U K
Sinha said that the regulator
has come across entities
which try to evade its jurisdiction by claiming to be
running legal businesses such
as credit cooperatives, chit
funds and even NBFCs.
Giving example of a large
group without disclosing its
name, Sinha said that "in one
particular case, which is a
large case, the company was
earlier under RBI domain.
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shifted everything to something they thought was under
the Ministry of Corporate
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there was news that now we
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society funds... People will
still try, what I am saying is
that not ever ything is
plugged.
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these cases".
Sinha told an news agencyin an interview: "If we have
an evidence that somebody
has raised Rs 100 crore, we
will fight those cases and let
people come out with their
defences. It (our action) will
be based on evidence on case
to case basis."
Through a new Securities
Laws Amendments Act, the
government has enhanced
powers of Sebi to take action
against illegal money-pooling
activities involving Rs 100
crore or more. The Act also
provides for setting up of a
special court to expedite the
cases filed by Sebi.
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a time when a large number
of cases have come to fore
about raising of funds from
gullible investors through
numerous illegal money-
pooling activities.
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action in recent years against
entities having collectively
raised well above Rs 1 lakh
crore through various
schemes and its crackdown is
expected to rise considerably
after grant of new powers.
While acknowledging
that certain activities are
indeed exempted from Sebi's
jurisdiction, Sinha said: "In
co- operative societies, for
example, you can take money
only from the members and
not the public.
"So, they will have to
show that when the person
became a member and all
that... It is a matter of intensive litigation but we are very
serious and clear that we will
be moving on those lines."
Acknowledging that some
loopholes still exist in the system, Sinha said that even
after Sebi initiates action
against a collective investment scheme, the operator
cites exemptions that can be
a valid defence to be left out
of the capital market regulator's ambit.
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to$420 per 10 grams and $645
per kg, respectively, taking cues
from firm global prices.
For the first fortnight of this
month, the tariff value on
imported gold stands at $426 per
10 grams, while that for silver at
$650 per kg.
The import tariff value is the
base price at which customs duty
is determined to prevent underinvoicing. It is revised on a fortnightly basis considering volatile
global prices.
The tariff value on imported gold and silver has been
notified by the Central Board of
Excise and Customs, an official
statement said.
Gold in Singapore, which
normally sets price trend on the
domestic front, traded tad higher at $ 1,290.22 an ounce from
$ 1,289.65 on Thursday. Silver
also advanced 0.3 per cent to
$19.57 an ounce.Similarly in
domestic market, the extending
gains for the second day, gold
prices moved up by another C70
to C28,300 per 10 grams.
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larger chunk of the
booming affordable smartphone market in India, domestic handset maker Spice today
launched its new Firefox OSpowered smartphone, priced at
Rs 2,299.
The move follows the
launch of another Firefox OS
device last week by local rival,
Intex, which had launched
India's first Firefox OS based
handset for Rs 1,999.
"This dual SIM-handset is
targetted at those looking to
upgrade from feature phones
without worrying about the
price or complexity of a smartphone. We are confident that
the device will meet the
demands of those looking to
move to smartphone," said
Spice Mobility Chief Executive
Officer Prashant Bindal.
W
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unveil a larger screen version of its popular
iPhone along with its first smartwatch on
September 9 in its hometown in Cupertino,
California.
The iconic creator of iPods and iPads has
sent out a cryptic invite, in its usual style, saying: "Wish we could say more." The invitation
comes on a simple black-and-white background dominated by the company's corporate
logo.
These events have become sort of an annual ritual since 2007, when the company launched
the first iPhone and later the iPad as well.
The launch, which is expected to feature a
larger-screened iPhone, will be held in the same
venue where Apple's late co-founder, Steve Jobs,
unveiled the original Mac computer 30 years
ago. The Mac is credited to have changed the
landscape for personal computing, taking technology to the masses.
According to various reports, the new
iPhone may come in two variants -- one one with
4.7-inch and the other with a 5.5-inch screen to
compete with large screen smartphones made by
Korean rival Samsung and others, which are powered by the Android operating system.
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on construction industry and services sector to
increase the coverage of its social security net by
30 per cent following government's decision to
enhance wage ceiling.
The Government has increased the monthly
wage ceiling for becoming member of the
Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO)
at the time of joining to Rs 15,000 from September
1, from the existing Rs 6,500.
Following the increase, more workers are likely to come under the social security schemes run
by the retirement fund body EPFO.
"A target of 30 per cent enhancement in the coverage base is fixed for all the regional and subregional offices. All incharges of regional offices shall
ensure that the target fixed is achived...Any laxity
on this count will be viewed seriously," EPFO said
in an office order on Friday.
It said: "The time has come to ensure that these
so called excluded employees are brought under the
purview of the Act which will help the organisation to bridge the coverage gaps to a large extent."
Earlier, all those formal sector workers who got
more than C6,500 at the time of joining were excluded from EPFO schemes.
In oder to increase the coverage by 30 per cent,
EPFO has asked staff to especially focus on building and construction industry, placement agencies, mining, public and private sector banks, hospitals, restaurants, schools, workshops, franchises and service centres of branded electronic goods
and DTH services providers.
EPFO has asked its officers to investigate
whether the security personnel deployed by the
banks in their ATMs throughout the country were
getting provident fund and other
benefitsAccording to a study carried by the
Labour Ministry, number of workers deployed by
various government departments, undertakings
and autonomous bodies on outsourcing basis are
not getting the benefits of provident fund, pension and insurance.
EPFO has also asked to regional offices to hold
meetings with trade unions and other stakeholder to inform them about the changes in the EPFO
scheme.
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erty developer Wanda Group
said it will set up an e-commerce venture at a cost of over
$800 million with two other
Internet giants, Baidu and
Tencent, in a challenge to
industry leader Alibaba Group
ahead of its debut in the US
stock market.
The three companies will
initially invest 5 billion yuan
($ 814 million) and the investment will reach 20 billion
yuan within five years, Wanda
chairman Wang Jianlin said
during the contract signing
ceremony.
Wanda will hold 70 per
cent stake in the joint venture,
the name of which is still
unknown. Baidu and Tencent
will hold 15 per cent each,
state-run Xinhua news agency
reported.
The e-commerce company will be registered in Hong
Kong.
After a test run this year,
its online services will be formally launched next year.
Alibaba, the country's
largest e-commerce company,
is poised to launch what is
potentially the world's largestever technology IPO in the
United States.
Analysts say the initial
public offering might value
Alibaba between $150 billion
and $200 billion.
Alibaba founder Jack Ma,
whose assets were valued at $
21.8 billion, is regarded as
China's richest man.
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(RBI)could cut policy rates
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by 75-100 basis points starting
early 2015 even if the US Fed
hikes rates next year, says a
Bank of America Merrill-Lynch
report.
According to the global
financial services major, the
monetary policies of the developed market and emerging markets, especially India, has turned
"asynchronous" in recent years.
"We believe that the RBI can
continue to cut policy rates by
75-100 bps in 2015 from January
to revive growth even if the Fed
tapers off," BofA-ML said in a
research report.
The global brokerage firm
believes that there are three
main reasons why the RBI is likely to go for a rate-cut even if the
Fed hikes rates next year.
Firstly, the rate differential
between India and US are
already very high and secondly, and secondly forex reserves
are key to INR stability. Thirdly
a tightening by Fed is exported to cool "imported" inflation
by stabilising commodity
prices.
The rate differential
between US and India, that
stands at 800 basis points is far
higher than the average 460
basis points since January 2003.
Moreover, assuming normal rains, stable oil prices and
a stable INR, the country's CPI
inflation is expected to come off
to 6 per cent levels by January
2016 in line with the RBI's targets.
Soon after taking the reins
of RBI in September last year,
RBI governor Raghuram Rajan
surprised the industry by hiking
the short-term policy rate by
0.25 per cent to keep inflation
under check. The repo rate or
the short term lending rate was
increased to 7.5 per cent from
7.25 per cent.
, RBI raised repo rate by
another 0.5 per cent to keep
inflation under check. However,
it has kept interest rate
unchanged since April this year.
In the recent monetary policy review, RBI kept policy rate
static at 8 per cent citing upside
risks to inflation in view of
uncertain monsoon and its
impact on food production as
also volatile international oil
prices.
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a breakthrough in the political crisis, Pakistan’s powerful
Army on Friday stepped in to
try and resolve the standoff
between Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif and protesters as
both sides returned to the
negotiating table.
Hours after Army Chief
Raheel Sharif mediated
between the embattled
Government and protesters
headed by Imran Khan and
cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, the two
sides were trading charges on
who was responsible for the
intervention.
After Khan and Qadri met
the Army Chief in Rawalpindi
late Thursday night, the ruling
Pakistan Muslim LeagueNawaz (PML-N) and protesting parties — Khan-led
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)
and Qadri’s Pakistan Awami
Tehreek (PAT) — held talks
here. However, the talks did
not make any headway in
resolving the crisis, with PTI
leader Shah Mehmood
Qureshi saying, “We (PTI)
have come with a positive
approach, however the
Government has not said anything new.”
Qureshi lamented that the
deadlock on negotiations is
prevailing and said talks will
not move forward due to the
“trust deficit”.
Prime Minister Sharif told
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Friday that “neither had I
asked army nor the armed
forces sought a role in the present political crisis.”
Sharif scotched media
reports that it was he who
“requested” the army to come
to his rescue, saying it was
Khan and Qadri who
approached Army Chief Raheel
to become a mediator.
in their strongholds in Syria,
US President Barack Obama
has publicly admitted that he
does not have a strategy yet on
this score and signalled his plan
for a “regional” approach in
partnership with allies and
countries of the region.
“In order for us to degrade
ISIL over the long term, we’re
going to have to build a regional strategy. Now, we’re not
going to do that alone,” Obama
told a White House news con-
rospects of a final deal on a
long-term Gaza truce
between Israel and Hamas were
seen as shaky on Friday after its
leader ruled out Israeli demands
to disarm the Palestinian
militant group.
“The weapons of the resistance are sacred and we will not
accept that they be on the agenda” of future negotiations with
Israel, the exiled Meshaal told a
news conference on Thursday in
Doha. Israel has consistently
linked the reconstruction of the
Gaza Strip, devastated during its
50-day war with Hamas that
ended last Tuesday, to the territory’s demilitarisation.
“It has become abundantly
clear that unless Hamas is disarmed and its tools of control
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removed, there can be no peace
and security for either Israelis or
Palestinians,” Israel’s Foreign
Minister Avigdor Lieberman
warned, quoted on his ministry’s
website. France’s President
Francois Hollande also backs the
disarmament of the coastal strip
where Hamas is de facto ruler.
“Gaza can no longer be an
army base for Hamas, or an
for action on the part of
Congress before I know exactly what it is that is going to be
required for us to get the job
done,” he said in an apparent
reference to demands voiced by
several lawmakers that he
should seek Congressional
authorisation before any expansion of military action.
On the question of enlisting regional partners, Obama
said he was encouraged that
countries in the region that do
not always agree on many
things now “increasingly recognise the primacy of the threat
that ISIL poses to all of them”.
Focusing on the mounting
violence in Ukraine, Obama
attacked Russia for the worsening situation. Besides training,
arming and funding pro-Russian
separatists, Russia has also “delib-
erately and repeatedly violated
the sovereignty and territorial
integrity of Ukraine”, he said.
He, however, ruled out any
US military intervention,
telling a questioner: “What
we’re doing is to mobilise the
international community to
apply pressure on Russia. But
I think it is very important to
recognise that a military solution to this problem is not
going to be forthcoming.”
Earlier in the day, at the
UN Security Council, US
Ambassador Samantha Power
mounted a blistering attack
on Russia accusing it of lying
about its intervention, saying:
“Russia has come before this
Council to say everything
except the truth. It has manipulated. It has obfuscated. It has
outright lied.”
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insisted on Friday that Kiev
must enter substantial talks with
pro-Russian rebels amid a dramatic escalation of the fighting
in Ukraine.
“It is necessary to make the
Ukrainian authorities start substantial talks,” he told youths at
a pro-Kremlin summer camp in
central Russia.
“It is necessary to hold substantial, meaningful talks, to
understand what rights the people of Donbass, Lugansk, the
entire southeast of the country
will have,” Putin said in televised
remarks. “It is important to
agree on substance. They don’t
want to speak on substance,
that is the problem.”
Putin spoke after Kiev and
the West said that Russian regular troops were on the ground
in Ukraine, fighting alongside
ragtag formations of pro-Russian
separatists. Russia has repeatedly denied the claim. Putin was
scathing about Western support for Kiev, saying they had
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that he has deputed Secretary
of State John Kerry to visit the
region to build the coalition
needed to meet this threat.
Faulting sections of the
media for creating the impression
that the US was about to launch
a full-scale strategy to defeat ISIS,
Obama said: “We don’t have a
strategy yet. I think what I’ve seen
in some of the news reports suggests that folks are getting a little further ahead of where we’re
at than we currently are. And I
think that’s not just my assessment, but the assessment of our
military as well.”
Once a strategy is developed, Obama said he would
consult with Congress and
make sure that the voices of
lawmakers are heard. “But
there’s no point in me asking
open-air prison for its inhabitants. One should move towards
a progressive lifting of the blockade and the demilitarisation of
the territory,” he told French
diplomats on Thursday. Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is
claiming victory over the
Palestinian militants. “Hamas
was hit very hard and there is
here a military achievement of
the highest order, as well as a
diplomatic achievement because
they dropped all of their
demands,” he told a visiting delegation from the US House of
Representatives Armed Services
Committee.
“They got to this point the
hard way. They kept testing us
and every time we struck them
but the last time, given this
accumulation of blows, they
were persuaded,” he said.
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in a coup and their position now
was not to enter peace talks but
to give Ukrainian forces “a little
time to shoot”.
Putin on Friday reiterated
his earlier claim that Russian soldiers captured by Ukrainian
authorities have ended up in the
ex-Soviet country by mistake,
charging the border has not
been marked properly. He spoke
after addressing pro-Russian
separatists in a late-night statement which pointedly called
them “rebels of Novorossiya”
(New Russia), a Tsarist-era term
for Moscow’s former imperial
holdings in the region.
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Her picture was blacked out on the
organisation’s website and replaced
with the word “dethroned”.
Myanmar, which only recently
emerged from a half-century of military
rule, started participating in international beauty pageants again in 2012.
Two years later, May Myat Noe was
crowned Miss Asia Pacific World.
David Kim, director of media for
the Seoul-based pageant, said on Friday
the 18-year-old was informed of the
decision to retract the title He says she
has since absconded with the USD
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10,000 breast implants, paid for by the
pageant’s sponsors.
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while 75 Philippine soldiers
were in tense standoff with the
rebels, according to the two
Pacific nations.
Both nations remained
hopeful the impasse could be
resolved without bloodshed.
Fijian Commander Brig
Gen Mosese Tikoitoga said
he’s been informed his soldiers
are unharmed, although he
hasn’t been able to contact
them directly. Philippines
President Benigno Aquino III
said that while the situation was
tense, there was no reason to
believe his troops faced immediate danger.
The events began on
Thursday morning on the
Syrian side of the Golan
Heights, an area divided
between Israel and Syria.
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filled with about 150 armed
rebels converged on the Fijian
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an inspiring experience. You end
up learning a lot on passion and
perseverance. The Chef De Cuisine
from Park Hyatt Dubai is at Hyatt
Regency, introducing the lesser-known
variety of the Arab cuisine. He has crafted a special menu with an extensive list
of salads, starters, main course and
desserts for the Arabesque food week
at Café — the all day dining restaurant
of the hotel. While he leads us to the
food counter, some myths are broken
mid way. “Everyone in the world knows
about falafel, hummus, motabel and
taboulleh but what
is served is often
not the traditional
version. For example, falafel is mostly prepared with
some additional
spices and herbs
and the added
flavours end up taking over the flavour
of the basic ingredient of the dish, that
is chickpeas. At home, the falafel that
we prepare is moist, has coarse texture
due to chickpea mixture and very mild
flavours of cumin. No spices are added
to it,” he says. The salad counter is a veggie’s delight with a cold mezze spread
of hummus, baba ghanoush, motabel,
muhamarra, roasted red pepper dip,
and beetroot moutabel. There is an
interesting variety of breads placed
along side. The chef says, “It is this variety of the Arab cuisine that the world
is not aware of. We have a huge variety
in mezze, over 50-60 kind of salads and
more than 50 varieties in desserts. For
instance, people mostly know baklawa
to be a flaky pastry with the filling of
pistachios. The stuffing can differ, it can
be of dates, cashews as well, the shapes
are different and the method of preparation also differs. The traditional dishes of different regions in the Middle East
must be the same but the method of
preparation and ingredients used vary
from region to region depending on the
availability of ingredients. I didn’t know
that I will find rocket leaves here easily so in my menu I didn’t include one
of the dips that you see here. It is thick
curd mixed with rocket leaves and it is
one of the traditional dishes back
home.”
Chef Ali’s training in food started
at home. His dad owned a small restaurant that used to sell falafel and shawar-
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artists has filed a lawsuit against the
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fashion designer, saying he lifted various
graffiti-style patterns for a new collection
titled Just Cavalli.
Street artists Jason Williams, Victor
Chapa, and Jeffrey Rubin believe the label
has infringed their copyright on the work
they did in San Francisco’s Mission district.
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the
suit,
obtained
by
TheFashionLaw.com, it is said: “Just Cavalli
introduced a clothing and accessories collection in which every square inch of every
piece — including clothing, bags, backpacks,
and shoes — was adorned with graffiti art.”
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looked down upon almost 17 years ago.”
He graduated from the Industrial
Institute in Hama, Syria, in 1994 as a
qualified electrician. It was during the
time when he was completing his studies that he realised he wanted to be a
chef and not an electrician. Through
five years work experience during college vacations, chef Ali started to learn
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the culinary profession in restaurants
and hotels in Syria and Lebanon. “I
worked in international cuisine but as
I travelled in different parts of the
region I realised that most chefs who
created dishes from the Arab cuisine
added popular ingredients to the traditional dishes or presented them in different style. Some had European influences too. For example, we do not use
cream or herbs like dill in our dishes.
So I researched more on our tradition-
al Middle Eastern cuisine and since last
eight years I have been promoting our
authentic cuisine across the globe,”
informs the chef.
He adds that Syrian cuisine is a diffusion of the cultures of civilisations that
settled in Syria. “We were under the
Turkish rule for over 300 years so we get
most of our traditional dishes from
there. Like shawarma is Turkish. The
stew also we have got from there but the
Turkish like their stew thick and sometimes add cornflour to it, while we like
it juicy. We use lamb and chicken
cooked in ghee for most of our main
course dishes,” he says.
The aroma of freshly grilled minced
lamb kebabs and shish touk from the
live station fills the space. Kebab halabi,
a kebab served with a spicy tomato sauce,
is very common in Syria and Lebanon.
Kebab halabi has around 26 varieties.
These minced meat grilled kebabs are a
must-try.
Even for the dessert section, the chef
has crafted the menu in such a way that
he can introduce the variety to his Indian
guests. “I was in India three years ago for
a Arabian food promotion in Pune. I
realised how much people are in love
with the cuisine, as it is healthy and has
new flavours. This time my mission was
to introduce the variety so that people know more about the
authentic Arabian,” he
ends.
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Korean boys of band N-Sonic
Imight
not be able to speak fluent
English but their ‘cool’ tracks like
Super Boys, I Won’t Let Go and
Never Stop have already become
chartbusters and eventually produced new superstars from that
part of the world. PSY’s Gangnam
Style is clearly not the biggest
export from Korea. Thronged by
the hundreds of youths at the
Korean Culture Centre, these six
boys prefer to communicate only
with the language of music.
“Namaste”, greets us the lead vocalist J Heart. N-Sonic is in the city to
perform at the 3rd edition of KPOP festival.
“We will perform our hit numbers and look forward to face
some amazing audience,” says the
vocalist. N-Sonic has of J. Heart,
Sihoo, Byeol, Minkee, Black J and
Zion. All of them come from different background but they all
met at auditions organised by a
music company. They liked each
other’s fascination for electronic and
instrumental music. “We got
together in 2011 and have released
a few tracks,” he says. N-Sonic
trained for a long time before its
debut. When asked about how they
felt about their first performance,
Black J said, “I didn’t get to show
my all onstage. I couldn’t believe I
was making my debut. I didn’t
think ‘finally’, but rather, ‘Am I really doing this?’ Everyone said it was
great and that I did well, but I don’t
know.” They reinvent themselves
with each song. They sing, dance
and play instruments in their
videos. The band believes that the
popularity of K-Pop is rising across
the globe and India is no exception.
However, it is still at the nascent
stage. Although K-Pop comprises
all genres of “popular music” within South Korea, the term is more
often used to describe a modern
form of South Korean pop music
covering mostly dance-pop, pop
ballad, electronic, rock, hip-hop and
more.
“In countries like Japan, China
and Indonesia, K-pop is an established art form. K-pop is all about
different forms of music and not
restricted to one format. So everyone can connect with it. It also
includes look, get up and mannerism of the artistes on the stage,” says
J Heart, who has been learning
music since childhood.
In their limited exposure to
India, the band members quote My
Name Is Khan as a great movie with
good music. “Indian music is artistic, pure and soul-stirring. We
would love to collaborate artistes
here,” he says.
ing raps and raw lyrics but music composer Salim Merchant (from SalimSulaiman) believes it’s just a wave and
will pass with time. According to the
composer, Honey Singh’s tracks have
short life and do not leave a lasting
impact on listeners. “I am nobody to
say whether it is good or bad. But I
think it (Honey Singh) is a sensation.
It will come and go. For me, real music
is timeless. If you create music and if
you can remember that decades later,
then that’s certainly not an achievement,” says the composer.
Merchant has been a prolific
musician and has learnt both Indian
and western classic music. He also
excels in several instruments. “For any
musician, the most important thing is
to learn classical music. It is the foundation of music. I have been fortunate
that I could learn classical music of
both the worlds. Also, my lesson for
young musicians would be that they
should learn instruments. If you look
at greats like Mohommad Rafi, Kishore
Kumar, Lata Mangheshkar or Asha
Bhosle or singers from our generation
like Sonu Nigam or Rahat Fateh Ali
Khan, they all can play instrument and
sing. It really helps you pitch your
songs beautifully. It helps you understand music much better. Even if you
have studied western classical music,
you must learn instruments as it
makes you a better musician,” he says.
The composer has been a mentor
and judge for various reality shows
including Indian Idol. Recently, he and
Shraddha Sharma have become the
brand ambassadors for ‘i-genius Young
Singing Stars’, an initiative by Max Life
Insurance to scout and honour the
young singing sensations. Merchant
believes that Bollywood is brimming
with opportunities and there’s a huge
scope for new voices. “Everyday you
have a new actor. So there’s automat-
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bad enough, Cavalli sometimes chose to do
its own painting over that of the artists —
superimposing the Just Cavalli name in
spray-paint style as if it were part of the original work. Sometimes, Cavalli added what
appears to be a signature, creating the false
impression that Roberto Cavalli himself was
the artist.”
The artists are seeking damages from
Cavalli and want the line to be discontinued.
The lawsuit comes just months after an
Islamic school accused the brand of stealing its trademark logo and using it to advertise the Just Cavalli perfume.
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adding that the budding vocalists are
paying too much of attention to
romantic songs these days. “New
singers are concentrating on romantic texture which is why we have songs
like Baarish, Galiyaan massive hit.
They are projected to be sensuous way,”
he says.
Salim-Sulaiman’s compositions have a lot of influences
from all over the world.
They are inspired from
many regions and cultures.
He says he’s a ‘good observer and travel a lot’. “I avoid
going to bars and visit
places which are rich in
culture and music. Such
places educate me and
enrich my knowledge
about music. My music
is reflection of my personality. I embrace cultures and put them into
my music,” he says.
Merchant has been
active for over two decades
and but claims to have not
worked even for a single day.
According to him, music is his passion as well as hobyy, so there’s no
question of burning out. “Music is really my lifestyle. I don’t think too much
as it comes naturally. If I am tired,
music becomes my therapy. If I am
happy, music becomes my celebration.
People keep asking me how I manage
to work so much. But I tell them that
I haven’t worked even for a single day.
I have been on a vacation since past
two decades because I do what I am
in love with,” he says.
The composer also fosters indie
music and keeps collaborating with
local and global artistes. He finds indie
music ‘flourishing by leaps and
bounds’. “There are so many opportunities and I hope it continues and
grows by the advent of festivals like
NH7, Storm and others. I won’t be
surprised if Bollywood comes and
swallows it all and signs all these
artists as music composers. Then we
will have more variety of music and
it will become so independent,” he
says.
After Mardaani, the composer
duo is looking forward to a few projects apart from a tour abroad. “There
is Love Story, then Ungli. I am also
working for Madhur Bhandarkar’s
Madam Ji and Anand L Rai’s next. I am
also going to North America and
Canada for my Diwali tour,” he says.
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Majumdar was born in a poor
family but it is said that his
grandfather was a rich man with lavish
tastes. It is believed that like many rich
men in that era, he had a pond full of
expensive liquor and a single lotus flower
would float in the pond. Straws or pipes
were connected to the pond and the people sitting around it had to pull the liquor
hard to move the lotus floating in the
pond. This is one of the rare stories that
was told by Majumdar’s grandson to
Chhatrapati Dutta, while he chatted with
the former on the family history at his
patriarchal home in Kolkata. The story
has formed the base of an artwork. Like
this, there were various artworks placed
in the house to narrate stories from the
family history.
The Boithak Khana project is a
unique idea conceptualised by
Chhatrapati Dutta from Kolkata. The
seeds of the project were sown when
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the best b-boyz in the world — Beast, Louis
G, K-David. I feel like I am surrounded by
incredible dancers all the time — they make
me look better. And they are nothing but
good help and have like the best attitude in
the world but those three b-boyz are the
ones I am constantly impressed by.
Mady Cod, Popper — she is so good.
Whole crew has such an incredible
energy that they bring to the table
every day and they are like family.
They have danced together before,
they are aggressive dancers and its
really impressive. Chris Scott,
who is now choreographing, is
incredible.
All the choreographers
that are back — Jamal,
Dutta and a few like-minded people from
the art fraternity were toying with the idea
to set a space for the artists outside the
gallery, the space that offers interaction
opportunity with the public at large. They
kept in mind that the artworks created
should also speak volumes about the
space they were created in. So they decided to hunt for old houses, which are aplenty in the city, but not the ones which are
popular and well-known. “The city took
shape with the emergence of British colonialism. Its subsequent rich history up to
the present made Kolkata into a versatile
metropole. Although the city got rid of
its colonial skin, much of the past lingers.
This past can be seen directly on the surfaces of Kolkata’s buildings, but many stories lie hidden beneath the surface. One
of the ways of excavating the layers of
Kolkata is to explore the existing livedin spaces within the city, the households
of old Kolkata that carry the past with
them. This is what the Boithak Khana
project sets out to do. Traditionally seen
as a space for receiving guests, Boithak
Khana serves as a space for interaction
and entertainment,” informs Dutta.
He adds, “We went down to South
Kolkata to hunt for the old houses from
where we can get a lot of history. It was
formed lead in a musical play Parchhaiyiyaan.
Alter, a renowned and internationally acclaimed
veteran theatre and film actor, is also a member
of the Advisory Board at GGS. Parchhaiyiyaan
(which means The Shadows) was written and
directed by Urdu writer Suhail Akhtar Warsi and
is based on the life and works of Ludhianvi.
The uniqueness of Parchhaiyiyaan lies in the
metering of the poem. The content of the poem
moves from romance to social issues. The
metering also changes, to reflect the content and
not an easy task to zero down on the
house as the entire process required people of the house to participate. To convince them to share family stories has
been a tough task. But then we found first
house after a lot of running around and
it was Chaudhari Badi. We completed the
project in December last year and soon
after that we were on a hunt for the second house. This time the house that we
spotted happened to be the house of historian RC Majumdar. We reached out to
the artists and invited them to participate
in the project.”
These exhibitions aim to start a dialogue between the contemporary artworks and household artefacts. Therefore
the artworks are not placed in the house
as an exhibit but are arranged in such a
fashion that they look like a part of the
house. “By resounding the past, the joint
imaginations reveal the burdens of history and shed light on the challenges of
tomorrow. By placing the contemporary
artworks in between the objects and walls,
a range of questions are asked. Questions
concerning the boundaries between work
and leisure, between public and private
space, colonial and contemporary injustice, class differences and changing gender roles are raised in the
process,” shared Dutta.
its tonality. It is considered to be an anti-war document (themed on the International Peace
Movement). Sahir Ludhianvi, one of the legendary poets associated with Bollywood’s golden era was born as Abdul Hayee at Ludhiana,
Punjab. He scripted hundreds of popular songs,
ghazals, nazms and speeches in all time classics
like Naya Daur, Laila Majnu and Daag.
He was at his best in Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa, BR
Chopra’s Insaaf Ka Tarazu, Yash Chopra’s Kabhi
Kabhie and Ramesh Saigal’s Phir Subah Hogi.
Talkhiyan, a collection of love poems and revolutionary thoughts by Sahir, was widely appreciated by the masses.
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watch.
The audience is impressed that there is something new to be seen. Even when we started the
movie we were wondering how are we going to
make it bigger and better than
the last one but that was just a
small concern at the start. But
then all these new dancers
came along and it grew and
everybody’s ideas got bigger and
crazier. It’s the dances the
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choose their career sometimes
over the person they are in love
with or their friend or their family and push these people aside
because they think that this is
more important, this is where
they are in their lives. Then
you realise that none of
that matters and you really lose at the end of the
day if you don’t have all
the love and the support and people to
celebrate with all
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about this is I got to work with my
best friends here. We actually
became a family. We used to hang
out off set and before Step Up 5
we were hanging out. It’s awesome
to see them again and see the
growth in everyone too. I love
them all. I love Briana to death.
She is just fun to be with. We
hang out all the time. She does
more hip-hopping and is just fabulous.
We brought back quite a few
people from earlier movies. There
is Mari Koda who was in
Revolution, Step up 2, 3; she is
playing Jenny Kido and she is in
my crew now. Same thing with
Adam Sevani and Briana. Chadd
Smith Mr Robert Guy.
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Misha Gabriel. I love the kid to
death; he plays my brother and
best friend. Its crazy how we
switch roles. In last film
Revolution he was the angry
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learnt from these experiences. It’s just another form of
art which you can express
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Saina Nehwal after she suffered
a straight-game loss in the
women's singles quarterfinals
here on Friday.
The 19-year-old Sindhu, who
clinched the bronze at the 2013
World Championship in China,
produced another gritty performance to see off All-England
champion Shixian Wang of China
19-21, 21-19, 21-15 at Ballerup
Super Arena here. Earlier this
month, Sindhu had won a bronze
at the Commonwealth Games in
Glasgow, Scotland.
Earlier, Olympic bronzemedallist Saina, seeded seventh,
struggled against World No.1 Li
Xuerui and the Chinese took just
45 minutes to send the Indian
packing with an identical 21-15,
21-15 scoreline.
However, Sindhu, seeded
11th, showed once again why she
is considered one of India's finest
shuttlers as she held her nerves in
crucial moments during the energy-sapping battle to record her
fourth win against Wang. Sindhu
will now face the winner of the
match between Chinese Taipei's
Tzu Ying Tai and and Spaniard
Carolina Marin.
In the quarterfinal contest
that lasted for one hour and 25
minutes, Sindhu and Wang were
locked in a battle of attrition and
rode on each other's mistakes to
gather points.
Sindhu dominated the net
early on and used her height and
reach well to lead 11-5 initially.
However, Wang soon caught up
at 15-15 before getting past the
Indian to pocket the first game.
Frustrated by the first game
loss, Sindhu stepped up her performance in the second and
once again opened up a 5-1 lead
but Wang made her way back
into contention at 6-6 with some
another quarterfinal contest.
2010 Commonwealth Games
gold medallist Saina, who had to
fight her way back from a game
down to register a 14-21, 21-18,
21-12 win over Sayaka Takahashi
of Japan in the previous round,
looked rusty from the start and
trailed Li in the entire first game.
Li took advantage of Saina's
erratic play and raced to a 9-4 lead
before the Indian brought the gap
down to 10-8. But just when it
seemed Saina was getting her act
together, the Chinese recomposed herself and increased her
lead to 18-11 before closing down
the first game.
The second game was competitive till the first five points
before the Indian pocketed four
consecutive points to lead 9-5.
Saina maintained her lead till
12-8 before the Chinese shuttler
earned four straight points to
draw level at 12-12. From 13-13,
Li again won four consecutive
points to take the lead and then
sealed the match in her favour.
to lead 5-2. But Wang once again
caught up at 5-5.
Both Sindhu and Wang committed too many unforced errors
as the Indian managed to hang on
to a fragile one-point lead at the
breather with a smash which
kissed the nets and fell over.
Back to her winning side,
Sindhu grabbed the first
point with a sharp smash but
she found the net and misjudged the shuttle to allow
Wang to draw level at 12-12.
While the Chinese used
her deceptive drops and
cross court net dribbles to
gain points, Sindhu targeted
Wang's weak back hand to
lead 17-15. Sindhu grabbed
the next four points in a jiffy to not
only slam the door on Wang but
also assure herself of a consecutive bronze medal.
However, a medal at the prestigious tournament continued to
elude Saina once again as she succumbed to her eighth defeat
against Olympic champion Li in
precise net shots to lead 11-9 at
the break.
A couple of unforced errors
helped Sindhu to narrow the gap
but the Indian faltered at the forecourt to help Wang keep the lead.
The Indian kept fighting and
used her smashes and better
judgment of the shuttle to draw
parity at 16-16.
Wang, however, faltered at the nets to allow
Sindhu a 19-16 lead and
then hit another miscued shot to give the
Indian four-game points.
The Chinese saved
three game points with a
couple of brilliant shots
from the back of the
court but Sindhu finally managed
to send one away from the outstretched right hand of Wang to
bounce back into the contest.
The decider started with a
long rally which Sindhu grabbed
after Wang hit wide. The Chinese
kept hitting wide and long and
found the net allowing the Indian
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find it tough to deal with swirling wind,
so much so that she double-faulted
three times in her first service game on
Thursday at the US Open.
And, yes, even a 17-time major champion such as Williams can lose in the early going
at the sport's biggest tournaments, as she has
repeatedly in 2014.
Quickly putting behind a poor-serving
start, and showing absolutely no other
signs of the type of up-and-down play that
has plagued her at Grand Slams this season,
Williams dismissed 81st-ranked American
Vania King 6-1, 6-0 in 56 minutes to reach
the third round. "She never let me in," said
King, who is 25. "She's played at such a
high level for so long, and I used to watch
when I was a kid, growing up. So it's kind
of surreal to see the person that you've
been watching on TV in front of you
and playing. It was difficult."
While buzz around the tournament
grounds built all day waiting for 15-yearold CiCi Bellis to play her second-round
match at night — she wound up losing
— Williams ran her US Open winning
streak to 16 matches as she tries to
become the first woman to win three
consecutive titles at Flushing Meadows
since Chris Evert took four in a row
from 1975-78.
For the moment, the 32-year-old
Williams wants to stay focused on avoiding the
sort of problems she had at the Australian
Open (where she lost in the fourth round),
French Open (second round) and
Wimbledon (third round). Not since 2006
has she failed to reach at least one major
final in a year — and she only entered two
Slams that season.
So far this week, she's left the trouble
to others, and Williams could wind up
being the beneficiary. A pair of other past
major champions, No. 8 Ana Ivanovic and
No. 24 Sam Stosur, lost Thursday, as did No.
23 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and No. 27
Madison Keys, bringing the total to 11 seeded women gone after only two rounds.
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That included No. 12 Dominika
Cibulkova, the Australian Open runner-up
who was surprisingly defeated Tuesday by
Bellis, the youngest player to win a match at
the U.S. Open since Anna Kournikova in
1996. Bellis, a Californian ranked 1,208th
and playing in her first tour-level event, lost
on Thursday in three sets to 48th-ranked
Zarina Diyas of Kazakhstan.
In other action under the lights, 2012 U.S.
Open champion Andy Murray won in straight
sets, before Wimbledon finalist Eugenie
Bouchard edged Sorana Cirstea 6-2, 6-7 (4),
6-4 in the day's last match.
Williams could have faced Stosur — the
woman who beat her in the 2011 U.S. Open
final — in the fourth round, and 2008 French
Open winner Ivanovic in the quarterfinals.
"You always hear about who’s winning,
who’s losing. You hear about upsets. But for me,
especially lately, I’ve to worry about my first
round, my second round, and my third
round. I can't get too far ahead of myself,"
Williams said. "I was a casualty before, so ... I
can't make anything of it," she said of the rash
of seeded losers.
After her singles victory, Williams went
out and paired with older sister Venus for a
first-round win in doubles. She last time
Serena was seen competing in doubles at a
major, last month at Wimbledon, she looked
disoriented in warmups, then served four
consecutive double-faults and quit after three
games, saying she was ill.
Ivanovic had seven double-faults among
her whopping 29 unforced errors in a 7-5,
6-4 loss to 42nd-ranked Karolina Pliskova
of the Czech Republic, who occasionally
plays doubles with her twin sister and
never had been to the third round at a major.
Ivanovic, a former No. 1, wraps up 2014
with only one major quarterfinal to her credit, at the Australian Open. Stosur, meanwhile,
was edged 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (8) by 50th-ranked
Kaia Kanepi of Estonia.
There’ve been fewer surprises among the
men so far, and only one seeded player was sent
packing on Thursday afternoon, when No 28
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain was defeated by Sam Querrey of
the US 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.
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and devoid of a Khel Ratna for
the first time in 20 years, the
National Sports Awards were on
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Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati
Bhawan here in a ceremony which
was severely short on star power.
Like the past editions, selection
controversies cast a shadow on the
ceremony and matters came to a
head when boxer Manoj Kumar
dragged the Sports Ministry to
court after being overlooked for the
Arjuna award despite qualifying in
the new points system. Add to this,
the awards selection committee
did not find any athlete worthy of
the country's highest sporting honour — the Rajiv Gandhi Khel
Ratna — this year.
None of the seven candidates,
whose names were forwarded to the
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committee, got the 12-member
panel's nod, making it the first time
since 1994 when no sportsperson
was named for the top award.
Controversies aside, the ceremony followed the long-standing
traditions as awardees walked upto
to receive their respective honours
from the President amid resounding applause from the dignitaries
present, including Vice President M
Hamid Ansari and Sports Minister
Sarbananda Sonowal.
A notable absentee from the
ceremony on Friday was cricketer
R Ashwin. The off-spinner could
not make it as he is currently on
national duty in England in an
ongoing ODI series.
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Dhyan Chand awardees received
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their winning momentum and
take an unassailable 2-0 lead,
India were dealt a blow ahead of the
third one-dayer against England here on
Saturday as opener Rohit Sharma was
ruled out of the remainder of the tour
because of injury.
Sharma, who had made a well-crafted half-century in India's 133-run hammering of England in the second game,
suffered a fracture on the middle finger
of his right hand. Murali Vijay has been
picked as Sharma's replacement for the
rest of the series.
Sharma's injury has turned out to be
India's biggest worry going into the
third One-dayer.
The first ODI in Bristol was abandoned without a ball being bowled and
India hammered the hosts under the
Duckworth/Lewis method in the second
game in Cardiff to take a 1-0 lead in the
five-match ODI series.
Having recorded his first century outside the sub continent with a blazing 75ball 100, Suresh Raina will look to carry
on in same fashion while Ravindra Jadeja
was the pick of the bowlers in the second
game.
The two teams have played at Trent
Bridge earlier this summer and there were
two resultants from that first Test here.
First, the pitch for that match was
deemed poor by the match referee David
Boon and the groundsman received an
official warning from the ICC. There was
nothing in it for the bowlers who toiled
hard as the batsmen - mostly tailenders
from both sides - made merry.
If a similar pitch is doled out for this
ODI match though, no one will be complaining as the weekend crowd will get to
see a high scoring encounter, hopefully
with the top-order scoring this time
around.
The second resultant though had
more far reaching consequences on how
that Test series panned out. The Ravindra
Jadeja-James Anderson clash has only
recently receded from memory and this
match has come about to enliven the
episode again.
The Indian management had pressed
ahead in their bid to get the fast bowler
banned for allegedly pushing Jadeja, so
much so that they lost focus on the task
at hand and lost the series 1-3 despite taking a 1-0 lead.
As the two teams walk through that
infamous narrow corridor of the pavilion
at Trent Bridge, they will feel differently
about that episode. India will feel that they
have a point to prove. The format has
changed, and as was apparent in Cardiff,
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they clearly hold the edge over England
in limited-overs cricket.
They cannot lose steam and instead
must go for jugular, for this is not about
revenge for the Test series loss. Instead this
is about building up to the ODI World
Cup and registering as many consistent
performances as they can in the next six
months.
In that light, India's success at Cardiff
was a great starting point. Four of the six
batsmen scored runs. Among them, it was
vital for Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane to
come good. While the former has now
been ruled out, the clock was beginning
to tick on the latter's role as the number
four bat. In scoring 41 runs, Rahane has
bought some time for himself and
reduced one area of concern for the management.
Indian skipper Mahendra Singh
Dhoni had confirmed after the match that
Raina will continue to bat at number five
and this declaration sews up the batting
order. The worrying bit is about Shikhar
Dhawan's form and that Virat Kohli has
not been able to buy a run on this tour.
While India will surely be patient with
their vice-captain, the same cannot be said
about the left-hander.
In New Zealand, Dhawan had been
dropped once during the five-ODI series
and Kohli had opened the innings. Such
a move is unfathomable now, but with
scores of 12, 0, 32, 12, 28, 9 and 11 (7
innings in South Africa, New Zealand and
England) in conditions that will be similar to the World Cup, the attacking opener is not doing himself any favours.
For once, India's bowling attack isn't
a cause for concern. However it will be
interesting to watch how the bowlers will
cope if they are met with an unhelpful
track at Trent Bridge.
To a certain extent, their frailties were
hidden by the friendly conditions at
Cardiff, not to mention that England are
a bit of a mess as an ODI outfit at the
moment. Even so, their success will
mean that there might not be any changes
to the playing XI, meaning Umesh Yadav
will have to wait longer for his chance in
all probability.
Meanwhile, it can be said that after
a massive loss in the previous game, the
euphoria of the Test series will have died
down. As much as they care about the
longer format, the English team management's sole focus now is on the upcoming World Cup and their performance at
Cardiff belied any serious preparations
they had made so far.
Alex Hales and Chris Woakes were
the two positives from that second ODI
but the rest of the team simply failed to
turn up.
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=4F34;78) The Justice Mukul
Mudgal committee, which is
conducting probe against ICC
President N Srinivasan and 12
prominent players in the IPL
betting and spot-fixing scandal, on Friday filed its interim
report in a sealed cover before
the Supreme Court.
The apex court is likely to go
through the report on
September 1 when the committee is also expected to plead for
more time to complete the
probe.
The court had on May 16
given the task to conduct probe
against Srinivasan and 12 players to Justice Mudgal panel and
asked it to file its report by end
of August. It had rejected BCCI's
proposal to conduct the probe
through its own panel.
The Mudgal committee had
earlier investigated the scandal
and submitted in a sealed envelope its report in which names
of Srinivasan and 12 cricketers
were mentioned.
"We are of the considered
opinion that the allegations
against the 13 persons including N Srinivasan mentioned in
the report submitted in the
sealed cover should be investigated into by the Justice Mudgal
Committee and the team of
investigators because if a new
Probe Committee is entrusted
to inquire into the allegations,
there is likelihood of the allegations being leaked to the public and such leakage will damage the reputation of the 13 persons beyond repair," the bench
had said.
Besides Justice Mudgal, the
panel has Additional Solicitor
General L Nageshwar Rao and
advocate Nilay Dutta as members. A group of investigators
headed by senior IPS officer B
B Mishra has assisted the
Mudgal Committee which was
given the power to probe, search
and seize relevant documents
and record evidence.
20A3855) The fears of involvement
of bookmakers in international
cricket re-surfaced once again during the second ODI between India
and England as the police authorities reportedly threw a spectator out
for allegedly supplying information
to "sub-continental" bookies.
According to a report in
ESPNCricinfo quoting UK's weekly broadsheet 'Cricket Paper', Chirs
Watts, the chief of ECB's AntiCorruption Unit (ACSU) confirmed
that the stewards ejected a spectator for "breaching the ticket terms
and conditions".
Since the live feed is delayed by
quite a few seconds (normally after
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"There have been several incidents of people being asked to
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Professional
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Association, said. "The evidence we
have points to high-profile matches that are televised in Asia when
there's an opportunity for people
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is being broadcast on the Indian
subcontinent.
"So they're not necessarily corrupting the match itself but engaging in corrupt activity in the sense
they are getting bookies fixing the
odds before the events are seen on
TV in India."
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SZimbabwe
as Dale Steyn and
Ryan McLaren took three
wickets each to bowl the hosts
out for 170 in the triangular
one-day series on Friday.
South Africa was kept to
a mediocre total of 231 at
Harare Sports Club but was
saved by its bowlers as
Zimbabwe's batsmen succumbed under the pressure.
Sean Williams made 46
for Zimbabwe in the middle
order but was the only
Zimbabwean to threaten
South Africa's attack. He was
furious with himself for his
error when he was caught by
Hashim Amla off McLaren
with the score on 138-5.
Zimbabwe collapsed after
that.
McLaren finished with 324 and Steyn 3-36 to take
South Africa to two wins
from two in the tournament
after beating top-ranked
Australia on Wednesday.
Zimbabwe had a good
chance of a first win in the
series after spinner Prosper
Utseya took a hat trick in his
5-36 to restrict the Proteas at
Harare Sports Club.
But Steyn, McLaren and
two valuable wickets from
left-arm spinner Aaron
Phangiso meant Zimbabwe
didn't come close to the target and took South Africa to
the top of the three-team
standings. Australia plays
Zimbabwe in the next game
on Sunday.
Utseya's career-best return
in ODIs had given the home
team a good chance of a first
victory over South Africa in
14 years. South African
openers Hashim
Amla (66) and
Quinton de Kock
(76) both made halfcenturies in a 142run
opening
stand before
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by a Zimbabwean in ODIs
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England in 1997 at the same
Harare ground and Utseya
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over a suspected illegal action
but is allowed to bowl pending tests.
Utseya was backed up by
fellow offspinner John
Nyumbu, who took 3-42.
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Tino Mawoyo was run out
with the score on one.
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wickets
of
Hamilton
Masakadza (25) and Brendan
Taylor for a duck as he beat
both of Zimbabwe's most
experienced batsmen to rattle
their stumps.
Steyn and McLaren
did the rest, with
McLaren taking two
wickets in two balls
near the end and
threatening to claim
the second hat trick
of the game.
Brief Scores
South Africa: 231
(Quinton de Kock
76, Hashim Amla
66, Prosper Utseya
5/36, John Nyumbu
3/42) beat Zimbabwe: 170
(Sean Williams 46, Ryan
McLaren 3/24, Dale Steyn
3/36) by 61 runs
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eeling from arguably the
most humiliating loss in
R
the club's illustrious history,
the prospect of Manchester
United being European champions by 2017 seems farfetched.
Yet that is the target new
manager Louis van Gaal has
set the team as part of an
ambitious three-year plan.
"I hope we are in the top
four this season — it suits a
club like Man United," Van
Gaal said Friday, "and then
maybe the next step is to be
(English) champions and then
the next step is to be the winners of the Champions
League."
Those comments could
invite ridicule considering
how United performed last
season under David Moyes
and started this season under
Van Gaal.
After earning just one
point from Premier League
matches against Swansea and
Sunderland, United lost 4-0 to
third-tier MK Dons in the
second round of the League
Cup on Tuesday.
Suddenly, the World Cup
in Brazil — where Van Gaal
led the Netherlands to the
semifinals last month —
seems a dim and distant
memory.
But Van Gaal is used to
making bad starts at club
level.
Van Gaal's Barcelona was
10th after 14 games of the
1998-99 season but still won
the league. In 2009, Bayern
Munich was seventh after 13
matches under the Dutchman
but ended the season as
champions.
"When I started with the
Dutch national team (in
2012), no one believed we
could qualify (for the World
Cup)," Van Gaal added.
"After that, they said we
wouldn't have any chance to
get through the group stage,
and after that (they said) we'll
lose against every opponent."
Given United's start to the
season and the squad depth of
Premier League rivals
Chelsea, Manchester City,
Arsenal and Liverpool, finishing in the top four would be
some achievement.
A first win of the campaign would do wonders for
confidence and United is hoping that comes Saturday at
Burnley, where Argentina
midfielder Angel Di Maria is
in contention to make his
debut after sealing his move
from Real Madrid for 59.7
million pounds ($99 million).
"I think he is ready to
play," said Van Gaal, who is
without 10 players because of
injury.
It won't be Van Gaal's first
trip to Turf Moor. In 1992, he
was there as coach of Ajax for
a friendly that the Dutch club
— then UEFA Cup champion
— won 1-0 in front of a
crowd of 10,746.
"Yes, I was there!" Van
Gaal said after a moment's
pause. "We won. I took over
there in 1991, we won the
UEFA Cup in the first season,
in the second year we won the
(Dutch) cup, and after the
league.
"It was a step in the
process."