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controversy surrounding
the re-conversion bid by some
Sangh Parivar outfits, the BJP
leadership on Sunday asserted
that nothing would derail the
NDA Government from its
development agenda. The
party has also made it clear
that a law against conversion
would not be brought about
without building a larger consensus on it.
Strongly rebutting the
claim that the conversion row
may deflect the Modi
Governments focus from its
development plank, BJP president Amit Shah asserted that
the Modi Government was
clear about its agenda.
The BJP has made its
stand clear on conversions.
And no one can derail the party
(Government) from its development agenda, Shah told a
Press conference at Chennai.
He was replying to a question whether the campaign by
some fringe groups on the
conversion issue would affect
the development agenda of the
Narendra Modi Government.
Asked repeatedly about the
involvement of RSS in the matter, Shah evaded a direct reply
and said, RSS is a nationalist
organisation and I have no
doubt about its activities.
Seeking to corner the
Government on the ghar wapsi
campaign in parts of north
India, the Opposition parties
stalled proceedings in the Rajya
Sabha the entire last week

convert Muslims in Uttar

Pradesh. The ritual of ghar
wapsi (homecoming) was
reportedly held at a local temple at Kanichanallor.
VHP leader Prathap G
Padikkal, who arranged the reconversion function, told PTI
that the families expressed
their desire to come back to
Hinduism and VHP only
facilitated the return.
He said another 150 families in the district have
expressed their wish to
embrace Hinduism and VHP
would arrange their homecoming also, he said.
Meanwhile, Parliamentary
Affairs Minister M Venkaiah
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about without a larger consensus on it.
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Parliament that the Government
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forced conversions. Are the so- struggle in the last 50 years of Vishva Hindu Parishad in already provisions under the
called secular parties ready to that Hindus have regained the the Alappuzha district on IPC to put a check on forcible
support it? he asked.
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black money has found that the
outflow of black money
increased tremendously from
2006 to 2011 and one of the
major reasons was overall bad
governance in the country.
Incidentally, during that
period a number of mega
scams, including 2G spectrum
allocation, coal block allocation
and Commonwealth Games,
rocked the country.
From 2006 to 2011, illicit
financial flow has increased
tremendously. Illicit financial
flow in India was maximum in
the year 2011, i.e. 84,933 millions
of US dollar, according to an
analysis of the report of Global
Financial Integrity (a Ford
Foundation study) on Illicit
Financial Flows from Developing
Countries 2002-2011.
The GFI report has concluded that maximum illicit
financial flow from the total of
15 developing countries was
946,677 million dollars in 2011.
Outflow of black money from
India in 2011 was at its peak with
84,933 million US dollars. The
GFI analysis suggests six of the
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financial flows are most devastating economic issue
impacting global South.
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Enforcement
Directorate (ED) has summoned Punjab Revenue
Minister Bikram Singh
Majithia to appear before it on
December 26 in connection
with alleged money laundering
in the C6,000-crore drug racket case. ED has issued summons to Majithia, official
sources said, adding he is likely to be questioned on
December 26 at 11 am at the
directorates office in Jalandhar.
Majithia assured full cooperation with the ED. In fact,
I was not at home when the
summons was delivered at my
residence. With the motive of
cooperating, I contacted the
concerned Enforcement
Directorate official on phone
and directed my staff to
receive the summons immediately, he added.
Meanwhile, Punjab BJP
chief Kamal Sharma on Sunday
demanded Majithias resigna-

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minced no words, when he said
that Majithia should resign
forthwith following the prece-

dent set by BJP and SAD leaders. Even in Punjab, SAD

Minister Gulzar Singh Ranike
resigned when his name figured in a scam. Sarwan Singh
Phillaur resigned when his
sons name figured in the same
drug racket, he said.
Majithia is also the president
of the Youth Wing of the SAD
and younger brother of Union
Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal,
the wife of Punjab Deputy Chief
Minister Sukhbir Badal.
The ED, a specialised
financial investigation agency
under the Union Finance
Ministry, has been interrogating those involved in the international drug racket, which
was busted with the arrest of
an NRI, Anoop Singh Kahlon,
by the Fatehgarh Sahib police
in March 2013. Subsequent
investigation had led to the
arrest of alleged kingpin
Jagdish Bhola, a dismissed
DSP of Punjab Police, in
November last year.
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JP patriarch LK Advani on
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Sunday backed former
Prime Minister Atal Bihari

Vajpayees name for the

Bharat Ratna, calling him a
true patriot.
In an interview with the
CNN-IBN,
Advani said, A
Bharat Ratna for
Atal
Bihari
Vajpayee should
not be seen in
terms of a reward for doing his
duty but as an award that
recognises his stature. It would
be very appropriate and befitting for a patriot like Vajpayee.
Speculation is rife that
Vajpayee may be conferred
with the country's highest
civilian honour on the occasion of his birthday on
December 25. Advani was
among the first persons to
suggest that Vajpayee be given
the Bharat Ratna.
Detailed report on P5

he ongoing cold spell will

intensify further in major
part of the country. The India
Meteorological Department
(IMD) has predicted rain and
snowfall in Jammu & Kashmir
and Himachal Pradesh during
the next 24 hours. The 40-daylong Chillai-Kalan to mark the
onset of the harshest part of
winter in Jammu & Kashmir
began on Sunday.
The IMD has also predicted rain/thundershowers in
costal Tamil Nadu and parts of
Andaman & Nicobar Islands
on Tuesday.
Minimum temperatures in
most parts of the country are
below normal by 2 degrees to 4
degrees Celsius. The IMD has
warned that dense (visibility
200 m or less) to very dense fog
(visibility 50 m or less) over East
Uttar Pradesh and at isolated
places over north Madhya
Pradesh, Bihar, Sub-Himalayan
West Bengal & Sikkim, Assam &
Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur,
Mizoram & Tripura, would persist for the next two days.

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recorded at Churu in Rajasthan,
in the plains of the country.
Severe cold wave conditions
sweeping across the State has
affected normal life following

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northerly cold winds in most

parts of the State for the past 24
hours. According to weather
experts, cold wave conditions
would further aggravate in the
State in the coming week.
In Srinagar, mercur y

dipped further to record the

seasons lowest of minus 4.4
degrees C. Leh continued to be
the coldest place in the State
with minimum temperature at
minus 13.9 deg C.
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deter the treatment of a patient, as
researchers
from
Delhi
University's Department of
Biochemistry claim to have developed a safe and portable blood
substitute which can be used for
all blood groups.
Professor Suman Kundu, who
led the path-breaking research, has
applied for a patent for the laboratory-made haemoglobin.
Explaining the advantages of
laboratory-made haemoglobin,
Kundu said, "This lab-developed
haemoglobin is a safe and
portable blood substitute. It is
cheaper, blood group neutral,
easy to store, has longer shelf life,
and no associated risk of transmission of diseases.
He further said, "Traditional
blood transfusion practice is to
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transfusion is always woefully
shorter than the demand, due to
either a general aversion to
blood donation or inability
to donate blood due to medical
reasons."
Scientists have thus been
forced to look for alternatives to
donated blood, which are called
"artificial blood substitutes", "artificial haemoglobin" or "haemoglobin based oxygen carriers

(HBOC)".
According to Kundu,
researchers across the world
have been trying for years to
develop a portable blood substitute that functions as an oxygen carrier, is stable enough to
be stored for prolonged periods
in different conditions, and can
be used to treat individuals of
any blood type, but hadn't been
successful so far.
"The protein (haemoglobin)
easily releases a chemical com-

pound called heme due to its

breakdown under physiological
conditions. Heme is severely
toxic to the body when released
from the haemoglobin molecule," he said.
In India, one unit of blood
(350-400 cc) costs around C500800, while this blood substitute
will cost approximately 10-12 per
cent less than that. Moreover,
blood can be stored at blood
banks for 40-50 days, while the
substitute can be stored for three

years, Kundu claimed.

The DU researchers have discovered that the heme can be
tightly associated with haemoglobin by introducing a chemical
bond between the two.
"We changed one strategic
amino acid (building block of
proteins) in a model haemoglobin, named myoglobin, to a different amino acid which can
make the desired chemical bond.
The modified haemoglobin
showed all properties like normal
haemoglobin but did not release
'heme' under any experimental
conditions," he said.
According to Kundu, the
experiment can be implemented
in practice and made commercially viable in the next two to
three years.
The research finding has
been published in Journal of
Biological Chemistry (JBC), an
esteemed international scientific journal.

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a dentist can issue a death certificate.
The Union Health Ministry recently gave
a green signal to the long-pending
demand of the Dental Council of India
(DCI), empowering dental surgeons to
issue a death certificate.
DCI Secretary SK Ojha told The
Pioneer that so far only an MBBS doctor
was authorised to give a death certificate,
while dentists could not, even if the
patient had died during a dental procedure. Dental surgeons, despite studying
medicine, were not considered doctors.
Sometimes a tooth injury or an infection can also turn fatal, he explained.
The Dental Council of India had
been representing the demand of the dental faculty before the Union Health
Ministry for long, seeking power for them
to issue a death certificate in case a patient

dies while under their treatment.

The Governments move to authorise dental surgeons to issue a death certificate if a patient dies during the procedure has brought them at par with
MBBS doctors, said a senior member
of the DCI sub-committee, which
recently revised Code of Ethics
Regulations 2014.

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Regulations, Dentists can now declare
death if a patient dies in their care. The
Gazette notification in this regard has
been issued by the Ministry recently.
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dead and one critically
injured in South Delhis Hauz
Khas area on Sunday
afternoon. Prima facie the
three died due to lack of
oxygen as the only window in
the room was closed.
The bodies have been sent
to AIIMS for post-mortem
examination. No case has
been registered so far. The
incident is a stark reminder of
the dangers of starting a fire
or switching on the heater
inside a room with no
ventilation. Carbon monoxide
(CO) has been termed the
silent,
cold
weather
killer because you cant see it
or smell it. Make sure that

there is sufficient ventilation

in rooms where an open fire
is burning.
According to police, the
incident was reported around
12.45 pm on Sunday. There
was a party hosted at the
house of RK Oberoi on
Saturday night on the
occasion of his wifes birthday.
The party continued till the
early hours of Sunday. Oberoi
told his household helps to
close the door after the
caterers left and retired for the
night. The dead have been
identified as driver Santosh
(33), cook Rajesh (26) and
gardener Uday (45).
The injured person
identified as Munna (56) was
a friend of the three dead and
was also known to the family.
The four men turned in for
the night around 5.30 in the
morning after shutting the
gates. They slept in the servant
quarters located on the first
floor of the house. To stave off

the cold, they burnt coal in an

iron pan (tasla) and went to
bed. In the morning around
10.30 am, Oberoi called for
Santosh. Despite repeated
calls, Santosh did not answer
his mobile phone. He then
sent his domestic help
Lakshmi to check on the men.
Assuming that they drank
the previous night, Lakshmi
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something amiss, the
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CCTV cameras in 200
DTC buses, the Delhi
Government now plans to make
similar arrangements in orange
cluster buses plying in the
national Capital.
According to the Transport
Department, after collecting a
report on the operation of
CCTVs installed in Delhi
Transport Corporation (DTC)
buses, it will take up this project.
At present, there are 1,324
orange cluster buses being

operated by the Delhi

Integrated Multi-Modal Transit
System (DIMTS) while DTC
operates around 4,900 buses in
the Capital.
We are planning to install
CCTV cameras in cluster buses
as well. We are now awaiting
the report on the operation of
CCTV cameras installed in
DTCs 200 buses. Thereafter,
the
Government
will
proceed accordingly, said
a senior official of the
Transport Department.
DTC has already installed
CCTV cameras in 200 buses of
its fleet as part of a pilot project
to enhance security for people,
especially women. Three
CCTV cameras have been
installed in each bus.
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CCTVs in orange cluster buses.
If we get positive report on
CCTV cameras operation in
DTC buses, we will decide
how many cluster buses will be
included in first phase, the
official added.
We are monitoring
operation of CCTV cameras
installed in first phase. In
second phase, more buses will
come under this project, said

DTC spokesperson RS Minhas.

DTC Chairman and
Managing Director Debashree
Mukherjee had recently sought
C103.25 crore from the Centres
Nirbhaya Fund to install CCTV
cameras in its entire fleet to
enhance womens security.
In the aftermath of the
December 16 gangrape, DTC
had also started providing two
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is back on the rails. The
Delhi Metro Museum, touted
as South Asias first modern
tube museum, is finally set to
get a dedicated complex at
North-East Delhis Shastri
Park that would serve the twin
purpose of entertainment
and education.
Delhi Metro Railway
Corporation (DMRC) has been
allotted 12,000 sq. m of land
right next to Shastri Park Metro
station for this purpose, which
authorities said would be easily
accessible due to its proximity
to the station.
Land identification and
allotment has been done for an
independent building at a large
plot of land adjacent to the
Shastri Park Metro station,
making it easily accessible.
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poured water on them and
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due to lack of adequate space.
We plan to set up an
elaborate museum there which
will cover all aspects of Metro
functioning, a DMRC
spokesperson said, adding it
will also have facilities for
school and college students to
visit in groups.
Officials said that new
exhibits would be added to the
new museum, to chart the
Metros journey from its
inception to its current rapidly
growing stage, which could not
be done in the operational one.
The museum, a brainchild
of DMRC chief spokesperson
Anuj Dayal, in its present
capacity houses exhibits such as
working models of trains,
replicas of tunnel boring
machines, souvenirs apart from
several pictorial informational
panels charting the history of
the Metro network.
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promote history among the
people, DMRC has also put up
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and the bodies have been sent
for post-mortem. Additional
DCP, South district Pramod
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was being investigated
even though it appears to be
a case of negligence on the
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said no one can be permitted
to take over the States
function while awarding life
term to a gunman for firing at
a man who was sitting in his
car with a woman friend and
consuming alcohol.
The court sentenced 32year-old Sandeep Kumar, a
resident of Har yana, to
rigorous life term for shooting
Virender with his licensed
rifle at point blank range
which led to his death.
Additional Sessions Judge
Kamini Lau said there can be
no justification for any killing
and strict action was required
to be taken against those

indulging into such acts.

A private security guard
waving a licensed revolver to
scare or threaten a young
couple sitting in a private
vehicle outside a wine shop is
an act which perhaps may
offend the social sensibilities
of some, but this act of use of
firearm in this manner is
totally unjustified and illegal,
the court said.
I may observe that of late
large numbers of instances of
moral policing by groups and
individuals, all in the name of
preserving the culture of the
country have come to light
and most of the time the
targets
are
young
women. No doubt, public
behaviour of individuals has
to conform to social
sensibilities but having said
so, it is equally important for
me to observe that the courts
of law cannot permit our
country which is governed by
Rule of Law to be run over by
individuals and groups
indulging into moral

policing by taking over the

functions of the State, the
judge said.
The court diluted the
charge of murder and
convicted Kumar for the
offence of culpable homicide
not amounting to murder.
It also imposed a fine of
C1.02 lakh on Kumar and
said, if realised, C1 lakh be
given to the family members
of 30-year-old Virender.
According
to
the
prosecution, the incident took
place on August 20, 2011
when Virender was sitting in
his car with his friend outside
a wine shop in Ashok Vihar
area and they were
consuming beer.
Sandeep was employed
with a private firm as a
gunman and on the day of
incident he had come to the
wine shop in a cash collection
van along with the cashiers
and driver.
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parking dispute between
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Spokesperson of AIIMS
Dr Amit Gupta said, AIIMS is
visited by large number of
patients and many camp
outside the institution failing to
secure a bed. We have set up
this temporary night shelter.
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set up mental health units
in all its correctional and
destitute homes for women
and children to help the
inmates realise their potential
and join the mainstream.
A team of three to
f ive exp er ts, including
psychiatrists, counsellors and
psychologists, has been
deployed in each home and
they have been mandated
with the responsibility of
doing complete psychological
profiling of the inmates who
come with histories of abuse,
neglect, violence and trauma.
It has been two weeks
since these mental health units
were set up in all the homes for
women and children in
partnership with NGOs.
Earlier, these services were
restricted to juvenile homes.
But now it has been formally
set up in all homes with greater
number of staff who are
technically qualified, said
Saumya Gupta, Director of the
Department of Women &
Child Development of the
Delhi Government.
The experts also provide
other
facilities
like
family counselling, anger
management, career and
emotional counselling and
also medication, if needed,
said Gupta.
Also these experts are
available round-the-clock
and they could be reached
any time in the day or night
in case of an emergency,
said Gupta.
The department has
formed a monitoring
and evaluation committee
comprising experts from the
Institute of Human Behaviour
and Allied Sciences, AIIMS
and Delhi University, which
will assess and monitor the
quality of ser vices on
quarterly basis.
The idea is to help them
realise their potential and bring
them into the mainstream,
Gupta added.

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All India Institute of
Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has
collaborated with the Central
Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to
set up a temporary 40-bed
night shelters outside its dental
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ensure that those patients who
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added that AIIMS is also
coming up with a new 200-bed
permanent night shelter that
would be ready by 2015.
The hospital has received C29
crore from the Power Grid
Corporation for building the
permanent facility.
Gupta said that a large
number of patients coming to
AIIMS for treatment are from
neighbouring States like Uttar
Pradesh and Bihar, who in the
absence of getting a bed either
make their own arrangements or
else camp outside the hospital.
The hospital already has a
160-bed night shelter located
on the campus of the Trauma
Centre, being run jointly with
the CRPF. There is another
500-bed night shelter at the
hospitals east campus near
Safdarjung Hospital.

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woman were consuming beer,
Sandeep started staring at
her which was objected by
them. This led to an
altercation between Virender
and Sandeep who came near
the car and a scuffle took
place in which a shot was
fired killing the victim and
injuring the woman.
They were taken to a
hospital where Virender, who
was shot at his head, was
declared brought dead by the
doctors and the girl was
treated for injury on her
finger.
Sandeep was also held
guilty for causing hurt by
dangerous weapon, word or
gesture intended to insult the
modesty of a woman under
IPC and under provision of
the Arms Act.
Sandeep sought leniency
on the ground that he has to
support his family and has a
bright future and any harsh
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committed suicide while 16
others attempted suicide in
Delhi prisons in the past three
years. Prison authorities
claimed that most of these
inmates took the extreme step
due to mental stress.
Delhi has two jail
complexes, one at Tihar which
is the largest jail complex in
the world comprising nine
Central prisons while the
other one is the District Prison
at Rohini prison complex.
The total number of
inmates in the 10 prisons is
around 12,000 as against the
sanctioned capacity of 6,250.
According to official data,
11 prisoners committed
suicide and 16 attempted to
end their lives during the past
three years till September 30,
2014. Ram Singh, the main
accused in the December 16
gangrape case, allegedly
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In order to prevent such
incidents, prison authorities
have set up Gumsum
Panchayat in every ward,
members of which identify
prisoners who are under stress
and they are provided
counselling by Welfare Officers
and counsellors of NGOs.
Meanwhile,
official
records revealed that 40
prisoners could not be
released even after they were
granted parole/bail, as on

December 11, due to nonavailability of surety and

financial restraints.
The authorities have
installed 32 cell phone
jammers to rule out any
possibility of use of mobile
phones by the inmates inside
jail premises.
As many as 258 CCTVs
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Delhi jails to keep surveillance
over the activities of prisoners
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sound
programmes, laser shows,
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amphitheatre and a meditation
garden are among the facilities
planned by the East Delhi
Municipal
Corporation
(EDMC) as part of the C22
crore Welcome Lake redevelopment project in Shahdara.
The lake situated in
Welcome area in EDMCs
Shahdara (North) Zone is to be
redeveloped into an area
spanning 17 acres and work
would be executed in two phases,
an official said on Sunday.
East
Delhi
Mayor
Meenakshi laid the foundation
stone of the project on Saturday
to kickstart the redevelopment

work, the official added.

The water of the lake
would be treated using
Phytorid Technology. The total
cost of the project is C22 crore.
The first phase would take
nine months and cost about
C22 lakh and would involve
treatment of the water. The
second phase will comprise
redevelopment of the park and
garden around the lake, a
senior official of EDMC said.
The redeveloped lake would
have light and sound show, laser
show, cafteria, amphitheatre,
meditation garden and walkways
besides other park furniture,
the official said.
Welcome Lake, a landmark

in East Delhi, earlier also had the

facility of a musical fountain, but
later fell into disuse.
A musical fountain was
started in the lake about seveneight years ago under the then
unified Municipal Corporation
of Delhi, but it stopped working
later, he said.
Besides, EDMC has also set
the ball rolling to build a 28-acre
amusement park in Tahirpur
area. After the closure of Appu
Ghar, it would be the only
amusement park of the Capital,
once opened. The Standing
Committee has already passed
the project. The project will be
taken up on a public-privatepartnership basis, he said.

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Delhi Police top brass feel
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that the force performed its
duties and came out trumps
against criminals and gangsters
despite the city registering
more than double the First
Information Reports (FIRs)
under various heads than the
previous year.
The spurt in crime rate has
been unprecedented with Delhi

Police Commissioner BS Bassi

attributing it to the policy of
free and fair registration. Bassi
called it truthful registration
of crime and that women were
more confident than ever to get
their perpetrators booked.
The crime figures paint a
gloomy picture as crime
recorded in the city almost
doubled than what it was last
year. According to Delhi Police
data, the force registered a
total of 1,39,773 cases under
various sections of IPC till
November 15 of the current
year. The same figure stood at
69,298 cases in the corresponding period last year. Till
November 15 of this year, a
total of 1,985 cases of rape and
4,004 of molestation were reg-

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(AAP) on Sunday raised
questions at the BJP and asked
them to break their silence on
whether they have any secret
deal with extreme Right wing
organisations like the Hindu
Mahasabha for installation of
busts of Mahatma Gandhis
assassin, Nathuram Godse in
Delhi and other main cities of
the country.
The
party
added,
Condemnable statements
from such dangerous organisations are increasing everyday
and the BJP must reveal
whether it had made any such
promise before the Lok Sabha
elections to get the support of
these groups. It is shocking that
the Hindu Mahasabha is openly displaying the bust of the
assassin of the Father of the
Nation at its office in Central
Delhi and a blind eye is being
deliberately turned to such a
dangerous development.
The party questioned the
BJP on whether it supports the
Hindu Mahasabhas assessment
that Nathuram Godse was a
nationalist. A statement issued
by the party said, If the BJP
does not agree with this assessment, why is the Union Home
Ministry not taking any action
against the organisation openly praising and planning to
felicitate the assassin of Father
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worked for the BJP during the
Lok Sabha elections. The Delhi
Police should not be silent
when an organisation is publicly displaying and sending
photographs of the bust of
Nathuram Godses bust from its
Mandir Marg office.
Furthering this matter,
AAP leaders said they will
peacefully protest any
attempt to praise the assassin
of Mahatma Gandhi as
the party views it as a deliberate attempt to promote
extremely intolerant views,
which will harm the countrys
image across the globe.

istered. In 2013, a total 73,958

IPC cases were registered out
of which 1,559 were rapes
while 3,347 cases were of
molestation.
Spectre of the horrendous
gangrape of a 23 year paramedic in a moving bus still
looms large and the security of
women has been the bane of
Delhi Police ever since that
dark night of December 16,
2012. The rape of a 27-year-old
woman executive by a Uber
cabbie stirred the conscience of
the city. Delhi Police was quick
to arrest the 32-year-old
accused Shiv Kumar Yadav.
However, the rape has once
more raised the security of
women travelling at night in
the national Capital.

s a part of its Operation

Milap, Delhi Polices
A
Crime Branch has reunited a
17-year-old girl lodged at a
childrens home with her family. A team of Anti-Human
Trafficking Unit (AHTU) on
December 19 reached Ashraya
Family Home, a childrens
home at Madanpur Dabas and
examined the records of
children lodged there.
During examination, one
girl appeared nervous and on
sustained compassionate persuasion, she revealed that her
father is a roadside stone seller in Ludhiana, Punjab and that

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She used to visit fairs
with her parents to sell balloons. In September, one
Rinku allegedly lured her to
come to Delhi and they stayed
in Bawana area for 10 days
after which he left her. Later
on, she was found by police
and sent to the Ashraya

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n a significant development,
children of Tibetan refugees
born in India between the cutoff date of 1950 and 1987 would
be eligible for enrolment in the
voters list for the Delhi
Assembly elections, officials
said on Sunday. This marks a
watershed development for the
Tibetan refugees who reside in
Delhis Majnu Ka Tilla, which is
one of the largest Tibetan settlements falling under Chandni
Chowk constituency.
According to the order
issued to Delhis Chief Electoral
Office by the Election
Commission of India, dated
December 8, children of Tibetan
refugees born in India between
the cut-off date of 1950 and 1987
are eligible for enrollment in
Delhi, Deputy Chief Electoral
Officer AK Srivastava said.
The Ministry of Home
Affairs (MHA) though, is in
principle, against giving voting
rights to all refugees living in
India... But, the Electoral
Registration Officers (EROs)
concerned should not deny
enrolment to children of such
Tibetan refugees, the order said.
According to the ECI
guidelines, those Tibetans
born in India on or after
January 26, 1950, but before
July 1, 1987, have the right to
exercise their franchise.
The guidelines came into
force following an August 2013
Karnataka High Court order
which paved the way for
granting Indian citizenship to
Tibetan refugees.

Family Home on September

17. Due to the fear of social
stigma she had not revealed
her details before, she said,
R avindra Yadav, Joint
Commissioner of Police
(Crime Branch).
Subsequently, a team lead
by DCP Dinesh Kumar Gupta
was able to trace the parents and
was rushed to Ludhiana. The
police station concerned was
intimated about the same as
well. Crime Branch has started
a drive to link missing children
with the parents. The police
have been asked to screen and
document all the children residing in shelter homes, railway
platforms, bus stands, roads,
religious places and others.

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Capitals Baba Kharak
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Singh Marg will play host to its
fifth Dilli Ke Pakwaan festival
where some 40 street vendors
will prepare mouthwatering
dishes. Organised by the Delhi
Tourism Department, the event
is aimed at providing space to
street food vendors in the
region. The initiative, according to the officials, may usher
in a new wave of vibrancy in
the street food arena.
Sudhir
Sobti,
the
spokesperson for Delhi
Tourism, said it was this time
of the year when people are on
an exploration drive to savour
diverse flavours. Our Dilli Ke
Pakwaan festival is the perfect
destination to enjoy the culinary multiplicity. Here flavours
dont end and a dish as homespun as dosa has infusion of
flavours when cooked in a
Punjabi kitchen than the tra-

ditional South Indian one!

Not only restricted to food,
the Dilli Ke Pakwaan will also
be host to numerous activities
like recipe competition, food
photography crash course,
expert food talk, musical
evenings, art and craft section
along with others. Dilli Dil Se,
recipe competition-cum-food
talk will allow people to freely
drop their secret recipes and
earn recognition, and pioneering expert from the industry
will also be conducting talks on
healthy food and special diets.
Dilli Belly, a food photography workshop will
impart the skill of clicking

Outer Delhis Bawana around

Muharram over route of the
procession after a maha
panchayat objected to it. The
procession was then allowed to
proceed under heavy police
presence in a subdued manner
after Delhi Police met with the
elders of the society.
The year also saw a steep
rise in the cases of attacks on
policemen. Till December 15,
more than 300 such cases
were reported, including one
in which an Assistant
Commissioner of Police (ACP)
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South Delhi on October 17.
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injured in the entire 2013.
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was the arrest of IMs operations chief Akhtar, alias Monu,
who was arrested from IndoNepal border on March 25. His
arrest had come days after
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nabbed from Ajmer in

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Isuccessfully
doctors at Apollo Hospitals
separated rare thoraco-omphalopagus twins who
were joined at the lower chest
and abdomen. Technical and
medical expertise helped prevent excessive blood loss during the separation, which was
one of the most crucial aspects
of the surgery along with precise division of the shared
structures. Exactly a year back,
Ericana and Eluidi, also from
Tanzania, were the first pair of
pygopagus male twins to be
successfully separated in India
by Apollo Hospitals.
Hailing from Dar-esSalaam, Tanzanian twins
Abriana and Adriana, of eightand-a-half months, were operated for 11 hours by a team of
50 staff members, including
surgeons, nurses and intensive
care specialists. Father Jimmy
Mtemi and mother Carolyn
Zakaria were visibly elated
post the procedure.
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light racial abuse and targeting
of people from the North-East
in the national capital. Delhi
Police, which drew a lot of flak
in the case, has since then set
up a new unit and a helpline
number 1093 to address any
grievance faced by people from
the North-East.
Special Cell of Delhi Police
made several arrests of key
members of banned Indian
Mujahideen (IM) in the current
year, including its chief Tehseen
Akhtar. It did face challenges in
dealing with Trilokpuri riots but
managed to quell it by sustained
police action that included flying drones to keep a tab on the
troublemongers. Communal
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Minister Shashi Tharoor, who
was found dead at a five-star
hotel on January 17 remains the
biggest mystery of the year with
conspiracy theories flying thick
and fast but no concrete development taking place in the
probe. The recent robberycum-murder near an ATM in
North Delhi has not been
cracked as yet despite Delhi
Police moving mountains.
Another case which made
headlines this year was the
death of Nido Tania, son of
a Congress MLA from
Arunachal Pradesh, who was
allegedly beaten by some
shopkeepers in South Delhi.
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beautiful photos using basic

camera devices/mobile
phones. Sobti said that visitors
will be given a chance to
embellish the venue through
on-spot paintings of autorickshaw installations under the
banner Rang De Dilli.
The entire venue will be
themed to showcase the vivid
culture and traditions of Delhi.
Cultural presentations, sale
and presentation of handicrafts and handlooms items
along with engrossing talk
shows will be accompanying
the foodies for a complete and
delightful package, said Sobti.
A musical delight, Delhi

Unplugged, will offer melodious evenings full of genres

such as Indipop, Sufi, Qawwali
along with other youth centric
tracks. With food being the
major offering, the festival is all
set to be full of entertainment
and series of activities.
In a special societal
welfare opportunity at Dilli
Ke Pakwaan, an NGO
Antardrishti, along with its
sister project Antarkranti, will
showcase its exquisite products
at the venue. Antardrishti
works towards the benefit of
visually impaired while
Antarkranti helps in rehabilitation and reformation of
prison inmates. All the revenue
generated from the sale of
these products will go to the
benefit of the physically challenged. From a wide range of
aromatherapy products to
exquisite handicrafts of modern art, the venue will be a
mixed bag of admirable items
and gastronomic delights.

reported after separation from

various parts of India.
Aradhana and Stuthi were the
only pair of twins with two
hearts in one cavity a
condition similar to the case of
the Tanzanian twins. Though
separation was successful,
Aradhana
died
after
three weeks reportedly after
heart attacks.
Adriana and Abriana beat
incredible odds to survive this
rare procedure, which involved
separation of the pericardium
(heart lining), diaphragm and
the connected livers. Conjoined
births are rare one in 50,000
to one in a lakh. However, more
than 35 per cent die after birth,
said hospital officials.
An important aspect of
the surgery is the careful closure of the huge defect created by the separation. After the
separation, Adrianas heart had
to be covered with bovine
pericardium and carefully
closed with skin and soft tissue.
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teams to provide cover for the
heart, liver and intestine,
added Dr KS Sivakumar,
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Hospital performed a rare
heart surgery by using minimum incision of only two
inches at the left side of the
chest and successfully performed four grafts, which is a
rare attempt as only one or two
grafts have been done so far.
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him suggested that four
bypass grafts are required.
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a small incision in the left
chest. This was a high risk case
as chances of heart becoming
unstable were high and patient
could collapse in such a situation. Expert hands, strict monitoring, modern infrastructure, better implants and surgical instruments available
now significantly improve the
overall quality of treatment.
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grafts successfully with a small
incision through Minimal
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Tarn Taran: Close on the heels

of deaths of ducks at Sukhna
lake in Chandigarh, over 300
crows have died under mysterious circumstances in neighbouring Tarn Taran district.
Confirming the incident
Deputy Commissioner Tarn
Taran Balwinder Singh
Dhariwal on Sunday said that
all the dead crows were buried
after they were found dead at
village Bigayari falling in the
district Tarn Taran.
He said that samples have
been sent to Chandigarh to find
out the cause of death of more
than three hundred crows
under mysterious circumstances.
Dhariwal said that Deputy
Director of Animal Husbandry
of the district have been asked
to remain alert and remain in
touch with the state headquarters and experts in the field.
The deaths of crows caused
panic among poultry farm
owners in the region.
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avian influenza and died at
Chandigarh's Sukhna lake,
some 110 ducks were culled to
prevent possible spread of bird
flu in the region in
Chandigarh.
PTI

Bhubaneswar: The CBI on

Sunday interrogated Seashore
Group CMD Prashant Das
wife Jyotirani Sarangi and two
functionaries of the company
in connection with the chit
fund scam.
Seashore chief s spouse,
along with two employees of
the company, reached the CBI
office here at about 3.30 pm to
face the interrogation.
Sources said that Das
wife was quizzed for about
one and a half hours while
branch manager and cashier
of the companys Brahmapur
branch were questioned for
over two hours.
The CBI interrogated Das
wife, a member of the board of
directors of the Seashore
Group, about the transfer of
money from the companys
accounts to her personal
account in the immediate aftermath of her husbands arrest by
the Crime Branch last year,
sources said.
Earlier, the CBI had grilled
Das son Pradeep on November
9 and 16 as he was suspected to
be managing the companys
affair after Das arrest. PNS

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llegal mining continues to

pose a threat to the peace and
tranquillity of the region as
gang war to establish their
supremacy over illegal mining
in the Terai pocket of
Uttarakhand is expected to get
intensified in the coming days
following the killing of an exstudent union leader Pratap
Bisht in Shaktifarm in Sitarganj,
Udham Singh Nagar, on
December 13.
Though the Udham Singh
Nagar police claimed to have
arrested eight people in connection with the murder of the
said ex-student union leader,
people fear that the supporters
of the slain student leader may
gang up to avenge the killing of
their leader.
An old hand in Kumaon
affairs said after getting his two
associates killed in the hands of
the rival gang in 2002 over the
same mining issue, the slain exstudent leader Bisht and his
associates eliminated Yogendra
Singh, alias Yogi of rival group
in 2003 in Shantipuri in
Udham Singh Nagar suspecting

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Since then the slain ex-student leader Bisht was having his
supremacy over illegal mining
in Sitarganj area. At the same
time, his rival group had been
waiting for the right moment to
kill Bisht in revenge of Yogi.
Finally, they managed to eliminate Bisht in December 13,
when he was sitting in his
friends shop in Sitarganj.
Whereas mining and collection of riverbed materials
here from the Gola river have
come as a huge source of livelihood for thousands of people,
the same have also added to the

vulnerability of peace and tranquillity of this entire Terai

Bhawar region.
Illegal mining resulting in
gang war and murder and
gruesome killing of a sevenyear-old girl after being raped
by the labourers associated
with collection of the riverbed
material works here from the
Gola river in November only
creates such impression.
The fact of the matter is
that presently the collection of
riverbed materials here from
the Gola river is going on. But
politics seems to have come in
the way of the State
Government to deal with the
illegal mining that goes unabated in Uttarakhand.
The Opposition parties
have raised the issue of illegal
mining time and again.
Though Chief Minister Harish
Rawat during his recent
Kumaon visit claimed to have
directed the officials concerned of Nainital and Udham
Singh Nagar district administrations to strictly deal with
the mafia involved in illegal
mining, it seems little has
been done on the ground to
check the same.

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Ajmer: A row broke out
between the Dargah Committee
of the historic shrine of Khawaja
Moinuddin Chisti and the
Khadim community there over
the right to receive offerings
after the visit of Bangladeshi
President Abdul Muhammad
Hamid here on Sunday.
After completing rituals,
the President of Bangladesh
came out of the shrine and
called the Dargah Committee
president Asrar Ahmed Khan
through an official outside the
main gate and handed a closed
envelope of offerings to Khan
for the development of Dargah.
Moments later, when the
VIP cavalcade was leaving, the
Khadim community and the
secretary of Anjuman
Committee (body of Khadims),
Wahid Angarah Shah shouted
at Khan for taking the envelope,
saying that only Khadims have
right over the Nazrana (offering) and not the DC. Over 20
Khadims gheraoed Khan and
demanded the offerings from
him, upon which Khan handed over the envelope to Shah.
"One of the delegation
member called me on behalf of
the President (of Bangladesh)
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Dera Sacha Sauda sect
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head Gurmeet Ram Rahim
Singh has again landed in a
controversy after different Sikh
organisations have demanded
a ban on his film, which releases early next year.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim
Singh stars in the film
Messenger of God due for
release next month where he
has not only directed the film
but plays the lead role and sung
its playback
Akal
Takht
head
Gurbachan Singh said the sect
head is facing murder and
rape charges and his film is
meant to confuse the people.
The content of the film will
hurt the religious sentiments of
Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims, he
said urging the Punjab
Government to impose a ban
on the upcoming film.
All India Sikh Students
Federation (AISSF) head
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ban on the release of the film.
He said Akal Takht in the
recent past has already asked
people not to attend religious
congregations held by the sect
head and it was the duty of Sikh
organisations not to allow the
release of the film.
Akal Takht had earlier
objected the Sirsa-based sect
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building situated in a narrow
lane in Old Delhi's Churiwalan
area on Sunday collapsed, an
official has said. No person has
been reported injured so far, a
senior official of the North
Delhi Municipal Corporation
(NDMC) said.
"The two-storeyed building
was old and located in a narrow
lane of Gali Kashmerian in
Churiwalan area. Only one
woman was residing in a single room in the building, and
she is safe," he said.
"Since the street is narrow,
our staff is busy manually
clearing away the debris right
now," the official said.
He said "as of now, reports
are trickling in, and one doesn't know yet, if any passer-by
was injured or not. It does not
appear to be a case of illegal
construction but the condition
of the old building".
Earlier, four persons were
killed when a four-storey building had collapsed in Inderlok
area in north Delhi in June.
A three-storey building in
Bara Hindu Rao area in Sadar
Paharganj Zone had collapsed
in October, claiming lives of a
father-son duo. According to a
report released by the NDMC
in October, on the conditions
of houses and dangerous building in north Delhi for 2013-14,
a total of 28 houses were found
as dangerous.
PTI

lowers in Punjab.
SAD spokesman and cabinet Minister Daljeet Singh
Cheema said any decision on
the film will be taken once it
is released on January 16. If
something is found objectionable in the film, the government will approach the
film censor board to ban it,
he said.
The AISSF even demanded a probe on from where the
Dera head got money to produce a film. Shiromani Akali
Dal (SAD-Mann) head
Simranjit Singh Mann too
sought a ban on the film as
Gurmeet, who is in the lead
role is already facing trial in a
murder and rape case.
MSG shows the Dera head
wearing flashy outfits and performing stunts like emerging
from ice and dancing and
singing. However, the Dera
officials said the sect head is
working to eradicate social
evils, including female foeticide, and intake of drugs
besides contibuting to cleanliness drive.

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Majithias name had first
surfaced in the case when the
alleged kingpin in the racket,
Jagdish Singh Bhola, who is
also an international wrestler,
claimed that the youth Akali
leader and Damanvir Singh,
son of then Punjab Jail
Minister Swaran Singh
Phillaur, had assisted him in
procuring synthetic chemicals
and precursors from owners
of pharmaceutical units in
Himachal Pradesh and
Punjab.
The issue had then gained
political trajectory and while
the Opposition Congress had
used it to attack the Badals, it
had forced the BJP to distance
itself from the Akalis.

The Revenue Minister

said he was clear in his mind
that the truth should surface
and the malicious campaign
should stop.
I know I am innocent
but continue to be subjected
to a media trial. Certain leaders, including Punjab
Congress president Partap
Singh Bajwa, have even gone
to court but failed to present
any evidence against me and
now are trying to create a
wrong perception against me
through the media. All
allegations are baseless and
are not backed by any
evidence.
He asserted that he was all
for a thorough investigation
into the matter to end the

political witch hunt which

he was being subjected to on
a daily basis for over a year.
He, however, asserted there
was no basis for the investigation. It was unfortunate
that few political leaders rode
piggy back on the allegations
to tarnish my image.
I would also like to state
that five central investigating
agencies under the Congress
led UPA regime had gone into
the allegations leveled against
me and found nothing.
Similarly the PIL filed by few
Congress leaders against me
was also dismissed by the
High Court with the petitioners being told not to
politicise the drug issue,
he added.

envelope for the development of

the shrine. But the Khadims
started claiming the Nazrana and
surrounded me and I had to give
it to the Anjuman committee,"
president of the Dargah committee Asrar Ahmed Khan told
PTI. He said that the amount was
given to the committee only, for
the development of the shrine.
"Khadims have right if the
offering is made inside the
dome but the envelope was
given outside the dargah and
specifically to the Dargah committee," he said.
As per the rule, Khadims are
only entitled to receive offering
made in the sanctum sanctorum.
Angar Shah, Secretary of Anjuman panel, said only Khadims
have right over the Nazrana.
"There is no point of
Dargah committee accepting or
claiming the offering. It was for
Khadims only," he said.
The Dargah Committee
comprising of nine members is
nominated by the Central government under the Dargah
Khawaja Sahab Act 1955 which
allows the Dargah committee to
receive offerings for development purpose whereas Nazrana
offered to Khadims becomes his
personal belonging.
PTI

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Meanwhile, Kargil recorded a low of
minus 13 deg C.
In Himachal Pradesh, cold conditions prevailed with lakes and other natural sources of water as springs, rivulets
and tributaries of major rivers frozen in
high altitude areas.
Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh
also got enveloped by fog with visibility less than 350 metres.
The weather scientists have pre-

dicted that the day as well as night temperatures will continue to fall in the
region in days ahead with no respite
from foggy conditions.
The minimum temperatures varied
between 1 deg C and 5 deg C below normal in the region. Narnaul in Haryana
was the coldest place with a record low
of 1.6 deg C, four degrees below normal.
The minimum temperature at Amritsar
was 3.8 deg C.
Several parts of Telengana are also

under the grip of cold wave. As per the

forecast of the Met Department moderate cold wave conditions would prevail
in Adilabad, Nizamabad, Medak, and
Hyderabad for the next three days.
The lowest recorded temperatures
are in Adilabad (4 deg C), Medak,
Nizamabad and Ramagundam (9 deg C).
The drop in temperature is because
of the winds from the north and
the north-east, according to weather
scientists.

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There are 305 dental colleges across the States and
presently there are 93,332
dentists in the country. This
is too less when compared to
medical doctors. India has 6.5
physicians per 10,000 population while less than 1 dentist (0.8) per 10,000 population. This is a matter of concern given that oral disease
burden in India is very high,
as per a WHO report.

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The reasons for misinvoicing include Export
Proceeds
Surrender
Requirement (EPSR), extent of
capital account openness (if
openness is not accompanied
by stronger governance) and
overall governance in the
country (mis-implementation
of law and corruption).
Other reasons for outflow
of black money are mis-invoicing of trade in services,
Hawala transaction, and dealing in bulk cash (for drug trafficking, smuggling, other
criminal activities).
With over-invoicing of
exports and under-invoicing
imports being the prime drivers of illicit financial flows,
the panel is learnt to have
directed the Central Board of
Excise and Customs (CBEC)
to cover all ports under the
Electronic Data Interchange

(EDI) and avoid manual

billing.
The SIT has also sought a
detailed list of individual companies where export transaction was more than Rs 50 crore
for the last three years. The
CBEC is expected to furnish
the name of the firms, directors of the company, nature of
items exported and destination
of the exported items, sources
said.
The SIT has further directed the (Directorate General of
Foreign Trade (DGFT) and
Central Board of Excise and
Customs (CBEC) that for all
the export cases where the
value of transaction is more
than Rs 1 crore, it should
necessarily be done through
digital means/EDI.
In its bid to check TradeBased Money Laundering, the
SC-constituted body is
believed to have directed the

DGFT to exercise due

diligence while issuing the
Import Export Code which is
the unique number of shipping bill.
The move comes in the
wake of a large number of
instances especially in
Mumbai where bogus Import
Export Code were detected
which can be a major source
of generation of black money.
To check this, the DGFT has
been advised to introduce a
column in the Shipping
Bill for mentioning the World
Market Price.
Following the SIT investigation, the Government is
planning to amend Section 24
of the Customs Act, 1962 so
that the reply to Show Cause
notices issued by Department
of Revenue Intelligence could
be given in a time bound
manner, possibly within 21
days.

The expression reasonable time under Section 24 of

the Customs Act is vague
CBEC and DRI are formulating a proposal to do away with
the provision.
The Revenue Department
is developing a software application on a common platform where 360 degree information about financial transactions is available for seamless transfer for data from
one department to another for
tax realisation.
India is also taking an
initiative to sign separate Tax
Information and Exchange
Agreement with such countries/jurisdictions that are
reluctant in signing the Double
Taxation
Avoidance
Agreement (DTAA).
The move is being taken as
a legislative framework with a
foreign jurisdiction is the first
requirement for exchange of

banking information as well as

information
without
domestic interest.
Specific changes in
Foreign
Exchange
Management Act and
Prevention of Money
Laundering Act are also being
contemplated.
This includes comprehensive examination of definition of the concept of beneficial ownership to check illicit
financial transactions.
The cause for illicit financial flow and generation of
black money is greater openness and liberalisation in an
environment of weak regulatory enforcing mechanism.
The panel has also expressed
concerns over the cases of
Income Tax Department and
Customs Department pending
for years together in relevant
courts.
In view of the regulatory

laws failing in creating a deterrent effect on the tax offenders, substantial improvements
in tax administration are
underway.
The tightening of the provisions relating to punishment of tax evaders, statutory
backing to the present system
of door-to-door surveys and
transforming the tax enforcement system more officerbased than clerk-based can go
a long way in checking generation and transaction of black
money, sources said, adding
measures should be taken to
provide for presumption in
favour of tax department in
case of seizure of articles or
written submission made by
the tax offenders.
During
tax-related
proceedings in courts, the
offenders often shift the onus
of veracity on the tax department.

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Accusing the BJP and the
RSS of playing double game,
the Left party said the hidden
agenda behind this move was
to divide the society under
communal lines.
The BJP and the
RSS are indulging in
doublespeak by talking about religious
conversions. The
RSS organisations
are conducting a
reconversion campaign targeting the minorities. RSS
chief Mohan Bhagwat has
justified this reconversion as
bringing back people to their
original faith. The episode of
reconversion in Agra has
exposed how false assurances

and inducements were used

for reconversion.
At the same time BJP and
RSS leaders are demanding a
law to ban forcible religious
conversions. There is no need
for such a law as
Ar ticle 25 of the
Indian Constitution
provides for freedom
of conscience and free
profession, practice
and propagation of
religions. If there is
any forcible conversion it is
already covered under Indian
Penal Code (Section 153(a))
as it classif ies forcible
attempts in the name of religion as a criminal offence,
said the Politburo in a statement.

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LK Advani on Sunday did not
rule out return of an era of
coalition politics in India, saying this was possible in a country as diverse and variegated
as it.
Advani gave his assessment on the possibility of the
return of coalition politics at a
time when Prime Minister
Narendra Modi is leading a full
majority Government.
I would not say that. I still
believe that a country as diverse
and variegated as India may
throw another coalition
Government again, Advani
told CNN-IBN when asked
whether he thought that the era
of coalition politics or coalition
Government is over in India.
Advani said in a country
like India everyone should be
prepared for all eventualities.
Its not very common to
have a Government of a kind

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there in the earlier years of
(post) Independence or even
Vajpayees own Government.
For some time it was virtually
not
a
coalition
Government. It can be anything. In a country like India
you should be prepared for all
eventualities, he said.
On other issues, Advani
said it would be very appropriate and befitting for a patriot like former Prime Minister
and BJP leader Atal Bihari
Vajpayee if he is bestowed

Bharat Ratna.
Speculation is rife that
Vajpayee may be conferred
with the countrys highest
civilian honour on the occasion of his birthday on
December 25. Advani was
among the first persons to suggest that Vajpayee be given the
Bharat Ratna.
Advani also said he did not
believe that the then Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi was not
aware of the constitutional
provisions allowing for declaration of Emergency that was

imposed in 1975.
I cannot accept that, said
Advani, adding, I feel that the
Emergency during Indira
Gandhis period has been a bad
mark, spot for Indirajis career.
Advani was among top
Opposition leaders who were
jailed during Emergency.
President Mukherjee in his
just released book, The
Dramatic Decade: the Indira
Gandhi Years said Gandhi
was not aware of the constitutional provisions allowing for
declaration of Emergency and
it was Siddartha Shankar Ray
who led her into the decision.
Asked whether the time has
come for the new Government
to acknowledge Vajpayees contributions with Bharat Ratna,
Advani said, I dont think
Bharat Ratna is appropriate as
a reward or something that
Vajpayee has contributed to
the country, whatever he has
done, he has been doing his
duty both as a patriot well as the
person assigned for the responsibility of becoming the PM of
the country.

He has been doing his

duty and I do not think in terms
of Bharat Ratna being a reward
for performing once duty.
Though if he is given Bharat
Ratna, as I have myself suggested once, it would be very appropriate and befitting for a patriot like Vajpayee, Advani said.
Advani did not agree that
when it came to naming BJPs
prime ministerial candidate he
conceded the space for Vajpayee.
Very often it is thought
that I conceded the space, it
was his natural space. I always
regarded him as my leader. I in
fact, have been saying now
these days after these interviews that for me he was a role
model. How leader of the country should be like. Both in
respect of his attitude to issues
as well as in respect above all
his absolute modesty and
humility even when he could
credit himself with many
achievements. In fact in his
entire tenure as PM there is not
one single aspect which I can
regard as been a blot on him in
his career, he added.
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Deputy Leader of Congress in the Upper House
Anand Sharma was leading the show. For his
daily disruptions of the House, he earned laurels from several Opposition members and also
his party high command. Last week, even
Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien was taken aback
when AIADMK leader V Maithryean wanted
to know from the Chair whether there has been
a change of LoP. A bemused Kurien said he
will check the records and get back. Later,
senior Congress leaders clarified that Azad was
keeping busy with the Jammu & Kashmir elections and some personal reasons. However,
Azad was back with a bang and was praised for
his handling of the proposed debate on conversion issue.

consciously cut down on

her calories and eats a
very light dinner, which
is either fruits or
boiled stuff to help
her shed the flab.
The Minister, however, eats proper
meals through the
day. No wonder she
was seen enjoying
Makka ki roti and sarso
saag, jalebi, and papri
chaat during a lunch
hosted by her. After all
she was going to pay for
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Would he weave a plot around politics and its characters? Yes, I have
that in mind, but that would be at
a later stage, he said.

co lobby. For, what Harsh Vardhan had proposed is being slowly disposed off by the
Health Ministry now. While Harsh Vardhan
favoured ban on loose cigarettes, the decision
has now been put on hold under protest from
the Andhra Pradesh tobacco lobby. Sources say
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members not to
interact with the
media and the proceedings of the SIT
should be kept strictly
conf idential. Press
briefing, if required,
should only be through
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their offer to build the Eastern

Peripheral Expressway under
the Equipment-ProcurementConstruction (EPC) mode. In
the EPC mode, the Ministry
would bear all financial obligation and the developer has to
execute the project at the
agreed cost.
The 135-kms long Eastern
Peripheral Expressway project
for connecting Uttar Pradesh
and Haryana, bypassing Delhi,
was expected to be launched by
year-end. It will have to wait
once again. The project first
received Cabinet nod in July
2013, but could not take-off
due to lack of private sector
interest and viability gap funding requirements.
The EPC offer was lapped
up by the fund-starved developers and as many as 167 submitted bids for different
stretch of the C4,500-crore
project. But now the Ministry
says it will re-invite bids under
the traditional format of public-private-partnership as it
has no funds.
The Ministry had invited
bids for smaller stretches of the
under the EPC mode, as it
failed to receive a single bid
under the PPP mode in 2013.
We will be calling for

fresh bids under the PPP mode

soon. After studying the bids,
we realised that there were a lot
of dichotomies and overlaps.
We also realised that the
Ministry is currently not in the
position to take up so much
financial burden, said a senior
official from the Ministry.
It is a long project and we
see no reason to rush it. We have
to be certain on all fronts before
we start awarding projects this
time to avoid delays, he said.
The 135-km long expressway connecting Sonipat in
Haryana to Uttar Pradesh at
the estimated cost of C4,500
crore was planned in 2006 following a Supreme Court order
to form a ring road outside
Delhi for channelling nonDelhi bound traffic bypassing
the National Capital.
In order to hasten the project, the National Highways
Authorities of India (NHAI)

had split the Eastern Peripheral

project Expressway into six
packages. It had floated separate bids of shorter packages
covering the 135-km distance
between Haryana and UP.
The project was so far
stuck due lack of private players coming forward with bids.
Seeing the declining interest from private players to participate in the build -operatetransfer (BOT mode), where
the financial risk on the developer alone, the government
doled out bids under both the
Engineering, Procurement and
Construction (EPC) mode but
we realised it is not feasible,
said the official.
Moreover the markets
are positive and we are seeing
a renewed interest in the
developers. Since we will be
giving out smaller stretches
this time, we are expecting
smaller players to come forward too, he said.
Earlier this month, the
Minister for Roads and
Highways Nitin Gadkari met
with the Har yana Chief
Minister Monahar lal Khattar
to sort out financial issues
with the lenders for the
Western Peripheral expressway, which is stuck midway.
Khattar was also asked to
sort out issues with the current contractor and find a
substitute developer to ensure
that the project got moving at
the earliest.

from their own cadre, RAS. For a long time this

coveted post was grabbed by IPS officers. In
a post hotel here, the RAS cadre officers celebrated the elevation of Rajinder Khanna as their
Chief of the organisation.

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have intensified efforts to
Ishowcase
the change in the
countrys governance pattern
under Prime Minister Narendra
Modi. From key decisions to
new reforms, investment
opportunities to schemes for
people almost everything is
up in the cyber domain for people, investors and NRIs to know
and explore about India. While
the embassies in Indias major
trade partners like the United
States of America, United
Kingdom, Australia , Japan etc
are already overstretching
themselves, embassies in some
other countries are also exploring new partners.
The embassy officials are
apprising investors of the initiatives being taken by the new

Indian Government to improve

transparency and simplify procedures to aid global investment. Changes like raising the
FDI limit in Defence sector and
speed of decision-making are
also projected.
For instance, the Indian
embassy in Sweden organised
two events s in Stockholm to
promote the Make in India
campaign. Such was the interest
for exploring opportunities in
India that at one event the original venue of the event had to be
changed due to high demand.
The alternative venue selected
was the headquarters of
INDISKA a shop that sells fashions, handicrafts and interior fittings inspired by India. More
than 70% of the products of this
Swedish retail store chain are
made in India to Scandinavian
design. Indian Ambassador

Banashri Bose Harrison tried to

convince audience that making
in India would not only mean
lower production costs, it would
also guarantee a vast market as
the jobs generated by expansion
of manufacturing raise the purchasing power of millions of
young consumers.
Indian Ambassador Ashok
K Kantha in Beijing recently at
a seminar on Indias auto components tried to underscore the
positive business environment in
India offering a compelling
rationale for Chinese companies
to invest in India. At another
seminar at Chongqing (China),
Indian diplomats tried to familiarise potential investors with
opportunities and priorities of
the new Indian government
especially in infrastructure, automobiles, renewableenergy, pharma and IT sector.

Tomar met Oleg Deripaska,

chairman of the Supervisory
Board of the Russian mining
and metals company Basic
Element, to explore partnership
potential in developing Bauxite
related sector in India.
For Japan, Department of
Industrial Policy and
Promotion (DIPP) has set up a
special management team to
facilitate and fast track investment proposals.
The team known as Japan
Plus, has representatives from
Indian Government and METI
(Ministry of Economy, Trade
and Industry), Government of
Japan, to provide assistance in
undertaking studies, identifying
bottlenecks and areas of concern
in sectors of interest to Japanese
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After the recent Uber Cabs incident in Delhi,
where a woman passenger was raped in a cab,
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has
readied a Cabinet note to put together a comprehensive vehicle tracking system. The Ministry has
proposed to set up control centres to monitor all
public transport plying on roads.
We want to set up a GPS system under the
National Authority of Road Safety. The body will
function as a unified offense mechanism where
all information will be electronically transmitted
to police stations and PCRs, so that time is not lost
in rescuing the victim, said an official.
The Ministry officials also had a meeting last
week to discuss measures to help women passengers in public vehicles.
We want to put in place a system to ensure
that women are safe in public transport. We will
ensure all public transport is GPS device fitted and
can be tracked in case of any kind of suspicious
movement, said an official. The tracking system
is proposed to be launched in 32 cities across India.
The Centre can only put together a mechanism to track vehicles and but implementation has
to be done by the state with co-ordination from
their local police, said the official adding arranging manpower and other formalities will also be
handled by the State, he said.
In the case of taxi fleets, the Government will
ask individual aggregators and owners to ensure
that they have GPS devices fitted in all vehicles.
In case of any untoward event, the company
will be held liable under the existing law. The management will be held liable, said the official adding
although, the actual implementation will have to
happen locally, as law and order is a State subject.

Some of the Indian

embassies are also keeping their
websites up to date with the policy decisions and reforms taking place in India. For instance,
the Indian embassy in
Washington runs a full-fledged
bulletin on high impact news
and key impact decisions by
India. This includes news about
the wholesale price inflation hitting the zero level in November,
to policy decisions like reforms
in power sector and Railways
offering $14.4 Billion in Foreign
Investment Opportunities.
In New Delhi officials in
various ministries too are
actively engaged in follow-ups
and streamlining foreign infrastructure investment. For
instance, following Russian
President Vladimir Putins visit
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effective solution to the growT
ing problem of man-tiger conflicts
in the country. An expert study
Photographic Database Informs
Management of Conflict Tigers
uses unique stripe pattern-matching software to zero in on individual tigers in conflict and relocate
them out of the troubled area for the
benefit of both tigers and people.
The system has been developed
by the researchers of Wildlife
Conservation Society (WCS) and
their associates. According to Dr
Ullas Karanth, Director for ScienceAsia WCS, Using scientific methods to locate individuals involved
in conflict with humans and live-

stock helps us to mitigate threats to

people and prevent the capture of
the wrong tigers, especially wherever tigers may venture beyond
protected area borders.
According to the researchers ,
the system has so far helped in
identifying/photo trapping 750
tigers from six protected areas in
the Malanad Tiger Landscape in the
Western Ghats in the country,
developing a sound tiger database.
This has become a key factor in
finding and capturing problem
tigers. One of the recent cases
include the capture of a big cat that
was involved in the loss of human
life near Bandipur National Park in
Karnataka in December 2013. The
scientists who managed to get pictures of the animal from camera

traps set up near the area of conflict discovered a match with an

animal photographed over a five
year period and probably past its
prime. Old tigers unable to catch
natural prey animals can sometimes resort to hunting livestock,
bringing them in conflict with
people, said the experts.
Another tiger that was involved
in the killing of cattle in a village
next to Nagarahole National Park
in July this year, was by contrast a
2-3 year old sub-adult. The incident
had occurred about35 kilometres
from locations in which it was previously photographed. The scientists concluded this young tiger was
likely searching for a territory,
beyond protected areas. Both tigers
have been captured and relocated

to a nearby zoo.
The basis of the system rests on
the fact that every tiger has different stripe pattern on their body and
once a aberrant tiger is photographed in a camera trap its stripe
pattern is known so it becomes easy
to identify the aberrant one from
other normal tigers of that area so
the question of a normal tiger being
captured is completely ruled out.
This method is completely
foolproof and far better than conventional tiger pug mark tracing
where while tracing a pug mark
human error is bound to creep in,
said an expert. It also enables
researchers to keep track of other
data such as home range locations,
age, sex of individual animals and
their activity patterns.

Pariwar will hold a massive

rally in Capital on Monday. Six
political constituents
Samajwadi Party, Janata Dal
(United), Janata Dal (Secular),
Indian National Lok Dal,
Samajwadi Janata Party and
Rashtriya Janata Dal of the
erstwhile Janata Parivar will
come under one umbrella to
corner Narendra Modi
Government over various
issues including its failure to
fulfill election promises and
having anti-people policy.
Mondays rally will not only
be used to make noise against the
Modi Government but also a
show of strength by these regional parties to keep a resurgent BJP
at bay. The rally is also seen as a
precursor to a grand merger plan
which may fructify after January
14, 2015. JD(U) president Sharad
Yadav said this Mahadharna
would be the first solid step for
the merger of these six parties
under one umbrella.
According to spokesperson
of the JD(U) Sanjay Singh, the
political process for the grand
merger where the RJD and the
JD (United) is expected to begin
soon after Makar Sankranti. It is
learnt that this process has been
put on hold due to the
`Kharmas period from
December 16, 2014 to January
14, 2015. `Kharmas is an inauspicious month in Hindu calendar followed in North India.
However, informally senior

leaders like Lalu Yadav (RJD)

and Nitish Kumar (JD(U)) are
in consultation to work out the
mega merger. Hence, since former Bihar Chief Minister
Nitish Kumar, Sharad Yadav
and Lalu Prasad will be sharing stage on Monday, informal
working of modalities cannot
be ruled out off-stage.
After facing a complete
rout at the hands of the BJP-led
alliance in Lok Sabha elections
in Bihar, JD(U)-RJD and
Congress contested the
Assembly bye-elections held a
few months back recovering lost
ground to a large extent. With
assembly elections scheduled in
Bihar in 2015, these political
parties are trying to put up a
united fight against BJP.
Noting that a united fight
by Janata Parivar was needed to
challenge the BJP, Lalu Prasad
had a few days back said: It is
a permanent alliance. We have
been missing it for long. Now
it has been cemented.
Interestingly, in another
alliance, Lalus daughter Raj
Lakshmi will be married to SP
chief Mulayam Singh Yadavs
grandson and Lok Sabha member Tej Pratap Yadav.
This grand-merger plan was
made public last month after
Mulayam Singh hosted a lunch
for leaders of five political parties JD(U), JD(S), INLD, SJP
and RJD at his residence in
New Delhi. The lunch was
attended by Sharad Yadav and
Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad,
JD(S) leader HD Deve Gowda,
INLDs Dushyant Chautala and
SJPs Kamal Morarka.

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Mamata Banerjee and her
Iruling
Trinamool Congress,
MP and historian Sugato Bose
on Sunday contradicted her
established line on the arrest of
Transport Minister Madan
Mitra by the CBI in the Saradha
chit fund case.
Bose, a grandnephew of
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose,
told mediapersons that he had
full faith in the judiciary and
whatever steps the judiciary
will take after perusing the evidences will be right. When
asked to comment on the arrest
of Mitra for his alleged connection with the multi-crore
ponzi fund scam, Bose said no
one had the right to misappropriate the hard earned
money of the poorest of the
poor people.
I do not have the evidences with me right now and
I cannot tell you for sure. Only
the court can form an opinion
after perusing the evidences.
But I can tell you that if anyone
is associated with such scams
then one must be arrested and
ones social standing should not
come in the way of such
actions, Bose, who was also
critical of the State
Governments decision to publish Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjees photographs alongside Swami Vivekananda and
Netaji, said.
The Chief Minister and her

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whole band of party MPs had
unleashed a war against the
Narendra Modi Government
for its alleged ploy to demolish
the Trinamool Congress by
setting the CBI against it.
Reacting to reports that the
Government was publishing
photographs of the Chief
Minister flanked on two sides
by Swami Vivekananda and
Netaji Bose, said he did not like
the idea as great men like
Vivekananda and Bose formed
a class of their own and no
political leader of the modern
era could or should be equated with them.
The photograph controversy was interpreted by the
political pundits against the
backdrop of Banerjees falling
credentials post-Saradha scam.
The experts are of the opinion
that placing Banerjee with the
other two greats in one picture
frame was an attempt to give an

image makeover to the Chief

Minister.
The State Government was
introducing a publicity poster
with photographs of Netaji
and Swami Vivekananda flanking the Chief Minister.
Welcoming Boses statements, BJP State president
Rahul Sinha said, though a
scholar like him should have
made such statement earlier we
welcome him for taking the
right stand now. He should be
congratulated for understanding the miseries of the people
affected by the Saradha scam.
On the photograph controversy, Sinha said both Swami
Vivekananda and Netaji were
international personalities who
transgressed their ages and no
politician of this age should be
equated with them. He said, I
welcome Mr Bose for taking
such a bold stand and making
a courageous statement.

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Jitendra Singh on Sunday said
successive State Governments
in Jammu & Kashmir have created issues of contention
amongst the section of the
displaced community of
Kashmiri Pandits.
At a time when the
Narendra Modi Government at
the Centre is trying its best to
address the grievances of every
section of refugees and displaced communities in Jammu
& Kashmir, it is appalling that
the State Government creates
yet another issue of contention
among a section of displaced
community, Singh said while
addressing a deputation of the
State Government employees
belonging to the displaced
Kashmiri Pandit community
here on Sunday.
While sharing their problems with the Union Minister,
the deputation claimed they
were being deprived of privileges that were normally available to Government employees.
This is a case of blatant discrimination against a section of
Government employees. Such
callousness on the part of the
Government does not only create unrest among the employees, but also creates divisions
among different groups of
employees, Singh said. PTI

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State for Social Justice and
Empowerment in the
Manmohan Singh Cabinet, D
Napoleon (51), joined the BJP
on Sunday. Napoleon, whose
real name is Kumaresan and
who is the nephew of DMKs
Tiruchirapalli strongman KN
Nehru drove down to the BJP
State headquarters on Sunday
morning and was welcomed to
the party by BJPs national
president Amit Shah.
The move by Napoleon, a
popular film actor who has considerable fan following literally
shocked the DMK leadership.
Napoleon, a close associate of the
expelled DMK strongman MK
Alagiri, has been sidelined by
MK Stalin, Karunanidhis chosen
heir. He had been denied a ticket for the 2014 Lok Sabha election by Stalin, the de facto chief
of the DMK.
Napoleon said he had submitted his resignation letter to
party president M Karunanidhi
and has written to Stalin and
partys general secretary
Anbazhagan expressing his
gratitude. I have been with the
DMK for the last 35 years and
I had to thank the party leadership for allowing me to work
in the movement. I am quitting
the DMK and joining the BJP
with the blessings of Alagiri,
said Napoleon.
The DMK, which has been
weakened because of the sibling rivalry stands to lose a lot
because of Napoleons decision. He commands good
respect all over Tamil Nadiu
because of his natural acting
talent and dialogue delivery.
The last two days saw
celebrities from tinsel town
joining the Hindutva party.
The first to cast his lot with the
BJP was Gangai Amaran, a
popular singer and music
director. Gangai Amaran is
the younger brother of music
maestro Ilayaraja. Gayathri
Raghuraman, a danseuse and
choreographer of repute too
joined the BJP on Saturday.
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Bengaluru: Recalling Prime Minister
Narendra Modis visit to America, US
Congress member Tulsi Gabbard on
Sunday described him as man on a mission and as leader with plan of action
for India.
I think that many of the elected leaders who were there (Madison Square
Garden) were not quite prepared for the
electric energy that was in that room and
the excitement, I can guarantee you none
of us get welcome like that anywhere we
go, Gabbard said.
Speaking at an event hosted by NASSCOM here, she said ....I think that for the
elected officials who were there and
even those who didnt go, but heard about
it later and wished that they had gone, I
think they recognised that Prime Minister
Modi has strong vision for where he
would like to see India and the opportunity that is there....
He is a man on a mission and he has
a plan of action that was made very

clear..., she said.

The sole Hindu member of the US
Congress and a Democrat Representative
from Hawaii is currently on visit to India.
Hailing Modis initiative on
International Yoga Day, Gabbard said ...I
have been a practitioner of Bhakti Yoga
and Karma Yoga, I look forward to
working with him to be able to help bring
that about, the understanding about the
whole practice of Yoga....
Speaking about her visit to India, she
said ....This trip is not only professional
but is of spiritual significance for me, as a
devotee of Lord Krishna and a follower of
Bhagavad Gita, I will be going and spending some time in Vrindavan, and visiting
some holy places there.
It is a great opportunity to see how
we can highlight the opportunities that
exist between our two countries, how we
can strengthen the partnership and the
friendship between United States and
India, she said.
PTI

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Iparliamentary
Congress in Amethi, the
constituency of
Rahul Gandhi, Anant Vikram
Singh, son of Congress Rajya
Sabha member Sanjay Singh,
joined the BJP along with his
over 100 supporters.
State BJP president
Laxmikant Bajpai was present
during the joining of Anant at
the State party headquarters
here on Sunday.
Anant said that he
admired the policies of
Narendra Modi and hence
decided to join the party. He
is a doer and working to
build a strong nation. There is
a passion for Modi all across
India and I am one of the
admirers of Modi, he said.
Anants elder sister
Mahima is also slated to join
the BJP too in next few days.
Anant said that though he
has differences with his father
over some personal dispute but
he will certainly try to meet his
father to convey him about his
decision to join the BJP.

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of the Tamil Nadu Youth

Congress too switched over his
loyalty to the BJP.
A number of activists

belonging to the DMK,

Congress and MDMK too
joined the BJP in the presence
of Amit Shah on Sunday.

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ardly 12 hours after he exhorted the cadre in Tamil Nadu

to ensure the enrolment of 60 lakh new members in the
H
party, Amit Shah, the BJP president, has given a task to the State
leadership; make BJP the single largest party in the 2016
Assembly election.
In the 2016 Assembly election, the BJP would emerge as
the single largest party and the next Chief Minister should be
from the party, Shah told reporters on Sunday. He said all factors are favourable for the BJP to emerge as the single largest
party in the next Assembly elections.
The BJP will lead the National Democratic Alliance in
the 2016 Tamil Nadu Assembly election. There are differences of opinion among the alliance partners. But those issues
would be sorted out by the time of the election. The chief
ministerial candidate will be announced by the BJP before
the election, said Shah.
The BJP boss pointed out that people in Tamil Nadu wanted a change and the BJP is the right choice. The alternate rule
by the DMK and the AIADMK has cost the State dearly in
terms of development and growth. The BJP has plans and persons to take Tamil Nadu into a trajectory of gowth and we will
do it, he explained.
Shah said the 2014 Lok Sabha election was a watershed
moment for both Tamil Nadu and the BJP. An alliance san the
AIADMK and the DMK was formed in Tamil Nadu. The NDA
polled 19 per cent of the popular votes and the BJP got five per
cent of the votes. This is the prelude to the changes which is
going to take place in the State, said Shah.
The BJP chief made a sporty announcement on the issue
of religious conversions. Referring to the criticism raised by some
of the Opposition parties against ghar wapsi programme of the
VHP, Shah said the BJP was against forced conversion. As far
as conversions are concerned, our Parliamentary Affairs
Minister Venkaiah Naidu has already made it clear that that the
Government is opposed to it and could bring an anti-conversion Law if the so called secular parties too wanted it, said Shah.
When asked about RSS chief Mohan Bhagawats comment
that the Opposition should extend their support to a Bill banning religious conversions, Shah said the RSS was a nationalist organisation. He also rejected the Oppositions content that
anti-conversion Law would derail development.
Earlier in the day, the BJP president called on veteran political commentator Cho Ramaswamy at his residence. Shah said
it was a courtesy call to enquire about the health of Cho who
had been hospitalised recently.

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on Sundays certain restrictions

imposed for the past 80 days as
part of the Governments liquor
policy envisaging total booze ban
in ten years were lifted in accordance with the amendments
brought in on Thursday even as
the war within the Congress over
the dilution of the liquor policy
intensified further.
Bars and retail liquor shops
functioned normally across the
State on Sunday with the
Government issuing an order
on Saturday revoking its own
order issued in August declaring all Sundays as dry days (no-

booze days). However, retail

outlets remained closed on
Sunday in some places because
of confusions regarding the
Government order.
Boozers thronged bars and
retail liquor outlets on Sunday
as they used to do before
October 2, the day the Sundaydry-day system was introduced.
It was on the last Gandhi Jayanti
day the State's Congress-led
Government began implementing its Prohibition-in-tenyears policy by observing
Sundays as dry days and closing down ten percent of the
retail booze outlets.
As many as 418 bars - of the
State's total of 730 - closed on
March 31 are still out of operation but these bars were not
closed as part of the (nowamended) liquor policy but due
to lack of the required facilities.
The remaining 312 bars are in
operation thanks to a High

Court ruling staying the

Government order to close them
down as per the liquor policy.
However, owners of several of these 418 bars said that they
hoped to begin operations soon
as the Government has now
changed its policy. As the per the
changes in the policy announced
by Chief Minister Oommen
Chandy last Thursday, the 418
bars will be permitted to run
wine and beer parlours.
The only difference that has
taken place in the liquor sector
compared to the pre-October

situation is that the working

time of the bars has been cut
down by two-and-a-half hours
a day. As per the new system,
bars can function only from
9.30 am to 10.00 pm. The retail
liquor outlets would function
from 10.00 am to 9.00 pm.
Liquor is such a touchy
thing in Kerala that no
Government should dare to
touch it, said a boozer outside
a retail outlet in Thrissur. It is
like the advice given to
Napoleon not to walk upon
Moscow. The Government had

thought for several years to

frame this liquor policy but it
had to amend it in just a few
months, he added.
In the meantime, the war
in the ruling Congress over the
changes the Government
brought in to the liquor policy
intensified on Sunday with
senior leaders stepping up their
attacks against State party president VM Sudheeran for
launching a campaign against
the Government and the Chief
Minister in the name of his
protests against the changes
brought to the policy.
Stopping short of demanding disciplinary action against
Sudheeran, State Congress vicepresident MM Hassan, a staunch
advocate of the partys A group
led by Chandy, on Sunday
accused his own party president
of breaching organisational
decency and discipline by moving against the Government

headed by his own party.

Alleging that Sudheeran's
attack on the Government
would affect the prospects of the
party-led UDF returning to
power in the next election, former
PCC
chief
K
Muraleedharan MLA, belonging
to the I group headed by Home
Minister Ramesh Chennithala,
wanted the State president to
convene a meeting of the
Government-party coordinating
panel to discuss the issue.
The opposing groups in the
Congress joined hands to fight
their common enemy,
Sudheeran, after he launched a
scathing attack against Chandy
and the Government for "going
back" on the liquor policy
which he had popularised
through an all-Kerala march.
He alleged that the act of changing the policy was equivalent to
enforcing the liquor lobbys
interests on the people.

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joint team of Assam police

commandos and Army on
A
Sunday killed two cadre of the
anti-talk faction of National
Democratic Front of Bodoland
(NDFB) militants in Assams
Bodoland Territorial Areas
Districts (BTAD) region and
even as the suspected cadre of
the outfit triggered a low intensity blast in Bingaigaon district
of the State on Sunday.
There was, however, no
injury or any major damage
due to the blast, police said.
A group of Assam police
commandos and Army commandos have launched an
operation in Selekaguri area in
Chirang district, close to IndoBhutan border, on Sunday
morning. The security forces
could neutralise two cadre of
the outfit during the operation,
said Inspector General of Police
(IGP) in-charge of BTAD, LR

Bishnoi.
We could recover one
each of AK 56, M 16 and
INSAS rifles, two pistols, three
grenades, 600 ammunitions
and several other incrminnating documents from their possession, he said, while adding
that similar operations have
been launched in other parts of
the BTAD too.
The NDFBs faction
opposed to the talks led by its
chairman IK Songbijit has substantial presence in the BTAD
region of Assam and the State
Government had been forced
to launch a special operation
against the militants due to
their activities including extortion and abductions.
The Assam police had
recently announced that they
are going to deploy specially
trained commandos of the
force in the BTAD, particularly in the Indo-Bhutan border in
the BTAD areas of Assam.
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Imphal: Three labourers were killed and four

others seriously injured in a powerful IED blast
in Imphal on Sunday.
Police said the IED planted by the roadside
near Imphal market exploded killing three
Assam. The SSB had also
sought the cooperation of Royal
Bhutan Army in this regard to
flush out the militants.
Bishnoi further informed
that there are reports about the
NDFB faction triggering a blast

labourers and injuring four others.

The injured have been rushed to the hospital. The labourers, all non-Manipuris, had
gathered for tea in Khoyathong area, which is
about one-km-away from Imphal city police
office in the main market complex when the
IED exploded around 6 am.
The dead have been identified as Shiv
Yadav(35), Lalan (35) and Kusum Pandit (60).
The four injured have been admitted to the
Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS)
Hospital where the condition of one of the
injured is stated to be critical.
With Sundays incident, the number of nonManipuris killed in the State this year has gone
upto nine.
Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh and Deputy
Chief Minister Gaikhangam, who also holds the
home portfolio, have condemned the incident and
ordered strict action against the culprits. PTI

at Bongaigaon district today

afternoon. "The locals heard a
sound and it was found that the
militants triggered a low intensity grenade at some abandoned houses in Dhaligaon
Mill area in Bongaigaon town,"

he said adding that there is no

causality or any major damage.
Meanwhile, the police
today recovered ten crude
bombs from a village under
Patacharkuchi police station
in Barpeta district.

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in Jammu & Kashmir would
T
be a tough exercise if a hung verdict is thrown by the voters who
registered 66 per cent turnout in
the just concluded Assembly
elections. However, US
President Barack Obamas
upcoming visit to India on
Republic Day is likely to expedite the Government formation
unlike in 2002 when the permutations and combinations
took more than five weeks to
forge an alliance between the
Congress and Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
This time around, the possible emergence of the BJP as
a strong force is another factor
that would prolong the
Government formation.
The PDP and BJP are projected to emerge as two largest
parties from Kashmir Valley
and Jammu region respectively. The incumbent ruling coalition partiesthe National

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of Mehdi Masroor Biswas,
who had tweeted over a lakh
times for the International terrorist outfit IS and was arrested, the Bengaluru Police is
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IT firm. According to police,

they are taking help of a third
party to unmask the tweets of
Mehdi who is alleged handler
of pro-Islamic State (IS). He has
tweeted over 1.2 lakh times and
police find this a massive task
to decipher his intentions.
Investigations are going
on in the Mehdi case. Different
teams are examining this case
in various dimensions and we
have taken third party technical assistance, City Police
Commissioner MN Reddi told
reporters in Bengaluru.
The unmasking of Biswas
has become a major task for the
investigators and an IT firm
will be engaged to decipher the
tweets which are a crucial evidence to prove his involvement
with IS.
Biswas was arrested from a
rented one-room apartment
here on December 13 by the

city police after Britains

Channel 4 News aired the report
on the presence of ISIS Twitter
Ideologue @ShamiWitness.
The Police Commissioner
said, Twitter company wont
give analytical support, they
give data; they have rudimentary analytical tools, whereas
third party analysts have developed advanced tools to analyse
big data in the form of tens of
thousands of tweets.
To analyse that we have
taken third party help; even
today there were a few discussions about it, in my opinion
within the next few days there
is possibility that we will have
complete information, he
added.
Reddi said, This is a different type of case; the offence
in this case is of a different
nature, information is also of
different nature and the way in
which we will have to analyse
this information is also different. So we may take some
more time.
The investigators are now
looking into all aspects which
include his connections with
the real world. A police officer
on the condition of anonymity said that Mehdi was fluent in
Arabic and certainly has connections with the real world.
They are also assessing
the possibility of Mehdi getting
funds from sources working
for IS. The unmasking of
Mehdi has become a major
challenge for the police who
are getting equipped with
sophisticated tools to know his
real intentions.

in the history of J&K, impose

its role in the Government
formation. Its alliance with the
Congress is impossible. The
NC has ruled out any alliance
with the party in the backdrop
of its bitter past experience.
The NC was part of the NDA
when it ruled J&K between
1996 and 2002.
On the face of it, forging
an alliance between PDP and
BJP to collect 44 sum would be
easier but that would mean a
paradigm shift in PDP outlook
and politics, said Mudassir
Ahmad, a political analyst.
The NC is waiting for the
verdict as surprise and hopes
to form the next government or
at least be part of the dispensation. The NCs alliance with
PDP is not a possibility just like
an alliance between Congress
and the BJP. The lone choice
left with the NC is to realign
with the Congress but that
depends on the cumulative
sum both the parties would
post after the results.

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Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief
Minister Devendra Fadnavis
has said the proposed Navi
Mumbai International Airport
will be operational by 2019.
As all the environmentalrelated permissions are cleared
for the proposed Navi Mumbai
International Airport, this project will be operational by
2019, Fadnavis posted on
Twitter on Sunday morning.
The project will be built on
public-private partnership

(PPP) on a land of around 1,160

hectares, out of which 592
hectares have been acquired
and all clearances will be done
by January 2015, he said.

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Chennai: Chennai has a 160-year-old
link to the development of the mighty
2,500-km-long Ganga river.
The citys oldest library, the Madras
Literary Society Library (MLSL),
founded in 1812, has a survey document of the River Ganga done in 1854
by the Britishers.
It was a contour survey of the
Ganges Canal. It was done by Director,
Ganges Canal Works, WT Doddsworth,
MLSL Librarian, V Uma Maheswari said.
The survey document that MLSL possesses is huge. It has over 120 sheets in
dark yellow colour. Every sheet is
approximately 10 ft x 10 ft and is folded into 3 ft x 3 ft so that it could be easy
to handle. Smiling, the librarian said, "still

Conference (NC) and the

Congress are likely to be the
major losers.
The Assembly polls in
J&K have never been so unpredictable in recent history. It is
very difficult to say with
authority who is going to win
and which party would form
the Government, said senior
journalist Rashid Ahmad.
Even as the PDP is projected to emerge as single
largest party, no party is likely to get the required magic
number of 44 seats to form
the Government without
outer support.
The forging of alliance
would be a difficult exercise.
Ideally, the PDP would like to
form coalition with the
Congress as it did in 2002 but
that depends on number of seats
Congress bags, Ahmad said.
The other choice is difficult. The BJP that swept the
Lok Sabha polls to reach the
echelons of power in New
Delhi would, for the first time

it is not very easy to handle."

The survey was done by Britishers
in the 19th century to develop River
Ganga to support irrigation needs,
Honorary General Secretary of the
Library, Mohan Raman said.
The voluminous survey document
includes sketches and illustrations
under heads like general plan of nine
feet locks, Ganges canal, protraction of
survey-Cawnpoor and Etawah terminal lines for Ganges canal.
The document has the name Smith
Elder and Company 65 Corn Hill,
London, printed below. Uma Maheswari
said a grant by the Ministry of Culture
helped the library hand-laminate the document, besides several other old books.

Malda (WB): Two persons who were arrested for

allegedly gangraping a teenage in Malda district
were on Sunday remanded to 10-days police custody by a local court here even as a manhunt continues for the three other accused who are
absconding.
The two Pintu Khan and Badriuddin were
produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate
who remanded them to 10-days police custody.
A teenage girl was allegedly gangraped by a
group of five men at Manickchak in Malda district on Saturday evening.
The girl and a boy were going on a bicycle
from Manickchak towards Gopalpur when the
five men coming on motorbikes stopped them
and allegedly gangraped the girl.
The girl lodged an FIR with the police officers in Manickchak police station and two of the
accused Pintu Khan and Badriuddin were
arrested.
PTI

After the completion of

first phase, 10 million people
are expected to use it annually. The final phase will have a
capacity to accommodate 60
million passengers annually,
the Chief Minister said.
Seeing the rise in passengers, Mumbais Chhatrapati
Shivaji International Airport
will also be extended to
accommodate 40 million passengers, annually, Fadnavis
further tweeted.
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detained by the police for photographing a woman who was
taking bath in the Birubari area
of Guwahati on Sunday.
City SP AP
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A case has been registered
against the man and the cell
phone with which he was taking
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Patna: Union Telecom

Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
on Sunday said Opposition
parties were not ready for a
debate on conversion issue
that has rocked Parliament for
the last two weeks and blamed
them for stalling the proceedings in the Rajya Sabha.
Lok Sabha is going on, but
why not Rajya Sabha? It is
because we are ready for a
debate on religious conversion, but the Opposition parties, including Congress,
JD(U), Samajwadi Party, CPI,
CPM are not. They know they
will be exposed if there is a
debate, Prasad told reporters.
Describing the deadlock in
Rajya Sabha as unfortunate,
Prasad said the Opposition
parties were indulging in the
logjam deliberately.
He said the BJP does not
believe in forced religious conversion and the party is against

such incidents wherever they

happen.
Today there is peace and
harmony in the country, but the
opposition parties do not believe
in them. They did not raise voices when there were 100 riots in
Uttar Pradesh or when
Muzaffarnagar riots happened
and people were killed. Likewise,
they do not want a debate on religious conversion, Prasad said.
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi is for the development of
every citizen along with the
development of the country
while opposition parties only
want their own development,
the Union Minister said.
They (Opposition parties) have lost the country.
They have lost in Haryana and
Maharashtra. They are going to
lose in Jharkhand and be wiped
out in Jammu & Kashmir, still
they have not learnt the lesson,
Prasad said.
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the
Prime
Minister
of
Pakistan, has gone
on an emotional
overdrive with the claim that the
132 school children brutally massacred by the Pakistan Taliban in
Peshawar are my children.
However, there was not a word of
condemnation from Islamist terror merchants like Hafiz Saeed.
Instead, the hawks in Pakistan
were busy finding scapegoats
and even blaming India for the
ghastly massacre .
So, what do we make of the
Pakistani Prime Ministers grief
and his repeated declarations
that his Government will fight
terrorists when only a few days
earlier, this same regime had
looked askance when Saeed had
organised a massive public rally
with state support. Mr Sharif s
Government was a service
provider for that rally. Special
trains brought members of the
public to Saeeds rally, wherein the
man who had masterminded the
horrible massacre of innocents in
Mumbai in 2008, declared his
determination to carry out similar attacks and kill as many
innocents in India.
Saeed, about whom the
Pakistani Government had
assured India that he would be
prosecuted for the 26/11 massacre, is a free man now who
claims to be Pakistans unofficial
ambassador to India. Obviously,
the Pakistani establishment is in
cahoots with those responsible
the for Mumbai carnage. Either
Mr Sharif and the Pakistani establishment are insincere or they are
hypocrites or both.
Ironically, such is the state of
Muslims in Pakistan, a state that
was carved out of British India so
as to provide a homeland for
Muslims who supposedly would
not be safe in Hindu-majority
India. Today, in Pakistan, not only
are religious minorities, like
Hindus and Christians, unsafe
and publicly and legally discriminated against, even many Muslim
sects are frequently targeted.
Yes, even Muslims are subject
to terror attacks Tuesdays
massacre by the remorseless
Taliban, who are using terrorism
to establish a caliphate, is just one
of the several, almost daily bombings of Sunnis and Shias alike in
Pakistan. That country, almost
ever since it was created amidst
unprecedented blood letting, has
now become victims of its own
ideology and religious zeal.
Pakistan has seen more mil-

itary dictatorships than civilian

democratic regimes especially since 1971 when the then
Prime Minister ZA Bhutto
declared a permanent war against
India that was to carried out by
inflicting a thousand cuts. His
declaration was, of course, meant
to divert the attention of his
people from the core problem of
Pakistan as a state.
The Peshawar massacre
exposes the core problem of a
state that is caught between the
military, the mullahs who represent an uncompromising religious orthodoxy, and the elected
civil administration all of
whom are convinced that what is
good for the people is known only
to itself.
This situation has arisen, as
several independent studies about
Pakistan have shown, because the
people there have been brought
up on a hate-India diet. Both, the
Islamic religious schools
(madarssas) and the state-run
educational institutions demonise
non-believers (mainly Hindus)
and India. No wonder a percentage of such students end up as terrorists and suicide bombers!

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The Pakistani state also fattened the military (falsely pretending to fit itself into
Washington, DCs global aims)
which, in turn, assumed that it
had the mandate of the people to
fulfill their Islamic aspirations, as
set against an India that was constantly seen as much larger, much
more capable and better at integrating its diverse population.
Whenever the civil administration was seen as compromising with India, as, for instance, in
1998-1999 when Prime Minister
AB Vajpayee appeared to smoke
the pipe of peace with Mr Sharif,
the military sought to frustrate
the Governments efforts by
assuming power itself.
At some point in time, when
the military ruling Pakistan,
wanted to soften the democratic
aspirations in that country, it
encouraged the mullahs to tighten their leash on the people, by
narrowing the purpose of
Pakistan to just this: Destroying
a Hindu India and this countrys
ageless pluralistic value system.
The strongest step in this
direction was that of military dictator Zia-ul-Haq who nailed the

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Constitution of Pakistan to sustaining and promoting a single

version of Islam. This came in
handy for the mullahs who wanted to get the better of the military.
The virus of hate and bigotry
introduced into the public life of
Pakistan has since become its signature tune.
The developments in neighbouring Afghanistan have also
impacted the course of history in
Pakistan. Essentially, the
American interest in getting the
Russians out of Kabul and then
getting the Afghan Taliban to
vacate the seat of Government
there, led to the coming together of the three contenders for real
power in Pakistan.
The terrorist outfits that were
used in Afghanistan had to be
given an outlet once the Russians
were out of Kabul. Both the civilian administration and the military agreed that diverting them to
India was an effective way of
securing their interests. This was
also in line with the strategic doctrine for Pakistan, laid down by
ZA Bhutto, that Islamabad can
only succeed in its national goal
of destroying India not through
a direct confrontation with its
neighbour but by delivering a
thousand cuts on its body politic.
Now that the mullah element has developed a full scale
terror outfit, an army of its own
that is fired by the religious idealism of imposing its own brand
of Islam over everyone in the
world, especially India, Islamists
are seeking to impose themselves
as the arbiter of what Pakistan
must do.
In this process, the three
streams of power the civilian
administration, military and the
mullah-backed terror groups
are working together and in conflict over who should be the
final boss in Pakistan. To ignore
this factor, and merely condemn
the barbaric butchers of Peshawar,
will serve no purpose.
Whether in Syria-Iraq,
Nigeria, Somalia or Pakistan, it all
boils down to the challenge posed
by Islamists to modern civilisation
and the ideals of democracy,
diversity and orderly Government
managed through a process of
consensual institutions.
For the civilised world,
Pakistan has become the state that
breeds a virus more deadly than
the Human Immunodeficiency
Virus. In the coming days, there
will be more such massacres till
the world understands the real
challenge and gets together to
eliminate this virus.

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a Peshawar Army school led the
Pakistani Prime Minister to take a
tough stand against Talibani terror.
But the order by a court for the
release of the main accused of the
26/11 Mumbai attack, Zaki-urRehman Lakhvi, and six others, on
bail, comes as a rude shock. This
shows the double-speak of Pakistan.
Pakistan is a breeding ground
for terrorism. It is exporting and
harvesting terror. Its claim of curbing terrorism is hollow since it is still
debating between good and bad
terrorism. It is a pity that Pakistan
has not learned any lessons. If it really wants to curb terror, it should first
dismantle all terror training camps
functioning within, including those
in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
NR Ramachandran
Ooty

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Pakistans Army chief visited Kabul
to seek the chief Talibani leaders
extradition. Since it faced the
tragedy of more than 130 children
killed by its unfriendly Taliban, the
Pakistani Army chief rushed to
Afghanistan, seeking the Tehreek-

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sought the handing over the perpetrators of the 26/11 ghastly killings,
Islamabad did not oblige. It is evident that its war against terrorism
is a hoax. Pakistan will go after the
inconvenient outfits but protect the
pliant ones to use against India.
In a failed state where the
Army and the notorious InterServices Intelligence work in tandem, with a scared judiciary and
pusillanimous civilian establishment in place, terrorists like Hafiz
Saeed and Lakhvi will never be
brought to justice.
So, if anyone believes that after
the Peshawar carnage, Pakistan
will change its attitude and root out
terrorism from its soil, then that
person is living in a fools paradise.
A Seshagiri Rao
Chennai

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Sir While the Peshawar massacre
is indeed tragic, we cannot escape
from the apt remark that one
reaps what one sows. Pakistan has
been the epicentre of terrorist activities of various hues. It has sheltered
over the decades many hardcore terrorists. These elements have been
patronised by the political system,
the Pakistani Army and the ISI.

Then US President Bill Clinton had

said that those who traffic in terror
learn that they too are vulnerable.
The Peshawar incident has borne
out the truth in that remark.
Unfortunately, Pakistan refuses to learn even in this tragic hour.
Its former President, General Pervez
Musharraf, shockingly added his
voice to that of terrorist Hafiz
Saeed in holding India responsible
for the attack. If this is the case with
responsible leaders of Pakistan,
what can be said of other fringe elements that enjoy the blessings of
that countrys state actors!
PN Saxena
New Delhi

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Sir Time has come for decent
countries to unite against terrorism.
The practice of using terrorists to
settle scores with so-called inimical
countries should stop. Terrorists are
enemies of the entire mankind. An
international body should be
formed, to which terrorists, irrespective of countries they operate
from or strike at, should be handed over for trial and punishment.
MR Anand
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scheduled for January 8,
2015, reminds one of the
2004 presidential election
campaign in the United States between
Mr George W Bush and his challenger
John Kerry. The media and US
observers in India went to town forecasting a cake-walk win for Mr Kerry.
They were of the view that US military
interventions, in Afghanistan in 2001
and in Iraq in 2003, had turned the
people against the incumbent President
and that this would be reflected in the
election results. What they forgot was
the fact that the US people, like its
Government, had no permanent
friends or enemies. They stand for permanent US interests, whether it be
commercial or strategic. President
Bush scraped through, in spite of the
strong anti-incumbency factor.
The people of Sri Lanka are no different from those of the United States.
Incumbent President Mahinda
Rajapaksa is being challenged by Mr
Maithripala Sirisena, a junior Minister
in his Cabinet who crossed over to the
Opposition in early November. Mr
Sirisena has the support of former Sri
Lankan President Chandrika
Kumaratunga and former Prime
Minister and United National Party
chief Ranil Wickremesinghe.
When President Rajapaksa called
for a snap poll in November, almost
two years ahead of the scheduled election, the UNP, the main opposition
party, was taken by surprise. Mr
Wickremesinghe had indirectly conceded defeat by declining to contest
against Mr Rajapaksa. A big search
was on to find a candidate capable of
taking on the f lamboyant Mr
Rajapaksa. Sri Lankan opposition
parties are yet to come out with a clear
answer to why a defector, and that too
a political lightweight who until
recently sang paeans to Mr Rajapaksa,
was fielded as the presidential candidate instead of the Leader of the
Opposition, Mr Wickremesinghe? A
Member of Parliament, from the
UNP, told this writer that Mr
Wickremesinghe is not sure of his victory and hence, there is a need to find
a common Opposition candidate.
The main Opposition charges
against Mr Rajapaksa are that he is
autocratic, dictatorial and wields
unlimited power. They also point out
that, among themselves, the Rajapaksa
brothers control all major portfolios in
the Government. Mr Gotabaya
Rajapaksa, the Defence Secretary, is the
younger brother of President Rajapaksa
and believed to be mastermind behind
the destruction of the dreaded
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in
2009. Mr Basil Rajapaksa, Minister for
Economic Development, is the
Presidents second brother. Mr Chamal
Rajapaksa, the eldest of the Rajapaksa
siblings, is Speaker of Parliament. His
son Shasheendra is the Chief Minister
of Uva Province.
But the Opposition is silent about
the power wielded by Ms Kumaratunga
during her presidency. Who was the
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presidency? It was a lady by the name
of Sirimavo Bandaranaike, who happened to be the mother of Her
Excellency, the President. Also, the
Presidents brother Anura was the
Speaker of the House for one year.
The brief given to Mr Sirisena is
that once he gets elected as President,
he has to amend the Constitution and
trash the sections which give unlimited power to the President. In short, Mr
Sirisena will be expected to cut the
branch of the tree upon which he himself is sitting. And he is also expected
to appoint Mr Wickremesinghe as
Prime Minister, who in turn would be
the executive head of the state. A
Wickremesinghe who is afraid to face
a Rajapaksa in a direct contest is getting ready to enter the Prime Ministers
Office through the back door.
What has not caught the attention
of the media is that many UNP leaders
have jumped fence and declared support
for Mr Rajapaksa. Development is the
main plank on which the incumbent
President is seeking re-election. All over
Sri Lanka one can see massive infrastructure development projects. A highway of global standards, connecting
Colombo with Jaffna, is being readied.
Colombo Port City, a satellite city to the
capital, is taking shape. The number of
tourists making a beeline for Sri Lanka
has increased eight times in the last
four years.
After three decades of civil war,
which claimed nearly 1,00,000 civilians
and lead to the assassination of almost
the entire top political leadership of the

island nation, Sri Lanka is now on a

path of development. The only jarring
note in Sri Lanka is the loud noise
being made by the parochial and
secessionist Tamil National Alliance, an
umbrella organisation of former LTTE
supporters who demand autonomy for
the Tamil-dominated Northern
Provincial Council. The TNA wants
devolution of police and revenue powers to the council so that it can repeat,
what Mr Varadaraja Perumal, former
Chief Minister of the North East
Provincial Council, did in 1989.
Following the India-Sri Lanka
agreement of 1987, the Northern and
Eastern Provinces of the island nation
were merged. In the ensuing election,
the Tamils got an absolute majority and
formed the Government. Within
months, then Chief Minister Perumal
declared secession from Sri Lanka and
the formation of a separate eelam. The
then President dismissed the Perumal
Government and the Chief Minister
took refuge in India.
Only a small section of people in
the Northern Province want a separate
eelam. This is because of their failure
to integrate themselves with the Sri
Lankan society. They consider themselves Tamils first and Sri Lankans second. The TNA and its acolytes want the
Sri Lankan Army units to be moved
out of the Northern and Eastern
Provinces. This is akin to Tamil Nadu
politicians asking the Union
Government to remove units of the
Indian Army, the Indian Navy and the
Indian Air Force from the State. The
TNA and other human rights activists

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or the sixth time in succession, Reserve Bank of India
Governor Raghuram Rajan
has refused to budge. In its
monetary policy stance released
early this month, the RBI has
retained the repo rate (rate at
which banks borrow from RBI)
at eight per cent.
This is despite a retail inflation during November at 4.3 per
cent (wholesale inflation has
plunged to zero) already hovering at just half the eight per cent
benchmark set by the RBI for
January, 2015, below which, a cut
in repo rate can be triggered.
This is also despite a fragile
recovery in gross domestic product growth viz, 5.7 per cent during April-June; 5.3 per cent during July-September, and a decline
in industrial growth by 4.2 per
cent in October. All of which
underscores the dire need for a
booster dose.
And, this is despite Union
Minister for Finance Arun Jaitley

clearly spelling out his expectations from the RBI. While, revealing all that the Government is
doing to boost growth and revive
manufacturing sector, Mr Jaitley
has also sought support from the
RBI by way of rate cut. The RBI
Governor has expressed satisfaction over developments on inflation front. Yet, he would like to
see a declining trend in inflation
to be what he describes as
deeply entrenched before one
can expect him to release a
brake on interest rate.
What is the connotation of
deeply entrenched? Retail inflation has declined from 8.3 per
cent in March to 4.3 per cent in
November. During the same
period, wholesale inflation has
plummeted from 5.7 per cent to
zero. If these numbers do not satisfy the test of deeply entrenched,
then what else would do?
Already, the oil price has
dropped from a high of $110 per
barrel in June to a low of $60 per

barrel currently. Further, the

global scenario (depressed
demand from the European
Union and China, record supply
from the US and increase in its
shale gas production and no disruption from West Asia) is clear
pointer to its price continuing its
south journey. Even in agriculture, rainfall deficiency of only 13
per cent is unlikely to be discomforting for food output.
Mr Rajan also refers to the
so-called base effect to justify
his stance. Put simply, it means
that if the inflation, say, in
November 2013, was high than
in November 2014, then inflation which is measured as an
increase over the former will be
lower. This argument does not
hold water when seen in the
light of inflation during the
current year remaining consistently low month-after-month.
The above, clearly points
towards Mr Rajan having a premeditated mind-set that I shall

keep a tight leash on interest rate

come what may. And, having
decided that way, he looks for
possible explanations. This brings
us to a very basic question.
Why is the RBIs outlook
towards inflation-interest rate
linkage so stubborn and regimented? What makes it feel that
flow of more money consequent to lowering of interest
will exacerbate inflation? The
apprehension is totally unwarranted. Thus far, the demand for
credit had been sluggish due to
economic slow down and projects stuck in bureaucratic redtape. The new Union
Government has un-clogged
these by putting approvals on
fast track. In this backdrop,
more funds at lower cost will
help industry augment supplies
and become cost-competitive.
A root cause for inflation
was spiralling food inflation.
Food inflation in turn, arises due
to supply side bottlenecks. The

Government has taken steps

viz, release of food grain from
central pool, de-listing fruit and
vegetables from Agricultural
Produce Market Committee Act,
action against hoarders etc to
overcome these constraints.
While, these steps have led to a
steep decline in food inflation in
turn, lowering retail inflation, it
is naive to presume that
increased lending will fuel prices
from demand side. The consumption of milk, meat, fruits
and vegetables etc depends on
needs, and no one will buy
more just because one has extra
money in ones pocket.
The Modi Governments
sole focus is on creating assets,
building infrastructure and
directing subsidy/welfare money
to bank accounts of poor, under
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan
Yojana. It is even restructuring
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act to
create assets in agriculture/rural

complain that they are under the surveillance of the the Sri Lankan
Governments intelligence agencies.
What else can they expect from the federal Government in Colombo, which
bore the brunt of terrorism for three
decades? Even in India, intelligence
agencies keep track of all political parties and events.
While the United Nations Human
Rights Council accuses the Sri Lankan
Government of excesses for the 2009
Army action against the LTTE, it is
silent on the massacres carried out by
the terrorist organisation. The UNHRC
has constituted a commission to probe
the excesses. Neither the UNHRC nor
the human rights activists has uttered
anything till date about the former chief
of the LTTEs womens wing, Ms Adele
Balasingham. She played a major role
in kidnapping thousands of Tamil
children from Jaffna and the Eastern
Provinces, and dragged them into the
LTTE. She also grabbed thousands of
young girls and trained them to be suicide bombers for the LTTE. No need
to explain that all of them lost their lives
in suicide missions. Today, Ms
Balasingham is living somewhere in
Europe, brainwashing more Tamil children to take up arms against Sri Lanka.
High Commissioner of the Office
of the Human Rights Council Zeid
Raad Al Hussein, when asked about the
discrimination of his office towards the
Sri Lankan Government, preferred to
remain silent. If the Northern Province
is granted autonomy, as promised by
the Opposition, Sri Lanka too will have
a Kashmir in its territory.

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aggravate inflation. Access to
bank funds at lower interest
rate will help setting up new
projects, capacity expansion,
building infrastructure and
spurring growth in a
cost-effective manner.
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a syndrome that uses interest
rate to combat inflation as there
is no straight co-relation
between the two. Whether or
not high interest rate will tame
inflation, is uncertain as the latter is affected more by a host of
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who are now carrying out due
diligence of the cash-strapped
airline, are convinced about
investing over C1,200 crore
and picking up considerable
stake in it, industry sources
said today.
After being on the brink
of collapse with all its flights
grounded five days ago, Ajay

diligence.
If the investment goes
through, the control of the airline may shift from media
baron Kalanithi Maran's
hands to the potential
investors, though he and his
Sun Group could continue to
be a minority shareholder,
the sources said.
Marans own 53.48 per
cent stake in the company
together with their Sun
Group.
Singh held a series of

Singh, one of the original

promoters of SpiceJet, seems
to have stepped in as a white
knight to help rescue the budget carrier by evincing interest to re-invest, along with
other investors.
The potential acquirers
are likely to take 4-6 weeks to
complete evaluating the cashstrapped budget carrier and its
assets and take a decision
thereafter, the sources said,
adding that SpiceJet's data
room has been opened for due

meetings late last week with

Civil Aviation Minister Ashok
Gajapathi Raju and top government officials, fuelling
speculation of more investments coming in from new
investors in SpiceJet.
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per cent, with another co-promoter NRI investor Bhulo
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Governments should resist the
temptation of earning revenue
through such exercises and
evolve policies supportive to all
players to spur growth in the aviation sector.
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a fair return on his investment.
But if you (Government) are taking away all that money from the
top, the operator will have to
charge more to make some
money, which eventually comes
from the passengers and it keeps
the fares up. So the government
shouldn't be greedy about that,"
IATA's director general and
chief executive Tony Tyler said
during a recent interaction.
Observing that privatisation is not a "panacea" and does
not solve all the problems, he
said there is a "particular temptation" when Governments privatise airports.
He sounded critical of the
model adopted by the government in privatising Delhi and
Mumbai airports in which government reduced its holdings to
26 per cent but still gets a revenue share of 45.99 per cent and
38.7 per cent respectively.
The chief of the
International Air Transport
Association (IATA) said airports could also be privatised for
bringing in commercial discipline and flavour, rather than
minting money. "It also helps
freeing the airport from the
government decision-making
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airports run by Governments
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there are very expensive and
inefficient airports too run by
governments and private sector, he said.Terming India as
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ambition in the Indian carriers
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market.
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costs make it not only expensive but also "difficult" to operate in India, he said.
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expensive" and advocating
lowering of airport charges,
taxes and fuel charges.
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hand and I am quite optimistic
that things will change for the
better under the new government," the IATA chief said.
On the entry of the two
new carriers AirAsia India
and Vistara in the domestic
aviation space this year, Tyler
said this show the competency in the Indian aviation
industry.
Indian air traffic was going
to grow and it has to support
the businesses, he said, adding
"we are forecasting a 6.7 per
cent average annual growth
over the next 20 years in the
Indian market."
The Indian aviation market is going to be the 10th
largest market this year and the
third largest by 2034 and this
is a confirmation that India is
a good market, he said.

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dering black money, a large number of small
NBFCs and brokers have come under its scanner for having facilitated illicit
transactions worth thousands of
crores of rupees over the past 23 years.
It has emerged during initial
investigations by Sebi and stock
exchanges that such illicit activities tend to accelerate during last
few months of a fiscal and quantum of such transactions has
grown manifold in the last few years.
Besides, a number of such entities, which
includes both individuals and corporate brokerage firms, have been found to be repeat
offenders for various offences in the securities
market and many of them create new shell companies to hide their past precedents, sources said.

Those under the scanner also include select

listed companies and their promoters, who regularly offer their services for channelising
black money and for evading taxes through use
of stock exchange platforms.
In just two cases, where Sebi last week
passed interim orders, total illicit gains estimated worth Rs 500
crore have come to the fore in
case of a select few entities.
Besides, being possible cases
of money laundering or tax evasion, Sebi has found such activities to be securities market
frauds as well, as they involve
manipulative transactions in
securities and misuse of the market.
In its biggest ever crackdown for suspected
tax evasion and laundering of black money
through stock trading platforms, Sebi on
Friday barred 260 entities, including individuals and companies, from the securities
markets.

investor Wilbur Ross.

Singh is now understood
to be playing the role of a
bridge between the blue-chip
investors and the airline in
order to bring it back on
track, help it meet its losses
and make it profitable once
again.
The investors are considered to be close to investing Rs
1,400-1,500 crore, though the
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GCMMF, which sells milk and
other dairy products under
Amul brand, on Sunday said its
turnover is likely to increase by
21 per cent this fiscal at about
C22,000 crore on higher growth
in volumes.
Gujarat Cooperative Milk
Marketing Federation Ltd
(GCMMF) is undertaking
major expansion to increase
milk processing capacity to
320 lakh litre per day from the
current 230 lakh litre per day,
its Managing Director R S
Sodhi said.
With comfortable supplydemand situation, he ruled out
any rise in retail milk prices for
at least next 3-4 months.
"We expect our turnover to
reach about C22,000 crore in the
current fiscal from C18,143
crore last year. The higher
turnover is because of volume
growth as there has been not
much increase in prices," Sodhi
told the news agency.
In terms of percentage, he
said the turnover growth would
be lower than the 32 per cent
achieved last year.
"We are witnessing growth
in all segments including milk
and ice-cream," Sodhi said.
Asked about expansion,
he said the company was setting up facilities at different
parts of the country to increase
processing capacity to 320 lakh
litres per day in the next three
years.
The new plants are being
set up in Gujarat, Haryana,
Uttar Pradesh and West
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Inations
preferred investment destifor global investors while
domestic companies expect stable economic conditions in the
near term, says a survey.
Leading consultancy EY
said that Indian businesses
expect stable economic conditions in the near term, both on
the global and domestic front.
Such a scenario augurs well for
the country's M&A landscape, it
added.
The findings are part of
EY's recent Capital Confidence
Barometer report, which is
based on a survey of more than
1,500 executives worldwide.
"India continues to retain
its attraction for global
investors and remains amongst
the top three preferred destinations for investment," EY
said.
According to the report,
political stability, positive credit outlook and upbeat expectations on corporate earnings
are contributing to a positive
outlook for the country's transactions environment.

About 56 per cent of

Indian respondents felt that
domestic economy was
improved while 42 per cent
expecting the economy to
remain stable.
"The Government's focus
on reforms to attract enhanced

private investment, accelerate

GDP growth rate and reduce
fiscal deficit, have contributed
to creating a positive environment for M&A," Amit
Khandelwal, National Director
and Partner (Transaction
Advisory Services) said.

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elecom industry body COAI has requested the Department of Telecom to extend
T
deadline for roll out of 4G services to 2020 citing various hurdles mainly delay in development of technology and regulatory procedures.
"DoT is requested to review and relax the
roll out obligations and extend the timelines for

meeting the roll out by additional 5 years,"

COAI Director General Rajan S Mathews said
in a letter to DoT.
The body has cited difficulties in rolling out
the LTE-TDD (a 4G technology) as among reasons for delay in roll out of 4G services.
The broadband wireless access spectrum,
that can be used for 4G services, was allocated through auction in 2010.

within a month that may

end the practice of levying
maximum penalty of Rs 50
crore for even minor mistakes.
"We are trying to get it
notified soon. May be
within a month," a senior
DoT official told the news
agency when asked about
the status of the proposed
norms.
Inter-ministerial panel
Telecom Commission in
March had approved a
ne w p ena lty s cheme,
which has five slabs ranging from C1lakh to C50
crore, for violation of
norms by mobile operators
but are yet to be notified.
Under the proposed
scheme of penalty, fines
start with a warning that
invite a penalty of C1lakh
for minor violation of
norms and move up, in
line with severity, at Rs 1
crore, C5 crore,C20 crore
and C50 crore.
In the wake of telecom
scam, due to apprehensions of having to face
allegations of favouring
telecom operators, DoT
of f icials had st ar te d
imposing the maximum
penalty of C50 crore even
for minor mistakes.
Early this month, the
department was pulled up
by tele com t r ibuna l
TDSAT which trashed
C650 crore penalty on
Bharti Airtel and C100
crore on Vodafone in a
ro aming
cas e.Air tel
claimed to have earned Rs
8.6 lakh and Vodafone
claimed to have earned
C65 lakh from the roaming
service on which the fines
were imposed.
The tribunal in the
judgement said: "We are
constrained to observe
that the DoT must
learn that imposition of
penalty is not a means for
generation of revenue and
to meet the financial targets and we regret to say
that such orders can only
be passed by someone
who, safe in anonymity,
feels secure from any
accountability."
The
Telecom
Regulatory Authority of
India in April 2012 had
recommended classifying
penalty in two categories minor and major. It had
suggested imposition of a
maximum penalty of up to
C 25 lakh in case of minor
violation and up to C10
crore for a major violation.

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aghuram Rajan says he is

neither Superman nor
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James Bond, but he appears
to have emerged as a 'lone
ranger'.
fighting persistent rate
cut demands, "schizophrenic"
attempts to weaken RBI and
even rumours about he being
'kicked up' from the Mint
Street high seat.
As 2014 draws to a close,
Rajan in his first full year as
RBI Governor seems to have
followed the principle laid
out by former US Federal
Reserve chief Ben Bernanke,
who had famously said that
"the central bank needs to be

able to make policy without

short term political concerns".
Whi le demands and
complaints continued to
pour in regularly from the
government and the industry
for a rate cut, Rajan held onto
RBI's fight against inflation
and to maintain growth without budging once and rather
surprised everyone with a
rate hike in the very beginning of the year.
A senior official said
there is something in the
position of RBI Governor
which makes the person
occupying this seat someone
completely different one
who never budges before any

demand, neither from the

industry nor from the government, unless it fits into
RBI's scheme of things.
A seed of hope, however,
has been sown by him with
hints earlier this month that
RBI may consider a rate cut
in February if there is ample
proof of inflation having
been finally contained to
comfortable levels.
In between, he survived
widespread rumours about
his "imminent" departure
from RBI when a new government took charge in May,
followed by another round of
wild guesses currently on
which talk about he being
'kicked up' to the post of first

President of the newly proposed BRICS Bank.

R ajan, a well-known
economist and an academi-

cian before he became RBI

chief in September 2013, also
had to fight a never-ending
battle to take away some
powers from the central bank
and the attempts appeared to
be much stronger this year.
One of his staunch opponents said that the industry
is feeling the pain of RBI's
actions and re called
American auto giant Ford
Motor Founder Henry Ford's
words that the people do
not understand the banking
and monetary system very
well, otherwise there would
be a revolution before morning.Having a reputation for
not mincing his words, Rajan
putup a powerful defence to

safeguard the independence

of RBI and went to the extent
of publicly denouncing as
"schizophrenic" certain recommendations of Financial
Sector Legislative Reforms
C ommission (FSLRC),
which, among other things,
has suggested creation of a
unified financial sector regulator along with certain
powers and functions of the
Reserve Bank.
FSLRC Chairman and
the author of the report B N
Srikrishna also hit back, saying Rajan once held the same
view as those suggested by
the panel, but was opposing
its recommendations after
becoming the central banker.

These banters apart, RBI

finally appears to be succeeding in its solitary battle
against inflation throughout
the year, which saw Rajan
hiking rates once in January
to 8 per cent and then holding on to that level throughout the year. Finally, retail
inflation RBI's main focus hit
a five-year low of 4.4 per cent
in November and the wholesale price index hit an
absolute zero.
Last time when the WPI
inflation turned negative in
July 2009 at minus 0.3 per
cent, the repo rate was much
lower at 4.75 per cent following the global credit crisis.

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asked all public sector banks
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plans following the Cabinet
approval to reduction in
Government's stake in staterun lenders to 52 per cent.
"Banks have been asked to
make a detail presentation of the
capital requirement over the
next five years to meet Basel III
norms," sources said.
The fresh presentation
would take into account latest
first half year results and how
much they would like to raise
from the market, sources said.
Accordingly, the Finance
Ministry would also crystallise its
view about allocation towards
public sector banks during the
current fiscal, they added.
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launch of the drive to take out the pre-2005 notes
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retain their legal tender status and the public can
continue to use these for any transaction/payment.
On January 22, RBI had announced it would
withdraw from circulation all such notes from
April 1 and the public was advised to approach
banks to exchange such notes.
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Limited Alok Shriram as its
President on Saturday.
Sharing his vision for the
chamber Shriram told, "As our
Chamber enters its 110th year,
we renew our pledge to Nation
Building through business. Our
Chamber will continue to promote ethical and global business practices and concentrate on its policy advocacy role
through research facilities and help our members understand
Government policy."
"We at PHD Chamber strongly believe that skilled workforce would be a key enabler for India's growth story to come
true. This thought process brings us to our slogan of - "Skilling
India for Global Competitiveness" for the coming year 2015,"
added he Shriram
The Chamber will continue to pursue its thrust areas of
Industrial Development, Infrastructure, Housing, Health,
Education & Skill Development and Agriculture and Agri
Business.
Implementation of Make in India at the grass roots and
improving the ease of doing business are the areas of critical
importance for us to enhance employment opportunities and
help MSMEs to scale up.
Mahesh Gupta who has appointed as Senior Vice President
told, "We shall continue to work at the national level on issues
pertaining to ease of doing business and industrial
development".

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While preserving the public ownership, the capital of
these banks will be raised by
increasing the shareholding of
the people in a phased manner
through the sale of shares largely through retail to common citizens of this country, he had
said.
Keeping the huge capital
requirement in the mind, the
UnionCabinet earlier this
month, allowed public sector
banks to raise up to C1.60 lakh
crore from markets by diluting
government holding to 52 per
cent in phases so as to meet
Basel III capital adequacy
norms.

halfway-mark this year, even as

the traditional brick- and-mortar retailers face a new challenge from online players while
entry of Walmarts of the world
hangs in balance.
Since a BJP-led new government came to the power in
May 2014, the hope of FDI
being allowed in the multibrand retailer has taken a backseat, forcing multinational
supermarket operators like
Walmart to stay away, while
French major Carrefour has
gone a step further by shutting
down its wholesale stores and
exiting India.
While the previous UPA
government had allowed up to
51 per cent FDI in multibrand retail, no foreign retailer apart from Tesco had
approached the government for
permission to set up stores to
sell multiple brands under one
roof.
Reflecting on the year
passing by, Retailers
Association of India CEO
Kumar Rajagopalan said: "This
was a year of new challenges,
new Government and cau-

tious optimism. BJP, even

before election, had made its
position on FDI in multibrand retail clear."
While
the
new
Government's FDI position
has been on the expected lines,
the retailers expect a stable government to boost the economy,
which in turn will help retailers, he added.
Industry estimates pegged
the size of retail sector at $560
billion this year, growing by 10
per cent compared with last
year. As per various estimates,
the industry is now expected to
reach $one trillion mark by
2020, while this target was
being eyed much earlier on
hopes of FDI.
For the world's biggest
retailer Walmart, it was a matter of adjusting to the circumstances in the short and medium term and bide time to tap
India's retail potential in the
long term.
"We see the potential of the
country and we have a long
term view. At the moment we
are focused on cash and carry
business under our Best Price
brand," Walmart President and
CEO Doug McMillon stated
while announcing the company's plans to focus only on
cash and carry in India.

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Truecaller, which has nearly
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half of its 100 million users in
India, will expand its base in the
country with a research and
development (R&D)centre and
more marketing personnel.
Started in 2009 by Alan Mamedi
and Nami Zarringhalam, the
Swedish company provides with
an application that helps a user
search for contact information
(based on name, number or
address), identify incoming calls,
block calls one does not want to
receive, and make personal contact suggestions based on time
and place.
The free mobile application shows name of the person
calling to a user even if the number is not saved in the phone.
"India is a very unique market and when one starts growing
in India, one can grow really fast.
We have an office in Gurgaon.
We will be adding more people
in India next year for our marketing team", said Mamedi.
"Right now we have one person in India. We are also planning R&D centres probably in
Bangalore or Pune," Mamedi

told the news agency.

Truecaller, he says, is
installed in around 40 per cent
of smartphones in India. The
country has over an estimated
115 million smartphone subscribers, behind only China and
the US.
The app in most of the
phones is pre-installed including Micromax in India.Mamedi
and Zarringhalam were struck
with the idea of this application
when they found that there
wasn't any single app to trace
calls.
"We thought we need to
solve this problem ourselves. We
wanted to make people-search
readily available to anyone. That
was how Truecaller was born,"
said Mamedi.
"For the people here in
India, blocked and spam calls
are a big issue. And Truecaller
helps in identifying callers and
even blocking unwanted ones,"
he said.
The company currently has
60 employees from nearly 40
nationalities in its head office
here."Of them four are Indians.
Seventy per cent of the staff are
programmers, two of them are
women from India," he said.

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prisoners to six, days after the
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death penalty following last
weeks deadly Taliban attack on
a Peshawar school.
Zubair Ahmed, Rasheed
Qureshi, Ghulam Sarwar Bhatti
and Russian citizen Akhlaque
Ahmed were hanged at the district jail in Faisalabad in Punjab
province, two days after two
prisoners were hanged in the
same jail.
The four death-row prisoners were shifted to the district jail under the security of
army personnel because the
lever used to open the trapdoor
to carryout hangings was not
available in the central jail in
Faisalabad.
Family members of the
prisoners were allowed to meet
the convicts for the last time
prior to the hanging.
Security was tightened in
the city to avoid any untoward
incident.
Additional contingents of
security personnel were
deployed while containers and
barricades were placed on the
routes leading to the district
jail.
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Central Jail. The executions are
expected to be carried out
within the next 24-36 hours.
All routes leading to the jail
were sealed with the deployment of military personnel
and installation of cellphone
jammers around the jail
premises.
In Sukkur, authorities
called in the relatives of two terrorists, belonging to the banned
Lashkar-i-Jhangvi who had
been sentenced to death 10
years ago in a sectarian killing
case, to hold a final meeting on
Monday.
An anti-terrorism court
on Friday had issued death
warrants for Attaullah alias
Qasim and Mohammad Azam
alias Sharif, who had been
sentenced to death for a sectarian killing in 2001.
Both terrorists were arrested from Karachi and are to be

executed on Tuesday.
Earlier on Friday, two former military men were executed in the Faisalabad district
jail. Usman, a former soldier of
the Armys medical corps, was
executed for an attack on army
headquarters in Rawalpindi in
2009.
Arshad Mehmood, a
trooper, was also hanged and
was among five convicts who
were sentenced to death for
their role in an al-Qaedainspired assassination attempt
on Musharraf s life in
late 2003.
The hangings on Friday
were the first death sentences
carried out after the
Government ended a six-year
moratorium on executions in
terrorism-related cases on
Wednesday, after the suicide
attack on a Peshawar Army
school that killed 148 people,
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North Koreas hack of Sony Pictures
was an act of cyber vandalism and not
an act of war, according to an interview
on Sunday.
No, I dont think it was an act of
war. I think it was an act of cyber vandalism that was very costly, very
expensive. We take it very seriously,
Obama said in remarks released in
advance.
Washington blames North Korea for
a cyber security breach at Sony which
led to the release of embarrassing
emails and caused executives to halt the
release of the madcap action film The
Interview to CNN.
The film about a fictional CIA plot

to kill the countrys leader infuriated

North Korea. The delay of the films
release sparked political uproar in the
US with some politicians claiming
North Korea carried out a highly aggressive act.
But Obama, who criticised the
films cancellation, stopped well short of
calling the cyber attack an act of war.
The president warned that such digital attacks are something the country
will have to adapt to.
Were going to be in an environment in this new world where so much
is digitalised that both state and nonstate actors are going to have the capacity to disrupt our lives in all sorts of
ways, Obama said in his appearance
on the show State of the Union with
Candy Crowley.

Washington: President Barack Obama

said his plan to normalise relations with
Cuba gives the US a chance to influence
events at an important moment of
change for the communist nation, and
he brushed off critics who accuse him
of kowtowing to dictators.
Obama said a half-century of trying
to push out the Castro Government
through isolation hasnt worked. He said
his administration is taking a look at
whether to remove Cuba from the US
list of State sponsors of terror, acknowledging that Havanas inclusion makes it
difficult for the US to pursue closer ties.
If we engage, we have the opportunity to influence the course of events at
a time when theres going to be some generational change in that country, Obama

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gunman ambushed and

killed two New York police
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officers on Saturday in an
apparent act of revenge for the
deaths of African-American
Michael Brown and Eric
Garner at the hands of white
police officers in Ferguson and
New York that have triggered
nationwide anti-police protests.
Hours before the ambush,
the gunman, identified as
Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, announced
his intentions online. Im Putting
Wings On Pigs Today. They
Take 1 Of Ours...Lets Take 2 of
Theirs, he wrote on his
Instagram page that had a photo
of a silver handgun and included the hashtags: #ShootThePolice
#RIPErivGarner #RIPMike
Brown.
This May Be My Final
Post...Im Putting Pigs In A
Blanket, wrote the man, believed
to be a member of the Black
Guerrilla Family gang. Brinsley,
it emerged, had travelled from
Baltimore after having shot and
injured his girlfriend in the
stomach earlier in the day.
Police officers Wenjian Liu,
32, and Rafael Ramos, 40, were
on patrol as part of an anti-terrorism drill in Brooklyn around
3 pm when they were shot
point-blank in the head. The
two officers were rushed to a
hospital, where they were
declared dead.

mong the five TV journalists interviewing Russian

Prime Minister Dmitr y
Medvedev, the odd one out was
easy to spot.
Mikhail Zygars questions
were sharper than those of the
others, who headed back to
spacious television studios
while Zygar broadcast his piece
from a Moscow living room.
The Dozhd news channel,
whose editor-in-chief Zygar was
given a Committee to Protect
Journalists award last month,
rose to prominence in 2011
with its coverage of the mass
protests against President
Vladimir Putin which stateowned television largely ignored.
As other Russian television
channels have grown increasingly subservient this year, providing propaganda backing for
the annexation of the Crimean
Peninsula and Russias aggressive policy toward Ukraine,
Dozhd didnt follow the lead and
is now paying for it.
Putins Government has
been careful not to order the
channel to shut down, but a
Kremlin-instigated smear

told CNNs State of the Union in an

interview set to air today. And I think we
should seize it and I intend to do so.
Obamas move to restore diplomatic
relations with Cuba elicited cheers
from longtime opponents of the strict
US position toward Cuba.

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without specifying what they would be.
ISIS spearheaded a sweeping
offensive that has overrun much of
Iraqs Sunni Arab heartland since
June, presenting both an opportunity for territorial expansion and an
existential threat to the countrys
Kurdish region.
Multiple Iraqi divisions collapsed
in the early days of the advance,
clearing the way for the Kurds to take
control of a swathe of disputed northern territory that they have long
wanted to incorporate into their
autonomous region over Baghdads
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assassinated, targeted for their
uniform, Police Commissioner
William Bratton told reporters
later. Officer Liu and Officer
Ramos never had the opportunity to draw weapons. They
may never actually have even
seen their assailant their
murderer, Bratton said.
After the shooting, Brinsley
ran into a nearby subway station with several police officers
chasing him. A little later, he
was found lying on the floor
with a gunshot wound that
appeared be self-inflicted,
police said. He was pronounced
dead at a nearby hospital.
President Barack Obama,
who had come down hard on
the police after the Brown and
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been besieged by the militants for
months.
Thousands of the autonomous
Kurdish regions peshmerga fighters
launched a major operation backed by
US-led air strikes on Wednesday which
broke the second ISIS siege of Mount
Sinjar this year.
The Kurdish offensive threatens the
links between the city of Mosul, the
main ISIS stronghold in Iraq, and territory the militant group controls in
neighbouring Syria.
During the past 48 hours, the
peshmerga opened two main routes to
Mount Sinjar, Barzani said, adding:
We did not expect to achieve all these
victories.
In addition to breaking through to
the mountain, a large part of the centre of the town of Sinjar was also liberated, he said, referring to the districts
main settlement to the south of the
mountain.
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said the peshmerga might participate
in an operation to retake Mosul itself.
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Past strollers and bicycles in
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lying face down in a dorm, and a leader saying they are being
killed because they are infidels or non-believers.
There are so many corpses the gunmen have difficulty stepping to reach bodies still twitching with life. Most appear to be
adult men. We have made sure the floor of this hall is turned
red with blood, and this is how it is going to be in all future attacks
and arrests of infidels, the group leader says in a message.
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will be our religious duty anywhere we invade.
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after fleeing villagers reported that the extremists are rounding
up elderly people and killing them in two schools in Gwoza, in
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laughed his lungs out if he
would have heard the excuses his
fans in Delhi were coming up with to
gatecrash his show. Sample this.
Holding her boyfriend close to her, she
stood tall in her stilettos. In this long
queue to attend Guettas concert at
Buddh International Circuit, she was
looking every inch a diva flaunting her
high-end gown and a branded bag. But
as her turn came at the frisking point,
she just bent on her knees and requested the security to let her in. Tickets are
over! We have come from Gurgaon to
attend the show. I have rented this dress
tonight. Please let me go! she requested as tears rolled down her cheeks.
There were no sign of shame or embarrassment as she was one among hundreds of gatecrashers who had thronged
the venue without paying for the tickets. While Guetta entertained his fans
inside, much of the real drama was
unfolding outside the entrance as nonpaid guests turned up with some outof-the-box excuses to sneak in. My
friend is inside and he has my tickets.
I couldnt call him as I am short on balance. Here, we are already facing roaming charges, came an excuse from a
stud. Bouncers, too, were amused but
since the number of gatecrashers was
high, they had no choice but to act
strict. Many boys were literally thrashed
while organisers had to intervene to
calm down the situation as a few tried
to enter forcefully.
We try our best to refuse them
politely. But while boys engage in muscle-flexing, girls start weeping at the
entrance as if we had done something
wrong to them. One of the girls threatened me of false charges of molestation
if I didnt allow her to enter, said a
bouncer on the condition of anonymity.
As we were chatting with this
bouncer, there came a loud voice warning the security staff, My uncle is a
senior cop. You will have to face the
consequences if you do not listen to me.

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a lot of people as it ended on

a mysterious yet sad note.
How are things shaping up this
time?
The first two episodes of
this season have presented some
challenges for Castle and
Beckett and they will overcome
these challenges. What happened to Castle is not going to
drive them apart but will get
them closer. It is inevitable that
they will consummate their
relationship in an official kind
of way. So I think folks can
anticipate that the marriage
which didnt happen yet may
happen relatively soon.

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the audience hooked all these
years?
I think we are blessed with
a fantastic cast. Nathan and
Stana are remarkable actors
with a great chemistry as are Jon
Huertas, Seamus Dever and
Tamala and Penny along with
Molly and Susan. These actors
are versatile, so that makes our
jobs a lot easier. You know, for
us, the burden is just trying to
deliver every week a new story
that kind of lives up to the
promise of the series. We think
that the fans show up because
they enjoy watching Castle and
Beckett in their act and they
want a good mystery that is predictable and has some good surprises and fun.
QNow that you are the show

runner, tell us about your

journey in the show? How
challenging has it been for
you?
I think, initially the challenge was understanding how to
write the show, which I think
everybody that comes here in
the beginning has to learn. It
isnt only in terms of the voices of the characters but also in
terms of the storytelling which
we are specific about in the particular series. Since after my
first episode, its been about
becoming more fluent in the
language of Castle and getting
to understand the rhythms of
the show and the voices of the
characters. With each passing
year, I have taken a little more
responsibility and now I am
running the show. Andrew
Marlowe, who is the creator of
the show and was the showrunner up until last year (continues
to), he is still here day-to-day
and we still work as a team. Its
simply a matter of me doing a
little bit more and him doing a
little bit less than in the years
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to us, Please give me two leaves from
your notebook.
As we obliged, he immediately
maneuvered paper into tickets and
walked into the pavilion with pride
while bouncers tapped those who didnt have tickets in hands.
With musical concerts and comedy
evenings becoming a phenomenon
especially at NCR venues, gatecrashing
has become a serious business. It has
become an orchestrated opportunity for
security, police and some from the
organisers team to make some extra
money.
Most concerts in Noida and
Gurgaon take place in open grounds
with limited capacity. So once the
official housefull is declared, people
try all means to get in. They pay a certain amount of money to security
attendants who ensure their entry till
the last point, said an event manager,
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tre of some stories. We try to do
it with everybody from the
cast. We are so fortunate that
they have a wonderful onscreen
chemistry and are incredibly
gifted actors.
Q Why do you think crime

thrillers are masses favourite?

Mystery stories have an
inherent curiosity, people want
to know whats going to happen
next. I think this speaks for the
success of mystery shows. When
Andrew created the show, he
was doing something a bit away
from the standard procedural,
which is a little dry without
humour or humanity. I think he
saw an opportunity in Castle
that has a heart, humour and
fun.

over time so its been a relatively smooth transition.

of the show that is being offered

to audience.

Q You have written several

QWhich episodes are your top

picks in all the seasons?
There are a lot of them. I am
going to mention a couple of
them. There is one called the
Blue Butterfly in Season 4 where
Castle and Beckett sort of go
back in time where Castle is a
private investigator. That is one
of my personal favourites. There
are Knock out and Knock down
which were
connected to
Becketts mother.

episodes of Castle. What are

the key factors that you reinvent to keep the mystery
going?
It is sort of a deeper exploration of some of the characters
issues. The best example today
is Becket and her search for her
mothers murderer. Those
episodes have allowed us to
come and step outside the
Castle template and
do some
v e r y
interesting things.
We see the
s a m e
opportunity presented in coming out of
these first
couple of episodes with Castle
where something obviously
happened to Castle and he has
a period of time that he cannot
account for. That eventually
becomes something we can
explore a little bit more later in
season and then vary the palate

Q Nathan

Fillion and
Stana Katic
continue to
play investigators for
se ven seasons. Didnt you think
of experimenting with the star
cast?
If it is about changing the
cast or getting rid of any actor,
then we certainly do not want
to do that. We do aspire every
season to expand role of characters, like Esposito or Ryan,
where we make them the cen-

QIs season 7 the final series of

the show?
There are our contracts and
stuff that are up at the end of the
season. I know that the network
and the studio are very interested in continuing the show, it is
just a question whether everybody can get on board. We are
hopeful and we think the show
has a lot of good years left and
we hope it all gets worked out
.
QWill you do the show with-

out the lead pair?

You couldnt do this show as
it currently exist because it
would have to be something
quite different. I dont know
exactly what it would be
because the DNA of the show I
think is built around their relationship a relationship that
was initially acrimonious and
conflicted and later turned into
a romantic tale. So I think that
the promise of the series has
been about the two of them getting together which is what
they are in the process of doing,
so if you lose one or the other
of them from that equation, Im
not sure what story or the series
will look like.

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from Castle?
No plans! Castle is a like a
full time job for me. All my
energy and efforts go into producing and writing it.

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the Greater Noida venue through different tricks.
Why would I pay C10,000 when I
get the same thing in less than half of
that amount? There are so many concerts happening and I wont be able to
attend each one of them if I start paying the full money. So why not strike a
deal? Its like a win-win situation for all
stakeholders, he said.
One of the bouncers confided how
he made money when DJ Hardwell performed recently at the Buddh
International Circuit.
Its an organised money-making
business. People are only allowed
to sneak in systematically once
majority of ticket-holders reach
inside the venue. If a ticket costs
C3,000, the gatecrashers pay as high as
C1,000 per entry. We allowed many such
groups, of five, 10 and 20 people and
made decent money from that event,
he said.
Though big event players ensure
no such under the table business,
the leakages are inevitable.
Mostly, cops force us to make
free entries while bouncers strike
deal secretly.
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massive scale, such practices can be controlled but not finished, said an official
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for someone who follows world
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cinema religiously. In the last one
year, many international filmmakers have visited the city to showcase
their films and fests have been
organised. Get ready for some
more, claim the organisers of Delhi
International Film Festival. The
third edition of the festival that
showcases over 250 films kickstarted over the weekend.
This year the festival organisers
had received more than 1,300 international movie entries which they
had to cut short to 250. This huge
participation comes as no surprise
given that Delhi is increasingly
becoming popular as a movie destination.
Getting permission to
shoot
a
movie in
Delhi has
always been
easy. One
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the shoot is completed without any
disturbance, said
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chairman NDMC.
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film directors find
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are generally organised to screen documentaries and films
for a certain section of
the audience. Delhi is
capable of providing an
unparallel exposure to any film. That
is why more international directors
are keen to bring their films here,
said filmmaker Subhash Ghai. The
movies that are shortlisted this year
come with the backing of some
award from a prestigious festival.
Some of them are even Oscar nominated. We will screen Glow of the
Firefly, a movie from Bangladesh.
The director, Khalid Mahmood
Mithu has recently been nominated for the Oscar awards, Ghai
added.
The festival will also organise a
seminar which will aim to promote
the Capital as an ideal place for film
shoots. We are in discussion with
the government to lend us government run theatres. So that movies
which do not see the light of the day
and which are restricted to film fes-

tivals can be screened, said Satish

Upadhyay, Delhi BJP president. He
also added that the government is
extending a helping hand to
Hunerkada College of Visual and
Performing Arts, Pakistan, so that
the short films and documentaries
that are made there get a chance to
be screened here. There are around
50 films from Pakistan this time. We
could choose 20, he pointed out.
This year, the festival will be
focussing on movies from Pakistan
and Bangladesh and will end with
the screening of Pakistani movie
Zinda Bhaag. There is also Hotal,
a psycho-thriller, which is called
Pakistans first Bollywood film
directed by Khalid Hasan Khan. It
will be the
Indian premiere of the
movie and the
director will
also be here,
added Satish.
In
the
week-long festival, visitors
and audience can catch
some of the best movies
and short films which have
been divided into several
categories world cinema, Indian showcase, cinema across the border,
NRI cinema, student and
short films, documentaries, animation and
green films. There will
also be several workshops by experts and
discussions on a range
of topics from wildlife
photography and filmmaking. A seminar on transgender
and cinema will also be organised
and a film on wrestling will be
screened.
On the opening day of the festival, an animation short film titled
The Sun and the Wind, inspired by
a Greek Aesops fable, kept the
audience entertained. Although the
movie narrative was in German,
there were English subtitles for the
Indian viewers. The film depicted a
woman walking carefree in the
fields. She was clueless about what
was going to happen to her when the
sun and the wind started to fight
over their superiority. They both
attempted to undress her using
their strongest assets. Wind used its
force while the sun used its warmth.
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German poet Georgios Drosinis.

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Psychology, some of the top 10 New Year
resolutions of 2014 were losing weight,
getting organised, enjoying life to the fullest
as well as staying fit and healthy. The one simple yet very profound word that encompasses all of the above is yoga.
Yoga by definition is a union with the self.
It is a restorative practice, connecting physical to ethereal and individual to cosmos. Chitta
vritti nirodaha yoga is the quietening of the
mind. When one is in harmony with oneself,
the journey is calmer, happier and more fulfilling. Scientists say that the left brain is associated with logic and the right with music and
arts. When we address both aspects logical and mystical, outer and inner that is
when the human life can blossom. And this
can happen through yoga.
There is more stress today than there was
earlier. Difficult times create a lot more
stress, triggering depression and mood disorders. Approximately 20 per cent of teens experience depression before they reach adulthood
and between 10 to 15 per cent suffer from
depressive symptoms at some point or the
other. Suicide is the third leading cause of
death in young people between the age of 15
to 24.
Modern lifestyle with a lack of family and
community support, less exercise, no outdoor
and technology-free play are other factors leading to stress and depression. A number of
research studies show that these factors can
also cause changes in the grey matter of the
brain and even, startlingly, in the DNA. They
also show that yogic practices like meditation
have the opposite effect.
Young people today could benefit from
yoga but most are either unfamiliar with it or
believe it is just physical exercise, a set of distinctive poses. The yogic postures or asanas
are among the eye-catching physical aspects
of yoga. These poses are ingenuously devised
and named after the variety of creatures or
things whose natural movements they
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by the child protection system. Most of these children
have either suffered or have gone through something traumatic loss, abandonment, death of loved ones, violence,
betrayal and sometimes neglect. Udayan Care, a charitable
trust, had organised a two-day workshop which not only
addressed the various health and mental issues of these children but also provided a platform for volunteers and NGO
staff to understand and address their issues with care.
Not every child who is institutionalised shares similar
problems and therefore it becomes necessary to address every
child separately. There are many factors that we had to keep
in mind. Whether the child is a boy or a girl, whether they
are from the city or the village, how they were raised and
what kind of family they belonged to. Care options must meet
certain standards as well as the specific needs of each and
every child on an individual basis and we have tried to do
exactly that, said Kiran Modi, managing trustee of the trust.
A total of four workshops were conducted under the title
Mental Health and Interventions for Better Care and
Management of Institutionalised Children and Young
Adults. Speaking about the need of properly trained people
to tend to institutionalised children, Aneesha Wadhwa of the
trust said, We are in dire need of staff who are adequately
trained to deal with the emotional and psychological complexities of children. With these workshops we aim to create a trained cadre of social workers, staff member and volunteers, capable of addressing mental health issues of children in institutions.

shalab asana takes its posture and name from

the locust, while the dhanur asana involves
stretching the body in the shape of a bow. One
can engage in these postures as a physical fitness routine with virtually no accessories
except a mat, within the space of your room.
Yoga, of course, is more than this. It is an
engagement of body and mind with the spirit. The flow of the breath is a guide to inner
balance. Mind, body and spirit can be harmonised through
it.
Regular practice of yogic
kriyas brings about a sharper
concentration and improves
attention. The various
pranayams bring about a feeling of well-being, dissolving
doubts and strengthening the ability to stay focussed. This brings
about clarity and enhances perception
and decision making.
People often wonder, What else can
I do to work out, other than yoga. The
answer is nothing. Yoga is everything the
body needs to function at its absolute best.
Continuing with yoga is preserving good
health. For health is not a mere absence of disease but a positive feeling of well-being in the
mind, body and soul.
A disease-free body, stress-free mind,
inhibition-free intellect, obsession-free memory, an ego that includes all and a soul which
is free from sorrow such is the birth right
of every human being and the signs of a perfect yogi. It is the wisdom of yoga that transforms arrogance into self-confidence, meekness to humility and the burden of dependence
to the realisation of interdependence.
The good news is that yoga is a cool thing
and more youngsters are taking it up than ever
before. It is just that the youth should be
introduced to yoga in an interesting
way.
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grandparents that when someA
one dies, they become a star in the
sky. However, when we grow up to
face the stark reality that everyone
who takes birth has to die, we start
to worry about the death of our
loved ones. But what about the
story after death? Does one really
become a star after they die?
Thats an unsolved mystery for
every human being.
Every time we attend a funeral, we experience a cemetery
induced reclusion which numbs
our mind and body. It happens
every time we see death from close
quarters particularly of our near
and dear ones. This makes us question the very purpose of our lives
the determination of right and
wrong, of ethics and morality. We
start to think that if death is the be
all and end all and that it can kill
anyone at anytime, why should we
bother about doing good deeds
and fear punishment for our sins?
There are mainly two kinds of
people with two different belief in
this regard. The first kind believe
in the rebirth of humans and
strongly feel that the account of
good and bad deeds will be settled
on the day of judgment, when the
dead would rise from their graves.
Then there are the second kind
who not only believe that human
souls are reborn but they also feel
that humans transmigrate into
8.4 million species before being
born as a human again.
However, there is very little
knowledge about the third kind of
people who believe that human
souls are always reborn in the
human body. Let us suppose if
humans are not reborn. In that
case what reason would be there
to perform good deeds and to stay
away from bad ones? When people perform charity they do it with
a conscious or subconscious

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merit in the future. Most of the
time, they are themselves not
aware of the future that they are
accumulating the merit for. To
them, that future lies beyond
death.
On the other hand, if there
were no rebirth there would be no
fear of punishment for ones bad
deeds either and there would be little to stop people from doing as
they pleased as long as they could
evade the law. Moreover, if there
were no rebirth, what is the purpose of the life of those infants who

die soon after birth? The fruit of

past actions is the only explanation
of the fact that some babies are
born healthy and remain so all
their lives while others are born
with fatal complications or diseases
that they have to endure as long as
they live.
We should understand that if
there is no future after death, people would also not amass wealth or
build houses in their old age.
These efforts would be futile, in the
absence of rebirth. Thus, our
hopes of eternal prosperity and
happiness, desire to earn merit by

performing good deeds, fear of

punishment in future births and
feelings of eternal love and of patriotism, would not arise at all if
rebirth were not a reality.
According to Hindu mythology, a soul never dies, it is body
which dies and immediately after
death the soul changes body as we
change clothes. With modern
techniques like past life regression,
there are many cases around us
where we see a child claiming to
be experiencing visions of his/her
previous birth. Many of these
cases have been verified by experts
and psychologists who have
recorded the testimonies of people recalling their previous birth
and then cross-checked the facts
with official records and the people mentioned by them. Various
cases of child prodigies, who can
memorise voluminous scriptures
at a young age or who excel at in
particular academic disciplines
from their peers, are also the
result of the soul carrying its
experiences and skills from one
birth to another. Though many
facts mentioned above are known
to people, skepticism about the
existence of souls and rebirth are
widespread because of the lack of
an experience of soul-consciousness. Such an experience requires
spiritual effort for which one has
to focus the mind and the intellect
inward and then contemplate on
it. Slowly one begins to sense the
existence of a sentient entity within the soul.

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given up hope and came to India to meet his extended family. While here, he read an article on how ayurveda and alternate therapies can help control some critical diseases.
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how far this faith would take me. I visited a hospital
in Gujarat that focusses on treatment through cow therapy and stayed there
for over two months.
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getting used to consuming cow products like panchgavya
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a cow), meditation,
yoga and a strict vegetarian diet. The
results began to
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continues, skipper Mahendra Singh
Dhoni says the Indian cricket teams
approach to batting in overseas tours has
improved in the last one year.
A listless India capitulated to a four-wicket defeat in the second cricket Test against
Australia here after an inept batting display by
the top-order to give the hosts an invincible
2-0 lead in the four-match series on Saturday.
In both these first two Tests, only a bad
period of about 20 minutes has badly affected our results. Despite the collapses, it can be
seen in the overseas tours from last year that
the batting approach has improved. We just
have to take it forward. Then it becomes a matter of seeing what is important for the team
in different situation, said Dhoni.
The Indian captain, who had missed the
series opener in Adelaide owing to injury,
spoke about the importance of gaining experience as a player. There is no substitute to
experience. We cannot get experienced players from anywhere. These same players have
to play more matches and get that experience.
The more we play overseas more will be experience. We cannot get experienced players
from anywhere else, he said.
India has now lost six Tests in a row Down
Under starting from the series opener in the
2011-12 series. In between they also suffered
defeats in South Africa, New Zealand and
England. In their second innings at the
Gabba, India collapsed from 71/1 to 87/5, with
Virat Kohli the only batsman to be hit in the
nets dismissed in this duration. The rest,
Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma and Dhoni
himself, do not have a similar defence.
This collapse in Brisbane was quite different and will be addressed in a different
way, opined Dhoni. Yes we have had batting collapses in the past, in the recent Test
series we have played overseas. Generally how
you address a situation is you try to tell the
batsmen to bat as normally as possible. To
not really look at the scoreboard as to what
really has happened.
You play according to the merit of the
delivery. If it is there to be hit, you hit. You
look to score and be positive. Thats how it
is supposed to be. The third Test is scheduled to be held in Melbourne from December
26-30, with the fourth one to be organised
in Sydney.

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1A8B10=4)Australias four-wicket defeat of India
with a day to spare in the second test gave the cricketers extra time for holiday shopping. And for the
home sides various injuries to heal ahead of the
third test which begins on Friday in Melbourne.
Opener David Warner (left wrist) and Mitchell
Marsh (right hamstring), as well as fast bowler Ryan
Harris, who missed Brisbane after hurting his groin
in the Adelaide opener, were all question marks for the
Boxing Day test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
It seems no amount of time was enough for
Marsh. On Sunday, Queensland batsman Joe Burns
was called into a 13-man squad to replace Marsh.
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Australia leads the four-test series 2-0, with the
final test set to start on Jan. 6 in Sydney.
Lehmann expects Warner will be fit enough to
play in Melbourne, while Harris is likely to replace
Mitchell Starc in the starting XI.
The in-form Warner was struck by a rising delivery in the second over of Australias second innings
on Saturday. He pulled off his glove and carried on
batting, but was caught behind soon after for 6 off
the bowling of Ishant Sharma.
Medical staff dont think Warners thumb is broken, but will monitor the injury through Christmas.
I havent spoken to Davey yet but hes a tough
little character so Im sure he will be eager to get stuck
in on Boxing Day, captain Steve Smith said. Mitch
Marsh was struggling a bit with his running today,
so the physio will have a look at him over the next
couple of days and make a decision.
India, meanwhile, will hope the practice nets at
the MCG are more user-friendly to its side after complaining about the Gabbas training area.

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nets was a major distraction for India in the minutes
before play resumed on Saturday. Dhawan, who was
26 not out overnight, was hit on the right wrist when
he batted in the nets as he prepared to go back out
for day four with Indias second-innings total at 711. Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said team management initially thought Dhawan would be OK, but
he didnt recover quickly, and the late decision was
made to send Virat Kohli to the crease in his place.

fails to recover in time for next years ODI cricket World Cup.
Harris, who is nursing a quadriceps strain
and is racing against time to be fit for the third
Test against India, said he has been left impressed
by Smiths leadership. Smith scored a hundred
and led the team to a four-wicket triumph over
India in Brisbane after becoming Australias 45th
Test captain.
Theres no doubt I can see him as captain
in all forms. We will see what happens, there is
obviously a big (2015) World Cup coming up,
Harris told 'Fox Sports'. George Baileys done
it (ODI role) in the absence of Michael Clarke
and I think he has done a pretty good job.
But with Steve Smith heading that way it
might be a good idea to give it to him, he
opined. Speaking about himself, Harris said he
has a 90 per cent chance of making the playing in the third Test starting on December 26.
Its going well.
It was just a slight strain there. Theres no
pain there its all looking up.
I am pretty keen to get back out there and
play I am frustrated watching, Harris said.
Kohli had been hit on the left wrist in practice, and
the combined injuries sparked complaints from India
about the state of the practice facilities.
Instead of that, they have asked (us) to practice
on worn-out wickets which (have) uneven bounce,
the team said in a statement. Because of that, two
of our batsmen got injured.
There was no update on Dhawans availability for
the third test, although he seemed to bat without pain
on Saturday.

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Indian speedster Ishant Sharma has

been fined 15 percent of his match fees for
breaching ICCs 'Code of Conduct' during
the second cricket Test between India and
Australia while Steve Smith was fined 60
percent for his teams slow over-rate.
Sharma was fined for using inappropriate language after dismissing Smith during
Australias first innings on the third day at the
Gabba. According to a media release sent by
ICC, Sharma has been fined 15 per cent of
his match fee for violating Level 1 Article 2.1.4
of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and
Player Support Personnel, which relates to
language or a gesture that is obscene, offensive or insulting during an International
match. The incident happened in the first
innings when Sharma was seen on television
screens using inappropriate words after dismissing Australia captain Steven Smith.
Sharma admitted the offence and accepted the
sanction proposed by the match referee. As
such, there was no need for a formal hearing,
it stated. ICC Match Referee Jeff Crowe
imposed the fine on Australia after Smiths side
was ruled to be three overs short of its target
when time allowances were taken into consideration. In accordance with Article 2.5.1 of
the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and
Player Support Personnel, which relates to
minor over-rate offences, players are fined 10
per cent of their match fees for every over their
side fails to bowl in the allotted time, with the
captain fined double that amount.
As such, Smith has been fined 60 per cent
of his match fee, while his players have received
30 per cent fines. If found guilty of one more
minor over-rate offence as captain in Tests over
the next 1 year, he will receive a one-match
suspension as per the provisions of the Code.

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to bat first on a pitch
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good grass covering on an
overcast morning in Delhi's winters. But when their batsmen
struggled to cope with the ball
movement, no one was surprised.
The pitch and heavy weather
provided so much assistance that
the modest Delhi pace attack
looked menacing as Rajasthan's
inadequately equipped batting
line-up was dismissed for 141 in
64.1 overs at the Ferozeshah Kotla
stadium on Sunday.
In reply, Delhi were 10 for 1 in
four overs losing the wicket of skipper Gautam Gambhir before bad
light, which also delayed the start
of the match by one hour in the
morning, forced the umpires to call
the day off half an hour early.
Such was the struggle of
Rajasthan that one of their openers, Siddharth Saraf, played 37 balls
before getting out for zero in the
11th over with their score reading
just 8 runs.

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who put up some resistance was Rajesh
Bishnoi. Barring him,
no other batsmen could cross 30run mark and only four achieved
the double-figures.
On a wicket that demanded
intense focus and courage, and
some luck too, Bishnoi batted
with confidence cashing on every
loose ball that came his way. The
well-built 27-year-old from
Bikaner was severe on the bad balls
while showing respect to the good
ones - the right strategy on a
bowler-friendly pitch.
Parvinder Awana, easily the
best bowler in Delhi line-up in this
match, lived up to his stature by
picking up four wickets for just 15
runs. In his first spell of five
overs, he gave just one run. Young
pacer Navdeep Saini also supported Awana well from the other end
with three wickets.
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kept falling, he remained rocksolid at one end trying to forge a
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enough resolve to fight the conditions. And when Bishnoi finally
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Rajasthans mainstay, as the ball
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Rajasthan, flourish between
Bishnoi-Ashok Menaria and
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Delhi, who returned to their
home ground after a long time,
have a chance to build on the platform provided by their bowlers on
Monday. Although pitch still has
some help for the bowlers.
Brief Scores
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(Rajesh Bishnoi 57, Aristh Singhvi
28; Parvinder Awana 4/15,
Navdeep Saini 3/31) lead Delhi:
10/1 in 4 overs (Gautam Gambhir
0, Unmukt Chand 4 not out,
Varun Sood 4 not out; Aniket
Chowdhary 1/4) by 131 runs.

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home a header deep into
stoppage time to earn
10-man Liverpool a 2-2 draw
against Arsenal in the Premier
League on Sunday.
In the seventh of nine minutes of injury time, Skrtel leaped
high to head a right-wing corner
from Adam Lallana into the bottom corner.
Despite being mostly outplayed, Arsenal recovered from
conceding a 45th-minute goal to
Philippe Coutinho by scoring in
first-half injury time through
Mathieu Debuchy before Olivier
Giroud swept home from close
range in the 64th.
Substitute Fabio Borini was
sent off two minutes into stoppage time for picking up two
quick bookings, yet there was still
time for Skrtel to rescue a point
for Liverpool, which climbed a
place to 10th. Arsenal is sixth,
four points of the top four.
It was the least Liverpool
deserved for an effervescent
performance that overran
Arsenal at times but exposed the
team's biggest problem this season - a lack of a true goal scorer to finish off the glut of
chances created.
In the end, the Reds relied on
a center back to get the team out
of trouble - in a lengthy period of
injury time allotted after Skrtel
himself was trodden on by
Giroud early in the second half,
requiring a long stoppage to bandage his bleeding head.
In Liverpool's situation,
though, a point is not enough if
last season's runner-up is to
climb back into the Champions
League places. With almost half
the season gone, Liverpool is
nine points behind fourth-place
West Ham United.
Arsenal has been guilty of
starting big games slowly in
recent years and the team did so
again here, with Liverpool's pace
and movement too much for
Arsene Wenger's side and
Mathieu Flamini being badly
exposed as Arsenal's holding

The first half started with

Skrtel needing lengthy treatment
after being stamped on the head
by Giroud, and the striker inflicted more pain on Liverpool by
putting Arsenal ahead.
Giroud passed out wide to
Santi Cazorla, whose return
pass from the byline was met
with a first-time finish from six
meters through goalkeeper Brad
Jones' legs.
Lucas Leiva, Coutinho and
Borini all wasted decent chances
but Liverpool's chance of an
equalizer looked to have disappeared when Borini raked his
studs across the chest and left arm
of Cazorla. Less than three minutes earlier, the Italian forward
had been booked for chucking the
ball away after a throw-in was
awarded against him.
Skrtel, who scored twice
against Arsenal in Liverpool's 51 win in the corresponding fixture
last season, came to the team's
rescue with his late goal.

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panish giants Real Madrid

outclassed San Lorenzo of
SArgentina
2-0 in the Club World
Cup final on Saturday to put a
crown on its status as the best
club in world football.
The cup added to Madrid's
2014 trophy haul of Champions
League, Copa del Rey, and
European Super Cup, and it will
carry a 22-game winning streak
into 2015.
Sergio Ramos made the
breakthrough, leaping up and
heading in Toni Kroos sweetly
stuck corner after 37 minutes.
Ramos also got Madrid off the
mark in its 4-0 victory over CONCACAF champion Cruz Azul in

the semifinals.
Loosely marked in the area,
Gareth Bale doubled Madrid's
lead early in the second half. The
South American champion's
goalkeeper, Sebastian Torrico,
should have done better with
Bale's left-footed shot, which
bobbled under his body.
This was Madrid's fourth
world club championship, first in
the Club World Cup format, and
its last competitive match of
2014. An unforgettable year,
Ramos, winner of the Golden
Ball Award, said.
Madrid dominated the often
scrappy, and at times ill-tempered final in Marrakech's Grand
Stade. If San Lorenzo's most
famous fan, Pope Francis, wasn't

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watching on television, then he

didn't miss a classic.
In Madrid's ongoing streak of
22 wins, a Spanish record, Madrid
has scored 81 goals and let in just
10. Losing manager Edgardo
Bauza rated Madrid one of the
four or five best teams in the
world. He congratulated his
counterpart, Carlo Ancelotti,
for putting together a team as
solid in defense as it is in attack.
Having already beaten the
champion of Africa, ES Setif
from Algeria, in the quarterfinals, New Zealand side Auckland
City knocked off another continental champion, Cruz Azul of
Mexico, in the third-place match,
4-2 on penalties after fulltime
finished on 1-1.

midfielder.
Liverpool's fluid 3-4-3 formation, again containing winger
Raheem Sterling as a main striker, seemed to befuddle Arsenal
and the only surprise was that it
took almost 45 minutes for the
home side to score - and even
then it was from an error.
Giroud's misjudged lay-off
was pounced on by Jordan
Henderson, who slipped the
ball forward for Coutinho to jink
past Debuchy and strike a low
shot in off the post from just
inside the area.
Outplayed, Arsenal did not
deserve to go into halftime level
but that was what happened after
Flamini nodded a loose ball in the
area onto Debuchy, whose header brushed against the back of
Skrtel's head and deflected into
the net. It was almost the last
touch of the half.

Adam Johnson scored a

90th-minute winner as
Sunderland beat Newcastle 1-0
in the Premier League on
Sunday for an unprecedented
fourth straight victory in the
north-east Tyne-Wear derby.
The winger finished off a
length-of-the-field counterattack with a volley inside the near
post, scoring at St. James' Park
for the third season in a row to
settle a low-quality and typically feisty derby.
They must hate me here,
said Johnson, who earlier squandered one of a series of great
chances created by the now
14th placed Sunderland in an
open match.
Less than a minute before the
former Manchester City winger
struck, Sunderland goalkeeper
Costel Pantilimon produced the
save of the game to tip over a rising shot from Moussa Sissoko.
Sunderland manager Gus
Poyet has won all three derbies
he has been involved in against
Tyne-Wear derby rivals
Newcastle United.

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a side; shoot 68 and you should be good. He was

wrong (laughter). Hes always encouraging me and
were really close friends.
Jeev Milkha Singh, one of the Big Three of Indian
golf alongside Atwal and Jyoti Randhawa was
tied 31st at six-under 282 with a final round 68 and
Atwal's friend in US, Daniel Chopra (70), who has
also been playing in Asia last few weeks, finished tied
35th at five-under 283.
When Atwal and Wang came to the 18th, the
Korean, who at one stage held a three-shot lead after
11 holes, was still ahead by one. On par-5 18th which
was the final hole of the 2014 season on Asian Tour,
Wang crumbled again, just as he had on the previous and bogeyed. In contrast, the experienced Atwal,
who had an up-and-down for a birdie, holed his final
putt. That birdie meant a two shot swing, and from
one behind, Atwal went one ahead to snatch the title.
Atwal said, Ecstatic, is how I feel. It is yet to sink
in. It's been a long time. There were times when I
wanted to give up golf. Injuries and so on. My family, my kids and parents kept me going. They supported me all the way and here I was playing on a
lot of invites. And now this.
On the 18th, the gap was still one and then Wang
bogeyed and Atwal birdied the last for one final swing.

rjun Atwal held his nerve to hole an up-anddown for a birdie on the 72nd hole and end a
A
four-year title drought as he won the inaugural
$500,000 Dubai Open at the Els Golf Club on Sunday.
Atwal won his first and only title on the PGA Tour
for his last success on a pro Tour in 2010 and his last
success on Asian Tour came in 2008.
A message from his best friend, Tiger Woods, a
series of invites and finally his putting falling in place
saw Atwal get back to the winners circle.
On the long wait and the time in between, he said,
The way things went the last two years, I didnt think
I would play again or compete again. Especially when
I had the back injury and the hip injury, I couldnt
walk. So it was really like, you know, debilitating. So,
yeah, its something else right now.
Playing on his fifth straight invite this week, after
losing status on PGA Tour, the 41-year-old Atwal
carded a final round of six-under 66 with eight birdies
and two bogeys to total 16-under 272, pushing Korean
Wang Jeung-hun (67) to second place.
Meanwhile, Shiv Kapur, who had a share of the
four-way overnight lead, crumbled to a final round
of even par 72 with three birdies and three bogeys
to drop to tied 11th alongwith Gaganjeet Bhullar (71).
Atwal also revealed that his friend Tiger Woods
sent him a message this morning. Today he texted
me in the morning that and told me, Shoot 2 under

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Arjun Atwal has joined Jyoti Randhawa as the

most successful Indian on the Asian Tour with eight

titles, after winning the Dubai Open today at the Els

Golf Club here.
This season-closing victory also helped Atwal win
an exemption to the Asian Tour.
Other Indians -- Jeev Milkha Singh has six titles,
while Gaganjeet Bhullar and Anirban Lahiri have
five each.
Atwal's last title was the 2010 Wyndham
Championships, which was also the first won by an
Indian on the PGA Tour. Two years before that he
won the co-sanctioned Malaysian Open, which was
his last win on Asian and European Tour.
Atwal was also the first to win a title on
European Tour -- the co-sanctioned Singapore
Masters in 2002. He won a total of three titles on
European Tour, all of which were co-sanctioned with
Asian Tour.
Atwal's three European Tour titles are the second best by an Indian, after four by Jeev. SSP
Chowrasia has two.
On his season this year, Atwal said, "Yeah, all
these tournaments I played on invites this year. This
is my fifth invite in a row actually. I'm thankful to
all the sponsors that have given me invites. Thank
God I don't have to do that again. I never thought
that the Asian Tour, I would be asking for invites.
Because I was always in the Top 20 in the career
Money List, but I had not played enough so I was
out of it. It's a good bonus to have where I don't have
to call people and ask for invites.

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wo men who possess experience of

having coached in India as well as at
T
the international level, Englishman
Stephen Constantine and New Zealander
Ricki Herbert, have been short-listed to
take over from Dutchman Wim
Koevermans as the new coach of the
national football team.
Constatine, 52, who coached India
between 2002 and 2005, and 53-year-old
Herbert, former New Zealand coach who
guided North East United FC in the
Indian Super League that concluded on
Saturday, were identified to take over the
mantle by the All India Football
Federation's technical committee at its
meeting here on Sunday.
The panel, headed by former India
captain Bhaichung Bhutia, has also recommended Australian Scott O'Donnell
AIFF's Academy instructor to take over
the mantle of AIFF's Technical Director,
a post which is lying vacant after the
departure of Dutchman Rob Baans.
We had a very good discussion over
who should take over as coach of the
senior team. Rob Baans had recommended that whoever takes over should
know Indian football and should also have

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coached a team at the international level.

Both Stephen and Ricki fulfill that
criteria. We would be speaking to both of
them and then decide on who gets the job
in the next 3-4 days, Bhutia told reporters
after the technical committee meeting.
Bhutia also said that while the federation had received applications from the
likes of Ashley Westwood, who guided
Bengaluru FC to the I-League title last season, and Trevor Morgan (coach of Kerala
Blasters in ISL), they lacked the criteria
of having coached a national team.
Under Constantine, the country had
improved its ranking from 130 to 109.
He was considered to be a hard taskmaster, according to an AIFF source. "He's
a hard taskmaster and our players
should be prepared for it," he said.
"We are looking at a contract of three
years," Bhutia said. The former India striker said O'Donnell was identified as the best
man for the job of Technical Director as
per the 'Lakshya' road map for Indian football laid out by the AIFF.
We have also identified two Germans
Nicolai Adam and Bernard Lippert
as the men ideal to take over as the national Under 17 coach ahead of the World
under 17 Cup," said Bhutia.
According to Bhutia, the AIFF was

determined to get the best man for the

juniors as they represented the future of
Indian football.
The under 17 coach's name will be
finalised by the end of this month. This
is a very important job and we are interested in decent spending on the man as
the boys who train under him would be
our future stars, Bhutia said.
It was learnt that the new coach would
be offered a salary of between 15,000 and
20,000$ per month, as compared to the
plus $30,000 that was drawn by the previous coach. Earlier we used to decide on
the name and then accept the salary
demand. Now we have decided on a budget and then fit the man in that budget,
a source put it this way.

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Bhutia, who has decided to have a final

fling at the upcoming I-League and retire
after wearing East Bengal club's colors , felt
that the hugely successful ISL and I-League
should never be merged.
"I-League is the most important tournament being run by AIFF and should
decide which club is represented in the
Asian tournaments. ISL should remain
separate with six foreign players in the
eleven to maintain its higher standards.

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