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the travel of the American
President.
Named Air Force One, it
will comprise two Boeing 777
Extended Range aircraft for the
exclusive international travel of
President Pranab Mukherjee
and Prime Minister Narendra
Modi.
Defence Minister Manohar
Parrikar accorded in-principle
approval for raising the Indian
version of the American Air
Force One, at the meeting of
the Defence Acquisition
Council on Saturday, top
Government sources said quoting the minutes of the meeting.
Earlier, the call sign of the
Boeing 747 aircraft used for ferrying the President and the
Prime Minister was Air India
One. However, from now on, it
will be known as Air Force
One.
The acquisition of the two
special aircraft is estimated to
cost about Rs1,400-crore, for
which the tendering process is
expected to begin soon.
The project will later on
have to be vetted by the Cabinet
Committee on Security as it
entails an expenditure of over
Rs1,000-crore.
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including the electronic warfare
suites and jammers will be
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Force. Apart from these fea-
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emergency evacuation suites,
advanced anti-missile shield
and encrypted satellite communication system besides
conference and restrooms.
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likely to include missile avoidance systems.
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One of the US, is maintained,
serviced and operated by the
US Air Force.
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serviced and operated by Air
India which will exploit them
commercially when they are
not being used by the VVIPs.
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derive maximum benefit from
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who is heading one-man commission, sprang a surprise on
Thursday seeking six more
weeks to complete the probe.
The deadline for submission of
the report, which was given
three extensions in the past by
the Haryana Government,
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time to complete the probe as
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documents — like sale deeds,
documents pertaining to benami transactions — he received
at the last hour.
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Justice Dhingara had told
mediapersons that his probe
report was ready.
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also came at a time when the
Congress alleged that Justice
Dhingra took “favours” from
the Haryana Government.
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spokesperson Randeep Singh
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or report in the matter.
Since Justice Dhingra has
compromised his position
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Minister Bhupinder Singh
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non-banking finance companies (NBFCs), the Government
has sent a formal request to the
Jharkhand High Court to setup
designated courts in the State
to deal with financial fraud
cases. The request has been
made under the provisions of
the Jharkhand Protection of
Interest of Depositors (in
Financial Establishments Act),
2011 or PID Act.
The designated courts are
more likely to come up in the
districts suffering the most from
illegal and unregulated activities
of the NBFCs and chit fund
companies that have been
indulging into collection of
public deposits and then vanish
from the scene to only dupe the
depositors’ hard earned money.
“The designated courts are
to be setup among the existing
courts only by marking them as
special courts for NBFCs. We
have requested and after getting
consent of the High Court the
courts would be setup since
there is no provision of a separate court under PID Act. The
districts witnessing greater number of cases relating to financial
frauds are likely to get the designated courts first,” Amit Khare,
Additional Chief Secretary in the
Planning and Finance
Department told The Pioneer.
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(SLCC) on NBFCs had also
taken place recently in which a
decision to establish such courts
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Security and Exchange Board of
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commission. Hooda had written a letter to Governor Kaptan
Singh Solanki urging him “to
look into the matter to uphold
the Constitutional values and to
advise the present Government
not to abuse the provisions of
law to harass the members of
the
opposition
party
(Congress) and further, to
revoke the constitution of the
commission of inquiry”.
However, senior Haryana
Minister Anil Vij hit out at the
Congress for criticising the
Dhingra Commission, saying,
“The CAG had stated a lot in
its report that the previous
Government bent rules to benefit Vadra’s company.”
“To keep him and his political masters happy, Hooda had
gone out of the way to dole out
benefits to Vadra. Why is he
feeling guilt conscious? What is
the need to write a letter to the
Governor
when
the
Commission was about to submit its report? said Vij.
Meanwhile, Vadra also said
he was being used for “political gains”, adding that baseless
accusations were levelled
against him by “Governments”
for “almost a decade”.
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to Bangladesh, was on Thursday
brought back from Dhaka and
reunited with his parents following the intervention of the
External Affairs Ministry.
“From Geeta to Gurpreet,
and now to Sonu! EAM
@SushmaSwaraj welcomes the
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photograph of External
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passengers, with a range of
5,235 to 9,500 nautical miles
(9,695 to 17,594 km). It has
computer-mediated controls
and can cover more than half
the globe at a stretch.
The aircraft, with extended range, modern communication systems, security features
and amenities are being seen as
a welcome move by the security and Intelligence agencies as
Modi is one of the most widely-traveled Prime Ministers of
India till now, constantly crisscrossing the globe to raise the
profile of the country by sealing strategic and economic
pacts
with
foreign
Governments.
Apart from other decisions, the DAC also approved
a mega project worth Rs 4,000crore for procurement of
Brahmos missiles for integration with the Delhi and Talwar
Class warships.
Brahmos missiles will act
like anti-ship missiles and can
destroy hostile ships within
their range. Brahmos will provide a safety radius of 300 km
to the warships. The
missiles will act as force multipliers and enable Indian warships to carry out land attacks
in coastal areas.
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same treatment as transgenders, said the Supreme Court
on Thursday, clarifying
that its earlier decision recognising eunuchs as the third
gender was meant for transgenders alone.
The clarification came on
an application moved by the
Ministry of Social Justice and
Empowerment seeking definition of transgenders for purposes of providing them reservation in jobs under Other
Backward Classes (OBC) category, as directed by the court
on April 15, 2014.
The decision had declared
that transgenders are socially
and educationally backward
classes of society and will be
entitled for benefits of admission in educational institutions and jobs in the public sector as available to OBCs.
Arguing the application
before a Bench of Justices AK
Sikri and NV Ramana, the
Centre represented by
Additional Solicitor General
Maninder Singh sought clarity on the term transgender
which is generally used to
describe all sections beyond the
male or female gender.
The Centre’s specific
query was on inclusion of lesbian, homosexuals and bisexual people within the “transgender” definition.
The apex court quoted
portions from its judgment to
suggest that it meant eunuchs
alone and not lesbians, homosexuals or bisexuals.
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outset, it may be clarified that
the term ‘transgender’ is used
in a wider sense, in the present
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age. Even homosexuals, lesbians and bisexual people are
included in the descriptor
‘transgender’…. However, while
dealing with the present issue
we are not concerned with
this aforesaid wider meaning of
the expression transgender.”
Senior advocate Anand
Grover, appearing for transgender activists said that the
Centre’s application was
a ploy to delay the implementation of the verdict as the draft
notification prepared by
the Ministry had not been
notified yet.
The Bench took serious
exception to the Centre’s
application and mulled imposing costs.
“Why should we not dismiss the application with
costs…no clarification is
required.” The application was
filed in July 2014 soon
after the NDA Government
came to power.
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order to boost Prime
IsolarnMinister
Narendra Modi’s
mission, the World Bank
on Thursday agreed to offer $1
billion (about C6,750 crore)
loan to India for ambitious
solar initiatives.
The Bank on Thursday
signed an agreement with
India-led International Solar
Alliance (ISA) to mobilise
investments worth $1 trillion
by 2030 to help fund projects
to increase solar energy use
around the world.
The agreement, establishing the World Bank Group as
a financial partner for 121nation ISA, was signed in New
Delhi in the presence of visiting World Bank President Jim
Yong Kim, Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley, and New &
Renewable Energy Minister
Piyush Goyal.
“We have discussed renewable energy, especially rooftop
solar projects. We discussed
innovative financing models by
which we can boost renewable
energy sector,” Goyal said after
the signing of the pact.
India is the largest client of
the World Bank Group, which
lent around $4.8 billion
between 2015 and 2016.
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triple the share of renewable
energy by 2030 will both transform the country’s energy supply and have far-reaching global implications in the fight
against climate change.
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through solar energy by 2022
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technology, infrastructure for
solar parks, bringing innovative
solar and hybrid technologies
to market, and transmission
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on Thursday said that the
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Government was committed
towards promoting sports and as
there is dearth of resources in the
State. Das was speaking during
concluding session of 12th
Jharkhand State Police Sports
Competition–2016 at JAP 10
Headquarters in Ranchi.
The CM said sportsmen
will be given priority in the
appointment of police forces
and if they bring Gold or Silver
for the State, they will get direct
promotion to the post of DSP.
“Khelgaon will be made
available for practice free of
cost,” he said. The State
Government has been promoting every sport in the State.
Women are also not behind in
the field of sports. There is a
provision of 33 per cent in
recruitment of police personnel
in the State.
CM further added that a
football competition in the name
of Kamal Club will be organised
in Jharkhand from July. It will be
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organised right from Panchayat
to district level and a State level
competition will be organised on
the foundation day of the State.
Both men and women will take
part in the competition. The
women’s team will be sponsored by Neeta Ambani of
Reliance Group while men’s
team will be sponsored by the
State Government.
Das said that ulgulaan took
place in Jharkhand against the
British and the beginning of the
revolution is observed as Hul
Diwaas. The ulgulaan was
against the poor and exploitation.
CM also appealed to Policemen
that they should take a pledge to
give befitting reply to the antisocial elements. “You should
establish law and order so that
people remember you,” said the
CM. The State could be made
prosperous by establishing
peace,” he said.
CM also announced to give
C50,000 to ASI Amasi Barla, who
had won gold medal at Vushu
competition at Jorjia.
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Champaran Satyagraha near
Rajendra Prasad Statue, Sector
2 in Bokaro. ‘The Centenary of
Champaran Satyagraha’ was
the fourth session of the series
of open classroom projects
all of which were conducted by
Parnab Mukherjee, the eminent theatre personality,
knowledge resource curator
and renowned media activist.
As a part of experiential
learning in the school’s curriculum, the open air classroom is an alternative to the
experience of reading textbooks. The session created a
bridge between lived history
and people’s history, school
authority informed.
You can not learn a concept without knowing its
application. We must deep
delve into its background and
art is something which can
provide a vehicle to learn the
larger realities of lives, said
Mukhrjee. He urged the students not to have a one dimensional approach concerning
the text books but to explore
the meaning that lurk behind
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10th and 12th examination
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are less than the results of previous years. State Government
took it seriously and constituted a committee to know the
causes and to suggest how to
improve it. Committee has submitted its report and as per its
suggestions the higher officials
of education department have
issued letters to the officials of
district education department to
seize increment and to make
adverse entries in the service
book of teachers of schools
having less than 50% result.
Now the ball is in district
officials’ court. To execute this
punishment order the district
education department prepared
a list of schools having less than
50% result and this list has put
them in puzzle. Now they are in
search of ways to prepare execution report to be sent to the
higher authorities but are not
able to find ways yet.
As per the results published by Jharkhand Academic
Council this year seven schools
of Hazaribagh district are in the
list of less than 50% result.
These are KGBV Churchu,
Upgraded High School,
Katkamdag, Upgraded High
School, Gosaibaliya, Upgraded
High School, Bundu, Upgraded
High School, Khairakarma,
High School, Keredari and
Adivashi High School, Urimari.
The maximum numbers of
teachers are in Adivashi High
School, Urimari, which is a
private school having permission of establishment status.
There are 10 teachers here
whose appointment has been
made by the governing body
and are paid from the income
of the school. They are not government teachers nor they get
full salary so there is no way to
punish them.
There are five teachers in
Kasturba Gandhi Awashiya
Vidyalaya, Churchu, out of
which three are working on
contractual appointment and
two on class basis payment. No
one is permanent and purely
government teacher here so
there is no scope of seizing
increment or making entries in
the service books here.
In all the Upgraded High
Schools included in this list
teaching is going on with the
help of primary or middle
school level teachers posted
there. Nowhere appointments
have been made to teach the
students of high schools so
officials are in puzzle that how
they can seize increments and
make entries in the service
books of those teachers who
have not been appointed for it
and are actually obligating the
government by giving their services for which they do not get
anything.
A senior teacher and exofficial of primary teachers’
association Manoj Kumar said
that the higher officials know
the actual ground position but
just to please the politicians the
exercise of making enquiry
committee and punishment
order was done. It is actually an
eyewash because everyone in
the education department is
aware of this fact that the
number of government
teachers is very less than the
requirement. Education in
Government school is dependent on para-teachers and contractual teachers who do not
get salary and nor have any service book.
the lines.
Speaking on the open
classroom initiative Dr.
Hemlata S. Mohan, the
Director and Principal of the
school said, “This is an extension of not just the knowledge
but the resources as well to
broaden the young minds of
our students. This is called
experiential learning, you
learn it through experiences.
“We always strive to walk
an extra mile to ensure that
our children undergo and
understand parallel curriculum which is very different
from extra-curricular or coscholastic. Here you breathe
history and inhale the idea and
not exhale the facts merely for
evaluation”, she added.
The ‘Class or Living
History Project’ was initiated
at the Netaji Subhash Chandra
Bose Railway Station, Gomoh
moving on to the Ambedkar
Statue at Sector 4, Bokaro
with an interactive session at
Buddha Vihar and a Special
School
assembly
in
Ashwaghosh Kala Bhavan on
the key historical events of
Jharkhand’s history. Today this
was the fourth such session,
said the authority.
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Institute of Chartered
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Accountants of India (ICAI)
has suggested all its members
and stakeholders to strictly
follow the norm of apex body
which has barred its member
CAs from taking part in any
financial bidding exclusively
for them. President of Ranchi
chapter of ICAI Manish Jain
said on Thursday that the
move is directed to stop the
deteriorating quality of chartered accountancy in the
country. Though, Jain said
that the door in case of technical bidding would remain
opened for Chartered
Accountants as usual.
Jain said that many of the
State Government departments were still functioning
on their own old way of tendering auditing and accounting works. It was not only
deteriorating quality of work,
but was also against the guidelines of the Institute.
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youth was badly injured as
he came in contact with
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high voltage electricity wire
while he was installing a banner for Hul Diwas programme
organized by Jharkhand Mukti
Morcha at ITI More under
Chas police station in Bokaro.
According to the eyewitness, the incident occurred
while Rohit Kumar was
installing a banner suddenly he
came in contact with a live electric wire of 33000 volt. With the
help of locals he immediately
rushed to the hospital. He is the
resident of BSL LH street-8 at
Bokaro.
According to the doctors,
Rohit is sustaining huge burn
injuries and his condition is
said to be critical, said a hos-
been barred, as it has no quality concerns because every
other is not going to bid in it,”
Jain added.
“Banks and a number of
other organisations have a
fair mechanism for CAs,
where they have fixed rates for
quantity of works. This has
helped them a lot in terms of
keeping poor quality accounting and auditing out of the
system, which ultimately
keeps providing them the
actual picture of the balance
sheet,” said Jain.
He added that the poor
accounting and auditing could
easily become a matter of past
once Government started fixing price of services rather
than tendering for accounting
and auditing, which demands
extreme expertise.
ICAI also praised the
move
from
C entral
Government that allows undeclared income holders or
those who don’t pay taxes
despite falling into a taxable
income bracket to turn their
money white by paying a cer-
tain tax on it. Jain requested
all to get benefit of this
scheme, which will help them
itself in return.
CPI Committee President
of ICAI Ranchi chapter CA
Manisha Biyani said, “We are
organising an event to spread
awareness about this in association with Federation of
Jharkhand Chamber of
Commerce and Industries
(FJCCI). We will also organise a two day national event on
23-24 July in Ranchi itself.
Minutes of this event will be
prepared soon.”
ICAI is also organising a
number of events on its 67th
birthday on Thursday. The
events include blood donation
camp at ICAI Office in
Ranchi, a Go Green Rally
and Water Harvesting Rally
from Albert Ekka Chowk to
Office and a cleanliness drive
also. “We will also distribute
cloths to poor and study materials to children of Ambatoli
in city. After that we will go
for plantation drive,” said
Biyani.
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Electrical burns differ from
thermal or chemical burns in
that they cause much more
subdermal damage. High voltage burn is very severe as the
victim makes direct contact
with the high voltage supply
and the damage runs its course
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hospital source. “Exterior
injuries are misleading as most
of the damage occurs underneath the skin”, he added.
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in East Delhi by a
woman six-years-ago and taken
to Bangladesh, was on Thursday
brought back from Dhaka and
reunited with his parents following the intervention of the
External Affairs Ministry.
“From Geeta to Gurpreet,
and now to Sonu! EAM
@SushmaSwaraj welcomes the
young boy Sonu home from
Bangladesh,” External Affairs
Ministry spokesperson Vikas
Swarup tweeted along with a
photograph of External Affairs
Minister Sushma welcoming
Sonu. Sonu’s reunion with his
parents was made possible by
real life hero Jamaal, a
Bangladeshi national, who did
not want publicity and went back
to his country quietly after doing
the good deed.
Recalling the hot summer
evening in June 2010, when
Sonu, then six-years-old, was
abducted, the boy’s maternal
aunt Pooja Sarkar said, “Sonu
was playing with other children
right in front of his house in F
Block lane opposite Jama Masjid.
Suddenly the power went off in
the area. Taking advantage of
this, a woman abducted him. I
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name, but I do remember how
my sister Mumtaz and my brother-in-law gave that woman a roof
over her head. Despite that, she
did such a horrible thing. She
broke their trust. Mumtaz and
Mehboob (Sonu’s father) went to
the local police station to regis-
ter a missing complaint.
However, police were not able to
find Sonu.”
Sonu’s desperate parents
tried everything, right from
pasting posters with Sonu’s photograph on them on walls in the
area to advertisements in newspapers, but nothing bore fruits.
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Thursday issued new poliH
cy guidelines regarding grant of
Change of Land Use (CLU) permission for industrial units in
industrial or agriculture zones in
the controlled areas falling within the municipal limits in the
State. These guidelines have
been issued in view of the
Enterprises Promotion Policy
(EPP)-2015, said an official
spokesman.
Under the new policy, there
would be a two tier system for
grant of CLU permission in
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SLCC has also suggested
the State Government to sensitise the intelligence machinery for collection of inputs on
economic offences in the State
for early warnings and timely action to protect the interest of common depositors.
Moreover, despite the regulatory mechanisms cases of
frauds are coming from across
the State. As per the records
with the RBI regional office
meant for Bihar and
Jharkhand, only 20 NBFCs
have been registered to operate in the region.
“At present, there are 20
NBFCs registered with our
regional office to operate in
Jharkhand. Most importantly, none of these companies
are authorised to receive
deposits from common citizens and only allowed to give
Municipal Corporations,
Municipal Councils and
Municipal Committees. The
request for grant of CLU permission for projects with investment of more than C10 crore or
involving CLU application cases
of more than one acre will be
considered and decided by the
Empowered
Executive
Committee notified under the
EPP – 2015.
After clearance by the committee, the permission within the
municipal limits would be issued
by the Director, Urban Local
Bodies Department. The CLU
permissions and grant of NOC
will be decided as per time limits specified by the Department
under the Right to Service Act,
2014. For projects with investment upto C10 crore or CLU
application cases upto one acre
in conforming industrial zone,
the requests for grant of CLU
permission will be considered
and decided by the District
Level Clearance Committee notified under the EPP – 2015.
Giving details about procedure of submission of applications, he said that applications for
seeking CLU permission will be
submitted in the office of concerned Municipal Corporation.
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loan and do miscellaneous
activities,” said Patric Barla,
General Manager (Officer in-Charge) of RBI’s regional
office in Ranchi.
However, Barla admitted
that despite the vigilance
there were several companies operating in the region
under the pretext of various
other provisions. “Any NBFC
registered in any other State
can operate here as well with
due permission of local
authorities. Another category
is of such companies registered with regulators other
than the RBI such as SEBI,
NHB etc. This apart, there are
such players too, which have
not been registered anywhere
but are operating entirely in
an illegal manner,” said the
GM.
The central bank on its
part has also counted on the
measures such as development of a website for SLCC
providing easy access to relevant materials on NBFCs
for regulators, law enforcement agencies and commoners besides, conducting
awareness programme with
the help of the State
Government’s public relations
department against the cheating practices.
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Santhal Hul, one of the first
ever freedom struggle against the
British rule in Jharkhand, Chief
Minister Raghubar Das dedicated public welfare schemes
worth C10,823 lakh to the State
on Thursday.
“The winds of change are
blowing from the forests of
Saranda in Chaibasa to banks
of Ganga in Sahebganj. No one
can stop this change.
Eradicating backwardness from
Santhal Pargana will be true
homage to Santhal Hul,” said
Das during a ceremony at
Sahebganj on Wednesday.
The entire State is grateful to
the great heroes of Santhal Hul,
added the CM. As a token of
gratitude, he honoured descendants of Hul martyrs Sidho and
Kanho and handed them keys to
homes built for them.
Rupachand Murmu, Bhagwat
Murmu, Raska Murmu,
Rameshal Murmu, Sumi Tudu,
Chunda Murmu, Bada Mandal
Murmu, Barka Murmu, Leela
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and Ram Murmu received the
keys to their new homes.
“Poverty eradication has
been limited to slogans alone in
State but we have taken some
substantial steps in this direction. I believe that by spreading education, de-addiction
and keeping away from loans,
people from rural areas can
develop themselves and we
can be rid of poverty,” Das said.
“Intoxication will be
brought about with public
awareness and not laws alone,”
said the CM. People should opt
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Munda Wushu Kendra,
Silli won several medals in the
International
Wushu
Championship in Georgia.
Phoolkumari Bedia and
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Prashant Gorai won one gold
medal each and Pramod
Kumar Bedia won two bronze
medals. The players met AJSU
supremo Sudesh Mahto on
Thursday who congratulated
them on their excellent performance.
for Pradhan-Mantri Mudra
Yojna for loans instead of going
to loan sharks, he added.
Families who are above
poverty line but have been
included in list of below poverty line families should immediately surrender the benefits
they are availing by virtue of
this mistake, appealed Das.
CM stated that the poor welfare
fairs should be convened regularly so that people in need get
to know about State-run welfare schemes for them.
Taking potshots at the factions opposing State Domicile
Policy, Das said, “The new
local policy gives local people
and tribal youth have been
given the right to claim jobs at
district level. Tribal interests will
not be violated under this
Policy, but will natives of the
State will have more opportunities as compared to earlier.”
Adding tribal languages in
competitive examination has
created new avenues, stated Das.
17,000 teachers have been
appointed all over Jharkhand and
18,000 more will be appointed
this year, he said.
“Sahebganj will be the
smartest city in Jharkhand.
With ports or basic infrastructure, Sahebganj will be developed as a modern and digital
city. Sahebganj and Rajmahal
will be restored to their former
glory,” Das said.
On this occasion, appointment letters were distributed
among newly elected village
Pradhans from districts under
Santhal Pargana. Be it ‘Mukhiya
or Mukhya-Mantri’ no is above
the law, development is the first
and last priority, said Das.
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State BJP president Tala
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Marandi’s son Munna
Marandi, who allegedly got
married to a minor, the Godda
district administration is awaiting the court’s direction to take
action in this regard.
“The matter has not even
reached to us from the
Court…I have sent one officer
to check whether there is any
direction for us. We will definitely act on it if there is any,”
said Godda SP Sanjeev Kumar.
He, however, said that the
issue of minor or major is
being investigated by
Jharkhand State Commission
for Child Protection and
Rights (JSCPCR). “Let them
come to a conclusion first, and
then the police will act as
soon as any direction comes
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from their side,” he added.
Notably, a 16-year old girl
has moved a Godda court,
alleging that Munna Marandi
sexually exploited her in the
name of marriage during the
last one and half years.
The aggrieved girl got to
know about Munna’s marriage
plans in April this year. He told
her that she was under pressure
from his parents. She then
approached police who did
not listen to her and finally had
to approach the court where
the matter was pending.
The girl has also knocked
the door of State Commission
for Women (SCW) seeking
justice.
Meanwhile, JSCPCR has
called a meeting on Friday to
brainstorm over the issue.
“I will hold a meeting with
the members of Commission
to discuss over the matter and
chalk out further plan of action
in this regard,” JCCPR
Chairperson Aarti Kujoor said.
Meanwhile, Deep Narayan
Mandal, the principal of SDN
Academy, Mahagama, the
school, where the girl studies,
reportedly claimed that the
girl, according to school
records was a minor.
School records said that
the girl was born on July 25,
2005 and is student of Class VI.
The records have already been
submitted to the SDO and
other senior officials, who
had come to the school for an
enquiry.
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n all likelihood, Congress’
‘defiant’ MLA from Panki
IDevender
Singh would not have
to face any stern action for
choosing not to vote in the
Rajya Sabha election early last
month and thus putting the ruling BJP candidate in advantageous position.
Insiders from the party privy
to the developments having
taken place since the controversy snowballed confided to this
newspaper that Congress leadership was not keen to stretch the
case further.
“Sense within the party is
that suspension or dismissal of
Devender
Singh
may
boomerang and he would move
towards the BJP. Following the
dismissal he would be free from
the clutches of the party. The
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Congress in the given circumstances cannot afford to lose one
of its MLAs and that also for the
matter which has already started to settle. The party was not to
gain directly from the victory in
any case,” said a senior func-
tionary in the Pradesh Congress
Committee.
Devender had won the byeelection since his father and
four-term MLA Bidesh Singh
passed away midway after getting
elected on the Congress ticket for
the first time in his long political stint. His rather fresh association with the Congress is also
what worries the party.
Nevertheless, following the
drubbing the red-faced leaders of
the Congress and in-charge
made for the election Ajay
Makan had reported harshly
against Devender as well as
Barkagaon MLA Nirmala Devi.
Still, there is no second
thought within party that both
of its MLAs overlooked the
instructions and deliberately
tried to sidestep the voting.
Nirmala somehow could be
brought to the polling booth at
the last moment but Devender
remained traceless for days from
the voting day.
Following the incident that
resulted into defeat of the
Congress backed JMM candidate
Basant Soren by a whisker, the
PCC sought explanation from
Devender Singh and forwarded
it to the party high command in
Delhi for appropriate action.
Also, Makan handed over a separate report describing the conduct of the party legislators and
leaders during the election.
“Both the reports are adverse
to the MLA. Besides, it also
stresses over the role played by
senior party leaders such as
Subodh Kant Sahay and few others who took the poll managers
for a ride suggesting as if everything was in their full control
before the poll day. There have
been mischievous acts aimed to
score some brownie points and
rise in stature in the eyes of the
high command that went horribly wrong,” said a close aide of
PCC president Sukhdeo Bhagat.
Getting the sense early about
exoneration coming from the
party, Devender also played
down the episode. “Irrespective
of the decision I would continue to work for the party and the
people of the region. In any case,
I have put forth my version and
explained the truth behind by my
absence on that day. There are
experienced leaders in the party
and I believe that it would take
no action against me,” said the
MLA.
He, in his response to the
show cause, had explained police
lookout notice reportedly in circulation at that time against
him apart from missing permission from the court to vote.
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frequent incidences of
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extremism, Director General of
Police (DGP) DK Pandey
ordered senior police officials of
four districts to keep a check on
movement of extremist outfits.
During a meeting with
Khunti SP Anish Gupta,
Ranchi Rural SP Raj Kumar
Lakra, Gumla SP Chandan
Kumar Jha and Simdega SP
Rajiv Ranjan Singh, DGP
ordered them to keep a tight
leash on advances from People’s
Liberation Front of India
(PLFI).
PLFI rebels had gunned
down six criminals near
Ranchi-Khunti border on
Tuesday in a bid to assert their
supremacy. The murdered
criminals were former members of PLFI who later became
competition for the outfit in
siphoning levies in the region.
“We were ordered to intensify operations against PLFI
cadres active in the region. The
SPs were ordered to strengthen anti-PLFI operations in
their respective districts,” stated Khunti SP Gupta.
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Sakchi-based cradle fell victim
to gun-shot injury in an accidental firing triggered by his
classmate in the classroom, a
13-year-old boy was caught
with a pistol at another English
medium school in Sonari on
Thursday afternoon.
The student, who was
caught with a pistol, is a Class
VIII student of RMS High
School at Khuntadih in Sonari.
Though it was a rusted
country-made pistol and was
unloaded, the police have
detained the student on the
basis of an information lodged
by school vice-principal
Achla Srivastava.
Sonari police station offi-
cer-in-charge Budhram Oraon
said they nabbed the student
and recovered the pistol on getting a complaint from the viceprincipal of RMS High School.
“We have taken the boy in
custody after seizing the firearm and will take necessary
action against him only after
getting necessary instruction
from the senior officers,”
said Oraon.
He added they are trying to
find out the source from whom
the minor offender had procured the country-made pistol
and also trying to find out the
motive behind bringing the pis-
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including two officers,
posted at Central Coalfields Ltd
hief Minister Raghubar
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sahiyas to work with dedication
and execute their duties with a
sense of sincerity so that they
are remembered by their former patients long after they
leave a place.
He said this while addressing the conclusion ceremony of
three-day mega health camp
conducted by Health Education
and Family Welfare Department
in collaboration with Women
Doctors Wing of Indian
Medical Association, Jharkhand
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RS Mahapatro handed over
Thanks Giving Letter, Service
Certificate, cheque/documents
of gratuity & CMPF Cheque
number, pension papers, medical cards, religious books etc,
to the retiring employees.
Employees, who were superannuating in areas, were also
given farewell in their respective areas. Total 130 employees
have been retiring from their
service in month of June, 2016.
Tiwari acknowledged the
contributing of each retiring
employees and pointed out
that the company has been
achieving double digit growth
due your sustained efforts. He
further said that company has
been performing outstandingly in last four years. He hoped
that new recruits will continue
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of Khemlata Devi, wife of Tata
Steel employee, to further
examine the point of rape
angle. It is suspected that the
victim had been sexually
abused before being stabbed to
death, though the police are yet
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Sahebganj
on
Thursday.
The camp was
organised with a
view to make people make aware
about how to prevent anaemia and
cervical cancer in
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as healthy babies are born of
healthy mothers. He praised the Doctors Wing, IMA Dr Bharati
endeavour to hold health camp Kashyap in her speech disfor tribal women in quite cussed the deficiency of anaemia
and cervical cancer in women in
remote and backward areas.
On this occasion, Health details. Veteran oncologist Dr
Minister
Ramchandra Ranjeet Mandal from Kolkata
Chandravanshi discussed the and his team along with the docvarious initiatives taken by Chief tors of Ranchi played an imporMinister Das for the develop- tant role in making the mega
ment of Santhal Pargana region. camp a success.
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this momentum and work hard
to achieve target given by the
Government.
RS
Mahapatro,
Director(Personnel) said that
these experienced employees
are retiring and creating vacuum, which is difficult to replace
but he hoped that new generation will work hard to meet
the upcoming challenges and
meeting energy requirement of
the Nation. He wished them
happy, prosperous and peaceful post retirement life.
On this occasion, all the
retiring employees expressed
their personal views and
acknowledged support and
affection, which they got from
the company in their service
tenure. They wished that the
company keeps achieving new
heights in future.
trative officers were present.
DC Bhuvnesh Pratap Singh
heard the problems of the people for about 5 hours. Some
problems were solved out on
spot and the others were given
directions to solve soon.
On the occasion, DC
Bhuvnesh Pratap Singh said,
“The development of the area
cannot be done without cooperation of the people. The goals
of the Darbar will be fulfilled
if it would be organised for the
people. The officials should
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police and Santee samitee,
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Bokaro Thermal
organised an Iftar
party on the ongoing Ramzan month
at DVC Bokaro
club on Thursday.
Officer-in
charge Rajesh Kujur, jogendra
Giri, Bharat Yadav, Hansraj
Prasad, besides respectable persons of Raja bazaar, Naya basti,
Barwabera, Noori
Nagar, Nisan hut
and
others
respectable person
of the society were
present in the function.
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(CCL)’s
headquarters,
Darbhanga House, Ranchi
superannuated from their services on Thursday. They were
given warm farewell at a
function held in ‘Coal Room,’
Dharbhanga House, Ranchi
on this day.
On this occasion, PK
Tiwari, Director (Technical/
Operation) and RS Mahapatro,
Director (Personnel) along
with GMs, Departmental heads
and others were present.
The retired personnel are
Sumit Ghosh, CGM (Mining),
Nemai Chandra Majee, GM
(Mining), Sambhu Nath
Chanda, OS (NEE), Nirmal Kr
Ghosh, Sr PA (EE), Pranab
Roy, Sr Chemist (QM),
Scholostica Lakra, Matron
(GNH), Dinesh Kr Verma,
Asstt Supv (GA), Md Idrish
Ansari, Hd Binder (Press),
Harbinder Singh, Driver-cumMech (Vigilance) Kaushlya
Devi, Hd Peon (Estb-A/Cs),
Rekha Devi, Sr Aya (GNH),
Birsha Munda, Hd. Mali (Hort)
Baldeo Ram Mirdha, Safai
tol to school.
The accused, who is son of
Santosh Kumar Ojha, said, “I
don’t know about the pistol as
it was recovered from the desk
of a girl student who sits next
to me. I am innocent.”
But the police sources said
the boy, resident of Khuntadih,
had brought the pistol to the
school and had shown it to as
many as eight fellow students
during the recession.
Vice-principal Srivastava
said, “The student in question
had showed the gun to some of
his fellow students during the
recess. After getting the complaint, we searched out the firearm from under a desk.”
Srivastava, when queried,
claimed they used to carry out
regular checking of bags of all
the 900 students so as to find
out whether any student had
brought cell-phones or any
other objectionable things.
The accused student is the
only son of his parents who
have two children. Santosh
Kumar Ojha resides in Sonari,
is a Tata Steel employee and
works as an operator in New
Bar Mill of the company.
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to confirm about the rape
angle.
The 43-year-old woman,
who was wife of a Tata Steel
employee, was murdered at her
residence on Tansa Road in
Kadma late on Tuesday. Her last
rites were performed at Parvati
Ghat in Bistupur after a funer-
al procession was taken out
from the victim’s parents’ house
in Sonari on Thursday morning.
Though 48 hours have
elapsed since the murder took
place at densely-populated area
in Kadam, police have not
been able to find any clue.
“It is a complicated case
and we need to work on all the
angles. We are making all
efforts to find out a clue and
nab the killer,” said officer-incharge, Kadma thana, Animesh
Gupta. The woman was
found scantily covered when
her husband Kartik Ram first
discovered her at the residence, said Gupta.
“As per our findings she
was murdered with very little
cloth on her body, there was no
apparent sign of rape.
Therefore the case has become
more tough to crack,” said the
officer-in-charge.
Police on Wednesday night
picked up four people who had
gathered at an adjoining residential quarter of Kartik Ram
on Tansa Road a day before his
wife was murdered.
The officer-in-charge said
that the relation between husband and wife was not cordial
as they had a tiff in opinion
over installing CCTV camera
at the residence.
“We have come to know
that Kartik Ram (55) wanted to
get CCTV cameras at his residence where as Khemlata used
to oppose it. We have come to
know about the reason behind
Kartik’s move for installing the
surveillance camera in such a
two-room residential quarters,”
said Gupta.
Meanwhile, Kartik Ram on
Thursday has claimed that the
assailants have decamped with
gold ornaments from his almirah beside the two cell-phones.
A senior police officer said
when Kartik had wanted to
search keys for locking the
almirah, he discovered that
the ornament boxes kept in the
locker were empty and the
jewellery were missing.
solve out their problems on
time. The administration is
devoted for development.”
In Darbar many stalls were
held included block, circle,
agriculture, cleanliness, animals, health, forests and many
others. Their problems were
listed out. The majority of the
problems were related to ration
cards, old aged pension, Indira
Aawas, toilets, crop insurance,
animal check-up, education
and drinking water. As well the
villagers demanded to transfer
the principal of Buti
Government School. The beneficiaries of BPL were told to
have the gas connection free of
cost. The villagers also
demanded to construct bridge
at Phooljhar Canal. They
demanded for Red cards and
Indira Awaas.
On the occasion the officials told about the welfare
schemes of the central and the
State Govt and appealed to
have benefits. DC also inspected several schools, Anganbadi
centres, health centres and
Dobha construction.
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is to get better policing and
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effective maintenance of law
and order. SP Latehar Anoop
Birtharey on Thursday sat with
the members of Chandwa
chamber of commerce and
interacted with them for little
over an hour on issues of public and trade interest.
Chandwa chamber of commerce was represented by its
president Prem Shanker Bhagat
Shanker Lal Kanoudia RN
Gupta and Nirmal K Sharma
and others.
The Chamber of commerce urged the SP to impose
restrictions on pressure horns
used by heavy vehicles. Further
the Chamber wanted anti-dust
measurement to be implemented effectively like water
sprinkling since dust in
Chandwa born out of coal and
bauxite has rendered the lives
of the commoners miserable.
SP Latehar sounded thankful to Chatra BJP MP Sunil
Singh for giving C12 lakh from
his MP LADS. Chandwa is
sooner to find installation of as
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many as ten CCTVs and 12
CCTVs in Latehar which will
help public and police to keep
an eye on every activity being
carried out in the NHs 75 and
98 both.
Birtharey said the MP has
been further approached for
similar funding for installation
of cctvs in Balumath. There are
two top temples here in this
region where installation of
CCTVs will help a lot to the
police and temple management reiterated the SP.
On being asked that he
(SP) interacted with chamber
of commerce Chandwa while
the district organisation
Latehar was left out Birtharey
said Chandwa chamber is a
force to reckon with. Truly
speaking Latehar is the district
town but in fact it is Chandwa
where lies the soul of this district as here goes two major
railway projects Toree
(Chandwa) Lohardagga railway
lines and Toree Sivpuri railway
lines. Further Chandwa township is three time bigger than
the Latehar ones’.
Birtharey said in the same
vein ‘One industrial corridor
has been identified between
Toree and Barka gaon here.
This corridor has all NTPC
Amarpali Tandwa coal blocks
etc. Where such a big industrial
hub is on the anvil security and
safety matters most and this
Thursday meeting was for a coordinated effort between the
chamber and the police here.
More than a year back the
big face of Chandwa, Ladu
Babu was gunned down for his
sustained campaign against
illegal coal operator and unlawful dumping of coal causing
huge dust cloud Chandwa continues to be the business nerve
of Latehar and Birtharey took
time off for his sitting with the
Chamber here for a better and
healthy policing said sources.
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in the hillock regions in
Bokaro, the district health
department sounded an alert;
special directives has been
issued for all medical staffs.
The health department
asked all the village medical
staffs to be extra vigilant over
the disease and to create awareness among the mass. A special
directive has been issued by the
Civil Surgeon to all private
nursing homes and hospitals.
There were asked to inform
immediately to the district
health department even if any
suspect case of Malaria is
found, said A Poddar district
Malaria Officer.
“We have arranged a special ward at Sadar Hospital for
patients suffering with Malaria.
Here all special arrangements
has been done to tackle with
brain and simple malaria
cases,” he added.
Notably, Malaria is spreading its wings in the hillock
areas of Bokaro district. More
than eight deaths form malaria were reported in last few
months in the district.
According to the report of
district health department over
105 new peoples were found to
be suffering from malaria. The
worst affected villages are
Hisim, Trionala, Gumanzara
and Kedla of Kasmar under
Paterwar blocks. Dozens are
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still in the grip of malaria since
past twenty days. “The number
of patients are rising continuously as these villages lacks
with medical health care facilities along with medicines too”,
said a villager.
At least 104 blood samples
were collected from different
villages in which five
people are found with Brain
Malaria infection, nine with
simple Malaria while 90 are
tested with seasonal fever,
said Poddar.
The Health department
suggested the villagers to be
extra vigilant and use mosquito
net while sleeping. “Bleaching
powders are being sprinkled in
ponds, wells and places where
water is accumulated and special stress in being laid to
keep villages clean educating
the masses to rush to government hospitals rather than visiting the quacks who time and
again fail to save lives of
patients due to reference of
wrong selection of medicines,”
he added.
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bid to attract train customers
from the region, the Indian
Railways has exported at least
60 air-conditioned coaches to
Bangladesh with which India
has entered into an agreement
to run trains between the two
countries.
The modern stainless steel
coaches, also known as LHB,
manufactured by Rail Coach
Factor y, Kapurthala, are
equipped with Fiat bogies capable of running at a maximum
speed of 160 kmph. The export
of the trains has been undertaken by Railways’ subsidiary
RITES.
The contract agreement
between RITES Ltd and
Bangladesh Railways was executed on January 21, 2015,
and subsequently, between
RITES Ltd and RCF on
September 30, 2015 for supply
of these coaches at an estimat-
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RITES Chairman and
Managing Director Rajeev
Mehrotra said that RITES is
making all efforts to augment
export of rolling stock manufactured at Indian Railways
Production Units. “Response
from South Asian markets is
very encouraging. This is for
the first time that we have been
able to send our air conditioned
coaches. We are looking for a
huge market,” Mehrotra told
The Pioneer.
The Bangladesh Railway
(BR) had, in fact, requested a
contract agreement of 120
coaches. The remaining coach-
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Right to Information
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(RTI) applications, the
Department of Personnel and
Training (DoPT) has directed all Central Government
departments to put in public
domain information that is
frequently sought by citizens
under the RTI Act.
Besides they have also
been asked to set up
‘Information and Facilitation
Centres’ (IFCs) at departments to provide printed publications to citizens mentioning the categories of information that are frequently
being sought under the RTI.
The latest directive is
based on the recommendations of a committee formed
by the government to look
into the scope of suo motu
disclosure of governancerelated information by the
central government departments. The authorities concerned have been asked that
the Information on the website must be organised in
form of searchable and
retrievable database to enable
people to access the records.
The DoPT has asked each
public authority to set up a
committee comprising officials with rich experience of
dealing with RTI applications
and appeals to identify the
categories of such informa-
tion. “Such information must
be disclosed in the public
domain to make it more userfriendly and should also be
reviewed at regular intervals,”
it said in an order to all ministries.
The DoPT has said the
task of undertaking transparency audits may be given
to the respective training
institutes under each ministry or department and
across the states and union
territories. “ The public
authorities shall constitute
consultative committees consisting of office-bearers of key
stakeholder, association on
rotational basis to have a
systematic and regular interaction between the officials of
the public authorities to
advice what information to
be uploaded as suo motu,”
said the order.
The committee had submitted its report which was
accepted by the government
and an order was issued in
June last year to all public
authorities to follow its recommendations. DoPT has
also issued instructions to all
public authorities in that they
must make an analysis of
information which is sought
most often from applicants
and provide it on their website as suo motu disclosure.
The RTI Act empowers a
citizen to seek time-bound
reply to their query on governance-related matters.
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mid the flutter created by the
recently released Bollywood
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film Udta Punjab over the issue
of drug abuse, the Social and
Welfare Ministry will soon kickoff a nationwide survey to assess
the extent, trend and pattern of
drug abuse among people across
the country.
The study, which is estimated to cost over Rs 22 crore, will
be conducted in collaboration
with the National Drug
Dependence Treatment Centre
(NDDTC) of AIIMS. It will provide national and state level estimates of proportion and absolute
number of people who indulge in
drug abuse, sources said.
The two-year-long survey
will also map the presence of services and interventions for drug
dependent individual and identify the gaps in service delivery.
The last nation-wide survey
to assess the drug use in India
was conducted in 2001 and its
data was published in 2004.
“The earlier survey did
not provide any data on prevalence of substance use at the
level of different states in India,
neither did it provide data on
prevalence of drug use among
women population. Since then
there have been small scale
studies focused on specific
geographical areas or population. But there have been no
nation-wide surveys.
“Thus the exact dimensions of this problem in India
remain unknown,” a senior
Ministry official said.
The government’s decision
to conduct the survey comes in
the wake of a recent survey
‘Punjab Opioid Dependence
Survey’ (PODS) that estimated
that there are about 2.3 lakh opioid-dependent people in the
state, which consumes drugs
worth Rs 7,500 crore every year.
“Additionally, India is
expected to report to international agencies (like United
Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime and World Health
Organisation) on questions
related to data on extent of substance use in India.
“In such instances, government has to rely on the old survey published in 2004,” he added.
The drugs include all those
listed by the World Health
Organization (WHO) in its
International Classification of
Diseases, 10th Edition (ICD10) and include categories like
alcohol, tobacco, opioids, sedative-hypnotics, cannabis, stimulants, hallucinogens and
inhalants, said Dr Atul
Ambekar, additional professor at NDDTC and principal
investigator of the survey.
“The study will include a
household survey to determine the proportion of people
who use drugs and people
who are drug dependent,”
Ambekar said.
es will be sent in due course.
Two train sets, comprising 12
coaches each- 2 AC chair car,
2 first AC sleeper car, 6 nonAC chair car and 2 power carwill presently be deployed to
operate 3 pairs of inter-city
trains between Dhaka and
Rajshahi. The composition of
coaches exported also includes
a prayer room.
RITES had earlier supplied
26 Broad Gauge diesel electric
locomotives (3100 HP), manufactured
by
Diesel
Locomotive Works , Varanasi
which are successfully running broad gauge trains of
Bangladesh Railway.
During Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s visit to
Bangladesh last year, India
agreed to consider the neigbour’s proposal to introduce the
second Maitree express between
Khulna (Bangladesh) and
Kolkata in addition to the existing train service between Dhaka
and the West Bengal Capital.
“Prime Minister Modi
agreed to consider Bangladesh’s
proposal to introduce the second Maitree Express between
Khulna and Kolkata. They
directed the concerned officials
of both sides to take measures
for ensuring more passengerfriendly customs and immigration facilities for the passengers of Maitree Express
(which runs between Dhaka
and Kolkota),” the declaration
said on June 7, 2015.
Finally, an intercity train
was flagged off at Dhaka by
Bangladesh Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina in the presence
of High Commissioner of India
in Bangladesh Harsh Vardhan
Shringla.
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on Thursday came out in support of the proposed July 11
strike by Central Government
employees to protest the
“unjust” recommendations.
Accusing the Modi
Government of being “unjust”
to the Government staff, senior
party spokesman Ajay Maken
said the Central Government
employees are a “frustrated
and disappointed” lot as the
Government decided “not to
make improvement” in the
recommendations.
“It is unfortunate that the
employees, who were given 40
per cent hike in their respective
pay in the past by previous
Governments, had now been
recommended only 14.27 per
cent. This is unjust and humiliating for the beneficiaries,”
Maken said at AICC briefing.
Noting that the Federation
of Government Employees,
which includes employees of
Indian Railways, civilian
employees of Ordnance
Factories and Post and
Telegraph, has decided to go on
strike from July 11 to express
their resentment, he said “We
support them and hope good
sense will prevail and government of India will review the
decision.”
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the last about 70 years, this is
the worst recommendations
and needed major surgery to
make it acceptable to the
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expectation up to some extent,”
said the former Union Minister.
To a question about the
recommendations with regard
to the Armed Forces employees and whether Congress supports them, he replied in the
affirmative. “It is not that the
Armed Forces are getting more
and the others are getting less.
Armed Forces are, rather in
certain ways, are bigger sufferers,” he remarked.
Making a strong pitch for
a better deal to government
employees, he asked “If you do
not have the best brains working in the government, then
how can you expect government or the government
employees to protect the interest vis-a-vis the multi-nationals in this era of globalisation?”
An RSS-affiliate Bharatiya
Mazdoor Sangh has already
raised a banner of revolt against
the Centre’s decision on the Pay
Commission recommendations and declared it would
organise country-wide protests
on July 8.
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Parrikar on Thursday
launched India’s first integrated Defence communication
network to enable the Army,
IAF, Navy and Strategic Forces
Command to share real-time
information on a secure system, thereby, enabling faster
decision making process.
The strategic network
based on optical fibre system
will integrate the entire country from Ladakh to North-East
to island territories of Minicoy
and Lakshwadeep besides all
major commands of the three
services, officials said after the
defence minister inaugurated
the system here.
Underlining the importance of the system, Parrikar
stressed the need to keep the
network completely secure all
the time. He said a false sense
of security and safety should
not creep in and the Standard
Operating Procedures should
be followed. He also said this
network is a step towards jointmanship and synergy that the
government is pushing for in
the armed forces.
While all the three forces
have their own command,
communication and intelli-
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first time when there will be
a dedicated network for
greater synergy. “Technology
decides how the wars are
fought these days. The network has a pan-India reach
and is a testimony to the fact
that Indian
Army and the Corps of
Signals are well placed to meet
any challenges and responsibilities which come their way,”
Lt Gen Nitin Kohli, Signal
Officer in Chief, said.
The network worth over
C600 crore assures high quality voice, video and data services
covering 111 entities spread
across the country. It is capable of working on terrestrial as
well as satellite mode of communication and has also been
fixed onboard different military
vehicles.
The inaugural event was
attended by Chairman, Chief of
Staff Committee and Chief of
the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal
Arup Raha, Chief of the Army
Staff General Dalbir Singh
Suhag, Chief of the Naval Staff
Admiral Sunil Lanba and
senior officers from the three
Services and Ministry of
Defence.
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air missile (MRSAM),
jointly developed by Defence
Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO) and
Israel Aerospace Industries
(IAI) of Israel, was successfully test-fired twice on Thursday
off Odisha coast. The missile
will be inducted into the IAF
and Army after more trials in
the coming months. The Naval
version is already deployed on
frontline warships of the Navy.
The missile, capable of hitting a target at more than 50
km, was test-fired from the
Integrated Test Range (ITR) off
Odisha coast. Guided by a
radar system and on-board
avionics successfully, the missile successfully hit a pilotless
target aircraft.
Many Indian industries
including public sector Bharat
Electronics Limited(BEL) and
Bharat
Dynamics
Limited(BDL) besides private
units like Larsen & Toubro and
TATA group of companies
besides others contributed to
the development of a number
of subsystems put into use in
this flight test, officials said here
after the test. Moreover, the
Indian and Israel teams participated in the launch.
Defence Minister Manohar
Parrikar congratulated DRDO
and the industry partners for
successful demonstration of
the air defence capability.
DRDO chief S Christopher
declared the launch as a major
milestone for the IAF towards
air defence.
Explaining the significance
of the test, officials said the
MRSAM will be able to destroy
any enemy aircraft or UAV.
The Navy inducted this missile
some months back after trials
in India and Israel. While the
range of the naval version is
more than 70 km as there are
no obstructions in sea, the air
and land version of the missile
has to take into account obstacles like hills or uneven surface.
Given this scenario, the range
of the MRSAM comes down to
50 km or so, they said.
Moreover, the IAF and Army
will need more batteries of
missiles as compared to the
Navy, they said.
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Iworld,
but, shockingly, at least
35 per cent of its total kids do
not get all the vaccines under
the Government’s immunisation programme while some of
them do not get even a single
vaccine.
With 27 million children
annually, India has the largest
birth cohort in the world.
Raising serious concern at
this gap, PK Mahaptra,
Additional Chief Secretary
from Har yana, Health
Department said, “ India is one
of the largest producers of vaccines in the world. The national immunization programme
was started way long back in
70s. Still we have just 65 per
cent of the total kids getting
immunized. Somewhere we
have failed.”
Mahapatra was speaking at
2nd Health and immunization conference organized by
the Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII) here. The theme
was “Leveraging opportunities in last mile immunisation”
Joint Secretary (Health
Research Wing) Rakesh Kumar
said on Thursday that efforts
are on to reach out to cover
maximum number of children
under Indradhanush immunisation programme . He said the
government has immunized
close to 15 lakh children under
the
first
phase
of
‘Indradhanush’ in 201 districts,
where the immunisation was
less than 50 per cent in the last
two years.
Approximately 53 lakh
children have been partially
vaccinated and 15 lakh have
been totally immunised,
Kumar added. Dr Pradeep
Haldar added the mission will
reach the unreached(children)
with all vaccines by 2020.
Indradhanush provides
protection against seven lifethreatening
diseases
(Diphtheria, Whooping
Cough, Tetanus, Polio,
Tuberculosis, Measles and
Hepatitis B). In addition, vaccination against Japanese
Encephalitis and Haemophilus
influenza type B will be provided in selected districts of the
country. New vaccines are on
cards to be added in the programme, said Haldar.
While
KG
Ananthakrishnan, Co-chair,
CII national committee on
pharma, hoped that drones
might be introduced soon for
rural transportation of vaccines to reachout unreached
kids, Rahul Aggarwal, MD,
Kool-Ex stressed on coldchain logistics management
and accountability as vital for
vaccine distribution in rural
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State Government to first comply with wildlife norms.
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Government’s recent decision
to stop tiger safari project in
Madhya Pradesh’s Pench
National Park citing alleged
violation of rules.
The Uttarakhand forest
department had in August last
year sought permission of the
National Tiger Conservation
Authority (NTCA), a statutory body under the Ministry of
Environment and Forests, to
start a tiger safari inside the
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the NTCA to the state, a copy
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approval from the CZA before
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and advocates of Telangana
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Thursday with the High Court
suspending four more judges of
Ranga Reddy District for violation of code of conduct.
With this, the total number
of judges suspended in
Telangana has gone up to 15.
Those suspended include
Ranga Reddy District Judges
Association President Srinivas
Reddy, Associate President
Krishnaiah, district secretary
Ch Vnkat and treasurer Ratna
Raju.
High Court has continued
to crack the whip even as the
lower court judges and other
judicial officers and employees
and the advocates have been
staying away from the court,
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in Hyderabad and other districts in the State, shouting slogans against the allocation of
Andhra judges to Telangana
and delay in the bifurcation of
the High Court.
They are demanding
immediate bifurcation of
Hyderabad High Court and till
then keeping in abeyance the
allocation of judges and judicial
officers to both the States.
The issue has also generated a lot of political heat as the
Telangana Chief Minister K
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on Thursday attacked Prime Minister
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Narendra Modi over the latter's choice of
clothes, alleging that the cost of the Prime
Minister's clothes was more than what the
AAP had spent on advertising.
Kejriwal, who was on a three-day
whirlwind tour of poll bound Goa, also
deflected questions over his visits to
Hindu and Christian religious leaders, even
as he also kick-started his party's 'Goa
Dialogues', initiatives a preparatory process
aimed collecting data for drafting the election manifesto.
"It is being said that we have given
advertising of C526 crore. Completely false,
we have released advertising worth C76
crore. That's it. Our advertising revenue of
all departments of the Delhi Government
is less than the total expenditure on Mr.
Modi's clothes," Kejriwal said while interacting with mediapersons in Panaji on the
last day of his visit.
"I can give you the calculation. One
dress that Modi wears is worth C2 lakh. He
changes clothes five times a day, (it comes
to) 10 lakh rupees. He never repeats his
clothes, doesn't wash them and reuse
bound State of Goa, meeting students, fishermen, hoteliers and Hindu and Christian
religious leaders, as his party prepares for
the upcoming round of state legislative
elections in Goa and Punjab.
On Wednesday, Kejriwal met Sadguru
Brahmeshanand Swami, a popular religious
figure in Goa with a large following among
the other backward caste segments. On
Thursday morning, he also met Archbishop
Filipe Neri Ferrao at the Bishop's Palace in
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has been accused by his rivals of targeting South Goa. While Ferrao's spokesperson
described Kejriwal's visit as a "courtesy call",
Modi as a strategy to attract attention.
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equally and celebrates and meets with peoall one needs to do, is google it up.
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Church. I meet the Arch bishop there and
clothes," said Kejriwal.
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standing, over the last three days, Delhi come to meet me, Maulanas also come to
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal hurried- meet me. I celebrate Roza, Diwali,
ly waltzed around the rainswept, poll- Dussehra and Christmas too," he said.
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fire broke out in a two-storey
structure at “Juhu galli chawl” at
Andheri (west) in north
Mumbai on Thursday morning.
The fire was first noticed
inside the pharmacy shop
“Wafa Medical”, located on the
ground floor of Nigam Mistry
chawl along Wireless Road at
Juhu in Andheri (West), at 6
am. Soon the fire spread to two
upper floors of the structure,
where the family that owns the
medical shop lived.
Having received a call from
the mishap site at 6.18 am, the
fire brigade personnel rushed
to the scene at around 6.37 am
and brought the blaze under
control at 7.15 am. Three fire
tenders, a jumbo tanker and
two ambulances were engaged
in the dousing operation.
By the time they doused
the fire, all nine members of
Khan family – trapped inside
the two congested floors –died
of burns and suffocation.
The police identified the
persons killed in the mishap as
Mozhel Khan (8), Unnihay
Khan (5), Aliza Khan (4), Tubba
Khan (8), Altaz Khan (3
months), Saburiya Mozin Khan
(65), Siddik Khan (35), Rabil
Khan (28) and Sabiya Khan (29),
Injured in the mishap was
a fireman Avinash Shirgaonkar,
who was involved the fire
extinguishing operation. He
was treated in a nearby hospital and discharged.
The fire brigade personnel
prima facie attributed the
mishap to a short-circuit. “We
suspect that short circuit might
have caused fire. But, an investigation that is underway will
establish as the exact cause of
fire,” chief fire officer of
Mumbai Fire Brigade P S
Rahangdale said. The fire
brigade and police officials said
that the electrical fittings inside
the medical stores, housed in a
120 sq ft room, caught fire.
“The fire spread to upper
floors of the same structure
where as many 18 persons
were living. The victims were
sleeping on two floors above
the medical store, when the fire
engulfed their floors,” a senior
fire official said.
The
Brihanmumbai
Municipal Corporation (BMC)
is ascertaining if the upper
storeys of the fire-ravaged
building were “illegal”.
Thursday’s was the first
major fire mishap witnessed in
the metropolis during this year.
Earlier on October 10 last year,
Eight persons, including a
woman, were killed when a
leak from domestic gas triggered a major fire in a restaurant “City Kinara”, a Chinese
food joint, at Kurla in northcentral Mumbai.
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arrested by the National
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Hyderabad were on Thursday
remanded to 14-days’ judicial
custody and sent to Charapally
Central Jail.
The NIA produced the five
members of the terror module,
busted on Wednesday before
the NIA Special Court at
Nampally amid tight security.
Later the NIA moved
another petition before the
court seeking their custody
for further questioning, which
will be taken up for hearing on
Friday. Sources said that the
NIA wants to shift them to
New Delh on transit warrant
for further questioning in view
of the serious nature of the case.
NIA said that the group was
planning to target public places,
including religious sites, sensitive Government buildings in
various parts of the country.
During the searches, conducted with the assistance of the
Hyderabad City Police, two 9
mm semi-automatic pistols with
ammunition, an air gun with
telescopic sight, chemicals used
for making explosives, C15 lakh,
six laptops and 40 mobile
phones with 32 SIM cards were
seized from their houses.
Sources said that the IT
corridor housing several foreign companies and a Mall in
Madhapur area, a religious
place in the old city and a government building were among
their possible targets.
The group had also
placed order for the pieces of
meat on Tuesday.
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for questioning. While five
planned to trigger communal were later formally arrested on
riots in the city by placing ani- the charges of waging war
mal parts in religious places against the Government and
and one of the suspect had possessing arms illegally, the
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other 6 youth were let off late
in the night as nothing incriminating was found against
them.
In a Press release the NIA
said that a case was registered
against them on credible information that some youth hailing
from Hyderabad and their
accomplices had entered in to
a criminal conspiracy to wage
war against the Government of
India by collecting weapons
and explosive materials to
commit terrorist acts.
Though the earlier reports
had said that they were in
touch with the dreaded terrorist organisation ISIS, the Press
release did not name any
organisation. "During preliminary examination it has been
revealed that the terrorist gang
was preparing IEDs for com-
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deaths still stalking the closed tea
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gardens of North Bengal, the State
Government has planning to auctionsome gardens so as to bring a sagging
tea industry alive.
The Chief Minister, who was touring Jalpaiguri and neighbouring
Alipurduar districts of the region said
her Government, was willing to “take
over and auction the tea gardens wherever possible.”
With such steps in view the Chief
Minister also announced formation of
a Tea Directorate with local MLA
Saurav Chakrabarty as its chairman.
Circuitously blaming the Centre for
“not fulfilling its commitment”, the
Chief Minister said while her
Government was doing everything to
mitigate the problems of the poor tea
workers, the Centre was not taking
enough interest in the rebuilding the tea
industry.
“The Centre should act immediately so that the workers get their
wages and other benefits” she said,
adding her Government was “already
giving food, electricity and medical
assistance to them.” She said the garden workers were benefitting from the
State Government’s scheme to provide
C2-a-kg rice.
Giving his reactions Ziaur Alam a
local labour leader however wondered
how the State Government would sell
the lands as the “State only held the land
lease of the tea gardens. If a tea estate
has to be, auctioned then the Central
Government has to invoke the Tea Act
and acquire a garden. The Centre can
then hand it over to the State
Government.”
The Chief Minister in November
2015 announced taking over of tea gardens of a famous group. However the
Centre finally acquired it. Siliguri MLA
and former Minister Asok Bhattcharya
said the Chief Minister was again trying to befool the people by peddling lies.
“The State has five tea gardens of its
own. It could have sold them. But have
they done it till now?” another local
labour leader asked.
Though the State Government
has remained in denial mode, the tea
gardens of North Bengal have witnessed more than one hundred starvation deaths in the past more than a
year or so.
With about three dozen gardens out
of 277 lying closed, the several thousand
tea workers have been rendered jobless
and have no access to basic amenities.
mission of terrorist acts and
were being guided by an online
handler suspected to be based
in Iraq/Syria. Further investigation is being continued".
The chemicals found in
their possession include suspected Urea/ammonium
nitrate powder, and their mixture with sugar, bottles containing acid, Acetone,
Hydrogen Peroxide. The raiding teams also recovered target
boards meant for shooting
practice.
NIA sources said that the
group headed by Ibraheem
Yazdani, a software engineer
was under watch for the last
three months and it was decided to take action on Wednesday
as the group was about to
carry out the attacks in the city
in the next few days.
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rhinos in Assam. Despite intensified operations for over a
week, poachers have killed this
year's tenth one horned rhino
in Assam's Orang national
park, located in Darrang
District of northern Assam.
The incident came to the
fore only on Thursday, when
the guards patrolling the park
recovered a carcass with its
horn missing. The rhino carcass, which was recovered in
semi decomposed state, bore
bullet marks, the officials said.
Prior to this, the poachers
have killed two one-horned
rhinos in Assam's famous
Kaziranga national park within
a span of one week. Out of the
two rhinos, one was killed when
the State environment and forest Minister Pramila Rani
Brahma was camping in the
park, reviewing anti-poaching
measures and discussing strategies to stop poaching. While this
is the tenth one-horned rhino
killed since January this year,
this is also the third rhino to be
killed by poachers after the
new Government led by BJP
took over in the State. It may be
mentioned here that BJP had
campaigned aggressively on the
failure of the previous
Government to stop poaching
and assured that they would
take strong measures to stop
poaching once they are voted to
power.
It may be mentioned here
that Orang national park has
over 100 rhinos according to
the census carried out in 2011.
The park is known for its good
rhino conservation measures
and this is the first rhino to be
killed after December 2014.
The BJP-led Assam
Government, which had campaigned aggressively on the
issue of rhino poaching before
coming to power in the
Assembly polls held in April
this year, had taken up several
steps to stop the poaching.
Government had shifted
the office of the Principal Chief
Conservator of Forests (PCCF)
to Kaziranga national park
from Guwahati.
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Mayawati’s claim on no
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more desertions, one of the
founder members and veteran
leader RK Chaudhury resigned
after charging the brass of
turning the outfit into a ' private real estate company'.
Earlier on June 22, senior
leader and Leader of the
Opposition in Assembly Swami
Prasad Maurya had put in his
papers levelling similar charges.
"The BSP has lost its mission. Mafia, builders and real
estate agents are controlling the
party with Mayawati as their
leader. She is just interested in
minting money," Choudhary
alleged while announcing his
resignation in Lucknow on
Thursday afternoon.
A tall Pasi community
leader and former UP Minister,
Chaudhary asserted that the
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Mumbai: The Bombay High
Court on Thursday directed a
CBI court trying the Sheena
Bora murder case to furnish a
copy of confession given by
Shyamwar Rai, former driver
of prime accused Indrani
Mukherjea, to the co-accused
Sanjeev Khanna.
Rai, was the first accused
to be arrested in the case in
August 2015, taking the lid off
the murder, after he was picked
up in connection with an arms
case.
The trial court recently
allowed Rai to turn approver in
the case and become a prosecution witness.
Khanna, former husband
of Indrani, had sought a copy
of Rai's statement recorded
under section 164 of Criminal
Procedure Code (CrPC) by a
Magistrate last year.
He approached the High
Court through lawyer Shreyans
Mithare after the sessions court
rejected his application seeking
the same.
PTI
BSP chief was taking decisions
as per her whims and fancies to
attain her sole objective of
amassing wealth.
"The graph of the BSP is
dipping by the day due to the
erratic attitude of Mayawati.
Even BSP founder late Kanshi
Ram had once opined that
Mayawati was hungry of
amassing wealth," he stressed.
Choudhar y
blamed
Mayawati for derailing the mission of alleviatiung the plight of
Dalits in the scoiety as envisioned by Kanshiram.
"The ideology of Dr BR
Ambedkar and Kanshi Ram
have been pushed to the back
seat. I was finding myself unfit
in today's BSP and hence
resigned. I will meet my supporters to decide on the future
course of political action in
Lucknow on July 11," informed
the veteran leader.
The former aide of
Kanshiram however denied that
he was in talks with leaders of
other parties, particularly the
BJP. He also scotched reports
about his link with rebel leader
Swami Prasad Maurya, who is
slated to hold a meeting with
his supporters on Friday.
Meanwhile, reacting on
the sudden move, senior BSP
leader and former Rajya Sabha
member Brajesh Pathak
accused Chaudhury of not
functioning properly and only
interested in self promotion.
"After losing the Lok Sabha
polls, he was demanding a
ticket from Mohanlalganj for
terh Assembly polls. He was in
fact sacked from the party
before he resigned. His departure will not affect the BSP in
the Assembly polls as the Dalits
are united under Mayawati,"
Pathak claimed.
Chaudhary was earlier
sacked from the BSP but
rejoined it on April 2, 2013
before the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
He is presently the zonal coordinator of Allahabad and
Mirzapur. He had unsuccessfully
contested the Lok Sabha polls
from Mohanlalganj (Lucknow)
on a BSP ticket in 2014.
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erala is facing a severe
financial crisis, according
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to the White Paper on the
State's fiscal health, tabled in
the Assembly on Thursday by
Finance Minister TM Thomas
Isaac of the CPI(M). The document alleged that the present
situation was brought about by
the financial indiscipline of
the previous Congress-led UDF
Government.
A sharp drop in tax collection, unnecessary tax relaxations, announcement of mega
projects, without providing
budgetary allocations, increase
in non-plan expenditure and
lack of control on expenses and
absence of measures for
increasing revenues during the
2011-16 rule of Congress Chief
Minister Oommen Chandy
were the main reasons for the
present situation, the paper
said.
The Finance Department
stated in the White Paper that
increasing revenue by achieving better growth in tax col-
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arrest on June 16, the Kerala
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Police on Thursday showed
before the public Assam native
Ameerul Islam (23), so far the
only accused in the sensational case pertaining to the brutal
rape and murder of a 29-yearold Dalit law student in
Perumbavoor, around 45 Km
east of Kochi, without mask
while taking him to a court.
Islam was produced before
the First Class Judicial
Magistrate
Court,
Perumbavoor on Thursday as
the period of his police custody
ended. The court extended his
remand in judicial custody till
July 13. In reply to a query, he
told the court he had no complaints to make. The Assam
native was taken to the
Ernakulam District prison at
Kakkanad near Kochi late
Thursday evening.
The media and the people
in Perumbavoor noted that
the face of the migrant worker did not bear resemblance to
the one shown in the sketches
the police had released during
the hunt for the killer of the
Dalit woman. She was murdered inside her house at
Iringole near Perumbavoor on
the evening of April 28.
When Ameerul was sighted by the media for the first time
while the police were taking him
from Thrissur to Aluva, the base
camp of the special team probing the rape-murder, he was
masked totally. Since then,
whenever he was being taken
out for evidence-collection or
for producing before the court,
he was being made to wear a
mask or a helmet.
The police took the
accused from Aluva to
Perumbavoor on Thursday
without a mask as per the
instruction of the court, which,
reminding them about his
rights, told them that there was
no need to keep him masked
anymore as investigation
processes like identification
parades and evidence-gathering had been completed.
As per the sketch prepared
by the police, the accused had
curly hair and gaps between the
teeth. As the police had questioned hundreds in the
Perumbavoor locality in connection with the sensational
case, “there was a time when
even many locals with curly
hair or gaps in teeth had feared
to get out of their houses,” said
a Perumbavoor resident who
had not seen Islam before.
Though the police’s Special
Investigation Team headed by
Additional DGP B Sandhya is yet
to find the yellow T-shirt Islam
was said to have been wearing
while coming out of the victim’s
house after allegedly committing
the crime, no application was
submitted before the court for
getting him in custody further.
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lection and controlling expenses were the two practical ways
before the Government to overcome the crisis situation.
However, no controls would be
imposed on the benefits to the
poor and salaries and pensions,
it added.
Immediately after the
CPI(M)-led LDF took over the
reins of the State administration on May 25, following its
huge victory in the May 16
election, Thomas Isaac, himself
an economist, had promised to
publish a White Paper on
Kerala's economy at the earliest. The document was tabled
in the Assembly as a prelude to
the 2016-17 Budget he is to present on July 8.
"Kerala cannot go ahead in
the current condition. If it
does, the result will be financial anarchy. There is no meaning in blaming the financial
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Chennai: Arun Kumar
Bhaduri, a metallurgical scientist from West Bengal took over
as the director of Indira Gandhi
Centre for Atomic Research
(IGCAR), Kalpakkam, a premier research laboratory under
the Department of Atomic
Energy on Thursday. His predecessor S A V Satya Murthy
retired on Thursday.
Bhaduri is a product of
Calcutta Boys School (1978)
and holds B Tech and Ph D in
metallurgical engineering from
Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur. He is also a winner
of the Homi Bhabha Medal,
awarded by the Training School
of Bhabha Atomic Research
Centre from where he graduated as a nuclear scientist in 1984.
A release by IGCAR said
Bhaduri is an authority on development of materials and their
fabrication technologies for
Indian programmes on fast
breeder reactors, fusion reactors
and advanced ultra supercritical
thermal power plants.
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slowdown. We must take into
account that the tax revenues of
the State had plummeted much
faster than the drop in domestic income," Isaac told mediapersons, after tabling the paper.
According to the document, the public debt of the
State doubled during the UDF
rule. During 2011-16, the public debt had (almost) doubled
from C78,673.24 crore (in 2011)
to C150,000 crore. It was an
alarming situation that would
certainly hinder the development of the State, the White
paper said.
Stating that Kerala urgently needed C5,900 crore to meet
the Administration's routine
expenses, the document said
Kerala's current Revenue deficit
amounted to C8,199.14 crore
and the Fiscal deficit stood at
C15,888.17 crore. As a result of
the UDF's mismanagement,
the arrears that were to be
cleared urgently amounted to
C10,000 crore, it said.
Pointing out that the 200611 LDF Government, in which
Isaac himself was the Finance
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strikes took place along the
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their tenterhooks to sanitise the
yatra route besides keeping a
tight vigil on the movement of
suspected people to defeat their
nefarious designs.
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escorted under tight security
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create a niche for himself in the
country's body politics not
only as a politician but also as
a social reformer.
"Nitish Kumar is the first
and only political leader who
has not only implemented
social reform but also make it
a point to educate the masses
against the liquor ills and its
social implications," said JD(U)
spokesman Neeraj Kumar. He
said earlier some politicians
implemented certain policies
but never made them agenda
for social change.
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of alleged molestation of some
girls of KG and primary classes in a school here, an angry
mob today allegedly ransacked
the Yavatmal Pre-Primary
School, following which police
fired three rounds in the air to
disperse the crowd.
Two teachers-- Yash
Borundia and Amol Shirsagar- of Yavatmal Public School, run
by the Jawaharlal Darda
Education Society, were on
Wednesday arrested on the
charge of molestation after parents of about a dozen students
lodged a joint complaint against
them alleging that they habitually sexually assaulted the girls
in the KG and primary classes.
An all-party bandh was
called in the town today to
protest the incident of molestation. The bandh got a good
response as most of the establishments remained closed.
However, a group of irate
mob stormed into the Yavatmal
Pre-Primary School, run by the
same management in the adjoining of YPS in Darda Nagar
Layout, and hurled stones at the
school building, police said.
"They barged into school at
about 1.30 pm and broke the
window panes of the activity
hall. They even thrashed the
watchman," police said. PTI
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Pradesh, where election is due in
February next and during the
past four months he visited
parts of the biggest State five
times, at least four times to
address anti-liquor rallies. On
Wednesday he was at Jewar in
Gautam Buddha Nagar close to
Greater Noida to address a prohibition rally. Before that Nitish
travelled to Ghazipur on
February 2, Pindara near
Varanasi on May 12, Lucknow
onMay 15 and Shivshankari
Dham near Mirzapur on June
Minister, had achieved 17.4-per
cent growth in tax collection,
the White paper showed that
this had dropped to between 12
per cent and 14 per cent. This
tax drain was one of the main
reasons for the financial crisis
the State was currently facing,
it claimed.
The document blamed the
financial indiscipline and mismanagement of former Chief
Minister Chandy and his
Finance Minister KM Mani,
who had resigned in November
last on the charge of taking
bribe from bar owners, for the
drop in tax collection, a result
of deactivation of the machinery.
The White Paper also contradicted former CM Chandy's
claim that there was a balance
of C1,643 crore in the Treasury
when his Government went out
by pointing out that the actual figure was C1,009 crore. If the
former Government had paid
the bills pending before it, the
Treasury would now be running on a negative balance of
C173 crore, it said.
12. Only one of them was party
meeting and rest were organized
by different social organizations
on the theme of prohibition.
Similarly, Nitish attended a
few meetings in neighbouring
Jharkhand which had been
hosted by various groups.
The recent activities of
Nitish indicate that he wants to
spread his tentacles across
Bihar and particularly in poll
bound UP, in the garb of a
social reformer but with a
political mission; an exercise no
politician ever attempted in the
past even though some BJP
leaders in the past tried to incite
religious sentiments and politically cash in during elections.
Keeping all the political
calculations in mind, Nitish
addressed four rallies in UP
had been held in eastern parts.
opening parties along with
sniffer dogs have been tasked
with the most crucial job of
sanitising the national highway
to detect presence of any explosive material.
According to official
sources, "high alert has been
sounded along the entire yatra
route starting from the gate
way of J&K to the holy cave
shrine of lord 'Shiva',lcoated in
South Kashmir district of
Anantnag to protect the pilgrims". Even the Union Home
Ministry officials have taken a
fresh review of the yatra
arrangements besides offering all possible assistance to
ensure incident free yatra in
the coming weeks.
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Police Commissioner Rashmi
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into the allegations that they
had morphed photographs
showing them at the summit of
Mt Everest, the highest mountain peak of the world.
The two police constables
from Pune --Dinesh Rathod
and his wife Tarkeshwari
Rathod – had created a sensation recently by claiming that
they were India's first couple to
scale Mt. Everest on May 23,
2016. Their Expedition was
organised by Mohan Lamsal of
Makalu Adventure, Nepal.
Following Rathods’ claim,
several mountaineers complained to the Pune police saying that the constable-couple
was lying and had doctored the
photographs showing them at
the Mt Everest summit.
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Rathods, Mrs Anjali Kulkarni
and other mountaineers from
Maharashtra have contested
the veracity of the claim made
by the Pune constable-couple.
Apart from Anjali, the other
mountaineers who have lodged
a complaint with the Pune are:
Sharad Kulkarni, Surendra
Shelke, Anand Bansode, Shrikant
Chavan, Rupali Chavan,
Manisha Waghmare and Amit
Singh. Satyarup Siddhanta, a
mountaineer from Bengaluru,
has gone to town saying that the
pictures that Rathods have
shown as theirs are the photographs he had taken on May
21 at 5.45 am. He has alleged
that the couple had morphed his
photographs and used them as
their own.
Talking to media persons at
Pune on Wednesday, Pune
Police Commissioner Rashmi
Shukla said that she had ordered
an inquiry into the allegations
that Rathods had faked their feat
of climbing Mt Everest.
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hile has taken an
unprecedented step by
requiring labels to be
placed on food that
has high sugar, calories,
sodium or saturated fat. This regulation also bans the sale of any of
these products in schools as well
as advertisements related to them
that target children under the age
of 14. This is clearly one of the most
forward looking steps taken by any
country to ensure curbs on junk
food and the excessive intake of
sugar, salt and fats, which are proving increasingly harmful for the
health of children and adults all
over the world. India is no exception to the worldwide trend which
has led to a major expansion of
harmful food products and what
is generally labelled as junk food.
It is a matter of deep concern that
we in developing countries have
blindly aped and acquired food
habits imported from the developed world which have proven
increasingly harmful to the health
of a growing number of people
who have developed an addiction
for these harmful diets. According
to news reports hunger has been
reduced in Latin America and the
Caribbean, but obesity has doubled
in the region in the past decade.
Countries like Chile and Mexico
are nearing the overweight and
obesity levels of the United States
according to the World Health
Organisation. Chile’s Health
Ministry states that five out of
every 10 children are overweight
and one of every eleven deaths is
linked to obesity.
The new regulation, of course,
will be questioned and challenged
by many, and vested interests that
find it in their short-term interest
to stall any action against unhealthy
food and growing obesity, will do
everything to prevent the effective
implementation of Chile’s new regulations. For instance, one particular Italian company has already
threatened to take legal action
against the Chilean Government to
protect one of its chocolate products, which would not meet the
stringent regulations which have
been specified now.
In our country, with rapid
urbanisation and through the
power of advertising the move
towards junk food is becoming a
serious menace. In fact, this is a
problem confined not only to
urban locations, but even in rural
areas packaged junk food is making major inroads. It is particularly disturbing to travel to our hill stations and find that beautiful mountain sites are not only denuded of
green cover but littered with piles
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of packaging material from paan
masala to potato chips to biscuit
wrappers all over the place. There
is today valid concern on the
increase in use of drugs in certain
parts of the country and the dangers from widespread addiction,
particularly among youth. As it happens, and for very clear demographic and economic reasons the junk
food industry also targets youth as
their favoured customers. This is
not only because of the size of the
market that young people in this
country represent, but also because
if the suppliers of all these products
catch them young then they would
remain hooked on as addicted
customers throughout their lives.
James Clear, an analyst and
commentator on issues of public
interest, rightly states that the goal
of the producers of junk food is to
create a craving for those products
among consumers. Craving is a
function of taste, smell and how a
particular food product feels in the
mouth, referred to as “orosensation”.
According to him companies spend
millions of dollars to make sure that
potato chips produced by them
have the right type of crunch, so that
the consumer enjoys that and gets
addicted to that characteristic as
much as the taste and smell. As far
as taste is concerned, the focus of
suppliers is on the actual “macronutrient makeup of the food — the
blend of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates that it contains”. In the promotion of junk food, suppliers
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work towards creating a perfect
combination of salt, sugar, and fat
with an intent to excite the brain,
which would induce the consumer
to keep coming back for more.
Advertising, both by overt and
covert means has a huge role in creating consumption habits and
addiction to some products. In the
middle of the 20th century every
Hollywood movie projected the
hero as a compulsive smoker, with
a cigarette drooling from his mouth
even when while engaged inromantic dialogue. All of that had a powerful effect in expanding addiction
to cigarette smoking. No doubt, in
some cases the actors themselves
received significant compensation
for this not so subtle promotional
effort. Now, this has shifted to James
Bond wearing designer watches and
high end apparel.
Soft drinks, and addiction to
them is also harmful to human
health, but producers of these
products spend huge sums of
money and adopt innovative ways
to promote their products, such as
through sponsorships of prominent
cricket tournaments and events. In
the US the consumption of soft
drinks has reached unprecedented
levels. Since 1978 soda consumption has tripled for boys and doubled for girls. It is reported that
young males between the ages of 12
to 29 are the biggest consumers with
160 gallons per year on average. At
these levels the calories from soft
drinks alone areas much as 10 per
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for growing youngsters. Addiction
at this level basically leads to a compulsive desire to open a can of soft
drinks whenever a person feels a
decline in energy. Interestingly, the
danger from high levels of soft
drinks consumption was highlighted by the American Medical
Association Council on Food and
Nutrition as far back as in 1942,
when it stated that it would be in the
interest of the public for all practical means to be taken to limit consumption of sugar in any form in
which it fails to be combined with
significant proportions of other
foods of high nutrition quality.
These drinks have been referred to
as Liquid Candy, because they create an addiction for high intakes of
sugar. There is evidence that excessive consumption of these soft
drinks leads to osteoporosis and
bone fractures.
With a blind fascination for the
way of life in the developed countries, particularly that followed in
North America, the younger generation in India also is moving on
the same path motivated, unfortunately, by massive advertising. The
global advertising industry this
year is expected to spend $579 billion, and with the spread of the
Internet, growth in that segment is
likely to be far more rapid than conventional advertising. In a free and
democratic society the dissemination of information is fundamental to the exercise of free choices, but
where advertising a product leads
to harmful effects for the public,
such as through negative health
implications, society has to introduce appropriate regulatory measures and practices. This, of course,
has to be driven by public concerns
and action by civil society. As yet,
such a movement is not in evidence
in India. Within that context it is
particularly important that we
study what Chile has achieved
through its recent action, the evolution of which would, of course,
take some time. However, it is obvious that Chile has carried out due
diligence before introducing its
recent regulatory measures, because
the law under which this step has
been taken was approved in 2012.
It is time that we in India consider
similar steps in the interest of protecting the health of the public and
ensuring that the expenditure and
decline in health of consumers does
not continue to fatten the wallets of
those who are in the production of
junk foods, the range and scale of
which is perhaps reaching
epidemic proportions.
(The writer is former
chairman, TERI)
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“Missile with Make in India label”
(June 30) by Pravin Sawhney.
Defence Minister Manohar
Parrikar must not forget that the
focus should not only be on
manufacturing and sale of
high-tech defence equipments,
strengthening our Armed Forces,
boosting their morale by inducting innovative arms, new
Research & Development labs,
defence equipments, arms and
ammunitions too are important
so as to secure our country.
Prasanna Khakre
Via web
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Sir — This refers to the report,
“Achchhe din here for Sarkari
staff”(June 30). The Seventh Pay
Commission’s recommendations
to hike the salary of Government
employees by an average of 23.55
per cent is a good news, but will
cause inflation. Those who have no
source of income will suffer. Its time
to freeze the wage. Otherwise the
difference between the have-nots
and the rich will keep widening.
Bholanath Bhattacharya
Allahabad
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Sir — This refers to the article,
“Akhilesh Yadav: Bound by
obstinate old guard” (June 29) by
Rajesh Singh. When Akhilesh
Yadav became the Chief
Minister of Uttar Pradesh, there
were huge expectations from
him. This, despite the fact that
he belonged to the Samajwadi
Party and was the son of
Mulayam Singh Yadav.
It is unfortunate that despite
giving his best, Akhilesh Yadav
could not change the face of the
State which is known for poor law
and order situation. For Akhilesh
Yadav, his father has been the
biggest hurdle.
Bal Govind
Noida
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Sir — This refers to the brain
stormer, “Don’t be sad about
Pulwama. Be angry” (June 27). I
am sure that measures are in place
to prevent ambushes like the one
that happened in Pulwama. This
incident calls for a review to
strengthen the system of intensive
and sustained intelligence gathering to locate safe area hideouts
of the anti-nationals and their
neutralisation as soon as they step
out on their mission.
Also, intensive training
should be provided to the paramilitary personnels employed in
such areas. Their deployment on
patrols to detect movements of
such small groups will break the
terrorists’ apparatus.
Ashok Chaturvedi
Via web
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Sir — This refers to the brain
stormer, “Don’t be sad about
Pulwama. Be angry” (June 27).
The paramilitary forces, especially those employed in insurgent
areas have to be careful. There has
to be a standard operating procedure for the paramilitary forces
like we have for our Army when
they move in convoys.
Dangerous places along the
route have to be sanitised before
the main convey passes through.
The paramilitary should use
armed cars when a convoy is passing. They should also be in radio
communication with the vehicle in
the front as well as in the rear.
Venkataraman Jagadesan
Via web
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JP leader and Rajya Sabha
MP Subramanian Swamy
ostensibly appeared to be
Reshimbagh’s stalking horse as he
targeted Union Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley’s favourite bureaucrats.
After scalping Reserve Bank of
India (RBI) Governor Raghuram
Rajan, who chose to take the fight
to the media, he went after Chief
Economic Advisor Arvind
Subramanian and then followed it
up with another fusillade against
Economic Affairs Secretary
Shaktikanta Das.
Both were believed to be in
the hunt for the Mint Street job,
particularly Swamy who was considered the odds-on-favourite
after Rajan exited. The Swamy one
man wrecking crew had put paid
to their chances. Then in the
smoke and mirrors that Swamy’s
actions had left behind, one wondered whether the intended target was Jaitley himself? Worse still,
other than Jaitley, no one came
forward to defend the FinMin
bureaucrats, making the game of
thrones all too complicated.
Life they say is constantly
throwing binaries at you, but the
events of the last week or so convince you that the BJP’s travails
were serious. In fact, when the
intensity of the attacks increased,
Delhi’s SPM-laden air swirled
with gossip that Swamy was
backed by the Prime Minister
himself to belittle Jaitley. Heh —
but Jaitley was and is extremely
close to the Prime Minister?
So, where was Swamy, always
an enforcer and a loose cannon,
getting his wings from? The coat
and tie analogy from Swamy was
particularly disconcerting for he
likened the Finance Minister to
a waiter launching a full frontal
on him. The Finance Minister
came rushing back from China
cutting short his visit.
Tashkent and Seoul may have
been the hotspots where India’s
Nuclear Suppliers Group aspirations were laid low, but the real joust
was very much back home in Delhi,
as Swamy’s tweets caused tumult
and havoc, embarrassing the party.
In Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe’s poem Faust, there is reference to schall und rauch (sound
and smoke) which tantamounts to
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importance. But in the Faustian
theatre that Swamy has unleashed
against Jaitley backed by the
Sangh or the Prime Minister, the
enfant terrible has already consumed one RBI Governor and
removed Subramanian and Das
from the complex calculus of
being Rajan’s successor.
Faust as we now know is not
just a philosophical poem, a work
in which the expression of philosophy is subordinate to poetic ends,
but a dramatic poem, a work in
which a principal poetic effect is
dramatic collision — and irony.
So, Swamy obviously has a
shadowy backer. In this gambit of
shadows and ghosts, Swamy was
winning till Jaitley returned
abruptly from China and convinced Prime Minister Narendra
Modi that Swamy should zip-up.
In the past too, Swamy has directly targeted Jaitley and his associates like Attorney General Mukul
Rohatgi. There is obviously an old
animus between them. Their
mutual dislike is well known. But
the Sangh and the BJP had to
reward Swamy for his crusading
zeal in ‘trapping’ Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Congress
vice president Rahul Gandhi in the
National Herald/Associated
Journals Ltd case.
Z security across India as a
Central protectee in September
2014, a Government bungalow
for five years in December 2015,
and finally a Rajya Sabha nomination have come for Swamy in
the two year tenure of this BJP
Government. Let us also be
mindful of the fact that former
Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee had kept him at more
than an arm’s length distance in
the past.
Now, you would think,
Swamy is just a gadfly or a pesky
fly who refuses to go away, but all
those who know him also know
him as a dangerous adversary.
One who wants the political nar-
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s Delhi Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal chasing a pipe-dream by
trying to seek a referendum on full
Statehood for Delhi? Should Delhi
have a referendum on this issue or
will it open a Pandora’s box? Whether
he succeeds or not, Kejriwal has started a debate when he tweeted after the
Great Britain’s exit from the European
Union last week, “After the UK referendum, Delhi will soon have a referendum on full statehood.”
A full statehood for Delhi has
been a long-pending demand.
Kejirwal’s predecessors too had been
seeking it as they felt that their hands
were tied with limited powers.
Former Delhi Chief Minister
Sheila Dikshit had made it clear
that since the police was not in
her hands, she could not do
much when the Nirbhaya rape
case rocked the capital. She was
opposed to the multiplicity of
agencies ruling the national
capital. The BJP too had made
a similar demand.
Last month, Kejriwal
released a draft bill on full statehood to Delhi. The draft
retains control of areas under
the New Delhi Municipal
Council with the Centre and
seeks to include subjects like
policing, law and order, land
and services, that are currently outside the purview of the Delhi
Government. The official period for
public feedback ends on June 30.
Historically, soon after
Emergency, the Janata Party
Government tried to introduce a
provision for referendums through
the Constitution (44th Amendment)
Bill, 1978, but this did not materialise. The only instance of Statesanctioned direct democracy in
India was in Goa. Sanctioned
through a law enacted for the purpose, it was called the Goa Opinion
Poll, 1967, to decide the future of the
Union Territory of Goa, Daman and
Diu within the Indian Union. Goa
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finally became a State in 1987 during the Rajiv Gandhi era following
persistent demands including a resolution for full statehood in the Goa
Assembly in 1976.
Those supporting the idea
include former AAP leaders like
Yogendra Yadav. They argue that just
because the Constitution does not
provide for it, the subject cannot be
barred. Those who oppose argue that
Delhi has specific characteristics as
vital institutions such as Parliament,
the Supreme Court and foreign
embassies relocated in the capital.
Second, most new capitals around the
world are administered as a federal
territory distinct from States. Beijing,
Canberra, Washington, DC, Ottawa
and many other major capitals are
examples of this pattern.
Experts say that in the absence
of a constitutional provision, there
should be an informed debate on the
issue and Kejriwal simply cannot
impose a referendum on the people
of Delhi without due consideration.
Second, it might lead to other
Union Territories making such
demands. Delhi is only one of the
seven Union territories as listed in
Schedule I of the Constitution. The
Union Home Ministry through the
rative to be centred around him.
And right now he is slap bang in
the middle of it. The counter narrative is the powerful Jaitley, who
Swamy wants to destabilise and,
therein, lies the tale of Faustian
collision.
If Jaitley succeeds in getting
Swamy to shut up, then we know
who has won this round.
However, if Subramanian and
Das are both nixed in the race of
Mint Street, how we know who
has got the upper hand? Unlike
BJP MP from Darbhanga Kirti
Azad who targeted Jaitley over
the Delhi & District Cricket
Association corruption and got
suspended in the process, Swamy
has seen no public censure from
the party or its president. Nor has
the Sangh cautioned him.
Late on Monday evening, there
was talk that he has been told to
keep mum privately. Knowing
Swamy, it is unlikely that he’ll keep
quiet for too long. The closest to a
public warning came from the
Prime Minister himself in a telly
interview on Monday where without naming Swamy he said,
“Whether it is in my party or not,
I think such things are inappropriate. This fondness for publicity
is never going to do any good to the
nation. People should conduct
themselves with utmost responsibility. If anybody considers himself
above the system, it is wrong.”
The Prime Minister’s remarks
were a corollary to his speech at
the BJP National Executive meet
of June 13 in Allahabad where he
argued for partymen and lawmakers to follow a seven-point
mantra — sevabhav (service),
santulan (balance), saiyam
(restraint), samanvaya (coordination), sakaratmak (constructive), samvedana (sensitivity) and
samvad (dialogue).
Swamy spewing vituperative
venom at Jaitley has probably cost
him this round, his last intemperate tweet extremely damaging
and ugly — “People giving me
(unsolicited) advice of discipline
and restraint don’t realise that if
I disregard discipline there would
be a blood bath...The BJP should
direct our Ministers to wear traditional and modernised Indian
clothes while abroad. In coat and
tie, they look like waiters.”
During the UPA years,
Swamy was a lone ranger attacking the Union Finance and Home
Minister P Chidambaram over 2G
spectrum and his alleged involvement in it. Unfortunately, despite
Swamy’s
best
efforts,
Chidambaram received a clean
chit from the Supreme Court, limiting the then Janata Party chief ’s
vitriolic and incessant tirade
against him.
In 2012, the Patiala House
District Court in Delhi saw the trial
judge in charge of the 2G spectrum
case OP Saini deliver a judgement,
shooting down Swamy’s application under Section 311 of the Code
of Criminal Procedure to examine
Chidambaram. Failing to scalp
Chidambaram was arguably the
biggest setback for Swamy. Like an
infantigo, he was all over the
Congress those days.
Round one to Swamy, round
two to Jaitley. Now, how long will
Swamy keep it zipped?
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is a historic reason for this. In 1911,
when India’s capital was shifted from
Calcutta to Delhi, the British
Government did not bring Delhi
under any State, but it was given the
status of capital of British India.
The father of the Indian
Constitution, BR Ambedkar, noted
that the national capital can’t be under
a State or a local Government. The
States Reorganisation Act, 1956, didn’t merge Delhi with any other State
and left it as a national capital.
In 1989 when Parliament
passed The Government of National
Capital Territory of Delhi
Act, 1991 granting full statehood to Delhi was not
agreed to. Delhi Assembly
was given the powers to
govern and make laws on all
but three subjects — public order, police and land.
Third, while many
including some European
countries follow the referendum route on crucial
issues but India, though a
largest democracy, is not
yet mature enough to do so
and the exercise will
involve huge costs.
So why is Kejriwal
harping on the referendum idea? Is it because he
wants to divert attention from
controversies surrounding his
Government and the party? Or is
it because he wants divert attention
from the Damocles’ sword hanging
over 21 of his MLAs who might
lose their membership on the
office of profit issue? How does he
propose to make sure that
Parliament will vote for the amendment to the Constitution will
require two-thirds majority to
enable Delhi have its referendum?
He has just three MPs. The simple
answer is that he believes in confrontational politics and this is his
way of dealing with issues.
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India elected the BJP
Government to
power in the summer of 2014,
we were a broken nation. Our
national security had been
challenged by our neighbours.
The previous Government in
power had fractured our backbone with corruption.
Our strength had been
weakened by policy paralysis,
and in-action and to top it all,
Western vested interests infiltrated in the country in the
form of NGOs that were
breaking us from inside.
Forget about making any
progress in a fast-paced
world, we were incapable, as
a nation, to hold ourselves
together. That is when and
why the people voted for the
BJP with a huge mandate.
People were hopeful that
the new Government would
get the nation moving. There
was also a sincere desire to
leave behind the period of
inaction, subversion and corruption by undoing all the
negative developmental bridles that surrounded us.
Remember the prolonged agitation of Medha
Patkar, who undermined
development and the water
security of the central and
western parts of India? She
and her cohorts had succeeded in stalling the efforts
of providing water to the
parched lands of Madhya
Pradesh, Maharashtra,
Gujarat and Rajasthan,
notwithstanding the long
spells of drought and famine.
Remember
the
Greenpeace-sponsored agitations that were trying to
stall power generation capacity building and development in many parts of the
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country? They wouldn’t care
if your child had light in his
room to study for his examination, but wouldn’t allow
even the most environmentfriendly technology to be
brought in to the country.
Remember
Teesta
Setalvad, who in connivance
with large multinational
donors, was promoting communal disharmony under the
mask of social work? She
wouldn’t allow reason to percolate in the society, but would
do everything to cover the
public eyes with blinding cloth.
These are just a few
examples of how vested
interests systematically
wrecked the country, by
exploiting the state.
At the time when the BJP
came to power, India had
NGOs and activists mushrooming everywhere who ate
from the palms of Western
donor agencies. Not a day
had passed without the media
reflecting their voice and
lionising their unjust stands.
They were being showered with international
awards and recognition for
breaking the nation from
within, in the name of civic
movement. Democracy had
been misused, governance
had been disused and the vulnerable communities had
been grossly abused.
The BJP has been in
power for two years now
with its focus on development. Vested interests of sinister agencies have been
plucked out of their niches
and dumped into the dustbin
of history. The perpetrators
behind these double-faced
NGOs have been exposed
and neutralised.
And, two years have
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passed without unjust agitation by NGOs or dubiously
funded agencies.
Recently, the NGO of a
well-connected person has
been exposed and is being
brought to justice. A nation
that was being broken by
divisive forces has begun its
journey on the path of development with an uncompromising and unbroken stance.
It is a pity that this has not
been conveniently recognised
by the so-called political commentators, political psychologists, social theorists, critics
including the media.
It is also true that in the
past two years, most projects
have progressed as scheduled, without the opposition
of the vested interests backed
by Western lobbies. The
financial over-run on the
projects is a thing of past.
Today, the nation is witnessing the cost-effective implementation of infrastructure
projects, which had become
milking cows of easy money
for the previous Government.
These very significant
achievements need to be
accepted and publicised by all
concerned, regardless of
political or professional ideologies, as they have a direct
bearing on our well-being as
an individual and as a nation.
We need to make people
of India aware of these benefits of achche din. We need to
feel proud that our nation is on
the path to progress. We need
to feel happy that the lives of
our children will be better than
ours. As a nation, we need to
realise that ‘hope’ has come to
be a meaningful word.
(The writer is chairman,
Khadi and Village Industries
Commission)
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R aghuram R ajan, whose
three-year term comes to an
end in nine weeks, on
Thursday pitched for a longer
tenure for the central bank
head, saying the global practice has to be emulated in
India as well.
R ajan, who briefed
Parliament’s
Standing
Committee of Finance on various aspects of economy and
NPA in banks, was asked by
members on what should be
the tenure of the RBI
Governor, sources said.
He told the members that
a three-year term is “short”.
On whether it should be
five years, Rajan is believed to
have cited the case of US
Federal Reserve.
In the US Fed, in addition
to serving as members of the
Board, the Chairman and
Vice-Chairman serve terms of
four years and may be reappointed to those roles who in
turn serve until their terms as
Governors expire.
Rajan, whose current
three-year tenure ends on
September 4, has already said
no to a second term.
Sources further said that
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Raghuram Rajan as a “great”
central bank governor, World
Bank President Jim Yong Kim
today said he has been told by
the Indian leadership that
Reserve Bank will continue to
have an independent head.
“What I heard from
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi and members of his
team is that there is not going
to be much change. They
will continue to have an independent central bank governor, and the policies that
have lead to good outcomes
will continue,” Kim said in an
interview to NDTV.
The
World
Bank
President described Reserve
Bank chief as a “great” central
bank governor, saying he
tremendously respected Rajan
as an academic. Kim added
that Rajan, Prime Minister
and the Government have
been communicating very
effectively.
To a question whether he
trusts India’s GDP numbers
Kim said: “This (methodology of calculation of GDP
numbers) is not an exact science, there is no Physics in
this, it is really taking many
different pieces of data and
then making a best guess.”
“...It (methodology) is
taking many indicators and
then in a consistent way doing
best to make an estimate.
Because we have been consistent over time, we feel very
comfortable with these number (India’s GDP numbers).”
Indian economy grew at
7.9 per cent in fourth quarter
of 2015-16, taking the overall
GDP growth to a five-year
high of 7.6 per cent in the fiscal.
during the meeting that lasted for over three hours, the
Governor briefed the panel,
headed by senior Congress
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nearly one-third to a record low
of 1.2 billion franc (about C8,392
crore) amid a continuing global
clampdown on the famed secrecy wall of Switzerland’s banking
system.
The funds held by Indians
with banks in Switzerland fell by
CHF 596.42 million to CHF
1,217.6 million at the end of 2015,
as per the latest data released on
Thursday by the country’s central banking authority SNB (Swiss
National Bank).
This is the lowest amount of
funds held by Indians in the Swiss
banks ever since the Alpine
nation began making the data
public in 1997 and marks the second straight year of decline.
The funds held by Indians
with Swiss banks stood at a
record high of CHF 6.5 billion
(C23,000 crore) at 2006-end.
However, the quantum of
these funds has been falling
since then, except for in 2011 and
in 2013 when Indians’ money
had risen by over 12 per cent and
42 per cent, respectively.
At the end of 2015, the total
funds held in Swiss banks by
Indians directly stood at CHF
1,206.71 million (down from
CHF 1,776 million a year ago),
while the money held through
‘fiduciaries’ or wealth managers was down at CHF 10.89
million (from CHF 37.92 million at 2014-end). The total
stood at CHF 1,814 million at
the end of 2014.
This is the lowest-ever level
of funds held through fiduciaries, which used to be in billions till 2007 but has been
falling amid fears of regulatory crackdown.
The total “amounts due to
customers’ savings and deposit
accounts” fell to CHF 425.8 million (from 1,378 million a year
ago), while the money held
through other banks incidentally more than doubled to CHF
270.4 million (from CHF 100.6
million). The ‘other liabilities’ of
Swiss banks towards Indian
clients, which include funds
held through securities etc, rose
from CHF 297 million to CHF
510.4 million.
The latest data from Zurichbased SNB comes at a time when
Switzerland has begun sharing
foreign client details on evidence of wrongdoing provided
by India and other countries.
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steel
giant
ArcelorMittal and Italian
G
group Marcegaglia on Thursday
said they have submitted an
offer to acquire Italy’s lossmaking Ilva plant as the consortium was the best equipped
to take on the challenges of the
plant’s turnaround.
The
NRI-billionaire
Lakshmi Mittal headed company said: “The offer details
consortium’s industrial and
environmental plans for Ilva”, as
it intended to raise primary utilisation rate with crude steel production rising from the current
level of 4.8 million tonnes per
annum (MTPA) to over 6
MTPA by 2020.
The offer included a commitment to improve Ilva’s environmental
performance
through installation of best
available technology, bringing
Ilva in-line with European environmental standards and legis-
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Thursday cut by 89 paise
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a litre and diesel by 49 paise
a litre, the first decrease in
rates in two months.
Petrol will cost C64.76 a
litre in Delhi from midnight
tonight as compared to
C65.65 per litre currently,
Indian Oil Corp, the nation’s
largest fuel retailer,
announced.
Similarly, diesel will cost
C54.70 per litre as against
C55.19 a litre currently.
This is the first reduction
in rates in two months. Petrol
price was last hiked by 5 paise
a litre on June 16 and diesel
by C1.26 a litre. Petrol prices
in the four hikes since May
1 had been raised by C4.52 a
litre, while diesel rates had
gone up by C7.72 per litre.
“The current level of
international product prices
of petrol and diesel and
Rupee-US Dollar exchange
rate warrant decrease in selling price of petrol and diesel,
the impact of which is being
passed on to the consumers
with this price revision,”
IOC said in a statement.
Barring an exemption
on April 16, when price of
petrol was cut by 74 paise a
litre and diesel by C1.30, the
upward trend in rates had
been a phenomenon since
March 17.
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at five-month low rate of
per cent in May, slipping
from a four-year high of 8.5
per cent in previous month,
as oil and natural gas output
contracted.
The eight infrastructure
sectors -- coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products,
fertilisers, steel, cement and
electricity -- had expanded
by 4.4 per cent in May 2015.
The eight core sectors comprise nearly 38 per cent of
total industrial production.
In April, these sectors
grew at an over four-year
high rate of 8.5 per cent,
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expansion in refinery products and electricity generation.
The May growth numbers are the lowest since
December last when the core
sector had expanded by just
0.9 per cent.
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The consortium will also
look to induct new, innovative
steel grades, facilitating an
increase in proportion of high
value-added products in Ilva’s
product mix and a commitment
to guaranteeing employment
at industry best practice levels.
“The submission of the bid
is the first step in a multi-stage
process that will see only environmental part of the offer discussed for the next 120 days.
Following this period, the government will provide more clarity on the next steps of the offer
process,” the statement said.
Geert Van Poelvoorde
Executive Vice President and
CEO, ArcelorMittal Europe Flat
Products, said: “We believe Ilva
represents a compelling investment opportunity for
ArcelorMittal, without compromising our balance sheet
strength as it would extend our
leadership position and increase
our product offering in Italy,
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deal to sell 49 per cent stake in
Essar Oil to Russia’s Rosneft,
the Ruia family is looking at
selling another 25 per cent
stake in the company to an oil
trader or a strategic investor
like Saudi Aramco.
The sale of 74 per cent
stake (49 per cent to Rosneft
and 25 per cent some other
investor) will help bring down
Group debt by half to about
C46,000 crore from current
C88,000 crore, sources said.
The promoters see an
enterprise value of Essar Oil of
$10 billion.
A preliminary deal for
sale of 49 per cent in Essar Oil
to Rosneft was signed between
the companies in July 2015. In
March 2016, they signed a
non-binding agreement. No
valuation was provided for
the deal at that time.
Rosneft, the world’s top
listed oil producer, will get a
hold in India’s second biggest
oil refinery as well as its 2,400
petrol pumps that will more
than double to 5,000 in two
years.
The Russian firm will also
supply 10 million tonnes a year
of crude to Essar Oil’s 20 million tonnes per annum
Vadinar refinery in Gujarat for
10 years.
The deal, however, does
not include Essar Oil’s
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state of the economy, reforms
and restructuring of RBI, challenges in the banking sector in
India and the way forward.
The committee was
apprised by Rajan of the various steps taken to deal with
the bad loan problem, said the
sources.
The Reserve Bank has
said the gross non-performing
assets of the banks can rise to
as high as 9.3 per cent in 201617 after hitting 7.6 per cent in
March 2016.
Rajan, the sources added,
also briefed MPs about the
credit scenario of the banks.
He is believed to have told the
MPs that private lenders are
more active on the lending
front, but PSU banks are found
to be reluctant even when
there is no shortage of funds.
The Governor also
explained to MPs the impact
of Brexit on India and the
global economy.
Earlier in the day, Rajan
called on Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley as the central
bank and the government seek
to quickly put in place a new
interest rate-setting mechanism.
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manufacturing and consuming market.”
Poelvoorde added that
ArcelorMittal’s plan in the first
stage centres on the three blast
furnaces in operation with an
aim to invest to improve product mix, quality and productivity in order to return the
plant to profitability.
Antonio Marcegaglia
Chairman and CEO of
Marcegaglia, said: “Ilva has
always been a vital asset in the
entire Italian steel chain and we
need to ensure it can continue
to be in the long-term.”
ArcelorMittal is the world’s
leading steel and mining company with a presence in 60
countries and an industrial
footprint in 19 countries. In
2015, ArcelorMittal had revenues of $63.6 billion and
crude steel production of 92.5
million tonnes, while own iron
ore production reached 62.8
million tonnes.
of crude oil (-3.3 per cent)
and natural gas (-6.9 per
cent) dragged the growth
rate to a five-month low.
Also, growth in output of
refinery products (1.2 per
cent), cement (2.4 per cent)
and electricity (4.6 per cent)
also slowed down in May as
compared to the same month
last year. These segments
had expanded by 7.8 per
cent, 2.7 per cent and 6 per
cent, respectively in May
2015.
Coal output growth was
also lower at 5.5 per cent in
May this year compared to
7.6 per cent in year-ago
period.
Only fertiliser and steel
output recorded healthy
growth. It increased by 14.8
per cent and 3.2 per cent in
the month under review.
During April-May 201617, the growth of eight core
i n f r a s t r u c t u re
s e c t or s
increased by 5.5 per cent
from 2.1 per cent in the
same period last year.
Commenting on the core
sector growth numbers,
ICRA said slowdown in May
suggests a low likelihood of
a meaningful improvement
in the performance of the
IIP in the just-concluded
month.
“As expected, a waning
o f t h e f av o u r a b l e b a s e
effect for sectors such as
refiner y products, electricity, cement and steel,
has led to a slide in core
sector growth to 2.8 per
cent in May from the high
8.5 per cent in April 2016,”
it said in a statement.
upstream portfolio comprising
of five CBM blocks, holding
up to 10 trillion cubic feet of
gas resource.
Rosneft is majority owned
by the Russian Government
with BP Plc holding under a 20
per cent stake and public
shareholding at around 10 per
cent.
The deal between Essar
Oil and Rosneft is now in its
final stages with the binding
terms of the contract expected to be signed shortly, sources
said.
Essar has commenced discussions with more than one
interested foreign investors
for selling upto 25 per cent
additional equity, they said,
While the Rosneft deal is
likely to conclude next month,
sale of additional 25 per cent
equity is expected to con-
clude by August.
Sources said Ruias are
leveraging the value created in
an asset by monetising it.
The promoters had recently paid C3,347 crore to minority shareholders of Essar Oil to
get the company delisted. This
was the largest payout to public shareholders by any delisting company in India.
The delisting had valued
the company at about C38,000
crore.
Rosneft deal is the biggest
private sector investment from
Russia to be made in India.
A group of Indian stateowned oil companies including ONGC Videsh Ltd, Oil
India Ltd and Indian Oil Corp
(IOC) are investing $5-6 billion in taking substantial stake
in two oilfields operated by
Rosneft in Russia.
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=4F 34;78) As the fight for
market share took nationalist
overtones, Indian ride-hailing
startup Ola on Thursday hit
out at its San Francisco-based
rival Uber for fanning the
nationalism debate to hide its
identity of being a multinational with “serial violations of
law”.
“It is a shame that our
competition has to fan a
debate of nationalism to hide
their identity of being a multinational, with serial violations of law as a business
strategy, not just in India, but
globally. This debate in our
view is not about foreign vs
local but who is respectful of
the local laws and who is disrespectful,” Ola COO Pranay
Jivrajka wrote in a blogpost.
While Ola last week was
granted a licence to operate its
cab aggregation service in
Karnataka, Uber said its
application was still languishing and officials had
asked it to make a fresh application.
Uber, however, continues
to operate.
“Over the past couple of
days, there has been an irrelevant debate around organisations operating in the
country being national or
international. Isn’t a company like Alibaba, run by a
local entrepreneur like Jack
Ma, ‘Chinese,’ despite having
a majority of its shareholdi n g f rom i nt e r n at i on a l
investors? Aren’t the cutting edge technology solutions, high value jobs and
Internet ecosystem that
Alibaba has built, invaluable
assets for China?,” Jivrajka
wrote.
This was apparently in
response to a blogpost by
Bhavik Rathod, Uber’s general manager of South and
West in India.
“What makes Uber ‘foreign’? The fact that we are
established in San Francisco
but have a hyperlocal team
solving problems that are
locally relevant? Or that, just
like our competitors, we
received most of our funding
from ‘foreign’ investors?”
Rathod wrote in a blog titled
‘Let’s keep Bangalore moving’.
Jivrajka wrote it is the
onus of the business that
brings in transformative
technology, to work with
the government and evolve
the ecosystem further in a
partnership mode.
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<D<108)Brexit is a reminder
that there is a rising tide of
nationalism and a retreat of
globalisation, HUL Chairman
Harish Manwani on Thursday
said while stressing upon the
need for MNCs to “win the
hearts and minds” of local
communities.
Addressing shareholders
at the company’s annual general meeting here, Manwani
said societal trust in business
is eroding throughout the
world.
“The outcome of the
recent ‘Brexit’ referendum is
a reminder that there is a rising tide of nationalism and a
retreat of globalisation,”
Manwani said.
In that context, he said, it
is even more important for
companies to not just be seen
as responsible international
citizens but also be perceived
as serving the local commu-
nities.
Business is and must be a
force for social good and
companies must strive to win
the hearts and minds of the
local communities in which
they operate, he added.
“Above all, to be successful in a world where societal
trust in business is eroding,
global companies must adopt
the model of responsible
growth and go beyond mere
compliance to laws and regulations,” he said.
Britain voted last week to
exit from the European Union
after 43 years as the ‘Brexit’
camp defeated ‘Remain’ in a
down-to-wire referendum
with far reaching implications for the world.
Manwani also pointed out
that trends are gaining global scale and significance that
consumers are becoming
more rooted in their local cul-
tures and identities.
“For example, the digitally aware Indian consumers
demand the best products
and services from across the
world but at the same time,
are more boldly rediscovering
and celebrating local customs, tastes and festivals,” he
said.
Terming it as a “striking
paradox that defines this age
of global connectedness”,
Manwani said creating the
right organisation and mindset is critical for organisations
to strike a balance between
going global and meeting
local aspirations.
“Often companies can
become mindlessly global or
hopelessly local. While managing multi-country operations, it is important to strike
the right balance between
seeking international leverage
in terms of innovation and
R&D with local relevance for
meeting consumer needs and
aspirations,” he said.
Commenting on the
impact of digitisation,
Manwani said it is changing
“dramatically what consumers
watch and where consumers
buy. For instance, in India, we
have more than a billion
mobile phone subscribers and
e-tailing is now the fastest
growing channel. Technology
is creating a level playing field
between developed and developing markets.”
This creates an opportunity for global companies to
build digital capabilities and
rapidly roll out technologybased business models, said
the Chairman of Hindustan
Unilever Ltd.
With developing countries poised to lead the world
economy, Manwani said “this
is a defining moment for
Indian businesses that plan to
expand their global footprint.
“To be a truly global enterprise, businesses need to balance global leverage with local
relevance, build an organisation that is diverse and agile,
and embrace technology to
serve the fast-changing needs
of consumers everywhere.” ?C8
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SAIL, Rashtriya Ispat
Nigam, Usha Martin and JSW
Steel have filed a petition before
the DGAD for initiation of
anti-dumping investigation and
imposition of the taxes on the
alleged dumped imports of
‘Wire Rod of Alloy or NonAlloy Steel’ originating in or
exported from China. The
Directorate General of AntiDumping and Allied Duties
(DGAD) ‘prima facie finds sufficient evidence of dumping’ of the
products from that country.
“The authority hereby initiates
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an investigation into the alleged
dumping causing consequent
injury to the domestic industry. To
determine the existence, degree and
effect of dumping and recommend
the amount of anti-dumping duty,
which if levied, would be adequate
to remove the injury to the domestic industry,” the DGAD has said in
a notification.
The period of investigation
covers July-December 2015. The
injury investigation period will
also cover 2012-2013, 2013-2014,
2014-2015, April 2015-December
2015. Besides, it said the applicants
have requested for retrospective
imposition of the anti-dumping
duty. The products under consideration in this investigation
are bars and rods, hot-rolled,
irregularly wound coils, iron or
non-alloy steel or alloy steel,
which are commonly known as
wire rods. It is used in many
applications and sectors such as
automotive components, welding electrodes, fasteners including nuts and bolts, nails, railway
sleepers, general engineering,
binding wires for construction
industry, armoured cables.
Countries start anti-dumping probe to determine whether
their domestic industries have
been hurt due to surge in belowcost imports. As a counter measure, they impose duties under
the multilateral regime of WTO.
The duty is aimed at ensuring fair
trading practices and creating a
level-playing field for domestic
producers vis-a-vis foreign producers and exporters.
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sports bike in India to replace
faulty clutch system.
“The parent company
Yamaha Motor Co, Japan, has
determined that a defect, which
relates to clutch pressure plate
and oil pump malfunction,
exists in few YZF-R3 motorcycles falling within certain production numbers,” India
Yamaha Motor said. Although
no safety issues have been
reported from anywhere in
India, Yamaha has decided to
recall all the vehicles falling
under the identified production
numbers, it added.
“A total of 902 bikes will be
recalled in India under Yamaha’s
factory modification campaign,
where the affected motorcycles’
defected parts will be replaced
with a modified one on ‘free of
cost’ basis at Yamaha authorised
dealers,” the company said. PNS
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Chairman & Managing
Director of
National
Hydroelectric Power Corporation
(NHPC), KM Singh have a chat
with the Pioneer team. An excerpt
from his interview.
Q. What are the major
achievements of NHPC so far?
A: NHPC is the Largest
Hydropower utility in India in
Central Sector and is operating 20
power stations with a total installed
capacity of 6587 mw, including
1520 mw by its subsidiary NHDC.
NHPC contributes about 15 per
cent of total hydropower installed
capacity in India. It became ‘Mini
Ratna’ Category-I Company w.e.f.
April 2008 and a listed Company
on BSE & NSE w.e.f. 1st Sept, 2009
after successfully concluding its IPO
worth over C6,000 crore. We have
not taken equity support from Govt
since 2007-08. Average annual
profit of the company in last 5 years
is more than C2,000 crore and average annual Capex of the company
is C3,100 crore. NHPC has excellent operating margin of more than
70 per cent.
NHPC has completed several hydropower projects ahead of
schedule including Chamera-Il
(300 mw) in Himachal Pradesh in
record time of 4 years 6 months a trend setter project in hydropower development. World’s longest
inclined pressure shafts (1546m)
using double shield Tunnel Boring
Machine (TBM) has been completed by NHPC at its Parbati-II
Project in Himachal Pradesh.
NHPC has the credit of constructing Concrete Faced Rock
filled Dam (CFRD) for the first time
in India at its Dhauliganga Project
in Uttarakhand and also introducing Jet Grouting for the first
time in India at its Teesta-V Project
in Sikkim. A remarkable progress
of 816m of tunnel excavation from
single face has been achieved in a
month at Kishanganga H.E. Project
J&K, which is highest-ever in
India using TBM. It has also established a ‘Real Time Seismic Data
Centre’ for receiving the earthquake
data on real time basis from its 18
power stations. NHPC is the only
hydropower utility in the country
to have such data centre. It has
developed in-house capability of A
to Z in development of
Hydropower energy field.
Q.Whatistheexpansionplan?
A. NHPC is now a 5000 mw
company on standalone basis.
NHPC at present is executing 4
hydropower projects. The total
installed capacity of under construction projects is 3210 mw and
6995 mw capacity projects are
under various stages of clearances.
A wind power project of 50 mw in
Jaisalmer, Rajasthan is nearing
completion. It has already added
1292 mw of Hydropower capacity in XIIth Plan and by the end of
the current plan, it is expecting to
add another 410 mw (40 mw each)
of installed capacity by commissioning balance 2 units of TLDPIV along with Kishanganga Project
(330 mw) in J&K. Further, 100 mw
each is expected to be added from
Wind and Solar Power Projects.
NHPC aims to commission these
projects as early as possible and
become a 100,00 mw company
Q. What have been most significant achievements of NHPC in
financial year 2015-16?
A. The current financial year
has been very significant for NHPC
on various fronts viz. capacity
addition, Joint Ventures & MoUs,
Financial performance etc. During
2015-16, NHPC added 80 mw
from 2 units out of total 4 units of
Teesta Low Dam Stage-IV (160
MW). On operational parameters,
it has overall outperformed in
both the benchmarks viz. generation of power and PAF. During the
FY 2015-16, it has achieved highest ever generation of 23683 MU
since its inception. It has also
achieved 81.6 per cent actual Plant
Availability Factor (PAF) against
‘Excellent’ MoU PAF target of
76.8 per cent.
On financial front, NHPC
has reported a 15 per cent growth
in the standalone net profit at Rs
2440 crore in the FY 2015-16 compared to Rs 2124 crore for the corresponding period in the last fiscal
year. Sales for the FY 2015-16 also
rose by 9 per cent to Rs 7347 crore
compared to Rs 6737 crore for the
corresponding period in the last fiscal year. A final dividend of Rs 1.50
per equity share for the year 201516 has been recommended which
comes out to Rs 1660.60 crore
against total dividend of Rs 664.25
crore for the year 2014-15. It has
already paid an interim dividend of
Rs 875.49 crore to Govt for the
FY2015-16. We have also signed a
MoU with Govt of Bengal and WB
State Electricity Distribution
Company Limited for development
of four hydro projects with total
capacity of 293 mw by NHPC on
Build, Own, Operate and Maintain
(BOOM) basis. MoU has also been
signed with Solar Energy
Corporation of India for development of 250 mw Grid connected
Solar Power Projects.It has further
signed pact with Teesta Urja
Limited for providing consultancy
services for Project Construction
Management for 1200 mw TeestaIII Project. NHPC alongwith
JKSPDC and PTC has formed a JV
Company, CVPPP Ltd., for implementation of Pakal Dul, Kiru &
Kwar Projects in Chenab River
Basin with total installed capacity
of 2164 mw.
Q. What are your key goals
and priorities for future?
A. NHPC's core business is
Generation of hydropower and sale
of electrical power. The Company
is committed to maintain its leading position in this field. It is
presently engaged in development
of several hydroelectric projects. It
is focused on expeditious development of vast untapped hydro
potential available in the country.
In addition to the projects under
construction, Pakal Dul HE project
(1000 mw) stands cleared by Govet
for implementation under JV.
NHPC is actively pursuing clearances from Govt for hydropower
projects having aggregate capacity
of 6995 mw. Out of this, 5 projects
with capacity of 4995 mw are
planned to be implemented by
NHPC by its own and four projects
with capacity of 2000 mw through
Joint Ventures.
NHPC is also helping to the
stalled projects in hand of private
agencies by providing consultancy
for Project Construction
Management and O&M services.
It is also envisaging 4 renewable
energy projects on ownership basis
- viz., 2 nos. Wind power projects
(130 MW) & 2 nos. solar power
projects (100 MW) which are
presently under clearance stage. 1
no. Solar power project (50 MW)
in Kalpi, UP and 1 Thermal Power
Project in Pirpainti, Bihar are also
under consideration in JV mode.
It aims to reduce its operating cost
and improve operating performance by investing in technologically advanced equipment and
methods and by allocating significant resources to modernize the
Power Stations. NHPC is pursuing
CDM registration for additional
projects and exploring other carbon
trading initiatives such as voluntary
emission reduction certification.
Q. What steps are you taking
to ensure to meet these targets?
A. NHPC has established a
Multi-Tier progress monitoring
and review system coordinated by
the Project Monitoring Services
Group. It has also introduced
Primavera based monitoring system
and earned value Techniques of project management. Detailed and
extensive reviews are carried out regularly at the Project level which is
also periodically reviewed by the
concerned Regional offices. Coordination meetings with the participation of Regional and
Departmental heads at Corporate
Office are held to deliberate on critical issues with a view to expedite
the project implementation. NHPC
has also implemented specialized
Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP) system to efficiently manage
the optimum utilization of generating assets and expeditious implementation of construction projects.
Q.With the emergence of
competition, how do you think it
will affect NHPC?
A. As I have already said 65 per
cent of the total hydropower potential of the country still remains to
be tapped. NHPC is a premier
organisation in the country in the
field of hydropower development
and looks to maintain its leadership
in the hydropower sector. We are
working on capacity addition plan
through our own projects as well as
through Joint Venture projects. A
JV company ‘Chenab Valley Power
Projects (P) Limited has been
formed with Jammu & Kashmir
State Power Development
Corporation Ltd. (JKSPDC) and
PTC India Limited for three projects in Jammu & Kashmir with an
aggregate capacity of 2164 mw.
Another JV company ‘Loktak
downstream Hydroelectric
Corporation Limited’ with Govt. of
Manipur has been incorporated for
development of 66 mw Loktak
Downstream project in Manipur. A
JV company is proposed in Bhutan
for
development
of
Chamkharchhu-I Project (770 mw)
in Bhutan. In addition to these, talks
are also going on with Government
of Sikkim for few more projects.
Q. What is the outlook for the
hydropower sector?
A. Our country is endowed
with enormous economically
exploitable and viable hydropower
potential of 1,48,701 mw (above 25
mw) out of which 42,783 mw
(excluding Pumped Storage
Schemes) has been developed so far
and projects totaling 13,502 mw
(excluding PSS) are under development. Thus, about 65 per cent of
the total potential remains to be
exploited. The remaining untapped
potential provides ample opportunities to hydropower developers.
At present, emphasis is on
using sustainable, renewable
resources of power generation to
meet the increasing demand for
energy. Hydropower is the best &
dependable renewable energy technology which is presently commercially viable on a large scale.
Hydropower is clean power and
having very less generation of
greenhouse gases compared to
other conventional modes of power
generation. It also enhances energy security of the country where
there is deficit of energy and shortage to meet peak demand.
Hydropower Projects reduce depletion of indigenous fossil fuel and
import of coal, crude oil required
for energy generation through
thermal power plants and DG sets
respectively and thus would save
huge amount of scarce foreign currency and avoid emission of greenhouse gases. These gases are
responsible for climate change
which is subject of concern worldwide. To avoid or minimize adverse
impact on environment by avoiding greenhouse gasses, and for the
Energy Security of the Nation,
hydropower is the best alternative
for generation of green and clean
electricity in a sustainable manner.
In addition, water security, flood
control and irrigation are also feasible with Hydro Power Scheme.
Therefore, I see very bright future
for hydropower sector in India.
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T
with income abroad, the tax
department has notified ‘Foreign
Tax Credit’ (FTC) rules allowing
companies to claim credit for
taxes, surcharge and cess paid
overseas. The rules, which come
into effect from April 1, 2017,
allow taxpayers to claim credit
of foreign tax under dispute once
it is finally settled.
FTC will be available against
tax, surcharge and cess payable
under the Act, including minimum alternate tax (MAT) but
not in respect of interest, fee or
penalty. The rules also provide
that disputed foreign tax will be
allowed as credit for the year in
which the income is taxed in
India, subject to certain condi-
tions. To avail of the credit, the taxpayer will have to furnish evidence
of settlement of the dispute and
evidence of payment of the foreign
tax. The taxpayer is also required
to provide an undertaking that no
refund, directly or indirectly, will
be claimed for this FTC.
“The rules are progressive
and provide much-needed clarity
as well as certainty in claiming
FTC,” said Rakesh Nangia,
Managing Partner, Nangia & Co.
Taxpayers claiming FTC shall now
be required to file a Statement of
Income from a foreign country with
details of tax paid in the prescribed
Form 67. “Rules also provide for situations of carry backward of loss
of the current year resulting in
refund of foreign tax," said Amit
Maheshwari, partner, Ashok
Maheshwary & Associates LLP.
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Audi India on Thursday said it is
focusing more on tier II and III
locations, including the NorthEast, to tap the growing appetite
of customers for premium vehicles. “Luxury enthusiasts in smaller cities are the ones who are converting into customers. As they
are the ones with big pockets.
“North-Eastern (region in) India
is a focus area for us and we are
looking forward to welcome new
members to the Audi family
from the region,” Audi India
Head Joe King told PTI.
Although the base is smaller, our sales in Tier II and III cities
are growing at around 30 per
cent, while it is less than 10 per
cent in metros, he added. “Tier
II and III cities have grown consistently for us and also across the
product range,” he said.
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cadets killed 37 people and
wounded 40 others on Thursday,
an Afghan official said. The attack
took place in Paghman district,
some 20 kms west of the Afghan
capital, Kabul, according to Mousa
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chief of al-Qaeda in the
IIndian
Subcontinent (AQIS),
was on Thursday designated as
a “global terrorist” by the US
which added the regional
branch of the global terror
network on the list of “foreign
terrorist organisation”.
The announcement by the
State Department prohibits US
citizens to engage in transactions with AQIS and Umar and
the freezing of all of their
property and interests in the
US. In addition, the consequences of AQIS’ FTO designation include a prohibition
against knowingly providing, or
attempting or conspiring to
provide, material support or
resources to the organization.
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman
al-Zawahiri had announced
the formation of AQIS to take
the fight to India, Myanmar
and Bangladesh in a video
message in September 2014.
The AQIS is led by Umar,
a former member of US designated Foreign Terrorist
Organisation Harakat ul-
Mujahidin. Umar, 38, who was
born as Sana-Ul Haq in
Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh,
graduated from Darul Uloom
seminary in Deoband 1991.
He later travelled to
Pakistan where he studied at
the Darul Uloom Haqqania
Nowshera, the seminary which
is dubbed as the ‘University of
Jehad’. AQIS claimed responsibility for the September 6,
2014 attack on a naval dockyard in Karachi, in which militants attempted to hijack a
Pakistani Navy frigate.
It has also claimed responsibility for the murders of
activists and writers in
Bangladesh, including that of
US citizen Avijit Roy, US
Embassy local employee
Xulhaz Mannan, and of
Bangladeshi nationals Oyasiqur
Rahman Babu, Ahmed Rajib
Haideer and AKM Shafiul
Islam. “Today’s action notifies
the US public and the international community that AQIS
and Umar are actively engaged
in terrorism,” the State
Department said.
“Designations of terrorist
individuals and groups expose
and isolate organisations and
individuals, and result in denial
of access to the US financial
system. Moreover, designations
can assist or complement the
law enforcement actions of
other US agencies and other
Governments,” it said.
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Kuwait City: Nine Asian workers were killed and 12 others
injured in a fire on Thursday at
an old building used to house
expat labourers in Kuwait City,
the Health Ministry said.
The ministry, quoted by
state news agency KUNA, said
all the victims were Indians or
Pakistanis. At least five of the
injured were in critical condition. The cause of the fire was
not immediately known.
Last week, a blaze at the
Gulf State’s central jail killed
one inmate and wounded 56
other people
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Secretary Theresa May on
Thursday launched her bid to
succeed Prime Minister David
Cameron as the front-runner
Boris Johnson in a surprise
announcement ruled himself
out of contention, making the
race for Conservative party
leadership a five-way contest.
After Johnson’s announcement not to contest, May is
now the clear favourite as a unifying candidate after a referendum campaign that
exposed deep divisions
within the party.
The former London
Mayor and top
Brexit campaigner was seen as her
main rival to
replace Cameron
who
had
announced he
will step down
after the referendum results in
favour
of
Britain’s exit from
the European
Union (EU) last
week.
“My pitch is
very simple. I’m
Theresa May and I
think I’m the best person to be Prime
Minister of this country,” May, who has been
the UK’s longest serving Home Secretary,
n Egyptian Coptic priest
was shot dead on Thursday
in the Sinai Peninsula where
authorities are battling a jehadis
insurgency, officials said, in an
attack claimed by the Islamic
State group.
Raphael Moussa, 46, died
instantly when a man shot
him in the head as he was
standing next to his car in ElArish, the capital of North
Sinai, said Boulos Halim, a
church spokesman.
The ISIS group’s Egypt
branch claimed responsibility
for the murder in a statement
posted on social media, accusing him of “combating Islam”.
Moussa had earlier left a
church where he attended
mass, Halim said.
The interior ministry said
the priest was gunned down
after having gone to an area of
El-Arish with mechanics to
have his car repaired.
The ISIS affiliate in restive
Sinai has waged an insurgency
that has killed hundreds of
policemen and soldiers.
It has kept up the attacks,
mostly roadside bombings and
ambushes, despite a massive
military campaign to uproot
jihadists from the peninsula
bordering Israel and the
Palestinian Gaza Strip.
Moussa was not the first
priest killed in Arish.
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said at a Press conference.
She underlined that “Brexit
means Brexit” as she
announced that she will be running for party leadership contest, which is set to conclude by
September 9.
“Our country needs strong
proven leadership to negotiate
the best possible terms for the
UK leaving the EU. Brexit
means Brexit. The campaign
was fought, the vote was held,
turnout was high and the public has given its verdict,” the 59year-old Conservative party
leader said, adding, “We need
leadership that can unite
our party and our country”.
May, who was appointed Home Minister by
Cameron in 2010 and
again after last year’s
General Elections, said
that among her first jobs
as the Prime Minister
would be to create a new
Government department
responsible for negotiating Britain’s exit from the
EU, headed by an MP
who campaigned for
Britain to leave the EU.
She spoke about
invoking Article 50,
the formal procedure for leaving the
EU,
which
Cameron has left
for his successor to
do. “Article 50 should
not be invoked before the
end of the year,” she
said.
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exit referendum has forced
the Government to delay a
decision on airports expansion until autumn, it said on
Thursday. Prime Minister
David Cameron had been set
to make a decision on where
to expand airport capacity in
southeast England in the
coming weeks.
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the polls on Saturday with a
suave multi-millionaire former banker vowing only he
can ensure stability in the
wake of the Brexit vote for a
nation used to a revolving
door of Prime Ministers.
Malcolm Turnbull, 61,
became Australia’s fourth
leader in just over two years
when he ousted fellow Liberal
Tony Abbott in September —
and he has jumped on
Britain’s decision to leave the
European Union to bolster
his position.
Brexit illustrated how
“critical it is that we maintain
strong, stable leadership”, he
said, adding that his Labor
opponent Bill Shorten, 49,
would not provide that. PTI
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Rahmati said. He said that four
civilians were among those killed.
The cadets were returning from
a training centre in Wardak
province and were heading to the
capital on leave, Rahmati said. A
spokesman for the Interior Ministry
confirmed the location of the attack
and said a loud explosion had
been reported, but did not have any
further details on the incident.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in an email sent
to AP by spokesman Zabihullah
Mujahid.
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Kellerman, a unique fusion of
Zulu and Indian dancing along
with local yoga exponents will
be part of a welcome reception
here for Prime Minister
Narendra Modi during his visit
next week.
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intertwined through a sense of
cultural kinship and affinity
and of course our shared history,” said internationally
renowned South AfricanIndian choreographer Jayesperi
Moopen, who is coordinating
the entertainment function for
the welcome reception for
Modi here on July 8.
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Jerusalem: A Palestinian
attacker stabbed a 13-year-old
girl to death at her home in a
Jewish settlement in the West
Bank on Thursday before being
shot dead by security guards,
the Israeli Army said.
The Army said the
Palestinian killed the girl in her
bed after breaking into her
house in the Kiryat Arba settlement outside the city of
Hebron. Security personnel
rushed to the house and fired
on the attacker, who wounded
a guard before being shot dead,
said the Army. The Palestinian
Health Ministry identified the
attacker as Mohammed Nasser
Tarayra, 19, from the village of
Bani Naim, just outside the city.
Hebron has been a flashpoint in a spate of deadly
unrest that has rocked Israel
and the Palestinian territories
since October last year.
The violence since October
has killed at least 211
Palestinians, 33 Israelis, two
Americans, an Eritrean and a
Sudanese.
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Kathak have fused with the traditional rhythms of Africa
dance, bringing together synergies of these rich heritages,”
Moopen said.
“This visit is a timely one
for South Africa, the African
continent and India, as for the
very first time, an Indian head
of state will address a public
gathering of this magnitude on
South African soil,” said Raman
Dhawan, the chairman of the
South Africa Welcomes Modi
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of community organisations
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India and Pakistan must engage
in “direct dialogue” to reduce
tensions, the US has said it is
for the two countries to determine the pace, scope and character of talks on the Kashmir
issue. “The normalisation of
relations between Pakistan and
India is vital to both countries
and the region,” State
Department
Deputy
Spokesman Mark Toner said.
“Steps that initiate closer
regional economic ties can also
create jobs, lower inflation and
increase energy supply,” he
said. The spokesperson made
the remarks while responding
to questions on the statement
by Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif ’s Adviser on Foreign
Affairs Sartaj Aziz that India is
shying away from talks on
Kashmir and other bilateral
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Beijing: China will not accept
any third party settlement with
regard to territorial and maritime disputes and reject any
ruling by an international tribunal on a case filed by the
Philippines over the contentious South China Sea issue,
a senior diplomat has said.
“The Arbitral Tribunal in
the South China Sea, (SCS)
arbitration established at the
unilateral request of the
Republic of the Philippines
claimed that it would issue the
so-called final award on 12 July
2016,” a statement issued by
Chinese Foreign Ministry
spokesman Hong Lei said.
“I hereby once again
emphasise that the Arbitral
Tribunal has no jurisdiction
over the case and the relevant
subject-matter, and that it
should not have heard the case
or rendered the award,” he said.
His comments came after
the tribunal said it will hand
down a ruling on the case on
July 12.
China claims all most all of
the SCS. Its claim is firmly contested by the Philippines,
Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and
Taiwan which have overlapping
claims over the area.
In his statement Hong said
the Philippines unilaterally initiated the arbitration in 2013.
“The Chinese Government
immediately declared that it
would neither accept nor participate in the arbitration initiated by the Philippines, a position that has since been repeatedly reiterated,” he said.
Subsequently, China also
questioned the legality of the
arbitration saying that “has no
jurisdiction over the case, and
that the Chinese Government’s
non-acceptance of and nonparticipation in the arbitration
are solidly founded in international law”.
Ahead of the verdict of the
tribunal several Chinese officials said openly that the
judgement may go against
China’s stand.
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holidays where you begged your
parents to take you out to an
amusement park? Those endless hours
of splashing about in the water, taking
that heart-thumping roller coaster ride
and munching on some forbidden
munchies. And given the chance, you
would do it all over again.
Though in India amusement and
theme park industry is tiny as compared
to US and Europe and there are very few
amusement and water parks that can be
considered as large. But still a few of
them are developing themselves by
adding
advanced
features.
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Awards recently awarded few of
India’s most amazing amusement
and water parks.
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don’t just get fun rides but have a complete experience of it but now we have
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thrill-packed rides. It
has got features that
can attract all age groups. Equipped
with international standards, the park
uses reverse osmosis treated water with
a temperature of 28 degree celsius
maintained throughout.
Situated at the top of a hill at
Pallikkara (12 km from Kochi) and surrounded with picturesque greenery,
Wonderla offers an eco-friendly environment to its visitors where one can
have number of water rides with family and friends.
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largest Wave Pool spread across 100
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This is the most beautiful area in
Hyderabad where you can see different
film shooting locations with created
structures to show airport or different
locations from abroad. Spread across
2,000 acres of land, this is one the most
favourite holiday destinations with
world’s the largest film studio complex.
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If you are up for some ice skating
and bowling games then this amusement park is the best option. It has a
beautiful colossal infrastructure and
several exciting dry and wet rides.
Among all the fun activities that can be
enjoyed, the ice skating ring, discotheque and bowling alley serve as the
prime attractions for people.
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the Mumbai-Pune expressway close to
Mumbai, Adlabs Imagica is an amusement park that offers shopping, dining,
action and other entertaining activities
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experience while taking a ride in the
Lazy River that spans across the park.
The ride gives a experience of lightness
by enjoying nature while passing
through tunnels and under bridges.
Inside the park there is a canteen
where you can munch on some good
food while you plan out your next ride.
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This is a park that remains a centre of attraction for toddlers and old
aged equally. The adventurous rides like
octopus, big wheel, froggy fun et al will
surely give you a thirst to give it a try.
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pools as well as showers, crazy falls, and
aqua dance and so on.
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dinosaurs? This park will offer you the
same where one can enjoy a ride amidst
life size models of dinosaurs. With special effects, simulations and a voice over,
the technologically advanced 3D models of the giant beasts are scary, but fun.
3D models of early life forms from
Proterozoic period to neogene are also
on display. Along with that one could
have a look at early land animals,
plants, and giant mammals and ice age
beasts. One can experience special
effects like under water travel, animals
breathing, sunset scenes, volcanoes,
sounds of tropical forests and the chilly
ice age.
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a trip to one of these playlands, hope
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attracts large number of tourists and
provides a good options for recreation
to them. It has a roller-coaster ride that
is called, ‘The Cyclone’. This is the most
attractive feature here and when seated on a 16-seater car, the ride along the
750-metre winding tracks would be an
experience similar to being hit by a
cyclone.
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I debated between dubbing it
a ‘ponderous pachyderm’ or a
‘lumbering leviathan’. I have
decided to stick with the latter, for a couple of reasons.
First, and quite obviously, its
size. And the second is that the
last adjective one should use
with the Trailblazer is ‘fast’. It
isn’t.
But that is not to denigrate
this car, the Trailblazer, much
more than the Endeavour is an
all-American car. To use an
human analogy, this is the
Brock Lesnar of cars. Well, it
would be had it had a punchier engine. But that is not the
Trailblazer’s biggest drawback.
For that, we have to come back
to the Trailblazer’s immense
size.
Many of my friends are
immensely jealous of my job.
And true, being an automotive
journalist is to lead an
extremely pampered life, yet it
is not as simple as it sounds.
Swapping cars on a regular
basis, particularly ones you
have to live with even for a few
days is not easy. I call it the
‘diagonal’ challenge. Every
time you change cars the first
challenge is to learn the diagonal, just how big a car is. And
on the Trailblazer, that is a
challenge particularly on the
smaller colony roads in and
around Delhi.
That, more than engine
power and braking is a major
consideration of how you drive
a car particularly in a city, with
motorcycles swarming around
and jaywalking being a championship sport. Of course, it
takes a few kilometers to figure out how the accelerator
and brakes respond and then
you take a couple of corners
aggressively to figure out cornering. You can skip the cornering tests on something like
the Trailblazer, because well,
have you seen an elephant cornering? I haven’t.
That said, once you are
aware of the car’s size and
drive accordingly, there are
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night’s sleep on Wednesday as a section of the
few surprises. It does not wallow from side to side and
while the car takes some time
to build up speed it feels
rather comfortable. The
Trailblazer does not really
lend itself to playing around
too much if you are behind the
wheel. Indeed, as such, if you
have a driver with a leaden
right foot, may I suggest the
Trailblazer.
Inside the car, the sense of
space again comes to the fore.
Given that most of us in India
grew up in small econo-hatches, it feels alien to be able to
stretch out your legs in the rear
seats. The third row in this car
is quite usable and the middle
bench in particular feels very
nicely padded. The instrument dials seem oddly tiny for
this car, the dials to size ratio
for this car seem like the
Diplodocus’ brain to size ratio.
The information display is
limited and the ‘My Link’ system while capable, seems a
generation older than the systems on rival cars.
So to reiterate, this car is
large, very large indeed. And
for its size, it is not that expensive coming in at around C27
lakh. Which given its size is a
steal one would think, or is it?
There are actually quite a few
problems with the Trailblazer.
The first is the Ford
Endeavour and then a couple
of Japanese issues. The
Endeavour is actually slightly
larger than the Trailblazer but
because they have integrated
their engine and gearbox better, even the 160PS 2.2-litre
Ford Endeavour feels faster
than the Trailblazer. In fact,
Ford Endeavour 4x2 version is
cheaper than the Trailblazer
and the top-spec 4x4 not much
more expensive. Given that the
Trailblazer lacks a 4x4 model,
it does not have any pricing
power over its American rival.
And then there is the market-leading Toyota Fortuner,
which isn’t perfect but is large,
relatively powerful and spacious as well, and it is a 4x4.
Though that said, if size is
what you want with three
rows of comfort then you
should go to a Toyota showroom, look at the Fortuner and
buy the second generation
Innova. Spacious with a practical third row, tremendously
reliable and cheaper. It does
not pretend to be a SUV, but
you really can’t tell. So given
the competition and its sluggish performance, is the
Chevrolet Trailblazer worth
investing your money in? It is
really difficult to make a case
out here.
twitterati posted reports of the 94-year-old’s
demise. “There was a deluge of calls midnight
onwards. All of us were disturbed. Sen could
not sleep properly on Wednesday night. It is
a very distasteful thing to discuss,” a caretaker in the Sen household told Sen lives in
Kolkata with his wife Gita.
Netizens set the microblogging platform
abuzz with condolences while a section questioned the reports’ veracity. Filmmaker
Arindam Sil tried to put the grapevine to rest
with his update. “@suhelseth #MrinalSen is just
fine. Please do not believe rumours,” Sil
tweeted. According to Sen’s caretaker, the ace
filmmaker is “doing fine” and had his breakfast and lunch on time. Regarded as the pioneer of parallel cinema in India, Sen’s health
issues made headlines in recent years.
In December 2015, he underwent a minor
hip surgery after slipping and falling in the
bathroom. Despite his age, the nonagenarian
has been vocal on raging issues, including the
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII)
appointment controversy.
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fact that some of the best eateries are
located in GK-II, and it very much is
the go to place for a formal dinner. When
we got to know about a new lounge-bar
with an open terrace, we felt that we had
to go there for a couple of drinks since
there are just a handful of those in GK.
We discover that the catchy name of
the place, Bunmanchi, is a really smart one,
whilst doing our research. Bunmanchi is
Nepali for ‘jungle man’ and is alternatively used as a synonym for the mythological yeti outside Sherpa communities. And
the bar functions under the guardianship
of Yeti-The Himalayan Kitchen and occupies the terrace as well as the third floor
of the building that houses Yeti.
We choose the stairs over the lift thinking that some minor exertion won't do us
any harm. When we reach the 3rd floor
we are in for a surprise, since we had
expected a loud, commercial setting,
but to the contrary we found the ambience to be very mellow. With the dim
lighting and the retro music that was on,
the place had quite a homely feel to it, if
you overlook the high chairs which are
customary to a bar.
But we have learnt that it is wise to take
advantage of whatever we have at our disposition and we decided to climb another flight of stairs to check out the open terrace. And the well aired open terrace was
where we decided to spend the rest of the
night for our meal. We were welcomed
with a glass of Luis Felipe Edward
Chardonnay, a Chilean wine, and while
sipping on it at our leisure our eyes fell on
the projector screen which ensured that we
don’t miss out on the ongoing Euro Cup
soccer match while having diner.
Bunmanchi is designed as a late night
eatery-bar which is open till one in the
night and commences operations at seven
in the evening. We would recommend one
and all to avail of the services at the terrace, the wind whipping across your
face, while you are munching on some
spicy Himalayan cuisine is quite an
exhilarating experience.
The in-house staff recommends some pork
lemon fried for starters.
While we are waiting for
the dish, DJ Karma walks
in and joins us. He is one of
three resident DJs here, every
night one of them turns up
to treat the patrons of
Bunmanchi to some live
music. After waiting for
a short while, when the
pork is served we make
a mental note to pay heed
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all with the necessary charms and
characters of a beach side shack - the
palms and bird cage lights perfectly
thrown in. The place even has sand
under your feet for the times you
wished to unwind but couldn’t really
plan a getaway and yearned for walking bare foot on those therapeutic
grains. Beach and the city? Probably.
The insides though are a stark contrast
from the outside seemingly beachy
wonders. The long neon illuminated
bar is anything but the usual sights
you are accustomed to at the capital’s
bar scene. Giving a feel of one of those
plush spaces for a leisurely drink - this
one sure knows how to take that stress
overload off your head for some
time.
After soaking in the environs and
moving on from our vacation mode
to our gustatory needs we set our sight
on the menu which has the flavours
from South Africa to Kerala to the
South East Asia. A nice mix of Orient
and Occident with a bit of Creole
thrown in. Expect a heady mix of
spices, already. Sticking to the theme
the menu is pretty inventive and has
all the nautical elements including the
delightful graphics of divers. We
embarked on our sea voyage with vegetable pots which came in dainty little pouches of flour stuffed with
mildly flavoured veggies. Next up
were mushroom and spinach croutons
which overwhelmed our palate with
the waft of spinach or maybe mushrooms or maybe both.
a perfect combination of Mexican and
desi tadka. The combination of cheese
and a palak paneer is a rather non-traditional and odd combination, might
we say. But ayone looking to try
something different from the usual pizzas, may give it a go.
No matter how good your meal is, it
is surely incomplete without desserts. So
we had the khajoor (date) brownie-kismi
caramel with ice cream to go with it. It was followed by the mishthan bhandaar sundal, a milk
halwa with crushed dry fruits and a hint of
cardemom. To top it, the the base was filled with
gooey liquid chocolate that we just couldn’t wait
to get to.
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decided to go for hunks of chicken
where we had Vietnamese skewers in
lemon grass with chilli and cucumber
dip. This one apparently had no taste
of lemongrass coming though for
some weird reason and the dip which
should have been a tad spicy lacked
the requisite heat. Moving on we
found a superb sight in polenta which
came nicely paired with aglio olio with
succulent zucchini. Our second drink
for the evening was a perfect accompaniment to the seaboard, the agent
orange — refreshing indeed.
For the mains we decided on
Portuguese bean curry which was a
little on the sweeter side. From
Portuguese shores we traversed to the
backwaters of Kerala with typical
spicy coastal curry, well-balanced
with the spices rounding up the
palate nicely. Summing up, if you seek
to have a vacation without having one
in particular then Tabula Beach is one
of those few places in the city to hit.
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made of jute ropes and cycle wheels and paddles to vintage furniture and bunta bottle
chandeliers, the place is a classic example of the
amazing things you can do with recycled material. The ambience of the restaurant is quirky,
vibrant and eye catching.The creative menu captured our attention at first glance, which was
printed on handmade sheets and clipped to
wooden writing boards. When you think of your
childhood, you can’t help but remember all
memories and experiences of food.
Away from the sweltering heat of
the city, our food journey started
with cold bunta drinks with different
flavors like bunta soda which tasted
like chaat masala and India Gate
bunta that reminds you of kaala
khatta with punch of jeera.
Not only this, but the
starters
are
worth
the
munchies. The
first item that
awakened our
taste buds were
the toddy
mushrooms
with sauces,
followed by
chicken 65,
made from 65
types of special
spices from Kerala.
But it was the chicken
tikka pizza that grabbed all
the limelight. Made in an innovative style, the
oval shaped pizza was loaded with cheese, and
we loved it! Next we had the bengan bharta taco,
to the sensible suggestions of the crew. We
find the hot and sweet meat to be supple
and chewy. Karma, who has been practicing his art professionally since the age of
21, tells us that though his conscience has
been prodding him to abstain from consuming meat, Bunmanchi’s food menu,
which is mostly meat based, makes him
doubt his resolve.
We feel that it would be best to go by
the recommendations of the crew, especially after the scrumptious pork that we had
consumed with much delight. And therefore we had already formed somewhat high
expectations of the buffallo momos that
were offered to us next. We take a bite off
one of the steamed dumplings, only to be
slapped on the cheek by the scalding juicy
fat emanating from the meat in it. Karma
has a good laugh and tells us that even he
learnt the lesson the hard way; you are supposed to pop the whole thing into your
mouth. Now that we know the trick
behind consuming the momos without the
oily slap, we are jubilant! The succulent
dumplings turn out to be better than the
pork. We finish off the platter with relish.
The staff probably felt that too much
meat must be getting monotonous for us,
even though we weren’t complaining, and
decided to have some fun by mixing it up
for our palates by serving us a vegetarian
dish. The aloo ka achaar turned out to be
another impeccable dish which tickled our
taste buds. The potato based snack was
charmingly hot ‘n’ sweet and did indeed
serve as some much needed respite from
all the meat we had.
Though Bunmanchi does not have any
desserts amongst its offerings, to appease
our sweet tooth, they served us the
Tiramisu from Yeti’s itinerary. A popular
Italian dessert, this sweet dish contains an
ample amount of mascarpone cheese
along with chocolate and coffee. This
heavy, buttery sweet dish was the most apt
way to end a superb supper.
And while you are at Bunmanchi, don’t
forget to treat yourself to a glass of the Yeti
iced tea, which we were served as a fitting,
goodbye drink. A fizzy concoction which
surprisingly contained copious amounts of
alcohol with sparkling wine, vodka, apart
from the lime and pineapple juice, contrary
to our expectations, it was quite refreshing. We lamented the fact that we had no
knowledge of the drink before our meal or
else we would have commenced our eating spree with Yeti’s variant of the popular iced tea. But yes, it does leave you a bit
tipsy, we learnt, when we were descending
the stairs, we were ready to take on the
world with a spring in our step. Without
doubt, that must have been the confidence
imparted by the alcohol.
Greater Kailash, has everything of a classy English
bistro but the menu fails to impress. We imagined a
classic English menu but were greeted with dishes like
paneer makhni pie and tandoori chicken sword.
However, we did appreciate the manager’s admittance, “We wanted to make a place for all. Somewhere
you can enjoy the taste of London
with an Indian twist.” Taste of London
or not, it was interesting to find the
good old Canadian poutine in the
menu. And we found no reason to
not like the dish. Crispy fried golden yellow potatoes, sauted meat and
copious amounts of cheese — we
couldn’t complain the least.
The Londoner’s dragon spicy
rolls were equal amounts of crispy and mushy, outside and inside. But it left no staggering impression
on our tastebuds. We tried their good ol’ aloo tuk with
chilli tamarind mayo and it was surprisingly good. The
blend of aloo and the chilli tamarind was the high
point of this dish.
Chef Kamal suggested we try their prawn and
chips and they were delectable, although there was
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nothing new in it. You might
not want to dig in right away as they come
to the table really hot. While few fusion dishes work
out well, at Londoners we realised that paneer
makhni is better off paired with roti. We tried their
version of the paneer makhni pie and it did not suit
our taste buds.
The chicken clay pot that we had from the main
course was a clear winner. This again, was not a
London specialty. Claypots are an
ancient cooking method where
Chinese households dumped meat and
root vegetables into a pot, topped with
stock and cooked over slow heat over
the fireplace. It was quite wholesome
and was a meal in itself with steaming
hot gravy stock, succulent meat pieces
and well cooked rice. It was a perfect
blend of vegetables and meat.
There are plenty of other dishes you can try out
here, including a wide range of pizzas, burgers, fries
and the classic English Scotch eggs. The drinks were
everyday coolers and and the food a regular pub fare.
However the Indian twist to the dishes were somewhat out of place. All in all, we would say, come for
the drinks, have some London delicacies, stay for the
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quarterfinals of the European
Championship as it tries to make the
final four in a major competition for the
first time since the 1986 World Cup.
The game on Friday takes place in
the northern French city of Lille, which
is just 10 kilometers or so from the
Belgian border.
Fans of the team have already
turned up in droves in the city for Euro
2016 games in Lille, and nearby Lens.
Local fans should also swell their
ranks both in and out of the Stade
Pierre-Mauroy. For two of the Belgium's
players, Eden Hazard and Divock Origi,
it will be homecoming of sorts. Both
started their professional careers at the
local club Lille.
Wales' boisterous fans will do their
best to compensate, no doubt. Wales is
looking to go one further than its previous best appearance in a major tournament.
Back in 1958, it lost its quarterfinal
match to Brazil to a solitary goal from
a young Pele.
"We are very confident at the moment,"
the team's star forward, Gareth Bale,
said after Wales
ground out a 1-0 victor y over Northern
Ireland in Saturday's
last-16 game.
"You don't get
to the quarterfinals of
a major tournament by
luck." That victory followed two wins in
the group stage, to Slovakia and Russia,
which secured the team top spot in
Group B and entry into what appears to
be the easier side of the knockout
draw.
The winner of the match will take
on either Poland or Portugal in the
semifinals.
Wales coach Chris Coleman said he
was impressed with how his team stood
up against teams with very diverse
playing styles.
"The three wins out of four we had,
we had to win differently. That's a good
sign for any team," said Coleman, who
spoke of "an ugly win" after the
Northern Ireland game.
"We showed another side of our
game, it wasn't pretty," he conceded.
Wales and Belgium know each
other well.
They were in the same qualifying
groups for the 2014 World Cup and for
Euro 2016. The score is equal - one win
apiece and two draws.
One concern for Wales has centered
on captain Ashley Williams, who injured
his shoulder against Northern Ireland.
However, he's expected to be fit to start.
Coleman's counterpart, Marc
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too.
Already missing injured
defender Vincent Kompany
for the tournament, the
Belgiumcoach will now
have to replace suspended
center back Thomas Vermaelen as well.
And two days after leading Belgium
in its 4-0 routing of Hungary, Hazard
skipped Tuesday's training with a muscle problem, but Wilmots said the
winger "will be 100 percent, no problem"
for Friday's game.
Hazard and Manchester City's Kevin
De Bruyne were instrumental in
Belgium's return to form following an
opening 2-0 defeat to Italy. Since then,
Belgium has beaten Ireland, Sweden and
Hungary with an aggregate score of 80.
The ambition is high.
"We are only nine days away from
the final," De Bruyne said. "Now we want
to stay until the end."
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Belgium captain Eden Hazard has
returned to training ahead of the team's
European Championship quarterfinal
match against Wales.
Hazard missed practice sessions
on Tuesday and Wednesday
because of a thigh problem. He
trained early Thursday at the
team's base in Bordeaux, before
the Belgians' scheduled departure to the northern city of Lille
where Friday's match against Wales
is staged.
The Chelsea winger is Belgium's
most dangerous attacking player and
starred in the 4-0 victory over Hungary
in the round of 16.
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with every game Belgium played this
competition, he reached his peak with a
dazzling performance in the last 16,
highlighted by a superb solo run through the
Hungarian defence on his way to Belgium's
third of four goals.
However, he picked up a thigh injury
that night which put a question mark behind
his availability for the quarterfinal game
against Wales. Some doubted coach
Wilmots' decision to make Hazard the
team's captain after injured Vincent
Kompany was ruled out for Euro
2016. Hazard has often failed to
replicate his stunning form at
Chelsea when playing for the
national
team, but
this time it
might just be
the other way
round after a
poor season in the
Premier League.
Hazard
missed
practice sessions on
Tuesday
and
Wednesday because of
a thigh problem. He
trained early on
Thursday at the
team's base in
Bordeaux, before
the
Belgians'
s c h e d u l e d
departure to Lille
to play Wales in
quarterfinals.
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Bale. The world's most expensive footW
baller has clearly enjoyed himself as the leader
of a happy, united team. Perhaps the defining
image of Bale's tournament came after Wales
beat Northern Ireland 1-0 last Saturday. Bale
has delivered at the biggest stage after question
marks were hanging over his head
before the start of Euros.
Three goals and one assist
puts him top of the
Golden Boot table
before the quarterfinals, and his 12
goal attempts on
target is also the
most at Euro
2016. The last
time Wales
p l a y e d
Belgium, one
year ago,
Bale scored
the only
goal to win
the Euro
qualifier.
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message for his teammates ahead of
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the European Championship quarterfinal against Iceland: "Wake up."
France has failed to score in the first
half at Euro 2016 and has been scraping
through with gutsy second-half performances.
But one day, that formula may not
work.
"We react instead of taking the initiative," the 35-year-old left back said on
Thursday. "I get the impression that we
only play well when we have our backs
to the wall. I hope we're going to start (the
to win 2-1. "I can't repeat exactly what
was said (at halftime). But we've had
enough of just reacting," said Evra.
"What you can't take away from us is that
we keep going until the last second. But
we can't rely on that."
Evra bristled at his news conference
when it was suggested that France has
been somewhat fortunate — considering it had a relatively weak group, followed by unheralded Ireland and Iceland
in the knockout stages. "If we beat
Iceland, then we'll play Germany or Italy
(in the semifinals)," he said. "You call that
luck? I don't."
Evra stands to win his 78th international cap against Iceland. But he was not
game) well and not wait until the second
half before we step on the accelerator."
He fears another stifled performance
might prove costly.
"We should be telling ourselves that
one day it won't come off for us, and that
it might be against Iceland," said Evra
ahead of Sunday's game at Stade de
France. "We need things to be boiling up
inside us — we need to wake up before
the game."
France needed an 89th-minute winner from Dimitri Payet to beat Romania
2-1, then last-gasp goals from Antoine
Griezmann and Payet to see off Albania
2-0. Against Ireland in the round of 16,
France overturned a 1-0 halftime deficit
part of the squad that reached the 2006
World Cup final.
"I've never won a quarterfinal with
France, whereas at club level I've lost
count," said Evra, who has won a multitude of trophies with Manchester
United and Juventus. "I am putting
myself under pressure. If I don't go
through to the next round it will feel like
I'm standing still."
Evra thinks that the vitriol directed
at England's players after the 2-1 defeat
on Monday was very unfair on Iceland.
"People say England underestimated them but that takes credit away from
Iceland. They beat Holland home and
away in qualifying," Evra said.
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through a brilliant last-gasp strike from Dimitri
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