19 August 2015

ARRAHAt a function in Bihar's

Arrah, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi todaymade the announcementthat the election-boundstate has been waiting for- he has promised the stateRs. 1.25 lakh crore in cen-tral funds for develop-ment.

"Today I will announcethe package for Bihar.50,000 crore, 60,000,70,000, 75,000, 80,000?"the PM asked as his audi-ence cheered, and thensaid, "Today I promise Rs.1.25 lakh crore."

The PM said with otherfunding already ear-marked for Bihar, thestate now has Rs. 1.65lakh crore pledged to it incentral funds. He had ear-lier promised the state, atan election rally, morethan Rs. 50,000 crore.

PM Modi's nearly hour-long speech at the govern-

ment function to inaugu-rate roads was more likean election rally withcrowds chanting his namethrough the speech.

He also made a blister-ing attack on Bihar ChiefMinister Nitish Kumar."Our chief minister saidwith authority that Biharis no longer a BIMARU(underdeveloped) state...If it is true, then I will bethe happiest person... Tellme, if somebody ishealthy, will he go to adoctor... I am surprisedthat on the one hand, hesays Bihar is notBIMARU, and on theother, he keeps asking forsomething or the other."

Mr Kumar has repeated-ly demanded that Bihar beassigned special categorystatus by the Centre tohelp develop the poorstate. The PrimeMinister's announcement

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RAIPURA CRPF jawan was killed and

another injured in an encounterwith Naxals today inChhattisgarh's Bijapur district.

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Only 7 Per Cent UsableWater Remains inMaharashtra'sMarathwada Reservoirs

INDOREA policeman allegedly com-

mitted suicide today at a policepost in Indore as he was "underdepression" for reportedlybeing denied of taking leavesince a long time.

Assistant sub-inspectorSantosh Shukla (55) locked

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Cop Allegedly Commits Suicideat Police Post in Indore AfterBeing Denied Leave

MUMBAIIn a major setback for the

Mumbai Police, a special courtrejected its plea for a fresh testof samples from the seizuresmade from a constable who wasarrested for the possession of thenarcotic drug Mephederone,

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Doubts Over 'Drugs' Seized,Setback for Mumbai Police in'Meow Meow' Case

NEW DELHIExternal Affairs Minister

Sushma Swaraj will embark on atwo-day visit to Egypt beginningMonday which is expected to helpbilateral ties gain traction.

During her visit, she will call onPresident of Egypt Abdel Fattah AlSisi, hold bilateral talks with her counterpart SamehHassan Shoukry and meet Nabil ElAraby, Secretary

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Foreign Minister SushmaSwaraj to Visit Egypt Next Week

NEW DELHIPrime Minister Narendra Modi

today pitched a BJP governmentfor Bihar at an election rally,reeling off statistics that he saidproved there is "jungle raj" in thestate.

Riots were up 72 per cent,murders were up 46 per cent and the number of seriouscrimes were up by a third between January and Junethis year in Bihar, the Prime Minister alleged, saying

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PM Modi Takes Data Off Bihar Websiteto Attack Nitish Government

NEW DELHILate former President APJ

Abdul Kalam's inspiring andmotivational message and mini-malistic lifestyle forms the basisfor a new art based web comic.

A quote by the "Missile Manof India" from his 1999 autobi-

ography "Wings of Fire" has been animated by ZenPencils, online comic portal by Australia-based free-lance artist Gavin Aung Than.

The comic begins with a depiction of a young girlwhose passion for swimming is frowned at by persons

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APJ Abdul Kalam's InspirationalMessage Animated in Web Comic

SRINAGARA civilian in a wheelchair

was killed along with a police-man when terrorists attacked apolice post at a Sufi shrine inKashmir's Sopore, around 52km from Srinagar. The policesay the two terrorists came on a

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Flood warning inUP, Bihar, WestBengal and Assam

BERHAMPURAs many as 3,434 students of

government-run residentialschools in Kandhamal districtof Odisha have tested positivefor malaria. "The affected stu-dents have been administereddrugs. The health officials arekeeping a watch on their

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Over 3,400 StudentsTest Positive forMalaria in Odisha

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CHENNAITemperature: 330CPrecipitation:53%Humidity:64%Wind: 18Km/hr

NEW DELHIAs Pakistani terrorist

Mohammad NaveedYakub was subjected to apolygraph or lie detectortest at a facility in southDelhi today, the NationalInvestigation Agency(NIA) released thesketches of two terrorsuspects who allegedlyentered India along withhim.

The NIA names the ter-rorists as Abu Okasha,17-18 years and a resi-dent of KhyberPakhtunkhwa inPakistan, and Zargham orMohammad Bhai, 38-40years old and from thesame area.

Sources say they have

not been sighted so farand could strike anytime,which is a major cause ofconcern for securityforces.

Sources say they areamong the three terroristswho infiltrated intoJammu and Kashmir

along with Naveed onJune 2, but were assigneddifferent targets. Thethird, Noman, was killedwhen he and Naveedattacked a paramilitaryconvoy on August 5 inJammu and Kashmir's

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2 Pak Terrorists Who Entered India WithNaveed Missing, Major Security Worry

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MANIKARANEight people were killed and

ten others injured after a build-ing adjoining the historicManikaran Sahib Gurdwaracaved in due to a massive land-slide this afternoon.

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8 Killed, 10 Injured inMajor Landslide inHimachal Pradesh's Kullua

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DELHICaptured terrorist

Naved alias Usman Khanhas admitted during apolygraph test that he isfrom Pakistan and wastrained at LeT campthere, as per mediareports on Tuesday.

Reports quoted sourcesas saying that Naved alsoadmitted that he was toldto target security forces inIndia.

Mohammad NavedYakub was subjected tolie detector test todayafter he had made 'contra-dictory and misleading'statements about hisIndian contacts and the

route taken his group toinfiltrate India.

During the test forwhich Naved had givenwritten consent, he isbelieved to have beenquestioned about howmany people were withhim when the group infil-

trated Jammu andKashmir and people hehad met and lived withduring his two-monthstay in the state.

Pursuant to a Delhicourt order, he wasbrought to Central

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PM Narendra Modi Announces Rs. 1.25Lakh Crore Special Package for Bihar

I'm from Pakistan, was trained atLeT camp, admits terrorist Naved

Witness Number20 Turns Hostile inAjmer Blast CaseJAIPUR

One more witness in theAjmer shrine blasts case,Ram Charan Patel turnedhostile in a Jaipur courttoday, bringing the totalnumber of hostile witnessesto 20, in a case in which theNational InvestigationAgency (NIA) has chargedright wing extremistsincluding some RashtriyaSwayamsevak Sangh (RSS)members for the blastwhich killed three people in2007.

Mr Patel had testified toproviding shelter to a keyaccused, including bomb

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NEW DELHIThe Supreme Court

today asked searchengines like GoogleIndia, Yahoo India andMicrosoft Corporation(I) Pvt Ltd to respondto the allegations thatthey were violatingIndian laws and a courtorder by not blockingadvertisements on sexdetermination of a foe-tus.

"You take instructionand file affidavit with-in two weeks in this

regard," the benchcomprising justicesDipak Misra and RBanumathi said, whenlawyer for the PIL peti-tioner alleged thatthese firms were stillviolating law and theorder.

The court's ordercame when SanjayParikh, appearing forPIL petitioner SabuMathew George, saidthat throughout theworld, the search

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Supreme Court Asks Google, Yahooto Reply Over Sex Determination Ads JERUSALEM

Since Prime MinisterNarendra Modi won ahuge victory in last year'selection, ties betweenIsrael and India have beenin overdrive, with the twosigning a series of defenceand technology deals.

In October, PresidentPranab Mukherjee willbecome the first Indianhead of state to visit TelAviv and Palestine.

Prime MinistersNarendra Modi andBenjamin Netanyahu, arealso likely to meet, like

they did last year, on thesidelines of the UNGeneral Assembly in NewYork next month.

Speaking exclusively toreporters in Tel Aviv,Prime Minister Netanyahu

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MARATHWADAWith less than 50 per

cent rain this monsoon, theagrarian crisis in thed r o u g h t - p r o n eMarathwada region ofMaharashtra has furtherdeepened. At the heart ofthe crisis is a spurt infarmer suicides.

From 47 farmer deathsevery month untilDecember, when theCongress and NCP were inpower, official figures forthe first eight months of2015 show say that about69 farmers have killedthemselves every month inMarathawada's eight dis-tricts. If only those eligible

for compensation are takeninto account then too thesuicide rate has risen from36 to 44 for 2014 and 2015respectively.

The BJP-Shiv Sena gov-ernment accepts the situa-tion is dire but says it's notabout a "number game".

"People with play withnumbers," Women andChild Welfare MinisterPankaja Munde explains,pointing fingers at theopposition. "But it's notpossible to stop suicides allof a sudden. How can webe expected to do in sixmonths what Congressdidn't do in 60 years?"

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AMETHIRahul Gandhi today

promised to replace whathe calls a "suit-boot sarkar(government)" with a"kurta pyjama sarkar," ask-ing people to bring backhis Congress party topower.

The Congress vice presi-dent often uses the phrase"suit boot sarkar" to accusethe BJP-led central govern-ment of working to benefitbig industry at the cost ofthe poor and underprivi-leged. Today he said in hisLok Sabha constituencyAmethi, "It's a governmentfor those in suit and boot. Idon't see anyone here

wearing that, but I promiseyou that I will ensure thatyou get a kurta pyjamasarkar that represents you."

The Congress alonecould protect the interestsof the country, Mr Gandhisaid, as he slammed the

BJP government over itsland acquisition bill. "TheNarendra Modi govern-ment is working only forthe sake of capitalists," theCongress leader alleged.

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To Counter Suit-Boot, Rahul GandhiOffers Kurta Pyjama Sarkar

For PM Modi, Advice From Leader of 'Start-Up Nation'

Nearly 70 Farmers Are KillingThemselves Every Month inMaharashtra's Marathwada

PATNABihar Chief Minister

Nitish Kumar has ques-tioned not just PrimeMinister Narendra Modi'smega package for Bihar,but also the way heannounced it today.

"As if he was bidding forBihar," said Mr Kumar,

who goes head to headwith PM Modi's BJP in theBihar elections due byNovember.

The Prime Minister haddramatically promised Rs.1.25 lakh crore in centralfunding for Bihar at afunction in Ara. "How

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'Was PM Bidding forBihar?' Nitish Kumar on1.25 Lakh Crore Package

ARRAHPrime Minister

Narendra Modi has inau-gurated a number of roadprojects at an event atArrah in Bihar.

Here are the highlightsof what he said:

I salute theGovernor, ministers andother dignitaries presentat this function to inaugu-rate this road project. Nitin Gadkari is the

man who in revolution-ized roads in Maharashtra.

We have come witha plan to connect everycorner of Bihar with thenation. I returned this

morning from Dubai. People who make

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Highlights of PM Modi speech

DCW issues notice to Jamia VC over'no late nights' diktatNEW DELHI

The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Tuesdayissued a show-cause notice to Jamia Millia Islamia ViceChancellor Talat Ahmed in connection with the varsity'srecent directive barring the female residents of its hostelsfrom taking permission for returning after 8 PM.

"It is observed that no such guidelines have been issuedby other universities and even in Jamia, they seem tohave been issued only for girls and not for boys, therebyraising allegations of discrimination," DCW Chief SwatiMaliwal said in a communication to the Ahmed.

The VC has been asked to explain the reasons forimposing such restrictions on girl students and provide acopy of the previous as well as revised guidelines withinseven days.

The university had recently issued a notice barring thegirls from taking permission for any late night-outswhich did not go down well with a section of studentswho had termed it as "sexist" and "partial".

"Residents of the Hall of Girls are informed that no latenight is allowed any more. You are, therefore, required tofollow the norms, in your own best interests," stated anotice issued by the university.

Until the 8 PM directive was not issued, women resi-dents of the hostels were allowed to stay out of the prem-ises till 10 PM twice a month. However, now the girlswho wish to stay out a little later will not be allowed toreturn to the hostel for the night ? but they can stay awayonly with written permission from their local guardians.

Delhi: Special MetropolitanMagistrate arrested on bribery chargeNEW DELHI

CBI on Tuesday arrested Special MetropolitanMagistrate RP Bhatia here on allegations of receiving abribe of Rs 25,000 from a shop owner in Lajpat Nagarwho was challaned by him during an inspection.

Bhatia, who looked after matters related to MunicipalCorporation of Delhi, had allegedly challaned the shopowner in Alaknanda Market during an inspection driveon August 10.

The Special Metropolitan Magistrate, Central Zone,(Littering), MCD had asked the shop owner to appear incourt and later he allegedly demanded illegal gratifica-tion of Rs 60,000 from the complainant for settling thechallan.

"The bribe was reduced to Rs 25,000 during negotia-tions. CBI laid a trap and the Special MetropolitanMagistrate was caught red handed while demanding andaccepting a bribe of Rs 25,000 from the complainant," aCBI spokesperson alleged.

The agency later carried out searches at the residentialpremises of the accused.

Illicit relationship an immoral act, nota criminal act: CourtNEW DELHI

An illicit relationship can become a ground for seekingdivorce but it would not travel beyond the realm of beingan immoral act to the territory of a criminal act, a Delhicourt has observed.

The observation of the court came while acquitting aman of the charge of abetting suicide of his wife, whoallegedly hanged herself due to his extra-marital affair.

"The act of the accused in having illicit relationshipmay show his disloyalty to his wife. It may be betrayal offaith but would not travel beyond the realm of being animmoral act to the territory of a criminal act inviting pun-ishment under penal statute.

"It could have certainly given rise to his wife to seekdivorce but will not fall within the ambit of section 306(abetment of suicide) of IPC," Additional Sessions JudgeManoj Jain said.

The court, while absolving the accused, also said thatthe allegation that he had an illicit relationship "was notproved to the hilt".

"In the case in hand, though factum of extra-maritaldoes not stand proved to the hilt yet even if the same isassumed, such conduct, in itself, will not take the case ofprosecution anywhere near the 'abetment'," it said whilegranting benefit of doubt to the accused.

According to prosecution the woman had allegedlycommitted suicide in 2011, after she found out about herhusband's extra-marital affair within one year of theirmarriage. The complaint was lodged by the woman'sbrother who also claimed that his sister was regularlybeaten up by the accused.

The court said there has to be some additional evidenceon record to show that he compelled his wife to commitsuicide leaving no other option for her, adding, "Suchevidence is clearly lacking here."

The court also observed that even if the "alleged extra-marital relationship, which if proved, could be illegal andimmoral, nothing had been brought out by the prosecu-tion to show that the accused had provoked, incited orinduced the wife to commit suicide."

Teenager injured in accident in northDelhi, tension in areaNEW DELHI

A 17-year-old school boy was seriously injured onTuesday when the scooter he was riding was hit by acluster bus near Inderlok metro station in north Delhi,sparking tension in the area, police said.

After the accident, locals allegedly vandalised the busand also pelted stones, injuring a policeman, a seniorpolice official said. The incident occurred at about 7.30AM when the teenager was on his way to school and acluster bus, operating on route number 234, betweenKarampura terminal and Harsh Vihar, hit his vehicle, theofficial said.

The teenager, who is a resident of a nearby JJ cluster,was reportedly not wearing a helmet and became uncon-scious after the fall, he said.

He was rushed to Sushruta Trauma Centre and isreported to be in a critical condition, the official added.s

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NEW DELHIThe Delhi Police today apologised

for its action against protesting ex-servicemen at Delhi's Jantar Mantarlast week, while attempting to evictprotesters from the area beforeIndependence Day.

"Our intention was not to hurt youon August 14, security concerns dueto Independence Day had botheredus. You can continue your protests,our force will protect you," a seniorpolice officer in uniform told the ex-servicemen, who have been protest-ing for over two months at the siteover the delay in implementing OneRank One Pension or OROP.

The protest has escalated now intoa hunger strike by three Army veter-ans after OROP did not feature in thePrime Minister's list of announce-ments on Independence Day. WhileCol Pushpendra Singh (retd) of the 3Grenadiers and Havaldar MajorSingh of the 3rd Sikh Regimentbegan what they are calling a "fastunto death" on Monday, HavaldarAshok Kumar Chouhan (retd) of theSignal Regiment joined this morning.

They have so far not heeded sever-al requests to reconsider their deci-sion, including one reportedly by thePrime Minister's Office today. Col

Anil Koul (retd), a decorated ex-serv-iceman now on protest, said PMOofficials had asked the veterans tocall off their hunger strike and givethem 10 days to resolve stickingpoints that are keeping OROP frombeing implemented.

The protesters say five more ex-servicemen could join the hungerstrike if OROP is not announcedsoon. Ten former service chiefs havealso written to Prime Minister Modiexpressing "dismay" over the govern-ment's handling of OROP. Urging the

government to "settle this issue expe-ditiously and in an urgent timeframe," they also slammed the policeaction against the protesters as unac-ceptable and had demanded actionagainst the erring policemen.

OROP is expected to benefit morethan three million retired servicemen.It will give equal pension to service-men retiring at the same rank regard-less of when they retire. At present, asoldier who retired many years ago ispaid far less than someone severalranks junior to him retiring now.

Delhi Police Apologises for ActionAgainst Protesting Ex-Servicemen

NEW DELHICongress MPs and for-

mer union ministersKumari Selja and AmbikaSoni on Tuesday told DelhiHigh Court they had noproblem vacating theirlarger type-VIII bungalowsand move to type-VII quar-ters, to which they are enti-tled. A bench of justicesPradeep Nandrajog andRajiv Shakdher, however,was informed through theirlawyers that the type-VIIquarters be made availableto them in good living con-dition.

Senior advocate KapilSibal appearing for Sonitold the court that she hasbeen allotted type-VII bun-galow at 84, Lodhi Estate

in central Delhi, which wasearlier occupied by BJPMP Birendra Singh.However, the condition ofthe house was bad, he said.

To this, the benchremarked "the CentralPublic Works Departmentwill repair the house at parwith their DirectorGeneral". AdditionalSolicitor General SanjayJain, appearing for theCentre said the renovationwill be done within sixweeks. the ASG also toldthe court that they haveoffered four type- VIIhouses to Selja, who canselect one of them.

The bench asked Selja tovisit the four houses andselect the one she wants

and listed the matter forfurther hearing on August24.

The court was hearingthe appeals filed by bothMPs, challenging the sin-gle judge July 30 order dis-missing their pleas againstthe Centre's direction toevict them from type-VIIIbungalows in Lutyens'Delhi. Costs of Rs 25,000each was also imposed onthem.

The MPs, in their plea,had submitted that theywere not saying they wereentitled to larger accom-modation but rather theircontention was "how canthe estate office set asidean allotment made by theHouse Committee".

Congress MPs agree to vacatetype-VIII bungalows: HC told

NEW DELHIThere are now three Army

veterans on an indefinitehunger strike at Delhi's JantarMantar in protest against thedelay in implementing OneRank One Pension or OROP.

Retired Havildar AshokKumar Chouhan of the SignalRegiment this morning joinedCol Pushpendra Singh (retd)of the 3 Grenadiers andHavaldar Major Singh of the3rd Sikh Regiment in whatthey are calling a "fast untodeath" at the venue of a two-month-long protest to demandOROP.

More ex-servicemen couldjoin the fast, organisers of theprotest said today.

Col Singh and HavildarMajor Singh, who began theirhunger strike on Monday,

have said they were forced toescalate matters after PrimeMinister Narendra Modi failedto announce OROP in hisIndependence Day speech onSaturday.

The announcement waswidely expected to be theshow stopper in the PM'saddress from the Red Fort, buta mention of OROP came onlytowards the end when PMModi acknowledged that thegovernment was yet to resolveOROP, but promised a resolu-tion soon.

"It was a demoralising factorfor us," said Col Singh onMonday. This morning, organ-isers of the protest said thethree veterans on hunger strikewould not speak "to conserveenergy."

Ten former service chiefs

have also written to PM Modiexpressing "dismay" over thegovernment's handling ofOROP. "The respect and dig-nity of the soldier is at stakehere and let it be known thatwe have extreme concern forthe veterans' long pendingdemands... "the former chiefswrote, adding, "We wouldstrongly urge the Governmentto settle this issue expeditious-ly and in an urgent timeframe."

OROP is expected to benefitmore than three million retiredservicemen. It will give equalpension to servicemen retiringat the same rank regardless ofwhen they retire. At present, asoldier who retired many yearsago is paid far less than some-one several ranks junior to himretiring now.

Third Army Veteran Joins Indefinite HungerStrike Over One Rank One PensionNEW DELHI

Despite Yamunaflowing above thewarning level, Delhigovernment onTuesday said that thereis no danger of floodand they are preparedfor deal with the situa-tion.

Yesterday, waterlevel of Yamuna at OldYamuna Bridge crossedthe warning level of204.00 m as it wasflowing at 204.26 m till4 PM, which furtherwent up to 204.68 m atnight.

Today, officialsrecorded water level at204.40 m, which is stillabove the warning levelbut below the dangermark of 204.83 m.

To take stock of the

situation, Delhi'sIrrigation and FloodControl Minister GopalRai inspected the OldYamuna iron bridgeand other adjacent low-lying areas yesterday.

According to the offi-cial, after the review ofwater level and floodsituation in Delhi, heappealed to the reidentsto not feel panicked andreiterated that there isno danger of floods.

Rai also visited theflood control office atISBT and inspected thepreparedness of thedepartment.

Last night water levelin Yamuna went up204.68 m which wasbelow of danger mark(204.83). However, thewater level descended

in the morning and wasrecorded at 204.40 m.

"All mechanismshave been put in placeto deal with the situa-tion. For emergencymeasures boosterpumps had been fittedalong the banks of theriver to pump out thewater. Orders havebeen issued forinstalling more pumpsin low-lying areas suchas Ring Road, Okhla,Majnu ka Tila, Burari,Batla House andJahangirpuri," Rai said.

Government has alsokept several boats onthe riverside and diversand boatmen have beendeployed to deal withany emergency situa-tion.

Yamuna flowing above warning level;no flood threat says Delhi govt

NEW DELHIAmid reports of CAG

indicting power discomsin the national capital forinflating dues by Rs 8,000crore, the Aam AadmiParty (AAP) on Tuesdayasked Delhi Governmentto take steps to publish thedocument at the earliest,rationalise electricity tar-iff and take action againsterring companies.

In what is seen as amajor victory for theparty, the AAP said itsstand against power distri-bution companies (dis-coms) in Delhi stands"vindicated".

"The Delhi governmentshould take steps so thatthe CAG report is made

public at the earliest aswhatever is known todayis only through mediareports. It should initiatecriminal investigation inthe case, prosecute theguilty, and recover thepublic money," AAPspokesperson Dilip Bajpaisaid at a news conference.

Lashing out at the dis-coms, AAP Delhi unit sec-retary Saurabh Bharadwajclaimed, "BSES YamunaPower Limited (BYPL)duped the people of Delhiby Rs 1,062 crore, BSESRajdhani Power Limited(BRPL) of Rs 860 croreand Tata Power-DLL(TPDDL) of Rs 1,098core."

He also attacked the

erstwhile Sheila Dikshitgovernment and the BJPover the issue.

"The then DERC chair-man Berjinder Singh hadsaid the power billsshould be reduced by 23per cent. Sheila Dikshitknew about this, but didnot say anything. Even theBJP was aware of this, butchose to remain quite. Itwas only when the AAPstarted talking about itand the issue came tolight," Bharadwajsaid.

Inflated power bills wasone of the major electionissues that the AAP raisedduring the December2013 and February 2015Assembly polls.

Following its victory inDecember 2013, theAAP's 49-day governmenthad initiated a CAG auditof power discoms operat-ing in the national capital.

The party also attackedthe Delhi RegulatoryElectricity Commission(DERC) for not checkingthe books of discoms.

"The DERC was sup-posed to keep an eye onthese discoms. But did notcheck its books and theofficers at DERC support-ed the illegal practice ofpower discoms. Even thegovernment appointednominees in these powerdiscoms turned a blindeye to what was happen-ing," Bajpai alleged.

AAP asks Delhi govt to publish CAG reporton discoms, says its stand 'vindicated'

NEW DELHIThe security in and

around the Supreme Courtcomplex has been tightenedafter an anonymous letterthreatening to blow up thehighest court was receivedand forwarded to DelhiPolice.

A report published in theHindustan Times, Tuesday,said the threatening emailwas received by a personwhose identity was with-held for security reasons.The letter was immediatelyforwarded to Delhi Police,which in no time tightenedthe security cover in andaround the Supreme Courtcomplex on Tilak Marg.

As per the report, theUnion Home Ministry andintelligence agencies werealso informed about thethreatening email.

Subsequently, all agen-cies responsible for secur-ing the court complex havebeen asked to remain alert.

“We have received an

email in which anti-nation-al elements have threateneda bomb attack at theSupreme Court. We haveforwarded the matter to ourelite special cell for furtherprobe. It could be a prankbut we are not taking anychances,” a senior officer,who also confirmed thereceipt of the email, wasquoted as saying by thereport.

On August 5, SupremeCourt Justice Dipak Misrawho had rejected Mumbaiblasts convict YakubMemon's mercy plea hadreceived an anonymousthreatening letter.

Security outside his resi-dence was quickly beefedup after the threat letter wassent to his office at theSupreme Court recently.

Teams from the DelhiPolice Special Cell and theIntelligence Bureau weredirected to investigate thematter.

NEW DELHIIn a step aimed at min-

imising the traffic chaos inthe capital, the NationalGreen Tribunal onTuesday directed all themunicipal corporations inthe city to ensure regulat-ed parking on designatedmetalled roads in theirareas.

A bench headed by NGTChairperson JusticeSwatanter Kumar askedthe New Delhi MunicipalCouncil (NDMC), SouthDelhi MunicipalCorporation (SDMC),East Delhi MunicipalCorporation (EDMC) andNorth Delhi MunicipalCorporation (NDMC) tocoordinate with policeauthorities and implementsystematic parking.

Single lane parking hasbeen allowed in certaincrowded markets in thecapital where haphazardparking has led to chaosand rise in vehicular emis-sions.

"You have to ensure thatthere is not more than sin-gle lane parking on theroads. In all the coloniesof Delhi, parking is thereon both sides of the road.A person is lucky if hepasses through the colonywithout a dent in his car.You need to bring uniformpolicy with respect to sin-gle lane parking.

"You cannot make ittotally unviable for vehi-cles to move. Hold a meet-ing of all corporationswith the police authoritiesand come out with a solu-

tion. Adopt a systematicpolicy," the bench said.

SDMC told the Tribunalthat surface parkingcharges have beenincreased and residentswho are parking theirvehicles outside theirhouse are being chargeddouble the amount whilethe commercial establish-ments were being chargedthrice the amount.

The green panel washearing a case related tovehicular pollution inDelhi-NCR.

The Tribunal had earlierimposed a complete banon parking of cars on met-alled roads in the nationalcapital and directed thatany violation would leadto a fine of Rs 1,000.

Ensure regulated parking in Delhi: NGT

Supreme Court receivesanonymous threat letter,

security tightened

NEW DELHIThe Delhi Commission

for Women (DCW) onTuesday issued summonsto BJP legislator OPSharma in connection withAam Aadmi Party MLAAlka Lamba's complaintagainst him over allegeduse of foul language.

"The commission hasdirected to issue summonsfor personal appearance toyou (Sharma) in pursuanceof powers under the provi-sions of the DCW Act,1994," the DCW noticesaid. Sharma has beenasked to appear before thecommission on August 20.

DCW had yesterdayissued fresh summons toSHO Kashmere Gateregarding the allegedattack on Lamba during ananti-drug drive last week.

Lamba along with theSHO Vijender Singh andDCP North Madhur Vermawere summoned to appearbefore DCW yesterday.While Verma did not comefor the meet the SHO wasissued a fresh summon forAugust 20 and was askedto come along with theCCTV footage and statusreport on action taken inthe case. A case of tres-passing, damage to proper-ty and preventing govern-ment servant from dis-charging his duty was reg-istered against Lamba, theAAP MLA from ChandniChowk, at Kashmere Gatepolice station on August 10on a complaint by traders.

Lamba was injured whensomeone allegedly threw astone at her during an anti-drug drive there.

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NEW DELHIFood safety regulator

FSSAI is reviewing theBombay High Court orderthat last week quashed itsorder to ban Maggi, and hasnot yet decided if it willchallenge the order inSupreme Court.

The Bombay High Courthad on August 13 quashedthe orders of FSSAI andMaharashtra FDA banningnine variants of Maggi noo-dles in the country.

The court had provided aconditional relief to thepopular snack's manufac-turer Nestle India as itordered a fresh test of sam-ples in three independentlaboratories across India.

"Nothing has been decid-ed so far on approachingSupreme Court. As of nowwe are reviewing the court'sorder," a senior FSSAI offi-cial said.

The court had said that ifthe fresh tests show that

lead content was below per-missible limit, then thecompany will be allowed tomanufacture and sell Maggiagain in the country.

When contacted a healthministry official said, "Weare studying the order andwill go by the rule book."

Following the court'sorder, Food Safety andStandards Authority ofIndia (FSSAI) ChairmanAshish Bahuguna had said"Supreme Court option is

neither ruled in nor ruledout."

Mr Bahuguna also saidthat if he finds that the courthad not taken regulator'ssubmissions only then hewill think of going toSupreme Court.

FSSAI and FDA in firstweek of June had orderedthe recall of Maggi noodlessaying the samples of noo-dles tested by them con-tained 'lead beyond permis-sible limit'.

Maggi Row: Food Safety Regulator ReviewingCourt's Order, Yet to Decide on Future Course

JAKARTATwo days after an

Indonesian plane belongingto Trigana Air went missingover the mountains, it hasbeen confirmed that theplane was totally destroyedafter it crashed in the west-ern Papua region , leavingno survivors, the country'stop rescue official said.

Also, the officials havemanaged to locate theplane's flight datarecorders, known as blackbox, which should revealmore information on whatcaused the crash.

Rough weather andrugged terrain at the crashsite delayed the rescueefforts and officials reachedthe site on Tuesday only tospot the wreckage of theplane that had been com-pletely destroyed and par-tially burnt.

“All the bodies wereburned and difficult to iden-tify," National Search andRescue Agency chief HenryBambang Soelistyo told anews agency, adding thatthere was no hope of anysurvivors.

The bodies will be takento Jayapura for identifica-

tion.The ATR42-300 twin tur-

boprop plane was flyingfrom Jayapura to the city ofOksibil when it lost contact.It was carrying 44 adultpassengers, five children,and five crew members.

Soelistyo said the wreck-age was at an altitude of2,600 meters (about 8,500feet). Much of Papua iscovered with impenetrablejungles and mountains.Some planes that havecrashed in the past havenever been found.

The airline's crisis centerofficial in Jayapura'sSentani airport, Budiono,said all the passengers wereIndonesians, and includedthree local government offi-cials and two members ofthe local parliament whowere to attend a ceremonyMonday in Oksibil markingthe 70th anniversary ofIndonesia's independencefrom Dutch colonial rule.

Oksibil, about 280 kilo-meters (175 miles) south ofJayapura, was experiencingheavy rain, strong windsand fog when the plane lostcontact with the airportminutes before it was

scheduled to land.The passengers included

four postal workers aboardthe plane were escortingfour bags of cash totaling$468,750 in governmentaid for poor families to helpoffset a spike in fuel prices,Franciscus Haryono, thehead of the post office inJayapura, the provincialcapital, told The AssociatedPress.

The cash from the SocialAffairs Ministry was to bedistributed among poorpeople in remote areas tocushion the jump in fuelcosts, Haryono said.

"They were carryingthose bags (of cash) to behanded out to poor peoplein Oksibil through a postoffice there," Haryono said.

Indonesia has had a stringof airline tragedies in recentyears.

In December, all 162 peo-ple aboard an AirAsia jetwere killed when the planeplummeted into the JavaSea as it flew throughstormy weather on its wayfrom Surabaya, Indonesia'ssecond-largest city, toSingapore.

No survivors in Indonesia's Triganaair crash, black box recovered

SRINAGARThe ruling Peoples Democratic

Party (PDP) today said the height-ened tensions along the Line ofControl (LoC) should remind Indiaand Pakistan about the "inevitabil-ity of dialogue" to find a just andpragmatic solution to all the con-tentious issues.

Asserting that there was no alter-native to reconciliation betweenthe neighbouring nations, PDPPresident Mehbooba Mufti under-lined the importance of finding asolution to the jolt received by thepeace process, in the wake of aseries of ceasefire violations byPakistani troops in the recent past.

"PDP visualizes and is strivingfor a space of dignity and opportu-nity for the people of Jammu andKashmir in a larger paradigm offriendship between India andPakistan. We cannot visualize anyalternative to reconciliation anddialogue between our country andPakistan.

"The hostility between the twocountries has hit the people of thestate the hardest and the incidentson the borders and LoC shouldkeep reminding the two countriesthe inevitability of sitting acrossthe table to find a just and prag-matic solution to all the con-tentious issues," she said.

Ms Mehbooba was addressing aparty workers convention inAnantnag district of southKashmir.

She expressed grief and shockover the recent civilian killings inBalakote sector of district Poonchin shelling from across the border.

"While I extend my heartfeltcondolences to the families ofinnocent victims of cross-bordershelling, I would request the stake-holders to de-escalate the tensionand allow the people of the state tolive in peace," she said.

The Anantnag MP reiterated thatattempts are being made to subvertthe peace process in the Valley andasked the Prime Minister to stepup his efforts in the wake of suchattempts.

"With a decisive mandate at hisback, Prime Minister NarendraModi has the opportunity to revivethe process of reconciliation in thesub-continent. The prevailingalarming situation along the bor-ders in Jammu and Kashmir neces-sitates the urgency of reviving thecomposite dialogue process," shesaid. Ms Mehbooba said the signif-icant reconciliatory measurestaken between 2002 and 2005,when PDP was in power for thefirst time, in and around Jammuand Kashmir, both on internal andexternal fronts, had not onlyhelped improve the security sce-nario in the region, but within thestate as well.

"At a time when we are envi-sioning free movement of people

and goods across the borders insouth Asian region, J-K can'tafford to slide into another gloomyera of uncertainty and devasta-tion," she said.

The PDP President said afterdecades of agony, people had start-ed seeing a ray of hope in thepeace process, which "unfortu-nately is under severe threattoday".

"I hope that the dark shadows ofpessimism cast over the peaceprocess will not jeopardize theregion's security and stability asany such scenario would have dis-astrous consequences for the peo-ple living in the region," she said.

Welcoming Prime MinisterModi's vision to boost intra-SAARC physical connectivity, shesaid, the forum for South AsianCooperation can't realize its fullpotential unless India and Pakistanend their decades old hostilitiesand build a cooperative relation-ship around Jammu and Kashmir.

"J-K could become a bridge inthis new paradigm of intra-SAARC connectivity instead ofremaining a bone of contention inthe region. By boosting connectiv-ity between South Asian countries,SAARC will not only gain rele-vance but strength as well," shesaid.

PDP Wants India, Pakistan toFind Just Solution to all Issues

NEW DELHIIndia has asked

Myanmar to hand overfour top leaders of Nagaoutfit NSCN-K, includingits chief SS Khaplang,holding them responsiblefor killing of 18 Army sol-diers in Manipur on June4.

Besides Khaplang, Indiasought the custody of NikiSumi, Kirichu and Asang,who were believed to haveplanned and supervisedthe attack in Manipur'sChandel district.

The request was placedduring the meeting ofIndia- Myanmar JointConsultative Committeeheld here last month, gov-ernment sources said.

The Indian delegationtold the Myanmarese teamthat the four had hatchedthe conspiracy to attackthe Indian soldiers and

directly supervised theexecution of the plan.

The sources said theMyanmar delegation,however, remained non-committal over India'srequest to hand over theNSCN-K leaders.

Khaplang, a Naga fromMyanmar, was reportedlyundergoing treatment at ahospital in Yangon on theday of the attack.However, later he shiftedto his base in Taga, locat-ed along the Sino-Myanmar border.

The other three NSCN-K leaders are alsobelieved to be inMyanmar and they shuttlebetween Taga and the out-fit's other camps.

Days after the attack,Indian Army commandoscarried out an attack onNSCN-K camps along theborder with Myanmar.

India asks Myanmar to handover Khaplang, 3 others

IMPHALMiscreants allegedly burnt shops

and hotels during a clash between twogroups at border town Moreh inChandel district of Manipur, policesaid today.

The groups clashed with arms in thetown, which borders Myanmar, andset ablaze some shops and roadsidehotels, they said.

There was no report of casualty orserious injury, police said.

Security forces rushed to the spotand further details were awaited, theysaid.

CHANDIGARHTeachers in Punjab are

up in arms against a gov-ernment notice askingthem to keep an eye onpeople defecating in theopen.

As per the guidelinesissued by the sub-division-al magistrate's office ofMalerkotla in Sangrur dis-trict, teachers have beenappointed nodal officers towork for the Centre'scleanliness drive. As partof the campaign, thePunjab government is aim-ing to make the state freefrom open defecation byMahatma Gandhi's birthanniversary on October 2.

According to the districtofficial's order, govern-ment teachers in Punjabwill have to check howmany people are defecat-ing in the open and urgethem not to do so. Theyhave also been asked to

submit a report on familieswho do not have toilets athome.

Malerkotla Sub-Divisional Magistrate AmitBambi said, "There isnothing wrong in educat-ing residents about the illeffects of open defecation.But this is not compulsory.Those who don't want to bepart of it can get their

names removed.Similar orders issued by

Hoshiyarpur administra-tion asking teachers to fol-low instructions of officersfrom water supply and san-itation department.

The Punjab Teacher'sUnion is protesting thedirective. Teacher's unionleader Surjit Singh said,"This is a disrespect to our

profession. We are teach-ers. If we do such jobs theneven our students will notrespect us."

But the state governmentis now trying to play downthe order.

Chief Minister ParkashSingh Badal said, "No suchorders have been issued.We will ensure toilets inevery village of Punjab tomake it clean. I am person-ally monitoring progress."

The state governmenthas set a target of con-structing 6 lakh 25 thou-sand toilets to prevent opendefecation, he said.

Punjab PrimaryEducation Minister DaljitCheema clarified that theorders were issued withoutconsulting the government.The education departmentis going to write to the con-cerned DeputyCommissioners to with-draw the order, he said.

Punjab Teachers Protest Ordersto Keep Eye on Open Defecation

NEW DELHIShe had always remained

in the background, smilinggraciously at invited guestsfrom her wheelchair duringevents held at theRashtrapati Bhavan. FirstLady Suvra Mukherjee,President PranabMukherjee's wife of 58years, died here onTuesday, it was announced.

The First Lady wasadmitted to the IntensiveCare Unit of the Army'sResearch And ReferralHospital here two weeksback. President Mukherjeecut short his two-day visitto Odisha and returned tothe National Capital thatevening itself. She wasknown to be suffering froma heart ailment."SuvraMukherjee died after a car-diac arrest. She was on ven-tilator till the time of her

death," Army's ResearchAnd Referral Hospital PROSanjay Kumar said.

Married to Mr Mukherjeeon July 13, 1957, MrsSuvra Mukherjee was anaccomplished RabindraSangeet exponent. The cou-ple have two sons and adaughter. Her son AbhijeetMukherjee is a CongressMP from Jangipur, WestBengal, while daughterSharmistha is an accom-plished dancer and hasjoined the Congress party.Another son is IndrajitMukherjee.

Mrs Mukherjee was bornin Narail, Bangladesh,where her relatives stilllive. During his state visitto Bangladesh in March2013, President Mukherjeepaid his first visit to his"sosur bari", or in-laws'house, where the couple

were given the traditionalwelcome accorded tonewly-weds, complete withconch-shells being blownand 'uloo dhoni' and 'man-gal deep' aarti.

The grand family wel-come at Bhadrabila village,some 9 km from Narailtown, probably made up forthe physical stress she hadto endure, being wheel-chair bound throughout thetrip. She is not known tohave accompanied her hus-band on a foreign tour afterthat. Her ancestors hadmigrated to India in early1950s after the 1947 parti-tion. In an interview toTimes of India in July2012, just after MrMukherjee was named asthe next Indian President,Mrs Mukherjee told thedaily that she and her hus-band had never had a fight.

President Pranab Mukherjee's Wife Suvra DiesNEW DELHI

The new and catchy "Start UpIndia, Stand Up India" campaignthat Prime Minister Narendra Modiannounced in his IndependenceDay speech procured internationalheadlines. But in South India,objections were flagged quickly,with the hashtag #stophindiimposi-tion trending as the PM deliveredhis address from the stunning RedFort.

A group of people comprisingbloggers and techies and other pro-fessionals called PLE (PromoteLinguistic Equality) Bengaluruclaim responsibility for the hashtagand say they are against "the impo-sition of Hindi" on the country bythe union government.

"Only 25 per cent of the countryspeaks in Hindi. Then why is it thatthe Prime Minister is speaking onlyfor them?" said Vallish Kumar, aPLE member.

PLE's note of dissent seemed to

resonate quickly with tweets fromstates like Odisha and Maharashtracomplaining that too often, crucialsignage is posted in English orHindi, but not the regional lan-guage.

Arun Javgal from Karnataka

tweeted a picture of a ticket fromBangalore to Mysore that had infor-mation in English and Hindi, butnot Kannada.

Eminent educationist VibhaParthasarathy said opposing Hindihas to be measured - if the alterna-

tive is English, then even fewerpeople understand it, she said ."Don't more people understandBollywood films?" she said toreporters, "So why did they onlyprotest against the government'slanguage usage? There has to be anIndian language linking all, and thenumber of those understandingHindi is now far greater (than inearlier times)."

But Apurvanand, a professor ofHindi at Delhi University, dis-agreed. "Even if a small number ofpeople are opposing Hindi, itshould be noted by authorities.Why shouldn't the Prime Minister'sspeech be translated into all lan-guages simultaneously?"

However, standup comic fromBangalore Praveen Kumar says thewhole issue is missing perspective."Don't we gain from learning a lan-guage? I just know that if I go toNorth India and crack a joke inHindi, I'll get more laughs," he said.

Anti-Hindi Campaign on Twitter Targets PM Modi's Speech

Shops, Hotels set Ablaze in Group Clash in Manipur

PONDICHERRYA professor at the

Pondicherry Universitywas allegedly manhan-dled and his office ran-sacked in what the policebelieve was retaliationafter an attack on the ViceChancellor on Monday.

N Dastagir Reddy, afaculty member, wasattacked allegedly bynon-teaching staff and asection of students. MrReddy is leading protestsagainst Vice ChancellorMs ChandraKrishnamoorthi, who iscurrently on leave.

Dr Reddy, whose officewas wrecked, said: "I'vemoved outside the cam-pus. It's no longer safe forme to remain here. MsChandra's goondas(henchmen) are attackingus now. They've alsoattacked two otherwomen faculty and dam-aged a car."

The police say lastnight the acting ViceChancellor, PannirSelvam, collapsed afterbeing held captive byprotesting students andfaculty. Dr Selvam isreportedly a heart patient.

The protesters havedemanded his exit sayingthat he's a confidante ofthe Vice Chancellor.

"This attack is in retali-ation," said a seniorpolice officer. The policedid not confirm reportsthat two women profes-sors were also attacked.

The past few weekshave seen protests againstthe Vice Chancellor, whohas been accused of com-mitting fraud to get thetop college post.

Many students allegethat ChandraKrishnamoorthi has notpublished research papersas her CV claims; thebook she published.

Pondicherry University Prof Manhandled,Office Ransacked Amid Protests

BY SUHASINI HAIDAR

In August 2013, exactly twoyears ago, 40 experts, com-prising the most senior for-

mer diplomats, police officialsand retired military officers,wrote a letter to the then PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh onPakistan. “The policy ofappeasement has failed,” theysaid at a press conference. “Anew bipartisan policy is neededthat will impose costs onPakistan for terrorism,” theyadded. Their letter urged thePrime Minister to cancel theplanned talks with PakistanPrime Minister Nawaz Sharif onthe sidelines of the U.N. GeneralAssembly in September 2013,and to call off dialogue withPakistan altogether.

Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years,former advisor to the PrimeMinister on J&K, A.S. Dulat,recounts how in October 2003,Mr. Vajpayee announced that theCentre would talk to the Hurriyatleadership. According to Mr.Dulat, “Everyone in the roomwas startled.” When asked whowould lead the talks, he said,“Advaniji, of course,” thus nip-ping in the bud any dissent byputting the person most opposedto the talks in the forefront.

As the former IntelligenceBureau Chief once posted inPakistan and later head ofVivekananda Foundation, theright-wing think-tank, Mr.Doval’s tough views are wellknown. That both Mr. Modi andMr. Doval have moved from “notalks until terror stops” to “talkabout terror” is proof of theinevitability of engagement inany Indian government’sPakistan policy.

In his new role, Mr. Doval hasbeen protecting the talks frommultiple challenges. WhenPakistan began mortar shellingjust days after the Ufa summit, itwas the NSA who picked up thephone and called Pakistan HighCommissioner Abdul Basit threetimes to try and lower tensions.

After the Gurdaspur attack, itwas the NSA and the PMO thatensured that the narrative point-ed to terrorists “from Pakistan”as opposed to terrorists “sent byPakistan.” Again, afterUdhampur, the government sentthe same message, with a seniorofficial telling the media: “ThePakistani government’s endorse-ment is not visible in theGurdaspur attack.” With everyprovocation that has followed,from the deadly shelling at theLoC that killed several civilianslast week to even the Pakistani

High Commissioner’s

surprisingly sharp speech onKashmir on Independence Day— the government has respond-ed with restraint.

Clearly restraint will be muchneeded this week in the run-up tothe talks themselves. Mr.Doval’s task as he prepares tomeet Pakistan NSA Sartaj Azizon August 23 in Delhi is three-fold: first, to put forth India’scase on terror emanating fromPakistan; second, to blunt Mr.Aziz’s attempts to draw anequivalence to alleged Indianactivities in Balochistan andKhyber; and third, to put in placea series of interactions thatensure a productive visit toPakistan by Prime MinisterModi for the South AsianAssociation for Regional

Cooperation (Saarc) summit in2016.

Line out of control

There is no question, however,that regardless of all that is onthe agenda, it is the LoC thatneeds attention immediately.Casualties on both sides of theLoC have been rising at analarming rate, and the ceasefireis practically ‘deceased’. A studyby the U.S.-based StimsonCenter finds that “that theKashmir divide has become farmore volatile since late 2012.”

According to the study, the “rateof ceasefire violations” has morethan doubled in 2014-15 overpreceding years.

The two NSAs would do wellto hasten the implementation ofthe Ufa agreement on holding ameet of the Director Generals ofMilitary Operations, and perhapsinclude MEA and even intelli-gence officials.

On the main issue of terror,there is no question that Mr.Doval will have a stockpile ofevidence for Mr. Aziz. However,India must focus on the ongoing26/11 trial in Pakistan, for tworeasons. First, because the trial isunder way and represents thehope, however slim, that some ofthe perpetrators may be brought

to justice. Second because it rep-resents a unique case wherePakistani investigators haveindependently confirmed all thatIndia has said about terrorgroups inside that country. In awidely-circulated article, the for-mer Director General of theFederal Investigative Agency(equivalent to the IndianNational Intelligence Agencyand Central Bureau ofIntelligence combined) TariqKhosa spelt out the evidencegathered against the 26/11accused, their Lashkar-e-Taiba(LeT) commanders, and the

training of men like AjmalKasab. The government mustpress ahead with this evidence,both with Pakistan and with theU.S., and the U.N.

A structure for talks

None of these issues can bediscussed, however, unless thereis a steady channel for talksbetween Indian and Pakistaniinterlocutors. A key takeawayfrom the NSA-level meetingcould be an agreement to set upsuch a channel, whether a ‘back-channel’ of the kind PrimeMinisters Vajpayee andManmohan Singh set up withMr. Musharraf, or regular meet-ings of the NSAs, Foreign andHome Secretaries.

Prime Ministerial meetingslike the one at Ufa, while helpfulfor the atmospherics, cannotsubstitute for legwork and hardnegotiations. Nor can they sub-stitute for India’s own nationalsecurity considerations, as thoseopposed to talks often warn. Thegovernment must continue tocarry out its responsibilities,whether at the border or anti-ter-ror operations. Only then canIndia and Pakistan start work onthe last part of the Ufa agenda —to construct a basket of agree-ments and announcements thatwould make Mr. Modi’s 2016visit worthwhile. Many of these,such as a new visa regime, Most-Favoured Nation (MFN)-statusfrom Pakistan, and the Sir Creeksettlement, have already beennegotiated and require onlypolitical will to be implemented.

Cynics of Track-1 diplomaticefforts between the two coun-tries could take heart from theresilience of the Track-2 process.The Chaophraya Dialogue thatmet this month for the 16thRound (of which this writer wasa part), for example, continues todraw in diplomats, generals, andother officials who till recentlywere inside Indian and Pakistaniestablishments.

These are men and womenwith decades of public experi-ence and meet regularly to dis-cuss the issues confrontingIndia-Pakistan relations. Despitedifferences, they continue tomeet and build a conversationthat is eventually conveyed backto their respective governments.Interestingly, they now includesome of those who wrote thatletter in August 2013.

Ahead of the NSA-level talks,one of them described thepredicament well. “There is somuch ice in India-Pakistan rela-tions, every high-level meetingis seen as an ice-breaker,” hesaid. It’s time to start chippingaway at the ice and shapingbuilding blocks for a lastingsolution instead.

WEDNESDAY | AUGUST 19, 2015

Foes join forces

Show of admirable restraint

BY PULAPRE BALAKRISHNAN

In a commendable infusionof transparency into policymaking, the Government of

India has uploaded on the net adraft of the proposed IndianFinancial Code (IFC). Withindays of its being made avail-able, it had received criticalattention in the media.However, though the Code willapply to a wide range of mat-ters financial, much of theresponse has concerned themonetary policy function.Within this, the focus has beenon the relative power of theReserve Bank of India (RBI)and the government in settingthe policy interest rate. Thedraft, in effect, proposes thatthe government should have thegreater say as, numerically, thegovernment’s nominees are setto dominate the MonetaryPolicy Committee envisaged init.

Goal of monetary policy

This issue is easily resolvedin principle. There can be noquestion that if the RBI is to beheld accountable for monetarypolicy it should have full powerto set the interest rate. Animpression has been given thatthe proposal is itself only amanifestation of the govern-ment’s attempt to cut the RBIleadership down to size.Naturally, this gives rise tosome excitement among thepublic, but there is a muchmore fundamental issue atstake in the draft IFC, and thishas received less than its dueattention. It concerns the goalof monetary policy, and it isworrying that on this there isactually no disagreementbetween the government andthe RBI! The draft IFC propos-es that the goal of monetarypolicy shall be inflation target-ing. “Inflation targeting”implies that the Central bankwill give priority to the rise in

prices. This had been the sub-stantive recommendation ofThe Expert Committee toRevise and Strengthen theMonetary Policy Framework,constituted by the RBI in 2013.

To anyone who rightly wor-ries about inflation, it is appro-priate that the Central bankshould be concerned with it.But to recommend that aCentral bank focus on inflationdoes beg two questions. First,how effectively can the RBIcontrol inflation? And, second,are there possibly adverseeffects of attempting such con-trol? The promise of inflationtargeting is that inflation can becontrolled by monetary policyand that there are no trade-offsto a policy of inflation target-ing. This can hardly beassumed, and has been stronglycontested by economists.

Going by recent history, thereis reason for some scepticismabout the RBI’s ability to con-trol the inflation rate. From2008 onwards, inflation hadshifted gear upwards for fiveyears. It would be difficult tosquare this with the suggestionthat it reflects the Bank’sefforts to maintain growth, forgrowth has actually been lowerin this period. While we have acomplete explanation of thephenomenon of rising inflationand slowing growth, and it restson the role of agricultural out-put fluctuations, it need notdetain us here. The point ofrecounting this history is tosuggest that it is far from clearthat the RBI can fine-tune theinflation rate as is conveyed inthe Draft IFC which states thatthe objective of monetary poli-cy in India should be “price sta-bility”, in the context to beunderstood as a stable inflationrate.

American parallel

However, let us set aside ourscepticism and assume that aCentral bank can control theinflation rate. Would inflationtargeting be desirable now? Wecan best answer this by lookingat recent experience in theUnited States. For a decadefrom the mid-1990s, the infla-tion rate there had been low and

steady, eliciting the epithet “theGreat Moderation”. But thisphase had masked the brewingof a financial crisis in the formof an asset bubble, responsibil-ity for which American com-mentators trace to the FederalReserve that had, in view of thelow inflation, maintainedunusually low interest rates. Afeeding frenzy had followedwith credit fuelling house priceincreases. It is in the nature ofinflation targetting that sec-toral-price increases areignored. When the bubblefinally burst and house pricescollapsed, the banks that hadfinanced their purchase foundthemselves holding worthlessassets. A spectacular interven-tion by the Federal Reserve,termed “unconventional mone-tary policy”, saved the day for

the U.S. economy. This episodedemonstrates two things. Thatfinancial crises are possibleeven with low inflation and thatthe Central bank can make adifference with respect to out-put. Though a U.S.-style crisisis unlikely in India given solarge a presence of the publicsector, it does point to the need

for the Central bank to be con-cerned with financial stability.

The policy response in theU.S. following the financial cri-sis was also mediated by thepolitical consideration that anoutput collapse should be avert-ed at all cost. Collective memo-ry has a role to play in the polit-ical choices nations make. Thusthe Americans are perhapshaunted by the experience ofthe Great Depression whenunemployment exceeded 25per cent. This makes themunemployment averse. On theother hand, the Germans appearto be inflation averse, and youcan hardly blame them for it.Inflation in the WeimarRepublic had, at its peak in1923, reached a vertiginous32,000 per cent per month.

There is a lesson in this for us,that India’s institutional archi-tecture should reflect its ownpeculiarities and goals ratherthan be guided by pure theoret-ical constructs allegedly basedon universal truth.

Inflation targeting

When the idea of inflationtargeting had gained promi-nence in academia, the FederalReserve had been lectured fornot focussing on inflation.However, it is interesting tonote that the U.S. has done farbetter than Europe in terms ofemployment post-crisis.Moreover, its record as far asinflationary expectations, andthus inflation, is concerned isno worse than that of countrieswith central banks that pursueinflation targeting. This is notsurprising, for, as stated on itswebsite, the Federal Reserve“is firmly committed to fulfill-ing its statutory mandate fromthe Congress of promotingmaximum employment, stableprices and moderate long-terminterest rates”. By contrast, theDraft IFC declares that “The

objective of monetary policy isto achieve price stability whilestriking a balance with theobjective of the CentralGovernment to achievegrowth.” The point is that if theRBI is to pursue an inflationtarget set by the government itmust accept the growth that isgot.

An argument for inflation tar-geting I have heard made at thehighest level of India’s eco-nomic policy-making establish-ment is that in the long runthere is no trade-off betweeninflation and unemployment.This is an assertion moreambiguous than it sounds. If itis a period of undefined dura-tion that is meant by “long run”then we can never be assuredthat in this long run we are notsimply in yet another short run.Alternatively, the long runcould be seen as that state inwhich the economy has self-corrected and, ergo, there is nounemployment. Long ago, theeconomist, John MaynardKeynes, had restored perspec-tive to this thought experiment.He had remarked: “The long

run is a misleading guide tocurrent affairs. In the long runwe are all dead. Economists setthemselves too easy, too use-less a task, if in tempestuousseasons they can only tell usthat when the storm is long pastthe ocean is flat again.”

Note issue

So, what should the RBI bedoing? Well, it should focus onoutput at least as much as itdoes on inflation, but this sitsuncomfortably with the man-date of inflation targeting thatis proposed in the draft IFC.Then it should continue its his-toric role of supervising thefinancial system, in which taskit has done the Indian citizenproud by discharging itselfwithout fear or favour. Butthere is a task on which it mayhave slipped a bit of late. Amidthe highfalutin talk of “anchor-ing expectations”, “forwardguidance” and “the naturallevel of output”, it seems tohave been forgotten that theRBI has the monopoly on thenote issue, one granted with aview to facilitating economicexchange.

Today, extreme hardship iscaused by a shortage of smalldenomination currency notes inthe bazaar. This raises transac-tion costs as agents struggle tomake payment. And when thenotes of the desired denomina-tion are finally to be had theyare so worn and soiled that ittakes the joy out of truck andbarter. Money may be a store ofvalue, but it is also a medium ofexchange. Surely the thought ofsparkling rupee notes should beenough to bring together aproudly independent RBI and agovernment sworn to swachtha.

(Pulapre Balakrishnan teach-es economics at AshokaUniversity.)

Going beyond inflation targeting

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Nothing brings political rivals together as a big-ger, common rival does. With the BJP emergingas the front runner in the approaching Assembly

election in Bihar, the old foes, Nitish Kumar of theJanata Dal (United) and Lalu Prasad of the RashtriyaJanata Dal, have joined forces with the Congress in agrand ‘secular’ alliance. The RJD was the commonenemy that unified major opposition parties more than adecade ago; it is the BJP in that role now. All three par-ties, the JD(U), the RJD and the Congress, have formedgovernments in Bihar independently of one another, butthe recent shifts in electoral fortunes mean they arefighting for the same anti-BJP political space. With Mr.Prasad no longer in contention for the Chief Minister’spost — given his conviction in a corruption case and dis-qualification from contesting any election — whatremained to be settled was the number of seats for eachparty. In any case, Mr. Kumar, as the sitting ChiefMinister, could not have been expected to step aside in arace for the leadership of the alliance. The two main par-ties agreeing to fight in the same number of seats musthave been a solution that suggested itself. However,after they split 200 of the 243 seats between them, andapportioned 40 for the Congress, Mr. Kumar and Mr.Prasad had only three seats to offer to the NationalistCongress Party. Not surprisingly, the NCP opted out.This was not the scenario that Mr. Kumar envisagedwhen he broke his ties with the BJP after NarendraModi’s rise to national prominence ahead of last year’sLok Sabha election. The JD(U) leader must have beenhoping to do a repeat of what Odisha Chief MinisterNaveen Patnaik did: he dumped the BJP as an ally at nopolitical cost. However, Mr. Kumar has had to seek thehelp of the RJD and the Congress to stay in power. Afterthe JD(U)’s heavy defeat in the Lok Sabha election, hehad to quell an inner-party revolt as his hand-picked suc-cessor, Jitan Ram Manjhi, defied him repeatedly. By allaccounts, Mr. Kumar is worse off now than when hisparty was in alliance with the BJP. By entering into apoll pact with Mr. Prasad, the JD(U) leader risks alien-ating sections of his own core constituency, which wasbuilt up over the years on an anti-Lalu Prasad platform.After campaigning against Mr. Prasad for years overissues such as corruption and law and order, Mr. Kumarwill have to fight off the perception that his new allianceis motivated solely by his desire to stay in power andkeep the BJP out. In electoral arithmetic, two plus twoplus one is not always five.

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The policy response in the U.S. following the financial crisis was alsomediated by the political consideration that an output collapse should

be averted at all cost. Collective memory has a role to play in thepolitical choices nations make. Thus the Americans are perhaps haunt-

ed by the experience of the Great Depression when unemploymentexceeded 25 per cent. This makes them unemployment averse. On the

other hand, the Germans appear to be inflation averse, and you canhardly blame them for it. Inflation in the Weimar Republic had, at itspeak in 1923, reached a vertiginous 32,000 per cent per month. Thereis a lesson in this for us, that India’s institutional architecture shouldreflect its own peculiarities and goals rather than be guided by pure

theoretical constructs allegedly based on universal truth.

These are men and women withdecades of public experience and meet

regularly to discuss the issues con-fronting India-Pakistan relations.

Despite differences, they continue tomeet and build a conversation that is

eventually conveyed back to theirrespective governments. Interestingly,they now include some of those who

wrote that letter in August 2013.

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PM Narendra..will deny him credit for getting central

funds for the state.At a rally in Saharsa later in the day, PM

Modi made another attack on Mr Kumar,accusing him of "arrogance" for havingrefused aid for floods from Gujarat of whichhe was then chief minister.

Nitish Kumar hit back saying, "The PM hascalled me both arrogant and a beggar. Howcan I be both?"

In the Bihar elections, the BJP takes on acoalition led by Mr Kumar that includes LaluPrasad's Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Congressand other smaller parties.

Highlights of ...my schedule asked me how will you get up

so early. My officers were worried but you

called, so I came. Whether it is women's safety or laying

roads in Bihar, we will change the face ofBihar. My friend Rajiv Pratap Rudy, has

taken the responsibility of skill developmentfor crores of people in the country. The government in Delhi does not

work in bits and pieces. The crown prince of Abu Dhabi has

promised an investment of Rs. 4.5 lakh crore. But the factories that this investment

will set up, will be of no use without skilledlabour. That's why we have the 'Skill India'

programme. If we want factories in Bihar, do we

not need electricity in Bihar? Do we not need power plants here? In my speech on August 15, I spoke of

'Startup India, Stand up India'. We have uncountable youth in our

country who have the ability to do something. But they don't get an opportunity. We are knocking on the 70th year of

Independence. I had come to Bihar recently. I had said Bihar is counted among

'bimaru' (sick) states. We have to bring them out of t them

out. So the Chief Minister took offense. He said Bihar is no longer a 'bimaru'

state. I accept your argument. And if it is

true, I will be the happiest I repeat, what the CM has said - Bihar

is no longer a Bimaru state - I welcome thisstatement if it is true. I want to ask you (people here), if

Bihar becomes self-empowered, would peo-ple go out looking for work? If whole the India has to progress, we

will have to take the entire east along. Whether it is UP, WB, Bihar, Odisha,

Assam - till they progress, the country willnot. So far Bihar has received two pack-

ages, one during the divide of Jharkhand. In 2003, keeping in mind the state's

needs the package was announced. Then the government changed in

Delhi. And I have to say this bitter truth

which the people must know. The package that Atal Bihari Vajpayee

announces, Bihar didn't use it. The government in Delhi treated Bihar

like a kid and gave a chocolate. It gave just 12,000 crore rupees. Of

this, only 4,000 crore was spent. And that too, most of it happened after

you put us in Delhi. Tell me what kind of government is

this. Haven't been able to spend 8,000 crores. I had promised Bihar would get a

50,000 crore package. I came, but I couldn't announce it then,

because Parliament was in session. And it was my Constitutional duty to

keep silent on the package. For this too they attacked me. With Jayaprakash Narayan's blessings,

I will announce the package for Bihar. Shall I announce a package of 50,000

crore? Or, shall I announce a package of

60,000 crore? Or, shall I announce a package of

70,000 crore? Or, shall I announce a package of

80,000 crore? No, I promise you today, that the gov-

ernment in Delhi will give Bihar 1.25 lakhcrore. But the work that has already started,

projects in which work has started but spend-ing hasn't. More than 8000 crore is left from the

last package. Combined with the balance from exist-

ing packages, Bihar will get a total of 1.65lakh crore. This will change the fate of Bihar. If we have to rid our country of prob-

lems, we have to take the path of progress.

'Was PM...much should it be - 50,000 crore, 60,000,

70,000, 75,000, 80,000?" the PM asked,before announcing his Bihar package to thun-

derous applause.He also attacked Nitish Kumar, saying, "On

the one hand, he says Bihar is not BIMARU(backward), and on the other, he keeps askingfor something or the other." The referencewas to the chief minister's consistent demandfor special category status for Bihar to helpdevelop the state.

Ahead of assembly elections, the BJPassesses that it has stolen Nitish Kumar'sthunder with today's announcement.

"We don't know when we will get all themoney anyway," the chief minister said dis-missively. He has emphasised that "specialassistance is our right and not a favor."

Mr Kumar, in his rebuttal of PM Modi'smany charges against him in his two speech-es in Bihar today, also noted, "He said I go asa beggar to Delhi. How can I be both a beg-gar and arrogant?"

The charge of arrogance was levelled at MrKumar by PM Modi at an election rally in theafternoon, when he recalled how the chiefminister had rejected aid for floods fromGujarat of which he was then chief minister.

The political rivalry between the two lead-ers pre-dates the acrimonious divorce of theirparties two years ago. The 17-year alliancewas called off by Nitish Kumar when itbecame clear that the BJP would project MrModi for Prime Minister.

Now, Nitish Kumar is leading a coalition ofparties brought together by the common needto defeat the BJP.

Witness Number ...planters, has now retracted. Earlier, these

statements were recorded in before a judicialmagistrate to ensure there is no pressure frominvestigators. But starting in November 2014,they began to turn hostile claiming that theywere pressured by the anti-terror agency totestify. The last such flip by a witness was inMay 2015.

The RSS is BJP's ideological mentor, andheads the Sangh Parivar, an umbrella ofHindu nationalist organisations.

Earlier in June, Rohini Salian, the specialpublic prosecutor in the Malegaon case whereagain Sangh Parivar members are accusedhad said since the government changed, shehas been asked to go soft on the case by anNIA official.

I'm from ...Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) this

morning under tight security and kept in isola-tion for some time before being subjected tothe polygraph test, as per PTI.

Official sources said officials from varioussecurity and intelligence agencies includingthe Intelligence Bureau were present duringthe test, whose detailed analysis is awaited.

In a related development, NIA todayreleased two sketches of Lashkar-e-Taiba ter-rorists, who were claimed to have infiltratedJammu and Kashmir's Gulmarg sector withNaved. The anti-terror agency also announceda cash reward of Rs five lakh to anyone pro-viding information leading to their arrest.

The two have been identified as Zarghanalias Mohammed Bhai, aged about 38-40years, and Abu Okasha, around 17-18 yearsold.

The NIA also took DNA and voice samplesof Naved who was overpowered by the localsfollowing the attack on a BSF bus inUdhampur district of Jammu on August fivethat left its two personnel dead. His accom-plice Mohammed Noman alias Momin waskilled in retaliatory firing by the BSF.

NIA sources said collecting the DNA sam-ples of the militant from Faisalabad inPakistan could help in proving his nationality.

Islamabad has been insisting that Naved isnot a Pakistani national.

To Counter...first visit to his constituency after his party

disrupted the entire Monsoon session ofParliament with its demand for the resigna-tion of three top BJP leaders caught in contro-versies. Mr Gandhi led the protests, makingseveral stringent attacks on PM Modi and hisgovernment.

In Amethi today, he credited his Congresswith stalling what he calls "anti-farmer"amendments to the law for buying land forbig projects, but rued the fact that he has notbeen able to "meet the aspirations of the peo-ple" because his party is not in power.

As he drove through his constituency, MrGandhi, 45, delivered the same messagewherever he stopped. "It is your duty tostrengthen the Congress. The future of thecountry lies in the hands of Congress," hesaid.

The Congress posted its worst ever per-formance in the national election last year,winning only 44 seats in the Lok Sabha,where the BJP along with its allies now has acommanding majority.

2 Pak Terrorists...Udhampur, killing two security personnel.Naveed, who is in his early twenties, was

captured by villagers after that attack. Afterdays of interrogation by various agencies, hewas subjected to a lie detector test and psy-choanalysis test; the NIA told a court yester-day that he had been "evasive and contradic-tory."

After he was caught, Naveed told his inter-rogators that he was from Faisalabad in

Pakistan and was trained by the terror outfitLashkar e Taiba. He also said he entered Indiafrom the Line of Control and stayed in theKashmir Valley for over a month before theattack.

Souces say Naveed has told the NationalInvestigation Agency that he was a compul-sive gambler and had been thrown out of hishome.

He allegedly also said he was asked to carryout strikes in India and was promised pay-ment when he returned. He reportedlyclaimed that he was given a white tablet totake before the attack in Udhampur.

Naveed was in court when the anti-terroragency was granted permission to put himthrough a lie detector test and collect hisDNA and voice samples.

Ahead of talks between the NationalSecurity Advisers of India and Pakistan onSunday, the Home Ministry is preparing adetailed dossier with evidence that Naveedand the three terrorists who carried out theterror attack in Punjab's Gurdaspur had comefrom Pakistan, reports say.

Nearly 70 Farmers...Munde's home district of Beed is where

maximum numbers of farm suicides havetaken place. Sahadev Hingole was just 42years old when he hung himself from a treeearlier this year after his crop failed inKolharwadi village.

Sahadev Hingole was just 42 years oldwhen he hung himself from a tree earlier thisyear.

"He was tense as he didn't know how hewould repay the Rs. 2 lakh loan he taken," hisson Keshav explains as his two sisters andmother sit in the darkness of their home.

Farmers have already sown 38 lakhhectares after the first spell of rain in June.Since then, an occasional drizzle is all that'sadded to the landscape.

"We believe this problem is caused by Godand we shouldn't play politics. But we wantthe government to waive off farm loans asimmediate relief," Mr Munde's estrangedcousin and NCP legislator Dhananjay Mundesaid.

Activists and water experts have howevercalled the calamity more "man-made thannatural" given the massive Rs. 70,000 croreirrigation scam during the Congress-led gov-ernment and wrong policy decisions.

Usable water levels in Marathawadas 814dams have hit a low with just 7 per cent. InAugust 2014, the available water was ahealthier 16 per cent. The administration isproviding tankers for drinking water.

Supreme Court...engines have been directed to block "cer-

tain service/giving of information whichare not permissible to be shown in thatcountry despite the issues of jurisdictionand technical problems being raised."

The top court had earlier heard the peti-tioner's counsel and said "as an interimmeasure, it is directed, the respondents,namely Google, Yahoo and Microsoft shallnot advertise or sponsor any advertisementwhich would violate Section 22 of the PCP-NDT Act, 1994. If any advertise is there onany search engine, the same shall be with-drawn forthwith by the respondents."

George had told the court that despite itsorder, search engines like Google India,Yahoo India and MicrosoftCorporation(I)Pvt Ltd were not blockingadvertisements on sex determination.

The court is hearing a PIL filed byGeorge seeking court's intervention in viewof decreasing number of girl child in thecountry.

Earlier, the court had come down heavilyon various states for their failure to stopfemale foeticide leading to an alarmingdrop in the sex ratio in the country.

For PM Modi...said the countries are forming "a wonderful

friendship". Days after Mr Modi announced"Start Up India, Stand Up India" as a missionto launch and nurture entrepreneurs, MrNetanyahu, whose country is known for itsstart-up culture, said, "As far as the 'start up-nation' (goes), I think this has a lot to do withentrepreneurial spirit. I have noticed that inSilicon Valley... You hear Indian dialects andyou hear Hebrew... There is a lot of spirit forenterprise in both our countries."

Much of the new sweet talk between Indiaand Israel is based on hard business - India isnow the largest buyer of Israeli militaryequipment, while Israel is India's largest cus-tomer after Russia.

Late last year, the Cabinet cleared a long-delayed purchase of Israeli missiles for theNavy, India closed a $520 million deal to buyIsraeli anti-tank missiles, and then a jointly-developed aerial defence system passed amajor trial.

In 2006, as Chief Minister of Gujarat, MrModi visited Israel to explore new ideas inirrigation, an area of Israeli expertise. Sincebecoming Prime Minister, he has openly cul-tivated warmer ties with Tel Aviv.

His predecessor, former Prime MinisterManmohan Singh, kept India's relationshipwith Israel at low profile. "Cynics in Israelwould point out that Delhi was treating TelAviv like a mistress - engage in private butrefuse to be seen with in public. The Modigovernment is having none of that," said CRaja Mohan, head of strategic studies at the

Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi.Earlier this year, Israeli Defense Minister

Moshe Ya'alon visited Delhi and said a"behind the scene" relationship was nowgoing public.

In July, India abstained at a United Nationsvote that sought to condemn Israel for warcrimes during last year's Gaza conflict. Indiainsisted, however, that "there is no change inNew Delhi's long-standing position on sup-port to the Palestinian cause".

Foreign Minister...General of the League of Arab States,

besides other leaders.Swaraj, in her first visit to the country as

External Affairs Minister, is also scheduled todeliver a public address at the prestigiousDiplomatic Club in Cairo to be hosted by theEgyptian Council for Foreign Affairs.

"The Minister's visit to Cairo will providean opportunity to review the entire gamut ofour bilateral and multilateral relations and toexchange views with the Egyptian leadershipcovering whole range of issues of mutualinterest," the External Affairs Ministry said.

Egypt has traditionally been one of India'smost important trading partners in the Africancontinent.

The then Prime Minister Manmohan Singhhad visited Egypt in 2009 while the thenPresident of Egypt Mohamed Morsi had vis-ited India in March 2013 during which sixMoUs to expand ties in a range of areasincluding IT, cyber security, micro and smallenterprises and solar energy were signed.

Trade between India and Egypt during thelast financial year (April 2014 - March 2015)has been recorded at $4.76 billion. Mostimportantly, India is the sixth largest tradingpartner of Egypt - the second largest exportdestination.

India's imports from Egypt were worth$1.74 billion during 2014-15. There has beendiversification in the export basket ofEgyptian products to India.

Indian exports to Egypt during 2014-15have been recorded at $3.02 billion.

Out of the 50 Indian companies operatingin Egypt with a combined investment ofalmost $3 billion, approximately half arejoint ventures and wholly owned Indian sub-sidiaries.

APJ Abdul...of authority presumably her parents.Than introduces Dr Kalam's words intend-

ed to equip at least a few young people tostand up to the authoritarianism in society.

"A characteristic feature of the authoritari-anism in our society is its insidious ability toaddict people to the endless pursuit of exter-nal rewards, wealth, prestige, position, pro-motion, approval of one's lifestyle by others,ceremonial honours and status symbols of allkinds," Dr Kalam wrote.

"To successfully pursue these goals theyhave to learn elaborate rules of etiquette andfamiliarize themselves with customs, tradi-tions protocols and so on.

"The youth of today must unlearn this self-defeating way of life," said the country's 11thPresident.

In his autobiography Dr Kalam recountshow he, a poor country boy from the smalltown of Rameswaram went on to studyphysics, work his way through the ranks ofthe Defence Research and DevelopmentOrganisation and then the Indian SpaceResearch Organisation. He visited NASA andthe Goddard Space Flight Centre in theUnited States during the height of the spacerace.

The scientist, aeronautical engineer andwriter had during his 40 year scientific careerpioneered India's space missile and nuclearprogrammes.

PM Modi Takes ...he had got his statistics off a Bihar govern-

ment website."Statistics show there is trouble ahead," PM

Modi warned and added, "On every parame-ter, the life of the common man is at peril."

The BJP, the PM said, was the only answer."In this election do you want to stop thesemurders and riots? You just have to elect astrong government. You just have to stand byus," the Prime Minster said, to a crowd ofabout 70,000 in Bihar's Saharsa.

In assembly elections due in Bihar byNovember, the BJP takes on an alliance ofChief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata DalUnited, Lalu Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Daland the Congress.

In earlier elections, the BJP and NitishKumar fought on the same side and for yearsaccused Lalu Yadav of unleashing "jungleraj" or lawlessness in his party's rule in thestate.

Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav, bitter rivalsfor years have been brought together by acommon need to defeat PM Modi's BJP,which almost swept last year's national elec-tion months after it was dumped by MrKumar.

Nitish Kumar, who ended that alliancewhen it became clear that Mr Modi would beprojected by the BJP as its candidate forprime minister, has been the chief target ofthe PM's attacks in his election rallies inBihar.

Only 7 Per Cent ...

Guttum village forests under Basagudapolice station limits when the paramilitaryforces were carrying out a search operation inthe region,

Bijapur Additional Superintendent ofPolice Indira Kalyan Elesela told PTI.

A squad of Central Reserve Police Force orCRPF's 168th battalion was carrying out thecombing operation in Basaguda, locatedaround 450 kms away from Raipur.

When they reached near Timapur village, agroup of armed cadre opened indiscriminatefire on the security personnel, leaving two ofthem injured, the ASP said.

However, the Naxals fled to the forestswhen jawans retaliated, he added.

"Constable Sunil Ram succumbed to hisinjuries while being taken out of the jungleand the other injured constable DharmendarSingh Bhadoria was being airlifted to thestate capital - Raipur for treatment," he said.

Following the incident, additional forceshave been rushed to the spot, the officer said,adding, a manhunt has been launched to nabthe attackers.

Cop Allegedly...himself inside the police post at Gulzar

Colony, where he was posted, and hangedhimself to death, City West Superintendent ofPolice, D Kalyan Chakravarty said.

Mr Shukla was alone at the post when hecommitted suicide as other policemen hadgone out on patrolling in the morning.

Upon returning, his colleagues foundShukla hanging, the SP added.

According to sources close to the deceased,Mr Shukla was under stress after beingdenied leave since a long time.

Doubts Over...known by its street name of 'Meow Meow'.The Mumbai Police request for fresh tests on

the samples was rejected by a special NarcoticDrugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS)court. Earlier tests showed that the substancerecovered from the locker of ConstableDharmaraj Kalokhe was not Meow Meow, butMonosodium Glutamate (MSG), a food addi-tive.

Constable Kalokhe had been arrested inMarch, in a case that attracted significantattention. About 100 kg of the substance,which looked like Meow Meow had beenrecovered, and police officials had then said nohad suspected him of also being a drub peddlersince he was a cop.

However, in May this year, a laboratory teston the samples recovered from Mr Kalokhe'slocker indicated it was not MSG, which meansthe police case almost falls flat.

The Mumbai Police had followed up by ask-ing the court's permission to send the samplesfor another test. But the request has beenturned down by the NDPS court today.Mumbai Police has refused to comment on thematter saying it is sub-judice, but indicatedthat it plans to appeal against the order in ahigher court.

Over a month after Mr Kalokhe's arrest, thepolice managed to arrest Shashikala alias BabyPatankar, the kingpin of the mephedrone tradein the region. Sources say she was close toConstable Kalokhe. She had been arrestedafter being on the run for 40 days.

Flood warning...motorbike and opened fire at the post. A

guard, Fayaz Ahmad, was critically injuredand a person in a wheel chair outside theshrine was also hit in the indiscriminate fir-ing. Both died on the way to hospital.

After the attack, militants ran away with theINSAS rifle of the cop. This is the first mili-tant attack in the area after a series of civiliankillings by terrorists in May and June.

Police sources say after South Kashmir,where a large number of young and educatedboys have joined militancy, there are con-cerns about the resurgence of militancy inNorth Kashmir as well.

Over 3,400 ...condition," said Kandhamal District

Collector Yamini Sarangi.Blood samples of 19,767 students of 214

residential schools run by ST and SC devel-opment department in the tribal-dominateddistrict were tested between July 6 andAugust 3.

The Collector directed the health officialsto conduct the tests after 65 of 143 students ofa primary residential school at Ranipatharawere found suffering from the vector-bornedisease last month.

The Collector launched a three-monthmalaria, dengue and diarrhoea awarenessdrive last week and said the focus will be onschool children.

8 Killed...Kullu Rakesh Kanwar confirmed that eight

bodies which were buried under huge boul-ders have been extricated while search is onfor more.

Eyewitnesses claimed that the dead couldbe more than ten in number as a large numberof people had taken shelter in the building,close to the Gurdwara, when the tragedystruck. The district administration has soughtthe assistance of the Gurdwara authorities forlocating and identifying the bodies as mostpeople staying in the building were outsiders.

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After concentratingon its LiveStreaming, video

tools and Instant Storiesfeatures, Facebook is nowkeen to attract bloggers onits social website. Thecompany has revealed it istesting a new Notes fea-ture, one that is seen toresemble popular bloggingplatform Medium with itsclean UI that's ideal forlonger-form stories.

The new Notes featurethat's under testingincludes large cover pho-tos, wider pages, user tag-ging, and a clear headline.A Facebook spokespersonconfirmed the test to theThe Next Web, and said,"We're testing an update toNotes to make it easier forpeople to create and readlonger-form stories onFacebook." Thespokesperson added thatusers would be able toshare their Notes withselect audiences onFacebook, as they can cur-rently do with their status-es. Facebook has not yetstarted rolling out the newNotes design to everyoneyet, and it is still in testingphases with select usergroups. While most usersacross the world will not

be able to create the newform of Notes, users cancheck out how it lookswith an already liveredesign.

By bringing a new blog-like interface to its Notesfeature, Facebook can besaid to be hoping moreusers to write blog posts orlong notes on the socialnetwork, simultaneouslycatering to the platform'slarge audience and alsooffering the incentive forfast loading on its mobileapps.

Facebook CEO MarkZuckerburg in the compa-ny's latest earnings callalso announced that thewebsite's Events section isnow 450 million usersstrong. The firm is plan-ning to add more featuresin the Events section in thecoming weeks, making itan all-in-one events list forusers. The firm is also test-ing LinkedIn-like profiletagging feature.

The firm last week saidit was expanding its adver-tisement formats for appsunder the AudienceNetwork programme thatwould help developersmonetise their apps.

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1. Plants synthesis protein fromA. starch B. sugarC. amino acids D. fatty acids

2. Plants absorb dissolved nitrates from soil and con-vert them intoA. free nitrogen B. ureaC. ammonia D. proteins

3. Out of 900 reported species of living gymnosperms,conifers are represented by about 500 species, About2,50,000 species of angiosperms (flowering plants)have also been reported in the world. The vast anddominant woodlands in Europe, Asia, North Americaand mountains such as Himalayas are wooded withA. all gymnosperms, except conifersB. only angiosperms C. only conifersD. angiosperms & all gymnosperms except conifers

4. One of the following is not a function of bones.A. Place for muscle attachmentB. Protection of vital organsC. Secretion of hormones for calcium regulation inblood and bonesD. Production of blood corpuscles

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Answer: 1(C), 2(A), 3(C), 4(C)

TODAY’S STARARIES You may be looking for some new values in your personal life,

Aries. You're no longer interested in superficial or frivolous rela-tionships. You need to meet different kinds of people and selectfriends who are really worth keeping. Don't worry if you feel liketaking a step back to get some perspective, because this is thetime to do it. Relationships are too important to neglect.

TAURUS You may want to take a little trip into your past to visit some oldfriends, Taurus. You could find yourself daydreaming throughyour good and bad memories. This is an excellent period tobreak with some of the more negative ties to your past. If yourpartner is a little worried about you going back in time at themoment, reassure him or her.

GEMINI If you're concerned about the love that certain close people havefor you, you shouldn't try to compensate by being clingy or over-ly affectionate. This period is about keeping your distance andputting your relationships into perspective to see what they'rereally worth to you, Gemini. Someone may ask you for an evenstronger commitment over the next few months.

CANCER This isn't the time to make any more of a commitment to yourrelationship, Cancer. You aren't satisfied with your attitudetoward things lately. Don't forget that your partner's character-istics may have something to do with it! You have two monthsto take care of things. Take advantage of this reevaluationperiod. It doesn't happen that often.

LEO Today you might want to think about getting things straightwith the people close to you. It's possible you haven't dealtwith any problems you had in your relationships last month,Leo. It's time to look at things again. You may have hiddencertain things from yourself. You need to be much more hon-est about what you want in your personal life.

VIRGO You may be asking certain questions about your feelings,Virgo. Do you know about the trap that many people getcaught up in - feeling so close to their partners that they oftenforget themselves? Sometimes it's easy to confuse your feel-ings with this kind of self-denial. Today you need to think abouthow this affects your life.

LIBRA Nothing can hold back your flame for long, Libra. You have ahard time resting your body and recharging your batteries. Atthe moment, you're probably still going through a deep trans-formation that won't allow you to slow down. Take the time tomeditate and get in touch with your feelings. What is it youreally want out of life?

SCORPIO You can be known for needing a lot of love, but you will neveradmit that to yourself, much less anyone else. Sometimes itseems as if you like feeling emotionally frustrated. Today is theperfect day to meditate about whether or not this is true of you.Do you talk to other people about your emotional needs?

SAGITTARIUSYou probably aren't worried about being conventional inyour relationships, Sagittarius. In fact, conventionality isoften what causes you problems. If you're wondering whatmorality is and what it's based on, this is a good day tothink about these questions.

CAPRICORN You may not be very precise. Your motto seems to be "every-thing is relative." However, paying attention to details doesn'tnecessarily mean that you lose sight of the fundamentals.Your friends could tell you that. If you're an artist, you mightmake an effort today to be clearer in your expression and a lit-tle more down to Earth.

AQUARIUS This isn't a good time to make any big relationship decisions.If you're thinking about starting a relationship, moving intogether, or getting married, you may feel a bit troubled byyour decision, Aquarius. Take advantage of the day to reeval-uate things objectively. There may be some issues to resolvebefore you go any further.

PISCES Today you may feel like something is holding you back,Pisces. Everything was going just fine until now. If you believethe stream of chatter in your head today, you will be regress-ing in every area of your life! For example, you may be afraidto go any further in your relationship because of your past fail-ures. Use this time to lay the past to rest.

Panasonic on Tuesdaylaunched three new Android5.1 Lollipop-based dual-

SIM 4G smartphones,namely Eluga I2,Eluga L2, and T454G, priced at Rs.8,290, Rs. 9,990, andRs. 6,990 respective-ly. All three smart-phones supportIndia's 4G (TDD-LTE 2300MHz Band40 and FDD-LTE1800MHz Band 3)bands.

The PanasonicEluga L2 (seenabove) runs Android5.1 Lollipop-basedFitHome UI. Itcomes with a 5.5-inch qHD (540x960pixels) display and ispowered by a1.2GHz quad-coreQ u a l c o m mSnapdragon proces-sor coupled with 1GBof RAM. It bears 8GB ofinbuilt storage, which is furtherexpandable via microSD card (upto 32GB). It sports an 8-megapixelrear camera with LED flash, whilethere is a secondary a 2-megapixelfront-facing camera also on board.

Apart from 4G, connectivityoptions on the Eluga L2 include

Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, GPRS/ EDGE,3G, GPS/ A-GPS, Micro-USB, andBluetooth. The handset features anambient light sensor, anaccelerometer, and a proximitysensor. Sized at 153x77.5x8.6mm,

the smartphone is backed by a2500mAh battery and weighs 158

grams. The devicewould arrive in SandGrey and MidnightBlack colour variants.

The PanasonicEluga I2 (seen above)features a 5-inch HD(720x1280 pixels) IPSdisplay with OncellTouch technology,and is powered by a1GHz quad-coreprocessor (unspeci-fied chipset) coupledwith 1GB of RAM. Itsports 8GB of inbuiltstorage, which is fur-ther expandable viamicroSD card (up to32GB). It houses an 8-megapixel rear cam-era with LED flash,while there is a sec-ondary a 2-megapixelfront-facing camerawith LED flash alsoon board.

Connectivity optionson the Eluga I2 include Wi-Fi802.11 b/g/n, GPRS/ EDGE, 3G,GPS/ A-GPS, Micro-USB, andBluetooth. The handset features anambient light sensor, anaccelerometer, and a proximity

sensor. Sized at144.2x71.2x8.8mm, the smart-phone is backed by a 2000mAhbattery and weighs 135 grams. Inaddition, the handset comes withsupport for 21 regional languagesand will be available in MetallicSilver, Metallic Gold, and MetallicGrey colour variants.

The Panasonic T45 4G (seenabove) comes with a 4.5-inchFWVGA (480x854 pixels) displayand is powered by a 1GHz quad-core processor (unspecifiedchipset) coupled with 1GB ofRAM.

It comes with 8GB of inbuiltstorage, which is further expand-able via microSD card (up to32GB). It also sports a 5-megapix-el rear camera with LED flash,while there is a secondary VGA(0.3-megapixel) front-facing cam-era also on board.

Connectivity options on the T454G include Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n,GPRS/ EDGE, 3G, GPS/A-GPS,Micro-USB, and Bluetooth. Thehandset features an ambient lightsensor, an accelerometer, and aproximity sensor. Sized at130.6x65.3x9.5mm, the smart-phone is backed by an 1800mAhbattery and would arrive in Blackand White colour variants.

Panasonic Eluga L2, Eluga I2, T45 4G WithAndroid 5.1 Lollipop Launched in India Lenovo on Tuesday

announced the startof the local manu-

facturing of smartphonesin Sriperambudur,Chennai. The company atan event in New Delhi con-firmed that it has startedrolling out the MotorolaMoto E (Gen 2) 4G fromits new manufacturingplant, while also revealingthat Lenovo K3 Note willfollow soon.

The company for thecurrent financial year hastargeted to generate acapacity of 6 million unitsfor the Chennai-basedplant. Lenovo clarified thatits Chennai plant is undercontract manufacturingwith Flextronics, one ofthe company's global part-ners.

"The Chennai unitbelongs to our global part-ners Flextronics and wehave started producing ournew smartphones from theunit which will be used tomatch the demand fromwithin the country," AmarBabu, chief operating offi-cer of Lenovo India, said.

He also confirmed thatLenovo already operates a

manufacturing unit out ofPuducherry, where itmakes laptops only.

The new facility spreadover 40,000 square feet,which will come withproduct testing labs andquality assurance facilities,apart from housing 1,500employees and separatemanufacturing lines forLenovo and Motorola.

The Chennai-based facil-ity started assembly linestwo weeks back and cur-rently has an annual pro-duction capacity of six mil-lion units, added Babu.

"We have set our targetsto six million this year andwe will look at taking theproduction capacity to 12to 14 million in the nextyear," Dillion Ye, execu-tive director of Lenovosmartphones, said.

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The company stressedthat with its new Chennai-based plant, it wants toramp up the units to meetdemand from the country.Lenovo's Sudhir Mathur,Director - Smartphonebusiness, Lenovo India

also pointed out that theChennai facility is its sec-ond plant in the world afterChina where Motorola andLenovo smartphones willbe produced side-by-side.

Amar Babu also talkedabout plans to bring keysmartphone components tothe country and confirmedthat Lenovo was in talkswith the government tobring at least 30 percent ofthe component ecosystemto India. "It is just a matterof months before we areable to bring 30 percent ofthe key components need-ed for manufacturinglocally in India," he said.

Announcing the news,Chen Xudong, PresidentMBG Group, Lenovo andchairman MotorolaMobility Operating Board,said, "Lenovo is not new tomanufacturing in India. Werecognised the potential ofIndia and we invested inPC manufacturing severalyears ago.

Lenovo's investment inthe new manufacturingplant represents the poten-tial we see in the Indianmarket and our long termcommitment to our cus-tomers.

Lenovo Starts Smartphone Manufacturingin Chennai With Flextronics

Google showcasedtheir latest India-related mobile-

focused product innova-tions in Bengaluru onTuesday, featuring demosof the company's Search,Maps, Photos, Translateand YouTube apps.

The Google House demofeatured appearances fromcelebrities like chef KunalKapur, fashion photogra-

pher Dabboo Ratnani,YouTube comedy sensa-tion Kanan Gill, andemerging photographerAnushka Menon, explain-ing how they use Google'smobile products.

Sandeep Menon,Country MarketingDirector India at Google,said that the event wascurated to showcase whatits engineers have worked

on for the past year, froman India-specific, mobile-specific perspective."Every month, six millionpeople are coming onlinein this country, and a lot ofthought needs to given towhether our products workseamlessly with them," hesaid.

Menon cited the exampleof Web Light, which wasrolled out in India last

month. Designed to makemobile webpages fasterand lighter when accessedfrom Google's searchresults. Google's field testsin Indonesia found thelight webpages to load fourtimes faster and use 80 per-cent less data, driving a 50percent increase in traffic.He also talked about fea-tures like On Now, whichhas added India-specific

features like bus and traintimings, local attractionsand monuments.

Suren Ruhela, CountryMarketing Director,Google Maps, said thataround 20-30 percent of allinformational needs areabout a place, and thatGoogle Maps strives to becomprehensive, accurate,and usable. He cited inno-vations like landmark-

based navigation, publictransport integration, andvoice guidance in Indianaccents, apart from offlinesupport and real-time traf-fic data. "Our maps workjust in urban areas, butsemi-urban or rural areas.We launched real-time traf-fic in 34 cities in India,which helps you predictthe time taken to reach adestination." he said.

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NEW DELHIIndian badminton ace Saina

Nehwal was ranked as the 18thmost charitable sports star in theworld by Dosomething.org.

Football superstar CristianoRonaldo topped the list of 20 ath-letes, which included some of thebiggest names in the world ofsport.

WWE's John Cena, tennis starSerena Williams, former SouthKorean figure skater Yuna Kimand Brazil's football captainNeymar rounded up the top five.

"(Ronaldo) raised money forvarious causes including donat-ing more than $83,000 to a 10-year-old fan in need of brain sur-gery and giving more than$165,000 to fund a cancer centrein Portugal that treated his moth-er. Ronaldo has also used hisfame as a global spokesperson fora variety of causes includingchildhood hunger, obesity andbiodiversity," Dosomething.orgsaid.

Interestingly, Saina is the onlyIndian to find a mention in thelist. No Team India cricketers,considered to be the highest earn-ing athletes in the country, fea-tured in the top 20.

Pakistan's Shahid Afridi wasthe only international cricketer tohave made the cut.

Maria Sharapova and LebronJames made it to the top 10.

Sport's most charitable starsCristiano RonaldoJohn CenaSerena WiliamsYuna KimNeymarLebron JamesHeather O'ReillyMaria SharapovaMo'ne DavisRichard Sherman

Charlie White & Meryl DavisDan CarterRoman ReignsRonda RouseyLindsey VonnTom DaleyBethany HamiltonSaina NehwalPaul RabilShahid Afridi

Saina Nehwal world's 18th most charitablesports star, Cristiano Ronaldo tops list

COLOMBOKumar Sangakkara gets

a chance to bow out instyle by leading Sri Lankato a series-clinching victo-ry in the second testagainst India starting inColombo on Thursday.

The prolific left-hander,the highest run-getteramong those still playingat the highest level, willbid adieu to internationalcricket after the match,ending a glorious 15-yearcareer.

With Sri Lanka leadingthe three-match series afterconjuring a brilliant come-from-behind win in thefirst test in Galle by 63runs, the stage is set at theP. Sara Oval for aSangakkara special.

The 37-year-old will bedesperate to end an unusu-ally barren streak at thevenue where he has fallenfor zero in each of his lastthree tests, including afirst-ball duck againstPakistan in June.

Sangakkara scored fiveand 40 against the Indiansin Galle, where Sri Lankasnatched a remarkable vic-tory after seemingly head-ing for a crushing loss.

The hosts had beenreduced to 95-5 in theirsecond innings before

lunch on the third day, still98 runs away from avoid-ing an innings defeat,when Dinesh Chandimalled the recovery with abrilliant 162 off 169 balls.

Chandimal shared valu-able partnerships withLahiru Thirimanne (44)

and Jehan Mubarak (49) tolift the hosts to 367 beforeveteran left-arm spinnerRangana Herath took over.

Herath grabbed sevenwickets as Virat Kohli'smen, chasing a modest vic-tory target of 176, wereskittled for 112 soon after

lunch on the fourth day.Sri Lanka captain Angelo

Mathews said nothing lessthan a series win would bea fitting tribute toSangakkara.

"We will definitely gofor the kill," he said."Sangakkara deserves thebest possible farewell andonly a win can do that.There is so much to playfor in this test."

Indian team directorRavi Shastri said it hurt tolose at Galle after dominat-ing the test till the thirdafternoon, but promised toset things right in the nexttwo matches.

"Matches like Galle hurtyou more than some oth-ers, because you havedominated the test and stilllost it," the former all-rounder said.

"You learn from this kindof result quicker than anyother kind of result.Hopefully you will see it inthe next few days."

Sri Lanka aim to give Kumar Sangakkara victorious send-off

MADRIDSerbian tennis player

Novak Djokovic main-tained the top spot in theAssociation of TennisProfessionals (ATP) men'ssingles rankings releasedon Monday with 14,265points.

Scotland's Andy Murraygot jumped to second afterbeating Djokovic 6-4, 4-6,6-3 in Montreal on Sunday,pushing Swiss RogerFederer down to third.

Serena Williams alsoheld on to the lead inWomen's TennisAssociation (WTA)women's singles rankingswith 11,821 points.

Serena stands far aheadof her closest competitor,Russia's Maria Sharapovawith 6,036 points followedby Romanian SimonaHalep in third place,reported EFE.

Czech player LucieSafarova moved up to sixthwhile her compatriotKarolina Pliskova took herplace, up to seventh.The top-10 women's sin-gles rankings

1. Serena Williams (US)

11,821 points2. Maria Sharapova

(Russia) 6,0363. Simona Halep

(Romania) 5,5464. Petra Kvitova (Czech)

4,9955. Caroline Wozniacki

(Denmark) 4,7356. Lucie Safarova

(Czech) 3,3617. Karolina Pliskova

(Czech) 3,3358. Garbine Muguruza

(Spain) 3,3159. Ana Ivanovic (Serbia)

3,31110. Carla Suarez (Spain)

3,190.Men's singles top-10:

1. Novak Djokovic(Serbia) 14,265 points

2. Andy Murray(Scotland) 8,660

3. Roger Federer(Switzerland) 8,065

4. Kei Nishikori (Japan)6,385

5. Stan Wawrinka(Switzerland) 5,575

6. Tomas Berdych(Czech) 5,140

7. David Ferrer (Spain)3,695

8. Rafael Nadal (Spain)3,680

9. Marin Cilic (Croatia)3,505

10. Milos Raonic(Canada) 2,925.

Novak Djokovic, Serena Williamsmaintain top spots in tennis rankings

LAHOREPakistan all-rounder Anwar

Ali, who once ironed socksfor a living as a teenage facto-ry labourer, may have finallyfound his feet in internationalcricket after years of unful-filled promise.

Ali smashed a 17-ball 46with four towering sixes andthree fours to help Pakistanclinch a last-gasp over win inthe second Twenty20 againstSri Lanka in Colombo in theirrecently concluded tour,prompting fans to hail him asthe second coming of talis-manic all-rounder ShahidAfridi.

"I am thankful to Almightywho helped me reach thispoint," Ali, 27, told AFP. "Mylife was once very tough as Iused to work in a sock-mak-ing factory but I clung to thedream of playing forPakistan."

Ali migrated as a child fromthe small village of ZakaKhel in the militancy-wracked Swat Valley that isalso home to Nobel peaceprize-winning activist MalalaYousafzai.

His family was amongstthose who left after Islamistextremists began a campaignto rule the valley under theirharsh interpretation of Sharialaw.

The family made their basein a rundown industrial area

of Karachi, where Ali, wholost his father when he wasstill young, began working asa child labourer for a meagre150 rupees ($1.50 in currentterms) per day.

"Those were very toughdays, we came to Karachi insearch of peace and safetyand as one of the boys of thefamily I was required to earnand not play," said the broad-built Ali.

While on the way to thefactory, Ali would watch boysplay in the street, spurring hisdreams of one day making itto the national stage.

"I requested my boss to putme in the night shift so that I

could play cricket in the dayand he very kindly obliged,"recalled Ali.

Ali got his lucky breakwhen he was spotted by localcoach Azam Khan, who henow calls his mentor andguide. "I found him enor-mously talented and askedhim to come for the trials,"recalled Khan. "Initially heexcused himself because hewould have lost his dailywages in case the trials ranlater than scheduled. So, Ipromised to pay him the 150rupees if he comes.

"The next day he came andhe conquered the trials andeveryone was amazed at his

bowling," said Khan. "But... Icouldn`t keep paying him.Luckily Ali got a job in theKarachi Electric team andfrom there he never lookedback."

Ali said: "My late fatherwas against my playing crick-et but his opinion changedonce I made my mark andstarted earning from it."Aliwas later picked for thePakistan Under-19 teamwhich won the Junior WorldCup in Sri Lanka in 2006.

It was his banana-swingbowling which turned thetables on arch-rivals India inthe final at the Premadasa sta-dium in Colombo.

NEW DELHIThe selection committee

on Monday recommendedformer India volleyballcaptain TPP Nair, DavisCup captain SP Misra andhockey goalkeeper RomeoJames for this year'sDhyan Chand award.

The committee, headedby ex-India hockey captainZafar Iqbal, shortlisted

these three out of 60 appli-cants.

It is India's highestaward for lifetime achieve-ment in sports and games,given by the Ministry ofYouth Affairs and Sports,Government of India. Theaward is named after thelegendary Indian hockeyplayer Dhyan Chand.

Misra is still associated

with tennis and is theincumbent chairman of thecurrent All India TennisAssociation (AITA) selec-tion committee.

MC Muthiah (multipledecathlon National cham-pion) and Jai PrakashKangar (1984 Olympianwrestler) are among theprominent names that havemissed out on the award.

SP Misra, TPP Nair, Romeo Jamesnamed for Dhyan Chand honour

DELHITiger Woods on Monday

confirmed his participationin this week`s WyndhamChampionship, after previ-ously hedging his bet onwhether he would play thePGA Tour event inGreensboro, NorthCarolina.

Woods entered the tour-nament before the deadlinelast Friday but, after miss-ing the cut at the PGAChampionship inWisconsin the followingday, he was non-commit-tal.

“I`m just going to sitback and I`ll go throughwith my team, we`ll talkabout it, what I need to doand see if that`s the rightmove or not. We`ll decidenext couple days,” Woodssaid at Whistling Straits.

But on Monday, tourna-ment director Mark Brazilconfirmed the participation

of Woods, as did the golferon his website.

The WyndhamChampionship atSedgefield starting onThursday is the last eventbefore the four-event PGATour playoffs and Woods,187th in the standings,needs to win in Greensboroto qualify.

Even though his best golfappears to be a distant

memory and he has beenovertaken on the course bya wave of younger talent,the first appearance by the39-year-old in Greensborois nonetheless a big boostto the tournament.

Sandwiched between thefinal major of the year andthe playoffs, the event fallsin a week when most topplayers prefer to have ashort break.

Anwar Ali, from child labourerto Pakistan`s latest star

Tiger Woods confirms he willplay Wyndham Championship

CINCINNATILeander Paes and

Stanislas Wawrinka over-came a sluggish start tobeat Kevin Anderson andJeremy Chardy in theopening round of theWestern and SouthernOpen, the ATP Mastersevent, here.

The unseeded Indo-Swiss pair dispatched theSouth African-Frenchcombo 1-6 6-1 10-6 tomake it to the secondround of the USD

4,457,065 hard courttournament.a

Paes and singles WorldNo. 5 Wawrinka are con-testing their second tour-nament together, havingreached the quarter-finalsat the ATP World TourMasters 1000 event inParis last October.

They now face eighthseeds Canada's VasekPospisil and local boyJack Sock, whom theybeat 6-1 6-4 in Paris.

Leander Paes, StanislasWawrinka move to 2nd

round of Cincinnati Open

NEW DELHIFormer and current

England players showedtheir artistic side by mak-ing a sketch of the 2005and 2015 English Ashesside. They have put thesesketches for auction atCricket United which isUK's biggest ever cricketcharity awareness cam-paign to raise money fordisabled charity organisa-tions. The images havebeen drawn up in anattempt to raise funds forthree of the UK's leadingcharities Lord's Taverners,Chance to Shine and thePCA Benevolent Fundwhich aims to improve

lives through cricket.The past and present

cricketers had to drawsketches of each other andvarious cricketers took partfor this auction. Past crick-eters Michael Vaughan,Andrew Flintoff, Andrew

Strauss, Paul Collingwoodand Geraint Jones took partin the portrait auction.They were joined by thecurrent lot of Ben Stokes,James Anderson, StuartBroad, Moeen Ali and JoeRoot.

Artistic touch: England's Ashes batch of 2005,2015 draw portraits of each other for charity

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HEALTH/BOLLYWOOD8 NEW DELHI | WEDNESDAY | AUGUST 19, 2015Fight for Right

That men can strengthtrain and womencan't is a common

myth heard in gyms andoffices.

Several other strengthtraining myths abound;some about how strengthtraining helps spot reduc-tion, others about howthere can be no weightworkouts without bodybuilding protein shakes.Today, we're clearing theair about strength training.Here are the top 10strength training mythsyou need to stop believingin today!

Myth: Muscles turn tofat, once you stop workingout: When you stop work-ing out your muscle masswill decrease and your fattissues will get bigger, butit is not a case of the mus-cles turning into fat.Muscles and fat are twodifferent tissues and haveno connection or possibili-ties of inter-changing.When a person stops work-ing out, other factors likecontinuing diet as before,overeating, lack of activity,etc lead to fat accumula-tion and weight gain -resulting in a flabbyappearance. It has nothingto do with muscles turninginto fat.

Myth: Protein intake is amust for people who arelifting heavy weights: Byand large, one has tounderstand that .8 to 1gram of protein per kg ofbody weight is goodenough. Which means thatif you weigh about 75 kgsyou need only about 75-80

gms of protein a day,which is much lesser whencompared to the massiveamounts that some proteinshake companies recom-mend. Your protein intakeshould be taken underexpert guidance as excessprotein can get convertedinto fat, by taxing the liver.Consult a trainer and doc-tor about increasing pro-tein intake if your activitylevels can no longer besustained by a natural diet.

Myth: Lifting lightweights for high reps willhelp in giving you extraresults: Yes, light weightsand high reps are a goodcombination to sculpt andtone muscles. But is thisthe only way to get fit? Wedon't think so. If you areworking on strength gainsand endurance, then heav-ier weights and lesser repswill benefit you more. No

matter which format ofworkouts you follow,based on your goals andneeds, arriving at musclefatigue within 45-90 sec-onds is key.

Myth: The level of tired-ness after your workoutwill decide the intensity ofyour workout: If only fail-ure was strength, this mythwould have been the ulti-mate truth. Burning outafter every workout andfeeling too tired, will leaveyou sore and overtrained.The aim when working outshould be to get better oneach day and to excel inyour workouts in the longrun.

It's imperative to build anaerobic base of condition-ing for strength training:Firstly, let us understandthe difference between-aerobic and anaerobic

activities. Aerobic activi-ties refer to those activitiesthat are done in the pres-ence of oxygen, for eg lightwalking, reading, sitting,etc, and anaerobic activi-ties refers to activities thatare done in an absence ofoxygen and that leave usbreathless for eg weighttraining, running, ropeskipping, etc. Now fordeveloping strength train-ing, one should walkbefore they can run.However, do note a cardiosession is also an importantcomponent of any exerciseregime. One has to buildthe intensity, repetitionsand variations gradually inorder to weight train andbuild the muscles.

Myth: No strength train-ing exercise can be donewithout the use of properequipment: Exercises likesquats, pushups, lunges,

jumps, etc. are all excellentstrength training exercises,which do not require anyexercise equipment. Onlywhen one is looking to addmaximal strength to thebody, does one need to gofor exercises with equip-ments like barbells, dumb-bells and so on.

Myth: Strength trainingis not meant for kids andold people: If this was true,then ArnoldSchwarzenegger, whostarted lifting weightswhen he was around 15,wouldn't have been consid-ered as one of the topbodybuilders of all times.The height and weight of aperson, whether kid, youngor old, is based on one'sgenetics and to someextent food habits, andstrength training cannotstop the child from grow-ing. For old people,

strength training is advan-tageous as it helps inincreasing bone density, bylosing muscle mass.

Myth: Strength trainingis of no use for weight loss:Strength training benefitsweight loss in that it pro-motes muscle growth,which in turn benefits yourmetabolism and other bodyprocesses. Extremely over-weight people stand tobenefit from strength train-ing. As a matter of fact,nowadays fitness expertseven recommend thatstrength training is evenmore crucial than cardiotraining in some cases.

Myth: Strength trainingworks best when it comesto spot reduction: If theconcept of spot reductionwas true, we wouldn't havehad to struggle so much ingetting flat abs, a tonedback and well-roundedbutt. We cannot choose andpick a targeted area; wehave to lose weight fromall parts of the body.

Myth: Strength trainingtends to make womenappear manly: If this weretrue, the whole bandwagonof femal actors(Hollywood or Bollywood)wouldn't have managed tolook feminine and attrac-tive. What makes yourbody appear bulky istestosterone- a male hor-mone, which is only pres-ent in men in abundance.As a matter of fact,strength training adds tothe bone density and mus-cle mass, which is good forwomen's fitness level.

Top 10 myths about strength training

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another interesting storyof a girl named lillywho hailed from a smalltown and wanna getrich, successful overnight. But,will she orwon't she? Stay tuned,promos to out soon.Samira Raza, in mainlead with supportingcast Reet, Roopa,Sahiba, Akanksha andGagan Deep Singh.Param of Moonlightproductions is veryhopeful that this smallbudget entertainer willdo big in the industry.

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Katrina Kaif is notworried aboutHafiz Saeed seek-

ing a ban on her upcomingfilm in Pakistan.We met upwith the luminous beautyrecently for an EXCLU-SIVE chat and in a lightervein she told us, “There areso many films that I’vebeen part of that I keephearing are banned inPakistan.”

But on a more seriousnote Katrina thinks that thePhantom ban didn’t takeher by surprise. She says,“My personal opinion is Iunderstand the sentimentso I can understand the rea-

sons for it. But the film isnot anti-Pakistan in anyway. If there is one wrong

person in the country itdoes not make the countrywrong and that’s actually

the message of thefilm. These wrong peoplecan exist anywhere, does-n’t make America a terror-ist country. It’s the personwho is wrong or the act iswrong and not the country.But having said that I canunderstand that maybethere are reasons why apeople don’t want a film tobe shown.”

The actress plays the roleof a Parsi girl who istrained in combat andworks with the NGOMedicine Sans Frontiers inthe conflicted zones.

This has to be one of thegrittiest roles Katrina hasever played before!

Actor Nana Patekar,who will be nextseen in Anees

Bazmee’s comedy“Welcome Back”, said hisnext directorial venture isgoing to be a biopic. “I amdirecting a film which is abiopic. I can’t talk about it.There is a girl (in the film)and she is the main charac-ter. I would go to hunt forlocations soon.. I would begoing to Kathmandu,” saidthe actor.

There were reports thatNana might direct the thirdinstalment of crime drama“Ab Tak Chhappan”.When asked about it, hesaid, “If I get to direct, itwill be my story and if Iget to do everything thenI’ll direct.. Else there is lotof interference. I want todo it on my own.”

Beside directing, Nana

said he would also like toventure into production.“There are certain kind offilms you want to do. I amcoming up with my pro-duction house. My son willbe producing the films. Wewould be making seriouskind of films,” the 64-year-old actor said. The veteranactor turned director with1991 release “Prahar: TheFinal Attack” that starredDimple Kapadia, MadhuriDixit, Habib Tanveer andGautam Joglekar. “I wouldnot be part of every filmthat he (his son) wouldproduce. You cast as peryour requirement whetherit does well or not, is notmy concern,” the“Parinda” actor said. “Ihave been acting tillnow… Earning money sonow you make money. Idon’t guide him. Today’skids do things what theywant to do it,” he said.

Nana Patekar tohelm a biopic soon!

Katrina Kaif on the Phantom ban in Pakistan: I can under-stand the sentiment so I can understand the reasons for it!