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move to amend the CNT-SPT
Acts, got support from unexpected quarters on Wednesday
when a number of tribal BJP
MLAs expressed their reservations on the way the Ordinance
relating to tenancy laws was
prepared and sent to the
President for his assent.
The legislators from the
ruling party also flagged their
concern before Chief Minister
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Olympics next month is not
entirely over as the Wrestling
Federation of India (WFI)
revealed the names of the two
fellow wrestlers who are alleged
to have spiked Yadav’s food
with banned substance.
Furthermore, with Narsingh’s
three-and-a-half-hour intense
National Anti Doping Agency
(NADA) hearing adjourned
till Thursday, the wrestler’s
camp is hopeful that they can
get a positive response to his
case by Thursday.
According to sources,
Jitesh, who fights in the 75kg
category, and Sumit, who competes in the 120kg category,
were said to have spiked
Narsingh’s food samples at the
Sonepat SAI centre. “We suspect Jitesh, who fights in the
75kg category, and Sumit. Both
of them live in Chhatarsaal.
And one of them has admitted
to spiking Narsingh’s food. I
can’t say on the conspiracy and
can’t say whether they did this
on their own or on someone’s
instruction. We cannot
investigate this but we support
Narsingh’s demand for a
CBI enquiry,” said WFI presi-
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Narsingh, who was selected ahead of Sushil Kumar in the
74kg category, had filed an FIR
at the Sonepat Police Station and
persisted with his demand for a
CBI probe. “I have always maintained that there has been a conspiracy against me. If I am
cleared of the charges, I will go
to Rio. I have identified
the boy who was seen contaminating my food. I have given a
detailed complaint to the police,”
Narsingh.
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authorities briefly in Kashmir
on Wednesday as the Valley
remained generally calm and
protesters stayed indoors even as
curfew and restriction on the
assembly of more than four
people continued in most parts.
Curfew was reimposed in
parts of Kashmir including five
police station areas of the city to
thwart a separatist march to
Kulgam district even as mobile
services were partially restored in
the Valley which has been rocked
by violence since July 8.
The much-awaited rainfall
began early in the morning and
prevented even morning walkers from coming out. This
brought some respite to the
police and paramilitary personnel manning the streets and bylanes of the capital Srinagar
where massive protests were
held a day before, forcing the
ontinuous din and disruptions resulted in the
passage of 1st Supplementary
Budget amounting C4382.49
crore without any discussion.
Speaker Dinesh Oraon tried
to start discussion on it on
Wednesday but continuous
sloganeering from JMM
members forced him to call
for voice vote and declaring
it approved.
tinued to remain paralyzed for
the 19th consecutive day as
schools, business establishments
and Government offices remained shut and there was no traffic on the roads except in some
localities of uptown Srinagar.
Minor clashes occurred in a
few areas in south Kashmir’s
Kulgam and Shopian besides
Khanyar area of downtown
Srinagar in the evening. A peaceful demonstration was also held
in Anantnag town.
Meanwhile, a joint statement issued by Geelani, Mirwaiz
and Yasin Malik called upon the
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authorities to revisit the decision protests erupted in Kashmir in vacate”. The people have been
to lift curfew after 17 days.
the wake of killing of Hizbul asked to “ostracize them and
The protests resulted in Mujahideen commander boycott them at all levels, socialinjuries to more than a dozen Burhan Wani on July 8.
ly and publicly.” This is the first
people and compelled the
Syed Ali Geelani and direct threat to mainstream poliauthorities to re-impose curfew. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, leaders of ticians from their separatist couThe protesters had defied the two factions of Hurriyat nterparts and is likely to have an
separatists’ call to allow free Conference attempted to break impact. Last week, protesters
movement of people after 2 pm. the police cordon around their attacked PDP legislator from
On Wednesday, the sepa- respective residences to lead a Pulwama Khalil Bandh who
ratists had called for a march march towards Kulgam. was trying to reach Srinagar
towards south Kashmir’s Kulgam However, they were taken into under the cover of darkness. He
district where several people custody and lodged in nearby has been admitted to hospital
have been killed and injured after police centers. Normal life con- with multiple fractures.
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The objections of the BJP
members namely Shivshankar
Oraon, Bimla Pradhan, Ram
Kumar Pahan, Gangotri Kujur
and few others, who are also
the members of the Tribal
Advisory Committee, the apex
advisory body over tribal matters, were centered around the
process to amend the Act.
“We are appalled the way
things have happened. In the
TAC meeting any agenda
should come at least a week
before which was not followed
in this case. Mere our presence
there is perceived as our consent. Also, certain clauses
which were approved during
the meeting have been left out
in the draft Ordinance.
Appropriate procedure (to
amend the CNT-SPT Act) has
not been followed in this case,”
said Shivshankar Oraon before
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beating up of two Muslim women at Mandsaur
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n order to allow greater access to eduIminority
cation to the persecuted religious
migrant groups from
Bangladesh and Pakistan, the Ministry
of External Affairs (MEA) has decided
to permit them to take admissions in
medical, engineering, pharmacy and
other professional courses under selffinancing schemes. This means a persecuted religious migrant, mostly
Hindus, from these countries can take
admission in premier institutions like
AIIMS, Lady Hardinge Medical College,
CMC Vellore among others.
The MEA already runs a selffinancing scheme for foreign nationals
of developing countries for admissions
in MBBS/BDS/BE/B Pharmacy/
Diploma in Engineering and Pharmacy
in institutions in India against seats
allotted by Ministries of Human
Resource Development and Health and
Family Welfare. The same facility will
now be extended from the current academic session 2017-18 to the persecuted
religious minority migrant groups.
However, these students will be
exempted from taking the Central
Entrance Exam (NEET), All India
PMT, or any other entrance examination. “They will be selected on the basis
of academic merit,” the MEA said in a
statement on Wednesday.
Accordingly, for MBBS/BDS/
Pharmacy/Engineering courses, a stu-
heading for a meeting with the
Chief Minister.
Oraon, almost echoing
JMM’s Hemant Soren’s allegation that the legislators were
kept in dark over the all important amendments having direct
bearings on tribal land, further
added that the TAC members
were unaware that the
Ordinance had been sent for
the presidential assent.
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dent must have minimum 60 per cent
marks in Physics, Chemistry, Biology
and Maths (for engineering) and at least
50 per cent marks in English in any
qualifying examination equivalent to
CBSE/ICSC 10+2 level. Eligible students
need to apply to MEA by August 19,
2016, along with relevant documents.
The decision comes after Mashal, a
Pakistani Hindu migrant girl living in
Jaipur, was not allowed to take the AllIndia Pre-Medical test on the grounds
that she is a foreign national and rules
do not permit. Only NRIs and Persons
of Indian Origin (PIOs) are allowed to
take the exam.
Mashal, whose both parents are
doctors, had scored 91 per cent in her
CBSE Class XII examination this year.
She and her family are in India on a
long-term visa. Mashal had urged
External Affairs Minister Sushma
Swaraj to intervene and she had assured
her help. Mashal, who had moved
from Hyderabad in Pakistan to Jaipur
along with her parents, was later given
a medical seat in a Karnataka college
after Swaraj’s intervention.
railway station in Madhya Pradesh for allegedly possessing beef whereas veterinary test showed
that the meat seized from the women was of buffalo. No sooner had listed papers been laid on the
table of the House, BSP chief Mayawati raised the
issue, linking it with similar assault on Dalits by
‘Gau Raksha’ groups in Gujarat.
She alleged that the incident at the
Mandsaur railway station occurred in presence
of the police which remained a mute spectator.
The BSP supremo charged the BJP that while
it talks of protecting the girl child and giving dignity and honour to women but it has no qualms
about unleashing goons on them in the name
of cow protection.
Mayawati asked Minister of State for
Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi to
respond to targeting of women of his community in the name of cow protection. As she completed her submission, the BSP members trooped
into the Well of the House, shouting antiGovernment slogans. The Congress members too
joined them in the well.
Deputy Leader of Opposition Anand Sharma
asked why Prime Minister Narendra Modi has
not responded to attacks on Dalits in name of
‘Gau Raksha’. “He has done ‘chai-pe-charcha’ (talk
over tea) and ‘mann-ki-baat’ (straight talk from
heart) but why not on this issue,” he asked.
Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien said derailing
Zero Hour, where 13 members have given
notices was not right and if members wanted a
discussion on the subject, they should give notice.
Leader of the Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad
said his Congress party was not principally against
cow protection but was against targeting of Dalits
and Muslims in name of Gau Raksha.
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life-size statue of former
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President APJ Abdul
Kalam was unveiled on
Wednesday at Peikarumbu
in Chennai as a tribute to the
‘Missile Man’ on his first
death anniversary. The Modi
Government also announced
inclusion of his hometown
Rameswaram under the Atal
Mission for Rejuvenation and
Urban Transformation
(AMRUT) by relaxing the
eligibility norms under the
Central scheme.
Union
Urban
Development Minister M
Venkaiah Naidu unveiled the
statue of Bharat Ratna Kalam
at an event at Peikarumbu
which was attended by
Defence Minister Manohar
Parrikar and MoS Road
Transport and Highways Pon
Radhakrishnan among many
other dignitaries.
Naidu said the Centre
has decided to include
Rameswaram in AMRUT by
relaxing norms as a tribute to
the ‘People’s President’.
Usually cities with a population of one lakh and above
are included in the scheme,
however, Prime Minister
Modi included Rameswaram,
with a population of 45,000,
as a tribute to Kalam.
The PM tweeted, “It’s
been a year since our beloved
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam left us
& created a void that is irreplaceable (sic). My tributes to
this great personality.”
Naidu said the Centre
has approved projects worth
Rs 48 crore for Rameswaram
under AMRUT. Of this, Rs 45
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improve sewerage networks
and the rest on developing
parks and open spaces.
“This is a token of the
minimum we could do for the
memory of Dr Kalam”, he said.
Naidu said it’s difficult
still to believe that Kalam has
passed away. “Dr Kalam
will live forever in our minds
and hearts. His thoughts continue to be with us all the
time,” he said.
Kalam passed away on
July 27 last year after suffering a massive cardiac arrest
while delivering a lecture at
IIM- Shillong in Meghalaya.
Naidu thanked Tamil
Nadu Chief Minister J
Jayalalithaa for allotting the
land to construct the memorial in memory of the former
President. “When I met her
last week, she assured me that
whatever needs to be done for
a befitting memorial would be
done
by
the
State
Government,” he said.
“The vision of Prime
Minister Narendra Modi is
federal cooperation where
the Centre and States work in
harmony.
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This memorial is an example of his vision. I thank the
Chief Minister for her cooperation,” Naidu said.
Recollecting Kalam’s ascension to presidency, Naidu said as
the then BJP chief he was associated with discussions when the
NDA Government, led by AB
Vajpayee considered the matter.
“Quite a few were not sure
if a hardcore scientist with no
experience of public life or even
public interaction could be the
right choice, but...Our decision
in his favour, subsequently
proved to be the best one. He
emerged as the most loved president of our country,” he said.
On the memorial, Naidu
said it would be a grand monument to perpetuate the memory of Kalam “who lived not for
himself but for all us and the
country” and a small tribute to
him.
A sand sculpture of the former president, depicting only his
face, was unveiled by one of
Kalam’s family members.
Naidu urged all political
parties to cooperate and work
towards completion of the
memorial as Kalam “belonged to
the nation and not any political
party”.
Parrikar, who laid a wreath
as a tribute to the former president, recalled Kalam’s visit to
Goa when he was the Chief
Minister of the State.
“When I was Chief Minister
of Goa, he visited us. We had a
very long discussion on his
vision of India in 2020,” he
said.
On the memorial being set
up by the DRDO, Parrikar said
its design was in the final stage
and the work was expected to
commence in the coming
months.
“The memorial will be completed in record time. The concept of completing a project in
time was the highest priority of
Dr Kalam”, he said.
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oved by the hardships of
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childhood days, Kaushal
Kishore Jaiswal, a social worker from Palamu, has now dedicated his life to protect the environment and encourage others
to recognise the need for it.
Jaiswal was in Ranchi on
his journey to plant trees in five
states, starting from Siwan in
Bihar and ending at Uttar
Kannad district of Karnataka,
to commemorate the 47th
anniversary of his environment-saving revolution.
Coming from the arid district of Palamu, Jaiswal believes
environmental crisis to be one
of the biggest problems in world
today, which can be countered
only by planting trees.
“A serious food shortage
ravaged the then undivided
Bihar in 1966. Sustenance was
hard to come by. During this
phase, I heard my father talking to the villagers that this
calamity was caused due to
trees being felled. Learning
from this, I decided that I will
not allow any forests to be cut
down,” Jaiswal recounted.
Acting on this decision, he
planted trees on his land
sprawled over 7.72 acres at his
ancestral village Dali in
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“I came to know about this
not before the matter raised in
the House,” he claimed
After meeting the CM,
Oraon told The Pioneer that
wordings of the Ordinance differed from the Cabinet note. “In
the Cabinet note there is a provision of consent to be taken
from the tribal land losers. But
the Ordinance, which is being
brought to add Clause-C in the
Section-49 of the CNT Act, has
no mention of that. We also have
objection over provision of transferring the land to the industrialists which is not right.
Ownership should not change,”
said the Sisai MLA, clarifying
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Chhatarpur Block of Palamu in
1968. Along with it, Jaiswal
encouraged farmers of his village to plant trees, but they had
reservations about it.
“In the beginning, the
farmers were apprehensive of
turning their farmlands into
forests as the government can
assert claims to their lands. I
had to convince them that
planting trees will create assets
for them in the form of forest
resources,” Jaiswal said.
In 1970, Jaiswal started the
Vanrakhi Movement in a bid to
make environment protection
appeal to the religious nature of
people. “Forests cannot be protected with force alone. The
objective of environment pro-
tection will be difficult to
achieve unless it is joined with
religion,” he said.
Jaiswal has also worked
alongwith well-known environmentalist Sunder Lal
Bahuguna during Chipko
Movement and later in Appiko
Movement. The movement he
started from his native place has
now spread to 18 states of India
and beyond national boundaries
to Nepal and Bhutan. In his 47
years of service to the nature,
Jaiswal has never taken any aid
from either the government or
non-government organisations.
Family has supported me in my
endeavours; apart from that, no
one came forward to help nor
I asked for any help, he said.
that there was no issue regarding lands being acquired for basic
infrastructural purposes such
as road, school, canal etc.
Similar sentiments were
expressed by Gangotri Kujur
who, however, rapped the JMM
for stalling the House instead of
facilitating discussion. She said
that the suggestions of the TAC
members had not found place
properly in the Ordinance.
“This may be the fault of the
officials. But it has happened.
These things could have come
into fore had the JMM allowed
discussion to take place in the
House,” said she. Since there was
no copy of the Ordinance with
the Government another meeting of the members would take
place on Thursday.
As feared, the House could
not function on its third consecutive day as the JMM persisted with its demand to recall
the Ordinance. “This is the issue
of utmost importance. Are we
here just to pass Budgets and nod
our heads with the Government?
How can we keep mum when an
issue concerning majority of the
population here is at hand,”
retorted the Leader of
Opposition, pressing for
Adjournment Motion in the
House when it met briefly on
three occasions on Wednesday.
Later, speaking outside with
the media, Soren feeling vindicated from the echo coming
from BJP quarters, termed it an
issue attached to culture and custom of tribal. “People in the
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Narsingh’s world came
crashing down last Sunday
when it was revealed that the
wrestler from Uttar Pradesh
failed a dope test. It is learnt
that Narsingh, already under
provisional suspension for failing a June 25 dope test, has also
flunked the second test done on
both his A and B samples
taken on July 5.
His chances became even
slimmer on Monday, when the
WFI named Pravenn Rana for
the replacement slot in order to
preserve the country’s Olympic
quota in the74kg category.
However, the WFI president
said Rana’s name was sent on
July 25 only because it was the
last date for naming replacements to secure the Olympic
quota.
“Rana’s name was sent to
secure country’s Olympic quota
and the proposal was accepted
on July 26. If we wouldn’t have
recommended Rana’s name,
we would have missed our
quota,” Singh said.
Even though WFI have
not ruled out Narsingh’s participation, Brij Bhushan said it
is now up to the wrestler to
prove his innocence in the
NADA hearing. “His road to
the Olympics has not completely ended. Now, it’s up to
Yadav to prove his innocence.
Once given clean cheat, he
will go for the Olympics,” he
said.
In Wednesday’s hearing
here, Yadav’s lawyers put forth
their argument in front of the
NADA panel and remained
hopeful that the wrestler will
clear his case still in time to
travel to Rio.
“We have put Narsingh’s
argument. We have full faith in
the NADA panel. We are trying to convince them. We are
hopeful he will be exonerated.
NADA panel is helpful. We
have presented our argument
today and panel was very
patient and we had a very fair
hearing. NADA will present
their case tomorrow,”
Narsingh’s lawyer Vidushpat
Singhania.
Government are also concerned
about that. It is a burning issue
which can even disturb law and
order situation of the State. The
Government would have to take
this back in any case,” said he in
a veiled threat.
Hemant’s rhetoric that did
not spare the CM when he
termed him ‘mauni baba’ while
commenting over his consistent
silence despite daily disruptions.
It instigated members of JMM to
troop into the well and stall the
proceeding. This also saw tempers going high when Ministers
Saryu Roy and Neelkant Singh
Munda blamed JMM for hijacking the Assembly unilaterally.
Where Roy affirmed that the
Government wanted to run the
House and charged the
Opposition for being hell-bent
and for flagging different issues
on daily basis, Munda, commenting on ‘death of democracy’ barb of Hemant, twisted it as
‘death of JMM’.
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on daily basis across the State
must get ready to bear another
major ‘shock’ in days to come.
The government has already
started an exercise to revise the
electricity tariff increasing it to
the tune of at least three times
of the current rate.
Addressing media persons
in press conference here on
Wednesday Additional Chief
Secretar y
of
Energy
Department RK Srivastava said
that a revision request of power
tariff in State has already been
sent to the concerned authority, which if approved may rest
at anywhere around 3 times of
current electricity tariff for
domestic use.
Srivastava said that the
current electricity tariff for
domestic use at base price is
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with different taxes to rest at little over C3 per unit. But the
purchase price of electricity is
C5 per unit in Jharkhand. “The
difference in purchase price
and selling price results in
some C2,500 crore yearly. No
State can keep funding this for
a long time.
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our proposal for revision of
electricity tariff with calculations to Jharkhand State
Electricity
Regulator y
Commission (JSERC), which is
expected to take appropriate
decision soon.
We want new tariff to be
purchasing cost added by at
least 15 per cent profit,” said
Srivastava. If this is accepted,
the base price for electricity will
be around C6 per unit, resulting in more than C8 per unit
after adding certain taxes to
end-users.
However, JSERC in its
recent meeting opined that
power tariff hike was not an
issue of simple arithmetic and
Commission needed to look at
multiple issues related to it
before fixing new price.
It said that tariff increase
was not to take place at the will
of one particular board or
company alone. Srivastava also
added that the final call regarding this was to be taken by
JSERC itself.
Srivastava said that a sum of
C14,000 crore each would be
invested on developing infrastructure of transmission and
distributions separately by 201819. Plans are on cards to arrange
these funds. JUVNL and
JBVNL MD Rahul Purwar said
that meeting of resource gap
and an uninterrupted power
supply to all consumers in State
has been targeted by 2018-19.
He said that a joint venture
company called Patratu Vidyut
Utpadan Nigam Limited for
adding up 4,000 MV electricity production has already been
floated under agreement of
JBVNL and National Thermal
Power Corporation (NTPC)
on October 15 last year.
Land acquisition for new
thermal plant under this has
been successfully done and
land transfer is in process.
Srivastava said that transmission of electricity and bill
recovery from consumers
remained one of the major
challenges in the State.
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Government and private
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lands reached here from Bihar
on Tuesday late evening, it
will be now easier for the State
officials to do justice with the
disputes related to land as they
would now be able to tally the
claimed map with the authentic government maps available
with them. Revenue and Land
Reforms Department is also
making arrangements to keep
at least one copy of each of the
maps with it at the headquarters, making them available to
the concerned district or block.
“Our primary concern is to
ensure that these maps are
properly protected then we will
send them to the concerned
districts and blocks after keeping at least a copy of it at the
headquarters,” said Revenue
and Land Reforms Minister
Amar Kumar Bauri. With this,
it will become easier for the officials to do justice with the land
disputes arising due to lack of
maps available with the State
Government, he said.
“We did not have maps of
several places due to which it
was being managed somehow
by borrowing maps on rent
from those having it.
Measurement of most of the
land was done after borrowing
maps from someone, against
which no one was there to
counter as there were no
authentic map available with the
Govt,” said Bauri.
Now, all these maps coming
from Bihar, could be made
available for the public after taking some amount from them as
soon as they reaches to the concerned district or block, he said.
“As there were no authentic maps available with the state
government, we were not able
to challenge claimants map as
we had nothing to tally. Now, as
maps are available with us, officials will now be able to do more
justice in cases related to land
disputes in the State,” said the
Minister.
Officials of Revenue and
Land Reforms Department are
also happy that they will not
have to feel embarrassed in case
someone demands any particular map from them.
“Today we had a discussion
how to keep them protected
and arranged……as of now it
has been decided to protect
them inside the special racks
which will be made available by
a particular private company,”
said District Settlement Officer
Chandra Kishore Mandal.
To make these maps available to the public, complete set
up will be required including a
large scanner, generator and
manpower etc, said the official.
Chief Minister Raghubar
Das also thanked Bihar Chief
Minister Nitish Kumar and
Union Home Minister Rajnath
Singh for the act. Remarkably,
a meeting of Eastern Zonal
Council was held in Ranchi
where a consensus was reached
to return those maps to
Jharkhand. The meeting was
also attended by Bihar CM.
Minister for Revenue and land
Reforms also thanked Das and
said that due to regular efforts
made by Chief Minister,
Jharkhand has ensured to get
these maps back from Bihar.
Maps which reached here
on Tuesday evening includes
maps of — Simdega, Ghahra,
Sonahatu, Karra, Silli, Mandar,
Balumath, Nirsa, Manoharpur,
Govindpur, Ranchi, Ranchi
Municipal,
Kharsawan,
Ormanjhi, Kudu, Kolebira,
Palkot, Chainpur, Sisai, Basia,
Torpa, Tamar, Bishunpur, Bero,
Lohardaga, Mahuataand,
Tundi, Ghatshila and Bundu.
he second railway over
bridge proposed between
HEC area and Birsa Chowk to
ease the travellers’ troubles
during Assembly sessions will
be of no help to the travellers
as construction work on it is
behind schedule.
Drivers and pedestrians
alike have to cross the railway
tracks adjacent to Birsa Chowk
as the only way to the junction
– an old railway over bridge –
is closed when the Assembly is
in session to check advances
from protestors staging dharnas here.
This bridge is on the way
from Birsa Chowk to Harmu
Bypass Road and Dhurwa via
Jharkhand Assembly. Apart
from that, people going to
Hatia Railway Station or Birsa
Munda Airport have to take a
much longer route through
Hinoo as streets to Birsa
Chowk are closed.
With State’s lawmakers
deliberating over policies in
Assembly and pressure groups
staging assemblies of their own
at Birsa Chowk, commuters are
forced to take the uncomfortable detour to get to the significant roundabout which
leads to all major landmarks of
the State capital.
“Presently we are working
on the foundation of the railway over bridge (ROB). As of
now, work is going on at HEC
end. We faced a fold up at Birsa
Chowk end in the form of
some pipelines in the way of
the excavation work for the
foundation,” informed a South
Eastern Railway official,
requesting anonymity.
We are trying to get the
pipelines out of the way before
resuming work at Birsa Chowk,
he further added.
Monsoon is also hindering
work to some extent. With rains
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Wednesday
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announcement that families
lashing the city, floor cutting for
the foundation is not gaining
speed, said the SER official.
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complete floor cutting before
rains but it has been delayed.
We are trying to complete it as
soon as possible,” he said.
A joint venture between
Ranchi Division of South
Eastern Railway and government, this project was meant to
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Chowk are closed during
Assembly sessions. The new
over bridge will be built parallel to the old one that passes by
Birsa Chowk.
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constructing the railway over
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us. Although we were supposed
to finish work by December
this year, it seems we will not
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with the progress made so far.
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the bridge as soon as possible,”
said the railway official.
of the children getting drowned
in dovas would be paid C50,000
as compensation.
Rural
Development
Minister Neelkant Singh
Munda responding to the concern expressed by BJP MLA
Biranchi Narayan also said in
the House on Wednesday that
adequate measures to alert DCs
and BDOs about the accidents
happening have been taken.
He called for spreading
awareness about the precautions among the people.
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reservoirs the Government has decided to
replicate it on rivers. Chief Minister
Raghubar Das in a meeting of Rural
Development Department directed the
officials to take steps in this direction.
The decision to deepen the rivers flowing in the State has been taken in order to
improve their water retention capacity and
flowing pattern.
“Dovas are being constructed around
the State on mass level besides deepening
ponds etc. The Government would now
take-up river deepening exercise from the
next year.
This apart, the CM has also called for
using mine water and more and more
plantation around the water bodies,” said
an official after the meeting the
Employment Guarantee Council on
Wednesday.
In the meeting Rs 1000 crore of
revolving fund for MGNREGA was also
approved to facilitate more the schemes
in taking up more meaningful works. All
the accounts with post offices would be
transferred to the banks. The CM also
directed the officials to ensure payment
of labourers within seven days and find
out other glitches in the rural job scheme
so that the Center can be appraised
about that.
On agriculture front the CM directed
the official to work on mission mode for
encouraging and making farmers aware
about double and multi-cropping and
equip them with modern machines along
with making them skilled. This apart, 4000
anganwadi centers would be built across
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a tourist-friendly State seem
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All these have started bearing
fruits,” said Bauri.
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the State. The CM also told for ensuing toilets to every Indira Awas along with water
facility.
Besides the CM, Rural Development
Minister Neelkant Singh Munda,
Agriculture Minister Randheer Singh,
Principal Secretary NN Sinha, MGNREGA Commissioner Siddharth Tripathi,
Labour Secretary SKG Rahate, Water
Resources Secretary Sukhdeo Singh,
Agriculture Secretary NM Kulkarni and
Secretary to the CM Sunil Barnwal were
present in the meeting.
The CS, in the meeting, gave a vivid
picture of development work in the State,
especially in the field of PRI strengthening, agriculture, health and nutrition,
attracting investment in State, improvement in education system, employment
generation, upgradation and revival of the
energy sector etc.
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in numbers. Official data reflect
that the inflow of tourists has
increased by 40 per cent in last
two years. Revenue, Land
Reforms, Art and Culture,
Sports and Youth Affairs
Minister Amar Kumar Bauri
said that Jharkhand has jumped
on the bandwagon of fast growing states in terms of tourism.
Bauri said that the
Department of Tourism has
taken lots of initiatives under
strong leadership and guidance
of CM Raghubar Das to make
Jharkhand a tourist-friendly
State. He said that Das has targeted to develop tourism as an
industry. “New tourism spots
are being marked and developed to attract tourists. New
tourism policies and plans are
being carried out. Government
is also providing training to the
youth especially in sync with
in function in State and we are
in process of constructing at
least 67 more, most probably by
year end itself. Whereas the bill
recovery is concerned, we will
recruit Urja Mitras. There will
be one Urja Mitra on every
1,000 domestic consumers,
who will not only remind them
of their pending bills but will
also assist them in paying the
dues,” said Srivastava.
He added that the computerization of entire process of
monitoring from electricity production to bill payment and is
also on cards and this is expected to take place by 2018-19.
“One of the major issues of
electrification of villages is of
forest clearance.
It is noticed that it has consumed four years to get one forest clearance in a number of
cases and places. Land acquisition is another issue in terms
of availability of usable land.
Bauri added that every citizen of State is a brand ambassador of Jharkhand in himself
and whenever he goes outside
Jharkhand, he must encourage
and invite others to visit this
beautiful state at least once.
He said that coming year
will be year of employment and
tourism.
Meanwhile, the Tourist
Information Centres setup by
Jharkhand
Tourism
Department at Shravani Mela
2016 is working efectively for
the tourists. More than 27,000
tourists have taken various
information from 7 TICs
installed at Deoghar so far. The
tourists seems to be satisfied
with the facility of on spot hotel
bookings, bus services and
bookings to visit different
tourist destinations with route
map etc provided to them by
Jharkhand Tourism Dept .
Minister,
Tourism,
Art and Culture, Sports and
Youth Affairs, Amar Kumar
Bauri said that Jharkhand is a
beautiful tourist destination
and is endowed with natural
beauty in terms of hilly terrains,
forest etc.
Jharkhand houses several
magnificently-built places of
worship and spiritual spaces.
Deoghar, the sprawling complex that has 22 temples and
one of the 12 jyotirlingas, is
thronged by lakhs of visitors
each year who come to pay
obeisance to Baba Baidyanath’s
shrine. This year we have made
11 TICs for the convenience of
tourist. Their safety is our priority. Welcoming the
Kanwariyas to Babadham Bauri
said we believe in the tradition
of ‘Atithi devo bhava’.
Approximately 5 lakh pilgrims have offered prayers at
the temple so far. The district
administration is maintaining
law and order and has its eyes
on smooth movement of pilgrims in and around the temple premises.
Crowd management is
another challenge for them. Six
jalarpan counters have been
placed outside the Shiva temple and CCTV cameras have
been stalled across the temple
complex to prevent from crowd
disaster.
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he Jharkhand Vikas
Morcha will observe confrontation day on Thursday
against the “anti-people policies
of the State Government where
it is trying to manipulate with
the CNT and SPT Act passed
long back to protect the identity of the tribal community”.
Talking to the media persons at JVM headquarters in
Ranchi, former Chief Minister
Babulal Marandi today said
that the party has also planned
to stage a day long dharna at
district headquarters on
August 3 across the state.
“Tomorrow, our party will
observe confrontation day by
burning the effigies of the
state government and burning
the copies of the proposal sent
to the centre,” said Marandi.
Even then, if the State
Government does not get alerted then will march towards the
state capital along with the
affected people, he added.
Marandi said that the BJP
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Government has started a
campaign to illegally acquire
the land of poor people
in the state. “Recently, the
State Government sent a
proposal to the Centre though
an ordinance to make changes
in CNT and SPT Act…my
party opposes this move of
the state government,” said
the JVM chief.
“By making corrections in
CNT and SPT Act, this government intends to hand it
over to the corporate houses as
it will be easier to sale and purchase them after making corrections to them,” said Marandi.
Marandi said that the tribals will be ruined and become
landless and there will be
heavy losses in farming.
“My party opposes it
completely and hence has
decided to come out on the
streets, said Marandi.
Marandi said that land displacement has been a big problem since beginning for the
state where as many as 35 lakh
people have already been displaced due to various projects.
In such circumstances, the
tribal lands are more or less safe
in the state, but with the corrections which the government is trying to make in the
CNT and SPT Act, the tribal
community will be completely ruined, he said.
“Land acquisition should
be done according to the provisions of Land acquisition act
of 2013,” said Marandi.
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have been served eviction order
and notice for cancellation of
their land’s mutation across the
Bokaro district.
The district administration served notice for cancel-
lation of land’s mutation which
was found illegally transferred
to the locals; the land actually
belongs to the Government,
said Jugnu Minz, Additional
Collector Bokaro.
In an ongoing probe (SIT)
at least 48 thousand cases of
illegal transfer of 86,422 acres
of government land to the
locals with succession-mutation documents has been
unearthed across the Bokaro
district, he said.
Our investigation is still
continuing and very soon
next 20,000 land owners
would be served the cancellation notice, said an official.
Only at Chas block 35 land
mutations were cancelled
while 275 were served the
notice to vacate by till date”,
added the official.
In ongoing SIT probe for
illegal transfer of government’s
lands, the district administration prepared a combined
detailed report of nine blocks
of Bokaro district reveals that
86,422 acres of government
land were illegally transferred
to the locals with successionmutation documents.
The concerned CO’s of all
blocks of the districts also submitted certificates stating that
beside their reports there is no
more government lands found
which were illegally transferred
in their areas.
Beside others several big
companies including industries have to face the hard
time as they too were having
illegally transferred land in
Bokaro district.
Based on fake documents
then COs had done the mutation of the forest land and
government land, which was
later sold at higher rates to the
residents and several big
industries to erect their
plants, said a district administration official.
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illicit liquor in huge quantity following a tip off while
they were being smuggled on
a Tata pick-up van (JH 045895) from Bengabad to
Madhupur via Giridih under
the Bengabad police station on
Wednesday afternoon at 4pm.
Three persons identified as
Mukhtar Ansari belonging to
Paljora village in Deoghar ,Raj
Kumar Prasad and Sanjay
Kumar Gupta a resident of
Saranparsona village of Chapra
district in Bihar while one
other from Rahani Jasidih
Deoghar ,who were in the
pick –Up van, arrested by
Bengabad police .
According to Police
Inspector Ram Lal Ram, on tip
off ,a police team led by officer
in-charge of Bengabad police
station along with sub inspector B.K. Singh were deployed on
Bengabad –Giridih road for
checking vehicles .
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extensive
patrolling along with
Jharkhand jaguar police force
to keep track of Maoists, who
are observing Martyrs Week in
the pocket of Nawadih block.
The Bokaro Superintendent of
Police, YS Ramesh has also
directed the police stations to
remain on maximum alert.
“The officers have been directed to maintain a tight vigil and
tap their respective information
network that can lead us to the
Naxals squads,” stated Ramesh.
While Bokaro Thermal
Officer-in charge cum
Inspector Rajesh Kujur told
The Pioneer that we have begun
an extensive search operation in
our jurisdiction as there are
possibilities that the police personnel might have taken refuge
in our area and probably lost
their way in the dense jungle.
In villages close to Nawadih
block, a search operation was
being led by Officer-in charge
Rajesh Kujur who stated that on
Monday several Maoists posters
have been found pasted in different localities of Bokaro
Thermal, Naya basti, Kanjkiro,
Pillpillo besides Upperghat villages area. The posters give and
inkling of their intension to
enter in urban area of Bermo
sub-division. Officer in charge
Rajesh Kujur said that some banners were also placed in different locations but the police
removed them.
Sources said Maoists ultras
were observing mourning day to
condole the death of their fellow
cadres who died for cause of the
organisations. However, no
report of any untoward incident
was reported from any place till
late on Wednesday evening.
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seen coming from Bengabad
.But suddenly the pick-up van
stopped a little distance away from
the policemen near Dak-Banglow
and three persons hurriedly came
out of it and run away. But police
runway on same direction and
arrested all of them .
When the police checked
the vehicle they found around
100 cartoons containing illicit
liquor of different brands . Later
police seized the vehicle and
recovered the all cartoons, said
Ram. An FIR (168/16) in this
connection has been registered
with Bengabad police station
and interrogation is on.
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being successful. However,
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former CBI Director Joginder
Singh believes whatever the
versions of success might be,
one should rather go grab it
and don’t wait for it. Addressing
a group of students including
those 25 selected by Aryans
Group
of
Colleges
(Chandigarh) for up to 50 per
cent scholarship in its different
courses, Singh said that there
was no short cut to success. The
event was organised in the
memory of first death anniver-
sary of late President Dr. APJ
Abdul Kalam.
Distributing scholarships
to these 25 students from
Jharkhand and Bihar, Singh
said, “I come from a family
where I didn’t even know that
there are three meals a day at
the time I was in age of yours.
Scholarships are just opportunities; you must use it at the
fullest.” Aryans Group of
Colleges Chairman Anshu
Kataria said that some 400-500
students were availing scholarships, more than 50 per cent
in certain cases, in different
courses of Aryans.
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Daltonganj: Many people in
Palamu or in Jharkhand may not
be knowing that tigers in tiger
reserve Palamu are of Royal
Bengal species. DFO Core of the
PTR Anil Kumar Mishra said
very
emphatically
on
Wednesday July 27 “Our tigers
are Royal Bengal ones”. There
should not be any confusion in
this regard, he reiterated.
On International Tiger Day
going to be celebrated this July
29 the PTR officials have prepared a pamphlet in Hindi
which will reach to the public
on Thursday July 28 and Friday
July 29 the tiger day.
Mishra said there used to
be eight sub species of tigers
but now three sub species have
gone extinct and three others
are facing extreme peril. Our
Royal Bengal tiger in Palamu is
as precious and vulnerable as
any other tiger in the world.
Features of our tiger are different from other tigers like size,
length, body built face outlines
etc.On being asked as to why a
common man who has not seen
any tiger in the jungle or who
spends a few hundred rupees,
finds leisure time for himself
and his family visits national
park Betla with the sole hop of
coming across the big cat but
returns sighting farmers’ cows
and buffaloes grazing right
inside the tiger reserve and aimless langurs and monkeys
jumping from one branch to the
other DFO Core said, ‘tigers are
very essential for forest to live
on besides it in a way help in climate change as forests having
no tiger are more prone to
human invasion than others
and in eco system the tiger
retains its top position’. PNS
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Coalfields Ltd (CCL), RS
Mahapatro on Wednesday met
students of ‘CCL Ke Lal’ and
‘CCL Ke Ladli’ to mark the
beginning of new session of
2016-18 at Gandhinagar,
Ranchi. Altogether 36 students
(25 boys and 11 girls) will be
trained for next two years apart
from regular schooling at CCL
DAV Gandhinagar in Ranchi.
During the first interactive
session, Mahapatro motivated
each student to work hard to lay
the foundation of their bright
future in next two years. He
ensured that all basic facilities
and co-operation will be provided to them by the company.
Under the CSR programme CCL has been continuously working for the uplift
of the poor and downtrodden
in the State. One such scheme
among many is ‘CCL Ke Lal’. In
this scheme, free educational
support along with boarding
and lodging facilities to meritorious students of economically weaker section from
Project Affected Areas (PAPs),
CCL employees etc, is being
provided to give them opportunity to compete at national
level. Following the success of
‘CCL Ke Lal’, Gopal Singh,
Chairman-cum-Managing
Director, CCL, has extended
this scheme for girls under the
name of ‘CCL Ki Ladli’, whose
first batch has started this year
with 11 girls.
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he students of XLRI enthusiastically participating in
the cleanliness drive on
Wednesday undertaken as part
of the cultural and sports fest
Valhalla. The spirit of giving
back to the streets was clearly
visible in myriad hues at various spots in Sakchi,
Jamshedpur.
Colourful road-side walls
stood out as students of XLRI
cleaned spots around the city
and painted them as part of
their cleanliness mission.
The tax office and MGM
Hospital were the chosen spots
where students cleaned the
streets and surrounding walls
and painted the walls as part of
their initiative of spreading
the messages of: giving back to
the streets, keeping it clean and
spreading social messages by
means of wall paintings. There
was also a street play by the
students of XLRI to promote
road safety awareness as part of
their efforts to make the streets
a safer place for all.
“Valhalla promises to bring
out the best in people as they
strive to emerge victorious and
claim their rightful place in
Valhalla, the House of
Warriors. This year it is about
who we are and what we can do
for the greater good. The streets
are calling @ Valhalla, XLRI”
said a member of the organizing committee.
About 30 students associated with SIGMA (Social Initiative
Group for Managerial Assistanc)
was a part of this project today.
The activities were a part of
their initiative of spreading
messages of giving back to the
streets, keeping it clean and
spreading social messages by
means of wall paintings. The
campaign started at around 1
pm and continued till 3:30
pm. The brigade of 30 painted
social messages on saving the
girl child, women empowerment and road safety.
“The Street are Calling
have many messages like using
streets for social good, taking
streets as a platform for social
and health awareness and many
such social drive. In fact students will also organise a street
dance after the event kicks off
on July 29,” said a second year
business management student.
Students of XLRI also
organised a flash mob in
Bistupur on July 24 where
about 50 students danced on
peppy Bollywood numbers.
This is the first time that XLRI
students are taking up so many
activities on the streets as per
the cultural fest theme.
Valhalla that stepped on its
sixth edition is an inter B
school cultural and sports festival hosted by XLRI every
year on the last week of July.
About 10 management institutes across the country participates in the fest that organises a number of cultural events
as well as sports events.
Valhalla encompasses over
50 events and witnesses footfall
of over 3000 with participation
from some of the best BSchools in India including
IIM-Calcutta, FMS, XIMB and
many more.
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n a road mishap, two girl students of Kerala Samajam
IModel
School were injured, one
of them seriously when the
scooter they were riding was hit
by an auto-rickshaw on the
busy Sakchi-Bistupur Road
near Garamnallah under
Sakchi police station area on
Wednesday afternoon.
The students identified
as Priyanka Rawat (16) and
Priyanka Kumari (16) were
rescued by passers-by and
r ushed to Tata Main
Hospital’s emergency. They
were soon admitted in the
hospital and shifted to the
surgical wards, where condition of Priyanka Rawat was
stated to be serious.
According to hospital
sources, both the victims sustained head injuries, but
Priyanka Rawat has sustained
multiple injuries on her left
hand and left leg.
Both Rawat and Priyanka
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Tinplate and Baridih respectively and are students of
Class XI.
Officer-in-charge, Sakchi
thana Anjani Kumar Tiwary
said the mishap took place
due to the rash driving by an
unidentified auto-rickshaw. He
said both the students were not
wearing helmets.
Tiwary said the cops posted at the Tata Main Hospital
camp police station will take a
statement of the injured students and would also ask them
why were they going towards
Bistupur instead of returning to
their homes. He said that hunt
was on to detect the guilty autorickshaw driver who would be
prosecuted if caught.
One of the injured,
Priyanka Kumari, who was in
a condition to speak said “I am
in state of shock and everything
happened in a second. We
were going towards Bistupur
and as we were crossing the
Garamnallah stretch, auto-rickshaw hit us from behind and
fled the spot,” said Priyanka
while talking to newsmen.
Principal, Kerala Samajam
Model School, Nandini Shukla
said Wednesday was the last
day of the first term examination of the XIth graders.” The
girls might have wanted to go
to Bistupur market. But they
should have been more careful
while riding on a two-wheeler,”
said Shukla.
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approved an amendment to
the Lokpal Act through voice
vote to allow extension in the
deadline for filing asset declaration beyond July 31 by 50 lakh
Central Government employees
and
NGOs
receiving
Government funds.
While the House provided immediate relief by approving the amendment to Section
44 of the Act, the provision
will be examined in detail by
a Parliamentary Standing
Committee, which will submit
its report before the next session of Parliament.
Moving the amendment
for consideration, Minister of
State for Personnel Jitendra
Singh said the Government
has received representations
from MPs and other stakeholders and on July 25 a del-
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Wednesday started disT
cussion on the Compensatory
Afforestation Management
and Planning Authority Fund
(CAMPA) Bill. Initiating the
discussions on the Bill, erstwhile UPA Government’s
Environment Minister Jairam
Ramesh moved an amendment.
“I would’ve been happier
if the Bill is referred to a select
committee,” Ramesh said as
he tried to convince the House
about his amendment, which
provides for using CAMPA
funds only in consonance
with Forest Rights Act.
“Forests Rights Act (FRA)
of 2006 has been ignored in
the CAMPA Bill. We are
doing byepass surgery in the
Forest Rights Act. Minister for
tribal affairs should’ve been
present here, but his absence
shows the disconnect between
the Environment Ministry
and the Ministry of tribal
affairs,” Ramesh said.
He added there was no
mention of community-led
afforestation and the panels
proposed in the new Bill are
packed with bureaucrats
instead of experts. Ramesh
claimed the norms of the
FRA have been violated to
favour mining companies and
cited a guideline by the
Environment Ministry of
August 11, 2015 for private
participation in forest areas.
“This was an example
how FRA has been violated,”
he said. He even mentioned
Maharashtra saying the State
has diluted the role of the
gram sabha. “The anchor of
the FRA is the gram sabha,”
Ramesh said.
children on March 31 every
year or on before July 31 of
that year.
In April, the Government
had extended the date of filing
returns by public servants
from April 15 to July 31. This
is the fifth extension in the
deadline since the Act came
into force in January 2014. As
per rules, organisations receiving more than Rs 1 crore in
Government grants and donations above Rs 10 lakh from
abroad fall under the ambit of
Lokpal.
Congress
leader
Mallikarjun Kharge supported
Government’s move of introducing the Bill, saying there are
no two opinions that the
amendments are urgent. He,
however, said the provisions of
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as common people would say
egation of MPs had met Prime is overcome, the deadline with tion of assets of public servants that MPs came together to
dilute the Lokpal Act.
Minister Narendra Modi regard to Government ser- and NGOs can be deferred.
“Certainly it is not the
As per the rules notified
demanding deletion of the vants can be deferred,” Singh
said as he moved amendments under the Lokpal and intention or design to dilute
provision.
Lokayuktas Act 2013, every the provision of Act. We are
The amendment pertains to the Act.
Singh said the Standing public servant shall file decla- ready to make it even more
to Section 44 of the Lokpal
Act, which deals with decla- Committee would give its rec- ration, information and annu- stringent. We are just giving
ration of assets and provision ommendation before the next al returns pertaining to his an opportunity for another
of making the assets public, he session of Parliament and till assets and liabilities as well as thought to it,” Jitendra Singh
said. “Till the present impasse then the deadline for declara- for his spouse and dependent said.
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dope test to denial of scholF
arships to four lakh minority
students in Bengal, a slew of
issues were raised in the Rajya
Sabha on Wednesday.
Alleging a conspiracy to
disqualify Indian medal hopefuls from the Rio Olympics,
Congress MP Pramod Tiwari
demanded a probe if wrestler
Narsingh Yadav and two other
athletes were found to have
been given banned drug-spiked
food without their knowledge.
Raising the issue during
Zero Hour in the Rajya Sabha,
he alleged the banned substance was mixed in ‘dal fry’ in
the Sports Authority of India
(SAI) kitchen and a thorough
probe has to be carried out to
get to the root of the issue.
Tiwari said if the banned substance was consumed by the
athlete unknowingly, then he
should be given a fair chance to
represent.
Deputy Chairman PJ
Kurien said it was a very relevant issue. “If there is a conspiracy, it needs to be investigated,” he said. Minister of
State for Parliamentary Affairs
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said he
will make the concerned
Minister aware of the feelings
of the House.
Mohd Nadimul Haque
(TMC) raised the issue of four
lakh minority students in West
Bengal being denied scholarships due to a technical glitch
in the National Scholarship
portal. Replying on this issue
Naqvi said as many as 56.27
lakh students were given Rs 37
crore worth of scholarships in
2015-16 and Government will
take action if any shortcoming
is pointed out
JD(U) and SP members
alleged that OBC candidates in
the UPSC were being discriminated against in the name of
‘creamy layer’, a charge refuted
by the government which said
there was no change in the
reservation policy.
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pposition parties on
Wednesday sought to
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pressurise the Government to
bring down food prices, reduce
the number of cess and pass on
the benefits of low petroleum
prices to the consumers.
During a short duration
discussion on price rise in the
country in Rajya Sabha, the
Opposition charged the
Government with burdening
the common man with more
taxes and higher prices of
essential commodities and
medicines while pocketing the
benefits of low petroleum
prices in international market.
The Government, however, passed the buck on the State
Governments for not procuring food items directly from the
farmers, or lifting the material from Centre’s godowns.
Minister for Food and
Public Distribution Ram Vilas
Paswan, in response to the
discussion, blamed States for
not cracking down on the
hoarders and blackmarketeers,
who were creating artificial
crisis.
“The State Governments
have more responsibility in
checking rising food prices. We
are giving Dals to 81 crore people under the PDS. When we
provide subsidised food material to States why don’t they
pass on the benefits to the consumers?” Paswan said. The
Minister added that despite a
global fall in production of Dal
from 75 million metric tonnes
in 2012 to 71 million MT last
year, the Government has
imported huge quantity of
Dals. He said the latest agreement with Mozambique on
Dal procurement will also help.
Prabhat Jha of the BJP
defended the Government
claiming that contrary to
Opposition’s allegations, price
rise was prevalent in the 10
years of UPA rule. He and some
other treasury bench members
quoted steps taken by the BJP-
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force personnel and 2,309
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civilians have been injured in
he L ok Sabha on
Wednesday passed the
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amendments to the Benami
1029 incidents of severe stone
pelting in Jammu & Kashmir
till July 25 this year compared
to 886 personnel and 240 civilians in 730 incidents in 2015.
While 48 civilians and two
security personnel have been
killed so far in 2016, last year
saw the death of five civilians,
the Government informed the
Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
Replying a written question, Minister of State for Home
Hansraj Ahir said that various
Transactions Bill, envisaging
stringent provisions on confiscation and wider definitions on the benami purchases. Debating on the Bill,
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
assured that genuine religious
trusts will be kept out of the
purview of the legislation.
Moving the B enami
Transactions (Prohibition)
Amendment Bill 2015 for the
consideration and passage,
the Minister said the legisla-
steps have been taken by the
police authorities which include
organising police-public meetings to avoid such incidents.
Security forces were also
advised to strictly adhere to the
SOP and resort to use of non-
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Congress vice-president Rahul
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Gandhi took an unexpected turn on
Wednesday after the Supreme Court
faulted the Magistrate’s decision to involve
Maharashtra cops to probe the defamation case.
The Court said the Magistrate cannot
ask the police to investigate a private criminal defamation complaint as it is the complainant who needs to prove the case. The
development is significant as the court can
set aside the summons issued to Rahul
Gandhi and direct rehearing of the complaint by the Magistrate court.
The Congress scion has been accused
of making a speech at a political rally in
Sonale, Maharashtra on March 6, 2015
where he made a sweeping comment
against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
(RSS) accusing them of having a hand in
killing Mahatma Gandhi. Just a week ago,
the Court lashed out on Gandhi for making a “collective denunciation” of the RSS
and asked him to tender an apology or
face trial. The Court even asked Gandhi’s
counsel to file a response in this regard.
But on Wednesday, the hearing took
a different turn as the Bench of Justices
Dipak Misra and Rohington F Nariman
said that under the law on defamation, the
Magistrate could not have asked police to
enquire into a private defamation complaint and later act upon it to summon the
petitioner. “If the process of taking cognizance is erroneous then the matter may
be remanded back to Magistrate,” the
Bench observed.
The Bench told senior advocate Kapil
Sibal appearing for Gandhi and senior
advocate UR Lalit appearing for the
complainant, one Rajesh Mahadev Kunte,
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to assist on this legal question and posted the matter for hearing on August 23.
The court said that in its recent judgment
upholding the constitutional validity of
defamation in the Indian Penal Code, it
made reference to this fact and held that
in a private criminal defamation complaint the complainant has to satisfy the
Court and police will have no role in a
criminal defamation case. Both Sibal
and Lalit sought time to prepare on this
point before next date.
lethal weapons while handling
law and order situations.
Ahir said there were 152
incidents of terrorist violence in
the state till July 17 this year in
which 30 security force personnel lost their lives.
tion was predominately an
anti-black money measure
and its purpose is to seize
benami property and prosecute those indulging in such
activities.
“A lot of people who have
unaccounted money buy
benami property in the name
of fictitious persons ... These
transactions have to be discouraged,” he said. On concerns
expressed
by
certain members about religious properties or those
owned by deities or religious
institutions, Jaitley said the
government under this Bill
will exempt such bonafide
entities.
ruled States to curb price rise.
However, the unrelenting
Opposition kept comparing
present rates of goods with the
past. Both sides traded charges
and quoted figures with some
even accusing the Government
of fudging numbers and calculations on inflation to suit
itself.
Initiating the discussion,
TMC leader Derek O’Brien
said it is worse to be vegetarian in India than a non-vegetarian because even though
prices of meat and fish seems
to be under-controlled, the
prices of vegetables and Dals
are all time high. “Fudging of
numbers and calculations is not
what people of India want,” he
said.
CPI-M member Sitaram
Yechury urged the Government
to immediately ban the futures
and forward trading in all
essential items and stop cess
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break-up of distressed Indians,
Swaraj said her Ministry has
been receiving petitions from
Indian women stating that
their non-resident Indian
spouse has hidden the fact that
he is already married or has a
partner.
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pertain to abandonment of the
Indian women either in India
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compliance report of Letters Rogatory from
Italy and part compliance from Tunisia, UK,
Switzerland and British Virgin Islands. The
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signed an over $1 billion deal with
American defence and aerospace
major Boeing for procuring four
additional ‘Poseidon-8I’ long-range
maritime surveillance and antisubmarine warfare aircraft.
The contract is a follow-on
order to eight P-81 planes already
bought by India in a direct deal
with the firm worth USD 2.1 billion, defence sources said.
The contract was inked during
the ongoing visit of US Under
Secretary for Defence on
Acquisition Frank Kendall, and is
seen as a sign of growing Indo-US
defence ties, they said.
India had last year signed a $3
billion contract with the US
through Foreign Military Sales
route for 22 Apache and 15
Chinook helicopters.
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value of defence deals signed with
the US in the last one decade comes
to around USD 15 billion.
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and excise duty hike in order to
provide relief to common people. Asserting that fuel prices
and several kinds of cess have
burdened consumers, Yechury
attacked the Centre for raising
excise duty on petrol and diesel
and not passing the benefits of
the fall in global crude prices
to consumers. Yechury further said imposition of several types of cess and hike in service tax to 14 per cent has led
to inflationary situation in
many essential items.
“All cess put together, these
are extra burden on the consumers, leading to price rise,”
he said, noting that the NDA
Government was earning revenue from cess and excise duty
on petroleum items. Yechury
said unemployment was also
hitting the people hard and
blamed the Government for
not creating enough jobs in the
country.
drop and monitor sonobuoys,
being used in the search for the
missing AN32 aircraft of the Indian
Air Force, they said.
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first international customer and
was also Boeing’s first military sale
to India. The P-8I fleet is based at
the Naval Air Station Rajali in
Tamil Nadu.
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complex issue, she said.
Swaraj said inspite of all these
constrains, the External Affairs
Ministry is taking various
steps to provide
assistance to the
aggrieved women.
“Our government has given
highest priority to
provide help and
assistance to distressed Indians
abroad, irrespective
of their castes,
creed and religion,” she said.
She pointed out that since
the launch of her Ministry’s
grievance redressal portal
‘MADAD’ on February 2015,
as many as 246 grievances
under “marital dispute” category have been received of
which 172 have been
addressed.
Since January 2016, the
External Affairs Ministry has
received another 362 petitions
by post and email related to
NRI marriages of which 344
have been addressed, she said.
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Wednesday following this season's heaviest rainfall in which
two minor girls were washed
away while another civilian was
buried under the debris of his
home in Chingus area of Rajori.
Due to incessant rains in
the higher reaches of Jammu
region, which continued over
night, several rivers including
mighty Chenab was flowing
close to the danger mark.
District administration has
also sounded alert in Jammu
following flash floods in river
Tawi. Similar is the fate of
Basantar and Ujh rivers in
Samba and Kathua districts.
Udhampur, Ramban and Reasi
districts also witnessed continuous rainfall disrupting traffic on the national highway for
some time. BRO workers managed to clear the landslides and
debris at several places to make
way for the vehicular traffic.
BSF authorities are also
maintaining tight vigil along
the International border especially across water logged
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New Delhi: The man who was
driving the jeep used by
Bollywood star Salman Khan
during an alleged deer hunt in
Rajasthan in 1998 on Wednesday stuck to his claim that the
actor had shot the animal.
The statement by Harish
Dulani, who was reported to be
"missing", came two days after
the 50-year-old actor was
acquitted by the Rajasthan
High Court in two cases related to poaching of Chinkaras in
Jodhpur in 1998.
Dulani also maintained
that he was not absconding but
was only under fear due to
threats.
"I stick to the statement I
made before the magistrate 18
years ago that Salman got off
the car and shot the deer. I was
not absconding but I was
scared due to several threats
received by me and my father,"
he told NDTV.
"Due to fear I went away to
my relatives' place in Jodhpur.
We had asked for protection
but did not get it. If I had police
protection, I could have given
a statement. That was what I
always intended," he added.
The High Court had held
that the pellets recovered from
the Chinkaras were not fired
from Khan's licensed gun.
Dulani, the prosecution's
only witness in the poaching
cases, was reported missing
since 2002, which weakened
the prosecution's case against
the movie star.
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border. Water boats have been
deployed for round the clock
patrolling in the forward areas.
Several BSF posts are located in
low lying areas and get submerged during rainy season
affecting barbed wire fencing.
Meanwhile, helicopter services from Katra base camp to
the holy cave shrine of Mata
Vaishno Devi remained disrupted due to bad weather
conditions even as devotees
were allowed to trek the 13 km
long route on foot with warnings to avoid the vulnerable
stretches hit by shooting stones.
In Jammu city several residential areas were flooded
with water following heavy
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downpour. Local residents
staged demonstrations at several places accusing the civic
authorities of not carrying out
necessary desilting works and
allowing rampant encroachment blocking the natural
water channels.
Traffic
movement
remained disrupted across the
city during peak hours while
many areas went without
power due to snapping of
power lines. Government
Medical College also witnessed
crisis situation as it remained
without power for about 12
hours. Power back up was
judiciously used to run emergency and essential services
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including Operation theatres.
According to official
sources two school going girls
identified as Meenakshi (9
years) and Sakshi Sharma (7
years) were washed away in
Janipur area after they lost
balance and fell in a drain.
Eyewitness report claimed a
group of three girls were crossing the water logged street
when one of them stepped
back wards to make way for a
private vehicle. As it was raining heavily one of the girls feel
in a drain and two others lost
balance. A local youth managed to drag one of the girls
while the remaining two were
washed away.
The densely populated
street, housing the office of a
leading State daily, was flooded with water due to breach in
the nearby embankment of a
local nullah.
State BJP Chief Satpal
Sharma, also a local MLA visited the members of the
aggrieved families along with
senior district officials.
"A sum of C4 lakh was
sanctioned for the next of kin
of deceased girls", Deputy
Commissioner
Jammu
Simrandeep Singh told
reporters. Another civilian was
killed in house collapse in
Chingus area of Rajouri, official sources said.
coastal State, bought a 65 per
cent stake in ISL franchise FC
Goa, a Congress Legislator
alleged in the State Legislative
Assembly, that casinos operators
would soon decide the Chief
Minister and Government
Ministers in the near future.
Speaking during a debate
on budgetary demands,
Opposition
Legislator
Pandurang Madkaikar also said
that the rapid growth of the casino industry in the State could
have made it the third largest
casino destination in the world
after Las Vegas and Macau.
“Salgaocar and Dempo,
who are considered among the
richest in Goa, could not manage FC Goa, but a casino owner
has taken over FC Goa now.
Tomorrow they will take over
Goa. Jaydev Mody will decide
who will be a Minister and a
Chief Minister. In ten years,
casinos will take over Goa and
all of us. Irrespective of whether
we are from BJP or Congress,
we will all be responsible for
this,” Madkaikar told the Goa
Legislative Assembly.
Goa-based businessmen
Shrivinas Dempo and Dattaraj
Salgaocar, who were formerly
co-owners of FC Goa, along
with Videocon's Venugopal
Dhoot and Indian test captain
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Kolkata: Amidst a tussle with
Odisha over the origin of the
famous sweetmeat 'Rasgulla',
West Bengal has clarified that
they are not seeking claim
over the dessert but only over
'Rasogolla', a particular variety
prepared in the State.
Officials of the State science and technology department has clarified that they
have sought Geographical
Indications (GI) tag only for
'Rasogolla'.
"There is no conflict with
Odisha. What we want is to
protect the identity of our
Rasogolla. Their product is
different from ours both in
colour, texture, taste, juice content and method of manufacturing," an official said.
In a recent letter to the
Geographical Indications
Registry office in Chennai, the
state department of food processing industries and horticulture said the way the dessert
is made in the State is different
from that of other states.
"The preparation of light
sugar syrup is unique and it contributes towards the taste of
Rasogolla. Light syrup adds to
the unique mouth-fill characteristic which is traditional in
nature and well documented in
different books unlike other
similar products," the letter said,
adding the quality of the dessert
from West Bengal is unique.
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Even during its original
application before the
Intellectual Property office last
year, the State Government
had sought the GI tag on what
they call it as "Banglar
Rasogolla" (Bengal's Rasgulla).
"For example we have
Darjeeling Tea and Himachal
has Kangra Tea. Both are tea but
the taste is different. Both can
have GI tags," officials said.
Odisha has claimed that
the sweetmeat originated from
the Jagannath Temple in Puri,
where it is a part of the religious
rituals since the 12th century.
Odisha calls it 'Pahala Rasgulla'.
In West Bengal, confectioner Nobin Chandra Das is
widely known as the one, who
created Rasgulla in the 1860s.
Bengal has told the GI registrar
office that the one inOdisha is
a different variety.
The Bengal one is off white
or light cream coloured, spherical in shape while in other
states, it varies from brown to
other colours.
sabhas in Maharashtra being
vested with power to form
their squads to combat the
menace of alcoholism, which
has contributed to disputes
and sexual crimes in many villages across the State.
Talking to media persons
after meeting Maharashtra Chief
Minister Devendra Fadnavis
whom he urged to consider total
prohibition in the State, Hazare
said that the gram-sabhas be
allowed to “gram-rakshak dal”
or “gram sanrakshak dal” comprising local residents to combat the menace of alcoholism.
Hazare said that Fadnavis,
whom he met at the Vidhan
Bhavan, said, “The Chief
Minister was positive in his
response. He assured me that
the State Government would
come out with a draft legislation in this regard.
Queried as to what should
be the anti-liquor squad proposed by him, Hazare said,
“The strengths of the dals to
be formed by the villages
could be 11, 13 or 15. Let the
State Government work on
this and decide on the
strength of the each of proposed squad. What is important is that the Chief Minister
considered my proposal”.
Hazare, who has strictly
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Virat Kohli, quit the venture
after differences with the ISL.
"It is to the credit of both,
Salgaocar and Dempo, that this
has happened. They showed
wisdom and a pioneering spirit in their stewardship of the
club, which comes from a deep
love for the game. We hope to
walk the same path and try and
take the team to the next level,”
Mody said in a Press statement
after becoming the new coowner of FC Goa last week.
Ahead of the 2012 State
Assembly poll, the BJP had
promised that if voted to
power, its Government would
shift the offshore casinos
anchored in the River Mandovi
into the Arabian sea. However,
after becoming Chief Minister,
Parrikar, now Union Defence
Minister asked for four years to
complete the task.
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Chennai based Vedic Science
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enforced prohibition in his
native village of Ralegan Siddhi
in Ahmednagar district, said,
“In my village, there were 40
liquor distillation units in the
past. We closed down all of
them and for the past 20 years,
no one in my village drinks
alcohol, or consumes tobacco”.
“If the people’s will is strong
and the Government gives support, it is possible to implement
total prohibition,” the
Gandhian said.
On whether he was for
Maharashtra going the way of
Bihar and Kerala where there
is paritial ban on liquor, Hazare
said, “There are other ways
also. After all, the Excise
department contributes
C23,000 crore to the State
exchequer. This is a huge
amount, you cannot lose it.”
The Gandhian said that in
villages where 25 per cent
women write to Collector seeking ban on liquor, the authorities should ask the Excise
department and local Tehsildar
to seek referendum from people on banning liquor in villages concerned.
“Liquor is a major problem. In several villages where
liquor is freely available, the
incidence of disputes and fights
is on the increase. There have
been incidents of molestation
and sexual assault by people
under influence of liquor in
these villages,” Hazare said.
Goa currently has five
operational offshore casinos
and nine onshore casinos operating from five star hotels,
which attract hundreds of
thousands of gamblers to the
State annually. The financial
clout of the casino industry,
Madkaikar believes, will call the
shots in the State in the years
to come.
“Goa is the largest third destination for casinos in the world.
The same dealers in Las Vegas
and Macau are invested in casinos in Goa,” Madkaikar said.
“The Chief Minister should
go to Las Vegas and Macau.
Macau also has large casinos
and is dominated by the casino lobby. The identity of Macau
is finished. It is ruled by the
casino mafia,” he also said.
Goa Chief Minister
Laxmikant Parsekar however
disputed the claims made by
Madkaikar, while also blaming
the erstwhile Congress
Governemnt for ushering in
casinos into the State.
"The casinos are a gift of
the Congress party, which first
amended the law to allow casino operations in Goa and gave
licences left, right and centre.
We have actually not granted
any new licence to casinos,"
Parsekar said.
"Casinos have helped Goa
when the State was facing a bad
financial crunch, but I have
never supported them,"
Parsekar said.
Research Centre charged on
Wednesday that the conversion of Dalits to Islam at
Vedaranyam and Karoor are
being masterminded by a
political party and supported
by agencies which are getting
foreign funds.
“This is part of an international conspiracy. The local
administration is hand in
glove with the proselytisers
operating at Vedaranyam and
Karoor,” Rama Ravi Kumar,
general secretary, Hindu
Makkal Katchi, told The
Pioneer over telephone from
Vedaranyam. Ravi Kumar has
been camping at Vedaranyam
and discussing with Dalit
leaders and local community representatives to resolve
the impasse.
R avi Kumar and N
Senthil (union secretary,
VCK, a Dalit political outfit)
said no Dalits in Vedaranyam
have converted to Islam
though the leaders of Tamil
Nadu Thowheed Jamath had
visited the village and distributed beautifully printed
Holy Quran to the villagers.
Senthil said if the district
administration fails to meet
the demand of the Dalits that
they should be given the
rights to offer prayers in the
Bhadrakali Amman Temple
during the five day festival,
then they would seriously
consider of embracing Islam.
“What is the point in
continuing as a Hindu when
you are discriminated against
and denied the right to offer
prayers in the temple? The
TNTJ leaders had told us to
read the Quran and understand the religion before getting converted,” said Senthil.
Abdul Rahman, TNTJ had
told The Pioneer that six families had already converted to
Islam and 50 Dalit youths
have come forward to convert
to Islam.
S enthil
said
the
Bhadrakali Amman temple
stood on land belonging to
the Dalits though they do not
have any documentary evidence. But the executive officer of the temple said there
was no mention of it in the
local history and hence could
not be believed.
Ravi Kumar said the local
administration was behaving strangely and has not
taken any initiative to sort out
the issues through discussions. “In fact the local police
and government officials
were preventing me from
meeting the Dalit leaders.
There is no issues here which
could not be sorted out
through discussion ,” said
Ravi Kumar.
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outh India’s leading music showman and activist TM Krishna
and Bezwada Wilson, who has
been campaigning for the abolition
of manual scavenging system have
been selected for this year’s Ramon
Magsaysay Award, Asia’s premier
international honour.
Krishna, the 40-year-old
Carnatic musician from Chennai
has been honoured with the
Magsaysay Award for “social inclusiveness in culture”. Krishna is the
fourth Chennaite to be honoured
with this award. The others from
Chennai who have been awarded
the Magsaysay Prize in the past are
Dr V Shanta (oncologist), TN
Seshan (former chief election commissioner), MS Swaminathan (agricultural scientist).
Krishna, a versatile singer and
showman, is known for his antiestablishment stance on all issues,
whether it be against Sangh Parivar
or the Hindutwa forces. Last year
he sprang a sensation with his declaration that he would not participate in the annul music and dance
festival in Chennai and would perform only for propagating music
among the less privileged in the
society.
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The citation by the Ramon
Magsaysay Award Foundation too
underlines this aspect of Krishna
for selecting him for this year’s
award. “He saw that his was a castedominated art that fostered an
unjust, hierarchic order by effectively excluding the lower classes
from sharing in a vital part of
India’s cultural legacy. He questioned the politics of art; widened
his knowledge about the art of the
Dalits and non-Brahmin communities and declared he would no
longer sing in ticketed events at a
famous annual music festival in
Chennai to protest the lack of
inclusiveness. Recognising that
dismantling artistic hierarchies
can be a way of changing India’s
divisive society, Krishna devoted
himself to democratising the art as
an independent artist, writer,
speaker and activist”.
Bezwada Wilson, the fifty-yearold national convenor of the Safai
Karmachari Andolan too has been
awarded the Magsaysay Award for
2016. He was selected for asserting
the inalienable right to a life of
human dignity. Bezwada played a
crucial role in ensuring the liberation of 3,00,000 manual scavengers
from the 6,00,000 manual scavengers in India, said the citation of
the RMAF.
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down their establishments from
August 1, if the Maharashtra
Government did not withdraw
its recent ‘no helmet-no fuel’ rule
for two-wheelers in the State.
Announcing his organisation’s plan to enforce a shutdown of petrol and diesel retail
outlets in the State, Federation
of All Maharashtra Petrol
Dealers Association (FAMPEDA) president Uday Lodh said,
“As part of our proposed agitation, we will not pick up or
stocking petrol/diesel at the
4,500 pumps in the State,
including 500 in Mumbai, from
August 1, when the new rule
comes into effect. We will write
letters to all the oil marketing
companies of their proposed
move to stop buying-stocking
of the fuel”.
The decision to shut down
petrol and diesel retail outlets was
taken at a meeting of all the 25
member-associations from the
35 districts in the state convened
on Wednesday to discuss the situation arising out of the State
Government’s new directive.
“We also intend to move the
Bombay High Court seeking the
annulment of the`no helmet-no
fuel’ rule for two-wheelers in the
State,” Lodh said.
“The Government directive is flawed in nature because
it expects the petrol-diesel
retailers to perform the duties
of the law-enforcing authorities…We are not the police, so
it is not our job to implement
the laws of the land. If we refuse
to provide petrol-diesel to anybody, we can be beaten up,
especially at nights when
drunken or lumpen elements
come to refill,” Lodh said.
It may be recalled that on
July 21, Maharashtra Transport
Minister Diwakar Raote had
made the announcement of the
new rule in the legislature to
promote road safety and save
lives lost in accidents.
“Supplying fuel to riders
not wearing helmets is seen as
encouraging riding two-wheelers without helmets,” Raote
had said.
As many as 146,133 people
were killed in 501,423 road
accidents in the country, of
which those involving twowheelers accounted for 144,391
accidents — or nearly 28 percent — with 36,803 deaths.
According to statistics provided in "Road Accidents in
India, 2015" released in June by
Union Transport Minister Nitin
Gadkari, Mumbai topped the
national accidents chart Among
50 cities in the million-plus population category, with 23,468
accidents last year. Maharashtra
ranked second (after Tamil
Nadu) in the country with
63,805 road accidents in 2015.
On their part, the Mumbai
Police had earlier this month —
in an effort to check the increasing number of road mishaps —
announced its plant to implement the ‘no helmet-no fuel’
directive strictly from August 1.
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has suspended two
Legislators — Har vinder
Sahani alias Romi Sahani and
Brajesh Verma for revolting
against the Party and banned
them from attending any party
function.
Party's State unit president
Ramachal Rajbhar in a statement issued on Wednesday
said both the MLAs have been
suspended from the Party.
Replying to the charges leveled
by both the MLAs, earlier in
the day, Rajbhar said the
Assembly tickets of both the
leaders were refused due to
which they made wild charges
against the Party leadership.
"While Romi was only interested in his business in
Lucknow and was not giving
attention in his Paliament
Assembly segment in
Lakhimpur Kheri and thus
denied the ticket, and Brajesh
was refused as he was involved
in just promoting his family
members in the just concluded rural local bodies polls,"
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in the name of different companies against properties were
diverted for purposes other
than the ones for which they
were sanctioned resulting in
their accounts becoming on
Performing Assets (NPAs).
The CBI booked cases
against three then bank officials
and three persons belonging to
private firms based in Pune and
Baramati, following searches
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charges of demanding any
money.
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both the Legislators were
thrown out of the BSP. Earlier,
they were expelled in June last
but were re-inducted after they
tender written apology. Earlier
Romi and Brajesh alleged that
Mayawati had demanded C4
crore to C5 crores from them
for the Assembly tickets which
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of Telangana establishing that the EAMCET II question paper was leaked from a printing press in New Delhi, the State Government
was planning to cancel the common entrance
test and order a fresh entrance.
CID has arrested three suspects in connection with the alleged leak following the allegations that some of the coaching centers had
received the leaked question paper in advance
to help their students.
What had aroused the suspicions of a
paper leak was the surprisingly better performance by some of the students in the EAMCET
II compared to the EAMCET I.
Eamcet is a common entrance test for the
admission in medical, engineering and agri-
culture courses in Telangana. As the
Government has already conducted the test
twice putting a lot of pressure on the students,
the parents were now opposing any move to cancel the second test and conduct a third test.
As part of their investigation the CID officials visited parts of Warangal district on
Wednesday and questioned the students who
had secured high ranks in the EAMCET II held
on July 9.
Parents of some of the students who gathered in Hyderabad to meet the medical and
health education minister Lakshma Reddy
demanded that string punishment should be
meted out to those responsible for the leakage
of question papers but not to make the students
suffer. They wanted the government to start the
counseling process immediately to admit the
meritorious students.
against then Assistant General
Manager & Branch Head of
BoM, Karve Road branch,
Pune and then Director of
Baramati (Maharashtra) based
private firm, it was alleged
that the Baramati-based private
firm entered into a criminal
conspiracy with the then bank
official and availed loan
amount of C4.45 crore in
December 2012 for trading
and services, under the Loan
Against Property (LAP)
scheme on the basis of ineligible mortgaged properties.
The borrower, who diverted the loan amount for some
other purpose, did not pay back
the loan and the account
became NPA, thereby causing
an alleged loss of C5.16 crore,
including the interest due
thereon to the Bank of
Maharashtra.
In the second case registered against then Assistant
General Manager & Branch
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on Wednesday asked quesT
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Police could hold parallel investigation in a matter already
being heard by the Court.
The Court was hearing a
petition from Narada News
CEO Mathew Samuels in
which his lawyers drew the
attention of the Court saying
the Kolkata Police had started
investigations in the Narada
case at a time when the matter
was already being heard by the
Court.
The Judges immediately
asked the Government lawyers
as to whether it was proper to
start parallel investigation in a
case which was already being
heard by the Court. The
Government will explain its
decision on August 9, the next
date of hearing.
Earlier senior advocate
Arunabha Ghosh representing Samuels said “the police
action is beyond their jurisdiction as they cannot start par-
allel investigation in a case
which is subjudice. It is
improper and so we drew the
attention of the Court which
asked as to why the Police were
investigating the case when it
was already being heard by it.”
The police had earlier
issued summons to Mathew
Samuels in the Narada video
case which showed a host of
senior Trinamool Congress
leaders including Ministers
and MPs accepting wads of
cash from a journalist faking as
a prospective investor in lieu of
future promise.
MPs like Suvendu
Adhikary (now a Minister),
Sougato Roy, Sultan Ahmed,
Kakoli Ghoshdastidar and
Ministers like Subroto
Mukherjee, Firhad Hakim and
Kolkata Mayor Spovan
Chatterjee were shown accepting money in the Narada News
tape which was aired just before
the Bengal Assembly elections
causing a great deal of embarrassment for the Trinamool
Congress.
The High Court is hearing
a PIL demanding a CBI probe
into the Narada video case.
And the materials with which
the film was shot had been sent
to a central forensic laboratory at Chandigarh for examination.
Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee when she roared back
to power did the first thing to
order a probe into the Narada
case alleging foreign money
was involved in the case and
her party was being maligned.
The police promptly picking the message initiated proceedings and issued summons
to Samuels who then pleaded
that he had already submitted
in the High Court the laptop,
I-Phone and other instrument
with which the video was shot
and hence his appearance
before the police would be of
no use.
The police then moved a
lower court seeking a magisterial order asking him to appear
at the earliest. Samuel’s lawyers
immediately petitioned the
High Court against the “police
plans to arrest me.”
Head of BoM, Karve Road
branch, Pune and then
Director of another private
firm based at Baramati, the
functionary of the private firm
entered into criminal conspiracy with the then bank official
and availed loan amount of C5
crore in December 2012 for
trading & services, under the
Loan Against Property (LAP)
scheme on the basis of ineligible mortgaged properties.
Like in the first case, the
borrower did not pay back the
loan and the account became
NPA, thereby causing an
alleged loss of C5.80 crore,
including the interest due
thereon to the Bank. The loan
amount was allegedly diverted
by the said firm towards commercial real estates, for a purpose other than the one for
which the same was sanctioned.
Similarly, the CBI registered the third case against then
Assistant General Manager &
Branch Head of BoM, Model
Colony branch, Pune and then
Proprietor of Baramati-based
private firm, while the agency
booked Assistant General
Manager & Branch Head of
Bank of Maharashtra, Model
Colony branch, Pune and then
Proprietor of Baramati based
private firm in the fourth case.
In the third case, the private firm borrowed C5 crore in
February 2013 for trading &
services, under the Loan
Against Property (LAP), did
not pay back substantial loan
amount and the account
became NPA, thereby causing
an alleged loss of C4.59 crore
including the interest due
thereon to the Bank.
The loan borrowed in the
fourth case was C4.52 crore in
February 2013. The borrower’s
became NPA, thereby causing
an alleged loss of C5.36 crore,
including the interest.
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August 9.
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Arijit Sen, project manager at Amnesty International
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with her decision which was
announced on Tuesday.
Amnesty has described her
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"This also comes at a time
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Manipur over the last two
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Now the Government needs to
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The "Iron Lady" of
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would end her fast on August
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repeal of AFSPA.
She will fight as an
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Malom constituency in the
state Assembly polls due next
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They also either attached or
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accounts/investments from the
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Maharashtra (BoM) Model
Colony Branch, Pune.
Of the bank officials
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Head of BoM, Model Colony
branch, Pune figures in two
cases. The three persons
belonging to private firms
booked in connection with the
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Nitin Marutrao Kale, who figures in two cases, Sunil
Dattarraya Madane and Vinod
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Bangladesh, which was washed
away by Brahmaputra river to
the neighbouring country, by
early next month.
Assam’s Principal Chief
Conservator of Forests (PCCF)
Bikash Brahma said this on
Wednesday while adding that
the Government has already
got the required clearance from
the Ministry of External Affairs
(MEA) of the Government of
India.
The elephant was spotted
by some locals in Kurigram district of Bangladesh and intimated the forest department
there. The Bangladesh
Government intimated this to
the Assam Government following which the Assam
Government approached the
MEA for necessary permission.
The forest department here
believe that the elephant
belongs to Kaziranga national
park in Assam, which was
washed away in June this year
and taken to Kurigram district
along Indo-Bangladesh border — covering a distance of
over 500 kms.
The Assam Government
had constituted a three-member expert committee comprising a senior retired forest
official, a serving Divisional
Forest Officer and a serving
Veterinarian to bring back the
pachyderm.
“We got the MEA clearance and hope that the visa
formalities will be completed
shortly. Our plan is to sent the
three to Bangladesh by August
3 or before that. On their
arrival in the country, they
would study on the best suitable way to bring back the animal,” said Brahma while adding
that the elephant is reportedly
in good health now.
“It was spotted in a sandbar of the river. It got stressed
out initially as the villagers
chased the animal fearing that
it might destroy their paddy
fields. However, the forest officials in Bangladesh are monitoring the animal now,”
Brahma said.
On asked about how to
bring the animal back,
Brahma, however, said it is difficult to comment as the matter could be decided by the
expert team only after reaching the country and studying
the situation. “I have no idea as
of now on how to bring it back.
The three persons in the expert
committee are well experienced to handle this kinds of
situation and they would only
take a call after studying the
situation and interacting with
Bangladesh forest officials,” he
said.
The easiest way to transport anything from Bangladesh
to India is using the river
route. However, the experts
here are not very sure whether
they would be able to tranquilize the animal for three to
four days in case they agree to
transport it back through river
route in ship.
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hey were furious after
the announcement of
the verdict of the
Permanent Court of
Arbitration (PCA). The
International Tribunal in The
Hague had given its ruling on a
reference by the Philippines over
the South China Sea: China has
no historic ‘rights’ over the natural resources in most of the areas
of the South China Sea; further
any right must not exceed what’s
permitted by the UN Convention
on the Law of the Sea.
Now, China is upset again.
This time because the Indian
Press reported the deployment of
T-72 battle tanks in Ladakh.
Quoting official sources, The
Tribune, whose correspondent
visited Ladakh, spoke of a possibility for China and Pakistan to
launch a collusive two-front war
against India: “In the past four-five
years, ground troops have been
added to pre-positioned locations
along the Line of Actual Control
(LAC), or the de facto border, that
is not marked on the ground.”
Since the past 36 months,
ground forces and artillery guns
have been backed by T-72 Russianorigin tanks and another tank unit
is slated to move to eastern Ladakh
facing China: “This adds a new
dimension to any future war in the
area that is marked by an average
height of 14,000 feet, where oxygen
is scarce,” says The Tribune.
According to Daily Excelsior,
published from Jammu, for the
Indian Army “the move is part of
the winter drill to validate the
capability of the tanks at such
heights and is not an inimical
move against China.”
Colonel Vijay Dalal,
Commanding Officer of the tank
regiment explained: “What we
have done is that we have procured
special additives and lubricants for
high altitude terrain such as winter grade diesel and additives for
the lubrication system, which prevents it from freezing in the tank.”
The Colonel added: “While
the tanks and crew have acclimatised, they have not been able to
test their fire power in the heights
here due to lack of firing ranges.
There is a need to verify their firing capacity at higher altitudes.”
The Global Times objected to
this move: “Deploying tanks on
the Indo-China border hinders
potential for Chinese investment.”
How can protecting the
Indian borders ‘hinder’ Chinese
investments? Are the Chinese
doing India a favour by investing?
The Global Times links the
deployment of the Indian forces on
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the border to Chinese business
investments in India: “A media
report stating that nearly 100
Indian tanks have been positioned near the Indo-China border to counter any possible threat
grabbed people’s attention as more
Chinese firms are looking to
increase their investment in India.”
Then it quotes statistics of
the China’s Ministr y of
Commerce: “Chinese outbound
investment (in India) increased
by 58.7 per cent in the first half
of the year, as the country (India)
has sought to further integrate
itself into the world economy.”
Probably referring to the
announcement by Delhi of a new
foreign direct investment (FDI) policy, opening up several sectors,
including defence, to 100 per cent
equity, The People’s Daily says: “the
Modi administration has recently
promoted a second round of
reforms to attract more overseas
investment by allowing foreign
firms to increase their shareholding
in local enterprises.” It, however,
adds that “it is puzzling that while
deploying tanks near China’s border, India still strives to woo
Chinese investment.”
What have the tanks to do
with the investment policy? You
may call this ‘logic with Chinese
characteristics’, especially at a
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time China is behaving badly and
illegally the South China Sea.
Though it sounded like a
threat, Chinese Foreign Ministry
Spokesman Lu Kang was more
courteous; Lu just said: “There
have been a series of significant
agreements and consensus
reached between China and India
on upholding stability of the border area. …The two countries
should abide by relevant agreements and consensus, work in
concert to maintain peace and
tranquillity of the border area and
create a favourable environment
for improving bilateral mutual
trust and bolstering the proper
settlement of the boundary question.” He further pointed out:
“The China-India border area has
long been peaceful and stable.”
To come back to The Global
Times article, it paternalistically
explains: “In an index on the ease
of doing business, from the World
Bank, India currently ranks 130 out
of 189. Despite India’s stated goal
to rise to within the top 100 this
year, the nation has its work cut out
for them.” In other words, it tells
Delhi, ‘forget about your borders,
make business easier for us’.
What is amazing is that China
has developed its dual-use infrastructure on the Tibetan plateau
at a very rapid pace during the last
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few decades, but now it objects to
India occupying its own territory and taking necessary measures
to defend its borders.
Further, China recently raised
the level of the Tibet Military
Command’s (TMC) authority.
China Military Online admitted:
“China continues to strengthen its
military presence in the
autonomous region and aims to
allow the military command to
shoulder more combat assignments. The TMC’s political rank
will be elevated to one level higher than its counterpart provinciallevel military commands, and
will come under the leadership of
the People’s Liberation Army.” It
added that the promotion marks
a “new journey for the Tibet military command’s construction.”
Zhao Zhong, deputy director
of the Political Work Department
of the TMC told the PLA website:
“The elevation of the authority
level is not only an improvement
for the troops’ designation, but
also an expansion of their function and mission.”
Song Zhongping, a Beijingbased military expert, told The
Global Times that the TMC “bears
great responsibility to prepare for
possible conflicts between China
and India, and currently it is difficult (for the TMC) to secure all
the military resources they need.”
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for a few Indian tanks at a time
when China moved its 15th
Airborne Corps to Tibet?
The Global Times’ conclusion is that deploying tanks near
the Indo-China border “may hit
a nerve within the Chinese business community, causing investors
to weigh the threat of political
instability when they make investment decisions.”
According to the same principle, Delhi should stop doing business with China because Beijing has
illegally (according to the La Hague
Tribunal) occupied most of the
South China Sea, where it has built
infrastructures, even on ‘rocks’?
This is one more example of
Chinese double standards. But
Delhi has probably touched a raw
nerve. After the announcement of
the verdict of the PCA, a PLA commentator wrote: “The great rejuvenation of Chinese nation is an
unstoppable historical trend that
won’t be diverted by the will of any
individual country or person.”
A rejuvenated China is
bound to bully its neighbours and
economic partners. India has to
take all measures to counter the
Chinese tactics, investment or
no investment.
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“Bhagwant’s faux pas” (July 27).
Had Bhagwant Maan, an MP
from the Aam Aadmi Party, not
been expelled from the Lok Sabha,
it would not only have set a dangerous precedent for the members,
but would have also exposed the
dual standards of parliamentarians, especially of the members of
the secular parties.
Earlier too, an ethics committee in 2005 had terminated the
membership of 11 MPs after finding them guilty after a sting operation allegedly showing them
accepting bribe. Now, since
charges against Maan have been
proved and the matter relates to
the security of Parliament, his
membership must be terminated.
Jai Prakash Gupta
Ambala Cantt
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Sir — This refers to the article,
“The troika of India’s economic
troubles” (July 26) by Sudip
Bhattacharyya. The author has
rightly observed that the three
concerns for the Government are:
Rising inflation, high interest rates
and increasing corporate lending.
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rates are higher than inflation
rates, the value of their savings
goes down year after year.
For example, if the inflation rate
is seven per cent per year and the
interest rate is five per cent, the real
value of savings will be reduced by
two per cent every year. The Union
Government must coordinate with
the State Governments to fight a
united war against inflation.
PN Saxena
Via email
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Sir — This refers to the report,
“From Aug 15, MP to bear tuition
fee of talented college students”
(July 26). Madhya Pradesh Chief
Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan
must be applauded for not discriminating one against the other
on grounds of caste, community
and gender. Unable to bear high
cost of tuition in colleges, many
meritorious students, who suffer
from economic backwardness,
are deprived of education.
Chouhan has set a good precedent. Other States too must follow the same.
KV Seetharamaiah
Hasaan
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Sir — The Union Government’s
decision to not give annual increment to non-performing
Government employees was long
overdue. However, this will not only
improve the working conditions of
Government offices, but will also
create a healthy atmosphere among
the staff. Annual increment, promotion and financial upgradation is
not the birth right of an employee,
but it is a reward and, therefore, it
should certainly be linked with the
performance of the employee.
Gulab Shanker Singh
Lucknow
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Sir — This refers to the brain
stromer, “Why an old phone company bought a new-age tech
giant?” (July 26). The departure of
the global giant from the web
world is unfortunate. The main
reason for its exit was because it
could not re-invent itself to equip
itself with pressures from Google
and another web giants.
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Via web
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newspaper, Union
Minister for Urban
Development
M
Venkaiah Naidu said
that Pakistan has unleashed a proxy war,
which might affect the ‘unity and
integrity of our country.’ Quoting MJ
Akbar, he argued that Kashmir is an ideological problem which has little to do
with geography. While rejecting the
‘grand bargain’ spoken of by former
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram,
the Minister believes that ‘ultimately
Kashmiriyat will triumph.’ The unsaid
message is that India need not talk with
Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir issue.
So, what would Pakistan do? It could
continue with the proxy war which the
security forces, especially the Army is
trained to counter. What if it raises the
stakes for India by another attempt of
grabbing territory by force? Unlike
what Akbar thinks, the Kashmir problem is as much about ideology (Muslim
population) as it is about territory — the
wars over Kashmir bear testimony to
this. Moreover, in all wars that Pakistan
has fought with India after India’s 1962
debacle, it has sought to increase its common border with China. As Pakistan’s
former Foreign Minister Khurshid
Mahmud Kasuri pointed out in his book,
Neither A Hawk Nor A Dove, “Pakistan
has serious strategic interests in the area
(Gilgit Baltistan) because it adjoins
China (Xinjiang). There is no way that
we could countenance the presence of
any troops (read Indian) other than our
own in the region.”
Pakistan’s wish of increased common border was reciprocated by China
in December 2010 when it announced
that it did not have a border with India
in Ladakh (Jammu & Kashmir). Neither
then, nor now has India reacted to
China’s major policy tilt suggesting that
India’s Ladakh is Pakistan’s territory. The
military implication of China’s unilateral move has been lost on India because
unlike Pakistan and China, it is a status
quo nation which believes that a credible military muscle is not necessary for
a robust foreign policy.
Pakistan, whose India policy is
governed by Rawalpindi, could make the
following military assessment:
Kashmiris, under the Modi
Government, stand alienated. This was
borne out by the defiance of thousands
of people who participated in Burhan
Wani’s funeral. Thus in case of a war,
Indian Army’s internal communication
lines for the movement of troops and
war logistics would be dangerously
vulnerable. Since most of the Army
would be compelled to leave its present
job of counter-insurgency operations
and move forward to defend the Line of
Control, with no other security force
trained enough to replace the Army, the
India Army would be fighting a two
front war — within Kashmir and on the
border with Pakistan.
This is not all. There is a big question mark over India’s military preparedness for a land-air war. Media reports
routinely decry the lack of capabilities
with the Army and the Air Force.
Then, there are issue about Army’s training for war by itself and with the Air
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Malik and VK Singh have spoken about
the Army’s lack of war preparedness.
This crucial input for Pakistan’s
Army planning was exposed by
Operation Parakram (the 10-month
military stand-off between India and
Pakistan) where India’s Army conventional war capabilities got blunted, and
in the aftermath of 26/11 attacks in
Mumbai when, despite a grave provocation, India took no military action
against Pakistan. Writing in her book,
No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My
Years in Washington, former US
Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice
said that India’s National Security
Advisor Brajesh Mishra sought her help
to avert the war in May-June 2002 when
it appeared imminent that Pakistan was
militarily braced to confront India’s
challenge head-on.
The Vajpayee Government which
had launched Operation Parakram and
was the first to blink when things spiraled out of control in May-June 2002
explained this by saying that Indian
Army’s mobilisation was not for war but
for military coercion. In reality,
Operation Parakram exposed two major
chinks in Indian armour. One, since the
political leadership did not understand
military power and role of nuclear
weapons, it hesitated to go to war with
Pakistan. This was borne by India’s reaction to 26/11 and, unfortunately, this is
the situation now as well.
And two, the Indian Army was
completely out of its depth — how and
why has been explained in General VK
Singh’s book, Courage and Conviction.
Over 1,000 soldiers’ lives were lost during Operation Parakram without the
Indian Army firing a shot. The situation
today has deteriorated with the unnecessary raising of 17 mountain corps (90,000
troops) for China which has depleted
Army’s war reserves, and by Army’s insistence of continuing with counter-insurgency operations in Kashmir.
Let’s now turn to China and what
military threat it poses to India. While
the political leadership has left this vital
assessment to the military, the Army,
being the boots on ground has assessed
it wrong. The Army believes that it
would be a replay of the 1962 war, where
tactics overshadowed operations or
theatre campaigns.
For this reason, the Army recently
took a few greenhorn journalists to eastern Ladakh in June and thoughtlessly
exposed its vulnerability to China. As
part of preparedness, senior officers told
media people that the Army had
increased its numbers to three brigades
(each with 3,500 men) and would have
over 100 tanks in the area, which would
help stop a Chinese attack. If this was not
enough, officers disclosed that their
tanks could not do firing training as
there were no firing ranges there. Since
tanks are no more than moving guns,
what good are they if they lack calibration in rarified atmosphere of eastern
Ladakh for accurate firing?
Bragging about infrastructure, commanding officer of 16 Garhwal Rifles
reportedly said that the 255km road
Darbuk-Shyok-Daulat Beg Oldie (meant
to provide round the clock and easy road
movement) would be ready by 2022.
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he sustainable development goals for the next
15 years, adopted by
countries in September 2015,
envision ending hunger by
2030 by ensuring sustainable
food production. In the face
of rising population and consequently an increasing
demand for food, amid worsening climate change, there is
an urgent need to perceive
agriculture differently.
The 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development, as
well as the Paris agreement on
climate change, recognises the
imperative need to address food
security in correlation with the
management of natural
resources. The same is also
reflected in the latest edition of
the State of the World’s Forests
(SOFO) report, which emphasises on the relationship
between agriculture and
forestry for a food-secure future.
The SOFO report stresses
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on the capability of agriculture
to feed world’s population, but
also highlights the fact that
agriculture is one of the main
causes for deforestation globally. This is due to the current
agricultural practices that work
in isolation and do not account
for efficient management of
natural forest resources.
As a result of this, forests are
increasingly being cleared in
pursuit of increasing agricultural productivity. Forests ensure
food security for millions of
people worldwide, as they are
important sources of food, energy and income. Compromising
on forest cover to increase agricultural productivity cannot be
a sustainable solution to ensure
food security.
Well-managed natural
resources, particularly forests
have the capacity to achieve
many of the sustainable development goals such as attaining
food security, energy, clean
water and health.
There is an inherent connect between forests and agriculture as forests can support
sustainable agriculture by stabilising soils and climate, regulating water flow, providing
shade and shelter and providing a habitat for pollinators and
natural predators of agricultural pests. When integrated judiciously into agricultural landscapes, trees can increase agricultural productivity.
Moreover, increasing crop
productivity, if paired with direct
forest protection measures, can
increase both agricultural production and forest cover.
Deforestation was most
prevalent in temperate climatic domain until the late 19th
century and is now greatest in
the tropical climatic domain. In
fact, the tropics are losing an
area of forest the size of
Portugal every year.
Temperate countries on
the other hand are aggressively protecting their primary
forests and have also increased
their agricultural productivity
while halting and reversing
deforestation.
For instance, since 2004,
Brazil has reduced deforestation in the Amazon by 80 per
cent while increasing soy production by 65 per cent and beef
production by 21 per cent.
Brazil could achieve this mainly through restrictive measures such as protected areas,
strict enforcement of forest
laws and moratoria on clearing.
Additionally, an increased agricultural productivity also
played a significant role too.
Besides playing a supportive and complimentary role
for agriculture, forests can
have a multifunctional role as
they can combat climate
change, provided emissions
from deforestation and forest
degradation are reduced.
According to studies,
deforestation contributes more
than 10 per cent of greenhouse
gas emissions annually, but it
only expands the world’s agricultural land by around onetenth of a per cent a year.
Given this, it crucial to
have sustainable management of
forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks as this can not
only help combat climate change
but also ensure food security.
In the present context,
India has pledged to increase
25 million hectares of forest
cover from the current 17.2
million hectares by 2030 and
has been trying to put 33 per
cent of its geographical area
under forest, but according to
current estimates, it is yet to
reach the 22 per cent mark.
India must concentrate on
increasing food productivity
while preserving and, if possible, increase forest cover. In
order to ensure this, India
This was when in Delhi, the director
general military operations was reportedly against building roads close to the
Chinese border for security reasons (the
Chinese could use it to move fast inside
Indian territory once war was joined).
Indian Generals have failed to
comprehend that China, with its excellent infrastructure and technology
(which has kept pace with war-fighting
ideas) would fight a non-contact war
at the theatre level. Given China’s military power, tactics of the 1962 vintage
is passé — there will no longer be tank
battles or troops charging to secure
ground. By itself, China’s massive military capacity is not meant for tactical
encounters, but for two other purposes: To exercise coercive diplomacy to
deter India, and to provide muscle for
its aggressive foreign policy.
In the event of India-Pakistan war,
China would support Pakistan with
unrestrained war materials, its assets in
space, cyber, electromagnetic domains,
its plethora of cruise missiles and armed
unmanned vehicles, and by keeping the
pressure on Chinese front with threat of
troops’ insertion by vertical envelopment. Thus, at the theatre level, China,
without showing its hand, would open
the third front against India on territory it says belongs to its ally, Pakistan.
The Indian military is not up against
a two-front but a three-front war threat.
Wonder if Naidu understands this. If he
did he should know that not talking with
Pakistan requires massive military preparedness to meet the increased threats.
(The writer is editor, FORCE
newsmagazine)
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approach in which the local
communities must be involved
in initiative such as forest land
allocation programme and forest protection contracts entered
into with the local households.
The respective State forest
departments can also
announce initiatives wherein
the local farmers are provided
with incentives to plant trees
and supports forest conservation. These efforts can increase
forest banks and prevent loss of
forest cover to agriculture.
Natural resources such as
water bodies, forests and wetlands have their own unique
role to play in the environment. Their influence on the
ecosystem and particularly
agriculture cannot be replicated; hence, the need to conserve these natural resources
in the best interests of environment and for increased
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mbattled Sahara group on
Wednesday spurned a $1.3
billion offer for its three
prized overseas hotels, including Grosvenor House and
Park Plaza, terming it as a
“devious attempt” to lower the
price even as the suitor maintained the proposal is “very
compelling”.
The offer was made by a
consortium of family office
investors, comprising Jesdev
Saggar-led 3 Associates of
the UK and others from the
Middle East, for acquiring
Sahara’s majority stake in
three marquee hotel properties -- the famed Grosvenor
House in London, as well as
the Park Plaza and Dream
Downtown in New York.
Amid speculation that the
fresh offer may trigger a bidding war as Sahara was
already in talks with a few
others including some Qatarbased investors for these
hotels, the group was quick to
spurn the proposal saying it
was an attempt to ruin the
market and disturb existing
bidders at market value that
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was “much higher”.
Saggar,
Managing
Director of 3 Associates
which termed its offer as the
“largest hotel bid in the UK
history”, said the consortium
has made a “very compelling
offer” and it was a long-term
investment opportunity for
them.
In a strongly-worded
reaction, a Sahara spokesperson however termed it “a
malicious and non-serious
act of some wrong people”.
“The said proposal is
baseless. It is a devious
attempt to benchmark the
price much lower than the
actual market value of the
properties in order to ruin the
market and disturb the sentiment of the actual bidders
who are bidding at market
value which is much higher,”
the spokesperson said.
Sahara group, whose chief
Subrata Roy was in jail for
over two years in connection
with a long-running dispute
with markets regulator Sebi
and is now out on parole, has
been trying hard to raise
funds, including through refinancing of loans on its over-
seas hotels.
Responding to Sahara’s
rejection of the $1.3 billion
offer, Saggar said: “We have
followed the process and submitted in a compliant manner.
If the bid is rejected then they
should use the same process
to communicate.
“ This is a long-term
investment opportunity for
us. We have submitted a very
compelling offer. It is now up
to the Supreme Court and the
Roy family. Seeking to raise
funds, the b eleaguered
Saharas arealready in talks
with Qatar-based investors
for a potential deal for the
three hotels. Last year, the
group was also in discussions
with US-based Mirach Capital
but the talks fell through
amid a public spat between
the two sides.
As per the website of 3
Associates, its founders and
Multi Family office network
have completed over 314 million pounds worth transactions since 2014, including
hotels and commercial offices
in the UK, the UAE and
India.
It also claims to have
“access to one of the largest
pools of family office equity
in the Middle East”.
Grosvenor House, a landmark on London’s Park Lane
and designed by acclaimed
architect Sir Edwin Lutyens,
was bought by Saharas in
2010. The two US hotels were
purchased later.
The three hotels were
acquired between 2010-2012
at an estimated valuation of
$1.55 billion.
The 110-year-old Plaza
in New York is situated off
Central Park and its ownership has changed hands several times.
Currently, Sahara has
about 75 per cent and remaining 25 per cent is with Prince
Al-Waleed bin Talal of Saudi
Arabia.
In March last year, Bank of
China had put Grosvenor
House under “administration”
for recovery of its loans from
Sahara after declaring “an
event of default” on the US
loans due to some technical
breaches in the financial
covenants.
The loan on Sahara’s three
hotels -- Grosvenor House in
the UK and the two prime
hotels in New York -- from
Bank of China was “cross collateralised and cross guaranteed”.
Subsequently, Sahara
reached a $850 million (C5,500
crore) refinancing deal with
India-born billionaire brothers
David and Simon Reuben and
averted the ‘default-triggered’
sale of Grosvenor House hotel
property.
The past owners of Plaza
hotel in New York include
realty tycoon and US
Presidential candidate Donald
Trump, who married his second wife Marla Maples in this
hotel.
The hotel, which has 282
rooms in addition to several
condos, restaurants and shops,
had hosted the famous Plaza
Accord to devalue the US dollar in 1985.
Sahara group has been
engaged in a legal battle with
Sebi for long over a case
involving raising of funds
from investors to the tune of
over C24,000 crore. Sahara,
however, claims it has already
repaid 95 per cent of the
investors’ money directly.
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Airtel on Wednesday
announced around 31 per
cent decline in its consolidated net profit at C1,462
crore for the first quarter of
2016-17 mainly due to high
capital expenditure during
the period.
The company had reported a net profit of C2,113.2
crore in the same period a
year ago.
“Net Income for the quarter stands at C1,462 crore
compared to C2,113 crore in
corresponding quarter last
year. Q1’16 Net Income of
C2,113 crore has been reinstated to Ind-AS from previously reported IFRS figures
which includes an exceptional gain of C556 crore on
account of this reinstatement,”
Airtel said in a statement.
As per IFRS format, the
net profit was C1,554.3 crore
in April-June 2015-16.
Total
consolidated
income from operations of
Airtel in the reported quarter
increased by 7.9 per cent to
C25,572.9 crore f rom
C23,680.8 crore in the yearago period.
The consolidated revenues in the reported quarter
grew on an underlying basis,
adjusted for Africa divested
operating unit and tower
assets sale, the statement said.
Consolidated mobile data
revenues at C4,640 crore grew
by 34.1 per cent on year-onyear basis.
Its capital expenditure
spiked 23 per cent year-onyear to C4,925 crore in the
quarter under review.
Airtel said that its India
revenues for in the reported
quarter grew by 10.3 per cent
at C19,155 crore compared to
corresponding period of
2015-16 due to healthy
growth of 9.1 per cent in
Mobile, 11 per cent in Homes
Services, 22.2 per cent in
Digital TV and 10.4 per cent
in Airtel Business on yearly
basis.
“The year has begun well
with revenue growth of 10.3
per cent Y-o-Y and continued
revenue market share gains. In
continuation of our Project
Leap announcement, we have
now transparently opened up
our entire mobile network to
our customers,” Bharti Airtel
MD and CEO for India and
South Asia Gopal Vittal said.
The company’s consolidated net debt excluding the
deferred payment liabilities to
the Department of Telecom
and finance lease obligations
decreased to C46,534.92 crore
($6,891 million) from
C50,316.6 crore ($7,451 million) in the previous quarter.
The net debt of the company at the end of June 30, 2015
was C68,134.5 crore. However,
there was increase in net interest cost.
“Net interest costs of Cs
1,631 crore have risen from
C1,124 crore in the corresponding quarter last year –
largely due to higher spectrum interest costs,” Airtel said.
Mobile Data revenues of
Airtel in India grew by 35.1 per
cent to C3,500 crore from
C3,525 crore in a year led by
increase in the data customer
base by 19.1 per cent and traffic by 54.9 per cent.
Mobile Broadband customers increased by 68.3 per
cent to 36.6 million from 21.7
million in the corresponding
quarter last year. The company reported customer base of
over 255 million in India at end
of April-June 2016 quarter.
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fixed December 31, 2016 as the
deadline for companies like
Vodafone and Cairn Energy
Plc to settle their retrospective
tax disputes.
The one-time offer to settle
tax issues by waiving of interest
and penalty, if the companies
paid up the principal tax
amount, had opened on June 1
this year.
Nearly two months after the
offer opened, none of the companies have come forward and
now the Government wants to
have a deadline for the scheme,
sources privy to the development said.
After the scheme closes,
the Income Tax Department will
go ahead with tax demands
and pursue legal course including arbitration, they said.
Sources said the government had asked Income Tax
Department not to take any
coercive action during the time
the scheme is open.
Weeks before the scheme
was announced by Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley in his
budget speech on February 29,
the Income Tax Department had
issued Vodafone a reminder
over its C14,200-crore tax
demand and threatened to seize
assets in case of non-payment.
UK oil explorer Cairn
Energy is facing a tax demand
of C10,247 crore on alleged capital gains made in a 2006 business reorganisation it carried out
in its India unit before getting it
listed. The total tax due after
including interest comes to over
C29,000 crore.
British telecom giant
Vodafone is also facing a total
demand of C14,200 crore in tax,
interest and penalty with regard
to its $11 billion acquisition of 67
per cent stake in the mobilephone business owned by
Hutchison Whampoa in 2007.
Both firms raised their concerns
over the tax demands and challenged the matter by initiating
international arbitration.
Sources said that in case any
of the companies decides toavail
the tax settlement scheme, it
needs to provide a proof of
withdrawal of “any proceeding
for arbitration, conciliation or
mediation or any notice thereof
under any law for the time
being in force or under any
agreement entered into by India
with any other country or terri-
tory outside India whether for
protection of investment or otherwise”.
The company will also have
to furnish an undertaking waiving its right to seek or pursue any
remedy or any claim in relation
to the specified tax which may
otherwise be available to it under
any law or under an agreement
with any country.
A firm availing of the offer
would have to pay the principal
tax amount within 30 days of the
designated authority determining the amount payable by the
declarant.
Also any amount paid in
pursuance of a declaration shall
not be refundable under any circumstances.
Announcing the one-time
scheme of Dispute Resolution for
companies which are facing tax
demand for retrospective
amendment to I-T Act, Jaitley
had in his Budget speech said:
“They can settle the case by paying only the tax arrears, in which
case liability of the interest and
penalty shall be waived.”
Sources
said
the
Government was of the view that
the arbitrations are not just time
consuming but were also costing
the government a lot besides getting India a bad name. The settlement scheme was proposed to
put an end to all of that.
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cleared changes in the GST
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Constitutional Amendment
Bill, dropping 1 per cent manufacturing tax and providing
guarantee to compensate states
for any revenue loss in the first
five years of rollout of the proposed indirect tax regime.
The Cabinet, headed by
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi, decided to include in the
Constitutional Amendment
Bill that any dispute between
states and the Centre will be
adjudicated by the GST
Council, which will have representation from both the
Centre and states.
With states on board and
the Cabinet approving the
amendments, the Government
is hopeful of passage of the
long-pending Goods and
Services Tax (GST) Bill in the
ongoing monsoon session of
Parliament, which ends on
August 12.
The GST Bill, with the
changes approved by the
Cabinet, could come up in the
Rajya Sabha as early as this
week, but certainly by next
week.
The changes approved by
the Cabinet are to the
Constitutional Amendment
Bill that was approved by the
Lok Sabha in May last year.
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n a move to attract more
overseas capital, the
IGovernment
on Wednesday
allowed a foreign company to
own up to 15 per cent in the
domestic stock or commodity exchanges as against 5 per
cent currently.
The decision regarding
this was taken at a Cabinet
meeting chaired by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi.
“The Cabinet has given its
approval for raising foreign
shareholding limit from 5 per
cent to 15 per cent in Indian
stock exchanges,” an official
spokesperson said in a tweet.
The Cabinet has also
cleared the proposal to allow
foreign portfolio investors to
acquire shares through initial
allotment in stock exchanges.
The move would help in
global competitiveness of
Indian stock exchanges by
adoption of the latest technology and global best practices, the spokesperson said.
The decision is aimed at
attracting more foreign inflows
in stock exchanges like BSE
and the National Stock
Exchange.
The approval is a followup to the announcement made
by Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley in his 2016 Budget
speech.
“Investment limit for foreign entities in Indian stock
exchanges will be enhanced
from 5 per cent to 15 per cent
on par with domestic institutions. This will enhance global competitiveness of Indian
stock exchanges and accelerate
adoption of best-in-class technology and global market practices,” he had said.” The Union
Cabinet has given its approval
for raisingforeign shareholding
limit from 5 per cent to 15 per
cent in Indian Stock Exchanges
for a stock exchange, depository, banking company, an
insurance company and a commodity derivative exchange,” an
official statement said.
The Cabinet has also
approved the proposal to allow
foreign portfolio investors to
acquire shares through initial
allotment, besides secondary
market, in the stock exchanges.
“The move will help in
enhancing global competitiveness of Indian stock exchanges
by accelerating/facilitating the
adoption of the latest technology and global best practices,
which will lead to overall
growth and development of the
Indian capital market,” it said.
Once the Rajya Sabha approves
the legislation, the amended
Bill will have to go back to the
Lok Sabha again for approval.
“The amendments to the
GST
Constitutional
Amendment Bill have been
cleared,” a top official said
after the meeting of the Union
Cabinet chaired by Modi.
The amendments were
taken up by the Cabinet after
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s
assurance to state finance ministers to include in the Bill the
mechanism of compensating
states for all the loss of revenue
for five years.
The Bill, in its present
form, provides that the Centre
will give 100 per cent compensation to states for first
three years, 75 per cent and 50
per cent for the next two years.
However, the Select
Committee of the Rajya Sabha
had in its report recommended 100 per cent compensation
for probable loss of revenue for
five years.
As per the amendments,
the Centre will now constitutionally guarantee states any
loss of revenue from the GST
subsuming all indirect taxes,
including VAT, in the first five
years of introduction.
By doing away with the 1
per cent inter-state tax over
and above the GST rate, the
Government has met one of
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largest mor tgage player
HDFC Ltd on Wednesday
reported 26.86 per cent
increase in consolidated net
profit at C2,796.92 crore
helped by receipts from stake
sale in its general insurance
arm.
Its consolidated net profit during the April-June quarter of the previous fiscal
stood at C2,204.29 crore.
HDFC Ltd’s total income
(rpt) total income rose to
C13,516.99 crore for the first
quarter ended June 30, 201617 as against C11,397.29 crore
in the year-ago period.
During the quarter under
review, company sold 12.33
crore shares in HDFC Ergo
General Insurance to Ergo
International Ag, resulting
in pre tax gain of C871.35
crore.
HDFC Ltd scrips closed
1.48 per cent up at C1,387.85
on BSE.
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built a broad consensus with
the states that the rate should
not be mentioned in the
Constitution and instead could
figure in GST law.
It was also assured that the
tax rate in the new regime,
which is to be decided by the
GST Council, will be less than
what it is at present.
“The amendments will
pave the way for political consensus and early passage of the
Bill in the monsoon session,”
EY National Leader (indirect
tax)
Harishanker
Subramaniam said.
In the new regime, there
will be one Central GST or CGST and State GST or S-GST.
States levy sales tax or VAT on
goods sold within their jurisdiction and get a Central Sales
Tax (CST) on sales made outside their territories.
This CST will no longer be
available in the new regime and
a 1 per cent additional tax was
proposed to make up for that.
GST being a constitutional amendment requires to be
passed by Parliament with twothirds majority and after that,
50 per cent of state assemblies
will have to pass the legislation.
Thereafter, the Lok Sabha
and the Rajya Sabha will have
to pass the central GST Bill and
the states have to pass their own
GST Bills.
After the legislative proce-
dure gets over, the GST
Council, which will be the
decision-making body on all
issues, including rates of the
new tax, will come into play.
The Council will be
chaired by Union Finance
Minister, but Centre’s voting
share will be one-third and all
decisions of the council would
be taken by 75 per cent majority.
Terming compensation
guarantee as a very big development, Chairman of the
Empowered Committee of
State Finance Ministers Amit
Mitra had yesterday said
appropriate wordings on compensation would give confidence to the states regarding
the Centre’s intention.
“I cannot go into details of
the wordings, I can only give
you spirit of it. States are satisfied that in the constitutional
amendment, the wording (will
be provided) by which states
will be guaranteed five years of
compensation if there is any
loss of revenue,” Mitra said.
The GST Bill, which
intends to convert 29 states into
a single market through a new
indirect tax regime, was earlier planned to be introduced
from April 1 this year, but the
deadline was missed as the legislation to roll it out remains in
limbo in the Opposition-dominated Rajya Sabha.
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the three key demands over
which Opposition Congress
has been blocking the Bill in
the Upper House.
The other demands of
including GST rate in the
statute and a Supreme Court
judge-headed dispute resolution body has not been accepted. It remains to be seen if
meeting of its demands
halfway will persuade the
Congress to support the legislation.
There is a talk of mentioning the GST rate in one of
the two supporting legislations that need to be passed
after the Constitution is
amended, a move that may
pacify the Congress. The government plans to roll out GST
by April 1, 2017, and is working overtime to build consensus to get the Bill passed in the
ongoing session.
With the Congress
demand of getting GST rate
capped in the Bill delaying its
passage, the Centre yesterday
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about 500 pilots and over 1,500
cabin crew in next two to three
years to meet the requirement as
the fleet size is expected to
increase considerably, a senior
official has said.
“We are planning to have 700
more pilots in the next two to
three years keeping in view the
fleet expansion. From last August
till now, we have already recruited 250 pilots. So about 500 more
pilots we are going to recruit.
Advertisement for 400 pilots has
already been floated,” AI’s General
Manager (Operations) N
Sivaramakirshnan told the news
agency.
Last year, Air India had
sought to recruit 200 trainee
pilots (senior trainee pilot license
holders who come with A320
endorsement). However, it could
select only 78. Now all those
pilots are flying on various routes,
he said.
Nearly 150 pilots are expected to complete their training by
December this year.
According to him, the present strength of pilots is 858 and
the beleaguered airlines lost
about 100 pilots during the last
two years.
“We have plans to have cabin
crew of 3,000 personnel. Besides
the existing number, we are
planning to take 1,500 more in
the next two to three years,” he
said.
The official said Air India
envisaged fleet expansion of
another 100 aircraft in the next
four years’ time.
On training facilities for
pilots, the official said currently
they have three simulators in
Hyderabad and four in Mumbai.
The simulators in Hyderabad
belong to A320 while the four in
Mumbai belong to Boeing family.
“We are planning to order
one more simulator for training
on ATR aircraft in Hyderabad.
RFI (Request for Information) has
already been floated. By January
next year we hope that it would
be operational,” he said,
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announced a 33 per cent
Y
rise in June quarter net profit
at C732 crore on higher noninterest income, even as bad
loans spiked, and announced
that it will enter asset management business early next
fiscal.
Like peers HDFC Bank
and Axis Bank, the mid-sized
private lender of late has started feeling the heat on the asset
quality front, with its gross
non-performing assets jumping to 0.79 per cent, from 0.46
per cent.
Accordingly, its provisions
more than doubled to C206
crore, but CEO and MD Rana
Kapoor said a bulk of it was
due to loanbook growth. Its
slippages rose C300 crore during the quarter and came from
iron and steel, electricity and
engineering, procurement and
construction space.
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drops in the last three and a half
years, with Bharti Airtel and
Vodafone facing the maximum
number of grievances on the
issue. Telecom Minister Manoj
Sinha shared data on complaints received by sector regulator Trai, which show that 906
grievances related to call drops
have been made since 2013.
Around 87 per cent of this
were made in 2015 and till
June-end 2016. While 450
complaints were received by
the Telecom Regulator y
Authorityof India in 2015, 338
have been made till June 2016.
In 2015, Vodafone received
129 call drop complaints and
Airtel 120. It is followed by
Reliance Communications
(58), Idea Cellular (43), BSNL
(40), Aircel (22), Tata
Teleservices (13), MTS (8),
Telenor (7) and Videocon (3).
NEW DELHI: State-owned
Oil and Natural Gas Corp
(ONGC) and Hindustan
Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL)
may sell a part of their stake in
Mangalore Refiner y and
Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) to
comply with regulations on
minimum public holding.
Public shareholding in the
Mangalore-based refiner is
currently just 11.42 per cent,
not even half of the mandatory 25 per cent public float
required by the Securities and
Exchange Board of India
(SEBI) for listed companies.
PSUs have been asked by
SEBI to comply with the public shareholding requirement
by August next year. The Board
of MRPL will meet on August
1 for approval options to raise
public shareholding up to 25
per cent as per SEBI directive,
senior official said.
The options before the
board is either the promoters
divest a part of their share-
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blocks and 2G spectrum
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was ‘tampered with’ leading to
ineligible people becoming beneficiaries and this has been
‘universally accepted’, Central
Vigilance Commissioner KV
Chowdary said today on the
alleged scams under the UPA.
“If we look at two most
controversial matters of recent
times -- allocation of spectrum
and allocation of coal, as of
today there has not been a conclusive proof of X giving money
to Y. The matter is under trial.
What has been universally
accepted is that the process was
tampered with,” he said at a
function. Later talking to PTI,
Chowdary said the tampered
processes led to ‘ineligible people getting the allocation and
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CBI is looking into allegations of corruption in allocation
of second generation (2G) spectrum to telecom companies,
besides coal block allocation.
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conditions are laid down prop-
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considering a procedure
where firms may be penalised
for qualitative and quantitative
discrepancy in supplies of goods
and services.
Addressing an event here on
Wednesday, Air Vice Marshal M
Baladitya said there is a need to
further improve upon arbitration and dispute resolution consultancy mechanism being followed by the force.
“We are very strongly considering a green-channel procedure for dealing with established vendors and are considering very seriously with the
government for doing away
with any kind of inspection in
between, it will only be self-certification and there would be a
penalty clause in case there is a
qualitative or quantitative discrepancy in the supplies,” he
said.
This will be a major step in
ensuring ease of doing business
and speeding up the procurement process, Baladitya said.
Stressing upon the need to
increase the confidence level in
the field, he said that it will not
only help in getting better value
for money but the kind of infrastructure India has in various
fields can help in getting much
better products and achieve
Government’s dream of Make in
India in a big way.
The officer was speaking
during ‘10th public procurement
summit on enhancing transparency, efficiency and accountability’, organised by industry
body Assocham. Baladitya said
that blacklisting of firm is a ‘very
very extreme step. “Rather than
you take the step of blacklisting,
we need to come out with a bet-
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firm in a more organised manner,” he said.
Baladitya said that the Air
Force for the first time has
decided to conduct "reverse
auction" for procurement of
goods and services through tendering to help country save
money. In this kind of auction,
the role of a buyer and seller is
reversed with the primary objective to compete purchase prices
downwards. Several bidders participate in it to offer competitive
price.
The Air Force does procurement worth about Rs 2,000
crore approximately in an year,
he said, adding that the amount
keep fluctuating. Baladitya said
that Air Force has moved
towards e-procurement mode
from late last year for select categories of goods and services
that has no relation with the
country's security.
He said so far this year 27
tenders have been floated
through online mode and there
has been saving of 20 per cent
administrative week time. “We
have migrated to e-tendering for
foreign procurements from July
1,” the officer said. Baladitya
said there is a need to have consultancy services for three things-legal, arbitration and dispute
resolution mechanism.
erly in the tender documents
and tendering processes are
transparent. He was speaking at
the '10th public procurement
summit on enhancing transparency, efficiency and
accountability', organised by
industry body Assocham.
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Product (GDP), which is about
Rs 25 lakh crore, comes out of
tendering of goods and services
being procured by the
Government.
The CVC noted that tendering processes in a few cases
take one to three years which
need to be cut down. Chowdary
said there was a need to apply
certain checks on the issue of L1 or a lowest bidder in any tendering process. “By and large,
it is believed that L-1 is the best.
But there may be several other
issues,” he said, suggesting that
the authorities need to look at
other aspects of this provision.
Chowdary said that the
Commission is in the process
of finalising a discussion paper
to look into all the aspects of
tendering and recommend a
comprehensive guidelines.
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banks are: Bank of Baroda (C5
crore), Punjab National Bank
(C3 crore), Syndicate Bank (C3
crore), UCO Bank (C2 crore),
HDFC Bank (C2 crore),
Allahabad Bank (C2 crore),
Canara Bank (C2 crore),
IndusInd Bank (C2 crore), SBBJ
(C2 crore), Bank of India (C1
crore), Corporation Bank (C1
crore), RBL Bank (C1 crore) and
SBM (C1 crore).
The RBI further said that
eight other banks -- Axis Bank,
Federal Bank, ICICI Bank,
Kotak Mahindra Bank, OBC,
Standard Chartered Bank, SBI
and Union Bank of India -- have
been ‘advised to put in place
appropriate measures and
review them from time to time
to ensure strict compliance with
KYC requirements and FEMA
provisions on an ongoing basis’.
“In respect of eight other
banks. Based on written and
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khadi industry, Indian Railways
and Air India are being encouraged to use products made up of
the fabrics in trains and aeroplanes even as the KVIC’s sales
grew 24 per cent in 2015-16,
Parliament was on Wednesday
informed.
“Yes Sir. Indian Railways
and Air India are being encouraged to use khadi fabrics in
order to promote Khadi industries,” Minister of State in the
MSME Ministry Giriraj Singh
said in a written reply in RS to a
query on whether the Govt is taking any steps to promote khadi in
these two entities. The Minister
informed that orders worth
C77.67 crore were received from
Indian Railways in 2015-16
whereas those received from Air
India were of C8.29 lakh. PTI
NEW DELHI: Orphans who
are disabled or suffer from
‘disorder of mind’ will continue to get pension under
Employees’ Pension Scheme
even after attaining the age of
25 years.
“Labour Ministry has notified
the amendment in the scheme to
extend the orphan pension
beyond the age of 25 years in case
they are suffering from disorder
of mind or physically crippled or
disabled,” a senior official told PTI.
The official said: “The
Employee Provident Fund
Organisation (EPFO) headquarters has already issued an order in
this regard to its over 120 regional offices to implement the scheme
as per new provision.” As per the
Employees' Pension Scheme 1995
India in May, had discussed issues including manufacturing and setting up retail stores in the country with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “On a
personal note, during the past quarter I visited
China and India, and I am very encouraged about
our growth prospects in those countries," he said.
Recently the government issued new norms
allowing single-brand retail trading and exemption from local sourcing for 'state-of-the-art'
and "cutting edge" technology with a waiver for
three years, and the option to extend it for five
years. Sources had said Apple may have to submit a fresh application for the same. The
Cupertino-based tech giant had yesterday
reported its revenues rising to $ 42.4 billion in
the third quarter, driven by markets including
India, Russia, Brazil, Turkey and Canada. PTI
hinese smartphone maker
Xiaomi on Wednesday
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rolled out its first laptop, testing
the waters in a market that has
been flooded with premium
tablets. The laptop Mi Notebook
Air, runs on Microsoft's
Windows 10 operating system,
sells for 4,999 yuan (around
$749 ) for a 13.3-inch display.
A slimmed-down version
for office use is also available for
3,499 yuan. The laptop is priced
at a discount compared to many
models with similar specifications from leading brands such
as Lenovo, Dell, HP and Apple.
It is the Beijing-based firm's
latest attempt to press ahead with
its strategy of releasing topspec devices at low prices.
“Xiaomi will continue to roll out
budget devices with key components in the same league as
those on premium devices,”
Xiaomi co-founder Lei Jun said
during product launch in
Beijing.
The company also launched
a new phone under its budget
smartphone line RedMi. The
RedMi Pro is powered by
MediaTeK's flagship processor
Helio X25 and sells for between
1,499 and 1,999 yuan depending
on specifications. Xiaomi's chief
domestic rival, Huawei, rolled
out a tablet computer with
Windows 10 and a detachable
keyboard earlier this year.
Global PC shipments have
declined for seven consecutive
quarters as of the second quarter this year, according to tech
in the internal control systems,
management oversight and violation of certain regulatory
guidelines.
The weakness was revealed
in non-adherence to KYC
requirements like customer
identification and risk categorisation, instructions on monitoring of transactions in customer accounts and the guidelines issued under the FEMA
provisions. Based on the findings, the Reserve Bank had
issued a show-cause notice to 21
banks.
The Central Bank came to
the conclusion that ‘some of the
violations of serious nature
were substantiated’ and warranted imposition of monetary
penalty on 13 banks, as the failure on the part of these banks
to take timely remedial measures had aggravated the seriousness of the contraventions.
oral submissions, it was decided to advise them to put in place
appropriate measures and
review the same from time to
time to ensure strict adherence
to KYC/AML requirements as
well as FEMA provisions on an
ongoing basis,” the RBI said.
It, however, added that ‘this
action’ is based on deficiencies
in regulatory compliance and ‘is
not intended to pronounce
upon the validity of any transaction or agreement entered
into by the bank and its customers’. The scrutiny in the 21
banks examined the alleged
irregularities in opening and
monitoring of accounts including violations under FEMA
provisions. The RBI also looked
into the effectiveness of systems
and processes for implementation of KYC norms/AML standards. The findings, the apex
bank said, revealed weaknesses
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partners in MRPL with 37.4
per cent stake each; the
remaining 25.2 per cent was
with the public. Post ONGCsponsored restructuring of the
then loss-making MRPL,
HPCL’s stake fell to 16.9 per
cent.
Lenders to MRPL also
agreed
to
the
Debt
Restructuring Package (DRP)
proposed by ONGC, which
included conversion up to Rs
365 crore of their loans into
equity. This led to lenders holding about 20.8 per cent in
MRPL while public holding
came down to 11.3 per cent.
Subsequently, ONGC
acquired equity allotted to the
lenders pursuant to DRP raising
its holding in MRPL to 71.62
per cent. The official said MRPL
board on August 1 will also consider raising up to C3,000 crore
as part of capex plans through
issuance of non-convertible
debentures or bonds.
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Ilapses,
FEMA violations and KYC
the RBI has imposed
C27-crore penalty on 13 public
and private sector banks, including PNB and HDFC Bank,
while asking eight others including SBI and ICICI Bank to
ensure strict compliance with
guidelines.
On the basis of inputs
received from a public sector
bank, the Reserve Bank had
undertaken a scrutiny on
advance import remittances in
21 banks in October and
November 2015.
In a statement issued on
Wednesday, the RBI said it has
imposed monetary penalty on
13 banks for ‘violation of regulatory directions/instructions/guidelines, among other
things, on KYC norms’. These
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run by EPFO, the monthly children pension is payable until
they attains the age of 25 years.
EPFO decision is significant in
view of its implementation of minimum monthly pension of C1,000
from September 1, 2014. It had
modified the scheme which provides for the minimum monthly
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C250 for children. Similarly the
minimum pension entitlement for
orphans has was fixed at C750 per
month under the scheme.
The official said: “The minimum orphan pension under
the scheme is C750 per month.
But there could be case where
amount will be higher depending on the contribution made
by the subscribers.”
He further said that ‘though
the minimum monthly entitlement for orphans under the
scheme is C750, it can be
increased by Government
depending upon the contribution made in future and increase
in cost of living index’. EPFO has
around 5 million pensioners and
about 4 crore subscribers. PTI
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NEW DELHI: Apple CEO Tim Cook has said
the tech giant is ‘looking forward’ to setting up
retail stores in India to tap into the booming
smartphone market here. “India is now one of our
fastest growing markets. In the first three quarters of this fiscal year, our iPhone sales in India
were up 51 per cent year-on-year,” Apple CEO
Tim Cook said on an investor call.
He added the company has announced setting up of a design and development accelerator
to support Indian developers creating innovative
applications for iOS and opened a new office in
Hyderabad to accelerate maps development.
“We're looking forward to opening retail
stores in India down the road, and we see huge
potential for that vibrant country,” he said without disclosing further details. Cook, who visited
holding through an offer for
sale (OFS) or MRPL issues
fresh shares through a public
offer, he said.
ONGC currently holds
71.63 per cent stake in MRPL
while HPCL has 16.96 per
cent. As much as 23.2 crore
shares will have to be sold
through on OFS if the two promoters were to sell part of their
stake. The offer size will be
much larger if the company
decides to go for an OFS by
issuing fresh shares, he said.
Even in case of fresh
shares, shareholding of the
two promoters, who currently
between them hold 88.58 per
cent of MRPL, will come
down. ONGC had in 2003
bought Aditya Birla Group’s
37.4 per cent stake in MRPL
for C59.43 crore at C2 a share
and infused additional C600
crore capital. The buyout and
additional capital infusion
raised its stake to 51 per cent.
Originally, HPCL and
consultancy Gartner.
Lenovo, the world's top PC
maker, reported a drop in shipments of 2.2 per cent in the second quarter, while Apple, ranked
fifth, posted a 4.9-per cent drop
in the same period.
On the Chinese mainland,
shipments slid 6.4 per cent as a
slowing economy bit into
demand for PCs by both businesses and consumers, Gartner
said. Analysts have attributed
part of the decline in the PC
market to a shift to tablet computers that can handle productivity needs. Devices such as the
Microsoft Surface tablet and
Apple's iPad Pro have sought to
replace PCs for consumers who
seek a combination of productivity and mobility, state-run
Xinhua news agency reported.
NEW DELHI: Not a single
migration has taken place yet
from EPF pension plan to NPS
even after a year of government
allowing the one-time switch as
modalities are yet to be worked
out, PFRDA chairman said on
Wednesday. The Finance
Ministry has made a statement
last year allowing one time change
from EPF to NPS. But the modalities are still to be worked out,
Pension Fund Regulatory and
Development Authority of India
(PFRDA) Chairman Hemant G
Contractor told PTI.
“We expect some clarity by
Government. Last year it had said
that they will permit switch from
Employees Provident Fund (EPF)
to National Pension System (NPS).
But how that is going to happen is
something which has not been
clearly spelt out. So that's the clarity that we are awaiting from the
Government,” Contractor said.
On whether any such switch
has happened so far, Contractor
said: “Nothing has happened so far,
no migration has happened.” In the
proposed amendment made by
Government last year, employees
have been given one time option
to join NPS in lieu of EPF, which
is run by retirement fund body
EPFO. NPS is run by PFRDA.PTI
NEW DELHI: E-commerce in
India is expected to see a significant uptrend in the coming days
and could lend a helping hand to
the country's job landscape, which
needs as many as 80 million new
jobs in the next decade, says a
report. “Already employing just
under a million Indians, e-commerce could be a new source of service sector jobs,” global financial
services major HSBC has said.
Young population, rapid
smartphone adoption and a digital payments revolution could
support the rise of e-commerce.
Moreover, India is lagging
behind China by more than
seven years, in terms of Internet
penetration and online purchases, e-commerce could experience a similar takeoff. PTI
NEW DELHI: New investments
in India’s auto sector have stopped
in the last 6 months in view of
directions by courts and tribunals to ban big diesel engine
vehicles, Parliament was
informed on Wednesday.
It seems the auto industry is skeptical on the sustenance of the existing policies
of the Government in the light
of the direction of High Courts
and Tribunals, Minister of
State Heavy Industries and Public
Enterprises Babul Supriyo said in a
written rely in the Rajya Sabha.
“Decisions on new investment in the
entire automotive sectors across
the country has certainly stopped for
the last six months as it seems auto
industry is skeptical on the sustenance of the existing policies of the
Government in the light of the recent
direction by Hon'ble Courts and
Tribunals,” the Minister said.
He said the Department of
heavy Industries had submitted
an affidavit to the Supreme Court,
which had on December 16,
2015 banned sale and registration of new diesel vehicles of engine capacity of
more than 2,000 cc, to modify the order.
The Minister further
said the department had also
submitted to the apex court that
BS IV emission norms in the
most stringent norms in the
country and to ban a category of
vehicle which is meting the
stringent emission regulations
and all other laws and regulations
of the country is unjustified. PTI
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person of Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi, the United
States may finally be catching
up by trying to put its first
woman in the White House
Oval Office as the Democratic
Party took the first concrete
step on Tuesday by nominating
Hillary Clinton as its nominee
for the 2016 presidential race.
American media outlets
went gushing with stories of
Clinton making history as the
country’s first-ever female presidential nominee of a major
political party, while the candidate herself emerged in a
video by cracking a glass ceiling, literally and figuratively,
amid scenes of wild jubilation
at the party convention in
Philadelphia.
“What an incredible honour that you have given me,
and I can’t believe we just put
the biggest crack in that glass
ceiling yet,” Clinton said via
satellite from New York while
a video montage showed the
faces of all 44 male presidents
so far in the 228-year history of
American elections. She will be
delivering her formal address of
acceptance on Thursday night.
“This is really your victory. This is really your night. If
there are any little girls out
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watch, let me just say I may
become the first woman
President. But one of you is
next,” Clinton remarked as celebrations broke out on the
convention floor.
At hand for the occasion
was her husband and America’s
42nd President, Bill Clinton,
who took the podium and
embarked on a sentimental
journey, beginning with the
couple’s courtship as students
at Yale in 1971 and hailing
Hillary as “the best darn
change-maker I’ve ever met in
my entire life”. Clearly, that was
meant to trash Republican rival
Donald Trump’s depiction of
her wife as “Secretary of Status
Quo”.
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to “humanise” his wife and project her “personable” qualities
at a time when polls point to
her high unfavourables, Bill
Clinton said: “Hillar y is
uniquely qualified to seize the
opportunities and reduce the
risks we face….You could drop
her into any trouble spot, pick
one, come back in a month and
somehow, some way she will
have made it better. That is just
who she is.”
The celebrations on the
convention floor were briefly
marred by a protest walk-out
from a section of supporters of
Bernie Sanders, not reconciled
to Clinton’s nomination that
was preceded by a formal roll
call of votes. Outside the convention venue that had been
turned into a well-protected
fortress, a large number of
Sanders supporters and an
assortment of other groups
kept up their protests.
Having already conceded
defeat and endorsed Clinton,
Sanders himself asked convention officials to suspend the
process and nominate his erstwhile rival by acclamation. In
the roll call, Clinton secured
2,842 delegates as against
Sanders’ 1,865 delegates.
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by the ISIS group killed at
least 44 people and wounded
dozens on Wednesday in the
Kurdish-majority Syrian city of
Qamishli.
It was the largest and deadliest attack to hit the city since
the beginning of Syria's conflict
in March 2011.
Syrian state media gave a
toll of 44 dead and 140 injured
in the bombing, which hit a
western district of the city
where several local Kurdish
ministries are located.
The Britain-based Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights
monitor gave a toll of 48 dead,
adding that children and
women were among those
killed.
Kurdish officials said the
attack was carried out by a suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden truck.
The blast was initially
described as a double bombing,
but local officials and the
Observatory said the bomb had
detonated a nearby fuel container, leading to reports of a
second explosion.
One man running along the
streets was completely covered
in blood, his shirt drenched red.
He was gripping the arm of
a small boy whose face was grey
and red with blood and dust.
They ran past a hysterical
woman who was crying and
screaming, her clothes torn. A
girl and boy stood next to her,
apparently in shock.
Children could be heard
screaming as smoke rose from
small fires that continued to
burn amongst the rubble.
Hindu youth was on
Wednesday shot dead as
communal tension gripped a
district in Pakistan's Sindh
province following alleged desecration of a holy book by a
man from the minority community who was arrested for
blasphemy.
Tension ran high in
Mehran Samejo village in
Ghotki district after a Hindu
man, Amar Lal, who was said
to be mentally unstable,
allegedly desecrated a holy
book yesterday.
According to reports,
Amar, who has been arrested,
was a drug addict and was living in a mosque after converting to Islam a few months ago.
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religious leaders along with
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where two ISIS militants
stormed a church and killed
an 84-year-old priest in
Normandy, France, on
Tuesday, has rattled the
nerves of millions in the
Europe and beyond, reinforcing the impression that
the region was in the cross
hair of terrorists.
The police unit specialising in hostage situations
responded quickly after
receiving a call from an
escaped nun.
The terrorists were
gunned down by the police as
they tried to flee the church,
Xinhua news agency reported.
Despite low number of
casualties, the attack still
shocked France and the
Europe as it hit a small town
far from bustling cities like
Paris and Nice, prompting
fears that terrorists have managed to penetrate deeper into
the region.
One of the attackers was
identified as 19-year-old Adel
Karmic, arrested twice in
2015 for trying to travel to
Syria using false identity card,
Paris Prosecutor Francois
Molins said.
Afterward, he was under
house arrest and made to
wear an electronic tag allowing the police to trace him.
However, the device was
deactivated for a few hours
every morning, Molins said.
The identification of the
second attacker was not known
yet, the prosecutor said.
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arrested 52 people suspected
of being part of a cell linked
to the ISIS group.
A Ministry statement on
Wednesday said the arrests
were made July 19, and represented the largest group
detained among numerous
suspected cells dismantled in
recent years.
The statement says suspects were from throughout
the country and were planning attacks on various sites
President
Francois
Hollande rushed to the scene
shortly after the incident. He
condemned the attack as a
"heinous crime" and pledged
to use all means in the war
against terrorism.
Hollande also called for
national unity, saying what
these terrorists want was to
divide the nation.
The President earlier this
month announced that he
would send artillery to Iraq to
reinforce local forces battling
the ISIS.
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Islamabad: Describing
Kashmir as "unfinished agenda" of the United
Nations, Pakistan
Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif on Wednesday
vowed to raise the
issue at every international platform and
provide all sort of support to Kashmiris.
Sharif made the remarks
here while talking to newly
elected lawmakers of Pakistanoccupied Kashmir (PoK) after
his party Pakistan
Muslim
L e ague-Nawaz
(PML-N) won majority seats in July 21
elections to from the
new government.
"The issue of
Kashmir is unfinished
agenda of the UN and Pakistan
would continue to support the
several agitated people took to
streets.
During a protest, some
men riding on motorbikes fired
at two Hindu youths who were
sitting outside a tea stall in
Mirpur Mathelo area.
In the attack, one of the
youths, Dewan Sateesh Kumar,
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people of Kashmir under UN
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this issue at every international
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they enjoy full freedom" and
vowed to support people of
Kashmir.
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inside and outside Morocco,
including music festivals. No
further information was provided about the individuals.
Authorities say they
seized weapons, manuals
describing how to make
explosives and chemical
weapons, books about suicide
bombings, and ISIS group
flags.
The statement says the
investigation established links
between the suspects and
"jehadis in Tindouf and the
Sahel," a reference to refugee
camps in southern Algeria
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John Kerry on Wednesday
urged China and the Philippines
to exercise restraint and reduce
tensions over their maritime
dispute in the South China Sea.
He was speaking during a oneday visit to the Philippines.
Kerry, in a joint press conference with Philippines Foreign
Minister Perfecto Yasay, praised
the Government's measured
response to the verdict by the
Permanent Court of Arbitration
at The Hague, that favoured
Manila in its territorial spat with
Beijing. Kerry, who is expected
to meet the country's new president Rodrigo Duterte, said the
Philippines' responsible and
restrained response to the PCA
ruling was very significant.
The Beijing-Manila conflict culminated on July 12
when the PCA verdict came
out in favour of the latter;
while China refused to accept
the verdict, the Philippines
welcomed it but called for
restraint and sobriety. IANS
17, was killed while another
was critically injured, Senior
Superintendent of Police (SSP)
Masood Ahmed Bangash said.
Satesh was a businessman.
Local leaders of the Hindu
community have demanded
protection of their lives and
properties in the wake of the
tensions.
Bangash said that police
with the help of Rangers are
trying to diffuse the tense situation.
According to reports, all
towns of the Ghotki district
remained closed today.
Leaders of local religious
parties have demanded severe
punishment for Amar, who
has been booked for blasphemy and shifted to an undisclosed location by police.
Sindh has the biggest population of Hindus in Pakistan.
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Wednesday launched a hunt for
the survivor of a police raid on
an extremist hideout which
killed nine suspected Islamists
who claimed to belong to the
Islamic State group.
Investigators hope the
escaped extremist and another man who was arrested during the major gunfight in
Dhaka yesterday will shed light
on the group's proclaimed ties
with the ISIS.
"We've alerted all checkpoints in the capital in a bid to
arrest him (the escapee),"
deputy commissioner of Dhaka
Metropolitan Police, Masud
Ahmed said.
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Kathmandu: Nepal's Maoist
party led by Prachanda on
Wednesday decided to initiate discussions and dialogue
with all political parties,
including the Madhesis, having representation in the
Parliament to form a national consensus Government.
The central committee
meeting of the CPN-Maoist
Centre took a decision to initiate dialogue with all political
parties including the agitating
Madhesi parties and call them to
join the national consensus
Government being formed
under the leadership of Maoist
chairman Prachanda, according
to the party sources.
PTI
Rome: Italian authorities have
deported on national security
grounds a radical Moroccan
cleric who called one of his
daughters Jehad.
Mohammed Madad was
collected by police from his
home in the northeast town of
Noventa Vicentina and put on a
flight for Morocco from Rome's
main airport late Tuesday.
Madad, a 52-year-old father
of four, was banned from reentering Italy for the next 15
years. The firebrand cleric's sermons became increasingly violent and anti-Western with the
aim of indoctrinating youngsters
with radical Salafite ideology,
according to anti-terrorism
investigators.
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Mukherjee has been comfortable in his skin ever
since he took to the drawing
board, rescuing our designs
and textile traditions and making them contemporary enough
for us to strut about in. Today
brand Sabaysachi is a most
sought after lifestyle benchmark, be it sari, jacket, bedspreads or jewellery. Little wonder then that he is the most
equipped to talk about Make in
India. As he said, “The most
important thing is to address
your social and cultural roots
because if you want to create a
global identity, the first
identity that you have to
create is nationalism.
Make in India can never
be successful if Indians
don’t understand the
importance of being
Indian today. If India
paid as much attention
to its social and cultural roots rather than just
religion, it would be a
different country. The
day India starts organising itself; China will
become a distant
cousin.”
“Indian traditional
handicrafts and handmade textiles represent the
country’s unique cultural
mosaic and identity to the
world. Our rich heritage supported by the right policies
could provide economic potential for women and fashion
designers at all levels and across
all sectors. India has everything
it can give to the world,” said
Mukherjee.
He was speaking at the
FICCI Ladies Organisation
(FLO) discussion Make in
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boy at the age of four to now being
a regular 14 - year - old student at DAV
Public school, Bhubaneswar, this is
Budhia Singh for you all. The four - year
- old Budhia burst into the limelight in
2006 and entered the Limca Book of
Records by running the whole of 65 km
from Puri to Bhubaneswar. While
Budhia became a legend, his coach
Biranchi Das became the eye of a controversy as he was accused of exploiting the child for money and recognition.
The film Budhia Singh - Born to Run
is not just another sports biopic.Was
Biranchi ambitious or altruistic? An
answer that veteran actor Manoj
Bajpayee attempts in the film. “I try to
do films with subjects that can touch the
audience. Subjects which no one has
ever heard about or experienced,” said
Bajpayee.
The film is a lot more than just
about Budhia who comes from a challenged background and finds support
from his coach, Biranchi. It’s also about
how all of this turns into a tragedy
which makes it a story that deserves to
be heard.
“About nine years ago, I followed
Budhia Singh and Biranchi Das’s story
completely. I used to surf all news channels just to be updated with this. Many
opinions were formed about Biranchi
Das. However, according to me,
Biranchi Das was someone who was
least understood by everyone,” shared
the actor.
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said, “India is an innovative society and this was demonstrated
by the fact that over 1,500
international companies had
set up global innovation centers in India. It is the youngest
start-up nation with most of
the founder women and
young entrepreneurs below 35
years.” Encouraging women,
he said, “Women entrepreneurs hold the key to achieve
double-digit growth rate in
the country.”
“Worldwide, women contribute to 40 per cent to GDP
while in India their contribution
is 17 per cent so. If women’s
share in India’s GDP rises to 40
per cent, the country would be
able to add $700 billion to its
GDP by 2025,” he said, and cited
references of former US
President Bill Clinton who in
one of the speeches said, “The
best thing that has happened
to my life and that will happen to America is Hillary
Clinton.”
The key highlight of the
interactive session was recognition of women achievers
from the Indian fashion
industry who have been rallying behind the cause of handmade textiles. The list of
awardees had eminent designer Asma Hussain for skilling
India and reviving legacy of
Awadh, Choti Tekam from
Madhya Pradesh for revitalising
the Gond form of tribal art and
Anavila Misra for innovative
designs and popularising the
linen saree.
India: Handmade in India.
Explaining the event Vinita
Bimbhet, President, FLO said,
“Handlooms and handmade
textiles are sub-sectors which
have achieved its recognition
and glory in the internal arena.
Harnessing of skills, design
intervention and access to credit will play a big role in forging
the global luxury industry
ahead. This is the only sector
that offers the promise and
potential to preserve and promote India’s cultural identity.
With more active promotion,
additional financing and tax
breaks for the handloom
industry, India could provide
the finest hand makers of the
world.”
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and long gone, the extensive, dreadful winters in Westeros is just around the corner.
Now that Season Seven is on its way,
Casey Bloys, President, HBO Programming,
has announced that Game of Thrones will
begin shooting the season later this summer.
Production of the seven - episode seventh season will be based in Northern Ireland, while
additional portions will be filmed in Spain and
Iceland, with debut slated for summer 2017
on HBO internationally and Star World
Premiere HD in India.
“Now that winter has arrived on Games
of Thrones, executive producers David Benioff
and D.B. Weiss felt that the storylines of the
next season would be better served by starting production a little later than usual, when
the weather is changing,” said Bloys. “Instead
of the show’s traditional spring debut, we’re
moving the debut to summer to accommodate the shooting schedule.”
With that being said, more details about
the show have been revealed. The Season
Seven directors will include Mark Mylod,
Jeremy Podeswa, Matt Shakman and Alan
Taylor. Locations for shooting in Spain will
include Sevilla, Caceres, Almodovar del Rio,
Santiponce, Zumaia and Bermeo. Game of
Thrones has received 23 Primetime Emmy®
nominations for its Season 6, the most of any
nominee for the third year in a row. For those
who missed the exciting last season can catch
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like Kaal, the tiger goes au natural
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in Mission Tiger, a movie based on the
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as a hot and sexy doctor on a new
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show Dr. Madhumati on Duty on Sab TV.
real life experiences of Indian Forest
Service Officer T R Bijulal, who turns
writer for the movie slated for release on
International Tiger Day. Beginning from
an incident of a man-eating tiger killing
a woman in the Surai Forest range in
Haldwani district to instances of poaching, the movie runs the gamut showing
what actually happens inside the forests
with a central theme of depicting mananimal conflict.
“The story is mine. During my
training period a woman was killed by
a man-eater tiger in Surai Forest range
in Khatima of Haldwani district. I have
also met a lot of forest officers,” shared
T R Bijulal. It is the only save tiger movie
based on real field experience in his own
words. He went forward, “Aiming to
increase awareness against poaching, the
movie depicts undercover operations
taken to stop poaching, the way the forest department does normally.”
Narrating incidents to his friend
Director Dipu Karunakaran during a
visit in Badrinath, Bijulal sparked the
interest of the Kerala - based director,
who then created the script and screenplay before beginning to make Mission
Tiger in various phases. Incorporating
shots with real animals and large
amounts of stock scenes, overall
“She has had a very sad past, hence she
is quite strict. Overall it’s a romantic comedy, where the boy goes to the hospital
to look for her and then the romance
flows in with a lot of comedy elements,”
she said. A show with a similar name, Dr
Bhanumati on Duty, starring Kavita
Kaushik was on air. But unhappy with
her role, she had quit midway. When
asked if she has ever watched the show
starring Kavita, Debina said, “I haven’t
watched the show, because honestly we
don’t get much time to watch television,
even though we work in the fraternity.”
She never spoke to Kavita before getting
into the show, because she thinks that Dr
Madhumati on duty is a show with a
totally different story line and concept.
When asked if people will compare
her and Kavita, she responded, “I am not
worried about comparisons as such
between us, as the characters are different, costumes are different, characterisation is different and even the show
names are different. Hence there isn’t
much of a connection, so there shouldn’t be much comparison either.”
Showing her excitement for the
new role, she said, “I am pretty much
excited for the show to be honest. As I
have always played a very serious character or an absolutely brainless type, but
shooting of the movie took place over a
period of two to three years, shot extensively in Nainital.
“Shooting a wildlife movie is not that
easy as you have to get permission from
various government departments, forest
departments and procure wildlife animal
clearance, and these permissions take
time,” explained Bijulal.
Monsoon Wedding fame Vijay Raaz
played the lead along with other actors
from National School of Drama, Delhi and
from the Kerala film fraternity. The entire
professional crew and shooting unit were
also assembled from Kerala, homeland of
both the director and Bijulal. “Maybe for
the first time the world will come to know
what mysterious operations are happening inside the forest,” expressed Bijulal.
Mission Tiger, having received blessings from Maharashtra Save the Tiger
brand ambassador Amitabh Bachchan, is
likely be released internationally in the first
week of October known as Wildlife Week
after dubbing in South Indian and
International languages.
followers and keep encouraging them.
A mentor helps you through all the
challenges and is there for you. But
sadly, a very few of us can afford to say
that we have a mentor,” answered
Bajpayee.
The reel life Biranchi Das says that
he is grateful to his mentors for spotting his talent and encouraging him to
be an actor. He says it was his acting
guru Barry John who believed in his
dreams and passion.
Budhia Singh was taken away by the
authorities from the care of his mentor
Biranchi when he was four years old.
For the past ten years, officials have
made him study and also run sprints.
Sadly, Budhia hasn’t excelled in either.
Worse still, Biranchi Das was murdered
in 2008.
Bajpayee recently met the real
Budhia Singh and tells us that his passion is still the same. “His dream is to
represent India in the 2020 Olympics.
He needs a Biranchi Das in his life, once
again,” said the actor.
“When the whole controversy of
Budhia and Biranchi took place over
nine years ago, I had told myself that if
I ever got the chance to play Biranchi
Das in a movie, I would do it without
giving it a second thought,” he said.
“Today, Budhia Singh is 14 years old
and if because of this film, he gets the
right guidance and help that he needs
to fulfill his dream of representing India
at the Olympics, that would definitely
be the biggest success for all of us,” said
Bajpayee.
this character has a balance of every element. From serious, to comic and
romantic, and looking beautiful of
course. Since it is a comedy show, it definitely won’t be like a daily soap, where
everybody is known to shed tears.”
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crisis management in the category of ‘Crisis Handling.’ and
2nd Prize at Corporate
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2016, held on July 21. Atul
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GM(CC) and Naresh Kumar,
Assistant GM(CC) received
the award from the Chairman
of SCOPE Nirmal Sinha in the
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Prime Minister Modi inaugurated
the museum on July 25, in the
presence of President Mukherjee,
Vice President Hamid Ansari and
other dignitaries. Mystical
Moments series narrates stories of
a seeker’s life on the canvas. With
meditation as center of her existence, this new series of paintings
are expression of Pratiksha’s own
journey as a seeker and is based on
the eternal truths embedded within the Sutras of our spiritual and
mystical tradition and the science
of meditation.
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vast range of subjects with lyrical
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Beyond Senses oil on canvas, touches upon the interesting aspect of
our five senses that we have been
told about since the childhood.
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ignore the inner world that exists
beyond senses. We do not need to
destroy the senses but create a balancing act by re-directing them to
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who with several heads
and eyes ensures
watch on people suffering and requires
immediate help. In
Buddhism, compassion or karuna is
described as a seed
that is born out of
deep meditation and its
flourishing is important to
attain Bodhisatva. Mahayana, a
school of Buddhism, which
emphasises Buddha’s life, focuses
on feeling and compassion.
Mahayana Sutra says a seeker Bhikshus and Bhikshunis - must
recite the mantra and bring forth
a heart of kindness and compassion for all living beings. “I believe
everything comes from that meditative energy. When I put the
brush to canvas, I’m total into it.
The outer world doesn’t matter to
me at all. I don’t need to see the
greenery, hills or sea to paint. I do
not find the process as technical
but liberating, a process of decoding the hidden treasure,” said
Pratiksha. The series has rich
offerings from Upanishad’s, wisdom from Gita and deep insights
of Kabir as well as vision of
Gautam Buddha. Mystical
Moments also has a set of three
paintings on Tantra - eternal
orgasm, Mahamudra and
Synchronicity- visually depicting
the sexual energy and its inner
journey that goes beyond the
mind. Pratiksha’s ten paintings
titled Divine Art were selected for
Soul of Asia section of 44th
International Film Festival of India.
IFFI was held from November 20
to November 30, 2013 in Goa. The
show was inaugurated by the
Hollywood star Susan Sarandon.
She said, “When I met Pratiksha,
I was delighted to see the breathtaking candour of her personality.”
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s part of the Observer Research Foundation’s
work on the Sustainable Development
A
Goals, a kickoff event of the ORF Health
Forum was held at the Taj Mahal Hotel. Giving
his inaugural address, Dr Bibek Debroy, member of the NITI Aayog, shared with the audience
how the national development agenda will aim
to improve Indian lives. The agenda will have
a 15-year vision, a seven year strategy, and a three
year action plan. Social sectors, physical connectivity, law and order and security are going
to be important components. Dr Debroy said
that while the plans are not final yet, NITI Aayog
will soon come out will a set of indicators to
monitor progress towards attaining the objectives. NITI Aayog will not benchmark the states
according to their health outcomes. Instead, the
states will be asked what they will achieve in
terms of district level health outcomes, and then
will be held to task based on actual performance.
However, the availability of data for some of these
indicators may be an issue. Silos within the
health sector lead to inefficiencies in the public health expenditure. These need to be overcome. The session had Sunil Nandraj, Advisor
(Clinical Establishment Act), MoHFW giving an
address on the possibilities of engaging the private sector for data through regulation. Dr
Krishna Kumar, Deputy Director General,
MoPIS, who represents India at the Inter-Agency
and Expert Group on SDG Indicators explained
the global processes, and methodological issues.
team from Hyderabad visited
New Delhi Municipal Council
A
on receiving positive inputs and
feedback from ASCI Team who
had visited in June 2016 to validate
the Swachh Bharat initiative carried
out by NDMC for consideration of
Swachh Bharat Urban Award by
ASCI in the category of “Solid
Waste Management”. Consequent
to the visit by ASCI team and positive inputs and feedback, Minister,
Government of Teleangana, KT
Rama Rao evinced keen interest in
getting a firsthand exposure to the
NDMC efforts, particularly in the
areas of sanitation, maintenance of
public toilets/community toilets,
parks, bus shelters and footpaths.
The team from Hyderabad
was led by Minister Ramachandru
Tejawat, Ram Mohan, Mayor,
Hyderabad, Janardhan Reddy, IAS,
Commissioner, GHMC, Chief
Engineer of GHMC, Professor S
Chary and Major Shiv Kiran from
ASCI.
The meeting with the team was
conducted in Council Room where
good practices for Smart City were
discussed. NDMC shared its best
practices on site in respect of
Sanitation, Road and PTUs maintenance, Multi Level Parking and
maintenance of Bus-Q-Shelters.
The Hyderabad team appreciated
the standard of sanitation in
NDMC area, modalities of e-governance included in newly
launched NDMC 311 App, maintenance of footpath and PTUs in
NDMC area. RFP and Concession
Agreement for Solid Waste
Management, Bus-Q-Shelters and
PTUs were shared with them. In
Hyderabad 1100 garbage collection
points have been converted in art
areas by painting and rangoli etc.
Narendra Modi and sought his
support for the budget for
Puducherry for the year 201617 as proposed by the Chief
Minister V Narayanasamy. She
called on the Hon’ble Union
Minister for Home Affairs,
Rajnath Singh who assured his
support on matters related to the
budget and security. Kiran Bedi
also met with Union Minister
for Railways, Suresh Prabhu to
discuss better rail connectivity
for Puducherry. Suresh Prabhu
assured his support for starting
the Main line Electrical Multiple
Units (MEMU) and Alc Chair
Car
services
between
Puducherry-Villupuram and
Puducherry-Chennai within
this year. Further, he said that he
would give expedited consideration for starting Shatabdi Train
Services between Puducherry
and Chennai by early next year.
Kiran Bedi met with the Union
Minister
for
Rural
Development, Narendra Singh
Tomar to discuss the Open
Defecation Free mission. Tomar
said that he would personally
visit Puducherry in September
to review the progress made.
Earlier in the day, the Lieutenant
Governor met with the CEO of
Niti Aayog, Amitabh Kant, who
offered to develop a detailed
plan of action for the Union
Territory with a focus on
improving health and nutrition, education, water management and industries. He offered
to send an Advance Planning
Team to hold dialogues with key
stakeholders.
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tion Council under Ministry of Housing and
Urban Poverty Alleviation, Government of
India, has been promoting appropriate building materials and construction technologies
so as to have cost effective sustainable and safe
construction. In this endeavor, BMTPC
organised a Sensitization cum Capacity
Building Programme on traditional roofing
system prevalent in Western Uttar Pradesh
and Haryana known as Shallow Masonry
Dome Construction (DAAT KI CHAAT) on
July 21 at Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat
Centre. The programme was inaugurated by
Shri Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, Joint Secretary
(Housing), Ministry of Housing and Urban
Poverty Alleviation, Government of India in
presence of Shailesh Kumar Agrawal,
Executive Director, BMTPC, Sandeep
Virmani, Associate Vice President,
Hunnarshala Foundation and KS Jagdish,
Emeritus Professor Indian Institute of Science.
The highlight of the programme was an hour
long interaction between the delegates and
the master masons of UP and Haryana. It was
attended by more than 70 participants.
meeting between BSNL and
team of delegation from
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Bangladesh led by Hon’ble
Minister of Posts and
Telecommunications, Tarana
Halim was held. Md. Monwar
Hossain, Managing Director,
Bangladesh Submarine Cable
Company Limited, Bangladesh
was also present in the meeting.
On this occasion, Anupam
Shrivastava, CMD BSNL and
BSNL Board Directors welcomed
the delegation from Bangladesh.
CMD BSNL said, “Bangladesh is
best neighbor and best friend,
with so many similarities between
two countries it will only help in
building a formidable partner-
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Housewares and Home
Trade Fair-Vibrant India
2016 concluded with grand success
at Pragati Maidan. The show was
full of visitors, exhibitors and
traders, had a good time trading
their products. During the show an
‘award night ceremony’ was also
organised in which the stalls with
best cookeries and utensils were
honored with the awards. During
the ceremony a ‘dance programme’
was also performed by a group of
dancers. On the occasion of award
ceremony Narendra Diwakar
organiser of Vibrant India said, “I
am very pleased with the success of
this show and I thank all the
exhibitors,traders and the supporters for their whole hearted participation in the show and also for
making it a big success.” He added,
“India is the fastest emerging market for houseware, kitchenware
and home appliances or second
largest growing economy in the
world after china”.
The first edition of the expo
spread over 8000 sq meter attracted over 350 national and international exhibitors displaying their
products and providing insights
into the latest trends in utensils,
kitchen appliances and household
goods with focus on stainless steel.
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It was appreciated that the
recently commissioned 10 G
Internet Link from Agartala to
Cox Bazaar in Bangladesh is
being utilized very effectively to
improve the internet connectivity of North East Region of India.
The payment for 1st quarter
since the commissioning of link
i.e. 08-02-2016 was handed over
by CMD BSNL to H.E. Tarana
Halim in the meeting.
Minister for Posts and
Telecommunications, Bangladesh
Tarana Halim said in her speech
that Bangladesh is always grate-
ful for contribution / support getting from India since their freedom. She said that she has a
vision for the Mobile phone for
each women of Bangladesh to
empower them. She also made
the point that her purpose of visit
was to enhance the co-operation
for Telecommunications with
India specially with BSNL.
Meeting was concluded in
very conducive atmosphere to
enhance the co-operation
between both countries.
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regional standardization at BIS
Headquarters, New Delhi. SARSO is the
regional standards body for SAARC
Member States. The programme was
attended by around 60 participants representing industry, government bodies,
testing laboratories, regulators, trade
promotion bodies, research institutions
and academia etc. Alka Panda, Director
General, BIS delivered the keynote
address and Dr. Syed HumayunKabir, DG
SARSO outlined the activities of SARSO.
P M Pantulu, DDG (Standardization),
BIS, Dr. Sanjeevan Bajaj, FICCI, Dr.
MuraliKallummal, Centre for WTO
Studies and InduBikram Joshi, SARSO
participated as speakers.
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banned from the Olympics, taking the toll of the nation's athletes
suspended from Rio to 108 after explosive revelations of state-run doping
across Russian sport.
As the list of supsended Russians
grew, the International Olympic
Commitee continued to face fierce criticism for failing to ban Russia outright.
Germany's Olympic discus champion Robert Harting launched a savage verbal attack on IOC president Thomas Bach,
calling his compatriot "part of the doping
system not the anti-doping system".
Bach fired back that the decision to
leave individual sports federations to
decide which Russians could compete
"respects the right of every clean athlete
around the world." Bach noting that
would-be Russian Olympians must clear
"the highest hurdles" to be green-lighted
for the Games, which start on August 5.
Five canoeists and two modern pentathletes were barred, with the number
of Russians banned since Sunday standing at 41.
They are in addition to 67 track and
field athletes already banned by the
International Association of Athletics
Federations (IAAF).
While there was good news for
Russian athletes competing in judo,
equestrian, tennis and shooting, World
Rowing (FISA) came down hard, banning 22 of Russia's 28 rowers.
FISA said that those banned were
"not at all considered to have participated in doping" but were being excluded
as they "do not meet the conditions established by the IOC".
"This is a humiliation" Russian rowing federation president Veniamin But
told the R-Sport agency. "I am in shock,
but we won't stop the battle. Our
Olympic Committee is holding discussions with the IOC on our behalf."
With just six rowers Russia can
only compete with one boat in Brazil, a
men's coxless four, after qualifying five
boats. Pavel Sozykin was the competitor
banned by World Sailing, with the other
six Russian sailors allowed to compete,
and a replacement for Sozykin will be
allowed.
The International Canoe Federation
(ICF) said it had taken "swift action" to
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the list of its athletes banned from the Rio Games
remove five canoe sprint paddlers from
Rio after the release of additional information naming those implicated in the
McLaren report.
The report by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren for the World AntiDoping Agency (WADA) detailed an
elaborate doping system in Russia directed by the sports ministry that affected
more than 30 sports.
The banned five included Alexey
Korovashkov, a five-time world champion who won a bronze medal in London
four years ago, and Alexander
Dyachenko, who took gold in a doubles
kayak sprint.
"This is a bitter blow for the Olympic
movement and we are saddened that our
sport is implicated. We have taken swift
action and removed all offending athletes
where doping evidence exists," said ICF
secretary general Simon Toulson.
Modern pentathlon's governing body
said Maksim Kustov and Ilia Frolov had
been implicated in the McLaren report
and were being booted from Rio.
The report linked both to the socalled "Disappearing Positive
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opener Kusal Perera cheaply
after building up an 86-run first
innings lead over their hosts as
they took firm command today of
a low-scoring Test here.
Perera fell to the last ball of the
day, with the umpires once again
forced to call a premature halt to
proceedings following a downpour
at the picturesque ground on the
outskirts of Kandy.
Australia were all out for 203
in reply to Sri Lanka's first innings
total of 117, with spinner Lakshan
Sandakan taking four wickets on
his debut.
The early loss of Perera on the
second day of the first Test was
another bitter blow for the struggling
hosts. Perera fell for just four when
he was lbw to paceman Mitchell
Starc, leaving Sri Lanka wobbling on
six for one at close of play.
The downpour initially
prompted the umpires to call an
early tea break, but they were later
forced to abandon play early for
the second day running.
Veteran Sri Lankan left-arm
spinner Rangana Herath and the
25-year-old rookie Sandakan had
earlier taken four wickets apiece as
ngland all-rounder Ben Stokes
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third Test against Pakistan at
the Australian batsman also struggled to cope with a turning pitch.
Adam Voges top-scored for
the Australians with 47, meaning
no player from either side managed to score a half-century in the
first innings.
The 38-year-old Herath, who
has hinted that he may soon retire
from Test cricket, was the pick of
the bowlers and was unlucky not
to record a five-wicket haul.
He dismissed both overnight
batsmen — skipper Steve Smith
and Usman Khawaja — in successive overs and had a third wicket
in the morning session when
wicketkeeper Peter Nevill was
caught at mid-on.
After lunch, wicketkeeper
Perera dropped a chance off Josh
Hazlewood, denying Herath what
would have been his 24th fivewicket haul.
While Herath was providing
captain Angelo Mathews both the
attacking and containing options,
Sandakan ran through the lower
order to finish with four for 58.
Seamer Nuwan Pradeep finished with two wickets, including
that of the resolute Voges who was
brilliantly caught by Kusal Mendis
at gully. Voges, who faced 115
deliveries and hit three fours,
added 60 for the fifth wicket with
Mitchell Marsh, who was among
Sandakan's victims.
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to "formally inform" the Supreme
Court appointed Lodha Committee
about the scheduled meeting that is
going to take place on the implementation of the reforms post the apex
court verdict.
In another development, the
Special General Meeting that was convened on August 5 in Mumbai has
been shifted to Delhi as the Parliament
is in session at the moment which
means that BCCI president and BJP
parliamentarian Anurag Thakur along
with Congress MP Rajeev Shukla
need to be in the capital.
"There are reports in the media
about August 9 being the date when
BCCI official is going to meet the
panel but there has been no official
intimation till date. Also it must be
mentioned that there were two emails sent to the office-bearers
regarding the implementation of
SC verdict but none of the BCCI top
officials replied to the two emails
sent," a source close to the Panel said.
No agenda has been fixed for the
marketing committee meeting, it was
learnt.
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on Justice RM Lodha comT
mittee's landmark reforms for
BCCI is all set to affect the
senior national selection committee's composition as selector Gagan Khoda will have to
make an early exit.
A major rejig in the selection committee could be on
cards with current chairman
Sandeep Patil along with Vikram
Rathour and Saba Karim ending
their four-year-tenure in
September and the new selection
committee is expected to be a
three-member panel.
The other two in the panel
are Central Zone's Gagan
Khoda and South's MSK
Prasad, who were appointed in
October 2015 and as per earlier rules would have continued
till 2019.
As per Lodha Committee
recommendations, "Only former Players who have repre-
sented the Senior National
Team in Test matches shall be
eligible to be appointed to this
committee, provided that they
have retired from the game at
least five years previously. The
senior-most Test cap among
the members of the Committee
shall be appointed as the
Chairperson."
A source close to the
Supreme Court-appointed panel
said that as per directives,
Khoda will have to eventually
vacate his position as national
selector but the BCCI probably
will keep him for six months
knowing that it is the stipulated time to set the house in order.
"Since the constitution will
change as per reforms suggested by the panel and verdict
passed by the Apex Court, BCCI
can take six months of time. So
perhaps BCCI will try to keep the
selectors in question (Khoda) till
that time but eventually, they will
need to follow the rule," a source
close to the panel said.
her ban from the Rio Olympics.
Her inclusion is actually backed by
the IAAF and many anti-doping officials,
who have praised her whistleblowing
efforts, but was nixed by an IOC ethics
commission.
Matthieu Reeb, CAS secretary general, told AFP in an email it had yet to receive
the appeal. Russian sports minister Vitaly
Mutko — a key figure in the McLaren
report who has been banned from Rio —
has voiced confidence that the "majority"
of the country's 387-member team would
be declared eligible for Rio.
Methodology", meaning their positive
drug tests at a Moscow laboratory in 2014
were never reported.
Time was running out for federations
to scrutinize Russian competitors, some
of whom are already in Brazil.
In addition to the ban on Russia's
entire track and field team over doping,
seven swimmers, two weightlifters and
a volleyballer have also been barred.
Yuliya Stepanova, the Russian 800m
runner who lifted the lid on systematic
doping and corruption in Russian athletics, is making one last-gasp appeal of
Edgbaston with a torn right calf,
the England and Wales Cricket
Board said on Wednesday.
Durham paceman Stokes suffered the injury midway through
bowling his sixth over on the
fourth day of the second Test at
Old Trafford on Monday, when
England completed a 330-run
win to level the four-match series
at 1-1.
A scan revealed the extent of
Stokes's injury and the 25-yearold's fitness will be reviewed by
the England medical team next
week, with the squad assembling
in Birmingham on Monday.
In addition to the remaining
10 fit players who featured at Old
Trafford, England have selected
Nottinghamshire paceman Jake
Ball, who made his Test debut in
a 75-run defeat by Pakistan in the
series opener at Lord's.
Also in a 13-man squad is
Middlesex fast bowler Steven
Finn, who also played in that
match, and Yorkshire leg-spinner
Adil Rashid.
over revelations of state-run doping soared
above 100.
An AFP journalist at the Kremlin said the
athletes to meet Putin included banned track and
field stars Yelena Isinbayeva, Sergey Shubenkov
and Maria Kuchina, who are barred from competing next month in Rio.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC)
sparked fierce criticism on Sunday when it resisted a blanket ban in favour of allowing individual
sports federations to make the call on which
Russians can go to Rio. International sports federations are now scrambling to vet Russian athletes as
time ticks down to the start of the Games on August
5. Putin, who has made sporting success a priority
in a bid to harness national pride, is set to meet 49
athletes, including those approved for Rio and those
set to miss out, at a ceremony in the Kremlin.
Russia's track and field team — including
Isinbayeva and Co — was already banned from
Rio over state-sponsored doping, but its Olympic
Committee last week optimistically named a 387strong squad for the Games.
Since the IOC decision at the weekend, the
number of Russian competitors allowed to take
part has steadily decreased. Rowing's international governing body FISA was the latest to get tough
with Russia, announcing late on Tuesday that 22
of 28 Russian competitors had been banned under
strict criteria imposed by the IOC.
That took number of Russian athletes banned
since Sunday to 41, in addition to the 67 track
and field athletes already banned by International
Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
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for a six when he was named South
African's youngest ever Cricketer of the
Year and also scooped up five other
awards at a gala hosted by Cricket South
Africa.
Rabada became the first South
African player to win six individual
awards, beating the record of five held
by teammates Hashim Amla and AB de
Villiers.
After receiving the top accolade,
Rabada was asked what his best moment
in his short career so far, and his
response was: "We play so many games,
but when we won the series in India."
Besides the top award, Rabada was
named Test Cricketer of the Year and
ODI Cricketer of the Year, and was not
nominated in the third category, as the
T20 International Cricketer of the Year
award went to Pakistan-born Imran
Tahir.
Rabada was also honoured by his
peers for being named SA Players'
Player of the Year and by the 60,000 fans
who voted in a contest to find the SA
Fans Player of the Year.
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team arrived here for the
A
second Test against hosts West
Rabada's sixth award was for the
Delivery of the Year, which he bowled
to England's Jason Roy in the T20
International at the Wanderers Stadium
in Johannesburg.
His international statistics are
remarkable with 24 wickets in only 6
matches at an average of 24.70 and 37
wickets in 20 ODIs at an average of 21.45
with an economy rate of 4.78.
Stephen Cook, who made a century on his Test debut, was named
International Newcomer of the Year
while the new national captain, Dane
van Niekerk, was named Momentum
Women's Cricketer of the Year.
Indies starting July 30, hoping
to carry on the momentum it
gained with an innings victory in the series opener in
Antigua.
The morale of Virat Kohli
and his men is high after the
record innings and 92-run
thrashing of the hosts.
Indulging in a bit of recreational activities, opener
Shikhar Dhawan, who scored
84 in the first innings of opening Test, enjoyed with his
playstation. Dhawan posted a
video where they he is seen
enjoying a FIFA football game
with Kohli, Bhuvneshwar
Kumar and Wriddhiman Saha
among others.
The West Indies team also
reached the Jamaican City
aiming to overcome their loss.
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Lankan spin legend
Muralidaran,
SalongriMuttiah
with three others, will be
inducted into the International
Cricket Council's Hall of Fame
later this year.
"The International
Cricket Council today
announced that Muttiah
Muralidaran, Karen Rolton,
Arthur Morris and George
Lohmann will be inducted
into the ICC Cricket Hall of
Fame later this year," the
ICC said in a statement.
Record-breaking offspinner
Muralidaran
becomes the first Sri Lankan
player to be inducted along
with twice ICC Women's
World Cup winner and former Australia captain Karen
Rolton, her compatriot
Arthur Morris, a member of
Don Bradman's 'invincibles'
and England's George
Lohmann, the 19th century
fast bowler who took 100
wickets in just 16 Tests.
The four iconic cricketers
were voted by the ICC
Cricket Hall of Famers as well
as members of the media.
They will be presented with
commemorative caps honouring their contribution to
the game to mark their
induction. Family members
will represent Lohmann and
Morris at the presentations.
ICC Chief Executive
David Richardson congratulated the four, saying: "The
ICC Cricket Hall of Fame
recognises some of the truly
great players from cricket's
long and illustrious history,
and this year's inductees
thoroughly deserve to be in
this highly prestigious group.
"Muralidaran has been
one of the greats of the modern era. His guile and consistency over the years helped
Sri Lanka develop as a very
competitive side in both Tests
and ODI cricket.
"We have in the list some
very famous names of different eras. Lohmann and Morris
were outstanding performers
during their times and are part
of cricket folk-lore, while
Rolton's performances have
been recent and came during
an era when women's cricket
became very competitive."
Muralidaran, whose last
international fixture was the
final of the ICC Cricket
World Cup 2011 in Mumbai
finished his career with 800
wickets in Tests, 534 wicket
in One-Day Internationals
and 13 wickets in 12 T20Is.
Lohmann, an exponent
of swing bowling in the late
19th century and rated by his
contemporaries as the most
difficult opponent, will be the
27th Englishman in the ICC
Cricket Hall of Fame list. He
raced to 100 Test wickets in
16 matches but tuberculosis
shortened his career and he
died at the age of 36 in 1901.
In an 18-Test career from
1886 to 1896, Lohmann took
112 wickets, including nine
for 28 against South Africa at
the Old Wanderers, and also
scored 213 runs.
Morris, a stylish left-hander of the 1940s and 50s who
scored 12 centuries and 12
fifties in 46 Tests between 1946
and 1955, will be the 22nd
Australia cricketer in the ICC
Cricket Hall of Fame. Morris
scored a total of 12,614 runs
in 162 first-class matches,
including 3,533 runs in Tests.
Head coach Anil Kumble,
Kohli and Dhawan also paid
tribute to the Indian soldiers on
the occasion of Kargil Diwas.
Kohli tweeted, "60 Days,
Operation Vijay. I was in
school during the Kargil War.
I remember how every family
shared the pain of the soldiers.
"We prayed for them & felt
proud of being an Indian. To
the soldiers & their families,
you are the real heroes of
India #JaiHind."
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on Thursday after the National Anti-Doping
Agency's disciplinary panel adjourned its hearing on the dope scandal surrounding the wrestler even
as he failed a second dope test and lodged a police
complaint against two fellow grapplers.
In a hearing which lasted three and half
hours, Narsingh and his battery of lawyers presented their case in front of the NADA committee,
which will pronounce its verdict tomorrow.
"We have put Narsingh's argument. We have full
faith in the NADA panel. We are trying to convince
them. We are hopeful he will be exonerated. NADA
panel is helpful. We have presented our argument
today and panel was very patient and we had a very
fair hearing. NADA will present their case tomorrow," Narsingh's lawyer Vidushpat Singhania.
"The NADA panel has completed the hearing,
the decision will be taken tomorrow. Nothing has
been decided. It has been adjourned till tomorrow.
We are very confident. There will be another discussion at 4pm tomorrow," added his promoters
JSW Sports' MD Mustafa Ghouse.
Amid scenes of complete pandemonium at the
NADA headquarters, Narsingh was accompanied
by not just lawyers but also his supporters, who
shouted slogans demanding justice for him.
The wrestler has alleged that he has been framed
in the doping scandal by rivals, who spiked his food
and supplements to stop him from going to Rio.
However, his supplements have reportedly been
found to be clean.
Narsingh filed an FIR at the Sonepat Police
Station naming two fellow wrestlers, one of them
a 17-year-old, and persisted with his demand for
a CBI probe into the scandal that has sent shockwaves into the Indian sporting fraternity.
The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) also
continued to back Narsingh but announced that
Parveen Rana would replace him in the squad for
Rio de Janeiro, a move that was approved by the
sport's world governing body -- United World
Wrestling.
"I have always maintained that there has been
a conspiracy against me. If I am cleared of the
charges, I will go to Rio. I have identified the boy
who was seen contaminating my food. I have given
a detailed complaint to the police," Narsingh told
reporters after filing his complaint.
"I feel even officials are involved because I am
not being provided the CCTV footage," he added.
Narsingh himself desisted from taking names
but WFI President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh
revealed the alleged saboteurs while talking to the
media.
"We suspect Jitesh, who fights in the 75kg category, and Sumit, both of them live in Chhatarsaal.
And one of them has admitted to spiking Narsingh's
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Authority of India (SAI) centre at Rai in Sonipat
even as the state police has been asked to complete its probe into the doping scandal surrounding wrestler Narsingh Yadav.
"SAI centres are looked after by the SAI
authorities and we have no control over
them," he said, terming the doping incident
involving Narsingh, which allegedly took
place at the Sonipat SAI centre, "a very serious matter".
"We have instructed the Haryana Police to
go into the depth of the case and find out the
truth. Since an FIR has been lodged and it is
a legal matter, the police would take appropriate action, including filing the case in a local
court," Vij said, adding that the state government has already asked the police to complete
its probe "as soon as possible".
"We will definitely investigate, go into the
depth of the case and the police will bring out
the truth," he said.
Vij said since the incident (contamination
of Narsingh's food) allegedly took place at a
SAI centre in the state, the local authorities too
were looking into it.
food. I can't say on the conspiracy and can't say
whether they did this on their own or on someone's
asking. We cannot investigate this but we support
Narsingh's demand for a CBI inquiry," Brij Bhushan
Sharan said here.
Sports Minister Vijay Goel, on the other hand,
stuck to his stand that the government will abide
by international rules when it comes to deciding
on Narsingh's trip to Rio in the aftermath of the
controversy.
Narsingh's hopes of competing in the Olympics
had faded further after the wrestler failed a second
dope test which was conducted on him on July 5.
It is learnt that Narsingh, already under provisional suspension for failing a June 25 dope test,
has also flunked the second test done on both his
'A' and 'B' samples taken on July 5.
"It's the same substance that was found in the
first test. It was unlikely that it would go out of the
system," a Wrestling Federation of Indian source
said referring to banned anabolic steroid methandienone.
Earlier, the WFI sent Rana's name to replace
Narsingh, putting an end to the speculation surrounding double-Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar's
chances.
Narsingh had been picked ahead of Sushil after
he won the quota place with a bronze medal in the
World Championships.
Freestyle wrestler Rana had earlier won a gold
medal in the 74kg category at the Dave Schultz
Memorial wrestling tournament in USA in 2014.
"United World Wrestling informed the Indian
Olympic Association last week that since the positive test occurred outside of the qualification event
they would be allowed replace Yadav with another wrestler, or else vacate the qualification spot," the
United World Wrestling said in a statement.
"The Indian Olympic Association informed
United World Wrestling of their desire to enter
Parveen RANA as their nation's replacement at 74kg
in men's freestyle," it added.
Goel said that doors are almost shut for
Narsingh and it is time for the conspiracy theories
to stop.
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costliest transfer fee of 90 million euros ($98.9 million).
"Juventus Football Club can confirm that it has purchased the registration rights of Gonzalo Higuain for
90 million euros, payable in two financial years," the Serie
A giants said in a statement on Tuesday.
The 28-year-old's departure from Napoli has been
surrounded by great expectations and controversy as
Juventus are their historical rival. Moreover, Higuain
scored 36 goals in 35 Serie A games — breaking Gunnar
Nordahl's 66-year-old record in the process last season.
Higuain, who joined Napoli from Real Madrid in
2013, also had two years remaining on his contract in
Naples. Now, Higuain becomes the biggest ever signing for an Italian club, the most expensive Juventus player of all time and the third costliest transfer in club football history.
He is currently third only to Welsh forward Gareth
Bale, who joined Real Madrid for 100 million euros
($109.7 million) in the summer of 2013 and Portuguese
superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, who joined Real for 94 million euros ($103.1 million) from Manchester United in
July 2009.
Open, to protect his surgically
repaired left knee.
Federer wrote on his Facebook
page Tuesday that he needs "more
extensive rehabilitation following
my knee surgery earlier this year."
"The doctors advised that if I
want to play on the ATP World Tour
injury free for another few years, as
I intend to do, I must give both my
knee and body the proper time to
fully recover," Federer said.
The owner of a record 17 Grand
Slams titles turns 35 on Aug. 8, so the
reference to "another few years"
might give his fans increased hope of
seeing Federer continue to wield a
racket for quite some time.
His agent, Tony Godsick, wrote
in an email to The Associated Press
that Federer's plan is to "be ready for
the start of next year."
Federer is the first member of
tennis' so-called "Big 4" - a group that
also includes No. 1-ranked Novak
Djokovic, 14-time major champion
Rafael Nadal and 2012 gold medalist Andy Murray — to pull out of the
Rio Games, where that sport'scompetition starts on Aug. 6, a day after
the opening ceremony.
Federer often has spoken about
how much the Olympics mean to
him, in part because he met his wife,
Mirka, when both were athletes at the
2000 Sydney Games. Federer won a
silver medal in singles for Switzerland
four years ago in London, and he
teamed up with Stan Wawrinka to
win a gold medal in doubles at the
2008 Beijing Olympics.
In Brazil, Federer was expected
to play singles, doubles with
Wawrinka, and mixed doubles with
Martina Hingis.
He is the second big draw who
will be missing from the Rio tennis
tournament: Five-time major cham-
pion Maria Sharapova won't be
there because she is serving a twoyear doping ban.
The arthroscopic procedure
Federer had on his knee in February,
repairing torn cartilage, was the
first operation of his lengthy and
accomplished career.
So after participating in every
single Grand Slam tournament from
the 2000 Australian Open through
the 2016 Australian Open, Federer
will be sitting out two of the last three
this year. He is a five-time champion at the U.S. Open and was the runner-up there to Djokovic last year.
Federer, who has spent more
weeks at No. 1 than anyone in the history of the ATP computerized rankings, currently sits at No. 3, having
gone 21-7 this season. Depending on
how other players fare, of course,
Federer's ranking will tumble over
the course of the rest of the year.
He hasn't played since losing to
Raonic in the Wimbledon semifinals
early this month. Federer fell awkwardly during that match, winding
up face-down on the Centre Court
grass, and had a trainer come out to
check on his left knee afterward.
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British Open duel with Henrik
Stenson, guess again.
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time to get over the British Open,
probably longer than any of his other
excruciating losses in a major.
The hurt and disappointment
wasn't because Mickelson missed out
on either his sixth major or his first
win since the 2013 British Open. This
was the first time the 46-year-old
Mickelson played his best, and it wasn't good enough.
The 40-year-old Stenson won his
first major with a record-shattering
20-under total. Mickelson's 267 final
total would have won every previous
British Open except in 1993, when
Greg Norman shot 267 at Royal St.
George's.
"I think it's one of those things
where I'll look back over time and my
disappointment will probably
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Baltusrol Golf Club. "That's a disappointing thing because I would have
loved to have added another claret
jug." Jordan Spieth, who played a
practice round with Michelson on
Tuesday, walked over to his playing
partner Tuesday and told him it was
fun to watch him, and that he was
unlucky not to win.
"And that's when he said, 'Hey,
I've been on that side of things (lately), Masters in '15, and Troon even
more so two weeks ago," Spieth said.
"But then he's seen himself on the
other side of things where no one
is running away with it and he wins
in a close battle or he wins by a lot,
whether it's in a major or regular
tour event."
Mickelson believes he will win
again. He feels his game is improving, his swing is back and he likes
the course. He validated his first
major - the 2004 Masters - by capturing the 2005 PGA here with a
72nd hole birdie.
His goal this week is to play as
well as he did at Troon.
"I don't believe that there is a
small window," Mickelson said of
winning again. "I think there's a really big window of opportunity to add
to my resumé, to continue to compete in big events, for the simple reason that the feel and sensitivity of hitting shots; the ability to play golf
courses a certain way, to visualize, to
make birdies, to pull shots off, that
has not diminished."
Mickelson said the key at
Baltusrol is to drive the ball straight
and putt well on greens that have a
lot of contours.
"There's a lot of little rolls and
knolls," said Mickelson, noting the
greens are going to roll a lot faster
than Troon. "You can see multiple
lines and only one of them is correct,
and it's sometimes hard to see."
"It's one of those things, it doesn't really strike you when you're in
the middle of it," Stenson said "But
afterward, with the 63 and the 20under and the way we played, we
pushed each other to the limit, both
of us, for 36 holes more or less, and
trading punches and blows all the
way around the golf course for two
days. That certainly is what made us
play so well. We both wanted it badly
and we performed so well because of
each other."
"Under the code of World Anti-Doping Agency
(WADA), NADA also works and Narsingh was
found positive after a test conducted by NADA and
he was provisionally suspended. All these conspiracy theories which are floating, unless all these
things come to our notice, we can't do any investigation or take any step regarding that," he said.
"But I don't think it is a debatable issue because
whatever be the reason of doping, not only us but
the whole world is also watching it and I think it
will be extremely difficult for him to go to Rio.
"There is no proof of these rumours and I want
all these suspicions of foul play to stop and our antidoping agency will give a final report within a few
days and we have also tested his food supplement."
Asked about Narsingh's demand for an CBI
investigation, Goel said: "When the federation will
write to us only then the government will see, similarly as it sees any other issues." Another Rio
Olympics qualified athlete Inderjeet Singh, a shot
putter, also failed a dope test after his 'A' sample
returned positive for a banned substance.
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