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Port Blair, Mar 11: As per theinstruction of the ElectionCommission of India (ECI) theprocess for first level checking(FLC) of Electronic VotingMachines (EVMs) startedtoday at DBRAIT hallPahargaon in the presence ofrepresentatives of recognized

First level checking ofEVMs underway at DBRAIT

National Political Parties.The FLC for the additional250 EVMs (250 ballot unit& 250 control unit), broughtfrom Dehradun, to be usedin the ensuing GeneralElection 2014, is beingcarried out by the Engineers

Earthquake jolts AndamansPort Blair, Mar 11: Anearthquake measuring 4.8 onthe Richter scale hit AndamanIslands today at 1717 IST. Theepicenter of the quake was

latitude 13.83 North andLongitude 93.17 East. Thedepth of the quake was 104Kilometres (Ocean part), itis learnt.

Attackers behind the bars

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Finally 24 arrested from Havelock forattacking Fire Service Officer and Jawans

Port Blair, Mar 11: 24 peopleincluding two sittingPradhans and one Ex-

Mohammed SajidSheekha News Service

Pradhan of Havelock Islandhave been arrested by CrimeInvestigation Department(CID) today for attacking FireBrigade Officers and Jawansand obstructing them from

performing their duties. After adetailed investigation, with thehelp of Havelock Police, theCCS team could arrest all theattackers except one, whosefather expired. All arrested

people were brought to Port Blairtoday from Havelock by CIDteam and were produced to courtfrom where 23 have been sent toJudicial Custody while one hasbeen sent to CID custody. Mr.

Manik Sidhar Pradhan,Shyam Nagar Panchayatand Ranjan Samdhar,Pradhan, Govind Nagarand Ex-Pradhan, Sanjay Royare among this arrested lot.

Major fire averted atA & N Secretariat

Port Blair, Mar 11: Timelyaction Andaman & Nicobarfire services averted a majorfire in the secretariat buildingof Andaman & NicobarAdministration. Accordingto sources a major fire brokeout inside the VigilanceSection of the Secretariat latelast night at 10.28 PM,threatening the entirebuilding of the UTAdministration.

However due to

timely action of Andamanand Nicobar Fire Service theFire was brought under totalcontrol within no time.

“There was a report of fire lastnight at the secretariatbuilding. Altogether three fire

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DMK releases poll manifesto; not forRahul, Modi as PM, Karunanidhi says

CHENNAI: A day afterreleasing its list of candi-dates for the Lok Sabhaelection, DMK chief MKarunanidhi unveiled thepar ty's manifesto at thepa r ty headqua r ters inChennai on Tuesday.

"The par ty sup-ports neither Rahul Gandhiand Narendra Modi as PMcandidates," Karunanidhitold reporters, replying toa query as to whom theDMK will project as PrimeMinister. He said going topolls without national par-ties in tow will not be asetback. The DMK is con-testing the elections in thecompany of some dalit andMuslim organizations.

The DMK mani-festo, classifieds under 100t it les, has r ecalled theparty's achievements andemphasized the good workdone by the par ty as aconstituent of the UPAgovernment at the Centrefor nearly a decade.

The DMK soughtabolit ion of death sen-tence, a stand which the

pa r ty has cons is tent lymaintained. It also reiter-ated its demand for imple-menta t ion of theSethusamudram ShippingCanal Project, launched un-der UPA-I and now caughtin a lega l t angle. T heDravidian major also urgedfor a separate statehood forPuducherry. While readingout the excerpt s of themanifesto, Karunanidhisaid social justice and theideals of Per iya r (E VRamasamy), founder of theDravidar Kazhagam, theDMK's parent party, forman integral part. The party

opposed FDI in retail in-vestment and demandedSchedule Tribe status forfisherfolk. Nationalisationand inter-linking of rivers,reservation in jobs in theprivate sector and Tamil tobe declared as an officiallanguage were other issuesraised in the manifesto.

A seven-membercommittee, including T RBaalu , Kanimozhi, S PSargunapandian, T K SElangovan, SubbulakshmiJagadeesan and professorA Ramasamy, helped toprepare the DMK mani-festo.

Sheila Dikshit swornin as Kerala governor

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:Veteran Congress leaderand former Delhi chief min-ister Sheila Dikshit wassworn in as Kerala gover-nor at the Raj Bhavan onTuesday.

Kerala high courtChief Justice ManjulaChellur administered the

oath of office. Chief ministerOommen Chandy and hiscabinet colleagues were alsopresent on the occasion.

75-year old Dikshitsucceeds Nikhil Kumar, whoresigned as the state's gov-ernor to contest in upcomingLok Sabha polls fromAurangabad seat in Bihar. A

group of well-wishers ofDikshit, including her familymembers and former cabinetcolleagues, were present atthe occasion.

Dikshit served aschief minister of Delhi from1998 to 2013 before Con-gress was defeated in the2013 assembly polls.

Teesta Setalvad cheated Godhrariots victims: Gujarat police tells HCMUMBAI: (PTI) Opposing thepetition filed by social activ-ist Teesta Setalvad and herhusband seeking quashing ofan FIR against them for allegedmisappropriation of funds,Gujarat police on Tuesday toldBombay high court that theduo had cheated victims of2002 Godhra riots and "em-bezzled funds" collected intheir name. Th is wasstated in an affidavit filed bythe Cyber Cr ime Cel l ,Ahmedabad Crime Branch inresponse to Teesta and herhusband Javed Anand's peti-tion seeking quashing of theFIR lodged in Gujarat and chal-lenging the police's move offreezing their and their trusts'bank accounts operated fromMumbai. Teesta and Javed hadsaid that they were implicatedin the case and were victimsof political vendetta. Theyclaimed that they were beingtargeted by the "perpetratorsof the riots."

The affidavi t wassubmitted today before a divi-sion bench headed by JusticeN H Patil which posted thematter for hearing on March20. One of the riot victims fromGulbarg housing society,which was burnt during the2002 Godhra riots, had lodgeda complain t wi th theAhmedabad police againstTeesta, Anand and the NGOsrun by them - Citizens for Jus-tice and Peace and SabrangTrust. According to the com-plaint, the accused personshad allegedly collected fundsin the name of converting partof the Gulbarg society into amuseum and had allegedly mis-appropriated funds worth Rs1.51 crores. The Gujarat policein its affidavit said the ac-cused persons (Teesta andJaved) in the name of promot-ing communal harmony col-lected huge amount of foreignfunds and cheated the com-plainant and several others.

Environmental AwarenessCampaign by Crescent Public School

Port Blair, Mar 11: The Na-tional Environmental Aware-ness Campaign 2014 wasorganised in Crescent PublicSchool, Wimberly Gunj inwhich various awarenessprogrammes were con-ducted. The students of theschool performed street playin Nayapuram village creat-ing awareness about the im-portance of cleanliness andproper disposal of waste andgarbage to protect the envi-ronment. Apart from the play,a quiz competition and exhi-bition on biodiversity ofAndaman and Nicobar Is-lands, a painting competitionwere held in which 200 stu-

dents participated.In the valedictory

function, a seminar onBiodiversity Conservationwas organised in which morethan 200 students partici-pated. Prizes for winners invarious competitions weredistributed by Mr Gopal, Co-ordinator, CPR Environmen-tal Educational Centre, PortBlair and Mr DebkumarBhadra, Technical Officer,Indian Institute of Geomag-netism.

The Campaign wasorganised in collaborationwith CPR EnvironmentalEducational Centre, PortBlair.

Organising committeedemand ban of Police TeamsPort Blair, Mar 11: TheOrganising Committee ofRSC Cricket Tournamenttoday sought for ban of Po-lice Teams in all tourna-ments organized by RSC,Port Blair.

In a let ter ad-dressed to the RSC Chair-man the Organising Secre-tary today said that today at1215 hrs, during RSC T-20Cricket Tournament quarterfinal, the IRBN team wasscheduled to play with VSNISHA XI. But neitherIRBn team played the gamenor informed the RSC about

withdrawal from the game.“IRBN is a part of A & NPolice and allowing oneteam ( A & N Police) to par-ticipate in quarterfinal andwithdrawing another team(IRBN) at crucial stage is adeliberate attempt to dam-age the reputation of RSCPort Blair, which is involvedin regular conduct of vari-ous tournament,” the Orga-nizing Secretary wrote.

Now it will be onRSC Chairman to decidewhether Police Team will bebanned from participating inany RSC tournaments.

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Port Blair, Mar 11: As a fol-low up of the action pointsproposed by the Directorateof Animal Husbandry andVeterinary Services in Coor-dination Committee consti-tuted by Lieutenant Governor,A&N Islands, a five dayshands on training on EnzymeLinked Immuno sorbent As-say (ELISA) for diagnosis ofanimal diseases was initiatedon 10.03.2014 at CARI, PortBlair. This training is first ofits kind for the veterinary of-ficers on advance tools fordiagnosis of animal diseasesprevalent in A&N Islands.

During the first phase of thetraining, a total of six SeniorVeterinary Officers partici-pated in the training.

During the inauguralfunction of the training,Dr.S.Dam Roy, Director,CARI thanked the Director,DAHVS for deputing theSVOs to attend the training.He urged all the trainees toutilize the opportunity to learnlatest disease diagnostic tech-nique for implementing at thedepartmental laboratory andassured for extending techni-cal support to establish suchkind of facility. He also men-

tioned that CARI is going toconduct similar type of handson trainings for analysis offeed and fodder for veterinar-ians and para vets Dr.S.ShivKumar, Director, DAHVSthanked Director, CARI fororganizing this training for theveterinary officers and re-quested his collogues tomake use of this training forfuture strengthening of de-partmental laboratory.Dr.N.P.Singh, Jt.Director,DAHVS, also spoke on theoccasion and asked the par-ticipants to utilize the train-

Hands on training on ELISA forveterinary officers initiated at CARI.

Port Blair, Mar 11: The un-employed youth of MiddleAndaman met at Andhra As-sociation hall, Rangat on Sun-day to discuss various issuesrelating to formation and func-tioning of youth association inthe region. The meeting re-solved to constitute a commit-tee named “Youth Unem-ployed Villagers Association”(YUVA). The meetingelected Mr Mohit Majhi asPresident, Mr Venu Gopal asVice President, Mr SenthilKumar as Secretary, Dibakar

Unemployed youths formYUVA in Middle Andaman

Bachar at Joint Secretary andMr Rajesh Kumar as Trea-surer of the association.

The association plansto prepare area wise unem-ployed youth database, pro-viding free coaching to stu-dents for competitive exams,motivate and guide unem-ployed youth for higher stud-ies, support poor students,assist unemployed in remotelocations to secure govern-ment jobs, create awarenesson self-employment opportu-nities, among others.

Port Blair, Mar 11: The A &N Islands Unit of five regionalparties formed an alliance tocontest the general electionsfrom these islands recently. Ata meeting of Party Presidentsand Secretaries held at theJanata Dal (United) office atGoal Ghar, the leaders ofJD(U), Lok Janshakti Party,

Five politicalparties form alliance

Samajwadi Party, All IndiaForward Block and TeluguDesam Party decided to forman alliance and contest the16th Lok Sabha Parliamen-tary elections from these is-lands, informed C ShajahanChekku, State President,JD(U) told AndamanSheekha. (See page 7)

Port Blair, Mar 11: The Cen-tral Election Committee of theNationalist Congress Partyunder the Party Presidentsupremo Mr. Sharad Pawarhas declared the candidatureof Smti. R.S.Uma Bharatthy,president NCP for the forth-coming Lok Sabha Elections2014 for contesting under thebanner and ticket of NCP, andshe has also been authorizedsignatory to sign all relevantdocuments including Form –B for the forthcoming Parlia-mentary Elections in A&NIslands and the same is alsobeen communicated throughthe Party High Command tothe Chief Electoral Officer ofA&N Islands, Port Blair com-munication said here.

RS UmaBharatthy

declared as NCP’s LSelection candidate

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EDITORIAL.....UPA hurts India as it exits

Legend has it that 2,500 years agoto the year, when Darius the Greatinvaded Scythia, retreatingScythians destroyed food suppliesand poisoned the wells. Starvedand dehydrated, a large number ofsoldiers in Darius's army died andhe eventually conceded defeat.

The only plausible interpre-tation of the actions by Congressin the last several months is that ithas adopted this scorched earthstrategy as it retreats from gov-ernment. Its recent actions seemto serve one principal purpose:make the restoration of growth andthe task of rebuilding the nation asdifficult as possible for the succes-sor government.

The greater the failure ofthe successor government, the bet-ter would the outgoing governmentlook by comparison. Ironically, themost pernicious act of the Con-gress-led United Progressive Alli-ance (UPA) government is relateddirectly to land: the new land ac-quisition act.

The latter administers anall-round preemptive blow to ef-forts of a future government to putIndia back on its feet. For mostpublic projects, the act makes landacquisition such a long-drawn-outaffair and land prices so high thatonly a handful of projects will re-main economically viable and ca-pable of being implemented.

A recent report in thisnewspaper has this to say aboutthe act: "The new land acquisitionlaw that came into force this Janu-ary, touted as one of the signalachievements of the UPA govern-ment, is turning into a major ob-stacle in the way of a key infra-structure project being pushedkeenly by the Prime Minister's Of-fice." The report goes on to de-scribe how cost of land requiredto build the Delhi-Jaipur Express-way has trebled to Rs 18,000 crore,with total cost rising to a giganticRs 32,000 crore as a result of themoney that must be paid as com-pensation for the land on which thehighway is to be built.

The government is nowback to the drawing board to fig-ure how the project can be madeviable. Even building rural roadsunder Pradhan Mantri's GramSadak Yojana (PMGSY), aprogramme expressly meant to aidIndia's rural poor, will turn into anightmare. And this will be in thename of protecting 'poor' landown-ers, notwithstanding the fact thatland reform has had little successin India. Except in a handful ofstates, much of the land is actu-ally owned by large and wealthyfarmers. The new land acquisition

act will also make already hard toimplement large-scale privateprojects yet harder to implement.All the provisions of the new acton compensation apply to all privateacquisitions of 50 acres of land inurban and 100 acres in rural areas.

According to some calcu-lations, this would render land anorder of magnitude more expensivein almost all locations in India thanin any other country on the face ofthe earth. This is why entrepreneurslooking for land will first look onMars before doing so in India.

Sadly, the national leader-ship of Bharatiya Janata Party's(BJP), which loathed the idea ofGujarat chief minister NarendraModi coming to rule at the Centrefor fear that he would destroy thecozy existence it has enjoyed forthe last decade even sitting in op-position, unwittingly and shortsight-edly aided UPA in scorching theearth. It went on to vote for nearlyevery populist bill UPA brought tothe floor of Parliament without stop-ping to think that it, and not UPA,might have to live with the conse-quences. But now that the chancesof a Modi victory look bright, it willfind out how it has shot itself in thefoot.

UPA sins do not end withthe land acquisition act. Appoint-ment of the Seventh Pay Commis-sion and hike in subsidised gas cyl-inders from 9 to 12 are part of thesame strategy.

So also the increase inMNREGA wage to Rs 175 per dayon average and the last-minute at-tempt to raise dearness allowanceto 100% of the base salary, not-withstanding the fact that it wasraised to 90% only this past July.

But perhaps the worst poi-son pill is UPA's attempt to push asmany as nine ordinances and clearvast numbers of projects on liter-ally the last possible day beforeElection Commission's Model Codeof Conduct was expected to kickin. Only sage advice from the presi-dent held back the government'shand from pushing the vast major-ity of these ordinances.

Even so, it was not deterredfrom introducing reservation for the90 million-strong Jat community innine states in central governmentjobs and admissions to central edu-cational institutions — and fromgranting special category status tothe newly-created Seemandhrastate for five years.

Rarely has a democraticgovernment consciously inflictedsuch damage on the nation at itsexit. The writer is professor of In-dian political economy at ColumbiaUniversity.

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Exercise in teenage yearscan prevent early dementia

Low IQ and poor cardio-vascular fitness may in-crease the risk of devel-oping dement ia at anear ly age, says studyLower intelligent quotient(IQ) and poor cardiovas-cular fitness in teenageyears may increase therisk of developing de-mentia before the age of60 years, a study shows.

Previous studieshave shown the correla-tion between cardiovas-cular fitness and the riskof dementia in old age.

To p r o ve t he irpoint, researchers studieddata from 1.1 millionyoung Swedish men.

The study showsthat men who had poorercardiovascular fitnesswere 2.5 t imes mo relikely to develop early-onset dementia later inlife.A lower IQ entailed afour times greater risk,and a combination of bothpoor cardiovascular fit-ness and low IQ entaileda seven times greater riskof early-onset dementia.

The increased riskremained even when con-trolled for other risk fac-tors, such as heredity,medical history and so-c i a l - e c o n o m i ccircumstances."We al-

ready knew that physicaland cognitive exercise re-duces the risk of neuro-logical disease.

In other words,good cardiovascular fit-ness makes t he brainmore resistant to damageand disease," explainedsenior author professorGeorg Kuhn.

People who de-velop early-onset demen-tia are often of working

age and can have childrenstill living at home, whichmeans the consequencesfor both the sufferers andtheir families are evenmore serious.

"Exercising can beused both as a prophy-lactic and a treatment forthose in the risk zone forearly-onset dement ia,"Nyberg noted in the ar-ticle published in the sci-entific journal Brain.

Smokers' brainsdon't read negativeaspects of smoking

How much helpful are therepulsive images on ciga-ret tes' packets in dis-couraging smokers fromlighting up? Not muchperhaps, claims research.

The use of a prod-uct influences our percep-tion of it, making us evenmore susceptible to itspositive aspects and al-tering our understandingof it s drawbacks, ac-cording to a recent studyby t he I ns t it u tuniversitaire en santementale de Montreal andUniversite de Montreal inCanada.

This is preciselywhat happens with ciga-rettes in chronic smok-ers.

The study showedthat chronic smokershave altered emotionalreactions when they areexposed to negative andpositive images associ-ated with tobacco.

"We observed abias depending on howsmoking is portrayed,"said Le-Anh Dinh-Will-iams, the study's first au-thor.

Using neuro-im-aging techniques, the re-searchers compared theemotional reactions of

30 smo k er s a s t heylo o ked a t r ep u ls ivesmoking-related imagescompared to other aver-sive images as well asappetitive smoking-re-lated images.

The brains of thesmokers in our studywere more aroused byima ges t ha t sho wedsmoking in a posit ivelight than by images thatencouraged them to stop,he added.

They were alsomore affected by aver-sive non-smoking relatedimages than by images ofthe specific negative con-sequences of smoking.

The number o fsmokers in India hasgone up to 110 millionfrom 74.5 million overthe last three decadesdes p it e a ll t he ant i-smoking campaigns andsmoke-free laws.

Smo king isknown as the third big-gest health risk for Indi-ans.

"We want ed tounderstand why knowingabout the negative healthimpacts of tobacco doesno t p r event smo ker sfrom lighting up," saidDinh-Williams.

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Lakhimpur’s killer tigresscaught, released in Dudhwa

LUCKNOW: In a first for theUP forest department, a ti-gress that had killed a man inLakhimpur Kheri district, wastranquilized, trapped and re-leased back into the wild onMonday. The healthy, two-year-old tigress was releasedin Dudhwa tiger reserve af-ter being medically examined.

Forest departmentofficials believe the February20 killing by the predator wasa chance encounter. The 35-year-old victim's body wasfound at least 4km off the for-est boundary in Bhira rangeof South Kheri forest division.

"Even 18 days afterthe killing, there have been nofresh attacks," said DFO,South Kheri, Neeraj Kumar,adding that the departmentwould keep monitoring thesituation.

"It cannot be said forsure that the animal wouldn'tkill again," he said, but addedthat the animal now has theopportunity to stay away fromhumans.

Since the killing, thedepartment had been track-ing the animal. On Monday, itwas spotted in a sugarcanefield, some 50 metres fromthe boundary of the forest. Itwas tranquillized and then re-leased in the Chandpara beatof Dudhwa tiger reserve,

some 20km away.Officials said the site

of the release was chosenwith care. Since the tiger cen-sus is on at Dudhwa, a teamfrom WWF had surveyed theChandpara beat area andfound the area unoccupied byother big cats. "Therefore,there's little chance that thetigress would come in conflictwith other tigers. The site isdeep inside Dudhwa and hasample prey base," said theofficial.

The official said it isalso difficult to say if it actu-ally strayed out of southKheri. "There is a regularmovement of tigers fromKishenpur to south Kheri. Tosay this one strayed out ofsouth Kheri is therefore diffi-cult," he added.

However, relocationcarries a risk, say wildlife bi-

ologists. The predator mayget disoriented in the newplace and show aberrantbehaviour. Relocated tigershave in the past tried to re-turn to their original habitat.

Forest departmentofficials said they were facedwith increasing cases ofyoung tigers straying out ofthe protected area in UttarPradesh.

"In most cases, tigerscome into sugarcane fieldschasing nilgai and wild boars,"said former director, Dudhwa,GC Mishra.

Meanwhile, wildlifeenthusiasts applauded the for-est department's swift moveto release the animal in thewild. "We will write to thegovernment appreciating thedepartment's quick action,"said green activist SanjayNarayan.

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AIADMK, DMK on samepage on some economic issues

CHENNAI: A cursory glanceat the AIADMK and DMK'sgeneral election manifestoesshows that the two arch ri-vals are on the same page onsome economic issues.

Both the parties havepromised a change in oil pric-ing formula, scrapping of for-eign direct investment (FDI)in retail, and hike in exemp-tion limit for individual incometax. However, one major dif-ference between the twomanifestoes is that theAIADMK has promisedfreebies like fans, mixer grind-ers, laptops, goats, cows, fourgram gold for poor women'smarriage and other things na-tionwide, the DMK's mani-festo is silent on the freebies.

The DMK's mani-festo was released by itspresident M Karunanidhi onTuesday. The party said itwould urge the centre to hike

the exemption limit for indi-vidual income tax to Rs600,000 in case of men andRs 720,000 for women. Theparty also promised to urgethe centre to exempt gratuityand provident fund paid togovernment employees onretirement from tax.

On the other hand,the AIADMK said it wouldtake steps to increase the ex-emption limit to Rs 500,000for both men and women.

On the oil pricingpolicy, the AIADMK has cat-egorically said it would takeaction to change the mecha-nism for determining theprices of petrol and diesel. Itwill also withdraw the powergiven to oil marketing compa-nies to fix the prices.

The party said the oiland cooking gas prices wouldbe fixed in such a way that itwill be uniform throughout the

year. On its part, the DMKsaid it would urge the centreto change pricing policy to fixjust and reasonable prices forpetroleum products. On theFDI in retail, the AIADMKhas said it would rescind thecurrent policy. Similarly, therival DMK, citing thechanges made in the FDI inretail policy by the centre, saidit would strive for totally pro-hibiting foreign investment.

The DMK has men-tioned in its manifesto that itis now opposed to methaneexploration in Thanjavur re-gion.

On the other hand,the AIADMK general secre-tary and Tamil Nadu chiefminister J Jayalalithaa said atan election rally that her gov-ernment has not given envi-ronmental clearance to theGreat Eastern Energy Corpo-ration to drill gas wells.

ing fruitfully. Dr.A.Kundu,Head, Animal Science Divi-sion welcomed the gatheringand informed that CARI hasestablished the advance facil-ity for the diagnosis for FMD,Brucellosis, IBR, Salmonello-sis etc., and in future alsohands on training on molecu-lar diagnostic tools will be con-ducted.

Dr.Jai Sunder,Course Director of the train-ing briefed about the preva-lence and incidence of live-

stock and poultry diseases inthese Islands and the use ofELISA for the diagnosis ofthese diseases for effectivecontrol measures to make thisIslands disease free. Follow-ing the inaugural function, hegave presentation on the ba-sic principle and techniques ofELISA and demonstration onELISA was initiated at Cen-tral Instrumentation FacilityLaboratory, CARI.Dr.T.Sujatha, Scientist pro-posed vote of thanks.

Hands on.... (From page 3)

Nitish Kumar accepts resignation of industriesand disaster management minister Renu Kushwaha

PATNA: Bihar chief ministerNitish Kumar has acceptedthe resignation of industriesand disaster managementminister Renu Kushwaha.

"The chief ministerhas accepted the resignationletter and forwarded it to thegovernor," said A K Singh, theprincipal secretary to thechief minister.The minister,who had sent her resignationletter late on Monday eveningafter her husband Vijay Singhhad joined BJP in the pres-ence of Narendra Modi atPurnea, has been keepingmum on the issue. The minis-ter refused to entertain phone

calls. Kushwaha, MLA fromBihariganj in Madhepura dis-trict, is the second minister toquit Nitish Kumar cabinet af-ter the resignation of ParveenAmanullah who joined theAam Admi Party (AAP).

With these two res-ignations, the Nitish Kumarcabinet is left with no womanminister.

Bihar JD(U) chiefBasistha Narayan Singh saidthe chief minister had askedhere to reconsider the deci-sion, but she stood her ground.

"There was no need for theresignation. In a democratic

framework, it's possible thathusband and wife can bemember of different politicalparties," Singh said adding thedecision had been taken in ahurry.

Taking a dig at thechief minister, RJD chief LaluPrasad said "his house is onfire and nobody will be left inJD(U)."

Prasad's party col-league Bhagwan SinghKushwaha, who recentlyswitched over to RJD fromJD(U) and has been madeparty nominee from Ara LokSabha seat, met RenuKushwaha at her residence.

First level...of the Electronic Corporationof India (ECIL) under strictsecurity measures. The FLC of500 EVMs available with theElection Office had beencompleted earlier.

In total, Electiondepartment now has 750EVMs which are likely to bedesignated to 386 pollingstations (South Andaman-212, N&M Andaman-114 &

Nicobar District-60) spreadover the Islands for thesmooth conduct of electionsto the lone ParliamentaryConstituency in A&NIslands on 10th April, 2014.

The FLC is beingdone under the supervisionof the observer FLC, Shri SPSingh, the Nodal Officer FLC,Shri Arun Gupta,Consultant, Shri Samar Lall.

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Navjeevan Sporting Club defeats M.K.Brothers in RSC Cup Cricket tourney in QF

Port Blair, Mar 12: Navjeevan Sporting Club willlock horns with A&N Policein the first semi to be playedtomorrow in the ongoing RSCCup Cricket tournament cur-rently being held at the his-toric Netaji Stadium. Thematch will be played at 8.15am. In the second semi finalA&N Forest will meet NisaXI in a match to be played

tomorrow at 12.15 pm, a com-munication from theOrganising Secretary of thetournament, Shri Mohd Raffisaid.  Meanwhile, in the quar-ter finals played today,Navjeevan Sporting Club de-feated M.K. Brothers by 6wickets. In the second quar-ter final match, Nisa XI gotwalkover against IRBn, thecommunication added.

ED registers case againstHizbul chief Syed Salahuddin

NEW DELHI: In a first, theEnforcement Directorate onTuesday registered a moneylaundering case against tenpeople, including chief ofbanned militant outfit HizbulMujahideen Syed Salahuddin,for alleged cross-border fund-ing of terror activities in thecountry.

The ED wasprompted to register the caseunder the Prevention ofMoney Laundering Act (Act)after it took cognisance of anNIA FIR registered againstthese people.

The central probeagency, sources said, will lookinto the financing and terror-ist activities by HizbulMujahideen from Pakistan todifferent militant organisations

in India.The National Inves-

tigating Agency (NIA) hadlast year filed its case againstthese ten in connection withits probe related to cross-Lineof Control (LoC) trade.

Those named in thecharge sheet includedSalahuddin's deputy GulamNabi Khan alias Amir Khan,Umer Farooq Shera aliasMehboob-ul-Haq, ManzoorAhmed Dar alias MasroorDar, Zaffar Hussain Bhatalias Khursheed, NazirAhamd Dar alias ShabirEllahi, Abdul Majeed Sofialias Majeed Bisati andMubarak Shah among others,they said.

Besides, Talib Alialias Talib Hussain Lali and

Mohammad Shafi Shah aliasDoctor alias Dawood werecharged with various provi-sions of Unlawful Activities(Prevention) Act in the NIAchargesheet.

All of them, includingSalahuddin, have been namedin the ED case registered un-der the PMLA, a first regu-lar money laundering case toprobe offshore terror financ-ing ramifications, the sourcessaid.

In a meticulouslydone probe, the NIA claimedto have unearthed at least Rs13 crore which had beenpumped through cross bordertrade at Uri, cash couriers andnormal banking channels be-sides the routine hawalaroute.

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Don’t get into BJP'spersonality-driven campaign for LS

polls: RSS to its cadreNEW DELHI: Narendra Modimay be the unquestionedleader in the BJP, but RSSfeels that its cadre need notget into the personality-drivencampaign of the party duringthe current election.

"NaMo is not our is-sue. Our focus is highlight-ing the issues before the na-tion.... We have our limits tokeep in mind as we are not apolitical party," RSS chiefMohan Bhagwat said address-ing its annual session in Ban-galore that concluded on Sun-day.

RSS spokesman RamMadhav while quoting fromthe RSS chief's speech saidhe had stated that the coun-try has been facing seriousthreats due to "utter misrule"in the last ten years whichshould be raised among thepeople by the "social" orga-nization, insisting that itshould not be construed as acomment on BJP's poll strat-egy of highlighting Modi.

" T h eswayamsewaks should striveto put an end to this misrule.For the RSS, the issues be-fore the nation are important,not necessarily the individu-als. The RSS swayamsewaks

have to go to people high-lighting the challenges beforethe country and need for achange," Madhav said quot-ing Bhagwat.

He was commentingon reports that Bhagwat toldthe Bangalore meet that it wasnot the RSS job to chant"NaMo, NaMo", a referenceto the BJP's prime ministerialcandidate.

"The interpretationbeing given to certain partsof the RSS chief's address tokaryakartas was misrepre-sentation of the factual posi-tion," he said.

"This should not beconstrued as a comment onthe BJP's poll strategy ofhighlighting a poll leader,"Madhav said. He said theRSS chief told the gatheringthat these were not the issuesof RSS but of the BJP sinceRSS was a social organiza-tion and not a political entityand its style of functioningwas different.

Madhav la tertweeted, "Wrong interpreta-tion being given to Bhagwatjiaddress 2 RSS workers. Heonly said Sangh focus will beissues while party can haveits own focus".

JMM chief ShibuSoren to contest from DumkaRANCHI: Sitting MP andJMM supremo Shibu Sorenwill contes t f rom theDumka Lok Sabha con-stituency in the ensuinggeneral elections.

"Besides Guruji(Soren) contesting fromDumka seat, Vijay Hansdawill contes t f rom Ra jMahal and MLA JagannathMaha to f rom Gir idihseats," party general sec-r etar ies Supr ioBhattacharya and Vinod

Kumar Pandey said whileannouncing the list of JMMcandidates.

They said the can-didate for Jamshedpur seatwould be announced withina few days.

The JMM will con-test four Lok Sabha seatsas per the pre-poll seat ad-justment with the Con-gress, leaving 10 seats tothe alliance partner in theHemant Soren govern-ment.

'Ignored', Mallika Sarabhainot to contest LS polls

AHMEDABAD: Noteddanseuse and Aam AadmiParty member MallikaSarabhai, who unsuccessfullycontested against BJP patri-arch L K Advani in 2009, doesnot want to enter the fray thistime as she feels apparentlyignored in the ArvindKejriwal-led party.

"No one from AAPhas ever contacted me,"Mallika told PTI. Whenasked if she would contest asan Independent candidate ifAAP denies her a ticket,Mallika replied in the nega-tive.

"No, I will not contestas an independent and I don'twant to contest at all," shesaid. Mallika, who was ear-lier associated with anti-graftcrusader Anna Hazare's JanLokpal movement, joinedAAP on January 8.

Soon after joining theparty she criticised AAPleader Kumar Vishwas andasked the party leadership to

spell out its stand on Vishwas'comments on NarendraModi.

Mallika said she didnot complain to Kejriwalabout not being contacted. "Ihave not spoken to ArvindKejriwal," she said.

An AAP worker,when contacted, said Mallikawas kept out of Kejriwal's re-cent "fact finding" tour ofGujarat. "Kejriwal just had abrief meeting with Mallika

Sarabhai at a book-releaseevent which lasted for maxi-mum two minutes," he said oncondition of anonymity.

However, AAP stateconvener Sukhdev Patel dis-missed the issue saying, "Aparty worker is neverinvited...He or she should getinvolved pro-actively," he said.

Mallika, however,clarified that she will continueto be with AAP and wants theparty to succeed in polls.

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