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in the fraternity.
As of now, over 40 IAF
officers and an undisclosed
number of Army officers have
been affected as the hackers
withdrew large amounts from
their salary accounts.
The IAF officers were
aghast to find their State Bank
of India (SBI) salary accounts
emptied by the cyber criminals
who managed to access their
accounts via net banking.
The incident has caused
concern in South Block as IAF
officers were being targeted by
hackers and there is a pattern
behind this.
There are fears that the
number of personnel affected by
the hacking could grow as the
investigation progresses and
the amount stolen by the cyber
criminals will be ascertained
only after the investigators get
to the bottom of the case.
An FIR has been registered
with the Economic Offences
Wing (EOW) under sections of
the
Information
and
Technology Act. Initial investigations by the cyber cell have
found that the accounts were
accessed from Canada.
The EOW has widened its
probe and is also investigating
the involvement of some SBI
staffers who had access to the
accounts and internet banking
details, which could have been
used to hack the accounts.
Investigators are also probing whether the cyber criminals
used servers installed in Canada
to cover their tracks. They
could very well be in India and
could have used this circuitous
route to avoid detection.
The incident came to light
ten days ago when 40 IAF officers lodged complaints of
money being deducted from
their salary accounts and unauthorized transactions being
made from their debit cards.
Incidentally, the hacking
was not limited to officers stationed in the Capital. Officers
in Jaipur and Hyderabad were
also affected by the hacking.
Amounts withdrawn from
the accounts range from Rs
10,000 to Rs250,000. The
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and Security unit has also
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schoolchildren among 25
people died when their school
bus collided with a train at an
unmanned level crossing in
Masaipet village of Telangana's
Medak district on Thursday
morning. The children were in
the 7-14 age group. The impact
of the collision was so intense
that the bus turned into a mess
of mangled steel.
Bus driver Bhikshapati
Goud, who died on the spot,
had joined the duty three days
ago. The driver's decision to
avoid nearby manned railway
gates to take a shorter route and
his failure to spot the oncoming
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reform initiative by the Modi
Government, the Cabinet on
Thursday gave a go-ahead to
FDI cap hike in insurance to 49
per cent with a rider that management control will remain in
the hands of Indian promoters.
The move kicks-off expectations of relaxation of FDI
norms in Railways and Defence
in the coming days.
The Cabinet's approval to
hike the FDI limit from the current 26 per cent is expected to
attract a long-term capital,
besides improving the overall
investment climate. The decision
is expected to pave way for
inflow of as much as C25,000
crore foreign funds in the sector.
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ger train while crossing were
blamed for the mishap. The bus,
being driven by the new driver
as the regular one was on leave,
was carrying about 40 students
of a private school at Toopran
in the district.
The schoolchildren from
Islampur, Gundreddy and
other villages of Medak district
were on their way to Kakaitya
Techno School at Toopran
town. While 15 children, bus
driver and cleaner died on the
spot, six children succumbed to
injuries on their way to hospital. 21 injured children were
rushed to Yashodha hospital in
Hyderabad where condition
of 15 students was stated to be
critical, according to Dr
Chandrashekhar.
The parents were so
shocked that the father of two
children, Wahid and Razia, died
of heart attack after hearing the
news. A resident of Kishanpur
too suffered cardiac arrest, and
died on way to hospital. Many
families have lost two to three
children in the accident.
The train was coming from
plaining about their accounts
being hacked as well.
Officers said the text message informing them about
the transactions revealed the
locations to be Canada.
Sources revealed that the
hackers employed a unique
modus-operandi as they
cracked the code in a series by
using the 16-digit card number.
To prevent more people
from falling prey to cyber criminals, the officers have started
circulating a warning message
on a mobile application so that
others become aware and
change their passwords from
time to time and avoid hacking.
When asked about the case,
the Joint Commissioner of EOW,
Satish Golchha said that they
have received a complaint in this
regard and a case has been registered at the EOW police station.
A probe has been launched and
the cyber unit is on the trail of
the hackers, he added.
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Secunderabad and was running
late. "If the train had been running come on time, our children would have been alive,"
said one resident.
The villagers were very
angry that despite their decades
old demand, Railways had not
put a barricade and guard at the
level crossing.
A large number of people,
including politicians, reached
hospital to console the devas-
tated families.
As the news about the
accident spread like wildfire,
thousands of locals gathered on
the spot. At one stage, police
had to use mild force to keep
the situation under control.
Senior Minister T Harish
Rao announced that the families which had lost children will
be paid an ex gratia of Rs 5
lakh. The expenses of treating
the injured will be borne by the
Government.
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power plants belonging to
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National Thermal Power Corporation
of India (NTPC) across the country left
with less than a week's supply of coal,
the Government has planned to phase
out e-auction of coal to ensure smooth
supply of dry fuels to power plants. Coal
India Ltd (CIL), which sells around 10
per cent of coal through e-auction,
has been directed by the Coal
Ministry to divert this quota to thermal
power plants.
Highly placed sources told The
Pioneer that the sale of coal by CIL
through e-auction will be phased out.
Under this plan, the quota of coal to be
e-auctioned in this financial year will be
cut by half to 26 million tonnes. CIL
sells around 52 million tonnes of coal
through e-auction.
"E-auction will be phased out, but
at the same time we will ensure that
CIL's profitability is not impacted," a
source told this correspondent.
As on July 20, 2014, two thermal
power plants of NTPC, namely Talcher
and Kahalgaon, are in a critical state.
They are left with six days of fuel.
Another six NTPC plants have less than
four days of coal stock.
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South Central Railway has
ordered an inquiry into the
incident. Chief Minister K
Chandrasekhar Rao and
Governor ESL Narasimhan
expressed shock and grief over
the loss of lives in the accident.
Minister Harish Rao visited the
scene of accident.
Education
Minister
Jagdishwar Reddy is camping at
the hospital. The tragedy has
evoked a strong reaction from
political leaders.
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of Erode district in Tamil Nadu was caught on
Thursday morning.
The leopard had killed two persons, including a forester early this week. According to
Anwardheen, Conservator of Forests (Erode), the
five-year-old leopard will soon be transported to
Vandaloor Zoo near Chennai. He said the big cat
is in the best of health and there are no injury
marks on his body.
The conservator told
The Pioneer, “He was living on the deer population in the Satyamangalam Tiger reserve.
He has single-handedly
finished 50 per cent
of the deer population in
the zone.
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to Algiers with 116 passengers
on board, an Algerian aviation
official said.
"I can confirm that it has
crashed," the Algerian official
told news agencies, declining to
be identified or give any details
about what had happened to
the aircraft on its way north.
However, AP reports quoting the French Foreign
Minister said no wreckage had
been found, and that the plane
"probably crashed." The Air
Algerie flight carrying 116
people from Burkina Faso to
Algeria's Capital disappeared
from radar early Thursday over
northern Mali, officials said.
Air navigation services lost
track of the MD-83 about 50
minutes after takeoff from
Ouagadougou, the capital of
Burkina Faso, at 0155 GMT
(9:55 p.m. EDT Wednesday),
the official Algerian news
agency APS said.
"Despite an intensive
search, at the moment I speak
no trace of the aircraft has been
found," French Foreign
Minister Laurent Fabius told
reporters in Paris. "The plane
has probably crashed."
Two French fighter jets are
among aircraft scouring the
rugged north of Mali for the
plane. More than 50 French
were onboard the plane along
with 27 Burkina Faso nationals and passengers from a
dozen other countries. The
flight crew was Spanish.
The flight was being operated by Spanish airline Swiftair,
the company said in a statement, and the plane belonged
to Swiftair. The plane sent its
last message around 0130 GMT
(9:30 p.m. EDT), asking Niger
air control to change its route
because of heavy rains in the
area, Burkina Faso Transport
Minister
Jean
Bertin
Ouedraogo said.
The disappearance of the
Air Algerie plane comes after
a spate of aviation disasters.
Fliers around the globe have
been on edge ever since
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
disappeared in March on its
way to Beijing. Searchers have
yet to find a single piece of
wreckage from the jet with 239
people on board.
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epal is preparing an interesting wish list for Indian
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
when he visits the Himalayan
nation next month. The neighbouring country would like the
Indian Government to include
it in the Indian Pilgrimage
Circuit, which would enable
Kathmandu to boost its religious tourism.
Nepal wants India to
extend the Buddhist Circuit of
Varanasi-Sarnath-Bodhgaya to
Lumbini in Nepal. It is also
expected to propose setting
up of a `Nath' circuit linking
KedarnathBadrinathSomnath in India with
Pashupatinath-Muktinath in
Nepal. Nepal will be happy if
Goddess
Bhagwati's
Manakamana Temple is also
added to the Nath link, even
though it is a little out of way.
Besides, it also awaits railway
and road networks and economic packages from India.
Modi will be first Indian
Prime Minister (PM) to visit
Nepal for a bilateral meeting
after the 1997 visit of former
PM IK Gujral. Former PM, AB
Vajpayee had visited Nepal in
2002, but it was for a SAARC
Summit. It is expected that
External Affairs Minister
Sushma Swaraj, who is going to
Nepal on Friday to attend a
Joint Commission meeting
between the two nations, will
prepare the base for Modi's
visit.
During her maiden visit to
Nepal, Swaraj will hold discussions under five clusters:
Political, security and border
issues; economic cooperation
and infrastructure; trade and
transit; power and water
resources and culture, education and media.
"India has a good transport
network and there is immense
scope for working on it under
cultural cooperation between
the two nations. If this transport network joins Lumbini as
well, then it will complete the
Buddhist Circuit too," said
Tirtha Raj Wagle, Minister
Counsellor in Embassy of
Nepal in New Delhi.
Though another Buddhist
temple Shoyambhunath is in
Kathmandu Valley, the official
felt that linking it with this
Buddhist Circuit will be difficult. Nepal believes that this
will give a fillip to its tourism
sector. "The circuit in
Kushinagar in India can be
extended up to Lumbini
through a fresh route. Lumbini
has its religious importance and
there is a scope in working in
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Buddha was born in
Lumbini, while he attained
enlightenment in Bodhgaya
(Bihar); in Sarnath (Varanasi)
he gave his first sermon and in
Kushinagar (Uttar Pradesh) he
achieved salvation. The
Buddhist circuit is an important route for over 500 million
Buddhists across the world. But
despite having such historic
and religious importance,
Lumbini attracts lesser tourists.
With the governments of
both countries steadily working
on the Buddhist Circuit with
help from the World Bank,
Nepal hopes the `Nath circuit'
idea may also click well with
India since a lot of Hindu devotees visit Pashupatinath in Nepal
every year.
"Pashupatinath
and
Muktinath are considered the
most sacred of all Naths. In fact,
Muktinath is believed to be the
Nath of all Naths. Hence, they
are of high importance to
Hindus," said Wagle.
India is building a 600-km
road network in Nepal. Called
the Tarai network, it is in the first
phase of construction. It is
expected that the network might
get extended up to 1,400 kms.
"The road network is a priority
for us for linking entire Nepal.
This will help in development of
the country," said Wagle.
India with its huge rail
technology and infrastructure
has also developed the Janakpur
(Nepal)-Jainagar (Bihar) rail
link. Nepal has requested India
to upgrade that line since it is
not in a very good condition
now. It is learnt that Indian
Railways have already conducted a feasibility study on it
and further discussions for
upgradation will be held during
Swaraj's visit.
Besides, India also has
shown interest in some new
hydel-projects in Nepal. A feasibility study on Sunkosi
(Bihar) and Mahakali rivers
(Uttarakhand) is already on
even though Nepal is facing
resistance at the domestic level
with regard to resettlement,
compensation
and
environment issues.
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reservation policy for admission
in various degree courses. This
college on Monday declared
merit list for admission in various degree courses without
following Government's reservation policy. In the merit list,
those SC/ST/OBC students who
secured more than cut-off for
general category have been
included in reserved category in
violation of caste-based reservation policy framed by the
State Government. In BSc, the
cut off for OBC category has
exceeded the general category
cut off which has deprived
OBC students scoring less
from deriving the benefit of
reservation.
Singh said that merit list has
been released based on marks in
five subjects in Class XII board
examination. The cut off of general category was kept from 84.8
to 61 percent for general category in science stream and 83.8
and 63 per cent for OBC. The
cut-off of SC and ST was kept
at 80.7 to 47 per cent and 65.2
to 60.6 per cent respectively in
science stream. In Commerce
stream, the cut off for general
category was kept between 93.8
and 64.8 per cent; between 83.8
and 63 per cent for OBC;
between 71.8 and 42 per cent for
SC and between 73.4 and 47.4
per cent for ST. In BA, the cut
off for general category was kept
between 89.6 to 60 per cent; 83
to 65 per cent for OBC, 85.8 and
57.4 per cent for SC and 76.6
and 73.2 per cent for ST.
Not a single SC/ST/OBCs
student has been included in
general category list in spite of
scoring more than the cut off for
general category, which is violation of reservation policy.
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has violated the reservation
policy and it seems college
has kept seats reserved for
general category students on its
merit list.
When this correspondent
asked as to why meritorious students of SC/ST/OBCs were not
included in general category list,
Singh questioned where the
general category students would
go. "Are you asking this question
because you belong to this category? The college hashas followed caste based reservation
system in the admission
process," she said.
DAV (PG) College principal Devendra Bhasin said that
caste based reservation policy is
being implemented for admissions in various degree courses
and if SC/ST students secure
more than the cut off for gen-
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included in the general category list.
DBS (PG) College ex-students union leader Kamlesh
Bhatt said that the MKP (PG)
college should follow caste
based reservation policy in
admissions and if they fail to do
so then the students will protest
in the college.
SGRR (PG) College principal in charge AK Gupta said that
as per state government guidelines on reservation in higher
education institutions,19 per
cent of available seats are
reserved for Scheduled Caste
(SC), four per cent for
Scheduled Tribes, 19 per cent
for OBCs and remaining seats
are for general category students
and physically handicapped,
dependents of freedom fighters
and ex-servicemen.
If SC/ST/OBCs secure more
than cut off for general category, they are included in general category list. It should be
mentioned here that University
Grants Commission (UGC)
provides financial assistance to
universities for the establishment of Special Cells for SC/STs.
The cells help universities
implement the reservation
policy in student admission in
the colleges.
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Dehradun: Reacting to MKP (PG) College principal Indu
Singh's claim that HNB Garhwal Central University has not allocated seats for various degree courses, the former college principal Kiran Sood said that MKP college is exclusively for girls
especially for those who deserve tuition fee free education. This
college has been running classes for graduate and post graduate degrees since 1958. Earlier, the college was affiliated with
Agra and Meerut University. In 1975, HNB Garhwal University
came into existence and since then there are 59 posts of
teaching faculty members were sanctioned for this college that
observing the ideal ratio of 1:20 there are 1,180 seats sanctioned
for the college.
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in its academic staff,
DIT University held a workshop
on Faculty Development
Programme at its campus. The
new academic session 2014-15
in the university would commence from August 1, said Dr
KK Raina, vice chancellor of the
DIT University. He said that
Faculty
Development
Programme (FDP) aims at
equipping teachers with skills
and knowledge that are essential for inculcating entrepreneurial values in students and
guiding and monitoring their
progress towards their career.
Prof PK Tulsi, Dean of
Research and Development and
head of Education and
Educational Management
department,
NITTTR,
Chandigarh was chief guest on
the occasion. She talked on
teaching learning processes and
the quality of higher education
in India. Stressing upon the
need of strong communication
skills, she said that effective
communication needs to be
pitched to the level of the students. It is essential to know age,
interest, background, previous
attainments and learning styles
of the students. She also elicited focus on the present system
of evaluation of question papers
and showed how effective it can
be made to minimise errors.
Talking about the Research
and Development activities at
the university, Dr AN Kaul,
Dean, DIT University said that
the teachers are always motivated to take up more activities
to promote a research and
development culture in the university. The university has
already shown its mark in
research with many papers
being published nationally
and internationally in the last
five years.
The university registrar,
Ajay Swarup said that the event
is an important stepping stone
in the career paths of
participants.
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long its first annual ‘I Can’
Conference between July 25-26.
The Conference will see participation from almost 270 students who will be role-playing
various corporate entities like
CEOs of corporate and media
houses, advertisers, news presenters and entrepreneurs. Not
only this, to introduce this
concept to chosen handful of
schools, the first WBSICAN.
will also see participation from
schools like Daily College,
Indore, Sanskaar Valley, Bhopal
and Ecole Globale School,
Dehradun.
Students will compete
with each other in this activity-based learning programme
which aims to hone and develop life skills and soft skills of
students. These basic skills go
a long way in helping students
during crucial life stages like
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interview.
The Conference basically
simulates various real-life verticals of the society within the
school environment. Students
are divided into corporate
houses, media houses and
political parties. Each vertical
has its own set of activities to
execute on which its is judged.
The team with the maximum
marks is pronounced as the
winner at the end of the
Conference.
For the first time in this
part of the world, I Can. is promoting entrepreneurship and
social entrepreneurship at the
high-school level. Four established entrepreneurs are being
invited for the Conference who
will act as mentors to the students. These students will be
guided by the entrepreneurs
regarding the nitty-gritties of
starting your own social or
commercial business. The
guests for WBSICAN. are
Prerna Mukharya who has previously been a research assistant at the prestigious Harvard
University and is now running
a highly successful research
firm called Outline India,
Mayank Batheja who is known
for his glamorously successful
venture Let’s Intern that gives
avenues for internships to students, Shruti Dhanda who is an
alumnus of the Indian School
of Business and has been a serial entrepreneur and Rajat
Madan who has an NGO based
out of Varanasi and is also a
student at the Tata Institute of
Social Sciences right now.
WBSICAN. promises to
be an event which will capture
the imagination of the students
throughout the city. The
Conference is successfully
bringing together various elements that act as a support system in moulding a student’s
thought-process.
The concept, which has
been widely accepted by various schools within the city, is
increasingly being adopted by
prominent names like Welham
Boys’. The driving force behind
the idea are Vansh Nathani and
Akshit Batra who are an alumnus of the Doon School. They
are supported by Deviyani
Dixit and Priyamvada Lamba
in their endevaours.
DEHRADUN: Delay in admission process in DAV (PG)
College and DBS (PG) College
this year may cause problems for
the principals of these colleges in
ensuring the mandatory 180
days of teaching in a year as per
University Grants Commission
guidelines. In compliance with
Uttarakhand High Court’s order,
HNB Garhwal Central
University had recently directed
the college principals to
ensure 180 days of teaching in
their colleges.
As
per
University
academic calendar, the first year
admissions for all classes should
be completed by July 26.
Amid protest by leaders of
various students’ groups against
cap on admissions in various
degree courses, admission
process in DBS (PG) College and
DAV (PG) College could not
begin. In DBS (PG) College,
merit list for admissions in various courses were released on
Saturday but college student
leaders did not allow admissions
in the college. In DAV (PG)
College, following protest of students’ leaders and recent
Uttarakhand CM Harish Rawat’s
instruction to the principals of
government colleges and government degree colleges to follow last year’s admission process
this year, the admission process
could be start in DAV (PG)
College. College principal
Devendra Bhasin said that
admission in the college will
begin after High Court’s next
order as earlier in compliance
with High Court Order, the
university had directed the college principal to allow students’
admission on sanctioned seats.
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Government colleges and
Government aided colleges,
the Government has recently
submitted a supplementary affidavit in the Uttarakhand High
Court. The HC had appointed
a senior advocate as court commissioner with instruction to
submit report over this issue
after meeting with government
officers, college principals and
students on July 21. DAV (PG)
College Principal Devendra
Bhasin said that admission
process will begin soon after
court commissioner inspects
the college. He further said that
admissions in second and third
year bachelor degree courses are
being done in the college.
It should be mentioned
here that earlier, Uttarakhand
High court, in writ petition
(PIL) number 164 of 2013 had
observed that the institutions
under the HNB Garhwal
Central University are permitting admissions more than
their permitted intake; mandatory minimum 180 days of
teaching a year are not being
ensured and the teachers are
not available in the institutions for five hours a day.
Moreover, in compliance
with HC order, the University
registrar PS Rana had directed
that every institution affiliated
to this university should specify the course, duration and
sanctioned strength in their
admission prospectus from the
academic session 2014-15. Rana
said that the head of the departments will be held responsible
for non implementation of
minimum teaching of 180 days
in a year. Principals and heads
of departments, deans of the
schools as the case may be, will
have to ensure that the faculty
members are available in the
college/departments for a minimum of five hours a day.
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Badrinath and Brahma
Kapal have strongly objected to
a statement made by the
Dharmadhikari of Badrinath
temple on a national television
channel predicting the destruction of this hallowed shrine.
The Dharmadhikari, Bhuwan
Uniyal, reportedly said on a
television channel that the Tapt
Kund (natural hot water pool)
at Badrinath contains sulphur
and as sulphur indicates to the
presence of a volcano, this
volcano would burst in the
future and destroy Badrinath.
Strongly criticising the
statement made by the
Dharmadhikari, the Teerth
Purohits of Badrinath and
Brahma Kapal have called it a
"foolish" statement. The point
out that Uniyal has not mentioned any scientific basis on
which he had based his statement. Author and journalist
Mahesh Sati said that action
should be taken according to
service rules against the
Dharmadhikari for the controversial statement he had
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due to blockages on the routes
leading to these shrines.
The failure of the authorities to ensure timely treatment
of the danger zones activated
on the national highways to
these shrines during last year's
disaster is resulting in landslides at several places.
The recurring road blockages are causing much inconvenience to both the locals and
the pilgrims.
This has also affected the
numbers of devotees visiting
the shrines this year. This year,
at this time mostly Kanwadias
are reaching Gangotri to fill
pitchers with water of the
Bhagirathi here, while the
number of pilgrims Yamunotri
is considerably sparse.
Due to the rains being
experienced here for the past
many days, landslides occurring at various places have led
to frequent blockage of the
national highway to Gangotri
especially at Sukki, Netala,
Helgu and Raturisera.
Due to the road blockages,
it is taking the pilgrims two
days to Gangotri instead of one.
On Thursday, debris landing
on the highway forced the pilgrims to wait for many hours
for the road to be cleared even
as the landslide prone area at
Badia and Syanachatti
remained active on the route to
Yamunotri. Though theBorder
Roads Organisation and Public
Works Department have placed
JCBs at such sites, the pilgrims and local travelers are
frequently forced to wait for
many hours at a time for the
blockages to be cleared.
Due to this reason, even
during the ongoing Kanwad
pilgrimage, only 1000
Kanwadias reached Gangotri
last week while 500 pilgrims
visited Yamunotri. However,
before the June 2013 disaster,
thousands of pilgrims used to
visit these shrines during
this period.
BKTC have been warned and
directed to refrain from making any statements regarding
the Badrinath temple to newspapers and television chan-
nels. Disciplinary action will be
taken against any official or
employee found violating this
direction, stressed the BKTC
CEO. Lakhs of devotees from
India and abroad visit the
Badrinath temple every year
though this year the number of
pilgrims has been comparatively less due to last year's dis-
he pilgrimage to Gangotri
and Yamunotri shrines is
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made. "The Dharmadhikari
had distorted the meaning of
the contents of the
Arthashastra written by
Chanakya and made a questionable statement," said Sati.
On the other hand, the
chief executive officer of the
Badrinath Kedarnath Temple
Committee, BD Singh said that
the Tapt Kund near Badrinath
temple is situated on the upper
portion of Markandeya Shila
(boulder). "Markandeya means
that which has no end so there
is no question about the existence of the Badrinath temple
coming to an end," said Singh,
adding that the Dharmadhikari
and other employees of the
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he debris and stones lying
along the RishikeshChamba national highway
continue to increase the risk
of accidents on this road.
Despite being an important
route, the debris has not
been cleared by the authorities, which is causing much
discontent among the locals.
While the debris continues to pose a danger, the
Border Roads Organisation
appears to be apathetic to
this situation.
Heavy rains experienced
last year had caused landslides along the highway with
the debris also blocking the
highway for some time
last year.
Many of the boulders
and other debris from last
year have not yet been
cleared completely from the
national highway by the BRO
especially at Agrakhal,
Takshla, Bemunda, Jajal,
Khadi, Selupani, Nagani and
other places.
Local villagers alleged
that none of the officials
concerned were paying
attention to the state of
this National Highway, which
is a matter of serious
concern. Meanwhile, a BRO
officer said that the task of
removing the debris was
underway.
aster and other factors.
This shrine is considered to
be one of the most sacred centres of pilgrimage in the
Himalayas situated at an altitude of 10,248 feet above seal
level. It is here that Lord
Mahavishnu is believed to have
undertaken penance with goddess Mahalakshmi assuming
the form of a Badari (jujube)
tree to shelter him from adverse
weather — hence, the name
Badri Narayan.
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Assembly bypolls result would
decide the future of the
Congress-led Uttarakhand
Government on Friday.
Although people have decided
the fate of candidates of assembly bypolls on July 21, the final
decalartion will be made by the
election commission after
counting on July 25. Political
analysts believe that ruling
party may win all three assembly seats; if this happens, the
Congress dependence over the
alliance partner will be a thing
of the past and chief minsiter
Harish Rawat would be able to
do batting on front foot.
Currently, the Harish
Rawat-led
Uttarakhand
Government is being survived
by 32 Congress MLAs and
seven members of the
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Dehradun district
Theelection
officer has claimed
that all the preparations for
counting of votes polled for
Doiwala assembly bypoll have
been completed at the counting
venue, ITI, Doiwala.
The district election officer
Chandresh Kumar Yadav
reached the counting venue on
Thursday and inspected the
strong room and counting site.
He directed the election
officials to complete their
assigned duty by Thursday
evening so that vote counting
could begin at 8 am on Friday.
He directed the police officers
to ensure that no one entered
the counting venue without
permission from returning offi-
been placed for completing the
vote counting in 11 rounds. A
separate table has been placed
for returning officer and barricading has been placed at various places for smooth completion of counting at the venue.
Separate gates have also
been made for the entry of
counting officials and counting
agents, he added.
He further said that a total
of 150 government officials
have been deputed on counting
duty as counting micro
observers, counting observers
and counting assistants and
they have been directed to
reach the counting venue
around two hours before the
start of the counting. He said
that vote counting will begin at
Meanwhile, Dehradun
Senior Superintendent of Police
(SSP) Ajay Rautela said that
elaborate security arrangements
have been made with the
deployment of ITBP, PAC
jawans and state police at the
counting venue for peaceful
completion of vote counting for
assembly bypoll.
He also presided over a
meeting with the policemen in
Doiwala and gave them
necessary instructions to
prevent untoward incidents
during vote counting.
Policemen were directed to
ensure that no one carries
mobile phone at counting
venue. No will be allow to conduct rally without permission of
election officer, he added.
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(PDF) out of 67 members
Asssembly because three seats,
including Doiwala and
Someshwar, were vacated by
BJP MLAs, including Dr
Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and
Ajay Tamta after becoming
member of Lok sabha in recently concluded general election2014 and one Dharchula was
vacated by MLA Harish Dhami,
who resigned to usher Chief
Minister entry as member of
Vidhan Sabha.
Ironically, four, including
Pritam Singh Panwar, Dinesh
Dhanai, Mantri Prasad Naithani
and Harish Chandra Durgapal
out of 11 cabinet ministers seat
in Harish Rawat went to PDF,
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which is an alliance of three
BSP, three independent and
one UKD (P). It means only
seven Congress MLAs got cabinet berth in which CM Rawat
has to maintain balance
between ex-CM Vijay
Bahuguna's faction and his
confidants.
If Congress wins all three
seats, Congress MLAs' number
would be 36, including one
nominated MLA out of 71
member assembly and CM
Rawat would be able to win the
heart of Bahuguna faction by
accommodating four more
Congress MLAs into cabinet.
Meanwhile PDF, which was
very much vocal while change
DEHRADUN: Congress leader
and former member of
Dehradun district Panchayat
has said that the results of the
recently held Assembly bypolls
in three constituencies of Sate
will mark the revival of the
Congress in the nation.
Addressing the media at his
residence on Thursday a day
ahead of the counting of votes
polled in the bypolls, Singh said
that though the Congress had
not performed well in the
recent Lok Sabha polls, the outcome of the Assembly bypolls
held in Doiwala, Someshwar
and Dharchula constituencies
would herald the revival of the
Congress in India. He expressed
confidence that the party would
win all the three seats and
spark of a new beginning for the
party in the nation.
Citing reports received by
the party from the three assem-
of guard was happening on
February 1, 2014, has slow
down their pitch.
Talking to The Pioneer,
State Tourism Minister and
bly constituencies, Singh said
that the Congress would win
from all the seats by a comfortable margin as the people of
Uttarakhand had understood
that the NDA Govt at the
Centre headed by Narendra
Modi would not be able to
ensure the welfare of people.
Stating that people had elected
BJP MPs from all the five Lok
Sabha seats in Uttarakhand, the
Congress leader said that the
people of the State were now
feeling disillusioned.
"As the Modi Govt has now
been exposed, the voters are in
no mood to support the BJP
which makes me sure of
Congress winning the bypolls
from all the three Assembly
constituencies," he said, adding
that the Assembly bypolls in
Uttarakhand was not a Statecentric event as its repercussions
would be felt across the nation.
independent MLA Dinesh
Dhanai said kheer me jyada
dudh dalne se kheer kharab nahi
hota hai (Adding more milk to
kheer does not spoil it)".
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n order to ensure teachers are present in the college for
at least five hours a day, DAV (PG) College principal Dr
Devendra Bhasin has decided to implement biometric
registration system. Office bearers of college teachers association have opposed the system terming it as a 'humiliating system'. Some college teachers met Chief Minister Harish
Rawat recently and submitted a memorandum demanding
that basic amenities be facilitated in the college and that other
benefits which are given to teachers of Government colleges
be given to Government aided college teachers.
DAV (PG) College Teachers Union member DK Tyagi
said that teachers conduct their classes regularly and stay
in the college for more than five hours daily. Some time, they
stay and work additional two or three hours to complete
college related works assigned to them.
According to him, in a recent meeting of teachers with
the college principal, Bhasin had failed to answer questions
raised by the teachers. He said that government had instructed the college principals to use biometric system or a register for teachers’ attendance, but college principal has decided to implement biometric system which is nothing but a
humiliating system. It should be mentioned here that in
compliance with High Court’s order, the state government
and HNB Garhwal Central University had recently directed the government colleges and government aided colleges
to ensure that teachers stayed at least five hours a day in
the college and that 180 days classes are conducted in a year.
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couple of days after a wanted thief from Rajasthan was
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arrested in Dehradun, four
members of a gang of landgrabbers absconding from
Rajasthan were arrested by the
Uttarakhand Police at Ranichauri
in Tehri district. The Rajasthan
police have taken custody of the
four arrested men and taken
them back to Rajasthan from
where they have been
absconding for the last one year.
According to sources, the
police had learnt that some
criminals from Rajasthan had
reached Ranichauri in Tehri district about six days ago. Based on
this input, the Chamba police
had been combing the area in
question for some days. On
Wednesday a six-member team
of Rajasthan police also reached
Chamba. According to the
police, the four men- Shiv
Pratap, Mahipal, Bharat Singh
and Rajendra Singh were
members of a gang active
in Vaishalinagar area of Jaipur
in Rajasthan.
The members of this gang
specialised in taking forceful
possession of land plots and
attacking the land owners who
objected to the land grab.
A violent altercation had
taken place last year between the
gangs headed by Shiv Pratap and
Himmat Singh after which
Pratap’s gang escaped from the
area. In a joint operation undertaken by the Chamba police and
the police team from Rajasthan,
the four gang members were
arrested in Ranichauri on
Wednesday night.
According to the Chamba
police station officer KC Bhatt,
the gang members had been
staying at Ranichauri for the past
six days. The Rajasthan police
team had left with the
arrested gang members for
Rajasthan, he added.
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aking cognizance of media
reports about illegal mining
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prevailing in the State, Chief
Minister Harish Rawat has categorically instructed officials to take
effective steps to check such mining.
Now onwards, if a person wants to
lift soil from their soil, he will not
have to seek prior approval from the
department concerned. "To check
illegal mining, you identify the
mining place and licence holders
and deploy enforcement and survillance system as well. You make sure
that mining should be transparent,"
the CM Rawat said while reviewing
the mining department's work at
Bijapur guest house on Thursday.
"You also decentralise the work of
the executive agency," he said. For
this, the CM has constituted a committee led by chief secretary and
other two members are Additional
Chief Secretary Rakesh Sharma
and Principal Secretary to CM SS
Sandhu. He instructed the committee to have a meeting with
Dehradun, Haridwar and
Udhamsinghnagar
District
Magistrate and SSP to establish
fullproof and effective mechanism
to check mining mafia. They have
been empowered to have detail
study on how to check the illegal
mining mafia. "You make sure that
State revenue from mining should
not hamper but mining should be
conducted within the specified area,
which were allotted through open
bidding. You also make amendments in the procedure for allotment of Mining permission on private land. It should be clear that
whichever farmers' land get
destroyed due to silt will be given
compensation by the State."
Removal of debris or silt will be
done by the state government's
appointed agency. Its decision will
be taken by the committee led by
chief secretary only.
"Now onward if anyone digs out
soil from their private land then they
will not have to seek prior permission from mining department. You
also make sure that no silt or mines
should be stored at the embankment
of rivers because such activity promote illegal mining. You also open
vendor shop at department level so
that mining material should not get
wasted. Now onward only licencee
can have storage of mining material." The CM expressed disappointment over the report about illegal
mining despite making an effective
executive agency.
He also instructed them to take
cognizance on the public complaints and fix accountability of the
concerned executive agency. "While
allotting the tender you must take
photographs of the identified place
and display the name of the licence
holder as well. You also make sure
that the licence holder should not
misuse their permission limit. It has
been noticed that the licence holder gets permission for designate
place, but they do illegal mining in
and around the permissible area. For
this, you strengthen you survillance
system and if required, you employ
third party for monitoring," the chief
minister said.
"You also make arrangement for
the intensive search operation and
fix the accountability of local police
officer as well. Besides it, Special
investigative team (SIT) would
continue their job," he said.
Forest development corporation
(FDC) was asksed to expedite the
process of allotment areas for mining. "To procure timely permssion
from the Union Government, you
establish better coordination with
the Union forest and environment
ministry. The FDC also focuses on
nullah which flow through forest
areas, you do its treatment wherever it required. If mining is required
as part of treatment, give permission
for mining. It has been noticed that
these mines are damaging flora
and fauna of the areas."
Forest department was asked to
make detail report about loss of forest due to mines to the union environment and forest ministry so
that they will give permission for
mining to save the forest.
To review the flood safety work,
which are being or were being executed in Haridwar district, chief
minister Rawat has asked them to
place sand back on the embankment
to protect the nearby villages and
land. For this MLA Kunwar Singh
Champion has been assigned to take
a stalk of the current situation and
will have to submit recommendation about how to save our agriculture land from erosion. He will go
along with irrigation department
officials and department concerned.
On the basis of their report, the
Government will take appropriate
action on priority basis.
During meeting MLA and
Uttarakhand State Mining
Development council chairman
Kunwan Pranav Singh Champion,
Chief secretary Subhash Kumar,
Addional Chief secretary Rakesh
Sharma, Principal Secretary to CM
SS Sandhu, Principal Secretary
Forest Ranbir Singh, PCCF SS
Sharma, MDDA vice chairman
R Meenakshisundarm and other
officials were present.
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Investigation (CBI) sleuths
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from Delhi on Thursday
conducted searches at three
locations in Ranchi and Delhi
in the coal block scam case
after registering a case against
a Ranchi-based company —
Domco Private Limited, its
promoters, directors and
unknown others.
“Search operations related
to coal block allocation are
being conducted at the offices
of Domco Private Limited at
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one at Delhi,” said a CBI official in Delhi over phone. The
search operations are being
conducted after registering a
case against the company
under Section 120B read with
420 of IPC, said the official.
According to an official
release by the investigating
agencies, the company alleged-
ly entered into a conspiracy
with unknown others and submitted false information with
dishonest intentions to the
concerned authorities while
applying for a captive coal
block and secured allocation of
‘Lalgarh (North)’ coal block.
The Director of the said
company allegedly gained
pecuniary benefit of Rs seven
crore by selling shares of the
company on premium, after
the allocation of the coal block.
The company earlier had
also been issued a show cause
notice in 2012 by the Ministry
of Coal for the delay in the
development of the coal block
by the company asking why it
should not be considered as
violation of the terms and
conditions of the Lalgarh Coal
Block allocation and directed
it to reply within 20 days failing which the ministry threatened it to de-allocate the
Lalgarh Coal Block.
One of the conditions of
coal block allocation was that
the coal production from the
captive block shall commence
within 36 months in case of
open cast mine and in 48
months in case of underground coal mines from the
date of allocation letter.
The coal block mining
schedule should be modified
accordingly and submitted to
the ministry within three
months from the date of allocation. Inspite of developing
the coal block, the company
floated shares of the company
in the market and made a
profit of over Rs 7 crore.
The CBI so far has registered 20 cases in the scam so
far in the coal block scam. Of
these, it has closed four and
filed charge sheets in two of
them. The CBI is reportedly
preparing to register more
charge sheets in the case
against the former coal secretary, former Jharkhand Chief
Secretary A K Basu and others. So far, there hasn’t been
any charge sheet against any
bureaucrat in the scam.
Basu had allegedly influenced the allocation to Vini
Iron and Steel Udyog, against
which an FIR was registered
on September 4, 2012.
CBI had alleged to
“embellish its claim for allocation of coal block”, “fraudulently” claimed they were having the required net worth to
get the mines.
Domco Private Limited is
a Private Company incorporated on February 29, 1988.
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national executive comSmittee
member Indresh
Kumar has blamed Article
370 of the Constitution for
pricking Kashmir dispute,
also the main reason behind
the stand-off between India
and Pakistan.
He also advised the
Government to talk tough on
the issues relating to the security and integrity of the country.
Speaking on the occasion
of inauguration of Jharkhand
chapter of Forum for
Integrated National Security
(FINS), also 17th of the country, on Wednesday evening
Indresh pulled up previous
governments for adopting
appeasement politics with the
elements adverse to the interests of the country. "I don't
know why successive governments have maintained the
provision for Article 370 of the
Constitution? How a separate
Constitution for Jammu and
Kashmir is in national interest
and contributing to the
national integration when the
same is harmful if any other
state demands it? If at all
Pakistan talks about J&K it is
because of this Article," he
said, adding that it had in no
way benefited the troubled
State either.
Indresh also cited numer-
ous examples of anti-national
activities such as dishonouring
the tricolour, rights to Indian
citizens, extension of the Act
passed by Indian parliament
etc in the State which are not
considered as crime over there
and demanded tough stand
from the Government on the
anomalies existing. At the
same time he also said that the
'Panchseel
Agreement'
between India and China
expired way back in 1962.
"The agreement was actually to pacify the anger of
Indians against the Chinese
incursion in Tibet. It was a
ploy from China and also a
commercial agreement to
emotionally blackmail us. Also
the agreement was just for
eight years and has already
expired on April 8, 1962. It is
ludicrous that even then our
Vice President goes and
attends ceremony in China
organised to mark its anniversary," said Indresh. Former
Chief Minister Arjun Munda
seconding the views stressed
over the duty of citizens in preserving and protecting country's interest.
"We all are aware about the
challenges before us. It makes
us think about our roles in
making our political boundaries safe and safeguard its
identity. We have to think
beyond caste, creed, religion
and family and need an
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not just the duty of our security forces," said Munda.
Also present on the occasion was Tapas Kumar Mallick,
convener of FINS' Jharkhand
chapter along with founding
members, including Pawan
Bajaj, noted businessman and
social
worker,
and
SLN Das, Dean Commerce of
Ranchi University.
Stressing on the need of a
stronger nation and even
stronger sense of national inte-
gration in the hearts and
minds of intelligentsia in particular and common citizens,
in general, Indresh, also one of
the founding members of
FINS, said lack of it had made
the country paying since
Independence.
"Our total geographical
area when we attained
Independence was 33 lakh
km2 which reduced to 31.02
lakh km2 in 2000. That means
we have lost over 1.98 lakh
km2 over the years! This is
apart from the loss incurred in
terms of over five lakh persons
killed in the acts of terrorism,
separatism and naxalism. Why
India is like this when Pakistan
mocks on the list of terrorists
given to it? It is because we
always do compromises and
lack in our vision. The time
has come when India should
lead and not just follow the
world like before and for that
we have to debate such constitutional provisions which
create disparities and sense of
disintegration amongst us,"
he added.
On the occasion, he called
upon intellectuals to huddle
and discuss the issues before
the nation and do their bit in
making a stronger, more
secured and cultured India.
"They should lead the
nation like our great freedom
fighters did at the time of freedom movement. FINS can
play a role at international,
national and state levels in the
endeavour," said Indresh.
ension continued to prevail
in the Ganjam district
headquarters town of
Chhatrapur on Thursday following the brutal murder of a
young CPI leader, who was
hacked to death by six persons
on Wednesday night.
According to reports,
Sakura Behera (30) was travelling by a bike with senior party
leader Krushna Nayak after
having a meeting with lawyer
Adi Narayan at Basnapalli
when they were intercepted by
the assailants, who came by
three bikes, near the Kali temple at Shanti Nagar.
As soon as Behera stopped,
one of the attackers got down
from his bike and placed a
revolver on Behera’s head. Even
as Krushna Nayak resisted the
youth and prevented him from
pressing the trigger, four other
assailants hacked Behera with
swords before fleeing the area.
Behera, who sustained deep
wounds on his face and neck,
was first rushed to the
Chhatrapur Government hospital and then to MKCG
Medical College Hospital in
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pronounced him ‘brought dead’.
Following information,
police rushed to the spot and
started a manhunt to nab the
criminals. Till reports last came
in, none of the accused has
been arrested despite a series of
raids by the police.
The local MLA, in his
complaint with the police, has
mentioned the names of two
accused as Mohan Das of
Kumarbegpalli and Jagan
Reddy of Badareddika Sahi of
Chhatrapur.
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BJP President Ravindra
Rai demanded on Thursday
Sthattate
the Assembly elections in
Jharkhand should be held after
imposing President’s Rule in
the State. Rai, who also happens
to be and Koderma MP, was
speaking during Zero hour of
Monsoon session of the
Parliament on Wednesday. Chief
Elections Commissioner VS
Sampat during his visit to
Ranchi on Monday hinted that
the elections are likely to be conducted in the month of
November keeping monsoon
season and Chatth Puja into
consideration.
“As it is evident in the last
few months, situation of law and
order in the state has gone out
of control….. Schools in Khunti,
merely 40 km from the state capital Ranchi are opened and
closed on the directions of the
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rebel groups…under such circumstances free and fair elections could be held only after
imposing President’s Rule in
the state,” said Rai.
Similarly, other senior party
leaders are also of the view that
free and fair elections are not
possible under the prevailing situation in the state. “Same situations are being created again as
was done before the Lok Sabha
Elections…Right from block to
the state level, officials are being
reshuffled in order to bring
more and more benefits to the
ruling coalition during Vidhan
Sabha elections,” said State BJP
Vice President Deepak Prakash.
According to Prakash, there
is nothing like government in
the state as situation of law and
order presently is at its worst in
the state. “Even ministers under
the coalition government do not
trust each other, which is evident
from the blame game being
played here,” said Prakash.
The only agenda left the
coalition partners in the state is
to mould the policies in order to
lure the poor people and get
more and more votes during the
coming assembly elections,
he added.
Unlike the ruling JMM and
Congress that want elections to
be held in November, the BJP
demanded elections between
Dushehra and Dipawali, if the
Election Commission wants to
avoid festive season, said
Prakash.
Representing the party in
the scheduled meeting with the
team of ECI headed by CEC V
S Sampat at Raj Bhavan in
Ranchi, Prakash had urged CEC
also to look into the
Bangladeshi infiltrators getting
enlisted illegally into the
voter’s list.
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From Page 1
These are Dadri (four
days), Rihand (one day),
Singrauli (two days), Sipat (two
days), Vindhyachal and
Simhadri (one day each).
On July 14, NTPC had
written to the Power Ministry
informing that six of its plants
with a combined capacity of
16,840 MW or 15 per cent of
India's total energy capacity
from coal-fired plants had
stocks of up to two days and
cannot weather even a "small"
disruption in supplies.
From Page 1
Last week, a Malaysia
Airlines flight was shot down
by a surface-to-air missile
while flying over a war-torn
section of Ukraine. The backto-back disasters involving
Boeing 777s flown by the
same airline were too much of
a coincidence for many fliers.
Then this week, US and
European airlines started canceling flights to Tel Aviv after
a rocket landed near the city's
airport. Finally, on Wednesday,
a Taiwanese plane crashed
during a storm, killing 48
people.
French Transport Minister
Frederic Cuvillier said the Air
Algerie flight vanished over
northern Mali. He spoke
Thursday from a crisis center
set up in the French Foreign
Ministry. Cuvillier didn't specify exactly where the plane disappeared over Mali, or
whether it was in an area controlled by rebels.
However, Algerian Prime
Minister Abdelmalek Sellal
said on Algerian State television said that ten minutes
before disappearing, it was in
contact with air traffic controllers in Gao, a city essentially under the control of the
Malian Government, though it
has seen lingering separatist
violence.
The plane had been missing for hours before the news
was made public. It wasn't
immediately clear why the
airline or Government officials
didn't make it public earlier.
The flight path of the
plane from Ouagadougou to
Algiers wasn't immediately
clear. Ouagadougou is in a
nearly straight line south of
Algiers, passing over Mali
where unrest continues in the
north.
Northern Mali fell under
control of ethnic Tuareg separatists and then al-Qaedalinked Islamic extremists following a military coup in
2012. A French-led intervention last year scattered the
extremists, but the Tuaregs
have pushed back against the
authority of the Bamako-based
Government.
A senior French official
said it seems unlikely that
fighters in Mali had the kind
of weaponry that could shoot
down a plane.
The official, not authorized to speak publicly, said on
condition of anonymity that
they primarily have shoulderfired weapons - not enough to
hit a passenger plane flying at
cruising altitude.
Swiftair, a private Spanish
airline, said the plane was
carrying 110 passengers and
six crew, and left Burkina Faso
for Algiers at 0117 GMT
Thursday (9:17 p.m. EDT
Wednesday), but had not
arrived at the scheduled time
of 0510 GMT (1:10 a.m. EDT
Thursday).
Swiftair said it has not
been possible to make contact
with the plane and was trying
to ascertain what had happened. It said the crew
included two pilots and four
cabin staff.
Algerian aircraft were
overflying the region around
Gao to try to locate wreckage,
said Houaoui Zoheir,
spokesman for the Algerian
crisis center. He provided no
details on the type or number
of aircraft.
"As long as we haven't
found the wreckage, we can't
talk of a crash," he said. "We
talk of loss of contact."
The passengers include 51
French, 27 Burkina Faso
nationals, eight Lebanese, six
Algerians, five Canadians, four
Germans, two Luxemburg
nationals, one Swiss, one
Belgium, one Egyptian, one
Ukrainian, one Nigerian, one
Cameroonian and one Malian,
Ouedraogo said.
The six crew members are
Spanish, according to the
Spanish pilots' union.
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Since getting preys has
become difficult, he came
out to the semi-forest zone
in the region and started
eating the cattle. The killing
of two persons confirmed
the fact that he is a maneater," said Anwardheen.
Four cages with live
baits were pressed into service in the four sq km area
where the leopard was on
the prowl. "He himself had
restricted his movement to
the four sq km area and that
made things easy for us,"
said Anwardheen.
The forest official said
the entire population in
Thimbam cooperated with
the department. "Many peo-
ple saw the animal moving
along the ThimbamBangalore road a number of
times.
But they played it cool
which too helped as in getting him live," he said.
Meanwhile, residents in
and around Vandaloor in
Chengalpet district near
Chennai intensified the vigil
against another leopard
which was in the region.
Tamil Nadu Minister
for forests MSM Anandan
had visited to Chengalpet
for an on the spot assessment about the preparedness of the forest officials to
trap the leopard.
Six cages with live baits
was pressed into service.
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Government’s attempt to
replace the Collegium system
for appointment of superior
judges, Union Law Minister
Ravi Shankar Prasad has written to leaders of major political parties to elicit their views
on the proposed National
Judicial Commission Bill.
The move comes in the
wake of recent developments
that exposed the manner in
which the UPA-I Government
had influenced decisions of
the Supreme Court Collegium
to recommend extension of a
Madras High Court judge,
despite having a corrupt history. The instance, highlighted by
a former SC judge and Press
Council of India chairman
Markandey Katju, ended up
embarrassing three former
CJIs, who were accused by
him of making “improper compromises” before finally “succumbing” to political pressure.
Although the Government
had announced its plans to take
all political parties on board on
the question of judicial
appointments, a formal letter
from the Ministry was issued
on Wednesday to suggest the
contours of the new proposed
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coming session of Parliament.
The Government will also consult eminent jurists on the
subject.
Prasad’s letter also comes
against the backdrop of the
Centre returning the recommendation of the Supreme
Court Collegium to recommend the name of senior
lawyer Gopal Subramanium
as an apex court judge.
Sources said the NDA
Government found “certain
infirmities” in the UPA Bill that
sought to replace the
Collegium system with a
broad-based Appointments
Commission.
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2003 had suggested replacement of the Collegium but the
proposal met no success. The
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introduced a Constitution
Amendment Bill in Lok Sabha
but the Bill was referred to
Standing Committee and subsequently lapsed with the
expiry of the House.
Later,
the
UPA
Government initiated a fresh
move in this regard. The
National Judicial Appointments
Commission Bill was introduced in Parliament but failed
to get its nod as eminent jurists
and Opposition BJP sought
constitutional status to the proposed body. The Centre even
agreed to this request and proposed introduction of Article
124A in the Constitution to
institutionalise the JAC. This
was done to allay apprehensions
of
successive
Governments resorting to alter
the composition of the JAC.
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Modi on Thursday asked the
P
Home and Law Ministries to
look into ways of speeding up
cases against Parliamentarians
who are facing trials and investigations.The Law ministry and
the Home Ministry will work in
coordination to prepare a blue
print to deal with cases that have
been lodged against MPs.
During his election campaign, Modi had repeatedly
stressed on speeding up inves-
tigation and trial against people’s
representatives. Sources said the
Government is aiming for
ensuring an all party consensus
on the issue. The Government
wants that cases against politicians should not drag on
beyond a certain stipulated time
and that the dilatory tactics of
seeking bail and adjournments
are blocked.
The Centre is expected to
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public functionaries in the
Supreme Court before August 7.
On that day, the Court will take
up the PIL filed by lawyer VK
Ohri, along with responses filed
by State Governments and a
report of the Law Commission
supporting the petitioner.
Appearing in the case last
week, Solicitor General Ranjit
Kumar informed the apex court
that the Centre wished to file its
response in the matter pending
since 2004.
Interestingly, the Centre
had not once responded to the
petition in the past decade.
The PIL sought guidelines to
fast-track trials against politicians and influential public
functionaries. The Law
Commission in its report of
March 2012 suggested measures for bother police and
courts to achieve this end.The
affirmative backing of the Law
Commission led the Court to
demand responses from states
on November 12, 2013. The
Commission highlighted the
fact that pendency defeats
administration of criminal justice as politicians and VIPs
wield influence over police and
witnesses.
The PIL came to be filed
highlighting one such case relating to former Union Minister
Shibu Soren. He was booked for
inciting a mob in 1975 that led
to 11 persons being lynched in
Chirudih in Jharkhand. The
charge sheet was filed in 1982
and after a 16-year trial, Soren
was acquitted in 2008 as witnesses had died during pendency of trial.
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protects the most ‘vulnerable’
VVIPs of the country, has
decided to stop taking any
more protectees under its
elite ‘black cat’ commando
security cover.
The special force has
taken this decision to ensure
the most fool-proof and strict
security to the existing
VVIPs under its cover which
includes the likes of Union
Home Minister Rajnath Singh
and a number of Chief
Ministers.
“We will not be able to
manage more protectees
under our cover. We protect
the most vulnerable of the
VVIPs and according to our
mandate and present strength
we will not be able to take anymore such duties,” NSG
Director
General
JN
Choudhury told PTI.
The elite commandos of
the federal counter-terror
force guard 15 VVIPs at present, who are accorded the top
security categorisation of ‘Z+’,
which generally entails over
two dozen armed commandos
with a host of gadgets and
security paraphernalia to
secure the individual. PTI
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Sushma
Swaraj
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Thursday said 41 Indians captured in Iraq were safe and
hoped they would be released
soon. Replying to Calling
Attention in Lok Sabha, the
Minister suggested the House
should appeal for the release
before “Eid as a special
Ramazan gift.”
However there was no res-
olution on this regard.
“While we don’t have any
direct contact with them, but
according to several sources, we
have got to know they are safe
and alive, they are being given
food,” Swaraj said. To questions
about the action plan to get
them released, she refused to
reveal details, saying the fundamental principle of such
negotiations was secrecy. “Did
you get to know our plan when
we got the 46 nurses from
Kerala released?”
While making the suggestion in the Lok Sabha, External
Affairs Minister appeared to
send out a message to the
Islamist militants holding the
hostages by reminding that
India had refused to send
armed forces to Iraq when the
Americans went there over a
decade back.
“The holy period of
Ramazan is on. The House
should appeal to those who
have kept these 41 Indians
captive to release them before
Eid as a special Ramazan gift,”
she said.
“The safety and security of
Indian nationals, especially 41
Indians in captivity in Mosul,
is a matter of foremost concern
and pre-occupation for us. We
are leaving no stone unturned
for their safe return,” she added.
India has had “very good historical relations” with Iraq and
“it must be recalled that sever-
al years ago, it was this House
that had passed a resolution
and we did not send our armed
forces to Iraq,” Swaraj said.
However, the House did
not adopt a resolution as
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan took
up the next item on the agenda immediately after Swaraj
ended her reply to the motion
raised by Congress member KC
Venugopal, RSP’s NK
Premachandran and AAP’s
Dharam Vira Gandhi.
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Thursday rejected criticism
by a Rajya Sabha MP of the
Congress that it does not have
sufficient business with it to keep
the Parliament session going till
August 14.
“We have enough work to
keep you busy. The
Government’s hands are full
with business,” Minister of State
for Parliamentary Affairs
Prakash Javadekar told Congress
member Satyavrat Chaturvedi in
Rajya Sabha after the latter
taunted the Government for
having no legislative business
with it ready. “It is unfortunate
that so far this Government has
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pertaining to the National
Institute of Design and two
Ordinances have been discussed.
So many days have passed
but this Government has no legislative business to bring here….
So many bills are pending in this
House from the previous session. At least 35-38 bills are
pending from our term but
there is no discussion on them.
What is this Government doing?
It is not able to take decisions in
Cabinet. I have heard that they
are going to adjourn the House
sine die,” Chaturvedi said just as
Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien
announced for a discussion on
General Budget.
Even as Kurien tried to
pacify him saying that’s not for
the member to worry,
Chaturvedi rubbed in more salt
saying he has heard that the government is postponing the proposed visit of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi to China as it
could not complete its preparations. He sought to know details
of legislative business and their
timeframe.
However, Chaturvedi got a
sharp reaction from Javadekar:
“I have never seen such an
example of political desperation.
Today, we have the Budget and
then the Finance Bill. Then
there will be discussion on three
ministries but before than other
legislative business will also
come before you,” Javdekar said.
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edical colleges that had
failed to get renewal permissions from Medical Council
of India for 2014-15 got a lease
of life on Thursday after the
Supreme Court gave the medical regulator a week’s time to
review its earlier order.
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thousands of medical aspirants
as there are about 35 colleges
(both private and Government)
whose cases would be reviewed
by the MCI.
The bench of Justices Dipak
Misra and NV Ramana ordered
MCI to carry out compliance
verification assessment of the
existing medical colleges which
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utgoing Army Chief General Bikram Singh, who will retire
on July 31, praised the “decisiveness” of the NDA
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Government during a farewell function for him organised by
Defence Minister Arun Jaitley here.
The tea party was also attended by the three Services Chiefs
and Defence Secretary R K Mathur.
Speaking at the function on Wednesday, Singh said the brief
period in which he got to work with the new political dispensation, he was impressed with the government’s decisiveness, officials said hereon Thursday.
His remarks came in the backdrop of the NDA Government
clearing several pending strategic road projects and sanctioning environmental clearances for them along the border with
China soon after assuming office.
These projects were awaiting environmental clearances for
last some years and the NDA Government decided that given
the strategic importance of these roads, the defence ministry
need not come to the Ministry for environment and respective
States bordering China can take a call on these projects on their
own.The Government also went along with the Army’s view that
the Armed Forces Special Powers Act(AFSPA) now in force in
Jammu and Kashmir should not be changed.
Several political parties were demanding that AFSPA
should be partially removed from four districts of the State where
situation is normal. The Army has maintained that if the proposal goes through, these districts will provide safe haven to antinational elements and security forces will not be able to take
action against them.
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C-17 Globemaster heavy
lift transport aircraft on
Monday at the Palam air base
here in the presence of Defence
Minister Arun Jaitley. India
had signed a deal for ten such
aircraft with the US through
foreign military sale route and
five aircraft have already joined
the fleet.
The contract is worth over
C24,000 crore. This aircraft can
carry 70 tonnes of load besides
more than 200 troops and can
land at unmetalled air strips in
remote areas including high
altitude sectors of Ladakh.
Incidentally, this aircraft due to
arrive here on Saturday is carrying a World War two vintage
fighter plane Harvard from
London. The IAF in 2008 was
given the go-ahead to resurrect
vintage aircraft and a British
firm was awarded the contract
for making these planes airworthy like Tiger Moth, Wapiti,
Lysander, Tempest and Spitfire
and Hurricane. A Tiger Moth
plane is now part of IAF’s ceremonial aerial displays.
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greater transparency and
effectiveness in the bureaucracy, the Centre may deny an
IAS, IFS or IPS officer a central
deputation if the official is facing graft charges or has defaulted in submitting annual property returns.
The Department of
Personnel and Training
(DoPT) has finalised new
guidelines on central deputation for Joint Secretary and
equivalent posts for officers
belonging
to
Indian
Administrative Service (IAS),
Indian Foreign Service (IFS),
Indian Police Service (IPS)
and Indian Forest Service
(IFoS), among others.
“Vigilance denied officer
shall not be empaneled, which
means that they exhaust their
first chance of empanelment.
The cases of officers who have
defaulted in filing property
returns shall also be treated as
vigilance denied, for a period
of one year for every default.
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applicable to the empanelment
due in the year of default,” a
DoPT directive said.
It has also been decided to
relax selection criteria further
to ensure adequate representation of officers belonging to
Scheduled Castes, Scheduled
Tribes, women and the North
East at the central level. In case
the selection process does not
lead to adequate representation
of categories like SC, ST,
women, particular State cadres,
North East among others in the
panel, the criteria for empanelment would be suitably
relaxed to give due representation to these sections, it said.
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n FIR has been registered
against a senior IPS officer
of Maharashtra after a
young model-turnedactor accused him of
rape and molestation
last year, Police said on
Thursday.
“An FIR was registered against DIG
Sunil Paraskar last
night after a model
complained that she
was raped and
molested by him,”
Assistant Commissioner of
Police Ramesh Lokhare said.
57-year-old Paraskar has
been booked under IPC
Sections 376(2) (rape by a
police officer), 376 C
(Intercourse by superintendent
of jail, remand home, etc) and
354(D) (stalking which interferes with the mental peace of
a person or causes distress, fear
of violence or alarm), by
Malwani police station last
night on the victim’s com-
plaint,
Joint
Police
Commissioner
(Crime)
Sadanand Date said.
The probe has been transferred to Crime Against
Women Cell of the Crime
Branch headed by Deputy
Police Commissioner
Sharada Raut, he said.
The 25-year-old
model
had
approached Mumbai
Police Commissioner
Rakesh Maria on
Tuesday with the complaint of rape and
molestation against
Paraskar, Deputy Inspector
General (Protection of Civil
Rights Units) posted at the
Maharashtra police headquarters.
The matter was referred to
the Women Cell which conducted a preliminary enquiry
and then the FIR was registered
at Malwani Police Station
against the 1997-batch IPS
officer. The offence was
allegedly committted at a hotel
within its jurisdiction in sub-
urban Malad.
The model has alleged that
Paraskar had on two occasions molested and sexually
assaulted her in the last quarter of 2013, Police said.
According to Police, the
victim met Paraskar in 2012
when he was Additional
Commissioner of Police (North
Region) in Mumbai with regard
to a case. Since then he tried to
be friendly with her, allegedly
molested her once and raped her
on the second occasion.
Asked if Police had gathered sufficient evidence to
arrest the officer, Date said,
“We are collecting evidence and
at the right time appropriate
decision will be taken.”
He said the woman had
undergone some medical tests
on Thursday. The modelturned-actor has featured in
some TV advertisements and is
working in a Bollywood film
for the first time. Paraskar,
who was shifted as DIG in
March this year, was not available for comments.
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hadows of Badaun extended to Bengal with a sevenSyear-old
being raped, murdered and hanged from a tree
late on Wednesday evening,
police said.
The incident took place at
Nandakumar
in
East
Midnapore district. The
accused, a neighbour was later
caught and beaten to death by
angry villagers, the police said
adding that the incident was a
result of old family feud.
The accused’s friend was
also badly beaten up by the villagers and was undergoing treatment in a hosptial. His house
was set on fire by the locals.
“She was sent to fetch something outside. But when she did
not return for long we started
looking for her but could not
find her out,” said the victim’s
grieving father adding the locals
found the body of the girl handing from a tree in the neighbourhood with marks of rape.
The Police had started a
case of rape and murder.
fter the drubbing the party
got in the general elections,
the
ensuing
bypolls for the three Assembly
constituencies in Karnataka is
seen as a litmus test for the
ruling Congress and its Chief
Minister Siddaramaiah.
The August 21 bypolls to
the three Assembly segments in
Bellary, Shimoga and Chikkodi
held by B Sriramulu, BS
Yeddyurappa of the BJP and
Prakash Hukkeri of the
Congress are going to be tough
for the Congress which is now
caught up with infighting.
As it is almost sure, the BJP
will get one seat each in Bellary
and Shimoga, the Congress
would get one at Chikkodi. The
Congress under Chief Minister
Siddaramaiah has been into the
politics of minorities, by helping consolidation process of
dominant communities like
Vokkaliga and Lingayats is an
advantage to the BJP.
It is already in circulation,
that Yeddyurappa’s son, BY
Raghavendra and Sriramulu’s
sister and former MP Shantha
and Congress leader and MP
Prakash Hukkeri’s son would
contest the bypolls.
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Siddaramaiah has already started the consultation process
with holding meetings with his
confidants and the major
Opposition BJP has also
started the ball rolling, to face
the elections in the changing
political scenario.
A section of the Congress
leaders belonging to a dominant community is already
upset with Siddaramaiah and
another group, akin to the
State Congress president G
Parameshwara is bringing pressure to include him into the
Ministry to make him deputy
Chief Minister.
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high command, anarchy in the
State unit and emergence of
Modi wave have posed a tough
challenge to Siddaramaiah in
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Judge of the Madras High
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Court was left with no other
alternative but to rebuke
politicians belonging to both
the AIADMK and the DMK
for their “politics of hate”.
Justice N Kirubakaran of the
Madurai Bench of the Madras
High Court was so annoyed
with the two major parties in
the State for filing cases even
over frivolous issues.
The Judge was listening to
arguments by lawyers representing the parties in a petition
filed by an AIADMK worker
against MK Stalin, the heirapparent and the de facto
chief of the DMK, seeking to
register a criminal case against
the latter for having used the
PWD
guesthouse
at
Kanyakumari for 20 minutes
during the Lok Sabha election
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campaign on March 14.
The petitioner’s contention
was that Stalin had used the
Guest House for holding discussions with leaders of the
DMK. A former DMK
Minister was present in the
meeting which was attended
among others by many local
leaders of the party. According
to the petitioner, Stalin violated the directives of the
Election Commission that
Government facilities should
not be used by politicians for
political activities during election campaign when the Code
of Conduct is in place
The lawyer, representing
Stalin argued that the DMK
leader was present in the
Guest House for only 20 minutes. The judge expressed
surprise that what kind of
political activity could have
happened in a span of 20
minutes. He even opined that
that the DMK leader would
have gone to the Guest House
to use the rest room.
“The filing of this case
will not serve any purpose
except publicity,” the Judge
told the lawyer of the
petitioner. This prompted
Veera Kathiravan, counsel for
Stalin to intervene and said that
the petition had been filed
with a mala fide intention. But
the Judge Kirubakaran was
not amused. “You are no different from them. You also do
the same thing when you are in
power. Only in Tamil Nadu we
have such bad political cultures.
It is not so in north ,” said the
Judge. He later reserved the
case for orders.
The kind of politics practised in Tamil Nadu could be
understood by a PIL filed by
a lawyer in the Madras High
Court pleading for restraining
the Union Government from
selling two Offshore Patrol
Vessels to Sri Lanka. These
OPVs, used for surveillance
and rescue operations in the
Indian Ocean are to be built
by the Goa Shipyard Limited.
The Court has asked the
respondents concerned (read
Union of India) to find out
from the PMO whether the
Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
was informed about the deal
for supplying the vessels to Sri
Lanka. “This is ridiculous.
Why the Union Government
should inform Tamil Nadu
Chief Minister about a commercial deal with another
countr y,” asked a senior
lawyer in MHC.
the ensuing bypolls for three
Assembly constituencies.
A senior leader in the State
Congress told The Pioneer, as
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah
has antagonised dominant
communities, the ensuing
bypolls to the Assembly will
have a serious repercussion on
his leadership. He said, “By
playing backward classes politics to hilt, he has faced the
wrath of the major communities in the party. It is going to
be a litmus test for the party this
election. The results will have
major impact on his leadership.”
Siddaramaiah-led
Congress Government in the
State is under pressure over
many issues and the recent
incidents of rapes have dented the image of the
Government further.
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Thursday was sworn in as
the new Governor of Bengal
replacing MK Narayayan. State
acting Chief Justice Asim
Kumar Banerjee administered
the oath of office to the 79year-old former UP Assembly
Speaker in the presence of
Chief Minsiter Mamata
Banerjee, State Assembly
Speaker Biman Banerjee, and
senior Union Minsiters including Partha Chattopadhyay.
Tripathi who had earlier
praised the Bengal CM for her
simple ways, said after her swearing-in that the Mamata was
“competent enough to deal with
the State matters”. He added, “I
will work for the welfare of the
State and coordinate with the
Centre” adding “we will solve the
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brother triggered a conD
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on wearing bikinis on Goa’s
beaches, Cooperation Minister
Dipak Dhavalikar on Thursday
appeared to have waded into
another, saying Prime Minister
Narendra Modi will develop
India into a Hindu nation.
“I am confident that
under the leadership of
Modiji, India will develop
into a Hindu nation. Prime
Minister will work in this
regard is what I feel,” he said
while speaking in State
Assembly on a motion congratulating Modi on BJP's
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Goa Congress legislator,
known for his BJP leanings
has compared Prime Minister
Narendra Modi to former PM
Indira Gandhi.
Speaking during a congratulatory motion to congratulate former Gujarat CM on
becoming India’s Prime
Minister, Mauvin Godinho
who represents the industrialised Dabolim constituency
said that Modi’s rise is the first
of a Prime Minister who means
business since Indira.
Iconic Congress leader and
daughter fo India’s first Prime
Minister Nehru, Indira Gandhi,
served as the Indian PM on
three occasions.
“He (Modi) has shown that
he means business. We had
seen something like this when
Indira Gandhi was Prime
Minister,” Godinho said, speaking on a BJP-sponsored motion
congratulating Modi on
becoming PM during the
Monsoon Session of the State
Legislative Assembly.
Congress MLA Dabolim
Mauvin Godinho also lauded
the former Gujarat Chief
Minister’s work ethic, strong
leadership and and his ability
to think “out of the box”.
Godinho has been at loggerheads with the Congress
leadership in Goa over the last
few months and had even
refused to campaign for the
party’s South Goa candidate
Aleixo Reginaldo during the
recently concluded Lok
Sabha poll.
Godinho said that there
was a lot to learn from Modi,
especially his “work culture,
ability to grasp subjects and
control over his ministers”.
“He works 18 to 20 hours
a day. Which of our Ministers
work like this? Only our CM
works as hard as the Prime
Minister. Other Ministers are
not even available to public. Is
this the example you are
learning from your own PM,”
Godinho asked the Treasury
Benches.
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he British Cabinet Minister
for Energy & Climate
Change, Edward Davey on
Thursday announced that the
British Government will open
a Deputy High Commission
in Ahmedabad during a function at Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad
(IIMA).
Speaking on the topic of
‘Changing
Economics
— Tackling Climate Change &
Driving Growth’ at the prestigious B-school, Davey said
that Gujarat matters to the
UK politically.
“In fact, the UK is home to
600, citizens of Gujarati origin.
Just like in India, Gujaratis are
drivers of economic growth.
With entrepreneurship and
excellence across countless
fields, they matter to the UK
economically too,” said the
UK’s Secretary of State for
Energy & Climate change.
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Gujarat matters to the UK
because Gujarat matters to
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and prosperity, learning and
culture for all India. “Gujarat
must be proud that the new
Government in Delhi is publicly following the ‘Gujarat
Model’ of growth,” he said
adding that those who are
studying marketing will know
Gujarat is now rightly selling
this message to the world.
Talking on the Prime
Minister’s pet event ‘Vibrant
Gujarat’, when he was at the
helm of the State, the British
Minister said that ‘Vibrant
Gujarat’ has become a byword
for attracting investment.
“It’s a powerful symbol of
the success of Gujarat. The
UK was delighted to be a
country partner to the 2013
event and we look forward
again to partnering Vibrant
Gujarat 2015,” he asserted.
“And because Gujarat
matters, I am delighted that
the UK will strengthen our
relationship further with an
agreement to open a Deputy
High Commission (DHC)
here in Ahmedabad,” he
declared adding that a DHC
in the biggest city of Gujarat
will help to deepen and
broaden the ties between the
UK and Gujarat.
The Deputy High
Commission will enable to
build on the strong people to
people links that enrich all
communities.
“For our vision for UKIndia, UK-Gujarat isn’t about
series of one-off transactions,
important though individual
projects might be. The vision is
more powerful — it’s about an
enduring relationship, of families, friends and firms growing
together,” said Davey.
“2015 will be a defining
moment. A global climate
deal is in India’s interest, as
well as the rest of the world.
India’s growth and development matter to us. We see
India’s emissions rising in the
short term. Then peaking
and falling towards a common level. This low carbon
path will support India’s energy security and its growth,” he
added.
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player and India’s only
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woman grand slam player Sania
Mirza’s appointment as “brand
ambassador” of Telangana State
by the Government and
rewarding her with a grant of
C10 million, has run into a controversy with the Opposition
BJP and Telugu Desam Party
objecting to it.
BJP’s floor leader in the
State Assembly, K Lakshman
has objected to the Telangana
Government’s choice of Brand
Ambassador on the ground
that she was married to a
Pakistani. “She is a daughter-in
-law of Pakistan,” he said.
Pakistan’s test cricketer
Shoaib Malik is married to 28year-old Sania Mirza.
Alleging that appointment
of Sania as brand ambassador
was a vote bank politics aimed
at appeasing the Muslim community, Lakshman said, “The
CM wants pre-1956 documents as proof of being a
native even from those hailing
from Telangana to claim fee
reimbursement. But he makes
an exception to a Pakistani
daughter-in-law who was
born in Mumbai and Bred in
Hyderabad”.
Lakskhman also found
fault with Chief Minister K
Chandrashekar Rao for giving
her a grant of C10 million
while giving a reward of only
C2.5 million to another achiever from Telangana Malavath
Poorna who had scaled Mount
Everest last month.
Telugu Desam Party Youth
Wing Secretary Jimmy Babu
also objected to Sania’s
appointment. “Has she given
proof of being a native of
Telangana”, he asked.
However, the State
Government has strongly
defended its decision. “She is a
Hyderabadi and a great achiever with international fame and
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hief Minister Akhilesh
Allahabad
Yadav showed commitT
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HC has issued a
ment of his Government to
notice to the
Congress president,
Sonia
Gandhi in connection with an
election petition
filed against her after her election to the Lok Sabha for the
fourth time from Rae Bareli.
Justice Tarun Agarwal
issued the notice on an election
petition and fixed September 9
as the next date of hearing.
ensure stern punishment to all those
involved in the brutal murder of a 36year-old woman in
Mohanlalganj area
last week.
“Government
has already set up a
two-member commission comprising of Director
General Health and Director
General Medical Education to
probe into all the lapses raised
by the family members and
others in the police investigation and post-mortem report,”
he said while adding that the
Government will act after the
Commission submits
its report.” There is
no question of any
relaxation to the
guilty,” he asserted
but refused to say
anything further on
whether
the
Government will
consider to recommend for a CBI probe as
demanded by the family members or not.
acclaim. She was the most suitable choice as brand ambassador of Telangana”, said TV
Ramana Chary, cultural advisory to the Chief Minister K
Chandrashekar Rao.
“People are asking why
not VV Lakshman or Sania
Nehwal. Sania Mirza is a class
apart in terms of popularity.
She is well known in sports as
well as in the world of glamour”, he said exuding confidence that she will bring a lot
of value to the State.
Chief Minister KCR, who
had handed over the appointment letter to Sania Mirza on
July 22 described her as a gifted player.
Pointing
out
that
Telangana was the youngest
State in the country, he said,
“who could be more suitable
to represent the State than
Sania Mirza”. He said that the
grant of C10 million was to
help her in getting good
coaching and training to
improve her game and achieve
more success. “If she goes up
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Government in Bihar
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came to blows on Thursday in
the State Legislative Council
and accused each other for the
ugly incident.
The BJP accused JD(U)
leader Nitish Kumar for instigating his party leaders to
attack them which eventually
prompted Kumar to say that
he was deeply hurt and would
not attend the ongoing session
of the Council “until an
inquiry report absolve him
from the accusation.”
The unprecedented incident happened at Question
Hour when JD(U) MLA,
Sanjay Singh allegedly instigated by party leader Nitish
Kumar, hurled uncalled for
words against Leader of
Opposition in the Council,
Sushil Kumar Modi.
Modi was putting question
on the Government on reduction of scholarship amount from
C1 lakh to C15,000 for students
belonging to extremely back-
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“At the instigation of
Kumar, his party colleague,
Singh uttered some uncalled
words against me and while
protesting his undemocratic
behaviour, we rushed into the
Well of the House…It was
unprecedented”, said senior
BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi.
Amid raging protest and
din, the Council Chairman
Awadhesh Narayan Singh later,
adjourned the House for 10
minutes but as soon as he left
the House a clash broke out
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IAS officer Godala
Kiran Kumar and former
SDMenior
of Malda who was arrested about a year ago, by the
Siliguri Commissioner of Police
J Jayaraman making national
headlines was on Thursday
grilled intensely by the
Enforcement Directorate for
his alleged involvement in the
multi-crore Siliguri-JalpaiguriDevelopment-Authority scam.
Kumar was summoned by
the ED sleuths at the CGO
complex at Salt Lake in Kolkata
where he was questioned from
9 am in the morning till 4 pm.
Kumar would not speak to
the media when he went out
but, sources in the ED said he
was given a set of questionaires
and was asked to write his
answers related to the scam.
“We will go through the
reply and then will summon
him again if there is a need”
said one official adding he
appeared on Thursday after
notices were served on him
repeatedly.
Kumar had earlier func-
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SJDA when the reported C120
crore scam took place. The case
came in the limelight when,
Jayaraman, the then CP of
Siliguri probing the case arrested him after he refused to
appear before him for interrogation.
The State Government
immediately swung into action,
with Chief Secretary questioning the propriety of the IPS
officer arresting the IAS officer
without prior sanction from the
higher authorities.
The Government then
arranged for his bail the next
day with the public prosecutor
strangely failing to appear in
the court. The names of a
number of ruling Trinamool
Congress mandarins including
MLAs have come up in the
multi-crore scam.
between the members of two
rival parties.
“Once again Singh rose up
to his chair, and commented
that Modi suffers from some
serious ailment of always blubbering something and other
words which I cannot speak
before the camera”, said State
BJP chief Mangal Pandey.
The BJP legislators, including Mangal Pandey, Rajnish
Kumar and others rushed
towards Singh to protest but,
some JD(U) members like
Ranbir Nandan, Neeraj Kumar
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and others opposed their move.
Meanwhile, some other
members from both the sides
got involved in the clash while,
accusing each other for their
undemocratic behavior and
attitude in side the House.
The pandemonium which
threatened to break out in a
violent clash, continued for
ten minutes in presence of
senior party leaders Nitish
Kumar and Sushil Modi from
both the parties.
Later, the scuffling lawmakers were to be physically
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hiv Sena on Thursday
defended its MPs involved
in alleged force-feeding of a
fasting Muslim employee and
said a “protest” against mismanagement was given “communal colour” for “political
mileage” even as the
Opposition in the Parliament
pressed Government for a
statement.
Under fire over a party MP
Rajan Vichare being caught on
video footage forcing a catering
supervisor fasting for Ramzan
to eat a chapati at the new
Maharashtra Sadan in Delhi
last week, the Sena invoked the
Maratha pride and turned the
spotlight on the quality of food
there. It said the incident was
blown out of proportion.
“Shiv Sena respects all religions but will not tolerate if
anyone tries to flaunt his religious affiliation for intimidation. One should keep his religion in his heart and in his
house. But if someone wears it
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Shiv Sena by playing politics
over it, we will not tolerate it,”
an editorial in party mouthpiece Saamana said.
The editorial launched a
scathing attack on the “poor
quality of service being rendered at Maharashtra Sadan by
the management.”
Without naming Vichare,
the editorial asked, “Was it
wrong to question the injustice?
Was it wrong to question the
catering contractor on quality
of food served there?”
“What is wrong if the chapati is taken to the mouth of the
contractor and he was asked to
eat it. It was not written on his
face that he was a Muslim. It
was just a coincidence. The
contractor serves such chapatis
that are difficult to break. How
is one supposed to eat such
food?” it said. The editorial said
that basic facilities like clean
drinking water, cleanliness and
proper canteen management
are lacking at Sadan.
In the Rajya Sabha, the
Government said it will
respond on the issue after
ascertaining full facts by tomorrow. Congress, SP and Left
members raised the issue when
the House met for the day, saying 24 hours have passed since
the issue was first raised but the
Government is yet to come
back. “We are ascertaining
facts. We will be finding out full
details and then only respond.”
Parliamentary Affairs Minister
M Venkaiah Naidu said.
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grant of minority status to
Mohammad Ali Jauhar
University in Rampur.
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by a division bench comprising
Chief Justice Dhananjay Y
Chandrachud and Justice
Devendra Kumar Upadhaya
on a public interest litigation
(PIL) filed by non-governmental organisation Hindu
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separated with the help of
House marshals and by intervention of senior leaders from
both the parties.
Later, the BJP leader
Sushil Modi charged Kumar
for instigating his party member Sanjay Singh to create
such pandemonium in the
House
to
save
his
Government from embarrassment.
He also said that if the situation was not brought under
control in time, he would have
been attacked by the JD(U)
leaders.
“It was Nitish Kumar who
instigated Singh to create
trouble. The JD(U) leaders
wanted to attack me which
was shameful and unfortunate”, said Modi while adding
that though, once he was
attacked in the State Assembly
by members of RJD during
Lalu’s regime but it has never
ever happened in the Council.
State BJP president,
Mangal Pandey too accused
Nitish Kumar for instigation
and said that the JD(U) leaders lobbed unparliamentarily
words and threatening moves
towards them.
“Anything could have happened if it was not stopped at
that time…what the JD(U)
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more trappings, or could be
more calculated to give its
holder airs and graces, than the
presidency of the United States. Yet
it is an unpalatable truth for all its
aspirants that attaining the Holy
Grail of American politics requires
a very unholy scramble.
And after nearly 30 unbroken
years in public life, no one knows
more about the hard knocks of the
American political rodeo than Ms
Hillary Clinton. Even so, with the
launch of her manifesto-memoir
last month, followed by a national
book tour cum campaign launch in
all but name, it now seems certain
that Ms Clinton is planning to ride
again. She will be 69 on inauguration day in January 2017.
Why on earth would she do it?
That was the question posed openly this week by Mr Barack Obama,
the man who elbowed her into an
undignified second place in the
Democrat primaries of 2008 and
now, after six frustrating years in the
coveted office, just looks impatient
some days for it all to be over.
Could it really be worth the
candle for those — like Ms Clinton
and Vice President Joe Biden —
who might want to succeed him,
Mr Obama wondered in a New
Yorker magazine article. “They’ve
already accomplished an awful lot
in their lives. Do they, at this phase
in their lives, want to go through the
pretty undignifying process of running all over again?” he asked.
The answer is undoubtedly a
resounding “yes”, says one former
Clinton White House staffer, for the
simple reason that for all Mrs
Clinton’s achievements as First
Lady, Senator and Secretary of
State, nothing can cap the presidency. “Becoming President makes
you into a world, historic figure in
a way that Hillary isn’t yet. She’s
made a mark on history, sure, but
it goes up by an uncountable factor if she wins the White House,
particularly as first woman
President,” he says.
But presidential ambition
comes at a cost, as Ms Clinton
knows from her husband’s scandalplagued presidency — some of it
self-inflicted, like the Monica
Lewinsky affair; some of it grossly
unfair and openly confected, like the
stories that the Clintons were
involved in unlikely murders and
cover-ups, including that of their
own friend, Vince Foster, the deputy
White House counsel who committed suicide in 1993, a few months
after Mr Clinton took office.
Fast-forward 20 years to the
present and the once dormant cottage industry of conspiracy and
slander about the Clintons has
started to whirr and clank again,
with the publication of a series of
sometimes outrageously thinly
sourced books that tap into the stillvisceral dislike of the Clintons on
the American Right.
Exhibit A is Blood Feud, a 320page book that allegedly traces the
bitter Clinton-Obama rivalry and
rifts in the Clintons’ marriage. It is
written by former New York Times
journalist Ed Klein, who has made
a new career out of writing salacious
tell-all books on the Clintons and
Obamas. The book is filled with
wildly implausible fly-on-the-wall
accounts of the Clinton’s marital tiffs
and White House showdowns, all
relayed in breathless Mills and
Boon prose. Mr Klein says his
books are based on proper reporting, but Ms Clinton’s spokesman,
Nick Merrill, impolitely disagrees.
Mr Klein’s work is given scant
credence by serious American
political media but it is gobbled up
with relish by the conservative
book-buying public. To whoops of
delight on the Right last month,
Mr Klein’s book outsold Hard
Choices, Ms Clinton’s scrupulously gossip-free memoir of her four
years at the State Department,
according to The New York Times
non-fiction bestseller list.
Other works, such as Mr
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Ronald Kessler’s The First Family
Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal
the Hidden Lives of Presidents,
extracts of which were leaked this
week, are more plausibly sourced
but equally salacious. According to
the extract quoted in the tabloid The
New York Post, Mr Kessler alleges
that Mr Clinton keeps a blonde, surgically enhanced mistress who is
codenamed ‘Energizer’ by the former President’s secret service detail.
A third takedown tome,
Clinton Inc by Daniel Halper of the
conservative Weekly Standard, has
been treated more seriously, despite
attempts from the Clinton machine
to lump it in with more scurrilous
works. The book paints
‘Clintonworld’ as a place where
scores are always settled and where
Ms Chelsea Clinton, who has
taken a much higher-profile role
since joining the board of the
Clinton Foundation, her parents’
vast global philanthropy operation,
is described as the “wizard behind
the curtain”.
How does Ms Clinton cope
with this onslaught? Mostly by
ignoring it, says the former staffer,
while relying on a close coterie of
loyal old female friends such as Ms
Cheryl Mills, who defended Mr
Clinton at his impeachment trial;
Ms Maggie Williams, who managed her failed 2008 campaign; and
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Ms Huma Abedin, her long-time
aide. Ms Clinton’s daughter, now
34 and expecting her first child, is
another of her rocks.
The former First Lady’s personal armour is strengthened by
the belief among Democrat strategists that in America’s polarised
political universe, the avalanche of
anti-Clinton books is unlikely to
affect the outcome in 2016. The
belief is that they appeal only to
that 40 per cent of Americans who,
as one strategist put it, “would vote
for a dog for President” before
they’d ever vote for Ms Clinton.
Arguably more damaging to
Ms Clinton’s prospects are the selfinflicted wounds from her awkward relationship with a US media
corps that still prickles at its highhanded treatment during her 2008
campaign. Sure enough, the launch
of Ms Clinton’s Hard Choices last
month demonstrated how ringrusty she had become in four years
glad handing the world as
America’s top diplomat.
But what may be more worrying for Ms Clinton than the pains
of running for office is the prospect
that, even if she wins the great prize,
she achieves disappointingly little
with it. As Mr Obama has discovered, the modern presidency is saddled with old expectations that have
not caught up with America’s divided political realities. The powers of
the office have contracted sharply
even in the two decades since Mr
Clinton was cutting often unpalatable but necessary deals with Newt
Gingrich’s Congress.
Mr Obama now talks openly
of using his “phone and his pen”
to get things done, but to many that
only advertises the limits of his
political predicament which will
get worse if, as it now looks possible, the Republicans retake the
Senate in this autumn’s mid-term
election, giving them control of
both Houses of Congress.
Given all her past experience
and the platform the Clinton
Foundation offers her to effect real
change on issues close to her heart,
such as gender equality and free
speech, would Ms Clinton trade her
current position for the frustrations
of the modern presidency? You bet
she would.
“Everyone believes their time in
the Oval Office will be different,”
says the former staffer. “And despite
the frustrations, recent presidencies
show that everyone does get to do
something relatively big for a short
while. That’s the nature of ambition:
You know the pain that lies ahead,
but you accept the challenge. No
one knows that better than Hillary.”
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Ashok K Mehta. The Pakistani
Army is befooling the US by
extracting juice for its nefarious
activity in the neighbourhood.
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Governor Ram Naik’s statement
that he will act as a bridge
between the Centre and the State.
Implicit in the new Governor’s
observation is that he will not discriminate against people on the
basis of their language and religion. This reflects his firm conviction in democratic values.
Mr Naik also said he would
not review or reverse decisions
that his predecessor had taken.
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to give ‘minority’ status to the
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affairs. This should allay apprehensions, if any, in the minds of
the people from the minority
community. Hopefully, his pragmatic governorship will help in
better administration of the State.
Rukhsana Khan
Via email
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Sir — Many Indians would say
that there is no need to talk to
Pakistan anymore. It has violated the ceasefire agreement 19
times since the day of formation
of the new Government in India.
Pakistan considers our patience
as our weakness. It deserves a titfor-tat response at the earliest.
If Pakistan can destroy
Taliban hideouts and kill 13 of the
ultras in their secure dens, why
cannot India kill Pakistani terrorists and destroy all their hideouts?
We don’t want even a single inch
of Pakistani soil, but there is no
way that we should allow Pakistan
to cause terror in our country or
kill our jawans along the Line of
Control in Jammu & Kashmir.
There is a limit to patience.
Hansraj Bhat
Via email
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Sir — Shiv Sena leader and
Member of Parliament Rajan
Vichare’s act of force-feeding a
fasting Muslim is outrageous.
The arrogance of authority is clear
in his attitude. People in power
should be tolerant and humble.
It is because of the likes of Mr
Vichare that people have disrespect for politicians. Public representatives are elected to serve
the nation, not humiliate individuals. A case must be filed against
the MP for abuse of power.
Manzar Imam
New Delhi
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Sir — The judiciary has been traditionally looked upon as the last
bastion against corruption and
wrongdoing, and judges are considered the epitome of propriety.
Hence, allegations of wrongful
conduct, such as those made by
former Supreme Court judge
Markandey Katju, need to be
taken seriously.
JS Acharya
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Malaysian Airlines flight
MH17 in eastern
Ukraine has re-ignited
the debate on the role of
non-state actors in committing
unlawful international acts and on
how to establish state accountability for those acts. Media reports
allege that a Russian-made Buk
missile was used by pro-Russian
rebels operating in Crimea, to
shoot down the flight at 32,000 feet.
According to Ukrainian officials, in two separate calls, one
between Igor Bezler, the rebel’s
operational commander and a
suspected Russian military intelligence official, and Vasili Geranin,
a suspected Colonel in the Russian
Intelligence headquarters; and
another between two suspected
rebels, nicknamed ‘Major’ and
‘Greek’, the rebels were heard discussing the crash as a consequence
of a missile strike. Interestingly, the
conversation betrayed their bewilderment at the incident, as anyone
else’s. It indicates that the incident
may have been a case of mistaken
identity, wherein the MH17 was
confused with an Ukraninian AN26 transport aircraft.
Both Russia and Ukraine have
traded allegations and blamed
each other for the tragedy. This is
not the first time that a civilian aircraft has been targeted in the
region. In 2001, the Ukrainian military had accidentally shot down a
chartered plane, along the Georgian
border, carrying 78 passengers
from Israel to Siberia. And since the
Ukrainian crisis flared in February
this year, the pro-Russian rebels in
Crimea have shot down several
Ukrainian military helicopters and
transport aircraft.
In the latest instance, the death
of 298 passengers including 154
Dutch, 23 American and 27
Australian citizens among others,
has fuelled tensions between these
states and Russia. The big question
is: Can Russia (as alleged) be held
accountable under the appropriate
international law for the act of the
rebels? Can the linkage be proven
between the rebels and Russia, and
shown that the latter exercised control over the former? Three key
cases of unlawful acts committed
by NSAs in a conflict zone have
been adjudicated by the
International Court of Justice that
shed light on how their acts can be
attributed to nation states. These
give some indication of what can
be expected in the MH17 case.
Article 8 of the International
Law Commission Articles on State
Responsibility specifies, “The conduct of a person or a group shall be
considered an act of a state under
international law if the person or
the group of person is in fact acting on the instruction of, or under
the direction or control of that state
in carrying out the conduct”. But,
it is necessary to prove in a court
of law that a state or its organs (in
this case, Russia), exercised com-
plete control over the rebels and
directed them to undertake unlawful act. This is easier said than done.
In 2007, the ICJ determined
the contours of state responsibility under the Genocide Convention
of 1948. The case pertained to the
alleged involvement of Serbia (the
former Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia) in the genocide of
Bosniaks and non-Serb minorities
in Srebrenica in the early 1990s.
The ICJ ruled that FRY had
furthered “considerable military
and financial support available to
the Republika Srpska” (the
Republic of Serbia) and “had it
withdrawn that support, (it) would
have greatly constrained the
options that were available to the
Republicka Srpska authorities”. But
in spite of this support, the Serbian
military, known as the Vojska
Republike Srpske, could not be
considered a de jure organ of the
FRY. In addition, based on reports
submitted by Dutch and American
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he UPA partners are leaving
the sinking ship and looking
for better opportunities. The
latest to do so is the National
Conference. The Congress remains
isolated, with barely a handful of allies
and friends like the Muslim League,
the RJD and the NCP.
The Congress is having trouble
both from within and outside.
There is a near rebellion within the
party demanding change of leadership in Maharashtra, Assam and
Haryana. Maharashtra and
Haryana will go to the polls in a few
months. After the Lok Sabha poll
debacle, dissidence is growing in every State. The
Congress high command’s
decision to retain the three
Chief Ministers has created further crisis.
In Maharashtra, Mr
Narayan Rane, who was
aspiring to become the
Chief Minister, has
resigned, creating a flutter.
This was the second time he
had done so after the disastrous Lok Sabha result. He
now claims that he had
been assured of the top
post when he resigned from
the Shiv Sena and joined the
Congress in 2005. The party
has no strong leader and
incumbent Chief Minister Prithviraj
Chavan is unable to take everybody
along. The Congress-NCP combine
has been in power in the State for
the past 15 years and it will be difficult for it to return to power under
the circumstances.
In Assam, rebel Minister
Himanta Biswa Sarma, who has
been leading the revolt against
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, has
quit, declaring that he will not join
the ministry as long Mr Gogoi is the
Chief Minister. Mr Sarma claims to
have the support of about 50
MLAs. On the other hand, about 13
Ministers have written to the party
chief to start disciplinary action
against Mr Sarma and other dissidents. The high command had
been dilly-dallying for long about
the change of leadership and ultimately decided against it.
In Haryana, senior Congress
leader Birender Singh is sharpening his attack against Chief Minister
Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Mr Singh
has declared that he will not contest under the leadership of Mr
Hooda. But, the high command is
backing Mr Hooda.
If the Congress is facing internal troubles, the problem from out-
side, particularly from the allies, is
no less. Already the UPA had
shrunk after the DMK, the
Trinamool Congress and other key
allies had left the coalition. The NCP
has been demanding a 50:50 share
in the Assembly poll in Maharashtra.
Its chief Sharad Pawar has been
putting pressure on the Congress to
replace Mr Chavan with Mr
Sushilkumar Shinde.
The NCP is sending signals that
it does not mind going it alone,
although it is speculated that after
the poll the two may severe connections and the NCP may move
towards the BJP. The recent meet-
intelligence agencies, the ICJ found
that VRS acts were not under the
instructions, directions or control
of the FRY. Therefore, the latter was
not responsible for the genocide.
However, in the same breadth, the
ICJ also said that the FRY had the
“duty to prevent” the genocide,
since it occurred on its territory,
even if it had no direct links and
control over the VRS.
In the MH17 case, Russian
President Valdimir Putin has
argued that since the act was committed on Ukrainian territory, it
absolves Russia of any responsibility. But pro-Russia rebels control the
territory. So, can Ukraine argue that
the flight was downed in Russian
territory? As such, the use of a
Russian missile is insufficient to
establish Russian culpability.
In 1984, in the case of
Nicaragua versus the US, the ICJ
had pulled up the latter for supporting the contras to attack the
Nicaraguan Government and mil-
to suggest that the attacks by
Nicaragua-based rebel groups
against El Salvador could be attributed to the Nicaraguan
Government. Therefore, the targeting of Nicaraguan state by USsupported contras was unlawful.
Similarly, in the 2005 case of
the Democratic Republic of Congo
versus Uganda, the ICJ had ruled
that since the attacks undertaken
by the anti-Ugandan rebels operating from DRC territory were not
attributable to the DRC, Uganda
had no right to use force in selfdefence against the DRC. The
DRC had charged the Ugandan
troops for invading its territory, violating human rights violations,
which the court upheld. The ICJ
also ruled that there was no satisfactory evidence to prove the
DRC’s claims that Uganda created
and controlled the Congo
Liberation Movement. Again,
efforts to establish any state linkage
yielded no success.
The task of proving state linkages with NSAs, state control over
their activities is so onerous that
states, such as the US, prefer to use
drones against the Taliban, rather
than followi the legal path. India,
too has seen the futility of the exercise in trying to link Pakistan’s spy
agency to the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba
terror in the 26/11 case.
The United Nations General
Assembly Resolution 2625, which
calls upon states to refrain from
supporting acts of terrorism and
prevent the use of their territory to
be used for terrorism, also does not
apply in this case, since the proRussian rebels were from
Ukrainian territory. Hence,
notwithstanding the current hullabaloo over the MH17 incident, it
will be very difficult to hold Russia
accountable for the tragedy.
(The writer is Research Fellow
at the ARC Center of Excellence in
Policing and Security, Griffith
University, Australia)
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ing of Mr Pawar with Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has triggered speculations to this effect.
Moreover, the NCP has now set a
deadline to the Congress to decide
on the road ahead.
The latest blow to the Congress
is the parting of ways with the
National Conference in Jammu &
Kashmir. This was expected for
some time, and the alliance had
continued because of the personal
chemistry between Chief Minister
Omar Abdullah and Congress vice
president Rahul Gandhi.
The Congress has to introspect
seriously over the present
state of affairs. The most
important thing for the
Congress is not only to keep
the flock together but also
look for new allies, but
nobody is ready to go with
the setting sun. Congress
president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi had
put together the grand
alliance, but it is crumbling
fast. With an ailing Ms
Gandhi and an indifferent
Mr Gandhi, the allies are not
inspired. Even two months
after the humiliating defeat,
there are no indications of
corrective measures from
within the party.
The real problem appears to be
that Mr Gandhi has not learnt any
lesson from the defeat and the rootless wonders continue to hold important positions. The party should
discuss the defeat in the AICC and
the Congress Working Committee
and find ways to correct the mistakes.
The right kind of people should be
chosen to hold positions.
The Congress has to re-invent
itself to suit the new situation. For
now, the party does not send any
signal about revival. Continuing in
the same manner will only ensure
the disappearance of the party altogether in the course of time.
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he urge for safety is one
of the driving forces of
human nature. The
defining characteristics of
individual behaviour are
often found to be replicated
in the behaviour of organisations. This is the reason
which leads to the emphasis
on the need for a synergy
between individual and
organisational goals. Closer
home, the need for corporate
revamp, across the full spectrum of the typology of
organisations, is needed.
Selective, episodic and
fragmented interventions
across the range of
Government entities, regulatory agencies and more seem
to have produced bewildering
results. Private organisations
are no exception. Whereas the
number of professional
degree-holders among the
owner-managers has gone
up, the values and quality of
their decisions are often rooted in traditional practices.
Whereas the powerful and the
influential very often get away
with what they want to do, the
honest and the compliant are
inundated with forms, questions and investigations.
Taking the discussion to
a higher level, the issues
affecting the governance of
enterprises and the corporate
sector haven’t changed much
over the last two decades.
And if the concerns haven’t
changed, neither have the
positions. There has been
no radical shift between the
policies of one set of the cabinet members to another.
The process of economic reforms initiated in July
1991 has been fairly steady in
the last 23 years. The emphasis has been on the external
sector, fiscal policy reforms,
reducing entry barriers for
industrial investment and
liberalising foreign investment. These are comforting
domains where a lot of energy can be spent, without
affecting the cosy comfort of
the powerful or mitigating
the misery of the honest.
Safety of the status quo, in
terms of power distribution, is
a significant driving force for
the intelligent. Interestingly,
examples of industrial restructuring, privatisation and/or
nationalisation, not to mention the basic re-examining of
the paradigms governing
action, have been few and
far between.
Over the last few years,
one has heard arguments in
favour of making India a
low-cost economy. Now, with
onions being sold at C70/kg,
frugality is a fairy tale proposition. So much so that even
the proverbs are changing.
The old quip used to be: “I
can survive on chapattis and
onions”. Today even that is
lyrical. A basic transformation is on its way.
The facts are simple.
Industrial re-structuring cannot be a painless process. It
involves justification of each
item of expense, often causing reduction of functionspecific manning levels. Redeployment of staff is also
inevitable. It is not an easy
job, with bulging figures of
people seeking employment,
and innovative definitions
of poverty. And this is not to
refer to the creation of a climate wherein claiming to be
a person below the poverty
line has large political and
economic advantages.
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to realise that unviable industrial units must close. Stateowned enterprises and private ones too must streamline
their operations. But this
means re-defining the rights
of workers and enabling
growth in viable areas. It is
significant that that in the
recently concluded general
election, no political leader,
no political party found it
worth their while to raise the
issue of population control or
advocate family planning.
The logic of unfettered
expansion of the supply side
cannot be ignored, in practical terms, if we want to create a safe India. Many measures are possible including
monetary compensation to a
re-trenched worker. The
Ramanujam Committee
reports, produced decades
earlier, had dealt upon this. A
National Renewal Fund has
been talked about, employment assistance centres had
been talked about, and
unemployment insurance
fund has been talked about.
But talking apart, no action
has followed. Perhaps the
‘genie’ defies control.
The simple proposition
that population control will
need to walk hand-in-hand
with improving the employability and skill dimension of
those already in the labour
market, and those wanting to
enter it, has been talked
about as well. Now, it needs
action. To be a nation of
achievers we have to discipline our instincts. We have
to work on the paradigms
that govern our productive
forces. The mind-set of getting by on contacts and privileges is unacceptable. Reality
abhors evasion.
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n a first major reforms
initiative by the Modi
Government, the Cabinet
on Wednesday gave a goahead to FDI cap hike in
insurance to 49 per cent
with a rider that management control will remain in
the hands of Indian promoters.
T h e m ov e k i c k s o f f
expectations of relaxation of
FDI norms in railways and
defence as well in the coming days.
The Cabinet’s approval
to hike the FDI limit from
the current 26 per cent, a
proposal which has been
pending since 2008, is
expected to attract long
t e r m c ap i t a l , b e s i d e s
i mp r ov i n g t h e ov e r a l l
investment climate. The
decision is expected to pave
way for inflow of as much
as C25,000 crore foreign
funds in the sector.
“The
CCEA
has
approved raising of FDI cap
in insurance sector to 49 per
cent from 26 per cent,”
sources said, adding that
all investment proposals
beyond 26 per cent will
have to be approved by the
FIPB and Indian promoters
will continue to have the
control of the management.
Wi t h t h e C a b i n e t
approving the amendments
to the long pending
In s u r a n c e
L aw s
(Amendment) Bill, it will
n ow b e t a k e n u p by
Parliament.
According to KPMG, the
h i g h e r c ap c ou l d fe t c h
investments up to C25,000
crore. “Once there is proper clarity on the interpretation of control by Indian
promoter, the additional
foreign capital expected
across life, health and general insurance companies is
between C20,000 to C25,000
c r o r e s ,” K P M G ( In d i a )
Partner Shashwat Sharma
said.
After the Bill is passed
by Parliament the same
norms for foreign investment will apply to the pen-
sion sector as well.
“ We w e l c o m e t h e
C a b i n e t’s ap p r o v a l t o
increase FDI limit in insurance from 26 to 49 per cent
with full Indian management and control, as it will
help in attracting the much
needed long term capital
for the sector which can
have multiplier effect on
the state of economy, espe-
cially in meeting the huge
inf rastr ucture f inancing
requirements,” commented
CII Director General
Chandrajit Banerjee on the
FDI approval.
C h a i r m a n o f Fi c c i’s
Insurance Committee and
MD & CEO of HDFC Life
In s u r a n c e
Amitabh
Chaudhry said the proposed
FDI cap increase will hope-
fully drive capital infusion
in the insurance sector and
revive growth.
“Given that the (insurance) industr y has witnessed muted growth in
recent times, this move will
further enable the industry
to serve millions of underinsured Indians, improve
life and health insurance
coverage and provide long
term savings vehicles,” he
added.
Wi t h t h e C a b i n e t
approving the amendments
to the long pending
In s u r a n c e
L aw s
(Amendment) Bill, it will
n ow b e t a k e n u p by
Parliament.
As s o c h a m P r e s i d e nt
Rana Kapoor said liberalisation in the insurance sector will send an important
signal to the global investors
about the earnestness of the
Na r e n d r a
Mo d i
Government to go ahead
with the financial sector
reforms.
“FDI in insurance sector
will also strengthen the capital flows in the coming
time... It would go a long
way to rebuild investment
sentiments in the country,”
PHD
Chamber
of
C o m m e r c e & In d u s t r y
President Sharad Jaipuria
said.
There are about two
dozen private sector insurance firms both in life and
non-life segment. Industry
chamber Ficci said foreign
players will enterinsurance
as well as the pension sector
at this opportune time when
the country is in need of
foreign investments.
“This move should bring
in the much required longterm capital for the sector. It
will also bring in domain
capital which is of critical
importance in this phase of
growth of life insurance
i n d u s t r y,”
Ma x
Life
In s u r a n c e C E O & M D
Rajesh Sud said.
In his Budget 2014-15
speech, Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley had said that
t he i ns u r an c e s e c tor i s
invest ment st ar ve d and
there is a need to increase
the composite cap in the
sector to 49 per cent, with
full Indian management and
control, through the FIPB
route.
The move would help
insurance firms to get much
needed capital from overseas
partners.
The proposal to raise
FDI cap has been pending
since 2008 when the previous UPA Government introduced the Insurance Laws
(Amendment) Bill to hike
foreign holding in insurance
joint ventures to 49 per cent
from the existing 26 per
cent.
However, the Bill could
not be taken up in the Rajya
Sabha because of opposition
from several political parties,
including the BJP.
The insurance sector was
opened up for private sector
in 2000 after the enactment
of the Insurance Regulatory
and Development Authority
Act, 1999 (IRDA Act, 1999).
This Act permitted foreign shareholding in insurance companies to the extent
of 26 per cent with an aim to
provide better insurance coverage and to augment the
flow of long term resources
for financing infrastructure.
The industry has been
demanding for long that
the FDI limit be raised so as
to attract adequate funds
for the expansion of the
sector.
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announced a 29.5 per cent
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growth in consolidated net profit for April-June period, helped
by large deals in application and
infrastructure space as well as
return of discretionary spending
in the North American market.
Bangalore-headquartered
firm had posted a net profit of
C1,623.3 crore in the year-ago
period, it said in a BSE filing.
Consolidated net sales of the
country’s third largest IT services
firm rose 15.5 per cent to
C11,245.5 crore in April-June
quarter this fiscal from C9,733.2
crore in the same quarter of
2013-14. Figures are in IFRS.
Wipro Chairman Azim
Premji said: “We see a significant
rise in business confidence in
developed markets as well as
India.”
The new Government at
the Centre has brought about
hope and confidence in the
minds of all stakeholders
through reform pronouncements with fiscal prudence, he
added.
In US dollars, Wipro report-
ed a net profit of $351 million
and revenue of $1.9 billion.
Revenue from IT Services
stood at $1.74 billion, a quarteron-quarter increase of 1.2 per
cent and year-on-year increase of
9.6 per cent. Wipro had guided
this to be in the range of $1.715
billion-$1.755 billion.
For the July-September
quarter, the IT services revenue
is forecast to be in the range of
$1.77 billion-$1.81 billion.
“We continue to win large
deals particularly in the application and infrastructure space.
We recently announced our
largest ever total outsourcing
deal,” Wipro CEO TK Kurien
said.
Speaking to reporters in
Bangalore after the result
announcements, Kurien said
Wipro had a quarter-on-quarter
revenue growth of 1.2 per cent,
which was in line with the guidance.
On the demand environment, he said: “Demand continues to hold steady. In North
America, we see return of discretionary spending, while
Continental Europe continues to
have significant potential for
outsourcing IT services.”
“We see strong demand in
healthcare and life sciences
which grew 20 per cent y-o-y in
revenue this quarter. Business
momentum is improving in
manufacturing & hi-tech, while
we challenges in retail,” Kurien
said.
On service lines, global
infrastructure services continue
to score good wins with a
sequential growth of 5 per cent.
The business in India and
Middle East also witnessed good
growth.
Analysts said the April-June
quarter has been lukewarm for
the country’s third largest IT services firm.
“Its been a lukewarm period overall for IT industry at large,
including Wipro. That said, few
contracts over the last quarter has
helped Wipro get access to more
high-profile deals at a time when
outsourcing demand looks
stronger compared to previous
years,” Greyhound Research
CEO Sanchit Vir Gogia said.
Wipro shares today closed
higher by 1.31 per cent at Rs
576.80 apiece at the BSE.IT
Services revenue in rupee terms
was C10,510 crore, anincrease of
18 per cent year-on-year.
The IT services segment
had 147,452 employees as of June
30, 2014 and the firm added 35
new customers for the quarter.
“We continue to drive operational efficiency and invest in
our strategy. Operating margins for the quarter was on
expected lines, impacted largely due to wage hikes,” Wipro
CFO Suresh Senapaty said.
The decline in profit and
margins is mainly due to the
wage hikes, he added.
“We gave average eight
per cent wage hikes to offshore
employees and two per cent to
onsite employees. About 80-90
per cent of the decline in
profits and margins is due to
the wage hikes,” Senapaty
added.
to help new promoter raise stake
in the company, Cairn India has
loaned out $1.25 billion to
Vedanta Group, leading to its
stock dropping by the most in
five years.
Cairn, which has already disbursed $800 million out of the
total loan of $1.25 billion, made
the loan disclosure after analysts
raised doubts on utilisation of
cash reserves.
Its spokesperson said, “the
loan has been extended for two
years at floating rate of 3 per cent
plus LIBOR after requisite
approvals, which is significantly
higher than comparable rates
being received on fixed deposits
of same tenor.”
Cairn refused to disclose
when the board decided to
extend the loan or if sharehold-
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regulator Sebi to crack down
on ponzi schemes and
investment frauds was
approved by the Cabinet
on Thursday.
Following the CCEA
approval, the Securities Laws
(Amendment) Bill will be
introduced in Parliament.
“The
Cabinet
Committee on Economic
Affairs has cleared the Sebi
Bill,” an official source said.
The Bill seeks to give
Sebi sweeping powers like
attachment of properties,
launch of recovery proceedings, seeking call data
records to investigate cases
and ordering search and
seizure against manipulators
and fraudsters.
The previous UPA
Government had sought to
empower the market regulator to deal with ponzi
schemes through an
Ordinance, which was promulgated thrice. However,
the Ordinance could not be
passed by Parliament which
is necessary for making in
an Act.
ers’ nod was required for doing
a related party transaction.
Vedanta Group holds 59.90 per
cent stake in Cairn India.
Under the new Companies
Act which came into effect from
April 1, companies need to take
shareholder nod for related party
transactions.
Cairn India on Wednesday
held its annual general meeting
of shareholders in Mumbai but
did not make any disclosures of
the loan.
Shares slumped 6.67 percent,
the most since April 16, 2009, to
close at C322.65 on the BSE.
Goldman Sachs Global
Investment Research said: “Such
related party transaction typically
raise market concerns about
conflict of interest on the most
shareholder-friendly way of
deploying surplus cash.”
Cairn, which had on
Wednesday stated that it had cash
of C13,561 crore in rupee funds
and $922 million in dollar funds
on June 30, had in January
announced a share buyback programme that would give Vedanta
greater control of the firm.
It bought 36.7 million shares
for C1,225 crore and extinguished
them, resulting in promoter
shareholding rising from 58.76
per cent to 59.90 per cent.
Vedanta group shareholding
would have gone up to 64.53 per
cent had Cairn been able to buy
all the 170.9 million share it had
intended to buyback for up to
C5,725 crore. It could not as Cairn
share traded higher than C335
offered.
The loan was advanced in
the middle Cairn India’s three
year $3 billion exploration cam-
paign to drill for more oil.
“The company’s 3 year capex
plan of $3 billion, which includes
both development and production, is well supported with its
current cash reserves of $3 billion
and is further bolstered with its
annualised operational inflows of
over $1.5 billion.
“As such, considering the
exploration oriented focus and its
advancement plan over the next
2 years, the company is adequately funded,” the spokesperson said.
Analysts said if Cairn did not
have a better usage of its cash, it
should have rewarded its shareholders buy way of bonus etc.
“This being a related party transaction, prior approvalof the Audit
Committee was taken and the
transaction has been effected on
arm’s length principal.
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announced that Abu Dhabi
National Energy Company
(TAQA) is withdrawing from
the nearly C10,000 crore deal
to acquire its two hydel
power projects.
It is great setback for the
c omp any, a s t he d e a l ,
announced in March this
year, would have helped
Jaypee Group to pare its
debt.
TAQA Ind i a Powe r
Ventures Ltd has decided to
withdraw from its agreement
w it h Jaipr a k a s h Powe r
Ventures Ltd ( JPVL) to
a c qu i re B as p a I I and
Karcham Wangtoo hydro
proj e c t s i n Hi m a ch a l
Pradesh, Jaypee Group said
in a statement.
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the Abu Dhabi based company TAQA has decided to
undo its agreement with
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a change in their business
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Chairman Manoj Gaur said.
He also emphasised that
the development would not
impact its commitment to
reduce debt to C45,000 crore
by March next year.
The break up fee to be
paid by TAQA is estimated to
be over C500 crore, a source
said.
The deal entailed selling
JPVL’s two hydel projects,
together having a generation capacity of about 1,300
MW, for an enterprise value
of C9,689 crore.
Describing the move as
“sudden and unexpected”,
t he g roup s ai d it w a s
informed by TAQA that they
had some compelling reasons
forcing them to review their
investment strategy and opt
out of the transaction.
In a filing to the BSE,
JVPL said that TAQA was
“constrained to take the said
decision as a result of a
change in the business strategy and priorities of their
group”.
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buyer’s prerogative to opt
out of the deal, but as per the
agreement, they will have to
pay to JPVL the break away
fee,” the statement noted.
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Sebi by names ranging from
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‘activist’ to ‘dragon’, the regulatory
authority’s Chairman UK Sinha
on Thursday said that corporates
should actually fear activism
and powers of their investors.
Addressing an industry
event here on Thursday, Sinha
said that the public activism has
for long showing its impact on
politics and a similar trend was
now being seen in corporate
world also, as shareholders have
powers to vote on company
proposals and these powers are
being exercised.
“We were told that we
(companies) are dealing with
multiple regulators, multiple
agencies and multiple bosses. That is a very generic
complaint. It is a very fair
point.
“... We (Sebi) have been
blamed in the past to be an
activist. In fact, they have
blamed that Sebi has become
a dragon”, Sinha said at the
1 7 8 t h A n nu a l G e n e r a l
Meeting of Madras Chamber
of Commerce.
Recently, a senior industry leader said Sebi was
becoming like a dragon for
the corporate world, while
similar comments have been
made in the past also including those accusing Sebi of
acting like an activist.
“I would like to explain
that whether we have acted
like an dragon and if so,
why?”, he said, while adding
that times have changed and
people (shareholders) who
have been remaining quiet in
the past are wanting to be
heard.
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arket regulator Sebi has
tweaked the investment
limits for foreign portfolio
investors
(FPI)
in
Government securities by
increasing the threshold for
general investors from $20 billion to $25 billion.
At the same time, the sublimit for longer time FPIs
such as sovereign funds has
been reduced by $5 billion as
there was less demand in this
category.
The overall cap remain
unchanged at $30 billion.
The previous cap of $10
billion had been utilised by
only about 20 per cent in this
category. The $20 billion limit
for general FPIs has been
always fully exhausted.
The decision comes after
Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
relaxed sub-limit for foreign
institutional investors in government bonds by $5 billion.
“It has been decided to
enhance the investment limit
in government securities
available to all FPIs by $5 billion by correspondingly
reducing the amount available
to long term FPIs from $10
billion to $5 billion within the
overall limit of $30 billion,”
Securities and Exchange
Board of India (Sebi) said in
a circular.
Long-term investors
include sovereign wealth
funds (SWFs), multilateral
agencies, pension, insurance
funds and foreign central
banks registered with Sebi.
Earlier this year, the limit
for long-term investors for
investment in Government
securities was raised from $5
billion to $10 billion within
the total limit of $30 billion
available to them.
Sebi, however, said the
increment investment limit
of $5 billion shall be required
to be put in government
bonds with a minimum residual maturity of three years.
It further said, all future
investment against the limit
vacated when the current
investment by an FPI runs off
either through sale or redemption would also be required to
be made in Government
bonds with a minimum residual maturity of three years.
“...There will be no lockin period and FPIs shall be
free to sell the securities
(including those that are
presently held with less than
three years of residual maturity) to the domestic
investors,” Sebi said.
FPIs encompasses all foreign institutional investors
(FIIs), their sub-accounts and
qualified foreign investors
(QFI) under a new regime
which has been effective from
June 1. The new regime
divides FPIs into three categories as per their risk profile
and the KYC (know your
client) requirements.
Sebi said that FPIs, which
had acquired debt limits in the
auction held earlier this week,
may utilise the limit as per the
previous limits.
In the auction held on July
22 for Government bonds,
such securities attracted bids
worth C4,857 crore -- almost
double the amount of such
securities on offer at C2,521
crore.
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investment flows into farm sector, rural infrastructure and
housing in villages.
"I don't want to say that
nothing has been done but still
we have miles to go. Capital formation in agriculture which is
the key to the development of the
rural infrastructure. That is the
one area where we are still hugely lacking," he said at a function
organised by Nabard .
"We have embarked upon
rural roads programme,
embarked upon several irrigation (projects). We talk about
affordable housing in urban
areas but rural housing is still not
being mentioned as part of larger national agenda," Jaitley said.
The government therefore
has decided to provide housing
for all in the next few years.
Besides, it would be government's endeavour to provide power to all, toilet to all,
clean water to all and reasonable
access to rural roads in the next
few years, he added.
"It's difficult and challenging
but absence of this can never give
us satisfaction," he said.
Praising the efforts of
National Bank for Agriculture
and Rural Development
(Nabard), Jaitley said it has
played key role in development
of rural India which comprises
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inched up by 4.5 per cent in the
April-June quarter of the current fiscal due to decline in custom duty and excise duty collections, reflecting slump in
manufacturing activity.
Indirect tax collections
comprising excise, customs
and service tax stood at about
Rs 1,13,570 crore in the first
quarter of 2014-15 fiscal, as
against Rs 1,08,639 crore in the
corresponding period a year
ago, the finance ministry said
in release.
The growth at 4.5 per cent
is far less than 25 per cent
increase envisaged in the
Budget for the full 2014-15 fiscal.
Excise collection contracted 0.2 per cent during the quarter to over C35,159 crore.
Customs mop up has
declined by 3.1 per cent to over
C39,549 crore during AprilJune period against C40,796
crore in the same period a year
ago.
Service tax collection,
which has become a new focus
area for revenue officials, grew
by 19.1 per cent to C 38,862
crore during the period, the
statement said.
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Chairperson Arundhati
SBhattacharya
on Thursday
said the Reserve Bank is likely to keep interest rate intact
in its upcoming monetary
policy review next month.
"I think status quo is more
likely," she said when asked
what her expectation was
from RBI policy review.
On capital requirement,
Bhattacharya said: "There are
various scenarios, various
requirements...At this point of
time when the credit growth
is not too much I am not seeing any immediate requirement. But going ahead, of
course there will be requirement on the capital front."
For the current fiscal, the
bank has not taken a decision
on how much to raise, she
said on the sidelines of an
event organised by Nabard
here.
Reserve Bank is scheduled to announce its bimonthly monetary policy on
August 3.
It is largely believed that
RBI is going to keep interest
rate intact as there is pressure
on inflation due to deficient
rainfall in the country.
Prices of some of the food
articles like onion, tomato
and potatoes have firmed up
in the recent past.
In the last policy review in
June, RBI chose not to tinker
with the policy rate. Thus it
was the second consecutive
time that RBI Governor
Raghuram Rajan kept interest
rates unchanged.
The repo rate, at which
the RBI lends to banks, was
retained at 8 per cent and the
cash reserve ratio (CRR) was
kept unchanged at 4 per cent.
The statutory liquidity
ratio (SLR), the mandatory
amount of bonds lenders
must park at the RBI, was cut
by 0.5 per cent to 22.5 per
cent of their net demand and
time liabilities (NDTL) with
effect from June 14.
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to eighth straight day,
Sensex on Thursday ended at
a new peak of 26,271.85 and
Nifty scaled 7,800 mark for the
first time at close as FIIs continued to pour in money
enthused by
steps to attract
overseas
investment
and encouraging corporate earnings.
Besides,
positive cues
from Asia
after strong
Chinese manufacturing
data kept the
sentiment on
a firm footing although indices
showed signs of profit-booking early on.
Metal, IT and FMCG
counters were in demand
while some of the consumer
durable, pharma and power
stocks saw investors taking
some profit off the table, said
traders.
Sensex-based shares like
ITC, Infosys, RIL, HDFC
Bank, Tata Steel, HUL,
Hindalco and Wipro notched
up handsome gains and kept
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=4F 34;78) The Government
may soon take a decision on
easing FDI in Railways and
Defence sectors, with the
Department of Industrial Policy
and Promotion awaiting final
comments from the concerned
ministries to put these proposals for consideration of the
Union Cabinet.
"The CCEA has approved
the 49 per cent FDI in insurance
and the Cabinet notes for
Railways, Defence are under the
final consultative process. Once
we get the final comments, we
will put them up to the Cabinet
for approval shortly," DIPP
Secretary Amitabh Kant said on
the sidelines of the CII Invest
North Summit here on
Thursday.
The Government proposes
to hike the foreign direct investment (FDI) ceiling in the sensitive defence sector to 49 per
cent from 26 per cent, ensuring
control in Indian hands, for
boosting domestic industry of
a country which imports up to
70 per cent of its military hardware.
Besides, it also plans to ease
FDI norms for the cash-starved
Railways.
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the momentum on the positive
side.
The benchmark BSE S&P
30-share Sensex moved in a
narrow range and mostly in
negative terrain till afternoon,
but buying in the last session
pushed up the Sensex by
124.52, or 0.48 per cent, to end
at 26,271.85. It
also recorded
intra-day high
of 26,292.66.
Both intra-day
high and closing level values
surpassed their
previous peaks.
In eight
days, its longest
winning streak
s i n c e
September
2012, the gauge
has now rallied 1,265 points.
The Sensex has increased 24
per cent this year so far, the
best among major global markets, as FIIs have pumped $ 12
billion in shares.Similarly, the
50-issue CNX Nifty of the NSE
improved by 34.85 points, or
0.45 per cent, to end above
7,800-mark for the first time
in the history at 7,830.60. It
registered new intra-trade
peak of 7,835.65. In eight
days, Nifty has rallied 376.45
points.
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structure company Bharti
Infratel on Thursday reported 29.4 per cent jump in net
profit to C462.8 crore for the
April-June quarter of 201415 and it will invest C 1,345.7
crore in capital expenditure
by the end of this fiscal.
The mobile tower company had reported a net profit of C 357.6 crore in the same
quarter last year, according to
a filing to the BSE stock
exchange.
Bharti Infratel has plans
to invest C1,345.7 crore in
capital expenditure, that
include s e tt ing up ne w
mobile towers and operational expenses, in this fiscal.
T h e c ap e x i n clu d e s
C425.3 crore for setting up
new towers, C530.7 crore for
upgradation and replacement
of some of its existing towers
and C 276.8 crore on green
technologies at its mobile
towe rs s ite s , t he f i l i ng
showed.
The company had raised
C 3 , 1 6 5 . 7 c rore i n 2 0 1 2
though its initial public offer
for installation of 4,813 new
towers.
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et Airways and its 24 per cent
equity partner Etihad on
Thursday announced a 20-50
per cent special limited period
discount on fares across 135
international destinations of the
two carriers.
"Both economy and business class travellers of Jet
Airways and Etihad Airways
availing this special offer will
enjoy a flat 20-50 per cent discount over regular fares, which
is to celebrate the strategic
alliance," a release said here.
The 72-hour introductory
joint special fare offer will be
available from July 25 to July 27
for a travel period between
September 1 and June 15, 2015
for flights within India and
between September 1 and
November 30 this year for flights
to international destinations,
the release said.
The offer, however, will be
limited for tickets purchased in
India and for travel in business
and economy classes of both the
airlines, it said.
Naresh Goyal's Jet Airways
became the first Indian carrier
to accept investment from a foreign airline after the government
relaxed foreign direct investment
norms for the domestic airline
operators about two years ago.
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Jet Airways last year, marking
the first FDI by a foreign carrier.
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time the then government had
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"The special introductory
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formalisation of the strategic
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tanks on Thursday
shelled a UN-run school in
Ithesraeli
Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip,
killing 15 people and wounding dozens who took shelter
there, amid frantic international diplomatic efforts to end
the bloodshed that has left
770 Palestinians and 34 Israelis
dead so far.
Israeli tanks shells hit a
compound housing a UN
school in Beit Hanoun in
northern Gaza Strip, killing at
least 15 people and wounding
200 others, Gaza health ministry said on the 17th day of the
war.
Reports said that pools of
blood stained the school courtyard and the desks. Books and
belongings were scattered and
there was a large scorch mark
in the premises marking the
place where one of the shells
hit. The attack came amidst
heavy fighting throughout the
coastal territory between Israeli
forces and Hamas militants.
Israel focused its attacks on
southeast of Gaza, with residents fleeing areas which came
under heavy bombing.
More than 70 people were
killed in Gaza on Thursday, taking the overall Palestinian toll to
over 770 since Israel launched
its military offensive ‘Operation
Protective Edge’ on July 8.
In another tragic incident,
seven Palestinians were killed
in a series of Israeli air strikes
and tank fire in a flashpoint
area near Khan Yunis in southern Gaza. The latest casualties,
included a family of six with
two young children.
Israeli forces have
destroyed at least 475 houses
while 2,644 have been partially damaged. Some 46 schools,
56 mosques and seven hospitals had also suffered varying
degrees of destruction,
Palestinian officials said.
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Thirty two Israeli soldiers,
two civilians and a Thai worker in Israel have also been
killed in the conflict. One other
soldier remains missing, but is
presumed dead.
As the death toll mounted,
UN Human Rights Council
yesterday ordered a probe into
Israel’s offensive on Gaza.
India along with Brazil,
Russia, China and South Africa
voted in favour of the
Palestinian-drafted resolution
on “Ensuring Respect for international law in the Occupied
Palestinian Territories, including East Jerusalem”.
Israel’s close ally US was
the only one of the 47 member
states to oppose the probe supported by 29 countries.
Describing UNHCR as a
“kangaroo court”, Israel
slammed the move as a “travesty”. “This investigation by a
kangaroo court is a foregone
conclusion,” the Prime
Minister’s Office said.
Taking a dig at the
UNHCR decision, Israel’s
Foreign Minister Avigdor
Liberman labeled the UN body
as the “council for the rights of
terrorists”.
Prior to the vote, UN High
Commissioner for Human
Rights Navi Pillay warned that
Israel could be committing
war crimes.
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transferring inmates north
of Baghdad left at least 60
dead on Thursday, even as
politicians and diplomats
stepped up efforts to end Iraq’s
worst crisis in years.
Most of those killed in Taji,
25 kilometres (15 miles) north
of Baghdad, were prisoners
whose escort was attacked and
were described by police as
being mostly Sunni militants
charged with terrorism.
Explosions from the attack were
heard in some neighbourhoods
of the capital, where UN chief
Ban Ki-moon landed on
Thursday on an unscheduled
stop in his Middle East tour.
“At least 60 people, prisoners and policemen, were killed
in a suicide attack followed by
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several IEDs (improvised explosive devices) and shooting,” an
Interior Ministry official told
AFP. One security source said
the inmates were being transferred as a precautionary measure after Taji prison was hit by
mortar fire on Wednesday.
However the exact circumstances of the attack were
not immediately clear, nor how
many attackers were dead and
how the prisoners they were
apparently trying to free were
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk has
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announced his resignation fol- Rthey had recovered black
lowing turmoil in Government. boxes from the Taiwanese airYatsenyuk made the
announcement from the dais of
the Parliament after two parties
said they would
pull out of the
governing
coalition.
“I
am
announcing my
resignation in
connect with
the collapse of
the coalition,” Yatsenyuk said.
He said the Parliament
could no longer do its work and
pass necessary laws.
The nationalist Svoboda
party and the Udar party led by
former boxer
Vitali Klitschko pulled out
of the group of legislators that
took over after former
President Viktor Yanukovich
was ousted by protesters seeking closer ties with the
European Union.
craft which crashed in torrential rain killing 48 people, as
angry relatives blamed authorities for the worst air disaster in
a decade.
The discovery of the black
boxes — which record cockpit
voice and other in-flight data —
raised hopes of an answer to
what caused the domestic
TransAsia Airways flight to
crash in Magong in the Penghu
island chain on Wednesday,
with just 10 survivors. The
ATR 72-500 propeller plane
was carrying 54 passengers and
four crew members when it
plunged into eight houses in
Magong on its way from
Kaohsiung in southwestern
Taiwan, injuring five people on
the ground, officials said. Two
French medical students were
among the dead, the Foreign
Ministry in Paris said.
Flight GE222 was trying to
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land for the second time after
aborting the first attempt during thunder and heavy rain as
Typhoon Matmo pounded
Taiwan. Investigators are looking into the cause of the crash,
including why the plane was
cleared to fly in bad weather.
killed. The bus was believed to
be transporting around 60 prisoners and medics said that
some 50 of those killed in the
pre-dawn attack were inmates.
Government forces were
recently accused by rights watchdogs of having executed more
than 250 prisoners since June 9.
Among the allegations are
that members of the Iraqi security forces shot prisoners, on the
grounds they were sympathetic to advancing forces from the
Islamic State (IS) jihadist group,
that jails were set on fire and that
grenades were tossed into cells.
Since it launched a sweeping offensive on June 9, IS and
allied Sunni groups have conquered the country’s second
city of Mosul, overrun large
swathes of five provinces and
declared a “caliphate” straddling Iraq and Syria.
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raq’s Parliament on Thursday
Ipolitician
elected veteran Kurdish
Fuad Masum as
Federal President, a move that
paves the way for the muchdelayed formation of a new
Government.
He succeeds the ailing Jalal
Talabani, who returned only
five days ago from 18 months
of medical treatment in
Germany to serve out his
tenure.
Parliament Speaker Salim
al-Juburi announced that
Masum, who was born in 1938
and became the first Prime
Minister of autonomous Iraqi
Kurdistan more than two
decades ago, had garnered the
most votes.
Masum was almost guaranteed the job after Kurdish
parties struck a late night deal
to support him. Under an
unofficial power-sharing deal,
Iraq’s Kurds traditionally get
the post of President.
Masum won 211 votes
while his challenger only managed 17 in the second round,
according to figures announced
by Juburi.
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ehadis in Iraq have ordered
that all women between the
ages of 11 and 46 must undergo female genital mutilation,
which could affect up to four
million women and girls in the
war-ravaged country, a UN
official said on Thursday.
The UN’s second most
senior official in Iraq,
Jacqueline Badcock, said, “It is
a fatwa (or religious edict)
from ISIS, we learnt about it
this morning. We have no precise numbers.”
The Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of
Iraq and the Levant (ISIS),
took over large swathes of the
country last month and has
begun imposing its extreme
Salafist interpretation of Islam.
Badcock said that if you
took UN population figures as
a guide, around “four million
girls and women could be
affected”.
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is unusual in Iraq and is only
practised in “certain isolated
pockets of the countr y”,
she added.
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from the ancient Christian
minority now remain in Mosul,
the northern Iraq city which
ISIS has taken as the capital of
its Islamic state. Most have
reportedly fled north into
Kurdish-controlled territory.
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Christians have converted to
Islam, while others have opted
to stay and pay the jiyza, the tax
on non-Muslim’s ISIS has
imposed.
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defamation notice to cricketer-turnedpolitician Imran Khan. Khan, chief of
the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf party (PTI),
had said that Chaudhry as chief justice
of Pakistan failed to stop rigging in the
general election of 2013 and thus indirectly helped his rivals to win the polls.
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by the lawyers of Chaudhry for maligning the top judiciary of the country and
bringing the former judge to disrepute.
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sum of Rs 15 billion only and another Rs
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caused to me as well as my family,” said
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eye of his 58-year-old father Babar
Suleman to try to set a world record and
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networking websites, searching stuff on Google… now everything’s available at hand! We are
not talking about your phone, but
a smartwatch that rests on your
wrist. After mobile phones,
smartwatches have caught the
world’s fancy as big players like
Samsung, LG, Motorola and Apple
are injecting a fresh impetus to the
evolving industry. While Samsung’s
Gear Live is impressing geeks for its
add-on features, Motorola’s Moto 360
is earning brownie points for its fashionable design. The latter is expected to
hit Indian markets soon. According to
reports, the smartwatch market is set to
reach a total of 15 million smartwatches shipped worldwide, up from five million this year. Growth is expected to continue , with the market hitting nearly 37
million watches shipped in 2015.
However, the smartwatches in India
are still finding their feet. They are bought
either by geeks or businessmen who
would not like to miss out even a single
mail. “The smartwatches are picking up
gradually. It’s still at nascent stage and
there’s a long way to go,” says tech analyst Ashish Bhatia. A smartwatch provides live access to certain kinds of information and intelligent features to try and
add more convenience to your life.
Some models have
built-in flash drives.
Others have voice,
gesture control,
cloud data and builtin activity trackers.
Most smartwatches
allow you to text and
tweet from your
wrist.
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Like a newborn baby,
smartwatches, too, are evolving with each passing day. As of
now, smartwatches lack the wow factor
to draw customers. Most of the smartwatches available are extensions of smartphones. They connect with phones via
Bluetooth and enhance its functionality.
One can derive information from a
watch by looking at it rather than poking it like a phone. These watches bring
messaging, PIMs and other apps to your
wrist so you don’t have to fiddle with your
device all the time. “I think they are dumb
because they are not independent.
Connectivity too is not hassle-free.
Sometimes, they behave errantly and are
not in sync with phone. In a way, you
have to put in efforts like bringing it closer to throat to make it hear or ensure
flawless Bluetooth connectivity,” observes
tech expert Ankit Tuteja. There’s also a
big difference in what
these companies are
charging and what they
are
offering.
Smartwatches come
with minor advantagess. According to
industr y experts,
there’s no cutting edge
or path-breaking
invention so far which
can actually lure customers. Design and battery life are other shortcomings that need to be
addressed. “Also, the smartwatch only
goes well with the phone of the similar brand. It is useless once you
change the phone,” says Bhatia.
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into outdoor adventure so I am unable
to carry too many devices. This watch
helps me with navigating directions, altitude, my heartbeat, two different time
zones, compass and thermometer. This
one device is enough to solve all my
problems. It’s a touch screen and it doesn’t attract scratches because of titanium,”
says Suneja. While it may be too early
to relate it to a lifestyle order, people
have begun discussing the advent of
wearable technologies. Google Glass has
also made an impact in the West.
“People are discussing it actively on
online forums. The forthcoming years
will be dominated by wrist-worn trackers, smartphones-connected watches
and futuristic Google Glasses,”
says Dhanya Thakkar, MD, India
& SAARC, Trend Micro.
Although consumers
are wary of wearable technology, it has not stopped
them from talking about it.
There is curiosity value
and niche demand. There
are very few who are interested in wearing a smartwatch. Tushar Suneja, a
dentist by profession, is
also an adventure enthusiast. He owns a Tissot Ttouch worth C50,000. “It’s
like an investment. I am more
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If smartwatches can speak
language or predict behaviour,
they can be of better help,
especially since all currently
conceivable wearable devices
involve limited screen space.
With no space for haptic
input, we need to be able to
have a ‘conversation’ with
these devices. “Voice and artificial intelligence together
should be the main ingredients
for wearable computing, and as
of now, they are not yet advanced
enough. If smartwatches only boil down
to another notification platform, I don’t
believe that would make much sense.
Users have a personal hierarchy of
what kind of information is important.
Real time must become the right time,
based on their context,” says Thomas van
Manen, a digital trend expert.
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With Apple jumping on the bandwagon, there are fresh hopes pinned on
the emerging market. The US-based
company has just bought a patent
‘iWatch’ and is reportedly working with
Swatch group to manufacture a family
of smartwatches to suit all tastes “from
geek to chic.” As Tuteja says, “Apple redefined the concept of smartphones for the
world. We can expect a similar trend in
the watch industry. However, it is too
early to draw conclusions.” Apple’s
‘iWatch’ will likely be seamlessly integrated with the company’s other services
like iPhone, iPad, Mac and iTunes.
Google has also ventured into the sector with its first OS (operating system)
for wearable devices, Android Wear. Can
a smartwatch really compete with the
classics of Titan, Casio, DnG and Fossil?
“Yes eventually they will. Casio has a
smarter watch which has Bluetooth in
it. Titan and Fossil will get there,” says
tech expert Gagandeep Singh Sapra.
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has spoken about his love for sports.
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love is also evident from the kind of films
he decides to do, Patiala House is an example.
A black belter in Taekwondo and an exponent
in martial arts, he has always promoted fitness,
contact and other sports. And now he is the
co-owner of Speedy Singhs
London, one of the teams in the
soon to be launched World
Kabaddi League (WKL), from
August 9 to November 30. He was
recently here to announce his latest association in the sports arena.
Dressed in cool casuals — chest
baring tee and baggy pants
teamed with a black jacket, the
actor shared that the name of his
team draws inspiration from the
2011 movie Speedy Singhs (Hindi
version of Canadian f lick
Breakaway), which was co-produced by the actor. Earlier
Akshay was actively involved
with cricket — he was the brand
ambassador of IPL team Delhi
Daredevils in 2008 and at one
time had also planned to buy one
of the teams in the tournament.
Akshay said, “I like calling
myself a stuntman and sportsman first, then an actor. My
father was from Amritsar, Punjab
and a wrestler himself. I did get
a lot of opportunities to buy a
cricket team but I went ahead
investing in a kabaddi team
because I feel there are other
sports which all of us, should be
a part of. My niece loves basketball and it’s actually nice
to see youngsters going for
different kind of sports.
Cricket is of course a
big sport; it’s a
religion, but I
want other
sports to rise to the fore, especially a sport like
kabaddi which is native to our own country.”
The actor reminisced, “When I was a child, I
used to play kabaddi in my building. Hamare
school me kabaddi nahi hoti thi (We didn’t play
kabaddi in school). Now even my son loves the
sport.”
Today we see celebs taking to alternative
sports by endorsing and investing in sports
other than cricket. But, still when it comes to
India, we remain a cricket-crazy nation.
Akshay agreed that it will definitely take time
for other sports to gain public attention but
with initiatives like WKL, other sports will also
get the required impetus.
The tournament also features
popular industry faces like Sonakshi
Sinha, Yo! Yo! Honey Singh and
Rajat Bedi as stakeholders of their
respective teams. Yo! Yo! Honey
Singh, owner of Yo! Yo! Tigers
Toronto, remarked, “By nature I am
a desi sports person and by choice
I am a musician.” Clad in a casual
printed shirt and a zebra-striped
hat, he stated that he’ll promote the
tournament in a big way and also
requested the support of the youth
for kabaddi. Actress Sonakshi Sinha
who was not in attendance is the coowner of the team United Singhs
Birmingham.
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Bollywood with Jism, John
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Abraham got nominated for the
Filmfare Best Debut Award. When he
vroomed past hapless cops in
Dhoom, John showed us his famous
wispy locks and love for stunt-biking and his style triggered a rage in
the entire nation. John Abraham is
known not only as a successful
model and a versatile actor but in the
recent past, he has also made a mark
as a producer par excellence with a
penchant for offbeat but socially relevant subjects, Vicky Donor and
Madras Cafe are the examples. The
only aspect that binds all the diverse
occupations is a never-ending zeal
for perfection and whole-hearted
dedication to the task at hand. John
is soon going to be seen in reality
television space as are his next projects. The actor was recently here to
inaugurate Toni & Guy salon in
South Extension-II. He looked dapper in casual black and emphasised
on the importance of hair care and
fitness.
“As far as my personal hair care
regimen is concerned, I use basic
stuff like shampoos and conditioners and go for manicure and pedicure, unless I’m shooting in
unfavourable conditions where I
need to take few precautions. But I
suggest youngsters that being hygienic is most important factor,”
shared John who himself “has an
OCD (Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder)” when it comes to
cleanliness or hygiene. He added
that working out is worship for him.
“I think one should follow fitness as
a religion. Being fit comes with its
own perks. I go to gym the way people go to church. When I was growing up there were no actors whom I
could look up to because they were
all larger than life. When I decided
to become an actor, I wanted to be
stylish and concentrate on my fitness.
I feel there is nothing more important than health and workout and
one should take care and nurture the
body we’ve been blessed with.”
Football has been a part of his
DNA since childhood. He has been
a good player and there was a time
when he even aspired to play for the
country. The actor has recently
invested in a football team and is also
a co-owner and brand ambassador of
a hockey franchise, Delhi
Waveriders. Super excited about his
football team, North East United FC,
which will participate in the soon to
be launched Indian Super League,
John said, “Unlike other teams, ours
is not city-specific. It is about the
entire Northeast, so it unites the
entire region.”
John also opened up on his
forthcoming projects, both as an
actor and producer. The
actor who is usually seen as
an action hero is making
a comeback in the comedy genre (after
Housefull 2) with multistarrer Welcome Back
(sequel to the 2007
hit film Welcome).
“Shooting
for
Welcome Back was
fun as well a learning
experience. It has an
ensemble starcast of
Naseeruddin Shah,
Paresh Rawal and
Nana
Patekar,
Dimple Kapadia. It
was good to work
with such senior
actors. Akshay is a good
friend and brilliant actor.
We worked together in
many films. I enjoy
watching his films,” said
John. He will also be
seen in Sanjay Gupta’s
Mumbai Saga, shooting for which will
begin in November.
The soccer enthusiast will be seen donning a different look
in 1911, a sports
biopic on Mohun
Bagan footballer,
Sibdas Bhaduri.
He will dabble in
a leaner avatar in
this
Shoojit
Sircar-directed
period drama. He
also has another
movie, Rocky
Handsome, on the
cards, which is
his home production.
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and sadly places serving traditional Gujarati
cuisine are less here. So it is no wonder that
in less time Shraman at The Ashok, Chanakyapuri,
has found its regulars. The place is highly rated
for its traditional Rajasthani and Gujarati servings.
Shraman is the brainchild of Jairam Banan,
who is known for popular food chains — Sagar
Ratna, Shree Rathnam, Swagath and Ocean
Pearl. The restaurant is already popular among
those who love traditional for it serves authentic Rajasthani, Marwari, Jain and Gujarati cuisine.
The décor in exquisite turquoise represents a perfect dichotomy between rustic and urbane interiors. Floral motifs and Rajasthani village
scenes adorn the off-white plastered walls.
During our recent visit, we chose an
interesting concoction of fresh mixed
fruits, ice cream and grenadine syrup to
begin our meal on a rich note. The pink
frothy drink interspersed with pomegranate and cherries, made for a cool and relaxing start.
The sweet and sour kairi panna with a
tinge of chilli was reminiscent of ghar ka aam
panna. For starters they had an array of street
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Icum-workplaces,
spaces have diversified into cafelounge-cum-corporate seating and so on.
Restaurateurs in town are coming
up with smart ways and utilising
the space available in such a way
that it caters to varied interests.
One such smartly conceptualised
place is Storm Bar and Grill at East
of Kailash. Keeping in mind that
the area is frequently visited by
corporates, students and families,
the huge space is neatly divided
into a dim-lit lounge and a relatively brighter dining area with a bar
comfortably placed in the centre.
“Located in one of the business
hubs of the city, the crowd is either
corporate or families,” said Shamit,
the owner of the place. As we waited for the starters and got chatting,
I was served a chilled glass of
pomegranate
mojito.
Appropriately garnished with mint
leaves, the drink was refreshing.
Shamit informed, “Along with the
place, we have revamped the menu
for the season.”
The menu has been crafted
carefully to offer ample choices to
both vegetarians and non vegetarians. As recommended by chef
Sunil, the head chef, we started our
meal with gahloti kebabs, cigar
rolls and dahi ke kebab. “Gahloti
kebabs are from Lucknow, they
usually are served with crispy
varki parantha.” Dahi ke
kebab was succulent.
While you might expect a
spongy batter beneath the
cornflour crust, the hung curd
immediately melts into your
mouth with the very first bite.
“Cornflour is added to the hung
curd along with a variety of Indian
spices. The curd batter is then
doused into cornflour and deep
fried,” said Sunil.
Cigar rolls are
a must-have for
cheese lovers.
S m o k e d
cheese filled
in small rolls
and dipped
in sweet and
sour sauce in
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will surely leave you asking for
more. The fungi pizza will also
cater to your cheese cravings.
Thin crusted and topped with
molten cheese, the pizza is another must-have.
A glass cupboard of half filled
liquor bottles caught my attention.
It’s called the alcohol library.
“When a big group comes to dine
and orders a bottle of alcohol, there
are times they fail to finish it. In
such cases, we keep the bottle
under the customers’ names, so
that they can consume it the next
time they visit,” Shamit informed.
While the starters were picked up
from across the globe, the main
course had more Indian variants.
Served on a huge platter were jannat-e-numa, paneer lababdaar,
firangi Patiala handi and daal
storm along with butter naan.
While jannat-e-numa and paneer
lababdaar had familiar tastes, the
daal storm and Patiala handi were
a delicious surprise.
“Vegetables like
baby corn, broccoli and three
coloured capsicums are prepared in a desi
handi with myriad
spices,” said the
chef. “Daal storm is
our USP. It is nothing like the daal
makhani that is
available elsewhere,”
added Shamit.
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perfectly there was
fried ice-cream.
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the star here. The crispy mixture of papri and
paan-patta topped with dahi and tangy chutneys
was a delight. The spongy dhoklas and tender
khandvis in Gujarati dhokla and khandvi chaat
made for another good pick. “Our kalmi vada
and nayaab tikki are must-haves,” said the
head chef Deepak. Chef Deepak hails from
Himachal Pradesh but his specialty lies in
traditional Rajasthani delicacies. “Kalmi
vada is made from chana dal paste which
is then fried into dry, crisp cubes. Nayaab
tikki is prepared from hand-pounded cottage cheese added with greens,” said chef
Deepak. We also had a paneer offering which
was way too tangy and sour. Speaking about
its distinct cooking style, chef Deepak said, “The
focus is on following the standard procedure perfectly. We don’t have an innovative style of cooking but we do try to impress our customers with
the balance of ingredients in our preparations. It’s
a case of old wine being served in a new bottle
but without tampering with its quintessence in any
single ounce.”
With a rather promising start, we were
expecting main course items to build upon the
myriad pleasant tastes. However, there was lack
of novelty in Jodhpuri mirch paneer which we
teamed up with not-so-impressive matar paranthas. Even the popular Rajasthani dish dal baati
churma was a tad undercooked and was laced with
dollops of ghee. Bikaneri parantha turned out to
be a saving grace as we found an intrinsic
Rajasthani twist to it. We paired it with an equally flavourful mixed raita.
“All our preparations are without onion and
garlic, living up to the concept of a pure vegetarian restaurant. However, we do provide customised service so that no one returns disappointed. Onion and garlic can be added to food on
demand and so is the case for health-conscious
foodies who can instruct our chefs to cater to their
preferred quantities of ghee, oil, cheese, butter
while ordering,” explained Tarun Singh, general
manager, Shraman.
For desserts, we skipped the popular
Rajasthani ghewar and went for angoori rabdi and
gulab jamun. Angoori rabdi was tender and succulent but was creamy and rich, loaded with nuts.
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20th Commonwealth Games with a
flourish with judokas Navjot Chana
and Shushila Likmabam assuring the
team of at least two medals while the
paddlers, shuttlers and squash players
had easy outings on the opening day of
competitions here on Thursday.
The 30-year-old Chana of Punjab
and Manipuri judoka Sushila, 19, were
the star performers for the Indian contingent as they romped into the finals of
their respective weight categories.
In the men's 60 kg, Chana defeated
Daniel Le Grange of South Africa in just
1 minute and 51 seconds to storm into
the medal round. He will take on Ashley
McKenzie of England in the final later
in the day.
In the women's section, Shushila
Likmabam reached the finals in the 48
kg category defeating Aussie rival Chloe
Rayner in two minutes and 23 seconds.
Sushila got a couple of Wazaris which is
equivalent to an 'Ippon' which finished
the bout. She will lock horns with
Kimberley Renicks of Scotland in the
final.
She had earlier defeated Amy Meyer
of Australia in 2 minutes and 38 seconds
in the quarter-finals while she got better of Mani Medza Effe of Cameroon in
a minute and 41 seconds in the pre quarter finals.
Two more Indians — Kalpana
Thoudam (women's 52kg) and Manjeet
Nandal (men's 66kg) are also in contention for a bronze medal. Both lost in
the quarter-finals but won their respective repechage round bouts to keep
themselves in the reckoning for a bronze
medal.
While the swimmers and cyclists
failed to make much of an impact, it
turned out to be a relatively sweat-free
day for the paddlers, shuttlers and
squash players as they trounced their
first round opponents.
In badminton, India spanked minnows Ghana 5-0 in a Group B match of
the mixed team event.
India hardly broke any sweat as
Parupalli Kashyap started the proceeding, thrashing Daniel Sam 21-6 21-16 in
a 27-minute men's singles match to put
his team in the driver's seat right from
the start.
World Championship bronze medallist P V Sindhu then taught Stella
Amasah a lesson or two in badminton
with a 21-7 21-5 victory in the women's
singles competition to give India a 2-0
lead.
Men's doubles pair of Akshay
Dewalkar and Pranaav Chopra thrashed
Emmanuel Donkor and Abraham
Ayittey 21-7 21-11 in just 22 minutes to
make it 3-0 in India's favour.
Commonwealth Games gold medallist pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini
Ponnappa then took another 17 minutes
to brush aside EvelynBotwe and Diana
Archer as India continued their rampaging run.
Finally, P C Thulasi and Kidambi
Srikanth -- both singles players -- paired
up and trounced another makeshift
combination of Sam and Amasah 21-5
21-9 in a mixed doubles match to put an
end to Ghana's misery at the Emirates
Arena.
India will next take on Uganda.
Indian men and women's table tennis team made a comfortable start by
defeating Vanuatu and Barbados respectively at the Scotstoun Sports Campus.
The women's team, surprise silver
medallists in Delhi four years ago,
blanked Barbados 3-0 courtesy a clinical performance by Shamini Kumaresan,
Manika Batra and Madhurika Patkar.
India's top player Sharath Kamal was
rested for men's team opener against
Vanuatu. Harmeet Desai won the first
singles against Ham Lulu 11-2, 11-3, 115. Southpaw Sanil Shetty then defeated
Yoshua Shing 11-6, 11-2, 7-11, 11-1.
Shetty and Anthony Amalraj paired
up for the doubles to give India a 3-0
win. They beat Alan Lin and Shing 116, 11-5, 11-4.
In squash, India's Anaka
Alankamony, Harinder Pal Sandhu and
Mahesh Mangaonkar won their respective opening singles convincingly.
Sandhu defeated Northern Ireland's
Michael Craig 11-9, 11-5, 11-5.
India's best male player and fourth
seed Saurav Ghosal was to take on Jules
Snagg of Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines later on Friday.
Indian swimmer Sajan Prakash
failed to advance to the men's 400m
freestyle final after clocking 3:59:29 in
his heat.
Prakash came fourth in heat number 2 but finished at the 20th spot overall in a field of 28 swimmers at the
Tollcross International centre.
In men's 100m freestyle S9, Indian
Para swimmer Prasanta Karmakar, who
had won a bronze medal at the 2010
Commonwealth Games, clocked 1.04.86
to qualify for the final after finishing
fourth in heat.
Indian cyclists did not have an ideal
start to their campaign as they failed to
qualify for the finals of both men's sprint
event and Men's 400m team pursuit on
the opening day of the track cycling
competition.
In the men's sprint qualifying round,
three Indians — Amarjit Nagi, Amrit
Singh and Alan Baby finished a poor
22nd, 23rd and 25th, respectively in a
field of 28 cyclists.
While Amarjit took 11.114 seconds
to finish the race, Amrit timed 11.193
seconds and Alan 11.885. India finished
at the bottom in the qualifying round of
the Men's 4000 metres team pursuit.
Indian team comprising of Suresh
Bishnoi, Amit Kumar, Manjeet Singh
and Sombir ended at sixth position with
a timing of 4:31.714. First four teams out
of six advanced to the final.
Reigning Commonwealth Games
men's squash singles champion Nick
Matthew is safely through to the round
of 32 in the 2004 event after taking less
than an hour to see off Xavier Koening
of Mauritius 11-3, 11-3, 11-1.
The world number two was given
the honour of being England's flag barrier at the opening ceremony at Celtic
Park on Wednesday night and his good
mood continued with a straight-forward
victory over the part-time solicitor at the
Scotstoun Sports Campus. Matthew
dropped just seven points against an
opponent who entered the arena forgetting his racquet.
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Alankamony breezed past Kenya's crowd after Scotland's Alan Clyne, the
Khaleqa Nimji 11-2, 11-3, 11-6 to reach world number 35, defeated Kevin
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11-1, 11-2, 11-2. Many of the world's best
Campus.
India's top female player Dipika in the women's singles have been given
Pallikal and the experienced Joshana byes to the round of 16 which gets
Chinappa have been given first round underway on Thursday evening.
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In the men's singles, Mangaonkar pion Nicol David of Malaysia starts her
made short work of Kenya's Hardeep campaign against Vanessa Florens of
Reel in the round of 64. He faces a Mauritius while Laura Massaro takes on
mighty challenge later in the day when Lynette Vai of Papua New Guinea.
The singles' finals in both the men's
he will meet England's third seed Peter
Barker. Barker hammered Manda and women's events take place on
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head of the third Test between
India and England at the Rose
Bowl in Hampshire, head
groundsman Nigel Gray on Thursday
said it will be a "good pitch" with a covering of grass on it. "It's firm, there is
a covering of grass on it, so it is looking like it will be a good pitch to me,"
Gray told BBC Radio of the Rose Bowl
pitch that awaits India and England for
the third Test starting on Sunday.
Hampshire head groundsman Gray
believes the Ageas Bowl pitch is in good
shape for the match. "It won't be as
grassy as Lord's was when that Test
started, it will be much more like the
Test we had against Sri Lanka three or
four years ago, which was a good pitch.
It went through, there was a bit in it for
the bowlers and the batsman can play
their shots, so I'm expecting very similar," he said.
"It's the same 22 yards so it looks
like it should be a good pitch again but
you never can really tell until you start
playing on it. But there is no reason to
think it won't be a very good," Gray said.
The Trent Bridge pitch for the first
Test earlier in July was rated "poor" by
the International Cricket Council. It
attracted criticism from both ex-players and the media.
The Lord's Test, which England
lost, began with a green strip but flattened out as the match progressed.
Gray said a pitch with assistance for
the bowlers would be much better than
one which is flat. "We want it to have
a little bit of assistance for the seamers
if possible rather than being a flat road.
We want a decent balance between bat
and ball," he said.
Gray admitted to a few nerves
ahead of the first ball and revealed they
had met with ECB representatives
over how they wanted the pitch to be.
"I don't feel pressure. Every groundsman is under scrutiny, as are the players. There are a lot of media hours to
fill these days so everyone is inspected
quite intensely. After 24 years of being
head groundsman you still get nervous.
I'm confident we've produced a good
pitch, I just hope it turns out alright and
that the players produce a good game
of cricket," Gray said.
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Saqlain Mushtaq on Thursday joined
the chorus for the inclusion of off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin in the India's
playing XI against England for the third
Test, starting at Southampton on
Sunday. "England had six left-handed
batsmen in their eleven. Why aren't
they playing R Ashwin? Isn't it an obvious choice if they really want to play five
bowlers?," asked Mushtaq.
"It is understandable that they
=4F 34;78) Virat Kohli's childhood coach
Rajkumar Sharma has advised his ward to "avoid
playing strokes square off the wicket initially"
in order to counter the swing, saying it would
help him get back to form with a bang.
"Virat has six Test centuries and is too good
a player to be kept quiet for a long time. I have
advised him to cut down on shots square off the
wicket initially. He should concentrate on
playing within the 'V' as it will help him counter
the swing and seam movement easily," coach
Sharma said on Thursday.
India's batting mainstay Kohli has so far
scored only 34 runs in four innings with a top
score of 25.
Asked any specific shot that he has told
Kohli to cut down on, Sharma replied, "I told
him to avoid playing the flick shot initially when
the ball is swinging. He doesn't need to change
anything in his batting. Just play straight and
the big knock is just round the corner."
For 49-year-old Sharma, who has played
first-class cricket for Haryana, Kohli's lack of
runs hasn't bothered him as he feels it's more
about good deliveries rather than poor shots that
has brought about his downfall. "I would’ve been
worried had he been out playing a rank bad shot.
But that hasn’t been the case. He has got out to
some extremely good deliveries bowled by top
class Test bowlers. Take the Jimmy Anderson
delivery in the first innings of the Lord's Test.
The ball swung in and then shaped away after
pitching. Nine out of 10 batsmen would be out
facing such delivery," the coach explained.
About Virat’s second innings dismissal
where he was out shouldering arms to an
incoming delivery from Liam Plunkett, Sharma
said, "If you have an idea about the Lord's
ground, Plunkett was operating up the slope.
When someone is coming uphill, you don't
expect the ball to cut back sharply as it did. Just
like a batsman wants to score, ditto for bowlers.
You will bowl good deliveries at this level but
Virat is good enough to have an answer for these
deliveries," he added.
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eigning IPL champions Kolkata Knight Riders will
play Chennai Super Kings in the inaugural
R
match of this year's Champions League Twenty20 at
the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in
Hyderabad on September 17.
The sixth edition of the Twenty20 tournament will
be held in four Indian cities — Hyderabad, Mohali,
Bangalore and Raipur — from September 13 to
October 4. According to statement from BCCI — the
orgainsers of CLT20, the tournament will follow a format similar to the three previous editions, with a
Group Stage preceded by a Qualifier. A total of 29
matches will be played in the competition.
The Qualifier will start from September 13 with
the main tournament, comprising 10 teams, scheduled to begin on September 17 in Hyderabad.
Apart from KKR and CSK, Group A will comprise Dolphins (winners of South Africa's domestic
T20 competition), Perth Scorchers (Big Bash League
winners), and a team from Qualifier.
Group B will feature Hobart Hurricanes (Big Bash
League runners-up), the winner of the domestic T20
competition in the West Indies, Kings XI Punjab (runners-up in 2014 IPL), Cape Cobras (runners-up in
South Africa's domestic T20 competition), and a team
from the Qualifier.
Each side will play the other four in its group once,
with the top two sides from each group going through
to the semi-finals. "The Group stage matches will be
played at Mohali, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Raipur.
The Qualifier will be played at Raipur. The CLT20
Governing Council has confirmed the teams that will
compete for a total prize money of $6 million," BCCI
secretary Sanjay Patel said.
The Qualifier, to be played from September 13
to 16, will feature four teams — Mumbai Indians
(fourth-ranked team in IPL 2014), Northern Knights
(winners of New Zealand's domestic T20 competition), Southern Express (winners of Sri Lanka's domestic T20 tournament) and Lahore Lions (Pakistan's
domestic T20 competition champions).
In the Qualifier, all teams will play each other once,
with the top two advancing to the Group Stage. The
top team from Group A will play the second-ranked
team from Group B, and vice versa, in the semi-finals,
both of which will be played at Hyderabad on October
2. Bangalore will host the final on October 4.
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didn't want to play him at Lord's. It was
such a green-top wicket that you
couldn't differentiate between the pitch
and the outfield on day one. The pitch
eventually took some turn on days four
and five. "But nobody will play two
spinners on such a track thinking that
it will turn later. But why didn't they
play two spinners in the first Test at
Nottingham on that flat track?" he said.
Indian skipper Mahendra Singh
Dhoni had admitted that they "read the
pitch wrong" at Trent Bridge and had
also said that India will continue to play
five bowlers depending on pitch and
conditions.
itinerary of a scheduled tour by West Indies later this
year on July 26. "The Board's Tour Programme and
Fixture Committee is to meet in Mumbai on Saturday
to finalise the West Indies tour programme," BCCI
sources said on Thursday.
The Committee is headed by Rajeev Shukla with
G S Walia (North Zone), P Yadagiri (South), Sathya
Mohanty (East), Nitin Dalal (West) and Mahendra
Sharma (Central) as its other members and BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel as its convenor.
West Indies are scheduled to play a three-Test and
best-of-five ODI rubber between October 4 and
November 18 after the completion of the Champions
League T20 tournament which is scheduled to be held
from September 14 and October 4, also in India.
West Indies visited India last year too in a hastily arranged two-Test series as a farewell to Sachin
Tendulkar who retired after playing his 200th Test
against the Caribbean team at his home ground,
Wankhede Stadium, here in November.
The upcoming Windies visit is as per the previous Future Tours Programme of the ICC. Next year
the new FTP, agreed upon by all full members of ICC
at Melbourne last month, will kick in.
In 2015-16, it would be the turn of South Africa
to visit India to play three Tests and ODIs to be followed by England who would split their tour into
two halves — playing five Tests before the
Christmas break and then ODIs on their return in
the early part of 2016.
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orld Kabaddi League (WKL), the first professional Kabaddi League of the world, today
announced the franchisees names and logos of its teams
in presence of Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab Sukhbir
Badal, who is also the president of the league.
The international-level league, slated to kick off on
August 9, will have eight international
teams including those owned by Bollywood
actors Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha
and star rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh.
While Kumar has bought Speedy
Singhs along with Fastway Sports
Development Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary of Fastway
Transmissions, Singh owns Yo Yo Tigers, named after
his own name. Both the stars were present on the occasion.
The other teams are Vancouver Lions owned by
Gurjit Singh Purewal; Haryana Focus, owned by R and
AAR Communication, an off-shoot of Focus Television;
Punjab Thunders owned by Thind Properties. It is also
co-owned by Bollywood actor Rajat Bedi.
United Singhs, co-owned by Sonakshi Sinha and
California Eagles, owned by the Tut Group are the
other teams.
Stressing on the need to take the sport to a global
stage, Badal said: "You can say that people in India think
of only one sport and I think there are so many sports
which can be encouraged so I took up this challenge
to make this one sport reach the international level."
Asked whether the new league was complementary
to the existing Pro Kabaddi League or its competitor,
he said, "WKL is completely different in the sense that
this is Kabaddi in circle style which is a pure Punjab
style, while Pro Kabaddi is a national style.
"The way it is played is completely different. It's more
aggressive than the national style," the minister said.
Asked what his government was doing
to promote the sport in the grassroots of
Punjab, Badal said: "In Punjab, my plan is
to create one Kabaddi stadium in each district and block of Punjab within the next two
years. Not very big ones but small stadiums
to encourage the sport."
Badal, who is the mind behind the league, further
hinted that even women's teams can be included in the
upcoming league in future.
"Once we build up this Kabaddi League, the next
step would be to make women's teams a part of it in
future," Badal revealed.
The league will see 86 matches to be played in 13
international cities during a four-month long calender.
A prize money of C3.5 Crore has also been
announced for the winner team with the salary of each
player pegged at C15 crore, higher than that of the Pro
Kabaddi Team.
WKL recently signed up with India's sports and
entertainment channel Sony SIX for its broadcast coverage in India.
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on the last mountain leg of the
Tour de France on Thursday, all but
ensuring he will be crowned champion when the race ends in Paris in three
days.
On the last big climb of Stage 18,
the Italian broke out of the peloton,
chased down breakaway riders, and
rode solo in front for the last eight
kilometers (five miles) uphill.
Nibali, who captured his fourth
stage of the Tour, stuck out his tongue,
tapped his chest, and raised a fist skyward as he finished the 145.5-kilometer (90-mile) leg more than a
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France, who was second. Rafal Majka
of Poland, in third, was another two
seconds back.
The remarkable effort by Nibali,
who was on track to become the first
Italian to win the Tour since Marco
Pantani in 1998, essentially made the
real race drama about who will join
him on the podium on the ChampsElysees on Sunday.
While three stages left, Friday's is
mostly flat and unlikely to allow a
breakaway rider to gain time. The last
real challenge will be Saturday's individual time trial, but Nibali's lead is so
big — 7:10 ahead of Pinot and 7:23
ahead of France's Jean-Christophe
Peraud — that it would take a disaster for him to lose the yellow jersey
before Sunday.
The race for second heated up:
Alejandro Valverde of Spain lost crucial seconds on the last climb and fell
from second overall to fourth. But he
is considered the strongest time-trial
rider among the three main aspirants
for the podium, including Pinot and
Peraud.
After setting off from Pau, riders
tackled the famed Tourmalet pass —
the highest Pyrenean peak on this
Tour — before heading up to
Hautacam ski station. Both climbs are
among the toughest in professional
cycling.
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smashed his 34th test century as
Sri Lanka overcame an early hiccup and scored a healthy 305-5
on day one of the second test
against South Africa on
Thursday.
Jayawardene made a splendid unbeaten 140 off 225 balls
with 16 fours and a six on a flat
pitch at Sinhalese Sports Club
and raised his 11th test century
at the venue — the most by any
batsman at one venue.
Dale Steyn (2-55) had Sri
Lanka reeling at 16-2 when he
snared wickets off successive
deliveries before Jayawardene
put on 99 for the third wicket
with Kaushal Silva (44), and
another 131 with captain Angelo
Mathews, who scored 63.
Jayawardene, who will retire
from test cricket next month,
showed brilliant form at his
favorite venue as Sri Lanka bid
to level the two-match series
after losing the first test at Galle.
Earlier, Mathews won the
toss but a charged-up Steyn had
early success when Upul
Tharanga couldn't get his glove
out of the way while attempting
to leave a short ball and very
next ball Kumar Sangakkara
top edged an easy catch off
another short delivery.
But Jayawardene and Silva
combined for an attractive stand
at a healthy run-rate before J.P.
Duminy (2-58) had Silva caught
by A.B. de Villiers in the slips in
the last over before lunch.
South Africa could have
removed Silva while he was on
10, soon after Steyn's double
strike, but Alviro Petersen
missed a catch at third slip off
fast bowler Vernon Philander.
Jayawardene completed his
49th test half century off 58 balls
and continued to dominate the
bowlers after lunch — especially legspinner Imran Tahir. He
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Sri Lanka made three
changes to its lineup and
brought in Dickwella, replacing
Dinesh Chandimal, while
another youngster Vithanage
came in place of Lahiru
Thirimanne.
Ajantha Mendis replaced
injured fast bowler Shaminda
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pitch would aid three spinners.
South Africa kept faith in its
three fast bowlers — Steyn,
Philander and Morkel — with
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