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THE TIMES OF INDIA, LUCKNOW | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2014

EGYPT

SOUTH AFRICA*

SRI LANKA

BHUTAN

UZBEKISTAN

INDIA

GUINEA

MAURITANIA

CHAD

SOMALIA

SOUTH SUDAN

55.453.252.5

5043.3

38.78.1

7.75.1

31.1

Top5

Bottom5

Data available only for the 69 poorest countries

(Figures in %)

In 2013, the number of women and girls using modern contraceptives in 69 countries under focus in a global report increased by 8.4 million. However, the increase in the proportion of women and girls of reproductive age using such methods has been marginal. Of course, in countries with very large populations even a small increase in percentage terms amounts to a large absolute number. For instance, in India, a tiny increase of 0.5 percentage points amounted to a whopping 3 million people. This is more than the number of people who newly gained access to modern contraception in 30 countries which showed signifi cant jumps in the proportion of their population with access to modern contraception. Over half of the increase in number of women and girls with access to modern contraception was accounted for by South Asia.

PROPORTION WITH ACCESS TO MODERN CONTRACEPTION

SIERRA LEONE

ETHIOPIA

LIBERIA

SENEGAL

UGANDA

INDIA

GHANA

NORTH KOREA

UZBEKISTAN

GAMBIA

SOUTH SUDAN

2.6

2.4

1.7

1.4

1.1

0.5

-0.9

0

0.1

0.1

0.1

44,000 0

7,000

48,000

2,000

6,000

22,000

59,000

159,000

711,000

3,012,000

Change in proportion of those using modern contraception (2013 over 2012)

Top 5 Bottom 5

Additional users (2013 over 2012)

Source: Family Planning 2020 report Partnership in Progress

STATOISTICS

NO SMALL CHANGE

Josy.Joseph@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: India and the US areset to broaden their bilateral mili-tary exercises to include morewarfare components involvingnuclear submarines and aircraftcarriers. Wary of the growingChinese naval presence in the In-dian Ocean, especially its subma-rine manoeuvres, the two alsoplan to invite more countries tojoin the Malabar exercises.

In the recent weeks, Indiaconveyed its displeasure to SriLanka at least twice over its deci-sion to permit Chinese subma-rines to dock in its ports.

India and US officials havehad detailed discussions, includ-ing at the Defence Policy Groupmeeting in Washington DC, onstepping up the bilateral navalexercises, sources said. The step-up starts with increasing nucle-ar subs and aircraft carriers inthe drill.The two sides are alsolooking at adding both army andair force components to the tra-

ditionally naval exercise.Sources said the two sides are

looking at inviting more coun-tries, thus expanding them most-ly into trilateral exercises. In Ju-ly 2014, India and the US invitedJapan to the exercises held innorth-western Pacific. Malabar

has featured Australia and Sin-gapore, besides Japan, in 2007.Through most of the UPA tenure,especially under defence minis-ter AK Antony, Malabar exercis-es off Indian coast have mostlybeen bilateral affairs, in an effortnot to raises Chinese hackles.

However, under the new re-gime in New Delhi there is a no-ticeable shift in the strategic pos-

turing, especially vis-à-vis China.In Washington DC in October, thejoint statement issued by Naren-dra Modi and Barack Obama hadreferred to the situation in SouthChina Sea. It was the first timethat the two sides had so explicitlyreferred to the issue in an Indo-USjoint statement. The move to dee-pen and broaden the Malabar ex-ercises flow from Modi’s de-clared strategic vision,especially reflected in the jointstatement.

The move comes even as thegovernment is warily looking atthe growing Chinese submarineactivities in the region. It has forsometimes been uncomfortableabout Chinese sending its sub-marines as part of their anti-pi-racy patrols.

India & US set to ramp up military drillsPlan To Invite

More CountriesTo Join Exercises ➤Plan to deepen Malabar

series by adding army and air force components to naval exercise

➤More countries may be invited to Malabar series making it a trilateral exercise

➤More exercises around nuclear submarines and aircraft carrier likely

➤Chinese moves in South China Sea found mention in joint statement during the PM’s US visit

STARING DRAGON IN THE EYE?US, India concerned about Chinese muscle-flexing in Indian Ocean

New Delhi: The Modi govern-ment on Friday said it was taking“all necessary steps” to create in-frastructure along the Line of Ac-tual Control (LAC) to “match” themassive build-up by China.

Citing the “strategic reality ofour neighbourhood”, defenceminister Arun Jaitely told theparliamentary consultative com-mittee on defence that “our im-mediate neighbours” had al-ready enhanced infrastructurealong the borders. “The govern-ment has initiated several stepsto overcome roadblocks such asprocedural delays, environmen-tal clearances and shortage ofhigh-technology equipment tohasten the process of buildingroads in these critical areas,”Jaitley said.

But India has a lot of catch-ing-up to do, even though the gov-ernment says it’s fast-trackingclearances for border roads,bridges, airfields and railway

lines by relaxing environmentalnorms, as earlier reported byTOI. Just 18 of the 73 “strategic’’roads (totalling 3,812-km) identi-fied for construction along theLAC for better troop mobility al-most a decade ago, for instance,have been fully completed tillnow. The 73 roads were to be com-pleted by 2012.

Of the 61 roads (totalling 3,410km) entrusted to the Border RoadsOrganisation (BRO), only 590 kmon 17 roads has been completed.Officials said work on other roadsare in various stages of comple-tion, with the Army prioritising 22roads adding up to 3,000 km.

‘India to match China’sinfra build-up along LAC’

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An Indian soldier at the Indo-Chinaborder in Arunachal Pradesh

TOI

New Delhi: A day after 146 peopleon board a Delhi-bound SpiceJetflight had a narrow escape when abuffalo hit their aircraft at Surat asit was about to take off, the aviationministry has decided to despatchteams to all airports across thecountry for detailed inspections of

perimeter walls. Barbed wiresfenced will be replaced by boundarywalls at all airports to prevent ani-mals straying inside airports forgrazing within next three months.

A high-level meeting held byaviation minister Ashok GajapathiRaju Pusapati Friday discussed theissue of stray animals at airports, acommon occurrence in India.

Inspection of wallsaround all airports

Krishnagiri: Frustrated by marauding herdsof elephants plundering their crops andworried for their safety, farmers on theborder of the Sanamavu reserve forest havestruck upon a singular solution to theirproblem. They’ve decided to use an old foe ofthe Indian elephant, the tiger — or replicas ofthem, anyway — to frighten the jumbos away. TNN

For full report log ontowww.timesofindia.com

Stuffed toys help TN farmersfight marauding jumbos

Bengaluru: Lodging a police com-plaint will be as easy as withdrawingcash from an ATM, if an initiative ofBengaluru police sees the light of day.

Walk into an ATM-like kiosk in theneighbourhood and narrate your com-plaint to the video camera installedthere. The complaint-receiving stationwill send the clip to the police controlroom, which will forward it to the juris-dictional police.

The audio-visual complaint will beconverted into an FIR, and the complai-nant will receive an acknowledgementand updates on the investigation.

Set to be installed Bengaluru, the

kiosks seek to eliminate human inter-vention from the complaint-registra-tion process and address complai-nants’ concerns like embarrassmentand confidentiality.

In Bangalore, file police plaints on ATM-like kiosks

Arun.Dev@timesgroup.com

Srinagar: The narrative of Wasim Amin, afifth occupant of the Maruti car in which twoKashmiri youth were shot dead by jawans ear-lier this week, flies in the face of the Army’scontention that the car driver had jumped twocheck-points, compelling the soldiers to fire.While Faisal and Mehrajuddin died on spot,Shakir and Zahid are recuperating in an Armyhospital.

On Thurs-day, Amin saidthat he waswith the fouryouth and es-caped unhurtfrom the bul-let riddled caron November3. “Faisal hadthe keys to hisfather’s carwhile Mehraj,

Zahid andShakir saidthey waited forhim to turn upoutside agraveyard. Ijoined themlater,” saidAmin. It’s thesame grave-yard whereFaisal, 14, andMehraj, 21, lieburied.

Amin saidhe was on his

usual stroll on the highway in Nowgam when ahonking car stopped behind him. He turned tosee his four friends. “Faisal, who was drivingthe car, offered me a drive to Suthsoo, four kmfrom Nowgam. I joined them. Faisal offered mea seat beside him in the front,” Amin said.

“A tipper (truck) was ahead of our car neara checkpoint when the Army men waved Fai-sal to stop. By then Faisal had decided to over-take the truck. As he got past, his car brushedagainst the tipper,” Amin said.

For full report log onto www.timesofindia.com

Budgam survivor’saccount challenges

Army’s versionSaleem.Pandit@timesgroup.com

BUFFALO ON RUNWAY

EYE ON CHINA

Former CM of Bihar Nitish Kumar onFriday slammed Prime Minister

Narendra Modi for drum-beating ‘Gujaratmodel of development’ and cited anincident of a buffalo hitting a plane atSurat Airport to highlight the ‘truth’ ofdevelopment in the western state. PTI

Buffalo hitting a planeshows Guj’s dev: Nitish

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In Bhubaneshwar, IClik gets up to five complaints a day

Srinagar: Rejecting the Army’scompensation of Rs 10 lakh, theparents of one of the slainyouth, Faisal, on Friday saidthey would not accept relieffrom the government and, infact, give the Army double thatsum if it gave them the soldiersresponsible for the killing. TNN

Kin of boys rejectrelief, offer doublefor killers’ names