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THUMBNAILS
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STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE
New Delhi, 2 October
During a hunger-strike at Visva-Bharati demanding

justice for a student who was victimised by authorities
at Santiniketan. In Birbhum on Friday. Ashoke Bhakat
Microsoft-Google: Microsoft & Google

announced they have agreed to end all
patent infringement litigation against
each other. Legal battles included suits
over technology for Internet-linked mobile
devices, WiFi and digital video. P13
India lose: South Africa beat India by
seven wickets in the opening T20 International cricket match in Dharamsala on Friday. Put into bat, India
managed to score 199, with Rohit Sharma scoring his maiden T20 century.
Mayawati questioned: Uttar Prades
ex-CM Mayawati has been questioned
by CBI for her alleged involvement in
the multi-crore National Rural Health
Mission scam after the agency claimed
to have got new evidence against her.
Setback for grand alliance: In a setback to the JD(U)-RJD-Congress Grand
Alliance, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Minister Baidyanath Sahni on
Friday resigned from the Nitish Kumar
government and joined the BJP.
Show cause to doctors: The Delhi govt
has issued show cause notices to 14 doctors in seven govt hospitals for dereliction of duty in dealing with the dengue
crisis, as the Capital faced the worst
outbreak of the disease in past six years.
AAP on Bharti: The Aam Aadmi Party criticised the Central government
for giving so much prominence to the
domestic violence case against its
leader Somnath Bharti and questioned the presence of the top three
legal officers at the hearing of Bharti's case in the Supreme Court.
P3
Bharti taken to Agra: Somnath
Bharti was taken to Agra, a day after
Supreme Court denied interim bail to
the AAP MLA and his police custody
was extended for three days. The police team will take him to Mathura on
Saturday.
PM scheme: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday inaugurated distribution of loans under MUDRA Yojana
and free LPG connections to families
that are below poverty line in Jharkhand beginning with Dumka. Under
the programme loans of Rs 26,000
crore would be distributed among 42
lakh people, including 20 lakh women
across the country.
In the run-up to the crucial United Nations climate change conference

in Paris, India today
pledged to cut its carbon
emission intensity by 3335 per cent by 2030 from
2005 levels, even as it also committed itself to
achieve about 40 per cent
cumulative electric power installed capacity from
non-fossil fuel- based energy resources by 2030.
These pledges made
by India are part of its
much-awaited Intended
Nationally Determined
Contribution (INDC)
which was submitted to
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary today. India asserted that its INDC is "balanced and comprehensive".
Announcing this at a
press conference here,
the Union minister of environment, forest and climate change, Mr Prakash
Javadekar said: "India is
keen to attempt to work
towards a low carbon
emission pathway, while
simultaneously endeavoring to meet all the developmental challenges that
the country faces today".
Besides pledging reduction in India's emissions intensity of its GDP
by 33-35 % by 2030 from
2005 level and to create an

additional carbon sink
of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes
of CO2 equivalent through
additional forest and tree
cover by 2030, India has
also proposed to anchor
a global solar alliance INSPA (International Agency for Solar Policy and
Application) of all countries located in between
Tropic of Cancer and
Tropic of Capricorn.
Mr Javadekar said going by preliminary estimates "at least 2.5 trillion
TRANSPORT
STRIKE HITS
SUPPLIES
Indrani serious after

suspected drug overdose
New Delhi, 2 October: Transporters remained off roads

for the second day today
affecting supply of goods
in various parts of the
country, as the government refused to budge on
their demand for scrapping
the present toll system.
Supply of essential
goods such as milk, vegetables and medicines
have however been kept
out of the purview of the
indefinite strike, called
by the apex transporters
body, the All India Motor
Transport Cong ress
(AIMTC).
The impact was visible
on supply of raw materials for various industries
in Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan,
Punjab, Haryana, Bihar
and Uttar Pradesh, among
other places. We will continue our strike till the government comes out with
some practical solution
to our problem. We are not
against paying toll, but we
are demanding it in an
annualised form, AIMTC
PTI
chief said.
Former media magnate

Indrani Mukerjea,accused
of killing her daughter
Sheena Bora, was today
hospitalised after a suspected drug overdose with
doctors describing her condition as serious, leading to speculation that she
might have attempted suicide. Maharashtra Chief
Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who also holds the
home portfolio, ordered
an inquiry into the incident
late tonight.
She was brought here
at 2 p m.She is unconscious
since then,Dr T P Lahane,
Dean of government-run
J J Hospital in south Mumbai, told reporters. She is
unconscious, her condition is serious, he said.
The 43-year-old Indrani,the prime accused in the
sensational murder of 24year-old Sheena,was rushed from the Arthur Road
jail and admitted to the J
J Hospital after she complained of uneasiness,
said DCP Mohan Dahikar.
According to Dr La-
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Mumbai, 2 October
An Additional DGP rank

officer in Gujarat is facing
departmental action following reports that he had
confined as many as 17
policemen in his garage for
more than 12 hours.
The Additional DGP
(Technical services), Mr
Vipul Vijoy, has already
been sent on forced leave
till the time a departmental inquiry into the allegations is finished.
More than dozen policemen, including some Sub
Inspector rank officers,
were held captive in the
garage of the Additional
DGPs residence in the
Police Academy in Karai,
supposedly as a punishment for negligence of

their duties.
It is not clear whether
Mr Vijoys atrocious action
against his own subordinates was prompted by the
great liberty being enjoyed
by the Gujarat Police for
over a decade now, especially after every officer
involved in the dozen-odd
fake encounters have been
discharged and rehabilitated with promotions.It may

be recalled that during the
run-up to the 2014 Lok
Sabha polls, bureaucrats of
states where the BJPs
prime ministerial aspirant
was scheduled to visit had
complained that Gujarat
Police officers coming as
advance security party
were behaving in a manner
as if they have already

Supply of additional foodgrains meant for APL

and BPL families is likely to be reduced for an
many as 18 states and
Union territories as most
of them have failed to
meet the 30 September
deadline for rolling out
the landmark National
Food Security law.
Officials said West
Bengal too could be affected as the Mamata Banerjee-ruled state has implemented the UPA's flagship
scheme only partially.
Details are being
worked out....but many
states/UTs have not
implemented the law
despite several warnings. The Centre will
stop allocation of additional foodgrains to APL
and BPL families under
the public distribution
system (PDS) to these
states, a senior Food
Ministry official said.
Sources in the ministry
said despite best
attempts and repeated
extension of time, the
flagship scheme of the
hane, Indrani was on epilepsy medication.We suspect that she got her epilepsy medicine and probably consumed all of it,
he added.
Jail authorities said
she has been on anti-epileptic pills since September 11 after she started
suffering bouts of seizure. Prison officials, who
were tasked to monitor
her medication, have been
asked to explain how Indrani got hold of tablets more
than her dosage.
Anti-epileptic drugs are
given to control seizures
and an overdose can put a
person in a comatose state,
a senior doctor said.
Whatever toxic has
been there, if it has gone
out of the body, then I
think, it should be clear to
us within the next 24 hours
to check the response.It will
take at least 24 hours, Dr
Lahane said.
become the PMs personal

guards.The junior officers,
now freed, have complained that theADGP had
summoned the batch of 17
policemen of the Technical
Wing to his residence on
Wednesday morning and
kept them captive inside
the garage without food
and water till night. The
cops who have worked as
orderlies in the IPS officers home have also complained of facing oral misbehaviour from his wife on
trivial issues. Finally,
police men were rescued
after they called up the
Police Control Room from
the cell phone of one cop
and also circulated a video
to some friends in the
media.
previous UPA government National Food

Security Act is now staring at an uncer tain
future. We do not blame
anyone... but that's reality. The ball is in the
court of states, sources
said.
Eighteen states and
Union Territories including Gujarat failed to meet
the 30 September deadline
for rolling out the law. The
remaining 18 states and
UTs have implemented
the law but some with
riders and a few like West
Bengal only partially.
Telangana, Uttarakhand,
Jharkhand, Tripura, Lakshadweep and Puducherry have managed to implement the law at the last
moment. The law was
passed by Parliament in
2013 and state governments were given one
year to implement the
scheme. Since then, the
deadline has been extended thrice with the latest
one ending on 30 September. The food law provides legal entitlement
to 5 kg of subsidised foodgrains per person every
month at Rs 1-3 kg to
Did not influence anyone

to give coal block to Birla
Cops held captive as

punishment
Ahmedabad, 2 October
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P9
Foodgrain supply to 18
states, UTs may decline
SNS & PTI
ADGP RANK OFFICER IN GUJARAT FACES ACTION
US dollars (at 2014-15

prices) will be required for
meeting India's climate
change actions between
now and 2030".
When asked how India
will raise such a staggering amount, Mr Javedakar reportedly said, "We
will generate essentially
our own resources. We will
also mobilise foreign commited resources and technological assistance. National and international
mobilisation, both we
have mentioned."
He also said as a fastgrowing economy India's
resources and tax-collection will also grow rapidly which had also been factored in for the ambitious
targets
listed in its 15-year climate action plan, INDC.
Pointing out that India's share in global CO2
emissions (2012) was just
5.7 per cent and noting that
PEOPLE
SHOULD BE
SENSITISED
ON GAY
RIGHTS...
Former Prime Minister

Manmohan Singh has
told CBI that he did not
try to influence anybody, nor was there any
undue haste in awarding
the Talabira-II coal block
to HINDALCO which was
initially refused.
He also told CBI, investigating the case, that he
had neither promised,
nor gave any assurance to
industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla about allocation of the block in
Odisha to his firm HINDALCO.
Singh, who was holding the portfolio of the
Coal Ministry in 2005,
said he only forwarded the
letters of Birla and Chief
Minister of Odisha
Naveen Patnaik in this
regard to the Ministry
for careful examination.
On being asked, I state
that I do not recall having
told anyone in PMO to
issue reminders, other
than the noting of my
PS. It is a routine administrative matter. The PM

does not go into these
issues. Anyway, I had
already stated that I did
not try to influence anybody and that there was
no undue haste in arriving at the decision, he
said. While Birla had written letters requesting the
Government to change
the decision of not considering HINDALCO for
the coal block, Patnaik had
requested a review of the
decision.
Singh, who has been
summoned as accused by
a special CBI court in the
case, in a statement to the
agency has said that recommendation of the Ministry to accommodate
HINDALCO was approved
by him. There was no
undue haste in arriving
at the decision to allocate the block to HINDALCO, he maintained.

The Supreme Court
had on April 1 stayed the
trial court's order summoning Singh and others,
including Birla and exCoal Secretary P C
Parakh, as accused in the
case. In his statement
recorded before CBI,
which is probing the
alleged scam in allotting
a coal block to HINDALCO, Singh said he had
received a May 7, 2005, letter from Birla urging the
government to allocate
Talabira-II block to his
firm as it would enable
them to set up a large aluminium plant in Odisha.
I knew of the decision
that I had already given
the approval to the Secretary (Coal) to approve
the minutes of the 25th SC
(screening committee) at
his level. The letter of
Mr Birla was merely forwarded to the MoC (Ministry of Coal) with instructions to get a report, he
told the CBI.
two-thirds of India's population. Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh,

Maharashtra, Punjab,
Rajasthan,
Bihar,
Himachal Pradesh,
Chandigarh, Lakshadweep, Puducherry, Tripura, Telangana, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand have
implemented the Act fully.
A few states like Tamil
Nadu and Kerala have
sought time till March
2016 and the request is
being examined by the
ministry. The Centre has
allocated additional foodgrains to BPL and APL
category for the first six
months of this year and
is yet to take a call
whether to allocate 30
lakh tonnes of additional rice and wheat for
remaining six months.
According to experts, the
delay in implementation
of food law in some states
has been mainly due to
problems related to identification of key beneficiaries. States are finding
it difficult to exclude some
beneficiaries so as to
include the most vulnerable sections.
US PLANE SHOT
DOWN BY
TALIBAN, 11 DIE
Washington/Kabul, 2 October:
Eleven people, including

six American servicemen,
were today killed when a
US transport plane was
reportedly shot down by
the Taliban in eastern
Afghanistan as the hostility between NATO forces
and militants escalated
over the control of a key
northern Afghan city.
An Air Force C-130 J
assigned to the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron,
part of the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing, crashed at
Jalalabad Airfield, the
Pentagon said.
Six US service members
and five civilians on board
died in the crash, it said.
The Pentagon did not
immediately confirm the
reason for the crash of
the plane but the Taliban
claimed responsibility for
downing the aircraft.The
cause of the accident is currently under investigation, the Pentagon said
in a statement.
PTI
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In Dadri village, Mahatma Gandhis

teachings strike no chord
ABHAY SINGH
abhay8942@gmail.com
Greater Noida, 2 October
While India observed Gandhi Jayanti today with enthusiasm, in Bisada village in Greater Noida's Dadri area, the Mahatma's
teachings of peace and nonviolence struck no chord.
Four days after 50-yearold Mohammed Akhlaq
was brutally killed at his
home in the village by a mob
of around 200 people when
a rumour was spread that
beef had been stored in his
house, the area remains
tense.
The villagers said for the
last three days leaders from
different political parties
have visited Akhlaq's home
to express their condolences to his family. They said
these leaders have started
a blame game and instead
of calming the situation they
are politicising the matter.
The victim's family members told The Statesman that

they have requested leaders not to politicise Mohammed Akhlaq's death.His
son, Danish, who was also
violently attacked by the
mob when he tried to save
his father remains critical. The family said they
don't want leaders to use the
incident for their political
benefits. "My father was
brutally killed and my brother has shown some improvement but is still on ventilator. What my family is
facing no one can undestand.
I requested all the leaders
not to politicise the matter,"
said Sartaj, Mohammed
Akhlaq's elder son, who is
an Indian Air Force technician working in Chennai.
Many villagers agreed
with Sartaj.They said politicians instead of blaming
each other should come together to calm the situation
so that peace returns to
the village."I don't want such

an incident to happen to any
other family. For that leaders should come together
and spread the message of
peace and harmony that the
Mahatma wanted so that India develops in the real
sense," said Sartaj.
The village now looks
like a police camp.Many people are not coming out of
their homes, shops and
schools are closed. Villagers feel if the blame game
continues,it may lead to another clash."Due to this situation many children are
not able to go to school.I don't
think my children are responsible for the incident.
Why are people not talking
about how the situation
can calm down so that the
future of many children is
not jeopardised?" said a
resident.
Villagers said the two
communities have been living in peace and harmony
in for more than 500 years.

More than 25 Muslim families live in the village of
20,000 families from different religions.Bisada lags behind in development parameters. The roads are full of
potholes.Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and Digital India appear distant dreams here but
of the more than 50 leaders
who have visited the place
in the last two days, none
have talked about how to
solve the basic problems.
"Whether it is Muslims
or Hindus, they have been
living here in peace.We even
celebrate each other's festivals," said 86-year-old Charan Singh, a resident.
On the heinous incident
the villagers claimed that
the mob which attacked
Akhlaq's family consisted
of youngsters.They said if
the older residents had
been present such a situation would never have occurred.
02
THUMBNAILS
Man beaten up:A man
was allegedly beaten
up by three policemen while he was having dinner outside his
home in Sector-3 of
Faridabad. According to the eyewitnesses, the man was having dinner with his family, sitting outside his
home in Sector-3 when
three policemen landed there and started
beating the man. The
victim, Prem, got his
arm fractured due to
the beating.The police,
however, have denied
all the allegations.
Locals from Sector-3
area lodged a protest
and demanding action
against the erring poPTI
lice officials.
Hot day in Delhi: It
was hot day in the national capital which witnessed high humidity even as the weather turned pleasant
evening onwards. The
maximum temperature settled at 35.5 degrees Celsius, two
notches above the normal while the minimum
temperature dipped
to 20.6 degrees Celsius, two notches below the normal, said
a MeT department official. Residents of
the national capital also experienced uneasiness as the humidity level oscillated
between 32 per cent and
PTI
89 per cent.
One year of Swach Bharat. Which streets got cleaned as a

result of 'this campaign', How much budget spent on it? Time
to question symbolism?
ARVIND KEJRIWAL
NEW DELHI, SATURDAY 03 OCTOBER 2015
CHIEF MINISTER, DELHI
VVIP AREAS VS COMMON MAN'S

DELHI: A STUDY IN CONTRASTS
MOITREYEE GHOSH
moitreyeeghosh07@gmail.com
A year after Prime Minister

Narendra Modi launched his
'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan',
the situation in the Capital is
not very encouraging.
The "Clean India Mission"
aiming to make India filth free
in the next 5 years by 2019 does
not appear to have struck a
chord with Delhi'ites. While
the VVIP areas and upscale
colonies have become cleaner, the poorer parts of the city
have only seen a worsening
of conditions.
There are still villages on
the outskirts of Delhi where
women wait till it is dark to
attend to nature's call in the
outdoors. A group of women
who live in a row of huts in
their village which falls between Outer Delhi's Mangolpuri and Sultanpur Majra
village work night and day to
make cushions and supply
them to companies. However, there is not a single toilet
there and they have to wait
till it is dark to go out and relieve themselves.
Residents said some municipal staffers came there earlier and took measurements
to set up toilets but nothing
has happened since then. The
situation is identical in the unauthorised colony in Ritha-
An area in the Capital still waiting for clleanliness drive. Arunima Rajkumar
la Gaon. People are forced to

live near choked drains risking their lives. Garbage is
thrown near metro pillars or
on both sides of the road.
"Nothing has changed even
after the launch of the Swachh
Bharat campaign.We have not
got any benefits," said a 42-yearold woman.
Garbage is dumped on the
main roads of Sarita Vihar,
Taimur Nagar and Pahar
Ganj. Sarita Vihar JJ Colony
is unfit for human inhabitation with filth and flies all over
the area making it difficult to
breathe.
When asked about the

cleaning process and the duration, one of the residents of
the area said everything was
only on paper."No cleaning
takes place ever. Officials only come and take a look of the
place and leave," said Asif Ali,
a resident of Sarita Vihar JJ
Colony.
While Prime Minister Modi
has stressed on the need to
build toilets, no public conveniences have been built in
the area.The only existing
one is also in poor condition
and under lock and key.
The area has a number of
Rlys re-launches cleanliness drive

With the Swacch Bharat Mission completing one year today, Northern Railway re-launched few initiatives at 1008
stations with senior officers participating at major stations.
Drawing up elaborate action plans
during the course of the entire year, Indian Railways had earmarked intensive
campaigns. "Phase-wise mission programmes are also slated for launch. Sardar Patel United Clean India Drive
from 11 October to 31 October 2015 focusing on Railway stations and trains
will be done. From 16 December to 31
December the focus will be on railway

colonies,from 15 February 2016 to 18 February 2016, Railway Hospitals and
Health Units. From 28 February 2016 to
15 March 2016 cleanliness drive at offices, Service Buildings and other work
places including Workshops & Production Units will be done," said Northern
Railway spokesperson. Northern Railway also proposes to hold topical seminars and workshops to focus on the achievements in the area registered last year
and lay broad road-map for the year ahead.
"The Railway also envisages to enlist support of Charitable Organisations/NGOs in the endeavour. Special
Focus areas in this direction include main-
ly Cleanliness of Toilets,Solid Waste Management in major stations to identity

improvements to be made and initiate
action," stated the spokesperson.
Other programmes include anti-littering drives, special awareness campaigns on use of dustbins, bio-toilets,
web-based SMS for dealing complaints
on cleanliness."Other infrastructure development work in the direction includes
completion of ongoing works on sanitation improvement and face-lifting of
stations etc. Special JCB and dumpers,
Track cleaning cars are also pressed into service during drive periods at major stations in Delhi area and Lucknow,"
added the spokesperson.
Cleanliness drive in Rajiv Chowk DMRC's 'Clean &

The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) today launched a cleanliness drive in Rajiv Chowk and
parks under its jurisdiction on the
occasion of first anniversary of the
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
The drive was inaugurated by
Urban Development Ministry secretary Madhusudhan Prasad by
painting the pillars in the inner
circle of Connaught Place. "The
NDMC has been selected by the
MoUD as one of the 100 smart cities to participate in the Smart City
Challenge Stage-2. The government is ready to provide funds and
technical assistance but cleanliness
is very important to convert the
area into smart city," said Mr Prasad.
NDMC chairman Naresh Kumar said the civic body had carried out several initiatives to main-
tain cleanliness in its areas throughout the year.

"We have tried to ensure that
Swachh does not be just a symbolic drive but things improve on the
ground. We have also procured infrastructure to maintain cleanliness in all the areas. We are vying
for the smart city tag and work is
being carried out in a phased
manner," Mr Kumar said.
A fortnight-long special cleanliness campaign was also launched
by NDMC today in association
with Resident Welfare Associations
(RWAs) and Market/Traders Associations for cleaning streets,
lanes, bylanes, markets and parks.
The students and teachers of
NDMC & Navyug School also took
part in the drive where children
of seven Navyug Schools organized rallies to spread the message
about Swachh Bharat Mission in
various colonies, markets and
streets of New Delhi.
Green Delhi' drive

New Delhi, 2 October: On completion of
one year
of Swachh Baharat Abhiyan, the Delhi Metro
Rail Corporation (DMRC) today undertook a special Clean & Green Delhidrive at all its stations
to promote cleanliness and create a better environment in all its installations and nearby surroundings.During the drive,DMRC involved its
entire staff and stakeholders like CISF, housekeeping agencies,parking contractors and facilitation staff in working towards a clean and green
Delhi. "The drive started at 9 am today with a
cleanliness pledge (Swachhata Sapath) taken by
approximately 2,500 officials and staff present
at all the stations of the metro network and also by the travelling public at that time," said a
metro spokesperson. He also said this was followed by a thorough mechanised cleanliness drive
in and outside the station premises by the officials and staff present and spread the message
about cleanliness and its importance to the general public. "The DMRC,in its entirety,had been
following and practicing the objectives of this
SNS
mission, said the spokesperson.
parks,but according to the residents they are mostly used

by drug addicts.
In the Taimoor Nagar village in South East Delhi,
choked open drains are a
common sight. Mounds of
unattended 'malba' and overflowing garbage bins that
stink are also very much part
of the landscape..
For the residents of Taimoor Nagar,foul air,contaminated water,sewage water and
garbage dumps have become
a routine affair.Local residents
claimed that they have been
living in these conditions for
several years. "The drain was

covered but after sometime the
cover was demolished and the
drain was left open which causes health problems," said a
72-year-old resident, adding
that despite several complaints to the local councilor,
no step has been taken to improve the situation so far.
Khizrabad, which is close
to Taimoor Nagar, also deals
with a bad drainage system
which the government could
have solved but didnt. Lack
of proper drainage and overflowing sewage can be seen
on the streets of Khizrabad.
"I have been trying to get
the choked drains behind my
house fixed for the past several years but nothing has happened," said Sartaj, a resident
of Khizrabad.
These two villages are situated besides the posh locality of New Friends Colony.The
contrast cannot be starker.
On the other hand,ragpickers, who clean the streets daily, claim that they have been
working for the development
of the Capital but have never been recognised in society.
"I have been cleaning the
streets of Anand Vihar area
for the last ten years, but
when the government officials
come for supervision all the
credit goes to the East Corporation staff," said Sohanlal, a
ragpicker.
Suicide bid:CISF
passes the buck
to DMRC
A day after a man shot himself at Rajiv Chowk metro

station and was admitted to
Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in an injured condition
last night, the Central Industrial Security Force
(CISF) clarified that the
person sneaked the pistol
in the premises inside a bag
from an unmanned area
near a customer care counter.
According to CISF official, Shivesh Kumar, the
22-year-old man who allegedly shot himself, was seen
quickly lifting a bag from
over the low-height glass
wall partition at the Chandni Chowk station, which is
created to demarcate the
free and security-hold area
in a number of Metro stations.
"We wanted to ensure
whether there was a fault
on our part and after checking we found that there
was no mistake from CISF.
We saw the entire CCTV
footage of last evening's
incident," said the CISF
spokesperson adding that security agencies are probing
the incident.
Explaining further, the
official said that Shivesh
was with his sister when he

entered the station.
"While CISF went for
frisking him, his sister
stopped at the counter with
two bags. She then kept the
bags on an elevated platform
near the glass wall and Shivesh was later seen lifting
one of the bags from over
the glass partition in which
it is suspected the local pistol was kept. His sister and
the second bag went through
normal frisking and scanning and hence they were
cleared for travelling," said
CISF spokesperson adding
that police is probing the incident.
The CISF has handed
over the CCTV footage of the
incident to police officials
probing the case.
"We have requested the
DMRC to make arrangements to scale up the height
of the glass wall so that no
one can transfer items like
this. Presently, the height
of glass has been increased
at some of the stations but
now it will be done at every
station," said the CISF official.
Meanwhile, keeping security concerns, CISF has
also deployed personnel
without uniform to keep a
vigil at such vulnerable
areas.
300 toilets built during unified

MCD are Not in Use
CHANCHAL SINGH
chanchaljurno@gmail.com
While South Delhi Mayor,

Subhash Arya, on Friday
claimed to be working on ecofriendly project, 'NAMMA
TOILETS' even while more
than 300 toilets, which had
been built during erstwhile
unified corporation, are
locked for years bearing the
board of 'NOT in USE'.
On the first anniversary
of Prime Minister's Swachh
Bharat Abhiyan, Swatch
Toilet in South Delhi Municipal Corporation Area was
inaugurated by Cabinet Secretary Government of India
PK Sinha. On this occasion
Mr Arya briefed that this
Swatch Toilet was made
under CSR by NBCC.
"This swatch toilet is
very successful model in
Tamil Nadu where it is
known as NAMMA TOILETS. These toilets are completely eco-friendly with
facility of Solar Lights. In
this mode fixtures are created in form of separate
units," he said.
He further said these toilets are made from damage
free fixtures and weather
proof structure. In the inaugurated toilet one is for specially challenged, two for
ladies and three units for
A defunct toilet. In the Capital on Friday. SNS
gents are created at a cost

of Rs 14 lakh.
The Mayor said under
Swatch Bharat Mission the
South Corporation is making 94 new Toilets under CSR
with PSUs and other Government organisations.
Operation and maintenance
is transferred to market
associations and RWAs for
better control and management.
He also added that all
the toilets- CTCs and Urinals
in South Corporation are
repaired during this year to
give better civic facility to
public.
However, a toilet (in pix)
saying another bitter truth.
In the unified MCD, more

than 300 toilets had been built
in rural areas of which 49
toilets were built in Najafgarh Zone itself. The area of
Najafgarh zone is spread
in the radius of 25 KM
wherein 20 lakh population
live.
But disappointingly of
49 only 9 toilets are in running conditions and rest
toilets building are locked
in ramshackle condition.
According to a Congress
Councillor, Surendra Solanki- (Nominated by LG as
elderman), these toilets are
just needed the makeover but
the civic bodies are not paying any heed to it.
The Councillor raised a

question that Central government had announced Rs
500 crore for each corporation, then why they are not
demanding the committed
amount? Is it because the
BJP ruling at Center ? At
times, it was seen they are
at loggerheads with Delhi
Government seeking their
fund release.
He said, "The Swachh
Bharat Abhiyan launched on
Gandhi Jayanti in 2014
stands exposed today. It had
no impact in Delhi. Rather,
BJP leaders have been
jostling to get their pictures
clicked with brooms in their
hands,"
Swachh Bharat: No silver lining for sanitation workers

NIVEDITA R
nivedita26feb@gmail.com
One year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched

his pet scheme, the Swacchh
Bharat Abhiyan, from the
Valmiki Colony in Central
Delhi, there is only a slight
improvement in conditions.
Mr Modi announced Rs
62,000 crore for the Swachh
Bharat mission last year on
the occasion of Mahatma
Gandhi's birth anniversary
and also symbolically took up
a broom to sweep the streets
of Mandir Marg and Valmiki
Colony, where sanitation
workers reside.
Huge investments were
made in the name of cleanliness. Banners, posters came
up, cleaning equipment was
bought by the municipal corporations and NGOs were
supported with funds too.
However, many parts of the
city are still dirty, dustbins
are still filled with garbage,
while stinking drains in residential areas are an open invitation to disease-causing
mosquitoes, threatening the
health of Delhi'ites, especial-
A ragpicker collecting her livings from garbage. In the Captal on Friday.
ly in this season of dengue.

Blaming the BJP-ruled civic bodies and AAP-led Delhi
Arunima Rajkumar
Government, Dr Raj Kumar

Verka, vice-chairman, National Commission for Sched-
uled Castes, said, "There is no

improvement in the Valmiki
Colony, from where our PM
initiated the Swachh Bharat

Abhiyan. I feel that the whole
initiative was just to show off.
The taxpayers money is going into advertisements."

Mr Verka along with members and officials of Valmiki
foundation; ex-chairman of
Delhi Safai Karamchari Ayog,
Harnam Singh and ex-member of Rashtriya Safai Karamchari Aayog, Hari Ram
Sood, among others were seen
holding placards, that read
"Thekedaro ki dono sarkar ~
Modi Kejriwal dono bekar",
outside Valmiki Mandir today
demanding the end of contract system of hiring sanitation workers.
"While on the one hand,
Modi is celebrating first anniversary, our sanitation workers live in pathetic conditions. South Delhi Municipal
Corporation's worker Banwari Lal committed suicide
recently and his suicide note
mentioned that he was depressed as he had not been
paid salary for four months.
This is how the safai workers
are treated in the country,"
added Mr Verka. National
Commission for Scheduled
Castes has written to the government asking it to further
probe the matter and take
necessary action.
Mr Harnam Singh said,

"Had the government spent
crores of rupees on the welfare of Safai Karamcharis instead of advertisements conditions would have been different now. Our sanitation
worker wouldn't have had to
die. Moreover, the financial
condition of Safai karamcharis and Dalit people of the
bastis would have been much
better."
Residents of Valmiki Colony said with a mere Rs 7000
salary per month, civic body
workers are made to work on
contract basis. One of the residents, Rakesh said "All the
karamcharis work bare-handed, with no gloves, masks or
aprons, mandated under the'
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan',
which leads to many health
hazards. They are not given
any medical facilities or insurance. Our streets are
cleaned on a regular basis
now after the initiation of the
drive. However, the garbage
that accumulates is cleaned
once a week or once in two
weeks which leads to mosquito breeding. The civic bodies'
so-called zero tolerance policy
is just on paper."
Mr Jaitley, please stop playing with the puppets and come directly in the field...
AAP LEADER ASHUTOSH
ON SOMNATH BHARTI CASE
KEJRI SLAMS PM FOR IGNORING SHASTRI

The Delhi government will construct 350 new toilets in the

national capital, as Mr Kejriwal claimed that sufficient toilets and
clean drinking water will be provided in all Delhi slums by March
31.
Delhi Chief Minister, Mr Arvind

Kejriwal, today slammed Prime
Minister Narendra Modi for not
paying tribute to former Prime Minister Lal Bahdur Shastri on his birth
anniversary, while he taking a
jibe at Mr Modi and his dream project 'Swachh Bharat Mission', advising him for 'working' rather than
'talking'.
"One year of Swach Bharat.
Which streets got cleaned as a result of 'this campaign', How much
budget spent on it? Time to question symbolism?" tweeted the common man's CM, on on the occasion
of Gandhi-Shastri Jayanti, also the
first anniversary of Swacch Bharat Mission.
Mr Kejriwal also slammed the
Prime Minister for ignoring late
Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, whose birth anniversary coincides with Mahatma Gandhi's on
2 October.
After paying tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and Shastri at Raj
Ghat and Vijay Ghat respectively,
Kejriwal posted a series of tweets,
criticising Modi for not visiting
Shastri's memorial at Vijay Ghat.
He also accused the central
government of stopping funding
for the celebration of Shastri's birth
anniversary.
"When I went to pay tribute to
Shastri ji, I found out that from this
"Today, AAP government inaugurated 350 new toilets in 10

new toilet blocks across Delhi," Mr Kejriwal said while inaugurating a toilet block in Majnu Ka Tila area.
While he suggested the Prime Minsiter Narendra Modi to
work for his clean India campaign instead of using it for the photoshoot, Mr Kejriwal said that his Delhi government had built 750
toilets in last six months.
"In the last six months, 750 toilet seats have been added. By
March 31 next year, we will be able to provide sufficient toilets
and clean water in all slums," he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi did
not visit his (Shastri) memorial.
I think that its not right to avoid
Shasti."
Calling the late Congress leader a symbol of honesty and simplicity, he urged the central government to celebrate the birthday
of Shastriji officially like that of
Gandhi's.
Shastri's grandson Adarsh ShasChief Minister Arvind Kejriwal paid floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi on his 147th birth anniversary at Rajghat, early this morning. Afterwards, he visited Vijay Ghat to pay homage to late
tri is an Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP)
Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. He also participated in a Gandhi Jayanti programme at the
legislator from Dwarka. Adarsh alDelhi Vidhan Sabha. "Gandhi's birthday today. Let's pledge to put an end to divisive politics. Beef so targetted the Prime Minister for
ban murder outcome of divisive politics. Plzzz. Let's stop this," he later tweeted. Mr Kejriwal
not payuing tribute to Lal Bahawhile paying tribute to Shastri said that he was symbol of honesty and simple politics. SNS
dur Shastri.
year Centre has stopped giving monday," he said in a tweet and con"It is ironic that PM could
ey to celebrate Shastri's birth- tinued, "Then I got to know that come to Rajghat but not 200 meters
away to Vijay Ghat. However, PM

Modi does not miss an opportunity to capitalise on Shastriji's iconic slogan Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan or
his legacy," asserted Mr Shastri in
a series of tweet.
Taking a dig at Prime Minister,
Mr Kejriwal said that even after
one year of the ambitious plan, the
country is filled with filth and it
raises questions about the money
spent on the scheme, he said.
"The effect of Swachh Bharat
Mission cannot be seen in any street
of the country. The union government should work more rather than
talking about schemes," the chief
minister said.
03
AAP questions Centre's

'undue' interest in
Bharti case
Accusing the Delhi Police of

working under the direct
control of Union Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley, the
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today criticised the central
government for giving so
much prominence to the domestic violence case against
its leader Somnath Bharti,
saying it looks like the government does not want him
to be released on bail.
"The Attorney General,Solicitor General and Additional Solicitor General were
present during the Bharti case
hearing. What was the reason behind their presence?
It seems like that this is the
most important case ever
seen in the history of this
country. Why is Modi government so interested in the
case?" questioned AAP leader Ashutosh.
He alleged that the AG, Mr
Mukul Rohatgi, is acting at
the behest of his 'close friend'
Mr Jaitley. Ashutosh asked
Mr Jaitley to direcly take on
Bharti. "Mr Jaitley,please stop
playing with the puppets and
come directly in the field," said
Ashutosh.
He sought to know if
Bharti's case was of such importance that the three top
law officers of the Central government were needed to be
present during the hearing
on Bharti's bail plea.
AAP has been saying it is
a case of matrimornial discord and not domestic violence."When was the last time
when all the three together
represented the Central government before this?" Ashutosh asked, adding "Did the
three appeared in the black
money or Italian marines
case?"
Bharti, who was arrested after surrendering to police on Monday, was named
in an FIR filed by his wife Lipika Mitra. In her complaint,
Mitra has alleged that Bharti used to abuse her since marrying her in 2010.
MAN GETS LIFE

'There can't be two reporting
authorities in democratic setup' TERM FOR
The AAP government, which

has been at loggerheads with
the Lieutenant Governor
(LG) over powers of governance, has told Delhi High
Court that there cannot be two
reporting authorities -- the LG
and the Chief Minister, in a
democratic set-up.
In a democratic set-up,
there cannot be two reporting authorities, the LG and
the Chief Minister. The LG,
in law, cannot be placed in a
higher position than the Governor of a state, who has to
act on the aid and advice of
the Council of Ministers, a
bench of Chief Justice G
Rohini and Justice Jayant
Nath was told.
The submission was made
by senior advocate Dayan
Krishnan during the final
hearing on the issue of interpretation of Article 239AA of
Schoolchildren paying tribute to the Father of the Nation at Rajghat on Friday. SNS
As part of the initiatives to tackle dengue in the national capital, 400 new beds
were bought by the state government,
which would soon be placed in hospitals handling the highest number of cases.
According to an official, the 400
beds are part of the 1,000 beds to be bought
by the state to accommodate the soaring number of patients in Delhi and its
adjoining areas.
"The beds are likely to be placed in
Guru Teg Bahadur hospital, Lok Nayak

Jai Prakash hospital and Ambedkar hospital, as they have been handling the
highest number of dengue cases till now,"
said a government official.
Till Thursday, the toll in the national capital had risen to 25 after eight more
people succumbed to the vector-borne
disease.
The latest victims include five females,
including a seven-month-old girl, and
three males.
The national capital and its adjoining areas have recorded a total of 6,400
dengue cases till now. Unofficially, the
INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE
toll figure confirmed by media reports

stands at over 80.
Following a spurt in the number of
cases in the national capital, top officials of the health department, researchers and laboratories met on Wednesday to discuss new initiatives to control the menace.
During the meeting, the stakeholders were reported to have discussed about
the areas from where the maximum number of dengue cases were reported. Details were, however, not made public.
Nearly 2,200 fresh cases of dengue
were reported in the past one week.
The Delhi government on Friday issued notice to 14 doctors for dereliction of duty in
dealing with the dengue crisis.
The action came a day after city Health
Minister Satyendra Jain visited some hospitals, a Delhi government official said.
"Jain visited a few hospitals between 11.45
p.m. and 6 a.m. on Thursday to check their
preparedness in terms of dealing with the
dengue patients and found some doctors sleeping while being on duty while some were
found loitering in other wards," the official
said.
1997 suit being pursued against

me aggressively: Satyarthi

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi

has claimed in a Delhi court that
the trustees of a charitable trust
have suddenly and aggressively started pursuing a 1997 suit
against him relating to alleged
misappropriation of funds after he
was awarded the prestigious prize.
Child rights activist Satyarthi,
who got the Nobel Peace Prize in
2014, said the allegations against
him and his wife Sumedha were
malafide and the civil suit alleging
embezzlement of huge funds
should be dismissed with cost.
The applicants defendants
(Satyarthi and Sumedha) submit
that the suit filed by the plaintiffs
is malafide and is an abuse of the
process of law. The plaintiffs who
had filed the present suit way back
in the year 1997 have suddenly
started aggressively prosecuting
the proceedings after defendant
number 1 has been awarded Nobel
Peace Prize, the plea filed before
Additional District Judge Kamini

Lau said.
The plea was submitted in the
pending suit, filed against the couple by Mukti Pratisthan Trust and
four trustees alleging that the
plaintiffs had got to know about
embezzlement of huge sums of
money belonging to the trust by
maintaining false accounts.
Satyarthi and his wife are also
trustees of the trust.
In his plea, Satyarthi has urged
the court to direct the plaintiffs to
furnish security for the costs incurred or likely to be incurred by
the defendants to defend them-
selves. In case any cost of proceedings are awarded, it will not be

possible for defendants to recover
the same from plaintiffs as they do
not possess any sufficient movable
property within India from they
can realise the costs.
The plaintiffs do not own any
assets from which the defendants
may be able to realise the cost of
proceedings, Satyarthi's application said, alleging that the plaintiffs had misappropriated trust
properties for their own benefit.
The plaintiffs had earlier submitted to the court that they cannot bear even half the cost of chartered accountant to be appointed
by it to look into the accounts of
trust. The plaint had alleged when
plaintiff Sheo Taj Singh, also a
leader of the Bandhua Mukti Morcha, conducted an inquiry into the
affairs and accounts of trust, he
came to know that major part of
the trust funds, running into huge
sums of money has been spent by
the defendant trustees (Satyarthi
and his wife) either on foreign
tification to the extent that

it seeks to place shackles on
the powers of ACB by creating an exclusive class of officers in respect of whom the
ACB is sought to be denuded of powers was clearly
ultra vires to the Constitution.
The said notification
which seeks to deprive the
Delhi of the executive power/authority to enforce criminal law with the Delhi is clearly bad in law, he added.
The Delhi government on
May 28 has approached high
court challenging the Centre's
May 21 notification giving the
LG an absolute powers in appointing bureaucrats in the
city.
Along with the May 21
notification, Delhi government has also challenged the
July 23, 2014 notification of
the Centre which limited
ACB's jurisdiction to Delhi
government officials only.
Delhi government doctors get

notices for dereliction of duty
City hospitals get 400 new beds to

accommodate dengue patients
the Constitution regarding the

powers of the LG on the governance of Delhi.
A total of seven cases arising out of the spat between
the LG and the Delhi government, are being heard together by the bench headed
by the Chief Justice.
Krishnan further contended that unless and until serious emergent and momentous urgency is established,
the LG ought not to exercise
his powers under the proviso to Article 239AA (4), unless
and until a reference has
been made to the President
and an interim decision is absolutely necessary.
This would apply even to
matters relating to Services
and to the extent that the impugned notification seeks to
bypass the political executive, its runs contrary to this
scheme, he added.
The Delhi government
further claimed that the no-
trips and other luxuries or embezzled by way of falsification of accounts.

Satyarthi and his wife had earlier filed a statement challenging
the maintainability of suit and
had also denied the allegations
made in it.
He and Sumedha had alleged
that the plaint filed against them
was a proxy litigation which the
plaintiffs had filed in collusion
with their mentor Swami
Agnivesh, a political figure and
Arya Samaj leader, who was putting pressure to grab the movable
and immovable properties of the
trust.
The court was earlier apprised
about the missing records by the
receiver who was appointed to
look into various key aspects of
the dispute and file a report on it.
Receiver Rana Parveen Siddiqui had told the court that some
important records of the trust
were missing, due to which she
was facing difficulty in preparing
her report.
The government has sought replies from

the doctors.
The hospitals include Aruna Asaf Ali Government Hospital, Deep Chand Bandhu Hospital, Babu Jagjivan Ram Hospital, Acharya Shree Bhikshu Hospital, Sardar Vallabh
Bhai Patel Hospital and Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital.
Delhi is grappling with its worst outbreak
of the dengue in the last six years.
An update of the dengue status by the
civic administration has taken the official
toll up to 25 even as over 80 dengue deaths
have been reported by the hospitals. The
total number of cases Delhi has witnessed
is 6,400.
WOMAN
GANGRAPED
A 30year-old woman was allegedly gangraped by her friend
and two other youths in
Sunder Puri colony under
Vijay Nagar police station
area here, police said today.
SHO Surendra Yadav said
that the woman was living
in a rented house after separation with her husband.
Her neighbour, Hari Singh,
lured her on the pretext of
employment and befriend
her.
On September 29, Hari
along with his friends - Pintoo and Saddam - reached her
room, following which the
accused took turns to rape
her and threatened her with
dire consequence if she reported the matter to police.
However, the woman
reached Vijay Nagar police
station and narrated her
ordeal, the SHO said.
An FIR was registered
against the three accused
and the victim was sent for
medical examination, he
PTI
said.
Ghaziabad, 2 October:
KILLING SISTER'S
BOYFRIEND
A Delhi court has awarded

life imprisonment to a man
for killing his neighbour suspecting him of having an affair with his sister, who
went missing two weeks
before the 2012 incident.
Additional Sessions
Judge Anil Kumar held
Delhi resident Surender,
guilty of offences under
section 302 (murder) and 323
(voluntarily causing hurt)
of IPC saying theactshows
theshorttemperandcruelnatureof convict.
The court, however, did
not consider it as a rare of
rare case and said it did not
warrant death penalty. All
murders are gruesome and
cruel. No doubt in the present case, the convicthadcommittedthemurderofdeceased in a brutal and inhumanmanner,asaresultofwhichaninnocentlife waslost.
Consideringthetotalityoftheaggravatingand mitigating circumstancesandinviewofthecase law,Iamof
the consideredopinionthatthiscasedoesnotfallinthe
categoryof rarestofrarecases,whichwarrantsdeath
sentence, the judge said.
As per police, UP native
Surender entered the house
of victim Sonu, who was his
neghbour, and hit him on his
face with a brick and a pan.
The post-mortem report of
the victim revealed 18 external injuries, including severe
head injury which led to his
death.
IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT

NEW DELHI
(ORDINARYCIVEL JURISDICTION)
CS(OS) 3089/2012
Union of India
Plaintiff
Versus
M/s. Sohan Singh Sethi & Anr.
Defendants
To.
Defendant :
ID. Narinder Singh (Son) Kotkapura, Gali No. 3, Near
Gurunanak Market, Faridkot Punjab.
Whereas the Ld. Sole Arbitrator has filed Original award
dated 11-08-2011.
AND
Whereas it has been shown to the satisfaction of the
Court that it in not possible to serve you in the ordinary
way, therefore this notice is given by advertisement
directing you to make appearance before Registrar of
this Hon;ble Court on 14-10-2015 at 11.00 A.M. to
defend the above mentioned petition.
Take notice that in default of your appearance on the
day before mentioned the Petition will be heard and
determined in your absence.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the Court in
terms of order dated 09th September 2015.
Assistant Registrar(O)
for Regiatrar General
davp10602/11/0063/1516.
DI-48436
04
NATION REMEMBERS BAPU

ON HIS 146TH BIRTHDAY

The nation today remembered

Mahatma Gandhi on his 146th
birth anniversary with President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi, Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi and
other leaders paying floral
tributes to him at his memorial here.
Vice President Hamid
Ansari, Union Ministers M
Venkaiah Naidu and Mahesh
Sharma, Delhi Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal, BJP leader L
K Advani and Congress leader
Ghulam Nabi Azad too joined
in paying homage to the Father
of the Nation. Modi, who
arrived at Rajghat at around 7:40
AM, offered rose petals to the
samadhi. In his second such
address to the state on radio,
taking a cue from Prime Minister Narendra Modis Mann ki
baat, Karnataka chief minis-
ter Siddaramaiah today pledged

to fulfil the dreams of Mahatma Gandhi, by following the
path shown by him.
Giant National Flag unveiled: A 4.85 km-long national flag was on display in
Hyderabad today as people carried the Tricolour to mark the
occasion of Gandhi Jayanti. The
Remembering Gandhis last walk: At the Gandhi Smriti in New Delhi on

Friday. Varun Joshi
giant flag was carried on the

Necklace Road around Hussain Sagar lake during the
event jointly organised by
Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan, Union Ministry of Youth
SU-30 fighter pilots focusing on

beyond visual range combat
IAFs Su-30 fighter plane

pilots are focusing on beyond
visual range combat and
night flying capabilities
even as they gear up for the
installation of the game
changer BrahMos missiles,
with a strike range of nearly 300 kms, in the aircraft.
They are also looking
forward to the planes next
generation Super 30 version
which will have advanced
avionics.
Explaining the concept
of the beyond visual range
(BVR) fights, senior IAF
officials at a forward base
close to the border with
Pakistan explained that
future wars are unlikely to
have close combat fights
A WALK-IN Interview will

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October, 2015, 1 p.m. at the
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Kolkata700013 for the post of one
Project Fellow for three
years in the UGC sponsored
Major Research Project entitled Effect of trehalose on
aggregation of fungal glycosidases
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CL00048442
I, KAMAL Krishna Kundu

[Ex Sepoy (Army), 7069638 /
FP (E) / T-2 / PEN], R/o. Vill.:
Rajbagan, Ward No.: 2, P.O. &
P.S.: Chakdah, Dist.: Nadia,
Pin-741222, West Bengal, do
hereby declare that my wife
Minti Kundu, Smt. Mina Rani
shall henceforth be known
as Smt. Minati Kundu, vide
affidavit sworn before the
Court
of
Ld.
Judicial
Magistrate (1st Class) at
Kalyani on 22.09.2015. All are
same and identical person.
CL00048445
IT IS notified that I,
Rajarshi Ghosh, son of Sri
Tapas Kumar Ghosh and
Mandira Ghosh (mother)
permanently residing at
17/2A, Burdwan Road, 2nd
Floor, P.S.: Alipore, Kolkata700027 hereby declare that
in the Birth Certificate my
name has been spelled as
Rajarshee Ghosh but correct spelling of my name is
Rajarshi Ghosh though said
Rajarshi
Ghosh
and
Rajarshee Ghosh is same
and identical person. My
name shall always be
spelled as Rajarshi Ghosh. I
have sworn affidavit to that
effect before the 1st Class
Magistrate,
Alipore
on
04.09.2015.
CL00048480
I, RESHAT Mitra, R/o. 8/2,
Bhawani
Dutta
Lane,
Kolkata-700073 shall henceforth be known as Rishav
Mitra, vide affidavit sworn
before
Court
of
Ld.
Executive Magistrate (1st
Class),
Serampore
on
24.06.2015.
CL00048395
They are also

looking forward to
the planes next
generation Super
30 version which
will have
advanced avionics
like in wars in 1965 or 1971.
Nowadays, the fighter
jets are very modernised
with state-of-the-art radar
systems. What matters now
is BVR which means that
one can engage with the
enemy in air without actually seeing him. Once the
enemy is locked in, a BVR
missile is fired, Wing Commander Sharad Sharma,
who has clocked more than
1000 hours on the Sukhoi
said.
ON BEHALF of my client
Sri Prakash Naskar is power
attorney of Bikash Mallick,
Biswanath Mallick, Bidyut
Mallick and Bibhas Mallick
all are sons of late Banamali
Mallick of 111, Ghatak Road,
Kanchrapara, P.S.: Bijpur, 24
Parganas (N) lost original
Deed No. 01324 of 2012 Book
No. 1, CD Volume No. 2,
Pages from 11221 to 11240,
vide G.D.E. No. 2412, dt.:
26.09.2015 in the P.S.:
Baguiati, if any person
finds, it is requested to
return the same to me
below my address within fifteen days from the date of
publication.
Uttam Kumar Kamila
Advocate
High Court, Calcutta
6, Old Post Office Street
Room No. 61
Kolkata-700001
CL00048439
PROCLAMATION REQUIRING
ATTENDANCE OF
DEFENDANT
(Order 5, Rule 20 of the
Code of Civil Procedure)
In the Court of
Sh. Girish Kathpalia
Principal Judge
North District
Family Court, Rohini
New Delhi.
HMA- 73/15.
Narayan Dass
Petitioner
Versus
Deepika
Respondent
To,
Smt. Deepika, w/o Narayan
Dass, d/o Nam Dev, Nam Dev
Ice Factory Kishangarh, Bass
Alwar, Rajasthan
The Defendant Abovenamed.
Whereas you are intentionally evading service of
summons it is hereby notified that if you shall not
defend the case on the 19th
day of October, 2015 the day
fixed for the final disposal,
it will be heard and determined ex-parte.
Given under my hand and
the Seal of the Court on this
the22nd day of September,
2015.
Principal Judge
North District
Family Court, Rohini
New Delhi.
Seal of the Court
The BVR missiles carried

by Sukhoi currently have a
range of about 50-70 kms.
But what will truly turn the
tide is the integration of the
supersonic missile BrahMos with the Sukhoi.
Fighter pilots at the base,
one of the newest of the
Sukhoi, say that the BrahMos will be game changer.
Imagine, one can fire a
missile nearly 300 kms away
from the target. Installations across the border can
be targeted by our fighter
jets without even crossing
the border, a senior pilot
explained.
The first test, a dead
weight one, of the BrahMos
integrated Sukhoi is likely
to take place early next
month or even this monthend.
Versus
Shri R.K. Kainth
Defendant
To,
Rakesh Kainth, s/o Shri R.K.
Kainth, r/o 912, Sec. 23, Gurgaon, Haryana.
The Defendant above
named
day of October, 2015 at 2.00
P.M. the day fixed for the
final disposal, it will be heard
and determined ex-parte.
the 08th day of September,
2015.
Senior Civil Judge-cum
Rent Controller(South)
Saket Courts Complex,
New Delhi.
Seal of the Court
CL 048413
ATTENDANCE OF
DEFENDANT
In the Court of
Sh. Mahavir Singhal
Addl. District Judge
(West District)
Room No. 109, Ist Floor,
Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi.
Case No. CS-419/2014.
M/s. Best Roadways Ltd.
Appellant
Versus
M/s. Eastern Medikit Ltd.
& Anr.
Respondents
To,
1. M/s. Eastern Medikit Limited, Through its Managing
Director, Khasra No. 838, A3/15, Ist Floor, Upkar Colony,
Near MTNL Exchange, Burari,
Delhi-110084.
2. Mr. Karun Narang, Director of M/s. Eastern Medikit
Limited, Khasra No. 838, A3/15 Ist Floor, Upkar Colony,
Near MTNL Exchange, Burari,
Delhi-110084.
The Defendants Abovenamed.
day of November, 2015 the
day fixed for the final disposal, it will be heard and
determined ex-parte.
the 18th day of September,
2015.
(West District)
Delhi
Seal of the Court
CL 048407
CL 048365
ATTENDANCE OF
DEFENDANT
In the Court of Ms. Surya
Malik Grover
Senior Civil Judge-cum Rent
Controller(South)
Room No. 01.
Saket Courts Complex,
New Delhi.
Case No.... E. No. 07/2009
Shri Swadesh Kumar Bhagi
Plaintiff
ATTENDANCE OF
DEFENDANT
In the Court of
Sh. Mahavir Singhal
(West District)
Room No. 109 Ist Floor,
Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi.
Case No. CS-23/2015.
N.D.O.H. 28-10-2015.
State Bank of Patiala
Plaintiff
Affairs and Sports and Telanganas Ministry of Industry and

others.The event was aimed at
promoting Khadi in the society, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan VC told PTI.
to cut carbon...
KHATTAR LAYS FOUNDATION STONE India
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
OF BIGGEST PWD REST HOUSE
Gurgaon, 2 October: The foundation stone of the biggest

PWD Rest House in the state, which will be constructed
at a cost of Rs 2,616 lakh, was today laid by Haryana Chief
Minister Manohar Lal Khattar.
The Chief Minister said that this will be the biggest
rest house by PWD in the state. The new rest house will
be a five-storied building, where the basement will be for
car parking. It will house one VVIP Suite, one CM Suite
and 65 rooms, according to the Chief Minister. To be constructed in an area of 4.07 acre, the rooms in the rest house
will be made available to the private persons as well, Khattar said. The Chief Minister also paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on the birth anniversaries of both the leaders. Earlier, the Chief Minister also garlanded the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at local Police Lines and remembered the contribution of the Mahatma in freedom struggle on his birth
anniversary.
PWD Minister Rao Narbir Singh, MLAs Tezpal Tanwar, Bimla Chaudhary, Randhir Kapdiwas and Umesh
Aggarwal were present on the occasion. Talking to the
media and replying to a question about the recent rift between two senior police officers in Gurgaon, he said that
an enquiry by Director General Police (DGP) level officer has been ordered in this issue and who so ever is found
PTI
guilty, will be punished.
Versus
M/s. Shri Ram Saree Sadan
Defendant
To,
1. M/s. Shri Ram Saree
Sadan, (Through Its Sole Proprietor Sh. Sushil Mittal, s/o
Shri D. N. Mittal), 1075/4,
Champa Devi Goel Market,
Kuchha Natwa, Chandni
Chowk, Delhi-110006
2nd Address:- Shree Ram
Saree Sadan, Shop No. 1029/8,
Shree Ram Market Kucha
Natwa, Chandni Chowk,
Delhi.(Through Sh. Sushil Mittal, s/o D.M. Mittal)
2. Smt. Usha Mittal,w/o Sh.
Sushil Mittal, 93, Sandesh
Vihar, Pitampura, New Delhi110034.
The Defendants Abovenamed.
day of October, 2015 the day
fixed for the final disposal,
it will be heard and determined ex-parte.
the18th day of September,
2015.
(West District)
Delhi
Seal of the Court
CL 048366
IN THE HIGH COURT OF

DELHI AT NEW DELHI
Co. Pet. 497/2013.
In The Matter of :
Sevenseas Global Express
Logistics Pvt. Ltd.
Petitioner
Versus
Delta Comnet Pvt. Ltd.
Respondent
ADVERTISEMENT OF
PETITION
Notice is hereby given vide
order dated 14-08-2015 of the
Hon'ble High Court that a
petition for a winding-up of
the abovenamed company
by the Hon'ble High Court of
Delhi was on the 13th day of
September, 2013 presented
to the said Court by the said
Company and that the said
petition is directed to be heard
before the Court on 9th day of
October 2015 at 10.30 a.m.
Any creditor, contributory or
other person desirous of supporting or opposing the making of an order on the said
petition should send to the
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poverty eradication and sustainable growth

were priorities for India, Mr Javedakar
said the world ~ especially the developed world
who have historically been responsible for
high carbon emissions adversely impacting
climate ~ needed to act more to bring about
a solution.
Indias INDC is comprehensive, ambitious,progressive and reflect all issues of mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology
transfer and capacity building, the minister said. In its 38-page INDC document,
India was said to have stated that it would
require about 206 billion US dollars between
2015 and 2030 as per preliminary estimates
for implementing adaptation actions in
agriculture,forestry,fisheries infrastructure,
water resources and ecosystems.
Holding that mitigation requirements are
even more enormous for the country,
New Delhi also referred to an estimate
given by NITI Aayog that the mitigation activities for moderate low carbon development
would cost nearly 834 billion US dollars till
2030.India has however clarified that its INDCs
do not bind it to any sector-specific mitigation obligation or action, including in agriculture sector,stating Indias goal is to reduce
IN THE COURT OF
MS. VARSHA SHARMA
Civil Judge (Junior Division)-cumJMIC, Gurgaon.
Case No. 180/28-09-15.
Date of Hearing :02-11-2015.
Smt. Richa Rao, w/o Sh. Birender Singh Yadav and d/o Sh.
Dhyanwati Yadav, r/o B-36,
Ministry of External Affairs
Residential, Chankyapuri, New
Delhi.
Plaintiff
Versus
General Public etc.
Defendants
SUIT FOR DECLARATION
To,
The General Public.
The Plaintiff haS filedthe
avove noted suit for declaration regarding property
bearing Plot No. 815, Sector-09
District Gurgaon through Registered Will Vasika No. 67
dated 13-05-1998.
Whereas it has been proved
to the satisfaction of the Court
that the defendant noted
above cannot be served in
the ordinary way of service
and hence the General Public
is being inforned through this
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any interest in the above said
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property, he can file objections on or before 02-11-2015

at 09.30 a.m.
the Seal of this Court on 29th
day of September, 2015.
Civil Judge
(Junior Division)
Gurgaon.
Seal of the Court
CL 48435
PUBLICATION UNDER ORDER

5, RULE 20 C.P.C.
IN THE COURT OF
MS. KIRTI JAIN
Civil Judge (Junior Division)
Gurgaon.
Case No. 197 RBT
Date of Institution:
19-01-2009.
Date of Hearing 12-10-2015.
(CS/16281/2013)
Pasco Automobiles,Pasco
House, Gurgaon-Palam Road,
Gurgaon.
Plaintiff
Versus
1. Shri Karan Veer 72 Sainik
Enclave No.-2, Jharoda Kalan
Road, Delhi-110072.
Defendant
Suit for Mandatory
Injunetion
Whereas it has been proved
to the satisfaction of the Court
that the above said defendant cannot be served
through ordinary way of service. Hence the Publication
under Order 5 Rule 20 CPC is
issued against him/her directing him /her to appear before
this Court on 12-10-2015 at
9.30. a.m. personally or
through some authorized
Agent/pleader/Advocate failing which ex-parte proceedings shall be taken in the case
according to the law.
Civil Judge
(Junior Division)
Gurgaon.
Seal of the Court
CL 48454
COMPANY PETITION
NO. 457 OF 2015
IN THE HIGH COURT
AT CALCUTTA
Original Jurisdiction
In the Matter of:
The Companies Act, 1956;
-AndIn the Matter of:
Sections 433, 434 and 439
of the said Act;
-AndIn the Matter of:
Kish Engineering Private
Limited, a company incorporated
under
the
Companies Act, 1956, having
its Registered Office at
138Q, Picnic Garden Road,
Kolkata-700039 within the
jurisdiction aforesaid;
...Company
-AndIndustrial Motor & Cable
Co., a proprietorship firm at
Commerce House, 2A,
Ganesh Chandra Avenue,
Kolkata-700013, within the
Jurisdiction aforesaid.
...Petitioner
Notice is hereby given
that a petition for winding
up of the abovenamed company,
namely
Kish
Engineering Private Limited,
was on 12.06.2015 presented
by the petitioner who is the
creditor of the company and
was admitted on 11.08.2015
by the Honble Company
Judge of the Honble High
Court at Calcutta and the
overall emission intensity and improve

energy efficiency of its economy over time
and, at the same time, protect the vulnerable sectors of economy and segments of our
society.
The Narendra Modi government said :The
INDC centre around Indias policies and programmes on promotion of clean energy,especially renewable energy,enhancement of energy efficiency,development of less carbon intensive and resilient urban centres, promotion
of waste to wealth,safe,smart and sustainable
green transportation network, abatement of
pollution and Indias efforts to enhance carbon sink through creation of forest and tree
cover.
The government added that the INDC also
sought to involve citizens and private sector contribution to combating climate
change.
The 21st Session of the Conference of the
Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 21) will be held
in Paris during 30 November - 11 December.
The crucial climate conclave will seek to work
out a new international agreement on the
climate involving all countries in order to
keep the global temperature increase below
2 C through reduction of green house gases
emissions. The countries were mandated to
outline actions ~ called INDCs ~ they intended to take in this regard.
said petition is directed to

appear before the Honble
Company Judge under the
heading Company Matter
New 4 weeks after 1st
available working day from
the date of this publication
i.e. on 16.11.2015.
Any creditor, contributory
or other person desirous of
supporting or opposing the
making of an order on the
said petition should send to
the petitioner or their advocate notice of his intention
signed by him or his advocate with his name and
address, so as to reach the
petitioner or his Advocate
not later than 5 days before
the date fixed for the hearing of the petition, and to
appear at the hearing for
the purpose in person or by
his advocate, a copy of the
petition will be furnished by
the undermentioned to any
creditor or contributory on
payment
of
prescribed
charges for the same.
Any affidavit intended to
be used in opposition to the
petition should be filed in
Court and a copy served on
the petitioner or his advocate, not less than 5 days
before the date fixed for
hearing.
Chanchal Kr. Dutta
Advocate for Petitioner
10, Old Post Office Street
Left Block, 1st Floor
Room No. 27
Kolkata-700001
(M): 9831280933
CL00048453
SOCIETY FOR MANAGEMENT OF CITY CENTRE

Agartala
Invitation for Submission of
Expression of Interest for
Operation & Maintenance
of Auditorium at City
Centre, Agartala
No. F. No.-45 / Society /
AMC / 2012 / 2295-2300
Dated: 30 Sept., 2015
Member
Secretary,
Society of Management for
City
Centre
invites
Expression of Interest (EOI)
for financial offer to lease
the Auditorium (Balaka)
along with cafeteria adjacent to Auditorium at
Agartala City Centre for
operation, maintenance and
management from registered reputed firms / agencies.
Anticipated deadline for
submitting EOI with supporting
documents
is
08.10.2015.
Details terms of EOI may
be seen in the website:
http://www.agartalacity.
in & http://www.tenders.
gov.in
Mailing / contact details
for EOI:
Member
Secretary,
Society for Management of
City
Centre,
Agartala
Municipal
CorporationHead Office, City Centre
Complex,
Paradise
Chowmuhani,
Agartala799001. Phone: (0381) 2325507, 232-5646, 232-5149,
Fax: (0381) 232-5149, E-mail:
amc.tripura@gmail.com &
amc-tripura@nic.in
Milind Ramteke, IAS
Member Secretary
Society for Management
of City Centre
&
Municipal Commissioner
Agartala Municipal
Corporation
CL00048457
e-TENDER NOTICE
2nd Call for Tender
Reference No.: WBDOF / DDF
/ ADF / MSD / NIT-08 / 15-16
(A) (2nd Call), WBDOF / DDF
/ ADF / MSD / NIT-08 / 15-16
(D) (2nd Call), WBDOF / DDF
/ ADF / MSD / NIT-11(e) / 1516 (2nd Call), WBDOF / DDF /
ADF / MSD / NIT-12(e) / 1516 (A) (2nd Call), WBDOF /
DDF / ADF / MSD / NIT-13 /
15-16 (2nd Call), published
in the website: https://
wbtenders.gov.in
for
Concrete & Morum Road
and FEO Lab-cum-Training
Centre, for any query contact office.
Assistant Director
of Fisheries
Meen Bhaban
Berhampore
Murshidabad
CL00048482
Will someone please remind Pakistan that as per UNSC

resolutions they were supposed to vacate all of J&K
FORMER JAMMU AND KASHMIR CHIEF MINISTER OMAR ABDULLAH
ALLEGING THAT PAK WAS FUDGING FACTS REGARDING UN RESOLUTIONS ON KASHMIR
THUMBNAILS
DADRI CASE: UP CM SLAMS MODI

THOSE WHO SPEAK ABOUT PINK REVOLUTION SHOULD BAN MEAT EXPORT, SAYS AKHILESH
They want to rake up

such issues. These
forces talked about
pink revolution. We
will say today - you are
in government now, so
ban beef exports.
You should build
support for banning
their export
Lucknow, 2 October
Congress chairperson Sonia

Gandhi paying floral tribute to
former PM Late Lal Bahadur
Shastri on his birth anniversary
in the Capital on Friday. sns
Kashmir clash: Clashes broke out on Friday

between police and
groups of youth when
they waved flags of
Pakistan and ISIS and
posters after the Friday prayers in Jamia
Masjid and adjoining
areas in Srinagar. PTI
Sayeed reviews work:
J&K CM Mufti
Mohammad Sayeed
on Friday took a quick
round of the Pahalgam resort to take a firsthand appraisal of works
on the ongoing projects related to tourism
and other sectors. PTI
IAF joins Swachh
Abhiyan: IAF personnel on Friday took
part in a cleanliness drive
at Futala Lake,a prominent landmark of the
Orange city. Almost
3,000 IAF personnel
joined the Swachh
Abhiyan.
PTI
BJP TO CELEBRATE
JP'S BIRTH ANNIV
ON OCTOBER 11
New Delhi, 2 October: At a time
when socialist icon Jaya

Prakash Narayan's former
lieutenants like Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar have
joined hands with the Congress, the BJP is set to celebrate his birthday on 11
October as Loktantra Bachao Divas.
The Centre has already
announced setting up of a
national memorial at Sitabdiara in Saran district for
the socialist icon.
There would be various functions in Bihar on
that day. Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and
BJP chief Amit Shah are
likely to attend, sources
said.
The BJP has denied that
the move has anything to
do with the Bihar elections saying "JP is a symbol of anti-Congress and
anti-Emergency movement
and BJP had long association with him". SNS
With politics assuming centre-stage in the wake of the

killing of Mohammad
Akhlaque in Bisahra village in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh
Chief Minister Akhilesh
Yadav took a swipe at Prime
Minister Narendra Modi.
Without naming the PM,
he said those who speak
about "pink revolution"
should ban the export of
meat. He was supported on
this contention by his cabinet colleague Mohammad
Azam Khan who also made
an observation along similar lines in Rampur.
The Chief Minister
assured that strict action
would be taken to book the
guilty in the Dadri case and
justice will be dispensed at
the earliest. He said stern
action will be taken against
the persons responsible for
vitiating the atmosphere.
Speaking at a function in
AKHILESH YADAV
Lucknow, the CM said those
who spoke about "pink revolution" should now take
steps to ban the export of
beef. His reference was to
Modi, who in the run up to
the last Lok Sabha elections
had attacked the UPA government over meat exports
saying it was encouraging
"pink revolution".
Taking a jibe at Modi
and his frequent visits
abroad, Akhilesh sought to
know what food the people
of those countries ate from
dawn to dust. "That's why we

should not interfere in each
other's way of life and eating habits", the CM said.
"Rumours per se do not
have much in them, but a lot
can happen on account of
them", Akhilesh said . The
constitution is based on secularism and so are the government's schemes which follow this principle. But some
forces want to vitiate the
atmosphere. The CM said
each citizen and society has
the right to follow their cus-
Opp asks PM to break silence

The outrage over the recent

lynching of a 50-year-old man
Mohammed Akhlaq outside
his house in Bisada village
in UP's Dadri, barely 45 km
from Delhi, by a mob there
following rumours about his
family's consumption of beef
continued today, with the
Opposition parties stepping
up their demand that Prime
Minister Narendra Modi
should break his silence on
the matter.
A blame game among political parties also flared up,
with the BJP and the Sangh
Parivar coming under fire
from various quarters for
having allegedly built up an
"atmopshere of hate, divisiveness and communal polarisation" leading to such incidents.
The Mulayam Singh-led
Samajwadi Party (SP), which
rules UP, also drew flak for
its alleged apathy, callousness
and ineptitude in dealing
with communal incidents
like Dadri. The BJP-led Centre has already asked the UP
government to submit a detailed report on the Dadri
lynching episode.
Under attack, the BJP today appeared to favour a CBI
probe into the Dadri incident.
The local BJP MP and Union
minister for culture, Mahesh
Sharma,
said parties should refrain from playing politics by
giving communal colour to
the incident and that there
should be an "impartial probe
by CBI or the state police" to
punish the guilty.
Mr Sharma visited the
to migrate from there

DADRI LYNCHING CASE ted
fearing threat to their
Kin of slain victim Mohammed Akhlaq
family of the deceased and

stuck to his stand that Akhlaq's lynching incident was
only an "accident". He rejected the demand for his resignation for his alleged bid to
make light of the incident.
Mr Sharma has triggered
various controversies in recent weeks over his alleged
remarks on Hidntuva lines
on a variety of issues.He said,
"Law should take its course
and there should be fair investigation.
It is a blot on our culture
and such incidents do not have
a place in a civilised society.
If somebody says it was preplanned, I don't agree with
him."
The minister said : "It is
an accident and investigation
should happen by CBI or
state and guilty should be punished. Innocents should not
be victimised in the name of
investigation. I condemn any
attempt to give political or
communal colour."
Mr Sharma also held a
meeting at the village temple
and said Hindu families have
promised to protect the Muslim families there amid indications that the latter wan-
lives. The AIMIM chief

and MP, Asaduddin
Owaisi also visited the
Dadri village, met the
victim's family, and alleged that the man was
targeted for his religion
as part of a "pre-planned"
conspiracy.
Mr Owaisi hit out at
the PM Mr Modi over his
silence on the issue.
"This wasn't an attack
over meat. He has been
killed in the name of religion.
This is a pre-planned, coldblooded killing. It cannot be
an accident," he charged.
He also slammed Mr Sharma, charging that "Mahesh
Sharma is the culture minister of the country and it is
unfortunate that the minister who has taken oath on the
Constitution doesn't...condemn the incident unconditionally".
Blaming the BJP and its
"politics of hate and division" for the Dadri incident,
the Congress spokesman Mr
R P N Singh alleged that the
former had been trying to
"make UP its laboratory for
its communal politics to garner votes".
"This was evident during
Muzaffarnagar riots in the
run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections,and both the BJP
and the SP seek to play these
dangerous communal games
in UP for their political benefits," Mr Singh charged.
Questioning the "continued silence" of PM Modi,
the Congress again asked
him to break his silence and
clear the air on the Dadri killing incident.
toms and eating habits.

"Nothing should be done to
create impediments",
Akhilesh stated even as he
called upon the people to foster brotherhood.
The CM emphasized that
country can move forward
only through secularism
and "Samajwadi" (socialist) philosophy.
In Rampur, Urban Development Minister Azam Khan
said the Prime Minister
should bring a law to ban cow
slaughter and politics over
meat should end. Addressing a Press conference, the
Minister said Modi should
take the initiative to end the
clashes over meat. He said
a special session of parliament should be convened for
getting the law banning
slaughter of prohibited animals, passed. Meat exports
should also be banned, he
added. Khan alleged that 90
per cent of slaughter houses are owned by people close
to the RSS, VHP, or the BJP.
India
today said the video showing Pakistans brutality in
the PoK has lifted the veil
which the Pak Army and ISI
had put and the world can
now see the real and horrific consequences of
Pakistani occupation.
Senior gover nment
sources also rejected Pakistans claim that the visuals were doctored and that
it was a propaganda of the
Indian media.Familiar Pakistani tactic to blame every-

Dehradun, 2 October
The parents of all those

children who are studying
in private schools will get a
big relief from the high
handedness of school owners who are charging hefty
amounts for imparting education. The state government is all set to constitute
Fee Control and Grievances
Prevention Authority which
will put an effective control
on the fees of the private
schools.
The state government is
planning to bring an ordinance in this regard in the
forthcoming Vidhan Sabha
session of in Gairsain and
is also considering to constitute the Authority through
a notification.
With this, Uttarakhand
would perhaps become the
first state in the country to
bring the private schools
under its control and check
the self-will of the school
management.
The draft for bringing
in Fee Control and Grievances Prevention Authority has been finalized and
would be soon introduced ,
informed Dr. M C Joshi,
Education Secretary . This
initiative has been taken
up by the CM Harish Rawat
on whose directions the
draft for this Authority is
being made, he added. The
Authority would constitute

seven members headed by
a retired judge . The members of this Authority would
be nominated for a period
of 4 years or upto 68 years
of age whichever earlier.
For deciding the fees the
infrastructure and resources
of the school would be considered like investment on
library , laboratory and
sports facility. Besides the
reputation of the school , its
past 5 years result, 3 years
audit report and salary given
to the staff would also be
analysed.
In case if any school
owner would charge more
than the fixed fee than he
would have to pay a fine of
`1 lakh or would be put
behind the bars. Parents
could register their complaint with the Chief Education Officer at the district headquarter with `100
fee.
In case of a guardian
other than the parent `500
would be charged. A committee comprising of the
Chief education officer, a
Tehseeldaar level officer
nominated by the DM and
another members would
have to take a decision within 15 days of the complaint.
The complainant could
appeal to the Authority
within 20 days, in case he is
not satisfied with the decision.
thing on India. The camera

does not lie. The images
are quite graphic, they
said.
Earlier this week, a video
went viral showing Pakistani establishment using
brutal force on those protesting against the government
in several areas of Pakistan
occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Reacting sharply, the sources
said, It looks like the veil
which the Pak Army and ISI
had put on this region is
finally lifting.
separating Palestine with

Israel built by the latter
will be demolished one day
like the Berlin Wall and a
part of it will be kept as a
momento," said Mr Adnan
Abualhaija, Ambassador
of the State of Palestine.
He was speaking at the
concluding day of the annual World Week for Peace, organised jointly by the National Council of Churches in India, North West India Council of Churches and
the National Council of
YMCAs of India in cooperation with the Embassy of
the State of Palestine, here
on Thursday, on the theme
God has broken down the
dividing Walls, at the Arafat-Indira Cultural Centre
of the embassy. He said that
Palestine needed more support now than any other time
as Israel is doing provacative action every day. He said
that Catholics and Orthodox
Christians are supporting
them in their fight against
Israel. "Suffering for Palestine is suffering for all," he
added. Verses from the Bible and Koran were also recited on the occasion. Many
Christian leaders from different denominations attenSNS
ded the function.
However, commenting
on the video, Pakistan Foreign Secretary Aizaz
Chaudhry had said, "It's a
propaganda. Pakistan has
always raised the voice for
the Kashmiris. Whole world
is watching how Pakistani
flags are being raised in
Kashmir (Indian side).
"From our side it will only
be political, moral and diplomatic support for them and
that we will continue to
extend but there is no answer
for the propaganda."
PTI
There is abundant
evidence that it is Pak
which is supporting,
sponsoring and
exporting terrorism to
India
Jammu, 2 October
Slamming remarks by Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz

Sharif over the Kashmir
issue and for claiming that
his country was the primary victim of terror,
Union Minister Jitendra
Singh today said it was the
neighbouring country that
was exporting terrorism
from its soil to India.
There is abundant evidence one after another that
it is Pakistan which is supporting, sponsoring and
even exporting terrorism
to India, Singh said in the
wake of a recent speech
delivered by Sharif at the UN
General Assembly.
JITENDRA SINGH
Charging that Pakistan
starts giving excuses and
claims they are non-state
actors whenever it is caught,
he said, But when a terrorist
comes from Pakistani
soil, regardless of whether
he is a state actor or non-state
actor -- it is the responsibility
of the power that is in
Islamabad.
Therefore, the liability
lies with the government in
sial AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi, who visited the

family of the man killed here
by a mob over rumours that
they had consumed beef,
today alleged that he was targeted for his religion and
questioned the PM's
silence.
Owaisi, who heads the
Muslim right wing All India
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), met the wife
of deceased Iqlakh this
morning and alleged that it
was pre-planned murder.
This wasn't an attack
over meat. It was murder
over religion to spread politics of hatred of a party.
This is the thought which
is against secularism, it is
against the brotherhood of
PTI
India, Owaisi said.

Dadri, 2 October
As BJP came under intensified attack over the killing

of man here over rumour
that he had eaten beef, Union
Minister Mahesh Sharma
today said parties should
refrain from playing politics
by giving communal colour
to the incident and there
should be an impartial probe
by CBI or the state to punish the guilty.
Sharma, who is also the
local BJP MP, visited the family of deceased Iqlakh and
stuck to his stand that it was
an accident, soon after
controversial AIMIM leader
Asaduddin Owaisi met them
and alleged that the man was
targeted for his religion as
part of a pre-planned conspiracy.
It is a blot on our culture
and such incidents do not
have a place in a civilised
society. If somebody says it
was pre-planned, I don't
agree with it. It is an accident and investigation
should happen by CBI or

state and guilty should be
punished. Innocents should
not be victimised in the
name of investigation.
Law should take its
course and there should be
fair investigation. I condemn any attempt to give
political or communal colour
to this incident. Such people are neither well wishers
of the society nor of the
country, Sharma said.
The Minister also held a
meeting at the village temple and said Hindu families
have promised to protect
the Muslim families.
His remarks came as parties stepped up attack on the
BJP, alleging that it was
trying to polarise the people on religious lines.
New Delhi, 2 October: "The wall
Pakistan exporting terrorism

to India, says Jitendra Singh
Dadri, 2 October: Controver-
BJP rejects political

ploy in lynching case
'WALL SEPARATING
PALESTINE WILL
BE DEMOLISHED'
Ukhand govt drive to Pak activity in PoK is now unveiled

check pvt school fees
New Delhi, 2 October:
A PRE-PLANNED
MURDER: OWAISI
05
Islamabad, he said.
Referring to a recent
video showing the people in
Pakistan-occupied Kashmir(PoK)
seeking
independence from Pakistan and being beaten by
Pakistan army personnel,
Singh called upon world
human rights bodies to take
a stand against the human
rights violations taking
place in Pakistan.
WITH RESPECT
President Pranab Mukherjee pays floral tribute to former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri on his birth anniversary in New
Delhi on Friday. sns
HOMAGE PAID
TO VIZAG GIRL
Land for cattle grazing

decreasing in most states

Visakhapatnam, 2 October:
Hundreds of people today

bid a tearful adieu to Adithi, a six-year-old girl
who was swept away in a
stormwater drain here
during torrential rain
last week and whose body
was found only yesterday after a massive search
operation involving the
Navy.
People stood along the
road as her body was
brought to her house in
Seethammadhara from
KG Hospital after an autopsy. Not only the relatives,
but hundreds of Vizag citizens joined the funeral
procession to the crematorium at KRM Colony.
The death is extremely tragic. It has exposed the
negligence of the municipal corporation. We are
not related to the family
nor do we personally know
them, but we came here to
just express our condolence over the death of
the little girl, said G Srinivas, resident of HB Colony area.
Adithi's body was spotted near a beach at Dibbalapalem in Bhogapuram
mandal of district, 65 km
from here, yesterday.
On the evening of 24 September, while returning
from tuition with three
other girls, Adithi fell into an open stormwater
drain at HB Colony while
getting into a car.
Adithi's grandmother C
Seethamma (60), who was
hospitalised after suffering
a heart attack upon hearing the news of her death
last evening, is critical,
family sources said. C Srinivas, her father, said he hoped no other parent would
ever have to bear such a
grief.
Without blaming anybody, he said such a tragedy must not occur in the city
ever again.
ABHIJEET ANAND
anandabhijeet@thestatesman.net
Although the Union government and several state

governments are concerned
about banning beef, cattle in
the country are in a
deplorable condition as there
is not much land available
for them to graze on. In an
RTI reply, the directorate of
economics and statistics of
the ministry of agriculture
has said the land for cattle
grazing is decreasing annually in most states.
It seems cattle are low priority for the government
as it has not updated itself
on the amount of land available for grazing. Data it has
of grazing land is available
only till 2011-12. A Delhibased RTI activist, Gopal
Prasad, filed the RTI with
the Ministry of Agriculture and sought details of
amount of land available for
grazing of cattle state-wise.
According to the RTI
reply, nationally the total
amount of land available for
grazing of cattle was 103.44
lakh hectares in 2008-09.
This went down to 102.96 lakh
hectares in 2011-12.
Punjab, which ranks high
on gross state domestic product, ranked poorly on the
amount of land it has for
grazing of cattle. Not only
this, the amount of grazing
land decreased sharply over
the years. From 7,000
hectares in 2008-09, the grazing land decreased to 4,000
hectares in 2011-12. While
there seems to be a status quo
in the areas of land for grazing of cattle in most states,
only a few states recorded

a marginal increase in the
amount of land for grazing
cattle. In Tamil Nadu,
Assam and Jharkhand, the
amount of grazing land
remained the same from
2008-09 till 2011-12. The
amount of grazing land for
Tamil Nadu and Assam
were 1.1 lakh and 1.6 lakh
hectares. Some states have
made slaughtering of cows
a legal offence. But the cattle in those states do not have
sufficient land to graze on.
These include the Capital
and Goa. The RTI reply
said there is little land available for grazing of cattle in
the Capital and Goa where
cow slaughter is a legal
offence. While in the Capital the land available for grazing of cattle is much less than
500 hectares. In Goa the land
available for grazing is 1000
hectares.
In Rajasthan, Gujarat
and Jammu and Kashmir
where a ban on beef has been
imposed, the cattle have a fair
amount of land to graze on.
However, either there has
been a status quo in the
amount of grazing land
available or there is a steady
decline.
In Rajasthan, the amount
of land has decreased from
16.99 lakh hectares in 200809 to 16.94 lakh hectares in
2011-12 and in Jammu and
Kashmir the amount has
decreased from 1.28 lakh
hectares in 2008-09 to 1.23
lakh hectares in 2011-12.
Similarly, in Gujarat the
amount of grazing land has
remained the same at 8.51
lakh hectares from 2008-09
till 2011-12.
06
THUMBNAILS
Prime Minister launched the drive with much

fanfare but it has remained a mere slogan...
CONGRESS SENIOR SPOKESMAN AJAY MAKEN
TAKING POTSHOTS AT THE NARENDRA MODI GOVERNMENT
AIMTC STIR ENTERS 2ND DAY
TRANSPORTERS DEMAND SCRAPPING OF THE EXISTING TOLL SYSYTEM

Children participate in a painting

competition on the occasion of
Gandhi Jayanti, in the Capital
on Friday. SNS
Goonda Act: A person

and his two sons were
booked under the stringent Goonda Act for
allegedly duping several persons of Rs 50
lakh on the promise of
getting them jobs in
Railways, police said on
PTI
Friday.
Andhra power rise:
Andhra Pradesh government aims to achieve
29,000 megawatt installed
capacity of power by
2019 against the present
capacity of 10,222 MW,
it was of ficially
announced in HyderPTI
abad on Friday.
Transporters remained off

roads for the second day
today affecting supply of
goods in various parts of the
country, as the government
refused to budge on their
demand for scrapping the
present toll system.
Supply of essential goods
such as milk, vegetables
and medicines have however
been kept out of the purview
of the indefinite strike,
called by the apex transporters body, the All India
Motor Transport Congress
(AIMTC).
The impact was visible
on supply of raw materials
for various industries in
Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan,
Punjab, Haryana, Bihar and
Uttar Pradesh, among other
places.
OFF ROADS
AIMTC claims to have 87 lakh trucks and 20 lakh
buses and tempos across the country
The cumulative loss
to the truckers during
the first two days of the
strike was estimated at
about Rs 3,000 crore
We will continue our
strike till the government
comes out with some practical solution to our problem. We are not against
paying toll, but we are
demanding it in an annualised form.
The electronic-toll collection system as promised
by the government is not
practical, AIMTC President Bhim Wadhwa said.
AIMTC claims to have 87
lakh trucks and 20 lakh
buses and tempos across
the country under its fold.
Another truckers body All

India Transport Welfare
Association (AITWA) has
decided to keep away from
the strike.
Wadhwa said the cumulative loss to the truckers
during the first two days of
the strike, which began yesterday at 6 a.m was estimated
at about Rs 3,000 crore,
while the loss to the government could be more than
Rs 20,000 crore.
However, the government has refused to budge
from its stance and said it
cannot scrap the toll collection system.

It is up to them to continue their strike. Government cannot scrap toll. We
have already assured to
implement electronic tolling
system pan-India by December.
I appeal them to call
off the strike, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said yesterday.
AIMTC is demanding
scrapping of the existing toll
system, saying it is a tool of
harassment, while it is seeking a one-time payment of
taxes and simplification of
TDS procedure.
On the other hand, Indian Foundation of Transport Research and Training
(IFTRT) said AIMTCs suggestion to have fixed annual toll was not rational.
IN BAPUS APPAREL
Bombs seized : Security forces on Friday

recovered three can
bombs, wire and naxal
literature from a Maoists
hideout in a forest area
in Rohtas district,Dehrion-Sone of Bihar,a police
PTI
officer said.
Assam rural scheme:
Assam Chief Minister
Tarun Gogoi on Friday
announced to launch a
new employement generationandinfrastructure
building scheme for
rural areas under Mahatma Gandhis name. PTI
Students attend a world record attempt for the largest gathering of people dressed as Mahatama Gandhi, on the occasion of Gandhis 146th birth anniversary,
at a stadium in Bangalore on Friday. AFP
Kerala BJP hints at poll

alliance with SNDP Yogam
Thiruvananthapuram, 2 October
A day after Sree Narayana

Dharma Paripalana Yogam
general secretary Vellapally Natesans much publicised meeting with Prime
Minister Narendra Modi,
BJP state president V
Muraleedharan today hinted at a poll alliance with
SNDP, an outfit of the backward Ezhava community in
Kerala.
The possibility of a poll
alliance between the saffron party and SNDP cannot
be ruled out,he said.
He, however, dismissed
media reports that Natesan
would be the Chief Ministerial candidate of the BJPled third front alliance in the
coming assembly election.
The party has not initi-
The core objective of

BJP is to showcase a
strong fight against
Congress and CPI(M)
led fronts
V MURALEEDHARAN
ated any discussion on who
will lead the election campaign during assembly polls
or who will be the Chief
Ministerial candidate. Winning seats is more important, he said.
Muraleedharan said a
closely knit relationship
had been evolved between
BJP and SNDP through discussions but there has to be

some more clarification on
various aspects regarding the
partnership.
The core objective of
BJP is to showcase a strong
fight against Congress and
CPI(M) led fronts. We were
alone in our fight against the
two fronts so far and it is
happy to see that more people are joining us in the
mission, he said.
The state party chief also
said he was happy that the
focus of media discussion
had been shifted from
whether the saffron party
would open an account in the
state to who would be its
Chief Ministerial candidate.
It clearly indicates the
changing political trend in
the state, he said.
NAVY CHIEF
BEGINS 6-DAY
TOUR TO
AUSTRALIA
The Chief
of the Naval Staff, Admiral
R K Dhowan, today began
a six-day visit to Australia
which would provide an
opportunity to the two countries to explore new avenues.
Admiral Dhowans visit
coincides with the prestigious annual Sea Power
Conference organised by the
Australian Navy. The forum
provides opportunities to
engage with heads of over
40 navies.
The defence cooperation between India and Australia is primarily focused
towards maritime cooperation. India and Australia
signed a Defence Cooperation Agreement in 2006 as
well as a Framework for
Defence Cooperation in
November last year which
envisages regular ship visits as well as high-level
exchanges.
Both Navies are partners
in the Indian Ocean Naval
Symposium (IONS), a maritime cooperation construct
conceptualised and pioneered by Indian Navy in
2008. India and Australia
share similar maritime
challenges such as long
coastline, extensive EEZ,
coastal security, large coastal
shipping and fishing fleet.
In addition, common
grounds exists for cooperation in ship-building, especially under Indias Make
in India initiative.
Admiral Dhowan will
hold discussions with the
Chief of the Royal Australian Navy, Vice Chief of
Defence Staff, Defence Secretary and other naval offiSNS
cers.
Both fronts losing ground

in Kerala, says Vellappally
Thiruvananthapuram,
2 October
SNDP Yogam general secretary Vellappally Natesan said

on Friday that the CPI-M
and Congress are losing
ground in Kerala and both the
fronts ( UDF and LDF)are
heading towards disaster.
Speaking to media persons
at the airport here on his
return from New Delhi,after
his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vellapally said that the UDF and
LDF were wary of the SNDPs
power and hence were trying
to attack the organisation.
However, the allegations
cast by these fronts are giving inspiration to the SNDP,
he added.
Vellappally refused to give
the details of his meeting with

the prime minister.On Thursday, Vellappally held discussions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP
president Amit Shah in New
Delhi.
He further said that a
meeting of SNDP Yogam is
scheduled to be held on 5 October, where they will discuss
on the formation of a political outfit.
Accusing the CPI-M, he
said it is the Kannur lobby
which is leading the CPI-M
in Kerala and as a result
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Kamaladevi Complex,
40, Max Mueller Marg,
11 a.m. to 7 p.m. (till 15
October)
India International
Centre presents "WabiSabi", an exhibition of
paintings by Tarini Ahuja
from Delhi, at the Art
Gallery, 40, Max Mueller
Marg, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
(till 9 October)
in celebration of Wildlife
Week, solo show of
wildlife photography
by Neel Soni at the
Convention Centre
Foyer, India Habitat
Centre, Lodhi Road, 11
a.m. to 7 p.m. (till 8
October)
NEED TO KNOW
* Police 100
* Ambulance 102
* Accident & Trauma 109 &
1099
* Fire 101; Fire Service Officer
23314000
* Womens Helpline 1091
* Senior Citizens Helpline 1291
HOSPITALS
* AIIMS 26588500, 26588900
* Moolchand Medcity
(formerly Hospital) 42000000 &
24-hour Chemist Shop 42000447
* Vidyasagar Institute for
Mental Health and NeuroSciences 26924300
* Batra Hospital & Medical
Research Centre 29051280,
ACROSS
1 Foliage (6)
5 Chilled (4)
8 Numismatist (4,9)
9 The Devil (5)
10 Pudding ingredient
(7)
11 Partiality (4)
13 Nought (4)
17 Clothing (7)
18 Stiff (5)
20 Outstanding
feature (8,5)
21 Destiny (4)
22 Single-masted
vessel (6)
7.20pm.
Spice Cinema Noida 12:45pm.
9.20am, 12.15pm,
3.10pm, 5.40pm,
6.05pm, 8.35pm, 9pm,
11.30pm, 11.55pm.
HINDI FILM
DT Mega Mall,
Gurgaon -9am, 10am,
Singh Is Bliing
11.55am, 12.25pm,
Director's
2.50pm, 3.35pm,
Cut,Vasantkunj 5.45pm, 8.40pm,
10am, 11am, 4:20pm,
11.35pm.
7:45pm, 9:50pm,
Spice Cinema Noida 10:40pm, 1:15pm.
9am, 9:50am,
PVR Anupam, Saket - 10:40am, 11:40am,
9am, 10:00am,
12:30pm, 1:15pm,
11:35am, 1:05pm,
2:20pm, 3:10pm,
4:10pm, 5:45pm,
3:50pm, 5pm,
7:15pm, 10:20pm,
5:50pm, 6:25pm,
11:50pm.
7:40pm, 8:25pm, 9pm,
PVR Select City Walk - 10:20pm, 11:05pm,
10:30am, 11:30am,
11:35pm.
1:35pm, 5:40pm,
Wave Cinema, Noida 7:45pm, 10:50pm,
9.45am, 11am,
11:45pm.
12.25pm, 1.50pm,
PVR Priya -10:45am,
3.10pm, 3.30pm,
1:45pm, 4:45pm,
4.45pm, 5.50pm,
7:45pm, 10:45pm.
6.10pm, 7.40pm,
PVR Rivoli -10am,
8.30pm, 10.30pm,
1pm, 4pm, 7pm,
11.15pm.
9:55pm.
Wave Cinema,
PVR Plaza -10:45am,
Kaushambi -9.45am,
1:45pm, 4:45pm,
11am, 12.25pm,
7:45pm, 10:45pm.
1.50pm, 3.10pm,
PVR Naraina -9am,
4.45pm, 5.50pm,
10am, 1:05pm,
7.40pm, 8.30pm,
2:40pm, 4:10pm,
10.30pm, 11.15pm.
7:15pm, 8:50pm,
Wave Cinema, Raja
10:20pm, 11:50pm.
Garden -9.45am,
PVR Pacific Mall -9am, 11am, 12.25pm,
9:35am, 10:35am,
1.50pm, 3.10pm,
11:35am, 12:40pm,
4.45pm, 5.50pm,
1:40pm, 2:40pm,
7.40pm, 8.30pm,
3:45pm, 4:45pm,
10.30pm, 11.15pm.
6:50pm, 7:50pm,
8:50pm, 9:55pm,
Talvar
10:55pm, 11:50pm.
Director's Cut,
PVR Vikaspuri Vasantkunj -10:30am,
9:35am, 10:35am,
1:15pm, 4:20pm,
12:40pm, 1:40pm,
7:35pm, 10:45pm.
4:45pm, 6:50pm,
PVR Anupam, Saket 7:50pm, 9:55pm,
2:40pm, 8:50pm,
10:55pm.
11:20pm.
PVR EDM -10am,
PVR Select City Walk 10:40am, 12:35pm,
4:40pm, 8:05pm,
1:45pm, 3:40pm,
10:55pm.
6:45pm, 7:55pm,
PVR Naraina 9:50pm, 10:55pm.
11:35am, 5:45pm,
PVR Ambience,
9:55pm.
Gurgaon -10:30am,
PVR Pacific Mall -9am,
11:30am, 2:35pm,
2:50pm, 8:40pm,
4:40pm, 5:40pm,
The Intern
11:20pm.
7:35pm, 8:45pm,
PVR EDM -4:50pm,
Director's Cut,
10:50pm,11:50pm.
10:10pm.
Vasantkunj -2:15pm,
DT Star Promenade,
7:15pm.
Vasantkunj -10.05am, PVR
Ambience,Gurgaon PVR Anupam, Saket - 11am, 11.40am,
11am, 5:20pm,
8:50pm.
1.55pm, 2.35pm,
8:10pm, 10:55pm.
PVR Select City Walk - 3.40pm, 4.50pm,
DT Star Promenade,
6:00pm.
5.30pm, 7.45pm,
Vasantkunj -9.45am,
PVR Pacific Mall 8.25pm, 10.40pm,
3.10pm, 8.35pm,
11:45am, 5:30pm.
11.20pm, 11.55pm.
PVR Ambience,
DT Star, Saket -10am, 11.10pm.
DT Star, Saket Gurgaon -12:40pm,
11am, 11.40am,
9.40am, 3.10pm,
4:55pm.
12.15pm, 1.55pm,
5.45pm, 8.20pm.
PVR MGF, Gurgaon 2.35pm, 4.50pm,
DT City Centre,
3:25pm, 11:45pm.
5.30pm, 7.45pm,
Shalimar Bagh DT Star Promenade,
8.25pm, 10.40pm,
9.40am, 12.40pm,
Vasantkunj -2.50pm,
11.20pm, 11.55pm.
5.40pm.
7.20pm.
DT City Centre,
Spice Cinema Noida DT Star, Saket Shalimar Bagh 10am, 12:30pm, 3pm,
5.05pm, 9.40pm.
10.20am, 12.10pm,
4:15pm, 5:30pm, 8pm,
Spice Cinema Noida - 1.15pm, 3.05pm,
1:50pm, 11:15pm.
4.10pm, 6pm, 7.05pm, 10:30pm.
Wave Cinema, Noida 8.55pm, 10pm,
9.50am, 12.25pm,
Everest
11.50pm.
3.05pm, 5.40pm,
DT City Centre,
Director's Cut,
8.20pm, 11pm.
Gurgaon
Vasantkunj -4:50pm.
Wave Cinema,
PVR Anupam,
Kaushambi -9.55am,
Saket -3:00pm.
3.15pm, 5.50pm,
PVR Select City
8.25pm, 11pm.
Walk Wave Cinema, Raja
12:40pm.
Garden -10.05am,
PVR Pacific
12.40pm, 3.15pm,
Mall -2:50pm.
5.50pm, 8.25pm,
PVR MGF,
11pm.
Gurgaon 9:00pm.
Kis Kisko Pyaar
DT Star
Karoon
Promenade,
PVR Anupam,
Vasantkunj Saket
12.30pm,
9:05am,
9.35pm.
8:40pm.
DT Star,
PVR
Saket Pacific
.45pm,
Mall The Martian
Director's Cut,
Vasantkunj -10am,
4:30pm, 7:30pm,
10:55pm.
PVR Anupam, Saket 12Noon, 5:40pm,
11:30pm.
PVR Select City Walk 10am, 2:35pm,
8:45pm, 11:20pm.
PVR Naraina -12Noon,
5:55pm, 11:50pm.
PVR Pacific Mall -9am,
11:50am, 5:40pm,
8:20pm, 11:30pm.
PVR Mahagun 1:40pm, 7:50pm,
10:50pm, .
PVR Ambience,
Gurgaon -10am,
1:35pm, 7:45pm,
11:30pm.
PVR MGF, Gurgaon 11:30am, 2:35pm,
5:40pm, 8:45pm,
11:40pm.
DT Star Promenade,
Vasantkunj -10.10am,
12.50pm, 3.30pm,
6.10pm, 8.50pm,
11.30pm.
DT Star, Saket 10.10am, 12.50pm,
3.30pm, 6.10pm,
8.50pm, 11.30pm.
DT City Centre,
Shalimar Bagh -10am,
3.10pm, 8.25pm,
11.05pm.
DT City Centre,
Gurgaon -10.10am,
3.10pm, 8.40pm.
DT Mega Mall,
Gurgaon -12.55pm,
6.30pm, 11.30pm.
Spice Cinema Noida 10am, 3pm, 5:45pm,
8:30pm, 11:15pm.
Wave Cinema, Noida 9.55am, 12.40pm,
6.10pm, 11.20pm.
Wave Cinema,
Kaushambi -12.20pm,
8.35pm.
Wave Cinema, Raja
Garden -12.20pm,
8.35pm, 11.10pm.
A scene from
Talvar
party is alienating itself from

the common people. The CPIM, who lost in Aruvikkara
should learn a lesson from
it,he said
Meanwhile, BJP State
President V Muraleedharan
said here today the possibility
of an alliance between BJP
and SNDP cannot be ruled
out. Cordial relations exist
between the two organizations. Anything can happen
before the local body elections
to be held next month,he said.
In this regard,CPI-M state
secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan on Friday alleged that
RSS is using SNDP to accomplish its agenda. Speaking to
reporters in Kozhikode, he
said the RSS is trying to
make Kerala a Gujarat and
for that they are moving closer to the SNDP.
LEISURE
10 MINUTE CROSSWORD
AROUND TOWN
Srabble and Scrabble Tiles are registered trademarks.

All rights in the game are owned in the U.S.A by Hasbro
Inc., in Canada by Hasbro Canada Inc., and elsewhere by
J.W. Spear & Sons Limited, a subsidiary of Mattel, Inc.
Directions Make a 2 to
7 letter word from the
letters in each row.
Add points of each
word, using scoring
directions at right, 7letter words get 50point bonus. "Blanks"
used as any letter
have no point value.
All Judd's words are
in The Official
Scrabble Players
Dictionary(MerriamWebster) and OSW
Official Scrabble
Words(Chambers).
Judd's solution
tomorrow.
10-25-12
Answer to
previous
puzzle
Sudoku is a number-placing
puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with
several given numbers. The
object is to place the numbers 1
to 9 in the empty squares so
that no row, no column and no
3x3 box contains the same
number. The difficulty level
increases through the week.
Humiliating and disguting... Muftis head

should lie in shame
INDEPENDENT LEGISLATOR SHEIKH ABDUL RASHID
ACCUSING J&K CM OF MISLEADING PEOPLE OF THE STATE ON BEEF BAN ISSUE
CBI QUESTIONS MAYA IN

MULTI-CR NRHM SCAM
07
PROBE AGENCY CLAIMS NEW EVIDENCE AGAINST THE FORMER UP CM

Former Uttar Pradesh chief

minister Mayawati has been
questioned by the CBI for her
alleged involvement in the
multi-crore National Rural
Health Mission (NRHM) scam after the agency claimed
to have got new evidence
against her.
Mayawati was questioned
here by the CBI on Monday
to unearth larger conspiracy in the scam, official sources said. The CBI has registered 74 FIRs and filed 48
chargesheets in the scam.
During her examination
by the CBI officials, Mayawati is alleged to have evaded answers on crucial questions and even feigned ignorance on some of the decisions taken during her tenure
as the chief minister.
The quizzing of Bahujan
Samaj Party (BSP) chief

was done as the probe agency
has claimed to have got new
evidence against her on
bifurcation of the Health and
Family Welfare Department
and creation of 100 posts of
District Project Officers
who were allegedly instrumental in alleged corruption
in the implementation of
NRHM schemes, they said.
Mayawati was the chief
minister of the state when
the Department of Health
and Family Welfare was
bifurcated.
While she or her party
was not immediately available for comments, the former chief minister had recently accused the Centre of
misusing CBI for political
gains ahead of Bihar elections and claimed she had
no involvement in the case.
CBI alleges that the bifurcation of department was
done so that the NRHM
funds could be placed directly under the charge of the
Department of Family Welfare which was under Minister Babu Singh Kushwaha ~ already charge sheeted by the agency.
Only those persons were
posted as District Project
Officers (DPOs), Family
Welfare, who allegedly facilitated in award of the contract to the chosen suppliers and in lieu, the accused
public servants obtained
huge amount of illegal gratification.

In pursuance of the said
criminal conspiracy, bifurcation of the health department was proposed and got
approved against prescribed
norms of NRHM as laid
down by Government of
India, CBI FIR has alleged.
Sources said they have
found that the creation of 100
posts of the DPO in the
state was done in an irregular manner.
Between 2005-06 and 2011,
the Centre gave Rs 11,080
crore to Uttar Pradesh for
the implementation of
NRHM schemes out of
which Rs 9,133 crore was
released for utilisation. The
state spent Rs 8,658 crore of
the funds released. CBI has
already charge sheeted Kushwaha and Principal Secretary Pradeep Shukla in connection with the case.
GOING VOCAL
Farmers march from Rajghat to Kisanghat to demand parity in sugar prices as per sugarcane price. In the Capital on Friday. sns
Test for TMC as 3 civic Mullick slams CPM ahead of polls AIIMS to tie up with SELIM SLAMS DC
AS
POLICE
DENY
bodies go to polls today
global hygiene firm LATHICHARGE
Kolkata, 2 October

Kolkata, 2 October
The Bidhannagar- Rajarhat Municipal Corporation

, Asansol Municipal Corporation and 16 wards of
Bally municipality which
are to be part of Howrah
Municipal Corporation and
Siliguri
Mahakuma
Parishad are going to polls
tomorrow. For the Trinamul
it is a test to boost up its
organisational power and for
the CPI-M-led Left Front,
decimated in successive
elections since 2011, the contest will show whether it can
claw back to political relevance.
In the newly formed Asansol Municipal Corporation
there are 106 wards including 32 wards in Asansol
(North), 22 wards in Asansol (South), 11 wards in
Ranigunj, 28 wards in Kulti
and 13 wards in Jamuria.
In Bidhannagar- Rajarhat
Municipal Corporation there
are 41 wards of which
Rajarhat has 27 wards and
Salt Lake has 14 wards. Of
27 wards in Rajarhat, there
are 16 wards from Rajarhat
Gopalpur.
Several political heavyweights including former
CPI-M chairperson of
Rajarhat, Tapas Chatterjee,
who recently joined the Trinamul Congress, Krishna
Chakroborty and Sabyasachi
Dutta former chairman
and vice-chairman of Salt
Lake municipality are in the
fray. With hours to go before
Bidhannagar civic poll, alle-
gations about outsiders

and musclemen sneaking into Salt Lake are doing
the rounds even as tension
grips the area following
alleged attacks by Trinamul Congress supporters
in different places. Last
night a group of youths
attacked CPI-M leader
Goutam Debs son Saptarshi
near his house in FC block
when he tried to stop the
youths from tearing party
flags and banners. The
youths allegedly hit him on
the head with sticks and fled
away when chased by local
people.
In another incident,some
CPI-M supporters were also
allegedly near Baisakhi in
Salt Lake.
Mr Anupam Dutta, former Trinamul Congress
councillor and now an independent candidate from
ward no. 4, said :The simple question is why all the
hotels and lodges in Salt
Lake are booked. Large number of outsiders and musclemen have entered Salt
Lake to rig the poll. We have
informed the police and
local administration.
The LF has fielded exfinance minister Asim Dasgupta from ward 32 as its
mayoral candidate, while
Mrs Romola Chakraborty,
widow of ex-transport minister
late Subhas
Chakraborty will contest
the poll from ward no 33.ExPCC chief Dr Manas Bhunia despaired of the possibility of a free and fair election tomorrow.
The state food minister and

Trinamul Congress North
24-Parganas district president Jyotipriya Mullick
today alleged that it was
CPI-M who are trying their
old tricks and they are bringing in people from outside.
They are mobilising outsiders and bike gangs to
terrorise the genuine voters,
the minister alleged.
Mr Mullick alleged that
for past two days Gautam
Deb is making unsavoury
comments, like "so we have
lodged two FIRs in Bidhannagar (South) police
station. Its not even clear to
us whether Gautam Deb
belongs to the CPI-M party
or in the forum."
The minister even alleged
that the CPI-M has asked
Majid Master and Kalyan
Mukherjee of Khardha to
arrange the outsiders in
the constituency to create
trouble.
INDIAN WARSHIP
IN VIETNAM PORT
New Delhi, 2 October: The Indi-
an Naval warship Sahyadri,

as a part of Operational
Deployment to the South
China Sea and the North
West Pacific region, today
reached the Vietnamese
port of Da Nang on a fourday visit.
The visit is aimed at
strengthening bilateral ties
and enhancing inter-operability between the navies
of the two countries. Indian warships had last visited Hai Phong, Vietnam, in
August 2014.
Sahyadri is an indigenously built warship of the
Shivalik Class. Inducted
into the Indian Navy on 21
July 2012, the multi-role
stealth frigate boasts of an
impressive array of weaponSNS
ry in her arsenal.
"How could Gautam Deb

speak of outsiders? He, himself is not a voter of Salt
Lake. If Mr Deb being an outsider will move around the
constituency, then our MLAs
from other constituencies
will also move in Salt Lake
and Rajarhat,'' he added.
"We have lodged a complaint with the SDO Salt
Lake that Mr Deb is an outsider and he can not roam
about in Salt Lake,'' the
minister said.
He said that he has spoken to at least 10 members
of the forum created by the
CPI-M but they said that
their names have been given

in the forum without their
consent.
Meanwhile, the state BJP
will take the state election
commissioner Mr Susanta
Upadhaya to court if Trinamul Congress workers
resort to violence at the
municipal polls scheduled
for tomorrow.
Talking to newsmen,
Bengal BJP president Mr
Rahul Sinha said the Trinamul Cong ress
has
unleashed a reign of terror
where elections would be
held tomorrow. Outsiders
have come to these areas and
from early tomorrow morning they will scare the voters.
Mr Sinha said that Mr
Upadhaya had overstepped
by asking Babul Supriyo
to leave Asansol. "Babul
has a house in Asansol and
if this is the case then how
could we allow CPI-M leader
Mr Gautam Deb to stay in
Salt lake where he is not a
voter?" he wondered.

Dilatory tactics, usually

adopted by lawmakers to render pleas challenging their
election meaningless, have
come under the scanner of
the Supreme Court which
has said the leaders should
seek expeditious clearance
of such cases in the interest of democracy.
The apex court also suggested that the courts should
dispose of poll petitions
promptly, within six months.
The fundamental purpose for expeditious disposal of an election petition
is to sustain the purity of parliamentary democracy... A
voter casts his vote as a
responsible citizen to choose
the masters for governing

the country. That being the
trust of the electorate in an
elected candidate, when he
faces an assail to his election,
it should be his sanguine
effort to become free from
the assail in the election petition and work with attainment and not take shelter
seeking adjournments with
the elated hope that he can
be triumphant in the contest
by passage of time, a bench
headed by Justice Dipak
Misra said.
It also said that a lawmaker, facing challenge to
his election, should make
genuine effort to overcome
and free himself from election petitions.
The observations came
during hearing of an appeal
Loans to BPL families

Dumka (Jharkhand), 2 October
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated distribution of

loans under MUDRA
Yojana and free LPG connections to families that
are below poverty line in
Jharkhand beginning
with Dumka.
MUDRA Yojana will
lift the standard of life of
the people after several
years of negligence and
exploitation by usurers,
Modi said after the inauguration of the twin benefits. Under the programme loans of `26,000 crore
would be distributed
among 42 lakh people,,
including 20 lakh women,
across the country.
Handing over the first
instalment of `10,000 to
All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) will

join hands with SCA, a leading global hygiene products
company, to raise the awareness level about controlling
problem of urinary incontinence among the adult/oldage population.
Most patients and their
care givers are often unaware
of various issues related to
the management and selfcare of this disease which
affects close to a 100 million
older people in India. Almost
20 per cent of older people
have symptoms related to
urinary incontinence,
according to a 2001 health
care report.
Renowned geriatric specialist, Dr A B Dey, Head of
Dept, Internal Medicine and
Geriatric Sciences in AIIMS,
said: In older patients asso-
ciation of multiple comorbidities is very common,

which very often result in
issues like incontinence. It
is mostly faced by individuals after the age of 60 years.
But surprisingly in India, the
ratio has been raised in the
middle aged group. We at
AIIMS are pleased to associate with SCA to provide
better service and education
to the suffering patients
and gain their confidence for
a better living.
Affecting over 400 million
globally, incontinence has
become a serious medical
condition and a healthcare
issue that now carries a
social stigma. Recent European and global studies
show that there is a lack of
understanding about incontinence and of continence
care among the general public, healthcare professionals,
policy makers and payer
audiences.
SC:Lawmakers should not seek

adjournments to delay poll pleas
PM KICKS OFF MUDRA YOJANA, FREE LPG CONNECTIONS IN JKHAND
five men and women, he

said it was a loan and not
a grant. The loan would
have to be repaid with
nominal interest,he said
and advised beneficiaries
to take them in instalments to minimise interest.
MUDRA Yojana
(Micro Units Development & Refinance
Agency) would benefit
over one lakh people in
Jharkhand where `212
crore would be distributed. Inaugurating the
distribution of free LPG
connections to BPL families in the state, the
Prime Minister said 31
lakh people across the
country had given up
LPG subsidy which had
enabled 18 lakh BPL families get free LPG connections.
This (free LPG con-
nections) will not only

help the women but also
will help protect the environment, he said.
One lakh BPL families
in Jharkhand would also
get free LPG connection.
Remembering Lal
Bahadur Shastri and
Mahatma Gandhi on
their birth anniversaries,
Modi today and urged the
people to purchase at
least one khadi item to
help people working in
the sector.
Reiterating his commitment of together
with all and development
of all, Modi said Jharkhand has already
embarked upon the path
of development and has
jumped from 29th position to 3rd position as per
a recent survey on ease
of doing business.
filed by Manipur resident

Pukhrem Sharatchandra
Singh who had moved the
apex court challenging the
election of one Mairembam
Prithviraj for the Manipur
Legislative Assembly in
2012. Singh had challenged
the election of the MLA on
the ground that Prithviraj
had filed false affidavits
claiming that he had an
MBA degree from Mysore
University.
Singh filed an election
petition in the Manipur
High Court but the matter
kept adjourning from time
to time. The apex court
observed that poll petitions
have to be decided with
promptitude as there is an
obligation cast upon the
Court to dispose of the same
within a period of six

months and added that the
attitude of delay has to be
curbed from all angles
because law does not countenance it.
The bench, in its verdict, said we are of the convinced opinion that the election petition pending before
the High Court has to be
decided with extreme alertness and in quite promptitude. As the court has not
framed issues, it shall proceed to frame issues.
Thereafter, the evidence
shall commence and the
court shall, regard being
had to the statutory command and the norms in a
democratic polity, dispose of
the election petition by end
of February 2016.

Kolkata, 2 October
The CPI-M today slammed

the version of DC (central)
Vastav Vaidya that there
was no police lathicharge on
the Left Front supporters
during their march to Lalbazar yesterday.
CPI-M MP Md Selim said
in keeping with the chief
minister's strategy the police
had resorted to blatant falsehood and condemned the
arrest of three Left activists
under non-bailable sections.
''Those who were hit by
police batons were arrested under non-bailable sections'', he said hinting that
his party might move the
court and state human rights
commission to seek justice
for the ''inhuman torture and
barbarity'' by the city police
and the RAF on the ''peaceful'' march. The police
arrested three persons and
charged them with attempt
to murder in the clash
between police and Left supporters during yesterday's
march to Lalbazar, a senior
officer said during the day.
The police also lodged three
FIRs ~two at Bowbazar
police station on the basis
of which these three Left
supporters were arrested
and another at the Hare
Street PS. The three were
charged under Section 147
(Rioting), Section 307
(attempt to murder) and
other sections of the IPC.
The trio were remanded
by a city court in police
custody till 5 October.
The Special Additional
and Joint Commissioner of
Police (HQ) Rajeev Mishra
claimed the Left supporters
had attacked the police.
They (Left supporters)
attacked the police by pelting stones and with sticks
holding party flags. We acted
as the situation demanded. The force acting calmly
with restraint," he said.
Cong: PMs Varanasi ranks at 418

among 476 cities on Swachhata
On the first anniversary of

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan,
Congress today claimed that
Prime Minister Narendra
Modis constituency Varanasi ranked way down at 418
among 476 cities in terms of
cleanliness in an undeclared list of the Urban
Development Ministry.
Assessment of cleanliness undertaken by UD Ministry ranks Holy Varanasi,
Modijis Constituency, at
418 on a list of 476 cities! Of
2,20,359 school toilets taken
up, about 40,000 only being
constructed. Survey report
not released by Ministry!
party chief spokesperson
Randeep Surjewala said in
a series of posts on Twitter.
The Urban Development
(UD) Ministry sources, however, contended that the survey in which Varanasi
ranked 418 was dated prior

to the launch of the Swachh
Bharat campaign.
This particular survey
was done before the drive
was launched and underscored the prevailing sanitation
conditions. The first survey
being carried out after the
launch will be released later
this year. That will reflect the
change brought out by the

project, they said.
The Swachh Bharat
Abhiyan was launched last
year on the 145th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The campaign aims at
making India a clean country by 2019, the 150th birth
anniversary of Mahatma
Gandhi.
Claiming that the Swachh
Bharat Abhiyan was being
used for publicity by the NDA
dispensation, Surjewala
said, A vital issue like #SBA
is becoming only Photo Op
and Publicity under Modi
Govt. Hope Gandhi Jayanti leads to introspection!
Congress senior spokesman Ajay Maken also took
the opportunity to take potshots at the Modi government as well as the Arvind
Kejriwal dispensation in
Delhi, besides the BJP-controlled municipal corporations in the national capital.
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THE FRIEND OF INDIA - Founded 1818
Nepal crippled
epal is in crisis, as political as it is diplomatic. The second affects India no less acutely
not least because the souring of relations
with a bordering country makes a travesty
of South Asian re gional cooperation. Furthermore, it poses a challenge ahead of the elections in Bihar, a state that shares a border with
Nepal. There is an element of bitter irony too in
the new-found assertiveness in foreign policy ~ the
coincidence of developments in the Himalayan
country with the grandstanding of the Prime Minister in the General Assembly. For Nepal, equally
ironical are the crippling curbs imposed on the
country within a fortnight of the promulgation of
a new Constitution on 20 September. Two factors
would appear to have ruffled feathers of the
Bharatiya Janata Party government ~ the postmonarchy Constitution declares Nepal as a secular state, a turning point in its constitutional history that the ideological preceptors of the dispensation in India may find galling. True, the government has been less than explicit on this score, but
there is little doubt that it does have an issue with
the neighbouring countrys express proclamation
on secularism. The other issue at the core of the
crisis is the discriminatory attitude towards the
ethnic Madhesis and certain other groups in the
recent division of Nepal into seven provinces.
These ethnic segments inhabit the areas contiguous to India. Small wonder that Delhi is overly
concer ned over their plight, specifically the
renewed bout of sub-regional jingoism in parallel
with the new Constitution. Over the past few days,
the concern has translated into an unofficial economic blockade that has verily choked supplies of
fuel and other essential items to Nepal. Has India
retaliated against the government in Kathmandu
over the approval granted to a secular Constitution and the discrimination against certain ethnic
groups? The issue is much too emotive for a forthright enunciation of Indias stand. Suffice it to
submit that the economic blitz has escalated in
parallel with the violence spearheaded by the ethnic Madhesis. In the net, Nepals lifeline has been
choked.
An essay towards addressing the crisis must of
necessity be political (for Nepal) and diplomatic
(for India). All sections of Nepal must reach a consensus on the political challenges confronting the
country ~ a lethal cocktail of ethnic restiveness
and Indias express reservations over the neighbours Constitution, articulated in the third week
of September. Sad to reflect, neither country has
made an effort to resolve the prickly and emotive
issues. The euphoria generated during Narendra
Modis visit to Nepal last November has been
reduced to irrelevance. An economic blockade has
not destabilised a regime in contemporary history; yet India has a duty towards the people of
Nepal ~ the worst af fected in the cur rent
imbroglio. India may soon have one friend less in
South Asia.
No money for cops

yebrows had been raised when a former
army chief had sought to ridicule the governments contention that OROP imposed a
financial burden by pointing to the substantial package announced ahead of the Bihar elections. Many perceived it as yet another example of
the arrogance-tinted tunnel vision of the military
community that deemed itself exclusive from
other priorities. However, the NDA governments
taking the financial-crunch line in regard to augmenting force levels in the Delhi Police invited
sharp rebuke from a two-member Bench of the
Delhi High Court a few days back. The secretary
(expenditure) in the finance ministry, who had
been directed to appear in person by the Court
because for over three years the proposal to augment the force had been shuttling around,
explained that it would require an additional Rs
483 crore a year to meet the demand for another
16,000 personnel. He promptly attracted a judicial
rap. You are worried about expenditure concerns
but citizens of Delhi are worried about their security the Court observed, asking the Centre to
pull out money from somewhere. The Bench
directed a meeting between officials of the home
and finance ministries with those of the Delhi
Police and filing of a status report on 14 November. It had no problems with an enhancement of
personnel in a phased manner. It also accepted
that increased use of technology could cut down
the manpower requirement ~ but with the tonguein-cheek rider that it required properly trained
criminal investigators. The level of coordination
between the home and finance ministries prior to
the Court hearing is not known: it was probably
superficial, for the Bench contemptuously rejected
the line that there has been no study to substantiate a need for separate investigation and law-andorder personnel ~ a given in police functioning.
Their Lordships declared that years of experience on the Bench had showed that botched
investigations were the result of dual-duties:
You dont need a separate study on this. We are
telling you. Any lawyer here can tell you. It was,
to put it mildly, a terrible day in the office for the
secretary, but it also exposed the failure of the
finance and home ministers to function in tandem,
and their joint inability to re-write the time-tainted script that has finance thwarting every move
of the professionals to upgrade the operations of
the police, military and paramilitary. In political
terms there would appear to be a tussle between
Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh for the number
two slot: for all of Rajnaths belligerence in practical terms it is Jaitleys squad that continues to
call the sarkari shots. Fired away are a series of
blanks which confirm that good governance is
not on the target that the Modi regime claims to
have set for itself.
25 years of Unification
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AS GERMANY CELEBRATES A HISTORIC

ANNIVERSARY, THE COUNTRY STRUGGLES TO
COME TO GRIPS WITH THE MOST MOMENTOUS
CRISIS SINCE UNIFICATION ~ THE REFUGEE
CRISIS. MIGRATION AND MIGRATORY SOCIETIES
IS WHAT THE WORLD IS MADE OF. GERMANY
ENTERS A NEW ERA
Indonesian activists
see regulation as
a step to prohibit
dog as food
ermany today celebrates 25 years of its Unification. At

the same time, the country struggles to come to grips
with the most momentous crisis since Unification ~ the
refugee crisis. In 1989-1991, the challenge was to integrate two widely diverse social systems and populations.
This integration of East and West Germany has, by and
large, been accomplished. Although East Germanys living
standard is still not on a par with West Germany, it is no
longer important where new acquaintances come from ~
East or West. My family doctor hails from East Germany
where his mother still lives. The owner of the largest taxi
company in my hometown is an Easterner. Both have found
local, West German partners, both are highly successful and
well-appreciated in their profession. Nobody asks about
their personal history.
Angela Merkel who
has emerged as an influential leader in the whole of
Europe, is the first East
German Chancellor of
united Germany. Along
with this integration
process German society
has become surprisingly
liberal and tolerant. You
want proof ? The former
Minister of External
Affairs is openly gay, taking his male partner to official events and trips. The
former Economics Minister was born in Vietnam.
The Home Minister, still
serving, is wheelchairbound. The Mayor of Bonn,
the former capital of West
Germany, was born in
India. Even in places where political correctness need not
be maintained, say, at the evening Stammtisch, such deviations from the norm are not seen as detrimental, as long as
these politicians are performing their duties.
Just a few weeks prior to this anniversary the refugee
crisis began to unfold. Refugees from Syria and from the
Balkans still arrive in droves at German borders. Angela
Merkel uttered her meanwhile famous Wir schaffen das! ~
Well manage it! Namely, to accept and integrate these large
numbers of refugees who escaped from dictatorial repression and civil war. This year there may be as many as
800,000 refugees. In fact, another top politician, perhaps prematurely, claimed that Germany is able to absorb as many
as 500,000 refugees annually.
Reactions have been widely divergent. In the beginning
the refugees received an enthusiastic welcome. The borders
were thrown open, anybody could enter. This did not last; it
could not last. Now the German government on local and
national levels is aching under the burden of providing living space and acceptable living conditions for the exhausted, uprooted, anxious people who know not a word of German. As I write this, I hear on German web radio that the
Berlin police have requested the government that Muslim
and Christian refugees be accommodated separately to
avoid conflicts. Another news item today is that there has
been a brawl of several hours in a refugee camp leaving a
dozen people injured. Such negative news will multiply as
time passes.
It is little known that Germany has the lowest birthrate
worldwide. Even with the influx of millions of foreigners
since World War II, the overall German population is declining. There is dire need of young working people, of skilled
and well-educated people to support the social system.
Unless a society has a sufficient number of working people,
the living standard of the elderly non-working population is
endangered. The security of old-age-pensions is an everlasting topic in the German political discourse.
In the decades after 1945, millions of so-called Gastarbeiter ~ guest-workers ~ arrived mainly from Italy and
Turkey to support a booming economy. They stayed on and
their children and childrens children have made Germany
their home. Across all levels of society and professions they
have made their mark. Their parents arrived to swell the
work-force, they stayed on as full-fledged citizens with their
demands and responsibilities. Since decades schools have
been struggling with the integration of children with a

migratory background.
Let us also not forget that
after 1945, Germany, despite the
widespread war destruction,
accepted three million Germans
evicted from East Europe, the
so-called Sudetendeutsche. In a
huge effort they were settled,
not unlike the millions who
MARTIN KMPCHEN
escaped from East Bengal after
Partition.
By global standards Germany is not considered a
migratory country, like the USA, Canada, Britain, France
and Australia. Yet, when we move in public spaces, in
trains, buses, in restaurants and parks, we hear European
and oriental languages mingling with German. We see people of various origins and different dresses in, sometimes,
amusing combinations; for example, a German boy holding
hands with a girl in a Muslim head-scarf.
Today, the enormous challenge will be to integrate the
refugees not merely at a basic subsistence level, but consistent with German standards. It goes without saying that refugees will receive adequate medical treatment, they are
gradually going to be provided housing, they get sufficient
food and clothing, they are expected to adopt prevalent standards of hygiene and public order. A society which rather
unthinkingly considers its high, often luxurious, living
standard as the norm,
must now grapple with the
large numbers in their immediate vicinity who have
much less, yet are also
entitled to a decent life.
Since a few months, I
have followed the life-story
of a young refugee from
Bangladesh. Let us call
him Muhammad. His
father got embroiled in a
political feud. His mother,
fearing for her sons life,
got him, with the help of
touts, forged documents
and sent him off on a flight
to Rome. The person who
accompanied him and
obviously had promised to
place Muhammad into safe
hands, abandoned him at
Rome airport. The boy
somehow managed to board a train to Belgium and was held
up at the border to Germany. As he is a minor, it is mandatory that the German government takes special care of him.
Muhammad was given a foster-father, a retired German doctor. He was also put under the supervision of a social worker who looked after Muhammads practical needs and
arranged regular meetings with a translator. At first, he
lived in a hotel room, meanwhile he has now his own small
flat.
Muhammad attends school, especially to learn German,
and receives sufficient pocket-money to cook his meals. On
Fridays, he visits the local mosque. His foster-father meets
him several times a week and tries to provide him with the
family care that Muhammad must be missing. Almost daily
he phones up his mother, and I too phone him occasionally
so he can talk freely in Bengali. He never complains, he
always sounds joyful. If Muhammad becomes proficient in
German quickly, he will be allowed to join a regular school
which would be the first step towards integration.
There are tens of thousands of men and women in Germany who are retired, yet fit and active. Like Muhammads
foster-father, they now come forward to contribute to the
welfare of the refugee population. It gives them, who lead a
comfortable life in financial security an area of engagement
where they are urgently needed. Those living in retirement
were born soon after World War II, and remember the hardships they suffered. And they also remember that the USA
and other countries provided essential help to rebuild their
lives. They grew up when the horrors of the Jewish holocaust became public knowledge. Whenever there is a human
crisis, Germans of that age-group intuitively feel called to
help in order to atone for the misery earlier generations had
brought on the Jewish population in Europe. This guiltcomplex is a strong motivation even in the present crisis,
seventy years after the end of the War.
With the present refugee dilemma, the German nation
has arrived at the centre of the problems and struggles
which vex and unsettle us globally. Middle-class complacency, the self-satisfied, narrow lifestyles which especially the
young and middle-aged enjoy, are being threatened. Migration, migratory societies is what the world is made of. Germany enters a new era.
THE WRITER IS BASED IN SANTINIKETAN. HIS LAST BOOK OF ESSAYS IS THE HIDDEN SIDE OF
THE MOON. HE CAN BE CONTACTED AT MARTIN.KAEMPCHEN2013@GMAIL.COM
ASIAN VOICES
ome animal welfare

organisations have
applauded the Jakarta
administrations plan to
regulate dog meat distribution, hoping that it could eventually lead to the prohibition
of dog consumption in the
nation.
With such a regulation, the
city administration could
monitor dog supplies for
restaurants, said Justina Sukmato, spokeswoman for the
animal welfare community
Republik Guguk. I dont
agree with allowing dogs for
food.
Thats why I see the positive side of the upcoming regulation. Restaurant owners will
not be able to take random
dogs, including stray dogs,
and serve them on plates,
said Justina, adding that the
regulation would also control
the spread of rabies.
Although frowned upon by
some, and
considered
haram by
Muslims, eating dog meat is
common in Indonesia and it is
a customary dish for Christians
of several ethnic groups including the Batak, Manado and
Javanese.
In line with Justina, cofounder of the Jakarta Animal
Aid Network (JAAN) Karin
Franken said that regulation
on dog meat distribution could
contribute to the suppression of
the rabies infection.
She went on to say that
since 2008, JAAN had been conducting investigations into dog
meat distribution in the capital. It revealed that every two
days, around 40 living dogs
came to the capital from Bali to
be consumed.
Aside from Bali, the supply
of dogs in Jakarta also came
from Solo in Central Java and
Sukabumi in West Java.
With inter-island and intercity distribution chains, the
dogs could be easily affected
with rabies, added Karen, who,
along with other JAAN members, discussed the matter with
Governor Basuki Ahok Tjahaja Purnama and his staffers
in September. They also handed
the authorities their investigative report.
Both Karin and Justina
pledged that they would continue their dog is not food campaign. Separately, Ahok said
that his administration would
regulate and monitor the distribution of dog meat, something
that was previously uncontrolled, to prevent Jakartan residents from consuming diseased meat.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Miss Banerjees lumpen cadres

SIR, I concur with Shyamal
Duttas analysis in his article,
No Discordant Note (30 September). The people of the troubled state of West Bengal
hailed Mamata Banerjee as a
deliverer because she successfully and singlehandedly led
the campaign to end the prolonged misrule of the CPI-M.
The majority of the common people still have faith and
confidence in her and would
like to give her time and opportunity to undo the past wrongs
and set things right.
How far she will succeed
remains to be seen. Her commitment is unquestioned. Some
positive steps have been taken
but what remains undone is
also vast.
Her first priority will be to
firmly control, if not stamp
out, lawlessness of the party
cadres who are besmirching
her image and arousing fears of
a return of the ancien regime.
This is her major disadvantage.
If she can tone up the quality of governance by firmly
curbing the lumpen elements,
she will continue to enjoy peoples support. Many of us outside West Bengal will watch
LEOPARD, NOT PANTHER

SIR, The Indian leopard (Panthera pardus fusca), that strayed into a village from a
nearby wildlife sanctuary in Rajasthan, was actually in search of drinking water.
Unfortunately, its head was trapped in a water-pot, according to a report in your
paper on 1 October. Technically, however, it does not qualify to be called a panther.
The name panther (often referred to as black panther) is used to designate a
melanistic or black variant of a big cat, invariably a leopard (Panthera pardus) in
Asia or Africa and a jaguar (Panthera onca) in South America. Solid melanism or
the black coat colour of these feline animals is the result of a variation in the coat
colour gene called Agouti, meaning banded. The Agouti or the 'A' gene regulates
the distribution of the black pigment melanin within the hair shaft of the skin of
these felines. Black panthers are now a rare species in Indian jungles.
The fact that a leopard strayed into a village during the day reflects poorly on
wildlife conservation. Mercifully, it was rescued by the alert villagers and the forest
department staff.
Yours, etc., Subhendu Chaudhuri, Kolkata, 1 October.
with eager interest her success
or otherwise in this endeavour.
Yours, etc., Sankar Sen,
New Delhi, 1 October.
CPI-M METHODS
SIR, My compliments to Mr
Shyamal Datta for his brilliant
and unbiased article, No discordant note (30 September).
The article has reaffirmed the
readers faith in The
Statesman.
There is no denying that
Mamata Banerjee has commit-
ted a grave blunder by adopting

the methods of the CPI-M to
manipulate the police and the
administration. But her record
post-2011 has not surpassed the
atrocities and the cadre raj of
the CPI-M.
Rightly has Mr Datta suggested that one should never
be in a hurry or haste in politics to contrive a chance when
its time has not come. Hence
the correct conclusion that no
discordant note is heard in the
finetuning to cast major shadows on the stature and
prospects of Mamata Banerjee.

Yours, etc., Mihir Kanungo,
Kolkata, 1 October.
BANNED PESTICIDES
SIR, Thank you for publishing
Prof. Tapan Kumar Maitras
article, Mitigating toxicity
(Science page, 30 September). It
enlightens both the scientist
and the student. I would like to
add a few more points, if I may.
He has mentioned two pesticides which are banned in
India ~ HCH ( Hexachlorocyclohexane) and heptachlor. HCH

and its gamma isomer , lindane, are banned in India
(www.cibrc.nic.in). Twentyeight pesticides have been
banned. There are 230 pesticides that are registered. The
article mentions certain pesticides that are found in food
items. At least three more can
be added to the list ~ chloropyrifos, malathion, and synthetic
pyrithroids.
Yours, etc., Sanat Chatterjee,
Kolkata, 1 October.
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THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW
People should be
sensitised on gay rights
T
he first openly-gay royal in the

world and a man of international
renown, Prince Manvendra Singh
Gohil of Rajpipla is better known
for his activities in the field of
AIDS awareness among the gay
community. AIDS Healthcare
Foundation (AHF), the largest
global AIDS organisation providing medical care to HIV positive
people, has appointed this descendant of the erstwhile princely
state of Gujarat as its Goodwill
Ambassador in India. Prince
Manvendra is an icon for the gay
community not only in India but
also abroad. He told AJITA
SINGH that as AHF Goodwill
Ambassador he will use his popularity to address issues pertaining to HIV/AIDS and for scaling
up access to anti-retroviral therapy (ART) for at least 20 million
people by 2020.
When did you realise about
your true personality?
For most people, sexual maturity
is attained by adolescence. By
that time everybody gets to know
of their sexual preferences and
sexual orientation. Since I had a
traditional and conservative
upbringing, my contact with people was minimal. My family didn't allow us to mix with ordinary
or low-caste people. As a child, I
was never allowed to mingle with
normal kids. Royal relations are
completely mired in protocol, so
there is never a deep connect
with the parents and family. Our
exposure to the liberal world was
minimal. I had no means to learn
that I was any different from others.
How did you feel then?
It was difficult to live with the
accept me for who I truly am. It

was difficult to be gay in my family. The villagers worship us and
we are supposed to be role models
for them. My community was outraged. So in 2006, when after
years of silence and four years of
counseling, I accepted my true
nature and did not feel ashamed
of it, I knew it would not be easy
to make people around me echo
my sentiments. But I also knew
that I could no longer live a lie. I
wanted to come out because I had
got involved with activism and I
felt it was no longer right to live
in the closet. I came out as gay to
a Gujarati daily because I wanted
people to openly discuss homosexuality since it's a hidden affair
with a lot of stigma attached.
secret in an ancient royal family

and a country that condemned
homosexuality. I couldn't talk to
anyone, couldn't share my views
with anyone. So, I was confused
whether I'm the only one like that
or there are other people like me
or was it a kind of disease. I
thought, maybe it's a passing
phase. I might get over it once I'm
married. And that's the reason I
decided to get married. I hoped
that after marriage everything
would be all right. With a wife, I
would have children and become
"normal" and then I would be at
peace I was struggling and
striving to be "normal." I never
knew and nobody told me that I
was gay and that this itself is normal and it will not change. Only
when I was hospitalised after my
nervous breakdown in 2002 did
my doctor inform my parents

about my sexuality.
How do you feel now?
All these years I was hiding my
sexuality from my parents, family
and people. I never liked it and I
wanted to face the reality. That's
why when I came out of the closet, I found my freedom. I find it
easy to reach out to the common
man and bond with him effortlessly. This is a more real world.
My life has transformed. Now,
people accept me as I am.
How did you face up to criticism after you opened up on
your true personality?
To the shock of my parents and
the traditional society I grew up
in, I broke my shackles fully
knowing that society would never
What is your reaction to being

appointed as AHF Goodwill
Ambassador:
I am proud and honoured to be a
part of this international organisation working towards HIV prevention and the rights, care and
support of people living with HIV
AIDS. This is the beginning of an
important journey for me. As an
HIV AIDS and gay activist, I have
a responsibility to support these
communities and bring their
voices to the forefront while garnering political and bureaucratic
support for the initiatives by AHF
for these communities.
As the Goodwill Ambassador,
what do you intend to do for
the LGBT community?
I would like to pursue the ongoing fight for LGBT rights In
India. India has the third largest
population of estimated people
living with HIV/AIDS in the
world. Of the estimated 2.1 mil-
lion people living with HIV/AIDS

here, only 1.5 million are aware of
their status and have registered
for care and merely 0.78 million
are on treatment. Two-thirds of
the estimated population still
needs to be initiated on treatment. I would like to work
towards generating more awareness as around one-third of the
estimated population is not even
aware that it is infected with the
virus. Without identifying this
population and initiating them on
treatment, curbing the spread of
the epidemic is a distant dream.
Since treatment is the most powerful tool that can help achieve
global AIDS control, AIDS Healthcare Foundation launched the
20x20 global campaigns.
In your opinion is being gay
more of a medical problem or
a psychological issue?
It is not a mental problem at all.
Even psychiatrists say that this is
what is called homosexuality and
it is not a disease or a psychological disorder. For instance, most
people are right-handed but being
left-handed is not a disease.
Do you think being gay is a
drawback or rather a handicap
in India and abroad?
It is not a handicap at all. Most
creative people are known to have
soft personalities. Be it fashion
designers, choreographers, makeup artistes, movie directors. They
also are entitled to equal rights. If
our Constitution does not discriminate against us and promises equal rights, why should society do so?
What in your view is the
demand of the community ~
legally as well as socially?
My focus is on helping the gay
community in India achieve the
rightful freedom they once had.
We only want to be treated as normal. We do not yearn for special
packages from the government or
any kind of reservation. We only
want citizenship rights. Stop
treating us as criminals. If we
contribute towards nation-building, pay taxes like any citizen,
HE antennae of some Western

diplomatic missions in Dhaka
had received a signal that 'Western interests' might be targeted
in a terrorist attack. But why
didn't we have a clue of it? This
brings to the fore an information sharing gap, a matter that
comes later in this article.
What, however, followed is
common knowledge. Yet a recap
is necessary for a coherent
understanding of the chain of
events girdling the threat signal
and the premeditated, professionally executed murder of
Italian citizen Cesare Tavella.
Australia and Great Britain
were the first to blow the whistle
on the threat perception. Australia did it by postponing, one
hopes not abandoning, the
cricket series with Bangladesh,
citing security risks. In parallel,
Britain had advised its citizens
to remain cautious in their
movements in Bangladesh.
Some conspiracy theorists
couldn't let go of an opportunity
for publicity, snif fing at a
prospective
setback
to
Bangladesh's cricket calendar.
They promptly gave a twist to
the story saying that some quarters, having grown impatient
with the rising star of the cricket side, may have just played a
trick on us! Never mind the
souring bit of an admittedly
under-strength Bangladesh A
team's pathetic 3-1 performance
in India, the Australian
encounter was eagerly awaited

as a measuring rod for our consistency and strength against a
stronger side.
The Glitter Party scheduled
for Friday (today) by the Australia-New Zealand expatriate
community to host 400 foreign
and local guests couldn't be
risked in the face of an 'impending' threat. The party, organised
almost without a break since
1980, had to be called off.
The barbaric assassination
of Italian aid worker Cesare
Tavella, who had been serving
the poorest of
poor in
Bangladesh, evoked shock and
consternation on a scale not witnessed so far. It marked a rude
awakening to the fault lines in
law enforcement and vigilance
coverage. Not surprisingly, the
United States of America (USA),
Canada and New Zealand joined
Great Britain and Australia in
issuing travel alerts for their citizens in Bangladesh.
Two questions emerge from
the narrative above: First, if the
foreign missions' radars had
beeped a warning signal about a
threat to 'Western interests',
how couldn't our antenna, in
whatever shape and form it
exists, catch an inkling of it? It
begs an answer and one knows
too well what it would be! Well,
our surveillance system is not
sophisticated enough to pick
such signals.
There you come to the second question: What are we to
make of the much hyped goal of
attaining effective levels of

intelligence gathering, sharing
and cooperation between
nations, particularly in sensitive
areas of mutual concerns? A
few countries would be privy to
some valuable infor mation
while others would be denied
them even though they have a
stake in them; this is not helping
either party when it comes to
dealing with terror and security
threats.
On the specific case of
Cesare Tavella's murder, two
deficiencies fly in the face of
any serious observer. First, he
was shot dead in a diplomatic
zone, that too surrounded by
important foreign missions. The
location was supposed to be
highly protected with security
details. The failure to prevent
such a dastardly murder is itself
gnawing, let alone the easy

escape of the killers. Not even
one person could be apprehended to track down the rest or the
mastermind by way of getting to
the bottom of the crime and
meting out deterrent punishment to the killers. Apart from
the lack of police or civic reflexes, gaps in human intelligence
and those in mechanised intelligence capabilities are starkly
revealed.
The IS has claimed that it
has killed Tavella, according to
US-based Site Intelligence
Group, a website monitoring
extremist activities. But there is
no confirmation yet from the
Italian government of the IS'
hand in it. The authenticity of
the IS' claim of responsibility is
being verified by that government.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh
police intelligence setup found
no mention of the purported
claim on the IS' website itself.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal in his briefing
to the press immediately after
the murder stated, We have
only heard about the IS presence
in Bangladesh but we haven't
found any of them. Rather than
giving an apparently knee-jerk
reaction, we could perhaps say,
We are looking into the authenticity of the claim, as indeed we
are, and would reveal our findings when ready. We should
seek focused international cooperation to fathom any IS involvement because the spectre needs
to be faced head-on, no question
about it.
The issue of fighting mindless extremism would be better
addressed if we were to avoid
political wrangling, blame
games and attempted points
scoring. The point to, however,
seriously ponder is the likelihood of some quarters trying to
harm Bangladesh.
For now, principally, we
should set our gaze entirely on
the agenda of ferreting out the
culprits and punishing them.
As Ralph Waldo Emerson,
the late 19th century American
philosopher, journalist and poet,
put it, There is no den in the
wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is
made of glass.
THE DAILY STAR/ANN.
CROSSWORD
NO 25626
YESTERDAYS SOLUTION
SOLUTION FOR 26 SEPTEMBER
(4,2)
15 Minis label initially
switched after pound
sign (6)
17 Line crossed by Comrade
Dad centrally following
Advance order (5)
18 Hes paid attention in the
end to departing expert
(6)
21 Sanity of Chisholm in
doubt (4)
22 They look like workers
getting busy to arrange
set (10)
24 Spiv, young, holding whip
hand? Half right (5,5)
25 Throw into confusion the
seeds of campaign
(Lynchwood underestimating Blott!) (4)
DOWN
ACROSS
6 Good spirit in homemade VAT Daves mixed
(4)
8 Here theres instant
suffering involving
tormented Sir (2,8)
9 Chase
stock car, finally stopping
self-drive on Westway?
(4,6)
10 An item thats cutting up
cabbage (4)
11 Old King Henry the Fifth
of England right to
advance on old city (6)
12 Shakespearean actress
makes effort to take in
bestower of OBEs (5)
14 Secure with Penny, the
country 10 nearly backed
Should the government have a

social responsibility and certain specific schemes for rehabilitation of these community
members in society?
The government should help sensitise society on gay rights. It
must include sexual education in
curricula in school and college to
bring awareness among the masses about this community. Growing children must be taught to
respect this community too. Proper advocacy should teach people
that the issue is not about right or
wrong. That it is not something to
associate with guilt or religion
either. It is not a social evil. Only
empowerment can teach us that
there is nothing to be ashamed
about being homosexual.
Your views on Article 377 of
the IPC
It was indeed a golden four to
four-and-half years for gays
when the criminal law about
homosexual acts was removed
and they were no longer punishable with prison terms. I never
expected that this would happen
in my lifetime. However, it is
unfortunate that the law criminalising homosexual acts in
India has been reinstated again.
We've gone back to square one, to
150 years ago.
Is there any tangible change
in the mindset of people over
the years regarding the community?
Things have definitely improved
in our country as well as abroad.
Various cities in India have
begun coordinating gay pride
parades. There is an air of positivity.. The word is no longer
taboo. No longer do media or
films portray it with negativity,
or with a comic tenor. At least
people openly discuss it, debate it
and talk about it. In fact, HIV
might be a curse for the world,
but for India it has been a blessing in disguise. Because of its
advent, the government took up
the cause of gay empowerment.
100 YEARS AGO
Thoughts on a Dhaka murder

Shah Husain Imam
why not give us the right to life

with dignity.
1 11As tip on National horse

going around band of
miscreants (4)
2 Support helping jockey to
move radius fully (7)
3 Scrooge, latest part for
Alastair Sim, incorporating
10 finally growing up? (5)

4 Arm 6s women residents?
(10)
5 Not being watchful, model
Renault left on back of
lorry (9)
7 The World that was St
Patricks Lobster,
innovatively serialised? (4)
8 Got clean carried away
(5,2)
11 Extended action with
smasher after a weeks a
bit hard to deal with (10)
13 New wives carried over
them, making Bliss drool
horribly (bachelor no
more!) (4-5)
15 Its not brief handling hot
crook gently (7)
16 Stock-in-trade of usedcar salesman causing
fireworks (7)
19 The Bill on the case of his
undrinkable spirits (5)
20 The wifes endless deceit
(4)
23 One tip or the other from
Waterman: I could be so
good for you (4)
NOTE: Figures in parentheses denote the number of letters in the words required.(By arrangement with The Independent, London)
BOMBAYS
POSTAL MOTOR
SERVICE
(From Our Correspondent)
Bombay, Oct 2
The new Bombay postal motor service commenced today when

horsed vehicles were entirely dispensed with. Twelve cars ran, making about 250 miles between themselves in the day. About a hundred
trips were registered, the maximum trip made by a single van
being ten miles. The substitution of
the motor service will not only
expedite the transport of mails but
will enable the post office to give an
extended service as well. The
motor comprises three sections,
namely the conveyance of inland
mails between the General Post
Office and the several railway stations; the conveyance of the English and foreign sea-borne mails
between the General Post Office,
the bunders and the railway stations; and the conveyance of the
mails between the General Post
Office and its town sub-offices.
ENLISTING FOR
THE ARMY
(From Our Correspondent)
Colombo, Oct 2
An official notification states:

Cases having arisen where persons
proceeding from the East, in order
to join the Army, have arrived at
Marseilles without funds, it is notified for general information that
such persons will not be enlisted at
Marseilles, but should provide
themselves for the full journey to
England. On enquiry it is understood that the notification is a general warning to the different
Colonies, and there has been up to
the present no such case from Ceylon. The notice refers only to those
wishing to join the British Army.
RAIDS BY
ITALIANS
Rome, Oct 2
Frequent dense fogs are hindering

operations in the mountains, but
permit infantry to make bold raids
on enemy positions and destroy
outlying defences. Italians in the
Tolmino sector delivered an attack
on Thursday night along the whole
front, and gained ground, but a violent enemy counter-attack forced
the left wing to retire though the
right wing held its own.
10
The present BJP government in Haryana is

working like a trader...
FORMER HARYANA CHIEF MINISTER BHUPINDER SINGH HOODA
SLAMMING THE STATE BJP GOVERNMENT
THUMBNAILS
NITISH TOO ARROGANT: MODI

SAYS BJP-LED NDA WILL FORM NEXT GOVT IN BIHAR LEADING TO DOUBLE CELEBRATION ON DIWALI
AGENCIES
Bihar/Patna, 2 October
Insecticide fumes cover a neighbourhood as sanitation workers

spray the area in an effort to
control mosquitoes that spread
dengue fever. In the Capital on
Friday AFP
Buta rejoins Cong:

Former Union Minister and a prominent
Dalit leader, Buta
Singh, rejoined Congress on Friday. The 80year-old former Union
Home Minister was
welcomed by senior
PTI
leaders.
Bombs recovered:
Security forces comprising CRPF and
Rohtas police recovered three can bombs,
wires and naxal literature from a Maoists'
hideout in Rohtas district on Friday, a police
PTI
officer said.
Dalit man killed: A
nonagenarian Dalit
man was allegedly
axed to death and his
body set on fire by a
person outside a temple in Hamirpur, UP,
when he refused to
pay him money, police
PTI
said on Friday.
Five Naxalites held:
Five Naxalites wanted in several incidents
of crime have been
ar rested from the
Kuwakonda area of
Chhattisgarhs insurgency-hit Dantewada
district, police said
PTI
on Friday.
Attacking Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, Prime

today said he is too arrogant to be trusted with
governance and asked people to back development
agenda of BJP to change the
state's fortunes.
Addressing his first public rally after announcement of assembly polls,
Modi wooed the youth and
the poor promising to
address the issue of migration for employment and
told them that the solution
to all their problems lie in
development.
The Prime Minister also
took a dig at his rivals for
doubting the delivery of the
financial package for Bihar
announced by him. Some
people are raising questions
on the Rs 1.65 lakh crore
package announced by me.
Shah: BJP supports

reservation policy
Aurangabad, 2 October
VOICING OPINION
Addressing his first public rally after
announcement of assembly polls,
Modi wooed the youth and the poor
promising to address the issue of
migration for employment
The Prime Minister also took a dig
at his rivals for doubting the delivery of the financial package for
Bihar announced by him
They are asking whether it
will come or not. Should a
single rupee be given to the
present government. Will it
reach you? Even if I give it,
his (Nitish's) arrogance is
so much that he may even
return it. I am worried that
even if I give the Rs 1.65 lakh
crore to the state, he will
announce that he does not
require this money as it
has been given by Modi. I
cannot trust him, he said,
recalling that an 'angry'

Kumar had returned the
Rs 5 crore relief announced
by Gujarat for the floodaffected in Kosi.
The Prime Minister also
asked former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, who
shared the dais with him,
whether he can trust Kumar
after he ousted him from the
top job in the state some
months after having appointed him. Nobody can trust
him after what he did to Jitan

Ram Manjhi. People of
Bihar cannot trust him,
Modi said.
He also countered the
attack of his rivals on his
announcement of a huge
package for Bihar, saying he
was not doing any favour to
Bihar as has been alleged.
The government in Delhi
is not doing any favour to
anyone. This is the right of
Bihar and its people, which
I am trying to provide unlike
in the past. I am fulfilling the
responsibility entrusted to
me, he said, adding, This
is not Modi's money, it
belongs to Bihar and its
people.
Meanwhile, the Prime
Minister said that the BJPled NDA will form the next
government in Bihar and
thus there will be double celebration this Diwali.
"It is certain that the
BJP-led National Democratic Alliance is going to
form the next government

(in Bihar) and there will be
double celebration of Diwali,
one for the poll outcome
and the other for the festival of lights," Modi said
while addressing his first
election rally in Bihar in
Banka district after dates for
the state assembly elections
were announced last month.
Modi urged the people to
vote for 'vikasvad' (development). "You have faced
ahankarvad (arrogance),
samantvad (feudalism), vanshvad (dynastic politics).
You have tried everything,
now vote for vikasvad (development) for once to change
the face of Bihar," the prime
minister said.
Modi said he and his
party were committed to
the development of Bihar.
"Make your decision once
and I assure you I will be with
you every step of the way
towards the development
of Bihar," he said.
Under attack from the grand

alliance leaders on the issue
that BJP may tweak reservation policy if it comes to
power in Bihar, party President Amit Shah today reaffirmed BJP's support for
the quota system and
charged the rivals with misleading the people on the
matter.
BJP steadfastly supports the reservation policy and does not want any
change whatsoever in the
existing quota system, he
said at an election meeting
here. Charging RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and the
senior JD(U) leader Nitish
Kumar with misleading
the electorate by telling
them that the BJP will
tweak the quota law in the
event of being voted to
power in Bihar, Shah asked
the party workers to explain
the saffron party's consistent stand in favour of the
AMIT SHAH
reservation policy, to the
people.
The BJP national president lashed out at the
alliance stalwarts for not
extending a customary
'thank you' to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for
announcing a special package of Rs 1.25 lakh crore to
the poll-bound state, besides
committing an additional Rs
40,000 crore for completing
of ongoing infrastructure
projects in Bihar.
Modi under fire over black money recovery D Raja: RSS behaving like an
extra-constitutional authority
Aam Aadmi Party today

ridiculed Prime Minister
Narendra Modis tall
claims on black money following the recovery of Rs
3,770 crore under the onetime compliance window
and asked him to own up his
monumental failure in
recovering Rs 80 lakh crore,
as promised.
Taking a dig at Modi's
pre-poll promise of
depositing Rs 15 lakh in
every Indian's bank account,
AAP said that the NDA
government should consider putting Rs 18.62
instead due to the massive
shortfall in recovery.
They referred to Modi's
Lok Sabha election campaign speeches in which he
had reportedly said that

black money to the tune of
Rs 80 lakh crore was
stashed abroad and his government would bring it back
in 100 days of coming to
power.
Party spokesperson
Raghav Chadhha said that
the gover nment lacked
political will to recover
black money and urged
Modi to acknowledge his
monumental failure in
putting Rs 15 lakh in every
bank account as promised
during the 2014 poll campaign.
Terming it as a damp
squib, Chadhha sought to
know the rationale behind
government's new black
money law (Undisclosed
Foreign Income and Assets)
and Imposition of Tax Act,
2015 when existing laws
were stringent.
The PM in his Independence Day speech had
said Rs 6,500 crore of undisclosed foreign assets have
been declared under the
compliance window of the
new law. During election
campaign he had promised
to bring back Rs 80 lakh
crore stashed abroad. What
explains the monumental
failure in doing so? Chadhha asked.
Chadhha said that the
law is silent on domestic
black money which he said
makes up for more than 90
per cent of the total amount.
Only 10 per cent of the
amount is stashed abroad.
Despite tall claims, due
to lack of political will various investigating agencies
are not cooperating with
the SIT on black money that
was set up as per the

Supreme Court order, he
said.
Meanwhile, party leader
Ashtosh questioned the
prime minister's silence on
the Dadri lynching issue
and reiterated AAP's
demand for the sacking of
Union Culture Minister
Mahesh Sharma.
The PM has time to
embrace (Mark) Zuckerberg in silicon valley but no
time to utter a word on the
Dadri incident. The country expects the PM to speak
on the issue, wipe the family's tears. Since PM talks of
'sabka saath sabka vikas',
Mahesh Sharmaji has no
right to continue in the
Union Cabinet after all these
statements. Even today he
has visited the village and
done politics, he said.

Coimbatore, 2 October
CPI National secretary D

Raja today accused RSS of
trying to take control of the
Governance of the Country,
by issuing diktats to Narendra Modi-led NDA government.
Now RSS is taking central role and sharpening its
entry into the governance,
thus behaving like an extraconstitutional authority,
Raja told reporters here
Stating that a man belonging to a minority community
was murdered for his alleged
involvement in cow slaughter and another youth was
murdered for allegedly having a ring tone of Ambed-
kar's song, Raja claimed

that the people, including
Dalits and Minorities were
living in fear. Moreover, people like rationalist Narendra
Dabolkar and communist
leader Govind Pansare in
Maharashtra and scholar M
M Kalburgi in Karnataka
were eliminated, Raja said.
He said his party will
organise a nation-wide
demonstration on 24 November, the birthday of Pansare
Hardik tries to win farmers over

In an apparent bid to broaden his base, Patel quota agitation leader Hardik Patel
today made a strong pitch
for farmers vowing to fight
strongly for their rights in
Gujarat and other states.
A lot of injustice has
been meted to farmers in this
country. We have to fight for
their rights. We will fight
strongly. Gujarat is my turf
but I will reach out to other
states as well. Today is the
birth anniversary of both
Mahatma Gandhi and Lal
Bahadur Shastri but people
have forgotten Shastri.
Nobody remembers his slogan of Jai Jawan, Jai
Kisan, Patel said addressing a 'Maha Kisan Panchayat' here.
Patel attacked the ruling classes for politicising
issues concerning the peasantry and urged farmers
to unite in their bid to ensure
ZERO HOUR
Artists prepare idols of Goddess Durga at a workshop in Mumbai on Friday. AFP
Sena,Cong slam Maha

govts drought surcharge
Mumbai, 2 October
Ruling partner Shiv Sena

today slammed Maharashtra government's decision
to levy an additional surcharge on a host of items
including fuel to raise money
to tackle the drought situation dubbing it as pick
pocketing, which received
instant endorsement from
the opposition Congress.
Attacking the decision,
taken by the BJP-led government headed by Devendra Fadnavis in which Sena
itself is a partner, the party
organ Saamana said
instead of resorting to this
drastic step, the state should
have sought a financial package from the Centre to tide
over the situation.
We can describe our
state of finance in one word- pickpocketing. Remove a
little from somebody's pocket, again remove some from
somebody else's pocket and
keep them in the treasury.
Do we really need a finance
minister at the Centre and
in the state to do such
BJP steadfastly supports the reservation

policy and does not
want any change
whatsoever in the
existing quota system
things? Sena said. By

casting a burden of Rs 1,600
crore on people to help farmers, state finance minister
(Sudhir Mungantiwar of
the BJP) has indulged in
pickpocketing ... The only
question is, will this really
wipe the tears from farmers'
eyes? So far, the government has provided Rs 425
crore to help farmers who
suffered failure of crops, Rs
690 crore as insurance for
crops, Rs 1,000 crore for
crop losses, Rs 950 crore to
distribute foodgrains at
cheap costs, the Sena said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is aware of the
problems of crisis-hit Bihar
and announced a package of
Rs 1.25 lakh crore. That is
evident from the package he

announced for Bihar. A similar concern for drought
affected farmers will help
mitigate the situation (in
Maharashtra). We are only
asking what is due to us,
the Sena said.
Maharashtra Congress
president Ashok Chavan
justified Sena's criticism
of the hike in fuel prices as
an act of pickpocketing
but reminded the party that
it (Sena) is also a partner in
the government.
Shiv Sena has highlighted our stand that the fuel
price hike by Rs 2 per litre
is unjustified. But, Shiv
Sena should not stop at just
criticism, Chavan said.
Lashing out at the government, he said the fact
is that the government has
failed to maintain fiscal discipline, he charged.
To raise funds for tackling drought, the state gover nment had last week
announced a surcharge of Rs
2 on petrol and diesel while
increasing the VAT on liquor,
cigarettes and beverages by
5 per cent.
they are respected.

I will only say you feed
the entire country. If someone tries to fool you, answer
their bricks with stones.
Give them a befitting reply.
Only then there will be talk
about far mers' respect,
ensuring their welfare, he
said.
On the issue Delhi farmers, he lands acquired for
developmental purposes be
returned to them if the plots
remain unused.
We are going to fight for
their rights to see their
lands are returned if they
are not being used. Whenever you (developers) will
need land, you can come back

to us. But for now, give it back
to land-owning farmers,
he said.
Expressing concern over
farmers' suicides, he asked
the peasants to promise him
that they would not give up
and fight until their last
breath.
I will also urge women
working in agrarian sector
to don the role of Rani
Laxmibai to fight for their
pride and respect, Patel
said.
The Panchayat was
attended by leaders of various farmers' bodies from 20
states, besides Patel.
Patel criticised Prime
for not visiting the memorial of Lal Bahadur Shastri here on the late leader's
birth anniversary and said
it is very sad he (Modi) did
not turn up here. He has
insulted Shastri (by not visiting Vijay Ghat), Patel
said.
GOVT MULLING IDEA OF PANIC BUTTON IN CELL PHONES
Putting her safety first

For women's safety, the

government is considering introduction of a
panic button in cell
phones and has asked all
mobile phone manufacturers to work out the
feasibility of such a feature, Women and Child
Development Minister
Maneka Gandhi said
today.
When we asked for
suggestions about what
precautions can the girls
take to keep themselves
safe and escape out of
emergency situations, we
were flooded with ideas
including wearing specialised necklaces,
bracelets and rings
which had certain SOS
message sending features.
Why should we do
that? Are women prisoners so they always have
to move with these
devices? How can we

ensure availability,
affordability and usage
of these devices among
rural women, the minister said while addressing
a 'Student Parliament'
on issues faced by girl
students.
She said considering
the limitations of these
devices, the government
has come up with an idea
of having inbuilt panic
button in all cell phones.
The phones will have
a panic button which
will be GPS connected.
We are in conversation
with phone manufacturers and the proposal is
likely to be executed in
few months, Maneka
said.
The administration is
of the view that emergency response apps can
take too long to access in
a rush and configuring
one of the existing buttons on a phone for the
task would be much simpler and quicker, he said,
noting that pressing the
panic button will send an
SMS to a set of numbers
that will also provide
location information.
Talking about the various schemes rolled out
by the NDA government,
Maneka said the focus is
on initiatives such as
'beti bachao', 'beti padhao' and reservation for
women posts in police
stations to ensure an
effective interface
between the complainants and the police.
The problem is not

with schemes, we have
enough of them. The
task is implementation
and we are focussing on
the same, she said.
The three-day parliament, which kick-started
yesterday is being organised by the BJP's student
wing, Akhil Bhartiya
Vidyarthi Parishad
(ABVP) and students
representing universities across the country
are taking part in the
event to discuss issues
faced by them and draw
the government's attention towards the need for
safety and development
plans for them.
While first day was
dedicated to tribal students at a seminar entitled, 'Tribal StudentYouth Parliament', the
remaining two days are
for 'Women Student Parliament' and 'North East
Student-Youth Leaders
Parliament'.
to create awareness among

the public against the
designs of Sangh Parivar. On foreign tours of
Prime minister Narendra
Modi, Raja said it is not a
Make in India campaign, but
Make profit in India for
which he was inviting big
corporates and MNCs to
invest in the Country, which
meant deregulation, to convert the Indian economy
into US-Model economy.
On Bihar elections, Raja
said the results will have a
serious impact on the National politics and also have
bearing on the coming
assembly elections to some
States like Tamil Nadu,
Puducherry, West Bengal
and Assam.
CONG SHEDDING
CROCODILE TEARS
OVER FARMERS
PLIGHT: BADAL
Ropar, 2 October: Punjab chief
minister Parkash Singh

Badal today said the SADBJP government always
stood by the farmers during
their difficult times and
lashed out at the Congress
for shedding crocodile tears
over peasants suffering losses in their cotton crop.
The SAD-BJP government was concerned about
the problems faced by farmers during difficult times and
Rs 640 crore was released as
compensation for the cotton
growers who suffered substantial loss to their cotton
crop in Malwa belt due to
sudden attack from white
flies, he said.
The SAD-BJP government has also released Rs
700 crore for the cane growers and was fully sensitised
to the agrarian issues. Thus
it was giving free power to
farmers despite severe criticism from several quarters including the previous
Congress led UPA government, Badal said while
addressing a gathering here
at a state level function after
launching Bhagat Puran
Singh Sehat Bima Yojna
(BPSSBY) for Blue Card
Holders (BPL) families and
dedicating Rs 180 crore
Rupnagar Bypass.
He said, "the state government was bearing annual expenditure of nearly Rs
5000 crore on this count.
The government has reimbursed Rs 28,000 crore to
Powercom so far as power
subsidy in the agriculture
sector since we took over in
2007." The chief minister
lashed out at the Congress
for allegedly ruining the
peasantry and said its leadership was now shedding
crocodile tears over the
PTI
plight of farmers.
Afghan security forces are in control of

Kunduz city
SEDIQ SEDIQQI
INTERIOR MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON, AFGHANISTAN
THUMBNAILS
Israel couple: Palestinian gunmen have

shot dead an Israeli
couple travelling in a
car with their four
young children in the
occupied West Bank,
the Israeli army said,
vowing reprisals for
the barbaric attack
amid a spike in tenAFP
sions.
China typhoon
:Typhoon Mujigae,
the 22nd typhoon of the
year, is expected to
hit China's eastern
coastalregionof Hainan
or the western Guangdong province on Sunday,ChineseMetdepartment has warned. PTI
Pak arrest: Three
militants from the
banned Pakistani Taliban were today arrested in a raid in the
country's restive northwester n KhyberPakhtunkhwa
province.
PTI
Canada-Indian: A
34-year-old Indo-Canadian man has been
sentenced to life for
killing three persons,
including an Indian
and two women,in separate incidents in 2013,
according to a media
PTI
report.
Oz-Indian: A 28year-old Indian-origin make-up artist is
competing with three
others to be chosen as
the best designer for
making a unique cosPTI
tume .
TALIBAN CLINGS TO KUNDUZ

US-LED SPECIAL FORCES JOIN AFGHAN TROOPS IN EFFORTS TO PUSH BACK THE TALIBAN
AGENCIES
Kabul , 2 October
AGENCIES
Fourteen years old this

month, the Wests war in
Afghanistan had all but vanished from the headlines.
Even before the fall of Kunduz this week,however the
first provincial capital to
be taken by the Taliban in
more than a decade it was
clear that all was not going
well.
Last week, the Wall Street
Journal reported that United States and allied officials
were reviewing White House
plans to scale down NATO
troop
numbers
in
Afghanistan to several hundred by the end of next year,
from some 10,000 now. A
reduction on that scale, they
apparently worry,could leave
the door open for not just a
Taliban recovery, but also significant inroads by elements
of Islamic State.
Like the Russians before
them, NATO appears to have
squandered lives, resources
and a surprising degree of
goodwill and with little left
to show for it. Even the most
cursory examination reveals
phenomenal waste. Accord-
Fierce clashes raged in Kunduz on Thursday despite

the Afghan government's
claims that they had retaken the city from Taliban
fighters, forcing residents to
cower in their basements as
explosions and gunfights
rocked the northern city.
The battle for control of the
city continued despite support from US-led special
forces joining Afghan troops
in efforts to push back the
Taliban, who seized the city
five days ago in a lightning
strike.
With parts of the city
still wracked with violence,
and following claim and
counter-claim by the Afghan
government and the Taliban over who controlled
the city, only a limited picture has emerged of conditions inside Kunduz.
However, residents said
fierce gun battles and explosions were still echoing in
parts of the city late Thursday, and the streets were lit-
tered with Taliban bodies and

charred and mangled vehicles. , interior ministry
spokesman Sediq Sediqqi
told AFP.
The clearance operation will take some time as
Taliban remnants are firing
from inside civilian houses
and booby traps have been
planted in places.
The Taliban sent mixed

messages concerning their
progress on Thursday, with
spokesman Zabihullah
Mujahid insisting that militant forces were holding
their ground in the city. But
an Afghan Taliban commander who spoke to AFP
from an undisclosed location
said that Taliban fighters
were conducting a strategic

retreat from Kunduz.
Afghan force had been
hindered by the slow arrival
of reinforcements and the
Taliban's defensive measures, but on Thursday military convoys managed to
penetrate into the centre of
Kunduz after an overnight
counter-offensive. Fighting
raged all day, with columns

of smoke visible over much
of the city, it was hard to pinpoint which side had the
upper hand.
Soldiers came under sporadic attacks from insurgents wearing Afghan security uniforms, many of
whom took up positions
inside residential homes.
Amnesty International
condemned the Taliban's
reign of terror in the
embattled city, citing civilian testimonies of mass
murder, gang rapes and
house-to-house searches by
militant death squads.
The report claimed militants have a hit list and
use young boys to help conduct house-to-house searches to track down their targets, especially women, the
group said citing rights
defenders.
Civilians have paid a
heavy price with the capture
of Kunduz, the first provincial capital to fall to the militants since they were toppled from power in a 2001 USled invasion of Afghanistan.
Suspect in Chinas serial parcel bomb blasts killed

Beijing, 2 October
In new twist to China's serial parcel bomb blasts, a

disgruntled man suspected to be behind the attack
was himself killed in one of
the 18 explosions that
claimed 10 lives and injured
over 50 others, state media
reported today.
Wei Yinyong, 33, assembled homemade time bombs
and disguised them as packages to revenge some villagers and institutions that
he had disputes with in
quarrying business, Xinhua news agency reported,
citing a police statement.
Wei personally delivered
and hired other people to
send the bombs to different
locations in south China's
Liuzhou city and was himself killed by the blast at the
crime scene, the report said.
Reports said 10 persons
were killed and 51 others
injured in 18 explosions
that struck within two days
in Guangxi Zhuang
Autonomous Region and
destroyed several buildings.
Yesterday, official media

reports had said Wei was
arrested. Wei reportedly
hired vendors to deliver
parcel bombs which exploded when opened.
The Ministry of Public
Security said it was treating
the explosions in the city as
criminal acts, and ruled out
terrorism as a motive, China
Daily reported.
It was a premeditated
and planned criminal act,
aimed at creating public
panic during the holiday,
said Dai Peng, director of the
Criminal Investigation Col-
lege at the People's Public

Security University of
China.
China has shut down for
a week to celebrate the
National Day since yesterday.
The multiple explosions
targeted a shopping mall, a
prison, a government building, a supermarket and a hospital.
Wei hailed from Dapu
township, and was a former employee of a quarry
in Liucheng county.
Some of the bombs were
placed at the locations in
advance and then detonated remotely, such as the

device that wrecked the dormitory of the Animal Husbandry Bureau in Liucheng,
killing four people and injuring many others.
Yesterday, Cai Tianlai, a
senior officer at the Liucheng
County Public Security
Bureau, said officers discovered more than 60 suspicious packages after tipoffs
from the public.
The packages were placed
in an isolation area, where
experts disarmed them and
began further investigations, he said.
The authorities in
Liuzhou have tightened
supervision of the delivery
of packages, and the local
branch of the state- owned
China Post has halted all
mail deliveries until tomorrow.
The Liuzhou police
warned the public not to
accept materials delivered
by strangers or accept
parcels received via unofficial channels.
They said further investigations were underway.
Vendors used for parcel delivery

The suspect who carried out 17 parcel blasts that killed seven people and injured 51 in China
had allegedly hired street
vendors to deliver the packages containing explosives,
officials said, ruling out that
the incident was terror-linked.
The Ministry of Public
Security said it was treating
the explosions in Liuzhou city
in
Guangxi
Zhuang
autonomous region as criminal acts and emphasised
that it had ruled out terrorism as a motive, state-run
China Daily reported.
It was a premeditated
and planned criminal act,
aimed at creating public
panic during the holiday,said
Dai Peng, director of the
Criminal Investigation College at the People's Public
Security University of China.
China has shut down for
a week to celebrate the National Day yesterday.
The explosions, which
took place on Wednesday
afternoon, killed at least
seven people and injured 51
Beijing, 2 October:
Process to elect new PM begins in Nepal Mush threatened

Kathmandu, 2 October
Nepal today began the

process of electing a Prime
Minister under the new constitution,with the incumbent
Sushil Koirala saying he
will ask the President to
initiate a process to find his
successor.
As soon as the winter
session of Parliament began,
Prime Minister Koirala said
he would go to the Rastrapatibhawan to ask President
Rambaran Yadav to initiate
the process of electing a
new Premier.
According to my public
commitment and the pro-
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Expensive fire:War
cost Afghanistan $1 tn
Kunduz, 2 October
A boy stands next to NLD flags

after attending a rally and
speech by National League for
Democracy chairperson Aung
San Suu Kyi as she campaigns
ahead of the November 8 election, on the outskirts of Winemaw town, near the state capital
Myitkyina, Kachin state on Friday. AFP
Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala addresses lawmakers in parliament in

Kathmandu on Friday. AFP
visions of the constitution...

I will ask the respected president to take forward the con-
stitutional process to choose

the new prime minister,
76-year-old Koirala, who
assumed the office of the

Prime Minister in February
2014, told parliament.
Making a valedictory
speech, the veteran Nepali
Congress leader appreciated the newly promulgated
constitution, saying the historical document has fulfilled people's decades-long
dream to have a constitution
written by their representative.
The constitution requires
that a new prime minister
be elected from the Parliament within seven days of
beginning of the first session
of the House after commencement of the new charter.
others in Dapu township,the

seat of Liucheng county, and
surrounding area.
Two people are still missing.According to the Liuzhou
police,the suspect,33-year-old
Liucheng native Wei Yinyong,
hired street vendors to deliver express mail packages
containing explosives.
The devices exploded when
the parcels were opened, the
official media reported.
No details were provided
so far about his motive in carrying out such massive multiple explosions targeting, a
shopping mall,a prison,a government building, a supermarket and a hospital.
Wei who was arrested
lives in Dapu township, and
is a former employee of a quarry in Liucheng county.
Some of the bombs were
placed in location in advance
and then detonated remotely, such as the device that
wrecked the dormitory of
the Animal Husbandry
Bureau in Liucheng, killing
four people and injuring
PTI
many others.
ing to calculations at the end

of last year by the Financial
Times and others, the war
had already cost almost $1
trillion (less than the $1.7 trillion spent on Iraq, but still
staggering). The official
responsible for scrutinizing spending, U.S. Special
Inspector General for Afghan
Reconstruction (SIGAR)
John Sopko, says that, adjusted for inflation, efforts at
development in Afghanistan
have now cost more than the
Marshall Plan to reconstruct
post-World War Two Europe.
Divided equally among
Afghanistans 30 million citizens, the trillion dollars
amounts to some $33,000 per
head. That would be more
than $2,300 per year, per person spread across the 14
years of the war. (Although,
in reality, the lions share of
spending has come in the last
seven years of the Obama
administration.) Annual per
capita Afghan income in
2014 was only $670.
According to SIGAR, the
United States has no real
idea, even now, how many
Afghan troops, health centers or schools its money has
backed.
PLANE WITH 10
ABOARD MISSING
IN INDONESIA
Jakarta, 2 October: A passen-
ger plane carrying 10 people

on a domestic flight is missing in eastern Indonesia,
an official said today.
Transportation Ministry
spokesman Julius Barata
said the DHC-6 Twin Otter
plane lost contact while on
a flight in South Sulawesi
province.
He said the plane lost
radio contact about 30 minutes before it was expected
to land in Makassar, the
provincial capital.
It was carrying three
crew and seven passengers,
including three children,
from Masamba in the same
province. A rescue team has
been sent to search for the
plane, owned by the private
Aviastar Mandiri airline.
Indonesia, a sprawling
archipelago of nearly 250 million people, has been plagued
by transportation accidents
in recent years, including
plane and train crashes and
AP
ferry sinkings.
TENDER
Benazir before return

Islamabad, 2 October
Former military dictator Pervez Musharraf had threatened

slain ex-premier Benazir Bhutto before her return to Pakistan in 2007 from self-imposed
exile, an American journalist has testified, a charge
denied by the former president.
Benazir,the former two-time
prime minister,was killed in
December 2007 in a bomb
attack in Rawalpindi when
Musharraf was president of
the country.
The ex-general has been
indicted as one of the accused

in the case. American journalist and lobbyist Mark Siegel
in his testimony yesterday said
that Musharraf called Benazir
in his presence and threatened
her if she returned to Pakistan.
According to local media,
Siegel said in his statement
that just days before her
return from a self-imposed
exile in October 2007,Musharraf called Benazir in the US.
Express News TV reported
that Musharraf rejected the
charges of making any such
call and said he never used a
mobile phone at that time.
NASAS BEST IN COLOUR AND HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE
Plutos moon Charon in stunning detail

Washington, 2 October
NASA's New Horizons

spacecraft has returned
the best colour and the
highest resolution
images yet of Pluto's
largest moon, Charon,
which show a surprisingly complex and violent
history.
The image combines
blue, red and infrared
images taken by the
spacecraft's Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging
Camera (MVIC); the
colours are processed to
best highlight the variation of surface properties
across Charon.
Charon's colour
palette is not as diverse
as Pluto's; most striking
is the reddish north polar
region, informally named

Mordor Macula, NASA
said.
Charon is 1,214 kilometres across. The image
resolves details as small
as 2.9 kilometres.
At half the diameter of
Pluto, Charon is the
largest satellite relative
to its planet in the solar
system.
Charon's cratered
uplands at the top are
broken by series of
canyons, and replaced on
the bottom by the rolling
plains of the informally
named Vulcan Planum.
The scene covers
Charon's width of 1,214
kilometres and resolves
details as small as 0.8
kilometres.
Another image shows
the details of a belt of
fractures and canyons

just north of the moon's
equator.
This great canyon system stretches more than
1,600 kilometres across
the entire face of Charon
and likely around onto
Charon's far side.
Four times as long as
the Grand Canyon, and
twice as deep in places,
these faults and canyons
indicate a titanic geological upheaval in Charon's
past. With respect to its
size relative to Charon,
this feature is much like
the vast Valles Marineris
canyon system on Mars,
said John Spencer,
deputy lead for New Horizons Geology, Geophysics
and Imaging (GGI) at the
Southwest Research Institute in Colorado.
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We are the only advanced country on earth that sees

these kinds of mass shootings every few months
THUMBNAILS
Russia bombs US-backed outposts in Syria, keeps IS out

AGENCIES
Moscow/Beirut, 2 October
National League for Democracy

chairperson Aung San Suu Kyi
delivers a speech ahead of the 8
November election, on the outskirts of Winemaw town, Kachin
state on Friday. AFP
Nobel Peace Prize:German Chancellor Angela

Merkel could win this
years Nobel Peace
Prize, the influential
Bild newspaper said on
Friday, as the leader is
lauded worldwide for
opening her countrys
doors to refugees . AFP
Russia bombed Syria for a

third day on Friday, mainly hitting areas held by rival
insurgent groups rather
than the Islamic State fighters which it was supposed
to target. Washington, which
is leading its own air campaign against Islamic State,
said Moscow has been using
its campaign as a pretext to
hit other groups opposed to
Russia's ally, President
Bashar al-Assad.
Some of the groups that
have been hit were sup-
Curfew operation:
Turkish authorities
on Friday imposed a
curfew in the mainly
Kurdish southeastern
town of Silvan, saying
17 suspected Kurdish
militants had already
been killed hours after
the military lockdown
AFP
was enforced.
Gandhi Jayanti:The
146th birth anniversary
of Mahatma Gandhi
was celebrated on Friday at South Africa's
historic Constitutional
Hill where both Gandhi and later antiapartheid icon Nelson Mandela were once
PTI
imprisoned.
Annual meeting:
Angela Merkel will
host Benjami Netanyahu next Thursday
for talks , as part of a
regular annual meeting of the two countries'
cabinets.The leaders
will hold bilateral talks
before joining a plenary
AFP
with ministers.
Egypt killing:A conscript was killed in
Egypt's Sinai region
when gunmen opened
fire on him, the Ministry of Interior said
on Friday.The incident took place on
Thursday.Army searching the attackers. PTI
DISCRIMINATORY
OUTSOURCING
H-1B VISA FEE
LAPSES IN HOUSE
a
breather for Indian IT firms,
the discriminatory $2,000
H-1B fee mostly imposed
on them has now lapsed in
a Republican-majority US
Congress.
The charges, often called
outsourcing fee, had forced
Indian IT companies in the
last few years to pay millions
of dollars towards protecting the US-Mexican border
from illegal immigration.
Indian fir ms had
described the fee on highlyqualified IT professionals
coming to the US on a H-1B
visa as discriminatory.
The legislation with
regard to a $2,000 fee on H1B visas for companies having more than 50 per cent of
its employees oversees was
adopted by the US Congress
in 2010 mainly at the instance
of a group of lawmakers led
by Senator Charles Schumer.
Passed on August 10, the
law contains provision to
hike H-1B and L-1 Visa fee
per application by $2,000
and $ 2,250 respectively for
qualifying firm; which mainly targeted Indian IT companies.The duration of law
was extended from four to
five years under James
Zadroga 9/11 Health and
Compensation Act of 2010
to provide healthcare and
financial compensation for
the firefighters and other
'First Responders' who
helped out in the aftermath
of the 9/11 attack.
In a report released last
month, NASSCOM said Indian tech industry contributed
an estimated over USD 375
million during this period
to the US Treasury including helping America secure
its borders.In a recent interview, NASSCOM president
RChandrashekhar described
PTI
the fee as unjustified.
ported by countries which

opposed both Assad and the
IS,including at least one
group that received training
from CIA.
Moscow said on Friday
that its latest strikes had hit
12 Islamic State targets, but
most of the areas it described
were in parts of the country where the militant group
had little or no sway. The
Russian Defence Ministry
said its Sukhoi-34, Sukhoi24M and Sukhoi-25 warplanes had flown 18 sorties,
describing targets in western and northern Syria,
including a command post
and communications centre

in the province of Aleppo,
a militant field camp in
Idlib and a command post
in Hama.
President Vladimir Putin
came face to face with Western leaders on Thursday
ending a political isolation
over Ukraine and Crimea for
the first time since Moscow
launched air strikes in Syria
amid a growing rift over
whom they are targeting.
Putin is in Paris for a peace
summit on the Ukraine conflict, but Russia's sudden
intervention in Syria looks
set to dominate as he holds
talks with French President Francois Hollande and

German Chancellor Angela
Merkel.
Russia insists it is bombing Islamic State jihadists
and other groups, but Western nations are highly scep-
tical and believe it is trying

to shore up Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad, Moscow's
long-time ally.The Russian
air strikes will last for three
to four months and will
increase in intensity, a Putin
ally and senior lawmaker
war ned onn Thursday.
There is always a risk of getting bogged down but in
Moscow they're talking about
three to four months of
operations, Alexei Pushkov,
the head of the foreign
affairs committee of Russia's
lower house of parliament,
told France's Europe 1 radio.
Pushkov said more than
2,500 air strikes by the USled coalition in Syria had

failed to inflict significant
damage on IS jihadists, but
Russia's campaign would
be more intensive.
Putin refuted suggestions from Western nations
that Russian planes were
mainly bombing rebel
groups opposed to Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad
but not the IS. The UK-based
Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights, which monitors the conflict with a network of sources on the
ground, said Islamic State
had no presence in the west-
ern and northern areas that

were struck. The Observatory's head, Rami Abdulrahman, said one of the
targets hit in the latest Russian air strikes, the town of
Dar Tazzah in northwestern
Aleppo province, was controlled by a number of insurgent groups including the al
Qaeda-linked Nusra Front.
Russia has however also
struck Islamic State areas
in a small number of other
attacks further east.
The Observatory said 12
Islamic State fighters were
killed near Raqqa on
Friday.
OREGON KILLER HAD AXE TO GRIND AGAINST CHRIST

GUNMAN DRIVEN BY RELIGIOUS MOTIVE, POKED FUN AT VICTIMS THAT THEY WOULD MEET GOD, BRANDED UNFRIENDLY
AGENCIES
Roseburg, (Oregon), 2 October
Washington, 2 October:In
US PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

ON OREGON SCHOOL SHOOTING
A heavily-armed man on
Thursday walked into a college classroom and opened
fire after asking the students' religion, killing at
least nine people and wounding 20 before being shot
dead by the police in the US
state of Oregon, in yet another carnage that prompted
President Barack Obama
to voice outrage over lax guncontrol laws. The gunman
was identified as 26-year-old
Chris Harper Mercer by the
local media, which cited
eye-witnesses, reporting
that he has allegedly targeted
Christians. An eyewitness
said the gunman, Mercer,
demanded to know students'
religion before shooting
them.
Mercer while reloading
his handgun, ordered the students to stand up if they were
Christians, one of the
wounded students, Anastasia Boylan, was quoted as
saying by the CNN. The
gunman, while reloading
his handgun, ordered the students to stand up if they were
Christians, one of the
wounded students, Anastasia Boylan, was quoted as
saying by the CNN.
And they would stand up
and he said, 'Good, because
you're a Christian, you're
going to see God in just
about one second,' Boylan's father told the channel.
And then he shot and killed
them.A security official
said the attacker had body
armour with him and was
heavily armed, with a large
amount of ammunition
enough for a long gunfight.
Mercer, however, died in
the shootout with the police.
It was the fourth day of
a creative writing class at the
Umpqua Community College. Students in a classroom next door heard several shots, one right after the
next, and their teacher told
them to leave. A student
Hannah Miles said: "We
began to run to the centre
of the campus. And I turned
around, and I saw students
pouring out of the building."
The worst mass shooting in
recent Oregon history has
raised questions about security at the College.
"I suspect this is going
to start a discussion across
the country about how community colleges prepare
themselves for events like
this," said the former president of the college, Joe
Olson. The shooting on the
campus in this former tim-
ber town, 180 miles south of

Portland, shattered the first
week of classes at the college with about 3,000 students.
A security official said the
attacker had body armour
with him and was heavily
armed, with a large amount
of ammunition - enough
for a long gunfight.
The Oregon college shooting is the latest in a series
of shootings in the US,
including at a Charleston
church, Sandy Hook school
and Oak creek Gurdwara.
Since Obama's re-election in
November 2012 there have
been 993 mass shooting
events in the US, not including Umpqua. Almost 300 of
them have occurred in 2015
alone.
Sources Mercer lived in
a nearby apartment complex,
which was cordoned off
with yellow tape on Thursday night. A neighbour,
Bronte Harte,said Mercer
"seemed really unfriendly"
and would "sit by himself in
the dark in the balcony with
this little light." Harte said
a woman she believed to be
Mercer's mother also lived
upstairs and was "crying her
eyes out" on Thursday. In the
Los Angeles-area suburb of
Torrance where Mercer
lived for a short time several
years ago, neighbours
recalled him as uncommunicative. Ian Mercer, Chris
Harper Mercer's father, said
late Thursday night that it
had been a "devastating
day" for the family
On Thursday, anguished
parents and other relatives
rushed to surviving students. Jessica Chandler was
desperately seeking information about her 18-year-old
daughter, Rebecka Carnes.
"I don't know where she is.
I don't know if she's wounded," Chandler said. Carnes'
best friend told Chandler that
her daughter had been flown
by helicopter to a hospital.
Students described utter
fear and panic on hearing
the shots. Sarah Cobb, 17, was
in a next-door classroom. She
heard a shot. A teacher said
they needed to get out, and
the class ran out the door as
she heard two more shots.
"I was freaking out. I didn't
know what to think, what to
do," she said.
Before the Roseburg
shooting, a posting on the
message-board site 4chan
included a photo of a crudely drawn frog used regularly
in Internet memes with a
gun and warned other users
not to go to school on Thursday in the Northwest.
GUNS N ROSES: CLASSROOMS ARE NOT PLAYGROUNDS ANYMORE
A heavily-armed
man, 26-yr-old Chris
Harper Mercer on
Thursday walked into
a college classroom
and opened fire after
asking the students'
religion.
The gunman, while
reloading his handgun, ordered the students to stand up if
they were Christians,
one of the wounded
students, a student
was quoted
Study finds US on top of gun-happy charts

AGENCIES
Washington, 2 October
When it comes to gun massacres, there are more public mass shootings in the
United States than in any
other country in the world,
according to a new study, fact
that US President Barack
Obama lamented on Friday. Between 1966 and 2012,
there were 90 mass shootings
in the United States, where
there is nearly one firearm
for every American.
The 90 mass shootings in
the country are nearly a
third of the 292 such attacks
globally for that period.
While the US has five per cent
of the world's population, it
had 31 per cent of all public mass shootings.
Mass shootings are
defined for the study as having four or more victims and
don't include gang killings
or slayings that involve the
death of multiple family
members.People have been
a little surprised by these statistics, CNN quoted Adam

Lankford, an associate professor at University of Alabama, who did the analysis.
In the US, people have a
greater chance of dying in
mass shootings if they are
at work or at school.
In more than half the
American cases, the shooter had more than one
firearm. In global incidents,
the shooter typically had
only one gun.And in the
US, there are 6.87 victims on
average per incident. In the
other 171 countries Lankford
studied, the average was
8.8 victims per incident.
The incidents of mass
attacks tripled from 2011 to
2014, according to a new
analysis by the Harvard
School of Public Health and
Northeastern University.
Some researchers also
believe these mass killings
can be contagious.The copycat phenomenon is more
acute in the US because
guns are more accessible

than in other countries,
Lankford said.The United
States has more guns than
any other country in the
world.
Speaking in the White
House briefing room Thursday, Obama challenged voters wanting to deal with
the problem to vote for elected officials who agree with
that priority. He has had no
success through his nearly
seven years in the White
House in getting Congress
to tighten laws involving
firear ms.The president
noted that this wasn't his first
appearance before reporters
to pass on his condolences
to the families and friends
of the fallen in mass shootings. These incidents have
become imbedded in the
life of America. Over the past
several years, Obama has
traveled to Aurora, Colorado; Tucson, Arizona;
Charleston, South Carolina,
and many other cities to
mourn victims of violence.

Obama said Thursday
the nation's response to
mass shootings has become
"routine" - from the reporting by the media, to his own
comments, to the opposition to gun control laws
aimed at deterring the violence. He said it's clear that
anyone responsible for such
carnage has a sickness in his
mind. He said other nations
also have mentally ill residents who want to harm others, but the United States is
alone in the sheer depth of
the problem.
"We are the only advanced
country on earth that sees
these kinds of mass shootings every few months,"
Obama said. The president
has sought changes in the
nation's gun laws, though it's
unclear at this initial stage
of the investigation whether
the changes often proposed
- such as expanded background checks, stricter magazine limits and an assault
ITALIAN GODFATHERS LIVE LIKE RATS IN LUXURIOUS BUNKERS TO AVOID ARREST
Arrests open doors to mafias superluxe holes

THE INDEPENDENT
Rome, 2 October
Among Italys criminal

underworld a good
bunker-maker is seemingly like gold dust. Top
operatives supply the
most secure holes in the
ground with the most
comfort they can engineer for mob bosses seeking to lie low for weeks,
months or even years.
But the arrest of two
men regarded as doyens
of the trade may have left
a gap in the market.
Police seized four people
on Thursday who were
allegedly linked to the
notorious Casalesi clan
of Naples Camorra. One
of those held was the
businessman Francesco
Nobis, who is believed to

have supplied some of
the underground hideouts used by Casalesi top
brass for over 15 years.
Also in handcuffs was
Carmine Domenico
Nocera, an architect who
is thought to have
designed the latest generation of superbunkers.
His work is said to
include the bunker from
which the jailed Casalesi
kingpin Michele Zagaria
whose sister, Gesualda
and nephew, Filippo
Capaldo, were also held
in the dawn raid was
dragged by Carabinieri
in December 2011.
Zagaria, 53, who then
headed the bloodthirsty
clan that came to worldwide attention thanks to
the hit book and film

Gomorrah, was discovered in a bunker with 5ftthick concrete walls
below a building in his
hometown of Casapesenna, near Naples. He had
been in hiding for 16
years and given a life sentence in absentia for
murder and other crimes.
His predecessor as
head of the Casalesi,
Antonio Iovine, was
nabbed a year earlier,
again after decades spent
hiding in bunkers along
with Zangaria. A year
before his arrest, police
discovered an Iovine
bunker under the house
of an accomplice in San
Cipriano dAversa, north
of Naples. The lairs
entrance was hidden
under the television. It

led down, via steep stairs
to a space with a double
bed, a television, a monitor connected to small
cameras outside the
house and according to Il
Mattino, a nicely done
bathroom with a shower.
Experts say fugitive
mob millionaires choose
to live like prisoners
rather than seek a more
comfortable existence
elsewhere in order to
evade capture while
maintaining control over
their criminal operations.According to the
author and psychiatrist
Corrado de Rosa, an
expert witness in mafia
trials: They usually
choose to stay in their
own territory when on
the run and accept living

underground for two reasons: theyre feel protected and they need to be
present to manage business and resolve disputes
among themselves.
De Rosa noted that the
bunker designers and
builders, along with the
local officials who made
their construction and
maintenance possible,
were the real strength of
the mafia. He said: The
person who designs a
bunker is like the doctor
who issues a false medical certificate to keep a
mob boss out of prison.
The Ndrangheta, in
Calabria, is also notorious for its use of underground bunkers. In
August 2011, Carabinieri
officers found the

Ndrangheta fugitive
Francesco Pesce in a 40sq
metre, air-conditioned
bunker beneath a junkyard near the town of
Rosarno. It was equipped
with televisions, internet
access and an external
surveillance system. The
lair was also contained
fine wines, a fridge
stuffed with champagne
and local delicacies.But
John Dickie, author of
Mafia Republic, noted:
None of the sacred
images or gaudy furnishings they put in their
bunkers can disguise the
fact that, in the end, they
are forced to live like rats
an existence barely better than the prison cells
that await them.
weapons ban - would have

prevented Thursday's massacre in Oregon. "It cannot
be this easy for somebody
who wants to inflict harm
on other people to get his or
her hands on a gun," Obama
said. The White House's
failed push for gun control
legislation after the 2012
Newtown, Connecticut,
shooting. With little change
in Washington's political
dynamic, he hasn't made a
concerted effort to renew the
gun control effort. He said
he cannot do it by himself."I'd ask the people to
think about how they can get
our government to change
these laws and to save lives
and to let young people grow
up, and that will require a
change of politics on this
issue," he said.Obama said
there is a gun for roughly
every man, woman and child
in the U.S. He asked how anyone can make the argument
that more guns will make
people safer.
BANNED CRIMEAN
LEADER SLIPS INTO
EU IN NAME FAUX
Warsaw, 2 October:A
blacklisted deputy prime minister of Crimea, whose annexation by Russia last year
sparked Western sanctions,
has managed to slip into
Poland because of the way
his name was transcribed on
the banned list.
Polish state television
said that Dmitri Polonski,
who helped organise Russia's
landgrab of the Ukrainian
region, attended a conference
at the Warsaw headquarters
of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in
Europe .The mistake was
revealed when Polonski sent
the media pictures of himself in the debating chamber.The blacklist of names
is in the Latin alphabet, but
the Russian and Ukrainian
spellings of them can sometimes be different.
AFP
Khadi should compete at global

marketplace
KALRAJ MISHRA,
UNION MSME MINISTER
THUMBNAILS
Loans to sugar mills:
The government has
given 15 more days
to banks for disbursing Rs 1,900 crore soft
loans to sugar mills to
help them clear cane
arrears to farmers that
total over Rs 12,000
PTI
crore.
MCA to cos: To ensure
that there is no lastminute congestion on
its e-filing portal, the
ministry of corporate
affairs has asked companies to submit their
financial statements and
annual returns at the
PTI
earliest.
Sebi ban: In a fresh
crackdown on illegal
money pooling scheme,
the Securities and
Exchange Board of
India has barred Rahul
Hi Rise and its directors from raising funds
from investors till furPTI
ther directions.
Restricted trading:The
Bombay Stock Exchange
and the National Stock
Exchange will next
week shift a total of 25
companies to the
restricted trading segment to ensure safety
of investors in the capPTI
ital markets.
Prestige share: The
Reserve Bank of India
has put a restriction on
further buys in Prestige Estate Projects'
shareholding by foreign
buyers as the prescribed limit of 24
per cent has been
PTI
crossed.
Cotton output:The Cotton Corporation of
India expects a drop of
5-10 lakh bales in cotton production this
year as against the
previous one, Mr B K
Mishra, chairman and
managing director of
CCI, said.
PTI
Manufacturing: The
Centre and states need
to create an appropriate ecosystem and
provide sops to businesses in order to develop a robust manufacturing base in the country, says a joint survey
by CII-BCG.
PTI
TVS sales decline:
TVS Motor Company
has reported a 1.67 per
cent decline in total sales
at 2,32,775 units in September. The Chennaibased company had
sold 2,36,751 units in
the same month last
PTI
year.
BPL hope: Riding on
its collaboration with
Flipkart, consumer
electronics maker BPL
is looking at a sales
turnover of Rs 50 crore
from its online business
segment this fiscal
and hoping to get it doubled by next year. PTI
Housing-Credai pact:
Housing.com and the
Confederation of Real
Estate Developers'
Associations of India
on Friday signed a
memorandum of understanding for an exclusive partnership for
three years.
PTI
PLEA FOR
SAFEGUARD DUTY
ON ALUMINIUM
Aluminium industry officials

are set to meet revenue secretary Hasmukh Adhia next
week and pitch for a safeguard duty on the lines
of one on steel products
in a bid to check cheap
imports from China and
the W Asia.
Following the imposition of a 20 per cent provisional safeguard duty on
steel products by the government, industry body
Aluminium Association
India (AAI) is readying its
case for a similar duty,
sources said.
The association is collating data for all primary
and rolled products to
strengthen its case and its
members are slated to meet
the revenue secretary next
PTI
week, they added.
STRONG DOLLAR DRAINS OVER $2B

FROM INDIAS FOREX RESERVES
THE COUNTRYS GOLD RESERVES HAD DEPLETED BY $214.8 MILLION TO $18.03 BILLION DURING THE WEEK
Mumbai, 2 October
A strengthening dollar, coupled with continued outflow of foreign funds and

interventions by the country's central bank to stabilise the rupee drained
over $2 billion from India's
foreign exchange (forex)
reserves, official data showed
today.
Overall the forex declined
by $2.04 billion to $349.97 billion in the week ended 25 September.
"In the week under review,
the dollar had strengthened
against the major non-dollar currencies especially
the euro and the pound by
over one per cent. This has
translated into the plunge
in foreign reserves," Mr
Anindya Banerjee, associate

vice-president for currency
derivatives with Kotak Securities, said.
The Indian reserves consist of nearly 20-25 per cent
of non-dollar currencies.
The individual movements
of these currencies against
the dollar impacts the overall reserve value.
According to Mr Banerjee, the intervention by the
Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
to stabilise the rupee also
receded the foreign reserves.
"The RBI is very active in
defending the rupee and
breaking any downward
trend in rupee value. It is this
defence that has kept the
rupee, as one of the best performing currencies so far in
the year," Mr Banerjee said.
The RBI is known to
Exports of top five

sectors dip 25%
Exports of top five sectors

~ engineering, petroleum,
gems and jewellery, textiles
and pharmaceuticals ~ fell
by about 25 per cent to $13.33
billion in August due to
global demand slowdown.
These five sectors
accounted for about 65 per
cent of the country's total
merchandise exports in
financial year 2014-15.
In August last year,
exports of these sectors
stood at $17.79 billion.
While engineering, petroleum and textiles recorded
negative growth, gems and
jewellery and pharmaceuticals registered a marginal growth of 2.66 per cent and
six per cent, respectively, during the month under review,
according to the provisional data of the commerce
ministry.
In fiscal 2014-15, exports
of these segments stood at
$202.15 billion. The country's
total exports were aggregated at $310.5 billion in
the last financial year.
Federation of Indian
Export Organisations (Fieo)
said these are labour intensive sectors and the government should announce
steps to contain the dip in
outbound shipments.
Worried about continued decline in exports, the
commerce ministry has
called a meeting of exporters
on 7 October to discuss ways
to contain fall in the outbound shipments.
India has set a target of
taking exports of goods and
services to $900 billion by
2020 and raising the country's share in world exports
to 3.5 per cent from two per
cent.
COST OF RUPEE STABILISATION

The RBI is known to enter
the spot markets to either
sell or buy dollars to keep
the rupee in a stable orbit
The other major factor
for the decline in reserves
was the outflow of foreign
funds from the Indian equity and debt markets
the reserves had also declined by $2.88 billion in
the week ended 4 September to $349.03 billion
The reserves had previously risen by $631.5 million

to $352.02 billion in the week
ended 18 September.
Before that the reserves
had augmented by $2.35 billion to $351.38 billion in the
week ended 11 September.
However, the reserves
had also declined by $2.88 billion in the week ended 4 September to $349.03 billion.
The data furnished by the
RBI in its weekly statistical
supplement showed that the
foreign currency assets
(FCAs) had plunged by $1.98
billion to $326.57 billion in
the week under review.
The FCA constitutes the
largest component of India's
forex reserves. It consists of
US dollars, major non-dollar currencies, securities
and bonds bought abroad.
"The FCA expressed in US

dollar terms includes the
effect of appreciation or
depreciation of non-US currencies such as the pound
sterling, euro and yen held
in reserve," the RBI said in
its statistical supplement.
During the week under
review, the country's gold
reserves remained stagnant.
The country's gold reserves
had depleted by $214.8 million to $18.03 billion during
the week under review.
The special drawing
rights (SDRs) in the week
under review were lower by
$48.3 million at $4.04 billion.
The country's reserve
position with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
also edged down by $11.8 million to $1.31 billion.
enter the spot markets to

either sell or buy dollars to
keep the rupee in a stable
orbit.
The other major factor for
the decline in reserves was
the outflow of foreign funds
from the Indian equity and
debt markets.
The data with the National Securities Depository

Limited (NSDL), showed
that the foreign portfolio
investors (FPIs) off-loaded
Rs 1,251.03 crore or $190.39
million in equity and debt
markets during 21-24 September.
GOVT MULLS
DILUTION OF IDBI
BANK STAKE
Registration of
ASSOCHAM
postal bank by Dec SEEKS STIMULUS
New Delhi, 2 October: The

government is looking to
dilute stake in IDBI Bank
through strategic sale or public offering.
Various options are being
considered, including strategic sale and offer for sale
(OFS) for dilution of the government stake in IDBI Bank,
but these are at a preliminary stage, sources said.
Many issues have to be
looked at in the case of dilution of stake and things
are being examined at various levels, sources said.
IDBI Bank came into
existence with Parliament
passing the IDBI Repeal
Act in 2003. In terms of provisions of the Repeal Act,
IDBI has been functioning
as a bank in addition to its
earlier role of a financial
PTI
institution.

Registration of the proposed postal bank will be
done by the end of the
year while a pilot for payment services will be
launched around January
2017, according to official
sources.
As per the time frame for
setting up the postal
bank, approval from NITI
Aayog will be secured by
mid-October followed by
public investment board's
nod by October-end and
Cabinet approval in November.
The registration for
postal bank is planned to be
done in December and a
pilot will be launched in January 2017, the sources said.
The bank will be an independent company with an
initial corpus of Rs 300

crore and the new entity will
enter into revenue sharing
model with the Department
of Post (DoP).
The Reserve Bank had
g ranted
in-principle
approval to 11 applicants,
including DoP, in August to
set up payments banks.
As per RBI guidelines,
payments banks would offer
a limited range of products
such as demand deposits and
remittances.
They will not be allowed
to undertake lending activities and will initially
be restricted to holding a
maximum balance of Rs 1
lakh per individual customer.
They will be allowed to
issue ATM or debit cards as
also other pre-paid payment
instruments, but not credit cards.
FOR INDUSTRIES
New Delhi, 2 October: Express-
ing worry that real estate,

power, steel, gems and jewellery sectors are in real crisis, industry body Assocham
has sought sops for these
industries by way of cut in
excise duty along with other
accommodative measures
like teaser loans for the
housing sectors. These concessions would take these
industries out of stress, it
said.
Besides, the Reserve Bank
of India, banks, states and
the Central Government
should move fast in taking
the troubled power distribution companies (discoms)
out of morass, or else they
would become dead assets
and big drags on the exchequer, causing big rise in
the non-performing assets,
SNS
Assocham said.
13
METROPOLITAN
STOCK
EXCHANGE MD &
CEO TO QUIT
New Delhi, 2 October: Metro-
politan Stock Exchange's

CEO and managing director
Saurabh Sarkar is set to
quit the bourse that is battling low business volumes
and inadequate reserves.
While an exchange
spokesperson said that
Sarkar has expressed his
desire to resign, sources
said he was first asked to
leave by the board after
which he sought some time
saying he would resign on
his own.
The shake-up at the top
follows the exchange, formerly known as MCX Stock
Exchange (MCX-SX), facing a major crisis due
to declining trading
volumes and only few
months of cash reserves
left with it, highly-placed
sources said.
When contacted, an
exchange spokesperson said
its board would be meeting
shortly to appoint a successor to Mr Sarkar.
Saurabh Sarkar, MD
and CEO of Metropolitan
Stock Exchange of India
Ltd (MSEI), formerly MCXSX, has expressed his desire
to resign. The board of MSEI
will be meeting shortly
to appoint a new MD and
CEO, the spokesperson
said.
Sources said that the
board meeting could be held
either this week or the next
week to decide on the new
CEO.
They also added that
non-performance and failure to turnaround the business of the exchange were
the main factors that have
led to Sarkar's exit and the
exchange has only two-three
months of cash reserves
left with it.
The MSEI board took a
strong view of the situation
and therefore it asked Mr
Sarkar to leave.
Metropolitan Clearing
Corporation's head Mr Udai
Kumar is likely to be given
the interim charge of the
PTI
exchange.
SMALL, MID-CAP
STOCKS OVERTAKE
BLUE-CHIPS
Microsoft, Google
end patent wars
Doubts over gas pricing rationale
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
New Delhi, 2 October: Small and
San Francisco, 2 October
medium companies on the

BSE have outperformed
their large-cap peers so far
this fiscal as the constituents
of the benchmark index
Sensex faced selling pressure
amid global and domestic
growth concerns.
While the mid-cap index
has gained 2.31 per cent to
10,818.68, the small-cap index
has seen a rise of 1.39 per
cent to 11,042.60 from 1 April
to 1 October. In contrast, the
30-stock Sensex, consisting
of large-caps, has lost 6.21
per cent to 26,220.95.
The index hit an all-time
high of 30,024.74 on 4 March
2015. However, the gauge
gave up most of the gains
after that and touched oneyear low of 24,833.54 on 8 September. The Sensex crashed
by 1,624.51 points on 24
August ~ its biggest singleday fall.
PTI
Technology titans Microsoft

and Google have announced
that they have ag reed
to end all patent infringement litigation against each
other.
Legal battles between
the companies included
suits over technology for
Inter net-linked mobile
devices, WiFi and digital
video.
Details of the agreement
were not disclosed, but the
tech behemoths said it
includes cases related to
Motorola Mobility.
The companies will dismiss all pending patent
infringement litigation
between them, including
cases related to Motorola
Mobility, Microsoft and
Google said in a joint statement yesterday.
Google last year sold
India should benchmark its

natural gas prices to similar gas-deficient nations
instead of using rates prevalent in gas-surplus geographies like the USA and Canada, says Standard & Poor's
Ratings Services.
Using rates in gas-surplus
nations, domestic natural
gas prices earlier this week
were cut by 18 per cent to
$4.24 per million British
ther mal unit, a rate
which S&P said will discourage oil exploration
and production (E&P) companies from committing
new capital expenditure
(capex).
The formula for pricing
domestic gas considers
prices in gas-surplus geographies such as the USA
and Canada, which have
developed gas transportation
infrastructure.
Given India's gas production deficit and emerg-
Motorola Mobility to Chinese computer giant

Lenovo in a deal valued at
$2.9 billion, but held on to
patents.
Separately, Google and
Microsoft have agreed to
collaborate on certain patent
matters and anticipate working together in other areas
in the future to benefit our
customers.
The kind of collaboration
the industry rivals have
in mind was not disclosed.
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has made
a priority of making the company's
applications
and cloud services available across mobile devices,
regardless of what software
powers the hardware.
Microsoft would also like
to boost the popularity of
Windows smartphones and
tablets with popular
Google offerings such as
YouTube.
IMPACT OF PRICE CUT
Given India's gas

production deficit
and emerging gas
transport infrastructure, comparing prices
in similar geographies
will be more relevant, in
our opinion, said
Standard & Poor's
ing gas transport infrastructure, comparing prices

in similar geographies will
be more relevant, in our
opinion, it said in statement. Gas prices in India,
S&P said, are lower than in
its regional peers as well.
Natural gas prices in Thailand and Indonesia average $8-10 per mmBtu.
We believe the government's plan to stimulate
private sector participation
and bring in transparency
in gas pricing by introduc-
The cut reduces the

profitability of the
gas produced from
the existing fields and
adversely impacts the
viability of new
exploration and
development projects,
said Icra
ing formula-driven gas pricing is well intended. However, falling hydrocarbon

prices over the past one
year have brought in uncertainty over the viability of
exploration projects, it
said. The gas price reduction,
it said, will likely discourage capex in exploration
and development of gas
reserves in India, where
most large finds are in deep
water zones.
Globally, several E&P
companies have scaled back
spending and put new exploration projects on hold amid

low hydrocarbon prices,
it said.
With domestic gas price
trending down, response to
the forthcoming auction of
exploration blocks could
get impacted with companies factoring in gas prices
that could fall to 2010 levels
($4.2 per mmBtu) even as
there has been run-up in
costs of manpower, oil fields
services, contractors etc.,
Icra said.
To incentivise exploration and production from
tough geologies and encourage participation in the
future New Exploration
Licensing Policy rounds,
the government would need
to provide clarity on the
price premium to be paid for
difficult fields, it added.
Separately, India Ratings
and Research (Ind-Ra) said
the benefit from reduced
gas price will be partly offset by the near six per cent
rupee depreciation.
AN ESTIMATED 38% OF ORGANISATIONS EXPOSED TO TARGETED ATTACKS IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2015
India becoming target for cyber-criminals

India is fast becoming a

strategic target for
cyber-criminals with an
estimated 38 per cent of
organisations exposed to
targeted attacks in the
first half of 2015, a report
said.
Security solutions
firm FireEye's '1H 2015
Regional Advanced
Threat Report for Asia
Pacific' found that 38 per
cent of organisations in
India were exposed to targeted advanced persistent attacks in the first
half of the year, a 23 per
cent increase from the
previous year.
India is fast becoming a strategic target, in
part because of the

potentially sensitive
information that is
expected to be digitised
through ambitious and
high-profile projects such
as Digital India, it said.
The focus on the country is reflected in the
report that ranks India
fourth in Asia-Pacific
countries exhibiting the
most command-and-control (CnC) infection callbacks.
This indicates the
presence of compromised
systems that are actively
communicating with the
advanced persistent
threat (APT) groups' command-and-control infrastructure.
As India embarks on
ambitious technology
ALARMING SITUATION
Security solutions firm FireEye's '1H 2015
Regional Advanced Threat Report for Asia
Pacific' found that 38 per cent of organisations in India were exposed to targeted
advanced persistent attacks in the first half
of the year, a 23 per cent increase from the
previous year
The focus on the country is reflected in the
report that ranks India fourth in Asia-Pacific countries exhibiting the most
command-and-control (CnC) infection callbacks
These threat groups seek access to intellectual property, intelligence and
critical infrastructure
projects, attackers are
exploiting gaps to compromise critical networks. Indian organisations are more likely to
be exposed to attacks
than the global average,
FireEye chief technology

officer (APAC) Bryce
Boland said. In the
future, India's growing
economic clout and rising regional influence
are likely to make it a
more attractive target to

threat groups, he added.
These threat groups
seek access to intellectual
property, intelligence and
critical infrastructure,
Mr Boland said.
In the first half of

2015, FireEye revealed
two attacks likely conducted by China-based
threat actors on Indian
organisations.
'APT30' conducted a
decade-long cyber-espionage campaign that
compromised, among
others, an Indian aerospace and defence company, it said.
The 'WATERMAIN'
campaign targeted India
and its neighbouring
countries and appeared
to target information
about ongoing border disputes and other diplomatic matters, it added.
The report found over
50 per cent of telecommunications firms and government organisations
have faced APT, with education and the high-tech

industry not far behind
across the APAC region.
Geopolitical tensions
in the region have steadily ratcheted up in recent
months, and cyber activity reflects this. Organisations in every geography
in APAC, including India,
experienced a higher or
equal rate to APT groups
than the global average of
20 per cent, it said.
FireEye said Indian
organisations should
ensure existing security
tools are up-to-date and
should implement an
adaptive defence security
model that can help
shorten the time it takes
between finding a breach
and stopping it.
14
Dengue
crisis
A VIRTUAL DENGUE EPIDEMIC

HAS GRIPPED DELHI. THE
VECTOR-BORNE DISEASE CAUSES
MUCH ALARM AND ANXIETY EVERY
YEAR BUT IT HAS ASSUMED VERY
SERIOUS PROPORTIONS IN 2015.
THE CASES HAVE RUN INTO
THOUSANDS AND THERE HAVE
BEEN SEVERAL DEATHS. THE DEATH
OF A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOY DUE
TO DENGUE AFTER BEING DENIED
ADMISSION BY SEVERAL
HOSPITALS AND THE SUBSEQUENT
SUICIDE BY HIS HEARTBROKEN
PARENTS JOLTED THE AUTHORITIES.
THE DELHI GOVERNMENT AND
THE CIVIC AUTHORITIES ARE NOW
TRYING TO GET THEIR ACT
TOGETHER. SHAHNAWAZ
KHAN AND HIMANSHU
SHARMA WENT AROUND THE
CAPITAL TO GAUGE THE DENGUE
CRISIS GRIPPING THE CITY.
THUMBNAILS
President's Cup:Anirban Lahiri will next
week tee up with the
world's best in golf's
biggest team event,
the President's Cup. It
is a lifetime's experience, says Lahiri.
And for that he was willing to risk missing a
Tour card.
Poor star t: In St
Andrews, Scotland,
the Indian trio of Shiv
Kapur, Jeev Milkha
Singh and SSP Chowrasia made a poor start
at the Alfred Dunhill
Links Championship.
It is unlikely any of them
will make the cut.
Pro action: Indian
professional boxers
Neeraj Goyat and Dilbag Singh will be fighting their six-round
professional bouts in
Incheon, South Korea,
on Saturday. Goyat
fights Ronnel Esparas
and Singh,Rocky Alap.
Brotherly boost: No
tournament exemplifies the rise of Novak
Djokovic like the China
Open and the remorseless Serb is hungry
to extend his incredible unbeaten run in
Beijing -- and this time,
flanked by his brother.
Champions Tour:
Hall-of-Famer John
McEnroe and five other
former greats, including Pete Sampras, will
play in an Association of Tennis Professionals Champions Tour event in the
Mexican city of Monterrey later this month.
Madrid derby: Real
Madrid make the short
trip across the Spanish capital to face
rivals Atletico on Sunday seeking revenge
for their 4-0 humiliation at the Vicente
Calderon in the league
in the previous season.
Ger man classic:
Marksman Robert
Lewandowski aims to
add to his incredible
goal-scoring run in
Bayern Munich's Bundesliga showdown
against ex-club Borussia Dortmund in Germany's Der Klassiker
on Sunday.
LIVERPOOL, SPURS, CELTIC HELD
TOTTENHAM CAME WITHIN NINE MINUTES OF BEATING MONAC

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Paris, 2 October
Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and Celtic all drew in

the second round of games
in the Europa League last
night, while Borussia Dortmund also had to settle for
a point.
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers suffered another blow in his fight to save
his job as Swiss side FC
Sion earned a 1-1 draw at
Anfield in Group B. Rodgers
has been heavily criticised
by fans and pundits after Liverpool's disappointing start
to the season and he had to
endure more boos from the
Anfield faithful after another lacklustre display that left
them with two draws from
their first two Group B
matches.
Adam Lallana put Liverpool ahead in the fourth
minute when he converted
from a Divock Origi cutback. But Sion equalised
in the 18th minute when
Ebenezer Assifuah chested down and fired past Simon
Mignolet. "I thought the
result was disappointing
considering the number of
chances we created," Rodgers
told BT Sport. "We started
well but we gave away a
disappointing goal, and they
got in and finished what
was probably their only
chance."
Tottenham came within
nine minutes of beating
last season's Champions
League quarter-finalists
Monaco on a rainy night in
the principality before
Stephan El Shaarawy scored
to secure a 1-1 draw for the
hosts. Spurs opened the
Sania-Hingis duo in
final of Wuhan Open
AGENCIES
Wuhan (China), 2 October
Big match: Mario

Balotelli and Keisuke
Honda remain doubtful for AC Milan when
the stuttering Serie
A giants host on-form
Napoli looking to avoid
becoming
the
Partenopei's second
big-name victim on
Sunday.
Hodgson firm: England coach Roy Hodgson can give Wayne
Rooney "no guarantees" that he will always
pick him for the national team and said the
current crop of forwards
he had was the best he
had seen during his
tenure.
The Indo-Swiss duo of Sania

Mirza and Martina Hingis
(in file photo) reached the
final of Wuhan Open tennis
tournament here today and
is eyeing their seventh title
together.
The top seeds brushed
aside the challenge of No.4
seeded Chinese Taipean duo
of Hao-Ching Chan and
Yung-Jan Chan 6-2 6-1 in just
53 minutes.
They won 53 of the 88 total
Deaf Games: Members of the Indian

team bound for the
Asia Pacific Deaf
Games were forced to
sleep on pavements
whilst waiting for their
visas ahead of the
competition beginning in Taoyuan, Chinese Taipei,on Saturday
the leading scorer in Turkey

last season with Bursaspor,
levelled just after the break.
"We created two very nice
goals and had good control
over them, and of course we
made a stupid mistake. Then
we started the second half
poorly and they make it 2-2
from a set-play," Celtic manager Ronny Deila told BT
Sport. Celtic's next game is
in Norway against Molde,
who top the section after
drawing 1-1 with Ajax.
Borussia Dortmund continued their unbeaten start
to the season but they had
to come from behind to draw
1-1 with PAOK in Greece in
MEN WILL BE MEN Home advantage for

Eight
members of Iran's national women's football team
are actually men awaiting
sex change operations,
reports have claimed.
A report in the Daily
Telegraph quoted an Iranian football official revealing the bizarre development. Iran's national footb a l l a s s o c i at i o n w a s
accused of being unethical for knowingly fielding eight men in its
women's team.
(Eight players) have
been playing with Iran's
female team without completing sex change operations, Mojtabi Sharifi,
an official close to the
Iranian league, told an
Iranian news website,
which has been picked up
by the British newspapers. The report said that
Iranian
authorities
ordered gender testing of
the entire national squad
and leading league players
on Wednesday. The names
of the players thought to
be male were not revealed.
London, 2 October:
PTI
Chennaiyin FC
AGENCIES
Chennai, 2 October
Strong title-contenders
Chennaiyin FC would be
hoping to cash in on home
advantage when they take
on defending champions
Atletico de Kolkata in the
inaugural match of the second season of the Indian
Super League here tomorrow. To sort out the grey
areas that existed last year,
particularly in midfield
and defence, Chennaiyin
FC have roped in some players from Brazil and Italy,
besides retaining the core
of the squad that enabled
them to top the league stages
last year. The home team's
star medio and golden bootwinner last year with nine
goals, Elano Blumer, of
Brazil, would play a significant role in determining Chennaiyin's fortunes
this year as well. Besides
replacing Mikael Silvestre
and Eric Djemba-Djemba
with Italian midfielders
Manuele Blasi and defender Allessandro Potenza,

Chennayin FC have recruited Brazilian midfielder
Raphael Augusto and
defenders Eder Monteiro
and Mailson Alves. The
icing on the cake for Chennaiyin FC turned out to be
the signings of Ethiopian
striker
Fikru
and
Cameroon's goalkeeper
Apoula Edima Edel Bete,
both of whom migrating
from Ateltico de Kolkata.
The southern Indian
outfit would look to the
duo to dish out the sort of
game-changing performances they produced in the
tournament's inaugural
season.
Manager-cum-player
Marco Materazzi has made
sure that at least two players fight for each position,
which will add depth and
balance to the side. Atletico de Kolkata have roped in
Japanese-born Indian midfielder Arata Izumi and
defender Rino Anto.
Mertesacker demands aggression

London, 2 October
Fifa rankings:Argentina continue to lead

the men's soccer world
rankings while Germany ohave supplanted
Belgium as No 2.Other
climbers in the top 10
include Portugal (fourth,
up two) and Spain
(sixth, up five).
points and converted five of

the 10 break points received
in a lop-sided affair to set up
a title clash with the unseeded Romanian pair of IrinaCamelia Begu and Monica
Niculescu.
Camelia Begu-Niculescu defeated Czech Republic's
Andrea Hlavackova and
Lucie Hradecka 6-4 1-6 10-8.
The Indo-Swiss pair earlier defeated fifth seeded
American pair of Raquel
Kops-Jones and Abigail
Spears 6-2 6-2 in the last
eight stage.
boss Mauricio Pochettino.

"We could have been more
clinical. But I'm happy with
the performance and the
effort." After holding Ajax
to a 2-2 draw in Amsterdam
in their opening game in
Group A, Celtic drew by
the same scoreline at home
to Fenerbahce in Glasgow.
However, it was a disappointing outcome after the
Scottish champions went
two goals up inside 32 minutes through Leigh Griffiths and Kris Commons. A
shocking Efe Ambrose header allowed Fernandao in to
pull one back for Fenerbahce and the Brazilian,
WENGER COULD RESTORE CECH TO HIS STARTING LINE-UP IF HE IS FULLY FIT
Charity match: Alex

Ferguson will manage a team of British
and Irish players captained by David Beckham in a charity match
next month against a
world team captained
by Zinedine Zidane
at Old Trafford ground
on 14 November.
scoring 10 minutes prior to

the interval. Nacer Chadli
set up Dele Alli, who was
denied by Danijel Subasic.
However, the ball ricocheted
kindly into the path of Erik
Lamela, who was left with
a simple tap-in. Nevertheless,
Monaco hit back in the 81st
minute when Nabil Dirar
crossed from the right for fellow substitute El Shaarawy,
who got up above Kieran
Trippier to head in. The
point leaves Tottenham top
of Group J ahead of
Qarabag, who beat Anderlecht 1-0 in Azerbaijan.
"We're disappointed and it's
two points lost," said Spurs
Per Mertesacker has

challenged Arsenal to
show more aggression as
they look to recover from
their latest European
flop in Sunday's showdown with Premier
League leaders Manchester United.
Arsene Wenger's side
suffered an embarrassing 3-2 home defeat
against Olympiakos in
midweek that left them
in severe danger of missing out on a place in the
Champions League
knock-out stages for the
first time in 16 years.
Adding to the Gunners' humiliation was
the horrendous blunder
from goalkeeper David
Ospina, who dropped a
corner into his own net
to gift the Greeks their
second goal and in the
process triggered a barrage of criticism for
Wenger for his decision
to rest regular first
choice Petr Cech.
But Arsenal defender
Mertesacker offered no
excuses for his team's
second successive Euro-
pean loss and admitted

they must rediscover
their fighting spirit to
avoid another damaging
defeat against in-form
United.
At home we should be
much more aggressive
from the start and be
more dynamic. That is
what our game is all
about, Mertesacker
said. When we play like
we did on Tuesday, with
that lack of concentration and discipline, then
we have got no chance. I
think everyone will have
regrets. It will take a
couple of days to recover
and to think about Manchester United, which
will be a good opportunity to play our style of
football again.
While Wenger is certain to restore Cech to
his starting line-up if he
is fully fit, Manchester
United manager Louis
van Gaal has to decide
whether to make
changes four days after a
2-1 Champions League
victory over Wolfsburg.
United head to the
Emirates Stadium,
where the Gunners have
won just once this sea-
son, on a four-match winning streak in all competitions which has lifted

them one point clear of
second placed Manchester City and three ahead
of fourth placed Arsenal.
But van Gaal said
immediately after the
Wolfsburg game that his
players were suffering
after playing six matches
in 18 days and he could
be forced to freshen up
the team.
The solution is
recovery, van Gaal said.
That's why it's so difficult to prepare for the
match against Arsenal.
As a manager, you want
to prepare out on the
training pitch, and you
cannot do that because
you need freshness.
There is another solution, which is to change
your squad.
Like Arsenal, Chelsea,
who host Southampton
on Saturday, are also
licking their wounds following a painful Champions League defeat that
raised renewed questions about their lethargic form.
After watching
Chelsea punished for
more defensive mistakes

in a 2-1 defeat at his former club Porto, Blues
boss Jose Mourinho once
again expressed his frustration at his players'
inconsistent efforts.
But Chelsea striker
Diego Costa remains
confident the champions,
who are languishing in
14th place following last
weekend's draw with
Newcastle, can still
mount a successful title
defence as long as they
don't let the criticism get
to them.To come out of
this we need to be all
together, and for everyone to give a little more,
said Costa, who played
against Porto but completes his three-match
ban in the Southampton
fixture.
We are not playing
well, this is not a good
moment, but we have
players to get out of this
easily.
Liverpool manager
Brendan Rodgers is one
of the few Premier
League bosses under
more pressure than
Mourinho at present and
Everton would dearly
love to add to his worries
INDIAN OUT OF MILITARY WORLD

GAMES AFTER FAILING DOPE TEST
Group C. Recent signing

Dimitar Berbatov started up
front for the hosts, but it was
Slovakian striker Robert
Mak who gave PAOK a firsthalf lead. Gonzalo Castro
equalised in fortunate fashion 18 minutes from time,
though. His clipped ball into
the box was meant for Jonas
Hofmann but it evaded him
and goalkeeper Robin Olsen
and crossed the line. Dortmund top the group by a
point from FC Krasnodar,
who beat Qabala 2-1 in Russia.
Spanish league leaders
Villarreal claimed their first
points in Group E as they
beat Czech side Viktoria
Plzen 1-0 at El Madrigal.
The Brazilian Leo Baptistao
netted the only goal of the
game early in the second half.
Villarreal are three points
behind group leaders Rapid
Vienna, who won 1-0 away
to Dinamo Minsk.
Serie A leaders Fiorentina continued their fine form
as they defeated Belenenses 4-0 in Portugal in Group
I. Federico Bernardeschi
and Khouma Boubacar
scored before the break in
Lisbon and a Tonel own
goal made it three before
Giuseppe Rossi scored his
first goal since May last
year after injury to clinch
the win. Fiorentina are second in their group, three
points behind Basel, who
beat Lech Poznan 2-0 in
Switzerland. Fiorentina
were not the only Italian
winners, with Lazio coming
from behind to beat nineman Saint-Etienne 3-2 in
Group G and Napoli winning
2-0 at Legia Warsaw in Group
D.
in the 225th Merseyside

derby on Sunday.
The Reds are unbeaten in their last 10 meetings with Everton in all
competitions dating back
to October 2010.But an
end to that run at Goodison Park this weekend
would further complicate Rodgers' position
after a stormy few weeks
which saw Carlo Ancelotti and Jurgen Klopp
linked with his job as
Liverpool fell off the
early pace in the race to
qualify for the Champions League.And Everton's Belgium striker
Romelu Lukaku is relishing the chance to make
Liverpool suffer.
The derby is a different game. It is about the
personal pride and the
pride for us as a club, he
said. The side that is
hungrier is going to win
this game on Sunday.
Upcoming matches:
Crystal Palace v West
Brom, Man City v Newcastle, Sunderland v
West Ham, Norwich City
v Leicester City,
Bournemouth v Watford,
Aston Villa v Stoke City,
Chelsea v Southampton.
15
Former Asian Games silver

medal winning boxer Manpreet Singh (91kg) of India
has pulled out of the Military World Games after failing a NADA dope test.
Manpreet, who is part of
the Services Sports Control Board (SSCB), had travelled with the team to compete at the Military World
Games in Myungyeong,
South Korea.
Yes, he has pulled out of
the tournament, a source
in the Army Sports Institute,
where SSCB boxers train
said.
He added, He failed a
NADA dope test and it was
because of a cough syrup
that he was taking for a
recent ailment.
The for mer national
champion, who has no past
record in doping, won his
Asian Games silver medal
in the 2010 edition in
Guangzhou, China.
It seems to be a case of
accidental intake because he
does not have that kind of
track record. The banned
substance was in the cough
syrup and he seems to have
consumed it without knowing, another source said.
REAL JUMP THE GUN ON RONALDO

SCORING RECORD
Madrid, 2 October: Real
Madrid paid homage to Cristiano Ronaldo as their outright leading scorer on Friday even though the official
statistics show he has yet to
overhaul former Spain striker Raul.
Real, and some Spanish
media, believe an effort five
years ago that was deemed
a goal by centre back Pepe
should have been awarded
to the Portugal captain and
he therefore has 324 goals,
one more than Raul.
The disputed goal came
in a La Liga game at Real

Sociedad in September 2010
when Ronaldo's shot
ar rowed towards the
Sociedad wall, looped up
off Pepe's back and over goalkeeper Claudio Bravo into
the net.
"I would never have imagined when I put on this
shirt for the first time that
I would be the team's best
goal scorer," Ronaldo said at
a presentation at the Bernabeu stadium where he
received a trophy marking
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'MOURINHO
SHOULD HAVE
APOLOGISED'
London, 2 October
Football Association chairman Gre g Dyke has

accused Jose Mourinho
of "a failure of his personal
judgement and public
behaviour" after the
Chelsea manager failed
to apologise to team doctor Eva Carneiro.
Carneiro was dropped
from first team duties after
an incident on the opening
day of the season when she
and physio Jon Hearn
were criticised by Chelsea
manager Mourinho for
going on to the pitch to treat
Eden Hazard.
Mourinho felt Hazard
wasn't seriously injured
and didn't want the extra
stoppage time that would
result from the Belgian's
treatment because his
team were playing with 10
men.
Carneiro has since parted company with Chelsea,
but the controversy surrounding the incident rumbles on, with Heather Rabbatts, an independent
board member and the
head of the FA's inclusion
advisory board, yesterday
expressing disappointment with the governing
body's disciplinary process
in the case.
Just hours after Rabbatts' outburst, it was
revealed Dyke had written
a letter to FA council members in which he criticised Mourinho's behaviour and said he should
have apologised.
"There have been some
well-documented issues
of late around equality
and inclusion in the game,
an issue where it is vital
we continue to show clear
leadership," Dyke is reported to have said in the letter.
"I felt the handling of
the case of the Chelsea doctor, Eva Carneiro, was a
good example of this. We
supported Heather Rab-
batts' strong statement on

the matter earlier in the
month.
"Personally I don't think
Mr Mourinho comes well
out of the whole saga -- he
clearly made a mistake in
the heat of a game, and
should have said so and
apologised. Instead he has
said very little and Miss
Carneiro has lost her job.
"Our regulatory team
has investigated this and
whilst Mr Mourinho has
breached no rules it was
clearly a failure of his
personal judgement and
public behaviour. This
should be seen as such by
the game."
Mourinho was cleared
by the FA on Wednesday
of making discriminatory comments towards
Car neiro, but it has
emerged that the FA made
no attempt to interview
Carneiro or even ask for
a witness statement, much
to Rabbatts' frustration.
"The FA's reaction to the
treatment of Dr Eva
Carneiro has been seriously disappointing," Rabbatts said. "I have major
concerns over the way in
which the disciplinary
process has been conducted
and the lack of an organisational response to the
wider issues raised by this
case. "We had an announcement late yesterday relating to a high-profile incident which occurred on 8
August and yet it would
appear that during that
time no witnesses were
requested to speak to the
FA, including Dr Carneiro,
and in the course of the
investigation some media
were reporting it was likely that no charge was to be
brought. "This is on top of
a previous case when clear
evidence of sexist and
abusive chanting from
g roups of supporters
against Dr Carneiro was
apparently not seen as sufficient for a charge to be
raised."
THUMBNAILS
H o c ke y v i c t o r y :
Akashdeep Singh,
Ramandeep Singh and
Nikkin Thimmiah
scored a goal apiece as
the Indian men's hockey team started their
tour of New Zealand
with a convincing 3-1
victory in Auckland on
Friday.
Toss coin: The Indian cricket board was
said to have put out on
Friday a specially minted toss coin with the
images of MK Gandhi and Nelson Mandela for the Freedom
Series, with facial
impressions of them
on one side of it.
Second match: Pakistan will look to continue their winning
run when they meet Zimbabwe in the second OneDay International on
Saturday in Harare.
The visitors did not look
particularly impressive in two close Twenty20 wins.
Jadeja quits: A "marginalised" Ajay Jadeja was said to have
quit as Delhi's chief
coach just a fortnight
after accepting the job
amid a lot of chaos in
the Delhi and Districts
Cricket Association's
administration.
Boys lose: The India
U-16 football team went
down 0-1 to their peers
in Spanish side Levante
U-16 in a practice match
on their current exposure tour of Spain.
The goal came in the
first half when Levante
scored from the spot.
16
ANOTHER ROW
Cricket Association of Bihar secretary Aditya
Verma has urged the Supreme Court to declare N
Srinivasan (photo, left) ineligible for holding on to
the position of the president of the Tamil Nadu Cricket
Association as "he continues to have illegal commercial interests in the cricket board's events."
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SOUTH AFRICA DRAW FIRST BLOOD
ROHIT SHARMAS MAIDEN T20 INTERNATIONAL CENTURY WENT IN VAIN AS THE HOSTS LOST THE MATCH BY SEVEN WICKETS

Dharamsala, 2 October
Rohit Sharma's blistering

century went in vain as South
Africa began their long tour
of India on a winning note by
scripting a thrilling sevenwicket victory in the first
Twenty20 International cricket match here today.
Sharma (106) notched up
his maiden T20 International century to give India a
competitive total of 199 for 5
but the visitors rode on some
sparkling strokeplay by J P
Duminy (68 not out) and A B
de Villiers (51) to overhaul the
target with two balls to spare
and take a 1-0 lead in the
three-match series.Test skipper Hashim Amla (36) and ODI
skipper de Villiers laid the
foundation of the SA win
with their 77-run opening
stand and Duminy guided
the visiting side to the finish
line with a sublime unbeaten 68 off just 34 balls.His 105run unbeaten partnership
for the fourth wicket with
Farhaan Behardien (32 not

out) sealed the game for the
Proteas. Left-handed Duminy
played with a lot of responsibility under pressure and
could not have timed his
eighth fifty in T20Is better than
this.Thanks to his gritty batting, South Africa collected
22 runs off Axar Patel in the
16th over and 14 when Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowled the
penultimate over.
Duminy hit Patel for three
successive sixes and found a
six and a four from Bhuvneshwar's first two balls as
he stroked India out of the
match.He punished the Indian bowlers with seven sixes.
Debutant left-arm paceman Sreenath Aravind was
given the daunting task of
bowling the last over from
which the Proteas needed 10.
Duminy ended India's thin
hopes with a six in the third
ball and strolled the winning
run in the fourth.
The flat track at the HPCA
Stadium as well as dew made
it difficult for the bowlers to
contain the batsmen and it was

the Proteas who had the last
laugh.The two teams will now
travel to Cuttack for the second T20 match of the series
on October 5.
Sharma was slow to start
but once he had gauged the
pace of the wicket he plundered runs at will and became
only the second Indian to
score a T20 International
hundred after Suresh Raina.
His sensational 66-ball knock
was packed with 12 fours and
five sixes as he sent the visiting bowlers on a leatherhunt
after being invited to bat at
the scenic stadium.
Sharma struck effortlessly
and raised a 138run partnership for the second wicket with
skipper Virat Kohli (43 off 27
balls), who became the first
Indian to complete 1000 runs
in Twenty20 cricket during his
cameo. The Proteas too made
a strong start,reaching 72 for
none in just seven overs with
de Villiers and Amla going
hammer and tongs.Like Sharma, they too took full advan-
tage of the flat pitch and

were easily managing a runrate of 10 per over.Dhoni used
four bowlers in the first seven
overs but success was nowhere
to be seen as the Proteas
raced to 72 in no time.
The tide started to turn a
bit in India's favour after the
run out of Amla in the eighth
over.De Villiers drove off-spinner R Ashwin on the leg side,
looking for two.He was quick
but Amla struggled to reach
his crease before Mohit Sharma's solid throw from square
leg. It was again in Ashwin's
over that India got their second wicket.De Villiers charged
down the wicket, missed the
turning ball,which hit the leg
stump.His 51 came off 32 balls
with seven fours and a six.
Brief scores
India: 199 for 5 in 20 overs
(Rohit Sharma 106, Virat
Kohli 43; Kyle Abbott 2/29,
Chris Morris 1/46). South
Africa: 200 for 3 in 19.4 overs
(A B de Villiers 51,J P Duminy
68 not out; R Ashwin 1/26,
Sreenath Aravind 1/44).
South Africa's JP Duminy (left) celebrates after victory as India's S Aravind looks on during the match on Friday.
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Focus shifts to Kiwistour Cook wants Ali as opener Outburst a moment

THE INDEPENDENT
of madness
London, 2 October
Sydney, 2 October
Australia's new cricket captain Steve Smith on Friday

switched focus to New
Zealand's forthcoming tour
as he voiced regret that a twoTest series in Bangladesh
had to be called off over terrorism fears.
The safety and the security of the players is the
biggest concern. It's not safe
enough for us to travel at this
time, Smith told reporters.
He noted that the
Bangladesh tour would have
been his first as full-time captain following Michael
Clarke's recent retirement.
It was a great opportunity for us. It's a new team
and new players and we
were all really looking forward to getting over there
and playing.
Cricket Australia chief
executive James Sutherland said late into last night
that an independent security
assessment had confirmed
the risk of terrorism in
Bangladesh targeting Australian nationals.
Australia's security and
intelligence organisation
and department of foreign
affairs had warned of an
increased risk of militant
attacks in Bangladesh.
Dhaka fought to keep the
tour alive, insisting players
would be given the level of
security usually reserved for
visiting heads of state.
Many
countries
face this kind of terrorist
threat but it never stops
cricket, Nazmul Hassan,
the Bangladesh Cricket
Board president said in
Dhaka.
With the kind of blanket security that we had
offered them, I can't see
how they would have faced
any problems.
However, the shooting
dead of an Italian aid worker in Dhaka's diplomatic
quarter on Monday night in
a murder claimed by the
Islamic State group escalated
fears.
Smith said the focus had
now moved on to preparing
for the southern summer
visit of the Kiwis, with
Alastair Cook has opened the

door for Moeen Ali to move
to the top of the order for
England in their forthcoming Test series against Pakistan but also admitted the
all-rounder might not stay
in the role for the following
tour of South Africa.
England dispensed with
the services of Adam Lyth
for the trip to the United Arab
Emirates, after the Yorkshire batsmans poor Ashes
series alongside the England
captain at the top of the
order. They then travel to
South Africa for a four-Test
series that starts in December. That leaves Ali, who batted at No 8 against the Australians this summer and
whose spin bowling with be
critical in West Asia, and
Alex Hales as the main contenders for the role.
Although Cook did not
give any guarantees during an interview on Sky
AGENCIES
Port of Spain, 2 October
Sports News, he did say:

We have to be flexible. We
might have to have a shortterm option. It might be
that Mo opens the batting in
this series and not in South
Africa or that Alex takes his
chance in a warm-up game.
So we have options and we
have to be clear pretty early
on what were going to do.
Its a pretty tough job opening, youre playing against
the best bowlers in the world
who are fresh, with the new
ball. And its a big step from
county cricket to international cricket.
Cook said the side could
not afford to rest on their laurels after winning the Ashes,
especially as they would

head out to the UAE where
England had been beaten 30 in 2012 and where Pakistan
had yet to lose a series.
Cook pointed out there
was little time for players to
sit back and enjoy success
in the modern game.
Its been a brilliant couple of weeks off after you win
such a big series but its
amazing how quickly it has
come round again, he said.
There is no rest and the
guys have to park the Ashes
and start looking forward.
Winning away from home in
international cricket is not
done very often at the
moment.
GAMBHIR, UNMUKT SHINE AS DELHI FIGHT BACK

AGENCIES
Jaipur, 2 October
the first of three Tests starting on 5 November in Brisbane. New Zealand have
played some very good cricket of late, he said.
They've got a very good
squad so it's gonna be a big
challenge for us. After losing the Ashes to England during their northern summer
and several veterans retiring from the international
game, Smith looked forward
to the future.
It's a magnificent opportunity, it's a pretty a new-look
side at the moment. I guess
a generational change in
Australian cricket. We are
gonna be prepared well for
the first Test match against
New Zealand at the Gabba.
I'm really excited about leading this team, he vowed.
Socceroos's fear
The Socceroos' World Cup
qualifier in Bangladesh next

month was thrown into
doubt yesterday when Football Federation Australia
officially notified Fifa of
its security fears. The grouptopping Socceroos are to
take on Bangladesh in Dhaka
on 17 November.
"The FFA is concerned
about the security situation in Bangladesh and will
continue ongoing discussions with the relevant government agencies and security experts," the body said,
adding: "The FFA has formally raised the matter with
Fifa and the Asian Football
Confederation."
The Socceroos faced
heightened security issues
around their September
World Cup qualifier in
Dushanbe, capital of troubled central Asian nation
Tajikistan.
Skipper Gautam Gambhir

in company of his deputy
Unmukt Chand got into a damage control mode with fighting half-centuries as Delhi put
up a much improved performance on the second day of
their Ranji Trophy match
against Rajasthan taking
their overall lead to 74 runs.
After being skittled out for
138 on the opening day, the
Delhi bowlers did a decent job
to restrict Rajasthan to 240
keeping the first innings lead
to 102. Delhi gave a better
account of themselves finishing the day at 176 for one.
Skipper Gambhir took
charge in the second essay
with a fighting unbeaten 77
and added 166 for the opening stand with Unmukt who
struck 84.
While Gambhir's 146-ball
knock had eight boundaries
as he was very cautious knowing that a lot rests on his experienced shoulders. Unmukt,
also displayed maturity dur-
ing his 147-ball stay at the wicket that yielded 13 boundaries

and a six.
The former India U-19
captain should have got a century but was caught behind
off Manjeet Singh's bowling. At close of play, nightwatchman Pradeep Sangwan (6 batting) was giving
Gambhir company.
Even though Rajasthan got
a handy 102-run first innings
lead, it seems that the match
will have an outright result.
Delhi might fancy their
chances if they can set a target of 225 for Rajasthan in
their fourth innings chase.
Rajasthan started the day
at 74 for three and the two
overnight batsmen Ashok
Menaria (38) and Puneet
Yadav (46) took the hosts past
Delhi's first innings score of
138.
Having added 71 runs for
the fourth wicket,Parvinder
Awana (2/24 in 14 overs)
removed Puneet caught by
Milind Kumar.In his very next
over,Awana removed Menaria, who nicked one to Mohit
Ahlawat behind stumps.Having lost two set batsmen in

quick succession, Rajasthan
were dealt a third blow as
Rajesh Bishnoi (0) was trapped
leg before by Sumit Narwal.
The home team were reduced
to 143 for six after which Dishant Yagnik (40) and bowling
hero Deepak Chahar (50)
frustrated the visiting team
bowlers with a 87 run stand.
It was a whirlwind counterattacking stand in only 13.3
overs as Chahar hit six fours
and three sixes and Yagnik
had seven boundaries to his
credit. But at 230 for six,
there was another collapse as
left-arm spinner Manan Sharma (3/59) wiped off the tail
after part-time offie Milind
Kumar ended the partnership
cleaning up Chahar.
Brief Scores:
Delhi 138 & 2nd Innings 176/1
(Gautam Gambhir 77 batting, Unmukt Chand 84)
Rajasthan 1st innings: 240
(Deepak Chahar 50, Puneet
Yadav 46, Dishant Yagnik 40,
Sumit Narwal 3/47, Parvinder Awana 2/24).
Head coach Phil Simmons

has apologised to his fellow
selectors and to the West
Indies Cricket Board for
his outburst, calling his
actions "a schoolboy error
in a moment of madness."
The 52-year-old Trinidadian wrote on Wednesday to
express his "sincere apologies" for his comments which
sent shockwaves through
the West Indies cricket fraternity and led to his subsequent suspension for the
Sri Lanka tour.
Simmons publicly castigated the selection process
regarding the one-day team
for the tour of Sri Lanka, saying it had been influenced
by interference from outside.
"In no way did I intend
even to mention the issues
of selection. It was not in any
way intentional and so therefore I needed to express my
deepest regret to you and my
fellow selectors," Simmons
wrote to the WICB, adding:
"I can only describe it as a
schoolboy error in a moment
of madness. This was not
within my character."
"He added: "I need to
apologise as I am genuinely sorry."
Despite the apology, Simmons is now set to face a
WICB panel to answer for the
outburst, with WICB chief
executive Michael Muirhead saying on Tuesday a
decision would be reached
within the next seven days.
Muirhead said Simmons
would be given "a fair hearing" with the investigation
conducted "within the
boundaries of our own internal human resources policy. During the process, he will
continue to enjoy the benefits of his full remuneration,"
Muirhead said. "The matter
will be dealt with in an
expeditious manner and it
is our intention to have a
decision within the next
seven working days."
In a media conference last
Friday in Barbados, at the
end of a week-long training
camp for the Test squad, Simmons expressed his frustration with the continued
non-selection of the Trinidadian duo of Dwayne Bravo
and Kieron Pollard.
He said he and chairman of selectors, Clive Lloyd,
had voted for their re-inclusion but the three other
selectors - Courtney Walsh,
Eldine Baptiste and Courtney Browne - had voted
against the move.
"The disappointing fact
is that you can lose 2-3 in a
vote-off but there is too
much interference from outside in the selection of the
One-Day Internationals
squad and it's disappointing
for me to know that in any
aspect of life... (people would
use) their position to get people into a squad or in this
case, get people left out of a
squad," Simmons charged.
"It is wrong and I don't like
it and that is my beef with
the selection of the ODI
team."
Baptiste, who was set to
be the "selector-on-tour"
will now take over the duties
of head coach in Simmons'
absence.
The West Indies squad for
the two-Test series left Barbados in two groups on Monday and Tuesday, with the
first group arriving in Sri
Lanka on Wednesday morning.
SWASHBUCKLING ALL-ROUNDER WILL CALL IT QUITS AFTER THE GLOBAL COMPETITION
Afridi targets world T20 triumph in India

Karachi, 2 October
Pakistan captain Shahid

Afridi will shift his family's base from Karachi
to the country's cricket
headquarters in Lahore
as he pulls out all the
stops in his bid for a
final World Twenty20
title in India next year.

The 35-year-old, originally from Pakistan's
troubled north-west tribal region, has lived in
Karachi since childhood
and long been identified
with the coastal city.
But he will leave it
behind next week. He
has told AFP he and his
family are moving so he

can fully utilise the facilities at the national
cricket academy in
Lahore. He said he wanted to leave "no stone
unturned" in his championship quest.
If Pakistan win the
World Twenty20 it would
be an ideal swansong for
Afridi, who is set to end

his international career
after the tournament, to
be held from 11 March to
3 April next year.
Known for hitting big
sixes before he
enthralled cricket fans
around the world, Afridi
retired from Test cricket
in 2010 and finished his
one-day career after the

World Cup in Australia
and New Zealand earlier
this year. Afridi led Pakistan to a 2-0 win in the
Twenty20 series in Zimbabwe on Tuesday -- his
team's sixth consecutive
win in the shortest format of the game. Afridi,
who managed just four
runs and failed to get a

wicket in the two matches, said he was not worried about his form.
"I have plenty of
matches before the
world event," said Afridi, who was Player of
the Tournament in Pakistan's only World Twenty20 win in England in
2009. He said he was

happy with the current
team. "We have tried several new players and
they have shown talent,
so the combination in
my mind for the World
Twenty20 is shaping up
well and I am confident
that we will produce
good results."
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