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Wednesday by reviving the
Nabam Tuki-led Congress
Government in Arunachal
Pradesh in a major setback to
the Centre. Tuki’s Government
was dismissed on January 26
when the Centre imposed
President’s Rule in the State.
The judgment by a fivejudge Constitution Bench created an odd situation as the
Centre revoked President’s Rule
in February to pave the way for
a rebel Congress MLA Kalikho
Pul to become Chief Minister
in the State. Putting up a brave
front in the face of defeat, Pul
told the media, “There is no
threat to our Government, we
will remain. That (majority)
will be decided on the floor of
the Assembly. Government
runs only with the numbers.”
Pul is likely to file a review
petition in the SC after consulting
legal
experts.
Government sources too indicated that the Centre may seek
a clarification as the judgment
does not deal with the validity
of President’s Rule and its subsequent withdrawal.
The Bench of Justices JS
Khehar, Dipak Misra, Madan B
Lokur, PC Ghose and NV
Ramana set the clock back to
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date when the Speaker of
Arunachal Assembly last convened the House. The court
damned Governor Jyoti Prasad
Rajkhowa’s order issued on
December 9, 2015 directing the
Speaker to prepone the session
of the House from the scheduled January 14, 2016 to
December 16, 2015. The
Governor’s order advised the
members of the House to
decide first on a resolution to
remove the Speaker and allow
the Deputy Speaker to preside
the House. Setting aside the
Governor’s order as “unconstitutional”, the court restored
status quo in the state as on
December 15, 2015. It also
warned the Governor not to
“embroil” himself in any “political thicket”.
The case had a history as
21 Congress MLAs had turned
rebel against the Tuki
Government calling him as
corrupt and sided with 11 BJP
MLAs who supported their
demand to oust him from
power. The Speaker had in the
December 15 session disqualified 14 rebel MLAs.
The SC was of the unanimous view that Governor functions with aid and advice of
Council of Ministers unless the
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exceeded his Constitutional
limits by calling for an early session of the House without aid
and advice of the State Cabinet.
By asking for Speaker’s removal
to be decided first, he further
crossed the line as this matter
is to be determined by the legislators, the judges held.
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should be ready to face the
music in Parliament over the
Supreme Court verdict on
Arunachal Pradesh, the
Congress has demanded sacking of Governor Jyoti Prasad
Rajkhowa and an apology
from all those involved in the
decision to topple the Nabam
Tuki Government.
The party has also
demanded a probe into a taperecorded conversation of some
BJP leaders and a businessman, handed over as proof to
the court, for toppling the
Arunachal Government. "We
want the Governor to submit
his resignation immediately
and if he does not do so, we
will ask for him to be dismissed both outside and inside
Parliament," senior Congress
leader Kapil Sibal said.
Sibal also demanded an
apology from Union Ministers
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Wednesday
feasted
Mahaprasad here on the occasion of Sandhyadarshan which
took place on the evening of the
ninth day of the Rath Yatra,
considered as the most auspicious and holy.
The Gundicha Temple
kitchen was busy as the cooks
prepared huge quantity of
Mahaprasad for the offering to
the Lords and the devotees
patently waited to get it. The
price of the Mahaprasad was
hiked as the devotees in large
numbers jostled to buy.
As per the religious belief,
he who has a darshan of the
Baman (deities) in the Aadap
Mandap gets salvation.
Offering prayers to Lord
Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra
and Devi Subhadra atop the
pedestal in the sanctum sanctorum of the Gundicha temple
and consuming Mahaprasad in
the temple complex earn huge
Punya, so goes the belief.
Meanwhile, hectic preparations were underway for the
“BahudaYatra” (return Car
Festival) scheduled for
Thursday. All the three Raths
were parked at the Saradhabali
in front of the Nakachana
Dwar (exit gate) of the
Gundicha temple, ready to
return to the Shreemanir.
As per the temple release,
the deities would be escorted
out in Goti Pahandi (one by
one) from the sanctum sanctorum of the Gundicha temple
after observance of Abakash,
Mailum, Surya Puja and offering of Gopal Bhog to the
deities. The Pahandi would
commence by 12pm. The
Chherapahanra by Gajapati
Divyasingh Dev would be performed then. If the rituals run
as per the fixed schedule, the
pulling of the first Rath,
Taladhwaj of Balabhadra,
would begin by 4pm. Elaborate
security cover had been laid for
the return car fete, said sources.
who were involved in the decision of imposition of
President's Rule in the State.
He also demanded that there
be a thorough probe into the
alleged taped conversations
of BJP leaders with a businessman conspiring to topple
the Congress Government in
the State with the same
"alacrity" as one initiated
against Harish Rawat in
Uttarakhand.
Congress president Sonia
Gandhi and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi targeted
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi and the Centre. "Those
who had trampled upon constitutional propriety and
democratic norms have been
defeated today," Sonia said in
a statement after the Supreme
Court quashed all decisions of
the Governor that had precipitated the Nabam Tuki
Government's fall in January,
holding them "violative" of
the Constitution.
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tung by the Supreme Court
SPradesh,
order on Arunachal
the BJP on
Wednesday said the ruling
raised question whether it
strengthened democratic spirit or weakened it and went on
to describe the judgment as
"weird" decision. On the other
hand, Law Minister Ravi
Shankar Prasad maintained
that "a detailed response" from
the Government would come
after "a structured examination" of the judgment.
Within hours of the court
order, Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley, Home Minister Rajnath
Singh, and Law Minister Ravi
Shankar Prasad discussed with
the Attorney General the legal
implications of the SC order. In
its response, the BJP maintained that the verdict was not
a setback to the party, but
wondered whether it would
strengthen the democracy.
"This is a very strange
order and that is why it is being
studied. The person who has
the majority, who is running
the Government presently, is
being asked to be in the
Opposition," said BJP national secretary Shrikant Sharma
told a press conference.
Sharma said the political
crisis in Arunachal Pradesh
was a result of Congress'
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urfew in several towns and
extended strike call by separatists crippled normal life in
Valley for the fifth day on
Wednesday. Situation remained
tense as security forces shot
dead another youngster in
South Kashmir’s Anantnag
town taking the toll to 35 following the killing of Hizbul
Mujahideen’s top militant
Burhan Wani on July 8.
The separatists announced
to extend the shutdown call till
July 15. The normal life
remained crippled due to the
strike call and heavy deployment of security forces. People
in the curfew-bound areas said
that they are facing acute shortage of essential commodities.
The mobile internet has
been snapped across the valley
while select cellphone services
are operational in most of the
localities. The train services
between
Banihal
and
Baramulla have been halted
since last weekend.
Meanwhile, Mushtaq
Ahmad Dar, a resident of
Khudwani in South Kashmir’s
Kulgam district, succumbed
to his injuries at Institute of
Medical Sciences, Soura on
Wednesday morning.
The situation worsened in
the evening when another
youngster Hilal Ahmad Sofi
(25) was shot dead by security
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laiming that there was no
intelligence input that the
Maoists were moving in a vehicle, National Commission for
Scheduled Tribes (NCST) Dr
Rameswhar Oraon on
Wednesday said the security
personnel did not follow the
Standard Operating Procedure
(SOP) during the anti-Maoist
operation in Kandhamal district on July 8, which led to the
death of five innocent tribals.
“They (security forces)
have not at all followed the
SOP. There was no intelligence
input that the Maoists were
moving in a vehicle. The jawans
should have minimum knowledge that Maoists do not come
by vehicles. Generally, Maoists
move on foot in the jungles
while civilians move in vehicles.
They should have applied minimum knowledge before opening fire,” said Oraon after meeting the families of the deceased
for about three hours.
He suggested to the State
Government to conduct psychiatric test of the Special
Operations Group (SOG)
jawans allegedly involved in the
gunning down of five villagers.
“The jawans involved in
the killings should undergo
psychiatric test. They opened
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lawed CPI(Maoist) has strongly condemned the killing of five innocent tribals in
fire on innocent civilians without any provocation. Hence,
certainly it requires a psychiatric test,” said Oraon.
Reiterating that the incident was unfortunate, Oraon
said, “Now, the issue is what
action should be taken so that
such unfortunate incidents do
not happen in future.”
Rejecting the police version
that the villagers were caught in
the crossfire during the operation and got killed, Oraon
said, “No such thing happened
at all.”
“Nobody including the
police and the district administration is contesting that the
jawans opened fire unilaterally. There was no provocation at
all,” said Oraon.
On the question of a SIT
probe as announced by the
State Government, Oraon said
investigation should be completed in 90 days in such cases
as defined by the Supreme
Court.
police firing during an anti-Maoist operation
at Kurtumgarh in Kandhamal district on
Friday night.
This is for the first time the Red rebels
have spoken on the issue since the incident.
In an audio clip released to the media, one
Budhuram Paharia claiming to be the
spokesperson of the Nuapada-Mainpur
Divisional Committee of the CPI(Maoist),
while strongly condemning the incident, has
appealed to the public to strongly protest
against the atrocities by the police.
“Rulers like Narendra Modi and Naveen
Patnaik are murdering innocent people using
the police. We strongly condemn the barbaric
killing of innocent people in Kandhamal,”
stated Paharia in the audio clip.
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Bhubaneswar: The State Government on
Tuesday night issued a formal notification on
formation of a Special Investigation Team
(SIT) to probe the death of five tribals, who
were shot by security personnel at Kurtamgarh
in Malapanga forest in Kandhamal district on
July 8.
“The Home Department has issued the
notification last night on formation of SIT to
be headed by Human Rights Protection Cell
(HRPC) ADG Mahendra Pratap who will
supervise and monitor investigation into the
killing of tribals by security personnel in
Kandhamal district,” Home Department
Special Secretary Lalit Das told reporters here
on Wednesday.
He said the Director General of Police
(DGP) and the IG have been asked to constitute the SIT and choose the officers to be
included in the team.
On July 11, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik
had ordered formation of the SIT to probe the
Kandhamal killings to ensure a thorough and
impartial inquiry into the incident.
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the Special Operation
Group (SOG) jawans for the
killing of five civilians in
Kandhamal district, the
Odisha Police Association
(OPA) on Wednesday threatened to launch a strike if the
Government takes any action
against jawans arbitrarily
before completion of the
probe.
Association president
Anup Kanungo told reporters
that the Odisha police force is
a very professional one and
never indulge in any unprofessional activities.
“What happened in
Kandhamal is an accident,”
said Kanungo. He said, “The
incident should not be politicised. We will launch a strike
if action is taken against SOG
jawans before completion of
the probe,” added Kanungo.
Meanwhile, the State
Government has directed the
SIT to probe into the incident,
besides having ordered a judicial inquiry.
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Istructed
of rural roads have been conacross the country
using eco-labour-friendly and
cost-effective green technologies under the Government's
flagship Pradhan Mantri
Gramin Sadak Yojna (PMGSY).
This is a no mean achievement given that in the last 14
years (2000-2014), out of more
than 4.80 lakh kilometres of
roads only 800 km were built
using green technologies.
With States opening up to
environment friendly technologies like fly ash, iron and
copper slag, mining waste, geotextile, lime and cement stabilisation,
Zydex
NanoTechnology and waste plastic,
the Modi Government has kept
an ambitious overall target
length at 7,000 km for 2016-17.
A senior official said States
are also adopting innovative
technologies as cost of construction of roads has gone up
rapidly over the recent years
due to scarcity of conventional materials for road construction.
The "Guidelines of
Technology initiatives under
PMGSY", issued by Rural
Development Ministry in 2013,
already have a provision that a
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annual proposals under
PMGSY received from each
State should be based on new
or non-conventional materials/technology including, jute
and coir geo-textiles.
There are wide range of
green technologies available
such as fly ash, iron and copper
slag, mining waste, lime and
cement stabilisation, Zydex
Nano-Technology, waste plas-
tic, CRRI-Bitchem Cold Mix etc
to name a few. A senior official
from the Ministry said efforts
are being taken at every meeting to remind the States to individually achieve much more
than the 15 per cent of the total
length proposed under each
batch to the Ministry by using
such technologies.
For instance, Gujarat has
target to construct 131 km
using green technologies, 476
km for Maharashtra and for
Rajasthan it is 1,123 km.
The RD Ministry, along
with the Textile Ministry, is
already providing support to
the North-Eastern States for
building roads made of environment-friendly coir and jute
geo-textiles in the region
through its programme
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geotech-textiles in the NorthEastern region."
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Wednesday urged the
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Union Ministr y of Road
Transport and Highways to
develop more National
Highways in southern and
western Odisha while setting
timelines for completion of
the ongoing NH projects.
Padhi reviewed NH projects at the State Secretariat
with the senior officers of the
Ministry of Road Transport
and Highways. He emphasised
on development of the National
Highway from Vizag to
Jagdalpur which connects
Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and
Chhattisgarh passing through
Sunki, Koraput, Jeypore,
Nabrangour, Buriguma and
Kotpad in Odisha.
Padhi too stressed on expediting works of the VijayawadaRanchi Corridor connecting
Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and
Jharkhand and early completion of Berhampur-Rayagada
road development work.
Currently, a total number
of 22 NHs are passing through
Odisha. The are NH 16, 18, 20,
26, 49, 53, 55, 57, 59, 63, 130C,
143, 149, 153B, 157, 220, 316,
326, 326A, 353, 516 and 520.
The total length of these roads
in Odisha is around 4849.42
km. While the State PWD has
been assigned to develop 3,387
km, the NHAI has undertaken
works for the rest 1462.42 km.
By now, the PWD has
completed 867.39 km roads
and set a target to complete 489
km roads during the current
year. Chief Secretary directed
the department to fix monthly targets for completion of
works.
Similarly, the NHAI has
completed development works
of 610 km roads and work for
529 km roads is now underway.
The bidding process for around
243 km has been completed
and the projects for development 596 km are in the
pipeline.
Works
Secretar y
Nalinikanta Pradhan requested officers of the Ministry to
sanction the road projects
submitted by the State
Government. Out of 44 proposals of C1047 crore submitted, the Centre has given in
principle approval for only 12
proposals of estimated cost of
C400.97 crore.
Apart from this, Centre has
approved two projects of C148
crore under Inter State
Connectivity Scheme and two
others of C198 crore under the
Economic Importance Scheme.
The issues relating to land
acquisition, disbursement of
awarded compensation, forest
clearance and DGPS survey
were discussed.
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uspected operative of AlQaeda
in
Indian
SSubcontinent
(AQIS) Abdur
Rehman, who was brought to
Odisha for interrogation over
his alleged links with the
ter ror ist outf it, was on
Wednesday taken to Delhi
after his remand period came
to an end.
A team of the Delhi
police produced Rehman at
t he
S a l e pu r
Ju d i c i a l
Mag ist rate Fi rst C l ass
(JMFC) Court before taking
him to the Cuttack railway
station. He would be produced before the Tis Hazari
Court in New Delhi and then
sent to the Tihar Jail, sources
said.
Notably, the State Crime
Branch had brought Rehman
from Delhi on June 21. The
Salepur JMFC Court had
allowed the investigating
agency to take Rehman on a
10-day remand. The Crime
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Branch later took him on
another phase of remand for
seven days.
The 37-year-old Rehman,
a resident of Paschimkachha
in Cuttack district, was
arrested by the Delhi police
onDecember 16 last on the
charges of radicalising youths
for terror activities. Later, he
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Wednesday directed the
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State Government to implement its order of April 8 allowing the Jindal Steel & Power Ltd
(JSPL) to lift iron ore the company has legally purchased
from the Sarda Mines Pvt Ltd
(SMPL) within four weeks.
The court also asked the
Government for reasons for the
delay in implementing the order.
The High Court had
allowed the JSPL to transport
iron ore lumps and fines, for
which it has already paid the
royalty from the dispatch point
located within the leasehold
area of the SMPL to its pelletisation plant and railway siding.
The court had also
quashed the letter of March 31,
2014 issued by the Deputy
Director of Mines, Joda directing stoppage of ore trans-
portation. However, after three
months, the Government neither withdrew the letter nor
had given the permission to the
JSPL to lift the raw material.
The JSPL is losing about Rs
300 crore per month in Odisha
though the company is the
highest buyer of iron ore in the
State and gives direct and indirect employment to over 60,000
people.
According to industry
experts, such delay in allowing
the JSPL to lift its legally-purchased raw material reflects
poorly on the State policy.
THe JSPL in its response
said, “We have got full confidence on the State Government
and judiciary and simultaneously appeal to the
Government to save the steel
industries and industry-based
employment as well as the
livelihood in the entire value
chain.”
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he Institute of Social Work
and Research (ISWAR) and
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Odisha Disabled People’s
Network (ODPN) and the
Odisha Soochana Adhikar
Abhijan on Wednesday decried
the State Government’s negligence in implementing the policy of a three-per cent reservation for persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Government
departments despite the
Supreme Court’s verdict.
ISWAR and ODPN gener-
al secretary Sanyas Kumar
Behera told reporters here that
only three Government departments out of the 39 have complied with the apex court’s
order so far.
“The Supreme Court on
October 13, 2013 directed the
Central and State Governments
to ensure three-per cent reservations for PWDs in all
Government departments. But
in Odisha, only the
Departments of Panchayati Raj,
Fisheries and Animal
Husbandry and School and
Mass Education have complied
with the order, though not
fully,” rued Behera.
He said that though the
Chief Minister is heading three
departments, Home, Works
and General Administration,
not a single PWD has been
appointed there under the
three-per cent reservation policy.
RTI activist Pradip Pradhan
too decried the State
Government’s attitude and
urged it to implement the SC
order in letter and spirit.
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rotesting the attack on
Kandhamal tribal villagers
by CRPF jawans during the
recent cops-Maoist exchange of
fire, the Communist Party of
India (CPI) staged a road
blockade and demonstration at
Raj Mahal Square hereon
Wednesday.
Hundreds of CPI activists
led by party Bhubaneswar
Zonal Council secretary Sura
Jena took out a procession
from the party State office to
the protest spot holding placards and shouting slogans. The
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agitators demanded dismissal
of the Kandhamal SP, C50 lakh
each as compensation to the
deceased persons’ families and
removal of the CRPF from the
district.
Jena said, “In the name of
anti-Maoists operation, the
CRPF jawans brutally killed
five innocent tribal, including
an 18-month-child. The jawans
must be arrested for this.”
Jena further alleged that at
a time when the State
Government makes tall claims
of taking steps for development
of tribal people, villagers of
Gumudimaha in Kandhamal
walk for around 30 km to
work as labourers to earn their
livelihoods.
The Government should
extend all welfare services to
the tribals, he added.
was booked under provis i ons of t he Un l aw f u l
Activities (Prevention) Act.
Rehman, who ran a
madrasa at Tangi area near
Cuttack, had links with a man
involved in a failed car bomb
attack at the Glasgow international airport in 2007,
Odisha police had alleged.
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Cuttack: The Government on
Wednesday approached the
Orissa HC seeking cancelling the
bail granted to one Sunil Meher
(33) of Sambalpur, who works as
a pimp in Bhubaneswar.
Currently under judicial custody after he was arrested by the
Nayapalli
police
in
Bhubaneswar in July last year for
offences under the Immoral
Traffic (Prevention) Act, Sunil
was previously arrested by the
Capital police on February 20,
2015 for similar offences.
But Sunil managed to
obtain bail from the HC in April
same year in which the HC had
ordered the lower court to
release him on bail on such
terms and conditions the lower
court deemed just and proper.
The HC had further directed that while continuing on bail,
the petitioner shall not get himself involved in similar offences.
“Violation of which [conditions] shall entail cancellation of
bail,” the HC had ordered.
On April 15, 2015, the
Bhubaneswar SDJM Court
while releasing Sunil on bail had
imposed conditions on him
like he shall appear before the
IO every Monday till submission of a final report and he shall
not intimidate or tamper with
the witnesses. But just three
months after he was released on
bail, Sunil was arrested again by
the Nayapalli police on July 20,
2015 for committing the same
offence. More so, during this
period Sunil never appeared
before the IO of the Capital police
as per his bail conditions. Citing
these violations of bail conditions
and stating that the accused has no
regard for the rule of law, the Govt
has approached the HC to cancel
the bail it had granted to him in
April last year.
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civilians were killed and many
sustained serious injuries, as
ver y unfor tunate, Utkal
Bharat president Kharabela
Swain on Wednesday said
security personnel can’t
behave like Maoists, who kill
both police and civilians mercilessly.
Swain, however, said
police can’t be fully blamed
for the Kandhamal tragedy.
“Police are also sacrificing
lives to protect civilians from
Maoists. They need to be
extra conscious so that civilians would remain safe, for
which they are fighting with
Maoists. We should not blame
the police for the unintended
Kandhamal incident,” opined
Swain in a statement.
Swain, without naming
the BJP or the Congress, said
the parties which are trying to
take political mileage from
the incident should remember
that such incidents are also
happening in the States ruled
by them.
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anchor sought to know
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from a so-called priest class
servitor if a Daitapati had done
right by belittling the Gajapati
and the seer with indecent
words. The respondent, rather
than answering to the query,
said the Daitapati was not
guilty of causing devotees to
touch and scrape deities mindlessly. This great servitor is a
former Sales Tax officer of the
State cadre who appears in
priestly robes only when big
events occur and TV cameras
are rolling. He has earned well
from the State service and lives
proudly in Bhubaneswar with
fat pension money. His conduct
was like that of a shameful
‘slave to Daitas’. God forgive
him.
Another participant pretending to be a researching
scholar was so loud that viewers believed his vocal cord
would snap any moment turning him speechless forever. He
kept roaring that the deities can
never be ‘untouchable’ and
went on with horribly idiotic
examples from several cock
and bull stories. The third one
was a decently levelheaded
pundit who made a critical
point very clear by explaining
a specific section of the original Jagannath Temple Act as
followed until the Gajapati
king was unseated: If by any
chance, the deities are touched
by any non-priestly person, a
heavy fine of one rupee and six
annas would be slapped on the
violator apart from the deities
being sanctified with an elaborate Maha Snan (big bath).
Then, 10 grams of gold cost
only ten rupees. The Daita
community incidentally is not
priestly class servitors. If after
completing their nursing and
other menial duties, they happen to touch the dities acci-
dentally, the ceremonial bath
called Maha Snana has to be
performed.
The Orissa High Court
had conclusively upheld the
ban on ‘chariot climbing and
deity-touching’ by the temple
managing committee on the
advice of the Shankaracharya
and the Gajapati king. But the
Daitapatis cry hoarse against
such an order and dare provoke
devotees publicly to violate
norms and rules without being
punished. The Daitapati, who
was recently put in jail for a
grave criminal act, has been
given bail by a senior judge
which has upset many.
The Supreme Court has
made it clear that the State
Government can only perform
the duty of maintaining law
and order and providing assistance for smooth conduct of
religious festivals of all faiths
alike in accordance with the
decision of the managing committees of the shrines. The
State machinery cannot interfere with the age-old value
systems determining rituals.
So, the Orissa High Court has
ruled only recently that the
Jagannath Temple, the admin-
istration has to go by the norms
as approved by the temple
committee on the advice of the
Shankarachaya of Puri.
Correction of this decision is
neither a subject matter for
consideration of the State
Government nor before this
court, the HC maintained.
Accordingly, the Government
decided to prohibit climbing on
chariots. Strangely then, president of Daitapati Nijog
Ramakrushna Dasmohapatra
said at a meeting that he would
examine the matter and take a
final decision vis-a-vis the HC
directive. Incidentally, he is
president of the Puri Hotel
Association and clings to
Naveen Patnaik in Puri like a
ghostly shadow only because he
is a BJD member. He is the one
who got Sanjeev Marik
destroyed by feeling great when
the defamed former DGP
touched his terribly ordinary
feet. Even, Law Minister Arun
Sahoo sat at his feet and
devoured some leftover food at
a non-secret camp, which flung
the Minister irrecoverably into
a pool of bitter criticism.
What some headless pundits don’t seem to realise is that
the Shankaracharya is the one
who has the final say on all ritual-related disputes. The practice is not mentioned in the
record of rights because the
ancient seer was above the
document. The practice of
Shankaracharya being considered chief advisor and special
servitor on the chariot platform
is a non-negotiable convention
which simply can’t be violated.
The present chief administrator too had mindlessly dismissed the seer as a person
without any right over the
temple affairs and had recommended the seer’s age-old ritual visit to the chariot platforms
with his chosen followers.
Some people fail to understand
the fact of the seer being much
above the temple rulebook
which was made with his
approval quite in the ancient
times. It is appropriate here to
know that the British
Constitution is not a written
document; it is only a set of
accepted norms and rules. Not
a single soul has discarded it as
an illegal ‘rulebook of conduct’.
Most people including the
chief administrator and other
Government officials and the
ones fighting wrongs unitedly
do not seem to know how rules
are to be followed. The fundamental clarity: In a secular
country, the state institutions
cannot make or upset prevailing norms of holy shrines of
any faith. The Supreme Court
has amply made it clear that the
state can only facilitate functioning, not scrap rituals or
have them amended in any
manner. So, the temple committee is supreme like the
working committee of a political party called the ‘high command’. Whether or not the
Shankaracharya had a critical
role, the committee has the
power to determine. The people outside the ambit would
have no say. The temple chief
administrator’s role is strictly
limited to ensuring everything
runs smoothly so that devotees
don’t suffer at all. One is not the
top boss over the temple norms
as decided by the Gajapati
king on advice of the
Shankaracharya, conventionally the head advisor with support from the Mukti Mandap
Pandit Sabha, which decides
the ritual rights and wrongs.
The state took over the temple
management in 1960 from the
royal family mainly because the
monarchs had become impoverished and powerless in the
secular republic. They could
not organise money or manpower to keep the temple activities running. The worst-affected was the servitors who virtually went hungry for most rituals that gave them material
benefits ceased to be performed, so much so that the
Car Festival was dropped or
cancelled a couple of times due
to want of funds and other
resources. The state rushed to
the scene only in pure public
interest. But it did not snatch
the basic rights of the Gajapati
or the Mukti Mandap or the
seer.
Lately, some non-researching persons including the chief
administrator have spread the
word that the Shankaracharya
is just a ‘nobody’ as he is not
mentioned in the record of
rights. This imagination provoked one Basanta Behera of
Cuttack to file a PIL to have the
Shankaracharya’s wings clipped
to render him weightless in
guiding the temple committee
in events of ritual disputes. The
non-priestly servitors have
never been rebuked for deceiving the gullible devotees.
Pandas are essentially
Brahmins and are engaged in
‘touch-deity’ services. Karan
(administrator), Maharana
(carpenter), Patara (weaver),
Mali (flower grower-supplier)
and Bhoi (SC category nursing
guarding plants and trees) and
many more servitors are critically important but cannot
touch deities except during
critical rituals. But if any of
these come in contact, the
deities would have to undergo
the Maha Snan process.
Today is the Return Car
Festival. The festival drudgery
and torture has grown beyond
endurance. It would start
diminishing if only live telecasting is stopped as a first step.
Highlights for an hour or so
would bring immense relief to
the suffering mankind. The
state machinery has to rise to
the occasion to keep the
nation’s secular spirit intact. Jai
Jagannath!
(The writer is a core member
of
Transparency
International, Odisha)
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been killed in Odisha in
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the war between Maoists and
security personnel during the
last 11 years.
According to official data,
about 890 Maoist incidents
have taken place across the
State between 2004 and 2015.
While only 37 violent incidents were recorded during
2005, the highest number of
violence with 149 incidents
occurred during 2009 in the
State.
There were 129, 100 and
104 Maoist incidents reported
in the years 2010, 2011 and
2012, respectively.
While four innocent people were killed in 2006, the
number of casualties was 51 in
2010 in Maoist incidents. Five
civilians were killed during
the anti-Maoist operations in
2015 while three others were
injured. Two others were
wounded in exchange of fire in
2013.
During these years a total
of 148 Maoists were killed in
the anti-Maoist operations.
While police killed 12 Maoists
in 2005 and 2014, 23 were dead
in 2011 and 2013.
The Red rebels killed 128
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leven headmasters of as
many schools and seven
Cluster Resource Centre
Coordinators (CRCC) of
Lepripada block in Sundargarh
have been served show cause
notice for not bringing 11
meritorious students to appear
for a scholarship exam which
was held on Sunday.
As per rule, students who
secured 60 per cent above
marks in Class III exam were
to be selected by the headmaster of concerned school and
their name will be enrolled to
appear in the scholarship
examination. After the exam on
Sunday, it was found that 127
selected students had appeared
in the exam whereas another 11
meritorious students had not
appeared.
While checking, the
Lepripada BEO found that 11
selected meritorious students of
Class III of Haranchhapan
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school, Tumripada school,
Lokdega school, Chandil
school, Bandlikani school,
Bhangergudi
school,
Diamunda school, Kuturma
school, Dumermunda school,
Masabira. School and
Baunskhol school had not
come to the exam centre to
appear the scholarship exam.
As per rule, since it was the
responsibility of headmasters to
bring their students to the
exam centre what they did
not,
Lepripada
BEO
Sarangdhar Bariah has issued
show cause notice to them.
Similarly, the Lepripada BEO
served show cause notice to
seven CRCC of Gundiadih
cluster, Dandpani clauster,
Darbanga cluster, Darlipali
cluster, Masabira cluster,
Diamunda cluster and Surguda
cluster and asked them to clarify why the 11 headmasters
under them did not bring the
students to appear the scholarship examination.
security personnel during these
years. While no security personnel were martyred during
the anti-Maoist operations in
2014, only one was killed by
Maoists in 2005. A total of 74
security personnel were killed
by Maoists in 2008.
While police arrested 1,447
Maoists, 404 ultras surrendered during last 11 years in the
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meeting regarding the
implementation of the
National Food Security Act
(NFSA) and Aadhaar card in
Baleswar district was held here
on Tuesday.
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After a videoconference
with Chief Minister Naveen
Patnaik, district Collector
Pramod Das discussed with
district-level officers and directed the CSO to remove all the
ineligible beneficiaries from the
list to include the eligible ones
by end of this month. The
Collector also directed them to
complete the registration work
of Aadhar card within next four
months. The benefits of all
Government schemes would be
extended through the Aadhaar
card registration number, Das
said. Two registration number
centres in each block would be
opened for meeting the target
cent per cent, he added.
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holder of Garadapur block
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was on Monday night arrested
by Patkura police for illegally
lifting the subsidised food
grains under NSFA, informed
CSO Ramnath Sahu.
According to Sahu, the
BDOs and the executive officers of two municipalities of the
district last month had lodged
FIRs against 205 ineligible
ration cardholders.
In Kendrapada block, FIRs
were lodged against 18 ineligible ration card holders, whereas in Kendrapada Municipality,
FIRs were lodged against as
many as 10 ineligible ration
cardholders. Similarly, FIRs
were lodged against 13 ineligible ration cardholders at
Rajkanika block, against eight
in Rajnagar block, 35 in Aul
block, nine in Pattmaundai
block, eight in Pattamundai
Municipality, 38 in Derabish
block, six in Garadapur block,
32 in Marshaghai block and 28
in Mahakalapada block in the
respective police stations.
Meanwhile, a sum of C3,
25,466 has been recovered
from 77 ineligible cardholders
for grabbing the subsidised
food grains under NFSA after
obtaining ration card.
The block authority of
Kendrapada collected a sum of
C34,374 from seven ineligible
ration cardholders. C20,183
has been recovered by the con-
cerned authority from nine
persons in Kendrapada block,
C17,993 collected from three
persons of Pattamundai,
C58,898 recovered from 14 in
Derabish block, C1,00,145
recovered from 25 in
Garadapur block. Similarly, a
sum of C90,758 has been collected from 18 in Marshaghai
and a sum of C3,115 has been
collected in Mahakalapada,
said Sahu.
According to Sahu, though
the district has 14,39,875 population, the district administration has targeted to provide
NFSA ration card to 11,03,038
persons. Meanwhile, till date,
the district administration has
provided 11, 02,137 ration
cards as per the final list.
State. The highest number of
Red rebels was arrested in
2009.
Police arrested 221 Maoists
in 2009, 214 in 2010 and 46 in
2015. Only one Maoist surrendered in 2006 while 99, the
highest, gave in to police in
2014, official sources said.
A number of security
forces have been deployed to
control Maoist activities in the
LWE districts, where civilians
are part of the victims for not
giving shelter to Maoists at
night.
On the other hand, villagers are allegedly tortured by
security personnel during the
raids.
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spread its wing here as two
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the fore on Tuesday evening.
With this, the number of
suspected dengue patients rose
to three in the steel city.
Sources the two suspected
dengue patients were identified
as Phula Kumari Sharma (21)
of Barbil area of Keonjhar district and Siba Prasad Das of
Kalta of Sundargarh district.
Phula had come to the
steel city to take admission in
an educational institution. She
has been admitted in the
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“Two suspected dengue
patients have been admitted in
our hospital. Their health condition is stable now,” said hospital Director Dr TK Bose.
He too informed that
blood samples of both the
patients have been sent for Elisa
test.
Meanwhile, the Rourkela
Municipal Corporation (RMC)
and the ESIC Model Hospital
have started anti-dengue measures in the city, particularly in
industrial belts.
wo dengue cases have
been detected at the
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Hospital here. After blood
test, one Sunil Patro of
Luchapada and Santosh
Kumar Panigrahi of Gautam
Nagar were found to be affected by dengue.
While Sunil was admitted
to the medical on Tuesday,
Santosh is undergoing treatment since Monday. Both are
kept at the dengue ward of the
medical and given special
care. Notably, Sunil is a staff
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India (FPI) has demanded
that the Central Government
ban religious preachers like
Dr Zakir Naik who create fundamentalists and disturbances
in society.
Sharply reacting to the
massacre of 22 people, including India’s 19-year-old vivacious Tarishi Jain, by fanatical
youths that included Rohan
Imitiaz and Nibras Islam the
two Chelas of Dr Zakir Naik,
FPI general secretar y B
Ramchandra CST Voltaire
demanded that the worship or
the thanks-giving should be
priestless and sermon-free in
any religion.
“Dr Zakir Naik is a medical
doctor. He should have spent
his time in treating patients.
But instead of that, he has chosen to poison the minds of the
younger generation of Muslims
and he has been boastfully
saying that 90 per cent of the
Bangladeshis are in apprecia-
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entire MKCG Medical College
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woman were found lying
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Mulisingh level-crossing
near Soro in Baleswar district on Wednesday.
The identities of the
deceased were yet to be
established. However, it was
suspected that the two might
be a couple, sources said.
Though the exact reason
behind the deaths was yet to
be ascertained, it was suspected that the duo might
have jumped in front of
the Howrah-Puri Jagannath
E x pre s s
to
c om m it
suicide.
On being informed by
locals who spotted the bodies, the Soro police reached
the spot and started investigation.
tion of what he has been
preaching. Two attackers have
openly admitted that they got
influenced and had become
fundamentalists because of the
motivation provided to them
by the sermons preached by
Naik,” said a FPI release.
Leaders like Digvijay
Singh are thoroughly unethical and such people go to any
length in placating Muslim
preachers like Dr Naik
because of the Congress’s votebank politics, it said.
Hospital premises here when
three Ministers, Snehangini
Chhuria, Ramesh Majhi and
Sudam Marandi, and former
R ajya Sabha memb er
Bhupinder Singh visited the
hospital to meet the three
injure d civilians of t he
Kandhamal firing incident
on Tuesday evening.
They enquired about
health condition of the
injured, Godisi Digal, Tempo
Mallick and Lutu Digal.
While Lutu is undergoing
treatment at the Surgery
Department, the other two
are
in
Or t hop aedics
Department.
As many as five platoons
of police force were deployed
in the entire MKCG campus
as it was apprehended that
opposition political party
workers might create trouble
during the Ministers’ visit.
Earlier in the afternoon,
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the visit of Higher Education
Minister Pradeep Panigrhai
and Fo o d Supplies and
Consumer Welfare Minister
Sanjay Dasburam to the
Brahmapur University.
Two SDPOs and four IICs
were in the charge of providing security to the Ministers,
according to sources.
Local MLA Dr Ramesh
Chandra Chyaupatnaik, BDA
Chairman Subash Moharana,
Corporators and many BJD
leaders had accompanied the
Ministers to the medical.
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most when the Ministry of
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Railways will take up 21 portrail connectivity projects at an
estimated cost of more than
C20,000 crore under the
Sagaramala programme.
These port-rail connectivity projects have been identified as part of the National
Perspective Plan, April 2016.
The projects include development of heavy haul rail line
from Ib Valley and Talcher to
Paradip.
The project would help in
transportation of thermal coal
from Mahanadi Coalfields
Limited (MCL) to various
coastal power plants in southern India via coastal shipping.
Other rail connectivity
projects to major ports like
Tuticorin and non-major ports
like Dhamra, Gopalpur and
Krishnapatnam have also been
proposed.
These projects, to be
undertaken by the India Port
Rail Corporation Ltd (IPRCL)
will enhance port connectivity to the hinterland and help in
reducing logistics cost and
time for cargo movement making Indian trade more competitive, according officials.
The IPRCL, incorporated
by the Ministry of Shipping,
has already awarded three
port connectivity projects for
Vishakhapatnam and Chennai
ports for quick evacuation of
cargos and another 19 projects
are in the pipeline.
The Sagaramala pro-
gramme of the Ministry of
Shipping aims to achieve
capacity expansion and modernisation of sea-ports along
India’s coastline, enhance port
connectivity to the hinterland, facilitate port led- industrialisation to promote trade
and sustainable development
of coastal communities.
More than 150 projects
have been identified which
will mobilise investment of
more than C4 lakh crore and
generate approximately one
crore new jobs, including 40
lakh direct jobs, over a period
of 10 years.
These projects are expected to generate annual logistics
cost savings of close to C35,000
crore and provide boost to
India’s merchandise exports by
$110 billion by 2025.
of the medical college hospital who works as a warder at
the women unit of the
Medicine Department.
“This is the first dengue
cases detected in Brahmapur
in the current season,” said a
medical officer.
It is alleged that while the
sanitation facilities at the hospital are in poor condition,
drainages at various places are
not being cleaned up by the
civic body. The disease had
also affected many in the silk
city last year and blood samples of 54 patients at the hospital were tested.
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Mission Programme has
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been extended to 107 blocks in
30 districts in the State. The
progress of the programme
was discussed at the Odisha
Livelihoods Mission Executive
Council meeting held here
recently.
Chairing the meeting,
Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad
Padhi suggested the Odisha
Livelihoods Mission Authority
to encourage woman self help
groups for more production
based and profitable work. He
also suggested the officials for
felicitating the associations
engaged in production based
and profitable projects, apart
from grading various self help
groups on the basis of the real
projects.
D e v e l o p m e n t
Commissioner R Balakrishnan,
Agriculture and Cooperative
Principal Secretary Manoj
Ahuja, Women and Child
Development Secretary Vishal
Dev and other senior officials
were present at the meeting.
Panchayatiraj Secretary
Deo Ranjan Kumar Singh presented to discuss about providing bank loan and financial
aid to the self help groups, producers’ groups and producer
companies under Odisha
Livelihoods Mission programme.
Odisha
Livelihoods
Mission Director Pranab Jyoti
Nath said that 107 blocks of 30
districts have been covered
under the programme, out of
which 33 blocks of eight districts and 55 blocks of 24 districts have been included under
the National Rural Livelihoods
Project (NRLP) and National
Rural Livelihoods Mission
(NRLM), so far. The remaining 19 blocks of six districts
have been included under the
programme in 2016-17.
While 1,18,434 woman self
help groups from 12,094 villages have been provided the
financial assistance by end of
March last under the programme, the project has been
started with an aim to cover
13,680 groups more during
2016-17.
Total 12.54 lakh women
beneficiaries in the women
self help groups have been
benefited by end of March
last. Another 1.64 lakh women
beneficiaries will be added
under the scheme during
2016-17 fiscal year. These self
help groups were allocated
C112.66 crore for various livelihoods projects by end of
March. The Government has
allocated Rs 10.55 crore more
during 2016-17 for the projects.
Besides, the self help
groups had been provided
C243.68 crore community
investment fund by end of
2015-16 fiscal. Several projects
have been undertaken to provide C34.32 crore community
investment funds more during
this fiscal, sources said.
Total C2,212.25 croreannual work schedule has been
prepared under NRLM (C79.27
crore) and NRLP (C132.98
crore) for the fiscal 2016-17.
Especially, skill development, livelihood aid, technical
skill, coordination, project
implementation assistance,
infrastructure development,
sale and interest rebate are
included under the programme. Besides, other programmes like woman development empowerment and
entrepreneur start-up in rural
areas have been started under
the scheme.
Constituting more numbers of women self help groups
by organizing extensive information broadcasting and
awareness programmes in panchayat level, formation of federation in panchayat level,
providing training to the members, gradation of self help
groups, providing bank loan
and financial assistance were
emphasized at the meeting.
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child marriage was preve nte d on Tu e s d ay
evening after intervention of
some child rights activists,
officials and police at the
Barahanath temple at Jajpur
Town.
The marriage of the 16year-old girl of Khosalapur
village with 42 -year-old
Bidyadhar Parida, son of
Nar a s i ng h
Par i d a
of
Chamasamadei village, was
pre ve nte d af te r r i g ht s
activists and police rushed to
the village to prevent the
child marriage in the temple.
The girl passed HSC
examination two years back
and wanted to read in a college. But the poor parents of
the girl fixed her marriage
with a married man, said
Child Protection Officer of
Jajpur Priyanka Samal.
“After rescuing the boy
and girl, we sheltered the girl
in a Government run short
stay home in Jajpur Town.
We will admit the girl in a
college,” added Samal.
India had the highest
number of unregistered children under age five between
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on Wednesday stopped a
child marriage and rescued a
17-year-old girl of the locality, who was all set to tie the
knot on the day.
“The rescued girl was
restored with her parents
after taking an undertaking
from the parents that they
would not marry off their
daughter till she attends the
marriageable age,” said CWC
member Pradeep Kumar
Patnaik.
The CWC has also
ordered the District Child
Protection Officer (DCPO)
to monitor the case and
report to the CWC every
three months stating the
marital status of the rescued girl, Patnaik said.
After counselling, the
girl’s parents, belonging to
Patana village of Katakia
panchayat, realised that they
were going to perform an
illegal act, Local panchayat
representatives also assured
the CWC that they would
not allow any underage marriages henceforth.
Patnaik said reports of
child marriages are rampant
in rural areas where parents
get their daughters married
off before they attend the
legal age of 18 years for the
purpose. “Surprisingly, most
of the parents do not know
that their act is illegal,” he
said.
2000 and 2015 and the second-highest number of child
marriages, according to a
UN report which said the
c ou nt r y st i l l ne e ds to
improve immunisation coverage and stop gender-based
sex selection. Poverty coupled with illiteracy forces
poor parents to marry off
their daughters at an early
age, said Dr Suresh Chandra
Dalei, a social worker of
Jajpur.
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resolved to hold marathons
under the name “Biju Janma
Shatabarsiki
Smaraki
Ganadauda” at various places
from July 19 till the August 9
Kranti Divas.
The marathons would be
conducted at birthplaces and
workplaces of different freedom strugglers across the State.
As per the schedule, a
Jyoti (torch) would be taken
out from the Chakhi Khuntia
birthplace to the Gandhi Ghat
in Puri on July 19. Then, a
marathon would begin from
there and conclude at the Biju
Patnaik statue at Medical
Square in Puri.
Similarly, marathons
would be conducted at the
birthplaces of Raghu-Dibakar
(Nayagarh), Dharanidhar
Bhuyan (Keonjhar), Baghajatin
(Baleswar), Chakara Bisoi (G
Udaygiri), Madho Singh
(Bargarh),
Utkalmani
Gopabandhu (Suando), Pandit
Raghunath
Murmu
(Rairangpur), Rendo Majhi
(Kalahandi), Nabakrushna
Choudhury (Jagatsinghpur),
Saheed Laxman Nayak hang-
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Eastern Naval Command,
Visakhapatnam visited the
Sainik School Bhubaneswar
on Wednesday. After he has
taken over as the LBA
Chairman of the school, it was
his first official visit to preside
over a meeting with State
Government officials.
Under the Flag Officer
Commanding-in-Chief, the
Eastern Naval Command
extends naval support on the
shoreward of AP, Odisha, West
Bengal, Tamil Nadu and the
Island chain of Andaman and
Nicobar.
Vice-Admiral Bisht was
given a spectacular Guard of
Honour by the senior cadets of
the school in the presence of
Read Admiral P Rana, MP
Prasanna Patsani, school
Principal Captain (IN)
Kanchan
Mukherjee,
Commander Sibapada Rath,
Cdr Kalyan Mohanty, HQ
Eastern Naval Command,
Vice-Principal Lt Col SN
Mehta, Administrative Officer
Lt Cdr Santhosh Kumar N,
Senior Master Dr SD Singh and
officials of NCC, staffs and
cadets.
Vice-Admiral Bisht visited
the academic block, swimming
pool, Baitarani House and
other important venues of the
school.
In his interaction with
Class-XII cadets, the ViceAdmiral expressed his happiness as the cadets are well
motivated to join Armed
Forces. He advised them to
make the best use of the available resources at the school and
join Armed Forces in large
numbers which can bring glory
to the State of Odisha. He
assured the school fraternity
that his office would extend all
necessary support and ensure
that the school rises to greater
heights.
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place
(Malkangiri),
Nabakrushna-Malati
Choudhur y
workplace
(Angul), Netaji Subhas
Chandra Bose (Cuttack),
Mahatma Gandhi statue
(Phulbani), Birsamunda Statue
(Rourkela), Rohidas Singh Nag
(Mayurbhanj), Saheed Peeth
Kalamatia (Jajpur), Delanga
Berboi,
Garhkhordha
(Khordha), Maa Ramadevi
Thakar Bapa Ashram
(Badachana, Jajpur), Jamunali
( K i s h ore n a g ar ) ,
Shreeramchandra Bhanjdeo
memorial (Baripada), Baji
Rout birthplace (Dhenkanal),
Veer Surendra Sai statue
(Sambalpur) and Lavan
Satyagrah Peeth (Chudamani).
The centenary committees have urged the Ministers,
MLAs, MPs, BJD district presidents and leaders of the party’s
women and youth wings to
provide their support to make
the Smaraki Ganadauda successful.
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hief Minister Naveen
Patnaik on Wednesday
directed the Transport
Department to ensure completion of the railway line
works on the KhordhaBalangir route from Balangir
side within stipulated time.
The Chief Minister issued
this direction while reviewing
the project at the State
Secretariat here.
Transport
Minister
Ramesh Majhi told reporters
that the 16-km railway line
work started from Balangir
side in December 2015 is
scheduled to be completed by
2018. Work from Rajsunakhala
to Nayagarh would be ready by
2017, and the whole route
would be ready by 2021, Majhi
said.
Notably, trains are now
running till Rajsunakhala on
the on the 289-km KhurdaBolangir rail project.
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for admissions into PlusIII courses of various colleges
in the State were published on
Wednesday.
The BJB College here has
emerged as the most sought
after college in the State with
the highest cutoff mark in all
the three streams. For Arts, the
cutoff mark percentage stands
at 77, followed by 70.67 and
70.5 in the Nayagarh
Autonomous College and the
Rajendra College in Balangir,
respectively.
The BJB College topped
the cutoff mark list in Physical
Science too with 92 per cent
followed by the College of
Basic Science and Humanities
here with 89.6 per cent and
Rajdhani College here with
84.50 per cent.
The highest cutoff mark
for Biological Science stands at
here is no letup in waiving
black flags to Naveen
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Patnaik’s Ministers since the
Union Ministers were attacked
by BJD members in Bargarh on
June 23.
On Wednesday, a group of
BJP workers showed black flags
to Steel and Mines Minister
Prafulla Kumar Mallick at
Jaleswar in Baleswar district.
Besides waving black flags,
the saffron party workers
shouted anti-BJD slogans and
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College followed by 89 per
cent in the College of Basic
Science and Humanities and
82.83 per cent in the
Government Autonomous
College, Rourkela.
For Commerce, the cutoff
mark in the BJB College is 86
per cent followed by the
protested the visit of the
Minister to the district.
As many as 40 BJP workers were detained by police
after the incident, sources said.
The incident came a day
Sailabala Women’s College in
Cuttack and the Rajdhani
College with 82.67 per cent
and 77.33 per cent, respectively.
As per the notification
issued by the Higher
Education Department on
June 13, the admissions of the
first selection applicants will
be held from July 15 to July 20.
Similarly, the second selection
list will be published on July 25
and admissions for the same
will be held from July 27 to 29.
The third selection merit list
will be published on August 3
and the admissions will be
completed between August 5
and 6.
The Plus-III first year
classes would begin from
August 11. The second phase
admission would start after 10
days from the date of Instant
and Supplementary results
publication, the notification
added.
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preacher Zakir Naik, who
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is facing multiple probes for
alleged hate speech, will
address a Press conference in
Mumbai via Skype from Saudi
Arabia on Thursday. The press
conference will be held at 11.30
am at the World Trade Centre,
Cuffe Parade, in Mumbai.
Naik’s move comes after he
developed cold feet in the face
of mounting heat on him and
cancelled his return to India
from Saudi Arabia.
Naik was scheduled to reach
Mumbai from Saudi Arabia on
Monday and hold a Press conference. But he cancelled his
return. Facing flak from different quarters, Naik had on
Sunday said that he has been
misquoted by the media, claiming most of the clips shown on
the television and statements
attributed to him are either out
of context or doctored.
In a statement, Naik had
earlier expressed shock at the
“media trial” on him following
the recent terrorist attack in
Dhaka. “The media is the most
important weapon in the
world. It can convert a hero
into villain or even a villain into
a hero. I’m shocked at the
media trial on me regarding the
recent terrorist attack that took
place in Dhaka. Most of the
clips shown on the television of
myself are either out of context,
half statements or doctored. So
are my statements in the print
media,” he had said.
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Wednesday issued instrucP
tions to the village panchayats
to focus on weeding out
Congress grass as a measure to
check the degradation of the
ecosystem.
Punjab Government has
already issued a notification
declaring the parthenium
weed, also known as Congress
grass or carrot grass, as noxious
weed under the provisions of
‘The East Punjab Agricultural
Pests, Diseases and Noxious
Weeds Act, 1949’.
This weed has been not
only degrading the ecosystem
in the State but was also a
potent cause of various diseases
in humans and animals, said a
spokesman of the Rural
Development and Panchayat
Department.
He said that after declaration of this weed as noxious,
any land owner would be
duty bound to carry out preventive or remedial measures
to control the weed, failing
which he would be liable to be
punished.
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sending two C-17 aircrafts
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to Juba on Thursday to airlift
Indians stranded in South
Sudan that has been severely
impacted by violence due to
fighting between two factions.
There are about 600
Indians living in South Sudan,
out of which nearly 300 have
registered with the Indian
Embassy for evacuation. Gen
(Retd) VK Singh, Minister of
State in External Affairs
Ministry is leading the evacuation operation.
“The General takes charge
again! 2 C-17s proceeding to
Juba
tomorrow
with
@Gen_VKSingh leading evac’n
frm South Sudan,” MEA
spokesperson Vikas Swarup
tweeted on Thursday. Apart
from Singh, Amar Sinha,
Secretary (Economic Relations)
will also travel to Juba.
The Indian Embassy in
Juba issued advisories asking
people to register for evacuation. “The Government of
India has made arrangements
to evacuate all Indian nation-
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internal fight and the corruption charges against its State
Government, and that the BJP
supported
the
new
Government only from outside.
The party targeted the
Congress after its vice-president
Rahul Gandhi took potshots at
Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Gandhi thanked the court for
“explaining” to Modi what
democracy is.
“What happened in
Arunachal was an outcome of
internal fight within the
Congress. Its Government was
reduced to minority after a faction within the party rebelled.
We only supported the faction’s
bid for power from the outside.
The Congress should not blame
us for its internal problems.
“Rahul Gandhi is talking
about democracy but he should
know that past Congress
Governments have made a
century of the use of Article
356 (of the Constitution) to dismiss State Governments,”
Sharma said. Answering questions on the SC’s ruling, Ravi
Shankar Prasad at a briefing on
the Cabinet meeting said that
his Government will do a
“structured examination” of
the order restoring the dismissed Congress Government
in Arunachal Pradesh and its
implications before making a
detailed response.
als from Juba by special aircraft
on July 14, 2016. All Indian
nationals are advised to get in
touch with the Embassy of
India in Juba immediately to
avail this special facility on July
14, 2016 and obtain details of
arrival and departure.
Nationals should rest assured
that additional flights will be
pressed in service if required,”
the advisory said.
According to official
sources, of the 600 Indians living in the African country,
about 450 are in Juba and 150
outside the capital.
The relief flight is expected to reach Juba around 11 am
on Thursday. The Embassy
has said only Indian nationals
with valid Indian Travel
Documents will be allowed
boarding with only a cabin baggage up to 5kg. Women and
children will be accommodated on priority. The C-17 relief
flight is only up to New Delhi
and those willing to travel further will have to make arrangements on their own.
More than 300 people have
been reported killed, including
several civilians and two
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Chinese peacekeepers in Juba
due to firing between two factions -- SPLA-IO and SPLA
soldiers. It is understood that
the Indian peacekeepers of
reserve INDBATT-2 was called
out to protect the United
Nations assets and camps for
the displaced civilians after
the Internally Displaced
Persons (IDPs) from PoC
(Protection of civilians) site of
adjoining UN House breached
the perimeter fencing and fled
for safety to various parts of
UN House Compound in Juba.
India has 2,200 Indian soldiers present in S. Sudan under
the
United
Nations
Peacekeeping Mission, and
there is one company in Juba.
INDBAT T - 2, which is
presently Force Reser ve
Company at UN House to
cater to any contingencies,
was immediately called into
action to contain the influx of
IDPs in UN House, evict those
who had broken into UN staff
quarters and office building,
react to SOS calls from UN
staff, escort IDPs to designated safe areas and provide protection.
Sources said Indian soldiers reinforced the perimeter
of UN House and physically
prevented unauthorised armed
persons from entering the IDP
site and seized a number of
machetes, knives and other
weapons in the process. The
troops also improved defences
around the UN House to
ensure better defences.
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“The Governor just cannot act as the Ombudsman of
the State legislature… He has
no role whatsoever in the
removal of the Speaker under
Article 179. The message of
the
Governor
dated
December 9, 2015 was therefore
beyond
the
Constitutional authority vested with the Governor,” said
the judgment written jointly
by Justices Khehar, Ghose
and Ramana. Pursuant to the
Governor’s order, all decisions and proceedings initiated by Arunachal Pradesh
Assembly were set aside by
the court. There was even a
rider on the Speaker as the
court held that in the event
the House is to take up the
disqualification petition of
rebel Congress MLAs, the
Speaker must refrain from
deciding it as he himself faced
a petition for removal already
moved by 13 Opposition
MLAs.
Moreover, the cour t
viewed the rebellion to be an
intra-party affair as neither
was a no-confidence motion
moved against Tuki nor was
he facing a floor test. The
Governor, it seemed, acted on
a letter written by the rebel
MLAs complaining against
Tuki’s high-handedness. The
Congress had already dis-
after BJP workers had waived
black flags at Higher Education
Minister Pradeep Panigrahy
and Food Supplies and
Consumer Welfare Minister
Sanjay Dasburma in Ganjam
district.
A similar incident had also
taken place on Monday as
Health Minister Atanu
Sabyasachi Nayak was shown
black flags by BJP workers
when he was on a visit to the
Baleswar District Headquarters
Hospital to take stock of the
diarrhoea situation.
qualified two MLAs and
issued show-cause notices to
remaining 19. In this scenario,
the SC rebuked the Governor
for supporting an “invalid
breakaway group” and adopting a constitutional recourse
of recommending President’s
Rule in the State, that he
could take only in case of a
constitutional crisis.
The cour t fur ther
quashed all decisions taken by
the Ar unachal Pradesh
Assembly subsequent to
Governor’s order, giving clear
indication that the new
Government in the State had
no legal sanctity.
Likening the events in
the State to a “political circus”,
Justice Lokur, one of the
judges who penned a separate
judgment, said what was witnessed in the State was “lack
of cordiality” between constitutional functionaries, that
resulted in “thrashing” of the
Constitutional mechanism
that requires interpersonal
relationship and “spanking” to
governance in the State. The
judge went on to set aside the
parallel proceedings conducted by the Deputy Speaker
in a community hall where
decision was taken to quash
the disqualification of 14 rebel
MLAs and remove the
Speaker for siding with the
Chief Minister.
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at Harnag in South
Kashmir’s Anantnag town.
Massive protests erupted in
the area after the killing.
Around 15,00 people
with severe pallet and bullet
injuries have been admitted
i n v ar i ou s h o s pit a l s i n
Srinagar.
The Jammu and Kashmir
Government has sought services of eye surgeons for
treating dozens of youth
who are in danger of losing
their eyesight after getting
h it by p e l l e t s du r i n g
protests.
Chief
Minister
Mehbooba Mufti spoke to
the Union Health Minister,
J P Nadda on Wednesday
morning requesting him to
send a specialised team of
doctors including retina surgeons to Kashmir to take
care of the injured who have
suffered ophthalmic and
other traumas.
“We are expecting these
specialised doctors to arrive
here on Wednesday and get
down to the job immediately,” a Health Department
official said.
In
Delhi,
He a lt h
Ministry deputed a three
member high-level team of
eye specialists from AIIMS,
New Delhi to the State to
assist it in providing medical
care to the people injured in
the on-going law and order
problem.
Sources said that maximum deaths have occurred
in Anantnag and Kulgam
districts of South Kashmir.
Curfew continued in
most p ar ts of Sr inagar,
Pamp ore and Anant nag
towns of South Kashmir and
Kupwara in North Kashmir.
Chief
Minister
Me h b o o b a Mu f t i l a i d
wreaths on the graves of the
m a r t y r s of 1 9 3 1 at
Naqshband sahib in old
Srinagar at a subdued ceremony. The Martyr’s Day is
observed to commemorate
the killing of 22 people at
the hands of feudal rulers’
Army on July 13, 1931.
The separatists had also
a n n ou n c e d t o m a rc h
towards the Martyr’s graveyard but the officials foiled
their attempts.
Senior Hurriyat leaders
Sy e d A l i G e e l a n i a n d
M i r w a i z Um a r Fa ro o q
attempted to break police
barricades to come out from
their residences where they
have been put under house
arrest. However, police personnel deployed in strength
outside their residences took
them into custody.
Commission (SEC) on
Wednesday barred it from contesting local body elections
along with 190 smaller outfits
for failure to submit Income
Tax returns and audited
accounts, ahead of a string of
civic polls, including the
Mumbai city corporation.
Known for its controversial
stance on a host of issues,
including the allegations against
Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, the
SEC’s decision came when
AIMIM is gearing up to put up
a good showing in the Greater
Brihanmumbai Municipal
Corporation polls, due early
next year.
The parties which lost their
registration include RPIKhobragade faction, led by
Uttam Khobragade and UPbased Peace Party.
The decision to withdraw
registration of 191 outfits was
announced by State Election
Commissioner JS Saharia.
So far, 359 political parties
have been registered with the
Commission out of which 17
are recognised parties, he said.
Notices were served to 326
parties for failure to submit
necessary documents, Saharia
said. Despite sending
reminders to them and extending the deadline on request of
some of them, they had failed
to submit required documents,
he said.
“If the parties want to contest elections in Maharashtra,
they have to register,” Saharia
said.
For long a Hyderabadbased party, AIMIM expanded
its influence to Maharashtra in
2014 Assembly polls by winning two seats, one in Mumbai
and another in Aurangabad.
Reacting to the SEC decision, AIMIM MLA Waris
Pathan said his party would
contest the order. “We received
a notice from the SEC four
months ago and we had clearly replied to it. Yet, they deregistered us. We will appeal
against the decision to the
higher authority,” Pathan, who
represents Byculla Assembly
seat in the State Assembly,
said.
A press release issued by
the party’s group leader in
Maharashtra Assembly and
Aurangabad MLA Imtiaz Jaleel
said on receiving the SEC
notice a party team from
Hyderabad had gone to the
Commission office in Mumbai
and completed all the formalities as required by it, including submission of IT returns.
The moment we get the SEC
order we will go in appeal
against it, he said.
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has proposed to liberalise
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some of the environmental
norms related to real estate
industry. In the latest of a
series of draft notifications on
the subject, the Ministry has
proposed integrating environmental conditions with building permissions granted by
local authorities under state
specific land laws. The draft
notification has been put up in
public domain for the comments of the stakeholders.
As per the Ministry notification,
"The
Central
Government is working for
ensuring Ease of Doing
Responsible Business." The
notification also said that the
rules were being amended to
streamline permissions , under
the "scheme of Housing for all
by 2022 with an objective of
making available of affordable
housing to weaker section in
urban area has ambitious target." But the exemption would
not just be applicable for the
housing of weaker section, but
for all kind of real estate projects including malls, entertainment centres and commercial buildings.
According to the current
norms, building and construction projects with built-up area
over 20,000 square metres and
above require green clearances.
However, in the proposed system, three categories of buildings viz. 5,000-20,000 sq.
metres, 20,000-50,000 sq.
metres and 50,000-150,000 sq.
metres-are being drawn up
where standard conditions are
slightly stricter for larger buildings than smaller ones. The
sources reasoned out the
changes saying, this would
thus, cover a much wider section of the construction sector.
The proposal further says,
"states adopting these objective
and monitorable environmental
conditions in their building
bye-laws and relevant laws and
incorporating these conditions
in the approval given for building construction making it legally enforceable shall not require
a separate environmental clearance for individual buildings."
In other words, the ministry
proposed integrating environmental conditions with building
permissions granted by local
authorities under state-specific
land laws, clarified the sources.
However, the proposed
relaxation will not result in taking the construction sector out
of NGT's purview or the ambit
of the Environment Protection
Act, said the sources.
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nion
Cabinet
on
Wednesday approved
U
revival of three closed fertiliser
plants at Gorakhpur, Sindri and
Barauni, at an estimated cost of
C 18,000 cr, as part of its efforts
to meet the demand of the eastern States and make India selfsufficient in urea output. The
output expected from these
units is 1.27 million tones per
year. Cabinet, chaired by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi also
approved a skill development
project under Pradhan Mantri
Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY)
with an outlay of C12000 crore
aiming to impart skills to one
core youth over next for years.
The Fertiliser Corporation
India Ltd (FCIL) has two closed
urea plants at Sindri (Jharkhand)
and Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh),
while Hindustan Fertilisers
Corporation Ltd (HFCL) has
one closed factory at Barauni
(Bihar). "These three fertilisers
units would be revived by means
of Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)
of Public Sector Units (PSUs)
namely, National Thermal Power
Corporation (NTPC), Coal India
Ltd (CIL), Indian Oil Corporation
Ltd (IOCL) and FCIL/HFCL,
through 'nomination route'," an
official statement said.
"Today's decision is a game
changer in economy of eastern
India," Law and IT Minister
Ravi Shankar Prasad told
reporters here. Earlier in 2015,
the government had approved
revival of these three units
through 'bidding route'.
However, the bidding
process could not be carried forward due to receipt of only one
application each against 'Request
for Qualifications' (RFQs) for
revival of Gorakhpur and Sindri
units of FCIL, the statement said.
The revival of these plants
would ease the pressure on railroad infrastructure due to long
distance transportation of urea
from western and central
regions and thereby saving in
Government subsidy on freight.
Moreover, this would accelerate the economic development
of the eastern region and create
opportunities for 1,200 direct and
4,500 indirect employments.
"GAIL has planned to lay a
gas pipeline from Jagdishpur to
Haldia. These units will serve as
anchor customer for this
pipeline and ensure its viability,"
Prasad said.
PMKVY will impart fresh
training to 60 lakh youth and
certify 40 lakh people who have
acquired skills non-formally
under the Recognition of Prior
Learning (RPL), said Prasad.
"Skill training would be
done based on industry-led
standards aligned to the
National Skill Qualification
Framework (NSQF)," an official
statement said. Apart from catering to domestic skill needs,
PMKVY will focus on skill
training aligned with international standards for overseas
employment, including in Gulf
countries and Europe. There will
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Ministry of Women and Child enable their peers to access all
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Minister Smriti Irani, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi on
Wednesday rejected the name
of the candidate forwarded by
the Irani-led Human
Resources Development
Ministry for the post of CBSE
Chairman lying vacant since
December 2014.
The
Appointments
Committee of the Cabinet
(ACC) headed by Prime
Minister did not accept the
proposal in the name of
Sarvendra Vikram Bahadur
Singh which was forwarded by
HRD Ministry when Smriti
Irani was at the helm. This was
the third futile attempt by the
I
HRD Ministry to appoint a
new CBSE chief.
Singh was Irani's top
choice for the position and the
HRD Ministry had earlier this
year forwarded his name to
DoPT. After the recent
Cabinet reshuffle, Irani is now
the Textiles Minister while
Prakash Javadekar has joined
as the new HRD minister.
"The ACC has not accepted the proposal to appoint
Sarvendra Vikram Bahadur
Singh as the CBSE chief. It has
also been decided that the post
will be filled under the Central
Staffing Scheme," a HRD
Ministry spokesperson said.
Officials said the ministry
has received a letter from the
Department of Personnel and
Training (DoPT) in this
regard.
ginal communities including
sex workers proving successful
in four high HIV prevalence
States - Tamil Nadu, Andhra
Pradesh, Maharashtra and
Karnataka - the Government
on Wednesday hinted that it
was open to the idea to implement it in its ongoing and
future schemes for the sector
across the country.
Under 'single-windows'initiated by the Centre for
Advocacy and Research
(CFAR) along with 22
Community-based
Organizations in 2012- the
community workers act as a
bridge between the government officials of district, subdistrict and village levels and
the vulnerable groups including HIV patients and transgenders to help the latter
Organisation(NACO) of the
Health Ministry recognized
the endeavour as throwing significant learning from the
ground both by community
and implementers that need to
be incorporated in on-going as
well as the soon to be fashioned
National Aids Control
Programme (NACP) V programme.
He was speaking at a
national dissemination meet on
'mainstreaming sex workers
for greater social inclusion
sharing outcomes of single
window initiative in the seven
districts'.
The pilot project was started in seven districts to assess
and design a social Inclusion
Intervention for sex workers in
all the 4 states and transgender
in Tamil Nadu. This was man-
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rappling with the international tribunal's verdict quashing its claims over
the South China Sea, China
on Wednesday turned down
US advice to follow India's
example of settling its maritime row with Bangladesh by
implementing the judgement
saying that there is "no comparison" between the two
cases.
"There is a premise for the
settlement of the relevant territorial dispute between India
and Bangladesh through arbitration, that is, the two
respected each other's sovereign wills and reached an
agreement on the arbitration
request through consultation,"
Chinese Foreign Ministry
spokesman Lu Kang told here.
"It is not like imposing
one party's will on the other"
unlike the Philippines which
"unilaterally" filed the petition
in Permanent C ourt of
Arbitration (PCA), he said in
response to question over US
Assistant Secretary of Defence
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Denmark's recent comments
that China should follow
India's example of resolving its
maritime boundary dispute
with Bangladesh by implementing the award by a similar tribunal appointed by the
PCA.
India accepted the award
which was given in favour of
Bangladesh to resolve the over
40-year maritime row.
The tribunal awarded
Bangladesh 19,467 sq km of
area in Bay Bengal in 2014.
"To India's great credit, it
accepted the decision and has
abided by it, noting at the time
that settlement of the issue
would enhance mutual understanding and goodwill
between the two countries.
This is an example we would
encourage China to follow,"
Denmark told lawmakers at a
Congressional hearing in
Washington last week.
"The arbitral tribunal's
upcoming ruling will present
an opportunity for those in
the region to determine
whether the Asia-Pacific's
future will be defined by
adherence to international
laws and norms that have
helped keep the peace and
enabled it to prosper, or
whether the region's future
will be determined by raw cal-
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a group of 40 top acadeC
micians have sought “accurate
and fair” representation of
Hinduism in school text books
in the US state, which is currently in the process of revising.
"I strongly encourage you to
consider the perspective of
young Indian-American and
Hindu-American students and
whether the proposed framework accurately and fairly portrays that students history. If you
agree that it does not, I hope you
will consider making the appropriate modification," California
Lt Gov Gavin Newsom said in
a letter to the California State
Board of Education.
Newsom's letter is considered to be big boost for the
cause of Hindu-American parents who are seeking fair and
accurate representation of
Hinduism and removal of negative portrayal of the religion.
The California Board is
scheduled to have its last meeting later this week ahead of
revising and updating the K-12
Histor y-Social
Science
Framework for public schools.
In another letter, 40 top academicians complained to the
State Board of Education that the
balanced, age-appropriate
approach for which they advocate has been largely achieved for
the other religions, while the
treatment of Hinduism is unduly negative and, as a result, presents Hinduism as being especially prone to historical wrongs
and social problems compared
with other religions – which is
wholly inaccurate.
"However, to make the negative the main focus of IndiaHinduism and to suppress the
positive, while barely referencing other religions' negatives
and promoting their positives,
is not only inequitable, but
also does not fulfill the Board's
Standards for Evaluating
Instructional Materials for
Social Content," they wrote.
"We should all be working
for a representation of India
and Hinduism that is consistent
with the manner in which
other civilisations and religions are portrayed and is age
appropriate, rather than singling out India and Hinduism
for especially critical treatment," the academicians wrote.
The convener of the academicians who has written the letter is Barbara A McGraw,
Professor, Social Ethics, Law, and
Public Life Saint Mary's College
of California. In another letter,
Hindu American Foundation
(HAF) expressed concern that
sections of the proposed text
books portray Hinduism "inaccurately, unobjectively, and in a
prejudicial manner", and if
adopted, will promote misrepresentations of fact and a discriminatory bias against Hindu
students in instructional materials and in the classroom.
culations of power," Denmark
said.
China however emphatically rejected the verdict questioning the legality of the tribunal.
Lu
said
previous
Philippines President Benigno
S Aquino unilaterally opted
for arbitration and "imposed"
it on China.
"By doing that the Aquino
administration severely violated the agreement between
China and Philippines and the
consensus in the region,
breached relevant provisions
under UN Convention on
Law of Seas (UNCLOS),
infringed upon China's right
as a sovereign state and state
party to UNCLOS to resolve
disputes by means of its own
choice and went against international law," he said.
"Therefore there is no
comparison between the two
things," he said.
China claims almost all of
the South China Sea but its
claims are fiercely contested
by the Philippines, Vietnam,
Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan.
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Delhi by year end, fueling rise
to the speculation about fast
movement towards India
acquiring state-of-the-art
armed drones f rom the
United States.
"We are looking forward
to continuing to enhance our
cooperation with India by
working with the US
Government to provide the
Indian Navy with persistent,
operationally proven maritime domain awareness," said
Linden Blue, CEO, of General
Atomics Aeronautical Systems
(GA-ASI), a leading manufacturer of remotely piloted
aircraft (RPA) systems, radars,
and electro-optic and related
mission systems solutions.
Announcing that it plans
to expand its presence in
India and open an office in
New Delhi by the end of the
year, GA-ASI in a statement
New York: India should conduct
an impartial probe into the use
of lethal force by police during
the violent protests following the
killing of Hizbul commander
Burhan Wani in Kashmir and
ensure that basic human rights
are protected, a leading human
rights body has said.
"A major grievance of
those protesting in Kashmir is
the failure of authorities to
respect basic human rights,"
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
South Asia director Meenakshi
Ganguly said in a statement.
"Ensuring that rights are protected and prosecuting those
responsible for abuses would be
an important first step," she said.
HRW said the authorities
should impartially probe police
use of lethal force during the
violent protests in Jammu and
Kashmir that ensued since the
killing of Hizb-ul-Mujahedin
militant Wani last week. PTI
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step to explore possibility of
Statistics revealed that over
the years, few appeals were
filed against orders passed by
High Courts located in far
south while majority were
from High Courts located in
north India.
"In view of cases pending
in the Supreme Court of India
on average for about 5 years,
in the High Courts again for
about 8 years, and anywhere
between 5-10 years in Trial
Courts...Would it not be part
of the responsibility and duty
of the Supreme Court of India
to examine through a
Constitution Bench, the issue
of divesting the Supreme
Court of about 80 per cent of
the pendency of cases of a
routine nature, to recommend
to Government, its opinion on
the proposal for establishing
four Courts of Appeal," the
bench also comprising Justices
R Banumathi and UU Lalit
said.
encouraging, said Akhila
Sivadas, Executive Director,
CFAR.
From March 2014 to June
2016 the Project succeeded in
linking up sex workers and
transgender persons with 33
schemes including those for
availing ration cards, bank
accounts and aadhar cards by
reaching out all information to
50,055 and facilitating 30791 to
apply of which 25196 got
cleared and sanctioned.
She said it is time that the
government move beyond
from providing condoms and
contraceptives and also work
towards their social inclusion.
Preeti Sudan, Additional
Secretary, Ministry of Women
and Child Development said
that the Single window initiative had thrown up many valu-
tance of community participation and involvement,
Kousalaya, President of PWN+
said that "only a mechanism
like Single Window can embed
the community of people living
with HIV into the entire
process of scheme planning,
implementation and final delivery." This was experienced by
the Positive Women's Network
when they set up single window at Ajmer and Nagpur in
2014, she added.
Akhila agreed saying that
without such programmes, the
marginal communities will
remain on the periphery of the
development. Single window
helps them getting basic documents to lead a normal life.
"Otherwise they are either
harassed by the police or
deprived from their basic rights."
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after working three long night
shifts is believed to have fallen
asleep behind the wheel just a
couple of kilometres away from
home, a British court has heard.
Ronak Patel, 33, a trainee
anaesthetist from Ixworth village, Suffolk county, had been
singing on the phone to his wife
to help keep him awake, an
inquest heard this week.
He had been working three
long night shifts when his car
hit a lorry in August last year,
his inquest heard this week.
Patel is believed to have
fallen asleep on the highway at
Honington in Suffolk, about
five kilometres from his home.
"The most plausible explanation for the collision was that
Dr Patel fell asleep," local police
accident investigator Mark
Webb told the hearing.
The doctor was declared
dead at the scene after he sustained a broken neck and other
injuries.
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undergoing training in high-end
job roles under the programme.
Cabinet also cleared a proposal to sell its part stake in stateowned construction company
NBCC India with an aim to
meet the ambitious C 56,500crore PSU disinvestment target
in 2016-17. At present, the government holds 90 per cent in the
company, which has a market
capitalisation of C14,274 crore.
The Cabinet approved the
Revised Cost Estimate (RCE) of
C 7,290.62 crore for the ongoing
Hydroelectric Project (HEP) in
Bhutan. "The total cost escalation for the project, at this
stage, is C3,512.82 crore," said
an official statement.
"This is a sign of further
strengthening of relations
between India and Bhutan," said
Prasad. The project will provide
surplus power to India and thus
augment power availability in the
country and would enable project works to proceed smoothly
without interruption.
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said it recognises the importance of India and looks forward to working more closely
with
the
Indian
Government from its new
local office.
The company plans to
increase collaboration with
India in the areas of maritime
security and maritime
domain awareness, which are
key missions for the Indian
Ministry of Defence and the
Indian Navy.
Dr Vivek Lall, a renowned
corporate leader, has spearheaded global initiatives for
General Atomics in the last
few years, a company official
said.
India recently joined
Missile Technology Control
Regime (MTCR) and has sent
a letter of request to the US
Government for 22 Guardian
Predator aircraft.
Armed drones have been
used by Pakistan in combat.
The US, Israel, Britain and
Nigeria have previously used
armed drones in combat.
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the West Asia, saying the growing threat of terrorism and radicalism has added to the complexities in the region.
Participating in a UN
Security Council debate on 'The
Situation in the Middle East',
India's Deputy Permanent
Representative to the UN
Tanmaya Lal said the situation in
the West Asia remains of serious
concern and is getting increasingly fragile and unpredictable.
"The growing threat of terrorism and radicalism has
added to the complexities of the
situation in the region, which
is mired with protracted conflicts," he said.
Lal said the most longstanding of the conflicts involving Israel and Palestine,
remains strained with the peace
talks suspended for more than
two years now and with no
signs of resumption at least in
the near future.
"The situation appears to be
getting worse with escalating violence on both sides and absence
of restraint and moderation.
The dire humanitarian situation
in Palestinian territories and
violence in Israel demands
urgent and sustained efforts on
part of the global community to
resume peace talks," he said.
having a National Court of
Appeal that could hear and
decide all appeals arising from
High Courts, leaving only
constitutional questions to
travel to the Supreme Court
for adjudication.
Referring the issue to a
Constitution Bench, a threejudge bench headed by Chief
Justice TS Thakur said that the
need has arisen as the
Supreme Court's docket is
bursting at its seams with no
solution available to clear the
backlog. The Court even
raised an important constitutional issue whether having a
National Court of Appeal in
Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and
Kolkata could ensure litigants
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Secretary General Ban Kimoon's position that "courageous steps" are necessary for a
negotiated two-State solution in
order to bring lasting peace,
security and dignity for the people of both Israel and Palestine.
"A two-State solution is the
only viable option for sustainable peace in the region. It is the
responsibility of the two sides to
ensure that they move closer to
a solution rather than away
from it," he said, adding that the
international community must
be firm in its resolve to assist the
people on both sides and the
Security Council must take a
lead in this endeavour.
India welcomed the first
report of the West Asian
Quartet on the impediments to
a lasting resolution to the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict and
its recommendations to
advance the two-state solution
through negotiations.
"We hope that the efforts by
the international community can
lead to building some common
ground, generate mutual understanding and a common political
horizon, on which the two sides
can start the talks again," he said.
Lal reiterated India's support to the Palestinian cause
and assistance for Palestine's
nation building, human
resource development and
capacity building efforts.
On Yemen, India welcomed
the announcement of SecretaryGeneral's Special Envoy Ismail
Ould Cheikh Ahmed last week
about an agreement on the
guiding principles for the
Yemen peace talks.
On Syria, Lal said India
hopes for a comprehensive political resolution of the conflict with
the participation of all parties.
"We further hope that the
intra-Syrian talks under UN
auspices will ensure a Syrian-led
and Syrian-owned inclusive
political transition, bringing an
end to the violence in Syria and
contribute to stabilising the
country and the region," he said.
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Court ordered restoration
of the previous Nabam Tuki-led
Congress Government in
Arunachal Pradesh, the present
Chief Minister Kalikho Pul said
that his Government will continue in the hilly State as he has
the required number to prove
majority in the House even as
he said that he will file a review
petition in the apex court.
Pul said this at the
Srimanta
Sankardeva
Kalakshetra here in Guwahati,
Pul and some of his Cabinet
colleagues are in Guwahati to
participate in the formal function of formation of the North
East Democratic Alliance
(NEDA), the BJP-led conglomeration of all the nonCongress political parties in the
Northeastern region of India.
“In
democracy,
a
Government runs on the basis
of numbers and not on the basis
of a court verdict. I have the
required number and so our
Government will continue and
there is no threat to the present
Government,” Pul said while
interacting with the media person in Guwahati on Wednesday.
“However, I am going to
consult the experts and we are
going to file a review petition
in the Supreme Court,” said the
present Chief Minister of
Arunachal Pradesh. He said
that he is waiting for the detail
of the Supreme Court verdict.
Union Minister of State for
Home, Kiren Rijiju, who was in
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NEDA meeting said that the
BJP welcomes the verdict of the
Supreme Court. “There is no
question of filing a review
petition by the Government at
the Centre. The Government
acted on the advice of the
Governor only,” Rijiju said
while reacting to the issue.
Former Arunachal Pradesh
Chief Minister Nabam Tuki
expressed his happiness over
the verdict by the SC and said
that the historical and landmark verdict will go a long way
in strengthening the democracy in the country.
“I was hopeful that the
apex court will deliver justice to
us and that happened today. It’s
not only a victory for people of
Arunachal Pradesh but for those
who believes in constitution of
India and the spirit of democracy. The verdict makes it clear
how the BJP tried to illegally
oust the democratically elected
Government in Arunachal
Pradesh,” said Tuki while speaking to The Pioneer over phone.
Tuki said that he is going to
convene a meeting of all the 47
Congress Legislators (those
who were with the Congress on
December 15, 2015) and discuss with them on how to form
the Government. On asked
about whether he is going to
lead the State now, Tuki said
that it is the party's high command who will take a decision
in this regard. "Who leads the
State is not important. In
Congress, our high command
is the sole authority and high
command will take a decision.
However, we are happy that the
apex court has delivered the
justice to us," he added.
Meanwhile, the Assam
Pradesh Congress Committee
(APCC) has demanded immediate resignation of Arunachal
Pradesh Governor JP
Rajkhowa for his effort to
undemocratically oust the
Congress Government in the
hilly State. The APCC also
appealed to the BJP and its
national president Amit Shah
not to kill democracy in
Congress ruled states of the
northeast India taking advantage of the fact that there is a
BJP Government at the Centre.
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Guwahati declaration of the
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BJP-led anti-Congress political
alliance, North-East Democratic
Alliance (NEDA), party’s
national president Amit Shah on
Wednesday said that the prime
objective and focus of the
alliance will be to make NorthEast free of Congress rule.
Speaking at the formal
launching of NEDA here, Shah
said that the coming together
of 11 regional parties from
eight States of North-East
under NEDA platform is set to
make a big contribution to
region’s political and developmental spheres in coming days.
“Though BJP is the largest
party in NEDA, all smaller
regional parties will have a
level playing field in championing the cause of the
region,” Shah said while
adding that NEDA will be a
platform to work together to
fulfill the aspirations of the
people of the region.
“This is a region which is
full of potentialities. At the
same time, this is a region in
which is faced with multiple
challenges like unemployment, infiltration, separatism
and violence. Through NEDA
we all will work for
Northeast’s overall development and progress.
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Muslimeen (AIMIM)
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president and Hyderabad MP
Asaduddi Owaisi has said that
Maharashtra State Election
Commission’s move of cancelling his party’s registration
is not a big issue and party will
deal with in accordance with
the law and the rules.
The Maharashtra State
Election Commission earlier
on Wednesday had cancelled
the party’s registration for
not filing the income and
fund details banning the party
from participating in the State
civic elections.
“There was some delay on
our part as we did not
respond in time to the State
Election Commission’s notice
for submitting the accounts.
Our par ty’s State unit
will now take the necessary
steps and complete the formalities. It is not such a big
issue”, he said.
AIMIM had created a big
stir in Maharashtra politics
when it made a debut by winning two State Assembly seats
in Aurangabad and Mumbai.
It later emerged as the main
Opposition
party
in
Aurangabad
Municipal
Corporation and also won
seats in many other civic bodies including Nanded.
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platform, will also play the
role of integrating northeast
with rest of the country emotionally,” Shah reiterated.
The announcement of the
Guwahati declaration of
NEDA assumes significance as
Congress ruled Manipur and
Meghalaya are going to polls in
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Kolkata: Kolkata Police on
Wednesday recorded the statement of IPS officer Saiyaad
Mustafa Hussain Mirza in connection with its probe into the
Narada sting operation after a
four-hour-long interrogation.
According to top sources in
the Kolkata Police, questions on
Mirza's links to Narada CEO
Mathew Samuel were asked
among others.
Kolkata police has again
summoned Mirza and asked
him to appear before it on
Thursday.
The controversial Narada
sting operation, which surfaced
ahead of the Assembly elections
in the State, purportedly showed
several Trinamool Congress
leaders and Mirza accepting
money for consideration.
West Bengal Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee had on June
17 ordered a probe by the
police into the sting operation
and asserted that her party had
not taken "a single penny"
from anyone in the Saradha
chit fund scam and the Narada
sting operation.
A Special Investigation
Team (SIT) under Kolkata Police
Commissioner Rajeev Kumar
comprising senior officers of the
Detective Department, Cyber
Crime Cell and Economic
Offence Wing, was formed to
conduct the probe.
The next day Kolkata
Mayor and Fire and Emergency
Ser vices Minister Sovan
Chattopadhyay's wife Ratna
Chattopadhyay filed a complaint at the New Market Police
Station against Samuel.
Samuel was then booked
under IPC sections 469
(forgery for purpose of harming reputation), 500 (defamation), 505 (statements conducing to public mischief), 171 (G)
(false statement in connection
with an election) and 120(B)
(criminal conspiracy).
The Kolkata Police had
issued the first summon to
Samuel on June 23. Four days
later, Samuel requested Kolkata
Police to withdraw its summon,
saying the matter was sub-judice.
However, that did not cut
any ice with the authorities as
a second summon was issued
soon after. The Narada News
CEO again requested them to
withdraw the summon.
An investigation into the
Narada sting operation is
presently on by the Lok Sabha
Ethics Committee, while a case
is pending on the issue in the
Calcutta High Court.
PTI
2017 and 2018. It may be
mentioned here that Asom
Gana Parishad (AGP),
Bodoland People’s Front (BPF),
Naga People’s Front (NPF),
People’s Party of Arunachal
(PPA), Sikkim Democratic
Front (SDF), Mizo National
Front (MNF), National
People’s Party (NPP), United
Democratic Party (UDP) and
Ganashakti have attended the
meeting on Wednesday.
Assam Health Minister
and convener of NEDA,
Himanta Biswa Sarma, while
announcing the “Guwahati
Declaration” said that political
objective of the alliance will be
to ensure non-Congress
Governments are formed in
the region’s eight States in
successive Assembly polls.
“We will ensure that in
2019 Lok Sabha polls, no
Congress MPs are elected
from northeastern States.
Northeast have 25 MPs. Our
target is all the 25 MPs are
from NEDA,” Sarma said.
With Manipur going to
polls next year, Sarma
also pointed out that prime
task of NEDA from now on
would be to rout the ruling
Congress in that State.
Besides Union Minister of
State for Home Kiren Rijiju and
Union DONER Minister
Jitendra Singh, Chief Ministers
of Assam, Nagaland, Arunachal
Pradesh and Sikkim —
Sarbananda Sonowal, TR
Zeliang, Kalikho Pul and
Pawan Kumar Chamling
attended the convention.
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the fallout of the infamous
Icoalgate
scam during the UPA
regime, sleuths of the Income
Tax department on Wednesday
raided the residences and business establishments of
Swamikkannu Jagatrakshakan,
former Union Minister and a
close associate of M
Karunanidhi, the DMK chief.
Sleuths of the Income Tx
Department stormed into the
residences of Jagatrakshakan at
Adyar and Nungambakkam in
Chennai and business establishments, including Bharat
University, Sree Balaji Medical
College and Sri Lakshmi
Narayana Institute of Medical
Sciences at Puducherry and
distilleries and inspected all
official registers maintained in
the premises.
Though there were no official word from the Income Tax
department at the time of
going to Press sources in Tamil
Nadu Police which provided
security cover to the sleuths
said evasion of tax too could be
one of the reasons.
“The IT officials who
charged into the residences
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and business establishments
locked the doors from inside
and disconnected all communication links. Several incriminating documents have been
seized from the houses as well
as the business premises,” said
the police source.
Jagatrakshakan (68) is one
of the money bags financing the
DMK in Tamil Nadu and
Puducherry. His name hogged
the national limelight when the
news on coal-gate hot the headlines. It was reported that
Jagatrakshakan used his political clout for illegal coal field allocation to JR Power Gen Pvt Ltd,
one of the companies owned by
him. He was also in the news
when a sting operation brought
to light the collection of capitation fee by one of the medical
colleges owned by him for
admission to MBBS course.
Though he had contested
the 2014 Lok Sabha from his
forte Sriperumbudur, he was
defeated by the AIADMK candidate by a big margin.
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fter a very lengthy reply in
the ongoing Assembly
A
Session on Wednesday on the
issue of DySP MK Ganapathy's
suicide, Chief Minister
Siddaramaiah announced a
judicial probe which has taken
the State by a political storm.
Siddaramaiah said the judicial commission would be
headed by a retired High Court
judge and the report would be
submitted within six months.
Siddaramaiah, on the floor of
the House not only justified the
three -- Urban Development
Minister KJ George, senior
police officers AM Prasad (IGIntelligence) and Pranab
Mohanty (IGP-Lokayukta) -who were named by Ganapathy
in an interview to a local TV
channel before committed suicide, but also gave a clean chit
without even filing an FIR in
the case.
"There is not even an iota
of evidence to prove that
George or the two IPS officers
had harassed Ganapathy,"
Siddaramaiah said, while replying to the two-day debate in the
Legislative Assembly.
He also said that he has
complete faith in the State's CID
which is probing Ganapathy's
death. "Let the CID complete its
probe and submit its report.
Based on its findings, we will act
against those involved,"
Siddaramaiah said.
Turning
down
Opposition's demand for
George's resignation, the Chief
Minister maintained that
Ganapathy would not have
been promoted as DySP if
George was vindictive.
The CM rejected the
demand for a CBI probe by the
BJP which is gunning for the
resignation of George and the
two top police officers. The
JD(S) had also joined the BJP
to press for George's ouster.
Taking serious exception to
this, the BJP and the JD(S) have
decided to commence a dayand-night dharna in both the
Houses of the State Legislature.
The leaders of the both the parties announced that they would
not withdraw their protest till
their demands were met.
JD(S)
leader
HD
Kumaraswamy said that this
was the first instance in the history of the State that a case has
been handed over to judicial
probe without filing an FIR and
demanded the Government to
file an FIR and sack all the
three who have been named.
Meanwhile, the BJP has
also decided to intensify their
agitation outside the House.
They have given a Madikeri
bandh call on Thursday.
Ganapathy(51) was found
hanging from the ceiling fan in
a room at a lodge in Madikeri
on July 7 prior to which he had
given an interview to a local
TV channel saying the Minister
KJ George and poAM Prasad
(IG-Intelligence) and Pranab
Mohanty (IGP-Lokayukta)
would be responsible "if anything happens to me."
tional Godhra train carnage –
a root cause of infamous
Gujarat riots, was nabbed by
Gujarat
Police.
The
Ahmedabad Crime Branch on
Wednesday said that the
accused was nabbed from
Malegaon in Maharashtra
This is fifth such arrest in
last one year, in the case where
miscreants set coach S6 of
Sabarmati Express on fire near
Godhara Railway Station on
February 27, 2002, killing 59
people on their way back from
Ayodhya after performing kar
seva. The incident spiraled in
to a massive communal strife in
the State that saw over 1,000
lose lives to violence.
A senior police official in
the Crime Branch said that
they had picked up Imran who
lived in Malegaon and was
involved in illegal sand mining.
He is notified as one of the
main accused responsible for
the train burning incident.
Earlier this year, the AntiTerrorist Squad (ATS) of
Gujarat Police had arrested
Farooq Bhana, one of the key
masterminds of the Godhra
incident. Bhana, a former
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councilor of Godhra had
moved to Mumbai to evade
arrest and later became a property broker.
The Special Investigation
Team (SIT) which probed the
case had named 94 persons in
the chargesheet. In 2011, the
SIT court convicted 31 and
gave death sentence to 11, with
20 being given life imprisonment. The case is now pending
before Gujarat High Court.
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s part of 2017 Assembly
poll preparations Gujarat
BJP leadership is planning to
launch a fund raising initiative
— 'Dhan Daan'. The saffron
party had successfully completed this fund-raising drive
five years back before the 2012
Assembly polls and collected
over C200 crore.
Sources in the State BJP said
that party cadres, including
Gujarat CM, senior Ministers,
MLAs and MPs apart from
important party office-bearers,
would join the initiative. In the
previous 'Dhan Daan' initiative
in 2012, a day's salary was
donated by the then Gujarat
Chief Minister Narendra Modi
and his Council of Ministers.
Besides, BJP MLAs and MPs
from Gujarat had also contributed a day's salary.
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"We plan to collect more
funds than the previous
Assembly polls as the party
cadre would have adequate
time to raise money. Generally
BJP sympathisers contribute as
per their will to support the initiative. We are expecting to
kick-start the initiative in near
future once the State leadership
officially announces it," said a
senior BJP leader.
The Gujarat BJP had sub-
mitted an account-sheet of the
fund collected under 'Dhan
Daan' initiative to the Election
commission of India (ECI). As
per the account-sheet, the BJP
had collected around C220
crore ahead of the 2012
Assembly polls.
Not only the BJP but even
the Congress had collected
around C70 crore from the
State to contest the 2012
Assembly polls. Generally, big
corporates, businessmen and
high net-worth individuals
(HNIs) contribute to the lion's
share in such fund-raising initiatives of political parties.
In the upcoming 2017
Gujarat Assembly polls, Arvind
Kejriwal's Aam Aadami Party
(AAP) is also pulling up its
socks to contest from all the
Assembly constituencies. The
Kejriwal-led party too is likely
to raise fund from the State.
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ironies in Telangana and
IAndhra
Pradesh that while
one major river Godavari is in
spate and a lot of water is
going waste into the sea, the
other major river Krishna is
lying dried to the bone.
After the recent heavy
rains both in Telangana and
Maharashtra, River Godavari is
in spate and was flowing at
near-danger
level
in
Khammam district.
It is after a gap of two years
that the Godavari and the projects on the river were witnessing such good inflows.
Thanks to the heavy rains in
the Godavari catchment areas
in Maharashtra, Pranahita and
Penganga and Indravati were in
spate bringing impressive
inflow in to River Godavari.
Telangana irrigation
department official T
Satyanarayana said that the
water level in Sriram Sagar project in Nizamabad is rising and
it had touched 1,056 feet agains
the maximum level of 1,057.8
feet. The failure of monsoon for
the last two years had depleted the project of its water to
dangerous level. Against the full
capacity of 90 tmcft, the project
was holding only 10 tmcft of
water before the monsoon.
At Bhadrachalam in
Khammam district where the
river enters Andhra Pradesh,
the water had touched the
danger mark at 52.5 ft on
Tuesday but on Wednesday it
started receding. Offcials said
that this morning it came down
to a more manageable level of
49.5 and it was continuing at
the danger mark II.
As the flood water is reaching Dhowleswaram barrage in
East Godavari district, authorities have hoisted danger signal
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opened 175 gates of the barrage
releasing water in to the sea.
Officials said that 1.4 million
cusecs of water was reaching the
barrage and if it further increases to 1.7 million cusecs, danger
mark III will be hoisted.
The floods in river Godavari
has resulted water overflowing
on the roads and bridges at several places in both the Telugu
States bringing the traffic to a
halt. It was also posing a danger
of floods in low lying areas of
Khammam in Telangana and
West and East Godavari districts
of Andhra Pradesh.
Such was the flow into the
river that in 24 hours massive 88
tmcft of water had gone waste in
to the Bayof Bengal. “During this
year’s monsoon so far, a whopping 300 tmcft of water has gone
waste in to the sea”, a senior official of Andhra Pradesh irrigation
department said.
Experts say that ever year
3,000 tmcft of Godavari waters
flow into Bay of Bengal.
Presently AP Government is in
the processes of constructing
mega Polavaram irrigation project in West Godavari district to
impound some of these waters
and divert it to the water
starved Krishna Delta area.
Pattiseema Lift Irrigation
project, which AP Chief
Minister N Chandrababu
Naidu inaugurated earlier this
month envisages diversion of
80 tmc ft of Godavari waters to
Krishna delta. Officials said
that last year the partially
opened project had diverted 40
tmcft of wate ans saved crops
worth C2,400 crore.
But overall the water levels
in river Krishna and its major
projects were very low as the
rainfall in its catchment areas
in Maharashtra and Karnataka
was less than normal.
The biggest block in the flow
of Krishna waters in Telangana
and AP was the Almatti dam of
Karnataka in which the water
level had touched its lowest following the failure of monsoon
for the last two years.
Against its maximum
capacity of 1,29.72 tmcft of
water, the project presently
has only 35 tmcft of water, officials said. Karnataka in the past
refused to release the water to
neighbouring State till the project was completely full.
Krishna will start flowing
into Jurala project of Telangana
and Srisailam and Nagarjuna
Sagar projects which are shared
by the two Telugu States and
Prakasham Barrage in Krishna
district of AP only after
Karnataka starts discharging it.
So far there has been hardly any
inflow in to all these major projects of the two States.
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video of a pride of eight
Asiatic lions roaming in
A
the street of mountain town
Junagadh became viral on
social media. The video was
captured on Tuesday late in
the evening.
Just six km from Junagadh,
Girnar forest is situated where
movement of Asiatic lions are
common. At the foothill of
Gujarat’s tallest mountain —
Mount Girnar — people often
spot wild animals like lions,
leopard, blue bulls and other
animals. However, this time
lions were spotted near Girnar
Darwaja area, which is hardly
3 km from the foothill of
Mount Girnar.
Though people staying in
the residencies near Mount
Girnar are used of such wild
animals, but after the video of
eight lions became viral some
panic was seen among the
local people.
The video was captured by
one Mrunal Joshi, a resident of
Junagadh. According to him he
was amazed to see pride of
eight lions near Girnar
Darwaja area.
The lions didn’t attack
anyone, and peacefully
passed through the residential areas and eloped in the
nearby Girnar forest, he
added. In fact he captured the
lions in his mobile camera at
around 2.30 am on Tuesday
when there was no movement to human beings.
It is worth mentioning
that Girnar Darwaja area of
Junagadh is the entrance of the
city from Rajkot side and there
are many commercial establishments are there apart from
residencies. Even couple of
schools and hospitals are also
situated in the area.
According to forest officials, nearly 45 Asiatic Lions
are there in Girnar Wildlife
Sanctuary spread over around
17,800 hectares surrounding
Girnar Mountain range.
Ahmedabad: After spending
nine months behind bars,
quota agitation leader Hardik
Patel is all set to walk out of
Lajpore Jail in Surat on Friday
morning, days after the
Gujarat High Court granted
him bail in cases of sedition
and violence pertaining to
Patidar stir last year.
The Patidar Anamant
Andolan Samiti (PAAS), of
which Hardik is the convener,
has planned to felicitate their
leader outside Lajpore Jail
around 10 am on July 15.
As per the schedule
released by PAAS on
Wednesday, Hardik will travel to several places during 48
hours after his release before
leaving Gujarat for six
months.
Last week, the HC paved
the way for Hardik's release
after granting him bail in two
cases of sedition and a case
related to violence at Visnagar
MLA's office.
While granting him bail in
sedition cases, the HC set a
condition that Hardik will
have to stay outside Gujarat
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Chennai: All seven accused in
the 2008 murder of AIADMK
founder and former Chief
Minister MG Ramachandran's
foster son-in-law Vijayan were
on Wednesday sentenced to
life imprisonment by a court
here on Wednesday.
Principal Sessions Judge G
Jayachandran pronounced all
seven accused guilty, holding
that the prosecution has
proved the charges of criminal
conspiracy and murder against
them beyond doubt.
Prime accused Banu, a sister of the victim's wife Sudha,
Karuna, the brain behind the
attack, an automobile electrician Suresh who hired contract
killers R Karthik, Deena alias
Dinesh Kumar, Solomon and
M Karthick were all sentenced
to life.
The judge also directed
them to pay a fine of C10,000
each, failing which they would
have to undergo a further
imprisoment of six months.
The prosecution said the
motive behind the crime was
Banu's disputes with her brother Raja (also known as Dilipan
and Ramachandran) over con-
trol of one of the schools run
by the family and related issues
involving properties and cash
transactions, which also led to
several court cases.
Banu was enraged over
Vijayan being on the side of
her brother Raja on all the
issues. After deciding to eliminate Vijayan which she felt
would be the solution to her
problems, she sought the help
of Karuna, who was a constable at that time, and paid C4
lakh for the murder.
The prosecution said that
on June 4, 2008 Suresh and his
men followed Vijayan in a car
and a motorcycle in two
groups and rammed the victim's car from behind. When
Vijayan got down to question
it, he was hit by an iron pipe,
leading to his instantaneous
death.
Soon after the Judge held
all guilty and before he read
out the punishment, the
accused pleaded not guilty
even as Special Public
Prosecutor N Vijayaraj sought
death sentence for the fourth
accused R Karthik.
The prosecutor said
Karthick, who had 24 criminal
cases against him, was beyond
reformation and played a key
role in the fatal attack on
Vijayan.
The Judge, quoting High
and Supreme Court rulings
and guidelines, said the sentence of life imprisonment
would meet the ends of justice
and sentenced all seven to life.
He said the death sentence
was not warranted as the case
does not fall in the rarest of
rare category. The charge of
criminal intimidation was also
not proved against the
accused.
The victim's wife Sudha
and son Ramachandran said
"justice was done," whereas the
son and daughter of Banu
were seen crying as her mother (who was on bail) was
about to be taken to jail.
Soon after the seven were
sentenced, they were taken
into custody by police and
later lodged in Puzhal Central
prison.
The eighth accused
Buvaneswari is still absconding and L Venkatesh was a witness turned approver.
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for the next six months.
As per the HC direction,
Hardik will have to leave
Gujarat within 48 hours after
his release from jail.
PAAS said that the quota
leader will travel to many
parts of the state during 48
hours which end before July
17 midnight.
According to PAAS, no
decision is taken yet on the
place where Hardik will spend
six months.
After coming out of jail,
Hardik's caravan will pass by
different parts of Surat city,
including Bhestan, Ring Road,
Kapodra, Mini Bazar, and
Varachha area, which are
mostly dominated by Patels.
"He will then garland
Sardar Patel's statues in
Bhestan and Mini Bazar areas
in the city," PAAS leader
Dinesh Bambhaniya said
while releasing the schedule.
PAAS has also planned a
public
gathering
at
Laxminarayan farm on the
outskirts of Surat, subject to
permission by police.
"We will arrange our pro-
gramme as per the law and the
instructions of the high court.
We will arrange the public
gathering only if the police
grants us permission" said
Bambhaniya, a close aide of
Hardik.
From Suart, Hardik would
reach Vastral area of
Ahmedabad city for night
stay.
"On the morning of July
16, he will go to his native
place Viramgam to meet his
parents. He will be welcomed
by a large number of supporters. Hardik will then
come back here to complete a
formality in city sessions court
during afternoon. Then, he
will embark on a journey to
Botad where he will visit
Sarangpur Hanuman temple,"
said Bambhaniya.
After a road show in
Botad, Hardik and his supporters will visit Khodaldham
temple in Rajkot district and
then Umiyadham temple in
Jamnagar district in evening.
Both these temples are
supreme bodies of Patel
community.
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Coimbatore: A 21-year-old
brain dead engineering student
from this city has provided a
new lease of life to six people
by donating his organs.
Twenty-one-year old Rajini,
hailing from Selampattu village
in Villupuram district and doing
his BE final year in Kumaraguru
College of Technology here,
met with an accident on July 10
at nearby Avanashi while coming to college.
He was thrown off his twowheeler and hit his head on the
road divider. He was taken to
Government Hospital for first
aid and was shifted to Kovai
Medical Centre (KMCH) and
Hospital for further treatment.
Though Rajini underwent
various surgical and medical
management, he did not
respond much and was
declared brain dead yesterday,
a KMCH release said today.
His father Ramasamy, a
farmer and mother Alamelu
came forward to donate their
son's organs despite their grief.
Doctors from KMCH and
Governmentt Hospital here
immediately completed the
statutory requirement and harvested heart, liver, lungs, kid-
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Wednesday.
While Liver and a kidney
were transplanted (combined)
at KMCH, heart and lungs
were sent to private hospitals at
Chennai, another kidney, skin
and eyes were sent to other private hospitals in the city.
"Our son was an active
blood donor. His loss is unbearable to our family. By donating
his organs, we felt that it would
help at least someone to live
their life fully.
So, we wholeheartedly
accepted to donate his
organs,” the release quoting
Ramasamy said.
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ahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
candidate from Budhana
Assembly seat in Muzaffarnagar disappeared under mysterious circumstances on
Tuesday night. Alleging abduction, his family and friends
blocked the UP-Haryana highway for several hours.
As per reports, Mohamed
Arif (38) was shortlisted as the
BSP candidate from Budhana
Assembly seat and was in New
Delhi for last three days.
On Tuesday evening, he
called his wife and informed
her of his return the same
night. However, when he did
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not reach home and his mobile
phone was found switched
off, the family members suspecting foul play contacted the
local police.
On Wednesday morning,
the situation took a turn for the
worse when his Scorpio MUV
was found abandoned on the
Delhi-Muzaffarnagar highway
in Kankerkhera police station
area of Meerut. Soon his family and sympathisers learnt
about it and soon 200 supporters blocked the KarnalMeerut highway at Ghari
Sakhwat village at Budhana.
This resulted in a huge traffic
snarl on the inter-state highway.
Later senior officers intervened
and pacified the protesters to
clear the road.
Arif was declared candidate by the BSP after cancelling the ticket of Naeem
Malik. Arif 's family complained that he was returning
home with C10 lakh cash when
he disappeared.
SP
(city),
Meerut,
Omprakash said that Arif's family suspect that Naeem Malik
could be behind the abduction.
The police went to Naeem's
house later but he was not home.
However, BSP MLC and
Meerut Zone coordinator, Atar
Singh Rao dismissed the charge
saying that Naeem could not be
involved in a heinous incident.
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ashmir is once again on
the boil. It would be
wrong to simplify the
issue and put the entire
blame on Pakistan.
Other issues such as allowing public funerals when the Jammu &
Kashmir Government is aware that
thousands of Kashmiri residents
would defy the curfew, have certainly added foment.
However, the recrudescence
of violence, following the death of
Burhan Wani, the 22-year-old commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen
and poster boy of the anti-India
movement in the valley, has its roots
in Pakistan. The occasion was too
good for the leadership in
Islamabad; Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif immediately siad, “deplore
the excessive and unlawful force
used against innocent people in
Indian-administered Kashmir.”
While expressing deep shock
over the killing of Wani, Sharif
spoke of “the people of Jammu &
Kashmir demanding their right to
self determination.” Sartaj Aziz,
the Prime Minister’s Advisor on
Foreign Affairs, went (as usual) a
step further than his boss. Talking
to Dunya News, Aziz stated “such
acts are violation of fundamental
human rights of Kashmiris …
(who) only demand freedom and
liberty whereas India is continuously spreading chaos in the region.” As
a good durbari, he pledged to raise
his country’s voice “against Indian
brutality in Kashmir at international forum.” Nothing is new under the
Pakistani sun.
A few days before the Srinagar
incidents, I was putting some
order in my old papers and came
across some decades-old documents which I had found in the
archives of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of France when I was
researching for a book on Kashmir
several years ago. Amongst other
documents, a cable sent on
January 8, 1959, by Bernard
Dufournier, the Ambassador of
France in Pakistan, makes fascinating reading…57 years later.
The cable from Karachi is
addressed to Maurice Couve de
Murville, General De Gaulle’s illustrious Foreign Minister. The cable
to the Quai d’Orsay (the Ministry)
starts thus: “The Revolution and
the establishment of the dictatorship in Pakistan coincided with
new tensions in relations between
Delhi and Karachi.”
It first refers to a communication “sent on October 24 (1958) by
Lall and December 18 by Prince Aly
Khan to the Security Council
(which) have shown that the case
of Kashmir remained a source of
K
conflict,” says the Ambassador.
I traced the letter under reference. Arthur S Lall, India’s
Permanent Representative to the
UN, had written to the members
of the Security Council, countering a letter from Aly Khan, his
Pakistani counterpart, who had
addressed Gunnar Jarring, the
Security Council’s Chairperson
about the Indus’ waters. Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had
directed Lall to put on record that
the latest Pakistani statement
was “in disregard of the facts and
even of (Khan’s) own statements
made in his previous communication to the Security Council”
and India regretted that Pakistan
“should continue to use the medium of the United Nations for
propaganda purposes.”
According to Dufournier, the
exchange “provided new topics of
excitement to the public opinion;
almost daily, border incidents have
continued to occur for two months
between police forces or detachments of the two Armies, either in
Punjab, or more frequently in East
Pakistan. The cold war continues;
the military dictatorship does not
seem willing to change the offensive attitude adopted in 1956 by the
Suhrawardy Government.”
On May 6, 1958, Aly Khan had
already objected to Sheikh
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had argued with the UN that “the
Jammu & Kashmir Government
was unable to substantiate its allegation with any evidence which
could be sustained in a court of law.”
While 57 years ago, Pakistan
complained about the Indian judicial system, today, Islamabad wants
to go ‘international’ to defend a terrorist. In 1959, the French
Ambassador notes: “Pakistan’s claim
appears to be hopeless, since India
will never come back on the annexation of Kashmir and a UN resolution would not change this fact.
However, would the men ruling in
Karachi play with the destiny of
their people on the Kashmir myth,
if behind the screen were not concealed deeper designs?”
Has anything changed today?
Probably not. The fascinating study
of Pakistan’s psyche by the French
diplomat goes on: “Their tactic
seems absurd to some extent, if it
was not used to cover a more tortuous strategy, whose springs cannot be exposed to light. The final
objective is to challenge the Partition
itself and upset the balance of
power that guardianship (the
British) tried to introduce in 1947
in the Indian subcontinent.”
Are Aziz’s or Sharif’s motives
different today, than Ayub Khan’s in
1959? Dufournier observes: “If we
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take this hypothesis, the policy of
Karachi’s rulers reads almost like a
book. Pakistanis have never accepted the division of territory between
the Indian Union and Pakistan as
enshrined in the Treaties. Not only
the ‘sale’ of Kashmir, but also the
conquest of Junagardh and
Hyderabad, as well as the division
of Punjab and Bengal were always
held as provisional. The fact that
forty million Muslims remained
prisoners in the Indian Union reinforces these revisionist tendencies
that dare not speak their name, but
which are the secret engine of diplomacy of Karachi.”
The far-sighted French envoy
remarks that Karachi’s concern
“has always been to maintain open
the Kashmir file before its own people as well as on the international
scene. The circumstances surrounding the defection of the Raja
of Srinagar (Hari Singh), the fighting for the possession of Kashmir,
the internationalisation of the (UN)
trial, served his views, because
they allowed Pakistan to proclaim
to the world that 1947 was tainted
with fraud on an essential point, the
legal validity (of the Partition).”
Dufournier even goes one
step further: “An exceptional situation should occur for the
Pakistani army to be able to confront India’s defenses with some
chance of success. It would be necessary that the neighbouring country (India) be weakened either by
secessionist movements, or by
revolutionary unrest. Pakistani
leaders consider that this event will
happen in the future.”
The Pakistani leadership has
constantly lived with the same
delusion, believing it can destabilise
India. The Ambassador’s conclusions are interesting, “When will
sound the hour of the Holy War, it
would be easy for Pakistan to
remind (the world) that it has
never recognised the annexation of
Kashmir, he had to yield to force
and intends only to recover his legitimate property. Claims on East
Punjab and West Bengal would be
presented simultaneously.”
For Dufournier prophesised:
“The minarets of Delhi’s mosques
appear in these expectations as a
mirage, but these dreams are for
many Pakistanis — at least for the
leaders — the reality of tomorrow.”
Islamabad can continue to
dream, after all Pakistan is built on
a dream; in the meantime, Delhi
should keep a closer tab on the socalled Indian intellectuals, not only
preachers like Zakir Naik, who
propagate the ‘dream’ of a self-determined Kashmir. They are far too
many on the social networks.
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“Nanny’s frivolous food tax” (July
13). It is revealing that Kerala’s junk
food tax can be in the nature of a
similar tax in Bihar which is used
to compensate the loss of revenues
from the liquor sale ban! Moreover,
it is not proper on the former’s part
to exclude equally bad or worse
items like beef fry and the maidaladen parotta from the list of taxable junk foods.
Whether for good or bad, such
taxes serve to curb the consumption
of unhealthy food, especially among
the youth. The State should use the
tax money to promote organic
farming, as has been decided
recently, and market the produce
which will benefit both the farmer
as well as the consumer.
CV Krishna Manoj
Hyderabad
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Sir — This refers to the article, “Is
the Priyanka factor Congress’s only
hope?” (July 13) by Rajesh Singh.
The Congress is a party which cherishes self-destruction by giving
leadership to the members of the
Gandhi family. Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is nothing but
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a burden for the party. By engaging
Congress scion Priyanka Gandhi
Vadra for the Uttar Pradesh
Assembly election, the Congress is
making yet another mistake. People
are not familiar with her political
career, her dedication for work and
her connection with the aam aadmi
is minimal. She is like a cuckoo
which sings only spring.
Uttam Bhowmik
Tamluk
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Sir — This refers to the article, “Is
the Priyanka factor Congress’s only
hope?” (July 13) by Rajesh Singh.
Congress scion Priyanka Gandhi
Vadra will come as a set back for the
Congress and for Prashant Kishor
too as he is of the opinion that the
only suvival of the party is by looking beyond the Gandhi family. I see
no hope for the Congress.
Rajendra Vora
Via web
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Sir — This refers to the editorial,
“Ugly heads of militancy” (July 12).
It is sad that Jammu & Kashmir
continues to be on the boil after the
death of a terrorist in an encounter.
More than 30 people have lost lives
in police firing. The situation in
Jammu & Kashmir is volatile. We
have already seen youths in action.
They are instigated by foreign
hands. However, young ones should
not fall a prey to such forces. The
Government must see that atrocities by the security personnels does
not harm the common man.
NR Ramachandran
Chennai
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Sir — This refers to the article,
“When the judges became
Generals...” (July 12) by Deepak
Sinha. It is disheartening to learn
that some of the judges of the
Supreme Court are unable to appreciate the difficulties faced by our
security forces. One does not have
to be a seer to say that unless our
borders are secure, our freedom is
at peril. My suggestion to our
judges is that while vacationing,
they may choose a border area and
live for a day or two with the defence
forces. Only then there will be no
ambiguity in their judgment regarding the Armed Forces Special
Powers Act or similar laws.
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list of cities that were
selected through the
Smart City Challenge
Competition, Union
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs
Venkaiah Naidu had said, “Smart
city is an idea whose time has come”.
Earlier, while launching the flagship
Smart City Mission at Pune, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi had dubbed
it as a “people’s movement” and
exhibited his Government’s resolve to
accelerate its implementation.
The smart city concept promises
adequate water and assured electricity
supply, sanitation, including solid waste
management, affordable housing for all,
especially for the poor, efficient urban
mobility and public transport, robust
IT connectivity and digitalisation, egovernance, sustainable environment,
safety and security of citizens, particularly women, children and the elderly, health and education. But to see it
as the solution to all our urbanisation
problems may be an over-statement.
Conceptually, there are two types
of smart cities. First, building a new
city from the scratch ie greenfield
cities. Second, there are brownfield
cities ie conversion of existing cities
into smart cities, mostly by retrofitting
the present infrastructure. However,
there is yet another hybrid and derivative of brownfield concept which is
based on converting only a part of the
city ie area-based brown field concept.
As of now, we have gone in for only
seven greenfield cities along the DelhiMumbai industrial corridor and the rest
of the existing cities have adopted the
brownfield area-based concept. Maybe,
this concept has been adopted due to
financial or other constraints, but it is
fraught with adverse consequences at
the socio-political plane.
Jayesh Ranjan, Managing Director
for Telangana State Industrial
Corporation has said: “Covering a
small enclave and not the entire city
is tantamounts to rewarding a few and
depriving the rest”. Presently, the
Government is planning to develop
three green field smart cities by 2019,
all of which will be a part of a larger
project ie Delhi-Mumbai Industrial
Corridor (DMIC). These smart cities
are scheduled to be completed by
2019, in two industrial cities of
Dholera and Shendra-Bidkin.
The smart city agenda is energetically being promoted by global IT
giants, engineering and consulting
companies, keeping in view its
immense business potential. Smart
city will virtually be a hive of optical
fiber network, wireless broad band
connection and computerised smart
sensors ubiquitous embedded into the
urban fabric. Big data, Internet of
Things and cloud computing will be
the watch words.
Dan Hoornweg who led the World
Bank’s ‘Sustainable Cities and Climate
Change’ programme from 1993 to 2012
said, “Selling more IT and sophisticated algorithms might help a few of the
very fortunate cities. Building a smartcity suburb next to a very unsustainable
city can yield unpleasant lessons.”
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Steve Hilton of world-renowned
consultancy MachNation elucidates
the problem of how to add intelligence
to infrastructure already in place in
the existing cities. People living in
these cities make it difficult to retrofit smart city solutions because they
do not want to relocate while you
implement solutions that might
impact their lives.
Moreover, cities generally have
infrastructure under the management of different departments, so it
requires a lot of project planning and
integration. More importantly, citizens
have security, privacy, and legal concerns about Internet of Things that
might impact their businesses confidentiality and privacy. So is the case
in Hyberabad where even big corporates have refused to get their
facilities retrofitted.
Adriana
Allen,
of
the
Development Planning Unit at
University College London, goes a step
further and opines that, “More sustainable forms of urbanisation will require
a more coherent approach to the
urban-rural interface. Successful
approaches tend to work through the
concept of the ‘city-region’, where the
comparative advantages of urban or
metropolitan centres and their adjacent peri-urban and rural jurisdictions
are combined to promote more balanced use of natural resources such as
land, water, energy and to support
mutually reinforcing social and eco-
nomic development initiatives”.
Smart City Mission is an investment intensive proposition. Yearly
allocation by the Government of
India will just be C100 crore to each
of the city for five years. Commenting
on the availability of the funds for this
mission, Naidu, in a Press statement
said, “Presently, the funds are not adequate. Though from Government’s
point of view this amount is substantial yet it not adequate from the
point of view of implementation. We
are heavily depending on foreign
direct investment (FDI) and Publicprivate partnership model”.
Commenting on the availability of
FDI and private sector funds, the US
Ambassador to India has unreservedly stated that till such time the issues
of land acquisition, sovereign guarantee and other legal aspects are
resolved, to expect large amounts of
private sector finance, either domestic or foreign, will be a challenge.
Critically examining our concept,
Brookings Institute, an American
think-tank, has commented on the viability of our concept. They have construed that our concept should have a
plan for economic growth, rather than
only on technology implementation.
Apparently, foreign participation
in Smart City Mission seems to be
lucrative. But it should be understood
that they are here to exploit the
smart city market with second generation technology. As per forecasts, the
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s of June, the electricity sector in India had an
installed capacity of 303
gigawatt making India the
world’s third largest producer
of electricity with 4.8 per cent
global share in electricity generation surpassing Japan and
Russia. But inspite of this
strong position, India continues to suffer from inefficient
and erratic power supply.
Over the years, the quality of power generation and
supply has not been able to
keep up with the pace of development, this in turn has led to
excessive dependence on polluting power generating sets.
For instance, Gurgaon
(now Gurugram) consumes
around 350,000 liters of diesel
for its generators every hour
during a power cut as nearly 14
per cent of Gurgaon’s alternative
power requirement is fulfilled
by diesel power generators.
Infrastructure has never
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been the strongest point of the
millennium city whose roads
are under perpetual repair
amid seemingly endless construction activity.
Adding to these difficulties, the bustling satellite city to
Delhi has been struggling with
prolonged power cuts due to
frequent tripping of feeders and
voltage fluctuations.
These conditions, primarily on the power supply front,
are now set to change, thanks
to the smart grid project
approved in October 2015.
Under this project, Gurgaon is
expected to become the first
city in India to get a full-scale
smart grid by the end of 2017
thereby putting an end to
diesel generators and chronic power woes.
The total cost of the smart
grid project is an estimated
C7,000 crore in which the
Union Government will contribute C273 crore for the
first phase of the project.
On the other hand, the
State Government will contribute the same amount
whereas the Power System
Development Fund will provide the remaining amount.
This exceptional initiative of
the Union Government will
not only prove beneficial to
the environment in the longer
run, but will set the foundation for smart cities.
The smart cities of tomorrow will need a dynamic
power generation and supply
system that is capable of delivering quality power without
compromising energy efficiency, and smart grids provide just that.
Smart grids have the
demand response capacity to
strike a balance between power
consumption and supply.
Besides this, smart grids can
integrate new energy sources
like solar and wind with tradi-
tional sources. This will enable
the citizens of smart cities to
eventually integrate their solar
or wind systems with the grid
and start feeding unused
power into the grid.
This unused power, therefore, gets adjusted against the
total consumption from the
mains, leaving the consumers
to pay only for the balance
that they have consumed.
Moreover, if the consumers
have fed to grid more than
they have consumed, they
can get paid as well.
The Gurgaon example
must come as a stimulus for
other power challenged cities.
The
respective
State
Governments must push for a
new grid system that is automated and has integrated
communication and IT systems that help the grid monitor power flows from points
of generation to points of
consumption and control the
power flow or curtail the load
to match generation in real
time or near real time.
The increased visibility,
predictability, and even control of generation and demand
bring flexibility to both generation and consumption and
enable the utility to better
integrate intermittent renewable generation.
As a first step towards a
smarter grid, the States must
add additional layers of
automation, communication
and IT systems to the existing
traditional grids.
India is expected to have
a potential demand of 900
gigawatt by 2032, in view of
this India must ramp up its
power generation. Over the
years the quotient of renewable energy is only growing
which by itself is a positive
development that bodes well
for the environment.
But for renewable energy
smart city market was estimated at
$411.31 billion in 2014 which will
grow to $1,134.84 billion by 2019.
Let us now scan the technology
horizon. As per Alvin Toffler, an
American writer known for his
works
discussing
modern
technologies, “As our technological
powers increase, side effects potential
hazards also escalate”. Smart city
technology is an easy prey to hacking
by wayside juveniles.
According to Cesar Cerrudo,
Chief Technology Officer at IOActive:
QThe messiness of politics and the
vulnerability of the Internet of Things
is one big, unwieldy package.
QWhen Internet of Things devices
run a ‘smart city’, security of systems
are all very vulnerable.
QHackers know about the cascade
effect, and that they can use it to their
advantage by launching an attack on
a small, poorly secured system that
doesn’t seem very critical, and setting
off a chain reaction.
QWho’s responsible when a smart
city crashes?
Let me end with a caustic comment on smart cities by Steven Poole,
a British author and journalist, published in The Guardian, “Smart city is
a wrong idea pitched in the wrong way
to the wrong people”. Let us hope that
our area-based smart city concept may
not turn out to be a stigma.
(The writer is former advisor to the
National Disaster Management Authority)
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to merge seamlessly into the
main grid, the grid itself
will have to have smarter systems
to
manage
it
efficiently and ensure its stability and reliability.
This is possible only if
today’s grids are prepared for
smart cities by upgrading
them to have smarter systems
and applications.
In view of the growing
importance and relevance for
smart grids in India, a transparent and comprehensive
plan and roadmap for the
implementation of smart grids
needs to be evolved which
would help technology development, capacity building and
investment planning by all
stakeholders and could ensure
completion of projects in
planned timelines.
This needs to be taken up
on topmost priority by the
Government in tandem with
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first factory to be born out of this
joint-venture is a state-of-the-art
bus body manufacturing facility
at Baggad, around 50 kilometers
outside Indore. Located near the
chassis manufacturing and engine
manufacturing facilities of the
company, this plant is an important element of VECV’s aim to
become a leader in the bus segment. And B Anil Baliga, Senior
Vice President, Bus and
Application, VECV is particularly proud of this newish facility.
One major reason for his
pride is that the plant has been
helping VECV grow rapidly, particularly in the light bus segment.
In 2008 when Eicher Motors tied
up with Swedish manufacturer
Volvo to make commercial vehicles, some had dismissed the
move as too little too late. But
Eicher’s marketshare in buses in
particular has grown. “One major
reason for this has been the
switch from heavy-duty buses to
light buses, where we have a major
advantage vis-a-vis our rivals”
Baliga says. Advancements in
engines and construction, particularly as manufacturers like
VECV have started to supply
fully-built buses have driven this
change.
“There is also the cost factor
that plays a very important role
here”, Baliga points out. “Larger
buses, called heavy-duty buses, are
not only more expensive to purchase but they also consume
more fuel, and outside large cities
or long-distance routes transporters are seeing less value”, he
added. The share of heavy-duty
buses in the bus market which is
expected to be just short of 74,600
units this year has fallen from 65
per cent in 2005 to 35 per cent
today.
Even state and urban transport corporations, still among the
largest bus buyers in the country
are looking at lighter buses. Baliga
points out that Indore, VECV’s
‘home city’ in a matter of speaking, the new Bus Rapid Transit
corridor that has been built has
medium-role buses operating. A
medium bus can seat in excess of
65 passengers whereas a heavyduty bus seats around 72-80, so
Baliga believes the costs are
skewed in the lighter buses favour.
However, the biggest leg-up
for VECV and its rivals in the
manufacturer space has been the
implementation of the Road
Transpoprt Ministry’s new ‘Bus
Code’ that imposes safety and testing norms on buses. “While the
ministry has kept some of the
rules in abeyance so that bus
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transfer of $75 million sweetheart deal amount from
Diageo Plc and two of its subsidiaries to liquor baron Vijay
Mallya is “infructuous”.
A part of the deal amount
was transferred much earlier
to the order date (March 7),
DRT Presiding Officer CR
Benakanahalli said while
hearing submissions made by
Mumbai’s S er vice Tax
Department.
“The March 7 DRT order,
restricting transfer of $75 mn
sweetheart deal amount from
Diageo Plc and two of its
subsidiaries to Mallya stands
infructuous as $40 mn had
already been transferred much
earlier to March 7 DRT order,”
Benakanahalli said.
The
S er vice
Tax
Department as part of the
original application is seeking recovery of over C1,000
crore debt from Vijay Mallya
and his subsidiary companies.
Over-ruling submissions
by the department, the
Presiding Officer said apart
from $40 mn, the tribunal
cannot direct Mallya and
Diageo to attach the remaining $35 mn because the
money has not yet been credited to the beneficiary, as per
terms and conditions, which
spans across next five years.
“Unless and until there is
breach of terms and conditions and Mallya or the companies are found at fault, the
tribunal can neither interfere
nor give direction to the parties involved. Moreover, the
remaining $35 mn has not
been credited to the beneficiary and that will be done
over the period of next five
years,” he said.
Making yet another separate submission, the Service
Tax Department Counsel said
it has the right to recover over
Rs 1,000 crore from movable
and immovable assets of
Mallya, which includes a
house and altogether four
aircraft and helicopters.
Countering the submissions, Benakanahalli said he is
not the determining authority because the matter is
already being heard in the
Karnataka High Court.
“I am not at all a determining authority. What? To
determine the recover y
through sale proceeds of
immovable and movable
assets, which cannot be recovered due to legal wranglings.
The matter is being heard in
the High Court and it is a subject of sub-judice,” he said.
body-builders can adapt, these
new norms greatly enhance safety and comfort and as a large manufacturer it is easier for us to deliver. At some unorganised bodybuilding facilities almost every bus
was unique”, Baliga points out.
But the mainstay of VECV’s
bus business and their strongest
market is for school buses, where
their Skyline and Starline buses
enjoy almost 30 per cent marketshare. The March-July period is
the peak season for school and
college buses and Eicher is the
market leader. “We have built very
strong brand recognition in this
segment, so much so that when
new schools open they very often
come stright to Eicher”, Baliga says
proudly but does add that his sale
teams also do a lot of work.
However, the past few years have
seen Eicher also ramp up sales of
staff buses for companies and private route-permit operators.
However, Baliga is keen to
stay ahead of the competition.
With his new series of school
buses, VECV is not only offering air-conditioning as an option
but also a online bus-monitoring
service. “We will not only have
closed-circuit cameras inside
the buses with a live feed provided to the school but also GPS
tracked location alerts for the
school and parents as a service
that we will offer schools for a
nominal cost every month”, he
pointed out. “Safety is a service
we feel that schools and parents
will pay for, and by offering an
off-the-shelf package I think we
make it much easier for schools
to offer this service.”
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views on allowing non-telecom companies to participate in setting up public wifi
hotspots, and said low- cost
Wi-Fi access infrastructure
could slash internet rates by
up to 90 per cent, while
offering faster speeds.
The regulator has sought
public views by August 10 on
slew of issues including regulatory hurdles, licensing
restrictions, business models,
interoperability between wifi
networks and delicensing of
more mobile airwaves.
“In this paper, ‘public
Wi-Fi networks’ has broader meaning and not limited
to the Wi-Fi hotspot created
by licensed TSP/ISP at public places. There could be
small entrepreneurs or even
a very small entity which
would like to participate in
common and shared Wi-Fi
network for larger public
use,” Trai said in its paper on
Proliferation of Broadband
t hroug h Public Wi-Fi
Networks.
Other issues that would
b e delib erate d by t he
Telecom
Regulator y
Authority of India include
policy measures to encourage policy measures required
to encourage the deployment of commercial models
for city-wide Wi-Fi networks
as well as expansion of WiFi networks in remote or
rural areas.
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=4F34;78) New Delhi, Jul 13
(PTI) Air passengers have a reason to smile as the revised
norms that caps ticket cancellation charges and bars airlines
from levying additional amount
for refund process are coming
into force from August 1.
“Cancellation amount not to
exceed basic fare plus fuel surcharge; all statutory levies and
taxes to be refunded under all
circumstances,” Civil Aviation
Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju
said today as he announced that
the new cancellation norms for
fare refund would become effective from August 1.
Issuing the revised regulations, the Directorate General of
Civil Aviation (DGCA) also
made it clear that airlines cannot levy additional charge to
process the refund.
The move would come as a
relief to air passengers against
the backdrop of many carriers
hiking the cancellation charges
in recent times.
The regulator said carriers
should refund all statutory taxes
and User Development Fee
(UDF)/Airport Development
Fee (ADF)/Passenger Service
Fee (PSF) to the passengers in
case of “cancellation/ non-utilisation of tickets/no show”.
“This provision shall also be
applicable for all types of fares
offered including promos/special fares and where the basic
fare is non-refundable,” DGCA
noted.
The changes were first pro-
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of a “hub-based model”
where a central third party
Authentication,
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and
Accounting hub will facilitate interconnection, authentication and payments and
who should own and control
such hub.
The regulator said that it
is estimated that cost per MB
in Wi-Fi Network could be
less than 2 paise per MB
while consumers on an average are paying around 23
paise per MB for the data
usage in the cellular network
like 2G, 3G and 4G.
“This shows that the
consumer tariff for data may
reduce as much as one-tenth
in Wi-Fi compared to mobile
data. From the above, it is
obvious that deployment of
Wi-Fi network will not only
enhance the speed of internet but also it will make data
affordable to consumers,”
Trai said.
The regulator said that
status of Wi-Fi hotspots in
India is not encouraging as
while the country represents
one-sixth of the world population but its share in WiFi hotspots is less than onethousandth.
Globally, the increase in
number of Wi-Fi hotspots
from 2013 to 2016 has been
568 per cent whereas India
has an increase of 12 per cent
only. At present, there are
only 31,518 with 13,967
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Ministry in June as part of
putting in place passenger
friendly measures.
These norms would be
effective from August 1, according to the Civil Aviation
Requirement (CAR) issued by
DGCA chief M Sathiyavathy on
Tuesday.
In a tweet, Raju said the
process of refund would be
completed within 30 days even
when booked through travel
agents or online portals.
“Cancellation charges to be
clearly displayed on every ticket. The policy to be prominently displayed on the website of the
airline,” Raju said in another
tweet.
No charges can now be
levied by airlines for corrections
in errors of names of the pas-
sengers, he added.
Separately, DGCA has also
revised the rules with respect to
persons with disability and
reduced mobility whereby airport operators should make
provision for such people to
embark or disembark from a
flight without inconvenience.
Carriers would be required
to indicate the refund amount in
case of ticket cancellations.
The amount and its breakup may be indicated on the
ticket itself or through separate
form used for the purpose.
Also, the policy and amount of
refund shall be displayed by the
airlines on their respective websites, DGCA noted.
Further, passengers can
choose whether the refund
money should be kept in the
airline’s credit shell or not.
“Airline shall not levy any
additional charge for correction
in name of the same person,
when error in his name spelling
is pointed out by the passenger
to the airline after booking of
his ticket,” the regulator said.
For tickets booked
through travel agents or portal, the onus of refund would
be on the airlines.
“In case of purchase of
ticket through travel agent/
portal, onus of refund shall lie
with the airlines, as agents are
their appointed representatives. The airlines shall ensure
that the refund process is
completed within 30 working
days,” the regulator said. ?C8
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=4F34;78)Amid shareholder
complaints about many companies refusing to pay dividend
despite having extra cash, markets regulator Sebi has made it
mandatory for the top 500
listed firms to have a ‘dividend
distribution policy’.
The new norms will not
force companies to pay dividend, but will help investors get
a clearer picture on returns
from their investments in such
listed firms and also identify
stocks matching their investment objectives.
Notifying the new regulations, which were earlier
approved by Sebi’s board, the
regulator said the companies
will have to list out the circumstances under which the
shareholders may or may not
expect dividend.
Besides, the policy will
need to spell out the financial
parameters as also various
internal and external factors to
be considered for declaring
dividend.
Under this policy, the companies will have to inform the
shareholders about how they
aim to utilise extra profits and
the parameters to be adopted
with regard to various classes
of shares.
The policy will need to be
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<D<108) To allay concerns over
misuse of controversy-ridden PNotes, regulator Sebi has notified
new norms restricting transfer of
these offshore instruments only to
entities authorised for their use and
that too after prior consent from
the issuer foreign investor.
Participatory Notes or
Offshore Derivative Units are
issued by Sebi-registered foreign
portfolio investors to other overseas entities looking for an exposure to the Indian markets without getting registered directly to
save on costs and procedures.
However, Sebi has tightened
its norms substantially over the
years about who can issue and who
can subscribe to these instruments,
amid long-standing concerns
about their possible misuse for
laundering of money. The regulator decided on the latest tightening of norms earlier this year after
recommendations in this regard
were made by the Supreme Courtappointed Special Investigation
Team on Black Money.
While some of the new
amendments to the regulations
governing P-Notes have already
come into effect, Sebi has now
notified one more change that
was approved by Sebi’s board
recently.
As per the new notification,
a foreign portfolio investor will
have to ensure that any transfer
of offshore derivative instruments issued by or on behalf of
it, is made subject to two specific conditions -- such ODIs are
transferred to persons fulfilling
Sebi norms for subscription and
a prior consent of the FPI is
obtained for such transfer, except
when the persons to whom the
ODIs are to be transferred to are
pre-approved by the FPI. ?C8
disclosed by the companies in
their annual reports and on
their websites.
To start with, top 500 companies in terms of market capitalisation (as on March 31 of
every financial year) will need
to frame the dividend distribution policy while the same
may apply to other companies
at a later date.
Further, “listed entities
other than top 500 listed entities based on market capitalisation may disclose their dividend distribution policies on
a voluntary basis in their annual reports and on their web-
sites”, Sebi said.While dividend payment has been in
vogue for many decades,the
move is expected to help
investors identify and understand the potential of returns
on investments made in a
company.
The decision follows complaints from various investor
groups that the companies
were not distributing their
extra profits among shareholders.
Countries such as Brazil,
Chile, Venezuela, Columbia
and Greece are said to have
made it mandatory to pay dividend to shareholders, depending on the size of profits.
On the one hand, mandatory dividend payout protects
the cash flow rights of minority shareholders, but at the
same time they can distort
investment plans of the companies.
The current regulations in
India require the companies to
disclose their dividend policy as
also the rate of dividend, if any,
for the past five financial years.
Howe ver, it was not
mandatory as of now to
h ave a d iv i d e n d p ol i c y
although some listed companies have formulated such
policies on their own. ?C8
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European giant Airbus slashed
output of its A380 superjumbo
because of weak demand,
putting a lid on plane orders
generally at Farnborough.
European planemaker
Airbus revealed late yesterday at
Farnborough -- one of the
world’s largest civilian and
defence airshows -- that it would
halve production of its enormous A380 to one a month from
2018.
Chief executive Tom Enders
said on Wednesday he hoped the
cutbacks would last for “just a
year or two”, adding he remained
optimistic over the jet’s
prospects.
“We are all pretty up optimistic about the longer term
prospects of the A380 and I
hope this is just a year or two
and then we can raise production rates again,” Enders told
reporters at the airshow, south
of London.
“We decided back in 2000 to
launch the A380 (and) little did
we know what the world would
look like in 2010, 2015 or 2016.”
He added: “We believe in
this aircraft, the company knows
what to do. We are proactive and
I am quite confident that we will
be able to (again) raise production rates.”
Enders said Airbus needed
“to work harder to convince airlines that this aircraft really pays
off if you can fill it”.
“It’s a real money making
machine,” he insisted.
In what has been a relatively quiet show for new orders of
planes generally, Airbus’ US rival
Boeing on Wednesday inked
previously-announced jet deals
worth a total of $3.79 billion (3.42
billion euros) with Air Europa of
Spain and Ruili Airlines of China.
Airbus yesterday revealed
firm orders for 129 aircraft worth
a combined $15.6 billion before
the usual discounts are applied.
The orders included a vast
$12.5-billion deal for 100 singleaisle A321neo jets from Malaysia’s
AirAsia.
However the shock A380
announcement has stolen the
show and reminded participants about the gloomy economic backdrop.
The A380 is the world’s
largest civilian airplane, carrying up to 544 passengers in
a four-class configuration or
853 in just a single class.
The jet has a list price of
$432.6 million but it has not
registered any sales yet at the
week-long Farnborough
event.
Dubai’s Emirates airline is
the biggest client for the
A380, operating 81 with
another 142 on order.
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in the forefront to get the
5/20 rule partially scrapped,
on Wednesday said it “will
not be rushing into international operations” and
that something towards this
is “unlikely before June
2018”, when it will get the
delivery of the 20th aircraft.
“We are not rushing into
international operations. It’s
not a race for us. But we will
definitely do it. We will get
the delivery of our 20th
plane by the first half of
2018.
“S o,
with
the
Government retaining the
20-plane clause for international operations, I think we
will be able to take a call
only after that. Of course,
we are reviewing and refin-
ing our international strategy,” Vistara chief strategy
and commercia l of f icer
Sanjiv Kapoor told the news
agency on Wednesday.
Kapoor, who joined the
Tata Sons and Singapore
Airlines promoted Vistara
only recently, further said
their international operations will begin with the
Saarc markets and the Gulf
as their present set of planes
(A320s) could serve shorthaul markets the best.
Kapoor, who was here to
launch a co-branded credit
card with Axis Bank, also
said the airline, which has
only 11 aircraft at present,
will get the delivery of two
more A320s by October.
“The first set of routes
that we will launch internationally, will be the routes
that can be flown by our
existing aircraft (A320s
which are narrow body
planes by Airbus) which
will be routes within three,
three-and-a-half hours from
our Delhi hub,” Kapoor
said.
“So, that means South
Asian nations will be our
first focus international destinations along with the
Gulf,” he said, adding markets like Bangladesh, Nepal,
Bhutan, the Maldives, Sri
Lanka
and
even
A f g h an i s t an h av e g re at
potential.
He said Pakistan is of
course the largest market,
but that is not likely to
happen given the relations
between the two nations.
Last
month,
the
Government had partially
scrapped the contentious
5/20 rule, which mandated
an airline to have five years
of domestic operational
experience and 20 planes to
become eligible for internat i ona l op e r at i ons , by
removing the five years of
domestic operational experience clause.
The new rules came in
despite strong opposition
and hectic lobbying by older
rivals such as Jet Airways,
Spicejet and Indigo. Under
the new rules, domestic air-
lines can fly overseasprovided they deploy 20 aircraft or 20 per cent of their
capacity in the domestic
market, whichever is higher.
It can be noted that the
newest airline Vistara and
the budget carrier AirAsia
India were behind the campaign to end the 5/20 rule.
Now they are speeding up
their fleet expansion so they
can fly overseas sooner and
compete with local rivals Jet
Airways and state-owned
Air India.
E arlier this month,
Vistara chief executive Phee
Teik Yeoh had said that the
airline was readying a longterm plan for starting international operations and that
he would meet the board
with a plan within the next
two months.
“There is no stopping us
from preponing our aircraft deliveries, but we
would like to go overseas
only when we are ready. It’s
not about to be the first, or
the earliest, and not so
much about how fast we go.
I don’t see how all this can
be done in the next 9-12
months. Easily, it’s a minimum one-year affair,” Yeoh
had said earlier this month.
Ye o h h a d a l s o s a i d
advancing the plane delivery
is something that he would
not rule out. “Advancing
just to go overseas is not
good enough. We should
not lose sight of the fact that
we have domestic operations to run,” he had said.
He had further said that
the airline would induct
w i d e - b o d i e d , l on g - h au l
planes and consider starting
direct flights to Britain and
the US.
Vistara, which started
operations on January 9,
2015, connects 17 cities now
and Port Blair will be the
1 8 t h d e s t i n at i o n f r o m
October, Kapoor said on
Wednesday.
Kapoor also said the airline has been witnessing
steady increase in its loads
factor, which is amongst the
highest now at 90 per cent
economy class and 80 per
cent for overall three seating
configuration.
Vistara is the only airline in the country that
offers a three-class configuration with the economy, the
premium economy and the
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has favoured allowing ultra
mega power project (UMPP)
developers to use coal mines as
collateral for raising funds for
their projects that aim to provide affordable power to all.
However, the panel headed
by Power Ministry's Additional
Secretary
(Thermal,
Transmission, O&M) Shalini
Prasad strongly recommended
against allowing the developers
to divert coal from the captive
mine allocated to their UMPPs.
“The committee has firmed
up its view and will submit its
report to the Coal Ministry in
a couple of days. There is a
broad consensus that the
UMPPs can assign or mortgage
their coal mines to their project
lenders,” a source said.
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the Coal Ministry has also
opined that in case the mine is
assigned or mortgaged, the coal
should not be allowed to be
diverted for other projects. This
will ensure smooth functioning
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from state transport undertakings in the June quarter, Hinduja
flagship Ashok Leyland is looking to step up its market share
this year. The Chennai-based
firm has bagged orders for
3,566 buses from various STUs
(state transport undertakings)
so far this fiscal and these are to
be executed within this year.
“Sales to STUs account for
about 30 per cent of our total
volume. Last fiscal, we had a
market share of 44 per cent in
the overall domestic bus market,
which was around 41,000 units.
With the orders that we have
bagged from STUs, we are looking to enhance our market share
further,” Ashok Leyland Senior
Vice-President (Buses) T
Venkataraman told PTI.
The company said in the first
quarter of 2016-17, its share in the
domestic bus market went up to
35.9 per cent as against 33.2 per
cent in the same quarter a year ago.
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of these UMPPs which are
aimed at providing cheaper
power to consumers.”
The committee was set up
following differences between
coal and power ministries on
whether an UMPP can be
allowed to assign or mortgage
its coal mine or not. The panel
had two rounds of discussions
before firming up its view.
The committee, which also
has two joint secretaries (coal and
thermal) from the Power
Ministry and one from the
Ministry of Law, took up the issue
after Reliance Power’s application
seeking nod from the Madhya
Pradesh Government to use its
coal mine allocated to Sasan
UMPP as a collateral was rejected by the Coal Ministry. The
rejection was communicated to
the Madhya Pradesh government. In case UMPPs are allowed
to use their coal mines as collateral, it will help them raise money
smoothly to run their plants.
The main purpose of setting
up of UMPPs is to make available cheap affordable power for
all. Thus, these projects are allocated through a single-window
mechanism with all mandatory
permissions and tying up
required resources like land,
coal and water beforehand to set
up and run plants seamlessly.
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MUMBAI: World’s largest furniture retailer Ikea is investing
C1,500 crore here as part of plans
to have 25 stores across India by
2025, and its store in Navi Mumbai
is likely to come up within 18
months, an official said. Ikea is
among several companies including Amazon, Microsoft, Owens
Corning and Emerson which
have committed investments in
Maharashtra, he said. “Ikea is starting to invest now. They have
bought a big piece of land for C400
crore in Navi Mumbai for their
store,” said Apurva Chandra,
Principal Secretary - Industries,
Maharashtra government. PTI
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approved 15 per cent disinT
vestment in state-owned construction firm NBCC, hoping to
garner C1,706 crore from the
stake sale. The decision to divest
15 per cent of Government’s stake
in the NBCC was taken by the
Cabinet Committee on
Economic Affairs (CCEA)
chaired by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi. Government
holds 90 per cent stake in the
company, which has a market
capitalisation of C 14,274 crore.
“The Government hopes an
estimated receipt of C1,706 crore
from this (disinvestment). But it
is just estimation,” Law and IT
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told reporters after the CCEA
meeting. The actual realisation
amount will depend on market
conditions and investor interest at
the time of disinvestment.
An official statement said
that in order to inculcate a
sense of belongingness amongst
the employees of NBCC, it has
also been decided to allot additional shares to the eligible and
willing employees at a discount
of 5 per cent to the Issue/discovered (lowest cut off) price of
the Offer For Sale (OFS).
As per market regulator
SEBI’s guidelines, the minimum
public holding in a listed company has to be maintained at 25
per cent. National Buildings
Construction Corporation
Limited (NBCC) was listed on
the bourses in 2012 when the
government diluted 10 per cent
stake to raise C124.97 crore. The
company has split its share of Rs
10 each into five with a face
value of C2 each. The NBCC
stock closed at C229.80 a piece
on BSE, down C27.60 or 10.72
per cent over on Tuesday.
The disinvestment of NBCC,
the release said, would further
broadbase NBCC’s shareholding
and enhance the disinvestment
receipts for making them available to the Government for utilization as per Disinvestment
Policy. Government has
pegged disinvestment target at
C56,500 crore for 2015-16.
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NEW DELHI: The Income
Tax department on Wednesday
conducted multiple searches
on the premises of Indiabulls
group in connection with its
probe against the firm on
charges of alleged tax evasion.
Officials said the searches
covered multiple premises of the
firm in Mumbai and Delhi
after the department received
‘actionable evidence’ to mount
the action. They said some
instances of ‘asset transfers’ are
also under their scanner. They
added documents and computer peripherals have been
seized by I-T sleuths even as the
action is continuing. Indiabulls
Housing Finance Limited
acknowledged the development
in a clarification to the BSE.
“With reference to today’s
email received from the
exchange, we would like to state
that this morning, officials of the
Income Tax Department came
to some of our offices to check
our books, in the normal course.
We are extending all assistance
to the team of officials. We are
confident that the officials will
find our corporate practices
and books satisfactory.”
“At Indiabulls group, we
follow the ethical and legal
standards of the highest order in
all our businesses and have
robust institutional measures to
monitor as well as implement
corporate governance of the
highest standards. We are confident that these on the spot
check, in the normal course, will
vindicate the same,” it said. PTI
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overnment has allowed stateowned oil companies to raise
the price of kerosene by 25 paise a
litre each month for 10 months to
cut the subsidy burden. On July 1,
kerosene price was hiked by 25
paise a litre, the first increase in rate
of the highly subsidised cooking
and lighting fuel in five years.
“Petroleum Ministry has conveyed to oil marketing companies
to raise kerosene price by 25 paise
every month till April 2017,” a
senior official said. The first increase
has been notified by the oil companies but the rates have so far no
reflected in the price of kerosene
sold through public distribution system (PDS). It will happen after State
Governments concur.
Before the price hike, kerosene
cost C14.96 a litre in Delhi. Its price
was last raised byC2.64 a litre in June
2011. The previous increase happened in June 2010, when prices
went up by C3.23 a litre. Officials
said PDS kerosene price of C14.96
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fuel’s actual cost of production. Of
the discount, the Government
bears C12 a litre and the rest of the
bill is footed by upstream oil producers like ONGC. Kerosene
accounted for 41.7 per cent of the
total petroleum subsidy of C27,571
crore in 2015-16.
The previous UPA Govt had
taken a similar approach of raising
rates in small dosage of 50 paise a
litre per month to completely eliminate subsidy on diesel. This
approached helped the present
BJP-led Government to deregulate
diesel price in October 2014.
Petrol price was deregulated
in June 2010. As per Icra esti-
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prices of subsidised kerosene by
C0.25 a litre per month for 10
months (from July 2016 to April
2017) would lead to overall reduction in gross under-recovery or
subsidy by C760 crore in current
fiscal and C2,040 crore in FY18.
“As kerosene under-recoveries
beyond C12/litre are expected to be
borne by PSU upstream companies, the upstream companies
would be major beneficiaries of the
reform, especially at current or higher level of crude oil prices,” it said.
Subsidy on kerosene was expected
to be in the range of C9,000-12,500
crore in 2016-17, assuming crude
oil price of $40-50 per barrel.
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ment in ramping up coal-bed
methane (CBM) production
from Essar Oil at Ranigunj but
it could jump significantly if
shale opportunity opens up.
“We have invested C3,300
crore at our Ranigunj CBM
block and already achieved
one million scmd production.
We will have to pump additional C700-1,000 crore to
reach the peak projected production of three million scmd
capacity,” Essar Exploration &
production CEO Manish
Maheswari said here on
Wednesday.
The company expects to
reach production to three
million scmd by mid of next
f inancial ye ar 2017-18.
Maheswari said, “We will put
our energies in shale gas
once the detailed guidelines
and clar if ications f rom
Director General of hydrocarbons comes.” Maheswari,
however, did not divulge the
investment that could go in
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However, the company is
optimistic on the Hydrocarbon
Exploration Licensing Policy of
March, 2016 and has already
begun preliminary work on it.
According to estimates, 8 tcf
C24.57 crore to C394.43 crore. On the
volume front, 4 lakh shares of the
company were traded on BSE and
more than 14 lakh shares changed
hands at NSE during the day.
Officials said Shah was arrested on
Tuesday under the provisions of the
PMLA as ‘he was not cooperating
in the investigation’. Reacting to the
development, FTIL had said, “We fail
to understand why such a coercive
step was taken against by the ED
when Shah has been fully cooperating with the investigation.” PTI
shale gas has been found at
Raniganj coal block. The West
Bengal government is expected to reap a handsome Rs
2,500 crore as royalty from this
CBM block.
Essar has commenced supply of CBM, presently at
around 2,00,000 scmd, for precommissioning activities to
Matix Fertilisers, one of the
world’s largest single stream
urea plant and the first
designed for CBM as the feedstock. With installed capacity
of 1.3 million tonnes per
annum of urea for an investment of C6,000 crore, Matix
Fertilisers shall commence
urea production using
CBM from Raniganj in the
third quarter of FY2016-17,
Essar officials said.
Besides Raniganj, Essar
has high quality acreages of
around 2,700 sq km for CBM
exploration and production
in India spread across Odisha,
Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh
and Chhattisgarh. Aggregated
across these assets, the gas-initial-in-place have been estimated to be in excess of 6 tcf.
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Wednesday said it has launched
a new soap under the brand
‘Godrej No 1’ based on natural ingredients, even as the company stressed that there is no
reason to get perturbed by
other players like Patanjali
entering the segment.
“We have launched a new
soap under our brand of Godrej
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HYDERABAD: State-owned
NMDC on Wednesday said the
Steel Ministry has extended the
term of Bharathi S Sihag as CMD
of the iron ore company for three
more months with effect from July
1. Sihag, Additional Secretary
and Financial Adviser to the Steel
Ministry, was given additional
charge of NMDC CMD from
January 1 after the previous chief
of the country's largest iron ore
miner Narendra Kothari retired
on December 31, 2015.
“The additional charge of
the post of chairman-cum-managing director, NMDC Ltd is
assigned to Bharathi S Sihag,
Additional Secretary and
Financial Adviser, Ministry of
Steel for a further period of 3
months with effect from July 1,
2016, or till the appointment of a
regular incumbent to the post, or
until further orders, whichever is
the earliest,” NMDC said. The
Government’s headhunter PSEB
has already initiated the process for
appointing Chairman and
Managing Director for NMDC. PTI
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MUMBAI: Shares of Financial
Technologies (India) ended 6 per
cent lower on Wednesday after the
ED arrested its founder Jignesh Shah
in connection with the C5,600crore National Spot Exchange
Limited (NSEL) money laundering
scam. After plunging 8.45 per cent
to C83.40 in intra-day trade, shares
of the company finally ended at
C85.60, down 6.04 per cent on BSE.
On NSE, shares of the company settled 6 per cent lower at C85.85. The
company’s market valuation fell by
NEW DELHI: Future of work and
that of the workplace is changing and
making way for greater flexibility
than an average job on Wednesday
allows, and employees are likely to
focus more on corporate value than
on pay in five years, says a PwC
study. Two-thirds of employees
agree that future career paths will be
determined by workers themselves
and not by their companies.
Around 63 per cent respondents believe that the 8-hour workday will become obsolete and 68 per
cent say that work will be done
remotely rather than at a traditional
office. “It is clear that the future of
work and that of the workplace is
changing rapidly. While there is still
a sizeable segment of workforce
which prefers to operate in traditional models, many others are opting for entrepreneurial and network based models which engage
with an ecosystem of partners and
collaborators,”
Padmaja
Alaganandan, Leader - People and
Organisation, PwC India, said.
The survey further noted
that 86 per cent those surveyed
have a strong desire to work
independently as independent
work is perceived to allow greater
flexibility in schedule and control over work environment, the
opportunity to earn more, and a
better work-life balance. PTI
No 1, which first of all is the
third largest soap brand by
volume in the country. In terms
of revenue, it is a C1,000 crore
plus brand, which it has become
in 20 years only,” GCPL
Business Head India and
SAARC, Sunil Kataria, told
reporters here on Wednesday.
Kataria said that Godrej No 1
is a brand which is built on natural products.
“All eight variants of No 1
which exist in market are based
on natural ingredients including sandal and turmeric, which
is our largest variant,” he
informed. Replying to a question about Patanjali's aggressive
marketing campaign for its
products including soaps,
Kataria said, “For us, I don't see
any reason to get perturbed by
what is happening.”
To another related question, he said, “One thing I
want to tell you is what Patanjali
as a phenomenon is going to do
to the brands which are already
on natural, it will benefit the
brands which are already on
natural.” Adding further, he
said, “for Godrej brands, there
is no impact, if you see the data
(on Patanjali's entry)’.
He also said, “India has
always been a country of naturals (demand for such products has always been there).
Our products under No 1
brand are based on these
ingredients.” We have been
tapping this trend for naturals
for long. Now, here comes
another brand which is now
taking that trend also further
aggressively across, which we
have been doing till now.
So, we see more the merrier. What will happen is that natural brands trend will become
even more bigger. We were
already trying to make it bigger.
Then, I think all the brands,
which are strongly based on
naturals, will benefit,” he said.
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against the verdict by a UNbacked tribunal that struck
down its “historical rights” in
the South China Sea, insisting
that Beijing has claims over the
strategic region for 2,000 years.
In a major diplomatic blow
to China, the Permanent Court
of Arbitration struck down the
Communist giant’s claims in
the strategic South China Sea
on Tuesday.
The Hague-based court
has said that China violated the
Philippines’ sovereign rights. It
said China has caused “severe
harm to the coral reef environment” by building artificial
islands. The white paper asserts
that China has claims over the
South China Sea for 2,000
years and the Philippines,
which had filed the petition,
was occupying Chinese territory. The core of the relevant
disputes between China and
the Philippines in the South
China Sea lies in the territori-
al issues caused by the
Philippines’ invasion and illegal occupation by force, starting in the 1970s, of some
islands and reefs of China’s
Nansha Qundao (the Nansha
Islands), it said.
“The Philippines has concocted many excuses to cover
up this fact, and to pursue its
territorial pretencions,” said
the document, titled “China
Adheres to the Position of
Settling Through Negotiation
the Relevant Disputes Between
China and the Philippines in
the South China Sea.”
The Philippines’ relevant
claim is groundless from the
perspectives of either history or
international law, said the white
paper issued by the State
Council Information Office.
In addition, with the development of the international law
of the sea, a maritime delimitation dispute also arose
between China and the
Philippines regarding certain
maritime areas of the South
China Sea, the paper said.
The white paper attacked
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Luxembourg: The EU’s top
court faced a dilemma on
Wednesday after a top legal
officer said it was discriminatory for a firm to tell an
employee to remove a Muslim
headscarf, contradicting an
earlier opinion in a separate
case. The latest case concerns
a woman, Asma Bougnaoui,
who was dismissed from her
job as an IT consultant in
France after clients complained
about her wearing a headscarf.
The European Court of
Justice said one of its advocates
general, Eleanor Sharpston,
“considers that a company policy requiring an employee to
remove her Islamic headscarf
when in contact with clients
constitutes unlawful direct dis-
crimination.”
The senior lawyer, whose
opinion must be considered by
the court when it makes a final
ruling at a later date, found
“nothing to suggest that Ms.
Bougnaoui was unable to perform her duties as a design
engineer because she wore an
Islamic headscarf.”
“Indeed, (her employer’s)
letter terminating her employment had expressly referred to
her professional competence,”
it added. But the view by the
advocate general contradicts a
separate opinion on a similar
case in May in which a woman
was fired by a Belgian security firm after she insisted on
being allowed to go to work in
a headscarf.
AFP
Philippines saying that Manila
turned a blind eye to bilateral
consensus, has repeatedly taken
moves that complicate the relevant disputes, gradually intensified them between China
and the Philippines in South
China Sea.
The Philippines built military facilities on some islands
and reefs of China’s Nansha
Qundao
(the
Nansha
Islands/Spratly islands) it has
invaded and illegally occupied.
The Philippines deliberately destroyed survey markers
set up by China and attempted to illegally occupy China’s
Ren’ai Jiao by using a military
vessel illegally run around it.
The Philippines also has
territorial pretencions on
China’s Huangyan Dao and
attempted to occupy it illegally, deliberately causing the
Huangyan Dao Incident, it
said. The Philippines has
intruded into relevant maritime
areas of China’s Nansha
Qundao to carry out illegal oil
and gas exploratory drilling
and bidding.
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Taipei: A Taiwanese warship
set sail for the South China Sea
on Wednesday “to defend
Taiwan’s maritime territory”, a
day after an international tribunal ruled China has no historic rights in the waterway and
undermined Taipei’s claims to
islands there.
President Tsai Ing-wen rallied troops on the deck of the
frigate, saying Taiwanese were
determined to “defend their
country’s rights”, before the
warship headed for Taiwancontrolled Taiping island in the
Spratly island chain from the
southern city of Kaohsiung.
The Permanent Court of
Arbitration in the Hague ruled
Tuesday that China has no
historic rights to its claimed
“nine-dash line” and that it had
violated the Philippines’ sovereign rights in the exclusive
economic zone.
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Beijing: Chinese official media
and think- tanks are worried
over a possible “domino effect”
with surge in claims by other
countries to press for their
share of the South China Sea,
a day after a UN-backed tribunal dealt a major blow to
China’s claims over the disputed maritime area.
While the verdict striking
down China’s historic claims
evoked strong comments in the
editorials, the sweeping judgement of the tribunal appointed by the Permanent Court of
Arbitration made official thinktanks to predict worst case
scenarios. Jin Canrong, deputy
director of the School of
International Studies at the
Renmin University of China,
said the most important taskfor China at the moment is to
prevent a “domino effect”
among claimant states such as
Vietnam in the South China
Sea (SCS).
“In other words, China
should prevent other countries from following the
Philippines,” he told state-run
Global Times.
In order to prevent a “domino effect,” China has several
options. For example, it should
prepare for a potential military
conflict by continuing to conduct military drills in the SCS,
Beijing-based military expert
Song Zhongping was quoted as
saying by the paper known for
its nationalistic views.
This approach can send a
message to other countries
that suing China at The Hague’s
“illegal tribunal” will only lead
to a tougher response from
Beijing, Song said, adding that
tensions in disputed waters
will rise, and China should prepare for the worst.
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schools bearing the name
Lahore: A Pakistani Christian
man’s both hands were
chopped off allegedly by some
Muslim men for refusing to
convert to Islam, media reports
said on Wednesday.
Police, however, have dismissed the victim’s allegation,
claiming he lost his hands in a
train accident.
Aqeel Masih, 25, complained to police, yesterday
alleging that the unidentifed
Muslim men chopped his
hands off with an axe for not
converting to Islam on June 24,
the Dawn reported.
“Some people came to me
and asked me to convert to
Islam. On my refusal, they
attacked me with an axe and
cut my both hands off,” said
Masih, who was treated at
Jinnah Hospital.
He said he did not know
the name of the attackers and
could only recognise them if he
saw them.
Lahore police senior officer
Amara Ather, however, said
that according to a medical
report submitted by a doctor,
Masih had lost his hands in a
train accident near a beverage
factory in Gulberg.
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‘Peace’, suspecting them to be
linked with controversial
Indian Islamic preacher Zakir
Naik’s ‘Peace TV’ which was
banned this week over allegations of inspiring terrorists.
Though the government
does not have any specific data
on how many schools are being
operated with the word ‘Peace’
in their names, an official said
28 schools in Bangladesh have
‘Peace’ in their names.
The schools, in the capital
Dhaka and in other parts of the
country, are allegedly being
operated in line with the controversial Islamic preacher’s
ideals by adding ‘Peace’ to
their names, bdnews24.Com
reported.
The Government is now
inquiring into the activities of
the so-called ‘Peace schools’, the
report said.
Intelligence agencies had
been asked to inquire into the
20 ‘Peace Schools’ spotted by
the ministry in Dhaka.
“If these schools actually
follow Zakir Naik’s ideals, they
will face action,” an offiaial said.
Bangladesh on Sunday
banned Mumbai-based Naik’s
channel after reports that
“provocative” speeches inspired
some of the militants who carried out the country’s worst terror attack at a cafe here.
Crucially for Taipei, it ruled
that Taiwan-administered
Taiping, the largest island in the
Spratlys chain, was legally a
“rock” that did not give it an
exclusive economic zone,
undermining Taiwanese claims
to waters surrounding the
island.
Taiwan’s Government said
the ruling was “completely
unacceptable” and had no
legally binding force since the
arbitral tribunal did not formally invite Taipei to participate in its proceedings or solicit its views.
“The South China Sea ruling, especially the categorisation of Taiping island, has
severely jeopardised our country’s rights in the South
China Sea islands and their relevant waters,” Tsai told soldiers
on the deck of ship in footage
broadcast by channels. AFP
50-year-old Doctor-turned
Naik’s speeches are believed to
have inspired some of the
Bangladeshi militants, who
killed 22 people, mostly foreigners, at an upscale restaurant
in Dhaka on July 1.
The Dhaka education
board authorities said they
only approved temporarily an
English medium school at
Lalmatia to operate under the
name Peace School. The others
do not have any such permission, the report said.
“We are inquiring (about
such schools),” Education
Minister Nurul Islam Nahid
said. Dhaka education board
Chairman Mahbubur Rahman
also said the board would
check on the nature of such
schools.
An education ministry official said none of these ‘Peace
Schools’ in Dhaka had applied
for permission.
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London: A second candidate
joined the race on Wednesday
to try to unseat Britain’s embattled opposition Labour Party
leader Jeremy Corbyn.
“I will stand in this election
and I will do the decent thing
and fight Jeremy Corbyn on the
issues,” Labour lawmaker
Owen Smith told the BBC.
He will join fellow MP
Angela Eagle in trying to wrest
the party leadership. The winner of the contest is expected to
be announced in September.
The campaign to try to
oust Corbyn began in the wake
of Britain’s shock June 23 vote
to leave the EU.
Three-quarters of Labour
lawmakers backed a vote of no
confidence in Corbyn on June
28, accusing him of failing to
persuade working-class voters
to back EU membership.
Late yesterday, Corbyn
won a first victory over his critics after the party’s executive
committee ruled he would
automatically be included on
the leadership ballot.
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London: Theresa May became British prime
minister on Wednesday after being appointed
by British Queen Elizabeth II shortly after the
monarch accepted David Cameron's resignation.
An official image showed May curtseying to
the queen during an audience at Buckingham
Palace. Under Britain's unwritten constitution,
it is up to the monarch to ask the leader of the
party that commands a majority in the House
of Commons to form a government.
The 59-year-old Conservative party leader
is the second woman PM of Britain after
Margaret Thatcher. The tough-talking leader
took charge with a heavy workload already waiting in her in-tray after the Brexit vote.
David Cameron visited British Queen
Elizabeth II earlier to tender his formal resignation, after stepping down in the wake of the
seismic vote to leave the European Union.
In a final statement in front of Downing
Street, flanked by his wife and three children,
he said it had been "the greatest honour of my
life" to work there, adding: "My only wish is continued success for this great country that I love
so very much."
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ism, top US lawmakers today
called for cutting financial aid
and imposing sanctions against
it while prominent think tanks
said it is time to consider
putting Pakistan on the list of
state sponsor of terrorism.
“Patience (on Pakistan) is
growing
ver y
thin,”
Congressman Matt Salmon,
Chairman of the Asia and
Pacific subcommittee of the
House Foreign Affairs
Committee said.
Just cutting off the funding
is not going to be enough, he
said and sought for additional
measures.
“Those who suggest giving
aid to Pakistan need to give justification for using the tax
payer’s money,” Congressman
Brad Sherman, Ranking member of the subcommittee joined
Salmon and other lawmakers
for actions against Pakistan.
Congressman William
Keating, ranking member of
the Subcommittee on
Terrorism, Non-Proliferation
and Trade argued that there is
little reason to believe that
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Pakistan is going to change its
policies of using terrorism as a
tool to meet its strategic needs.
Two of the top al Qaeda
leaders have been killed in
Pakistan, he said.
Keating that the US arms
supply to Pakistan is unlikely to
help it in the fight against terrorism, but would arm it to be
used against India.
Meanwhile, former top
diplomats and think tanks said
it is time that US consider
putting Pakistan on the list of
state sponsor of terrorism.
“Pakistan now is a state
sponsor of terrorism. There is
no question that ISI supports
the Haqqani network, which
we regard as a terrorist network,” said Zalmay Khalilzad,
a former top American diplomat
of
the
Bush
Administration, who played a
key role America’s policy
towards Afghanistan and
Pakistan and Iraq after 9/11,
told lawmakers during a
Congressional hearing.
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Pakistani military and intelligence provide sanctuary and
support to the Taliban,”
Khalilzad said and described in
detail the duplicity of the
Pakistani leadership.
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Washington: Republican presidential candidate Donald
Trump has said he wants “an
attack dog” as a running mate,
days ahead of announcing his
vice presidential pick which has
now come down to a few.
Trump, 70, said in an interview with ‘The Wall Street
Journal’ that his top picks
included Indiana Governor
Mike Pence, former House
Speaker Newt Gingrich, New
Jersey Governor Chris Christie
and a couple politicians who
haven’t gotten as much attention, including Alabama
Senator Jeff Sessions.
“The New York businessman has said he wanted a seasoned Government leader as a
running mate. But in the inter-
view, on the way to events with
Pence in Indiana, Trump added
a new criterion: He wants an
attack dog,” Trump said on
Wednesday.
“I’m getting attacked from
all sides,” Trump told the daily
in the interview in which he
called Christies and Gingrich
“two extraordinar y warriors.”Personal chemistry is
also important, he said.
“You either have it or you
don’t. I clearly have it with
Chris and Newt,” he said, indicating that his choice has narrowed down to two.
US media reported that
Trump might announce his
vice presidential pick later this
week— Thursday or Friday.
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led by an Indian-origin
scientist.
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swarms could also be cheaper
to build, launch and maintain,
researchers said.
Led by Sreeja Nag, a former
graduate
student
at
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), researchers
simulated the performance of
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you to support a noble
cause like the Swachch
Bharat Programme and Beti
Bachao Beti Padhao campaigns? Going by the
announcement of a friendly
football match organised
between Members of
Parliament and Bollywood
in the capital on July 24 at the
H
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, it
would be nothing less than a
prized fight. Bollywood has
searched high heavens with
players like Abhishek
Bachchan as the captain followed by Ranbir Kapoor,
Arjun Kapoor, Dino Morea
and many more while the
Parliamentarians include
luminaries like Babul Supriyo
s somebody who has followed and
A
perpetuated stereotypes on television with Diya Aur Bati Hum, it
comes as a surprise that producer
Sumeet Mittal is venturing into the
non-fiction space with Rivals-In-Law,
a game show between two families
bound by marriage. And just as we
were wondering if a mainline saasbahu practitioner was finally giving
into the winds of change on Indian
television, Mittal demolished the
notion that the genre had lost its
appeal but could do with a bit of
tweaking.
The concept of family and togetherness is an all-time sell, he told us on
the sidelines of the promotion of his
new show and a recasting and
rebranding of Diya Aur Bati Hum. “As
a nation, our mass mindset is still
today dominated by the joint family
system. Even nuclear families value
culture and the extended family structure. So the family orientation is going
to be around in the entertainment
space for quite some time, more so on
Indian television. I think if we try to
get away from the family scenario, we
will not be able to hit the numbers,
which are so crucial to the business
of sustenance. For Indians, television
viewing is entertainment as well as
good learning,” Mittal informed, saying he was buoyed up by a number of
messages commending Diya aur Bati
hum for helping families reunite.
Television, Mittal believes, is an emotion-driven business by virtue of
invading people’s homes and private
spaces.
So his new show, too, dwells in the
periphery of formula. Its appeal lies
in combining the relationship that
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entertainment show, with the practical take-home skills they’d expect
from a cooking format. So every
episode, a young wife, her mother-inlaw and husband/son are introduced.
The son must choose a favourite dish
for them to prepare. Both women get
to work in the studio kitchen under
the watchful eye of a chef host, and
age-old tensions are brought to boiling point in the process. The son must
ultimately decide who cooked it best,
and his dilemma is relatable for many
in the audience. This is Mittal’s first
foray into a global franchise. “I would
like to have all kinds of flowers in my
bouquet. We would like to make our
shows for the global market. At the
same time, we would want the Indian
market to open up to the global space,”
he told us.
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as the captain, Manoj Tiwari,
Parwez Varma and compatriots putting their best foot forward. For that you have to
foot the bill from as low as C
200 to as high as C5,000.
Babul Supriyo started his
speech with a little humour,
pretending he did not know
the swish set seated next to
him at all. “I don’t want to be
a hypocrite since we are
meeting for the first time.
Slowly and eventually I will
remember all your names,”
he said, clarifying he was
awaiting their hidden skills
in the ballgame.
“Baba Ramdev is going
to kick off the match. I am
just worried if MPs, who can
play cricket and score 50, can
manage the fitness level for
football,” he added.
Manoj Tiwari said he
was very happy to be a part
of this event. “The practice
sessions are going on and no
matter whoever wins, it will
be a proud moment.”
Dino Morea said,
“Thank you all for being
here and supporting the
great cause, and also thank
you entire media for coming
and supporting.”
tion processes for fictional and nonfictional drama, he said, “It’s a very different ballgame. In the fiction space,
we don’t think about the number of
episodes and just believe in producing good content episode after
episode. In the non-fiction format, we
have to fix our story-telling within a
specific timeframe. As a creator, I
would love to tell stories on different
platforms differently.”
Talking about the potential of the
internet and the increasing popularity of web series, he doesn’t see it
denting his core business. “The
young audience is going to go on the
digital platform for a specific kind of
entertainment, barring the family
dream. It’s good that we have evolving genres on the digital plane but
they are not going to take away the
hardcore television viewers. A new
audience is emerging for the web
series but numbers are not shifting
from television to internet. So, every
time a new web series comes up on
the digital platform, my assumption
is that we will see new numbers
rather than numbers just dividing or
spreading.”
However, he agreed that viewership had gone down for television,
not because of diversion but because
of poor substance. “Mainstream
numbers are down because people
are not liking the content.
Entertainment television is going
through a midlife crisis. As producers, we just have to reinvent the
wheel and figure out the process of
identifying markers. I am sure we
will soon be back with a right fit for
a new developed taste. It’s just a matter of time.”
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Masti believe the horror comedy genre will be
their big ticket and repeat the success of the prequel Grand Masti. “Amar, Preet and Prem are
coming back with the third part and it is probably the funniest film any of us have ever done
in our careers,” said Aftab Shivdasani.
The trio of Ritesh Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi
and Aftab Shivdasani are back with the third
instalment of the franchise. Hottie Urvashi
Rautela is playing the lead role in the movie. “I
play a virgin ghost with supernatural powers in
this movie. It’s my third movie and it was the
most challenging and demanding role, till now,”
said the actress, who looked stunning in a suit
cum dress. “Urvashi’s role was very different and
had many variations to it. She is extremely professional and has nailed her role,” said Vivek. “It
took us three years to come back with the third
instalment as we wanted a new and strong plot,”
said Ritesh Deshmukh.
The actors gushed about how there was
never a dull moment on the set and they always
used to have fun. “It was like a paid holiday as
our family and kids were there as well,” exclaimed
Vivek. We could see great bonding between the
notorious trio at the press conference. They were
adding to each other's answers and also laughed
at their inside jokes, very evidently. “We initial-
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all these years,” said Ritesh. “We feel lucky to work
together,” added Aftab.
Asked their take on the pirated copy of the
film, which was shared online, having any effect
on the movie’s business, Vivek said, “Our production house will release an official statement
on this.” Urvashi, when asked if she experienced
anything ‘spooky’ on the sets, said, “I wasn’t
spared by the boys on the set. We were shooting at the Wakaner Palace and they convinced
me that the place is haunted. It was only after a
few days that I realized they were pulling a prank
on me.” This is Ritesh Deshmukh’s fifth film with
the director Indra Kumar. “My relation with
Indra is very different now. From student
teacher relation to being brothers, the journey
has been great. I absolutely loved him,”
answered Ritesh when asked about his journey with the director. Ritesh will soon be seen
in a musical drama genre which was a very
different experience for the actor. Vivek also
spoke about his upcoming film Rai where he
plays the role of a villain. According to the
actors of the film, Great Grand Masti is not
a sexual comedy but a naughty comedy with
a little bit of quirkiness.
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temporary nature of solitude. The
images may suggest a hint of
melancholia but are never sad.
Instead, all the pictures are united by a feeling of vitality. The minimal preferred shots, with very few
elements, accentuate the look of
introspection. Atilio Tripodi
prefers to portray human landscapes in his photos, which, in
this case, are the unsuspecting protagonists of this
reflection on loneliness. “We
are never alone, even when this
condition seems so unequivocally clear. Man is a social being,
inevitably interacts with others and
establish relationships with others,
exchanging emotions and feelings.
Because of a higher spiritual law,
we are all connected to each other,
we are one. So, I figured that the
protagonists of my shots intentionally seek temporary solitude, necessary to create a deep contact with
the most authentic and intimate
part of themselves, with their
essence, their soul. I imagined,
then, that my subject had tried that
particular insulation to talk to himself, in a kind of meditation,” says
the Italian photographer.
Usually his photo collections
always express a very lively range
of colours but for Temporary
Solitudes he preferred to use black
and white. “Photographing isolated subjects, immersed in a variety
of contexts, is one of my photographic prerogatives. I like to be a
spectator of everyday human reads
in the architecture of life, always
with acute curiosity but with the
utmost respect for the sacredness
of life. This fact allowed me to
meditate on people’s loneliness and
the great opportunities that we can
offer. In solitude, immersed in our
deepest thoughts, we face our
existential questions, we set ourselves on the path of evolution,”
says the artist.
Attilio believes that an artist
should always listen to his innermost self. Soul is the crucible
where thoughts take shape. He
suggests, “It is then very important
for anyone involved in the visual
arts, such as photography, to try to
look at the work of others. An artist
should look for inspiration in
everything. He/she should always
carry with him a wealth of curiosity.” Attilio is always looking for sit-
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him, hoping to then transfer to
those who look at his pictures the
same intense emotion.
A freelance art director for
advertising, graphic design, publishing and packaging in Italy, photography is Attilio’s passion. He has
been at it for 30 years and still it
fascinates him to observe the
world through the lens, typeset
emotions and tell stories in a single frame. His work as a graphic
designer inevitably affects his
approach. Lines, contrasts, textures
and shapes are often present in his
pictures and interact with the
subject. He thinks the most important ingredient in photography is
emotion. “The formal balance of
an image, the harmony that can be
transmitted, the right exposure...
all will fall flat if we lose out on the
most important ingredient which
is emotion.”
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February 1933 in Delhi in a Pathan
family. She was born on Valentine day
to spread the message of love. “She is highly regarded as ‘The Beauty with Tragedy’ and
‘The Venus of Indian Cinema’. She was active
between 1942 and 1960 along with her contemporaries Meena Kumari and Nargis.
Often regarded as ‘the Marlyn Monroe of
Bollywood’, she was also called The Timeless
Beauty.
She started her career as a child artiste
as baby Mumtaz in 1942 in film Basant. She
become the favorite child artist of Bombay
Talkies, biggest production house of its time.
Impressed by her talent and performance
Devika Rani changed her screen name to
Madhubala. Her first lead role at the age of
14 was with Raj Kapoor in Neel Kamal
(1947). Kidar Sharma after the death of his
wife had a desire to marry Madhubala, but
she was destined for bigger things. She
achieved stardom and popularity in 1949 at
the age of 17 which many do not achieve
in their life time. Ashok Kumar the great star
and producer recommended her name as
the heroin for Mahal to director Kamal
Amrohi. This turned out to be one of the
greatest box office hits in 1949 after which
she worked in 4 more hits - Dulari (1949),
Beqasoor (1950), Tarana and Badal (1951).
She became a superstar.
She went on to become the most
sought after actress between 50-60, but she
was a mystery. Because of his father strict
control, she was working only from 10 to 6
pm shift; no public appearance, not ever on
premier of her films because of which her
fans were keen to see her in person. As a
result there will be huge crowds outside the
studio after her shift will be over.She was
quite well aware of her beauty and she will
innocently sometime flirt with her heroes
and directors. There were stories about this
with Prem Nath, Ashok Kumar, Kamal
Amrohi, Kedar Sharma, and many but her
true feelings and love was reserved for the
great Dilip Kumar which reached its Zenith
in film Tarana (1951) this film and Amar
produced by Mehboob Khan were land
mark films with Dilip Kumar in her career.
There were stories about their love affair and
the tragic breakup. The person responsible
for the breakup was no one else but her
father Attaullah Khan. He put many barriers in her career. May be he did not want
to lose her daughter’s income if she got married. He set up his own production house
with her money and produced films which
flopped at Box office - like Patthan (1962)
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with Prem Nath and Mumtaz in the lead and
he had nine music directors in one film.
Madhubala also produced the film Naata
(1955) with Abhi Bhattacharya as hero
which flopped. Madhubala has been the second actress in whose name a film was produced in 1950 with her as a heroin. First was
Nargis in 1947. She was having the best of
times till 1954 as her golden period and then
came the sad phase in her life when her
father Attaullah Khan created bitterness for
Madhubala with BR Chopra and Dilip
Kumar, even after taking advance for
Madhubala for Naya Daur he laid down
condition for shooting which were inappropriate and against the spirit of the
script. BR Chopra filed a legal suit against
her father and Dilip Kumar gave witness
against him. What Dilip Kumar said in the
court became headlines those days. It was
his open admission of love for Madhubala.
He said, “yes I love her and will continue loving her all my life, but the truth is not on
her side”. Madhubala got upset and their
relations became strained and never become
normal. BR Chopra replaced Vijyantimala
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hit pair was born. Dilip selected
Vijyanti Mala even for his own production Ganga Jamuna.
Madhubala’s career as well as
personal life got adversely affected
with this episode. She continued
working relentlessly in films but the
emotional vacuum remained.
While shooting for Mughl-e-Azam
which started in 1950 but released
in 1960 Dilip Kumar and
Madhubala were not even in talking terms for half of the film, but Madhubala
worked with full zeal and emotions and did
not let the film suffer. This was Madhubala
a perfectionist even in failed love.
Madhubala was known for a very free and
pleasant behavior with all her costars and
directors. Sometimes it created misunderstandings. Dev Anand the super romantic
star of 50’s who has worked with Madhubala
in many films including his own Kala Pani
says so about Madhubala in his auto biography:- “I remember Kala Pani the most for
Madhubala, its leading lady, the most beau-
tiful of all the heroines in the
fairyland of films, with her
natural looks, always as fresh
as morning dew, sans heavy
make-up, false eyelashes, contact lences or scanty dresses
fashioned by designers to
impart artificial glamour that
would titillate male curiosity.
Her child like innocence was
accentuated by the most
noticeable trait of her character, her famous giggle.
Every time I think of her, I hear her giggle
outside my make-up room, followed by a
knock at the door that announced her
arrival. ‘So you have arrived!! Hohoho!! I
would greet her, and her ‘yes, I have’ was
always substituted by another giggle. She was
forever giggling at the slightest pretext.
Nobody knew when the next bout of giggles would come, and once it did, how long
it would last!! Many times she would suddenly start giggling during the take when
the camera was on. The lights had to be
switched off indefinitely & tea ordered, until
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and Thathiya. Sangeet Natak Akademi & Dept. of Art and Culture, Government
am Vilas Paswan, Minister
of Consumer Affairs, Food
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and Public Distribution today
reviewed here the working of
National Consumer Helpline,
toll free line being run by the
Department of Consumer
Affairs for redressal of
Consumer grievances. MOS
Consumer Affairs, CR
Chaudhary was also present on
the occasion. After the review,
the Minister directed following- Number of Helpline
should be increased from 14 to
60 within a month. Email,
SMS and mobile app should
also be developed for redressal
of complaints. Response time,
from present 5 -6 minutes,
should be reduced to 3 minutes. A committee under the
chairmanship of MOS
Consumer Affairs,
CR
Chaudhary should consider
mechanism for setting up four
regional centres of helpline to
address complaints in regional languages. The committee
has been asked to submit the
reports within a month.
Paswan said that very soon his
Ministry will come out with
guidelines for “Direct Selling”
to protect the interests of consumers. Besides discussions
with the industry for setting up
of effective consumer redressal
mechanism, the Government is
also working on various measures for this purpose. He said
in new Consumer Protection
Act, a number of provisions
have been proposed which
would have far reaching effects
on consumer protection system
in the country, he expressed the
hope that the proposed Act will
get nod of the Parliament in
coming session.
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Communication(CC), has come of age. It
has expanded in scope and activities and
is now recognized as an indispensable
ingredient in strategic management. The
growing proliferation of media, especially in the digital space has redefined the role
and scope of CC and the concomitant need
to upscale the skills of the practitioners
from time to time. The past few years have
seen increasing recognition of public sector Corporate Communication and Public
Relations Practitioners getting recognition
from professional bodies. However, the
speed at which the knowledge is getting
added and new paradigms introduced, it
is important that public sector management
and PR practitioners take cognizance of this
phenomenon and bring about required
strategies and practices to meet the growing expectations of their myriad stakeholders. The emergence of Digital communication and Social media, in addition
to the conventional media now demand a
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Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar Awards to commemorate the birth centenary of Ustad
Bismillah Khan from 27- 30 July 2016 at Imphal, Manipur. You may also watch the live
telecast of the programmes on http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/webcast.html.
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her mirth.The great giggler was perhaps
laughing at the world around her that did
not know that she had a damaged heart, &
would die quite young.” In 1960 Mughl-eAzam was released. The biggest and most
expensive film ever produced. A magnum
opus which made Madhubala an icon star.
It took 10 years in making with so many stories woven around production. Be it related to the lead pair of Dilip-Madhubala or
its music with the great legend Bade
Ghulam Ali Khan singing or the Sheesh
Mahal in which Madhubala sang Pyar Kiya
To Darna Kya and the real pearls being
thrown on floor to produce real sound or
the real to life role of Akbar by Prithvi Raj
Kapoor. Even after 44 years in 2004 when
its colored version was released it proved to
be a hit crossing time barrier. This was the
peak of Madhubala proving her acting ability of highest standard and her commitment
to cinema. In the most memorable love
scene of Dilip-Madhubala with feather
between their lips both of them were not
even on talking terms. There was lot of sto-
Rohini, felicitated ESI
Doctors of ESI Hospital,
Rohini and ESI Dental
College, Rohini on the
occasion of Doctors’ Day
on 01.07.2016. Speaking
on the occasion, Mukesh
Kumar Jain, President
thanked the entire doctors
community and offered to
partner ESIC in all its
humanistic endeavours. He
also offered to plant 1100
tree saplings in ESI
Hospital/Dispensaries/Ad
ministrative Offices.
Present on the occasion
were Dr Anshu Chhabra,
Medical Superintendent,
ESI Hospital Rohini, Dr
Dhirendra Srivastava, Dean
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themselves along with their
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fresher 360 degree approach and outlook
from PSEs in handling corporate communication. The PSEs that are in the retail
business and those that are listed on the
stock market, this become all the more
important. The Public Sector has always
been a key partner in government's agenda of inclusive growth, therefore, aligning
PSEs CSR activities with the government's
policies is the need of the hour. New CSR
guidelines have provided newer opportunities to PSEs in this regard. Corporate
communication practitioners therefore
need to align their communication
approaches keeping in view the sustainable
development goals (SGDs) of the country.
Broad aims and objectives of the CC
Summit A: To bring to a common platform
CC/PR and other Management practitioners to discuss and deliberate on the
newer areas of knowledge and skills
required in the practice of CC/PR and the
need for interdisciplinary approach in
addressing organizational goals. Building
effective bridges between government
policies and efforts put in by PSEs in
achieving SGDs. Looking for opportunities in leveraging brand equity. To get hands
- on - skills on various strategies of communication especially in the social media
space through case studies. To recognize
excellence in CC/PR practice through
SCOPE awards in innovative techniques
and strategic communication in the CC/PR
practice.
Thrust Areas: A trajectory of CC/PR
practice in Public sector across seven
decades - a deconstruction. Newer paradigms in Media Relations Management challenges and opportunities. Corporate
Communication: Partner in Strategic
Management - Issues and challenges.
Creating a synergistic relationship between
CC/PR and other management disciplines
- The way forward. Internal stakeholders
- communication impediments and the
way forward. The Summit will be of
immense value to all PR and CC professionals and those engaged in HR, CSR
and marketing. Participants will get
good opportunity to interact with senior
leaders, eminent professionals and to network. It is happening on July 21 and July
22 at SCOPE Convention Center, New
Delhi.
“The Public Sector Enterprises in the
last six and a half decades have contributed enormously in nation building
and have grown exponentially. Inspite of
their achieving many milestones on social
ries why she did not marry Dilip Kumar.
There are different versions but let us go by
what Dilip Kumar says in his auto biography:-’I must admit that I was attracted to
her both as a fine co-star & as a person who
had some of the attributes I hoped to find
in a woman at that age and time. We had
viewers admiring our pairing in Tarana and
our working relationship was warm and cordial. She, as I said earlier, was very sprightly and vivacious and, as such, she could draw
me out of my shyness and reticence effortlessly. She filled a void that was crying out
to be filled- not by an intellectually sharp
woman but a spirited woman whose liveliness and charm were the idea panacea for
the wound that was taking its own time to
heal. The announcement of our pairing in
Mughl-e-Azam made sensational news in
the early 1950’s because of the rumours
about our emotional involvement. I sensed
Asif was trying to mend the situation for her
when matters began to sour between us,
thanks to her father’s attempt to make the
proposed marriage a business venture. The
outcome was that half way through the production of Mughl-e-Azam, we were not even
talking to each other. The classic scene with
the feather coming between our lips, which
set a million imaginations on fire, was shot
when we had completely stopped even greeting each other. It should in all fairness, go
down in the annals of film history as a tribute to the artistry of two professionally committed actor who kept aside personal differences and fulfill the director’s vision of a
sensitive arresting and sensuous screen
moment to perfection”.
The era of 60’s proved very eventful for
Madhubala. She married Kishore Kumar in
1960 taking everyone by surprise. It turned
to be a decision out of her frustration and
her heart sickness-she had a hole in the heart
which proved fatal. Even on her marriage
the industry commented that, “She has lost
her mind" marrying a irresponsible man.
The marriage did not last long. She shifted
to her home and in that sickness Kishore
Kumar did not look after her and not even
went to see her.The ‘giggler’ and the most
‘most beautiful’ woman had lonely and sad
end and breathed her last on February
23,1969 at the prime age of 36. Before her
death she did ring up Dilip Kumar saying,
“I will be alright soon. Will you work with
me at least in one film!! Dilip replied, “yes
I will do so. You recover fast.” That was the
last dialogue between two lovers where destiny and circumstances played spoil sport.
Her last words, “I want to live”.
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NS India, the base depot ship at New
Delhi, celebrated its 75th anniversary
Itoday
(13 Jul). Established as HMIS India
in 1941 it was rechristened as INS India on
26 Jan 1950. The Base Depot ship (stone
ship in naval parlance) has the privilege of
being the Flagship of the Chief of the Naval
Staff. Started as small unit with a complement of just a handful of officers and sailors,
INS India is now a major establishment in
New Delhi with a plethora of
duties and responsibilities. In
addition, the establishment
provides administrative and
logistics cover to all officers
and sailors borne in Naval
Headquarters and other
units at Delhi.
As a run up to celebrate this grand
occasion, a series of events were organised.
A Health Run and a Dream Walk was
organised on 10 Jul 16 for Naval personnel and their families. Around 350 runners
of various age groups participated in the
event with full enthusiasm. Cmde BK
Munjal, VSM, Station Commander flagged
off the event and motivated people to live
a healthy life. In the evening, traditional
Barakhana was organised for sailors and
their families, where in children, ladies and
personnel put up a patriotic cultural program.
A blood donation camp was also
organised on 12 Jul 16 wherein 128 units
of blood was collected from volunteers
ranging from Flag Officers, Officers, sailors,
Defence Civilians and their families as a
contribution towards social welfare.
During 75 years of transition of HMIS
India to the present INS India, the establishment has seen as many as 32
Commanding Officers.
During 75 years of transition of HMIS
India to the present INS India, the establishment has seen as many as 32
Commanding Officers.
and economic fronts, they have neither
fully utilized the media for building their
brand image nor have they received the
kind of media mileage that they deserved,”
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ONGC Chairman, Steering Committee
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2016, “ The role of C orporate
Communications (CC) has assumed
greater significance today when social
media has changed the mediascape and
made organizations more accountable in
the public domain.The Public Sector
enterprises have evolved into a strongcorporate identity over the years. In an
open market regime where survival
depends upon competitive edge to a business, strategic decisions play a pivotal
role. Media perception, land acquisition
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provide the finishing touches to their
preparation for the four-Test series
when they take on West Indies Cricket
Board Presidents’ XI in the final warmup match starting here on Thursday.
The three-day match will more or less
decide the final playing XI for India and
both the batsmen and bowlers will look
to make their performance count and earn
a place when Kumble and Kohli sit down
to select the team for the first Test at
Antigua starting July 21.
India were far from impressive in their
last two-day warm-up game as their pace
battery struggled with their inconsistent
show and it will be the last chance for
Kumble’s boys to make an impression.
The Indian seamers, including
Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammed
Shami, who is returning to competitive
cricket after a long injury lay-off, began
well but lost the plot after sometime as
they struggled with their line and length.
They could not push the batsmen to
play their deliveries and bowled too wide
outside the off stump, something which
the pacers will have to sort out in the
three-day warm-up game at Warner Park.
Ishant Sharma, who also has had a
long lay-off, and Umesh Yadav will also
look to grind it out as the duo is expected to be key members of Kohli’s gameplans. It will be interesting to see if
Mumbai pacer Shardul Thakur gets a
chance to roll his arms over in this game.
While the seamers were inconsistent,
leg-spinner Amit Mishra was impressive
and made life difficult for the West Indies
Presidents’ XI batsmen and was on a hattrict after he dismissed Rajendra
Chandrika and Jermaine Blackwood in
successive balls.
Mishra ended with a four-wicket haul
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Cummins today replaced Jerome
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Taylor in the upcoming Test series
against India, the West Indies Cricket
Board has (WICB) announced.
The replacement came as Taylor
announced his retirement from the
longer format a couple of days back.
The 25-year-old Cummins has played
41 first-class matches, with 116 wickets
(average 22.56). He was a part of the Test
squad in Australia earlier this year.
Though he did not play any match in the
series.
Taylor, who will continue to play in
the shorter formats, had made his international debut against Sri Lanka in 2003
and played his last Test series against
Australia in January this year. He took 130
wickets in his 46 Test-matches career.
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and will look to continue his good run.
Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra
Jadeja will also like to test their skills in the
warm-up game, specially since the pitches
in West Indies also assist slow bowlers.
In batting, India’s top-order looked
solid as they spent enough time in the
middle with openers KL Rahul and
Shikhar Dhawan scoring fifties.
Squads
India: Virat Kohli (captain), Shikhar
Dhawan, Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara,
Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Lokesh
Rahul, Wriddhiman Saha (wk),
Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja,
Amit Mishra, Umesh Yadav, Ishant
Sharma, Shami, Shardul Thakur,
Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Stuart Binny.
WICB President’s XI squad: Leon
Johnson (capt), Jermaine Blackwood,
Rajendra Chandrika, Roston Chase, Jason
Dawes, Shane Dowrich, Shai Hope,
Damion Jacobs, Keon Joseph, Marquino
Mindley, Vishaul Singh, Jomel Warrican.
Indian speedster Ishant Sharma who
is gearing up for the upcoming Test series
against the West Indies believes the fiveday cricket is his strength.
Ishant is the most-experienced fast
bowler that India have in their 17-member Test squad captained by ace batsman
Virat Kohli. However, Ishant has struggled
to find a place in the shorter formats.
“You have to be honest with yourself,
that’s the most important thing. If you are
being honest with yourself it’s easy to
accept things. I know that I didn’t do well
in the shorter formats of the game, so I
accepted it,” Ishant was quoted as saying
by bcci.tv on Tuesday.
“But I am doing well in Test cricket
so I know what my strength is.”
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season heading into the
Olympics, but ace Indian shuttler K Srikanth (in pic) on
Wednesday said the low phase
has helped him prepare for the
Games and he hopes to emerge
as dark horse in Rio Olympics.
Srikanth had the world at
his feet when he became the
first Indian to win a Super
Series Premier men’s title in the
2014 China Open after beating
two-time Olympic champion
and five-time world champion
Lin Dan in the final.
A win at home in the India
Super Series was the icing on
the cake and propelled him to
World No. 3 in June last year
but then it all fell apart.
However, Srikanth said he
was never worried about his
Olympic qualification.
“I was tense but not for my
qualification, it was my game
that I was worried about since
I knew if I can play well, I will
automatically qualify,” Srikanth,
ranked World No. 11 said.
“I was not worried about
my ranking, I was worried
because I was not getting time
to train. I was playing one event
after another whether it was
PBL, Malaysia, SAF games, or
German Open or ABC, there
was simply no time.
“But I think it kind of
helped me identify the areas
where I need to work on and it
atting maestro Sachin Tendulkar, who was part
of the BCCI’s Cricket Advisory panel that
B
selected Anil Kumble as head coach, has reckoned
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helped me in my preparation of
Olympics. Every match counts,
every tournament counts,
whether it is a win or loss, it is
all about how you take it. You
need to take the positives out of
every match you play. So it kind
of helped me,” he explained.
It was in May when the 23year-old from AP became one
of the seven shuttlers to qualify for the Rio Games after the
rankings were released.
“I was happy to qualify. It
was a big dream. I knew it but
in May to actually officially
qualify was a big moment. I
hope I can make India proud.”
At Rio, the world will turn
to the rivalry of Malaysia’s Lee
Chong Wei and China’s Lin
Dan as they look for ultimate
glory in what might turn out to
be swansong Olympics for the
two old warhorses and Srikanth
said he is happy to be the
underdog or a dark horse.
“They are the most experienced players who have played
in the last 2-3 Olympics and I
think they will have an advantage. But it doesn’t help everyone all the time. It can help to
get a few close points but then
there are so many players who
win a tournament or a medal
playing for the first time. So it
doesn’t help always,” said the
2013 Thailand Grand Prix
Gold champion.
“It is tough for the top players because there are too many
expectations and pressure, so I
am happy being a dark horse or
an underdog,” added Srikanth.
Asked if he had followed
Olympics as a kid, Srikanth said:
“I never watched or followed
Olympics as a child. My first
memory of Olympics was
watching Saina Nehwal play at
the Beijing Games quarterfinals.
“It was that moment when
I sort of thought that what if I
could play at the Olympics
someday. Ever since it has
been a dream of playing there,
every time you see someone
play at the Olympics, you want
to be there,” he added.
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Indian side to fight out during crunch situations.
Recalling his association with the Bengaluru
leggie, Tendulkar termed him a “hard competitor” with tons of experience, which he feels the
team can benefit from.
“It’s about being a tough character and being
able to stand on your feet in tough moments.
That’s what I feel Anil will teach them. There
are crunch moments in any match, so approaching those moments is important. He will be out
there to win each and every moment,” Tendulkar
was quoted as saying by espncricinfo.
“My experience with Anil has been fantastic. He has been a match-winner, and the guys
have got a lot to learn from him. Anil is ready
to share everything he has learnt from this wonderful sport.”
“He played for close to 20 years, so there is
plenty to share. I’ll just tell the players to grasp
as much information from Anil as possible, and
enjoy the game above everything else,” the little master added.
The former Mumbai batsman also came to
the defence of Australian opener David Warner
who has recently been in news for his bat size.
Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting had
recently critised Warner.
Commenting on rising imbalance between
bat and ball, the legendary batsman called for
more bowler-friendly pitches to address the
problem.
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) world
cricket committee had on Tuesday recommended limitations on the thickness and depth of bats
amid concerns that the sport has tilted heavily in
favour of the batsmen in recent years. A report
commissioned by the MCC, the guardian of the
game’s laws, in 2014 found the thickness of blades
had marginally increased in the last century and
that edges had broadened by 300 per cent, meaning even mistimed shots still find the boundary.
Tendulkar’s views reflected Australian opener David Warner’s sentiments, who last week said
that flat pitches rather than bats with thicker
edges are the reason batsmen have the upper
hand in Test cricket.
“The wickets need to change; they need to
be more helpful for bowlers. In T20s, the greatest of bowlers are being reverse-swept. Threehundred is no longer competitive in ODIs,”
Tendulkar said.
The former India skipper added,”It’s difficult
for someone to sit for five days, so you have to
look at changing surfaces. I don’t think it’s got
much to do with bats, but I’m sure people on the
(relevant) panel will be able to look into it. That’s
what David Warner has spoken about too.”
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wait to get back on the tennis court to get
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The 24-year-old Delhi lad was the talk
of the town at the end of last year when
he broke into the top-100 world rankings.
As a result of which Yuki was able to
play in the main draw of the season opening first Grand Slam Australian Open,
where he lost in the first round to Tomas
Berdych.
However, things did not go well from
there on for the Indian players as he had
to miss the next two Grand Slams —
French Open and Wimbledon — through
injuries.
So it is not surprising to see him frustrated with his injury layoff.
"It (injury) is the most frustrating
thing. You want to be there and play. It's
one of the frustrating times. If I play and
lose, then it is fine but this is different," he
said.
getting back from injury is to take part in
the US tour and use it as a preparation for
the final Grand Slam of the year — US
Open.
"I will then take part in the US tour —
to prepare for the US Open," he said before
adding, "I will play in the qualifiers and through it hopefully I will make it
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at the end of last year and he could not
shake off the injury and missed the 2016
season starting Chennai Open.
Even though Yuki got back in time for
the Australian Open, the injury resurfaced
for the Delhi player again around April and
since then he has been sideline by it.
As a result of the injury he will also not
play in the Davis Cup Asia Oceania
group-I tie against South Korea from July
15 to 17.
Now Yuki has only one thing in his
mind - returning back to the court as soon
as possible.
"The goal is to get back on the court
soon. I have been working hard on rest of
the body. I expect to get back on tour by
the end of July," he added.
The immediate target for Yuki after
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akistan's Mohammad Amir will
hope to put the 2010 spot-fixing
scandal behind him once and for
all when he returns to the scene of the
crime in Thursday's first Test against
England at Lord's.
Six years ago, during a Lord's Test
against England, Amir and Pakistan
new-ball partner Mohammad Asif deliberately bowled no-balls on the instructions of captain Salman Butt as part of
a sting operation carried out by a tabloid
newspaper. All three received five-year
bans from cricket and, together with
sports agent Mazhar Majeed, jail terms.
Such was the impact of the controversy, the fact teenage sensation Amir
took six for 84 in the first innings of that
match has largely been forgotten.
For all his time out of cricket, the 24year-old retains the ability to swing the
ball late at sharp pace, as he showed with
a first-innings haul of three for 36 in
Pakistan's tour opener against Somerset.
It means an England side missing
all-time leading injured wicket-taker
James Anderson and sidelined allrounder Ben Stokes, should not have
things all their own way as they did in
the preceding 2-0 home series win
over Sri Lanka.
While the likes of former Pakistan
batsman Ramiz Raja have expressed
doubts about the wisdom of letting Amir
back into international cricket, players
on both sides have accepted the situation.
"We could talk or moan about it and
have our opinions but the fact is it is not
going to change him opening the bowling at us on Thursday or playing against
us throughout this (four-match) series,"
said England batsman Joe Root.
Amir is far from the only threat in
a Pakistan bowling line-up also featuring fellow left-armer Wahab Riaz, Sohail
Khan and leg-spinner Yasir Shah.
The key to the series could lie with
both teams' top-order batsmen. England
were repeatedly bailed out of early collapses against Sri Lanka by in-form middleorder batsman Jonny Bairstow.
Pakistan have a strong middle order
in skipper Misbah-ul-Haq fellow veteran
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Alex Hales, yet to score a Test hundred,
is the right man to partner skipper
Alastair Cook at top of the England's
order.
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The combative Riaz is looking to
target Root, now promoted to number
three by England.
For the Yorkshireman, that was
just pre-series "trash talk" but Riaz said
of Root: "He is the backbone of the
England team and getting him out
early will put the pressure on England.
"If he thinks it is just trash talk then
hats off to him."
Turning to Amir, Riaz added: "He is
a very intelligent bowler and he is a very
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strong lad...He is eager to perform."
England will have to decide whether
to give a debut to either Jake Ball or fellow paceman Toby Roland-Jones, wo
plays at Lord's for Middlesex, as the
fourth-placed team begin their bid to
leapfrog Pakistan (third) in the world
Test rankings.
The match will also mark the return
to Test cricket of England batsman Gary
Ballance after he was dropped last year.
But an unconcerned Riaz said: "We
are not worried about what England has
picked or they haven't picked.
"The only thing we know is that
England is a good team in their home
conditions."
For Riaz, and many Pakistanis,
there is more riding on this match than
just the raw result.
"Under the captaincy of Misbah this
team is much more united," he said.
"We have seen the hard time of
Pakistan cricket...We have managed to
make the people all over the world
believe that Pakistan is a good Test team.
The Pakistan team are a strong team and
can always give you a hard time."
Being without Anderson is blow for
England.
As far as long term goals are concerned, the 24-year-old wants to break into
the top-100 once again.
"My goal is to get back into the top100 and play with the best players and participate in all the Grand Slams," he said.
However, he added that there is no
time limit set for him to achieve his target.
"I have no time set. Hopefully, next
year, I get to play all the Slams after having a good second half of the season," he
said.
With Olympics round the corner,
Yuki, who is currently ranked 148, feels
India have a good chance of winning a
medal at Rio.
"India have a good chance for medal in
Olympics, since we have a good doubles and
mixed doubles team," he said.
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Major, and now ace Indian golfer Anirban
Lahiri, a regular on the Major circuit, is back
for another crack at the only Major, outside of the
United States.
"The Open is one event, which will always be
close to my heart. I love being here again and again.
Of course we all love to be at every Major, but for
all players there is always one or two which are
favourites and the Open is one of them for me," said
Lahiri.
Lahiri, whose best this year has been a second
place at the Hero Indian Open which is a part of
the European and Asian Tours, is due to play the
first two rounds with Sergio Garcia, still searching
for his maiden Major in an illustrious career, while
the third player will be Keegan Bradley from the US,
a past Major winner.
"Having played some links golf over the years
helps because you know what the conditions will
demand from you. Still, its very windy out here and
accuracy will be the key. The main idea of links golf
is avoiding trouble more than anything else. It's a
great challenge. You have to be very creative, flight
it in a different way — high or low and so on. It's
different kind of golf from what we have grown up
playing," Lahiri said.
"The Troon is great. But every golf is different.
It is very challenging as far as I could see over the
holes I have played so far. There are a couple of blind
holes, a few in front are narrow and winding and
the 11th has a very intimidating tee shot. I am keeping mental pictures and trying to get an idea of
where you need to leave the ball. You have to trust
yourself," he added.
Lahiri, whose upcoming stretch includes two
Majors and an Olympic appearance, is keen to hit
top form ahead of the year's third Major at the
famous Scottish links from July 14 to 17.
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underland manager Sam Allardyce
was given permission by the
SPremier
League club to speak to the
English Football Association about
becoming the next coach of the
national team. The 61-year-old
Allardyce requested to talk to the FA
about replacing Roy Hodgson,
Sunderland said Wednesday. He is the
favorite with British bookmakers to
take over as England coach. "We
want him to remain as manager of our
football club," Sunderland said in a
statement. Allardyce joined
Sunderland in October and helped the
team stay in the Premier League. He
has 25 years of experience in management. "Sam is very much key to our
plans," Sunderland said. "After what
was an extremely challenging season,
we are keen to see a period of stability, both on and off the field.
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his position as youth coach at Arsenal club
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but will continue to work as a commentator in
the United Kingdom with Sky Sports.
Henry, 38, who coached the Under-18
Gunners team, on Tuesday refused to leave the
post of commentator after the coach of the first
team, his countryman Arsene Wenger, said he
could not combine both roles, reports Efe.
The top scorer in the history of Arsenal
with 376 goals in 228 matches, joined Sky
Sports team in December 2014, just 15 days
after retiring from soccer with the New York
Red Bulls.
Henry, who has an annual salary of around
4 million pounds ($5.2 million) from the private channel, worked for free for the north
London team.
The post of Under-18 Arsenal coach will
be occupied by another former player, English
defender Tony Adams, assisted by former
player Steve Bould.
iverpool chief coach Jurgen Klopp
has said he does not see any future
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for Italian striker Mario Balotelli at the
football club.
The German coach, however, on
Tuesday said Balotelli has trained in the
pre-season and that some of his abilities are "world class". But now the Italian
striker faces tough challenge at
Liverpool, who also have Daniel
Sturridge, Christian Benteke, Divock
Origi and Danny Ings on the books.
"I have spoken to him (Balotelli)
about this," Klopp was quoted as saying
by the Guardian. "He's not at the stage
of his career where he should be battling
with four or five other players for one or
two positions...so it's clear we need a solution. There will be a club around who
would be happy to have the new Mario
Balotelli. I have spoken clearly to the player about that." Defender Mamadou
Sakho in all probability will also miss out
Liverpool's EPL opener against Arsenal
on Aug 14. Sakho underwent treatment
for a Achilles problem.
The PGA Championship in Baltusrol two weeks
later and the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in
mid-August follow the Open.
The 29-year-old Lahiri is making his fourth
appearance at The Open where he enjoyed a tied 31st
outing in his debut in 2012 which included a magical hole-in-one during the third round and equal
30th last year.
"The Open is truly a special tournament," said
Lahiri.
"I've had a couple of decent outings but feel like
I missed out both times on a top-10 finish.
Hopefully Troon suits my eye and I can play consistently throughout the week. A top-10 or better
would be my goal this year."