PATNA Thirty-two people were killed and over 80 serious- ly injured as a nor'wester ravaged several Bihar dis- tricts on Tuesday night, destroying thousands of huts and standing crops. The Principal secretary to Bihar Disaster Management Department said that "the maximum number of 25 deaths were reported from Purnia dis- trict, while six have died in Madhepura and one in Madhubani." The storm hit Purnia, Madhepura, Saharsa, Madhubani, Samastipur, Darbhanga and Samastipur uprooting several thousand trees, damaging power lines and destroying thou- sands of huts and standing crops of maize, wheat and pulses. "Road transport in the districts have been hit in the aftermath of the storm as many trees are lying uprooted," he said. Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) Director in Patna, RK Giri said the storm packed wind speed around 65 km per hour. "The storm descended from Nepal side hitting Purnia, Sitamarhi, Darbhanga and went deep inside the state up to CONTD. ON P AGE 3 MUMBAI Temperature: 36 0 C Precipitation:20% Humidity:63% Wind: 18Km/hr HAQ SAADDA FIGHT FOR RIGHT Thursday, April 23, 2015 Kejriwal misled voters with poll promises: Cong complains to EC Lenovo A7000 Up for Grabs in Second Flash Sale Madhur Bhandarkar miffed with ‘Madamji’, Priyanka Chopra! P8 CHENNAI Defence ministry communi- cation professional Natesan Andavan died on Wednesday after he sustained a grievous injury in a road accident here on April 20, the ministry said. He was 52. CONTD. ON P AGE 3 Defence ministry PRO dies after road accident KOLKATA The lawyers of West Bengal Transport Minister Madan Mitra, who was arrested in con- nection with the Saradha chit- fund scam, on Wednesday with- drew the minister's bail applica- tion from the Calcutta High CONTD. ON P AGE 3 Madan Mitra's bail to be sought from CJM's court: Lawyers JALPAIGURI A daily wage earner allegedly sold his newborn daughter to a teacher in Dhupguri area in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district for Rs. 25,000 even as police has arrested a middleman, identified as Atul Basak, who helped in CONTD. ON P AGE 3 Newborn baby sold for Rs. 25,000 in West Bengal's Dhupguri SHILLONG There is no proposal to ban cow slaughter in the eight north- eastern states, BJP general sec- retary Ram Madhav said on Wednesday. However, the Bharatiya Janata Party's government in other states will review the situation and take relevant decisions, he said. CONTD. ON P AGE 3 No proposal to ban cow slaughter in northeast: Ram Madhav NEW DELHI "I never said farmers should not depend on either god or government," Union minister Nitin Gadkari said in Lok Sabha today, rebutting Rahul Gandhi who had attributed the comment to him during his speech in the House on agrarian crisis. "I want to make it clear that I never made such a statement," the Minister said CONTD. ON P AGE 3 Union Minister Nitin Gadkari refutes Rahul on farmers' issue NEW DELHI The Supreme Court has ruled out a cancelling the ongoing hearing of the appeal by former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa against her convic- tion in the disproportionate assets case, which can happen if the appointment of the public prosecutor in the case is can- celled. The opposition DMK had challenged the appointment of the public prosecutor Bhavani Singh, CONTD. ON P AGE 3 Jayalalithaa's appeal against conviction cannot be heard afresh, says SC LONDON The Indian passport has been ranked 48th in a list of 50 most powerful travel document in the world, according to a global survey topped by Sweden. Germany-based Go Euro travel comparison website CONTD. ON P AGE 3 Indian passport ranked 48 out of 50 most powerful travel document: survey NEW DELHI Monsoon rains could be below average in 2015 due to an impact of El Nino weather pattern, which can bring on a dry spell in the region, the weather office said on Wednesday. Rains are expected to be 93 CONTD. ON P AGE 3 Monsoon likely to remain below average this year: Government P6 P2 Weather Report DELHI Temperature: 38 0 C Precipitation:0% Humidity: 24% Wind: 14Km/hr KOLKA T A Temperature: 37 0 C Precipitation: 64% Humidity:42% Wind: 12Km/hr CHENNAI Temperature: 36 0 C Precipitation:0% Humidity:64% Wind: 18Km/hr BEIJING India is likely to get the Vice-President's post in China-backed Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in which India and 56 countries have been admitted as founding members. Chief negotiators of the countries would hold a key meeting next week to begin consultations to finalise the format of the AIIB's functioning, including the voting share. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of the bank to be headquar- tered in Beijing specifies that the authorised capi- tal of AIIB will be $100 billion with an initial subscribed capital of $50 billion. The bank being headed by China is headquar- tered in Beijing. Chances of India get- ting the Vice President's post are high as the vote share is expected to be based on 50 per cent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 50 per cent Purchasing Power Parity CONTD. ON P AGE 3 India could become Vice President of China- Led Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank Storm Claims Lives of 32 People in Bihar, Injures Over 80 NEW DELHI In yet another relief to Pakistani citizens belonging to the minor- ity community, the gov- ernment of India has enabled them to apply online for their long- term visa (LTV) and track the status of their application. The online system, which will also cover processing of the LTV visa application by various agencies, replaces the manual system of accepting such applications. The online applica- tion system will help Pakistani nationals belonging to minority community, particularly Hindus and Sikhs, who seek refuge in India for fear of religious perse- cution back home. These minority nation- als come to India with the intention to settle permanently. The gov- ernment, sympathetic to their cause, has been CONTD. ON P AGE 3 Vol. 1 Issue: 221 Price: Rs.3:00 Reg. No: DELENG/2014/58212 Delhi Edition Pages: 8 Website: www.saaddahaq.in Email: [email protected] NEW DELHI Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has sought a report from the Delhi Police on a Rajasthan farmer committing sui- cide at Jantar Mantar in the heart of the capital today, as hundreds of shocked protestors, including Delhi chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, watched at an Aam Aadmi Party rally. Mr Kejriwal has alleged that the police did nothing to save the farmer, who hanged himself from a tree and fell to the ground not far from where the chief minister and other AAP leaders sat at the rally, called to protest against the Centre's land reforms. The chief minister has been criticised for waiting to address the rally before he visited the hospital to which the farmer was taken. Congress' Rajasthan leader Sachin Pilot said, "Saving a person's life is more important than mak- ing a political speech... It is sad that no one tried to stop the farmer from killing himself at a rally." "It's very painful that politics is more important than human life," said Sambit Patra of the BJP, adding, "I am very pained that Arvind Kejriwal said he would continue with his speech and then go to the hospital." Mr Kejriwal has accused the Delhi Police of not trying to save the man. "Before our eyes he climbed the tree. I kept telling the police to save him. But the police are not in our control, but at least he is under god's control. I am sad that he climbed the tree in front of us but nobody tried to stop him," said the Chief Minister. It is a sore point with AAP, the ruling party in Delhi, that the city's CONTD. ON P AGE 3 Arvind Kejriwal under fire amid politics over farmer suicide at AAP rally DEHRADUN Anil Shukla prays a lot these days. The 39-year- old father of three, who performs pujas for pil- grims at Kedarnath, has been praying fervently that the weather gods remain benign, and the Char Dham Yatra, which began on April 21, draws in a lot of pilgrims this year. "The last two years were terrible. Earlier, we used to earn between Rs 2 to 3 lakh for the six months that the yatra was on, but our incomes dipped to below Rs 50,000 after the 2013 tragedy. This year at least, we hope that things look up," he says. Like Shukla, there are many people across Uttarakhand who are CONTD. ON P AGE 3 NEW DELHI The government will soon launch a facility under which a PAN card will be issued within 48 hours of applying. "An online facility for issuance of PAN is on the anvil under which an applicant can CONTD. ON P AGE 3 Govt to launch 'Online' facility for PAN Cards to be issued in 48 hours: Report MUMBAI Maharashtra govern- ment, today, told the Bombay High Court that religion has got nothing to do with its recent ban on slaughter of cows, bulls and bullocks and con- sumption and possession of their meat. Advocate General Sunil Manohar made this sub- mission while opposing a bunch of petitions chal- lenging the ban introduced under the Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act. The petitions have chal- lenged only Sections 5(d) and 9(a) of the Act, which prohibit possession and consumption of meat of cow, bulls and bullocks even if the animals have been slaughtered outside Maharashtra. According to the petitions, this puts a ban on import of meat. The Advocate General raised the issue of religion when advocates appearing for a number of organisa- tions, who filed interven- ing applications support- ing the ban, argued that CONTD. ON P AGE 3 Religion has nothing to do with beef ban: Maharashtra Govt to Bombay HC NEW DELHI Terming the Islamic State or IS as a cause for grave concern, India today exhorted a congre- gation of Asian and African countries to be resolute in combating ter- rorism and acting against maritime piracy. Addressing the Asian African Summit 2015 in Jakarta, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj called for UN reforms and cohesive action for a new world order. She said the rise of extremist violence and terrorism has been one of the most disturbing secu- rity phenomena and sev- eral parts of the two con- tinents are victim to a medley of terrorist groups. "The ISIS has emerged CONTD. ON P AGE 3 Resolute action needed to counter Islamic State Terror: Sushma Swaraj Pakistani Hindus can apply for long term Indian visa online The Rs 1,000 crore Char Dham economy: On a wing and a prayer Al Jazeera penalised for showing wrong map of India, off air for 5 days NEW DELHI International news channel Al Jazeera was today forced to go off air in India for five days as the government penalised it for repeatedly showing wrong maps of the coun- try. Al Jazeera today only showed a blank screen with a message saying that "as instructed by the CONTD. ON P AGE 3 NEW DELHI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday offered his condolences to the family of Gajendra Singh, a Rajasthan farmer who committed suicide at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) rally against Land Bill in the national capital. “Gajendra’s death has saddened the Nation. We are all deeply shattered and disappointed. Condolences to his fami- ly,” he tweeted. The PM also expressed his solidarity with the farmers of the nation and said that they should not think at any point that they are alone. “At no point must the hard-working farmer think he is alone. We are all together in creating a better tomorrow for the farmers of India,” he fur- ther tweeted. The shocking incident took place during the AAP's rally at Jantar Mantar when the man attempted to hang himself CONTD. ON P AGE 3 PM Modi 'deeply shattered' over farmer's suicide at AAP rally NEWS IN BRIEF A farmer from Rajasthan, Gajender Singh, committed suicide at AAP’s kisan rally in Delhi NEW DELHI Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of running a government for the "super rich" and slammed his government for the "inordinate urgency" for bringing the land acquisition ordinance hurting the farmers. Kejriwal launched a major political attack on Modi, the first after his landslide victory in the Delhi assembly polls in February, at a farmers' rally here, but the event was marred by the suicide of a farmer from Rajasthan, who hanged himself from a tree in front at the rally venue. He alleged that the CONTD. ON P AGE 3 Modi running a govt for 'super rich': Arvind Kejriwal NEW DELHI A farmer on Wednesday committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree in chief minister Arvind Kejriwal's pres- ence at the Aam Aadmi Party's kisan rally against the land bill. The man, identified as Gajendra Singh, climbed the tree as top AAP leaders were present at the Jantar Mantar, and hanged him- self with a 'gamcha' (towel). As some people climbed up to save him, the branch gave away and he fell. He was rushed to CONTD. ON P AGE 3 Farmer commits suicide at AAP rally, leaves suicide note
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PATNAThirty-two people were
killed and over 80 serious-ly injured as a nor'westerravaged several Bihar dis-tricts on Tuesday night,destroying thousands ofhuts and standing crops.
The Principal secretaryto Bihar DisasterManagement Departmentsaid that "the maximumnumber of 25 deaths werereported from Purnia dis-trict, while six have died inMadhepura and one inMadhubani."
The storm hit Purnia,Madhepura, Saharsa,Madhubani, Samastipur,Darbhanga and Samastipuruprooting several thousand
trees, damaging powerlines and destroying thou-sands of huts and standingcrops of maize, wheat andpulses.
"Road transport in thedistricts have been hit inthe aftermath of the stormas many trees are lyinguprooted," he said.
Indian MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD)Director in Patna, RK Girisaid the storm packed windspeed around 65 km perhour.
"The storm descendedfrom Nepal side hittingPurnia, Sitamarhi,Darbhanga and went deepinside the state up to
CONTD. ON PAGE 3
MUMBAITemperature: 360CPrecipitation:20%Humidity:63%Wind: 18Km/hr
HAQSAADDAFIGHT FOR RIGHTThursday, April 23, 2015
Kejriwal misled voters with pollpromises: Cong complains to EC
Lenovo A7000 Up for Grabs inSecond Flash Sale
Madhur Bhandarkar miffed with‘Madamji’, Priyanka Chopra! P8
CHENNAIDefence ministry communi-
cation professional NatesanAndavan died on Wednesdayafter he sustained a grievousinjury in a road accident hereon April 20, the ministry said.He was 52.
CONTD. ON PAGE 3
Defence ministry PROdies after road accident
KOLKATAThe lawyers of West Bengal
Transport Minister MadanMitra, who was arrested in con-nection with the Saradha chit-fund scam, on Wednesday with-drew the minister's bail applica-tion from the Calcutta High
CONTD. ON PAGE 3
Madan Mitra's bail tobe sought from CJM'scourt: Lawyers
JALPAIGURIA daily wage earner allegedly
sold his newborn daughter to ateacher in Dhupguri area in WestBengal's Jalpaiguri district forRs. 25,000 even as police hasarrested a middleman, identifiedas Atul Basak, who helped in
CONTD. ON PAGE 3
Newborn baby soldfor Rs. 25,000 in WestBengal's Dhupguri
SHILLONGThere is no proposal to ban
cow slaughter in the eight north-eastern states, BJP general sec-retary Ram Madhav said onWednesday.
However, the Bharatiya JanataParty's government in otherstates will review the situationand take relevant decisions, he said.
CONTD. ON PAGE 3
No proposal to ban cow slaughterin northeast: Ram Madhav
NEW DELHI"I never said farmers should
not depend on either god orgovernment," Union ministerNitin Gadkari said in LokSabha today, rebutting RahulGandhi who had attributed thecomment to him during hisspeech in the House on agrariancrisis. "I want to make it clearthat I never made such a statement," the Minister said
CONTD. ON PAGE 3
Union Minister Nitin Gadkarirefutes Rahul on farmers' issue
NEW DELHIThe Supreme Court has ruled
out a cancelling the ongoinghearing of the appeal by formerTamil Nadu chief minister JJayalalithaa against her convic-tion in the disproportionateassets case, which can happen ifthe appointment of the publicprosecutor in the case is can-
celled. The opposition DMK had challenged theappointment of the public prosecutor Bhavani Singh,
CONTD. ON PAGE 3
Jayalalithaa's appeal against convictioncannot be heard afresh, says SC
LONDONThe Indian passport has been
ranked 48th in a list of 50 mostpowerful travel document in theworld, according to a globalsurvey topped by Sweden.
Germany-based Go Eurotravel comparison website
CONTD. ON PAGE 3
Indian passport ranked 48out of 50 most powerfultravel document: survey
NEW DELHIMonsoon rains could be
below average in 2015 due toan impact of El Nino weatherpattern, which can bring on adry spell in the region, theweather office said onWednesday.
Rains are expected to be 93 CONTD. ON PAGE 3
Monsoon likely toremain below averagethis year: Government
P6P2
Weather ReportDELHITemperature: 380CPrecipitation:0%Humidity: 24%Wind: 14Km/hr
KOLKATATemperature: 370CPrecipitation: 64%Humidity:42% Wind: 12Km/hr
CHENNAITemperature: 360CPrecipitation:0%Humidity:64%Wind: 18Km/hr
BEIJINGIndia is likely to get the
Vice-President's post inChina-backed AsiaInfrastructure InvestmentBank (AIIB) in whichIndia and 56 countrieshave been admitted asfounding members.
Chief negotiators ofthe countries would holda key meeting next weekto begin consultations tofinalise the format of theAIIB's functioning,including the votingshare.
The Memorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) ofthe bank to be headquar-tered in Beijing specifiesthat the authorised capi-
tal of AIIB will be $100billion with an initialsubscribed capital of $50billion.
The bank being headedby China is headquar-tered in Beijing.
Chances of India get-
ting the Vice President'spost are high as the voteshare is expected to bebased on 50 per centGross Domestic Product(GDP) and 50 per centPurchasing Power Parity
CONTD. ON PAGE 3
India could become Vice President of China-Led Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank
Storm Claims Lives of 32 Peoplein Bihar, Injures Over 80
NEW DELHIIn yet another relief to
Pakistani citizensbelonging to the minor-ity community, the gov-ernment of India hasenabled them to applyonline for their long-term visa (LTV) andtrack the status of theirapplication. The onlinesystem, which will alsocover processing of theLTV visa application byvarious agencies,replaces the manualsystem of accepting
such applications.The online applica-
tion system will helpPakistani nationalsbelonging to minoritycommunity, particularlyHindus and Sikhs, whoseek refuge in India forfear of religious perse-cution back home.These minority nation-als come to India withthe intention to settlepermanently. The gov-ernment, sympathetic totheir cause, has been
CONTD. ON PAGE 3
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NEW DELHIUnion Home Minister
Rajnath Singh has soughta report from the DelhiPolice on a Rajasthanfarmer committing sui-cide at Jantar Mantar inthe heart of the capitaltoday, as hundreds ofshocked protestors,including Delhi chiefMinister Arvind Kejriwal,watched at an AamAadmi Party rally.
Mr Kejriwal has allegedthat the police did nothingto save the farmer, whohanged himself from atree and fell to the groundnot far from where thechief minister and otherAAP leaders sat at therally, called to protestagainst the Centre's landreforms.
The chief minister hasbeen criticised for waitingto address the rally beforehe visited the hospital towhich the farmer wastaken.
Congress' Rajasthanleader Sachin Pilot said,
"Saving a person's life ismore important than mak-ing a political speech... Itis sad that no one tried tostop the farmer fromkilling himself at a rally."
"It's very painful thatpolitics is more importantthan human life," saidSambit Patra of the BJP,adding, "I am very painedthat Arvind Kejriwal saidhe would continue withhis speech and then go tothe hospital."
Mr Kejriwal hasaccused the Delhi Policeof not trying to save theman. "Before our eyes heclimbed the tree. I kepttelling the police to savehim. But the police arenot in our control, but atleast he is under god'scontrol. I am sad that heclimbed the tree in frontof us but nobody tried tostop him," said the ChiefMinister.
It is a sore point withAAP, the ruling party inDelhi, that the city's
CONTD. ON PAGE 3
Arvind Kejriwal under fire amid politicsover farmer suicide at AAP rally
DEHRADUNAnil Shukla prays a lot
these days. The 39-year-old father of three, whoperforms pujas for pil-grims at Kedarnath, hasbeen praying fervently thatthe weather gods remainbenign, and the CharDham Yatra, which beganon April 21, draws in a lotof pilgrims this year.
"The last two years wereterrible. Earlier, we used toearn between Rs 2 to 3lakh for the six months thatthe yatra was on, but ourincomes dipped to below
Rs 50,000 after the 2013tragedy. This year at least,we hope that things lookup," he says.
Like Shukla, there aremany people acrossUttarakhand who are
CONTD. ON PAGE 3
NEW DELHIThe government will soon
launch a facility under which aPAN card will be issued within48 hours of applying.
"An online facility forissuance of PAN is on the anvilunder which an applicant can
CONTD. ON PAGE 3
Govt to launch 'Online'facility for PAN Cards to beissued in 48 hours: Report
MUMBAIMaharashtra govern-
ment, today, told theBombay High Court thatreligion has got nothing todo with its recent ban onslaughter of cows, bullsand bullocks and con-sumption and possessionof their meat.
Advocate General SunilManohar made this sub-mission while opposing abunch of petitions chal-lenging the ban introducedunder the Maharashtra
Animal Preservation(Amendment) Act.
The petitions have chal-lenged only Sections 5(d)and 9(a) of the Act, which
prohibit possession andconsumption of meat ofcow, bulls and bullockseven if the animals havebeen slaughtered outsideMaharashtra. According tothe petitions, this puts aban on import of meat.
The Advocate Generalraised the issue of religionwhen advocates appearingfor a number of organisa-tions, who filed interven-ing applications support-ing the ban, argued that
CONTD. ON PAGE 3
Religion has nothing to do with beefban: Maharashtra Govt to Bombay HC
NEW DELHITerming the Islamic
State or IS as a cause forgrave concern, Indiatoday exhorted a congre-gation of Asian andAfrican countries to beresolute in combating ter-rorism and acting againstmaritime piracy.
Addressing the AsianAfrican Summit 2015 inJakarta, External AffairsMinister Sushma Swarajcalled for UN reformsand cohesive action for anew world order.
She said the rise of
extremist violence andterrorism has been one ofthe most disturbing secu-rity phenomena and sev-eral parts of the two con-
tinents are victim to amedley of terroristgroups.
"The ISIS has emergedCONTD. ON PAGE 3
Resolute action needed to counterIslamic State Terror: Sushma Swaraj
Pakistani Hindus can apply forlong term Indian visa online
The Rs 1,000 crore Char Dhameconomy: On a wing and a prayer
Al Jazeerapenalised forshowing wrongmap of India, offair for 5 daysNEW DELHI
International newschannel Al Jazeera wastoday forced to go off airin India for five days asthe government penalisedit for repeatedly showingwrong maps of the coun-try. Al Jazeera today onlyshowed a blank screenwith a message sayingthat "as instructed by the
CONTD. ON PAGE 3
NEW DELHIPrime Minister
Narendra Modi onWednesday offered hiscondolences to the familyof Gajendra Singh, aRajasthan farmer whocommitted suicide at theAam Aadmi Party (AAP)rally against Land Bill inthe national capital.
“Gajendra’s death has
saddened the Nation. Weare all deeply shatteredand disappointed.Condolences to his fami-ly,” he tweeted.
The PM also expressedhis solidarity with thefarmers of the nation andsaid that they should notthink at any point thatthey are alone.
“At no point must the
hard-working farmerthink he is alone. We areall together in creating abetter tomorrow for thefarmers of India,” he fur-ther tweeted.
The shocking incidenttook place during theAAP's rally at JantarMantar when the manattempted to hang himself
CONTD. ON PAGE 3
PM Modi 'deeply shattered' over farmer's suicide at AAP rally
NEWS IN BRIEF
A farmer from Rajasthan, Gajender Singh, committed suicide at AAP’s kisan rally in Delhi
NEW DELHIDelhi chief minister
Arvind Kejriwal onWednesday accused PrimeMinister Narendra Modi ofrunning a government forthe "super rich" andslammed his governmentfor the "inordinateurgency" for bringing theland acquisition ordinancehurting the farmers.
Kejriwal launched a
major political attack onModi, the first after hislandslide victory in theDelhi assembly polls inFebruary, at a farmers'rally here, but the eventwas marred by the suicideof a farmer fromRajasthan, who hangedhimself from a tree in frontat the rally venue.
He alleged that the CONTD. ON PAGE 3
Modi running a govt for'super rich': Arvind Kejriwal
NEW DELHIA farmer on Wednesday
committed suicide byhanging himself from atree in chief ministerArvind Kejriwal's pres-ence at the Aam AadmiParty's kisan rally againstthe land bill.
The man, identified as
Gajendra Singh, climbedthe tree as top AAP leaderswere present at the JantarMantar, and hanged him-self with a 'gamcha'(towel). As some peopleclimbed up to save him,the branch gave away andhe fell. He was rushed to
CONTD. ON PAGE 3
Farmer commits suicide atAAP rally, leaves suicide note
Delhi News2 NEW DELHI | THURSDAY | APRIL 23, 2015Fight For Right
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NEW DELHIBJP has demanded that
Delhi government pay Rs 5crore as compensation to thekin of the farmer who hunghimself at a rally attended byDelhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal even as it claimedthat AAP leaders had madeno attempt to prevent thetragedy.
"The chief minister failedin his basic duty of asking thehundreds of his party volun-teers who were present tomake an effort to climb thetree and save the farmer... Onthe other hand, he kept givinghis speech," said Delhi BJPchief Satish Upadhyay.
BJP alleged that forKejriwal, the farmers' issuewas nothing but an opportu-nity to make political capital.
"We demand Rs 5 crorecompensation for the farmer'sfamily from the Kejriwalgovernment," Upadhyay said.
Gajendra Singh, a farmerfrom Rajasthan, today hung
himself from a tree in fullpublic view while Kejriwalwas leading an Aam AadmiParty rally at Jantar Mantar.
AAP leaders have accusedthe police of being mute
spectators and doing nothingto save Singh.
A father of three hailingfrom Dausa in Rajasthan,Singh climbed a tree in JantarMantar and wrapped his'gamcha' (towel) around hisneck and tied it to a branch.
As police watched thewhole drama, a couple ofAAP workers climbed thetree and tried to rescue him,but by then the noose hadthrottled Singh, whose bodyhanged for a few momentsbefore falling. He was rushedto the nearby RML Hospitalwhere he was declaredbrought dead.AAP leaderKumar Vishwas, who was atthe rally, is said to haveappealed to Singh to comedown and also asked police torescue the farmer.
Pay Rs 5-crore compensation tofarmer's kin: BJP to Delhi govt
NEW DELHIThe judicial work in six district courts in
the capital came to a halt as a two-daystrike over trial courts' pecuniary jurisdic-tion began on Wednesday, with lawyerspreparing for a protest march outside theresidence of Prime Minister NarendraModi tomorrow. The coordination com-mittee of all district courts bar associationshas called the two-day strike against thedelay in tabling in Parliament an amendedbill to enhance the pecuniary jurisdictionof trial courts.
The lawyers termed the strike as "suc-cessful" saying no substantial work wastaken up in any of the six trial courts - TisHazari, Karkardooma, Patiala House,Rohini, Saket and Dwarka courts.Advocate Mahesh Sharma, President ofShahdara Bar Association, said thelawyers have been repeatedly ditched bythe law minister and other ministers whohad given assurance that the Bill would besoon tabled and passed in Parliament.
"We had met Arun Jaitley, D VSadananda Gowda and Ravi ShankarPrasad at BJP office and were assured thatthe Bill would be tabled and passed in theParliament.
"But it was deliberately halted when itwas tabled in the Rajya Sabha on March 4.This was a conspiracy and they haveditched us repeatedly," Sharma said.
Advocate R K Wadhwa, President ofNew Delhi Bar Association, said no judi-cial work was done in the courts today andthe strike would continue tomorrow also.He said a large number of lawyers wouldgather outside Patiala House courts tomor-row morning when they would marchtowards the Prime Minister's residenceprotesting against the central government."The advocates urge the Prime Ministerthat the bill for pecuniary jurisdiction ofRs two crore for district courts of Delhishould be re-tabled and passed in theongoing Budget Session...," a releaseissued by the committee said.
Lawyers' strike in district courts,march to PM house on Thursday
NEW DELHIDelhi Police have regis-
tered an FIR againstunknown persons in con-nection with the allegedsuicide of a Rajasthan-based farmer during a rallyof Aam Aadmi Party thisafternoon and probe hasbeen handed over to theCrime Branch.
Meanwhile, police havesaid that no written permis-sion was given to the rallytill the end and they hadappealed to the organisersto change the venue fromJantar Mantar to a spaciousplace --Ramlila ground.
A senior police officialsaid that negotiations to
change the venue were ontill the end but organiserswere adamant to marchand 'gherao' Parliament.
The case has been regis-tered under sections 186(Obstructing public servantin discharge of publicfunctions), 306 (Abetmentof suicide), 304 A (Causingdeath by negligence) ofIndian Penal Code.
"We have registered anFIR under IPC sections186/306/304A atParliament Street PoliceStation and the case hasbeen handed over to CrimeBranch for investigation,"Delhi police spokespersonRajan Bhagat told PTI.
Union Home MinisterRajnath Singh had earlierspoken to Delhi PoliceCommissioner B S Bassiand ordered an inquiry.
Delhi Police claims thaton the basis of intelligence
input they advised AAPorganisers that the gather-ing could be around 20,000and hence suggested alarger venue that isRamlila Ground sinceJantar Mantar proposed
capacity is just 5,000."There (Jantar Mantar)
would not be enough spaceavailable for safe move-ment, channelisation andquick dispersal of thecrowds in case of a contin-gency.
"Experience has shownthat overcrowding at ven-ues having limited capacitycan cause stampedes, lead-ing to loss of life and prop-erty," Delhi police wrote ina letter to AAP asking themto shift to a bigger venuelike Ramlila Ground.
41-year-old GajendraSingh today hanged him-self from a tree near therally venue.
Farmer suicide at AAP rally: Delhi Police register FIR
NEW DELHIThe Delhi High Court
on Wednesday issuednotices to the Centreand the city governmenton a PIL seeking basicamenities, includingproper food and med-ical facilities, at all beg-gars' homes in thenational capital. Abench of Chief JusticeG Rohini and JusticeRajiv Sahai Endlawalso sought a responseof the Delhi PoliceCommissioner on a pleawhich was transferredto it by the SupremeCourt early this year.
"Issue notice to theUnion of India, Delhigovernment and theDelhi PoliceCommissioner. Let all
the respondents filetheir counter affidavitswithin four weeks," thecourt said.
The court has fixedthe matter for furtherhearing on August 5.
The apex court, whiletransferring the matteron January 30, had in itsorder said that it will beappropriate if the matteris dealt with by theHigh Court as the case
pertains to beggars'homes in Delhi.
The apex court bench,comprising justices MB Lokur and U U Lalit,had also said that sincethe matter is pendingfor quite some time, theDelhi High Court isdirected to take up thecase on a regular basisand pass appropriatedirections at the earli-est.
To look into the facil-ities at beggars' homes,an expert committeewas constituted by theSupreme Court com-prising formerAdditional SolicitorGeneral L NageswaraRao, senior advocateColin Gonsalves andadvocate IndraSawhney, which sub-mitted its report onOctober 8, 2014, detail-ing the "inadequate"facilities at such institu-tions.
A PIL was first filedby Karnika Sawhney inthe Supreme Court inyear 2000, seekingbasic human and funda-mental rights for thebeggars in the nationalcapital.
HC notice to governments & Delhitop cop on beggars' homes
NEW DELHIAam Aadmi Party on
Wednesday asked theUnion AgricultureMinistry to look into theissues being faced byfarmers across the countryand demanded compensa-tion for the family of afarmer who committedsuicide at the party's rallyhere.
At a meeting with theUnion AgricultureMinister Radha MohanSingh, senior AAP leadersincluding MP BhagwantMann, Kumar Vishwas,Sanjay Singh andAshutosh raised issuesrelated to land bill, canedues and poor relief beinggiven to farmers in vari-ous states.
After the meeting, Singhsaid AAP leaders alsomade a reference to thefarmer's suicide anddemanded compensationfor his family.
Speaking to reporters,Viswas said: "We made
12-13 demands includingfarmers' suicide cases,land bill, sugarcane duesand poor farm relief.
"We also told him thatthe Centre is not sending apositive message to farm-ers across the country.There was an unfortunateincident in the rally. Afarmer from Rajasthancommitted suicide. Wedemanded the governmentto take adequate measuresin the interest of farmers."
On farmers' suicides,Singh said: "We informedthem that the UP govern-ment has written to theCentre that there havebeen no farmers' suicidesdue to agrarian crisis,while there were 2-3 casesreported in Maharashtra."
Stating that the Centrehas taken measures to helpfarmers affected by recentunseasonal rains and hail-storm, the Minister saidthat the norms under theNational DisasterResponse Fund have been
change to increase thecompensation by 50 percent to affected-farmers.
"AAP leaders com-plained that the UP gov-ernment was giving ameagre cheque of Rs 70-90 per farmer as relief, Wetold them that it was theresponsibility of the stategovernment. The stategovernment should fix theresponsibility. We willalso inform them to followthe guidelines," Singhadded.
He also said that theDelhi government shouldhave a separateAgriculture Ministry orDepartment to address theconcerns of farmers locat-ed in the national capital.
"In the meeting, we saidthat Delhi has no separateDepartment of Agricultureor Ministry. We have toldthem to find ways to setup a department or min-istry to address the con-cerns of farmers in Delhi,"he added.
Look into farmers' issues: AAP to Centre
NEW DELHICongress has
approached ElectionCommission with acomplaint against DelhiChief Minister ArvindKejriwal that he hadmisled voters in thewake of recent com-ments by him that fulfill-ing even "40-50 percent" of his party's pollpromises "would not bebad".
Delhi Congress ChiefAjay Maken today sub-mitted a memorandumto EC that Kejriwal'sstatements on the eve of'Civil Services Day' con-stituted a violation of theelection watchdog'smanifesto guidelines.
"In front of thebureaucrats, he(Kejriwal) made a state-ment that achieving 40-
50 per cent of the prom-ises made by his partybefore the electionswould not be bad; (that)is in violation of themanifesto guidelines ofEC," said Maken.
"AAP, in violation ofthe guidelines, has con-ceded that it cannotachieve 50-60 per centof the promises that it
made in the run up to theelections in Delhi.
"This is also a directbreach of its 70-pointelection manifesto,which was used to gath-er votes... We haveurged EC to exercise itsplenary power underArticle 324 of theConstitution and takenecessary action against
AAP for misguiding thevoters of Delhi," hesaid.
The manifesto guide-lines were drawn up inorder to prevent undueinfluence being exer-cised upon the voters bypolitical parties throughunrealistic election doc-uments.
Addressing a gather-ing on the eve of 'CivilServices Day', Kejriwalhad said, "People havehigh expectations fromus. Public, which praisesus, also hurls shoes infive years. But today Ihave confidence thatwithin the next fiveyears, even if we are notable to deliver 100 percent on our promises, wewill at least achieve 40to 50 per cent, whichwould not be bad."
NEW DELHICongress leader Sachin
Pilot said on Wednesdaythat it was "shocking" howfarmers were killing them-selves in the absence ofproper compensation fortheir destroyed crops.
"It's shameful that farm-ers are forced to take theirlives in absence of finan-cial support when in need,"he told reporters after afarmer from Rajasthan,who tried to commit sui-cide during a rally of theAam Aadmi Party (AAP)in Delhi, was declared
brought dead in hospital."I don't want to politicise
the issue," he said, addingthat it was grave and the
leaders who have responsi-bility must ask themselves"where are we taking thecountry".
"It's not about GajenderSingh alone; it's about allthose who either tried tocommit suicide or havecommitted it," Mr Pilotsaid.
Gajender Singh, a farmerfrom Rajasthan, hangedhimself at an AAP rally.
Later, doctors at the RamManohar Lohia Hospitalwhere he was taken afterthe incident, declared himbrought dead.
Farmers killing themselves aserious issue: Sachin Pilot
Kejriwal misled voters with pollpromises: Cong complains to EC
NEW DELHIOver one-fifth of the 450
CCTV cameras installed inParliament are not work-ing, a Parliamentary panelsaid, as it found gaps in thesecurity apparatus to guardthe sensitive complex.
The committee of threeMPs set up to look into thesecurity drill in Parliamentfor the protection of thecomplex also found thatmany of the security per-sonnel do not have bullet-proof helmets and jacketsbesides latest equipmentsand modern weapons,sources said. The MPshave dealt with securitymatters during their profes-sional career. Furthermore,the panel found that mostof the equipments installedfor security are out-dated.
The committee headedby former Union HomeSecretary R K Singh andalso comprising former
Mumbai PoliceCommissioner SatyapalSingh and formerRajasthan DGP HarishChandra Meena said in itsreport that out of the 450CCTV cameras installed inthe complex, nearly 100were not functioning. Thereport, submitted to LokSabha Speaker SumitraMahajan with a copymarked to the HomeMinistry, suggestedenhanced security at all 12gates in the Parliamentcomplex, official sources
said today. The committeesuggested that the securityarchitecture put in place atall the 12 gates ofParliament has to beimproved to ensure fool-proof security. The UnionHome Ministry has takenthe report very seriouslyand action will be taken onit soon, sources said. Thecommittee also suggestedupgradation of UnderVehicle Scanning System(UVSS) and installation ofthe machine at all gatesbesides the explosive
detectors.It proposed increase in
number of sniffer dogsdeployed in Parliament andobservation towers besidesupgradation of the commu-nication system and stan-dard operating procedures.
The committee was setup on August 7, 2014 tomake a comprehensivereview of the existingsecurity set-up inParliament and suggestmeasures to furtherstrengthen it.
On December 13, 2001,five terrorists in a whiteAmbassador car with a redbeacon had stormed theParliament complex.
Nine persons, mostlysecurity guards, werekilled in the attack. All thefive terrorists were alsoshot down in the ensuinggunfight with securityforces.
After that, security of the
complex was overhauled atan estimated cost of Rs 100crore with hi-tech gadgetslike boom barriers and tyrebusters being installed.
In the previous LokSabha, a committee onsecurity in Parliamentcomplex, headed by thenDeputy Speaker KariaMunda, was set up in theaftermath of the pepperspray attack inside LokSabha by a Congress MPthat sparked massive out-rage.
This committee hadexamined security-relatedmatters, which also includ-ed ways to prevent bring-ing of dangerous and life-threatening material intothe House by the Membersof Parliament themselves.
CRPF, Delhi Police andParliament's own securitystaff are currentlydeployed for the entirecomplex.
One-fifth of CCTVs in Parliament notworking: Panel, security gaps found
SS Yadav new CEO ofDelhi Jal BoardNEW DELHI
The Aam Aadmi Party governmenton Wednesday transferred the Delhi JalBoard CEO Vijay Kumar and replacedhim with IAS officer SS Yadav.
Yadav was currently holding thecharge of Secretary-cum-commission-er (Food & Supplies) and CMDDSCSC. According to an official,Delhi Jal Board CEO Vijay Kumar hasnow been posted as Secretary-cum-commissioner (Food & Supplies) andCMD Delhi State Civil SuppliesCorporation (DSCSC). Although DelhiGovernment is claiming that it was aroutine reshuffle but source claims thatthere were many complaints againstDJB for irregular and dirty water sup-ply. Yesterday, a group of localsprotested and complaint of dirty watersupply when Chief Minister went forcommissioning of Bawana WaterTreatment Plant and UndergroundReservoir in Outer Delhi's Bawanaarea.
Arvind Kejriwal...police reports to the Centre and not the
state government.Rajnath Singh called up Delhi Police chief
BS Bassi and asked to be briefed about thesequence of events that led to the suicide andpolice preparedness at today's AAP rally.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi too visitedthe hospital. "I don't want to politicise this,but I had raised the issue of farmer suicidesin Parliament... It is all because of crony cap-italism," Mr Gandhi said, referring to theModi Government's land acquisition bill,which the Congress opposes and plans tostall in Parliament.
Communist leader Sitaram Yechury alsolinked farmer suicides to the government'sproposed land reforms, which aim at makingit easier to acquire land for industrial andinfrastructure projects. "An average 46 farm-ers commit suicide in the country every day.We have raised this with the government as amatter of great concern. But now the landacquisition changes have deepened theirworries," Mr Yechury said.
The farmer, Gajendra Singh, left a suicidenote in which he said he was unable to fendfor his three children any more. He said thathe had been thrown out of his home by hisfather after his crop failed.
PM Modi 'deeply ...from the tree.He was brought down from the tree by
AAP volunteers and was rushed to the RamManohar Lohia hospital.
Modi running ...central government has "betrayed" the trust
of the farmers on whose votes the BJP cameto power.
"The farmers had reposed trust in NarendraModi and voted him to power. Now theyhave lost their trust (in the government) with-in a year. They are coming out in thousandsprotesting against the land bill," he said,addressing a modest gathering.
"Narendra Modi government is anti-farmer. It is a government of the super rich.The bill has been brought to favour the superrich who move 24 hours around Modi,"Kejriwal alleged.
He sought to know what was the urgencybehind bringing the ordinance which is anemergency power. "The whole country wantsto know why was it brought - was there aproject that was stalled? If there was no suchthing, then what was the hurry?" the chiefminister asked.
Kejriwal said he will at least ensure that noland is acquired in Delhi without the consentof farmers.
The Delhi chief minister said his govern-ment has provided Rs 50,000 per hectare tofarmers for damaged crops due to the recentunseasonal rain.
Referring to the Swaminathan Committeereport, Kejriwal said he has already asked thechief secretary to check whether the recom-mendations can be implemented in thenational capital.
"We need to ask why farmers are sellingtheir land or committing suicide? They aredoing it out of compulsion because they arenot getting full price for their produced," hesaid.
The chief minister also lashed out at theRajasthan government and Delhi Police overthe farmer's suicide at the rally, holding themresponsible for his fate.
"If Rajasthan government had providedadequate compensation, he would not havetaken the extreme step. We kept asking thepolice to bring him down. Police may not bein our control but at least there should be asemblance of humanity among them,"Kejriwal said.
Farmer commits...nearby RML hospital in a police jeep.
Doctors there said that he was "broughtdead".
A purported suicide note was recoveredfrom the spot in which he had mentioned thathe was a farmer from Rajashtan's Dausa.
In the note, the man said that "my fatherhas thrown me out of house as my entire crophad been destroyed. I have three children."
He ended the note with "Jai Jawan, JaiKisan".
Al Jazeera ...ministry of Information and Broadcasting,
this channel will not be available from 00.01hours on 22nd April till 00.01 hours on 27thApril 2015."
Earlier in an order, the Information andBroadcasting Ministry had said that it hadcome to its notice that Al Jazeera had showna wrong map of India in some of its broad-casts in 2013 and 2014, after which the mat-ter was referred to Surveyor General of India(SGI).
The SGI had observed that in some of themaps displayed by Al Jazeera, "a portion ofIndian territory of Jammu and Kashmir (i.e.PoK and Aksai Chin) has not been shown asa part of Indian territory." The channel alsodid not show Lakshadweep and Andaman
Islands in some of the maps, the SGI said.The SGI also said that the maps were not in
accordance with the Survey of India copy-right map and is also against the NationalMap policy, 2005 and map restriction policyissued by Ministry of Defence from time totime. The Ministry of External Affairs alsopointed out similar airing of a wrong map bythe channel. In their reply to a Show CauseNotice, Al Jazeera said that all maps that aredisplayed by them are generated by an inter-nationally known software used by GlobalNews Providers.
The channel also added that it takes Indiangovernment's concerns about maps very seri-ously and accordingly reviews all its Indiaand Pakistan maps to ensure compatibilitywith recent official UN map.
As per the order of the Information andBroadcasting Ministry, the Inter MinisterialCommittee which was also attended by rep-resentatives of the Ministry of ExternalAffairs, after deliberations, held that thechannel had clearly violated the provisions ofthe programme code and recommended toprohibit transmission or re-transmission ofthe channel throughout India for five days.
Resolute action...as a cause of grave concern in the last year.
We must be resolute in countering thisscourge that challenges our civilisation," shesaid.
The External Affairs Minister, who is nurs-ing a leg injury delivered her speech sitting ather place.
She raised the issue of maritime securitysaying threat of piracy remains despite actionin Malacca Straits and the Gulf of Aden.
"We have worked together to combat pira-cy in the Malacca Straits and the Gulf ofAden, yet the threat remains due to politicalinstability, poverty and lack of developmentin parts of our region."
"The Indian Ocean's importance as anactive trade route will grow in the future. Aswe embark upon the concept of BlueEconomy as a new pillar of development, itbecomes even more important to secure ourseas," she said.
Recalling the spirit of historical Bandungconference of 1955, she said, "The Bandungspirit for a just and equitable order continues.Asia and Africa are both in consonance toreorder international institutions and reformthe UN and its Security Council as also otherinstitutions, where our voices are not beingheard.
The Rs 1,000...voicing similar sentiments. According to
state tourism department officials, the yatraprovides direct and indirect employment toalmost 50,000 people, and has the potentialto earn revenues to the tune of Rs 500 croreto Rs 1000 crore. This would make it notonly the hill state's biggest annual religiousextravaganza but also a massive employmentgenerating exercise.
"The economy of a few thousand villagesand some towns is dependent on the CharDham Yatra," says Ravi Chopra, director ofthe People's Science Institute, a non-profitorganization that takes up environmental anddisaster mitigation issues. "I would estimatethat there are almost 20,000 service providersfor Kedarnath alone. These include priests,dhaba owners, chaiwallahs, mule operators,porters, snack sellers, sweepers ... the list isendless."
What is interesting is that the catchmentarea of the yatra economy is not just limitedto neighbouring places. It is, as Chopra putsit, "a highly decentralized business". "Muleoperators to the dhams come from TehriGarhwal while sweepers come from as far asBijnor in UP. Often, the income that theygenerate during this time sustains most ofthem throughout the year," he says.
But memories of the 2013 floods continueto haunt. According to a survey conducted byGarhwal University, the hardest hit amongthe people who constitute the yatra economywere the inhabitants of villages located in thevalleys near Kedarnath.
number of families in villages likeLangoundi and Devli Dhanibaon lost theirmale earning members in the 2013 floods,"says Annpurna Nautiyal of the department ofpolitical science, Garhwal University, whoco-ordinated the survey. "From earnings of afew thousands or lakhs, they have now comedown to zero. Those left behind are appre-hensive and scared."
Amar Bisht from Kimara village, who losthis brother-in-law and nephew in the 2013deluge, echoes the concerns of many of thoseleft behind. "The weather has been very badtill now. We are fearing this year may turn tobe like the previous year, and we won't beable to earn anything."
BK Joshi, director of the Doon Library andResearch Centre, says it may take a lot oftime before the yatra economy is able to getback on track. "People still haven't been ableto get out of the shock. Most of their savingshave been wiped off, and they are slowlypicking up the pieces of their lives," he says.
Even as the yatra kicks off, only time willtell if the prayers of Shukla, and countlessothers are heard. Return of the pilgrims
* The Char Dham Yatra is an annual pil-grimage to the Himalayan shrines ofBadrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri andYamunotri. * The yatra began on April 21
this year with the opening of the Yamunotrishrine followed by Gangotri on April 22;Kedarnath opens on April 24, and Badrinathon April 26. * The yatra provides direct andindirect employment to almost 50,000 peopleaccording to the Uttarakhand tourism depart-ment. * As per industry estimates, businessgenerated during the the six months that theyatra is on, can range from Rs 500 crore to Rs1000 crore depending on the inflow of pil-grims. * In 2014, a year after the deluge thatshook the state, Kedarnath recorded only40,000 pilgrims for the entire season as com-pared to the 4-5 lakh that the shrine drew inprevious years. * The economy of thousandsof villages that lie in the valleys near theshrines depend completely on the yatra.Inhabitants of almost 350 villages forinstance are linked to the Kedarnath yatra. *Villagers find employment in a variety ofprofessions -- from priests to mule operators;dhaba owners to porters. * The averageincome of a priest at Kedarnath before the2013 deluge was in the range of Rs 2 to 3lakh for a six-month period.A dhaba ownercould expect to earn almost Rs 4-5 lakh, aporter between Rs 50,000-60,000.
India could...(PPP) with primacy to be given to the
Asian countries as the bank primarily aims tofund infrastructure projects mainly in theAsian region, officials told PTI.
Under these guidelines, India figured nextto China and is expected to take the lead role,they said.
India has already been designated to headthe BRICS, (Brazil, Russia, India, China,South Africa) Development Bank which willbe headquartered in Shanghai.
It will have a starting capital of $50 billion.Besides AIIB and BRICS Bank, China hasannounced $40 billion special fund for itsSilk Road projects to develop a wide networkof highways, railway and ports in Asia andAfrica.
The overall format of AIIB is expected tobe finalized after a series of meetings inwhich India is taking part.
Chinese officials stated that the bank willdraw best practices from the IMF, WorldBank and ADB but will avoid domination offew countries setting rules for the interna-tional financial system.
As a new multilateral institution focusingexclusively on infrastructure development,the AIIB will be dominated by developingcountries, and their requests and demandsneed to be respected, China's vice financeminister Zhu Guangyao said. The establish-ment of the AIIB is an attempt to help fillAsia's infrastructure investment gap and pro-mote economic development in the region,he has been quoted by the official media hereas saying.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) esti-mated in 2009 that Asia needs about $8 tril-lion investment by 2020 to improve theregion's battered infrastructure to keep itseconomies humming.
Representatives of the 57 founding coun-tries, which were finalised will deliberate inthe next two months on the AIIB's charter, ofwhich management structure will be the mostimportant part.
The US and Japan have refrained fromjoining while a number of their Europeanallies like Britain, Australia, Germany andFrance joined the bank as founding members,taking Washington by surprise.
China has said the AIIB will draw experi-ences from other multilateral developmentbanks and avoid their detours so as to bemore cost-effective and efficient.
The new bank will feature a three-levelmanagement structure that includes a boardof governors, board of directors and seniormanagement, according to the ChineseFinance Ministry.
Zhu said that there were debates aboutwhether or not the AIIB should have a resi-dent board of directors commonly adoptedby the World Bank and the ADB.
The intention of these debates is to"increase efficiency and improve the capaci-ty" of the bank to better serve the clients, butit will be finally decided by coming negotia-tions among founding members, he said.
Officials said it is a good idea to have anon-resident board of directors for the AIIB,as it would help make a clear distinctionbetween the board and the management, andalso have great accountability.
Countries that have been accepted asfounding members of the AIIB includeChina, India, Malaysia, Indonesia,Singapore, Thailand, Kazakhstan, SaudiArabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,Brunei,Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines,Vietnam, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Nepal, SriLanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Maldives,New Zealand, Jordan, Tajikistan,Luxemburg, Switzerland, Britain, Australia,Austria, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany,Italy, Netherlands and Spain.
Storm Claims...Bhagalpur. Our radar data is showing that
the wind speed was around 65 km per hour,"Mr Giri said.
Such storms, he said, are common in thisseason and are called 'Kal Baisakhi' or'nor'westers'.
The state government has declared a com-pensation of Rs. four lakh to the kin of eachof the persons dead in the storm.
The money will be paid from the DisasterManagement Fund.
"The administration in the affected dis-tricts is taking stock of the situation andestimating the loss," a disaster managementofficial said.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will make anaerial survey of the affected area to assessthe situation and the extent of damage, offi-cial sources said.
Pakistani Hindus...taking steps to streamline the procedures
to facilitate their stay in India.While the manual system of submission of
LTV application by eligible Pakistani citi-zens will continue along with the online sys-tem for a period of three months, with effectfrom August 1, 2015, all applications forLTV will be received and processed only inonline mode.
Religion has...cow progeny is considered sacred in our
nation."The state government's contention is not
that the ban is introduced due to religion,"Mr Manohar said.
A division bench of justices VM Kanadeand MS Sonak agreed to this and said,"According to state government, religionhas got nothing to do with the ban. This con-tention has neither been argued by the peti-tioners nor the state. So you (interveners)please do not expand your arguments to thisissue."
The court also queried if it could, as partof judicial review, try to ascertain the realpurpose behind the ban.
Advocate Subash Jha, appearing for oneof the interveners Vardhaman Parivar,argued that even in Mahabharata it has beensaid that cow progeny should be protectedand preserved. Mr Jha also gave the exam-ple of Mangal Pandey who refused to touchcow meat.
Advocate Rakesh Kumar, appearing foranother intervener, argued that earlier cowprogeny was not considered as sacred butnow it is (considered), looking at its utili-ties.
The high court will continue hearing thearguments tomorrow.
No proposal ..."In some states, ban on cow slaughter has
been there for several decades now. In anumber of states, it is not there, includingall the states of the northeast, because of thedemographic situation here," the BJP leader,who is of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS) background, told journalists here inthe Meghalaya capital.
"We are not proposing any such ban (oncow slaughter) here," asserted RamMadhav, who accompanied party presidentAmit Shah during his maiden visit toMeghalaya.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh and unionMinister Maneka Gandhi recently favoureda complete ban on cow slaughter acrossIndia.
Meanwhile, Shillong-based civil societygroup Thma U Rangli-Juki (TUR) staged aprotest near the Meghalaya BJP office overa reported proposal to ban beef and cowslaughter.
Jayalalithaa's appeal...terming it "illegal". A petition by party
leader K Anbazhagan has called for hisremoval.
After a two-judge bench gave a split ver-dict on the DMK petition, the top courtformed a three-judge bench headed byJustice Dipak Misra.
The new bench today said the appoint-ment of the Public Prosecutor was "bad"and he has no authority to represent theprosecution. "But procedural irregularitydoesn't warrant a fresh hearing," the benchsaid.
The court ordered the Karnataka highcourt judge to scan the evidence, hear thefresh submissions by the DMK and MsJayalalithaa and give its judgment.
The verdict has been reserved forMonday.
Ms Jayalalithaa, her aide Sasikala and twoothers were found guilty of illegally amass-ing assets worth Rs. 66 crore last year andwere sentenced to four years in jail.
Union Minister...as he rose to make a personal explanation
on the issue.In his speech on Monday, Mr Gandhi had
said members of some NGO had informedhim that Mr Gadkari had told farmers thatthey should not depend on god and govern-ment, as the Congress leader attacked theModi government for ignoring the plight offarmers suffering from unseasonal rains andhailstorm.
Mr Gandhi had said he "admired" MrGadkari as he was "honest" and spoke fromhis heart.
Defence ministry...Andavan joined the public relations
department set up by the ministry in 2009,according to a ministry statement.
He was part of the 2009 batch of thedefence correspondents' course conductedby the Directorate of Public Relations underthe ministry.
Andavan was a regular contributor to thefortnightly Sainik Samachar, the oldestdefence journal of the country.
Before joining the ministry, Andavanworked with various media units of the min-istry of information and broadcasting,including All India Radio, Doordarshan andPress Information Bureau.
Andavan is survived by his wife S. Joy, anews editor with All India Radio, Chennai,a son and a daughter.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikarexpressed grief at his untimely demise.
Madan Mitra's...Court.His lawyers said they would instead seek
bail from the CJM's court, Alipore.On February 11, the Alipore District and
Sessions judge had rejected Mitra's bailprayer, after which he had moved the highcourt.
Two judges of the high court have alreadyrecused themselves from hearing his bailprayer citing personal reasons.
Mitra is in judicial remand since his arrestby CBI on December 12 for alleged com-plicity in the multi-crore rupee Saradhachit-fund scam.
Newborn baby...striking the deal.Salma Begum, wife of a daily wage
labourer Bulbul Haq, had delivered a babygirl at Moynaguri hospital on Saturday last,police said.
"On April 19, Salma was released fromthe hospital and she went back home. Oncein Dhupguri, her husband struck a deal witha school teacher in Mathabhanga area iden-tified as Partha Biswas, to sell off the babyin exchange of Rs. 25,000," a senior policeofficer said.
Indian passport...ranked the top 50 countries of the world
based on their passport's eligibility for visa-free entry, cost of application as well asnumber of hours worked to acquire the doc-ument.
India, which came towards the bottom ofthe ranking, offered visa-free entry to 52countries and cost 24 dollars and 87 hoursof working time.
Sweden topped the chart with 174 visa-free countries, costing 43 dollars and justone hour of working time.
Finland, Germany, the UK and US com-pleted the top 5 with 174 visa-free countriesall round.
"As any avid traveller knows, passportsare the key to adventures.
"Passports are the ultimate 'don't leavehome without it' item, but the nationality onone's passport can have a major effect ontravel plans and time abroad," Go Euro saidin a statement.
Iraq and Afghanistan were ranked theleast useful nationalities for passports withPakistan not even making to the top 50.
Monsoon likely...percent of a long-term average, Earth
Science Minister Harsh Vardhan said, afterreleasing the forecast of the IndiaMeteorological Department.
India's weather office defines average, ornormal, rainfall as between 96 per cent and104 per cent of a 50-year average of 89 cmfor the entire four-month season.
The latest forecast raises concerns for out-put prospects for major summer crops suchas rice, cane, soybean and cotton in thecountry that is a key global producer ofthese farm commodities.
Monsoon rains were hit by El Nino weath-er pattern in 2009, when the four-monthlong monsoon season turned the driest innearly four decades.
Govt to launch ...get a PAN card within 48 hours," a senior
official said.Besides, special camps will be organised
throughout the country, including ruralareas, to help people get PAN cards.
PAN (Permanent Account Number) is a10-digit alphanumeric number, issued in theform of a laminated card by the Income TaxDepartment. Recently, the Central Board ofDirect Taxes (CBDT), the top policy-mak-ing body of the Income Tax (I-T)Department, had issued a notification mak-ing the Elector's Photo Identity Card (EPIC)and Aadhaar valid proofs of "date of birth"for obtaining a PAN card. PAN is requiredfor filing return of income, sale or purchaseof any immovable property beyond a certainamount, and sale or purchase of a motorvehicle, among others. The Finance Act2015 proposes quoting PAN mandatory forbuying jewellery valued at Rs. 1 lakh ormore.
The official further said a total 4.73 croretax returns were filed in 2014-15, of whichonly 6 lakh were scrutinised by the Income-Tax Department.
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History, they say, is always written by the winners.But could this be by even winners of elections? Soit would seem from the workings of India’s pre-
mier institute of historical research and funding, the IndianCouncil of Historical Research, which sees a reshuffle ofpeople and priorities every time there is a regime-changein New Delhi. Senior historian and former Chairman of theICHR, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, who recently resigned asthe Chief Editor of Indian Historical Review, the ICHRjournal, has delivered a sharp indictment of the competen-cies within the ICHR in its present avatar after a new fam-ily of historians was appointed by the present government.He said: “I doubt whether you would find instances of per-sons, nominated by the government in power, regardingtheir position pro tem as a franchise to fantasise about his-tory.” The comments of this reputed historian reinforce theconcerns that many professional historians have warnedof, namely, the dressing up of myth and religious belief ashistory. This can be seen in the priorities set by the ICHRChairman, Y. Sudershana Rao, who is from the AkhilBharatiya Itihas Sankalan Yojana, affiliated to the SanghParivar. Professor Rao has directed the focus of the ICHRto the Vedic age, which is certainly no less important thanany other period. But surely this has to be subject to rigor-ous tools of historical analysis and verification. What is,however, striking in this focus is the express intent toestablish a “golden age” and the superior antecedents ofHinduism. This is a standpoint the Chairman summarisedin a presentation at a recent international seminar thus:“Indian history is set with [a] higher goal for which oursages delved deep into the remote past.” It is perhaps forthe first time since its establishment that the prestigiousICHR Foundation Day lecture was delivered by a non-his-torian, a certain David Frawley, whose Facebook pagedescribes him as “a western born teacher or guru in theVedic tradition”. The discipline of history, in India andelsewhere, has been enriched by different and competinginterpretations because they are premised on well-estab-lished standards and practices of the historical method,what the historian Eric Hobsbawm once described as the“absolutely central distinction between establishable factand fiction”. The problem in the ICHR today, as ProfessorBhattacharya’s comments suggest, are serious preciselybecause of attempts to render factual evidence irrelevant.The Bharatiya Janata Party established a questionablerecord with regard to rewriting history textbooks during itsfirst stint in power at the Centre. Its current efforts high-light the dangers of which many historians have warned:the replacement of history as social science, by “history”as fantasy and myth.
BY SRINIVASAN RAMANI
The elevation of SitaramYechury to the post of generalsecretary of the Communist
Party of India (Marxist) is at a timewhen the party (and other forces ofthe Left) are in dire need of newdirection and inspiration. The newleadership of the CPI(M) will be car-rying a difficult burden to revive theprospects of a depleted Left and sup-port from a largely sceptical elec-torate. The 21st Party Congress of theCPI(M) was held at a time when theparty had registered new electorallows — even in its strongholds —and is, perhaps, at its weakest politi-cal position since its inception in1964. This is in stark contrast to theperiod when Mr. Yechury’s predeces-sor, Prakash Karat, took on the roleof general secretary 10 years ago.Incidentally, both leaders cut theirteeth in student politics at JawaharlalNehru University and are ex-presi-dents of the JNU Students Union.
Within a year after Mr. Karatbecame the first general secretarywho wasn’t a founder-member in2005, the party was at its strongestparliamentary position. The Left par-ties, combined, had more than 60MPs in the Lok Sabha, in power intheir strongholds and initially lever-aged these positions adroitly to influ-ence policy in welfarist directions, asthey extended support to theCongress-led United ProgressiveAlliance (UPA). At the centre, theLeft managed to punch above itsweight and even steered a few land-mark pieces of legislation such as theForest Rights Act and the NationalRural Employment Guarantee Act. Itis another matter that the party couldnot utilise these “achievements” totranslate into support, bogged downas it was by events that had hamperedit in its strongholds. It must also besaid that tactical blunders — such aswithdrawing support to the UPA overthe nuclear deal at a wrong juncture— did not help it either.
Decline in strongholds
In the States where the Left was inpower, especially West Bengal andKerala, troubles of varying kindsbegan to brew only months after itscoming to or retaining power.Buoyed by a strong mandate that waswon on the slogan of industrialisa-tion, the Left Front governmentsought to pursue “big ticket” projectsin a hurry. The “reform zeal” of thethen West Bengal Chief MinisterBuddhadeb Bhattacharjee was con-trasted with the “obstructionist”emphasis of the CPI(M)’s cen-tral leadership. Thereseemed a disconnectbetween what theparty waspreaching atthe Centre —the fighta g a i n s t“neoliberal-ism” — andwhat theWest Bengalgovernment wasseeking to do in theState — fostering capi-talist development throughincentivisation. Much has beenwritten about the land acquisitionissue that hastened the government’sdownfall in the State and this neednot be repeated. But the victory in2006 in West Bengal had alsopapered over serious issues with theLeft Front and in particular theCPI(M)’s rule in the State. The partyhad, over its long tenure, turned intoa machine that combined a set of pro-gressive leaders with others whowere willing to get their hands dirtyin electoral mobilisation, issuing con-tracts, and “managing” support. Overtime, a large set of self-seekers hadfound a place in the party — thatseemingly was going to be in powerfor a long time — and it was this setof careerists at the middle and lowerrungs of the party who defected to theopposition at the first instance of theLeft Front losing power.
The image of the party, as a pro-poor force, had also taken a beatingfollowing the Nandigram and Singur
incidents and a wholesale defectionof the rural support base to theTrinamool ensued. Since 2009, theLeft Front has only seen a cascadingdecline in vote shares at every levelof elections. This was partiallybecause the CPI(M) could notmobilise enough support as an oppo-sitional force against the TrinamoolCongress due to a moribund leader-ship that had little experience beingout of
power. Andthe latter had taken the strong-arm,violent tactics of voter and candidateintimidation to even greater heights.It will not be an exaggeration to saythat the once mighty CPI(M) in WestBengal is in a shambles, and theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) isemerging as a stronger oppositionforce to the Trinamool Congress. InKerala, on the other hand, theCPI(M) and its allies have managedto retain a steady support base, but along-standing saga of factionalismand reliance on an overly-militantleadership from North Kerala hascontributed to dents in its image andrestricted its prospective growth. Allsaid, the CPI(M)’s journey to rele-vance as a major national force willdepend on how it manages to over-come the hurdles it has posed foritself in its strongholds in Kerala andWest Bengal.
The State units of the CPI(M) have
been loath to admit these frailties, letalone work upon them. The partyleadership in West Bengal has insist-ed that the break in relations with theCongress at the centre (over thenuclear deal) was the main reason forthe drastic loss of support for theparty. This lazy excuse had allowed itto imagine that mere electoralrearrangement — a joint coalitionwith the Congress against the
Trinamool — wouldbe enough
for
r e v i v a l .Combined with the rise
of the BJP and the party’s organisa-tional tepidity, it is not a surprise asto why the CPI(M) continues toflounder in the State despite theTrinamool government’sunfavourable image.
Lack of a positive voiceYet, the decline in the fortunes of
the CPI(M) and the Left as a wholesince 2005 is not merely due toparochial factors. The Central leader-ship had emphasised the need togrow in other parts of the countryparticularly in North India. But thelack of an adequate organisation, orenough imagination to formulate spe-cific strategies of mobilisation thatare relevant to these areas, has result-ed in the further enfeeblement of itspresence.
The CPI(M) has been forever latein trying to innovate its political tac-
tics to reach out to a changing India.The emphasis on “negation” —resistance, obstruction and depend-ence upon statism — has not helpedfulfil its aims to set an alternativeagenda. The Left parties will be bet-ter off seeking to promote an alterna-tive agenda of comprehensive, wel-fare-driven growth, by emphasisinguniversal health care, social securityand state support and struggling forthem rather than only offering resist-ance to the model of developmentespoused by the BJP and even theCongress. There are exceptions of
course, in the manner in which theparty has taken up issues of the
marginalised in proactiveways — such as the Tamil
Nadu UntouchabilityEradication Front forexample. But largely,despite espousing pro-gressive and even Left-
liberal values (for exam-ple, the CPI(M) is the first
party to openly take a posi-tion against capital punishment
and its legislators were at the fore-front of the Section 66A annulmentdiscourse), it is seen as a party thatdoes not stand for something, but isonly opposed to many things. This isespecially so among the youth andthe middle classes. The latter in par-ticular and the CPI(M) seem to sharea mutual derision, even if the party’sleadership mostly comprises leadersfrom the very same section.
Even the urban poor, a humongouscategory that should be the ideal con-stituency for the Left, seems to havebeen bypassed by it. The Left’semphasis on mobilisational tacticsbeing limited to the workplace —organising the poor as labourers,craftsmen, public sector employees,etc, rather than urban residents wholack amenities, access to essentialsupplies and who live precariouslydue to inflation and job insecurity —is another factor that has limited itsreach. The urban poor prefer to bemobilised by sectional and patron-age-dispensing parties because of thelack of an alternative. The electoral
success of the Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) in Delhi — by reaching out tothe urban poor as a mobilising cate-gory through the distinct lack of sec-tional appeals related to caste orregion — perhaps holds some lessonsfor the Left parties. Of course, theAAP’s organisational failures are areason why it has not matured as aprogressive political party but that isnot germane to the discussion here.India’s Left parties can also look upto the influences of the “new leftforces” in Latin America and Europe,where the rise of radical Left partieshas been aided by new strategies ofmobilisation and organisationalbuilding.
Left unity
The easy claim made by critics forthe weakness of the Left in India isthat the goals that it espouses —socialism and comprehensive welfaredriven economics — are passé. Thisis not true. While the Left partieshave certainly declined, social move-ments have pushed for and achievedthe implementation of welfare poli-cies that do not flow from the neolib-eral form of development. Left par-ties in Latin America have sought torethink socialism as a process ratherthan a stage of development and haveformed united fronts with socialmovements to bring about substantialchanges in the economy, with largepublic support.
Mr. Yechury’s remarks after hispromotion suggest that the CPI(M)will look to revive organisationallyand is seeking to renew its supportbase, even while venturing to formprogrammatic (and even electoral)alliances with secular and like-mind-ed parties to take on its primaryenemy, the BJP. One hopes that theCPI(M) realises that without astronger emphasis on Left unity andengagement with social movementsto set a positive, progressive agenda,mere electoral alliances with regionalparties and programmatic tie-upswith the Congress will prove to be afruitless exercise for the party.
BY WILLIAM J. LOCKHART
Looking for occult solutions to real-world problems may seem incom-patible with the hard-headed indus-
trial and financial magnates who supportthe present Bharatiya Janata Party gov-ernment, but there seems to be few betterexplanations for the government’s recentorders that will severely weaken or aban-don important aspects of the legal frame-work intended to protect the environmentagainst harm caused by developmentprojects. The suggested modificationsseem to leave mystical intervention as theonly remaining protection of the environ-ment.
The existing notification requires thatprojects be given clearances only aftercompliance with an informed process forassessment of environmental impact. Thisis the primary and globally used tool toensure that development projects aresited, designed and executed with respon-sibility and concern for avoiding or min-imising environmental harm. The notifi-cation recognises that the causes of envi-ronmental harm are often complex anddifficult to predict, and so it investigatesall significant environmental risks.
Like many scientific inquiries, it isobvious that potentially harmful condi-tions and interactions do not readily vol-unteer for disclosure. Often, risks can beidentified only by persistent investigationthat goes deeper than the initial or super-ficial data. This is why the notification asit exists calls for a careful preliminaryanalysis of the “scope” of informationneeded and further studies required toidentify all significant project impacts.
Strange recommendations
The High-Level Committee to reviewenvironmental laws made two recommen-dations, which are now under implemen-tation by the government.
First, the Committee proposed to speedup the process of identifying (“scoping”)the range of project activities, and the fac-tual, scientific and analytical inquiriesaround the project. Although the wholeprocess provides the very basis for pre-dicting the environmental and social con-sequences of the proposed project, theCommittee requires all proposals forimpact inquiries to be completed within10 days of the first filing of the appli-
cant’s request. Failing that impossibleschedule, the Committee proposes toleave the determining of impact entirelyto the gentle mercies of the project propo-nent.
The second Committee recommenda-tion the government has decided to followis to issue an order that requires all impactinvestigation to be limited to that earlyinitial stage, which was meant to deter-mine merely the scope of the inquiry. Inother words, regardless of any evidenceshowing the need for further impactinvestigation at this stage, no furtherinquiries are to be authorised.
Other restrictive requirements seem tobe issuing regularly from the designatedenvironment authority, but these twoillustrations are typical.
Seemingly, the purpose is to ensure thatimportant concerns about any proposedproject’s environmental impact are basedlargely on ignorance. Meanwhile, otherrecommendations and actions to furtherlimit the effectiveness of environmentalimpact studies seem to issue forth every-day. Here are some recent ones: first, theCommittee proposes to abolish anyrequirement for public hearings on proj-ects where settlements are located “awayfrom the project site”, ignoring the obvi-ous fact that projects can cause seriousharm even far from the project site. Thesame injustice will result from theCommittee’s proposal to limit public par-ticipation to “only genuine” local partici-pants, thus excluding, for example, manywhose downstream water sources may bepoisoned by project activities farupstream.
Second, the Committee’s apparentlyminimal concern about transmitting seri-ous environmental harms is also reflectedin the recent authorisation for fast-trackapproval of so-called “linear projects”. Asabove, the basic assumption of thisexemption is obviously faulty. The imme-diate site of a project may be “linear” inthe sense that the physical facilities occu-py a narrow elongated space, but the envi-ronmental consequences will often bemuch more extensive.
Roads, canals, and transmission lines,for example, may severely intensifymotor traffic, or cause unintended routes
for drainage, or expand the probableexpansion of pollution sites, or seriouslylimit wildlife migration routes, feedinghabits, or reproduction patterns.
It would seem obvious that such limita-tions on environmental protection couldnot have been endorsed by the Committeeif it had fulfilled its mandate to studyIndia’s “experience” in applying — orfailing to apply — the existing environ-mental laws. Indeed, even without con-ducting its own studies, extremely trou-bling indications were available fromother important sources. But theCommittee apparently gave no considera-tion to the facts and judgements reflectedin other authoritative and extended stud-ies.
For example, the High-PoweredCommittee on Management of HazardousWastes, established by a Supreme Courtorder, said in its 2001 report ‘TakingHazardous Waste Seriously: A FutureAgenda’: “[P]ollution of air, water andland by the noxious gases, toxic chemicaleffluents, infectious biomedical wastesand other hazardous substances poses agrave threat to the health of large sectionsof the population and to the workers in theworkplace who, in addition, are exposed,often unprotected, to hazardous sub-stances.
“[I]ndiscriminate contamination ofrivers and of groundwater has led to adeterioration of the quality of waterresources and to an acute shortage of safedrinking water for millions of people inseveral parts of the country.”
The World Bank in 2007 stated in areport titled ‘Country EnvironmentalAnalysis’: “Rapid economic growth andthe resulting changes in consumption pat-terns are drastically changing the natureand scale of impact on the country’s envi-ronment and natural resources, thus test-ing the carrying capacity of the naturalecosystems upon which much of thecountry’s economic growth depends…The result is a visibly deteriorating envi-ronmental quality in many industrialtownships… highlighting the importanceof stepping up efforts to manage theexternalities of accelerated growth.”
While these studies are less current thanthe Committee report, nothing offered by
the Committee suggests that the environ-mental threats have diminished. Instead,the admittedly high rate of projectapprovals strongly suggests furtherexpansion of these threats. Such apparent-ly irrational conduct from officialsresponsible for protecting a nation’s peo-ple from serious harm demands that weseek an explanation. This is all the morenecessary when the unexplained conductcomes from hard-nosed industrialists whowould surely refuse to invest even a paisain any industrial or technical developmentthat received such poor reviews.
Belief in magic
Puzzled by this behaviour, we areforced to conclude that the members ofthe High Level Committee, the govern-ment officials who are beating this hastyretreat from environmental protection,and the industrialists who support thesechanges share a common delusion. Theyall believe in magic — in one or more ofthe following forms.
First, they apparently believe that anyproject that may generate profits will alsoautomatically avoid any significant envi-ronmental harm.
Second, they apparently believe thatany need for detailed investigation of aproject’s potential for significant environ-mental harm can be avoided by simplyensuring that government officials andmembers of the public stay ignorant of thecauses of harm and the environmentalconsequences of the projects.
Third, where any industrialist or officialhas carelessly sought scientific or techni-cal studies regarding possible harm, therisk can be magically avoided by simplyterminating the studies and ensuring thatall scientific questions raised by the stud-ies are totally disregarded.
Fourth, any risk of serious environmen-tal harm can be avoided by simply dis-couraging or prohibiting members of thepublic, who may understand the risks ofenvironmental harm, from offering anyinformation or participating in any impactassessment or clearance procedures.
(William J. Lockhart is EmeritusProfessor of Law, University of Utah S.J.Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City.
E-mail: [email protected])
History as mythology?More leaders, better relations
An elevation to lift the Left?
The easy claim made bycritics for the weakness of the Left
in India is that the goals that it espouses— socialism and comprehensive welfare
driven economics — are passé.This is not true.
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MUMBAIA day after scrapping the
Mumbai Development Plan2034 Chief MinisterDevendra Fadnavis today-said an inquiry will be con-ducted to ascertain whetherthe errors that had crept inthe draft were intentional ornot-
The decision to shelve theDevelopment Plan 2034 wastaken by the state cabinetyesterday] following whichthe Chief Minister directedthe Municipal Corporation ofGreater Mumbai¼MCGM½] also known asBMC] to prepare a fresh planwithin four months-
"We have received the rec-ommendations of the com-mittee on the plan andaccordingly we have takenthe decision- I have nowasked Chief SecretarySwadheen Kshtriya to findout whether there were anyintentional errors committed
during the preparation of thedraft plan]" Mr Fadnavis toldreporters on the sidelines ofan event in Mumbai-
Earlier] the governmenthad set up a three&membercommittee headed by MrKshtriya to eÛamine flaws inthe controversial plan-
He said the committee hasidentified areas where blatanterrors had been committed]especially with regard toopen space] and therefore] it
is necessary to ascertainwhether there were anyerrors made intentionally-
Meanwhile] BJP's ally inthe state] Shiv Sena has alsodemanded a probe into thematter and action againstthose found guilty in prepara-tion of the flawedDevelopment Plan-
"The plan was not preparedby the BMC- For us BMCmeans the 'House' compris-ing the Mayor and 227 cor-
porators and not the adminis-tration] which has preparedthe draft of the DP-Therefore] BMC cannot beheld responsible for thisblunder]" senior Shiv Senaleader and state IndustriesMinister Subhash Desaisaid.
He said the MunicipalCommissioner] AdditionalCommissioner] the consult-ants appointed by them andother officials who wereinvolved in preparing the DPare not 'BMC'] hence] aprobe into the matter shouldbe carried and those foundguilty should be penalised-
"If they ¼the administra-tive authorities½ would haveconsulted the BMC and if itwould have given its con-sent] then the BMC would beresponsible for the plan- Butinstead they released thedraft plan in their own capac-ity without informing theBMC]" Mr Desai said.
Maharashtra Government orders inquiryinto preparation of draft development plan
MUMBAISeeking changes to the con-
troversial land acquisition ordi-nance, Social activist AnnaHazare has written to primeminister Narendra Modi hold-ing that even the fresh ordi-nance issued earlier this monthdid not fulfil the promises hehad made on protecting thefarmers' interests.
"The government has beensaying that the ordinance is inthe interests of farmers. Even inthe new ordinance, issued onApril 3, no amendments havebeen carried out as per thepromises made," Hazare said inthe letter, his aide told PTI.
"By handing over farmers'land to private organisationsand industrialists, farmers'basic rights are being infringedupon," said Hazare, who previ-ously wrote to the PM onMarch 31 over the same issue.
"Despite the government'sclaim that the law favours farm-ers, the provisions of the ordi-
nance amply make it clear thatinjustice is being heaped onthem," Hazare said.
"If this ordinance gets covert-ed into law, generations offarmers who supply foodgrainto the country will getdestroyed. It will also have anadverse impact on food produc-tion," he said.
"Looking at the provisions, itis clear that the ordinance is
against the interests of farmers.People need to be told whetherwe are right or the governmentis right. So, we expect a reply(to this letter) by April 25,"Hazare said.
"How can you take away landwithout farmers' consent? Indiais an agricultural country. Thegovernment must think aboutthe farmers," Hazare said in thisletter to the PM.
Anna Hazare writes to Modion land ordinance, again
NEW DELHIThe Union Cabinet on
Wednesday cleared a proposal totry juvenile in the age group of 16-18 under laws for adults forheinous crimes.
Confirming the news, UnionMinister told mediapersons,"Juvenile Justice Act at has beenapproved by the Cabinet today."
He also said, "Important featureis while recognising rights of ajuvenile in the event he is between16-18 years and the children'scourt comes to a conclusion thatbecause of circumstances of hiscrime and his psychology he hascommitted a heinous crime, it isimportant that he (juvenile) betreated like an adult."
On April 06, 2015, the SupremeCourt had said that there was aneed to re-examine various lawsdealing with juveniles involved inheinous crimes like murder andrape and had asked the govern-ment to see whether necessary
changes could be done to have adeterrent effect. The apex courthad asked Attorney General MukulRohatgi to consult competentauthorities and suggest to itwhether the relevant laws can be"re-looked, re-scrutinized and re-visited" for sending a message tothe society that life of the victimwas equally important under therule of law, as per PTI.
It had said the spurt in involve-ment of minors in heinous crimeslike rape, murder and dacoitystressed the imperative need tomull changes in the JuvenileJustice (Care and Protection ofChildren) Act, 2000.
The bench was hearing an appealagainst the decision of Punjab andHaryana High Court awarding lifesentence to a murder accused.
Cabinet clears proposal to try juvenile in age group of 16-18 under laws for adults for heinous crimes: Reports
NEW DELHIThe Supreme Court on
Wednesday asked theCentre to file its responseas to whether it hadapproved the Army's "com-mand exit promotion" poli-cy, which has beenquashed by the ArmedForces Tribunal, meant forofficers of the rank ofColonel and above fromJanuary, 2009.
"Had the DefenceMinistry filed an affidavitbefore the Armed ForcesTribunal (AFT) that it hasapproved the 'commandexit promotion policy'?" abench of justices T S
Thakur and R Banumathisaid.
It asked the DefenceSecretary or a personauthorised by him to file an
affidavit within a weekstating "whether the gov-ernment had accepted therecommendations of theAV Singh Committee
(AVSC) with regard to the'command exit promotionpolicy'".
The bench also said thatthe response of the govern-ment should contain detailsabout the promotion policybeing followed and if theAVSC report was notapproved then whether theMinistry had taken up theissue with the Army or not.
The bench is hearing theappeal of the DefenceMinistry against AFT'sdecision to quash Army's"command exit promotion"policy on the ground that itis violative of Article 14(right to equality) of the
Constitution.The apex court had on
March 25 stayed the March2 decision of AFT to quashArmy's promotion policy.
Some army officers hadclaimed that the new pro-motion policy had adverse-ly affected them as it is"arbitrary" and highlyskewed in favour ofInfantry and Artillery, ascompared to other branch-es of the Army.
Earlier, the court hadasked the Defence Ministryto file its rejoinder to theresponse of the officers onwhose plea AFT hadpassed the order.
SC asks Centre whether it approved Army's new promotion policy
NEW DELHIBhagvad Gita should be
declared as a 'sacrednational book', a BJPmember said in the LokSabha on Wednesday.
Raising the issue duringZero Hour, Ram CharitraNishad sought supportfrom members from allsides for his demand.
Insisting that the Gita is"a guide" which has solu-tion for all the ills facingpeople in this modern dayworld, he said the book isan inspiration especiallyfor the youth. He said itwas a matter of pride whenPrime Minister NarendraModi presented a copy ofthe Gita to US PresidentBarack Obama as alsoother world dignitaries.
The Zero Hour also saw aTDP member JayadevGalla expressing concernover the growing acidattacks in the country.
He said the recent acidattack on a doctor in Delhireminded of the gravity ofthe problem of acid attacksin the country as nearly400 such attacks arereported every month.Kirron Kher (BJP)
expressed apprehensionsover the HandloomReservation Act likely tobe scrapped and said sucha move would spell doomfor 4.3 million handloomweavers in the country.
She said the weavershave already been hit hardby the tactics being adopt-ed by the powerloomindustry.
BJP MP wants Gita to bedeclared 'sacred national book
LONDONAn Indian-origin millionaire director of
a company in Britain was caught in asupermarket hiding in his bag meat andwine worth 200 pounds (about $300), andhas been awarded by a court 12 months'community service for shoplifting, mediareported on Wednesday.
Ronan Ghosh, 39, was shopping at theTesco outlet in Birmingham, WestMidlands, on February 21 and he onlypaid for the items in his trolley but did notpay for the items he kept in his bag, acourt heard.
The 16 million-pound-a-year turnoverglobal recycling firm's boss was spottedon the store's security cameras stowingaway the expensive items. He wasdetained by a guard and police werecalled, the Daily Mail reported.
Ghosh, who lives in a luxury 550,000-pound house in leafy Solihull, pleadedguilty to theft at the Birmingham CrownCourt.
He claimed in the court that he had vis-ited the store after an argument with hisgirlfriend and he had not intended to stealthe goods.
Charnjit Jutla, the defence lawyer, toldthe court that Ghosh is the director of RGRecycling company that supplies high-value machinery for the recycling indus-try. "It is a global business. It has a yearlyturnover of 16 million pounds," Jutla wasquoted as saying. "It beggars belief as towhy he finds himself in this court. Heaccepts full responsibility for what he hasdone."
Jutla said Ghosh was "disappointedwith himself and shocked and embar-rassed".
The defence lawyer told the court thaton the day in question, Ghosh's father toldhim that his mother had been diagnosedwith skin cancer and that worried him alot. Jutla said there was also a will beingdiscussed within the family which had putconsiderable strain on Ghosh.
Indian-origin millionairecaught shoplifting in Britain
NEW DELHIThe NIA will probe the
2014 blast at a VHP rallyin Roorkee and explosionat a house in Bijnor asmembers of banned terrorgroup SIMI were suspect-ed to be involved in boththe incidents. The HomeMinistry has received therequests of the govern-ments of Uttarakhand andUttar Pradesh to hand overthe two cases to theNational InvestigationAgency (NIA) and a for-mal order is being issued inthis regard, official sourcessaid. A 12-year-old boywas killed in the blast atthe rally in Roorkee inUttarakhand on December6, 2014 while theDecember 14, 2014 explo-sion in Bijnor took place
when Students IslamicMovement of India (SIMI)accused were mixingchemicals with IEDs.
The role of five terroristsof the banned SIMI, whohad escaped from theKhandwa jail in MadhyaPradesh in October 2013,is suspected in both thecases. Two of these terror-ists were killed in a recentencounter in Telanganaearlier this month whilethree others are still on therun. The Home Ministrysuspects the SIMI mem-bers' involvement in aseries of incidents in dif-ferent parts of the country,including blasts at theChennai Railway station inMay 2014, the explosion inBijnor and the blast inRoorkee.
NIA to probe blastsin Roorkee, Bijnor
GANDHINAGARTo check the practice of
open defecation, GujaratChief Minister AnandibenPatel today directed localbodies to impose a fine onthose who defecate in opendespite having toilet facili-ty.
Addressing a function ofdistributing cheques ofgrants to all municipal cor-porations and municipali-ties in Gandhinagar, MsPatel asked local bodies toexpedite the work of com-pletion of building toilets.
"State government has
given sufficient grants tothe local bodies to buildtoilets. However, I noticedthat there are still somedistricts which are lagging.I want all the 8 corpora-tions and 159 municipali-
ties to make sure that thetarget (of building toilets)is achieved by this May,"she said.
The Chief Minister saidonce every house will havetoilet facility, fine will beimposed on those going foropen defecation. On landacquisition processes fordevelopmental works, shesaid local bodies shouldnot be wary about acquisi-tion of land (referring toongoing debate regardingLand Bill) from locals, asit is their responsibility toundertake the works.
Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel directs localbodies to impose fine for open defecation
KATHMANDUAt least 17 Indian pilgrims
including nine women werekilled and 28 others injured onWednesday when a bus carryingthem from Gujarat plunged some100 metres from a mountainhighway in Nepal, officialssaid.
The ill-fated bus with anIndian number plate, carryingaround 45 pilgrims, veered offthe Prithvi highway at Naubisevillage in Dhading district, some75-km east of Kathmandu.
The pilgrims from Gujaratwere returning to Gorakhpur inIndia after a pilgrimage toPashupatinath Temple inKathmandu, Superintendent ofPolice Bishworaj Pokharelsaid.
14 passengers died on the spotwhile three others succumbed totheir injuries shortly after beingtaken to a nearby hospital. Ninewomen and eight men are amongthose killed.
The injured passengers wererushed to Kathmandu for med-ical treatment. The condition offour of them was said to be criti-
cal. Twenty one people are stillin the hospital undergoing treat-ment, according to IndianEmbassy sources. The embassyhas deputed a team comprisingConsular Wing officials to theaccident site to better coordinatethe rescue efforts, the embassysaid in a statement.
Rescue efforts are going on atthe accident site, which liesalong the Tribhuvan Highway,with the help of security person-nel and the local people, he said.
The death toll might rise as thebus was trapped in a gorge likesite and some passenger mighthave been trapped under the bus,Mr Pokharel said.
The famous 5th centuryPashupatinath temple is dedicat-ed to a manifestation of Shivacalled Pashupati (Lord ofAnimals). It attracts thousands ofpilgrims each year, mostly fromIndia.
The number of Indian visitorscoming to the temple hasincreased after Prime MinisterNarendra Modi offered prayer inNovember last year during hisvisit to the country.
NEW DELHIPakistan today said two
boats had been seized byIndia and asked for detailson the arrest of eight crewmembers suspected to bePakistani smugglers.
A Pakistani boat wasintercepted off Gujarat'sPorbandar on Monday. TheCoast Guard said 232packets of narcotics, cell-phones and satellitephones were seized. Thenarcotic, suspected to beheroin, is worth Rs. 600crore. "Pakistan HighCommission has formallyapproached the Ministry ofExternal Affairs to sharedetails of seizure of twoPakistani boats and appre-hension of their crewmembers this past week-end as reported by theIndian media," ManzoorAli Memon, PakistaniPress Attache in NewDelhi, said.
Navy sources have saidthat a second suspicious
boat was also spotted thesame night, but neverfound.
Indian officers say satel-lite communication phonesand global positioning sys-tems were "being used toship contraband to anotherboat." But it is not yetknown where the narcoticswere headed and whichboat the Pakistani vesselwas trying to contact. ThePakistani boat is docked atPorbandar for furtherinvestigation.
The authorities had beentracing the movement ofthe boat since April 18,Coast Guard officials saidat a media conference.
Three months ago, onNew Year's Eve, aPakistani boat laden withexplosives caught fire andthen exploded killing thefour crew members onboard after it was inter-cepted by the Indian CoastGuard, about 365 km offthe Porbandar coast.
Pakistan seeks detailsof 2 boats seized byIndia off Gujarat coast
17 Indian Pilgrims Die inBus Accident in Nepal
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TODAY’S STARARIES Being married to someone for many years takes work, Aries.
No one said it was going to be easy. Hollywood promotes afantasyland that can make your life look drab and boring bycomparison. Realize that your life can be good and interest-ing, too - reality is even better than the movie version. Todayis a good day to prepare for future growth.
TAURUS Today is a great day to make your big move, Taurus. If there'ssomething in the love and romance department that you feel youneed to act on, this is the day to do it. It's now or never. Approachall situations in a practical, caring manner. Plow forward withconfidence and don't look back. Indulge in those things that giveyou pleasure. Get a massage or take a bubble bath tonight.
GEMINI Take your focus off you and concentrate on someone else fora day, Gemini. This doesn't mean focusing so the person willstop and pay attention to you. It doesn't mean getting theirattention so that you have someone who will listen to you talk.Get someone's attention because you really want to hearwhat he or she has to say.
CANCER It might take an extra few minutes to get out of bed today, Cancer,but it will be worth it when you do. You will find that the more honestyou've been with people, the more payoffs you will receive. Beingdependable and trustworthy are key issues to focus on. Act strongand proud with regard to who you are and the rewards will come.Bring a certain amount of tenderness to all your actions.
LEO Don't try to fit into a mold you simply don't belong in, Leo. Youmay have gone through a major transformation lately in whichyou went from being a square peg to a round peg. Other peoplemight still be trying to push you into the square hole. Don't letthem. Let people know that it upsets you not to be treated theway you want to be treated.
VIRGO There may be subtle messages in people's words today thatyou need to attend to, Virgo. Other people could be trying tosend you hints in order to push your buttons. Confront themon this behavior. Don't ignore the subtleties in their voices.Tender, loving messages may be laced with thorns intended toprovoke you. Don't let this action go unnoticed.
LIBRA Don't keep playing along with the games if you no longer want torepeat the same drama, Libra. By placing yourself in a victim role,you're opening yourself up to manipulation and control by others. Tostop the repetitive pattern, it's crucial for you to stand up and recog-nize that you have an important part in the healing process.Recognize that you have the power and courage to change.
SCORPIO Today is excellent for you, Scorpio. You should be encouraged totake action in any artistic realm. Cook a scrumptious dinner andshare it with a loved one. Give your heart a chance to speak andact on what it says. Your feminine and masculine sides are on thesame page now. Take the opportunity to balance these twoaspects. You're a magnet for love and romance.
SAGITTARIUSGo weed the garden, Sagittarius. If you don't have a garden, startone. It's important for you to get into the Earth today, so roll up yoursleeves and get your hands dirty. Feeling a connection with theground is an important step in manifesting your dreams. Buy someseeds, fertilizer, and a watering can. This is a great day to create anurturing environment in which a seed can grow.
CAPRICORN There's great opportunity for romance today, Capricorn. Love thepeople you're with, but don't smother them. The more youloosen your grip on a situation, the more you will gain control ofit. Cutting chains to the past is the first step in moving forwardtoward a goal. You might not realize how much a past situationholds you back until you make the effort to release it.
AQUARIUS The active and receptive natures of your being are comingtogether, Aquarius. There's a balance between these twoaspects. You're able to attract the prosperity and love you desireby the way in which you handle yourself around others. Today isabout the equilibrium between give and take. Make sure there'sa healthy balance between you and your loved ones.
PISCES Today is a fantastic day for you. Your sensual, caring nature willbe appreciated, Pisces. Whether you actively pursue it or sitback and relax, you will receive the love and good fortune youdesire. Your creativity is also at a peak during this time. Youshould take advantage of this energy and actively use your tal-ent to create something beautiful and meaningful.
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Le n o v o ' sA 7 0 0 0budget 4G
L T E - e n a b l e dsmartphone willgo on sale againon Wednesday.The second flashsale will com-mence at 2pm ISTfor registeredusers on Flipkart.
Lenovo India, atthe time of writ-ing, had notrevealed the num-ber of LenovoA7000 units thatwill be going onsale in the flashsale onWednesday. Thefirst flash sale ofthe A7000 saw30,000 units going
out of stock in 4 seconds.
Lenovo at the India launchof the A7000 smartphonedetailed the flash sale methodit would be employing,which will leave consumers a4-hour window to completetheir transaction once theproduct is added to theirFlipkart shopping cart.
The A7000 is the largersibling of the company's pop-ular 4G LTE budget offering,the Lenovo A6000 and fea-tures upgraded specificationsas well as a larger displayand Dolby Atmos technology- pegging it as a multimediadevice.
For specifications, theLenovo A7000 supportsdual-SIM (Micro-SIM) whilerunning Android 5.0 Lollipop
with Vibe UI running on top.It features a 5.5-inch HD(720x1280 pixels) IPS dis-play and packs an octa-core1.5GHz (MediaTekMT6572M) processor with2GB of RAM. It features an8-megapixel autofocus rearcamera with LED flash and a5-megapixel front facingcamera. Internal storage onthe handset is 8GB, which isexpandable via microSD card(up to 32GB).
Connectivity options onthe smartphone include 4G/LTE (FDD Band 1, 3, 7, 20;TDD Band 40), Wi-Fi, GPS/A-GPS, Bluetooth, andMicro-USB, just like itspredecessor. The LenovoA7000 is backed by a2900mAh battery, measures152.6x76.2x7.99mm andweighs 140 grams.
Lenovo A7000 Up for Grabsin Second Flash Sale Self-driving vehicles hold the
key to reducing traffic fatali-ties and will transform the
automobile industry, a top Googleexecutive predicted Tuesday.
Ray Kurzweil, a leading expertin artificial intelligence who joinedGoogle in 2012, told the annualconference of the Society ofAutomotive Engineers that therapidly declining cost of comput-ing power and the advances in arti-ficial intelligence will makeautonomous driving a reality.
Kurzweil told the audience thatautonomous driving, utilizing arti-ficial intelligence, is definitelycoming. "The technology works.It's not far away," said Kurzweil,though he was not prepared to sayjust when self-driving cars willbecome a common sight.
"Google advised me to sharewith you they don't know theanswer... The technology is notgoing to be introduced until it'sready."
The need and value ofautonomous vehicles is clear, hetold hundreds of the industry's topengineers.
"Google cars have gone close toa million miles without incident,"he said.
"Some day an autonomous carwill cause an accident and it willbe big news. But while we've beentalking several people have diedfrom human drivers."
Autonomous cars "are ultimatelygoing to save millions of lives," hesaid, noting that traffic accidentskill 1.2 million people worldwide ayear now.
"They also provide more effi-cient use of roads and parking lots.There are a lot of benefits."
But he said Google was notgoing to let its self-drive cars intothe market "until they're safe."
Researchers havedeveloped an inex-pensive alternative
to smartphone touch-screens - a toolbox ofphysical knobs, slidersand other mechanismsthat can be readily addedto control any device.
The researchers atCarnegie MellonUniversity and DisneyResearch drew inspirationfrom wind instruments indevising these mecha-nisms, which they callAcoustruments.
The idea is to use plug-gable plastic tubes andother structures to con-nect the smartphone's
speaker with its micro-phone.
The device can then becontrolled by acousticallyaltering sounds as theypass through this sys-tem.
Just as a simpleslide whistle or flutecan produce expressivemusic, theseAcoustruments canadd a wide range offunctionality to asmartphone, includingproximity and pressuresensors.
And because no electri-cal circuitry is involved,the plastic Acoustrumentscan be made rapidly and
inexpensively."We're providing people
with tangible interactivityat basically no cost," said
Gierad Laput, a PhD stu-dent in Carnegie Mellon'sH u m a n - C o m p u t e rInteraction Institute(HCII).
"Using smartphones as
computers to control toys,appliances and robotsalready is a growingtrend, particularly in the
maker community," saidLaput, lead author of thestudy.
"Acoustruments canmake the interactivity ofthese new 'pluggable'
applications even richer,"said Laput.
People who want tocontrol a smartphoneapplication while theireyes need to be focusedelsewhere, for instance,might be less distractedby a tangible knob or but-ton made possible withAcoustruments than withtrying to glance at atouchscreen.
Applications that usesmartphones as virtualreality displays make itimpossible to use thetouchscreen controls atall; Acoustruments enableusers to make adjustmentswithout disrupting the
virtual reality experience.The researchers have
used Acoustruments tobuild an interactive doll,which responds when itstummy is poked; a smart-phone case that can sensewhen it has been placedon a table or is being handcarried; and an alarmclock that provides physi-cal on/off and snooze but-tons.
Wind instruments take asustained source of soundfrom a mouthpiece andthen alter it by changingthe cavity ? with a seriesof holes, as in a flute, orby changing its size, aswith a trombone.
'Acoustruments' Use Sound Waves to Control Smartphones
MakeMyTrip hasmade anothermove to expand
its travel services, withthe acquisition of a travelstartup named Mygola foran undisclosed amount.
The online travel com-pany (specificallyMakeMyTrip Limited) ina press statementannounced that it hadacquired "certain assets"of Mygola.com, andadded the entire Mygolateam is now joiningMakeMyTrip.
The firm says the acqui-sition was done throughits earlier announcedInnovation Fund, whichwas formed to invest instartups or early-stagecompanies in the traveltechnology space.
The startup Mygola isbest known as a travelplanner that could helppeople get around incities. It covered variouscities includingBangalore, Bangkok,Chicago, Delhi, Dubai,Goa, Hong Kong, LosAngeles, Kuala Lumpur,Las Vegas, Mumbai, SanFrancisco, Singapore,Sydney, and Torontoamong others. Mygolawas founded in 2009 byAnshuman Bapna andPrateek Sharma; it raisedcapital from investorsincluding HelionVentures, BlumbergCapital, 500Startups and"numerous angels".
The press statementnotes, "The company[Mygola] built proprietarytechnology to mine thetravel web, filed patentson route optimization, andcollected deep metadatafor millions of travelitems and thousands ofhigh-quality itineraries. Italso pioneered a uniquecrowdsourced model forcurating travel data atmassive scale."
Commenting on theacquisition, RajeshMagow, Co-Founder andCEO, MakeMyTrip Indiasaid, "Mygola team's deepunderstanding of trav-ellers' planning and in-destination experiencepreferences will be veryvaluable in strengtheningour proposition in theseand related areas of cus-tomer engagement. Wewere very impressed withtheir ability to buildworld-class experienceson both web and mobilefor the globalaudience".
Anshuman Bapna, CEOof Mygola said, "We'vealways taken pride inbeing laser-focused on thetraveller's needs andrethinking online travelplanning. MakeMyTrip isthe leader in one of theworld's most excitingtravel markets, and theteam is super-excited tobring all this knowledgeto the millions ofMakeMyTrip travellers".
Self-Driving Cars Hold Key to FutureHighway: Google's Kurzweil
MakeMyTrip Acquires TravelPlanning Startup Mygola
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BANGALOREVeteran Ashish Nehra dished out a
brilliant spell of pace bowling afterSuresh Raina's batting heroics asChennai Super Kings recorded acomfortable 27-run victory overRoyal Challengers Bangalore in theirIPL cricket match here onWednesday.
Put into bat, Raina smashed a blis-tering 32-ball 62 to help Chennai posta challenging 181 for 8 after a 25-minute delayed start due to rainbefore Nehra led the bowling chargewith superb figures of four wicketsfor 10 runs in his four overs, his bestin T20 cricket, at the ChinnaswamyStadium.
Thirty-five-year-old Nehra endedBangalore's faint hopes of a victoryby dismissing home side captainVirat Kohli (51) and Harshal Patel (0)in consecutive deliveries in the 17thover to seal the match for Chennai.Bangalore ended at 154 for eightwhile chasing 182 for a win.
The home side which took the fieldwithout destructive opening batsmanChris Gayle -- dropped after indiffer-ent form -- did not have a big partner-ship and none of their top-order bats-men, except Kohli, could reach to 20.
The India Test captain Kohli playeda fine 42-ball knock which was stud-ded with four boundaries and twosixes but he was out just when helooked like setting up himself nicelyfor a final assault.
With today's win, Chennai bounced
back after their last match loss toRajasthan Royals and now have eightpoints from five matches with thehelp of three wins to remain on sec-ond spot.
On the other hand, Bangaloreslumped to their third loss on the trotand still remain at the bottom of theeight-team league table with just twopoints from four matches by virtue of
their win over defending championsKolkata Knight Riders in their open-ing match.
Bangalore made a flying start intheir reply with Rilee Rossouw (14)and Manvinder Bisla (17) reaching31 for no loss in the third over butNehra dismissed the opening duo inthe space of four balls in the fourthover to push the home side on the
backfoot.Bisla was out thanks to a sensation-
al one-handed catch by Faf du Plessisat mid-off in one of the best catchesof the tournament so far. Du Plessisplucked the ball from the air with hisoutstretched hands and held onto itwhile falling on the ground.
In the last ball of the fourth over,Rossouw edged a Nehra delivery on
to his stumps as RCB were reduced to33 for two in the fourth over.
The two quick dismissals appliedbrakes on the home side. DineshKarthik could contribute just 10 from11 balls before he was out thanks to asuperb catch by Dwayne Bravo offthe bowling of Ishwar Pandey and AB de Villiers (14 from 10 balls) alsodid not last long after threatening toplay a big knock.
De Villiers hit two sixes in his shortstay at the crease before he was run-out due to a brilliant effort byChennai captain and wicketkeeperMahendra Singh Dhoni who was ableto beat the nimble-footed SouthAfrican to dislodge the bails beforehe could regain his crease.
Bangalore was on a shaky groundat 75 for three at the halfway markand IPL debutant Sarfaraz Khan (11),the youngest to play in the cash-richleague at 17 years and 177 days,made a quick exit after hitting a six.
That left Bangalore at 97 for five atthe 14th over and the asking rate roseto nearly 14 an over.
Kohli reached to his fifty from 40balls with a straight six off RavindraJadeja in the 16th over but soon gotout to leave Bangalore in tatters.
Earlier, Chennai rode on Raina'sbrilliant attacking half-century andhis 54-run quickfire partnership fromjust four overs for the third wicketwith his captain Dhoni (13) to post achallenging 181 for eight.
Chennai lost a bit of momentum inbetween with quick dismissals of
Raina, Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja (8)but they still scored 181 for eightwith Faf du Plessis remaining not outon 33 from 18 deliveries.
Chennai were 81 for two at thehalfway mark and added exactly 100in the next 10 overs. Opener DwayneSmith made a handy contribution of39 from 29 balls.
Raina came in at the fall of otheropener Brendon McCullum (4) in thesecond over and after settling down,he set the Chinnaswamy Stadium onfire with some lusty blows all overthe park. He hit four boundaries andsix sixes in his 32-ball knock.
Raina struck three sixes off succes-sive deliveries in the 13th overbowled by leg-spinner YuzvendraChahal. He reached to his fifty withthe first six of the over in the secondball and then followed up with twomore. But Raina was out while tryingfor one big hit too many as he holedout to Rilee Rossouw at long off inthe fifth ball of the 13th over.
Chennai then lost Dhoni and Jadejain quick succession --in the 15th and16th overs. Dwayne Bravo (5) andRavichandran Ashwin (5) also did notlast long but du Plessis held one endtogether to take his side to a challeng-ing total.
For Bangalore, Chahal was themost successful bowler by grabbingthree wickets though he conceded 40runs in his four overs. Iqbal Abdullatook two wickets while MitchellStarc, Harshal Patel and David Wiesegot a wicket each.
IPL 8: Suresh Raina, Ashish Nehra Star in Chennai SuperKings' 27-Run Win vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
MANAMAThe future of the classic
Italian Grand Prix at Monzaremained uncertain Mondayafter it was revealed byFormula One commercialring-master BernieEcclestone that he was con-sidering dumping it from thecalendar. (Latest on FormulaOne)
"They don't have an agree-ment, so we have got to waitand see haven't we?" saidEcclestone at the weekendwhile attending the BahrainGrand Prix. "It's a bit likeGermany really."
The German Grand Prix,scheduled this year to be heldon July 19, was axed lastmonth (March) to the amaze-ment of many observers.
This season will be the firstsince 1960 not to have includ-ed a German Grand Prix - at atime when Mercedes Benzare world champions andGermany has two top driverscontending for wins in thetitle race.
Italy is one of only tworemaining countries that havehosted a Grand Prix every
year since the championshipbegan in 1950. Monza hostedall but one of those races(Imola was the venue in1980), but its current agree-ment ends next year(2016).
If the Italian race isdropped, it will be the third ofthe great classic Europeanevents to disappear frommodern F1's global circustour - following France, axedin 2008, and Germany.
Ecclestone denied it was'unthinkable' to allow F1 tolose so many classic races,
including Italy.He said: "I'll tell you some-
thing... I was told that whenwe didn't have a race inFrance. And Germany. Now,we've got some good replace-ments, haven't we?"
The commercial supremoof the sport has given his sup-port for a race on a street cir-cuit in Baku, Azerbaijan, nextyear, to be named the GrandPrix of Europe.
Ecclestone said he was notconcerned by fears of protestsat that country's human rightsrecord.
Italian Grand Prix at Monza Uncertain asBernie Ecclestone Considers Future
BARCELONARafael Nadal avenged his
shock defeat to Nicolas Almagroat last year's Barcelona Open tomove into the third round in theCatalan capital with a 6-3, 6-1win on Wednesday.
Almagro's sole victory in 13meetings with the 14-time GrandSlam champion in last year'squarter-final ended Nadal'sincredible 41-match winningstreak in Barcelona.
However, the out of formAlmagro, who has slipped to 123in the world, was swept aside asNadal won 10 of the last 11games to comfortably book hisplace in the next round.
"Nico is a danger because ofthe potential he has. At the starthe served very well and won alot of points on the secondstroke," said Nadal, who wascheered on by Barcelona strikerNeymar fresh after his two goalsagainst Paris Saint-Germain onTuesday.
"It was difficult, so I decidedto step back a metre and putmore balls in play and, bar thefinal game, I controlled thematch.
"I committed very few errors
and I hadn't forgotten that hebeat me last year."
Nadal will face 17-year-oldRussian Andrey Rublev or FabioFognini, who has already beatenNadal on clay this year in Rio deJaneiro, in the last 16 onThursday.
David Ferrer remained oncourse for a potential semi-finalmeeting with Nadal as the worldnumber eight was too strong forAlberto Montanes 6-2, 6-3.
Victory also ended an unwant-ed losing run for Ferrer inBarcelona after crashing out inhis first match in the past twoyears.
"After losing two years in arow in the first round I had toplay my best tennis. I am happyabout my debut, about the way Iplayed from the baseline."
However, US Open championMarin Cilic's disappointing sea-son continued as he was dumpedout by 34-year-old DominicanVictor Estrella Burgos 6-4, 6-4.
Cilic's start to the year washampered by injury as he missedthe Australian Open, but he haswon just two matches in threetournaments since his return inIndian Wells last month.
The Croatian's normallyreliant serve let him down as theworld number 53 broke fourtimes in 10 Cilic service gamesto seal a place in the last 16against Martin Klizan.
Australia's Nick Kyrgios'spoor record outside the GrandSlams continued as the
Australian Open and Wimbledonquarter-finalist lost against fel-low 19-year-old Elias Ymer ofSweden 2-6, 7-5, 7-6 (9/7).
Santiago Giraldo set up athird-round meeting with topseed and defending championKei Nishikori with a 6-3 3-6, 6-1win over Portugal's Joao Sousa.
NEW DELHIIndian women's team captain Ritu
Rani on Tuesday said that her squaddrew a lot of positives from therecently concluded Hawke's Bay Cupand are already looking forward tothe Hockey World League semifinalslated in June.
India finished seventh out of eightteams in Hastings, New Zealand.Though the team did not live up to itspotential, they delivered somenotable performances. They heldWorld No.2 Australia to a 0-0 drawand also managed to beat higherseeded Japan 3-2 in the 7-8th positionmatch.
"We have come back with manypositives along with loopholes andweaknesses. We will go back to thedrawing board and chalk out a planon how to build on our strengthswhich will help take care of the weakareas. We need to work on convertingthose half chances through better ballpossession," said Ritu.
Hockey India (HI) Director High
Performance Roelant Oltmans, whowas accompanying the team said:"While the team had to settle for theseventh, we have drawn some veryencouraging moments which are thestrengths of the girls as a team and
which we have to work upon beforethe Hockey World League in June.They played against the topranked teams and the way they coun-tered the opponents left many aston-ished."
Drew Positives From Hawke's Bay Cup:India Hockey Captain Ritu Rani
Rafael Nadal Gains Revenge OverNicolas Almagro in Barcelona Open
KOLKATAA solitary strike from
Nigerian forward RantyMartins in the 55th minuteof the game, sealed a cru-cial 1-0 victory for hostsEast Bengal againstSalgaocar FC in an I-League football matchhere at Salt Lake Stadiumon Wednesday.
With the win, the localgiants climbed a spot up inthe points table to thefourth place, with 23points from 14 games,while Salgaocar droppeddown one place to the sev-enth spot with 14 pointsfrom 14 games.
The first half was a dullaffair as both the sidesfailed to make it count withthe ball. Salgaocar forwardGurjinder Kumar had thebest possible chance of thehalf as midfielder Douhou
Pierre picked him upsmartly but he only man-aged to shoot straight toEast Bengal goalkeeperAbhijit Mondal who heldon to the ball well. Butwith the start of the secondhalf, the home team
showed aggression.The hosts went ahead ten
minutes into the secondhalf as defender RobertLalthlamuana sent in alovely cross from the leftacross the face of thegoal.
Forward Ranti Martinsdirected his header pastSalgaocar goalie SubrataPaul.
The visitors had numer-ous chances to level thescoring in the second halfbut failed to score.
East Bengal Record 200th Win in I-league,Ranti Martins Scores 200th Goal
NEW DELHIIt was so glittery all over the sets of
'khwahishen' - a film by Moonlightproduction. Adding a film to it's cred-it after grand success of skits and adfilms Delhi lad Param MLP, producerand director of film expressed 'weadded another feather in our cap withactress Samira Khan of Parwarishfame. Her other serials like 'Kabhisaas bhi kabhi bahu thi', 'Kahani GharGhar ki' of Balaji films were greathits. "My this film is a family drama.Our artists have put in their hundredpercent to showcase so called show-biz life of the society and I hope thatlike every hit drama, this film willattract people from all walks of life,he said. Actress Samira expressed thatit was a different experience to workwith Moonlight productions. I will tryto give my best in this film too likemy previous films and I am optimisticthat people will find my characterwith the pace of the film, she says.The film has been shot at variouslocations of Delhi and Jaipur. AryaSingh has been music director where-as Noor, Kailash and Amit has givenplayback. Promos of film are expect-ed soon.
Finding a healthy vari-ety of cooking oil orfat is not a challenge
if you understand the cor-nerstones of how to main-tain a healthy weight andlifestyle.
A healthy low caloriediet might help you loseweight with exercising,managing cholesterol lev-els and preventing healthproblems, but your dietwould be incomplete with-out healthy fats and oils.Today we bring you ourtop 10 tips on using healthyoils and fats.
#1 Tip on using fats andoil in a healthy diet
Indians love fried food.Many find cutting friedfoods out of their diet diffi-cult. You must understandthat healthy weight controland cholesterol manage-ment does require you tocut down on fried foods.However, when youabsolutely must eat andmake some, make sure youfollow these steps:
Understand the processof deep frying your foodusing the right type of oil.Whenever you want to fryyour food, start the fryingprocess at a correct temper-ature. For your food tocook properly, the oilshould be in the range of175 - 225 degrees Celsius.Keep a tab on the hotnessof your oil by watching a
shimmer across the surfaceof the food as it heats up.Next is to maintain the cor-rect temperature of thefood, in between thecooked batches of deepfried food.
An Indian kadhaishould be ideally half-filled when frying thefood item. Also, make surethe food is neither toosmall, nor too big.
Drain the excess oilbefore adding food to theplate.
#2 Tip on using fats andoil in a healthy diet
Keep a tab on theamount of saturatedfats you consume.Saturated fats consistof triglycerides, whichcontains only saturatedfatty acids. Experts suggestthat less than 10% of yourdaily energy intake cancome from saturated fats. Itis important that we do notmisunderstand this. This isnot open license to con-sume unhealthy saturatedfats, especially those thatare irrefutably linked totrans fats - which are neverhealthy, 10% or no 10%per cent.
Sources of saturated fatsby and large come frommeat fats, milk fat, butter,lard, coconut oil, palm oil,and palm kernel oil. InIndia, cooking in saturatedfat is an unhealthy practisethat affects meat-eaters andvegetarians alike. In fact,
while most animal fat canbe trimmed and reduced byusing lean cuts, it is thec o n s u m p -
tion ofheavy
oils that are themost
c o m -mon source of saturatedfats in India.
An easy solution is to uselesser oil in everyday cook-ing, and to switch tohealthier oils that containsimpler chains.
#3 Tip on using fats andoil in a healthy diet
Eat more of unsaturatedfats. In order to eat a heart-healthy diet, unsaturatedfats are a must for you.Fish, corn oil, olive oil,pumpkin seeds, sesameseeds, hazelnuts andpecans have high levels of
unsaturated fats in them.Oily fishes like salmon,trout, mackerel, tuna andsardines are full of
omega-3 fattya c i d s .
These aret h e
good
varieties of fats unlike thebad saturated fat found inghee, palm oil, full-fatcheese, fatty beef and porkcuts, and whole milk dairyproducts.
These fishes must consti-tute a part of your heart-healthy diet. Omega-3 fattyacids also lower "bad"LDL levels, decrease bloodpressure and lower levelsof blood fat called triglyc-erides by 25%-30%.
#4 Tip on using fats andoil in a healthy diet
Trans fats are disastrous.
These are the variety offats which are mostly madeduring processing the food.These kinds of fats aremade from hydrogenationprocess of unsaturated fats.
Also called as syntheticor industrial trans fat,they can give a hike toyour unhealthy LDLcholesterol and lowerhealthy HDL choles-
terol which mightexpose you to the riskof cardiovascular dis-
eases.
#5 Tipo n
u s i n gfats and oil in a healthydiet
Olive oil should be yourpreferred choice. It con-tains mono-unsaturatedfatty acids, which lowerthe levels of bad choles-terol and triglycerideswithout lowering goodcholesterol levels.Different stages of pressingand processing yield differ-ent varieties of olive oil.
Extra virgin- Excellentfor salad dressings anddips.
Virgin - It is the yield ofsecond press.
Pure - This stage of oilgoes through a certainamount of processing - fil-tration and refining.
#6 Tip on using fats andoil in a healthy diet
Other healthy oils thatyou can try are:
Rice bran oil: Rich inmono-unsaturated fattyacids and cholesterol low-ering properties, this oilalso contains natural vita-min E.
Sunflower/Safflower oil:This oil is rich in PUFAparticularly linoleic acid,
which lowers the lev-els of good as wellas bad cholesterol.So it will be a goodidea to alternate this
oil's use with otherhealthier oils.
Mustard oil: This oilhas a higher proportion of
Mono-unsaturated andPoly-un-saturated fattyacids. Use in moderation.
Groundnut oil:Groundnut or peanut oilcontains heart friendlyMUFA that lowers levelsof bad cholesterol in ourbody without lowering thelevels of good cholesterol.
Coconut oil: Coconut oildoes not contain choles-terol hence it can be con-sumed for cooking in com-bination with other oils inthe kitchen. But alwaysremember moderation isthe key word.
#7 Tip on using fats and
oil in a healthy dietKeep all oils sealed from
air and in a cool, dry place.It is a must to keep youroils sealed in a containerand never leave it open. Ifyou're in the habit of pur-chasing large bottles of oilin one go, then keep asmall oil dispensar on thekitchen counter. Leave thebig bottle in a cool, dryplace, so that the oil doesn'treact to bright sunlight.
#8 Tip on using fats andoil in a healthy diet
-Be very careful whenreheating cooking oil.
-Make sure you arestraining the oil throughlayers of cheesecloth, sothat you catch any leftoverfood particle. Do this exer-cise, when the oil is hot,but be careful as it mightburn.
-Shake off extra batterbefore frying.
-Turn off the heat as soonas you are done frying.Exposing oil to heat evenafter the usage is can leadto acidity.
-Do not mix differentkinds of oil types whilefrying.
-Make it a point to storethe oil in a cool and darkplace.
-Go for a stainless steelpan for frying. Avoid usingiron or copper pots for oilthat you plan to reuse in thefuture.
#9 Tip on using fats andoil in a healthy diet
Some facts on fats,which you must know:
-Fats are a member of achemical group calledlipids.
-Fats provide energy of 9calories per gram.
-Fats provide Satiety -provides palatability and afeeling of fullness.
-They are carriers ofnutrients - fat soluble vita-mins as A,D,E,K.
-The body does need acertain percentage of fat asit acts as the body's insula-tor protecting organs andabsorbing shocks.
-The body does not man-ufacture certain fatty acidsas linoleic and linolenicacid and the diet must sup-ply these.
#10 Tip on using fats andoil in a healthy diet
Keep fats in your diet toa minimum by having alook at the recommendeddietary allowance. TheUSDA recommends thathealthy adults over the ageof 19 consume between 20and 35 per cent of theirdaily calories from fat.Young children (ages 1 to 3years) need as much as 40per cent of their daily calo-ries to come from fat. Ifyou eat a diet of 2,000calories per day, ingestbetween 44 g and 77 g oftotal fat daily.
10 tips on using fats and oil in a healthy diet
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Ma d h u rBhandarkar andPriyanka Chopra
have worked only once tillnow and that was back in2008. Yes, the two cametogether for Fashion whichnot only impressed theaudience but even earnedPeeCee a National Award.Since then the B-townbeauty has shared an amaz-ing rapport withBhandarkar. Recently, thetwo had even joined handsfor yet another projecttitled Madamji whichPriyanka had planned toco-produce. However,things didn’t materializeand eventually the filmtook a back seat. That’s thereason why the NationalAward winning filmmakeris miffed with the DilDhadakne Do actress.
Apparently, changes
were being made to scriptof Madamji as it had fewresemblances with MallikaSherawat starrer DirtyPolitics. During the sametime, Chopra zoomed offto US to shoot for hermaiden international showQuantico. When Priyankacame back, she immediate-ly started shooting forSanjay Leela Bhansali’smagnum opus BajiraoMastani. This apparentlydidn’t go down well withFashion director as itended up shelvingMadamji.
While talking to atabloid, a source said,“Madhur is upset that shehas been taking up otherprojects, including ReemaKagti’s next oppositeFawad Khan, and delayedher own production ven-ture. He feels she could
have canned Madamji ear-lier instead of making himwait for so long only tofinally shelve it.”
Though a source close to
Madhur Bhandarkar hasclaimed nothing is wrongbetween the two, we allknow there is no smokewithout fire!
Madhur Bhandarkar miffed with‘Madamji’, Priyanka Chopra!
The trailer of VarunDhawan andShraddha Kapoor
starrer ABCD 2 is finallyout for the world to see.The sequel to Any BodyCan Dance, ABCD 2boasts to be India’s first3D dance film. While thefans are going gaga overthe trailer, we have someinteresting goss coming upfrom ABCD 2 trailerlaunch.
Varun Dhawan, who sur-prised us with his grittyperformance in a dark filmlike Badlapur, revealedthat he had a tough timeshooting for SriramRaghavan’s revenge
drama and rehearsing forABCD 2 along withShraddha Kapoor was likea rehab for him. Whenasked about his experienceof working in Remo’sABCD2, Varun said,”ABCD 2 was my rehaband Shraddha was mytherapist. I rambled to herin the beginning whenshooting of Badlapur over-lapped with ABCD 2rehersals.”
A dark, highly intensefilm like Badlapur cantake a toll on actor’s psy-che and it looks like Varunfound solace in dancerehearsals of ABCD 2where he poured his heart
out to his co-star ShraddhaKapoor.
Now we understand why
the two actors have suchgreat chemistry in theABCD 2 trailer.
Varun Dhawan:ABCD 2 was myrehab and Shraddhawas my therapist!
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