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The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee conferring the Padma Bhushan on Rahul Dravid at the Darbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi

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Novartis fails the test of patentability, SC

Patents help research-based organizations recover their initial investment in R&D. Patents exist in all industries and academia. Generally, research-based organizations file patents for base compounds very early in the research process, long before launching the product and prior to development of a clinical treatment suitable for use in patients. It can take many years before the new, approved drug can be introduced on the market. As a result, benefits from patents are usually only for eight to 12 years, even though the overall life of a patent is about 20 years.

Bengal rights panel orders probe into SFI activists death

Lata Mangeshkar felicitates sister Asha

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The Joy and the Sorrow : IPL Season-6, first ball first wicket
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2 Lok Sabha Elections, Imminent?

that wanted to build a momentum of development, this decade will be all about preserving the same. Indian polity has rarely ever touched an aspirational chord when it came to elections. The last time NDA tried its India Shining campaign it fell flat owing to unmet expectations of a populace apathetic to fruits of governance reforms, if any. However this time the situation is markedly different at least if one goes by the massive street protests and general restlessness pervading a section of the masses. Used to an India where

OPINION
EDITORIAL DESK
Manu Sharma
First general elections of the decade are looming large on the nation. From Mulayam Singh to Mamta Banerjee all are forecasting earlier than usual elections. There are some solid grounds for the same in the form of oppressive heat in May when the next elections are normally scheduled, downturn in the economy and a general discontent over governance. Hence it is pertinent to heed the political murmurs and start contemplating over the themes and issues for the next general elections. If first decade of this millennial characterized an India high growth and rising opportunities are a way of life, the young citizens of India are not amenable to a compromise or slowdown. No one predicted a win or even a nomination for Barack Obama in the US presidential elections of 2008. He came in with pioneering innovations for fund raising, tapped into migrant vote and consolidated all minorities to win an once in a century election. Here is wishing our dear nation similar glory and a glorious festival of democracy. May the best leader ascend!

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LOUD & CLEAR

S.K. Sinha

Didi, Sudipto was your brother too

D E M O N S T R AT I O N , A G I TAT I O N , U N R E S T, PROTEST,DHARNA,BARRICADES,COURT ARREST all these are understandable in a democracy; but POLICE ACTION ON UNARMED CIVILIANS AT THE INSTANCE OF THE POLITICAL MIGHT and injuries and even loss of innocent lives, NO. It hurts to know that you cannot protest in your own country. It hurts when the very police which is supposed to take care of us use canes and tear gas ,just to stop us a few meters away from the seat of power whom we want to meet or we want to present some of our many woes of today. It usually happens that they who are in power take a decision which has a bearing on our lives and when it is unbearable the commoner takes to the streets , exposing themselves to the danger of being beaten and eventually killed like young Sudipto from the City of Joy. Whatever the facts, the very person who is at the helm of the affairs of a state need to be more compassionate. People often forget their own days when at the drop of a coin one would take to the streets , sloganeering , breaking barricades to the extent that generations call you DIDI. North or South ,East or West , the methods of dealing with protest seem to follow the same books. We need to look into the action taken against the democratic ways of peaceful demonstration laid down by the Constitution , so that we can save innocent lives. Jai Hind

Rahul Gandhi @ CII

Speaking to Industry and Industry Leaders is not an act with precedence in the annals of Indian politics. Traditionally the only politician charged with dealing with Industries used to be the finance minister of the country. An interface between politicians and the corporates was considered insignificant apart from raising funds for electioneering expenses. But America has always had a strong tradition of politics-industry interface and it seems to have begun seeping into India mainstream. Nothing could have highlighted this trend better than Rahul Gandhi speaking at the Confederation

of Indian Industries summit at Delhi. Perhaps a reaction to the suave new age manager politician breed that has emerged in India, led by the likes of Narendra Modi, Sukhbir Badal and Manmohan Parrikar or a genuine change of traditions, Mr Gandhi has become the first heavyweight from Congress to openly engage capitalisms standard bearers. Coming from a political family that established itself on the slogan of socialism this is indeed a refreshing change and a call out to the future. While the speech itself was not ground breaking the symbolism of the young

leaders engagement was definitely ground breaking. A significant story came out in the form of competing and contrasting views of India held by leading challengers for the post of Prime Minister in India. While Narendra Modi holds out the promise of a strong and decisive leadership that believes in delivering on targets. Rahul Gandhi took a nuanced and amorphous view of India and held out a vision of reformed polity leading to better governance. CII may well have become the launching ground of an electoral battle that will decide the course of India in this decade.

Indias service industry must strive for excellence

By Amit Chaudhery Emerging amid liberalisation and increasing integration with the global economy, Indias service industry offers tremendous potential but also poses daunting challenges. Underdeveloped infrastructure, archaic policies, historical baggage of complex cultural mores and inadequate exposure to services standards are challenges that remain even after 65 years of independence. Yet, opportunities lie in challenges and adversities. Over a billion people, of whom 300 million constitute the growing middle class, increasing urbanisation, higher levels of disposable income and consequent demand for services are potential spots. The service industry calls for more than just a highly trained and mature workforce. Unlike traditional businesses, the degree and quality of training transcends mere technical or product knowledge to include communications, behaviour and interaction. This is because in a service transaction, even seemingly minor or inconsequential issues like tone of voice, body language or personal grooming assume great importance. These are coupled with the ability and willingness of a service provider to go the extra mile and chase stretch goals to cater to customer requirements. Other yardsticks of service are accessibility, convenience, efficiency and customised solutions. These in turn call for high quality of manpower and stronger work ethics. With a few exceptions, both are found wanting in the Indian service industry. A third building block is civic standards and consciousness. A society which does not realise the necessity of hygiene cannot appreciate the quality of healthcare service. Efficient and safe public transport systems cannot run without basic discipline and care of these services by users. For a community to demand and enjoy superior service standard, the pre-requisite is evolution of its own civic consciousness as the two are inter-connected. This partly explains why Tokyos Shinkansen (bullet train), Londons underground, and Americas Greyhound bus service have grown beyond being mere services to reach the status of global cult icons, while New Delhi still struggles with an ageing fleet of public transport buses, three wheelers and the venerable Ambassador car. Another challenge for delivering world-class services in India is the wide gap between lifestyle of the actual frontline staff delivering them and customers. In an overwhelming majority of cases, the service delivery staff is unexposed, even unaware of the psycho-graphic profile of their customers. The staff does not know and therefore cannot appreciate what customer expectations are. This lack of understanding is compounded by the sheer socioeconomic divide between the service deliverer and the customer. The result: poor service delivery. India has created good service standards in equipment and hardware related facets of service industry like in telecom and airline industries. But in people-transacted service businesses, quality declines like in banks. Within the equipment and hardware linked service-oriented businesses too, poor back-up infrastructure prevents greater efficiencies and growth. The only way to achieve world-class service standards is to hone our human capital. Education and training are the first building blocks. Training is an expensive and recurring cost but is an essential catalyst for growth. Hospitality and tourism industries are examples of how training and education can not only transform raw talent into professional service provider but also how training is linked to creating competitive advantage by enhancing service standards. Investments in training workforce can make businesses profitable. No hotel can operate without constant staff training. The airline industry too takes training very seriously. Another interesting facet worth mentioning is of mystery customer or LETTER TO THE EDITOR Letters may be emailed to the editoruconnect@gmail.com ,with full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. mystery shopping. This element of unplanned experience of a companys service level is commonly used by service businesses across the world. It offers precious insights and a unique perspective of how the service actually delivers on the ground. Alignment and standardisation of services in all aspects is vital. All functions, systems, and processes must perform in a calibrated fashion. There should be a correct match of people, job descriptions and goal sheets. A new concept, sector, business or enterprise is not like a military campaign. The odds are heavy, costs are high and victory is the only objective. Those who lead from the front do succeed. Unless the managers lead the enterprise personally and spend time upfront even in minor operational issues, best practices cannot be firmly established.

By Vinod Behl Affordable housing is the key to Indias realty industry being able to change lanes to the fast track but cost escalations due to delayed permissions, lack of access to cheap credit and shortage of building material are proving to be major hurdles. The solution: Policy changes covering land to lending. The demand for affordable homes alone, in the range of Rs.1-5 million, is in the range of five million. Over a third of new homes is in this category. According to industry statistics, out of 500,000 homes to be delivered this year, a large part will be the affordable housing segment. But the affordability of home-buyers has been severely hit by cost escalations and high project cost is proving to be the main deterrent. The lack of sustained funds flow to the realty industry not only restricts supplies, leading to housing shortage (mostly in the

Policy changes key to affordable housing

affordable category), but also results in a spurt in property prices. Amid this liquidity crisis, a large number of realty companies today find themselves in a debt trap. So much so that promoters of a few companies have pledged a major part of their holdings to seek debt. There is a need to ease bank funding and make foreign direct investment and external commercial borrowings more accessible to developers. On the private equity front, statistics show that such investments in the residential segment registered a 50 percent decline compared to the office realty space, as these investors were more interested in income-generating assets. In this context, speeding up the launch of real estate investment trusts, or listed companies that own and manage property on behalf of shareholders, on the bourses will help meet the large-scale fund requirement for mass housing. It is, indeed, heartening that the National Housing Bank (NHB) is setting up an urban housing fund with Rs.2,000 crore ($360 million) to spur affordable housing. The Housing and Urban Development Corp, with a target to build 500,000 affordable homes, has in its first tranche raised about Rs.2,200 crore ($400 million). Both these funds will work as a pool fund to incetivise cash-strapped developers aspiring to tap the high potential segment of affordable housing. It is on the policy front that there is the lack of effective initiatives. This years budget sop of Rs.100,000 ($1,800) additional tax benefit on home loans will largely benefit tier II and tier III cities. But given that the top six-seven cities constitute less than a fourth of the overall affordable-housing supply, there is a need to launch incentivised policies for developers to provide mass housing in the suburbs and satellite towns of metros and Tier I cities. For developers, the tax exemption for low-income houses up to 60 square metre carpet area and extension of tax holidays for low-income housing under Sec 80 1B of the Income Tax Act could prove beneficial. With urbanisation expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of more than two percent over the next two decades, there is the need to liberalise obsolete development norms, rationalising floor area ratio and density. There should be policy initiatives in place to fast-track the public-private partnership route. For that, the city development agencies should give up policy of land auctioning and instead allow land pooling for developer entities. Considering a major part of the mortgage disbursed - expected to touch the Rs.220,000-crore ($40-billion) mark by the end of this fiscal - will be in the affordable segment, there is an urgent need to regulate home-loan rates. A parliamentary panel on the finance has sought a cap and regulation on interest charged by housing finance companies. Raising home loan limit for affordable homes in the metros and tier I cities from Rs.2.5 million to Rs.3.5 million may well go a long way in encouraging developers and home buyers, thereby pushing up supply and consumption of mass housing. With a host of new private equity players and developers targeting mass housing, the coming months will witness increased traction on this segment of the realty industry. Increasing viability of affordable housing projects will be the way forward.

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COVER STORY

Novartis fails the test of patentability, SC

Novartis statement on the decision of the Supreme Court of India on the patent for Glivec

The Indian Supreme Court on April 1, 2013 denied a patent for the Novartis breakthrough medicine Glivec(imatinib mesylate). This deci-

sion discourages innovative drug discovery essential to advancing medical science for patients. Novartis has never been granted any other patent for Glivec in India. The Court denied an appeal challenging the rejection of a patent for Glivec, a life-saving medicine for certain forms of cancer, patented in nearly 40 countries including China, Rus-

sia, and Taiwan. Novartis filed a Special Leave Petition with the Indian Supreme Court in 2009 challenging the denial of the Glivec beta crystal form patent on two grounds, based on Sections 3(d) and 3(b) of the Indian patent law. In addition to seeking a patent for Glivec, the company filed the case to help clarify these unique aspects of the patent law.

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a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court of India has dismissed Swiss pharma giant Novartis AGs petition seeking patent protection for its anti-cancer drug Glivec (Imatinib Mesylate). Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai held that the patent product, the beta crystalline form of Imatinib Mesylate, fails in both the tests of invention and patentability and dismissed the companys plea with cost. Novartis had challenged in court the Chennai-based Intellectual Property Appellate Boards 2006 decision declining grant of patent for beta crystalline form of Imatinib Mesylate. Justice Alam said the claim was beyond the realm of patents. We firmly reject the appellants (Novartis) case that Imatinib Mesylate is a new product and the outcome of an invention... We hold and find that Imatinib Mesylate is a known substance... and its pharmacological properties are also known, the court said, in a judgment running into 36,089 words. In whatever way Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act is interpreted, Novartis cannot claim that it is a patent. It fails the test of patentability, he said. The court held that the amended portion of Section 3 (d) was only for genuine inventions. The legal battle for the patent of the blood cancer drug was closely watched by international pharmaceutical firms. If the Swiss firm had won the case, Indian firms would have been barred from manufacturing generic drugs. Health experts welcomed the ruling, saying it would ensure that patients get access to cheaper life-saving drugs.

This is a landmark judgment. This will have a long-term and wide impact, as the generic version makes it more affordable for the poor, Y.K. Sapru of the Mumbai-based Cancer Patients Aid Association said. Now the prices of life-saving drugs will be reduced from Rs.160,000 per month to just Rs.6,000, Sapru added. The judgment allows firms in India to continue making copycat versions of the Novartis drug Glivec. Sameer Kaul, a senior surgical oncologist at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, also hailed the ruling. The government should have stepped in much earlier to negotiate the prices with the company, Kaul told IANS. The government should encourage the local pharmaceutical industry to spend more on research, so that we can develop own molecules. Also, the patent time-period of 20-30 years is absurd. It should not be more than two or three years, he said. AIIMS P.K. Julka said: The ruling is good for poor patients. It will ensure continued access to cheap drugs. Unni Karunakara, international president of medical humanitarian aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres, said: This is a huge relief for the millions of patients and doctors in developing countries. The Supreme Courts decision now makes patents on the medicines that we desperately need less likely, Karunakara said. Indian generic medicines are exported abroad to other developing countries also. Anand Grover, the lawyer representing Indian companies, said: We are very happy that the court has rejected attempts by Novartis to water down our patent laws.

NATIONAL NEWS
helicopters for the Indian Air Force, which has been put on hold after graft charges emerged, the meeting decided that the name of Brigadier Y.S. Saini, who allegedly figures in another deal, would first have to be cleared before any other action is taken. Italian prosecutors investigating defense giant Finmeccanica have accused a serving Indian Army officer, identified as Brigadier Saini, for allegedly demanded $5 million to influence a contract for 197 light helicopters in favour of the companys subsidiary, AgustaWestland. The meeting, however, remained inconclusive over the issue of changes in the defense procurement procedures (DPP), the official said. This would now be taken up at its meeting on April 20. The Council was expected to approve changes to procurement rules that would boost indigenization of defense procurement by giving a bigger role to the indigenous industry for supplying military hardware to the armed forces. In addition, it would give domestic industry, both public and private, the right of refusal before the import option is exercised. New Delhi In search of Swami Pratimanand, a spiritual leader and suspect in the murder of BSP leader and business tycoon Deepak Bhradwaj here March 26, investigators Thursday raided several places in Jhajjar in Haryana, Delhi Police said. Following the arrest of two contract killers, Sunil Mann alias Sonu and Purushottam Rana alias Monu, police claimed getting clues about the suspected involvement of the spiritual leader with whom Bhardwaj is believed to be involved in a land dispute. The over 30 acre plot of land is situated in Haryanas Jhajjar area. Bhardwaj was gunned down by Mann and Rana at his 35-acre farmhouse in Rajokri in south Delhi. The separate teams of Delhi Police crime branch and south district visited Dhansa village close to the road

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Night vision devices: Rs.2,800 crore deal for Indian Army cleared

BSP leaders murder: Delhi Police conducts raids in Haryana

linking Jhajjar and Delhi and collected evidence. They also questioned a few associates of the spiritual guru. In 2002, Bhardwaj purchased 12 acres of land near the ancestral land of Pratimanands guru late Baba Kakanand. Sources said that the realtor wanted to purchase Kakanands land too. To fix the deal, he contacted Pratimanand who refused to help, triggering a dispute between the two. Police also suspect that Pratimanand took the help of Rakesh Malik, a commercial pilot, who hired the shooters Mann and Rana to kill Bhardwaj. On Thursday, police called Bhardwajs younger son Nitesh for joining the police investigation. Police have not ruled out the role of any family member of Bhardwaj in the murder. They have also questioned Bhardwajs wife Ramesh Kumari.

New Delhi The Defense Acquisition Council (DAC) Tuesday cleared a Rs. 2,800 crore deal for boosting the night vision capabilities of the Indian Armys tanks and infantry combat vehicles, an official source said. The DAC, which was headed by Defense Minister A.K. Antony

approved the procurement of 2,000 pieces of night vision devices for T-72 tanks for Rs. 1,000 crore; 1,200 pieces for T-90 tanks for Rs. 960 crore and 1.780 pieces for infantry combat vehicles for Rs.860 crore. While discussing the deal for purchasing AgustaWestland VVIP

CBI issues notice to former minister Raja Bhaiya

Lucknow Former Uttar Pradesh minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya has been summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to appear before it within a week, in connection with the triple murder at Balipur village March 2. Reports indicate that the preliminary investigation by the CBI has found nothing incriminating against the former minister in the murders of Balipur village head Nanhe Yadav, his brother Suresh and Deputy Superintendent of Police Zia-ul-Haq. Sources in the CBI said the summons were issued to clear some doubts. The former minister has been asked to present himself at the camp office of the CBI. The notice was sent to Raja Bhaiyyas houses in Kunda and Lucknow late Thursday. Raja Bhaiyya has been mentioned as a conspirator in the murder of the police official by Haqs widow, Parveen Azad, a medical student. Officials say the former UP minister would be interrogated on his whereabouts at the time of the triple murder. He would be grilled on any insights into the role of his close aides and a driver, who have been arrested in the case. Earlier, the agency grilled his cousin and former MP Akshay Pratap Singh alias Gopalji. The investigating team of the CBI has also questioned Kunda Nagar panchayat head Gulshan Yadav, representative of the former minister, Hari Om Srivastava, driver Rohit Singh and legislator Vinod Saroj. Haqs widow recently visited Kunda to take back her husbands belongings from his official residence, and expressed satisfaction at the probe so far. She said she expected investigations to be free, fair and without any political influence. The family of village pradhan Nanhe Yadav has alleged, meanwhile, that the CBI was trying to water down the case. The CBI, earlier this week, sought the transfer of four station house officers at Kunda and of other police officials outside the area, citing political influence. Following this, the state government transferred 108 policeman out of Pratapgarh district.

Eight school kids killed in Kashmir bus accident

Srinagar Eight school children were killed and 12 others injured when their bus rolled down into a gorge near, police said.

A senior police officer told that a school bus carrying children back home from school fell into a 300-feet-deep gorge near Kandivari village, 70 km from here, after the driver lost control of the vehicle. The bus was going from Dialgam to Kokernag town when the accident happened. Five children died on the spot while 15 others were injured and were taken to hospital. Some of the injured were in critical condition since the bus rolled over hard rock before it crashed onto the bottom of the 300-foot-deep gorge. Three kids later succumbed to their injuries, said the officer. Panic gripped Kandivari and adjacent villages after the news of the accident spread. Senior police and other district administration officials rushed to the accident spot to supervise search and rescue operations.

India, Azerbaijan sign mutual legal assistance treaty

Delhi gang-rape: Cop deposes in court he reached he found that the victims
New Delhi A police sub-inspector deposing as a witness in the Delhi gang-rape case in court Thursday said that a woman doctor, examining the victim, had told him that she had never seen such injuries on any girl in her career. The sub-inspector, who was on emergency night duty at Vasant Vihar police station on the night of the incident, the spot where the victim and her male friend were lying naked and brutally injured, was cross-examined by accused Mukeshs counsel in the fasttrack court of Additional Session Judge Yogesh Khanna. Doctor informed me that during her career of 20 years she had not seen such type of injuries on any girl, he said during cross-examination. The policeman deposed deposing as a prosecution witness and said: Doctors had informed me that the victim girl was in bad shape. The witness said that after receiving a phone call in police station about the incident he rushed to the spot and when

had already been taken to hospital by a police van. The sub-inspector said that he then went to Safdarjang Hospital where he met the complainant (victims male friend) who disclosed his name and said he was coming from Saket mall with his friend, but after that doctor asked me not to ask any further question as he was under treatment. The witness added that after meeting the complainant he went to meet the victim in the gynae department but doctors did not allow him to enter the building.

New Delhi India and Azerbaijan Thursday signed a treaty on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters which will help improve effectiveness in investigation of transnational crimes including terrorism. According to an official release, the treaty was signed by Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and visiting Azerbaijani Justice Minister Fikrat Mammadov. The release said that mutual legal assistance treaty was one of the significant legal instruments to improve effectiveness of the contracting states in investigation and prosecution of transnational crime including terrorism by providing the necessary framework for assistance.

Thane building collapse, Maharashtra CM visits

Thane Rescue efforts in the Shil Phata area of Thane district continued with rescuers so far recovering 34 bodies from under the debris of an unauthorised seven-storey building that collapsed. Another 57 people bearing injuries, mostly critical, were rescued after the collapse. The death toll has shot up to 34, while 57 people have been injured... and many of them are in critical condition. Of the dozens brought to hospitals last night, 17 have been discharged, a Thane disaster management official told. Rescuers extricated five minors alive but injured with hundreds of onlookers cheering the rescue effort. The survival of the children was seen as something of a miracle as they were rescued nearly 12 hours after the building collapsed. Police have lodged cases against the developers of the seven-storey building, Salil Jamadar and Khalil Jamadar, who are reported to be

New Delhi A 16-year-old girl committed suicide by shooting herself with a gun at her house here, police said. She was depressed due to a family dispute. Puja shot herself with her grandfathers licensed gun at her house in Palam area in west Delhi, said a police officer, adding that no suicide note was recovered.

Teenaged girl shoots herself in Delhi

Puja was alone at her house when the incident took place. Hearing the sound of the firing of a bullet, her grandmother rushed to her room where she was lying in a pool of blood on the floor. A gun shot injury was been found on her neck, officer said. Police said she was depressed as her mother got separated from her father due to family dispute.

absconding along with their families. Officials said the building was raised within four months and had been functional since December. As a precautionary measure, another adjacent building, also developed by the Jamadars, was evacuated Thursday night. Top police, fire brigade, civic and disaster management officials were present at the scene of the tragedy as relief operations continued. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar were likely to visit the collapse site.

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NATIONAL NEWS

Lakhs of TVs fall silent in Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow Over 7.50 lakh cable TV sets went blank in seven major cities of Uttar Pradesh Monday, a day after the deadline to get set top boxes installed expired. In state capital Lucknow, more than two lakh TVs blanked out. Another 5.46 lakh TVs fell silent in six other cities of Uttar Pradesh namely Kanpur (1.5 lakh), Agra (1.5 lakh), Varanasi (70,000), Allahabad (62,000), Ghaziabad (60,000) and Meerut (54,000). Officials said there was little they could do as it was the central governments policy to digitise television. Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav had last week written to Minister of Information and Broadcasting Manish Tiwari, seeking deferment of the March 31 deadline by another six months. While Yadav had cited the deadline as a potential threat to law and order in the state, Tiwari did not respond to the letter, officials told IANS. With the existing analog transmission in seven Uttar Pradesh cities dead now, there is chaos as the set top boxes are in short supply and are being sold at hiked rates. Under phase II of the digitisation process, seven cities -- Varanasi, Lucknow, Agra, Kanpur, Ghaziabad, Meerut and Allahabad -- were selected. In these cities, cable TV transmission snapped March 31 midnight and is now only available through the digital addressable system.

Bengal rights panel orders probe into SFI activists death

Pakistan yet to give report on Indian prisoners death: Khurshid

New Delhi As Pakistani authorities denied that Indian prisoner Chamel Singh had died after being assaulted by jail staff, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said Monday that India was waiting for a full and detailed report on the circumstances of his death. Khurshid, asked if he accepted Pakistans explanation of the death, said: I dont have to take Pakistans explanation... We are awaiting the autopsy, and when a full report is given to us and detailed investigation report given, we will be able to reflect on it. Asked when India would be given the report, he said: We have been told that it will be given to us. A senior official of Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore, where Chamel Singh died in January, had Sunday termed as malicious Indian propaganda the reports that Singh died after allegedly being tortured in the jail and said a stroke was the reason. Singh, said to be in his 60s and serving a five-year-term for espionage, had died at the state-run Jinnah Hospital on Jan 15. During an autopsy done on March 13 - nearly two months after his death - marks of injury had reportedly been found on Singhs body. Rafiq Chaudhry, senior superintendent of Central Jail, Kot Lakhpat, said Chamel Singh, a native of Jammu & Kashmir, had suffered a stroke while working in the compound of Barrack No. 4 with other Indians and was rushed to the nearby Jinnah Hospital. However, he died on the way to hospital. Soon after Chamel Singhs death, reports surfaced that he had been beaten up by prison staff for washing clothes in the prison compound. In view of the media reports, an enquiry was conducted after which the post-mortem was done on March 13 and the body handed over to the Indian High Commission soon after. The Indian High Commission has requested the Pakistans Foreign Office for a copy of the post-mortem report, but it has not been yet handed over.

NIA to establish Liyaqats credentials, says top cop

Jammu Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Ashok Prasad said the ongoing National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe would establish whether Syed Liyaqat Shah is a terrorist or innocent. Talking to media persons on the sidelines of a police function here, the DGP said: The NIA is probing the arrest of Liyaqat Shah by Delhi Police. It will establish if he is a terrorist or innocent. Shah, 47, was arrested by Delhi Police from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh March 20. Police claimed to have averted a fidayeen (suicide) terror attack in Delhi with his arrest. They said Shah was a suspected Hizbul Mujahideen militant. He has been remanded to judicial custody till April 12. The family of Sayed Liyaqat Shah claimed that he was returning home to the Kashmir Valley via Nepal from Pakistan under the Jammu and Kashmir governments rehabilitation policy for surrendered militants. According to sources in Jammu and Kashmirs home department, Liyaqat figures in a list of over 200 former militants whose relatives had applied to the state government for rehabilitation under a policy initiated in 2010, and meant for militants wishing to surrender and return to the mainstream. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah also held discussions with union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on the issue of Liyaqat Shahs return.

Kolkata Taking suo motu cognisance of the death of student Sudipto Gupta of the Students Federation of India (SFI), allegedly in police custody, the West Bengal Human Rights Commission Wednesday ordered two probes into the incident. The city police commissioner has been instructed to finish the probe and submit a report to the Commission in seven days; a team of the Commission will also conduct a probe within the same time-frame. Taking suo motu cognisance, the Commission has asked city police commissioner (Surajit Purakayastha) to initiate a probe headed by an assistant commissioner of police and

submit the report within seven days, Commission joint secretary Sujay Haldar said. The Commission has also formed its own investigating team and will examine witnesses and other evidence to find the cause of the death of Gupta and the circumstances under which it occurred. The report of its own team will also be submitted to the Commission head in seven days. Gupta died of a head injury Tuesday in police custody after participating in a protest. While police maintain that the activist died after he crashed into a lamp post while being taken to jail in a bus, the SFI allege that the activist was fatally beaten by the police during its crackdown on

protestors. Gupta was hit on his head so hard that one of his eyes came out, SFI joint secretary Shatarup Ghosh, also a witness, said. The incident occurred when hundreds of SFI supporters hit the streets to stage a protest against the state higher education departments decision to stall students union elections at all educational institutions for the next six months. Meanwhile, the driver of the bus which was used to take the demonstrators to the prison by the police has been arrested. The opposition Left Front has demanded a judicial probe into the matter.

Will pass food bill in budget session: Thomas

New Delhi The government will enact the proposed right to food bill, covering 67 percent of the population, in the second half of the budget session April 22-May 10, Food Minister K.V. Thomas said. We will pass the bill in the second half of the budget session, Thomas told a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) meet on Indias food security and the second green revolution. The National Food Security Bill will focus on nutritional needs of children, pregnant and lactating women, and will revolutionise the distribution system, he said. It will lead to massive PDS reforms, including doorstep delivery of food grain, end-to-end computerisation, leveraging unique identity Aadhaar numbers, said Thomas. The food bill provides five kg per person per month at the rate of Rs.3 per kg for rice, Rs.2 per kg for wheat, and Re.1 per kg for coarse grains. The PDS will become more transparent and subject to grievance redressal at appropriate levels with provisions for penalties and compensation, he said. The food ministry has estimated that Indias population will touch 1.3 billion by 2018 and this will put pressure on the government to provide food security. We have to take care of the present food needs of the people. We also have to plan to ensure that the challenges that the population increase pose in terms of food needs over the years is also kept in mind, said Thomas. The minister said that Indias food grain production, which was 51 million tonnes in 1950-51, touched 245 million tonnes in 2010-11, an increase of five times within six decades. The minister said he was confident that the government would be able to store the 90 million tonnes of grain it hopes to procure this year. The minister urged the private sector to procure grain at the minimum support price fixed by the government, and said the corporates should help the government with creating more storage space for the grain. Earlier, Rakesh Bharti Mittal of the CII said the government should con-

Need milk in jail, gang-rape accused tells court

New Delhi Vinay Sharma, an accused in the Delhi gang-rape case, filed an application in a fast track court here seeking milk and fruit in his jail diet. Sharmas application to Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna said he was a student and it was his right that milk and fruits be provided to him during judicial custody. Its his (Vinays) right as a child and student to get milk and fruits, Sharmas counsel told the judge, who asked Tihar Jail authorities to file a reply. Sharmas lawyer said his client, a B.A. first year student, had received a letter from the Indian Air Force for a test April 7 for a Group C job. He said Sharma should also be given access to newspapers to prepare for the test.

sider roping in the private sector for creating additional storage space. Agriculture secretary Ashish Bahuguna said India was food secure but farmers needed income security. Ashok Gulati, chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, said the challenge before the government was to provide economic access to food to the large number of people. There is around 40 percent leakage in the PDS, said Gulati, while stressing the need to diversify crops and get the markets right.

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Washington It was a day of fun and games at the White House with thousands of children joining the annual White House Easter Egg Roll with some yoga and dancing to promote healthy and active living. With the Be Healthy, Be Active, Be You! theme, other activities on the South Lawn included obstacle courses, playing sports with professional athletes, including Indian-American hockey player Ajai Dhadwal and of course, the traditional egg roll. Dhadwal, 20, a resident of California, has been a member of the US national team. Come enjoy a session of yoga from professional instructors, read an announcement listing the items in the Eggtivity Zone showing the kids easy, fun ways to stay active and fit. With viral-video star Kid President, American Idols Jessica Sanchez, and the Easter Bunny at their side, President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Malia and Sasha kicked off the daylong fun event. Its great to have everyone here this morning. We are so excited, Michelle Obama said from the Blue Room balcony. The Easter Egg Roll is the biggest event that we have here on the South Lawn of the White House each year. The first family then headed over to cheer on some of the youngest visitors

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North Korea restarts operations at n-complex

shortage and boost up nuclear armed forces. Such a move came days after North Korea claimed that it had entered a state of war with South Korea. South Korean President Park G e u n - h y e instructed the military to strongly respond to possible provocation by North Korea without any political considerations. Tensions have been running high on the Korean Peninsula since North Korea conducted its third nuclear test Feb 12 as a countermeasure against the joint military drills of the US and South Korea. North Korea has also threatened to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike for self-defence and unilaterally nullified the 1953 armistice that suspended the Korean War. The US Navy was moving a seabased radar platform closer to the Korean Peninsula in order to monitor military moves of North Korea, including possible new missile launches.

Iran should help in solving Syrian conflict: Egypt

as they raced down the lawn in the Egg Roll, according to the White House blog. Obama and family dog Bo then made their way to the Storytime Stage where he gave a dramatic reading of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, calling it one of my favourite books. Next up for the President was a drop by at the White House basketball court, where he joined some of the Washington Wizards in throwing the ball around with kids. Michelle Obama stopped by the Kids Kitchen stage in the Play With Your Food section, where top chefs

Mandelas treatment continues at hospital

were giving families tips on cooking healthy meals at home, and offering demonstrations on how to prepare some of their favourite simple dishes. The First Lady joined chef Anne Burrell and Al Roker on the stage before making her way over to the Storytime Stage to listen in as Malia and Sasha read Brown Bear Brown Bear, What do you See, by Bill Martin Jr. to the gathered children. Mrs Obama then sat with Bo to read Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett, and talked with the kids about the message of the popular picture book.

New York shifts Ground Zero rubble to find human remains

Washington New York City begins shifting through tonnes of rubble from buildings on the site of the Sep 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in search of human remains that will allow more victims to be identified. According to a communique from New York Citys deputy mayor of operations, Cas Holloway, cited by the NBC network, 60 truckloads of rubble have been collected over the past 2 1/2 years from the construction zone known as Ground Zero. Approximately 450 cubic meters of earth and debris have been taken from the World Trade Center area where the Twin Towers once stood and which collapsed when suicide pilots crashed hijacked airliners into them on 9/11, burying 2,750 people. Due to the dimension of the collapse and the fire, the remains of some 1,634 people have never been identified. In 2006, New York City Hall widened the search for human London Cutting British forces in Afghanistan too quickly could endanger the progress in the war-torn country at a critical time, Britains top commander there has said. Lt. Gen. Nick Carter, deputy chief of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), told The Independent daily that passing control of security to Afghan forces was going well. But he warned any move to thin out British forces too soon would be unforgivable. NATO combat operations against the Taliban in Afghanistan are scheduled to finish by the end of 2014. And as part of a gradual withdrawal, the number of British troops in Afghanistan will be almost halved from 9,000 to 5,200 by the end of 2013. Carters warning came as forces

Pyongyang North Korea said it has decided to restart operations at the Nyongbyon nuclear complex. A spokesman for the General Department of Atomic Energy told that the country will readjust and restart all nuclear facilities at the complex, including a uranium enrichment plant and a 5MW graphite moderated reactor that had been mothballed and disabled under an agreement reached at the six-party talks in October 2007. The spokesman said the decision was made at a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers Party of Korea March 31 to cure the countrys electricity

Two Pakistani sisters killed for honour

Cairo Egyptian government has said it believes Iran should participate in the diplomatic efforts to find out a solution of the ongoing Syria conflict. It is necessary to cooperate with Iran and for Tehran to take part in the accomplishment of the diplomatic solution of the Syrian conflict and end of the bloodshed in this country to provide democratic future for the Syrian people and the unity of Syria, reported RIA Novosti citing Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Amr. This is why it is in the interests of all regional powers to put an end to the tragedy in Syria as soon as possible, he said. About 70,000 people have died in Syria since the start of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011, according to UN figures.

Islamabad Two brothers shot dead their two sisters and two men in Pakistans Sindh province, a media report said Wednesday in what is believed to be another incident of honour killing in the country. The killings took place in Nawabshah, Geo News reported. Mosa and Shaukat Zardari fatally shot Ismail and Yousuf in their field in Gulzar Zardari village and later killed their sisters Qazbano and Shehzadi at home, said police. The two brothers surrendered to police after the killings.

Johannesburg Former South African president Nelson Mandela continued to receive treatment in hospital four days after re-admission due to the recurrence of his lung infection, the presidency said. Mandela, 94, was re-admitted to hospital March 28. The Presidency has been advised by the doctors that former president Nelson Mandela had a restful day and continues to receive treatment, Xinhua quoted presidential spokesperson Mac Maharaj as saying. Government is satisfied that the doctors are providing the former president with the best medical care possible to enable his recovery and comfort. They have reported a further improvement in his condition. We also thank all people at home and around the world, who continue to keep Mandela and his family in their thoughts and to show their love and support in various ways. We also thank foreign governments for their messages of support. He served as South African president from 1994 to 1999. He spent 27 years in prison before elected the first black president in the country after the end of apartheid. This was the second time that Mandela was hospitalised in a month. On March 9, Mandela was admitted to a hospital in Pretoria for a scheduled medical check-up to manage existing conditions in line with his age. He was discharged a day later.

British troop cut in Afghanistan may be dangerous

for Afghan President Hamid Karzai called for support from ISAF during a battle against drug smugglers. A major operation to airlift tonnes of British military equipment from Afghanistan, including helicopters and armoured vehicles, is already under way, BBC reported. It would be unforgivable if we allowed the gains of the last three years to be lost because we were not able to provide the Afghans with the support to take this through into 2014, Carter told the daily. Our judgement is we have to manage this in a way that retains confidence. Precipitating withdrawal that is not in line with the current plan will damage

remains after finding several of the victims bones. Since then another 34 victims have been identified.

Holloway said that DNA testing will continue until all possible identifications have been completed.

Afghan confidence. He said the coming summer would be a genuine test of the capability and confidence of the Afghan forces, a test of determination of the Afghan people to be with their government and a test of how much will remain in the insurgency. At least 441 British personnel have died since operations began in Afghanistan in 2001.

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Cause of Burma Mosque Fire Under Scrutiny
Bangkok A fire at a mosque in Burmas largest city, Rangoon, early Tuesday, killed at least 13 children as they were sleeping in their quarters. Officials say the fire was caused by faulty electrical wiring, but it comes just days after sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims in March left 43 people dead, dozens injured and thousands homeless, most of them Muslims. Trucks of armed riot police closed off the road leading to the burned mosque in eastern Rangoon. They strung yellow tape in front of the area and stood guard.Behind the tape a couple of hundred onlookers, most of them Muslims who wanted to know what caused this tragedy. Thant Zaw Oo, a township officer in Botahtaung, said everyone feels very sad for what happened. He explained that early in the morning, around 2:50, the electric transformer inside the mosque became overheated and caused an electrical short that caused a fire nearby a ladder. He said, because of the incident, 13 students who were sleeping upstairs in the mosque were blocked in the fire and killed. It is not clear why the children were trapped in the fire. Police said a few other children sleeping upstairs were able to escape along with most of the more than 70 other children living in the mosque compound. Khin Than Soe, a Red Cross worker in Botahtaung, arrived at the scene at 3:00 am. She helped rescue 30 children from the fire. move that was in violation of Security Council sanctions and drew widespread condemnation, including from Mr. Ban. The test prompted the Security Council to tighten sanctions on the countrys trade and banking, as well as travel by targeted officials. The DPRK then reportedly said it was cancelling the 1953 Armistice Agreement that ended the Korean War. Things must begin to calm down, as this situation, made worse by the lack of communication, could lead down a path that nobody should want to follow, he said. There is no need for the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea to be on a collision course with the international community. I am convinced that nobody intends to attack DPRK because of disagreements about its political system or foreign policy. However, I am afraid that others will respond firmly to any direct military provocation.

Korean peninsula crisis has gone too far, warns UN Chief

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed the current crisis on the Korean peninsula has already gone too far, following an announcement by the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) to restart its Yongbyon nuclear reactor. I am deeply troubled. As SecretaryGeneral, it is my duty to prevent war and to pursue peace. It is also my responsibility to state that the current crisis has already gone too far, Mr. Ban said at a news conference during his visit to Andorra. Nuclear threats are not a game. Aggressive rhetoric and military posturing only result in counter-actions, and fuel fear and instability. Mr. Ban called for dialogue and negotiations, underlining that this is the only way to resolve the crisis, and expressed his readiness to help all the parties involved to this end. In February, the DPRK conducted its third, long threatened nuclear test, a

US miffed at Indias local content requirement for telecom

54 die as heavy rains lash Argentina

Buenos Aires The toll from the heavy rains that have lashed Buenos Aires and nearby parts of the country now stands at 54, Argentine authorities said. The tsunami of rain, as it has been called, has forced thousands of people to be evacuated and caused significant damage to homes and infrastructure. The Argentine government is working with provincial and local authorities to evacuate homes, for instance in the La Plata neighbourhoods of Las Lomas and Tolosa where some of them are flooded with more than 1.5 meters of water. Of the 48 confirmed fatalities in La Plata, 60 km south of the national capital, only 24 have been able to be identified, said Buenos Aires provincial security minister Ricardo Casal, adding that among the identified dead was just one younger person - a 21-year-old man - and all the rest were people over age 50. The governor of Buenos Aires province, the capital of which is La

She said a fire broke out inside the building, but she did not know exactly what happened to cause it. Tensions building Despite the rapid conclusion by police and officials that the fire was an accident, the deaths of children inside a mosque are likely to draw scrutiny concerns following weeks of tension between Buddhists and Muslims. Sectarian clashes in March in central Burma left 43 people dead, most of them Muslims. The fighting erupted after a commercial dispute between a Muslim gold shop owner and a Buddhist customer escalated into mob violence and looting. Buddhist mobs targeted Muslim neighborhoods, burning thousands of homes and destroying a number of mosques. The sectarian unrest spread as far south as the outskirts of Rangoon before the military and police were able to restore

order. Satellite photos released by Human Rights Watch show entire neighborhoods burned to the ground. Burmese President Thein Sein blamed instigators for threatening the countrys reforms and promised to take action against those responsible. But Human Rights Watch deputy director for Asia, Phil Robertson, said authorities have, so far, held few accountable. The government and the police have been effectively silent on this, Robertson noted. You know, its left to the president to make a sort of a welcome speech to set the tone, but again, does this trickle down to any sort of action to protect peoples lives on the ground? The sectarian violence echoes last years clashes in western Rakhine state that killed close to 200 people and left 120,000 others displaced, most of them stateless Rohingya Muslims.

Washington The US has highlighted the growing use of local content requirements in several countries, including India, among key barriers faced by US telecommunications service and equipment suppliers in their dealings abroad. Acting United States Trade Representative (USTR) Demetrios Marantis Wednesday also identified several other specific issues in its annual report on the operation and effectiveness of telecommunications trade agreements on which USTR will focus its monitoring and enforcement efforts this year. Recent years have witnessed a growing trend among our trading partners to impose localization barriers to trade designed to protect, favour, or stimulate domestic industries, service providers, or intellectual property (IP) Marantis said. The review highlights the concern that US equipment manufacturers may be disadvantaged by the growing use of local content requirements in countries such as Brazil, India, and Indonesia, he said. It also outlines a range of other telecom barriers that USTR has spotted and intends to tackle with increased monitoring and enforcement in the coming year, Marantis said. Other India related issues listed in the review include:

Satellite services issues: Impediments faced by US satellite operators when seeking to serve customers in China and India include the requirement to sell satellite capacity exclusively through government-owned suppliers. Submarine cable system issues: The review highlights the positive steps the government of India took in 2012 to improve access to Indias submarine cable landing stations, but notes the need for India to consider a methodology to eliminate unjustified costs imposed on suppliers. Issues affecting telecommunications equipment trade: Flagging localisation concerns in Brazil, India, and Indonesia, the review also discusses the use of equipment standards and conformity assessment procedures that act as barriers to entry for US telecommunications equipment. In the case of India, these include onerous security requirements for the importation of telecommunications network equipment and mandatory certification requirements and requirements for local testing. Called the 1377 review after the relevant section of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, the annual report identifies issues relating to compliance by trade partners with trade agreements regarding telecommunications products and services.

Plata, Daniel Scioli, had told the media earlier Wednesday that the number of fatalities there exceeded 46, while six people are known to have died in the city of Buenos Aires itself. Argentine President Cristina Fernandez Wednesday went first to La Plata, her birthplace, and later to Mitre, one of the Buenos Aires neighbourhoods most affected by the storms, to survey the flooded areas and speak with local residents. The Argentine government also decreed

three days of national mourning for the victims of the weather catastrophe and deployed army troops to the flooded areas to help assist the people affected by the storm. Scioli stressed the priority of saving the lives that can be saved. The priority is human (life), after which the material damage will be evaluated and how those affected can be helped to recover what theyve lost, he said. It was a deluge without historical precedent. So, the people have been surprised in the worst way and some did not have time to be able to escape this fatal trap, Scioli said. The governor said that army troops and firefighters are going house to house to rescue the people who took refuge from floodwaters in trees or on the roofs of their homes. The situation is very complex, said Scioli, who called the deluge a tsunami of rain and added that the local schools have been established as evacuation centers.

China-US mutual trust grows despite gaps, say envoy

growing, reported Xinhua. We have worked together on so many issues, and on some of these issues we will certainly have different interests and have different policies, he said, but still we have managed these issues quite well and the overall relationship is still developing. Maybe the level of confidence is not as high as we would like to see, but it is certainly growing, he added. Cui noted that the relationship between China and the US is one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world, and that both sides have attached great importance to the sound development of this relationship. He stressed that China is firmly committed to building a cooperative partnership based on mutual respect and mutual benefit with the US and to the joint exploration of ways to build a new type of relationship between big powers. Of course, there would be difficulties and problems we have to face. But I think both sides have displayed determination to work together, to solve these problems and difficulties and to respond to any possible new challenges, Cui said. When asked about the escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula, Cui reiterated that a diplomatic solution is the only feasible and viable option on the table. China urged all parties to remain calm and refrain from any actions that may escalate tensions, Cui said. Cui arrived in Washington Tuesday to serve as the 10th Chinese ambassador to the US. He was Chinese vice foreign minister from 2010 to 2013, and prior to that Chinese ambassador to Japan.

Washington There is growing mutual trust between China and the US, and China is firmly committed to seeking a new type of inter-power relationship, said Cui Tiankai, Chinas new ambassador to Washington. Cui, who met US Secretary of State John Kerry Wednesday, told reporters that he does not agree with the socalled deficit of trust between China and the US. Instead, he believed mutual trust is

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Manish Tewari Information and Broadcasting Minister As a student/youth activist who often was at the receiving end of the tender mercies of police feel sad and angry at Sudipta Guptas death, Hope the government of W Bengal that consists of former Chattra Parishad/ Youth Congress activists would surmount partisan politics for justice,

Nilotpal Basu Central committee member How come both sides of his head were hit? This kind of police brutality is outrageous.The other SFI activist Joshef Hossains hand might have to be amputate.

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Thiruvananthapuram The Kerala unit of the Congress party Thursday sought from the central government a Rs.100 crore assistance package for Kerala emigres who may lose their jobs in Saudi Arabia under its new work policy. Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Ramesh Chennithala said the state party unit will submit a detailed proposal to the Kerala government on how the assistance be utilised. We propose that all those who return within a year of migration to the Middle East should be given an assistance of up to Rs.50,000 to tide over their immediate financial crisis, said Chennithala. The proposals also include a new pension scheme of Rs.1,000 for those who are above 60 years of age. The diaspora who return on health grounds and are unable to do any productive work should be given a monthly pension of Rs.1,000 besides a new medical insurance policy should be announced for all (such) migrants, said Chennithala.

Mrinal Sen Filmmaker Why did he die? Who is responsible for his death? The one who rules the state, under whom the police are, that is the chief minister is responsible for this death, I would like to ask the chief minister how did he die? Why isnt there any control? She will have to answer. The loss of a young life is an unbearable pain,

Abhishek Banerjee National President of All India Trinamool Yuva Any accidental death is regrettable and tragic. A young persons life, especially, is precious for all society. This is beyond politics.

Biman Bose Left Front chairman The CM has visited the hospital this morning. But she did not bother to go to the hospital when the SFI leader was fighting for his life. She was then busy attending a cultural function at the Salt Lake Stadium.

Sitaram Yechury CPI(M) Politburo member We just cannot accept this act of the police in any state where the police grants permission for peaceful demonstrations to be held. But in Kolkata, it beats up the students, arrests them, takes them in buses and in the process virtually murders a student,

Pradip Bhattacharya Congress president With (Trinamool) taking over, we had thought the state will witness change. What I see is the politics of police killing students ... has come back,

Congress seeks central help for Kerala emigres in Saudi

The KPCC has proposed a sum of Rs.3 lakh to be given to the families of the economically backward following the death of the migrant in an accident or if the person is unable to work due to poor health. Children of the people (who return) should get education scholarships, besides all those who are willing to start their own self-employment projects should be given an interest-free loan up to Rs.5 lakh, added Chennithala. The KPCC also asked the ministry of overseas Indian affairs to set up a recruitment agency and find employment opportunities in other Asian countries. The KPCC initiative comes at a time when under a new Nitaqat policy or Saudisation programme in Saudi Arabia, 10 percent of jobs are to be reserved for Saudi nationals. The policy is aimed at expanding employment opportunities for Saudi nationals and on account of this, there could be large scale exodus of Indian migrants from Saudi Arabia, media had reported.

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Mumbai BJP president Rajnath Singh held the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government responsible for corruption, sorry state of economy and faulty planning. Speaking to media persons in Mumbai, Rajnath Singh criticised the UPA government for the current account deficit that stands at a record 6.7 percent. The UPA is responsible for rampant corruption, wrong economic polices and incorrect planning. During the BJP-led NDA govern-

Rajnath Singh steps up attack on UPA government

ment, India had a current account surplus and six million job opportunities were created as against the mere 2.7 million during the UPAs rule during 2004-09, Singh said. Stepping up his attack on the government, Rajnath Singh said that the earlier the Congress-led UPA government goes, the better it would be for the country. However, the BJP is not keen to destablise the UPA government. But if it falls due to its internal conflicts, then the BJP should not be blamed for it, he said. Rajnath Singh was in Maharashtra to tour the drought-hit Aurangabad and Jalna districts. While visiting the districts Monday, he blamed the central and state governments for their poor handling of the drought. Rajnath Singh also stressed the need to introduce an insurance plan for farm income at a national level. He said that a similar scheme had been launched in 20 districts in the country on an experimental basis during his tenure as the union agriculture minister.

The scheme envisages preparing estimates of minimum income of the agricultural land before sowing begins. In the wake of damage of crop due to any calamity, the farmer will be entitled for an assured income under scheme, he said. The BJP chief demanded additional funds for drought relief and rehabilitation in the state and called for Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to make efforts to get more central allocation for Maharashtra.

Agartala For the first time in Tripura, religious groups acted against the Left parties in the Feb 14 assembly polls, CPI-M leaders claimed here Wednesday after the partys two-day election review meeting.Some religious organisations, including Christian groups, RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) and Hindu missionaries have campaigned against the Left parties during the election, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) state secretary Bijon Dhar told reporters.

Religious groups campaigned against the Left in Tripura: CPI-M

Such trends of using religion in elections are dangerous for the country as well as for the state. These have happened for the first time in Tripura, he said. Senior CPI-M leader and editor of party mouthpiece Daily Desher Katha Gautam Das said: Outlawed militant outfits were also active in three subs-divisions - Kanchanpur, Longtharai Valley and Gandachara - all in northern Tripura, before and during the elections. But due to the alertness of the people and security forces, they could not do anything violent. The CPI-M held a two-day summit here Sunday and Monday, and analysed the partys performance and other aspects in the Feb 14 polls to the 60-seat Tripura assembly. In the elections, the CPI-M led Left Front won power for the seventh time, entering office for a fifth consecutive term after securing a landslide victory, winning 50 of the 60 seats in the assembly. The Congress managed only 10

seats.We are not satisfied with these results. Despite our massive developmental drive, job opportunities and pro-people steps, our seats did not increase as expected. We should have secured four to five more seats, He said that some internal party sabotage may have caused loss of some seats. The party has instituted a commission to probe these sabotages, and two party leaders were suspended for three months for these reasons,

Haryana IAS officer Khemka transferred again

Chandigarh Senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who had ordered a scrutiny of land deals of UPA chief Sonia Gandhis son-in-law Robert Vadra, was Thursday transferred by the Haryana government to an inconsequential post. Khemka, now managing director of the Haryana Seeds Development Corp (HSDC), will now be secretary of Haryana Archives, which is responsible for preserving public and private records in the state. The latest transfer came after Khemka highlighted irregularities in HSDC, leaving the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government embarrassed. Khemka has been transferred almost 45 times in his two-decade-long career as an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer. He hit national headlines in October last year when he cancelled a mutation of a multi-crore-rupee land deal between Vadras company Sky Light Hospitality and realty giant DLF. The officer even ordered a probe into all land deals done by Vadra and his companies in Haryanas Gurgaon, Faridabad, Mewat and Palwal districts since 2005. After Khemkas action Oct 8, the Hooda government went into an overdrive to undo it. Within days, the district authorities of four districts gave a clean chit to the land deals done by Vadra and his companies. The Hooda government set up a committee of bureaucrats to look into the action taken by Khemka. The committee held that Khemkas actions as director-general of land consolidation were not in accordance with laid down procedures. Khemka questioned the rationale of the committee in submitting its report without even seeking his views on the action taken in the land deals. Khemka was removed from his post Oct 11 by the Hooda government, which sought to project it as a routine transfer. Vadra and his companies had made land purchases of nearly 170 acres in Gurgaon, Palwal, Mewat and Faridabad districts since 2005.

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failure to do appear before the JPC would send a loud and clear signal that Manmohan Singh had something to hide. Talking to reporters in Chennai, Sinha said if the prime minister said his conscience was clear, he should offer to appear before JPC. By not appearing before the JPC, the prime minister is sending a signal loud and clear that he has something to hide, he said. Sinha also accused JPC Chairman P.C. Chako of behaving in a partisan manner. Chacko Wednesday rejected Sinhas demand for prime ministers appearance before the panel probing the 2G issue, saying the committee had passed that phase. We are now preparing the draft of the committee report for which the commitee has authorised its chairman unanimously, said Chacko, who is also a Congress spokesperson. Chacko Tuesday rubbished Sinhas demand for calling the prime minister before the JPC as a political stunt. Chacko also rejected criticism for not calling Raja before the panel despite the DMK leaders insistence. He said if Raja was called before the committee, all the telecom ministers, who served between 1998 and 2009 would have to be summoned. Ranchi The CBI conducted searches at the houses of 11 Jharkhand legislators in connection with the cash-for-vote charges in the 2010 Rajaya Sabha polls. Sources in the Central Bureau of Investigation said the houses of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) legislators Vishnu Bhaiya, Suresh Paswan, RJDs Sanjay Yadav and a few Congress legislators were raided in Ranchi, Jamtara, Koderma, Giridih and other districts of the state. According to CBI sources, some vital documents were seized during the raids. The CBI has till now conducted searches at more than 15 places in the state. At a directive of the Jharkhand High Court, the 2010 Rajya Sabha cash-forvote case was handed over to the CBI from the state vigilance department, which was earlier investigating the case. The Jharkhand High Court is monitoring the case, and the court had expressed unhappiness over slow pace of investigations into the horse-trading cases. An arrest warrant is pending against Sita Soren, JMM legislator and daughterin-law of party chief Shibu Soren. She is accused of threatening her former personal secretary in the case.

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Nothing to hide, says PM to Sinha

New Delhi Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday virtually rejected BJP leader Yashwant Sinhas demand that he appear before the JPC on the 2G spectrum controversy, saying that all records in the case were with the panel and he had nothing to hide. You are aware that all pertinent records and documents available with the government have already been placed at the disposal of the JPC, the prime minister said in response to Sinhas letter. I have said from the beginning that neither the government nor I have anything to hide in this matter, he said. The decision as to what evidence should be sought and which individuals should be asked to appear before the JPC is a matter that needs to be decided internally by the JPC and its chairman, the prime minister wrote. In a letter Monday, Sinha had asked the prime minister to appear before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) looking into the 2G spectrum allocation. Sinha had said that former Minister A. Raja had levelled serious allegations against the prime minister and he should appear before the panel if he had nothing to hide. With the prime minister having rebuffed his demand, Sinha said Wednesday that

Congress intimidates allies : Mulayam

Lucknow Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav once again targetted the Congress, saying it intimidated alliance partners and forced them to support it. He added that the Congress intimidated its allies by putting the fear of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into them. Addressing party workers at the SP headquarters in the state capital, Yadav - whose 22 MPs in the Lok Sabha are crucial for the survival of the Manmohan Singh led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government - said that the Congress had thousands of hands which it uses to send its rivals behind bars. The union government has the CBI.

Raja, an accused in the 2G spectrum case, had written to the committee last month saying the prime minister had been kept in the loop on the spectrum allocation. The 2G spectrum was allocated by the government in 2008. According to a report of Comptroller and Auditor General, it caused a presumptive loss of Rs.1.76 lakh crore to the exchequer. Raja and his party colleague Kanimozhi, former telecom secretary Siddhartha Behura and Rajas personal secretary R.K. Chandolia were among those arrested in the case. The accused are out on bail.

Sheila Dikshit should resign : BJP

Dalit leader is Mumbai Congress chief

It can get anyone arrested and jailed, Yadav added. He also praised Jan Sangh founder Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. Mukherjee was a fighter and contributed greatly to the freedom struggle he added. Yadav had last month heaped praise on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani and had vouched for the honesty of former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. Yadav has been under attack from Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma and the Sp looked set to pull the rug from under the UPAs feet. However, it stopped short after crisis managers from both parties worked overtime to ensure a ceasefire for the time being.

Rahul invokes the Gita, Buddha at CII meet

New Delhi Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi invoked the Bhagavad Gita, the sacred Hindu text, saying compassion was key to peace and development. He noted that Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Buddha too reiterated this message. Our idea is so big that it can take along people outside India also... the idea is compassion... Mahatma Gandhi said it, Buddha said it and it is written in the Gita also, Gandhi said while addressing the annual general body meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) at the Banquet Hall of Hotel Ashok. The 42-year-old Gandhi scion said the solution to the complex problems in India and the various resultant conflicts lay in listening to

The CBI is also investigating the 2012 Rajya Sabha cash-for-vote case. The 2012 polls to the upper house of parliament were countermanded after more than Rs.2 crore in cash was recovered from the vehicle of an Independent candidate. A TV channel aired a CD with the voices of six MLAs from the state soon after the polls to fill a vacancy from Jharkhand in the upper house in 2010. Six MLAs of different parties were shown expressing willingness to vote for a particular candidate in return for monetary gains. An FIR was lodged, and the states vigilance department began investigations. The probe was later taken over by the CBI.

the people who have no voice and having more inclusive policies. If you could just hear what people have to say... it is good; going to the worst enemy and hearing him (out), said Gandhi.

Rahul praises Left, Dravidian parties

New Delhi The BJPs Delhi unit demanded the resignation of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit following a CAG report that slammed the Delhi government. All our allegations have proved to be true with this report. The Delhi government has looted and cheated people, Delhi BJP president Vijay Goel said. Sheila Dikshit should resign from the chief ministers post, he said. In its report, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has severely criticised projects and schemes by the healthcare, transport, power and water departments of the Delhi government. Goel said they were also considering filing a case of criminal negligence against the Delhi government. We will consult our lawyers to file a case of criminal negligence against the Delhi government. They have converted Delhi into a slum. There is no relief for the common man, he said.The BJP leader also said that a protest would be held outside Dikshits residence.

Mumbai Dalit leader Janardan C. Chandurkar was appointed the new president of Mumbai Regional Congress Committee, party office-bearers said. A three-time legislator and former deputy speaker of Maharashtra legislative assembly, Chandurkar, 68, will replace Kripashankar Singh, who quit under a cloud of corruption allegations. Lawyer-turned-professor-cumpolitician Chandurkar told: I am happy to be given this responsibility. I shall chart out my future programme after consulting my party colleagues soon. The former chairman of Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority, Chandurkar will be the Dalit face of the city Congress in next years Lok Sabha and assembly elections. Chandurkars name was proposed a couple of months ago by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for the post. Credited with securing increased housing space for slum-dwellers, Chandurkar lives in Andheri suburb of north Mumbai with his family.

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi had some words of praise for the Left and the Dravidian parties who, he said, had structures to give voice to people at the village level. We need to have architectures to involve the pradhans (village heads). The parties are not designed for pradhans. Only the Left and the Dravidian parties have it, Gandhi said at the annual general body meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) here. Gandhi was responding to questions from the vice president of CII, Ajay Shriram, on centre-state relations. According to Gandhi, the pradhans, who play a crucial role in getting things done at the ground level, do not have a say in the power system, which is run by MPs and state legislators. The challenge is coming from the pradhans, Gandhi said, explaining what he termed a dissonance in the system that has occurred after the introduction of the 73rd and 74th amendments to the constitution that gave power to panchayats, the villagelevel bodies. The Amethi MP said there were around 700 pradhans under him and the leaders go to the pradhans asking for their support during election time. I have the power to make policy but not the pradhans. We need devolution of power, he said.

Rahul s speech lackluster : BJP

Labelling Congress vice president Rahul Gandhis speech here lacklustre and without direction, the BJP said Thursday that it was a tacit admission that the UPA government had not empowered people in the last nine years. People were reeling under inflation, were fed up with corruption and wanted faster growth with jobs, BJP spokesperon Prakash Javadekar told. He said Gandhi, in his address at the CII conference, did not talk of relevant questions and revealed his desire to empower people. It is a tacit admission that the UPA has not empowered people in the last nine years, Javadekar said. He said people were fed up with the United Progressive Alliance government and wanted change. It (the speech) was lacklustre, uninspiring and without direction, he said. Party leader Yashwant Sinha said the Congress leader did not address the present problems of Indian economy and only shared a set of platitudes. There were contradictions in his speech... He had nothing specific to offer in terms of present problems of Indian economy... only a set of platitudes he shared, Sinha said. Asked about comparison between Gandhi and Narendra Modi, Sinha said it would be very unfair to make a comparison. There is no comparison. I dont want to be harsh on the young man.

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Srinagar(4 April, 2013) An earthquake of moderate intensity hit the Kashmir Valley Thursday, but no damage to life or property was reported. Sonam Lotus, director of the weather office, said that the earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale occurred just after noon. Its epicentre was in Hindukush region of Afghanistan with latitude 36.1 degrees north and longitude 71.6 degrees east. The depth of the quake was 233.7 km at the epicentre, the official said. The valley is situated in a region which has suffered devastating earthquakes. On Oct 8, 2005, a quake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale killed more than 40,000 people on both sides of the Line of Control that divides Jammu and Kashmir between India and Pakistan.

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Drugs haul: Punjab cops arrest boxer Ram Singh

Chandigarh The Punjab Police Wednesday arrested boxer Ram Singh in connection with the recent recovery of huge quantity of heroin and other drugs worth nearly Rs.500 crore in the state. Police had, last month, busted an international drugs racket operating from the state. Ram Singh is a fellow boxer and former room-mate of Olympic bronze medal winner and star boxer Vijender Singh. Police earlier claimed, based on Ram Singhs statements, that he and Vijender had consumed heroin five and 12 times respectively in recent months (December 2012 to February 2013). The union sports ministry Monday asked the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) to carry out a test on Vijender following the latest drugs controversy around him. The blood and urine tests were conducted Wednesday. The Fatehgarh Sahib police today arrested boxer Ram Singh in the drugs case already registered against international smugglers Anoop Singh and others. He is the 16th accused who has been arrested in this case, a Punjab police spokesman said here Wednesday evening. Police investigators said Ram Singh, who had been questioned several times by them in the drugs case, was arrested after huge quantities of lifestyle drugs and raw material for these drugs were recovered from his brother-in-law Ravi Deol. He (Ram Singh) was summoned to join investigation in this case after the name of Ravi Deol surfaced in this case and heavy recovery of drugs (5 kg Ice and 90 kg Pseudophedrine) was made from his parental house in Sangrur. Ram Singh was continuously in touch with Ravi Deol who is a proclaimed offender and a smuggler, the police

Moderate Coincidence quake hits Kashmir Valley The Kangra Fort, HP

spokesman said. However, family members and some fellow boxers claimed that Ram Singh had been illegally detained by Punjab Police for the past nearly a month without formally arresting him or taking him into custody. During intensive questioning it was found that Ram Singh has deeper connections with the smugglers and necessitated his custodial interrogation, the police spokesman said. Fatehgarh Sahib police made its first seizure of over 28 kg heroin, worth Rs.130 crore in the international market, March 7 from Zirakpur town on the outskirts of Chandigarh. It then made more seizures of lifestyle and party drugs. Based on international prices for these drugs, police said the haul was valued at Rs.484 crore. On Sunday, the police recovered 10 kg of party drug Ice (methamphetamine) and 230 kg of raw material (pseudophedrine) from which it is made. The latest seizures were made from Panchkula (near Chandigarh), Patiala and Sangrur. During investigation, it has been established that boxers Ram Singh

Jobs for 70,000 youths in Jammu and Kashmir

Battle in Himachal assembly over walkouts

Shimla The ruling Congress in Himachal Pradesh called for redefining of the term walkout from the assembly. A controversy on the issue erupted a day earlier when the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claimed that it had staged a walkout from the assembly. Speaker B.B. Butail, clarifying on the issue, insisted that the walkout was staged after the house was adjourned. The impasse in the house led the BJP to stage a walkout, abstaining from Question Hour. As the house assembled Tuesday, BJP member Rikhi Ram Kaundal said it was the second time (in the ongoing session) that the sanctity of the house had been compromised. We walked out of the assembly (Monday), but a section of the press today (Tuesday) reported that it was not a walkout. Even your secretariat said it was not a walkout, he said. At this, Health Minister Kaul Singh said: There is a need for redefining the term walkout. When the speaker is sitting and the opposition goes out of the house, that should only be considered a walkout, he added. The treasury bench insisted that any attempt by the BJP to move out of the assembly after the house adjournment was not a walkout. The BJP, on the other hand, insisted that the treasury bench was just trying to go into technicalities for creating confusion on the issue of its walkouts. Leader of opposition Prem Kumar Dhumal said: It seems the speaker is in competition with the opposition to go out of the house first. He insisted that the walkout was

and Vijender Singh took heroin from (arrested Canada-based drug dealer) Anoop Singh Kahlon and Rocky for personal consumption between December 2012 and February 2013, the police claimed. Ram Singh, a constable, has been dismissed from the Punjab Police since it was established that he frequented the smugglers and procured heroin from them. Vijender Singh is a deputy superintendent of police (under training) with Haryana Police. The police said that the drugs were being exported abroad to Britain, Canada and Holland by this group of narcotic smugglers through Kulwant Singh, a British national, who was earlier arrested in this case from Delhi March 19. Police also found a SUV, registered in the name of Vijender Singhs wife Archana, parked outside Kahlons flat from where the first seizure was made. Kahlon reportedly told the police that Vijender and fellow boxer Ram Singh were his clients. Punjab Police have already questioned Vijender. Two Canadian and one British national (all of Indian origin) have been arrested in the case so far.

On 4 April 1905, a devastating earthquake hit the north-west Himalayas which is known as the Kangra earthquake and was the first of several devastating 20th century earthquakes to occur in northern India. It was estimated that more than 20 thousand died in the event that had a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale. The towns of Kangra, Mcleodganj and Dharamshala were destroyed.

Lashkar threatens J&K village council members, girls

Srinagar In a bid to derail grassroot level democracy in Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkare-Taiba (LeT) Thursday threatened and asked village council members to resign from their elected posts. The LeT posters threatening village members and asking girls to follow strict Islamic dress code appeared in Aharipal village, 50 km from here in south Kashmirs Pulwama district. The posters were signed by Abdullah Mujahid who claimed to be the LeT commander for Jammu and Kashmir. Through the posters the outfit threatened village panches and sarpanches of dire consequences if they did not resign from their posts. The posters written in Urdu also asked the girls to adhere to a strict Islamic dress code. The LeT warning asked locals to desist from working for Indian agencies. In the past also such threats by other guerrilla groups have appeared in some villages. One such threat also asked girls not to use mobile phones. Five elected village council members have been killed by gunmen in the Kashmir Valley since the panchayat election in 2011. An overwhelming majority of villagers participated in the panchayat polls of 2011, which were held in Jammu and Kashmir after a gap of 28 years.

2005 Himachal proposal yet to get central nod

Jammu Jammu and Kashmir plans to employ more than 70,000 youths in the government sector, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said Wednesday even as union minister Jairam Ramesh pledged more central support. Presently over four lakh youths are unemployed in the state and the government intends to appoint more than 70,000 youths in government services from this year, he said at a function here. Besides this, the government would also create employment opportunities for more than three lakh young people. As such, projects of both the state and the central governments were under implementation to expand the job market, he said. Omar Abdullah said Himayat is a unique programme being run in the state with the help of central government aimed at imparting training to one lakh youth and providing them placements in the private sector within and outside the state during a period of five years. This is a significant and historic opportunity coming to the youth to enhance their employability capacities

and get assured jobs in the private job market. It is up to them how they take advantage of this initiative and transform their socio-economic status, he said. Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh, who was also present at the function, said: The Himayat scheme was launched in the state in 2011 and it is marching ahead confidently to realise the set goal of providing training and jobs to one lakh youth of Jammu and Kashmir, mostly school drop-outs and lesser qualified.... He added that over 5,000 youths have been provided jobs in various companies within and outside the state since the inception of the scheme and over 15,000 would be given training and placement during 2013-14. Ramesh announced one tablet (minicomputer) each to 400 youths who have completed one year of service in the companies they were engaged under Himayat. He said that all the boys and girls completing one year service successfully in the companies would be provided tablets.

staged before the house was ordered adjourned. Butail clarified that he was bound to go out of the house when business was over. I will not wait till the opposition walks out, he said. Confusion prevailed in the house Monday soon after the reply of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh over BJPs resolution on renaming of schemes started during its previous regime. After the reply, the opposition expressed dissatisfaction. In the meantime, the speaker adjourned the house. In the melee, BJP members left the house raising slogans. The BJP had earlier also created ruckus in the house over its walkout. We staged a walkout but it has been reported in a section of the press that there was no walkout, BJP member Suresh Bharadwaj said in the assembly March 22. Its an unhealthy practice of issuing a statement (regarding the walkout) by the Vidhan Sabha, he added.

Shimla A proposal sent nearly eight years ago to the central government to declare certain Himachal Pradesh areas scheduled and some communities Scheduled Tribes is yet to get a nod, Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh has said. The state government sent a proposal to the ministry of tribal affairs May 4, 2005, for declaring some areas, including trans-Giri areas in Sirmaur district, as scheduled areas, the chief minister said in a written reply to the assembly Monday. Amongst the areas listed in the state governments proposal are Chhota and Bara Bangal villages in Kangra district, Chohar Valley in Mandi district, Churah in Chamba district, Malana in Kullu district and Dodra Kwar and Rampur Bushahr, both in Shimla district. Similarly, the state pleaded that the Barad, Bangala, Labana, Hattee and Dudra Kawaru communities living in these areas as Scheduled Tribes. Former legislator Jagat Singh Negi told IANS that the Hattee community settled in three assembly constituencies -- Shillai, Renuka and Pachhad in Sirmaur district -- has been fighting for decades to get the status of a Scheduled Tribe. A select assembly committee comprising three local legislators recommended to Speaker T.S. Negi Dec 16, 1993, to initiate steps to declare the Hattee community a Scheduled Tribe, he said. The Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Commission in its 1979-80 report had recommended the same.

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Politically Incorrect
UC asks all bold outspoken folks out there to take questions most others would find tough to answer. So if you are politically incorrect and can take a few hits before you hit back, come talk to us at 0172-4647726 or 01772659828. This week we have as politically incorrect daredevil Ajay Thakur from Social Works Department HPU. Q) What are your thoughts on intercast marriages? A) Human is a social animal and lives in a society that is group of people of different mindsets. Inter-caste marriage is an issue of debate but a marriage is a bond between two minds and hearts so that other reasons may be ignored. If I never mind marrying a girl with any religion because I just want that she should love and respect me and my family. Q) Would you rather be called sexy or brainy? Cute or cool? A) Cool and cute is nice to hear and understand whereas I have doubt about being sexy and brainy due to my weight and size. It is very difficult to be both because it needs lot of brains to be sexy and vice-versa. Q) What would happen if a girl you liked turned you down? Would you still be friends with her? A) If a girl turned me down then I would never talk to her again because after a relationship breaks it is like a melted ice - cream which can never be the same again but you can only keep licking on it.

Prabhjot Kaur Gill, age 22 yrs old, doing M.sc chemistry hons from Panjab University chd. hobbies: creative activities, like painting, desiging, interior styling, creating out of waste...... but never learnt from anyone, so want to learn properly so as to do even more better.... national level chess player, represented panjab university at inter uni championship, but again, never got professional training, so want to learn chess as well.... want to live each and every moment of my life... dont want a monotonous lifestyle. 4. 5. 6. my adventure thrill. want to learn how to play a violin. want to be perfect in CHESS by learning more of it. make my parents proud, wanna groom poor children( including their studies, etiquettes, dressing everythng) traffic police wali white bullet chalana :-p Presenting @ YOLO 8. revolutionize our education system... it should be more of practical knowledge 9. wanna learn sketching. 10. want to be a star designer and 11. want some more wishes, 10 are so less.... :-p

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Q) What are your thoughts on getting physical before marriage? A) We live in society which follows certain rules. To be physical may be right for some people but it is wrong for me because my sanskaars do not allow me to be physical before marriage but if being physical means romance then anytime is good time.

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was doing Bachelors in Tourism. I had no idea what I was doing. I just had heard the names of all such adventurous sports. When I got back from the course I soon bought my very own climbing shoes and harness. The rest, as they say, is history. Q) What keeps you amped up and motivated to keep pushing your limits every day? A) The thing about rock climbing is there is always room for improvement. Even if I feel strong, I want to feel stronger. Adventure tours for rock climbing in Manali is popularizing in Himachal. The region is suitable for beginners with little experience. Q) Give us some technical details on rock climbing? A) Rock climbing is high energy & risky adventure sport. The essential skill and prerequisite for rock climbing is physical fitness that will determine the adventure you will driving while climbing. There are many aspects with climbing that includes signals, belaying, anchor systems, and climbing protection, rope management, useful climbing Knots etc. Q) What are your aspirations in this field? A) I want to enjoy it always, I may be over ambitious to say this but I want everyone to enjoy like me. I want to set some records also hoping to get chance soon. Q) What is your message to Youngsters? A) I am enjoying doing all this but I want to say do what makes you happy. Dont try to follow everything but follow what you like in every way.

1. world tour... exclusively Europe! and want to have a flavour of world wide diffrent dishes 2. wanna meet Ian Somerhalder.... my favourite actor these days 3. wanna do cliff jumping, once space walk.. :-p , under water diving, free fall... in short want to complete

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to you youngsters nee daredevils who like to challenge the limits and then laugh at them. If you think you have it in you then contact us at 0172-4647726 or 0177- 2659828. We would like to check your spunk meter out. Beware; we dont like Spunk without S! The lure of Himalayas is irresistible for the mountaineers, as the

they spend their youth traveling the world repeating the top climbs they grow up, and by grow up and look to make their own mark on the world by establishing new hard lines. Udit Chauhan of tourism department in HPU loves to do rock climbing. Rock Climbing is his hobby. The S punky HPU student has been climbing rocks from past few years all across Himachal. Team UC asked about his journey so far and further

Himalayas are the greatest range of mountains on earth, their beauty, vastness, fascination and mystery will always have an everlasting appeal for those who venture in this region When most climbers begin their career they are focused on one thing and one thing only, ticking the grade. But, sometimes after

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Rise Of The Millennials

Shri Lal Krishna Advani

Rajnath rejigs party, Modi returns to BJP parliamentary board

New Delhi Giving a clear message of the bigger role Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi would play in the BJPs preparations for the coming Lok Sabha polls, party chief Rajnath Singh re-inducted him into its top decision-making group, the parliamentary board. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief also sought to reinvigorate his team of office bearers by promoting some young faces and articulate parliamentarians. The rejig by Rajnath Singh also saw Modis controversial aide Amit Shah and Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi being made general secretaries and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti a vice president. Modi, the only chief minister in the parliamentary board, has also been made member of the central election committee and will have a role in candidate selection. He comes back to the parliamentary board after about six years but in changed circumstances - amid demands from some sections that he be declared the prime ministerial candidate. There are also indications that he would head the partys campaign committee for the Lok Sabha polls. Shahs induction as general secretary is being seen in party circles as Modis influence. An accused in the Soharabuddin Sheikh and Tulsi Prajapati alleged staged shootout cases, he is a legislator from Naranpura in Gujarat. Gandhi, 33, is the youngest general secretary. His appointment drew a sarcastic comment from party veteran Vinay Katiyar, who said: Gandhi surname gets priority whether it is Congress or BJP. Congress leaders took a dig at BJPs decision to induct Modi and Shah in the team of partys central office-bearers and said Karnataka will be the first test of the opposition partys new team. The new team, which will take BJP through preparations of crucial assembly polls this year to five states and Lok Sabha polls due next year, includes 13 vice presidents, 10 general secretaries, 15 secretaries and seven spokespersons. A BJP leader that the overhaul was major with 80 percent of appointees under 60 years of age and nearly 70 percent faces in the team being new. Like Kamraj plan of Congress, it was the Rajnath plan of BJP, he said. According to party sources, the BJP was keen to connect with the aspiring class and deflate Congress campaign under its young vice president Rahul Gandhi. The new vice-presidents -- five of them women -- include former Karnataka chief minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda, former MPs S.S. Ahluwalia, Satpal Malik and Kiran Maheshwari, MPs Smriti Irani, Balbir Punj, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Prabhat Jha, former Punjab minister Laxmi Kanta Chawla and tribal leader Jual Oram. Bangalore South MP Ananth Kumar and party leader from Odisha Dharamendra Pradhan have been retained as general secretaries though there was speculation about their continuation. Others include party MPs Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Thawarchand Gehlot, former party secretary Murlidhar Rao, former Himachal Pradesh minister J.P. Nadda and former MP Tapir Gaon. Ram Lal will be general secretary (organisation). Party veterans Yashwant Sinha and Jaswant Singh have not found a place in Rajnaths team, while Najma Heptulla, Hema Malini and Shanta Kumar have also been dropped as vice presidents and Ravi Shankar Prasad, the partys deputy leader in the Rajya Sabha, as chief spokesman. The new spokespersons include former MP Bizay Sonkar Shastri, Rajnath Singhs political aide Sudhanshu Trivedi, lawyer Meenakshi Lekhi and former party secretary Capt Abhimanyu, while Prakash Javadekar, Shahnawaz Hussain and Nirmala Sitharaman will continue. Poonam Mahajan, daughter of late party leader Pramod Mahajan, has been made a secretary. The 12-member Central Parliamentary Board, headed by Rajnath Singh, includes Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L.K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, M. Venkaiah Naidu, Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Ananth Kumar, Gehlot and Ram Lal, apart from Modi. Commenting on the new team, Javadekar said: Narendra Modi is one of the popular leaders of the country, and that is why he is in the parliamentary board. Naqvi said the new team was balanced and had been decided by Rajnath Singh after discussions with senior party leaders.

Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi

Shri Nitin Gadkari

Sushree Uma Bharti

Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Shri Rajeev Pratap Rudy

Shri S. S. Ahluwalia

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Shri Arun Jaitely

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a direct successor of erstwhile Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) founded in 1980, is a major political party of India. The Bharatiya Jana Sangh was founded in 1951 by Syama Prasad Mookerjee, a nationalist leader, former Union Minister and freedom-fighter. The party advocates welfare social social policies, self reliance, robust economic growth, foreign policy driven by a nationalist agenda, and strong national defense. The pedestal of Hindu society stems from the great Vedic teachings Ekam Sat Viprah Bahudha Vadanti -- Truth is One, Sages Call it by Many Names, and Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam -- The Whole Universe is one Family. It is this philosophy which allowed the people of Hindusthan (land of the Hindus) to shelter the Jews who faced Roman persecution, the Zoroastrians who fled the Islamic sword and who are the proud Parsi community today, and the Tibetan Buddhists who today face the communist secularism: persecution of religion. The Party aims at establishing a democratic state which guarantees to all citizens irrespective of caste, creed or sex, political, social and economic justice, equality of opportunity and liberty of faith and expression. The Party shall bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India as by law established and to the principles of socialism, secularism and democracy and would uphold the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India.

BJP Takes A Generational Jump

Shri J. P. Nadda

Smt. Lakshmi Kanta Chawla

Shri Murlidhar Rao

Shri M. Venkeya Naidu

Political parties exist to gain power and win elections. BJP has lately behaved as if it was least interested in winning and more interested in its own family squabbles. Since the zeal for winning was missing, no serious thought was given to the problems faced by BJP is its quest to storm the Delhi fortress once again. But what about the team 2013? In a dark backroom of South Delhi, deep in the bowels of the city sit number crunchers of BJP pondering over PUB and BOB. Dont be worried these are not some code words for agents or operations instead they represent the biggest challenges to the party en route power corridors of Delhi. PUB is a play on the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar belt of Lok Sabha seats. PUB belt accounts for 120 Lok Sabha seats, a strong showing in this belt can catapult the party to the stratospheric 182 seats it once touched towards the fag end of the 1990s. In 2009 elections NDA managed to get 47 seats out of this belt chiefly on account of a landslide in Bihar that yielded 32 seats to the alliance out of a possible of 40. UP however has been the horror story for BJP for over a decade now, from a heady 50+ tally of 1990s the party is down to 10 while the NDA managed to salvage a measly 15 seats out of 80 possible. Given anti-incumbency it would be normal to expect some damage in Bihar this time while UP BJP desperately needs a huge fillip to turn its fortunes around. BJP national leadership has signaled the importance it gives to this belt by inducting young Varun Gandhi from UP as a general secretary and Rajiv Pratap Rudy from Bihar as the General Secretary from Bihar. These two have waited in the wings for years and are known to be energetic campaigners with significant base amongst youth. Uma Bharti and CP Thakur have also made it as Vice-Presidents to placate the still efShri Syed Shahnawaz Hussain

Chances of Winning the Race 2014

fective old guard. However the nonperformers have failed to find a berth notable omissions being Lalji Tandon, Vinay Katiyar and KalrajMishra. Apart from this, rumours are rife that Gujarat CM Narendra Modi is being readied to contest from UP and may also be given election charge of UP and Bihar in the coming times. Moving on, BOB represents the Bay of Bengal problem for the BJP (term was first coined by TVR Shenoy). All states touching the Bay or Bengal such as Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu contribute about 145 seats to the Lok Sabha and BJP failed to win even a single seat in the 2009 general elections from this belt. Aware of its shortcomings the party has intensified its efforts to win allies in this belt notable being J Jayalalitha of AIADMK. There are also efforts on to mop up outlier seats that have peculiar ethnic or political factors such as tribal seats and urban metros. The effort on inducting ST office bearers indicates an emphasis on that front, especially in light of the successful efforts of the party in wooing tribal votes of Rajasthan and Gujarat. The new team of BJP campaigners includes more than a fair share of hard boiled strategists such as Balbir Punj, Ananth Kumar, MurlidharRao and Thawar Chand Gehlot. The strategists stand complemented by grassroot campaigners such as JP Nadda, Dharmendra Pradhan,Smriti Irani, Uma Bharti and SS Ahluwalia. Between them they shall have to sort out PUB, BOB or any other fancy acronyms that elections throw up at them. As per political observers, if marshaled well under a decisive leadership input then this team is decidedly more active, sagacious and well appointed to put up a strong fight when compared to the team in place in 2009. So internally at least BJP is upbeat about this leadership team. Smt. Smriti Irani

RSS or Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh is the ideological mothership of BJP. Critics often question the utility of umbilical ties between a political organization such as BJP and a cultural organization like RSS. To an outsider RSS does appear to be superfluous in its role in the context of the day to day realpolitik of national politics. The role of RSS in the BJP is that of an arbitrator that resolves disputes that can otherwise spiral out of control and devour the entire organization. A case in point being the lost decade of 2000s when petty rivalries and mutual conflicts dragged the party down from its dominant role in the Union Government to a confused doddering opposition. The high watermarks of those years are still haunting the party in terms of lingering factional feuds and animosities, hampering a united front against the incumbent UPA. The latest national executive of the BJP bears a distinct imprint of the RSS that indicates a thrust on minimizing internal bickering, promoting firebrand mass leaders and creation of a millennial generation of new BJP leaders. The denial of any significant role to leaders like Shanta Kumar, Yashwant

Impact of RSS

Sinha and Jaswant Singh who have not shied away from attacking their own party at times is a clear indication to deny a podium to known breakout individuals. Similarly glamorous faces who have placed their professions or other priorities ahead of the political ones were also sidelined as was the case with Navjot Singh Sidhu or Hema Malini. Finally the RSS gave the nod to young General Secretaries like Varun Gandhi, Murlidhar Rao, Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Amit Shah as a signal of the emergence of Millennial Generation of BJP leaders. This choice is significant in the face of questions that were raised against the so called Second Generation leaders who were supposed to take over the party after VajpayeeAdvani era. RSS led by its relatively younger Sarsaghchalak Mohanrao Bhagwat is keen on infusing fresh blood, mentoring grassroots leaders and giving a good chance to the BJP in 2014. Something that has not gone down well in some sections of the old guard. With this new National Executive the RSS has shown remarkable flamboyance in face of a rather stoic tradition of conservative planning.

Gandhi Vs Gandhi
To a bollywood crazy nation brought up on a diet of family drama pitting brother against brother in a Mahabharat-esque manner, it could hardly get better than this. Growing up in the lush environs of Teen Murti Bhawan Sanjay Gandhi and Rajeev Gandhi could not have foreseen their children on diametrically opposite sides of the political divide. Rahul Gandhi being the elder one was also the first to join politics, ably assisted by the formidable machinery of the INC he has built his career as the veritable heir to the chair of PM. A slew of personal tragedies in the 1980s and a bitter fight back in 2000s have seen his fortunes rise with mother Sonia Gandhi. Varun Gandhi has had a slightly tortu-

ous path to political prominence. After the much maligned 2009 election appearance he had to painstakingly rebuild his image and fight legal battles to become the General Secretary of the BJP. In a party that is suspicious of dynasties he evokes resistance and studied respect simultaneously. Shri Balbir Punj

Shri Prabhat Jha

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New Delhi Tum hi ho, the title track from Mohit Suris forthcoming romance-action drama Aashiqui 2, is a hit on YouTube and it has crossed over 1,852,947 hits within 10 days of its launch. The promo of the song was released March 23 under the label T-Series. A remake of Mahesh Bhatts 1990 blockbuster Aashiqui, the coming film is also produced by his banner Vishesh Films. Tum hi ho, a romantic number, features Aditya Roy Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor. The track is also popular on social networking sites like Facebook, which Los Angeles Hollywood actor James Franco, who is set to play Hugh Hefner in Lovelace, says he used to secretly read Playboy magazine when he was a kid. The 34-year-old admitted he has always been a fan of Hefner, founder of the magazine. However he has never met Hefner, reports femalefirst. co.uk. When asked by ShortList magazine whether he has ever met Hugh, he said: No, although Ive always been a fan of his work since I was a kid. Seriously, if I could get my hands on his magazines, I would. My friends father had a stash, we used to look at when he wasnt home. I play him during his 1970s persona - a much younger, more self-aware person. Its funny, watching old interviews to research the part, I saw that hes not just a smut-hound, hes pretty interesting, he said. His aim was to mix the mind and

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Tum Hi Ho from Aashiqui 2 hit on YouTube

Los Angeles Singer Kesha says there was certainly a chemistry between her and Hollywood star Johnny Depp when they exchanged glances at a concert for the benefit of victims of Superstorm Sandy here. Me and Johnny Depp had eyeball sex. We never really talked - we just had eyeball sex, contactmusic.com quoted Kesha as saying. The 26-year old star, known for her Tik tok song, said she doesnt understand why people have a problem with the fact she objectifies men in her numbers, or why her no-holds barred lyrics have come under fire in the past. If men in music talk about sex, girls, strippers and partying, then why cant I? Just because Im a woman, it doesnt make me a drunk or a slut. It can be equally bada** if a woman talks about those things. Im here to make sure thats the case, she told Now magazine.

James Franco used to read Playboy secretly

are flooded with the video of the song. Arijit Singh has sung the song, while Mithoon has composed it. In total, the films album has 10 songs that are composed by Jeet Gangulli,

Mithoon and Ankit Tiwari. Irshad Kamil and Sandeep Nath have penned it. Nadeem-Shravan had given the music for the original film. body in his magazine in a way that was unprecedented back then really raw. Its a tame publication these days, he added. Lovelace also stars Amanda Seyfried. It is based on the story of Linda Lovelace, the American pornographic actress who died in 2002. Franco hopes Hefner will appreciate his dignified portrayal and he has made sure to capture the darker side of porn accurately. He added: I tried to portray him with a bit of complexity and dignity. But theres also the need to fit him into the kind of story the producers are trying to tell. Linda Lovelace might have started off wide-eyed about the porn industry, but it gets serious, and my character has to deliver some of that harshness to her. I dont think Hefner has seen it yet, but I hope hell like it.

Wonderful time for Indian cinema: Farooque Sheikh

give opportunity to showcase independent films. I am extremely happy and satisfied with the kind of films being made today, Farooque told .A fabulous actor, the 65-yearold, who was seen in films like Saath Saath, Umrao Jaan and Noorie, has also been active on the small screen. He featured in satirical sitcom Ji Mantriji and hosted talk show Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai. Farooque would like to host the show again and added: Its not up to me. Its the channel who will have to decide if they want me to host the show again. I would like to host it again, but its hypothetical to comment on it right now. The restored version of his 1981 buddy film Chashme Buddoor is releasing Friday along with the remake of the movie. Recalling his memories of shooting with the team of Chashme Buddoor in 1981, he said: The memories will always be there and I had a great time shooting for the film. We shot the film in Delhi and Delhi was more beautiful that time. I am glad I did that film.

Ranbir Kapoor-Honey Singh best friends in the making?

Actors should innovate to avoid stagnation

Mumbai Happy and satisfied with the current lot of films, Farooque Sheikh says Indian cinema is enjoying its best phase right now. Its a wonderful time for Indian cinema and thanks to the multiplexes, which

Bollywood actors identify with sweets

Mumbai Ranbir Kapoor doesnt make friends easily. But when he warms up to someone, he pulls out all stops to extend a hand of friendship. The actor has now found another buddy in singer-rapper Honey Singh. The two met in Delhi at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium ground during the shooting of Abhinav Kashyaps Besharam to discuss the song that Honey would be singing for Ranbir in the film. And within 15 minutes the twosome was the talk of the entire crew. When one contacted Honey Singh for details of this unusual friendship, he said: News travels fast! Yes, Ive formed the most incredible friendship with Ranbir. I had gone to discuss our song for Abhinavs film... We discovered many common interests.Honey found Ranbir to be as chilled-out as me. To be honest, Ive been working closely with other Bollywood stars. I am a very open-hearted guy. But I find Bollywoods actor to be extremely cagey. I am typical North Indian. They dont open up that easily. With Ranbir, within minutes we were sharing confidential secrets. Obviously I am not going to tell you what we spoke about, he added. Honey did let out that they both love fast cars. Ranbir and I own the same car with the same number (Audi RB Number 8). We share a lot of common interests. In fact, I am taking him partying in Delhi next week. To be honest before meeting Ranbir, I was wary of star-kids. I find they get everything too easily. But Ranbir is who he is not because of his family but his own talent and good nature. Hes self-made, like me, he said. About their professional partnership, Honey revealed: Yeah, well be working on several songs. But that isnt all. Im also going to make him sing for me.

Kolkata Kaju barfi, khir kodom and rosogolla are lip-smacking sweets, no arguments about that. But now three Bollywood actors are identifying themselves with these mouth-watering desserts. At an event in Kolkata, Akshay Kumar referred to himself as Kaju barfi. The reason? I think so, because that is my favourite sweet, he said. Imran Khan was quick to follow, calling himself Khir kodom, as the mystery lies inside. Sonakshi Sinha, who has already won

many a heart with her radiant looks since her debut with blockbuster Dabangg in 2010, was not to be left behind. Pressing her own cheeks, she said: Rosogolla. The gesture gave the reason why. The actors were in the city to promote their forthcoming release Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Again (OUATIMA). Produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor and directed by Milan Luthria, the film will also see Sonali Bendre in an important role when it releases Aug 8.

Actress Ameesha Patel, who is ready with her first production Desi Magic, says change is important for an actor or else they may stagnate. Everyone goes through phases in life and change is the only constant. If you dont change, if you dont keep up with times, if you dont try and bring newness, then you become stagnant, especially as an actor, the 37-year-old said here Tuesday at a press conference held for Desi Magic. Ameeshas production house is coowned by her and Kuunal Goomer. Desi Magic stars Zayed Khan and Randhir Kapoor along with Ameesha, who is a gold medallist in Economics from the Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

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Mumbai Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan says he would love to do a film with Salman Khan, if they find the right script. The two were seen in popular comedy Andaz Apna Apna. I would love to work with Salman. Andaz Apna Apna is one of my favourite films as well. He is a great person to work with. If we come across a script then we will be happy to do it, Aamir told at an event to felicitate the winners of Talaash contest. The actor, currently shooting for Rajkumar Hiranis P.K, will also be seen in Dhoom 3 which will be out during Christmas. Aamir is also busy with the second season of Satyamev Jayate. The actor said that he doesnt predecide the kind of films he wants to do. I dont pre-decide what kind of film I want to do. I go through scripts and see if there is something exciting, he said. The actor who is known as Mr Perfectionist said that he doesnt feel he is perfect. I feel that there is no such thing as perfection in a creative field like cinema. We are all artistes who are expressing ourselves in a different way. I do consider myself as someone who is extremely passionate. I enjoy my work and really throw myself into it and achieve that perfection, he said. Aamir, who has given some super hit films like 3 Idiots and Taare Zameen Par, said that he doesnt have a secret to his success. I am not aware of why I have been successful so far. I dont think so much. I do work which excites me and not work which is considered to have potential for blockbusters. I am not even thinking about that. I want to enjoy my work and challenge and surprise myself, he said. About a sequel to 3 Idiots, he said that there were no such plans at the

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Lata Mangeshkar felicitates Aamir willing to work with Salman if right sister Asha script found

Mumbai Singer Lata Mangeshkar felicitated younger sister Asha Bhosle with the Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award at a function that saw all the Mangeshkar siblings come together. Asha, known for evergreen songs like Dum maro dum, Mehbooba mehbooba, Mera kuch saaman, Piya tu ab to aaja, Chura liya hai tum ne and Dil cheez kya hai during her six-decade career, performed live

Swift keen to meet Prince Theres no shortcut to success, Harry Sunny Deol tells son
New Delhi While grooming his son for filmdom, Sunny Deol teaches the 21-year-old Karan to carve a niche for himself on the basis of hard work and honesty. I tell Karan to be a good person, to work hard. I tell him theres no shortcut to success. He has to work hard if he wants to acheive his goals, said Sunny in an interview. Karan worked as an assistant director on Yamla Pagla Deewana (YPD)-2. Directed by Sangeeth Sivan. The comedy-drama will see the three Deols - Dharmednra with is two sons Sunny and Bobby - in action. It is slated for a June 7 release. I want him to be a grounded person. We are self-made people. My father had come from Punjab and struggled to be where he is today. I

for three hours Sunday night. Asha, 79, who was rewarded Rs.100,000, said she would add some more money and donate the entire amount to those affected by the drought here. Her brother Hridaynath accompanied her in singing a few songs at the event, packed with fans. It was rare to see the Mangeshkar siblings - Lata, Asha, Hridayanath, Usha and Meena - together.

moment. No I dont think there was any such plans. I am doing P.K. at the moment, he said.

Saif is perfect, but taken: Sonal Chauhan

Mumbai Actress Sonal Chauhan says she finds Saif Ali Khan the perfect man in Bollywood for marriage. Since hes taken, someone like him would do for her, she said at a fashion show here. Asked about her idea of a perfect man for marriage, Sonal said: I have always said that I think Saif is one man in the industry who I think is a perfect man, but he is already taken so someone like him, may be. The actress was speaking at Neeta Lullas fashion show Shehnaai. Saif Ali Khan married actress Kareena Kapoor October last year. Meanwhile, the 27-year-old Sonal feels there is no perfect age for getting married and its all about finding the right person. I dont think there is any right or wrong age to get married, whenever you find the person you want to spend the rest of your life with thats when one should get married and same goes for me, Sonal said. Sonal was recently seen opposite Neil Nitin Mukesh in 3G. She has also been signed on for Sajid Khans next film.

want Karan also to be a self-made, honest person and a good human being, said Sunny. Meanwhile, the 56-year old is busy with Ghayal Returns, I love New York and Singh Sahab the Great.

Angry Michael warns Lindsays event organiser

Los Angeles Actress Lindsay Lohans father Michael has written an open letter to his daughters event organiser Mike Heller, warning him strict action if anything goes wrong with his daughter. Heller, president and CEO of Talent Resources, is the man behind Lindsays appearances in Africa. Michaels reaction comes after picture of Lindsay partying wild in Africa has emerged, in which she is seen sitting beneath the disc jockeys table in dishevelled condition, reports radaronline.com. In the letter to Mike, son of Lindsays attorney Mark Heller, Michael has written: I am telling you now if you are with Lindsay in Rio or you booked it, and anything happens to my daughter, I am holding you personally responsible. Judging from what has happened to in the past, and the way she looks down there from the pictures in the media, its not a good thing. If you have anything to do with her being there, its on you. Count on it.

Los Angeles Singer Taylor Swift is reportedly upbeat about Prince Harrys US visit in May and she even wants to meet him. Taylors desperate to get her name added on to the VIP lists of stars being lined up to meet Harry. She loves everything about him, especially his ginger hair and English accent, thesun. co.uk quoted a source as saying. The 23-year-old singer dated Robert F. Kennedy Jrs son Conor Kennedy in the past. Shes dated John F. Kennedys great nephew Conor Kennedy, who is considered American royalty, and Harry would be a massive step up from him, the source said.

Pattinson, Stewarts mini vacation

Los Angeles Kristen Stewart enjoyed a short vacation with Robert Pattinson at her mothers house during Easter. Rob and Kristen celebrated Easter together at her moms house in Malibu. It was low-key and Kristens brothers were there as well, contactmusic.com quoted a source as saying. During the day, Rob took the paddle board out. There is a private beach where Jules lives and thats where Rob always goes paddle boarding. Its very secluded and private, added the source. While the couple went through a rough patch after Stewart cheated on Pattinson with director Rupert Sanders last year, friends insist they are now happier than ever. Kristen and Robert couldnt be happier. They are getting along wonderfully and really enjoying each others company. Rob has been showering Kristen with affection.

Another source said: He really missed her and is spending all of his

time with her. I think this is the strongest their relationship has ever been.

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Some gains through Foreign journey or Interest in religious gains from foreign property and stock is rites is seen. Your contact is indicated seen. Friends will be siblings will do well. this week. Purchassupportive. Tension in Health of spouse will ing of property or new job will be removed. improve. Business revehicle is seen. Minor Take care of your health. lations will be cordial. stomach problem may Do not indulge in illegal TAURUS Success in competition upset your mood. Try Apr 20 - May 20 is seen. Success from May 21 - Jun 20 to improve relation with Mar 21-Apr 19 or immoral activities. Remedies for Ketu and higher authority and government related spouse and business Rahu is suggested. matters. Remedy for Ketu is suggested. partner. Maintain peace. Avoid speculation. Remedies for Sani and Rahu is suggested.

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Some mental strain at the beginning of week which will improve as the week goes on. A journey to far away place or holy pilgrimage is indicated. matters will be CANCER Property troublesome. Avoid any Jun 21 - Jul 22 type of litigation. Do not trust anyone, rely on your own judgment. Money will be spent on luxury. Friends will be supportive. Remedies for Rahu and Ketu is suggested.

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Panchang in Brief: Sun, Venus, and Mars in Pisces, Moon and Mercury in Aquarius, Jupiter in Taurus, Sani and Rahu in Libra and Ketu in Aries. Nakshatra is Satbisha
Minor health concerns. Failure in love affair is seen. Promotion in job is seen. Being religious will serve you better. Expenses Jul 23 - Aug. 22 are high so curb your tendency of over spending. Business will be average. Worshiping of Sun and Remedies for Sani and Ketu is suggested.
Differences with spouse or business partner will spoil your week, so try to avoid any difference you come across. Take extra care of your finances, chances of over expenditure is seen. Jupiter position in luck house will improve your Aug. 23 - Sep 22 situation somewhat. Minor urinary problem is indicated. Drink plenty of water and do yoga or meditation. Remedies for Sani and Rahu is suggested.

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Success from GovernTendency towards gamSpeculation can be diment and higher authoribling will increase. You sastrous. Communicaties. Income will rise. may gamble in stock tion done this week will Love life will be good. market but avoid over bear fruit in future. MiYou might gain through investing. Health is also nor chest and stomach speculation. Relations not good. Mars and Sun upset is seen. Buying of with spouse and business will help you overcome SAGITTARIUS vehicle is on the cards. partner will improve. BeSep 23 - Oct 22 over enemies. Do not ing over ambitious will be Nov 22 - Dec 21 Some success in legal overindulge yourself in Oct 23 - Nov 21 harmful. Some unnecesmatters. Avoid short merry making. People in Banking and sary expenses are seen. cuts to obtain money. Love life will be commerce will do well. Remedies of Maintain a cool mind. Remedy for Sani dull and painful. Strengthening of JupiRahu and Ketu is suggested. and Rahu is suggested. ter will bring good results.

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Interest in music and If in job, promotion glamour will increase. is on the cards. BuyImprovement in health ing of property or veis seen. There will be hicle is seen. People peace of mind. Transin stock market and fer is on the cards for banking will do well. people in job. Gain Expenses will be high on luxury. Success in Dec 22 - Jan 19 from foreign contacts is indicated. If single, Jan 20 - Feb. 18 love affairs is seen. chances of marriage are there. Interest in Some property related matter can be politics will rise. Remedies for Ketu and sorted out amicably. Remedy for Sani Rahu is suggested. and Rahu is indicated.

AQUARIUS

Do not indulge yourself in extramarital affair, it can ruin your reputation and peace of mind. You will spend on luxury. Minor eye and dental are indicated. PISCES problems Feb 19 - Mar 20 Your siblings will do well. Avoid speculation. Some genitourinary problems are indicated. Be extra-careful regarding your valuables. Remedies for Ketu is suggested.

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cases of Guillain-Barr syndrome: 532 people get it, and 25 die. 1977 A.D. An H1N1 virus appears in northeast China and starts circulating in humans. It causes seasonal flu in every subsequent year. No one knows where it came from, though it looks like an H1N1 that circulated in the Soviet Union in 1950 and some suspect it escaped in a laboratory accident. The virus causes a mild flu pandemic, which mainly affects people born after H1N1 flu disappeared in 1957. However, the real surprise is that it does not displace the previous, and more virulent, seasonal flu, H3N2. Instead, it continues circulating alongside it. The antibodies people produce after being infected by this new seasonal H1N1 do not protect against 2009 H1N1. However, infections also trigger another reaction called cellmediated immunity, in which certain white blood cells target and destroy infected cells. Tests of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic vaccine show that, unlike antibodies, cell-mediated immunity to seasonal H1N1 may help protect against the pandemic virus. This does not prevent disease altogether, but can reduce its severity 1998 A.D. The predecessor of the 2009 H1N1 swine flu virus emerges in the US. It is a hybrid of human, bird and swine flu viruses, and by 1999 it is the dominant flu strain in US pigs. US pig farms try to control it with vaccines, but these attempts are largely ineffective because the virus evolves too rapidly, changing the surface proteins targeted by the vaccine while keeping its internal genes unchanged. The 2009 pandemic virus is a variant on this 1998 flu, and behaves the same way. In the year 2009 Vaccination programmes begin in the US and Europe, but many healthcare workers are reluctant to have the vaccine, even though it is virtually identical to the seasonal vaccines used in previous years, which have a good safety record. The epidemic continues to baffle the medical community by raising its head season after season .

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Pages from history around the world 1889 A.D. Prior to 1889, the main flu virus circulating in humans has been from the H1 family. But this year, a new strain of H2 flu emerges in Russia and spreads around the world, killing about 1 million people. Afterwards, H2 replaces H1 in humans. Such replacements seem to be a regular feature of flu pandemics. People born before 1889, who have been exposed to H1 flu, have some immunity to it. This affords them some protection in the deadly H1N1 epidemic of 1918. Those born after 1889 do not have any immunity to H1. 1918 A.D. The Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 kills at least 50 million people worldwide. It is caused by an H1N1 virus which evolves directly from a bird flu into a human flu. After a mild wave of infections in the summer, the epidemic goes global: one-third of the population eventually get sick. Although most cases are mild, many sufferers develop a rapidly fatal infection deep in their lungs. People born before 1889 are less susceptible, thanks to their previous exposure to H1N1. Most deaths are caused by bacterial lung infections that move in after the virus. Modern antibiotics might mean that a re-run of the 1918 pandemic would be less dangerous. After 1919, the descendants of the H1N1 virus continue to circulate and cause seasonal flu outbreaks in humans and pigs. 1931 A.D. Swine flu is first isolated from a pig in Iowa. 1933 A.D. The first human flu virus is isolated at Mill Hill in London. When given to ferrets, it produces a disease whose symptoms are all but identical to the Iowan pig virus. But ferrets that have had the human virus are not fully immune to the pig virus, showing that the two viruses have already started to evolve apart. 1957 A.D.

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An H2N2 virus causes the Asian flu pandemic, completely displacing the H1N1 viruses that have been circulating in humans since 1918. The pandemic is fairly mild, killing 1 to 1.5 million people worldwide. The virus is produced by a reassortment, in which human-adapted H1N1 swaps genes with an H2N2 bird flu. The new H and N surface proteins mean most people do not have antibodies to the virus, allowing it to go pandemic. However, its human-adapted genes mean it is not as lethal to humans as the 1918 virus, which came, with few changes, from birds. People tend to mount the best immune response to the first kind of flu virus they experience. Because of this, people born before 1957, whose first experience of flu would have been the H1N1 viruses then in circulation, have some immunity to the 2009 H1N1 strain causing the current pandemic. People born after the 1957 pandemic do not have this immunity. 1968 A.D. An H3N2 virus causes the Hong Kong flu pandemic, which is even milder than the Asian flu, killing an estimated 0.75 million to 1 million people worldwide. The virus only differs from H2N2 in one of its surface proteins, the H; since many people still have antibodies to the unchanged N2 protein, its effects are less severe. But because H3N2 completely replaces H2N2 in people, no one born since 1968 has any immunity to H2. 1972 A.D. Researchers Graham Laver and Robert Webster discover that waterfowl are the natural hosts of influenza viruses. The birds harbour strains unknown in humans that could reassort with human strains and give rise to new human pandemics. 1976 A.D. An H1N1 virus jumps from pigs to humans and kills a US army recruit. However the virus does not spread beyond the army base and fizzles out without triggering a pandemic. Nevertheless, fears of a replay of the 1918 pandemic lead to 48 million people being hastily vaccinated against the swine flu virus. The vaccine is associated with an unusual number of

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Music Movie Ek Thi Daayan Chashme Baddoor - Dum hai, Boss! Vishal-Gulzar admirable work Film: Chashme Baddoor; Cast:
Rishi Kapoor, Lilette Dubey, Ali Zafar, Siddharth, Divyendu Sharma, Taapsee Pannu and Anupam Kher; Director: David Dhawan Dum hai, Boss! - the perky young Miss Congeniality in David Dhawans Chashme Baddoor, a far cry from the shastriya sangeet trainee tutti frutieating Deepti Naval in Sai Paranjpyes film, exclaims whenever she is impressed by her loverboys dialoguebaazi. Exclamation marks are the only punctuations in this seamless comedy of courtship played at an impossibly high octave, without getting shrill. Farce things first. Barring the core theme of two friends maliciously nipping the third friends romance in the bud, and some mischievous sequences and characters from the original, which have been entirely re-interpreted as swines of the times, Dhawans Chashme Baddoor is far(ce) removed from Paranjpyes original. Those were days of relative innocence. Whistling at girls at bus stops, chasing unwilling girls to their homes, and landing up at their doorstep under assumed identities were all considered innocuous bachelor bacchanalia. In Paranjpyes Chashme Buddoor, it was a big deal that Rakesh Bedi managed to get into Deepti Navals bathroom pretending to be a plumber. In Dhawans film, the very gifted Divyendu Sharma, who plays Bedis part, just cant pretend to know the perky girl next-door intimately by her bathroom decor. He manages to take a picture of a tattoo on her waist to convince his love-smitten pal Sid (Ali Zafar) that the girl is... well, not chaste but quite a chalu cheez.

Ek Thi Daayan is an upcoming Bollywood horror film directed by Kannan Iyer. The film features Emraan Hashmi, Konkona Sen Sharma, Huma Qureshi and Kalki Koechlin. Ek Thi Daayan is slated to release on April 18th, 2013.when rare talents like Vishal Bhardwaj (Music Director) and Gulzar (Lyricist) unite for any project, expectations automatically bound to increase from the soundtrack. Yaaram - Sung by Sunidhi Chauhan and Clinton Cerejo has unplugged feel with composition of guitar .The modern lyrics by Gulzar will surely capture your mind and lips as you get involved in the songs. The tracks notifies the role of a girl in her loves life. The tempo keeps variable throughout the track. Kaali Kaali - by Clinton Cerejo is a haunting number with romantic feel. The first interval sees a loop of Kaali Kaali Aankhon Ka, Kaala Kaala Jaadu Hai with some brilliant composition of orchestra. Clinton Cerejo does a

wonderful job on this solo and has proved his to be suitable for this track. Lautungi Main-The theme based number by Rekha Bharadwaj that fits with the subject of the movie gives you a scary feel. She has done full justice to this track. Totey Ud Gaye-sung fluently by Suresh Wadkar, Rekha Bhardwaj and Sukhwinder Singh has interesting compositions of electric guitar. Suresh Wadkars controlled voice makes him apt for this track joined later by Rekha & Sukhwinder . You would love the ending part by Sukhwinder which has fun humorous lyrics. Sapna Re Sapna-sung commendably by debutant Padmanabh Gaikwad ( SaReGaMaPa Lil Champs )leaves the listeners astonished. With some simple melody , inspiring voice and lastly unbelievable poetry by Gulzar directs it straight to your heart.

Has all the components of a fine murder mystery

About the Author

The Secret Gardener

Book

Publisher : Penguin Maruti took a newspaper package from his khaki satchel and handed it to Lalli. . There was a bundle of silky fluff inside. Nestled preciously in it, something sparkling slyly like a jewel. It was one perfect fingernail, painted pink. 24 Patwardhan Cross. The solitary bone that surfaces in the garden there doesnt mean much to police surgeon Dr Q or

Inspector Savio. But Lalli, who collects curiosities, finds it curious. Things get curiouser when a dying gigolo whispers the address in terror, and curiouser still when a mummified finger with a chic manicure turns up in the same garden. Lalli might have ignored these curiosities had there not been a child at the heart of the matter . . . As she investigates what makes this garden grow, Lalli uncovers a gruesome tale.

Kalpana Swaminathan lives in Mumbai, a few streets away from her detective. This is her fifth Lalli novel; the two previous novels published by Penguin are The Monochrome Madonna and I Never Knew It Was You. Her earlier books include Bougainvillea House and Ambrosia for Afters. Venus Crossing, a collection of short stories, won the Vodafone Crossword Fiction Award in 2009. Kalpana also writes with Ishrat Syed as Kalpish Ratna. Their most recent novel is The Quarantine Papers. Swaminathan won the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award (Fiction) for Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories of Transit.

While the writing gets chalu, it miraculously steers clear of being cheesy by a wide margin. Under the veneer of vicious courtship games played by two desperately single guys, Dhawans Chashme Baddoor retains a core of innocence. A tongue-in-cheek virtuosity remains the films greatest triumph. Sajid-Farhads writing is wild, naughty and witty, but never vulgar. The whimsical word-play flows from a tap-dance of prankish internet-styled banter which is border-line silly but nonetheless very engaging in an offhandedly smart way. If anything, the repartees flow much too furiously. From Anupam Khers slap-happy mother Bharati Achrekar (effortly replacing Leela Mishra from the original) to Goan cafe owner Rishi Kapoors unidentifiable assistant everyone is a certifiable quipster in the new film. Among the three protagonists, Divyendu, playing an awful self-styled shaayar, gets the most tawdry lines of bumper-sticker wisdom, which the actor delivers with such punctuated panache, we cant help guffawing out our implicit irshaad. Comic timing is of vital importance to this film. And every actor gets it right, dead-on sometime dead-pan. To me, the films most natural-born scene stealer is the southern star Siddharth. Seen lately in Deepa Mehtas Midnights Children, Siddharth nails his characters filmy flamboyance. Many would say Siddharth has gone over the top. But to sustain that high-pitched level of crazy energy throughout the film is no laughing matter.Or, on second thoughts, this talented actors performance is indeed a laughing matter. Ali Zafar is far more sober and controlled than his co-stars. It takes some doing to remain steadfast in your stipulated sobriety while all your costars pull out all stops.

The laughs, so refreshingly liberated of lewdness flow almost non-stop. Adding a dollop of spice to the original script is an entirely unscheduled love angle between Rishi Kapoor and Lilette Dubey. Lallan Miya (Saeed Jaffrey), who played Rishis character in Paranjpyes film would have loved that. Outstanding both, Kapoor and Dubey make their onscreen romance look warm, cuddlesome and credible. Audaciously, Dhawan and his writer Sajid-Farhad have transferred the celebrated chamko detergent demonstration-sequence between Farooque Sheikh and Deepti Naval in Sai Paranjpyes film to the Rishi-Lilette characters. Maybe the writers saw this pairs chemistry to be more frothy and foamy than the central romance? Ali Zafars courtship of the vivacious Taapsee Pannu is relatively thanda. One reason for their frosty compatibility is Ali Zafars reined-in performance. He deliberately plays his part a few octaves lower than his loud co-stars who are so hyper-strung that you sometimes wonder which drugs they are on. This Chashme Baddoor moves wickedly at its own volition creating a crazy pattern of comic chaos that stops short of being anarchic due to the finely-tuned situational satire simulated in the writing out of a material that was created 30 years ago when there were no mobile phones and the height of male voyeurism was the Playboy magazine. Dhawans film doesnt take the characters contemporary courtship games into areas that would offend the moralists. He knows where to stop. Ali, Divyendu and Siddharths audacious antics, with Rishi Kapoor and Lilette Dubeys age-defying romance thrown in for added measure, make the trio of girl-crazy heroes in Paranjpyes film look like angels. This is David Dhawans wickedest comedy of one-upmanship since Mujhse Shaadi Karogi. You cant miss it.

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SCIENCE AND TECH

Spectroscopy (LTS), to address the growing problem of aquatic invasive species by increasing our ability to detect dangerous species in samples before they arrive or when they are still rare in their environment and have not yet caused significant damage, Egan said. Egan points out that eDNA is a species surveillance tool that recognises a unique advantage of aquatic sampling: water often contains microscopic bits of tissue in suspension, including the scales of fish, the exoskeletons of insects, and the sloughed cells of and tissues of aquatic species. These tissue fragments can be filtered from water samples and then a standard DNA extraction is performed on the filtered matter. The new sampling method for invasive species was pioneered by members of the ND Environmental Change Initiative, including David Lodge and Chris Jerde, Central Michigan Universitys Andrew Mahon, and The Nature Conservancys Lindsay Chadderton. New Delhi Space almost feels like home and she miss it while back on earth but Indian American Sunita Williams said Monday during her childhood, she never dreamt of becoming an astronaut. Space is an amazing place to be in... it feels like home now. Four months was like vacation from earth and it went quite fast, Williams, 47, said during an interaction with students at the National Science Centre here as she began a week-long promotional tour. Students posed some interesting questions to the US Navy captain and she obliged the group during the more than an hour interaction. Williams, who holds the record of the longest spacewalk by a woman astronaut, told students she never dreamt of becoming an astronaut and it happened as her career progressed. My father is a doctor and biology is in our family. I love animals so I had thought of becoming a veterinarian but I didnt manage to get into the college of my choice so joined the US Naval Academy. Then I wanted to be diver in Navy but ended up becoming a pilot, she said in a jam-packed auditorium. Williams said the idea of becoming an astronaut only came when she met an astronaut during a pilot training course. So, for me it was never a direct route. I had a couple of failures in college and failure is good. My suggestion is that everyone should find something that they like to do well and enjoy it, she said. Speaking about the most memorable part of her space stay, Williams said: The first time I did a spacewalk, it was the most memorable thing. As I opened the hatch and stepped out I was pretty

CHANDIGARH SUNDAY 07 April 2013

New method to detect invasive Never dreamt of becoming an astronaut: species in water bodies Sunita Williams
Washington Scientists have combined two new technologies to create a unique surveillance tool that could track and detect invasive aquatic species in water bodies of a region, says a study. A new paper by a team of researchers from the University of Notre Dames Environmental Change Initiative (ECI) demonstrates how two cutting-edge technologies can provide a sensitive and real-time solution to screening real-world water samples for invasive species before they cause significant damage, reports Science Daily. Aquatic invasive species cause ecological and economic damage worldwide, including the loss of native biodiversity and damage to the worlds great fisheries, Scott Egan, a research assistant professor with Notre Dames Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics Initiative and a member of the research team, said. This research combines two new, but proven technologies, environmental DNA (eDNA) and Light Transmission

Accessing virtual obituary of dead through smartphones

Beijing Tech-savvy youngsters in China have brought a new digital perspective to a tradition of worshipping ancestors. They wave their smartphones over tombstones and using codes affixed to the monuments can access a virtual obituary where photos and video clips of the deceased can be found. Chinese celebrate the Tomb-Sweeping Day April 4-6. The quick response codes (QR codes) affixed to the monuments, when scanned with modern digital gadgets, allow people to access the virtual obituary, Xinhua reported. Cemeteries in cities like Shanghai, Shenyang and Fujian have seen a growing number of QR code stickers on headstones. Information provided by the codes, normally ranging from names and dates of birth and death, to life stories of the deceased, has made memorials more dynamic and interactive. With the text inscribed on the tombstone supplemented by live music and pictures, my memory of my grandmother can be refreshed, said

New Delhi India has of late witnessed a rise in cyber crime and experts attribute this to a toothless Information Technology (IT) Act that has been ineffective in tackling the problem. The IT Act has not at all been effective in checking cyber crime. In fact, it is a toothless wonder in the fight against cyber crime, Supreme Court lawyer and leading cyber law expert Pavan Duggal said. Duggal stressed the need for overhauling the cyber security legal regime in the country. A historical mistake was made when the IT (Amendment) Act, 2008, made almost all cyber crimes, barring a couple, bailable offences. The focus is more on enhancing the quantum of civil liability and reducing the quantum of punishment, which explains the reason why the number of cyber crime convictions in the country is in single digits, he said. The government had enacted the original IT legislation in 2000. The IT (Amendment) Act came into force in 2009 and was aimed at facilitating

IT Act ineffective, toothless

e-governance, preventing cyber crime and fostering security practices within the country. Expressing similar views, techno-legal expert Praveen Dalal said the countrys cyber security needs immediate restructuring. Cyber security is still trying to catch up with cyber criminals and much needs to be done in this regard. The act deserves a complete restructuring as it is creating trouble for law-abiding people and is weak for cyber criminals, Dalal said. According to the National Crimes Record Bureau, 4,231 cyber crimes were registered under the IT Act and cyber crime-related sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) during 2009-11. A total of 1,184 people were arrested under the IT Act for cyber crimes, while 446 people were arrested under IT Act covered much of the offences, but in view of the modus operandi employed in such crimes, the Act needs to be more rigid and practical. The amendments made to the act in 2008 have covered a lot of offences but considering the modus operandi in these crimes I feel it needs to be more rigid and practical, Tandon said. Agreeing with the governments approach of blocking certain offending websites or webpages, Tandon said: Any page, website or content going against religion or the countrys security needs to be blocked or pulled down. Last year, thousands of people from the northeast fled some south Indian states in panic after threats of violence. The exodus was the result of a fake video which went viral on social networking websites.

a woman surnamed Wang. That will extend her life. She said that even strangers can learn of the life of other people with the help of the new technology. In a country where people pay their respects to deceased family members by visiting and sweeping their tombs every spring, it has taken little time for the high-tech innovation to gain popularity. The machine-readable barcode, invented in Japan in the early 1990s, is now widely used for product tracking, document management and marketing purposes. While older generations of Chinese go to shrines and graves to remember dead relatives, modern urban Chinese are turning to virtual memorial halls. They light virtual candles for their deceased family members and lay virtual wreaths online. Chinese officials have also been advocating the virtual drive out of concern over dwindling burial space, as well as air pollution and fire risks stemming from the tradition of burning imitation paper money for the dead.

scared seeing the earth flying below me I was like as if I will fall but then I realised I am in space and was flying. She shared some interesting pre and post launch training activities and her experience during the stay at the International Space Station. In space you dont walk so bone density and muscle density leeches away. There are also other physiological changes that you notice and you have to do rigorous physical activity like weight lifting and squat exercise to maintain bone density, she said. Williams said her space stay has changed her perspective about the world. The most impressive part of being in space is when you look down at earth. There are no borders and it seems

human beings are citizens of a universe with no nationalities. We are lucky to be on a beautiful planet that has air and water to sustain us, she said. The astronaut said while in space she missed her dogs, rains, walking on the beach and the woods. Williams said her parents are the biggest role model for her and she has always got support of her family. Williams, who loves samosa and took some of them to space, said she is planning to go trekking in Himalayas and wants to travel down south. During the week she will be interacting with students in Kolkata, Mumbai and Ahmedaabad. Williams last visited India in October 2007, when she gave a talk at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

Abu Dhabi A team of engineering students in the UAE have designed a car that could potentially travel up to 1,000 km on just one litre of fuel. The lightweight vehicle -- named Eco-Dubai 1 -- is in its final stage of construction and will begin testing in the next two weeks. The product of almost two years of work by students at the Higher Colleges of Technology Dubai Mens College, the vehicle is half a metre wide, two metres long and

A car that goes 1,000 km with just a litre of fuel

half a metre high and weighs about 25 kg. It will enter a race in July against similarly designed cars from around the world, including four other vehicles produced in the UAE. Ahmad Khamis Al Suwaidi, one of the students behind the car, said: Petrol is not going to last forever. One day were going to run out. So in terms of developing a local ecocar industry, it starts with us. Were the future of the UAE in this.

The students will put their creation to the test at Shells Eco-Marathon to be held July 4-7 in Kuala Lumpur. The competition is based on designing a car that can travel the farthest on just one litre of fuel. Students are allowed to use electricity, solar or hybrid technologies to reach their goal. The record for the longest distance travelled is held by students from Frances Polytech Nantes University, who designed a car that travelled almost 4,900 km.

IPC sections. At least 157 cases were registered for hacking under the IT Act in 2011, while 65 people were arrested. Rikshit Tandon, adviser to the Cyber Crime Unit of the Uttar Pradesh Police, says amendments to the

For the last 12 years, the Act is in effect and now it has gathered steam. I would say it is effective in metropolitan cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bhopal, Bangalore, etc, but it is feeble in tier-two level cities as awareness of the law by enforcement agencies remains a big challenge, cyber law and cyber security expert Prashant Mali. He, however, termed the governments blocking of webpages and websites as unconstitutional, saying such an action only served the governments own good. Yes, the law has provisions which empower the government to do so. Now, the larger point is there have to be rules in democracy and the government should come clean by drafting such rules, to block websites so they do not ingress fundamental rights like freedom of speech, Mali contended. Experts assert that there is a need to not only put in place appropriate institutional mechanisms but also focus on effective responses to cyber emergencies.

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KIDS
Didnt Know

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Snakes and Ladders- A Traditional Board Game of India

Does an Orange Float or Sink? Strange Facts You

Snakes and Ladders is an ancient Indian board game regarded today as a worldwide classic.It is played between two or more players on a gameboard having numbered, gridded squares. A number of ladders and snakes are pictured on the board, each connecting two specific board squares. The object of the game is to navigate ones game piece, according to die rolls, from the start (bottom square) to the finish (top square), helped by ladders and snakes, respectively. History Snakes and Ladders originated

in India as part of a family of dice board games. The game was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was known as Mokshapatam or Vaikunthapaali or Paramapadasopaanam (the ladder to salvation). It was invented by Hindu spiritual leaders to teach children about the rewards of good deeds and the negative consequences of bad ones. The snakes represent vices and poor decisions, and the ladders represent virtues and sound morality. The number of ladders was less than the number of snakes as a reminder that a path of good is much more difficult to tread than a path of sins. The British took the game to England in 1892 and named it Snakes and Ladders and changed it according to Victorian values. Around the World Snakes and Ladders is known by many different names around the world. Some of these include: Ups and Downs (Canada), Jungle Run (U.S.), Walt Disneys Steps n Chutes (U.K.), and Chutes and Ladders from Milton Bradley (U.S.).In Andhra Pradesh, Snakes and Ladders is played in the name of Vaikuntapali. Game of Snakes & Ladders pigmented on cloth in India, 19th century.

Ingredients bottom, why? The peel of an orange is full of tiny air pockets which help give it a lower density than water, making it float to the surface. Removing the peel from the orange increases its density higher than that of water, making it sink. The peel is less dense than water or light enough to float. In fact, the peel is so light that if it is wrapped around the orange (an unpeeled orange), the peel will keep the orange from sinking.Density is the mass of an object relative to its volume. Objects with a lot of matter in a certain volume have a high density, while objects with a small amount of matter in the same volume have a low density.

An orange A deep bowl or container Water Steps 1. Fill the bowl with water. 2. Put the orange in the water and watch what happens. 3.Peel out skin of the orange 4. Drop an unpeeled orange in the bowl What do you Observe? The first time you put the orange in the bowl of water it probably floated on the surface, after you removed the peel however, it probably sunk to the

A sharks teeth are literally as hard as steel Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time Squirrels can climb trees faster than they can run on the ground A king cobra is the biggest of all poisonous snakes and can grow to over 4 meters (13 feet) long There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia Coffee trees produce its first full crop after 5 years old Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year The first English dictionary was written in 1755

World Autism Awareness Day

According to Autism Society of India. About one in 80 people are known to suffer from Autistic Spectrum Disorder. We should work hand in hand to support the special children emotionally The branch of my tree is used as a symbol of peace. What Am I? I have a face but no head I have 3 hands but no feet What am I? They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?

Match the following animals with the correct names for their babies:

Exercise Time

A)Horse B)Bee C)Frog

1.Larva 2.Calf 3.Fawn

D)Deer E)Cow

4.Foal 5.Pup 6.Colt F)Alligator 7.Nymph 8.Tadpole 9.Joey

G)Bat

I)Kangaroo 10.Hatchling J)Mosquito

Every year, 2nd April is marked as World Autism Awareness Day .After December 18, 2007 the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 62/139, proposed by the State of Qatar, declaring April 2 to be celebrated as World Autism Awareness Day every year. Since then, World Autism Awareness Day is celebrated across the globe with an objective to create awareness in all level of society through various events and campaigns Autism is a complex neurobehavioral disorder that includes impairments in social interaction, developmental language, communication skills and repetitive behaviors. It ranges in severity from a handicap that limits an otherwise normal life to a devastating disability that may require institutional care.

at birth, or a child may have a period of normal development followed by a deterioration of verbal and social skills around 1 and a half -2 and a half years. Where onset is at birth, the disorder can be detected as early as a year. Autism may occur alongside conditions such as mental retardation and hyperactivity, but the autistic traits in the person are typically what require attention. Autistic children can make significant progress if the intervention is appropriate and consistent. Early intervention, before the child is five, is especially crucial to the childs progress. This is why an early and accurate diagnosis is so important.

Gambol Meaning-To skip or leap about joyfully. Example- The little boys mother told him not to gambol in the house. Habituate Meaning-To accustom, to make someone used to something. Example- After living a long life of luxury, Bill Gates had become habituate to being wealthy. Incumbent Meaning- Necessary for or resting on (someone) as a duty Example- It is incumbent on the Government to give a clear lead. Jubilate Meaning- To rejoice, to exult Example- His jubilation subsided when he got a bad score on his test. Kudos Meaning-Praise, accolades, acclaim. Example- Mira gave kudos to Rohan for his job well done. Limpid Meaning-Clear and bright Example- The clouds were perfectly reflected in the limpid pool.

Every child on the autism range has problems in the following three areas:
Communicating verbally and nonverbally Relating to others and the world around them Thinking and behaving flexibly
Answers: Olive Clock Stars

Detecting Autism in your Child

H)Donkey

There are no medical or genetic tests that can detect autism. A diagnosis of autism requires a sensitive and experienced doctor to observe the child very carefully, ask the parents about the development of the child, and then objectively follow internationally recognized criteria for diagnosis. Onset may occur

Answers : A) - 4, B) - 1, C) - 8, D) - 3, E) - 2, F) - 10, G) - 5, H) - 6, I) - 9, J) - 7

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BUSINESS
Rio de Janeiro Brazils Development Bank (BNDES) has announced the launch of a 3-billionreal ($1.5-billion) plan to develop the countrys energy sector. Under the plan, the bank, energy regulation agency Aneel and research financing company Finep will offer financing lines with low interest rates to private companies investing in energy research, reported Xinhua. According to BNDES president Luciano Coutinho, the private sector must undertake research and development. These resources are being offered so that the private sector will assume the leadership, said Coutinho, adding that in Brazil, in general, spending on science, technology and innovation is highly concentrated in universities and the public sector. The plan will focus on four areas intelligent energy networks; alternative energy sources, such as solar and thermal power; energy transmission and distribution; and electric vehicles. Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Marco Antonio Raupp said the plan is part of the governments innovation program, which provides 32.5 billion reals (more than $16 billion) for promoting innovation in strategic areas. BNDES is mulling similar programs in other areas, such as aerospace industry, defence, agribusiness, and information technology.

CHANDIGARH SUNDAY 07 April 2013

New Saudi work policy to impact thousands of Indians

Thiruvananthapuram Thousands of Indians, especially Malayalis employed in Saudi Arabia, may be impacted by a new work policy of the kingdom that seeks to reserve a certain percentage of jobs for locals. According to the new Nitaqat policy - or Saudisation programme - of the kingdom, 10 percent of jobs are to be reserved for locals. The policy is aimed at expanding employment opportunities for Saudi nationals. There are over two million Indians working in Saudi Arabia, including 576,000 from Kerala alone. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said there was no need to panic and the Indian government would provide assistance to Indians forced to return from Saudi Arabia. If somebody has to go to another country, he has to satisfy the rules of that country. But if there is inconvenience caused to any Indian citizens, then whatever assistance we can give, we will provide, Khurshid assured. The Kerala government is setting up help desks at the three international airports at Thiruvananthapuram, Calicut and Kochi and 24-hour call centres to help people in distress, an official of the department of NonResident Keralites Affairs (NORKA) told. Around 576,000 people from Kerala are working in Saudi Arabia. We are requesting for general amnesty and request a review of the ban on reentry of workers, the official added,

Brazil launches Maruti Suzukis March sales billion-dollar down 4.8 percent energy plan

Tourism ministry sanctions Rs.47.62 crore to develop Kerala backwater

VayamkaraChira, Pandy, Thazhuppu and Kuthiravattomchira, the ministry said Monday. The project has been approved by union Tourism Minister K. Chiranjeevi. The project will develop beaches at Arthukal and Thottappally, and Alappuzha town as the central destination of the circuit. An amount of Rs.2.38 crore has been released as the first instalment of the central financial assistance as an advance to start work. The government of Kerala shall make land for the project available free of cost and render all possible assistance for the completion of the project in time. No portion of the sanctioned project should be executed/ implemented in land/property owned by private individuals or trusts. The Kerala government will set up a committee led by the principal secretary, tourism, to monitor the project. The project should be commissioned within 36 months.

declining to be named. C.P. John, member of the Kerala State Planning Board, said that thousands of Indian workers, especially Malayalis, would be affected if the Saudi government makes the Nitaqat policy very strict. A few hundred Keralites have returned to India following implementation of the policy, John told. However, he said that there was no clear idea of how many Malayalis would to be affected. There is no real picture, we are continuously waiting for real numbers with work permits. Saudis are not accustomed to working like Indians. It is very expensive to employ a Saudi. But the managers will be forced to employ one Saudi, who will work for eight hours and his pay will be 10 percent higher than an Indians. The Saudis would be forced to rely on cheaper and more efficient Indians, who work for up to 15 hours, John said.

Minister of State for External Affairs E. Ahamed discussed the issue with Saudi Arabias Assistant Foreign Minister Prince Abdul Azees Bin Abdullah Al Saud in Tajikistan. According to reports, street cleaning and other sanitation works have been hit hard by the Saudisation programme as almost 100 per cent of the workers in this sector are foreigners, mostly Indians. Many of them are illegal immigrants. Labour inspectors and police have begun conducting raids on enterprises suspected of employing illegal workers. Employers complying with the Nitaqat norms would be rewarded with incentives while those failing would have to shut shop as the work permits of their expatriate workers would not be renewed, according to Saudi reports. The work permit is mandatory for getting the residential permit.

New Delhi Maruti Suzuki logged 4.8 percent lower sales in March as compared to the corresponding month of 2012. A company statement Tuesday said it sold 119,937 units last month from 125,952 units sold in March last year. The domestic sales of the passenger car major fell by 4.3 percent at 107,890 units from 112,724 units in the corresponding month of 2012. Exports fell by 8.9 percent at 12,047 units from 13,228 units shipped out in March, 2012. According to the company, its sales for the last fiscal grew by 3.3 percent as it sold a total of 1,171,434 units from 1,133,695 units sold in 201112. During the year (2012-13), the company sold 1,051,046 units in the domestic market, a growth of 4.4 percent over the previous year, the company said in a statement. The company had sold 1,006,316 units in 2011-12. Exports for the fiscal under consideration declined by 5.5 percent at 120,388 units from 127,379 units shipped out during 2011-12. The companys scrip at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) grew by 2.06 percent or 26.40 points around 2 p.m. at Rs.1,309.55 from its previous close of Rs.1,283.15.

New Delhi The union tourism ministry has approved a financial package to the tune of Rs.47.62 crore for the development of the backwater circuit of Alappuzha in Kerala. The project will involve construction of houseboat terminals at Arookutty, Thaneermukkom, Pallathuruthy, Nedumudi, Kanjipadam, Thottappally and Kaymkullam; night halt terminals at Vattakayal West and Karumadi Vilakkumaram; and development of micro-destinations at

Chinas manufacturing PMI rises Bihar sets aside Rs.300 crore for power line for
Beijing Chinas purchasing managers index (PMI) for the manufacturing sector rose to 50.9 percent in March from 50.1 percent in February, according to data released Monday. The China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP) said in a statement on its website that the rise was the result of increasing trade activity, increasing orders and slowing price increases for upstream products. Enterprises are demonstrating positive signs in their performance and the economy is stabilizing with upward momentum, reported Xinhua citing the statement. The rise indicates that the economy may further stabilize in the future, said Zhang Liqun, an analyst from the Development Research Center of the State Council. The PMI stayed above 50 for the sixth consecutive month in March, the CFLP said. A PMI reading of 50 or greater indicates expansion, while a reading below 50 indicates contraction. Of all five major sub-indices, four rose and one dropped last month, the CFLP data showed. The sub-index for production rose 1.5 percentage points to 52.7 percent. It reached its highest level in 10 months, indicating active production among manufacturing enterprises, the statement said. Orders received by manufacturers climbed, as the sub-index for new orders rose 2.2 percentage points from the previous month to 52.3 percent. The sub-index for raw material inventories dropped 2 percentage points from the previous month to 47.5 percent. March marked the second month for the sub-index to stay below 50 percent. The sub-index for employment rose 2.2 percentage points to 49.8 percent and the sub-index for supplier delivery times climbed 2.8 percentage points to 51.1 percent. The sub-index for purchasing prices of raw materials shrank 4.9 percentage points to 50.6 percent. March was the seventh month for the index to stay above the demarcation level, indicating that prices for raw materials in the manufacturing sector have continued to rise. The business outlook sub-index rose 0.9 percentage points from a month earlier to 65.5 percent, indicating that manufacturing companies are optimistic about their future prospects, the statement said. The HSBCs final PMI for Chinas manufacturing sector, which was also released on Monday, rose to 51.6 in March from 50.4 in February, signaling a modest improvement in the manufacturing economy for the fifth consecutive month.

farmers

Patna In welcome news for millions of farms in power-starved Bihar, the state government has sanctioned Rs.300 crore for a dedicated feeder line for agriculture, officials said Monday. The state cabinet late Sunday approved the amount, an official in the chief ministers office said. This is a first-of-its-kind dedicated feeder line to provide electricity to farmers in Bihar, he said. According to officials, the state government plans to install 968 new feeders of 11KV each with 55,925 km of distribution line and 1.46 lakh transformers to primarily supply power to 19 lakh pumping sets in the next decade. The government has projected yearwise requirement of estimated funds for the feeder segregation. The total estimated amount for the 12th and 13th five-year plan is around Rs.8,370.44 crore. The government has already projected its year-wise power requirements for agriculture sector for the next 10 years. By 2016-17, the state would require 1,478 MW power exclusively for agriculture sector. The governments move would go a

long way in increasing agricultural productivity, said an official of the state agriculture department. Agriculture is the backbone of Bihars economy, employing 81 percent of the workforce and generating nearly 42 percent of the states domestic product, according to the state government. At present only 5.83 percent of the total power supply to the state is used in the agriculture sector in Bihar, compared to 38 percent in Haryana, the highest in India. Last year, President Pranab Mukherjee launched the much-

awaited agricuture roadmap of Bihar. Its main objective is to help to bring a rainbow revolution in the state in the next five years, boosting the production and processing of agricultural and farm goods and pushing up growth rate in the sector. The five-year agriculture roadmap covers the period 2012-17, with an investment of Rs.1.52 lakh crore. It aims at raising agri-growth to a minimum of seven percent per year. The Bihar agriculture roadmap is the first of its kind in the country and focuses on the development of food processing, food preservation, fisheries and animal husbandry.

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CERC relief to Adani Power for higher fuel costs

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Reliance Globalcom activates Hawk submarine cable system in Egypt

Mumbai International telecom services provider Reliance Globalcom Thursday activated its Hawk submarine cable system in Egypt and integrated it with the companys network to meet the growing customer requirements for high-speed, reliable and cost-effective solutions in the Middle East and India. We are delighted with the seamless integration of the Hawk submarine cable system with Reliance Global Network offering our customers greater choice, flexibility and diversity, with improved performance, on this critical route, said Punit Garg, president and chief executive, Reliance Globalcom. Integration is in line with our commitment to address the increasing demand for bandwidth intensive applications and it will immensely benefit billions of users in India and Middle East connected on Reliance network. The company said the integration will enable additional capacity of 20 terabits in the Mediterranean region as well as allow Falcon to carry the same capacity between Europe, India and Middle East. By interconnecting (Hawk) with Reliance Globalcoms cable system in Egypt creates novel opportunities for carriers in the Middle East and India

to cater to growing customer requirements for high-speed, reliable and costeffective solutions, the company said in a statement. According to Garg, the companys existing customer base of over 37,000 corporates in India and over 1,400 corporates in Europe and the US, along with over 200 carrier customers, will benefit from this latest development. The integration will also enhance capability of carrying 5 Mn HD quality interactive video channels simultaneously, benefiting broadband users in India and Middle East. The cable system was built by Reliance Globalcom last fiscal was to initially

Nestle to build World Bank president calls for coffee centre in ending extreme poverty Washington tion, or 1.3 billion people, lived in exChina World Bank President Jim Yong Kim treme poverty - below the poverty line
has called for global action toward ending extreme poverty by 2030 and improving the lives of most vulnerable people in the developing countries. Now is the time to commit to ending extreme poverty, Kim said in a speech at Georgetown University .. To reach the goal, the global extreme poverty rate will have to be brought below 3 percent by 2030, Xinhua quoted Kim as saying. It will change the nature of the poverty challenge fundamentally in most parts of the world and the focus then will shift from broad structural measures to tackling sporadic poverty among specific vulnerable groups, he added. We are at an auspicious moment in history when the successes of past decades and an increasingly favourable economic outlook combine to give developing countries a chance - for the first time ever - to end poverty within a generation, Kim said ahead of the upcoming World Bank and International Monetary Fund in mid April in Washington. The World Bank estimated in 2010 that about 21 percent of the global popula-

set up the worlds first Mediterranean gateway and hub at Cyprus. The system successfully carried 180 Gbps (Gigabits per second) of data during the cable cut off Egypt and India recently. The system has been designed with two routes- one connecting Marseille in France and Alexandria in Egypt and another local route, with a spur to Yeroskipos in Cyprus, which complementing Reliance Globalcoms Falcon and FEA cable systems. The cable system has been initially launched on the Marseille-Cyprus segment to provide adequate bandwidth for local service providers.

Beijing Nestle plans to build a coffee centre in southwest Chinas Yunnan province, according to an agreement. According to a memorandum of understanding inked Tuesday by the municipal government of Puer and Nestle, the Switzerland-based company will spend 100 million yuan ($15.97 million) to build a coffee farming institute, warehouses and a laboratory, reported Xinhua. The farming institute, which will be the largest of its kind in China, will provide training to 5,000 coffee farmers, agronomists and business professionals each year, according to an online statement from Nestle. Peng Yuanguo, vice mayor of Puer, said Nestles investment will help turn Puer into Chinas coffee capital, buoy the confidence of local coffee producers and offset the negative effects of the sluggish global market. Nestle has confidence in the longterm development of Yunnan, said Heiko Schipper, managing director of Nestles greater China food and beverage division. Schipper said the company has been increasing its annual purchases of coffee beans in Yunnan. The province has sold 22,000 tonnes of coffee to Nestle over the past two years, Schipper said. Puer is the largest coffee plantation centre in Yunnan, where coffee bean output accounts for over 98 percent of the national total output. The city produced 36,500 tonnes of coffee in 2012.

of $1.25 per day. The World Bank chief said the 2030 goal relies on stronger economic growth, in particular sustained high growth in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, efforts to enhance inclusiveness and curb inequality are also required to ensure that growth translates into poverty reduction, most importantly through job creation, Kim said, calling for actions to boost the incomes of the poorest 40 percent of the population in developing countries. Ending extreme poverty by 2030 will demand national policies that aggressively focus on this goal, together with an accelerated and coordinated effort on the part of donors, the private sector, and civil society, Kim noted. He said the World Bank will work with its partners to share knowledge on solutions to end poverty and promote shared prosperity. The World Banks board will consider a new country strategy for India next week which aims at lifting an additional 300 million Indians out of extreme poverty over next several years.

New Delhi The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has in a landmark order proposed a compensation package for Adani Power to offset higher fuel costs at its Mundra (Gujarat) power project. Adani Power had appealed to CERC after its customers in Gujarat and Haryana refused to pay higher rates for the electricity generated from the imported coal-based plant at Mundra. The company had said it was forced to hike tariffs owing to rise in prices of imported coal and shortage of domestic supplies. The petition needs to be compensated with a compensation package over and above the tariff discovered through competitive bidding. The compensation package, to be called compensatory tariff, could be variable in nature commensurate with the hardship the petitioner is suffering on account of unforeseen events leading to increased coal price which has affected its performance under the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), CERC said in its order. CERC has ordered setting up a committee which will work out the exact quantum of the compensation over the current tariff for the 4,620 MW Mundra plant. The order comes as a boost to

CERC. A CERC member, S. Jayaraman, however, dissented with the order passed by a three-member panel. The decision will be the precedent to be followed in future. The exercise of regulatory power in such cases will have a cascading effect. In case there is again some development of similar nature, will the Commission interfere again at the instance of the project developer? Will such an exercise of power not jeopardise the consumers interest, Jayaraman asked in his separate order. Adani Power has entered into two power purchase agreements of 1,000 megawatts (MW) each with the Gujarat government at Rs.2.35 per unit and Rs.2.89 per unit for its imported coalbased project. It has a similar agreement with the Haryana government for sale of power at Rs.2.94 per unit. The power regulators ruling pushed up the companys share prices Wednesday. The scrip closed at Rs.47.65, up 8.79 percent from its previous price on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

investors in the energy sector apprehensive about the government not allowing c h a n g e s in contract conditions postbidding. Tata Power and Reliance Power have similar cases pending before the

L&T firm bags Abu Dhabi airport order

Myanmar, Indonesia target $1 bn trade

Yangon Myanmar and Indonesia are making efforts to promote the trade volume, which is targeted to reach up to $1 billion in 2016. During a meeting between Myanmar Minister of Commerce U Win Myint and visiting Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Hatta Rajasa in Nay Pyi Taw Tuesday, the two sides focused on signing a memorandum of understanding on rice trade, said the New Light of Myanmar. According to an earlier official report quoting the ministry, Indonesia has offered to buy 300,000 tonnes of rice from Myanmar and more will follow as demand for Myanmar rice in the Southeast Asian member country is on the rise, reported Xinhua. Myanmars rice export to Indonesia reached the peak between 2001-02 and 2005-06 but was almost none after 2005-06 for various reasons. Myanmar could only export 2,125 tonnes of rice to Indonesia in the first three quarters of 2011-12 but it sharply increased to 1.01 million tonnes in the same period of 2012-13. If that rate continues, Myanmars rice export would hit 1.2 million tonnes, a record high in 40 years, a commerce official said. Myanmar, which was once a major rice exporter, exported more than 1 million tonnes before 1956. With bilateral trade standing $472.96 million in the fiscal year of 201112, Indonesia was Myanmars fourth largest trading partner among ASEAN members after Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, statistics show.

Bangalore Larsen & Toubro (L&T) construction firm has won an order valued at $257 million (Rs.1,398 crore) from Abu Dhabi Airports Company to build a midfield terminal complex in the UAE, the company said here .Work on the midfield terminal complex is part of the major expansion programme of Abu Dhabi International Airport to serve as the new gateway to the city, the company said in a statement. The order envisages building concrete hardstands for aircraft parking around the new terminal, including contact and remote stands. The airside works include taxi lanes along the apron parking stands and link taxiway connections to the existing infrastructure with a tunnel on the airside. The project has also an aircraft fuel hydrant system, storm and portable water distribution line, chilled water distribution system, medium voltage distribution sub-stations, communication network and fire main distribution system on the major utility segments, the statement said. The project will commence this month with a construction timeline of 28 months. The new airport terminal complex is expected to be commissioned by 2017. The $13.5-billion L&T is a technology, engineering, construction, manufacturing and financial services conglomerate, with global operations.

New Delhi Production in Indias eight core industries that include power, coal, steel, cement, crude oil and natural gas fell 2.5 percent in February, dampening the hope of a revival in overall factory output, government data showed Monday. The core industries, which have a combined weight of 37.90 percent in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), registered a growth of 7.7 percent in February last year. The cumulative growth of core industries in the April-February period of 2012-13 declined to 2.6 percent as compared to 5.2 percent recorded during the same period of previous year, according to data released by the commerce and industry ministry. The decline in growth in February 2013 was on account of negative growth witnessed in electricity generation and in the production of crude oil, coal, natural gas and fertilizers, the ministry said in a statement. The biggest disappointment was from the petroleum and coal sectors. Natural gas output slumped by 20.1 percent in February year-on-year. Crude output fell by 4 percent. Coal production dropped 8 percent, while fertilizers output fell 4 percent and electricity output slumped 4.1 percent during the month under review. However, cement production rose 3.9 percent and steel output increased by a sluggish 0.5 percent. The petroleum refinery products increased 4.3 percent in February.

Indias core industries output falls 2.5 percent in February

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Speaking on the partnership Bhupathi said: We had a really good run last year and had found a rhythm in our game while having a great time playing together. We have a refined understanding of each others games and gel well on and off the court. All strong characteristics that I know will translate into a successful partnership for us on the tour. Also as the countrys top two doubles players, I dont think either of us could have asked for a more dependable partner. Echoing Bhupathis sentiments, Bopanna added: Playing with Mahesh has been a great learning experience for me and we make a formidable doubles team. While we will work towards improving on last years performances, we do make a solid team in the knowledge that we have each others back throughout. This year, Bhupathi, a veteran of 52 mens doubles titles including four Grand Slams and eight mixed doubles Grand Slams, gets set to hang his boots following a long international career in the sport.

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Bhupathi, Bopanna to renew partnership Motorsports: Chandhok and

team finish 11th
Nogaro (France) Indias Karun Chandhok and his Seyffarth Motorsport team survived torrid conditions to finish 11th overall and 7th in the PRO category in the FIA GT Series here Monday. Chandhok and team-mate Jan Seyffarth had a great start to the weekend after finishing sixth in the qualification race Saturday. Heavy rain continued to hit the opening round of the series with the morning warm-up session also being very wet. The conditions for the start of the race deteriorated with all drivers having a tricky time on the out lap. Chandhok started in sixth position but started to slip as he struggled to get grip on the wet tyres. After four laps, Chandhok started to catch the cars in front of him at a rapid pace and passed former F1 driver Ricardo Zonta for ninth place before getting punted from the back by Frank Stippler. Chandhok then dropped to 16th place before he and his Seyyfarth managed

Bangalore Following a good partnership in 2012 that saw them finish as finalists at the ATP World Tour Finals, tennis players Rohan Bopanna and Mahesh Bhupathi Monday renewed their partnership. They experimented briefly with new partners earlier in the year. Bopanna won the Marseilles Open with Scottish partner Colin Fleming and Bhupathi

partnered Michael Llodra to win the Dubai Open. Currently Indias top two doubles players, Bhupathi (No.10) and Bopanna (No.12) will be playing on the same side of the court, commencing with the Monte Carlo Masters. The duo believe that their experience of playing together on the tour during 2012 will hold them in good stead.

Shuttlers Jayaram, Gurusaidutt advance in Australian Open

Sydney Indian shuttlers Ajay Jayaram, R.M.V. Gurusaidutt and Anand Pawar Tuesday made their way through to the second round of the mens singles at the Australian Open Grand Prix Gold being held here at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre. However, it was the end of the road for two veterans, also former Indian national champions, Chetan Anand and Arvind Bhat. Top seed Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia got rid of Bhat with ease (21-10, 21-18) in 31 minutes while Indonesias Riyanto Subagja beat Chetan Anand 21-14, 21-16 in 25 minutes. Mumbai boy Jayaram, seeded ninth, took less than an hour to beat unseeded Malaysian Kwong Beng Chan 2111, 21-14 in their first ever encounter while city-mate and 14th seed Pawar had to undergo a marathon battle against Arif Ramadhan of Indonesia to win in the decider. Pawar won 1921, 21-11, 21-13 in 59 minutes - also their first ever match. Jayaram and Pawar will next face South Koreas Dong Keun Lee and Malaysian Zulfadli Zulkiffli, respectively, in the next round. Rising shuttler R.M.V. Gurusaidutt, seeded 11th, hardly took quarter of an hour to get past local boy HuWen Chew 21-4, 21-7 also in their first ever meet. Gurusaidutt will next meet Suppanyu Avihingsanon of Thailand in Round 2. In womens singles action, Japanese Yui Hashimoto will take on Indias Sarada Jasti in their first ever meeting.

to fight through the field and finish in a creditable 11th position. Chandhok said: It is a shame that I got hit by Stippler which cost us more than five places. He came and apologized, but we lost the opportunity of a good finish. I think we can fight for podiums this season after a little more track time. The next round is at Zolder, Belgium, on April 21.

Saina, Chong Wei lead India Open field

New Delhi Mens singles World No.1 shuttler Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia and Indias own womens World No.2 Saina Nehwal will return to action at the Siri Fort Indoor Complex for the India Open Super Series April 23-28. The Malaysian star, who won the inaugural India Open title in 2011, and the Indian shuttle queen will spearhead the challenge at the $200,000 tourney. Over 200 shuttlers from 18 countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, Denmark, Germany, England, China, Korea, Japan and hosts India have confirmed their participation as entries came to a close in March. In addition to Chong Wei and Nehwal, the line-up include womens World No.4 Juliane Schenk from Germany, mens No.4 Sony Dwi Kuncoro from Indonesia, All England Open womens runners-up Ratnachok Intathon of Thailand and mens doubles Olympic silver medallists Mathias Boe and Cartsen Mogensen of Denmark. In mens singles, former Olympic champion Taufik Hidayat and compatriot Simon Santoso will boost the star power arriving from Indonesia while World No.6 Jan O Jorgensen of Denmark and Japanese Kenichi Tago will be aiming to lift their maiden India Open crown. Badminton powerhouse China will be represented by World No.7 Chen

Andy Murray of Great Britain, winner of the Sony Open tennis tournament, holds the trophy at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, Florida

Jin and No.11 Wang Jhengming. Doubles action promises to be a sizzling affair as World No.2 Malaysian pair of Kien Keat Koo and Boon Heong Tan, Korean duo of Ko Sung Hyun and Lee Yong Dae, womens World No.2 pairing of Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi from Japan and World No.3 womens doubles duo of Kamilla Rytter Juhl and Christinna Pedersen of Denmark gear up for the India sojourn. The home campaign will be led by Saina, seeking her maiden India Open title, while Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa will pair up with

new partners for the first time in the history of the tournament. While Ashwini pairs-up with Pradnya Gadre, Jwala will partner Prajakta Sawant. World No.8 Parupalli Kashyap, the highest-ranked Indian mens shuttler, shot into the limelight through a dramatic performance in the previous edition where he qualified for the London Games, piping compatriot Ajay Jayaram.Apart from Kashyap and Jayaram, other Indians in the fray will be World No.16 P.V. Sindhu and Arundhati Pantawane in womens and R.M.V. Gurusaidutt, Sai Praneeth and K. Srikanth in mens.

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The Joy and the Sorrow : IPL Season-6, first ball first wicket

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Panasonic Open: Pratt, Ormsby, Lam share lead; Chowrasia best Indian

New Delhi There was a three-way tie for the lead at the end of the opening round at the Panasonic Open India golff event as two Australians, Kieran Pratt and Wade Ormsby, and Singaporean Lam Chih Bing shared the honours with rounds of five-under 67 each at the demanding and windy Delhi Golf Club here Thursday. Two shots behind them was the best Indian in sole fourth, S.S.P. Chowrasia, a two-time winner of co-sanctioned events, at three-under 69, while seven players were at two-under 70 and another 17 at one-under 71. While Ormsby and Pratt came back with bogey-free rounds, Lam had one bogey on the 12th. Pratt also had an eagle, one of the six - including two by debutant Indian S. Chikkarangappa - that landed on the day besides a stunning hole-in-one by rank outside Nabin Mandal, who did little else of note in his round of 77. Three other Indians, young Angad Cheema, playing his first Asian Tour event, Chiragh Kumar, who lives a stones throw from the DGC and finished second in the Indian Open two years ago at this very course and seasoned Sanjay Kumar shot two-under 70 each to be tied fifth on what was fairly difficult scoring day in windy conditions. Defending champion Digvijay Singh played a very steady one-under 71 with two birdies and just one bogey to be tied 12th in a bunch of 17 players that included seven Indians. Shiv Kapur playing on his home course battled with two birdies in last five holes to come into red figures at one-under 71. Also tied at 71 was Anirban Lahiri with

three birdies and two bogeys, Amardip Malik, Ajeetesh Sandhu, Vinod Kumar and Gulfam (Pappan). Jeev Milkha Singh, the most successful Indian golfer, had back-to-back-bogeys on 15th and 16th, but still managed an even par start to be tied 29th, alongwith Chikkarangappa, who like Cheema was playing his first Asian Tour event. Gaganjeet Bhullar struggled to a 76 with just one birdie against five bogeys, four of which came on the back nine of the course, which was his first nine. He will need a good solid second round to ensure action over the weekend. I am happy with the way things are, though I could have had a better score today. I played quite well and had some long putts, like the 25-footer on the fourth, said Chowrasia. The conditions were not all that easy. There was wind on almost all holes and one had to be careful off the tee. The greens were excellent, though I threeputted once. Starting on the back-nine 10th, Pratt got his campaign underway with three birdies on holes 11, 14 and 18. An eaglethree on the par-five first then propelled him to the top of the leaderboard where he held on to the lead before closing with a flawless 67. While Pratt is chasing his second win, Ormsby is eyeing his breakthrough on the Asian Tour, which is celebrating its 10th season this year. Ormsby birdied the par-three 12th before marking his card with more red numbers on the 14th and 18th holes. After making the turn in 34, he continued his birdie run on the first and sixth holes. Former Ryder Cup star, Oliver Wilson, was in danger of missing the cut after a round 78.

Injured Pattinson out of IPL

Kolkata Knight Riders bowler Brett Lee celebrates after getting the wicket of Unmukt Chand at the IPL match between KKR and DD at Eden Gardens in Kolkata

IPL Match Schedule this Week

Date 7-Apr 7-Apr 8-Apr 9-Apr 9-Apr IST 16:00 20:00 20:00 16:00 20:00 GMT 10:30 14:30 14:30 10:30 14:30 14:30 10:30 14:30 14:30 10:30 14:30 Match 6th IPL 7th IPL 8th IPL 9th IPL 10th IPL 11th IPL 12th IPL 13th IPL 14th IPL 15th IPL 16th IPL Details Pune Warriors vs Kings XI Punjab Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Sunrisers Hyderabad Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders Pune Warriors vs Rajasthan Royals Delhi Daredevils vs Sunrisers Hyderabad Mumbai Indians vs Pune Warriors Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Venue Pune Hyderabad Jaipur Bangalore Mumbai Mohali Bangalore Pune Delhi Mumbai Chennai

Melbourne Fast bowler Mitchell Starc was rewarded with an annual contract of $1 million as Cricket Australia (CA) Wednesday announced a list of 20 contracted players for the year 20132014 keeping in mind the Ashes in July. Those who missed out were Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith, Jackson Bird, David Hussey and all-rounder Moises Henriques. CA also increased the list of contracted player from 17 to 20. Last year, CA had cut down the list from 25 to 17. John Inverarity, Rod Marsh, Andy Bichel and Mickey Arthur were the National Selection Panel (NSP) members who formulated the list. Inverarity said: The National Selection Panel has chosen a group of players who have performed well in the past 12 months and who we expect to feature prominently in the Australian Test, ODI and T20I sides for the 201314 season. Of the 20 players on the 2013-14 contract list all currently hold a CA

Starc gets $1 mn CA contract

playing contract. The 17 players initially contracted for the 2012-13 season played a significant role in selections across the various formats during the season. Those upgraded to the contract list during the season all proved their worth. Six of the nine players upgraded to the contract list during the 201213 season have been rewarded with contracts for the full 2013-14 season, these being George Bailey, Ed Cowan, James Faulkner, Phillip Hughes, Glenn Maxwell and Clint McKay. All of these players staked their claims for a contract for the 2013-14 period by way of their performances and the expectation of the role they will play during the coming 12 months. Last year 17 players were initially selected for the contracted players list, with an additional nine players upgraded to contracts during the season, having fulfilled the playing requirements to warrant an upgrade. Contract list: George Bailey, Michael Clarke, Ed Cowan, Patrick Cummins,

New Delhi Australia fast bowler James Pattinson will miss the Indian Premier League (IPL) and possibly the subsequent Champions Trophy due to an abdominal surgery which will take place, Cricket Australia (CA) announced . Pattinson, who plays for defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders, will join national captain Michael Clarke (Pune Warriors India) as the second Australian to also miss the IPL due to an injury. CA chief medical officer Justin Paoloni said: James Pattinson will be having surgery tomorrow for a noncricket related medical condition in his lower abdominal region that has been troubling him during the latter part of the recently concluded VB Tour of India. James has undergone tests and consulted specialists since returning from India, and it was felt that surgery is absolutely necessary at this time. The recovery times will be determined once the surgery is completed but James is expected to return to training in approximately four weeks. His preparation for The Ashes is not expected to be affected but his availability for the ICC Champions Trophy will be determined at a later stage.

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ICC introduces new No ball playing condition

Dubai The International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a new playing condition for Tests, One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and Twenty20 Internationals that instructs the umpires to call No ball whenever a bowler breaks the non-strikers wicket during the act of delivery. This playing condition will come into effect April 30 and the first international match to be played under the new regulation will be the first ODI between Zimbabwe and Bangladesh in Bulawayo May 3. ICCs general manager Geoff Allardice said: The recent interpretation used in international matches to call Dead ball when a bowler breaks the wicket during a delivery has not adequately dealt with this situation. The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) recently decided to address this issue by introducing a new No ball Law from October 1, 2013. The ICC Cricket Committee noted the MCCs decision and recommended that an ICC playing condition,

Xavier Doherty, James Faulkner, Brad Haddin, Ryan Harris, Ben Hilfenhaus, Phillip Hughes, Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Lyon, Glenn Maxwell, Clint McKay, James Pattinson, Peter Siddle, Mitchell Starc, Matthew Wade, David Warner, Shane Watson.

mirroring the new No ball Law, be introduced to international cricket as early as possible. The ICC Chief Executives Committee approved this recommendation at its March meeting in Dubai. Allardice added: The ICC has decided to introduce this playing condition five months prior to the MCC changing the No ball Law because there is a lot of important cricket to be played before October 1, including the ICC Champions Trophy in June. The introduction of this playing condition will now provide greater certainty for all involved when a bowler breaks the wickets during the act of delivery.

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