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G overnor Dr SC Jamir on Tuesday said the State Government has effectively contained the drought, brought down poverty and made the State the fastest-growing econ- omy in the Country. “The remarkable achieve- ments of my Government to reduce poverty have thrown up new challenges of qualitative life keeping in line with the changing times,” Jamir said while addressing the opening day of the Budget Session of the State Assembly. He said the Government has planned to increase State Plan further. “The Government is progressively increasing resource allocations to various State Plan activities. We intend to increase the Plan outlay to 45,000 crore for 2016-17 against 44,150 crore allocated in 2016-16.” He said the Government has made all efforts to achieve nine per cent growth in com- ing years. Regarding drought, he said the Government has success- fully contained the adverse effects of drought and protect- ed lives and livelihoods of affected families and their fam- ilies. The Government has released agriculture input sub- sidy of 519.3 crore for the affected farmers. Apart from this, the Government has also put the revenue and debt col- lection from the farmers on hold for three years, he added. Besides, the Government has taken steps to extend road and railway connectivity in remote and inaccessible areas and provided banking services for the people in remote areas. On the Maoist situation, the Governor said due to prompt action taken by the State Police with the Central forces, the activities of the Red Rebels is under control in many districts. He said the overall law and order situation of the State is peaceful and communal har- mony has been maintained. He said his Government has taken special measures to deal with the crimes against women. “To ensure harsh punish- ment for the criminals, My Government has made provi- sions for high conviction rate,” he said and added, “The Government has proposed to establish 29 subordinate courts, including Special Track Courts, for speedy disposal of cases relating to atrocities on women.” Jamir appreciated the Government for successfully organising the Nabakalebara Festival in 2015. He said the Odisha Urban Housing Mission Directorate has targeted to construct 1.5 lakh dwelling units during the next financial year. Similarly, he said efforts are on to replace age-old pipelines in 66 ULBs which are prone to leakage and contamination. He said the Government would set up 314 Adarsh Vidyalays in all the blocks. He said to pupularise science at grassroots level, the Government has opened a Sub- Regional Science Centre in Bargarh district and is going to open such centres in other parts of the State. He said a 2nd Planetorium would be set up at Burla in Sambalpur district soon. Regarding steel sector, he said with the Tata Steel’s Kalinganagar plant becoming operational, the faith of investors in the State has been reassured. In ‘Make in India’ campaign held in Mumbai, the State has been able to attract investments over 70,000 crore, including a major portion in the non-mineral sector. He said the Government has set a target to create 1.5 lakh MSMEs with an employ- ment potential of four lakh more persons in coming five years. On the energy sector, he said various thermal generation units will add 10,310 MW by 2021-22. He said the Government is committed to provide 100 per cent coverage of pension, hous- ing and other security schemes for welfare of all the PVTG households. P ublic order in Odisha is treading on a danger zone. Riotous acts have emerged as the newest crime trend in Odisha with the acts of rioting charting a double-digit growth last year. More worrying is thefts, including bank heists, in State have also grown up in the year 2015. These red blips were flashed on by the Crime Statistics-2015 recently released by the State police. When the State is agog over the heady mix of politician-criminal nexus, the report shows only a mar- ginal rise in murders last year, and simultaneously, it record- ed a fall in acts of dacoity. However, bank heists and other thefts, including auto thefts, showing a spike posed a chal- lenge for the State police when the fact that surfaced recently was SIMI activists were found to be involved in bank heists in Odisha. The crime statistics has also zoomed on to the habitu- al troublesome districts in the State. Over the years, the axis of dacoity in State has been the corridors of Bhubaneswar - Cuttack - Puri - Naygarh, Sambalpur - Rourkela, Angul - Dhenkanal, Baleswar, Sundergarh - Keonjhar and Ganjam. While overall dacoity cases have come down in 2015, but corridors like Angul - Dhenkanal and Sundergarh - Keonjhar have shown a spike in total cases. This looks worri- some as they have been the State’s industrial nerve centres. It needs mentioning that a business survey done by World Bank a few years ago has high- lighted dacoity and thefts as grave risks for the industrial- friendly ambience in Odisha. However, the threat to pub- lic order looms large in the State as after two successive years of decline, riots have started moving up in 2015. Significantly, almost all cate- gories of rioting have shown a spike last year reveal sources. Though spontaneous riots con- stitute almost 50 per cent of the total riot cases last year, caste- conflict led riots other than the SC/ST conflict-led riots occupied the second spot and farm dis- tress-led riots was at the third spot. Industrial unrest led riots have witnessed a spike in Jagatsinghpur-Jajpur region, data reveals. With Panchayat polls looming large on the horizon, the ‘riotous’ acts could spiral out of control as political par- ties in their greed to have vote- banks could use the public unrest to their hilt, and thus would nudge the police to a confronting scenario, observed a senior police official. For instance, Bargarh with 164 cases of rioting has topped the State in 2015 and, inciden- tally, the district was the epicen- ter of farm distress last year and almost all the major political par- ties have thrown off big rallies or padyatras there, he outlined. When the Bhubaneswar urban police area topped the State in thefts with a swift increase, Balewsar, Bargarh, Jharsuguda, Balangir, Koraput and Nabarangpur have record- ed a quantum leap in theft cases last year. Mayurbhanj and Jajpur districts have been witness to the most violent crimes altogether in State. Above all, when Mayurbhanj has been the ‘rape capital’ of Odisha, Jajpur and Baleswar followed it closely. T he “Atithi Dev Bhavo” slo- gan and the ongoing Raahgiri programmes meant to boost tourism in State received a jolt as in a shocking incident in Puri, manager and other staff members of a hotel attacked tourists, including females, and left them with bleeding injuries. According to a complaint filed with the Baliapanda police on Tuesday morning, a 14-member tourist party from Manaspur, Kolkata had arrived at hotel ‘Malancha’ located at Baliapanda area close to the sea beach. They had prior booking of six rooms from March 15 to 18. When they arrived at the hotel at about 6.30 am, the manager of the hotel asked them to wait for an hour. Till 8.30, the manger could not provide them rooms. When the tourists complained, the manager along with other staff members and locals attacked the visitors. Narayan Mandol and two other tourists sus- tained bleeding injuries on their head. They lodged a complaint with the Baliapanda police station. The police registered a criminal case and sent the injured for treatment to the District Headquarters Hospital and during investigation arrested Bidhan Mandol, the manager of the hotel. Police were looking for others who assaulted the tourists. T he district police asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the CBI to probe the illegal financial transactions and chit fund links of arrested former Sanakhemundi Congress MLA Ramesh Jena. Brahmapur SP Sarthak Sarangi on Tuesday said he has written to the ED and the CBI in this regard. “Till now, we have detect- ed more than 50 properties of Ramesh Jena. I have written to ED asking it to be involved in the investigation process,” said Sarangi. It was now revealed that all of these properties seized by the police were not in the name of Jena. Some of them were in the name of other persons though Jena is the real owner. The SP has also written to the CBI to probe his alleged links with the Green India chit fund company. The money collection company had gifted a luxurious vehicle to the for- mer lawmaker. Meanwhile, the investigat- ing team has already found evi- dence of Brahmapur Municipal Corporation (BMC) Corporator Murali Mohan’s involvement in Jena’s land busi- ness. “The Corporator’s involve- ment in land fraud has been confirmed after interrogation. The source of his gutkha busi- ness has been traced to Vishakhapatnam and a team has left for Vizag for investiga- tion”, Sarangi added. Meanwhile, identification of the young woman who had been photographed with Jena was ascertained. She was a student of an air hostess insti- tute in Bhubaneswar and belongs to Gate Bazar area in here. Sources said the former MLA had gifted a car and a flat to her in Bhubaneswar. Notably, a photograph of the young woman with Jena was found from Jyotsna Apartment during a raid two days ago. Meanwhile, the MLA colony address (D/S-14/3) which was mentioned in the identity cards of a looter close to Jena, who was arrested by the Commissionerate Police two days ago was traced to Jeypore MLA Tara Prasad Bahinipati. Bahinipati clarified that Jena was allotted the quarters during his stint as an MLA and now though he was given the quarters but he asked Jena to live there. “I am allotted the quarters which was given to Jena during his MLA tenure earlier. I am not staying there. I had given that (Quarters) to Jena,” said Bahinipati. S ecurity agencies have elim- inated three of the ten Pakistani terrorists who had entered Gujarat recently to carry out attacks. Top official sources said the three were neutralised in a western State last Friday before they could carry out any attack in the country. The remaining seven terrorists have also been zeroed in their hideouts and operation is on to neutralise them, the sources said. The Home Ministry and Intelligence Bureau offi- cials were tight-lipped on the details citing that operation were going on and probe on identity of the eliminated ter- rorists were going on. The group, all suspected to be Pakistani terrorists belong- ing to Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), had planned to attack the Somnath temple in Gujarat during Shivratri on March 7 besides other targets, they said. Immediately, after the Intelligence input about the infiltration of the terrorists was received, the Centre had dispatched four NSG teams to Gujarat and they were put in different locations in the State. It was reported that the info about the infiltration of ter- rorists through sea route was informed by Pakistan's NSA. An alert was sounded in Gujarat and all metros by cen- tral security agencies following reports about infiltration of the terrorists. An advisory was issued to enhance security at all strategic locations, sensitive industrial sites and religious places after intelligence inputs suggested that the terrorists had entered Gujarat taking the sea route. A similar alert was also sent to Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Goa, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chandigarh. Last week, an alert was issued across the country after security agencies gave inputs about plan by Pakistan-linked terror gangs to unleash attacks during Shivratri. The altert was spudned after a Border Security Force patrolling team recovered an abandoned boat — allegedly from Pakistan — off Koteshwar coast in Kutch. T he Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Bhubaneswar on Tuesdayarrested five officials of two chit fund companies for their alleged involvement in the multi-crore chit fund scam in the State. While three of the five arrested are the officials of money collection firm Asha Agro, the rest two belong to the Tower Infotech company. The five arrested func- tionaries were identified as Tarun Baroi, Ranjit Sasi, Parimala Biswas, Ashi Chatterjee and Upendra Chattopadhaya. All of them would be produced at the Special CBI court here on Wednesday. Earlier on January 6, the CBI had arrested three execu- tives of chit fund firm Swastik India Multi State Credit Cooperative in connection with the company’s alleged money laundering activities. The CBI is investigating into the chit fund scam in the State as per the direction of the Supreme Court. It is inquiring about the involvement of 44 companies in the scam. I n an incident that has raised serious concern among devotees, a dead rat was found in the Mahaprasad served at the Shree Jagannath Temple here on Monday (Sankranti). The incident took place at night when some devotees were having the Prasad at the Nairmalyakhala of the temple. Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) offi- cials said an investigation into the matter has been ordered. Mainly on Sankranti, an auspicious day in Hindu cal- endar, the devotees prefer to take the Mahaprasad. A day after brutal attack on police horse Shaktiman, there has been widespread anger against the accused BJP MLA even as noisy scenes were wit- nessed in the Uttarakhand Assembly on Tuesday. While demanding withdrawal of the police case against Mussoorie MLA Ganesh Joshi, when BJP sought a discussion on “deteri- orating law and order” in the State provoking a sharp reaction from Congress, which said the Opposition party had no moral right to seek a debate on the subject after its MLA “attacked a horse with lathis” during a protest march in Dehradun. Uttarakhand Parliamentary Affairs Minister Indira Hridayesh sought an apology from Joshi, who continued to claim innocence. Amid the continuing out- rage, 13-year-old Shakitman on Tuesday underwent a surgical procedure to fix one of its hind legs after which authorities said no amputation was required. Shaktiman was operated upon by a team of doctors from Pantnagar Veterinary College after which Senior Superintendent of Police Sadanand Date said, “The injury has been fixed and no amputa- tion is required”. There was speculation that the leg of the horse might need to be sawed off. The attack on the horse of Uttarakhand Mounted Police occurred near Rispana bridge during a protest march by BJP to the Assembly. When intercept- ed near the bridge, BJP workers tried to jump over the barricades prompting security personnel, including the mounted police, to swing into action to control the protesters. This enraged Joshi who allegedly began hitting the horse with a stick, fracturing one of its hind legs. The Assembly witnessed a furore during zero hour when Uttarakhand BJP president and Leader of Opposition Ajay Bhatt rose from his seat to demand a debate on deterio- rating law and order scenario which was reflected in the “repressive measures” adopted by the administration on Monday to quell an agitation by the BJP. Reacting sharply to Bhatt’s demand, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Indira Hridayesh said a party which was itself responsible for the law and order going out of grip had no right to seek a debate on it. She said cruelty shown towards a hapless animal by the BJP’s Mussoorie legislator Ganesh Joshi had put the party on the back foot in its so-called movement against corruption and collapse of law and order. Provoked BJP members rose from their seats and protested the manner in which a party worker was hit with the hooves of a horse by Uttarakhand Mounted Police during Monday’s protests. Waving a picture of the BJP worker lying at the feet of the horse in the House, Bhatt said the party worker’s body had gone numb on one side and was still at a hospital.

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Governor Dr SC Jamir onTuesday said the State

Government has effectivelycontained the drought, broughtdown poverty and made theState the fastest-growing econ-omy in the Country.

“The remarkable achieve-ments of my Government toreduce poverty have thrown upnew challenges of qualitativelife keeping in line with thechanging times,” Jamir saidwhile addressing the openingday of the Budget Session of theState Assembly.

He said the Governmenthas planned to increase StatePlan further. “The Governmentis progressively increasingresource allocations to various

State Plan activities. We intendto increase the Plan outlay to�45,000 crore for 2016-17against �44,150 crore allocatedin 2016-16.”

He said the Governmenthas made all efforts to achievenine per cent growth in com-ing years.

Regarding drought, he saidthe Government has success-fully contained the adverseeffects of drought and protect-ed lives and livelihoods ofaffected families and their fam-ilies.

The Government hasreleased agriculture input sub-sidy of �519.3 crore for theaffected farmers. Apart fromthis, the Government has alsoput the revenue and debt col-lection from the farmers onhold for three years, he added.

Besides, the Governmenthas taken steps to extend roadand railway connectivity inremote and inaccessible areasand provided banking servicesfor the people in remote areas.

On the Maoist situation,the Governor said due toprompt action taken by the

State Police with the Centralforces, the activities of the RedRebels is under control inmany districts.

He said the overall lawand order situation of the Stateis peaceful and communal har-mony has been maintained. Hesaid his Government has takenspecial measures to deal withthe crimes against women.

“To ensure harsh punish-ment for the criminals, MyGovernment has made provi-

sions for high conviction rate,”he said and added, “TheGovernment has proposed toestablish 29 subordinate courts,including Special Track Courts,for speedy disposal of casesrelating to atrocities onwomen.”

Jamir appreciated theGovernment for successfullyorganising the NabakalebaraFestival in 2015.

He said the Odisha UrbanHousing Mission Directorate

has targeted to construct 1.5lakh dwelling units during thenext financial year. Similarly, hesaid efforts are on to replaceage-old pipelines in 66 ULBswhich are prone to leakage andcontamination.

He said the Governmentwould set up 314 AdarshVidyalays in all the blocks. Hesaid to pupularise science atgrassroots level, theGovernment has opened a Sub-Regional Science Centre in

Bargarh district and is going toopen such centres in otherparts of the State. He said a 2ndPlanetorium would be set up atBurla in Sambalpur districtsoon.

Regarding steel sector, hesaid with the Tata Steel’sKalinganagar plant becomingoperational, the faith ofinvestors in the State has beenreassured. In ‘Make in India’campaign held in Mumbai, theState has been able to attractinvestments over �70,000 crore,including a major portion inthe non-mineral sector.

He said the Governmenthas set a target to create 1.5lakh MSMEs with an employ-ment potential of four lakhmore persons in coming fiveyears.

On the energy sector, hesaid various thermal generationunits will add 10,310 MW by2021-22.

He said the Government iscommitted to provide 100 percent coverage of pension, hous-ing and other security schemesfor welfare of all the PVTGhouseholds.

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Public order in Odisha istreading on a danger zone.

Riotous acts have emerged asthe newest crime trend inOdisha with the acts of riotingcharting a double-digit growthlast year. More worrying isthefts, including bank heists, inState have also grown up in theyear 2015.

These red blips wereflashed on by the CrimeStatistics-2015 recently releasedby the State police. When theState is agog over the heady mixof politician-criminal nexus,the report shows only a mar-ginal rise in murders last year,and simultaneously, it record-ed a fall in acts of dacoity.However, bank heists and otherthefts, including auto thefts,showing a spike posed a chal-lenge for the State police whenthe fact that surfaced recentlywas SIMI activists were foundto be involved in bank heists inOdisha.

The crime statistics hasalso zoomed on to the habitu-al troublesome districts in theState. Over the years, the axisof dacoity in State has been thecorridors of Bhubaneswar -Cuttack - Puri - Naygarh,Sambalpur - Rourkela, Angul -Dhenkanal, Baleswar,Sundergarh - Keonjhar andGanjam. While overall dacoitycases have come down in 2015,but corridors like Angul -Dhenkanal and Sundergarh -Keonjhar have shown a spike intotal cases. This looks worri-some as they have been theState’s industrial nerve centres.

It needs mentioning that abusiness survey done by WorldBank a few years ago has high-lighted dacoity and thefts asgrave risks for the industrial-friendly ambience in Odisha.

However, the threat to pub-lic order looms large in theState as after two successiveyears of decline, riots havestarted moving up in 2015.

Significantly, almost all cate-gories of rioting have shown aspike last year reveal sources.Though spontaneous riots con-stitute almost 50 per cent of thetotal riot cases last year, caste-conflict led riots other than theSC/ST conflict-led riots occupiedthe second spot and farm dis-tress-led riots was at the thirdspot. Industrial unrest led riotshave witnessed a spike inJagatsinghpur-Jajpur region, datareveals.

With Panchayat pollslooming large on the horizon,the ‘riotous’ acts could spiralout of control as political par-ties in their greed to have vote-banks could use the publicunrest to their hilt, and thuswould nudge the police to aconfronting scenario, observeda senior police official.

For instance, Bargarh with164 cases of rioting has toppedthe State in 2015 and, inciden-tally, the district was the epicen-ter of farm distress last year andalmost all the major political par-ties have thrown off big rallies orpadyatras there, he outlined.

When the Bhubaneswarurban police area topped theState in thefts with a swiftincrease, Balewsar, Bargarh,Jharsuguda, Balangir, Koraputand Nabarangpur have record-ed a quantum leap in theftcases last year. Mayurbhanjand Jajpur districts have beenwitness to the most violentcrimes altogether in State.Above all, when Mayurbhanjhas been the ‘rape capital’ ofOdisha, Jajpur and Baleswarfollowed it closely.

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The “Atithi Dev Bhavo” slo-gan and the ongoing

Raahgiri programmes meant toboost tourism in State receiveda jolt as in a shocking incidentin Puri, manager and otherstaff members of a hotelattacked tourists, includingfemales, and left them withbleeding injuries.

According to a complaintfiled with the Baliapandapolice on Tuesday morning, a14-member tourist party fromManaspur, Kolkata had arrivedat hotel ‘Malancha’ located atBaliapanda area close to the seabeach. They had prior bookingof six rooms from March 15 to18.

When they arrived at the

hotel at about 6.30 am, themanager of the hotel askedthem to wait for an hour. Till8.30, the manger could notprovide them rooms. Whenthe tourists complained, themanager along with other staffmembers and locals attackedthe visitors. Narayan Mandoland two other tourists sus-tained bleeding injuries ontheir head. They lodged acomplaint with the Baliapandapolice station.

The police registered acriminal case and sent theinjured for treatment to theDistrict Headquarters Hospitaland during investigationarrested Bidhan Mandol, themanager of the hotel. Policewere looking for others whoassaulted the tourists.

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The district police asked theEnforcement Directorate

(ED) and the CBI to probe theillegal financial transactionsand chit fund links of arrestedformer SanakhemundiCongress MLA Ramesh Jena.

Brahmapur SP SarthakSarangi on Tuesday said he haswritten to the ED and the CBIin this regard.

“Till now, we have detect-ed more than 50 properties ofRamesh Jena. I have written toED asking it to be involved inthe investigation process,” said

Sarangi.It was now revealed that all

of these properties seized by thepolice were not in the name ofJena. Some of them were in thename of other persons thoughJena is the real owner.

The SP has also written tothe CBI to probe his allegedlinks with the Green India chitfund company. The moneycollection company had gifteda luxurious vehicle to the for-mer lawmaker.

Meanwhile, the investigat-ing team has already found evi-dence of Brahmapur MunicipalCorporation (BMC)Corporator Murali Mohan’sinvolvement in Jena’s land busi-ness.

“The Corporator’s involve-ment in land fraud has beenconfirmed after interrogation.The source of his gutkha busi-ness has been traced to

Vishakhapatnam and a teamhas left for Vizag for investiga-tion”, Sarangi added.

Meanwhile, identificationof the young woman who hadbeen photographed with Jenawas ascertained. She was astudent of an air hostess insti-tute in Bhubaneswar andbelongs to Gate Bazar area inhere. Sources said the formerMLA had gifted a car and a flatto her in Bhubaneswar.

Notably, a photograph ofthe young woman with Jenawas found from JyotsnaApartment during a raid twodays ago.

Meanwhile, the MLAcolony address (D/S-14/3)which was mentioned in theidentity cards of a looter closeto Jena, who was arrested bythe Commissionerate Policetwo days ago was traced toJeypore MLA Tara PrasadBahinipati.

Bahinipati clarified thatJena was allotted the quartersduring his stint as an MLA andnow though he was given thequarters but he asked Jena tolive there.

“I am allotted the quarterswhich was given to Jena duringhis MLA tenure earlier. I amnot staying there. I had giventhat (Quarters) to Jena,” saidBahinipati.

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Security agencies have elim-inated three of the ten

Pakistani terrorists who hadentered Gujarat recently tocarry out attacks. Top officialsources said the three wereneutralised in a western Statelast Friday before they couldcarry out any attack in thecountry. The remaining seventerrorists have also been zeroedin their hideouts and operationis on to neutralise them, thesources said.

The Home Ministry and Intelligence Bureau offi-cials were tight-lipped on thedetails citing that operationwere going on and probe onidentity of the eliminated ter-rorists were going on.

The group, all suspected tobe Pakistani terrorists belong-ing to Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT)and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM),

had planned to attack theSomnath temple in Gujaratduring Shivratri on March 7besides other targets, they said.

Immediately, after theIntelligence input about theinfiltration of the terroristswas received, the Centre haddispatched four NSG teams toGujarat and they were put indifferent locations in the State.It was reported that the infoabout the infiltration of ter-rorists through sea route wasinformed by Pakistan's NSA.An alert was sounded in

Gujarat and all metros by cen-tral security agencies followingreports about infiltration of theterrorists.

An advisory was issued toenhance security at all strategiclocations, sensitive industrialsites and religious places afterintelligence inputs suggestedthat the terrorists had enteredGujarat taking the sea route. Asimilar alert was also sent toUttar Pradesh, AndhraPradesh, Telangana, Goa,Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthanand Chandigarh.

Last week, an alert wasissued across the country aftersecurity agencies gave inputsabout plan by Pakistan-linkedterror gangs to unleash attacksduring Shivratri. The altertwas spudned after a BorderSecurity Force patrolling teamrecovered an abandoned boat— allegedly from Pakistan —off Koteshwar coast in Kutch.

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The Central Bureau ofInvestigation (CBI),

Bhubaneswar on Tuesdayarrestedfive officials of two chit fundcompanies for their allegedinvolvement in the multi-crorechit fund scam in the State.

While three of the fivearrested are the officials ofmoney collection firm AshaAgro, the rest two belong to theTower Infotech company.

The five arrested func-tionaries were identified as

Tarun Baroi, Ranjit Sasi,Parimala Biswas, AshiChatterjee and UpendraChattopadhaya. All of themwould be produced at theSpecial CBI court here onWednesday.

Earlier on January 6, theCBI had arrested three execu-tives of chit fund firm SwastikIndia Multi State CreditCooperative in connection withthe company’s alleged moneylaundering activities.

The CBI is investigatinginto the chit fund scam in theState as per the direction of theSupreme Court. It is inquiringabout the involvement of 44companies in the scam.

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devotees, a dead rat was foundin the Mahaprasad served atthe Shree Jagannath Templehere on Monday (Sankranti).

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Shree Jagannath TempleAdministration (SJTA) offi-cials said an investigationinto the matter has beenordered.

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Aday after brutal attack onpolice horse Shaktiman,

there has been widespread angeragainst the accused BJP MLAeven as noisy scenes were wit-nessed in the UttarakhandAssembly on Tuesday. Whiledemanding withdrawal of thepolice case against MussoorieMLA Ganesh Joshi, when BJPsought a discussion on “deteri-orating law and order” in theState provoking a sharp reactionfrom Congress, which said theOpposition party had no moralright to seek a debate on thesubject after its MLA “attackeda horse with lathis” during aprotest march in Dehradun.

Uttarakhand ParliamentaryAffairs Minister IndiraHridayesh sought an apologyfrom Joshi, who continued toclaim innocence.

Amid the continuing out-rage, 13-year-old Shakitman onTuesday underwent a surgicalprocedure to fix one of its hindlegs after which authorities saidno amputation was required.Shaktiman was operated uponby a team of doctors fromPantnagar Veterinary Collegeafter which SeniorSuperintendent of PoliceSadanand Date said, “The injury

has been fixed and no amputa-tion is required”. There wasspeculation that the leg of thehorse might need to be sawed off.The attack on the horse ofUttarakhand Mounted Policeoccurred near Rispana bridgeduring a protest march by BJP tothe Assembly. When intercept-ed near the bridge, BJP workerstried to jump over the barricadesprompting security personnel,including the mounted police, toswing into action to control theprotesters. This enraged Joshiwho allegedly began hitting thehorse with a stick, fracturing one

of its hind legs.The Assembly witnessed a

furore during zero hour whenUttarakhand BJP president andLeader of Opposition AjayBhatt rose from his seat todemand a debate on deterio-rating law and order scenariowhich was reflected in the“repressive measures” adoptedby the administration onMonday to quell an agitation bythe BJP. Reacting sharply toBhatt’s demand, ParliamentaryAffairs Minister IndiraHridayesh said a party whichwas itself responsible for the

law and order going out of griphad no right to seek a debateon it. She said cruelty showntowards a hapless animal bythe BJP’s Mussoorie legislatorGanesh Joshi had put the partyon the back foot in its so-calledmovement against corruptionand collapse of law and order.

Provoked BJP membersrose from their seats andprotested the manner in whicha party worker was hit with thehooves of a horse byUttarakhand Mounted Policeduring Monday’s protests.Waving a picture of the BJPworker lying at the feet of thehorse in the House, Bhatt saidthe party worker’s body hadgone numb on one side and wasstill at a hospital.

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In a sigh of relief to the citypolice, the Special Squad of

the Commissionerate Policeon Tuesday arrested a personsuspected to be the leader of achain looter gang and seizedweapons and some looted goldornaments and other valuablesform his possession.

The person identified asMakara Maharana is stated tobe the ring leader of the noto-rious ‘Black Pulsar Gang’ whichunleashed terror in the capitalcity over the last few days.

Sources said he confessedto having committed manyloot incidents and snatchings inthe recent past.

According to policesources, the gang was alleged-ly involved in a series of snatch-ing and loots in the city on

March 9 with as many as fivepersons falling prey to theircrimes.

The gang’s victims includ-ed a relative of Ollywood actorBidusmita, a HomeDepartment official and a busi-nessman who was on his wayto deposit a loan instalment of�2 lakh. Last week, the gangcommitted the crimes in broaddaylight near the GovernorHouse, the Capital Hospital

and Raj Mahal Square puttingthe Commissionerate Policein a tizzy. All the crimes hap-pened at CCTV-equipped loca-tions. Following the incident,police resorted to massiveblocking and raids to nab theculprits but to no avail.

Basing on the inputs of thearrested accused, police arenow conducting raids at severalstrategic locations to nab othergang members.

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With the panchayat elec-tions being not too far

away, Governments have beenbusy shifting the focus to theagro-rural sector. There is moreemphasis on the problem offarmers. Alongside, the agro-rural infrastructure is alsoreceiving greater attention. Butwhen it comes to the brasstack, there is hardly anyattempt at causing basic struc-tural changes. Odisha has seensuicides in the farming com-

munity. This figure is some-where around 210. Most ofthese cases are linked withdrought leading to crop loss.This in turn further leads toloss of income, adding to theinabilities to service the snow-balling debts. TheSwaminathan Commission onagriculture had made detailedrecommendations. They areyet to receive any appropriateattention. Though the costs ofinputs have gone up, the min-imum support prices for rice,etc., have not been adequatelyrevised.

Any move towards alteringthe feudal structure would,under the circumstances, besurreptitiously opposed. Theprices of basic food items haveescalated in the last year, andOdisha has the unenviable dis-tinction of being the thirdcostliest State in the country.The outflow of money from outof the State is much higher thanany inflow in the context oftrade and commerce in agri-cultural and industrial prod-ucts. But this increased pricedoes not ensue to the benefit of

the grassroots farmers. It is themiddlemen and the traders toreap the cream. This is wherethe rural infrastructure shouldplay a very significant role.Quality inputs, integrated irri-gation, warehousing, cold stor-age and capacity to avoid dis-tress sale are the minimum thathas to be satisfied for at leastkeeping the people in the agro-rural sector above subsistencelevel.

But the scenario in Odishais otherwise. There are districtsfrom where labourers migratein large numbers up to Jammu& Kashmir, Mumbai andChennai. Most of them sufferexploitation in the hands of theemployers or the labour con-tractors. They do not receivetheir legitimate entitlements.Social security measures inthis sector have been the poor-est. Marginal help is emanatingfrom some schemes of cropinsurance. But the rigmarole ofprocedure and the cussednessof the decision-making processgo on delaying any movetowards a change in the statusof the farmers. Formulation of

a suitable policy is delayed bydesign. Even when theLegislature passes an Act, itmay often remain in the statutebook without being enforced orimplemented so as to achieveits social object. There stillremain plenty of loose endsbetween policy formulation,policy legislation (includingsubordinate legislation) andeffective implementation there-of. Every Act of Legislaturerequires a certain device ofhuman resources and sup-portive infrastructure to trans-late the underlying policy intoreality at the ground level. Allthese are not adjuncts, but arefundamental to the effectuationof the legislative intent. Thispart gets neglected, thoughthe persons in authority areaware of this mismatch frus-trating the social object forwhich such Acts have beenenacted for the betterment ofthe people. The planningprocess is not yet altered so asto build a network of projectsfrom a micro to a macro level.We hear of extending highways,opening up waterways, spring-

ing up of industries, but thelevel of poverty does notdecline in an appreciable man-ner. The laws are too many tocomply with and the litigationbecomes a survival necessity.Litigation, in turn, has its ownpace of movement and caneffectively defeat the object ofan Act.

As the Union Parliamentand the State Legislatures passmore and more enactments toenforce the agreed-upon poli-

cies, the judiciary has to take itsshare of the burden. Both thePresident and the Chief Justiceof India have expressed theiranxieties recently at Allahabad.Some innovative methods haveto be adopted so as to take careof the backlog of arrears and tominimise the periods spent inbringing litigations to theirlogical end. Judiciary is nomore concerned with conflictsof private rights and in min-imising the incidence of crimes.It is an agency of the State in alarger sense to enforce the law

by suitable remedial directionsto minimise inaction.Wherever necessary, there maybe the need to further go on toensure that the social objectiveof the Act is purposivelyachieved. This burden on theshoulders of the judiciary isgradually increasing. It hasreached a stage of participativejustice. The judiciary is com-pelled to be active and not tobe inactive.

The forthcoming legislativesessions, both at the Centre andin the State, are going to bringto the fore very significantmeasures having far-reachingsocioeconomic impact.Political wisdom on such occa-sions must overtake narrowpolitical considerations. To citea very small example, theOdisha Government noticedthe uneven movements anderratic fluctuations in the priceof commodities in the State. Itwas felt necessary to have ahigh-level inflation monitoringgroup directly under the ChiefMinister. The proposal to havea Cabinet committee on pricerise has been languishing from

as early as 2010. The monitor-ing system is grossly inadequateand requires a serious push inthe right direction.

Despite severalMissions in the health sector,diseases like leprosy, malaria,smallpox, etc., have reappearedat a time when we thought theystood eradicated. Degradationof the environment is an addi-tional factor to be concernedabout. Educational facilities atthe grassroots level are limpingalong. We have primary edu-cation guaranteed as one of ourFundamental Rights. But thelack of facilities, lack of ableteachers and the increasingdropout rate indicate chronicsickness in this sphere. Thebasic social sector continues tobe neglected with high-risebuildings multiplying day byday with concurrent growth ofslums. But the propagandamachinery is trying hard tomake us believe that there iswelfare, growth and develop-ment galore. The expenseson publicity are ever-increas-ing, attempting hard to ped-dle dreams of prosperity. We

have quite a good number ofprofessional dream merchantsand they are busier than everbefore.

The youth power neednot be over-tolerant of thewindow-dressing of policyframing and legislating andfinally not achieving the socialobjects. They have to raisetheir voice and become moti-vated monitors to ensure thatthe Government becomesmore active on the legislativeand executive fronts. It has toturn to be effective and goal-oriented. While the youngergeneration has to act, theolder generation has to adviseand aid. It cannot, therefore,be a sectarian cause. Itinvolves all of us. And, thisconcerns us all!

The writer, a SeniorAdvocate, is a former All

India Service officer, a formerdiplomat, a former editor, a

former President of OrissaHigh Court Bar Association

and a former AdvocateGeneral of Odisha. jayant-

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The Indian Institute ofScience Education and

Research (IISER), Brahmapurhas announced to begin admis-sion to classes for 2016 at itstemporary campus.

Skill Development andTechnical Education (SDTE)Principal Secretary LN Guptasaid the IISER Brahmapur willadmit at least 50 students infive-year BS-MS Dual DegreeProgramme for 2016. Sciencestudents, who have passed theClass-XII in 2015 or 2016 areeligible to pursue the pro-gramme.

IISER Bhopal DirectorProfessor Vinod Kumar Singh,who has been appointed as thementor director of the IISERBrahmapur by the MHRD,had earlier sent his team toinspect the facilities in thetemporary campus in theGovernment ITI at Brahmapur.

Hostel accommodation forstudents has been arranged bythe authorities and requisitemodifications are taken place.Faculty members and other

staff will be in position as ProfSingh is looking after thearrangements, said sources.

As far as the permanentcampus is concerned, the SiteSelection Committee (SSC)headed by the SDTE PrincipalSecretary visited several placesand identified the site atLaudigaon in Ganjam district.200 acres of land owned by theState Government is availableand the site is 15 km from theNH-5 and 20 km from theBrahmapur railway station.The MHRD has approved thesite for setting up of the per-manent campus.

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After a three-day-long dis-ruption, daily rituals

resumed at theLingaraj Templehere on Tuesday.

A compro-mise was reachedon Mondayevening after theE n d o w m e n tCommissionerassured to settlethe disputeamong the servi-tors within 15days.

It was alsodecided that explanation wouldbe sought and action would betaken against the servitorsresponsible for halting the ser-vices at the eleventh-centuryshrine.

Notably, the logjam hadbegun after a tussle between theKhuntia and the Malia servitorsin the Kapileshwar Templeover the Handi Bhanga ritual of

Lord Lingaraj.Every year, the next

Saturday after Shivaratri festi-val, Lord Lingaraj visits the

Kapileswar Temple and returnsafter being worshipped there.Members of the two priestgroups in the Lingaraj Templerefused to do the rituals thisyear, resulting in no HandiBhanga festival being per-formed.

The daily services at theLingaraj Temple had come to ahalt following the incident.

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Bhubaneswar: Two days afterhe was interrogated by theCommissionerate Police forhis alleged links with gangstersiblings Sushant and SushilDhalsamant, the BJP onTuesdaysuspended DebasishGhosh from the primary mem-bership of the party.

Ghosh was suspended byparty State president BasantPanda for gross indiscipline,said BJP State general secretary(Organisation) Sarada PrasadSatapathy. Police interrogatedGhosh for his alleged links withcriminals. “This news was pub-lished in the media which hasaffected the image of the party.In view of this, he has been sus-pended from the party’s mem-bership for breaching disci-pline,” he added. Notably, Ghoshwas working president of theCuttack Nagar Yuvak Sangha, avoluntary ogranisation floatedby the Dhalsamanta duo.

Earlier on March 10,Ghosh was served notice ask-ing him to appear before theChauliaganj police withinseven days for interrogationover links with the criminalbrothers. PNS

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The National Human RightsCommission (NHRC) has

directed the Chief Secretary tosubmit a report on the allegedfarmers’ suicide in the State dueto crop loss, loan burden andGovernment ‘inaction’.

Acting on a petition filedby rights activist PradipPradhan, the commission hasasked the Chief Secretary tosubmit the report within fourweeks.

The petitioner has allegedthat 30 debt-ridden farmerscommitted suicide in less thana month between November 21and December 10 last in 12 dis-tricts.

“Unfortunately, the StateGovernment has been con-stantly denying the allegation offarmers’ suicide. However, the

Chief Minister ordered all dis-trict Collectors and SPs forinquiry into the farmers’ sui-cide and submit reports. Theinquiry reports of theCollectors obtained throughRTI pointed out various rea-sons like family problems, lovematters and family disputes,etc., as reasons for farmers’ sui-cide,” the petitioner stated.

“But during our field visit,we experienced precarious con-ditions of the families, mentaltrauma suffered by the familymembers, failure of crop due toless rainfall, tension to repaythe loans borrowed from pri-vate moneylenders at exorbi-tant rates of interest, etc. All thefamilies vociferously said cropfailure and loan burden as themajor reasons for suicidaldeath of the farmers,” the peti-tioner contended.

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With the State Governmenttaking no visible mea-

sures to address their demands,junior doctors of the VeerSurendra Sai Institute ofMedical Sciences and Research(VIMSAR), Burla on Tuesdaytreated people wearing blackbadges and threatened to resortto cease-work from April 1.

“If our demands are notmet by the Government byMarch-end, we will go on acease-work agitation. Now, wewill work sporting blackbadges,” said VIMSAR JuniorDoctors’ Association presidentShankar Ramchandani.

“We experience no hintfrom the State Government tofulfill our nine point charter ofdemands for better service ofthe patients for which we hadgone on cease work earlier.

Except for shifting the femalemedicine ward, theGovernment has not done any-thing in the last three months.So we have decided to do ourduty by wearing black badgestill March 31. If theGovernment fails to meet ourdemands, we will go for ceasework from April 1,” addedRamachandi.

He said the agitation wouldbe extended to all hospitalsacross western Odisha.

Notably, on February 5,Health Secretary Arti Ahujahad informed that theGovernment would fulfill allthe demands of the associationin phases. She had alsoannounced that an MRImachine, one of the ninedemands of the JDA, would beinstalled at VIMSAR by March31.

She had also promised 24-hour service in RegionalDiagnostic Centre (RDC) inVIMSAR, uninterrupted powersupply, tight security measureswith installation of CCTV cam-eras to monitor anti-socialactivities inside the institute.

However, the JDA allegedthat none of the assurancesmade by the Secretary wasfulfilled till date.

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Chief Minister NaveenPatnaik on Tuesday

unveiled the book TheDemographic Profile of Odishawritten by senior IAS officerBishnupada Sethi. The book isof importance particularly forplanners, researchers and datausers and readers in general.

The book was opened at aState-level meeting in the pres-ence of several Ministers andbureaucrats, who appreciatedSethi’s literary pursuits.

The Chief Minister washappy with such a publicationon Odisha’s demography, and itwas expected the book wouldfind a place in his collection ofbooks and journals at theNaveen Niwas.

The book has been writtenjointly with ChittaranjanMohanty, a seasoned hand atCensus Operations.

Sethi, a writer by heart, haspenned several books onnature, peoples’ life. His high-ly popular book Where Shall IGo was deals with people, theiraspirations, experiences, trust,faith and belief. Published in2005, the book has beenreprinted several times, and itsUrdu version is also available in

the market.His third poetry book

Beyond Feelings has also beentranslated into other languages

Sethi, a 1995-batch IASofficer, who successfully han-dled the Census Operations inOdisha during 2011, continuedas the Director Census for sixlong years from 2009- 2015.

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With a view to providingcomfortable journey to

the commuters, the EastCoast Railway (ECoR) hasdecided to extend the ser-vices of Puri-Bhanjapur(Baripada)-train till lastweek of March.

Due to poor patronisa-tion, it was earlier decided tocancel the train.

The train will leave Purievery Friday till March 25and will reach Bhanjapurthe following day. In the

return direction, it will leaveBhanjapur on every Saturdaytill March 26 and will arriveat Puri the next day.

The special train has oneAC-2 Tier, two AC-3 tiers,eight Sleeper Class Coaches,two Second Class SittingCoaches and two Guard cumSecond Class Sitting Coacheshaving stoppages at KhurdaRoad, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack,Jajpur, Keonjhar Road,Bhadrak, Soro, Baleswar,Rupsa , B etonat i andBaripada between Puri andBhanjapur.

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At a time when jewellersacross the country are on

strike protesting the proposedre-imposition of one per centExcise Duty, the Central Excise,Customs and Service TaxDepartment on Tuesday clar-ified that the jewellers only withturnover of more than �12crore would be liable to pay theExcise Duty.

Finance Minister ArunJaitley has proposed the one-per cent duty on jewellerywithout input credit or 12.5 percent with input tax credit onjewellery excluding silver otherthan studded with diamondsand some other precious

stones, Commissioner DeepShekhar told reporters.

Thus, only if the turnoverof a jeweler during precedingfinancial year was more than�12 crore, he would be liable topay the duty. Jewellers havingtiurnover below �12 crore dur-ing preceding financial yearwould be eligible for exemptionup to �6 crore during nextfinancial year, he added.

There is a substantiallyhigh small-scale industries(SSI) Excise Duty exemptionlimit of �6 crore in a year (asagainst normal SSI exemptionlimit of �1.5 crore) along witha higher eligibility limit of Rs12 crore (against normal SSIeligibility limit of �4 crore).

Shekhar said with the pro-vision of online applicationfor registration, payment of

excise duty and filling ofreturns, there are zero inter-faces of departmental officers.

The Central Excise Officershave been directed not to visitthe jewellery manufacturers’

premises, he added.Articles of silver jewellery,

other than those studded withdiamonds, ruby etc, are exemptfrom the duty, he clarified.

He also said small jewelerswould be eligible for exemp-tions up to �50 lakh for March2016. If the jewellers are givingone-per cent VAT to the StateGovernment then why not tothe Central Government, saidDeep Shekhar. For imitationjewelleries, jewellers are alsogiving 6 per cent duty.

Among others,Commissioner SG Dewalwar,Assistant Commissioner NKMishra and JointCommissioner SK Mohantywere present.

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Normal life was paralysed infive blocks of Rayagada

and Kalahandi districts onTuesday as Maoists called for a24-hour bandh protestingagainst an alleged fakeencounter in which tribal youthwas killed in Rayagada.

While vehicular trafficcame to a standstill, most shopsremained closed in Rayagada,Kalyansingpur, Bishamcuttack,Muniguda and Lanjigarhblocks.

Security forces tightened

patrolling to avoid any unto-ward incident.

CPI(Maoist) NiyamgiriArea Committee secretarySukhdev had announced thebandh after the security forceskilled Monda Kadrika atDangamatia on February 27.

“February 27 was the lastday of the Adivasi Ghati festi-val in the Niyamgiri jungles.Police killed Monda to createfear and panic among the trib-als,” he alleged.

Monda’s brother has alsofiled a murder complaintagainst the security forces at theKalyansinghpur police station

of Rayagarh on March 5.On the other hand, the

security forces have claimedthat Monda (20) was a sus-pected Maoist and was killed inthe encounter led by RayagadaSP K Siva Subramani in theDangamatia forests.

Meanwhile, OdishaHuman Rights Commission(OHRC) Acting ChairmanJustice BK Mishra has direct-ed the Southern RDC and theSouth-West Range DIG toinquire and report separatelyon the allegations within fourweeks. The matter is likely to beheard on April 26.

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It was a Saturday afternoon.Nearly 21 village women

were together, sitting in a cir-cle to listen to their secretaryParbati in the weekly meeting.

After a few rounds of dis-cussion, Parbati stood up andspoke, “This year our profitfrom potato crop is Rs 30,000which we will invest in farm-ing seasonal vegetables andragi millet. We had planted600 kilograms of potatoes andour output was 6,000 kilo-grams. Do you have any otheridea?”

When Parbati Ramagiria,secretary of Maa BhairabiSwayam Sahayak Sangha(women self help group) ofGulei village in Semiligudablock of Koraput district readout the account statement attheir weekly meeting, all twen-ty one members broke intocheer. The firm voices, theapplause and the beamingfaces indicated the raised levelof confidence and power inthese women agriculturallabourers, who feared to speakeven a single word to outsidersjust two years back when they

were landless.This “transformative

change” has been broughtabout by the power of “patta”-the land titles. After squattingon Government land for gen-erations, these womenreceived legal titles to theirland-both homestead (4 to 10cents) and farmland (up to 1acre each) through a collabo-rative initiative of theGovernment of Odisha andLandesa, a non-profit orani-sation, that has designed thecommunity resource persons(CRP) model to improve andsupport implementation ofthe State’s land allocation pro-gramme.

The model uses CRPs- acadre of local literate youthstrained to help the poorestfamilies to get titles to theirland, which provides equalownership rights to bothwomen and men.

Soon after receiving the“patta”, Parbati coordinatedwith Nakula Sisa, their villageCRP, who facilitated to accessGovernment livelihood pro-grammes and received a liveli-hood “starter kit”- 10 ducks, 10fruit saplings and vegetablesaplings. Parbati did not

remain content with her newfound prosperity. She workedtirelessly to ensure that everysingle woman in her villagehas similar benefit from theState programme. With youngand agile Parbati’s able lead-ership, all the village womenland owners together formeda self-help group. Thesewomen in group availed cred-it of Rs 50,000 from a nearbypublic sector bank and start-ed collective farming of pota-to, onion and ragi millet. Theyattended training sessions on“land use” conducted jointlyby Landesa and IntegratedTribal Development Agency(ITDA), Koraput and learnedmulti cropping, line-sowing,water management, and otherfarming techniques. All thewomen members jointlyworked on the field. Thoughit was difficult for them toleave their small children athome with their mother-in-laws and spend entire dayfrom dawn to dusk in the fieldbut they did it. The womenwere engaged in all the activ-ities of cultivation-shovelingthe field, sowing seeds, remov-ing grass, spraying water,applying manure, collecting

the farm produce, sorting andpacking in bags for sellingthem. Parvati along with otherwomen worked closely withNakula and the ITDA officialsto build market outlets fortheir farm produce.

“The patta has not onlyprovided these poor rural trib-al women with a tangibleassert, but an identity, selfconfidence, and the power tochange their lives. With thepower of patta, these womenof Gulei village have found thekey to unlock their veiledforte and they are now able toaccess host of opportunities toparticipate in economicprocesses and improve theirand their children’s lives,” saidLandesa State directorSibabrata Choudhury.

More than half (54 percent) of the rural families inOdisha are still landless. Thesefamilies do not have “patta” tothe piece of land they live onand farm. A sizable number ofrural families survive with ameager monthly income ofless than Rs 5,000 and 43.35 percent derive a major part of theirincome from manual casuallabour. Absence of legal titlesdeprives these families of

accessing their entitlementsand opportunities. Squatting onGovernment land and living atransitory life, these families arestuck in the generational cycleof extreme poverty. Worse isthe condition of rural woman-headed families who accountfor about 12 per cent (dataGovernment of Odisha surveyin four districts-Ganjam,Koraput, Kalahandiand Mayurbhanj) and the suf-fering of single women - thewidowed, abandoned, disabledand unmarried women wholive depending on brothers, in-laws and relatives-is abysmal.Because they not only live inabject poverty, but are vulner-able-often abused by those onwhom they depend for foodand shelter.

The State Government’spro-active steps to enumerateall the landless familiesincluding the single womenand providing them with“patta” to a piece of landwould probably bring oppor-tunities like that of the womenof Gulei village to every ruralwoman in the State and alllandless rural women wouldbe able to unlock their fortelike Parbati Ramagiria.

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Two patients who wereadmitted to the leprosy

ward of the district hospitalhere had a close shave after aportion of the roof caved in.The incident happened onMonday when they were not intheir beds.

The incident gave rise totension and fear among thepatients in the hospital.

The leprosy ward in the dis-trict hospital is operating out ofa 10-to-12-year-old dilapidatedbuilding. Six years ago, theroof was repaired and it wasfound out that the material usedin it was of inferior quality.

ADMO Dr Sujata RaniMishra said the Works

Department has been informedabout the poor condition of theroof.

On the other hand, WorksDepartment ExecutiveEngineer Maguni CharanMishra has denied having any

knowledge of the poor condi-tion of the roof.

After a thorough investi-gation in the affected area ofthe roof, it would either berepaired or a new roof wouldbe laid, he added.

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The BJP held a rally inKhariar Road NAC and

staged a demonstration in frontof the NAC office to drawattention of the Governmenttowards the problems of com-mon people.

The demonstrators raisedthe issue of irregularity in dis-tribution of ration cards, exclu-sion of poor households fromfood security scheme, etc.

They also demandedappointment of a lady gynae-cologist at the Khariar RoadCHC, supply of safe drinkingwater, renovation of tradi-tional water bodies and can-cellation of lease of water bod-

ies for pisciculture, imple-mentation of house holdlatrines scheme under SwachhBharat Mission for poor fam-ilies, proper allotment of NACcabins, etc.

The demonstrators sub-mitted a memorandum of thedemands to the tehsildaraddressed to the Governor.The demonstration was led byKhariar Road BJP city presi-dent Sandia Sharma andGoldy Agrawal. Party leadersSanjay Tiwari, MahatabMohammed, Manijar Arya,Jadumani Panigrahi, MamataSahu were also present.

The leaders gave 15-daydeadline for fulfilment of thedemands.

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The State Assembly con-doled the deaths of three

former members of the Houseand three jawans who sacri-ficed their lives for the country.

Chief Minister NaveenPatnaik brought obituary ref-erences on the passing away offormer Minister MaheswarBaug and former membersGurubari Majhi and NallaKumar Naikulu and threeJawans, former BSF DeputyCommandant Sunil KumarBehera and former BSFConstables Sibasis Panda andKishore Ranjan Rawat and

expressed his deep grief overtheir demises.

Leader of OppositionNarasingha Mishra and BJPLegislature Partly LeaderBasant Panda expressedexpressed grief over theirdeaths and requested theSpeaker to convey their respec-tive condolences to thebereaved families.

Speaker Niranjan Pujaritoo paid his tributes to thedeparted souls and said thesympathy of the House wouldbe conveyed to the concernedfamilies soon. Later, a twominute silence was observed inrespect of the souls.

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The 8th Sammilani of theOdia diaspora in Australia,

‘Aarohana’, will be held onMarch 25-27, symbolising theupward journey of the Odiacommunity association OriozInc since 2005.

Orioz president Sujeet Jenasaid the Odia community ofAustralia is very proud ofthemselves for investing inbuilding a single Odia com-munity in a large country suchas Australia. Like the lastSammilani in 2014, this timealso members from WesternAustralia, South Australia,Victoria, Australian CapitalTerritory - Canberra, NewSouth Wales and Queenslandwill come together for 2 days,showcasing Odia art, cultureand traditions.

Hundreds of members ofthe community will meet at theMaroochy Waterfront Camp

and Conference Centre in theSunshine Coast region. Thegathering is packed with bothgroup and individual activitiessuch as a river cruise, groupdances, sole performances andhealth talks. A special cook hasbeen engaged to recreate all theOdia dishes that would bringback the memories from back

home.Orioz executive advisor Dr

Manoj Nayak said theSammilani will live up to itsname and will focus on theyoung generation who arebrave enough to grow up withmulticultural values but are stillchoosing to keep their uniqueOdia identity.

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During the discussions onthe Railway Budget in Lok

Sabha, MPs Kakoli GhoshDastidar (TMC), PrabhashKumar Singh (BJD), YogiAdityanath (BJP) and SitaramNayak (TRS) urged theGovernment to fulfil thedemands of 80,000 railway engi-neers, who are under the ban-ner of the All India RailwayEngineers’ Federation (AIREF),to motivate them for strength-ening the safety of railway.

Maharashtra MP RakshaNikhil Khadse (BJP) raised theissue of granting Group-B sta-tus to railway engineers as perthe DOPT India GazetteNotification.

Similarly, Rajya Sabhamembers MA Khan (Congress),

AB Rapolu (ICongress) andAV Swamy (Independent) sug-gested to accord justice to rail-way engineers who shoulder theresponsibility of safe move-ment of millions of passengersdaily. The East Coast RailwayEngineers’ Association(ECoREA) and the AIREF haveconveyed thanks to all the MPsin this regard. AIREF presidentSanjib Kumar said that morethan 100 MPs and Ministershave already recommended thedemands to the RailwayMinistry to strengthen the safe-ty of railways. The ECoREApresident said that earlier for-mer MP Rudra Pani (BJP) andpresent MPs Nagendra KumarPradhan & Baisnab CharanParida (both BJD) of Odishahad raised issues of railwayengineers in the Parliament.

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He is a people- friendly administrator,a fiction writer, an organizer and a

Good Samaritan. Meet this multi-facetphysically disabled OAS officer Dr BirajaPrasad Routray (42), who is now officiat-ing as the Deputy Collector in theKendrapada Collectorate.

His passion is literature and he hasmade some contribution to the Odia lit-erature for sure, thanks to his vision andflair for writing. Though, he is a disabledperson but he has overcome the hardshipand has been working for the socio-eco-nomic upliftment of the disabled personsby providing artificial limbs to them freeof cost.

Routray as the Deputy Collector inKendrapada Collectorate has won acco-lades and admirations from all strata of lifeacross the State. He has lent support to thedisabled persons by forming Punarbash-an organization for the rehabilitation ofphysically challenged persons.

The young and talented officer, DrRoutray was a normal human being till2006 . But he became physically disabledafter he met a fatal road mishap in 2006.Yet he did not lose his heart for being dis-abled and is leading a life with wheelchair with spinal injury and neckdown

paralysis. Rather, he vowed to make hispresence felt in the society by movingahead against all odds and worked for thecause of the disabled persons.

“When I was undergoing treatmentat Olatpur, I decided to end my life as I

did not want to live a life getting sym-pathy from others. But I came across thesufferings of a series of disabled persons.It gives me an inspiration and ray of hopeto live and also to work for the disabledpersons,” said Routray, while talking tothis paper.

He later started the Punarbasa at hisvillage in Madhapur. He provided freephysiotherapy, artificial limbs and sup-portive aids distribution camps. Nearly,100 disabled persons have got the muchneeded succour from his organisation. Healso organises specially speech and hear-ing camps, mentally retarded and cere-bral palsy free camps at his organisationin regular intervals with the contributionof his near and dear ones and also fromown money.

Dr Routray has written over fiveshort story books ( Gahali Arapate ,Bahubachan, Pratipakshya Ra Hasa,Bisam Bahu, Purna O Sunya) , four poet-ry collections ( Kemiti Bhijaye Barsa ,Attama Darsan , Sandhikal and AbhisekaHrudayara) , along with one essay book (Smruti O Bismruti). His poems have beentranslated into Bengali.

He always depicts characters from theday- to- day society and tries to reflect thechallenges and problems that the humanbeings face in the present society, saidRoutray’s wife Banasmita Nayak, a great fanof her husband’s creative skill.

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After the release of 20 percent of sanctioned grant by

the Center under the AMRUTCity Scheme, the districtadministration has geared upthe process to expedite variousdevelopment works here.

The Center has approvedRs 463 crore for Odisha under“Atal Mission for Rejuvenationand Urban Transformation”(AMRUT) scheme and thefund, allocated for 2015-16, willhave to be spent in the nextthree years. The scheme wouldcover Berhampur MunicipalCorporation (BMC) along witheight other urban areas -Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Puri,Rourkela, Sambalpur, Bhadrak,Baleswar and Baripada in theState, sources said.

According to informationavailable, the BMC has decid-ed to spend �58.11 crore for thepurpose of constructing andrenovating parks, upgradingthe existing water supplyscheme and executing solid

waste management project tomake Brahmapur pollution-free.

According to the terms ofthe release, the CentralGovernment will release thesecond installment in favor ofthe State Government onlyafter the first installment isspent and the utilisation cer-tificate (UC) is submitted to theCenter, sources said.

The BMC will finalize therelevant DPR for constructionand renovation of four parksand four water supply schemesby March 25. The StateGovernment has reportedlyrequested the Consultant of theEngineers India Limited (EIL)duly approved by the CentralGovernment to expedite thepreparation of DPR for the pro-jects. After the preparation ofDPR, tender papers will becalled for, BMC sources said.

The district administra-tion has decided to spend�54.75 crore for water supplyschemes, followed by �27 lakhfor renovation and upgradationof Biju Pattnaik Park located in

Corporation Road, �26 lakh fordevelopment of PriyadarshaniPark, �28 lakh for renovationand development of the bound-ary of Dhoba bandh (tank), �17lakh for establishment of apark in Baikunthanagar and�2.38 crore for solid wastemanagement plant.

Senior Manager of theEngineers India Limited (EIL)Rajnish Agarwal has beenappointed as the advisor of theBMC to render technical adviceand monitor the schemes,sources said.

According to informationavailable, nearly 87 per cent ofthe total amount of funds willbe utilized for improvement ofwater supply system in thenine urban areas. The BMCwill convene a special meetingof its Corporators to discuss thedetailed plan and strategy toexpedite the projects.Meanwhile, senior citizens ofthe city have demanded theauthorities to first removethousands truckloads of solidwaste, garbage and dust lyingon road sides of the civic body.

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Cuttack: The Odisha SurakhyaSena (OSS) on Tuesdaylaunched a postcard campaignfrom Cuttack for return of theKohinoor diamond from theBritish Government. Led byOSS convener Rama ChandraBarik, its members began thedrive from the GopabanhuPark square.

The campaign would beheld all over the State in com-ing two months, Barikinformed. About 50,000 post-cards would be signed andsent to the Prime Minister, headded. The Kohinoor Hira isthe property of Shree Jagannathand it is now with the BritishGovernment, said Barik.Maharaja Ranjeet Singh hadkept the diamond with himfirst, he informed. According toDharmasastra, the real ownerof the diamond is ShreeJagannath.

OSS president AbhishekJoshi submitted a memoran-dum to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi in this regard.

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Aherd of over 30 elephantsblocked the Athagarh-

Mundali road near theDalakhai temple for about twohours on Tuesdayafternoonbrining vehicular movement toa standstill.

The pachyderms came outof the Chandaka Forest cross-ing the waterway of theMahanadi river nearKandarpur in quest of food and

water. After an hour-long ser-vice by elephant trackers of thearea, the animals went into theSukasan Reserve Forest.

As different industries havebeen developed in the ele-phant corridor area, the pachy-derms use highways for theirpassing at several times.However, the peasants of thearea are worried a lot for thepresence of these elephants asthey can damage their cropsand other farm produces.

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As many as thirteen stu-dents of an Upper Primary

School in Sundargarh districtwere beaten with stick by ajunior woman teacher onMonday. Three students havesustained severe injury withstick marks found on theirbacks and arms. On a tip-off, theBlock Education Officer (BEO)on Tuesday conducted aninquiry.

The incident occurred atthe Kantabahal Project UpperPrimary School at Kantabahalunder Balishankara block. OnMonday morning, when thestudents of Class VI and ClassVII appearing an examinationfailed to submit their answer

scripts on time, invigilatorSanjukta Kujur, a resident ofSabdega, working as invigilator,lost her temper and startedbeating the defaulters merci-lessly with a stick.

Kujur was in a hurry to goto her home and therefore shehad asked students to submittheir papers without delay.ABEO Benumadhav Bishirushed to the school and triedto pacify the parents who weretense and demanded actionagainst the errant teacher.

Later, the aggrieved parentslodged a complaint against theteacher at Bandega police sta-tion. On Tuesday, BEO ofBalishnakara blockDinabandhu Naik went tothe school.”I conducted aninquiry and will convey to theDEO and the DPC about myfindings for action again Kujur,”said BEO Naik.

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In a horrific incident, thecity police on Tuesday

retrieved the half-burnt bodiesof a woman and her two-year-old son from a locked room oftheir rented house at Tinighariaunder the Madhupatna policestation. The woman was iden-tified as one Meenakshi Dalai(28), who was staying with herhusband ever since their mar-riage four years ago.

Detaining the woman’shusband Laxman Dalai (30) ofPuri district, the police beganinvestigation into the case. “Weare waiting for the postmortemreport and the report of the sci-entific team,” informed localpolice inspector JK Dalai,adding that the father of thedeceased woman has made awritten complaint alleging thather daughter was tortured byher in-laws for dowry.

Neighbours pointed outthat the couple was initiallyleading a peaceful life, buttrouble began when each of thespouses’ parents started com-ing here. “Of late, the couplewas seen quarrelling with eachother over petty issues leadingto marital discord,” neighbourssaid. Even Meenakshi onTuesday morning hadinformed her mother over tele-phone that she was going toend her life.

Police, however, are inves-tigating the case from everyangle and yet to establishwhether it was a case of homi-cide or suicide.

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The BJD MPs on Tuesdaycreated uproar in the Rajya

Sabha opposing FinanceMinister Arun Jaitley’s state-ment that Andhra Pradesh’sPolavaram irrigation projectwould get required financialassistance for constructionwork from the Centre throughfunding by the NABARD.

The MPs didn’t allow theMinister to finish his statementduring the Question Hour.

The MPs wondered thatwhen the Union WaterResources Minister had agreedto a tripartite discussion amongGovernments of Odisha,Andhra Pradesh and theCentre two months ago, thenhow the Centre decided tofund the project.

Later a delegation of theparty MPs met Jaitley.

“We met the Finance

Minister and requested him toconvene a high level meetingamong officials of Chhatisgarh,Andhra Pradesh and Odisha tosolve the issues pertaining tothe project. Jailtley has agreedto this,” said AU Singhdeo.

In December last year, theCentre had said it had releasedfunds to the tune of �345 croreto Andhra PradeshGovernment for the construc-tion of the project.

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The Vigilance sleuths onTuesday Bargarh RWSS

Project Coordinator SaratPanigrahi for demanding andaccepting bribe of �7,000 fromRadhakanta Sahu ofCherengamunda villager underthe Bijepur police station toprocess his file for release of�87,000 towards project cost ofseven latrines.

Sahu had earlier allegedthat he had constructed sevenlatrines under the IHHCScheme. He had to get �84,000.When he requested Panigrahiand Dipti Ranjan Pradhan,District Level Consultant,Sanitation and Hygine for pro-cessing the file, they demand-ed �7,000.

Accordingly, Vigilance

sleuths laid a trap and caughtPanigrahi red-handed taking�7,000 from Sahu. The bribemoney of �7,000 along withthree envelopes having Rs43,500 were recovered fromthe possession Panigrahi.Pradhan was on leave on thedate of trap.

In another case, Vigilanceofficers arrested Khordha dis-trict’s Siko ARI KailashChandra Behera taking bribeof �5,000 from Kanhei Paridaof Godikila village under theJankia police station for cor-rection of ROR in his favour.

The officers laid a trap asper the complaint of Paridaand caught the ARI red-hand-ed taking bribe from him.

Investigations were inprogress in both the cases, anofficial release informed.

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Brahmapur: ASI SurendraPadhiari of the Special Energypolice station at Chhatrapur inGanjam district was arrested byVigilance officials on Tuesdayfor demanding and acceptingbribe of �35,000 from oneNarayana Pradhan of Kanakavillage in the district.

The complainant allegedthat he was manufacturingbricks near his house and forthe purpose, he had taken ille-gal electric connection.

On February 17, ASIPadhiari along with his staffhad conducted a raid and laterregistered a case againstPradhan. Later, the ASI calledthe complainant and demand-ed bribe to influence IIC In-charge BP Patra of the policestation to submit a final reportin the case.

Later, a trap was laid andPadhiari was caught red-hand-ed by a vigilance team. The res-idential house of the accused isbeing searched. PNS

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Opposition Congress onTuesday said it would raise

breakdown of law and order,irregularity in NFSA rationcards distribution and farmersuicide cases in the ongoingBudget Session of the Assemblyto take on the Government.

“Many issues are there totake on the State Government.We will raise law and order,ration card and farmer suicideissues in the Assembly,”Opposit ion Chief WhipTaraprasad Bahinipati toldreporters after the CongressLegislature Party meetingheld in the Assembly premises.

The CLP meeting waspresided over by Leader ofOpposit ion NarasinghaMishra and attended by its allMLAs, including Naba Das.

Bahinpati said his party

would raise the issue ofSanakhemundi MLA RameshJena, who, he said, has beenarrested in fake cases.Similarly, the party wouldwant to know why no actionhas been taken against theBJD MLAs who have linkswith notorious Dhalsamantbrothers, Sushant and Sushil.

“All the BJD leaders rang-ing from ward members tocity Corporators and Mayorshave grabbed the NFSA rationcards while common peoplehave been deprived of. Wewill raise this issue,” saidBahinipati.

He said many farmer sui-cides have committed sui-cide as the Government hasfailed to provide them duesupport. Besides, drinkingwater problem has been acutein many parts of the State. Allthese issues would be raisedon behalf of his party, he said.

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The DAV School of BusinessManagement (DSBM)

organised a seminar on‘Reimagining India-A Journeytowards Superpower’ here onTuesday.

Four groups of studentspresented papers on variousaspects of agriculture, defence,education and entrepreneur-ship as carriers for the devel-opment of India.

Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan,Bhubaneswar chairmanBasanta Mahapatra opined said,“Failure is not what we lost, itis what we learnt. The growthof the nation depends on thetechnological excellence andthe common people who arethe backbone of the country.”

The Samaja CCO SureshChandra Mantry appreciat-

ed the students’ in-depthknowledge and efforts formaking such presentationsand explained that necessi-ty is the mother of inven-tion. “Until and unless weunderstand India, its cus-toms, religions, ethics, wecannot re-imagine India,”

he added.DSBM president Madan

Mohan Panda opined thatsuperpower does not reflectmi l i t ar y emp ower mentrather India should alsouphold its culture, traditionand values. DSBM PrincipalDr DN Mishra also spoke.

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The Commissionerate Policehas sent two teams outside

the State to nab 10 hardcorecriminals who were the asso-ciates of dreaded arrested crim-inal brothers, Sushant andSushil Dhalsamnat.

So far, 19 associates of thegangster siblings were arrested.

Cuttack DCP SanjeevArora said during investigationand interrogation of the 19arrested criminals it wasrevealed that several otherassociates have gone under-ground.

Of these absconding asso-

ciates, there are 10 hardcorecriminals, the DCP added. Hesaid they have fled to neigh-bouring States.

“As they have been fre-quently changing their addresswe have planned a specialstrategy to catch them andhave sent two teams for thepurpose,” said the DCP.

Meanwhile, a delegationof Students Congress, led byManoj Biswal, submitted amemorandum toCommissioner of Police YBKhurania in Bhubaneswardemanding investigation intothe alleged link of Biju ChhatraJanata Dal (BCJD) presidentand MLA Byomakesh Ray andgeneral secretary SambitBehera with the Dhalasamantbrothers.

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The Lok Sabha witnessedunruly scenes on Tuesday

as Trinamool Congress (TMC)and Left party MPs hurledinvectives at each other over the sting operation by anews portal in which severalTMC parliamentarians werecaught on tape purportedlyaccepting bribes.

The party faced a similarsituation in Kolkata asOpposition parties, includingthe Left and BJP upped the anteagainst the ruling TMCdemanding a CBI enquiry andresignation of Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee. The BJP alsoheld a huge rally in Kolkata andmany of its members courtedarrest while staging a blockade.

In the LS, MPs of the twosides called each other "chor(thief)" as the Governmentadvocated an enquiry into theissue to ensure that "truth pre-vails" in the alleged charges.Speaker Sumitra Mahajan laterexpunged the un-parliamentaryexchanges between the MPs.

The alleged sting also fig-ured in Rajya Sabha with CPMmembers vociferouslydemanding a parliamentaryprobe. As they came into theaisles of the House raising adin, TMC protested againstthem. BJP MP Chandan Mitraalso raised the issue.

Deputy Chairman PJKurien refused to let CPMmembers Tapan Sen and

Ritabrata Banerjee raise theissue and said he could notallow a discussion based onallegations even as SitaramYechury insisted on it.

Meanwhile, addressing themedia in Kolkata, ChiefElection Commissioner NasimZaidi said the poll panel wouldexamine the sting video.

"We have received repre-sentation (video) from politi-cal parties... we will get itexamined. We will pass it on torelevant authorities," said Zaidi.

In the Lok Sabha, Mahajanallowed the issue to be raisedafter Question Hour with theBJP, Congress and Left target-ing the TMC, even as MamataBanerjee's party claimed thatthe charges were a politicalconspiracy ahead of the WestBengal polls. As an agitated

Mohammed Salim (CPM)raised the issue he was followedby BJP's SS Ahluwalia andAdhir Ranjan Chowdhury(Congress) who slammed theTMC and sought a probe.

Referring to the telecast ofthe sting purportedly showingseveral TMC leaders acceptingmoney to help a fictitious privatefirm, they demanded actionand recalled that Parliamenthad expelled 11 members facingsimilar charges in 2005-06.

Responding to the mem-bers, Parliamentary AffairsMinister M Venkaiah Naidusaid, "The prestige ofParliament is at stake. We haveto establish the truth. Simplysaying it is a conspiracy is notenough and will not satisfy thepublic. Either the Governmentcan conduct an enquiry or the

Speaker can order a probe."TMC members sat silently formost of the time as Salim,Ahluwalia and Adhir RanjanChowdhury attacked them, butangry exchange of words tookplace when Saugata Roy, one ofthe MPs allegedly shown in thesting, put up his party's defence.

As Salim and Saugata Roy(TMC) got into a heatedexchange, Roy wondered underwhat rule Sumitra Mahajanallowed members to raise theissue. He said in anguish, "I hadto live to see this day! It (sting)is part of political conspiracybefore the West Bengal elec-tions where CPI(M), Congressand BJP are destined to lose."

"We are ashamed that weare sitting with such people.They should drown in shame.The dignity of Parliament hasbeen compromised by theirconduct," Salim said, demand-ing that a committee be formedto probe the charges.

"It is an embarrassment forour Parliament and democra-tic system. Five MPs have beenshown accepting wads ofmoney. The matter must bereferred to the ethics commit-tee," Ahluwalia.

"This is related to the dig-nity of the House. They havebeen caught. It must beprobed," Chowdhury said.

In Kolkata, Oppositionparties bayed for the ChiefMinister's blood.

"This is an unprecedentedsituation and elections cannot

be held like this. So we willdemand President's Rule andappeal for postponement of theelections" State OppositionLeader Suryakanta Mishra said.

Participants at the BJP rallyled by its observer in BengalKailash Vijayvargiya broke bar-ricades and staged a dharna atRaj Bhavan. Subsequently thepolice resorted to a lathi-chargeand many of the protesters werearrested. The saffron outfitsubmitted a memorandum toGovernor KN Tripathi.

Meanwhile, Mamatathreatened to settle scores withthose who "conspired againsther" at an opportune momentand dared the Opposition toremove her from power "withall their nefarious designs tomalign me" in the comingBengal Assembly elections.

Though Mamata put abrave face, a section of herparty MPs disapproved of thestrategy of counter-attack asthis would project the TMC asa facilitator of corruption.

Sources said Sugato Boseand Dinesh Trivedi expressedreservations in the parliamen-tary party meeting in Delhiwondering whether defendingthe corrupt would further soilthe party's image as it wasalready sullied by the chit fundscam.

Instead they proposed thatthe party should demand aprobe into the incident and dis-tance itself from any corruptpractices of its members.

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Thousands of Indians in theUK may get hit by a new

law from next month underwhich they could be deportedif their annual salary is below35,000 pounds.

The changes will affect pro-fessionals living and working inBritain on a Tier-2 visa whoearn less than 35,000 pounds ayear at the end of five years oftheir stay in the country.

"The UK Governmentchanged the settlement rules in2012 to break the link betweencoming to work in the UK andstaying here permanently. Wewere clear that the new ruleswould apply to migrants who

entered Tier-2 from April 6,2011. Those individuals wereaware when they entered thatnew settlement rules wouldapply to them," a Home Officestatement said.

Indian professionals haveformed the largest category ofindividuals issued such visasover the years. According to theUK's Office of NationalStatistics (ONS), of the 55,589Tier-2 sponsored visa applica-tions cleared in 2014-2015,nearly 78 per cent were forIndians (31,058).

The exact figure of thoseaffected by the salary thresholdrequirements remains uncertainbut it is estimated to be between30,000 and 40,000 workers.

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India has allowed only twoout of seven Delhi-based

Pakistani diplomats for travel toKolkata for the World T-20cricket match betweenPakistan-Bangladesh to beplayed at the Eden Gardens onMarch 16. However, sourcessaid those five denied permis-sion is because they have either‘ISI’ or ‘Defence’ links andcannot be allowed to travel toother cities of India.

Pakistan has termed denialof travel permission to its diplo-mats as “unfortunate”. Sourcesin Pakistan High Commissionsaid their Government hastaken this up with the IndianDeputy High Commissionerin Islamabad and conveyedthat stopping Pak diplomats toattend sporting events is “bothdisturbing and discouraging”for the India-Pak relations.

Both India and Pakistanissue city specific visas to theirdiplomats and none from theeither side are allowed to step outof the city until they are givenpermissions. This applies foreven journalists and other offi-cials posted in both countries.

However, time specific travelpermits are given by both sidesin special cases to allow diplo-mats visit other cities to attendconferences or meetings.

“Ministry of ExternalAffairs of India refused per-mission to Pakistani diplomatswho were visiting Kolkata toencourage the Pakistan crick-et team. It is unfortunate, unfairand disturbing that Indiadespite being the host of sucha big event like the World Cupis refusing to fulfill its obliga-tions as a host and creatinghurdles besides dampeningpositive mood,” a source in Pakembassy said. He further addedthat this will send a wrong mes-sage that diplomacy has decid-ed not to work together.

However, Indian sourcesmade it clear that two persons— one counselor and his wife— have been given clearance totravel to Kolkata for thePakistan—Bangladesh cricketmatch, but five will not be given

permission as they have ISI anddefence links and they cannottake chance with the security ofthe country.

“Since all flights and hotelsin Kolkata are overbooked, wehad sought permission days inadvance. In fact, we had a verygood meeting with MEA offi-cials, where we gave them acomprehensive plan about ourdiplomats travelling to thecities where Pak team is play-ing. But now the positive spir-it and goodwill generated overthe last few days has dimin-ished. We are also forced to payheavy cancellation charges forhotels and flights,” an official inPak High Commission toldThe Pioneer.

The embassy officials noware worried if the travel per-mission to Pak HighCommissioner Abdul Basit willcome in time. Basit is scheduledto travel to Kolkata on Thursdaywhere he plans to host a recep-tion for the Pak team.

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The Supreme Court’s grandplan to introduce a

National Court of Appeal toreduce pendency failed to getsupport from the Centre.

Appearing before a benchheaded by Chief Justice TSThakur, Attorney GeneralMukul Rohatgi informed thecourt that setting up aNational Court of Appeal(NCA) will not be possible nordesirable and to curb pen-dency, judges of the apex courtmust exercise restraint toentertain appeals arising fromHigh Courts.

The need for NCA wasraised in a PIL filed by alawyer V Vasanthkumar whoalleged that Supreme Courtwas failing to meet the aspira-tions of speedy justice of citi-

zens who have to wait foryears to get a hearing for theircases. In addition, it evenargued that access to justice ofcitizens was affected sincemost litigation of SupremeCourt was arising from mattersdecided by High Courts situ-ated near the Supreme Courtand only 2 per cent cases

arrived from distant placeslike Kerala.

The bench, also compris-ing Justice UU Lalit, however,decided to go ahead with thehearing of the case as the twoamicus curiae appointed byCourt — senior advocates KKVenugopal and SalmanKhurshid, supported the movefor establishing a NCA. TheCourt asked the A-G,Venugopal and Khurshid tosubmit propositions onwhether creation of NCA willdilute the power of SupremeCourts or alter basic structureof Constitution as it seeks tomodify Article 136 (power ofSC to grant special leave toappeal), held to be non-amendable by past SC judg-ments. The Court gave partiestime till April 4 to file writtensubmissions.

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Shimla may soon get air con-nectivity after the Centre

told Supreme Court onTuesday that it was open toamend the existing RouteDispensation Guidelines underwhich Shimla could be includ-ed as a mandatory route forrunning scheduled flights con-necting major cities.

The bench of Chief JusticeTS Thakur and Justice UU Lalitallowed the Centre three weeksto amend the policy and getback with a solution to ensurecitizens get to visit the popularhill station Shimla with ease.

Explaining why Shimla air-port has failed to attract trafficfrom scheduled airlines,Additional Solicitor General(ASG) PS Patwalia said thatunder the route dispensationguidelines (RPG) an airline issupposed to flow maximum

traffic on lucrative destina-tions involving metropolitancities. In addition, they have tomandatorily run flights con-necting J&K, Andaman andNicobar, North East andLakshadweep. The last catego-ry of routes comprises rest ofindia routes on which the air-line operators have to allocate10 per cent.

The bench told Patwalia toinclude Shimla under Category2 so that airline companies areobliged to run planes on thisroute. “If you put it in the pol-icy, we will ensure they complywith it or else we can cancelsome lucrative Mumbairoutes,” said the bench. Thebench even directed CivilAviation Ministry to file an affi-davit giving an account onwhether the RPG is beingstrictly implemented by airlineoperators. The matter has beenposted for hearing on April 12.

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Just a few days before HealthMinistry’s April 1 deadline

for implementing the 85 percent pictorial warning ontobacco products, a parlia-mentary panel on Wednesdaytermed the move as “too harsh”and recommended a drasticreduction in size, evokingsharp criticism from MPs andhealth experts.

Dilip Gandhi, Chairman ofthe Committee on SubordinateLegislations justified the rec-ommendations, saying the sizeof the warnings have beenurged to be increased frompresent 40 to 50 per cent.

Expressing “disappoint-ment” over the recommenda-tions, MPs said more thanone million people in India dieevery year, most of whom donot have health insurance fortreatment of cancer.

“The committee is of theconsidered view that in orderto have a balanced approach,the warning on cigarette pack-ets should be 50 per cent onboth sides of the principal dis-play area instead of 85 per centof the principal display area...

“... As it will be too harshas deliberated in the earlierparas, will result in flooding ofillicit cigarettes in the country,”the committee said in its reportwhich was tabled in the LokSabha on Wednesday.

The committee also dis-missed issues related to conflictof interest due to presence ofbeedi baron Shyama CharanGupta in the panel and said hewas not present in any of themeetings on tobacco.

It observed that the pro-posed graphic health warningshave the potential of “severe-ly” affecting the Indian farm-ers and will encourage illicittobacco products trade.

In case of beedi as well, the

committee has recommendedthat a “practical” approachmay be adopted by increasingthe size of warning up to 50 percent on one side of the beedipack, chewing tobacco andother tobacco products name-ly zarda, khaini, misri andothers which will be “feasible”to follow.

“Reduction of the pictor-ial warning from 85 per centto 50 per cent, if this is cor-rect, then I am disappointed.One million Indians die everyyear. Most of these people arepoor Indians who do nothave health insurance to covercancer and other problemsfrom tobacco,” BJD MP JayPanda said.

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Several Opposition partiesincluding JD(U), SP and

BSP on Tuesday expressed con-cern in the Rajya Sabha overreports of generation of blackmoney by terming it as agri-culture income to avoid payingincome tax and said public per-ception was being formed totax farmers. The Governmentsaid there was no proposal totax farmers’ income and probewas on against prominent peo-ple who were exploiting it.

Raising the issue duringZero Hour, JD-U leader SharadYadav said some televisionchannels were showing reportsthat more than �two lakh crorewas generated as black moneyby showing it as agricultureincome. It is exempted fromincome tax.

Mayawati (BSP) demand-ed a high-level probe into it andstrict action against the guilty.She also used the occasion toslip in a demand for BharatRatna for her party founderKanshi Ram on his birthanniversary on Tuesday. RamGopal Yadav (SP) saw a con-spiracy of taxing agricultureincome in reports that hugeblack money was being hidden

as agricultural income. Hewarned the Governmentagainst taxing farm income.

Allaying their apprehen-sions, Leader of the House andFinance Minister Arun Jaitleysaid there was no proposal toimpose income tax on farmers.However, some people wereexploiting it and probe was onto bring them to book, he said.Elaborating upon it, Jaitleysaid many prominent peoplewere under the scanner forallegedly concealing taxableincome as agricultural earn-ings and told the Oppositionnot to brand it as political vic-timisation.

He however refused toshare details, despite theOpposition members seekingthe names of such persons.Charging Jaitley with mislead-ing the House, DigvijayaSingh(Cong) asked the FinanceMinister to reveal the namesand “not threaten us.”

Unsatisfied by Jaitley’sreply, members were up ontheir feet continuing to raise thematter.

Deputy Chairman PJKurien said the FinanceMinister had given a properreply to issue raised by SharadYadav.

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The Government on Tuesdayinformed Lok Sabha that it

would work in a “missionmode” to counter Naxalismand maintained that there wasa substantial reduction in therate of casualties of civiliansand security personnel in theNaxal affected States.

Stating this in the House,the Union Home MinisterRajnath Singh said a multi-pronged strategy being imple-mented by the Centre is miti-gating the problem in andmaximum possible assistance isbeing provided to the affectedStates.

Minister of State for Home

Affairs Haribhai ParathibhaiChaudhary Who reeled offdata on the infrastructuredevelopment in the Naxalimpacted areas during thequestion hour said theGovernment would work in a

“mission mode” to address theproblem and end naxalism.

Affirming that theGovernment strategy hasshowed positive results,Rajnath said the number ofdeaths of civilians and securi-ty personnel due to naxal andmaoist activities came downlast year to 226 compared to1,005 in 2010.

In 2015, 168 civilians and58 security personnel werekilled whereas 720 civiliansand 285 security personneldied in 2010, Home Ministersaid. There were 2,230 inci-dents related to naxals andMaoists in 2010, he said.

“According to reports, LeftWing Extremists groups, par-ticularly the CPI (Maoist),reportedly resort to extortionfrom industrialists, business-men and contractors,”Chaudhary said.

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After business tycoonVijay Mallya denied giv-

ing any interview to TheSunday Guardian in whichhe is believed to have said“the time is not right for hisreturn to India”, the news-paper countered his claim byreleasing the email trail lead-ing to the interview.

The Sunday Guardiansaid it stands by the inter-view it published online onMarch 12, in which it report-edly spoke to Mallya whohas fled the country in thewake of the probe by differ-ent agencies relating to baddebts he accrued.

In the interview, Mallyasaid that while he is “anIndian to the core” and want-ed to return to the country,he was hesitant and did notfeel that “the time is right”.The email trail also claims toshow Mallya urging the jour-nalist not to “twist” his wordsto “suit any narrative”.

On March 14, Mallyatook to Twitter to dismiss theinterview published by thenewspaper. He said that hehad not given a statement toanyone and claimed not tohave heard of “protonmail”,the encrypted email serverthat the Sunday Guardianclaimed Mallya sent hisemail from.

On Twitter, Mallya said,“Shocked to see SundayGuardian’s claim that Iexchanged mails with themfrom my protonmail account.Have never heard of proton-mail before. I have not givenany statement to anyone.”

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Prime Minister NarendraModi will inaugurate World

Sufi Forum on Thursday. Thefour-day long event is organisedby All India Ulama andMashaikh Board (AIUMB), theapex body of Sufi Dargahs inIndia. More than 200 Indianand International delegates,including Sufi Shuyukh, spiri-tual leaders, scholars, acade-micians and masters of Sufism, are participating at the World Sufi Forum.

The meeting is expected to debate on how Sufi teaching canprevent global terrorism. The conclave will also debate on howto guide the Muslim community away from sectarian division.The organisers also said the debate on role of women in Islamwill also conducted in the international conference.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is also the chief guestin the event. The Sufi Conference is expected to come out witha declaration against extremism and Wahabism in the last dayof the event to be convened in the Ramlila Maidan.

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Disabled employees workingwith the Central Gove-

rnment may soon get motorisedwheelchairs and other helpingdevices. The Department ofPersonnel and Training (DoPT)has started a scheme for pro-viding facilities to the employeeswith disabilities. However, thescheme is initially being startedfor those working in the DoPT.

As per the scheme fromnext month persons with dis-abilities will get wheelchairs(motorised), special furniture,hearing aids with battery, lowvision aids, smart cane andspecial software or computer.Besides, there will be braillesignage near lift area, toiletsand canteens, and provision ofbeep sound in biometric atten-dance system.

The objective of the

scheme is to enable andempower persons with dis-abilities of the department byproviding certain additionalfacilities to help them dis-charge their duties more con-veniently and effectively, anorder issued by the DoPT said.

Employees with disabilitywould be given option to apply

for the assisting aids throughproper channel, which will beexamined on case to case basisand decided with the approvalof competent authority, theDoPT said. “After successfulimplementation of the schemein DoPT, other Governmentdepartments will also be askedto follow it,” a senior official said.

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Parliament on Tuesdaypassed Real Estate Bill after

Lok Sabha gave the nod. TheReal Estate (Regulation andDevelopment) Bill, 2013,approved by Lok Sabha, fivedays after its passage by RajyaSabha, is designed to protectconsumer interest, ensure effi-ciency in all property-relatedtransactions, improve account-ability of developers, boosttransparency and attract moreinvestments to the sector, theGovernment said.

It provides for setting up ofa Real Estate RegulatoryAuthorities (RERAs) which willensure timely execution of pro-jects. The RERAs will regulatetransactions related to both res-idential and commercial pro-jects and ensure their timelycompletion and handover. Theproposed law makes it manda-tory for all residential and com-mercial projects to register withthe Regulator and will apply tonew and ongoing projects.

Appellate Tribunals willnow be required to adjudicatecases in 60 days as against theearlier provision of 90 days andRegulatory Authorities willhave to dispose of complaintsin 60 days. In the earlier bill, notime frame was indicated. TheBill provides for imprisonmentof up to three years in case ofpromoters and up to one yearin case of real estate agents andbuyers for any violation oforders of Appellate Tribunals ormonetary penalties or both.

Replying to debate on thebill, Urban DevelopmentMinister M Venkaiah Naidusaid the Bill envisages that“What you are committing,what you are promising, pleasefulfill. What you are promisingthrough advertisements, pleasefulfill that. That is the purposeof this Bill.”

Naidu also sought cooper-ation from the states for fasterclearances to projects to makethis Bill, which will override all

State legislations, a success.“We are trying to make thebeautiful advertisements givenby developers in front page ofnewspapers dutyful. Our ulti-mate intension is to ensure con-sumer satisfaction. Once theBill is notified, you will getmore investments in the realestate sector, early clearancesand property prices will comedown,” he said.

Naidu said the mandatoryregistration for projects hasbeen brought down to 500 sq marea, or those comprising eightflats, from 4,000 sq mt proposedin the previous version of UPAGovernment. It provides for aclear definition of carpet areaand a system that would requirethe consent of two-thirds of thebuyers in case there are changesin project plans.

Naidu said Parliament is notinterfering in the process of buy-ing or selling of a property andinstead is ensuring customersatisfaction. “If the buildershave any problem, I can meetthem any time. Whatever diffi-culties they face, we are willingto discuss,” he said.

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In a setback to senior Gujaratcadre IPS officer Satish

Verma, a special CBI court inAhmedabad has rejected hisapplication seeking supple-mentary charge-sheet of IshratJahan encounter case.

Verma had filed an appli-cation for certified copy of thecharge sheet that was sent to thecourt concerned which sent itback. The court rejected hisapplication onthe ground thatit had not takencognisance ofthis chargesheet. In view ofinitiating legalaction againstthe accusednamed in thecharge-sheet,the IPS officer moved to thecourt. He is also a member ofSpecial Investigation Team(SIT) formed for the investiga-tion of the Ishrat Jahan andthree others' encounter.

Citing the reason for rejec-tion the court stated that thecharge sheet had not come onits record and being a thirdparty in the case, the applicant(Verma) could not seek for thecopy of the charge sheet.

In the second charge sheetfiled by the CBI, names of fourIntelligence Bureau (IB) officialsincluding Rajinder Kumar weregiven. Kumar and three otherswere charged with murder andcriminal conspiracy, and pro-ceedings against them are pend-ing before the CBI court.

In the first charge sheetfiled by CBI, they had namedseven Gujarat police officers asaccused, including IPS officersP P Pandey, D G Vanzara andG L Singhal.

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The election teams in differentdistricts of Assam have

seized a total of �60.34 lakh sofar since the enforcement ofmodel code of conduct.

Additional Chief Electoralofficer, Assam, Nitin Khade saidthis on Tuesday while addingthat 23,323 out of the total32,237 legal arms have so farbeen deposited to the concernedauthorities by the concernedowners in different places.

“A total of �60,34,000 havebeen recovered by the surveil-lance teams in different parts ofthe State till last night. The bear-ers of the money failed to pro-vide any valid documentsagainst the transaction of theamounts and those have beenseized under violation of modelcode of conduct in the pollbound State,” Khade said.“Besides, we have seized 57 ille-gal arms and 172 rounds ofammunition from differentareas of the state during inten-sified operations by the policeand other securityforces,”Khade said while addingthat a total of 1,479 non-bailablewarrants have so far been exe-cuted since imposition of themodel code of conduct.

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Stage was set for the openingof the ‘India Aviation 2016’,

the f ive-day prestigiousInternational Exhibition andConference on civil Aviation.President Pranab Mukherjeewill be formally inauguratingthe country’s biggest show ofits kind at Begumpet Airporton Wednesday.

With India emerging asone of the world’s biggest avi-ation markets and number ofair travellers from the countryburgeoning several top airlinesand aircraft manufacturersfrom across the world will beparticipating in the event.

Emirates, Qatar Airwaysand Etihad will be among theairlines of the Gulf region toparticipate in the event wherethe first three days will beopen for the business andcorporate activities and onthe last two days general pub-

lic will be allowed to visit theexhibition of the assortment ofthe big and small aircrafts.

This is the fifth edition ofthe biennial event in which250 exhibitors and 30 air-crafts are participating. Widebody twin aisle Airbus A350which was recently launchedwill dominate the Tarmac andthe skies during show. Thiswill be a maiden trip of the air-craft to India courtesy Dohabased Qatar airways, thelaunch customer of the aircraft.

Qatar Airways GroupChief Executive Akbar AlBaker said that his organisa-tion was proud to showcase itsA350 for the first time inIndia. He exuded confidence

that the event will benefit thecivil aviation industry as awhole.

"India, as one of theworld's largest aviation mar-kets, continues to commandrespect. The focus this year ongrowing the manufacturingand maintenance, repair andoverhaul businesses in India iscommendable", he said.

Another major airlinefrom the Gulf, Abu Dhabibased Etihad Airways has alsobrought its proud possession,a Boeing 787-9 passenger jetand Boeing 777 FighterAircraft for static display dur-ing the show.

Earlier Air Bus A380 hadalso made its Indian debut atHyderabad Air Show in2008.

Aerobatic flying displayby world famous performerMark Jefferies and his teamwill be highlight of the inau-gural event.

The team will put up itsbreathtaking aerobatics twiceevery day during the event.

Interestingly the aerobat-ic performance during theHyderabad Air Show was dis-continued after an aircraftcrashed killing the pilot four

years ago. Mainly organised by the

Ministry for Civil Aviationand Federation of IndianChambers of Commerce andIndustry the event hasTelangana as the host State andtwo airlines as partners.

United States and Canadawere the partner companiesand delegations from morethan 25 countries like France,Jamaica, Mauritius, Belgium,Germany, New Zealand, SouthKorea, Greece and Singaporeare participating in the show.

Boeing, Airbus, Textron,Embraer, Gulfstream, AgustaWestland, Dassault, BellHelicopters, RussianHelicopters, AirbusHelicopters and engine man-ufacturers like CFM, UTC, GEAviation and Rolls Royce willbe among the major partici-pants.

During the conference theexperts, policy makers,Government officials andindustry leaders from civilaviation sector will deliberateon the theme of “India's CivilAviation Sector potential asGlobal Manufacturing andMRI hub”.

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One of the most prestigiousbusiness schools in the

country, Indian Institute ofManagement, Ahmedabad(IIM-A) unveiled its campusinfrastructure plan for the next25 years on Tuesday withoutcompromising green cover.

The master plan includesincrease in number of domes toaccommodate more number ofstudents, new housing facilities.The IIM-A authority is plan-ning to utilise the existing landparcel and the new facilities willbe developed without replacingits original iconic building,which has heritage value.

“New buildings include anew academic block, the JindalSchool of Public Policy, apart-ments for the faculty and dor-mitories for students. Besides abrand new sports complexincluding the IIFL SwimmingPool will complement the exist-ing iconic architecture of IIM-A,” said Boby Desai, Director ofDesign at a press conference atIIM-A campus.

The IIM-A campus is oneof the few green lounges leftwithin the city, he said adding,“green cover will in fact

increase when we implementthe master plan over the peri-od of next two and halfdecades. The idea is to use theavailable space intelligently.”

Speaking at the confer-ence IIM-A director AshishNanda said that the institutehas appointed three architectsfor five new projects. Thearchitecture firms includeRMA Architect for the Schoolof Public Policy, Arcop for fac-ulty and student housing andHCP for the new academicblock and the sports complex,said Nanda.

According to him, thesefive projects are the first phaseof a multi-year plan for increas-ing the capacity and renewingthe IIM-A campus, whilemaintaining its unique char-acter.

The Jindal School of PublicPolicy will be a multi-storeystructure, including severalclassrooms and faculty offices.Rahul Mehrotra, FounderPrincipal of RMA Architectsand Chair of the Department ofUrban Planning and Design atHarvard University’s GraduateSchool of Design, will lead thedesign of the Jindal School ofPublic Policy.

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The Maharashtra Legislatureplunged into turmoil over

the arrest of former DeputyChief Minister Chhagan Bhujbalin the money laundering case,with the Opposition creatingruckus in both the Houses accus-ing the BJP-led saffron allianceGovernment of having indulgedan act of political vendettaagainst the senior NCP leader.

On a day Bhujbal’s arrestsparked protests by the NCPworkers in different parts ofMumbai and in his home dis-trict of Nashik in northMaharashtra, the OppositionCongress and NCP forced fournoisy adjournments in the StateAssembly over the NCP leader’sarrest before staging a walk-outfrom the House, while the StateLegislative Council witnessedthree adjournments over theissues. As a result, both theHouses did not transact anybusiness during the day.

Sixty-eight-year-old Bhujbal,who was arrested by the ED onMonday night after 10-hour-longquestioning in connection withtwo money laundering casesregistered against him and oth-ers, was produced before the spe-cial Prevention of MoneyLaundering Act (PMLA) court,which remanded in the agency’scustody till March 17.

As was expected, theOpposition Congress and NCPtrained their guns both outsideand inside the State Legislature.Staging protests at the entranceof Vidhan Bhavan, theOpposition legislators raised slo-gans against the BJP-led saffronalliance Government like “Nahichalegi, nahi chalegi, Dadagirinahi chalegi”, “Phule AmbedkarVicharavar gala galanya sarkar-ala dikar aso” (Down with theGovernment that indulges inattack on Phule and Ambedkarideologies) and “Aayegi AayegiHamari Bari Aayegi”.

There was a noisy backlashof Bhujbal’s arrest in both theHouses of the Legislature.Dubbing the arrest as the “pre-meditated”, senior NCP leaderJayant Patil alleged that theruling BJP had “misused” theED to frame in the moneylaundering case. Leader of theOpposition in the StateAssembly Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil of the Congress came toBhujbal’s defence, saying thatthe NCP leader’s arrest smackedof “political vendetta”.

Dismissing the Opposition’sallegation that Bhujbal’s arrest

was an act of political vendetta,Maharashtra Chief MinisterDevendra Fadnavis said thatthe ED had acted against theNCP leader on the basis of“concrete proof” and that theState Government had nothingto do with the action initiated bythe Central investigating agency.

Exhorting the Oppositionnot to make use of the StateLegislature to mount pressure onthe investigating agency,Fadnavis said that hisGovernment would not sup-port any effort to suppress theongoing investigations into themoney laundering scam beinginvestigated by the ED.

The day’s proceedingsbegan in the State Assembly ona stormy note with senior NCPleader Jayant Patil seeking tomove a notice for suspension ofquestion to facilitate a full-dis-cussion on Bhujbal’s arrest. Hesaid that Bhujbal’s arrestappeared to be a premeditatedmove, given that much beforethe actual arrest of Bhujbal, aBJP MP ( Kirit Somaiya) hadgone on record much that theNCP leader would be taken intocustody by the ED.

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The All India CongressCommittee (AICC) on

Tuesday announced a list ofcandidates for 65 constituenciesfor the forthcoming Assampolls scheduled for next montheven as the party has giventickets to 11 women candidatesin the first list.

The list includes names ofChief Minister Tarun Gogoi,who will contest from his homeconstituency Titabor, Speakerof the outgoing assemblyPranab Kumar Gogoi inSivsagar constituency and for-mer Congress Lok Sabha MPPaban Singh Ghatowar, whowill contest from Moran leg-islative assembly constituency.

The list includes severalnew faces and at least 11women candidates.

The party, however, deniedtickets to two of its sitting leg-islators — Sarat Saikia inMahmora constituency whohad retained the constituencyfor three consecutive termsand Amiya Googoi in Duliajanconstituency.

The women candidates inthe list includes, Ajanta Gogoi(Golaghat), Bismita Gogoi(Khumtai), Aarati KachariHazarika (Dergaon), Pallabi

Saikia Gogoi (Teok), AnkitaDutta (Aamguri), SumitraDoely Patir (Dhemaji), PranatiPhukan (Naharkatia), Bithikadev (Silchar), Dr. Rumi Nath(Borkhola), Monika Bora(Gohpur) and Roselina Tirkey(Sarupathar).

The new faces include,Roselina Tirkey (Sarupathar),daughter of Assam PradeshCongress President AnjanDutta Ankita Dutta (Aamguri),Pallabi Saikia Gogoi (Teok),Suruj Dihingia (Mahmora),Dr. Joy Prakash Das(Lakhimpur), Dhruba JyotiGogoi (Duliajan), GoutamDhanowar (Digboi) andBirinchi Neog (Sadiya).

The list, however, did notinclude the name of AssamPradesh Congress Committee(APCC) president AnjanDutta, who sought party tick-et from Sivsagar assembly con-stituency.

The BJP had alreadyannounced its list for 88 assem-bly constituencies in Assam.The AIUDF, which is the prin-cipal Opposition party inAssam has also announced itsfirst list including 16 candidatesfollowed by the Asom GanaParishad (AGP) which hadannounced candidates for 24candidates.

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On a day when a specialcourt remanded former

PWD Minister ChhaganBhujbal to its custody tillMarch 17, the EnforcementDirectorate (ED) on Tuesdaycharged that Bhujbal, his fam-ily members and associateshad caused a loss of staggering�887 crore to the State exche-quer.

In a remand applicationwhich alleged that “Prima faciethere is generation of hugeillicit funds and its launderingby the family members andassociates of Chhagan Bhujbal”,the ED referred to the state-ments of Sunil Karve, the NCPleader’s former charted accoun-tant and a few market opera-tors close to the NCP leader’sfamily who have spilled thebeans on the financial dealingsof Bhujbals in his recorded by

the agency.Karve and others, who

deposed before the ED, haveamong other things told theagency that shares of MessrsParvesh Constructions Pvt Ltdand Messrs Armstrong EnergyPvt Ltd — the two firms ownedand controlled by Bhujbals —were sold to dubious entitiesagainst cash at unrealistic highpremium of �9,900 per shareand funds to the tune of �75crore and �50 crore respectivelywere channelled by thismethod. The cash was handedover to the said operators at theoffice of the MumbaiEducation Trust (MET), aneducational institution run bythe Bhujbals at Bandra innorth-west Mumbai. The dubi-ous transactions were enteredinto from the year 2006onwards.

Throwing light on theallegedly dubious functioningof the firms owned by Bhujbals,the ED told the court that the“so-called” Directors of theentities controlled by theBhujbals were employees ofMET like the accountant atMET, the executive assistant totrustees of MET, the wife of theaccountant of MET, liaisoningofficer, clerk in MET, wife ofthe executive assistant to

trustees of MET, accountant ofM/s Parvesh Construction PvtLtd, family friends, ex-employ-ees of MET and even a driverof MET. All the above deposedand said that they were onlysignatory directors of the saidcompanies and used to signdocuments at the behest of theBhujbals.

According to the remandapplication, it has come tolight during the investigationsthat the contractor ofMaharashtra Sadan and RTOproject, Messrs K S ChamankarEnterprises had paid Rs 6.03crore to Messrs OriginInfrastructure Pvt Ltd an enti-ty controlled by Bhujbals.Further, Messrs. Prime Buildersand Developers to whomMessrs Chamankar Enterpriseshad sub-let the project paid�18.50 crore through theirassociates against dubious realestate deals.

The investigations have sofar established money trialinvolving the web of companiessome on paper and some ofthem being non-existent,instead of co-operating withthe investigating authorities.

While seeking the remandof the custody of Bhujbal whowas arrested on Monday nightunder Section 19 (1) of the

Prevention of MoneyLaundering Act, ED counselHiten Venegaonkar told thecourt that the senior NCPleader did not cooperate theED recorded his statement onMonday. “For most of the ques-tions put to him, his answerwas ‘he doesn’t know’,”Venegaonkar told the court.

In its remand application,the ED said that Bhujbal had sofar maintained “deliberatesilence” about the modusoperandi adopted by him to

favour the contractor and espe-cially the origin of the cashwhich has been circuitouslyrouted through market hawalaoperators to receive the sameback in cheques and throughRTGS into the companies con-trolled by Pankaj and SameerBhujbal. “Thus, the cash gen-erated has been consciouslylayered and attempted to beintegrated into the main streamin order to obfuscate themoney trial,” the ED told thespecial court in its application.

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Former PWD MinisterChhagan Bhujbal on

Tuesday pleaded innocence,claiming that he had not doneanything wrong and he wasbeing framed as part of aconspiracy.

Denying the ED’s chargethat he was not co-operatingwith the investigators, an emo-tional Bhujbal said: “I have notdone anything wrong. I havecooperated. I have been intosocial service for the past 50years. When some questionswere put to me (by ED), I gen-

uinely said that I did notknow, but still I was arrested”.

Bhujbal also claimed thathe did not grant the contractin question and merely fol-lowed the directions of thenChief Minister (late) VilasraoDeshmukh. “CM VilasraoDeshmukh told me to takemeetings and I followed that.I did not grant contract,” hesaid.

Bhujbal also claimed thatsome disgruntled employeesof the Mumbai EducationTrust (MET), a trust run byhim, had cooked up the storyagainst him.

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The issues of disbursal off inancial help to the

newly-created AndhraPradesh under the special cat-egory status and creation of aseparate High Court inTelangana were raised in boththe Houses of Parliament,with the Centre assuring themembers on both counts.

Congress raised a din inRajya Sabha and some of its MPsrepeatedly trooped into the welldemanding the speedy disbursalof financial help to the newly cre-ated Andhra Pradesh under thespecial category status. FinanceMinister Arun Jaitley assured theagitating members that theCentre will fulfill all commit-ments in “letter and spirit.”

The issue was raised in LokSabha by Congress and TRSmembers with Parliamentaryaffairs Minister M VenkaiahNaidu listing out “the promises”fulfilled by the BJP Governmentin regards to Andhra Pradesh. Inreference to creation of a sepa-rate High Court in Telangana,Home Minister Rajnath Singhsaid appropriate action was beingtaken on the issue.

Raising the issue during theZero Hour, Leader of theOpposition and Congress leaderGhulam Nabi Azad said twoyears before when the State ofTelengana was carved out ofAndhra Pradesh, the biggest

issue among the two was ofCapital Hyderabad.

Hyderabad went toTelangana, leading to a revenueloss to Andhra Pradesh, he said,adding that then Prime MinisterManmohan Singh had on thefloor of Rajya Sabha on February20, 2014 announced measures tomitigate the hardship of AndhraPradesh including formation ofnew Capital. Some Congressmembers including J D Seelam,Renuka Chowdhury and K V PRamachandra Rao trooped intothe Well raising slogans anddemanding reply from theGovernment.

Azad said Andhra Pradeshwas given special status for fiveyears adding BJP leader MVenkaiah Naidu and then leaderof Opposition Arun Jaitley haddemanded ten year period under

the special category for the newState. He wanted to know fromthe Government the fate of spe-cial category.

In his response, Jaitley saidCentre is fully committed to helpAndhra Pradesh. There areseveral commitments which areinvolved in the APReorganisation Act. Centre isgoing to honour each one ofthose commitments in “letterand spirit,” the Finance Ministersaid. Referring to the revenuedeficit, Jaitley said “each paisa orrupee of this revenue deficit isbeing paid to AndhraPradesh...We will continue to paythat.”

He said institutions have tobe set up in Andhra Pradesh andfoundation stones were laid andfunds sanctioned. On the issueof new Capital, Jaitley said theState is making considerable“headway” towards it and fundswere sanctioned adding morewould be released towards it, headded.

However, the agitatingCongress remained unsatisfiedand kept raising slogans.

Taking potshot at Congress,C M Ramesh (TDP) said themain Opposition party wasindulging in “drama” for politi-cal mileage. “After two years they(Congress) realised that State’sbifurcation was wrong...,” hesaid, adding the party was wipedout from AP in the elections heldafter the bifurcation.

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Aspurt in incidents of polit-ical violence in Kerala at a

time when all parties arepreparing for the crucialAssembly election to be held onMay 16 has intensified the fearthat the State is perhaps set towitness a highly turbulent elec-tion process this time.

Latest among such incidentsare the brutal murder of a 29-year-old Youth Congress work-er in Alappuzha district earlyTuesday morning and the clash-es that took place atKattayikkonam inThiruvananthapuram lateMonday night over an “anti-peo-ple” city master plan in whichseveral BJP men, including for-mer State chief VMuraleedharan, suffered injuries.

Observers and a section ofState police officials say that thefrequency of violent incidentsmay increase in the comingdays as electioneering gets hot-ter for what is being describedas the most crucial election inrecent history which is wit-nessing the emergence of apowerful BJP-led front againstthe main coalitions headed bythe Congress and the CPI(M).

“Tension is undoubtedlybuilding up in several places,especially those known as sen-sitive traditionally, but as of

now there is no indication thatthis can lead to widespread vio-lence. One is not sure if the cur-rent incidents have anything todo with the polls but caution isabsolutely necessary,” said aretired senior police officialwho had been with theIntelligence wing.

The incident inThiruvananthapuram tookplace late Monday night duringa BJP protest against an allegedmove to revive a flawed citymaster plan. As per eyewitnessaccounts, the BJP workers werestaging protest atKattayikkonam junction whenthey were attacked by theCPI(M) men who were return-ing after an agitation in front ofthe State Secretariat.

Many BJP workers sufferedinjuries in the attack and thecondition of three of them wassaid to be serious. VMuraleedharan had to beadmitted to the Medical CollegeHospital. Several policemenalso suffered injuries. BJP lead-ers alleged that the “adjustmentpolitics” being played by theruling Congress andOpposition CPI(M) was thereason behind the tension.

Evoor near Cheppad inAlappuzha district witnessed agruesome incident earlyTuesday morning when a ten-man killer gang hacked to death

Youth Congress worker SunilKumar of Sunil Bhavanam. Thegang first surrounded Sunil’shouse and then knocked at thedoor asking him to come out.

As the young man cameout, the gang pounced on himand hacked him brutally. TheYouth Congress worker madea bid to escape the attack byrunning away but he collapsedin the courtyard. The murder-ers fled the scene as neighboursgathered there hearing the criesof Sunil's family members. It issaid that there were 35 hackmarks on his body.

Though the severely injuredYouth Congress worker wastaken first to the GovernmentHospital at nearby Harippadand then to the GovernmentMedical College Hospital inAlappuzha, his life could not besaved. The incident has pushedCheppad and adjoining placeswhich have no history of seriousviolence into panic.

It is said Sunil was a DYFIactivist earlier and had later leftthe outfit to join the YouthCongress and the local CPI(M)men had been a keeping agrudge towards him over this.The Youth Congress has allegedthat the CPI(M) was behind themurder and the police have notruled this out. Four persons, saidto be DYFI men, have been takeninto custody.

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Four persons were detainedby Tamil Nadu Police on

Tuesday in connection withSunday's “honour killing” ofDalit youth Sankar who mar-ried a girl from a caste Hindufamily. The police, whileaccepting that four personshave been detained , was silentwhether they have been arrest-ed or not. According to policeofficials in Udumalpet, thosedetained, Jegadeesan,Selvakumar, Manikantan andMadan were friends ofChinnasamy, father-in-law ofthe victim Sankar.

Chinnasamy, who surren-dered in a Dindigul court onMonday is believed to have toldthe judge that he does notknow the assailants.

But Kausalya, his daughterwho was seriously injured inthe attack, told the police thatSankar was murdered by thehenchmen of her fatherChinnasamy.

Meanwhile, Kausalya, whois undergoing treatment atCoimbatore GovernmentHospital for injuries sufferedin the attack, is staring at ableak future with the family ofSankar washing their hands offher. “Kousalya alone is respon-sible for the present state ofaffairs. She knew that herfamily would not accept thismarriage and hence should

have not gone ahead with it,”Mariyayi, Sankar's grand-mother told reporters.

Close relatives of Sankarare afraid that the goons whokilled Sankar would return tofinish off them if they provideshelter to Kausalya. "There is achance of Chinnasamy sendingkillers to finish off Sankar'syounger brothers," one of therelatives told a vernacular daily.

K Sumathi, another rela-tion of Sankar told TV chan-nels that the family does nothave the wealth to look afterKausalya.

The young widow haddropped out of her studiesafter the marriage and wasworking as a sales girl in a tileshow room at Udumalpet tofacilitate Sankar's studies.

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As many as five people fromPandoli village in Anand

district of Central Gujarat havefiled a police case after theyallegedly became victims of kid-ney selling racket.

Taking into account theseriousness of the complaint,Gujarat police has decided toform a Special InvestigationTeam (SIT) to probe into theissue. According to the com-plainants their kidneys weresurgically removed at differenttimes since 2001 without theirknowledge after making themunconscious.

After receiving informationabout big racket of kidney sell-ing, Anand DSP Ashok Yadavinstantly sent a team to the vil-lage to record statements of thecomplainants and their rela-tives. According to Yadav, an FIRhas been lodged post their state-ments and police would probethoroughly to burst possibleracket of kidney selling.

Meanwhile, the five victims havebeen sent for medical check-upby the police to cross examinetheir claim that their kidneys hadbeen illegally removed and soldby a gang in the past.

The police confirmed cutmarks on their stomach indi-cating some sort of surgery. Thecomplainants have named a per-son called Rafiq and his accom-plices who offered them moneyfor the purpose. The accusedtook them to Delhi where theirkidneys were removed aftermaking them unconscious with-out their knowledge. Theyclaimed that they remained silentfor one and half decades fearingsome legal action would betaken against them.

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The decision of the CongressGovernment in Karnataka

led by Chief MinisterSiddaramaiah to create fourwings, the Anti-CorruptionBureau, Vigilance Wing,Vigilance Cells and VigilanceAdvisory Board, while takingaway the powers of the existingLokayukta police wing underthe Prevention of CorruptionAct, has hit the last nail in thecoffins of KarnatakaLokayukta.

A Government orderissued clearly states that theAnti-Corruption Bureau toreport to the Home Minister;and Home Minister in turncomes under the ChiefMinister in turn dismantlingthe functioning of theKarnataka Lokayukta, whichwas once role model in thecountry. The creation of the

new wings giving power topolice under Home Ministrydismantles the powers of anti-corruption watchdog.

However amid stiff opposi-tion by BJP accusing the rulingCongress in Karnataka ofallegedly trying to ‘kill’ the inde-pendent Lokayukta institutionby setting up Anti-CorruptionBureau (ACB) without debate,Chief Minister Siddaramaiahon Tuesday allayed fears sayingthat the ACB was not intendedto curtail the powers of the anti-graft institution.

Siddaramaiah howeverclarified that the ACB was notbeing formed to undermineLokayukta institution, nor tocurtail its powers. He told thereporters Lokayukta willremain an independent insti-tution and no Governmentcan curtail its powers, be it inKarnataka or elsewhere.

“We are setting up ACB toindependently inquire into cor-ruption charges and it wasbased on an advise by theSupreme Court. WhileLokayukta police will work

under the Lokayukta, the ACBsleuths would conductinquiries independently inother cases of corruption tospeed up investigation. Thiswill in not in any manner cur-tail the powers of theLokayukta,” he asserted.

The State Government in anotification issued stated thatthe ACB was formed to exclu-sively investigate the offencesunder the Prevention ofCorruption Act againstGovernment officials. Thispower hitherto was rested withthe Police-wing of theLokayukta, which also comesunder the State Government.

While, the police wing ofLokayukta will now exclusive-ly assist Lokayukta andUpalokayuktas in carrying outtheir responsibilities under theKarnataka Lokayukta Act(KLA), 1984, the ACB willindependently carry out inves-tigation in corrupt cases andcharges filed against theGovernment officials.

Former Law Minister andBJP spokesperson S Suresh

Kumar condemned the StateGovernment's move saying thatit was trying to bury theLokayukta institution as it wasagainst an independent watch-dog that had effectively foughtagainst corruption inGovernment offices.

“It is understandable thathow and why the Congressbrought a Government orderwithout initiating a debate inthe Legislature in setting up theACB." "When Karnataka had astrong Lokayukta institution inplace for decades that hadremained a model for the entirecountry, where was the need toform such an 'official set up'like an ACB,” he asked.

Karnataka had heraldedthe Lokayukta Institutionunder former Chief Ministerlate Ramakrishna Hegde and ithad been emulated by someother States. The Lokayuktainstitution had received allround appreciation with emi-nent former Judges like JusticeN Venkatachala and Justice NSantosh Hegde heading it overthe years.

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The 22-year-old convener ofPatidar Anamat Andolan

Samiti (PAAS) Hardik Patelreceived a setback on Tuesdayas a court of principal districtand sessions judge of Suratrejected his bail plea in asedition case.

Patel has been is in jailsince October last year underthe charges of sedition andalleged role in instigating hissupporter to kill policemaninstead of thinking of com-mitting suicide. The case waslodged by the crime branch inAmroli police station.

The Crime Branch ofSurat police had in earlyJanuary also filed a 370-pagecharge-sheet in the case. Thesame court had earlier reject-ed the bail plea of the othertwo accused in the case -Chirag Patel and Vipul Desai.

Earlier on March 8,another court in Ahmedabadhad rejected his bail plea in yetanother case of sedition filedby Ahmedabad crime branchagainst him and five others fortheir role in the quota stirturning violent.

Meanwhile, a day afterthe Sessions court servednotice to the Lajpore jailauthorities, asking them why

the letters written by Hardikwere not allowed to be sentoutside, the jail authoritieshave moved court with arequest to transfer him toany other prison.

A petition to this effectwas filed by deputy jail super-intendent V D Patil in thecourt of principal district andsession judge Geetaben Gopiin this regard. Jail superin-tendent R M Pandey said thatthey had initiated the petitionmainly because of "his illbehaviour".

The petition has men-tioned five points as a groundfor the transfer of PAAS leaderto another jail, includingalleged misbehaviour byHardik with the jail authori-ties and the doctor, the recov-ery of mobile equipment andRs 1000 currency note fromhis barrack and his baselessallegations against the jailauthorities.

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As many as four people,including a woman were

killed and eight injured in hit-and-run case allegedly involv-ing the son of a local industri-alist in Gandhidham town inKutch district of Gujarat.

A rushing SUV first hit atwo-wheeler and result of it thedriver lost control and ranover people sleeping on foot-path during the wee hours onTuesday.

Three people including awoman died on the spot while

one succumbed in the after-noon. After the incident theaccused fled with his vehicle.

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Dressed in his flying suitand accompanied byhalf a dozen personalstaff, Admiral Harry BHarris Jr, Commander

United States Pacific Command, thelargest military command on earth,marched into Taj Palace hotelbefore turning up in Naval uniformto deliver his keynote address at therecent Raisina Dialogue — focussedon Asian connectivity and integra-tion which is partly predicated onIndia’s vital role in the IndianOcean region. Invoking theObama-Modi Joint Strategic VisionStatement of 2015 which identifiedAsia Pacific (including South ChinaSea and IOR) as key lifelines requir-ing freedom of navigation andopen skies, Admiral Harris calledthe region as “Indo-Asia-Pacific”and said referring to India, “we areready for you…we need you, yourleadership” and added: “Let’s beambitious together”. He raised twokey issues: Initiating a quadrilater-al strategic dialogue between US,India, Japan and Australia; and“joint patrolling…anywhere in theIndian Ocean, the Pacific, evenSouth China Sea…wherever ourleaders decide…in the not too dis-tant future”. Both these ideas set thecat among the pigeons.

The JSVS had reflected asharp strategic congruence andwas interpreted in Delhi as India’stilt towards the US and readinessto even balance\contain China.The synergisation of India’s ActEast policy and US re-balancingto Asia is to ensure that Chinaconformed to the existing rule-based order especially in its adher-ence to a code of conduct in SCSand IOR. China’s development ofseven new artificial islands anddeployment of missile batteries toreinforce its historical claims toSpratly and Paracel chain ofislands is the strategic game-changer reflecting Beijing’s deter-mination to be calling the shots inSouth and East China Seas in pur-suance of its two oceans strategybuttressed by its looking beyondthe first and second island chains.For China’s economic outreach, ablue water Navy and power pro-jection are essential. And this hasbegun to worry the US.

China’s strategic message toIndia to lay off SCS was first deliv-ered in 2011 when it targeted NewDelhi’s five billion dollar invest-ment in oil blocks in Vietnam as“fishing in troubled waters”. Thiswas followed the same year by rag-ging of INS Airavat, an amphibi-ous ship in SCS. Chief of NavalStaff, Admiral DK Joshi’s advoca-cy of defending national interest in

SCS was watered down by NationalSecurity Advisor ShivshankarMenon, then in Beijing. The JSVSdrew typical Chinese commentslike “India’s entrapment by the US”.Beijing’s strong reaction to anyattempt by New Delhi to balanceor contain China, coupled with theground realities of the significantmilitary capability gap that willrequire decades to make up, hasput some realism into the ambi-tious JSVS. Conventional wisdomsuggests caution at a time whenChina-Pakistan relations are at anall-time high and Uncle Sam gift-ing F-16s to Islamabad.

Admiral Harris’s joint patrolballoon has been discussed quiet-ly earlier at appropriate forums.Reports in the US media that theidea was being actively consideredby New Delhi were leaked justbefore the Admiral’s invitation tojoint patrolling was promptly shotdown by the Ministry of ExternalAffairs. The Chinese media andstrategic commentators equatedjoint patrolling to India joining USpivot to Asia: Betraying its hostili-ty to China and needing to devel-op more friends than enemies.Minister for Defence ManoharParrikar ruled out any joint mar-

itime patrolling in the Asia Pacificregion. He said India will participatein joint military exercises but nojoint patrolling “at this stage”. Thisleaves the door open to the US andIndia being ambitious together.This year’s naval Malabar exercisebetween India, US and Japan willbe off the coast of Japan likely in thenorth Philippine Sea, close to SCS.

The Admiral’s pitch for aquadrilateral security dialogue is arepackaged idea relating to freedomof navigation in internationalwaters. It had upset Beijing in2007 when the Malabar series tra-ditionally between India and the USwas expanded to include Japan,Australia and Singapore. Thisbecame a one-time exercise and wasdropped due to China’s objections.Prime Minister Narendra Modi isbelieved to have endorsed therevival of the Quad even as China’sForeign Ministry spokespersonHong Lei said: “we have no objec-tion to relevant countries’ normalcooperation but we believe thatcooperation should not be target-ed against a third party”. The Quadlike joint patrolling will remainmothballed for now.

Strategic innovations need notbe discussed through the medium

of media, but with discreet diplo-macy. It was the NDA Governmentwhich, in its first full-term, support-ed US ballistic missile defence,provided logistic support to the USnaval ships at Indian ports engagedin Afghanistan and Iraq and evenescorted US vessels throughMalacca Straits. Modi, on his visitto China, tried to alter the contoursof talks between SpecialRepresentatives after their 17rounds produced no framework fora border settlement by boldly butvainly re-seeking a clarification ofLine of Actual Control which wasabandoned in 2003. Resolution ofthe border which is India’s Achillesheel is being dictated by China.

India’s penchant for sitting onthe fence is becoming counter-pro-ductive. Washington has been woo-ing New Delhi for a decade now tosign certain bilateral foundationalmilitary agreements which arebeing regularly postponed innational interest — a euphemismfor undermining its strategic auton-omy. The US is now the biggest sup-plier of military platforms, some-thing that was simply unthinkablea decade ago. US Defence SecretaryAshton Carter will be in NewDelhi next month when Indiamust decide one way or the otheron critical foundational agree-ments. The history of distrustlingers on as does the unease overundue political and strategic prox-imity to the US.

Since the late 1980s, the arm-ing of the Navy to fulfil its legitimaterole in the IOR has remained large-ly notional. While the Navy hasexcelled in showcasing militarydiplomacy with ‘bridges of friend-ship and united through oceans’ itis still recovering from a few badyears of accidents, shortage offunds and delays in its modernisa-tion with big holes in the invento-ry of fighting platforms especiallysubmarines and helicopters. Thestrategic programs equally are mov-ing too slowly for comfort.

Just as Beijing says IndianOcean is not India’s, New Delhishould emphasise SCS is notChina’s. To be ambitious, NewDelhi has to get off the fence soon-er than later. And to do that, itrequires a strong military, especial-ly a Navy with a long arm coveringthe Indo-Pacific. The strategic cen-tre of gravity is shifting from landto sea. But the defence budget withits incapacity to modernise is obliv-ious to the sea change.

(The accompanying visual is ofAdmiral Harry B Harris Jr, theCommander of the US PacificCommand, at the Raisina Dialoguein New Delhi on March 2).

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Sir — This refers to the editorial,“RSS’s progressive face” (March15). Riding on its dress code, theRashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh hasperhaps initiated for the better, anobler view of the status of womenin our society. It has re-asserted theabiding ethos of elevating womento a high pedestal, as rooted in ourlore. This will have much greaterimpact than merely switching to fullpants. The RSS’s traditional anath-ema for reservation too hasemerged in louder hues, to becomea gradual movement to ease out apolicy and philosophy, anachronis-tic with the one predicated on merit.

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Sir — This refers to the article,“Azadi brigade and its open,covert, backers” (March 15) by ASurya Prakash. There is a differ-ence between the Congress andthe BJP. While the grand old party

stands by its constituency, theanti-nationals and minority vote-banks, the BJP purely wins withthe Hindu vote and then wants toshow to the world that it isimpartial and secular. TheCongress does not know thatthose who hate it, hate its veryexistence, and those who vote forit, ultimately get alienated.

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It is an open secret that a sub-stantial number of our MPs/MLAsare tangibly tainted on account ofcorruption/criminal charges, andyet they are the lawmakers of thiscountry. Illiteracy, lack of propereducation, poverty etc are themajor causes for this patheticstate of democracy.

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Sir — This refers to the report,“Doon protesters break policehorse’s leg for ‘doing its duty’”(March 15). Uttarakhand ChiefMinister Harish Rawat must takeaction against the protesters and theMLA concerned. Also, UnionMinister for Women and ChildWelfare Maneka Gandhi, who isactively engaged in raising a voiceagainst cruelty to animals, shouldtake cognisance of the incident andensure strict punishment.

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It is a riches to rags story. No,this is not about liquorbaron Vijay Mallya who

virtually received unsecuredloans of �9,000 from a consor-tium of banks. He has flown toforeign shores, smiling all theway. Government banks arebiting the dust as they squan-der away public money, threat-ening the economy. Mallya isnow in the UK and, ArundhatiBhattacharya, the chairpersonof State Bank of India, is cry-ing that the businessman hadnot told her of his assets!

Today, many public sectorbanks have net losses (couchedas non-performing assets) thatamount to �4.4 lakh crore.Till 2009, this figure wasaround �1.4 lakh crore andeven at that time, considered tobe bad for the health of thebanks. At least �1.5 lakh crorein bad loans have been written-off during the last two years.

Banks had tried to cover

up the bad loan issue by post-poning the problem but theReserve Bank of India put adeadline of March 2017 forbanks to clean up their balancesheets. The RBI’s role as a reg-ulator too needs a re-look.

A joint parliamentarycommittee must be set up tofind out how over 100 largecompanies have emerged as‘defaulters’ in these few years.The committee must look intothe functioning of the banks aswell as into corporate books.

The JPC should exposenot just tycoons like Mallya,but also other corporatedefaulters who are looting bankfunds, apparently with the con-nivance of bank officers andsome political leaders. In a way,the nation should be thankfulto Mallya for exposing thechinks. Most bank lending tocorporates are suspicious. Thenation needs to go deeper to fixthe responsibilities of the banks

and impose exemplarily pun-ishment on those who aidedthe lending process.

In the last eight years, theGovernment has infused�90,000 crore in India’s 27public sector banks. In the2015-16 fiscal, it infused�20,000 crore out of thepromised �25,000 crore. For2016-17, the Governmentplans to put in �30,000 crore.

If the Government doesnot simultaneously initiateaction on large corporatedefaulters, to recover the thou-sands of crores of money theyowe to the banks, it will meanthat the taxpayers’ money isbeing used to bail out banks,looted by large borrowers.

It is the poor depositorwho is at a loss at every step —his deposits are unsafe, he getsmeasly interest rates and thetaxes that he pays are utilisedto recapitalise malfunctioningbanks. The depositor is also

levied higher charges and lowerinterest rates.

Mallya is just one of theflashy borrowers. There aremany others who have largerexposure. A real estate firmwhich is also into buildingexpressways, is earning a largesum every day and has default-ed �95,000 crore since 2008.No action is known to havebeen taken against the firm.

Meanwhile, the alarm bellis ringing for another firmwhich has failed to pay inter-est on convertible bonds. Thismeans that the bond buyershave to be cautious. Thoseadvocating the bond and equi-ty route for corporates to raisefunds, as is the norm in theWest, need to re-think.

Another big name fromthe steel and power sector hasalso faltered and is unable torepay $550 million to a consor-tium of foreign banks. This isa cause of grave concern as it

affects the overall credit wor-thiness of the Indian corporate.

Many banks had convert-ed their loans into equity in thegrounded Kingfisher Airlines,hoping that Mallya wouldbring in his share of funds, butit never came. It is a virtual ‘gift’to a defaulter as such sharesyield nothing — a commonpractice. If the assets were puton sale, their losses could havebeen curbed.

Banks have also been con-sidering intangible assets likebrand value as security.Promoters should be told togive personal guarantee andfirm collateral. The banksnever objected to Mallya, awillful defaulter on the boardof United Breweries since 2005,when Kingfisher Airlines start-ed nose-diving till 2012 whenthe Directorate General OfCivil Aviation suspended itsflying licence.

Banks are more at default

than the flamboyant Mallya.Banks never seem to under-stand corporate business meth-ods. The RBI Deputy Governorsaid, “There is a need for addi-tional technical capabilities toundertake evaluation andrestructuring needs”.

Banks also have to knowthe business they are financingand not be afraid of stoppingincremental loans if some-thing goes wrong. This requiresday-to-day monitoring. Thebanks are rarely known to dothis. It is also no secret that ifsome individual officials trystringent monitoring meth-ods, they are reprimanded.

Willful default is a bank-ing term. It has little legalbacking. It needs to be madea criminal offence. At present,for civil offences, no extradi-tion move can be made but theissue is not just about Mallya,who merely symptomises anailing system.

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One of the solemn pledgesmade by TrinamoolCongress supremo MamataBanerjee before the 2011Assembly poll, which

brought her to power with a thumpingmajority, was to “restore and uphold therule of law in the State and rescue the Stateadministration from the clutches of theparty-centric and cadre-centric exploita-tion model introduced by the CommunistParty of India (Marxist)-led Left FrontGovernment.” But in the past five years,the CPI(M)s ‘cadre raj’ has been replacedby the TMC’s ‘goonda raj’. Ironically, mostof TMC goondas are former Marxistgoons who, in order to evade the policecases against them, sought protectionfrom Banerjee’s party. They became theTMC’s storm troopers for terrorisingpolitical rivals and rigging elections.These goons, enjoying the protectiveumbrella of their didi have even dared toattack, ransack and burn down policethanas and kill policemen.

Under ‘Mamata raj’, although therehas not been any mass killing like inNandigram and Netai during CPI(M)rule, a dreadful fright has gripped the peo-ple of the State. Locals worry that they maybe bumped off at any time by party goonsfor not following party dictates. Often FirstInformation Reports are not even regis-tered, if the goon is supported by the rul-ing TMC. An influential TMC Ministerwho was named in an murder case FIRin Bally was not charge-sheeted becauseof his proximity to didi. The Calcutta HighCourt has issued several strictures againstthe police’s partisan behaviour but the menin uniform have taken no notice of them.

How audacious have TMC goonsbecome in these five years of didi raj is bestillustrated by the recent arson attack onMayureshwar police station in Birbhumdistrict by TMC-backed goons. The lat-ter resented the police personnel’s attemptsto corner the lion’s share of amount extort-

ed from the sand mafia, which is allowedto illegally lifting sand from the river bed.

Last winter, Alipore police station,located in the heart of south Kolkata, wasattacked and ransacked by TMC goonswho opposed the police’s eviction ofencroachers on Government land.Policemen had to flee from the station,fearing that they would be lynched.There have also been reports of policemenin uniform being slapped, abused andseverely assaulted in Kolkata and the sub-urbs, by Trinamool leaders (and even theirrelatives) when booked even for minortraffic violations. None involved in theseattacks have been arrested.

The result of these attacks has beenthat the police are no longer held in awebecause of which lawlessness has becomerampant and endemic. Extortion racketsand syndicates run by numerous TMCgroups are thriving. This has led to armedfactional feuds and clashes in which adozen TMC supporters have been killedin recent months. These TMC factions,in order to maintain their political influ-ence in the party, have raised their ownarmed groups and arsenal, and eventurned many Bengal villages into bombmanufacturing units. In fact, bomb mak-ing has almost become a cottage indus-try in some parts where it has become theprimary source of income for unemployedrural youth. Many lives have been lostwhile making bombs. In the first week ofthis month alone, six youths were killedwhile handling explosive in Birbhum.

The most deplorable part of didi rajis that the police’s authority and its abil-ity to maintain law and order have beenchallenged and compromised by no lessa person than the Chief Minister herself.Notably, soon after being sworn intooffice, Banerjee had gone to a police sta-tion in Kolkata at midnight to get anti-socials from her party, detained forrowdy behaviour, released from lock-up.The message she delivered through her

intervention was this: The police shouldavoid arresting TMC workers even if theycommit crimes. And if in case, their arrestis unavoidable, the police should file sucha weak charge-sheet that the court isforced to set them free.

This is what happened in the 2013Kamduni rape case. The two TMC lead-ers who had been named in the FIR wereacquitted, as the charge-sheet against themprepared by the police was, according tothe judge, “very very weak”. The policecould not muster enough courage to arresta district TMC leader who had publiclyexhorted his supporters to bomb thanas.Although a case had been filed againsthim, the police dared not to arrest him,as he was seen sharing public and partyplatforms with Chief Minister Banerjee.

State Police has been served with anunwritten instruction from party bigwigsthat influential TMC leaders and support-ers cannot be touched, however seriousthe charge against them. The best illus-tration of this is the killing of CorporalAbhimanyu Gaur of the Indian AirForce. The officer was leading a march-ing column during a Republic Dayrehearsal parade in Kolkata when he wasmowed down by a speeding Audi, drivenby TMC leader Mohammad Sohrab’sson. The luxury car bulldozed throughthree road barriers, crushed the Corporal,and sped away. The driver and his broth-er fled to Ranchi where their father hadarranged for a safe house.

Right from the beginning of the inves-tigation, Kolkata Police bosses who werewell aware of the Sohrabs’s TMC connec-tions as well as links with the underworld,tried to play safe. As a result, neither ofthe Sohrab sons nor the father surren-dered until 72 hours had elapsed. It wasonly when the Eastern Air Command inShillong and Delhi’s Air Headquarterserved an ultimatum that one of the sonssurrendered. But the father and the sec-ond son are still in hiding. Although the

police bosses quite possibly know theirwhereabouts, they are not being arrested,as there is no clearance yet from an influ-ential TMC Minister.

What has earned West Bengal infamyunder didi raj is the steep rise in crimesagainst women. According to the NationalCrime Bureau, West Bengal tops thenational list for the number of rape cases.The NCB report states that during 2012-2014, West Bengal registered 1,656 rapecases for which 1,848 arrests were made.But only 57 were convicted — the low-est in the country. Even Bihar and UttarPradesh had better conviction rates.

In West Bengal, many high profilerape cases, like the one in Kolkata’s ParkStreet and in Kamduni, saw key TMCfunctionaries along with the police helpthe principal accused flee the city. ChiefMinister Banerjee’s irresponsible com-ments have also contributed handsome-ly to the steep rise in crimes againstwomen. In the aftermath of the Park Streetrape case, she said, “This rape episode isa stage-managed show meant to defamemy Government”. The investigating IPSofficer who, despite political pressure,maintained that it was a clear case of rape,was shunted to an insignificant posting.

During didi raj, the State police haveearned so much notoriety for their ser-vility to the TMC supremo that theElection Commission has divested it of allresponsibilities for maintaining law andorder in the State in the coming Assemblyelection. State policy will not be allowedto guard polling booths or be anywherenear them before, during and after theAssembly polls, as they had, in the past,allowed TMC goons to capture boothsand rig elections. The services of 80,000central paramilitary personnel have beensought by the Election Commission formaintaining peace and order before andduring election. This is unprecedented.

(The writer is a veteran journalist andpolitical commentator based in Kolkata)

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��5���!��� The Income TaxDepartment has slapped onUK’s Cairn Energy plc a taxdemand notice of over �29,000crore, including �18,800 crorein back dated interest.

It is the second firm tohave received retrospectivetax notice this year afterVodafone Group.

Cairn, against whom the I-T Department had on January22, 2014 issued a draft assess-ment order of �10,247 crore onalleged capital gains it made ina 2006 reorganisation of itsIndia business, was last monthissued a final assessment order.

“The assessment order isin the amount of �10,247crore (approximately $1.6 bil-lion) plus interest back datedto 2007 totalling �18,800 crore(approximately $2.8 billion),”Cairn Energy said announcingits earnings for 2015.

The tax demand notice

came at a time when theGovernment had insisted thatit will not raise any fresh taxdemand using retrospectivetax legislation.

The notice was, however,issued before Finance MinisterArun Jaitley in his Budget for2016-17 made a one-time offerto waive interest and penaltyif the companies paid theprincipal amount to settle theretrospective tax disputes.

Sources said as per IncomeTax rules, an assessment orderissued has to be closed with-in two years and the noticeissued now is to close thatassessment.

Interestingly, the assess-ment order back dates interestto 2007, years before the 2012legislation was enacted to taxsuch transactions.

“Cairn strongly conteststhe basis of this attempt to ret-rospectively tax the group for

an internal restructuring,” thecompany said adding it hasinitiated international arbi-tration to settle the tax dispute.

The company is claimingfull compensation for the $1billion value of which itsshareholders have beendeprived following the taxnotice and freezing of its 9.8per cent shares in Cairn India.

“The total assets of theCairn subsidiary against whichthe tax authorities are seekingto pursue a tax claim are USD477 million (including princi-pally the group’s near 10 percent shareholding in CairnIndia Ltd) and any recovery bythe Indian authorities wouldbe limited to such assets,” itsaid.

I-T Department allegesthat Cairn Energy made acapital gain of �24,503.50 crorein 2006 when it transferredshares of Indian assets that

were held in a subsidiary setup in the tax haven of Jersey,to newly incorporated CairnIndia.

It listed Cairn India Ltd onthe stock exchanges throughan initial public offering (IPO)thereafter. Through the IPO itraised �8,616 crore and then in2011 went on to sell majoritystake in Cairn India to mininggiant Vedanta Group for $8.67billionCairn Energy still holds9.8 per cent in Cairn Indiawhich the I-T Departmenthas barred it from selling.Also, the department hadslapped a demand notice of�20,495 crore comprising taxof �10,248 crore and interest of�10,247 crore, on Cairn Indiafor failing to deduct with-holding tax on alleged capitalgains made by its erstwhileowner Cairn Energy. CairnIndia is contesting the tax inDelhi High Court.

The Income Tax depart-ment had on February 4 issueda reminder notice to Vodafoneover its �14,200 crore taxdues, a move which the UKfirm had termed as showingdisconnect with PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’spromise of a tax-friendly envi-ronment, but the Governmentdefended it saying the step wasa routine exercise.

The department in thenotice to VodafoneInternational Holdings BVsought �14,200 crore in taxes,which it says are due from its$11 billion acquisition ofHutchison Whampoa’s Indiatelecom business in 2007. Thematter is under internationalarbitration.

“Cairn UK Holdings Ltd,a direct subsidiary of CairnEnergy plc, is in receipt of anassessment order from theIndian Income Tax

Department relating to theintra-group restructuringundertaken in 2006 prior tothe IPO of Cairn India Ltd inIndia, which cites a retro-spective amendment to Indiantax law introduced in 2012,”Cairn Energy said.

The company said it hascommenced internationalarbitration proceedings againstIndia under the UK-IndiaBilateral Investment Treaty.

It is claiming that treatywas breached by India by wayof “expropriating Cairn’s prop-erty without adequate and justcompensation, denying fairand equitable treatment toCairn in respect of its invest-ments and restricting Cairn’sright to freely transfer funds inconnection with its invest-ment.” “Based on detailed legaladvice, Cairn is confident thatit will be successful in sucharbitration. Cairn’s claim will

seek relief by way of indem-nification in respect of the taxdemand, plus full compensa-tion for its losses (includingthe loss of the value in theCairn India Ltd shares),” itadded.

The company said its taxstrategy is fully aligned with itsoverarching business objec-tives and principles.“Cairn commits to managingits tax affairs in a transparentand responsible manner andensuring that all statutoryobligations and disclosurerequirements are met.

“Cairn’s aim is to complywith both the letter and spir-it of the law in the relevantjurisdictions in which weoperate, to ensure that theright amount of tax is paid, atthe right time, within the rightjurisdiction,” it said.

The company said its “pol-icy is to not enter into any arti-

ficial tax avoidance schemesand to build and maintainstrong collaborative workingrelationships with all relevanttax authorities, based on hon-esty, integrity and proactivecooperation.”

The Group aims for cer-tainty in relation to the taxtreatment of all items, it added.

Like Cairn, Vodafone haddisputed the tax demand overits acquisition of 67 per centstake in Hutchison, now calledVodafone India, arguing thatno tax was due as the trans-action was conducted off-shore.

But the tax department’scontention is capital gainswere made on assets in India.The basic tax demand forVodafone was �7,990 crore,but the total outstanding,including interest and penal-ty, is estimated to have risen to�20,000 crore. ���

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India has emerged as the sec-ond biggest investor in

London after the US withcountry’s tech firms investingin the British capital at anunprecedented rate, accordingto latest official figures.

Since 2005 there has beena 117 per cent increase inIndian companies across allbusiness sectors investing inLondon, with a 133 per centincrease in tech companiesinvesting in the city, whichaccounts for 46 per cent of allprojects, according to the lat-est data released by London &Partners, the official promo-tional company for London.

The figures showed thatIndian companies are the sec-ond biggest investor in London,ahead of China and Japan, butbehind the US.

Major tech investments inLondon from India in recentyears include software testingservice Cigniti Technologies,customer support companyKayako and many others.

The worldwide expansionof Indian technology compa-nies is also reflected in new fig-ures released on Tuesday thatshow venture capital raised byIndian technology firms hasrisen to record levels.

In the last five years, invest-ment in Indian tech companieshas rocketed seven times from

$454 million (�3049 crore) in2011 to $3.3 billion (�22,165crore) last year, according toanalyst CB insights.

Leading NRI entrepreneurand Cobra beer founder LordBilimoria, who presentedawards to 20 Indian companiesat the IE20 (Indian Emerging20) event here last night said,“London and the wider UnitedKingdom offered the bestopportunities for businessesto internationalise.”

He said, “India has some ofthe brightest talents in theworld. First they should thinkglobal and they have to be thebest.”

Noting that India is a hugegrowing market, he said, “Oncethe GST (Goods and ServicesTax) comes into force, it willhelp Indian companies a greatdeal.”

The Mayor of LondonBoris Johnson MP said: “Indiais the fastest growing majoreconomy in the world andIndian companies are now thesecond biggest foreign investorin London.”

The winners of the IE20programme –- designed toidentify Indian companies des-tined for global growth -- comefrom a broad range of cate-gories including life sciences,artificial intelligence, IT ser-vices, cyber security, sportstech, travel tech, adtech, e-com-merce and analytics.

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Exports fell for the 15thmonth in a row and dipped

5.66 per cent in February to$20.73 billion due to contrac-tion in shipments of petroleumand engineering goods amidtepid global demand.

Trade deficit, however, fellto near five-year low of $6.54billion during February asimports too slowed down.

Imports declined 5.03 percent to $27.28 billion lastmonth, leading to a lower tradedeficit of $6.54 billion com-pared to that of $6.74 billion inFebruary 2015, ac.

The trade deficit - differ-ence between imports andexports - is the lowest sinceMarch 2011 when it was $5.6billion.

The Commerce Ministrysaid the trend of falling exportsis in tandem with that in othermajor world economies.

“The growth in exportshave fallen for the US (10.35per cent), European Union(7.62 per cent) and China (1.67

per cent) for December 2015,”the ministry said.

The Federation of IndianExport Organisations (FIEO)said the drop in February waslargely due to low export basein February 2015.

“Going by the currenttrend, we would touch $260 bil-lion in 2015-16, a drop ofabout $50 billion in exports ascompared to 2014-15,” FIEOsaid in a statement.

verseas shipments of petro-leum products shrank 28.27per cent to $1.83 billion inFebruary, while that of engi-

neering goods declined by11.22 per cent to 4.56 billion.

For April-February, cumu-lative exports declined by 16.73per cent to $238.41 billion, asagainst $286.3 billion in April-February period of 2014-15.

Imports too dipped by14.74 per cent to $351.8 billionin the 11-month period, leav-ing a trade deficit of $113.38billion. The trade gap was$126.29 billion in April-February 2014-15.

Oil imports last monthwere valued at $4.76 billion -21.92 per cent lower than the

same month last year. Non-oilimports too dipped by 0.47 percent to $22.51 billion.DuringApril-February 2015-16, oilimports declined 40.52per centto $77.86 billion and non-oilimports dipped by 2.75 per centto $273.94 billion.

Several sectors whichrecorded negative exportgrowth in February include tea,coffee, rice, cashew, oil meals,oil seeds, marine products andleather goods.

The ministry said that non-petroleum exports in February2016 are valued at $18.90 bil-lion against $19.42 billion inFebruary 2015, a reduction of2.69 per cent.

Non-petroleum exportsduring April-February 2016are valued at $211.31 billion ascompared to $232.15 billion forthe corresponding period in2015, a reduction of 8.98 percent.

FIEO said that exports willcontinue to face challengingtimes in 2016 and improve-ment is expected from the lastquarter of 2016.

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��5���!����In fresh trouble forliquor baron Vijay Mallya,retirement fund body EPFOon Tuesday formed anenforcement squad to inves-tigate issues related to thepayment of PF dues by long-grounded Kingfisher Airlines.

The Employees’ ProvidentFund Organisation (EPFO)has also slapped a notice of�7.62 lakh on the airline pro-moted by Mallya for shortpayment of PF dues.

Earlier this week, LabourMinister Bandaru Dattatreyahad said the ministry willsoon launch an investigationto check whether there wereany anomalies in the provi-dent fund contributions madeby Kingfisher Airlines for itsemployees when the carrierwas functioning.

“A Squad of EnforcementOfficer has been constitutedfor verifying compliance posi-tion in respect of all itsemployees as payment of con-tributions stopped afterSeptember 2015,” LabourMinistry said in statement onTuesday.

Notices have been issuedto the company for penaldamages (�3,34,016), interestdues (�3,55,678) for bleatedremittances for certainmonths and payment of shortremittances of �71,910,involving a total liability of�7,61,604, the statementadded.

However, the ministrysaid: “There is no complaintavailable on record eitherfrom members/unions(Kingfisher employees)regarding non-payment ofEPF dues by the company.”

Mallya, mired in contro-versy for leaving India in the

middle of a massive loandefault is facing probe fromseveral agencies includingEnforcement Directorate.

Under fire over duestotalling over �9,000 crore oflong-grounded Kingfisher inunpaid loans and interest,Mallya left the country onMarch 2.

“The last inspectionrevealed the company haspaid EPF and other dues onsalar y payable up toDecember 2012. KingfisherAirlines contributed to the PFin March 2012 for 6,185employees. The PF compli-ance to the number ofemployees have graduallyreduced to 3,339 in the monthof December 2012,” the state-ment said.

According to LabourMinistry, Kingfisher AirlinesLtd has been registered asemployer with EPFO sinceJanuary 1, 2005.

It further said: “Theemployment strength ofKingfisher Airlines reducedafter December 2012 due toclosure of its operations andremittances were made fortwo skeletal employees up toSeptember 2015 and there-after minimum administrativecharges were paid.”

As per the statement, theaviation licence of the airlinewas suspended in October2012 by the Director Generalof Civil Aviation and flightoperations stopped fromDecember 2012.

The ministry said a totalof 5,675 PF claims were settledfrom 2012-13 to the employ-ees of Kingfisher airlines.Also, it added that ProvidentFund has been in respect of 12deceased employees. ���

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Delhi High Court on Tuesdaypassed an interim order

paving the way for issuance ofstock warrants in Spicejet toKalanithi Maran and his KalAirways Pvt Ltd (KAL) sayingthere was no impediment beforeBSE in considering their jointrepresentation seeking approvalof the warrant issue.

As per the plea of Sungroup head Kalanithi Maran, heand KAL were to be issued stockwarrants in Spicejet by the air-line under a 2015 sale purchaseagreement (SPA) which led tochange in ownership of thebudget carrier.

Maran had sought thatthe warrants be issued in termsof an application made to theBombay Stock Exchange (BSE)on September 18, 2014 andwhich had been approved bycompany’s board on

September 24, 2014.In an interim order, Justice

Manmohan Singh said, “I am ofthe view that at present, there isno impediment if BSE mayconsider application datedSeptember 18, 2014, in light ofchange of circumstances,because of the reason that ear-lier respondent 1 (Spicejet) didnot provide clarification andnow since clarification is avail-able coupled with subsequentevents, application datedSeptember 18, 2014 can be con-sidered by BSE...”

“Accordingly, as agreed, par-ties will file fresh resolutionalong with letter of authorizationbefore the BSE within threedays from today. In case of anyfurther queries or any clarifica-tion required by BSE, the partiesare ready to cooperate witheach other .

“In view of the same, BSEwill decide the application with-

in two weeks from date of sub-mitting the requisite paper,” thecourt said.

The court also gave varioussuggestions including one toMaran and KAL to release �100crore to Spicejet as per the SPA.

It also suggested thatSpicejet’s board “shall pass a res-olution jointly authorising rep-resentative of KAL/Maran andthe company to represent andpursue application withBSE/SEBI seeking approval forissue of warrants”.

“Thereafter, company(Spicejet) shall pass board reso-lution for issuing ConvertibleRedeemable Preference Shares(CRPS) in terms of provisions ofSPA,” the court also suggested.The court suggested that afterapproval by the BSE/SEBI,war-rants can be issued withoutdelay on terms as approved inthe September 24, 2014 annualgeneral meeting of Spicejet.

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Sensex retreated from itssix-month high on

Tuesday after plunging 253.11points on sell-off in pharmastocks, while global cues alsoremained muted ahead of theFederal Reserve’s rate-settingmeeting.

Healthcare index fellsharply by 3.01 per cent asLupin dropped 7.59 per centafter company received nineobservations relating to inad-equacy and adherence tooperating norms for its man-ufacturing plant in Goa fromthe USFDA.

Another pharma stockPfizer continued to remainunder pressure and fell by3.15 per cent to �1,705.30amid concerns over the banon their popular drug prod-ucts.

Globally, Europeanshares dropped followingweak Asian markets afterthe Bank of Japan painted ableaker picture of the coun-try’s economy.

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Anil Ambani-led RelianceDefence has signed an exclu-

sive accord with the global aero-space, defence and transporta-tion major Thales for making inIndia sonars for surface ships andsubmarines, as also mine warfareand mine counter-measureequipment, sources said.

In all, the agreement is eye-ing immediate deals wortharound �10,000 crore.

The sources said this 51:49

equity pact between RelianceDefence and Thales will createcritical capabilities in the coun-try and provide modern sytemsfor the Indian Navy. Thales issaid to have discussed a possibletie-up with the Tatas, Mahindrasand Larsen and Toubro as well.

Sources said the IndianNavy’s immediate require-ment include towed arraysonars and torpedo decoysystems, which are used fordetecting torpedoes and sub-marines. In mine warfare,

the focus is expected to be onhigh frequency sonars andvarious methods to destroymines.

The Indian Navy alsoneeds similar equipment forits choppers.

Reliance Defence, a sub-sidiary of Reliance Infra, hadearlier acquired PipavavOffshore and Engineeringand renamed it RelianceDefence and Engineering toexecute all the naval warshipand systems programme.

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PRASAR BHARATIINDIA'S PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTER

CIVIL CONSTRUCTION WING : ALL INDIA RADIO

PRESS NOTICE INVITING e-TENDER

The Executive Engineer (Civil), Civil Construction Wing, All IndiaRadio, PB (BCI), MHP Division, 11th floor, Soochna Bhawan,CGO Complex, New Delhi-03, invites on behalf of President ofIndia online Item rate tenders from approved and eligible con-tractors of CPWD and those of appropriate list of BSNL, MES,Railways, Department of Post and PWD (B&R) of NCT Delhi,upto 15.00 hrs on 21.03.2016 for the following works:

1. NIT No:- 50/EE(C)/MHPD/2015-16, Name of work :- A/R& M/O Doordarshan Bhawan, Tower-B, Mandi House, NewDelhi. (SH: Engagement of persons w.e.f. 01.04.2016 to31.03.2017). Estimated cost:- Rs. 11,56,357/-, EarnestMoney : Rs. 23,127/-, Period of completion : 12 (Twelve)Months.

2. NIT No:- 51/EE(C)/MHPD/2015-16, Name of work:-Conversion of Room No. 427 into Conference Hall for DD(News) at Doordarshan Bhawan, Tower-B, Mandi House,New Delhi. (SH: Various civil works). Estimated cost:-Rs. 14,91,464/-, Earnest Money : Rs. 29,829/-, Period of com-pletion : 01 (One) Month.

3. N.I.T No.52 EE©7MHPD/2015-16, Name of work:-Construction of sump well tank for raw water at BroadcastingHouse New Delhi. Estimated Cost:-Rs. 7,50,673/-, Earnest Money Rs. 15013/- Period of com-pletion: 02 (Two) Month.

For above works:-

i. Last date and time for uploading of documents and on-linesubmission of tender: up to 15.00 hrs. 21.03.2016.

ii. Date and time for opening of online tender: 21.03.2016 at15:30 hrs.

The tender forms and other details can be downloaded fromwebsite, www.tenderwizard.com/AIR. This press tendernotice can also be seen on the website www.allindiaradio.gov.in

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Japanese financial services giantNippon Life is set to increase

its stake in Reliance CapitalAsset Management (RCAM) to49 per cent. Nippon LifeInsurance Company has agreedto increase its stake in RCAMfrom the existing 35 per cent to49 per cent in two or moretranches. Following the com-pletion of the transaction,Reliance Capital will receiveabout �1,200 crore.

In a regulatory filing to theBSE, Reliance Capital said that ameeting of the board of directorsof the company’s subsidiary,RCAM will be held on March 17inter alia, to consider andapprove transfer of shares toNippon Life. Besides, RCAM willchange its name to Reliance

Nippon Life Asset ManagementLtd. The proposed name‘Reliance Nippon Life AssetManagement Limited’ has beenmade available by Registrar ofCompanies, and will be madeeffective with necessaryapprovals.

Earlier this month, NipponLife had received markets regu-lator Sebi’s nod for raising itsstake in Reliance Mutual Fund to49 per cent, completing the reg-ulatory approval process for thedeal. The Japan-based firm hadacquired 26 per cent stake for�1,450 crore in 2012 while valu-ing the company at �5,600 croreat that time.

Nippon Life in Februaryacquired 9 per cent additionalstake of RCAM for about �657crore to take its holding to 35 percent in the Reliance Group com-

pany. The Japanese company willnow be investing an aggregatevalue of �1,196 crore to acquirean additional 14 per cent stakein RCAM, in tranches, to have49 per cent stake.

RCAM runs Reliance MFand is part of Anil Ambani-ledReliance Group's financial ser-vices arm, Reliance Capital.Nippon Life manages over $500billion (�30 lakh crore) in assets,highest in the world for any lifeinsurer.

RCAM is the largest assetmanager in India, in terms ofAsset Under Management, man-aging �2,61,424 crore ($39.6billion) as on December 31, 2015across mutual funds, pensionfunds, managed accounts andoffshore funds. The deal wasentered between th e parties inNovember, last year.

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NEW DELHI: India is anattractive destination forglobal sovereign and pen-sion funds as they are expect-ed to invest up to $50 billionin infrastructure sector overthe next five years, says areport. A research report byAmbit and The City ofLondon Corporation saysthat sovereign wealth funds,global pension funds andinsurance companies areinterested to invest in infra-structure assets in India.

“With the infrastructureasset supply becoming scarcein western markets, there is asignificant opportunity toattract meaningful invest-ments for India from theseinvestors,” Ambit Corporate

Finance Managing DirectorRahul Mody said adding thiscould be up to $50 billionover the next five years.While private sector has beenparticipating in Indian infra-structure sector over the lastcouple of decades throughPublic Private Partnership(PPP) model, its participationhas slowed down significant-ly over the last three years.

Moreover, India’s PPPprogramme is concentratedto a large extent on the roadsector so far. The paper notedkey recommendations torevitalise the PPP frameworkin the Indian infrastructuresector, to enable the investorsparticipate in the promisingopportunity. PTI

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MUMBAI: Reserve Bank has asked banks to payinterest on savings banks account on quarterlybasis or shorter duration, a move which will ben-efit crores of savings account holders.

At present, the interest is credited in savingsbank account on half-yearly basis. Interest rate onsavings bank account is calculated on daily basissince April 1, 2010.

“Interest on savings deposit shall be creditedat quarterly or shorter intervals (on domestic sav-ings deposits),” RBI said in a master circular issuedon March 3. While public sector banks offer 4 percent interest on savings deposit, private playersoffer as much as 6 per cent.

In 2011, the central bank had decided to give

freedom to commercial banks to fix savings bankdeposit rates, the last bastion of the regulated inter-est-rate regime. While giving banks this freedom,RBI had said a uniform rate will have to be offeredon deposits of up to �1 lakh.

On higher amounts, banks are allowed to offerdifferential rates to depositors. ccording to analysts,the lower is periodicity, the higher will be the ben-efit to savers. Banks will have to shell out more tocustomers. As per estimates, the lower periodic-ity of interest payment may put a burden of Rs 500crore on banks. Earlier, banks used to give inter-est of 3.5 per cent on savings accounts on the basisof the least deposit in an account between the 10thand the last day of each month. PTI

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Japanese automobile major Suzuki Motor Corporation (SMC)is looking to sell one million two-wheelers annually in India,

a key market under its new mid-term management plan.The company, which on Tuesday launched an all-new ver-

sion of flagship scooter model Suzuki Access 125 priced at�53,887 (ex-showroom Delhi), will be focussing on premiumscooters and motorcycles to achieve its target. “India is one ofthe most important markets for Suzuki's two-wheeler business.We are looking to sell one million units annually by 2020,” SMC'ssubsidiary Suzuki Motorcycle India Pvt Ltd (SMIPL) outgoingManaging Director Masayoshi Ito told reporters here.

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Markets regulator Sebi onTuesday allowed foreign

portfolio investors to invest innewly launched products --REITs, InvITs and AIFs -- andalso permitted them to acquirecorporate bonds under default.

All the investments byForeign Portfolio Investors(FPIs) in such bonds should bewithin the overall limit of�244,323 crore for foreigninvestment in corporate bonds.

“It has been decided topermit FPIs to invest in unitsof Real Estate InvestmentTrusts (REITs), InvIts

(Infrastructure InvestmentTrusts) and Category-IIIAlternative Investment Funds(AIFs),” Sebi said in a circular.

Business trust structures ofReal Estate Investment Trusts(REITs) and InfrastructureInvestment Trusts (InvIts) areexpected to help in attractingfunds into the country's realestate and infrastructure seg-ments. Besides, Sebi hasallowed FPIs to invest inCategory-III AlternativeInvestment Fund (AIF) --aclass of pooled-in investmentvehicles for real estate, privateequity and hedge funds.

However, the Securities

and Exchange Board of India(Sebi) said that FPI will nothold more than 25 per centstake in such AIFs.

Under Sebi guidelines,AIFs can operate broadly inthree categories. The Category-III AIFs are those trading witha view to making short-termreturns and it includes hedgefunds, among others.

“FPIs shall be permitted toacquire NCDs/bonds, whichare under default, either fullyor partly, in the repayment ofprincipal on maturity or prin-cipal installment in the case ofan amortising bond,” the reg-ulator said.

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Favourable macro-economicdata and Budget 2016-17,

which reinforced fiscal consoli-dation, have paved the way for eas-ing of policy rates by 25 basispoints (bps), a Citigroup reportsays. According to the globalfinancial services major, whileinter-meeting cut remains anoption with the Reserve Bank, itis expected to stick to its schedule.

“Though core CPI inflationhas stayed sticky, the negativeprints on WPI inflation (-0.9 percent in February), contraction inindustrial production (-1.5 percent in January), andGovernment’s commitment tofiscal consolidation reinforcesour view of further monetary

easing,” Citigroup said in aresearch note. “We expect RBIto ease policy rates by 25 bpsin the April policy, if notsooner,” it added. Beyond the25 bps rate cut, the ReserveBank may continue with itsaccommodative stance in thecoming months, it said.

“Beyond the 25 bps rate cut,the easing cycle may still havesome steam left in the event,global growth remains weakand food inflation stays benign,”Citigroup added. Retail infla-tion eased in February as foodprices rose at a slower pace,while Wholesale Price Indexstayed in negative territory forthe 16th month, raising expec-tations of interest rate cut by theReserve Bank next month.

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NEW DELHI: Tata Group firmVoltas is looking for a double digitgrowth in the aircondition seg-ment as the company is expectinga longer and severe summers thisyear along with pent-up-demandsfrom the consumers. Besides,Voltas would also focus on thegrowth of the air-cooler segmentas it is expecting to sell 5 lakh unitsby FY18. It launched power sav-ing range of All Star AC and allweather AC is expecting that thenew products would help co togrow its volumes in room air-conditioning segment on Tuesday.

“This category is to growabout 10%. For brand Voltas wehave been always outgrowing theindustry numbers in last manyyears. Through our new range ofproducts as split airconditionersand window ACs we would con-tinue to grow more than theindustry,” Voltas President, COOPradeep Bakshi said. PNS

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Power Minister Piyush Goyalon Tuesday called upon

African nations to join theInternational Solar Alliance(ISA) to promote the renewablesource of energy across theglobe. “African countries wouldbenefit immensely by joiningthe ISA that is headquarteredin New Delhi,” Goyal saidwhile addressing the 11th CII-Exim Bank Conclave on India-Africa Project Partnership here.

Exim Bank, the ministersaid, would explain the fineraspects of ISA to AfricanGovernments and also worktowards engagement of Indiancompanies for solar projects inAfrica through the line of cred-it (LoC) route. He suggestedthat India and Africa shoulddeepen partnerships for devel-opment of micro grids and offgrids as part of efforts for real-isation of UN’s SustainabilityDevelopment Goals (SDGs)well before year 2030.

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Myanmar got its first civil-ian president in decades

today after lawmakers electeda close aide of Aung San SuuKyi, who is expected to holdthe real reins of power in theformerly junta-run nation.

Htin Kyaw, 69, hailed hiselevation to the top post as "SuuKyi's victory", a clear nod to herplan that he serve as a proxy forthe Nobel laureate who is con-stitutionally barred frombecoming president.

MPs erupted into applauseafter the result was announcedfollowing a lengthy ballot countby hand in the capitalNaypyidaw, in which HtinKyaw took 360 of 652 votes cast.

Myanmar is undergoing adramatic transformation froman isolated and repressed pari-ah state to a rapidly openingaspiring democracy.

Suu Kyi's National Leaguefor Democracy won a thump-ing victory at elections inNovember, allowing her party

to dominate Myanmar's twolegislative houses.

But the military remains apowerful force and has refusedto change a clause in the junta-era constitution which barsher from the presidency.

The veteran activist hasinstead vowed to rule "above" thenext leader. Her choice of HtinKyaw is seen as a testament toher absolute faith in his loyalty.

The affable economicsgraduate, who acted as a driverfor Suu Kyi in brief spells offreedom from her long years ofhouse arrest, has the democ-racy movement in the family.

"This is sister Aung SanSuu Kyi's victory," the newlyelected president told reportersafter the vote. "Thank you."

Htin Kyaw will be sworn inon March 30, replacing incum-bent Thein Sein. It will be thefirst time Myanmar has had acivilian president since 1962, when the military seized power.

Thein Sein, a former gen-eral, led a quasi-civilianreformist government for thelast five years that has beenpraised for moving the nationout of the shadow of outrightmilitary rule.

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Russian warplanes and troops stationedat Russia's air base in Syria started leav-

ing for home on Tuesday after a partial pull-out order from President Vladimir Putin theprevious day, a step that raises hopes forprogress at the newly reconvened UN-bro-kered peace talks in Geneva.

However, the head of the defense com-mittee in Russia's upper house of parliament,Viktor Ozerov, said on Tuesday that he esti-mated about 1,000 Russian military per-sonnel would remain in Syria at the twobases, the Interfax news agency reported.

Ozerov said Russia would need a min-imum of two battalions, a total of 800 troops,to protect the two bases. In addition,Russia would continue to conduct airreconnaissance, requiring some of theplane crews to remain, and the military spe-cialists advising the Syrian army also wouldstay, he said.

The UN special envoy for Syria calledPutin's announcement a "significant devel-opment." Staffan de Mistura said in a state-ment that his team hoped the Russian draw-down would have a "positive impact" on thenegotiations aimed at finding a political solu-tion to Syria's war and "a peaceful politicaltransition in the country."

Putin announced the withdrawal ofmost of the Russian forces from Syria onMonday, just hours after de Mistura hadreconvened indirect peace talks betweenrepresentatives of Syrian President BasharAssad's government and those of the so-called moderate opposition. After meetingwith a government delegation on Monday,the U.N. envoy was to meet with oppositionrepresentatives on Tuesday.

Later Tuesday, Putin's spokesmanDmitry Peskov denied that Russia's deci-sion was prompted by Kremlin's displeasurewith the Syrian government's tough posi-tion in the negotiations — or that it was

intended to put pressure on Assad.Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad

Javad Zarif welcomed Russia's decision tobegin withdrawing forces from Syria, sayingit indicated that Moscow doesn't see animminent need to use force for maintainingthe cease-fire, which is fragile but holding.

"That in and of itself should be a posi-tive sign. Now we have to wait and see," Zarifsaid during a visit to Australia.

Russia's Defense Ministry said a groupof Su-34 bombers was the first to depart onTuesday, accompanied by a military trans-port aircraft. The planes would be makingstops at airfields in Russia for refueling andtechnical checks since some of them are sta-tioned more than 5,000 kilometers awayfrom the Syria base, the ministry said.

Russian state television showed videoof the three warplanes taking off and fly-ing in formation behind a larger transportaircraft, and also reported that two moregroups had subsequently set off for home.A later report showed the Su-34 pilotsreceiving a hero's welcome at an air base

near the Russian city Voronezh.Putin didn't specify how many aircraft

and troops would be withdrawn. Russia hasnot revealed how many soldiers it hasdeployed to Syria, where it maintains a navalfacility as well as an air base, but US esti-mates of the number of Russian militarypersonnel vary from 3,000 to 6,000.

Russia had deployed more than 50 jetsand helicopters to its Hemeimeem air base,in Syria's coastal province of Latakia. Thenumber of sorties had been drasticallyreduced since the cease-fire went intoeffect on Feb. 27.

Meanwhile, a Russian deputy defenseminister said Russia would continue strik-ing Islamic State militants and Syria's al-Qaida branch, known as the Nusra Front,as well as other militant factions that theU.N. Security Council has designated as ter-rorist organizations. The Syrian army hassaid it also would continue its operationsagainst these groups "with the same tempo."

While the Russian air campaign hadbrought positive results, it was too early to

speak about victory over terrorism and theRussian forces remaining in Syria "have thetask of continuing to strike terrorist targets,"Nikolai Pankov said during a ceremony atthe Syria base honoring the departingRussian pilots.

Ozerov said Russia would keep itslong-range S-400 air defense missiles at thebase. Russia deployed the powerful systemin November after Turkey downed a Russianjet along the Syrian border.

The start of the negotiations inSwitzerland on Monday offered Putin anopportune moment to declare an official endto the five-and-a-half-month Russian aircampaign, which has allowed Assad's armyto win back some key ground and strength-en his positions ahead of the talks.

Announcing his decision in a televisedmeeting with Russia's foreign and defenseministers, Putin said the Russian air cam-paign has allowed Assad's military to "rad-ically" turn the tide of war and helped cre-ate conditions for peace talks.

With Russia's main goals in Syriaachieved, the pullback will allow Putin topose as a peacemaker and help ease ten-sions with NATO member Turkey and theGulf monarchies vexed by Moscow's mil-itary action.

At the same time, Putin made it clearthat Russia will maintain its air base and anaval facility in Syria and keep some troopsthere. Syria's state news agency also quot-ed Assad as saying that the Russian militarywill draw down its air force contingent butwon't leave the country altogether.

The Syrian presidency said Assad andPutin spoke on the phone Monday andjointly agreed that Russia would scale backits forces in Syria. It rejected speculation thatthe decision reflected a rift between the alliesand said the decision reflected the "suc-cesses" the two armies have achieved infighting terrorism in Syria and restoringpeace to key areas of the country.

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Iran's recent ballistic missiletests are not in violation of its

nuclear deal and the EuropeanUnion is not considering sanc-tions at this stage, EU foreignpolicy chief Federica Mogherinisaid on Tuesday.

Mogherini warned that lastweek's missile tests, whichTehran insists are not aimed atdeveloping nuclear weaponscapability, could raise tensionsin an already volatile region.

"This is indeed also in ourview not a violation of the(nuclear deal) as such,"Mogherini said after meetingthe foreign ministers of the 28EU nations in Brussels.

"If there is a violation ofUNSC resolutions, this shouldbe discussed in the appropriateUN bodies," Mogherini said.

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Citing the example ofworking with India

and China to reach theParis climate changeagreement, US PresidentBarack Obama called onTuesday for mobilisingthe world to meet sharedchallenges like the threatposed by ISIS.

"We're going to haveto keep mobilising theworld to meet shared

challenges. And thatincludes strengtheninginternational rules andnorms that undergirdpeace and security,"Obama said in hisaddress to the Chief ofMissions Conference atthe State Department.

"We're going to haveto continue to ensurethat Iran fully meets itscommitments under thenuclear deal; to makesure that we're enforcingeffective sanctions onNorth Korea; that, at ourupcoming summit herein Washington, we'recontinuing to increasenuclear security," he said.

Obama said hebelieves that a broadervision of US strength thatharnesses all elements ofnational power, includingdiplomacy, is what isgoing to "make a differ-ence in this complicatedage that we live in".

"That's how we builda global coalition to dealwith Iran -- strong sanc-tions plus diplomacy.And under the nucleardeal, Iran will not get itshands on a nuclear

weapon," he asserted."That's how we work

with countries like Chinaand India and nearly 200nations to reach the Parisagreement, the mostambitious global agree-ment ever to fight climatechange," said the USPresident.

Obama said he plansto do everything that hecan with every minutethat he has left in thePresident's office to keepmaking progress andmake the world safer,more prosperous, and todeal with the enormouschallenges that so manypeople are burdened witharound the world.

"First and foremost,we've got to continue tokeep our nation safe,especially from the threatof terrorism," he said.

"We're going to haveto continue to strength-en our global coalitionagainst ISIL, whether it'sthe air campaign, supportfor local partners, cuttingoff ISIL financing, pre-

venting the flow of for-eign terrorist fighters,working with partnersto counter ISIL's bank-rupt, nihilistic ideology,"the US President said.

"On climate change,we have to ensure thatnations meet their Pariscommitments, that theUnited States does so aswell, and that we invest innew clean energy solu-tions, and help develop-ing countries deal withclimate change andensuring that they donot feel that they have tochoose between upliftingtheir people economi-cally and preserving theplanet," he said.

In the Asia Pacific, hesaid, the US would haveto move ahead with itsre-balance, strengthen-ing alliances, partneringwith ASEAN, supportingthe transition inMyanmar, moving aheadwith TPP and ensuringsecurity and stability inplaces like the SouthChina Sea.

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In what promises to be areality check for Republican

frontrunner Donald Trump,voters began flocking to pollingcentres in five major Statesacross the United States onTuesday to bring about a mea-sure of clarity to an intenselybitter race.

By the end of what hasbeen billed as Super Tuesday 2,one may have a fair idea onwhether the controversial bil-lionaire can clinch theRepublican nomination overthe next month or two, or hewill have to battle it out withthe Republican establishmentat the party convention inCleveland in July.

Without a virtual cleansweep in the five States, notablythe winner-takes-all Floridaand Ohio, it could be an uphillclimb for Trump to secure the

1,237 delegates needed to winthe nomination, thereby raisingthe probability of a contested orbrokered convention to settlethe issue. Polls have put Trumpahead in four of the five States.

If the day is a test ofsupremacy for Trump, it willalso be a test for the very sur-vival of two of the four con-testants – Senator Marco Rubioand Ohio Governor JohnKasich. At a minimum, they

will have to win their respectivehome-States of Florida andOhio or fall by the wayside.

Rubio is fighting with hisback to the wall after every con-ceivable poll has put him waybehind Trump. He, however,sought to keep his own moraleand that of his supporters highby disregarding the projec-tions and mounting a blisteringattack on Trump at every out-ing. “I don’t think there’s any-

one in the history of Americanpolitics that compares to thevulgarity of a Donald Trumpcandidacy,” he said at onevenue.

In contrast to Rubio,Kasich is locked in a close con-test with Trump in Ohio. IfKasich does pull it off in hishome-State, he will justify hiscontinue in the race for now,regardless of the fact that it isonly his first victory. Analysts

say it would be mathematical-ly impossible for Kasich tomop up the required numberof delegates even if he were towin all the remaining pri-maries.

Senator Ted Cruz has beenopenly demanding that Rubioand Kasich drop their bid andline up behind him as part oftheir shared quest to thwartTrump’s march to nomination.“It will be absolutely clear toeveryone that this is a two-manrace,” Cruz told reporters onMonday, adding: “I think aftertomorrow it will be officially atwo-man race. Because noother candidate has any plau-sible path to 1,237.”

On the Democratic side,front-runner Hillary Clinton,who has built up a sizeable leadover Senator Bernie Sanders sofar, leads in most polls in the fiveStates, but Sanders who defiedpredictions and caused a sen-sational upset in Michigan lastweek is eyeing more surprises,notably in Ohio and Illinois. IfClinton sweeps the SuperTuesday 2 contests, it would bethe beginning of the end ofSanders’ nomination bid.

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sidiary of Belgium bakery,invites application for two-year intensive bakery pro-gramme at its Bakery Schoolin Mumbai. The course isdesigned to enable and pre-pare students from disadvan-taged backgrounds to progressbeyond basic schooling withpractical training that willallow them to readily earn agood livelihood.

An important factor forthe school’s creation is thePuratos Group’s commitmentto corporate social responsi-bility wherever they operate.Puratos attaches great impor-tance not only to sharing theirown knowledge and skillswith their business partners —the bakeries, supermarketsand food service companies —but also to helping otherswho are less fortunate in thelocal community.

Admission to the school isbased on the motivation and

commitment shown by thestudent, but also their parents,who are involved in the selec-tion process. 25 students areenrolled each year for this pro-gramme.

The course is organisedover four semesters and offersa wide curriculum beginningwith the basics of baking andpatisserie to advanced levels ofpatisserie, sugar work andchocolate making. In additionto a strong technical founda-tion, students will be intro-duced to new methods andmaterials in the industry. Theprogramme will also involveshort periods of work experi-ence in various companies, forwhich students will be paid.

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)Sector is emerging as a rapidly growing andpromising career domain. India is the only

country that has brought out legislation on CSR.It is now viewed as an integral part of business strat-egy to minimise the business risks linked to uncer-tainty.

CSR does not imply charity, sponsorship orphilanthropy. Instead it is a process through whicha company achieves a balance of economic, envi-ronmental and social obligation. It is an essentialconcept whereby companies decide to spent a cer-tain percentage of their net profit either voluntar-ily or on account of the legislation to contributeto make a better society and a cleaner environment.

The CSR provisions made under TheCompanies Act 2013 entails:�Projects or programmes relating toactivities specified in Schedule VII to theAct; or�Projects or programmes relating toactivities undertaken by the board ofdirectors of a company in pursuance ofrecommendations of the CSR Committeeof the Board as per declared CSR Policyof the company

Every public and private sector com-pany that fulfills certain criteria has tospend two per cent of its net average prof-it of the immediately preceding threeyears. This is mandated by CompaniesAct 2013 and the New CSR Rules 2014that came into effect from April 2014.Subsequent to recent reports, it is expect-ed that over one lakh jobs will be gener-ated in the next six years, 16,000 com-panies will come into the CSR fold and�22,000 crore will be generated.Moreover, the liberalised and globalisedIndian economy is witnessing shrinkingrole of state and growing role of corporateand business in overall development of country.Corporates, with their wider reach, professional-ism, innovation and wealth, have the ability to influ-ence the pace of growth and development. Further,public expectations from corporates and businesses

are growing. In addition to providing good quality

products at reasonable prices, companiesshould strive to make their operations

environmentally sound, adhere to highlabor standards, reduce human rights

abuses and mitigate poverty. The CSRindustry is diverse due to distinctnature of activities of the organi-sations leading to plethora of jobopportunities within the private,public and voluntary sectors.

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resources. Opportunitiesare also opening up in the

larger accounting and con-sulting firms, many of which are

trying to compete with the nicheCSR consulting firms by offering

their own CSR client services. In publicsector, CSR career options can be found in

national Government agencies, PSUs and inter-national organisations.

There are a wide variety of non-governmen-tal organisations (NGOs), industry associations,think-tanks and academic institutions engaging inlearning and/or advocacy within the CSR arena.

Major corporations have their CSR wingswhich are exclusively dedicated to doing commu-nity development and CSR activities directly orindirectly in the vicinity of their operations sector.In other companies, CSR activity is undertaken by

the HR, marketing, corporate communication orthe department dealing with environmental mat-ters. It is observed that companies whose opera-tions directly impact nature, like mining, manu-facturing, power generations etc, have very activeCSR wings. They tackle the grievances of nearbypopulations and engage the stakeholders. In greenfield projects, we have seen corporate giants andGovernment struggling hard to get the landacquisitions and Resettlement and Rehabilitation(R&R) issues solved. Even here, CSR profession-als are in great demand.

The process of establishing and responding tothe CSR agenda within an organisation willrequire specialists who have experience in variousfields like social work, health, education, disaster

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The six core competencies —understanding society, building

capacity, questioning business asusual, stakeholder relations, strategic view and har-nessing diversity— are listed for managers involvedwith CSR activities.

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from among the professionals who are intosocial work, rural development and otherdevelopmental fields to undertake and manageCSR activities of the company. There are anincreasing number of qualifications becomingavailable at masters level and as part of MBAcourses. The professional courses like Master ofSocial Works (MSW), MBA in RuralDevelopment and PGD in Rural Developmentetc offered by different universities and reputedinstitutions may be right option for career inCSR.

Most corporations would look for candidateswho have some relevant CSR experience. A pos-sible solution would be to opt for internship for afew months and gain experience.

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The Budget for skill developmentis highly encouraging for us. We’ll becreating 1,500 Multi Skill TrainingInstitutes (MSTIs) which will basical-ly be the new generation IndustrialTraining Institutes (ITIs) set up inPublic-Private Partnership (PPP)model. These will be set up in thoseblocks and districts of the countrywhich are yet to focus on skill devel-opment.

To achieve our target of skilling onecrore youth over the next three yearsunder the Pradhan Mantri KaushalVikas Yojana (PMKVY), we are settingup model skill centres in over 500 dis-tricts in the country. The continuity intax benefits available under section35CCD to training institutes till 2020is also encouraging to the skill ecosys-tem.� What do you have to say about theformation of the National SkillCertification Board?

It will see representation fromboth Government and industry whichwill collectively enable a joint frame-work for quality skill assessment andwill further strengthen the ecosystem.We’ll work to deliver entrepreneurship,education and training in 2,200 colleges,300 schools, 500 Government ITIs and50 vocational training centres. Aspiringentrepreneurs will be connected tomentors and credit markets.� Has the employability scenarioimproved over the years?

Employability is a concern acrossindustries. With the advent of new tech-nology and new job roles, there is con-tinuous need for skilling, up-skillingand re-skilling. We have to upgrade ourworkforce to the industry’s requirement.The focus has to be on a job-readyworkforce which is equipped to handlethe mandate from day one of their workin any organisation.� What are the ways in which largenumber of candidates can beemployed in varied industries?

It is quintessential that under-

graduate programmes are evolved tobeing more job-centric and there is afocus on vocational education andtraining, beginning from the schoollevel. The standards in education andtraining need to see an overhaul whichwe’ve proposed through the NationalSkill Qualification Framework (NSQF). � Tell us about the hiring prospects?

The current incremental humanresource requirement in the country, till2022, is of 109 million across 24 key sec-tors, out of which top 10 sectors likeconstruction and real estate, retail,transportation and logistics, beauty andwellness etc constitute for about 80 percent of the required workforce. It’s a veryambitious goal for all.� What is the biggest hindrance inskilling India?

The biggest challenge for us rightnow is creating aspiration in the youthfor skills and bridging the gap betweendemand and supply. To skill 40.2 crorepeople by 2022 requires strong syner-gies with the stakeholders and a con-ducive environment to be built for allto boost skill development. The indus-try needs to step forward and startrecognising and thus, hiring the skilledworkforce.

Moreover, the mindset of all, espe-cially parents of our youth, needs tochange that just a degree won’t help onein getting a job. It’s equally importantto be skilled in order to be efficient andresult-oriented. A skill certificate can bethe certificate to a successful career anda good life.� How is the ApprenticeshipAmendment Act (2014) beneficial?

After the comprehensive amend-ment of the Apprentices Act 1961 in

December 2014, the Act has been mademore responsive to industry and youth.Employers will now have to engageapprentices from the strength of 2.5 percent minimum, to up to 10 per cent oftheir total work force. The number ofapprentices in the country has increasedfrom 2.7 lakh to 3.1 lakh in the past oneyear. On site inspection has been doneaway with and companies are nowallowed to do self-assessment. A fine isnow levied instead of imprisonment incase the company does not engage withapprenticeship. The industry can intro-

duce optional trades, beyond the 259designated trades under this Act.

Companies operating in four ormore states can now work directly withthe central authorities and companiescan also outsource basictheoretical/classroom training. ThirdParty Agencies (TPA) can be used forgetting apprentices for training and anew scheme of Apprentice ProtsahanYojana has been started for incentivis-ing apprenticeship in MSMEs.

We’ve also ensured that 50 per centshare of the stipend will be shared by

Government. Industry is no more lim-ited to follow the ratio which is men-tioned trade wise for apprentices.Graduates and postgraduates of Arts,Science and Commerce can also under-go apprenticeship training. It has alsobeen extended to the service sector.Apprenticeship stipend is linked tominimum wages of the semi-skilledworker of the State. � What’s happening at the entrepre-neurship front?

Entrepreneurship will be a key ele-ment in India’s future. We’ve recentlyannounced a scheme called Udhyamitathrough which we will educate andequip potential and early age entre-preneurs.� What are the upcoming pro-grammes in the pipeline?

Some of the proposed initiatives toscale up existing skill training initiativesinclude setting up of 7,000 new ITIs toenhance seats to the tune of 25 lakh andcreation of model skill developmentcentres in every ParliamentaryConstituency; establishment of 1,500MSTIs in unserved blocks and areaswith active participation of industries;setting up of network of communityradios across the country to promoteSkill India mission. We are alsofocussing on upgradation of ITIs foradoption of ISO certification andindustry partnership in development ofCorporate Skill Development Centres.

There will be Mobile TrainingVans in rural areas to implement train-ing at the grassroots.We are also settingup Labour Management InformationSystem and aggregation for TrainingPartners along with Training Centresand Courses. Two new World BankProjects have also been approved. Thisincludes Skills Strengthening ForIndustrial Value Enhancement(STRIVE) project to revitalise the ITIecosystem and Skill Training forEmployability leveraging Public PrivatePartnership (STEPPP), which will beimplemented in mission mode throughWorld Bank support to achieve theobjectives laid down in the NationalSkill Development Mission (NSDM).

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IP University organised a seminar on gender climate changeand conservation. According to the convener of this seminarProfessor Rita Singh, it was aimed at providing better understandingabout climate change and its impact on gender.

How critical is the role of women in mitigating and creatingawareness despite their vulnerability. Women in rural areas are inposition where they are disproportionately affected by climatechange. It is thus important to identify gender sensitive to respondto environmental and humanitarian crisis caused by climate change.A number of events like paper reading contest, poster presenta-tion and photography exhibitions were organised on the occasion.The seminar was organised by the club of this university,Biophila, which simply means love for the other forms of life.

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start-up, Cube26, announced apartnership with IIIT-Hyderabad to initiate researchon cognitive intelligence. Theyear-long project will select twoto three postgraduate and fiveto six undergraduate studentsof IIIT-Hyderabad for thesame. The research work willbe considered as theses for theIIIT-Hyderabad students.

Commenting on the newinitiative, Saurav Kumar, CEOand co-founder, Cube26, said:“At Cube26, we are committedto strengthen our data sciencecapabilities and make a differ-ence with smarter technology,products and solutions. Thetie-up with IIIT-Hyderabad isin line with our plans to bolstercustomer experience poweredby cognitive intelligence.”

He also said that there issignificant amount of userfeedback that could be col-lected to correct and improve

algorithms to better ourdesigns and development.“Cognitive computing tech-nology has the potential to aug-ment our reasoning capabilitiesand empower us to make bet-ter informed real-time deci-sions. In 2016, smart machinesand cognitive systems willform the foundation forenhancing speed of access toinformation and personalizingcustomer experiences,” Kumarsaid.

Speaking at the eventVasudeva Varma, professorand dean (Research), IIITHyderabad said: “This is agreat opportunity for our stu-dents to work on a niche sub-ject like cognitive intelligence.This tie-up will help our stu-dents get hands-on experienceof working in a start-up envi-ronment. Cognitive intelli-gence is an untapped sector inIndia and this research willbenefit both Cube26 and us.”

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With a plethora of players ply-ing their trade in profession-al leagues around the world,

West Indies will take on a well-balancedEngland in what could be a potential-ly close Super 10 Group 1 fixture of theICC World Twenty20 today.

The Caribbean charmers, whoclinched the title in 2012, have a stringof all-round cricketers to bank upon asthey seek to establish themselves againamong the top-notch teams in the short-est format of the game.

England, on the other hand, havethe wherewithal to stop the maraudersfrom the West Indies to continue theirpursuit of a second World T20 crownafter establishing themselves as thechampions in 2010.

Both the sides go into the matchafter victories in warm-up games.While West Indies lost to India but man-aged to stun Australia, while Englandwon both their matches against NewZealand and Mumbai.

West Indies, led by Darren Sammy,who is among the players who can batand bowl effectively alongside DwayneBravo and Andre Russell, comes into thegame with a 5-4 advantage over Englandin head-to-head contests that includesa 3-3 record in World T20 encounters.

It all may boil down to how the twoteams play against the spin bowlers ona Wankhede Stadium track that couldoffer some turn and bounce.

England have a spinning trio — legspinner Adil Rashid, off spinner MoeenAli and uncapped Hampshire allrounder Liam Dawson who bowls left-arm spin.

With West Indian mystery spinnerSunil Narine, who has pulled out, notpresent to trouble the rival batsmen withhis unorthodox stuff, England’s spinattack looks better than West Indies spinquartet of Samuel Badree, left-armslow Sulieman Benn, and off spinnersMarlon Samuels and Chris Gayle.

West Indies batting will be led by

the explosive Gayle but they will certain-ly miss the services of all-rounderKieron Pollard, opener Lendl andDarren Bravo. England’s batting line-upboost of captain Eoin Morgan, Joe Root,Ben Strokes and Jos Buttler.

England had lost their last two T20games last month to South Africaprior to the tournament, while WestIndies, who practiced in Dubai for twoweeks before reaching India, had drawn1-1 against Sri Lanka in November lastyear.

Though West Indies have been lessthan impressive in Tests and ODIs oflate, they remained a top T20 side, andwere the semifinalists two years ago inWorld T20 in Bangladesh after their glo-rious triumphant run in 2014.

Since that loss to Sri Lanka inMirpur in 2014, the Phil Simmons-coached West Indies have played onlyeight T20 Internationals, winning fourand losing three.

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From pinch hitting to deadly slow balling, from catchy dancecelebrations mid-field to rocking music, DJ Bravo is a com-

plete entertainer. The Trinidad & Tobago all-rounder tellsKARTHIK RAMAN why he is upbeat about his team’s chances,how Windies plan to tackle the giant stage and how he is goingto rock the world with the launch of his official World Cupanthem ‘Champion’ ■ On Sunday, West Indies stunned Australia in a warm-upmatch to get their WT20 preparations going in style. Howsatisfied were you with that performance?The last game was very good. We were in the fight right throughit. Darren Sammy (50 not out) played really well. It will give usconfidence ahead of our game against England on March 16.■ You in particular had a very good game with a great spellof 4/21. How satisfied were you with your bowling?It was good. Prior to coming to India, we were in Dubai, wheremy all-round cricket has been good and I have been bowlingwell there. So I am happy to collectively do well for the team.■ What is the realistic target for your team going into theT20 World Cup?We will take it one game at a time, rather than setting up a spe-cific target.■ Are you confident that the present group of West Indiesplayers has what it takes to replicate the 2012 glory?Yes, we have a good team and we can repeat it again.■ How big a blow it is to not have Keiran Pollard and SunilNarine in the squad?It is a big blow for us. But we have players who can come in andget us going.■ Do you think the experience of playing in the IPL will helpyou as well as your teammates to get adjusted to Indian pitch-es?Yeah. Playing in IPL will help us perform well in sub-continentwickets. But, it is also the same for other players from differentcountries as many have been playing in the IPL.■ How excited are you about the launch of your anthem'Champion' in partnership with VEGA Entertainment inMumbai on Monday? I am very excited. It is something new and different that I havedone. The beats, the lyrics and the music and the dance are allmy own. ■ What is the main theme of the song?The song is about remaining positive and about the peoplewho inspired me.■ When and how did your love for music begin?It came from Trinidad and Tobago, where music is a big partof our lives.

Their arrival itself was mired indrama and a mercurial Pakistan

would look to bring the focus backon their cricket when they take onan enigmatic Bangladesh in whatpromises to be an engrossingWT20 Super 10 Group 2 encounteron Wednesday. Pakistan arrivedlater than planned in India owingto security concerns of theirGovernment.

The Pakistani players will takethe field today, eyeing revenge forthe humiliating loss to Bangladeshin the recent Asia Cup. ButBangladesh would be no pushoversas they are riding high after mak-ing the final of the continentalevent, which was won by India.Bangladesh stormed into the Super10s after beating Oman by 54 runsby D/L method in their last quali-fying match in Dharamsala.

Left-handed Tamim Iqbalwould lead the attack, whileBangladesh would hope that theirleft-arm pacer Mustafizur Rahmanrecovers from his side strain, whichhad ruled him out of the Asia Cup.Bangladesh could not have askedfor more familiar territory —Kolkata.

The 2009 champions Pakistan,meanwhile, boast of arguably themost potent pace attack with thereturn of left-arm pacerMohammad Amir, who has seam-lessly integrated into the side afterhis spot-fixing ban. WithMohammad Irfan and Wahab Riaz,the three left-arm quickies showedwhat they’re capable of in the AsiaCup.

Pakistan would bank on theirbowlers do the job for them as bat-ting is not the team’s strong point.Shahid Afridi’s men have had trou-

bles with their top-order, prompt-ing the selectors to twice tinker withthe squad.

It is perhaps the last chance forAfridi, who has come under scan-ner due to his lack of form on thefield and comments off it, to silencethe critics with his bat and also chipin with his leg-spin.

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Under attack in Pakistan for statingthat cricketers from his country are

loved more in India, captain ShahidAfridi on Tuesday sought to douse thefire by saying that he did not intend todemean his nation and was merely try-ing to give a ‘positive message’ by show-ing respect to the fans here.

In an audio statement posted by thePakistan Cricket Board on its Twitterhandle, Afridi has clarified that he wasnot trying to belittle Pakistani fans dur-ing the now infamous post-arrival pressconference ahead of the ICC WorldTwenty20. “I am not just captain of thePakistan cricket team but I am represent-ing all the Pakistani people here and Ithink if one looks at my comment in apositive way then it is obvious that I didnot mean to say that anybody else wouldmatter more to me than Pakistani fans.My whole identity comes from Pakistan,”Afridi said.

Afridi has been criticised for thestatement made on March 13 with for-mer captain Javed Miandad calling itshameful. The flamboyant all-rounderhas also been issued a legal notice inLahore for his comment. “I was asked aquestion by a journalist and I tried toanswer it in a positive way because I

know whatever I say would be heard allacross the world. So I was merely try-ing to give a positive message to the restof the world that we enjoy a lot when weplay in India.

“Whether it is Wasim Akram, WaqarYounis or Inzamam ul Haq, they will alsosay that they get a lot of respect herebecause cricket is literally worshipped inIndia. You can even ask Imran bhai,cricket is a religion here.

“I merely gave a diplomatic state-ment so that the message that goes to theworld is that cricket brings peopletogether and Indo-Pak relations havealways got a boost because of cricket,"Afridi clarified.

“I think I made a positive statementon behalf of my country but if somebodylooks at it negatively, he would get a neg-ative message. But my intention was pos-itive,” he added.

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Pakistani head coachWaqar Younis however said it’snothing to do with the contro-versy and added: “It’s not likethat. He was not feeling well inthe morning... So it’s better totake rest. It’s hot and humidout there.”

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Nagpur may be simmering at 38 degrees but the cityis surrounded by forested areas, at least three of

them being wildlife sanctuaries. So, besides Nagpur’slegendary orange yield, there’s another “big” showpieceit dotes on. Some 60 km from the city centre, therelies the Umred Karhandia Wildlife Sanctuary whereIndia’s biggest (tallest and longest) tiger lives. Famousas Jay, the biggest one in the wilds who walked outimperiously from the Nagzira reserve and walked 120km through human populations in search of a mate,has no connection with cricket except for the fact thatone Mr Sachin Tendulkar and family have been on histrail but not with much success. Just before the WorldCup, the master blaster was here with his family hop-ing for a sighting of Jay but despite a number of safaris,the big cat remained elusive. Tendulkar then proceed-ed to the next sanctuary Todoba where cricket’s firstfamily had a bountiful of sightings, though not of thecelebrated Jay.

There is a small kiosk just beyond the ropes at thelush green VCA stadium and the personnel sitting

there unarguably have the best view of the match. Theyare a team of doctors, nurses and paramedics who havebeen drafted into the safety zone by the ICC to dealwith medical emergencies of the players and specta-tors alike. Busy arranging the life support gear, car-diac gear, first aid needs, saline bottles, stitching equip-ment and a horde of medicines on the table laid outright next to the player dugout, this Rapid ResponseTeam from the Orange City Hospital of Nagpur hasbeen busy. Thankfully no Indian player has so far need-ed their attention but just in case they did, “we haveeverything ready, including a Players Medical Room,four ambulances with life support systems, two firstaid centres and 49 medicos, including 16 doctors, 12specialists, nurses and parameds,” hospital director DrAnup Marar tells you. Ortho surgeon Atul Gadkariwho has long seen through emergencies in the stadi-um tell you that his team came in handy when play-er Cibanta cut his chin during the Zimbabwe/Scotlandmatch. He also treated a Hong Kong player for kneeinjury sustained during practice. Other than that, whena spectator fell off the fourth floor of the stands at theold VCA stadium, Gadkari was just a medical studenton duty back then and it was he who rushed him tothe hospital with grievous injuries and saved his life.That was way back in 1988-89.

The ICC has stiff penalties for anyone stepping intothe playing area and it is pretty dogged about it,

even on non-match days. But Jackson and Caesar haveaccess to the pitch as none others. They have the priv-ilege of the pitch being uncovered exclusively for themsome hours before the match and the strut the 22 yearsas if it is home terrain. While Jackson is the more sea-soned one at age 6, Ceasar is just 3 but on the job asearnestly. The two Labradors, officers of the NagpurPolice, have been assigned the job of sniffing dangerin and around the pitch and they have been in action,sniffing for everything from gunpowder to other explo-sives and devices that could be embedded within. Theirtrainer Mahata tells you how it is a difficult regimenthe two dogs have to follow. “In one round they shouldsniff for a maximum of 20 minutes but here they havedone some overtime,” he says patting Ceasar who wasbraving the Nagpur heat with a lot of heavy breath-ing. The two dogs are specially trained to do stadiumrecce and they were in the middle for quite sometimebefore Dhni arrived to take a look at the wicket.

,+,"&1� �!.,'It was quite a duel

— intense, rivetingand engaging,

with India winninground one atop ascintillating display ofmeasured bowling,tight f ielding andsparks of individual brilliance, like thebackhanded left arm runout of RossTaylor by Suresh Raina while on a dive.

And this duel started from thevery first ball with skipper Dhonithrowing the ball to Ashwin, MartinGuptill hitting a straight six over thespinner's head in the very first ball,Ashwin making a thumping comebackwith a fierce LBW appeal in the nextball, sending his one-ball tormentorback to pavilion in quickest everrevenge.

It was not over yet as in cameColin Munro and in the fourth ball,reversed his bat in disdain and sweptthe ball high over point boundary totell Ashwin he meant business.

Ashwin gave away 13 runs in hisfirst over which is rare and took awicket which is usual.

Then came Ashish Nehra from theother end and kept the button pressed,scalping away pinch hitter ColinMunro at just 7. A 13/2 on the score-board started resembling an Indiandelight.

It was high velocity cricket till nowand the evening had not even begun.The next boundary came only in thefourth over with skipper KaneWilliamson contributing to the kittywith a stylish cover drive off Nehra'slast ball and following it up with alobbed four in the next, over long leg,this time making an easy picking ofAshwin.

By the end of the quick five overs,India were making it happen and theKiwis somewhat irrationally adamantto hit out at 32/2.

Bumrah who replaced Nehra inthe sixth over, fresh from a batteringby SA in the warm-up, maintained hiscool and line to give away just one run.

Raina played his role next byenticing dangerman Williamson out ofhis crease, changing the pace and giv-ing Dhoni the chance to rip off thebails. It was a set-up and the Kiwi skip-per fell straight into it. With NZ 35/3

in 6.5 overs India was cruising. By the time Ashwin came in to ball

the 10th over, the Kiwis were one runshort of their 50 and the battlefrontwas alive and kicking. Ravindra Jadejacame in next to keep the visitorsengaged in a cocktail of spin bowlingwhich slowed down the runs for a bit,with only four being given away for astart.

Then came the ultimate Rainamagic and Ross Taylor was the victim.Raina bowled to Anderson who drovestraight. Raina dived took the ball inhis left hand and threw it back into thestumps with such amazing speed thatTaylor was shaking his head in disbe-lief all the way to the pavilion.Anderson, meanwhile, reached 29,

hoping to build a partnership withnext man in Mitchell Santner whogave hope by sneaking 4 byes pastDhoni and bringing NZ to 68/4.

Jadeja gave the turn in more waysthan one - turning the ball - and thewides, three in an over. However, thesixes and the fours had died down giv-ing Dhoni that lead he planned andexecuted with quiet determination.

Raina by now had finished hisovers with 15 runs and a wicket andDhoni was in a midfield huddle to dis-cuss with his deputy Kohli who to bringin. Hardik Pandya was the next man inbut he didn't quite live up to expecta-tion, bowling a wide and following itup with a wayward ball that waspacked off to a square leg boundary.

Bumrah came in to mitigate achange, bowling hard and fast to anunduly restless Anderson who afterthree balls, reversed his bat and for-tunes, playing on and giving Bumrahthe scalp India were looking for. Forjust two runs, it was no mean achieve-ment. Anderson was back with 34 runsin 41 balls, showing how the greatIndian squeeze was in top order.

Santner walked next and soon fellinto long waiting gloves of Dhoni. TheKiwi 100 came in 78 minutes and 104balls in the 18th over by which timeIndia were well and truly in command,on top of the duel that ticked till theend - of the Kiwi innings . But forNehra's last over 13 runs, all else wasin India's grip.

Indian women's cricket team produceda clinical performance as they

thrashed their Bangladeshi counterpartsby 72 runs in the opening group leaguefixture of the ICC World T20, here onTuesday.

Batting first, India scored a healthy163 for five with skipper Mithali Raj scor-ing 42 off 35 balls and the hard-hittingHarmanpreet Kaur smashing 40 off 29balls with three fours and two huge sixes.

In reply, Bangladesh could onlymanage 91 for five in 20 overs as theynever looked like posing any challengefor the 'Women In Blue'.

Put into bat, skipper Raj and heropening partner VR Vanitha (38, 24balls, 7x4) added 62 runs for the open-ing wicket.

Brimming with confidence of beingin good nick, the Indian captain startedher innings by cracking back-to-backboundaries of Salma Khatun in the sec-ond over of the match.

She was picked up by leg-spinnerRumana Ahmed, who foxed thebatswoman, who ended up giving a dollyto Jahanara Alam.

With scoreboard reading 95 for 2in 15th over, Harmanpreet upped thetempo with two sixes ---- one offKhadija's bowling, hit over long-offand the other one was over deep mid-wicket off leg-break bowler Rumana.

Harmanpreet, however lost herpatience and was holed out to deep mid-wicket after she pulled Rumana into thehands of Nahida.

Veda Krishnamurthy, who remainednot out on 36 off 24 balls, walked in at95 for three in 13.3 overs and stitched auseful 45 runs partnership for fourth

wicket in the company of Harmanpreet.In the 19th over, Krishnamurthy ham-mered two sixes of Fahima Khatun topost the India's total past 150 runs.

In a thoroughly dominating per-formance right from start to finish,India pushed the vistors into a holeearly on by reducing them to 35 forthree in 10 overs. None of theBangladesh batswomen could stitch aworthy partnership which could havesteadied the ship.

To their credit, Indian bowlers, espe-cially spinners Anuja Patil and PoonamYadav, who bagged two wickets each,ensured that the visiting team could neverget easy runs.

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The New Zealand's men matchagainst India at Nagpur was some-

what opposite to what was going in thewomen's match here on Tuesday.

While the Men's team were unableto stop the flow of wickets, the NewZealand eves were picking them up inabundance to restrict the Lankaneves to a mere 110/8 in the firstinnings.

Seeing the way, Lankan eves start-ed off with Yasoda Mendis andChamari Atapattu smacking everyball, the team were set to put up a bigscore but Suzie Bates, New Zealandcaptain and her bowlers made surethat was not the case. Winning the

toss, Sri Lanka decided to bat firsthere.

For Lanka, Yasoda Mendis andDilani Manodara scored 30 and 37and shared a partnership of 43 runs off41 balls but that was it for the Lankans.

Once Leigh Kasperek (in pic.)broke the opening partnershipbetween Chamari and Yasoda, fromthere on it was difficult for Sri Lankanwomen’s to keep the scoreboard tick-ing without fall of wickets.

For NZ eves, Leigh Kasperekpicked two wickets with Lea Tahuhu,Suzie and Amy picking one wicketapiece.

It looks an easy score to achieveseeing the strong batting line-up ofNew Zealand but we will have to waitand see if it will be the same script forthe Kiwis too.

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Half centuries by skipperFaf du Plessis and swash-

buckler AB de Villiers helpedSouth Africa convincinglycrush Mumbai by eight wicketsin their final warm-up game inbuild up to the WorldTwenty20, on Tuesday.

Four South African players— JP Duminy, FarhannBeherdien, David Wiese andImran Tahir played forMumbai.

Chasing 189 to win, SouthAfrica overhauled the target

with three overs to spare.Du Plassis, who punished

all Mumbai bowlers, retiredon 65 off 45 balls. He hit sevenfours and a six. South Africawent from the word, cruising to97 in 10 overs.

Put into bat first, openerAkhil Herwadkar’s half centu-ry helped Mumbai post a stiff188 for six against a decentbowling attack comprising DaleSteyn, Kyle Abbot, KagisoRabada and Chris Morris.

Herwadkar hit 8 bound-aries and two sixes in his 61-runknock that came off 45 balls.Dumiy made 22 in just 18balls while Beherdien (6) fellcheaply.

If DDCA is hosting the match it is all thanksto retired justice Mukul Mudgal who was

asked by the High Court bench to supervisethe matches being held at the Feroz ShahKotla stadium. It is Justice Mudgal who sort-ed out the differences between the DDCAand the others. Attending the inauguralmatch here between New Zealand and SriLankan eves, he said, "I am happy that todayis the first match here and we have given 3000tickets to school children for women'smatch and for men's match we have given250 tickets."

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