NEW DELHI, FEB 04Breaking his silence on

former union ministerJayanthi Natarajan's alle-gations, Congress vicepresident Rahul Gandhi onWednesday said that hehad asked her ex-colleagueto save environment andadivasis.

Addressing an electiongathering in Delhi, theCongress vice presidentsaid, “I have always foughtfor the underprivileged andI will continue to do sofearlessly.”

Rahul's reaction came aweek after Natarajanannounced her resignationfrom the primary member-ship of the party andaccused the Congress vice

president of interfering inthe Environment Ministryduring her stint.

While quitting Natarajanstated that the grand oldparty was no longer the

party that she had joined30 years ago, and said, "Itis an extremely painful,heart-rending day for me,because my family has

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NEW DELHI, FEB 04Prime Minister Narendra

Modi, who addressed his lastrally on Wednesday inAmbedkar Nagar before theDelhi Assembly pollsSaturday, said that people'senthusiasm for BJP acrossDelhi was tremendous.

He also said that a vote forthe BJP was a vote for devel-opment and for uplifting thepoor and giving the poorproper health and educationfacilities.

Onus is on govt to investi-gate allegations of fraudulentfunding, says AAP chiefArvind Kejriwal

'Paanch Sawal': Why nomention of Northeasterns inAAP's manifesto? BJP asksArvind Kejriwal

The PM posted on themicro-blogging site Twitter:“Addressed a campaign rally

for Delhi Vidhan Sabha elec-tions in Ambedkar Nagar.People's enthusiasm for BJPacross Delhi is tremendous.”

In another post he wrote:“A vote for BJP is a vote for

development. It is a vote foruplifting the poor and givingthe poor proper health andeducation facilities.”

“We don't believe in liesand mudslinging. We are

working for the people andwill continue working withthe same vigour.”

Earlier, while addressingthe rally, PM Modi he took adig at surveys ahead of theAssembly polls that predictedthe Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)having an advantage.

Modi said for a strongnation it was necessary tohave a strong BJP govern-ment and appealed to votersnot to give an "unstable" gov-ernment to Delhi.

"I am seeing the hugecrowd here. It is much biggerthan when I would addressrallies ahead of the generalelection. It gives an indicationof the direction the wind isblowing," he said, as persources. He urged the peopleto vote in the BJP with fullmajority in Delhi.

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NEW YORK, FEB 04A US court here has set a

pre-trial hearing in April in thelawsuit filed by a Sikh rightsgroup asking that Indian rightwing organisation RashtriyaSwayamsevak Sangh (RSS)be designated as a "foreign

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US court sets date inApril for hearing incase against RSS

JAMMU, FEB 04Notifications were on

Wednesday issued forFebruary 7 polls for four seatsof Rajya Sabha of Jammu andKashmir as seven candidatesincluding Congress veteranGhulam Nabi Azad are in thefray. "The elections to elect

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Notification issued for Feb7 Rajya Sabha polls in J&K

NEW DELHI, FEB 04Following criticism over the

use of the word "immigrants"for people from northeast inits vision document for Delhi,BJP on Wednesday came outwith a rephrased version andasserted the party stood firmly

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After 'immigrants' gaffe,BJP rephrases chapteron Northeast people

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NEW DELHI, FEB 04Finance Minister Arun

Jaitley Wednesday accused theAAP of receiving blackmoney, and termed the party a"brilliant propagandist" whowears the "label of honesty" onits sleeves.

Jaitley said in an article onthe Bharatiya Janata Party

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AAP received black moneyas funds: Jaitley

NEW DELHI, FEB 04Amidst most of the opinion

polls giving an edge to AAP inDelhi elections, UnionMinister M Venkaiah Naidu onWednesday said the electoralmandate in the national capitalcannot be seen as a referen-dum on the performance ofNarendra Modi government atthe Centre. "It is the election

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Delhi poll results not a referendum onModi govt's performance: Naidu

NEW DELHI, FEB 04Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)

chief Arvind KejriwalWednesday said the ElectionCommission (EC) has clearedall his doubts over tamperingwith the Electronic VotingMachines (EVMs).

"EC cleared all our doubtsabout the EVM machine

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EC cleared doubts on EVMtampering: Kejriwal

RIYADH, FEB 04The Haj quota for India for

2015 has been fixed at136,020 pilgrims followingthe conclusion of the annualHaj agreement between Indiaand Saudi Arabia.

The agreement was signedby Minister of State for

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India's Haj quota fixedat 136,020 for this year

WASHINGTON, FEB 04US President Barack

Obama has invited an Indianalong with five other undocu-mented students at the WhiteHouse to hear directly fromthe young people whose liveshave been positively affectedby the US immigration

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Indian among undocu-mented students invitedby Obama to White House

JAMMU, FEB 04The 300-km long Jammu

Srinagar National Highwaywas reopened for vehiculartraffic today after two days ofclosure due to heavy snowfallat Jawahar tunnel-Patnitopsection of the highway. Over1,000 stranded vehicles havebeen cleared off the highway

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Jammu-Srinagar highwayreopens for vehicular traffic

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I asked Jayanthi Natarajan to saveenvironment, adivasis: Rahul Gandhi

NEW DELHI, FEB 04A survey by AAP on Wednes

predicted 51 seats for itself, 15 forBJP and a paltry 4 seats forCongress and others in the DelhiAssembly polls as the campaignfor the electoral battle reached itscrescendo.

Giving details of the AAP sur-vey, senior party leader YogendraYadav said 53 per cent voters inthe city wanted Arvind Kejriwalas the Chief Minister while 24 percent preferred BJP's Kiran Bedifor the post.

He said AAP is likely to get 46per cent vote share while BJP willget 33 per cent and Congress 11per cent. Others have been pro-jected to get 10 per cent of thetotal votes.

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GURGAON, FEB 04Haryana Chief

Minister Manohar LalWednesday said saidthat till now about17,000 complaintswere received at thechief minister's win-dow that was set upDec 25 last year toexpeditiously redressthe grievances of themasses.

He said that a callcentre would be estab-lished for monitoringthe complaintsreceived at the CMwindow, and callswould be placed fromthere to the com-plainants to verifywhether their griev-ances had been

resolved or not.He said that the con-

cerned officers havebeen provided withone month's time toredress the griev-ances. The chief min-ister was addressing apress conference atGurgaon, where he

highlighted theachievements of last100 days of his gov-ernment.

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AAP will get 51seats in Delhi polls:Party's own survey

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NEW DELHI, FEB 04AAP chief Arvind

Kejriwal onWednesday ridiculed'Jan Dhan Yojna'claiming lakhs ofaccounts openedunder Prime MinisterNarendra Modi's petscheme have 'nomoney' and peoplewill get insurancebenefits under it onlyafter death.

"I heard the PrimeMinister talkingabout opening bankaccounts of lakhs ofpeople (under JanDhan Yojna (JDY))but then where is themoney? He now saidthat they will giveinsurance of Rs one

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Kejriwal ridicules Modi'sJDY, says no money in

people's account

GENEVA, FEB 04Islamic State militants

are selling abducted Iraqichildren at markets as sexslaves, and killing otheryouth, including by cruci-fixion or burying themalive, a United Nationswatchdog said onWednesday.

Iraqi boys aged under 18are increasingly being usedby the militant group assuicide bombers, bombmakers, informants orhuman shields to protectfacilities against U.S.-ledair strikes, the U.N.Committee on the Rightsof the Child said.

"We are really deeply

concerned at torture andmurder of those children,especially those belongingto minorities, but not onlyfrom minorities," commit-tee expert Renate Wintertold a news briefing. "Thescope of the problem ishuge."

Children from the Yazidisect or Christian commu-nities, but also Shi`ites andSunnis, have been victims,she said.

"We have had reports ofchildren, especially chil-dren who are mentallychallenged, who have beenused as suicide bombers,most probably without

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TAIPEI, FEB 04Rescuers used a crane

to hoist the fuselage of awrecked TransAsiaAirways plane from ashallow river in Taiwan'scapital late onWednesday as theysearched into the nightfor 17 people missing ina crash that killed at least26 others.

Flight 235 with 58people aboard, most ofthem travellers fromChina, banked sharplyon its side shortly aftertakeoff from Taipei,clipped a highway bridgeand then careened intothe Keelung River.

Rescuers in rubberrafts pulled 15 peoplealive from the wreckageduring daylight. Afterdark, they brought in thecrane, and the death toll

was expected to riseonce crews were able tosearch through sub-merged portions of thefuselage, which came to

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Crashed Taiwan plane hoistedfrom river; 26 confirmed dead

Islamic State selling, crucifying,burying children alive in Iraq: UN

NEW DELHI, FEB 04Outlining its direction in

view of the "changed"political situation, CPI(M)today marked fighting the"right wing" offensive bycarrying out political andideological struggleagainst BJP-RSS combineas its main task, while alsoruling out any truck withCongress.

With the Left party fac-ing major electoral revers-es, its Draft PoliticalResolution, to be present-ed at the 21st congress at

Visakhapatnam in April,also emphasised on build-ing "independent" strengthof the party, while workingactively to rally other leftand democratic secularforces to form a front forunited action.

"The party has to fightagainst the BJP and Modigovernment's policies.This is the main task athand. This requires a con-certed opposition to Modigovernment's economicpolicies and its Hindutvaoriented social and educa-

tional policies."The party has to con-

duct a political and ideo-logical struggle against theBJP-RSS combine. Thefight against communal-ism cannot be conductedin isolation. It has to beintegrated with the strug-gle against the neo-liberalpolicies and in defence ofpeople's livelihood," thedraft political resolutionoutlining the future politi-cal direction of the partysaid. The party said that it

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NEW DELHI, FEB 04Jaskirat Kaur Mann,

named by the AAPVolunteer ActionManch (AVAM) as oneof the conduits of theAam Aadmi Party`spoll fund, Wednesdaysent a defamationnotice to AVAM presi-dent Gopal Goyal.

Mann, an Indian citi-zen living in Canada,said Goyal has a per-sonal vendetta againstthe AAP. She is an AAPsupporter, therefore

Goyal is deliberatelyspreading false infor-mation against her,Mann said.

Mann sent the noticethrough her lawyer SMAnis.

Goyal has allegedthat Mann has receiveda donation for the AAPof Canadian dollars1,000 from GaganBlueberry GrowersLtd. Anis, however,described the claim asabsolutely false and

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Main task to fight Modi govt, RSSled Hindutva forces: CPI(M)

Defamation notice sentto AVAM's president

DELHI, FEB 04Addressing a rally

in Delhi's Munirka,Union FinanceMinister Arun Jaitleytook on both AamAadmi Party andCongress and asked

people to decide asto what kind govern-ment they wanted.

“For 10 yearsCongress gave a cor-rupt government tothe nation. It has

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Delhi polls: AAP is a symbol oflawlessness, says Arun Jaitley

NEW DELHI | THURSDAY | FEB 05, 2015Delhi News2 SAADDA HAQ

NEW DELHI, FEB 04Wearing their trademark

white and saffron capsrespectively, thousands ofAAP and BJP supportersfrom across India haveswamped Delhi to do theirbit for what is a do-or-dieelection for both parties.Students, doctors, engi-neers, lawyers, activists andeven common labourers,they can now be spotted allover the national capitalseeking support for the BJPor the AAP.

In sheer numbers, theAam Aadmi Party ofArvind Kejriwal seems tohave edged out theBharatiya Janata Party.Both parties are determinedto outdo the other in theSaturday battle.

Most BJP campaignersfrom outside Delhi, esti-mated at about 15,000, havecome from Gujarat,Rajasthan, Haryana,Punjab, Madhya Pradeshand Himachal Pradesh.

The 20,000-strong AAP

army is drawn dominantlyfrom Haryana,Maharashtra, MadhyaPradesh, Uttar Pradesh,Chhattisgarh andKarnataka. Many are stay-ing with friends and rela-tives. Others prefer thepremises of BJP and AAPoffices that have sprung upin all 70 constituencies.

From early in the morn-ing, these volunteers branch

out in constituencies allot-ted to them, soliciting sup-port. Many position them-selves outside the DelhiMetro stations and otherhubs distributing pamphletsand caps. BJP campaignerssport saffron caps. AAPcaps are white in colour.Both have their party namesand election symbols --BJP`s lotus and AAP`sbroom -- printed on them.

Amitabh Goswami, 31,an engineer fromBengaluru, has been inDelhi for a week. He andhis friends stay at a friend`shouse at Mukherjee Nagarnear Delhi University andcampaign for AAP`sAkhilesh Pati Tripathi, aformer legislator. All areengineers in the same com-pany and are on leave,Goswami said. AAP`sPunjab convenor SuchaSingh Chhotepur told IANSthat over 20,000 AAP vol-unteers from other stateswere now in Delhi.

"From Punjab, more than1,500 volunteers are help-ing AAP candidates. Theymostly stay at party officesand houses of party lead-ers," he said.

"Four hundred of us havecome from MadhyaPradesh," said Pankaj Singhof the AAP, adding 62 vol-unteers from Chhattisgarhwere camping in KrishnaNagar, where BJP`s chiefministerial candidate Kiran

Bedi is contesting.Delhi BJP spokesperson

Harish Khurana told IANSthat his party`s volunteerswere staying at their owncost. "We have farmers,doctors, lawyers, business-men and poor people fromoutside rubbing shouldershere," he said.

Balwant Singh, a farmerfrom Baghpat in UttarPradesh and a BJP support-er, said he reached DelhiJan 25. He is campaigningfor Najafgarh candidateAjeet Singh Khadkhari.Three of his relatives havealso come to Delhi.

In comparison to the allfour MPs of the AAP fromPunjab, more than 120 MPsof the BJP are campaigningin Delhi besides severalcentral ministers, a fewchief ministers and partyleaders from several states.BJP leaders hold five to 10rallies every day. The BJP`scampaign leader is ofcourse Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.

Thousands of supporters from across Indiacampaign for BJP, AAP in Delhi

NEW DELHI, FEB 04After 'Selfie with Mufflerman'

and a series of fund raising din-ners across the globe, AAP hasroped in its NRI supporters forthe party's "tele-door- to-door"campaign to woo voters ahead ofthe Assembly polls.

According to AAP, the cam-paign is aimed at serving the twinpurpose of seeking people's sup-port and to appeal to them to helpthe party financially by engagingsupporters who cannot campaignon the ground.

The party website has detailedinstructions on how supportersworldwide can get in touch withDelhi voters and call them direct-ly.

"Our NRI supporters arespending sleepless nights anddevoting most of their time formaking calls. It is their way ofcontributing to the party

although they cannot be presenton the ground," RashmiSrivastava, a member of the teammonitoring the campaign, said.

It is, however, not just limitedto NRIs as volunteers from statesacross the country have also beenparticipating in the campaign.

"War-rooms have been createdin several districts where peoplesit and try to achieve a set targetof reaching out to a certain num-ber of voters," Bhaskar Singh,another team member, said.

The record of the calls aremade available on AAP's websiteand it gets updated everyday.

Further, tele-rallies are organ-ised among groups of such vol-unteers who compete with oneanother to make calls.

Inter-district and inter-statematches are organised to seewhich district or state outdoes theother.

AAP ropes in NRI supporters for'tele-door-to-door' campaignNEW DELHI, FEB 04

With most of the opinionpolls giving an edge to AAPin Delhi elections, UnionMinister M Venkaiah Naiduon Wednesday said the elec-toral mandate in the nationalcapital cannot be seen as areferendum on the perform-ance of Narendra Modi gov-ernment at the Centre.

"It is the election for theChief Minister and not for thePrime Minister. NarendraModi is not fighting assemblyelections. It is a state elec-tion. You are going to elect aChief Minister not a PrimeMinister. It is the BJP versusthe rest. That is all," Naidutold PTI in an interview.

However, he defended hisparty's aggressive campaignto win Delhi polls, saying themood of the country now wasto strengthen the hands of the

Prime Minister, who is tryingto bring a transformation andDelhi being the capital, natu-rally acquires importance.

Dismissing that Delhi polls

were Modi versus ArvindKejriwal, he said, "Who isKejriwal. He foughtParliamentary elections. See,what happened. The same

thing is going to happen tohim here also. There is nocomparison between Modiand Kejriwal. Modi is thePrime Minister of India, whohas been elected by peopleand then backed by nearly400 MPs."

To a specific question onwhether the results in Delhicould be called some sort of areferendum on Modi govern-ment's performance at theCentre, the minister, who hadbeen President of the BJPtwice, wondered, "How can itbe? Then what aboutMaharashtra , Jharkhand,Haryana, Jammu andKashmir elections. Were theyalso referendum?"

On the decision to nameformer IPS officer Kiran Bedias the party Chief Ministerialnominee, he said it was a"considered decision taken

unanimously" by the partyleaders and rejected viewsthat her nomination was amistake.

Naidu also alleged that bothAAP and Congress had earli-er "ruled and ruined" Delhitogether and will join handsagain.

Terming as "absurd"Congress general secretaryDigvijay Singh's remarks thatthere could be BJP's handbehind AAP funding allega-tions, he said, "Congress andAAP have very good connec-tions. They were together.

"They have ruled andruined Delhi.... That showswhere does the Congresssympathy lie. They are tryingto rescue AAP. It's an indica-tion of things to come. Peopleshould see it. I say 'pyar kiyato darna kya'... Tell peoplethat you are together

Delhi result not a referendum on Modi govt's performance: Naidu

NEW DELHI, FEB 04Continuing its attack on

Aam Aadmi Party with itsseventh set of questions,the Bharatiya Janata Partyon Wednesday criticisedthe former for giving nospace to Northeasterns inits manifesto.

In a press conference,BJP leader and UnionMinister NirmalaSitharaman asked AAPconvener Arvind Kejriwalabout his plans on devel-opment of Delhi and onthe tax-evasion noticesgiven to the donors.

“Both Congress andAAP had criticised us formentioning North Eastpeople as 'immigrants'which we had later accept-ed as a typo mistake. But,none of them have men-tioned even a little para onthem in their manifesto,”asked Sitharaman.

She also accusedKejriwal of taking Rs 2crore donation from some-body whose company wasdeclared tax defaulter by

Department of Trade andTax 10 days before hebecame CM. “Is this a caseof quid quid pro quo forbenefits extnded to themduring his tenure?” Sheasked.

Seeking clarification onAAP's slum redevelop-ment plan, Sitharamansaid that AAP manifestospeaks of giving housesinstead of jhuggis, but insmall print it states‘if it's

not possible’.In her fourth question,

Sitharaman asked AAPabout its plan for makingDelhi a world class city.She further asked AAP toexplain its plan on decon-gesting roads in Delhi.

Earlier, the BJP hadposed questions to AAP onits association with Naxalsand black money dona-tions.

'Paanch Sawal': Why no mention of Northeasternsin AAP's manifesto? BJP asks Arvind Kejriwal

NEW DELHI, FEB 04Taking a swipe at Prime Minister

Narendra Modi over his 'Make inIndia' campaign, Rahul Gandhi onWednesday said the Rs.10 lakh suithe wore during US President BarackObama's visit was "Make in UK".

Gandhi also accused Modi of work-ing only for only four-five industrial-ists.

"Modiji said he will give youemployment. He talked of Make inIndia. Crores of rupees were spent inmarketing this Make in India. Youtell me whether something came outof it.

"He wears Rs 10 lakh suit.Newspapers report that this is notMake in India. That too is Make inUK. And then he tells you aboutMake in India and employment. Didany youth get employment? No. Hetold you that Delhi is dirty and cleanit. He did not give you job, did notlessen your suffering but put a broomin your hand," Gandhi said at a rallyhere.

As the election campaign for Delhireached a crescendo, the Congress

Vice President targeted both thePrime Minister and AAP leaderArvind Kejriwal, accusing them of"selling big dreams" and not fulfill-ing promises.

He also rained promises like rightto roof for every Delhite, ending con-tract labour within a week and mak-ing electricity cheap.

This the second time during the

election campaign, Gandhi had takena jibe at Modi?s clothing.

Last week, he had said that thoughModi failed to deliver on the promiseof bringing back black money, hewore a suit worth Rs 10 lakh duringObama?s visit.

Gandhi, whose party has beenaccusing Modi of centralising allpowers, said that the entire country isbeing run through the PMO and he(Modi) thinks that he alone canchange India.

"This cannot happen. You feel bigpromises were made and you gotnothing. False promises were indeedmade. I am telling you, you are notgoing to get anything from Modi andKejriwal. Making promises is a veryeasy. Doing work is difficult," hesaid.

Referring to the fall in price ofcrude oil, he said that prices are risingdespite that and somebody must bebenefitting from the losses of thecommon man.

"Somebody must be benefitting.Let me tell you, who are benefitting.There are four-five businessmen

friends of Modiji, who are benefittingfrom it.

Gandhi recalled that during the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls, he madethe point that one man cannot changethe entire country and this is nowbecoming clear.

"Modi had come and sold you bigdreams during Lok Sabha polls. Heengaged in tall talks. I had told youone person alone cannot changeIndia. India can be changed by peopleof India. If India needs anything, it isthe empowerment of people. I saidthat one person cannot bring all thechange. But you believed (Modi).

"I want to ask you, you thinkwhether life changed for you. Sixmonths have passed. Modi saidprices will come down but vegetableshave become costlier," he said.

Noting that when the UPA was run-ning the government, the prices ofpetrol and diesel were very high, hesaid, "it (crude oil price was 140 USdollars per barrel. Today it has cometo 40 US dollars. The biggest reasonfor price rise is petrol price. Petrolprice came down but prices are ris-

ing. Where is the money going?"Attacking AAP as "agent of BJP,"

Gandhi said that AAP did nothing in49 days it was in power and ran away.Congress had supported AAP lasttime to form a government in Delhi.

Accusing Kejriwal of "breakingpromises", he said that while theautorikshaw drivers had supportedAAP wholeheartedly in the last elec-tions, the party is not visible on autosnow.

Suggesting a bonhomie beweenAAP and BJP, Gandhi asked whyKejriwal's party is not organizingdharnas over incidents of rape andcorruption now when BJP rules theCentre.

"When Congress had its govern-ment here, AAP had sat on dharna.Anna Hazare had come and sat ondharna. There was an incident ofrape. They held demonstrations.Rapes are still hapening. Incidents ofrape have risen by 30 percent.

"Why did AAP not organize dhar-na. Is is beecause BJP is in power?Because as you say, they are BJP'sagent. Corruption is still happening.

Are Modi's friends not benefitting.Why does AAP not organize dharna.Why did it say nothing in last sevenmonths?," Gandhi questioned.

Gandhi also raised questions overcandidates with criminal records inAAP's list.

"30 of them have criminal record.What did you get from promises.Modi and Kejriwal made promises.What did you get from them. BJPsays bring us to power. They have agovernment. APP ruled in Delhi. Wesupported but they fled," he said ashe urged people to vote for Congressclaiming that it is a party of the poorand the weak.

On the BJP vision documentreleased yesterday, he said, "You lookat Maharashtra, Delhi, Haryana.Riots will definitely happen afterpolls. They will definitely pit Hindusagainst Muslims. One the one handthey talk of development, on theother hand they will fuel fights. Theydo not hate Muslims. They simplywant power. They know that they willbenefit politically by fanning angeragainst you," Gandhi said.

NEW DELHI, FEB 04Questioning the "conspic-

uous silence" of ArvindKejriwal on AAP's "dubi-ous" funding, BJP onWednesday alleged that theparty leader's political con-duct has been completelycontradictory to the stan-dards he had set for himself.

Union Minister and seniorBJP leader Ravi ShankarPrasad asked Kejriwal toanswer to the queries posedto him for accepting fundsfrom "dummy" companieswhich "have fictitiousaddresses, have commondirectors and no business toshow and are making noprofits."

"All his claims to be thesole custodian of propriety,

of probity, of morality, ofstandards of polity in Indiastand completely exposedbecause of his conspicuoussilence to squarely facethese searching questions.

"The political conduct hasbeen completely contradic-

tory to the standardsKejriwal set for himself,"Prasad said.

He asked the AAP leaderas to why he was runningaway from the truth andaccused him of turningblackmoney into white. "I

strongly condemn this,"Prasad said.

"Mr Kejriwal pleaseanswer. You took moneyfrom such a company whichdoes not have any business,any profit, whose directorsare in many dummy compa-nies with fictitious address-es. We want answers to thesequestions.

"Please don't run awayfrom the truth. If you don'twant to give answers, then itbecomes evident that youare trying to create black-money into white," he said,adding, "It exposes your hal-low and the claim of morali-ty."

He also questioned AAP ifit accepted cheques fromanywhere.

PM Modi's Rs 10 lakh suit was made in UK, says Rahul Gandhi

Arvind Kejriwal trying to turn blackmoney into white, alleges BJPNEW DELHI, FEB 04

It has been just over a year sincethe Aam Aadmi Party formed theDelhi government in December2013, and nearly as long sinceArvind Kejriwal resigned as ChiefMinister on February 14, 2014. Ifyou're going to vote in the DelhiAssembly elections which will takeplace on February 7, then you prob-ably still remember where you'resupposed to go, but if you've for-gotten then there's a very easy wayto look up the location of thepolling booth you're supposed to goto.

Mapping service MapmyIndiahas launched a service called thePolling Booth Locator, which is asimple website where you can enteryour details and see the location ofthe polling booth. The site is

extremely easy to use, and workedfine on both desktop and mobilephones. Remember though thatyou're not supposed to carry yourphone with you in to the pollingbooth, so if you're going alone, thenlook up the address and routebefore leaving home.

To use the app, you can look upyour details with you voter ID. Ifyou don't remember that, just yourname and your father's name isenough to look up the details youneed. Or, you can check the loca-tion of all polling booths in yourlocality, and then cross-check thislist with your name, to see whereyou have to vote.

The search quickly throws up allyour details - your voter ID, gender,age, address and your serial andpart number on the rolls. There's

only one button you can press atthis point, which shows the direc-tions to the polling booth.

You'll see a detailed map that issupposed to give you the directionsfrom your doorstep to the pollingbooth. This worked well, for themost part. We tried with a numberof different people's details, and themap was accurate.

When checking the site, onevoter's address in Mayur Viharshowed correctly on the detailspage, but was in the wrong place onthe map. We tried this with threeother people though, and got cor-rect results. The issue is probablywith the way addresses in theCGHS apartments in Mayur Viharare written, because we got thesame issue with three other peoplein the same area.

Delhi Elections 2015: MapmyIndia Launches Polling Booth Locator

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People's enthusiasm..."Don't bring in an unstable government. It

is the country's capital. Its fate should not beleft hanging. Please vote for progress, votefor the BJP," he said.

Modi said his aim was to bring develop-ment to the country and bring change to thelives of the poor in Delhi.

He said the "entire world now considersIndia as an important force and it is happen-ing because of your votes that brought theBJP with majority to the Centre".

Taking a dig at the opposition parties, hesaid his opponents are troubled by him,because "they are not able to digest howModi, a poor man, has come to be the primeminister".

He said in the last Lok Sabha election, sur-veys said he would lose by three lakh votes inVaranasi, but he won.

He said under the leadership of Kiran Bedi,who has been named the Bharatiya JanataParty's chief ministerial candidate, the partywill begin development of Delhi.

"We are not going to stop for a singlemoment because, we have to clear up themess of the last 16 years in the next fiveyears," Modi said, adding that the goal of hispolitics is development.

"Development to bring a change in thelives of the poor," Modi said, adding that theBJP would ensure education for the childrenof the poor, medical care for the aged andalso "pucca" houses in place of shanties withelectricity, water and toilets.

Modi also defended the BJP over the "typo-graphical error" of describing northeasternpeople as "immigrants" in the party VisionDocument and decried attempts to rake upthe issue for political mileage.

"Attempts are being made to provoke peo-ple from the northeast ... a mistake was madeand the party accepted it," Modi said at therally.

"No one should play with the unity of thecountry for political benefits. Brothersshould not be pitted against brothers," theprime minister.

Modi said he has visited the northeasternstates many times and the BJP governmentwould develop the region "more than whathas happened in the past 60 years".

In her speech, Bedi said if she became thechief minister, her first priority would be todevelop the city's slum clusters and improvethe quality of life of the people living there.

Kejriwal ridicules...lakh, which a person will get after he dies,"

he said while addressing a rally."Had they said all these thing before the

polls, then would people have voted forthem?" Kejriwal asked claiming that theNDA government had been brandishing 'JanDhan Yojna' as its achievement during theDelhi Assembly election rallies.

Taking a dig at Modi for his promise ofensuring security of women in the nationalcapital, Kejriwal said, records show that thecrime against women has increased by 25 percent in the city in last seven months.

He also accused the BJP leaders of takingDelhi back to 11th-12th century and shutwomen inside their homes to ensure theirsafety.

"His (Modi's) MPs are asking women togive birth to at least four children. HaryanaChief minister ML Khattar from his party isasking women not to wear jeans, some otherleader is saying women should not work...Soto secure women basically they want to shutthem inside their homes. Do they want totake Delhi back to 11th-12th century,"Kejriwal said claimed that the women ofDelhi were upset with the BJP governmentand all of them would vote for AAP.

Hitting out at the BJP on the issue of highpower tariff, Kejriwal alleged that the ownersof power companies and BJP leaders werehand in gloves and that was the reason whymeters in majority of households were run-ning fast. "The previous Congress govern-ment was hand in gloves with power compa-nies and now even this government is doingthe same," he claimed. Kejriwal also attackedBJP for targeting AAP in the election rallyand not touching upon critical issues like lay-ing out a roadmap for development of thecity. "They are throwing mud at us as they(BJP) are frustrated and they know they willlose," he said.

Delhi polls...been reduced to 4th, 5th spot in a lot of

places,” he said, adding, “A new party whichclaims to be a symbol of honesty, is a repre-sentation of lawlessness,” as per said.

Further taking on Arvind Kejriwal-ledAAP he said, “They have no economic poli-cies, no administrative experience.”

On Kejriwal's dare to Jaitley to arrest himif his party had received money throughfraudulent means, the Finance Minister saidthat the matter is first investigated by incometax authorities.

The BJP leader praised the good work doneby his government in the last several monthsand said, “In the last almost 8 months wehaven't raised any taxes.”

“Which PM has expressed concern overthe security of women from the ramparts ofRed Fort, PM Modi did,” he added.

Jaitley told the gathering, “This is the situ-ation, now you have to analyse whose gov-ernment do you want in Delhi.”

Assembly elections are to be held in Delhion February 07 and counting of votes is to bedone on February 09.

AAP will...survey came a day before campaigning for

the February 7 polls comes to an end.The India Today-Cicero pre-poll survey

yesterday projected AAP to get 38-46 seatswhile BJP was projected to secure 19-25seats. The Congress was placed way behindwith only 3-7 seats.

In the 'poll of polls' based on the results offive polls, AAP gets 34 out of 70 while BJP32 and Congress 4.

Haryana receives...government's commitment with regard to

providing a clean, transparent, and corrup-tion-free administration and government forpublic welfare.

Listing the achievements of his govern-ment, Lal said that the number of cases thevigilance department had registered in thelast 100 days was more than the number ofcases registered during the last 10 years.

Presenting data, the chief minister said thatthe vigilance department pursued as many as36 cases. In 15 cases, 27 officials were heldguilty and an amount of Rs.14.44 lakh wasrecovered from them as penalty.

The department is presently looking into23 new cases, including the Kaushalaya damcase of Panchkula, HCS recruitment scam,government land scam in NIT Faridabad andthe MNREGA scam in Ambala.

Lal said that till now the state of Haryanawas divided on caste lines but now they wererunning the government following the ideol-ogy of "Haryana Ek - Haryanavi Ek" (OneHaryana - United Haryanavis).

I asked...been associated with the Congress since its

inception. I am a fourth-generation Congressworker and have Congress blood running inmy veins. It is an extremely anguishedmoment that it has come to this positionwhen I have to re-think my association withthe Congress Party."

Because of what has happened in the recentpast, the Congress is no longer the Congresswhich I joined with such great hopes andideals. I had a 30-year long association withthe Congress - I have served as thespokesperson of the party for ten-long yearswithout a single blemish on my career. Imaintain that I served the nation and theparty with great dedication to the best of myability. But today, the party and the valuesthat I joined is no longer the party that Ijoined," she added.

Giving the reasons why she was feelingoverlooked by the Congress high command,Natarajan stated that despite all allegations,she was merely following the party line.

Crashed Taiwan...rest a few dozen meters (yards) from the

shore.Dramatic video clips apparently taken from

cars were posted online and aired by broad-casters, showing the ATR 72 propjet as it piv-oted onto its side while zooming toward atraffic bridge over the river.

In one of them, the plane rapidly fills theframe as its now-vertical wing scrapes overthe road, hitting a vehicle before heading intothe river.

Speculation cited in local media said thecrew may have turned sharply to follow theline of the river to avoid crashing into a high-rise residential area, but Taiwan's aviationauthority said it had no evidence of that.

Taiwanese broadcasters repeatedly playeda recording of the plane's final contact withthe control tower in which the crew calledout "Mayday" three times.

The recording offered no direct clues as towhy the plane was in distress. It was the air-line's second French-Italian-built ATR 72 tocrash in the past year.

Today's flight had taken off at 11:53 amfrom Taipei's downtown Sungshan Airport enroute to the outlying Taiwanese-controlledKinmen islands.

The crew issued the mayday call shortlyafter takeoff, Taiwanese civil aviation author-ities said.

TransAsia director Peter Chen said contactwith the plane was lost four minutes aftertakeoff. He said weather conditions weresuitable for flying and the cause of the acci-dent was unknown.

"Actually this aircraft in the accident wasthe newest model. It hadn't been used foreven a year," he told a news conference.

Thirty-one passengers were from China,Taiwan's tourism bureau said. Kinmen's air-port is a common link between Taipei andChina's Fujian province.

Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administrationsaid 26 people were confirmed dead, 15 wererescued with injuries and 17 were still miss-ing. It said two people on the ground werehurt.

Islamic State ...them even understanding," Winter told

Reuters. "There was a video placed (online)that showed children at a very young age,approximately eight years of age andyounger, to be trained already to becomechild soldiers."

Islamic State is a breakaway al Qaedagroup that declared an Islamic caliphateacross parts of Syria and Iraq last summer. Ithas killed thousands and forced hundreds ofthousands from their homes, in what theUnited Nations has called a reign of terror.

On Tuesday, the group, which is alsoknown as ISIL, released a video showing acaptured Jordanian pilot being burned alive.

The U.N. body, which reviewed Iraq`srecord for the first time since 1998,denounced "the systematic killing of childrenbelonging to religious and ethnic minorities

by the so-called ISIL, including several casesof mass executions of boys, as well as reportsof beheadings, crucifixions of children andburying children alive".

A large number of children have beenkilled or badly wounded during air strikes orshelling by Iraqi security forces, while othershad died of "dehydration, starvation andheat", it said.

ISIL has committed "systematic sexualviolence", including "the abduction and sex-ual enslavement of children", it said.

"Children of minorities have been capturedin many places... sold in the market placewith tags, price tags on them, they have beensold as slaves," Winter said, giving nodetails.

The 18 independent experts who workedon the report called on Iraqi authorities totake all necessary measures to "rescue chil-dren" under the control of Islamic State andto prosecute perpetrators of crimes.

"There is a duty of a state to protect all itschildren. The point is just how are they goingto do that in such a situation?", Winter said.

Defamation notice...said it was concert effort to defame his

client as she never encashed the cheque."Your (Goyal) reckless and malicious state-

ments have caused much damage and injuryto the reputation of my client who is arespectable citizen of India," Anis said in thenotice.

The notice asked Goyal to withdraw hisstatement and also sought Goyal`s uncondi-tional apology to Mann.

Main task...will work actively to rally the Left and

democratic forces. This, it said, can be donethrough the process of launching mass strug-gles and joint movements on the issuesaffecting people.

"There has been a major change in thepolitical situation of the country after LokSabha elections. The resolution has charac-terised this change as right wing offensiveunder the Narendra Modi government.

"This is fuelled by two forces. One byaggressive push for neo-liberal policies andsecond the offensive of the RSS led Hindutvaforces. Together they constitute right wingoffensive which is detrimental for the interestof the people in our country," CPI(M) gener-al secretary Prakash Karat told reportersadding, that "the resolution's main directionis how to fight this right wing offensive".

Karat said that CPI(M) has "recognised"that it is under "serious" attack in WestBengal but dismissed opinions that hisparty's base is continuously being eroded inthe state. He alleged that the "opportunistpolitics" by Trinamool Congress has helpedBJP make some headway.

The draft political resolution said thatalthough the main direction of the strugglewill be against BJP, the party will continue tooppose Congress as it is the UPA govern-ment's "anti people" policies and corruptionwhich helped the BJP to acquire popular sup-port.

"The party will have no understanding orelectoral alliance with Congress," the resolu-tion said.

Karat said, "This right wing offensive hasanother dangerous dimension which is thethreat of authoritarianism. That approach isseen in the way government is passing oneordinance after the other. It is also seen in theway government refuses and is intolerant ofany views which are alien to the Hindutvaoutlook."

He said that the draft political resolutionalso stresses on the "broadest mobilisation"of secular democratic forces against commu-nal danger.

"In order to fulfil this task, first we haveemphasised that it is necessary to build andstrengthen CPI(M) as an all India force. Wehave had problems and suffered from revers-es. So the main thrust is to strengthen theparty because without a strong CPI(M) youcannot take on the fight against neo-liberalpolicies and communalism," he said.

He said that with all these, the stress willalso be on strengthening Left unity as theparty has already started bring all Left forcestogether.

"We will cooperate with other democraticand secular forces on issues regarding peo-ple's rights, defence of secularism andagainst communal forces," he said.

The draft political resolution also pointsout that the Narendra Modi government gov-ernment is aggressively going ahead instrengthening and forging strategic ties withUS. "We have seen during US PresidentBarack Obama's visit the signing of jointvision strategy document on Asia-Pacific andIndian ocean. "For the first time, an Indiangovernment has signed on to US strategy forAsia. This shows the direction of foreign pol-icy and our party will mobilise people againstthis pro-imperialist foreign policy," he said.

Karat said that his party has "recognised"that it is under "serious" attack in WestBengal.

AAP received ...website that the Aam Aadmi Party received

black money through fake companies."It disclosed the names of a large number

of corporate entities from whom it receiveddonations by cheques," Jaitley wrote.

"The disillusioned AAP members appear tohave conducted a search of these with theRegistrar of Companies. The search uncov-ered the curious character of the donor com-panies," he added.

Referring to the AAP getting Rs.2 crore

through cheques, the minister said there werelots of fake companies which were convert-ing black money into white.

"The companies do not do any business.They have no profits from any legitimatebusiness. They are `entry lending compa-nies`."

"The functioning of these `entry lendingcompanies` is very simple. At times, there area large number of inter-connected companiescreated through a multi-layering process.Money is transferred from one to another.The companies are registered at obscureaddresses," he wrote.

EC cleared ...issue...they said that EVMs are all double-

checked," Kejriwal told media here aftermeeting Chief Election Commissioner H.S.Brahma ahead of Saturday`s elections to the70-member Delhi assembly.

Kejriwal was accompanied by other AAPleaders Ashutosh and Ashish Khetan.

In a tweet, Kejriwal earlier said: "We sus-pect EVM tampering. Tried to meet CECyesterday. He was busy. Hope we will be ableto meet him today."

"We urge CEC to allow us to put a banneroutside each booth educating voters aboutEVMs," it added.

The former Delhi chief minister Tuesdayalleged that four EVM machines were foundtampered with in the Delhi Cantonment con-stituency recently.

"Large-scale EVM tampering? Yesterday,during inspection of EVMs in Delhi Cant, infour machines, whatever button you pressed,light against BJP lit," the tweet added.

Delhi poll...for the Chief Minister and not for the Prime

Minister. Narendra Modi is not fightingassembly elections. It is a state election. Youare going to elect a Chief Minister not aPrime Minister. It is the BJP versus the rest.That is all," Naidu said.

However, he defended his party's aggres-sive campaign to win Delhi polls, saying themood of the country now was to strengthenthe hands of the Prime Minister, who is try-ing to bring a transformation and Delhi beingthe capital, naturally acquires importance.

Dismissing that Delhi polls were Modi ver-sus Arvind Kejriwal, he said, "Who isKejriwal. He fought Parliamentary elections.See, what happened. The same thing is goingto happen to him here also. There is no com-parison between Modi and Kejriwal. Modi isthe Prime Minister of India, who has beenelected by people and then backed by nearly400 MPs."

To a specific question on whether theresults in Delhi could be called some sort ofa referendum on Modi government's per-formance at the Centre, the minister, who hadbeen President of the BJP twice, wondered,"How can it be? Then what aboutMaharashtra , Jharkhand, Haryana, Jammuand Kashmir elections. Were they also refer-endum?"

On the decision to name former IPS officerKiran Bedi as the party Chief Ministerialnominee, he said it was a "considered deci-sion taken unanimously" by the party leadersand rejected views that her nomination was amistake.

Naidu also alleged that both AAP andCongress had earlier "ruled and ruined"Delhi together and will join hands again.

Terming as "absurd" Congress general sec-retary Digvijay Singh's remarks that therecould be BJP's hand behind AAP fundingallegations, he said, "Congress and AAP havevery good connections. They were together.

"They have ruled and ruined Delhi.... Thatshows where does the Congress sympathylie. They are trying to rescue AAP. It's anindication of things to come. People shouldsee it. I say 'pyar kiya to darna kya'... Tellpeople that you are together".

US court...terrorist organisation" for alleged violent

acts against religious minorities in India.US District Judge Laura Swain of the

Southern District of New York set the pre-trial hearing for April 24 when issues relatedto the status of the subject application, sub-ject matter jurisdiction, disputed and undis-puted facts and other legalities will be takenup.

The lawsuit filed by 'Sikhs For Justice'(SFJ) asks the court to designate RSS as ter-ror group "for believing in and practicing afascist ideology and for running a passionate,vicious and violent campaign to turn Indiainto a 'Hindu' nation with a homogeneousreligious and cultural identity."

In the complaint, the rights group accusesRSS of targeting religious minorities inIndia, including instigating the June 1984attack against the Sikh shrine the GoldenTemple, the 1992 demolition of the historicalBabri Mosque as well as the 2002 massacreof Muslims in Gujarat.

SFJ said RSS, the ideological mentor ofPrime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP, is mak-ing headlines for its campaign "HomeComing" to convert Christians and Muslimsto Hindus.

SFJ had commended President BarackObama for his remarks in a town-hall stylemeeting with students and activists duringhis visit to New Delhi last month that Indiawill succeed as long as it is "not splinteredalong the lines of religious faith."

Notification issued...four members to the Council of States

(Rajya Sabha) by the members of Jammu andKashmir Legislative Assembly will be held

on February 7 at JK Legislative AssemblySecretariat lobby Jammu from 9 am to 4 pm,"according to the notification issued byReturning Officer M Ramzan.

The contestants in the fray are PDP's MirMohammad Fayaz, Sajjad Ahmad Kichloo ofNC, Shamsher Singh of BJP, Nasir AslamWani of NC, Nazir Ahmad Laway of PDP,Chander Mohan Sharma of BJP and Azadafter the withdrawal of candidature onJanuary 31.

While BJP and PDP have fielded two can-didates each under seat sharing arrange-ments, National Conference and Congresshave jointly nominated three candidatesincluding Azad.

After 'immigrants'...behind those from the region and would

ensure their protection and security."The BJP firmly believes that our sisters

and brothers of northeast are proud citizensof India and wherever they are the BJPalways walks an extra mile to ensure theirprotection and security - be it Karnataka, beit Delhi or different parts of India," UnionMinister and BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasadsaid He said, "the inadvertent mistake is seri-ously regretted. We have reprinted this chap-ter." Reading out the rephrased chapter on"People from the North East to be protected",he said, it now says - "Special cells in allpolice stations and special helpline numbersto be set up for the protection of the north-eastern people living in Delhi. To safeguardthe students of NE origin, special guardian-ship will be arranged with local families forthem."

BJP had yesterday faced criticism fromvarious quarters after people from northeastwere referred to as "Immigrants" in the head-ing for the chapter on them in the vision doc-ument, with Congress leader Ajay Makendemanding an apology after removal of theword.

Protests erupted across Assam with the rul-ing Congress and the Opposition Asom GanaParishad saying the statement had hurt thesentiments of the people.

BJP spokesperson M J Akbar termed it aprinting mistake, saying, "There was unfortu-nately a printing mistake in the document.We apologise for the mistake."

Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju,who hails from Arunachal Pradesh, said "it isa clerical and printing mistake."

India's Haj ...External Affairs VK Singh Saudi Minister

for Haj Bandar Hajjar in Jeddah.During his visit to Saudi Arabia, Singh met

Bandar Hajjar and discussed issues pertain-ing to arrangements for the Haj 2015, ArabNews reported.

Of the pilgrim quota fixed for India,100,020 pilgrims will come through HajCommittee of India (HCI) and the remaining36,000 through private tour operators.

During the meeting with the minister,Singh expressed deep condolences on thedemise of King Abdullah.

Indian among ...policies. Rishi Singh from South Ozone

Park in New York along with five otherundocumented students would meet Obamaat his Oval Office today, according to aWhite House official.

The other five students are Steven Arteagafrom Houston, Jean Yannick Diouf fromMaryland, Blanca Gamez from Las Vegas,Maria Praeli from Coinnecticut, and Bati-amgalan Tsoftsaikhan from Virginia.

These students received Deferred Actionfor Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an immi-gration policy which allows certain undocu-mented immigrants who entered the countrybefore their 16th birthday and before June2007 to receive a renewable two-year workpermit and exemption from deportation.

The meeting with the students is set to takeplace as Congressional Republicans arethreatening to block funding for criticalnational security priorities for theDepartment of Homeland Security (DHS)because they disagree with the President'sexecutive actions to make our immigrationsystem smarter, fairer and more effective.

"Instead of working with Democrats andthe President to fix our broken immigrationsystem, Congressional Republicans' fundingproposal makes things worse by undercuttingour efforts to strengthen security at the bor-der and by focusing our enforcementresources on deporting low priority individu-als like the young dreamers who are meetingwith the President," the official said.

Jammu-Srinagar...and allowed to move to Jammu from

Srinagar side."The highway was reopened for vehicular

traffic today after remaining closed for twodays due to heavy snowfall," an official ofthe Police Control Room (PCR) said.

The men and machines of the BorderRoads Organisation (BRO) worked round theclock and cleared the highway of heavysnowfall at Jawahar tunnel, Batote andPatnitop belts of the highway and made ittrafficable.

The traffic authorities have, however,allowed only one-way traffic on the highwayfrom Srinagar to Jammu to clear the strandedvehicles and other passenger vehicles.

Stranded vehicles at Qazigund on Kashmirside were allowed to move towards Jammutoday and over 1,000 stranded vehicles havecrossed Jawahar Tunnel, traffic officerGulzar Ahmed said.

Editorial4 NEW DELHI | THURSDAY | FEB 05, 2015SAADDA HAQ

BY MEENA MENON

For some years now, theMinistry of Environmentand Forests (MoEF)has

been perceived as a roadblockto development or a facilitatorfor the industry depending onwhich side you are on. FormerUnion Environment MinisterJayanthi Natarajan’s recent let-ter to Sonia Gandhi also alludesto the conflict in the Ministry.

The Ministry had humblebeginnings: it began as adepartment in 1980 and was setup as a Ministry in 1985 afterIndia’s participation in theUnited Nations Conference onthe Human Environment inStockholm. It was in manyways Prime Minister IndiraGandhi’s leadership and partic-ipation in Stockholm whichprompted the Ministry’s incep-tion. Now, India has a plethoraof laws which relate to theenvironment and its regulation.

Over time, even as manynotifications have come intoforce after Supreme Courtorders, the National GreenTribunal (NGT) was set up in2010 — infinitely more effec-tive than the earlier NationalEnvironment AppellateAuthority. However, enforce-ment is far from satisfactory.

The raging debate betweenenvironment and developmentis even more intense now as thecountry is on an ambitiousgrowth path and there is scantregard for people’s rights ornatural resources. UnionMinister of State forEnvironment, Forest andClimate Change PrakashJavadekar has repeatedly saidthere will be no destructivedevelopment. Yet, ordinanceson the proposed changes to theLand Acquisition Act and onmines and minerals have led tofears that amendments to envi-ronmental laws will be broughtin through ordinances.

All over the country there arestruggles against projectswhich threaten to displace peo-ple, deprive them of land andlivelihoods and give them nodecent alternatives.

Northeast India, ignored bypolicymakers for long, hasbecome the new battlegroundagainst massive hydel projects.In this scenario, protection ofthe environment and people’slivelihoods are pitted againstthe powerful industry lobbyand there are no prizes forguessing who is winning. Therecent ordinances on landacquisition and mining leaveno room for doubt that businessinterests have prevailed.

Reviewing laws

There are also threats todilute the Forest Rights Act(FRA). Last August, the MoEFdecided to appoint a High-Level Committee (HLC) head-ed by a former CabinetSecretary to review six envi-ronmental laws. As the com-mittee’s report created disquiet,it is now being reviewed by theParliamentary StandingCommittee on Environmentwhich has already heard oneround of criticism from leadingenvironmentalists in the coun-try. The HLC went straight forthe jugular and targeted theregulatory mechanism. Theonly reasoned suggestion itseems to have made is ongenetically modified (GM)crops where it advocates cau-tion.

Besides that, that it has pro-posed a new Environment Law(Management) Act underwhich new offences are pre-scribed, applicants who wantenvironmental clearances forprojects are expected to be hon-est and truthful, and the con-cept of ‘utmost good faith’ isstatutorily introduced. TheHLC dilutes the role of theNGT; the Tribunal will only be

able to judicially review thedecision of Appellate Boards. Itintroduces special environmentcourts and proposes new agen-cies — the NationalEnvironment ManagementAuthority at the national leveland the State EnvironmentManagement Authority toreplace the Central PollutionControl Board and StatePollution Control Boards, bothof which are notorious for theirinaction and corruption.Replacing them with a new setof committees is not going toimprove efficiency or honesty.Little wonder then that thereport of the HLC has sparkednationwide outrage.

While Mr. Javadekar said thereport was a historic achieve-ment that would strengthenprocesses to balance develop-mental commitments and envi-ronment protection, the criti-cism is that it seeks to disman-tle the basic structure of India’senvironmental law. The reportviolates Article 21 of theConstitution since interests ofindustry have been givenimportance, and overrides theright to clean air, water and abalanced ecosystem, said a cri-tique titled “A Recipe forClimate Disaster and SilencingPeople’s Voice” by environ-mental lawyer Ritwick Dutta,and activists HimanshuThakkar and Manoj Mishra andDebi Goenka. The critiquenotes that recommendations ofthe HLC suggest dispensingwith public hearings in projectsof “strategic” and “nationalimportance” and dispensingwith public hearings in mostregions that are already severe-ly polluted. This is based on thetheory that there is no need tohear the affected public sincethe situation cannot possiblyget worse.

The power sector and coalmining projects undefined ‘fasttrack treatment’ through‘Special Procedure’ that appear

likely to short-circuit or elimi-nate public hearings and gramsabha approval. The way inwhich the revised procedure isrecommended, approval will bea matter of right, the critiquesays.

Further, in the 113-pagereport, the word “speed” in thecontext of speedy clearances ismentioned 13 times, the cri-tique added. The emphasisswiftly shifts from concern forthe environment to “time-con-suming clearance processes.”In addition to exempting thepublic from hearing these proj-ects, the committee has alsomade recommendations on whocan participate in the publichearing and what issues can beraised. For instance, only envi-ronmental, rehabilitation andresettlement issues can beheard by the public, though thepresent Environment ImpactAssessment (EIA) notification2006 allows all persons to par-ticipate in the public consulta-tion process.

In addition, the reportenforces the stereotype thatenvironmentalists obstructdevelopment. It refers to “gen-uine public participation” asthough public hearings are notgenuine otherwise.

Curbing laws

The government’s decisionsto block funding forGreenpeace and other environ-ment NGOs and not allow acampaigner to go abroad tospeak on coal mining in Mahanare clear indications that dis-sent is not going to be tolerat-ed. Last year’s IntelligenceBureau report on NGOs explic-itly sets out an agenda to curbmovements which question thecurrent development path. InGujarat the fisherfolk ofMundra who have been dis-placed by a major power planthave not been given project-affected status; in Odisha, gram

sabhas’ opposition to coal min-ing has been disregarded.People fighting battles for sur-vival have only one option: toapproach the courts or theNGT. Sometimes, even courtorders are not obeyed.

The Ministry of TribalAffairs, the nodal agency forthe FRA, has been writing sternletters to the EnvironmentMinistry emphasising the factthat the FRA is not delayingproject clearances. The multi-layered approach for projectclearances is time-consuming.While appreciating the need forspeedy approvals, public par-ticipation must not be lost sightof.

India is rife with examples ofdevelopment refugees — farm-ers have been displaced by theBargi dam in Madhya Pradesh,the Baiga are being evictedfrom forests where they oncethrived, fisherfolk are strug-gling for survival, among otherexamples. To add to this, thereis a new genre of climaterefugees who are affected bythe rise in sea levels, changesin cropping patterns and otherclimate change impacts.

Sustainable developmentneeds serious commitment,capacity building at the locallevel and urgent action.Science has clearly under-scored the need for urgentaction if the world has to besaved from the irreversibleimpacts of climate change. TheHLC is silent on climatechange for the most part and itwill be astounding if India,poised to grow more, doesn’tfactor in climate change while“streamlining” its environmen-tal laws. In the urgency to grantindustry its due with promisesof ‘Make in India,’ thosealready in India, especially themarginalised, cannot continueto be victims of grave policyneglect and continuing alien-ation.

Afortnight after surprising the markets with a 0.25percentage point cut in benchmark interest rates,the Reserve Bank of India has opted for a stand-

still policy on rates in its bimonthly monetary policyreview, which is along expected lines. When it cut rateson January 15, the RBI had clearly said that any furthereasing would be contingent upon data confirming the dis-inflationary trend and sustained high-quality fiscal con-solidation. Given that there has been no significantdevelopment on either front, the central bank has decid-ed to maintain an unchanged stance on interest rates.However, to improve liquidity, and in line with its policyof lowering the Statutory Liquidity Ratio to increaseavailability of funds for infrastructure lending, the RBIhas reduced SLR by 0.50 percentage points to 21.50 percent. This is expected to release about Rs.45,000 croreinto the system. While the RBI is doing its bit to reducelending cost and increase funds availability, banks seemreluctant to pass on the benefit to borrowers. After theRBI reduced rates last fortnight, only a couple of bankshave so far attempted to reduce their lending rates.Though the transmission of policy rates by banks isalways sluggish in the down-cycle, the current reluctanceby banks is striking and is a direct result of the straincaused on their balance-sheets by non-performing assets(NPAs). Meanwhile, the RBI’s bias towards further eas-ing of rates is very clear, but the downward momentumwill be determined by the pace of disinflation and thegovernment’s fiscal stance in the coming Budget.Though inflationary expectations are at their lowest in 21months, the risks stem from the traditional upswing infood prices at the onset of summer, the progress of themonsoon and a turnaround in global crude oil prices thathave already rebounded from their lows in the last cou-ple of days. The RBI will also be closely watching thegovernment’s fiscal math and its commitment to keep thedeficit within targeted levels. While the current accountdeficit is projected at a very comfortable 1.3 per cent ofGDP for 2014-15, exports could suffer in the comingmonths thanks to the problems in the eurozone, which isIndia’s largest trading partner. The central bank also hasreasons to be wary about the effects of the quantitativeeasing programme of the European Central Bank onIndia’s financial and currency markets. The projection of6.5 per cent growth in GDP in 2015-16 is realistic, but alot depends on the return of investment momentum andincrease in consumption, both of which are sluggish atthis point in time. Cautious optimism could well be thecatchphrase to describe the country’s economic prospectsin the near-term.

On expected linesThursday | February 05, 2015

SAADDA HAQ

BY MICHAEL LEVIEN

Since it was passed byParliament in September 2013,the Right to Fair Compensation

and Transparency in LandAcquisition, Rehabilitation andResettlement Act (LARR) has beencriticised from all sides. Farmers andsocial movements argued that LARRfailed to adequately compensate landlosers, contained large loopholessuch as exempting irrigation projects,and, most importantly, continued toallow land acquisition for privatecompanies. Industrialists, develop-ers, and State governments, on theother hand, complained that the billwould delay projects, increase thecosts of land acquisition, and impedeeconomic growth. It was no secretthat the government shared the latterview, and it was no surprise when itdiluted many of LARR’s key provi-sions through an ordinance issued onDecember 31.

The ordinance effectively elimi-nates the main features of LARR thatgave rural people some protectionfrom arbitrary dispossession. First, itremoves the requirement that thegovernment obtain the consent of 80per cent of affected people beforetaking their land for private projects,and 70 per cent of affected people forpublic-private partnership (PPP)projects. The ordinance thus restoresthe ability of the government toacquire land for any private purposeit likes, with no need to win the sup-port of the affected. Second, the ordi-nance eliminates the Social ImpactAssessments (SIA) that LARR hadmandated as a pre-condition for pro-ceeding with land acquisition. Thisrestores the ability of the governmentto dispossess land from people with-out even assessing its negative conse-quences, much less weighing themagainst projected benefits. WithoutSIAs, there is no way to even deter-mine who is affected, thus undermin-ing the bill’s promise that non-landowners — such as labourers, share-croppers, artisans, and fishworkers— will also be compensated. In addi-tion to these major changes, the ordi-nance increases the amount of timethat a government or company cankeep unutilised land, and removesLARR’s strong penalties for non-

complying officials. By making thesesweeping changes through an ordi-nance, the government has under-mined by executive fiat the spirit of alaw that was passed with bipartisansupport after seven years of publicdebate and revision.

The argument, of course, is that thismove was necessary because LARRhad become a large obstacle to eco-nomic growth. While there is no evi-dence to support this argument, econ-omist Sanjoy Chakravorty providedone of its clearest articulations whenhe defended the ordinance in thesepages (The Hindu, “Improving anunworkable law,” January 7, 2015).Chakravorty argued that LARR cre-ated a “windfall for land-losers” bydoubling or quadrupling already highmarket prices, thus raising the cost ofland acquisition to “unsustainablelevels.” The ordinance, while keep-ing generous compensation levels inplace, would helpfully reduce theindirect costs entailed by conductingSIAs and obtaining consent fromaffected people. Even with the ordi-nance, Chakravorty worried thatcompensation levels are still too highunder LARR, and “may make manypublic projects unaffordable and pri-vate projects uncompetitive.” Thisposition is widely shared within theprivate sector, state governments, andthe economics profession.

Calculating compensation

“Capturing the dispossession wind-fall itself became the purpose of landacquisition as State governments qui-etly morphed into land brokers forprivate capital.”

But there are several problems withthis argument. The first is that it restson a misleading picture of how com-pensation is calculated under LARR.While it is true that land prices haveskyrocketed in recent years, it iswrong to suggest that this forms thebasis of how farmers are compensat-ed under LARR. Like the LandAcquisition Act (LAA) that precededit, LARR takes as its starting pointthe land’s assessed market value —what is known as the “circle rate.”The circle rate is based on the land’spast agricultural value and not itspotential value as industrial, com-

mercial, or residential land. It is nosecret that it is kept deliberately lowto minimise stamp duty. The differ-ence between the circle rate and themarket rate is usually vast. TheGreater Noida IndustrialDevelopment Authority (GNIDA),for example, became notorious foracquiring land at Rs.820 per squaremetre and reselling it to developers at

Rs.35,000 per square metre — whichis itself a fraction of the ultimateprice of the high-end flats built on theland. But we should not single outGNIDA — this is the common prac-tice of urban development authoritiesand industrial development corpora-tions across the country.

Capturing the huge gap betweenmarket prices and compensationprices is, in fact, the primary motivebehind much land acquisition inIndia today. We might call this gapthe “dispossession windfall” — itexists only because the governmentis willing to force farmers into sell-ing, and provides a subsidy to who-ever receives the land. The transpar-ent injustice of this practice was onefactor behind the widespread farmerprotests that finally pressured theUnited Progressive Alliance — withBharatiya Janata Party support —into passing LARR. But it is impor-tant to note that LARR did not elimi-nate the dispossession windfall.

LARR’s compensation formulainvolves multiplying the circle rate— not the market rate — by two inurban areas and four in rural areas (adistinction, moreover, it leaves forStates to establish). Although onemight argue that this multiplier isarbitrary, it certainly does not bringcompensation prices up to marketprices. To argue that farmers are

reaping a windfall from LARR at theexpense of the private sector is toreverse reality. To argue for a reduc-tion in compensation to farmers is todefend the use of eminent domain forgenerating corporate super-profits.

In the name of development

The second problem with this argu-ment is that by focussing on prices, itevades the more fundamental ques-tion of politics: why should a demo-cratic government forcibly take landfrom farmers and give it to privatecompanies? Since at least the Englishenclosures, governments have justi-fied taking land from one group togive to another (usually wealthier)group with claims to be fulfilling a“public” or “national” purpose. In thelast century, this has usually beendone in the name of development.Most economists assume that any“higher value” land use than agricul-ture constitutes development andthus a public purpose. But what con-

stitutes development, and whetherthat development is a “public pur-pose” worthy of dispossessing farm-ers, is not a technical or even a legalquestion, but a political one. And it isa political question that should be putin historical perspective.

During the post-Independenceyears, the Indian state mostlyacquired land for public sector proj-ects. Land acquisition for privatecompanies was legal under LAA, butwas limited in practice due to theexistence of a development model inwhich the public sector built infra-structure and controlled the “com-manding heights” of the economy.Most land acquisition was for publicsector dams, mines, and industry.While tens of millions of people weredispossessed of their land for theseprojects, the Nehruvian state wasfairly effective at convincing the pub-lic that these projects served thenational interest in state-led develop-ment. Eventually, people began topoint out that those dispossessed forthis development received scan-dalously little compensation. And bythe 1980s, groups like the NarmadaBachao Andolan began to pose themore fundamental question: develop-ment for whom?

Dispossession under neoliberalism

This question has only becomemore relevant since economic liber-alisation prompted State govern-ments to start acquiring land for pri-vate companies on a large scale. Thereforms of the early 1990s gavegreater importance to the private sec-tor, which began demanding land notjust for manufacturing (whichremained fairly stagnant), but for realestate, mineral extraction, and allmanner of infrastructure under PPPagreements. State governments, nowcompeting with each other for thisinvestment, began systematicallyacquiring land for private companiesfor almost any private purpose,whether elite housing colonies,hotels, private colleges, or Formula 1race tracks. This new regime of dis-possession reached scale in the mid-2000s with Special Economic Zonesand the practice of urban develop-ment authorities simply auctioning

off acquired land to private develop-ers. Capturing the dispossessionwindfall itself became the purpose ofland acquisition as State governmentsquietly morphed into land brokers forprivate capital. The flagrant injus-tices of this land brokering producedthe “land wars” of the last 10 years,and generated the political pressurefor LARR.

The question now facing India isabout politics, not prices: should thegovernment systematically redistrib-ute land from farmers to private com-panies? Advocates of liberalisationsay yes, ironically conceding thatgrowth in a “free market” economyrequires government expropriation ofprivate property. They claim that thisgrowth will trickle down to the poor,including those rural people asked togive their land for it. They are oftennot squeamish in admitting thatdemocracy is an impediment to theirmodel of economic growth. Manyfarmers, on the other hand, havevoiced their scepticism, arguing notonly that they are undercompensatedbut also that the profit of privatecompanies is not a public purpose.They have expressed doubt thatSEZs, hi-tech parks and real estatecolonies represent “development”that will provide them with jobs orother benefits. And they have usedthe institutions of electoral democra-cy to challenge dispossession forthese purposes. The land protests ofthe last decade, in short, represent abasic disagreement over the meaningof both development and democracy.

The current government has ambi-tious plans to push forward rapidgrowth through private investment inmega-projects such as industrial cor-ridors, smart cities, and the like. Therecent ordinance demonstrates that itis willing to subvert the democraticprocess to get the land for it. Whenmore farmer protests erupt, whatother threats to democracy are instore?

(Michael Levien is assistant pro-fessor of sociology at Johns Hopkins

University, Baltimore, U.S.)

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Leaving people out of development

The argument, of course, is that this move wasnecessary because LARR had become a largeobstacle to economic growth. While there is noevidence to support this argument, economist

Sanjoy Chakravorty provided one of its clearestarticulations when he defended the ordinance in

these pages (The Hindu, “Improving an unworkablelaw,” January 7, 2015). Chakravorty argued that

LARR created a “windfall for land-losers” bydoubling or quadrupling already high market prices,thus raising the cost of land acquisition to “unsus-tainable levels.” The ordinance, while keeping gen-erous compensation levels in place, would helpfully

reduce the indirect costs entailed by conductingSIAs and obtaining consent from affected people.

CHANDIGARH, FEB 04After a brief respite from

foggy conditions, thick fogon Wednesday engulfedmost parts of Punjab andHaryana, affecting flightsand trains even as chillyconditions aggravated inthe region with minimumtemperatures fallingsharply by up to threedegrees Celsius.

Dense fog returned inPunjab and Haryana reduc-ing visibility considerably,the MeT office said here.

Most parts of Punjab andHaryana, includingAmbala, Chandigarh,Hisar, Bhiwani, Karnal,Amritsar and Ludhiana,were engulfed in dense fogthis morning.

As a result of foggyweather, air, rail and road

traffic in the regionremained adversely affect-ed. While as many as sevenflights from Chandigarhairport were delayed, manytrains, including Howrah,Shatabdi, Shan-e-Punjab,and Lucknow Express,were running behind

schedule.The minimum tempera-

tures in the region fellsharply by up to threedegrees Celsius and hov-ered between four degreesCelsius above normal toone notch below normal,the MeT office here said.

Karnal settled at a low of16.5 degrees Celsius, threenotches above normalwhile Patiala had a low of10.6 degrees Celsius, fournotches above normal.

Among other places,Ambala had a low of 10.3degrees Celsius, threenotches above normal fol-lowed by 10 degreesCelsius at Chandigarh, alsothree notches above nor-mal; 9.6 degrees Celsius atLudhiana, three notchesabove normal; 8.6 degreesCelsius at Bhiwani.

Hisar settled at a low of8.2 degrees Celsius,Narnaul 6 degrees Celsiusand Amritsar 4.4 degreesCelsius.

The MeT office has fore-cast foggy conditions inthe region.

State Watch 5NEW DELHI | THURSDAY | FEB 05, 2015SAADDA HAQ

PATNA, FEB 04Senior JD(U) leader Nitish

Kumar on Wednesday mockedat BJP's 'Vision Document' forDelhi Assembly elections, say-ing it had no vision and reflect-ed the "divisive thoughts" ofthe party.

"In the vision document of aparty which is in power for pasteight months, there shouldhave been some vision in itsdocument," Kumar said in hisreaction to BJP's 'VisionDocument' released yesterday.

Stating it "a documentreflecting divisive and negativethoughts of the party," Kumarsaid in a statement here "onevery page of the vision docu-ment the catch word is 'Let's gowith Modi' but when you'llstudy it, a question would cropup 'where is BJP and Modi tak-ing us."

He pointed out that the docu-

ment says that "the Delhi col-leges to have 85 per cent reser-vation for students who arefrom Delhi schools or 4 percent relief in cut off marks for

Delhi students, whichever partof India their families have set-tled here from". Such a thought

was nothing but a "cruel joke"on composite culture of Delhi,Kumar said. The JD(U) leader,however, extended good wish-es to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)

leader Arvind Kejriwal forupcoming Delhi poll.

"Do such a vision reflects 'Ek

Bharat, Shresht Bharat' (oneIndia, great India) pet slogan ofBJP?" Kumar said.

He also slammed BJP forcalling people from northeast'immigrants' and questioned "isNorth East not a part of India?"

When Prime Minister waswith Chinese President XiJinping at Ahmedabad, Chinesearmy had infiltrated in Indianterritories. At that time Gujaratgovernment distributed a mapwhich showed ArunachalPradesh as a disputed area, hesaid.

"Whosoever says 'let's gowith Modi should be askedwhere to go," he said.

Kumar, who drove JD(U) tosevere ties with BJP over ele-vation of Narendra Modi as PMcandidate, said he had beenrepeatedly saying that BJPcould run a government, butcould not run the country.

BJP vision document for Delhi has no vision: Nitish

RAIPUR, FEB 04Over two years after

botched-up cataract surgeriesled to 14 people losing visionin Chhattisgarh'sMahasamund district, thestate health department hasdecided to ban the trustwhich had organised the eyecamp from holding suchactivities for three years.

The department has alsodecided to recover Rs 19.5lakh from Shree KrishnaCharitable Trust, paid ascompensation by the govern-ment to the victims ofbotched procedures.

Action has also been pro-posed against the doctors,medical staff and drug agen-cies found guilty in thisregard.

As many as 14 people inthe camp held at a communi-ty health centre inMahasamund's Bagbahra

town on December 9-10,2012, had lost vision in oneeye. "I have decided to takethese actions after examiningthe case," state health servic-es director R Prasanna told anews agency.

A ban will be imposed onShree Krishna CharitableTrust for three years, he said.

After the incident hadcame to light, Rs one lakheach was given as medicalrelief by the government to16 people affected with post-surgery infection. Besides,Rs 3.5 lakh was spent ontheir treatment.

Mahasamund's ChiefMedical and Health Officer(CHMO) will be asked torecover Rs 19.5 lakh fromthe trust. The CMHO willalso be asked to lodge an FIRagainst Lakshmi MedicalStore, Bagbahra and BajranjMedical Store, Raipur

(which supplied drugs at theeye camp) for sale of non-standardised medicines, hesaid.

A letter will also be writtento Chhattisgarh MedicalCouncil for cancelling med-ical treatment licence of twoeye surgeons of Raipur'sVinayak Eye Hospital whohad performed surgeries atthe camp, Prasanna said.

It was also proposed tointimate ChhattisgarhMedical ServicesCorporation to blacklist theguilty drug manufacturerswhose products were sup-plied at the camp.

Health Minister AmarAgrawal had in January 2013stated in ChhattisgarhAssembly that negligence infollowing a standard proto-col for cataract operationwas found in the Bagbahraincident.

NEW DELHI, FEB 04The use of the word "immigrants" con-

tinued to haunt the BJP on Wednesdaynotwithstanding its regrets for use of theterm in the party's vision document forDelhi elections.

As the Youth Congress workers protest-ed on the streets of Guwahati, BJP apolo-gised and insisted that it was a printingmistake.

"There was unfortunately a printing mis-take in the document. We apologise for themistake," party spokesperson MJ Akbarsaid. BJP's vision document for DelhiAssembly polls yesterday sparked a rowas it described people from north easternstates in the national capital as "immi-grants", drawing a sharp attack fromCongress. The BJP later claimed it as a"printing mistake".

"I want to reassure that all the brothersand sisters of the North East living inDelhi are as valuable, as important for BJPas any other citizen," said Akbar.

There were protests on the streets ofGuwahati against mentioning of peoplefrom North East residing here as "immi-grants". The 24-page 'Vision Document'that entails the party's roadmap in takingDelhi forward by making it a world-classcity and steps in public welfare includes asection on "North Eastern Immigrants tobe Protected".

The section talks of special cells in allpolice stations and 24-hour helpline num-bers to be set up "for protection of north-eastern migrants".

Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju,who hails from Arunachal Pradesh, said "itis a clerical and printing mistake."

Botched cataract surgery: Trust that heldeye camp to be banned in Chhattisgarh

PATNA, FEB 04Amid speculation of removal

of Chief Minister Jitan RamManjhi, JD(U) President SharadYadav and party GeneralSecretary KC Tyagi will hold acrucial meeting of parliamen-tarians and those who had con-tested last year general electionthis evening.

There is no confirmationwhether Manjhi, who hadunsuccessfully contested LokSabha poll from Gaya (SC)seat, would attend the meetingat the residence of former ChiefMinister Nitish Kumar.

Asked about removal ofManjhi, Sharad Yadav whoarrived here told reporters atPatna airport "you fellows aresaying this" and the meetingwas a routine one.

Asked about the possibility ofNitish Kumar being made thechief minister again, JD(U)General Secretary K C Tyagisaid "Nitish Kumar is 'sarva-manya' (all accepted) leader ofthe party and does not need any-

body's 'sifarish' (recommenda-tion)."

On the chances of Manjhi'souster, Tyagi said "the legisla-ture party will decide about theCM."

Manjhi said "you all knowfrom where such reports havecome from. I am a CM and dis-charging my duty."

Meanwhile, BJP leader SushilModi suggested Manjhi to dis-solve Vidhan Sabha before he

was forced to quit the chair.In the 243-member Bihar

House, ruling JD(U) has 115members.

It enjoys support of 24 mem-bers of RJD, 5 of Congress, 1 ofCPI and two Independentswhich goes much ahead ofmagic figure of 122. BJP has 88members and it enjoys supportof 3 independents.

Five seats are vacant in theHouse.

PATNA, FEB 04Bihar Human Rights

Commission (BHRC) onWednesday directedDGP and the principalsecretary of SocialWelfare Department(SWD) to depute theirsenior officials to appearbefore it on March 20with action taken reporton witchcraft and witch-hunt related incidents.

"Witchcraft and witch-hunt result in seriousviolation of humanrights. According to2012 data, Bihar with 13witchcraft related deathsranks fourth in the coun-try.

"We took suo motucognisance of the issuein August last year andasked the DGP to get astudy conducted on it,and to send us a report

by November 30, 2014.But we are yet to hearabout it," BHRCMember Neelmani said.

The BHRC had askedthe DGP to find the dis-tricts and areas prone towitch-hunt related vio-lence, status of criminalcases instituted in suchinstances over the last 10years, percentage ofcharge-sheets or convic-tions, whether witch-hunters object was to robthe women of her prop-erty, modesty, or wasthey any fallout of vil-lage politics and otherpossible reasons.

"We had also asked theDGP whether the exist-ing law is effectiveenough or it needs to bemore stringent, andinquired about agencies -government and non-

government - with whichthe police would like toassociate with,"Neelmani said.

He added that theSWD Principal Secretarywas asked to respondabout rehabilitation andcompensation schemesfor the victims of witch-craft or witch-hunt relat-ed violence, but no replycame from him as well.

"The issue is a seriousone and we have noticedthat no data on it hasbeen compiled properlysince 2012. Bihar wasthe first state to enact alaw on it in 1999, knownas Prevention ofWitchcraft (Dayeen)Practices Act, but wealso need to see thataction is taken on theground," the BHRCmember said.

Speculation rife on Manjhi ouster;Sharad arrives for meeting

Row over BJP's use of word'immigrants' refuses to die down

BHRC summons govt offi-cials on witch-hunt issue

MUMBAI, FEB 04A CBI court here on

Wednesday dischargedGujarat's former police chiefPC Pande in the fakeencounter killing case ofTulsiram Prajapati, an aide ofslain gangster SohrabuddinSheikh, for want of mandato-ry sanction from the stategovernment for his prosecu-tion.

"For want of sanction, thecharges against the accused PC Pande are dropped," specialCBI court judge M B Gosavisaid.

The court had last monthdischarged BJP presidentAmit Shah in the SohrabhddinSheikh and Prajapati casesafter holding there existed "nocase" against him and that hehad been implicated for"political reasons".

According to CBI, Pande, aformer director general ofpolice of Gujarat, wasinvolved in the conspiracy tobump off Prajapati, an eyewit-ness to the killing ofSohrabuddin in a stagedencounter in 2005.

He was also alleged to have

tried to shield the accused byfrequently changing theInvestigating Officers andmisleading CBI by trying togive the picture that the twocases were not interlinked.

Pande had not been chargesheeted in the SohrabuddinSheikh case.

HYDERABAD, FEB 04After spectacular victories in

the Lok Sabha and assemblyelections, the ruling TRS inTelangana is now focused onstrengthening itself in the state.

Chief Minister and TRS presi-dent K Chandrasekhar Raoannounced a schedule for mem-bership drive, which begins onTuesday, and elections to partycommittees from the villagelevel. Addressing a meeting ofthe party's extended executivecommittee here, Rao said themembership drive would contin-ue till February 20. Elections toparty committees at differentlevels would be held duringMarch and April.

The party would organise apublic meeting at ParadeGrounds here on April 27. Raoalso announced a group insur-ance scheme of Rs two lakh eachfor the 30 lakh party members.The party cadre need to take thegovernment's welfare schemesto the people, he said.

He dismissed the oppositioncriticism, saying, "They are

bereft of issues. They are criti-cising for the sake of it."

TRS would succeed in the nextassembly elections as well, headded. As to the media reportson a High Court verdict on elec-tions to Greater HyderabadMunicipal Corporation, he saidthe court had not pulled up thegovernment.

Both GHMC and governmentare involved in ward delimita-tion process as per an earliercourt order, he said.

The present civic infrastruc-ture in Hyderabad was woefullyinadequate, Rao said.

"This will become a real smartcity, real global city. Nobody canstop. (They say) Would you sellSecretariat? 1,000 markets (veg-etable etc) are needed. Shouldthey be kept on the heads ofCongress and TDP leaders? Wedo not sell. We will demolish tenquarters in Punjagutta colonyand set up a magnificent marketover an acre...," he said, refer-ring to opposition criticism ofthe government's decision toshift the Secretariat.

Protests in Assam over BJP's'Immigrant' reference in document

1.8 lakh cash, documentsstolen at Surajkund craftsfestivalFARIDABAD, FEB 04

Three tourists wereallegedly robbed of aroundRs 1.6 lakhs and someimportant documents werestolen from them at theongoing SurajkundInternational Crafts Melahere, police said onWednesday.

In her complaint, Pune-based Amarpali Singhaniasaid that Rs 30,000 andsome important docu-ments were stolen fromher yesterday, a policespokesperson said.

She further said that asum Rs 50,000 along withUSD 500 cash were alsostolen from her friendsArchana and Meena, whohail from Madhya Pradeshand had accompanied herto the fair.

In another case, a Delhi-based resident RenuBharuja was robbed of Rs50,000 cash and some ofher documents were alsostolen at the fair.

Gujarat former police chief dischargedin Tulsiram Prajapati case

Dense fog, chill returns to Punjab, Haryana

Case against Sharad Yadavfor casteist remarksagainst Bihar CMPATNA, FEB 04

A case has been registeredagainst JD(U) president SharadYadav for his alleged casteistremarks against Bihar ChiefMinister Jitan Ram Manjhi. "Acase has been registered againstSharad Yadav in Airport Police sta-tion under SC/ST (Prevention ofatrocities) Act on the direction ofChief Judicial Magistrate (CJM)court," Senior Superintendent ofPolice Patna Jitendra Rana said.Rana said the case was registeredlast night on order of Patna ChiefJudicial Magistrate Bharat Singh,who had summoned the police tohis court. Lok Janshakti Party stategeneral secretary Vishnu Paswanhad on December 3 last year filed acase against JD(U) presidentSharad Yadav in the CJM courthere under SC/ST (prevention ofatrocities) Act. He alleged thatSharad's comments at Kanpur onDecember 2 last year about theeducational and political qualifica-tion of chief minister Jitan RamManjhi hurt the sentiments ofDalits and people of Musaharcastes.

JAMMU, FEB 04National Conference on

Wednesday asserted thatthe party will emerge as aforce to reckon with inJammu and Kashmir,claiming that the fracturedmandate in the recentassembly elections in thestate was manifestation ofdeceit by some politicalopportunists. "We exudeconfidence about NationalConference emerging as aforce to reckon with," PartyGeneral Secretary andMLA from Khanyar con-stituency of Srinagar cityAli Mohammed Sagar said."NC desisted fromindulging in real-politick asit firmly believes that suchtactics were detrimental tothe larger interest of thesensitive state like Jammuand Kashmir," he saidwhile reviewing the party

performance in Rajouri andPoonch districts during theassembly elections.

Party's ProvincialPresident, Jammu,Devender Rana was amongthe prominent leaders pres-ent in the meeting.

Sagar reiterated that NCwill overcome all its diffi-culties given its cadre baseand said that more thanwinning or losing elections,it was imperative to sustainthe political environmentthat has been generated dueto relentless efforts of OmarAbdullah during the pastsix years. "He succeeded insteering the state out of themorass and bringing a turn-around situation thatenabled most successfulPanchayat, Parliamentaryand Assembly electionsduring his tenure," he main-tained.

'NC will emerge as a forceto reckon with in J&K'

NagalandSpeaker restoresmembership of 3MLAsKOHIMA. FEB 04

Nagaland AssemblySpeaker Chotisuh Sazohas restored the member-ship of three MLAs, whowere disqualified from theAssembly last year, fol-lowing an order of theGauhati High Court.

The memberships ofImtilemba Sangtam, TMLotha and MmhonlumoKikon was restored in pur-suance of an order of theDivision bench of theHigh Court quashing theSpeaker's decision to dis-qualify the three MLAsfrom the Assembly forclaiming merger with BJPon June 16, Sazo said in anorder issued yesterday.

NEW DELHI | THURSDAY | FEB 05, 2015SAADDA HAQScience & Tech6

After much specula-tion and a fair bit ofcontroversy, a

Google spokesperson onWednesday said the Android5.0 Lollipop update forAndroid One smartphones inIndia will roll out in the nextweek or so.

The update will be madeavailable for all threeAndroid One handsets -

Micromax Canvas A1,Karbonn Sparkle V, andSpice Dream Uno - simulta-neously.

The spokespersonsaid no specificdetails about therollout of the Android5.0 Lollipop to otherAndroid One smartphones incountries could be shared atthe moment, though more

information can be expectednext week.

Despite promising

Android One users at launchthey would be the 'first toreceive updates', Google hasnot kept its word, with com-

panies like Motorola, HTC,LG, and Samsung managingto roll out Android 5.0

Lollipop updates to some oftheir smartphones already.Of course, the Nexus seriesof smartphones and tablets

received their updates first,with the 2013 Nexus 5 get-ting its update in November.

Three Android One smart-phones have been launchedin India thus far. TheKarbonn Sparkle V,

Micromax Canvas A1, andSpice Dream Uno are alldual-SIM smartphones thatshare some common specifi-cations: a 4.5-inch (480x854

pixels) IPS FWVGA dis-play; 1.3GHz quad-coreMediaTek processor; 1GBof RAM, 4GB of inbuiltstorage; expandable storagesupport via microSD card(up to 32GB); a 5-megapixelrear camera with LED flash;a 2-megapixel front camera;Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS,GPRS/ EDGE, 3G, and a1700mAh battery.

HP on Tuesday launchedits new HP 110-400ILand HP 120-110in

Desktop PC systems in Indiastarting with a price tag of Rs.23,990 for HP 110-400ILDesktop PC. The exact price forHP 120-110in Desktop PC is notyet known, however, HP says itwill start at roughly the sameprice as the HP 110-400IL. Thedesktop PCs by HP are said to befor everyday use by both smallbusiness and home users.

The HP 120-110in desktop PCruns Microsoft Windows 8.1 andis powered by a fourth genera-tion 64-bit Intel Core i3 4160Processor (3MB cache, 2 cores,4 threads, 3.6GHz base frequen-cy). Users can also customiseand expand the capabilities ofthe system with additionalmemory and graphic card.

Besides 2GB of SDRAM(12800Mbps), which is upgrad-able to 4GB, the HP 120-110inDesktop PC features a 500GB7200rpm HDD and comes bun-dled with a keyboard and amouse. The desktop cabinetmeasures 337.8x100.3x378.4mm and weighs 8.9kgs.

The HP 110-400IL desktopPC, unlike the HP 120-110in,runs DOS 2.0 OS and is pow-ered by a 64-bit Intel PentiumJ2900 processor (2MB cache, 4

cores, 4 threads, 2.41GHz base fre-quency, 2.66GHz burst frequency)alongside 2GB of DDRL3 RAM(1600MHz) Intel HD graphics for

handling graphics and animationson the system.

As for the storage, the HP110-400IL desktop PC fea-tures a 500GB 7200rpmHDD. Like the HP 120-110in, HP 110-400IL alsocomes bundled with amouse and a keyboard. ThePC cabinet measures165x384.5x363.8 mm andweighs 5.4kgs. The systemis available to buy from theHP online store.

"As home and officecomputers become morewidespread, increased per-formance and value areoften a key considerationfor the country's first-timehome users and SmallOffice/Home Office users,"said Ketan Patel, director,Computing Category,Printing and PersonalSystems, HP India. "The HP110 and 120 Desktop PCs notonly deliver the performanceand value that customers arelooking for, for the first time,but are also equipped with agenuine operating system aswell as the quality and sup-port they expect from the HP

brand."

1. The iron and steel industries of which of the follow-ing countries are almost fully dependent on importedraw materials?A. Britain B. JapanC. Poland D. Germany

2. The temperature increases rapidly afterA. ionosphere B. exosphereC. stratosphere D. troposphere

3. The humidity of the air depends uponA. temperature B. locationC. weather D. All of the above

4. The groundwater can become confined between twoimpermeable layers. This type of enclosed water iscalledA. artesian B. artesian wellC. unconfined groundwaterD. confined groundwater

5. The largest glaciers areA. mountain glaciers B. alpine glaciersC. continental glaciers D. piedmont glaciers

6. The ionosphere includesA. mesosphere B. thermosphereC. thermosphere and exosphereD. thermosphere, exosphere and mesosphere

QUIZ TIME

Answer: 1(B), 2 (A), 3(D), 4(A), 5(C), 6(C)

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TV Channels Schedule TODAY’S STARARIES Social events or group activities could prove more stimulating than

usual, Aries. Discussions of every subject imaginable could takeplace around you, and you might have trouble deciding which onesyou want to join. Your mind may be going the speed of light by thetime the gathering ends. Walk home if time and weather permit. Thatshould clear your head enough to let you sleep well.

TAURUS Your writing, speaking, and communicating skills areenhanced today, Taurus. Therefore, you can expect toimpress a lot of people around you who will change their opin-ion about you. People will express their sympathy openly, andyou will feel integrated and accepted throughout the day.Tonight, find a bookstore that's sponsoring a lecture and go.

GEMINI Correspondence with someone who lives far away could appear tolead to something more than friendship, Gemini. This person seemsto be in total accord with you about nearly everything, and warm feel-ings could flow between you. However, if you haven't met in person,you should, at least before you get your hopes up for a relationship.It may be just what you've wanted - or it may not. Be careful.

CANCER A quick survey of the financial news might reveal that your invest-ments, particularly those involving property, might be worth farmore than you thought, Cancer. This might make you wonder ifyou should sit back and let it all mount up or actively put it to workfor you. Consult a professional before taking any immediateaction. You will want to be sure you're doing the right thing.

LEO A message could come today from a business or romantic partner thatbrings some welcome news, Leo. Action on an enterprise of some kind,perhaps involving writing or speaking, could put one or both of you in thelimelight. Make the most of the opportunity. It could lead to futureadvancement and exposure, perhaps even more promising than this.You've worked hard and now you're reaping the rewards.

VIRGO Today you can expect to have a highly interesting con-versation with someone, Virgo. The person you will betalking to is going to provide you with a ton of informationthat will open a whole new world of knowledge.Excitement and happiness will be with you all day. Thisconversation will have an impact on your future.

LIBRA Your physical and mental energy are exceptionally strong rightnow, Libra. If you're creative, you will want to put that energyinto a project that means a lot to you. If you're athletic, you willprobably want to get outside and play a game or go for a jogor cardio class. Bear in mind that much of this energy is nerv-ous energy that burns out quickly. Pace yourself.

SCORPIO A delivery could come to your house that you find very emotionallymoving, Scorpio. Perhaps you've received a gift that represents a bigsacrifice to the giver, and was all the more sincere for that. This couldbe on your mind for most of the day even though you have a lot todo. When thanking the giver, be warm and sincere but not too effu-sive. You don't want to embarrass your friend.

SAGITTARIUSA friend might drop by and want you to keep them companywhile they runs errands, Sagittarius. This might be a goodidea, not only for the diversion from routine but also becausesomething might happen in the course of these short journeysthat points you in a new and very positive direction. Your mindcould suddenly be flooded with ideas. Make the most of it.

CAPRICORN Paperwork regarding money might take up a lot of your timetoday, Capricorn. This can be tedious, but it's something that canmake a very positive difference to you, and therefore needs to behandled as soon as possible. Try to stay focused, and don't for-get to ask for clarification when you need it. In the evening, cele-brate by going out on the town with a group of friends.

AQUARIUS A subject that fascinates you could occupy much of your timetoday, Aquarius. Questions may arise about this subject thatyou want answered now. Therefore, you could get into somein-depth research. This might have you trapped in the libraryor glued to the Internet until you either find what you want orpick up a few leads to places where you might find it.

PISCES Emotions, impressions, and memories could come up from your sub-conscious today, Pisces. This may preoccupy you and keep you fromother matters. This is a positive development. Pleasant memoriesbring joy. Disturbing ones offer a release from past trauma. Writedown your thoughts and then distract yourself by doing somethingyou love. The significance of this process should come later.

Abunch of images claimedto be from Samsung'snext flagship Galaxy

S6 have surfaced on theInternet. Additionally, moredetails about Samsung's mobilepayment system and a newpatent that shows possibly howthe alleged Galaxy S Edgemight look have also emerged.

French tipster NowhereElsereceived purported images ofthe Galaxy S6 body from anunnamed source that shows thehandset, which is likely tolaunch on March 1 at a pre-MWC event, sporting a designreminiscent to the iPhone. Inthe leaked images, theSamsung Galaxy S6 is seen tohouse speaker grille and charg-ing port at the bottom panelwhile the cut-outs for theantennas are also visible. Onthe sides, the alleged GalaxyS6 will include SIM card portsand the back panel is likely to besealed.

The handset in the leaked image isseen sporting rounded edges and therear camera accompanied by thedual-LED flash placed on the rightside, instead of being below the cam-era as seen on the Samsung GalaxyS5. The new leaked images of theSamsung Galaxy S6 corroborate ear-lier claims from the case makerSpigen who also showed similarplacement of flash.

Korea Times, on the other hand,reports that the Galaxy S6 will

launchin two variants - sporting flat androunded screens. The report quotesan executive at a local parts supplier,"The Galaxy S6 will make its debutin two versions - flat and roundedscreens. It will have a metal build,which will make it look even morelike Apple's latest models."

Notably, the report even suggestedthat the Galaxy S6 will use glass onthe front and back panel, and includeSamsung Pay, an unannounced NFC-based mobile payment feature similar

to Apple Pay mobile systems.Another Korean publication fur-

ther claims that the SamsungGalaxy S6 will leverage LoopPaytechnology for mobile paymentsystems. It is even being speculatedthat LoopPay might launch mobilepayment enabled cases for existinghigh-end Galaxy devices includingSamsung Galaxy S5 and GalaxyNote 4. For the uninitiated,LoopPay uses Magnetic SecureTransmission (MST) technologyfor mobile payments.

Samsung's much-touted Galaxy SEdge design expected to featuredual rounded edges has been tippedin a new patent document. PatentlyMobile has reported about a newpatent document from Samsungthat may show design concepts forthe Galaxy S Edge. According tosketches on the document, aSamsung device with roundededges and a "recessed top side" isseen. The accompanying captions

alongside the sketch claim that therounded edges in the device willshow apps when the handset is in use.The rear camera design image showsa "mysterious pop-up feature."Unfortunately, the patent sketchdoesn't reveal much about the func-tions the pop-up feature will perform.

Samsung this week started sendinginvites for its Galaxy Unpacked 2015event scheduled for March 1 wherethe South Korean company is likelyto launch the Galaxy S6 flagship andGalaxy S Edge, the curved-displayvariant of the flagship handset.

Samsung Galaxy S6 Leaked With iPhone-Like Body; Samsung Pay Tipped Again

HP 110-400IL and 120-110in AffordableDesktops Launched in India

Android One Phones in India to Get Lollipop Update Next Week: Google

Facebook-owned Instagram has updated its Androidand iOS app with automatic video loop feature,somewhat like Twitter-owned micro-video sharing

service Vine.The company updated Instagram for Android (version

6.14.1) on Wednesday lastweek and iOS (version6.5.0) app onWednesday this week.Videos in users feednow auto-play muted,and loop endlessly.Users have the optionto unmute the video.On the Web in themeanwhile, videosdon't auto-play but stilldo loop endlessly oncethey are started.

The "What's New" section for both Android and iOSInstagram app includes only one change and that is"videos now automatically replay in feed", alongsideassuring users that "This won't affect how much data theapp uses." The feature is being speculated to be very use-ful for advertisers on the network.

The social networking giant appears to be making someserious efforts to make good use of videos, as earlier inDecember too, Facebook had introduced the auto playingfunctionality for the eligible video mobile app-install adsin News Feed, a feature which according to company thatwill help marketers spread the word even more.

Announcing the feature the company had noted, "Asmore and more people upload, share and discover videoon Facebook, marketers are realising the value of video atevery stage of the buying cycle, from awareness to con-version."

Not just that, later the same month Facebook begantesting a new Video section design for Facebook Pages onthe Web. The company was seen testing the new Videossection design only on a few Pages, which appeared sim-ilar to the YouTube channels interface, complete with fea-tured videos and playlists.

Instagram for Mobile and WebNow Endlessly Loops Videos

Sports 7NEW DELHI | THURSDAY | FEB 05, 2015SAADDA HAQ

THIRU, FEB 04Olympic hero Vijay Kumar’s pis-

tol fetched him two more medalswhile the seasoned squash duo ofSaurav Ghosal and JoshanaChinappa clinched the individualgold in contrasting styles on thefourth day of competitions in the35th National Games here onWednesday.

The Services Sports ControlBoard, aiming for a hat-trick ofoverall championship wins, contin-ued to be dominant and have so faraccumulated 20 gold, 4 silver and 9bronze medals to total 33. Haryanarode on a strong wrestling perform-ance to be second with 18 gold, 7silver and 4 bronze, totalling 29,followed by Maharshtra.

Vijay, after emerging on top inboth the team and individual 25mcentre fire pistol events on Tuesday,completed a hat-trick of gold whenhe combined with Gurpreet Singhand Omkar Singh to ensure anumerous finish for SSCB in the25m standard pistol men’s teamcompetition.

However, the London Olympicsilver-medallist settled for a bronzein the individual event with a scoreof 565. The individual gold wasclinched by his SSCB teammateGurpreet Singh (572) with MadhyaPradesh’s Mahendra Singh (568)

fetching the silver.Services dominated the 10m rifle

event as well with Chain SinghManhas, who won the 50m rifleprone gold on Tuesday, added a sec-ond yellow metal to his kitty by fin-ishing on top again on Wednesday.

Manhas scooped the gold by awhisker totalling 205.9 againstUttar Pradesh’s Akhil Sheoran, whoshot a score of 205.8. Another UttarPradesh shooter - Sathyam Chauhan- was a distant third after scoring183.5.

Haryana also retained itself incompetition with the trio of SanjeevRajput, Prasanth and DeepakKumar clinching the gold ahead ofManhas, Ravi Kumar and AshokChavan. The bronze went to theUttar Pradesh team of Akhil Sheron,Sathyan Chauhan and Rajendra Rai.

The squash competition saw com-plete domination by Tamil Nadu asall the finalists in both the men’sand women’s competition belongedto the state. First up was women’ssingles in which the seasonedJoshana Chinappa did not havemuch trouble in sailing pastLakshya R 11-5 11-8 11-4 to nab thegold medal.

The bronze medals went toTuesday’s losing semifinalists -Urwashi Joshi of Maharashtra andUttar Pradesh’s Sachika Ingale.

35th national games: T wo more medals forVijay; Ghosal, Chinappa clinch squash gold

ICC World Cup 2015is round the cornerand one of the biggest

contenders to win the tro-phy this time is noneother than the most suc-cessful team in the histo-ry of the marque event –Australia. One again ifthey win the covetedCup, it would be theirfifth world title. Let'sfind out the reasons whycritics are faring them sohigh.

Home advantage:Australia are co-hostingthe quadrennial eventalong with New Zealand.And playing in homeconditions would be anadded advantage for theBaggy Greens. Not onlythe conditions will befamiliar but the crowdsupport will also be intheir favour, which attimes plays a crucial role.

In top form: Australianteam is in excellent form

in ODIs and they provedthat in recently conclud-ed tri-series, also featur-ing India and England.Australia not only wonthe crucial warm-upseries convincingly butalso crushed both theopponents in each matchthey played. Their out-standing form is anotherreason cricket pundits arerating them so high.

Best all-rounders: If

you closely watch thesquads of each teamplaying in the biggestcricketing carnival, youcan easily find out thatAustralia are studdedwith the best all-rounders. In JamesFaulkner, Glenn Maxwelland Shane Watson theyhave spectacular all-rounders, who can winthem matches single-handedly.

Five reasons why Australia shouldlift 2015 World Cup trophy

BRISBANE, FEB 04 Coach Darren Lehmann says Michael

Clarke is ahead of schedule in his recoveryfrom hamstring surgery and will captainAustralia at next month’s Cricket WorldCup.

Lehmann gave Clarke his backing onWednesday, saying he was “sick” of spec-ulation about Clarke’s likely participationin the World Cup and his future asAustralia captain.

Clarke will take a major step forward onThursday when he plays for a CricketAustralia XI against Bangladesh in a one-day warm-up match at Brisbane’s AllanBorder Field.

Cricket Australia has given Clarke untilAustralia’s second World Cup pool matchagainst Bangladesh on Feb. 21 to prove hisfitness or be replaced. Australian mediahave reported Clarke’s prolonged rehabili-tation has caused a rift with teammatesand speculation he may lose the captaincyto Steve Smith.

“I’m sick of it,” Lehmann said in a radiointerview on Wednesday. “I’m lookingforward to him coming back.

“He played grade (club) cricket on theweekend which is great, he’s playing up

here on Thursday so I’ll get to have a lookat him,” he added. “I had a good chat tohim and he pulled up really well from thegrade game. He’s ahead of schedule and Ithink he’s said that in the press as well.”Lehmann denied any rift between Clarkeand his Australia teammates or team offi-cials. “He’s captain of Australia, the sec-ond most important position behind theprime minister as such,” Lehmann said.

Michael Clarke on track for World Cup: Lehmann

NEW DELHI, FEB 04With four among India's

15-man World Cup squad stillunfit, veteran left-handerYuvraj Singh is still in with achance to board the plane toAustralia and New Zealand.

Currently, there are fitnessconcerns surrounding RohitSharma, Ravindra Jadeja,Ishant Sharma andBhuvneshwar Kumar. Theseplayers will undergo a fitnesstest on February 7 to provetheir fitness to the team man-agement.

Yuvraj could make a dra-matic return to Team India ifall-rounder Ravindra Jadejafails to recover in time forIndia's World Cup openeragainst arch-rivals Pakistanon February 15.

In fact, considering hisform in the Ranji Trophy,many believed that thenational selectors could makea last-minute U-turn toinclude Yuvraj in the 15-mansquad despite initially ignor-

ing him while selecting the30-man probables list.

As he showed with a Man

of the Series performance inthe 2011 World Cup, the 33-year-old has the ability to

play a key role for India withboth bat and bowl. There isno denying, Yuvraj is a farsuperior batsman than Jadeja.

With his big-match tem-perament and vast experi-ence, Yuvraj is the idealreplacement if the Saurashtraall-rounder fails to prove hisfitness.

Speaking at a cricket con-clave on Monday, Yuvrajexpressed disappointment atnot making the cut for theupcoming World Cup.

"It was disappointing notbeing picked for the WorldCup. It's a decision whichyou can't help. At themoment, I am focusing on theRanji Trophy and putting inmy best efforts to make acomeback," he said.

In case Rohit Sharma isdeemed unfit, Murali Vijaywill be in with a shout to earna call-up.

The Tamil Nadu batsmanwas in fine form during theTest series in Australia and is

most certainly a candidatewith the right technique tonegotiate the fast and bouncytracks at the World Cup.

Pacer Ishant Sharma is cur-rently nursing his ankleinjury and there is high prob-ability of him being declaredunfit on February 7.

Hence, Mohit Sharma andDhawal Kulkarni have beenasked to stay back inAustralia until fitness test isconcluded.

Despite being sidelined,Yuvraj still continues toenjoy tremendous supportamong fans on all socialmedia platforms. The exclu-sion of the southpaw gavebirth to a huge debate amongcricket lovers that still con-tinues to rage.

With India's poor batting inODIs and the persistinginjury woes, Indian fans maywell be granted their wish ofYuvraj Singh's fairytalereturn to help India defendtheir World Cup crown.

Why Yuvraj Singh can still make it to India's World Cup squad

DUBAI, FEBRUARY 4The International Cricket

Council (ICC) is consideringplacing limitations on the depthof a bat with less than a fortnightleft for the World Cup to begin torestore the balance between bats-man and bowler.

ICC chief executive DavidRichardson has said the balancebetween batsman and bowler“may have shifted a bit toomuch” in favour of the former.

“No one begrudges an A.B. deVilliers, who plays some superbshots, Brendon McCullum,Kumar Sangakkara, they areexceptionally talented and noone minds if they hit some greatshots which go for six,”Richardson was quoted as sayingby the Sydney Morning Heraldon Wednesday.

“But where some batsmen aremishitting balls and it is just car-rying over the rope and going fora six instead of being caught atthe boundary, that is what somecricket people believe has

become unfair,” he said.“The MCC (World Cricket

Committee), as law makers, andthe ICC will be looking at giving

perhaps some consideration toplacing limitations on the depthof a bat in particular,” he added.

The idea, however, has beenmet with criticism from bat man-ufacturers who said they do notthink it is quite “fair” to reducethe width of a bat.

Greg Eime, the brand managerat Gunn and Moore, said smallergrounds were a big factor forbatsmen mishitting balls forsixes.

“Effectively the game haschanged and the way the bats-men play has changed,” Eimesaid.

“It’s a combination of a lot ofthings, even down to the players’physical fitness and strength. Togo finger pointing at the bats, Idon’t think that’s quite fair.”

Michael Reid, the sponsormanager at bat manufacturerGray-Nicolls, said there havebeen “a number of changes to thegame which contribute to thehigher scores and so forth. Notnecessarily the bat sizes.”

ICC consider stipulating bat sizes on World Cup eve

TigerWoods nowa subject ofsympathySAN DIEGO, FEB 04

No one can recall these kindsof odds for Tiger Woods at anytournament, certainly not oneat Torrey Pines. He is listed at50-to-1, which prompted aquestion that was even moreshocking than the odds. Was

that to win? Or to make thecut?

Perhaps even more tellingwas an observation fromPadraig Harrington.

"Did you ever think youwould hear a professionalgolfer genuinely and sincerelysay, 'I hope Tiger Woods playsbetter,'" Harrington said overthe weekend. No one everimagined him playing worse.Woods didn't just miss the cutin the Phoenix Open last week.He missed it by 12 shots. Morethan posting an 82 -- the high-est score of his professionalcareer -- was how lost helooked on the golf course,especially around the greens.

Yes, this was a really bad dayat the office. But this was Tiger

Woods, the guy with a shortgame that had no rival. Thebiggest break for Woods duringhis second round at the TPCScottsdale was on the 17thhole, when Woods and JordanSpieth drove it just short of thegreen. The hole was back andto the right, requiring a pitchthat had to be struck close toperfect. Woods had no chance.His golf ball was partiallysunken in a divot, a shot soimpossible that he stood over itfor nearly a minute with hishands on his hips instead ofaround a club, probablybecause he had no idea whatclub could get him out of thistrouble. He opted for a 4-iron,which didn't have enough paceand fell off the side of the

green. Why was that a break?Because if he had a clean lie,Spieth would have exposedhim even more. Spieth has oneof the best short games on tour.Woods does not. And the restof his game is not much better.The talk at Isleworth twomonths ago, when Woodsreturned from a four-monthbreak to let his back heal fullyfrom surgery and to regainstrength, was that there wasmore freedom in his swing. InPhoenix, he was back torehearsing his shot, over andover, before every swing.

Is this a low point? Woodscan only hope so, but therehearsals would indicate hehas a lot of work and a longroad ahead of him. But what

Harrington said touches on asad truth about a guy who dom-inated the sport unlike anyother. For so many years,Woods was associated withwords like mystique, intimida-tion and ruthlessness. Now heevokes sympathy. No playerwants to see Woods like this,and the odds would be greaterthan 50-to-1 they'll ever get theold Woods back.

"I want to see him back ontop of his game again," PatPerez said. "He is golf. I don'tcare where he is. If he finisheslast or first or whatever, he isthe game of golf. And until heleaves, he will be that guy.Everybody is always going toquestion him and go afterhim.”, said.

MUMBAI, FEB 04 Former India captain Dilip

Vengsarkar said that the timehas come for more corporateleagues in order to generateemployment for cricketers.

Appointed Brand Ambassadorby a private enterprise thatlaunched an Excellence inCricket (EIC) initiative inMumbai, Mr. Vengsarkar feltthere was a need for theMumbai Cricket Association torevive the Twenty20 CorporateTrophy. "It’s not been held formany years. It has to be revivedand mileage given to theCorporates. Then only they willemploy cricketers," he said.

Known as the Lord of theLord’s for his three consecutivecenturies at the London’sfamous cricket ground, and alsofor his passionate views onMumbai cricket, Mr.Vengsarkar expressed dejectionat Mumbai’s dismal perform-ances in this year’s Ranji

Trophy."Mumbai cricket has fallen.

When I was included in theMumbai team in the mid-70s,the players of the other RanjiTrophy teams used to come andwatch the Mumbai batsmenplay at nets. Bombay won theRanji Trophy for 15 years in arow and I applaud Ajit Wadekarfor being part of that genera-tion," he said picking out theformer India and Mumbai cap-tain who was among the audi-ence with Farokh Engineer,Umesh Kulkarni, BalwinderSingh Sandhu, ParasMhambrey, Abey Kuruvilla andVinod Kambli. The three verti-cals the EIC is looking at aresetting up a centre of excellencefor all branches of the game,international corporate cricketleague, and cricket academiesthat will also focus on trainingfor Twenty20 format. The EICalso has plans to conduct localHeritage Tours.

There is need for more cor-porate leagues: Vengsarkar

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How to tackle common skin complaintsMeeting with gang-

ster Arun Gawalilands Bollywood

actor Arjun Rampal in trou-ble. The actor has been sum-moned by Mumbai police toget into the core of the mat-ter as how the meeting hasbeen arranged without theirconsent. Arjun met the gang-ster Arun Gawali when thelatter visited hospital for rou-tine check-up.

Arjun Rampal meeting thegangster sparked controver-sy and now the MumbaiPolice has ordered for inves-tigation. As per reports,Arjun Rampal is playing thecharacter of Gawali’s char-acter in his biopic called‘Daddy’. It is believed thatArjun wants to knownGawai well to enact his char-acter and so the meeting wasarranged.

According to the seniorinspector Anil Madvi, headof JJ Marg Police Station,Gawali who was serving jailfor murder was taken to the

said hospital from the jail forthe routine check up/ In thehospital, Arjun met Gawali.The gangster is serving jailconnection with the murderof corporator KamlakarJamsandekar in 2008. Arjunspent an hour with the don.

“Rampal met Gawli in JJHospital on December 29,when Gawli was brought tothe hospital for a medicalcheck-up. The meeting tookplace in ward number four ofthe hospital when personnelat the JJ Marg police station

got information about it andreached the spot. Rampalwas told he could not meetGawli without the court’spermission, after whichRampal left,” said a seniorpolice officer.

However, the JJ Margpolice subsequently issuedsummons to Rampal, askingthe actor to appear beforethem. Mumbai Policespokesperson DCPDhananjay Kulkarni saidfurther action will be takenafter the actor meets them.

Arjun Rampal in trouble formeeting gangster Arun Gawali

Shah Rukh and wife GauriKhan became the proud par-ents of their third child in

2013. This bundle of joy was givenquite a unique name – AbRam. Buthis name isn’t the only thing that isdifferent. The couple’s previouschildren Aryan and Suhana hadbeen given birth by Gauri Khan.Whereas, AbRam was born througha surrogate mother.

Shahrukh hasn’t exposed AbRammuch before media since he wasborn. On 3rd February, SRKdelighted his fans by posting anadorable picture of himself with hisson. First, the actor posted, “Poemis by Samih Al Qasim....Titled...TheEnd Of A Discussion With A PrisonGuard” this was followed by fewlines of the poem. Following this,Shah Rukh posted the father sonphoto. Accompanied by the picturewas a quote that was equally cute,“& before the tweets lead to anassumption of a troubled mindset,this pic of my Murphy baby &me...as they say "awww"”

The media had got to hear not-so-

pleasant statements from Shahrukh,after AbRam was born in May2013. The actor had said in an inter-view, “I am not overtly happy talk-ing about him. He is my baby andnobody else’s. You can come homeand see him if I allow you to come

in my house.”The reason for the unfriendly atti-

tude can very well be attributed tothe time when his son was yet to beborn. The rumours of pre-natal sexdetermination test were spreadinglike fire. Such a test is illegal in

India and there were reports that theactor had conducted it to determinethe gender of the baby. Shahrukhhad spoken on this issue, “I did notlike that fact when the media spokeabout the surrogacy. I hate it. Theysaid I had sex determination test,which was rubbish. I am too edu-cated to be indulging in this non-sense.

He was suffering… He was illand people were talking about sexdetermination just because he is thechild of a famous movie star.”

Later, Shahrukh abandoned hisdisappointment with the media andposted the pictures of AbRam onsome occasions. He had tweetedAbRam’s photos on Eid and alsoChristmas.

Then he shared the joy of NewYear with his fans on Twitter. Heposted a photo of his childrenAryan, Suhana and AbRam alongwith the tweet, “48 hrs of uninter-rupted unadulterated unconditionallove with my Trimurti. No place I'drather be than holding u three.Aryan Suhana AbRam.”

Shahrukh Khan tweets photo with his ‘Murphy’ baby AbRam

AIB is all that isrequired to beGoogled to enjoy

the outrageous remarksmade on Bollywoodcelebrities. It was justRanveer Singh and ArjunKapoor that were seated onstage. But that- by nomeans- meant that theyalone had to be ridiculed.The show was full of shock-ing insults targeted onnumerous personalities.

But what has gatheredmost attention and alsoprotests, are the issues likethe disrespect showntowards women, racism andthe utmost vulgar languageused. Host Karan Johar hadclearly warned viewers bysaying that, “Let the filthbegin” before the mockerystarted. It seems the warn-ing was too trivial for theextreme filth that followed

and filth is just the aptword!

The toilet humour andjokes on sex life made theshow equally entertainingas filthy. But the day it hitYouTube, it was expectedthat it would face opposi-tions for one solid reason- itis India! The comedy showwas held in Worli, Mumbailast December and thecelebrities were roasted infront of 4,000 people. The‘AIB’ video had crossed 4lakh views within 12 hoursof its release on 28thJanuary.

‘AIB’ didn’t succeed indelighting Vinod Tawde,the Maharashtra cultureminister. He told the media,“Officials of the CultureDepartment will examinethe videos for the content. Iffound vulgar, an action willbe initiated.” The BJP

leader even called a meet-ing to discuss the issue, “Icalled a meeting of thedepartment officials onMonday and asked them toverify these complaintsafter watching the video.After receiving feedbackfrom them about the con-tents being abusive, Iordered a probe.” BrahmanEkta Seva Sanstha ofMumbai is another one toraise voice against theshow. The president of theSanstha, Akhilesh Tiwari,handed a four page com-plaint to Sakinaka policestation. He too showed howdisappointed he was with‘AIB’, “I have handed overa letter to Sakinaka policedemanding a criminal com-plaint be lodged againstthese so-called youth iconsKaran Johar, Arjun Kapoorand Ranveer Singh.

FIR launched against ‘AIBKnockout' over vulgur content

Katrina Kaif and Aditya RoyKapoor shares a passionatekiss in the upcoming film,

‘Fitoor’. The photo of their intimatelip-lock went viral on net. Thecharming couple got romantic in thebeautiful location of Kashmir. Theunit of ‘Fitoor’ has recently wrappedthe shooting in ‘Kashmir.

The shooting in Srinagar took placeunder tight security. Katrina lookedgorgeous in pristine white with herhair coloured red. The romantic kisswas shot on a makeshift bridge overthe Dal Lake. Crowd gathered to geta glimpse of their favourite stars.

The leaked kiss photograph ofKatrina and Aditya went viral and theactress is bit furious. The film’s crewreached on January 28 and they had atwo-day shoot inside the Nishat Baghon the banks of Dal Lake on January30 and 31, a security official informs.Tight security was provided to thefilm crew to ensure safety. Rekhawho is playing one of the protago-nists has wrapped up Nishat Bagh

shoot.‘Fitoor’ based on Charles Dickens’

novel Great Expectations will seeKatrina playing Noor and Aditya asFirdaus, the desi versions of Estellaand Pip, respectively.

Veteran actress Rekha wil be seenin a major role portraying the role ofMiss Havisham, the antagonist of thetale. She plays a temperamentalbegum. The film also features ghazalsinger Talat Aziz.

Katrina, Aditya share passionate lip-lock in ‘Fitoor’

Katrina Kaif and SaifAli Khan have dis-appointed fans for

the second time now.People have been eagerlywaiting for their upcomingfilm ‘Phantom’. It is aKabir Khan directorial,and is expected to bereleased since quite long.According to latest reports,the release dates have beendelayed again.

Initially, the film wasscheduled to hit the screenson 2nd October last year.This date was unsuitablesince many other filmmak-ers had booked it for majorfilm releases. So,‘Phantom’ was postponedto April 2015. But directorKabir Khan found somesimilarity between his filmand a recently releasedflick. Kabir saw that‘Phantom’ was quite simi-lar to Neeraj Pandey’s‘Baby’ that was releasedon 23rd January this year.Therefore, now the filmhas been postponed to 28thAugust 2015.

‘Phantom’ has been pro-duced by Sajid Nadiadwalaand is based on counter-terrorism. It showcasesMumbai, post 26/11attacks and also showsglobal terrorism. Katrinaand Saif don the role ofsecret agents. ‘Baby’ isalso a thriller, with AkshayKumar playing a securityagent in Turkey. This onetoo features secret agentswhose aim is to protectIndia from terrorism. The

name of this secret opera-tion is ‘Baby’, with DannyDenzongpa as the leader.

Looking at the plot ofboth the films, one can findcertain similarities. Theroles of the female leadsare almost the same.Actress Taapsee Pannuplays an officer PriyaSuryavanshi. She works insecret with Akshay Kumar.They have to pretend to behusband and wife whenthey travel to Nepal forcounter-terrorism opera-tion.

In ‘Phantom’, such a role

is played by Katrina as sheis a secret agent too. Boththe movies feature the leadmale and female actorscarrying out operationsmeant to fight terrorism.‘Baby’ shows AkshayKumar as Ajay Rajput,who undertakes a danger-ous mission to protect hiscountry. For this purpose,he travels to Istanbul, AbuDhabi and Nepal. Saif AliKhan, in his film, is a mancalled Daniyal. He tootravels to various places-Europe, West Asia andAmerica to fight terrorism,

particularly the 26/11attacks in Mumbai.

‘Phantom’ is facing someother problems too apartfrom postponement of itsrelease. The shootingbegan in Beirut, Lebanonin October 2013. The castand crew had been givenspecial protection as thecountry was sufferingpolitical turmoil. But whileshooting, two local artistswere hit by a car and wereinjured. The team hasfilmed at other locationssuch as Turkey, Gulmargand Malerkotla.

Katrina Kaif, Saif Ali Khan's'Phantom' postponed

Kareena to play a schizo-phrenia patient in her next

Kareena Kapoor Khan, who is currently busy withfamily affairs and ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ will be nextseen playing a schizophrenia patient in Raj Kumar

Gupta’s next. The ‘No One Kiled Jessica’ director indirect-ly confirmed the news. It is learnt that the dark and myste-rious tale will revolve around Kareena’s character and shewill play a schizophrenia patient. When she is releasedfrom a mental asylum, Kareena found herself trapped insome criminal activities. Amidst this dangerous mentalcondition, Kareena commits some offense unknowingly.According to Raj Kumar Gupta, this untitled film is basedon a real life incident and it explores the Section 84 of theIndian Penal Code which states, ‘Nothing is an offencewhich is done by a person who, at the time of doing it, byreason of unsoundness of mind, is incapable of knowingthe nature of the act, or that he is doing what is eitherwrong or contrary to law.’ However, he refused to divulgefurther details about the film plot and also did not revealthe name of the male lead.