Srinagar, October 03: Asking the separatists to shun the tendency of negative politics, the Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Mr. Ali Mo- hammad Sagar has said that they have always believed in opposing the good initiatives undertaken by the Government in socio-political and other spheres of life. The Minister was addressing a huge gathering during his Awami Rabita campaign at Wanihama, Hadoora in the Ganderbal district today. District Development Commis- sioner, Ganderbal, Mr. Sarmad Hafiez, Director Rural Develop- ment, Kashmir, Mir Altaf Ahmad and other senior officers of vari- ous departments besides Panches, Sarpanches were also present. See Sagar on Pg. 11 Srinagar, October 03: The National Conference senior leader Mustafa Kamal today said that he completely agrees with the separatist Leader, Syed Ali Geelani wherein the later had stated that Chief Minister Omar Abdul- lah is not a free man and Army uses Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AF- SPA) as shield against its human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir. Talking to KNS, Kamal said that he agrees with Geelani when he says the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is not a free- man. “Omar is not a free- man but bound by the law. However, there has always been carrot and the stick policy of Delhi here.” He asked that if senior RJD leader Lalu Prasad is jailed, how long shall the troops, involved in human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, think that they shall be shielded. The NC leader said it is unfortunate that the pro-freedom camp of valley has rejected Judi- cial inquiry into Shopian killings, terming the move ‘’opposition for the sake of opposition’’. “They always have personal grudges against National Confer- ence and they (separatists) have turned blind eye to- wards every constructive role of the state Govern- ment,” Kamal said adding that if separatists cannot go for constructive criti- cism, they should at least not indulge into baseless allegations. “What should Omar do? I want to ask the separatist See Kamal on Pg. 11 Injured trooper succumbs to injuries Srinagar, October 03: More than 300 PARA shooters were called in to combat the mil- itants who have allegedly occu- pied three Indian Observation Posts near Line of Control (LoC) in Keran Sector of North Kash- mir’s Kupwara district. The shooters have cordoned off the area from all sides so as to block any kind of supply to infiltrated militants. Sources identified the two ob- servation posts out of three which are allegedly occupied by militants, as Khokri and Kullar posts. They also identified the posts from Pakistani side which are opposite to Indian posts as Biswal and Ahithana posts. Sources told GNS that a joint team of Army’s counter insur- gency units 3/3 GR, 15 RR, 16 GR and 5 ASSAM are conducting intense searches of the densely forested areas of Shalabhutoo and Naranad forests against a group of infiltrators. Additional reinforcement of about 300 to 400 personnel of 9 -Para and 4-Para were called from Bandipora, Lolab and Handwara areas who have been rushed to the area to flush out the hiding militants inside the forest area of Shalbhutoo, who, according to sources, man- aged to sneak into this side last month. The PARA shooters, according to sources pressed choppers into service in the area to locate the hiding militants who are nearly 2 to 3 kilometers into this side. “During the search operation, Army also used sniffer dogs to locate the militants,” sources said. Official sources told GNS that the operation will be finished in 5 to 7 days as they have sur- rounded the whole area. “Spe- cial troops deployed in the area See Para Shooters on Pg. 11 Central ministers hardly know the ABC of Kashmir: Gupta Ahmad Nagar gunfight ends Srinagar, October 03: The Doctors Association of Kashmir (DAK) has ac- cused the Government of Jammu and Kashmir of supplying fake drugs to the valley hospitals, risk- ing the lives of thousands across the state. Addressing the press con- ference here, DAK Chair- man Dr Nisaar-ul-Hassan has said an additional 24 fake medicines have been supplied to the valley hospitals and the Govern- ment is risking lives of thousands. “We will never allow such actions to take place and that Sham Lal Sharma should resign at the earliest.” The DAK has further al- leged that apart from sup- plying the fake medicines to valley hospitals, it has been observed that the vet- erinary hospitals have not been speared. “The drug scandal here is being cov- ered up and the politicians from Delhi to Jammu and Kashmir are busy in hush- ing up the murky deal,” said the DAK president adding that despite clear evidences no action is be- ing taken against the cul- prits in the state. The DAK further alleged that the authorities have purchased one of the ma- chines in the Dental Col- lege worth Rs 45 lakh against the actual cost of the machine which is See DAK on Pg. 11 Chennai, October 03: Former Army chief Gener- al VK Singh on Thursday said no Army funds have been misused in Jammu and Kashmir and they have been used to bring stability and harmony in the state. Participating in a panel discussion on governance issues jointly organized by the Forum for Integrity in Gov- ernance and the Chennai chapter of the Anti-Corruption Move- ment at Loyola College, Singh said the funds were used for developmental and infrastructural pur- poses. He was reacting to the controversy over his recent statement that the Army had funded political leaders in Kashmir. According to him, the Army as an institution remains absolutely apo- litical and it works for the government with national interest in mind. "Army people also vote for par- ties. If someone says army is politicized, then I don't know what to say. As an institution, it's never po- liticized. Everything hap- pening in the Army is for institutional integrity," he said. Reacting to a ques- tion on the infiltra- tion from Pakistan into the Keran sec- tor of Kashmir, the former Army chief said, "I retired one and half years back. I don't know how prepared the Army is now. But I think whatever has happened is an intel- ligence failure. When we start tinkering with our intelligence, these kinds of things are bound to hap- pen. I am sure the Army See Army Funds on Pg. 11 Islamabad, October 03: The Directors General of Military Opera- tions of India and Pakistan will meet soon to explore ways to lessen border tensions in Kashmir region, Xinhua reported Thursday cit- ing the Pakistani foreign ministry. Tensions recently escalated along the Line of Control (LoC), which divides the Kashmir region between the two countries, following exchange of fire between their troops. The two countries accused each other of violation of ceasefire along the LoC. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York Sunday. They agreed to take immediate steps to stabilise the situation along See DGMOs on Pg. 11 Srinagar, October 03: The militants in a gun battle at Ahmad Nagar Soura in outskirts of the Srinagar city managed to give forces a slip, after in- juring five policemen in the encounter. According to KNS the gunfight broke out in Ah- mad Nagar area of Soura area at around 10:00 PM on Wednesday after po- lice cordoned off the area. “Police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel cordoned off the Ahmad Nagar area on late evening of Wednesday after inputs suggesting presence of the militant in the area. As the forces started search op- eration, the militant who See Gunfight on Pg. 11 Srinagar, October 03: Minister for Medical Education, Taj Mohi-u- Din Wednesday said that Army never played in role during State As- sembly Elections in Jammu and Kashmir. “We should not drag Army into politics. People would lost faith in democratic set up if political leaders kept on issuing statements against Army and claim that they play active role during elections in the State,” Taj Mohi-u-Din told CNS reiterating that former In- dian Army Chief General V.K.Singh humiliated not only political leaders of the State but the institution of Army as well. Taj was reacting to the allegations leveled by former Chief Minister Dar Farooq Abdullah that Ghulam Has- san Mir had de- feated his brother Mustafa Kamal in the Tangmarg constituen- cy because of Army help. “Dr Shiekh Mustafa Ka- mal frequently alleges that Taj bags Assembly seat See Taj on Pg. 11 Srinagar, October 03: Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta has strongly in- dicted the utterances of the Union Finance minister, P Chidam- baram that “some initiatives on Jammu and Kashmir taken by him as Home Minister has not been taken to logical conclusion” He said that it was an iro- ny of fate that some of the Central ministers who hardly know the ABC of Kashmir, try to be experts to search out the solution of the problems. Responding to the statements of P Chid- ambaram at a function of J&K Bank at Sri- nagar, Prof. Gupta ob- served that it was a fol- ly to appoint the highly controversial persons to be the interlocutor to search out solution of the problems as if Kashmir is not an in- tegral part of the coun- try which needed in- terlocutors. Obviously the recommendations of these “wisemen” were highly intriguing which, if given any cre- dence, would See Gupta on Pg. 11 C M Y K C M Y K C M Y K C M Y K FRIDAY October 04 | 2013 | 27 Zeeqad 1434 AH | PAGES 12 | VOL NO: 3 | ISSUE NO: 249 | RS: 2/- (AIR SURCHARGE FOR JAMMU /DELHI/LEH 50 PAISA) Pen For Justice Largely Circulated, No. 1 Bilingual Daily of J&K Over 300 Para shooters rushed to Keran Sector Why was this bill formulated at all: Mehbooba Srinagar, October 03: A day after the Union Cabinet withdrew a con- troversial Ordinance on convicted lawmakers it had earlier cleared, Peo- ples Democratic Party (PDP) welcomed the de- cision saying that cen- tral government should support and follow the Supreme Court ruling on the subject. Talking to KNS, Meh- booba said: “At the first instance I am surprised how was the bill formu- lated and introduced in the Parliament. The union government should have supported the Apex Court decision and followed the same in letter and spirit.”She said there are innumer- able instances across the country wherein politicians with crimi- nal background misuse their power and position. “At least the Supreme Court had provided a safeguard to the leader- ship of different politi- cal parties against the elements with criminal, antecedents.”The PDP president said her par- ty’s stand is clear about the issue as it is the first party in the whole coun- try which constituted State Accountability Commission and intro- duced and implemented Right To Information Act in the state. “Our RTI Act was strong than the one in vogue at Cen- tre. But unfortunately, the present dispensation has diluted both the in- stitutions.” Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, CPI (M) State Secretary told KNS that the Congress through this ordinance had devised mechanism for cover-ups. “I think this ordinance was not See Ordinance on Pg. 11 http://www.zabarwantimes.com WEATHER TEMPERATURE MAXIMUM MINIMUM SUNSET ON(FRIDAY) SUNRISE ON (SATURDAY) 06:13 pm 06:29 am 12.9 0 C 28.7 0 C FORECAST FOR NEXT 24 HRS: FORECAST OF SRINAGAR: Rain/Thundershower would occur at isolated places over the state. Mainly clear sky. Maximum & Minimum temperatures will be around 29°C & 13°C respectively. Sentenced to 5 years in fodder scam Hope I remain as fit as Sachin when I reach his age 7 8 6 Lower your blood pressure in 6 easy steps Pakistani, Indian DGMOs to meet soon: Pakistan Residents refute police claims Army funds never misused in Kashmir: VK Singh Another 24 fake drugs being supplied to Valley hospitals: DAK No role of Army in Assembly Elections: Taj Withdrawing Ordinance a welcome step: Mainstream Parties Sagar asks separatists to shun the tendency of negative politics ‘Sharma should resign at the earliest’ Don’t drag Army into politics Omar bound by law, Delhi using carrot and stick policy in J&K: Kamal 5 cops injured, militants escape Srinagar, October 03: Refuting the police claims, the residents of Ahmed Nagar area of Soura Thursday said that no militant was pres- ent in the area while the Special Operations Group (SOG) of JK Police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel showered bullets on deserted residential houses damaging windowpanes and inflicted See Residents on Pg. 11 13 injured in road mishaps Srinagar, October 03: Thirteen persons were injured in dif- ferent road accidents across the valley. A Xylo vehicle bearing registration number JK01P/5229 turned turtle at Sheeri near Petrol Pump, result- ing in injuries to eight persons traveling in the vehicle. All the injured were shifted to hospital for treatment. Meanwhile, an i-10 vehicle bearing registration number JK01M/7013 hit and injured a pedestrian Yasmeena Jabar daughter of Mohammad Jabar Sheikh resident of Jaw- brara, Awantipora at Jawbrara. The injured was shifted to hospital for treatment. In an- other accident, a Load Carrier bearing registration number Jk01S/3380 and a Wagon-R bearing registration number Jk01Q/8500 collided at main Chowk Kakapora, Pulwama. Four persons were injured in this mishap. All the injured were shifted to Hospital for treatment. Police has registered a case in this regard. Man injured in bear attack Srinagar, October 03: One per- son Ghulam Mohammad Bhat son of Ghulam Qadir resident of Brain, Nishat was injured when a bear attacked him at Kral Sangri near a hotel. The injured was shifted to SMHS, Hospital for treatment. Fire guts school building at Gogjibagh Srinagar, October 03: A school building was gutted in fire incident at Gogjibagh, Srinagar on Thursday morning. All the children and school staff mem- bers are safe, reports said. According to KNS reporter, the fire broke out in the building of Oasis Public School at Gogji Bagh when the children were busy preparing their answer papers, flames appeared in one of the buildings followed by a bang. Although the cause of fire is being ascertained by fire and emergency service men, sources revealed that fire apparently caused due to LPG leakage. The fire and emer- gency sources said that three fire tenders reached the spot adding the fire was brought under control. Eye witness told KNS that as the news reached to the parents they rushed to the school amid chaos. The tension increased manifold due to mas- sive traffic jam in the area as everybody reached the spot and know about his ward. See Fire on Pg. 11 Bung Cultivation destroyed Srinagar, October 03: Anantnag police along with Tehsildar Pahalgam destroyed bung culti- vation spread over six kanals of land belonging to Mohammad Yaqoob Khan son of Ghulam Rasool resident of Liver, Pahal- gam. A case was registered in police station Srigufwara in this regard and investigation has been taken up.
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Srinagar, October 03:
Asking the separatists to shun the tendency of negative politics, the Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Mr. Ali Mo-hammad Sagar has said that they have always believed in opposing the good initiatives undertaken by the Government in socio-political and other spheres of life.The Minister was addressing a huge gathering during his Awami Rabita campaign at Wanihama, Hadoora in the Ganderbal district today. District Development Commis-sioner, Ganderbal, Mr. Sarmad
Hafiez, Director Rural Develop-ment, Kashmir, Mir Altaf Ahmad and other senior officers of vari-
ous departments besides Panches, Sarpanches were also present.
See Sagar on Pg. 11
Srinagar, October 03:
The National Conference senior leader Mustafa Kamal today said that he completely agrees with the separatist Leader, Syed Ali Geelani wherein the later had stated that Chief Minister Omar Abdul-lah is not a free man and Army uses Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AF-SPA) as shield against its human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir.Talking to KNS, Kamal said that he agrees with Geelani when he says the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is not a free-man. “Omar is not a free-man but bound by the law.
However, there has always been carrot and the stick policy of Delhi here.” He asked that if senior RJD leader Lalu Prasad
is jailed, how long shall the troops, involved in human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, think that they shall be
shielded. The NC leader said it is unfortunate that the pro-freedom camp of valley has rejected Judi-cial inquiry into Shopian killings, terming the move ‘’opposition for the sake of opposition’’. “They always have personal grudges against National Confer-ence and they (separatists) have turned blind eye to-wards every constructive role of the state Govern-ment,” Kamal said adding that if separatists cannot go for constructive criti-cism, they should at least not indulge into baseless allegations.“What should Omar do? I want to ask the separatist
See Kamal on Pg. 11
Injured trooper succumbs to
injuriesSrinagar, October 03:
More than 300 PARA shooters were called in to combat the mil-itants who have allegedly occu-pied three Indian Observation Posts near Line of Control (LoC) in Keran Sector of North Kash-mir’s Kupwara district. The shooters have cordoned off the area from all sides so as to block any kind of supply to infiltrated militants.Sources identified the two ob-servation posts out of three which are allegedly occupied by militants, as Khokri and Kullar posts. They also identified the
posts from Pakistani side which are opposite to Indian posts as Biswal and Ahithana posts.Sources told GNS that a joint team of Army’s counter insur-gency units 3/3 GR, 15 RR, 16 GR and 5 ASSAM are conducting intense searches of the densely forested areas of Shalabhutoo and Naranad forests against a group of infiltrators. Additional reinforcement of about 300 to 400 personnel of 9 -Para and 4-Para were called from Bandipora, Lolab and Handwara areas who have been rushed to the area to flush out the hiding militants inside the forest area of Shalbhutoo, who, according to sources, man-aged to sneak into this side last month.The PARA shooters, according to sources pressed choppers into service in the area to locate the
hiding militants who are nearly 2 to 3 kilometers into this side. “During the search operation, Army also used sniffer dogs to locate the militants,” sources said.
Official sources told GNS that the operation will be finished in 5 to 7 days as they have sur-rounded the whole area. “Spe-cial troops deployed in the area
See Para Shooters on Pg. 11
Central ministers hardly know the ABC
of Kashmir: Gupta
Ahmad Nagar gunfight ends
Srinagar, October 03:
The Doctors Association of Kashmir (DAK) has ac-cused the Government of Jammu and Kashmir of supplying fake drugs to the valley hospitals, risk-ing the lives of thousands across the state.Addressing the press con-ference here, DAK Chair-man Dr Nisaar-ul-Hassan has said an additional 24 fake medicines have been supplied to the valley
hospitals and the Govern-ment is risking lives of thousands. “We will never allow such actions to take place and that Sham Lal Sharma should resign at the earliest.”The DAK has further al-leged that apart from sup-plying the fake medicines to valley hospitals, it has been observed that the vet-erinary hospitals have not been speared. “The drug scandal here is being cov-ered up and the politicians
from Delhi to Jammu and Kashmir are busy in hush-ing up the murky deal,” said the DAK president adding that despite clear evidences no action is be-ing taken against the cul-prits in the state. The DAK further alleged that the authorities have purchased one of the ma-chines in the Dental Col-lege worth Rs 45 lakh against the actual cost of the machine which is
See DAK on Pg. 11
Chennai, October 03:
Former Army chief Gener-al VK Singh on Thursday said no Army funds have been misused in Jammu and Kashmir and they have been used to bring stability and harmony in the state. Participating in a panel discussion on governance issues jointly organized by the Forum for Integrity in Gov-ernance and the Chennai chapter of the Anti-Corruption Move-ment at Loyola College, Singh said the funds were used for developmental and infrastructural pur-poses. He was reacting to the controversy over his recent statement that the Army had funded political leaders in Kashmir. According to him, the Army as an institution
remains absolutely apo-litical and it works for the government with national interest in mind. "Army people also vote for par-ties. If someone says army is politicized, then I don't know what to say. As an institution, it's never po-liticized. Everything hap-
pening in the Army is for institutional integrity," he said. Reacting to a ques-tion on the infiltra-tion from Pakistan into the Keran sec-tor of Kashmir, the
former Army chief said, "I retired one and half years back. I don't know how prepared the Army is now. But I think whatever has happened is an intel-ligence failure. When we start tinkering with our intelligence, these kinds of things are bound to hap-pen. I am sure the Army
See Army Funds on Pg. 11
Islamabad, October 03: The Directors General of Military Opera-tions of India and Pakistan will meet soon to explore ways to lessen border tensions in Kashmir region, Xinhua reported Thursday cit-ing the Pakistani foreign ministry.Tensions recently escalated along the Line of Control (LoC), which divides the Kashmir region between the two countries, following exchange of fire between their troops.The two countries accused each other of violation of ceasefire along the LoC. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York Sunday. They agreed to take immediate steps to stabilise the situation along
See DGMOs on Pg. 11
Srinagar, October 03:
The militants in a gun battle at Ahmad Nagar
Soura in outskirts of the Srinagar city managed to
give forces a slip, after in-juring five policemen in the encounter. According to KNS the
gunfight broke out in Ah-mad Nagar area of Soura
area at around 10:00 PM on Wednesday after po-lice cordoned off the area.
“Police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel cordoned off the Ahmad
Nagar area on late evening of Wednesday after inputs suggesting presence of the
militant in the area. As the forces started search op-eration, the militant who
See Gunfight on Pg. 11
Srinagar, October 03:
Minister for Medical Education, Taj Mohi-u-Din Wednesday said that Army never played in role during State As-sembly Elections in Jammu and Kashmir. “We should not drag Army into politics. People would lost faith in democratic set up if political leaders kept on issuing statements against Army and claim that they play active role during elections in the State,” Taj Mohi-u-Din told CNS
reiterating that former In-dian Army Chief General V.K.Singh humiliated not only political leaders of the State but the institution of Army as well.
Taj was reacting to the allegations leveled by former Chief Minister Dar Farooq Abdullah that Ghulam Has-san Mir had de-feated his brother Mustafa Kamal in
the Tangmarg constituen-cy because of Army help.“Dr Shiekh Mustafa Ka-mal frequently alleges that Taj bags Assembly seat
See Taj on Pg. 11
Srinagar, October 03:
Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta has strongly in-dicted the utterances of the Union Finance minister, P Chidam-baram that “some initiatives on Jammu and Kashmir taken by him as Home Minister has not been taken to logical conclusion” He said that it was an iro-ny of fate that some of the Central ministers who hardly know the ABC of Kashmir, try to be experts to search out the solution of the problems.
Responding to the statements of P Chid-ambaram at a function of J&K Bank at Sri-nagar, Prof. Gupta ob-served that it was a fol-ly to appoint the highly controversial persons to be the interlocutor to search out solution of the problems as if Kashmir is not an in-tegral part of the coun-try which needed in-terlocutors. Obviously the recommendations of these “wisemen” were highly intriguing which, if given any cre-dence, would
See Gupta on Pg. 11
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FRIDAY October 04 | 2013 | 27 Zeeqad 1434 AH | PAGES 12 | VOL NO: 3 | ISSUE NO: 249 | RS: 2/- (AIR SURCHARGE FOR JAMMU /DELHI/LEH 50 PAISA)Pen For JusticeLargely Circulated, No. 1 Bilingual Daily of J&K
Over 300 Para shooters rushed to Keran Sector
Why was this bill formulated
at all: Mehbooba Srinagar, October 03:
A day after the Union Cabinet withdrew a con-troversial Ordinance on convicted lawmakers it had earlier cleared, Peo-ples Democratic Party (PDP) welcomed the de-cision saying that cen-tral government should support and follow the Supreme Court ruling on the subject.Talking to KNS, Meh-booba said: “At the first
instance I am surprised how was the bill formu-lated and introduced in the Parliament. The union government should have supported the Apex Court decision and followed the same in letter and spirit.”She said there are innumer-able instances across the country wherein politicians with crimi-nal background misuse their power and position. “At least the Supreme Court had provided a safeguard to the leader-ship of different politi-cal parties against the elements with criminal, antecedents.”The PDP president said her par-
ty’s stand is clear about the issue as it is the first party in the whole coun-try which constituted State Accountability Commission and intro-duced and implemented Right To Information Act in the state. “Our RTI Act was strong than the one in vogue at Cen-tre. But unfortunately, the present dispensation has diluted both the in-stitutions.” Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, CPI (M) State Secretary told KNS that the Congress through this ordinance had devised mechanism for cover-ups. “I think this ordinance was not
See Ordinance on Pg. 11
http://www.zabarwantimes.com
WEATHER
TEMPERATUREMAXIMUM MINIMUMSUNSET ON(FRIDAY)SUNRISE ON (SATURDAY)
06:13 pm06:29 am
12.9 0C28.7 0C
FORECAST FOR NEXT 24 HRS:
FORECAST OF SRINAGAR:
Rain/Thundershower would occur at isolated places over the state.
Mainly clear sky. Maximum & Minimum temperatures will be around 29°C & 13°C respectively.
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Pakistani, Indian DGMOs to meet soon: Pakistan
Residents refute police claims
Army funds never misused in Kashmir: VK Singh
Another 24 fake drugs being supplied to Valley hospitals: DAK
No role of Army in Assembly Elections: Taj
Withdrawing Ordinance a welcome step: Mainstream Parties
Sagar asks separatists to shun the tendency of negative politics
‘Sharma should resign at the earliest’
Don’t drag Army into politicsOmar bound by law, Delhi using carrot and stick policy in J&K: Kamal
5 cops injured, militants escape
Srinagar, October 03: Refuting the police claims, the residents of Ahmed Nagar area of Soura Thursday said that no militant was pres-ent in the area while the Special Operations Group (SOG) of JK Police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel showered bullets on deserted residential houses damaging windowpanes and inflicted
See Residents on Pg. 11
13 injured in road mishapsSrinagar, October 03: Thirteen persons were injured in dif-ferent road accidents across the valley. A Xylo vehicle bearing registration number JK01P/5229 turned turtle at Sheeri near Petrol Pump, result-ing in injuries to eight persons traveling in the vehicle. All the injured were shifted to hospital for treatment. Meanwhile, an i-10 vehicle bearing registration number JK01M/7013 hit and injured a pedestrian Yasmeena Jabar daughter of Mohammad Jabar Sheikh resident of Jaw-brara, Awantipora at Jawbrara. The injured was shifted to hospital for treatment. In an-other accident, a Load Carrier bearing registration number Jk01S/3380 and a Wagon-R bearing registration number Jk01Q/8500 collided at main Chowk Kakapora, Pulwama. Four persons were injured in this mishap. All the injured were shifted to Hospital for treatment. Police has registered a case in this regard.
Man injured in bear attackSrinagar, October 03: One per-son Ghulam Mohammad Bhat son of Ghulam Qadir resident of Brain, Nishat was injured when a bear attacked him at Kral Sangri near a hotel. The injured was shifted to SMHS, Hospital for treatment.
Fire guts school building at GogjibaghSrinagar, October 03: A school building was gutted in fire incident at Gogjibagh, Srinagar on Thursday morning. All the children and school staff mem-bers are safe, reports said.According to KNS reporter, the fire broke out in the building of Oasis Public School at Gogji Bagh when the children were busy preparing their answer papers, flames appeared in one of the buildings followed by a bang. Although the cause of fire is being ascertained by fire and emergency service men, sources revealed that fire apparently caused due to LPG leakage. The fire and emer-gency sources said that three fire tenders reached the spot adding the fire was brought under control. Eye witness told KNS that as the news reached to the parents they rushed to the school amid chaos. The tension increased manifold due to mas-sive traffic jam in the area as everybody reached the spot and know about his ward.
See Fire on Pg. 11
Bung Cultivation destroyedSrinagar, October 03: Anantnag police along with Tehsildar Pahalgam destroyed bung culti-vation spread over six kanals of land belonging to Mohammad Yaqoob Khan son of Ghulam Rasool resident of Liver, Pahal-gam. A case was registered in police station Srigufwara in this regard and investigation has been taken up.
JAMMU, OCTOBER 03
Minister for Housing, Horticulture and Culture, Raman Bhalla has asked the Jammu Municipal Corpora-tion (JMC) to carryout regu-lar sanitation drive to give a clean look to the city for upcoming festivals of Navra-tras, Eid and Diwali.
The Minister was lead-ing a team of senior func-tionaries of JMC and Urban Environmental Engineering Department during his visit to Valmiki Colony, Shiva Ji Chowk, Nanak Nagar Sector 1, 4, 6 besides Trikuta Nagar Basant Vihar and Nai Basti to take stock of develop-ment and sanitation related requirements of these areas.
Commissioner Jammu Municipal Corporation Kiran Wattal besides other senior officers of Urban Environ-mental Engineering Depart-ment (UEED) and JMC also accompanied the Minister.
Bhalla asked them to gear up men and machinery and carry out sanitation, includ-ing opening and desilting of choked drains and nallahs in different areas of the city.
The Minister said it was the prime duty of the Gov-ernment to provide all civic amenities to the people add-ing that a number of sew-erage schemes have been launched in rural and urban areas to meet this end.
He also called upon the Nanak Nagar Trikuta Nagar and Nai Basti residents not to dump building material in the nallahs and lanes, adding that such practices not only create problems for the JMC, which face great difficul-ties in removing the debris (mulba) but also clogs the nallahs and drains resulting in overflowing of rain water into the houses in residen-tial areas. Bhalla said Gov-ernment has earmarked Rs. 68 crore for modernization
of Gangyal, Digiana, Trikuta Nagar, Bhour Camp and Rajiv Nagar Barsati nallahs, add-ing that the project would be started soon by Economic Reconstruction Agency. He said under the project, all formalities have been com-pleted to start the work. He called upon the people to co-operate with the ERA by re-moving encroachments from nallah land voluntarily.
Responding to demand of Nai Basti people, the Minis-ter asked the JMC Commis-sioner to immediately start the face lifting of Nai Basti recreational park including installation of mast lights . He also asked the Commis-sioner JMC to include the adjoining land area into the recreational park to save it from the encroachers. He said Government has spent Rs. 45 lakh for channelizing and covering of 150 meter nallah stretch flowing along the locality.
Inspects con-struction work on Slaughter house, PWD & PMGSY roads
DODA, OCTOBER 03-
To inspect and review the pace of developmental activities, District Develop-ment Commissioner, Doda Mubarak Singh Thursday vis-ited Bhaderwah and inspected various ongoing developmen-tal projects in the area.
Additional District Devel-opment Commissioner Doda G.N Balwan, Chief Planning Officer Doda Yoginder Katoch, Sub-Divisional Magistrate Bhaderwah Bhupinder Kumar besides Officers of PHE, PWD, PMGSY and Municipality ac-companied the DDC.
While inspecting the con-struction work on Modern Slaughter House Bhaderwah and Bridge to Slaughter house, the DDC directed the con-cerned officers to settle the land dispute at the earliest so that work get completed in a time bound manner.
The DDC also inspected ongoing road projects in the area which included Chinar Mohalla to Quilla Mohalla PWD road, Kansar PMGSY road, under construction New Bus Stand Bhaderwah and
repair of earthquake damage work in Government Higher Secondary School (Boys) and GHSS (Girls) Bhaderwah and directed the concerned for early completion of these works.Later, the DDC also con-vened a meeting of Engineer-ing Departments and held detailed discussion on various developmental projects going on in the area and directed the officers to vigorously moni-tor the pace of works in their respective areas so that works get completed in time.
Bhalla directs JMC to carry out regular sanitation drive during festival days
Ensure speedy completion of dev projects: DDC to executing agencies
FRISDAY OCTOBER | 04 | 2013Daily ZABARWAN TIMES NEWS
You may feel extra passionate today, Libra, so don’t be surprised if you take things to extremes even more than usu-al. There’s an aggression within you that’s working to help keep you in control of every situation. Remember that you must be prepared to receive whatever you dish out. There’s a warring instinct in everyone that’s likely to emerge on a day like this.
Find your strength from within, Scorpio. There’s a great deal of it in there, and it’s ready to erupt like a volcano. Let your passion drive your engine today and you’ll be amazed at the incredible places you can go. Don’t be afraid to take things to extremes. Your fantastic good luck will pull you out of any sticky predicament.
Your strong yet steady pace may get a lift today, Sagittar-ius. It might seem like there’s a fire under your feet, and you probably need to keep moving in order to keep yourself from getting burned. Use your independent streak to get things done the way you want them. This could be a powerhouse day for you!
There’s excitement today that indicates that things are happening, things are changing. Stay alert and in tune with what’s going on around you, Capricorn. There’s a wonderful energy charge urging you to push the boundaries of every-thing going on around you. Do your part to help the world evolve to a happier, more peaceful place.
You’re the sensitive one in a sea of anger today, Aquarius, so keep your guard up. Don’t be tempted or seduced by any rage around you. Be wary of people who seem motivated by fear. You’ll be much better off when you align yourself with those who act from a point of neutrality and self-confidence. Model your behavior after the people you see as superheroes in your world.
You should mesh quite well with the prevailing energy today, Pisces. There’s a powerful, transformative force help-ing to give greater strength to your ego and vitality. Note the fiery energy about the day that encourages your dynamic and forceful personality to shine through. Feel free to ex-press your independence in every situation.
Tension is building today that may wreak havoc with your harmonious nature, Virgo. The key for you now is to see the opportunity instead of conflict in each situation. This is a good time to gain a greater perspective on certain things. A bit of internal transformation may take place when you see things from the other side of the fence.
Things may be happening too fast around you today, Ar-ies, but that doesn’t mean you necessarily have to join the frenzied pace. You’re probably much better off sticking with your methodical approach. Take the time to collect the facts you need before you jump into a major decision or plan of attack. People may be a bit jumpy, so do your best to be the stable one in the group.
Make sure you aren’t projecting a picture of yourself that doesn’t represent the real you, Taurus. It’s important that you remain true to your soul or you’ll end up in situations that make you uncomfortable and frustrated. There’s a strong transformative force working against you today, but you’ll have the leadership and confidence to stand up for yourself in whatever way you need.
Remind yourself of all the positive things you have going on in your life now, Gemini. It’s possible that you’ll be met with tension and challenges today that are threatening your sense of self. Arguments may break out around you, and you may have questions regarding what it is you stand for. Don’t lose touch with your nurturing qualities and sixth sense.
The fire within you is burning extra hot, Cancer, so make the most of this incredible internal furnace. Treat yourself to some new attire and proudly show it off tonight. Take the lead on projects that might be floundering. You have power behind your words and actions today, so use it for the high-est good.
You may feel the urge to get up and go today, Leo, but at the same time you may feel like you aren’t prepared. Perhaps you don’t feel you’re on solid enough ground to take the next step. Don’t let the pressure of the outside world move you to a place you aren’t ready to go. Take things at your own pace, and be tolerant of those who choose to go at theirs.
Reviews achieve-ments under
Urban Develop-ment schemes
Rajouri, October 3:
The Minister for Urban Develop-ment, Rigzin Jora, Thursday said that the government would provide ad-equate funds to improve the basic amenities and civic infrastructure in the twin towns of Rajouri and Than-namandi.
Accompanied by the Minister of state for Health, Shabir Ahmed Khan, Mr Jora, said this while addressing separate meetings of civil society members convened to listen to the de-velopmental demands of the locals of the twin towns.
Responding to the demands raised during the meeting at Rajouri, the Minister assured that adequate funds would be made available to complete the upcoming community hall in the town. He also assured to provide funds
to the Municipal Committee for pur-chasing a JCP for lifting of garbage.
The Minister also listed the schemes being implemented to up-grade civic infrastructure, public utilities and sew-erage, sanitation lands and drains in the town area committees across the
state. He also assured that the newly constructed bus terminal in Rajouri town would be started soon and asked the local administration to take steps in this direction.
Health Minister, Shabir Ahmed Khan also highlighted the develop-mental requirements with regard to the improving civic amenities in the twin towns. He particularly stressed
for adequate funds for the early com-pletion of the community hall at Ra-jouri town adding that this was a long pending demand of the locals. He also stressed on the need to equip the local urban bodies in the district to enable them to improve civic services in the
urban centres. Earlier, the Minister
also reviewed achieve-ments under Integrated Housing and Slum De-velopment Programme (IHSDP), Integrated De-velopment of Small and Medium Towns (IDSMT) and other schemes at a meeting attended by the District Development Commissioner Rajouri, F C Bhagat, director Lo-cal Bodies, Jammu and
other senior functionaries of line de-partments.
The meeting was told that in total 23 works in Rajouri and 10 works in Thannamandi town were completed under IDMT during last year, while 52 dwelling units, 22 works of lanes and drains and 5 public convenience units have been completed under IHSD in Rajouri.
JAMMU, OCTOBER 03- Divisional Commissioner Jammu Shantmanu, who is also the chairman of Navratra Festival Or-ganizing Committee, announced that the annual Navratra Festi-val will be held from 5th to 12th of October, 2013. Addressing a press conference here Thursday, the Div Com said that the festi-val will be organized jointly by the Department of Tourism, Shri Mata Vaishnodevi Shrine Board, Katra, District Administration and local hospitality industry. The festival will be inaugurated by Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand at 11 a.m. at Katra on October 05.He highlighted the main attractions of the festival including cultural procession upto main chowk, Katra, Shoba Yatra (Cul-tural Procession) of troupes and tableaux showcasing culture and tradition of the State, All India Devotional Song competition at Yog Ashram Ground, cultural programmes, religious discours-es (Bhagwat Katha), International Wrestling Competition at Vi-veka Nand Sports Stadium, Hassaya Vyand Event, Kavi Samelan.
D&FCO team seizes illegal consignment of drugs
JAMMU, OCTOBER 03 – The Inspectorate Staff of Drugs and Food Control Organization (D&FCO), J&K, Jammu has seized a huge consignment of Rexcof Syrup of Cipla Company at Lakhan-pur. The D&FCO team was assisted by Commercial Tax Officers posted at the toll post. The Consignment was bound for Sri-nagar and was being transported through Truck bearing No.: JK02U-9647 in an illegal manner.The Truck Driver, Shabir Ah-mad Yatoo, of Nagam, Chadoora, Badgam, could not produce any documents related to source of purchase and further distri-bution of the consignment.
Navratra Festival to be held from 5th to 12th
October: Div Com
Manohar reviews Navratra rrangements
Awareness Programme for PRIs on anti dengue measures held
DDC sensitizes Sarpanchs of Samba, Vijaypur, Purmandal on prevention and control of dengue
Jora assures better civic amenities in Rajouri, Thannamandi towns
Sham inspects development works in Akhnoor block, directs for early completion
KATHUA, OCTOBER 03
Minister of state for Fisheries, Coop-erative, Finance and Planning Dr Manohar Lal Sharma convened a meeting of offi-cers to discuss arrangements for ensuing Navratra festival here Thursday.
ADDC Kathua Rohit Khajuria, XEN’s of PDD, PHE, PWD, Tehsildar Billawar and other tehsil level officers were among the present on the occasion.
Dr Manohar discussed all necessary arrangements being put in place to facili-tate smooth conduct of Navaratas at dif-ferent Goddess shrines of tehsil Billawar. He took stock of arrangements like sani-tation, adequate drinking water supply, un-interrupted power supply, first-aid facilities, quality eatables and their rates besides security arrangements and traffic management.
It is pertinent to mention here that lakhs of devotees from in and outside the state visit various shrines in Billawar dur-ing Navarata festivals.
Dr Manohar Lal Sharma called upon the officers to make all the necessary arrangements well in advance so that people do not face any hardship during navratras.
The Minister asked the SDPO Basohli to make adequate security arrangements at all the shrines besides directing Medi-cal department to deploy Para Medical Staff at Base camp near Dhiani Bridge and near bhavan of Mata Bala Sundri and Mata Sukrala ji.
The Minister also directed the PHE de-partment to ensure potable chlorinated drinking water at the shrines. He directed Xen PWD to repair the roads approaching various shrines before the Navartra fes-tival.
He also directed XEN PMGSY to im-prove the road connectivity on Billawar- Katli and Billawar- Machedi roads. The Minister also directed the Executive Of-ficers of Municipal Committee to ensure cleanliness in the towns particularly around the shrines.
SAMBA, OCTOBER 03-
In order to aware the general masses about the effective ways of prevention and control of Dengue in the district, a series of meetings was conducted under the chair-manship of Deputy Commissioner Samba R.K Varma Thursday at Samba, Vijaypur and Purmandal Blocks.
The officers of Health, Social Welfare and Rural Development departments educated the PRI functionaries about the causes, pre-vention and control of dengue in the district.
Addressing the gathering, DDC impressed upon the officers to inform PRI functionar-ies of every programme of Dengue control viz. fogging, spraying or any awareness pro-gramme initiated by either medical dept. or municipal committees as they can help in implementing the programme successfully and effectively. He also stressed for coordi-nated efforts on the part of all organizations like education, local bodies, social welfare, and Health department for realization of common goal of dengue free samba.
The DDC exhorted upon the officers of
medical dept, social welfare and municipal committees to take every possible step to prevent this menace and aware the public by starting awareness programmes and by uti-lizing every possible resource to disseminate the knowledge in every nook and corner of the district. He said a very simple method to avoid the breeding of dengue virus mosquito was to keep on changing water at least once in five days, in flower pots, money plants, trays of water pots, tires, bottles, bath tubs and tanks besides regular cleaning of choked drains.
Later, District Health Officer Samba and Block Medical officer Samba elaborated on technical aspects of the problems Dengue virus, incidences of Dengue Fever, possible factors related to dengue epidemics, special features of mosquitoes, causative agents of Dengue, the geographical distribution of Dengue, its common breeding sites, types of virus in Dengue, its diagnosis, treatment and prevention.Among others ACR, ACD, of-ficers from medical department, CDPOs and Executive officers of municipal committees attended the meetings.
JAMMU, OCTOBER 03
Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control Sham Lal Sharma has directed the officers of Flood Control department to gear up their field functionaries for timely completion of protection wall and steps along Chenab River at Dusserha Ground Akhnoor. This Minister was on an inspection to various ongoing de-velopmental works being executed under different schemes in Akhnoor block here Thursday.The works in-spected by the Minister included construction of Tube-well at Bhar-da Kalani, beautification of ponds and development of park at Bharda Kalani on modern lines, construc-tion of protection wall at Dusserha Ground, Akhnoor etc.The Minister was informed that Rs.188 lakh are being spent on construction of tube-well at Bharda Kalani and work on rising main, sump tank has been completed while remaining work is in full swing. While inspecting progress on construction of Tube-
well, the Minister said that with the completion of this tube-well, the water scarcity in this area would be redressed. He directed the Chief En-gineer to ensure timely and quality completion of the project.
The Minister also inspected the development work being ex-ecuted at different ponds in the area. He directed the BDO to ensure that the works are completed at the earliest. He also inspected the pace of progress on widening of road at Phabara ChowkThe Minister direct-ed the executing agencies to speed up the pace of work on all ongoing developmental works and complete them in a stipulated time frame.He said Government is keen to ensure beautification of parks and other spots to further raise tourists influx as tourism sector contributes major chunk to state’s economy.A team of senior officers and engineers from PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control department including Chief Engi-neer K. K. Gupta accompanied the Minister during his visit.
DDC reviews functioning of RDDKISHTWAR, OCTOBER 03- Reviewing performance of Rural Development Department in District Kishtwar,
DDC Baseer Ahmed Khan Thursday directed the department to identify local thrust areas to ensure an inclusive development plan for the District.Khan held threadbare discussion on implementation of MGNREGA, IAY, Nir-mal Bharat Abhiyan, BRGF and Model Village Schemes and sought detailed clarification of various points from the ACD and BDOs concerned.The DC asked all the BDOs to ensure that the services of facilitators and down be-low staff should be monitored closely. He impressed upon them BDOs to ensure Social Audit of each and every work completed with proper physical verification on the spot.Giving the details of activities under MGNREGA, the ACD intimated that a total number of 6780 works comprising water conservation, drought proofing, Micro irrigation, flood control rural connectivity and land development were taken in the district, 13488 household were provided employment and total of 645290 man days were created.
Emphasising on convergence programme under MGNREGA, the DDC directed all the BDOs to identify three projects in each block for convergence with MGNREGA to create durable assets in co-ordination with other departments.
Cooperative department condoles demise of Ajesh Kumar
JAMMU, OCTOBER 03 – The Cooperative department Thursday convened a meeting to condole untimely demise of Ajesh Kumar, KAS, Joint Registrar (Banking and Finance) Cooperative Societies, in the Cooperative of-fice complex, SDA Colony, Bemina.The participants expressed condolences with the bereaved family and prayed for eternal peace to the departed soul.A two minutes silence was observed to pay homage to the departed soul.
HEALTH AND FITNESS
ZABARWAN TIMES Friday 04 October 2013
Mom-to-be take special care of your heartWhen a woman is pregnant, her heart has to work 'harder'!As a mother's body prepares to take care of two indi-viduals, the heart has to work overtime to accommo-date all the imminent changes. An over-worked heart often leads to certain health woes, viz, swollen ankles, fatigue, mild shortness of breath, and frequent urina-tion. Women with pre-existing cardiovascular diseases or conditions like diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity, hypertension or women who smoke, are at higher risk of these complications. These complications may have an important impact on the mother and the baby.Dur-ing pregnancy, changes occur to the heart and blood vessels that add stress on a woman's body and increase the workload of the heart. The cardiac input, heart beat rate and the blood volume increases during pregnancy and is doubled by the eighth month. There are changes such as:
-Increase in blood volume-Increase in cardiac output-Increase in heart rate-Decrease in blood pressureHowever, women who has a late pregnancy or has a pre-existing cardiovascular diseases, will not be able to handle the increase the cardiac input, heart beat rate and the blood volume to the body.The cardiac ailments which can prove fatal during pregnancy are:Cardiomyopathy: For women with Cardiomyopathy, the heart is weak and is not able to pump large amount of blood through the body and maintain a normal elec-trical rhythm for the pregnant mother. This can lead to heart failure or irregular heartbeats called arrhythmias. This can be lethal for both the mother and baby.Heart valve disease: For women with heart valve disease, heart's valves do not work the way they should and the
heart will not be able to handle the changes in the blood volume and pressure. It can be lethal for both the mother and the baby.How should the mother prepare her heart for pregnancy?Lethal heart diseases: Women with heart ailments or a family history of cardiac disorders should consult a cardi-ologist and a gynaecologist before planning a baby.Con-genital heart defect: If the mother or father had a congeni-tal heart defect, there is a 5 - 10 per cent chance that the child could have it at birth. If both the mother and father had a congenital heart defect at birth, there is a higher risk that the child would be born with it. Such parents are asked to do a feotal ecogram before the 24th week of pregnancy.Anti-epileptic drugs: Anti-epileptic drugs can also induce a cardiac problem with the baby. Most women do not have the luxury of stopping medications during pregnancy without seizure recurrence. Doctor's consultation is extremely important in such situations.
Lose weight faster. Even if you are dieting, chances are that you are wondering what to eat, to boost your weight loss. We select seven foods for you that will help you shed those pounds faster than you've thought.1. Almonds: Did you know that these nuts are packed with the best nutri-ents and vitamins? Just a handful of almonds will give you the right boost of energy and will also keep hunger pangs at bay. Avoid the ones that are coated with choco-late or salt.2. Apples: We all know how an apple a day will keep the doc-tor away, but do you also know that it helps keep fat at bay too? Apples are said to contain four to five grams of fiber per serving, so they are sweet as well as crunchy and keeps you full for a long time. They also contain antioxidants which add essential vitamins and minerals in your body.3. Avocado: Though they are known to be fatty, but you need not worry. Avocados are loaded with fiber and proteins and helps
in weight loss. They contain 'good' monosaturated fats that keeps you full for a long time.4. Bell Peppers: Red, yellow or green - you can choose any, bell peppers contain vitamin C, and gives you the right amount of vita-mins. You can have them raw, as a salad or in a bowl of soup.5. Cinnamon: Instead of adding sugar to your beverages or meals, try adding a pinch of cinnamon for increased energy and a slower release of insulin in your system. Cinnamon has a sweet taste and is completely guilt-free.6. Eggs: If you are having egg whites, you are surely going to lose oodles of weight. They con-tain proteins and keeps you feel-ing full for a long time. Thus egg whites are said to be the best choice for breakfast.7. Quinoa: If you are craving carbs during your lunch or dinner hours, you can always go in for quinoa. Said to be an alternative for rice, it's rich in proteins and fiber and is a wonderful food that aids in weight loss.
7 best foods for weight lossLower your blood pressure in 6 easy steps
High blood pressure affects 1 in 3 individuals and can cause serious and irreversible damage. Yet, those affected can be completely unaware of their condition. Fortunately, the con-trol button is your hands. Because high blood pressure in-creases the risk of heart diseases, kidney diseases and diabe-tes, the WHO will be focusing on hypertension throughout the year. High blood pressure has come to be known as a 'silent killer' and affects every third person above the age of 18. The proportion increases with age, from 1 in 10 people in their 20s and 30s to 5 in 10 people in their 50s, as per the World Health Organisation (WHO).Early detection is important and all adults need to know their blood pressure or keep tabs on the same. Early diagnosis check ups cost less than the long-term costs and complications of untreated high blood pressure.Although high BP does not have a cure, it can be managed or prevented by low-cost lifestyle changes and medication as prescribed by your doctor. You can reduce your blood pres-sure by making some small changes in your life.1. Cut the salt: Limiting sodium helps control high blood pressure in those who have it and helps prevent it in those who don't. The WHO recommends no more than 2,000 mg of sodium or five grams of salt — the equivalent of one tea spoon — per day. Beware especially of processed and pack-aged foods, fast foods, and canned foods - all common sources of excessive salt.2. Eat potassium: This mineral helps lower blood pressure. The recommended daily intake for adults is 3,510 mg. Potassium-rich foods include: beans and peas (ap-proximately 1,300 mg of potassium per 100 g), nuts (approxi-mately 600 mg/100 g), vegetables such as spinach, cabbage and parsley (approximately 550 mg/100 g) and fruits such as bananas, papayas and dates (approximately 300 mg/100 g).
We use a lot of skin care products that boast of properties and vitamins from fruits, but why do we still select creams over natural fruits? Let's take a look at how many fruits you need to eat every day before you can say that you are getting enough fruits in your daily diet. Based on a study in 2010 reported by the Dietary Guidelines of America, you need 1.5 - 2 cups of fruits daily, but 'the amount de-pends on the number of calories per day recommended for your healthy weight.' (Via) Also, it is recommended that you eat five serv-ings of fruits and veggies a day, but it depends on your age and gender: Women between the ages of 19-50 should eat 7-8 servings, while men should eat 8-10 servings. And for those above 50, men and women should consume seven servings of fruits and vegetables a day. All this preaching is in good spirit. Fruits help fight cancer, obesity and heart disease. Fruits provide nutritional vitamins. Certain fruits contain a good amount of natural sugar and fluids, which also keep us hydrated. Fruits are rich in fiber, and are great for bowel movement and weight loss. It is also advised that you consume fruits whole, instead of skinned or juiced. Tips on how to make fruits a part of your daily diet:Since two cups of fruits are the norm, you can break this down into four servings a day; for instance, breakfast, mid day, mid evening and after dinner.Avoid fruits from cans that mention preservatives like artificial sugar or high levels of salt, or processed fruits in the form of juices. Opt for fresh fruits as their nutritional value is higher. Try different seasonal fruits from time to time.
Are you getting enough fruits?The new yoga that improves the brain
The new technique that aims to boost brain power is creat-ing a huge buzz everywhere...Guess what? If you were punished in school and made to do the uthak-baithak, it might actually have done more than just been an adherent. It might have made you alert and a better think too. For as per a new form of yoga, that which was considered to be a severe punishment in school — where you touch your ears — is actually a simple ef-fective technique to energise and recharge the brain. Yes, the uthak-baithak sazaa where the student was made to cross his hands and hold the ear lobes for any lapse in school is actually the new 'superbrain yoga'- the regi-men that synchronises the left and the right side of your brain to give you benefits.How it helpsMaster Choa Kok Sui who presented superbrain yoga to the public, explains how the brain is a 'living battery' and must be recharged so that it can retain memory and intelligence values. His exercise, he says can help this. As per this philosophy, energy connections are generat-ed to energise the brain. The right ear lobe corresponds to the left brain while the left ear lobe corresponds to the right brain. The ears also act as powerful acupunc-ture pressure points that have a direct connection to the brain. So when the ears are massaged, the energy flows to the brain. Researchers maintain that the technique uses principles of subtle energy and ear acupuncture to increase memory and intelligence and can make one a better thinker. They say that the energy that is gener-ated also balances out the other energies of the throat, heart and forehead.In addition, reports mention how children with learning disabilities such as Down Syndrome, developmental and cognitive problems like ADHD/ADD reported an increase in performance and became more active in the class. Apparently, pinching the ear lobes has an acupuncture effect that helps.What experts feelHolistic guru Mickey Mehta believes this is something everyone should do. "In yoga there are such asanas that help increase brain activity. For instance, we also have something called 'bhamri pranayam', where you hum and that action the increases electro magnetic field in the brain. It activates the ENT and helps people with tinnitus (ringing in the ears). The technique also improves hearing and vision in addition to boosting neuro-activity. It's great for everyone, especially the elderly." Adds Mumbai-based yoga expert, Shanti Chavan, "In yoga, innumerable techniques and principles have evolved over thousands of years. And in Mumbai, where there is such a high level of stress, yoga needs to be incorporated into the day. This technique fits in as it can be practiced in the office itself. It has calming benefits and helps energise you when you get thrown off balance."
Depression on the rise, undetected
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) statistics reveal that a total of 1,35,445 people committed suicide in 2012 which amounts to a an average of 15 suicides an hour or 371 sui-cides daily. Maharashtra ranked second on the suicide index with Tamil Nadu topping it.Aasra, a 24x7 suicide helpline based out of Mumbai receives about 50 calls daily from people who, almost at the verge of suicide and are seeking out help. Jhonson Thomas, the director of this crisis intervention centre said, "The callers are usually really desper-ate and right at the edge as seeking help is not ingrained in our culture and people prefer to sort out an issue on their own." The counsel-lors remain with them on the call for durations ranging from 20 minutes to 2-3 hours, de-pending on the situation, and discourage them from taking any drastic step. "We cajole the caller to share his/her problem in detail and vent out their bottled emotions. Once that is
done its easier to address the issue and offer solutions," he added.Many psychologists and doctors believe that suicide is a mere trigger reaction to unad-dressed issues that have been piling on. City-based psychologist, Dr Himani Chaphekar, who treats 8-10 depression patients every month, said, "Stress levels have gone up right from school level which continues well into the old age. Excessive expectations to excel, societal pressures and being unsatisfied with what you have are the factors that contribute largely to depression." Commenting on the fact that Indians do not take their mental health very seriously and are sceptical of addressing it she added, "There are many stigmas and mis-conceptions associated with mental health and well being.While people rush to a doctor for a normal cold and flu they avoid seeing a psychol-ogist as they feel that a psychological disorder is their own doing that they need to be ashamed
of." Emphasising on the need for quick identifi-cation and diagnosis of such disorders, she add-ed, "Very few people know that mental health is directly co-related to hormonal imbalance or chemical changes/imbalances and is hence also physiological. All this misconception ensures that people are not able to distinguish between sadness, normal anxiety and clinical depression that requires treatment."Adding to it another city-based psychiatrist, Neville Misquitta said, "The stigma for mental health patients arises from the behaviours and emotions that sets them apart from others. Once these are controlled, there is no stigma. And modern medication can do this. If diagnosed with depression the person needs to follow the prescribed medical advice. The road to recovery is normally smooth but one needs to be patient."Speaking about the average age group of the callers on the suicide helpline Thomas added, "15-45 is the most prominent age group that is prone to suicidal tendencies globally. The second most vulnerable age group comprises 60 plus people. While for the first age group its usually a break-up, loss of a loved one or a general loss that's the biggest trigger, among the second age group the reasons range from loneliness, chronic illnesses, coping with the lack of loved ones to coming to terms with retirement and making a transition to a seden-tary lifestyle."
The 19-year-old Nashik intern, who committed suicide recently, has yet again brought forth the grim reality of suicides increasingly becoming a
commonplace in India.
Agencies
A court in Odisha’s Kan-dhamal district on Thursday awarded life term to eight persons, including a Maoist leader, for their involvement
in the murder of Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Swa-mi Laxmanananda Saraswati and four others in 2008.
Special additional district session judge RK Tose also
imposed a fine of Rs. 10,000 on each of the convicts.
Saraswati and his four as-sociates, including a woman, were killed by a group of un-identified armed assailants at his ashram at Jaleshpata
in the district of Kandhamal on August 23, 2008.
The murder of the VHP leader had triggered com-munal violence in the state that had claimed 38 lives
and forced 25,000 Christians to flee from their homes.
The court in district head-quarters Phulbani, about 200 km southwest of Bhu-baneswar, had reserved the quantum of sentence after convicting Maoist leader Pulari Rama Rao alias Uday on Tuesday and seven oth-ers on Monday for the crime.
Though the police had said Maoists killed Lax-manananda, VHP activists suspected Christians to be behind his murder.
The Odisha government handed over the case to the state crime branch (CB) and initiated a judicial inquiry into the murder and subse-quent communal violence.
The CB had arrested nine out of 14 accused while the others, including top Mao-ist leader Sabyasachi Panda, are still at large.
In its first chargesheet submitted in 2009, CB named the seven accused that were convicted on Mon-day by the court.
FRISDAY OCTOBER | 04 | 2013ZABARWAN TIMES 7
India seeks Belgium’s sup-port to enter arms control
regimesPresident Pranab Mukherji has
called for diversification of bilateral trade and investment with Belgium. Speaking at the delegation level talks with the Prime minister of Belgium Elio De Rupo today, Mr. Mukherji un-derlined the need of greater coopera-tion in areas like life sciences, green technology, pharmaceuticals, infra-structure development and informa-tion and communication technology.
He hoped that Belgium with its expertise in these fields can become an important partner of India. While hoping that Indo-Belgian bilateral trade will regain momentum in 2013 , he said both the countries would be able to achieve the target of doubling the bilateral trade from € 8.8 billion in 2008 in the next five years.
He said India fervently hopes that an early finalisation of the India-EU Broad-Based Trade and Investment Agreement will give further impetus to bilateral trade and investment, which is all the more pertinent in the context of current global economic challenges.
Cabinet approves Telangana, Hyderabad to be the joint capital
Agencies
The Union cabinet on Thurs-day has approved the formation of Group of Ministers (GoM) for creation of Telangana. Hyderabad will be the joint capital of both Telangana and Seemandhra for 10 years, home minister Sushil-kumar Shinde said.
People of all the three regions will be guaranteed fundamental rights, Shinde said.
The new state will be carved out of Andhra Pradesh, marking the culmination of a long-drawn agitation spanning several de-cades.
Scores of anti-Telangana sup-porters protested outside the Prime Minister’s official resi-dence on Thursday afternoon where the Cabinet meeting was be held.
Holding banners and shouting slogans against the division of the state, the protestors called for ‘Saving Andhra Pradesh’ and tried to enter the Prime Minister’s resi-dence at 7 Race Course Road by breaking through the barricades. Police stopped the protestors and bundled them into police vans
before taking them away.14 ministers and about 50 leg-
islators from Andhra Pradesh’s Seemandhra (Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra) region also met in Hyderabad to chalk out their strategy. State minister S Saila-janath, who heads the Congress leaders opposing the proposed bifurcation, said after the meet-ing that they remained commit-ted to ‘samaikyandhra’ (united Andhra).The CWC resolution has proposed to make Hyderabad the joint capital of the two states – Telangana and the remaining dis-tricts of Andhra Pradesh. But the Congress leadership gave up this plan since this would have neces-sitated turning the much-sought after city into a union territory (UT).
Government sources told HT that the home minister intended to place the formal note before the cabinet at its meeting a few hours later today to seek the gov-ernment’s approval.
According to the cabinet note, the new state of Telangana would comprise 10 districts including Hyderabad.
The residuary state of Andhra
Pradesh can still operate out of Hyderabad for a maximum of 10 years but the AP government would not have a say in its gov-ernance.
“Our sense is that given the politically-surcharged environ-ment in Hyderabad, the Andhra Pradesh government would like to move out to a new capital as soon as possible,” a government functionary said.
In the cabinet note cleared by Shinde, the home ministry has also proposed constituting a group of ministers to decide on the nitty-gritty of splitting Andhra’s assets and liabilities be-tween the two states.
Out of 42 Lok Sabha seats in the undivided state, 17 would go to Telangana state and 25 to residuary Andhra and out of the 18 Rajya Sabha seats in the un-divided state, 8 are proposed to be given to Telangana and 10 to rest of Andhra Pradesh. The 294-seat legislative assembly would similarly be split with 119 going to Telangana and 175 to Andhra. The cabinet note, however, does not spell out any proposal for the 90-member legislative council.
Swami Laxmanananda murder: life term for 8
BJP expecting Lok Sabha polls to be
announced ‘anytime’
2500 homeless families to get prefabricated houses: Bahuguna
Agencies
The BJP was expecting the Lok Sabha polls to be an-nounced ‘anytime now’, se-nior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu said today.
“We are expecting that the Lok Sabha polls could be announced anytime now. If it is held in December, we have 100 days, and if in March then 150 days,” Naidu
told a press conference here after addressing party work-ers. The BJP campaign com-mittee had decided to expe-dite the election campaign process across the country. “A total of 100 rallies will be held across the country,” he said. BJP’s election plank in the ensuing Lok Sabha polls
would be good governance and development, he said.
He said that BJP would not join hands with any par-ty like the Trinamool Con-gress in West Bengal.
“We will field candidate in all 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state,” Naidu said.
The party would hold a massive rally here in Janu-ary to be addressed by party leaders, including its Prime
Ministerial candidate Naren-dra Modi.
“We plan to hold a mas-sive rally at Brigade Parade ground where top leaders like Narendra Modi, L K Ad-vani, Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and oth-ers will be present,” the for-mer BJP president added.
Agencies
Uttarakhand government will build prefabricated houses to re-habilitate 2,500 families rendered homeless by the mid-June calam-ity in the state.
This will be in addition to a compensation of Rs 2 lakh al-ready given to each person who lost his house in the tragedy, Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna told reporters here today while announcing the state government’s reha-bilitation policy framed in the wake of the calam-ity.
3,100 families were rendered homeless by the catastrophic floods, out of which 600 will be rehabilitated by corpo-rate houses and NGOs and the rest by the state govern-ment, he said.
About a dozen villages have been identified in the worst- hit Rudraprayag, Chamoli, Uttar-kashi, Bageshwar and Pithoragarh districts where the prefabricated houses will come up, he said.
Each prefabricated house to be constructed at a cost of Rs 6 lakh and will have two rooms, a toilet and guaranteed durability of 30 years, Bahuguna said.
“Our effort is to finish the con-struction of these houses before the onset of peak winter months,” he said. He said if a targeted ben-
eficiary does not want to live in these houses, he will be given Rs 4 lakh in addition to the Rs 2 lakh already given to him as compen-sation, apart from a 1000 sq ft plot free of cost to help him resettle.
However, the Chief Minister clarified that the beneficiaries will be allowed to resettle and relocated only in areas adjacent to their original homes and not in the plain areas.
In case of a beneficiary choos-ing not to move into the prefabri-cated houses built for them, they will have to take the clearance of the District Magistrate concerned to settle in a location of their choice.
Noting that the state govern-ment has not yet been able to pro-vide compensation to Kedarnath residents who lost their property in the tragedy, Bahuguna said he will hold a meeting with them on October 11, listen to them and then ascertain the quantum of compensation to be given to them.
Lalu sentenced to 5 years in fodder scam Asks ‘How can I be punished?’
Agencies
RANCHI: Former Bihar chief min-ister and RJD president Lalu Prasad was finally sentenced for five years with fine of Rs 25 lakh in case no. RC20A/96 of the Rs 950 crore fodder scam by CBI special Judge PK Singh on Thursday.He is one among the 37 people accused in the same case.
Another former Bihar chief min-ister Jagannath Mishra has been sentenced for four years with fine of Rs 2 lakh whereas JD (U) sitting MP Jagdish Prasad has been sentenced for four years with fine of Rs 5 lakh. For-mer MLA, RK Rana, has been slapped with the maximum fine of Rs 30 lakh and im-prisonment of five years.
Four IAS officers and 25 suppliers who were accused by the CBI in the same case have been awarded impris-onment of four years each.
Hearing arguments of counsel of the accused and CBI in the first half, court of special CBI judge pronounced the final ver-dict at 2.30pm which sent shock waves across the political fraternity.
Lalu, who was convicted in the case on Monday along with 44 oth-ers, including former chief minister Jagannath Mishra is currently lodged in Birsa Munda Central Jail here.
The 65-year-old leader has lost his Lok Sabha seat and stands dis-qualified as an MP and is also barred from contesting election for six years following the sentencing thanks to a
Supreme Court order.During the argument in the court
earlier today, Lalu’s counsel pleaded a lenient sentence underlining that the former CM was a senior and law abid-ing citizen. Lalu’s lawyer also argued he was too old and suffered from many diseases. On the other hand, CBI demanded maximum punish-ment ‘which would act as deterrent in similar cases.’
The 17-year-old case involves fraudulent withdrawal to the tune of Rs 37.7 crore from Chaibasa treasury in the 1990s.
There were a total of 56 accused in the case. But during the trial, seven accused died, two turned approvers, one admitted to the crime and one was discharged.
Judge PK Singh had earlier fixed July 15 as the date for verdict, and had asked the remaining 45 accused to be present in the court.
Lalu Prasad moved the Jharkhand
high court and later the Supreme Court, seeking change of the judge in the case. Both the courts dismissed his petition, and directed him to com-plete argument in the case before the CBI special court.
Lalu Prasad quit the chief minis-ter’s post in 1997 when his name fig-ured in the CBI investigations in the scam, which surfaced in 1996.
Around 54 of the 61 cases were transferred to Jharkhand, af-ter it was created as a sepa-rate state from Bihar in No-vember 2000. Different CBI courts have passed judge-ments in more than 43 cases. Former CMs Lalu Prasad and Jagannath Mishra are ac-cused in five cases.
Key politicians in the case apart from Lalu and Mishra are former AHD minister, Vidya Sagar Nishad, Chan-dradeo Prasad Verma, for-mer JDU MP, Jagdish Sharma, former RJD MP, RK Rana and former BJP MLA Dhruv Bhagat, while bureaucrats
convicted in the case are Phulchand Singh, Mahesh Prasad, Beck Julius and K Arumugham.
“When I have not done any crime, how have I been punished?” This was Lalu Prasad’s instant reaction when a CBI court jailed him for five years for his involvement in the fodder scam.
An upset Lalu Prasad asked the question at the Birsa Munda Central Jail here over video conferencing fa-cility after he heard the special CBI court sentencing him with a Rs 25 lakh fine.
Agencies
Rahul Gandhi defended his interven-tion on the ordinance that sought to protect convicted lawmakers from disqualification saying his “feelings and intention were gen-uine but the words and language he used were wrong.”
“My mother told me that the words that I used were strong. In hindsight, I feel maybe my words were wrong...but the sen-timent I felt was not wrong,” he said, jus-tifying his stand on the ordinance which, subsequent to his public intervention, was withdrawn but left the government and his party embarrassed.
The Congress vice-president said this during an informal media interaction in Ahmedabad, Gujarat where he is on a two day tour to interact with block and district level Congress leaders in the state, consid-ered this is a strong turf of Narendra Modi, chief minister and BJP’s prime ministerial nominee.“I always speak from my heart,” he said, adding, “I have the right to voice my opinion and a large part of the Congress party wanted the same stand of withdrawal of ordinance.”On the Congress party’s fifth consecutive defeat in the December 2012 state assembly polls in Gujarat, he said, “The defeat was not because of a powerful BJP but due to internal bickering and in-fighting in the state unit.”
Earlier, the Congress leader began his
tour with a small visit to Mahatma Gan-dhi’s Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad. After spending half-an-hour in the ashram, he wrote in the visitor’s book, “Its always an honour for me to come to the ashram. I am a follower of Gandhi and his ideas. Thank you!.”Later on, he reached the state Congress headquarters where he interacted with Congress leaders from South and Cen-tral Gujarat areas.During his interaction, the state Congress leaders were kept put while Congress affairs in charge Gurudas
Kamat was present. During his interaction, he reportedly asked the local Congressmen why the party was not able to snatch away just 5% vote share from the BJP in Gujarat, which has been ruling the state since 1998.
He also attended a meeting of NSUI, stu-dents wing of the Congress, in Ahmedabad wherein he asked the NSUI leaders to focus on reaching out to the people in urban and rural areas.On Thursday, he will visit Rajkot to hold the similar exercise of meeting Con-gress leaders from Saurashtra.
Mother told me my words on ordinance were wrong: Rahul
We have to go a Long Way in
Providing Better Medical Services to People : Vice
PresidentAgencies
The Vice President of India, Shri M. Hamid An-sari has said that we have to a long way in provid-ing better medical services and treatment to our people.
Addressing at a function to conclude the “Dia-mond Jubilee Celebrations of Holy Family Hos-pital” here today, he said that enough scientific data is available on medical science which can be used for the purpose.
He recalled his first visit to this hospital way back in 1957 when it was a very secluded place out of the city and now it is in centre of the city which proves the foresightedness and vision of it’s founders.
He praised their vision of catering to the needs of under privileged sections of society and opined that it can’t be weighed in money terms.
The Vice President congratulated the medical team, nursing and para-medical staff of the Hos-pital for their service to the society.
The foundation stone of Holy Family Hospital was laid in 1953 by the then Vice President of In-dia Late Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
Jagan Reddy appears before
special CBI court in H’bad
YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, the prime accused in the case of alleged quid-pro-quo investments in-volving his companies, today appeared before a special CBI court in Hyder-abad. Former Andhra Pradesh Ministers Sabitha Indra Reddy and Dharmana Prasada Rao, both accused in the case, also appeared before the court.
It was for the first time Jagan ap-peared before the court after his release on bail on September 24. The court had on September 23 granted him condition-al bail and directed that he should pres-ent himself before the court during the proceedings in the case.The case relates to investments made by various compa-niesin Jaganmohan Reddy's firms as quid quo pro for various favours bestowed on them during the tenure of his father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy as Chief Minister be-tween 2004 and 2009.
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Clarke doubtful for Brisbane TestAustralia’s captain Michael Clarke
has conceded he is far from guar-anteed to be fit in time for the first Ashes Test in Brisbane next month, as his chronic back trouble grows in-creasingly stubborn.
Having been ruled out of the lim-ited overs tour to India that precedes the home series against England, Clarke showed unusual pessimism about his fitness when discussing his chances of returning to full strength and flexibility in time for the Gabba.
There were grim tidings also from James Pattinson, who had originally hoped to recover from a back stress fracture he picked up in England in time to contend for a Brisbane pace berth.
Instead he admitted he was now well behind that schedule, and was looking at a place in the Perth Test as one of four fast bowlers as his earliest chance to resume in Test matches.
Since returning home from Eng-land, Clarke has undergone daily treatment on his back, and between now and the start of the Ashes the Australian team physio Alex Koun-touris is readying himself to make frequent flights from Melbourne to Sydney to spend as much time as possible with his most pivotal pa-tient.
However the process of constant
work to strengthen Clarke has been progressing slowly, and there is al-ways the danger of a relapse such as the one that curtailed his Champions Trophy campaign before the Ashes in England.
“There’s certainly no guarantee at this stage,” Clarke said at the national team’s pre-season camp in Sydney. “It’s hard for me to say that because
I’m trying my best not to look at it like that. I’m al-ways positive and if they ask me, I’ll say I’ll be fit in a week’s time. But you ask Alex who knows me very well, and he’d say there’d be doubt I won’t be right. Making sure I’m doing everything I can to give myself the best chance ... plenty of rehab and recov-ery getting strength back in the areas that support my back. It’s a lot of hard work but I’m willing to do the work to make sure I’m right for that first Test.
“Where I sit right now is I don’t know when I’ll be back playing cricket. We have no idea how long it’s going to take. But in Aus-tralia I’ve got the physio in Sydney I’ve been working with since I was 17, I’ve got the machine, the med-ics machine that’s helped me stay on the park for as
long as I have through my career, and I’m in consistent contact with Alex Kountouris who will fly back and forth from Melbourne to Sydney to see me and make sure I’m improv-ing.”
Clarke’s ideal preparation for the Gabba will be to regain full mobility in time to play in the Sheffield Shield
matches scheduled to lead-in to the Ashes, granting him the chance to gain confidence and batting form be-fore facing England’s pacemen once more. “My best preparation has al-ways been to play cricket and score runs doesn’t matter what form of the game,” Clarke said. “If I’m playing games of cricket and performing that helps me take it into one day cricket or test cricket. I probably train harder than what you have to do in game so playing is probably easier for me mentally and physically with the work that goes into it.”
Pattinson had fought back tears when his Ashes campaign in England was ended during the Lord’s Test by back pain that was revealed to be a fracture. While speaking more hap-pily with the benefit of a few months in the recovery room, he is yet to re-sume running let alone bowling, and remains a long distance from fitness.
“I’m not even running yet which is not great,” Pattinson said. “I get a scan in two weeks time which is a 12 week scan to determine whether the fracture has healed or not. Go from there, get results back from scan start running, should be fine. My back feels fine at the moment, I have no pain. Just a bit of a long process. I’m probably a month off bowling.
“I won’t be back for the first Test, don’t think I’ll be right for the second ... but all things going well I could push for that WACA Test.
Sehwag, Gambhir fail againAgencies
Virender Sehwag’s ex-periment to bat in the middle-order didn’t yield any favourable result while Gautam Gambhir’s woe-ful run of form continued as India A reached 191 for three at stumps on the sec-ond day of their second un-official ‘Test’ against West Indies A in Shimoga on Thursday.
After West Indies A scored a decent 406 in their first innings, opener Gamb-hir (11) and No. 4 Sehwag (7) played atrocious shots off left-arm spinner Veer-aswamy Permaul’s (2/60) bowling to get back to the cooler confines of the dressing room.
Unheralded Kerala opener Vasudevan Jaga-deesh showed a lot of tem-perament as he remained undefeated on 79 in the company of in-form Ab-hishek Nayar, who again showed his utility with an useful 56.
Youngster Jagadeesh, who narrowly missed out on a century during a ‘Test’ against New Zealand ‘A’ ear-lier this year, showed a lot of composure during his
172-ball knock that includ-ed eight boundaries.
Nayar was in his at-tacking self as he smacked seven boundaries and a six in only 38 balls, com-ing into bat after skipper Cheteshwar Pujara (25, 90 balls) was dismissed after a
dogged effort. India were 215 runs
behind West Indies A and require another 66 runs to avoid follow-on at the Jawaharlal Nehru National College of Engineering Cricket grounds.
The capacity crowd — mostly engineering stu-dents — were left high and dry by the Delhi duo Se-hwag and Gambhir, who not only disappointed fans but also didn’t make a case
for the two national selec-tors Roger Binny and Saba Karim, who have come to especially watch the senior players.
Gambhir didn’t look comfortable at all against seamer Miguel Cummins as he struggled for 43 balls
with just a boundary to his name. Left-arm spinner Permaul got his scalp in his third over as Gambhir tried an ugly hoick but managed to offer a dolly to Fidel Ed-wards.
While Gambhir ran out of patience, Sehwag wasn’t even patient enough to grind it out as he played a dozen deliveries before trying to give Permaul the charge only to get stumped in the process.
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There was just one bidder in fray and the sponsorship rights went for the base price but the BCCI today said it was happy with the deal it struck with Star India Pvt Ltd and ESPN for all 13 home international fixtures till March 2014 con-sidering the difficult economic times.
The BCCI today awarded the title sponsorship for all international series and domestic tourna-ments in India for the year 2013-14 to Star Pri-vate and ESPN Software at the base price of Rs 2 crore per fixture, almost Rs 1.5 crore less when compared to their previous deal with Airtel.
“The market situation is such that at one point of time we thought it will be very difficult to get the sponsorship considering the turmoil in the financial market. But we are very happy (with price),” Board Secretary Sanjay Patel told reporters after the BCCI’s Marketing Committee meeting here.
The BCCI today awarded the title sponsorship for all international series and domestic tourna-ments in India for the year 2013-14 to Star Pri-
vate and ESPN Software. “We are pleased that Star
and ESPN Group bid for both the series. That means Aus-tralia and West Indies (series) and the deal will be close to Rs 26 crore. Only one bid was there and the minimum bid-ding price (is what) they have accepted.
“But we are happy they have included the Australia series also though it is starting within two or three days. Un-der the market situation, we are happy the deal has gone through and the entire series is covered,” Patel said.
“The deal is always market driven. One has to be happy with the market situation. Rather than concentrating on less or more price, we should concentrate on what you are
getting as per the market situation. We are quite happy that as per the market situa-tion, the price is not bad.”
The new deal comes after Airtel’s part-nership with the BCCI ended this year. The private telecom giant had won the spon-sorship rights in 2010 for all international and domestic matches scheduled in India.
The three-year contract, running from September 1, 2010 to March 31, 2013, was worth Rs 3.33 crore for each international fixture.
There was a three-month window for Airtel to negotiate an extension of the contract, but with no further discussion on the matter, the Marketing Committee floated fresh tender document last month. Patel dismissed suggestions that the re-cent IPL spot-fixing scandal had marred its prospects in selling the rights at a bet-ter price.
“I don’t think negative news has got anything to do with these kind of things. Cricket is going on well. Our teams are do-
ing good. It is not attributed to any image (of the Board). According to us there is no question of a bad image,” Patel said.
Asked if the Board had decided to include the home series against West Indies to make up for the revenue, the BCCI Secretary said the idea was to please the fans by pencilling in more matches in India.
“There were a couple of reasons because BCCI is also committed to its local fans. Somehow, for the season 2013-14, only 24 days, if I am not wrong, was the home series (duration of Austra-lia tour including non-match days). So obviously we were worried, and we are quite happy that West Indies series has been finalised.”
Two international series at home have been scheduled by the BCCI for the season — the seven-match ODI series and a T20 game against Australia, followed by two Tests and three ODIs against the West Indies.
Title sponsorship rights will extend to do-mestic events such as Irani Cup, Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy, Vijay Hazare, Deodhar Trophy and Raj Singh Dungarpur Trophy.
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BCCI happy with deal for series title sponsorship
Agencies
Rohit Sharma scored
an unbeaten 51 off 24 balls against Perth Scorchers to help Mumbai Indians qual-ify for the semi-finals of the
CLT20 2013 Rohit Sharma is not a precocious talent for no reason. His unbeaten innings
of 51 against Perth Scorch-ers showed the glimpse of his rare batting endowment. Sarang Bhalerao assesses Ro-
hit’s career in the T20 format.Rohit Sharma made his mark in the Twenty20 format with a blistering century off 45 balls against Gujarat in the Syed Mushtaq Ali tournament at the Cricket Club of India in 2007. That century was piv-otal in Rohit’s selection in the Indian team for the inaugural World T20 competition in 2007. India won and the rest, as they say, is history. The rise of Rohit Sharma coincided with the building of the brand called the Indian Premier League (IPL). He was roped in by the Deccan Chargers for whom he was the premier batsman. Sharma was part of the victorious Deccan side that lifted the IPL 2009.
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He is one of the fittest athlete in the In-dian team at the moment but star cricketer
Virat Kohli finds Sachin Tendulkar the epitome of fitness and hopes to play with same vigour when he reaches the veteran batsman’s cur-rent age of 40.
“Hope I can play for the country for such a long span as Sachin (Tendulkar) has and re-main as fit as he is. His fitness level is amazing. If I can achieve 60-70 per cent of what he has achieved so far in his ca-
reer, I will be more than happy,” said Kohli. “His hardwork is very inspiring for the
younger generation,” he told reporters at a function where his endorsement deal with the leading sportswear brand, Adidas was
announced here today. Replying to a query, Kohli said South Af-
rican speedsters -- Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel -- were the two most dangerous bowlers he has faced in his international ca-reer so far.
On his preparation for the upcoming limited-overs series against Australia, Kohli said the hosts would not be taking their op-position lightly and remained upbeat about winning.
“The Australia series is going to be com-petitive. Even without injured Michael Clarke, they are a strong side. But I am confi-dent about winning the series,” the 24-year-old said.
Kohli said that the high-profile series might see some verbal duels between the players of the two sides as the young Indians are capable of giving it back to the Aussies in equal measure.
“We will reply from the bat first. We will play competitive cricket. The current lot doesn’t like to listen too much.
Rohit Sharma: Analysis as a T20 batsman
Hope I remain as fit as Sachin when I reach his age: Kohli
Agencies
Trinidad & Tobago are the only team from out-side the three countries that own a stake in the Champions League to be given direct entry to the tournament, a special status they justified by top-ping the league table after hammering one of the CLT20 favourites, Chennai Super Kings.
The already-qualified Super Kings’ famed bat-ting had a rare off day, and the team were bowled out for only the seventh time in 117 matches. Having been rolled over for 118, Super Kings couldn’t prevent T&T from completing the chase within 17.4 overs, which meant they surrendered the top spot in the group. It left them facing the challenge of breaking Rajasthan Royals’ 12-game winning streak at home in the semi-finals.
It was a day when almost everything went right for T&T, epitomised by the game Man-of-the-Match Lendl Simmons had. Simmons came into this match on the back of two ducks but contributed with bat, ball and in the field in T&T’s dominant performance.Simmons’ first contribu-tion to the game came in the 9th over, by when Super Kings had got off to a familiar solid start. M Vijay and Suresh Raina were stroking the ball
around and another tall total looked on the cards, but Simmons struck first ball with a loosener well outside off that Vijay inside-edged onto the stumps. In his next over he had Raina squander-ing his wicket by helping a gentle leg-stump delivery to short fine leg.Then came the biggest wicket of them all, MS Dhoni’s, just when the Su-per Kings captain was looking to cut loose. In the 17th over, Dhoni top-edged an attempted big hit and the ball swirled towards Simmons at long-on. Simmons settled under it but the ball bounced off his palm and onto his neck; he kept his eyes on the ball and grabbed it on the second attempt. After that, instead of the usual final flourish, Super Kings made only 16 runs in the conclud-ing three overs.Simmons had fortune with bat as well, cluelessly edging the first ball of the chase from R Ashwin between the keeper and slip, and surviving a stumping shout after being beaten off the second. His innings only switched to top gear in the 10th over when Ravindra Jadeja conceded 19 to extend a horrendous run in the tournament. Simmons was also dropped just before reaching his half-century but a series of brutal hits had al-ready eased T&T towards victory.
T&T top table after thumping victory
‘Srinivasan is an autocrat’ - Manohar
‘No guarantee’ Clarke will be fit for Brisbane
Agencies
Former BCCI president Shashank Manohar has criticised N Srinivasan, saying the latter has no right to continue as the chief of the board in the aftermath of alleged corruption in the IPL. Manohar also stated that a few members of the board, including Jag-mohan Dalmiya, had asked him to con-test the election for the post of the BCCI president at the board’s annual general meeting on September 29.
“Srinivasan has no right to continue as president,” Manohar told Mumbai Mirror. “If you had the slightest of con-science, self-esteem and care for the board, you ought to have put in your pa-pers the moment your son-in-law was arrested. You did nothing and, as a result, the board’s reputation has taken a hit to the extent that the people have lost faith in this board.”
Manohar, who was the BCCI chief be-tween 2008 and 2011, said certain mem-bers had requested him to contest against Srinivasan. The current president, however, was
re-elected unopposed for an extended tenure.“Many people, including Mr Dalmiya, re-
quested me to come back and contest,” Manohar said. “I left the board two years back and I have not entered its premises again. I have no inten-
tion to come back. I said if all the members want me, I will not shirk the responsibility. This board
has given me a lot and I was willing to give some-thing back.”
Terming Srinivasan as an “autocrat”, Mano-har said that the BCCI president had no intention of cleaning up the board and had “damaged” the
reputation of the organisation within a span of a few months.
“He is trying to shield everybody, his team included,” Manohar said. “He does not want to clean this mess. If my son was in Srinivasan’s position, I would have asked him to resign. Srinivasan is an autocrat and wants all the power for himself. He told the media that his son-in-law was just ‘an enthusiast’. His counsel argued before the courts that Srinivasan did not choose his son-in-law but his daughter did. It is laughable. A person who cannot defend his family member has no right to say he will take responsibility of the board.”Manohar said that there was evidence to prove Gurunath Meiyappan’s role in Chennai Super Kings: “There is a lot of evidence of Meiyappan being the team principal. The
truth will come out.
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