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except Tamil Nadu, lending
their support to the proposal at
the Empowered Committee of
State Finance Ministers.
“The Bill has been virtually supported by most of the
States barring Tamil Nadu
which has some reservations,”
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
told reporters after the meeting
attended by 22 States, adding all
the States gave their “detailed
views on the GST itself.
Virtually every State has supported the idea.”
Jaitley said, “Tamil Nadu
has made some suggestions
that have been taken note of.”
The
Constitutional
Amendment Bill needs to be
backed by at least half the
total number of States.
In Delhi, Tamil Nadu Chief
Minister Jayalalithaa on
Tuesday threw a spanner in the
Centre’s moves to push the GST
Bill in the forthcoming
Parliament Session.
In a memorandum submitted to Prime Minister
Narendra Modi , she reiterated her stand that the GST Bill
would create a huge revenue
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After passage of the Bill in
the Lok Sabha, AIADMK leaders had categorically said that
the party would object to the
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Independent India by overloss for manufacturing States
When the GST Bill was hauling the indirect tax regime
like Tamil Nadu.
passed in the Lok Sabha last year, and subsuming a number of
“GST impacts the fiscal Deputy Speaker Thambidurai federal and State levies and
autonomy of States like Tamil objected vehemently, raising the bind the Indians into a customs
Nadu... Expect big revenue loss concerns of the State.
union of sorts.
for a manufacturing State like
The major concern of
In Kolkata, Jaitley mainTamil Nadu,” Jayalalithaa said in AIADMK was that manufac- tained, “there has been a comthe memorandum, urging the turing States like Tamil Nadu plete consensus on no constituPrime Minister to accept the would suffer a huge revenue tional cap as exigencies may arise
amendments brought by the loss as the GST Bill proposes in future to revise the rates.”
AIADMK when the Bill was taxing at the last point.
The Congress had offered
passed in the Lok Sabha.
On several occasions, to back the Bill provided the
“A number of concerns of Jayalalithaa said that the GST Government agreed to cap the
Tamil Nadu need to be Bill would take away the State’s tax rate at 18 per cent besides
addressed by the Centre on right to tax the companies creating an independent mechGST. Petroleum products must engaged in manufacturing there. anism to resolve disputes on
be kept out of GST,” the memOne of the amendments revenue sharing between States.
orandum added.
moved by AIADMK was to
Jaitley however shot down
the demand to write a cap for
the Goods and Services Tax.
Meanwhile, hailing the
general agreement over the
Bill, Bengal Finance Minister
Amit Mitra who chaired the
closed-door meeting of State
Finance Ministers said the
exercise would facilitate economic reforms.
He added that Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee had
extended her support to the Bill
soon after she came to power.
Though no deadline was
given for the introduction or
passage of the Bill, insiders said
it could be tabled as early as the
Monsoon Session.
After the Bill is passed, the
States will be able to draft their
own Bills based on the model
Union law, albeit with minor
variations that may include
“State-specific exemptions.”
There will be provisions for
inter-State movement of goods
after the Centre and the States
approve the integrated GST law.
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n its efforts to empower
women by arming them with
technical knowledge, the State
Government on Tuesday began
a massive exercise of opening
technical institutions in
Jharkhand as Chief Minister
Raghubar Das laid the foundation stone of first women’s
engineering college Gola in
Ramgarh district of the State.
The CM also inaugurated
Government Polytechnic
College on the occasion in
Ramgarh and announced that
three medical colleges will be
opened in Hazaribagh,
Daltonganj and Dumka districts soon.
The CM said the
Government aims to build the
proposed Engineering College in
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17 acres with funds of C104 crore
in a duration of two years. The
newly inaugurated Polytechnic
College, built with C21 crore has
300 seats and is spread in 24
acres. Das said the Women’s
Engineering College will begin
its first session in the year 2019.
Addressing a gathering on
the occasion, the CM said
without empowering women,
development of family, society
and nation is not possible.
“The State Government is
working in the direction and
for qualitative improvement
of higher and technical education a number of institutes
will be opened across the State.
Three medical colleges in
Dumka, Hazaribagh and
Daltonganj will be opened and
the foundations of the col-
leges will be laid in the month
of July,” Das said.
He said with the foundation laying of the first Women’s
Engineering College, Ramgarh
has been added in the map of
India in the field of technical
education. “We have opened
four new private universities in
the State out of which Sports
and Raksha Shakti University
are important,” he added.
Male and female youths of
the State at village level are being
trained through skill development programmes so that they
become self dependent. Women
and Self Help Group (SHG)
members are being trained by
Jharcraft so that their products
such as blankets, towels and
other things could be sold by
Government departments.
The CM said without
developing villages neither State
can develop nor the nation. “We
have set a goal to complete setting up of all Panchayat
Secretariats by July and the
Centre would release funds
worth C80 lakh to Cone crore
for development of Panchayats.
Talking about corruption,
Das said if officials, Ministers
and even if the CM comes
under corruption allegations,
he will not shy away from
ordering a probe. “Officials
should understand that when
the PM and CM of the country and State are servants of the
people then they are the ultimate servants because the policies of the Government are
made or spoiled by them.”
Also, he praised the MP and
MLA of Ramgarh calling them
thirsty of development. Both the
MP and MLA are toiling for
development, said the CM.
Ramgarh MLA and Minister of
Water
Resources
Chandraprakash Chaudhary,
Higher and Technical Education
Secretary Ajoy Kumar Singh
alongwith senior offcials of distrcit administration were present on the occasion.
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after her Assembly elecO
tion victory, Tamil Nadu Chief
Minister J Jayalalithaa on
Tuesday met Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and submitted
a 29-page memorandum listing
State’s demands, including formation
of
Cauver y
Management Board and a
water regulation committee.
During the meeting at the
Race Course residence of the
Prime Minister, she also
demanded the restoration of
water level at Mullaperiyar dam
to 152 feet and early commissioning of Unit 2 of Kudankulam
nuclear power plant.
Interlinking of rivers,
retrieval of Katchatheevu Island
and inclusion of fishermen in the
Scheduled Tribes list are also part
of the Tamil Nadu’s memorandum. She also urged the centre
to set up an All India Institute of
Medical Science in the State
along with addressing the issues
related to NEET in the State.
Soon after her arrival in
Delhi, she met 50 MPs (both
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a volte face, BJP MP
IsaidnHukum
Singh on Tuesday
the “migration” of Hindus
from Kairana in western Uttar
Pradesh was “not communal”
in nature but had more to do
with the law and order situation
even as he claimed the number
of families that had to flee can
go up to 400-500.
The BJP also set up a committee which will go to Kairana
and study the situation.
“It is not about communal
incidents... It is not about
Hindus or Muslims,” the
Kairana MP told reporters here,
adding it has more to do with
the law and order situation.
“The list (of those who had
to flee) will go on further, I
believe. It can go up to 400-500.
There is not one accused (who
forced people to migrate), they
are here in dozens,” Singh said.
He had earlier said that
from the names of the accused,
“one can grasp who are these
people”, hinting at involvement
of members of the Muslim
community.
The MP had earlier
released a list of 346 families
who had been forced to flee the
town, which has 85 per cent
Muslim population.
Kairana is in Shamli district which witnessed communal riots in 2013.
On Tuesday, Singh released
another list of 63 Hindu families
and claimed that they had to flee
Kandhla town in Shamli district.
“These Hindu families have left
under duress,” he claimed.
When asked that some
Muslim families too have left
the area, he said, “Others have
gone for their (own) purposes.”
Shamli District Magistrate
Sujeet Kumar, however, ruled
out any communal and law and
order issues behind some people leaving the area.
“Till now we have investigated the list of 119 families.
Around 10-15 families, mentioned in the list, still live in
Kairana and around 68 families
have migrated from the area
10-15 years ago. They moved
out because of economic reasons. Till now, we have not
found any case where there has
been a law and order problem”.
The DM further said,
“There is no communal activity, the Kairana town has always
been peaceful... During Babri
Masjid demolition in 1992, the
area remained peaceful, and
even during Muzaffarnagar riots
of 2013, people here sent a
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ays after Union Minister
for Road Transport,
Highways and Shipping Nitin
Gadkari approved a multicrore proposal for constructing
a sea-link between Okha and
Bet Dwarka islands in Gujarat’s
Devbhumi Dwarka district,
the Urban Development
Ministry has started exploring
ways to develop infrastructure
in the religious pilgrimage site
under one of its central
schemes.
Bet Dwarka is an island in
the Arabian Sea off the coast of
Dwarka. According to legends,
Bet Dwarka, considered as the
original residence of lord
Krishna, was the old port during the ancient times of
Krishna before Okha port was
developed in Dwarka.
Union Urban Development
Secretary Rajiv Gauba told The
Pioneer that a team of officials
headed by Joint Secretary B
Anand is on a visit to the
island to assess the possibility of
development works that can be
undertaken in the region.
“Once the team submits its
report, we will decide the further course of action in the
matter,” said Gauba.
Sources in the UD
Ministry said that fund might
be allocated under the Heritage
City Development and
Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY) scheme, which was
announced early last year with
a focus on holistic development
of heritage cities.
An official from the
Gujarat Tourism Ministry said
the Central Ministry intervention would ensure better
amenities like roads, pavements and public facilities to
the visitors. About 10,000 people visit there per day during
festival seasons.
Gujarat’s Dwarka is already
covered under the scheme that
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Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha) of
her party, the largest regional
group in Parliament before she
drove to Modi’s residence. Lok
Sabha Deputy Speaker
Thambidurai, Special Advisor
Sheela Balakrishnan and TN
Chief Secretary Rama Mohan
Rao accompanied her.
Sri Lankan Tamils issue,
lifting of the ban on the conduct of bull taming sports of
Jallikattu and declaring Tamil
as an official language were also
among the demands made by
the Chief Minister.
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aims to preserve and revitalise
the soul of the heritage city to
reflect the city’s unique character by encouraging aesthetically appealing, accessible and
secured environment.
Seven other cities approved
for the mission are Varanasi,
Mathura, Ajmer, Badami
(Karnataka),
Warangal
(Telangana), Amaravati (Andhra
Pradesh) and Vellankini (Tamil
Nadu). A total fund of C431
crore has been allocated
under the scheme to be completed by 2017.
Dwarka has been allocated
around Rs 20 crore under the
scheme to make it more visitor
friendly through landscape
development, footpaths and
provision of other amenities.
As per legend, a trip to
Dwarka is considered incomplete without a visit to Bet
Dwarka. There are many historical temples on the island,
and the most revered one is the
temple of Lord Krishna.
According to legends, the Bet
Dwarka is also believed as a
very place where Lord Krishna
met his childhood friend
Sudama.
strong message of brotherhood.”
Top BJP leaders, who were
in Allahabad for the two-day
National Executive meeting,
raked up the issue of alleged
migration of Hindus from
Kairana to attack the
Samajwadi Party Government
in the State ahead of the
Assembly election to be held
early next year.
BJP president Amit Shah,
in his address to the National
Executive on Sunday, had said,
“The migration happening in
Kairana due to violence is a
matter of serious concern.
There is an atmosphere of violence. The lack of development
and the lack of governance in
the largest State of India, that
is Uttar Pradesh, is becoming
a matter of serious concern.”
UP Chief Minister
Akhilesh Yadav accused BJP
leaders of being “dishonest” and
“lying” on the issue and said he
would like to see “better work”
from the party.
“BJP is alleging that the
Samajwadi Party Government
forced the people to flee from
Kairana... BJP can be dishonest to this extent,” Yadav had
told reporters on Monday.
“We have received reports
from media that the BJP is
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Minister Gopal Rai
Shisenior
was on Tuesday replaced by
Cabinet colleague Satyendar
Jain as the Transport Minister
after the former had sought to
be relieved of the charge on
health grounds.
However, political opponents refused to buy the
“excuse” of health grounds and
linked his “resignation” with
the
premium
bus
service “scam”.
Responding to the allegations, Rai tweeted, “Some people are spreading lies that I
resigned due to premium bus
scheme. There was neither any
corruption in that scheme nor
have I resigned because of it…
I have left Transport
Department due to health reasons. I will continue to work as
Labour,
Employment
Development and GAD
Minister.”
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injured in an ongoing gunfight between infiltrators and
security forces near the Line of
Control (LoC) in Macchil sector of north Kashmir’s Kupwara
district on Tuesday. An Army
spokesman said that the
encounter was going on but
nothing could be said on the situation till Wednesday morning.
Police sources confirmed
that the soldiers of 56 Rashtriya
Rifles intercepted a group of
militants at Katwara near the
LoC early on Tuesday morning.
The soldiers tracked the suspicious movement in the forested area before a siege was laid.
The militants reportedly
opened fire on the security
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“Three soldiers sustained
injuries. They have been immediately airlifted to 92 Base
Hospital in Srinagar for treatment,” sources said.
A spokesman of XV Corps
said that the encounter continued till late in the evening.
The area has been cordoned
off. “We can’t say anything
(about the gunbattle) till
tomorrow morning. The area is
under
darkness,”
the
spokesman told The Pioneer.
Sources said that sepoy
Nikhil and sepoy Lakashman
Das have received bullet
injuries. Das is reportedly in
critical condition.
The encounter triggered off
at a time when Army chief
General Dalbir Singh Suhag
arrived here to oversee the security situation along the LoC and
the hinterland. The Kashmir
Valley has witnessed spurt in
militant violence in the recent
days. Earlier this month, two
policemen and three BSF troopers were shot dead by militants
in two separate attacks in south
Kashmir’s Anantnag district.
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Union Minister Nirmala
Sitaraman
and
Pon
Radhakrishnan also called on
the Jayalalithaa in Tamil Nadu
house in the evening.
The
memorandum
described as “meagre recompense” the release of Rs 552
crore by the Centre to Tamil
Nadu from the special allocation made in the Budget for
schemes to be approved by Niti
Aayog.
“I request you to enhance
the annual special grant to
Tamil Nadu to Rs 2,000 crore
in each of the remaining four
years of the 14th Finance
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sending a fact-finding
committee here, but we have
not received any information in
writing till now. A team can
come and do their investigation. We have no problem with
that,” the District Magistrate
added. Meanwhile, the Centre
has sought a detailed report
from the Uttar Pradesh
Government on the alleged
migration of Hindus from
Kairana village in the State.
In a communication, the
Home Ministry asked the State
Commission award period up
to 2019- 20.
“We have a ready shelf of
large projects that could be
funded out of this special allocation, including the comprehensive special package for the
diversification of fisheries,
desalination projects and several infrastructure projects
under the Vision Tamil Nadu
2023,” the Chief Minister said
in the memorandum.
Referring to release of further assistance towards restoration and reconstruction in the
wake of last year’s floods, it said
the Government of India has so
far released only Rs 1,737 crore
from the national disaster fund
against a demand of Rs 25,912
crore for temporary and permanent restoration.
Government to verify the allegations and send a detailed report
to it as early as possible. Official
sources said the communication
was sent three days back but no
reply has been received.
“If people have to leave
their homes in their own country, then the State Government
should take the responsibility.
If the State government seeks
any help, we will definitely
give them,” he had said.
The CPI on its part targeted the BJP over its claims of
migration of Hindus from
Kairana in Uttar Pradesh, saying
it’s a tactic to “communally
polarise” voters ahead of the
Assembly polls in the State next
year as the party is “not confident of the Prime Minister’s
popularity helping it win there.”
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ecretary to CM Sunil Kumar
Barnwal ordered investigation to be initiated against
JHALCO Regional Manager,
Dumka and Junior Engineer
Anirudh Kumar in light of
allegations of forming bogus
beneficiaries’ committee made
against them in Jan Samwad.
The complainant from Araji
Amgaachhi accused the JHALCO officials of appointing the
lakes located in the State capital are being renovated under
the ‘beautification of water
bodies’ drive of the State government. Kanke and Hatia
dams too, will be properly lit
up during the night so that
people could spare quality
time there with their friends
and families.
“Overall beautification
work of all dams will be done,
under which Kanke dam is also
being renovated. It will be
properly lit with street lights
around it besides the construction of permanent stairs
over 200 m stretch beside the
dam where there was stone
pitching,” said Executive
Engineer of Gonda Division
Rajesh Rai. All inlets to the
dam are also being cleared to
ensure free flow of water inside
the dam, added Rai.
In order to keep it neat and
clean all over the year, a separate pool measuring 20 feet by
30 feet is being dug up at
Kanke Road for throwing Puja
materials and immersion of
idols after the celebration of
various festivals.
According to the engineer,
the pool was being constructed in such a way that water
could flow from dam to the
pool or vice versa, but puja
waste cannot pass into the
dam. The dam has also been
cleared of the hyacinth which
had been covering the water
body, he said.
Similarly, beautification of
Hatia Dam is also being done
under which it will be properly lighted with the construction
of PCC roads on all the four
sides. According to Executive
Engineer of Hatia Division AK
Verma, all inlet points of the
dam are also being cleared to
so that the rain water does not
get blocked. It is a C4 crore project to be completed within one
and a half year time starting
from December 2015, added
Verma.
“Several trees will be along
the dam side to make it greener and shady for the visitors,
said Verma.
Ranchi
Municipal
Corporation on the other hand,
is also doing beautification
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work of ponds and pools making them deeper and cleaner.
According to Deputy Mayor, it
was a C 50-52 crore project
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all ponds and pools is to be
completed within 9 months
involving C 50-52 crore. 22-23
crore has already been spend in
this regard under which de-siltation of ponds was to be done
along with the construction of
walking zone around them,
proper arrangement of lights
around it,” said Deputy Mayor
Sanjeev Vijayvargiya.
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committee’s chairman and secretary from the same family
without consulting the villagers.
It was requested that the repair
of pond should be restarted after
investigating the matter.
While reviewing the Jan
Samwad complaints on
Tuesday, Barnwal ordered that
the role of the two accused officials is ascertained in the entire
scenario and police complaints
to be filed against them if they
are found guilty. He also wrote
to Principal Secretary, Water
Resources to probe this matter.
The matter of Scheduled
Tribes Residential Middle School
being closed for the past two
years was also raised in the
review meeting. The present
officials clarified that the school
is open and a MoU has been
signed with Vikas Bharti for its
operation. Barnwal ordered
Sahebganj DSE to sort out the
delays in awarding pension to
Mohammad Sultan, retired assistant teacher from Kunwarpur.
He also ordered to investigate whether the hot mix plant
set
up
by
Swarnim
Construction in Vishrampur,
Palamu has taken required
clearances from Jharkhand
State Pollution Control Board.
The unit is causing problems to
the locals.
The Secretary to CM
instructed that a team is formed
to find out the culprits behind
the yet unsolved rape case of
Jalil Ansari from Patan, Palamu.
One Kunal Deep had complained that he had secured
first place in Jharkhand State
Powerlifting Championship in
2015 but has not received his
certificates. Listening to this,
Barnwal ordered the officials to
issue the certificate today itself
and disband sports federations who treat sportspersons
like this.
allotted by Urban Development
Department where more than
35 ponds across the capital city
are to be renovated.
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lan to set up solid waste
management system in
towns gets a fillip with the
Government approving plants
and all desired infrastructure
for four ULBs. Ranchi
Municipal Corporation (RMC)
along with Dhanbad Municipal
Corporation and Chakulia and
Pakur municipal councils have
been released funds for the purpose.
The State Cabinet, in its
meeting, approved the proposal that would see the solid
waste management plants and
other facilities coming up on
PPP mode. “The Cabinet has
approved the plan for
Chakulia costing total of C
38.10 crore of which C 18.51
crore has been sanctioned as
State share. Similarly, C258.68
crore project for Dhanbad
that would be contributed by
the Centre and the State with
C 36.43 crore and C 44.70
crore, respectively has also
been approved for this year,”
said Cabinet Secretary SS
Meena on Tuesday.
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that C269.67 crore has been
approved as total cost for
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he denizens in the State
capital will receive the first
monsoon showers within a
week. As per the MET department expert prediction, the
monsoon will first hit the north
eastern (NE) and southern
part of the state within 4-5 days
giving respite from heat waves
and humidity soon.
“The southwest monsoon
has further advanced into
remaining parts of the east central Bay of Bengal, some more
parts of west central, some
parts of sub Himalayan West
Bengal and Sikkim. Conditions
are favourable for southwest
monsoon into some more parts
of central Arabian Sea and
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experienced within 4 to 5 days
in Jharkhand,” said, Indian
Meteorological Department
(IMD) Ranchi observatory,
Director, BK Mandal.
The denizens in the State
Capital were experiencing heat
wave like condition with high
humidity and the chances is
likely to prevail in the isolated
pockets of the state for another 48 hours. “The upper air
cyclonic circulation over northern parts of Bihar and adjoining sub Himalayan west Bengal
and Sikkim expending up to
0.9 Km above mean sea level is
the reason behind high humidity including the north south
trough from east Bihar to
North Bay of Bengal is also
influencing the weather condition at present. There are also
chances of heavy rainfall at isolated pockets of the state,”
added, Mandal.
Thunderstorm and lightning with light rain occurred
on Tuesday in the north eastern direction of Ranchi at a distance of 40-80 Km influencing
other areas which include
Ramgarh,
Hazaribagh,
Koderma, Barhi and Giridih,
informed the MET expert.
On Monday, Ranchi registered maximum 38.8 degree
Celsius and minimum 26.5
degree Celsius whereas at
Jamshedpur maximum temperature was recorded 37.1
degree Celsius and minimum
27 degree Celsius was registered. However, Daltonganj
which seems to be singeing in
comparison to other districts of
the state recorded maximum
42.4 degree Celsius and minimum 27.6 degree Celsius was
registered there.
No warning of instant
weather change has been issued
by Ranchi Observatory Centre
till June 16. Moreover, chances
of heavy rainfall are feeble in
the State capital in the coming
days yet few isolated areas in
State may receive light drizzles.
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the system for RMC of which
the State would chip in with
C79.68 crore. “For Pakur, the
cost has been kept at C95.18
crore of which C39.40 comes
as State fund,” he said. The
cost of the project is for five
years duration under which
solid waste management
plant along with entire
garbage collection, transportation and disposal would
be taken care of.
This apart, the Cabinet
also approved guideline for
service, promotion and other
conditions for clerks posted in
Collectorates across the State.
This would pave way to the
formation of a separate cadre
of clerks involving lower division, upper division, head
clerk
etc
positions.
Importantly, all clerical staffs
of Collectorates are on strike
demanding formation of cadre
and fixing recruitment related
rules for them.
The Cabinet, at the same
time, also decided to allot
28.80 acre of GM land at
Tender of Kanke to the Welfare
Department for the purpose of
building residential school for
ST students. No money would
be charged against the land.
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Tuesday ordered the AntiC
Corruption Bureau to investigate fraudulent activities and
tax evasion by certain businessmen in various districts of
Jharkhand.
The Commercial Tax
Department found that some
businessmen have done several deals but have not intimated the Department about the
financial details of these deals.
It has also been found that bulk
of merchandise has been sent
out or brought into Jharkhand
by acquiring road permits
without paying any taxes.
These activities have been supported by some circle officers
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Government is serious about
revenue generation, stated the
CM. Those found guilty of tax
evasion will be subjected to
lawful penalties, he added.
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scene when murmur
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about the Rajya Sabha poll
started in Jharkhand. However,
Mahesh Poddar, who has been
holding the treasurer post in
the State BJP for last 20 years,
emerged as real dark horse
when the election concluded
on June 11. The Pioneer talked
to the newly elected ‘Elder’ on
policy matters, his way for
development of Jharkhand and
of course the game, which he
describes as race, played out for
the lone seat. Excerpts:
Winning the election as a
‘local’ candidate, a rarity for
Jharkhand, what would be
your priorities?
For me, GST is the biggest
issue which has implications all
over the countr y. Even
Congress people are willing to
do it barring a few. Other
smaller parties are also ready.
I guess that they would not be
able to stop it in terms of number instead, they would try to
create obstacles to wash out the
Monsoon Session. Our priority would be to pass the GST
Bill in the Rajya Sabha since
there are lots of things involved
in it like making the entire
country as one economic zone
like the European Union. I
believe that role of GST is
going to be the biggest in
showcasing
NDA
Government’s performance
ahead of next general elections.
How do you think
Jharkhand is going to be benefited out of GST?
Take
for
example
Jharkhand is the only State
where three big steel plants are
located. Besides, here is iron
ore, coal and several other
minerals. The State gets just 2
per cent CST on these minerals when sold to the consumers
or stock transfer takes place. If
GST happens, the flow of revenue would grow immensely to
the State. This would lead to
more expenditure and the
entire economy of the State go
for a churn with more employment generation etc.
It has always been a matter of debate about which
model Jharkhand should
adopt which can balance its
industrial face with humani-
tarian values. What are your
views on that?
I firmly believe that no
business has right to continue
if is being done by ignoring the
humanitarian ethos. Human
first. We have to balance
human aspect and trade and
none can sustain at the cost of
the other. Due to historic reasons there are suspicions in the
back of the mind of the people.
They are apprehensive that
their future would deteriorate
further particularly because of
displacement.
But the fact is that you cannot stop displacement entirely.
If you want to bring new things
like industry, more employment opportunities, infrastructure etc then you need
space which can be obtained
only through relocating people.
But, you cannot just pay them
for their land and chase them
out. I think, rehabilitation is the
only way to deal with displacement. People of the State
have been in poverty and do
not know how to handle
money. Often we see the compensations paid are misused
and they got cheated by mid-
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dlemen. Instead, the displaced
should be provided means of
livelihood to sustain.
Often we have seen that
MPs going to Rajya Sabha
from Jharkhand remain mute
spectators and do not actively participate in debate. How
would you be able to correct
the image?
See when regional parties
go there they do get much time
to speak since their strength is
low. Since I would be representing the BJP, which is a ruling party, if you have talent, you
get sufficient time. I expect that
I would be getting sufficient
time.
How would be able to
become a bridge between the
Centre and the State and play
your role in implementing
policies?
What I see the Centre and
State are working in tandem at
present. The Centre is providing all help to the State which,
in turn, is equally responding
by implementing policies for
the wellbeing of Jharkhand. For
example, take massive water
conservation drive. I wish this
coordination to continue.
The election has also been
outstanding in terms of the
BJP in the State. It won two
seats out of nowhere. How
this is going to boost the
stature of the Chief Minister?
When the Chief Minster
accepted this challenge and
had fielded second candidate
the intention was to win. When
the election started both we
and JMM were equal with 19
votes on each side. We were at
the same position at the starting line. Both of us have to
arrange supports which both
tried. But at the end we
remained just nose ahead of
them. We had started race on
equal footing.
How this has boosted the
image of the party?
The win has grown our
confidence a lot and their’s
taken a dip. We emerged better united while they are
defragmented and rattled lot.
Their coming together against
the BJP is far from understood
when they have fought
Assembly byepoll so fiercely
not long ago among themselves. The united Opposition
reduced noting but to a gathering which was unholy.
But the perception also
went out that the way the election was managed was kind of
dirty politics in the annals of
Jharkhand.
I feel politics is not dirty. It
is raised by those who acquire
everything for themselves but
object to the others. For example, look at the Congress stand
a few weeks before the election
and when an AICC leader
comes at the end from Delhi.
The JVM said they are against
dynastic politics! What transpired since then? That is dirty
politics by their own definition.
We were seeking votes based on
conscience from Independents.
Allegations are machineries were misused to stop some
MLAs from voting?
This is a vague allegation.
Had there been any truth in
this, the matter would have
reached to the court. Their
lawyer went to Supreme Court
where they did not get any
relief.
Were you sure about your
win from the beginning?
Yes. I was sure to win. My
party was sure to win. We tried
very hard though, like they did.
Somehow we managed to
remain ahead in the end while
their steps shacked probably
due to power they were getting
from got disconnected.
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hardcore Naxal Chakro
IChaki
who was one of the
accused in the December, 2014
Chaibasa jailbreak , was arrested by West Singhbhum police
from Vishakhapatnam in
Andhra Pradesh.
Chaki who carried a
reward of C 2 lakh on his head
was working as a labourer at a
construction
site
at
Vishakhapatnam from where
the police nabbed him. He was
wanted in connection with 13
cases which are pending in the
Chaibasa district court.
Revealing about the
achievement, West Singhbhum
district superintendent of
police Michael Raj said that
Chaki who was a hardcore
rebel of CPI-Maoist was arrested on the basis of a tip off.
"We had received a tip off
from our sources. We even had
a photograph of the rebel, a
team of police officials went
over to Vishakhapatnam and
arrested him from a construction site where he was working," said Raj.
The superintendent of
police informed that Chaki
(35) who is a resident of Sonua
block in West Singhbhum had
left the rebel outfit after fleeing
the Chaibasa divisional jail
and had taken to working in a
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"We are grilling him to dig
out more information. Though
Chaki had left the outfit and
had started working, we arrested him as 13 cases related to
naxal violence were pending
against him in Chaibasa court
alone. He will be put back in
the Chaibasa divisional jail
once again," said the senior
police officer.
Chaki had fled the Chaibasa
divisional jail along with 15 others undertrial prisoners while
they were being taken inside the
jail premises after their production in Chaibasa civil court.
The escape by the undertrial
prisoners was pre-planned and
they had even used chili powder for the escape.
Notably, undertrail prisoners had fled the Chaibasa
Divisional Jail in the afternoon of December 9,2014,
when they were bring brought
into the jail premises from a
prison van. On seeing the
undertrial fleeing the jail
premises, the police had
opened fired causing two of
them to die on the spot and
three others to sustain bullet
injuries. 15 of the undertrial
prisoners, however, managed to
flee. Of those killed were
identified as Tipa Das and
Ram Bilas Tanti, both rebels
and the three injured were
identified as Sanko Chaki,
Birsingh Hiburu and Hesa
Purty, who were also naxalites.
Seven of the 15 who managed
to escape were naxals.
SP, West Singhbhum said
seven of those fled the jail were
naxals. He pointed out only one
of them, Budha Nag, who was
also a naxal, had surrendered
in the court in 2015, but the rest
of the fugitives were on the run.
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of South Eastern Railway (
SER) will hit for seven hours
due to a traffic-cum-power
block for launching of a
Limited Height Subway (LHS)
between Adityapur and
Gamharia stations.
The traffic-cum-power
block from 12 noon to 7 pm is
required for launching of the
subway which will replace an
unmanned level crossing.
A circular has been issued
by Garden Reach, headquarters
of SER in this regard. It said
that several passenger trains
will remain cancelled tomorrow (June 15) while several
other trains will be either short
terminated , rescheduled or
run in diverted routes.
The trains which will be
cancelled tomorrow include
the Up and down TatanagarKharagpur
Passenger,
Asansol–Tatanagar-Express,
Asansol-Tatanagar Passenger,
Tatanagar-Gua Passenger.
The
Howrah-Barbil
Janshatabdi Express ( 12021)
will be short terminated at
Tatanagar and will run as
Barbil-Howrah Janshatabdi
Express ( 12022) from Tatanagar
to Howrah on its return journey
as per its schedule time in the
evening. Thus, services of the
train will remain cancelled
between Tatanagar and Barbil.
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journey from Gamharia
instead of Tatanagar. The services of that train will remain
cancelled between Gamharia
and Tatanagar.
The Dhanbad-Tatanagar
Subarnarekha Express ( 13301)
will be short terminated at
Kandra. The return journey of
the train ( 13302) will resume
from Kandra instead of
Tatanagar. Thus, services of the
train will remain cancelled
between Kandra and Tatanagar.
As per the railway circular
as many as 11 trains will be
rescheduled. The Rourkela-
Muri-Jammu Tawi Link Express
( 18109) has been rescheduled
to leave Rourkela at 3.35 pm
instead of 11.35 am. The
Tatanagar-Jammu Tawi Express
( 18101) will be rescheduled to
leave Tatanagar at 7.05 pm
instead of 2.50 pm. The
Tatanagar-Rourkela-Alappuzha
Link Express ( 18189) has been
rescheduled to leave Tatanagar
at 7.15 pm instead of 3.30 pm.
The Howrah-Mumbai
Gitanjali Express ( 12860) will
be rescheduled to leave
Howrah at 3.50 pm instead of
its schedule departure of 1.50
pm. The Santragachi-Hazur
Sahib Nanded Express ( 12768)
will be rescheduled to leave
Santragachi at 4.05 pm instead
of 2.50 pm. The DanapurTatanagar Express ( 18184) will
be rescheduled to leave
Danapur at 9 am instead of 6
am. The Tatanagar-Barkakana
Passenger (58023) will be
rescheduled to leave Tatanagar
at 7.10 pm instead of 3 pm.
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he Associated Chambers of
Commerce & Industry of
India (ASSOCHAM) in order
to provide a fillip to Start-Up
programme initiated by the
Centre as well as the State
Governments is going to
organise a summit cum award
programme on June 17.
Informing about the initiative taken by the business conglomerate, Rajeev Gupta, who
has been made chairman for the
purpose, said that role of startups in the context of Jharkhand
would be looked into.
“There is immense potential in Jharkhand and we have
sufficient number of professionals and willing people.
But they may not be aware
about this properly or facing
challenges in getting desired
information, assistance or
even funding. The summit is
being organised to remove
the obstacles coming in the
way of start-ups in
Jharkhand,” he said.
Asscoham’s Bharat Jaiswal
added that the body’s previous
initiatives to bring budding
innovators to Jharkhand had
not yielded. “We want to correct the perspective about the
State through this. All educational institutions have been
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School
of
Management ( XLRI) on
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Tuesday welcomed the new
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invited to share their perspectives which are the potential
incubation centers for startups. All the stakeholders would
be single platform to share
their ideas and present assistance for each other,” said
Jaiswal.
Prestigious awards in different 12 categories would be
given to young entrepreneur
and dynamic start-ups.
Entrepreneurs
besides
financers, mentors and other
stakeholders would be
engaged to collaborate across
the world and share ideas, best
practices, develop solutions
and partnerships.
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appealed
Jharkhand
Government to reduce the
Value Added Tax (VAT) levied
on petroleum products on the
grounds that the present tax
rates have made diesel and
petrol costlier in Jharkhand in
comparison to neighbouring
States, translating to decline in
sales here.
Presently, dealers have to
pay C15 per litre for petrol and
C8.37 for diesel or 22 per cent
on both, whichever is higher, in
addition to a cess of C1 per litre
as VAT.
West Bengal, Bihar and
Uttar Pradesh have lower tax
rates, due to which transporters
and travellers prefer to buy fuel
for their vehicles from these
neighbouring states instead of
Jharkhand, stated Jharkhand
State Petroleum Dealers
Association president Ashok
Kumar Singh in a press conference on Tuesday.
An alarming decline of
23,546 KL was observed in sales
volume of diesel during April
and May alone, Singh said. “Sales
along NH-2 have gone down by
60 to 70 per cent. Heavy vehicles
plying this thoroughfare get
cheaper diesel in Uttar Pradesh
on one end and in West Bengal
on the other. If corrective measures are not taken soon, it will
be fatal for petroleum sector in
Jharkhand,” he added.
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and Bihar are experiencing a
growth in sale of petroleum
products at Jharkhand’s
expense, said Singh. “Jharkhand
saw immense growth in diesel
sales back in 2013-14 and 201415 when tax rates were lower
despite dismal business at
national level. Sales have gone
down drastically due to higher
VAT this year even with good
national average,” he said.
According
to
the
Association, had the VAT rates
not been increased in February
last year, the revenue earned by
government had been higher
than what it had considering
the then growth rate of petroleum sector in Jharkhand.
“State Government earned
C1284.56 crores last year in VAT
from petroleum dealers in
Jharkhand against actual sale of
15.34 lakh kilolitres. With previous tax rates, the sales could
have gone up to 18.41 lakh kilolitres, meaning C1309.42 crores
VAT to government,” said Singh.
Transporters, hauling
petroleum products and goods
both, farmers and commuters
of Jharkhand, all have to suffer
due to higher prices of diesel
and petrol, he further said.
The Association demanded that the VAT rates are lowered in order to bring down
prices as compared to neighbouring states ‘as it has always
been in the past’. “VAT on
patrol and diesel should be lowered rationally and fixed, like in
West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh.
C 8234 should be charged as
VAT one every kilolitre of
diesel and C12, 340 per kilolitre of petrol. As per our estimation, these changes will not
decrease revenue generation in
any manner even if crude oil
prices fluctuate,” Singh said.
The Association also submitted a memorandum to
Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma
featuring their demands and
estimations. The further course
of action will be decided after
the memorandum is considered by the Chief Minister.
batch of students at a ceremony of commencement of the
new academic session of 2016.
A total of 537 students
joined the illustrious XLRI
student fraternity, including
the three flagship programmes:
Business
Management (PGDM-BM:
2016-18 batch) — 183 students, Human Resource
Management (PGDM-HRM:
2016-18 batch) - 182 students,
Fifteen-months General
Management Programme
(PGDM-GM: 2016-17 batch)
— 119 students, along with:
Three years Postgraduate
Diploma in Management
(PGDM-BM, Part Time: 201619 batch) — 39 students;.
Students in new batch of
Fellow Programme in
Management (FPM) and
Executive Fellow Programme
in Management (EXEC-FPM)
were also welcomed at today's
ceremony.
Fr. E. Abraham, S.J.,
Director, XLRI, welcomed the
students and said : “Many
organisations consider their
greatest asset to be their good
name or reputation. Big and
small firms and lately even educational institutions should
nurture their organizations and
brands in a sustainable and
responsible manner, day-inand-day-out, or else one fine
morning decades of brandbuilding might suddenly collapse. Having a high disposable
income in your hands does not
in any way justify irresponsible
celebration thereby harming
yourself and other innocent
people, and consequently
wrecking one’s career and
bringing a bad name to one’s
organization or educational
institution.”
“XLRI views ethical and
responsible behavior as being
an integral part of their graduate’s attributes. A student’s
ethical awareness includes the
ability to understand ethical
standards and professional conduct both within the classroom
and outside. It is expected that
you will hold and nurture personal values and beliefs consistent with your role as responsible members of local, national and professional communities”, he added.
The new students will be
taken through a Special
Orientation Programme drawn
up by XLRI to update their
knowledge before regular classes commence.
The first year students will
also be taken for XLRI’s compulsory Village Exposure
Programme and the Outbound
Programme. Both the programmes have been specially
designed for the students to
create awareness about the
realities rural India.
Introducing the new batch
of students to the accomplished
faculty members of the institute, Prof. Pranabesh Ray,
dean [academics], XLRI commented: “XLRI is known for its
academic excellence as well as
instilling in its students the
right values through courses,
activities, events and the environment it creates. A unique
feature in the first term will be
the
Village
Exposure
Programme and the Outbound
Programme. Both the programmes have been designed
to create awareness among the
students of life in rural India,
as well as the importance of
team spirit. Such an integral
and value-based formation will
impel the future managers to be
innovative, competent and creative leaders.”
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n a bid to provide information to the parents about the
Ibasic
conduct expected at the
school an inception programme for students of Class
XI and their parents was organised at DPS, Bokaro on
Monday.
They were given a comprehensive idea about the current education system prevailing in the school inclusive of
the rules and regulations to be
followed.
On this occasion, a team of
experts comprising of
Dietician, Psychologist,
Psychiatrist, and Career
Counsellor were also present
for providing guidance to the
students.
Dr. Hemlata. S. Mohan,
Director and Principal, DPS,
Bokaro said that the main objective of the school is overall development of the students by providing holistic education. She said
it is important for the parents to
understand the feelings of their
children for their development.
She stressed that parents should
not pressurize their wards to do
things as per their aspirations.
She urged the parents to
spend quality time with their
wards and regularly check the
school almanac& website for
updates from the school.
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(AYUSH) department of the
State has roped in a few major
Yoga experts from renowned
training institutes like Patanjali,
Art of Living, Munger school of
Yoga and other institutes for
guiding the participants and
encouraging public to adopt
the century’s old practice in
their day to day life for healthy
lifestyle. The decision was considered after receiving the
communiqué from PMO to
conduct yoga across State by
ensuring the presence of maximum public in various programmes as planned by the
State Government.
“AYUSH is following all the
set norms as prescribed.
Various experts from leading
training institutes will guide
and train public in various
‘Aashans’. There are limited
resources but we have contacted experts of Pantanjali, Art of
Living including Munger
School of Yoga. The department is also trying to consult
few private agencies for imparting Yoga teachings among
denizens on international day,”
said, AYUSH Director, Dr.
Numaan Ahmed.
Notably, according to
sources, seats of yoga practitioners under Jharkhand State
AYUSH Medical Council are
vacant since the establishment
of the AYUSH department in
the state. Moreover, the officials claim that the international events will be successfully conducted under the
experts’ supervision. “For the
time being, we have roped in
few Yoga experts or institutes
engaged in Yoga teaching
practice for International
event. As far as, recruitment
process is considered, the seats
will be filled soon,” Ahmed,
pointed out.
Similarly, after School
Literacy and Education
Department issued circular to
all the DEOs and DSEs to
ensure the participation of
children in the grand event, the
school authorities too are on
toes and have made all essential arrangement for the international event.
“Approximately, 20 thousands high schools are there in
state, where there is already a
provision for yoga teachers
and those schools where Yoga
experts are not present, they
can tie up with local Yoga
associations. Moreover, the
department has also written to
all the DCs to coordinate
accordingly as per the requirement. Two to three schools
experts together can also train
kids and can manage the programme,” said, School
Education and Literacy department, Secretary, Aradhana
Patnaik.
A preparation for the D Day is in full swing in the state
capital. “Few experts from Art
of living institute will conduct
meditation classes for school
kids. Headmasters can also
appoint few local yoga experts
for the purpose as per their
convenience. From June 15, as
per the instructions issued,
training classes will be initiated for kids. We have demarcated Zila School premises,
where 1000 schools children
will be trained under the expert
supervisions for June 21 event.
The event will be held at
Morabadi ground in the state
capital,” said, Ranchi DEO,
Rajkumar Prasad Singh.
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finally expelled six MLAs,
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including one from Amethi,
who cross voted in the Rajya
Sabha elections in Uttar
Pradesh against party candidate
Kapil Sibal last week. The
MLAs, who were expelled for
six years, are Sanjay Pratap
Jayaswal (Basti district),
Madhuri Verma (Bahraich),
Vijay Dube (Kushinagar),
Mohammed Muslim (TiloiAmethi), Dil Nawaz Khan
(Bulandshahar) and Nawab
Kasim Ali Khan (Rampur).
The party, however, is yet
to act over the alleged sabotage
by former Chief Minister
Bhupinder Singh Hooda and
other 13 party MLAs, who
allegedly foiled the prospect of
Congress-backed candidate R
K Anand in the Haryana Rajya
Sabha biennial polls. Congress
has since petitioned the
Election Commission, and
sources said that any action in
Haryana would be done only
after a response from the election watchdog.
AICC General Secretary
Janardan Dwivedi announced
the decision of UP expulsions
in presence of senior leader
Ghulam Nabi Azad, who was
the party’s authorised representative in the RS elections in
Uttar Pradesh last Saturday.
Sibal edged past Preeti
Mahapatra, put up by BJP in
the cliffhanger, securing his
Rajya Sabha berth with support
from other parties.
With only 25 first preference votes to his credit and his
final tally adding up to 34, Sibal
fared only marginally better
than his MLC colleague Deepak
Singh did in the UP Legislative
Council polls on Friday.
Azad, who is now AICC
General Secretary in charge of
Uttar Pradesh, said while three
of the six expelled MLAs voted
in favour of the BJP, three others sided with BSP.
Azad, who is the Leader of
the Opposition in the Rajya
Sabha, utilised the occasion to
target the BJP, alleging that the
cross voting in Uttar Pradesh
and the controversy in Haryana
showed that the saffron party
went all out to win the polls
through “misuse of power”.
Attacking BJP for putting up
Mahapatra as an additional candidate, when it had as many as
27 less votes, he said this was
first such example he was seeing
in his long political career.
Taking a jibe at the Prime
Minister, Azad said while
Narendra Modi talks of cooperative federalism on one hand,
the ruling party at the Centre
uses money power and
Government influence to win
RS elections through unfair
means. Alleging the involvement
of Government of India in the
“big conspiracy” in RS elections
in Haryana, he said this portends
danger for democracy.
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head of the International Yoga Day on June
21, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has
sought the support of all Union Ministers and
department heads to make yoga a “mass movement” for better physical and mental well
being.
In a letter to all the Ministers, Modi said the
International Day of Yoga was a way of making
yoga an integral part of our lives.
“The International Day of Yoga is not simply an event. It is a way of making yoga an integral part of our lives. It is a means of popularising yoga among the masses, across social strata, in different age groups so that we can enhance
our mental and physical well being. It is
towards this end that I solicit your support,” he
said in the letter.
“It has been decided to take forward the
momentum generated last year with greater and
more active participation of all sections of the
society, particularly the youth,” the letter said.
The national event of mass yoga demonstration will be held in Chandigarh on June 21.
Similar events will also be held across the nation
and the world.
“Our efforts should be to make it a people’s
programme by highlighting the benefits of yoga
for better physical and mental health and social
harmony,” the Prime Minister said in the letter.
The Ministry of AYUSH has designed a
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common yoga protocol for this event. Modi also
enclosed with this letter, a booklet and a DVD
on this protocol.
He said that along with the mass yoga
demonstration at Chandigarh, the Centre aims
to organise similar demonstrations at the State,
district, block and panchayat levels and each
State has been requested to plan its activities in
tandem with the national effort.
“The State Governments have also been
requested to encourage the use of locally made
yoga mats and apparel, preferably with locally
available raw-material to provide employment
oppoprtunities to local artisans and small
entrepreneurs. Special effors would be made to
involve persons with disabilities in all the celebrations,” he added.
elp f ix my f ridgeExternal Affairs Minister
Sushma Swaraj was on
Tuesday requested by a netizen, but had to plead that she
was not in a position to
oblige.
Swaraj, often praised for
her prompt assistance to distressed Indians abroad, was
approached on the twitter by
a complainant who tweeted
“@irvpaswan @SushmaSwaraj
Dear
Ministers,
@Samsung_IN sold me a
defective refrigerator, they are
not ready to replace.
“ @ i r v p a s w a n
@ S u s h m a S w a r a j
@Samsung_IN Please look
into this issue. They delivered
defective product and it
stopped working in two
months” and also gave product details.
However, Swaraj replied,
“Brother I cannot help you in
matters of a Refrigerator. I am
very busy with human beings
in distress.”Since the post last
night, Swaraj’s tweet has been
retweeted and ‘liked’ by over
6000 people.
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Institute of Science
(IISc), Bangalore and four
IIITsndian
— Mumbai, Delhi, Madras
and Kanpur — figure in the list
of Asia’s top 50 universities, as
per the QS University Rankings
for 2016. IISc, which is placed
33rd this year, had emerged as
the highest-ranked Indian
institute last year as well when
it was placed at 34th.
Most of India’s institutions
have climbed to higher positions
from last year. IIT-Mumbai has
jumped 11 positions, while IITDelhi has climbed six places
from 42nd rank last year. IITMadras jumped 13 places, IITKanpur 10, IIT-Kharagpur 16,
IIT-Roorkee 14 and IITGuwahati four places from the
last year’s rankings.
IIT-Mumbai has been
ranked 35th, closely followed by
IIT-Delhi (36th), IIT-Madras
(43rd) and IIT-Kanpur (48th).
IIT-Kharagpur was placed 51st
and two other IITs -- Roorkee
(78) and Guwahati (94) -- made
it to the top 100. Delhi University
(DU), which had got 91st position last year, has jumped several steps and was ranked 66th.
University of Calcutta was
ranked 108th, a big jump from
149th last year, University of
Mumbai 145th, while Banaras
Hindu University is placed at
155th position. Panjab
University is in the 251 to 300
bracket.
Overall, like last year,
National University of
Singapore (NUS) has been
ranked the best university in
Asia, followed by University of
Hong Kong. India’s performance in these rankings is the
fifth best among the 17 countries that feature in the ratings.
While India has 23 universities in the list of 350, it is outperformed by Taiwan (34),
South Korea (54), Japan (72) and
China (82), who also dominate
the list of top 10 institutions.
Other Indian institutions
which figure in the rankings are
Amrita University (169),
University of Pune (176),
Amity University (195),
Manipal Academy of Higher
Education (200) and Anna
University (251-300 band).
Indian Institute of
Information Technology,
Allahabad, Pondicherr y
University and Andhra
University are in the 301st350th band. QS had evaluated
920 universities from the Asia
region for this year’s rankings.
IISc, Bangalore, which
emerged as the top Indian
institution in the QS rankings, was also rated as the best
Indian university in the HRD
Ministry’s first ever National
Institutional
Ranking
Framework (NIRF) released
earlier this year.
As per a statement released
by QS rankings, “IISc’s success is
partly due to its highly impactful research and it achieved the
perfect weightage score for
papers per faculty.” This year, the
QS rankings also introduced
‘Staff with PhD’ to analyse teaching quality, the statement said.
B
ills introduced three decades ago are
amongst the 45 Bills that are pending in the Rajya Sabha. The legislations
pending in the Upper House include the
contentious Constitution (One Hundred
and Twenty-second Amendment) Bill,
2014, known as the GST Bill, which was
moved in the Upper House in August
last year after being passed by Lok Sabha.
The Lok Sabha too is yet to dispose
of five Bills at the end of the last session
of Parliament in May 2016. Some of the
Bills pending for decades include the
Indian Medical Council (Amendment)
Bill, 1987, the Participation of Workers
in Management Bill 1990 and the Constitution (79th Amendment) Bill 1992.
Another key Bill is the Whistle
Blowers Protection (Amendment) Bill,
2015, which was moved in December
last year in the Upper House but the discussion on it remained inconclusive. In
the Budget Session this year, this Bill
could not be taken up.
In the Lok Sabha, important Bills
pending include the Consumer
Protection Bill 2015 and the Benami
Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment
Bill, 2015.
Indicating that the long-pending
GST Bill can see a forward movement in
the next session of Parliament, Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley had expressed confidence that “legislation activity” can proceed at a faster face with the increase in
strength of those parties which support
the Bills in the Rajya Sabha and do not
“obstruct” proceedings.
He was asked about the implications
of results of the recent Rajya Sabha elections that saw a dip in Congress’ number, and the prospect of the GST Bill
which is being blocked by the main
Opposition party seeking amendments.
The last few sessions of Parliament
have seen sparrings even though the second part of the Budget Session recorded relative improvement as far the
completion of Government business was
concerned. But the problem of pending
bills is not limited to the two years of the
NDA Government.
On the Medical Council Bill, the
report of the Joint Committee was presented way back in July 1989 while on
the Workers Management Bill, the
report of the Department-related
Parliamentary Standing Committee on
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Labour and Welfare was laid on the
table of the Rajya Sabha in December
2001, 11 years after it was introduced.
Other important pending bills are
the Waqf Properties (Eviction of
Unauthorised Occupants) Bill 2014,
The Right to Fair Compensation and
Transparency in Land Acquisition,
Rehabilitation and Resettlement
(Amendment) Bill 2015 and The Enemy
Property (Amendment and Validation)
Bill 2016.
Another Bill pending in the Upper
House since 2007 is the Private
Detective Agencies (Regulation) Bill,
2007 of the Home Ministry on which
the report of the Department-related
Parliamentary Standing Committee on
Home Affairs was presented way back
in February, 2009.
n a major achievement in the
health sector, India has
Ibecome
the first country in the
world to get the Yaws-free certificate by the WHO. The certificate came quite late though
as no case of yaws, a bacterial
infectious disease, had been
reported from the country for
the last one decade.
This is the third major
momentous public health feat
for India, which was declared
polio-free two years ago, elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus early this year and
now becoming free from Yaws,
a chronic bacterial infection
caused by Treponema pallidum
subsp Pertenue.
Poor socio-economic conditions facilitate the spread of
yaws. A senior official in the
Ministry said that they want
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
to announce this historic feat at
an event planned to be held
soon.
A WHO team had last
year visited to tribal areas in in
Khammam,
Phulbani,
Koraput, Mayurbhanj and
Chandrapur besides a few others which have reported yaws
in the past. But they did not
find any evidence of the
transmission of the disease
among children.
Terming it a major milestone, SK Jain, from Department
of Parasitic Diseases of the
NCDC, said, India is the first
nation in the world to get such
a prestigious tag.
“Currently, at least 13
countries are reporting the
disease to the WHO. The
WHO roadmap targeted yaws
for eradication by 2020 but
India has achieved this land-
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information regarding
Government job generation, the
Centre on Tuesday said that all
Central Government vacancies
would be publicised countrywide through local employment
exchanges and ‘Employment
News’ newspaper among others.
The decision by Department of
Personnel and Training (DoPT)
assumes significance as over 2
lakh posts which are estimated
to be created by the Central
Government in its various
departments by 2017.
The Centre has been striv-
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cases were reported in 2003,” he
added.
Jain said following the
successful implementation of
the yaws Eradication
Programme (YEP) India had
declared eradication of the
disease in 2006 itself. It had
sought WHO certification in
2011. But, it had to wait in the
absence of clear guidelines on
the roadmap for eradication
and elimination of the disease
from the WHO on the eradication of the yaws.
Humans are the main
reservoir of infection and children bear the brunt of the disease. It is transmitted primarily through skin contact with an
infected person.
If left untreated, multiple
lesions appear all over the
body, leading to chronic disfigurement and disability.
ing to create more jobs in the
country. It had recently decided
that all proposals seeking
approval of appraisal bodies like
Foreign Investment Promotion
Board (FIPB) and Core Group
on Disinvestment need to
mandatorily mention “employment generation potential”.
Citing the instructions it
had issue earlier, the DoPT aid
all vacancies to be filled on regular basis, except those which fall
within the purview of Union
Public Service Commission and
Staff Selection Commission, are
to be notified in the local
employment exchange or central
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oreign Defence firms can
now appoint ‘agents’ to market their products to the armed
forces and the Government
but with strict oversight, which
includes opening up of company’s books to scrutiny besides
not allowing any success bonus
or penalty fees among other
measures.
The Government will also
have the veto power to reject or
accept, at any point of time, an
agent proposed by the company. The new set of guidelines
are now part of the Defence
Procurement Procedure (DPP),
2016 that was put out in public last week as the Government
works on ensuring transparency in the murky world of
Defence deals.
While previous DPPs also
had a window for foreign
companies to hire agents, it is
for the first time that a
detailed set of guidelines has
come out.
The previous mechanisms
had failed to ensure transparency even though Defence
agents continued to play crucial
roles in Defence contracts.
In an interview to PTI earlier, Defence Minister Manohar
Parrikar had drawn a distinction between agents and middlemen,
saying
the
Government will not leave
room for any “hanky- panky”.
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planning round-the-clock
T
monitoring of Sewage
Treatment Plants (STPs) to
combat pollution in Bangaluru
lakes.
Recently, thousands of
dead fish were washed ashore
at Ulsoor Lake raising concerns
about water pollution in the
city. Further, thick froth formed
on the Yamlur Lake was also a
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nearly half of its sewage is going
untreated into these lakes. The
Environment Ministry is also
considering bringing in an
overarching law for lake preservation in the city.
The decision came in the
wake of a meeting with the
Environment Minister Prakash
Javadekar with the Minister of
Chemicals & Fertilizers,
Ananth Kumar, who is also the
MP of Bangaluru. Also present
in the meeting was Karnataka
Environment
Minister
Ramanath Rai, along with
senior state officials.
Discharge of untreated
sewage being generated in the
city into the lakes is a major
cause for their degradation.
Against present sewage generation of around 1320 MLD
(million litres per day),
installed treatment capacity is
721 MLD. The effective treatment capacity of these STPs is
however 600 MLD. CPCB
had earlier under section 18
(1)(b) of the Water Act had
directed that all local bodies in
Karnataka will have to establish
STPs. The waste water can
only be released into water
bodies after treating it.
In this connection, the
state elaborated that to bridge
the gap between sewage generation and treatment,
Bengaluru Water Supply &
Sewerage Board is working
towards the enhancement of its
sewage treatment capacity upto
1761 MLD by 2020. It is
expected to complete installation of 336 MLD STP capacity by December 2018, 515
MLD capacity by December
2019 and 189 MLD capacity by
December 2020.
Listing out the other initiatives, the meeting decided
that efforts will also be taken
for the bio-development of
lakes in Bengaluru which will
include parameters of oxygenation of the lakes. While
plastic has been banned an
authority has been formed for
preparing a lake by lake restoration plan with a timeline. The
corporate sector will also be
involved in the process of
preservation of lakes.
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Prevention of Money
Laundering Act (PMLA)
A
court here on Tuesday declared
Vijay Mallya a “proclaimed
offender”, in a development
that would help the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to mount
pressure on the debt-trapped
industrialist to join its investigations in the IDBI loan fraudcum-money laundering case.
Having heard a petition
filed by the ED on Friday,
Special Judge PR Bhavke ruled:
“The ED application is allowed
and proclamation is issued
against Vijay Mallya”.
The court declared Mallya
a “proclaimed offender” under
Section 82 of the Criminal
Procedure Code (CrPC), which
makes it mandatory on the
offender to appear before the
ED within 30 days of the publication of proclamation.
The Section 82 of CrPC
reads thus: “If any Court has
reason to believe (whether
after taking evidence or not)
that any person against whom
a warrant has been issued by it
has absconded or is concealing
himself so that such warrant
cannot be executed. Such Court
may publish a written proclamation requiring him to appear
at a specified place and at a
specified time not less than
thirty days from the date of
publishing such proclamation”.
However, if Mallya fails to
comply with the proceedings
launched under section 82 of
Cr.PC, the ED has kept its open
of invoking section 83 of Cr.PC
to seek an order from the
PMLA court to any property,
both movable and immovable,
belonging to him.
Seeking an order declaring
Mallya as a “proclaimed offender” under Section 82 of the Cr
PC, the ED had on Friday
informed the PMLA court that
“multiple” arrest warrants were
pending against him -- including a non—bailable warrant
(NBW) under the PMLA.
In its plea seeking to declare
Mallya as “proclaimed offender” in the IDBI loan fraud
case, the ED had also briefed
the PMLA court of the status of
the investigations in the case
and the need for the accused
businessman to join the probe.
It also told the court that arrest
warrants pending against the
debt-trapped businessman
included a cheque bounce and
the money laundering cases.
The declaration of Mallya
being a “proclaimed offenders”
within three days after the ED
attached United Breweries
Holding Ltd (UBHL) and
Mallya assets worth Rs 1,411
crore in cities like Mumbai,
Bangalore, Coorg and Chennai,
in connection with its money
laundering case.
The ED has been after
Mallya to join its investigations
in the IDBI loan fraud-cummoney laundering case. In a
first step toward towards
putting pressure on Mallya –
who is believed to be based in
the United Kingdom – to
return to India for the ongoing
investigations against him, the
Union government had on
April 15 suspended his diplomatic passport.
After he failed to appear
before its investigators despite
three summons having been
issued against him on March 10,
March 18 and April 2, the ED
moved the PMLA and obtained
a Non-Bailable Warrant (NBW)
against Mallya on April 18.
Subsequently on May 12,
the ED requested the Interpol to
issue a Red Corner Notice
against the fugitive liquor baron.
Given that Britain has
declined to deport Mallya to
India, the ED is planning to
invoke the India-United
Kingdom Mutual Legal
Assistance Treaty (MLAT) to
extradite Mallya from Britain.
The ED is investigating
the overall financial structure
of the now defunct Kingfisher
Airlines and is also looking into
any payment of kickbacks to
secure 950 crore loan from the
IDBI Bank.
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Patna: Union HRD Minister
Smriti Irani and Bihar Education
Minister Ashok Choudhary
were on Tuesday locked in a war
of words over the latter addressing her as “dear”.
“Dear@smritiraniji, when
will we get new Education policy..? when will year 2015 end in
your calender..?” Choudhary
wrote in his twitter account.
But, the use of the word
“dear” did not go down well with
the Union HRD Minister.
“Mahilaon ko ‘dear’ keh ke
kab se sambodhit karne lage
Ashokji?” Irani replied in her
tweet message.
Choudhary answered to her
objection by another message on
his micro blogging site.
“Not to disrespect but educate...Professional email start
with “dear”. Smritiraniji kabhi
mudde pe jawab dijiye, don’t circle around it,” Chowdhary
replied. “@AshokChoudhaary
all my communications to you
or any other person start with
‘adarniya’, but since you are now
communicating allow me 1/3,”
Irani said in another tweet.
On the Bihar Education
minister’s query about the new
education policy she replied
“@AshokChoudhaary have not
received state views on education policy neither did you in
your 1 on 1 meeting with me
give any suggestions 3/3.”
The war of words with the
Bihar Education Minister came
on a day when she was on a visit
to Bhagalpur in connection with
“Vikash Parv” observed by NDA
on completion of two years in
the office. Ashok Choudhary is
also the state president of
Congress. Before arriving here
Irani tweeted: @Ashok
Chaudhary “Mahilaon ko ‘dear’
keh ke kab se sambodhit karne
lage Ashokji?”
Choudhary answered to
her objection by another message on his micro blogging site.
“Not to disrespect but educate...Professional email start with
“dear”. Smritiraniji kabhi mudde
pe jawab dijiye, don’t circle
around it,” Chowdhary replied.
An
embarrassed
Chaudhary explained that he
addressed her as dear out of
respect. “If she felt offended I
am sorry,” he said.
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quations are changing and
some kind of polarization is
taking place in Kerala’s
Congress party, which is yet to
make a sincere effort to find out
the exact reasons for its devastation in the May 16 Assembly
election, with several managers
of the two major groups controlling the party beginning to
lose faith in their bosses due to
their alleged inability and lack
of resolve to take on “common
enemy” VM Sudheeran, State
Congress president.
If leaders of the ‘A’ and ‘I’
groups in the State Congress
which have so far been controlling the party are to be believed,
a strange kind of polarisation is
taking place within the Congress
with leaders who have so far
been staunch loyalists of the two
faction bosses showing willingness to declare allegiance to
Sudheeran, whose mission is to
end factional activities.
The immediate reason for
the loss of faith of groups managers in their bosses, former chief
minister Oommen Chandy
heading the ‘A’ group and former
Home Minister Ramesh
Chennithala leading the ‘I’ group,
is that both of them adopted total
silence when the issue was to be
discussed with the high command in Delhi during a meeting
last Saturday.
The ‘A’ and ‘I’ groups, which
have been battling against each
other all these years, had recently joined hands in order to get
Sudheeran, trusted very much by
the high command, removed as
Kerala PCC president by somehow establishing that he was
solely responsible for the drubbing the Congress and the UDF
it leads had suffered in the
Assembly polls.
The understanding between
the two factions was said to be
that Chandy should become the
KPCC chief once they succeeded in removing Sudheeran as
Chennithala has already been
elected as the Opposition Leader
in the State Assembly. It was in
accordance with this plan that
Chandy had refused to take up
the post of the chairman of the
UDF despite immense pressure.
“There is enough evidence
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now to believe that this was the
ultimate objective of the concerted attacks unleashed against
Sudheeran at the KPCC executive camp by the trusted loyalists
of Chandy and Chennithala.
That was just the first step in the
strategy to remove Sudheeran as
PCC chief,” said a group-neutral
Congress leader.
According to sources in the
Congress, the plan was to escalate this campaign against
Sudheeran after the executive
camp but the stand of the high
command was not conducive to
it. “It was in this context (that the
group managers) had intensified
their attacks against Sudheeran
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were PCC vice-president MM
Hassan, a trusted lieutenant of
Chandy, and ‘I’ group’s former
MLA Joseph Vazhakkan and
former MP K Sudhakaran,
both PCC general secretaries.
Their mission was to build a
base for how Chandy and
Chennithala should argue their
case against Sudhakaran before
Rahul Gandhi.
But the strategy collapsed
when Chandy and Chennithala
sat like “extremely studious boys”
in front of Rahul without even
making a murmur about the
demand for Sudheeran’s ouster.
“Instead, they came back like
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against Janata Dal(S)
Legislator Mallikarjun Khuba
(Basavakalyan) by Karnataka
Legislative
Assembly
S ecretar y S Mur thy on
Tuesday for his alleged
involvement in ‘vote for cash’
deal which was exposed in a
sting operation by a private
English TV channel ahead of
Rajya Sabha elections held to
four seats from Karnataka.
Murthy filed his FIR against
the MLA at Vidhanasoudha
police station.
The FIR was lodged based
on the direction of the
Election Commission of India
(ECI) which went through the
report submitted by State
Chief Electoral Officer Anil
Kumar Jha after the ‘sting
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some TV channels.
In its order, the ECI said
the whole matter should be
entrusted to the CBI for a
deeper probe so that all those
who may be involved in such
nefarious activities are
exposed and duly punished
under the law. Explaining
why it did not countermand
or defer the Rajya Sabha polls
held on June 11.
In the sting operation and
the transcripts of the footage
showed Khuba openly
demanding a certain amount
of money to cast his vote in
favour of the candidate of the
party which gives him such
money. Khuba had allegedly
said to the TV reported that,
‘’if you want my vote, it will
not be Rs 1 crore or Rs 2
crore. Give election money, it
is settled. My offer is above Rs
5 crore. For team, it is same
rate.’’
Khuba also allegedly
made the claim that he could
get the votes of certain other
MLAs if they are also paid the
price mentioned by him.
However
Election
Commission did not take
cognizance of the media trail
in the entire episode and cancel the election. The Congress
with the help of JD(S) rebels
and independents could win
three seats and BJP got one
seat in the biennial Rajya
Sabha polls.
Congress leaders Jairam
Ramesh, Oscar Fernandes
and he third candidate KD
Rammurthy got elected along
with BJP’s Union Minister
Nirmala Sitharaman who
contested for the first time
from Karnataka to Rajya
Sabha.
The JD(S) faced internal
rebellion and suspended eight
legislators for defying the
whip issued by the party for
cross voting.
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his die-hard cricket fans,
Tendulkar is ‘God’,
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something a tribal village in
West Bengal swears by after the
Rajya Sabha MP intervened to
fund the reconstruction of a 51year-old neglected school.
Moved by a headmaster’s
request, Tendulkar agreed to
release C76,21,050 for the
“Gobindapur Makrampur
Swarnamoyee Sasmal Siksha
Niketan” from his MPLAD fund.
The school is located on
NH-6 under Narayangadh police
station about 140 kilometres
southwest of Kolkata in the
Midnapore (West) district.
Tendulkar has already
released 75 per cent of the
amount, which was paid in three
installments, while the remaining amount would be given on
production of the utilisation
certificate, which was recently
submitted.
It was nothing but a “miracle” for headmaster Uttam
Kumar Mohanty who was left
“frustrated and endured sleepless
nights after making door to
door” pleas to the local MPs and
MLAs for financial assistance to
the school which was on the
verge of collapse.
Ten years after his struggle,
one fine day in 2013, the idea of
writing to Tendulkar occurred to
him.
The iconic cricketer, at that
time, was one year into his new
profile and was criticised for his
rare appearances in the Upper
House.
Mohanty searched the internet for Tendulkar’s official email
address and he finally wrote to
him on March 13, 2013, requesting for assistance for the school
building.
“I had little hope after being
ignored by Suryakanta Mishra (a
five-time MLA) and Prabodh
Panda (who was in the House
from 2001-14). It was out of
sheer frustration,” Mohanty told
PTI from his residence in
Kharagpur.
More than a year passed by
and when Mohanty had almost
forgotten, the “miracle” happened on August 7, 2014 when
Tendulkar replied assuring him
of all the assistance for the
school with more than 1000 students.
avjivan Trust — one of the
premiere Gadhian institutions in Ahmedabad will published pictorial biography of
Mahatma Gandhi on his
upcoming birth anniversary
on October 2 this year in lines
with Amar Chitra Katha.
Founded by Mahatma
Gandhi himself in 1929,
Navjivan Trust is a publishing
house which has published
over 800 books in over 15 different languages. The trust is
also in the process to bring out
audio-video version (animation) on Mahatma Gandhi.
“We have roped in around
15 artists and an agency for
around 150 page 11 XII inches book to tell Bapu’s story in
pictorial form. The book will
have on and average nine
graphical picture frames per
page. It would cover everything
right from Mahatma Gandhi’s
childhood to his struggle for
India’s freedom,” said Vivek
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Navjivan Trust.
The purpose of Gandhi
Bapu’s complete life story in
graphic form or comics illustration is to reach out maximum number of young people,
so that they know more about
the ‘father of nation’, said Desai
Navajivan Trust will launch
the latest 10 editions of Hind
Swaraj, the most popular and
widely read book penned by
Mahatma
Gandhi
on
Wednesday. Hind Swaraj or
Indian Home Rule is a book
written by Mahatma in 1909 in
his mother tongue - Gujarati,
while travelling from London
to South Africa on-boardSS
Kildonan Castle (ship) between
13 to 22nd November that
year. The new edition of the
book will be available in three
languages-Gujarati, Hindi and
English, with 10 different formats including e-books.
adding, “The pictorial biography of Mahatma Gandhi would
lead them to further read
Mahatma Gandhi’s work. The
pictorial biography is meant for
those who are looking light
easy to understand reading.”
Apurva Ashar, digital and
print publication consultant of
the trust said that unlike in
other comics where dialogues
are written by others,
Mahatma’s Chitra Katha would
carry his own words which
would be more authentic.
Initially the graphic illustration
biography will be in three languages - Gujarati, Hindi and
English, but later on it would be
in various other Indian languages too, he added.
The trust is also exploring
options of online selling of
books including the upcoming
pictorial biography of
Mahatma through internet
marketing sites such as
Amazon and Flipkart. The
trust has already launched 170
e-books and in last two years it
has sold 10500 copies. The
management of the trust is
working on preparing a kindle
like tablet with 200 books preloaded on it.
total unity in the party,” said a
junior manager of the ‘I’ group
based in Kochi.
Murmurs of dissent have
already started coming out of
both the ‘A’ and ‘I’ groups over
the faction bosses’ bid to put all
the blame on Sudheeran for the
poll defeat without sincerely
examining its actual reasons
and for the same reason most of
the group managers on both the
sides are unhappy about the
whole development.
“Sudheeran had become
KPCC chief just two-and-a-half
years back and everybody knows
that he was working almost in
total isolation,” the ‘I’ group
manager said. Demands have
started coming up from both the
groups to find out who — whether those who had led for 30
months or those who had been
in charge for over a decade —
were responsible for this, he
added. Sources in the two camps
now admit that Sudheeran has
emerged stronger particularly
because of the high command’s
support. In this context, a polarisation is gaining strength in the
‘A’ and ‘I’ groups and many
leaders are said to be preparing
to switch camps and declare support for Sudheeran.
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process against Bollywood
A
director Ram Gopal Verma for
his series of comments against
Lord Ganesha on twitter, in the
run-up to the Ganesh Chaturthi
in 2014. After hearing a criminal lodged against RGV by social
activist and a corporate communication firm owner Vivek
Shetty, Metropolitan Magistrate
A D Lokhande of 66th Court,
Andheri, Mumbai ruled: “After
going through the verification
statement and enquiry conducted by Cyber Cell Crime
Branch, I hold that the complainant has prima facie made
out a case against the accused”.
The Magistrate went onto
issue the process against RGV
under sections 295(A),505 of
Indian Penal Code and 66(A) of
Information Technology Act.
The process is returnable on July
17, 2016.
It may be recalled that
RGV had put out a series of
tweets in the run-up Ganesh
festival in the last week of
August 2014.
“Does Lord
Ganesha eat much more than
other Gods? My doubt is becos
all the other Gods are either
trim or muscular..Did Lord
Ganesha have a paunch in his
childhood too or did it develop in the recovery time of the
elephant head operation?...” he
had tweeted on August
29,2014.
“I would really love to know
from Lord Ganesha’s devotees a
list of what obstacles he removed
in all the years they prayed to
him..... All concerned pls undrstand tht my questions nd observations on Ganesha are coming
from both my innocence nd
ignorance on the subject matter,”
he had gone to tweet.
RGV’s tweets had sparked
an outcry in the social media so
much so that the twitterati
trolled him all through that day
and some of them even questioned his sanity.
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Anti-Corruption Branch
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of the Assam Police has
arrested a Divisional Forest
Officer (DFO) in Assam after
he was caught red-handed
while accepting a bribe of
C30,000. During raids on his
two residences later, ACB
sleuths recovered close to C3
crore in cash and several animal
parts, including a tiger skin,
deer skin and elephant tusks.
The ACB officials said that
Mahat Chandra Talukdar,
Divisional Forest Officer (DFO)
of eastern Assam’s Dhemaji
district was first arrested redhanded after he accepted a
bribe of C30,000 from a businessman in his office on
Monday evening. Later, the
ACB officials raided his official
residence in Dhemaji and
recovered C62,25,420.
At the same time, another
team of the ACB sleuths raided his house in Guwahati and
recovered C4,27,000, a tiger
skin, a deer skin, some elephant
tusks and some other wildlife
parts. The ACB sleuths, however, could not open three
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Talukdar who had been
posted in Dhemaji since 2014,
was supposed to retire on
March next year. Talukdar had
served as a DFO in famous
Kaziranga national park for
four years between 1989 to
1993 and 89 one-horned rhinos
have been poached in the park
during that period.
While the ACB had registered a case against Talukdar
for accepting bribe they are
likely to register another case
against him for having assets
disproportionate to his known
source of income.
Meanwhile, Assam Chief
Minister Sarbananda Sonowal
said that action will be taken
against the officer as per the law
and reiterated that his
Government is committed to
follow transparency and corruption-free practices and that
the every Minister in the
Government is bound to root
out corruption from the State.
The arrest and seizure of
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that the amount will cross over over barely three weeks back.
using some digital password.
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Guwahati by the ACB sleuths produced him in the court of State, Pramila Rani Brahma
on Tuesday and opened the the Chief Judicial Magistrate had been taking up strong
three lockers, which led to (CJM) on Tuesday and sought steps to streamline the Forest
recovery of over C2 crore in him in three days remand,” said and Environment departments
cash and over one kg of gold a senior ACB official while and particularly to stop the
jewellery. “The counting of adding that the court has how- poaching of one-horned rhinos.
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Telangana in a deep crisis
sending the top party leadership in to a huddle on how to
stem the tide of defections to
the ruling party.
The decision of Congress
MP from Nalgonda Gutta
Sukhinder Reddy to join TRS
has especially come as a big
shock as he was in the forefront
in attacking the TRS and leveling charges of corruption in
Government schemes especially in Mission Bhagirath for
drinking water supply. He had
even written letters to the
Central Government agencies
on the issue evoking the ire of
the TRS. But now in a volte face
he said he was quite impressed
by the function of the KCR
Government in the State.
Apart
from
Gutta
Sukhinder Reddy, Congress
MLA from Miryalaguda in
Nalgonda disrtrict N Bhaskar
Rao and the lone CPI MLA
representing Devarkonda
Ravindra Kumar have also
decided to join the TRS.
Other senior Congress
leaders joining the same queue
were two sons of veteran Dalit
Congress leader G Venkata
Swamy, G Vinod and G
Kumar Reddy on Tuesday
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Vivekanand. Both these leaders
were in the news before the
elections for their plans to join
the TRS but Congress persuaded them to stay back and
both of them lost the elections.
Sukhinder Reddy said that
he was forced to take the step
by the internal bickering in
Telangana Congress.
In the backdrop of these
developments Telangana State
Congress president Uttam
Mallu Ravi.
Another Congress leader K
Venkat Reddy challenged both
Gutta Sukhinder Reddy and N
Bhaskar Rao to resign from
their seats and face fresh elections. “If the party orders me I
am ready to face Gutta in elections from Nalgonda Lok
Sabha seats”, he said.
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Reddy had recently met the
TRS leaders amid speculations
that he was also planning to
join the TRS.
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cake with the image of
AIMIM leader Asaduddin
A
Owaisi was cut during the celebrations to mark the birthday
of MNS chief Raj Thackeray
here on Tuesday, evoking a
strong reaction from the
Hyderabad-based party.
Raj was greeted by his supporters at his residence ‘Krishna
Kunj’ at Dadar in Central
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Owaisi’s image on it and cut it.
The action drew condemnation from AIMIM,
whose MLA Waris Pathan
demanded action against
those who cut the cake.
Raj had targeted Owaisi
triggered a row early this
year saying he would not
chant ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’,
even if a knife is put to his
throat.
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to
Maharashtra, I will put a
knife to your throat,” the
MNS chief had said.
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mid Bihar’s Education
department’s ‘Operation
A
clean up’ initiative to better the
quality of education in the State,
the BJP on Tuesday demanded
lodging of FIR in the alleged
irregularities in the appointment
of Assistant Professors in
Agriculture University at Sabour
in Bhagalpur.
Senior Bihar BJP leader
Sushil Kumar Modi also
demanded registration of FIR
in the alleged irregularities in
Maulana Mazharul Haque
Arabic & Persian University,
Patna and Sanskrit Shiksha
Board, Patna.
“Merely carrying out a
probe into the irregularities
committed in these institutions
will not serve any purpose. So
the State Government should
initiate action by lodging FIR in
the irregularities of Agriculture
University, Arabic & Persian
University and Sanskrit Shiksha
Board on the lines of toppers
scandal,” Sushil said.
He said the alleged irregularities in the appointment of
Assistant Professor-cum-Junior
Scientist were apparent and
glaring, the recruitment for
which was carried out when
Mewalal Choudhary was the
Vice-Chancellor who was now
JD(U) MLA.
He alleged that the candidates who ranked 1st, 2nd and
3rd were made ineligible for the
appointment as they were given
0.1 to 0.5 marks out of 10 each
in interview and presentation
whereas those who had “very
very poor” academic performance were selected as the
interview board gave 10 out of
10 marks each in interview and
power presentation.
“Is it possible that a candidate can get 0.1 and 0.5 out of
10 in interview or presentation
while another candidate scored
10 out of 10 marks...I have not
seen such marking,” he said.
The BJP leader alleged that
presentation was not made by
any candidate, but marks were
added for it.
He further alleged that the
Agriculture University conducted interviews for all subjects such as plant pathology,
entomology, nematology, agriculture zoology with one expert
Dr D Prasad who was an expert
for plant pathology.
The university appointed
Dr RB Verma, who was working as Recruitment Officer in
the University, in the interview board which cleared the
selection of his (Verma’s) son
Vijay Kumar as junior scientist, horticulture college,
Noorsarai while his son-inlaw R ahul Kumar was
appointed in Krishi Vigyan
Kendra, Lakhisarai, he said.
Similarly,
Mewalal
Choudhary, the then VC,
appointed Dr C Prasad as
exp er t for Agriculture
Extension subject. Choudhary
was the brother-in-law of Dr
C Prasad.
The rules do not permit to
appoint one’s relative to any
interview board, he said.
The university had come
out with an advertisement for
filling up 281 posts of Asst
Professor-cum-Junior
Scientist against which about
175 posts were filled, the
process for which continued
till 2013, he said.
ith the south-west monsoon becoming weak in
the absence of strong winds
over the southern Indian
Ocean, there has been no
progress of monsoon into the
two Telugu States of Andhra
Pradesh and Telangana.
With no significant monsoon rainfall in the two States,
the temperatures were once
again rising adding to the discomfiture and apprehensions of
the people.
The southwest monsoon
which had set over Kerala on
June 8, a week behind the
expected day, it made some
progress over the next 48 hours
touching the parts of
Rayalaseema and Andhra.
However since then it has weakened and there has been no
progress over the region as well
as in neighbouring Marhatwada
region of Maharashtra.
Though there had been
isolated rains at a couple of
places like Beed and Latur in
Maharashtra and Nizambad
in Telangana over the last two
days, the expectations of monsoon moving in over the last
weekend were belied.
Indian Meteorological offi-
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that the monsoon may reach
Telangana and Maharashtra in
four days but now they say it
has weakened temporarily. It is
the replay of the last year when
the monsoon had initially made
some good progress but later
came to halt over Rayalaseema
failing to reach Telangana for a
long time leading to deficient
rainfall over Andhra Pradesh
and Telangana.
IMD officials say that the
present weather conditions were
not favourable for the progress
of monsoon. “If the winds were
strong over southern Indian
Ocean, monsoon will move
faster”, a senior weather department official said.
Private weather forecaster
Skymet also said that the monsoon will remain subdued over
Karnataka, Rayalaseema and
Telangana.
With no rainfall most of the
places in Telangana have recorded two to three degrees above
normal temperature. IMD has
forecast the weather to remain
hot for another three days.
ammu & Kashmir Chief
Minister Mehboob Mufti on
Tuesday asked the Indian Army
chief to ensure minimum visibility of Army troops in the
civilian areas and tourist places
in the restive State.
Chief of Army Staff Gen Dalbir Singh called upon the Chief
Minister here to discuss the issues related to internal security in
the region. The Army chief is on
a visit to the embattled State.
An official spokesman said
that Mufti and Gen Singh discussed important matters relating to the internal and external
security management in Jammu
& Kashmir and the general geopolitical situation in the region.
The Chief Minister was briefed
by top Army commanders including the General officer commanding-in-chief, northern
command, Lt Gen DS Hooda
and Srinagar based XV Corps
chief Lt Gen Satish Kumar Dua
on the overall security scenario
and steps being taken to maintain peace in the state through
greater public participation.
Mehbooba called for min-
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troops from the civilian areas and
tourist places in the State. She
said the troops should ensure
that no civilian is harmed and
there is minimum damage to
civilian properties during
encounters with the militants.
“While the Army is competent
enough to deal with the situation
along the borders, for internal
security, police and paramilitary
forces should shoulder the
greater responsibilities,” she said.
The CM urged upon the
Army commanders to help consolidate and carry forward the
State Government’s confidence
building measures on the security front and initiative of border
tourism which would go a long
way in ensuring peace and tranquillity along the borders and
within the mainland.
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f reports that Rajnath Singh
will be the Bharatiya Janata
Party’s face in the 2017
Uttar Pradesh Assembly
election campaign get confirmed, it will not come as a surprise. The caveat here, of course,
is, this will not necessarily formalise his chief ministerial candidature; that issue is still tantalisingly open. The senior Cabinet
Minister does not appear wholly enthusiastic about returning to
State politics, though he can certainly be expected to abide by
party directives.
Nonetheless, as the driving
force behind the electoral campaign, Rajnath Singh will have
many advantages which few
leaders of the BJP from Uttar
Pradesh can boast of. The first is
his experience in both
Government and organisation.
He has served as the Chief
Minister of the State, Union
Minister, and national president
of the party. His performance in
these high-profile assignments
has been creditable — in most
opinion polls recently conducted, he has fared well in public
perception as the incumbent
Minister for Home Affairs; the
BJP won the 2014 Lok Sabha
election under his presidentship,
and his stint as Uttar Pradesh
Chief Minister (and earlier as a
Minister in Kalyan Singh’s
regime) is remembered for its
dose of good governance.
The second advantage he
enjoys is that of a high stature,
which comes partly from the
assignments he has handled and
partly from his connect with the
party workers and the people. In
a State party unit ridden with
factionalism and weighed down
by a sense of despondency which
comes with being out of power
for more than two decades now,
Rajnath Singh is seen as someone who has the capacity to unite
and inject enthusiasm. Factional
leaders respect him and would
be willing to listen to him
because they appreciate his
understanding of ground realities. They would be prepared to
forge understandings with one
another under his guidance for
the party’s larger good in view of
the coming election.
And his third advantage is
his caste. With the BJP having
recently appointed a member of
the Other Backward Class community as its State party unit
chief, there has been talk that the
party will now reach out to its
traditional upper caste voters. If
Rajnath Singh, a Kshatriya,
becomes the party’s face in Uttar
Pradesh, it will gladden the
hearts of voters of his upper
caste community in particular
and the higher castes in general. It would not be surprising if
in the days to come, the party
offer important roles to senior
leaders from the Brahmin
community as well.
Here, thus, we arrive at what
is arguably the most challenging
task that all parties face in Uttar
Pradesh: How best to address
the caste conundrum? The caste
cauldron is always boiling in the
State, and it begins to overflow
in the run-up to an election. The
BJP will need to find the right
balance at the right time and in
the right constituency in case it
hopes for a fighting chance
against caste-based parties such
as the Samajwadi Party and the
Bahujan Samaj Party. Nobody
understands the challenge better than Rajnath Singh, and
given that he will certainly be a
key strategist of the party’s Uttar
Pradesh election campaign, his
inputs will be critical in decid-
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It is natural for all parties
including the BJP to concentrate
on the OBC segment because
that is the single largest bloc —
though it doesn’t vote en bloc.
From the BJP’s perspective, the
Yadav community will largely
stick to the Samajwadi Party in
the State election, regardless of
the fact that a large percentage
voted for the BJP (for Narendra
Modi actually) in the 2014 Lok
Sabha poll; the Muslim vote
will get divided between the
Samajwadi Party and the
Bahujan Samaj Party (while it
appears for the moment that the
latter has the edge, the BJP cannot count on their support in
general); the Dalits will go with
the Bahujan Samaj Party (with
a section possibly voting for the
BJP); and the non-Yadav OBC
voters will largely back the BJP.
Given the scenario, what can tilt
the balance is the direction the
upper castes go.
This assumes all the more
significance for the BJP because
the Congress is shoring up its
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plans to regain influence there.
The Congress’s new strategist,
Prashant Kishor, who had
worked with the BJP in the
2014 election and with Nitish
Kumar to craft the latter’s win in
Bihar, is now burning the midnight oil to wean the upper
castes to the Congress’s side. The
upper castes have been migratory in nature over the years,
largely shifting from the
Samajwadi Party to the Bahujan
Samaj Party and back to the former. The two-way movement is
because they had been left with
no other option following the
loss of stature in Uttar Pradesh
of their ‘natural’ parties — the
BJP and the Congress over the
past two decades. Since the BJP
wouldn’t want the Congress to
grab this floating vote, it has to
reach out to the section — and
this is where Rajnath Singh can
be of use.
There are, of course, other
upper caste influential leaders in
the party, such as Mahesh
Sharma and Yogi Adityanath,
but the advantage they bring to
the table gets virtually neutralised by their polarising
nature. Polarisation may work in
certain constituencies but it can
also take away votes from the
party across the State. Rajnath
Singh, despite his one-time
hardliner image, is today seen as
a moderate.
None of this, however, provides an answer to the milliondollar question: Who will be the
BJP’s chief ministerial candidate? The lazy way out for the
party to deal with the issue is to
simply not announce a candidate.
This can be fatal given that both
the regional parties have clear
leaders in Akhilesh Yadav and
Mayawati, and that the Congress,
in a fit of desperation may rope
in Priyanka Vadra as the party’s
leading light in the Uttar Pradesh
election. Will it be an outlier like
Varun Gandhi (his freshness and
youth are an advantage, but his
equations with the BJP central
leadership remain speculative;
they are not said to be in the pink
of health), or will it be an ‘outsider’ like Smriti Irani or Uma
Bharti (both being feisty politicians who get as good as they get,
and this will really delight the
rambunctious voters of Uttar
Pradesh), or will it eventually be
a tested but for-now reluctant
warhorse like Rajnath Singh (in
case a consensus eludes the
party’s senior leadership)?
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Sir — This refers to the article, “IPS
is well past its expiry date” (June 13)
by Deepak Sinha. Agreed, a lot of
clean up is required in defence procurements. The generals who
behave like nawabs, who get personal golf courses and sell out
defence lands, must also be dealt
with. It’s time for introspection.
Madhumita
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Sir — This refers to the article, “IPS
is well past its expiry date” (June 13)
by Deepak Sinha. Reforms will
come only when we stop thinking
in our silos. As far as corruption is
concerned, it plagues everyone
including the defence forces.
Abhijit
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Sir — This refers to the article, “IPS
is well past its expiry date” (June 13)
by Deepak Sinha. I agree with the
views expressed in the article. In our
country, it is the responsibility of the
Government to ensure the well
being of the society as a whole.
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Politicians are responsible for
bringing down the credibility of the
system, the judiciary and the police
force. We need to think what can
best serve our needs and devise systems and ensure they are made
to work.
Shishir Ghosh
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Sir — This refers to the article, “IPS
is well past its expiry date” (June 13)
by Deepak Sinha. I agree with the
views of the author as far as it relates
to reforms. Police is doing a very difficult job. The idea of decentralised
system is not bad like in the UK.
In India, we need to be careful
in totally dismantling British institutions but reform is necessary in
the bureaucracy. What will happen
if in a State, local officers join the
rebellion? IPS is needed. But one
service that needs to be abolished
it is IAS.
Pat
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Sir — This refers to the report,
“President rejects office of profit bill”
(June 14). The Delhi Members of
Legislative Assembly (Removal of
Disqualification) (Amendment)
Bill 2015, was sought by Delhi
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to
“preempt” possible disqualification of 21 MLAs under office of
profit provisions being appointed
as parliamentary secretaries to
his Cabinet.
Kejriwal’s angry reaction to
President Pranab Mukherjee’s negative decision on the former’s fond
measure, seemed typical of his
loose tongue, targeting Prime
Minister Narendra Modi.
“Modiji says make them all sit
at home. No one will do any work,’
Kejriwal tweeted. Isn’t this ridiculous? If nearly one-third of his
MLAs are not appointed as parliamentary secetaries, will they be
idle? What about their constituencies and their problems?
The trouble with Kejriwal is
that he has not yet realised that he
is not the master of all he surveys.
He is a Chief Minister of a Union
Territory and he has to seek
“mandatory
legal
and
Constitutional sanctions” from the
Union Government on all matters
Unfortunately, he has not been able
to understand and accept this fact
as of yet.
M Ratan
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his year and 2017 mark crucial centennial and sesquicentennial landmarks in
the evolution of the
Bharatiya self and self-consciousness. In fact since 2013 we have
entered such a phase which gives
occasion to commemorate those lives
which made decisive interventions in
the definition and renewed expression
of the Bharatiya psyche, its world view
and its essentiality.
The year 2013 marked the 150th
year of Swami Vivekananda’s eternal
birth. Then, 2014, apart from the
political sea-change that it announced,
was also the centenary of the Mother’s
(Mirra Alfassa) first visit to India and
her first meeting with Sri Aurobindo in
Puducherry (then Pondicherry). It was
a meeting that inaugurated a new era
in India’s unending spiritual evolution.
The year 2014 was also the centenary of that seminal treatise, Radha
Kumud Mookerjee’s The Fundamental
Unity of India, which asserted, for the
first time, in modern idioms and in
response to colonial rejection of Indian
unity, the thesis of India’s cultural unity
and articulated cultural nationalism.
This year marks the birth centenary year of Pandit Deendayal
Upadhyaya, a visionary nationalist
who, through his politics and political philosophy, gave a mighty push
that gradually re-oriented the course
of post-independence India’s political
march. While 2017 herald’s the 150th
year of Sister Nivedita’s birth, that idealist who wished to serve India till her
last breath, this year herald’s the
150th birth anniversary of another
epochal mind — a spiritual nationalist who was a monk and a revolutionary at the same time.
Kali Prasad Chandra (Swami
Abhedananda) was born on October
2,1866, in Calcutta and at the age of 18,
a certain restlessness brought him to Sri
Ramakrishna. Abhedananda’s life was
marked out by a spirit of directness, of
independence, of an unwavering goal
of achieving spiritual mastery, a towering intellectual capacity and an
intrinsic and inseparable identity with
the spirit and soul of India.
His early years with the master
saw Abhedananda rapidly ascend the
ladder of yogic realisation, the master once told him, “I consider you to
be one of the most intelligent of the
boys.” The early days at Baranagore,
after the master’s samadhi saw
Abhedananda engrossed, like Naren,
in “study and meditation.” “Kali”,
observed Vivekananda “was the most
studious of us all. He even surpassed
me in this respect.”
Indeed Abhedananda’s life was a
multi-dimensional one. While his chief
identity and driving force was that of
a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna,
Abhedananda was also an interpreter
of Indian traditions and knowledge, a
defender of India’s civilisational
achievements and high-water marks —
he combined in himself the philosopher
and the historian — an articulate and
consistent advocate of its freedom and
a dreamer of its self-reliant future —
each of these blended and enmeshed
seamlessly with the other.
This passion for India, this obsession for its greatness, this pre-occupation with its state of bondage,
Abhedananda, like his “guru-bhai”,
Vivekananda, absorbed from the soil
and the air of India. Before he came
onto the world scene, Abhedananda too
“travelled throughout the length and
breadth of Hindusthan, from the
Himalayas down to Rameshwaram
and from Jagannath to Dwarka, barefooted, without touching money, without thinking of the morrow and with
one blanket as his bed and garment.”
It was this phase of internalising
India that saw him later, in 1905, in
the peak of the Swadeshi movement
in India; deliver his “Brooklyn lectures” at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts
and Sciences, in New York on India
and her people. As one of his outstanding biographers, Moni Bagchi
noted, “The patriot emerged out of the
preacher and since, 1905, he fought
almost single-handed with unabated
zeal and undaunted heart for the cause
of India in the face of vehement opposition, bitter criticism, racial prejudice
and the sectarian jealousy then prevalent in America.”
The lectures were compiled and
published in 1906 by the Vedanta
Society of New York as, “India and Her
People” and was dedicated “To the
People of India with deep fellow feelings and earnest prayers for the restoration of their ancient glory and national freedom.” The book, though promptly proscribed by the colonial
Government in India, became, along
with Vivekananda’s “Lectures from
Colombo to Almora”, the driving gospel
in revolutionary circles.
This same attachment of his to
civilisational and eternal India found
utterance in Abhedananda’s philosophical and religious treatises as when he
wrote in the introduction to his seminal study “Bhagavad Gita — the Divine
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he Union Ministry of
Environment, Forests and
Climate Change is in the
throes of a controversy regarding
the killings of blue bulls (known
as nilgais) in Bihar and monkeys
in Himachal Pradesh, after it permitted these two species to be
declared as vermin by placing
them under Schedule V of the
Wildlife Protection Act 1972.
A public outcry was
launched by Union Minister
Maneka Gandhi who is also an
animal rights activist. The outcry
attracted media attention as
within a span of a few days
around 200 nilgais were killed in
Bihar where the animal
is revered.
This controversy has
brought to fore the problems with
the way wildlife is being managed
in this country and the inherent
conflict with humans on account
of wildlife habitat destructions
due to the degradation of forests
and human encroachments.
As far as declaring these two
animals as vermin is concerned,
the Ministry has, after a long
time, rightfully accepted the
principle of scientific population
control of wildlife, and Press
reports and criticism need to be
analysed objectively. Nilgais
(Boselaphus tragocamelus) is the
largest Asian antelope and should
never be treated as a cow which
belongs to a separate sub-family of ungulates. It normally
avoids dense forests and lives in
open forests and, hence, often
strays into farmers fields.
On the other hand, the menace of monkeys in the midst of
climatic vagaries is a real threat
to the livelihood of a large number of farmers, especially in
Uttarakhand and Himachal
Pradesh. The two reasons for rising monkey menace in the country are: First, dwindling tree
cover; the plantation activities by
the forest department, barring a
few cases, have largely neglected
the plantation of fruit trees.
Second, people have been feeding monkeys due to religious reasons forcing them to live on roads
and fringes.
Similarly, wild boars, nilgais
and elephants are damaging
crops of farmers, thereby, making it as a serious issue for the
Ministry. Leopards are often
found straying into cities which
is becoming a threat to human
life. It is a matter of concern that
the wildlife is already finding it
difficult to find food, water and
living space due to human
encroachments on their habitats
and degradation of forests.
Going through the orders
and notifications available on the
website of the Ministry, it appears
that the criticism relates more to
the perfunctory manner in which
this matter was handled. It was
wrong on part of the Ministry to
proactively seek information on
declaring these animals as vermin because it is the job of the
State Government and its Chief
Wildlife Warden to take up the
matter with the Ministry, indicating the areas where agriculture
and human property is being
damaged and the period for
which a particular species is to be
declared as vermin alongwith a
foolproof mechanism of culling
under strict supervision of the
wildlife staff. The killing of nilgais is then reflective of a wellintentioned idea going haywire
due to lack of accountability on
part of the State authorities.
The Ministry must take this
as an opportunity to set a foolproof mechanism of scientific
management of wildlife population and their habitat improvements by taking note of the
impending challenges.
The Union Government
should only act as approving
authority as per the Wildlife
Protection Act 1972. In fact, the
Chief Wildlife Wardens have
immense powers and flexibility
to manage Wildlife in their
respective areas.
State Governments, while
sending proposals for approval to
the Ministry must contain measurable details of the damages
done during past three years,
areas affected and villages to be
taken up, alternative means tried
and proposed, duration and
population of the species to be
culled in the area, and in the State
and how the culling operations
shall be undertaken under the
supervision of a Gazetted officers
of the forest and revenue/agriculture departments.
This writer, while heading
the Indian Council of Forestry
Research had taken up with all
the Principal Chief Conservator
of Forests to disperse seasonal
tree-based fruit seeds like mango,
litchi and other fruit seeds during monsoon season in the
forests areas within the vicinity
of villages and also add up on priority at least 30 per cent planta-
Message”, “Waves of conquest and religious fanaticism have come to India
from the West, one after another, and
have swept away by their tremendous
on-rush millions and millions of lives
and the most glorious spiritual monuments which this country had produced, but still the marvellous ideal and
spiritual kingdom of Sri Krishna have
remained for ages firm as the unshakeable Himalayas, defying their strength
and destructive powers.”
After a quarter of a century stay in
the West, Abhedananda returned to an
India, that it was in the throes of the
struggle for freedom and he took
“immense pain to study and understand the problems of his countrymen.”
He advocated industrial and scientific
self-reliance for India. His Jamshedpur
lectures of 1922, for example, give an
insight into his thinking then. In one
such on “progressive Hinduism”, he
exhorted his countrymen thus, “You
must encourage the industry of your
own country. I have a great desire to
have an ideal Institute of national
industry established in India. One
Tata project is not enough for India. She
must have other factories in other parts
of India...You must work or perish.”
In course of this period, one of his
most crucial and active one, as a spiritual nationalist and a patriot-monk, a
number of leaders came in touch with
Abhedananda, starting with
Deshbandhu CR Das who had struck
a particularly deep bond with him.
In 1925 he had interesting meeting
with Mahatma Gandhi in Darjeeling.
“You are doing the work started by
Ramakrishna and Vivekananda”,
Abhedananda told the Mahatma, “in
the lines of removing untouchability
and in encouraging cottage industries.
Therefore, I bring you blessings. You
know that though a high caste Brahmin
by birth, the master once prayed to the
divine mother to take away egoism or
ahamkara from his mind that a
Brahmin is superior to sweeper on
account of his birth to enable him to
realise that the atman (soul) of a
sweeper is just as divine as that of a high
caste Brahmin; and in order to realise
this grand truth he went to the doors
of a sweeper and wiped the dirt of his
door with his flowing long hair which
he then had on his head. Thus
Ramakrishna set an example of the
removal of untouchability which is the
higher religion of this age.”
When Subhas Chandra Bose came
calling, upon being elected Congress
president, an ailing and confined
Abhedananda rose up and embracing
Subhas, blessed him with the words,
“Be thou victorious”, thus putting his
seal behind Subhas’s actions for freeing India.
In this 150th year of his birth thus,
we would do well to commemorate
and to meditate on Swami
Abhedananda’s epochal contribution
to India’s selfhood, a rekindling of that
interest is imperative for the success
of our national quest for an integral
self-reliance.
(The writer is director, Dr Syama
Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation,
New Delhi)
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tion of ficus and other local fruit
species in the afforestation programmes and Compensatory
Afforestation Fund Management
and Planning Authority plantations of the departments.
This will not only bring
back the food habitats of monkeys and other primate species
within a few years, but will
strengthen the food chain of the
wild ecosystem. The concept of
overall habitat management by
integrating the local wildlife’s
needs and bio-diversity management in the afforestation programmes is missing.
The Ministry must make
this a condition while granting
funds under its various schemes
and clearances while granting
permission for declaring the
species vermin. This will give a
big fillip to climate change
mitigation programmes.
(The writer is former
Principal Secretary, Government
of Tripura)
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made online will attract a uniform Goods and Services Tax,
likely to take effect from April
next year, according to the
model GST law approved by
state finance ministers on
Tuesday.
The tax, in lieu of local
levies, will be imposed at the
first point of financial transaction. This clears the air on
applicability of GST in ecommerce in cases where
goods were being sold in one
state but was being bought in
another state.
The model GST law,
which has 162 clauses and 4
schedules, has also suggested
a jail terms of up to 5 years
and fine for violation of the
provisions of the statute.
It prescribes a threshold
of C9 lakh annual turnover for
applicability of the new levy
and C4 lakh for businesses in
North Eastern states including Sikkim.
Revenue
S ecretar y
Hasmukh Adhia said the
Empowered Committee of
State Finance Ministers at
their meeting today in
Kolkata approved the model
GST law.
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=4F 34;78) Markets regulator
Sebi has initiated recovery proceedings against defaulters to
collect more than C55,000 crore,
largely on account of its clampdown on illicit money-pooling
schemes.
Ever since it was given
powers in October 2013 to
recover penalties and investors’
money collected fraudulently,
Sebi has initiated nearly 900
recovery proceedings, of which
more than 200 have been fully
completed.
The amount involved in
these proceedings stands at
C55,015 crore, including
C52,959 crore in the last financial year. This include a total of
C52,912 crore in cases related to
collective investment scheme
(CIS) and deemed public issues
and another C47 crore to recover penalties.
More than 2,500 attachment notices have been issued
during the period under review,
including over 600 in 2015-16.
Interestingly, an amount
of C250 crore has been recovered in 207 cases.
Promising high returns to
the investors, several firms have
raked in unauthorised funds
through various mechanisms.
The capital was raised
through realty schemes and
‘buffalo purchase’, among others. Also, funds have been garnered by issuing securities to
investors without complying
with public issue norms.
To recover pending dues,
the Securities and Exchange
Board of India (Sebi) has
attached properties, bank and
demat accounts of the default-
RXWSHQDOSRZHUWR7UDL
=4F34;78)Rejecting demand
for giving penal power to telecom regulator Trai, Telecom
Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
has said the authority has
enough power to protect the
interest of consumers.
“It is intimated that Trai is
empowered by the Trai Act to
He also said anti-money
lay down the standards of quallaundering regime in India
ity of service to be provided by
is very widely appreciated
the service providers...So as to
all over the world.
protect the interest of the con“Inve s tors wor r i e d
sumers of telecommunication
about governance in India
service.
are fully assured that the
“Since Trai has wide rangregime in India is compliant
ing powers, the need to change
with the rest of the world,”
the Trai Act is not felt at this
Sinha said. Moreover, Sinha
juncture,” Prasad said in a letsaid there is an element of
ter dated June 9 to MP Rajeev
lowreciprocity from certain
Chandrasekhar.
economies when it comes to
There was no immediate
laws related to taxation or
reply to query made to the
anti-money laundering.
Telecom Ministry over the
Further, he said every
matter.
country is entitled to poliChandrasekhar had writcy change. However, it was
ten to Prasad over net neutrali mp or t ant n ot t o h ave
ity which included reference to
norms which have a retroconsumer rights in telecom
spective effect.
and internet space like privacy,
“Foreign investors need
quality of service norms.
assurances that there should
“Trai has to have broad
not be change in policy
power to protect consumers.
with retrospective impleThere is need to for legitimate
mentation,” Sinha said. ?C8 public debate on this. Entire
technology sector has changed
since the time Trai Act was
The Act also provides for made. I believe that the regusetting up of a special court to lator must have more power,”
expedite the cases filed by Sebi. Chandrasekhar said in the letThe Government in consulta- ter.
tion with the high courts have
To check the call drop
set up special courts in menace and improve compliMumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. ance to its rules, Trai has
Besides, constitution of a approached the Department
special court in Delhi is in of Telecom (DoT) to amend the
progress. However, a desig- Trai Act to empower it to
nated court is already dealing impose fine of C10 crore on
with Sebi cases.
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Sinha on Tues day s aid
investors in the US have a
high level of optimism
ab out India, esp ecially
because of the policy initiatives in the past two
y e a r s by t h e Mo d i
Government.
“The US investors are
ver y enthusiastic about
India and policy changes
and the regulator development that has taken place in
India,” Sinha, who was
recently on a visit to the US,
told reporters here.
“ They are also ver y
optimistic about the economy,” he said. Sinha was
talking on the sidelines of
T h e G at e w ay of In d i a
Dialogue.
Sebi chief, who met the
investors in mutual fund
industry, pension funds and
academic people in the US,
said “compared to what was
the situation two years
back, today we see a lot of
optimism on policy front.
They are appreciating the
positive direction in which
the government has moved
and clarity which has been
provided in matter of law
and long-term policies”.
Noting that American
investors had no major
issues with India, Sinha
said they had questions on
double taxation avoidance
treaty with Mauritius and
measures taken by the Sebi
on Participatory Notes (PNotes).
“The details were given
and they were assured that
whatever has been thought
of, has been thought of
from prospective date,”
Sinha said.
ers. Besides, the regulator has
sold shares attached in recovery proceedings in various
defaulters in 744 trading sessions and realised an amount
of over C11 crore.
Through amendments in
the Securities Laws Act, the
government had enhanced
powers of Sebi to take action
against illegal money-pooling
activities. It has been empow-
ered to recover penalties
imposed by the Adjudicating
Officer, amount directed to
be disgorged and money
ordered to be refunded to the
regulator.
The recover y powers
include attachment of bank as
well as demat accounts, sale
of assets of the defaulters
and arrest and detention of
the defaulter.
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=4F34;78)The Union Cabinet is
likely to take up the much-awaited Civil Aviation Policy at its
meeting on Tuesday , which may
unveil a slew of passenger-friendly measures including capping of
airfares at C2,500 for an hour-long
flight.
“The Union Cabinet is likely
to take up the proposed aviation
policy for its approval tomorrow,”
official sources said.
The Civil Aviation Ministry
had sent the proposed policy to
Cabinet for approval on June 3.
The NDA Government had
for the first time unveiled the policy draft in November 2014, subsequently replacing it with another draft in October 2015.
Initially, the policy was expected to be finalised in the last financial year as certain proposals were
to be implemented from April 1,
2016.
Since then, the Government
has been moving back and forth
on the matter, primarily to strike
a balance between various stakeholders on their glaring differences
over issues like the 5/20 rule that
allows a carrier to fly abroad only
if it has 20 aircraft and has flown
domestic for five years.
The policy aims to bolster the
domestic aviation sector by tapping
its high growth potential with provisions such as capping airfares at
Rs 2,500 for a one-hour flight, auctioning of unilateral traffic rights,
tax incentives for airlines, maintenance and repair works of aircraft
besides mooting 2 per cent levy on
all air tickets to fund regional connectivity scheme and providing
viability gap funding for airlines to
encourage operate on regional
routes.
The issue of international flying norm or the 5/20 rule has witnessed extensive debate, with legacy carriers opposing any changes
to the rule, while start-up airlines
frantically demanding its scrapping.
Civil Aviation Minister Ashok
Gajapathi Raju had last week virtually disapproved the continuance
of this rule asking who has benefited from it, indicating that the
government could even mull
scrapping it.
Interestingly, exactly 10 years
ago, on June 8, 2006, then Aviation
Minister Praful Patel had said that
“the draft civil aviation policy is
ready and could be taken up by the
Union Cabinet for approval this
month itself.”
?C8
little-known company that
ran into controversy after
announcing a C251 ‘smartphone’, on Tuesday claimed
it will start deliveries of the
handset to customers from
June 28.
Deliveries will start to
customers who have registered for buying the phone,
Noida-based company’s
director Mohit Goel said.
“We will start shipment
of Freedom251 from June 28
to customers who paid for it
earlier on COD (cash-ondelivery) basis,” he said .
Ringing Bells began selling
the
handset,
Freedom251, via its website
in February. But the launch
of the smartphone, touted to
be the world’s cheapest,
swirled into controversy,
with some calling it a ponzy
scheme.
to two years to company executives for any violation of regulatory framework.
The move came after the
Supreme Court on May 11
quashed a Trai order which
mandated mobile service
providers to compensate C1 for
every call drop with maximum of C3 a day.
Telecom operators are lobbying hard against giving penal
power to Trai, and has termed
such powers as ‘draconian’.
Telecom Secretar y JS
Deepak too has said that giving penal power cannot be
“one and final solution” to the
call drop menace.
“I am not sure penal power
will be one and final solution
to this. In my personal opinion
I do not agree that for every call
drop a person has to be sent to
jail,” he had said after a review
meeting with telecom operators
last week.
Most of the mobile service
providers have frequently failed
in quarterly sample call drop
tests conducted by Trai but
telecom operators have contested the results saying that
they comply with benchmark
set by the regulator.
Responding to net-neutrality
concern
raised
by
Chandrasekhar, Prasad said,
“Regarding net neutrality regulation issue, it is intimated that
Trai had initiated public consultation on over-the-top service vide its consultation paper
which included specific reference to net neutrality.”
The DoT has sought Trai’s
recommendations on net neutrality and the regulators recommendation will be taken
into account by the department
in arriving at final viewpoint on
various aspects of net neutrality, he said.
At present, disputes
between consumers and telecom operators are not taken up
by consumer courts as a
Supreme Court judgement of
2009 had barred seeking any
such relief under the Consumer
Protection Act, saying a special
remedy is provided under the
Indian Telegraph Act.
The National Telecom
Policy 2012 envisages to undertake legislative measures to
bring disputes between consumers and telecom service
providers within the jurisdiction of consumer forums established under the Consumer
Protection.
The Policy envisages “to
review the TRAI Act with a
view to addressing regulatory
inadequacies/ impediments in
effective discharge of its functions” but Government is yet to
execute it.
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prices of egg, meat and fish
paced up by 9.75 per cent and
in cereals and fruits the rise was
4.60 per cent and 3.80 per cent.
However, kitchen staple onion
continued to witness decline at
(-) 21.70 per cent.
With such trend on price
movement on food and vegetables, India Inc calls for an immediate action from the
Government. “Policymakers
need to address through supply
side responses the continuous
rise in prices of commodities like
pulses, food articles, cereals,
wheat and other items,”
Assocham Secretary General
DS Rawat said.
Experts, however, said a
favourable base effect and a
good monsoon would lead to
some dip in wholesale food
inflation in the immediate term.
“The trajectory of the WPI
inflation would be shaped by
global commodity price movements. If crude oil prices sustain
at current levels, average WPI
inflation is likely to exceed 3 per
cent this fiscal,” ICRA Senior
Economist Aditi Nayar said.
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sale inflation has inched up
0.79 per cent in May. A sharp
augment of vegetable prices
supplemented by the price rise
of food articles, may be the reason behind the rise in inflationary pressure. The price of
food articles is seen at 7.88 per
cent in May as against 4.23 per
cent in April. With the firming
up of both wholesale and retail
inflation the Reserve Bank of
India (RBI) may delay the interest rate cut despite a poor industrial output figures.
As per the Government
data released on Tuesday, the
April Wholesale Price Index
(WPI)-based inflation was at
0.34 per cent and in March it was
(-) 0.45 per cent while it stood
at (-) 2.20 per cent in May last
year. Inflation in vegetables
stood at 12.94 per cent, a sharp
rise from 2.21 per cent, a month
earlier. Pulses inflation remained
stubborn at 35.56 per cent.
As per the inflation data,
are more positive and flexible
compared to those surveyed in the
US and the UK and half of them
would choose to move to their
‘ideal’ job, even for less pay, says a
survey.
Interestingly, the Indian lot
love their job so much that a
whopping 98 per cent confirmed
that they would keep working
even if they win the lottery, as per
Adobe’s report titled ‘Work in
Progress’.
Around 83 per cent of Indian
office workers love their jobs and
access to cutting-edge technology emerged as the top contributor to their overall satisfaction,
above perks like food and slick
office design.
Moreover, pay isn’t everything
for Indian employees. Nearly half
of the Indian workers would
choose to move to their ‘ideal’ job,
even for less pay, said the report,
which surveyed more than 500
Indian office workers who use
computers daily as part of their
jobs, on their attitudes about
work and the future of technology in the workplace.
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showed a clear lead for the
‘Brexit’ camp in favour of
Britain’s exit from the European
Union (EU) in the June 23 referendum.
The so-called Brexit side
edged ahead in a key survey just
over a week before Britain votes
on its future within the economic bloc next Thursday.
A YouGov survey for The
Times puts “Leave” on 46 per
cent, up three points since the
end of last week, and “Remain”
is on 39 per cent, down three —
giving Brexit its largest lead
since the start of the campaign.
11 per cent of people do not
know how they will vote and 4
per cent plan to abstain.
Once the “don’t knows”
and “will not votes” are excluded, 54 per cent would vote to
leave and 46 per cent would vote
to remain, the biggest lead for
the Brexiteers so far.
An ICM poll for The
Guardian yesterday gave the
Brexit campaign a six-point
lead, with Leave on 53 per cent
and Remain on 47 per cent,
while an ORB poll for The Daily
Telegraph has put “Leave” on 49
per cent among those certain to
vote on June 23, one point
ahead of Remain at 48 per
cent.
John Mills, chair of the
Labour Leave campaign, said
“The polls are swinging our way,
which is very good news but we
must not be complacent”.
Leading Labour MPs within the “Remain” camp, including Keith Vaz and Virendra
Sharma, issued a fresh plea of
their own to Indian-origin and
other ethnic minority voters.
“The Leavers’ false claim is
that, if we leave, there can be
higher non-EU immigration
while bringing down overall
numbers. Let’s not be seduced
by this lie from people who are
anti-immigration and who have
spent their lives campaigning
against the interests of working
people,” they wrote in the
Guardian today.
In a direct attack on
Conservative party’s most
prominent Indian-origin voice
in favour of Brexit, Priti Patel,
they add “Where there are
shortages in certain sectors,
like our curry houses, it’s
Government rules that are the
root of the problem”.
“Prominent ‘Leave’ campaigner, Patel, who is the
Employment Minister, has
responsibility in this area, so she
is in fact the source of the problem while claiming to be the
solution,” they said.
The British Election Survey
(BES) released last month had
found that 51.7 per cent of
Indian-origin voters are
against Brexit, compared to
27.74 per cent in favour of
leaving the economic bloc.
However, there is a signif-
icant percentage (16.85 per
cent) of those who fell into the
“don’t know” category, who are
likely to hold the key in the referendum and this is the group
both camps are now focusing
on. Opinion polls are not being
seen as a reliable reflection of the
mood of the voters by either side
ever since they had decisively
predicted a hung Parliament in
the May 2015 general election
which threw up one of the
largest Conservative party
majorities in history.
The momentum, however,
does seem to be titling in
favour of Brexit with the Sun
newspaper also coming out in
favour of leaving the EU today.
The Rupert Murdochowned tabloid is famous for
mostly backing the winning
horse in elections in the UK.
In a front page editorial
under the headline “BeLeave in
Britain”, the paper warned that
staying in the EU would be
worse for immigration, worse
for jobs, worse for wages and
“worse for our way of life”.
“This is our last chance to
remove ourselves from the
undemocratic
Brussels
machine and it’s time to take
it,” it said.
Prime Minister David
Cameron-led “Remain” camp
received its own boost with a
European Court ruling in
favour of UK’s right to curtail
state benefits handed out to EU
immigrants.
A legal action brought by
the European Commission
against the British Government
over planned tests for foreigners to claim benefits was
thrown out by Europe’s highest court.
Britain had a right to impose
a more stringent test for child
benefit and child tax credit –
known as a “right to reside” – for
EU migrants in order to protect
its finances, the court said.
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has come out with a tentative ceiling on capital costs
incurred by aerodrome operators as it seeks to put in place a
‘reasonable benchmark’ for
determining the fee charged
from users and curb possible
‘gold plating’ of expenses.
The move comes at a time
when the Government plans to
revive and establish more airports in order to boost regional connectivity. As many as 25
regional airports are to be developed in the current fiscal.
The Airports Economic
Regulatory Authority (AERA)
has asked airport operators to
relook at the costs proposed in
their submissions and justify the
increase that is above the tentative ceiling rates. The regulator
has set a tentative ceiling cost of
‘C65,000 per square metre (sqm)
of the terminal building and
C4,700 per sqm for the runway/taxiway/apron (excluding
earthwork up to sub-grade
level)’. Ceiling costs are being
fixed as a ‘reasonable benchmark
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Development Association
I(ISSDA),
the apex body representing the stainless steel industry applauds the Government’s
move for introducing the
Stainless Steel Products Quality
Control Order, 2016.
President of ISSDA, NC
Mathur said, “This is a move in
the direction as envisioned by
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi
in his 68th Independence Day
address calling the Indian
industry to move towards ‘Zero
Defect’ manufacturing. This
order will ensure competitiveness and growth of India’s
manufacturing sector.”
ISSDA would like to reemphasise that Stainless Steel
Quality Control Order (QCO)
2016 is in the larger interest of
the domestic stainless steel
industry. It must be noted that
this QCO does not cover Raw
Material (Stainless Steel) containing less than 1 per cent
nickel. While stainless steel
containing less than 1 per cent
nickel is mostly used for
kitchen utensils. Moreover, this
QCO is not restrictive, as the
end user is free to use other
grades of stainless steel which
is not covered in the QCO.
Therefore, the onus to
supply ISI marked stainless
steel rests exclusively on the
stainless steel manufacturer
rather than the end user.
for evaluating capital costs to be
incurred by airport operators of
major airports for the purpose
of tariff determination on a
tentative basis’, the watchdog
said. The limits would be in
place till finalisation of a norm
to decide on capital costs
through a more rigorous
process. The tentative limit has
been decided after taking the
cost run up by Cochin
International Airport Ltd
(CIAL) -the operator of Cochin
airport in Kerala.
“There is a need to have at
least a tentative basis to fix the
ceiling cost of terminal building
and apron for the airports while
evaluating the tariff proposals of
various airport operators and
determine the tariffs for the second control period, for which
certain guidelines require to be
formulated,” the order issued on
Monday said.
Putting a ceiling on cost per
sqm of the terminal building
would help mitigate the possibility of ‘gold plating’, according
to minutes of a meeting held in
June 2014 between AERA and
the stakeholders. The delibera-
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approach to building blocks in
economic regulation of major
airports, mainly with regard to
capital costs. Gold plating refers
to inflating project costs due to
avoidable expenses which are
then sought to be passed on to
the end-users.
AERA has also made it clear
that the ceiling rates would apply
“only in case of new projects
where the works are yet to be
awarded. In case of awarded pro-
jects, the capital costs will need
to be examined by the committee approved for the purpose”.
In its latest order, AERA said
major airports have submitted
their multi-year tariff plans for the
second control period. Tariff control period implies a time span to
which a particular tariff is applicable. “It would not be prudent to
allow capital costs that are significantly higher than what has been
incurred at Cochin,” it noted.
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MUMBAI: Mahanagar Gas Ltd
(MGL), India’s second biggest
CNG retailer, on Tuesday fixed
the price band of C380-421 for
its initial public offer (IPO) to
raise around C1,040 crore. The
company, promoted by GAIL
and BG Asia Pacific Holdings
Pte Ltd, is making an offer for
sale of up to 24,694,500 equity
shares of C10 each.
The Mumbai-based gas distributor has proposed sale of up
to 12,347,250 equity shares by
Maharatna public sector undertaking GAIL and up to
12,347,250 equity shares by BG
Asia Pacific. The money raised
through the IPO would accrue to
the promoters who are selling
their stake. The IPO will open on
June 21 and close on June 23.
The IPO is being managed
by Kotak Investment Bank and
Citigroup. MGL, a major distributor of compressed natural
gas (CNG) and piped natural gas
(PNG) in Mumbai and adjoining areas, receives gas at its stations located at Wadala, Mahape,
Ambernath and Taloja through
pipelines owned by GAIL.
“We plan to increase penetration in Mumbai and its adjoining areas by reaching out to new
customers for CNG, domestic
PNG, commercial PNG and
industry PNG use. We are also
expanding our pipeline network
and adding more CNG stations.
We have a supply network of over
4,600 kms pipelines,” MGL
Managing Director Rajeev
Mathur told reporters here. PTI
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on Tuesday gained up to 8 per
cent after the RBI came out with
a scheme for resolution of bad
loans of large projects wherein a
portion of the debt will be converted into equity or other instruments. The scrip of Punjab
National Bank surged 7.90 per
cent and Bank of India gained
3.37 per cent on the BSE.
Shares of Allahabad Bank
went up by 2.98 per cent, SBI rose
by 2.65 per cent, Canara Bank
(2.39 per cent), Indian Overseas
Bank (2.13 per cent) and Bank
of Baroda (1.99 per cent). “The
latest restructuring scheme is yet
another attempt to provide additional tool to corporate lenders to
address the continuing NPA problem,” said Dhananjay Sinha, Head
Institutional Research, Economist
& Strategist, Emkay Global
Financial Services.
RBI on Monday came out
with a scheme for resolution of
bad loans of large projects wherein a portion of the debt will be
converted into equity or other
instruments under supervision of
IBA’s Overseeing Committee. PTI
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Satin Creditcare Network Limited
(SCNL)onTuesdaysaiditplanstoraise
C5,000croreinthecurrentfiscaltoexpand
growth. It has raised an amount of C25
crore by issuing non-convertible,
redeemable shares on preference basis
to Karvy Capital, it said in a BSE filing.
In April, it had raised a similar amount by issuing 2.5 crore
preference shares on private placement basis to persons belonging to
non-promoter group. “During
2016-17, the co plans to raise a total
of C5,000 crore, including both debt
and equity,” it said in a release. It has
been raising funds through term
loans, Tier II capital, NCDs, preference shares, external commercial
borrowings, commercial paper
and securitisation in keeping with
the firm’'s strategy to diversify
resource profile, firm said. PTI
tional advantages, etc. Even allowing for these variations, the costs
are not likely to exceed the figure
of `65,000 per sqm as given in consultation paper dated June 12,
2014”.
As per the AERA consultation
paper put out in 2014, the cost per
sqm of a modern airport terminal
building in India varied between
C43,333 (Cochin) to C1,45,000
(Bengaluru). Significantly, the
Airports Authority of India
Employees Union has on several
occasions in the past accused private airport operators of passing on
the high costs to fliers. Global airline's body International Air
Transport Association (IATA) has
also termed the Indian airports
(primarily private ones) as the
‘most expensive’ in the world.
At present, there are six airports -Delhi, Mumbai,
Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Cochin
and Nagpur -running in the
PPP (public-private partnership) mode. Stating that airport
being a public infrastructure
project, AERA on Monday said
the related assets need to be created through ‘efficient costs on
value for money basis’.
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C10,000 crore from next fiscal to
enhance use of bio-fuels like ethanol
and biogas for reducing consumption of fossil fuels.
“The Ministry of New and
Renewable Energy is working on an
integrated bioenergy mission with
an indicative outlay of C10,000
crore from 2017-18 to 2021-22,” a
senior official said. The objective of
the mission would be to reduce
green house gases emissions as
agreed in the Nationally Determined
Contributions at COP21.
The Centre wants to achieve
this objective by progressive blending or substitution of fossil fuels such
as coal, petrol, diesel, natural gas and
LPG with biomass pellets, bioethanol, bio-diesel, bio-methane, and
similar green fuels, both for electrical and non-electrical uses.
The official added the
National Institute of Bio-Energy at
Kapurthala is likely to be upgraded and developed into a worldclass institution to support the mission. Government had decided to
form a panel under AK Dhussa,
ex-Advisor, MNRE, to make the
action points into schemes, and
thence to formulate the base document for the mission.
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NEW DELHI: Dairy major Amul is keen on setting up a C400 crore project in drought-hit
Vidarbha region of Maharashtrawhere farmers are
committing suicides, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari
said on Tuesoday.
“We have requested Amul to set up dairy projects
in Vidarbha where farmers are committing suicide.
They have shown interest in C400 crore project. With
their cooperation we will increase milk production
by four to five times. Farmers will get much relief,”
Gadkari, who is an MP from Nagpur that is in the
Vidarbha region, told PTI.
Vidarbha which houses 75 per cent of forests
of Maharashtra has so far not been able to be successful in dairy business and west Maharashtra's
Kolhapur district has much better production, the
Road, Transport, Highways and Shipping Minister
said. The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing
Federation (GCMMF) markets the Amul brand of
milk and dairy products and the Amul Model of
dairy development is a three-tiered structure. PNS
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Telecommunications and Bharti Airtel
have joined hands to deliver high-speed
data network coverage across 325 cities
in the Asia-Pacific, the Middle-East,
Africa, Europe and the US under one network. “This association will strongly
enhance our value proposition for enterprise customers by offering them a
wider global reach and the largest reach
within India under a single platform,"
Bharti Airtel Director, Strategic Ventures
Manish Prakash said.
This, in particular, will benefit companies in pharmaceutical, IT and IT-enabled
services as well as financial segments, which
are branching out to international locations
rapidly, Prakash added.
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ministries were on
Tuesday asked to stop recruitment of daily wagers failing
which disciplinary action
would be taken against officials
concerned. They have been
asked to assess the work being
done by regular employees for
output and productivity so
that the work of casual employees could be given to them.
The move comes after it was
observed that in spite of strict
guidelines on engagement of
casual labour, various ministries
continued to engage casual
workers for work of regular
nature against the Government’s
policies. “It is, therefore, reiterated that all ministries or departments may ensure strict compliance of the guidelines on
engagement of casual labourers.”
“Negligence in the matter of
implementing these guidelines
should be viewed seriously and
brought to the notice of the
appropriate authorities for taking prompt and suitable action
against the defaulters,” the
Department of Personnel and
Training (DoPT) said in a directive issued to secretaries of all
Central Government ministries.
“The departments may also
review the norms of staff for regular work and take steps to get
them revised. If considered necessary,” DoPT said, referring to
its earlier instructions issued on
the matter.
In a related development,
the Central Government has
proposed to give one-day paid
off to a casual worker in a
week. The development comes
following an order by Central
Administrative Tribunal. As per
the instructions, the offices
observing a five-day week are
required to work a minimum of
40 hours per week.
“Therefore, the casual
labourers working in such
offices may be allowed one
paid weekly off provided they
have worked for 40 hours in
the said week,” as per the proposed rules. All concerned
have been asked to give their
feedback on this proposed
change to the DoPT in the
next four days i.E. By June 18.
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police in Paris on Tuesday as the
latest demonstration against
disputed labour reforms in
France descended into violence.
The clashes erupted as the
international spotlight was
turned on France as the host of
the Euro 2016 football championships, which have also
been marred by violence
between fans.
Strikes closed the Eiffel
Tower and disrupted transport
links as tens of thousands of fans
poured into the country for
Europe’s showcase football event.
Authorities made 15 arrests
and at least 26 people were hurt
in the unrest, according to an
AFP reporter at the scene, as
demonstrators stormed a building site and began to hurl
wooden palettes at riot police.
Pictures showed one man
being led away by officers in riot
gear with blood streaming from
a wound above his eye, his white
T-shirt splattered with blood.
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months of industrial action
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shortages and rubbish piled
up on the streets of Paris.
“I’ve been to all the demos
since March because I want to
live in dignity, not just survive,”
said Aurelien Boukelmoune, a
26-year-old technician marching in Paris. “I want the reforms
to be withdrawn, pure and simple. Only then will it stop. For
the Government’s sake, they
should withdraw the law, otherwise we'll block the economy.”
With France on high alert
due to the threat of terrorism
during Euro 2016, overstretched
security authorities feared the
demonstrations could turn violent and banned 130 known
troublemakers from taking part.
The terrorism threat was
thrust back into the spotlight
after a man claiming allegiance
to ISIS jihadists killed a policeman and his partner at their
home in a northwestern Paris
suburb late Monday.
The latest in a wave of
protests that began in March
coincides with a French Senate
debate on the reforms, which are
aimed at making the job market
more flexible and reducing high
unemployment but which critics see as too pro-business.
President
Francois
Hollande’s
Socialist
Government has voiced hope
the latest day of protest will be
a last stand for the movement.
But Philippe Martinez,
head of the far-left CGT union
that spearheaded last month's
blockades of fuel depots and an
ongoing rail strike, predicted a
“very strong mobilisation”.
The CGT laid on more
than 600 buses to transport
demonstrators to Paris and said
it hoped to attract more support
than in March, when it claimed
1.2 million people took to the
streets. Authorities put the
March figure at 3,90,000. For
Tuesday’s protest, Paris police
chief Michel Cadot said he
expected “maybe more than
50,000 demonstrators” in the
capital alone. Two further protest
days are set for later this month.
At a time when Paris would
normally be reaping the benefits of high tourism boosted by
the football, the demonstrations
have dampened the flow to the
world's most-visited city.
ndia’s entry into the Nuclear
Suppliers Group (NSG) will
worsen the security situation in
South Asia, a Chinese daily said
on Tuesday.
“China’s concern about
India's inclusion into the NSG
comes out of the security
dynamic in South Asia,” the
state-run Global Times said in
a commentary.
“India’s application for
NSG membership and its
potential consequences will
inevitably touch a raw nerve in
Pakistan, its traditional rival in
the region,” it said.
“As Pakistan is not willing to
see an enlarging gap in nuclear
power with India, a nuclear
race is a likely outcome. This will
not only paralyze regional security, but also jeopardize China's
national interests.”
In the commentary titled
“India must not let nuclear
ambitions blind itself ”, the daily
said that nuclear powered India
and Pakistan keep alert to each
other's nuclear capabilities.
“A peaceful regional and
global environment is in the
interests of all stakeholders.
China's concern about India’s
inclusion into the Nuclear
Suppliers Group comes out of
the security dynamic specially
in South Asia.
“Only when New Delhi
and Islamabad take another
step forward in their non-proliferation commitments can
the region avoid being
dragged into a nuclear confrontation,” it said.
China has emerged as the
major stumbling block to
India's membership of the
NSG.The plenary meeting of
the NSG is expected to be
held in Seoul on June 24.
The Global Times said the
US and some NSG members
had given a push to India's
membership bid, “but the
reported opposition from most
countries, especially China,
seems to have irritated India.
“Beijing insists that a prerequisite of New Delhi's entry
is that it must be a signatory to
the Non-Proliferation Treaty,
while India is not.”Despite
acknowledging this legal and
systematic requirement, the
Indian media called China's
stance 'obstructionist”
.India had its own calculations for joining the NSG. And
the US was backing New Delhi
to sell it nuclear technology,
says Chinese daily
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9-year-old Omar Mateen,
who gunned down 49 people at a gay club in Orlando,
himself might have been gay
but chose to hide his true
identity out of anger and
shame, his former wife has said
as authorities looked into
reports that he had visited the
Florida club several times and
also used a gay dating app.
Sitora Yusufiy said she had
met Mateen online in 2008 and
the two got married in 2009.
He “might have been gay
but chose to hide his true
identity out of anger and
shame”, she said.
A New York Times report
cited a senior federal law
enforcement official as saying
that the FBI was looking at
reports that Mateen had used
a gay dating app.
Patrons of Pulse, the club
where he killed 49 people in the
worst shooting case in US history, were quoted as saying that
he had visited the club several
times.Yusufiy said that her ex-
husband had told her that he
frequented nightclubs before
their marriage, but that he did
not tell her they were gay clubs.
CBS News said in a report
that club-goers have told investigators that Mateen had been
at Pulse previously.
The Orlando Sentinel and
other news organizations also
quoted regular customers at the
gay bar as saying they had seen
Mateen there a number of
times.”Sometimes he would go
over in the corner and sit and
drink by himself, and other
times he would get so drunk he
was loud and belligerent,” said
Ty Smith, a patron at the bar.
Smith said he saw Mateen
inside the club at least a dozen
times.Yusufiy, during an interview at her home in Colorado,
said Mateen had seemed
“perfect American enough for
her free spirit and Muslim
enough to please her traditional
family.
“This man was a simple,
Americanised guy that was also
from my culture. And, y, had the
same religion,” she said.
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Refugees (UNHCR) has said
around 1.19 million persons
will need resettlement in 2017.
“With a multitude of conflicts and crises causing record
displacement around the world,
resettlement has become an
increasingly vital part of
UNHCR's efforts to find solutions and advocate for fairer
responsibility-sharing for
refugees,” UN spokesman
Stephane Dujarric said at a
daily news briefing here.
“Despite increased resettlement quotas from some
countries, the number of people in need of resettlement far
surpasses the opportunities for
placement in a third country,”
Xinhua news agency quoted
Dujarric as saying.
In 2017, Syrians are projected to account for 40 percent
of needs, followed by Sudan,
Afghanistan and Congo, he
added.UNHCR also reported
that 2015 was a record year for
submissions which reached
134,044, up 29 percent from the
previous year. In 2015, the US
accepted 62 percent of all submissions, followed by Canada,
Australia, Norway and Britain.
According to the Projected
Global Resettlement Needs
2017, the agency resettled more
than one million refugees in
more than 30 resettlement
countries in the past decade.
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acquired citizenship of a
member state of the European
Union in 2014.
Around 890,000 persons
globally acquired EU citizenship, of whom 35,300 were
Indians, according to Eurostat.
The EU’s statistical bureau
said 63.6 percent Indians
opted for citizenship in Britain,
14.2 percent for Italy and 8.3
per cent for Ireland.
The number of Pakistanis
acquiring an EU citizenship in
2014 was 25,100, of whom 51.7 per
cent took the citizenship of Britain,
16.8 per cent of Italy and 13.2 per
cent of Spain.
The largest number of citizenship of an EU member
state in 2014 was acquired by
Moroccans (92,700 persons),
ahead of Albania (41,000),
Turkey (37,500) followed by
India, Eurostat reported.
need of resettlement in 2017
will likely represent an increase
of 72 percent on the projected
needs of 691,000 in 2014,
before the large-scale resettlement of Syrians began.
“We are seeing resettlement taken to a new level and
that enhanced resettlement can
be an effective means of sharing the responsibility for
refugee protection,” UN High
Commissioner for Refugees
Filippo Grandi said.
“But much more needs to
be done to keep pace with the
growing numbers of acutely
vulnerable.”UNHCR expects
to submit 170,000 refugees for
resettlement next year, an
increase from a current target
of some 143,000 in 2016 and
more than 100,000 in each of
2015 and 2014.
“Resettlement is now more
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opportunity to increase the
number of refugees benefitting
from it, as well as other avenues
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and considered to be the flag bearer of
journalism standards and ethics, The
Washington Post is one of the most influential global newspapers.
“Based on the incredibly inaccurate
coverage and reporting of the record
setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the
phony and dishonest Washington
Post,” Trump wrote on his Facebook
page.”I am no fan of President (Barack)
Obama, but to show you how dishonest the phony Washington Post is, they
wrote, Donald Trump suggests
President Obama was involved with
Orlando shooting' as their headline.
Sad!” he wrote in another post.
However, The Post, as the leading
daily is popularly known as, said in a
statement that it would continue to
cover Trump as usual.”Donald Trump's
decision to revoke The Washington
Post’s press credentials is nothing less
than a repudiation of the role of a free
and independent press,” said The
Washington Post Editor Martin Baron.
“When coverage doesn't correspond to what the candidate wants it
to be, then a news organisation is banished,” he alleged.”The Post will continue to cover Donald Trump as it has all along
honorably, honestly, accurately, energetically, and unflinchingly. We’re proud of our
coverage, and we’re going to keep at it,”
Baron said in a statement.The Trump
Campaign stood by its decision.
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covers Mr Trump very inaccurately,” the campaign said in a statement.”Today’s headline,
‘Donald Trump Suggests President
Obama Was Involved With Orlando
Shooting’ is a perfect example. We no
longer feel compelled to work with a
publication which has put its need for
'clicks' above journalistic integrity,” the
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tuesday arrested in Bangladesh where
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nationwide crackdown to halt a spate of
deadly attacks on minorities and secular
writers in the Muslim-majority nation.
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in Muktagachha of northern
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itself on July 24, 2016, might have come as good
news for medical aspirants, but many are now
worrying about the change in the pattern of
questions and the overall syllabus as compared
to AIPMT. However, aspirants can heave a sigh
of relief, as the pattern as well as the syllabus
remains unchanged.
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be appearing for NEET phase-II this year; the
ones who have already appeared for NEET
phase-1 and will now appear for phase-II and
others who are appearing for just phase-II.
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universities. The upcoming NEET phase-II is,
therefore, important for all medical aspirants.
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to prepare for the entrance exam which will
decide their career path. What should be the
most appropriate strategy to prepare for NEET
phase-II as the countdown to the D-Day
begins? Here are a few tips and tricks that will
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your mind in the two-month gap. The best companions for recollection at this time are the notes
that you had prepared at the time of NEET
phase-I. If you hadn’t compiled notes during
your preparation in phase-I, you can start afresh
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PG Diploma in Banking and Finance, in India. The course aims
at preparing students to become a global finance professional, who
is proficient in financial planning and handling international trade
transactions. The programme combined best of global orientation
along with strong industry exposure. The course duration is oneyear and student would be studying subjects like banking operation, wealth management, trade finance, forex, SME finance etc.
They students will be trained on computer business communication and stock marketing trading. The institute organises various
professional events like leadership camp and bankers meet in order
to boost knowledge. It’ll prepare the students to meet various challenges of industry. The students, who are in the third year of graduation or graduates, are eligible to apply for it. Those, who have
scored 50 per cent of marks in graduation, may get scholarship.
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interview. The Institute also provide IBPS classes to get student
Government jobs. For more details contact @tkwsibf.org.
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launch of a new series of four courses.
Three premier ISB faculty— Vaidya
Nathan, Vikram Kuriyan and
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four course Specialisation: Introduction
to Financial Markets; Portfolio and
Risk Management; Behavioral Investing
and Investment Strategy, Philosophy,
Client Management and Current
Trends. In order to earn a specialisation
certificate, learners are required to
complete a final capstone project that
involves managing assets and securities
in collaboration with the Oxford
and Cambridge Society of India.
The new ‘UK Alumni Digital
Innovation Fund’ was launched
that will simulate alumni associations in India, especially the
25 chapters of the Association of
British Scholars, with new digital innovations to increase their
membership across the country.
The British Council will award
five winning ideas that help
build connections between
alumni and current students to
foster a sense of community and
continuity between generations.
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University networks in India
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for a person or a company using portfolio management and behavioural
aspects.
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in helping an individual to achieve
financial goals can hardly be over
emphasised. And yet, studies have
shown that individuals commit mistakes
on choosing their personal investment
portfolios. In 2015, the S&P’s Ratings
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a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Magic Bus, India’s leading childhood to livelihood NGO, to help shape the future of 1700 children
(8-14 year olds) from some of the poorest areas of Mumbai and Delhi. The
three-year programme will work towards facilitating holistic development of
the children, ensuring that they attend school, learn well, and attain basic life
skills. The aim of the joint initiative is to empower them to secure a livelihood of their choice and succeed in it, giving them a fair chance of moving
out of poverty by the time they turn 18 years of age. Bharti Airtel will provide financial assistance to this initiative.
Bharti Foundation will monitor the programme and support 1700 poor
children from Rafiq Nagar and Bhalaswa slums in Mumbai and Delhi respectively. The key drivers of this initiative are the 68 young volunteers, who are
also from the same area as the children. The on-site volunteering’s approach
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details at https://www.britishcouncil.in/programmes/ukalumni/uk-alumni-digital-innovation-fund. The deadline for
applications is the August 1.
British Council has also
launched FameLab, a national
talent competition for young scientists, with a special focus on
young female students. FameLab
helps early-career researchers
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in speaking about their work.
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India will travel to The Times
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FameLab International grand
finale. For more information, log
on to https://www.britishcouncil.in/programmes/higher-education/famelab.
With an overarching objective of supporting future UKIndia cultural relations, they
also announced 291 new
GREAT scholarships, an
increased number of Chevening
awards, Commonwealth and
Charles Wallace scholarships.
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Education, Research and
Innovation is a year-long campaign that aims to highlight the
strength and mutual benefits
between India and UK. Both the
countries have been driving
further UK- India partnerships
and encouraging organisations
and institutions to collaborate at
national, regional and state level
to create a new 21st century
framework as partners in education, research and innovation,
in the global context.
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Judicial Training Academy
and director general of DME;
and Nitin Wadhwa, corporate
lawyer. Questions like — How
is BALLB different from
BBALLB, What are the job
prospects, remuneration
expected, Should one join
two years in any of the foreign
universities where they would
receive their international
Engineering degree.
The programme will be
offered to 250 students across
India. To apply online, visit
http://manipal.edu/icas. After
completion of the course, the
students will be awarded international engineering degree
from reputed foreign university, global placement opportunity at par with full-time foreign students.
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The Jagan Institute of
Management Studies, Rohini,
invites applications for its
two-year full time PGDM
programmes, equivalent to
MBA, with in Marketing,
Finance, HR and Operations.
Specific programmes are
available in International
Business (PGDM–IB) and
Retail Management
(PGDM–RM). The new
batch will commence from
July 4, 2016. Aspirants should
be a graduate in any
discipline with minimum 50
per cent marks. The final
year students may also apply.
The selection criteria will be
on the performance
evaluation in academic,
CAT/MAT/XAT /CMAT/
ATMA etc, group discussion
& personal interview.
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Judge, Am i eligible for
Government jobs as a legal
officer — were addressed by
the dignitaries. Prof. Vikram
Dutt principal, Delhi
Metropolitan Education said:
It is important to select the best
college for choice of your
career. At DME, we have out-
standing judges on board as
guest faculty including Justice
Iqbal, former Supreme Court
Judge, Salman Khurshid, former law Minister and senior
advocate and outstanding academicians associated with us.
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for law examination but also
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FIIT JEE was able to provide the guidance
needed for the JEE preparation. It became a
platform to get my fundamentals strong along
with a continuous elevation of my knowledge
in a particular subject,” Animesh tells you.
Most aspirants tend to give up due to the
huge stress as the examination nears.
Sometimes, they start to lose their drive to
keep studying dedicatedly. But Animesh’s parents provided a strong source of motivation,
constantly encouraging him to keep going and
doing his best.
Ask him what he did when he needed to
relax a little or take a break from his hectic
study schedule, he tells you, “I planned my
schedule in such a way that I was able to go
out to play twice a week and spend quality
time listening to music. I even managed to
play computer games and go outside to play
with my friends, albeit the last being a little
less frequently.”
Getting to the 19th rank among 2 lakh
students competing for 11,000 seats in the IITs
is no mean feat. But Animesh is too grounded
a person to be carried away by the enormity of
his achievement. Right now, Animesh has his
eye only on one goal — to go to IIT Bombay
and do his BTech in Computer Engineering.
He says that he is all set to experiment and
ready to find out what lies ahead for him in
this field.
elhi boy Animesh Bohara has made the
city proud with his outstanding performance in the Joint Entrance
Examination (JEE), the nationwide exam held
for admission to the coveted IITs and other
top engineering colleges. His all-India rank
(AIR) is 19, higher than last year’s Delhi topper Anjishnu Bose, who had an AIR of 26. A
students of KIIT School, Pitampura, Animesh
garnered a score of 94 per cent in his class XII
Board exams.
Animesh says that his heart was set on
engineering for a long time. It was his keen
interest in Science and Mathematics that
groomed him for the dedication and seriousness needed to top the State. “I was quite sure
of my preparation. So, I did not keep a second
option,” says Animesh, relaxed after cracking
the exam dreaded by many. While many
appear for papers like this, there are a few
who are able to balance out the stress and the
time required, something that Animesh
excelled at.
For this meritorious performer, studying is
just the beginning. Testing himself further is
the next step. “Managing time was the hardest aspect,” he tells you. However, he was able
to overcome it after taking a series of mock
tests. These tests boosted not only his performance but also his confidence.
“I started my coaching from the IX standard. I wanted ample time to cultivate my
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Businesses across the world are in the phase of rapid growth,
integration and globalisation. To continue to grow at an accelerating pace, businesses are required to take risks. They have to deal
with the changing risk landscape, including market volatility, geopolitical crises, widespread economic changes, regulatory reforms and
cyber threats. This presents an opportunity to take advantage of the
potential of risk. Risk management is beyond financial and regulatory risk mitigation; it looks at the overall business environment
and encompasses managing of strategic, operational, regulatory, compliance and financial risk of an organisation. Risk management is
required across all industries — manufacturing, retail, telecommunication, hospitality, services etc and is also relevant even for an
entrepreneur. For an enterprise to be successful and not let risks jeopardise the company’s stability, a holistic approach to risk management is vital.
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lion, growing at the fast year-on-year rate of about 40-45 per cent.
Q The top 250 companies spend around $30-50 million each on risk-
related activities.
This kind of a market size translates into a great career opportunity in risk management. With no structured and comprehensive
programme in India, or even globally, to address the skill set gap,
trained risk management professionals will have an edge.
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A good risk manager should be able to recognise and examine
the business environment, assess risks the business is exposed to,
and define a risk mitigation strategy. The risk manager gets the
opportunity to learn business nuances across the value chain of an
organisation and not just confine their knowledge to functions like
marketing, production, finance etc. They are also expected to analyse
risks across all business functions and help define an apt risk mitigation strategy for the firm.
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As risk management is an extremely vast and dynamic area, this
specialisation is dependent on the qualification one acquires dur-
ing their graduation. Thus, graduates from commerce, economics,
statistics, arts, engineering or any other field can take this up as a
specialised post graduation option. The qualities needed are —
analytical bent of mind towards problem solving, ability to think
out of the box to design solutions, willingness to learn, extremely good communication skills and dynamic personality.
class risk management curriculum will create
an ecosystem enabling all large corporates to
hire trained risk managers. This talent is
required by organisations globally, and thus,
it is a passport to a global career.
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A student armed with a risk management qualification has bright chances of getting hired as a risk consultant in MNCs and
other large corporate organisations across verticals. The potential recruiters of risk managers are large consulting and risk consulting organisations like Accenture,
EY, KPMG, PwC, Deloitte,
Protiviti, Grant Thornton
etc. Organisations like
General Electrics (GE), Tata
Group, PepsiCo etc are also
potential recruiters.
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University of Strathclyde,
Glasgow , invites applications
for
full-time
MBA
Scholarships 2016 from Indian
students for pursuing MBA
(one-year full-time study)
commencing in September,
2016. A maximum value of
£7000 will be awarded
Eligibility: The university seek applications from highly experienced candidates
from a variety of industry
backgrounds who will offer the
MBA class of 2016 a valuable
and alternative perspective to
enhance the learning experience of the whole class.
Applicants will be considered
on the basis of their MBA
applications and interview
performance.
In addition, university will
ask each applicant to complete
a 1000 word (maximum)
statement on a current issue
impacting Indian business and
your views on how this issue
can be resolved. Applicants
from India are eligible to apply
for these scholarships.
How to apply: Candidates
should apply online at
https://www.sbs.strath.ac.uk/ap
ps/scholarships/mba/
Deadline: June 30, 2016.
Cardiff University has
announced plans to offer
scholarships of up to £5,000 to
high-performing Indian appli-
cants for the
2016-17 academic year.
Eligibility: The scholarships are available to new
applicants and existing Cardiff
University applicants for academic programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate
taught levels.
How to apply: Applicants
should apply through one of
Cardiff University’s approved
representatives in India. All
applicants will be considered
for awards of £5,000. There are
also a number of £2,000
awards available.
Deadline: The last date to
apply for these scholarships for
Indian students is July 1, 2016.
For more details, visit:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/for/pr
ospective/international/funding/international-scholarshipfund/postgraduate-scholarships.html
TKWS Institute of
Banking & Finance has
launched three scholarships,
based on various criteria, that
will help students get a discount on their tuition fee.
How to apply: After getting IBFs Selection Letter student must write a letter
addressed to the chairman
with attached copies of
mark sheets.
For the Maa Saraswati
scholarship (for students
who have achieved Top 3
rank in their school or college), a certificate from the
school/college must be produced with the application,
certifying the rank.
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There is a huge demand for trained risk managers across consulting firms and corporate houses globally. At present, all
risk consulting firms, spend large number of hours and
effort in training risk management concepts to the
resources hired, leading to lower productivity from these
resources in the initial few years. Once these organisations get trained resources in risk management, they
can achieve upto 30-35 per cent higher productivity as compared to a generic masters’ student.
On the other hand, corporate houses do not
have the internal machinery to provide best-in-class
career enhancement training programmes to its
employees in the risk domain, and hence, they
have historically stayed away from hiring less
experienced professionals.
With a specialised risk management
qualification, corporates get an opportunity to induct relevant and uniquely trained
students in their organisation at an earlier stage, allowing for better career progression.
Professionals with education in risk
management are believed to have faster
career tracks, as compared to their peers
who join with more generic qualifications.
This will hold true for all professionals pursuing a
career in the domain of risk, compliance, controllership and internal audits. Thus, this positions the risk
management trained resource in a premium bracket in a market which has infinite demand across industry sectors.
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attractive salary starting from an
initial band of C6-8 lakh per
annum.
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across industries andfunctions is:
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Manufacturing, Insurance, Banking,
Retail, Healthcare
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organisation
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and 22 countries participated in
the exams during 2015-16.
There were cash prizes
awarded for three different
ranks to a number of winners of
CCand C
each. The top 10 principals
and top 40 teachers, whose students put up an exceptional performance, were rewarded with
cash prizes, mementos and citations.
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Dell and Shiv Nadar
University have signed a
Memorandum
of
Understanding (MoU) to collaborate and drive excellence in
research and innovation.
Through this partnership, Dell
has set up two laboratories
jointly with the university to
integrate theoretical concepts
with practical experience. Dell
will also engage with faculty
members to mentor students
and work on technology pro-
jects in Big Data, Cloud
Computing and Internet of
Things.
Dell will also share best
practices, introduce students
to next-gen technologies and
help build a future-ready talent
pool through continuous
exchange of knowledge and
information. The laboratories
will allow students to gain
hands-on experience by working on projects related to key
business issues.
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Triumphant Institute of
Management Education Pvt
Ltd (TIME), India’s leading testprep institute, is conducting a
free All India Online Mock CAT
on June 19, 2016. This test is an
online computer-based invigilated test, replicating the exact
test atmosphere of the actual
CAT. This test will be conducted at numerous locations across
the country and will be written
by a wide cross-section of stu-
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ducation is witnessing a tremendous
revolution, owing to advances in technology. Computers and mobile devices
like phones and tablets have introduced exciting opportunities for techbased interventions like innovative
communication, interactive textbooks, pragmatic
learning, web-based study, differentiated learning
and gamification.
This has brought a change in the traditional
classroom practices. Today, technology is ubiquitous in education, opening up new frontiers for
everyone involved. Its intervention has drastically
revolutionised the educational landscape with
new learning trends that are making academic
learning extremely accessible for everyone.
With all the technology trends in the last
decade, it is the smartphone that has the potential
to be the most influential and powerful tool in
enhancing education around the world. With
access to the Internet, students can use smartphones to virtually meet any instructor across the
globe, enabling access to vast realms of information and endless educational opportunities. This
technology allows the students to search for and
consume relevant information, thus enjoying the
responsibility and liberty of charting their own
progress.
Exciting times are underway for education
with schools, colleges and universities across
India enhancing their learning spaces to facilitate
this new model of education. This is promoting
more interaction and driving learner engagement
in the teaching process.
This evolution of technology has notably created a new pattern in education, making it easier
for teachers to create instructional materials and
allowing students to learn and work in innovative
ways.
In recent years, the dependency on Learning
Management Systems (LMSs) has increased
among students for the convenience and invaluable educational resource they offer. LMSs, at
their core, allow institutions to track attendance
as well as organise and administer all facets of
learning. But the LMS is just a concept and can
do more to lead the changing face of education.
LMSs are also becoming crucial for higher
education as well with students taking up at least
one online or hybrid course by the time they finish college. Perhaps, the main reason is that this
system is bringing students in touch with institutions that have greater accountability and transparency features.
Educational institutions, on the other hand,
are required to ensure that student information
and teaching ‘transactions’ are secure so as to be
able to integrate the online teaching environment
with its administrative systems. With the digital
footprint provided by LMSs, they are able to substantiate quality assurance and personalised
development to students. Although this system
has proved to be successful in solving pain points
and creating efficiencies for an individual college,
it hasn't yet sparked fundamental improvements
across institutions or higher education as a whole.
But this may change going forward. Today,
technology is opening doors to enable LMSs to
create the kind of innovation we hoped for.
However, without seamless Internet connectivity,
teaching multiple users across geographies while
retaining the live and interactive nature of a classroom remains a distant dream.
Therefore, to make sure that LMSs are able to
bring about a speedy progression in education,
more and more students and teachers should
embrace the use of smartphones in education. By
ensuring that we all are connected, we can enable
the LMS to play a vital role in improving education.
There will always be room for traditional
classroom-based education. The LMS will evolve
only to revitalise it, ushering in an impactful and
exciting new educational environment for the
forthcoming era.
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Olympiad
Foundation (SOF) organised a
felicitation function to recognise
and award the international
winners, teachers and principals
of Olympiad exams held during
the academic year 2015-16. The
top three international rank
holders from classes I-XII were
awarded. About 45 lakh students from over 34,000 schools
from 1400 cities across India
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Close to 1.4 million child
labourers in India in the age
group of 7-14 years cannot
write their names, an analysis of
Census data by Child Rights
and You (CRY) reveals. This
means that one in three child
labourers in the said age group
are illiterate. For children who
support the family economy by
working for less than six
months in a year, education of
two million of them has been
compromised.
The situation is also reflected in State figures. While 45%
of child labourers in Bihar are
illiterate, in Rajasthan and
Jharkhand, the figure stands at
40%. Madhya Pradesh and
Andhra Pradesh also have a figure of about 38%
The Census 2011 data for
children in labour states that 6.5
million children in India in the
age group of 5-14 years work in
agriculture and household
industries, ie, 64.1%. CRY’s onground experience reveals that
a large number of children
engaged in these occupations
are working with their families,
thus exempting them from the
proposed ban. Allowing children to work in family enterprises affects not only their education and learning outcomes
but also their health and overall development.
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TalentSprint, a Youth
Career Accelerator, has unveiled
a series of new digital programmes aimed at fresh B Tech
and BSc graduates hailing from
non-metros and seeking their
first job in the IT sector. With
a mission to empower one million youth realise their career
dreams, TalentSprint intends to
position these holistic programmes as one-stop career
solutions that can help rural and
semi-urban youth overcome
traditional barriers of gender,
geography and privilege. While
young college graduates across
the nation continue to aspire for
the best jobs the IT sector has
to offer, the intrinsic pattern of
entry-level IT recruitment itself
is undergoing a seismic shift.
Commenting on this latest
initiative, Dr Santanu Paul,
MD & CEO, TalentSprint said,
“Our digitally intelligent plat-
form and these new digital
courses will empower every
young person to prepare for
exciting, high-value IT careers.
In effect, we are trying to create a backstop for the systemic
failures in higher education. As
we have seen with our digital
courses in the banking and
financial sectors, the appetite for
high quality employability
courses, made available digitally,
is practically unlimited.”
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dents.
Based on the performance
in the free online mock CAT, a
student can get attractive discounts from TIME on their test
series (AIMCATs) and classroom programmes for CAT
2016. These discounts will
depend on the student’s overall
performance in the paper, subject to the attainment of a certain minimum percentile score
in each section.
TCYonline has launched its
new app, Top Edge, which
could be a boon for students
preparing for competitive
exams. The app mainly focuses on the General Knowledge
(GK) section of all banking
exams, and contains information like exam notification.
The app is likely to give an
edge to students in keeping
themselves abreast with events
happening all over the globe.
The app will act as a complete online encyclopaedia for
static GK, general studies
(History, Geography, Literature
etc) and dynamic GK (Business,
Sports, Politics, Economics etc)
There is special emphasis on
current affairs, infotainment,
and technological developments
in India and the world. It will
also provide: Thorough coverage on punch lines, CEOs,
advertisements, new products
and related corporate news;
Complete coverage of exam
notifications of various competitive exams; GK Practice
Tests in the competitive examination format.
This App is useful for
exams like CSAT (UPSC),
BANK (RBI, SBI, IBPS —
PO/Clerical, SO), RRB,
Govt/PSU, Intelligence Bureau
(IB), Insurance, LIC, SSC, UGC,
NDA, CDS, Railways etc.
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Marseille in their Euro 2016 Group B
opener, Russia face Slovakia in Lille on
Wednesday knowing a win would all but
secure progression to the last 16.
Russia’s opening game on Saturday was
overshadowed by the trouble that flared in
the city of Marseille and in the stands at the
Stade Velodrome at full time.
UEFA has since opened disciplinary
proceedings against Russia for the crowd
disturbances, as well as racist behaviour and
the letting off of fireworks, and has threatened them with expulsion from the competition if violence flares again.
And with England and Wales playing
each other in nearby Lens on Thursday, the
threat of more incidents between rival supporters in Lille will be of
serious concern to local
authorities.
But on the pitch in
Marseille there was a happy
ending for Leonid Slutsky’s
side as captain Vasili
Berezutski’s stoppage-time
equaliser saw them earn a
1-1 draw against the
Group B favourites.
That also means a victory at the Stade
Pierre Mauroy, a day before England face
Wales just along the road, would pile pressure on Roy Hodgson’s men in particular.
“I am not a saviour and one point does
not really mean that much,” Berezutski told
UEFA.Com, playing down the significance of his goal before Slutsky’s side travelled to the northern city of Lille to face the
Slovakians.
Russia saw key midfield duo Igor
Denisov and Alan Dzagoev withdraw
from their squad due to injury before the
tournament, while back-up goalkeeper
Yuri Lodygin missed training on Tuesday.
Meanwhile midfielder Denis
Glushakov, who was used from the bench
against England, could come into the
Russian starting line-up providing he
shakes off a calf strain.
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urgency in their search for a first
European Championship finals win after
they conceded late on to lose 2-1 against
Wales in their opener in Bordeaux on
Saturday.
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about the World Cup that it will host in
two years.
Sanctions that UEFA is considering
against Russia over pitched fights, racist
chants and fireworks hurled around the
European Championship game against
England have been a new blow to
Russia’s reputation.
Images of fans preparing for battle
with gumshields and batons, charging
through Marseille’s old town with chairs
over their heads ready to throw have
gone around the world.
Russia’s Sports Minister Vitaly
Mutko has predicted his country will
merely be fined.
But there is a lot of damage limitation to be done. Mutko is already
struggling with international enquiries
into doping in Russian athletics and
other sports.
The International Association of
Athletics Federations is to decide on
Friday whether to readmit Russia into
international competition so it can
take part in the Rio Olympics in August.
Following accusations of “statesponsored” doping in athletics, Russia
is also under investigation by the World
Coach Jan Kozak will want more from
his star creator, Napoli’s Marek Hamsik,
and has admitted that changes to his lineup are a certainty.
That could mean Ondrej Duda of
Legia Warsaw, who came off the bench to
score against Wales, could be promoted
to the starting XI.
“There will definitely be changes, but
I cannot say which ones yet. We’ll see what
shape the players are in after their recovery session,” Kozak said from the
Slovakian camp in the central French town
of Vichy.
While Slovakia are making their
debut at a European Championship as an
independent nation, this fixture evokes
memories of key games at past tournaments for them.
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signing Granit Xhaka go in hunt of
a second victory in Euro 2016 on
Wednesday against a Romania side
fighting for survival.
Romania came close to frustrating France in tournament-opening
match before Payet’s sublime winner gave French a last-gasp 2-1 win.
The Swiss meanwhile had to
fight before Fabien Schaer’s forceful header secured a 1-0 win over
Albania. Schaer, the 1.86 metre (6ft
3in) Hoffenheim defender, makes
a habit of scoring for the national
side — his decisive goal on Saturday
was his sixth in 21 appearances.
Victory at Parc des Princes
would almost certainly guarantee
Switzerland a ticket for the round
of 16 from Group A — and they will
not want to be facing France in Lille
on Sunday.
But Schaer said his teammates
had taken note that coach Anghel
Iordanescu’s team were unlucky to
lose to the French. “We watched
France against Romania, and
Romania matched them for the
majority of the game,” he said.
Romanians received glowing praise from their usually
critical national press for their
performance against France and
atmosphere in camp is relaxed
after they enjoyed a barbecue
with their families at team hotel
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on Monday.
players lost at Albania in a
match devoid of passion or
creativity.
It was the low point of his
coaching career with the
national team, and he was
scathing about the performance
of his players.
On Wednesday, France will
head into a European
Championship
match
againstAlbania looking to win
its 11th match in 12 games,
having scored 15 goals in the
past five, and with two players
who fared badly in that game
now in their best form.
Striker Olivier Giroud and
attacking midfielder Dimitri
Payet were both taken off at
halftime in Elbasan, with
Giroud’s touch deserting him as
passes bounced off him, and a
forlorn Payet fearing his international career was over following that match.
Last Friday, those two
ensured France’s national team
Anti-Doping Agency over allegations
that doping samples were fixed at the
2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
Swiss prosecutors are also still
probing how Russia was awarded the
2018 World Cup as part of their look at
FIFA’s affairs.
Mutko knows he has a job on his
hands to convince the football world
that all will be well in 2018.
Russia’s fans “are disgracing the
country and think this is normal,” he
said.As hosts of the future world championship, we must preserve our image
and people shouldn’t spoil it,” he added.
Racism is commonplace at Russian
football matches.
Fans have thrown bananas at black
players and Zenit St Petersburg’s
Brazilian striker Hulk, has repeatedly
complained of being a target of racial
insults at Russian league matches.
A 2014 law punishes fan violence
with up to eight years in prison.
A draft law submitted to parliament
last month that would set up a blacklist of violent fans who would be barred
from sporting events.
“Some people won’t like this of
course, it is extra money for stadiums,
but security is most important thing,”
the head of the Russian lower house of
parliament’s sports committee, Dmitry
Svishchev told R-Sport news agency.
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got Euro 2016 off to a positive
start with a 2-1 win over
Romania — Giroud scoring the
opening goal with a header
from Payet’s cross, and Payet
scoring a last-minute winner
with a thunderous shot into the
top left corner.
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free kicks against Russia and
Cameroon — while Giroud
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eight games to largely silence
the critics who would rather see
Benzema playing up front.
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The deadlock was finally
broken in the 32nd minute when
Bonucci found Giaccherini inside
the Belgium area with a lofted 40meter ball over the defense.
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fine touch and curled his shot
past Courtois. The match ended
with a frantic finish, with Pelle volleying home in stoppage time.
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a Bolivia win and a barrage of goals scored
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esus Manuel “Tecatito” Corona’s goal in
the 80th minute gave Mexico a 1-1 tie
against Venezuela on Monday night and
first place in Group C of the Copa America.
Corona had missed several opportunities to score before he took on five
defenders before firing off a shot from 10
yards to tie it and thrill the overwhelmingly pro-Mexico crowd.
By winning their group, El Tri avoids
a quarterfinal matchup with Lionel Messi
and tournament favorite Argentina. They’re
likely headed for an easier matchup with
Chile in the knockout round, leaving
Venezuela to face mighty Argentina.
Venezuela surprised Mexico with an early
goal. The Vinotinto used a free kick to get
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manage Everton on Tuesday after quitting
rival Southampton.
Southampton said it has begun a
search for Koeman’s replacement. The 53year-old former Barcelona player had only
a year remaining on his contract at
Southampton, which he led to seventh and
sixth place in his two years in charge.
“Everton is a club with a great history and real ambition, and it is a proud feeling for me to be part of what we want to
go and do,” Koeman said after signing a
three-year contract at Everton.
The northwest England club, which
fired Roberto Martinez last month after
finishing 11th, has greater financial power
since the recent takeover by Iranian-British
businessman Farhad Moshiri.
“We are really pleased to have secured
the man who was our No. 1 target from
the moment we set out to appoint a new
manager,” chairman Bill Kenwright said.
“Ronald has such a strong track
record in the game, instantly commanding respect for what he achieved as a player, and for his qualities and accomplishments as a manager.”
Koeman has coached across Europe,
winning the Dutch league twice with Ajax
and domestic cups with Benfica in Portugal
and Valencia in Spain.
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whistle in Lyon on Monday night.
Italy’s substitutes surged onto
the pitch to celebrate, while veteran keeper Gianluigi Buffon ran the
length of the field shouting as the
song “Seven Nation Army” — the
team’s unofficial anthem since the
2006 WC — blared out of the stadium’s speakers.
Another goal in stoppage time
from Graziano Pelle, combined
it in the box, and Jose Manuel
Velazquez gave Venezuela the
lead in the 10th minute after taking an assist on a header from
Christian Santos and volleying
it in for the goal.
Venezuela had a chance
to take the lead in the 84th
minute, but goalkeeper Jose de
Jesus Corona saved a bicycle kick
shot by Josef Martinez.
Mexico has won 11 in a row and has
a 22-game unbeaten streak, which is its
with excellent defending, helped
Italy to its resounding win over one
of the tournament favorites.
Victory against the odds also
sent Italy to the top of Group E,
after Ireland opened its campaign
with a 1-1 draw against Sweden.
Fielding a team with top
Premier League players including
Eden Hazard, Kevin De Bruyne
and Romelu Lukaku, Belgium
longest unbeaten streak ever.
Mexico is 9-1-0 since Juan Carlos
Osorio took over for interim coach
Ricardo Ferretti last fall. The team
has scored 16 goals and allowed
just two since he took over.
Mexico had a chance to
tie it in the 49th minute, but
Oribe Peralta could not get a foot
on the ball from 5 yards off a short
pass from Hirving Lozano. Another
opportunity came in the 56th minute when
Tecatito took a shot from 20 yards, but it
dominated the early stages but was
made to pay for the errors of a
makeshift defense and a lack of finishing up front.
A fine move led to Belgium’s
first shot on goal after 10 minutes.
Roma
midfielder
Radja
Nainggolan forced Buffon to make
a save with a dipping shot from
outside the box after Lukaku and
Marouane Fellaini had combined
sailed wide off the far post.
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Argentina’s final group game.
But Argentina manager Gerardo
Martino was coy on Monday as to whether
Messi will be on the field from the start,
or if it’ll be another supporting performance off the bench from the star forward
who has been dealing with a back injury.
Argentina is already assured of a
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Santa Clara: Abel Hernandez scored in the
first half, Mathias Corujo added a late
breakaway goal and Uruguay beat Jamaica
3-0 to snap a five-game Copa America winless streak. Uruguay took its first lead of
the 2016 tournament in the 21st minute.
Uruguay went ahead 2-0 in the 66th
minute on Je-Vaughn Watson’s own goal.
In the 88th, Corujo raced to win a
glancing header of a long goal kick and he
beat Jamaica goalkeeper Andre Blake in a
one-on-one battle.
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would look to hand Zimbabwe a
third successive whitewash while
testing more youngsters when they take
on the lacklustre hosts in the third and
final One-day International here on
Wednesday.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni gave
enough hints on changes in the playing eleven after two easy wins against
the hosts, who have proved no match
even for a second string Indian team.
The series so far has been a lopsided affair and fans of either side will
be hoping for a closer contest at the
Harare Sports Club to help generate
some interest in the short rubber, to be
followed by three T20 Internationals at
the same venue.
A win on Wednesday will give India
a third successive series clean-sweep
after the triumphs in 2013 and 2015.
Going by the words of skipper
Dhoni, more changes are likely in the
Indian batting order as only top three
batsmen have got substantial time in
the middle.
Opener Lokesh Rahul, who scored
a memorable ton on his ODI debut, can
be rested alongside number three
Ambati Rayudu. The two have by far
faced the most number of balls, 165 and
164 respectively.
If they are indeed benched,
uncapped Faiz Fazal can open with
Karun Nair, who made 39 off 68 balls
in the run chase on Monday after a failure in the first match.
Taking Rayudu's place could be
another uncapped batsman Mandeep
Singh, who was a surprise pick in the
16-man squad alongside Fazal. Barring
the top three, the rest of the batsmen
have not got an outing, so any other
change in that department looks
unlikely.
In fast bowling, Dhoni can rest
either Barinder Sran, Dhawal Kulkarni
or Jasprit Bumrah as all three performed their roles well in the earlier
games.
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recalled Jaydev Unadkat can get a
game and so could all-rounder Rishi
Dhawan, who made his India debut
during the ODI series in Australia in
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Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal,
who made the cut after a fruitful IPL,
has impressed in the two chances he has
got and that included a three-wicket
haul on Monday.
If off-spinner Jayant Yadav gets to
make his debut, either Chahal or Axar
Patel will be benched.
Dhoni has had no doubts about
putting Zimbabwe in after winning two
tosses in a row amid prevailing cold
conditions here. It will be interesting to
see what he opts for at the toss tomorrow, provided he gets third-time lucky.
A more batting-friendly pitch than
the surfaces used so far can also add the
much-needed spice to the game.
Though the wicket used yesterday was
better than the series opener, strokemaking remained a challenge.
Zimbabwe, on the other hand,
can only go up from the current scenario and give their fans something to
cheer about.
The home team has been throughly outplayed in all areas of the game so
far. The batsmen have failed to apply
themselves against a spirited Indian
attack, which has made most of the
friendly morning conditions.
Zimbabwe did manage to gain
some flow into the innings on Tuesday,
largely due to the effort of Vusi Sibanda,
who ended up with a gritty 53 off 69
balls and shared a 67-run stand with
Sikandar Raza.
However, that partnership was the
lone positive for the minnows, who collapsed to 126 all out after losing their
last six men for 20 runs.
Captain Graeme Cremer partly
blamed the toss for the poor batting
effort after the last game before adding
that his boys were capable of putting up
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a much better show.
On the bowling front, Zimbabwe
have kept things tight with the new ball
but that has not helped them as the
bowlers have not looked like taking
wickets.
Cremer will be hoping to get lucky
with the toss and then the under-pressure batters to give his bowlers something to defend.
Even with a host of changes, India
are expected to breeze through to the
T20 series, but a closer contest would
be more than welcome.
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balls to guide the West Indies to
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Monday in the fifth match of the limited-overs tri-series.
Samuels struck eight fours and
four sixes as the hosts reached 266-6,
surpassing the victory target with 4.2
overs to spare.
Earlier, Usman Khawaja was run
out for 98 after piloting the Australians
to 265-7 off 50 overs.
The West Indies' victory pursuit was
given impetus by an opening stand of
74 inside 10 overs by Johnson Charles
(48) and Andre Fletcher (27). The
openers benefited from chances to
Khawaja before Australia hit back by
dismissing both as the score dipped to
85-2.
Samuels then anchored the chase in
successive half-century stands with
Darren Bravo (39) and Denesh Ramdin
(29).
The 35-year-old Samuels had the
crowd on its feet with three successive
sixes against leg-spinner Adam Zampa
as the victory neared.
But he was run out by a slick direct
hit from wicketkeeper Matthew Wade
when in sight of his 10th ODI century.
Paceman Nathan Coulter-Nile dismissed Ramdin and captain Jason
Holder to add to home team nerves
before Kieron Pollard (16 not out)
sealed the crucial victory.
Australia remains top of the threeteam standings on nine points from
four matches, with West Indies on eight
points from three matches and South
Africa on five from three.
The West Indies and South Africa
meet in the sixth match of the tournament at this same venue on Wednesday.
MUMBAI: The Working Committee of the
Cricket Board is to meet in Dharamsala on June
24 to take stock of matters, including appointment of the Indian team's head coach.
Although BCCI sources said "it's the normal agenda" (about ratification of decisions taken
by various sub committees), the all-powerful
panel is expected to rubber stamp the identification of a new coach less than a fortnight before
the Indian squad leaves for the West Indies.
The Board has invited applications for the
head coach's post through its website and has
received 57 applications, including those of former India captain Anil Kumble, former team
director Ravi Shastri and current selection panel
chairman Sandeep Patil.Apart from the naming
of the head coach, the Working Committee also
has to ratify the decisions taken by the Board's
Technical Committee, including holding of
Ranji Trophy games in the upcoming season at
neutral venues.
Also this is, by all accounts, expected to be
the last meeting of the Working Committee
before the Supreme Court gives its verdict on the
Justice Lodha Committee's recommendations for
sweeping reforms in the Board.
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eeva Steenkamp's father
broke down in court on
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Tuesday as he told a dramatic
sentencing hearing that Oscar
Pistorius must "pay for his
crime" of murdering his daughter three years ago.
The Paralympic athlete
killed Reeva Steenkamp in the
early hours of Valentine's Day in
2013, saying he mistook her for
a burglar when he fired four
times through the door of his
bedroom toilet.
In March, Pistorius's lawyers
failed to reverse an appeal judgement that upgraded his original
conviction from culpable homicide — the equivalent of
manslaughter — to murder.
"It has been very difficult for
me to forgive... I feel that Oscar
has to pay for what he did. He
has to pay for his crime," Barry
Steenkamp, 73, said shaking
with emotion and in tears.
Reliving how his daughter,
29, died, Steenkamp said: "What
she must have gone through in
those split seconds — she must
have been in so much fear and
pain. That is what I think of, all
the time. It must have been
absolutely awful."
He also said that he believed
the couple had argued on the
night of the murder — disputing Pistorius's claims.
Pistorius held his head in his
hands and appeared to be sobbing during the testimony at the
High Court in the South African
capital Pretoria. Barry
Steenkamp, a former racehorse
trainer, described the chaos and
panic when his wife June rang
him at work early in the morning after Reeva, a model and law
graduate, was shot.
"June grieves like I do, all the
time. I hear her at night, I hear
her crying, I hear her talking to
Reeva," he added, saying that
June had tried to forgive
Pistorius to help her cope with
the loss of her daughter. You
must still understand that he
must pay for that, although
June has forgiven," he said.
The original trial judge
Thokozile Masipa is due to
hand down a new sentence for
murder after arguments from
both prosecution and defence.
The hearing — held in the
same courtroom as the original
trial — is scheduled to last until
Friday. Pistorius faces a minimum 15-year jail term for murder, but his sentence could be
reduced due to time already
spent in prison and mitigating
factors, including his disability.
He was released from jail
last October to live under house
arrest at his uncle's mansion in
Pretoria after serving one year of
his five-year sentence for culpable homicide.
Earlier Tuesday, the mother of a disabled child and
Pistorius's pastor gave evidence
as character witnesses for his
defence. Ebba Gudmundsdottir,
from Iceland, told how Pistorius
had befriended her family when
she was pregnant with a child
who would be born without legs.
"He gave us his phone number
for us to ask him or consult with
him anytime we needed it,
which we did and that was
lovely," she told the court.
Gudmundsdottir said Pistorius
has been an "inspiration" to her
son, and they had gone to see
him compete three times in the
Paralympics. Pistorius once gave
her son a gold medal and said
"This is for you champion".
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SP Chawrasia and Rahil Gangjee will
lead a strong Indian challenge at the
SQueen's
Cup golf beginning at the
Santiburi Samui Country Club here on
Wednesday.
As Chawrasia tries to get into top gear
in the run-up to the European summer,
where he is headed after this followed by
the Olympic Games, Gangjee is still seeking his second Asian Tour title, 12 years
after his first one.
Other Indians in the fray at the
$300,000 Asian Tour event are Chiragh
Kumar, who made the cut last week in
Austria, one-time Asian Tour winner
Himmat Rai, two-time winner on Asian
Development Tour S Chikkarangappa,
Shubhankar Sharma, Khalin Joshi and
Amardip Malik. Abhijit Chadha and
Shankar Das are among reserves who
could make the main field should there be
some pull-outs.
Gangjee, who has enjoyed three top10s and two top-20s this season, is anticipating a good week in Samui, both on and
off the golf course.
"It doesn't matter what the prize
purse we play here. Everybody loves
coming to Samui. This place is amazing.
You have to be on your game to play on
this golf course. I've had a few top-10s here,
but this place has been blowing hot and
cold for me. It treats me well and then it
treats me badly! But this year, I'm feeling
good," said Gangjee, who is currently
ranked 14th on the Order of Merit.
He credited his strong start to 2016 to
work done with a sports psychologist
where the focus has been on his post-shot
attitude.
"We've done some things which have
helped me. Things like how I handle my
reaction after a shot, that's helped me stay
calmer on the golf course," he said.
"It's been a year now working with the
psychologist (Jay Lee Nair). There's a lot
of neuro linguistic stuff, a lot of hypnosis
which I've done before too. We get into a
deep relaxation state and (she starts)
feeding positive sentences. You're still in
control but your mind accepts instructions
easier."
He added, "I'm working with Jay Lee
Nair, who is based in Singapore. I needed a system put in place. There are questions which I ask and it's answered. I speak
to her regularly on the phone and rarely
face to face."
Chawrasia said, "I have been playing
well and I love coming to Samui, it's a lovely place and this week was free, so I decide
to play here. I also love the course here."
He added, "After this there is a lot of
events in Europe and I am also looking for-
ward to the Olympic Games in Rio."
Former Asian Tour number one Liang
Wen-chong of China will be gunning for
a winning debut at the Queen's Cup to
revive his hopes of qualifying for the
Olympic Games. The Chinese star was
bumped out of the race to Rio de Janeiro
following countryman Wu Ashun's victory in Austria over the weekend but he has
vowed to keep fighting starting with this
week's Asian Tour stop.
Other top stars in the field include title
holder Prayad Marksaeng of Thailand, bighitting Aussie star Scott Hend, Korea's rising star Jeunghun Wang and Bangladeshi
Siddikur Rahman.
With Wu rising to 127th in the latest
Official World Golf Ranking and Li Haotong lying seven rungs below, the 195th
ranked Liang has four more tournaments
to overtake either golfer to qualify for
China's two-man team for Rio.
Straight-shooting Siddikur is happy to
return to his happy hunting ground where
in six previous appearances at the Queen's
Cup, he has finished top-three on three
occasions and not finished lower than 16th
place.
The 31-year-old is also keen to atone
for the disappointment of losing to Wang
at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open last
month where he led by three shots with
three holes remaining.