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There was a report which came from our 181 womens helpline on the five-year-old child who was raped. The 181 personnel kept speaking to the police, but they did not take any action. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit

SUNDAY 28 APRIL 2013

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Celebrity 14

Chit Fund Cheat Caught

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International 6

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Sudipta Sen, who absconded after his chit-fund went bust, was arrested with two other senior officials of the company from Sonmarg in Jammu and Kashmir. The arrested Saradha group chairman and managing director has named two Trinamool Congress MPs and some Congress leaders, including the advocate wife of a union minister , in an 18-page letter to the CBI.

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Protest Continues at NIPER , Mohali

176 of just 66 balls that included a whopping 17 sixes and 13 boundaries

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Bombing Suspects Parents Questioned in Dagestan

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Chris Gayle does the Incredible

SC raps police forces over treatment of women

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Shamshad Begum passes away

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2 CBI and Politics

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EDITORIAL DESK
impartial investigation. Therefore notwithstanding the merits of the case in each instance the perception of impartiality of CBI was heavily damaged after the facts came out. Sharing of status report with a body, in this case the government, that may have the perpetrators of the scam within its ranks tantamount to betrayal of the people of India. The constitutional bodies of India derive their legitimacy from the people of India mentioned in the preamble and it is they alone who have the first right over the conduct of the agency, not political masters!

CHANDIGARH SUNDAY 28 April 2013

Manu Sharma
The wider implication of this damage to reputation of the agency lies in the loss of a potent tool of corruption eradication in the hands of the nation. CBI deals with sensitive cases involving several high profile leaders, businessmen, terror and international conspiracies. The outcome of many such cases is predicated upon how the courts will view the investigation of the agency. A perception of bias will allow otherwise indicted criminals to take plea of unfair investigation or malpractices by citing previous precedents by the agency.

Chit Fund Schemes or Ponzi Businesses

Looking at the growth and the reach of the chit fund companies in India, Charles Ponzi would be a proud man today. An Italian migrant to America, Ponzi flourished in the early 1920s by promising doubling of money in 45 days to small investors. He relied on new investors to pay off old investors and used the flow of money to create an illusion of increasing profits with no real business model underlying his antics. Ever since, such schemes that promise the moon to small investors and end up cheating them have been named after him that is Ponzi schemes. Collapse of Saradha empire emanates from a complex weave of small investors, political patronage, electoral plans and crony capitalism. It is often speculated in informed circles that chit fund and other para banking ventures act as the laundering mechanisms for the political interests. Taking advantage of weak institutional mechanisms and widespread financial illiteracy such ventures are able to mobilize huge funds riding on the shoulders of the common man. However such fund mobilizations lack a sustainable

Allegations of political influence and misuse of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for vested political interests are not new to the agency. However recent few months have shed an entirely new light on the nature and proclivities of the premier investigating agency of the country. First instance was of CBI raids that took place against DMK leaders when they withdrew support to the UPA government and second is the sharing of status report of Coal scam with the political executive. Tenets of justice and law clearly demarcate a need for

LOUD & CLEAR

S.K. Sinha

If I were a policeman
If I were an Indian policeman , I would have crushed my hands that slapped a harmless girl , I would have burnt my wallet that carries the ill-gotten gratifications, I would have chopped off my fingers that refuse from writing the FIR , I would have strangled myself with the cord of the telephone that I refuse to answer whenever a helpless victim tries to contact me, I would have cursed my lack of self respect that makes me bow before the powerful rich and hurt the weak poor, I would not have spoken to my family or my near and dear for fear of being called a thief or a robber in uniform, I would not have fed my family the fruits and vegetables snatched from the roadside vendor, I would not have paid the school fees of my child from the money received for not issuing the challan to a motorist and I would not have faced my mother , as I could not save the women , the child and the needy. I would have enrolled myself in a reform school to learn to be a human , sensitive to the duties that I bear on my shoulders . But all this can only happen if my superiors allow me to and do not send me on errands or ask me to wield the lathi on harmless unarmed citizens in the name of the popular section 144 . I would not wait for God to teach me to behave like a civilized being and discharge the duties of a protector . Jai Hind

business plan or revenue stream to pay back the small investors. The human side of these financial collapses tells heart wrenching stories of suicides, crashed dreams, costly illnesses and destroyed households. When ordinary citizens begin to give up their lives for a measly 30,000 Rupees, it not only becomes a cause of concern but also a national shame. There is a lesson for politicians who associate with such entities, Ponzi schemes hurt their investors and patrons alike. Financial crimes have their human sides too.

VVIP chopper deal: Singling out an individual is wrong

By Air Marshal (retd) V.K. Bhatia
In the ongoing investigation of bribery and corruption in the VVIP helicopter deal, the Central Bureau of Investigation, or CBI, appears to have made up its mind that the then Indian Air Force (IAF) chief, Air Chief Marshal S.P. Tyagi, was instrumental in swinging the deal in favour of AgustaWestland. News reports attributed to CBI sources imply that technical requirements were tweaked by the then air chief to enable the Italian helicopter AW101 to emerge as the winner in the contested deal. As was to be expected, the Indian media, especially electronic - went hoarse in the throat and wild in gestures - and continues to do so - to expose the erstwhile chief without bothering to look at the whole episode in a holistic and professional manner. Whether guilty or not, in the eyes of the nation, he is already damned. There are two major aspects of the deal which need to be probed thoroughly before arriving at any conclusion. One, whether the erstwhile chief could and/or did influence the laying down of the SQRs (Service Qualifying Requirements) to enable the selection of any particular helicopter. And, two, whether there was a case of illegal transaction of money favouring some middlemen and individuals who claimed to have the wherewithal to swing the deal in a particular direction. Allegations have indeed emerged in Italy that Italian/ European businessmen raised bribe money and paid it to top officials of Finmeccanica, the company which owns the British AgustaWestland, and some Indian businessmen. A probe is on in Europe based on communication intercepts and accounting paperwork the middlemen had prepared for their own requirements. Soon after the scandal broke out, the Indian Ministry of Defence (MOD) issued a Fact Sheet on February 14, 2013 on the chronology of the important procedural milestones of the deal. The MOD deserves credit for not hiding behind the faade of secrecy and putting the facts in public domain, but where it failed was to assure the people that its defence procurement systems are robust enough not to be influenced by any one individual irrespective of the rank or status he may wield. In the midst of all the cacophonous accusations hitting the ceiling was just a lone voice of sanity, that of former defence and external affairs minister Jaswant Singh, when he remarked:, We should not make wild allegations against a former air chief. It is not in the interest of both the Air Force and the country. The probe is on. Lets wait. A distinguished soldier and an able statesman, he understood well the destruction such media hype can cause to the very fabric of the armed forces.Nonetheless, due to the media trial, MOD referred the case to CBI, the countrys prime investigating agency. At this stage, it would perhaps be prudent to chronologically look at the various events as revealed by the MOD fact sheet which finally led to the selection of the AW101 as the helicopter of choice for induction into the IAF. It reveals that an acquisition process for VVIP helicopters commenced in March 2002 and culminated in the EC-225 of M/S Eurocopter being found the sole helicopter suitable for acquisition, after flight evaluation of the three out of the four vendors who had responded to the RFP. At that time, the EH-101 (or AW101) of AgustaWestland, or any other VIP helicopter (barring the EC-225), was not certified for an altitude of 6,000 meters. In November 2003, the then National Security Advisor (NSA) and the principal secretary to the prime minister convened a meeting voicing concern that the mandatory requirements stipulated by the IAF had resulted in a single vendor situation. It was also noted that the prime minister and president have rarely made visits to places located beyond 4,500 meter altitude. The meeting decided to modify the mandatory altitude requirement to 4.5 km whilst leaving the 6 km altitude to be desirable. Security officials from the Special Protection Group (SPG) that guards the VVIPs asked for a minimum cabin height of 1.8 metre to facilitate rescue movement in case of an emergency. Notably, police and intelligence officials protecting the VVIPs are generally tall. SPG is controlled by the PMO (Prime Ministers Office). In the words of the MOD, In pursuance of the above directive, the ORs (Operational Requirements) were deliberated at length between the NSA, SPG/PMO, MOD and the IAF between March, 2005 and September, 2006 and the above-mentioned changes were incorporated. In addition, after further deliberations between the aforesaid agencies the quantity of helicopters proposed for procurement was revised from 8 to 12 by adding 4 helicopters in nonVIP configuration for security reasons. IAFs VIP Squadron has had 8 helicopters generally. It seems clear that the newly introduced cabin height parameter of 1.8 metre becoming a mandatory requirement could have played a major role forcing Eurocopter to leave the scene without responding to the new RFP issued on September 27, 2006. While chronicling the various steps till the conclusion of contract awarded to AgustaWestland on January 18, 2010, the MOD insists that the procurement case was progressed in accordance with established procurement procedure with all stages of procurement being followed meticulously, it is silent on whether the entire SQR process was revisited as per the procurement procedure. It is obvious that critics have homed on to this lack of information to base their speculations that the process was misused by someone to select a favoured vendor. The media, and the CBI, seem to have lost no time in latching on to the erstwhile chief, during whose tenure the revised RFP was issued, to be the man responsible for tweaking the SQRs/ORs for pecuniary gains. But, without overly commenting on the cumbersomeness of the defence procurement procedure, what stands out clearly is that no single individual can influence the outcome of a defence deal on his/her own. India Strategic has had some access to the documents showing how the new SQRs were debated in a final meeting, held before the issuance of the revised RFP. It is clear that all the new parameters were agreed to unanimously - one by one - by the representatives of all the agencies mentioned earlier, and that while IAF was represented by top officers at this meeting, the air chief himself was not there. Simply put, the decision was collective, unanimous, and signed by each participant in agreement. The new parameters included the minimum cabin height of 1.8 metre (propagated by the SPG for security reasons), a drift-down down altitude with one engine inoperative of not less than 1,500 metres (for reasons of VVIP safety) and, of course the earlier agreed to lower service ceiling of 4,500 meters, among others. After the Field Evaluation Trials that followed, the Staff Evaluation Report concluded that only AW101 helicopter was fully compliant with all SQRs based on which, AgustaWestland was finally awarded the contract to supply 12 (8 VVIP-configured and 4 non-VVIP) AW101 helicopters to the IAF at a negotiated price of Euro 556.262 million. It may also be kept in mind that similar trials in the US also had led to the selection of AW 101 just around then. Now that a bribery scandal connected with the deal has broken out, everyone seems to be baying for the blood of a lone individual, as also for outright cancellation of the VVIP helicopter deal. In the opinion of the writer, it is nothing but a knee-jerk reaction on both counts. As brought out in the March Edition of India Strategic, it would be foolhardy to cancel the entire contract at this advanced stage of execution. The quality of the helicopter should be kept in mind which undoubtedly crowns it to be the top-notch helicopter in the world for VVIP travel. And, while all possible penalties should be levied on the errant company as per the provisions of the contract, blacklisting of the companies, as India has been doing, will prove to be counter-productive to the much-needed, ongoing and massive modernisation programmes of the armed forces. Similarly, singling out one particular individual for the entire selection process could prove to be counterproductive. The investigating agencies need to do the right thing by getting to the bottom of the case and bring to book anyone and everyone involved, but not on the basis of knee-jerk reactions and media trials.

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Special task force to probe Saradha chit fund fraud

Chit Fund Cheat Caught

Chit Funds Act 1982, the central government has decided to probe the issue keeping in view the larger public interest involved. In view of the larger public interest involved in these cases, and concerns regarding misuse/laundering by such companies of the ill gotten wealth, and the possibility that the promoters of these companies may strip these companies, it has been decided by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to set up a Special Task Force, the ministry said. The special task force will work under the Serious Fraud Investigations Office (SFIO). Accordingly, all investigations into such companies are being entrusted to SFIO with immediate effect, it said. The task force will also co-ordinate with other law enforcement agencies and regulators wherever required, it added. The market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is also probing the fundraising activities of the Saradha Group. Arrested Saradha group chairman and managing director Sudipta Sen has named two Trinamool Congress MPs and some Congress leaders, including the advocate wife of a union minister , in an 18-page letter to the CBI. In the letter dated April 6 sent to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Sen said he would be committing suicide any moment as he felt helpless as unscrupulous persons and cheats in the society had put him in a position in which he was unable to refund the public money collected in his name. All the names mentioned in this letter must be treated as an FIR for putting me in to a situation of and/or provoking me to committing suicide. This is my last statement, he said, in the letter. Sen said he entered the media business after a Bengali daily started to attack him. However, he mentioned towards the end of the missive that his business empire collapsed due to his entry into the media domain, the extortion by various persons and the blackmail by his own staff. He named a journalist (who later became a Trinamool MP) for having complained about his company to the West Bengal government, and starting a campaign against him. To combat the media attack, I thought I must enter the media business, he said. Sen said after he purchased a TV channel, the owner-editor (who also later became a Trinamool MP) and the journalist of the paper that had earlier attacked him came to him with the offer of a Rs.60 lakh-permonth arrangement with the newspaper for running the channel. The journalist was appointed in a top position of the channel at a salary of Rs.15 lakh per month. (The paper) has also given me assurance that on execution of this agreement they will protect my business from the government, i.e. from state government and central government and I will be able to get a smooth passage and they assured me that they have very close connection

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Sudipta Sen names Trinamool MPs, Congressmen in letter to CBI

New Delhi The corporate affairs ministry Thursday said it would set up a special task force to investigate the chit fund scam related to Kolkatabased firm Saradha group. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has taken note of the misuse by certain chit fund companies who have raised huge sums of money from the public at large, an official release said. It said although the state government was the appropriate authority to deal with these matters under the

60 firms like Saradha operating in Bengal

As many as 60 fraudulent firms like Saradha Group, which is embroiled in the West Bengal chit fund scaml, are actively operating in the state and may have amassed around Rs.10 lakh crore from unsuspecting depositors, say people in the know. Further, there are countless small and unregistered shady money laundering firms operating in the state, especially in North and South 24 Parganas, Malda and Birbhum districts, according to experts. Widespread protests had been reported across West Bengal as irate depositors and agents of the Saradha Group, which has gone bust, hit the streets and attacked many of the firms offices. There were incidents of clashes between the agents and the depositors who demanded their money back. There were also unconfirmed reports of an agent committing suicide. Lured by the promise of high interest rates - ranging from 25 percent to 30 percent - lakhs of depositors, mostly poor people in the states villages

and small towns, had deposited their hard-earned money with the company. The group is alleged to have siphoned off investors money worth Rs.17,000 crore. Fraudulent companies raise money from investors for various ponzi schemes. The investment plans include daily or monthly instalments and lump sum investment. Pilot said that besides floating ponzi or money circulation schemes under the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act, 1978, unscrupulous firms cheat investors in various other ways. According to the minister, such fraudulent means include: vanishing after raising money through public offers; illegal collection of deposits in violation of the Companies act; floating sham collective investment schemes (CIS) in violation of SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) act; and collecting money from public by posing as Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) in violation of the RBI (Reserve Bank of India) act.

with present C.M of West Bengal i.e Ms. Mamata Banerjee, Sen said. He said in the past two years, the paper had taken Rs.20 crore from him for running the channel. Various time they have taken cash under various causes shown to me and also apart from that for running the channel for the last three years including the payment (cable operators) not less than Rs.2 crore per month, Sen wrote. Sen said though he purchased the channel and spent not less than Rs.50 crore for it, a Trinamool MP along with his few miscreants came to my office and forced me to sign some document and letters, which I signed without going through the contents thereof and after they have gone, I read and found that they have got me to sign as if I have sold them (the channel) for a meagre amount of Rs.55 lakh, he said. They also got me to sign as if I have transferred them (a) newspa-

per (name of the newspaper) which I have never done, he said. Sen also accused a minister in the Tarun Gogoi government of Assam of having cheated him. For the last six months he has taken from us not less than three crores, all by cash, and some vouchers have been signed by his office executives... This amount is also to be returned to the company for paying up the Bengal area creditors. Sen said the advocate wife of a prominent Indian minister, whom he called on, had requested him to help her set up a channel in Guwahati and support her by extending Rs.42 crore to her company. He said during a period of one-and-a-half years, she was paid Rs.1 crore as consultancy fees. The letter also accuses some other Congress leaders of Assam as also a senior official of a leading football club of Kolkata, apart from some journalists, media owners and others of having fleeced him.

Mamata sets up fund for duped investors

The West Bengal government will set up a Rs.500 crore relief fund for compensating depositors who have lost money by investing in chit funds run by the Saradha Group, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced. Banerjee also announced the imposition of 10 percent tax on cigarettes to provide money for the fund. We are setting up a Rs.500 crore relief fund for small and medium depositors who have lost their money. This will help the common people who are now in distress, Banerjee told mediapersons at the state secretariat Writers Buildings. To raise the fund, we will impose 10 percent tax on cigarettes. This will get us around Rs.150 core. We will tap other sources to get the rest of the amount, she said. Banerjee said the money from the fund will be paid to the depositors on the basis of recommendations of the

Court asks Mamata on steps taken

Barring the Saradha Group from making any financial transactions, the Calcutta High Court asked the West Bengal government to furnish details about the steps taken against the tainted company. A division bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice J.M. Bagchi, while hearing a PIL seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into the chit fund muddle, directed the Mamata Banerjee government to furnish the details through an affidavit by May 2.The matter will come up for hearing May 3.

high-powered commission set up by her government. The notification for the commission, headed by retired Calcutta High Court judge Shyamal Sen, was issued during the day.

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ment for gangrape, speedy justice for the victims, review of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Acts working, and community policing. The committee stopped short of recommending death penalty for gang-rape. The report was submitted to Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde. Justice Verma was to go to in February as head of the international judicial panel to Colombo to look into the impeachment of former chief justice of the Sri Lankan Supreme Court Shirani Bandaranayake. But the visit was postponed due to last minute revocation of permission to enter the country. The bench headed by him in the Vishakha case laid the guidelines to prevent harassment of woman at the workplace and also delivered judgment in enhancing the scope of Article 21 Right to life and personal liberty. He was in the bench that in a landmark judgment in S.R. Bommai case in 1994 held that the strength of the government was to be ascertained on the floor of the House and the Presidential proclamation dissolving a House was subject to judicial review. He was the author of the collegium system of the appointment of judges, which he later said needed to be revisited. In the Manohar Joshi case, he held that Hindutva is a way of life. He had written to the prime minister that the self assessment of judges code of conduct should be translated into a law to give it a statutory teeth. Among the recommendations of New Delhi The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the central government to apprise it how children below 18 years of age can have an agreement with any social network site including Facebook. A division bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Vibhu Bakhru also issued notice to US-based Facebook Inc and Google Inc to file their responses on a plea seeking directions for social networking sites to restrain children below 18 from having an account with them. The court was hearing a plea that said children below 18 years are allowed to open an account with social networking sites including Facebook which is illegal as Indian laws dont permit it. The bench said: How the children below 18 years can have an agreement with any social network sites including Facebook. Union of India is directed to file an affidavit on the issue within 10 days. Both Facebook Inc and Google Inc are US-based entities and are hereby impleaded as respondents. Notices to be issued to the newly-added parties, the court said while impleading both the foreign companies as parties in the case. The court posted the matters next hearing for May 13. The courts direction came on a public interest litigation filed by former Bharatiya Janata Party ideologue K.N. Govindacharya. Appearing for Govindacharya, lawyer Veerag Gupta told the court that penalties should be imposed on social networking sites and other internet-based companies for nonverification of age of their users. He added that the children below 18 are getting into an agreement with the social networking sites to open an account which is against Indian

CHANDIGARH SUNDAY 28 April 2013

Former CJI, anti-rape law panel head Justice Verma dead

New Delhi Justice J.S. Verma, who headed the panel on anti-rape laws in the aftermath of the Dec 16 gang-rape, died due to liver failure and bleeding in the stomach .He was 80. He died at Gurgaons Medanta Hospital at 9.30 p.m.. Justice Verma was admitted to the hospital on Friday with complaint of liver failure. He died at 9.30 p.m. of liver failure and bleeding in the stomach, Yatin Mehta, head of the Institute of Critical Care Medanta, told IANS. Justice Verma was the 27th Chief Justice of India from March 25, 1997 to Jan 18, 1998. Justice Verma headed the threemember panel set up by the government following the nationwide outrage following the Dec 16 gang-rape to suggest amendments to anti-rape laws. The panel submitted its recommendations on Jan 23 in a 630-page report, suggesting amendment of criminal laws to provide for stringent punishment for rapists, including those belonging to police and public servants. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, condoling the death, described him as a man of vast understanding and knowledge of law and said he would miss his generous advice and guidance on matters of public importance. In a tweet, the Prime Ministers Office posted: He was respected for his pathbreaking judgements, his deep sensitivity to the concerns of the common man and commitment to public good. Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi condoled the death of Justice J.S. Verma. Narendra Modi posted: Justice JS Verma will be remembered for his immense contribution to the field of law. His demise is a big loss to the nation. Among the recommendations of the Verma panel are life imprison-

How can minors have agreement with social media sites, asks court
Majority Act, Indian Contract Act and also the Information and Technology Act. The counsel further added that the Indian government is not taking any action against the foreign companies which have their Indian operations. It said that on the basis of unlawful agreements, data of 50 million users is transferred to the US and used for commercial gains in violation of the right to privacy. Due to non verification of users, more than eight crore Facebook users across the world were found to be fake which the Facebook admitted before the US authorities, he added. He said that five or six percent accounts on social networking sites were fake or being operated by anonymous users due to non-authentication of details by the company before the opening of accounts. The plea asked the court to direct the government to recover all past and present direct and indirect tax demands arising from business income from Indian operations of different social networking websites. The petition sought direction to ensure proper accounting compliances as per the Reserve Bank of India guidelines. Govindacharya pleaded for a court order to these companies to implement the verification norms issued by the central government. The petitioner, at present involved in social service through his organisation Rashtriya Swabhimaan Aandolan, said: Facebook gross revenue for previous year was approximately $37 billion... ...They are not paying due taxes on their Indian operations as per provisions of double taxation avoidance agreement and the government is not taking any action to safeguard the national interest and sovereignty of India.

the Verma panel are that gang-rape would entail a punishment of not less than 20 years, but which also could extend to life. Gang-rape followed by death shall be punished with life imprisonment, the panel suggested. The panel did not suggest death penalty for rapists because there were overwhelming suggestions from the women organisations against it, he had said. The committee proposed amendments to the Indian Penal Code making stalking, acid attacks and voyeurism to be also considered separate crimes. Under the bill, all forms of violence, exploitation, cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment and treatment targeting women are prohibited. It also entitles a woman to have the right to express and experience complete sexual autonomy, including with respect to her relationships and choice of partners. The commission, however, did not alter the legally defined age of juvenile from 18 to 16 years - a demand by women activists after one of the accused involved in the Delhi gangrape was found to be below 18 years.

Government in deep crisis over CBI affidavit on coal mines

New Delhi The beleaguered Manmohan Singh government Friday appeared to be in deep political crisis after the opposition demanded Law Minister Ashwani Kumars resignation for vetting a CBI affidavit meant only for the Supreme Court on the coal blocks allocation. In its two-page affidavit, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chief Ranjit Sinha told the Supreme Court that it had shared its March 8 status report on investigations into coal blocks allocation with Ashwani Kumar and senior officials in the Prime Ministers Office and the coal ministry. Ashwani Kumar, the man in the eye of the storm, said he has not done any wrong and truth will prevail. The supposedly independent CBIs disclosure could spell more trouble for the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government and could have ramifications for even the prime minister, who held the coal ministers portfolio in UPA-I during the allocation of coal blocks now under scrutiny. The developments led to a political storm, with the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left parties demanding the resignation of Ashwani Kumar and disrupting parliament over the issue. The issue has given the opposition yet another stick with which to beat the government, already battling a public perception of being corrupt and inept. The government has ruled out the law ministers resignation. Government sources said if the law minister is removed, the prime minister could be next in the line of fire. The official auditor, the CAG, has found large-scale irregularities in awarding lucrative mining contracts to private companies. The contracts covered over 100 mines across the country. Sensing trouble, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi was huddled in a meeting with the prime minister, along with senior ministers, to discuss the future strategy. Gandhi also held consultations with other UPA partners to ensure the legislative business of parliament was not affected in the rremaining two weeks of parliaments budget session. Finding no better way to wriggle out of the sticky situation, the government chose to defend the law minister and buy time till April 30 when the apex court is expected to pass an order in the case. The CBI director has clearly said that the draft report was seen by the law minister and not the final report.

There is no question of him (Ashwani Kumar) resigning, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath told reporters. According to informed sources, Ashwani Kumars fate hangs in the balance till April 30, when the apex court is expected to pass an observation on Sinhas disclosure. If it criticises the the law minister, he may have to go. Though it may amplify the demand for Manmohan Singhs resignation, there was no chance of the government going, said the sources. Highly-placed sources said that the CBI shared the status report as it

was probing the private firms which allegedly misrepresented their information while applying for mining licenses. As the prime minister was then the coal minister (in UPA-I), the CBI had to discuss the case with the Prime Ministers Office, sources said. The CBI director, in his affidavit said: I submit that the draft of the same (March 8 status report) was shared with honourable union minister for law and justice as desired by him prior to its submission before the honourable court. The affidavit said that besides the political executive, it was also shared

with one joint secretary level officer each of the Prime Ministers Office and ministry of coal, as desired by them. The CBI director also told the court that the investigating agencys status report of April 26 has been personally vetted by him and not shared with anyone, including the political executive. Sinha promised the court that henceforth the probes status reports in the coal scam will not be shared with the political executive. Government sources said it is normal for the law minister to take a look at any affidavit before it is filed before the court. The law minister is expected to concur with any affidavit before it is submitted in a court. The idea is to ensure that the governments views are put in the right perspective, said a senior government official. The opposition came down heavily on the Congress-led government, accusing it of interfering in the CBIs work, with Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley saying the government has been caught with its pants down. Communist Party of India leader Gurudas Dasgupta termed it as very atrocious and unprecedented.

CHANDIGARH SUNDAY 28 April 2013

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Heckling Mamata costs dear to six SFI workers
New Delhi Six activists of the SFI have been arrested for heckling West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and state Finance Minister Amit Mitra here on April 9, a Delhi Police officer said. The arrested activists include a general secretary of the Students Federation of India, the students wing of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M). The SFIs general secretary, Rita Brathogosh Banerjee, two women activists Anju Jha and Asha Sharma, besides Suman, Nathu Prasad and B.S. Aggarwal were arrested in connection with the case, said an officer. They were booked under the sections of rioting, obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions, assault to deter public servant from discharge of his duty, and voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty, the police officer said. He said the government was implementing the Rajiv Gandhi Panchayat Sashaktikaran Abhiyan in the 12th Plan and there had been a 10-fold increase in allocations over the 11th Plan. Noting that Rs.6,437 crore had been allocated in the 12th Plan to empower panchayats, the prime minister hoped that the states would use the money to strengthen institutions of self-governance. This is our promise that central government will provide all possible help to state government so that development process can be made more inclusive and sustainable, he said. Manmohan Singh said researchers all over the world had found that efforts to include social and economically backward sections in development process had yielded good results. There has been increase in participation of people in works of panchayats, decisions have been taken according to expectations of people and they have become more politically aware but it is a long journey. A lot needs to be done, the prime minister said. He said two decades had passed since the enactment of 73rd amendment that gave an identity to PRIs as a unit of self-governance. There had been emphasis on local self-governance even during the struggle for freedom, he added. Efforts were made to empower panchayats after Independence but real progress in the matter came about due to moral courage and thinking of formal prime minister Rajiv Gandhi which resulted in enactment of 73rd amendment. He said Rajiv Gandhi wanted to take

Lot needs to be done to empower panchayats: PM

New Delhi Pushing for power and responsibilities to panchayati raj institutions (PRIs), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for change in the thinking that comes in the way of delegating power to the grassroots democratic organisations. Addressing a function on National Panchayati Raj Divas here, the prime minister said he often gets complaints that bureaucracy at the centre and states was not keen to see its powers reduced and does not want to share its powers with the local bodies. There is need to change this thinking and changing it at the earliest, the prime minister said. He said the main objective of panchayati raj was decentralisation in which people get the right to take decisions concerning governance. We have to see it (decentralisation) does not remain only a slogan but becomes a reality in our lifetime. For this, we have to give powers and responsibilities in a real sense to the elected representatives, the prime minister said. He said there was need to speedily build on the achievements achieved in ushering democracy at the grassroots so that panchayats play an important role in development process. I feel that a lot remains to be done to give power and responsibilities in a real sense to panchayati raj institutions, the prime minister said. He said states were responsible for giving powers to panchayats. How much a state works in this direction depends on how useful it thinks is decentralised rule in public service delivery.

democracy to every house in the country through PRIs and the effect of the 73rd amendment was visible in several areas. In Manmohan Singhs view, the panchayati raj ministry was taking steps to improve capacities of PRIs so that they understand local needs and make efforts to fulfill them. The prime minister, who honoured 193 panchayats for their initiatives in development works, said 15 states had passed law to provide 50 percent reservation to women in panchayats.

Police said the arrested were presented in a court, and were granted bail in the evening. Banerjee and Amit Mitra were allegedly heckled April 9 by a group SFI activists, when the chief minister and her finance minister went to the Planning Commission office in New Delhi to finalise the state plan. Following the incident, Banerjee made a hasty return to Kolkata, cancelling her meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. She later said, Delhi is not safe. On her return to Kolkata, Banerjee complained of sickness and was hospitalised.

Russia ready to negotiate with India on MiG-35 fighters

New Delhi Russia is keen that India buys its MiG-35 fighter aircraft, a top Russian official said. The Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG (RAC MiG) has proposed to India to consider the possibility of concluding a contract on the supply of the MiG-35 multipurpose fighter jet, RAC MiG Director General Sergei Korotkov told Itar-Tass in an interview. Despite the fact that we lost the tender for the supply of 126 multipurpose fighters to the Indian Air Force, the RAC MiG fulfilled all the requirements set the tender committee, Korotkov said. The aircraft has demonstrated good results, sometimes even exceeding expectations. According to him, the corporation hopes that India will consider the possibility of concluding a contract on the supply of the MiG-35 fighters. And we will have the opportunity to implement it, he said. Within this bundle of knowledge that India

received during this tender, I would like the MiG-35 issue to be continued against the background of our common history and 50 years of partnership. According to preliminary information, the winner of the tender for the supply of fighter aircraft to the Indian Air Force was the French Dassault Rafale. However, neither party has announced the official timeframe of the contract conclusion. This year the next batch of four aircraft will be delivered, said the head of the MiG Aircraft Corporation. He also took part in the celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the start of the Soviet MiG-21 fighters deliveries to the Indian Air Force. The agreement on the supply of the MiG-21 planes to India was signed in 1962, and the deliveries began a year later. In 1967, the Indian company Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) handed over to the Indian Air Force the first MiG-21 fighter that was built here under the USSR license.

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was adjourned until May 3. Musharraf has been accused of failing to provide adequate security to Bhutto when she returned to Pakistan from exile in 2007. She was killed in a suicide bombing and firing in Rawalpindi shortly after she addressed an election rally. The court had previously declared Musharraf an absconder and issued an arrest warrant for him after he failed to cooperate with investigators when he was living in selfexile. He returned last month and also got interim bail in the case. The court will hear his bail in this case. The court earlier directed authorities to attach his properties and to freeze his bank accounts. The FIA prosecutors told the court that the former president is allegedly involved in the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto because of his failure to provide her adequate security. Musharraf, despite being aware of the imminent danger to Bhuttos life, did not take the requisite security measures to prevent her assassination, according to a 57page investigation report submitted earlier before the court. Pervez Musharraf appeared before the court where his supporters and a group of anti-Musharraf lawyers clashed, leaving two lawyers injured. The two sides beat each other and later angry lawyers used sticks and beat some of Mushararfs supporters. The lawyers also smashed windows of a car of Mushararfs men. Musharraf has dismissed all charges as politically motivated and insisted that he had warned Benazir Bhutto of imminent threats to her life. He also said that he had advised Benazir Bhutto not to return to the country in view of threats but she had ignored his advice. The former president is also facing high treason charges for abrogation of the constitution when he imposed emergency rule in 2007. Five individuals have filed petitions for high treason proceedings in the Supreme Court. However, the interim government has refused to pursue the case because of its limited role. The interim government has prayed to the apex court to leave the case to the next elected government. Musharraf, who ruled Pakistan from 1999 to 2008, has also been disqualified for the May 11 parliamentary elections due to criminal cases against him in court and for imposing emergency rule. He is now leading his own All Pakistan Muslim League part. Moscow Russia and the US are committed to boosting their efforts to jointly fight terrorism, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said. During a recent telephone conversation, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama confirmed their commitment to strengthen security coordination, Lavrov said in response to a question about the Boston marathon bombings. Lavrov declined to comment on reports that a Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, had visited Russia. Sources in the US and Russian special services have already made the

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relevant comments on the issue and I have nothing to add, Lavrov said. Earlier, ABC News said the second suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was awake and has answered investigators questions in writing from his hospital bed. He is still unable to talk after suffering throat and neck wounds, ABC said. Three people were killed and 180 injured after two powerful explosions ripped through a crowd near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The other main suspect in the twin bomb attack, Tsarnaevs older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died of wounds sustained in a shoot-out with police.

China quake: 4,000 aftershocks recorded

Islamabad A Pakistani anti-terrorism court, conducting the trial of suspects charged with involvement in the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, ordered that former president Pervez Musharraf be included in the investigation process.The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), which is investigating the Bhutto assassination, told the court in the garrison city of Rawalpindi that the former military ruler has not yet been formally included in the case, reported Xinhua. Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman directed the FIA to complete the investigation and submit a report in the apex court. The hearing

Prepare for Syrian chemical weapons, Kerry tells NATO

Washington US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on the NATO to prepare for the possible use of chemical weapons by Syria in the ongoing civil war there. We should also carefully and collectively consider how NATO is prepared to respond to protect its members from a Syrian threat, including any potential chemical weapons threat, Kerry said at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels. Israels top military intelligence analyst, Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, said Syrian government forces had used chemical weapons against rebels trying to oust President Bashar al-Assad. Kerry said NATO should have contingency plans to guard against the threat of chemical weapons. NATO has deployed Patriot antimissile batteries in Turkey, which borders Syria and is a NATO member, after artillery fire from Syria hit several Turkish villages. US President Barack Obama has said that the use of chemical weapons in Syria is a red line that would trigger further action from the US.

Beijing More than 4,000 aftershocks had been recorded since a 7.0-magnitude earthquake shook Chinas Sichuan province Saturday, authorities said Wednesday. There were 103 aftershocks above magnitude 3.0, including four be-

tween magnitudes 5.0 and and 5.9, 21 between magnitudes 4.0 and 4.9, and 78 between magnitudes 3.0 and 3.9, reported Xinhua citing the China Earthquake Administration. The toll from the quake has risen to at least 193, with more than 12,200 injured, authorities said.

Italys re-elected president calls for reforms

Rome Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, sworn in Mfor an unprecedented second term in the countrys history, urged political parties to form a coalition government and carry out reforms. There was a need for different political forces to form an alliance able to offer solutions to shared problems, Napolitano, a member of the former Italian Communist Party who took a pro-US and pro-Europe line, said after his swearing-in ceremony in parliament. The fact that in Italy there is a sort of widespread horror for any hypothesis of entente, alliance, mediation or convergence among different political forces is sign of a regression, Xinhua quoted him as saying. Napolitano opted for a cross-party pact in late 2011 when he appointed outgoing prime minister Mario Monti at the helm of a caretaker government amid a spiraling debt crisis. The center-left Democratic Party (PD), the main group in parliament, the center-right People of Freedom (PdL) and Montis centrist Civic Choice asked the 87-year-old president to have a second term after they failed to form a new government and elect a successor to him. Napolitano, who previously ruled out the possibility to stay on, said he finally decided to accept the appeal given the seriousness of Italys economic and social emergency. He said he would carry out this dif-

ficult test of his strength if parties take their responsibilities in abandoning divergences to enact muchneeded laws. The president said parliaments inability to reform Italys electoral law, which he had repeatedly asked to change to produce a hung parliament, was unforgivable. Italy should meet its obligations on finances to help stabilize the eurozone, Napolitano said, adding that the countrys political parties had damaged progress made by Montis technocratic cabinet. Napolitano, who plans to start consultations Tuesday to discuss the formation of the next government, is expected to name a new prime minister to lead a coalition government able to carry out urgent economic and institutional measures.

No Al Qaeda activities in Iran, says foreign minister

Tehran Irans Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi categorically denied claims about Al Qaedas activities in his country, stressing that such allegations are ridiculous, reported .Salehi said assertions about Al Qaedas activities in Iran are the most ridiculous claims that he has ever heard. It is a sheer lie, a scandalous lie that surprised me. Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Canada had foiled an Al Qaedasupported terror plot against a domestic passenger train by arresting two suspects. Police said neither of the two suspects is Canadian and they had received direction and guidance from Al Qaeda elements in Iran. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmenparast also dismissed the accusations from Canada. No proof or document has been presented by the Canadian officials about the case, Mehmenparast said

Kerry also met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Brussels Tuesday, and thanked Lavrov for Russian President Vladimir Putins statement of condolence to the US after the bombings at the Boston Marathon. Russia, which has long fought Islamic separatists in Chechnya, had alerted US officials in 2011 to possible extremist links to one of the suspected bombers, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Also at the NATO meeting in Brussels Tuesday, Kerry signed an agreement with Lithuania to work together to combat nuclear terrorism and the

illegal smuggling of nuclear and radioactive materials and related technologies. This will keep nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists, out of bad actors, its a very important step, Kerry said. The nuclear smuggling pact is aimed at helping Lithuanias ability to prevent, detect and respond to nuclear smuggling incidents. Several European countries have already signed similar nuclear smuggling agreements with the US, including Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Slovakia and Uzbekistan.

in his weekly press briefing. The political and ideological views of the extremist groups, especially Al Qaeda extremists, are by no means consistent with those of the Islamic republic, he said. We are against any violence and terrorist acts which endanger the life of the innocent, the spokesman said, adding: Our nation is (itself) a victim of terrorism and we do not encourage such phenomena by any means.

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Bombing Suspects Parents Questioned in Dagestan
Washington U.S. investigators have questioned the parents of the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects in the Russian republic of Dagestan, as they try to determine what might have influenced their sons in the months before the April 15 attack. The American authorities, working with Russian security forces, interviewed both parents Tuesday night and called back the suspects mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, for more questioning on Wednesday. The investigators are particularly interested in any contacts the elder brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, might have had with Islamic extremists during a six-month visit to Dagestan and Chechnya last year. U.S. lawmakers discussed the same trip Tuesday as they raised concerns about the sharing of intelligence among federal law enforcement agencies. Senator Lindsey Graham said the FBI told him it was not aware at the time of Tamerlan Tsarnaevs trip to Russia. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a shootout with police last Thursday, while his younger brother Dzhokhar was captured a day later. Meanwhile, in Boston, authorities on Wednesday reopened Boylston Street, the city thoroughfare where the explosions occurred near the fin-

160 Killed in Bangladesh Building Collapse

Dhaka The death toll from the collapsed building in Bangladesh that housed several garment factories has risen to 147. Rescue officials say emergency personnel continue to dig through the rubble at the Rana Plaza shopping center in the Dhaka suburb of Savar, to find people who remain trapped in the debris. One firefighter told Reuters there were about 2,000 people on the upper floors of the building at the time of its collapse. Survivors say the collapse happened within minutes. Police officials say the factory owners appeared to have ignored a warn-

ing not to allow their workers into the building after inspectors discovered cracks in it on Tuesday. Buildings in and around Dhaka often do not comply with construction regulations. Dozens of people died when a garment factory collapsed in the same area eight years ago. In November, a fire at a garment factory killed more than 100 workers, raising an outcry about safety in the nations garment industry. Bangladesh has the second-largest garment industry in the world, providing cheap clothes for major Western brands and retailers, which benefit from the South Asian nations abundant low-cost labor.

Environmentalists Say Drinking Water Bags Harming Nigeria

Abuja, Nigeria Most Nigerian homes do not have running water, or at least not water that is clean enough to drink. As a result, people drink water from small plastic bags sold on the streets. Environmental specialists say the bags are now clogging drainpipes, degrading sanitation and causing diseases. Since the 1990s a familiar scene has regularly played out in Nigerian markets and busy intersections. The boy looks about six years old. Balanced on his head is a bucket of clear plastic bags, each containing about a half liter of water. The product is known as pure water. For a little more than 10 cents, customers rip off a corner of the bag with their teeth and suck the water in. It is a cheap way to stay hydrated and a much needed business opportunity for children and teens struggling to stay alive in a country where most people live in abject poverty. Growing issue But environmental experts say it is becoming a big problem. Cletus Bebefagha, director of operations for the Delta State Waste Management Board in the southern Niger Delta region, said most people discard the bags on the streets when they are finished, causing a host of environmental problems. Its a problem. Honestly, its a problem because they dont decompose and by the time they get into any drain, that drain is plugged and it causes flooding, he said. The only alternative clean water sources for most people, he said, is bottled water, which from a long-term perspective is no better then bags. But because they are re-usable, he said, they tend to be less damaging in the short run. But you see economically not everybody can afford bottled water. If its bottled water we can manage. Its easier to manage the bottles than the sachets, said Bebefagha. Finding solutions

ish line of the race. Later, several thousand people gathered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a memorial service for campus policeman Sean Collier, who authorities say the Tsarnaev brothers shot to death three days after the bombings. Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano told the Senate Intelligence Committee that her agency did know about Tamerlans trip, but that an FBI alert on him had expired by the time he returned. The FBI had interviewed Tsarnaev in 2011 at Russias request, but found nothing to connect him to terrorism at that time.

The 19-year-old Dzhokhar has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction. He is in federal custody in a Boston hospital. U.S. officials say Dzhokhar told them in preliminary interviews that he and his brother were partly motivated by the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but that they were selfradicalized and not connected to any terrorist network. The two suspects are Chechens who came to the United States as boys. The brothers allegedly set off two bombs alongside the Boston Marathon course, killing three people and injuring 264. At least 14 of the wounded lost legs in the blasts

Ethiopia Denies Planning Pullout From Somalia

The obvious solution would be for the government to provide drinking water, but many people say they need more immediate answers. Ben Anthony, an environmental activist, said the main problem is that drain blockages create breeding grounds for mosquitoes, which spread malaria, one of Nigerias biggest killers. If the federal government will provide water, the rate of sachet water consumption would drop and this problem would drop. If the federal government cannot provide water let people set up recycle bins. They can recycle this waste, said Anthony. Locals complain that blocked drains also make the roads smaller as the sewers fill with mud. Between too many vehicles stuck in traffic and toxins emitted from burning garbage that includes masses of small plastic bags, pharmacist Williams Onojega

said he often feels sick from breathing bad air. If I were have the mindset to set up a business here - Im seeing something like this and Im just coming for the first time Ill be like, Man, this place is really dirty. Its destroying business, he said. Bebefagha, from the waste management board, said his agency is trying to convince people to throw the bags in trash cans and is providing trash cans to do so. Beyond that, they are trying to work with the pure water producers to find a way to recycle the bags. But for large-scale waste management, Bebefagha said, they lack basic resources like equipment and treatment plants. The best they can do right now, he said, is pick the bags they can out of the drainpipes, and carry them to dump sites.

Nairobi, Kenya Ethiopias foreign ministry has denied there are plans to immediately withdraw all troops from Somalia, despite remarks by the Ethiopian prime minister expressing frustration with the pace of military progress in the country. Speaking to parliament Tuesday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said the African Union force in Somalia has not kept its promise to replace Ethiopian soldiers in parts of the country under AU control. Ethiopian forces entered Somalia two years ago to assist the AU force, known as AMISOM, in its fight against al-Shabab militants. The Ethiopians have enjoyed success securing towns and cities in western Somalia. But Hailemariam said the failure of AMISOM to replace Ethiopian troops influenced a decision in March to pull out of the town of Hudur, which was then retaken by al-Shabab. In a statement Wednesday, the foreign ministry clarified the prime ministers remarks, saying Ethiopia was anxious to pull its forces out of Somalia as soon as the Somali army and AMISOM take over from Ethiopian forces. Foreign Ministry spokesman Dina

Mufti told VOA Ethiopian forces are not planning to immediately pull out of the country. [The prime minister] said, Ethiopian defense force has to be transferred to those areas where there is need for more stability. He has never said we are going to withdraw, he said. The prime minister noted that Ethiopia bears the cost of its military operation in Somalia alone, as Ethiopian forces are operating independent of AMISOM. He said Ethiopias main focus should be to accelerate our complete withdrawal towards our border. AMISOM spokesman Eloi Yao told VOA the peacekeeping force has not received any formal statement from Ethiopia regarding conditions for withdrawing forces. He said in the event of a sudden pullback, the military commanders on the ground would work with the Somali government to decide a way forward. As you know, in military operations, plans are made and those plans can always be adjusted according to situations, said Yao. Hailemariams remarks come ahead of a Somalia conference in London next month, aimed at coordinating development efforts for the country as it recovers from two decades of civil war.

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Indo-China Relations

Hua Chunying, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson China stands ready to work with India to properly solve the boundary issue left over by history through peaceful negotiations to create favorable conditions for the healthy and stable development of bilateral relations.

Tarun Vijay, MP BJP It is surprising that just a month before the India visit of the new Chinese prime minister, such a grave violation of the mutually accepted norms to resolve disputes in a peaceful, non-aggressive manner has occurred. Parliament needs to be taken into confidence about the situation,.

Rajnath Singh, BJP chief BJP wants this issue to be handled fearlessly by the government. We will stand by the government on this issue.

Subramanian Swamy, Janata Party President I demand that the Ministry of External Affairs issue a white paper on all the incursions across the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh committed by the Chinese and also the incursions of the Indian Army alleged by the Chinese,.

Salman Khurshid , External affairs minister Flag meetings have taken place. More will take place. The Army will judge. There is a mechanism that we have set to make military personnel solve such issues. I am sure they will find a way to solve it,.

Omar Abdullah , J&K Chief Minister We would like the Central government to take up this issue with both China and Pakistan strongly and on same terms so that no such incident takes place in future. The Centres dealing on such issues should be unambiguous and similar vis-a-vis both the neighbours.

AK Antony, Defence minister Negotiations are going on at various levels to resolve the issue peacefully. Our government will take every step to protect the national integrity and security.

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Kolkata Alleging that the proximity of Saradha Groups top brass with some Trinamool Congress leaders allowed the company to carry on a flourishing money laundering business, the Congress demanded a CBI probe into the chit fund muddle that has exploded in West Bengal. We are all aware about the proximity of certain Trinamool leaders with the Saradha Group. This not only enabled the company to dupe investors but allowed it to flourish, state Congress president Pradip Bhattacharya said. He added There was a need to unearth other such companies operating in the state and prevent them from denting the states finances. The Congress parliamentarian also questioned the Mamata Banerjee government about the steps it had taken to indemnify the ruined investors. Though it is commendable that the government has set up a commission to probe the issue, is the government at all concerned about the fate of the investors, said Bhattacharya. The commission will probe the criminal aspect of the fraud. But will it do anything to return the money of the investors who are now ruined? There are reports of some of the investors even taking

Trinamool leaders let Saradha Group flourish: Congress

their lives, he added. In Malda district, protestors vandalised a Saradha Group office and brought down an underconstruction school of the company. There were also reports of distributors and agents blocking some highways. Following the arrest of company chief Sudipta Sen and two of his aides ,protests in the state have intensified with investors demanding their money back.

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Hindu seers helped India progress: Modi

Thiruvananthapuram Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said that it was the teachings of Hindu seers had kept the country going forward. He was speaking at the silver jubilee celebrations of the Sivagiri Mutts headquarters of the Sree Narayana Dharma Sangham, established by Sree Narayana Guru, who propagated the concept of One Caste, One Religion, One God. His visit had been boycotted by both the Left opposition and the Congress led ruling alliance in Kerala.In his speech, Modi said that even though untouchability has come down considerably because of the teachings of Sree Narayana Guru, political untouchability still continues. The credit for the development in Gujarat is because of the Kerala people there. I thank the people of Kerala for this, said the chief minister. Today, the world is facing two evils: global warming and terrorism. Had our country imbibed the teachings and listened to the words of the seers, sanyasis and Sree Narayana Guru, both these evils could have been avoided, he said. He added that the guru had said that to fight the British, one has to learn their language. The foundation for the countrys freedom struggle was laid by the teachings of Hindu seers. The culture and tradition of our country remains intact because of the efforts of these people, said Modi. I welcome the mutt to set up centres in Gujarat to spread the teachings and messages of Sree Narayana Guru. I welcome all of you to Gujarat as Gujarat is yours, he said.

Chennai Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav called for a third front at the national level as the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have both failed in their promises. Samajwadi Party believes that there should be a third front at the national level. The policies of Congress and BJP are not pro-poor, he told reporters here, claiming that both the parties and their allies

Akhilesh calls for third front

downtrodden and only a person who can understand the pains of poor can become the prime minister. Contending that many parties do not give opportunity to the youth for reasons not known, he asserted that the Samajwadi Party came to power in Uttar Pradesh due to the backing of the youth.He said his government has delivered during the first year of its rule though the state is big and its problems also are big. Asked if he would discuss about the third front with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa, he said this cannot be told to the media before the meeting. Later, he met Jayalalithaa at the state secretariat.Jayalalithaa has categorically said that AIADMK would not align with Congress and BJP as they have sided with Karnataka on the Cauvery river water dispute.

have failed to fulfill their promises and there is a bright opportunity for an alternative political grouping. He said some parties have urged the Samajwadi Party chief and his father Mulayam Singh Yadav to lead the nation and for that, the support should start from the south. Akilesh Yadav was here to attend an event organised by PMK party. According to him, the leader of the nation will be a person selected by backward classes, farmers and

Advani accused of taking money from Yeddyurappa

Bangalore BJP leader L.K. Advani had taken money from erstwhile Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa to allow him to remain in office after corruption scandals involving him surfaced, Yeddyurappas Karnataka Janata Party (KJP) alleged .The BJP rubbished the allegations. I have documents and will release them at the appropriate time, V. Dhananjaya Kumar, a former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and junior central minister in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at New Delhi, told .Dhananjaya Kumar, the KJPs spokesman, made the claim a day after Advani indirectly attacked Yeddyurappa for tarnishing BJPs image by indulging in corruption. Advani was here to launch BJPs campaign for the May 5 assembly poll. Advani has no moral right to criticize Yeddyurappa as he had used his children to threaten Yeddyurappa and extract money to allow him to remain in office, Dhananjaya Kumar alleged. He said several central BJP leaders were known to take money from party chief ministers. BJP president Rajnath Singh and state BJP leaders lashed out at Dhananjaya Kumar for making baseless allegation. Rajnath Singh, who was in Bellary in north Karnataka for election campaign, told that the claims were not worth taking note of. State BJP chief Pralhad Joshi told reporters in Shimoga, about 280 km from here: Let him release the documents instead of simply leveling allegations and we want Yeddyurappa to respond. Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar dismissed the charges as baseless while his predecessor D.V. Sadananda Gowda said if he proves the allegations, we will shut down BJP in Karnataka.

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model of development, Chandy said. Reporters pointed out that Chandy had also engaged in a conversation with the Gujarat chief minister at a recent meeting in Delhi. Yes, we exchanged a few words, Chandy said, bemused. When it was pointed out that Modi was visiting Kerala, and was, at the time, in the capital district, Chandy said: Yes, all the things that have to be done when a chief minister of another state visits have been done. There is nothing to worry about. Modi is in the capital district to take part in the Sivagiri Mutts silver jubilee celebrations Wednesday evening, and will return to Gujarat by a chartered flight soon after the function. The Mutt is the headquarters of the Sree Narayana Dharma Sangham, established by Sree Narayana Guru, who propagated the concept of One Caste, One Religion, One God. Meanwhile, the CPI-M top brass got together at a protest meeting organised by its youth wing in front of the state secretariat, opposing Modis visit to the state. The visit of Modi here is a black day in the history of secular Kerala, a former minister and top CPI-M leader, M. Vijayakumar said. Modi arrived by a special plane amid tight security. Without uttering a word to media persons who were waiting to ask him questions, he drove to the Mutt, located about 45 km from the state capital. New Delhi The BJP and the Left united to ask Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar to remove P.C. Chacko as chief of the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) looking into 2G spectrum allocation. Though the meeting of the JPC to finalise the draft report was postponed following the death of Trinamool Congresss Lok Sabha MP Ambica Banerjee, opposition members went ahead with their appointment with the speaker. The 30-member JPC, which is divided over the content of the report, was scheduled to meet at 3 p.m. Thursday. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Left have come together on one platform to seek rejection of the report. Non-Congress members of the panel met the Lok Sabha speaker at her residence to press for Chackos removal. This is the biggest scam of independent India and government is not speaking on it. If Raja (former telecom minister) says prime minister was in the know... then he (prime minister) should answer, said deputy leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ravi Shankar Prasad. Prasad said they had submitted a memorandum to the speaker seeking removal of Chacko. We want his removal to ensure that neutrality and integrity of JPC is

Kerala has nothing to learn from Gujarat: Chandy

BJP, Left want Chacko sacked as JPC chief

Thiruvananthapuram Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said Kerala has nothing to learn from Gujarat, as the state has its own model of development. The comment came while Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is visiting the state. The Kerala model of development is one that is accepted worldwide and we do not have anything to learn from Gujarat. Just look at our standards of public health and the education standards that we have achieved, Chandy said, while speaking to reporters after the weekly cabinet meeting. Chandy was faced with a volley of questions, as one as his cabinet colleagues, Labour Minister Shibhu Baby John, had visited Gujarat last week and met Narendra Modi. All the confusion has been cleared. John told me that he had gone to Gujarat to visit the National Institute of Design and there was a wrong report that he went to study the Gujarat

maintained, he said. Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Sitaram Yechury said Chacko had lost the confidence of JPC members. This is a report not acceptable to us and the manner in which the report was circulated and leaked is not acceptable. The chairman (Chacko) has acted in an improper fashion and has lost confidence of committee members, said Yechury. The Congress core group met Thursday to discuss the issue. In attendance were Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Defence Minister A.K. Antony, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath. The draft JPC report had laid the

PM should resign: CPI

New Delhi The Communist Party of India (CPI) demanded Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs resignation saying that he had not done his job and was guilty of dereliction of duty. Prime minister should resign, Communist Party of India leader Gurudas Dasgupta told . The prime minister is guilty of dereliction of duty on a number of counts. He has not done his job, he has failed to keep his commitment to the country. He has to protect the interest of the nation, which he has not done repeatedly, he said. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath rejected the demand. There is no basis to the demand for PMs resignation, he said.

Your silence will prove your guilt: Yashwant Sinha to PM

New Delhi BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh again saying his silence over his alleged involvement in the 2G telecom spectrum allocation scam will only confirm his guilt. In his letter dated April 23, Sinha said that his earlier suggestion to the prime minister for appearing before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probing the 2G spectrum allocation was rejected. Sinha stated in his letter that former telecom minister A. Raja had earlier written to JPC chairman P.C. Chacko that the prime minister and prime ministers office (PMO) were aware of the decisions in the 2G spectrum allocation. He (Raja) has, therefore, dismissed the theory of the draft report of the JPC that he misled you (Singh), Sinha said. He also named parts of the draft report saying that the prime ministers cabi-

blame for the losses to the public exchequer due to faulty allocation of spectrum and grant of licences on former telecom minister A. Raja, clearing Manmohan Singh and P. Chidambaram of any wrongdoing. The JPC is divided over the culpability of Raja, whose note submitted to the panel has stated that everything he did was with the knowledge of the prime minister. In 2011, an entire winter session of parliament was washed out as the BJP did not allow either house to run till a JPC probe was set up. The issue came up after the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) alleged a presumptive loss of Rs.1.76 lakh crore in the allocation of 2G spectrum licences during the UPA-I government during 2004-09.

BJP attacks Sheila for sharing stage with Kazmi

New Delhi The BJP Wednesday attacked Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for sharing the dais with Mohammad Ahmad Kazmi, an accused in the Israeli embassy car blast. Dikshit had shared stage with Kazmi during the re-launch ceremony of Urdu newspaper Qaumi Salamati in the capital Tuesday. Kazmi is the editor of the paper and is on bail. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vijay Jolly demanded explanation from Dikshit whether her Congressled government has given a clean chit to Kazmi who is involved in the matter which concerns nation security. This seems to be giving political legitimacy to an accused charge-sheeted by Delhi Police and Indian intelligence agencies, Jolly said here. Such actions seem to give protection to the accused and embolden anti-national elements. And in such a sensitive matter, the people of the country demand an explanation from Delhi Chief Minister Dikshit, he demanded. Tal Yehoshua, wife of the Israeli defence attache here, suffered multiple injuries Feb 13, 2012 when a motorcycle rider attached a magnetic explosive device to her car and sped away. Within seconds, the device exploded, setting the car on fire near the prime ministers house in central Delhi.

Reconsider half-baked reforms; Jayalalithaa to Singh

Chennai Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Thursday termed the central governments in principle decision to change the method of induction of state service officers into the All India Services as half-baked reforms and asked for the step to be reconsidered. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the text of which was circulated to the media Jayalalithaa expressed her opposition to the central governments move, terming it ill considered half-baked reforms. She urged Manmohan Singh to reconsider the in-principle approval given to the Union Public Service Commission to change the method of inducting state officials to All India Services. The existing pattern of induction into the All India Services should be retained, and the Union Public Service Commission may be directed

Congress promises to decongest Greater Bangalore Region

Bangalore The opposition Congress Wednesday promised to create a Greater Bangalore Region to decongest this choked tech hub of nine million denizens, if elected to power in the state assembly polls of May 5. We commit to create a Greater Bangalore Region with infrastructure and administrative connection to neighbouring towns like Kolar, Chikkaballapura, Doddaballapura, Tumkur, Ramanagara and Kanakapura, as the existing city is congested and densely populated, Congress state unit president D. Paramashwera said, releasing the partys manifesto for the ensuing polls. Of the 224 assembly constituencies across the state, Bangalore has 28 seats, which will be crucial for Congress as it has been out of power since February 2006, after its 20-month coalition government with the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) fell. We will enact a law exclusively for the civic body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara (Greater Bangalore City) bringing under a single agency all service providers such as water supply and sewage, transport, housing, power and developmental authorities, the manifesto said, in a separate chapter devoted to the state capital. Incidentally, Bangalore shot to fame as the IT capital of India during the then Congress government under the chief ministership of the tech-savvy S.M. Krishna, who recently resigned as the countrys external affairs minister. If elected to power again, we promise to undertake massive rapid transit system by developing circular railway and will construct north-south and south-east elevated flyovers with wings; speed up and develop traffic parking lots and permit private operators to build the same, Paramash-

net colleagues had disapproved of the stand taken by him. Is it not time, Mr. Prime Minister, you speak on these issues by appearing before the JPC? Your silence will confirm the worst fear of the people of India that you are fully involved in the 2G scam and if Sri Raja is guilty, so are you, Sinha said. This is the third letter Sinha has written to the prime minister asking him to appear before the panel.

not to proceed further with the preparatory work for such a common examination, Jayalalithaa said. She said the state government has received a letter from Union Public Service Commission calling for a meeting to finalise the syllabus for the common written exam on April 26 for selecting state service officers to All India Services. It is indeed surprising that, on a matter of great importance which can impact centre-state administrative relations such as the mode of recruitment into the All India Services, there is no formal communication to the states from the ministry of personnel, which functions directly under you, Jayalalithaa told Singh. We have to learn that an in principle decision has been taken, from the UPSC ex-post facto, and ostensibly for the purpose of endorsing and operationalising the unilateral decision, she added.

wara said, after the partys central leader and Defence Minister A.K. Antony released the manifesto. Assuring Bangaloreans that the party would work to make theirs a slumfree city in five years by building apartments in areas of slum dwellers, the manifesto proposes a mechanism within the civic body to improve surrounding villages that have come into the expanded city limits, including town municipalities. We will strive to regain Bangalores reputation as a garden city by undertaking massive tree plantation and lake revival programmes, involving residents associations, the manifesto said. To minimise air pollution, the party promises to make use of compressed natural gas (CNG) in public transport vehicles, including buses operated by the state-run BMTC (Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation).

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REGION
Gurgaon Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced that a new university would be opened to serve the southern region of the state. The chief minister was speaking at a Vikas rally in Meerpur village of Rewari district, some 50 km from Gurgaon. About seven weeks ago, the Congress partys defiant Gurgaon MP and former union minister Rao Inderjit Singh had announced the formation of a front to counter the step-motherly treatment meted out to southern Haryana. The announcement by the chief minister is being seen as one measure to counter that allegation of partiality. Hooda said the Meerpur Regional Centre would be upgraded into a university, which will be named after late prime minister Indira Gandhi. One of the longstanding demands of the region has thus been fulfilled. The new university would be the first in Ahirwal, the belt comprising Gurgaon, Rewari, Mewat, Mahendergarh and Bhiwani districts. Addressing the rally, Hooda said his government pays full attention to the development of all the areas of the state, including Rewari. Even today, I have dedicated eleven projects costing over Rs.160.64

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Hooda announces university for south Haryana

Jammu Chief Minister Omar Abdullah reiterated the demand for setting up a rail coach factory in Jammu and Kashmir for economic development of the region and fighting unemployment in the state. Addressing a meeting of the industrial advisory committee here, Abdullah said: The setting up of a coach factory will be one of the steps to overcome the economic stress and address unemployment problem caused due to militancy during a long span of over 20 years. The chief minister said that such an initiative by the central government is significantly needed to expand economic activities, give fillip to industrialisation and create substantial jobs for the youths.

Two arrested in IPL betting Punjab jail riot: 3 officials racket injured, probe ordered
Chandigarh Three officials of Punjabs Faridkot town jail were injured in a clash with inmates following the death of a prisoner, police said. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has ordered a magisterial enquiry. The inmates went on the rampage and damaged property inside the prison, police officials in Faridkot, 250 km from here, police said. Police reinforcements and fire brigade had to be rushed into the jail complex to control the situation. The deputy jail superintendent and two other jail officials were injured in the clash. The inmates even set some property on fire inside the jail complex. The prison inmates were protesting the death of a prisoner under mysterious circumstances Sunday night. The prisoner, Harsha Singh, 70, was arrested April 18 under the Narcotic Drug and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. A government spokesman said that the prisoner apparently died of a cardiac arrest early today Monday) morning. He said that other inmates protested against the jails medical staff, blaming his death on lack of proper and timely medical attention. The inmates claimed that this was the fourth death of a prisoner inside the jail complex in recent weeks. The protestors also set fire to jail property in the canteen and caused disturbance for some time before the situation was brought under control by the district administration and police, the spokesman said, adding that this was the third death of a prisoner in the jail in the past fortnight.

But there was no mention of obliging Abdullah on this account in the union rail budget of 2013. In November 2012 also, the chief minister, while demanding the same, had said: The waging of militancy was against entire nation and Jammu and Kashmir was a theatre for enemies to operationalise their designs. Due to years of militancy, Jammu and Kashmir had undergone tremendous downward dip in the economy... thousands of youths were rendered jobless and trade and industries received series jolt, he said. In order to help the state overcome industrial backwardness and economic shortcomings, he said the central government should set up a rail coach factory in the state as it was done for Punjab for the same reason.

crore to the people of this area, for which I have either laid foundation stones or inaugurated the project, Hooda said, as he also announced a sum of Rs.15 crore for the development of Rewari, and Rs.one crore for the village Meerpur. Without naming Gurgaon MP Rao Inderjeet Singh, but offering clear hints about whom he was referring to, Hooda said that allegations of partiality were being hurled at him, and it was alleged that he was neglecting some areas of the state. Rao Inderjit Singh had launched a new outfit, the Haryana Insaaf Manch (HIM) at a rally at Pataudi March 3. He announced a fight for justice for the people of south Haryana at

Akali Dal leader gets seven year jail

the massive insaaf (justice) rally, and said that many rallies would be held under the HIM banner across the state. Singh alleged that dedicated Congress workers had been sidelined in the past decade. Hooda, he claimed, was not only biased against south Haryana but was also fuelling factionalism in the party. Inderjit Singh was first elected to the Lok Sabha as a member of parliament in 1998. He was member of parliament during 1998-1999, 20002004, and 2004-2009. Since 2009 he has chaired the parliamentary committee on information technology. Inderjit Singh was elected four times as MLA in Haryana since 1977.

Chandigarh Haryana Police have arrested two men on suspicion of running a betting racket on the Indian Premier League (IPL) matches from Sector 31 of Faridabad, police officials said. The arrested men were allegedly running the racket in different towns of Haryana, including Panchkula, Ambala, Karnal and Panipat, and police suspect they also had links in national capital Delhi. The two accused were identified as Anil Sharma and Vaibhav Kumar, both residents of Faridabad, Haryana. Working on a tip-off, we raided a shop located in the main commercial area of Sector 31. The accused were running this racket from the base-

J&K govt. bans re-appointment of retired officials

Jammu The Jammu and Kashmir government decided to ban the re-employment of retired government officials in the state administration, an official here said. The decision was taken in a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, a state government spokesperson said. The cabinet has directed the general administration department not to entertain any such proposal. Other departments have also been directed not to submit such propos-

ment of a shop. We have recovered over Rs.10,000 in cash, a cheque for Rs.50,000 and five mobile phones from their possession, a senior official of Haryana Police said. We are scrutinizing the call details of both accused for the last month. we have found that they were in constant touch with other bookies in Panchkula, Ambala, Karnal and Delhi. Their interrogation is on and different raiding teams have been constituted to nab the remaining accused, the police officer said. Police said the men had mostly young clients, who were contacted over e-mail and through different social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter or Orkut.

Patiala A CBI special court awarded sevenyear rigorous imprisonment to Akali Dal leader Mangat Rai Bansal in an embezzlement case related with the Food Corporation of India (FCI). Twenty-two other convicts were also sent to jail. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special judge Hemant Gopal sent the ruling party leader Bansal, 54, to jail for a fraud involving Rs.1.8 crore in the 1990s. Besides Bansal, the court sent 20 convicts to seven-year jail and two convicts to three-year imprisonment. The convicts were held guilty for cheating, criminal conspiracy and under various sections of anti-corruption law. There were a total 28 accused, including three FCI employees, in this

case. The accused were representing different firms that were awarded a contract of rice milling by the government. After milling, they had to give the rice to FCI but they supplied inferior quality of foodgrain, said Pawan Kumar Dogra, CBI special lawyer. A complaint was filed in this regard and the Punjab and Haryana High Court ordered collection of samples and tests, Dogra said. Three accused died during the trial and two accused, including a woman, were acquitted by the court. In 1997, a public interest litigation was filed by a farmer in the high court highlighting inferior quality of rice supplied by the FCI. The high court handed over the probe to the CBI which booked Bansal and 27 others.

als, the spokesperson added. The Omar Abdullah government has been facing flak over re-appointment of more than 50 retired government officials in prestigious assignments in the state. Officials said there were also some heated exchanges between the ministers of National Conference and alliance partner Congress party in the meeting over the posting of the senior superintendent of police for Jammu district. The decision has been put on hold for the time being.

Chandigarh Three officials of Punjabs Faridkot town jail were injured in a clash with inmates following the death of a prisoner, police said. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has ordered a magisterial enquiry. The inmates went on the rampage and damaged property inside the prison, police officials in Faridkot, 250 km from here, police said. Police reinforcements and fire brigade had to be rushed into the jail complex to control the situation. The deputy jail superintendent and two other jail officials were injured in the clash. The inmates even set some property on fire inside the jail complex. The prison inmates were protesting the death of a prisoner under mysterious circumstances Sunday night.

Punjab jail riot: 3 officials injured, probe ordered

The prisoner, Harsha Singh, 70, was arrested April 18 under the Narcotic Drug and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. A government spokesman said that the prisoner apparently died of a cardiac arrest early today Monday) morning. He said that other inmates protested against the jails medical staff, blaming his death on lack of proper and timely medical attention. The inmates claimed that this was the fourth death of a prisoner inside the jail complex in recent weeks. The protestors also set fire to jail property in the canteen and caused disturbance for some time before the situation was brought under control by the district administration and police, the spokesman said, adding that this was the third death of a prisoner in the jail in the past fortnight.

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WANNA TRY THIS

Milking
Among the creme de la creme of British youth, an udderly bizarre trend has emerged: milking. Undergraduates stand in public spaces, open a four-pint bottle of milk and pour its contents over their fully clothed bodies. The trend started in Newcastle, where students have been filmed milking themselves in stations, shopping centres, hotels and roundabouts,

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Planking
The rules are simple: you must lie face down, palms flat against your sides, with your feet together and pointing at the floor. Points are awarded for an original location and for the number of spectators and participants involved. You must, of course, have somebody take a photo. Without a photo, youre just a person lying down. This is planking, described variously as a global par-

The records given below are verified by India Book of Records as National Records, and has been published in India Book of Records 2013. All the photographs are copyright of India Book of Records.
20-year-old, pointed out that he had done no damage and hurt no one, but was nonetheless charged with being found quite literally on police property without excuse. The arrest made headlines, and the Planking Australia Facebook page grew almost overnight from 8,000 fans to well over 100,000. Quizzed about the dangers of this strange new craze yesterday, prime minister Julia Gillard told reporters:, Theres a difference between a harmless bit of fun done somewhere thats really safe and taking a risk with your life. Everybody likes a bit of fun, but the focus has to be on keeping yourself safe first. Dedicated hipsters will have heard of planking years ago. Though it is now biggest in Australia, it is an English some would say, quintessentially English creation. It began 14 years ago with a pair of bored kids. Gary Clarkson, then 15, and his friend Christian Langdon, 12, would perform the plank in public places, amusing one another and baffling onlookers. Back then, it was known simply as the Lying Down Game. It was a pointedly pointless way for the boys to pass the time. As Clarkson puts it: It was just a really stupid, random thing to do. For its first 10 years planking spread at a snails pace, from Clarkson and Langdon to their friends at school and, after a while, on to other kids from the neighbourhood. Then, in 2007, when the pair created a Facebook group for their game, the pace accelerated. Soon, they had a few thousand followers. Photographs of plankers trickled in from all over the world: American plankers on the tops of their televisions, British plankers in trees, and Europeans on country roads and the banks of fjords. The craze began to garner its first major press coverage in September 2009, when a group of seven accident-and-emergency staff were suspended pending disciplinary hearings for playing the game while on a night shift at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon. They had been planking on resuscitation trolleys, ward beds, floors and even the helipad. They might not have been caught had they not then posted the photos to Facebook, under the slightly selfdefeating name The Secret Swindon Emergency Department Group. An employee of the hospitals governing body told the press: It reflects badly on the department and some people may lose their jobs.
Most People Dressed Up As Mahatma Gandhi

and there are reports of the craze in Edinburgh, Oxford, Nottingham and Cirencester. Whey to go, students! This is of course just the latest in a long line of pointless student crazes. The first was planking, which saw the worlds youngsters lie face down in unlikely places and post the evidence on Tumblr. Then there was Batmanning, which took planking to a whole new level. Or rather, a whole new angle: instead of lying face down, they hung upside down. Somewhere in this mix came owling for people more comfortable with squatting than lying. And then out of left field came the cinnamon challenge, where teenagers tried to eat a tablespoon of the spice in 60 seconds, without the help of water. Its harder than it sounds.Still, its probably more hygienic than milking.

ticipatory art project, the lazy mans free-running, a pointless internet craze, the new flash-mobbing and, in the words of one incensed online commenter, a sick, pagan pastime. It has been a busy week for the plankers, in which they have suffered their first casualty, gained 100,000 converts and prompted a statement from the Australian prime minister. In the early hours of Sunday morning, 20-year-old Australian Acton Beale fell seven storeys to his death from the balcony of an apartment block in Kangaroo Point, Brisbane. He and a friend had been performing planks on their journey home from a night on the town. The planking craze had only truly exploded in Australia two days earlier, when police arrested another young man for planking on the hood of an unoccupied police car. Nate Shaw, a

Gandhi world Foundation of Gummudipoondi, Tamil Nadu, organised an event in which a total of 1,009 people dressed up as Mahatma Gandhi, on January 30, 2013, at Marina Beach, Tamil Nadu. BIGGEST BOOK

Just gotta be crazy !

The Brahmakumaris created the biggest book titled Prajapita Brahma A Unique Life Secret of dimension 28 ft x 18 ft, weighing 1,500 kg and consisting of 24 pages. It was released on April 21, 2013, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, and BK Godavari organised, BK Dr. Rajkumar Kolhe coordinated, Ganesh Jindam designed and BK Deepak Harke managed the event. NON-STOP HR CONCLAVE

Nehru College of Management organised a non-stop HR conclave for 24 hours, starting at 4 pm on January 23, 2013 and ending at 4 pm on January 24, 2013, at the auditorium of the institute, Thirumalayampalayam, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. MOST NAMES OF INVENTORS RECONIZED BY LOOKING AT THE INVENTIONS (1 MINUTE)

Yeh Lamhein Yeh Baatein

College Canteen Shri Dhanwantri Ayurvedic College And Hospital Chandigarh

Be Ready for your turn

Dheeraj K.L. (born on June 28, 2009) of Ashok Nagar, Chennai, recognised the names of 83 inventors by looking at their inventions in one minute, at an event organized on February 7, 2013, at Ambassador Pallava, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The event was supported by Rotary club of Royapettah, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

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New Delhi The Supreme Court said that it would take a very serious view of another incident of police violence against a woman, and the person involved would have to bear the wrath of the court. Referring to the rising frequency of incidents of brutality against women, and even children, the court said the framers of the constitution did not visualize such incidents or provide for provisions to deal with them. We make it very very serious if any such incident happens then the person (involved) will have it. The court will go beyond its norms to deal with them, a bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi, Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai and Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde warned. Pointing to the police personnel involved in the beating of women in Delhi, Punjab, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, the court said: If Mahatma Gandhi were to be born today, he would have died many times. Referring to the merciless beating of a 65-year-old woman in Aligarh, Justice Singhvi said that the expression on the face of a deputy superintendent of police was such as if he will kill her. Recalling the shocking incident, Justice Singhvi said that with stick in one hand, the police officer was pushing the her and the lady fell like a doll. It is amazing. There is no word in dictionary to describe it, the court said directing the Uttar Pradesh chief secretary to file an affidavit on the incident. Referred to the example of Lal Bahadur Shastri, who, when the railway minister, resigned after an accident, Justice Singhvi told the counsel for Uttar Pradesh government: Is your government left with any shame. Even a mad animal would not do what your officers are doing. What is happening in this country. Are we mute spectators to everythinge Noting the way police was behaving in recent times, the court said that it was an insult to entire women of the country. The courts scathing indictment of the behaviour of police personnel towards women came in the course of the hearing of the matter arising from its taking suo motu cognizance of the newspaper reports of two incidents of police excesses involving the beating of a women in Punjabs Taran Taran district and the baton charge on agitating teachers outside Bihar assembly in Patna. The bench directed the chief secretaries of Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Goa to file affidavits whether they have set up state security commissions (SSCs) in pursuance to its 2006 direction for police reforms. The court said the affidavits would accompany the details of the number

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CHANDIGARH SUNDAY 28 April 2013

SC raps police forces over treatment of women

Many CMs skip, meet on police reforms low key

ples of federalism, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa said the government was treating the balance of power between the centre and states lackadaisically. These recommendations are against the principles of federalism, said Nitish Kumar. The balance of power between centre and states has been treated lackadaisically by the government, said Jayalalithaa. According to the Nitish Kumar, it would be a serious anomaly if the police hierarchy is controlled in its daily functioning by a plethora of authorities, as suggested by the ARC. According to Jayalalithaa, the proposal of creating a separate crime investigation wing with exclusive staff was a remedy worse than the malady. She also opposed deployment of central forces during a law and order situation. Only seven chief minister attended the conference. These were Naveen Patnaik (Odisha), Tarun Gogoi (Assam), Vijay Bahuguna (Uttarakhand), Manik Sarkar (Tripura), Nabam Tuki (Arunachal Pradesh), Mukul Sangma

of meetings that the SSC has held since its constitution and the minutes of these meetings. It said it would also consider, at the next hearing, the question of chief justices of high courts monitoring the functioning of the SSCs as it was not possible for it to itself monitor their working. The court made it clear that states will have to follow one of the three models suggested by the apex court and there could be no mixture of three models. The court directed that all the states which have enacted laws provid-

ing for police reforms after its 2006 direction will provide a copy of the same to the amicus curiae Harish Salve, who had said that that he wanted to challenge the validity of these laws under Article 32 of the Constitution. The court also directed the Delhi Police commissioner to file an affidavit explaining the incident involving a police officer beating a woman protesting the rape of a child. As the counsel for Delhi government S. Wasim Ahmed Qadri sought to explain the action taken against the officer involved in the slapping of

a woman activist protesting against rape of a child, the court told him not to tell what action they have taken but what they were doing to prevent such incidents. Justice Singhvi told Qadri: Your police has gone berserk. ...How can a police officer beat a young and she bleeds from ear. What is the accountability of senior officerse What is their responsibilitye Saying that our comments are very sarcastic and we are sceptical, the court said: We dont know after this adjournment how many ladies and children will be beaten.

New Delhi A meeting to evolve a consensus over police reforms and public order called by Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde proved to be a low-key affair with several chief ministers staying away. The meeting, Shinde said, had to be convened as only a few states and union territories had responded to his letter to chief ministers last year to elicit views on the 153 recommendations of the Second Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) on police reforms, management of public order, reforms in the criminal justice system, federal crimes and special laws and the role of civil society and media in the management of public order. Shinde pitched for reforms saying that police needed a better working environment and to be insulated from pulls and pressures. The chief ministers who were present spoke on familiar lines. While the Congress chief ministers welcomed the recommendations of the ARC, those from the opposition disagreed with them. I compliment the ARC for bringing together specific recommendations, said Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Himachal Pradeshs Minister for Social Justice Dhani Ram Shandil, who represented Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, sought special assistance from the central government to improve the police force and help it deal with drug trafficking in the hill state. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said a long-term policing solution will need a more extensive police presence in hitherto unserved areas. Among the opposition-ruled states, while Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said the recommendations were against the princi-

(Meghalaya) and Neiphiu Rio (Nagaland). Non-Congress chief ministers Mamata Banerjee (West Bengal), J. Jayalalithaa (Tamil Nadu), Akhilesh Yadav (Uttar Pradesh), Narendra Modi (Gujarat), Nitish Kumar (Bihar), Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Madhya Pradesh) and Raman Singh (Chhattisgarh) did not attend the meeting. On behalf of Delhi, the meet was attended by Lt Governor Tejendra Khanna.

Among Congress chief ministers who missed the event were Prithviraj Chavan (Maharashtra), N. Kiran Kumar Reddy (Andhra Pradesh), Ashok Gehlot (Rajasthan), Oommen Chandy (Kerala), O. Ibobi Singh (Manipur) and Virbhadra Singh (Himachal Pradesh). Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah did not attend the meeting in which several central ministers, who are members of a Group of Ministers on

Administrative Reforms, took part. The union ministers included Petroleum Minister M. Verappa Moily, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal, Road Transport and Highway Minister C.P. Joshi, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh, Ministers of State in the prime ministers office V. Narayanasamy, and Ministers of State for Home R.P.N. Singh and Mullappally Ramachandran.

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Protest Continues at NIPER , Mohali

ABVP joins hand with NIPER Students
studies. To which , students said, In this letter of appeal there is a hidden threat to them to terminate their strike which they wont do otherwise. The local police were present in the premises in full riot gear. The officers incharge said that they had just come to take care of the law and order situation and also to try and solve the problem. According to the students the police was called in to intimidate them.

In the wake of NIPER students Protest that doesnt seem to come to an end. Now ,ABVP(Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad) has come into the full support of the Students whose demands are still unfulfilled. Protest entered into 29th day on 25th April 2013 and 4th straight day of fast unto death by 22 students (Including 15 boys and 7 girls;6 of whom are hospitalized). ABVP has appealed the Honble Governor of Punjab, Chief Minister of Punjab, Central minister of state and Chemicals and fertilizer minister to take legitimate and quick actions. Till now, Ministry of chemical and fertilizers and Ministry of Human Resources and development have shunned students who are protesting for the last one month, in this oldest institute among the other seven NIPER institutes in India. Talking to Uconnectt, ABVP members , Srinivas (Zonal Organising secy, North Zone) and Ashish Chauhan (Convener ,All India Educational Institutes Work) said, they have written to the Minister of State ,Chemical and Fertilizers to immediate intervene in this issue. They feel

that the demands like Recognition of M.S(Pharm) programme should be done without delay from UGC & PCI and its a duping on the part of NIPER Administration who have failed to fulfill students demands. Poor teacher to student ratio with the need of having permanent faculty doesnt go well with the stature of the NIPER. ABVP also demanded for a permanent director and removal of the present officiating director. Poor hostel facilities, lack of hostel rooms and security for girls, setting up of placement office to improve declining placements records are some of the issues that ABVP feels should be fulfilled. A Day before, On 24th April 2013, a letter of appeal was issued to students signed by the officiating Director K.K Bhutani to convey them the message that Chairman ,BoG, NIPER has appointed a high power committee in which senior representative of ministry would also participate. And students would be free to express their demands before this committee. In the end, students were told to call off the strike and resume

NIPER Students Demands

and faculties (who are not even Post-Doc. Or with research experience) 8. Show favoritism and monopoly in taking administrative decision such as fund allocation, staff recruitment (reaching and non teaching). 9. Mismanagement of national bioavailability and heritage centre. These building are not being utilized for any purpose; on the hand, there are only two laboratories in Pharmacoinformatics department that are utilized by over 100 students. 10. He is following divide and rule policy and creating disharmony amongst faculties. 11. Director is backstabbing and abusive language against the faculty members as well as provoking students against them ( faculties are not fulfilling their respective duties) 12. There is no transparency in administrative procedures (minutes of meeting amongst committee members and students were not provided).

1. Student welfare at least priority No new lecture hall (students: lecture hall=700:4) Lack of rooms and basic facilities in Hostels Lack of medical facilities (no Doctor available in the campus) Girls hostel proposed in 5th year plan yet not constructed (many promises have been made and broken) Lack of research facilities Faculty recruitment has not been done at regular basis (student: faculty ratio=700:31)

No dedicated, qualified and experienced placement officer. 2. Non-recognition of M.S. (Pharm) and Ph.D.degree by PCI and UGC, India. No visible efforts have been taken by the Director as the head of Institute to solve these issues. 3. Falsification of facts and figures (example RED doc) 4. Inappropriate utilization of funds in the construction of bridge, swimming pool that are at least priority. Swimming pool not working owing to higher maintenance cost from

the time of its construction. 5. He is continuously giving false assurances to students. In spite of continuous strike from twenty seven days, no action yet has been taken from the Director and he did not show his face to students at immense request also. He is continuously abating from his duties; this is not expected from the head of

institute. 6. Termination of 3 faculties in the middle of semester that badly affected the project and mental status of students. 7. Recruitment of non eligible and incompetent candidate at higher administrative portfolio (registrar)

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Shamshad Begum passes away

Mumbai Shamshad Begum, renowned playback singer of yesteryears who gave voice to classics like Mere piya gaye Rangoon and Kabhi aar kabhi paar, has passed away here, family sources said Wednesday. She was 94. Shamshad Begum, who had been ailing for the past few months, died Tuesday evening. A widow since 1955, she lived with her daughter Usha Ratra. She had no regrets. She lived her life like a tigress. I am proud to be her daughter, Usha told IANS. The funeral ceremonies were conducted Tuesday night in Andheri east at a small, private affair with a few friends and admirers attending. She was not keeping well for a while now. She was in ICU six months back. The last rituals were done Tuesday evening, said Usha, 74, whos married to Yograj Ratra, an armymen. Among the first woman playback singers in the Hindi film industry, which has turned 100 this year, Shamshad Begum was born in April

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Mumbai Sasheh, daughter of Pakistani actress Salma Agha, is making her acting debut with Aurangzeb and now she sings a song Barbaadiyaan in the movie. I have learned singing from my mom and I dont plan to give it up because I am very passionate about it, said the newcomer in a statement. Coming from an illustrious musical family, she informed: Musicians Sajid and Wajid are my maternal uncles. My stepsister is the famous English singer-songwriter and multiinstrumentalist Natasha Khan, who goes by the stage name Bat for Lashes. My great grandfather was Jugal Kishore Mehra, who was Raj Kapoors uncle and married to Anwari Begum, the famous singer. My

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grandmother Nusrin Agha, was a well-known singer as well. So in a way, I am the fourth generation singer in my family, she added. Sasha has already recorded the song. A source close to the film said that producer Aditya Chopra managed to convince Sasheh to sing a peppy number titled Barbaadiyaan, a club track filmed on Sasheh and Arjun Kapoor. A spokesperson from Yash Raj Films confirmed the news, saying: Yes, Sasheh has sung this beautiful track (for the film). Her voice is as melodious as her mothers. Salma debuted in Bollywood in 1982 with box office hit social drama Nikaah and she sang all her songs in the film, including the hit number Dil ke armaan aansuon mein beh gaye.

14, 1919, in Amritsar, Punjab. Interested in singing from a young age, she got her first break with Peshawar Radio, Lahore, in December 1947. Later, her voice with a nasal tinge became a hit and she sang for top heroines of the era, leaving behind a rich legacy of her soulful tunes. Some of her famous songs include Kajra mohabbat wala, Leke pehla pehla pyar, Kahinpe nigahen, kahinpe nishaana, Chhod babul ka ghar, Saiyan dilme aana re and Teri mehfil me kismat ajmaa kar hum bhi dekhenge. She was a favourite of music directors like Naushad Ali and O.P. Nayyar. Besides Hindi, Shamshad Begum also sang in Punjabi, Bengali and other Indian languages. Usha said that till her last breath, her mother survived on her own money.

She was a very independent woman. In fact, many a time she used to gift me something from her money, she said remembering her mother. Her mother was fond of eating, said Usha and added that she didnt have to spend her money anywhere else. No make-up, no shopping, nothing. She has even left some money, which she wanted to give to charity. I would not like to reveal how much, but will follow her wish. Even when she was alive, she used to donate a lot of money to different charity organisations, added the grieving daughter. Shamshad Begum turned off her microphone somewhere in 1970s, and recalling her mothers retirement decision, Usha said: One fine day she packed her bags and came to my house and said she has left the film industry. She never looked back. Because of the politics in the industry, she didnt want to work anymore. This is one of the reasons why she didnt let me be a singer. I told her, let me sing for my self-satisfaction, but she said if you will learn to sing, you will directly enter the industry. So, she didnt let me do so. She felt earlier artists used to come on merit basis, but later there were too much of politics in the industry, added Usha.

I never say no to Farah: Geeta Kapur

Mumbai I am lucky to have two mothers, says choreographer Geeta Kapur referring to her biological mom and her mentor Farah Khan whose request she never turns down. I never say no to Farah. If she calls me for something, I say yes without any second thoughts, Kapur said during a group interview. I am lucky to have two mothers. One is my own mother and the other is Farah Khan. I have been with her since I was 15 and she cares for me like her own child, she added. Kapur joined the ace choreographerfilmmaker Farahs group at the age of 15 and assisted her in some of the blockbusters like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kal Ho Naa Ho and Main Hoon Na. After movies, Kapur moved to the small screen and the 39-year-old judged dance shows like Dance India Dance, DID Lil Masters, DID Doubles and Dance Ke Superkids. Her next small screen assignment is dance reality show Indias Dancing Superstar (IDS). Talking about the format of IDS, she said: The basic format of the show allows people from different genres (of dance) to come in. Another technical thing about the show is when you come on the show, you dont have to know 10 different styles of dancing. You only need to know one,

Mumbai Gandhi fame Oscar award winning British actor Ben Kingsley is likely to come to India in September to shoot a film. A source said: It is interesting Sir Ben Kingsley will be arriving in India in September to shoot for about 20 days in the capital of West Bengal. Though the project is under wraps, many are suggesting that it could be related to Avengers 2 that brings all the superheroes together in one film. This is surely Ben Kingsleys coming back to his roots, which is India. Apparently, he will also travel to Gujarat post the shoot, the source added. Kingsley was born in Yorkshire in 1943 as Krishna Bhanji to an Indian origin father and an English mother. His father had his own family roots in Gujarat. The teaser of Avengers 2, second installment of Avengers, is coming out with Iron Man 3.

you just need to enhance the one style that you know. Actor Riteish Deshmukh and fellow choreographer Ashley Lobo will join Kapur on the judges panel. However, she will miss Mithun Chakraborty, who featured as Grandmaster on the earlier shows. Even if I had met him on any other show, I would have still missed him for the person he is. But I really think Riteish is making an effort now, she said. Not every participant is a skilled dancer, but Kapur feels that there are no bad peformers and even refuses to call herself a good dancer. I wont say I am a good dancer because Im still learning. And there is nothing called bad dancing, either

you dont know dancing or you dont care whether you know dancing or not. She added: I like all the performance. At least they are making an effort. Its just that they cannot be accommodated on the show (IDS). For Geeta, dealing with children is easier compared to adult participants. She feels children are very mature and if you tell them what went wrong, they will still be okay with it. She added: The kids dont take things to heart, but its seniors and elders who get offended and take it to heart. What about movie projectse I am not working on any project now. I like doing events. And I am happy and satisfied doing it.

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Mumbai Actress Parineeti Chopra has been on a weight loss spree but clarifies it is not specifically for her upcoming Karan Johar production Hasee Toh Phasee. There have been a lot of rumours that I am losing weight for Hasee Toh Phasee, but thats not true. I will just try and lose as much as I can, so I can look as good as I can in my next film, the 24-year-old said at the unveiling of new range of Nivea products. I was anyway planning to lose weight because for Ladies vs Ricky Bahl, I had to be a little chubby and then of course, I started losing for Ishaqzaade. But I want to look a little better, so I decided to lose weight anyway, she added. Scheduled for release in Januaury next year, shooting for Hasee Toh Phasee has begun. It has Siddharth Malhotra in the male lead. Parineeti, who won appreciation for her spontaniety in her last two films, said: I know there are a few actresses who are very comfortable with their size and would like to only concentrate on acting, I would like to do both. What about wearing a bikini? Yeah, if one day I have the body for it, I will, she said. Her kitty has two more projects - Maneesh Sharmas untitled film and Kill Dil.

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Chennai Tamil actor Dhanushs wife and brother are wowed by his debut Hindi movie Raanjhnaa, which shows him speaking in Hindi. Praising her husband, who she had directed in 3, Aishwarya tweeted: The trailer of Raanjhnaa is out! OMG I love it. Check it out. Love my Hindi talking (speaking) Dhanush. Selvaraghavan, Dhanushs brother, tweeted: Raanjhnaa rocks! My thambi (brother) is speaking Hindi. Proudest moment for all of us.

Directed by Anand L. Rai, the film also features Sonam Kapoor, Abhay Deol and Swara Bhaskar. It has music by A.R. Rahman. The trailer of the film released Wednesday and seems to have impressed others as well. Filmmaker Venkat Prabhu said: Awesome Dhanush! Brilliant as usual and I am sure he is again going to make us proud. Producer Dhayanidhi Alagiri said: Raanjhnaa trailer! Like always he is good at what he does. Great work Dhanush

Salma Hayek teams up with Birchbox 20 screen stars unite for Bombay Talkies song

Los Angeles Salma Hayek has collaborated with online grooming site Birchbox to make her beauty line accessible to more people. The 46-year-old has taken selected items from her Nuance Salma Hayek range to be included in the mailing list of the company, which offers subscribers samples of beauty and lifestyle products along with tips and advice.

My main focus is to bring excellent products and ingredients to women of all economic levels, contactmusic.com quoted Hayek as saying. Birchbox embraces the same concept of bringing beauty to women from all over so that they can feel gorgeous. The Birchbox collaboration enables women to have a luxurious and affordable beauty routine with products that are truly effective, she added.

New Delhi From the Khans - Aamir, Shah Rukh and Saif Ali - to leading ladies like Madhuri Dixit, Vidya Balan and Rani Mukerji, as many as 20 screen stars have united for a special title track for unique movie Bombay Talkies, which celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema. The song, titled Apna Bombay talkies, has been choreographed by Vaibhavi Merchant. Others who will feature in the song are Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar, Shahid Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, Ranbir Kapoor, Imran Khan, Sonam Kapoor and Deepika Padukone, Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, Akshay Kumar, Karisma Kapoor and Juhi

Chawla. Around 20 singers have also come together to lend their voices for the actors, said a source. For the first time, 20 singers will be part of the same song. The title track has been sung by some of the most reputed singers in the industry. And the interesting part about this is that the singers have recorded for those actors whom they generally do the playback singing for in their movies, the source added. Some prominent singers, who have sung the track, are Sunidhi Chauhan, Shaan, Kavita Krishnamurthy, S.P. Balasubramaniam, Abhijeet, Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik, Mohit Chauhan, Sonu Nigam, Sudesh Bhonsle, Shreya Ghosal, Shilpa

Rao, Udit Narayan, KK and Sukhwinder Singh. The source said: Vaibhavi has beautifully choreographed this number. There was a strict dress code for all the actors. All the men had to wear black tuxedos and the women wore gold outfits, designed by their own stylists. The song took over a month to be shot entirely as all the actors have independently shot for their parts. Bombay Talkies is an amalgamation of four short films by four filmmakers - Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap, Dibaker Banerjee and Karan Johar. The movie releases May 3 and it will also be screened at Cannes film fest this year.

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A property dispute could arise which will ruin your happiness. Be extra cautious. Jupiter will provide some mental relief. Health of mother could be of ARIES concern. Expenditure Mar 21-Apr 19 could be on luxury and comforts. Do not gamble. Have cordial relations with spouse and business partners. Remedies for Ketu and Rahu is suggested.

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Take care of Health. Some gain in properRelations with ty is indicated. Some spouse and partners wish can fulfilled this will improve. Your week. Minor stomenemies will be ach upset is seen. defeated. Health Foreign contacts will GEMINI TAURUS of sibling could be helpful. Rise in Apr 20 - May 20 disturb you. Gain May 21 - Jun 20 status if in job. Do from speculation. Love life will not blind trust anyone. Love life will be promising. Remedy for Sun be dull. Avoid speculation. Remedies and Ketu is suggested. Recite Om for Sani and Rahu is suggested. Namah Shivaya.
Period of losses. Do not trust anyone. Hear your own inner voice before making any decision. You might start gaining SAGITTARIUS weight. Avoid junk Nov 22 - Dec 21 foods as it can increase your cholesterol levels. People in politics can expect good time. Some gain from in-laws is indicated. Avoid short cuts to obtain money. Strengthening of Jupiter will bring good results. Week starts on a weak note. Mental strain is indicated through business or love affair. People in commerce banking will do CANCER and well. Health will be Jun 21 - Jul 22 average. Some property related matter can be solved amicably. People in authority and status will be helpful. Another source of income can be generated. Remedies for Rahu and Ketu is suggested. Your income will be good. Health will improve. Gain from property is indicated. Love will be blosCAPRICORN soming. All in all Dec 22 - Jan 19 a good week. You might buy a new car or land or house this week. Favor from government officials. Remedies for Ketu and Rahu is suggested. Foreign contacts will yield good results. If in job, your status can rise. A pilgrimage or foreign travel is indicated. Condition of sibling Jul 23 - Aug. 22 might be of concern. People in teaching profession will have good week. Being religious will serve you better. Worshiping of Sun and Remedies for Sani and Ketu is suggested.

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Panchang in Brief: Moon in scorpio, Jupiter in Taurus, Mercury in Pisces, Sani and Rahu in Libra and Ketu in Aries. Nakshatra is Anuradha.
Income will be slow but improve as the week goes on. Minor quarrel with wife or business partner is indicated. Some gains through inheritance is on the cards. God will be at VIRGO your side. Avoid litigaAug. 23 - Sep 22 tion. Health will be moderate. Business will improve slow and steadily. Take extra care of your finances. Minor eye or teeth problem is indicated. Remedies for Sani and Rahu is suggested. Business will be average. Dentist can expect good week. Communication will be the key to good luck. A short PISCES journey is indicated. Feb 19 - Mar 20 Minor eye or teeth problems are seen. If single, chances of marriage are great. Do not take hasty decisions. Maintain your calm. Secure your valuables. Remedies for Ketu is suggested.

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Do not get emotional. Being over ambiHealth will remain tious can land you in good this week. Your trouble. Take extra enemies will be decaution while in busifeated. Success from ness or entering into LIBRA any new venture. In- SCORPIO Government and higher Sep 23 - Oct 22 come will be satisfac- Oct 23 - Nov 21 authorities is seen. If single, chances of martory. Take extra care of your health, especially with spinal riage. Relations with spouse and cord. You might spend on Luxury and business partner will improve. Remcomforts. Remedies of Rahu and Ketu edy for Sani and Rahu is suggested. is suggested.

People in medical profession will do well. Rise in status cannot be ruled out. Income from more than one source will cheer your AQUARIUS mood. Your siblings Jan 20 - Feb. 18 will do well. Foreign contacts will be helpful. People in stock market and banking will do well. confrontation with spouse and partners. Remedy for Sani and Rahu is indicated.

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There are other ways to determine if somethings wrong. Can you see or smell mold or mildew? If you can, thats affecting your air quality right now. Is there moisture condensation on windows or walls? Is the air smelly or stuffy? These are all possible indications of poor ventilation, which directly affects indoor air quality. There may also be a problem if your garage is attached to your home. Thats because any fuel from cars, lawnmowers or motorcycles parked there can seep through the walls and affect the air in your home. Chemicals and paints stored in the garage can also pose a problem. Anyone whos remodeled his or her home, or bought new furniture or carpet needs to be on alert as well. Chemicals used by the manufacturer can linger and affect indoor air quality. Improving indoor air quality Youve identified the problem. Now what do you do? In addition to banning smoking from indoors, and properly venting kitchen appliances, you can take other steps to improve indoor air quality. A quick tour around your home will help you identify possible sources of leaks and contamination. And even when youre not sure if something may be affecting your indoor air quality, there are steps you can take to gain peace of mind. Make sure to schedule a yearly inspection of your homes fuel burning appliances to certify they are in proper working order and not leaking carbon monoxide. If you have an attached garage and you park vehicles there, do not let the engine idle either while inside the garage. Be sure to cover kitchen or food garbage.

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Book: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia Author: Mohsin Hamid Publisher: Penguin Books India Price: Rs.499.

Getting rich in rising Asia at a cost

Mohsin Hamid, the Pakistan-based author of best-selling novels like the Moths Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, shows what it means to get rich in a rising Asia in a new novel at a time when the developing economies in the region are straining to push up their GDP figures that have been slumping all too often. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, released last week, uses the format of the self-help and motivation book as a literary device to tell the story of the third son of a cook who leaves his village to move to a city, falls in love with a pretty girl and sets up an industry. He becomes a entrepreneur and filthy rich. Hamid takes his hero through 12 steps in 12 chapters to become a moneybag in a nameless city in South Asia that sizzles with energy, opportunity and inequality. The writer says that he had initially started out with the idea that he was not going to name things and people because they mean certain things. The idea of taking the names of the narrative - reminiscent of many avant garde writers like Lawrence Sterne, James Baldwin and James Joyce - is liberating for Hamid. The ingrained view is that South Asia is an exotic place, a peculiar place and a central place - it is a colonial mindset. It could have been any place - why not Lahore or Lagos? The writer explains his narrative without specifics, comparing it to the Sufi ghazals that he grew up with. The songs invoking the nameless divine speaks to the listener or the exponent like the book that addresses the reader in a second-person narrative. This is his third book and one inspired by the writers personal fortunes. I had just become a father and I wanted to write a novel about the tri-generational life, Hamid said in the capital. Generations are a way of life in Pakistan, where young men often live with their parents and elders like Ha-

mid, who shares his home with his parents. The young and old play a cat-andmouse waiting game. This inter-generational divide is captured in a vivid clash of body language in a domestic confrontation between the saas and the bahu. Your mother cleans the courtyard under the gaze of her mother-in-law. The old woman sits in the shadow, the edge of her shawl held in her mouth to conceal not her attributes of temptation but rather the lack of her teeth and looks on in unquenchable disapproval. Your mother is regarded in the compound as vain, arrogant and headstrong, and these accusations have bite, for they are all true. Your grandmother tells your mother she has missed a spot. Besides, she is toothless and holds a cloth between her lips, her words sound like she is spitting... The older woman waits for the younger woman to age. Hamid spotlights on the society in Pakistans middle-class fringe with refreshing psychoanalysis of the characters. But he punctuates

his narrative and observations with sage advise that tends to sound like homilies at places, flagging in their intelligence like the scores of droll motivation manuals crowding the book-shelves. ...As far as getting rich is concerned, love can be an impediment. Yes, the pursuit of love and pursuit of wealth have much in common, Hamid fritters in cliches, robbing pace off the narrative. The book ends with death of the rags-to-riches hero - surrounded by his ex-wife, son and a pretty girl that the hero had been in love as a teen. Hamid touches upon new South Asian realities - broken hearts, failed marriages, culture of corruption, politics, lifestyle pressures on fast street and the perennial near-war edge that Pakistan balances on. The writer says his book tries to bring out a narrative of loss in a market of growth-based language that does not equip us for loss. Throughout history, human civilisations have been a series of narratives that talk of loss, the writer said.

Go Goa Gone is an upcoming Bollywood zombie comedy film directed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. The film features Saif Ali Khan, Kunal Khemu, Vir Das, Anand Tiwari and Puja Gupta.The soundtrack has been composed by the terrific duo Sachin-Jigar and the lyrics are penned by Priya Panchal. Slowly Slowly-is a fast-paced rave party number suitable for the scene in this film. The dance number has bold and edgy lyrics Raat hai ek whore, hai mange more, tu loot jaa slowly slowly, ghaas ka kar jhol tu kar le roll which are fascinating. Sung by Jigar and Talia Bentson this track is made with intent to be played out loud in a part. Khoon choos le- The Monday anthem sung by Arun Kanungo, Suraj Jagan, and Priya Panchal is dedicated to the frustration of Mondays. Amitabh Bhattacharyas humorous

lyrics and wonderful composition by Sachin-Jigar makes this enjoyable thoroughly. Khushamdeed- stands apart from the other songs from the movie giving a message of living like theres no tomorrow and enjoying each and every moment of life as it comes. The song is beautifully composed by Sachin-Jigar and sung well by Shreya Ghosal. Babaji ki booti This rib tickling number Sung by the composer duo has hilarious lyrics. Being the another dope song of this album, it is acclaimed as the best stoner song in recent times. I Keel Dead People- a theme based number with screams and dialogues sets the perfect feel of the zombies. Over all this groovy number is the mixture of dialogues from the trailor.

French live show Mana comes to India

Aashiqui 2- A heart wrenching Love Story

Cast :Shraddha Kapoor, Shaad Randhawa, Aditya Roy Kapoor Producer : Mahesh Bhatt, Mukesh Bhatt Director: Mohit Suri `Aashiqui 2` movie is a musical journey starring Rahul Jaykar (Aditya Roy Kapoor) and Arohi Shirke (Shraddha Kapoor) opposite each another. This romance takes you through a journey of two lovers who go through love and hate, twists and turbulence, success and failure in their lives. Rahul (who is a famous and successful male singer helps Arohi Shirke who is an aspiring female singer . She sings one of Rahuls song better than him and wins his heart.Rahul promises to make Arohi a big star. He makes the way, meantime his own career goes down. Will they emerge stronger together or do their egos come in the way, separating the two? The performances by both Aditya and Shraddha have blown away. Shaad Randhawa who is seen on screen after a long break has an important role. Mahesh Thakur is effective as the music company baron, while Salil Acharya is satisfactory. Overall Aashiqui2 is a simple and honest love story made by Mohit Suri after a long time. Die hard fans of Bhatt camp movies can definetly go and watch this mesmerizing tale ,which will make u lovestruck.

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New Delhi, French live show Mana, which has been staged in the US, Japan, Thailand and Turkey, will open to Indian audiences at Kingdom of Dreams in Gurgaon, starting May 14. A fantasy tale of the birth of a world, of the creation of the gods of air, water, earth and fire, and their battles, the show is put together by 14 performers. The show was born out of the surrealistic imagination of the Haffner Brothers in 2004, after six months of creation and rehearsals. It features performer in magnificent costumes, doing breathtaking physical feats, acrobats and aerial acts,

topped with live singing. The music and dialogues, a mix of French and English language, will be a different entertainment experience for Indians. With acrobatics and circus skills as the basis of the show, the technology available at the Nautanki Mahal in Kingdom of Dreams is likely to enhance the experience of the visual extravaganza. The tickets to the show will be available for anything between Rs.599 to Rs.2,499. It will be staged till Aug 18. Nautanki Mahal already has two inhouse shows -- Zangoora: The Gypsy Prince and Jhumroo.

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SCIENCE AND TECH

New Delhi Waleed Rashed, hero of the massive protests at Tahrir Square that ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, will address delegates at the second India Internet Day (IID) here April 26. The IID, held under the auspices of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Delhi - National Capital Region chapter, will bring together net geeks, e-commerce strategists, venture capitalists and hundreds of aspiring internet start-ups, according to a TiE statement. Rashed, 30, was one of the founders of the non-violent April 6 Youth Movement, an Egyptian Facebook group that started in 2008 to support workers in an industrial town who were planning to strike.

CHANDIGARH SUNDAY 28 April 2013

Several celestial events lined up for sky gazers

Hyderabad Several celestial events are lined up for sky gazers during April-May, beginning with Thursdays partial lunar eclipse - the only visible lunar eclipse of the year in India. The eclipse begins at 11.32 p.m. on April 25 and ends at 03.43 a.m. on April 26. According to the Planetary Society of India (PSI), people can noticeably witness darkening of the moons disk between 1.22-1.53 a.m. The eclipse is coinciding with rare meteor showers, and it will be followed by conjunction of Saturn with the moon April 26. The eclipse, which will be visible in Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe and Antarctica, is the first visible in India since Dec 10, 2011. Though three more lunar eclipses will occur this year, including penumbral lunar eclipse May 2, and a solar eclipse May 10, none of these will be visible in India, said N. Raghunnandan Kumar, secretary, PSI. PSI is one of the leading organisations working for promotion of space science in the country. People will get the next opportunity to see a lunar eclipse only on Oct 8, 2014. However, this total eclipse will only be partially visible in India and that too for a few minutes. A lunar eclipse occurs when the earth, in course of its orbit around the sun, comes between the moon and the sun in such a way that the moon is hidden in the shadow cast

Tahrir Square hero to address India Internet Day

Sun has 5 billion years left

Madrid The universe will continue expanding and the objects which it is composed of will move apart faster, causing stars, such as the Sun, to become fainter, although in the case of the Sun this will not happen for more than 5 billion years, Nobel laureate in physics Brian Schmidt said. The US-born astrophysicist, who lives in Australia, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011 along with

by the earth. Thursdays lunar eclipse is coinciding with rare meteor showers. The PSI said the Lyrid meteor showers, which began on April 16, can be seen with naked eye from pollution-free clear skies away from the city lights. Kumar said it would be a treat for star gazers as 5-18 meteors would be seen zipping across the sky every hour. The annual meteor shower called Eta Aquarids will peak May 6. According to a report of the International Meteor Organisation (IMO), one can best see the shower from May 6 to May 12. It expects the number of meteors to be between 40 and 85 per hour at peak. The lunar eclipse will be immediately followed by a conjunction of Saturn with the moon on April 26. Saturn will appear in the night sky

like a non-twinkling star, closer to the moon. People without any technical aid would be able to spot Saturn, which will be below the moon on the night of April 25 and above it April 26. Another celestial event awaits star gazers April 28 when Saturn will be at its closest approach to the earth and its face will be fully illuminated by the sun. Saturn will be directly opposite to the sun from our viewpoint on the earth. It will be closest, biggest and brightest it can get in year 2013 on April 28, Kumar said. The PSI has announced Saturn observation campaign India 2013 from April 28 to Oct 17 to create awareness about Saturn. It has invited schools, organisers of summer camps and other organisations to join the campaign.

Samsung to launch Galaxy S4 first in Seoul

The page quickly acquired more than 70,000 followers. The activists used blogs, social media and text messaging to catalyse the uprising against Mubarak. Senior business leaders from global companies such as Adobe, Flytxt, Google, Microsoft and Vodafone will share their insights and experiences with the delegates. Shashi Tharoor, the minister of state for human resource development, and Raghuram Rajan, chief economic adviser to the Indian government, will also be among the keynote speakers. TiE, founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley, has over 13,000 members across 15 countries. Its mission is to foster entrepreneurship globally through mentoring, networking and education.

Three smartphone satellites working well in orbit: NASA

tential capabilities for flying small, low-cost, powerful satellites for atmospheric or Earth science, communications, or other spaceborn applications, said Michael Gazarik, NASAs associate administrator for space technology in Washington. They also may open space to a whole new generation of commercial, academic and citizenspace users. Satellites consisting mainly of the smartphones will send information about their health via radio back to the Earth in an effort to demonstrate that they can work as satellites in space. The spacecraft also will attempt to take pictures of the Earth using their cameras. Amateur radio operators around the world can participate in the mission by monitoring transmissions and retrieving image data from the three satellites. Large images will be transmitted in small chunks and will be reconstructed through a distributed ground station network, said NASA. Moscow Russia Wednesday launched a freight rocket to the International Space Atation from Kazakhstans Baikonur space centre. The Soyuz-U rocket, carrying a Progress M-19M cargo spacecraft, lifted off Wednesday, Russias Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said. The launch was carried out as scheduled, a Roscosmos spokesman said. The space freighter separated from the carrier rocket at 2.21 p.m. Moscow time (10:21 GMT). The docking of the Progress M19M with the International Space Station is set for 4.27 p.m. Moscow time April 26, the official said. The previous three Progress space freighters traveled to the orbital outpost under a shortened programme, delivering cargo in six hours rather than usual two days. The Progress M-19M will bring over 2.5 tons of cargo to the ISS, including payloads for the crews work, fuel for the space station, food supplies, water and oxygen for cosmonauts and astronauts.

Adam Riess and Saul Perlmutter for discovering that the universe is accelerating. Schmidt spoke with reporters about his research on the universe before delivering an address, The Accelerating Universe, at Spains Fundacion BBVA. The greatest challenge for scientists today is figuring out the dark energy of which nearly 70 percent of the universe is made, Schmidt said.

Russia launches freighter rocket

Seoul Samsung Electronics said it will roll out its new flagship smartphone model Galaxy S4 in Seoul this Friday for the first time across the globe. The latest version of Samsungs Galaxy series will be available for sale to South Korean customers from Friday through three local mobile operators, including SK Telecom, KT Corp. and LG Uplus, reported Xinhua citing an e-mailed statement. The smartphone giant planned to launch the Galaxy smartphone via 327 wireless carriers, including AT&T, Vodafone and Telefonica, in 155 countries during the second quarter. The Galaxy S4, equipped with high-quality features, was expected to sell well. Global sales of the Galaxy S3 reached around 38 million units since its launch in May 2012, according to Sophia Kim, analyst with

Woori Investment & Securities. The Galaxy S4 was estimated to exceed its predecessor, with its sales touching 65 million units by year-end. The new model had the 5-inch full HD AMOLED display with a resolution of 1920 by 1080, with 1.9 GHz quad-core processor and 1. 6 GHz octa-core processor depending on regions. The Smart Pause function would enable users to control the screen by where they look. When users are watching a video, the video pauses when they look away then it starts right up again where they are back. The new model also has a Smart Scroll function that would allow users to scroll the browser or emails up and down without touching the screen. It recognizes users face looking at the screen and movement of their wrist and then scroll the pages up or down accordingly.

Washington The three smartphone satellites sent into space Sunday by the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.s Antares rocket are operating normally in orbit, the US space agency NASA said. Transmissions from all the three PhoneSats, believed to be the lowestcost satellites ever put in space, have been received at multiple ground stations on the Earth, said NASA in a statement .The satellites are expected to remain in orbit for as long as two weeks, while the PhoneSat team at the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California will continue to monitor them in the coming days, reported Xinhua citing NASA. Smartphones offer a wealth of po-

Copenhagen Scientists have linked diabetes and poor growth to a protein involved in hormone regulation, says a study. A group of researchers from the University of Copenhagen studied the reasons for diabetes and growth hormone deficiency. Their new discoveries centre on the bodys ability to regulate certain hormones. Their findings have been published in the scientific journal PLOS Biology. Some people suffering from diabetes or affected by poor growth most likely have problems with the so-called PICK1 protein, that plays a decisive role in the formation of growth hormones and insulin in the human body, reports Science Daily.

Diabetes, poor growth related to hormone

We have studied the role played by PICK1 when the growth hormone is released by the brain and insulin by the pancreas. Our experiments show that PICK1 deficiency leads to growth hormone and insulin deficiency in both fruit flies and mice, said professor Ulrik Gether from the Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen. In mice, we can clearly see that the animals become small and fat and less tolerant to sugar when deficient in PICK1... The same is true for humans, added Gether, who made the discoveries with his research colleagues Ole Kjaerulff, Birgitte Holst and Kenneth Madsen.

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KIDS
Have a Fruitful summer
Fruits are important and enjoyable part of your childs diet. Fruits contain essential nutrients that are important for their health, growth and development. Different coloured fruits have different health benefits so try and have as many different colours as you can. Let us find out which fruits are really the best fruits to eat in the summer?

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Strange Facts You Didnt Know

Guglielmo Marconi-The man who changed the Technology

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record was by an American pig farmer whose hiccups persisted from 1922 to 1987 Orange: Oranges are cooling by nature. Oranges can be eaten or can be consumed as juice and squash. The biggest advantage of an orange is that it is digested very fast. Hence, it can be given to the weakest person. Strawberry: Delicious and nutrition-rich red colored strawberries are among the most popular berries. Eating strawberries is an excellent way to ease digestion and sooth stomach upset, constipation, diarrhoea, and other painful symptoms. Pearls melt in vinegar. A Blue whales tongue weighs more than an elephant. Octopus have three hearts. Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introduced. Chocolate century. It was was used as medicine during the 18th believed that chocolate could cure a stomach ache. Mango: Mango fruit is one of the most trendy, nutritionally rich fruit with distinctive flavour, smell and taste. Mangoes are rich source of nutrients. The fruit pulp is great source of minerals, vitamins and antioxidants. Use mango with milk as milk shake is advisable. Adding sugar to the slices of mango is also beneficial.

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A friend, is the one who is always with you. One such friend of man has been the wonderful friend Radio. The extent to which radios have impacted our lives is expansive. Radio doesnt mean only listening to music. From information, education to entertainment, it continues to be number the one source for audio entertainment. How did the Radio Originate? Radio started as wireless telegraphy. And it all began with invention of radio waves, which have the capacity to send out speech, music, picture and all other data through air. A range of devices like radio, cordless phones, and microwave TV broadcasts work with the help of electromagnetic waves. During 1860s, James Maxwell, a Scottish physicist forecasted presence of radio waves. And in year 1886, Heinrich Hertz showcased projection of swift variation of the electric current into space in form of radio waves. Twenty years after invention of telephone, music was set down on telephone line and Guglielmo Marconi was responsible for the radio signals. This radio discoverer demonstrated radio communications possibility. Spellbound by Hertzs discovery of the radio waves, he realized that it could be used for receiving and sending the telegraph messages, referring to it as wireless telegraphs. On December 11, 1901, Marconi surprised the world by transmitting a radio signal in Morse code over a distance of 2,137 miles (3,440 kilometers) from England to Newfoundland, Canada. Radio and the Titanic In 1909 Marconi shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with the German physicist Karl F. Braun, the inventor of the cathode ray tube. Marconis honour was full of controversies for the claim of the title Father of Radio. As early as 1895, the Russian physicist Alexander Popov was broadcasting between buildings, while in India Jagdish Chandra Bose was using radio waves to ring bells and trigger explosions. As shipping companies realized the radio telegraphs usefulness for passenger communication, navigation reports and distress signals, Marconi Company radiosoperated by Marconi Menbecame standard equipment. When RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on April 14, 1913, its Marconi operator were able to save 700 survivors.

Papaya: It is also a great fruit that we can eat in summer season. It provides us all necessary materials that are necessary to our body. it also helps in keeping our vision clear. Ripened Papaya is a great source of nutrition as well as sugar.

Put your knowledge to test with our Animal word scramble. Try to unscramble the words ? BZERA PHELANTE SROEH ITBBAR YMOEKN ORCDCILEO LLRAIGO

Did You Know Rabbits And Parrots Can See Behind Themselves ?

Water melon: Watermelons are over 90% water with the remaining less than 10% being sugar. Like many other types of fruit, is a great source of Vitamin C. It gives energy production and restores the dehydrated water of the body

Grapes: Grapes are also some important fruits that we should eat in summer season. They give us energy that is useful to fight with the heat of this summer. It is also known as nectar of gods in India.

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Wretch Meaning-An unfortunate or unhappy person Example- Oh, was there in all the world a more miserable wretch than he! Anguish Meaning-Severe mental or physical pain or suffering. Example- He suffered much pain and anguish over the years due to his mothers death.

Answers: Zebra,Elephant Horse,Rabbit Monkey,Crocodile Gorilla

Parrots and rabbits are a kind of animals that have amazing vision qualities. They know whats behind them without turning their head How? Well ! Rabbits and parrots have a wider range of vision than humans, although much less of their vision field is binocular -- this means they dont have depth perception, and thats why theyre always moving their heads around, so they can see what theyre looking at from different angles.The general rule is that predators, and arboreal (living in trees) mammals, tend to have more straight ahead vision, and prey an-

imals that dont live in trees tend to have more off to the sides vision. . Rabbit eyes are placed high and to the sides of the skull, allowing the rabbit to see nearly 360 degrees, as well as far above their head. Parrots, like most prey animals have eye that are widely spaced, on either side of the head. This allows for a wide range of vision (almost a 360 degree field of sight in some species). This means these birds can see things coming at them from almost any direction and angle. This is one of the main reasons why these attractive creatures are hard to catch !

Bizarre Meaning-Very strange or unusual. Example- It is bizarre to see thunder during a snowstorm. Clinch Meaning-Confirm or settle Example- To clinch the matter, an eyewitness to the shooting identified him in a lineup. Debacle Meaning-A sudden, disastrous collapse Example- My science experiment turned into a debacle when the volcano didnt explode.

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New Delhi Finance Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday ruled out the possibility of early elections, and said the government will take more reform initiatives in the next two-four months. We will continue to take small significant steps. We will also take forward some big ideas. Indias economy will continue to reform, Chidambaram said at The Economists India Summit organised by the UK-based economic magazine. Chidambaram said the government will push for the passage of major reform regulations, like land and insurance bills, in the ongoing budget session of parliament. The finance minister said the government would need support from the main opposition party to get the bills passed in parliament. There are many more executive actions that have to be taken, some of these executive actions we will take in the next 2-4 months, Chidambaram said. In the last one year, the government has taken several initiatives to push forward reform process. The steps include cutting subsidies on petroleum products and liberalising overseas investment norms for retail, aviation and some other sectors. The finance minister said he was hopeful to keep fiscal deficit below 4.8 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in the current financial year. In the union budget presented in February, Chidambaram set a target keeping the fiscal deficit at 4.8 percent of the GDP. He said the budgetary target was a red line that would never, never be breached.

BUSINESS
Mumbai Eight months after the Indian government permitted international airlines to invest in domestic passenger carriers, Jet Airways announced a 24 percent stake sale to Abu Dhabibased Etihad Airways to raise around Rs.2,000 crore ($379 million). Under the strategic partnership, the airlines will gradually expand existing operations and introduce new routes between India and Abu Dhabi, Jet Airways said in a statement Wednesday evening. They (Jet and Etihad Airways) will combine their network of 140 destinations, with Jet Airways establishing a Gulf gateway in Abu Dhabi and expanding its reach through Etihad Airways growing global network, the statement added. However, the deal which also entails a $600 million commitment from Etihad Airways, still needs to be ratified at an extraordinary meeting of Jets shareholders. According to the company, the deal will allow passengers from 23 Indian cities to get direct international flights, while they can also avail the frequent flyer programmes of both airlines. Both the companies expect the deal to bring immediate revenue growth and cost savings in areas including fleet acquisition, maintenance, product development and training. The Indian market is fundamental to our business model of organic growth partnerships and equity investments. This deal will allow us to compete more effectively in one of the largest and fastest-growing markets in the world, James Hogan, president and chief executive of Etihad Airways said in a statement. Through the deal, Etihad is expected to get additional passenger traffic to its Middle Eastern, North American and European destinations. Currently, Etihad operates to nine Indian destinations - Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Kochi - with 59 flights per week.

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More reforms coming in 2-4 Jets stake sale to Etihad to raise around $379 mn months: Chidambaram

World Bank aims to end extreme poverty by 2030

Washington The World Bank governors have endorsed a proposal to eliminate extreme poverty around the world over the next 17 years, the World Bank Group said in statement. The proposal, put forward by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, sets an ambitious goal to reduce the number of people living on $1.25 a day to 3 percent or less of the worlds population by 2030. The World Banks 25-member Development Committee, which meets twice a year during the World Bank/IMF spring and annual meetings, also confirmed the Groups vision to promote shared prosperity - fostering income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population in every country. Jim Yong Kim, who was elected as head of the World Bank last year, welcomed the support by the banks governors by saying that the World Bank Group has a historic opportunity to help end ex-

treme poverty within a generation. This endorsement is an important step. If we succeed, together, we would have accomplished an historic milestone, Kim said in closing remarks at the meeting of the Development Committee. A report released by the World Bank earlier this week showed that there were still 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty, with Sub-Saharan Africa accounting for more than one-third of the worlds extreme poor.

South Africa needs more trade with other BRICS members

Johannesburg More trade with other BRICS countries will help South Africa recover from the global economic crisis, the South African Reserve Bank said in a statement, reported .The statement said the remark was made by its governor Gill Marcus in Johannesburg over the weekend. In her speech, Marcus said that the work stoppages in the mining sector in South Africa last year negatively impacted on the countrys exports performances since mining sector is the main source of exports. Marcus believed that the weak global growth environment looks set to persist. The slow recovery of advanced economies is making it difficult for South Africas trade account of the balance of payments, she said. Since the traditional trading partner Britain in manufacturing exports is not performing well, there is a need for South Africa to look to emerging markets, she said, pointing that South Africa should exploit the BRICS membership benefits. BRICS is an acronym for the powerful grouping of the worlds leading emerging market economies, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. South Africa is now part of the BRICS grouping, and though a relatively small partner, we are full members and are working to maxi-

Estimates predict the size of the Indian market to grow to 42 million travellers over the next five years at 10 percent per year. Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal described the deal as a win-win situation for all stakeholders, adding the transaction will allow the company to return back to sustainable profits. This transaction further strengthens the balance sheet of Jet Airways and, more importantly, underpins future revenue streams, which will accelerate our return to sustainable profitability and liquidity, Goyal said. The two airlines were negotiating a Jet Airways stake sale since last September. However, the deal was delayed due to investment protection and management control issues. Interestingly, the announcement comes just a day after India and the UAE began negotiations to enhance bilateral air traffic rights on the India-Abu Dhabi sector. Indian passenger carriers, especially Jet Airways have sought an exponential increase in seat capacity on the sector. The existing bilateral air service agreement (BASA), entitles India based airlines to offer 13,300 seats per week on the route. According to sectoral experts, the deal will bring in fresh funding opportunities for Jet Airways, which has an estimated debt of around Rs.12,000 crore, whereas passengers will get better connectivity options through the Jet-Etihad network.

Jet passengers will also be able to leverage the networks of Air Berlin, Air Seychelles and Aer Lingus, Irelands national carrier, which Etihad Airways has already invested in. It is a very positive move. There were negotiations going on for a long time. It will provide Jet with much needed financing options and a major international partner, Sharan Lillaney, aviation analyst at broking firm Angel Broking said. The companys scrip at the BSE might touch its circuit breaker limit of Rs.659.40 when the markets open Thursday. On Tuesday, the Jet Airways scrip at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) rose by 4.43 percent or 24.35 points to Rs.573.85 per share from its previous close of Rs.549.50. Earlier, Jet-Etihad Airways concluded a deal Feb 27 to acquire three Jet Airways slots at London airport for $70 million. There are also talks of Etihad investing $150 million in Jets frequent flyer program Jet Privilege, which is subject to regulatory approvals and commercial agreements which are expected to be completed within the next six months. The government last year allowed foreign airlines to invest up to 49 percent in private domestic carriers. This was not permitted earlier for security reasons, although 49 percent FDI by non-airline players was allowed.

IKEA wont be allowed to sell food items in India: Government

New Delhi Swedish firm IKEA can be allowed to run restaurant and cafe along with single brand furniture stores, but it wont engage in retailing of food items, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said Monday. Sharma said IKEA recently sought permission for single brand retail trading of its products and establishment of IKEA restaurants and cafes. The proposal has been recommended by the FIPB (Foreign Investment Promotion Board) to the extent that IKEA can have a restaurant/cafe in accordance with their global model but cannot engage in retailing of food items, Sharma said in written reply in the Lok Sabha. He said the Indian government has proposed the condition on IKEA that food and beverages to be sold within IKEA restaurant/ cafe loacated in the IKEA retail store. No food items shall be retailed off the shelf in any other part of the retail store. The FIPB has approved the worlds largest furniture maker IKEAs proposal to invest Rs.10,500 crore in single brand retail business in India. The proposal is yet to be approved by the cabinet. Overseas investment proposals worth above Rs.1,200 crore have to be approved by the cabinet.

mize the opportunities that present themselves, Marcus said. Marcus praised the BRICS for its fast development in economy, saying: There is little doubt that there has been a tectonic shift in the drivers of global growth. The

emergence of countries such as Brazil, Russia, China and India has changed the epicenter of global economic activity. The BRICS share of global GDP has increased three-fold in the past 15 years, and this share is currently around 20 percent in market terms, and is expected to rise to 45 percent by 2030, she added. Marcus said that China managed to survive the hard nock of the global economic crisis, which will assist South Africa, one of the Chinas biggest trading partners on the African continent. South Africa is currently trying to increase exports to other countries to balance exports and imports. The governor said the growth of the Chinese economy will increase a demand of South Africa goods and services. The expected growth rate of around 8 percent in China should help to underpin the demand of commodities, which is critical for South Africas growth outlook, she said.

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BUSINESS
New Delhi India and China have signed an agreement for the promotion of Indian handicrafts in China, an official statement said. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH) and China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), the largest institution for the promotion of foreign trade in China, the statement said. The agreement seeks to explore possibilities of enhancing handicrafts from India to important markets of China, which have never before been explored for such exports from India. The agreement was signed by Rakesh Kumar, EPCH executive director, and Zeng Kaizhang, CCPIT president. It will focus on promotion of exports of products such as ethnic and contemporary furniture, wooden handicrafts, including furniture from Jodhpur and Saharanpur, imitation

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Bata India Q1 net up 6.8 percent

Indian handicrafts to find larger market in China

Kolkata Footwear majorBata India Thursday reported a 6.8 percent rise in net profit at Rs 38.36 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2013, compared to Rs.36 crore for the same period a year ago. Total income of the Kolkata-based company increased from Rs.411.97 crore for the first quarter ending March 31, 2012 to Rs.460.81 crore for the same period this fiscal, according to a release. Bata follows the January-December financial year.

Announcing the results, group managing director Rajeev Gopalakrishnan said: Despite the existing market conditions, we achieved a double digit growth in this quarter. We undertook various initiatives that have helped up continue to maintain our foothold in such a volatile market condition. Gopalakrishnan said the firms strategy of expanding retail footprint continued with improvised merchandise. The company has opened or relocated 22 new stores in the first quarter of 2013.

MHL Consortium looks to partner with Indian firms

Hyderabad Mobile High-definition Link (MHL) Consortium is looking to partner with Indian companies, including game publishers, content providers and local mobile device manufacturers to promote its technology, which enables consumers to display HD content from a smartphone to a television. The US-based consortium, promoted by Nokia, Samsung Electronics, Silicon Image, Sony and Toshiba, sees a potential for a partnership with Indian firms in view of the rapid increase in use of smartphones. The MHL technology is known as de facto standard of choice for audio/video connectivity for mobile devises. The technology can turn a smart phone into a media player, said a MHL statement. Michael Bergen, Senior Partner Alliance Manager at MHL consortium, who is currently visiting India, feels that the Indian market is inspiring for MHL as it had a mobile devise penetration of 73 percent and a huge number of feature phone makers upgrading to smartphones. In 2012 we saw significant adaption of MHL featured phones and smartphones. We expect the year 2013 will

Poland eyes Indian investors with low-cost advantage

Bangalore As the second fastest growing economy in Europe after Germany, a recession-free Poland is beckoning Indian industry to invest by taking advantage of its low-cost labour, tax sops, proactive policies and state-ofthe-art infrastructure. Poland is the only country in Europe which did not get affected by the global financial crisis in 2008 and avoided recession that gripped many European Union (EU) member-states, Polish consul general in Mumbai Janusz Wach said at the eighth Polish Outsourcing Forum held here Thursday. According to Wach, though Indian IT bellwethers firms such as TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL, Zensar and Genpact have invested in Poland by setting up development centres and back office services for their global and European clients, investment potential for other sectors is also high. The small and medium enterprises sector in Poland is another vertical where collaborations and partnerships can create a win-win situation for Indian firms. They can meet the local industry requirements and gain access to eastern and western European markets by taking near-shore advantage. Starting business in Poland is easy as it takes about a month to get all clearances that involve six procedures. Cost of skilled labour at an hourly rate of 7.4 Euros is five times cheaper than in Sweden, three times than in Germany and much lower than 23.4 Euros in the EU, Wach pointed out. Poland is also a great destination for mergers and acquisitions, especially in the IT and BPO sector, as about 200 BPO firms are operating from five major cities in the country, employing about 85,000 people. As the second fastest outsourcing market after India, with 20 percent growth per annum, Poland has the potential to emerge as the largest destination for the knowledge industry, taking advantage of its vast talent pool, proximity to other EU memberstates and lower cost of operations, Indian ambassador Monika Kapil Mehta said. Indo-Polish Chamber of Commerce and Industry president J.J. Singh said that Indian investment in Poland was

jewellery and fashion jewellery, and art metalware from Moradabad. The MoU followed the visit of a high-level delegation under the leadership of Zohra Chatterji, textiles secretary, to China. Other members of the delegation included the development commissioner (handicrafts) in the ministry of textiles, and representatives from the Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH) and the Na-

tional Centre for Design and Product Development (NCDPD). India will also organise the first exclusive exhibition of Indian handicrafts in China along with live demonstration and thematic display of the evolution of Indian handicrafts from traditional to modern. Further exchange of techniques, craft exchange programmes and buyerseller meetings will be organised by both countries.

Spains unemployment rate rises

Madrid Spains unemployment rate hit 27.16 percent in the first quarter of this year, with the number of jobless people topping 6 million for the first time amid an economic downturn that started in 2008, the National Statistics Institute, or INE, said. More than 6.2 million people were jobless during the period, with 237,400 workers joining the ranks of the unemployed during the first three months of 2013, the INE said Thursday in its Labor Force Survey. People younger than 25 were hit the hardest, with the unemployment rate for this segment of the labor force coming in at 57.22 percent in the first quarter, representing 960,400 people. Foreigners were the second worst-hit group, with the jobless rate for this segment at 39.21 percent and 1.3 million people out of work, the INE said. The high level of joblessness among foreigners is prompting some emi-

be the year of MHL enabled televisions, he said while pointing out that Sony recently introduced MHL enabled 42 inch HDTV W 650A television sets in India. As part of its strategy in India, MHL Consortium is keen to work with Indian companies in developing new programmes and contents for devises. We are here to introduce the benefits of MHL through our by invitation only experience programs and also build partnership with established mobile device manufacturers, third party developers, game publishers in India, Michael said. With 200 members globally, the consortium has so far launched 300 unique products.

Bulletproof vests for kids hit Mexican market

Mexico City Bulletproof vests and backpacks for children will be sold beginning this week in Mexico, where drugrelated violence has claimed tens of thousands of lives over the past six years. Colombian businessman Miguel Caballero, nicknamed the Armani of Armor, is behind this childrens clothing line that is already being sold in the US and will soon reach the Canadian market. The body armor goes unnoticed and saves kids lives, Caballero told EFE, adding that a group of US parents asked him to work on this clothing line after last Decembers massacre of 20 children and six adult staff members at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. The items, which weigh just over one kg and range in price from $150 to $450, are made of rigid

around $3.5 billion as against Polish investment of $350 million in India. Balance of trade is in favour of India, which accounts for 40 percent of exports to Poland as against its 27 percent to India in 2012, he said. Poland ranks third in the world as an outsourcing location and presence of the Indian IT bellwethers is a testimony to the advantages it offers. There is a huge potential for the Indian IT/BPO services companies to expand in central and eastern Europe, Singh told on the margins of the day-long interactive session between representatives of both the countries. Global professional services firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwCs) consultant for Poland Romek Lubaczewski said that economies in central and eastern Europe (CEE) were more stable than in Western Europe. Currencies in the CEE region are also stable vis-a-vis other currencies. Wages are also much lower with an average pay of 11,000 Euros as against 36,000 Euros in Germany and 65,000 pounds in Britain, Lubaczewski observed.

grants to return to their home countries, with some groups, such as Ecuadorians, taking advantage of repatriation plans created by the governments of their nations. Spains work force lost 322,300 workers between January and March, with 16.6 million people employed and the labor force participation rate at 59.68 percent, the INE said. The high unemployment rate is an indicator of the severe economic recession that Spain entered in 2008 and has been affected by the austerity measures implemented by the

government to reduce the budget deficit. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoys government approved labor reforms in 2012 aimed at spurring job creation, but the measures have not yet yielded results. The government plans to implement new measures Friday to boost the economy, which the Bank of Spain estimated contracted 0.50 percent in the first quarter, an improvement from the 0.80 percent drop in gross domestic product in the fourth quarter of 2012.

synthetic fiber and contain a special material that helps reduce ballistic trauma. Caballero, who has designed bulletproof clothing for politicians and celebrities for several years, said the childrens clothing line features action-hero prints and designs. He is launching the line in Mexico this week at the Expo Seguridad event in Mexico City, the leading security industry trade show in the Spanish-speaking world. Some 400 exhibitors from a dozen countries, mainly Mexico, the US and Colombia, will showcase a broad range of products from clothing and footwear to unmanned aircraft and closed-circuit cameras during the event. More than 70,000 people have died in Mexico since December 2006 in conflict among drug cartels and between the criminals and the security forces.

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Saina stunned at India Open

New Delhi The India Open Super Series is perhaps jinxed for home favourite Saina Nehwal, who squandered three matchpoints to be stunned by Japans Yui Hashimoto in the womens singles second round here Thursday. Sainas match was all but over when she was leading 20-17 in the third game but a wrong line-call made her lose focus and the top seed eventually lost the match at the Siri Fort Sports Complex here. Yui won 2113, 12-21, 22-2o in their first ever meet. Due to her loss, the hyped Saina-Sindhu clash will not happen in this tournament at least. The Hyderabadi maintained her poor record at India Open where she exited the in the first and second round in 2011 and 2012, respectively. Earlier in the day, H.S. Prannoy fulfilled his childhood dream of beating former Olympic and World Champion Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia 26-24, 21-9 in 40 minutes while Mumbais Anand Pawar caused the biggest upset of the day by beating third seed and World No.5 Yun Hu of Hong Kong 21-15, 15-21, 21-10 in 52 minutes to enter the mens singles quarterfinals. Prannoy will next face World No.1 Lee Chong Wei while Pawar takes on city-mate Ajay Jayaram in the last eight Friday. Top seed Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia progressed to the quarters by easing past Kazumasa Sakai of Japan 21-17, 21-9 in 33 minutes while womens singles eighth seed P.V. Sindhu advanced by beating Sun Yu of China 19-21, 21-19, 21-15 in the longest match of the day, which lasted one hour and eight minutes. Saina was in her elements in the first game, leading from the start and never allowing the lead slip through her fingers. One body-smash into Yui and the crowd favourite marched on to win the game with ease. The World No.2s game was full of lobs followed by accurate smashes away from Yui, which did not let the Japanese come even close to Sainas score.

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Flying Sikh Milkha Singh to get lifetime achievement award

Kolkata Legendary Indian athlete Milkha Singh, also known as The Flying Sikh, will be awarded the Bluechip CSJC lifetime achievement award here Saturday. The 77-year-old former sprinter had missed a 400 meter bronze by a whisker at the 1960 Rome Olympics. He won golds at the 1958 Cardiff Commonwealth Games, 1958 Tokyo Asian Games and the 1962 Jakarta Asian Games. Milkha will be here to personally take the award, Calcutta Sports Journalists Club secretary Purnendu Chakraborty said here. Former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly and ex Indian football skipper Bhaichung Bhutia will be given special awards at the function to be held at the historic Town Hall. The best sportsmen of the state from various disciplines in 2012-13 will be awarded at the programme. Among the awardees are: Ranti

Ronaldo likely to miss Madrid derby

Madrid Cristiano Ronaldo may miss Saturdays derby as Real Madrid travel across town to play Atletico and could also be a doubtful starter for his sides Champions League semifinal return leg Tuesday. Spanish sports paper Diario AS reports this Friday that Ronaldo suffered a muscle problem in his left leg as he warmed up for Wednesdays first leg in the Champions League, a game in which they were comprehensively outplayed by Borussia Dortmund, who won 4-1. Ronaldo was below his best in that game, but although he scored, he hardly celebrated and ended the game with obvious signs of pain. He began treatment on the injury Thursday with the aim of being in condition to play the return leg, but there is no way he will be able to play in the Vicente Calderon Saturday night. Ronaldos absence will be a huge blow for Real Madrid, for although the Champions League is more important that the derby, the truth is that Jose Mourinhos side wants to maintain their record of not losing to their neighbours since 1999 and thus assuring they remain in second place in the BBVA Primera Liga. There is also the fact that should FC Barcelona win away to Athletic Club

Though she looked confident at the start of the second game, Saina made several errors - most of them smashes going into the net - which put the game in the World No.46s favour. The unseeded Japanese was agile in her movement and recovered Sainas smashes regularly which frustrated the World No.2 into making errors, giving the game away to the Japanese. The third game was an extremely close affair with both shuttlers keeping close to each others score. Cheered by her mother and the crowd chanting Go Saina, the World No.2 slowly extended her lead to match-

point (20-17) from 16-all. But a smash by Yui, which looked clearly out, was called in by the linejudge. Saina appealed but the referee turned down the challenge which is when Saina lost her focus and concentration. The Japanese took full advantage of the situation and clinched the next four points to win the game and match, toppling the top seed out of the tournament. I lost focus after the line-call was called in. And the next four points came and went so quickly that I failed to catch the momentum, Saina said.

New Delhi Badmintons premier events, the Thomas and Uber Cup finals, will be held in the national capital here next year May 18-25. Badminton Association of India (BAI) president Akhilesh Das Gupta announced the dates and the location of Badminton World Federations (BWF) two premier tournaments after the official signing ceremony between the BAI and BWF took place here at the Siri Fort Sports Complex Friday. It has been wonderful experience for BWF to host the ongoing India Open Super Series. India is the place where badminton began

Delhi to host Thomas, Uber finals in May 2014

Martins (football), Laxmi Ratan Shukla (cricket) , Guru Pratap Singh (hockey), Kritika Sinha Roy (table tennis), Sanu Debnath (swimming) , Rakshena Khatun (volleyball), Aritapa Dasgupta (badminton), Amrita Mukherjee (tennis) , Mary Ann Gomes (chess) , Mampi Das (junior sports person of the year, shooter) and Rahim Nabi (best senior sports person in the country). Veteran scribe Shyam Sundar Ghosh would be felicitated for completing 50 years in sports journalism.

Bilbao in a game which finishes just before the Madrid derby kicks off and Real Madrid lose in the Calderon, Barca will be proclaimed as League champions for this season, inheriting Real Madrids crown from last year. Atletico have been one of Ronaldos favourite victims since arriving in Spain and has scored eight goals of the 24 his side have netted against their local rivals, who are desperate to finally have the chance to end their 14 year jinx. Mourinho will make other changes for the derby and players such as

Kaka, Raul Albiol, Jose Callejon and perhaps B-teamers, Nacho Gonzalez and Casimiro, could get their chance as the aim is to try and overturn that three-goal deficit against Borussia. Atletico meanwhile must look on the game as their best chance over the past 14 years to beat their neighbours and climb back into second place in the BBVA Primera Liga. Striker Diego Costa is available to play after seeing the yellow card in his sides 1-0 win against Sevilla at the weekend lifted and is certain to be a handful for the Real Madrid defence. Costa is hard-working and strong, but also an expert in some of footballs dark arts and has the ability to provoke even the most even tempered of rivals. He will partner Radamel Falcao in the Atletico attack and few will have forgotten Real Madrid s reported interest in the Colombian striker earlier in the season. German newspaper Bild published Thursday that both Falcao and Mourinho would be joining Chelsea over the summer and the fact that the Real Madrid coach and the Atletico Madrid striker (who share the same agent, Jorge Mendes) could find themselves at the same club next season, adds another ingredient to a match which so often promises to much but has delivered little.

Russian divers claim silver at Moscow World Series

and we are glad to award our two most prestigious tournaments, the Thomas and Uber Cup finals, to India, said BWF deputy president Paisan Rangsikitpho. The Thomas Cup (Men`s World Team Championships) was first staged in 1948-49 while the Uber Cup (Women`s World Team Championships) was added in 1956-57. The Thomas Cup, held every three years initially, was the BWFs first major international tournament. The Uber Cup finals have been held alongside the men`s competition since 1984 with both taking place biennially since then.

Moscow Viktor Minibaev and Artyom Chesakov took a 10-metre platform silver at the fourth stage of the Diving World Series. The Russians notched up 426.45 points, losing only to Chinas 2008 Olympic champion duo of Lin Yue and Chen Aisen, who won by a massive 44.73 point margin. Despite finishing second, Minibaev and Chesakov extended their overall series lead to 99 points after the Cuban duo of Jose Guerra and Jeinkler Aguirre finished third in Moscow. In the womens category, Si Yajie and Liu Huixia of China won a fourth successive stage by taking the 10-metre platform event, stretching

their lead in the overall standings to 21 points over Russian pair Yulia Koltunova and Natalia Goncharova. Koltunova and Goncharova had to settle for the bronze after the Malaysian pair of Leong Mun Yee and Pandelela Rinong finished just 2.64 points off the Chinese. The World Series, a high-profile competition attracting the worlds top stars, has been held since 2007 and consists of six stages hosted by Britain, China, Mexico, Russia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The prize fund of each stage is $96,000, with the overall winner of each category taking home $10,000 at the end of the season.

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Bangalore As a maker and breaker of records in the world of cricket, Tuesdays league tie for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) explosive opener Chris Gayle was a breathtaking game against minnows Pune Warriors India (PWI) in the Pepsi IPL-6 T20 at the Chinnaswamy stadium . Words cannot explain how I feel. Maybe, later on, when Im by myself, I can reflect on what happened today (Tuesday). It was a breathtaking game and happy to be on the winning side, a calm Gayle told reporters at a postmatch presser after unleashing a storm over Warriors. Setting new records and surpassing old ones, the West Indian south paw hit a hurricane unbeaten 176 of just 66 balls that included a whopping 17 sixes and 13 boundaries and made the hosts post a IPL record of 263 runs for the loss of five wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Chasing an impossible 264-run target, Warriors gave into RCB tamely only managing a paltry 133 for nine wickets in 20 overs to hand a 130-run victory to the home team. Im really happy with the win from the team point of view. It put us on top of the table (with 12 points). Its one of those days where you come out and things go according to you. (Tilakaratne) Dilshan supported well and A.B.

Chris Gayle does the Incredible

(de Villiers) played a wonderful innings at the end. The bowlers finished the game on high, a relaxed Gayle said despite looking tired. Asked how he would rate the innings that rocked thousand of fans and set the stands on fire throughout the game, a modest Gayle said he would have to reflect on his past innings to assess if it was the best. Its never easy. It takes a bit of power and I have it and Im thankful for that. It paid off for me out there. On (April 20) Saturday (playing against Rajasthan Royals) I used it wisely, knowing when to go and when to tone it down. It was a good wicket, I didnt want to just get a 100 and blast and blast and get out. We know how quickly these games can change. I wanted to stay there till the end and bat at least 18 overs if not all. I wanted to reach the 100, let someone else take charge while I take a break, and then pick it up back at the end. And AB did a fantastic job, Gayle recalled. On the secret of his energy and if he had a special diet for such big innings, the lanky Jamaican said he was up all night and couldnt sleep. I ordered room service at 6.30 a.m. -- one omelette, two pancakes and one hot chocolate. I went to bed only at 7.30 a.m. Thats all I have to eat on such days. Hope-

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Gayle storm rocks Bangalore with fastest century, highest score in IPL
Bangalore After a spell of summer showers, it rained sixes and fours at the M. Chinnaswamy stadium here Tuesday evening under a cloudy sky as Royal Challengers Bangalores explosive opener Chris Gayle scored the Indian Premier Leagues fastest century in 30 balls and highest score of 175 in 66 balls against Pune Warriors India. Put in to bat first, the West Indian southpaw lost no time in setting the stands on fire with his blitzkrieg knock that included a record 17 sixes and 13 fours and remained unbeaten after being at the crease for all the 20 stipulated overs. Returning to bat after a 30-minute break when a sudden downpour disrupted the game, Gayle raced to 50 in 17 balls with four mighty sixes and four 4s and to 100 in 30 balls with 11 sixes and eight boundaries. Feared as the most dangerous batsman in the tournament, the Jamaican beat Indian all-rounder Yusuf Pathans record of scoring a century in 37 balls while playing for Rajasthan Royals against Mumbai Indians in Mumbai March 14, 2010 and equalled the half-century record of Aussie wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist, scored against Delhi Daredevils in 2009 while captaining Deccan Chargers. Pathan currently plays for Kolkata Knight Riders, while Gilchrist captains Kings XI Punjab. Not content with setting new IPL records galore or upsetting previous ones, including the fastest 150 in 53 balls, beating the 158-run in 73 balls record of Brendon McCullum of KKR against the home team in the tournaments inaugural match in Bangalore April 2, 2008, Gayle was involved in a record opening partnership of 167 runs in 13.4 overs with opening partner Tillakaratne Dilshan of Sri Lanka, who hit a modest 33 in 36 balls, including five hits to the fence. At a phenomenal strike rate of 266.15 percent, another IPL record, Gayle stood rock-like at one end even as the hosts lost five wickets for a record 263 runs, beating the previous 246-run record of Chennai Super Kings (CSK) against RR in 2010. None of Punes seven bowlers could stop the lanky hitter from going hammer and tongs after them. Warriors captain Aaron Finch, who won the toss and elected to bowl on a flat batting wicket, had given up changing bowlers after every over as Gayle was unstoppable and the fielders could do little as most of the runs from his deadly bat were coming from sixes and fours. What a joy watching Gayle play! It was indeed a storm after rain gods opened up on a mid-summer evening. I lost count of sixes and fours he was hitting in every over he faced. He has set a benchmark for other openers and batsmen on how to play in the shorter-version of the game, beaming Ranjan Chakravarty, a director in a financial firm, told in the

fully I get something to eat now, a beaming Gayle quipped. Gayle, however, had a word of praise for Warriors seamer Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, who conceded only 23 runs in his quota of four overs though didnt get a wicket. Bhuvaneshwar has been a key bowler for them and he bowled really well. It was a good wicket and you cant take away the fact that sometimes when you get on top of a bowler, it can create a different scenario. Its a situation where a batsman gets off and throws off bowlers a bit and they dont know what to do and cant concentrate out there, Gayle observed. On the last over of the innings he bowled and took two wickets for five runs, Gayle said it was good fun and nice to finish off that way. It was also my first over of this IPL. Some people keep on asking - they have seen the Gangnam style in international cricket but why not in IPL. I thought it was the perfect time. I got a wicket and everything worked out perfectly. The crowd is pleased and happy to see that. Im an entertainer. So I try and entertain as much as possible. They pay the money to come and see good cricket. Asked if he had any sympathy for the bowlers, Gayle said cricket was like that. Its cricket man! Sometimes I get knocked over on the first ball andI like to ask the bowler if hes hurt for me.

Watson close to regaining full fitness to bowl

Chennai Rajasthan Royals all-rounder Shane Watson has said he was close to regaining full fitness in order to bowl in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Watson, who struck 101 against Super Kings here Monday night, said it will take two more games for him to return to full fitness for bowling. For the first time this year, Watson bowled against Royal Challengers Bangalore, Saturday, and then against Chennai Super Kings here after a series of injuries, the latest being calf muscle injury. Its certainly something that Ive missed in the last three months. It will probably take me another two games to fully find my feet and bowl exactly how I want to, Watson told IPLT20. com. Im getting closer to being 100 per cent. A couple of more training sessions and games and my body will be absolutely ready to handle the rigours of bowling. It is holding up well generally but now its just the matter of it getting used to bowling again, he said. Watson, who recently stepped down as the Australian vice-captain from all the three formats, said he has put in a lot of hardwork and hoped to reap rewards in the coming 10 months. On the whole I feel as good as I ever have. Ive put in a lot of hard work during this period and hopefully, will reap the rewards for the coming 10 months or so. I was half-capacity without my bowling. It feels great to be bowling once again, he said. Watson was all praise for his compatriot Mike Husseys match winning innings despite the fact that his century went in vain. Any time you watch Michael Hussey bat, its a pleasure. To be able to see how much in control he is throughout the innings; it looks like hes not taking any risks throughout his innings. Were certainly going to miss him in the Australian team. One, hes a great man but also the quality of his skills is amazing. Unfortunately hes on the wrong side here but to watch him bat is always a great pleasure, he said. Watson admitted that Twenty20 is all about a little bit of luck.

pavilion. Surprisingly, Finch did not ask reputed all-rounder Yuvraj Singh to bowl even a single over while Gayle took all the bowlers to the cleaners and stunned a clueless Warriors and reducing the tie to a one-sided contest. As this is the last league tie RCB is playing this month before going for (six) away games over the next fortnight, I took a half-day leave to come and watch Gayle play after I heard the home team will bat first. What an innings it was. Incredible! Never in my life have I seen such an awesome batting display, with a whopping 17 sixes. God knows, what he eats and where does he get that energy, hotelier Rashid Khan quipped.

IPL Match Schedule this Week

Date IST GMT 10:30 14:30 10:30 14:30 14:30 10:30 14:30 10:30 14:30 14:30 14:30 Match 28-Apr 16:00 28-Apr 20:00 29-Apr 16:00 29-Apr 20:00 30-Apr 20:00 Details Chennai Super Kings 38th IPL vs Kolkata Knight Riders Delhi Daredevils vs 39th IPL Pune Warriors Rajasthan Royals vs 40th IPL Royal Challengers Bangalore Mumbai Indians vs 41st IPL Kings XI Punjab Pune Warriors vs 42nd IPL Chennai Super Kings Sunrisers Hyderabad 43rd IPL vs Mumbai Indians Delhi Daredevils vs 44th IPL Kolkata Knight Riders Chennai Super Kings 45th IPL vs Kings XI Punjab Pune Warriors vs 46th IPL Royal Challengers Bangalore Kolkata Knight Riders 47th IPL vs Rajasthan Royals Sunrisers Hyderabad 48th IPL vs Delhi Daredevils Venue Chennai Raipur Jaipur Mumbai Pune Hyderabad Raipur Chennai Pune Kolkata Hyderabad

In T20 you need a little luck as well to get your innings going. Unfortunately we werent able to finish well. It was an important game for us and we knew how crucial it was for us to be playing well against CSK. I think 185 are a lot of runs on any ground. At the beginning of the match our mindset was probably 160-170 and we ended up with an above-par score. I thought Stuart Binny (36 off 22) was brilliant in the latter part of the innings to give us a further kick. We batted really well as a unit, he said.

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Watermelon Slush

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Watermelon offers the sweetest flavor

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