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drops. In a major setback to the
Centre, the Supreme Court on
Wednesday struck down a
Telecom Regulatory Authority
of India (TRAI) Regulation
allowing consumers to
get Re 1 for every call drop up
to a maximum of three call
drops in a day.
The move, intended to rein
in telecom companies, backfired after the apex court
found serious flaws in the
preparation
by
the
Government to introduce a
law for penalising the service
providers for no fault of theirs.
The bench of Justices
Kurian Joseph and RF Nariman
said that the TRAI Regulation
of October 16, 2015 was manifestly arbitrary and erroneous
as TRAI’s own records showed
that at least for one third of call
drops, consumers are to be
blamed and not ser vice
providers. Further, as per the
Regulation, if a consumer has
to claim compensation up to
three rupees in a day, there is
no way by which he/she can
prove that the call drop is on
account of the ser vice
provider’s fault. The court
quashed the Regulation as it
violated the fundamental rights
of service providers under
Article 14 (right to equality)
and right to practice profession
under Article 19(1)(g).
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he Union Cabinet on
Wednesday recommended
revocation of President’s Rule
in Uttarakhand after the
Supreme Court set the stage for
the comeback of Chief Minister
Harish Rawat declaring him to
be victorious in the floor test
conducted on Tuesday.
Even before the apex court
could open the sealed cover
produced by Principal
Secretary of Uttarakhand
Legislature, Attorney General
Mukul Rohatgi made a statement that the Centre will
revoke the President’s Rule in
the course of the day. All he
needed was a modification of
the top court’s April 22 order by
which President’s Rule was
restored in the State despite the
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that will come in handy for
the prosecution to nail the
main accused in the Sheena
Bora murder case, key accused
Indrani Mukerjea’s former driver Shyamvar Rai on
Wednesday informed a Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
court that he wanted to turn an
approver and disclose “certain
truths” about the brutal murder of Sheena committed on
April 24, 2012.
Within days after he wrote
a two-page letter to the CBI
court offering his readiness to
reveal truth and seeking pardon in the case, Rai — who was
part of the execution of
Sheena’s murder — told Special
Judge HS Mahajan that he
wanted to share the facts relating to the commission of sensational offence.
Continued on Page 4
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mended Parliament to consider framing a law on the lines of
an American law, US
Administrative Procedure Act
that to ensure that all laws in
form of executive policy and
regulations are subject to a
transparent process which
encourages due consultations
with all stakeholders before
the rule or regulation making
power is exercised. “Not only
would such legislation reduce
arbitrariness in subordinate
legislation making, but it would
also conduce to openness in
governance, the Bench said.
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declaring it to be invalid.
“The Harish Rawat
Government ought to be
restored forthwith. He has got
majority as is clear from press
reports and my instructions are
that we (Centre) will be
revoked,” Rohatgi said.
Justices Dipak Misra and
Shiva Kirti Singh amended its
earlier order to enable the
Centre revoke the Presidential
Proclamation of March 27,
2016 after the Bench was convinced that Rawat had won the
confidence vote by securing 33
out of 61 votes. It clarified,
“Needless to say, after the
President’s Rule is revoked,
respondent (Harish Rawat) can
assume the office of Chief
Minister of Uttarakhand.”
The court asked the Centre
to produce a copy of the revocation order on Friday for
passing further directions.
Though it seemed that the
Centre’s concession would bring
all controversy to rest, the
Supreme Court kept the polit-
ical pot boiling in Uttarakhand
by suggesting it will still go into
the question whether imposing
President’s Rule was a “justifiable” decision. Since the petition
challenging disqualification of
nine rebel Congress MLAs is
also pending in the Supreme
Court, the consequence to follow if the disqualification of the
nine rebel Congress MLAs was
set aside will also be looked into
by the court.
Minutes after the court
order, the Union Cabinet met
briefly at Parliament House at
around 12.45 pm and decided to
revoke the President’s Rule. A
senior Government functionary
later told the mediapersons,
“The Cabinet has recommended revocation of President’s Rule
in Uttarakhand.”
The Congress, apprehensive of Centre’s next move,
had come to court armed with
an application for giving effect
to the floor test and install
Rawat as Chief Minister.
Continued on Page 4
he Supreme Court on
Wednesday extended
Sahara chief Subrata Roy’s
parole expiring on June 4 till
up to July 11. The court
agreed to extend the parole
granted to Subrata Roy and his
brother-in-law Ashok Roy
Chaudhary on the condition
that by July 11, Roy will
deposit C200 crore with SEBI,
failing which he will be taken
back into custody.
Roy will be free to meet
prospective buyers for his
property during this period as
he is still short of raising
C5,000 crore for his release
from jail.
Currently, Roy and
Chaudhary are out on a fourweek parole l granted by court
on May 6 following the demise
of Roy’s mother Chabi Roy.
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Parliamentar y
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Committee on Estimates,
chaired by BJP Lok Sabha
n a setback to India, the
Irefused
United Kingdom has
to deport business-
member Murli Manohar Joshi,
has called for setting up an
empowered authority headed
by the Prime Minister for better coordination and implementation of the schemes for
cleaning of Ganga River in a
time-bound manner.
According to Joshi, personal monitoring by the Prime
Minister’s Office (PMO)
through “Namami Gange” programme was not enough and
the PM should head the proposed body, so that inter-
Ministry and inter-State issues
are settled without loss of time.
The committee further
suggested that the apex body
should also be backed by a legislative framework with statutory power to take decisions on
all aspects of river rejuvenation
projects, whether it is land
acquisition for sewage treatment plants, maintaining uninterrupted flow of the river or
regulation of water withdrawal for industrial, agricultural
and domestic use.
To add to the above, the
committee came out with 30
other recommendations to
contain the “incalculable damage caused to the Nirmalta
(purity) and Aviralta (free flow)
of the river” making it amongst
the ten most polluted rivers of
the world.
Delays and functioning of
Sewage Treatment Plants (STP)
along the banks of the river,
figured prominently in the list
of concerns of the committee.
Continued on Page 4
man Vijay Mallya citing its
Immigration Act as a barrier.
London, however, has agreed
to assist India in case it seeks
legal assistance on Mallya in
the form of extradition.
Mallya’s passport was
revoked by Ministr y of
External Affairs (MEA) in
order to secure his presence for
investigations against him by
Enforcement Directorate
under the Prevention of
Money Laundering Act 2002.
There is also a Non-Bailable
Warrant (NBW) issued against
the liquor baron.
The UK Government’s
response came nearly a fortnight after India made a request
for Mallya’s deportation.
However,
the
British
Government said it acknowledges “the seriousness of allegations” against Mallya and
was “keen to assist” the Indian
Government. Mallya had a
diplomatic passport by virtue of
being a Rajya Sabha member.
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of School Education
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(MPBSE) class 12 results 2016
will be announced on Thursday
at 4 pm. It will be declared in
presence of School Education
Minister Paras Jain and
Minister of State for School
Education Deepak Joshi at
Vigyan Bhavan (Science training center).
On Thursday starting 4
pm, the students and their
parents can view the results on
the internet. This year, the MP
Board
HSSC
(Higher
Secondary School Certificate)
Exam for class 12 students was
conducted in the month of
March – April, 2016. The coveted examination began on
March 1 with Hindi paper and
concluded on April 5 with
Indian Music examination.
Since the completion of Board
exams, students have been
patiently waiting for the
announcement of MP Board
12th Result 2016.
In order to ensure that students do not encounter any
technical problems or erroneous results, the board has
issued special instructions to
concerned authorities to
implement special checks for
the same.
To see the results through
SMS send SMS at MP12
<space> roll no to 5676750,
56263 (All mobile Operators),
Airtel users can send MP12
<space>roll no to 52070, MP12
<space> roll no to 58888711 for
Idea, Tata and Vodafone users,
Aircel and BSNL users can
send MP12 <space> roll no to
58888 and Reliance users can
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Interactive voice response system (IVRS), Airtel customers
can dial 52070, BSNL and
Aircel users can dial 58888,
Idea, Tata and Vodafone can
dial 58888711.
The list of websites to view
the results are www.mpresults.nic.in, mpbse.mponline.gov.in, www.mpbse.nic.in,
w w w. j a g r a n j o s h . c o m ,
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www.results.mpeducation.net.
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available only for Idea customers, dial *181# and select
the MPBSE Exam Result and
enter your roll no.
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Mobile Apps, go to google play
store and download MPBSE
MOBILE APP or MP mobile
App and select know your
results and submit your roll no.
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mobile phone browser type in
mpmobile.gov.in.
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President Amit Shah along
with Dalit Saints, sages and others took a holy dip on
Wednesday at the ongoing
Kumbh Mela at Ujjain as part of
the ‘Samrasta Snan’ (social harmony bath) at the Valmiki Ghat
(bank) of Shipra river, overcoming reservations from certain quarters.
Shah arrived at Ujjain from
Indore to take part in the
month-long Simhastha Kumbh
and joined the Dalit Saints,
sadhus and other saints in the
holy bath billed by the BJP as the
‘Samrasta Snan’ with an eye on
the assembly elections in the
politically sensitive Uttar
Pradesh next year.
The 'Snan' comes at a time
when RSS is organising a series
of functions to draw Dalits and
tribals into its fold in the wake
of the backlash caused by its chief
Mohan Bhagwat's statement calling for review of the reservation
policy before the Bihar Assembly
polls last year.
Later, Shah also had a
'Samrasta Bhoj' (social harmony
feast) with Dalit sadhus.
Prior to the 'Snan', the BJP
chief accompanied by Chief
Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan
and others took part in a
"Samagam" (meeting) at Valmiki
Dham in which Akhil Bharatiya
Akhara Parishad ( ABVP) head
Narendra Giri, Juna Akhara
Peeth's head Awdheshanand and
Valmiki
Dham's
Peethadheeshwar Umesh Nath
among others participated.
Later,they all proceeded to take
a dip at the Valmiki Ghat.
"BJP is the only party which
believes in strengthening the
country's culture and fosters the
feeling of world as one abode,
one family (Vasudevkutumbhkam)," Shah told reporters
in Ujjain.
"It (snan) holds more significance as today is the jayanti
of Shankracharya, who treaded
the path of unifying the main
currents of thoughts in Hindu
religion at a young age of 32," he
said. Kumbh is also the subject
matter for management students as crores of people converge here without any invitation,
he added.
The sadhus who were earli-
er averse to the 'social harmony
bath' on Wednesday softened
their stand saying they had misunderstood the concept.
They said they were under
a wrong impression that the snan
was confined to Shah and the
Dalits. After learning that the
bath will see people from all
castes, they said they no longer
hold any grudge against it.
"Water is for everybody and
saints of all hues have taken bath
together. We have no reservation
now against the snan," Juna
Akhara
Peeth's
head
Awdheshanand said.
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Municipal
Corporation
(BMC)
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demolished houses, boundary
walls, building structures and
fencings from Baag Sevaniya
Police Station to Misrod for the
construction of a service road
citing the convenience of traffic flow in the BRTS corridor
on Hoshangabad road. Almost
50 structures were demolished
using JCB machines and
labours in presence of BMC,
officials of district administration and police.
During the proceedings
Additional Commissioner JP
Mali, MP Singh, officials of district administration, Misrod
Police station in charge Kuber
Singh Rajpoot, Anti-encroachment officer Ramakant Shukla
and other officials were present.
The construction will be
carried out fast so that the commuters in the area can benefit
from it at the earliest. The proceedings for the removal of the
blocking structures in the construction of the service road
were carried out on Thursday.
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Meanwhile, Higher and
Technical Education Minister
Umashankar Gupta inaugu-
rated two newly constructed
Aanganwadis by unveiling the
stone plaques. During the occa-
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sion member of Mayor in
Council (MIC) Shankar
Makoriya and president of
zone number 8 and local
Corporator Rajesh Khateek
were present.
Gupta on this occasion
said directed the concerned
officials to provide food and
regular health checkups for
children with malnutrition. He
also announced about the
adoption of the children in the
Aanganwadi and also directed
the local Corporators to check
on children with malnutrition
and help them come out of it.
On this occasion project
officers Kirti Agarwal, Manju
Varma, Phoolchand Singela,
Ramkumar Rai, Mahesh Rai,
district officials, Asha workers
and many citizens were present.
Besides, Bhopal Municipal
Corporation Chairman Surjeet
Chouhan visited the vehicle
parking near the zone number
8 office.
He inspected the fountain
near the vehicle parking and
directed the officials to get it
and cleaned and running.
Chouhan also directed to carry
out the maintenance works in
the nearby drainage. He also
visited the zone number 8
office and also took information regarding the zone works
from the Zonal officer.
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19-year-old girl died while
her friend sustained seriA
ous injuries after their motorbike was hit by a speeding car
at Shivaji Nagar under
Habibganj police station area
on Wednesday.
According to the police
two persons including a
woman were injured after their
motorbike was hit by a speeding car from back and were
rushed in the same car which
hit the motorbike to Red Cross
hospital where the woman was
declared dead while the condition of the injured is critical.
In the initial investigation
police found that the car driver
took the deceased to Red Cross
hospital and later escaped leaving the car at the hospital
premises. Later the car was
seized by the police.
The deceased was identified as Asma Khan while the
injured youth was identified as
Mayank Dwivedi.
Condition of Mayank is
reportedly critical claimed the
police and has been kept under
observation.
The deceased used to work
with a private firm in MP
Nagar which deals in water
purifier systems while Mayank
works with a private firm in
Govindpura Industrial area.
The car bearing registration number MP04-CM-3201
which hit the bike was seized by
the police. The errant driver
was identified as Sandeep
Kumar Raut who was on his
way to work at MP Nagar. Raut
works with Reliance.
Police have arrested Raut
later in the investigation.
The incident took place
when the deceased was on her
way to work along with her
friend Mayank.
The police have registered
a case under section 304 A of
the IPC and have started further investigation.
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in the city in the holidays. On
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held captive for two days and
was raped by the accused on
Tuesday the victim managed to
escape and reported the inci-
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A complaint was lodged
with the Bagh Sewnia police by
the victim and her family. In
her complaint the victim
claimed that the on May 8 she
was accompanied by the
accused to his house in Saket
Nagar where she was held captive and was raped.
Based on the complaint
after the preliminary investigation, the police have registered a case under section 376
of the IPC and have started further investigation.
The police have registered a case under section
367,342,504 and 376 of the
IPC and have started further
investigation.
Police said that the
accused was sent under judicial custody after he was produced in the court.
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conducted
at
KEMA,
Netherlands.
These duties tests are conducted to verify capabilities of
Switchgear comprising of key
elements such as mechanism,
Vacuum Interrupter with suitable linkages.
This is a new range of
product added into BHELs
product range. Requirement of
GIS is growing fast in India due
to its inherent advantage of low
space requirement, higher safety and lower outages due to
Switchgear failure, compared to
AIS. Such equipment’s are gaining ground mainly in Metro,
Refineries and Hydro sites.
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attacked by two miscreants
with sharp edged weapons at
Vajpayee Nagar under
Shahjehanabad police station
area late in the night on
Tuesday; attacked was fuelled
by old enmity said police.
According to the police,
two persons were rushed to a
nearby hospital after they were
injured severely by two miscreants. Condition of one of the
victim is reportedly critical
while condition of other
injured in stable.
The attackers escaped the
spot and are still missing.
Search for the absconding
accused has been intensified
said the police.
The victims were identified
as Sanjay alias Chillu and
Rishab. Doctors have claimed
that Rishab has sustained deep
wounds which had damaged
kidney and his condition has
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under Bagh Sewania police
station area; victim was held
captive for two days and she
escaped on Tuesday.
According to the police,
19-year-old victim was sexually assaulted and held captive
for two days at Saket Nagar by
her school friend Prateek
Dahiya. Victim reported the
incident after she escaped
from Prateek’s house.
Investigating Officer ASI
Mukesh Sthapak said that the
accused was acquainted with
the victim. They studied
together in class XII.
The accused is a resident of
Saket Nagar and pursing stud-
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Bhopal: Public Relations,
Energy, New and Renewable
Energ y
and
Mineral
Resources Minister Rajendra
Shukla visited residence of
former MLA Vishwamitra
Pathak at village Jiyawan in
Singrauli district and
mourned the death of his
grandmother Shanti Devi
Pathak.
Shukla said that Pathak
was religious minded and
amicable. Pathak, 84, passed
away at Banaras on May 2.
Shukla consoled her family members.
He prayed to the
Almighty to grant peace to
the depar ted soul and
strength to the bereaved family to bear this loss.
further deteriorated.
Victims are undergoing
treatment at Hamidia hospital
where doctors have told that
the chances of survival of
Rishab are less.
Sanjay’s friend Asif took
the victims to hospital. The victims are residents of Vajpayee
Nagar and work with catering
services. They were attacked
when they were sitting near
their house.
Accused were identified as
Ejaz and Arjun alias Dendu of
the same area. The accused are
not habitual offenders and do
not have past criminal record.
After the preliminary
investigation police have registered a case under section 307
and 394 of the IPC and have
started further investigation.
In the initial investigation
police found that the Sanjay
was attacked by Ezaj to avenge
Sanjay and Shehzaad’s fight in
the past. Shehzaad is
Ejaz’s brother and is under
judicial custody.
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close friend of 21-yearold girl student of
A
Polytechnic who committed
suicide on May 7 was booked
of abetment to suicide by
Piplani police on Tuesday;
friend’s marriage dejected the
deceased and she committed
suicide said the police.
Police have found Aman
Beg was in relationship with
the deceased Khushbu
Vishwakarma for the past six
months and few days ago
when the deceased found that
Aman would marry another
girl she committed suicide.
The deceased who committed by hanging with the
ceiling at her residence in
Ajanta Complex in Indrapuri
on May 7 was pursuing
her studies from Sardar
Vallabhai Patel Polytechnic
College, Bhopal.
In the initial investigation
no suicide note was found by
the police but in the further
investigation when other
details of the record of the
victim were searched and her
friends and classmates were
quizzed it was found that she
was in relationship with some
youth but was not clear
about the youth. Later the
youth was identified as Aman
Beg who was among the
friends of the deceased who
took her to hospital.
Police said that the
details of Aman have been
searched and he would be
nabbed soon.
After the deceased came
to know about the marriage of
Aman she used to remain
depressed and later took the
extreme step. It was also
found that the accused
had a fight with the deceased
and he had slapped her during the fight.
The police have registered a case under section 306
of the IPC against the
accused. No arrest was made
till the filing of report.
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ichar Mahakumbh, which
will give universal message
V
during Simhastha, to be held at
Ninora near Ujjain from May
12 to 14. It will be inaugurated at 10 am on Thursday.
Sarsanghchalak
of
Rasthriya Swayam Sewak
Sangh (RSS) Mohan Bhagwat,
Swami Avdheshanand Giriji,
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh
Chouhan, Sikiyong CTAD,
Dharmshala's Lobsang Sangay
and
Dev
Sanskriti
Vishwavidyalaya's chancellor
Pranab Pandya will address the
inaugural session from 10 am
to 12 noon.
Parallel sessions will be
held from 12.30 to 2 pm and 3
to 4.30 pm. From 5 to 7 am in
'Swachchhata Sarita Kumbh',
lectures will be delivered by
Chidanand Muniji, Union
Water Resources Minister Uma
Bharti, Prof. Jay Okeefe of
South Africa and Prof.
Nakamura of Japan. The session will be presided over by
MP Anil Madhav Dave.
First session 'Krishi Evam
Kuteer Kumbh' on May 13.
Vichar Kumbh's second
day, the first session 'Krishi
Evam Kuteer Kumbh' on May
13 from 9.30 to 11.30 am, lectures will be delivered by Yog
Guru Swami Ramdevji, Suresh
Joshi, Upakhya Bhaiyyaji Joshi,
Union Home Minister Rajnath
Singh, Vandana Shiva,
Rebecca-New York, Manish
Kumar and Subhash Palekar.
Jaya Jaitley will preside over the
session.
In the session 'Sustainable
Development and Climate
Change' from 12 noon to 1.15,
Union Minister of State for
Forests and Environment
(Independent Charge) Prakash
Javadekar, Dayanand Bhargava
and David Frawley will deliver speeches. Subhash Kak will
preside over the session. From
1.20 to 2 pm, Bhavdeep Kang
will hold discussions with
Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev.
B h i k k h u n i
Dhammananda-Thailand,
Stephen Kuapp, Ramdass
Lamb, Michael Cremo and
Yvette Rosser will address
the session 'Right way of living' from 3 to 4.30 pm. Ven
Banagala Upatissa Nayak
Thero will preside over the
session.
In the session 'Shakti
Kumbh' from 5 to 7 pm, lectures will be delivered by Gita
Gunde, Swamini Vimlanand
and Nivedtia Bhide. Goa's
Governor Mridula Sinha will
preside over the session.
During special plenary
session 'Living the Right Way'
from 9 to 11 am on the third
day of Vichar Kumbh, speeches will be delivered by Sri
Lanka's Leader of Opposition
Sampathan, Bhutan's Minister
DN Dhungyel, Kheel Raj
Regmi-Nepal,
Sadhan
Chandra
MajoomdarMember of Parliament from
Bangladesh, Dato SK
Devmani-Malaysia,
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister
Raman Singh, Rajasthan's
Chief Minister Vasundhara
R aje, Jharkhand's Chief
Minister R aghuvar Das,
Haryana's Chief Minister
Manohar Lal Khattar and
Maharashtra's Chief Minister
Devendra Fadnavis. Lok
Sabha Speaker Sumitra
Mahajan will preside over
the session.
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi will be the chief guest of
concluding session from 11.30
am to 1.30 pm where universal message of Simhastha-2016
will be released. Sri Lanka's
President Matripala Sirisena
will guest of honour. Chief
Minister Shivraj Singh will
also be present on the occasion.
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hief Minister Shivraj
Singh Chouhan apprised
C
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi of drought in Madhya
Pradesh and State Government's efforts to deal with it.
The Prime Minister chaired a
meeting of Chief Ministers of
drought-affected States in
New Delhi on Tuesday. The
Chief Minister informed that
drought relief of C4,664 crore
has been distributed to 61
lakh affected farmers in
Madhya Pradesh.
The Chief Minister
informed the Prime Minister
that due to preparatory steps
taken last 10 years, the State
was relatively well placed to
tackle the drought. These
steps included creation of
water storage structures.
Despite successive years of
deficient monsoon, transportation of water is required
only in 113 villages. Even if it
does not rain till the end of
June, this number will be
only around 400 villages out
of approximately 50,000 villages.
The Chief Minister
expressed gratitude towards
the Prime Minister for convening meeting of Chief
Ministers of drought-affected
States.
He also said that the State
is giving highest priority to
the implementation of
Pradhan Mantri Krishi
Sinchai Yojana. The Chief
Minister also outlined the
preparations for implementation of Pradhan Mantri
Fasal Bima Yojana.
The Prime Minister and
the Chief Minister discussed
various agriculture measures
including micro-irrigation,
use of liquid fertilizer, use of
space technology and focus
on building farm ponds. The
Prime Minister and the Chief
Minister discussed strategies
to increase awareness about
water conservation and storage and involving the youth
organizations such as NCC,
NSS, NYKS, and Scouts and
Guides, in these activities.
They discussed enhanced
steps for tree plantation and
protection in the catchments
area of Narmada.
The
meeting
was
informed that an amount of
Rs. 1875.80 crore has been
released to the State under the
National Disaster Response
Fund (NDRF), after adjustments of the State balances.
This is in addition to Rs
657.75 crore released as central share of State Disaster
Response Fund (SDRF) for
2015-16 to the State. A further
amount of Rs. 345.375
crore has been released as
first installment of SDRF for
2016-17.
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Education Minister
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Umashankar Gupta has said
that teacher-student ratio is
better in Institute for
Excellence in Higher
Education than other colleges. Even then, if professors
show laxity in discharging
duty then strict action would
be taken against them. Gupta
stated this at a meeting of
Institute for Excellence in
Higher Education's general
body on Wednesday.
Gupta said that fee should
be got deposited online from
students. No payment should
be accepted through cheques.
He said that he wants results.
Do less correspondence and
more work. Gupta said that
institute's accounting work
should be done through commerce students. This will
increase their practical
knowledge. He directed to
complete enquiry against suspended accountant Lalram
Raikwar within a month.
Gupta instructed to improve
fiscal management.
Gupta directed to re-draft
last meeting's action taken
report. He said that results of
unsuccessful students should
be analysed and whatever
lacuna is found in them
should be removed. It was
also decided to increase PhD
fee to Rs. 17 thousand100.
Discussions were also held to
increase development charge.
The meeting also discussed
increase in honorarium of
honorary employees and convert merit scholarship to
merit award.
Institute's Director ML
Nath informed that placement of 334 students has
been made in various companies. Institute has also be
connected to National
Knowledge Network.
Principal
S ecretar y
Higher Education i Ashish
Upadhyay,
Additional
Director Umakant Pandey
and other members attended
the meeting.
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But it was a different mood
altogether after Rohatgi’s opening remarks.
While parties agreed
that the main petition challenging the President’s
Rule can be heard in
September or even later, the
Bench said, “Once there is a
judicial interdiction, the
issue needs to be tested as to
whether the Presidential
Proclamation was wrong
or not.”
out of mere guess work, and into the realm of
unreasonableness, as obviously, as has been held
by us, there was no intelligent care and deliberation before any of these parameters have been
fixed…. We, therefore, hold that a strict penal liability laid down on the erroneous basis that the
fault is entirely with the service provider is manifestly arbitrary and unreasonable.”
This, however, does not mean that telecom
companies can continue to have their way. The
October 2015 Regulation introduced by TRAI was
meant to benefit consumers. But telcos are also
guided by what is known as Quality of Service
Regulations 2009 which makes 2 per cent call drop
permissible for operators.
ndira Gandhi Rashtriya
Manav
Sangrahalaya
I(IGRMS)
under its popular
summer series of ‘Do and
Learn’ educational programmes is imparting training of various art, craft and
performing arts during the
summer holidays for enthusiasts of all age groups. This
year till now more than 120
participants got training of
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Bhopal, Warli Painting of
Maharashtra, Paddy Craft of
Orissa and Gond painting of
Madhya Pradesh.
On Wednesday, two
workshops on Paddy Craft of
Orissa and Gond painting of
Madhya Pradesh concluded
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As the period of bail was to
expire on June 4, Roy’s counsel
senior advocate Kapil Sibal
brought two cheques of C500
crore and C4,500 crore as a guarantee to extend his bail for a further six months. This period
will be used by Roy to negotiate deals and pay the full
amount to court, Sibal said.
The Bench of Chief Justice
TS Thakur, Justices AR Dave
and AK Sikri said, “The entire
records are full with your past
promises…you must prove your
bona fide and seriousness”. Sibal
came with an alternate offer this
time asking for two months
extension on the condition that
he will fetch C500 crore.
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He resigned from the Upper
House this month.
“The UK Government has
informed us that under the 1971
Immigration Act, the UK does not
require an individual to hold a valid
passport in order to remain in the UK
if they have extant leave to remain as
long as their passport was valid when
leave to remain or enter the UK was
conferred. At the same time the UK
acknowledges the seriousness of the
allegations and is keen to assist the
Government of India. They have
asked Government of India to consider requesting mutual legal assistance or extradition,” MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup said on Wednesday.
The extradition can happen under
the 1993 treaty or any other necessary
assistance under the Mutual Legal
Assistance Treaty (MLAT) signed in
1992 between India and the UK. This
process is little lengthy compared to
deportation. Interestingly, India has
not got very favourable response from
the UK on the extradition requests
made in the past. India has made 15
extradition requests to the UK and
none has materialised into action so
far.
Meanwhile, Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley said in the Rajya Sabha,
India will now have to initiate extradition process after a chargesheet is
filed to bring back Mallya to face
money laundering charges as well as
recovery of the Rs 9,400 crore of loans
to his defunct Kingfisher Airlines.
Cancellation of passport “does not
result in automatic deportation, that
is the stand taken by the UK,” Jaitley
said. He added public sector banks are
making all efforts to recover the loans
and investigating agencies are inquiring into violations of law.
However, during a meeting held
on February 15 between MoS Home
and Minister of State for Migration,
UK, India has raised the issue of pending extradition requests to which the
UK Minister clarified that these matters are sub-judice in the British
courts. But he had assured cooperation to India on the pending issues on
case-to-case basis.
successfully, where more than
60 participants learnt the said
art and craft.
Traditional artisans Lakki
Chandra Munda, Sada Shiv
Munda and Madan Munda
from Orissa imparted training
of Paddy craft. The process
involves tying by hand each
individual paddy seed to two
thin bamboo sticks that are
placed parallel to each other
at a minute distance but are
sufficiently close enough to
hold the paddy seeds tightly
in a straight line. This is a
very painstaking and repetitive job that requires high
degree of concentration and
unmatched dexterity. Each
and every seed of paddy has
to be knotted individually.
The participants painstak-
ingly pieced together Goddess
L axmi, L ord Ganesha,
Goddess Saraswati, elephants,
Vass etc.
Tribal artist Ravi Kumar
Tekam imparted training of
Gond Painting of Madhya
Pradesh. Art lovers of all age
group learnt the basics of
this figurative and narrative
visual art and painted various
artworks during the workshop.
In the next phase, training
workshops of Manipuri Doll
Craft & Pottery of Ukhrul
(Manipur) are being organised from 12th to 19th May,
2016.
The registrations for these
‘Do & Learn’ training workshops are open and
Registration fees is Rs 200.
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“I am aware about the acts connected with the commission of the
offence and was a participant to the
murder (of Sheena),” Rai told the special court.
Rai, whose arrest by the Mumbai
police on August 21, 2015 for alleged
possession of 7.66 mm pistol had led
to the arrest of Indrani Bora and other
accused in the case, told the court that
he was under “no pressure, threat or
coercion” to reveal the facts in the case
and was “repentant” for his act.
When the judge briefly posed
queries about the murder, Rai said that
Sheena was killed by strangulation.
The judge directed the CBI to file
its reply on May 17 over Rai’s plea to
turn approver in the case.
Early this week, the Special Judge
had pulled up the Thane jail officials
for their failure to produce Rai before
the court and warned them of contempt proceedings, while directing
them to produce the latter before him
on Wednesday.
Rai had written to the CBI court
last week in which he had said he
wanted to “reveal truth” and seek “pardon” in the case. This is not for the
first time that Rai has offered to
“reveal the truth” in the Sheena Bora
murder case. Based on a letter written by Rai to a city magistrate’s court
offering to “reveal the truth”, a city
court had in the second week of
November 2015 recorded Rai’s statement under the provisions of Section
164 of Criminal Procedure Code,
which unlike a police statement is
admissible in court. The Magistrate’s
court had sent Rai’s statement to the
trial court subsequently. At that
time, the issue of Rai wanting to turn
into an approver was still in the realm
of speculation.
The CBI - which took over the
investigations into the Sheena Bora
murder case from the Mumbai police
on September 29 - had on November
19, 2015 filed a comprehensive chargesheet, running into 1,000-odd pages,
against Indrani Mukherjea, her second husband Sanjeev Khanna and driver Shyamvar Rai.
On that same evening, the CBI
arrested former CEO of Star India and
co-founder of INX Media Pvt Ltd and
Indrani’s husband Peter Mukherjea in
connection with the sensational crime.
The chargesheet, containing statements of 150 witnesses, 200 documents and seven statements recorded before magistrate, was filed before
magistrate RV Adone at Esplanade
court in south Mumbai.
The CBI’s chargesheet in the case
had come a week after the magistrate’s
court recorded Shyamvar Rai’s confession under section 164 of Criminal
Procedure Code (Cr PC) which is
admissible as evidence during the trial
of the case.
During his confession, Rai reportedly spelt out the roles played by
Indrani, her second husband Sanjeev
Khanna and himself in the murder of
Sheena Bora.
Indrani and other two arrested
accused - Sanjeev and Shyamvar Rai
- face the charges of “abducting” from
Bandra (west) and “strangulating”
Sheena in care on the evening of April
24, 2012 and setting the body on fire
in the jungles Gogade Khurd village
off the Khopoli-Pen Road in Raigad
district on the following morning.
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Even after getting
approvals for STPs at
Badrinath,
Devprayag,
Karnaprayag, Rudraprayag,
Joshimath and Varanasi, the
projects could not be completed even after seven to eight
years, due to various reasons,
the panel said.
The committee sought
details of the projects, including completed and scheduled to
be completed, during 2015-16,
along with cost escalation, time
overruns and the authorities
which would bear the escalated costs.
It recommended for the
conversion of ongoing projects as Central projects, apprehending that the delays in
completion of the ongoing
sewage infrastructure projects
might have resulted in cost
escalation, putting a major
burden on the States which are
already facing acute financial
crunches.
The committee also took
note of the huge gap of about
40 per cent between the
installed capacity and actual
operational capacities of the
STPs with the aggravated levels of pollution and the shrinking of the river.
The committee recommended suitable enhancement
of the capacities of existing
STPs and sewage networks or
setting up of new ones to cater
to the increasing demographic pressure, expanding urbanization, industrialization for
the next two decades. Penalties
should also be imposed for violating the pollution limits by
the industries/cities.
Lack of scientific and technical resources in Central
Pollution Control Board and
State Pollution Control Boards
was also taken up by the committee in its report. It called for
suitable measures to ensure
availability of appropriately
qualified and suitably trained
manpower in requisite numbers for surveys and investigation, project preparation,
implementation and monitoring strategies of the projects.
Speaking on the report of
the Committee on Estimates
(2015-16), Joshi also expressed
concern on how construction
of dams has become a major
stumbling block to the river
cleaning exercise by affecting
the natural flow of the river.
The ecological flow of the river
has self-cleaning properties.
He suggested that the
Government should not go
ahead with any hydro-power
project till the Supreme Court
takes a call on the issue.
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Congress
on
Wednesday attacked Prime
Minister Narendra Modi saying
he should apologise in
Parliament and sack the
Minister who advised him to
impose President’s Rule in the
hill State. Opposition parties
including AAP and Left parties
too demanded that the Prime
Minister apologise to
Parliament.
In Lok Sabha, Leader of the
party Mallikarjun Kharge said
that he hoped the Centre would
refrain from using Article 356
and stop the murder of democracy. For his part, Congress
Vice President Rahul Gandhi
said the BJP did its worst but
democracy
won
in
Uttarakhand. Hope Prime
Minister Narendra Modi will
“learn” his lesson that people of
India will not tolerate “murder”
of democracy, the Gandhi scion
tweeted.
The BJP sought to fend off
the attack after the Supreme
Court gave its nod for Rawat's
return, claiming that the
Congress has “bought” majority in the State but it has lost
“Uttarakhand people’s majority”.
“Democracy won in
Uttarakhand! Hope Modiji
learns his lesson-people of this
country and the institutions
built by our founding fathers
will not tolerate the murder of
democracy!,” Rahul said in a
series of tweets.
Soon after Supreme Court
made public the result of the
confidence vote held in
Uttarakhand Assembly yesterday, Kharge informed the
House about it the develop-
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declared a winner. “Hope that
the Centre would refrain from
using Article 356 (by which
President's Rule is imposed on
a State) and stop the murder of
democracy,” he said, amid
thumping of desks by Congress
members, including party chief
Sonia Gandhi.
NCP members also joined
in the thumping of desks as
Kharge expressed the hope
that the Centre would henceforth restrain from “such wrong
and malafide moves”. His
remarks evoked sharp protests
from BJP members. Amid the
din, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan
adjourned the House for lunch
recess. The Uttarakhand issue
earlier rocked Parliament
several times during the current session which began on
April 25.
Outside the House, senior
Congress leader Kapil Sibal
said Prime Minister should
apologise in Parliament and
sack the Minister who advised
him to impose President's Rule
in Uttarakhand.
While AAP hailed the
return of Rawat and that
democracy has won, the CPI
(M) said the “anti-constitutional conspiracy” hatched by
the BJP to topple the State
Government has received a “big
setback”. Delhi Chief Minister
and AAP leader Arvind
Kejriwal took to Twitter to hit
out at the Modi Government.
“Modi Govt should apologise to the nation for acting in
unconstitutional and undemo-
cratic manner in Uttarakhand,”
Kejriwal tweeted.
The Polit Bureau of the
CPI(M) said the reinstatement
of Rawat is a big setback for the
BJP. “This is a big setback to the
anti-Constitutional conspiracy
hatched by the BJP of trying to
topple the Government in the
State and impose its rule there.
The BJP should learn that its
resort to such methods at subterfuge to remove democratically elected State Governments
headed by opposition parties
will not succeed,” the party said
in a statement.
BJP on their part said that
Congress has imposed
President's rule in the country
on more than 100 occasions
and alleged they have "bought"
the majority in Uttarakhand
but the party has lost the
majority of the people of the
State.
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a landmark decision,
Court on Wednesday
IheldnSupreme
that drought be declared a
national disaster and fixed
responsibility on Centre to set up
a Disaster Mitigation Fund for
drought-affected areas within
three months.
The court noted lack of preparedness to tackle drought and
asked States to have a time
frame to declare drought.
Scoffing at the States’ attitude in
maintaining an “ostrich-like attitude” in declaring a drought and
the Centre's attitude of washing
its hands off by blaming States of
not doing enough, the bench of
Justices Madan B Lokur and NV
Ramana said, “It (Centre) cannot totally wash its hands off on
issues pertaining to Article 21 of
the Constitution but at the same
time, we do not
suggest that the
authority of the
state government to declare a
drought or any
other similar
power is diluted…Surely, if a
State Government maintains
an ostrich-like
attitude, a disaster requires a far
more proactive and nuanced
response from the Union of
India.”
To illustrate, the bench
pointed to evidence of drought
presented by petitioner NGO
Swaraj Abhiyan in states of
Bihar, Gujarat and Haryana with
the respective State Governments
refusing to even acknowledge a
possible drought-like situation.
It asked the Union Agriculture
Ministry to sit with his counterparts in the respective states and
assess ground situation.
The apex court was "quite
surprised" to learn that neither
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a National Plan has been
drawn nor any National
Disaster Mitigation
Fund is in place
under the Disaster
Management Act of
2005. “Evidently,
anticipating a disaster
such as a drought is not
yet in the ‘things to do’ list
of the Union of India and ad-hoc
measures and knee jerk reactions
are the order of the day…we
direct the Centre to formulate a
National Plan at the very earliest and with immediate concern,”
it said.
ealing a blow to megastar
Amitabh Bachchan, the
D
Supreme Court on Wednesday
allowed the Income Tax
department to reopen a tax
case against him pertaining to his income
for the assessment
year 2001-02.
A bench of justices Ranjan Gogoi
and PC Pant upheld
two orders of Mumbai's
Income Tax Commissioner
directing fresh assessment of tax
liability of the Bollywood star.
The apex court allowed
two separate appeals filed by
Income Tax Department and set
aside the orders of the Bombay
High Court and the Income Tax
Appellate Tribunal (ITAT). It
deliberated on various provisions of the tax law to allow the
appeal of the Income Tax
department whose plea was
dismissed by the high court.
"In the light of the discussions that have preceded and
for the reasons alluded we are
of the opinion that the present
is a fit case for exercise of the
suo motu revisional powers of
the CIT under Section 263 of
the (IT) Act.
"The (March 20, 2006)
order of the Commissioner of
Income Tax (CIT), therefore, is
restored and those of the
Tribunal dated August 28, 2007
and the high court dated August
7, 2008 are set aside. The appeal
of the revenue is allowed," the
bench said.
The court also allowed the
IT Department's another
appeal filed in 2013 and set
aside the January 11, 2010
order of ITAT and the high
court's February 29, 2012 order.
"However, we have to add
that as the re-assessment order
dated December 29, 2006 had
not been tested on merits the
assessee (Bachchan) would be
free to do so, if he is so inclined
and so advised," the bench said.
The apex court passed the
judgement on two appeals by
the IT Department which has
claimed the actor owes crores
of rupees to it as taxes on his
income he earned through the
quiz show 'Kaun Banega
Crorepati' during 2001-02,
which was not considered by
the bench.
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besides the Insolvency and
Bankruptcy Code Bill after an
intense debate in the Rajya Sabha
with the Government making
21 amendments in Finance Bill.
Both the Bills were passed by Lok
Sabha last week.
The Insolvency and
Bankruptcy Code paved the way
for faster winding up of ailing
companies, facilitating ease of
doing business and making a
more attractive investment destination. Parliament also passed the
Dr Rajendra Central Agricultural
University Bill, 2015 without any
discussion but with a single
amendment.
Replying to queries of members in Rajya Sabha on Finnace
Bill, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
said it has to be acknowledged
that India is a fast growing economy with no global tailwinds supporting it. While India is doing
much better than global peers, it
can do even better, he said.
On GST, Jaitley said the
gGovernment was willing to drop
the proposal of extra One per cent
levy over and above the GST rates.
“There cannot be uniform tax on
all commodities,” he added.
Jaitley, who moved some
amendments to the Finance Bill
introduced by him on February
28 along with demands for grants
and appropriation bill, listed out
measures taken by the BJP
Government in last two years to
give relief to small tax
payers and reduce tax
litigation. On blackmoney, he
said, Government efforts have
brought to the books C71,000
crore of undisclosed assets.
Replying to the queries of
members on the Bill, MoS
Finance Jayant Sinha said the proposed Bankruptcy Board will be
manned by eminent professionals to ensure a transparent liquidation of ailing firms. India will
also coordinate with other
countries to cover foreign assets
of industrialists filing for bankruptcy.
ailing to get a time slot
over his notice to discuss
the alleged irregularities by
Gujarat State Petroleum
Corporation (GSPC) in its
KG basin gas project,
Congress leader Jairam
Ramesh on Wednesday raised
the issue during his speech on
Finance Appropriation Bill in
Rajya Sabha.
Raising the issue,
Ramesh, whose term as Rajya
Sabha member is ending on
Thursday, said the country is
concerned about non-performing assets (NPAs) of
banks and the Government
cannot be “selective” in investigating NPAs be it private or
public companies.
“I am speaking about
misappropriation in the
Appropriation bill. I am
forced to use this route the
notice for discussion on
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crore by industrialist Vijay
Mallya and the Government
should also probe irregularities at public-owned GSPC.
“What about a company
(GSPC) which has taken
loan of about C20,000 crore
and has to pay C8,000 crore
annually, while its income is
only C80 crore. Is it not a fit
case of NPA?,” he said.
Ramesh demanded a
probe into the lending of
C19,700 crore loan to GSPC
when gas reserves had come
down to one trillion cubic
feet in offshore KG-basin
gas project from 20 trillion
gas discovery announced in
2005 by then Gujarat CM.
He also mentioned that
the state-run firm had signed
two contracts—one each
with ‘Geoglobal’ and ‘Tough
Drilling’, which were not key
players in the oil exploration
business.
Early in his speech
Ramesh claimed that the
“real opposition” to the longpending GST bill was coming from within the government and that the main
opposition was ready to give
full support to it provided its
three key recommendations
are accepted.
He questioned the credibility of the current GDP
growth figure of 7.6 per cent,
claiming that nobody
believes these numbers as
they are “suspicious”. Ramesh
asked the Government to
come out with “credible”
GDP figures and suggesed
setting up a committee under
the chairmanship of BJP
leader Subramanian Swamy.
The Congress member
insisted that his party wants
GST and that it was ready to
give full support to the
Government if its three suggestions are incorporated in
the bill.
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Group (SPG)’s alleged rude
behaviour with MPs, sports
infrastructure in proposed
smart cities and domestic violence against women figured in
the Rajya Sabha on
Wednesday.
The entire house allied
with Prabhat Jha (BJP) when
he raised the issue of rising
incidents of deaths in celebratory firing and demanded a law
to ban carrying of firearms on
such occasions.
Referring to a series of
incidents in the recent past, Jha
said on a single day in April, 40
cases were reported from different parts of the country. He
said in most of the cases the
killings were not intentional.
Agreeing with the BJP member, SP leader Ramgopal Yadav
said in some cases the firing
was intentional.
Congress objected to SPG
behaving rudely with MPs
after one of its members T
Subarami Reddy raised the
issue and quoted an incident
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where he faced such behavior
in Visakhapatnam recently
during the Prime Minister’s
official function. The main
Opposition party demanded a
response
from
the
Government on the issue and
Anand Sharma said it concerned the dignity of MPs.
The issue of convictions
under the Protection of
Women from Domestic
Violence Act saw sharp
exchanges between Minister of
State for Home Kiren Rijiju
and Congress MPs. They
claimed the Minister had used
improper language while replying to queries.
When some Congress MPs
argued with Chairman Hamid
Ansari, he sternly asked them
to let the house function.
Regarding domestic violence,
he said “we have a societal
problem, which cuts across
all sections,” and urged the
members to have a full-fledged
discussion on it.
Sports Minister Sarbanand
Sonowal informed the House
that his Ministry has urged the
Urban Development Minister
to include provisions like
sports infrastructure while
forming up the guidelines of
smart cities. The issue was
raised
by
Anubhav
Mohanty(BJD) who urged the
government to make sports
facilities mandatory for 20
smart cities.
His party leader and former Indian hockey captain
Dilip Tirkey asked the
Government to provide for
playgrounds as most students
were now not inclined to take
to sports leading to disease like
diabetes.
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cities should have
smart railway stations too.
SWithmart
this concept in mind the
Government has plans to
revamp around 400 railway
stations across the country into
iconic structures, as a station is
a starting point of any city and
attracts maximum footfalls.
Speaking at the Smart City
conference here, Railway
Minister Suresh Prabhu said,
“The Government has taken
steps to develop 100 cities as
Smart Cities’ in the country and
since stations are the beginning
of any city, they will also be
developed as “smart stations”.
Plan is afoot to redevelop
400 stations as new icons of
cities with private participation.
Habibganj station in Bhopal
will be taken up first and then
eight more stations will be
redeveloped shortly, he said.
Power and Coal Minister
Piyush Goyal stressed that the
development of smart cities or
towns would have to be done
“smartly”. The smart city concept should be practical, doable
and affordable, which can be
deliberated, discussed and then
implemented, he added.
The Centre had in January
announced the first batch of 20
smart cities in 11 States and
New Delhi. These 20 cities
proposed an investment of
C50,802 crore over the next five
years.
He talked about importance of disposal of wastage for
the smart city movement and
stressed on the need for adequate dustbins at an affordable
cost. Citing the example of electric distribution network, Goyal
said there is a need to replace
the existing meters with smart
meters, which in Indian context
should have tamper-proof
mechanism and two-way communication.
On energy efficiencies,
Goyal said the Centre is running a 770-million LED bulb
programme, which will cost
less than $1 billion with no
Government investment.
xpressing ‘concern’ over the
recent Supreme Court judgment for common medical
entrance test, MPs cutting
across party lines in Parliament
on Wednesday said it discriminates against candidates from
rural and underprivileged background. The agitated members asked the Government to
appeal against the verdict and
conduct the examinations in
regional languages.
Sharing the concern of
members, the Government
assured the Lok Sabha that it
would try to convince the
Supreme Court for more time
to switch over to the new system. The apex court had asked
the Centre and CBSE to conduct a single common entrance
test for admission to MBBS and
BDS courses through National
Eligibility Cum Entrance Test
(NEET). The court had also
rejected the pleas of the State
Governments, private institutions and minority institutions
for allowing conduct of separate
entrance tests.
Raising the issue during
Zero Hour, members in the
lower house urged the
Government to take necessary
steps to address the issue and
suggested that an ordinance
could also be brought in this
regard.
Responding to their concern,
Minister
for
Parliamentary Affairs Minister
M Venkaiah Naidu said the
Government in principle is in
favour of having common joint
entrance test. "We will convey
to the court that children need
more time... We will reiterate
and try to convince the court,"
he said, adding that some State
Governments have also
approached the court in this
regard.
Noting that it was a serious
issue and the court should
appreciate it, Naidu said there
are two views about common
entrance examination as some
private institutions and State
Governments are conducting
their own tests. Some malpractices have also been alleged,
he noted.
Congress member Rajeev
Satav urged the Government to
address the issue immediately
either by bringing an ordinance or going back to the
Supreme Court. He also
claimed there might have been
some shortcomings in the submissions made by the govern-
ment before the apex court.
Tathagat Satpathy (BJD)
backed Satav's contention while
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar (TMC)
said how students from remote
areas, who have been preparing
for the exam in regional languages for years, can be asked
to appear for the common test
now.
Emphasising that the
entrance test should be conducted in a transparent and
merit-based
manner,
Mohammed Salim (CPI-M)
said there should be "uniform
and level playing field" for the
students.
Congress
leader
Mallikarjun Kharge said the
common joint entrance examination should be deferred for
this year.
Similar concerns were
raised in the Rajya Sabha with
K P Ramalingam (DMK) raising the issue and terming the
Supreme Court verdict was
against Constitution.
He said candidates passing
out from State boards were put
in a disadvantageous position
after the verdict adding it was
discrimination against those
students. The entire house
associated with the DMK member.
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Subramanian Swamy
into the Rajya Sabha,
represents the beginning of the end for the erstwhile
touch-me-not ‘first and last’ family of the Congress. Swamy has
come in with the personal backing of Prime Minister Narendra
Modi, that of BJP party president
Amit Shah, and the top brass of the
RSS. Further, Subramanian
Swamy, a top-notch economist,
capable of taking bold steps, may
also soon be offered the Finance
portfolio. This new innings for
Swamy may also harbinger an economic policy course-correction.
He is noted for advocating the
abolition of income tax, paid only
by a miniscule proportion of the
overall population, mainly from
the salaried middle class. Swamy,
if he becomes Finance Minister, is
expected to move much faster with
other second-generation reforms,
long awaited by the international
investment community, as well.
The timidity on this front thus
far may have been due, in part, to
resistance from vested interests
and pressure groups, including
trade unions. But at the same time,
it is undeniable that the
Government has failed to elicit
cooperation from the Congress,
however gingerly it was handled.
If Swamy takes over the Finance
Ministry, the Congress will not figure in his calculations.
Swamy, therefore, lost no time
in calling out the new Government
stance. He sallied forth in his very
first address in the upper House, in
repeating allegations from a recent
Italian court judgement against
‘Signora Gandhi’, possibly being the
principal bribe-taker in the
AgustaWestland scandal. This was,
as usual, broadcast live to the
nation, before being expunged
from the parliamentary record, for
not following laid-down procedures by naming people not present
in the House.
The re-emergence of parliamentarian Subramanian Swamy
also puts paid to his jealous and discomfited detractors within the BJP
fold, some of whom are allegedly
sympathetic to the Congress high
command. The determined,
supremely confident, and energetic Swamy, has now thrown
down the gauntlet. But the Congress
is floundering, having admitted
bribes were taken. Not being able
to match Swamy in reasoned
debate, the party continued its
practice of necessitating adjournments through chaos.
This has been the established
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Rahul Gandhi strategy in
Parliament since 2014, justified as
a tit-for-tat retaliation for the BJP
during the UPA years. But, this
unimaginative and reactionary tactic is suffering now from the law of
diminishing returns, both in
Parliament and in the
public perception.
Oddly enough, legislative bills,
if not the most important ones, are
getting passed, despite Congress
obduracy. Meanwhile, the public
is growing increasingly unsympathetic. Not allowing Parliament to
function is not only proving
counter-productive, it is also isolating Congress within the
opposition ranks. Whether Swamy
succeeds in putting Sonia Gandhi
and Rahul Gandhi in jail via his
private effort on the National
Herald scandal, remains to be seen.
But he has already done considerable damage to the inviolate image
of the Nehru-Gandhis.
And now, with Minister for
Defence Manohar Parrikar’s backing, will the various investigative
agencies and arms of the
Government succeed in prosecuting Sonia Gandhi for
AgustaWestland as well?
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Investigations are on in right
earnest — only for the first time,
after the UPA tried to bury the
scam. Rahul Gandhi and Sonia
Gandhi were both released on bail
in the National Herald case. The
prima facie evidence of wrongdoing has been established.
In the AgustaWestland matter,
a mounting body of circumstantial
evidence is beginning to pile up,
with more people in the know coming forward and speaking up, now
that the political dispensation has
changed. Crucial missing files,
saved from possible evidencedestroying arson, have been recovered, and the foreign missions are
also on the job. The Government
is serious about getting to the bottom of this.
Meanwhile, at 10, Janpath, it
is taking the thick skin of a threatened one-horned Indian rhino to
carry on. It takes hard-boiled pretence at composure to attempt
deflection using high falutin talk
of democracy, the Constitution,
intolerance, character assassination, lies, innuendo, and political
vendetta. Wiggle on the hook as
they might, the Nehru-Gandhis
have lost a great deal of credibili-
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ty. The courts may be a while
before they grind to a verdict,
ranging in depth and duration
from the district courts, up
through the high courts, all the
way to the Supreme Court.
The lesser fry, such as the
bureaucrats, Armed Forces personnel, who have received proportionately small amounts as
bribe,when put under intense
scrutiny, will probably provide
much of the incriminating evidence on the ‘main beneficiaries’.
The various shadowy middlemen
in the AgustaWestland deal,
Europeans and Indians alike, some
who have been close to the NehruGandhis for long, may also think
it opportune to spill the beans.
But, the voters, participating
in ongoing and impending State
Assembly elections; they who
threw out the late Rajiv Gandhi
after Bofors, will not let Sonia
Gandhi, son Rahul, daughter
Priyanka Vadra and son-in-law
Robert Vadra, back into power.
The Congress coteries and
courtiers may try to brazen it out,
telling themselves they will be back
in the saddle, come 2019. It seems
increasingly unlikely that the
Congress will be the principal
party in any anti-BJP coalition.
After the election results in
Assam and Kerala come out later
this month, the Congress may find
itself with next to no State left. In
West Bengal, even if its alliance
comes out on top, it won’t be the
Congress that benefit as much as
the communists will.
Meanwhile, Sonia Gandhi’s
harried proclamations of innocence, and not being ‘afraid’ are
being belied by her body language.
This is showing immense strain,
in Parliament, in political speeches, media comments and out on
the street. How can the NehruGandhis win the perception battle now, even amongst neutrals,
when the torrent of bribery and
corruption stories regarding them
never seems to let up? So much so,
there is no pronouncement from
them these days that is not bracketed along with corruption allegations, to complete the context.
One can march on camera for
10 minutes in the noon-day sun,
without breaking a sweat, and even
court arrest along with an 82 year
old former Prime Minister, ostensibly for ‘democracy’ But bored TV
anchors and guests are shaking their
heads at the charade, with one keeping an empty chair for missing
Congress spokespersons. And out
in cyberspace, there is much jeering, and lampooning social media
commentary on the Congress.
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Sir — This refers to the editorial,
“This also is intolerance” (May 11).
Be it the Congress, the Bharatiya
Janata Party, the Left or any other
party, during election time they talk
about eliminating corruption. But
the truth is that each and every
party is neck deep in corruption. So,
let’s not isolate the Left or the Right
but maintain a consistent pressure
on all political parties over their
deliberate wrongdoing.
Avinash
Via web
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Sir — This refers to the editorial,
“Nepal’s brinkmanship” (May 10).
Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma
Oli is so unsure about the survival
of his brief regime that he has put
governance on hold. However, he
has just managed to save his
Government from a threat by the
Maoists to withdraw their support
to it. Probably Nepal’s Maoists,
who are anyway untrustworthy
partners, are biding their time to
take over the Government.
That said, the ruling regime in
Kathmandu is convinced that India
wanted to destabilise the
Government to exact revenge for
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Nepal’s dalliance with China and its
failure to address the demands of
the Madhesi population.
The downward trajectory of
India-Nepal ties in the past year
should be a cause for concern for
both countries. This has made
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s
carefully cultivated Nepal yatra a
distant memory.
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Sir — The Uttarakhand floor test
win for the Congress was not
unpredicted and unanticipated for
two reasons. First, in two sting operations, the involvement of
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish
Rawat in horse-trading was alleged.
If this is true, democratic expression
has not found the rightful place.
Second, nine rebel Congress MLAs
were barred from voting.
KV Seetharamaiah
Hassan
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Sir — This refers to the article, “For
once, let us follow the Italian example” (May 10) by A Surya Prakash.
The need of hour is to involve more
people from the courts, Parliament
and other respectable fields to
make sure that India’s interests are
taken care of and nobody takes
bribe. Political parties need funds
to survive and to win elections. So,
let us encourage people to donate
to political parties and mention it
in their tax returns.
Rangaesh Gadasalli
Via web
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Sir — This refers to the controversy over Prime Minister Narendra
Modi’s educational qualifications.
An academic degree was never
deemed to be an essential qualification for holding a public office. K
Kamaraj, for example, never attended high school, but turned out to be
an extraordinary administrator. He
became the Chief Minister of
Madras in the early 1950s. It looks
as if the politics of accusation
asserts itself in all its squalid
unseemliness — the great failure of
politics today. Serious issues are
rarely debated with similar fervour.
Serious debate is hard work, and our
politicians are too busy to visualise
anything beyond their noses.
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in his first year in office,
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi, in his second year at
the helm, maintained his
Government’s now trademark focus
on enervating India’s political engagement with the world. He travelled to
more than 20 countries, hosted many
foreign dignitaries, including more
than 50 African leaders at the massive
India-Africa Forum Summit and the
heads of the Pacific Island nations at
the Forum for India-Pacific Islands
Cooperation, and took the lead on key
multilateral initiatives. However, even
as the Prime Minister maintained his
frenetic diplomatic pace, it also
became clear that his administration
is not able to keep up, primarily due
to institutional inadequacies.
Q Political engagements: If the
first year was about focusing on the
Indian sub-continent and the larger
Indian Ocean region, Modi’s second
year in power saw major engagements
with West Asia (United Arab Emirates
and Saudi Arabia), Central Asia,
Europe, Africa, and even the Pacific
Islands, apart from the usual meetings
with the big powers. Not all of them
necessarily produced momentous tangibles, in terms of path-breaking deals
or generational upgrades in the bilaterals, but each one was crucial for
boosting India’s political interaction
with that country or region.
The importance of this interaction,
which is necessary to convert economic ties into strategic partnerships, cannot be overstated. In past decades, especially during the 10 years that the
Congress-led United Progressive
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Alliance was in power, such rendezvous had been reduced to a bare
minimum, mostly because Indian leaders were too busy firefighting at home.
Modi, heading India’s first majority
Government in three decades, is trying
to make up for these losses.
His efforts were most visible in
West Asia where India already has
extensive economic ties, a significant
diplomatic presence, and, of course, a
large diaspora. High-level political
engagement with this region was the
missing piece, and this is what Modi has
brought to the table, PR Kumaraswamy
of the Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi told this writer. Once the
quality of political engagement
improves, New Delhi will better understand the complexities of the region, he
further added. This may lead to India
moving from a blanket friends-witheverybody policy towards a more
nuanced and informed list of priorities.
QMultilateral diplomacy: Modi
raised India’s profile in this realm,
with the high point being the United
Nations Climate Change summit in
Paris last December. Modi re-positioned India so that it was no longer
seen as an obstructionist force but a
leading voice of the developing world
— specifically through the solar
alliance initiative. Notably, renewables
make for just one side of India’s new
energy coin — the other is nuclear
energy. Both have been incorporated
into the core of India’s foreign policy
objectives under Modi.
Q Reiterating motifs: Three
themes were carried over from year
one to year two. First was the diaspora focus, as part of which the Madison
Square Garden template developed in
New York was reapplied with aplomb
in Dubai, Dublin, San Jose, London,
Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and
Brussels, and then somewhat modified for Riyadh.
Second, was projecting India as an
ocean power — this theme emerged
in year one through the US-India Joint
Strategic Vision for the Asia-Pacific
and Indian Ocean Region, signed during US President Barack Obama’s
January 2015 visit, and was reiterated during Modi’s Indian Ocean island
tour in March 2015. In his second
year, this motif was re-emphasised by
the International Fleet Review, which
brought 50 foreign navies to India’s
shore and was a tremendous
show of strength.
The third theme is that of religious
diplomacy. If year one had Modi making temple visits in Nepal and Japan,
and launching International Yoga Day,
year two saw him with folded hands at
a Buddhist temple in China, hosting an
international Sufi conference in New
Delhi, and bringing a sizeable foreign
diplomatic contingent to the Simhasth
Maha Kumbh in Ujjain.
The Government tried to bring
back a fourth theme, “neighborhood
first”, but suffered significant setbacks.
With Nepal and the Maldives, New
Delhi struggled to play the role of a protective big brother without getting
drawn into the domestic politics of sovereign nations. With Pakistan, the talkterror cycle continued despite the
efforts of Prime Ministers Modi and
Nawaz Sharif to mend ties. In the aftermath of the Pathankot attack, it seemed
like for every step forward, the India-
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climate change, combined
with rising population, is
exerting immense pressure on
the environment and contributing to its rapid deterioration.
Natural assets like wildlife sanctuaries and national parks are
the most affected as delicate
ecology and biodiversity is
threatened. As a result of continued efforts of the
Government to preserve these
assets, the Union Ministry of
Environment, Forests and
Climate Change, recently
approved the declaration of 275
areas around wildlife sanctuaries and national parks in the
country as Ecologically
Sensitive Zones.
The concept of ESZs is
essentially an Indian concept
that has its roots in attempts by
civil society to use the
Environment Protection Act to
promote sustainable development alongside the protection of
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natural heritage. The term ESZ
was first used in 1991 for Dahanu
taluka in Maharashtra, followed
by the declaration of other ESZs
like Mahabaleshwar, Panchgani
and Matheran. These initiatives
were taken by civil society organisations and a consequence of resolutions of the Indian Board for
Wildlife in 2002, to protect areas
up to 10 kilometres from the
boundaries of wildlife sanctuaries and national parks.
Inspite of its history in India,
the concept of ESZs has unfortunately not made its presence felt
in the mainstream environmental conservation efforts. This is
evident by the fact that even
today, Governments continue
to plan projects in total ignorance
of ESZs. The Strategic Road
Development Project in
Hyderabad is an apt example.
The SRDP proposes to cut
through the eco-sensitive zone of
Hyderabad’s sprawling Kasu
Brahmananda Reddy National
park. Civil society and environmental experts have condemned
the SRDP terming it as a ‘green
murder’ as it not only compromises the ecological balance,
but also proves the inability of the
Telangana Government to have
a long-term strategic planning for
infrastructure development that
is sustainable and eco-friendly.
Owing to its size and central
location, the KBR national park
has immense potential to act as
a carbon sink to absorb the
city’s pollution, besides recharging the groundwater.
The Government must
ensure strict implementation of
ESZs and also include other
environmentally sensitive areas
under the ambit and definition
of ESZ. The expansion of ESZ
definition can help compliment
Government efforts in environmental conservation. Currently,
the creation and implementation
of ESZs is associated with national parks and sanctuaries, howev-
er, it will be beneficial for effective environmental conservation if the concept is extended to
urban areas as well. A set of
revamped and stringent ESZ
norms for urban India will drastically cut down environment
related violations.
The absence of such clear
guidelines has allowed cities to
take environment for granted.
For instance, a recent report submitted after a survey by noted
environmentalist MC Mehta
has revealed that nearly 3,500
trees have been felled in ecologically sensitive areas in Agra,
particularly near the Taj Mahal.
The report also brought to
light the cutting of 7,000 more
trees in the Agra forest block.
Similarly, the Mumbai municipal corporation has initiated a
project to reclaim land in ecosensitive coastal zones and
allow construction in no development zones. Though this
has met with stiff opposition
from environmentalists and
concerned local citizens, the
fact that the project has the
backing of the State
Government is disturbing. A
strict set of regulations pertaining to urban ESZs could have
prevented this.
Over a period of time, the
civil society and dedicated environmentalists have contributed
much towards preserving the delicate environment in India, this
has been strengthened by the initiatives taken by the National
Green Tribunal.
Recently, the NGT banned
activities like paragliding and
snow scooters at the eco-sensitive zone of Rohtang Pass in
Himachal Pradesh. After years of
commercial exploitation and
ecological degeneration, the
Rohtang Pass has finally got
relief and an opportunity to
revive its biodiversity, thanks to
the efforts of NGT.
Compromising on green
Pakistan bilateral was doomed to take
two steps backwards. With Sri Lanka,
the JF17 issue was a bit of a dampener.
QLast mile delivery: Lack of follow-through is the biggest problem
with Prime Minister Modi’s foreign
policy that has come to light in his
second year in office. Several deals
have been announced amidst much
fanfare but few are signed and sealed.
For example, the military logistics deal
with the United States was not signed
during US Defence Secretary Ash
Carter’s visit, even though it has
reportedly been finalised. Similarly,
French President François Hollande
came and went in January this year
but the Rafale deal couldn’t be delivered, just as the agreement with
Westinghouse to build six nuclear
reactors is yet to come through despite
the 2015 “breakthrough” on the
nuclear liability clause. India’s efforts
to gain access to the four key export
control regimes have also made only
limited progress.
There’s a sobering lesson here:
Successful diplomacy is a team effort,
and Modi’s team needs more time and
space to get things done. This is primarily because the severely understaffed Ministry of External Affairs
simply does not have the bandwidth
to power Modi’s agenda. Perhaps, this
is where the Prime Minister should
now focus his attention — on building up the MEA and the Indian foreign service corps’ institutional capabilities so that they can effectively represent the interests of a rising power.
(A shorter version of this article was
published on the Stimson Centre’s South
Asian Voices platform)
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cover by cutting down trees has
become synonymous with development. ESZs can stop this disturbing trend only if they are conceived and implemented sincerely. The implementation of an ESZ
is beneficial to the environment
as it acts like a shock absorber to
the protected area.
However, it has to factor in
the effect it will have on the local
populace and their livelihood.
The ESZ implementation will
receive the crucial support of
indigenous people if it maintains
the critical balance between conservation of environment and
allows legitimate socio-economic development of the area.
Development can never be
at the cost of murdering trees.
The Government must end the
dichotomy, where on the one
hand, it encourages planting of
more trees and on the other
hand, forests and sensitive zones
are being eliminated in the name
of development.
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the people of Tamil Nadu. “If
the income of the farmers and
fishermen is to be doubled by
2022, the 75th anniversary of
Indian Independence, you have
to vote for BJP in the 2016
Assembly election. The fate of
the State lies on your index fingers. If you press the Lotus
symbol, the right button to a
bright future, the floodgates of
development will be opened
and Tamil Nadu will see a
progress which it has not seen
in the last fifty years,” Modi told
the thousands who had gathered to hear him speak at the
coastal town of Vedaranyam in
Nagapattinam district.
The Prime Minister wound
up his election campaign in
Tamil Nadu with a 35 minutes
speech during which he
explained to the voters some of
the innovative schemes introduced by his Government for the
inclusive growth of the people.
Modi began his speech by
telling the audience that he was
the first ever Prime Minister of
the country to visit Vedaranyam,
which had many cultural and
historical significances. “It was
here C Rajagopalachari, the
great freedom fighter and first
Governor-General of independent India launched the Salt
Satyagraha in 1930 to express
solidarity with Mahatma
Gandhi’s Salt Satyagraha at
Dandi,” Modi reminded the
people of the State.
The Prime Minister, who
did not name any rival of the
BJP, told the people that the
last fifty years saw two parties
ruling Tamil Nadu alternatively between themselves. “The
development of Tamil Nadu
has come to a standstill because
of this alternate governance.
Now, you have a Government
at the Centre which shares
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your happiness and sorrow
with you. It is time you gave the
BJP a chance to rule Tamil
Nadu and take the State and its
people in the path of development and progress,” said Modi.
Explaining the innovative
and state-of-the-art schemes
for farmers and fishermen
launched by the NDA
Government at the Centre,
Modi said the Pradhan Mantri
Fasal Yojana was a pioneer
scheme of its kind ever
launched in the country for the
benefit of farmers. “Farmers
stand to get security and insurance for their crops from any
kind of natural disasters. This
is the first scheme of its kind,
a Sampoorna Suraksha scheme
for the farmers. The uniqueness
of the scheme is that it has been
designed taking into consideration the past experience,” said
the Prime Minister.
Since the coastal town has
a considerable population of
fishermen, the Prime Minister
dwelt at length on the schemes
launched by his Government for
them. “The Prime Minister’s
Mudra Yojana can help you in
a big way to opt for deep sea
fishing. If any five fishermen
could approach the nationalised banks as a team, they
would get loans and financial
assistance to purchase new
mechanised boats for deep sea
fishing,” said the Prime Minister.
More than that of a politician, the speech resembled that
of a corporate sales manager
selling the people schemes and
measures specially designed for
their development. “Wherever
there are BJP Governments in
India, those States are on fast
tracks of development. Don’t
you want such a Government in
Tamil Nadu too,” he asked the
audience which replied in the
affirmative in unison.
Modi asked the audience
whether they got uninterrupted power supply and safe drinking water to which they replied
in the negative. “The dreams of
the poor are limited. They need
three square meals a day, safe
drinking water, a small house to
stay and educational facilities
for their children. The BJP will
give you all more than these
things,” said Modi.
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accused in the solar scam, on
Wednesday produced pen drives and CDs before a commission probing the scam, claiming it contained “evidence”
linking top State politicians
with the scandal.
Speaking to reporters after
producing the documents before
the Justice B Sivarajan
Commission, she said more digital proof would be produced
before the panel on May 13.
Saritha dismissed Chief
Minister Oommen Chandy’s
claim that he had no connection with her and the scam.
“The evidence I produced
before the Commission will
prove the role of some top
politicians, including the Chief
Minister, in the scam,” she said.
Saritha claimed the digital
documents contained evidence
of what she had written in a letter while in police custody.
She had in the letter, which
was recently aired by two news
channels, alleged that the Chief
Minister and a host of other
leaders had sexually abused her.
Dismissing the charges,
Chandy had filed a criminal
defamation case against Saritha
and four journalists of two
news channels, complaining
that they hatched a conspiracy
to defame him by airing the
news item on April 3 and 4, to
the effect that he raped her.
The complaint filed before
the Chief Judicial Magistrate
Court, Ernakulam, said they
released a “truncated letter
(allegedly written by her while
she was in judicial incarceration) wherein it is stated that
she was raped by the complainant in his official residence—Cliff
House,
Thiruvananthapuram.
“Common sense fails to
comprehend as to how such an
incident can occur in the Cliff
House, where the complainant
is residing with his family, and
several security guards,” the
complaint had said.
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commercials beamed by satellite TV channels in the State
promoting the arch rivals DMK
and AIADMK feature same
models, professional actors and
actresses.
Channel viewers were in
for a surprise when the DMK
started beaming commercials
seeking the voters to vote for
the “Rising Sun”, the party
emblem. What stood out in the
commercials was the helplessness expressed by an old
woman who bewails about the
inaccessibility of leaders who
fly by helicopters and look
down upon the poor (ostensibly targeting Chief Minister
Jayalalithaa). She asks the audience that the people in high
places are least bothered about
the sufferings of the poor and
hence it was time to usher in
the era of the DMK.
There were many such
characters featured in the
advertisements (commercials)
produced and telecast for promoting the father-son duo and
the DMK. There was a person
who curses himself for selecting the present Government as
his purse has gone empty since
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in search of a job for the last
three years. All are unanimous
in their opinion that only the
DMK would save them.
The AIADMK too is telecasting advertisments highlighting the various measures
launched by the Jayalalithaa
Government during the last
five years. It too had featured
different sections of the society
to drive home the message that
the State has seen all round
development in the last five
years.
But what caught the attention of the viewers was a
woman who curses the
AIADMK regime in the commercial shot for the DMK and
another woman praising
Jayalalithaa Government for
introducing the scheme of
feeding poor people in all temples. “It is because of this
scheme that I get two square
meals a day. There was no one
to look after me in my old age.
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Indian fishermen were
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apprehended on Wednesday by
Pakistan Maritime Security
Agency (PMSA). As per the
report, PMSA officials abducted two Indian fishing trawlers
along with fishermen on-board
near International Maritime
Boundary Line (IMBL) off
Gujarat coast.
Manish Lodhari, secretary
of National Fish Forum, confirmed that both boats were
from coastal town Porbander
and the fishermen on board
started their journey in the
Arabian Sea for fishing around
couple of days back.
According to Lodhari, during the current fishing season
started from August 15, 2015
and would continue till June 10,
2016, PMSA has abducted
more than 80 Indian fishing
boats. As of now over 500
fishermen are in different jails
of Pakistan, he added.
“We have written a letter to
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
to initiate bilateral talk for the
release of Indian fishing
trawlers and jailed Indian fishermen,” said Lodhari.
Meanwhile, PMSA claimed
that they had arrested 10 Indian
fishermen and seized two boats
for allegedly fishing illegally in
their country’s territorial
waters. According to PMSA,
the Pakistani marine security
personnel had repeatedly
warned them before arresting
Indian fishermen.
The fishermen were arrested from Sir Creek which is situated between Sindh province
of Pakistan and Gujarat State
of India. Pakistan claimed that
the Indian fishermen violated
territorial waters and indulged
in illegal fishing in open sea
area. A case under the foreign
and fisheries act of Pakistan
law has been registered against
them.
It is because of Amma that I get
the food,” says the woman.
A close scrutiny revealed
that the women featured in
both the commercials are one
and the same. Kasturi (67)
survives on the small income
she gets as a junior artist in
Tamil films and TV serials.
When producers of the commercials approached her to
act as a model for the short
films they were shooting,
Kasturi did not think twice as
she was offered a few thousands. “I never knew it was for
the DMK or for the AIADMK.
The directors gave me one
sentence to be told and I did
the role without any difficulty
. It was only after some friends
told me that I have been featured in the commercials I
came to know about it,” said
Kasturi.
Kasturi is hopeful that her
roles in the two commercials
would be seen by movie makers and she may be offered
some serious roles.
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BJP on Wednesday hit out at
Kerala Chief Minister
Oommen Chandy for attacking
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
for his likening of the State to
Somalia, and alleged that various welfare laws for the SC/ST
communities were not being
implemented in the State.
“For the benefit of SC/ST
brothers, many laws made by
the Central Government are
not being implemented in
Kerala. Isn’t this an insult to the
State,” BJP State president,
Kummanam Rajasekharan told
reporters here.
Chandy had on Tuesday hit
out at Modi for comparing
Kerala to Somalia, saying he
had insulted the State and
should show some “political
decency” and withdraw the
remark.
“The Chief Minister has
raised the issue of the
Malayalee pride being hurt
now, only with an eye on the
May 16 Assembly polls,”
Rajasekharan said.
Media had highlighted
reports of two tribal children
rummaging for food at a waste
dump in a tribal colony at
Peravur in Kannur district and
the incident had shaken the
conscience of the nation, he
said, adding, there was nothing
wrong and “unnatural” about
what PM had said.
Referring to Chandy’s
claim that for the welfare of the
tribals, crores had been spent
by the government and that no
child in the State will eat from
the waste dump, the BJP leader
claimed that at Attapadi, 143
children have died due to malnourishment.
“Has the Chief Minister
forgotten about them,” he
asked.
Chandy should explain the
steps taken by the Government
to stop starvation deaths in the
State, he said.
In a hard-hitting letter to
Modi, Chandy had said the
Prime Minister’s comparison of
Kerala to Somalia during a
recent poll campaign rally
while claiming that the state
had “adverse” economic and
social parameters had
“shocked” the people of the
state as it has nothing to do
with the ground realities.
He also wanted Modi to
show some “political decency”
by withdrawing the statement
as they were “baseless and
contrary to ground realities.”
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a smooth transiItionnsymbolised
from the old to the new, the
Indian Navy on Wednesday
phased out Sea Harrier fighter
jets – which were the mainstay
of Indian Naval air arm since
1983, thus paving way for the
supersonic MiG 29K aircraft
into the Indian Naval Air
Squadron (INAS 300).
At an impressive ceremony
held at INS Hansa in Goa
which saw the Navy bid a
farewell to the christened lately as LUSH (Limited Upgrade
Sea Harrier) and induct MiG
29K aircraft into its fleet, Sea
Harriers flew for one last time,
with MiG-29K flanking their
outgoing cousins and ceremoniously taking their place.
The air display included
supersonic pass by MiG 29s and
formation flying by two each Sea
Harriers and MiG 29Ks.
On completion of the Air
display, “washing down of the
Sea Harriers” was carried out in
a traditional manner.
The Navy, which initially
had 28 Sea Harriers, de-inducted 11 remaining ones at
Wednesday’s ceremony.
Admiral RK Dhowan, Chief
of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral
Sunil Lanba, Flag Officer
Commanding in Chief Western
Naval Command, serving and
retired Officers and Men of the
Indian Navy and all personnel
who have served in the INAS
300 were present at the ceremony. Admiral Dhowan
released a first day cover on the
occasion marking the de-induction of Sea Harriers and induction of MiG 29Ks into the
force. He unveiled a plaque
marking the de-induction of Sea
Harriers and induction of MiG
29Ks on the occasion.
Talking to media persons
after the de-induction of Sea
Harriers and induction of the
Russian-make MiG 29K aircraft
into the force, Admiral Dhowan
said: "We have great pride in
inducting supersonic multi-role
MiG 29K aircraft with cutting
edge technology into the 300
squadron" India had contracted
45 MiG-29K carrier-based fighters from Russia in two batches
— 16 fighters in 2004 along with
the contact for acquiring aircraft
carrier INS Vikramaditya and
another 29 fighters in 2010. Of
the contracted aircraft, the Navy
has till now accepted 31 MiG
29K aircraft of the 45 aircraft.
"The aircraft (MiG 29K) has
already been integrated on
board aircraft carrier
Vikramaditya and will now
perform the role of strike fighter and air defence for the fleet
in the Indian Navy," Admiral
Dhowan said.
Averring that the naval aviation was on a threshold of
transformation through induction of additional helicopters
and aircraft into the force,
Admiral Dhowan said: "The
Indian Navy has emerged as a
multi-dimensional network
force which is ready to take on
any challenge in the maritime
domain of the Indian Ocean
region in the 21st century".
Replying to queries from
media persons, Admiral
Dhowan said that INS Virat
would be phased out in the
coming years. "We are working
out details with the Ministry of
Defence and it (Virat) will now be
phased out in the coming
years...We have our new aircraft
carrier INS Vikrant, which is
being constructed at Kochi shipyard and it is scheduled for delivery in the end of 2018," Admiral
Dhowan said.
Admiral Dhowan, however,
chose not to answer questions
relating to the AgustaWestland
VVIP choppers controversy.
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succeeded triggering on
Wednesday a large-scale violence and arsoning at
Paschimpara village off
Diamond Harbour some 40
miles from here.
Much like the Aditya
Sachdeva murder case, a 21year-old ITI student was lynched
on Monday by a gang of miscreants led by a Trinamool
Congress panchayat member
Tapas Mullick who mistook
him as a cattle-smuggler.
Kaushik Purakayastha, the
victim, had gone to her aunt’s
place to attend a family function. While he was strolling
outside his relative’s house late
in the evening he was accosted by his tormentors on charges
of stealing a buffalo allegedly
purchased for sacrifice (bali).
He was allegedly dragged
inside a club room controlled by
the local TMC men and severely clubbed for two hours. Even his
mother was roughed up while
she pleaded for mercy. The
severely bleeding boy was
allowed to be transported to a
hospital only when his mother
gave a written undertaking to pay
C70,000 for the stolen animal.
The boy died on way to
SSKM Hospital in Kolkata.
Ironically almost at the same
time the buffalo that has
snapped its peg and fled was
discovered in the same village.
A large crowd on Monday
ransacked
houses
at
Paschimpara, set fire to paddy
stacks after failing to catch
Mullick, a panchayat vice chairman and a Trinamool Congress
Trade Union Congress leader at
Kolkata Port.
Mullick still remained
“untraceable,” the local police
said while his father claimed he
had left his house on a motorbike on Wednesday morning
some 36 hours after the incident took place.
“It is obnoxious on the
part of the police. If Bihar
Police can arrest, son of an
MLC on same charges why
cannot Bengal Police catch
even a small panchayat member even 56 hours after the
murder taking place” asked
CPI(M) leader Kanti Ganguli.
A woman and four men
had been arrested in the case.
“The police have arrested only
one of the ten people named in
the FIR” said the relatives of the
victim, the only child of his
parents.
fter the suspension from
the JD(U), its MLC
Manorma Devi, the mother of
Rocky Yadav, who allegedly
killed a school student in Gaya
and now in police custody, has
gone underground while the
police sealed her spacious
house in Gaya’s AP Colony on
Wednesday. The police had
recovered six bottles of Indianmade foreign liquor from that
house during a raid.
Possession of liquor is a
cognizable offence and could
invite minimum of ten years
imprisonment under the new
Excise Law.
The immediate provocation for JD(U) leadership
taking action against her was
the recovery of the liquor bottles and not her complicity in
helping her son to escape after
committing crime on
Saturday last.
Gaya District Magistrate
Kumar Ravi said process for
confiscation of the property
had also began. However, he
did not clarify whether the
house would be put on auction
after confiscation or remain
under Government possession.
The law provides for the confiscation of the property, where
liquor is found, and its auction.
The Gaya Police have also
stepped up its manhunt to
arrest the absconding MLC.
Under the Excise Act, police are
empowered to arrest the culprit
without seeking a warrant from
the competent court.
The police also slapped a
case on Yadav family for
employing a child labour at
their home.
State JD(U) president
Bashistha Narain Singh, who
on Tuesday night suspended
Manorma Devi after consultation with party’s national president Nitish Kumar, said, “I suspended her because liquor bottles were recovered from her
house. I have also issued a
showcause notice to her. I want
to assure everyone there is no
place for such people in our
party. Our Government is committed to ensure legal action
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Manorma’s husband and
history-sheeter Bindeshwar
Prasad alias Bindi Yadav had
already been arrested on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the Economic
Offences Wing of the Bihar
Police was mulling investigation into the source of the
income of the Yadav family
which is a classic case of rags
to riches during the past two
decades. Till late 80s, old timers
in Gaya recall that the family
lived in near penury before
Bindi jumped into the world of
crime and unleashed a reign of
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who appeared in this year’s
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Secondary School Certificates
Examination (SSC) in Telangana,
85.63 per cent students or 4.44
lakh students have passed.
Deputy Chief Minister
Kadiam Srihiari who released
the results on Wednesday said
while Warangal district came
first with the maximum stu-
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dents passing the examination, surprisingly the State capital Hyderabad secured the last
position. While passing percentage in Warangal district
was 95.13, Hyderabad stood
just at 76.23 per cent.
In over all performance the
girls bettered the boys once
again with 86.57 per cent girls
passing the examination
against 84.70 per cent boys.
This year the passing per-
centage of the SSC students was
8 per cent higher than the last
year indicating an improvement in the performance of the
schools. However only 121
Government schools recorded
hundred percent success.
In the State educational system SSC is the key Board examination as it marks the end of
school education and beginning
of the college life for nearly half
a million students every year.
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criminal gang who used
Ssnakes
to terrorise women,
loot people, and commit other
crimes were sentenced to life
imprisonment on Wednesday.
While another member of
the “Snake Gang” was given
seven years imprisonment, 9th
accused was acquitted by the
Ranga Reddy district Court.
Ranga Reddy district
Second Additional Women’s
court Judge V Varaprasad pronouncing the judgment rejected the plea of the accused for
leniency on the grounds of
their family situation and
poverty. “Why you did not
think of your family and situation while committing the
offences”, the judge asked.
Earlier on Tuesday, the
court had found all accused
except one guilty of serious
charges including dacoity, criminal intimidation and extortion
while dropping the charge of
rape against the four accused
because of the insufficient evidence. Judge said while the
prosecution could not prove the
charge of rape, they were found
guilty of other charges.
On July 31, 2014 the “Snake
Gang” had barged in to a farmhouse in Shaheen Nagar area in
Hyderabad outskirts, threat-
ened a couple with snakes,
beat up and tied the man with
ropes and disrobed and raped
his fiancé, police said.
Nine members of the gang
were arrested in the first week
of August, 2014 after the girl
lodged a complaint. She also
alleged that the gang members
had video recorded the heinous
act and threatened to upload it
on social media if she dared to
complaint to the police. The
gang had also stolen C60,000
and girl’s gold ornament from
the farmhouse which were
later recovered from a buyer.
The girl, however, gathered courage and lodged a complaint to the Pahadishareef
police blowing the lid off to the
gangs’ criminal activities and
gave a statement to a magistrate.
But later she developed cold feet
and did not appear in the court.
Police said the gang was
involved in several other criminal offences and their modus
operandi was to use snakes to
threaten and terrorise their
victims, mostly women.
The police had booked cases
under Sections 452 (trespassing),
395 (dacoity), 506 (criminal
intimidation), 454-B (using force
to disrob) of IPC and Section
376D of Nirbhay Act.
Those sentenced to life
imprisonment include the gang
leader and a gym instructor
Faisal Dayyani, Khadar
Barakaba, Tayyab Basalama,
Md Pervez, Syed Anwar, Khaja
Ahmad and Mohammed
Ibrahim. Another accused Ali
Barakaba was convicted on
charges of procuring the stolen
property and was sentenced to
seven years imprisonment
while another accused Hamid
was acquitted.
Public Prosecutor P Devraj
Goud, who demanded stringent punishment to the guilty
said the charges of rape were
dropped against the accused as
the 18-year-old girl failed to
appear in the court to give her
statement due to the fear of
social stigma.
Police officials, who investigated the case said there were
many complaints and allegations against the gang members
of raping women by terrorising
them with snakes but none of the
victims came forward to depose
against the accused.
The modus operandi of the
gang and the spree of offences
in which they were involved
had created a sensation and fear
in the city outskirts and the failure of the police to apprehend
the gang initially had sparked
off a public furor leading to suspension of police officers of
Pahadishareef police station
under Cyberabad Police
Commissionerate.
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ven as the Meteorological
Center has forecast pre monE
soon showers over Telangana to
continue for another 48 hours
keeping the temperature under
check, Mehbubnagar, 120 km
from here was lashed by one of
the heaviest rainfalls in the
recent memory.
Mehbubnagar city and surrounding areas received a
record 12.2 cms of rains in
mere one and a half hours leaving many low lying areas of the
city under water.
The area was lashed by a
thunder storm bringing down
the trees, uprooting electrical
poles, disrupting power supply
and damaging a large number
of houses. The thunder storm
and the heavy rains derailed the
daily life and normalcy was yet
to return.
This has come at a time
when Hyderabad had also
received a record rainfall of
74.55 mm rains on May 6 breaking a decade old record of heavy
rains at the peak of summer.
Officials of Meteorological
Center in Hyderabad said that
such a pre monsoon showers
were normal and they were
result of a upper trough prevailing from Vidarbha region of
Maharashtra
through
Telangana and Karnataka to
Tamil Nadu. “The pre mosoon
rains will continue for another
48 hours before the trough
moves in west-north west direction towards Marahtwada and
Madhay Pradesh”, officials said.
Pre monsoon shower activity was so high this year that
Hyderabad had received 113.5
mm rainfall this month so far
against the monthly average of
31.7 mm, said private weather
forecaster SkyMet
However the coming days
were likely to be hot for
Hyderabad and other parts of
Telangana as the thunder
showers will stop and temperature which had come down to
38 degrees will again start rising and may touch 41 degrees
over the weekend.
This situation was likely to
continue till the first week of
June when Monsoon was likely to hit Telangana on June 5.
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terror and also gained political
patronage.
Senior BJP leader Sushil
Kumar Modi questioned the
police for not arresting
Manorma Devi when the
liquor bottles were recovered
during raid and the MLC was
very much present there. He
dared CM Nitish Kumar to take
action against the police officers whose complicity in going
soft against the JD(U) legislator was proven. He alleged
that cops tried to protect her
knowing well that along with
Bindi Yadav she too helped
Rocky to escape and that alcohol was recovered from her
house. He quoted ADG Police
Sunil Kumar that in Bihar
women do not drink so case
was filed against her and Gaya
City SP said that the room from
where the bottles were recovered was in use of only Bindi
and his son. Modi referred to
a case at Gaya junction on
Tuesday from where a woman
Usha Devi carrying crates of
liquor bottle was arrested. “If
she could be arrested why not
Manorma Devi on similar
charges?”, he asked.
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High Court demanding
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criminal action against
Trinamool Congress MP Derek
O’Brien in the morphed video
case where Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s face was photoshopped and interchanged
with that of CPI(M) politburo
member Prakash Karat.
Bengal BJP leader
Jayprakash Majumdar on
Wednesday said his party
would move to the HC seeking
direction for the Kolkata Police
to file and FIR and act against
Derek for publishing a morphed video of the PM.
“The Kolkata Police
Headquarters have informed us
that they are investigating the
matter. But we want to know
visible action... More than 20
days have elapsed and nothing
has been done by the police.
Now, we will move the High
Court next week,” he said.
The video was shown
before Derek the TMC
spokesperson who had claimed
it to be “my favourite photograph” where it was shown that
Prakash Karat was nibbling at
sweets offered by Home
Minister Rajnath Singh.
The picture, which was
promptly called as false by both
Karat and the BJP was published during the elections
apparently show that the proximity between the two parties
“so that they get confused
before the elections.”
Later on Derek conceded
the mistake and his party withdrew the picture form the
party website.
Notwithstanding, both
Karat and the BJP filed complaints with Delhi and Kolkata
Police. While Karat said he had
never personally met Singh the
latter said the photograph was
shot when the BJP declared
Modi then the Gujarat Chief
Minister as the Prime
Ministerial candidate for 2014
elections.
“It is a serious matter where
the picture of the Prime
Minister gets morphed and
should be probed,” the BJP
leaders said.
While the Trinamool leadership would not make any
official comment insiders said
the matter had ended when the
party officially apologized for
the mistake.
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=4F34;78) India’s revised tax
treaty inked with Mauritius will
have no bearing on investments via Participatory Notes
and the existing dispensation
will continue to apply on them,
Government
said
on
Wednesday.
It also sees no impact on
foreign investment inflows on
account of the revision.
Revenue
Secretar y
Hasmukh Adhia said there
was no separate rule provided
for P-Notes in the revised
Double Taxation Avoidance
Convention (DTAC) that gives
India right to tax capital gains
arising in Mauritius on shares
of an Indian company bought
after March 31, 2017.
In an interview to the news
agency, he said the amendment
to the DTAC is about companies
coming
through
Mauritius. “P-Notes is a separate decision. It is not linked to
the treaty.”
P-Notes are derivatives that
mimic an underlying Indian
security and are sold by brokerages to foreign investors. PNotes allow investors to avoid
Indian taxes on direct investments.
Adhia said P-Notes money
can be routed through any
country. “There is no linkage of
Mauritius treaty with P-Notes.
P-Notes are issued by foreign
companies and not Indian
companies.”
He said he saw “no impact
on foreign (investment) inflow”
because of the amendment
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Fi nance Mi nistr y on
Wednesday said GAAR provisions, which are to take
effect from April next year,
will override the DTAA provisions in case they are
abused.
“GAAR being anti-abuse
provision can prevail over
treaty if it is proved that it
is an abuse of treaty. With
LoB clause in the treaty
being fulfilled, it may be difficult to establish that treaty
is being misused,” Revenue
Secretary Hasmukh Adhia
said.
“GAAR applies in case
of any company which is
trying to abuse the treaty.
GAAR is an anti-abuse provision. It applies in case of
any situation where there is
an abuse of treaty for gaining tax benefit unduly,” he
added.
The L i mit at i on of
Benefit clause under the
Double Taxation Avoidance
Agreement (DTAA) limits
tax benefits to those who
meet certain conditions
relating to business, residency and investment.
Under the revised tax
treaty inked yesterday, India
will begin imposing capital
gains tax on investments
routed through Mauritius
from next April to curb tax
evasion and round- tripping of funds - a move that
may have a significant bearing on capital flows from the
island nation.
GAAR was introduced
i n h i s 2 0 1 2 - 1 3 Bu d ge t
speech by the then Finance
Minister Pranab Mukherjee
with a view to check tax evas i on and avoi d an c e.
However, its implementation was repeatedly postponed because of the apprehensions expressed by foreign investors.
GAAR, which was origi-
nally to be implemented from
April 1, 2014, will now come
into effect from April 1, 2017
(Assessment Year 2018-19).
It contains provision
allowing the Government to
prospectively tax overseas
deals involving local assets.
There have been fears that the
Government may use it to
target P-Notes.
Through the use of
GAAR, Government may try
to tax P-Notes as indirect
investments, which could
attract a tax rate of up to 15
per cent, experts say. To avoid
tax altogether under GAAR,
an investor may have to prove
that P-Notes were not set up
specifically to avoid paying
taxes.
The Government had
earlier proposed imposing
GAAR for those claiming tax
benefit of over C3 crore. The
rules are aimed at minimising
tax avoidance for investments
made by entities based in tax
havens.
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signed on Tuesday.
India and Mauritius have
been negotiating aspects of
three-decade old tax treaty
since 2006 to check misuse by
some investors who avoid pay-
ing tax and round tripping....
“As far as the markets are
concerned, I don’t have any
fear. In fact, because there was
an uncertainty so far regarding
the Mauritius route, the mar-
ket might have been a little
sceptical. But now that there is
a 100 per cent certainty
brought in, the market has
already taken it well so far and
I don’t see any negative reac-
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tax collections jumped
42 per cent in April on sharp
Irisendirect
in excise collections owing
to increased duty on petrol and
diesel.
“Indirect tax collections for
the month of April 2016 was
C64,394 crore registering a
growth of 41.8 per cent as compared to C45,417 crore collected
during the same period previous
year,” an official statement said.
Excise collections soared
70.7 per cent to C28,252 crore in
April as compared to C16,546
crore a year ago.
The Government had
between November 2015 and
January 2016 raised excise duty
on petrol and diesel five times to
raise an additional C17,000 crore
in 2015-16 fiscal. The five excise
duty hikes totalled C4.02 a litre
on petrol and C6.87 per litre on
diesel.
“Overall growth in revenue
collections on account of indirect
taxes excluding additional revenue measures is 17 per cent,” the
statement said.
tion from the market, if at all
it will be a positive reaction,”
he said.
More than a third of the
$278 billion India has received
in foreign direct investments in
the past 15 years has come via
Mauritius.
Adhia said the new treaty
will trigger a similar amendment in India’s tax pact with
Singapore.Mauritius and
Singapore contributed $17 billion out of total FDI of $29.4
billion in April-December
2015.
Adhia said GAAR, which
will kick in from April 2017, is
to prevent misuse of treaty.
General Anti-Avoidance
Rule (GAAR) contains provision allowing the Government
to stop misuse of treaty for tax
avoidance. There have been
fears that the government may
use it to target P-Notes.
“GAAR applies in case of
any company which is trying to
abuse the treaty. GAAR is an
anti-abuse provision. It applies
in case of any situation where
there is an abuse of treaty for
gaining tax benefit unduly,” he
said.
Through use of GAAR,
Government may try to tax PNotes as indirect investments,
which could attract a tax rate
of up to 15 per cent, say
experts.
To avoid tax altogether
under GAAR, an investor may
have to prove that P-Note was
not set up specifically to avoid
paying taxes.
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on Tuesday, the BSE benchmark Sensex on Wednesday
retreated from a two-week
high after falling 175.51 points
to 25,597.02.
Also, ahead of macroeconomic data IIP numbers for
March and consumer price
index (CPI) for April, which is
slated to be released on
Thursday, investors are in
panic that equity inflows may
take a hit on India’s such move
in the stock markets. Retail
participation, however, was
positive with the BSE mid-cap
rising 0.17 per cent and small
cap index falling by a marginal 0.03 per cent.
The Sensex, after opening
down at 25,548.97 slid to a low
of 25,409.24. However, valuebuying in several bluechips
helped trim losses and the
index finally settled 175.51
points or 0.68 per cent lower at
25,597.02. The gauge had
gained 544 points in the past
two sessions. “The apprehension over tax on capital gains
made through P-Notes
(Mauritius) has negatively
impacted the market. The
short-term investments from
FIIs may get hurt in the nearterm,” said Vinod Nair Head of
Research at Geojit BNP Paribas
Financial Services.
Government lifting freeze on
the 9.8 per cent shares it holds
in its erstwhile subsidiary,
Cairn India.
Cairn has written to the
Finance Ministry saying it
wants to avail of latest offer by
CBDT of staying outstanding
disputed demand on payment
of 15 per cent till such time that
the case is disposed of, sources
privy to the development said.
The
Income-Tax
Department had in January
2014 slapped a draft assessment
order of C10,247 crore tax on
alleged capital gains Cairn
made on 2006 reorganisation of
its India business. Pending
that, it froze 9.8 per cent shareholding it was left with in
Cairn India, its erstwhile subsidiary which it sold to Vedanta
Group in 2011.
In February this year, the
Income Tax Department issued
a final a tax demand notice of
over C29,000 crore, including
C18,800 crore in back dated
interest.
Sources said Cairn Energy
wants to pay C1,537 crore (15
per cent of principal amount of
C10,247 crore) during the pendency of the arbitration it has
initiated against the demand.
In return, it wants the stay
on Cairn India shares to be lifted. It hold 18.41 crore shares of
Cairn India which at today’s
closing price of C135.25 are
worth C2485.69 crore.
Cairn may be looking at
disposing of these shares to
fund its business plans.
The CBDT had on
February 28 issued fresh
guidelines on the process of
grant of stay on a disputed tax
demand. Under this, “the
assessing officer shall grant
stay of demand till disposal of
first appeal on payment of 15
per cent of the disputed
demand.”
The company is however
not keen on Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley’s offer in his
Budget for 2016-17 to waive
interest and penalty if the
companies paid the principal
amount to settle the retrospective tax disputes.
It believes there is no tax
due on the 2006-07 internal
business reorganisation that
led to transfer of shares of
Indian assets that were held in
a subsidiary to newly incorporated Cairn India.
It listed Cairn India Ltd on
the stock exchanges through
an initial public offering (IPO)
thereafter. Through the IPO, it
raised C8,616 crore and then in
2011 went on to sell a majority stake in Cairn India to mining giant Vedanta Group for
$8.67 billion.
Cairn has initiated arbitration contesting the tax
demand and says enforcement
of any tax liability deemed due
by the Income Tax Department
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the world’s most premium high-perL
formance superbikes, MV Agusta, on
Wednesday announced its official entry
into India via an exclusive partnership with
Pune’s automobile major, the Kinetic
Group.
The company unveiled its first range
of superbikes - the F4, F3 and Brutale 1090
-which will now be available at its first
‘Motoroyale’ dealership in Pune. The
company will operate as MV Agusta India
Pvt. Ltd.
At an entry price of C16.78 lakh (for
MV Agusta F3-800) and going up to
C50.10 lakh (for F4 RR 1000-cc), ex-showroom Pune, these bikes are probably the
costliest racing bikes being sold in the coun-
try now.
Commenting on the launch, Ajinkya
Firodia, Managing Director of MV Agusta
India Pvt. Ltd, said, “We are excited to partner with an illustrious brand like MV
Agusta to bring their iconic bikes into the
country. For any biking enthusiast, MV
Agusta motorcycles are the stuff dreams
are made of, as they offer an unparalleled
blend of power, performance and handling.
The iconic styling and peerless riding
dynamics of these machines underline MV
Agusta’s tagline of Passion Precisely
Crafted.”
“We will be marketing these superbikes through our exclusive ‘Motoroyale’
showrooms. It is a new chain of superbike
showrooms, which will make some of the
best bikes in the world accessible to
motorcycle enthusiasts in India,” he added.
mulling attaching domestic
assets and shares worth
about C9,000 crore owned
by liquor baron Vijay Mallya
in connection with its
money laundering probe
against him and others in
the IDBI bank loan fraud
case.
Officials said on
Wednesday the agency has 4]S^UV^^ScX\TbU^aEXYPh<P[[hP
already begun the exercise of
identifying and valuing the attached will be around
country-wide immovable C9,000 crore which is equal
assets of the beleaguered to the total default of bank
businessman in order to loans which he is accused of.
They said Mallya’s assets
place them under attachment under the criminal in the form of bungalows,
provisions of the Prevention costly vehicles, bank balof Money Laundering Act ances and others have
already been assessed by
(PMLA).
They said the agency agency sleuths probing the
will also inform market reg- case.
Banks will also be taken
ulator Securities and
Exchange Board of India on-board before attaching
(SEBI) about its move to these assets under PMLA
similarly attach his shares in laws, they said, adding the
various Indian companies so agency does not want to
that no third party rights are “jeopardise” their interests
over these assets through
created.
The officials from the which they are planning to
Enforcement Directorate get back their loans.
The Enforcement
(ED) said that as per preliminary assessment done Directorate (ED) has been
the value of the assets that wanting to make Mallya
would be provisionally join investigations “in per-
son” in the over 900 crore
IDBI loan fraud case in
which it registered a PMLA
case early this year.
It has virtually exhausted all legal options to make
Mallya join the probe including issuance of a non-bailable warrant against him
from a Mumbai court based
on which it made the
requests for the revocation of
his passport and subsequent
deportation bid to bring
back the beleaguered businessman from the UK.
However, in a setback to
India’s efforts to expeditiously get back Mallya, UK
has made it clear that the
liquor baron cannot be
deported and asked India to
seek his extradition instead.
The British G overnment has said it acknowledges “the seriousness of
allegations” against Mallya
and was “keen to assist” the
Indian Government in this
case.
Commenting on the
matter, Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley had said in
Parliament that India will
now have to initiate extradition process after a charge
sheet is filed to bring back
the embattled tycoon to face
money laundering charges as
well as recovery of the C9,400
crore of loans to his defunct
Kingfisher Airlines.
Cancellation of passport “does not result in automatic deportation, that is the
stand taken by UK,” Jaitley
said.
Sources, however, said
filing a charge sheet is a time
taking process and hence
some other legal options
will surely be mulled to
make Mallya join probe in
India, not only by the ED but
by the CBI too.
The agency is also
preparing to issue Letters
Rogatories (LRs) to certain
countries, including South
Africa and the UK, for
obtaining information on
his overseas assets.
Official sources said the
agency has obtained details
about immovable and movable assets held by the
United Breweries (UB)
Chairman in a number of
countries and investigators
are looking at countries like
South Africa, UK, the US,
Hong Kong and France, as
part of its probe conducted
till now in the case.
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need to set aside a lot more capital
due to the country’s “higher risk”
credit rating and they feel it is “not
worth” doing so, Reserve Bank
Governor Raghuram Rajan has said.
In a lecture titled ‘Why Banks?’
as part of the Marshall Lecture
2015-16 series at Cambridge
University on Tuesday, Rajan said
greater demand on banks to hold
capital in the post financial crisis
scenario has come at a cost.
He said: “It made sense post
financial crisis to ask banks to hold
more capital. But one of the concerns bankers have been expressing,
even if bankers may have low credibility because they have cried wolf
too often, that eventually it will...
Create greater aversion to taking on
risky lending.
“We see some of that today.
Certainly, as an emerging market
central bank regulator, I see that foreign banks have stopped opening
branches because our credit rating
is BAA, which implies higher risk.
From that perspective, international banks who are asked to put in
money in India feel it is not worth
it, because they have to set aside a
lot more capital.”
India has been assigned lowest
investment grade rating with a high
risk profile by various global agencies.
Rajan likened the situation in
India to that of small and medium
enterprises (SMEs) in industrial
countries, as in both scenarios the
central factor is that more growth is
required.
“So we need to ask ourselves, is
more capital good or is it likely to
impinge on activities banks do.
There is a trade-off and this calls for
more empirical work as to what the
right level of capital is,” said the former Chief Economist of the
International Monetary Fund.
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Bangladeshi
cities
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Wednesday after the execution
of the top Islamist leader Motiur
Rahman Nizami for war crimes
committed during the 1971
Liberation War against Pakistan.
The clashes came as
Bangladesh intensified security across the country following
Jamaat’s call for a nationwide
strike tomorrow to protest the
execution of its top leader,
heightening tensions in the
Muslim-majority nation
already reeling from a series of
killings of secular activists.
Policemen in riot-gear
fired rubber bullets when hundreds of Jamaat supporters
pelted them with stones in the
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where a liberal professor was
hacked to death by Islamists
near his home last month.
Nizami was hanged at
Tuesday night at the Central Jail
after the Supreme Court rejected his final appeal.
Several hundred policemen in riot-gear kept a vigil as
Jamaat activists rallied at central Dhaka’s Baitul Mokarram
National Mosque to offer
Nizami’s funeral prayer (in
absentia), a ritual they also performed in other major cities.
Security was tight across
Bangladesh, with checkpoints
erected on main roads in the
national Capital to deter vio-
lence, and thousands of police
patrolling the streets.
In the port city of
Chittagong, clashes erupted
between activists of the Jamaat’s
student wing Chhatra Shibir
and police after the funeral
prayer. After the funeral prayer,
hundreds of Jamaat supporters
broke into the ground and
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West Virginia, in a reminder to
the frontrunner that she was
yet to wrap up her own presidential nomination before taking on Republican Donald
Trump, who cruised to victory in two more states.
The 74-year-old Vermont
Senator, Sanders, easily won the
primary in West Virginia by
more than 15 per cent points
but acknowledged that he has
an uphill climb in terms of
becoming the party’s nominee.
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prevent the 68-year-old former
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as the presumptive Democratic
nominee - given that she has a
massive lead over him in the delegates count, but at the same
time ensuring that Clinton’s
ticket for the race to the White
House is not a cake walk.
Sanders has won 19 states
to Clinton’s 23, but she is 94 per
cent through the way to winning the nomination - just 144
delegates short of the 2,383
required. As a consolation,
Clinton won the Nebraska primary, but she is not getting any
delegate from it. The delegates
were allocated in the March 5
primary, which was won by
Sanders. Clinton received 10
delegates as against Sanders’ 15.
Addressing a rally in
Salem, Oregon — where the
primary is scheduled for next
Tuesday — after the victory,
Sanders said, “We now have
won primaries and caucuses in
19 states. Let me be as clear as
I can be. We are in this campaign to win the Democratic
nomination.”
He said he would continue
his fight till the end of the primary season. Sanders said the
country should not elect
Trump while also hinting that
he would seek to unite the
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will visit Israel “soon”, he said told an Israeli newspaper in an interview published on Wednesday.
“Yes, I will be coming soon,” Trump said without giving further details in response to a question from the Israel Hayom newspaper, a freesheet considered close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu. Trump had scheduled a visit to Israel for late December
but postponed it a few days before following an uproar over his proposal to bar all Muslims from entering the United States.
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started hurling bricks and
stones at the police which
resorted to firing to disperse
the crowd.
Home-made bombs were
also used as “pro-liberation”
activists tried to drive out the
Jamaat followers from the parade
ground area of the port city, perceived to be a Jamaat stronghold.
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month, Barack Obama would
promote his vision of a nuclear
weapons-free planet by becoming the first sitting US president
to tour the site where America
first dropped an atomic bomb
in 1945, killing an estimated
1,40,000 people.
“The President intends the
visit to send a much more forward-looking signal about his
ambition for realising the goals
of a planet without nuclear
weapons,” White House Press
Secretary Josh Earnest said on
Tuesday. Obama would be the
first American president to visit
Hiroshima — the site of the first
nuclear attack by the US on
Japan — later this month. PTI
ed at the start of an impeachment trial on Wednesday in a
political crisis paralyzing Latin
America’s largest country.
Her Government lawyer
lodged a last-ditch appeal with
the Supreme Court on Tuesday,
but it was unclear whether the
court would even respond in
time. Barring a dramatic twist
in events, the Senate was to
start debating impeachment
at approximately 9:00 am, with
voting expected either on
Wednesday night or in the
early hours of Thursday.
A majority of more than
half of the senators in the 81member chamber would trigger the opening of a trial and
Rousseff ’s automatic suspension for up to six months. In
the final judgement, removing
her from office would require
a two-thirds majority.
She is accused of breaking
budgetary laws by taking loans
to boost public spending and
mask the sinking state of the
economy during her tight 2014
re-election campaign.
Rousseff says the accounting maneuvers were standard
practice for many governments
in the past and describes the
impeachment as a coup mounted by her Vice-President, Michel
Temer, who will take over if she
is suspended. A onetime
Marxist guerrilla tortured under
Brazil’s military dictatorship in
the 1970s, Rousseff therefore
faces possibly her final day in
power on Wednesday.
Journalists gathered outside the gate of the official presidential residence in Brasilia
from the early morning hours.
Rousseff ’s official agenda
released daily to the public contained a solitary item, “Internal
paperwork.” Temer, whose center-right PMDB party broke off
its uneasy partnership with
Rousseff’s leftist Workers’ Party,
has already prepared a new
Government, saying his priority will be to take action on the
moribund economy, now in its
worst recession for decades.
Rousseff vows to resist.
“I am going to fight with all
my strength, using all means
available,” she told a women’s
forum in Brasilia on Tuesday.
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single deadliest attack this year in the capital.
The blast comes as the Government is locked
in a political crisis that some have warned
could undermine the fight against ISIS.
The bombing, which hit the frequently targeted Sadr City area of northern
Baghdad around 10:00 am, killed at least 64
people and wounded 82 others, officials said.
The blast set nearby shops on fire and
left debris including the charred, twisted
remains of a vehicle in the street.
“The state is in a conflict over
(Government positions) and the people are
the victims,” said a man named Abu Ali. ISIS
issued an online statement claiming responsibility for the attack. It said a suicide bomber
it identified as “Abu Sulaiman al-Ansari” det- 2XeX[XP]bX]b_TRcPbRT]TPUcTaP]Tg_[^bX^]BPSa2Xch8aP`^]
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Kathmandu: Amid a dip in
bilateral ties with India, Nepal’s
Deputy Prime Minister and
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Kamal Thapa on Wednesday
said Nepal’s consistent effort is
to maintain cooperative and
friendly relations with its two
friendly neighbours — India
and China.
In a briefing to the
Kathmandu-based diplomatic
community after recent polit-
ical developments that almost
toppled the KP Oli-led
Government, the Government
tried to clear doubts about the
new Constitution, future position of the Government, and
how it is negotiating with agitating Madhes-based parties,
among others. “In our external
relations, we pursue the policy
of friendship with all,” said
Thapa at the event, where Oli
was alo present.
“Both our neighbours are
making tremendous progress
in economic growth, infrastructure development, science
and technology and in transforming life standards of their
people,” Thapa said at the briefing, adding, “We are inspired
by their progress.”
“Situated between them,
our legitimate desire is to benefit from their prosperity and
this pragmatism is guiding our
deep and comprehensive
engagement with them.”
Over
two
dozen
Kathmandu based ambassadors
and heads of the diplomatic missions were present in the meeting. The pro-establishment faction in Nepal blamed India for
the recent upheaval in Nepal by
allegedly propping up the
Nepali Congress and UCPN
(Moaist) to bring down the Oli
Government.
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London: In a rare diplomatic
gaffe by the British monarch,
Queen Elizabeth II was caught
on camera referring to Chinese
officials to be “very rude” during
President Xi Jinping’s state visit
to the UK last year.
Her comments, which were
aired on Wednesday, were
recorded by an official royal cameraman during a Buckingham
Palace garden party. The 90-yearold Queen was discussing
Chinese officials’ treatment of
Britain’s ambassador to China
Barbara Woodward during
President Xi’s visit to the UK last
October. The monarch’s remarks
were caught on tape as she was
introduced to Scotland Yard
Commander Lucy D’Orsi, who
the Queen was told had overseen
security during Xi’s state visit to
the UK.
She is heard to respond: “Oh,
bad luck”. D’Orsi was recorded as
saying, “I’m not sure whether
you knew, but it was quite a testing time for me,” to which the
Queen is heard replying, “I did”.
The Queen went on to say
to D’Orsi that members of the
Chinese delegation “were very
rude to the ambassador” and
exclaiming: “Extraordinary!”.
The police commander
agreed, saying, “It was very rude
and very undiplomatic I
thought”. During the muchhyped state visit, Xi and his wife
Peng Liyuan were honoured
with a state banquet at
Buckingham Palace, hosted by
the Queen.
A Buckingham Palace
spokesperson said: “We do not
comment on the Queen’s private
conversations. However, the
Chinese State Visit was extremely successful and all parties
worked closely to ensure it proceeded smoothly.”
PTI
Abuja: Nigerian President
Muhammadu Buhari says he is
not demanding “any apology
from anybody” after UK Prime
Minister David Cameron
labelled his country “fantastically corrupt”.
Speaking at an anti-corruption event in London, Mr
Buhari said he was more interested in the return of stolen
assets held in British banks.
Cameron made the
unguarded comments in a conversation with the Queen. He
is hosting an international anticorruption summit on
Thursday.
Buhari’s address at the anticorruption event at the
Commonwealth Secretariat in
London followed a statement
from his office on Wednesday,
saying that he had been “deeply
shocked and embarrassed” by
Cameron’s remarks.
Asked if Nigeria was “fantastically corrupt”, in an echo of
the Prime Minister’s comments, Buhari responded, “Yes.”
Nigeria was ranked 136 out
of 167 countries in
Transparency International’s
2015 Corruption Perceptions
Index. He said corruption in
Nigeria was endemic and his
Government was committed to
fighting it.
Buhari praised the UK
Government for its help in
efforts to repatriate stolen funds
held in the UK.
“What would I do with an
apology? I need something
tangible,” Buhari said, referring
to efforts to recover the money.
The UK Government will
host world and business leaders at the summit on Thursday
in London, aiming to “galvanise a global response to
tackle corruption”. Agencies
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Man is a social being. One’s life cannot me
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friend will always be loyal to you.
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one of the first things that comes to your mind
are images from the films that he did in the
beginning of his career. And he does not regret doing
them either. According to him, “Those films established me as a brand.” But he proved his mettle with
a rustic character in Shanghai and followed it up with
a very strong role in The Dirty Picture.
He is continuing that with his next, Azhar. From
transforming himself physically to learning the
nuances of the game, the actor has come a long way.
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How demanding was it physically to get into the
character of a sportsperson?
It was very challenging to learn the nuances of
Azhar bhai like the leg glance and flip shots and
opening up my wrists because he is a very wristy
player and I was very tight all over probably because
of my weight training. So, it was physically very
demanding and I had to lose some weight for the
initial matches because when Azhar bhai was 21, he
was very thin. I had to physically change form for
the film and just doing about 100 to 120 throw balls
every day for like three months. My wrists used to
ache but I had to get it right in three months.
QWhat kind of guidance did you get from him?
He guided me through the entire thing. I mean,
he obviously could not teach me how to play because
that is not possible. If someone asks you to tell them
how you walk, you can’t tell them. You just walk the
way you do. It was for me to gauge and study that,
but as far as the support that he gave us, it was
incredible. He has been with us since the first day,
taught and trained me in the technicality of the sport,
showed me the different shots that he played and
then it was up to me to see that, read that, understand it and put it in the film.
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If you make a film
without their consent
that infringes on privacy.
But Azhar bhai has given us
the story of his complete life so
there is no issue of invasion
into his personal space.
QHe was involved in the filmmaking
process, guiding you through it. What
did you make of his personality?
I think he is a very frank and sentimental person — someone who has been through a lot
in his life. He has seen lots of ups and downs so he
comes from a place of strength, and has an extreme
amount of patience to deal with things and situations. These were the things that struck me first.
After chatting with him for the first time and asking him questions about his life, his relationships
and personal issues that he has had, I came to this
conclusion.
happy back in 2012, and happy to be playing this
role. Also, I have faced similar obstacles, well not
exactly similar, in my life and that has helped me
internalise the character and understand what turmoils the character goes through and what Azhar
bhai went through.
QHow did your understanding of his controver-
QOf late a lot of movies are being made on the life
sial match-fixing allegations affect your performance or change your perception of the truth?
Well, he obviously opened his heart to us about
what was going on in his mind during the entire
match-fixing allegation episode and I feel that he
comes from a place of great strength because his
career was snatched from him when he was at the
top and for 12 years he fought this case. I know people are judgemental about it and say that he took
the money and had fixed matches but then again
that is very presumptuous of people. I think we follow the judicial system and should say that he was
acquitted by the court for whatever reasons and on
whatever grounds. Now he is a free man and has no
allegations on him, and as a fan I was just waiting
for the day for the verdict to come out. I was very
of sportspersons — Azharuddin, MS Dhoni, one
on Sachin and also on Pele. Do you feel that it is
important for the tales of a sportsperson to be narrated?
I think it is very important that these stories are
told and it is interesting, too. It gives people a benchmark and kind of a relative aspect when they follow someone’s life and it is always a good draw for
the audience. It is a more immersive experience and
an emotional journey because they have already
invested emotions with that particular sportsperson.
So I think it is a great trend.
QDo you not think that it invades the privacy of
the person whose life is being portrayed?
Well, if they (the sportsperson) are ok with it
QHow pressurising is it to
portray a living person?
It is very easy actually, in
many ways, because you have a
direct access to them and you
have some kind of benchmark
to go by and a reference point,
too. But it is difficult to actually do it. Moreover, it is easier
said than done to kind of follow things and pull off the
nuances of the person — what
they do and how they do it and
finally giving the perfect shot.
QYou have been in the
industry for quite
some time now.
How have you
seen Bollywood
changing in
terms of content,
performance and
also the viewers’
acceptability?
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because of the audience —
because of the impact of globalisation and of influences in cinema, lit-
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Kashmir among the political class, journalM
ists and the intelligentsia. Needless to say, it has
been a hot topic in India and the world for several decades. There have been several books that
dissect the Kashmir issue in terms of the social
and political construct of the state and we are all
more or less familiar with the issue and its origin since the independence of India. Aman
Hingorani’s book, Unravelling the Kashmir Knot
may appear to be just another book on Kashmir
but he says that it is not just another book on
Kashmir. Hingorani, a lawyer at the Supreme
Court of India and the High Court of Delhi said
he saw that there were no books on Kashmir that
looked at the issue in terms of legal aspects viz
a viz the Indian constitution and the laws pertaining to the issue. Introducing the book, Hingorani
said, “It challenges the national and international discourse on the Kashmir issue right from its
inception till date and suggests a complete
change of approach towards handling the issue.
It relies on declassified British archives to show
how the Kashmir issue is an end product of a particular brand of British colonial politics. The book
also narrates the utter failure of the political leadership in undivided India, and later in the divided sub-continent, to rise to the challenge.”
“I believed I could write on the subject objectively being far removed from the issue, and look
at it from an outsider’s perspective with no vested interests,” said Hingorani at the launch of his
book at the India International Centre that saw
eminent members of the legal community and
journalists and activists. “To unravel the Kashmir
knot, it is imperative to first depoliticise the issue
and then take recourse in legal analysis. This is
what I have tried to do in this book with the help
of a comprehensive analysis of court rulings, UN
papers, political observer reports and international law,” he explained. The book was released by
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his insights on the book and Kashmir, his home
state. Speaking on how the law can be used to tackle the problems in Kashmir he said, “There seems
to be no immediate solution that we have right
now to solving this issue. We believe that if any
solution can be reached, it will be only through
dialogues and discussions and certainly not
through the use of force.” Thakur says that one
of the major issues in Kashmir right not is that
inspite of the many opportunities being provided for the Kashmiri youth in the state, not many
choose to stay in the state for education or
employment. “When they are doing well elsewhere in the country and around the world, why
would they want to go back to Kashmir,” he
pointed out. The environment of violence and
unrest in the state has turned it into a battleground and the youth are the ones who are
among the most affected by this.
Justice Dalveer Bhandari of the International
Court of Justice at The Hague highlighted how
the well researched book laid bare facts which
the post-partition generation must know, and
said that the book made compelling reading.
MK Raina, the renowned director and actor who
has worked in Kashmir for the last 16 years as
a cultural activist, termed the book to be an
“epic” and a must read not only for each parliamentarian, journalist and political leader but
also for the separatists and people in Pakistan
to understand how they have been used as
pawns for geo-political reasons.
Justice Thakur, in his concluding remarks,
said that a purely legal solution will not by
itself resolve the Kashmir issue and that it is
by love that India can hold Kashmir. Justice
Thakur recalled the peaceful times in Kashmir
and said that we must treat Kashmiris in the
same manner in which we treat other citizens
of India.
erature, and many creative fields. It has
broadened and expanded their way of
thinking and I think we can make more
kind of films and explore more genres and
the audience will lap it up — something that
was impossible, or rather what we felt
impossible, a few years or a decade ago. Maybe
we were taking the audience for granted
at that point of time but I do feel that
the audience does not know what they
really want to see till they see it and
now that they are getting it, they are
accepting and endorsing a lot of different stuff. So I think it is a really
great time for cinema.
QWhere do you see Indian cinema
going, considering where it is
right now?
I think it has a great momentum. A lot of experimentation are
being done, a lot of new filmmakers are coming to the fore and technicality is getting better with each
passing year and it is a great time
for our cinema because we are dabbling with different genres and different subjects. We are taking risky
bets on films and newcomers. I
think it’s a great time ahead.
QMost of your movies have been
romance-based and few movies of
late have been performance oriented. Do you think that is a clutter
breaker in the kind of films that you
are currently doing?
Yes. See, actors always test themselves with something new and try to
do something new — something that
they have not done before. It is one
thing to do it to keep your kitchen running and another thing to be satisfied,
pat yourself on the back and say that
you have done something challenging,
coming out of your comfort zone. An
actor has to be always up for that.
Everything is not just about Box Office,
sometimes you have got to do these
small films where your role is performance driven like I did Shanghai. It was
like really testing my limits.
QDo you feel that the films that you did in the
beginning of your career did not do justice to your
career and capabilities?
There are different kind of films and different
kind of audiences. The first few of my films tapped
a different kind of audience, which is great. But as
far as acting goes what put me to test were movies
like Shanghai, Once Upon a time in Mumbai and The
Dirty Picture. I am happy that I finally got to do these
films. But till today, I stand by films like Murder and
all the films that I did early on in my career because
that has helped me establish a brand for myself. After
that, it was time to move on to different things.
QWhat are the movies in the pipeline?
Raaz 4 is on the floors right now. The shooting is complete and the movie will probably
release in September.
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event, MMTC’s Festival
of Gold, concluded with
impressive sales achieved over
the four days it was held for
on the auspicious occasion of
Akshay Tritiya. The grand
exhibition-cum-sale saw
crowds pour in from across
the city to get their hands on
MMTC’s wide array of gold
and studded jewellery, sterling
silverware, gold and silver
medallions, and the Indian
gold coin. Celebrated model
and Femina Miss India
International 2011 Ankita
Shorey also paid the event a
visit and tried on several
pieces of the exclusive jewellery on display.
The Festival of Gold, with
the best of jewellery from
over ten states across India, has
remained a much-awaited
annual event since it was introduced in 1994. This year’s edition of the Festival has done
roaring business despite subdued market sentiments, with
sales across the countr y
amounting to nearly twenty
crores, of which the Indian gold
coin alone raked up over ten
crores worth of sales.
The Indian gold coin, the
first ever national gold offering
by the Government of India,
was not only a highlight of
MMTC’s exhibition-cum-sale
but remains an attraction for
customers throughout the year.
MMTC was assigned the prestigious responsibility of launch-
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ing the Indian gold coin, which
is now being retailed through
the Company’s outlets and
Indian Overseas bank branch-
es across India.
Currently available in
denominations of five and 10
grams and 20 grams bullion,
the national coin is BIS —
hallmarked and guaranteed
for 24 karat purity and 999
fineness and also carries
advanced anti-counterfeit features, hence protecting consumer interests. Very soon,
the Indian gold coin will also
be available through India Post
and other bank branches across
India.
“The central theme of the
Festival of Gold is purity and
variety and MMTC is delivering on its promise of purity and
trust to customers through its
retail operations,” Ved Prakash,
CMD MMTC, said about the
event. “Our objective is to
offer a wide variety of quality
jewellery from the length and
breadth of India as well as
value-added bullion products
at affordable prices with the
assurance of quality,” he said
and added added about the
Indian Gold Coin, “It is our
endeavour to encourage consumers to choose the Indian
gold coin as their preferred
purchase by offering it at IOB
branches and our own retail
outlets across 31 cities in India.
This coin is a symbol of purity, standardisation and monetisation, making it an ideal
purchase for everyone.”
MMTC is the biggest
brand in the precious metal
sector and the only
Government of India enterprise in the jewellery business. The company is delivering on its promise of purity
and trust to customers
through its retail operations
and the popular Festival of
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wachch Bharat Pakhwara” is being celebrated by POWERGRID, Northern
SRegion-1
as per directions of Ministry of
Power. Prabhakar Singh, executive director,
POWERGRID, Northern Region-1 took
cleanliness oath along with the senior officials
and dignitaries at the POWERGRID,
Northern Region-1, Headquarter. All employees of the Northern Region-1 participated in
this programmes with full enthusiasm
towards this initiative of national importance.
Singh laid emphasis on cleanliness in his
speech at the significant event. Various programmes that is debates, painting competitions in the municipal schools and other
informative and awareness events are being
organised by POWERGRID, Northern
Region-1 during “Swachch Bharat Pakhwara”,
2016. Various speeches and debate competitions are also being organised for the employSeema Bal will
observe ‘Road Safety Week’
Sin ashastra
its area of operation to
aware border people and personnel of the force. Office of the
director general, Sashastra
Seema Bal has issued specific
directions to organise “Road
Safety Week” by each units.
During the week, units
deployed on Indo-Nepal, IndoBhutan border and other areas
will organise camps in their
ees of POWERGRID, Northern Region-1 in
order to generate awareness for Swachhata.
Singh has appealed to all the employees to
contribute in the mission of cleanliness of
Mahatma Gandhi, the father of nation.
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area of responsibility to educate
people on traffic rules, first aid,
health checkup of drivers and
training on various mode of
safe driving. Road safety is a
very important issue on Indian
roads.
It is a well known fact that
in India on an average 16 people die every hour on Indian
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for the first time since
2006. The transit or passage of
a planet across the face of the
Sun is a relatively rare occurrence. As seen from Earth,
only transits of Mercury and
Venus are possible. There are
approximately 13 transits of
Mercury in a century.
The start of the celestial
event is the first contact
between the disks of the Sun
and Mercury and is also
known as the Ingress Exterior.
First contact occurred at
approximately 16:30 Indian
Standard Time. The exact
time varied with location. It
took a little more that three
minutes for the entire disk of
Mercury to appear over the
bright solar disk. The second
contact is also known as the
Ingress Interior. India witnessed only the initial part of
the transit. The Sun set before
the completion of the seven
hour event. The duration of
visibility was longer towards
the western parts of the country, where the Sagar school is
located, as the Sun sets later.
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logan writing competition for children was organised in Tagore
Senior Secondary School, Mayapuri,
Delhi here as part of a nation-wide
campaign to generate awareness about
importance of energy and to dispel the
misconceptions related to nuclear
energy. The topic of the competition
was “Nuclear Energy” and it was
organised on behalf of Nuclear Power
Corporation of India, a Government
of India undertaking.
In all, around 158 students participated in the competition. The students’ work was judged by eminent
personalities.
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ppreciating the work of state
government in Prime Minister’s
A
Employment
Generation
Programme (PMEGP) during 201516, the Union Minister for Micro,
Small and Medium Enterprises
(MSME) Kalraj Mishra said that
23,140 people of Jammu and
Kashmir were employed in 3,772
PMEGP units across the state.
The minister added that a record
sum of approximately C38 crores was
utilised in past two years for assisting a record number of more than
2,200 PMEGP units in Jammu and
Kashmir. “During the last two years
more than 6,80,000 persons were
employed by setting up of 92,508
PMEGP units in whole of India. Out
of which 23,140 persons were
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Winner I- Ashwani 9th C. Winner
II- Rahul Kashyap 9th C. The school
principal Mohit Kumar Ahuja said on
the occasion that children’s expressions
are an indication of their creativity. The
children had portrayed the importance
of energy in a very creative manner
and had also showed how the production of electricity from nuclear
energy did not cause much harm to the
environment. She also gave away
prizes to the winners.
The judges also appreciated the
work of the participating children and
said this would increase awareness
about science and energy.
employed in 3,772 units in the state
of Jammu and Kashmir,” Mishra said
at the press conference.
Earlier, the Union Minister inaugurated and addressed to the participants of PMEGP workshop at
institute of Hotel Management
Rajbagh. Jammu and Kashmir
Minister for Industries and
Commerce, Chander Parkash Ganga
was also present on the occasion.
He said his ministry vide its
gazette notification, notified framework for revival and rehabilitation of
micro, small and medium enterprises
which is the simpler and fastest
mechanism to facilitate the protection and development of MSMEs.
“My ministry has developed a transparent system of grievances redres-
ndianOil’s Pipelines Division was conferred with the
gold award by the Greentech Foundation under
I“Training
Excellence” category in the sixth Annual
Greentech HR Award 2016.
Jibanananda Pradhan, executive director (HR),
received the award along with Gautam Ghosal, GM (MS,
HRD and Trg.), Y Archana, chief manager (T&D), K
Suresh Babu, manager (T&D) and Pranshu Sachan, HRO
from Kamleshwar Sharan, chairman and CEO,
Greentech Foundation and RK Dubey, former CMD,
Canara Bank at a function held in Mumbai.
The award has been conferred for outstanding
achievements in training excellence in Pipelines Division.
The Greentech HR Awards are presented to the companies demonstrating the highest level of commitment
to various HR practices that understand the intrinsic
needs to streamline various processes by the use of technological intervention.
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abinet minister General
(retired) VK Singh(minC
istry of external affairs),
The Sagar School will
broadcast the celestial event
over the internet and provide
visual observation of the rare
transit using large telescopes
and safe solar filters. The
duration of visibility of the
transit is approximately two
hours and 10 minutes before
the Sun sets. The school is
located in Rajasthan known
for clear skies in May and so
we expect to see the event
clearly. The 14inch permanently mounted celestrontelescope at the School observa-
sal and attends all the grievances on
Centralised Public Grievance Redress
and
Monitoring
System
(CPGRAMS),”Mishra said.
He added that under Technology
Centre System Programme 15 new
technology centres with the help and
assistance from World Bank will be
set up in various parts of the country. “One such centre is being set up
in the state of Jammu and Kashmir,”
he said, adding that to facilitate the
enterprises to get benefits of various
schemes of the ministry, a web-based
application module, namely “MY
MSME”, which is to be converted into
mobile app.
Mishra said that the ministry of
MSME was always there to ease the
lives of stake holders. “More than
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presence of M Karthikeyan
GM/TA, of the company at
Mandarakuppam
Bus
Terminus. It is organising six
buttermilk distribution stalls
by engaging people service
group members, to serve around
20,000 people in a day at different locations like, NLC Arch
Gate, Nehru Square, Central Bus
Stand, General Hospital, and
Skew Bridge Junction with a
cost of C13.5 lakh each month.
irector general, BSF, KK Sharma, IPS
inaugurated Jawan Barrack in BSF
D
premises at BSF campus at knowledge park5 (Khera Choganpur), Greater Noida. It is
multi-storeyed (ground plus 10 floors),
multi-speciality building to house 240 men
in a single building. The BSF premises at
Knowledge Park V are of sector and Frontier
Headquarters of BSF for deployed manpower
in anti maoist operations in Chhattisgarh.
The ceremony was attended by senior
officials of BSF, local authorities, construction agency NBCC and BSF men.
President BSF Wives Welfare Association
(BWWA) Renu Sharma and members of
BWWA also graced the ceremony.
Prasoon Sharma; MD — India
and South Asia, ZTEsoft
Technology Company limited
and many other prominent
personalities of India and
NRIs from across the world
are going to address at
Cambridge university,U.K at
“Innovate for India forum” on
May 13 and 14, an ambitious
startup
India
polic y
announced by our prime minister Narendra Modi to promote entrepreneurship and
innovation among the youth.
Innovate for India forum
meeting is aimed towards
gathering Non-ResidentIndians to build ideate and
innovate for India.
NRIs from all across the
world would present their
innovative ideas, technologies and papers that could
potentially be implemented in
the country.
S everal high profile
speakers like Nikhil Agarwal
(CEO innovation society),
Phillie Wang (section chief,
Shenzhen Qianhai university),
Paile Raghunath Reddy (IT
minister, government of
Andhra Pradesh), Sudhanshu
Rai (director, Indian relations
at Copenhagen business
school, Denmark), Nahum
Goldmann (president-array
development, Canada), Binod
Bawri (Atal Innovation
Misison), Rajesh Aggarwal
(founder of Rational FX
London), David Reiner (professor at the Cambridge
University), Ashok Kaul (filmmaker), Jaideep Prabhu (university of cambridge) and
many more prominent speakers are expected to address the
“Innovate for India forum” at
the university.
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the society and helping the
people in the need is its responsibility. As part of this, the
company under its Corporate
Social Responsibility scheme,
organising free buttermilk distribution stalls for the people in
and around Neyveli to combat
heavy summer heat. Another
free butter milk distribution
stall was inaugurated by N
Muthu, ED/HR, NLC in the
tory is capable of capturing the
event in great detail. The
observatory has all facilities
required to webcast the event
over the internet such as
imagers, accessories like camera, solar filter and high speed
internet the entire event will be
managed by the students of the
Astronomy Club.
Friends and associates of
the school, experts in the field,
students and staff of other
institutions and the media
both electronic as well as print
are expected to view this event.
6,50,000 units have already got registered on Ydyog Aadhaar
Memorandum (UAM) and 15 new
technology centres at a cost of
C2200 crores are coming up in various states of the country one of
which will now be located in IGC
Samba as proposed by the state government,” he said.
The Union Minister, however,
desired that J&K was not making
much use of various schemes of the
ministry and asked the state government to come up with more proposals so that more assistance could be
given. He even expressed his preparedness to look into assistance of
more industrial states, even in one district, provided the proposal is good for
the development of MSMEs.
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personnel of CAPF who died
on unnatural death. Thrity two
per cent of them died in road
and rail accidents.
To curb the rate of road
accident this drive of SSB for
the border population as well
as own personnel will definitely
help the society.
hairman, SAIL, PK Singh visited the Sinter
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Universal Rail Mill reviewed the progress of the
ongoing projects besides reviewing the production and operational areas of the Bhilai Steel Plant.
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best to enable SAIL to maintain its leadership
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Bangalore made a late recovery
after a struggling start to post a decent 151
for four in their IPL match against
Mumbai Indians here on Wednesday.
The Bangalore top order batsmen,
except for Rahul (68 not out), failed to
click after being put into bat but a late flurry of lusty blows from the wicketkeeper
batsman saw the home side reach to a
fighting total at Chinnasawmy Stadium.
Rahul, who came in when Bangalore
were in a precarious 17 for two in the
fourth over, struck three fours and four
sixes in his 53-ball unbeaten innings.
He shared 43 runs with AB de
Villiers (24) for the third wicket and
another 53 with Sachin Baby (25 not out)
for the unbroken fifth wicket as the home
side went past 150-run mark on account
of the late recovery.
Royal Challengers Bangalore were
60 for 2 at the halfway stage but added
91 runs from the next 10 overs. Sachin
gave an able support to Rahul towards
the close of the innings with a quickfire
knock of 13-ball 25 not out which had
two fours and two sixes.
The cause of the home side was
helped by the 23 runs Kieron Pollard
leaked in the 18th over with Sachin Baby
hitting two sixes and a four while Rahul
also his share of a maximum hit.
For Mumbai, Mitchell McClenaghan,
Tim Southee and Krunal Pandya took a
wicket each.
Bangalore captain Virat Kohli (7),
who has been in red hot form, met with
a rare failure of the season. He struck a
six in the fifth ball of the match bowled
by Southee but was dismissed in the second over by Mitchell McClenaghan.
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which was angling away, trying to guide
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ing one here and another away, frenzied
fans are looking for a hat-trick of victory
by Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)
over defending champions Mumbai
Indians (MI) on Wednesday in the IPL-9
season at the Chinnaswamy stadium here.
Though the home team is languishing at sixth place in the points table with
eight points from four wins in nine games,
the die-hard fans hope Royal Challengers
Bangalore keeps winning and stays on the
course for a place in play-offs.
"I am still betting on Royal
Challengers Bangalore to win as many of
the remaining (four) games and make up
for the lost matches (five) to qualify for
play-offs. Though they have a strong batting line-up, their weak bowling attack
and sloppy fielding are a cause for concern as they can't afford to lose a single
game to keep their hopes alive to play in
semis," said fashion designer M.
Venkatesh before the league tie began in
the eastern stands.
After losing three consecutive games,
including two away and one here, Royal
Challengers Bangalore bounced back
with two successive wins, including a 1run thriller against Kings XI Punjab on
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about which team wins or loses as long
as they play exciting cricket and entertain us as the shorter version of the
game (T20) is meant to be unpredictable
till the last over or last ball," said couple Rakesh and Veena, who came all the
way from Mysuru, about 150 km from
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top by scoring a comfortable win against
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Putting its unimpressive run in IPL
history behind, Hyderabad is a well-oiled
machine this year with its bowlers and
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that Hyderabad have been playing some
really good cricket and sit at the top of the
table. It's going to be a tough game for us.
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going to be tough games. Coming into the
business end of the tournament, everybody
is going to put their best foot forward.
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at West Ham that followed an attack
on the visiting team's bus as it
arrived for the match.
Objects were thrown as the bus
reached the stadium for West Ham's
last ever game at the Boleyn Ground,
ahead of its move to the Olympic
Stadium next season. Video footage
showed damage to sections of the tinted external windows, while the clear
internal windows appeared intact.
Police said one of its officers and
a member of the public were injured
in the incidents, while the kickoff was
delayed by 45 minutes. During the
game, a water bottle was thrown at
United goalkeeper David de Gea.
Inside the ground, Winston Reid
headed a late winner to give West Ham
a victory that left United in fifth place
in the standings with 63 points, two
points behind crosstown rival
Manchester City with one round of
matches to play on Sunday.
Tuesday's match swung in one
team's favor and then the other, with
striker Diafra Sakho giving West Ham
United a ninth minute lead as the visitors stuttered.
France forward Anthony Martial
came to Manchester United's rescue,
scoring both goals for a 2-1 lead that
would have seen his team leapfrog
Manchester City.
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disha sprinter Dutee Chand urges the
federation to not only pay attention
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to 400 meters and 800m but give equal
preference to 100m and 200m racers.
The 20-year-old feels if the sprinters
from 100m and 200m categories are also
sent abroad for training, their levels will
only improve.
"The federation is not focusing on
100m much. They have been giving focus
on 400m. For 400m racers, they have been
going to foreign, but those who are state
medallist and national record holders in
100m are kept in India only. That is why
we are not able to perform to our best. If
I go to foreign, I also will be able to yield
good results," she said on the sidelines of
the GAIL Indian Speedstar event.
"Federation should not only focus on
400m and 800m. They should look in short
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races also. If they give attention to 100m
and 200m, we will perform well and get
medals for our country," she added.
Last Monday, a 38-member Indian
track and field team — mainly comprising 400m, 400m hurdles and 4*400 relay
sprinters in men as well as women — from
India left for Poland for training.
No Indian women have qualified for
the 100m dash at Olympics, since the new
qualifying standards were introduced.
However, the history hasn't put her off
from dreaming for a place in the 100m category. "Yes for a while no female has qualified for the Olympics in the 100m from
India but nothing is same for long," said
a confident Dutee. "100m and 200ms are
my priorities but for the Olympics I am
more focused on 100m."
She got her dream almost fulfilled last
month when she came within one-hundredth of a second of qualifying for Rio.
On the first day of the 20th Federation
Cup National Athletics Championships at
the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Chand
finished first with a timing of 11.33 sec-
onds, which was just outside the 11.32
qualifying standard for the Summer
Games. In the process, she also broke the
16-year-old national record, which was
previously held by Rachita Mistry with
11.38 seconds.
"Yes, I am a little disappointed but I
cannot hold on to that. And I am sure that
I will qualify for the Rio Olympics. I still
have 2-3 chances to prove myself," she said.
"There were some things which didn't go my way as I thought it would. My
speed was not up to the mark but I will
practice harder to earn the Olympic
quota," she explained.
Nonetheless, she is confident of reaching Rio in the upcoming tournaments. "My
target is 11.20 seconds and Olympic qualification is 11.32 seconds and in China I
am sure that I will qualify. I will be going
to China on 16th May. I will be playing at
Taipei on 19th May and then will go back
to Beijing on 21st May," she added.
Odisha rules the nation
Dutee, who is currently training in
Hyderabad, was also happy to see another Odisha athlete Amiya Kumar Mallick
breaking the national record in men's
100m sprint by clocking 10.26 secs in the
Federation Cup last month, bettering the
earlier national mark of 10:30secs set by
Abdul Najeeb Qureshi in 2010.
"I am very happy that Odisha has so
many sprinters. Even Rachita is from
Odisha. But apart from us there are many
more that don't have the proper facilities
and support. Imagine if they get the support properly how many sprinters India
will have?" she quipped.
She also revealed the secret behind
the success enjoyed by the Odisha sprinters. "From childhood, when we used to
go to school, we go by running. In cities
if one has to drop their kid to school, they
will go in their car and bikes but we had
run to our school and now you can see
the benefits of it."
Two years ago, Chand's dreams of representing India at the Commonwealth
Games and Asian Games came crashing
down when an indefinite ban was imposed
on her, barring her from taking part in
women's competitions due to her higher
levels of testosterone (hormones primarily produced by male).
But the 20-year-old did not give up and
in July last year she won the landmark 'gender case' at the Court of Arbitration for
Sports against the world athletics governing body IAAF.
When asked if being away from the
sport for nearly a year had an impact on
her timings, she replied: "In 2014, I was
performing well and because of that I
couldn't train properly and yes it affected
my schedule and other things."