NEW DELHIThe Army is facing

major technical issues withits 'indigenous' Arjuntanks, as a significant pro-portion of its fleet hasbecome inoperable in

recent months and are non-serviceable due to contin-ued maintenance prob-lems.

The Army, which reluc-tantly inducted 124 tanks

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HAQSAADDAFIGHT FOR RIGHTFriday, May 01, 2015

Cases against six aap mlas in twoand half months

Microsoft Lumia 430 Dual SIM isthe Most Affordable Lumia Yet

OMG: Mallika Sherawat to playAamir Khan’s wife in Dangal? P8

MUMBAILogging its third straight

weekly fall, the benchmarkBSE sensex slipped by 214points to end at 27,011.31,while Nifty ended below the8,200-mark on account of

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Sensex falls 214 pointsto near 4-month low;Nifty below 8,200

NEW DELHIIndia's top telecom operators

Airtel, Vodafone and IdeaCellular have announced theyare cutting national roamingtariff, days after telecom regu-lator Trai reduced the ceiling

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Airtel, Vodafone,Idea slash nationalroaming charges

WASHINGTONNow you don't have to be a

good shooter to hit the mark. The US military has success-

fully tested self-steering"smart" bullets that have a real-time guidance system to tracktargets and can change their

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US successfully testsbullets that canchange course midair

INDOREAccusing the ruling BJP of

indulging in "misinformationcampaign" against RahulGandhi, senior Congress leaderDigvijaya Singh on Thursdayurged the party vice-president toget active on the social media tocounter the opposition and alsoto remain connected with the

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Rahul should open Facebook,Twitter accounts: Digvijaya

NEW DELHIOpposition members in Rajya

Sabha on Thursday sought aban on a purported ayurvedaproduct by yoga guru Ramdev'sDivya Pharmacy that promisesa male child.

Calling the product illegaland unconstitutional, the oppo-sition members sought stringent action against the

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Opposition targets Ramdev over ayurvedaproduct 'promising male child'

NEW DELHIAfter a BJP member on

Thursday sought simplificationof income tax forms forassessees, Union finance minis-ter Arun Jaitley, has assuredthat extremely simplified I-Tforms would be rolled out forthe citizens very soon.

The BJP member had saidthat the present form impinges on the individual's pri-vacy as it seeks details of all bank accounts and

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Extremely simplified I-T form tobe rolled out soon: Arun Jaitley

NEW DELHIClaiming that countrywide

strike against Centre's RoadTransport Safety bill was "suc-cessful", Left parties and affili-ated organizations todayappealed to the NDA govern-ment to hold consultations overthe proposed legislation.

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Transport strike successful,say Left, affiliated-unions

NEW DELHIIndia on Thursday rejected

outright the stand by Pakistanthat creation of any "dedicated"townships in Kashmir Valleyfor displaced Kashmiri Panditswould change the demographicmakeup of the state and be inviolation of UN resolutions.

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India rejects Pakistanstand on townships forKashmiri Pandits

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NEW DELHIDays after Rahul

Gandhi's 'suit-boot kisarkar' barb, finance min-ister Arun Jaitley onThursday described theNarendra Modi dispensa-tion as 'soojh-boojh kisarkar' and took a dig atthe Congress vice-presi-dent for his "disappear-ance for a jaunt".

With Modi seatedbeside him in Lok Sabha,Jaitley took potshots atGandhi and Congresswho have been targetingthe Prime Minister forhis frequent foreigntours.

He also hit out atCongress for politicizing

the farmers' issue, on aday Gandhi was inVidarbha on a 'padyatra'to highlight the plight ofthe farming community.

"This is a 'soojh-boojhki sarkar'(a wise govern-ment). "Let there be noillusions about it," Jaitley

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Jaitley counters Rahul's 'suit-boot' barb,says 'at least we know where PM is'

Army's fleet of Arjun tanks face tech-nical issues; major proportion of 124

tanks in service not operational

MUMBAITaking a jibe at the

central governmentover the contentiousland bill, NDA con-stituent Shiv Sena onThursday dared it startland acquisition fromJammu & Kashmir.

The party said thecentral government hadmade the bill a prestigeissue and while it cantake away land fromfarmers elsewhere inthe country ignoring

their pleas, it cannotshow the "samecourage" in Jammu &Kashmir due to article370.

"The central govern-ment has made it clearin Parliament that itspet bill, the LandAcquisition Bill will beapplicable all over thecountry except Jammu& Kashmir. "While thegovernment gave thisinformation, its chest

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KATHMANDULakhs of people in Nepal are hungry

and fighting for survival after the dev-astating earthquake. Aid is pouring infrom across the world. Pakistan hasalso sent aid but the food packetsremain untouched. Why?

Pakistan's 'help' has left the predom-inately Hindu country shocked as theready-to-eat food includes packets of'beef masala'. After media furore, thePakistan Prime Ministers' Officeissued an absurd clarification that thefood consignment was for the non-Hindu community of Nepal and thatthe advice was written on the labels offood packets.

Cows are considered sacred inNepal and there is a strict ban on itsslaughter and is punishable with 12years in prison. Prior to 1990, theoffence attracted death penalty. As per2011 census, 84 percent population ofNepal is Hindu, followed byBuddhists who constitute over 10 per-cent of the population. Effectively,close to 95 percent population isaverse to beef.

While some are calling it insensitiveon part of Pakistan to send beef toNepal, others are seeing a mischiefbehind the act.

As per a report in Daily Mail, a teamof Indian doctors first found out aboutthe contents of the Pakistani aid andalerted the officials.

The report further added that the

issue may lead to a diplomatic rowbetween Nepal and Pakistan.

"The matter has been conveyed toPrime Minister Sushil Koirala and theintelligence chief. We are also startingan internal inquiry to verify the facts.If the report is correct, we will raisethe matter at the diplomatic level with

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Nepal quake: Pak serves 'beef masala' to'Hindu kingdom', says meant for non-Hindus

BHUBANESWARAbout 300 people from

Odisha were among many pil-grims standard at a placebetween Joshimath andGovindghat along theRishikesh-Badrinath NationalHighway since April 28 last

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300 people from Odishastranded after landslide inUttarakhand

NEW DELHIThe Indian security

establishment has alertedthe government about theactivities of Islamic Stateof Iraq and Syria(ISIS) inthe Af-Pak region throughits wilayat in Khurasan,the Wilayat Khurasan(WK), and the possiblelinkages of top WK lead-ers with the Pakistaniestablishment. India'sexternal intelligence

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ISIS presence in Af-Pak regioncause of concern for India: RAW

Shiv Sena dares Centre to startland acquisition from J&K

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEW DELHIAn anti-terrorism

court in Pakistan onThursday sentenced tenmen to life imprison-ment for attack on childrights activist MalalaYousufzai, theDawn.com has reported.

"Judge MohammadAmin Kundi in his ver-dict gave 25 years jail toall of these people," saida court official in Swat,where the 10 were con-victed in an anti-terror-ism court.

Pakistan army had inSeptember last yeararrested the gunmeninvolved in the attack.

The Tehreek-i-Taliban

Pakistan (TTP) hadclaimed the attack,which took place onOctober 9, 2012 whenshe was going homefrom school.

Following the attack,

the militants proceededto fire on the school vanthat injured her school-mates, Shazia andQainat.

Taliban gunmen shotMalala in the head and

after getting initial treat-ment in Pakistan shewas taken to Britainalong with her familyfor further treatment,where she presentlylives.

Malala, along withIndian Child rights cam-paigner KailashSatyarthi, was awardedthe Nobel Peace prizelast year.NEW DELHI:An anti-terrorism courtin Pakistan on Thursdaysentenced ten men tolife imprisonment forattack on child rightsactivist MalalaYousufzai, theDawn.com has reported.

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10 men who attacked Malalasentenced to life imprisonment

Petrol prices hikedby Rs 3.96 a litre,diesel by Rs 2.37NEW DELHI

After two rounds of cuts, petrolprices were on Thursday raised by Rs3.96 per litre and diesel by Rs 2.37 alitre, tracking global cues.

The increase in petrol and dieselprices will be effective from midnighttonight.

Prices of petrol in Delhi will be Rs63.16 a litre from tomorrow asagainst the current Rs 59.20; whilediesel will cost Rs 49.57 per litre asagainst Rs 47.20, Indian Oil Corp(IOC), the nation's largest oil compa-ny, said.

Rates were last cut by 80 paise perlitre on petrol and Rs 1.30 a litre ondiesel from April 16. This followed areduction of 49 paisa a litre in theprice of petrol and Rs 1.21 in diesel

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NEW DELHICabinet Secretary Ajit

Seth has directed aNational CrisisM a n a g e m e n tCommittee (NCMC)meeting to publicisedetails to underline thatIndia was extending"overall humanitarian

assistance" in Nepal.This followed concern

in government that aperception was beingcreated that onlyIndians were beingevacuated by its forces.ET has learnt that at theNCMC meeting held on

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Let it be known that India isextending "overall humanitarianassistance" in Nepal: Ajit Seth

ISLAMABADPakistan on Thursday

blamed the Indianmedia for maligning itsrelief efforts for sur-vivors of the devastatingearthquake in Nepal.

According to mediareports, the food itemsin relief aid sent byPakistan to Nepalincluded beef content(beef masala) in thefood packets. Eatingbeef is prohibited inHindu religion. Nepal isa majority-Hindunation.

During a weekly pressbriefing, TasneemAslam, Pakistan's for-

eign office spokes-woman, said it wasunfortunate that Indianmedia has not evenspared a humanitarianmission and has, unnec-essarily, tried to inject

controversy into it."The Meal Ready to

Eat (MRE) is a pre-packed kit of 20 itemsfor a full day's meals.On each and every

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Pakistan sends food with beef masala toNepal, blames Indian media for row

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NEW DELHIDelhi is the first time that a

government in the first halfmonth rule only six cases havebeen on the legislators. Thesegovernment workers assault, riot,stones and other cases are enteredon the trial. It has six legislatorson Delhi's Aam Aadmi Party gov-ernment. Despite the lawsuit yet,'you' to any of the legislator hasnot been arrested. The partyalleged that the police deliberate-ly filed cases against them whilethey were fighting in the publicinterest.

'You' in Delhi on February 14in the capital last rule was han-dled. About two and half monthsin the reign of six legislators invarious sections in the police sta-tions have been cases. The daybefore the MCD against TilakNagar MLA Jarnail Singh JE killand disrupt official business withthe lawsuit was filed.

According to information fromthe police, Buradhi legislatorSanjeev Jha and Model TownMLA Akhilesh Tripathi allegedkidnapping in the station onFebruary 20 Buradhi Areap offtwo men on charges of assault ona police station with hundreds ofworkers In stoned.

Among the hundreds of policeagainst unknown persons, bothlegislators rioting, assault, sabo-tage, damaging government

property is kept to file a case instreams.

Moreover Kiradhi Aman Vihar

police station against the partyMLA rituraj JH JE Sumit KumarMCD official business to inter-fere with the assault and has reg-

istered a case. Party only Kondlilegislator Manoj Kumar alleged-ly Gdoli dairy farm with his

workers Kapil Nagar residentbeaten. Gazipur police station hasregistered a case against him inthe assault. Also the party during

the election on Uttam NagarMLA Naresh Balyan has regis-tered a case of wine to share.

During the election at their ware-house, the police had caught alarge quantity of alcohol. CrimeBranch is investigating the case.It is alleged that the legislatorsare not helping the police. Thereis therefore not proceed to inves-tigate the matter.

Aam Aadmi Party day after theDelhi Police has registered a caseon the other legislator JarnailSingh. The allegations that anillegal building in Tilak Nagarbreaking MCD were beaten andgovernment work he hindered aJE.

However Jarnail Singh saysthat he called PCR Rnjisn butpolice have registered a caseagainst him. He also alleges thatthe JE recover the money camefrom the building.

In this case, the common manparty spokesman says that thelegislators were recorded on thetrial, they were picking up thevoice of the people in the areaand the terrain corrupt officialswere stalked.

Yet neither their hearing, policehas registered a case against himonly. The spokesman says thecourt will not survive after thesecases will be cleared and all theirlegislators Baizzt.

Cases against six aap MLAs in two and half months

NEW DELHIDelhi Police has told the

Union Home Ministry thatno church in the city wasattacked by any group andthe recent incidents were ofeither theft, short circuit orstone-pelting after pettyclashes that had nothing todo with the Christian com-munity.

In a report, the DelhiPolice told the HomeMinistry that out of the sixincidents of alleged van-dalism of churches, twowere cases of theft, twowere incidents of short cir-cuit and in other two inci-dents, stones were peltedas a retaliation of individ-ual clashes.

The stones landed in thechurches as the clashestook place near them andthe said fights had nothingto do with the community,the report said.

Sources said in its reportto the Home Ministry, theDelhi Police has conveyedthat around 300 temples,

42 mosques were also bur-gled burgled in last oneyear.

Christian groups havealleged that the churcheswere vandalised anddemanded their full protec-tion.

The Delhi Police hasalready provided securityto churches and Christianinstitutions. There are 240churches in the city. CCTVcameras were installed in161 churches.

SHOs of all police sta-tions in Delhi have beenasked to regularly patrolaround churches whilePCR vans, ERVs andmotorcycle patrols havebeen deployed outsidethese establishments.

Recently, Delhi Policehas appointed an officer ofthe rank of Additional DCPas the "nodal officer" forattending to issues relatedto churches and education-al institutions of the com-munity.

No church attacked incity: Delhi Police to MHA

NEW DELHIIn a tragic incident, a

12-year-old girl waskilled when she wasaccidentally shot at dur-ing celebratory firing ata relative's wedding thatshe was attending inwest Delhi's Ranholaarea here Wednesdaynight.

The victim, identifiedas Divya had sustainedbullet injury to herthigh, but doctors saidshe died due to exces-sive bleeding.

The groom's father,identified as SushilVats, has been arrestedby the police in thisconnection and hislicenced gun which wasused in the firing,seized.

"The incident tookplace around 8:30 pmwhere one Aman wasgetting married atBaprola village inRanhola. Divya was

attending the weddingas Aman is her distantrelative. She was danc-ing close to groom'shorse when suddenly agunshot was heard andDivya was seen collaps-ing on the ground. Shewas hit by the bullet inher thigh and wasbleeding profusely,"said a senior police offi-cial.

Immediately, thewedding processionwas stopped and the girlrushed to AyushmanHospital in Dwarka.Meanwhile, someonemade a PCR call and apolice team too reachedthe spot.

An operation wasconducted on her andthe bullet was removedbut the girl had alreadylost a lot of blood.Desperate efforts bydoctors to revive hercould not succeed. Shewas referred to Mata

Chanan Devi Hospitalin Janakpuri but allefforts failed and shebreathed her last around4:30 am today.

Initially, it was notclear so as to who firedthe shot as even the vic-tim's parents claimedthat they were awayfrom their daughter atthe time of theincident.

"We then questionedalmost everybody at thefunction to determineso as to who had firedthe gun and it wasrevealed that it was thegroom's father SushilVats.

He has been arrested.We are investigatingwhether the familydelayed taking the girlto the hospital whiletrying to hush up thematter," he added.

A case of murder hasbeen registered atRanhola Police Station.

Girl suffers bullet injuriesin celebratory firing, dies

NEW DELHIThe Delhi High Court on

Thursday directed the munici-pal corporation to removeencroachments by religiousstructures on the roads ofChandni Chowk by the end ofMay and asked the city gov-ernment and police to extendall cooperation to the civicagency.

A bench of justices SRavindra Bhat and SMuralidhar gave the directionafter it was told that a religiouscommittee, set up by the gov-ernment to deal with issue ofencroachment of the roads bythe structures, was yet to take adecision.

The court said the ownershipof the land was with MCD andsince the authorities do not dis-pute there was encroachment,the civic body should removeit.

The court has been monitor-ing the issue of redevelopmentof the walled city through apetition filed by NGOManushi Sangathan in 2007.

With regard to developmentof non-motorised vehicle(NMV) lanes on six arterialroads of the city, the courtdirected the city government toplace on record the picturesand maps of areas where suchlanes are actually located.

The bench also said that it

will next week visit one of thearterial roads where the gov-ernment has claimed NMVlanes have been built to segre-gate cycles and cycle-rick-shaws from regular traffic.

On shifting of seven BSEStransformers which areencroaching upon a main roadin Chandni Chowk, the courtwas informed by the PWD thatfive would be tentatively shift-ed by May 31.

Regarding the remainingtwo, PWD said these would bemoved into an undergroundbasement to be built in front ofthe Town Hall there and ten-ders for the same have beenissued.

Pursuant to the submission,the court directed the city gov-ernment to award the contractfor construction of the base-ment in two weeks and toensure the work is completedin three months.

On the issue of creating aparking lot at Gandhi Maidanin the walled city, the courtdirected MCD to file an affi-davit indicating timeline forcompletion of theproject.

It also directed MCD to handover to PWD the land atDangal Maidan in ChandniChowk for parking use andadded that all encroachmentsbe removed from that site.

Remove encroachment on Chandni Chowkroads by religious structures: Delhi HC

NEW DELHIDelhi Airport Metro with

Metro for a long time in theway of those who were com-plaining that their smart cardin the subway does not run air-ports. The people at the airportsubway to travel separatelyhad to take tokens or card Fixtrip. Now this problem isgoing to get away. Friday atDelhi Metro Airport Metrosmart card works. The samecard will be able to travel inboth the subway system. The

airport will benefit many peo-ple.

Metro spokesman onThursday afternoon, accord-ing to information from theUnion Urban DevelopmentMinister MK Sarma ShivajiStadium Airport Metro stationvia smart card entry into thesystem and then from there totravel to IGI Airport MetroAirport, this new service willstart . Ordinary people will getfrom this facility Friday. Sincethe Airport Metro and Metro

fares vary. This is why MetroAirport Metro smart cards inthe system to implement theDMRC had to upgrade ourrevenue collection systemsoftware. This software wasdesigned to be long ago, butfor a long time was seen test-ing and trials that do not haveno fault. Everything foundright after the integrated rev-enue collection system, whichthrough a single smart cardpeople will be able to travel inthe Airport Metro.

NEW DELHIIn a major relief to the

city residents, Delhi JalBoard (DJB) has decided togive massive rebate onpending bills and reducewater development charge.

According to a seniorofficial, DJB will sooncome up with a scheme torationalise pending waterbills. The move will notonly give relief to the resi-dents but will also augmentrevenue.

"Water bills of many resi-dential and commercialproperties are due for long.In some cases, bills are over

several lakhs. We willreview all the pending casesand rationalise their bill bygiving major rebate," KapilMishra, AAP MLA and vicechairman of DJB, said.

Water has always beenpriority for the AAP gov-ernment and soon aftercoming into the power theparty had announced a ben-efit of waiver on accumulat-ed late payment surcharges.

The move got encourag-ing response as people inlarge numbers paid theiractual arrears as reflected inthe current bill.

DJB is also planning to

bring down the water devel-opment charge which is aone-time fee paid for waterconnection.

"At present DJB is takingRs 400 per square yard aspart of water developmentcharge from residential andcommercial establishment.We are planning to reduce itto Rs 100 per square yard tomake it more economical."

"Under the currentcharges one ends up payinga hefty amount only forwater connection. We willensure quality water servic-es reach each house of thecity," Mishra said.

DJB to give rebate on pending water bills

NEW DELHIThe Delhi High Court has

pulled up the Public WorksDepartment (PWD) over thetraffic mess on a single-lane fly-over at Rao Tula Ram (RTR)Marg in the city and sought astatus report by May 13 on theprogress in road widening worknear it.

"Why you always stall onyour projects for so long? Youwill have to seek instruction onthis aspect and inform us withintwo weeks about the steps youhave taken in regard to thesmooth flow of the traffic," abench of Chief Justice G Rohiniand Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlawsaid.

The court's observation camewhile hearing a PIL seekingdirection to the PWD to com-plete the road widening workimmediately near RTR flyoveron Outer Ring Road.

Besides PWD, the court alsoasked the Delhi government,Department Of Forest andWildlife and Delhi TrafficPolice to get instructionwhether permission to fell treeshas been received so that thewidening project can be fin-ished and traffic disruptionbrought under control.

"All the respondents aredirected to file their statusreport before May 13," the courtsaid.

The petitioner Vishal RajSehijpal also sought direction toremove poles, boards, bus stopand trees from the road for safe,easy and free flow of trafficcoming from National Highway(NH)-8 towards RTRT-point.

It said that the Department OfForest and Wildlife shouldaccord permission to removethe trees on the said road whichare on the widenedlane.

The plea also said that theproject should be completedunder the supervision of theMinistry of Environment Forestand Climate Change (MoEF)and the Delhi government.

Delhi HC pulls up PWD overtraffic mess near RTR flyover

NEW DELHIDelhi Law Minister

Jitender Singh Tomar, whois facing allegations ofpossessing a fake degree,on Thursday blamed theBharatiya Janata Party(BJP) of waging a mali-cious campaign againsthim and said he was pre-pared to resign if asked bythe Aam Aadmi Party(AAP).

Tomar squarely blamedthe BJP for conniving tosully the image of AAPand talking to scribes overthe matter, said, "BJP hasused its full force for the

past one year for fabrica-tion, tampering of records.(The) matter is sub-judicenow."

The Delhi ministerclaimed he had the confi-dence of his party in theentire controversy. "Meriparty mein kisi ko koidikkat nahi hai, meri party,mere neta ko pata hai kimai theek hu. (No partymember sees any truth inthe allegations. My partyand its leader know that Iam not wrong)," Tomartold ANI.

Tomar has rejected allcharges of any wrongdo-

ing and refused to stepdown. "Mere neta mujheisteefa dene ko kahenge tomai isteefa kya jaan bhi dedunga, saazish karne walesaazish karte rahein. (Iwill resign and even sacri-fice my life if my partyleader asks me to.Conspirators can do whatthey want)," headded.

Tomar has met and writ-ten to Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal and givenan explanation over thewhole issue.

In his letter to Kejriwal,Tomar said, "As it was

getting clear that he (NandKishore Garg) was likelyto lose his seat (assemblyelection), he started resort-ing to dirty tricks tomalign my name. Whennothing else seemed towork, he filed an electionpetition in High Courtraising questions withregards to the authenticityof my graduation and lawdegrees."

Claiming the documentsfurnished by Garg are"incorrect", Tomar said,"Garg runs a couple ofuniversities in Delhi aswell as Himachal Pradesh

and due to his contactswith other universities, hehas been able to obtaincertain documents by cit-ing incorrect particulars.These incorrect documentshave been cited as evi-dence in the election peti-tion."

The Opposition, mean-while, upped the anteagainst Tomar andKejriwal as it demandedaction against him. TheBJP and Congress accusedKejriwal and AAP ofadopting "double stan-dards" on the issue of cor-ruption.

Fake degree row: AAP minister Jitender Singh Tomar hints at BJP conspiracy

NEW DELHIThe common man was

expelled from the partyleader on his onward jour-ney. Going forward, theleaders were going 'Youhave given the blow.Sources are telling that oneway out of Delhi severalplaces on the party officesof the group 'capture' hasstarted. Bangalore hasgrown from its beginnings.Yogendra Yadav, has him-self confirmed. He hastweeted, 'Bangalore' you'first office Hira Lal hadthe offer. He now offers usis the place. Yesterday wehad a meeting in the office." The leaders on the basisof the large number ofissues and arguments in

favor of the party alreadyhas its Volntiars. SwarajSwaraj campaign dialogueprogram in Bangalore onWednesday before thecampaign office was amatter of getting himselfYogendra Yadav. Yadavsaid a very happy thingthat we communicate firstbefore the two men offeredto pay rent. In addition tothe office by Hira Lal Aniland Usha couple of IT pro-fessionals we have spokento the office. It says wehave selfless service inwhich we are moving.

Aam Aadmi Party cam-paign offices are capturingSwaraj Swaraj campaignsays that Bangalore is notonly a Volntiar .

Now fight on officein aam admi party

Delhi metro smart card will bevalid for airport line metro as well

NEW DELHIAam Aadmi Party

rally at Jantar Mantarin case of death of thefarmer GajendraSingh, crime branchleader KumarVishwas you video ofthe speech is investi-gating. Delhi Policehave sent the report tothe Home Ministry inthis case.

In a report sent tothe Home Office onpolice leaders andactivists are chargedto you. Police wrote

that you were leadersfrom the compellingspeech. The policealleged that theyapplauded you onw o r k e r s - p l a y i n gGajendra was pro-voked to commit sui-cide. Gajendra policeafter the death of allthese charges wererecorded in the FIRregistered. Crime

branch of the farmers'rally in this case 22on the record thestatements of the peo-ple said.

Police said that sofar police have noevidence of abetmentto suicide. Policevideo of the speechesof the leaders of thespeech is heard manytimes.

Kumar vishwass speech is also being investigated

Nepal quake...Pakistan. India, being our key partner, will

also be informed of the developments," thenewspaper quoted a Nepalese official as say-ing.

Earlier, Pakistan Foreign Office had reject-ed reports that it had dispatched packets of'beef masala' to earthquake-hit Nepal.

Pakistani newspaper The Express Tribunequoted Foreign Office spokesperson TasnimAslam as saying that there was no beef con-tent in the ready-to-eat food dispatched byPakistan to Nepal. She urged the Indianmedia not to 'malign' Pakistan, adding thatpeople of Nepal 'really liked' the food andeven requested for more.

The RSS has hit out at Pakistan over theissue and called it highly insensitive, a reportsaid. Yoga guru Baba Ramdev has also raisedthe issue and doubted Pakistan's intentionbehind sending beef as aid to a Hindu coun-try like Nepal.

The toll in the devastating earthquake inNepal crossed 6,000 mark on Thursday, withover 10,000 injured.

The UN said the quake had impacted eightmillion in 39 districts, of which over two mil-lion live in 11 most severely affected dis-tricts.

Pakistan sends...packet inside the kit the name of the dish is

clearly written in English and Urdu so thatpeople may choose whatever they like to eator discard," she said.

"Both the languages are understood inNepal," she added.

The Nepalese authorities, Tasneem Aslamsaid, found the MREs so effective that theyspecially requested for a full planeload ofMREs on priority.

The Pakistan foreign office reaction camethe same day after Pakistan Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif contacted his Indian counter-part, Narendra Modi, to offer condolencesover the loss of lives and devastation causedby the earthquake in India.

Earlier, the spokesperson had said that shewas not aware of the issue. "I am not respon-sible for the dispatch. The relief aid is sent bythe National Disaster ManagementAuthority," Mail Today had quoted Aslam assaying.

The controversy started when packets with"beef masala" and "potato bhujia", werefound in the food aid package sent for quakesurvivors by Pakistan. Pakistan's NationalDisaster Management Authority (NDMA)sent the relief goods, according to the officialhandout, in collaboration with the army,Pakistan air force and ministry of foreignaffairs.

While the NDMA spokesman was notavailable to speak on the issue, another sen-ior official requesting anonymity, said: "Beefand mutton are essential parts of the meal inmost of the countries in Asia except large inIndia and Nepal which have a large Hindupopulation."

"If beef masala was really sent to Nepal, itmay have been out of negligence. But mak-ing it controversial is like the proverb 'mak-ing a mountain out of a molehill'," he added.

Let it be...Tuesday morning, the Seth was told that a

perception is growing in the media that onlyIndians were being evacuated from Nepal.

This prompted Seth to announce a decisionthat the Indian assistance to Nepal was notonly to evacuate stranded Indians, but extendoverall humanitarian assistance in Nepal as aneighboring country.

Following this, foreign ministry spokesper-son Vikas Swarup tweeted on Tuesdayevening that India had assisted in rescuing170 nationals from 15 countries from Nepal.

Fresh details before the NCMC meeting onWednesday showed the effort has beenspruced up, even as the Indian defence forcesevacuated 2,030 foreigners through air andland route. Over 785 of them have beengranted gratis visa while others have validvisas. As per details put before NCMC, atotal of 46,076 persons have been evacuated.

A majority of them, 40,163, were evacuat-ed via road, while 5,914 via air. More than1,300 foreigners were evacuated by theIndian Air Force or chartered flights, NCMCwas told. The health secretary assuredNCMC that medical facilities were beinggiven to all nationalities.

Seth directed that all official informationmust be conveyed through "a single windowsystem" which will be coordinated byNDMA and Home Ministry with the states. a

Petrol prices...from April 2.Petrol prices had been cumulatively cut by

Rs 17.11 a litre in 10 reductions betweenAugust and February and diesel by Rs 12.96a litre in 6 reductions between October andFebruary. The rates were increased by 0.82 alitre in petrol and Rs 0.61 per litre in dieselon February 16, and by Rs 3.18 per litre inpetrol and Rs 3.09 a litre in diesel on March1. After these, rates had been cut twice. State-owned fuel retailers IOC, Bharat PetroleumCorp (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp

(HPCL) revise petrol and diesel prices on 1stand 16th of every month based on averageimported cost and rupee-dollar exchange ratein the previous fortnight.

"The movement of prices in internationaloil market and Rupee-USD exchange rateshall continue to be closely monitored anddeveloping trends of the market will bereflected in future price changes," IOC said.

10 men..."Judge Mohammad Amin Kundi in his ver-

dict gave 25 years jail to all of these people,"said a court official in Swat, where the 10were convicted in an anti-terrorism court.

Pakistan army had in September last yeararrested the gunmen involved in the attack.

The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) hadclaimed the attack, which took place onOctober 9, 2012 when she was going homefrom school.

Following the attack, the militants proceed-ed to fire on the school van that injured herschoolmates, Shazia and Qainat.

Taliban gunmen shot Malala in the headand after getting initial treatment in Pakistanshe was taken to Britain along with her fam-ily for further treatment, where she presentlylives.

Malala, along with Indian Child rightscampaigner Kailash Satyarthi, was awardedthe Nobel Peace prize last year.

Jaitley counters...said while replying to a debate on Finance

Bill.The senior BJP leader, who was clearly hit-

ting out at Gandhi for his 'suit-boot ki sarkar'barb, added, "It is good to be suited but dan-gerous to be booted out."

Congress, which ruled the country for 10years, lost power in the last Lok Sabha elec-tions last year and got the dubious distinctionof its lowest ever performance as it managedonly 44 seats in the 543-member House.

Reacting to Gandhi's taunt that the PrimeMinister is often abroad, Jaitley remarked,"at least we know where the Prime Ministeris...PM's trips are a national duty. There is adifference between a national duty and disap-pearance for a jaunt."

Army's fleet ...from 2009, after the UPA government

insisted that a token number have to beordered to keep the tank development pro-gramme viable, has of late been having qual-ity problems with the fleet.

The defence minister has been apprised ofthe issue. Sources said that the Army's opin-ion is that while a large number of tanks arenot operational due to technical defects, thefleet as such is not combat worthy due to reli-ability issues. "A number of tanks are notoperational currently as transfer of technolo-gy (ToT) of several imported systems fittedonboard has not been done," an Army officialsaid.

The Army is surprised that quality issueshave started arising even though the entirefleet came into service as recently as 2013when deliveries ended. Given that the tanksare highly dependent on foreign equipment— 60% of the tank is imported — the failureto get maintenance technology means thatthe systems have to be sent abroad for evenminor repairs.

It is believed that a meeting on the low ser-viceability rate of the Arjun fleet was con-ducted at South Block recently and DefenceMinister Manohar Parrikar is aware of theproblems. The Army has identified 96 prob-lems, including 18 major ones. The ministerhas been keen to increase the efficiency ofexisting platforms available with the militarygiven that there is a paucity of funds to pro-cure new systems.

In IAF, he has personally intervened toensure that the availability rate of the Su 30fleet improves by at least 10%. A similarapproach is being taken for the Army too.DRDO is, meanwhile, working on the devel-opment of a successor in the form of theArjun Mk II.

Shiv Sena...might have swelled with pride but for the

people of this country it has sunk after hear-ing this," the Sena said in its editorial mouth-piece 'Saamana.'

The Sena said that Jammu & Kashmirneeds development the most and claimed thatArticle 370 of the Constitution prevents anydevelopment from taking place in the region.

"The government's fight to get the LandAcquisition Bill cleared is a prestige issuenow. But development of roads, hospitals,industries, is needed the most in Jammu &Kashmir. But, according to Article 370 of theConstitution, nobody from outside the statecan even buy an inch of land there," the Senasaid.

While abrogation of Article 370 has beenone of the core issues for BJP, it has beensidelined by the party in recent months as itjoined hands with PDP to form governmentin Jammu & Kashmir.

The Sena said that Jammu & Kashmir istreated like a country of its own.

"This shows that the government cannotshow the same courage in Jammu & Kashmiras it is showing to usurp land for the Jaitapurnuclear power project in Maharashtra andthat it can only take away lands of farmers

turning a deaf ear to their pleas," it said."If you want to start land acquisition, start

it from Jammu & Kashmir. But the govern-ment pleads helplessness then. It shows thateven if the state is on the map of India, thecountry's laws are not applicable there," theSena said.

ISIS presence...agency RAW has, in a recent report to the

PMO, pointed out how WK's military leaderAsmatullah Muawiya, formerly linked toTehreek e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and alQaida, had made peace with the Pakistanarmy last year and threatened India "in therecent times".

The agency noted that a formerGuantanamo Bay detainee, who was shiftedto Pakistan's custody in 2008, Abdul RahimMuslim Dost, had been appointed as WK'sreligious head and a judge. He is a key mem-ber of a salafi group of Kunar, the Jamaat ulDawa al Quran, which has links with Lashkere Taiba elements in the tribal areas of Af-Pakregion.

Though both Muawiya and Dost do notcommand sizeable followings and have beeninactive, the RAW report said, "the creationof WK and possible linkages of its leaderswith the Pak establishment is a matter of con-cern for India".

According to the intelligence agencies,ISIS was differentiating between the devel-opments in Af-Pak and the Middle East andNorth Africa. "It is pertinent to recall thatwhile announcing Wilayats across theMiddle East and North Africa, the ISIL hadnot named any groups or leaders, but it did sofor the WK...while it asked the wilayats inthe Middle East and North Africa to carry outjihad locally, it called on the soldiers of WKto join the jihad in Syria and Iraq," said theRAW report.

A case in point, it added, was ISIS's denialof WK's involvement in the April 18 attacksin Jalalabad, which killed many civilians andarmed personnel. This was despite WK hav-ing claimed responsibility earlier. The ISISpropaganda machinery not only did not flagthe attacks, but on April 27 also denied anyinvolvement of WK through its daily newsupdate, the Islamic State New Bulletin, call-ing it a "smear campaign by those who want-ed to slander the IS". The RAW report under-lined how ISIS had named former TTP com-mander Hafeez Saeed Khan as the Wali andformer Afghan Taliban commander AbdulRauf Khadim as the deputy Wali. Rauf, inci-dentally, was not part of the Khurasan Shurathat formed itself and gave bayat to ISISbefore WK was announced. "It appears thatthe feedback channels for ISIS from Af-Pakregion either played up Rauf's image or pro-vided incorrect affiliation of Rauf withKhurasan Shura," the agency poined out.

Rahul should...youth."BJP has been deploying professionals to

corner Rahul and its other political enemiesby indulging in misinformation campaign fora long time. That is why I always tell Rahulto get active on the social media and give afitting reply to them," Singh told reportershere.

According to him, Rahul does not have aFacebook or Twitter account as of now. "Buthe should open an official account on the twosocial networking sites in view of its popular-ity among the youth," the Congress general-secretary said.

When asked, Singh denied that some seniorCongress leaders had expressed doubts onRahul's ability to lead the party in view of hispossible elevation as president.

"Sonia Gandhi is the president of theCongress party. If she and the CongressWorking Committee (CWC) decide to makeRahul as the president, then all leaders of theparty will accept it," he said.

The Congress veteran alleged that duringRahul's recent 56-day sabbatical, BJP leadersindulged in "misinformation campaign" byquestioning his absence.

"But the Prime Minister and Union homeminister were aware about his whereaboutsas Rahul is a Special Protection Group (SPG)protectee," he said.

"But now although Rahul is back fromleave and touring different parts to meetfarmers, even then the BJP leaders haveproblems with it," Singh said.

Referring to Rahul's padyatra in Amravatidistrict in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra onThursday, Singh said the Congress vice-pres-ident would also tour parts of Telangana andMadhya Pradesh, where farmers haveallegedly committed suicide.

Extremely simplified...foreign travel.Raising the demand during Zero Hour,

Vijay Goel from the BJP said that there aretwo forms of income tax department for itsassesses, with one form of five pages and theother of 14. The forms seek details of allbank accounts of an individual as well asdetails of foreign travels made during theyear.

"The details sought are too much. Lakhs ofincome tax payers have problems on provid-ing details of bank accounts and foreign trav-els. It impinges on the privacy of tax payers.My appeal is that the form be simplified. Iurge that it should be of two pages in a sim-

plified manner which will help all tax pay-ers," he said.

Goel added that he learnt that the financeministry was looking into the matter andhoped it will provide relief to tax payers inthe country.

Opposition targets...manufacturers.When the House met for the day, KC Tyagi

of JD(U) showed a packet called 'PutrajeevakBeej', which he claimed to have bought fromDivya Pharmacy that promised the deliveryof a male child.

He also displayed a copy of the purchasereceipt dated April 14 and said sale of suchproducts by "the brand ambassador ofHaryana" was illegal and unconstitutional.

Without naming the yoga guru, he asked "ifthe government of India under the dynamicleadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modiapproves of this."

Amid protests from treasury benches, JayaBachchan (SP) took the packet and gave it tohealth minister JP Nadda.

Several opposition members joined in con-demning sale of such products and demand-ed action.

Deputy chairman PJ Kurien said sex selec-tion by a medicine or even pre-natal sexdetermination was against the law and theConstitution, but the Chair cannot do any-thing about it.

With opposition members pressing forstringent action, Nadda said the issue is relat-ed to the department of aayush. "TheGovernment will look into it and properaction will be taken."

Nadda said the issue was very serious andhe has just been given a packet of the prod-uct.

"Government is very serious on sex-ratio,"he said, adding that the Prime Minister waspersonally monitoring the 'Beti Bachao, BetiPadao' campaign.

This did not satisfy the members withTyagi pulling out more packets, whichinquisitive members took turns to look at.

Sensex falls ...declines in blue-chips as the monthly

derivative contract expired on Thursday. Across-the-board selling on the last day of

April series derivative contracts, MAT wor-ries, disappointing Q4 results so far and slug-gish global cues pulled down markets.

Participants were seen offloading theirlong positions in futures and options (F&O)segment instead of carrying them forward tothe next May series, brokers said.

The BSE index had closed at 26,908.82 onJanuary 7. The 50-share NSE Nifty tumbledbelow the 8,200-level by falling 58.25 pointsor 0.71 per cent to close at 8,181.50. Duringthe session, it moved between 8,229.40 and8,144.75.

Meanwhile, the rupee fell by 45 paise to63.75 levels (intra-day) against the US dollaron capital outflow worries.

Delay in land acquisition bill too hurt sen-timent and accelerated selling by foreigninvestors.

The BSE 30-share barometer after resum-ing a shade higher at 27,242.05 fell backbelow the 27,000-mark and gradually moveddown to a low of 26,897.54 before conclud-ing at 27,011.31, a fall of 214.62 points or0.79 per cent.

The gauge had lost 170.45 points in yester-day's volatile session.

In Asia, markets mostly fell in line with anovernight sell-off in the US markets, aftergrowth data fell well short of forecasts.

European markets were, however, trading ashade higher in early trade.

Airtel, Vodafone...tariffs.Airtel has made outgoing local SMS

cheaper by up to 75%, whereas inter-circleSMSs will cost up to 74% less. Likewise,incoming call rates have been reduced up to40%, whereas outgoing inter-circle callcharges are now lower by 23%. Outgoinglocal calls will also be cheaper by up to 20%.

Vodafone users will have to pay 25 paiseon roaming for a local text message as com-pared to Re 1; and for STD texts, 38 paisefrom Rs 1.50 earlier in accordance with thenew Trai guidelines, Vodafone India said in astatement. Outgoing local and STD calls willbe charged at 80 paise and Rs 1.15 paise perminute as compared to Re 1 and Rs 1.50,respectively. Receiving calls on roaming forVodafone users is also 40% cheaper now,down from 75p/min to 45p/min.

Idea too will charge incoming calls at 45paise/minute, a 40% reduction, while roam-ing anywhere in India, a company statementsaid. Outgoing local call rates have also beenreduced by 20% and STD call rates by 23%.Local SMS will now cost 25 paise and STDSMS 38 paise, on roaming nationally.

The revised tariff will be applicable fromMay 1 for all three telecom operators.

Vodafone, the second-biggest telecomoperator in the country, has introduced spe-cial roaming tariff plans for its prepaid andpostpaid customers. At present, VodafoneIndia offers incoming free packs for prepaidand postpaid customers, under which incom-ing voice calls on national roaming are freeon payment of fixed charge. The same hasalso been revised.

Trai earlier this month cut the maximum or

ceiling rate that a telecom operator cancharge for STD calls on roaming to Rs 1.15per minute from Rs 1.50. Similarly, nationalSMS rate has been reduced to 38 paise fromRs 1.5 per SMS.

Also, an operator can charge a maximumof 25 paise only for a local SMS instead ofthe current Re 1 per SMS.

US successfully...course if needed. In February, the "smart bullets" - .50-cal-

iber projectiles equipped with optical sensors- passed their most successful round of live-fire tests to date, according to the DefenseAdvanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA).

In the tests, an experienced marksman"repeatedly hit moving and evading targets,"a DARPA statement said.

"Additionally, a novice shooter using thesystem for the first time hit a moving target.In other words, now you do not even have tobe a good shot to hit the mark," the statementsaid.

The system has been developed byDARPA's Extreme Accuracy TaskedOrdnance programme, known as EXACTO.

"True to DARPA's mission, EXACTO hasdemonstrated what was once thought impos-sible: the continuous guidance of a small-cal-iber bullet to target," Jerome Dunn, DARPAprogramme manager said in a statement.

"This live-fire demonstration from a stan-dard rifle showed that EXACTO is able to hitmoving and evading targets with extremeaccuracy at sniper ranges unachievable withtraditional rounds. Fitting EXACTO's guid-ance capabilities into a small .50-caliber sizeis a major breakthrough and opens the doorto what could be possible in future guidedprojectiles across all calibers," Dunn said.

Transport strike ...Congratulating employees and workers of

transport sector for their day-long "massive"protest, the outfits asked the government toinvite representatives of the demonstratorsfor discussion to hear their views.

The strike was called jointly by national-level road transport bodies — representingboth public and private sector workers —associated with central trade unions likeAITUC, CITU, BMS, INTUC, HMS, AICC-TU, LPF and state-level outfits.

The employees staged protest claiming theCentre wants to hand over the transport sec-tor in the hands of private players. The pro-testers have also been opposing bill provi-sions which include obtaining fitness certifi-cates even for light motor vehicles regularlyand stringent penalties for driving offences.

The Unions fear that the bill in the presentform will encroach upon state's financial,legislative and administrative powers and areeven up in arms against the stringent penal-ties proposed for road accidents.

"The polit bureau of the CPI (M) congratu-lates the workers and employees for theirsuccessful and massive all-India strike.

"It demands the Modi government to dis-cuss provisions of the bill with representa-tives of the transport sector including work-ers' unions instead of trying to push throughit in Parliament," the party said in a state-ment.

AITUC General Secretary Gurudas DasGupta shared similar views. He claimed thestrike was successful in states like Rajasthan,Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Haryana, HimachalPradesh, Kerala, West Bengal, Karnataka,Gujarat and Uttarakhand.

"In some states, it (strike) was partial," heclaimed in a statement.

The CITU claimed there was a bandh (shutdown)-like situation in Kerala, Tripura andMaharashtra, besides West Bengal. CITUclaimed several of its members for doingrasta roko in towns of Andhra Pradesh.

300 people...due to a landslide followed by heavy rains

at Vishnuprayag in Uttarakhand."We have taken steps to rescue the people

stranded in Uttarakhand. Odisha govern-ment's resident commissioner posted at NewDelhi has been making arrangements toensure safe return of the people," said specialrelief commissioner (SRC) GVV Sharma.

The Uttarakhand state government hasalready initiated rescue operation after unionoil minister Dharmendra Pradhan took up thematter.

India rejects...In a forceful assertion, Finance Minister

Arun Jaitley said the Kashmiri Pandits alongwith Muslims and Sikhs are an integral partof Jammu and Kashmir.

"The Kashmiri Pandits, Muslims and Sikhsare all an integral part of the demography ofJammu and Kashmir.

It is natural that while we imagine theirresettlement, every political party wouldwant to see that whosoever was uprooted andwent out, should be brought back," Jaitleytold reporters outside Parliament House.

"This will include people of all religions,but it is natural that Kashmiri Pandits will bein greater numbers," he added.

Pakistan's Foreign Office spokeswomanTasnim Aslam earlier said that India cannotchange the population mix by settling out-siders in the Kashmir Valley.

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With unseasonal rain laying waste vast areasunder the rabi crop in north India earlier thisyear and the threat of a deficient monsoon loom-

ing, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural EmploymentGuarantee Scheme could act as a real salve for distressedfarm workers and labourers. The World Bank’s brief state-ment on the scheme on Tuesday to this effect, as part of itslatest India Development Update, concurs with recentempirical research that has revealed that the MGNREGShas acted as an effective substitute in the absence of cropand weather insurance to poor farm households in someStates lately. The National Democratic Alliance govern-ment would do well to heed this timely suggestion fromthe World Bank, which has released a volume on thescheme based on research done in 2009 and 2010. TheBank goes on to say that the MGNREGS can be a better-targeted scheme than even a cash transfer programme. Yet,reports reveal that there is much unmet demand for labourprovided under the MGNREGS over the past year, due topoor implementation by some State governments and ageneral apathy shown by the NDA regime since last year.This is evident in the reduced outlays for the scheme (asacknowledged by the Finance Minister, yet addressed onlywith a promise of additional budgetary support subject tothe availability of revenues), and delays in transfer ofmonies to State governments which has led to tardy wagepayments. All this has resulted in an unresponsive set ofconditions that has not encouraged demand for labour pro-vided under the scheme. The government’s effort to iden-tify the poorer districts for higher allocations has onlyseemed to curtail demand in the other districts, which num-ber much higher. The MGNREGS is a demand-drivenscheme, but the fact that it requires adequate conditions forits effective implementation is self-evident. The laxity inthe implementation of the scheme over the past year hasmeant a reduction in the number of workdays as comparedto previous years. There are certainly a number ofimprovements that are required to be made. These includebetter and more productive asset-creation through workdone, improved administrative management, provision ofinformation to and sensitisation of the public as the WorldBank also points out, and checking leakages. But the factthat the MGNREGS has provided succour to India’s poor-est sections in rural areas is something that has beenacknowledged and acclaimed, as the World Bank state-ment also shows. Considering that the benefits of thescheme outweigh the drawbacks, it would be an act ofpoverty if the government does not utilise the MGNREGSto bring relief during a time of significant agrarian distressin a number of States.

BY HIROAKI TAKAHASHI

The earthquake in Nepal hasjolted the world. According toinitial estimations by the

United Nations, eight million peoplein 39 districts have been affected. Ofthem, over two million people live in11 severely affected districts. Ninetyper cent of the houses there havebeen “flattened”. Heritage buildingsare now rubble, thousands are home-less, many have lost livestock, andhave little food. On behalf of allJapanese citizens, I extend my heart-felt condolences and prayers to thosewho have lost their lives, their fami-lies and those affected. I hope inter-national help is able to ensure rapidrehabilitation and reconstruction.

I recollect how Nepal and Indiawere quick to support Japan when itfaced a similar situation in 2011, dur-ing the To¯hoku tsunami where morethan 20,000 people died.

Japan falls in a seismically activeregion and earthquakes are a part oflife. Japanese seismologists andengineers are always working onsolutions to mitigate the loss anddamage caused by earthquakes. Mostdifficulties stem from the fact thatthe occurrence of major earthquakesspans intervals that are generallylonger than the average lifespan ofcitizens. And memory is short. Thereis a saying here: “When danger pass-es, even god is forgotten.” For exam-ple, memories of the 2011 tsunamihave long passed. Therefore, thequestion is: how long will youremember a disaster? And how doyou pass on the lessons learnt? Inthis article, I would like to addressthis issue and look at what needs tobe done, from the point of view ofsomeone who lives in a seismiczone.

Earthquake forecasting

An earthquake is a sudden violentshaking of the ground, typicallycausing great destruction, as a resultof volcanic action or movementsdeep within the earth’s crust. The

Nepal quake resulted from a colli-sion between the Indian crustal blockand the Eurasian continent.Geophysicists know that the entireIndian subcontinent is being drivenslowly but surely beneath Nepal at aspeed of five centimetres a year. Thisgenerates a five-metre contractionover a century and results in silentstress build-up in the inner crustalrock. An earthquake occurs whenstress accumulation reaches criticalpoint. Over millions of years, thesqueezing has crushed theHimalayas, raising mountains andtriggering earthquakes on a regularbasis. This will continue. Thisdynamic process will also inducestress accumulation in India. TheGujarat earthquake of 2001 was aresult of this process. This showsthat a quake is sure to occur infuture.

Like Japan, Nepal is also located inone of the most seismic active zones.“An earthquake repeats itself”,which is a Japanese proverb, is apthere as well. Earthquake forecastingis a kind of historical science. If youcan find documentation of a quake inancient literature or legend, thatplace is bound to be earthquakeprone. I pose this question next: doyou know the earthquake history ofyour region? But let me not be analarmist. The India MeteorologicalDepartment keeps track of all this.However, I suppose most peopledon’t know. It is perfectly naturalthat people do not worry about suchthings; it’s the same in Japan as well.As scientists, we try to create aware-ness about earthquake risk in theform of public lectures, mass mediacampaigns, science shows and gov-ernmental meetings. Therefore, “riskrecognition” is the first step towardsdisaster mitigation.

In Nepal, researchers did trackactive earthquake history and issuedwarnings about a possible anddestructive quake. For example, mycolleague visited Nepal frequently toresearch strong ground shaking tohelp in disaster mitigation studies.Earthquake science still does not

have a tool for imminent earthquakeprediction. Therefore, being pre-pared for one is a crucial, and, often,the only step for disaster mitigation.

Disaster and public policy

In an earthquake, most of the dam-age is caused by collapsing build-ings. In Nepal, most victims died thisway. This is a major problem con-fronting architects. Recent architec-tural developments, however, allowfor the construction of quake-resist-ant buildings, but such constructionis more expensive than an ordinarybuilding. Therefore, cost-effectivesolutions are also a challenge.

The Japanese believe and agreethat anti-disaster investments arelifesavers. If the Indian governmentmakes a public investment in thisarea, it should first come to somesort of social agreement in disastermitigation. The role of the massmedia is also important because itplays a key role in creating aware-ness about disaster preparedness.This must be emphasised. We mustremember that it is people and com-mercial companies that are involvedin construction and not the govern-ment. So, disaster mitigation cannotachieve optimal results unless thereis understanding and cooperation.The media should also highlight thebenefits of public and commercialinvestments.

Japanese anti-quake constructiontechnology places a premium onhigh performance. Hence, what issuitable for Japanese conditions maynot work elsewhere, in terms ofapplicability and cost. I suppose theexport of such technology may notsolve problems elsewhere.Therefore, the Government of Indiamust develop an anti-disaster tech-nology that suits Indian constructionand conditions.

Risk evaluation and management

Disaster mitigation measures alsorequire risk evaluation for rural andurban areas. In high-risk regions,

there must be public investment.Policymakers in India must look atthose parts of the country that havehigh quake potential. Records showthat the western, coastal and northernregions are at high risk. Anotherimportant factor is “occurrence fre-quency and probability”. Shorterintervals between quakes indicate ahigh probability. At the same time,longer intervals also produce highprobability. An evaluation of thesefactors will give one the basic infor-mation required. I would also like toadd that earthquake research can’toperate on a commercial basis, sogovernment funding is a must forscientific investigation.

The Japanese government operatesthe Headquarters for EarthquakeResearch Promotion based onSpecial Measure Law on EarthquakeDisaster Prevention. Its director is aminister and its committees consistof government officers, governors,professors and researchers. The mostimportant role of this special inter-ministry organisation is to publishprobabilistic seismic hazard mapsresulting from probability evaluationof earthquake occurrences. It alsoconducts unified national earthquakeresearch — as geological surveys,earthquake monitoring and computermodelling. The results from all theseprojects produce the probability ofearthquake occurrences. Forinstance, its research has shown thata strong shaking probability for theTokyo Metropolitan area for next 30years exceeds 80 per cent.

Earthquake risk is defined in thefollowing way — multiplication ofearthquake magnitude, probabilityand social fragility. Scientific datacan only estimate magnitude andprobability. This shows that if aplace is “very fragile”, even a smallearthquake can result in disaster.“High fragility” is the state of beingunprepared by having non-quake-resistant construction. Mankind hasno control over the magnitude andprobability of a quake but architec-tural engineering can help reduce thefragility. Japanese quake-resistant

house and building compliance isnow about 80 per cent.

Response and supporting technol-ogy

In a quake, the survival time ofsomeone who is buried is 72 hours.Therefore, rapid initial rescue is cru-cial. Who does the rescue then? Thefire department? The police? Themilitary? In a quake, one must beable to think of how to survive andescape. This is the experience inJapan. What if help is inadequate?

A real-time earthquake observationsystem should support the quick startof a rescue. In Japan, any seismicactivity of more than ‘5+’ intensityautomatically activates governmen-tal response. There is surveillance byself-defence forces, a disaster coun-termeasure preparation office startsworking, and a medical assistanceteam is on standby. For any smoothoperation, there has to be a drill. So,disaster prevention agencies andgovernments frequently conduct allkinds of training and simulate situa-tions. But even the best trained res-cue operation requires lead time toaccess sites.

In Japan, a real-time EarthquakeEarly Warning (EEW) is in opera-tion. If a quake is in the sea, thespeed of an earthquake wave is about8 km per second, which is slowerthan an electric signal. If the epicen-tre is away from one’s location, anelectric signal reaches faster than theshake that gives the lead time beforethe quake arrives.

An EEW alert is automaticallytriggered whenever any seismometerdetects a seismic signal. There arealerts to the public through the mediaand the Internet. Trains, elevatorsand industrial machines are stoppedautomatically.

These examples show how earth-quake monitoring data might helpdecrease the impact of a disaster.However, for the full impact of sucha system, there needs to be a high

ratio of anti-quake construction.How does one minimise the chancesof being buried alive? The point isthat government investment in anti-quake construction takes precedenceover a modern alert system.

The annual disaster preventiondrill in Japanese schools also playsan important role. Students aretaught to hide below their desks in aquake. In their syllabus, they learnabout natural disasters, disaster his-tory, and hazard mapping.

Importance of legislation

Legislation also plays a mostimportant role in disaster mitigation.The Japanese government hasamended the Building Standard Lawat regular intervals to reflect theadvances in science and technology,and the lessons learnt from the lastearthquake that occurred. The pres-ent version requires that new con-structions should not be damaged ina medium earthquake and must notcollapse in a large earthquake. Thesestringent measures have successfullyreduced human toll in recent quakes.There is also a programme of taxincentives for anti-quake construc-tion, that has enabled a higher ratioof anti-quake constructions in Japan.Therefore, economic incentives arealso required to achieve actual lawimplementation.

With a proper legal system inplace, new constructions will be bet-ter adapted for high seismic activity.We should try to develop a legal sys-tem, especially a Building StandardLaw for earthquake disaster mitiga-tion. Another countermeasureagainst quake disaster is a city plan-ning policy and advance reconstruc-tion policies. I believe these insightsbased on actual disaster experiencesin Japan will go a long way to helpsave precious lives.

(Hiroaki Takahashi is AssociateProfessor of Seismology, Institute of

Seismology and Volcanology,Hokkaido University, Japan.)

BY SHASHANK JOSHI

Arun Jaitley and Manohar Parrikar,the government’s first and incum-bent Defence Ministers, respec-

tively, perhaps hoped that the pitifulrecord of their predecessor A.K. Antony,India’s longest continuously servingDefence Minister, would make their taskeasier. Instead, it’s been quite the oppo-site. Mr. Parrikar seems to have spent thelast several months cleaning up what heinsists is a fiscal and policy messbequeathed to the government and over-looked by Mr. Jaitley, who was, for a briefperiod, wearing two hats as Finance andDefence Minister. But is Mr. Parrikarleaving the place tidier than he found it, orlaying down an unhelpful legacy of hisown? Three areas are worth looking atmore closely: the slashing of the muchadvertised 17 Corps, the country’s firstmountain strike force; the sudden re-jig-ging of a deal to purchase France’s Rafalefighter aircraft; and, most importantly, thevexed question of reforming India’s mili-tary command.

Two years ago, the previous Congress-led government announced the raising of17 Corps, which, unlike 1, 2, and 21,would be directed at China rather thanPakistan, and therefore configured formountain warfare. It would consist of twoinfantry divisions, three artillery brigades,three armoured brigades, and a host ofsupporting land and air units. Mountainunits aren’t as mobile as those that fight inthe plains, and so require plentiful airlift,particularly helicopters and light artillery.The 17 Corps would be large, with around80,000 men, and expensive, costing wellover $10 billion, $1.2 billion of whichwould have to be spent annually till theearly 2020s. To put that in perspective, theIndian Army’s entire allocation for 2015-16 is $16 billion. As Mr. Parrikar asked,“Where is the money?”

Two out of three

Mr. Parrikar’s response has been tomore than halve the size of 17 Corps tojust 35,000 men, and to propose that theArmy take a long, hard look at its currentstrike corps and other Pakistan-facingunits. This will have mixed results. On theone hand, loudly raising new units onpaper and then quietly slashing themsends a signal of weakness, even feckless-

ness, to your adversaries. Critics willaccuse Mr. Parrikar of gutting India’smodest offensive capability against Chinaeven before it got off the ground. On theother hand, downsizing creates an oppor-tunity to ensure that the pruned 17 Corpscan now actually afford the equipmentand supporting platforms it needs if it is tobe combat-effective. It is better to have asmaller and more potent force than a largeand flabby one.

Mr. Parrikar can turn this decision intoan opportunity, but only if he focusses onexplaining his intentions rather than onblaming previous governments.

The second choice, one in which Mr.Parrikar seems to have been largely unin-volved, is India’s decision this month topurchase 36 French Rafale fighters, mul-tirole aircraft that can defend the skies andstrike targets on the ground, in so-called“flyaway” condition. The catch is thatIndia originally wanted to buy 126 air-craft, and was using the leverage of sucha large order to negotiate a substantialtransfer of technology to India. Althoughthe idea goes back years, it dovetailedperfectly with Prime Minister NarendraModi’s ‘Make in India’ initiative. It nowseems that India effectively blinked.Nothing is to be made in India and every-thing will be imported. In the last threeyears, Indian arms imports have grown 56per cent. This government is close to fail-ing its first serious test at addressing that

trend.

The deal also places a huge questionmark over where the remaining 90 air-craft, required to keep the Air Force atreasonable strength, will come from. Mr.Parrikar has suggested, almost off-hand,that India might buy another light, single-engine fighter to supplement the indige-nous Tejas, as part of the process ofreplacing the ageing MiG-21. This couldinclude the Swedish Gripen NG fighterjet, a cheaper but attractive aircraft thatlost out to Rafale earlier. But this throwsup fresh problems. First, it would increasethe variety of aircraft in the Air Force

inventory, something that has been anissue since the 1990s, which increases theburden on training and maintenance.Second, it’s a bit like comparing applesand oranges: the Gripen and Rafale havedifferent strengths and weaknesses, so theoptimal balance between them woulddepend entirely on the kind of Air ForceIndia wants to develop. Without somepublic statement that clarifies India’sdefence posture, it’s hard to judgewhether Mr. Parrikar is following a care-fully thought-out plan or, more likely,improvising. Mr. Parrikar has justified thedeal by calling it “oxygen relief” for theAir Force, but short-term impulsive buyswill generate problems down the line.

As the British politican Nigel Lawsononce observed, “To govern is to choose.

To appear to be unable to choose is toappear to be unable to govern”. The gov-ernment’s decisions on both the mountainstrike corps and Rafale are bold choices,even if it’s unclear whether they are goodones. But in a third area, the governmenthas not chosen at all.

Wanted:4 unified services chief

It is widely accepted that India’s civil-military relations and higher defencemanagement are unfit to meet the needsof a rising, ambitious power in the top tierof Asian military forces. Successive gov-ernment-appointed committees stretchingback decades, and innumerable expertshave made it clear that India’s three serv-ices must be stitched together with aChief of Defence Staff (CDS) or equiva-lent post, sitting above the three servicechiefs, who would be capable of givingthe government coherent advice on mili-tary matters and imposing unity of pur-pose on the Army, Air Force, and Navy.As the scholar Anit Mukherjee wrote thismonth, “Left to themselves, they have noteven been able to agree on training theirmusicians together, let alone poolingresources for joint training and logistics”.

In mid-March, Mr. Parrikar candidlyacknowledged that “integration of thethree forces does not exist in the existingstructure”, and promised that “in the nexttwo to three months my Cabinet note withthe recommendation for a CDS will go tothe Cabinet Committee on Security forthe final decision”. He added that “a CDSis a must”.

This is extremely promising, but cau-tion is in order. If the Minister is serious,he should draw on the wealth of studiesand recommendations produced by pastcommittees to set out his vision fordefence reforms. Every past effort hasfoundered on political and bureaucraticopposition. If Mr. Parrikar does not wishto go down as yet another Minister whoraised expectations and fell well short,this is the time to take his commitmentseriously. If he gets this decision right, itwill be remembered long after the Rafaleis retired.

(Shashank Joshi is a Senior ResearchFellow of the Royal United Services

Institute in London, and a PhD candi-date at Harvard University.)

MGNREGS as insuranceIn defence, time for tough decisions

Japan and quake preparedness

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It is widely accepted that India’s civil-military relations and higher defence

management are unfit to meet theneeds of a rising, ambitious power in the

top tier of Asian military forces. Successivegovernment-appointed committees

stretching back decades, and innumer-able experts have made it clear thatIndia’s three services must be stitched

together with a Chief of Defence Staff(CDS) or equivalent post

Fight For Right

NEW DELHIThe quantum of plastic

waste generation in 60cities of the country isestimated to be over15,342 tonnes per daywhile more than 6,000tonnes remain uncollectedand littered, Rajya Sabhawas informed onThursday.

"As per a survey con-ducted by CentralPollution Control Board(CPCB) in 60 cities of thecountry, the quantum of

plastic waste generationis estimated to be15,342.6 tonnes per day.

"The total plastic wastewhich is collected andrecycled is estimated tobe 9205 tonnes per dayand 6137 tonnes remaineduncollected and littered,"environment ministerPrakash Javadekar said.

He said that as per thePlastic Waste(Management andHandling) Rules 2011notified by the ministry,

the municipal authoritiesare required to set upplastic waste managementsystem in areas undertheir jurisdiction.

Replying to anotherquestion, he said that theCPCB in collaborationwith IIT Delhi has carrieda comprehensive environ-mental assessment of 88prominent industrial clus-ters during 2009-10 basedon ComprehensiveEnvironmental PollutionIndex criteria.

He said that out of the88 clusters, 43 industrialclusters having CEPIscore of 70 and above areidentified as criticallypolluted clusters and 32industrial clusters withCEPI scores between 60-70 are identified asSeverely polluted areas.

"In January, CPCB con-stituted a working groupheaded by director-gener-al health services underhealth ministry and com-prising national level

experts in the fieldincluding officials fromvarious government agen-cies to develop a simpli-fied and uniform standardoperating procedure forevaluation of impact ofpolluted air, water andland on human health,flora and fauna," hesaid.

Replying to anotherquestion, Javadekar saidthat as per the ForestSurvey of India study forSunderbans for the year

2002 and 2011, the man-grove cover for theSunderbans for these twoyears have been reportedto be 2111 sq kms and2094 respectively indicat-ing a decrease of 1700hectares during thedecade.

Replying to anotherquestion, he said that sofar final notification foreco-sensitive zones ofaround 23 sanctuaries andnational parks have beenissued.

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DHAMANGAONSetting out on a padyatra on

Thursday to meet farmers in theVidarbha region of the state,Congress vice-president RahulGandhi was told by several ofthem that insurance companieswere engaging in fraud and thatthe requisite compensation wasnot paid to them for crop loss.

Rahul on Thursday morninglaunched his 'sanvad yatra'from Gunji village inMaharashtra's Amravati districtto highlight farmers' woes andthe agrarian situation in theregion.

He will be visiting five vil-lages between Gunji toRamgaon and will meet thefarmers who have suffered croplosses due to unseasonal rain asalso the families of those whohave committed suicide overcrop loss.

Sitting on a jute mat at a tem-ple in Hirapur village, theCongress vice-president gave apatient hearing to a group ofmarginal farmers.

The villagers alleged that"insurance companies wereonly selecting sample areas forgiving compensation while the

rest of the farmers were beingdeprived by them of the bene-fits due".

"The insurance companiessend their agents who mop upbusiness for foreign giants as anincentive but, ultimately, it isthe poor farmer who loses," avillager, Pandurang, com-plained to Rahul.

Some of them said that pesti-cides and fertilisers were beingsupplied to them at high priceseven though the cost of produc-tion of such items was quite

less.The villagers also drew

Rahul's attention to the damagetheir soya crop has suffered inthe unseasonal rainfall.Soyabean prices have crashedheavily due to the damages,another farmer said.

Hailing Rahul's initiative inopposing the Land AcquisitionBill, 2015, in Parliament, thevillagers said they was appre-hension that farm land wouldbe acquired for business.

Nearly 171 farmers have

committed suicide from 2006to 2014 in Dhamangaon talukaof the district, the villagersinformed the Congress leader.

Under a scorching sun, Rahulwent on foot from village to vil-lage. The padyatra saw the par-ticipation of a large number ofCongress workers, particularlyfrom Youth Congress, wavingthe party flag, banners andposters. Leader of opposition inMaharashtra assembly and for-mer state agriculture ministerRadhakrishna Vikhe-Patil, who

was also present at the farmers'meeting, explained the intrica-cies of the crop insurancescheme to the 44-year-oldCongress vice-president.

AICC general secretaryMukul Wasnik and CongressRajya Sabha member AvinashPandey, too, were among thosewho accompanied Rahul.

Earlier, in Gunji, Rahul metthe family members of farmersNilesh Walke and AmbadasVahile who committed suiciderecently. Gunji, with a popula-tion of 1,200, was the first stopin the 'padyatra' where Rahulalso interacted briefly with agroup of children from orphan-ages. Subsequently, he marchedto Shahpur village, another areawhich has seen a high incidenceof farmers' suicides. Situated 5-km away from Gunji inAmravati district, it is repre-sented by Virendra Jagtap ofCongress in the Maharashtraassembly.

Maharashtra is one of thestates grappling with a severeagrarian crisis and Amravatidivision of Vidarbha region haswitnessed many farmer sui-cides this year.

Insurance companies denying us ourdue: Farmers to Rahul Gandhi on padyatra

AHMEDABADA special SIT court hear-

ing the Gulbarg Societymassacre case on Thursdayreserved its order afterhearing the applicationfiled by victim-witnessesto make four top cops asaccused and put them ontrial for alleged derelictionof duty that resulted in thekilling of 69 persons onFebruary 28, 2002.

The witnesses had filedthis application under pro-visions of section 319 ofthe CrPC more than threeyears ago when the courtwas recording evidence onbasis of deposition of wit-nesses during the trial. The

court had postponed thehearing and finally heardthe arguments after theprosecution completed itsfinal arguments.

Witnesses' counsel S MVora submitted before thecourt the there was ampleevidence to prove that thenpolice commissioner P CPande, then JCP MKTandon, then DCP PBGondia and former investi-gator S S Chudasama hadremained negligent delib-erately and did not performtheir duty. The previousthree had not heeded to thedistress calls and controlroom messages and stayedaway from saving lives of

residents of GulbargSociety.

The SIT, on the otherhand, reiterated its standtaken during the investiga-tion on Zakia Jafri's com-plaint that there was noevidence found againstPande and Chudasama,whereas there was no pros-ecutable evidence againstTandon and Gondia. It hasalready recommendeddepartmental proceedingsagainst the duo.

After hearing the argu-ments, special judge P BDesai reserved his orderand kept further proceed-ings on the trial in the sec-ond week of May.

Gulbarg society massacre: SIT courtreserves order on implicating top cops

NEW DELHIFormer prime minister

Manmohan Singh"assured" the shahi imamof Delhi's Jama Masjid thatthe Mughal-era mosquewould not be declared aprotected monument, a let-ter submitted by theArchaeological Survey ofIndia to the Delhi HighCourt has revealed.

The assurance was madein a letter from Singh toSyed Ahmed Bukhari in2004, soon after he hadtaken over as PM, accord-ing to the ASI affidavit.

This adds a new dimen-sion to the case in whichthe high court has been try-

ing to find out for morethan a decade why the erst-while Congress-led UPAgovernment refused todeclare the 17th centuryJama Masjid a protectedmonument. Doing sowould have meant that

control over it would passto the central government.

In the October 20, 2004,letter addressed to "DearSyed Ahmed BukhariSahib", Singh said he had"instructed" the ministry ofculture and ASI to com-

plete repairs sought by himin his letter of August 10,2004 "within a specifiedtime frame".

He also informed himthat the ministry had decid-ed not to declare the JamaMasjid a protected monu-ment.

In its reply, submitted tothe court a fortnight ago,ASI said that "the issue ofnotifying Jama Masjid as acentrally protected monu-ment was raised".

However, the former PMhad "assured" the ShahiImam that the mosquewould not be declared aprotected monument, ASIsaid. It also said that

declaring the mosque aprotected monument didnot come within itspurview.

Several restrictions applyto a monument that'sdeclared protected underthe Ancient Monumentsand Archaeological Sitesand Remains Act of 1958.A place of worship orshrine "shall not be usedfor any purpose inconsis-tent with its character".

A protected monumentcannot be used for meet-ings, receptions, parties,conferences or entertain-ment programmes exceptwith special permission bythe Centre.

Former PM Manmohan Singh assured Shahi Imam Syed AhmedBukhari that Delhi's Jama Masjid won't be a protected monument

NEW DELHIA US panel tracking internation-

al religious freedom has, in its lat-est report on India, noted that reli-gious minorities in the countrywere exposed to "derogatory"comments by leaders of the rulingBJP as well as "violent attacks andforced conversions by theRashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS) and Vishwa Hindu Parishad(VHP)" since the Narendra Modigovernment took over lastyear.

It has also slammed the "gharwapsi" campaign and accused the"Hindu nationalist groups" ofoffering monetary inducementsnot only to Muslims and Christiansto convert to Hinduism but also toHindus who carry out such"forced" conversions.

The findings of the United StatesCommission on InternationalReligious Freedom (USCIRF),largely based on the accounts ofreligious leaders of the minoritiesand non-government organisationsin India, have led it to place India

on its Tier 2 list of countries for theseventh year in a row.

However, even as it reported onthe alleged violation of rights ofChristians and Muslims in India in2014, the panel squeezed in a ref-erence to Prime Minister NarendraModi's February 17 statement(made after the period covered bythe report) condemning attacks onchurches and assuring protectionto the minorities, describing it as a"positive development".

Yet, what is certain to rile India,the panel juxtaposed Modi'sFebruary 17 assurance toChristians with the 2002 Gujaratriots, stating that the statement wasnotable given the "long-standingallegations that, as chief ministerof Gujarat in 2002, Modi was com-plicit in anti-Muslim riots in thatstate" .

The report recalls that the Statedepartment had, in the light ofthese allegations, revoked in 2005a tourist visa granted to Modi,"under a provision in theImmigration and Nationality Act

that makes any foreign govern-ment official who was responsiblefor or directly carried out, at anytime, particularly severe violationsof religious freedom" ineligible fora US visa. "Prime Minister Modiremains the only person known tohave been denied a visa based onthis provision," it emphasized.

Noting that incidents of "reli-giously-motivated and communalviolence reportedly have increasedfor three consecutive years," theUSCIRF report stated that AndhraPradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,Chattisgarh, Gujarat, Odisha,Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh,Maharashtra, and Rajasthan "tendto have the greatest number of reli-giously-motivated attacks andcommunal violence incidents".

"NGOs and religious leaders,including from the Muslim,Christian, and Sikh communities,attributed the initial increase toreligiously-divisive campaigningin advance of the country's 2014general election. Since the elec-tion, religious minority communi-

ties have been subject to derogato-ry comments by politicians linkedto the ruling BJP and numerousviolent attacks and forced conver-sions by Hindu nationalist groups,such as RSS and VHP," accordingto the findings of USCIRF on thestatus of religious freedom in Indiaduring the past year.

"Based on these concerns,USCIRF again places India on itsTier 2 list of countries, where it hasbeen since 2009," said the panel.Slamming the ghar wapsi cam-paign, the USCIRF report notedthat Hindu nationalist groups werenot only paying off Christians andMuslims to convert to Hinduismbut also reportedly offering mone-tary incentives to Hindus to con-vert Christians and Muslims toHinduism.

"In December 2014, Hindunationalist groups announcedplans to forcibly reconvert at least4,000 Christian families and 1,000Muslim families to Hinduism inUP on Christmas Day as part of theso-called Ghar Wapsi program".

US panel questions RSS, VHP over attacksagainst minorities; slams "ghar wapsi"

CHANDIGARHLaunching a scathing

attack on Shiromani AkaliDal (SAD) for the incidentin Moga where a younggirl and her mother wereallegedly pushed out of amoving bus on Wednesday,Punjab Congress demand-ed that a time-bound judi-cial inquiry be constitutedto look into the issue ofalleged political patronageto the bus company. Theparty also appealed to thehigh court to take suo motonotice of the 'serious' mat-ter.

Punjab Congress presi-dent Partap Singh Bajwaon Thursday endorsed thedemand by CongressLegislative Party (CLP)leader Sunil Jakhar forconstitution of a commis-sion to examine the clashof interests of the stategovernment in transportand mining sectors.

"I would also like tomake an appeal to the chiefjustice of Punjab andHaryana high court to takesuo moto notice of the inci-dent.

It is a human rights issue,besides being a question ofwomen's dignity in thestate. No police officer orbureaucrat will dare to takeaction against the bus com-pany, which is indirectlyowned by deputy chiefminister Sukhbir SinghBadal. Congress demandsthat he should also be

booked in the case,"demanded Bajwa. "Chiefminister Parkash SinghBadal has turned a blindeye to it and there is no oneto rein in the bus company.Catching hold of the driverand conductor will notserve the purpose. I wantto ask union minister forfood processing as towhere is her consciencenow when the bus compa-ny in which the family hasstakes in involved in suchan unfortunate incident,"he added.

Punjab Congress demands judicial inquiry intoteen's alleged jumping off moving bus

60 cities generate over 15,000 tonnes of plastic waste per day

CHANGSHAA Chinese construction

company is claiming to be theworld's fastest builder aftererecting a 57-storey sky-scraper in 19 working days incentral China.

The Broad SustainableBuilding Co put up the rectan-gular, glass-and-steel MiniSky City in the Hunan provin-cial capital of Changsha usinga modular method, assemblingthree floors per day, companyvice president XiaoChanggeng said.

The company, which hasambitions to assemble theworld's tallest skyscraper at220 floors in only threemonths, worked on Mini Sky

City in two spurts separated bywinter weather. Its time-lapsevideo of the rapid assemblyhas become popular onChinese video-sharing sitessince it was first uploaded onYouTube. "With the traditionalmethod, they have to build askyscraper brick by brick, butwith our method, we just needto assemble the blocks," com-pany engineer ChenXiangqian said.

Such modular approacheshave been used for high-riseapartment blocks elsewhere,including in Britain and theUS. Some critics say themethod could lead tocityscapes with overly uni-form architecture.

China builds 57-storeyskyscraper in 19 days

KOLKATACII has stepped up its

relief work for earthquake-hit victims in Nepal in closecoordination with theGovernment of India andthe Federation of NepaleseChamber of Commerce &Industry (FNCCI).

A CII north Bengal teamcomprising Mr RajivLochan, a senior memberof CII North Bengal,Prabin Agarwal, chair, YiSiliguri chapter and LaxmiLimbu Kaushal, head, CII

north Bengal zonal office,visited Kakrivitta in Nepalwith relief materials forearthquake-hit victims.

As suggested by TezPrasad Paudal, chief districtofficer, Kakrivitta, therelief materials-150 cartonsof biscuits and ready-to-eatfood, 300 tarpaulin and 300blankets—were handedover to Bijay Dalmia, pres-ident, Mechi Chamber ofCommerce and Industry, anaffiliate of the Federationof Nepalese Chambers.

CII rushes relief materials tovictims in Kakrivitta, Nepal

LG, soon afterl a u n c h i n gthe Magna

smartphone, has now intro-duced the 3G-variant of theG Pad 8.0 tablet in India.The tablet is now listed onthe company's site withpricing; however, there isno word yet on availability.

Priced at Rs. 21,000, the3G-variant of the LG GPad 8.0 comes with single-SIM (Micro-SIM) support.A Wi-Fi only variant of theLG G Pad 8.0 already wenton sale last month via a

third-party online retailerat Rs. 17,999.

It's worth noting that LGglobally launched the LGG Pad 8.0 in two models -Wi-Fi only and LTE. Thecompany appears howeverto have debuted a third-variant (3G + Wi-Fi) forthe Indian market.

The LG G Pad 8.0 3Gfeatures an 8-inch IPS dis-play with a WXGA(1280x800 pixels) display.It is powered by a 1.2GHzquad-core Qualcomm

Snapdragon processor(unspecified) coupled with1GB of RAM, and features16GB of inbuilt storagewith microSD card support(expandable up to 64GB).

The tablet features a 5-megapixel rear camera, a1.3-megapixel front cam-

era, and a 4200mAh bat-tery. The LG G Pad 8.0m e a s u r e s210.8x124.2x9.95mm, butLG has not listed theweight of the 3G variant onits site. It would be close tothe Wi-Fi only and LTEvariants however, with theG Pad 8.0 weighing 342

grams, and the G Pad 8.0LTE weighing 344 grams.The LG G Pad 8.0 is avail-able in Black and Whitecolours.

The Android 4.4 KitKat-based tablet's highlight isthat it shares the same UIas seen in the company's

former flagship, the LGG3. In addition, the deviceincludes QPair 2.0, throughwhich users can connect totheir smartphones withBluetooth to convenientlyanswer phone calls, receivenotifications, and send textmessages, directly fromtheir LG tablet.

Other features on the LGG Pad 8.0 include Touchand Shoot, Gesture Shot,Smart Keyboard, andKnock Code. The Touchand Shoot feature enablesusers to tap anywhere onthe tablet screen to focusthe subject automaticallyand shoot images. The

Gesture Shot feature letsusers click a selfie shot viathe tablet's front-facingcamera with the help of asimple gesture. The userswould have to open andclose the palms of theirhands, after which a count-down timer of three sec-onds starts.

1. Who invented Dynamite?A. Sir Alexander Graham BellB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas Alva EdisonD. Alfred B. Nobel

2. What toy did George Lerner create for Hasbro com-pany in 1952?A. Sit and Spin B. Talking baby dollC. Mr. Potato Head D. Hula hoop

3. For whom high heeled shoes were invented?A. Cleopatra B. Queen Elizabeth IC. King Louis the XIV D. King Charles II

4. What African-American inventor received 5 patentsin the field of shoemaking?A. Elijah McCoy B. Jan Ernst MatzeligerC. Ernest Just D. Lewis Latimer

QUIZ TIME

Answer: 1(D) 2(C), 3(C), 4(B)

TODAY’S STARARIES Career changes may be on the horizon, Aries. Although positive in

the long run, the events leading up to the change may seem cata-strophic. Your employer could go out of business or move too faraway for you to commute. The secret here is not to panic. Acceptthe situation and move on. In the end, you will probably be glad thatthis happened. Success and good fortune are coming.

TAURUS Premonitions today might be rather disturbing, Taurus, and youmight actually feel some fear because of them. Don't panic! Yourintuitive abilities aren't quite as sharp as usual. What you feelcould be distorted or untrue. This doesn't mean you've lost it,either. Try to be objective about everything you pick up psychi-cally. You will be glad you did.

GEMINI Changes within a group you're affiliated with might profoundly affectyou today, Gemini. Perhaps the group is veering in a new directionthat doesn't particularly interest you. You might need to reevaluateyour involvement. This could make you rather sad since you'vegrown fond of the people and won't want to lose them as friends.You need to think. Only you can decide what to do.

CANCER A scandal concerning a celebrity you admire could be in the newstoday, Cancer. This might throw you for a loop. You might even suf-fer some disillusionment. Withhold judgment for the time being.Much of what you hear may be traced to gossip or misinformation.Shocking though it may be, you will want to hear the celebrity's sideof it. Only then can you form an objective opinion.

LEO Some rather shocking news could come to you from a friend wholives far away, Leo. This probably won't affect you directly, as it mostlikely concerns the world economy, politics, or big business, but youstill might worry about its long-term effects on society. You could dis-cuss it with friends. You need to remain objective and see how thenews develops. It might be less serious than it seems.

VIRGO A dip in the stock market might cause you to worry about yourown financial future, Virgo. You may have some investmentsthat could be temporarily negatively affected. Bear in mindthat such events don't necessarily reflect future trends. Takesteps to create some kind of safety net if you wish, but don'tassume the worst. The market could go back up tomorrow!

LIBRA Today you might find that some of your more ambitious plansfinally seem to be paying off, Libra. You should be happy aboutthis, but you might panic a bit, fearing that everything couldcrash at the last minute. Don't assume the worst and don't wasteyour energy worrying. Keep striving! You've gotten this far. Witha little effort, all should go well.

SCORPIO If you've been doing some creative or job-related writing, todayyou might be tired, blocked, and unable to muster the energy toturn on the computer. Scorpio, you need to ask yourself howimportant it is to get it done today. It's far better to wait anotherday and do it well than grind out something that isn't up to yourstandards. That could be counterproductive.

SAGITTARIUSA project of some kind you've been working on could be going well,Sagittarius, but today you might experience a sudden rush of inspi-ration that makes it a lot better than you originally envisioned. Thiscould involve effort that seems intimidating at first, but the resultsshould be worth it. Summon all your energy and determination andget to it. You will be very glad you did!

CAPRICORN Some intense communication could take place today between youand a love partner, possibly about your future together, Capricorn.It's likely to lead to some positive developments in your life, possi-bly including a move to the next level of commitment. If you aren'tinvolved now, a friend could introduce you to someone new, per-haps at a social gathering. Look your best throughout the day!

AQUARIUS Today you may feel especially sensual and passionate, Aquarius.This is the perfect evening to schedule quality time with a currentor potential love partner. You're probably looking and feelingattractive, and this fact isn't likely to be lost on your friend. Scattersome pillows, add some flowers, put out some cheese, fruit, andwhite wine, and be prepared for anything!

PISCES A social event or gathering that involves work could put you intouch with interesting people, Pisces, including a sexy potentiallove partner! Someone new on the scene could stir your bloodlike it hasn't been stirred in a long time. Whether or not youchoose to pursue this attraction depends on your situation, butat least you will have some fun today.

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Microsoft as prom-ised has launchedits most afford-

able Lumia handset yet inIndia, the Lumia 430 DualSIM. Priced at Rs. 5,299,the Microsoft Lumia 430Dual SIM will be availablein the country startingThursday.

Initially announced inMarch, Microsoft touts theLumia 430 Dual SIM as its"most affordable Lumia to-date". The Redmond giantlast month had promisedthat the Lumia 430 DualSIM will be unveiled forthe Indian market by end ofApril and the company hasindeed kept its promise.

One of the biggest high-lights of the Lumia 430Dual SIM is it can beupgraded to Windows 10when it becomes availablelater this year.

Microsoft has been con-tinuously pushing afford-able Lumia handsets invarious markets. The com-pany in January launchedthe new affordable Lumia400-series smartphones,the Lumia 435 and Lumia435 Dual SIM, alongsidethe Lumia 532 and Lumia532 Dual SIM.

The Microsoft Lumia430 Dual SIM runsWindows Phone 8.1 withthe Lumia Denim update.It features a 4-inch WVGA(480x800 pixels) LCD dis-play offering a pixel densi-ty of 235ppi. The smart-phone is powered by a1.2GHz dual-coreQualcomm Snapdragon200 processor coupled with1GB of RAM. It comeswith 8GB of built-in stor-age expandable further via

microSD card (up to128GB). Much like otherLumia handsets, the Lumia430 Dual SIM also comeswith 30GB of freeOneDrive cloud storage.The smartphone supportsdual Micro-SIM cards.

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Micromax's YuYureka smart-phone will be

available on Thursday inits 16th flash sale thatkicks off at 2pm IST onAmazon India for regis-tered users. YuTeleventures, unlike sever-al previous sales, had at thetime of writing not yetrevealed how many unitswill be going on sale.

The last flash sale saw40,000 Yu Yureka smart-phones going out of stockin seven seconds. In the14th flash sale, 20,000smartphones were madeavailable, which went outof stock in 6 seconds,while in the 13th flash sale,the company announcedthat 25,000 units had goneout of stock in 7 seconds.

Micromax's subsidiaryYu Televentures earlier thismonth started rolling outthe Android 5.0 Lollipop-based Cyanogen OS 12(CM12S) update for theYureka smartphone. Apartfrom the changes thatAndroid 5.0 Lollipopbrought (such as MaterialDesign; new Quick set-tings; Android Runtime;revamped notifications;guest profiles, and supportfor new languages includ-ing Bengali, Kannada,Malayalam, Marathi,

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KOLKATARobin Uthappa and Andre Russell

struck belligerent fifties after veteranBrad Hogg's four-wicket haul to helpKolkata Knight Riders return to win-ning ways with a seven-wicket winover Chennai Super Kings in a thrilingIndian Premier League match here onThursday.

Playing the formidable CSK for asecond time in two days, KKR, wholost by two runs chasing 135 in the firstleg clash, had a stiffer target of 166 tochase at the Eden Gardens after skipperGautam Gambhir won the toss andonce again opted to field.

Chasing the target, KKR found them-selves in a familiar position as theywere reduced to 57 for three. But lastseason's top rungetter Robin Uthappafinally came good to steer the chasewith a 58-ball unbetean 80, his 14thIPL fifty and first in this season. Hestruck seven boundaries and one sixduring his knock.

Uthappa found a perfect ally in WestIndian Russell who blasted 59 off 32balls as the duo put together uncon-quered 112 runs off just 62 deliveriesfor the fourth wicket to avenge theirloss in Chennai few days back.

By virtue of this win, KKR (8 points)moved past RCB (7) to the third spot inthe table but CSK remained at top with12 points. But the defending championsstarted their chase in a terrible fashion.On a day when it was required for theirbatsmen to seize momentum given byHogg's incisive four for 28-run brilliantspell, their misery continued after skip-per Gautam Gambhir (19), ManishPandey (3) and Suryakumar Yadav's (2)early dismissals.

Debutant Ronit More took an impres-sive catch on the edge of the third-man

boundary to dismiss Gambhir off MohitSharma (1/22). As KKR went into ashell and with the asking rate going up,Dhoni smartly brought in his inexperi-enced duo of Pawan Negi and More,who did not disappoint either by dis-missing Pandey and Suryakumar Yadavrespectively.

But Uthappa and Russell ensured thatthe packed house did not return disap-pointed. Uthappa brought the crowdback on their feet when he slammedAshish Nehra over his head and fol-lowed it up with two fours in the 15th

over in which the veteran India seamerleaked 15 runs.

Russell struck Ravindra Jadeja forone four and six in the next over thatyielded 14 runs as from then onwards-the victory looked a formality for KKRwith the hosts just needing 34 from 24balls. Earlier put into bat, CSK were offto an explosive start, courtesy BrendonMcCullum's 12 ball 32 (3x4s, 3x6s)and Faf du Plessis' 11-ball 20 (5x4s),but the 44-year-old Hogg, who hadcome in as replacement for SunilNarine, lived up to the faith by return-

ing with magnificent figures of for for29.

Hogg claimed the prized scalps ofMcCullum and Du Plessis in his firstover and completed his spell with thewickets of Ravindra Jadeja (24 from 30balls; 1x4, 1x6) and Pawan Negi (27from 13 balls; 4x4s, 1x6) to restrictCSK to 165. With McCullum lookingominous at a strike rate that almosttouched 300, CSK had stepped on thegas very early after the first ball dis-missal of Dwayne Smith, who was bril-liantly caught by a diving Ryan ten

Doeschate at point off Pat Cummins.There were raining sixes and fours all

over the park with McCullum at hismurderous best as CSK were 52 for 2after Gambhir bowled his two pacersCummins and Yadav in tandem. Hebrought in Chawla in the fifth over withDu Plessis on strike and the SouthAfrican matched his explosive Kiwipartner by smashing the leggie for threeboundaries as KKR bowlers lookedordinary without Narine, who wasruled out off the tournament after beingcalled for suspected bowling action fora second time.

T20 format's prized score of 200 waslooking inevitable for CSK but a 44-year-old Australian turned around thefortunes for KKR striking twice in hisfirst over.

Hogg dismissed McCullum LBWwith his first ball after the latter tried togo for an expansive pull but failed toread the bounce and then in the fifthball Du Plessis stepped out only to bestumped by wicket-keeper RobinUthappa.

All pumped up, KKR employed fourfielders -- slip, leg slip, silly point andforward short leg -- around CSK skip-per Mahendra Singh Dhoni in the nextdelivery. Dhoni (1) could survive justfour balls before being castled by aChawla wrong one as KKR bouncedback in the game, even as CSK were 72for five after 7 overs.

Bravo and Jadeja ensured that therewas no further damage as they battedsensibly putting on 50-run together inas many balls. After the duo's dis-missals, Negi played a fine cameowhen he smashed a wayward Cummins(1/54) for three boundaries in an overbefore Hogg once again made his pres-ence felt.

IPL 2015: Robin Uthappa, Andre Russellensure easy win for KKR over CSK

NEW DELHISmarting from a crush-

ing defeat in their previousgame, Delhi Daredevilshave no option but to go allout when they take onKings XI Punjab, who arealso struggling in the ongo-ing edition of the IndianPremier League, here onFriday.

The jinx-breaking victo-ry at home against MumbaiIndians was the kind ofboost Delhi needed tobring their campaign backon track but what followedwas a demoralising 10-wicket loss to RoyalChallengers Bangalore.

They have spent a mind-boggling sum to haveYuvraj Singh in their ranksbut the left-hander hasfailed to fire even thoughcollective failure is theprime reason for their mis-erable position in the tour-nament.

The absence of ZaheerKhan due to injury has alsohurt Delhi badly and if theleft-arm paceman recoversfor tomorrow's contest, asis hinted by the team man-agement, it will be a bigplus for them.

They had some closematches in the beginningwhere the results could

have gone in their favourbut in this format, half-chances have to be grabbedand this is where the teamhas been struggling.

Skipper JP Duminy andShreyas Iyer are the onlyconsistent batsmen forthem, having scored 200 ormore runs in seven match-es and that tells the sorrystate of their batting. Thenext best was MayankAgarwal with an aggregateof 150 runs in his kitty.

Their bowling perform-

ance has been better withleg-spinner Imran Tahirright there at the top with13 scalps along withChennai Super Kings pace-man Ashish Nehra.

Others have not takentoo many wickets but moreor less they have managedto put up a good challengeagainst rival batting line-ups.

Of the three wins forDelhi, one has comeagainst Kings XI Punjabtwo weeks back in Pune

and the hosts wouldbelieve to do an encore.

More so, last year's final-ists are at the bottom of theheap with just two wins,one coming through a one-over Eliminator againstRajasthan Royals.

The failure of stars suchas Virender Sehwag andGlenn Maxwell and theireventually dropping hasnot helped their cause atall.

Delhi have the bestchance to move up the lad-

der by piling on the miseryof their rivals tomorrow.

Teams (from):Delhi Daredevils: Jean-

Paul Duminy (captain),Yuvraj Singh, MayankAgarwal, Manoj Tiwary,Nathan Coulter-Nile,Angelo Mathews, AmitMishra, MohammedShami, Albie Morkel,Quinton de Kock, ZaheerKhan, ChidhambaramGautam, Travis Head,Imran Tahir, Shreyas Iyer,Kedar Jadhav, KK Jiyas,Domnic Muthuswami,Shahbaz Nadeem,Gurinder Sandhu, MarcusStoinis, Saurabh Tiwary,Jaydev Unadkat, JayantYadav, Srikar Bharat.

Kings XI Punjab:George Bailey (capt),Anureet Singh, ParvinderAwana, Rishi Dhawan,Yogesh Golwalkar,Gurkeerat Singh Mann,Beuran Hendricks,Mitchell Johnson,Karanveer Singh, ShaunMarsh, Glenn Maxwell,David Miller, Nikhil Naik,Axar Patel, Thisara Perera,Wriddhiman Saha,Sandeep Sharma, VirenderSehwag, Shivam Sharma,Shardul Thakur, MuraliVijay, Manan Vohra.

IPL 2015, Match 31: Delhi Daredevils to fancychances against struggling Kings XI Punjab

MUMBAIWithout mentioning any

individual names, formerIndia skipper andRajasthan Royals' mentorRahul Dravid on Thursdaycame out in full support ofthe BCCI move to eradi-cate 'chuckers' from theIndian Premier League.

Dravid, during an inter-action with reporters today,said this decision of eradi-cating bowlers with'dodgy' bowling actionsshould send a big messageto the grassroot level,where the coaches can takecorective measures so thatthe bowler rectifies it at anearly phase of his cricket-ing life.

"I don't want to focus onindividuals. But I do sup-port BCCI and ICC(International CricketCouncil which has alsocracked down on chuck-ing) in eradicating bowlerswith dodgy actions," saidDravid.

He was reacting to aquestion on BCCI's ban inbowling off spinners onSunil Narine in matchesconducted by it - includingIPL in which the WestIndian plays for KolkataKnight Riders.

"I support it for a varietyof reasons. People talk

about these bowlers gettingpunished, but what aboutbatsmen who face themand whose careers getruined? What about otherbowlers who have cleanaction but are sidelined infavour of these bowlersand are then lost to thegame," asked Dravid.

Dravid said this issueneeds to be addressed seri-ously at the junior andschools level by the play-ers' coaches.

"We all can see this par-ticular bowler has a differ-ent action, a dodgy action.What's to be done about it.You have to correct him atthe junior level. The mes-sage has to percolate to thegrassroots level of thegame.

"There was a time inIndian domestic cricketthere were so many

bowlers with dodgy action.It's good that they havenow decided to eradicateit. I welcome it," saidDravid.

Dravid said he cannotcomment on news reportstying him to an advisoryjob with the Indian team ashe's yet to hear anything ofthis nature from the BCCI.

"I have read it in thenewspapers. I can't com-ment on it as I don't knowanything on theissue."

The BCCI, at its workingcommittee meeting, hadauthorised PresidentJagmohan Dalmiya to con-stitute a cricket advisorycommittee comprisingprominent cricketers whowill share their recommen-dations on the overall con-duct and development ofthe game.

Rahul Dravid supportsBCCI's stand on chucking

NEW DELHIAlready grappling with poor form

of their big players, Kings XI Punjabare now facing injury scare to skipperGeorge Bailey and Shaun Marsh,coach of the struggling IPL sideinformed on Thursday.

Coach Sanjay Bangar told mediathat Marsh was hit on his toe whileBailey took a blow on his shoulderwhile practicing today ahead of theclash against Delhi Daredevils.

"We have some injury issues, soteam combination can be decidedonly tomorrow," Bangar told media-persons.

If the two injured players areunable to take field against DD, itwill certainly raise hopes for GlennMaxwell and Virender Sehwag tomake the final cut.

Maxwell has not played in the lasttwo matches while Sehwag wasdropped from the team in the previ-

ous game.Asked how difficult it was to have

a player like Sehwag left out from the

playing XI, Bangar said the batsmanhas taken the decision well in hisstride without any fuss.

"The format is such that manytimes big players do not get to play. Idon't have to tell you the names butsome big players (in other teams)have missed out. I think playersunderstand, it's a fact in Twenty20cricket," he said.

Punjab ended up runners-up in lastedition but this time at the half-waystage they are at the bottom of theheap with just two wins from sevenmatches. Bangar though was opti-mistic of making their way up theladder.

"One win can propel the team. Themomentum plays a part. It's a verytight table, the competition is evenand all eight teams still have a chanceto make the play-offs," he said.

Bangar had a very successful stintwith Punjab in the last edition andthen worked as assistant coach withthe Indian cricket team on theAustralian tour.

Asked about the changes in his

approach as a coach, Bangar said,there was not much.

"Results dictate how a coach isseen. We are trying to do better. Thecommunication, the strategy howeverhas not drifted much. It's just that theteam is going through a bad phase."

The Punjab coach said it was a bigsetback to the team that the batsmenhave not performed to their truepotential.

"If you don't get start, it becomesdifficult. When your best players donot contribute it impacts the team."

Bangar said the conditions wouldplay a big role in the outcome of thematch and hinted that the untestedspinners may come into play tomor-row.

"We have good spinners. Axar(Patel) has done well. In Pune and inMohali, there was a lot of grass andother players (pacers) got the oppor-tunity to play. We have a goodcombo," he said.

IPL 8: ShaunMarsh,GeorgeBailey doubt-ful for matchagainst DD,says SanjayBangar

Current slumpis inevitable,says Rafael

MADRIDSpanish tennis great

Rafael Nadal said hisstruggles at the start ofthe season, his worststring of results in adecade, are unavoidablemoments in an athlete'scareer. The fourth-rankedNadal, who failed toreach the semifinals ofany of the big, early-sea-son hard-court events,including the AustralianOpen, and also has beenway off form thus far onhis beloved red clay, saidhe is in "a little worse sit-uation than other years",reports Efe.

"I know that momentslike what I'm experienc-ing now have to come,have come before andalso won't be the last. ButI'm also convinced thatthey can be overcome byworking hard every day,"the 28-year-old said hereon Wednesday. Speakingahead of his participationin next week's MadridMasters, Nadal said thatthe major French Opentune-up event "has been atournament that alwayshas been very special,where my victories havebeen more emotional".

Ranbir Kapoor ownsmany cars whichinclude Audi R8,

Range Rover and others.He even owns bikes too.All his cars are customisedaccording to his needs.Interestingly, it is heardthat the actor takes hismother Neetu Kapoor‘spermission before buyingany car. Now the actor hasdeveloped a liking for yetanother car and it would benice to know what hismother thinks about it.Ranbir wants to own a vin-tage car after dealing withthem in Bombay Velvet.

The 60s has beenreprised in AnuragKashyap‘s magnum opusand so, cars pertaining tothat era was used in thefilm. Ranbir was so fasci-nated by them that now hewants to buy one. He findsthem very sexy and wouldlove to own a classicmodel soon.

With marriage on thecards, although the actor is

vehemently refusing it, avintage car may be a valueaddition to his car collec-tion. A night ride withKatrina Kaif beside him

and some old classics play-ing the background, thiscould be one 60s romanceon the anvil! What sayRanbir?

NEW DELHIIt was so glittery all over the sets of

'khwahishen' - a film by Moonlightproduction. Adding a film to it's cred-it after grand success of skits and adfilms Delhi lad Param MLP, producerand director of film expressed 'weadded another feather in our cap withactress Samira Khan of Parwarishfame. Her other serials like 'Kabhisaas bhi kabhi bahu thi', 'Kahani GharGhar ki' of Balaji films were greathits. "My this film is a family drama.Our artists have put in their hundredpercent to showcase so called show-biz life of the society and I hope thatlike every hit drama, this film willattract people from all walks of life,he said. Actress Samira expressed thatit was a different experience to workwith Moonlight productions. I will tryto give my best in this film too likemy previous films and I am optimisticthat people will find my characterwith the pace of the film, she says.The film has been shot at variouslocations of Delhi and Jaipur. AryaSingh has been music director where-as Noor, Kailash and Amit has givenplayback. Promos of film are expect-ed soon.

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Ranbir Kapoor finds a newlove, thanks to Bombay Velvet

Mallika Sherawat,who suffered asevere backlash

for her last controversialrelease Dirty Politics,recently auditioned for arole in Aamir Khan’sDangal.

Yes, that’s right! TheNitesh Tiwari directorial,which is based on the lifeof wrestler MahavirPhogat, highlights uponthe relationship he shareswith his four daughters.While recently TV fameFatima and Delhi-basedballet dancer Sanaya werefinalised to play Khan’sdaughters in the film,Mallika is keen to play themother of four; Aamir’swife in the film! Can youimagine?

A source close to a lead-ing daily revealed that theMurder actress turned upfor the audition lookingcompletely de-glamorisedand almost unrecognisablesporting a simple salwar-kameez.”She had no make-up and rattled off the pagesof dialogue she knew byheart in shudh Haryanvi.The Jat accent that mightstump other actresses,comes naturally to her

since she’s from the state.”says the source.

However, Ms Sherawatis yet to bag the mother’srole as the makers are stillscouting for daughters.“The makers want to cast

the four girls first (they arestill scouting for youngerversions of Fatima andSanya to play Geeta andBabita when they arearound 10-12 years old andstarted going for wrestlingcompetitions) before they

decide on the mother sincethey have a great resem-blance to her.”

Now it’s left to see if MsSherawat will be finalisedas Aamir’s wife or no.Watch out this space formore updates!

OMG: Mallika Sherawat to playAamir Khan’s wife in Dangal?

Aditya Chopra islooking for twoyoung actors to

play parallel leads in hisnext directorial, a lovetriangle. It is believedthat Ranbir Kapoor andVarun Dhawan are in therunning to play the maleleads.

Reveals a source, “Adihas been planning todirect a film since Rab Ne

Bana Di Jodi, but nothingworked out. He has final-ly locked a script whichwill be on the lines of DilTo Pagal Hai. In thatmovie, two girls fell forone guy. Here, two heroeswill fall for the samegirl.”

Urban and very modern,the “story needs youngactors”, informs oursource. “Adi wants two

young actors to play par-allel leads in the film. Heis considering RK andVD for the roles becausethey fit the bill perfectly.As for the heroine, Adiwill either sign a freshface or another Gen-Xactress.”

“Ranbir has workedwith YRF in Bachna AeHaseeno and RocketSingh: Salesman of the

Year. Varun has not doneany film with the produc-tion house yet, but Adifinds him very promising,especially after Badlapur.The film will have a veryyoung energy,” explainsour source.

The actors haven’tsigned on the dotted line,but if everything fallsinplace the film will go onfloors next year.

Ranbir Kapoor and Varun Dhawanto star in Aditya Chopra’s next?