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the designated lead force for antiNaxal operations, seized Maoist
literature, which suggested that
the Communist Party of India
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a reason why Naxal violence is
on the decline.
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force has surely gone down.
The force personnel and strike
teams now go out with a purpose and use a new set of
strategies to combat Naxals.
There is not one day when the
force does not exchange fire
with the red ultras but the scenario has definitely changed,
a top CRPF official said.
However, IED attacks are
the prime concern as Naxals
are now laying mines even in
jungle tracks. Security forces
deployed for anti-Naxal operations in the affected States are

witnessing a 40 per cent spurt

in attacks through use of IEDs,
hidden landmines or pressure
mines by the ultras.
While there were 904
Improvised Explosive Device
attacks in Left Wing Extremism
(LWE) theatre against us last
year, this year till September,
1,303 attacks have already taken
place. A number of troops have
been injured in these blasts, a
CRPF official said.
As many as 85 battalions of
the CRPF, including ten battalions (10,000 personnel) are
deployed in the Naxal-affected
States including Chhattisgarh,
Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar and
Maharashtra among others.
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make a new beginning

by embracing vikaswad
(development) as its experiments with other isms have
failed miserably.
Bihar, he said has undergone many `isms like capitalism, feudalism, arrogant-ism,
separatism dynasty-ism and
asked the people to vote for
develop-ism (vikaswad)
because development is the
solution of all ills.
The Prime Minister also
appealed to the Left extremists
to shun the path of violence
and join the mainstream.
Bullets give birth to destruction and ballot leads to development. Put down your arms
and show faith in the electoral
system, he said.
However, Modi did not
say a single word on the raging
controversy over RSS chief
Mohan Bhagwats statement
suggesting a review of the
reservation policy.
The PM also indicated
when the special package of Rs
1.25 lakh crore would be
released to Bihar. Addressing
his first-ever election rally at
Banka, he said that the
special package he announced
early last month for Bihar
would be released when the
BJP-led NDA Government
would be formed in the second
week of November.
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Jharkhand.
In World Banks earlier
report Bihar stood at 27th
position in terms of investment,
industrialization and law and
order while Jharkhand which
earlier was on the 29th position
has now risen to third position.
He said this happened in a
short period after the BJP came
to power there.
Bihar will also undergo a
similar change once the BJP-led
NDA Government is formed
here, he said.

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feuds over his fathers death.

Sartaj also requested the
Government to stop politicians
from visiting their house, as the
family did not want any photoops. Sartaj stated that his family was already under extreme
trauma, and the visits by politicians and the political fights were
not making matters any easier.
A neighbour of the victims
family said that they have been
continuously pleading with the
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under which a loans of Rs
26,000 crore will be distributed
among 42 lakh people to start
business, in Dumka on Friday.
He inaugurated the distribution
of loans and free LPG connections to families that are below
poverty line in Jharkhand.
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.
Inaugurating a 180 KW
rooftop solar plant in Khunti
for district court and district
collectorate, which is the first
in any court in India, Modi
said, Gandhiji was a big supporter of environment protection. That is why I decided
to come here. In a way, I have
snatched this opportunity (to
inaugurate). I decided to come
here because 2nd October is
my inspiration. Mahatma
Gandhi is my inspiration.
Ahead of a crucial climate
change summit in Paris later
this year, Modi also said that
India is not to be blamed for the
sin of environment degradation, but even so will contribute
towards containing it.
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in Uttar Pradesh, hordes of
politicians visited the area
either to sympathise with the
victims family or gain political
mileage. The grieving family,
which is upset with such
photo-op visits, has asked the
State Government to ensure
that they are left alone, even as
the village remains tense.
BJP leader and Union
Tourism Minister Mahesh
Sharma and AIMIM chief
Asaduddin Owaisi were among
those who visited the bereaved
family. Soon after Sharmas visit,
the deceased man Ikhlaqs eldest
son Sartaj, who is a technician
in the Air Force in Chennai,
wrote to the State Government,
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them alone as one family member is still battling for his life in
a local hospital. Sharma visited Ikhlaqs 22-year-old son
Danish, who was critically
wounded during the assault, at
the hospital where he has
undergone brain surgery and is
on the ventilator.
Sharma sought punishment for those guilty without
victimising the innocent.
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standing counsels, panel advocates and additional public

prosecutors.
While the monthly retainership fees for standing counsel have been increased from
C25,000 to C1,10,000, the
amount given to his/her secretarial assistance has also been
hiked from C10,000 to C30,000.
The monthly retainership
fees of additional standing
counsel have been increased
from C20,000 to C90,000 and

from C5,000 to C30,000.

With the new Cabinets
decision, the amount for suits,
writ petitions and appeals,
including oral applications,
revised petitions, special civil
application in the High Court
has been increased to C8,000
per case per day on effective
hearings.
This is subject to a maximum of C40,000 per case.
In case of non-effective
hearing, the Cabinet has decided to pay C2,000 per case per
day to a maximum of five
hearings. Even for drafting of
writ petitions in civil and criminal cases, the amount has been
hiked from C1,500 to C7,500
per case. For drafting of appeal
in civil and criminal matters,
the Government has increased
the amount from C1,500 to
C3,500 per case. The amount
for drafting of miscellaneous
applications has been revised
from C1,500 to C2,000 per case

has been put at C10,000 for

each case.
According to sources,
despite the Cabinet decision,
the proposal is pending with
the finance department for
approval. After that, Lieutenant
Governor Najeeb Jungs
approval is needed.
For panel advocates, fee for
suits, writ petitions and appeals
and special civil application in
the High Court, the
Government has fixed the
remuneration of C2,000 per
case for each effective hearing.
In case of non-effective hearing
C500 per case would be paid to
panel advocates, which would
be subject to a maximum of
five hearings.
Earlier, the Government
used to pay C4,500 for hearing
on a writ petition with an
additional of C450 per day if
the hearings went on for more
than three days.
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had been brought to the JJ
Hospital in an unconscious
state at 2 pm, Dean of the hospital Dr TP Lahane told The
Pioneer, Yes. It is true she was
unconscious when she was

brought here from the jail in

the afternoon. She is still
unconscious but stable.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra
Home Department ordered an
enquiry into the drug overdose.
The enquiry will cover all angles,
including how Indrani managed to get hold of the tablets, a
senior CMO official said.
We suspect that she had
consumed overdose of medicine, Dr Lahane said. What
has surprised the authorities as
to how Indrani accessed
more tablets than the prescribed dosage for her reported epilepsy.
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owner when it fought a cobra which tried to attack her
after killing the reptile at Senthiambalam near here.
Police said the owner heard her Pomeranian barking continuously at her residence on Thursday night and on opening
the door she saw the cobra staring at her. As she stepped backward, it tried to bite her. The dog then pounced on the cobra
and fought with it. Though it received several fatal bites and
got weak, the dog managed to bite off the hood of the snake,
killing it, police said.
The owner rushed the dog to hospital after it fainted, but
doctors said the canine was brought dead. Moved by its act,
people of the locality paid respects to the deceased animal and
later cremated it.

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arrogant Government would

return the money even if I
release it to Bihar. I remember
it had returned Rs 5 crore
which I send on behalf of the
people of Gujarat for assistance
of the Kosi flood affected people. I have apprehensions that
it will return the special package in a fit of anger. I cannot
trust this Government.
Then he turned towards
former Chief Minister Jitan Ram
Manjhi and asked him, Can you
trust this Government? Manjhi
rose and shook his hand in a
negative gesture.
Modi said the Centre has
opened its exchequer for the
development of Bihar and the
special package was meant to
change the shape and fortunes
of Bihar. But I am not doing
any obligation rather it is the
right of Bihar which the State
had been denied so far. You
made me the PM and I am
doing my duty as a soldier to
do everything possible for the
welfare of Bihar, he told the
large gathering.
The PM who returned
from his US visit two days ago,
said a large delegation of Bihari
NRIs called on him and
expressed concern over the
situation in Bihar.
He said: They wanted that
I should intervene to bring
change in Bihar.
Modi said he was excited to
see the crowd and declared, By
seeing this sea of humanity I
am now sure that the NDA will
form its Government here.
This time Biharis will observe
Diwali twice, first on
November 8, when the votes
will be counted, and then two
days later.
Modi did not mount an
attack on RJD supremo Lalu
Prasad and his party, nor did he
make a reference to Jungle
Raj. He only took indirect pot
shots at Nitish Kumar by referring to him as arrogant but
without mentioning his name.
Modi referred to a World
Bank report based on its survey of various States in which
Bihar has been shown in a poor
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village from a group of selfproclaimed activists from
Okhla who had visited the
village to assess the situation
and meet family members of
Mohammad Ikhlaq who was
lynched over rumours that his
family consumed beef or
slaughtered cow.
According to eyewitnesses,
as SDM Rajesh Kumar Singh
was on his way back to the
vehicle parked a little distance
away from Ikhlaqs house, a few
men tried to enter into
argument with him while three
men flung themselves in front
of the vehicle. Later, they forced
him to run for over a kilometer
with mediapersons to following
him to know what went wrong.
Without saying a word, the
SDM left the spot.
Since early Friday
morning, the villagers
witnessed visits of high profile
political leaders from all
political parties, including BJP
leader Mahesh Sharma,
AIMIM leader Asaduddin
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from local leaders of BSP and
AAP. On Saturday, Delhi Chief
Minister Arvind Kejriwal,
Deputy CM Manish Sisodia
and Aam Aadmi Party leader
Sanjay Singh are expected to
visit Bisara Village in Dadari to
meet the victims family.
Meanwhile, police have
traced a Twitter account user
Anuj Kumar@K25 which was
used to post communal
pictures and inflammatory
comments, which is being
investigated by Noida cyber
cell. "We have identified the
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registered in sector-20 police
station and investigation has
begun," said NP Singh District
Magistrate, GB Nagar.
DM has also denied any
migration of minority
community from the village.
"We have not received
information about the
migration of any family from
the village or about their plan
to move out," DM said.
"I am in touch with the
doctors on regular basis and
they are saying that the
injured Danish's condition
has improved," DM further

said.
Amid all this, the key
person behind the whole
incident, priest Sukhbar Das
of the temple who made an
annoucement from the temple
that Iqlakh's family had beef
in their house when "forced
by" two youths, is still missing.
Villagers said police had
detained him three days back
in the police station, but
released him later after which,
he left the village.
Police have claimed to
have raided the priest's native
place in Saharanpur to nab
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and has asked all mobile
phone manufacturers to work
out the feasibility of such a
feature, Women and Child
Development
Minister
Maneka Gandhi said on
Friday while speaking at the
"Student Parliament" on issues
faced by the girl students
organised by the BJP student
wing, Akhil Bharatiya
Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
"Girls should struggle
against the injustices. Women
should always come forward
for their rights," Gandhi
added on Thursday.
"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
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Rajiv Chowk Metro station on
Thursday night, claimed on
Friday that he accidentally shot
himself as he was on his way to
"assassinate" a person who was
about to "blow up" Delhi Metro.
The man, identified as
Shibesh Adhikari, turned out to
be a martial arts teacher from
Fatehpur Sikri in UP, said DCP
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that Adikari is now suspected to
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from the metro station till July,

this year. Most of the people
were caught while frisking and
checking at the metro station,
said The Central Industrial
Security Force (CISF) officials.
The CISF looks after the
security inside the metro.
According to the statistics,

10 people were caught while

carrying pistols between
January and July, this year.
Police said on various occasions
they also have recovered at least
113 live cartridges from the
passengers travelling in metro.
Metro officials told The
Pioneer that whenever any
person is caught with the
weapon he would be handed
over to the metro police for
further actions as they conducts
the legal enquiry against them.

The person caught with

the weapon is charged with
the fine of Rs 5,000 or
imprisonment for four years
or both. "While three persons
were caught in the month of
January, two men were held in
July carr ying weapons.
Similarly, 52 live cartridges
were recovered in the month
of January and 28 in July," said
a CISF official. There are at
least 5,000 CISF are deployed
to guard 156 metro stations.

undisclosed source," said the

senior officer.
When the cops grilled him
hard on how he had managed to
sneak inside the metro station
premises at Chandni Chowk (in
Yellow Line of Delhi Metro) with
the gun, he told them that he
had no weapon with him when
he was frisked at the security
gate.

"He had instructed his sister

to wait near the glass pane
which is around three feet high
between a customer care
cabin and one of the Automated
Fare Collection (AFC) gates
meant only for exit and had
asked her to hand over a bag
once he was inside after being
frisked by security personnel,"
said the officer.

Adhikari was headed

towards Noida (in Blue Line of
Delhi Metro), for which he had
to change train at the Rajiv
Chowk metro station. Before
taking the second metro, around
9.45 PM, Adhikari told police
that he wanted to check his gun
so he went to a relatively
secluded spot within the metro
station and accidentally shot

he Delhi Metro Police

claimed to have recovered
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10 pistols and 113 live cartridges
security against the man being
treated at Ram Manohar Lohia
Hospital, where his condition is
stated to be out of danger.
"During questioning,
Adhikari claimed that on
September 28 he received
information about a man who
had plans to blow up Delhi
Metro on Thursday evening,"
said a senior police officer.
"Adhikari further claimed to
have called up police control
room twice to report about the
input but no one took his calls,
after which he took upon
himself the task of assassinating
the threat and procured a
country made gun from an

himself.
Shibesh reached Delhi along
with his sister to meet his father,
Girdhari Pal, who is undergoing
heart treatment in Sarita Vihar's
Apollo Hospital. They boarded
a metro train from Chandni
Chowk Metro Station for Sarita
Vihar Metro Station.
On reaching Rajiv Chowk,
Shibesh got off the train telling

his sister he will come later to the

hospital. He then stepped
towards gate number 3 of Rajiv
Chowk and whipped a pistol
from his bag and shot him at his
shoulder, in a full public view.
The panic gripped the metro
station and the security official
deployed there rushed him to
the RML hospital.
Shibesh told police that he
wanted to teach them a lesson as
they did not pay any heed to his
repeated calls of bomb threat on
the PCR. Shibesh told police that
he spotted some persons in
UP's Aligarh district talking
that they are going to blown up
a Delhi metro station on
September 28. He had gone to
Aligarh to meet a relative, police
said. On reaching Delhi on
Thursday morning, according to
his claims, he made two three
calls on the PCR but no action
was taken place. Then he
decided to teach police a lesson
by entering the metro station
with the gun and shooting
himself.

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New Delhi: The AAP
Government, which has been at
loggerheads
with
the
Lieutenant Governor Najeeb
Jung over powers of
governance, has told Delhi
High Court that there cannot
be two reporting authorities
the L-G and the Chief Minister,
in a democratic set-up. "In a
democratic setup, there cannot
be two reporting authorities,
the L-G and the Chief Minister.
The L-G, 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 the Constitution regarding
the powers of the L-G on the
governance of Delhi. A total of
seven cases arising out of the
spat between the L-G 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 L-G 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
by-pass the political executive,
its runs contrary to this
scheme," he added. The Delhi
Government further claimed
that the notification 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
L-G 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. PTI

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.
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
conf iguring one of the
existing buttons on a phone
for the task would be much
simpler and quicker, she 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.
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 the first day was
dedicated to tribal students at
a seminar entitled, 'Tribal
Student-Youth Parliament',
the remaining two days are
for
'Women
Student
Parliament' and 'North East
Student-Youth Leaders
Parliament'.
The report on issues
resulting from the discussions
of the three student
parliaments will be handed
over to the Ministries
concerned in the form of a
memorandum.

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Associations (RWAs), activists
of political par ties and
residents of nearby villages on
Friday protested the transfer
of a Gurgaon police officer
and demanded cancellation of
the order.
They said Assistant
Commissioner of Police
(ACP) (crime) Rajesh Kumar
was made a scapegoat in the
wake of a spat between two top
cops in this millennium city.
Posted as staff officer to
Gurgaon Police chief Navdeep
Singh Virk, Kumar has now
been transferred to the 1st
Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB)
as Deputy Superintendent of
Police.
The protest was held at the
main gate of the Police
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Khattar to cancel the posting
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A protest was also held
outside the office of Haryana
Cabinet Minister Rao Narbir
Singh, demanding the transfer
be cancelled.
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termed the transfer a routine
move many Gurgaon residents
believed Kumar was targeted
after a public spat between
Police commissioner Virk and
joint commissioner of Police
(traffic) Bharti Arora over a
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hospitals they have been
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duty in dealing with the dengue
crisis
The Delhi Government has
issued show-cause notices to 14
doctors in seven Government
hospitals for dereliction of duty
in dealing with the dengue crisis, as the national capital faced
the worst outbreak of the vectorborne disease in the last six years.
According to official sources,
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar
Jain along with the senior officials from the health department
recently visited several hospitals
during late night and wee hours
to check their preparedness in
dealing with dengue patients.

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Satyendar Jain, visited the hospitals between 11.45 PM and 6
AM 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 littering in other wards when they
should have been stationed at a
particular ward," an official of the
health department said.
"Fourteen doctors from
seven hospitals have been issued
show cause notices in this context," the official said, adding that
some staff nurses also have been
issued notices for dereliction of
duty. The department is now
awaiting the reply to their notices
after which they may consider

taking action against the concerned doctors and nurses, the

official said.
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, Sanjay Gandhi
Memorial Hospital and Baba
Saheb Ambedkar Hosiptal.
Delhi is grappling with worst
outbreak of the dengue in the last
six years.
An update of the dengue
report by the civic administration
has taken the official death toll
up to 25 while 37 dengue deaths
have been reported by the hospitals. With 6,486 cases of dengue
recorded this year, 2015 has
also surpassed the total in this
regard for 2010, which had seen
6,259 cases.

Ventricular Assist Device

(VAD) to save lives of people
suffering from severe heart
ailments.
Dr. Balram Bhargava, Head
of Department (HOD) of cardiology department, said, "It
was in 1997 that the VAD was
first implanted in a patient at
AIIMS. But due to its high cost,
it was not used ever since. That,
time the device increased the
life span of a patient for over
three years."
According to him, over 23 lakh people suffer from heart
failure every year out of which
about 80 thousand patients
are on critical stage. If not given
due attention on time, over 40
per cent of those critical
patients die within a year, he
said.
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device costs around Rs 70
lakhs and the department is
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Hospital were found to be

receiving 30-40 per cent less
radiation dose. Health experts
said harmful effects of CT and
X-Ray radiations are more
prone to cause cancer and
other health complications.
Dr.
T.B.S.
Buxi,
Chairperson, Department of

er patients' lives.
"The patient's relatives will
be properly guided as to how to
take care of the device. For the
poor and needy patients, the

device will cost nothing. But for

those who can pay for the
device, they will have to pay for
it," said Dr. Bhargava.
The mechanical pump is

CT and MRI at SGRH, said,

"With the use of low dose
iterative reconstruction technique employed by latest CT
scanner installed in our hospital, more than one lakh
patients who have undergone the CT scan at SGRH
had 30-40 per cent less radiation dose."
"The risk of developing
cancer after a CT scan is
about 1 in 2000 in adults and
more in children and pregnant women who are more

sensitive to radiations.
Therefore, we thought of
reducing the radiations coming out from CT scan and XRays," he said.
According to a journal of
Biomedical Garphics and
Computing 2014, over 966
patients were scanned and it
was evaluated that average
dose reduction of 33.2 percent in thorax, 32.455 percent
in Abdomen/ pelvis and
49.706 in head examinations
was achieved.

used to support heart function

and blood flow in the people
who have weak hearts, said
doctors, adding the device
takes blood from the lower

chamber of heart and helps

pump it to the body.
On October 3, AIIMS is
going to organise a public
awareness programme on
Heart Failure and Organ
Donation among the students
of Jawaharlal Nehru University.
On the same day, the department of Cardiology will launch
a smart phone app HRIDAY
which people can download
using their smart mobile
phones from the department's
website.
"This is for providing better management of patients
with optimum medical treatment," said Dr. Sandeep Seth,
Cardiologist at AIIMS.

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number of dengue
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patients in the national capital, the Delhi Government's
Health Department has
bought 400 new beds which
will soon be placed in hospitals across the city.
"We have bought 400 beds
which are part of the 1,000 beds
that the Delhi Government had
announced to buy to accommodate the increasing number
of dengue patients," a senior official at the Health Department
said on Friday.
"The beds are likely to be
placed in Lok Nayak Jai Prakash
Hospital, Guru Teg Bahadur
Hospital and Ambedkar
Hospital as they have been dealing with a huge rush of patients
seeking treatment for dengue,"
the official said.
According to doctors in
the city, the vector-borne disease will persist till November
and then will start declining.
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were "preventable and manageable at home and do not
require admission".
"One has to be given
enough fluids apart from controlling fever, gastric and dehydration problems," the official
said. Amidst a rising toll and
nearly 6,500 dengue cases
reported till Thursday, 2015
has seen the worst outbreak of
the dengue in Delhi in the last
six years. An update of the
dengue report by the civic
administration on Friday took
the official death toll up to 25
while 37 dengue deaths have
been reported by the hospitals.
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local court while accepting

a closure report filed by the
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Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI) after not finding anything wrong against Ministry of
Defence (MoD) officials for
being involved in Rs 151 crore
Krasnopol Artillery Shell deal
with a company based in Russia
said Krasnopol is an urgent
requirement and can be used
with Bofors Units in situa-

tions like Kargil war.

The deal took place during
the previous NDA regime.
Krasnopol is a cannonlaunched explosive projectile
made in Russia and was procured by the Ministry of
Defence in 1998-2000 from
KBP Design Bureau, a weapon
and military equipments manufacturing company based in
Russia.
The court also observed
the statement of one of the witnesses who said, "The pro-

curement of Krasnopol is an
urgent requirement for DrassKargil sector and may be progressed in most expeditious
manner."
The witness further added
that a note was prepared in this
regard on June 16, 1999,
approved by defence secretary
on June 17, 1999, and by the
then Defence Minister George
Fernandes on June 19, 1999.
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against MS Sahni, SJ Singh
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that they entered into a criminal conspiracy with the
Russian firm for buying 1,000
Krasnopol and 10 laser designators worth Rs 151 crores.

The CBI filed the closure

report in 2010 stating that
deal was important in a war
situation.
Special CBI Judge Gurdip
Singh, in the meanwhile, also
observed that defence forces
must be equipped with
weapons and other necessary
logistics and said there must
not be any delay in any procurement, as the delay may not
only result in our forces loosing advantage over others, but
also tends to bring in frustra-

tion in the forces.

"The national security is
of the highest importance
and the procedures can be
given go-by with proper justification and at the higher
level of functionaries. When
life of the soldiers, who are
fighting battle is at stake, the
highest priority should be to
provide them with the best of
ammunitions and also to keep
the defence preparedness at
the appropriate level," the
court added.

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administration has decided to formulate a committee to check the
authenticity of the craft products. In
September, Dilli Haat has recorded
above five thousands foreign visitors.
"In order to ensure that visitor will
buy the authentic stuff from Delhi
Haat, we are planning to make a committee. The members of this committee will be the people who can
identify the originality of items," said
Chandermohan, senior Chief
Manager, Delhi Haat. "We will also try
to ensure the credibility to the artists
who are on the committee," he added.
Delhi Haat is a popular destination of art and craft lovers and with
the growing numbers of visitors and
shops.

Martina, a translator, working

with US Embassy said with the changing weather she comes to Delhi Haat
for the popular winter shawl
Pashmina. " Delhi Haat is the place
from where I can purchase the authentic warm shawls but there are more
than 30 stalls of Pashmina shawls. I am
not the user of Indian wools, it is difficult here to identify the authentic
Pashmina," Martina added.
Like Martina, there are many
visitors who come to Delhi Haat to
buy the authentic, ethnic stuff.
Delhi Haat has many stalls which
sells the Pashmina and other handicrafts accessories. But Pashmina and
Madubani paintings have huge market. Not only foreign visitors but
Indian visitors residing in North
India, too visit Delhi Haat to get
authentic accessories.
"I heard that the stuff which is

being sold here is crafted by the people of rural India. The handmade
paintings and the craft work is on the
fabric not only shows the creation
but bring out the connectivity of the
art with respect to the place," said
Radha Iyer, a visitor.

Santosh Kumar, an artist from

Madubani, Bihar, who makes the
worldwide famous Madubani paintings said for a normal visitor it is
hard to find out the original
Madubani painting here.
"Whosoever comes here to buy

the Madubani paintings should

know that in every real Madubani
painting the artist draws double
outline, the painting with double
outline and filled with natural color
is the real Madubani Painting,"
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shops, the South Corporation
is to come up with first-of-itskind effort to build eco-friendly toilets in the capital, which
is already a success in Chennai
known as Namma toilets.
"These 20 toilets will come
up by next month. Around 10
toilets will be built this month,
10 others will be constructed
next month," said an official.
These toilets are completely
eco-friendly with facility of
solar lights. In this mode, fixtures are created in form of separate units. They are made
from damage-free fixtures and
weather-proof structure. Every
toilet will have one for specially challenged, two for ladies
and three units for gents are
created at a cost of 14 Lakhs.
"Under Swatch Bharat mission the SDMC 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. All the toilets- CTCs
and Urinals in SDMC are
repaired during this year to give
better civic facility to public,"
SDMC Mayor Subhash Arya
said.
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Narendra Modi on Friday said
linking Swachchh Bharat drive
with Government or a political
party will lead to its failure and
took a dig at the critics of his
pet scheme, saying those who
cannot be a part of it should
step aside but not criticise.
The cleanliness drive must
become a public movement if
it has to succeed, he said,
insisting that change was happening and noted that
Parliament had never debated
the issue since Independence
but discussed it in every session
after he announced the scheme
in his Independence Day
speech last year.
Speaking at an India Today
event, where he gave away
awards to individuals and
Government and private entities in various categories for
their work towards cleanliness
drive, Modi invoked Mahatma
Gandhi on his birth anniversary on Friday and said we all
must come together to fulfil his
wish for a clean nation.
If it is said that this is a
Government scheme, it will

never succeed. The day you say

it is Modis scheme, it has no
chance. If you associate it with
political parties, the drive will
be harmed. This should
become a peoples movement,
a programme of us all.
This work should be
(away from) from controversies... If you can join it, join it,
if you cannot then step aside
but not criticise, he said.
Opposition parties, including the Congress and Arvind
Kejriwal-led AAP, have taken
potshots at the Centre over the
Swachh Bharat scheme, saying there was no visible
improvement on the ground
and it was all showbaazi.
Modi lamented peoples
mentality after Independence
that whatever was to be done
would
be
done
by
Governments and no one else.
Had it not been so, he said,
things would have changed
for good by 1960, but only
reverse happened. Once cleanliness becomes a habit, people
will no longer tolerate dirt, he
said, adding that while personal hygiene is accorded pri-

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for ward to paint
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Mahatma Gandhis the journey
of life as a mark of tribute to the
Father of the Nation at the
Delhi University on Friday.
The artists crafted magical
graffiti art illustrations portraying the incredible journey
from Gandhis childhood to his
assassination.
Based on 40 themes pertaining to Gandhis life they
painted their expressions on the
34 walls allotted for their art
work. Some of the themes
included Gandhis childhood,
marriage, life as a lawyer in
South Africa, Dandi March,
Champaran Movement, Quit
India Movement, love for children, emancipation of women,
eradication of leprosy and overall role in the Freedom
Movement.
Tourism Minister Kapil

Mishra inaugurated the theme

based event Mohanda to
Mahatma at the Gandhi
Bhavan where Vice-Chancellor
Dinesh Singh and other DU
officials were present.
Artistes who participated
in the event were from the
Wallbook Project and students
from the College of Art,
SaradaUkil School of Arts,
Shyam Lal College, IILM
School of Design, Jamia Milia
Islamia and Jiwaji University.
Expressing the various
phases of Gandhis life through
creative and thoughtful graffiti was our way of paying tribute to the Father of Nation. His
teachings have inspired us to
create this graffiti, said Sunil
KuttyMenon, founder of the
Wallbook, a mass wall painting
activity, which would be seen
across States of the country as
an expression for a better
tomorrow by professional,
amateur and budding artists.

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For drafting of writ petitions, the government has
increased the amount from Rs
1,500 to Rs 2,000 per case for
the panel advocates. For drafting of miscellaneous applications, the amount has been
reduced from Rs 1,500 to Rs
1,000 per case. For these applications, the maximum amount
of Rs 5,000 would be paid to
the advocates in each case.
The Government has also
hiked the remuneration fee of
the additional public prosecutors appearing in the High
Court from Rs 800 to Rs 3,000
per case. The maximum
amount paid for each case too
has been increased from Rs
4,000 to Rs 9,000.
In its recent order, the

Delhi High Court said, We

expect and hope that there will
be no further delay in the
implementation of the said
decision and wherever any
approval at the end of the
Central Government was
required on the said decisions
taken by the Cabinet in its
meeting, we expect that the
Union Government shall also
act with all promptness to
accord its approval without
causing any further delay in
the matter Wherever no
approval of the Union
Government is required on the
said decisions taken by the
Cabinet, the Delhi government
of the NCT of Delhi shall proceed to act on the said decisions taken by the Cabinet in
its meeting expeditiously.

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The Samajwadi Party has
accused the BJP of deliberately inciting violence ahead of the
2017 Assembly polls in Uttar
Pradesh as part of its efforts to
polarise people, while the BJP
has termed it a failure of the
State Government to maintain law and order.
Amid communal tension
in the region, several contingents of the Provincial Armed
Constabulary and State police
were strategically deployed
across the village where prohibitory orders banning assembly of five or more people
continued to be in force.
AIMIM chief Asaduddin
Owaisi alleged that the victim
was killed because of his religious persuasion. Owaisi
attacked both Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and the States
Samajwadi Party Government
for the incident that has triggered a nation-wide outrage.
Uttar Pradesh Chief

Minister Akhilesh Yadav too

trained his guns on Modi over
a string of controversies over
cow slaughter and beef consumption. The Chief Minister
said the guilty will not be
spared and his Government
will act with full honesty.
Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal
Yadav, younger brother of SP
chief Mulayam Singh Yadav,
demanded dismissal of Sharma
from the Union Ministry.
The Congress also
demanded that the Prime
Minister speak up and condemn the attack. The Prime
Minister tweets on every issue,
but has not said a word about
the incident. He should break
his silence and condemn the
incident, party spokesman
RPN Singh said.
While CPI general secretary S Sudhakar Reddy said his
party is surprised at Modis
silence on such irrational
and intolerant killings of innocent people, Trinamool

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hygiene is neglected.
Noting that a lot of positive
things had happened since the
drive was launched last year
this day, he said as many as 95
lakh toilets across the country
were constructed against the
target of 60 lakhs.
Recalling an incident when
a child fallen into a borewell,
he said the entire nation was
glued to TV sets to know the
latest on his rescue and was
concerned over his fate but few
realise that 1,000 children die
every day due to diseases related to lack of hygiene. He wondered how long such a situation would be allowed to continue.
Modi said he had
announced Swachh Bharat
campaign without thinking
much about it and knew he
had taken a risk and his hair
could be torn over it.
The Prime Minister said,
We have to go back to our traditional methods of recycling
goods as this attitude of buying new things has also led to
wastage and filth.

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Satyarthi has claimed in a
local court that the trustees of

a charitable trust have suddenly and aggressively

relaunched an old suit against
him and his wife Sumedha,
relating to an alleged misappropriation of funds after he
was awarded Nobel.
The child rights activist,
who got the Nobel Peace Prize
in 2014, said the allegations
against him and his wife were
malafide and the civil suit,
filed against him in the year
1997, alleging embezzlement of
huge funds should be dismissed with cost.
The
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
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on fire.
the couple by Mukti Pratisthan
From Page 1
After taking over the inves- Trust and four trustees alleging
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and the Indian Embassy. The taking anti-seizure (epilepsy) tigations in the case on that the plaintiffs had got to
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was taking and the ailments Sections of the IPC, including accounts.
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External
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Intelligence Bureau.
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safe release, he said.
number of tablets, sources Act.
they abducted us, a lot of neg- said.
It may be recalled that sufficient movable property
Can any one imagine that said.
Samal, a resident of
ative vives were going on back
The State jail administra- under flak from various quar- within India from they can
of my mind. I had heard a lot Kendrapara district, was the great person like Ajit Doval
about cruelty by IS outfit. Still among the two Indians abduct- would stand up and hug me tion has, meanwhile, ordered ters over the delay in investiga- realise the costs.
The plaintiffs do not own
then, I had not stopped hope, ed by the terror outfit. We like a family member? I have an inquiry into the circum- tion caused by the sudden transsaid Samal, who was working as were blindfolded and taken to seen happiness on his face stances leading to Indrani fer of Mumbais former Police any assets from which the
Commissioner Rakesh Maria defendants may be able to
a biomedical engineer in a hos- some undisclosed locations. over release of an Indian. This falling unconscious.
Indranis hospitalisation and news reports about the realise the cost of proceedings,
pital in Sirte in Libya since 2002. With me, there was another is India and its affection
Since 2011, we were sens- Indian. We were held captive towards fellow country men, has come four days after the alleged proximity between Satyarthis application said,
CBI took over the investiga- Mukherjeas and current police alleging that the plaintiffs had
ing difficulties in every passing for about 10 days. I dont know an emotional Samal said.
Describing his release as a tions into the Sheena Bora commissioner Javed Ahmed, misappropriated trust properday. But as health workers, we about the other people who
the Maharashtra Government ties for their own benefit.
considered ourselves as social were held captive, Samal said. miracle, Samal thanked the murder case.
The plaintiffs had earlier
On the 10th day, Samal Almighty and did not forget to
A couple of days ago, had on September18 annouworkers. We did not expect that
the health workers would be was, however, released with the thank the people of Libya who Indranis mother Durga Rani nced its decision to transfer the submitted to the court that they
target for any terror groups. But help of some influential locals. were equally concerned over his Bora, 82, passed away in case to the Central Bureau of cannot bear even half the cost
one night, some groups came From there, I reached Tripoli abduction by terror group. PTI Guwahati. It is not known Investigation (CBI). The CBI of chartered accountant to be
whether the prison authorities formally took over the investi- appointed by it to look into the
accounts of trust.
conveyed the news of her gations on September 29.
demise to Indrani.
Indrani was arrested along
with her driver Shyamvar Rai,
who has confessed to his complicity in the crime.A day later,
Indranis second husband
Sanjeev Khanna who has also
reportedly confessed to his
role in the crime.
Inaugurating the distribFrom Page 1
A fortnight after their
I want to tell the world ution of free LPG connections
arrest and prolonged interro- on behalf of 125 crore Indians to BPL families in the state,
gation, a city court had on that we have no role in this sin the Prime Minister said 31
September 7 remanded which has precipitated the lakh people across the counIndrani and driver Rai in judi- environment crisis. Our her- try had given up LPG subsidy
cial custody till September 21, itage, culture, ancestors never which had enabled 18 lakh
while Khanna was remanded permitted the exploitation of BPL families to get free LPG
in a14-day police custody a day nature and natural resources. connections.
later.
This (free LPG connecBut irrespective of whoever
On September 21, all the committed this sin and made tions) will not only help the
three accused were remanded this mistake, India will make women but also will help
in judicial custody till October its contribution for the wel- protect the environment, he
5. All the three accused were fare of the humanity, he said. said. One lakh BPL families in
have been lodged in different
Under the Mudra scheme, Jharkhand would also get free
jails.
loans of Rs 26,000 crore LPG connection.
Indrani and other two would be distributed among
Remembering
L al
arrested accused - Sanjeev and 42 lakh people, including 20 Bahadur Shastri and
Shyamvar Rai - face the lakh women, across the coun- Mahatma Gandhi on their
charges of having kidnapped try. Handing over the first birth anniversaries, Modi on
Sheena between 6.30 pm and instalment of Rs 10,000 to five Friday and urged the people
7.30 pm on April 24, 2012, men and women, the PM to purchase at least one khadi
from Bandra (west) in their car said it was a loan and not a item to help people working
and strangulated the latter the grant. The loan would have to in the sector.
vehicle and that on the fol- be repaid with nominal interReiterating his commitlowing morning they carried est, he said and advised ben- ment of together with all and
the body of the deceased eficiaries to take them in development of all, Modi
packed in a bag (which had instalments to minimise said Jharkhand has already
they kept in the rear side of the interest. MUDRA scheme embarked upon the path of
car) to the jungles Gogade would benefit over one lakh development and has jumped
Khurd village off the Khopoli- people in Jharkhandm where from 29th position to 3rd
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The official said the foremost area of concern, where
these operations need to be
more focused, remains the
south Bastar area of
Chhattisgarh which shares borders with Telangana, Odisha
and Maharashtra to name a few
States.
There are about 600 hardcore Naxals operating in this
area and that is why it remains
the biggest challenge for all the
security forces led by the
CRPF, the official said.
The force has also written

to the Union Home Ministry to

introduce a barcoding system
for chemicals like ammonium
nitrate used for making IEDs.
The barcoding system will help
in accounting for the use of the
chemicals by end users and
help in tracking the culprits
when the same is pilfered.
As a result of the improved
performance by the CRPF, the
Naxals are now targeting the
State police personnel and local
population on the suspicion
that they might be acting as
informants of the security forces.
The recent abduction and

killing of nearly six Assistant

Constables, recruited as auxiliary personnel from among the
local tribal youth, by Maoists in
Naxal-infested Bastar region
has become a major cause of
concern for the Chhattisgarh
Police.
In the last two-and-a-half
months, six Assistant
Constables have been abducted from separate places in
Bastar, out of which five were
killed while one was released
after being threatened with
dire consequences if he continued to serve in the police.

On July 14, four Assistant

Constables were kidnapped by
Naxals and killed next day in
Kutru area of Bijapur district.
Likewise, another Assistant
Constable who was abducted
by Naxals on September 28,
was found dead in Frasegarh
area of Bijapur. However, an
Assistant Constable who was
abducted in Sukma district in
August was released later.
Besides, Naxals have been
issuing warnings to Assistant
Constables at several locations
in Bastar against helping the
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Meerut: In a suspected case of

honour killing, a 17-year-old
girl was allegedly murdered by
her elder brother early on
Friday morning at Sanuta village in this district as he was
unhappy with the teen meeting
her lover. Later in the day, the
accused surrendered at the
Police Station and confessed to
his crime and said he has no
regrets for it.
Ansh (20) in his statement
alleged his sister Usma would
run away from the house quite

often which brought shame to

the family forcing them to
shift from Sardhana village to
Sanuta, police said.
But even after taking up
residence at Sanuta village,
Usma didnt stop meeting her
lover, despite him asking her
not to do so, Ansh said in his
statement. Angered by this,
the accused slit Usmas throat
while she was sleeping in the
house this morning and fled,
police said, adding later in the
day he surrendered.
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climate change goals or the
Intended
Nationally
Determined Contributions
(INDC) for the period 2021 to
2030. Apart from spelling out
the overall green energy policies, it also acts as a template for
negotiations at the forthcoming
Paris Climate Summit in
December.
In the 38-page document
submitted to UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC), India aims at
reducing the emissions intensity
of its GDP by 33-35 per cent by
2030 from 2005 levels. It sets to
achieve 40 per cent of its net
electric power (of about
350GW installed capacity)
through non-fossil fuel-based
energy resources, largely renewable power.
To add to the above, India
also aims at creating an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3
billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030 through
additional forest and tree cover.
Developing robust adaptation
strategies for agriculture, water
and health sectors are also its
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technology transfer and capacity building, Environment
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country listed in INDC.
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the multi-crore NRHM scam,
the CBI has now questioned
former Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Mayawati in the light
of new evidence against her
unraveling the larger conspiracy in the alleged swindling of
Central funds.
Mayawati was questioned
by the agency sleuths at the CBI
Headquarters here during
which she remained elusive on
certain questions and is likely
to be called again, sources said.
During her examination by
the CBI officials, Mayawati is
said 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 CBI questioned BSP
chief on the bifurcation of the
Health and Family Welfare
Department into two with the
one being Department of
Health and the other
Department of Family Welfare
and creation of 100 posts of
District Project Officers who
were allegedly instrumental in
alleged corruption in the

implementation of NRHM
schemes. The NRHM was
implemented by department of
family welfare.
Mayawati was the Chief
Minister of the State when the
Department of Health and
Family Welfare was bifurcated.
CBI alleged 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.
The sources said they have
found that the creation of 100
posts of the DPOs in the State
was done in an irregular manner.
CBI sources claimed to
have found evidence of alleged
corrupt practices in the implementation of NRHM schemes
in the State involving the officials of Medical and Health
Department in general and the
Chief Medical officers (CMOs)
and DPOs in particular.

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and cleaner technologies in
thermal power generation; promotion of renewable energy
generation and increasing the
share of alternative fuels in the
overall energy mix. It also aims
at reducing emissions from the
transportation sector and waste;
promotion of energy efficiency
in the economy, largely in
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implementing adaptation
actions in agriculture, forestry,
fisheries infrastructure, water
resources and ecosystems.

INDC calling them as ambitious

steps in the right direction.
Ravi Singh, CEO, WWFIndia said, The countrys ambition of increasing the share of
non-fossil fuel-based power
capacity to 40 per cent by 2030
reverberates with WWF-Indias
vision of Renewable Energy.
However, the critical aspect is to
formulate a concrete action plan
for implementation, which
would help realise these targets.
While the goals are ambitious
and comprehensive, it is pertinent that the international community steps forward in fulfilling their commitments related to
finance, technology and capacity building efforts, he added.
Gopal Krishna, from Toxics
Watch Alliance, however,
expressed concern over the goal
of nuclear energy as listed in
INDC. In the aftermath of
Fukushima nuclear disaster,
while countries are moving

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safe, environmentally benign
and economically viable source
to meet the increasing electricity needs of the country. The
fact is that nuclear plants spew
cancer-causing pollutants into
air and water nuclear power
does not meet clean energy
standard, he said.
Anjali Jaiswal, Director of
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Council, has lauded countrys
ambitious climate target of making clean energy the centerpiece
for major economic growth.
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he Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) on
Friday questioned former JD
(U) MLA from Mokama,
Anant Singh, in connection
with alleged cartelisation and
large-scale irregularities in
award of contracts at the
National Thermal Power
Corporation (NTPC) plant at
Barh in Bihar. CBI sources said
Singh was examined in Patnas
Beur Central jail where he is
currently lodged in connection
with alleged kidnapping of a
builder, Raju Singh, in
November 2014.
The MLA, known for his
muscle power and strong arm
tactics, is also named as
accused in several cases of
murder, assault and attempted

murder among others.

CBI, in its FIR, had alleged
there were large scale irregularities in award of contracts to
various parties by the NTPC
Limited for Super Thermal
Power Plant at Barh in Bihars
Patna district. In pursuance to
the input relating to the irregularities, a joint surprise check
was conducted by CBI along
with Vigilance branch of NTPC
Ltd where it was found that
large scale cartelisation took
place at the time of filing of tenders.
The FIR alleged a local
group, headed by Singh,
involved in cartelisation and
ring formation in award of
contracts in NTPCs Barh
power plant, thereby not
allowing outside parties to
function.

New Delhi: 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.
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ndia and Australia will

Istrengthen
explore ways to further
naval ties during
Indian Navy chief Admiral RK
Dhowans interaction with the
Australian Defence top brass
during his six-day visit there
that began on Friday.
He will also take part in the
prestigious Sea Power
Conference organised by the
Australia Navy. Nearly 40 chiefs
of navies from all over the
world are taking part in the
conclave.
Incidentally, the Navy
chief s visit to Australia comes
days after India and Australia
carried out the first-ever bilat-

eral maritime exercise AUSINDEX off the Indian East Coast.

The exercise came about as the
Defence ties between the two
countries are primarily focused
on maritime co-operation.
The two countries signed a
Defence
Cooperation
Agreement in 2006 as well as a

Framework for Defence

Cooperation in November
2014, which envisaged regular
ship visits as well as high level
exchanges.
Moreover, Indian Navy and
Royal Australian Navy are partners in the Indian Ocean Naval
Symposium (IONS), a maritime cooperation construct
conceptualised and pioneered
by Indian Navy in 2008, officials said here.
Elaborating upon the significance of growing ties, they
said India and Australia shared
similar maritime challenges
such as long coastline, extensive
Exclusive Economic Zone
(EEZ), coastal security, large
coastal shipping and fishing

fleet, where in both Navies have

opportunities to learn from
each others experiences.
In addition, common
grounds exist for cooperation
in ship-building, especially
under Indias Make in India
initiative, they said. During
the visit, Dhowan is scheduled
to hold discussions with the
Chief of the Royal Australian
Navy, Vice Chief of Defence
Staff, Defence Secretary and
other senior Naval Officers.
He is likely to impress upon
the Australian maritime
industry to take advantage of
Make in India campaign by
entering into joint ventures
for building state-of-the-art
ships and other platforms.

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Modi on Friday congratuP
lated External Affairs Minister
Sushma Swaraj for wonderfully highlighting Indias contribution to the United Nations
during her speech at the UN
General Assembly.
Just
spoke
to
@SushmaSwaraj ji & congratulated her for the excellent speech
at the @UN. A perfect articulation of key global issues, Modi
said in an early morning tweet.
In his other messages in the
social media, the Prime Minister
said Swaraj rightly emphasised
on the nations unit in tackling
the terror.
EAM @SushmaSwaraj has
wonderfully highlighted Indias
contribution to @UN & shared
Indias vision of what UN must
be in the 21st century.
In her speech EAM
@SushmaSwaraj has rightly
emphasised on the need to end
all forms of terror & make the
world a peaceful place to live
in...Fully agree with you
@SushmaSwaraj ji, he said.
He also praised Swaraj for
highlighting the need for
empowerment of girl child in
the world forum. Empowering
the girl child is vital to bring
about a change in society, the
Prime Minister also said in a
series of tweets. Apart from
taking on Pakistan, asking it to
shun terror to have dialogue
with India, Swaraj also spoke
about key issues including
Indias initiative on climate
change and urgent need for UN
Security Council reforms.

also critical to acquire clean

technologies and accelerate
solar, wind and energy efficiency markets to curb Indias
greenhouse gas emissions and
fight global warming, she pointed out.
Greenpeace India termed
the countrys green goals as
steps in the right direction, but
questioned the economic and
social justification for a coal
expansion of the scale envisioned. Greenpeace also supported countrys stand for
finance and technology assistance from developed countries.
According to Pujarini Sen,
Climate
and
Energy
Campaigner for Greenpeace
India, clear articulation of a
renewable energy target would
also have been in keeping with
expectations for climate justice.
Given the growth in the
renewable energy sector, we
would have liked to see a specific
target for solar and wind. 40 per
cent of electricity from renewable
energy by 2030 is definitely possible, especially so with financial
and technical support, said Sen.

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conducting research in the
hostile conditions with minus
45 degrees temperature in
South Pole in Antarctica are
finding yoga and meditation,
the countrys ancient science,
extremely useful in warding
off their stress and depression.
Led by team leader,
Kailash Chander Bhindwa, a
scientist
from
India
Metrological Department
(IMD), the scientists have
been staying in Bharati, Indias
second permanent research
base in Antarctica, for the
last one year to conduct
research in various disciplines
such as biology, earth sciences, atmospheric sciences,
meteorology and climate
change.
We are equipped with all
the latest medical facilities to
deal with the harsh weather
and hence health issues like
cold injury have been very
rare. But as we are staying
away from family members for
a long time, it can be detrimental to mental health.
After all, we are thousands of kilometres away from
India. But yoga has certainly
helped our members in beating stress, depression and anxiety, said Bhindwa.
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Ocean
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(NCAOR), Goa via videoconferencing from their
Bharati station in South Pole.
Bhindwa explained the
team started its daily routine
with yoga. It has helped not
only in keeping us energetic
throughout the day but also
tackling the psychological
problems such as stress and
depression which are usually
common in such harsh weather where you cant see people,
except your team members,
for days, he added.
Dr Ravi Shankar, a medical officer, said the members
assembled daily at the hall
early morning and do yoga for
45 minutes. We begin with
Pran Urja meditation for 15

minutes which comprises of

breathing exercises such as
kapaal bhaati, lom and anulom. After that we do body
stretching exercises such as
pawan mukt asana for 30 minutes by watching a CD on
yoga.
Besides Shankar, the team
has medical officer Dr Vikram
Anil Hegde and Rajiv Kumar
as medial assistant.
Acknowledging the benefits availed by yoga which
they had started in 2012,
Shankar said yoga had now
acquired a permanent place in
their daily routine.
The members also said
they had found yoga making
its way in a Chinese station in
the region also.

Bharati, Indias third and

newest permanent research
base is situated on a rocky
promontor y fringing the
Prydz Bay between Stornes
and Broknes peninsula in the
Larsemann Hills area.
This area, including the
islands and promontories,
offer an excellent scope for
extensive studies on various
areas such as solid earth geophysics, space-weather and
meteorology, oceanography,
marine biology, microbiology
and environmental science,
said M Javed Beg, Project
Director, NCAOR.
The other two stations are
Maitri and Dakshin Gangotri
which was abandoned after it
got submerged in ice.

report by the Union Agriculture

Ministry has found nonapproved pesticides in 12.5 per
cent of samples collected from
all over the country from markets, farm gate and organic
outlets.
The report, called
Monitoring of Pesticide
Residues at National Level and
covering financial year 2014-15,
said samples of vegetables, fruits,
spices, red chilli powder, curry
leaves, rice, wheat, pulses,
fish/marine, meat and egg, tea,
milk and surface water were lifted from the various markets
outlets to analyse possible use of
pesticide residues such as
organo-chlorine, organo-phosphorous, synthetic pyrethroids,
carbamates, herbicides. Samples
were tested across 25 labs in the
country.
Of the 20,618 samples
analysed no residues were
detected in 16,761 samples (81.3
per cent); some residues were
detected in 3,857 (18.7 per
cent) and residues above
Maximum Residue Level
(MRL) prescribed by Food
Safety Standard Authority of
India (FSSAI) were in 543 samples (2.6 per cent).
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were found. Non-approved pesticides especially profenophos,
metalaxyl and hexaconazole
were also found in rice, while
residues of triazofos, metalaxyl,
carbaryl and acephate were
detected in pulses.
What is more concerning is
that residues of non-approved
pesticides were detected in
1,180 vegetable samples collected from both retail and
farm gate markets 225 fruit
samples, 732 spice, 30 rice and
43 pulses.
The story of Organic products that sell on the USP of
being chemical free too was not
very rosy. Of the 405 vegetable
samples collected from organic outlets, 50 (12.3 per cent) had
measurable pesticide residue
and in eight samples (2 per cent)
residue concentrations exceeded the prescribed limits. Here
higher Carbendanzim levels
were detected in Cauliflower,
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samples.
Pesticides
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Tebuconazole and Pyriproxyfen
were even detected in samples
of green chilli from farmers in
Anand (Gujarat). However,
none of the samples of packaged
milk, meat/eggs, fish/marine
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BJP and the SNDP Yogam
the influential outfit of Hindu
lower caste Ezhavas, which constitutes 20 per cent of the States
population entering into an
alliance, the Kerala CPI (M) on
Friday embarked on a campaign
against the Yogams general secretary, Vellappally Natesan by
leveling personal allegations
against him.
Giving indications that the
efforts for alliance were perhaps
in the final stages, Vellappally
had met Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah in New Delhi
on Thursday. The BJP and the
SNDP have come closer to
each other, but I cant say anything at this stage on how the
closeness is going to transform,
said State BJP chief V
Muraleedharan on Friday.
The CPI(M)s attack
against Vellappally, known as a
shrewd businessman, has been
more of personal nature than
political and observers felt that
the Marxists bid was to project
the BJP-SNDP alliance as his
personal requirement more
than a general political need of
the Yogam. However,
Vellappally refused to take the

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Stating that the CPI(M)
and the Congress were fast
moving into total decimation,
he said, Instead of attacking
others, these parties which
have lost the peoples trust
should try to correct their mistakes. What the criticisms
against the SNDP prove is that
we are becoming an invincible
force in Kerala.
According to the Yogam
chief, there is space for a third
alternative in Kerala politics
which is presently dominated
by the Congress-led UDF and
CPI(M)-headed LDF. The theory is that a party, most probably to be formed indirectly by
the SNDP, and the BJP can

form that alternative with other

majority communities that are
fed up with the discrimination
they have been facing.
Who all were there in the
team that had met the Prime
Minister the other day? They
were Vellappally, his wife
Preethi Natesan and son
Thushar Vellappally. This
makes it amply clear that the
meeting was to further his
family interests and to see how
he can derive financial benefits, said senior Marxist and
Opposition Leader VS
Achuthanandan.
Achuthanandan had earlier accused Vellappally of taking more than Rs 100 crore as
bribe in the past four years

from the appointment of 302

teachers in the educational
institutions under the SN Trust,
controlled by the SNDP
Yogam. He had also alleged that
Vellappally was now joining
hands with the BJP out of fear
for Modis pledge to act against
black money holders.
On Friday, State CPI(M)
secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan
attacked Vellappally by saying
that he was trying to transform
the Sree Narayana Dharma
Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam,
founded on the teachings of
social reformer Sree Narayana
Guru, into a Natesan Paripalana
Yogam. Arent the new institutions being started under SNDP
named after Vellappally?

Kodiyeri asked.
On the political front, the
CPI(M) move is to make the
issue of reservations the
weapon to counter the move
for a BJP-SNDP alliance. The
Marxists plan is to try to discourage members of the backward Ezhava community from
supporting such an alliance
with a campaign that reservations as such would cease to
exist once the BJP got twothirds majority.
While talking to a television channel in Delhi earlier,
Vellappally said that a third
front could come into being in
Kerala before the Assembly
election to be held in April or
May next year. He, however,
added that the BJP might not
be able to lead that front. A
report had said the other day
that Vellappally could be the
chief minister candidate of the
SNDP-BJP alliance.
But State BJP chief
Muraleedharan said it was premature to discuss such things
as even the preliminary form of
such an alliance had not come
up. The big thing going to
happen now is the civic election
to be held next month and
there is enough time to consider matters connected to the
Assembly election, he said.

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Minister Narendra Modis
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Mann ki Baat, Karnataka Chief
Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday
pledged to fulfil the dreams of
Mahatma Gandhi, by following
the path shown by him. This is
his second speech and after his
Government was rattled by
unabated farmers suicides. He
had addressed the farmers on
radio in July to instil confidence
in them.
In his special Gandhi Jayanti
address that was first broadcast
on All India Radio and then telecast on Doordarshan, Siddaramaiah vowed to follow guidelines set by Gandhi to first PM
Pandit Nehru on rural development and communal harmony.
Greeting the people on Gandhi
Jayanti, he reminded them that
Karnataka was the first State to
implement Gandhis pet project
of Panchayat Raj.
Stating that his Government
has formulated a 21-point programme for rural development,
Siddaramaiah said, following in
the footsteps of Gandhi in his
vision for clean villages,
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He said, Karnataka is number one in setting up of personal toilets. We have set unique
example of setting up of bathroom-cum-toilets in villages.
We have been working efficiently in trying to provide clean
drinking water. The CM also
drew a parallel between Gandhis
dream of creating hunger-free
India with his Governments
Anna Bhagya (scheme to provide rice at C1 a kg to the poor).
He also listed out various initiatives taken by his Government
for the upliftment of the downtrodden, farmer development,
creating economic equality, and
women empowerment among
other initiatives.

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was under attack from the
Opposition on various issues
including the continuing suicides by the farmers, will take
the route of presentation to convince the legislators that his
Government was at work to
overcome the challenges on
the irrigation and water front.
The Chief Minister will
address a joint session of the State
Legislative Assembly and council on October 8 and make the
presentation on Water policy of
his Government using Google
Earth Map to explain various
ongoing irrigation projects.
This was being seen as
unprecedented as never before
any Chief Minister made a powerpoint presentation on the floor
of the House leave alone in a joint
session of both the Houses.

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This will be the highlight of

the Monsoon Session, which
will come to an end on October
10. After the marathon presentation on October 8, the
Opposition members will be
given an opportunity to seek
the clarification next day.
KCR, who met State
Governor ESL Narasimhan for
the second consecutive day on
Friday, believed to have discussed the idea of presentation

with him. He also briefed the

Governor about the ongoing
session most of which was
spent on discussing the farmers suicide.
Officials of irrigation
department involved with the
preparation of the presentation
said that the Google Earth
map will help in comprehensive
understanding of various
aspects of the irrigation projects including the level of
earth at different places and
how the water will be diverted.
Topography of Telangana,
in which the Godvari river
flows at a much lower level
than the land mass, has often
been cited as a major hindrance in bringing the lands
under irrigation.
The TRS Government
claims it was designing the new
projects in a manner to overcome these problems through
the lift irrigation systems.

Later in a function Siddaramaiah proposed one Gandhi

Bhavan chapters in each of the
State districts in order to enable
Bapus principles and his ways of
living to reach out to the young
population of the State. He
stressed on the fact that for India,
Mahatma Gandhi is just not a
figure, but has become a necessity in todays world.
Siddaramaiah, said, Gandhiji is a necessity in todays world. US president Barack Obama
said Gandhiji is not confined
only to India, but he stands for
the whole world. There should
be one chapters of Gandhi
Bhavan, one in each of the State
districts so that more and more
youth get drawn towards Bapus
ways of life and thinking.
Gandhi had struggled
throughout his life to eradicate
untouchability. However, it is sad
to see that untouchability still
exists in our country. There are
two kinds of untouchability. The
external untouchability can be
avoided by imposing and following a set of rules and restrictions, but the internal untouchability can only be averted by
going through transformation
from within, he added.

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between BJP and Samajwadi
Party in UP after a 50-year-old
man was lynched by a 200-strong
mob following rumours that he
and his family had eaten beef, UP
CM on Friday accused the ruling party at Centre of disturbing
secular ethos and dared it to ban
beef exports. Cow slaughter is
banned in Uttar Pradesh.
Reacting to Akhilesh Yadavs
comments, Sitharaman said in a
series of tweets that the UP Chief
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birth anniversary, Gujarats
Chief Minister Anandiben
Patel inaugurated a high-tech
mobile museum on Mahatmas
life at his birthplace Porbandar
on Friday.
The uniquely designed
museum-on-wheels has been
constructed on a mini truck. It
will travel from the coastal
town Porbandar in Gujarat to
the national capital, New Delhi,
from Saturday. The mobile
museum will reach New Delhi
by the last week of this month
as it would be one of the major
attractions for the 3rd IndiaAfrica Forum Summit to be
held from October 26 to 29.
The summit is expected to
be attended by top political

leaders from African continent. Keeping it in mind, the

content and design of the

museum has been developed to

disseminate information about
Mahatma Gandhi to interna-

tional audience.
Ministr y of External
Affairs (MEA) has built the

mobile museum depicting life

of Mahatma Gandhi for the
international summit, said
Rajiv Ranjan, joint secretary
with the MEA. Ranjan, who
was in Porbandar for the inaugural ceremony of the mobile
museum, said that photographs, audio-video presentations, small documentaries
on Mahatma, his messages and
writes-ups as well as message
on cleanliness are displayed in
the museum. I-Pads have been
installed to showcase small
documentaries on Gandhiji.
Gujarat Chief Minister
inaugurated the museum-onwheel. It would kick-start its
journey from Saturday morning, he said, adding that it
would reach at Rajkot by afternoon and will be kept open for
the people. The mobile museum will reach Sabarmati

Ashram in Ahmedabad on
Sunday and from there, it
would continue journey
towards New Delhi passing
through various cities in
Rajasthan and Haryana.
Since Friday morning,
plethora of programmes were
organised at Mahatmas birth
place Porbandar. In the main
event, Gujarat Chief Minister
Patel paid homage to Mahatma
Gandhi on his 146th birth
anniversary and attended prayer
meeting at Kirti Mandir where
Bapu spent his childhood.
Lets work towards
Mahatmas favourite cleanliness
movement with peoples participation. Gujarat Government is
determined to contribute to
Prime Minister Narendra Modis
target of making India clean by
Gandhijis 150th birth anniversary in 2019, said Anandiben.

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ing, the AAP statement said.

Elaborating on her partys
decision to dissolve all bodies
in Maharashtra, AAPs national spokesperson Preeti Sharma
Menon told The Pioneer on
Thursday evening: Our central party leadership has undertaken the dissolution of all
committees in the State as part
of the Mission Vistar
embarked upon by us early this
year. Owing to the Delhi
Assembly elections, we had
not set into motion the process
of expanding the party set-up
in Maharashtra.
The task we are undertaking in Maharashtra is akin
to the one already carried out
in Punjab, where we have put
in a proper organisational

structure and are in the process

of expanding it. As far as
Maharashtra is concerned, our
national leader Ashutosh and
secretary Pankaj Gupta have
already done some ground
work for putting in place a new
organisational structure in the
state. In the coming months,
Pankaj Gupta will be working
towards re-building and
expanding the State party unit
in a big way, Preeti said.
Though the AAP has chosen not to pinpoint exact reasons for its decision to dissolve
all the committee at the committees at the State, district and
city levels, informed sources in
the party said that by dissolving the partys existing committees at various levels, it

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a farmer committed suicide by
jumping before a train after he
was humiliated by the school authorities over his inability to pay
the fee. Satish, a student of tenth
standard in a private school, ended his life on Wednesday evening
but it came to light late on Thursday when his family lodged a
missing complaint with the
police in Peddapalle town of Karimnagar district in Telangana.
In a chilling move, the boy
self-recorded a video message
explaining his decision to take
the extreme step. I was slapped
by the Principal and then asked
to stand outside classroom along
with six other boys, he said.
According to the video, in
which the boy can be seen in
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school fee. But my poor family could not afford to pay
more, he said.
Expressing his anguish over
the treatment meted out to
him, the student said that it was
very humiliating and painful.
Apparently Satish took the
decision to end his life at the
school itself before he left the
place during the lunch break. On
the way back home, he borrowed
mobile phone of his cousin and
after recording the message and
writing a note to his family, he
left the home in the afternoon.
In his note left near the TV
set at home, the boy asked his
family to look at the video message and asked them not to
search for him.
Cops found the body on the
railway tracks 20 kms away
from his home. Pedapalle police
have registered a case of abetment to suicide against the
school management. Satish was
youngest of three siblings.

party set-up and re-activate its

State cadre, the Aam Admi
Party (AAP) has dissolved all
its committees in Maharashtra
and appointed its national secretary Pankaj Gupta as incharge of the partys State unit.
In a statement issued from
New Delhi on Thursday, the
AAPs central leadership said:
In the ongoing process of
strengthening the organisation in various States, the
Political Affairs Committee
(PAC) has decided to dissolve
all bodies in Maharashtra.
National Secretary Pankaj
Gupta will be in-charge of the
State and under him a team
will work on organisation
building in the State.
The new structure will
take shape in a very short
time. All party members are
requested to cooperate with
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ital, Srinagar, on Saturday with

Opposition parties gearing up to
take on PDP-BJP coalition on
sensitive issues including consequences of beef ban, sluggish
approach in reaching out to victims of 2014 floods, curbs on
separatists and rise in incidents
of violence along the Line of
Control (LoC) and hinterland.
Officials said three-tier
security set-up has been established in the legislative Assembly
premises that neighbours the
Civil Secretariat and J&K High
Court complex.
The week-long session
would see the Treasury and
Opposition benches face to face
for the first time in Kashmir
since the coalition Government
took over on March 1. The
maiden Budget session was held
in April in Jammu, but the
coalition avoided convening a
Summer Session.
Observers say that the
upcoming session would be
tumultuous in the backdrop of
recent controversies including
the High Courts September 8
verdict to ban the sale and possession of beef in Jammu and
Kashmir. The verdict evoked
strong resentment in the
Muslim majority State as also
exposed chinks in the PDP-BJP
coalition. The situation had
turned explosive to the extent
that the authorities completely banned internet on eve of
Eid-uz-Zuha for three days

last week to curb public resentment through social media.

The issue was threatening to
polarise the State on communal and regional basis, a replica of situation in 2008 summer
during the Amarnath land row.
Even as the State
Government approached the
Supreme Court for a verdict on
the controversial issue following separate verdicts from two
division benches of J&K High
Court in Srinagar and Jammu,
all eyes are on the State legislature that has accepted five private members Bills for discussion during the autumn session. The apex court would
take up the matter on Monday.
The Mufti Government
approached the apex court citing conflict in two high court
directions. The Jammu bench
has asked the state police to ban
sale and possession of beef in the
purview of section 298 of the
Ranbir panel Code while the
Srinagar issued notices to the
state government asking why the
archaic law set up in 1862 be not
scrapped. Both directions came
while hearing separate PILs on
the beef issue.
The Opposition National
Conference leaders Muhammad
Akbar Lone and Ali Muhammad
Sagar have jointly moved a private members Bill in the lower
house while in Upper House its
legislators Qaisar jamsheed Lone
and Dr Bashir Ahmad Veeri
have filed separate bills. The
CPM legislator MY Tarigami
and Awami Ittihad Party leader
Engineer Rashid have also filed
private members bills on beef

ban controversy.
Interestingly, BJP and PDP
have diametrically opposite
views on the beef ban issue,
which are primarily based on the
vote bank politics. The BJP
leaders have supported beef ban
while the PDP opposes governments intervention in peoples
food choices. The BJP has 25
members in the assembly, one of
them a Muslim while the PDP
has 28 members, all Muslims.
Sources said the coalition
partners are strategizing to delay
discussion on the bills in both
houses of the legislature. They
say that the session is effectively for 6 sittings and the coalition
partners would place them for
discussion on the last day.
The Opposition is also
geared up to corner the coalition
on sluggish pace of development, failure to provide adequate relief to victims of 2014
floods, halt in recruitment
process and in accessibility of the
government functionaries.
An NC legislator said that
there is nothing in Muftis kitty
to showcase. We have hundreds
of issues of mis-governance to
agitate. We will put the entire
government on notice, the legislator said.
However, the coalition
seems least bothered. Chief
Minister convened a dinner
meeting of PDP and BJP legislators at his official residence on
Friday evening. He and Deputy
Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh
exuded confidence that the session would conduct constructive
business aimed at development
and uplift of the State.

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Animal Husbandry and Fisheries
IMinister
Baidyanath Sahni on Friday
resigned from the Nitish Kumar
Government and joined the BJP.
Sahni, the outgoing JD(U) MLA from
Morwa Assembly seat in Samastipur district, sent his resignation to the Chief
Ministers Office.

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rivals in Ladakh
T
Congress and Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) are confronted
by a freshly formed group
New Ladakh Movement
(NLM) in poll fray posing
challenge to their prospectus to
form Ladakh Autonomous Hill
Development
Council
(LAHDC) in Leh. The election
for 26 counselor seats is scheduled for October 17. While the
Congress is struggling hard to
retain sway on Hill Council, the
BJPs prestige is at stake in the
backdrop of holding the parliamentary seat and being
coalition partner in the State.
The Congress has fielded
25 candidates including 15
first-timers to assure the electorate that the party was up
for a change on the ground.
The BJP has fielded 24 candidates. But what has attracted the attention of political
observers is the fielding of 15
candidates by NLM, a group
formed last month by upstart
politicians, who have worked
in social and political sectors
and sought to challenge the
traditional political class at
various levels.
The group is headed by
Sonam Wangchuk, an engineer, who has played vital role
in reforming educational system in the region.
The ruling Peoples

wanted to erode the authority

of partys former State convenor
Mayank Gandhi, who continued to dabble in running the
State party in a manner he
deemed fit despite his not having any assigned role in the
State unit.
Gandhi is AAPs national
executive committee member.
He has no role to play in the
state party unit. Despite that he
has been interfering in the
running of the Maharashtra
AAP unit, a senior state AAP
leader said.
Gandhi, it may be recalled,
had joined an issue with AAP
chief Arvind Kejriwal in June
last year, by asking his party
leadership to release the minutes of the partys National

consolidate the organisational

set-up in the wake of a split witnessed early this year, when a
sizeable number of supporters
of Yogendra Yadav left with
him after he set up Swaraj
Abhiyan which is currently
trying hard build its base in
Maharashtra.
Reacting to Ar vind
Kejriwals decision to dissolve all bodies of the party
in Maharashrtra, AAPs former Thane city unit convenor
and Swaraj Abhiyans current
Thane unit president Samir
Pradhan said: This kind of
cosmetic exercise of dissolving
all committees and making an
outsider like Pankaj Gupta as
in-charge of the party will not
help the AAP in any way
The AAP has over the past
one year remained a dormant
party. It is merely a political
party that thrives on publicity in media. It has failed to
reach out to people at the
grass-root level.
Pradhan had quit AAP in
March this along with most of
the office-bearers and scores of
party workers from Thane and
joined the organisation set-up
by Yogendra Yadav, after the
latter (Yadav) and Prashan
Bhushan were thrown out of
the Arvind Kejriwal-led party
early this year.

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brief, but crucial session of
to break the deadlock Athe Jammu & Kashmir
T
between agitating FTII stu- Legislature is beginning in capdents and information and
Broadcasting Ministry officials, which was supposed to
be held on October 6, will
now be held in Mumbai on
October 7.
The last meeting held in
Mumbai on Thursday
remained inconclusive with
both the parties failing to
resolve the row over the
appointment of actor and BJP
member Gajendra Chauhan
as the chairman of the Punebased Film and Television
Institute of India (FTII).
Ranjit Nair, a member of
the striking FTII students
core committee, confirmed
the news.
The meeting has been
rescheduled as the (information and broadcasting) secretary has prior commitment in
Mumbai, Nair told IANS in
a text message.
Over 250 FTII students
have been on a strike for
over the last three months as
they find the appointment of
Chauhan, best known for
essaying the eldest Pandava
brother Yudhisthir in BR
Chopras Mahabharat, as
the institute chairman
questionable.
No concrete solution to
the issue has been found
either by the students or by
the Government, and the
deadlock continues.

n an apparent effort to end

the continued ambiguity and
Ipower
struggle in the local

Executive (NE) meeting held

on March 4 2014, at which its
senior leaders Prashant
Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav
were removed from the PAC.
Reacting to the AAPs
decision to dissolve all committees in Maharashtra, an
upset Gandhi tweeted:
B eautifully functioning
Maharashtra teams dissolved.
Sad that politics has won.
Two types of politics ~one
that works with the people on
ground and other that do chaplusi in Delhi. The second type
has won. Jai Ho !, Gandhi elaborated in another tweet.
Sources said that the second reason for its decision to
dissolve all the committees in
Maharashtra was to remove
the ambiguity over the role
of AAPs another former State
convenor Anjali Damania,
who had quit the party ahead
of the Maharashtra Assembly
polls in June, 2014. Despite
her having quit the AAP,
Damania has continued to be
associated with the party, an
act that has caused considerable confusion not just among
the people but also in the rank
and file of the party.
The third reason for the
AAP to embark upon it what it
calls as an exercise to rebuild
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fielded 8 candidates independent of its coalition partner BJP
while the Opposition National
Conference with least influence
in the region has also fielded 8
candidates.
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senior leader and former legislator Narboo Gyalson to
challenge Wangchuk at
Khaltsi, which NLM describes
as its victory before the poll
results. A senior Congress
leader Chewang Rigzin has
also joined NLM and filed
papers from two places. The
Congress supported an independent candidate to challenge Rigzin at Diksit, a seat
he has won repeatedly.
However, Congress says
that it is not perturbed by
NLMs entry into poll fray. It
is a matter of days when peo-

ple would know how influential they (NLM) are on the

ground. They wont be able to
open their account, outgoing
Chief Executive Councilor
(CEC) and senior Congress
leader T Samphel said.
On the contrary, NLM
spokesman Chewang Dorje
said that Congress was not
able to find candidates at
places like Diksit and Khatsi.
This is the reason as to why
the Congress fielded its senior
leader from Khatsi to face
Sonam Wangchuk, Dorje said.
The NLM claims that the new
Hill Council would not be
formed without their support.
The BJPs two stalwart
MP Thupstan Chewang and
Cooperatives Minister in Mufti
Sayeeds cabinet Chering Dorje
have launched a massive campaign to take over the Lehs

political fortress. The partys

CEC candidate Dr Sonam
Dawa claims that it would
have a smooth sailing in the
elections with the support of
Buddhist spiritual leaders. The
BJP has not fielded candidates
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understanding between the
coalition partners though they
have announced to go for polls
independently.
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the council polls after a long
time. Former Chief Minister
Omar Abdullah recently
toured Ladakh region to
restructure his party. The
partys Ponchok Wangdan has
emerged as a major challenge
to incumbent CEC Rigzin
Spalbar in Leh council constituency where Congress has
suffered dissention.
Around 80, 811 voters
have been registered to exer-

cise their franchise on October

17. The district administration
has directed the political parties to strictly adhere to the
Model Code of Conduct during the polls.

He later joined the BJP in the presence

of its State unit president Mangal
Pandey, who welcomed him to the partyfold, saying that his decision would
help the prospects of the NDA candidates
at the hustings.
The Minister, who hails from
Nishad community, was denied ticket by
the JD(U) leadership from Morwa seat,
which goes to polls in the first phase
on October 12.

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important city in northern Afghanistan, on
Monday, was more a
defeat for Afghanistans
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
-trained Afghan Army than a victory for the Taliban. A report
under the heading, Taliban Fighters
Capture Kunduz City as Afghan
Forces Retreat, by Joseph Goldstein
and Mujib Mashal in The New York
Times of September 29, quoted a
security official as saying on the
condition of anonymity, that the
Taliban numbered 500 in the city,
and mentioned a district Governor,
Mr Zalmai Farooqi, as estimating
that the Government had 7,000
men in the area. The problem was
not the lack of security forces, Mr
Farooqi stated, but the absence of
good leadership.
For over a year, the Taliban had
been slowly spreading their tentacles in Kunduz Province, of which
the city of Kunduz is the capital.
The New York Times report cited
above quoted Mr Mohammad
Yousaf Abyoubi, head of Kunduzs
Provincial Council, as saying that
the Taliban controlled 70 per cent
of the Province outside the city. Yet,
he added that the Government neither launched an offensive nor sent
in reinforcements.
It was not that the
Government in Kabul and the
United States militar y in
Afghanistan did not know. For a
year, The New York Times report
states, local officials had been
expressing alarm over the
Talibans advance but some
Afghan and Western officials
had been dismissing these.
Typical
of
their
complacence/ignorance was a
remark in May, by the American
commander in Afghanistan,
General John F Campbell, quoted
in Joseph Goldsteins report in The
New York Times (September 30)
under the heading A Taliban Prize,
Won in a Few Hours after Years of
Strategy. The General, according to
it, had said in response to a question about the Talbans military
strategy, If you take a look very
closely at some of the things in
Kunduz and up in Badakhshan,
they will attack some very small
checkpoints. He added, They will
go out and hit a little bit and then
they kind of go to ground and then
said, so theyre not gaining territory for the most part.
One should hardly be surprised, if all this had convinced the
defenders that they had little chance
of receiving help and reinforcement
and, hence, there was no point in
their sticking their necks out. As a

result, the local police fought the

Taliban in some places, in the others, the latter advanced unopposed.
Otherwise, Afghans, known for
their courage in combat, would not
have fled. The point needs to be
made because they have showed
much better mettle elsewhere.
Consider the case of Kabul,
where the Taliban mounted three
attacks on August 7. The targets
were the Ministry of Defences
military intelligence headquarters,
the Kabul Police Academys training facility, and an American and
coalition forces military base, camp
integrity, just north of Kabuls international airport. While the attacks,
which left 65 dead and 240 wounded, provided an alarming example
of the Talibans striking power, it also
showed the Afghan forces in a
favourable light.
In none of the three instances
could the Taliban breach the
defended perimeters. The casualties
occurred mostly outside and,
besides one American soldier and
eight military contractors and
Afghan police cadets, they were
civilians, mainly passer-by.
The attacks, however, raised
certain questions. The fact that the

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Taliban could breach Kabuls outer

security ring and strike at the
Ministry of Defences military intelligence headquarters and the Kabul
Police Academys training facility,
suggests possible internal complicity without which, these could not
have happened. It is not just the
Kabul attacks. How is it that the
Afghan forces, which had a bad year
in 2014, when they suffered heavy
casualties, have fared worse since
the beginning of this year?
In most places, they have
remained besieged within the district capitals rarely venturing out
for patrolling while the Taliban
have increasingly dominated the
countryside. One cannot blame the
troops alone. Joseph Goldsteins
report under the heading, Afghan
Security Forces Struggle Just to
Maintain Stalemate, in The New
York Times of July 22, quotes a
retired Afghan Lieutenant General,
Abdul Hadi Khalid as saying,
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are killed.
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money home from their pay.
Medical supplies are in short supply; reinforcements seldom arrive.
The resultant demoralisation is
heightened by the fact that air support, which played a major role
when American troops were
deployed, is now very rarely
received. It is one thing to argue the
that Taliban have been gaining
ground without ever having it, and
another to expect troops used to
heavy air support when they fought
alongside Western coalition forces,
to do virtually without it now.
Such a state of affairs appears
hardly strange on recalling that
Afghanistan has not had a confirmed Defence Minister for about
a year now. The incumbent, Mr
Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai,
serves in an acting capacity as the
effort to confirm him was defeated by the Afghan Parliament on July
4, when he received 84 votes against
107 required. Afghanistans
President Ashraf Ghanis persistence
with Mr Stanekzai, a close confidante, whose performance as
Defence Minister has by no account
been effective, has been a source of
tension, as has been his policy
toward the Taliban and Pakistan.
He has sent officer cadets to
train in Pakistan, shared information with it and helped hunt down
Pakistani terrorists who had taken
refuge in Afghanistan, including six
involved in the horrific attack on the
Army Public School in Peshawar on
December 16, 2014. Pakistan has
given nothing in return.
President Ghanis reported
willingness to undertake constitutional amendments that would
guarantee the Taliban a share of
power, and give its clerics the
authority to roll back progressive
features of the countrys post 9/11
life, has alarmed Afghanistans
ethnic minorities inhabiting its
northern and western regions
that had led the resistance to the
Taliban before 9/11 as well as
youth and womens groups. These
have also raised questions about
his seriousness about fighting the
Taliban, which in turn is stoking
the fear of an inevitable eventual
Taliban take-over of Afghanistan
and undermining the military
and civilian administrations
resolve to defeat the Pakistansponsored and supported militia.
Can Mr Ghani be made to
change his policies? Can a more
widely-accepted and competent
leader replace him? Can the Afghan
military pull up its socks? What will
be the United States role after
Kunduz? A great deal will depend
on answers to these questions.

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Mohammed Akhlaq over beef
rumours should be condemned
by all. But the anti-BJP, anti-Modi
zealots will do well to remember
that law and order is a State subject. If these zealots hold Mr
Narendra Modi responsible for
the 2002 post-Godhra violence
because he was the Chief Minister
at that time, then, by that same
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the rich.
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in the real estate and automobile
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get some Green Goals going.
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pact on emissions, India is now
under the spotlight for development can no longer be carried out
at the cost of environment.
At the start of the US economic recovery after the 20072008 recession, US President
Barack Obama had made all the
right noises about asking Detroit
automakers to design more fuelefficient cars. But political compulsions have forced him to
play soft.
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no longer be the prerogative of
individual Governments but
should be dealt on a global scale.
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language. Children easily learn
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become high achievers.
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of the ills that plague this country post-independence.
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eulogise Deen Dayal Upadhayas
integral humanism as part of their
foremost ideologues birth
centenary celebrations substantiates
how contextomy or quoting out of
context provokes controversy.
The term contextomy was
coined by journalist Milton Mayer to
explain how Julius Streicher the
editor of the infamous Nazi tabloid
Der Strmer in Weimar-era
Germany to awaken anti-Semitic
sentiments among the journals
working-class
Christian
readership, often published abridged
quotations from Talmudic texts.
The quotations in their edited form
seem to encourage greed, slavery, and
ritualistic murder. Contextomy, a
common practice of misrepresentation in contemporary mass media,
can have huge influence on the
public. What is more harmful is that
the effects of such distortion can stay
on even after the public is exposed
to the original in context quote.
What we say is not exactly what
others understand. Often we see,
hear and understand things as we
want to and not as they are. Studies
say the most common errors people
make in formulating their perceptive
are misrepresenting views we want
to refute and misrepresenting the
nature of the problem we are
addressing. The former is generally
called the Straw Man Fallacy while
the latter is called False Alternatives
or False Dilemma.
Attempting to discredit a view by
criticising a weak version of it or the
reason given in support of it is
Straw Man. Whereas misformulating a problem as a choice between
two (or more) alternatives, when
there exist other alternatives that have
not been considered is a False
alternative. False Alternatives is basically a problem of oversimplification.
For instance, Voltaire is often
mistaken saying, as claimed in the
book Friends of Voltaire (1907) by
Evelyn Beatrice Hall, I disapprove
of what you say, but I will defend to
the death your right to say it. (Je
dsapprouvece que vousdites, mais je
dfendrai la mort votre droit le
dire) But what he actually said was
Think for yourselves and let others
enjoy the privilege to do so too
(from Voltaires Essay on Tolerance).
Often statements of influential
people are misrepresented by the
media, perhaps to meet political
agenda or to create controversy and
turn an unexciting event or a comment into breaking news and sell it.
It has been claimed that Obama
believes in wealth distribution. The
quote which went viral, I think the
trick is figuring out how do we structure Government systems that pool
resources and hence facilitate some
redistribution because I actually
believe in redistribution. (Senator
Barack Obama remarks at Loyola
University, Chicago, Oct 19, 1998)
What he exactly said in context,
I think the trick is figuring out how
do we structure government systems
that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution because I
actually believe in redistribution, at
least at a certain level to make sure
that everybodys got a shot. How do
we pool resources at the same time
as we decentralise delivery systems
in ways that foster competition, can
work in the marketplace, and can foster innovation at the local level and
can be tailored to particular communities?
How Mohan Bhagwat
was quoted?
Following the statements of
Mohan Bhagwat given in the interview, the national dailies seem to
have misconstrued the entire episode
and thus presented the discussion
before the public with controversial
headlines, the RSS Sarsanghchalak
demanding review of reservation
policy, End reservation policy,
Social review of reservation policy,
Bhagwats take on reservation,
Aarthik aadhar par hi mile
(reservation shall be based only on
economic basis).
What did Mohan Bhagwat
exactly say?
The first question, related to
reser vation, asked to Mohan
Bhagwat by the interviewer was: In
political science it is taught that pressure groups make democracy
vibrant. Panditji believed that we
need to take care of each others
interests and move forward. How
you see agitations such as demand
for One Rank, One Pension or
reservations from the integral
humanist perspective?
In response, Mohan Bhagwat
said, I do not think that integral
humanism has negated the role of
interest groups. Interest groups are
formed because we have certain
aspirations in democracy. At the
same time, we should remember that

through interest groups we should

not strive to address those aspirations
at the cost of others. We should have
integral approach of welfare for all.
It is sensible to realise that my interest lies in larger national interest. The
Government also has to be sensitive
to these issues that there should not
be any agitations for them. From the
integral humanist perspective, the
thinking that the Government is different from us should be altered. For
instance, you need a fan on fast speed
while I dont want it at all, still we can
both agree to have a fan on lesser
speed. Harmonisation of interests is
possible with this perspective. We
can move forward with synchronisation and not struggle. My interest
is in collective interest, should be
realised by both, the Government
and society. This balance is required
from both sides. In fact, they are not
two sides but just parts of the integral whole. Everyone should realise
that suppression and oppression of
one section by the other is against the
interests of all. That should be the
approach we need to inculcate.
Neither the question and nor the
answer has anything to do with revocation of reservation. In fact what
Bhagwat talks about is integral
humanism which can be achieved
through synchronisation and not
struggle. Bhagwat is against suppression and oppression of one section by the other.
The second question, concerning reservation, that Bhagwat was
asked, You said integrity and honesty are the main parameters. Do you
see any such policy initiative, undertaken or suggestive, which is in tune
with integral humanism?
Bhagwat replied, The reservation for socially backward classes is
the right example in this regard. If we

would have implemented this policy

as envisaged by the Constitution
makers instead of doing politics
over it, then present situation would
not have arrived. Since inception it
has been politicised. We believe,
form a committee of people genuinely concerned for the interest of
the whole nation and committed for
social equality, including some representatives from society, they should
decide which categories require reservation and for how long. The nonpolitical committee like autonomous
commissions should be the implementation authority; political authorities should supervise them for honesty and integrity.
Evidently Bhagwat believes that
the reservation for socially backward
classes is in tune with integral
humanism, provided it is implemented without any political
motives. He is not against reservation; he is against the politics done
over it. Hence he has suggested to
form an apolitical committee to
examine who needs the facility and
for how long.
Amid the on-going Patel quota
tumult in Gujarat and the upcoming
Bihar election, the politicised out of
context representation of what
exactly RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat
has said during the interview has
aroused many questions.
What is Mohan Bhagwats view
on reservation?
Mohan Bhagwat, on September
8, 2014, during a book launch event,
said, We support reservation. Till
the time there is inequality in society, reservation is needed. To bring
up those suffering from this inequality as equals, we need reservation.
But there should not be any politics
on that. He added, For 1,000 years,

those people for the benefit of the

country tolerated the injustice. The
reasons for which they tolerated,
those reasons are no longer here now
as we have gained our Independence.
Now our duty is to bring them up as
equals. To bring them as equals, if for
100 years one has to tolerate injustice, let be it.
In the same event while recalling
the ideology of Deen Dayal
Uphadhyay, he said, The mentor of
Jan Sangh, Deen Dayal Upadhyay,
used to say that if one has to bring
everybody as equals, then those who
are above the ordinary masses should
bow and extend their hands to the
underprivileged. Through each
others cooperation, everybody can
become equals. If those who are privileged do not bow or bend, those
below the line cannot come up.
But unfortunately nowhere the
statement finds mention, no headline
was made. Image of a person or an
organisation if often constructed
through either emphasising or ignoring some facts. Can we really ignore
the media bias against the RSS?
Living in a democratic country we all
have a right to have our own ideology and form our own opinions. We
may or may not believe in the ideology others believe in but our education and intellect do not encourage us to be judgmental. Without
evaluating a statement within a context how can we comment on it?
Perhaps the image of RSS as an
anti-Dalit and anti-backward organisation is being promoted through
the media with an ulterior motive.
Given the upcoming Bihar election,
any news suggesting RSS as an
upper caste Hindu organisation
which is against the reservation policy would definitely benefit the
Opposition parties.

Why are we scared of reviewing

reservation?
The term :reviewing of reservation: used by Bhagwat has been misused to generate controversies especially by the Congress and its allies.
However, review of reservation is not
synonymous to revocation of reservation. The people belonging to the
backward section, given their traumatic past history of exploitation,
oppression and social ostracism, are
not able to compete with the upper
class people until they are provided
equal opportunity. Education is
interrelated with occupation which
in turn determines the economic
condition of the people. An economically stable person can access all
the facilities available be it education
or healthcare. Since it is only through
education and occupation one can
achieve social, political and economic equality the policy of reservation was formulated to safeguard
the rights of the backward people.
However while implementing
the policy, many loopholes remained
there. When the policy of reservation
was implemented, it was assumed
that all castes falling under a particular category, be it SC or ST, were
homogeneous and the people within that particular category were
educationally, socially and financially
equal. But the fact that even within

the comparatively socially backward

castes.

a particular category there are differences social and economic

has been overlooked.
For instance, SC category
includes Bhangi (Valmiki caste) along
with Meghwal, Dhobi, Nut, Turi and
Khatik. Curiously the Valmikis, considered lowest in social hierarchy,
were meted out similar behaviour as
the other well-offs within the SC
receive from the upper caste people.
One who is oppressed tries to oppress
others in some form or the other.
Similarly Meena tribe is included
within the ST category along with
Bhil, Garasia, Kuki,and Mikir tribes.
Jat, Yadav and Kurmiare considered
OBC which also includes Luhar,
Mallah and Manihar.
Though SC, ST and OBC are
given reservation and thus safely segregated from the higher castes, but
the faulty implementation has left
Valmikis to compete with Chamars,
Bhils to compete with Meenas, and
Luhars to compete with Jats. This
recalls a situation when a lamb is
saved from a tiger but left in front of
a wolf. The lamb has to die in any
case. The very assumption of hundreds of castes within a particular category being homogeneous is faulty.
This is one of the fundamental reasons why some castes have remained
as they were 100 years back while
some have flourished. Even after 68
years of implementation of the reservation policy the social and economic
gap between different castes could not
be wiped out. Even within ST hardly a Meena dines with a Bhil and
within SC a Chamar hardly keeps any
social relation with a Valmiki.
The review of reservation on the
basis of socio-economic profile of
different castes and individuals, as
suggested by Bhagwat, would definitely help uplift the poorest among

ing people would be benefited while

the socially and economically welloffs would have to give up the benefits they were enjoying so far. Perhaps
that is what irks them and hence they
are against any such move.

Why shouldnt we identify

deserving categories?
The other strand of the statement decide which categories
require reservation drew flak from
most of the media houses. While the
creamy layer has criticised the review
of reservation, the vulnerable groups
have openly supported the suggestion. An article in The Hindu published on September 24, 2015, two
days after the comment of Bhagwat
on quota, reads that Dalit sub-castes
seek reservation review. An association of most vulnerable caste in SC
category, the Valmikis (sanitation
workers) in north India, while citing
data from Government committees,
argue that they have been swamped
out from the benefits of quotas by the
better-off leather workers caste.
Even the retired bureaucrat and
president of Rashtriya Dalit Bachao
Andolan OP Shukla, who belongs to
the Valmiki community, said, What
is wrong in saying that reservation
be reviewed? Everyone has a right to
know what each caste got in these 68
years. We welcome this effort by RSS
chief Mohan Bhagwat.
If the re-categorisation is done on
the basis of socio-economic status of
a particular caste, the really deserv-

Why shouldnt we estimate

a period?
The third aspect how long was
misrepresented by critics to construct
an impression that Bhagwat wants to
revoke reservation. Every policy of
the Government is based on the cost,
the long-term benefits and the
estimated period of completion of a
project. The Governments inability
to estimate the period within which
the problem of inequality will be
solved indicates that the policy is not
effective. How can a policy without
a definite aim and time period bring
the desired result? How can such
policy help in the development of
a society?
We should first review if the
reservation policy has really benefitted the vulnerable or not. If the
answer is yes, then the review is necessary to bring those who are yet not
benefited within the ambit of benefit. If the answer is no, then the
review is necessary to make changes
in the policy and explore other
options to benefit the dalits.
Thus Mohan Bhagwats suggestion of commencing a review of the
reservation policy, and setting up of
an apolitical committee to examine
who needs the facility and for how
long if analysed within the context
does make sense.
(Anish Gupta and Aaleya Giri
teach Economics and English respectively at Delhi University. One of the
writers belongs to OBC. They can be
reached at pioneer.article@gmail.com.
Views expressed here are personal.)

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countrys total merchandise
exports in 2014-15.
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exports of these sectors stood
at $17.79 billion.
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negative growth, gems and
jewelery and pharmaceuticals
registered a marginal growth
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respectively during the month
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reserves, official data showed
on Friday.
Overall the forex declined
by $2.04 billion to $349.97 billion in the week ended
September 25.
In the week under review,
the dollar had strengthened
against the major non-dollar
currencies especially the Euro
and the Pound by over 1 percent. This has translated into
the plunge in foreign reserves,
Anindya Banerjee, associate
vice president for currency
derivatives with Kotak
Securities, told the news
agency.
The Indian reserves consist
of nearly 20-25 percent of nondollar currencies. The individual movements of these
currencies against the dollar
impacts the overall reserve
value.
According to Banerjee, the
intervention by the Reserve

Bank of India (RBI) to stablise

the rupee also receded the foreign reserves.
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 currency so far in the year, Banerjee
said.
The RBI is known to enter
the sport markets to either sell
or buy dollars to keep the
rupee in a stable orbit.
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 C1,251.03 crore or
$190.39 million in equity and
debt markets from September
21-24.
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$352.02 billion in the week
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to $351.38 billion in the week
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Export Organisations (FIEO)

said these are labour intensive
sectors and government
should announce steps to con-

petrol exports will fall by 98 per

cent by 2019 and will become
the second largest importer of
gasoline after Indonesia by
2024, BMI Research said.
We forecast Indias net
gasoline exports to decline by
97.8 per cent over the next five
years, from 306,800 barrels
per day in 2014 to just 6,760
bpd in 2019.
This decline will be a
result of rapid growth in
domestic demand in India,
which will require output normally designated for exports to
be directed inwards, said BMI
Research, a Fitch Group company.
India, it said, will become
a net importer of gasoline from
2020, despite a significant
increase of production domestically.
Our forecasts show that
India will become the second
largest net importer of gasoline
after Indonesia by the end of
the decade, overtaking the likes
of China, Australia and
Malaysia as consumption
growth slows in these key consumer countries, it said.
The rise in domestic
demand will provide an import
outlet for Indias growing gasoline production - set to rise 10.3
per cent over the next five
years.
At present, India remains
the largest gasoline exporter in
the Asia-Pacific region, export-

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Asia and the Middle East,
which accounted for nearly
half of Indias total refined
fuels exports in 2014.
However, falling demand
in these two markets will see
their imports diminish over the
coming decade, it said.
Indias refined fuel shipments to the Middle East
decreased by 14.3 per cent
over 2013-2014; a trend that
may persist with output from
new refineries expected to
ramp up to full capacity over
the next few years.
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exports to the rest of Asia also
declined by 9.7 per cent over
the same period.
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in the developed economies,
such as Japan and Taiwan moderated gasoline use in the transport sectors, while refining
capacity expansions in the
emerging economies, such as
Vietnam, has intensified competition in the exports market.
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dilution of the Government
stake in IDBI Bank, but these
are at a preliminary stage,
sources said.
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looked at in the case of dilution
of stake and things are being
examined at various levels,
sources said.
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the IDBI Repeal Act in 2003. In
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crore on Thursday, made during the three-months compliance window under the Black
money law, the Finance
Ministry on Friday said that
those who have not taken
advantage of the compliance
window to declare their unaccounted overseas assets and
come clean, will regret.
Fight against black
money is a part of economic
reforms. As a country we can
not allow ghost economy to
undermine the real economy
and growth, Economic
Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta
Das said in a tweet.
Only 638 declarations for
a total overseas wealth of
C3,770 crore were made during the 90-day compliance
window under the Black
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been instrumental in dragging
down Indias overall merchandise exports.
Worried about continued
decline in exports, the
Commerce Ministry has called
a meeting of exporters on
October 7 to discuss ways to
contain fall in the outbound
shipments.
India has aimed at taking
exports of goods and services
to $900 billion by 2020 and
raising the countrys share in
world exports to 3.5 per cent
from 2 per cent.
The total exports in the
past four financial years have
been hovering at around $300
billion. The continuous
decline in exports is expected
to impact jobs and put pressure on the current account
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some of its refineries is expected to provide some respite, it
will not be sufficient to offset
the loss in demand from
Middle East and Asia, BMI
said.
Alternative growth markets
exist - such as Africa or Latin
America.
However, India would
face considerable competition
in these markets, as North
American and European refiners look to offload large surplus
of production in coming years,
it said.
Indias strong domestic
consumption growth will
require more of its gasoline
output to be directed inwards
to meet domestic demand,
thus reducing volumes available for exports.
We forecast Indias gasoline consumption to rise by an
average 10.2 per cent per
annum over the next 10 years,
driven by solid economic
growth, strong passenger car
sales growth and structural
rebalancing away from diesel,
BMI said.
Even as India adds about 1
million bpd of refining capacity by 2020, the pace of the
countrys consumption growth
will outstrip that of refining
capacity, rendering local production insufficient to meet
domestic gasoline demand and
turning the country into a net
importer of the fuel.
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mathematical data, was used
by the Income Tax
Department to calculate the
total value of declarations
that were made under the
one-time black money compliance window.
Sources privy to the late
night operation at the designated I-T office here said as
soon as the window closed at
midnight on Thursday, the
software was activated to get
the total number of people
who made declarations and
the amount declared. The
software has also indicated
that the maximum number of

declarations came from the

western region of the country
where large states like
Maharashtra, Gujarat and
Rajasthan are located.
One of the single largest
declarations is about C180
crore while a number of others are of a relatively smaller
value ranging between C50
lakh and C5 crore, they said.
The sources, however,
said these figures are largely
tentative and a clear picture
could be made out after sometime. The figures are subject
to reconciliation as the data
was compiled for a quick
assessment overnight, they
said.
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money compliance window:

Those who did not declare
have underestimated the
power of information
exchange. Will regret.
The one-time compliance
window, under which persons
having unaccounted overseas

wealth could declare their

assets and come clean by paying tax and penalty of 60 per
cent, ended on September 30.
Black money compliance
window: Those who did not
declare have done it at their
own peril and will regret, said

Das, who was Revenue

Secretary when the scheme
was formulated, said in another tweet.
As regard sharing of information, the Government
signed an agreement with the
US on implementing the
Foreign Account Tax
Compliance Act (FATCA),
which allows automatic
exchange of tax information
between the two countries
with effect from September
30.
Secondly, the multilateral
Automatic Exchange of
Information (AEOI) agreement, which will come into
force from 2017, will help the
Government is getting tax
related information from several jurisdictions across the
world.
As on March 18, 58 jurisdictions, including India,
have committed to share
information under AEOI by
2017. A further 36 jurisdictions have committed to
share by 2018, including
jurisdictions which have beneficial tax regime.

tional freedom as far as stake

dilution is concerned.
Last month, Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley had hinted a change in the characteristics of IDBI Bank where government would have a majority stake, but at the same time
maintain an arms length distance.
Citing the example of Axis
Bank, he had wondered if IDBI
Bank can follow that model.
The government indirectly controls 29.19 per cent in
Axis Bank through the administrator of the Specified
Undertaking of the Unit Trust
of India (SUUTI), the Life
Insurance Corporation and
four other public sector general
insurance companies.
In the case of IDBI Bank,
the government holding stands
at 76.5 per cent. However,
IDBI Bank in a regulatory filing to stock exchanges said it

has not received any communication from the government

on this.
At the same time, bank
unions have started opposing
any possible move to bring
down stake of the Government
below 51 per cent.
Earlier this week, Jaitley
had said the Government is
open to diluting its stake in
public sector banks to 52 per
cent.
We are willing to look at all
other changes, including bringing down Government equity to
52 per cent (in state-run banks),
and therefore giving additional financial strength and teeth to
the banking institutions themselves, he had said.
The Minister said the government is making all efforts
to give a final shape to the
Banking Bureau so that personnel issues can be ironed
out.
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Volkswagen said on Friday
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an investigation it has commissioned into its massive pollution cheating scandal would
take several months, as
Australia became the latest
country to warn the company
it could face huge fines.
VW, which sparked global uproar when it admitted to
fitting sophisticated software in
its diesel engines to skew emission testing, has hired US legal
firm Jones Day to conduct an
independent probe into the
affair that has rocked the entire
automobile sector.
The steering committee of
VWs supervisory board was
of the opinion that the investigations will take several
months, it said in a statement.
Given the time and personnel resources needed for
the investigation, an extraordinary general meeting that
was originally going to be held
on November 9 is being postponed.
In addition to VWs own
investigations, regulatory and
legal probes are under way all
over the world to pinpoint the

masterminds behind the scam,

which has plunged the auto
group into its deepest-ever
crisis and left it facing huge
fines and a possible tidal wave
of litigation.
The EU is seeking to
decide on coordinated action
by the end of November based
on the various investigations in
its member states, Industry
Commissioner Elzbieta
Bienkowska told journalists
today.
In the United States alone,
VW could face up to $18 billion in fines.
And Australias competition watchdog said the
German carmaker could be
fined AusUSD 1.1 million
($780,000) for each cheating
device, potentially amounting
to billions in costs -- although
a fine of such size would be
unlikely.
Swedens finance minister
Magdalena Andersson said she
may send a tax bill to VW for
undeclared pollution of its
diesel vehicles, as cars sold in
the Nordic country have a tax
assessed depending on the
amount of pollution they emit.
Romania also warned VW of
paying more taxes.

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on Friday charged Grant
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Thornton India LLP and
Australia-based group firm
Grant Thornton Audit Pty Ltd
with auditor independence
violations that occurred when
two partners served on the
boards of Mauritius-based subsidiaries of their clients.
These partners served on
the boards of the companies
that were Grant Thornton
audit clients and performed
non-audit services prohibited
under the SECs auditor independence rules, the regulator
said in a statement.
Without admitting or
denying the findings, both
entities have agreed to cease
and desist from future violations. However, the names of
the clients were not disclosed.

GT India agreed to pay

disgorgement of audit fees in
the amount of $128,905, plus
prejudgement interest of
$8,977,and a penalty of
$50,000.
GT Audit agreed to pay
disgorgement of $88,683, plus
prejudgement interest of
$13,520, and a penalty of
$75,000, SEC said.
The watchdog has censured the two audit firms for
violating the auditor independence standards besides sanctioning them for causing the
issuers to violate the requirement to file annual reports
with the Commission.
The orders also found
that the audit firms engaged in
improper professional conduct in violation of federal
securities laws and the
Commissions Rules of
Practice, SEC noted.

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crore over the next two years to
enhance capacity and add value
to its products for wider applications spanning liquid and
granular materials, a top company official said.
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plans, we propose to invest
C1,000 crore in the next two
years to expand capacity and
product range for packaging

semi-liquids and liquid materials and powder and granular

materials, Uflex chairman and
managing director Ashok
Chaturvedi told IANS in an email interview.
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in India, Dubai, Egypt, Mexico,
Poland and the US and markets
in 85 countries worldwide,
makes polyester chips, plastic
films, laminates, inks and adhesives for packaging liquid and
solid goods.

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and more assembly lines at
new locations in India and
overseas for making a range of
new and value added products
to our global customers,
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Uttar Pradesh near Delhi,
Jammu and in Malanpur in
Bhind district of Madhya
Pradesh, the 32-year-old firm is
setting up an asceptic plant at
Sanand in Gujarat to pack liquid products at Rs.550 crore in

first phase.
When fully commissioned
in phases over the next twothree years, the Sanand plant
will employ about 3,000 people
and 90 percent of its production
will be to meet domestic
demand, Chaturvedi noted.
Among its Indian and
global customers across 140
countries are P&G, PepsiCo,
Tata Global, Mondelez, L Oreal,
Britannia, Haldiram, Amul,
Kimberly Clark, Ferro Rocher,
Perfetti, GSK, Nestle, Agrotech

Foods, Coca Cola, Wrigley and

Johnson & Johnson.
The company recently
unveiled a range of inks, which
are rub-scratch and crinkle
resistance and offer good gloss
and tape release.
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moisture proof bag (Flex
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January 2017.
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per the timeline for setting up
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 be done in
December and a pilot will be
launched in January 2017,
said an official in the
Communications and IT
Ministry.
He said the bank will be an
independent company with
initial corpus of C300 crore and
the new entity will enter into
revenue sharing model with

the Department of Posts

(DoP). The Reserve Bank had
granted 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
C1 lakh per individual customer. They will be allowed to
issue ATM or debit cards as also
other prepaid payment instruments, but not credit cards.

o check self-trade, National

Stock Exchange (NSE)
plans to introduce a new facility in the capital market segment from October 12.
The new mechanism will
prevent matching between a
buy and a sell order entered in
the same order book by a
member for the same client
code originating from same or
different trading terminals of
the member.
Self-trade prevention
mechanism shall be introduced in capital market segment with effect from trade
date October 12, 2015, NSE
said in a circular.
In case an active order is
likely to match with a passive
order belonging to the same
member-client or same member-proprietary combination
in the same order book, then
such an order (full or partial as
the case may be) would be cancelled by the bourse as the
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self-trade', the exchange said.

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benchmark index Sensex faced selling pressure
amid global and domestic growth concerns.
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cent to 10,818.68, the small-cap index has seen

a rise of 1.39 per cent to 11,042.60 from April
1 to October 1. In contrast, the 30-stock
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per cent to 26,220.95. The index hit an all-time
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the government has taken initiatives to increase coal output.
He said the country recorded an incremental growth of 32
million tonnes of coal in 201415 that was more than the
cumulative growth of 31 million
tonnes during the previous
years.
Coal production continues
to grow at around 9.5 per cent
during the current fiscal year,
Swarup said while delivering a
lecture on the coal story.
Due to consequences of
increased production, thermal
power plants have an average
inventory of coal for more than
25 days as against 7 days last
year, he said.
Import of coal has already
started receding, he further
said. Stressing that his ministry
has brought total transparency
by auction on web portal of the
ministry, Swarup said the total
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had risen in August-September
2014 when the Supreme Court
in a judgment cancelled allotment of 204 blocks due to nontransparent mechanism for allocation of blocks, a discretionary
method, and loss to the exchequer/windfall for private sector,
he recalled.
The Coal Ministry had
managed this crisis by evolving
a transparent process of auction
using IT applications, setting up
an internal team, appointing
nominated authority judge or
a bureaucrat, engaging expert
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basis of CIL Run-of-Mine price
and bidders have to bid for premium above this price for the relevant grade, an inter-ministerial panel has suggested.
Run-of-Mine (ROM) is coal
that is not graded according to
quality or size. There is also a
proposal that in the proposed
auction of coal linkages to nonregulated sector which covers
cement, sponge iron, captive
power and others through competitive bidding the maximum
bid quantity by a particular bidder will not exceed the normative requirement of the end-use
plant, an official said.
For auction of linkages,
Coal India (CIL) shall chalk out
annual or six-monthly auction
calendar and there shall also be
a provision for third party sampling of coal supplied, the official added. The Government had
last month informed CIL that the
policy with regard to auction of
coal linkages may take some
more time to be finalised.

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computer giant Lenovo in a
deal valued at $2.9 billion, but
held on to patents.
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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
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growth story, but its
biggest challenge will be to
create enough skilled manpower and jobs that will spur
a virtuous cycle of higher
growth, says a Macquarie
report.
According to the global
financial services firm, India
will add around 100 million
people to its working-age population between now and 2025
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critical to reap the benefits of

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India, it added.
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path with initiatives like Skill
India, Ease of Doing Business,
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through, Macquarie said.
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auctioned blocks. Apart from
this, royalty of C21,896 crore,
upfront payment of C 953 crore
accrues to the states, he said,
adding the auction proceeds to
be transferred to the respective
state governments. Eastern
states would be the biggest beneficiary and would financially
empower them, Swarup said.
Admitting that there is a
huge gap in supply and demand
of coal in the country, Swarup
said India has reserves of more
than 300 billion tonnes, yet we
are unable to meet our requirements.

The Coal Secretary also

elaborated his ministry's initiatives for increasing coal production, ensuring process of
transparency, online electronic
auction process, and the state
government's slackness in cutting transmission and theft losses in power while generated
through thermal plants.
He also advised Rajasthan
government to allot land for a
power plant based on lignite in
Bikaner to avoid unnecessary
delay and waiting for coal, as this
could be a serious problem for
this state in near future if it did
not act on Friday.
On a question when asked
by a senior IAS (retired) officer
Dr R Bhanawat whether the
Ministry of Coal took up these
measures and initiatives after
alleged coal scam, the secretary
said, NO.
I have planned the eauction after consultations
to bring transparency in the
system and avoid any allegations," he added. He further said, More than 2,000
hectares of land is acquired
in past one year, and 41
environmental clearances
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their Governments need to
remove this concern that clean
energy sources cannot achieve
full potential, says an
International Energy Agency
(IEA) report.
Governments
must
remove the question marks
over renewables if these technologies are to achieve their full
potential, and put our energy
system on a more secure, sustainable path, IEA Executive
Director Fatih Birol said.
Releasing the 'MediumTerm Renewable Energy
Market Report 2015' in
Istanbul, Birol said, renewables are poised to seize the
crucial top spot in global power
supply growth, but this is hardly time for complacency.
According to IEA annual
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over the next five years, driven
by falling costs and aggressive
expansion in emerging
economies.
Pointing to the great
promise renewables hold for
affordably mitigating climate
change and enhancing energy
security, the report warns governments to reduce policy
uncertainties that are acting as
brakes on greater deployment.
It said that renewable electricity additions over the next
five years will top 700 gigawatts
(GW) more than twice
Japan's current installed power
capacity. They will account for
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NEW DELHI: Aluminium
industry officials are set to
meet Revenue Secretar y
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 Middle-East.
Following the imposition
of 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 week, they added.
Last month, the association
members -- Vedanta Group
CEO Tom Albanese, Hindalco
Deputy Managing Director D

Satish Pai and Nalco CMD T K

Chand -- met Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley and urged him to
raise the import duty on the
metal.
Indian producers are facing
a double whammy of cheaper
imports and meltdown in global prices. Since April 2011,
primary aluminium prices at
the London Metal Exchange
(LME) dropped 42 per cent to
$1,540 a tonne in August this
year from the earlier $2,623 per
tonne, an AAI official said.
Aluminium hot metal
cost of production (excluding
interest and depreciation) on
the domestic front has risen
29 per cent to C1.2 lakh a
tonne from C93,700 due to
increase in cost of power,
logistics and introduction of
the Renewable Power
Obligation and a clean energy cess, he added.
PTI

that is, the amount of new

capacity that is added, minus
the scheduled retirements of
existing power plants.
Non-hydro sources such as
wind and solar photovoltaic
panels (solar PV) will represent
nearly half of the total global
power capacity increase.
The report sees the share of
renewable energy in global
power generation rising to over
26 per cent by 2020 from 22 per
cent in 2013 a remarkable
shift in a very limited period of
time. By 2020, the amount of
global electricity generation
coming from renewable energy will be higher than today's
combined electricity demand of
China, India and Brazil.

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and NSE will next week
shift a total of 25 companies to
the restricted trading segment to
ensure safety of investors in the
capital markets.
BSE said it would be shifting scrips of 19 firms to the
trade-to-trade or the T group
segment, while National Stock
exchange (NSE) has decided to
move stocks of six companies to
this category, the bourses said in
separate notices.
The stocks would be transferred to the restricted trade segment with effect from October
7. The scrips to be moved to the
'T' group on both the bourses
include Cambridge Technology
Enterprises,
Dynacons
Technologies, Euro Multivision,
Farmax India, FCS Software
Solutions and Rasoya Proteins.
Under the trade-to-trade
segment, no speculative trading

is allowed and delivery of shares

and payment of consideration
amount are mandatory. The
move is part of a surveillance
review and with a view to
ensure market safety and safeguard the interest of investors,
the exchanges said.
The bourses have asked
trading members "to take adequate precaution" while trading
in these scrips as "the settlement
will be done on trade-to-trade
basis and no netting off will be
allowed."
Further, they said that the
"transfer of security for trading
and settlement on a trade-totrade basis is purely on account
of market surveillance and it
should not be construed as an
adverse action against the concerned company."
These stocks would attract
a price band of 5 per cent, which
would be the maximum permissible limit within which the
share price can move.

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rocked America on Thursday as a lone gunman went on
the rampage on a college campus in Oregon, leaving at least 10
people, including the gunman,
dead and seven wounded.
In what was reported to be
the 142nd episode of school
shooting in the US since 2012,
the gunman, later identified as
26-year-old Chris Harper
Mercer, struck at the Umpqua
Community College in Roseburg
in rural Oregon and spewed bullets from three bullets and possibly a semiautomatic rifle.
The gunman, who was subsequently killed in an exchange
of fire with police officers, targeted Christians specifically,
CNN reported, quoting the
father of a wounded student.
Described as a withdrawn
young man with some mental
issues, the gunman reportedly
ordered the students to stand up
if they were Christians, telling

them: Good, because youre a

Christian, youre going to see
God in just about one second.
He thereafter shot and killed
them, the injured students father
said. The shooter appeared to be
an angry young man who was
filled with hate, one law enforcement official said. Investigators
are poring over his hateful
writings even as the FBI dispatched dozens of agents to
assist in the investigation.
Horrified by the latest
episode, a visibly frustrated
and angry President Barack
Obama urged lawmakers to
get their act together at least
now and pass some deterring
gun control measures for a
semblance of public safety.
Recalling a series of mass
shootings in recent years, notably
the ones in Aurora, Newtown,
Tucson and Charleston, he
regretted that Americas response
to all these have become routine
from the reporting by the
media, to his own comments, to
the opposition to gun control

laws aimed at deterring the violence.

We are the only advanced
country on earth that sees these
kinds of mass shootings every
few months, Obama said as he
renewed his plea to a highlypolarised US Congress to change
the countrys gun laws, remarking: It cannot be this easy for
somebody who wants to inflict
harm on other people to get his
or her hands on a gun.
Id ask the American 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, Obama said.
After the outrageous shooting episode at an elementary
school in Newtown, Connecticut
in 2012, Obama personally led
an all-out push for tight gun control measures, but they failed to
advance in the Congress.
Obama called on gun owners who use weapons for hunting, sport and protection to
question whether the gun lobby
represented their views. His
comments were directed at the
National Rifle Association that
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insurgents in Kunduz on Friday,
days after the militants captured the city in a stunning strike,
sparking fierce fighting.
Officials said they were in
control of the northern provincial capital while in the east of the
country, a US military transport
plane crashed killing 11 people
including six US soldiers.
The Taliban claimed to have
shot the C-130 Hercules down
near Jalalabad. However, US
Major Tony Wickman told AFP:
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attack did not contribute to the
crash. It is under investigation.
The Talibans offensive in Kunduz, their biggest tactical success since 2001, marks a blow for
Afghanistans NATO-trained
forces, who have largely been
fighting on their own since December. Officials said today that
Afghan forces had secured the
city after days of fierce clashes
with the insurgents clouded by
confusing and contradictory
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ban female staff from wearing
the full face veil aims to put an
end to student complaints of
"poor communication" in class,
the head of Egypt's Cairo
University said on Friday.
Although the head-to-toe
covering known locally as the
niqab is "not a phenomenon"
among his teachers, Gaber
Nassar told The Associated
Press that he wants to "cure the
disease" before it becomes one.
Islamic clerics and students have denounced the
move as discriminatory, but
Nassar said he has the backing
of the Grand Mufti, Egypt's top
religious authority.
The niqab, Nassar said, is
especially problematic in language courses, where the cloth
barrier of the veil hinders
student-teacher communications producing low grades
and graduates incapable of
enunciation. The vast majority of Eg yptian Muslim
women wear a form of veil
that covers the hair but leaves
the face uncovered.
AP

American servicemen, were on Friday 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. More information will be released as it is gathered, the Pentagon
said in a statement. Our mujahideen have shot down
a four-engine US aircraft in Jalalabad, Taliban
spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Twitter.
The Talibans claim of resposibility came as the hostility between NATO special forces and Taliban insurgents escalated in the northen Afghan city of Kunduz.
NATO-backed Afghan forces have been battling the
Taliban over the control of Kunduz, which the insurgents captured on Monday.
The falling of the key Afghani city to the militants
is seen as a game-changer for the Taliban that has been
dogged by a leadership crisis since the July announcement of the death of its founder Mullah Omar. The
Talibans advances in Kunduz and neighbouring
Takhar and Baghlan provinces highlight rapidly
expanding insurgency in Afghanistan, since the US-led
invasion of the country in 2001.
PTI

Pakistan has accused New

Delhi of using the terrorism
bogey to stall bilateral dialogue over the core issue of
Jammu and Kashmir.
Hours after External
Affairs Minister Sushma
Swarajs hard-hitting remarks
at the UN General Assembly
on Thursday, Pakistan went
on to say that it has submitted dossiers on what it
claims to be evidence of
Indias interference and suppor t for terrorism in
Balochistan and Karachi.
A day after India rubbished Prime Minister Nawaz

Sharif s accusations in his

UNGA speech by exercising its
right-of-reply option, Pakistan
resorted to a tit-for-tat response
by deputing a diplomat at its
mission in UN to counter
Swarajs address.
What apparently riled
Islamabad was Swarajs rejection of Sharif s so-called fourpoint peace initiative and
enunciation of her own onepoint formula asking Pakistan
to give up terrorism if it
wanted the peace process to
move forward.
She had also tellingly
brought out how the Pakistani
mastermind behind the 2008
Mumbai terror attack was still
walking free. Terming it an
affront to the entire international community, Swaraj made
the case for inflicting a heavy
price on countries that finance,
arm and train terrorists.
Pakistan, in its response
filed by a counsellor at its mission to the UN, said: The core
issue of Jammu and Kashmir
cannot be cast aside by empty
rhetoric. It has been and will

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President Vladimir Putin was due
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bogged down but in Moscow theyre
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air strikes by the US-led coalition in
Syria had failed to inflict significant
damage on the jehadist Islamic State
group, but Russias campaign would
be more intensive to achieve results.
I think its the intensity that is
important. The US-led coalition has
pretended to bomb Daesh (another
name for Islamic State) for a year,
without results. If you do it in a
more efficient way, I think youll see
results, he said.
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from Western nations that Russian
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that talks and terror canA
not go together, Pakistan has
asserted the core issue of
Jammu & Kashmir will always
be on top of the agenda of any
bilateral dialogue.
Hours after External Affairs
Minister Sushma Swaraj
addressed the UN General
Assembly yesterday, Pakistan
exercised its Right of Reply,
alleging India was using the terrorism bogey to stall dialogue.
Swaraj, in her address, had
said that instead of the fourpoint peace initiative proposed
by Pakistan Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif, it should address
just one issue of giving up terrorism. She made it clear that
terrorism emanating from
Pakistan is hampering normalisation of bilateral ties as she
underlined that talks and terror cannot gotogether.
However, Pakistan blamed India
for the unrest and terror on its
soil, saying it has handed over
to UN Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon dossiers in this regard.
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British teenager who

hatched an Islamic Stateinspired terror plot to behead
police officers at a parade in
Australia has been sentenced to
life, becoming the youngest
convicted terrorist in the UK.
The 15-year-old, who was
not identified, will serve at least
five years in jail for inciting terrorism and will not be released
until he is considered not to be
dangerous. He may be released
after five years under the terms
of the ruling.
Sentencing the boy, who
had pleaded guilty to one count
of inciting terrorism, Manchester
Crown Court Justice Saunders
said: Thanks to the intervention
of the police in this country and
in Australia, that attack and the
deaths which were intended to
follow never happened.
Had the authorities not
intervened, (the defendant)

would have continued to play his

part hoping and intending that
the outcome would be the deaths
of a number of people. In March
2015 he would have been pleased
if that had happened. He would
have welcomed the notoriety that
he would have achieved.
The revelation in this case
that someone of only 14 could
have become so radicalised that
he was prepared to carry out this
role intending and wishing that
people should die is chilling.
The plot intended to murder a number of police officers
at the Anzac Day parade in
Melbourne, held on April 25
each year to commemorate the
Australian and New Zealand
Army Corps in the World War
One battle of Gallipoli. The
teenager, from Blackburn in
north-west England, hugged
his parents and family members
after sentence was passed down
before he was taken away from
the courtroom.

always be on top of the agenda of any talks between India

and Pakistan.
Alleging that India was
using the terrorism bogey to
stall the bilateral dialogue
and vitiate the overall atmosphere, it sought to blame
India for setting preconditions for talks.
In her address, Swaraj had
pointed out that when the two
Prime Ministers met in Ufa in
July, there was a clear understanding about limiting the
NSA-level talks to terror-related issues and holding an early
meeting of Directors General of
Military Operations to address
the border situation.
Referring to the dossiers
presented to UN SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon,
Pakistan claimed that they
included details of Indian
interference and support for
terrorism in Balochistan and
Karachi as well as its security
and intelligence agencies link
with the Tehrike-e-Taliban
especially in FATA (Federally
Administered Tribal Areas).

stalled the bilateral dialogue

but also vitiated the overall
atmosphere between the two
countries, Counselor in
Pakistans Permanent Mission
to the UN Bilal Ahmad alleged.
The core issue of Jammu
and Kashmir cannot be cast
aside by empty rhetoric. It has
been and will always be on top
of the agenda of any talks
between India and Pakistan.
...It is therefore disingenuous of India to ignore the
serious peace initiative proposed by the Prime Minister
of Pakistan from this august
forum, he said.
He informed the UN
General Assembly that
Pakistan has yesterday handed over to the UN SecretaryGeneral dossiers containing,
what it called, evidence of
alleged Indian involvement.
He said the dossiers
include details of alleged
Indian interference and support for terrorism in
Balochistan and Karachi as
well as its security and intelligence agencies link with the
Tehrik-e-Taliban especially in
FATA (Federally Administered
Tribal Areas).

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were killed and 39 others injured
when four suicide bombers blew
themselves up in the city of
Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria.
So far it has been confirmed that
14 people have lost their lives,
including the suicide bombers,
while 39 people were wounded,
Defence Headquarters in Abuja
said of last nights attacks. Boko
Haram Islamists have increasingly used suicide bombers to
target civilians, including in
Maiduguri, where on September 20 117 people were killed
in attacks. Locals and one police
officer in the Borno state capital
said initially there were seven
blasts in the Ajilari Cross area,
with at least two bombs strapped
to teenage girls. The military said
today: Although details are still
sketchy, suffice to state that four
Boko Haram terrorists suicide
bombers detonated their vests
simultaneously.
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mechanisms - both phenomena were clearly at work at the

same time, said lead researcher
Paul Renne, a professor at the
University of California
Berkeley.
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the impact abruptly changed
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frequency of the eruptions.
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a connection among them,
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professor at UC Berkeley.
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fact reconcile what had previously appeared to be an
unimaginable coincidence, he
said.
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about whether the impact was
the cause of the mass extinction
that occurred at the same time,
the end of the Cretaceous period, or the KT boundary.
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which occurred around the
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manuscripts of the Quran
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dating back to at least 1,370 years
and written on parchment that
was possibly made around the
lifetime of the Prophet
Muhammad today went on display in Birmingham.
Around 2,000 tickets to see
the script have already been
taken up and the University of
Birmingham expects a lot more
to be used before the exhibition
ends on October 25.
When I saw these pages I
was very moved. There were
tears of joy and emotion in my
eyes. Im sure people from all
over the UK will come to
Birmingham to have a glimpse
of these pages, said Muhammad
Afzal, chairman of Birmingham

Central Mosque.
The university had
announced the discovery in July
and revealed the manuscript is at
least 1,370 years old.
Radiocarbon analysis dated
the parchment, held by the
Cadbury Research Library at the
University of Birmingham, to the
period between AD 568 and 645
with 95.4 per cent accuracy.
Prophet Muhammad is generally thought to have lived
between AD 570 and 632. The
radiocarbon dating has delivered
an exciting result, which contributes significantly to our
understanding of the earliest
written copies of the Quran. We
are thrilled that such an important historical document is here
in Birmingham, the most culturally diverse city in the UK,
said Susan Worrall, director of

special collections at the Cadbury

Research Library.
The manuscript is part of the
Universitys Mingana Collection
of Middle Eastern manuscripts
held in the Cadbury Research
Library,.
Funded by Quaker philanthropist Edward Cadbury, the
collection was acquired to raise
the status of Birmingham as an
intellectual centre for religious
studies and attract prominent
theological scholars.
The parchment is on free
public display at the universitys
Barber Institute of Fine Arts with
timed tickets so each group can
spend time looking at the exhibit. Consisting of two parchment
leaves, the manuscript contains
parts of Suras (chapters) 18 to 20,
written with ink in an early form
of Arabic script known as Hijazi.

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their way to the glamorous world of
fashion by showcasing their own label
or clothing line. What follows is the series
of doubts and apprehensions whether it
would be accepted or acknowledged by
people out there. What works wonders
for a lot of the debutants is being
offered a center-stage on a platform
where the can showcase their latest
designs. Going by the same trend,
this year, six designers, Love
Birds, Ragini Ahuja, Dhruv
Kapur, Anavila, Shalini James
and Nimish Shah (stall designer) who are going to debut at
the Amazon Fashion Week slated to go around the floor from
October 7-11.
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fter months of anticipation amongst

fashion-lovers, the first H&M store
arrived in Delhi. Known for offering
fashion and quality at the best price in a sustainable way the store was launched in an
unprecedented milestone.
We have been waiting for this day for a
long time now and the fabulous response is
truly worth the wait. Im hopeful that Indian
customers will enjoy our diverse offering and
find fashion inspiration in the store. India is
a great market with huge potential. We want
to be present in all markets where customers
are waiting for us, said Janne Einola, country manager, H&M Hennes & Mauritz
Retail Pvt. Ltd. India.
As per its proposal to the Foreign
Investment Promotion Board (FIPB),
H&M had stated that it planned to
invest about C700 crore for opening stores across the country.
Presenting a wide selection of
latest trends and timeless classics for
customers, H&M, the worlds
second-biggest clothing retailer will offer womens, mens,
and children apparel and
accessories. The end of
2015 will see another
H&M store opening
at Ambience Mall,
Vasant Kunj. In 2016,
H&M will open its first
Bangalore store at VR mall.
Headed by Swedish billionaire Karl-Johan Erling Gran
Persson, H&M Hennes &
Mauritz AB (H&M) was
established in Sweden in 1947

ith mission 'Make in India' on her

mind, ace designer Archana
Kochhar recently showcased her
exceptional collection 'Ahimsa Resama' at
the FTL MODA New York Fashion Week
Spring Summer 2016.
It was exciting to represent and showcase Indian fashion and fabric and promote
the concept of 'Make in India' at the Mecca
of fashion. The response has been very
nice and the collection was well-received.
The collection is an amalgamation of
global silhouettes with ethnic embroideries. The colour flows in the nude palettes
of beige and ivory offset with rose gold embellishments. The embroideries are a mlange of
rich Indian traditional gold zari thread, intellectual texturing techniques and Swarovski
sprinkle. By saving each silkworm in the
process of creating Ahimsa silk, they are
set free as silk moths.
This transformation inspired me
to incorporate hundreds of tiny silk
moth wings and cocoons shape textures which are then binded together in the form of intricate textural
embroidery which is the focal element of the collection, shared the
talented designer.

close to my heart, she shared.

Though working with textiles as she
shared is part of her philosophy, she told
us, As it may sound repetitive and people might think what new am I doing
every time I come with my collection, they
are surprised to see that the final output
is always different.
For her collection, she has primarily made use of colours like rani and firozi
from Indian traditional colour palette.
The cuts have been inspired by Mughal
era, you will get to see a lot of voluminous long skirts, anarkali and angrakha
which she explained is a wrap round
skirt, she shared.
She added that though she has worked
only in cotton, the highlights of her collection would be zari, velvet and muslin
which she has also used. The designer told
us that she spent time with craftsmen in
Jaipur to get what she wanted in her
designs. I asked them what I wanted, got
it dyed but the other additions like outline of silhouettes and finishing of cuts, I
did on my own. Also, I have used ari
embroidery in my collection which is different from the usual ari design, she said
and added that as ari and cotton goes with
the look, she decided to keep the embroidery thicker than the usual ari embroidery.
Dhruv Kapur, 27-year-old fashion
designer, told us that he has eased out and
kept it casual which is in contrast to his
other works which is usually inspired from
architecture. This one is more casual,
clean, precise with a certain amount of elegance attached to it, said he.
When we asked him about the name
of his collection, the designer very casually replied, I dont this needs to have a
name. At the end of the day, these are
clothes that I am making clothes don't
need a name.
He added that the collection is different in terms of the simplicity that would
be seen in his designs which comprise of

skirts, shirts, dresses and blazers. The

young designer has tried to subvert the
normative ideas with his collection. I have
tried to turn everything upside down with
this collection, he shared.
Giving reference about his idea of subverting ideas, Kapur explained, In many
cultures, veil is a sign of subjugation and
I actually subverted the idea by making it
a symbol of power. By making it a symbol of power, I have tried to break the idea
of something that is given and accepted
by the society, concluded he.
This is Komal Soods first solo collection at Amazon Fashion Week. She had
earlier showcased with other five designers in 2011 but she is coming back after
a long time. The collection is called,
Feather of Freedom which is symbolic of
optimism of lightness and freedom. It is
more about the feeling that we as human
beings are always seeking freedom and for
me, it primarily expresses feminine component which is prominent in all my other
collections, said Sood.
Elaborating more on collection, she
told us that it is going to begin with casual silhouette ad then move out to the second section which will have jumps, shorts
and tops to the last section which will have
easy cocktail dresses. The colour palette
is neutral, I have actually colours that I love
like golden, grey, beige, she said.
Talking about her inspiration for
the collection, she shared, It is actually the feeling of wanting to be happy,
and things that make you feel meditative and light like yoga are the source
of my inspiration.
While one element of her collection
is optimism, the other one is updated classic. I have updated the classics by making them modern. So, when we have used
body skirts, we have created a very high
slit at the middle of the thigh to the end.
It not gives a modern touch but gives it a
sexy edge, the designer concluded.

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synonymous with affordable as well as upto-date and high quality fashion. The companys clothing collections are created by its
own designers, pattern makers and buyers.
H&M has more than 1,32,000 employees,
more than 3,600 stores in 60 markets,
including franchise markets and registered
$22.33 billion in sales in 2014.
We are very proud and happy to open
our first store in India. The response from
Delhi has been tremendous. Our expansion plans are in full force and you will
be hearing a lot more updates, said
Dhatri Bhatt, Head, Public
Relations, H&M India.
The lack of Indian prt wear by
Indian designers in India could be
contributing to the success of these
international labels. The global
fashion giants are focussing on
India as they want to tap in the
huge consumption in the country for ready to wear clothes with
western cuts. The Delhi store is
majorly dedicated to women,
like many designer brands
with separate sections for
shoes, bags, accessories and
lingerie. Prices ranged

from C149 for hair

bands to C699 for leggings to C799 for shoes
and C18,999 for the
costliest dress. After a
successful innings in
China, the Swedish
retail giant decided to
target India in an
attempt to capture
their share of the countrys $41 billion apparel market which is estimated to reach $141 billion by 2021. Delhis Select
Citywalk Mall rolled out its
red carpet to H&M after
housing stores like Zara,
GAP, Forever 21, et al.
Speaking about the rival
brands in the country, Bhatt
said, At H&M we believe that we
are our own biggest competition. We
are constantly trying to prove better than our previous performance
and at the same time surprise the
customer with something new and
interesting each time.
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wide spread motif in

the form of a tree that
grows out of the earth,
rising upward in a sophisticated design, germinating
strange flowers and animal
heads and ending in a large
rounded pendant enshrining
a vulval flower is what attracts
our attention immediately.
The flower also resembles
the eyes of animals including
that of a peacock closeby, rhythmically wedged into the
space between the trunk and the descending arm of
the tree. This is the first out of 12 panels of the Yayati
painting by Achutan Ramachandran Nair.
The veteran artist presented a portfolio of serigraphs
(printing process that forces ink through a fine mesh
screen or stencil) on 12 panels of his mural named
Yayati, which was originally made in 1986. The panels were spread over three walls in sections Ushas,
Madhyahna and Sandhya. There was a collection of 13
bronze sculptures titled Ratri in the middle. According
to Ramachandran, These are the three phases of day
(morning, noon and evening) and then nightfall.
Yayati is a character from Mahabharata and was a
King (ancestor of Pandavas). He enjoyed the companionship of beautiful women including that of his two
wives, Devyani and Sarmishta. He was cursed for his
intemperance by Shukracharya, father of his wife,
Devyani and was inflicted with premature old age. He
asked his five sons to give him their youth in exchange
for his kingdom. His youngest son agreed to his wish
and freed him from his curse. Though the King regained
his youth, he finds out that his desires were insatiable
and realised that indulgence only feeds human desires.
He returned his sons youth and lived a satisfied life.
We asked the artist about his fascination with Yayati,
who was not even a pivotal character in the epic and
he said, I selected this character because it was a strange
kind of myth. Human being, as a modern man, will
never be satisfied with all the pleasures of the world,
he wants to go further and Yayati was a person who
wanted to enjoy his life so much that he went to his
sons and asked for their youth. Ramachandran
believes that Yayati is a very interesting image of a
man who fits into modern times. But, I did not do
it because I am interested in mythology, he pointed out.
Explaining more about his inclination
towards mythologies, he said, Mythology can
be used to interpret many modern issues. So in
a sense, I have combined both myth and modernity. My style of painting is the combination of
both Indian and contemporary.
In the first serigraph of the second and central segment of the mural named Madhyanha,
the reigning colour is red. The red of the earth
spreads upwards and takes over the frame. Of
the two female figures, the one depicted in yellow performs an unraveling twirl that not only
promises a rounded view of her body but also
allows her to fix her gaze on the viewers. This
mutual regard and structuring of bodies and
libidos is the theme of the first two canvases
of the second segment. The figure in green is more
fluorescent, as if affected by the warm earth, and merging the green efflorescence of her body with the blue
radiance of a furnace.
It took four years for Ramachandran to complete
the mural. In his paintings, one can see highly stylised
human figures, depiction of nature and the use
of bright colours. He credit his wife and artist
Chameli Ramachandran for inspiring him to
become an artist. When you are not known,
you are a student and if somebody recognises
that you can be a good artist one day then that
in itself is an achievement. My wife made me
an artist, he said.

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of the owner, are engraved on the brick
walls. With a piano on the stage and floor done
in wood emanating warmth, Piano Man Jazz
Club takes one to the prohibition era of 1920s
America. Spread across two levels, the ground
floor and mezzanine, the place has the archetypal vintage appeal to it. Just above the stage,
a chandelier made of 58 trumpets grabs your
attention from every corner of the club.
Yet another brainchild of Arjun Sagar
Gupta, the man behind The Piano Man caf, the
place doesnt shout out loud for attention but
induces a subtle intimacy. The ground floor is
surrounded by wooden chairs and tables with
a corner done in amphitheater style to optimize
the viewing experience of the live acts.
Essentially an electronic engineer, Gupta has
been a pianist for 15 years. I play every Sunday
here. I stopped practicing for a long time as I got
busy with food but this place is bringing me back
into the form, quips Gupta. Food happened by
chance for him. He started with his first food venture, a bakery in 2010 which was pretty successful after which he opened the first Piano Man
Caf in Vasant Vihar in 2012. It was a great
learning experience. The one thing which
remains constant is our vibe.
Once we make customers we try
to keep them for life, he shares.
The decision to shut down Vasant
Vihar caf was made as they wanted to concentrate their energies on the
jazz club their actual dream project.
At first look, the place does feel a little cramped. The tables are tiny, and definitely not for the ones who like to order
food in bulk. The low ceiling is another
bummer. Youll have to edge your way to the
smokers room. The place would be a hit with
the vertically challenged though. Ahem! The
good thing is they placed the bar to the mezzanine so the drinks being mixed dont take the
pleasure of live acts away.
The place offers quality live performances
ranging from open-mic nights to live gigs. We
are bringing in a lot of amateur musicians but
essentially the performers who come here are
seasoned veterans. I want to give them the creative freedom in the comfort of our space because
a performer can only perform when they are
unhindered, says Gupta. They also have movie
screenings which feel like an indie theatre, a sort
of a private space. I talk a bit about the movie
before the screening; its all about creating the
ambience and educating people on whats going
on, Gupta adds.
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space to promote art and culture. There are specific styles of performance art I prefer and favour.
The music verticals would be jazz, western classical, blues and classic rock. I want to promote
classical music and expose the untapped talent
in Delhi. People say theres no audience for classical music but I say theres no audience for anything till theres exposure. Their approach is quintessentially artiste centric. They want great food
and music to go together but the focal point of
the whole experience is the artist. We want people to respect our house rules, Gupta tells us.
The performance art is curated of course.
Musicians have a dialogue with the audience to
keep them hooked. They simply dont leave after
their rendition. Thematically it is a jazz club as
thats what Gupta would ideally want it to be.
Seven days of jazz in Delhi is scary. I dont think
a place can sustain purely on jazz. Thats why we
are mixing up with performance arts, he says.
The food basically is an ingenious mix of
European and pan Asian cuisine. The drinks
have been priced across the board. They have
created a story behind each cocktail which is
quite absorbing. Manoj Pandey, executive chef
of TPM elaborating on the menu tells us. For
the club we have essentially created the tapas
menu. We dont have enough sitting space so
decided to go with the finger food which would
be more convenient so that people could stand
and enjoy the food, Pandey says.
We ordered, bacon cheese bombs, butter
roasted sweet potatoes, mac and cheese fritters
and Old Monk flavored wings and marinated
mushrooms. The chicken succulent and nicely
enveloped in the booze, maintained its sweetness though the portion was much too small for
our chicken crazy. The bacon bombs were a
delight. Bacon lamb patty coated in cheddar
cheese with bacon wrapped around the patty.
The crisp of the bacon was conspicuous.
The mushrooms served cold with garlic
bread, marinated in olive oil, salt and pepper
with a dash of white wine were kept to the basics
and tasted good. Minimalism works for the
mushrooms. The butter roasted sweet potato
coins served with homemade mustard and garlic aioli did have the pungency of the mustard
but it wasnt overwhelming. The aioli cut down
the pervasive flavour of the mustard enough to
keep the Indian clientele not running for water.
What wins hands down is the mac and cheese
panko crusted croquette balls. Again, not much
of a fuss there, basic mac and cheese, without
the excess cheesiness coated in Panko bread
crumbs retaining its crispiness for long. The
house made barbeque sauce served with mac n
cheese lacked the requisite smoke and heat, not
being able to tantalise the palate.

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makes speciality dishes more
civilised and pleasurable.
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packaged and cooked foods you
buy from gourmet shops, or delicacies you enjoy in a fabulous
dinner contain alcohol.
Adding alcohol or its other
forms beer, wine, fortified
wines and liqueurs to recipes
gives another dimension to the
flavour and can make any ordinary dish into something spectacular and worthy of special
occasions and parties. No any
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touch to many Indian cuisines is
made from a variety of ingredients, including wine, hard cider
and grain alcohol. It is made by
the process of fermentation in
which specific bacteria convert
the alcoholic beverages into
acetic acid. Vinegar comes in different varieties in which cider
vinegar is credited with several
health benefits including weight
loss. Therefore, it is a part of
many health food stores. Apart
from this, wine vinegar is valued
for its fruity fragrances and
slightly nutty undertones.
Full-flavoured, red-wine
vinegars are added to heartier
foods for strong aroma, while the
lighter white-wine and champagne vinegars give refreshment
and delicate flavours to the dish-

ment of desserts including a

variety of ice creams that are
mixed with a generous amount
of sherry or wine. Moreover,
desserts such as cookies made
with vanilla extracts, and baked
goods such as pies and cakes,
pastries like black forest or fruit
cakes, or other sweet dishes like
cherries jubilee mousse, flamb
desserts all have traces of alcohol.
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an excellent preservative, it has
also been used to ferment pickles.

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of salt, small amounts of alcohol
bring out the fragrance and
flavour in food. The addition of
wine, beer, or spirits while cooking food intensifies the taste in at
least two key methods molecular bonding and evaporation.

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When alcohol or its other

general forms added in fruit
salad or other dishes, it swiftly
carries the general subtle aroma
of the dishes to our olfactory sensors (nostrils), enhancing our
overall delight of the food. Food
items which contain a low concentration of alcohol, specifically less than one per cent improves
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late evening hours in the male dominated hospitality industry. We met Anna Nain, general manager of the newly-opened The Lord of
the Drinks. This half Punjabi-half German girl
doesnt allow anybody to take her innocent
face for granted. Her simple theory of life is:
Deal with the bad mentality and take language
advantage.
Indeed, her fluent Hindi and Punjabi surprised us when we went to the outlet to review
it. We were amazed with the medieval
European interiors that complemented the
beautiful faade of Connaught Place. The
shields, swords and warrior gears were parked
at every nook and corner of the restaurant,
as if some epic war was in the making. We did
not find it surprising as the eatery is located
at a place which is considered a hub of food
connoisseur and therefore, a place of fierce
competition.
But that doesnt bother owner
Priyank Sukhija, who already owns
six restaurants in the same zone.
This place has huge potential.
If you serve quality food
and know your target
customers, youll definitely sell, says he.
The most striking
part of the restaurant lay
in its grand interiors that
have private dining rooms,
community tables where six
to eight people can chill out.
Those looking for experience
can enjoy billiard. The restaurant
is spread across two floors with a
terrace. As the name suggests, The
Lord of the Drinks has ample cocktails
and mocktails to get you hooked up.
We started with a glass of whiskey and
mojito with a nacho grande, creamy olive
chicken and fish tikka. The nachos were
smeared with cheese while the tikkas were
succulent and filling. Luckily we met chef
Dinesh Bharani, who was planning to return

to his hometown Mumbai. He treated us with

his specialty keema pav and pao bhaji. While
the former was a little salty, the latter can serve
as a good starter.
Although Bharani is a specialist in
European cuisine, he kept a simple menu of
global comfort food. You cannot sell if you
dont have tandoori and dal makhni in the
menu. We did not put oodles of cream and
therefore got a positive feedback that our dishes are light on the stomach and pocket too,
he says adding that he tried a little Continental
by introducing chilli chicken sandwich. We
were treated with chicken and mushroom
croissant that we found a little average.
While we were completely filled with the
starters, the main courses combination
platter is definitely worth giving a try. In this
section, you can opt for one dish that will
be accompanied with daal, chapatti / rice
and salad. The cost is between `395-`475
(depending upon the dish).
While most restaurants either offer a
gravy dish, daal with chapattis that are good
enough for two-three people, this combination platter focusses on a single customer.
We are giving a platter within `500 to one

customer. The idea is to provide a complete

meal. What we are noticing is that some customers want to order the same two dishes
with daal and chapattis, like they normally
do in other eateries. If this combination platter doesnt work, we will discontinue it, says
chef.
We loved their kadai paneer and chicken curry. The daal wasnt heavy either. What
annoyed us, however, was that there were no
sweeter options. We are just a month old,
so we are taking a little time but we promise
to get some amazing desserts for our customers in the future, says Anna.

es. Moreover, seasoned rice vinegar is added to all the savoury

rice dishes whether it is a sushi,
biryani, or dosa (made with rice
flour and urad dal flour) for
delectable taste.
The balsamic vinegar, which
is, in reality, a red-wine vinegar
prepared from grape juice go
nicely as an ingredient in a number of dishes. The sweet and sour
taste of this vinegar is often
added to slow-cooked foods,
blended with oil and salad dressings, or used as deglazing liquid
for reduction sauces or meatbased sauces.
There are variety of food
items cooked with alcohol
including marinated meats and
stews. Beer is a valuable ingredient of marinades and sauces due
to its enzymes that have a tenderising effect. This liquor is
widely used in a variety of cooking techniques including braising, baking, deglazing, batter-frying, poaching, salad dressings
and simmering. The addition of
beer in food provides a delectable
flavour to dishes. Cooking
experts use an ideal amount of
beer in cooking so that its flavour
does not overwhelm the other
ingredients in the dish. For a better flavour, the dish containing
beer is cooked for a longer time.
Moreover, wines enhancement of
flavour perception can be noticed
in the making of sauces such as
barnaise or bordelaise. In addition, several types of delicious
sorbet and coffees also contain
alcohol as an ingredient.
In the sweet and confectionery counter of a wedding ceremony, you will find an assort-

molecules improves the taste

penetration of the food. Our
food primarily consists of water
and our aroma receptors only
respond to molecules that can be
soluble in fat. In this case, alcohol bridges the gap between our
fragrance receptors and taste
buds.
If you want people to enjoy
the subtle aroma of alcohol in
food, flamb (flaming) is the
way to go, but if you want to
reduce the amount of alcohol in
a finished dish, the best way is to
bake or simmer the food in a
wide open pan for a long period
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the alcohol added to dish does
not boil off during the cooking
process. The amount of alcohol
retained in a completely cooked
food is dependent on several factors, including the quantity of
alcoholic beverages, the amount
of heat applied, the physical
dimensions of the cookware, and
the cooking and standing time.
Spirits, wines, and liqueurs
impart interesting new flavours to
dishes and make any meal special.
Therefore, these days, chefs are
adding alcoholic beverages to
almost anything they are
preparing.
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amount but an amateur, while
cooking at home, should be wellversed with the type and the
amount of liquor while adding it
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a pacer friendly but a short
ground with the outfield getting
wet thanks to the dew, South Africa
made the most of a strong start and a
flourish by JP Duminy to win the first
T20 of the Mahatma Gandhi - Nelson
Mandela series by 7 wickets with two
balls to spare in Dharamsala on Friday.
AB de Villiers (51) and JP Duminy
(68) hit the Indian medium pace
attack all over a packed HPCA Ground
in what became a one sided show at the
end. With the loss, Rohit Sharmas
maiden ton in T20s (106) went in vain
as the Indian bowlers didnt make the
most of a regained momentum after the
visitors were cruising early on.
South Africa enjoyed a glorious
start to the chase thanks to Hashim
Amla (36) and de Villiers. The big hitting duo brought together the 50 in just
26 balls to have the Proteas headed
home with ease at one stage.
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succession to give India a glimpse of
hope and helped reduce the run rate
too which was growing at the stage.
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the eighth over; de Villiers was removed
by Ravichandran Ashwin. At 77/0,
Mohit Sharmas throw from the boundary had Amla short with Ashwin
removing the bails. A T20 expert in de
Villiers was in blistering form and
Ashwin changed his pace to bowl him
out to reduce South Africa to 93/2.
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went in Indias favour when debutant
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very next over by Axar Patel.
Conceding three sixes in a row to
Duminy, the Indian gave South Africa
back the edge and the leftie batsman
the momentum he needed. His first
two hits wentover deep mid wicket but
the third took the cake in terms of
splendid and strong hitting.
Thereafter the momentum was in
South Africas way and they never let
go. Duminy continued to take the
Indian bowling to the cleaners and hit
a four and six off the last over too
before ending with a calm single to
punch the air in joy. India were put
into bat by du Plessis and they didnt
enjoy the best of starts.
Shikhar Dhawans return from
injury didnt last long as he was gone
in the fourth over after Rohits mistake
of calling for a run from a fumble and

despite Dhawans desperate dive, he

was gone run out. Unperturbed,
Rohit continued his blazing start hitting the first six off the match to
Morris. Reacting to a short ball, he
swiveled and pulled for a six.
In the next over by Morris, he
bore the brunt of Virat Kohli who
hit him for a six and a four off
consecutive deliveries. At this
stage, Morris had gone for 28
runs from his first two overs.
In the twelfth over bowled
by Imran Tahir who was
attributed as a dangerous element by Sachin Tendulkar
and du Plessis in the lead-up,
was hit for 21 runs. On the
first ball, Rohit stepped up
and hit across the line to
clear the mid wicket boundary with much ease. A ball
later, Kohli got into the act
too. He hit the ball a little
flatter for another huge
hit. On the next ball, he
sent the sorry ball over
long off for another maximum.
Kagiso Rabada was the next in line
to be smashed for two sixes by Rohit
and the visitors looked to be clueless of
how to contain him.
As Indias 150 came up in the 15th
over, fittingly with a six by Rohit, his
maiden ton came up too. His hundred
came up in 62 balls with 12 fours and
five sixes involved.
In the next over, Kyle Abbott
removed both the dangerous batsmen
with Kohli going first. His 43-run
knock ended after a flat hit was caught
by Duminy. On the last delivery, Rohit
followed too. Ironically he had hit the
short delivery really well throughout his
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defended him despite that.

Our spinners did bowl well. If
you take the one over from
Axar Patel out of contention, he
bowled well. Hes someone
who is otherwise consistent
with the line and length.
Overall the spin bowlers you
need to keep in mind the conditions and the dew factor.
The T20 also saw Sreenath
Aravind getting a debut and
picking a wicket in process
too. Hes not a surprise factor because hes played the
T20s well recently. He brings
in variation in bowling. The
wicket was a little difficult too
which didnt go his way. Yes he
did go for a few runs but
against good, set batsmen,
you will feel the pressure,
Dhoni finished.

Africa started the long

Sableouth
India tour with a comfortwin on Friday in
Dharamsala buoyed by JP
Duminys 68 runs, which came
from only 34 balls.
Chasing 200 runs, South
Africa were home with two
balls to spare and seven wickets in hand.
What looked like an India
win, changed completely in
the end and India captain MS
Dhoni attributed that to a few
phases in the game.
There were phases in the
game where it went wrong. So
there were two phases of four
balls in the game, which went
wrong that put a lot of pressure.
Overall when you score
200 runs, there will be a certain amount of pressure on the
bowlers because the opposition
will try to chase down the total
too. I think the effort was good
and 200 was a par score looking at everything but I think we
could have done slightly better
with our bowling.
You know that you would
go for fours and sixes but its
important to reduce that in
those six deliveries. You have
bad overs but you have to
restrict it to 12-15 runs. You
have to keep choking the
opposition to win games like
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match press conference.

Questioned if the bowlers
should have done better to
defend a seemingly strong target of 200, Dhoni agreed.
Looking at the conditions,
you could say it was war of the
batsmen. You know the sides

will hit the big shots but once

you get hit for a big shot, how
you get back and ball the next
delivery is very important.
Axar Patels 16th over of
the innings went for 22 runs
that possibly tilted the game in
the Proteas favour but Dhoni

At one stage, with Rohit

Sharma in full flow, the game
looked to be beyond South
Africa but man of the match
Duminy doesnt think so.
That thought never came in
our head. We had been discussing a lot about competing
and we knew we needed a
counterpunch. Yes, Rohit
Sharma played an exceptional
innings but the comeback in
the last three-four overs was
good from us. At one stage
they were looking at 220 which
would have been a winning
score, he said.

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said today he was mulling retirement
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after the upcoming Pakistan-England
series, saying he hoped to leave the game
on a high.
The 41-year-old said the series against
England could be my last. I havent taken
a final decision, Misbah told media on the
sidelines of a training camp in Lahore,
adding that he was considering his options.
Misbah retired from Twenty20 cricket in 2012 and left the one-day international game after Pakistans quarter-final finish in the 2015 World Cup in Australia and
New Zealand in March.
He said he wanted to leave Test cricket with good memories. People remember your final performance, he said.
The unassuming middle-order batsman will be remembered for his admirable
leadership of Pakistan in the aftermath of
the 2010 spot-fixing scandal which resulted in five-year bans for Salman Butt,
Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir.
Last month Misbah had announced he

will retire after an upcoming series against

India, but the December-January contest
is in serious doubt due to tensions between
the arch-rivals. Pakistan take on the Asheswinning England team in a three-Test series
in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) starting in Abu Dhabi from October 13.
Misbah warned the conditions in the
UAE will be challenging for England.
This English team has done well in

the Ashes, he said.

But they do not have experience of
UAE conditions and that will be a big challenge for them.
He refused to be drawn on the
prospect of another 3-0 rout of the Lions,
such as the one in the UAE under his captaincy three years ago.
We have to take it match by match,
session by session and once you win sessions you go towards the bigger goals.
We are not thinking of 3-0, England
is a top team and we have to play well and
think how to tackle them.
When asked if Pakistan would miss
Saeed Ajmal one of the architects of the
2012 rout with 24 wickets Misbah said
Pakistan have replacements in leg-spinner
Yasir Shah and left-armer Zulfiqar Babar.
Shah and Babar are doing extraordinarily well and thats a big plus, so they
havent made us feel anyones absence, said
Misbah. Ajmal was not selected for the
series after he struggled with a remodelled
bowling action required to overcome suspension. He was suspended for illegal
action by the ICC last year.

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ahead of the competition beginning in
Taoyuan, Chinese Taipei on Saturday.
Athletes, part of a 40-member squad, were
left to fend for themselves ahead of the tournament with some of them spending the last
night outside a Gurudwara as authorities
failed to provide accommodation.
The Sports Ministry-recognised All India
Sports Council of the Deaf was responsible for
the differently-abled athletes but they failed
at their job miserably.
The athletes, however, did manage to get
the Taiwanese visa later today but not much
can be expected from the contingent considering their frame of mind less than 24 hours
ahead of the competition.
While Sports Minister Sarbananda
Sonowal was quick to order an inquiry, its
nodal agency Sports Authority of India
(SAI) was also dragged into the controversy for not providing accommodation to the
team members.
I was very sad to learn about this.
Whoever is responsible for this will be
brought to book, Sonowal said.
SAI DG Injeti Srinivas described the incident unfortunate but categorically stated that
nobody asked us for accommodation.
You criticise SAI whenever it is due but
this case is a complete distortion of facts.
Nobody asked us for accommodation. The
athletes are suffering because their federation All India Sports Council of the Deaf
is in a mess. The body has not even settled the accounts for the previous trip but
despite that we made an exception and
cleared Rs 50 lakfor the trip, Srinivas said
on Friday.
As far as the visa issue is concerned, I
have found that the athletes visa was rejected earlier because they did not provide the
invitation letter of the Taiwanese Embassy.
Thereafter, we took up the matter to
ministry level and MEA got involved. The
MEA informed us that visa will be given by
Thursday but it was not processed due to a
server problem. So they were anyway going
to get the visa today, in not today then
Monday. Clearly it is a case of federation not
taking care of its athletes, the DG added.
Onkar Kedia, joint secretary at Sports
Ministry, too blamed All India Sports
Council of the Deaf, for the plight of the athletes.
I have as had as many as five meetings
with two factions in the federation, led by
president and secretary respectively. They
should sort out their differences at the earliest and ensure smooth functioning of the
federation so that athletes dont suffer,
Kedia futher added.

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look side will begin their
campaign against a formidable
Chennaiyin FC coached by World
Cup champion Marco Materazzi in
the opening game of the Hero Indian
Super League, here on Saturday.
The cash-rich football extravaganza will kick off on Saturday with
Abhishek Bachchan co-owned side
taking on former India captain
Sourav Gangulys team.
Incidentally, the opening ceremony will feature Bachchan juniors
wife and former Miss World
Aishwarya Rais dance performance.
It will be a match where some of
ATKs ex-players like striker Fikru
Teferra and goalkeeper Edel Bete
would like to prove a point to their
former team as they take on the field
for the home team.
Having sorted out the grey areas
that existed last year, particularly in the
mid-field and defence, Chennaiyin FC
has roped in some strong players from
Brazil and Italy for the upcoming season. Chennaiyin had also retained the
core of the squad that enabled them
to top the league stages last year.
The home teams star midfielder
and Golden Boot winner last year
with nine goals, Elano Blumer of
Brazil would play a significant role in
determining Chennaiyins fortunes
this year as well.
Besides replacing some players
like Mikael Silvestre and Eric DjembaDjemba with Italian midfielders
Manuele Blasi and defender
Allessandro Potenza, Chennayin had
also recruited Brazilian mid-fielder
Raphael Augusto and defenders Eder
Monteiro and Mailson Alves.
The icing on the cake for
Chennaiyin turned out to be the signings of Ethiopian striker Fikru and
Cameroonian goalkeeper Bete, both
of whom were poached from ATK.
Chennayin manager-cum-player Materazzi had made sure that in
his team at least two players are fighting for each position, which will give
enough depth and balance to the side.
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Ramandeep Singh and
Nikkin Thimmiah scored a goal
apiece as Indian mens hockey
team started their tour of New
Zealand with a convincing 3-1
victory, here on Friday.
After the ever-consistent
PR Sreejesh thwarted New
Zealand As back-to back penalty corners, India hit on counter
in the third minute. Ramandeep
dribbled past a couple of opposition players feeding
Akashdeep, who coolly slotted
it home to give his team 1-0 lead.
In 20th minute (fifth minute
of second quarter), it was
Ramandeeps turn to put his
name up in scorers list with a
spectacular field goal as he left
the host defence in tatters.
Within another six minutes,
it was Nikkin did spadework
past the Black Sticks defenders
after receiving a pass from
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signed Japanese born Indian midfielder Arata Izumi and India international Rino Anto. Besides the title holders have also roped in four domestic
stars Lalchhawnkima, Augustine
Fernandes, Amrinder Singh and
Kunzang Bhutia.
Athletico de Kolkata have made
significant changes to their team this
year. The team managements decision
to release players like Fikru, last

years captaon Garcia and Jofre Mateu,

who played a key role in their titlewinning run, has definitely raised a
few eyebrows. But despite the lay offs,
Athletico de Kolkata sports the look
of a champion side.
In Helder Postiga, the youngest
marque player of the tournament, the
Kolkata outfit has roped in a world-class
striker and the side has a lot of expectations on the Portugese World Cupper.

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side is last seasons best player award
winner Iain Hume of Canada, who
migrated from Kerala Blasters.
Hume, who played a vital role in
taking Kerala Blasters to the final last
year, is considered as perfect replacement of Fikru and is expected to provide the right support to Postiga
upfront. Besides, Spanish midfielder
Borja Fernandes is another player who

is crucial to Athletico de Kolkatas success, just like the way he did last year.
Fernandes is the main link between the
forwardline and defense and is expected to control the teams midfield.
In Spaniard Antonio Lopez
Habas, Athletico de Kolkata has an
enigmatic but strict and disciplinarian coach, who means business.

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reporting from the field at the opening match of Hero ISL 2015 on Star
Sports. Leeza will be the on ground
reporter for several matches this season. She will be part of the all girls
squad who will be doing the on-air coverage for the first time this season. She
will also be doing the presentation ceremonies for the matches she covers.

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Atletico de Kolkatas
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head coach Antonio Lopez
Habas exuded confidence of
starting the second ISL season
on a bright note and said his
team will look to win every
game and gain three points.
Talking to media ahead
of their opening match
against Chennaiyin FC,
Habas said: I do not want to
talk about how difficult it is
to rebuild the team. We are
the defending champions.
Winning every game is
important for me and gaining three points from each
match. This is very vital.
On match day it will not
only be the big names which
will matter but also the
dynamism brought in by
young Indian players which
will also count.
Chennaiyin Manager and
Coach, Marco Materrazi said:
We are confident of playing
positively for a win and we
have the advantage of having
retained the core of players of
last season and we are much
organized this season. We
have no injury concerns.
On Fikru, Materrazi said:
I picked Fikru because he
knows the tournament well.
He has experience of playing
in this league and his neversay-die attitude was the most
important thing for me to get
him here. I hope he contributes to the teams success.
On retaining players, he
said: I know my players very
well. We are much organised
this season compared to the
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point, if the ethics committee hasnt

already imposed a temporary suspension on the UEFA president, who has
spent the last week defending his
integrity and denying wrongdoing.
Platini will be hoping to be
cleared by the Swiss authorities in
public before then, although attorney
general Michael Lauber indicated
Wednesday that the investigation has
a long way to run. I did not reach
a decision at the moment, Lauber
said. I am analyzing all that I got.
Platini was questioned by Swiss
investigators last Friday about a
payment of 2 million Swiss francs
(about $2 million) he received from
FIFA in 2011 for work carried out up
to 2002.

ore than two months into Michel

M
Platinis FIFA presidential campaign, football fans are still waiting to
hear just how he plans to rebuild the
governing bodys reputation. He might
never get the opportunity.
By his own admission, the early poll
favorites own reputation might have
been damaged by becoming entangled
in the ever-expanding criminal investigations into FIFA corruption.
And that could encourage new
names to throw their hats in the ring
for the emergency election in
February, triggered by Sepp Blatters
resignation announcement.
Platinis campaign was quickly
supported by Asian confederation president Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al
Khalifa, but the Bahraini is now being
touted as potential contender himself.
And Jerome Champagne, a former FIFA deputy secretary general, is
still mulling over his options after failing to gain the five federation nominations required to stand in the May
election that Blatter won.
Brazil great Zico and former
Trinidad and Tobago captain David
Nakhid are among the former players
wanting to run the global game.
Former FIFA vice president Prince

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Blatters only rival in the May poll, is
pursuing the job again.
And Chung Mong-joon, Prince
Alis predecessor as Asias FIFA vice
president, is also on the campaign trail
but the South Korean could be stymied
by a FIFA ethics case over charitable
donations to member federations.
The cut-off for presidential hopefuls to submit their candidacies to FIFA
for eligibility and integrity checks is
barely three weeks away on Oct. 26.
Election monitor Domenico Scala
could block Platinis candidacy at that

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Sepp Blatter called on soccer

officials to start hiring more women
for leadership jobs, in written comments on Friday. Football continues
to be dominated by men, Blatter
wrote in FIFA Weekly. It is our duty
to change this. Women must feel that
they have an equal chance of succeeding in football as their male
counterparts.
There are currently no female
contenders in the race to succeed
Blatter in the Feb. 26 election.

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nirban Lahiri cannot help

thinking about the dreams
A
that got ignited only last year.
At that time, all Lahiri wanted was a full card on the
European Tour and then gradually move to the PGA Tour. But
in a matter of months, one door
after another kept opening and
he kept walking through them
onto newer territories and next
week he will tee up with the
worlds best in the biggest team
event, the Presidents Cup.
It is a lifetimes experience,
says Lahiri. And for that he was
willing to risk, albeit a small one,
of missing a PGA Tour card
through the Web.Com Tour
Final Series. I committed myself
to three events and then skip the
Tour Championships.
Lahiri did not find his A
game, but drew on his mental
strength and finished sixth.
First I was going to miss a
few big events in Europe because
of Web.Com Final series and I
was also risking my World

Ranking because events on

Web.Com carried fewer World
Ranking points than European
Tour events they clashed with.
Then I was taking a chance on
PGA status by opting for a
weeks rest before Presidents
Cup. But the Presidents Cup is
an experience of a lifetime. I have
experienced that before (in
EurAsia Cup and other Team
events). It the biggest team event
an Indian can get into.
What happened was that
Lahiri sealed his PGA Card in
two events though the official
news will come on Sunday at the
end of the Web Finals series.

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tennis great Vijay Amritraj

feels the country should look
Iintondian
ways to identify talented tennis
New Zealand did pull one
back in the third quarter as they
successfully converted a penalty corner in the 36th minute.
The score at the end of the third
quarter was 3-1.
In the fourth quarter, both
the teams pushed themselves
harder to score more goals with
forwards
Ramandeep,
Akashdeep and Nikkin keeping
the New Zealand defenders
busy and played most of the
game in opponents half.
India will again play against
New Zealand A on Saturday.
The first match against New
Zealand senior team will be
played at Nelson on October 6.
The next three matches will be
held on October 7, 9, 11 respectively. The last two matches
will be held in Christchurch.

players right from 15 years of age

and must straightaway start nurturing them.
The former Davis Cup captain
believes the reason for Indias poor
showing in the singles department
in the world of tennis is their
inability to have players in top 50
and 100.
The only way he feels the situation can change if the talented
players are hunted from their
younger age.
There is enough potential in
the country, but they have to be
properly identified, said the 61year-old. The talent hunt should
start from 15 years. And with the
right kind of programme, these
players can break into the top-100
or top-50.
Vijay, a world renowned commentator, says it is must for India to
have players in the top-100 rankings.
If we are to play in World

Group in the Davis Cup it is essential to have players within 100

rankings. If we look at other teams
in the World Group, they all have
their main players ranked in top-50
and the substitutes are also within
top-100, he explained.
We (India) have good doubles
players, but there is only one doubles match in Davis Cup, while four
singles games will be played. So we
should have players within the 100
rankings to stand a chance.

Amritraj, the chairman and

managing director of Second Serve
Pvt. Ltd (which owns and operate
CTL), believes Champions Tennis
League, which was started last year,
will help in the development of
young players.
Apart from a WTA player, ATP
player, Indian male representative
and a legend (a retired Grand Slam
winner or a Grand Slam finalist),
two junior players (a boy and a girl)
will also be in every team throughout the league.
Even though these juniors do
not get to play any matches in the
league, Vijay feels the youngsters
spending time along with the greats
of the sport will benefit their development massively.
These young players get to
spend two weeks with the team.
They practice with some of the finest
players in the world, travel with
them, get to see their diet routine
and like. So it is a fantastic learning
curve for them as they can learn a
lot from them, he said.
Also he added that the goal of
CTL is not just to concentrate on the

big cities but also focus on the second tier and third tier cities.
CTL gives an opportunity for
people from various cities to experience the beauty of tennis. This
will also encourage the youngsters
from that region to succeed in the
sport. Hence, it is essential to
ensure that the league not just focus
on the major cities but reaches all
parts of the country, said the former player.
Among the players to miss the
CTL for the upcoming season,
Indian doubles sensation Leander
Paes stands out. Last year he represented Punjab Marshalls in CTL, but
this season he opted out. When
asked about it, Vijay replied Some
people have their own choice and
choose it to their convenience.
This year the ATP tour finals
concludes on November 22 and
CTL starts the very next day. When
asked if the lack of time between
these events is the reason for no
players from the tour finals to feature in CTL, Amritraj said: The calendar is also one reason and at the
same time we should not forget the

huge amount of money needed to

get the players from top rankings.
From last year, Mumbai,
Chandigarh and Hyderabad teams
remain in contention, while
Bangalore, Pune and Delhi have
pulled out. At the beginning there
are always going to be some hiccups,
which is normal. But we dont have
to worry since there are enough
cities interested to come in. These
situations continue till we settle
down, he added.
It is the owners personal choice
not to continue this year. They dont
have to give us any major explanation, said Vijay, when asked about
the reason for the three cities dropping out this year.
Nagpur and Raipur have filled
two of the three vacant spots, while
the sixth city is yet to be named.
Variety of issues determines the
final city. We have to check whether
any cricket matches take place at that
time. If so the hotels might be full.
Also we need to check about the airplane connections to make it easier for the players to travel in and out
of the city, he concluded.

of the team together. New

players have come in but we
did very well to keep most of
our last team squad. That
surely gives us an advantage.
Asked about the blend
of foreign and Indian players in the playing eleven, he
said: Its ISL, so we have to
play more Indian players.
You just cannot play eleven
foreigners when you know
its an Indian league and it
has been started to promote Indian football.
Habas said: We have
made some sound changes to
the last season. I think we
have the best team now. I
want to see what is in store for
us this season and waiting for
the competition to commence. After that I can tell
about different formats and
the status of the ISL League.
Meanwhile, the Portugal
world cup star and marquee
player of ATK, Helder
Postiga said: I come from
Portugal. Playing here is a
challenge for me. I wanted to
try few new things in football and this is the best
opportunity for me.

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